Music List of St. Osmund’s, Gainford–February through April

MUSIC LIST 5th February to 30th April 2017 Choir Rehearsals: Sundays at 10.15 am. More information on 01325 730191 Sunday 5th February                                  5th SUNDAY OF THE YEAR – Solemn Mass at 11.30 am Hymns:                                             49 (2nd tune), 52, 272 & 467 Setting:                                             Communion Service in C by John Ireland Anthem:                                            O…

Choral Evensong & Mass This Evening–Most Precious Blood, Southwark

15th December – Thursday of week lll of Advent 6.00pm Choral Evensong 6.30pm Mass (Ordinariate Form) Music for men’s voices by Charles Wood (Canticles in G for ATB) and William Byrd (Mass for 3 voices). Plainsong psalmody and responses. Whilst maintaining proper Advent restraint we have allowed ourselves a Carol – the Coventry Carol in…

Lessons & Carols St. Anselm’s, Pembury

This coming Sunday [18 December 2016] we have our service of 9 lessons and carols in church. It begins at 6:30pm and ends with mulled wine and minced pies. Do support this event and bring friends and family along as well. [Original announcement posted here.]

A Gradual for _Divine Worship: The Missal_ is in Progress

[Shared Treasure, the journal of the Anglicanorum Coetibus Society announces (p. 83) that Mssrs Stephen Cavanaugh and C. David Burt are working on updating what was The Anglican Use Gradual to accord with Divine Worship: The Missal.] At a meeting with Mr. Cavanaugh at the CDF in Rome in October 2015, then-Mgr. Steven Lopes encouraged…

2016 Lessons & Carols at Blessed John Henry Newman Catholic Church, Irvine, California

The Tallis Chapel Society  leads Advent Lessons & Carols once again at Bd. John Henry Newman Catholic Church in Irvine, California.   A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols was originally conceived as a gift to the City of Cambridge by the Choir of King’s College, and is the Christmas Eve service held in their…

Organist/Music Director Sought for St. Anselm’s, Pembury

[From Fr. Ed’s Blog – 8 December 2016] Please share this with any musicians you know. St Anselm’s, Pembury (near Tunbridge Wells) seeks organist/director of music. Annual stipend offered. A Catholic parish of 150, run by the Ordinariate Plainchant, hymns, and polyphony – treasures of the English musical heritage – appreciated by clergy and congregation….

Auditio Divina, Part I: William Byrd’s Civitas Sancti Tui

[The following is an essay I contributed to the Advent 2016 issue of From the Four Quarters, the newsletter of the St. Benet Biscop Chapter of St. John’s Oblates.  The full newsletter can be found here.] Auditio Divina and Listening With the Ear of the Heart. Part I: William Byrd’s Civitas Sancti Tui Advent, 2016…