If you missed Evensong on Sunday evening, you really missed a beautiful service!  I would like to thank the members of the Choir for their hard work and dedication in putting together these extra Evensong services.  The music is very challenging but also rewarding as well.  I would like to thank Chase Wheeler and Jonathan Cornell for their beautiful duet on the Nunc Dimittis and to Jonathan for his superb chanting of the Preces and Responses.  Our next service of Evensong will be February 26 at 5 PM.

 

And, you may have noticed at the 10 AM service on Sundays a new musical item at the beginning of Communion known as the Communion Proper. A Proper is simply a collect or prayer assigned for the day.  During Epiphany, the same proper is applied from Epiphany III until Ash Wednesday.  These Communion Propers are traditionally sung to Gregorian Chant and are taken directly from the Liber Usualis, a book of Gregorian Chants for use every Sunday of the liturgical year.  My sincere gratitude and appreciation goes to Jonathan Cornell and Chase Wheeler for so beautifully chanting the Communion Propers each Sunday and for helping to create an atmosphere of prayerful meditation as Communion is received.    

 

Our Concert Series continues with the incredible talent of jazz legend Wycliffe Gordon who will be with us on February 12 at 4 PM!!  If you haven't heard his last two concerts, you MUST attend this one!  Wycliffe brings his Dixieland style of jazz home to St. Gregory's for a third consecutive year!  You will be blown away by his incredible music, his showmanship, and his love for what he does.  There are times when you can actually hear the trombone talk!  He'll be bringing some of the finest jazz players in country to be with him including a twin brother saxophone duo called the Anderson Twins who are graduates of the Juilliard School in New York. A devout man of faith, Wycliffe especially enjoys being with us here at St. Gregory's as he feels like he's coming home.  We are so very fortunate that he has agreed to be with us once again. 

 

On March 5, I'm extremely excited to present the Florida Singing Sons and the Girls Choir of South Florida in a rare joint concert performing Faure's Requiem.  They will be under the expert direction of the very talented Mr. Brett Karlin, Artistic Director and Conductor of The Singing Sons and of The Master Chorale of South Florida.  Brett is one of the country's top young conductors and we are very fortunate to be able to host this incredible concert featuring South Florida's very own!!  And, I'll be accompanying on the organ.  Don't miss this concert! 

 

Remember, this is YOUR music program and YOUR concert series!  A successful music ministry requires much work and dedication from all those who participate but also support from you, the church.   I invite you to become a Friend of Great Music of St. Gregory's today!  To learn more about how to support the music ministry of St. Gregory's, contact me or Ron Knowlton in the church office. 

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Let's continue making beautiful music together! 

 

Peace, Tim

Eternal God, in whose perfect kingdom no sword is drawn  but the sword of righteousness, no strength known but the  strength of love: So mightily spread abroad your Spirit, that  all peoples may be gathered under the banner of the Prince of  Peace, as children of one Father; to whom be dominion and  glory, now and for ever. 

Amen.