The Order of Service & repertoire may be found at: complineunderground.wordpress.com/2024/03/31/compline-2024-easter-day/

March 31, 2024 • Easter Day

PROCESSIONAL: Easter Canticle – Peter R. Hallock (1924–2014)

PSALM 114 – Plainsong, Tonus peregrinus

HYMN: Ad cenam Agni providi – Plainsong, Mode VIII; harm. Guillaume Dufay (c. 1397-1474)

NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tonus peregrinus; harm. William Byrd (c. 1540-1623)

ANTHEM: Cпасение coдeлaл (Salvation is created) – Pavel Chesnokov (1877-1944); arr. for men’s voices by Vladimir Morosan

Jason Anderson, director • Josh Sandoz, reader • Tyler Morse, cantor

Thanks to this evening's Compline volunteers: hospitality ministers Priscilla Strand and Estephan Meza.

Compline at Saint Mark's Cathedral has been a Seattle tradition since 1956. All the singers are volunteers. Learn more at: https://saintmarks.org/worship/compline/
and: https://complinechoir.org/

The Order of Service & repertoire may be found at: complineunderground.wordpress.com/2024/03/24/compline-2024-the-sunday-of-the-passion-palm-sunday/

March 24, 2024 • The Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday

ORISON: We glory in your cross, O Lord – Plainsong, Mode IV [American Gradual, p. 96]

PSALM 22:1-11 – Plainsong, Tone IV.1 (omit G.P.)

RESPOND: In manus tuas – John Sheppard (c. 1515-1558)

HYMN: O cross, whose wood is all our race’s boast (Tune: TENTH AVENUE) – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)

NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2

ANTHEM: O vos omnes – Peter R. Hallock

Jason Anderson, director • Tyler Morse, reader • Joel Bevington, cantor

Thanks to this evening's Compline volunteers: hospitality ministers Jim Buskirk and Ray Miller.

Compline at Saint Mark's Cathedral has been a Seattle tradition since 1956. All the singers are volunteers. Learn more at: https://saintmarks.org/worship/compline/
and: https://complinechoir.org/

The Order of Service & repertoire may be found at: complineunderground.wordpress.com/2024/03/17/compline-2024-the-fifth-sunday-in-lent/

March 17, 2024 • The Fifth Sunday in Lent

ORISON: Give judgment for me, O God – Plainsong, Mode IV [American Gradual, p. 79]

PSALM 119:9-16 – Plainsong, Tone II.1

HYMN: Drop, drop, slow tears (Tune: SONG 46) – Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)

NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2

ANTHEM: Lamentations of Jeremiah (a5) – Alfonso Ferrabosco the Younger (c. 1575-1628)

POST-COMPLINE ORGAN MUSIC: J.S. Bach, Chorale prelude on "O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde gross," BWV 622

Felix Mendelssohn, Sonata II

Georg Böhm, Praeludium in D Minor

Jason Anderson, director • Jeffrey Ricco, reader • Jeremy Matheis, cantor • Kyle Haugen, post-compline organ recitalist

Thanks to this evening's Compline volunteers: hospitality ministers Estephan Meza and Priscilla Strand, and videographer Michael Perera.

Compline at Saint Mark's Cathedral has been a Seattle tradition since 1956. All the singers are volunteers. Learn more at: https://saintmarks.org/worship/compline/
and: https://complinechoir.org/

The Order of Service & repertoire may be found at: complineunderground.wordpress.com/2024/03/10/compline-2024-the-fourth-sunday-in-lent/

March 10, 2024 • The Fourth Sunday in Lent: LAETARE

ORISON: Rejoice with Jerusalem– Plainsong, Mode V [American Gradual, p. 75]

PSALM 107:1-3, 17-22 – Plainsong, Tone V.1

HYMN: Lord, keep us steadfast in your Word (Tune: JESU DULCEDO CORDIUM) – Plainsong, Mode II; ed. Carl C. Crosier (1945-2014); harm. Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) [see ORISONS]

NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2

ANTHEM: Of the Lord’s mercies – Erin Aas (b. 1974)

Jason Anderson, director • Joel Matter, reader • Theo Floor, cantor

Thanks to this evening's Compline volunteers: hospitality ministers James Davidson and John Gulhaugen.

Compline at Saint Mark's Cathedral has been a Seattle tradition since 1956. All the singers are volunteers. Learn more at: https://saintmarks.org/worship/compline/
and: https://complinechoir.org/

The Order of Service & repertoire may be found at: complineunderground.wordpress.com/2024/03/02/compline-2024-the-third-sunday-in-lent/

March 3, 2024 • The Third Sunday in Lent [John and Charles Wesley, Priests, 1791, 1788]

ORISON: He shall call upon me – Plainsong, Mode VIII [American Gradual, p. 65]

PSALM 19 – Plainsong, Tone III.4

OFFICE HYMN: ‘Christe, qui lux es et dies,’ from Music for Compline – Plainsong, Mode II; arr. Kevin Siegfried (b. 1969)

NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2

ANTHEM: Lamentations (Setting I) – Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585)

Jason Anderson, director • Gregory Bloch, reader • John Garlid, cantor

Thanks to this evening's Compline volunteers: hospitality ministers Robin Ethridge and Estephan Meza, and videographer Michael Lee.

Compline at Saint Mark's Cathedral has been a Seattle tradition since 1956. All the singers are volunteers. Learn more at: https://saintmarks.org/worship/compline/ and: https://complinechoir.org/

The Order of Service & repertoire may be found at: complineunderground.wordpress.com/2024/02/25/compline-2024-the-second-sunday-in-lent/

February 25, 2024 • The Second Sunday in Lent 

ORISON: My eyes are ever looking to the Lord – Plainsong, Mode VII [American Gradual, p. 71]

PSALM 22:22-30 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)

HYMN: Lord Jesus, think on me (Tune: SOUTHWELL) – from Daman’s Psalter, 1579; adapt. Hymnal 1940; fauxbourdon harm. by Peter R. Hallock

NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2

ANTHEM: Lamentations – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)

Jason Anderson, director • Page Smith, violoncellist • J. Scott Kovacs, reader • Kenneth Peterson, cantor

Thanks to this evening's Compline volunteers: hospitality ministers James Buskirk and Ray Miller.

Compline at Saint Mark's Cathedral has been a Seattle tradition since 1956. All the singers are volunteers. Learn more at: https://saintmarks.org/worship/compline/
and: https://complinechoir.org/

The Order of Service & repertoire may be found at: complineunderground.wordpress.com/2024/02/17/compline-2024-the-first-sunday-in-lent/

February 18, 2024 • The First Sunday in Lent

ORISON: Remember, O Lord – Plainsong, Tone IV [American Gradual, p. 67]

PSALM 25:1-9 – Plainsong, Tone IV.2

HYMN: The glory of these forty days (Tune: ERHALT UNS, HERR) – mel. from Geistliche Lieder, 1535; harm. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2

ANTHEM: Lamentations of Jeremiah (a7) – Costanzo Festa (c. 1485/1490-1545)

POST-COMPLINE ORGAN MUSIC:

Variations on "Jesu dulcis memoria" by Jessica French

Arietta by Thomas H. Kerr

Five Sacred Dances by Margaret Vardell Sandresky

Jason Anderson, director • Jeremy Matheis, reader • James Wilcox, cantor • Susanna Valleau, post-compline organ recitalist

Thanks to this evening's Compline volunteers: hospitality ministers John Gulhagen and James Davidson.

Compline at Saint Mark's Cathedral has been a Seattle tradition since 1956. All the singers are volunteers. Learn more at: https://saintmarks.org/worship/compline/
and: https://complinechoir.org/