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Music is at the heart of worship at St Mary's.
Music is at the heart of worship at St Mary's.
We have a robed choir of adults and children, singing in four parts and affiliated to the Royal School of Church Music. We practise in church on Friday evenings from 7pm.
We have a robed choir of adults and children, singing in four parts and affiliated to the Royal School of Church Music. We practise in church on Friday evenings from 7pm.
New singers are always welcome.
New singers are always welcome.
You do not need to read music well, and there is no audition.
You do not need to read music well, and there is no audition.
We love the traditional hymns of the great Anglican repertoire, and we sing them from Ancient and Modern (2013). We chant the psalms, and on most Sundays the choir sings an anthem from the great tradition of Anglican church music, with composers such as Tallis, Byrd, Stanford and Howells. The choir also takes on larger works from time to time, sometimes joined by singers from the UK-Japan Music Society. Dates for services and concerts are on our Calendar. Our choirmaster and organist is Jonathan Gregory, and our deputy choirmaster is Duncan Paulson.
Recordings
Recordings
Some examples of our choir music are The Lord's My Shepherd (in an arrangement by one of our members) and the Tallis setting of the Nunc Dimittis.
The Organ
The Organ
We have a pipe organ built by Forster and Andrews of Hull with two keyboards and twenty speaking stops, built around 1850 (though not for us - it was moved to our church in the early 1990s). It was restored in 1999. More information about the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register .
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