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Music
Saint
John’s has an
active
Music Program and considers music to be one of the great tools
available to the
Church for communicating the Gospel.
The
Choir of Saint
John’s
–
This ensemble of 18 men and women provides musical leadership at all
Sunday
services and at Choral Evensong once each month during the choral
season. The
Choir rehearses every Thursday evening in the Choir Room at 7.30 from
September
through June.
The
Saint John's Choristers - This group is made up of young persons from
the Parish. They provide music one Sunday a month and at the 4.30
service on Christmas Eve. Reherasals are at 11.30am on Sundays.
The
Saint John's Concert Series – This annual series of four concerts
is one of
the finest musical offerings in the entire Litchfield
County
area. It is funded separately from the regular operating budget of Saint
John’s.
A brochure of the coming year’s events is distributed every September
when the
opportunity to subscribe is offered. Full details about the Concert
Series are
available from the Parish Office or one of the Concert Series brochures
in the
vestibules of the Church or Parish House.
The Saint
John's Chorale
– This group of auditioned singers presents two major concerts a
year at Saint
John’s.
As is the Concert Series, the Chorale is independently funded.
Performances
have featured such works as Johannes Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem,
George Frideric Handel’s Dixit Dominus, Johann Sebastian Bach’s
cantata Nun
komm, der Heiden Heiland and motet Jesu meine Freude,
Leonard
Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, Benjamin Britten’s Rejoice
in the Lamb,
Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem, and Zoltan Kodaly’s Missa brevis.
The
Organ
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