Three Choirs Hymn Festival
R. Walden Moore, Director of Music at Trinity-on-the-Green in New Haven, Conn., was this year’s guest conductor and organist for the third annual Three Choirs Hymn Festival for Ascension, held at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Norfolk, Virginia, on May 10. The choirs of St. Andrew’s (Stephen G. Leist, Director of Music), Christ & St. Luke’s (Kevin Kwan, Organist and Director of Music) and St. Paul’s (Chuck Woodward, Director of Music) churches combined to sing Peter Philips’ “Ascendit deus,” “King of glory” by Andrew Clarkson, and “Be ye followers of God” by Leo Sowerby, along with hymns for Ascension and organ improvisations by Walden Moore. Marj Setnicky, Assistant Organist at Christ and St. Luke’s, was the anthem accompanist.