Our first Choral Evensong of the year will be Sunday, October 12, at 5:00 p.m. We are delighted to once again offer a full season of Evensong and...
Carlyle Sharpe (b. 1965) is Professor Emeritus of Music in Composition and Theory at Drury University in Springfield, Mo. Sharpe’s anthem...
Dear readers, Please accept my apologies for not keeping up with the blog in the final stretch of the season after Pentecost. I return to writing in this space with renewed Advent vigor! It's no secret that I love Advent. I would wager most...
It has become that time of year when we celebrate All Saints' Day on a Sunday. (You can search the Book of Common Prayer for the words "All Saints' Sunday", but you won't find them in there!) The service begins with the familiar hymn for this...
There's a real mysteriousness to the choral music that we are singing on Sunday. The first type of mystery might be described as the "mystery of the mountains" to borrow a phrase from a particularly beautiful prayer by Jeremy Davies. It's...
One of the marvelous things about church music, for me, is learning about little connections between words, music, and composers over time. Take this Sunday, for instance. The very first thing we will sing is an Introit to an Anglican Chant by...
This Sunday, the choir will sing "If Thou Wilt Be Perfect," a new anthem that St. Peter's has commissioned from Philadelphia composer Melissa Dunphy (b. 1980). Many St. Louisans are already familiar with Dunphy's music. She was recently the...
