Music for Sunday | 1 February 2026

Holy Eucharist | 8 and 10:30 am

Prelude: Light, Revealing - Grace-Evangeline Mason

Choral Introit (10:30): When to the temple Mary went - Johannes Eccard

Hymns: “Hail to the Lord who comes” (tune: Old 120th), “O gracious light, Lord Jesus Christ” (tune: The Eighth Tune), “Lift every voice and sing” (tune: Lift Every Voice)

Service Music: (10:30) Surge, Illuminare - David Sinden; All things come from you, O Lord - Jeffrey Smith; Sanctus and Agnus Dei - William Mathias

Offertory Music: (8:00) Préambule (from 24 Piéces en Style Libre) - Louis Vierne; (10:30) ABC Choir

Communion Music: Karitas habundat - Hildegard of Bingen

Postlude: Prelude in G Major, BWV 541 - Johann Sebastian Bach

Choral Evensong | 5 pm (followed by reception)

Prelude: Light, Revealing - Grace-Evangeline Mason

Hymns: “O Trinity of blessed light” (tune: Bromley), “The King shall come when morning dawns” (tune: Merton Frye)

Responses: Käthe Wright Kaufman

Canticles: Mangificat and Nunc dimittis in C - Bryan Kelly

Anthem: Behold, O God, our defender - Herbert Howells

Postlude: Préambule (from 24 Piéces en Style Libre) - Louis Vierne

Please join us for our first Combined Choirs Evensong of 2026! This Sunday’s Evensong features music by two young female composers, both born in the 1990’s. The prelude is by British composer Grace-Evangeline Mason, whose music has been performed numerous times on the BBC and by several major symphonies. Käthe Wright Kaufman is the Associate Director of Music & Organist at Trinity Cathedral in Columbia, SC, one of the nation’s leading Episcopal choral programs. Her Preces & Responses that we will sing this weekend were originally commissioned for the 2022 RSCM summer residency in North Carolina. Evensong will also feature Bryan Kelly’s beloved canticles in c major, notably influenced by Calypso rhythmic patterns, and Herbert Howells’s powerful “Behold, O God, our defender,” which was premiered at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of England. Evensong will be followed by a festive reception in the parish hall.