Mass for St. Benedict – Rizza
Give us the wings of faith – Blatchly
Responses – Rose
Sumsion in G
Lead me, Lord – S. S. Wesley Continue reading
Services today are sung by the Girls’ Choir.
As has become our custom, we start the month with our annual visit to Sherborne Abbey to sing a combined Choral Evensong as part of its music festival. The girls’ choir are singing both services in Romsey that day and will also be well worth supporting.
Given that Easter was early – and I’m sure all the men would join me in commending the boys for their singing during Holy Week – the Feast of the Ascension falls on 9 May. We are singing Gerald Finzi’s glorious anthem God is gone up.
Herbert Howells’s Evening Service in G gets its first outing ten days later (it was postponed from Easter Sunday); the Nunc Dimittis is especially lovely.
Although Trinity Sunday marks the start of the half-term holiday, the men are singing for the 10am Sung Eucharist; the motet is William Mundy’s Let us now laud and magnify.
Evensong, 6.30 pm Continue reading
On the morning of Saturday 20 April, we are holding a Recruitment Morning for new boys, when prospective choristers and their parents can meet our Director of Music, Robert, and Assistant Organist, Adrian, talk to boys in the choir and their parents, and take an informal audition.
If you know of any boys who would benefit from a free musical education, learning the value of teamwork and, in time, leadership, gaining in concentration and reading ability, not to mention singing a wide range of choral music, please email Robert Fielding to register your interest.
Christchurch Mass – Archer
Lenten Anthem – Benger
Responses – Rose
Sumsion in G
Beati quorum via – Stanford Continue reading