Our evensongs are amongst the services most appreciated by our congregations – and best loved by the choir.
It all started on the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli landing, when we sang our first evensong in recent times (photo). We sang Howells’ Collegium Regale setting, and Ireland’s famous anthem, “Greater love hath no man”. We wanted a way of respectfully commemorating ANZAC Day, and an evensong service at the end of the day with appropriate music and prayers seemed the right thing to do. But we had also started thinking about our first choir tour, and wanted to become familiar with the repertoire and liturgy of the Anglican evening service.
Looking back, we’re so glad we did! We have now completed 3 English Cathedrals tours (singing services in 17 cathedrals), and sing an evensong at least monthly at Pilgrim. We hope you are able to join us this ANZAC Day 25 April at 5pm, when we’ll be singing the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis by William Dennis Browne, a promising young English composer who was killed at Gallipoli, and Vaughan Williams’ impassioned anthem “Lord, thou hast been our refuge”, with Geoff Bradley as the trumpet soloist.
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