St Mary Redcliffe Church Parish Magazine - December 2015 -January 2016
A monthly look at what's going on a St Mary Redcliffe Church, Bristol, UK
A monthly look at what's going on a St Mary Redcliffe Church, Bristol, UK
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SOUNDBITES - MUSIC AT REDCLIFFE<br />
Andrew Kirk<br />
Christmas Music Highlights<br />
There will be separate Nine Lessons and Carols by Candlelight Services<br />
for the girls/men on Sunday 13 <strong>December</strong> and for the boys/men on<br />
Sunday 20 <strong>December</strong>. Please come along to support us.<br />
Music includes John Rutter’s settings of The Shepherd’s Pipe Carol and<br />
<strong>Mary</strong>’s Lullaby as well as a couple of choruses from Handel’s Messiah.<br />
First performances will take place of local composer Ian Carpenter’s<br />
Arise and hail the sacred day along with John Pickard’s bi-lingual<br />
arrangement of Silent Night. (John is Professor of Music at Bristol<br />
University). The Carol Service with the Salvation Army will feature a<br />
medley of Christmas songs in a slightly lighter, but very festive vein!<br />
Christmas Concerts at Tyntesfield Chapel<br />
On Saturday 12 <strong>December</strong> our choirs will be singing in the Chapel at<br />
Tyntesfield – the girls/men at 4pm and the boys/men at 6.30pm. Each<br />
concert will last an hour Tickets are available through the National<br />
Trust. I hope some of the congregation may be able to attend (wrap up<br />
warmly!) Best wishes to all the readers for Christmas and the New Year.<br />
A weekend away in Cambridge<br />
In mid November, I was fortunate to attend Evensong at King’s College<br />
Cambridge. As I entered the Chapel, I spotted a friend from university. I<br />
soon found out that her son was a treble in the choir. I thought our<br />
singers at <strong>Redcliffe</strong> were busy until I heard of the hectic schedule these<br />
Cambridge singers have in the next month or so! The organ in the<br />
chapel is soon to be fully restored by Harrison and Harrison in <strong>2016</strong>.<br />
I also attended Evensong at Trinity College Cambridge with its superb 24<br />
strong mixed voice choir. The Senior Organ Scholar is Owain Park, a<br />
former Head Chorister at <strong>Redcliffe</strong> and now a published award-winning<br />
composer. The choir performed one of his anthems and it was very<br />
inspiring to see a <strong>Redcliffe</strong> chorister achieving such great things. Who<br />
will be the next name to watch in ten year’s time?
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