Carl Crozier, who formed a Compline Choir in Honolulu, Hawaii, and is an editor of Peter Hallock’s compositions, has written a short article on what is Compline.
Peter Hallock provides a history of the Compline service and the Compline Choir at St. Mark’s Cathedral in Seattle, Washington.
Learn more about the Compline Choir in an article by Ken Peterson from the August 2004 St. Mark's newsletter, The Rubric.
The Compline Choir has a fan page on Facebook. If you are on Facebook, you too can become a fan of the choir.
The Compline Choir was the subject of an article in The New York Times, March 16, 1997,
entitled "The Faithful Are Casual At This Sunday Service".
The Compline Choir was included in a feature on National Public Radio, March 1, 1999,
on "Generation-X Spirituality in Seattle". Please follow the first link to read a transcript of that feature, or use this link to hear the report from the NPR archives for the All Things Considered program.
The Compline Choir and the experience of the service of Compline is explored in this November 2, 2002 article by Vanessa Ho of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
The Compline Choir is featured in the March 2005 edition of "City A Go Go",
a video from The Seattle Channel.
There is a critique of the Compline Choir, the Compline service, and St. Mark’s Cathedral at the Ship of Fools website, from January, 2007. (NOTE: The critique mentions problems with microphones for the reader. In fact, none of the voices - spoken or sung - are "miked"; the only microphones used are for the simulcast on Classic KING 98.1 FM and on the Internet.)
Christopher DeLaurenti, in his July 29, 2008 music article for The Stranger, featured The Compline Choir in the first part of his review of the Seattle music scene.
The Compline service, as sung by The Compline Choir, has recently been cited by the Seattle Weekly for its Best of Seattle — 2008: Best Non-Alcoholic Happy Hour.
Feliks Banel, in his October 21, 2009 music article for Crosscut, featured The Compline Choir, its founder - Peter Hallock, its new music director - Jason Anderson, and the live broadcast of the Office of Compline on KING-FM.
On yelp.com, there are some reviews of St. Mark’s Cathedral - the sanctuary in which the Compline Choir sings - by a variety of people who have visited and written their impressions. Many of them mention the Compline Choir specifically.
The Compline Choir is the subject of a travel blog, The Seattle Traveler (part of Planet Eye Traveler), by Mary Jo Manzanares.
Please take a look at our Other Links page, where you may explore further the phenomenon that is the Compline service.