Save the date: Sunday, September 22 at 5:00 pm will be our first special music event of the 2024-25 season, a service of Choral Evensong sung by the Parish Choir and Choristers. Though rehearsals will have restarted only three weeks earlier, we’ll get the season off to a running start with William Walton’s electric ‘Chichester Service’ for 8-part choir, soloists and organ. The anthem will be a beautiful setting taken from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “The day is done” composed by Stephen Paulus, for 7-part choir (thanks to Barbara Bing for introducing me to this setting). Congregational responses and hymnody will make use of all voices present for this service at the close of the day.
By the time we sing this service, our music brochure of special services and concerts should be ready for distribution. I would like to to once again thank all of those who generously donated to the Friends of Music last season, and to those who have already made contributions for the upcoming 2024-25 season — without your support, these special services and concerts would not be possible! Continued thanks also go to the Choir and Chorister families, who donate so generously of their time and talents.
“Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap; for the measure you give will be the measure you get back.” —Luke 6:38
All best wishes for the remainder of August,
Jeremy Bruns
…And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares, that infest the day,
Shall be banished like restless feelings
And silently steal away.
(Henry Longfellow, Stephen Paulus)
