Click here for this week’s pewsheet (late to the website due to staff holiday).
Choirs and Music
Pewsheet for Week Beginning 14 July 2019
Choirs and Music, Evensong, PewsheetsClick here for our pewsheet beginning Sunday 14 July.
Pewsheet for Week Beginning 7 July 2019
Choirs and Music, Evensong, PewsheetsClick here for our pewsheet beginning Sunday 7 July.
Please join us next week on Sunday July 14th at 6.30pm to hear the traditional and beautiful service of Evensong sung in our tranquil church. If you are not accustomed to this service, it is one that has been sung regularly in Church since the Sixteenth Century, and was based on the Services held daily in the medieval church. Music will include:
- Preces and Responses by Thomas Tomkins (1572 – 1656)
- Like as the Hart by Herbert Howells (1892 -1983)
- Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in F by George Dyson (1883 – 1964)
- Psalm 73
- Two hymns – How sweet the name of Jesus sounds and The day thou gavest Lord is ended
This will be followed by drinks and nibbles and with a collection towards the refurbishment of our buildings.
Choral Evensong August 25 2019
Choirs and Music, Evensong, Special Services
We are delighted to welcome back Eric Spencer and his choir Quinquagesima to sing a joint Evensong with Worth Choir. Eric was a previous Director of Music at St Nicholas,’ and now lives in South Africa.
Come and listen to this traditional and beautiful service held in the tranquil surroundings of the 11th oldest church in the country. Music will include:
- Almighty and everlasting god, by Orlando Gibbons (1583 -1625)
- My soul there is a country far, by Hubert Parry (1848 -1918)
- Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in D by by George Dyson (1883 – 1964)
- Preces and Responses by Herbert Sumsion (1899 -1995)
Free entry although contributions are always welcome to the upkeep of our buildings. Refreshments afterwards.
Choral Evensong July 14 2019
Choirs and Music, Evensong, Special Services
A rare chance to come and listen to the traditional and beautiful service of Evensong held in the tranquil surroundings of the 11th oldest church in the country. Sung by Worth Choir and Directed by Alex Hiam.
If you are not accustomed to this traditional service, it is one that has been sung regularly in Church since the Sixteenth Century, and was based on the Services held daily in the medieval church. It’s the high proportion of music in Evensong which distinguishes it from other church services.
It is free to come to hear its choral music, performed live and to a high standard. and music will include:
- Preces and Responses by Thomas Tomkins (1572 – 1656)
- Like as the Hart by Herbert Howells (1892 -1983)
- Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in F by George Dyson (1883 – 1964).
Followed by drinks and nibbles and with a collection towards the refurbishment of our buildings.
Music List for April and Easter Services
Choirs and Music, Easter, MusicIf you’d like to know what we are singing up at St Nicholas’ at our forthcoming services, click here for the
music list which covers April, including our Easter services.
Chichester Cathedral Choir Sing Evensong
Choirs and Music, Evensong, Special ServicesWe were very lucky today to have the wonderful boys and men of Chichester Cathedral Choir to sing Evensong at St Nicholas’, Worth. They were so well-behaved and polite, and of course, made a lovely sound in the acoustics of our ancient building. It was such a treat for all who were there, and thank you to all for giving so generously in the retiring collection. For those who couldn’t make it, please enjoy these photographs.
Get Singing ! Our Music List for August
Choirs and Music, MusicWorth Choir will sing at the 10am service on Sunday 29 July and then takes its summer break, returning for the 10am service on Sunday 2 September.
So warm up your voices – we want to hear you!
If you want to know what you’ll be singing, click here for the music list for August.
Chichester Cathedral Choir Visiting
Choirs and Music, Events, Music, News, Special ServicesSave the date of Sunday October 21 2018 !
We are delighted to announce that Chichester Cathedral Choir will be visiting St Nicholas’ Worth, to sing Choral Evensong at 4pm. Refreshments afterwards.
Full details of music will be announced in due course.
Musical Treats…
Choirs and Music, Music, Special ServicesOpera
As you may know, trained singers from London’s City Lit Opera School will be delighting audiences this coming weekend as they perform a free Opera concert in St Nicholas’ Church, Worth on Saturday 28 April at 7pm.
Presenting scenes from Delibes’s Lakmé, Mozart’s Cosí fan tutte and La clemenza di Tito, Handel’s Giulio Cesare, Nino Rota’s I due timidi, and Gilbert & Sullivan, The Gondoliers, the concert in the 11th oldest church in the country, promises to be a delightful occasion.
To ensure the concert is accessible to all, Fr. Michael Boag, Rector of Worth Parish, has said it will be free. Suggested donations of £5 or more from those who can afford it would be most welcomed towards the cost of hosting and providing refreshments.
Choral Evensong
A second rare musical treat occurs at St Nicholas’ on Sunday 6 May at 6.30pm when Choral Evensong will be sung by Worth Choir, directed by Alex Hiam. Music will include:
- Preces and Responses, William Smith (1603-1645)
- Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in D Minor, Thomas Walmisley (1814-1856)
- Though I speak with the tongues of men, Edward Bairstow (1874-1946
This is a beautiful traditional service which has been sung since the Sixteenth Century. Again, it is free to come along and hear this living musical heritage performed in the 11th oldest church in the country and one of the very oldest churches still in continuous use.
For more about Worth Choir, click here. For what to expect at Evensong, click here.
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