St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Monrovia will present the final Evensong performance of the season on May 21, at 4 p.m. at the church, 122 South California Avenue at Foothill Boulevard in Monrovia. A wine and cheese reception in Guild Hall will follow the public performance, and a freewill offering will be taken.
“Evensong … is a very tiny fragment of the worship offered to God by Christian people every hour in every part of the world,” notes a description by England’s Coventry Cathedral. “When you come to Evensong, it is as if you were dropping in on a conversation already in progress — a conversation between God and people which began long before you were born and will go on long after you are gone.”
The program, directed by St. Luke’s Music Director Kent Bennett Jones, will include John Blow’s Let My Prayer Come Up, William Smith’s Preces and Responses in G, and Richard Farrant’s Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in G Minor. Declare His Honor, by Henry Purcell, will feature staff singers Caitlin Stave, Trisha Rivera, Colin Stave and Sean Gabel.
