Ware Episcopal Church, Gloucester, will hold an All-Saints’ Day Evensong musical celebration Sunday. While Halloween focuses on spooky fun, costumes and warding off/scaring away evil spirits, the following day, Nov. 1, the “Day of the Dead” is a is a peaceful, joyful family reunion remembering and honoring the souls of deceased loved ones, a release said. The service at Ware Episcopal, beginning at 5 p.m., will offer a celebration in song, honoring those who have died, especially those who passed away in the past year, according to Minister of Music Patti Humphrey Taylor. Guest concert organist Giles Cooke, formerly of Gloucester and Williamsburg, now living in Silver Spring, Md., with his family, will begin the candlelight service on the Cassavant Freres pipe organ with “Preludio Sine Nomine” (which means prelude “without a name”) by Herbert Howells. At the conclusion of the service, Cooke’s postlude will be J.S. Bach’s “Fugue in E-flat Major.” Guest singers from surrounding counties ...
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