Join us for an Organ Recital & Choral Evensong - October 26
Sunday, October 26 at 4:30 p.m.
A service of Choral Evensong takes place Sunday, October 26th at 5 p.m. Preceding the service at 4:30 p.m. is an organ recital given by Nicholas White featuring works of Johann Sebastian Bach and Nicholas White. There is a free will offering at the door and a reception following 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, Minister of Music and organist 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, New York City, 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.
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