Music Ministry
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Saint Mark Music Ministry
We are blessed at Saint Mark with six choirs that provide a diverse range of music at weekly Masses. As you consider your gifts of time and talent, please think about joining one of our choir families. You don’t have to be a great musician or singer to join a choir – we help you develop your talents at every rehearsal in a loving and encouraging environment. Singing the Mass as part of a choir family is a wonderful and profound experience – please come and see for yourself!
If you are unable to commit to the regular weekly schedule of a Mass Choir, we also are asked to sing at special Masses at Guadalupe Cathedral or at Concerts with other area Choirs. Let us know if you are able to share your time and talent at these exciting events!
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Contact Us
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Kenton Kravigkkravigstmarkplano.orgDirector of Music -
Joshua Nguyenjnguyenstmarkplano.orgMusic Assistant & Organist
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ENGLISH CHOIRS:
Jubilate Deo Choir (2nd-8th grades)
The Jubilate Deo Children's Choir is made up of children 2nd - 8th grades. The program helps children develop a beautiful singing voice, good diction, as well as musical understanding. We strive to help each child find their singing voice while learning the music of our faith. At each rehearsal we bring your children into a loving and encouraging environment where we sing these inspired words with understanding and learn to live the words we sing. The choir sings at Mass once a month - either at Saturday 5 PM Mass or Sunday 10:30 Mass - accompanied by our adult English Choir and Chamber Ensemble. Rehearsals take place on Wednesday at 4 PM as well as 45 minutes before mass. Please consider bringing your Cherubs to learn to praise our Creator in beautiful song! Contact Kenton Kravig about joining - [email protected] or 214.460.1533 (cell).
Saint Mark Chamber Chorus
The Saint Mark Chamber Chorus has been providing excellent sacred music for 56 years, and is one of the premiere Catholic choirs in the DFW area. They have performed with other area choirs at a number of churches and concert halls including the Meyerson Symphony Center. They have traveled and toured in several states and abroad including The Vatican in Rome, Italy. The choir features traditional hymnody and exemplary choral works from the 12th to 20th century. The choir participates in three fully sung Masses each weekend, and presents a tremendous variety of fine choral literature, from timeless chant and polyphony to works of Bach, Handel, Haydn, and Purcell and contemporary masters such as Delong, Duruflé, Fauré, Howells, Rutter, and Vaughan Williams. The full choir also sings a Lessons & Carols before Midnight Mass, and at all major Feast Days and Holy Days. The Choir rehearses Wednesdays from 7 PM - 9 PM as well as one hour before mass. You can choose to sing at the 5 PM Saturday, 8:30 AM, 10:30 AM Sunday Mass or even better all of them! Contact Kenton Kravig about joining - [email protected] or 214.460.1533 (cell).
You can hear the Choir and Chamber Ensemble livestreamed every week! Visit: https://www.youtube.com/@StMarkPlano/streams
Listen to more recordings:
https://www.youtube.com/@saintmarkmusicministry
SAINT MARK CHAMBER ENSEMBLE:We are blessed at Saint Mark with talented musicians that play a variety of instruments and a diverse range of music. The Saint Mark Chamber Ensemble consists of woodwind, brass and string instruments. The full ensemble plays at our 10:30 AM Sunday Mass as well as most Major Feast Days and Holy Days. The Chamber Ensemble rehearses one our before mass and will be notified for any extra rehearsals pertaining to Holy Days, Feast Days. and Special Masses. Contact Kenton Kravig & Joshua Nguyen about joining - [email protected] or 214.460.1533 (cell). - [email protected] or 214.923.1908 (cell).
SPANISH CHOIRS:
Saturday 7:00 pm: Palabra Eterna
Rehearses Friday at 7:00 pm
Sunday 7:00 am: Servidores de Dios
Rehearses Friday at 7:00 pm
Sunday 12:30 pm: Sinfonia Para Dios
Rehearses at 11:00 am Sunday before Mass
Sunday 2:30 pm: Voces Sagrados
Rehearses 2:00 pm Sunday before Mass
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THE ORGAN -
ANDOVER OPUS. 86
This organ has, as its heart, a II-manual, 13-rank mechanical-action instrument built
ca. 1900 by Emmons Howard of Westfield, Massachusetts for St. Monica's Catholic Church
in Methuen, Massachusetts. The church discarded this instrument around 1960 in favor of
a 2-manual, drawbar Hammond.
The organ was rebuilt by the Andover Organ Co. of Methuen as both their Opus 43, and
their R-187. It was reinstalled in a newly designed chapel in the main building of
Thompson Academy on Thompson Island located in Boston Harbor. A new case provided in
1963 was prepared to install a Pedal 8' Principal in the side flats, but the Pedal
division was omitted at that time. Only manual-to-pedal couplers were available. Plans
to complete the case and Pedal division were never carried-out.
On the Great, the 8' Principal was the original Emmons Howard Open Diapason revoiced as
was the 4' Octave. The 8' Bourdon and 4' Chimney Flute were new excepting the stopped
bass of the 8' Bourdon which was the old Melodia Stopped Bass. The III Mixture was
presumably new.
On the Swell, the 8' Aeoline was original and revoiced. The 8' Stopped Diapason was also
original and revoiced. The 4' Spitz Flute was the original 2' Flageolet with a new 4'
bass octave added. The 2' Principal, 1-1/3' Quint, and II Sesquialtera were all new. The
8' Oboe was original.
The organ survived a 1971 fire at the Academy but was subsequently damaged in 1975 by
rampaging adolescents. Much of the pipework was flattened, and the case above the impost
was splintered.
It was removed by Andover, and again rebuilt and enlarged as a new 3-manual instrument
for the Catholic Church of St. Mark the Evangelist in Plano, Texas in 1980.
According to notes in the Andover files, the Great was almost entirely new for St. Mark's
excepting the stopped bass of the 8' Bourdon, and the 1-3/5' Tierce was old/revoiced
pipework.
On the Swell, the 8' Stopped Diapason, 4' Spire Flute, 2' Principal, 1-1/3' Nineteenth,
and II Sesquialtera were all existing/revoiced pipes. The II Cymbale and Trumpet were
new with the II Cymbale replacing the former 8' Aeoline and the 8' Trumpet replacing
the original Emmons Howard 8' Oboe.
On the Pedal, the 16' Subbass is listed as 'old/revoiced' and may be the original Emmons
Howard pipes never reinstalled on Thompson Island. The 4' Choralbass is the original
Emmons Howard Great 4' Octave moved and revoiced. And both the 8' Principal and 16'
Posaune were new.
The Organ is currently tuned by Master Organ Builder Roy Redman of Dallas and Maintained by The Organ's Curator, Tom Carrington
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