Preparations are well underway for the new season at MfE! We’ve told you all about the upcoming courses and workshops for the Autumn term, here is a bit more information about the beginning of our concert series in October.
The NOTTINGHAM FESTIVAL CHORUS are performing an afternoon concert on Sunday 6th October at St John’s Beeston Parish Church.
In the King’s Company features scrumptious choruses from Handel’s Acis and Galatea and Rameau’s Castor et Pollux. You’ll get a thorough dose of royal pomp and majesty with more music from Lully and Purcell, tickets are online now! https://www.music-for-everyone.org/event/in-the-kings-company/
NOTTINGHAM CHAMBER SINGERS launch their 40th anniversary season on Saturday 12th October at St John’s Church, Carrington with a programme titled Come, Comfort of the World: Songs of Hope and Consolation.
A concert bringing the vitality and expressive detailing of a chamber choir performance to the presentation of works of hope and consolation, with Bach’s intimate Komm, Jesu, Komm and Reger’s beautiful motet The Hermit and Brahms’ well-loved Requiem, an evening not to be missed! Tickets online here: https://www.music-for-everyone.org/event/ncs-concert/
NCS have an exciting programme of events planned for this coming season to celebrate their 40th anniversary, see brochure for full details.
ATTENTION HISTORY BUFFS!!!
We’re pleased to attach details of a research project event at Worksop Priory later this month, entitled ‘Medieval Worship and the Cult of St Cuthbert at Worksop: A Discovery Day and Night Liturgy’.
Highlights include:
- An early morning, candlelit Matins service for St Cuthbert, as it might have been known at Worksop some 700 years ago
- A rare performance of what is arguably the oldest surviving English music: a set of chants in honour of St Cuthbert, composed around 930 AD for King Athelstan
- Family activities inspired by the local illuminated manuscript treasure, the Tickhill Psalter, once used in connection with Worksop’s daily offices and now held in New York
- History talks on medieval Office liturgy, the cult of St Cuthbert, and the historical value of attempting an enactment of this sort
Events run over the weekend of 31 August and 1 September 2024. All are most welcome to attend at any point. We are particularly keen to encourage participation in Sunday’s dawn liturgy and its rehearsal, which is open to all, regardless of experience.
The full schedule is as follows:
Saturday 31 August
10am Tea and Coffee (Church)
10.30am– Family activities (Church)
11am History talks (Gatehouse*) *no step-free access
- The Office in Medieval Parish Churches – Paul Barnwell (University of Oxford)
- Cuthbert, Durham, Worksop – Charlie Rozier (University of East Anglia)
12.30pm Lunch (Church)
1.30pm Introduction to act of worship (Church)
- Cuthbert and the Night: Bringing a Forgotten History to Life – Henry Parkes (University of Nottingham)
2pm–5pm Open rehearsal of night liturgy (Church)
Sunday 1 September
5am Night Liturgy for the Translation of St Cuthbert
followed by a parish breakfast
A limited amount of free parking is available in front of the church, and there is public car park very close by on Priorswell Road.
Send your questions to worksop.discovery.day@gmail.com. We look forward to seeing you there!
- American musician Clejan shares his string-based adventures as The Trap Violinist on social media. During a recent performance by the side of a lake, he was met with a new, unexpected audience: an octet of music-loving turtles. See the video here: Violinist summons turtles from water with his virtuosic playing – Classic FM
Have a great week!
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19/08/2024
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