The choristers are residents of Dorchester and Mattapan, neighboring Boston boroughs, as well as surrounding towns. They are joined each Sunday by professional and volunteer singers from around the region.
Ethnic diversity is a celebrated hallmark of the choir. Most children come to the choir without any singing experience. An interest in music and receptivity to learning are the only requirements for admission.
The choristers rehearse twice a week from September through early June, singing nearly all the choral services at The Parish of All Saints. Music education is the backbone of the Ashmont choir experience for children, and fluent musical literacy is a bragging right of all long-standing choristers.
In addition, the children learn the value of self-mastery, goal-setting, upholding standards of decorum, and service. And as professional musicians, they receive a monetary stipend.
During the summer, a week-long Choir Camp in the Adirondacks is also available to the choristers. The choir program is completely free of charge: the only cost is the family's commitment of time. Submit the secure form below to set up an interview, ir contact Andrew Sheranian, the Organist and Master of Choristers at , 617-436-3520, ext. 212.
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(schedule during academic year)
Mass setting (Gloria / Kyrie, Sanctus / Benedictius, Agnus Dei)
typical: Howells, Vaughan Williams, Darke, Palestrina, Victoria, Schubert
Psalm (Anglican Chant, SATB)
Anthem / Motet
Hymns (featured in occasional a cappella, solo, and descant verses)
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis
typical: Dyson, Stanford, Purcell, Leighton, Byrd, Tomkin
Preces and Responses
typical: Rose, Shephard, Byrd, Gibbons, Tallis
Psalm (Anglican Chant)
Anthem
Hymns (featured in occasional a cappella, solo, and descant verses)
Evensong, Candlemas procession.
All Saints (Feast of Title - Solemn High Mass, Evensong)
Evensong sung jointly with All Saints, Worcester - at Worcester
Candlemas
Evensong with Benediction, sung jointly with All Saints Worcester - at Ashmont
Christmas
Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
The Eve of the Nativity of our Lord (Christmas Eve)
Holy Week
Palm Sunday with Procession
Maundy Thursday
Good Friday
The Great Vigil of Easter
Easter Day
The Bach Project - Motet Ich lasse dich nicht (J.S. Bach, BWV 159 anhalt)
Inauguration of Boston Mayor Marty Walsh (interfaith service, Old South Church)
Consecration of The Rt. Rev. Alan Gates, Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts
Guest choir in Winthrop, Milton, and elsewhere - Lessons and Carols
Concert “Children SIng for Peace” (Benefit for the Martin Richards family)
Choral Evensong at the Society of St John the Evangelist monastery, Cambridge
Choral Evensong at the Society of St. Margaret, Duxbury
Evensong at St. John’s Church in Winthrop
Sung Vespers / Choral Evensong - jointly with the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School
St. Matthew Passion by J.S. Bach with Harvard University (2013), Boston University (2016), Brown University (2017).
Concert appearances with the Harvard Glee Club on an annual basis.
Participation in Royal School of Church Music Courses each summer.
Annual summer choir camp at on location at St. John’s Church in Essex, NY.
Sundays
8:00 a.m. Low Mass
10:00 a.m. Solemn Mass
11:30 a.m. Coffee Hour
Wednesdays
10 a.m. Low Mass
followed by coffee hour
209 Ashmont Street
Dorchester MA 02124
(617) 436-6370
All Saints is located in the south Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, just off Peabody Square, at 209 Ashmont St. and is a very short walk from the Ashmont T station on the Red Line. (Click icon for map.)
The five principal levels of our buildings are handicap accessible, served by a five-stop elevator. Handicap access into both buildings is by a walkway and ADA-compliant ramp from the parking lot to the Ashmont Street door of the church. There are handicap accessible bathrooms on four levels of the church and parish house.
There is a private parking lot for 47 cars and on-street parking on both Ashmont Street and on the other streets surrounding the church.
Four of these spaces are reserved for Zipcars.
Our emphasis at the Parish of All Saints is on sacramental worship (the Mass or Holy Eucharist) celebrated in a traditional Anglo-Catholic style, with strong teaching and preaching, supportive pastoral care, a caring parish family, and responsibility to our community and the greater world.