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The music staff of the Cathedral brings extraordinary live music to your home every Tuesday at 6 pm. On Tuesday, June 23, Artist in Residence David Briggs performs.

The music staff of the Cathedral brings extraordinary live music to your home every Tuesday at 6 pm. This week, Associate Director of Music Raymond Nagem performs the music of Demessieux, Still, Bach, Buxtehude, and the world premiere of Robert Buonaspina's Choral et Fugue sur le thème du "Pange lingua."

The Cathedral's Portal of Paradise on the Western Facade is one of the most seen and most misunderstood features of this great building. In this four part series, senior guide Tom Fedorek takes a closer look at the Portal to get beyond the misconceptions.

We continue our four part virtual tour of the Cathedral's Portal of Paradise on the Western Facade with a closer look at the eight figures carved into the north side of the Portal and are reminded that everything we see here comes directly from the Bible.

In the third part of our virtual tour on our facade's Portal of Paradise, we take a look at the figures and basestones on the southern side of the portal, including the apocalyptic New York City scenes that are some of the most talked about and misunderstood carvings in the whole Cathedral, and are continually reminded of how each and every feature comes from the Bible.

In the final episode of our virtual tour on the Portal of Paradise, we look at the figures in the upper rank, which are painted in the style of portal sculptures from the middle ages. Simon Verity, the lead stone carver on the project, mixed the paints himself using the mineral crystals that are mentioned in the Book of Revelation.

Associate Director of Music Raymond Nagem performs the music of J.S. Bach, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Carl Rütti, and William Byrd. If you’d like to support the Cathedral, please visit http://stjohndivine.org/donate