The 26 members of the Adult Choir at St. Timothy’s, Signal Mountain, presented a program at Washington National Cathedral on Sunday, May 21. As a visiting parish choir, they sang the half-hour prelude to Evensong which was Easter Lessons and Carols, featuring the Cathedral Choir of men and boys.

Following Lessons and Carols St. Timothy’s choirmaster, Bert Landman, played an organ recital on the Cathedral’s 186-rank Skinner organ.

Prior to the performance at the Cathedral, the choir sang for the morning service at St. James Episcopal Church in Leesburg, Va. The choral program and selected organ pieces were repeated June 4 on Signal Mountain at the Chapel of Alexian Retirement Village.

Among the choral pieces from several periods were Cantate domino by Hans Hassler, Exultate iusti by Lodovico Virdana, The Eyes of All Hope in Thee, O Lord by Richard Felciano, Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence by Edward Bairstow, When Rooks Fly Homeward by Arthur Baynon and two original composition by Landman -- a setting of John Donne’s poem, A Hymne to God the Father, and variations on the plainsong tune Adoro te devote.

Landman’s organ program included Fanfare by Jacques Lemmens, Fantasie in La Majeur by Cesar Franck, Prelude et Fugue en Si Majeur by Marcel Dupre, Sherzo, Op. 2 by Maurice Durufle, Postlude pour l’Office de Complies by Jehan Alain and Te Deum, Op. 11 by Jeanne Demessieux.

Landman has been St. Timothy’s music director and choirmaster since 1997. A graduate of Shenandoah College and Conservatory of Music with a Bachelor of Music in church music and a performance certificate in organ, he received a Master of Music degree in church music, with distinction, at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, N.J. Before coming to St. Timothy’s, he served Lutheran and Episcopal churches in Strasburg, Va., Ocean City, N.J., Erie, Pa., Dalton, Ga. and Chattanooga.

The Washington National Cathedral -- also known as the Episcopal Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul -- was chartered by Congress in 1893, begun in 1907 and completed in 1990. The world’s sixth-largest cathedral, it has been called “an inspiring house of worship as well as one of the world’s finest examples of Gothic architecture and craftsmanship.” Through its extensive public programs, its mission has always been to draw together people of all traditions and all faiths so as to provide a national focal point for worship, reflection and celebration.