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13th April
2015
Former chorister returns for concert with her brilliant
new choir! Sat 23rd May 2015 |
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31st October
2014
An English Autumn Concert : 21st November 2014 |
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5th May
2014
David Arcus begins as Interim Director of Music! |
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17th February
2014
Mozart with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra |
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Bishop visits for
Confirmation
27th January 2010
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On Sunday 17 January the Bishop of Richborough,
The Rt. Revd. Keith Newton SSC, confirmed fourteen new
members of our Church, including three girl choristers (one of
whom is picture here with her Candle and Bible) and five boy
choristers, at our Solemn Choral Eucharist. The combined
choirs of over seventy Boys, Girls and Men sang two of our
commissions, the celebratory eight-part a capella "Ecce
sacerdos Magnus" by Ian Colson and the double-organ
Missa Omnes Sancti by Malcolm Archer. In addition to
these two commissions they performed Jack Ossewaarde's
intimate motet "Draw us in the Spirit's tether" and Carl
Rütti's gospel-inspired and rhythmically infectious
"Tomorrow shall be my dancing day". With just short of three
hundred in attendance this was a great celebration of our
Parish, thriving even during interregnum.
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At Evensong a great contrast was drawn with
only the sixteen Lay Clerks and Choral Scholars singing,
offering music from the other end of the spectrum - an
anonymous fourteenth cenutry hocketing motet - "Epiphaniam
Domino". Prayers were offered at the beginning of this week of
Christian Unity, as they were throughout the week. Today,
along with the rest of the world, we kept Holocaust Memorial
Day with special prayers at Matins and the Eucharist, and a
specially devised Evensong including a setting of Psalm 137
and "O rest in the Lord" from Mendelssohn's "Elijah".
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