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Chichester Cathedral Choir Visiting

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Save 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.

 

 

Pewsheet for Week Ending 14 July 2018

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Click here for this week’s pew sheet which contains the readings from our services, contact details and notices.

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Musical Treats…

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Opera

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.

Opera Comes to St Nicholas’

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We are pleased to announce that experienced classical singers from City Lit Opera in London will be performing in our Saxon church on April 28th at 7pm.

The concert, which will include scenes from Handel’s Giulio Cesare, Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito and Cosí fan tutte and The Gondoliers by Gilbert and Sullivan, will be accessible to all (that is, free) with a retiring collection (suggested donation £5) to cover costs.

City Lit Opera School provides further specialized training for those interested in applying for entry to conservatoires or for entering the profession, with participants coming from a range of backgrounds and experiences.

Artistic Director of City Lit Opera, Colin Baldy comes from Lewes, Sussex. His career encompasses performing, teaching choral classes and vocal masterclasses, directing (both musical and stage) and he has also written several books on vocal technique.

Musical Director Peter Crockford studied at the Birmingham School of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music and began his career as a répétiteur with Glyndebourne Festival and Touring Operas, New Sadlers Wells Opera, Wexford Festival Opera and Welsh National Opera. As a Musical Director and conductor, he has toured widely in Europe and the Middle and Far East taking operas and concerts to such far flung places as Kathmandu and Karachi.

Please put the date in your diaries and join us for this evening.

 

Hymns for August at St Nicholas’

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During August at Saint Nicholas’, the choir takes a break.  This post details the music that will be used in August at the 9:45am Sung Eucharist service.

The congregational mass setting used throughout the month will be A New People’s Mass, Murray.

Hymns will be as follows:

6th​ August – The Eighth Sunday after Trinity ​ 
754​  O worship the King
453  ​Lord enthroned in heavenly splendour
669  I heard the voice of Jesus say
358​  Be still for the presence of the Lord
593​  At the name of Jesus

13th​ August – The Ninth Sunday after Trinity ​ 
4​  New every morning is the love
486​  Christ is the king
679  In Christ there is no east or west
383​  Lord thy word abideth
507​  We have a gospel to proclaim

20th​ August – The Tenth Sunday after Trinity 
652​  Guide me, O thou great Redeemer
812​  Through all the changing scenes of life
232  The head that once was crowned with thorns
621​  Dear Lord and Father of mankind
284​  For the fruits of all creation

27th​ August – The Eleventh Sunday after Trinity 
704​  Let all the world in every corner sing
421. ​All for Jesus
664  How sweet the name of Jesus sounds
694​  Jesus, Lord, we look to thee
584​  All my hope on God is founded