Join us for an Organ Recital and Evensong - May 3 2026

April 15, 2026

Organ Recital by Nicholas White, Choral Evensong

On Sunday, May 3, 2026 at 4:30 p.m. Nicholas White performs an organ recital featuring his own composition, Theme, Variations, Cortege & Lullaby on "Grafton" and Johann Sebastian Bach's great Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor.  A service of Choral Evensong follows at 5:00 p.m., sung by the Parish Choir of Christ Church. A free will offering will be taken at the door and a reception follows the service.


The Choral Evensong features the second setting of Charles Wood’s Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in Eb. Additional music are four anthems of Sir John Rutter: For the Beauty of the Earth, Thy Perfect Love, Look to the Day and A Gaelic Blessing sung in celebration of Rutter’s 80th birthday and performed by the Parish Choir of Christ Church with soprano soloist Anney Barrett, organist and pianist Barbara Bruns, and guest conductor Nicholas White.


Recitalist Nicholas White, a Grammy nominated composer and conductor, as well as a versatile organist, pianist and singer, is the Director of Chapel Music & Organist at St. Paul’s School, Concord, NH. He has held several organ, conducting and teaching positions to include St. Michael’s Episcopal Church, New York City, St. John's Episcopal Church, Beverly Farms, Washington National Cathedral, and the Boston Cecilia. The Boston Cecilia performances of Bach, Handel, Duruflé, and his own work, From Earth to Heaven, were all critically acclaimed. His commissioned works include Full Freedom, a tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, a setting of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven, William Wordsworth’s Immortality, T.S. Eliot’s The Fire and the Rose and William Blake’s Songs of Innocence.


Please click here for the press release and click here for the 2025-2026 schedule of Music Events at Christ Church.


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