Choral Evensong at St. James’ Anglican Church

Friday, August 9 at 5 pm | 303 East Cordova Street, Vancouver

St. James’ welcomes the 40-voice Choir from The Canadian Renaissance Music Summer School (CRMSS) for Choral Evensong.

The CRMSS Choir will sing the Magnificat by Luca Marenzio, the Nunc Dimittus by Orlande de Lassus, and an Anthem by Andrea Gabrieli.  The sung Versicles and Responses are by William Smith, and Psalm 91 and Psalm 92 are chanted in the Anglican tradition to settings by Richard Woodward and George J Bennett respectively.  The service concludes with one of Charles Wesley finest hymns, “Love divine, all loves excelling,” accompanied on the majestic organ and in the glorious acoustics of St. James’ Anglican Church.

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Whilst the warp and woof of Evensong is its music, it is how music and the spoken word are woven together in a liturgy that is not only enchanting, but gives respite from the busyness of our lives.  You are invited to come together at St. James’ at 5 pm on Friday, August 9 to experience a powerful sense of connecting past and present, to join in heart and mind with that community that endures through time and space, with whom in the Lord Jesus we are for ever one, and experience something much greater than ourselves.