Music plays an important role in worship at St. Barnabas. Join composer and organist Stephanie Martin as she explains the roots of a Canadian-made Anglo-Catholic musical tradition in a lecture in the parish hall on the evening of Feb. 19. 

Healey Willan emigrated from England to Canada in 1913, and from there began a long and prolific career as a composer of sacred works. (The parish choir performs many of Willan’s compositions, including numerous mass settings and motets throughout the year.) Stephanie herself is the former music director at Healey Willan’s own church, St. Mary Magdalene in Toronto, and her own works represent the state-of-the-art in Canadian sacred compositions. Come here her lay out a roadmap of influences from Willan to her own music in a 90-minute lecture...