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Holy Week Music
The Music List is available
HERE, and will be distributed at the 4
April practice. We're delighted to be so warmly welcomed back to St. Swithun's for our Choir Outing again this year. Travel details will be advised in due course, and we shall lunch together at the same venue (thanks for booking so promptly, Ken) as last year. The PROVISIONAL Music for the occasion may be found HERE. We will, sadly (!), not be travelling on a vintage London bus!! Confirmations with Bishop Pat Friday 30 June at 19:00 Please note change of time! Easter Sunday 2018... ... is on 1 April (not fooling!), but we will only be singing at the Vigil the night before, before anyone asks! |
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Prayers, please
We pray for the safe
and happy repose of George Meyern's soul at this sad time, and for
Mary and their children Paul and
Shelley and grandchildren in this time of grieving. George passed
away on the evening of Saturday 25 March. He was for many years
active with the scouts in the parish. May he
rest in peace........... George's funeral will take place at Bart's on
Tuesday 18 April at 12:00. |
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Closure of Freeserve (and other) email services Please would those of you still using Freeserve.co.uk and a number of others as your email provider advise me of your new email address as soon as possible. Your email address will cease to exist (see HERE) after 31 May. Please check to see if your email address is among those going to disappear. Thank you. Father Paul's Leaving Gift We are still awaiting the date of Father Paul's farewell bash. I am assured it will be no later than July.... Vivaldi Gloria Concert I would really like us to do a concert with the Orchestra in 2018, and am aware that we have a set of Vivaldi Gloria scores in the archive. What do you think? Perhaps with a Handel Organ Concerto, and some fillers. Timing is a long way from being discussed, let alone agreed. I am gently wondering about June, and opening up the first hour of a number of consecutive Choir practices after Easter to anyone who might like to learn and perform it with us; we may, perhaps, find that some who are enthused would come and then stay on for the remainder of the practices and, in time, join us. Do let me have your thoughts, please. |
Plainchant Choir The next practice will take place on 4 April at 19:30 to prepare for the 11:30 Palm Sunday Mass on 9 April, and then on 16 May for the 11:30 Mass on 21 May. Cantors
13:00 Practice:
Andrew and Richard 5 April Forthcoming Music/Dates List May's Music List is HERE, June's HERE and July's HERE. The latest Dates List for your diaries is HERE
Daniel Battle -
Daniel has been in
touch regarding his
Sunday afternoon recital at Westminster Cathedral on 30 April at 16:45. |
For your coffee breaks A stunning video from the London Oratory of their Schola Cantorum singing Haec Dies by William Byrd, and filmed from a drome. Father John Zhulsdorf comments on the Schola's new CD, the first of a series, of sacred Tudor Music HERE. Available from Amazon HERE.An interesting piece from The Catholic World Report on Liturgical Reform over the last 40 years.The South London Plume Plotter - what it will be like when the huge new waste incinerator opens for business next year just south of Pollards Hill. Updates several times a day.A British Transport Film from 1952 of a Farmer moving from Yorkshire down south taking all his animals, machinery, house contents; the lot by a special goods train!The Catholic Rules of Fasting - Father Z offers helpful thoughts to those who chew tobacco and use tooth powder rather than tooth paste. And how it used to be.Ash Wednesday - an MP to be applauded!The most amazing Nicholas McCarthy plays Schubert's Der Erlkönig.Folk Masses weren't necessarily a bad idea. But........ |
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