Music
St. Alban's uses the
The Ron Tindell Organ 2004 - 2009
16 ranks
Choir
Our four-part choir participates in:
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the Sunday 11 AM mass
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mid-week masses on feast days
The choir rehearses:
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Sunday 10 AM
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an hour before masses on feast days
Schola Cantorum
Our Schola Cantorum* participates in:
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daily Morning Office (Matins/Lauds), usually plainsong but often Anglican chant canticles
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Sunday Evensong, which includes:
- Office hymn for Evensong
- Canticles
- Lessons
- Sung versicles and responses
- Psalmody
The Schola Cantorum rehearses on Sunday at 5:15 PM.
* A Schola Cantorum is a group of singing scholars who study the Word of God while singing.
The choir and Scholas are members of the Diocesan choir at all Diocesan events at St. Alban's Pro-Cathedral in Richmond and at other Diocesan venues. The Diocesan Music Library is housed at the Pro-Cathedral.
Many colleagues and friends assist St. Alban's with their professional talents and, when available, our traditional Anglican worship. They are most often available when their ecclesiastical responsibilities do not coincide with ours.
Members of the choir and Scholas participate in the
we perform for the community several times a year.
Quire Organ
16' Subbass pedal
16' Salicional prepared
8' Principal
8' Rohrflote
8' Salicional
8' Celeste
4' Octave*
4' Flute*
4' Dulciana*
4' Lieblich Gedackt*
4' Piccolo*
1 3/5' Larigot
8' Trumpet
4' Trumpet*
Gallery Organ
16' Lieblich Gedackt pedal
8' Open Diapason
8' Gedackt Flute
8' Salicional
4' Diapason
4' Flute
4' Dulciana*
8' Trumpet
4' Trumpet*
Orchestral Chimes
Zimbelstern
Quire and Gallery Swell Boxes
Combination Piston Action
Two Manuals and Pedal
Pedal Organ
16' Lieblich Gedackt
16' Bourbon
16' Subbass
16' Salicional
8' Principal
8' Open Diapason
4' Principal*
4' Octave*
4' Flute*
8' Trumpet
4' Trumpet*
* extended
All stops are available on two manual and pedal organs with solid-state piston action providing some 60 different settings at the touch of a piston.
A small, portable Estes reed organ is also frequently used in the Quire.