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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