The Director of Music writes: The First World War came as an intense and irreparable shock to all aspects of British life, with many musicians seeing active service. In the decades between the wars, British music began to diversify; an ‘English Pastoral’ style developed, partly from the invocations of Englishness in the music of Elgar…
Year: 2018
The Music of Thomas Tallis
Music Matters – March 2018 The Director of Music writes… Avid followers of the Music List will have noticed that the Sundays in Lent are ‘bookended’ by motets by Thomas Tallis: In iejunio et fletu on the First Sunday of Lent and Salvator mundi on the Fifth Sunday of Lent. Another Tallis motet, O sacrum…
An Occasion to Remember Homeless People who have died
The Occasion for Remembering Homeless People who have died came from an idea by one person in St Peter’s taken up by the Care for our Common Home group formed of people from both churches. This is the first time I have seen an idea, a thought become an actual living event. This, done through…
Brahms Requiem at St Peter's
The Director of Music writes… The Choir of St Peter’s is proud to include regular concert performances alongside the regular opus Dei of the church, and in February we are pleased to be collaborating again with the Southwell Minster Chorale (the cathedral’s voluntary choir), this time to perform Johannes Brahms‘s famous Ein Deustches Requiem – surely one of the great…