Sunday, March 14 Music:

The service is played and conducted by Roger Stanley, Associate Organist, assisted by Brian Schoettler, Organ Scholar. Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) wrote music of elegant beauty, exquisitely crafted and filled with the signatures of his style: gracious melodies, drama, elegant counterpoint and an inventive sense of variation. He wrote three preludes and fugues, six sonatas, and other miscellaneous works for organ, all elegantly crafted and exploiting the many colors of the instrument. The Fourth Sonata, in B-Flat, is a tuneful and dramatic work in four movements. The third movement sets a gracious melody accompanied by rippling motives. William Byrd’s Second Service is from his post-Reformation settings of the Psalms, Litanies and Canticles. It is a masterful setting in the new “English” (post-reformation) style: chordal harmonies, each syllable set to one note, with alternating “verses” for soloist and full choir. Ned Rorem has achieved a place of pre-eminence among American composers of the last 60 years. He was commissioned by Paul Calloway, former Organist-Choirmaster of the National Cathedral, to write three choral works for that famous choir of men and boys. Sing, my Soul, set to a text from the Episcopal hymnal, is serenely simple in construction and harmony. The motet shows Rorem’s great skill in setting poetry to music, for which he is justly famed.    

Sunday, October 18^th at 2:15 p.m.

Cor Cantiamo; Dr. Eric Johnson, Director  A new Chicagoland Choral group members and alumni of the Northern Illinois University Chamber Choir

Sunday, November 8^th at 2:15 p.m.

  A Mendelssohn Organ Festival; David Jonies, Br. Jonathan Ryan, Roger Stanley & Richard Barrick Hoskins, Organists

Sunday, February 7^th at 2:15 p.m.

      The Parish Recital; The talented musicians of our Parish: pianists, singers, dancers, actors, and more!

March, 2010

Trois Leçons des Ténèbres; Lindsay Metzger, Jennifer Schneider & Nora Engonopoulos, Sopranos; Craig Trompeter, Viole de gambe; Richard Barrick Hoskins, Organ      François Couperins exquisite settings of The Lamentations of Jeremiah

Sunday, May 23^rd  at 2:15 p.m.

The Glorious Voices of St. Chrysostom's; Diana Lawrence, Lindsay Metzger, Jennifer Schneider, Nora Engonopoulos, Lindsey Adams, Angela Young Smucker , Herbert Lentz, Marcus Shields, Justin Adair, Matthew Hayden, Richard Hoskins, Piano