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Choral Repertoire January-June 2022

Sunday, January 9 – EPIPHANY 1

11:00am Holy Eucharist (Schola)
PSALM 29 (chant: Malcolm Archer)
OFF Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day – Gerald Near
COMM Quem vidistis – Francis Poulenc

Sunday, January 16 – EPIPHANY 2

11:00am Holy Eucharist (Adult Choir)
PSALM 36:5-10 (chant: Charles Villiers Stanford)
OFF Light of the World – Edward Elgar 
COMM O sacrum convivium – Grayston Ives

5:00pm Lessons & Carols for Epiphany (Choristers* and Schola)
Omnes de Saba venient – Jacob Handl
Illuminate, Jerusalem – Judith Weir
I Wonder as I Wander – Carl Rütti*
Quem vidistis – Francis Poulenc
There Shall a Star from Jacob (plus recit and trio) – Felix Mendelssohn*
Jesus Christ the Apple Tree – Elizabeth Poston*
O Thou the Central Orb – Charles Wood*

Sunday, January 23 – EPIPHANY 3

11:00am Holy Eucharist (Adult Choir)
PSALM 19 (chant: Bruce Neswick)
OFF Behold, the Tabernacle of God – William Harris
COMM O nata lux – Thomas Tallis

Sunday, January 30 – THE CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL

11:00am Holy Eucharist (Schola)
PSALM 67 (chant: Bruce Neswick)
OFF Jubilate Deo (Collegium Regale) – Herbert Howells
COMM Set Me As a Seal – René Clausen

5:00pm Choral Evensong for Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul (Adult Choir)
RESPONSES Richard Webster (Mixolydian)
PSALM 67 (chant: Bruce Neswick)
M/N Evening Service in D – Edward Bairstow
ANTHEM At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners – Lee Hoiby


Sunday, February 6 – EPIPHANY 5

11:00am Holy Eucharist (Adult Choir)
PSALM 138 (chant: Edward Bairstow)
OFF Mercy and Truth are Met Together – Ned Rorem
COMM Heilig – Felix Mendelssohn

Sunday, February 13 – THE FEAST OF ABSALOM JONES

10:00am Holy Eucharist (Adult Choir & Choristers*)
PSALM 126 (chant: George Mursell Garrett)*
OFF Great Day – arr. Stacey Gibbs
COMM This Little Light of Mine – arr. Moses Hogan*

Sunday, February 20 – EPIPHANY 7

11:00am Holy Eucharist (Schola)
PSALM 37:1-12, 41-42 (chant: Herbert Howells)
OFF O Thou, the Central Orb – Charles Wood
COMM Prayer of the Venerable Bede – Richard Proulx

Sunday, February 27 – EPIPHANY LAST 

11:00am Holy Eucharist (Choristers)
PSALM 99 (chant: John Goss) 
OFF Light of the World – John Dankworth
COMM Fairest Lord Jesus  – Richard DeLong

5pm Evensong (Adult Choir)
RESPONSES Erik Meyer 
PSALM 99 (chant: John Goss) 
M/N Evening Service in B-flat – Charles Villiers Stanford
ANTHEM Seek Him That Maketh the Seven Stars – Jonathan Dove


Wednesday, March 2 – ASH WEDNESDAY

7pm Holy Eucharist (Schola)
PSALM 103:8-14 (Plainsong)
ASHES Miserere mei – William Byrd
OFF Hide Not Thou Thy Face – Richard Farrant
COMM (none)

Sunday, March 6 – LENT 1 

10:00am Choral Eucharist (Adult Choir)
The Great Litany (SATB setting) 
MASS Mass in E-flat, Op. 109 – Joseph Rheinberger (Sanctus/Benedictus and Agnus)
PSALM 39:1-6 (plainsong)
OFF Like as the Hart – Herbert Howells
COMM (Agnus Dei – Rheinberger)

Sunday, March 13 – LENT 2

11:00am Holy Eucharist (Adult Choir)
PSALM 27 (chant: Edwin Cutler)
OFF The Lord is My Light – Peter Hallock
COMM Thou Knowest Lord – Henry Purcell

Sunday, March 20– LENT 3 

11:00am Holy Eucharist  (ATB  singers of the Adult Choir)
PSALM 63:1-8 (plainsong)
OFF View Me, Lord – Charles Wood
COMM Wondrous Love – arr. Grover J. Oberle

Sunday, March 27 – LENT 4 

11:00am Holy Eucharist  (Schola & Choristers)
MASS Missa brevis – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (Kyrie, Sanctus/Benedictus, Agnus Dei I)
PSALM 32 (plainsong)
OFF Amazing Grace – arr. John Bertalot
COMM O Taste and See – Ralph Vaughan Williams

5pm Evensong (Adult Choir)
RESPONSES Bernard Rose
PSALM 51 (chant: Matthew Camidge)
M/N Magdalen College Service – Kenneth Leighton
ANTHEM Turn Thou To Thy God – Leo Sowerby


Sunday, April 3 – LENT 5 (and Bishop’s Visitation rescheduled)

11:00am Holy Eucharist (SA singers of the Adult Choir)
PSALM 126 (chant: plainsong)
OFF Ex ore innocentium – John Ireland
COMM O bone Jesu – Johannes Brahms

Sunday, April 10 – PALM SUNDAY 

11:00am Holy Eucharist (Adult Choir)
INTROIT Hosanna to the Son of David – Thomas Weelkes
PSALM 31:9-16 (chant: C. H. Lloyd)
OFF Solus ad victimam – Kenneth Leighton
COMM The Reproaches – John Sanders

Thursday, April 14 – MAUNDY THURSDAY 

7:00pm Holy Eucharist (Adult Choir)
PSALM 116:1,10-16 (plainsong)
FOOTWASHING  Mandatum – Peter Latona
OFF O sacrum convivium – Grayston Ives
COMM Tantum ergo – Maurice Duruflé

Friday, April 15 – GOOD FRIDAY 

12:00pm Liturgy (Schola)
PASSION According to St. John (plainsong)
PSALM 22 (plainsong)
VENERATION  Christus factus est – Anton Bruckner
Crucifixus à 8 – Antonio Lotti
COMM Ave verum corpus – Orlande de Lassus

Saturday, April 16 – HOLY SATURDAY

7:00pm Easter Vigil (Schola) 
After 1st R: Psalm 46
After 2nd R:  Song of Moses 
After 3rd R: Sicut cervus – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
After 4th R: Psalm 30
OFF Sing ye to the Lord – Edward Bairstow
COMM Haec dies – William Byrd

Sunday, April 17 – EASTER SUNDAY 

9:00am Choral Eucharist (Choristers & Adult Choir) 
PSALM 118 (arr. Richard Proulx)
OFF Light’s Glittering Morn – Horatio Parker
COMM Surrexit Christus hodie – Samuel Scheidt

11:15am Choral Eucharist (Adult Choir) 
MASS Messe solennelle – Louis Vierne (Gloria and Sanctus/Benedictus only)
PSALM 118:1-2, 14-24  (chant: Peter Stoltzfus Berton)
OFF Light’s Glittering Morn – Horatio Parker
COMM Surrexit Christus hodie – Samuel Scheidt

Sunday, April 24 – EASTER 2

11:00am Holy Eucharist (Schola)
PSALM 150 (chant: Charles Villiers Stanford)
OFF This Joyful Eastertide – William Harris
COMM Haec dies – William Byrd


Sunday, May 1 – EASTER 3 

11:00am Holy Eucharist (Adult Choir)
PSALM 30 (chant: C. H. Lloyd)
OFF Be Still, My Soul – Percy Whitlock
COMM Loving Shepherd of Thy Sheep – John Rutter

5:00pm Choral Evensong (Adult Choir)
INTROIT Iam sol recedit igneus – Horatio Parker
RESPONSES Erik Meyer
PSALM TBD
M/N Evening Service in A – Stephen Caracciolo
ANTHEM At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners – Lee Hoiby

Sunday, May 8 – EASTER 4 

11:00am Holy Eucharist and Annual Chorister Commissioning (Choristers)
PSALM 23 (chant: H. Walford Davies) 
OFF Jubilate Deo – Dale Wood
COMM The Father’s Love – Simon Lole

Sunday, May 15 – EASTER 5 

11:00am Holy Eucharist (Adult Choir) 
PSALM 148 (chant: Thomas Attwood Walmisley)
OFF Thou, O God, Art Praised in Sion – Malcolm Boyle
COMM Set Me As a Seal – René Clausen

Saturday, May 21 – INSTALLATION OF THE REV. ERIC HUNGERFORD AS RECTOR 

10:00am Holy Eucharist (Adult Choir)
PSALM 146 (chant: Henry Smart)
OFF Great Day – arr. Stacey Gibbs
COMM If Ye Love Me – Thomas Tallis

Sunday, May 22 – EASTER 6 & ANNUAL MEETING

10:00am Holy Eucharist (Schola & Choristers)
PSALM 67 (chant: C.F. South)
OFF Lord of the Dance – arr. John Barnard
COMM I Will Not Leave You Comfortless – Everett Titcomb

5:00pm Choral Evensong – St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Wilkes-Barre, PA (Adult Choir)
RESPONSES Richard Webster (Mixolydian)
PSALM 34 (chant: C.F. South)
M/N Magdalen College Service – Kenneth Leighton
ANTHEM Turn Thou To Thy God – Leo Sowerby

Sunday, May 29 – SUNDAY AFTER ASCENSION 

11:00am  Holy Eucharist (Schola)
PSALM 97 (chant: Joseph Barnby)
OFF Ascendo ad Patrem – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
COMM Dignus est Agnus – Malcolm Williamson


Sunday, June 5  – PENTECOST SUNDAY 

11:00am Choral Eucharist (Adult Choir)
MASS Mass in E-flat, Op. 109 – Joseph Rheinberger (Gloria, Sanctus/Benedictus, Agnus)
PSALM 104:25-35 (chant: William Crotch)
OFF Listen, Sweet Dove – Grayston Ives
COMM (Agnus Dei – Rheinberger)