St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, conducted a celebration during the weekend of September 30th in observance of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Charles Snider, organist and choirmaster. On Saturday evening a concert featured a variety of soloists, instrumentalists, and organist Bruce Neswick. In addition, the Madrigal Singers of Glenbard East High School, where Snider has been the choral associate and accompanist for twenty-five years, performed his new setting of Adam Lay Ybounden, which is scheduled to be published by GIA Publications, Inc. Neswick offered an improvisation on Charles’s name, and wrote a new hymn tune named Snider for the text “Dost thou in a manger lie?” Snider’s choir has commissioned the writing of a new icon, The Synaxis of the Holy Angels, which will be finished next year.
