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…
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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!
Lo, the full final sacrifice
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…
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…