Music Brochure
Click here to view the Fall 2010 Music Brochure.
Liturgical Music
The Cathedral community shares a rich liturgical life, with well over 200 liturgies every year which require music.
The music of our liturgy is our choir's first and most spiritual priority. We are dedicated to grafting, through our liturgical music, our spirits and lives to one another in Christ.
The choir provides music for Holy Eucharist each Sunday at the 9:00 am and 11:15 am services (10:00 am during the summer months).
Click here to see our Fall 2010 Anthem Schedule
Evensong
There is also a Choral Evensong in the English Cathedral tradition on the 3rd Sunday of each month at 3:30 p.m. during the academic year (excluding December).
Many people have come to value Evensong as a significant part of their spiritual lives.
Upcoming Evensong services:
Sunday, Sept. 19, featuring music by William Byrd, Charles Villiers Stanford, Heinrich Isaac, and Peter Philips
Sunday, Oct. 17, featuring music by Philip Moore, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Samuel Sebastian Wesley, and Peter Philips
Sunday, Nov. 21, featuring music by Malcolm Archer, Edward Bairstow, Herbert Howells, and Peter Philips
Special Liturgical Music
Sunday, Sept. 12, 10:00 am: Saint John's Day (with trumpets) including anthems by Charles Parry and David Hurd
Sunday, Nov. 7, 3:30 pm: All Souls' Requiem including Missa pro defunctis by Antoine Brumel
Thursday, Nov. 25, 10:00 am: Thanksgiving Eucharist (with brass quartet) including music by Leo Sowerby
Sunday, Nov. 28, 3:30 pm: Advent Lessons and Carols including music by Michael Wise, Frank Boles, and Heinrich Isaac
Saturday, Dec. 18, 3:30 pm: Christmas Lessons and Carols featuring music old and new celebrating the birth of Christ
Sunday, Dec. 19, 3:30 pm: Christmas Lessons and Carols featuring music old and new celebrating the birth of Christ
Friday, Dec. 24, 3:00, 5:00, 8:00 and 11:00 pm:
Christmas Eve services (with brass and timpani)
featuring music celebrating the birth of Christ
Saturday, Dec. 25, 10:00 am: Christmas Day Eucharist featuring music for the feast
Diocesan Music
Parish choirs are invited to join Saint John's Cathedral Choir for all Diocesan services held at the Cathedral. Choir Directors should contact Stephen Tappe at tappe@sjcathedral.org or 303-577-7726 no later than two months prior to each liturgy if their choir wants to join us for the anthems, or one week prior to the liturgy if the choir wants to join us for the singing of hymns and service music only.
Upcoming Diocesan liturgies:
October 7, 2010:
Diocesan Convention Eucharist
(5:45 pm rehearsal, 7 pm service)
November 20, 2010:
Ordination of Vocational Deacons
(9 am rehearsal, 10 am service)