Category: Music

Music Matters – September 2018 The Director of Music writes… Music plays a central role in worship not just here at St Peter’s and All Saints’ of course, but in chapels, churches, cathedrals, mosques and temples around the country and around the world.  We sing hymns, we listen to choirs sing, we listen to the…

MUSIC MATTERS – AUGUST 2018 The Director of Music writes… I would like to start this month’s article by thanking all those choristers who enable us to keep a choral presence alive at St Peter’s during the summer months (albeit in a slightly altered service pattern, details of which can be found in the diary…

Music Matters – July 2018 The Director of Music writes… In March, I reflected on the process of choosing the choral music for the term, commenting at the end that “all that remains is to choose the hymns”, adding that in fact this is just as complex a puzzle!  St Peter’s congregation has a diverse…

Music Matters: June 2018 The Director of Music writes… Though not nearly as popular a teaching method in the UK as in some other countries, readers may be familiar with the idea of solfège – the practice of representing each note of the scale by using a different syllable: Thus, the first line of the…

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.

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…

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…