2012-2013 Choral Services and Concerts
Sunday, September 9, 2012
3:15 p.m. Recital, Gail Archer (Barnard College at Columbia University, New York, NY), organ
Charles Ives, Variations on "America"
Joan Tower, Ascent
Samuel Barber, Wondrous Love
William Bolcom, Selections from Gospel Preludes: Book 4
4:00 p.m. Choral Evensong, Schola
Bernard Rose, Preces & Responses
Herbert Howells, Gloucester Cathedral
C. Hubert H. Parry, I was glad
Spiritual, arr. Robert Poovey, There is a balm in Gilead
Sunday, September 16, 2012
3:15 p.m. Recital, Sarah Hawbecker (Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, Atlanta), organ
Craig Phillips, Fanfare for Organ
César Franck, Fantaisie in A Major
Louis Vierne, "Sicilienne" from Pièces de Fantaisie
Leo Sowerby, "Passacaglia" from Symphony for Organ
4:00 p.m. Choral Evensong, Schola
Philip Radcliffe, Preces & Responses
David Hurd, Sewanee Service
Benjamin Britten, Jubilate Deo in C
Philip Radcliffe, God be in my head
Sunday, September 23, 2012
3:15 p.m. Recital, Franklin G. Pifferetti, Jr. (Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church, High Point, NC), organ
Grayston Ives, Intrada
Edward Elgar, "Nimrod" from Enigma Variations
Louis Vierne, "Meditation" from Trois Improvisations
Herbert Howells, Master Tallis's Testament
William Walond, Cornet Voluntary
Marcel Lanquetuit, Toccata in D Major
4:00 p.m. Choral Evensong, Cathedral Choir
Philip Radcliffe, Preces & Responses
Roland Martin, St Paul's Cathedral, Buffalo, in D
Roland Martin, Phos hilaron "O gracious Light"
Gerald Near, The best of rooms
Sunday, September 30, 2012
4:00 p.m. Choral Evensong in thanksgiving for the Episcopate of the Rt Revd J. Neil Alexander, Diocesan Choir
Craig Phillips, Preces & Responses, St. David's, Roswell
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford in C
Arlan Sunnarborg, God with us (première)
David Hurd, O the depth of Love divine
Sunday, October 7, 2012 / Feast of St. Francis observed
3:15 p.m. Recital, Woodrow W. Talley (Sandy Springs UMC, Atlanta), organ
attrib. J.S. Bach, Fugue in D Major
arr. Johann Gottfried Walther, Concerto del Signor Tagliette
George Fredrick Handel, "Largo" from Xerxes
Franklin Ashdown, The Golden Trumpet
Jerry Westenkuehler, Crown Him With Many Crowns
Alfred Herbert Brewer, March Heroique
4:00 p.m. Choral Evensong, Schola
Richard Shephard, Preces & Responses
Gerald Near, On Plainsong Themes
John Rutter, Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace
Peter Mathews, O Love Divine, how sweet thou art
Sunday, October 14, 2012 / Feast of St. Philip, Deacon & Evangelist observed
8:45 a.m. & 11:15 a.m. Eucharist, Cathedral Choir with Brass & Tympani
Craig Phillips, Te Deum, Cathedral of St Philip, Atlanta – première
Craig Phillips, Jubilate Deo, Cathedral of St Philip, Atlanta
3:15 p.m. Recital, Stacy Arnold (Corsicana, TX), guitar>--cancelled
4:00 p.m. Choral Eucharist, Schola
Louis Vierne, Messe Solennelle
Craig Phillips, Te Deum (Cathedral of St Philip, Atlanta)
Sunday, October 21, 2012
3:15 p.m. Recital, Brink Bush (St. John's Episcopal Church, Beverly Farms, MA), organ
Olivier Messiaen, "Les enfants de Dieu" from La Nativité du Seigneur
Wilhelm Middelschulte, Chaconne über das Thema Erich Rath
Leonce de Saint-Martin, Toccata de la liberation, Op. 37
4:00 p.m. Choral Evensong, Cathedral Choir
William Smith, Preces & Responses
Orlando Gibbons, Short Service
Orlando Gibbons, O clap your hands
Anonymous, O Lorde, the Maker of al thing
Sunday, October 28, 2012
3:15 p.m. Recital, Andrew J. Peters (Second Presbyterian Church, St. Louis, MO), organ
Richard Proulx, Fanfare for Organ
Johann Sebastian Bach, Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue in C Major, S. 564
Andrew Clarke, Partita on "A Mighty Fortress"
Frank Bridge, "Allegretto Grazioso" from Six Organ Pieces
André Fleury, "Vif et impétueux" from Deuxième Symphonie
4:00 p.m. Choral Evensong, Schola
Craig Phillips, Preces & Responses, St. David's, Roswell
Craig Phillips, Psalm 34
Charles Beaudrot, Cathedral of St Philip, Atlanta
Craig Phillips, Christ, Mighty Savior
Charles Beaudrot, Pax
Sunday, November 4, 2012 / All Saints' Sunday
11:15 a.m. Holy Eucharist, Cathedral Choir
Paul Halley, Bring us, O Lord
William Harris, Holy is the True Light
4:00 p.m. Choral Requiem Eucharist, Cathedral Choir with Orchestra
Gabriel Fauré, Requiem
Sunday, November 11, 2012
3:15 p.m. Recital, Clayton State Chorale
4:00 p.m. Choral Evensong, Schola
Bernard Rose, Preces & Responses
Herbert Howells, York Minster
Herbert Howells, O pray for the peace of Jerusalem
John Joubert, O Lorde the Maker of al thing
Sunday, November 18, 2012
3:15 p.m. Recital, Ritornello Baroque, (Atlanta)
Trio sonatas by Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Louis-Antoine Dornel & Andrea Falconieri
4:00 p.m. Choral Evensong / Buckhead Community Thanksgiving Service / Cathedral Choir & Community Choirs
Harold Friedell in F
John Rutter, Canticle of Thanksgiving
John Rutter, For the beauty of the earth
Sunday, November 25, 2012 / Last Sunday after Pentecost ("Christ the King")
3:15 p.m. Recital, Capitol City Opera Madrigal Singers
4:00 p.m. Choral Evensong, Schola
Philip Radcliffe, Preces & Responses
John Tavener, Collegium Regale
Gerald Near, The King shall come when morning dawns
Edward Bairstow, Let all mortal flesh keep silence
Sunday, December 2, 2012 / Advent 1
4:00 p.m. Advent Lessons & Carols / Cathedral Choir
Richard Marlow, Matin Responsory
Howard Skempton, Adam lay ybounden
Cristóbal de Morales, Veni, Domine
Jan Sandström, Lo, how a Rose e'er blooming
Matthew Owens, The Holly & the Ivy
arr. Craig Phillips, Gabriel's Message
William Walton, Magnificat (Chichester Service)
Morten Lauridsen, Ave Maria
Sunday, December 9, 2012 / Advent 2
4:00 p.m. Diocesan Confirmation
Sunday, December 16, 2012 / Advent 3
3:15 p.m. Recital, Brad Hughley (St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, Atlanta), organ
Charles-Marie Widor, Symphonie gothique, Op. 70
Timothy Tikker, Variations sur un vieux Noël
4:00 p.m. Choral Evensong, Schola
Kenneth Leighton, Preces & Responses
Kenneth Leighton, Second Service
Basque carol, arr. Bruce Neswick, People, look East
Colin Mawby, Jesus Christ the Apple Tree
Sunday, December 23, 2012 / Advent 4
4:00 p.m. Christmas Lessons & Carols, Schola
Frank Boles, Adam lay ybounden
Eric Whitacre, Lux Arumque
arr. Craig Phillips, The Holly & the Ivy
John Jacob Niles, arr. Andrew Carter, I wonder as I wander
David Conte, Ave Maria
Francis Pott, As Joseph was a-walking
arr. Mack Wilberg, Ding dong! merrily on high
Paul Bendit, The Golden Carol
John Goss, arr. David Willcocks, See amid the winter's snow
Monday, December 24, 2012 / Christmas Eve
3:45 p.m. Christmas Carols, Cathedral Choristers & members of the Cathedral Schola
4:00 p.m. Christmas Pageant & Holy Eucharist, Cathedral Choristers and members of the Cathedral Schola
8:00 p.m. & 11:00 p.m. Christmas Eve Prelude Music, Cathedral Choir
8:30 p.m. & 11:30 p.m. Festival Eucharist, Cathedral Choir
Tuesday, December 25, 2012 / Christmas Day
10:00 a.m. Eucharist with Carols
Sunday, December 30, 2012
11:15 a.m. Congregational Lessons & Carols for the First Sunday after Christmas
No 4:00 p.m. service
Sunday, January 6, 2013 / The Feast of the Epiphany
3:15 p.m. Recital, Charles Tompkins (Furman University, Greenville, SC), organ
J.S. Bach, Prelude & Fugue in G Major, BWV 541
Niels Gade, Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern
Paul Manz, Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern
Olivier Messiaen, Movements from "La Nativité du Seigneur"
4:00 p.m. Choral Evensong for the Feast of the Epiphany, Cathedral Choir
Craig Phillips, Preces & Responses, St. David's, Roswell
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford in A
Peter Cornelius, The Three Kings
arr. David Willcocks, Whence is that goodly fragrance flowing
Sunday, January 13, 2013
3:15 p.m. Recital, Chanson du Soir (guitar & soprano)
John Dowland, Come Again
J.B. Besard, Rosette pour un peu d'absence
Guilio Caccini, Amarilli, mia bella
Heitor Villa-Lobos, Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5
Ernesto Cordero, Entre guitarra y voz
Brian Madigan, The Tree
Frank Wallace, "Were I a Bird" from Speak Love
Brian Madigan, The Dark Hills
Brian Madigan, Fable
Jerome Kern, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
4:00 p.m. Choral Evensong on the Baptism of Our Lord, Schola
Kenneth Leighton, Preces & Responses
T. Tertius Noble in B minor
Richard Lakey, Spirit of God, descend upon my heart
Michael McCarthy, Vidi aquam
Sunday, January 20, 2013
3:15 p.m. Recital, Joel Gregory (St. John's Episcopal Church, Montgomery, AL), organ
Johann Ludwig Krebs, Prelude and Fugue in C & Wie Schon Leuchtet der Morgenstern
Felix Mendelssohn, Organ Sonata No. 4 in B-Flat Major
4:00 p.m. Choral Evensong, Schola
Craig Phillips, Preces & Responses, St. David's, Roswell
David Hogan, Mount St Alban Service
Spiritual arr. Dale Adelmann, Every time I feel the Spirit
arr. Moses Hogan, This little light of mine
Sunday, January 27, 2013
3:15 p.m. Recital, Michael Britt (Brown Memorial Park Avenue Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, MD), organ
Edward Elgar, Pomp and Circumstance #4 in G Military March
Paul Halley, Outer Hebrides (A Fantasy on Three Traditional Celtic Melodies)
Clifford Demarest, A Pastorale Suite
4:00 p.m. Choral Evensong, Schola
Thomas Tomkins, Preces & Responses
Herbert Murrill in E
William Harris, Behold, the tabernacle of God
William Byrd, Christe qui lux es et dies
Sunday, February 3, 2013 / Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord observed
3:15 p.m. Recital, Lee Kohlenberg (Charleston, SC), organ
Max Reger, Introduction and Passacaglia
César Franck, Cantabile
Vincent Lübeck, Praeludium in E
George Thalben-Ball, Elegy
Marcel Dupré, Variations sur un Noël
4:00 p.m. Candlemas Procession & Choral Eucharist, Schola
Thomas Tallis, Missa Salve Intemerata Virgo
John Sheppard, Nunc dimittis (Second Service)
Sunday, February 10, 2013 / Last Sunday after the Epiphany
4:00 p.m. Eucharist for the Feast of Absalom Jones
Wednesday, February 13, 2013 / Ash Wednesday
12:00 noon Imposition of Ashes & Holy Eucharist, Staff Singers
Thomas Tallis, Salvator mundi I
Richard Farrant, Hide not thou thy face, O Lord
7:00 p.m. Imposition of Ashes & Holy Eucharist, Schola
Gregorio Allegri, Miserere mei, Deus
Thomas Tallis, Salvator mundi I
Orlando Gibbons, O Lord, in thy wrath rebuke me not
Sunday, February 17, 2013
3:15 p.m. Recital, Catherine Rodland (St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN), organ
Roland Diggle, Toccata Jubilant
Wilbur Chenoweth, Bouree and Musette
Leo Sowerby, Movements from Symphony in G
4:00 p.m. Choral Evensong, Schola
Richard Farrant: Call to remembrance
William Byrd, Preces & Responses
William Byrd, Second Service
William Byrd, Miserere mei
William Byrd, Civitas sancti tui
Saturday, February 23, 2013
7:30 p.m. J.S. Bach & G.F. Händel Concert
Cathedral Choir and Cathedral Schola
Atlanta Baroque Orchestra (Julie Andrijeski, Artistic Director)
Dale Adelmann, conductor
J.S. Bach, Cantata 80: Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (A Mighty Fortress Is Our God)
Georg Friedrich Händel, Dixit Dominus
G.F. Händel, "Worthy is the Lamb" from Messiah
General admission, Senior, and Student tickets will be available from the
Cathedral Book Store 404-237-7582 and at www.stphilipscathedral.org/concerttickets
For information regarding Host Committee (Patron) tickets, please contact Mary Mercer, 404-261-1677.
Sponsored by Friends of Cathedral Music in support of the Cathedral Choir's 2013 England Pilgrimage
Sunday, February 24, 2013
3:15 p.m. Recital, Sam Polk (Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Athens, GA), organ
C. Hubert H. Parry, Fantasia and Fugue in G
Louis Vierne, "Gargouilles et chimères" from Pièces de Fantaisie, Suite 2
Dietrich Buxtehude, Preludium in C, BuxWV 137
Charles Callahan, Aria
Charles Marie Widor, "Allegro" from Symphonie VI
4:00 p.m. Choral Evensong, Choir of St. Columba's, Suwanee, GA
Henry Ley, A prayer of King Henry VI
Richard Ayleward, Preces & Responses
Hylton Stewart in C
Orlando Gibbons, Almighty & everlasting God
S.S. Wesley, Wash me throughly
Sunday, March 3, 2013
4:00 p.m. Diocesan Confirmation
Sunday, March 10, 2013
3:15 p.m. Recital, Adrian Foster, organ
Olivier Messiaen, Movements from Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité
4:00 p.m. Choral Evensong, Schola
Alan Lewis, Seek Him that made the Pleides
Thomas Tomkins, Preces & Responses
Thomas Tomkins, Fifth Service
Thomas Tomkins, Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom
Charles Villiers Stanford, Beati quorum via
Sunday, March 17, 2013
3:15 p.m. Recital, Brian Harlow (St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Gladstone, NJ), organ
Ian Hare, "Toccata" from Tryptych
Charles-Marie Widor, Movements from Symphony No. 3 in E minor, Op. 13, No. 3
Pamela Decker, Fantasy on the name Marilyn Keiser
4:00 p.m. Choral Evensong, Schola
Charles Beaudrot, Be my prayer
William Smith, Preces & Responses
Thomas Tallis, Short Service
Adrian Batten, When the Lord turned again
Giovanni Maria Nanino, Adoramus te, Christe
Sunday, March 24, 2013 / Palm Sunday
8:45 a.m. & 11:15 a.m. Holy Eucharist, Cathedral Choir
Lee Hoiby, Let this mind be in you
Carlo Gesualdo, O vos omnes
4:00 p.m. Meditation on the Passion of Christ, with Carols, Schola
David Hurd, A stable lamp is lighted (Andújar)
Appalachian carol/John Jacob Niles, arr. Rutter, I wonder as I wander
arr. Adelmann, Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, The Crown of Roses
Thomas Tallis, To mock your reign, O dearest Lord (The Third Tune)
Southern Harmony arr. Michael Sitton, Wondrous Love
Daniel Gawthrop, Mary speaks
David Hurd, O sacred head, sore wounded (Redding)
Spiritual, Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
Antonio Lotti, Crucifixus à 8
Thursday, March 28, 2013 / Maundy Thursday
7:00 p.m. Foot-Washing & Holy Eucharist, Cathedral Choir & Senior Choristers
Paul Mealor, Ubi caritas
Dan Locklair, O sacrum convivium
Maurice Duruflé, Ubi caritas and Tantum ergo
Friday, March 29, 2013 / Good Friday
12:00 Noon & 7:00 p.m. Good Friday Liturgy, Schola
Tomás Luis de Victoria, The Passion Gospel According to St. John
Clemens non Papa, Crux fideles
Kenneth Leighton, "Drop, Drop, Slow Tears" from Crucifixus pro nobis
Sunday, March 31, 2013 / Easter Day
6:00 a.m. Great Vigil of Easter, Staff Singers & All Choristers
Roland Martin, "Easter" from Such glorious gifts
Edward Bairstow, Sing ye to the Lord
8:45 a.m. Holy Baptism & Holy Eucharist, Cathedral Choir & Senior Choristers
11:15 a.m. Holy Baptism & Holy Eucharist, Cathedral Choir
Herbert Howells, Te Deum (Collegium Regale)
Orlando di Lasso, Surgens Jesu
Sunday, April 7, 2013
3:15 p.m. Recital, Brennan Szafron (Episcopal Church of the Advent, Spartanburg, SC), organ
César Franck, Pièce Heröique
François Couperin, Kyrie movements from Messe pour les Convents
Leo Sowerby, Requiescat in pace
Jean Langlais, "Chant de paix" from Neuf Pièces
Johann Sebastian Bach, Aria in F Major, BWV 587
Rachel Laurin, Étude Heröique
4:00 p.m. Choral Evensong, Schola
Kenneth Leighton, Preces & Responses
George Dyson in D
Craig Phillips, We walk by faith
Edward Bairstow, Sing ye to the Lord
Sunday, April 14, 2013
3:15 p.m. Recital, John Richardson (First Presbyterian Church, Allentown, PA), organ
César Franck, Grande Piece Symphonique, Op. 17
4:00 p.m. Choral Evensong, Schola
Henry Purcell, Hear my prayer, O Lord
William Smith, Preces & Responses
Henry Purcell in G minor
Orlando di Lasso, Surgens Jesu
Henry Purcell, I was glad
Sunday, April 21, 2013
3:15 p.m. Recital, Joseph O'Berry (Atlanta, GA), organ
Craig Phillips, Triptych
Julius Reubke , Sonata on the 94th Psalm
4:00 p.m. Choral Evensong, Schola
Richard Shephard, Preces & Responses
William Mathias, Jesus College, Cambridge
Lennox Berkeley, The Lord is my Shepherd
John Tavener, The Lamb
Sunday, April 28, 2013
3:15 p.m. Recital, Alvin Blount (St. Mary on the Hill Catholic Church, Augusta, GA), organ
Johann Sebastian Bach, Concerto in G Major & Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier
Charles-Marie Widor, Movements from Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 13
4:00 p.m. Choral Evensong, Cathedral Choir & All Choristers
Bernard Rose, Preces & Responses
Herbert Howells, St Paul's Cathedral
Edgar Bainton, And I saw a new heaven
Roland Martin, "Easter" from Such Glorious Gifts
Sunday, May 5, 2013
3:15 p.m. Recital, William Callaway (First United Methodist Church, Chamblee, GA), organ
Rupert Stoutt, Triumphal March
Camille Saint-Saens, "My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice" from Samson and Delilah
Richard Wagner, "The Ride of the Valkyries" from Die Walküre
Edward Elgar, "Larghetto" from Serenade for Strings, Op. 20
Gioachino Rossini, Overture to "William Tell"
4:00 p.m. Choral Evensong, Schola
Richard Shephard, Preces & Responses
Herbert Sumsion in G (SATB)
Richard Shephard, The secret of Christ
Malcolm Boyle, Thou, O God, art praised in Sion
Saturday, May 11, 2013
7:30 p.m. Pre-England Choral Concert, Cathedral Choir
General admission and Patron tickets will be available from the
Cathedral Book Store (404) 237-7582 and at www.stphilipscathedral.org/concerttickets
This summer the Cathedral Choir will travel to England, where it has been invited to serve as choir-in-residence to sing the daily choral services at St. Paul's Cathedral, London, August 5-11, and at Canterbury Cathedral, August 12-18. Tonight's concert will feature selections from the broad array of glorious music to be sung during this pilgrimage to the cradle of Anglicanism.
Sunday, May 12, 2013
3:15 p.m. Recital, Jeff Johnson (Messiah Lutheran Church, Panama City, FL), organ
Maurice Duruflé, Fugue sur le thème du Carillon des Heures de la Cathédrale de Soissons
Oliver Messian, Movements from L'Ascension
César Franck, Pièce héroïque
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Mein junges Leben hat ein End
4:00 p.m. Choral Evensong for the Sunday after the Ascension, Schola
Richard Ayleward, Preces & Responses
Charles Wood in E flat, No. 2
Vaughan Williams, O clap your hands
Charles Villiers Stanford, Coelos ascendit hodie
Sunday, May 19, 2013 / The Feast of Pentecost
3:15 p.m. Recital, Herbert Buffington (Peachtree Christian Church, Atlanta, GA), organ
4:00 p.m. Choral Evensong, Cathedral Choir
Richard Shephard, Preces & Responses
Sir David Willcocks, All Saints', Beverly Hills (East Coast première)
Roland Martin, "Whitsunday" from Such Glorious Gifts
Morten Lauridsen, "Veni Sancte Spiritus" from Lux Aeterna
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
7:30 p.m. Atlanta Summer Organ Festival
Jack Mitchener (Mercer University), organ