Choral Evensong at 5 p.m. Sunday, October 24 — the 22nd Sunday After Pentecost — will feature the Service in G of Francis Jackson, the 104-year-old organist who was director of music at York Minster in England for 36 years, retiring in 1982.

Jackson’s extensive output of sacred and secular music includes canticles, anthems, hymn tunes (including the widely sung “East Acklam,” which we know as Hymn 424, “For the fruit of all creation, thanks be to God”), organ sonatas, and other organ pieces. You can hear the service sung by the choir of St. John’s, Cambridge, here.

Our service begins with an organ prelude at 4:45, featuring Mendelssohn’s Organ Sonata No. 3, played by Canon for Music Dwight Thomas. The Anthem is John Ireland’s “Greater Love Hath No Man,” and the concluding hymn is No. 24, “When Christ Was Lifted from the Earth.” The Cathedral Chamber Choir will sing, and a freewill offering is taken. Dwight Thomas is director and organist.