Upcoming Music Events

Thank you to all of our music-making volunteers for making the Christmas and Epiphany services so meaningful! We head into this new season looking forward to our Candlemas Evensong on Sunday, February 2, led by the St. Michael’s Singers, as well as our annual Broadway Night fundraiser for the music program on Friday, February 28, and Saturday, March 1.

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Upcoming Music Events

The St. Michael’s music program has some exciting special events coming up in this new year. Please join Ensemble Boulanger in the Nativity Hall on Saturday, January 25, at 4:00 pm for a vocal/piano recital called “A Tour of Eastern Europe.”

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Lessons & Carols and Christmas Music

Christmas is nearly upon us! Celebrate the season in all its comforting glory by coming to our Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols this Sunday at 5:00 pm. On Christmas Eve, you can look forward to hearing our young Choristers at the 4:00 pm family service. The Saints & Singers Choir will lead at 6:00 pm, along with “O Holy Night” sung by professional soloists.

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Lessons & Carols

Our Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols is coming soon on Sunday, December 22, at 5:00 pm. Please join the St. Michael’s Singers and Choristers for hymns, carols, motets, biblical readings, and poems exploring the story of Christ’s birth.

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Music for Sunday & Looking Ahead

The St. Michael’s Singers will finish out the liturgical church year today with classic anthems by Ralph Vaughan Williams (“Let all the world in every corner sing” from “Five Mystical Songs”) and W.A. Mozart (“Ave verum corpus”). Hymns and keyboard voluntaries will reflect the themes of Thanksgiving and the Reign of Christ.

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Music at the Bishop’s Visitation

The St. Michael’s Singers are preparing two special anthems for the bishop’s visit on Sunday, November 17. At 9:00 am, the sopranos and altos will lead the service under the guidance of Assistant Choir Director Kaeli Porter, offering an anthem that combines two camp meeting songs: “Rise, Oh Fathers” and “No Time.”

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Music for Sunday, November 10

This Sunday, November 10, we reflect and pray with the aid of three women composers. The offertory anthem is a beautiful Eucharistic motet by the working-class French composer Mel Bonis (1858-1937). Bonis (pictured above) was a prolific late-Romantic composer who masked her gender with the pseudonym “Mel” rather than Mélanie.

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November 1: Choral Evensong for All Saints

All Saints Evensong is tonight, November 1, which is the actual Feast of All Saints. Click below for the bulletin. Join us at 7:00 pm for this free feast of choral music by the Renaissance composers Orlando Gibbons and Tomas Luis de Victoria, as well as music by English composers William Smith and John Goss, and more!

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Hannah Brewer Returns

St. Michael’s Music Director & Organist Hannah Brewer is newly back from her parental leave and very grateful for the musical leadership of Brian Fairbanks and James Walker (and the choirs!) while she was away. A fabulous season of music making is ahead, with another choral evensong coming up on Friday, November 1, at 7:00 pm for the Feast of All Saints.

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