Night Song's 2011/2012 Season

Night Song is a weekly hour of beauty and serenty in a hectic and complex world. Come and "simply sit still and let beauty enfold you." With no creeds or sermons, one can enter into the stillness of the evening and allow one's spirit to be lifted by the candlelight, the fragance of incense, and the sacred music of this compline service. Having been refreshed by the human and the divine, one can leave in peace.

The music is a unique fusion of contemplative modal instrumental improvisations by jazz musicians blended with ancient and modern chant, and punctuated by glorious polyphonic choral music from the Renaissance.

The vocal ensembles for Night Song rotate through the month: the eight-voice Canticum vespertinum, the twelve-voice Beneficia lucis, under the direction of Jay Lane, and the Angeli te custodiant quintet. The improvisational jazz is under the direction of Ben Schwendener. Night Song's artistic director is Daryl Bichel, who sings bass week by week in the Ashmont Choir of Men & Boys. (See the biographies here.) Three men from the All Saints' Choir of Men & Boys regularly sing this compline service.

Here is Night Song's Musical Schedule through January.

Night Song's 2011/2012 season began on Sunday, 6 November, at 7 p.m. and continues through the last Sunday of April in the majestic First Church in Cambridge at 11 Garden Street.

Come join others from Ashmont who have found Night Song to be the perfect completion to a busy Sunday. First Church is a pleasant 5 minute walk from the Harvard Square station on the Red Line. If you prefer to drive, parking is relatively easy at that time of the night.

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