The Gregorian Singers

Evensong

 

On Sunday, March 15, 2015 at 4:00 p.m. the Gregorian Singers will sing a Lenten Choral Evensong at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 4557 Colfax Ave S., Minneapolis, MN. The service will be from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England, and will feature music commonly heard in English cathedrals and collegiate chapels. http://www.st-lukes.net/event/the-gregorian-singers-lenten-evensong-at-st-lukes/

 

Works will include Magnificat and Nunc dimittis by Robert Ramsey (c. 1595-1644); the Preces and Responses of Thomas Tompkins (1572-1656); Anthem, O Lord God, the Heathen Are Come Into Thine Inheritance by William Child (1601-1697); In Pace, Anthem for Evensong by William Blitheman (1525-1591); and Psalm 145: Anglican chant by Henry Lawes (1591-1662) and John Robinson (1682-1762).