Today is Ash Wednesday, and so Carol and Tom sing for you the Lent hymn “Forty Days and Forty Nights”: St Margaret’s Church Prestwich holds CCLI licences CCL 79250, MRL 775231 and 466111 for music streaming and One Licence M-40120 for music streaming.
Do you recall that up until Monday 19 July 2021, in accordance with England’s covid-19 restrictions at the time, congregational singing was prohibited, as was choral singing in groups larger than 6? This posed some challenges for planning a service with music as its focus! … More St Margaret’s Patronal Festival Medley (arr. Dalton & Porter, 2021)
I’ve often been a bit puzzled by the fact that I enjoy Holy Week more than Easter. After all, Easter is the time of celebration. So I’ve given it some serious thought this year. I really like the Easter stories. There’s Mary in the garden, with Jesus saying her name, and in that instant, she recognises him … More April Letter to the Parish
At 8pm on Monday 4 January 2021 our Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, broadcast live to the nation that the whole of the UK would be going into full lockdown with immediate effect. The news hit me hard. Not because it was unexpected – after all, since March 2020 we in the northwest of England had been in full lockdown, Tier 3 or Tier 4 restrictions, all in effort to curb the spread of Covid-19 … More How Can I Keep from Singing? – Lowry (1826-99), arr. Bullard (b.1947)
I write this the day after returning home from a 9-day singing and conducting summer school with Sing for Pleasure. Based at Jesus College, Cambridge, it was utterly exhausting yet completely exhilarating. Work began at 8.45am last Sunday morning as we started learning Sarah Quartel’s “A Winter Day”, led by the SfP tutors. Sublime … More Why Sing?
Every Monday and Friday throughout Lent we are pleased to offer you an appropriate Lenten hymn.
This is Good Friday, in Holy Week, so Tom and Carol offer your this hymn … More Thy Will Be Done
Every Monday and Friday throughout Lent we are pleased to offer you an appropriate Lenten hymn.
Today is Maundy Thursday, so here’s an extra for you to join in with, sung by Rev Deborah, accompanied by Tom and Carol … More I Danced in the Morning
Every Monday and Friday throughout Lent we are pleased to offer you an appropriate Lenten hymn.
This week is Holy Week, and yesterday was Palm Sunday … More Ride on, ride on in majesty
Every Saturday in Lent we bring you an appropriate anthem. Tomorrow is Palm Sunday, so Carol and Tom offer you Mozart’s “Ave Verum Corpus” … More Ave Verum Corpus
Every Monday and Friday throughout Lent we are pleased to offer you an appropriate Lenten hymn.
The liturgical theme for the fifth week of Lent is the Passion of Christ … More Praise to the Holiest in the Height
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