St. Thomas's Episcopal Church will offer a Choral Evensong service on Sunday, January 31, at 5:00 p.m. Choral Evensong is a form of Evening Prayer in which most of the service is sung. The church's choirs will sing anthems by Thomas Tallis and Sir Edward Baitstow and canticles by Leo Sowerby. The prayers and responses will be sung to a setting by David Jernigan, St. Thomas's director of music and liturgical arts. 

A reception will follow the service. St. Thomas’s is located at 830 Whitney Avenue, next to Edgerton Park and near the New Haven–Hamden line. Parking is available next to the church on Ogden and Cliff streets.

St. Thomas's music program includes an adult choir, junior and senior youth choirs, and a small professional ensemble called Schola Antiqua. The choirs recently released a CD of Advent and Christmas music titled O Great Mystery: Music for the Birth of a Savior. The choirs have been invited to sing Choral Evensong at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York in May, and in 2011 they will travel to England to perform at Gloucester Cathedral, Windsor Castle, and Westminster Abbey.

Founded in 1848, St. Thomas's Episcopal Church is committed to welcoming all of God's people, whatever their race, sexual orientation, gender, age, health status, physical ability, marital status, or stage of spiritual journeying. Among its missions is St. Thomas's Day School, which offers education from Pre-K to sixth grade.

For more about the church go to http://www.stthomasnewhaven.org.