Sundays in Song: About this Week's Music
From September through May, we post information regarding the music that we share each week in worship. Below you will find music lists for the season, as well as links to individual episodes of Sundays in Song, a video blog series maintained by our Director of Music. We also invite you to visit past seasons, and explore our YouTube channel to enjoy the recordings of the choir in past years.
Sundays in Song Episodes
The Season of Easter 2019
A preview of Orlando Gibbons' joyous motet, O clap your hands together, sung at the last service of the Program Year.
An interview with 2018-2019 Composer-in-Residence Joshua Bornfield concerning his new work written for the Choir of St. David's, LoYisa Goy, which powerfully combats anti-Semitism through engaging others in song.
The Choir of St. David's offers a reprise of their recent performance with the Washington Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble.
A preview of the collaboration between the Choir of St. David's and the Washington Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble.
The Choir offers Director of Music Douglas Buchanan's new setting of John Donne's poem, Resurrection, Imperfect.
The Season of Lent 2019
With the exception of special events, Sundays in Song went on Lenten hiatus in 2019.
A sneak peak into the rehearsal of Heinrich Schütz's Seven Last Words of Christ from the Cross, in collaboration with 2018-2019 Ensemble-in-Residence The Washington Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble.
Baltimore Bach Marathon Preview
The Choir of St. David's rehearses for their performance of the motets Komm, Jesu, komm and Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden at the 2019 Baltimore Bach Marathon.
The Season After Epiphany 2019
Music of Bach closes the season after Epiphany in joyful fashion.
This Sunday features two sections from Bach's Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden, as well as two movements from Die Kunst der Fuge.
The Choir of St. David's performs Arvo Pärt's mystical setting of The Beatitudes.
This week features Charles Wood's 'Twas in the year King Uzziah died, music of Christoph Strauss, and two movements from Die Kunst der Fugue.
Music at St. David's Annual Report
A look back at the past year, assessing the impact the music program has on both the parish and the Baltimore community at large.
An interview with composer and vocalist Rahzé Cheatham regarding his new work, to be premiered at the annual Evensong for the Feast of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The First Sunday after the Epiphanyfeatures an arrangement of the African-American Spiritual Wade in the Water and a motet by Renaissance composer Christopher Tye.
The Season of Christmas, and the Feast of the Epiphany
The Feast of the Epiphany is celebrated with music of Felix Mendelssohn and an organ work by Dr. Douglas Buchanan.
A reprise of the Choir of St. David's performance of Richard Causton's The Flight, from this year's Service of Nine Lessons and Carols.
Director of Music Ministries interviews composer Melinda Bargreen, regarding her composition There is no rose of sych vertu, which will receive its East Coast premiere at St. David's this Christmas Eve.
Advent 2018
This week we share music from Spain, as well as a mysterious motet by Orlando di Lassus, and close Advent out with a joyful fugue by Johann Pachelbel based on a Magnificat chant.
The third Sunday of Advent, with a deep look into the music offered in our Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. The music this year, in addition to supporting the liturgy, celebrates the service's founding a century ago at King's College, Cambridge.
The second Sunday of Advent, featuring the music of Orlando Gibbons.
The first Sunday of Advent, including the first part of J.S. Bach's motet, Komm, Jesu, komm, and two organ settings of Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland ("Savior of the Nations, Come") by Bach.
Fall 2018
A special Thanksgiving message from the Choir of St. David's
November 11, 2018: Bonus Episode
Interview with Andrew Maxfield, another composer featured on our Evensong commemorating the centenary of the 1918 Armistice
Interview with Michael Rickelton, composer featured on our, Evensong commemorating the centenary of the 1918 Armistice
The Feast of All Saints (Observed), and interview with composer Erica Ball
A Celebration of the Psalms of David, and Leonard Bernstein's Centenary, featuring Chichester Psalms
Voices Rise: A Baltimore Choir of Hope
"Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace," by S.S. Wesley
Music for St Francis of Assisi
The Washington Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble, St. David's 2018-2019 Ensemble-in-Residence
Interview with composer Melissa Dunphy
September 16, 2018: Bonus Episode 2
Evensong for the Feast of Hildegard von Bingen, and interview with composer Kerry Andrew
September 16, 2018: Bonus Episode 1
Hildegard von Bingen
Interview with composer Anna Appleby
Music of Violet Archer, Anne-Amélie de Brunswick, and Louis Vierne
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