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Article: CHOIR STRIKES AN UNTRADITIONAL CHORD.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- November 2, 2002
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Byline: VANESSA HOP-I reporter
The Sunday service is about to begin, but this is no ordinary worship. For one thing, it's come as you are, which often means fleece, jeans and maybe a head of green hair. People sit in the dark. There's no pastor, sermon or offering plate coming at you. And then there are the clumps of people lying prone on the cold, bare, concrete floor.
For nearly 50 years, hundreds of people have been coming to St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral every Sunday night to be lulled by the contemplative, liturgical music of the Compline Choir.
The all-male choir chants the ancient Office of the Compline - the last of the Christian ...