Music
The Parish Choir
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The Parish Choir consists of two distinct groups: The Adult Choir, and the Boys' and Girls' Choir. The choirs work separately and in conjunction with each other to provide music for the Sunday Eucharist and other principal services of the church year, monthly C
horal Evensong services, concerts and community events, and occasionally funerals and weddings. Both groups utilize the training scheme of the Royal School of Church Music.
The Parish Choir has a reputation for fine music-making in the Anglican choral tradition and a wide range of repertoire which spans the 15th century to the present day. The Choir has made four tours abroad (1986, 1991, 1996, and 2001) and has sung services at such notable places as Bristol Cathedral, Wells Cathedral, Buckfast Abbey, Glastonbury Parish Church, St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, and St. Paul’s Cathedral.
The Adult Choir is made up of Sopranos, Altos, Tenors, and Basses, and rehearses weekly on Thursday evenings from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. Rich in experience, it provides leadership to and forms the foundation for the Boys' and Girls' Choir.
The Boys' and Girls' Choir includes children and teens from grades four through twelve. It consists of Trebles, Altos/Countertenors, Tenors, and B
asses and rehearses weekly on Thursday evenings from 4:30 to 6:30 pm, joining with the Adult Choir for the secod hour. The Boys' and Girls' Choir has sung at the Maine Center for the Arts (now the Collins Center for the Arts) on various occasions, most recently in Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem and Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel. Participation in the Boys' and Girls' Choir provides an excellent opportunity for musical children to make friends and advance their musical training by finding expression through the music of the church.
For information on joining a choir, please contact the Parish Office at (207) 947-0156.