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MusicDecember 24, 2021

Comfort at One: Christmas Concert

Happy Holidays! Today’s Comfort at One brings you a blast from the past: our 2017 Christmas Concert and Community Carol Sing, featuring Julian Wachner’s beloved arrangements of favorite Christmas tunes from The Snow Lay on the Ground.
MusicDecember 23, 2021

Comfort at One: Festival of Lessons and Carols for Advent

Comfort at One continues with a 2019 Festival of Lessons and Carols for Advent. A cherished holiday tradition for congregations around the world, this service tells the Christmas story through readings and musical illuminations. 
MusicDecember 21, 2021

Comfort at One: Christmas Carols Sing Along

Today for Comfort at One, sing along from wherever you are with Trinity ensembles in this concert that has been a highlight of the holiday season. This Christmas extravaganza, the Community Carol Sing, features Downtown Voices, NOVUS NY, and the Trinity Youth Chorus.
WorshipDecember 19, 2021

Compline by Candlelight

Compline by Candlelight provides peace and stillness as one week ends and another begins. Set in the tranquility of St. Paul’s Chapel, one of the...

MusicDecember 17, 2021

Comfort at One: Handel's Messiah (Complete)

Trinity’s Messiah is unique—presented in a sacred space, on historic instruments, with soloists chosen from the choir to best complement each aria, air, and recitative. Trinity presented one of the first performances in North America in 1770, and The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and Trinity Baroque Orchestra under the direction of Julian Wachner are widely regarded as some of the greatest interpreters of the work. 
MusicDecember 16, 2021

Comfort at One: Handel's Messiah (Part 4)

For today’s Comfort at One, we give you one of the most dramatic movements of Messiah, “He was despised,” powerfully performed in this clip by Jonathan Woody of The Choir of Trinity Wall Street.
Candlelit service with the Youth Choir
FeaturedQiuxuan LuDecember 15, 2021

Youth Chorus Brings A Ceremony of Carols to Trinity Church This Sunday

Chorister Compline at Christmas has become a beloved annual tradition, and this season it’s back in person. The Trinity Youth Chorus will present Benjamin Britten’s festive A Ceremony of Carols Sunday, December 19, at 8pm ET in Trinity Church as a Compline by Candlelight service.
MusicDecember 15, 2021

Comfort at One: Handel's Messiah (Part 3)

"Messiah Week" for Comfort at One continues as we feature another impressive choral movement featuring The Choir of Trinity Wall Street. We hope that you enjoy Trinity’s interpretation of “Purify” in a performance praised by The New York Times: “With the church’s choir and the Trinity Baroque Orchestra, Mr. Wachner provides gritty, gutsy, edge-of-the-seat performances.”  

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