Music for Sunday, May 21

This coming Sunday after the Ascension, we have a grand Anglican choral anthem with organ based on an excerpt from the Song of Solomon by English composer Patrick Hadley (1899-1973), including the text “Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.”

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Music for May 12

Hannah Brewer and Ensemble Boulanger in a voice and piano recital called The Circle of Pauline Viardot. Brian Fairbanks will offer a flute recital in the nave at 4pm along with organist John Stuntebeck. Broadway Night is returning on June 2 & 3!

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Music for May 7-12

Ensemble Boulanger, led by Co-Artistic Directors Hannah Brewer and Emma Riggle (a fellow Episcopalian musician) will present a voice/piano lecture recital at St. Michael’s on Friday, May 12 at 7pm.

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Music for April 30

On Sunday, April 30, Sherman Hesselgrave will join Hannah in delighting us with two piano/organ duets for his final Sunday as interim!

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Music for April 23

This Sunday, the day after Earth Day, we will sing several hymns to celebrate our beautiful planet, particularly at the 11am service.

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Music for Holy Week

We are very pleased to continue our long-established tradition of inviting the Portland Brass Quintet to play for our Easter Sunday services. We look forward to the festive atmosphere they bring to such an important and joyful feast day.

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Music for Palm Sunday

Holy Week is imminent! One of the musical highlights you can look forward to is an intense choral anthem for Palm Sunday’s 9am service and Good Friday’s 7pm service by the Canadian composer Sarah MacDonald

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Music for March 19

Sunday’s music includes two arrangements of African-American Spirituals as well as a folk hymn from the American South.

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Music for March 12

Sunday’s 9am and 11am services will feature splendid organ and/or choral works by English composers Herbert Howells (1892-1983), C. Hubert H. Parry (1848-1918), and William Byrd (c. 1540-1623), as well as French organist Jeanne Demessieux (1921-1968).

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