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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5th Sunday after the Epiphany Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Joel Matter Cantor: Tym Mackey ORISON: "Eternal light, shine in my heart" (Ach bleib bei uns, melody by Samuel Scheidt [1587 - 1654]; harmonized by Seth Calvisius [1556 - 1615]) PSALMS: 134 & 4 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "All praise to thee, my God, this night" (Thomas Tallis [ca. 1505 - 1585]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by James Bassi) ANTHEM: "Beati quorum via" (Charles Villiers Stanford [1852 - 1924]; arranged for men’s voices by Richard Barnes)
4th Sunday after the Epiphany Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Jeremy Matheis Cantor: Kenneth Peterson ORISON: "Peace be within this sacred place" (Psalm 122, Alice Parker [b. 1925]) PSALM: 15 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "The Lord will come, and not be slow" (melody from The CL Psalms of David, 1615, harm. by John Milton Sr. [1583? - 1647]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by John Holmes [d. 1629]; Tone II Ending 1) ANTHEM: Prayer to Jesus (George Oldroyd [1886 - 1951])
3rd Sunday after the Epiphany Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: William Turnipseed Cantor: Richard Greene ORISON: "I heard the voice of Jesus say" (Thomas Tallis [ca. 1505 - 1585]) PSALM: 27 (plainsong, Mode VIII Ending 1) HYMN: "The people who in darkness walked" (tune: Dundee, melody from The CL Psalmes of David, [1615]; harmonized by Thomas Ravenscroft [ca. 1592 - ca. 1635]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by C. Andreas, Tone I) ANTHEM: "Surge, illuminare" (William Byrd [ca. 1539/40 - 1623])
2nd Sunday after the Epiphany Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (January 15th) Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Joel Matter Cantor: Thomas Adams ORISON: "Bring us, O Lord God" (Peter Hallock [b. 1924]) PSALM: 91 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "There is a balm in Gilead" (arranged by Jeff Junkinsmith [b. 1956]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by John Holmes [d. 1629]; Tone II Ending 1) ANTHEM: "Ubi caritas" (Maurice Duruflé [1902 - 1986])
1st Sunday after the Epiphany The Baptism of Our Lord Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Jeremy Matheis Cantor: Brian Fairbanks ORISON: "Christ, when for us you were baptized" (tune: Caithness, from The Psalmes of David in Prose and Meeter, harmonized The English Hymnal, 1906) PSALM: 89: 1, 2, 20 - 29 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "‘I come,’ the great Redeemer cries" (tune: This Endris Nyght, English melody; harmonized by Ralph Vaughan Williams [1872 - 1958]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (anonymous setting found in the Lumley Books, compiled ca. 1547 - 1552) ANTHEM: The Baptism of Christ (Peter Hallock [b. 1924])
2nd Sunday after Christmas Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: William Turnipseed Cantor: Tym Mackey PROCESSIONAL: "Glory to God in the Highest" (Gloria in excelsis, arranged by Peter Hallock [b. 1924]) PSALM: 84 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "In the bleak midwinter" (tune: Cranham, Gustav Theodore Holst [1874 - 1934]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (tune: Marilyn, setting by Peter Hallock) ANTHEM: "Lux aurumque" (Eric Whitacre [b. 1970])
1st Sunday after Christmas Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Joel Matter Cantor: Thomas Adams PROCESSIONAL: "Glory to God in the Highest" (Gloria in excelsis, arranged by Peter Hallock [b. 1924]) PSALM: 147: 13 - 21 (plainsong, Tone VIII Ending 1) HYMN: "Of the Father’s love begotten" (Divinum mysterium, Sanctus trope, 11th century) NUNC DIMITTIS: (tune: Marilyn, setting by Peter Hallock) ANTHEMS: 1) "O Magnum Mysterium" (Gerald Near [b. 1942]); 2) "Away in a manger" (tune: Cradle Song, melody by William James Kirkpatrick (1838 - 1921), arranged by Peter Hallock)
4th Sunday of Advent Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Jeremy Matheis Cantor: Kenneth Peterson PROCESSIONAL: "O come, O come, Emmanuel" (Veni, veni, Emmanuel, plainsong, Mode I, Processionale, 15th century) PSALM: 80: 1 - 7 (plainsong, Tone IV Ending 4) HYMN: "Lo, how a rose e’er blooming" (Michael Prætorius [ca. 1571 - 1621], Carl Orff [1895 - 1982]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Thomas Tallis [ca. 1505 - 1585]) ANTHEMS: 1) "Lullay, My Liking" (Peter Hallock [b. 1924]) 2) "Ave Maria" (Franz Biebl [1906 - 2001])
2nd Sunday of Advent Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Joel Matter Cantor: Jeremy Matheis ORISON: "Redeemer of the nations, come" (Veni Redemptor gentium, plainsong, Mode I, Einsiedeln MS., 12th century) PSALM: 85 (plainsong, Tone III Ending 5) HYMN: "Prepare the way, O Zion" (Bereden väg för Herran, melody from Then Swenska Psalmboken, 1697; harmonization fromKoralbok för Swenska Kyrken, 1939, altered) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Peter Hallock [b. 1924]) ANTHEM: "Audivi vocem de cœlo" (plainsong, Mode I, and verses by Thomas Tallis [ca. 1505 - 1585])
1st Sunday of Advent Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: William Turnipseed Cantor: Richard Greene ORISON: Matin Responsory (Jason Anderson [b. 1976]) PSALM: 122 (plainsong, Tone I Ending 2) HYMN: "Comfort, comfort ye my people" (melody by Claude Goudimel [1514 - 1573]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Richard Proulx [1937 - 2010]) ANTHEM: "Obsecro Domine" (Jakob (Handl) Gallus [1550 - 1591])
Last Sunday after Pentecost Christ the King Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Jeremy Matheis Cantor: Kenneth Peterson ORISON: "My song is love unknown" (John Ireland [1879 - 1962]) PSALM: 46 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "The head that once was crowned with thorns" (tune: St. Magnus, melody from Divine Companion [1707]; harmonized by William Henry Monk [1823 - 1889]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Thomas Morley [ca. 1557/58 - 1603], Tone I Ending 8) ANTHEM: "Great Lord of Lords" (Charles Wood [1866 - 1926])
24th Sunday after Pentecost Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Jeremy Matheis Cantor: Thomas Adams ORISON: "Help me, O Lord" (Shaker tune arranged by Kevin Siegfried [b. 1969]) PSALM: 126 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "For the beauty of the earth" (Lucerna Laudoniae, David Evans [1874 - 1948]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by James Bassi) ANTHEM: "Christus est stella" (Peter Hallock [b. 1924])
23rd Sunday after Pentecost All Hallows Eve Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: William Turnipseed Cantor: Nathan Jensen 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: "Laudem dicite Deo" (John Sheppard [ca. 1515 - 1559])
21st Sunday after Pentecost Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Jeremy Matheis Cantor: Kenneth Peterson ORISON: Ps. 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: (plainsong setting, Tone III Ending 4) ANTHEM: "I will lift up mine eyes" (Ernest Walker [1870 - 1949])
20th Sunday after Pentecost Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: William Turnipseed Cantor: Brian Fairbanks ORISON: "If ye love me" (Thomas Tallis [ca. 1505 - 1585]) PSALM: 119: 33 - 48 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "Lamp of our feet, whereby we trace our path" (Nun danket all und bringet ehr, melody attributed to Johann Cruger [1598 - 1662], altered) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Fr. Vincente Ripollès) ANTHEM: "I will meditate" (Richard Proulx [1937 - 2010])
