Music Series
Music at The Redeemer
engaging the community
music - song - education
The Music Series is supported by Friends of Music at The Redeemer.
Please consider becoming a Friend.
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Admission to events may be purchased at the door.
The 2024-25 Season Series information follows below.
Friends of Music at The Redeemer
Music at The Redeemer is funded by the work of the Music Committee and through your generous donations.
Please consider becoming a Music Series Patron so that we we may continue to offer wonderful music to the parish and surrounding community.
SERAPHIM $1,500 and above
CHERUBIM $1,000 - $1,499
ARCHANGEL $500 - $999
ANGEL $100 - $499
Friends of Music patrons will be listed in all event programs.
100% of your donation is tax deductible.
Sunday, September 22 at 5pm
Johann Sebastian Bach
Philadelphia hottest early music group, Filament, will perform Bach’s monumental ‘Musical Offering’
on period instruments.
Tickets $40 and available at the door.
Sunday, November 5 at 5pm
Vernon Williams ‘Requiem’
Our annual All Souls Service of Remembrance, sung by the choirs of The Redeemer and joined by the choir of Trinity Episcopal Church, Moorestown, NJ. This is the premier presentation of the complete Requiem.
Vernon Williams is Director of Music at Trinity Episcopal Church in Moorestown, NJ.
This is a church service, without charge.
Sunday, December 8 at 5pm
A Service of Nine Lessons and Carols
The choirs of The Redeemer will offer carols and hymns, interspersed with familiar nativity readings, in this traditional Christmas service.
Musical selections will include:
Once in Royal David's City - H. J. Gauntlett
Adam lay ybounden - Peter Warlock
In the deep of wintertime - Malcom Archer
Hark! A Herald Voice is Calling - Ola Gjeilo
Blessed Be! - Melanie De More
Mary's Lullaby - John Herzog
Nativity Carol - John Rutter
While the Shepherds Were Watching - C. Armstrong Gibbs
Lully, Lulla, Lullay - Philip WJ Stopford
O Magnum Mysterium - Andrew Senn
This is a church service, without charge.
Sunday, January 12at 5pm
Bach by Candlelight
Join Andrew Senn and friends in the candlelight warmth of the church for a concert of the immortal music of JS Bach.
Tickets $40
Sunday, February 2 at 5pm
Lessons and Carols for Candlemas
The Redeemer Choirs will combine with the choirs of St. Thomas Whitemarsh and St. Paul’s Chestnut Hill in a
service of Lessons and Carols for Candlemas, marking the end of the Christmas Season.
This is a church service, without charge.
Sunday, February 23 at 5pm - RESCHEDULED
A Wine Tasting of Operatic Proportions
The staff singers of The Redeemer perform opera art songs paired with select wines from around the world.
Eric Simonis will be our expert wine guide. Seating in Burns Hall is limited to 70.
Seating in Burns Hall is limited to 70.
Tickets $75
Sunday, March 16 at 4pm
Spring Choir Concert
The Redeemer Choir will join forces with the Sanctuary Choir of Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, accompanied by string orchestra, to present Herbert Howells’ epic ‘An English Mass’. The concert will take place at Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church.
Free Will Offering
Sunday, March 30 at 5pm
Bach's Birthday
Join us for an organ concert celebrating the music of Johann Sebastian Bach on the eve of his birth, performed by Redeemer’s Director of Music, Andrew Senn. Don’t miss this opportunity to experience some well-known pieces, as well as an assortment of lesser known works, including the monumental Partita on Sei Gegrüßet, Jesu Gütig.
Free Will Offering
Sunday, April 27 at 5pm
Hymn Festival
Raise your voices along with the Redeemer Choirs and brass in an afternoon of favorite hymns,
narrated by the Rev. Dr. Frank Senn.
Free Will Offering
Sunday, May 18 at 4pm
Garden Party
A fun afternoon, honoring the choirs and the music they make. Fun performances from the choirs, delicious food
and drinks, an epic silent auction, and a special performance by jazz phenom Calli Graver.
Tickets $125/$200/$25
Saturday, May 31 at 9am and Sunday, June 1 at 9:30am and 5:00pm
Guest Conductor Richard Webster
On Sunday, June 1, Richard Webster will be here at The Redeemer to conduct our choirs - both at the 9:30am Eucharist and at 5pm Evensong. Richard can be counted among the “who’s who” of Anglican Church Musicians. He led a vibrant program at St Luke’s Evanston, Illinois for over 30 years, and recently retired from Trinity Church, Copley Square, in Boston after 17 years. His enthusiasm for youth and adult singers alike is extraordinary, and his gifts for fostering a love of church music in choirs and congregations are innumerable. Richard is also a prolific composer (whose brass arrangements we hear at Christmas and Easter), and an avid marathon runner. His full biography can be found on the church website. Richard will also work with our choirs on Saturday, May 30 at 9am. You’re welcome to come and observe.
Composer, church musician, conductor and organist -- Richard Webster is currently Lecturer in the Institute of Sacred Music (ISM) at Yale University. He retired in 2022 as Director of Music and Organist at Trinity Church, Copley Square, Boston after 17 years. During 2023-24 he served as Interim Director of Music at St. Paul's Choir School, Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
As a composer and arranger he completes several commissioned works a year. His hymn arrangements for brass, percussion, organ and congregation are heard across the world, including the CBC's Christmas and Easter broadcasts, BBC's "Songs of Praise,” at a hymn festival in Sweden’s Lund Cathedral, in an Australian celebration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation and on a recording of hymns from Taiwan.
At Trinity, Boston, where he cofounded the Trinity Choristers, he led the choirs on five tours of England, with residencies at York Minster; Westminster Abbey; Durham, Ely, Lincoln, Chichester, Salisbury, Wells, Winchester and St. Paul’s Cathedrals. During his tenure, Trinity's 1926 Skinner nave organ was successfully renovated and a new 4-manual Skinner replica console added.
Richard is Music Director of Chicago's "Bach in the City," a new endeavor at St. Vincent DePaul Church, and the successor to Bach Week Festival that he had directed for 50 years, based in Evanston. Sought after as a choral clinician, he has led choir courses and workshops across the U.S., South Africa and New Zealand. He is an honorary Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music (FRSCM), and holds the Doctor of Music degree, honoris causa, from the University of the South at Sewanee.
Webster has performed and recorded as organist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in works from the Saint-Saens Organ Symphony to Ives' Fourth Symphony. He is the Organist and Choirmaster Emeritus of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Evanston, Illinois, where, from 1974 to 2003 he directed the Choir of Men and Boys, the Girls Choir, Schola and the St. Luke’s Singers in a program widely respected and emulated. The restoration of the celebrated 1922 Ernest M. Skinner organ, Opus 327 at St. Luke’s was accomplished under his leadership.
A native of Nashville, Mr. Webster studied organ with the late Peter Fyfe, Karel Paukert and Wolfgang Rübsam. He was a Fulbright Scholar to Great Britain, as Organ Scholar at Chichester Cathedral under the late John Birch.
Webster's works are published by Augsburg Fortress, Church Music Society, Church Publishing, Selah and Advent Press. His articles on church music have appeared in The American Organist, The Diapason, Chicago Tribune, The Living Church, Journal of the Association of Anglican Musicians, the Choral Journal of the ACDA and the Windy City Times. He was a contributing author to Leading the Church’s Song, published by Augsburg.
A passionate runner, Richard has completed 47 marathons, including 21 Boston Marathons.
