The Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral is holding auditions for volunteer singers with prior choral experience to join the Cathedral Singers. Anchored by a core of eight professional singers, the choir sings at a weekly Sunday morning 10:00 Eucharist between mid-September and mid-May with rehearsals before (9:00) and after (11:30-12:30); no regular weekday rehearsal. Evensongs, Holy Days, and diocesan special services average 1-2 per month. Flexible scheduling is available for volunteers.
Under the leadership of Dean Judith Sullivan, the Cathedral is a vibrant, diverse, and welcoming-in-every-way-we-can congregation (including LGBTQ) working actively with the economically vulnerable in our congregation and community through a busy food pantry, clothes closet, and community luncheons. The choir vests only for special diocesan services; on Sunday mornings, the choir sits mixed among the congregation, coming forward for anthems placed variously in our flexible open space.
Located at the edge of the UPenn and Drexel campuses at 38th and Chestnut in West Philly, the choir leads the congregation in psalms and other service music in styles ranging from plainsong to Anglican chant to Taizé. The music for the first four Sundays (beginning September 17) includes anthems by Gerald Near (Love – 2013, with organ), Henry Purcell (O God, Thou are my God), William Byrd (O quam suavis est), and Glenn Burleigh (Jesus is a rock in a weary land).
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