Choral Evensong in Middlebury

St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church will offer English music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries at Choral Evensong on Sunday, March 23 at 4:00 pm. There is no admission charge and all are welcome to attend.

The music will include Edward Elgar’s great Organ Sonata in G major (1895), part of which was played at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. The anthem will be John Ireland’s Greater Love Hath No Man (1912), a piece intended as a cantata-like meditation for Passiontide, but which gained a special resonance throughout the English speaking world after the outbreak of war in 1914. The Evening Canticles will be the setting in b minor by T. Tertius Noble (1898), composed while he was Director of Music at York Minster.