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St Luke’s Marks 100th Anniversary of WWI Armistice on Veterans Day with Two Concerts

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Saint Luke’s Parish in Darien will mark the 100th anniversary of the Armistice, ending WWI, with performance of Gabriel Fore’s “Requiem” on Sunday, Nov. 11 at 10 a.m. A second concert will take place the same day at 4 p.m.

— an announcement from St. Luke’s Parish

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, “the Great War” came to an end. At that same moment, 100 years later, our service will also honor the memory of those who died with a reading of John McCrae’s famous poem, “In Flander’s Fields.”

Later in the day, a special concert will be held at 4 p.m. featuring two of the region’s most distinguished and entertaining men’s vocal ensembles with alumni from of their former college groups at Amherst, Brown, Hamilton, Princeton, Trinity, UNH, Williams, Yale, and others. “The Conn Artists” is a highly acclaimed seven-member men’s a cappella group based in Fairfield.

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The Rev. David Anderson, Rector of St Luke’s Parish, Announces His Departure

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The Rev. David Anderson, rector of St. Luke’s Parish for more than 15 years, announced on Monday that he will be leaving in early December to become chaplain of Episcopal Community Services, a major social services provider in Philadelphia. Anderson made the announcement in an email to parishioners on Monday. “This was a hard decision,” he wrote. “Pam and I love the Saint Luke’s community and our life in Darien.