The Order of Service & repertoire may be found at: complineunderground.wordpress.com/2025/03/02/compline-2025-the-last-sunday-after-the-epiphany/

March 2, 2025 • The Last Sunday after the Epiphany

ORISON: ’Tis good, Lord, to be here! (Tune: CARLISLE) – Charles Lockhart (1745-1815)

PSALMS 99 & 150 – Plainsong, Tone VII.7 and C. V. Stanford (1852-1924)

HYMN: Christ upon the mountain peak (Tune: IBIS) – melody Thomas Kuras (1950-1997); harm. Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)

NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone VII; harm. Thomas Morley (1557-1602)

ANTHEM: Quicumque Christum quæritis – Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)

Jason Anderson, director • Joel Matter, reader • Theo Floor, 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/2025/02/23/compline-2025-the-seventh-sunday-after-the-epiphany/

February 23, 2025 • The Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany

ORISON: In your mercy, Lord, you called me (Tune: HALTON HOLGATE) – William Boyce (1711-1779); verse 3 harm. Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-1876) [see HYMNS]

PSALM 37:1-12, 14, 18 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) [preimiere]

HYMN 568: Father all loving, who rulest in majesty (Tune: WAS LEBET) – mel. from Choral-Buch, 1754; harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

NUNC DIMITTIS – Elway Bevin (c.1554-1638)

ANTHEM: A Hymn of Faith – Gregory W. Bloch (b. 1977)

Jason Anderson, director • J. Scott Kovacs, reader • John Garlid, cantor

Thanks to this evening's Compline volunteers: hospitality ministers Jim Buskirk and Priscilla Strand.

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/2025/02/16/compline-2025-the-sixth-sunday-after-the-epiphany/

February 16, 2025 • The Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany

ORISON: ‘Blest are the pure in heart,’ from Ten Orisons – M. Searle Wright (1918-2004)

PSALM 1 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976)

OFFICE HYMN: Before the ending of the day – Sarum plainsong, Mode VIII; harm. Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585)

NUNC DIMITTIS – Anonymous setting from The Lumley Books, c. 1547-1552 [No. 26]

ANTHEM: He that hath my commandments – William Mundy (c. 1529-c. 1591)

POST-COMPLINE ORGAN MUSIC:

Chorale-prelude on "Meine Seele Erhebt den Herren" – J.S. Bach

Ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la – William Byrd

Prelude and Fugue in C Major – J.S. Bach

Jason Anderson, director • William Turnipseed, reader • Kenneth Peterson, cantor. • Amiel Elfert, post-compline organ recitaist

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/2025/02/08/compline-2025-the-fifth-sunday-after-the-epiphany/

February 9, 2025 • The Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany

ORISON (H 652): Dear Lord and Father of mankind (Tune: REST) – Frederick Charles Maker (1844-1927)

PSALM 138 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976)

HYMN: Jesus calls us; o’er the tumult (Tune: RESTORATION) – mel. The Sacred Harp, 1835; arr. Greg Bloch

NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone VIII; harm. John Holmes (d. 1629)

ANTHEM: Ambulans Jesus – Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599)

Jason Anderson, director • Jeremy Matheis, reader • James Wilcox, 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/2025/02/02/compline-2025-the-presentation-of-our-lord-jesus-christ-in-the-temple/

February 2, 2025 • THE PRESENTATION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE

ANTIPHON: Behold, our Lord will come with power – Plainsong, Mode III [American Gradual, p. 235-236]

PROCESSIONAL PSALM 48:1-2,7,9,10-13 – Plainsong, Tone I.7

PSALM 84 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)

HYMN: Virgin-born, we bow before thee – Claude Goudimel (c. 1514-1572) [see ORISONS]

NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone VIII.

ANTHEM: Almighty and everlasting God – Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656)

Jason Anderson, director & organist • Josh Sandoz, reader • Fred McIlroy, cantor

Thanks to this evening's Compline volunteers: Hospitality Ministers Robin Ethridge 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/2025/01/26/compline-2025-the-third-sunday-after-the-epiphany/

January 26, 2025 • The Third Sunday after the Epiphany

ORISON: Blessed Jesus, at thy word we are gathered (Tune: LIEBSTER JESU) – mel. Johann Ahle (1625-1673); harm. George Palmer (1846-1926)

PSALM 19 – Plainsong, Tone III.4

HYMN 632: O Christ, the Word Incarnate (Tune: MUNICH) – harm. Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone II; harm. John Holmes (d. 1629)

ANTHEM: Beati quorum via – Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924); arr. Richard Barnes

Jason Anderson, director • Tyler Morse, reader • Jeremy Matheis, cantor

Thanks to this evening's Compline volunteers: Hospitality Minister Jim Buskirk.

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/2025/01/19/compline-2025-the-second-sunday-after-the-epiphany/

January 19, 2025 • The Second Sunday after the Epiphany

ORISON (H 135): Songs of thankfulness and praise (Tune: SALZBURG) – mel. Jakob Hintze (1622-1702); harm. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

PSALM 36:5-10 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976)

HYMN 138: All praise to you, O Lord (Tune: CARLISLE) – Charles Lockhart (1745-1815)

NUNC DIMITTIS – Jeff Junkinsmith (b. 1956)

ANTHEM: Tribus miraculis – Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594)

POST-COMPLINE ORGAN MUSIC:
Jean Langlais, Chant de Paix Op. 40, No. 3
J.S. Bach, Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 582
Jean Langlais, Fête, Op. 51

Jason Anderson, director • Jeffrey Ricco, reader • Jeremy Matheis, cantor • Michael Plagerman, post-Compline organ recitalist

Thanks to this evening's Compline volunteers: Hospitality Ministers Estephan Mezsa 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/2025/01/12/compline-2025-the-first-sunday-after-the-epiphany-the-baptism-of-jesus/

January 12, 2025 • The First Sunday after the Epiphany: The Baptism of Jesus
(with Translation of a Member to Inactive Status)

ORISON: ‘I come,’ the great Redeemer cries (Tune: THIS ENDRIS NYGHT) – English mel.; harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) and Martin Fallas Shaw (1875-1958)

PSALM 29 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)

HYMN 121: Christ, when for us you were baptized (Tune: CAITHNESS) – melody from The Psalmes of David in Prose and Meeter, 1635; harm. The English Hymnal, 1906

NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone VI; harm. Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)

ANTHEM: The Baptism of Christ – Peter R. Hallock

This service concludes with a brief rite of leave-taking for Vernon Nicodemus, who joined the choir in September of 1975, and served faithfully from 1975–2004, and 2016–2025. This was his final service as an active member of the Compline Choir. 

Jason Anderson, director • Gregory Bloch, reader • John Garlid, cantor • anthem soloists: Joey Blundell, John Garlid, and Tyler Morse

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/