An Evening of Sacred Chant: A Millennium of Soaring Mystical Sound

Directed by Rip Jackson

Sunday, April 28, 2024 at 7:30 PM

Come and center inward, touching your deepest, truest self, as you are enfolded in the peaceful, healing, transcendent music of sacred chant—mystical music ancient and modern from Western, Eastern, and African traditions—performed by the First Parish Festival Choir and guest soloists, and directed by Rip Jackson. The evening’s candlelit program will include Gregorian chant, antiphons by Hildegard Von Bingen, Medieval polyphony, Renaissance masterpieces, Russian Orthodox hymns, Hindu mantras, African sacred music, and modern mystical a capella music. The concert will take place on Sunday, April 28, 2024 at 7:30 PM at First Parish in Lexington, 7 Harrington Road, Lexington, MA.  A free-will offering will be received, and public parking is available in the rear of the church. For more information email music@fplex.org.

First Parish in Lexington presents Ludwig van Beethoven’s Mass in C  and Symphony No. 6, “The Pastorale”

Directed by Rip Jackson

Sunday, November 10, 2024, at 3:30 PM

The First Parish Festival Choir, soloists and large symphonic orchestra, directed by Rip Jackson, will present Ludwig van Beethoven’s Powerful Mass in C and evocative Symphony No. 6, “The Pastorale.” The concert will take place on Sunday, November 10, 2024 at 3:30 PM at First Parish in Lexington, at 7 Harrington Road, Lexington, MA 02421.  A free-will offering will be received, and public parking is available in the rear of the church. For more information email music@fplex.org.