MUSIC NOTES This year, as we continue to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of English composer William Byrd (c. 1540–1623), the Choir offers a choral setting of the Gloria from Byrd’s masterful Mass for Four Voices...
The imagery in Collect of the Day, the Psalm, and the Gospel have all led to this Sunday in the liturgical year acquiring the moniker “Good Shepherd Sunday.” The motet “Surrexit a mortuis,” Op. 23, No. 3 by Charles-Marie...
This service of Readings and Music for the Feast of the Transfiguration is offered here on the parish website for you to use at home. It may be said by one person alone. If this service is said by more than one person, all read the words in bold...
At this moment, when we cannot gather together, St. Peter's will present recordings of our liturgy and music during Holy Week and Easter Week. Palm Sunday: This service, A Meditation on the Passion of Christ, was recorded on Palm...
Sunday, October 20, 2019 marks some of the first performances of I lift up mine eyes unto the hills by English composer Judith Bingham (b. 1952). This new work was commissioned in honor of Sarah Bryan Miller, “the dedicated music critic of...
The anthem “I waited for the Lord” comes from Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 2, but don’t tell Mendelssohn (1809–1847) that. He never referred to this work as a symphony. His title for this unique symphony-cantata...
Psalm 6 shares a similar sentiment to that of the cry of the rich man in the Gospel for this service. English Tudor composer Orlando Gibbons (1583–1625) uses the first four verses of this psalm in his full anthem O Lord, in thy wrath, sung...
