Organ Concert & Choral Evensong

Take time out to enjoy an organ concert by James Parrish Smith, followed by a beautiful Choral Evensong with the St. Luke's Choir, followed by a reception.

Info: Free-will offering - Feel free to attend one or both of these offerings.

Guest organ recitalist is James Parrish Smith is Director of Music and the Arts at First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley and the Artistic Director of the Charles A. Tindley Academy of Music. Formerly he served as Principal Organist of the Historic Third Baptist Church of San Francisco. Mr. Smith is also an ordained minister who has served in musical leadership in prominent churches in Louisiana, Florida, and Alabama, most notably serving the Historic Sixth Avenue Baptist Church of Birmingham, Alabama.
The pre-Evensong organ concert is an opportunity to hear our 1960 Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ as a solo instrument. The organ concert includes music by Angela Kraft Cross, Karen Thomas, Florence Price, and Sharon J. Willis. The Evensong choral music will include compositions by Rachel Portman, Maxine Thévenot, and Mel Bonis.

Host or Publisher St. Luke's Friends of Music