Tenebrae - Darkness Before the Dawn
Fri, Apr 03
|Old St. Andrew's Parish Church
Chamber Ensemble VOX REGIS observes Good Friday with a candlelight concert of music of the Passion
Time & Location
Apr 03, 2026, 7:00 PM
Old St. Andrew's Parish Church, 2604 Ashley River Rd, Charleston, SC 29414, USA
About the Event
Join VOX REGIS as we observe Good Friday with a concert for Tenebrae.
The service of Tenebrae is a Holy Week liturgy that symbolizes the "shadows" of Christ's Passion. The term literally means "darkness", and though it is no longer a commonly-observed service, the music composed for the Tenebrae liturgy as traditionally included some of the most beautiful choral repertoire of the Lenten season.
While ours will be a concert, not a liturgical observance, we will present our program is a candlelight setting in homage to the traditional Tenebrae service, which begins with the church lit by candles, extinguished one by one after each reading until only one, the "Christ candle," remains. As the Tenbrae service concludes, this final candle is hidden, and a noise is made to represent the darkness and desolation of the burial.
This is a FREE ADMISSION concert, and tickets are not required. We will be collecting a FREEWILL DONATION at the time of the concert.
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