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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26th Sunday after Pentecost Conductor: Jason Anderson Readers: The Very Rev. Steve Thomason, Jeremy Matheis Cantor: Thomas Adams ORISON: "Bring Us, O Lord God" (Peter Hallock [b. 1924]) PSALM: 98 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "The King of love my shepherd is" (tune: St. Columba, Traditional Irish Melody, last verse harmonized by Peter Hallock) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Peter Hallock; tune: Marilyn) ANTHEM: To The Supreme Being (Peter Hallock)
25th Sunday after Pentecost Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Tyler Morse Cantor: Richard Greene ORISON: "Help me, O Lord" (Shaker tune arranged by Kevin Siegfried [b. 1969]) PSALM: 126 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "For the beauty of the earth" (tune: Lucerna Laudoniae, David Evans [1874 - 1948]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Thomas Morley [ca. 1557/58 - 1602], Tone VII Ending 1) ANTHEM: "O Domine Jesu" (Adrian Willaert [ca. 1490 - 1562])
24th Sunday after Pentecost All Saints (November 1st) Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Joel Matter Cantor: Derek Curtis-Tilton ORISON: "Holy is the true Light" (Sir William H. Harris [1883 - 1973]) PSALM: 149 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "Who are these like stars appearing" (tune: Zeuch mich, zeuch mich, melody from Geistreiches Gesang-buch [1698], harmonized by William Henry Monk [1823 - 1889]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by William Byrd [ca. 1539/40 - 1623]; Tone I Ending 8) ANTHEM: "O quam gloriosum" (Tomás Luis de Victoria [1548 - 1611])
23rd Sunday after Pentecost Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Jeremy Matheis Cantor: Fred McIlroy IV ORISON: "Peace be within this sacred place" (Alice Parker [b. 1925]) PSALM: 84 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "How lovely is thy dwelling-place" (tune: Brother James’ Air, James Leith Macbeth Bain (1860 - 1925]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Thomas Tomkins, Tone VI) ANTHEM: "O how amiable are Thy dwellings" (Thomas Tomkins [1572 - 1656])
22nd Sunday after Pentecost Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Tyler Morse Cantor: Kenneth Peterson ORISON: Setting of Psalm 121 (Anglican chant, Henry Walford Davies [1869 - 1941]) PSALM: 121 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "I to the hills will lift mine eyes" (tune: Burford, from A Book of Psalmody, [1718]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by James Bassi [b. 1961]) ANTHEM: "I will lift up mine eyes" (Ernest Walker [1870 - 1949])
21st Sunday after Pentecost Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: William Turnipseed Cantor: Jeremy Matheis ORISON: "Blest are the pure in heart" (M. Searle Wright [1918 - 2004]) PSALM: 111 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "Jesus, our mighty Lord" (tune: Monks Gate, Traditional Sussex Carol, arranged by Ralph Vaughan Williams [1872 - 1958]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (anonymous setting collected in the Lumley Books [c. 1547 - 1552]) ANTHEM: "Ubi caritas" from Quatre motets sur des thèmes grégoriens op. 10 (Maurice Duruflé [1902 - 1986])
20th Sunday after Pentecost Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Jeffrey Ricco Cantor: Thomas Adams ORISON: "Most High, omnipotent, good Lord" (tune: Assisi, Alfred Morton Smith [1879 - 1971]) PSALM: 8 (plainsong, Tone V Ending 2) HYMN: "Lord, make us servants of your peace" (tune: Dickinson College, Lee Hastings Bristol, Jr. [1923 - 1979]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Charles Wood [1866 - 1926]) ANTHEMS: Two selections from Quatre petites prières de St François d’Assise by Francis Poulenc [1899 - 1963]: I) "Tout puissant, très saint"; II) "O Seigneur, je vous en prie"
19th Sunday after Pentecost St. Michael and All Angels (Sept. 30th) Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Joel Matter Cantor: Nathan Jensen ORISON: "Christ the fair glory of the holy angels" (Christe sanctorum, Sarum plainsong, Mode I) PSALM: 103 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "Holy God, we praise thy Name" (tune: Grosser Gott, melody from Katholisches Gesangbuch, [1656]; harmonized by Charles Winfred Douglas (1867 - 1944]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Thomas Tomkins [1572 - 1656]; Tone VI) ANTHEM: "Tibi Christe, splendor patris" (plainsong, Mode II; polyphonic verses by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina [ca. 1525 - 1594])
18th Sunday after Pentecost Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Jeremy Matheis Cantor: Richard Greene ORISON: "O come, ye servants of the Lord" (Christopher Tye [c. 1505 - c. 1572]) PSALM: 113 (plainsong, Tone IV Ending 5) HYMN: "Te lucis ante terminum" ("Before the ending of the day") (Compline office hymn, plainsong, Mode VIII, harmonized verse by Orlande de Lassus [ca. 1530/32 - 1594]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Thomas Morley [1557 or 1558 - 1602]; Tone I Ending 5) ANTHEM: "Inclina, Domine, aurem tuam" (Cristóbal de Morales [c. 1500 - 1553])
17th Sunday after Pentecost Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: William Turnipseed Cantor: Kenneth Peterson ORISON: "I sought the Lord" (tune: Faith, J. Harold Moyer [1927 - 2012]) PSALM: 51 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "Amazing Grace" (tune: New Britain, from Virginia Harmony [1831]; arr. by Richard Proulx [1937 - 2010] / Peter Hallock [b. 1924]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (plainsong setting, Tone III Ending 4) ANTHEM: "Peccantem me quotidie" (Orlande de Lassus [ca. 1530 / 1532 - 1594])
16th Sunday after Pentecost Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Jeffrey Ricco Cantor: Jeremy Matheis ORISON: "All praise to thee, my God, this night" (Thomas Tallis [ca. 1505 - 1585]; adapted from the 8th mode tune in Archbishop Parker’s Psalter [1567]) PSALM: 1 (plainsong, Tone I) HYMN: "Dear Lord and Father of mankind" (tune: Rest, Frederick Charles Maker [1844 - 1927]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by John Holmes [d. 1629]) ANTHEM: "Be unto me, O Lord, a tower" (William Byrd [ca. 1539/40 - 1623])
15th Sunday after Pentecost Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Tyler Morse Cantor: Thomas Adams ORISON: "Slowly the rays of daylight fade" (M. Searle Wright [1918 - 2004]) PSALM: 84 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "To you before the close of day" (Compline office hymn: Te lucis ante terminum, plainsong, Mode VIII, Antiphonale Sarisburiense, Vol. II) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Lodovico Grossi da Viadana [ca. 1560 - 1627], Tone VII) ANTHEM: "Salva nos Domine, vigilantes" (Jakob Handl [1550 - 1591])
14th Sunday after Pentecost Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Joel Matter Cantor: Rihcard Greene ORISON: "Jesus, thou Joy of loving hearts" (Christe Redemptor, Sarum plainsong, Mode I) PSALM: 42 (plainsong, Tone IV Ending 5) HYMN: "As longs the deer for cooling streams" (melody and bass by Hugh Wilson [1764 - 1824], adapted and harmonized by Robert Smith [1780 - 1829]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (plainsong setting, Tone V Ending 1) ANTHEM: "Sicut cervus" with "Sitivit anima mea" (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina [ca. 1525 - 1594])
13th Sunday after Pentecost St. Mary the Virgin (August 15th) Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Jeremy Matheis Cantor: Derek Tilton ORISON: "Beata progenies" (Old Hall Manuscript, Leonel Power [ca. 1370/85 - 1445]) PSALM: 34: 1 - 9 (plainsong, Tone V Ending 2) HYMN: "Sing we of the blessed Mother" (tune: Rustington, Charles Hubert Hastings Parry [1848 - 1918]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Charles Wood [1866 - 1926]) ANTHEM: "Ave Maria" (Franz Biebl [1906 - 2001])
12th Sunday after Pentecost Conductor: Jeremy Matheis Reader: Jeffrey Ricco Cantor: Kenneth Peterson ORISON: "Round me falls the night" (melody by A. Drese, [d. 1701], harmonizations by S. S. Wesley, Henry Ley, J. S. Bach) PSALM: 107: 1 - 3, 17 - 22 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "O Christ, you are both light and day" (Christe, qui Lux es et dies, plainsong, Mode II, Mailander Hymnen, 15th century) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Peter Hallock) ANTHEM: "In pace" (John Sheppard [ca. 1515 - 1559])
