Pohick Choir
POHICK CHOIRS
Pohick Choir
The Pohick Choir sings weekly at the Sunday 10:30 am Holy Eucharist, Labor Day through Trinity Sunday, Holy Days as well as special services throughout the liturgical year.
Rehearsals: Thursdays 7:30-9 p.m. in the Music Room, after Labor Day September to Trinity Sunday.
The Pohick Choir leads in singing the Hymns, Canticles and Service Music for sung services from The Hymnal 1982 and on occasions from The Hymnal 1940 and Lift Every Voice and Sing II. The choral repertory is primarily drawn from the Anglican choral tradition with anthems, canticles and motets from the 16th to 21st centuries as well as medieval English plainchant. Anglican chant is sung for The Psalter.
The Pohick Choir sings anthems, hymns and service music weekly for the 2026-2027 year at the 10:30 a.m. Sunday service including special services such as All Saints Day and the 'Kirk 'O the Tarten' (St. Andrews Day); and will also sing for Thanksgiving Eve, Advent Lessons & Carols, Christmas Eve Services, Christmas Lessons & Carols, Ash Wednesday, George Washington Day, Holy Week with Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday & Easter Day, Pentecost and Trinity Sunday services, Choral Evensong, and the Sounds of Pohick.
Anthems for 2026-27 sung by the Pohick Choir will be from 16th Century composers to 21st Century contemporary composers. New Anthem titles includes the rarely done anthem, "O thou that seest from yon starry heights" with music of Charles Wood and text by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Advent Lessons and Carols includes new contempoary music by Philip Lawson & Gerald Near. Music for Evensong will include the Walmisley in d Canticles. There will be also choruses from Mendelssohn's Elijah & Christus and Lift up your heads from Handel's Messiah. There are over 50 titles of familiar and new anthems. The Anthem List is available in the download section on the Ministry of Music page. (June 3oth, 2026)
This past year the choir sang for Thanksgiving Eve, Advent Lessons & Carols, Christmas Eve, Christmas Lessons & Carols, with choruses from Handel's Messiah, Ash Wednesday, a Lenten Choral Evensong, Holy Week services, an Ascensiontide Choral Evensong, a Choral Matins, the Sounds of Pohick and for the Episcopal Visitation.