Music at St. Mark's

08/30/2024

Join us for an incredible start to the 2024-2025 Cathedral Music Series as Met Opera star Frederica Von Stade hosts a benefit concert on Sept 14 at 7:30pm. Please use the QR code for tickets and complete information. Tickets will not be sold through Saint Mark's directly.

05/02/2024

Season Finale

Please join us at 7:30 PM for the final concert in our season. Soprano Katie Boardman joins with the Cathedral Choral Society, Cathedral Choir, and orchestra in performance of Francis Poulenc’s Gloria. The program also features Le Tombeau de Couperin by Maurice Ravel, and the Coronation Te Deum by William Walton.

Tickets are $20 (ages 12 and under are free) and are available via the link below. The concert is conducted by Raymond Johnston.

Tickets are available at https://app.aplos.com/aws/events/season_finale.

05/01/2024

Season Finale
Please join us at 7:30 PM for the final concert in our season. Soprano Katie Boardman joins with the Cathedral Choral Society, Cathedral Choir, and orchestra in performance of Francis Poulenc’s Gloria. The program also features Le Tombeau de Couperin by Maurice Ravel, and the Coronation Te Deum by William Walton.
Tickets are $20 (ages 12 and under are free) and are available via the link below. The concert is conducted by Raymond Johnston.
Tickets are available at https://app.aplos.com/aws/events/season_finale.

04/13/2024

We hope you will be able to join us tonight!

Music Series: Letters to Jackie (Live Event Only)
Minnesota Tenor Ryan Townsend Strand is coming home to Minnesota for a major solo performance of original work. Strand will be performing Letters To Jackie at St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral in Minneapolis on April 13. The performance features original compositions by Minnesota composers Libby Larson, Tim Takach and Erik Pearson along with 11 other big-time composers (several are Grammy Award winners). The project features songs with lyrics taken from condolence letters sent to Jackie Kennedy following JFK's assassination. There are many Minnesota ties including a couple of the letters selected by the Minnesota composers being penned by Minnesotans 60 years ago.

This is the first solo performance Strand has performed in Minnesota.

This performance is available on our website during the live performance only https://ourcathedral.org/livestream/

03/28/2024

Please accept our apologie.Due to technical issues we are unable to broadcast the audio of this service.

The name Tenebrae, the Latin word for darkness or shadows, has for centuries been applied to the ancient monastic night and early morning services of the last three days of Holy Week which, in medieval times, came to be celebrated on the preceding evenings.

The most conspicuous feature of the service is the gradual extinguishing of candles until only a single candle, considered a symbol of our Lord, remains.

As this service is celebrated in darkness, this broadcast is audio only. Please feel free to follow along with the bulletin.https://ourcathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/A-Service-of-Tenebrae-3.27.24.pdf

03/15/2024

We look forward to seeing you at the next recital in our series, this Sunday March 17. Brilliant young organist Henry Dangerfield will perform on our 4 manual Foley-Baker organ. Henry’s program and bio are below. The recital begins at 2.30pm. Free Admission!

Henry Dangerfield began organ lessons in 2019 as an 11-year-old recipient of a student scholarship from the Southeast Minnesota Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. Since 2021, he has been studying with Raymond Johnston, Canon Musician at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral in Minneapolis. In the summer of 2023, Henry had the opportunity to attend the Curtis Summer Organ Intensive, where he had lessons with Peter Conte and Alan Morrison, participated in a master class with Isabelle Demers, and performed on the Wanamaker Organ. As a finalist in the 2023 Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival Hartford, Henry was awarded the David Spicer Hymn Playing Award and the Audience Prize. He plays regularly for his congregation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Flor Peeters: Suite Modale
Langlais: Nazard (from Suite Française)
Bach: Trio Sonata No. 6 in G major
Widor: Andante Sostenuto (from Symphonie Gothique)
Dupré: Prelude and Fugue in B major Op. 7

519 Oak Grove Street, Minneapolis

01/14/2024

You can find our worship bulletin herehttps://ourcathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/01.14.24-5pm.pdf

11/16/2023

Join us on Saturday, November 18 at 7:300pm for a can't miss in-person music event at the Cathedral!

Organ concerto – Francis Poulenc, Soloist: Scott Turkington.
Saint Nicolas – Benjamin Britten, Tenor Soloist: Nicholas Chalmers.

Saint Mark’s Cathedral Choir, Choral Society, and Orchestra directed by Raymond Johnston.

Tickets $20, people 12 years & under are free and do not require a ticket.

Tickets can be purchased at the door or pre-purchased at:
https://www.aplos.com/aws/events/music_concerthttps://youtu.be/uihMkCg83-M

We look forward to seeing you there!
https://youtu.be/uihMkCg83-M

Organ concerto – Francis Poulenc, Soloist: Scott Turkington.Saint Nicolas – Benjamin Britten, Tenor Soloist: Nicholas Chalmers.Saint Mark’s Cathedral Choir, ...

11/05/2023

You can find our worship bulletin here:https://ourcathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/110523-5pm.pdf

05/04/2023

Great music in a great space. Looking forward to it!

05/04/2023

Join us for the 2023 Music Series Season Finale with reception to follow!

May 13, 2023
7:30pm

Tickets $20 at the door or online at:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/601631505027

Children 12 and under are free

11/22/2022

Please join us this Sunday at 5pm for Advent Carol service

05/10/2022

Saturday, May 14 @ 7:30 pm In Person & Online The Cathedral Choir will perform music by Parry, Sowerby, and Mendelssohn. Find the programhere:https://ourcathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/61/2022/05/Season-Finale-2022.pdf

04/22/2022

A Saint Mark's Music Series Concert
The Compass Rose Brass Ensemble was formed in 2011 and consists of ten professional brass musicians from the Twin Cities area. The inspiration of this group can be traced back to the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, a London-based group of top brass professionals that earned tremendous notoriety during the latter half of the twentieth century. Their repertoire includes both original and transcribed works for brass in classical and jazz styles. Their 2013 CD includes a world premiere recording of Joseph Turrin’s The Fir Tree, based on the literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. More recently they have been publishing video recordings of much of their repertoire to their Youtube channel. The mission of the Compass Rose Brass Ensemble is to create brass performances of the highest level to diverse audiences throughout Minnesota and beyond.

03/18/2022

The program is a delightful mix of sacred and secular, including music by Lotti, Lassus, Poulenc, Wolf, Brahms, Vaughan Williams, and the premiere of ‘Light’ conducted by the composer Enrico Miaroma.

This is a very talented group of singers so please come and support them.

03/15/2022

The next concert in our series will be on Saturday March 19 at 7.30pm, and is given by the Concert Choir and Madrigal Singers from NDSU as part of their tour.
The program is a delightful mix of sacred and secular, including music by Lotti, Lassus, Poulenc, Wolf, Brahms, Vaughan Williams, and the premiere of ‘Light’ conducted by the composer Enrico Miaroma.
This is a very talented group of singers so please come and support them.
Join us online or in person Admission is free and masks must be worn inside the cathedral.

02/17/2022

Sunday afternoon at 2.30 sees the next concert in our Music Series – a recital of songs, mostly about love, performed by tenor Nicholas Chalmers with Hannah Armstrong, Alyssa Anderson, Andrew Kane, Scott Turkington, and Raymond Johnston.
Following the current protocols, this concert is only available online: no in-person attendance is currently permitted.
The program features works by Vaughan Williams, Quilter, Elgar, and Brahms.
Please join us for some wonderful music!

01/13/2022

We are sorry to let you know that as of January 11th Saint Mark's has paused all in-person worship and limited in-person programming. Our Sunday January 16th Organ Recital by Christopher Jacobson, Duke University Chapel Organist,, Durham, NC, will be rescheduled. Sorry for the late notice, we sincerely hope to welcome you back in person soon. Stay safe, get vaccinated, wear your mask!

12/10/2021

Olivier Messiaen – La nativité du Seigneur
Messiaen’s 9 movement cycle of meditations on the Incarnation is performed by Raymond Johnston.

11/02/2021

The setting will be the Missa pro defunctis, the original plainsong setting of the text.

"All Souls Day (November 2) is a time when we particularly remember those who have died. The prayers appointed for that day remind us that we are joined with the Communion of Saints, that great group of Christians who have finished their earthly life and with who we share the hope of resurrection from the dead". — Bays & Hancock 2012, p. 128

You can find the order of worship here:https://media.myworshiptimes4.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/61/2021/11/02131832/All-Souls-Requiem-2021.pdf

09/27/2021

. The Lake Wobegon® Brass Band
Beginning their 30th season, the Lake Wobegon® Brass Band makes its return to regular concerts and a welcome return to St. Mark’s! The concert will feature a variety of repertoire for the traditional British brass band including music by Vaughan Williams, Gregson, Bernstein, and Richard Rodgers (of Rodgers & Hammerstein renown), as well as by band members Jack Stamp, Mike Serber, and conductor Michael Halstenson, under whose baton the LWBB will make its fourth British concert tour in June 2022.

09/22/2021

Sunday September 26th at 2.30pm sees the beginning of this year’s Music Series. The opening concert will be an organ recital given by our Canon Music, Raymond Johnston.
This is the first concert here in 18 months to allow a live audience, so please come along and support the Music Series. The recital will also be livestreamed on our website.
Included in the recital will be music by Bach, Leighton, Howells, Reubke, Hurford, and Dupré.
Joining Ray for this performance will be his student Henry Dangerfield, an exceptionally talented 13 year old organist.
We hope to see you there!

You can find the program here:https://media.myworshiptimes4.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/61/2021/09/23121411/RJ-program-2021.pdf

06/01/2021

Episode 14 – Epilogue. Different sounds and styles, with the occasional quirkiness. To include music by Eben, Bovet, and Hakim.

05/19/2021

To include music by Vierne, Langlais, and Messiaen.

05/16/2021

Saint Mark's Music Series invites you to join us for our final concert of the season.

The program will feature songs by Schubert and Grieg, as well as Madrigals and Part Songs, performed by the St. Mark’s Singers with Raymond Johnston.

05/09/2021

Find our worship bulletin here:https://media.myworshiptimes4.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/61/2021/05/04152251/Choral-Evensong-Easter-6B-2021-Online-inperson.pdf

04/25/2021

04/08/2021

Join Canon Ray Thursday!

Episode Eleven of The Organ: The English Renaissance

03/23/2021

Join Canon Raymond Johnston this Thursday at 7:30 pm!

03/21/2021