A special service observing the three-year anniversary of the first COVID-19 lockdown
Order of Service in Lent | Each week's repertoire is posted here
The Order of Service and repertoire may be found at: complineunderground.wordpress.com/2023/03/19/compline-2023-the-fourth-sunday-in-lent-laetare-office-for-the-dead-3-years-of-covid/
March 19, 2023 • The Fourth Sunday in Lent: LAETARE Office for the Dead | 3 Years of COVID
PROCESSIONAL: Requiem aeternam – Plainsong, Mode VI
PSALM 91 – Plainsong, Tone IV.4
HYMN 502: O Holy Spirit, by whose breath, life rises (Tune: VENI CREATOR SPIRITUS) – Plainsong, Mode VIII
NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2
ANTHEM: Lamentations – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)
POST-COMPLINE ORGAN MUSIC
Klaglied, BuxWV 76 - Dieterich Buxtehude
Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein, BWV Anh. 78 - J.S. Bach
Récit de Nazard - Bengt Hambraeus
Berceuse & Final from Firebird - Igor Stravinsky, arr. Maurice Besly
Jason Anderson, director • Page Smith, violoncellist • William Turnipseed, reader • Derek Tilton, cantor • Mark McDonald, organ recitalist
We are blessed to be joined by the Dean of Saint Mark’s Cathedral, The Very Rev. Steven L. Thomason. For the opening procession, the crucifer is Ray Miller and the thurifer is Marc Aubertin.
Thanks to this evening's Compline volunteers—hospitality ministers Priscilla Strand and Estephan Meza, 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/
If you watch and enjoy our live-streamed or archived services, please consider making a donation in support of the mission and ministry of this cathedral.
You may also donate using the Venmo mobile app from your smartphone (search for @SaintMarksCathedralSeattle ) Thank you for your generosity.
Order of Service in Lent | Each week's repertoire is posted here
The Order of Service and repertoire may be found at: complineunderground.wordpress.com/2023/03/12/compline-2023-the-third-sunday-in-lent/
March 12, 2023 • The Third Sunday in Lent
ORISON: Oculi mei – Plainsong, Mode VII
PSALM 95 – Plainsong, Tone IV.4 (mislabeled as IV.5)
HYMN: Lord Jesus, think on me (Tune: SOUTHWELL) – from Daman’s Psalter, 1579; adapt. Hymnal 1940; fauxbourdon harm. by Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)
NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2
ANTHEM: Lamentations of Jeremiah (a5) – Osbert Parsley (c. 1511-1585)
Jason Anderson, director • Josh Sandoz, reader • James Wilcox, cantor
Thanks to this evening's Compline volunteers—hospitality ministers Priscilla Strand 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/
If you watch and enjoy our live-streamed or archived services, please consider making a donation in support of the mission and ministry of this cathedral.
You may also donate using the Venmo mobile app from your smartphone (search for @SaintMarksCathedralSeattle ) Thank you for your generosity.
Order of Service in Lent | Each week's repertoire is posted here
The Order of Service and repertoire may be found at: complineunderground.wordpress.com/2023/03/05/compline-2023-the-second-sunday-in-lent/
March 5, 2023 • The Second Sunday in Lent
ORISON: Reminiscere miserationum tuarum – Plainsong, Mode IV
PSALM 121 – H. Walford Davies (1869-1941)
HYMN: Our Father, while our hearts unlearn the creeds that wrong thy name (Tune: BALFOUR) – Scottish hymn; harm. Geoffrey Shaw (1879-1943) and Gregory Bloch (b. 1977) [new]
NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2
ANTHEM: Lamentations of Jeremiah (a4/a5) – Juan de Lienas (c. 1617-1654)
Jason Anderson, director • Jeffrey Ricco, reader • Joel Bevington, cantor
Thanks to this evening's Compline volunteers—hospitality ministers Estephan Meza and Robin Ethridge, 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/
If you watch and enjoy our live-streamed or archived services, please consider making a donation in support of the mission and ministry of this cathedral.
You may also donate using the Venmo mobile app from your smartphone (search for @SaintMarksCathedralSeattle ) Thank you for your generosity.
Order of Service in Lent | Each week's repertoire is posted here
The Order of Service and repertoire may be found at: complineunderground.wordpress.com/2023/02/26/compline-2023-the-first-sunday-in-lent/
February 26, 2023 • The First Sunday in Lent
ORISON: Exaudi Domine – Plainsong, Mode IV
PSALM 32 – Plainsong, Tone III.4
HYMN: The Truth from Above – Herefordshire Carol, arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2
ANTHEM: Lamentations of Jeremiah – Claudin de Sermisy (c. 1490-1562)
Jason Anderson, director • William Turnipseed, reader • Jeremy Matheis, cantor
Thanks to this evening's Compline volunteers—hospitality ministers Ray Miller and James 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/
If you watch and enjoy our live-streamed or archived services, please consider making a donation in support of the mission and ministry of this cathedral.
You may also donate using the Venmo mobile app from your smartphone (search for @SaintMarksCathedralSeattle ) Thank you for your generosity.
Order of Service | Each week's repertoire is posted here
The Order of Service and repertoire may be found at: complineunderground.wordpress.com/2023/02/19/compline-2023-the-last-sunday-after-the-epiphany/
February 19, 2023 • The Last Sunday after the Epiphany
ORISON: Processional Psalm for Lucernarium – Carl C. Crosier (1945-2014)
PSALM 115 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)
HYMN 135: Songs of thankfulness and praise (Tune: SALZBURG) – mel. Jakob Hintze (1622-1702); harm. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone II; harm. Matteo Palotta (1680-1758)
ANTHEM: Resplenduit facies ejus – Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)
Jason Anderson, director •, Thomas Adams, reader • Theo Floor, cantor
Thanks to this evening's Compline volunteers—hospitality ministers Estephan Meza and Ray Miller, 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/
If you watch and enjoy our live-streamed or archived services, please consider making a donation in support of the mission and ministry of this cathedral.
You may also donate using the Venmo mobile app from your smartphone (search for @SaintMarksCathedralSeattle ) Thank you for your generosity.
Order of Service | Each week's repertoire is posted here
The Order of Service and repertoire may be found at: complineunderground.wordpress.com/2023/02/12/compline-2023-the-sixth-sunday-after-the-epiphany/
February 12, 2023 • The Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany
ORISON: ‘Thy mercies fill the earth, O Lord’ from Six Hymns to Doctor Watts – Alice Parker (b. 1925)
PSALM 119:1-16 – Plainsong, Tone II.1
HYMN: Book of books, our people’s strength (Tune: LIEBSTER JESU) – mel. Johann Rudolph Ahle (1625-1673); harm. George Herbert Palmer (1846-1926) and J. S. Bach (1685-1750)
NUNC DIMITTIS – John Munday (c. 1555-1630)
ANTHEM: I will meditate – Richard T. Proulx (1937-2010)
Jason Anderson, director • Jeremy Matheis, reader • Kenneth V. Peterson, canto
Thanks to this evening's Compline volunteers—hospitality ministers 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/
If you watch and enjoy our live-streamed or archived services, please consider making a donation in support of the mission and ministry of this cathedral.
You may also donate using the Venmo mobile app from your smartphone (search for @SaintMarksCathedralSeattle ) Thank you for your generosity.
Order of Service | Each week's repertoire is posted here
The Order of Service and repertoire may be found at: complineunderground.wordpress.com/2023/02/05/compline-2023-the-fifth-sunday-after-the-epiphany/
February 5, 2023 • The Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany
ORISON: God moves in a mysterious way (Tune: LONDON NEW) – mel. from The Psalmes of David in Prose and Meeter, 1635; harm. John Playford (1623-1686) and Martin Shaw (1875-1958)
PSALM 112:1-9 – Plainsong, Tone I.7
HYMN 628: Help us, O Lord, to learn (Tune: SAINT ETHELWALD) – William Henry Monk (1823-1889)
NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone V
ANTHEM: He that hath my commandments – William Mundy (c. 1529-c. 1591) [see Green Book]
Jason Anderson, director • Gregory Bloch, reader • Derek Tilton, cantor
Thanks to this evening's Compline volunteers—hospitality ministers Estephan Meza and Robin Ethridge, 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/
If you watch and enjoy our live-streamed or archived services, please consider making a donation in support of the mission and ministry of this cathedral.
You may also donate using the Venmo mobile app from your smartphone (search for @SaintMarksCathedralSeattle ) Thank you for your generosity.
This song was inspired by an Advent video reflection written and recorded by Matthew Briggs and Victoria Szydlowski in December of 2020, perhaps the darkest and most isolated days of the pandemic. Several cathedral community members had been asked to create these videos to be released throughout Advent that year, each reflecting on a different passage of Scripture, but it was Victoria and Matt’s reflection, on the opening verse of the Magnificat, that lodged itself in my head. Their video begins: “Before Mary rejoices in the things God does, she first and foremost simply rejoices in God...”
Matt died about nine months later, in August of 2021. After his death was announced to the community, I shared the video with the community once again, and Matt and Victoria’s words continued rolling around in my head. At some point, I realized I needed to set them to music. When I write music, I almost always begin with a clear concept of what the end will look like, but that was not the cast this time. At various points in the process I thought I was setting a long passage of the text as choral anthem, or a solo with organ, or a duet. Gradually, what I had written was pared down and focused, and finally I discovered that what I had been working on all along was, in fact, a meditation in the style of Taizé, using only final sentence spoken by Matt in the video. At that point, the words of Scripture that inspired the reflection in the first place seemed to click into place as solo verses above the refrain.
I’m grateful to the Taizé organizers at Saint Mark’s for including it in this service, where it is being sung publicly for the first time. I offer it to the greater glory of God and in memory of this remarkable person. He was taken from us too soon, but his presence in this world can still be felt, like the ripples in a pond when the pebble can no longer be seen, creating even now new wisdom, beauty, and joy.
– Gregory Bloch
Order of Service | Each week's repertoire is posted here
The Order of Service and repertoire may be found at: complineunderground.wordpress.com/2023/01/29/compline-2023-the-fourth-sunday-after-the-epiphany/
January 29, 2023 • The Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany
ORISON: Blest are the pure in heart – M. Searle Wright (1918-2004)
PSALM 15 (Setting II) – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)
HYMN 617: Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round (Tune: SONG 1) – Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625); harm. Ralph Vaughan William (1872-1958)
NUNC DIMITTIS [Tone II setting] – Tyler Morse (b. 1990)
ANTHEM: Lord, it is night – Donald Skirvin (b. 1946) [2nd performance]
Jason Anderson, director • Joel Matter, reader • Tommy Adams, cantor • William Turnipseed, organist
Thanks to this evening's Compline volunteers—hospitality ministers Ray Miller and Jim Buskirk, 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/
If you watch and enjoy our live-streamed or archived services, please consider making a donation in support of the mission and ministry of this cathedral.
You may also donate using the Venmo mobile app from your smartphone (search for @SaintMarksCathedralSeattle ) Thank you for your generosity.