Anthems for January-March 2010

Sunday 3rd January Good King Wenceslas trad. arr. Willcocks
Sunday 10th January Chorus of Hebrew Slaves Verdi
Sunday 17th January Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring Bach
Sunday 24th January O Holy Jesu White
Sunday 31st January Prayer of St Ignatius Quilter

I shall be away for the first three weeks in February. Scott will be playing.

February
Sunday 28th February Moses' Prayer Rossini

March
Sunday 7th March God of Mercy Pergolesi (b.1710)
Sunday 14th March Surely He hath borne our griefs Handel
Sunday 21st March O Saviour of the World Goss
Sunday 28th March - Palm Sunday Fling Wide the Gates Stainer

Organ Music for January 2010

2010 is the bicentenary of the births of Chopin and Schumann and the tercentenary of the birth of Pergolesi. Chopin did not write any organ music so in the month of January, for the Offering voluntaries I will be playing the piano preludes opus 28 which Louis-James-Alfred Lefébure-Wely played at Chopin's Requiem Mass in the Madeleine on 30th October 1849. The concluding voluntaries will be French showpieces beginning with Lefébure-Wely himself.

Sunday 3rd January 2010:
Offering: Prelude no 4 in E minor - Chopin (1810-1949)
Final: Sortie in Eb Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély (1817-1869)

Sunday 10th January 2010:
Offering: Prelude no 6 in B minor - Chopin (1810-1949)
Final: Toccata from Symphony no 5 Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937)

Sunday 17th January 2010:
Offering: Prelude no 20 in C minor - Chopin (1810-1949)
Final: Toccata in B minor Eugène Gigout (1844-1925)

Sunday 24th January 2010:
Offering: Funeral March part 1 - Chopin (1810-1949)
Final: Toccata from Suite Gothique Léon Boëllmann(1862-1897)

Sunday 31st January 2010:
Offering: Funeral March part 2 - Chopin (1810-1949)
Final: Toccata Théodore Dubois (1837-1924)

Carol Service 27th December 2009

HYMN 290 The race that long in darkness pined
Prayer and Lord's Prayer
Reading 1. Isaiah ch 9 v 2-7
Hymn 295 Who would think?
Reading 2 Micah ch 5 v 2-5
Carol: In the Bleak Midwinter Harold Darke (1909)
Reading 3 Luke ch 1 v 26-38
HYMN 319 Of the father’s love begotten
Reading 4 Luke ch 2 v 1-7
Carol: What splendour Comes Lully/Bizet
Reading 5 Luke ch 2 v 8-16
HYMN 323 The first Nowell
Reading 6 Matthew ch 2 v 1-12
HYMN 310 See him lying on a bed of straw
Offering Music: Chorale prelude on El niño querido - Liam Devlin
Prayers of Dedication and Intercession
Reading 7 John ch 1 v 1-9
HYMN 303 It came upon the midnight clear
Benediction.
Organ Voluntary: In Dulci Jubilo - Bach

St Andrew's Night with the Guild 30th November 2009

The Guild kindly invited the Opera Group of St Aloysius' College to join the Choir in a musical evening for St Andrew's Night in aid of a school for AIDS orphans in Nairobi in which members of the Opera Group will be working in February 2010. The evening raised over £300 for which we are enormously grateful.

Hymn: Jesus calls us o'er the tumult
Church music: Lloyd Webber Pie Jesu from Requiem
Lindsey Izzard & Liz Izzard, sopranos
Handel aria: let the bright seraphim from Samson
Ann Archibald - soprano
Music from the Opera
Verdi Chorus: Va pensiero from Nabucco
Rossini Chorus: Prière from Moisé
Mozart duetto from Le Nozze di Figaro
Clare MacMillan & Madeleine Kearns, sopranos
Mozart aria: Madamina from Don Giovanni
Michael Diamond - baritone
Chopin Nocturne in Bb minor
Michael Mofidian, piano
Lloyd Webber High Flying Adored from Evita
Robert McNeilly - baritone
Purcell Spirit Scene & Final scene from Dido and Aeneas
Megan Glassford, soprano with St Aloysius' College Opera Group
Scottish songs: John Anderson my Jo - Ann Archibald, soprano
Bothwell Castle - Billy Izzard, tenor
Community singing.

Anthems in December

Sunday 6th December The King Shall Rejoice - Handel (died 1759)
Sunday 13th December Lo, how a rose e'er blooming - Praetorius
Sunday 20th December - no anthem (Nativity Play)

Choir Night Out - Wednesday 21st October

Hymns for the Next Three Weeks:

25th October ( ordinary service) nos132, 641, 264, 721 and 702

1st November ( All Saints) 739, 742, 120, 740 and 511.

8th November ( Remembrance) 10.50am start;
nos; 715, 692, 712, 263 and 266 with one verse of 703 after the benediction.