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St. Andrew’s Lambertville presents virtual All Saints Evensong

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In the midst of pandemic, Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Lambertville, N.J., will offer a Virtual All Saints’ Choral Evensong service via Zoom, at 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1, in thanksgiving for the lives of the departed and especially for those who have died during these past months.

The Virtual Choral Evensong will be preceded from 3:30 to 3:50 p.m. by a concert of sacred music selections by the Virtual Choir of Saint Andrew’s Church. From 3:50 to 4 p.m., greetings and cyber fellowship is offered to attendees.

Those who wish to attend via Zoom may provide names of departed loved ones to be remembered at the service by sending those names ahead to priest@standrewslambertville.net or attendees can offer them verbally during the remembrances in the service.

At the 4 p.m. service, the Virtual Choir of Saint Andrew’s Church, with its Virtual Orchestra friends, will present the chorale (known as “Jesu, Joy of man’s desiring”) from Cantata 147 by J.S Bach.

The Virtual Choir will also offer music by Elizabethan composer William Byrd, and a “Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis” by 19th century composer Charles Villiers Stanford.

The service will conclude with remembrances of the departed and with playing of Movement 4 from Johannes Brahms’ Requiem (“Ein Deutsches Requiem”), sung with full orchestra.

This was recorded last November at the All Saints’ Choral Evensong service of 2019, and was directed by Michael T. Kevane, organist/choirmaster at Saint Andrew’s. The Virtual Choir and Orchestra continue under the direction of Kevane.

All are welcome to attend the virtual concert and Evensong Service. The link to the service may be found at standrewslambertville.org.

For information, call 609-397-2425.


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