Inspired by the Liturgy of Evening Prayer, also known as Evensong, Stained Glass Vespers is a multi-sensory event celebrating the intersection of art and faith, exploring worship as an art-based inquiry.
The event is free and open to the public, we welcome people of all ages and accessibility needs.
"Save the Date" for the Next Installation of Stained Glass Vespers!
Abiding light:
A rich Choral experience in a peaceful and intimate setting
Saturday, may 2, 2026 at 7 pm
doors open at 6:30 pm
You’re invited to a beautiful evening of music and reflection at Stained Glass Vespers,
on Saturday, May 2, at 7PM, in the Atrium.
This special service will feature our choir and choristers,
offering a rich choral experience in a peaceful and intimate setting.
Let the music, space, and spirit create a moment to pause, reflect, and be renewed.
Make plans to attend and invite someone to experience it with you.
To be held in the King of Glory Atrium.
Featuring:
KOG Choir & Choristers;
Dr. Zvony Nagy, Director;
PAST EVENTS:
hOPE AND DEVOTION
A Multimedia Meditation Experience
JUNE 14, 2025 at 7 pm
ANDREA MESSINA WEIDEMANN, SOPRANO;
Dr. Zvony Nagy, PIANIST AND organist;
Come experience an evening of sacred music and contemplative reflection in the Sanctuary.
The program will include vocal, piano, and organ music by Bingen, Caccini, Handel, Messiaen, Nagy, Pärt, and Rachmaninoff.
All are welcome. Let your spirit be renewed through art, sound, and sacred space.
The pre-event fundraising reception will begin at 6:15 PM in the Parlor.
Proceeds will support the programming of Stained Glass Vespers and the maintenance of the Rosales pipe organ.
Improvisations on the Seven Last Words of Christ
March 29, 2025 at 7 pm
DR. ZVONY NAGY, ORGANIST; ROB DRAPER, NARRATOR
We invite you to explore Lenten themes of forgiveness, salvation, relationship, abandonment, distress, triumph, and reunion through organ improvisations on the Seven Last Words of Christ, performed by Zvony Nagy on the Rosales organ, with narration by Rob Draper.
All Saints' Reflections
November 2, 2024 at 7 pm
in the Atrium
Experience the beauty of All Saints' Day through music, prayer, and reflection with choristers, Michaella Prussack, Ivan Rodriguez, Marcus Rodriguez, and Kelly Schaaf, accompanied by Christina Birdwell on cello, Halie Wyckoff on harp, and Zvony Nagy on organ.
Light and Shadow in Choral Music
May 18, 2024 at 7 pm
IN the Atrium
I the early Summer of 2024, we meditated through sound on the light within and shadow beyond. Held in King of Glory's acoustically splendid Atrium, this Stained Glass Vespers featured the Sanctuary Choir and soloists with responses, hymns, and anthems by Helvey, Lauredsen, Nagy, and Visser.
Reflections on the Cross
Multimedia Meditations on the Cross
Through Music, Images, and Film
March 2, 2024 at 7 pm
Inspired by a series of paintings by American abstract painter, Barnett Newman. Featuring multimedia electronic music and video. The series of meditations on the cross offered a contemplative space for Lenten reflection.
Lema Sabachthani — why? Why did you forsake me? Why forsake me? To what purpose? Why? This is the Passion. This outcry of Jesus. Not the terrible walk up the Via Dolorosa, but the question that has no answer. This overwhelming question that does not complain, makes today’s talk of alienation, as if alienation were a modern invention, an embarrassment. This question that has no answer has been with us so long — since Jesus — since Abraham — since Adam — the original question.
Lema? — to what purpose — is the unanswerable question of human suffering.
Can the Passion be expressed by a series of anecdotes, by fourteen sentimental illustrations? Do not the Stations tell of one event?
The first pilgrims walked the Via Dolorosa to identify themselves with the original moment, not to reduce it to a pious legend; nor even to worship the story of one man and his agony, but to stand witness to the story of each man’s agony; the agony that is single, constant, unrelenting, willed — world without end. - Barnett Newman