The Compline Service from St. Mark's Cathedral
Summary: A weekly podcast of the Compline service as sung every Sunday night by The Compline Choir in St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1954 by the group's former director, Peter R. Hallock, the service has become something of a phenomenon, with upwards of 500 people (most of them in their teens and early twenties) attending the service, and thousands in the local radio audience and on the Internet each week.
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7th Sunday of Easter Sunday after the Ascension Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Jeremy Matheis Cantor: Kenneth Peterson PROCESSIONAL: "O clap your hands" (Peter Hallock [b. 1924]) PSALM: 97 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "O Lord Most High" (Aeterne Rex altissime, plainsong, Mode I) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by William Byrd [ca. 1539/40 - 1623], Tone I Ending 8) ANTHEM: "Regina coeli" (Robert White [ca. 1538 - 1574])
6th Sunday of Easter Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Joel Matter Cantor: Thomas Adams ORISON: "O blest Creator" (Lucis creator optime, plainsong, Mode VIII, Worcester MS., 13th century) PSALM: 67 (plainsong, Tone VIII Ending 1) HYMN: "Fairest Lord Jesus" (tune: St. Elizabeth, melody from Schlesische Volkslieder, 1842; harmonized by Thomas Tertius Noble [1867 - 1953]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by C. Andreas [fl. 16 century]) ANTHEM: "Come Down, O Love Divine" (Jeff Junkinsmith [b. 1956])
4th Sunday of Easter Good Shepherd Sunday Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Joel Matter Cantor: Fred McIlroy IV ORISON: "The King of love my shepherd is" (tune: St. Columba, Traditional Irish Melody) PSALM: 23 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "Jesus, our mighty Lord" (tune: Monk’s Gate, Traditional Sussex Melody, arranged by Ralph Vaughan Williams [1872 - 1958]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (plainsong setting, Tone III Ending 4) ANTHEM: "Surrexit pastor bonus" (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina [ca. 1525 - 1594])
3rd Sunday of Easter Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: William Turnipseed Cantor: Kenneth Peterson ORISON: "Blessed city, heavenly Salem" (plainsong Urbs beata Jerusalem, mode 2 PSALM: 114 (plainsong, tonus peregrinus) HYMN: "Come ye faithful, raise the strain" (J. Horne, 1544) NUNC DIMITTIS: (anonymous 16th-century setting, adapted by Bernarr Rainbow and Vernon Nicodemus) ANTHEM: "Tulerunt Dominum meum" (Steffano Rossetto [fl. 1568-80])
Easter Day Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: William Turnipseed Cantor: Tym Mackey PROCESSIONAL: Easter Canticle (Peter Hallock) CANTICLE: The Song of Moses (Exodus 15: 1 - 6, 11 - 13, 17 - 18; plainsong, Tonus Peregrinus) HYMN: "Christians, to the Paschal Victim" (Victimae Paschali laudes, plainsong, Mode I; attributed to Wigbert {Wipo of Burgundy} [d. 1050?]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Lodovico Grossi da Viadana [ca. 1560 - 1627]; Tone VI) ANTHEM: "Haec est dies" (Jakob (Handl) Gallus [1550 - 1591])
Sunday of the Passion Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Joel Matter Cantor: Richard Greene ORISON: "Drop, drop, slow tears" (tune: Song 46, 1623; Orlando Gibbons [1583 - 1625]) PSALM: 22: 1 - 21 (plainsong, Tone IV Ending 1) HYMN: "The royal banners forward go" (Vexilla Regis, Guillaume Dufay [1397 - 1474]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (plainsong setting, Tone V Ending 1) ANTHEM: "We adore you, O Christ" (Richard Proulx [1937 - 2010])
5th Sunday in Lent In Memory of Richard T. Proulx Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: William Turnipseed Cantor: Kenneth Peterson ORISON: "Jerusalem, my happy home" (tune: Land of Rest; arr. by Richard Proulx [1937 - 2010]) PSALM: 126 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "Amazing Grace" (tune: New Britain, from Virginia Harmony, 1831; arr. by Richard Proulx / Peter Hallock [b. 1924]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Richard Proulx) ANTHEM: In Praise of Music (Richard Proulx)
4th Sunday in Lent Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Jeremy Matheis Cantor: Brian Fairbanks ORISON: "Lord, keep us steadfast in your word" (plainsong, Mode II, harmonized verse by Peter Hallock [b. 1924]) PSALM: 32 (plainsong, Tone III Ending 4) HYMN: "Lord Jesus, think on me" (tune: Southwell, from Damon’s Psalter, 1579) NUNC DIMITTIS: (plainsong setting, Tone V Ending 1) ANTHEM: A setting of the "Lamentations of Jeremiah" (Jacob Arcadelt [ca. 1504 - ca. 1567])
3rd Sunday in Lent Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Joel Matter Cantor: Fred McIlroy IV ORISON: "Lord, keep us steadfast in your word" (plainsong, Mode II, harmonized verse by Peter Hallock [b. 1924]) PSALM: 63: 1 - 8 (plainsong, Tone II Ending 1) HYMN: "Kind Maker of the world, O hear" (A la venue de Noël, melody from Fleurs des noëls [1535]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (plainsong setting, Tone III Ending 4) ANTHEM: A setting of the "Lamentations of Jeremiah" (Thomas Tallis [ca. 1505 - 1585]; Setting I)
6th Sunday after the Epiphany Transfiguration of Our Lord Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Joel Matter Cantor: Brian Fairbanks ORISON: "O wondrous type! O vision fair" (Aeterne Rex altissime, plainsong, Mode I) PSALM: 99 (plainsong, Mode VII) & 150 (Charles Villiers Stanford) HYMN: "Songs of thankfulness and praise" (tune: Salzburg, melody Jakob Hintze [1622 - 1702]; harmonized by Johann Sebastian Bach [1685 - 1750]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Lodovico Grossi da Viadana [ca. 1560 - 1637], Mode VII) ANTHEM: "Resplenduit facies" (Tomás Luis de Victoria [1548 - 1611])
4th Sunday after the Epiphany Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Joel Matter Cantor: Nathan Jensen ORISON: "God be in my head" (Douglas Fullington [b. 1969]) PSALM: 8 (plainsong, Tone V Ending 2) HYMN: "Before the ending of the day" (Te Lucis ante terminum, Compline Office hymn, plainsong, Mode VIII, with harmonized verse by Orlande de Lassus [ca. 1530/32 - 1594]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Lodovico Grossi da Viadana [ca. 1560 - 1637], Mode VI) ANTHEM: "In manus tuas" (John Sheppard [ca. 1515 - 1559])
3rd Sunday after the Epiphany Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Jeremy Matheis Cantor: Richard Greene ORISON: "If ye love me" (Thomas Tallis [ca. 1505 - 1585]) PSALM: 19 (plainsong, Tone III A 4) HYMN: "Lord, keep us steadfast in your word" (plainsong, harmonized verse arranged by Peter Hallock [b. 1924]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Jeff Junkinsmith [b. 1956])) ANTHEM: "Beati quorum via" (Sir Charles Villiers Stanford [1852 - 1924], arranged for men’s voices by Richard Barnes)
2nd Sunday after the Epiphany Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (January 18th) Conductor: Jeremy Matheis Reader: William Turnipseed Cantor: Kenneth Peterson ORISON: "Holy is the True Light" (Sir William H. Harris [1883 - 1972]) PSALM: 98 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "The eternal gifts of Christ the King" (Æterna Christi munera, Mediæval plainsong, Mode VII) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by C. Andreas, Tone VII) ANTHEM: "Sometimes I feel like a motherless child" (Traditional spiritual arranged by Brian Fairbanks [b. 1968])
3 January 2010 2nd Sunday after Christmas Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Jeremy Matheis Cantor: Fred McIlroy IV PROCESSIONAL: "Glory to God in the Highest" (Gloria in excelsis, plainsong, arranged by Peter Hallock [b. 1924]) PSALM: 84 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "In the bleak mid-winter" (tune: Cranham, Gustav Theodore Holst [1874 - 1934]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (tune: Marilyn, setting by Peter Hallock) ANTHEMS: 1) "Ave Maria" (Franz Biebl [1906 - 2001]); 2) Lullay, My Liking (Peter Hallock)
23 August 2009 12th Sunday after Pentecost Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Jeremy Matheis Cantor: Richard Greene ORISON: "Phos hilaron" ("O gracious light") (Kevin Siegfried [b. 1969]) PSALM: 34: 15 - 22 (plainsong setting, Tone V Ending 2) HYMN: "Te lucis ante terminum" ("Before the ending of the day") (Compline office hymn, a plainsong melody in Mode VIII with a harmonized verse by Thomas Tallis [ca. 1505 - 1585]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Charles Wood [1866 - 1926]) ANTHEM: "Salve nos Domine, vigilantes" (Jakob (Handl) Gallus [1550 - 1591])
