The Summer series of Coffee Break Concerts at St Peter’s Church begins on Saturday 2nd June. For a full list of performers, please click here. All concerts begin at 11am, with coffee and biscuits served from 10.15am. Entry is through donation to the church music fund.
Year: 2018
Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
Music Matters: May 2018 The Director of Music writes… Much of the choir’s time this month will be spent on the music of the English composer Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625). After early training as a chorister at King’s College Cambridge, Gibbons later became a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal. For the last two years of his…
Remembering Dave Hale
Remembering Dave Hale I can’t recall any event at St Peter’s which has ever been quite like the commemoration of Dave Hale which we held on Thursday 26th April. Dave – known to his friends as ‘Happy Dave’ – used to sell the Big Issue magazine outside St Peter’s, usually on the afternoon shift. I…
Remembering Dave, the Big Issue seller
Remembering Dave, the Big Issue seller It was with deep sadness that I learned a few days ago that Dave, who sold the Big Issue magazine during the afternoons outside St Peter’s, had died suddenly on Easter Saturday. He was in his mid-forties, and, whilst he had not been well, none of us were expecting…
Writing the Music List
Music Matters – April 2018 The Director of Music writes… As I write this month’s blog post, I am also well into the process of writing the coming term’s Music List. This is always an enjoyable and satisfying process, but one that always demands considerable thought, and one in which I wondered whether readers might…
On not needing a hero at Easter
Two years ago, I read all of the Agatha Christie “Miss Marple” novels in order. Miss Jane Marple is an old lady from a tiny village who watches everything, has an unusually sharp mind and deploys both to solve murders. In many of the stories towards the end, Miss Marple gathers all the characters together…
Time lapse of St Peter's
Thanks to photography student James Semken for this rather different view of St Peter’s Church!