Upcoming Events
November 2019
Fathers and Mothers of the Early Church: Urban and Desert
St. Luke in the Fields Adult Education Fall Series Mondays September 23 - December 9, 2019 7 o’clock in the evening in Laughlin Hall In this series, we will explore the writings and sayings of important historical figures in the first few centuries of Christian history and learn how their work has influenced faith over the past two thousand years. Several guest speakers who specialize in the study of the early church will share their research, expertise, and insights into…
Find out more »Said Eucharist, Rite I
The 8:00 am service is a Rite I service, which uses the traditional language from the Book of Common Prayer. There is no music, and the sermon is abridged. This service has a more intimate and contemplative feel that usually lasts no longer than an hour.
Find out more »9:15 am Choral Eucharist, Rite II | Children and Family Service
The 9:15 am service is popular among families with children. On most Sundays, the service is accompanied by our Choristers – our youth choir – and junior acolytes. Sunday School classes follow around 10:15 am. This service is slightly more casual than our 11:15 am service.
Find out more »Choral Eucharist, Rite II
The 11:15 am service is a solemn high mass. The Choir of Saint Luke in the Fields accompanies the service with an array of Early Renaissance and modern music. The liturgy is mostly sung.
Find out more »December 2019
Choir of St. Luke in the Fields Concert | A French Baroque Christmas: Music of Marc-Antoine Charpent
The French noël represents a tradition of popular Christmas celebration and rich source of melodies that became a preoccupation of French composers. The concert will feature Charpentier’s delightful Messe de Minuit (‘Midnight Mass’), written perhaps for Christmas 1694, based on ten of these popular carol melodies. The program will include Charpentier’s oratorio In Nativitatem Domini, H.414, and the O Antiphons. Tickets: $35 general admission; $25 students/seniors Pre-Concert Lecture at 7:00 pm. Choir of St. Luke in the Fields with Baroque in the Fields, an orchestra of period…
Find out more »February 2020
Choir of St. Luke in the Fields | Music from the Court of Charles V
The remarkable Hapsburg dynasty, which at its peak ruled much of Europe and established the first truly global empire, is the inspiration for this program of music that would have been sung by the famed Capilla Flamenca during the reign of Charles V, in the first half of the 16thcentury. The concert will feature the sublime Missa Caro mea by Clemens non Papa, based on a motet by Pierre de Manchicourt, and motets by Manchicourt, Gombert, Crequillon and Clemens non Papa. Tickets: $35…
Find out more »March 2020
Choir of St. Luke in the Fields | Johann Sebastian Bach’s Motets
Bach’s motets are some of the greatest – and most virtuosic – of all Bach’s choral works. In particular, the large double choir works Singet dem Herrn and Der Geist Hilf represent Bach at his exuberant best. These motets contain some of Bach’s most profound and intense music. As with virtually every other genre that he composed in, Bach brought motet composition to its pinnacle. Tickets: $35 general admission; $25 students/seniors Pre-Concert Lecture at 7:00 pm. Choir of St. Luke in the Fields with organ and cello Lecturer:…
Find out more »May 2020
Choir of St. Luke in the Fields | Pergolesi Rediscovered
This concert will shed a new light on the great Italian composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, offering two masterpieces, lost for almost 300 years, in their first modern editions. These new editions of the Mass in D major and the motet Dignas Laudes are the outcome of recent musicological research carried out by the Centro Studi Pergolesi in Milan, and show a facet of Pergolesi – his energetic and solemn character – that complements and amplifies the dramatic and introspective moods of his most renowned…
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