And in local news, it is a busy weekend. Here at St Mary’s tomorrow morning we have the second of our festival Sundays. In the morning we welcome the Egidionchor of Nürnberg. I heard them rehearsing yesterday and they sounded fantastic. The music tomorrow is a bit calmer and more thoughtful than last week’s Haydn jamboree and very beautiful.
Choral Evensong at 1830, of course. It is a Howells & Rheinberger fest, with Cullen responses for me to get my voice around.
In the afternoon, I’ll probably be going along to the Gibson Street Fair. The weather forecast is poor for this, so it is good that there are some indoor activities such as those which are listed on St Silas’s weekly leaflet. They are offering massage, contemplation area and the chance to be listened to. Sounds great.
Meanwhile, tonight we’ve got jazz at St Mary’s. John Surman and Howard Moody. Again, I caught a bit of the rehearsal and was blown away. Kickoff is at 7.30.
Also over the next couple of days, the St Mary’s LGBT group has its next meeting. Bishop Idris has kindly agreed to meet with us. Anyone who is happy to meet under the LGBT banner, who would like to be there is welcome, including those from any churches in the diocese which don’t have an LGBT group meeting with +Idris at this time. More details from me via the contact page.
Wednesday, it is dance.
Its all happening, isn’t it?
Hello Pam,
Just came across this thread. The original setting was of the wedding responses written for our wedding at St Mary’s on 27th April 1985. Chris and I were founder members of Cappella Nova, but did sing at St Mary’s Choir once or twice. Frikki and Christine Walker also sang at our wedding. Am saddened by your somewhat cynical comment about us probably being long divorced. In fact we have just celebrated our thirtieth wedding anniversary, Have four children aged between 29 and 16 and two grand daughters with a third expected very soon. We live in North Wales now and Chris has been a layclerk at Chester Cathedral for some years. Our 16 year old was a chorister at Westminster Abbey and sang at the 2011 royal wedding. We were pleased that Alan Taverner brought the responses down with the Strathclyde Uni Chamber Choir recently the setting of the Amen brought back lots of memories. Best wishes to anyone who remembers us up there! Vicky