Note that this is an offsite event. Join us at Trinity College Chapel!

This event will be in-person only. It will not be available by livestream.

The ancient and beautiful service of Choral Evensong is presented on the fourth Sunday of selected months at St. John’s. Join us on Sunday, March 26 at 5:00pm for Evensong sung by the treble choirs of St. John’s Choir School, West Hartford, St. James’s, West Hartford, First Church of Christ, Congregational, Newington, Trinity Episcopal Church, Hartford, and St. Paul’s, Norwalk. Will Doreza, Michelle Horsley, Scott Lamlein, Alan Murchie, and Peter Niedmann, choirmasters; Christopher Houlihan, organist.

This event is free admission, donations welcome in any amount. Checks payable to Music at the Red Door or click here to donate online.

Service Music:
Introit: O gracious light (2023) by Michelle Horsley
Canticles: George Dyson in C minor
Responses: Sarah MacDonald
Anthem: Listen, sweet dove by Katherine Burk
Organ voluntaries played by Christopher Houlihan:
Choral Paraphrase on the Gregorian Hymn  ‘Attende Domine’ (Hear us, Lord) – Jeanne Demessieux (1921–1968)
Cortège Académique – Ernest MacMillan (1893–1973)

This event is free admission, donations welcome in any amount. Checks payable to Music at the Red Door or click here to donate online.

The St. John’s Schola is a small ensemble that is drawn from the St. John’s Choir. Varying in size from four to sixteen singers, the Schola specializes

in harmonious a capella choral music, both ancient and modern. The St. John’s Choir School is a group of singers that has fun while learning all about music reading, theory, vocal training, and the great sacred choral repertoire, old and new. With worship at the core of their work together, the Choir School prepares anthems and other music twice monthly

for the 10:30 a.m. Sunday service at St. John’s Church. St. John’s Choir School is affiliated with the Royal School of Church Music, an international organization of choirs that sing in the English choir school tradition. Alongside professional and amateur adult singers, they learn adult-level choral music and look beyond the words and music to communicate a message. The St. John’s Adult Choir is a semi-professional ensemble of 35 singers. Presenting music at St. John’s weekly services requires learning more than 100 choral works each year, which the choir does with joy and grace. Both choirs sing for Evensong and two major concerts at St. John’s each year, and for a number of special events at other venues. In 2019, the choirs sang in residence at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC, and at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York. Learn more about the St. John’s Choirs at this page.

What is Choral Evensong? “Evensong … is a very tiny fragment of something else:  it is a fragment of the worship which is offered to God by Christian people every hour in every part of the world. When you come to Evensong here it is as if you were dropping in on a conversation already in progress — a conversation between God and people which began long before you were born and will go on long after you are dead.”