St. Mary's Choir Schedules & Repertoire
Times listed are call times for services or rehearsals.

T=Treble Choir (K-3rd)
+3=3rd graders
BG=Boys & Girls Choir (4th and up)
MW=Choir of Men & Women (with Section Leaders and Choral Scholars)
S1=Soprano I
S2=Soprano II
A1=Alto I
A2=Alto II
M=Men from Choir of Men & Women
W=Women from Choir of Men & Women
C=Choral Scholars
Q=Section Leaders
S=Schola for Compline


Wednesday, September 7
MW 7:30-9:30 p.m. First Rehearsal of 2011-2012 Season


Thursday, September 8 Choristers Kick-off Potluck/Rehearsal
TBG 6:30 Dinner

September 11  Proper 19 Homecoming Sunday/Day of Remembrance
MW 9:15 Bevan: There’s a wideness

Thursday, September 15 First Weekday Rehearsal for 2011-2012 Season
TBG 6:30                        

September 18 Proper 20
BGS1A1 8:30 Aston: I give you a new commandment
MW 10:30 Near: Christ hath a garden
S 7:00 Ortiz: Te lucis, Gretchaninoff: Nunc dimittis, Rachmaninoff: Ave Maria

September 25 Proper 21
T 8:30 Jamaican, All you works of God
MW 10:30 Cannicciari, Christus factus est

Thursday, September 29 Invite a Friend to Choir Day
TBG 6:30

Friday, September 30 Boys Outing
St. Mary's at 6:00 for Pizza then depart at 6:45 for 7:30 St. Thomas, New York Boys Choir Concert at All Saints Chevy Chase

October 2 Proper 22
MW 8:30 Batten, O sing joyfully
Q 10:30 Batten
MWBG 4:00 Crisafulli: Phos Hilaron; Preces: Lehman; Psalm145; Leighton Second Service: Adams: Anthem

October 9 Proper 23
BGS1A18:30  Brightwell, Tantum ergo
MW 10:30 Messiaen: O sacrum convivium

October 16 Proper 24 Ingathering Sunday
BGS2A2M 8:30 Walmisley, Not unto us
MW 10:30 Walmisley, Not unto us
S 7:00 Plainsong: Psalm; Palestrina: Te lucis; Nunc dimittis: Thomas Barrow

October 23 Proper 25
BG 8:30 Corfe: My voice shalt thou hear   
MW 10:30 Ireland: Greater love

October 30 Proper 26
T 8:30 Japanese koto melody: Praise the Lord
MW 10:30 Rickards: As the lyre to the singer

November 6 All Saints’ Sunday
MW 8:30 Stanford: Beati quorum via
Q 10:30 Tye: Hail, glorious spirits, heirs of light
MW 3:30 Duruflé Requiem

November 13 Proper 28
BGS1A1 8:30 arr. Neaum: My Lord, what a morning
MW 10:30 Bairstow: Let all mortal flesh keep silence

November 20 Christ the King Proper 29
BGS2A2M 8:30 Candlyn: King of Glory
MW 10:30 Tavener: Funeral Ikos
S 7:00  Helvey: O lux beatissima; Ferko: Nunc dimittis;Whitacre: Sleep

Tuesday, November 22
MW 7:30-9:30

Wednesday, November 23 No Rehearsal

Thursday, November 24 Thanksgiving Day
Ecumenical Service at St. Mary's
BGMW 9:00 Rehearsal/10:00 Service Vaughan Williams: The Old Hundredth Tune

November 27, Advent 1
TBG 8:30  Crouch: Soon and very soon
MW 10:30 Hammerschmidt: Lift up your heads, ye gates

December 4, Advent 2
BGMW 8:30 Rorem: Mercy and truth are met together
Q 10:30 Rorem
MW 3:45 Advent Lessons & Carols
BG 4:00
T 4:30          
Responsory: Tonus Peregrinus; Ord: Adam lay ybounden; Wood: Creator of the stars of night; Spiritual: Rise up, shepherd, and follow; Howells: A spotless rose; Proulx: The eyes of all; Lakey: My Lord what a mornin'; Responsory: Jackson

December 11, Advent 3
BGS1A1 8:30 Proulx: The eyes of all
MW 10:30 Tallis: O nata lux

Thursday, December 15
Last Treble Choir and Boys & Girls Choir Rehearsal of 2011

December 18, Advent 4
BG 8:30 Wood: Creator of the stars of night
MW 10:30 Redford: Rejoice in the Lord alway
S 7:00 Organum: O Antiphons; Anonymous: Conditor alme siderum; Morley: Nunc dimittis; Arcadelt: Ave Maria

December 24, Christmas Eve, 8:00 and 11:00 p.m.
MW 7:00 Thoburn: Now is well that ever was woe; Head: The little road to Bethlehem; Howells: A spotless rose

December 25-January 1, No Choirs Meet

Wednesday, January 4
MW 7:30 First Rehearsal of 2012

Thursday, January 5
TBG 6:30 First Rehearsal of 2012

Friday, January 6, Epiphany Feast of Lights
BG 6:30/7:30 Proulx, Wood, Dyson: Nunc dimittis in C Minor; Lang: Tres Magi de Gentibus

Saturday, January 7, Epiphany Choir Parties
BG+3rd graders 5:00-8:00, Ridenhour Residence
MW+Handbells 6:00-9:00 p.m., Keith Residence

January 8, The Baptism of Our Lord
BGMW 8:30 Byrd: Surge illuminare
Q 10:30 Byrd; Hallock: Psalm (throughout Epiphany at 11:15)

January 14, King Wedding
MW 3:00/4:00 Friedell: Come, my way; Wood: Jesu, the very thought is sweet

January 15, Epiphany 2
BGS1A1 8:30 White: A Prayer of St. Richard
MW 10:30 Friedell
S 7:00 Hallock: Psalm 90; Le Cantique de Simeon: O gracious Light; Stone: The Lord's Prayer; Palestrina: Antiphon and Nunc dimittis

January 22, Epiphany 3
BG3S2A2M 8:30 Ives: Listen, sweet dove
MW 10:30 Ives

January 25, Conversion of St. Paul: Ordination of Grant Ambrose
MWBG 6:00/7:00 Vaughan Williams: The Old Hundredth Psalm Tune; Wood: Jesu, the very thought is sweet; Friedell; Veni, Creator: Hallock: Psalm 67

January 29, Epiphany 4
T 8:30 Lowenberg: Can you count the stars
MW 10:30 Durufle: Notre Pere; Wood

February 5, Epiphany 5 Confirmation
MW 8:30 Near, There is a balm in Gilead
Q 10:30 Near
MW 4:00 William Smith: Preces; Brewer in D; Elvey and Blow: Psalm 34; Near: The day thou gavest, Lord, has ended

February 12, Epiphany 6
BGS1A1 8:30 Burgomaster: As the deer longs for the water-brooks
MW 10:30 Wesley: Wash me throughly

February 19, Last Sunday after the Epiphany
BG+3S2A2M 8:30 Candlyn: Christ, whose glory fills the skies
MW 10:30 Handel: Alleluia
S 7:00

February 22 Ash Wednesday with Rehearsal following
MW 6:30 Ford: Almighty God; King John: Crux fidelis

February 26, Lent I
T 8:30
MW 10:30 Spiritual: Down to the river to pray

March 4, Saturday Rehearsal for Evensong at St. Mary's with St. John's
BG 9:15-11:15

March 5, Lent 2
BGMW 8:30 Friedell: Jesus, so lowly
Q 10:30 Friedell
BGQ 4:00/5:00 Evensong with St. John's Academy, McLean: Sumsion: Preces; Noble in B Minor; Gardiner: Evening Hymn

March 12, Lent 3
BGS1A1 8:30 Elgar: Ave verum
MW 10:30 Bruckner: Christus factus est

March 19, Lent 4
BG+3S2A2M 8:30 Stainer: God so loved the world
MW 10:30 Chilcott: God so loved the world
S 7:00 

March 25, Lent 5
T 8:30 God's my shepherd
MW 10:30 Tallis: That Virgin's Child

March 27, Region III Lenten Study Compline
S 7:30/8:45

April 1 Passion Sunday
MW 8:30 & 10:30 Sumsion: There is a green hill far away; Victoria: O vos omnes
No Evensong

April 5 Maundy Thursday
MW 6:30 Near: Missa orbis factor; Persichetti: Drop, drop, slow tears; Mealor: Ubi caritas

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