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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19th Sunday after Pentecost St. Francis of Assisi (October 4th) Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Joel Matter Cantor: Fred McIlroy IV ORISON: "Most High, omnipotent, good Lord" (tune: Assisi, Alfred Morton Smith [1879 - 1971]) PSALM: 8 (plainsong, Mode V Ending 2) HYMN: "Lord, make us servants of your peace" (tune: Dickinson College, Lee Hastings Bristol, Jr. [1923 - 1979]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Jeff Junkinsmith [b. 1956]) ANTHEMS: Two selections from Quatre petites prières de St François d’Assise by Francis Poulenc [1899 - 1963]: I) "Tout puissant, très saint"; II) "O mes très chers frères"
18th Sunday after Pentecost St. Michael and All Angels (Sept. 29th) Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Jeremy Matheis Cantor: Richard Greene ORISON: "Christ the fair glory of the holy angels" (Christe sanctorum, Sarum plainsong, Mode I) PSALM: 103 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "Round the Lord in glory seated cherubim and seraphim" (tune: Rustington, Charles Hubert Hastings Parry [1848 - 1918]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by James Bassi) ANTHEM: "Tibi Christe, splendor patris" (plainsong, Mode II; polyphonic verses by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina [ca. 1525 - 1594])
17th Sunday after Pentecost Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: William Turnipseed Cantor: Kenneth Peterson ORISON: "O come, ye servants of the Lord" (Christopher Tye [ca. 1050 - ca. 1572]) PSALM: 113 (plainsong, Tone IV Ending 5) HYMN: "Te lucis ante terminum" ("Before the ending of the day") (Compline Office hymn, Orlando di Lasso [ca. 1530/32–1594]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Thomas Morley [ca. 1557/58 - 1603]) ANTHEM: "Iustus germinabit sicut lilium" (Jakob (Handl) Gallus [1550 - 1591])
15th Sunday after Pentecost Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Joel Matter Cantor: Fred McIlroy IV ORISON: "All praise to thee, my God, this night" (tune: Tallis’ Canon, from Archbishop Parker’s Psalter, [1567], Thomas Tallis [ca. 1505 - 1585]) PSALM: 1 (plainsong, Mode I B Ending 1) HYMN: "Te lucis ante terminum" ("Before the ending of the day") (Compline Office hymn, plainsong, Mode III Ending 4) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by John Holmes [d. 1629], Mode VIII Ending 1) ANTHEM: "In principio" (Derek Tilton [b. 1987])
14th Sunday after Pentecost Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Bill Turnipseed Cantor: Nathan Jensen ORISON: "Dear Lord and Father of Mankind " (M. Searle Wright [1918 - 2004]) PSALM: 91 (Peter Hallock [b. 1924], anglican chant, 1978) HYMN: "O God of Bethel" (Scottish Psalter, 1615) NUNC DIMITTIS: (plainsong, Mode IV) ANTHEM: "Salva nos Domine, vigilate" (Jacob Handl [1550 - 1591])
12th Sunday after Pentecost St. Mary the Virgin (August 15th) Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: William Turnipseed Cantor: Kenneth Peterson ORISON: "Blest are the pure in heart" (M. Searle Wright [1918 - 2004]) PSALM: 34: 1 - 9 (plainsong, Tone V Ending 2) HYMN: "Christ, the fair glory of the holy angels" (tune: Christe Sanctorum, Sarum plainsong, Mode I) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Charles Wood [1866 - 1926]) ANTHEM: Magnificat (setting by Charles Wood)
10th Sunday after Pentecost Conductor: Brian Fairbanks Reader: Joel Matter Cantor: Tym Mackey ORISON: "Thou all transcendent Deity" (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina [ca. 1525 - 1594]) PSALM: 34 (plainsong, Tone V Ending 2) HYMN: "Te lucis ante terminum" ("Before the ending of the day") (Brian Fairbanks) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Arthur Wills [b. 1926]) ANTHEM: "Gustate et videte" (Giovanni Matteo Asola [ca. 1532 - 1609])
8th Sunday after Pentecost Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: William Turnipseed Cantor: Kenneth Peterson ORISON: "Peace be within this sacred place" (Psalm 122, Alice Parker [b. 1925]) PSALM: 15 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "Peace, perfect peace" (tune: Song 46, Orlando Gibbons [1583 - 1625]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Christopher Tye [ca. 1505 - ca. 1572]) ANTHEM: Jerusalem (melody by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry [1848 - 1918]; arranged by Nathan Jensen [b. 1968])
7th Sunday after Pentecost Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Jeremy Matheis Cantor: Brian Fairbanks ORISON: "Slowly the rays of daylight fade" (M. Searle Wright [1918 - 2004]) PSALM: 25 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "Te lucis ante terminum (To you before the close of day)" (Kevin Siegfried [b. 1969]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (plainsong setting, Tone III Ending 4) ANTHEM: "Visita quaesumus" (William Byrd [1539/40 - 1623])
6th Sunday after Pentecost Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Joel Matter Cantor: Tym Mackey ORISON: "O Christ, you are both light and day" (tune: Compline, David Hurd (b. 1950]) PSALM: 67 (plainsong, Tone VIII Ending 1) HYMN: "God, who stretched the spangled heavens" (tune: Holy Manna, from The Southern Harmony, 1835) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Richard Proulx [1937 - 2010]) ANTHEM: "God be in my head" (Douglas Fullington [b. 1969])
5th Sunday after Pentecost Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: William Turnipseed Cantor: Richard Greene ORISON: "The shadows of the evening hours" (Joshua Haberman [b. 1982]) PSALM: 16 (plainsong setting, Tone II Ending 2) HYMN: "As longs the deer for cooling streams" (tune: Martyrdom, melody & bass by Hugh Wilson [1764 - 1824]; adapted & harmonized by Robert Smith [1780 - 1829]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (Anonymous setting arranged by Bernarr Rainbow; Tone IV) ANTHEM: "Sicut cervus" (Charles Gounod [1818 - 1893])
4th Sunday after Pentecost Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Jeremy Matheis Cantor: Kenneth Peterson ORISON: "Now, as the troubled day departs" (Searle Wright [1918 - 2004]) PSALM: 46 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "Before the ending of the day" (Te Lucis ante terminum, Compline Office hymn, plainsong, Mode VIII) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by John Holmes [d. 1629], Mode II) ANTHEM: "Jesu dulcis memoria" (Iain Quinn [b. 1973])
3rd Sunday after Pentecost Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Jeremy Matheis Cantor: Thomas Adams ORISON: "Christ, mighty Savior, Light of all creation" (plainsong Christe, Lux mundi, 14th c.) PSALM: 32 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "Te lucis ante terminum" (Ferial setting by Thomas Tallis [1505 - 1585]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Orlando Gibbons [1583 - 1625]) ANTHEM: "There is a balm in Gilead" (arranged by Jeff Junkinsmith [b. 1956])
2nd Sunday after Pentecost Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Joel Matter Cantor: Fred McIlroy IV ORISON: "Round me falls the night" (melody by A. Drese, [d. 1701], harmonizations by S. S. Wesley, Henry Ley, J. S. Bach) PSALM: 91 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "To you before the close of day" (Compline office hymn: Te lucis ante terminum, plainsong, Mode VIII) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Lodovico Grossi da Viadana [ca. 1560 - 1627], Mode VII) ANTHEM: "Ubi caritas" (Maurice Duruflé [1902 - 1986])
Trinity Sunday Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: William Turnipseed Cantor: Nathan Jensen ORISON: "O Trinity of blessèd light" (Jeff Junkinsmith [b. 1956]) PSALM: 8 (plainsong, Tone VIII Ending 2) HYMN: "Holy God, we praise the Name" (tune: Grosser Gott, melody from Katholisches Gesangbuch, 1686; harmonized by Charles Winfred Douglas [1867 - 1944], after Conrad Kocher [1786 - 1872]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Charles Wood [1866 - 1926]) ANTHEM: "Great Lord of Lords" (Charles Wood)
