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/

The Order of Service & repertoire may be found at: complineunderground.wordpress.com/2025/01/05/compline-2025-the-eve-of-the-epiphany/

January 5, 2025 • THE EVE OF THE EPIPHANY

ORISON: Brightest and best of the stars of the morning (Tune: MORNING STAR) - James Proctor Harding (1850–1911)

PSALM 96 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976)

HYMN 112: In the bleak mid-winter (Tune: CRANHAM) – Gustav Holst (1874-1934)

NUNC DIMITTIS (Tune: MARILYN) – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)

ANTHEMS: The Three Kings – Peter Cornelius (1824-1874); arr. Ivor Atkins (1869-1953) and Jason Anderson

Quem pastores laudavere – arr. Susan LeBarr (b. 1981)

Jason Anderson, director • Joel Matter, reader • Tyler Morse, 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/2024/12/29/compline-2024-the-first-sunday-after-christmas-day/

December 29, 2024 • The First Sunday after Christmas

PROCESSIONAL (H 102): Once in royal David’s city (Tune: IRBY) – mel. Henry John Gauntlett (1805-1876); harm. Arthur Henry Mann (1850-1929)

PSALM 147 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)

HYMN 82: Of the Father’s love begotten (Tune: DIVINUM MYSTERIUM) – Sanctus trope, 11th cent.; adapt. Piae Cantiones, 1582; arr. Richard T. Proulx (1937-2010)

NUNC DIMITTIS (Tune: MARILYN) – Peter R. Hallock

ANTHEMS: O beatam et Sacrosanctum diem – Peter Philips (1561-1628)
When Christ was born of Mary free – John Joubert (1927-2019)

Jason Anderson, director • J. Scott Kovacs, reader • Theo Floor, cantor

Thanks to this evening's Compline volunteer: Hospitality Minister 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/2024/12/22/compline-2024-the-fourth-sunday-of-advent/

December 22, 2024 • The Fourth Sunday of Advent • O Rex gentium

PROCESSIONAL: O come, O Wisdom from above (Tune: VENI EMMANUEL) – New trans. of the O Antiphons by Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976), sung to Plainsong, Mode I, from Processionale, 15th cent.; arr. and harm. Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)

CANTICLE: Magnificat – Plainsong, Tone II.1 with O Rex gentium

HYMN: Lo, how a Rose e’er blooming (Tune: ES IST EIN ROS) – melody from Alte Catholische Geistliche Kirchengesäng, 1599; harm. Michael Praetorius (1571-1621) and Carl Orff (1895-1982)

NUNC DIMITTIS – Richard Proulx (1937-2010)

ANTHEM: Maria durch ein Dornwald ging – German folk melody; arr. Philip Lawson

Jason Anderson, director • Jeremy Matheis, reader • Ken Peterson, cantor

Thanks to this evening's Compline volunteers: Hospitality Ministers Jim Buskirk, 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/