Death of a Choir: Yet Another Musical Institution is Brutally Disbanded. Excerpts from a piece by Ysenda Maxtone Graham for _The Spectator_ 30 March 2024. [ The chapel Choir of St. John’s College, Cambridge University, is not affected by the recent decision reported by Y. Graham below … not directly, anyway. But given the parlous…
William Byrd’s _Lamentations of Jeremiah_ Perhaps?
William Byrd’s _Lamentations of Jeremiah_ Perhaps? [ Image: Chapter House, Lincoln Cathedral, copyright, J.Hannan-Briggs ] On Saturday, 16 March 2024, at 3 p.m., the Lay Vicars & Choral Scholars of Lincoln Cathedral performed an anonymous late-Elizabethan setting of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, found in the library of Sir John Lumley, that might have been composed…
Music at Risk at St. Thomas’s, 5th Avenue
Music at Risk in Financial Crisis at St. Thomas’s, 5th Avenue, New York City. [ Image: The St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys ] From the St. Thomas Church website, accessed 19 March 2024: “Music is at the heart of our mission, one of the primary ways in which we worship, love and serve…
Anglican Notables – William Byrd – 4 July
Originally posted on St. Benet Biscop Chapter of St. John's Oblates:
Anglican Notables – William Byrd (Composers, Musicians) – 4 July [This is a series of biographical sketches of Anglican men and women whose lives have been exemplary in virtue and/or have made significant contributions to Anglicanism’s expression of the Gospel. Written from the…
Anglican Notables – Orlando Gibbons – 5 June
Originally posted on St. Benet Biscop Chapter of St. John's Oblates:
Anglican Notables – Orlando Gibbons (Composers, Musicians) – 5 June [This is a series of biographical sketches of Anglican men and women whose lives have been exemplary in virtue and/or have made significant contributions to Anglicanism’s expression of the Gospel.? Written from the…
Ascension Day, St. John’s College Chapel Choir – 26 May 2022
Ascension Day, 26 May 2022 – St. John’s College Chapel Choir, Cambridge [Image: Ascension Day 2022 – photo by Martin Bond, photo No. 4449 in his daily photos of Cambridge, England (A Cambridge Diary)] Every year on Ascension Day, the St John’s College Chapel Choir ascends the 163ft Tower and sings the Ascension Day Carol….
Stewart Duncan, “An Excellent Piece of Propaganda”
The following, taken from this link, is of possible interest on this page because the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, is among the choirs discussed in the article. [ Image: newspaper article from the 1930s. (Apologies for the poor quality of the reproduction.) ] Indiana University PhD candidate Stewart Duncan’s article “‘An Excellent Piece of…
More on the Music at the Duke of Edinburgh’s Funeral
If interested in the full 22 April 2021 article, “Did They Mention the Music?”, on the role of music in Prince Philip’s funeral, follow this link. But the meat of the piece, for those interested in the Anglican patrimony and music, is the following paragraph: “There were other threads of connection skilfully woven into the…
Recent Video by James O’Donnell on Westminster Abbey’s Musical History
Enjoy James O’Donnell, Organist and Master of the Choristers at Westminster Abbey, as he shares interesting facts from the Abbey’s musical history and some of his favorite organ works by composers closely associated with the Abbey.
Prince Philip & Benjamin Britten
The anthem following the first reading at the funeral of Prince Philip (17 April 2021) was Benjamin Britten’s 1961 setting of the Psalm 100 the “Jubilate Deo.” The epistolary evidence shows that Britten was keen to write liturgical music for St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, when Prince Philip and Britten corresponded about the possibility in the…
Music & the Anglican Patrimony 
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