Music for April 15, 2017

All are welcome for the Great Vigil of Easter tonight at 7:30 p.m., with Holy Eucharist and Holy Baptism. Choral music will include Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina’s “Sicut cervus”; Richard Webster’s “The Dawning” (commissioned for the Saint Mark’s Choir in 2001); and Randall Thompson’s “Alleluia.” Tyler Robertson plays Charles Villiers Stanford’s “At Easter-tide.” The service will begin with the chanting of the Exsultet.

Image: Antonio da Correggio (1489–1534), Noli me tangere (c.1525)