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Feb ruary 2018 Published by FCC in conjunction with the Archdeaconry of London

Valentine, Viardot, Variations and the

This month sees again a rich variety of events in the City churches. Predominant among these will be the 25 listed services to be held on Ash Wednesday, 14 February signalling the beginning of Lent and leading to the significant festival of Easter. The list of the churches holding these services may be found in the Special Services section of this publication. It will be seen that 14 February is coincidentally St Valentine's Day and a special service to mark that day is to be held in St Lawrence Jewry at 5.30pm. All aare very welcome to take part in the service which will include the opportunity for married couples to renew their Wedding vows. The clergy at St Lawrence Jewry would be especially delighted to see couples who were actually married at the church. If such couples are not able to attend the church on that day then they are asked to send in a Wedding Day picture and a current day picture with their wedding details. The aim is to create a Then and Now Wedding Montage. Further information may be obtained by contacting thee church. Details may be found at the listing in the Special Services section.

Once again ceertain performances 'catch the eye'. In highlighting these it must be emphasised that all of the recitals and concerts are worthy of attention. It is just that there is a particullar aspect concerning the potential performances referred to which generates one's curiosity. First there is the programme item in the recital to be given by the soprano Klaudia Magdon at St Martin Ludgate on Monday 19 February, listed as 'Viardot of Chopin mazurkas'. Pauuline Viardot (1821‐1910) was a leaading 19th century French mezzo‐sopranno and composer of Spanish descent. By the age of six she was fluent in Spanish, French, English and Italian; later in her career she sang Russian arias so well she taken for a native sspeaker. She was also an outstanding pianist and often played with her friend, no less a person thaan Fréderic Chopin, who approved of her arranging 12 of his mazurkas for voice and (1848). Clearly MMadame Viardot was the possessor of a formidable talent! Some of thesee arrangements will feature in the recital listed. They promise to be of unusual musical interest.

Turning to a piano recital, on Tuesday 20 February at St Mary at Hill Darragh Brogan will include in his programme the Bach‐Busoni Chaconne in D minor (after Bach's Partita No 22, BWV 1004). (1866‐1924) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and teacher. His compositions include works for piano, including a monumental , and transcriptions of the works of others, notably those of . The featured work consists of 30 sequential variations in D minor and then 20 in D major, with a coda of 10 final variations in the original minor mode. The piano technique required draws both on the virtuosity of Liszt and the breadth of Brahms. As a result it means that all performers who tackle this work must have, in addition to piano ttechnique of the highest order, stamina, a flair for the drama of the piece and sheer courage. This recital item would seem to have great promise.

Turning to arguably calmer musical waters, at St Bride Fleet Street on Tuesday 13 February Katherine Clarke, accompanied by Ben Smith (piano) will be performing a number of pieces composedd for the viola, all of which have the word Elegie or Elegaic in the title. WWorks by Vieuxtemps, Stravinsky and feature alongside more contemporary compositions by Raymond Yiu (born 1973) and Paul Patterson (born 1947). Recitals featuring the viola do not seem to occurr as frequently as those involving violin and and thus this recital must generate particular interest.

The Friends of the City Churches, Church of St Mary Abchurch, Abchurch Lane, London EC4N 7BA Visit: www.london‐city‐churches.org.uk for more information and the location of the churches in the City

Tuesday ─ continued REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES IN 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street FEBRUARY 2018 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower

0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate The entries below show the normal pattern of services for City Churches and 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn a few churches ‘just over the City borders’. Entries are for 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public services except where indicated otherwise. ‘1st Monday’, ‘2nd Monday’ etc welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal refer to the 1st Monday, 2nd Monday etc of the month. 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service St Andrew Holborn While every effort is made to ensure accuracy, the services shown are 1210 Eucharist (said) (BCP) St James Garlickhythe subject to change immediately before, during and after major festivals, at 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster Bank or other holidays, and during the summer months. You are strongly 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less advised to contact churches to check the details. 1230 to 1300 Eucharist (said) with brief address St Dunstan in the West

For a list of weekend (particularly Sunday) services please go to the Friends 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr of the City Churches website at www.london-city-churches.org.uk and follow 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) the links from ‘Events’ and ‘City Events’. St Mary Moorfields 1230 to 1300 Holy Communion St Mary Woolnoth 1230 Holy Communion (said), followed by coffee and sandwiches Monday St Olave Hart Street 0715 Jewish Daily Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic orthodox rite) 1300 to 1330 Communion in the Crypt, with a focus on prayers for healing (0700 on 1st day of Hebrew religious month; 0800 on Bank Holidays) All Hallows by the Tower For details please see www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/ 1300 Lunchtime Service Christ Church, Spitalfields Bevis Marks Synagogue 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 0730 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1300 to 1400 (any time) Contemporary Worship 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields St Sepulchre without Newgate 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate 0800 Morning Prayer - short contemplative service (Moot Community – 1305 to 1340 Bible Talk, with lunch available after the talk all welcome) St Mary Aldermary St Helen Bishopsgate 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1305 Meditation (in the crypt chapel) St Mary le Bow 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 0815 to 0915 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament Informal drop-in service for 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn prayer, adoration and Eucharistic meditation – come and go as you wish 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn St Dunstan in the West 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, following sandwich lunch at 1300 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow St Botolph Aldersgate 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1310 to 1340 Holy Communion St Margaret Lothbury 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public 1315 to 1345 Meditation and prayers for humanity and the earth welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal (in the Tent) Open to all Please arrive a few minutes before 1315 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service (if listeners available - St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate please check with church) St Andrew Holborn 1700 Evening Prayer (in the Lady Chapel) St Andrew Holborn 1200 to 1230 Meditation Group: ‘Stressed in the City’ (Moot Community – 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship all welcome) St Mary Aldermary Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 1210 Eucharist (said) (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1700 to 1730 ‘Words of Hope’ – quiet reflective service 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster St Clement Eastcheap 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow St Mary Moorfields 1800 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1245 Sung Holy Communion St Mary at Hill 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 1300 to 1400 Ecumenical Contemplative Prayer (Addison Room) 1830 Choral Evensong (traditional) (Choral Eucharist on 3rd Tuesday) St Edmund King & Martyr (London Centre for Spiritual Direction) St Sepulchre without Newgate 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields Wednesday 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn For Ash Wednesday (14 February) please see also under Special Services 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1700 to 1800 ‘Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 0730 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 1800 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0800 to 0845 Ecumenical Meditation Group All welcome 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields St Edmund King & Martyr (London Centre for Spiritual Direction 1800 Choral Evensong (BCP) (during university terms – current term 0800 to 0830 Morning Taizé Chant (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary 15 January to 5 March) St Michael Cornhill 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street Tuesday 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0715 Jewish Daily Service (see Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 0730 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 0730 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0830 to 0915 Holy Communion St Lawrence Jewry 0745 Holy Communion (said) followed by light breakfast St Mary at Hill 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn 0745 Eucharist (in the church) followed by breakfast St Mary le Bow 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal 0745 to 0915 ‘Start: Stop’ – start the day by stopping to reflect – 10 minute 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church reflections beginning every 15 minutes - just drop in 0915 to 0945 Morning prayers, followed by coffee All welcome St Stephen Walbrook St Edmund King & Martyr (London Centre for Spiritual Direction) 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service (if listeners available - 0800 to 0900 Café Prayer – an opportunity for stillness and prayer, Bible reading please check with church) St Andrew Holborn and reflection Coffee served St Katharine Cree 1205 RC Mass St Joseph Bunhill Row 0800 to 0830 Morning Meditation (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary continued/

Thursday ─ continued REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES IN 1300 to 1330 (1st Thursday) Private Prayer and Reflection FEBRUARY 2018− continued St Giles Cripplegate 1300 Holy Communion (1st Thursday normally choral) St Margaret Pattens 1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate Wednesday ─ continued 1305 Holy Communion, followed by coffee and sandwiches 1210 Eucharist (said) (BCP) St James Garlickhythe St Katharine Cree 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1305 to 1335 ‘St Nick's Talks’ Bible Talk St Nicholas Cole Abbey 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Abchurch 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn St Mary Moorfields 1310 to 1350 Bible Talk, with lunch available, followed by Question Time 1245 to 1315 (3rd Wednesday) Society of Friends (Quaker) Meeting for Worship St Helen Bishopsgate Bunhill Fields Meeting House, Quaker Court, Banner St 1315 to 1345 Lunchtime Service (Free Church) City Temple 1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal Worship and Teaching – come and go 1315 Holy Communion St Martin within Ludgate as you wish St Margaret Lothbury 1315 Holy Communion (BCP said) (during legal term-time) 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place Temple Church 1305 ‘Not on a Sunday’ – informal worship with prayer and song, followed 1400 to 1420 Prayers – Offering up the prayers from the church’s prayer board by coffee St Katharine Cree and the London Internet Church St Stephen Walbrook 1305 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1700 Evening Prayer (in the Lady Chapel) St Andrew Holborn 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’ – contemplation, reflection and silent worship 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 1310 to 1340 ‘Moorgate Talks’ Bible Talk, following sandwich lunch at 1300, at 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow Amber, CityPoint, 1 Ropemaker St, EC2Y 9AW under the auspices of 1800 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn St Botolph Aldersgate 1800 to 2200 City of London House of Prayer – ‘Pursuit’ Prayer and Worship 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate Service All welcome (Free Church) City Temple 1315 Holy Communion (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1800 to 1830 Eucharist Followed in Lent by Lent Study Group at 1830 1700 Evening Prayer (in the Lady Chapel) St Andrew Holborn St Dunstan in the West 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 1800 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 1800 (Normally 1st Thursday) Choral Evensong, followed by ‘Thursday 1730 to 1750 Evening Prayer (Moot Community – all welcome) Conversation’ at 1830 St Mary at Hill St Mary Aldermary 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 1730 Choral Evensong (during legal term-time) Temple Church 1805 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1800 Taizé Service All Hallows by the Tower 1800 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe Friday 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1830 to 1915 Meditation Group: ‘Stressed in the City’ (Moot Community – all 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields welcome) St Mary Aldermary 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 1900 Sung Eucharist St Andrew Holborn 0800 to 0830 Morning Taizé Chant (Moot Community – all welcome) St Mary Aldermary

0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields Thursday 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0730 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public 0730 to 0930 ‘Headroom’ – short reflections with music and contemplation Just welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal drop in St Margaret Pattens 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1200 to 1500 Quiet Personal Prayer St Joseph Bunhill Row 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 1200 to 1230 Meditation Group: ‘Stressed in the City’ (Moot Community – 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields all welcome) St Mary Aldermary 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower 1230 Pastoral Conversation or Confession (Sacrament Chapel) (or apply 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate at the Vestry) St Mary le Bow 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public St Mary Moorfields welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church 1305 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 1210 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 1210 Eucharist (said) (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1315 to 1400 Holy Communion St Lawrence Jewry 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 1230 (1st Thursday) Eucharist followed by refreshments & discussion 1800 Paraklesis (replaced on 1st Friday and during fasting periods by Service St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate of Holy Unction) 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr Followed at 1900 to 2200 by Catechesis and Confessions (Romanian 1230 Eucharist St Mary le Strand Orthodox) St Dunstan in the West 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 1800 (1st Friday) RC Low Mass in the Extra-Ordinary Form St Mary Moorfields St Etheldreda, Ely Place 1245 to 1330 Eucharist with the St Stephen’s Voices, followed by light lunch 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields St Stephen Walbrook 1830 Jewish Friday Evening Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic 1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal Worship and Teaching – come and go as you orthodox rite) (1930 in summer months – please check on wish St Mary Woolnoth www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 1900 to 2100 City of London House of Prayer - Equipping Night Service Praise and Worship (Free Church) City Temple

SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS IN Wednesday 14 February – Ash Wednesday FEBRUARY 2018 0800 Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes St Mary le Bow 0805 RC Mass for Ash Wednesday St Mary Moorfields 0830 Eucharist with Ashing (Lady Chapel) St Bartholomew the Great 0915 Morning Prayer (Lady Chapel ) St Bartholomew the Great Thursday 1 February 1200 RC Mass for Ash Wednesday St Mary Moorfields 1300 Choral Eucharist for the Feast of Candlemas (2 February) 1205 RC Mass for Ash Wednesday St Joseph Bunhill Row St Margaret Pattens 1210 Eucharist for Ash Wednesday St James Garlickhythe 1305 Holy Communion for the Feast of Candlemas (2 February) 1230 Eucharist with Ashing (Lady Chapel) St Bartholomew the Great St Katharine Cree 1230 Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes All Hallows by the Tower 1800 Choral Evensong followed by Thursday Conversation at 1830 1230 Said Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes St Dunstan in the West See the entry for this date in the Events & Concerts section below 1230 Mass with Imposition of Ashes St Magnus the Martyr St Mary at Hill 1230 RC Mass for Ash Wednesday St Mary Moorfields 1230 Ash Wednesday Service St Olave Hart Street 1300 Choral Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes St Andrew Holborn Friday 2 February – 1300 Lutheran Choral Eucharist for Ash Wednesday

The Presentation of Christ in the Temple (Candlemas) St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill 1305 Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes St Botolph Aldgate 1230 Said Eucharist for the Feast of Candlemas 1305 High Mass with Imposition of Ashes St Mary le Bow St Dunstan in the West 1305 RC Mass for Ash Wednesday St Mary Moorfields 1805 High Mass on the Feast of Candlemas 1310 Choral Eucharist for Ash Wednesday St Botolph Bishopsgate With music by Alan Wilson, who retires from St Mary le Bow as 1315 Choral Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes St Bride Fleet Street Director of Music after 32 years 1700 Evening Prayer (Lady Chapel) St Bartholomew the Great Followed by a reception All welcome – if you plan to attend 1730 Valentine’s Day Service please e-mail [email protected] St Mary le Bow A celebration of marriage and service of renewal of marriage vows – all welcome, and the church would be especially delighted to see couples who were married at St Lawrence Jewry Monday 5 February For further information please contact Katrina on 0207 600 9478 1300 Choral Classics 30 minutes of choral music and readings or [email protected] St Lawrence Jewry See the entry for this date in the Events & Concerts section below 1730 RC Mass for Ash Wednesday St Mary Moorfields St Stephen Walbrook 1730 Choral Evensong for Ash Wednesday Temple Church 1800 High Mass with Imposition of Ashes St Magnus the Martyr 1900 Sung Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes St Andrew Holborn Wednesday 7 February 1900 Solemn Eucharist with Ashing (Lady Chapel) 1100 Sir John Cass Founder’s Day Service St Botolph Aldgate St Bartholomew the Great 1900 RC Mass for Ash Wednesday St Joseph Bunhill Row

Thursday 8 February Thursday 15 February 1210 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate 1305 Holy Communion for Ash Wednesday (14 February) St Katharine Cree 1815 Evening Prayer Sunday 11 February Followed at 1830 by plus+ presentation exploring the place of 1100 Institution, installation and induction of the Revd Marcus Walker faith in the world of business Please see the entry for this date in as Rector of the parish of Great St Bartholomew the Lectures, Courses, Workshops and Seminars section below Followed by Pontifical Solemn Eucharist St Stephen Walbrook Preacher: the Rt Revd , Acting St Bartholomew the Great Monday 19 February 1830 Bach Choral Vespers for Quinquagesima 1300 Choral Classics 30 minutes of choral music and readings With J S Bach’s Cantata BWV 23, Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn See the entry for this date in the Events & Concerts section below Performed by the City Bach Collective on period instruments St Stephen Walbrook St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill

Mnday 26 February Monday 12 February 1300 Choral Classics 30 minutes of choral music and readings 1300 Choral Classics 30 minutes of choral music and readings See the entry for this date in the Events & Concerts section below See the entry for this date in the Events & Concerts section below St Stephen Walbrook St Stephen Walbrook

Tuesday 13 February – Shrove Tuesday Wednesday 28 February 1310 Holy Communion for Shrove Tuesday Followed by pancakes 1305 Eucharist, followed at 1330 by ‘Cantata’ - a guided meditation for St Andrew Holborn Lent with music for voice and organ St Mary le Bow

LECTURES, COURSES, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS Tuesday 13 February IN FEBRUARY 2018 1045 to 1530 Oasis Day: ‘Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus’ - The Call to Follow Led by Alison Christian Thursday 1 February Oasis Days offer a monthly time of quiet reflection to re-charge 1230 to 1430 Christian Fellowship lunchtime discussion led by the one’s spiritual batteries with stimulating speakers Revd Oliver Ross, Area Dean of the City Cost £15 - Lunch/ tea & coffee provided Following Eucharist at 1230 and refreshments Pre-booking required by Friday 9 February for catering purposes For further information please go to www.stethelburgas.org and To book please telephone the Revd Martin Davies follow the links from ‘Events’ on 07429 612642 or e-mail [email protected] St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation & Peace, Bishopsgate St Andrew Holborn 1830 Thursday Conversation With Ruth Hunt, Chief Executive of Stonewall On ‘Building Bridges not Walls: the role of faith communities and LGBT communities in Britain’ Following Choral Evensong at 1800 Followed by refreshments Thursday 15 February See the entry for this date in the Events & Concerts section below 1830 Lent Study Group following Eucharist at 1800 St Mary at Hill Light refreshments provided For further information please email [email protected] Friday 2 February St Dunstan in the West 1100 to 1600 Conversation and Conversion: Narrative Theology and 1830 Plus+ presentation exploring the place of faith in the world of Spiritual Direction Led by Antonia Lynn. business, given by the Revd Dr Fiona Stewart-Darling (Canary One of a series of events for spiritual directors, led by Wharf Chaplaincy) experienced practitioners, in the Developing Direction programme Following Evening Prayer at 1815 For further information, cost and to book go to www.lcsd.org.uk Followed by drinks and an opportunity for networking and follow the links from ‘Courses & Events’ St Stephen Walbrook London Centre for Spiritual Direction at St Edmund King & Martyr 1830 to 2130 The Feminine and the Seeds of the Future The first in a new series of events exploring the contribution of the feminine in a time of global crisis Friday 16 February For further information, cost and booking please go to 1100 to 1300 Safeguarding and Spiritual Direction www.stethelburgas.org and follow the links from ‘Events’ One of a series of events for spiritual directors in the St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation & Peace, Bishopsgate Developing Direction programme For further information, cost and to book go to www.lcsd.org.uk and follow the links from ‘Courses & Events’ Tuesday 6 February London Centre for Spiritual Direction at St Edmund King & Martyr 1930 Historical talk on The Catholic City, following refreshments at

1845 (In the Crypt Hall) St Mary Moorfields

Wednesday 7 February 1300 to 1400 Gresham College Lecture-Recital: An Englishman (with Thursday 22 February a Guitar) Abroad 1830 Lent Study Group following Eucharist at 1800 Given by Professor Christopher Page - part of a series on For Light refreshments provided For further information please email Courtesan, Queen and Gallant: The Guitar in England from Henry [email protected] VIII to Samuel Pepys St Dunstan in the West Free – no reservations required Admission on a ‘first come, first served’ basis Doors open at 1230 For further information please go to www.gresham.ac.uk and follow the links from ‘Attend’, ‘All future lectures’ and ‘Music’ Saturday 24 February St Sepulchre without Newgate 0930 to 1730 Spiritual Ecology: New Principles for addressing the ecological crisis A two-day workshop on 24 and 25 February For further information please go to www.stethelburgas.org and 1800 The 2018 Boyle Lecture Apocalypses Now: Modern Science and follow the links from ‘Events’ Biblical Miracles, on scientific studies of the big miracle and St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation & Peace, Bishopsgate catastrophe stories of the Bible Given by Dr Mark Harris (University of Edinburgh), a physicist working in a theological environment, and interested in the complex ways in which science and religion relate to Sunday 25 February one another 0930 to 1730 Spiritual Ecology: New Principles for addressing the Responder: Professor John Hedley Brooke (University of Oxford) ecological crisis Please see the entry under 24 February For further information please go to www.stmarylebow.co.uk and St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation & Peace, Bishopsgate follow the links from ‘Boyle Lecture’

All welcome Seating limited and unreserved

St Mary le Bow

EVENTS AND CONCERTS IN FEBRUARY 2018 Saturday 3 February — continued

1930 A Brandenburg Choral Festival Concert

Angmering Chorale Thursday 1 February sing Will Todd's Jazz Missa Brevis and 1305 A City Music Society concert to be given by the Handel's Greatest Messiah Choruses Auden British Sea Songs Timothy Crawford – violin, Benjamin Tarlton – cello Jerusalem Denis Sousa – piano Conductor: George Jones Winners of the Ivan Sutton Prize 2017 Programme: Tickets: £23 (premium) £28 (unreserved) £5 (children Beethoven – Trio in D major Op 70 No 1 (The Ghost) Book online at: www.brandenburg.org.uk/festival Brahms – Trio in C minor Op 101 St Katharine Cree

Admission is free with a retiring collection

St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield Monday 5 February 1305 Recital: Debussy (1862 – 1918) Centenary Recital 1300 Recital: Riyad Nicolas – piano Emilie Capulet – piano St Olave Hart Street Programme: This will include works by Scriabin and Chopin 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays Bach and Buxtehude (1) St Lawrence Jewry St Margaret Lothbury 1300 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling (All Hallows by the Tower) 1800 Choral Evensong, followed by Thursday Conversation at 1830 Progrqmme: Evensong will be sung by Seraphim, the St Mary at Hill McCabe – Flourish & Chorale The Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkins will be in conversation with Walther – Concerto del Signor Meck Ruth Hunt, Chief Executive of Stonewall. The topic will be: Peeters – Chorale Prelude: Harken, benign Creator 'Building Bridges not Walls: the role of faith communities and Rheinberger – Improvisation Op 174 LGBT communities in Britain' Philip James – Méditation à Sainte Clotilde Followed by refreshments Whitlock – From in C Admission is free Donations are welcome St Mary at Hill Allegretto – Andante tranquillo – Scherzetto

Vierne – From Pièces de Fantaisie Op 53: Friday 2 February Sicilienne; Hymne au Soleil 1230 Organ Recital: Alberto Brigandi St Stephen Walbrook St Michael Cornhill 1305 A Music-at-Hill Recital: 1300 Choral Classics REST ENSEMBLE 30 minutes of sublime choral music and readings Lorenzo Gabriele – Rebecca Raimondi – violin, with the Choral Scholars of St Marin in the Fields Alessandro Viale – St Stephen Walbrook Programme: This will include works by Bach, Handel and 1305 Recital: Matariki Trio Telemann St Mary at Hill Lucy Gijsbers – cello Jonna Järvitalo – flute, 1315 Recital: Simone Tavoni – piano Ana Manastireanu – piano Programme: Programme: Bartók – 15 Hungarian peasant songs Haydn – Trio for flute, cello and piano in D major Hob XV:16 Lizst – Après une lecture du Dante – Fantasia quasi Sonata Weber – Trio for flute, cello and piano in G minor Op 63 Scriabin – Sonata No 5 Op 53 St Bride Fleet Street Martinů – Trio for flute, cello and piano (1944) H 300

St Martin Ludgate Saturday 3 February 1315 Recital: Mchael Hickman – baritone, Richard Gowers – piano 0930 to 1730 approx City Chamber Choir Workshop Programme: Byrd and Tomkins Great Services Vaughan Williams – Songs of Travel Join the exciting new vocal group Seraphim Ireland – Songs of a Wayfarer St Bride Fleet Street and the award-winning City Chamber Choir

for a day learning, singing and hearing music

by British Renaissance Masters —

the Te Deum and Jubilate from Tomkins Great Service Tuesday 6 February and the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis from Byrd's Great Service 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate The recital will usually The workshop will take place in the magnificent surroundings of include an improvisation St Mary Abchurch a fine Wren City church and participants will work alongside 1300 Organ Recital: Presenting a school-age organist of outstanding members of the City Chamber Choir and the professional group ability. For more information please visit: Seraphim and thus gain valuable insight into voice production http://www.stlawrencejewry.org.uk/music/organ/organ-current.php and vocal technique from experienced professional singers St Lawrence Jewry

The study day will commence at 9.30am with registration and 1300 Recital: Flavis Hirte – flute St Stephen Walbrook music distribution and will end at 4.00pm with an informal 1315 Recital in The Square Mile Music Series: concert which is open to all. The concert will be free with a Felicity Hayward – soprano retiring collection to help towards church costs. Programme: Music by Cage, Weir, Webern and Schubert St Mary at Hill Tickets for the day are £35 and include tea and coffee. 1415 A Taste of St Bride’s Please make your own arrangements for lunch. 90 minute guided tour - includes the Charnel House All sheet music is included in the cost. Dress code is informal. Admission: £6 per person on the day or book in advance: For further information please visit: www.stmary-at-hill.org [email protected] or 020 7427 0133 Booking may be made online at: St Bride Fleet Street https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/city-chamber-choir St Mary at Hill

Friday 9 February — continued EVENTS AND CONCERTS IN FEBRUARY 2018 - continued 1900 Chamber Concert Carla Rees – flute, Mary Cohen – violin, Roderick Morris – viola, George Barton – xylophone, Claire Seaton – soprano, Wednesday 7 February Philip Tebb – bass / Narrator 1300 to 1400 Gresham College Lecture-Recital: An Englishman (with Programme: This will consist of music by the composer (and a Guitar) Abroad congregation member) Mary Cohen, who will also be part of Given by Professor Christopher Page - part of a series on For the ensemble. The works are: Courtesan, Queen and Gallant: The Guitar in England from Henry At the Edge of Time and An Orkney Procession VIII to Samuel Pepys Admission will be free Free – no reservations required Admission on a ‘first come, first There will be a retiring collection in aid of St Bride's Choir served’ basis Doors open at 1230 St Bride Fleet Street For further information please go to www.gresham.ac.uk and Monday 12 February follow the links from ‘Attend’, ‘All future lectures’ and ‘Music’ 1100 to 1600 'Between Friends' St Sepulchre without Newgate Opening of a five-day Art Exhibition by the Arts Centre Group 1305 Recital: Boris Bizjak – flute, Maria Canyigueral – piano St Olave Hart Street With its history of nurturing and supporting Christian artists since 1315 Recital: Susana Gilardoni-Mirski – soprano the 1970s, the group showcases the talents of current members Richard Black – piano St Dunstan in the West and guests. Admission is free St Stephen Walbrook 1900 In need of a Dutch Guide through the Brexit Minefield? 1300 Recital: Misa Saka – piano Dutch Centre and Politiek Café organise an evening full of Programme: perspectives and interesting new insights that you might not have Bach – French Suite No 5 BWV 816 heard before Chopin – Nocturne in B major Op 62-1 Our guests include: Mr Robert Booij (UK Executive ABN AMRO) Waltz in A flat major Op 42 Emmy van Deurzen (Professor of Psycotherapy University of Ballade No 3 in A flat major Sheffield on the psychological effects of Brexit on EU citizens Debussy – L'isle joyeuse St Lawrence Jewry Sietske de Groot (Founder/Director Trade Peers Ltd and former 1300 Organ Recital: Nicholas Freestone head of EU affairs of Small Business} who is currently advising (Acting Sub Organist, St Paul's Cathedral) small businesses on international markets with a focus on Brexit Programme: and others Bach – Prelude & Fugue in C BWV 546 English will be spoken Howells – Psalm Prelude Set 1/1 (Lo, the poor cryeth) Doors open at1830 Tickets £12 students £7 Wammes – Miroir Tickets may be purchased at: Ireland – Romance http://www.dutchcentre.com/a-dutdh-guide-through-the-brexit-minefield-07022018/ Tabakova – Diptych: Pastoral – Choral The Dutch Centre at the Dutch Church, Langlais – Incantation pour un jour saint Austin Friars EC2N 2HA St Michael Cornhill Thursday 8 February 1300 Choral Classics 1305 A City Music Society concert to be given by the 30 minutes of sublime choral music and eadings Trinity Laban String Ensemble with the Choral Scholars of St Marin in the Fields Nic Pendlebury – director St Stephen Walbrook Programme: 1305 Recital: Ximena Maria Abello – soprano, Ellen Falconer – piano Leoš Jánáček – Idyll For more information please visit: – Shaker Loops http://www.stmartin-within-ludgate.org.uk/music/

Admission is free with a retiring collection St Martin Ludgate St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield 1310 LunchBreak Opera presents Salieri's short comic opera 1305 Recital: Alix Largasse – violin, Maria Taresewicz – piano 'Primo la musica e poi le parole' St Olave Hart Street Admission free (retiring collection) 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower This interesting composition will be performed every day until 1310 Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series Friday 16 February St Botolph Bishopsgate Hall Catherine Gremaud-Babel – Geneva, Switzerland St Margaret Lothbury Tuesday 13 February Friday 9 February 1100 to 1600 'Between Friends' Continuation of the Art Exhibition by the Arts Centre Group 1230 Organ Recital: John Webber St Stephen Walbrook 1305 A Music-at-Hill Recital: With its history of nurturing and supporting Christian artists since Debussy (1862 – 1918) Centenary Series the 1970s, the group showcases the talents of current members Nancheng Chen – cello, Sophia Yang – piano and guests. Admission is free St Stephen Walbrook Programme: 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate The recital will usually Debussy – Cello Sonata (1915) include an improvisation St Mary Abchurch Schubert – Arpeggione Sonata 1300 Organ Recital: Presenting a school-age organist of outstanding Debussy – Clair de lune; La fille aux cheveux de lin, ability. For more information please visit: Scherzo St Mary at Hill http://www.stlawrencejewry.org.uk/music/organ/organ-current.php 1315 Organ Recital: Martin Ellis St Dunstan in the West St Lawrence Jewry 1315 Recital: Elisabeth Streichert – piano 1300 Recital: String with Molly McWhirter – cello Programme: St Stephen Walbrook Schnittke – Movements from 5 and Fugue 1310 LunchBreak Opera presents Salieri's short comic opera Beethoven – Piano Sonata No 32 in C minor Op 111 'Primo la musica e poi le parole' St Bride Fleet Street Admission free (retiring collection) St Botolph Bishopsgate Hall

Thursday 15 February — continued EVENTS AND CONCERTS IN FEBRUARY 2018 - continued 1305 Recital: Ensemble Molière Flavis Hirte – flute, Alice Earll – violin,

Tuesday 13 February — continued Kate Conway – viola da gamba/cello Satako Doi-Luck – harpsichord 1315 Recital: Katherine Clarke – viola, Ben Smith – piano Programme: with Roberta Diamond – soprano St Olave Hart Street Vieuxtemps – Elegie for viola and piano 1310 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling All Hallows by the Tower Stravinsky – Elegie for solo viola 1310 Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays 'The Glorious Baroque' (2) Bridge – Elegie for viola and piano St Margaret Lothbury Raymond Yiu – Elegaic Fragments for viola solo 1810 LunchBreak Opera presents Salieri's short comic opera (World premiere of the complete work) 'Primo la musica e poi le parole' Paul Patterson – Elegaic Blues for viola and piano Admission free (retiring collection) St Bride Fleet Street St Botolph Bishopsgate Hall Friday 16 February 1315 Recital in The Square Mile Music Series: 1100 to 1600 'Between Friends'

Felicity Hayward – soprano Final day of the Art Exhibition by the Arts Centre Group Programme: Music by Somers, Wagendristel, Kim and Schubert St Stephen Walbrook St Mary at Hill 1230 Organ Recital: Paul Dewhurst St Stephen Walbrook 1415 A Taste of St Bride’s 1305 A Music-at-Hill Recital: 90 minute guided tour - includes the Charnel House BLONDEL Admission: £6 per person on the day or book in advance: A Medieval and Renaissance Wind [email protected] or 020 7427 0133 presents St Bride Fleet Street A History of Dance in Music Wednesday 14 February with shawms, dulcians, recorders, bagpipes and percussion 1100 to 1500 'Between Friends' Belinda Paul – director St Mary at Hill Continuation of the Art Exhibition by the Arts Centre Group 1310 LunchBreak Opera presents Salieri's short comic opera With its history of nurturing and supporting Christian artists since 'Primo la musica e poi le parole' the 1970s, the group showcases the talents of current members Admission free (retiring collection) and guests. Admission is free St Stephen Walbrook St Botolph Bishopsgate Hall 1310 LunchBreak Opera presents Salieri's short comic opera 1315 Recital For more information please visit: 'Primo la musica e poi le parole' www.stdunstaninthewest.org Admission free (retiring collection) and follow the link Services and Events St Dunstan in the West St Botolph Bishopsgate Hall 1315 Recital: Samantha Crawford – soprano, Gavin Roberts – piano 1315 Recital For more information please visit: Programme: www.stdunstaninthewest.org Barber – A green lowland of and follow the link Services and Events St Dunstan in the West Parry – My love is like a singing bird 1315 Organ Recital: Greg Morris continues his performing of Bach's Quilter – Love's Philosophy complete organ works R Strauss – Vier Letzte Lieder St Bride Fleet Street Programme: Prelude & Fugue in G BWV 550, Sunday 18 February Chorale preludes for Ash Wednesday 1800 A Brandenburg Choral Festival Concert Prelude & Fugue in A minor BWV 543 Temple Church Close Harmony Classics Sung by: Hardcore Harmony Thursday 15 February Conductors: Christopher Fox & Lauren Pen 1100 to 1600 'Between Friends' and Continuation of the Art Exhibition by the Arts Centre Group Capital Connection: Conductor: Debi Cox

With its history of nurturing and supporting Christian artists since Tickets: £23 (premium) £28 (unreserved) £5 (children the 1970s, the group showcases the talents of current members Book online at: www.brandenburg.org.uk/festival and guests. Admission is free St Stephen Walbrook St Mary le Bow 1305 A City Music Society concert to be given by Monday 19 February Andrey Lebedev – guitar 1300 Recital: Hin-Yat Tsang – piano Programme: Programme: Dowland – Fantasia 1a Beethoven – Sonata in A major Op 101 J S Bach – Prelude in E major BWV 006 Sonata in E major Op 109 Villa-Lobos – Five Preludes Sonata in A flat major Op 110 Albéniz – Granada; Asturias Hin-Yat Tsang performs through the joint St Lawrence Jewry and Nigel Westlake – Smokey Cape Worshipful Company of Musicians Scheme for young prizewinners Andrey Lebedev – New Work of the Company St Lawrence Jewry

Admission is free with a retiring collection St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield 1300 Organ Recital: Graham Thorpe – (The Oratory, London) 1305 Recital: Ieva Dubova – piano Progrmme: Programme: Rheinberger – Sonata 7 Schumann- Kinderscenen Op15 Karg-Elert – Claire de Lune Janáček – In the Mist Böhm – Vater unser im Himmelreich P.Vasks – Little night Music St Mary le Bow Bach – Toccata & Fugue in F BWV 540 St Michael Cornhill

Friday 23 February EVENTS AND CONCERTS IN FEBRUARY 2018 - continued 1230 Organ Recital: Martin Hall St Stephen Walbrook 1305 A Music-at-Hill Recital:

Monday 19 February — continued TEE TRIO 1300 Choral Classics Clarissa Lim – violin Laura Jane Armstrong – cello 30 minutes of sublime choral music and readings Weng Soon Tee – piano with the Choral Scholars of St Marin in the Fields Programme: St Stephen Walbrook Mendelssohn – Trio in D minor Op 49 (1st & 3rd movements) 1305 Recital: Klaudia Magdon – soprano, George Webster – piano Smetana – Piano Trio in G minor Op 15 St Mary at Hill Programme: Vocal works associated with Paris and mostly 1315 Recital For more information please visit: written in Paris and featuring works of composers not www.stdunstaninthewest.org necessarily French but having connections with the city. and follow the link Services and Events St Dunstan in the West Songs by Hahn and Poulenc 1315 Organ Recital: Robert Jones Viardot arrangements of Chopin mazurkas Programme: French arias and arias which have Paris as a backdrop J S Bach – Sinfonia from Cantata 29 (transcribed by Guiilmant) St Martin Ludgate Whitlock – Fantasie-Chorale No 2 in F sharp minor Tuesday 20 February Franck – Choral No 2 in B minor 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate The recital will usually Wagner – Overture from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg include an improvisation St Mary Abchurch (transcribed by W J Westbrook) 1300 Organ Recital: Presenting a school-age organist of outstanding St Bride Fleet Street ability. For more information please visit: Saturday 24 February http://www.stlawrencejewry.org.uk/music/organ/organ-current.php 1930 A Brandenburg Choral Festival Concert St Lawrence Jewry Howells and the Tudors 1300 Recital: Sian Phillips – violin St Stephen Walbrook Music by 1315 Recital: Anern Trio and the Renaissance composers that inspired him Performed by Khoros – led by Patrick Allies Lisa Ueda – violin, Ian Byrne Brito – viola, Nigel Blomiley – cello Programme: Tickets: £23 (premium) £28 (unreserved) £5 (children Mozart – Divertimento in E flat major for K 563 Book online at: www.brandenburg.org.uk/festival St Bride Fleet Street St Katharine Cree 1315 Recital in The Square Mile Music Series: Sunday 25 February Darragh Brogan – piano 1400 Barts Academic Festival Choir & Programme: Come and join us to sing from scratch an instant Bach-Busoni – Chaconne in D minor BWV 1004 Mozart Requiem and Fauré Requiem

Rachmaninov – Etudes - Tableaux St Mary at Hill No – at 1400 the choir joins the orchestra 1415 A Taste of St Bride’s No tickets required – Free entry – Donations to Barts Cancer Unit 90 minute guided tour - includes the Charnel House Tell your friends, bring your own copies and join us Admission: £6 per person on the day or book in advance: to enjoy an afternoon singing two of the most beautiful Requiems [email protected] or 020 7427 0133 The Great Hall of St Bartholomew's Hospital St Bride Fleet Street 1700 Concert: Academy of St Mary le Bow Wednesday 21 February Conductor – Alex Fryer Guest Leader – Helena Buckie 1305 Recital: Aino Konkka – mezzo-soprano, Maya Soltan – piano The orchestra performs a lively programme of music for

Programme: spring in this Sunday afternoon concert – Schumann – Liederkreis Op 39 St Botolph Aldgate Programme: 1305 Recital: Lana Trotovsek – violin, Maria Canyigueral – piano Copland – Appalachian Spring St Olave Hart Street Mozart – Symphony No 27 in G major K 199 (Un-conducted) 1315 Recital For more information please visit: Tickets: £10 Adult, £8 Under 30s, £5 Student www.stdunstaninthewest.org Tickets available online: and follow the link Services and Events St Dunstan in the West https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spring-chamber-concert-tickets- 41506696647 1830 : A Brandenburg Choral Festival Concert or on the door (cash only) from 4.15pm St Mary le Bow Brahms' Requiem Performed by the Choir of St Mary's Wimbledon Monday 26 February Conductor: Max Barley 1300 Daniel Kearney – piano Programme: Tickets: £23 (premium) £28 (unreserved) £5 (children Bach – Partita in C minor BWV 826 Book online at: www.brandenburg.org.uk/festival Chopin – Polonaise-Fantasie Op 61 St Katharine Cree Kapustin – Variations Op 41 St Lawrence Jewry Thursday 22 February 1300 Organ Recital: Jonathan Rennert (lunchtime recital no. 445) 1305 A City Music Society concert to be given by the commemorates the 50th anniversary of the death of English Young Artists' Sinfonia Healey Willan (1880 – 16 February 1968) Robert Pepper – conductor Rosie Burton – with a programme of Canadian organ music Programme: Programme: Mozart – Concerto for bassoon in B flat major K 191 Willan – 3 Pieces for Organ (1954) Schubert – Symphony No 5 in B flat major D 485 Bales – Petite Suite (1965) Admission is free with a retiring collection Willan – Miniature Suite for Organ (1910) St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield Morel – Prière (1954) 1305 Recital: Joanna Gutowska – cello St Olave Hart Street France – Tune & Gavotte (1953) 1310 Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series Willan – Introduction, Passacaglia & Fugue (1916) Birger Marmvik – Oskarshamn, Sweden St Michael Cornhill St Margaret Lothbury

We are indebted to Dickon Love, EVENTS AND CONCERTS IN FEBRUARY 2018 - continued Company Bellringer to the Worshipful

Company of Parish Clerks Monday 26 February — continued for the following information

1300 Choral Classics 30 minutes of sublime choral music and readings with the Choral Scholars of St Marin in the Fields St Stephen Walbrook 1305 Recital: Imperial College Choir Open bellringing performances For more information please visit: currently scheduled for the City of London http://www.stmartin-within-ludgate.org.uk/music/ in February 2018 St Martin Ludgate Saturday 3 February Tuesday 27 February 1500 3 hr performance on the Royal Jubilee Bells 1230 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate The recital will usually by the Society of Royal Cumberland Youths include an improvisation St Mary Abchurch at St James Garlickhythe

1300 Organ Recital: Presenting a school-age organist of outstanding 1500 3 hr performance on the church bells ability. For more information please visit: by the Society of Royal Cumberland Youths http://www.stlawrencejewry.org.uk/music/organ/organ-current.php at St Olave Hart Street St Lawrence Jewry 1300 Recital: Krzysztof Moskalewicz – piano St Stephen Walbrook Saturday 10 February 1315 Recital: Mignonette Aarons – piano 1000 3½ hr performance on the church bells Programme: by the Ancient Society of College Youths Mozart – Sonata No 11 in A major K 331 at St Michael Cornhill Chopin – Prelude in E minor Op 28 No 4 Prelude in F minor Op 28 No 18 1000 3 hr performance on the church bells Nocturne in E flat major Op 9 No 2 at St Vedast, Foster Lane Nocturne in F sharp major Op 15 No 2 Schoenberg – Klavierstück Op 33a (1929) Moszkowski – Caprice Espanol Op 37 Monday 12 February St Bride Fleet Street 1800 3 hr performance on the Royal Jubilee Bells 1315 Recital in The Square Mile Music Series: by the St James' Guild Claire Parkin – violin, Emma Chamberlain – cello at St James Garlickhythe Andrew Blankfield – piano Programme: Brahms – Piano Trio in C major Op 87 St Mary at Hill Thursday 15 February 1415 A Taste of St Bride’s 1800 3 hr performance on the church bells 90 minute guided tour - includes the Charnel House by the Southwell and Nottingham Diocesan Guild Admission: £6 per person on the day or book in advance: at St Katharine Cree [email protected] or 020 7427 0133 St Bride Fleet Street Saturday 17 February Wednesday 28 February 1800 3½ hr performance on the church bells 1305 Recital: Baroque Flute by the Ancient Society of College Youths Rosie Bowker (baroque flute) and friends at St Magnus the Martyr Programme: Telemann – Fantasia No 6 in D Sylvia Lim (b 1992) – Shifting Sunday 18 February Marc Vallon – Ami 1600 3½ hr performance on the Bow Bells Telemann – Fantasia No 8 in E St Botolph Aldgate by the Middlesex County Association 1305 Recital: Nicola Hands – oboe, Jonathan Pease – piano at St Mary le Bow St Olave Hart Street 1300 Organ Recital: Greg Morris continues his performing of Bach's complete organ works Sunday 25 February Programme: 1430 3½ hr performance on the church bells Fugue in C by the St James' Guild at St Magnus the Martyr Chorale preludes Preluide & Fugue in D minor BWV 539 Temple Church 1430 3 hr performance on the Royal Jubilee Bells 1315 Recital For more information please visit: by the Ancient Society of College Youths www.stdunstaninthewest.org at St James Garlickhythe and follow the link Services and Events St Dunstan in the West

Mar ch 2018 Published by FCC in conjunction with the Archdeaconry of Lonndon

Easter Offerings

March this year contains the bulk of the period of Lent, the last week of the month coincidiing with Holy Week and the many services of the important Festival of Easter are listed (104 altogether) in the Special Serrvices section of this very full edition of City Events. Easter Sunday occurs on 1st April and certain of the City Churches will be holding special services on that day. Among these is the Dutch Church where there will be held a bilingual servicce at 11.00am. Families are particularly welcome at this service. More information can be obtained at: www.dutchchurch.org.uk.

Much fine seaasonal choral music will be performed, particularly in Holy Week. A staple favourite, Stainer's 'The Crucifixion' is to be heard at St Bride Fleet Street on Good Friday 30 March at 2.00pm. At St Mary Moorfields on Friday 2 March at 7.30pm the Fisher Consort will be giving a free concert of Music for Passiontide. One of the items to be performed will be the motet Wie liegt die Stadt so wüst (How desolate liies the city) composed by the German choirmaster Rudolf Mauersnerger (1889‐1971) on Good Friday and Holy Saturday in 1945 and first performed later that year in his home city, Dresden, the piece providing a unique lament for his devastated city, rendered thus in the four Allied raids of February 1945. The verses used are taken from the Book of Lamentations. The setting is largely very quiet and expresses despair and sadness, but also hope for salvation. It is sung a capellla.

As always there are numerous organ recitals, all featuring music appropriate to Easter. At St Michael Cornhill the recital on Monday 26 March at 1.00pm will feature the organ duettists Alberto Brigandi and Mark James who will play excerpts from Verdi's Reequiem in Alberto Brigandi's new for two organists. As we are told in the listing, this promises to be an unusual and starkly appropriate contribution to Holy Week.

Turning to performances on a somewhat smaller instrrument, the viola features as a solo instrrument in two recitals and as a member of a trio in another, the other instruments in that case being (unusually) flute and harp. The work being performed is Debussy's Sonata for those three very different instruments. The venue will be St Bartholomew the Great on Thursday 15 March at 1.05pm. Two young proponents of the unique tone quality of thhe viola – ("this underrated instrument", to quote words written elsewhere), are Mark Gibbs and Katherine Clarke. Marrk is a graduate of the Royal College of Music and has extensive orchestral experience. He will be playing Selections from Romeo and Juliet by Prokofiev (arranged by Russian violist Vadim Borisovssky) at St Botolph Aldgate on Wednesday 7 March at 1.05pm. This recital clearly promises to be most entertaining.

Katherine Clarke is also a graduate of the Royal College of Music and holds a Master's Degrree in Performance from the Guildhall Schoool of Music. She has a particular interest in contemporary repertoire and is a keen chamber musician. In addition she has played in larger in top London venues. At St Mary Abchurch on Monday 5 March at 1.00pm she will be giving a solo recital of two very contrasting works. First she will perform Sir 's Out of the Night. This contemplative piece was written in 1996 to be pllayed in order to 'greet the dawn' outside St Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai. It is set for a single viola player who is also required to sing very simply. Thuss Katherine will be singing as well as playing. That interesting piece will be followed by the ever‐popular Partita No 3 by JJ S Bach ‐ BWV 1006. From this work readers may well be familiar with the numerous transcriptions of the Preluudio particularly, and other movements, for organ (numerous arrangers), piano (includes Rachmaninov), and piano, lute, guitar, solo violin and, of course, viola. Katherine will be playing all six movements of the Partita. These two very different pieces will give her an ideal opportunity to achieve her aim of showing the depth and range of the viola.

The Friends of the City Churches, Church of St Mary Abchurch, Abchurch Lane, London EC4N 7BA Visit: www.london‐city‐churches.org.uk for more information and the location of the churches in the City

Tuesday ─ continued REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES IN MARCH 2018 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower

The entries below show the normal pattern of services for City Churches and 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate a few churches ‘just over the City borders’. Entries are for Church of England 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn services except where indicated otherwise. ‘1st Monday’, ‘2nd Monday’ etc 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public refer to the 1st Monday, 2nd Monday etc of the month. welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church While every effort is made to ensure accuracy, the services shown are 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service St Andrew Holborn subject to change immediately before, during and after major festivals 1210 Eucharist (said) (BCP) St James Garlickhythe (including during Holy Week), at Bank or other holidays, and during the summer months. You are strongly advised to contact churches to check the 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster details. 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less 1230 to 1300 Eucharist (said) with brief address St Dunstan in the West For a list of weekend (particularly Sunday) services please go to the Friends 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr of the City Churches website at www.london-city-churches.org.uk and follow 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) the links from ‘Events’ and ‘City Events’. St Mary Moorfields 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Woolnoth 1230 Holy Communion (said), followed by coffee and sandwiches Monday St Olave Hart Street 0715 Jewish Daily Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic orthodox rite) 1300 to 1330 Communion in the Crypt, with a focus on prayers for healing (0700 on 1st day of Hebrew religious month; 0800 on Bank Holidays) All Hallows by the Tower For details please see www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/ 1300 Lunchtime Service Christ Church, Spitalfields Bevis Marks Synagogue 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 0730 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1300 to 1400 (any time) Contemporary Worship 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields St Sepulchre without Newgate 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 1305 to 1340 Bible Talk, with lunch available after the talk 0800 Morning Prayer - short contemplative service (Moot Community – St Helen Bishopsgate all welcome) St Mary Aldermary 1305 Meditation (in the crypt chapel) St Mary le Bow 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 0815 to 0915 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament Informal drop-in service for 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn prayer, adoration and Eucharistic meditation – come and go as you wish 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, following sandwich lunch at 1300 St Dunstan in the West St Botolph Aldersgate 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1310 Holy Communion St Margaret Lothbury 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1315 to 1345 Meditation and prayers for humanity and the earth 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public (in the Tent) Open to all Please arrive a few minutes before 1315 welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service (if listeners available - 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn please check with church) St Andrew Holborn 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 1200 to 1230 Meditation Group: ‘Stressed in the City’ (Moot Community – Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street all welcome) St Mary Aldermary 1700 to 1730 ‘Words of Hope’ – quiet reflective service 1210 Eucharist (said) (BCP) St James Garlickhythe St Clement Eastcheap 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow St Mary Moorfields 1800 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1245 Sung Holy Communion St Mary at Hill 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 1300 to 1400 Ecumenical Contemplative Prayer (Addison Room) 1830 Choral Evensong (traditional) (Choral Eucharist on 3rd Tuesday) St Edmund King & Martyr (London Centre for Spiritual Direction) St Sepulchre without Newgate 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place

1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields Wednesday 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn 0730 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1700 to 1800 ‘Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0800 to 0845 Ecumenical Meditation Group All welcome 1800 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe St Edmund King & Martyr (London Centre for Spiritual Direction 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 0800 to 0830 Morning Taizé Chant (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary 1800 Choral Evensong (BCP) (during university terms – current term 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 15 January to 5 March) St Michael Cornhill 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street

0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow Tuesday 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 0715 Jewish Daily Service (see Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 0730 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0830 to 0915 Holy Communion St Lawrence Jewry 0730 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn 0745 Holy Communion (said) followed by coffee and croissants St Mary at Hill 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public 0745 Eucharist (in the church) followed by breakfast St Mary le Bow welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church 0745 to 0915 ‘Start: Stop’ – start the day by stopping to reflect – 10 minute reflections 0915 to 0945 Morning prayers, followed by coffee All welcome beginning every 15 minutes - just drop in St Stephen Walbrook St Edmund King & Martyr (London Centre for Spiritual Direction) 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service (if listeners available - 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn please check with church) St Andrew Holborn 0800 to 0900 Café Prayer – an opportunity for stillness and prayer, Bible reading 1205 RC Mass St Joseph Bunhill Row and reflection Coffee served St Katharine Cree continued/ 0800 to 0830 Morning Meditation (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary

Thursday ─ continued REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES IN 1300 to 1330 (1st Thursday) Private Prayer and Reflection MARCH 2018 − continued St Giles Cripplegate 1300 Holy Communion (1st Thursday normally choral) (not 29 March – see Special Services) St Margaret Pattens Wednesday ─ continued 1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate 1210 Eucharist (said) (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1305 Holy Communion, followed by coffee and sandwiches 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster St Katharine Cree 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Abchurch 1305 to 1335 ‘St Nick's Talks’ Bible Talk St Nicholas Cole Abbey 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn St Mary Moorfields 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn 1245 to 1315 (3rd Wednesday) Society of Friends (Quaker) Meeting for Worship 1310 to 1350 Bible Talk, with lunch available, followed by Question Time Bunhill Fields Meeting House, Quaker Court, Banner St St Helen Bishopsgate 1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal Worship and Teaching – come and go 1315 to 1345 Lunchtime Service (Free Church) City Temple as you wish St Margaret Lothbury 1315 Holy Communion St Martin within Ludgate 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 1315 Holy Communion (BCP said) (during legal term-time) 1305 ‘Not on a Sunday’ – informal worship with prayer and song, followed Temple Church by coffee St Katharine Cree 1400 to 1420 Prayers – Offering up the prayers from the church’s prayer board 1305 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow and the London Internet Church St Stephen Walbrook 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’ – contemplation, reflection and silent worship 1310 to 1340 ‘Moorgate Talks’ Bible Talk, following sandwich lunch at 1300, at Come and go as you wish (not 29 March) St Bride Fleet Street Amber, CityPoint, 1 Ropemaker St, EC2Y 9AW under the auspices of 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square St Botolph Aldersgate 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate 1800 to 2200 City of London House of Prayer – ‘Pursuit’ Prayer and Worship 1315 Holy Communion (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street Service All welcome (Free Church) City Temple 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn 1800 to 1830 Eucharist (said) Followed in Lent by Lent Study Group at 1830 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship St Dunstan in the West Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 1800 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1800 (Normally 1st Thursday) Choral Evensong, followed by ‘Thursday 1730 to 1750 Evening Prayer (Moot Community – all welcome) Conversation’ at 1830 St Mary at Hill St Mary Aldermary 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 1730 Choral Evensong (during legal term-time) Temple Church 1805 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1800 Taizé Service All Hallows by the Tower Friday 1800 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1830 to 1915 Meditation Group: ‘Stressed in the City’ (Moot Community – all 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square welcome) St Mary Aldermary 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 1900 Sung Eucharist St Andrew Holborn 0800 to 0830 Morning Taizé Chant (Moot Community – all welcome) St Mary Aldermary 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields Thursday 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0730 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public 0730 to 0930 ‘Headroom’ – short reflections with music and contemplation welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal Just drop in St Margaret Pattens 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1200 to 1500 Quiet Personal Prayer St Joseph Bunhill Row 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1200 to 1230 Meditation Group: ‘Stressed in the City’ (Moot Community – 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn all welcome) St Mary Aldermary 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1230 Low Mass (for 30 March see Special Services) St Magnus the Martyr 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1230 Pastoral Conversation or Confession (Sacrament Chapel) (or apply 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower at the Vestry) St Mary le Bow 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn St Mary Moorfields 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal 1305 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 1210 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate 1315 to 1400 Holy Communion St Lawrence Jewry 1210 Eucharist (said) (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1230 (1st Thursday) Eucharist followed by discussion 1800 Paraklesis (replaced on 1st Friday and during fasting periods by Service St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate of Holy Unction) Followed at 1900 to 2200 by Catechesis and 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr Confessions (Romanian Orthodox) St Dunstan in the West 1230 Eucharist St Mary le Strand 1800 (1st Friday) RC Low Mass in the Extraordinary Form 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) St Etheldreda, Ely Place St Mary Moorfields 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 1245 to 1330 Eucharist with the St Stephen’s Voices, followed by light lunch 1830 Jewish Friday Evening Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic St Stephen Walbrook orthodox rite) (1930 in summer months – please check on 1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal Worship and Teaching – come and go as you www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/) Bevis Marks Synagogue wish St Mary Woolnoth 1900 to 2100 City of London House of Prayer - Equipping Night Service Praise 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place and Worship (Free Church) City Temple

Monday 26 March – Monday in Holy Week SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS IN 1210 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate MARCH AND ON EASTER SUNDAY 2018 1230 Eucharist (said) St Dunstan in the West

1305 Midday Office with music for organ St Mary le Bow

Thursday 1 March Tuesday 27 March – Tuesday in Holy Week 1305 Lent Healing Service St Katharine Cree 1210 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate 1800 Choral Evensong followed by Thursday Conversation at 1830 1230 Eucharist (said) St Dunstan in the West See the entry for this date in the Events & Concerts section below 1300 Service of devotional readings and music for Holy Week, St Mary at Hill with music sung by the City Singers and the St Olave Singers Sunday 4 March Including works by S S Wesley, Howells, Rheinberger, Ives, 1500 St David’s Service (Services at this church are primarily in Welsh, Mozart and Handel St Katharine Cree with translation provided) St Benet Paul’s Wharf 1305 The Passion of Our Lord sung to plainchant, with choral music Monday 5 March St Mary le Bow 1300 Choral Classics 30 minutes of choral music and readings Wednesday 28 March – Wednesday in Holy Week with the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower St Stephen Walbrook 1230 Eucharist (said) St Dunstan in the West Wednesday 7 March 1305 Eucharist, followed at 1330 by ‘Cantata’ – please see under 1305 Eucharist, followed at 1330 by ‘Cantata’ - a guided meditation for 1330 below St Mary le Bow Lent with music for voice and organ St Mary le Bow 1310 A Sequence of Readings and Music for Passiontide, including the Lamentations of Jeremiah by Lassus St Botolph Bishopsgate Thursday 8 March 1330 ‘Cantata’ - meditation with music for voice & organ St Mary le Bow 1200 The Spital Sermon Preacher: the Rt Revd Martin Seeley, 1800 Taizé Prayer around the Cross All Hallows by the Tower Bishop of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich 1900 Tenebrae St Dunstan in the West The sermon takes its name from the Priory or Hospital of St Mary 2100 RC Tenebrae St Mary Moorfields Spital, a mediaeval house for tending London’s sick and poor It has been preached annually since the late 14th Century Thursday 29 March – Maundy Thursday St Lawrence Jewry 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1210 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate 1230 Eucharist (said) St Dunstan in the West Monday 12 March 1245 Choral Eucharist for Maundy Thursday, with Stripping of the Altar 1300 Choral Classics 30 minutes of choral music and readings St Stephen Walbrook with the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields 1300 O Vos Omnes – a Holy Week service of readings and music St Stephen Walbrook St Andrew Holborn Sunday 18 March 1300 Music and Readings for Passiontide St Margaret Pattens 1830 Lutheran Compline 1305 Maundy Thursday Eucharist, with music by Lloyd’s Choir St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill St Katharine Cree Monday 19 March 1305 High Mass of the Lord’s Supper, with Foot Washing and 1300 Choral Classics 30 minutes of choral music and readings Stripping of the Altar St Mary le Bow with the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields 1310 Choral Eucharist with Maundy Ceremonies St Stephen Walbrook St Botolph Bishopsgate Thursday 22 March 1315 Choral Communion for Maundy Thursday Temple Church 1315 The 52nd Anniversary of the Dedication of the Anglican Centre in 1800 Choral Eucharist for Maundy Thursday St Bride Fleet Street A celebration of Holy Communion with hymns 1800 Maundy Thursday Ceremonies, High Mass and Procession Celebrant and Preacher – The Right Reverend Stephen Platten St Magnus the Martyr RSVP for those who intend to be present: 1800 RC Mass of the Lord’s Supper (Extraordinary Form – in Latin) [email protected] St Martin Ludgate St Mary Moorfields 1800 Maundy Thursday Eucharist St Olave Hart Street Sunday 25 March – Palm Sunday 1830 Liturgy of the Last Supper, with Foot Washing and Stripping of the NB Clocks go forward for British Summer Time at 0100 today Altars, followed by silent prayer and ending with Compline at 2045 0930 Family Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less All Hallows by the Tower 1030 Sung Eucharist and Procession of Palms St Botolph Aldgate 1830 Lutheran Eucharist of the Last Supper 1100 Procession and Sung Eucharist for Palm Sunday, beginning St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill (weather permitting) in the gardens of St Dunstan in the East, 1830 Sung Eucharist with Stripping of the Altars and Watch Idol Lane, London EC3 at 1100, and processing to All Hallows by St Botolph Aldgate the Tower for the Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower 1930 RC Mass of the Lord’s Supper St Joseph Bunhill Row 1100 Lutheran Choral Eucharist for Palm Sunday 2000 Solemn Eucharist and Mandatum, followed by a Watch at the St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill Altar of Repose until 2400 St Bartholomew the Great 1100 Blessing of Palms, Procession and Solemn Eucharist, beginning 2100 RC Tenebrae St Mary Moorfields in St Bartholomew the Less at 1100 and processing to St Bartholomew the Great for the Eucharist Friday 30 March – Good Friday St Bartholomew the Great 0930 onwards Way of the Cross through the City 1100 Choral Eucharist for Palm Sunday St Bride Fleet Street Beginning at 0930 at St Mary Moorfields 1100 Palm Ceremonies, Procession and High Mass 1100 Good Friday Service with Eucharist and vocal ensemble St Magnus the Martyr (in Dutch) Dutch Church, Austin Friars 1100 Choral Holy Communion for Palm Sunday St Michael Cornhill 1100 Good Friday Children’s Activities St Botolph Aldgate 1115 Choral Mattins for Palm Sunday Temple Church 1100 Stations of the Cross St Magnus the Martyr 1830 Into the Hands of Sinners - a sequence of readings, music and 1115 Choral Mattins for Good Friday Temple Church prayers for Holy Week St Bartholomew the Great 1130 Butterworth Charity Ceremony St Bartholomew the Great churchyard /continued

Sunday 1 April – Easter Sunday — continued SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS IN 1400 Lutheran Holy Eucharist (in Swahili) MARCH AND ON EASTER SUNDAY 2018 - continued St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill 1730 Choral Evensong St Bride Fleet Street 1830 Festal Solemn Evensong and Benediction Friday 30 March – Good Friday – continued St Bartholomew the Great 1130 Mattins for Good Friday St Dunstan in the West 1200 Good Friday Liturgy with Veneration of the Cross All Hallows by the Tower LECTURES, COURSES, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS 1200 Solemn Liturgy of the Passion St Bartholomew the Great IN MARCH 2018 1200 onwards Good Friday Devotions: 1200 Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater 1300 At the Foot of the Cross – an hour of devotional Thursday 1 March music, words and prayer 1230 to 1430 Christian Fellowship lunchtime discussion on Love and 1400 Stainer's Crucifixion Humility in Our Time, led by the Revd Peter Owen Jones All are welcome to any or all of these St Bride Fleet Street Following Eucharist at 1230 1200 Liturgy of the Cross St Olave Hart Street For further information please go to: www.stethelburgas.org 1300 Liturgy of Good Friday St Magnus the Martyr and follow the links from ‘Events’ 1400 Liturgy of Good Friday St Botolph Aldgate St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation & Peace, Bishopsgate 1500 Solemn Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion St Dunstan in the West 1815 Lecture: Conservation in a far away country, by Peter Jamieson 1500 RC Liturgy of the Passion St Mary Moorfields architect and member of the Friends of Czech Heritage, who will 1500 RC Liturgy of the Passion St Joseph Bunhill Row give a snapshot of the country’s rich architectural heritage and 1800 Good Friday Devotion – Rossini’s Stabat Mater the charity’s work and projects St Magnus the Martyr The first in the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings 1800 RC Liturgy of the Passion (Extraordinary Form - in Latin) Spring Lecture Series For further information, ticket prices and to St Mary Moorfields book go to www.spab.org.uk and follow the links from 1830 Lutheran Liturgy of the Cross ‘What’s On’ and ‘Lectures’ St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill 1830 to 1930 Lent Study Group, following said Eucharist at 1800 1900 Tenebrae St Bartholomew the Great The group, led by Father Barry Orford and Father Guy Willis, 2100 RC Tenebrae St Mary Moorfields meets every Thursday evening from 15 February to 22 March and will be reading the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book Saturday 31 March – Holy Saturday (Easter Eve) for 2018, Say it to God – in Search of Prayer, by Luigi Gioia 1800 RC Easter Vigil (Extraordinary Form, in Latin) St Mary Moorfields Copies will be available to borrow, or to purchase for £10 1800 Easter Eve Vigil Service St Stephen Walbrook Light refreshments provided 1900 Vigil and High Mass St Magnus the Martyr For further information email [email protected] 1930 RC Easter Vigil St Joseph Bunhill Row St Dunstan in the West 2000 Lutheran Liturgy of Light 1830 Thursday Conversation with Jonathan Aitken St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill On Prison Reform and the Rehabilitation of Offenders 2000 Easter Vigil and First Mass of Easter St Bartholomew the Great Following Choral Evensong at 1800 Followed by refreshments 2000 Easter Vigil and First Communion of Easter Temple Church See the entry for this date in the Events & Concerts section below

Sunday 1 April – Easter Sunday St Mary at Hill 0600 Dawn Service and Egg Rolling St Bride Fleet Street Friday 2 March 0600 Easter Vigil followed by breakfast St Olave Hart Street 1100 to 1600 Listening to your Life: Discernment and Vocation in Spiritual 0830 Holy Communion (said) Temple Church Direction, with Julia Mourant 0900 Eucharist in the Lady Chapel St Bartholomew the Great One of a series of events for spiritual directors, led by 0930 Early Morning Easter Service (in Dutch), followed by breakfast experienced practitioners Dutch Church, Austin Friars For further information, cost and to book go to www.lcsd.org.uk 1000 Easter Sunday Family Eucharist and Easter Egg Hunt and follow the links from ‘Courses & Events’ St Bartholomew the Less London Centre for Spiritual Direction at St Edmund King & Martyr 1000 RC Mass for Easter Sunday St Mary Moorfields 1830 to 2100 Uniting the Feminine and Masculine Talk by Hilary Hart 1030 Sung Eucharist with the Lighting of the Pascal Candle For further information, cost and booking please go to St Botolph Aldgate www.stethelburgas.org and follow the links from ‘Events’ St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation & Peace, Bishopsgate 1100 Festal Eucharist with Blessing of the New Fire and Renewal of Baptismal Vows All Hallows by the Tower Saturday 3 March 1100 Easter Service (bilingual Dutch & English) 1130 to 1500 People of the Earth A sowing seeds of human connection Dutch Church, Austin Friars event - refugees, asylum seekers, organisations and local 1100 Lutheran Choral Eucharist for Easter Sunday Londoners all welcome – free, but please register for catering St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill purposes 1100 Solemn Eucharist with Renewal of Baptismal Covenant For further information and to register please go to St Bartholomew the Great www.stethelburgas.org and follow the links from ‘Events’ 1100 Easter Sunday Service (Services at this church are primarily in St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation & Peace, Bishopsgate

Welsh, with translation provided) St Benet Paul’s Wharf Sunday 4 March 1100 Choral Eucharist for Easter Sunday St Bride Fleet Street 1000 to 1700 Listening as a Container for Union 1100 Procession & High Mass for Easter Sunday St Magnus the Martyr Workshop with Hilary Hart 1100 Easter Sunday Holy Communion followed by Easter egg hunt For further information, cost and booking please go to St Olave Hart Street www.stethelburgas.org and follow the links from ‘Events’ 1115 Choral Communion for Easter Sunday Temple Church St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation & Peace, Bishopsgate 1130 RC Mass for Easter Sunday St Joseph Bunhill Row /continued

LECTURES, COURSES, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS EVENTS AND CONCERTS IN MARCH 2018 IN MARCH 2018 ― continued

Thursday 1 March Thursday 8 March 1300 St Mary Abchurch 1815 Lecture: Heritage under pressure – How historic cities cope with

success: Venice and Dubrovnik Given by John Sell, architect and Executive Vice-President of the Europe-wide heritage network Europa Nostra One of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings Spring Lectures For further information, ticket prices and to book go to www.spab.org.uk and follow the links from ‘What’s On’ and A Lunchtime Recital of Instrumental and Choral Music ‘Lectures’ St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall by pupils of Orwell Park School, Nacton, Ipswich, Suffolk 1830 to 1930 Lent Study Group, following said Eucharist at 1800 in celebration of the School's 150th anniversary Please see the entry under 1 March For further information email [email protected] 1305 St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield St Dunstan in the West A City Music Society concert to be given by Tuesday13 March The Royal College of Music Wind Ensemble Simon Channing – director 1045 to 1530 Oasis Day: Journeys in a Lifetime, led by Amanda Allchorn Oasis Days offer a monthly time of quiet reflection to re-charge Programme: one’s spiritual batteries with stimulating speakers Hindemith – Kleine Kammermusik Op 24 No 2 Cost £15 - Lunch provided Mozart arr Robin O'Neill – Sonata in D K448 Pre-booking required for catering purposes - to book please Admission is free with a retiring collection telephone the Revd Martin Davies on 07429 612642 or e-mail

[email protected] St Andrew Holborn 1305 St Olave Hart Street 1100 City of London Historical Society Talk: The Body Snatchers Recital: Irena Radić – piano Given by Robert Stephenson (City Guide and Kensal Green Cemetery Guide) All welcome – admission £10 Admission is free with a retiring collection St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall Thursday 15 March 1310 St Margaret Lothbury 1400 to 1600 Open Afternoon: Introduction to the 3 year Ignatian Organ Recital: Spirituality Course A free event for those considering the course, Richard Townend plays Bach and Buxtehude (2) which provides a formation and training in spiritual direction based on the spiritual exercises of Ignatius of Loyola 1800 St Mary at Hill For further information and to book go to www.artsd.org.uk Choral Evensong, followed by Thursday Conversation at 1830 London Centre for Spiritual Direction at St Edmund King & Martyr Evensong will be sung by Seraphim, the St Mary at Hill Choir 1815 Lecture: Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone Speakers from SPAB The Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkins will be in conversation with Ireland explore the challenges of conserving Ireland’s built heritage Jonathan Aitken. Their topic will be: One of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings Spring 'Prison Reform and the Rehabilitation of Offenders' Lectures For further information, ticket prices and to book go to Followed by refreshments www.spab.org.uk and follow the links from ‘What’s On’ and Admission is free Donations are welcome ‘Lectures’ St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall 1830 to 1930 Lent Study Group, following said Eucharist at 1800 Friday 2 March Please see the entry under 1 March 1230 St Stephen Walbrook For further information email [email protected] Organ Recital: St Dunstan in the West Edward Hewes – Organ Scholar at Southwark Cathedral Wednesday 21 March 1300 to 1400 Gresham College Lecture: The Guitar at the Restoration Court Admission is free with retiring collection Given by Professor Christopher Page - part of a series on For Courtesan, Queen and Gallant: The Guitar in England from 1305 St Mary at Hill Henry VIII to Samuel Pepys A Music-at-Hill Recital Free – no reservations required Admission on a ‘first come, first BELLOT ENSEMBLE served’ basis Doors open at 1230 Edmund Taylor – director For further information please go to www.gresham.ac.uk and Programme: follow the links from ‘Attend’, ‘All future lectures’ and ‘Music’ 'The Development of the Italian Trio Sonata' (Part 3) St Sepulchre without Newgate including works by Albinoni, Corelli, Torelli and Vivaldi Thursday 22 March 1815 Lecture: Traditional Buildings in the Loire Valley 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Given by Angela Hurworth (Maisons Paysannes de Touraine), Recital: Ana Margarida Silva – piano who will discuss attitudes to conservation and repair Programme: One of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings Spring Chopin – Nocturne Op 9 No 1 Lectures For further information, ticket prices and to book go to Liszt – Années de Pélerinage – www.spab.org.uk and follow the links from ‘What’s On’ and Three pieces from "Deuxième année: Italie" ‘Lectures’ St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall Mendelssohn – Variations sérieuses Op 54

1830 to 1930 Lent Study Group, following said Eucharist at 1800 Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Please see the entry under 1 March For further information email [email protected] St Dunstan in the West

EVENTS AND CONCERTS IN MARCH 2018 - continued Tuesday 6 March

1230 St Mary Abcurch Friday 2 March – continued Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. The recital will usually include an improvisation 1315 St Dunstan in the West Recital: Kelvin McGregor – tenor 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Organ Recital 1930 St Mary Moorfields The Eric Thompson Charitable Trust for Organists Miserere – Music for Passiontide In March, we are delighted to present another series of A Concert of Sacred Choral Music by the Fisher Consort outstanding school-age organists from around the UK. Jonathan Schranz – Musical Director The energy and commitment of these young artists has entranced Programme: audiences in previous years, and it is certain that this year’s Rudolf Mauersberger – Motet: Wie liegt die Stadt so wüst roster will be equally interesting. James MacMillan – Miserere Sven-David Sandström – Hear my Prayer, O Lord Fintan Simmons (Shrewsbury School) J S Bach – Charles Kingston and William Pierce (Tonbridge School) Extracts from St Matthew Passion and St John Passion Programme: Fintan will perform works by J S Bach, Mendelssohn & Mathias Admission will be free with a retiring collection Charles will perform works by J S Bach and Vierne Monday 5 March William will perform works by J S Bach and Guilmant

1300 St Lawrence Jewry Recital: Angela Lau – piano 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Programme: A Walbrook Music Trust Recital Debussy – L'isle joyeuse Constance Leung Chow – piano Chopin – Scherzo No 3 Op 39 in C minor Scriabin – Sonata No 2 Op 19 in G minor 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Beethoven – Sonata No 28 Op101 in A major Recital: Hector Castro – classical guitar Programme: Works by Villa Lobos, Gasper Sanz, Leo Brouwer, 1300 St Mary Abchurch Frescobaldi, Miguel Llobet, Frederico Moreno Torroba, Albéniz Recital: Katherine Clarke – solo viola and voice Joaquin Turina, J S Bach Programme: John Tavener – Out of the Night (1996) Free Admittance – Retiring Collection J S Bach – Partita No 3 BWV 1006 arranged for solo viola 1 Preludio 1315 St Mary at Hill 2 Loure Recital in The Square Mile Music Series 3 Gavotte en Rondeau Emma Walker – piano 4 Menuets (I & II) Programme: 5 Bourée Schumann – Carnaval Op 9

1300 St Stephen Walbrook 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Choral Classics Tours of the Church 30 minutes of sublime choral music and readings Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. with the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: 1305 St Martin Ludgate Recital: [email protected] 'Through a Garden to the Shore: Vintage and Modern Songs' or telephoning (+44) 20 7427 0133. performed by seven singers from Ohio (USA) Special tours for groups can also be arranged. led by J R Frailick – tenor, with Patrick O'Donnell – piano A delightful variety of songs about nature and love 1930 St Botolph Bishopsgate Sonoro Choir — 'Passion and Polyphony' 1300 St Michael Cornhill Sacred choral music by Frank Martin and Sir James MacMillan Neil Ferris – conductor Organ Recital: Alexander Binns – St Edmundsbury Cathedral Programme: A concert and ‘Meet the Artists’ reception to launch our debut Arne – Introduction and Fugue in C album of Sacred choral music – Passion & Polyphony: Bach – Passacaglia in C BWV 582 Programme: Vaughan Williams – Alla Sarabanda MacMillan – Cecilia Virgo (from Phantasy arr Ley) MacMillan – Children are a heritage of the Lord Butterworth – The Banks of the Green Willow Martin – Mass for Double Choir Oxley – A Tune MacMillan – Data est mihi omnis potestas Duruflé – Prélude et Fugue sur le nom d'Alain The concert will be followed by a reception where you will be 1800 St Michael Cornhill able to help us celebrate. The last of this term's Choral evensongs takes place. Tickets: £10.00 - £25.00 To purchase tickets please go to: The anthem will be the World Premiere of Memoria by https://www.sonoromusic.com/ and follow the links Rhiannon Randle. This is scored for the unprecedented combination of eight-part Choir, Solo Soprano, Solo Countertenor and Erhu – a highly expressive Chinese stringed instrument

EVENTS AND CONCERTS IN MARCH 2018 - continued Friday 9 March

1230 St Stephen Walbrook Wednesday 7 March Organ Recital: Oliver Macfarlane – First assistant organist at St Mary’s, Stoke D'Abernon, Surrey. He is Editor of Performance Programmes with BBC Television .

The City Church of St Stephen Walbrook Admission is free with retiring collection

Wednesday 7 March to Thursday 29 March 1305 St Mary at Hill A Music-at-Hill Recital First Day of an Art Exhibition Baltic Series Ieva Dubova & Joe Howson – piano solo and Stations of the Cross Programme: Schumann – Kinderszenen Op 15 Weekdays 10.00am to 4.00pm Georgs Pelēcis – Remembering Stories, V - Scenes from the

except Wednesdays – 11.00am to 3.00pm Arabian Nights story of Ali Baba & the Four Thieves

1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: Jinah Shim – piano 1305 St Botolph Aldgate Programme: Recital: Mark Gibbs – viola with piano accompaniment Schumann – Kinderszenen Op 15 Programme: Liszt – Ballade No 2 in B minor Prokofiev arr Borisovsky – Selections from Romeo and Juliet Debussy – Lisle joyeuse

Admission is free with a retiring collection Free Admittance – Retiring Collection

1305 St Olave Hart Street 1315 St Dunstan in the West Recital: Rhys Bowden – tenor David Johnson – piano Organ Recital: Laurence Long 1315 St Dunstan in the West Recital: Green Chorus (the Japanese ladies' choir) 1900 St Mary Moorfields String Concert

1330 St Mary le Bow Cantata Saturday 10 March

Following the Eucharist at 1305, a guided meditation for Lent 1930 St Sepulchre without Newgate with music for voices and organ

Thursday 8 March This celebratory concert marks the launch of Londinium's debut recording 'The Gluepot Connection' – an appealing and diverse 1305 St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield selection of British choral music by composers who frequented A City Music Society concert to be given by Nérija — 'The George' pub in Great Portland Street in the first half of the This year's winners of the Jazz Newcomer Parliamentary Jazz twentieth century Award and Jazz FM Breakthrough Act of the Year 2016 nominees Nérija are a collective of London-based musicians playing Programme: exciting and original music inspired by Jazz, Hip Hop, Afrobeat John Ireland – The Hills and South African Township Alan Rawsthorne – Four Seasonal Songs

Sheila Maurice-Grey – Cassie Kinoshi – alto saxophone Peter Warlock – The Full Heart Rosie Turton – Nubyua Garcia – tenor saxophone E J Moeran – Songs of Springtime (excerpts) Shirley Tetteh – guitar Rio Kai – Alan Bush – Lidice Lizy Exell – drums Elisabeth Lutyens – Verses Of Love Adrian Peacock – Venite, Gaudete! Programme: To celebrate International Women's Day Kenneth Leighton – Mass for Double Choir

Arnold Bax – Mater ora filium Admission is free with a retiring collection

1305 St Olave Hart Street Tickets: £12 ' earlybird' discount / £15 / Recital: Jonna Järvitano – flute Lucy Gijsbers – cello £10 (student concession) at the door or online: Ana Manastireanu – piano www.londinium-voices.org.uk/events/

1310 St Margaret Lothbury Saturday 10 March Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series: Johannes Geffert - Berlin, Germany 1930 St Andrew Holborn

1900 St Mary at Hill London Euphonia Orchestra Lisa Rijma – soprano Dario Peluso – conductor Sacré et Profane – music from France City Chamber Choir Programme: Stephen Jones – conductor Hélène Favre Bulle – piano Puccini – Soprano arias and intermezzos Programme: Masterpieces of French music by Poulenc, Brahms – Symphony No 1 in C minor Op 68

Debussy, Milhaud, Ravel, Fauré, Saint-Saëns, Canteloube, Tickets: £10; Concessions £8 from: Duruflé and Lili Boulanger https://www.outsavvy.com/event/1077/london-euphonia-orchestra- Tickets: £15 (£10 under 18s and full-time students only) brahms-and-puccini-tickets at the door or from www.citychamberchoir.org

EVENTS AND CONCERTS IN MARCH 2018 - continued Monday 12 March – continued

1300 St Michael Cornhill

Organ Recital: Benjamin Newlove – Saturday 10 March – continued Sir George Thalben-Ball Memorial Organ Scholar 2017-18 2100 St Katharine Cree and Assistant Director of Music, St Michael Cornhill

Concert: A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event Programme: Addison Chamber Choir Bach – Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C BWV 564 David Addison – conductor Vierne – Symphonie 2 Op 20 (complete)

Programme: The first half comprises a recent piece by 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Master of the Queen’s Music, (who is the Addison Choral Classics Singers' Featured Composer for 2017/18) and John Gardner’s 30 minutes of sublime choral music and readings entertaining Five Hymns in the Popular Style, which present with the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields

very well-known hymns - including Abide with Me and 1305 St Martin Ludgate Fight the Good Fight - in a rather unusual light. Recital: Iona Allan – violin, Findlay Spence – cello, In the second half, Mozart's Requiem, in the unusual version Ana Manastireanu – piano arranged by for accompaniment. Programme: Tchaikovsky – Piano Trio in A minor Op 50 Tickets: £23 (premium); £18 (unreserved); children £5

Box Office: 07528 776 625 or from the website: Tuesday 13 March http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/festival and follow the links 1230 St Mary Abcurch Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate Sunday 11 March The recital will usually include an improvisation

1500 St Mary le Bow 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Arcubus Ensemble Organ Recital Julian Collings – Music Director Continuation of performances by outstanding school-age organists from around the UK. Programme: Jason Richards (Dean Close School) Carlo Gesualdo – Tenebrae Responses for Maundy Thursday and Harrison Cole (Junior RAM and Ipswich School) Russell Hepplewhite (resident composer) – Jesus thou divine Harrison will perform works by J S Bach, Dubois, Whitlock A better resurrection and Langlais Jason will perform works by Mendelssohn and Franck Tickets: £11 from: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/arcubus-ensemble-sundays-3pm-tickets- 41667788477 1300 St Stephen Walbrook A Walbrook Music Trust Recital Oliver Nelson – violin Vasileios Rakitzis – piano 1900 St Mary le Bow A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event 1315 St Mary at Hill

City of Oxford Choir Recital in The Square Mile Music Series Duncan Aspen – conductor Breiffni Horgan – tenor Richard Black – piano Programme: Programme: Works by Duparc, Chabrier, Hahn and Schubert Parry – I was glad and other popular anthems

Tickets: £23 (premium); £18 (unreserved); children £5 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Box Office: 07528 776 625 or from the website: Tours of the Church http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/festival and follow the links Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: Monday 12 March [email protected] or telephoning (+44) 20 7427 0133. 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Special tours for groups can also be arranged. Piano Recital by pupils of Stowe School Wednesday 14 March

J S Bach – Prelude and Fugue in F# minor BWV 859 from Book 1 of The Well-Tempered Clavier 1305 St Botolph Aldgate Performed by Annabel Hing Recital: Emma Jane Walker – piano

Beethoven – Sonata No 8 in C minor Op 13 – 'Pathétique' Programme: Performed by Rosia Li Schumann – Carnaval Op 9

Mozart – Sonata No 8 in A minor K 310 First movement Admission is free with a retiring collection

Performed by Jeffrey Au 1305 St Olave Hart Street Chopin – Fantaisie-Impromptu Op 66 Recital: Blaze Ensemble Performed by Bill Baker Andy Feist – Alex Postlethwaite – violin Paul Guinery – piano Chopin – Ballade No 3 in A flat major Op 47 Programme: Performed by David Choo Brahms – in E flat m\jor Op 40

Admission free, retiring collection

Friday 16 March – continued EVENTS AND CONCERTS IN MARCH 2018 - continued 1305 St Mary at Hill A Music-at-Hill Recital Thursday 15 March Debussy Centenary Series [In memoriam , died March 1918] 1305 St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield Florence Cook – violin Laetitia Federici – piano A City Music Society concert to be given by the Pelléas Ensemble Programme; Henry Roberts – flute Luba Tunnicliffe – viola Brahms – Violin Sonata No 1 Op 78 Oliver Wass – harp Debussy – Violion Sonata (1917) L 148 Programme: 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Dubois – Terzettino Recital: Betty Makharinsky – soprano Rameau – Piéce en concert Pavel Timofeyevsky – piano Misha Mullov-Abbado – Three Meditation Songs Programme: Works by Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Debussy – Sonata for flute, viola and harp Debussy, Poulenc, Ravel and Gounod Admission is free with a retiring collection Free Admittance – Retiring Collection

1305 St Olave Hart Street 1900 St Mary le Bow Recital: Trio Atherios A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event Admission is free with a retiring collection Masterpieces of the Renaissance

A celebration of Franco-Flemish music presented by 1310 St Margaret Lothbury The Iken Scholars Music for Voice and Organ Matthew Dunn – conductor William Townend and Richard Townend Tickets: £23 (premium); £18 (unreserved); children £5 1930 St Andrew Holborn Box Office: 07528 776 625 or from the website: 'Music for a Ducal Do' http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/festival and follow the links

Orlando Chamber Choir Saturday 17 March

Peter Foggitt – director 1900 St Mary le Bow In February 1568, almost exactly 450 years ago, Duke Wilhelm V A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event

of Bavaria married Renata of Lorraine in Munich, Germany. Serenissima The lavish ceremony lasted several days with the great Orlando di Lasso in charge of music. Mass and Vespers were celebrated daily but there were The University of Reading Chamber Choir lighter distractions too including tournaments, dance parties, commedia Conductor – Paul Barrett

dell’arte performances and madrigal singing. Programme: Works by Vittoria, Tallis, Lauridsen and Whitacre Orlando Chamber Choir presents a cross-section of the music performed at this exuberant occasion, accompanied by period instruments Tickets: £23 (premium); £84 (unreserved); children £5 Box Office: 07528 776 625 or from the website: Programme: http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/festival and follow the links Orlando di Lasso – Te Deum laudamus a 6 Jacobus de Kerle – Trahe me post te Sunday 18 March

Cipriano de Rore – Missa Præter rerum seriem 1800 St Botolph Bishopsgate Orlando di Lasso – Gratia sola Dei ; Allaia, pia calia ; A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event Lucia , celu, hai! ; Chi chi li chi Alessandro Striggio – Ecce beatam lucem Northern Lights – An evening of celestial choral music The Maidstone Singers Tickets: £15 (concessions £10) at the door or from: Kathryn Ridgeway – conductor www.orlandochoir.org.uk/events This concert will last approximately one hour without an interval Programme: Works by Gjeilo, Lauridsen, Elgar and Sibelius 1930 St Katharine Cree A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event Tickets: £19 (premium); £14 (unreserved); children £5 Box Office: 07528 776 625 or from the website: Rorate Caeli: A 90th Birthday Concert for Thea Musgrave http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/festival and follow the links

A celebration of the 90th birthday of Thea Musgrave, 2000 St Botolph Bishopsgate the remarkable Scottish-American composer A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event

Rubythroat Trinity Laban Chamber Choir Allegri Miserere Linda Hirst — conductor Stephen Jackson — conductor A concert of music of the Renaissance to the present day

Tickets: £23 (premium); £18 (unreserved); children £5 St John's Voices from Cambridge Box Office: 07528 776 625 or from the website: Graham Walker – conductor http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/festival and follow the links Anthony Gray and David Heinze – organ

Programme: Friday 16 March Bach – Komm. Jesu, Komm

1230 St Stephen Walbrook Allegri – Allegri Miserere Organ Recital: Liam Cartwright – All Saints, High Wycombe David Nunn – A short new work which combines ancient plainsong with contemporary compositional techniques Admission is free with retiring collection Tickets: £19 (premium); £14 (unreserved); children £5 Box Office: 07528 776 625 or from the website: http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/festival and follow the links

Tuesday 20 March – continued EVENTS AND CONCERTS IN MARCH 2018 - continued 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: Leonard Heydenrych – flute, Carike Bijker – piano Monday 19 March Programme: Works by Handel, C P E Bach, 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Louis-Gaston Ganne, Chopin and Godard Recital: David Soo – piano Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Programme:

Beethoven – Sonata No 15 in D major Op 28 – 'Pastorale' 1315 St Mary at Hill Recital in The Square Mile Music Series Liszt – Après une Lecture du Dante, Fantasia Quasi Una Sonata Hunter Mabery – piano 1300 St Michael Cornhill Organ Recital: Timothy Wakerell – New College, Oxford 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Programme: Tours of the Church Cook – Fanfare (1952) Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Reger – 3 Trios Op 47 (1900) Gigue – Kanzonetta – Fugue Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day Hindemith – Sonata 1 (1937) or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: Litaize – Lied from Douze Pièces (1939) [email protected] Guilmant – Final, from Sonata 1 (1874) or telephoning (+44) 20 7427 0133. Special tours for groups can also be arranged. 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Choral Classics 1930 St Bride Fleet Street 30 minutes of sublime choral music and readings Music for Lent with the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields Vasari Singers Jeremy Backhouse – conductor

1305 St Martin Ludgate Programme: Recital: The Byron Consort of Harrow School Chamber Choir Lotti – Crucifixus a 8 and a 10 Tallis – Lamentations of Jeremiah

1930 The Great Hall at St Bartholomew's Hospital Allegri – Miserere MacMillan – Miserere BARTS ACADEMIC FESTIVAL CHOIR & ORCHESTRA Ešenvalds – Ubi caritas and O salutaris hostia Easter Concert Duruflé – 4 motets Programme: Poulenc – 4 motets for Lent Beethoven – Symphony No 8 in F Major Op 93 Tickets: £16 (uner 18s £12) from Tickets: £15 (Concessions £10) on the door https://vasarimfl.brownpapertickets.com Wine in the interval

All proceeds go to Barts Cancer Unit Wednesday 21 March

Tuesday 20 March 1305 St Botolph Aldgate 1230 St Mary Abcurch Recital: Lyrit Milgram – violin Stephen Gutman – piano Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate Programme: The recital will usually include an improvisation – Violin Sonata in E flat Op 18

1300 Charterhouse Chapel Admission is free with a retiring collection

Peace of Mind

Unaccompanied Songs of Reflection and Contemplation, 1305 St Olave Hart Street Traditional and Composed, Ancient and Modern Recital: Boyan Ivanov – clarinet Lysianne Chen – piano Presented and sung by Deborah Hudson Admission is free with a retiring collection This is a drop-in event to refresh and calm the mind.

Admission is free

Donations to Charterhouse Music Therapy Charity welcome 1315 St Dunstan in the West

Recital: Matthew Chambers – violin 1300 St Lawrence Jewry

Organ Recital

Continuation of performances by outstanding school-age 1315 Temple Church organists from around the UK. Organ Recital: Greg Morris continues his performing of Bach's William Campbell and Thomas Williamson (Wellington College) complete organ works William will perform works by J S Bach, Thalben-Ball and Programme: Boëllman Trio No 3 & 4 BWV 527 & 528

Thomas will perform works by J S Bach, Hindemith and Boëllman Lenten Chorale Preludes BWV 618 - 624 Fantasia & Fugue in C minor BWV 537

1300 St Stephen Walbrook For more information concerning this series of recitals in venues A Walbrook Music Trust Recital outside the City of London please go to : Inga Linkaityte – piano http://gregmorris.org.uk/bach/

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Thursday 22 March The City Church of St Bride Fleet Street 1305 St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield A City Music Society concert to be given by the Lipatti Quartet JAM — The James Armitage Memorial Concert

Amy Tress – violin Jenny Lewisohn – viola Aurio l Evans – cello Gamal Khamis – piano At 7.30pm on Thursday 22 March 2018

Programme: Bridge – Phantasy for H94 Music of Our Time Brahms – Quartet No 3 in C minor Op 60

Admission is free with a retiring collection JAM commissions by Tom Harrold and Jonathan Dove will be programmed with outstanding works submitted to JAM in its recent nationwide call for music. 1305 St Olave Hart Street Recital: Guildhall Harpists and Friends The programme will feature the London premiere of Voices of Vimy by Tom Harrold and Stuart Beatch, Admission is free with a retiring collection an outstanding Anglo‐Canadian collaboration commemorating the centenary of the World War I Battle of Vimy Ridge, co‐commissioned in 2017 by JAM and Canada's finest choir Pro Coro 1310 All Hallows by theTower Organ Recital: David Cook In this programme we will also celebrate the 15‐year anniversary of Jonathan Dove's captivating The Far Theatricals of Day, 1310 St Margaret Lothbury commissioned by JAM in 2003 for choir, brass and organ Organ Recital:

International Celebrity Series: Anne-Caroline Prénat - Lutry, Switzerland The varied programme will also include works by Cecilia McDowall, Kerensa Briggs, Richard Peat, Jack Redman, 1900 St Andrew Holborn Michael Short, Angela Slater and Judith Ward

Evening Concert – The concert will be performed by St Salvator's Chapel Choir, University of St Andrews the Chapel Choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge with Onyx Brass Tom Wilkinson – conductor Programme: Works by Vaughan Williams, J S Bach, Brahms, Soloists: Sigismund von Neukomm, Sir James MacMillan Free entry All welcome Claire Seaton – soprano, Roderick Morris – counter-tenor, Ashley Catling – tenor, Ed Grint – bass

Cellist — Molly Parsons-Gurr 1900 St Giles Cripplegate Lloyd's Choir Spring Concert Organist — Simon Hogan

Cohen Ensemble Jacques Cohen – conductor Conductor — Michael Bawtree Programme: Parry – Crossing the bar Tickets: £18, £12 Students £5 Under 18s free Elgar – Sea Pictures Vaughan Williams – A Sea Symphony Box Office: 0800 988 7984 or www.jamconcert.org/season

Tickets: £20 (£12 for students) available on the door In advance from choir members or Eventbrite.co.uk

1930 St Bride Fleet Street

Music of Our Time Friday 23 March

JAM – The James Armitage Memorial Concert 1230 St Stephen Walbrook For details please refer to the box display in the adjacent column Organ Recital: Anthony Gritten – Royal Academy of Music

Admission is free with retiring collection

2000 St Botolph Bishopsgate 1305 St Mary at Hill Spring Concert: Heart of the City Community Choir A Music-at-Hill Recital Entry by donation (suggested £10) Couperin 350th Birthday Series Juliet Fraser & Amy Wood – sopranos James McVinnie – chamber organ Programme: Couperin – Trois Leçons de Ténèbres Motet pour le jour de Pâques

EVENTS AND CONCERTS IN MARCH 2018 - continued Saturday 24 March – continued

1930 St Bartholomew the Great Friday 23 March – continued Armada! Collegium Musicum 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Greg Morris – conductor Recital: St Salvator's Chapel Choir, University of St Andrew's 1588 – Victory over Spain. England rejoiced! Programme: In a programme which will inspire a new recording to be released Vaughan Williams – from Mass in G minor later this year, Collegium Musicum of London presents a vivid Kyrie selection of works by Victoria, Byrd, Parsons, Tallis and Guierro Agnus Dei dating from that time J S Bach – Komm, Jesu, komm BWV 229 Brahms – Herzliebster Jesu Op. 122 (Organ solo) Tickets: £15 (concessions £13) on the door or in advance from: Brahms – Warum ist das licht gegeben dem Mühseligen? www.collegiumchoir,com or 07812 599 340 Anselm McDonnell – Hinneni Sir James MacMillan – O Radiant Dawn Monday 26 March

Free Admittance – Retiring Collection 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Recital: Ke Ma – piano 1900 St Botolph Bishopsgate Programme: Concert: Giltspur Singers J S Bach – Partita No 1 in B flat major BWV 825 Programme: Beethoven – Sonata No 32 in C minor Op 111 Poulenc – Penitential Motets Szymanowski – Variations Op 3 English Romantic part songs Ke Ma performs through the St Lawrence Jewry and British Folk Songs Worshipful Company of Musicians Scheme Entry £15 including refreshments for young prizewinners of the Company

1915 All Hallows by the Tower 1300 St Michael Cornhill City Music Services Spring Concert Organ Recital: Alberto Brigandi and Mark James The CMS Chorale and City Music Services present a medley of An unusual and starkly appropriate contribution to Holy Week items ranging from opera arias to songs from the shows. They will play excerpts from Verdi's Requiem All welcome Admission free in Alberto Brigandi's new arrangement for two organists

1930 St Andrew Holborn 1305 St Martin Ludgate Armed Man Choral Suite and the theme of Peace Recital: Vanessa Chan – violin Hunter Maybury – piano City Chorus

Paul Ayres – Music Director Tuesday 27 March Programme: City Chorus explore music through the ages on the original medieval tune L'homme armé: — 1230 St Mary Abcurch Palestrina's Missa l'homme armé; Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate through works by J S Bach, , The recital will usually include an improvisation John Blow and Herbert Howells on the theme of Peace. The concert finishes with the Choral Suite 1300 St Katharine Cree from Karl Jenkins' The Armed Man. The City Singers with The St Olave Singers A service of devotional readings and music for Holy Week Tickets: £15 on the door Readings from the Bible and from works by Robert Herrick, George Herbert, R S Thomas, Anthems by S S Wesley, Farrant, Rheinberger, Leighton, Saturday 24 March Hutchings, Ives, Mozart, J Handl, Elgar

1900 St Mary le Bow A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Ionian Singers Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis Eulalie Charland – violin Programme: Timothy Salter – conductor Gibbons – Fantazia of foure parts Programme: The music to be performed will bring together music Stanford – From Six short preludes and postludes Op 105 of the English Renaissance, the Baroque and recent times: — two themes by Motets by Gibbons, Weelkes and Edmund Rubbra; Stanford – Intermezzo founded upon an Irish air Op 189 No 4 Knut Nystedt's Ave Maria for violin and choir; Karg-Elert – From 66 Choral Preludes Op 65 – Solo violin music by J S Bach, and the Icelandic composer Four pieces including No 59 – 'Nun damket alle Gott' Hafliði Hallgrimsson and Timothy Salter; The first performance of a short chorale prelude for violin and 1300 St Stephen Walbrook chorus by Timothy Salter on J S Bach's chorale Es ist genug A Walbrook Music Trust Recital

Fabio Fernandes – guitar Tickets: £23 (premium); £18 (unreserved); children £5 Box Office: 07528 776 625 or from the website: 1315 St Mary at Hill http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/festival and follow the links Recital in The Square Mile Music Series Meera Maharaj – flute Dominic Degavino – piano

EVENTS AND CONCERTS IN MARCH 2018 - continued Thursday 29 March — Maundy Thursday – continued

1300 St Andrew Holborn Tuesday 27 March — continued 'O vos omnes' A Lunchtime service of readings and music in Holy Week with 1415 St Bride Fleet Street music by Gibbons, Ireland and Lotti Tours of the Church The Choir of St Andrew Holborn will perform Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. under their Director of Music, James M cVinnie Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: 1310 All Hallows by theTower Organ Recital: [email protected] Jonathan Melling plays 'Music for Passiontide' or telephoning (+44) 20 7427 0133. Special tours for groups can also be arranged.

Friday 30 March — Good Friday Wednesday 28 March 1400 St Bride Fleet Street 1300 London Centre for Spiritual Direction 'The Crucifixion' by Stainer will be sung by the Church Choir as a at St Edmund King & Martyr key part of devotions on the day We are delighted once again to host Haydn’s The Seven Last Words from the Cross, ****************************************************************************** performed by : Penny Saunders (Violin), Helen Saunders (Violin), We are indebted to Dickon Love, Alan Thorogood (Viola) and Francis Saunders (Cello). Company Bellringer to the Worshipful Company of Free Admission Come and enjoy Parish Clerks

1300 St Lawrence Jewry for the following information Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis Programme: Gibbons – Fantazia of foure parts Stanford – From Six short preludes and postludes Op 105 two themes by Orlando Gibbons Open bellringing performances Stanford – Intermezzo founded upon an Irish air Op 189 No 4 Karg-Elert – From 66 Choral Preludes Op 65 – currently scheduled for the City of London Four pieces including No 59 – 'Nun damket alle Gott' in March 2018 1305 St Botolph Aldgate

Recital: Duo Brikcius Tuesday 13 March Anna Brikciusová – cello František Brikcius – cello 1400 3 hr performance on the Jubilee Bells Programme: by the Ancient Society of College Youths Offenbach – Duo pour 2 violoncellos Op 53 No 1 at St Dunstan in the West Gideon Klein – Duo for Violin and Cello Revision by Vojtĕch Saudek. Arranged for two by Saturday 17 March František Brikcius – London premiere 1000 3½ hr performance on the bells Jánáček – Presto (1910) by the Ancient Society of College Youths Arranged for two cellos by František Brikcius – London premiere at St Michael Cornhill Admission is free with a retiring collection

1310 St Botolph Bishopsgate Sunday 18 March A Sequence of Readings and Music for Passiontide 1430 3½ hr performance on the church bells including the Lassus Lamentations by the St James' Guild at St Magnus the Martyr 1315 Temple Church Organ Recital: Greg Morris continues his performing of Bach's Monday 19 March complete organ works 1730 3½ hr performance on the Bow Bells Programme: by the Ancient Society of College Youths Chorale Partita on Sei gegrüsset BWV 768 in memoriam Jim Phillips, Past Master Prelude and Fugue in E minor BWV 548 at St Mary le Bow

For more information concerning this series of recitals in venues outside the City of London please go to : Tuesday 20 March http://gregmorris.org.uk/bach/ 1800 3 hr performance on the Royal Jubilee Bells

at St James Garlickhythe Thursday 29 March — Maundy Thursday Friday 23 March 1800 3 hr performance on the Royal Jubilee Bells The City Church of St Stephen Walbrook at St James Garlickhythe Thursday 29 March 11.00am to 3.00pm Final Day of an Art Exhibition Stations of the Cross

Apri l 2018 Published by FCC in conjunction with the Archdeaconry of Lonndon

Innovation, diversity and modernity

This brief review will attempt to cover the diversity of the composing styles to be found in the works being performed in the 76 musical events listed this month with an emphhasis on contemporary composers and those of the latter part of the 20th century. Beginning with the latter category, an uusual musical event will take place at Stt Lawrence Jewry at 1.00pm on Tuesday 24 April as part of the 60th Anniversary celebrations of the rebuildiing of the church after devastation in the Second World War. International piano recitalist and soloist Tessa Uys will be perforrming the well‐known slow movement from piano concerto No 2 by Dimitri Shostakovich (1906‐75) – not with her accustomed partner of full orchestra, but with orchestral accompaniment arranged and played on the celebrated Klais organ by Catherine Ennis, the resident organist at the church. Tessa Uys will be playing on the St Lawrence Jewry Steinway formerly owned by Sir Thomas Beecham.

At St Bride Fleeet Street, Friday 6 April at 1.15pm, pianist Mitra Alice Than will perform Five Preludes by Julian Dawes (born 1942). He is an English composer with a prolific output, including musicals and scores for theatre productions. He has written a large number of sonatas and suites for a variety of combinations of instruments, 13 song cycles, and a wide range of other vocal, choral and chamber music. His compositions are influenced by Englishh composers such as Herbert Howells, Lennox Berkeley and Richard Rodney Bennett. European composers, including Shostakovich, Kurt Weil, Prokofiev and Stravinsky have also influenced his work. His music is considered to be inventive but crafted with assurance. Mitra Alice Than's recital promises to be an interesting musical experience.

Also at St Bride Fleet Street on Friday 13 April at 1.15pm – the Gildas Quartet perform The Four Quarters by the British composer Thomas Adès. Born in 1971 he is an accomplished pianist and conductor and the composer of numerous works including three operas, choral music and a number of extended orchestral pieces one of which, Asyla, was chosen by Sir Simon Rattle in 2002 as the opening work of his first concert as principal conductorr of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Assyla has since been performed across the world and has been recorded as have many of his works. The Four Quarters for string quartet consists of four movements the names of which are given in the listing. It was commissionedd by the Carnegie Hall Corporation, and was first performed in 2011 at the Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall, New York. Again, an interesting musical experience is in store.

In the well‐known series of organ recitals at St Michael Cornhill, on Monday 9 April at 1.000pm Christopher Strange will perform a worrk by the young English concert organist and composer Martin Stacey. In addition to his own very active international career as a concert organist Martin Stacey is an enthusiastic promoter of contemporary composers of organ music and his oown compositions have been well‐received worldwide. In the recital his Totenttanz (Hommage à Petr Eben) will be performed. This work was written for the Caanadian organist Maxine Thévenot to whom the piece is dedicated. The music of the composer, organist and choirmaster Petr Eben (1929‐2007) can be considered as "neoexpressionistic" with much of it based on improvisation of which he was considered to be a master. Martin Stacey asserts with gratitude that Eben's music had a powerful influence on his musical taste as a young musician. The pieece itself was selected as an examination piece for the Fellowship of the Royal Colleege of Organists in 2011‐12.

This brief (for reasons of space) review will, it is hoped, whet the musical appetite of our readers who are interested in sampling diverse musical styles and performances. Needless to say there are many other very worthy examples of contemporary and 20th century music, together wiith much classical music of earlier eras, to be heard in the City churches this month, all of which are listed in the following pages.

The Friends of the City Churches, Church of St Mary Abchurch, Abchurch Lane, London EC4N 7BA Visit: www.london‐city‐churches.org.uk for more information and the location of the churches in the City

Tuesday ─ continued REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES IN APRIL 2018 0800 to 0900 Café Prayer – an opportunity for stillness and prayer, Bible reading and reflection Coffee served St Katharine Cree

0800 to 0830 Morning Meditation (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields The entries below show the normal pattern of services for City Churches 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street and a few churches ‘just over the City borders’. Entries are for Church of England services except where indicated otherwise. ‘1st Monday’, ‘2nd 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower Monday’ etc refer to the 1st Monday, 2nd Monday etc of the month. 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public While every effort is made to ensure accuracy, the services shown are subject to change immediately before, during and after major welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal festivals and at Bank or other holidays, and during the summer months. 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service St Andrew Holborn You are strongly advised to contact churches to check the details. 1210 Eucharist (said) (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster

1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less For a list of weekend (particularly Sunday) services please go to the Friends of the City Churches website at www.london-city-churches.org.uk 1230 to 1300 Eucharist (said) with brief address St Dunstan in the West and follow the links from ‘Events’ and ‘City Events’. 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) St Mary Moorfields Monday 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Woolnoth 0715 Jewish Daily Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic orthodox rite) 1230 Holy Communion (said), followed by coffee and sandwiches (0700 on 1st day of Hebrew religious month; 0800 on Bank Holidays) St Olave Hart Street For details please see www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/ 1300 Holy Communion in the Crypt, with a focus on prayers for healing Bevis Marks Synagogue All Hallows by the Tower 0730 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1300 Lunchtime Service Christ Church, Spitalfields 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1300 to 1400 (any time) Contemporary Worship 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn St Sepulchre without Newgate 0800 Morning Prayer - short contemplative service (Moot Community – 1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate all welcome) St Mary Aldermary 1305 to 1340 Bible Talk, with lunch available after the talk 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields St Helen Bishopsgate 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1305 Meditation (in the crypt chapel) St Mary le Bow 0815 to 0915 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament Informal drop-in service for 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields prayer, adoration and Eucharistic meditation – come and go as you wish 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn St Dunstan in the West 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, following sandwich lunch at 1300 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate St Botolph Aldersgate 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public 1310 Holy Communion St Margaret Lothbury welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service (if listeners available - 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship please check with church) St Andrew Holborn Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 1200 to 1230 Meditation Group: ‘Stressed in the City’ (Moot Community – 1700 to 1730 ‘Words of Hope’ – quiet reflective service all welcome) St Mary Aldermary St Clement Eastcheap 1210 Eucharist (said) (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 1800 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe St Mary Moorfields 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 1245 Holy Communion St Mary at Hill 1830 Choral Evensong (traditional) (Choral Eucharist on 3rd Tuesday) 1300 to 1400 Ecumenical Contemplative Prayer (Addison Room) St Sepulchre without Newgate St Edmund King & Martyr (London Centre for Spiritual Direction) 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place Wednesday 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 0730 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1700 to 1800 ‘Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 0800 to 0845 Ecumenical Meditation Group All welcome 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow St Edmund King & Martyr (London Centre for Spiritual Direction 1800 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0800 to 0830 Morning Taizé Chant (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1800 Choral Evensong (BCP) (during university terms – next term 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 14 May to 9 July, except 28 May) St Michael Cornhill 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower Tuesday 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 0715 Jewish Daily Service (see Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 0830 to 0915 Holy Communion (Not 18 April) St Lawrence Jewry 0730 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn 0730 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public 0745 Holy Communion (said) followed by coffee and croissants St Mary at Hill welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal 0745 Eucharist (in the church) followed by breakfast St Mary le Bow 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 0915 to 0945 Morning prayers, followed by coffee All welcome 0745 to 0915 ‘Start: Stop’ – start the day by stopping to reflect – 10 minute reflections St Edmund King & Martyr (London Centre for Spiritual Direction) beginning every 15 minutes - just drop in St Stephen Walbrook 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service (if listeners available - 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square please check with church) St Andrew Holborn 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn continued/

Thursday ─ continued

REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES IN 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place

1300 to 1330 (1st Thursday) Private Prayer and Reflection APRIL 2018 − continued St Giles Cripplegate

1300 Holy Communion (1st Thursday normally choral) St Margaret Pattens Wednesday ─ continued 1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate 1205 RC Mass St Joseph Bunhill Row 1305 Holy Communion, followed by coffee and sandwiches 1210 Eucharist (said) (BCP) St James Garlickhythe St Katharine Cree 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1305 to 1335 ‘St Nick's Talks’ Bible Talk St Nicholas Cole Abbey 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Abchurch 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn St Mary Moorfields 1310 to 1350 Bible Talk, with lunch available, followed by Question Time 1245 to 1315 (3rd Wednesday) Society of Friends (Quaker) Meeting for Worship St Helen Bishopsgate Bunhill Fields Meeting House, Quaker Court, Banner St 1315 to 1345 Lunchtime Service (Free Church) City Temple 1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal Worship and Teaching – come and go 1315 Holy Communion St Martin within Ludgate as you wish St Margaret Lothbury 1315 Holy Communion (BCP said) (during legal term-time) 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place Temple Church 1305 ‘Not on a Sunday’ – informal worship with prayer and song, followed 1400 to 1420 Prayers – Offering up the prayers from the church’s prayer board by coffee St Katharine Cree and the London Internet Church St Stephen Walbrook 1305 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’ – contemplation, reflection and silent worship 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 1310 to 1340 ‘Moorgate Talks’ Bible Talk, following sandwich lunch at 1300, at 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square Amber, CityPoint, 1 Ropemaker St, EC2Y 9AW under the auspices of 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow St Botolph Aldersgate 1800 to 2200 City of London House of Prayer – ‘Pursuit’ Prayer and Worship 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate Service All welcome (Free Church) City Temple 1315 Holy Communion (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1800 to 1830 Eucharist (said) St Dunstan in the West 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn 1800 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 1800 (Normally 1st Thursday) Choral Evensong, followed by ‘Thursday Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street Conversation’ at 1830 St Mary at Hill 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 1730 to 1750 Evening Prayer (Moot Community – all welcome) 1805 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow St Mary Aldermary 1730 Choral Evensong (during legal term-time) (For 18 April see Special Services) Temple Church Friday 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1800 Taizé Service All Hallows by the Tower 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1800 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 1830 to 1915 Meditation Group: ‘Stressed in the City’ (Moot Community – all 0800 to 0830 Morning Taizé Chant (Moot Community – all welcome) welcome) St Mary Aldermary St Mary Aldermary 1900 Sung Eucharist St Andrew Holborn 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow Thursday 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal 0730 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1200 to 1500 Quiet Personal Prayer St Joseph Bunhill Row 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1200 to 1230 Meditation Group: ‘Stressed in the City’ (Moot Community – 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn all welcome) St Mary Aldermary 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1230 Pastoral Conversation or Confession (Sacrament Chapel) (or apply 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower at the Vestry) St Mary le Bow 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn St Mary Moorfields 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal 1305 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 1210 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate 1315 to 1400 Holy Communion St Lawrence Jewry 1210 Eucharist (said) (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1230 (1st Thursday) Eucharist followed by discussion 1800 Paraklesis (replaced on 1st Friday and during fasting periods by Service St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate of Holy Unction) Followed at 1900 to 2200 by Catechesis and 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr Confessions (Romanian Orthodox) St Dunstan in the West 1230 Eucharist St Mary le Strand 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 1900 to 2100 City of London House of Prayer - Equipping Night Service Praise St Mary Moorfields and Worship (Free Church) City Temple 1245 to 1330 Eucharist with the St Stephen’s Voices, followed by light lunch 1930 Jewish Friday Evening Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic St Stephen Walbrook orthodox rite) (1830 in winter months – please check on 1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal Worship and Teaching – come and go as you www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/) Bevis Marks Synagogue wish St Mary Woolnoth

Sunday 15 April SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS IN 1115 Easter Carol Service Preacher: The Revd Caroline Clarke Temple Church APRIL 2018 Monday 16 April

1830 Solemn Vespers for St Magnus’s Day St Magnus the Martyr

Sunday 1 April – Easter Sunday Wednesday 18 April 0600 Dawn Sung Eucharist and Kindling of the New Fire, followed by 1730 Easter Carol Service This service will be a repeat of the service egg rolling in Fleet Street and breakfast St Bride Fleet Street on 15 April – please see the entry for that date above 0600 Easter Vigil followed by breakfast St Olave Hart Street Temple Church 0830 Holy Communion (said) Temple Church Saturday 21 April 0900 Eucharist in the Lady Chapel St Bartholomew the Great 1800 The Official Virgin London Marathon Thanksgiving Service 0930 Early Morning Easter Service (in Dutch), followed by breakfast Join us as we give thanks for all that has been achieved through Dutch Church, Austin Friars the Marathon and for the gift of sport, which enables us to cross 1000 Easter Sunday Family Eucharist followed by Easter Egg Hunt the barriers of different nations, cultures, colours and faiths St Bartholomew the Less All runners, families and friends are welcome 1000 RC Mass for Easter Sunday St Mary Moorfields All Hallows by the Tower 1030 Sung Eucharist with the Lighting of the Pascal Candle Sunday 22 April St Botolph Aldgate 1830 Bach Choral Vespers for Jubilate Sunday in the Lutheran 1030 Sung Eucharist with Blessing of the Easter Candle and Baptismal Church year Waters, and Renewal of Baptismal Vows St James Garlickhythe With J S Bach’s Cantata BWV 12, Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, 1100 Festal Eucharist with Blessing of the New Fire and Renewal of performed by the City Bach Collective on period instruments Baptismal Vows, followed by Easter Egg Hunt St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill All Hallows by the Tower Wednesday 25 April 1100 Easter Service (bilingual Dutch & English) 1310 Choral Eucharist for the feast of St Mark the Evangelist Dutch Church, Austin Friars St Botolph Bishopsgate 1100 Lutheran Choral Eucharist for Easter Sunday 1800 Licensing Service for the Revd Stephen Baxter St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill St Stephen Walbrook 1100 Solemn Eucharist with Renewal of Baptismal Covenant St Bartholomew the Great 1100 Easter Sunday Service (Services at this church are primarily in LECTURES, COURSES, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS Welsh, with translation provided) St Benet Paul’s Wharf IN APRIL 2018 1100 Choral Eucharist for Easter Sunday St Bride Fleet Street 1100 Procession and Solemn High Mass for Easter Sunday St Magnus the Martyr Thursday 5 April 1100 Easter Sunday Holy Communion followed by Easter Egg Hunt St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation & Peace, Bishopsgate St Olave Hart Street 1230 to 1430 Christian Fellowship lunchtime discussion on the role of 1100 Easter Sunday Eucharist St Vedast alias Foster faith in the peacemaking in our lives, led by the Rt Revd 1115 Choral Communion for Easter Sunday Temple Church Dr Trevor Musonda Selwyn Mwamba 1130 RC Mass for Easter Sunday St Joseph Bunhill Row Following Eucharist at 1230 For further information please go to 1400 Lutheran Holy Eucharist (in Swahili) www.stethelburgas.org and follow the links from ‘Events’ St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill 1730 Choral Evensong for Easter Sunday St Bride Fleet Street 1830 St Mary at Hill 1830 Festal Solemn Evensong and Benediction Thursday Conversation: Bonnie Greer ‘In Conversation’ with the St Bartholomew the Great Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkin Following Choral Evensong at 1800 Followed by refreshments Tuesday 3 April – Tuesday in Easter Week See the entry for this date in the Events & Concerts section below 1230 Said Eucharist with Blessing of the Paschal Candle St Dunstan in the West Friday 6 April St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation & Peace, Bishopsgate Wednesday 4 April – Wednesday in Easter Week 1830 to 2100 Indigenous Wisdom of the Feminine 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate Pat McCabe will speak about the concept of ‘Archetypal Woundings of Humanity’, exploring the ways in which the so- Thursday 5 April – Thursday in Easter Week called witch-hunts in Europe affected humanity at large, and 1210 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate how they connect to indigenous peoples 1800 Choral Evensong followed by Thursday Conversation at 1830 For further information, cost and link to booking please go to www.stethelburgas.org and follow the links from ‘Events’ See the entry for this date in the Events & Concerts section below St Mary at Hill Sunday 8 April Monday 9 April St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation & Peace, Bishopsgate 1305 Sung Eucharist, with music for voice and organ, for the feast of 1000 to 1700 Workshop on The Feminine and the Seeds of the the Annunciation of Our Lord to the Blessed Virgin Mary Future Led by Pat McCabe St Mary le Bow For further information, cost and link to booking please go to 1830 Music in Worship: One of a series of evenings with performances https://stethelburgas.org/event/indigenous-wisdom-feminine and and spoken reflections, exploring the importance of music in click on the box for ‘Series’ worship St Sepulchre without Newgate Monday 9 April Thursday 12 April St Sepulchre without Newgate 1210 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate 1830 Music in Worship: One of a series of evenings with performances and spoken reflections, exploring the importance of music in worship

LECTURES, COURSES, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS IN APRIL 2018 ― continued EVENTS & CONCERTS IN APRIL 2018

Tuesday 10 April St Andrew Holborn Tuesday 3 April 1045 to 1530 Oasis Day: Enfolded in Divine Compassion,l 1230 St Mary Abcurch led by John-Francis Friendship Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. Oasis Days offer a monthly time of quiet reflection to re-charge The recital will usually include an improvisation one’s spiritual batteries with stimulating speakers 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Cost £15 - Lunch provided Recital: Flavia Hirte – flute Gamal Khamis – piano Pre-booking required by 6 April for catering purposes – to book 1315 St Mary at Hill please telephone the Revd Martin Davies on 07429 612642 or Recital in The Square Mile Music Series e-mail [email protected] Jane Faulkner – soprano Gary Peacock – piano Thursday 12 April Programme: Music by Corelli and Grieg London Centre for Spiritual Direction at St Edmund King & Martyr 1415 St Bride Fleet Street 1800 to 2100 Encounter Open Evening, following tea/coffee at 1730 Tours of the Church An evening session about the Encounter formation programme in Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. spiritual accompaniment, including who trains as a spiritual, Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day director/companion and what the training involves or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: There will be an opportunity to meet some of the tutors and [email protected] current students on the course or telephoning (+44) 20 7427 0133. Admission is free – all welcome Special tours for groups can also be arranged. For further information and to book go to: www.lcsd.org.uk and Wednesday 4 April follow the links from ‘Courses & Events’

Friday 13 April 1305 St Botolph Aldgate Recital: Louise Cournarie – solo violin St Mary Moorfields 1900 Cardinal Manning and Social Engagement – Programme: Louise will announce her programme in person

talk by Father James Pereiro, author of ‘Cardinal Manning, an Admission is free with a retiring collection intellectual biography’ Admission is free, with a retiring collection Thursday 5 April For further information please e-mail [email protected] 1305 St Mary le Bow Sunday 15 April Recital: Ieva Dubova – piano St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation & Peace, Bishopsgate 1310 St Margaret Lothbury 1500 to 1800 Find your purpose: Stories of overcoming adversity to live Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays Bach and Buxtehude (3) a life of meaning 1800 St Mary at Hill Come and listen to three extraordinary young adults who have Choral Evensong, followed by Thursday Conversation at 1830 chosen different paths to put spiritual values into action Evensong will be sung by Seraphim, the St Mary at Hill Choir

With Saif Ali, James Adams, Kara Moses and others The Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkins will be in conversation with Admission £5 For further information and to book please go to Bonnie Greer OBE www.stethelburgas.org and follow the links from ‘Events’ Bonnie Greer is a distinguished writer, playwright and broadcaster. Friday 20 April As a broadcaster, she is a regular panellist on a number of current St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation & Peace, Bishopsgate affairs programmes including Radio 4’s Any Questions, Newsnight 0930 to 1600 Introduction to privilege and anti-racist practice Review and Question Time. She is also a prolific contributor to publications including The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph. A full-day workshop with Camille Barton of The Collective Liberation Project We finish with a glass of wine at 1930 For further information, cost and booking please go to Admission is free Donations are welcome

www.stethelburgas.org and follow the links from ‘Events’ Friday 6 April

Tuesday 24 April 1230 St Stephen Walbrook St Mary Moorfields Organ Recital: Gary Sieling (St Mary's, Henley-on-Thames) 1900 Talk and recital on Catholic Composers 1305 St Mary at Hill Admission is free, with a retiring collection Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society

For further information please e-mail [email protected] Baltic Series II – Lithuania

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The City Church of St Andrew Holborn Paul Evernden – clarinet Angela Najaryan – violin

The St Andrew’s Regeneration Project gets under way Jelena Makarova – piano from Maundy Thursday 29th March. Programme: Works by Bach, Pärt, Čiurlionis and Bružaitė 1315 St Bride Fleet Street The Church will be closed until the early Autumn for refurbishment, Recital: Mitra Alice Tham – piano re-decoration and an upgrade of various areas of infrastructure. Programme: We will be worshipping in a temporary structure Julian Dawes (b 1942) – Five preludes in the North Churchyard during this time. The life of the Church and Community will continue. Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Services will be held as usual.

Tuesday 10 April EVENTS AND CONCERTS IN MARCH 2018 - continued 1230 St Mary Abcurch Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. Friday 6 April — continued The recital will usually include an improvisation 1300 St Lawrence Jewry 1900 St Mary at Hill Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis ChamberMade Friday Nights – 'The American' Programme: Des Benton – flute and Adam Clarke – viola Bach – Trio Sonata No 1 in E flat major BWV 525 with special guests: Iwona Boesche – violin, Schlick – Maria zart Charlotte Amherst – violin, Robert Jacobs – cello Marchand – Six pieces from Piéces choisis pour Grand Orgue and the London Flute Quintet (Nili Newman, Corinne Larzul, Bach – Piéce d'orgue in G BWV572 Derek Benton, Liz Cutts and Dan Dixon) 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Programme: Recital: Chamber Trio led by Ionel Manciu – violin Bernstein – West Side Story Suite 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Reger – for flute, violin and viola Op 141a Recital: Goldmund Quartet Dvořák – Quartet No 12 in F major Op 86 – 'American' Florian Schötz – violin Pinchas Adt – violin

Tickets: £7.50 - £15 from: Christolph Vandory – viola Raphael Paratore - cello https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chambermade-friday-nights-the-american- Programme: tickets-43389462049 Mozart – String Quartet in G major K387 'Spring' Wolfgang Rihm – String Quartet No 4 Saturday 7 April Free Admittance – Retiring Collection 1800 St Sepulchre without Newgate 1315 St Mary at Hill Concert – Visual Sonorities Recital in The Square Mile Music Series Anna Bulkina – piano and Francesco Comito – piano Jaivin Raj – baritone Sina Lari – piano Programme: Programme: 'The First Primrose to the Last Rose' Two great Russian works 1415 St Bride Fleet Street performed with interpretative image projection: Tours of the Church Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Rachmaninoff – Études-Tableaux Op 39 Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day For more information concerning the concert or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: please contact the church on: [email protected] 020 7236 1145 or: [email protected] or telephoning (+44) 20 7427 0133. Monday 9 April Special tours for groups can also be arranged.

1300 St Lawrence Jewry Recital: Antonio Oyarzabal – piano Wednesday 11 April Programme: This will be of Spanish music to include — 1000 to 1600 St Mary le Bow Granados – Valses Poeticos Mompou – Scènes d'enfants Burnbake Trust Prison Art Project Exhibition– Opening Day

1300 St Michael Cornhill The Burnbake Trust is a charity based in Wilton, Salisbury. It was Organ Recital: Christopher Strange – St Edmundsbury Cathedral founded by the late Jean Davis in 1968 to help offenders and ex- Programme: offenders keep out of the penal system by introducing them to the Mendelssohn – Sonata 1 arts. The Trust was registered as a charity in 1975 Brahms – Fugue in A flat minor WoO 8 Messiaen – Prélude pour orgue The Burnbake Trust Prison Art Project is a much needed support Bach – Allein Gott BWV 663 unit for many people in prison and, for those who have left. It Stacey – Totentanz (Hommage à Petr Eben) provides a channel for their artistic talent and explore sides of 1300 St Stephen Walbrook themselves that they never knew existed or had previously been Choral Classics — 30 minutes of sublime choral music and unable to reach. The Prison Art Project is committed to aiding readings with the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields rehabilitation of offenders through active participation in the arts, as a means of self-expression, and a valuable interest. Free with a retiring collection 1305 St Martin Ludgate More information may be seen at the website: Recital: The Hurstwood Trio http://www.burnbaketrust.co.uk/ Peter Wall – violin , Tim Handel – cello, 1305 St Botolph Aldgate Recital: Mateusz Rettner – piano Chris Underhill – piano with Chopin Piano Works

Geneviève Usher – soprano, Bill Randles – cello Programme: Programme: Preludes Op 28 Nos 13-18 Handel – Three Arias from Neun Deutsche Arien Polonaise-Fantaisie Op 61 Brahms – Piano Trio in C major Op 87 Admission is free with a retiring collection 1830 St Sepulchre without Newgate 1305 St Olave Hart Street Music in Worship Recital: Cardinal Quartet A series of evenings with performances and spoken reflections Theodor Ku ng – violin Mary Brace – violin exploring the importance of music in worship Jill Valentine – viola Rafael Lang – cello This series began Monday 5 March and continues on Monday 7 May & Monday 4 June at the same time Admission is free with a retiring collection

Tuesday 17 April EVENTS AND CONCERTS IN MARCH 2018 - continued 1230 St Mary Abcurch Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. Thursday 12 April The recital will usually include an improvisation 1300 St Stephen Walbrook 1000 to 1600 St Mary le Bow Recital: Sarah Dacey – soprano Burnbake Trust Prison Art Project – continuation 1315 St Bride Fleet Street For more information please refer to the entry above at Recital: The LIPS Quintet Wednesday 11 April Dan Elson – oboe Hanna Barriga – flute 1305 St Olave Hart Street Charlotte Wooley – clarinet Matthew Sackman – horn Recital: Nathan Williamson – piano Rick Yoder – bassoon

Admission is free with a retiring collection Programme: 1310 All Hallows by the Tower – Op 43 Organ Recital: Michael Overbury György Ligeti – Six Bagatelles 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays Patterdale Music 1315 St Mary at Hill Recital in The Square Mile Music Series Friday 13 April Irena Radić – piano Programme: 1000 to 1600 St Mary le Bow Prokofiev – Sonata No 6 in A major Op 82 (1940) Burnbake Trust Prison Art Project Exhibition– Final Day 1415 St Bride Fleet Street For more information please refer to the entry above at Tours of the Church Wednesday 11 April Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day Organ Recital: Matthew Geer or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: 1305 St Mary at Hill [email protected] Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society or telephoning (+44) 20 7427 0133.

Couperin 350th Birthday Series Special tours for groups can also be arranged. Mary Pells – viola da gamba Claire Williams – harpsichord Programme Wednesday 18 April Works by Couperin and other Baroque masters 1305 St Botolph Aldgate 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: Anna Marie McLachlan – mezzo-soprano Recital: Gildas Quartet Rachel Neiger – piano Christopher Jones – violin Gemma Sharples – violin Kay Stephen – viola Anna Menzies – cello Programme: 'A Woman's Love and Life' Programme: Schubert – Die junge Nonne Op 828 Haydn – String Quartet in C major Op 74 No 2 Schubert – Lied der Mignon D.64/4 Thomas Adès – The Four Quarters Schumann – Frauenliebe and Leben Op 42 I. Nightfalls A cycle of eight poems by Adelbert von Chamisso, written in II. Morning Dew 1830 and set to music by in 1840. III. Days They describe the course of a woman's love for her man, from from first meeting through marriage to his death, and after IV. The Twenty-fifth Hour Admission is free with a retiring collection Free Admittance – Retiring Collection 1305 St Olave Hart Street Recital: London Chamber Project Monday 16 April Maria Włoszczowska – violin Tamara Elias – violin 1300 St Michael Cornhill Maya Meron – viola Matthew Huber – cello Organ Recital: Jonathan Rennert – (Lunchtime Recital No 446) Sasha Rattle – clarinet Zeynep Özsuca – piano

Programme: Admission is free with a retiring collection Buxtehude – Präludium in F# 1315 Temple Church Rheinberger – From Sonata 20: Pastoral – Finale Organ Recital: Greg Morris continues his performing of Bach's Buxtehude – Präludium in D complete organ works Prelude - Intermezzo - Marcia religiosa - Fugue Programme: Rheinberger – Sonata 6 in E flat Easter chorale preludes BWV 625 - 630 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Trio Sonata No 5 - from the Orgelbüchlein BWV 529 Choral Classics — 30 minutes of sublime choral music and readings with the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields For more information concerning this series of recitals in venues Free with a retiring collection outside the City of London please go to : 1305 St Martin Ludgate http://gregmorris.org.uk/bach/ Recital: Jessica Summers – soprano, Jelena Makarova – piano LIVING SONGS – As part of an ongoing performance project Thursday 19 April programming songs written in the 21st century alongside more 1305 St Mary le Bow well known repertoire Jessica Summers and Jelena Makarova will Recital: Susana Gilardoni – piano premiere songs by Stuart Macrae and Tom Barnes 1305 St Olave Hart Street Recital: Natasa Sarcević – piano

Admission is free with a retiring collection

Monday 23 April — continued EVENTS AND CONCERTS IN MARCH 2018 - continued 1300 St Michael Cornhill Organ Recital: Paweł Wróbel – (Kielce, Poland) Thursday 19 April — continued Programme: Surzyński – Improvisation on the hymn Who under care 1310 All Hallows by the Tower Nowowiejski – Polish Fantasy Op 9/1 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling Chopin, arr Wróbel – Prelude in A flat and 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Prelude in F Op 28/17 & 18 Organ Recital: Szymanowski, arr Wightman – Étude in B flat Op 4/3 Richard Townend plays 'The Glorious Baroque' (3) Surzyński – Improvisation on the hymn Holy God 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Friday 20 April Choral Classics — 30 minutes of sublime choral music and 1230 St Stephen Walbrook readings with the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields Organ Recital: Patrick Hopper (Scheveningen, Netherlands) Free with a retiring collection 1305 St Mary at Hill Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society 1305 St Martin Ludgate Recital: Laura Beardsmore – flute, with piano accompanist Debussy Centenary Series Programme: Programme: This will include music by J S Bach, Daniel Kessner, This will include: John Rutter and David Bennett Thomas Debussy – Sonata for flute, viola and harp L.137 (1915)

1315 St Bride Fleet Street Tuesday 24 April Recital: Ellie Blackshaw – violin Michiko Shimanuki – piano Programme: Stravinsky – Gavotta con due Variazioni from Suite Italienne Michiko Shimanuki – Flos Ferri for solo violin The City Church of St Lawrence Jewry Climbing Roses Rachmaninoff – Daisies Op 38 No 3 Op 34 No 14 Tuesday 24th April 2018 at 1.00pm Debussy – Sonata for violin and piano in G minor

Free Admittance – Retiring Collection The Essential Magic of the Piano Concerto 1315 St Dunstan in the West Organ Recital: Ian Shaw Catherine Ennis – organ Tessa Uys – piano 1900 St Olave Hart Street Concert: Abigail Rouch – violin John Blakely – piano Distilled into distinctive arrangements for piano and organ Programme: in the wonderful acoustic of St Lawrence Jewry, featuring Franck – Sonata for violin and piano in A major International Concert Pianist Tessa Uys Bartók – Romanian Folk Dances and Handel – Sonata for violin and piano in F major St Lawrence Jewry's resident organist Catherine Ennis,

Admission is free the instruments to be employed are There will be drinks afterwards with a retiring collection for charity the church's Steinway piano, formerly owned by Sir Thomas Beecham Saturday 21 April and the renowned Johannes Klais organ installed in 2001

1900 St James Garlickhythe Programme:

Oread Chamber Choir Debut Concert Shostakovich – Slow movement from Piano Concerto No 2 Beethoven – Piano Concerto No 4 in G major Op 58 Please refer to the 'box' display on the back page for full information regarding this concert Admission will be free with donations at the exit

Sunday 22 April

1830 St Anne and St Agnes Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill Bach Vespers performed by the City Bach Collective 1230 St Mary Abcurch J S Bach – Cantata: Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen BWV 12 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. The recital will usually include an improvisation and other German Baroque music, performed as in Bach's time 1300 St Stephen Walbrook in a service of Lutheran Vespers Recital: Amanda Sikich – voice and piano 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Monday 23 April Recital: Georgios Vardakis – piano 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Programme: Recital: Yasmin Rowe – piano Schubert – Piano Sonata No 16 in A minor D.845 Programme: Nikos Skalkottas – Piano Suite No 3 (1941) Beethoven – Sonata No 7 in D major Op 10 No 3 i. Minuetto Bach-Busoni – Chaconne in D minor BWV 1004 ii. Thema con Variazioni Poulenc – Trois pièces: Pastoral, Hymne, Toccata iii. Marcia Funebra iv. Finale

Free Admittance – Retiring Collection

EVENTS AND CONCERTS IN MARCH 2018 - continued Thursday 26 April — continued

1310 St Margaret Lothbury Tuesday 24 April — continued Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series: Tina Christiansen – Odense Denmark 1315 St Mary at Hill Recital in The Square Mile Music Series Meera Maharaj – flute Clara Loeb – viola Catrin Meek – harp Friday 27 April Programme: 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Debussy – Trio for flute, viola and harp Organ Recital: David Thomas – Alwyn – Naiades for flute and harp (1973) (Organ Scholar at the and 1400 Temple Church Director of Music at St. Mary's Church, Sanderstead) A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event 1305 St Mary at Hill Brandenburg Festival Chorus Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society

Brandenburg Singers BELLOT ENSEMBLE directed by Edmund Taylor The Development of the Italian Trio Sonata (part 3) Robeert Porter – Conductor Programme: Our talented resident bring Fauré's much-loved and This will include works by Albinoni, Corelli, Torelli and Vivaldi beautiful Requiem to the stunning surroundings of Temple 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Church. Artistic Director of the Festival, Bob Porter, conducts the Organ Recital: Christopher Beaumont – handpicked Brandenburg Singers in a first half full of choral Director of Music at St Nicholas Church, Kenilworth favourites. In the second half they will be joined by the Programme: Brandenburg Festival Chorus, fresh from their Come-and-Sing Pachelbel – Chaconne in F minor workshop with Bob a few days before. Alain – Deuxième Fantaisie

In association with U3A Walther – Meinen Jesum lass' ich nicht Bach – Fantasia and Fugue in G minor BWV 542 Tickets: £23 (premium); £18 (unreserved); children £5 Box Office: 07528 776 625 or from the website: Free Admittance – Retiring Collection http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/festival and follow the links 1315 St Dunstan in the West 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: Ann Hooley – violin Noel Skinner – piano Tours of the Church 1900 St Botolph Bishopsgate Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Concert: – ICOSA Chamber Choir Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day Luke Mather – Director or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: Programme: [email protected] 'Choral Fusion' or telephoning (+44) 20 7427 0133. a capella, folk, classical and pop Special tours for groups can also be arranged. Admission £10 £5 under 18 1900 St Mary Moorfields

A Talk and Recital — 'Catholic Composers'

This event will be the Independent Performance Project of Saturday 28 April Melissa Hutter (violin) from the Guildhall School of Music The recital will be a violin and piano duo. 1900 St Mary le Bow . A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event Wednesday 25 April A Patchwork Requiem 1305 St Botolph Aldgate Organ Recital: Andrea Banaudi from Favourite movements from well-loved Requiems including Mozart, Fauré, Duruflé, Verdi, Brahms, Chilcott, Rutter and more Programme: Flemish organ music of the XVIIi century Tamesis Chamber Choir

Sweelinck – Echo Fantasia in C Simon Dinsdale – organ Cornet – Salve Regina Kerckhoven – Fantasia pro duplic i Organo Louise Rapple Moore – conductor

Admission is free with a retiring collection Tickets: £23 (premium); £18 (unreserved); children £5 1305 St Olave Hart Street Box Office: 07528 776 625 or from the website: Recital: Evelina Kuznetsova – piano http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/festival and follow the links

Admission is free with a retiring collection

Thursday 26 April Monday 30 April 1305 St Mary le Bow 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Recital: Anna Growns – viola Recital: Ikuko Inoguchi – piano 1305 St Olave Hart Street Programme: Recital: Aria Kitaguchi – violin Tom Blach – piano Britten – Night Piece (Nocturno) Chopin – Berceuse Op 27 Admission is free with a retiring collection Debussy – Six pieces from 12 Études 1310 All Hallows by the Tower Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling

EVENTS AND CONCERTS IN MARCH 2018 - continued We are indebted to Dickon Love, Company Bellringer to the

Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks Monday 30 April — continued for the following information 1300 St Michael Cornhill Organ Recital: Peter King - Organist Emeritus of Bath Abbey Programme: Open bellringing performances Karg-Elert – Toccata Mendelssohn – Prelude & Fugue in E minor currently scheduled for the City of London Rheinberger – Sonata 12 in April 2018 Hollins – Maytime Gavotte Dubois – Fiat Lux Monday 2 April 1300 St Stephen Walbrook 1430 3½ hr performance on the bells Choral Classics — 30 minutes of sublime choral music and by the Ancient Society of College Youths readings with the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields at St Magnus the Martyr Free with a retiring collection

1305 St Martin Ludgate Saturday 7 April Recital: Marmara Piano Trio 0930 3½ hr performance on the Bow Bells Mine Doğantan-Dack – piano Mona Kodama – violin by the Ancient Society of College Youths Guest Artist: Thomas Gregory – cello at St Mary le Bow

Programme: 1000 3½ hr performance on the bells Beethoven – Piano Trio No 7 in B flat major – by the Ancient Society of College Youths the 'Archduke' Trio, first movement - Allegro at St Magnus the Martyr Brahms – Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor Op 25

Sunday 8 April 1800 3 hr performance on the Royal Jubilee Bells by the Ancient Society of College Youths The City Church of St James Garlickhythe at St James Garlickhythe

Saturday 21st April 2018 at 7.00pm Saturday 14 April 1000 3½ hr performance on the bells by the Ancient Society of College Youths Oread Chamber Choir at St Michael Cornhill

Debut Concert 1000 3 hr performance on the bells at St Vedast Foster Lane Directed by

Will Wright and Will Brockman Sunday 15 April co-artistic directors 1430 3½ hr performance on the bells

by the Middlesex County Association Oread is a newly formed professional chamber choir at St Magnus the Martyr consisting of some of the finest young consort singers in the UK, exploring the juxtaposition between contemporary and Renaissance choral composition Tuesday 17 April 1800 3 hr performance on the Royal Jubilee Bells For this debut concert they will perform a capella music by the St James' Guiild from present-day composers such as Hilary Campbell at St James Garlickhythe and David Bednall set alongside masterpieces by Cipriano De Rore and travelling through a journey between life and death Sunday 22 April 1430 3½ hr performance on the bells The varied programme will also include works by the St James' Guiild by Herbert Howells, William Harris and Danny Purtell at St Magnus the Martyr

Tickets: £12 general admission £8 for concessions Sunday 29 April

Tickets may be purchased in advance or on the door 1400 3 hr performance on the Jubilee Bells For advance purchases please email: [email protected] by the Ancient Society of College Youths at St Dunstan in the West

May 2018 Published by FCC in conjuncction with the Archdeaconry of London

This month sees a most interesting number of events taking place in the City churches. Certaain of these are of particular importance. First there is Ascension Day, Thursday 10 May, which marks the end of the Easter season. In the listings below there will be found concise information concerning no fewer than 15 services being held on that day in certain of the City churches to mark this important event in the liturgical calendar. Some churches carrry out a special ceremony on or near Ascension Day and that is the "Beating of the Bounds". Members of the particular church parish walk round the parish boundary marking boundary stones (for example by writing on them in chalk) and, curiously, hitting them with sticks. At these points prayers are also said for protection and blessings for the land of the parish. Beating the Bounds will take place at All Hallows by the Tower and in the surrounding City streets of the parish of that church after which there will be a special choral service. The timings of that service and the Bounds ceremoony are listed in the Events section for Thursday 10 May.

The Monday evening Choral Evensong at 6.00pm at St Michael Cornhill takes place during University terms and thus the new session of these services commences on Monday 14 May and runs until 9 July, except 28 May.

Attention must be drawn to the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music which takes place from Saturday 12 May until Sunday 20 May. This festival is a unique opportunity for the annual showcasing of new sacred works at the highest possible level. Works by contemporary composers will feature in no fewer than 61 services annd concerts In venues in and surrounding London. Eight of these events will take place in City churches and they are listed in the special services section (13, 14, 15, 16 and 20 May) and in the concerrts section (11 and 15 May). It is conceeded that two of the events are not strictly City events. They are to be held in the Chapel of Kings College London whicch is several hundred metres outside the western boundary of the City. For full inforrmation please visit: http://Lfccm.com/ and follow the links.

Sangerstevne will be coming to the City again over thhe weekend of Friday 18 to Sunday 20 May. The word Sangerstevne is of Norwegiaan origin. It means a congress or coming together of singers essentially non‐competitively. The participants are there to express their love of singing, to meet new people and hear new repertoire. The llisting at Friday 18 May gives essential detail of this annual event, particularly of the ongoing concert taking place on Saturday 19 May involving some 30 choirs at St Sepulchre without Newgate. The whole occasion promises to be memorable.

At St Lawrence Jewry a most important annual musical event will take place. This will be the John Hill Memorial Organ Recitals. These recitals are held annually in memory oof John Hill, who gave so much help and encouragement to young organists. The series of five recitals will feature UK and international artists at the outset of their careers and the first recital will take place on Tuesday 1 May.

At St Mary Abchurch Thomas Bowes (solo violin) will be giving three recitals. These are paart of his three month Bach Pilgrimage 2018 in Britain and France. Over the three recitals on Thursdays 10, 17 and 31 May Thomas will be performing the six sonatas and partitas by J S Bach for solo violin (BWV 1001 – 1006). These pieces are acknowledged to be miraculous creations and these recitals promise to be a musical treat. More information may be found at thomas.bowes.com

'Solo viola with solo voice' is not a very frequent listing in City Events. On Tuesday 22 May at St Stephen Walbrook the audience will be treated to five world premieres of such pieces to be performed by Katherine Clarke. The composers are of particular interest. Cassandra Kaczor is an Americaan composer. The other four are all recent music graduates. Clearly this will be an innovative and interesting musical expperience. It is noteworthy that Katherinne was awarded Arts Council Funding for the project. She will be giving the same recital the following day at St Olave Hart SStreet.

The Friends of the City Churches, Church of St Mary Abchurch, Abchurch Lane, London EC4N 7BA Visit: www.london‐city‐churches.org.uk for more information and the location of the churches in the City

Tuesday ─ continued

REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES IN MAY 2018 0800 to 0830 Morning Meditation (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street

The entries below show the normal pattern of services for City Churches 0815 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe and a few churches ‘just over the City borders’. Entries are for Church of 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower England services except where indicated otherwise. ‘1st Monday’, ‘2nd 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate Monday’ etc refer to the 1st Monday, 2nd Monday etc of the month. 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public While every effort is made to ensure accuracy, the services shown are welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal subject to change at Bank or other holidays, immediately before, 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service St Andrew Holborn during and after major festivals and during the summer months. You are 1215 Eucharist (said) (BCP) St James Garlickhythe strongly advised to contact churches to check the details. 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less For a list of weekend (particularly Sunday) services please go to the 1230 to 1300 Eucharist (said) with brief address St Dunstan in the West Friends of the City Churches website at www.london-city-churches.org.uk 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr and follow the links from ‘Events’ and ‘City Events’. 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) St Mary Moorfields 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Woolnoth Monday 1230 Holy Communion (said), followed by coffee and sandwiches 0715 Jewish Daily Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic orthodox rite) St Olave Hart Street (0700 on 1st day of Hebrew religious month; 0800 on Bank Holidays) 1300 Holy Communion in the Crypt, with a focus on prayers for healing For details please see www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/ All Hallows by the Tower Bevis Marks Synagogue 1300 Lunchtime Service Christ Church, Spitalfields 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1300 to 1400 (any time) Contemporary Worship 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn St Sepulchre without Newgate 0800 Morning Prayer - short contemplative service (Moot Community – 1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate all welcome) St Mary Aldermary 1305 to 1340 Bible Talk, with lunch available after the talk 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields St Helen Bishopsgate 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1305 Meditation (in the crypt chapel) St Mary le Bow 0815 to 0915 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament Informal drop-in service for 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields prayer, adoration and Eucharistic meditation – come and go as you wish 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn St Dunstan in the West 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn 0815 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, following buffet lunch at 1300 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow St Botolph Aldersgate 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1310 Holy Communion St Margaret Lothbury 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service (if listeners available - Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street please check with church) St Andrew Holborn 1700 to 1730 ‘Words of Hope’ – quiet reflective service 1200 to 1230 Meditation Group: ‘Stressed in the City’ (Moot Community – St Clement Eastcheap all welcome) St Mary Aldermary 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1215 Eucharist (said) (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields St Mary Moorfields 1830 Choral Evensong (traditional) (Choral Eucharist on 3rd Tuesday) 1245 Holy Communion (Not on Bank Holidays) St Mary at Hill St Sepulchre without Newgate 1300 to 1400 Ecumenical Contemplative Prayer (Addison Room) St Edmund King & Martyr (London Centre for Spiritual Direction) Wednesday 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 1700 to 1800 ‘Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 0800 to 0845 Ecumenical Meditation Group All welcome Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street St Edmund King & Martyr (London Centre for Spiritual Direction 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0800 to 0830 Morning Taizé Chant (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1800 Choral Evensong (BCP) (during university terms – current term 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 14 May to 9 July, except 28 May) St Michael Cornhill 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate Tuesday 0830 to 0915 Holy Communion St Lawrence Jewry 0715 Jewish Daily Service (see Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn 0730 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public 0745 Holy Communion (said) followed by coffee and croissants St Mary at Hill welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal 0745 Eucharist (in the church) followed by breakfast St Mary le Bow 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 0915 to 0945 Morning prayers, followed by coffee All welcome 0745 to 0915 ‘Start: Stop’ – start the day by stopping to reflect – 10 minute reflections St Edmund King & Martyr (London Centre for Spiritual Direction) beginning every 15 minutes - just drop in St Stephen Walbrook 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service (if listeners available - 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square please check with church) St Andrew Holborn 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 1205 RC Mass St Joseph Bunhill Row 0800 to 0900 Café Prayer – an opportunity for stillness and prayer, Bible reading continued/ and reflection Coffee served St Katharine Cree

Thursday ─ continued

REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES IN 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place

1300 to 1330 (Normally 1st Thursday - this month on 10 May) Private Prayer MAY 2018 − continued and Reflection St Giles Cripplegate

1300 Eucharist (normally choral on 1st Thursday – choral service this month Wednesday ─ continued on 10 May) St Margaret Pattens 1215 Eucharist (said) (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1305 Holy Communion, followed by coffee and sandwiches 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr St Katharine Cree 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Abchurch 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 1305 to 1335 ‘St Nick's Talks’ Bible Talk St Nicholas Cole Abbey St Mary Moorfields 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 1245 to 1315 (3rd Wednesday) Society of Friends (Quaker) Meeting for Worship 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn Bunhill Fields Meeting House, Quaker Court, Banner St 1310 to 1350 Bible Talk, with lunch available, followed by Question Time 1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal Worship and Teaching – come and go St Helen Bishopsgate as you wish St Margaret Lothbury 1315 to 1345 Lunchtime Service (Free Church) City Temple 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 1315 Holy Communion St Martin within Ludgate 1305 ‘Not on a Sunday’ – informal worship with prayer and song, followed 1315 Holy Communion (BCP said) (during legal term-time) by coffee St Katharine Cree Temple Church 1305 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1400 to 1420 Prayers – Offering up the prayers from the church’s prayer board 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields and the London Internet Church St Stephen Walbrook 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn 1310 to 1340 ‘Moorgate Talks’ Bible Talk, following buffet lunch at 1300, at 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’ – contemplation, reflection and silent worship Amber, CityPoint, 1 Ropemaker St, EC2Y 9AW under the auspices of Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street St Botolph Aldersgate 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1315 Holy Communion (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn 1800 to 2200 City of London House of Prayer – ‘Pursuit’ Prayer and Worship 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship Service All welcome (Free Church) City Temple Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 1800 to 1830 Eucharist (said) St Dunstan in the West 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1800 (Normally 1st Thursday) Choral Evensong, followed by ‘Thursday 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square Conversation’ at 1830 St Mary at Hill 1730 to 1750 Evening Prayer (Moot Community – all welcome) 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields St Mary Aldermary 1805 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1730 Choral Evensong (during legal term-time) (Not 16 or 30 May) Temple Church 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow Friday 1800 Taizé Service All Hallows by the Tower 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1830 to 1915 Meditation Group: ‘Stressed in the City’ (Moot Community – all 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square welcome) St Mary Aldermary 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 1900 Sung Eucharist (For 30 May see Special Services) St Andrew Holborn 0800 to 0830 Morning Taizé Chant (Moot Community – all welcome) St Mary Aldermary

0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields Thursday 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1200 to 1500 Quiet Personal Prayer St Joseph Bunhill Row 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1200 to 1230 Meditation Group: ‘Stressed in the City’ (Moot Community – 0815 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe all welcome) St Mary Aldermary 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1230 Pastoral Conversation or Confession (Sacrament Chapel) (or apply 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn at the Vestry) St Mary le Bow 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal St Mary Moorfields 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1305 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1210 Holy Communion (Not 10 May – see Special Services) 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields St Botolph Bishopsgate 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 1215 Eucharist (said) (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1315 to 1400 Holy Communion St Lawrence Jewry 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 1230 (1st Thursday) Eucharist followed by discussion 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate 1800 Paraklesis (replaced on 1st Friday and during fasting periods by Service 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr of Holy Unction) Followed at 1900 to 2200 by Catechesis and 1230 Eucharist St Mary le Strand Confessions (Romanian Orthodox) St Dunstan in the West 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields St Mary Moorfields 1900 to 2100 City of London House of Prayer - Equipping Night Service Praise 1245 to 1330 Choral Eucharist with the St Stephen’s Voices, followed by light lunch and Worship (Free Church) City Temple St Stephen Walbrook 1930 Jewish Friday Evening Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic 1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal Worship and Teaching – come and go as you orthodox rite) (1830 in winter months – please check on wish St Mary Woolnoth www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/) Bevis Marks Synagogue

Monday 14 May SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS IN 1300 Choral Classics 30 minutes of choral music and readings with the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields MAY 2018 St Stephen Walbrook

1800 Choral Evensong Tuesday 1 May Part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music (see 1800 Friends of the Musicians’ Chapel Annual Service of Thanksgiving www.lfccm.com), including the premiere of the Magnificat and Remembering those whose names have been newly inscribed in Nunc Dimittis by Rhiannon Randle, and also music by Byrd, Finzi and Martin How St Michael Cornhill the Book of Remembrance in the Musicians’ Chapel Preacher: The Rt Revd Stephen Conway, Bishop of Ely Tuesday 15 May Sung by the Choir of Royal Holloway, University of London 1730 Choral Evensong St Sepulchre without Newgate Part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music (see www.lfccm.com), including Canticles from Kerensa Briggs’ Wednesday 2 May Gloucester Service and an anthem by Robert Keely 1200 Service of Rededication of the ‘lost stained glass window’, now King’s College Chapel, King’s College London, Strand restored and reinstated after being badly damaged in World War II Wednesday 16 May and thought to be lost for nearly 60 years 1310 Choral Eucharist Followed by a celebration of the publication of The Story of the Guild Part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music (see Church of St Katharine Cree, Leadenhall Street, City of London, www.lfccm.com), including Love bade me welcome by Rhian by Brian Grumbridge St Katharine Cree Samuel, and O salutaris hostia by Gregory Drott King’s College Chapel, King’s College London, Strand Thursday 3 May Thursday 17 May 1800 Choral Evensong followed by Thursday Conversation at 1830 1210 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate See the entry for this date in the Events & Concerts section below St Mary at Hill Saturday 19 May 1130 High Mass for the Patronal Festival of St Dunstan Wednesday 9 May Sung by Chantage, with music including Schubert’s Mass No 2 in 1730 Choral Evensong for Ascension Day (10 May) Temple Church G major. The service will be followed by a buffet lunch, at an 1900 RC Vigil Mass of the Ascension St Mary Moorfields anticipated cost of £10.00 per head All welcome – to assist with administration and catering, please Thursday 10 May – Ascension Day inform the church administrator of numbers in advance on 0805 RC Mass for Ascension Day St Mary Moorfields [email protected] or 0207 405 1929 1200 RC Mass for Ascension Day St Joseph Bunhill Row St Dunstan in the West 1200 RC Mass for Ascension Day St Mary Moorfields Sunday 20 May – Pentecost (Whit Sunday) 1230 Eucharist (said) for Ascension Day St Dunstan in the West 1100 Procession and Solemn Eucharist with Pentecostal Anointing 1230 RC Mass for Ascension Day St Mary Moorfields St Bartholomew the Great 1245 Choral Eucharist for Ascension Day St Stephen Walbrook 1100 Choral Mattins 1300 Choral Eucharist for Ascension Day St Margaret Pattens Part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music (see 1305 Holy Communion for Ascension Day, with music by the City www.lfccm.com), including Responses by Kenneth Leighton, Singers St Katharine Cree Ashton Thomas’s Jubilate and music by Carl Rütti and Haydn 1305 High Mass for Ascension Day, with music for choir and organ Temple Church Preacher: The Revd Mae Christie, All Saints, Tooting 1300 Christian Aid Circle the City Pre-Walk Service, marking the St Mary le Bow start of the Circle the City Christian Aid Sponsored Walk 1305 RC Mass for Ascension Day St Mary Moorfields (see the entry for this date in the Events & Concerts section 1310 Choral Eucharist for Ascension Day St Botolph Bishopsgate below) St Mary le Bow 1730 RC Mass for Ascension Day St Mary Moorfields 1730 Choral Evensong 1800 Festal Evensong for Ascension Day Part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music (see Following the Beating of the Bounds Ceremony at 1615 www.lfccm.com), including Responses by Matthew Martin, All are welcome to follow the Beating the Bounds procession Canticles from Kerensa Briggs’ Gloucester Service and around the parish and to join the choral service afterwards Richard Peat’s anthem Whitsunday St Bride Fleet Street All Hallows by the Tower 1830 Eucharist for Ascension Day (Lutheran) Monday 21 May St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill 1300 Choral Classics 30 minutes of choral music and readings 1900 RC Mass for Ascension Day St Joseph Bunhill Row with the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields St Stephen Walbrook Sunday 13 May Thursday 24 May 1000 Parish Eucharist 1800 RC Pontifical High Mass (in the Extraordinary Form) Part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music (see St Mary Moorfields www.lfccm.com), including the London premiere of Tim Knight’s Friday 25 May motet Set me as a Seal upon Thine Heart, and music by 1200 Samuel Pepys Annual Commemoration Service Guest Speaker: Grayston Ives and St Giles Cripplegate Dr Kate Loveman, on Pepys and Food St Olave Hart Street 1100 Solemn High Mass Part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music (see Sunday 27 May www.lfccm.com), including the Missa Brevis by Marco Galvani 1830 Bach Choral Vespers for Trinity Sunday and Harley Jones’ motet A Child’s Blessing With J S Bach’s Cantata BWV 165, O heiliges Geist- und St Magnus the Martyr Wasserbad performed by the City Bach Collective on period instruments St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill /continued

Friday 11 May

SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS IN 1930 St Mary Moorfields

MAY 2018 – continued Talk on Newman: A Light for Our Times, by Father Dermot

Mansfield SJ

Part of a series of talks on A History of the Catholic Church Wednesday 30 May Following refreshments at 1845 1200 Prayer Meeting for Women St Katharine Cree Admission is free, with a retiring collection 1900 Sung Mass at St Dunstan in the West, with outdoor procession For further information please e-mail [email protected] and Benediction, for the Eve of Corpus Christi

Combined service, St Dunstan in the West & St Andrew Holborn Tuesday 15 May

Thursday 31 May 1100 St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall 1230 Eucharist (said) for The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary City of London Historical Society Talk: The Freedom of the St Dunstan in the West City of London 1305 High Mass for the Feast of Corpus Christi, with music for choir Given by Murray Craig, Assistant Chamberlain, City of London and organ St Mary le Bow All welcome Admission £10

Wednesday 16 May

LECTURES, COURSES, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS St Sepulchre without Newgate

1300 to 1400 Gresham College Lecture: Samuel Pepys the Guitarist IN MAY 2018 Given by Professor Christopher Page – the final lecture in the

series on For Courtesan, Queen and Gallant: The Guitar in Thursday 3 May England from Henry VIII to Samuel Pepys St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation & Peace, Bishopsgate Including ensemble performances 1230 to 1430 Christian Fellowship lunchtime discussion led by Free – no reservations required Admission on a ‘first come, first Father David Cherry Following Eucharist at 1230 served’ basis Doors open at 1230 All welcome to drop as you wish For further information please For further information please go to www.gresham.ac.uk and go to www.stethelburgas.org and follow the links from ‘Events’ follow the links from ‘Attend’, ‘All future lectures’ and ‘Music’

1830 St Mary at Hill Friday 18 May Thursday Conversation: Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones London Centre for Spiritual Direction at St Edmund King & Martyr (founder of ‘The Black Farmer’ brand) ‘In Conversation’ with 1100 to 1600 Listening to Your Life: the Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkin. The subject will be Discernment and Vocation in Spiritual Direction Jeopardy and the Risk of Playing It Safe Led by Julia Mourant Following Choral Evensong at 1800 Followed by refreshments An event in the Developing Direction programme, designed to See the entry for this date in the Events & Concerts section below foster the ongoing development and support of spiritual directors

For further information, including cost, and to book please go to: Friday 4 May www.lcsd.org.uk and follow the links from ‘Courses & Events’ London Centre for Spiritual Direction at St Edmund King & Martyr 1100 to 1600 The Treasures of Darkness: Working with the Shadow in Wednesday 23 May Spiritual Direction Led by Anne Soloman St Lawrence Jewry An event in the Developing Direction programme, designed to 1100 and 1400 Wren Watching (& Talking & Walking…) foster the ongoing development and support of spiritual directors Led by City Guides and Lecturers Alexandra Epps and Jill Finch For further information, including cost, and to book please go to: At 1100, a talk on the history & stained glass of St Lawrence Jewry www.lcsd.org.uk and follow the links from ‘Courses & Events’ Followed at 1400 by a guided walk from Guildhall Yard, taking in

three other Wren churches St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation & Peace, Bishopsgate Booking is possible for each session separately or the two 1830 to 2100 The Feminine and Spiritual Authority sessions together An interfaith panel discussion exploring what it means to reclaim the For further information and how to book, please see the entry for mandate of the feminine and to live it fearlessly in troubled times this date in the Events & Concerts section below Booking in advance required For further information, including

cost and how to book, please go to www.stethelburgas.org and Wednesday 30 May follow the links from ‘Events’ St Mary le Bow Tuesday 8 May 1830 to 2000 JustShare Event: The Terms of the World’s Trade

St Andrew Holborn A debate on current issues and changes in world trade, their 1045 to 1530 Oasis Day: Healing through Caring impact on international trade policy and how trade can be made Led by Sister Bernie Devine, Lead Chaplain, Mildmay Hospital to work for everyone, including the world’s poorest Oasis Days offer a monthly time of quiet reflection to re-charge With Allie Renison, Head of Europe and Trade Policy, one’s spiritual batteries with stimulating speakers Institute of Directors, and Cost £15 – Lunch and tea/coffee provided Stephen Jacobi, trade negotiator, Executive Director, Pre-booking required by 4 May for catering purposes – to book NZ International Business Forum please telephone the Revd Martin Davies on 07429 612642 or Moderator: Richard Burge, Chief Executive, Commonwealth e-mail [email protected] Enterprise and Investment Council Please enter via No 7 Andrew Street, during restoration work Please register to attend For further information and to register to the church go to: www.justshare.org.uk

Wednesday 2 May EVENTS & CONCERTS IN MAY 2018 1305 St Botolph Aldgate Recital: Pia Harris – soprano Eleanor Kornas – piano Programme: Tuesday 1 May Richard Strauss – Vier Letzte Lieder Op posth Weber – Leise leise fromme weiser

1230 St Mary Abcurch Admission is free with a retiring collection Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. 1305 St Olave Hart Street The recital will usually include an improvisation Recital: Buck Brass Trio Daniel Walton – trumpet, Timothy Ellis – horn, 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Richard Buck – trombone The John Hill Memorial Organ Recitals 2018 1305 St Vedast Foster Lane In memory of John Hill, who gave so much help and A Spanish Song Concert encouragement to young organists. The series of five recitals will Deborah Hudson – soprano Suzy Ruffles – piano feature UK and international artists at the outset of their careers Programme: The first recital will be given by Johannes Skoog (Sweden) Songs by De Falla, Rodrigo, Mompou, Obradors & some Zarzuelas Programme: Homage within homage Free Admission Maurice Duruflé – Fugue sur la thème du carillon de la 1315 St Dunstan in the West cathédrale de Soissons Op 12 Recital: Akiko Enomoto – mezzo-soprano John Collis – piano George Baker – Deux Évocations Marcel Dupré – Cortège et Litanie Thursday 3 May

Jehain Alain – Fantasmagorie ; Litanies 1305 St Mary le Bow Maurice Duruflé – Prélude et Fugue sur le nom d'Alain Mezzo soprano and piano For more information please go to: http://www.stmarylebow.org.uk/ and follow the links 1300 St Stephen Walbrook 1305 St Olave Hart Street A Walbrook Trust Recital Recital: Vanessa Heine – mezzo-soprano Simon Hayes – piano 2Nation Duo – 1310 All Hallows by the Tower A Percussion Duo formed at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Organ Recital: Stephen Binnington Performers: Tobias Jutestal and Matt Frost 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series 1315 St Mary at Hill Marc Baumann (Strasbourg Alsace/France) Recital in The Square Mile Music Series 1800 St Mary at Hill Olive Murray – soprano Christopher Foreman – piano Choral Evensong, followed by Thursday Conversation at 1830 Programme: Evensong will be sung by Seraphim, the St Mary at Hill Choir Music by Bach, Mozart and Quilter The Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkins will be in conversation with 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones (founder of 'The Black Farmer' brand Their topic will be 'Jeopardy and the Risk of Playing it Safe' . Recital: Mark Ehrenfried – piano Programme: We finish with a glass of wine at 1930 Domenico Scarlatti – Toccata in C major K 423 Admission is free Donations are welcome Toccata in A minor K 54 Jean-Baptiste Loeillet de Ghent (arr. L Godowsky) – Lessons for the Harpsichord or Spinet Friday 4 May Courante in E minor Air tendre in E minor 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Christian Sinding – Piano Sonata Op. 91 no. 1 — Organ Recital: Andante non troppo Jonathan Lilley – Director of Music, Waltham Abbey F Schubert (arr. Liszt/Ehrenfried) – 1305 St Mary at Hill Schwanengesang D 957 no. 4 - Ständchen Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society Mark Ehrenfried – Serenade Hector Castro – guitar Ouroboros Programme: This will include works by Bach, Frescobaldi, Albéniz and Villa-Lobos Free Admittance – Retiring Collection 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: Jennifer Tsang – recorder, Constance Chow – piano 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Programme: Tours of the Church – Reverie, Op. 86 Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Sonata for Recorder and Piano, Op. 121 Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day Walter Leigh – Sonatina for Treble Recorder and Piano or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: Hans Ulrich Staeps – Sonata in Eb for Treble Recorder [email protected] and Piano or telephoning (+44) 20 7427 0133. Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Special tours for groups can also be arranged 1315 St Dunstan in the West Recital: Catherine Cheung – piano

Wednesday 9 May EVENTS AND CONCERTS IN MAY 2018 - continued 1305 St Botolph Aldgate Recital: Katherine Clarke – viola Saturday 5 May Programme:

J S Bach – Partita No 3 BWV 1006 arranged for solo viola 1015 The Dutch Church, Austin Friars Annual General Meeting of the Lute Society Admission is free with a retiring collection The meeting is free for all to attend, although there is usually a charge for those who wish to attend the recital at the end of the 1305 St Olave Hart Street meeting. The title of the recital is: Recital: Sian Phillips – violin German lute music of the 18th century played by Andrew Maginley 1315 St Dunstan in the West The recital will take place at 1630 Recital: Susanna Meszaros – cello with piano accompaniment For the timetable for the day and full information: https://www.lutesociety.org/pages/meetings 1315 Temple Church Organ Recital: Greg Morris The Complete Works of J S Bach - continued Programme: Tuesday 8 May Chorale Preludes for Easter and funerals

Prelude and fugue in B minor BWV 544 1230 St Mary Abcurch Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. For more information concerning this series of recitals in venues The recital will usually include an improvisation outside the City of London please go to : http://gregmorris.org.uk/bach/ 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Organ Recital: The John Hill Memorial Recitals 1918 Thursday 10 May Featuring UK and international artists at the outset of their careers 1305 St Mary Abchurch Andrzej Malitowski (Poland) Recital: Thomas Bowes – violin Programme: Bach Pilgrimage 2018 – J S Bach – Fantasia and fugue in G minor BWV 542 The complete Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin J S Bach – Vater unser im Himmelreich BWV 682 The first of three recitals – (the 2nd & 3rd on 10 & 31 May) Mieczysław Surzyński – Improvisations on the polish hymn Programme: Święty Boże Op 38 Sonata No 1 in G minor BWV 1001 Charles – Toccata and Fugue 'The Wanderer' Sonata No 3 in C major BWV 1005

1300 St Stephen Walbrook Donations to the Friends of the City Churches A Walbrook Trust Recital Sian Phillips – violin 1305 St Olave Hart Street Recital: Susanna Braun – piano 1315 St Mary at Hill Recital in The Square Mile Music Series 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Jelena Makarova – piano Organ Recital: Programme: Richard Townend plays 'The Glorious Baroque' (4) Beethoven – Sonata in D major No 15 Op 28 'Pastorale' 1615 All Hallows by the Tower 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Beating of the Bounds Ceremony Recital: Jenni Harper – soprano, Martin Ford – piano All are welcome to follow the procession round the parish and Programme: to join us for the Choral Evensong afterwards. Richard Strauss – An die Nacht For details of this interesting historical ceremony please refer to Gabriel Fauré – Soir; Clair de lune the article on the front page of this publication. Richard Strauss – Säusle liebe Myrthe Gabriel Fauré – En sourdine 1800 Festal Evensong for Ascension Day, with music by the – Á Chloris St Dunstan’s College Chapel Choir Richard Strauss – Ich wollt ein Sträußlein binden following the Beating of the Bounds ceremony at 1615, Als mir dein Lied erklang Gabriel Fauré – Après un rêve; Aurore Friday 11 May

Reynaldo Hahn – Le Printemps 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Richard Strauss – Amor; Morgen Organ Recital: Rupert Jeffcoat Free Admittance – Retiring Collection 1305 St Mary at Hill 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society Tours of the Church Couperin 350th Birthday Series Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Yeo-Yat Soon – solo harpsichiord Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day Programme: 'La Tendre Mélancolie' – or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: the harpsichord music of François Couperin and of younger [email protected] contemporary composers influenced by him, including J S Bach, or telephoning (+44) 20 7427 0133. Rameau and D'Agincourt Special tours for groups can also be arranged

EVENTS AND CONCERTS IN MAY 2018 - continued Monday 14 May — continued

1305 St Martin Ludgate Friday 11 May — continued Recital: Julian Hellaby – piano Programme: 1315 St Bride Fleet Street J S Bach – Prelude and Fugue in C# major BWV 872 Recital: Judith Gore – piano (48 Preludes and Fugues Book 2) Programme: Debussy – 'Jane Austen and the Piano' From Four Duets: No 4 in A minor & No 3 In G major Niccolò Piccinni – Overture to La Buona Figliuola 'Clair de Lune' ( from Suite Bergamesqua) – Sonata in C major Hob XVI/35 From Préludes Book 2:: Maria Reynolds Park – Sonata in B flat major Op. 1 La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune Johann Sterkel – Sonata in C major Op. 3 Général Lavine – eccentric František Kočvara – The Battle of Prague Ondine and Feux d'artifice Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Respighi – Notturno & Valse caressante 1315 St Dunstan in the West Casella – Barcarola & Toccata Organ Recital: Martin Ellis

1645 St Paul's Cathedral Organ Recital: Tom Bell Programme: A varied programme of contemporary organ music Tuesday 15 May including St Paul’s Shipwreck by Geoffrey Alvarez 1230 St Mary Abcurch This is an event in the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate.

The recital will usually include an improvisation Monday 14 May 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Organ Recital: The John Hill Memorial Recitals 1918 The City Church of St Mary le Bow Featuring UK and international artists at the outset of their careers Nicholas Wearne (UK) Monday 14 May to Friday 18 May Programme: First Day of an Exhibition of paintings by J S Bach – Toccata in C BWV 564 Charles Hubert Parry – Two Chorale Preludes from the Paul Brown Second Set (1916) – Two Chorale Preludes from Op posth 122 Weekdays 10.00am to 4.00pm Felix Mendelssohn (arr. W T Best) – Overture to Paulus Op 36

1300 St Stephen Walbrook 1300 St Lawrence Jewry A Walbrook Trust Recital Recital: Maksim Štšura – piano Trombone Quartet Programme: Wagner – Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Prelude 1315 St Bride Fleet Street arranged for piano solo by Hans von Bülow Recital: Anna Kijanowska – piano Eino Tamberg – Partita for piano Op 40 Programme: Mart Saar – Skizze (‘Sketch’) Łukasz Woś – Piano Sonata (2017) Heino Eller – Preludes: Book 2, No.1 in A minor – Piano Sonata in B minor S.178

and No 2 in B major Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Prokofiev – Visions fugitives Op. 22

Maksim Štšura performs through the joint St Lawrence Jewry 1315 St Mary at Hill and Worshipful Company of Musicians Scheme for young A London Festival of Contemporary Church Music Recital prizewinners of the Company Seraphim 1300 St Michael Cornhill Programme: Organ Recital: Benjamin Saunders (Leeds Cathedral) Frank La Rocca – O Sacrum Convivium Programme: Alison Willis – O Most Merciful Arauxo – Segundo tiento de quarto tono and music by Thomas Tomkins (1572 – 1656) Penguin Café Orchestra, arr BS – Music for a found harmonium Hyman – From This Happy Breed: 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Throwaway – Brazil 99 – Slumpin' Tours of the Church Byrd – The Carman's Whistle Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Wolstenholme – two pieces: Allegretto – Lied Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day Penguin Café Orchestra, arr BS – Perpetuum Mobile or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: Irish, 1961, arr BS Watermark Eithne – Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin [email protected] Boëly – Fantaisie et Fugue in B flat or telephoning (+44) 20 7427 0133. 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Special tours for groups can also be arranged Choral Classics — 30 minutes of sublime choral music and readings with the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields Free with a retiring collection

Friday 18 May — continued EVENTS AND CONCERTS IN MAY 2018 - continued 1000 to 1600 St Mary le Bow Last day of the exhibition of paintings by Paul Brown Wednesday 16 May 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Organ Recital: Nick Bland 1305 St Botolph Aldgate 1305 St Mary at Hill Recital: Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society Thomas Gregory – cello Mine Doğantan-Dack – piano Manu Brazo – saxophone Programme: Programme: Rachmaninoff – Sonata for cello and piano in G major Op 19 Works by Gershwin, Piazolla, de Falla and Pedro Iturralde Admission is free with a retiring collection 1315 St Bride Fleet Street 1305 St Olave Hart Street Recital: Jamie Torrance – guitar, Jonathan Perkin – clarinet, Recital: Hayley Myles – piano Sebastian Stanley – piano 1315 St Dunstan in the West Programme: Recital: James Kirby – piano – Lachrimae 1315 Temple Church Pavan; Galliard Organ Recital: Colin Welsh Lennox Berkeley – Sonatina Op.52 Claude Debussy – Première Rhapsodie Thursday 17 May Lennox Berkeley – Sonatine for clarinet and piano

1305 St Mary Abchurch Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Recital: Thomas Bowes – violin Bach Pilgrimage 2018 – The complete Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin Saturday 19 May The second of three recitals – (the 1st & 3rd on 10 & 31 May) 1200 to about 2140 Programme: St Sepulchre without Newgate Sonata No 2 in A minor BWV 1003 Sangerstevne 2018 Main Festival Event Partita No 1 in B minor BWV 1002 Please refer to the 'box' display above Donations to the Friends of the City Churches 1305 St Olave Hart Street Recital: Guildhall Harpists and Friends Sunday 20 May — Whit Sunday 1310 All Hallows by the Tower Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling 1300 to 1730 St Mary le Bow 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Circle the City – Christian Aid Event Organ Recital: Circle the City is a sponsored walk which takes place at the end Richard Townend plays 'The Glorious Baroque' (5) of Christian Aid Week each year. We begin at St Mary le Bow at 1300 with a short service and then set out to a number of Friday 18 May churches where there will be exhibitions, guides, music, entertainment and activities for children. It is a great opportunity to gather with a large group of people and to enjoy fresh air, fellowship and to raise vital funds for the fight to end poverty. The walk ends at 1730 at St Mary le Bow Sangerstevne 2018 For full information and how to register please search: St Mary le Bow and follow these links: Friday 18 to Sunday 20 May 2018 Events and then current programme and go to 20th May

A Festival of some 30 choirs taking place across London and in Monday 21 May

St Sepulchre without Newgate 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Recital: Olga Stezhko – piano The Main Festival will take place in St Sepulchre's Programme: Scriabin – Two Dances Op 73 on Saturday 19 May Poulenc – Trois pièces FP 48 when the individual choirs will be giving Debussy – Six épigraphes antiques a series of rolling concerts running from Scriabin – Sonata Op 10 "Kisses of the Sun" 12 noon to about 9.40pm 1300 St Michael Cornhill Organ Recital: Jonathan Rennert (Lunchtime recital No 447) Admission is free Programme: Lefébure-Wély – Sortie in E flat More details may be found at: Clérambault – From 2ème Suite: Flûtes – Récit de Nazard www.sangerstevne.org Franck – Choral 2 in B minor Messiaen – Communion Jongen – Sonata Eroica

EVENTS AND CONCERTS IN MAY 2018 - continued Tuesday 22 May — continued

1415 St Bride Fleet Street Monday 21 May — continued Tours of the Church Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day Choral Classics — 30 minutes of sublime choral music and or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: readings with the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields [email protected] Free with a retiring collection or telephoning (+44) 20 7427 0133. Special tours for groups can also be arranged 1305 St Martin Ludgate Recital: Marie Finne-Bray – soprano David Cousell – piano Programme: "Fairytale Finnish of Tolkien" – Wednesday 23 May

Exquisite Finnish music and magical classics of the world 1100 St Lawrence Jewry Melodies in fairytale Finnish language, pearls and diamonds Wren Watching (& Talking & Walking) of classical music, opera and church music An All Day Event: Morning Event at 1100 Afternoon Event at 1400 Tuesday 22 May After the Great Fire of London Sir Christopher Wren directed the 1230 St Mary Abcurch work of rebuilding the parish churches. He tended to favour using Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. plain glass to allow light to flood his buildings but after World War 2 The recital will usually include an improvisation when many churches had to be rebuilt due to serious war damage a remarkable generation of artists emerged and they used colour in the window glass to tell the stories of the churches to a post war world. 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Organ Recital: The John Hill Memorial Recitals 1918 As part of St Lawrence Jewry's Diamond Jubilee celebrations, Featuring UK and international artists at the outset of their careers City Guides and Lecturers Alexandra Epps and Jill Finch will be Matthew Jorysz (UK) Wren Watching at the church, Wednesday 23 May, in two sessions.

Programme: In the morning they will look in depth at the history and stained glass J S Bach – Fantasia and Fugue in C minor BWV 537 of St Lawrence Jewry and in the afternoon they will be leading a walk Charles Hubert Parry – Chorale Prelude on "Eventide" from Guildhall Yard takin in three other Wren churches, discussing Marcel Dupré – Prelude and Fugue in G minor Op 7 No 3 Wren, stained glass, the City churches and their history. J S Bach – Erbarm’ dich mein, O Herre Gott BWV 721 For details and more information please contact Katrina on: George Thalben-Ball – Elegy in F (from A Little Organ Book in 020 7600 9478 or [email protected] memory of Hubert Parry) Charles Hubert Parry – Fantasia and Fugue in G Op 188 1305 St Botolph Aldgate 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Recital: A Walbrook Trust Recital Bronwen Stephens – mezzo-soprano Guy Murgstroyd – piano Katherine Clarke – solo viola and solo voice Programme:

Programme: This will consist of five world premieres Bellini and Rossini Songs and Arias commissioned by Katherine, some for singing solo violist. Bellini – Adelson e Salvini: Dopo l'oscuro nembo (Nelly) Robert Laidlow – Of Necessity for singing solo violist I Capuleti e I Montecchi: Ascolta … se Romeo l'uccise un figlio Caroline Bordignon – Intertwined for singing solo violist (Romeo) Melissa Douglas – The Ascent for solo viola 15 Composizioni da Camera: No 15 Ma rendi pur contento Cassandra Kaczor – Blues for Katherine for solo violist; Rossini – singing, playing and beatboxing Serate Musicali: Selected ariette and canzonetti Peter Davis – Epiphany for singing solo violist La cenerentola: Nacqui all'affanno … Non piu mesta (Cenerentola)

1315 St Bride Fleet Street Admission is free with a retiring collection Recital: Natalie Davies – mezzo soprano, Hunter Mabery – piano 1305 St Olave Hart Street Programme: Recital: Katherine Clarke – solo viola and solo voice Joseph Haydn – Arianna a Naxos Hob XXVIb 2 Programme: This will consist of five pieces Robert Schumann – Frauenliebe und - Leben Op. 42 commissioned by Katherine, some for singing solo violist. A cycle of eight songs describing the course of a They had their world premieres yesterday in the City church of St Stephen Walbrook woman's love for her man, from her point of view, from first meeting through marriage to his death, and after. Robert Laidlow – Of Necessity for singing solo violist

Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Caroline Bordignon – Intertwined for singing solo violist Melissa Douglas – The Ascent for solo viola 1315 St Mary at Hill Cassandra Kaczor – Blues for Katherine for solo violist; Recital: Margaret Pearman – soprano David Coussell – piano singing, playing and beatboxing Programme: Peter Davis – Epiphany for singing solo violist "From Love's Sickness to Fly" Music by Purcell, Mozart and Fauré

EVENTS AND CONCERTS IN MAY 2018 - continued Friday 25 May — continued

Wednesday 23 May — continued 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Organ Recital: James Furniss-Roe 1315 St Dunstan in the West Programme: Recital: Kelvin McGregor – tenor with piano accompaniment – L'apparition de l'église éternelle (1932) 1315 Temple Church Charles-Marie Widor – from Organ Symphony no. 6 — Organ Recital: Greg Morris Adagio (Movement 2) The Complete Works of J S Bach continued Louis Vierne – from 24 Pièces de Fantaisie — Programme: Suite 2 Chorale Preludes and Fantasias for Pentecost Hymne au Soleil Jean Langlais – from Neuf Pièces — For more information concerning this series of recitals in venues Chant de Paix outside the City of London please go to : Charles Tournemire – from Sei Fioretti — http://gregmorris.org.uk/bach/ 6. 'A son ami [Maurice] Lenormand'

Maurice Duruflé – Prélude, Adagio et Choral varié sur le

thème du 'Veni Creator'

Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Thursday 24 May 1315 St Dunstan in the West 1310 All Hallows by the Tower Recital: Belgard String Quartet Organ Recital: David Cook Katarina Kostrevc – violin 1 Zlatina Stoyanova – violin 2 Yoshinori Hayashi – viola Samuiel Creer – cello 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series Samuel Eriksson (Gothenburg, Sweden) Sunday 27 May — Trinity Sunday 1800 St Katharine Cree The 8th Anniversary of the Widow's Mite Gala concert 1830 St Mary at Hill 'Seek Ye First The Kingdom of God' Bach Vespers for Trinity Sunday with J S Bach Cantata 165 – 'O heilges Geist – und Wasserbad' A Celebration in honour of Philip Manning (Church Manager and Warden)

Timings: 1800 for Supper; 1840 for Concert Entry: £15 donation (£10 for under 16 years) Tuesday 29 May

All funds raised will go towards a new sound system 1230 St Mary Abcurch For more information and to obtain tickets please go to: Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. www.sanctuaryinthecity.net The recital will usually include an improvisation or email: [email protected] 1300 St Lawrence Jewry 1900 Temple Church Organ Recital: The John Hill Memorial Recitals 1918 Concert: 'The Creation' by Haydn Featuring UK and international artists at the outset of their careers Temple Church Choir Thomas Gaynor (New Zealand) Outcry Ensemble Orchestra Programme: Conductor – Roger Sayer J S Bach – Prelude in E flat major BWV 552a For tickets please go to: Felix Mendelssohn (arr Thomas Gaynor) – Scherzo from http://templechurch.com/ Go to the Calendar for MAY Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night's Dream Op 61 and click on 24 MAY Jean-Baptiste Robin (b 1976) – Regard vers l'Air (arr Thomas Gaynor) – Adagio for Strings Op 11 J S Bach – Fugue in E flat major "St Anne" BWV 552b

Friday 25 May 1300 St Stephen Walbrook

1230 St Stephen Walbrook A Walbrook Trust Recital Organ Recital: Paul Ayres Maria Barbosa Do Costa – piano

1305 St Mary at Hill 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: Daniel Kearney – piano Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society Programme: BELLOT ENSEMBLE J S Bach – Partita in C minor BWV 826 Edmund Taylor – director Chopin – Polonaise-fantaisie Op. 61 'The Flourishing Sinfonia and Concerto' (Part 2) Nikolai Kapustin – Variations Op. 41 (1984)

Programme: Free Admittance – Retiring Collection C P E Bach – Sinfonia in A major Haydn – in G majior Du Grain – Harpsichord Concerto in E minor

EVENTS AND CONCERTS IN MAY 2018 - continued We are indebted to Dickon Love, Company Bellringer to the

Tuesday 29 May — continued Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks for the following information 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Tours of the Church Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: Open bellringing performances [email protected] or telephoning (+44) 20 7427 0133. currently scheduled for the City of London Special tours for groups can also be arranged in May 2018

Wednesday 30 May Tuesday 1 May 1305 St Botolph Aldgate 1800 3 hr performance on the Jubilee Bells Recital: Rhys Bowden – tenor Michael Kruger – piano by the St James' Guiild Programme: at St Dunstan in the West Schumann – Dichterliebe Op 48

"A Poet's Love" (composed 1840), is the best-known song cycle of Robert Schumann (Op. 48). The texts for the 16 songs come from the Lyrisches Intermezzo of Heinrich Heine, written Wednesday 2 May 1822–23 and published as part of the poet's Das Buch der 1730 3½ hr performance on the Bow Bells Lieder. Following the song-cycles of (Die by the Ancient Society of College Youths schöne Müllerin and Winterreise), those of Schumann constitute at St Mary le Bow part of the central core of the genre in musical literature.

Admission is free with a retiring collection

1305 St Olave Hart Street Saturday 12 May Recital: To be arranged 0915 3½ hr performance on the Bow Bells

by the Ancient Society of College Youths Thursday 31 May at St Mary le Bow

1305 St Mary Abchurch 1000 3½ performance on the bells Recital: Thomas Bowes – violin by the Ancient Society of College Youths Bach Pilgrimage 2018 – at St Michael Cornhill The complete Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin The third of three recitals – (the 1st & 2nd on 10 & 17 May) Programme: Partita No 3 in E major BWV 1006 Partita No 2 in D minor BWV 1004 Saturday 12 May

Donations to the Friends of the City Churches 0930 3½ hr performance on the Bow Bells by the Bristol Bellringers 1305 St Olave Hart Street at St Mary le Bow Recital: Leyla Cemioglu – piano

1310 All Hallows by the Tower Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling

1310 St Margaret Lothbury City Events is published by Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays 'The Glorious Baroque' (6) The Friends of the City Churches in conjunction with 1900 St Mary Moorfields, Eldon Street the Archdeaconry of London Recital: The Gorbanoff String Quartet and printed by Copyprints: Programme: [email protected] Haydn – String Quartet No 2 Op 20 Mendelssohn – Four Pieces for String Quartet Einojuhani Rautavaara – String Quartet No 1

Free admission with a retiring collection

Jun e 2018 Published by FCC in conjunction with the Archdeaconry of London

Two Festivals and a Project

This month sees the launching of a new London Festival – in City Churches. In the festival the aim is to present beautiful music chosen for its underlying theme and context. The theme for this year's inaugural festival marking 100 years since 1918 will be 'Swords and Ploughshares' with music recalling pre‐ Great War peace, the horror of war itself, and its legacy. Concerts will feature nostalgic reminiscence of a pastoral age irrevocably devastated by the outbreak of war, evocative settings of poetry by WWI poets and music written in tribute to those who fell in the Great War. Each concert will take place in a City church, the venues being St Giles Cripplegate on Thursday 21 June — the Opening Concert, Wednesday 22 June and Friday 29 June; St Mary le Bow on Friday 22 June, St Stephen Walbrook on Monday 25 June and Thursday 28 June and St Bartholomew the Great on Saturday 23 June. One concert is particularly noteworthy and that will be a Myra Hess tribute lunchtime recital re‐creating the opening recital of Dame Myra's legendary National Gallery concerts in the Second World War. The soloist will be Adrian Brendle at St Giles Cripplegate on Wednesday 27 June. All of the concerts in the Festival are listed in the following pages. Full infformation concerning the Festival is to be found at: www.SummerMusicCityChurches.com

As always organ recitals abound in the City churches and June there will be no less than 32. In three of them special compositions for the Orgelbüchlein Project can be heard. The Project started in February 2013 and is a major international composition project to complete J S Bach's Orgelbüchlein. Bach intended this to be a compendium of chorales for the whole church year. Beginning in about 1713 he wrote out the title of each of the 164 Chorales he wished to include. However, only 46 were completed by him (wiith a sketch for one other) so there are 118 'ghost' chorales awaiting completion. The task for composers contributing to the Orgelbüchlein Project is this: if Bach were alive today, how might he go about writing a short chorale prelude in the Orgelbüchlein style? However, style is entirely open. Many of the ‘scchools’ of contemporary composition are represented; minimalism, ‘sppirituality’, new complexity, modernnism, serialism, jazz, post‐ colonialisms, together with a range of styles from periods since Bach’s death. Many composers and organists have contributed and the Project is entering its final phase, with about 15 commissions remaining. Two compositions are featured in the organ recital given by Samuel Bristow at St Bride Fleet Street on Friday 29 June. Most interestingly one of the contributions in that recital is by Stephen Hough, the renowned international concert pianist. Another will be played by William Whitehead at St Michael Cornhill on Monday 11 June. At St Lawrence Jewry on Tuesday 12 June Portugal's leading organist João Vaz will play his contribution to the Project and importantly this will be the world premiere of the piece. More information about the Orgelbüchlein Project can be found at: www.orgelbuchlein.co.uk

Finally mention must be made of another innovattive concert series – Spitalfields Music in the City. The venues are not City churches and thus are not listed in City Events but the three concerts will be held in the City. The venues will be Livery Halls and the concerts in June, July and September will ceelebrate the centenary of women's suffrage, featuring all‐female artists peerforming works by women composers through the ages. Full information can be found at: www.spitalfieldsmusic.org.uk/season/performances‐18

The Friends of the City Churches, Church of St Mary Abchurch, Abchurch Lane, London EC4N 7BA Visit: www.london‐city‐churches.org.uk for more information and the location of the churches in the City

Tuesday ─ continued

REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES IN JUNE 2018 0800 to 0830 Morning Meditation (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street

The entries below show the normal pattern of services for City Churches 0815 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe and a few churches ‘just over the City borders’. Entries are for Church of 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower England services except where indicated otherwise. ‘1st Monday’, ‘2nd 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate Monday’ etc refer to the 1st Monday, 2nd Monday etc of the month. 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public While every effort is made to ensure accuracy, the services shown are welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal subject to change at Bank or other holidays, immediately before, during 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service St Andrew Holborn and after major festivals and during the summer months. You are strongly 1215 Eucharist (said) (BCP) St James Garlickhythe advised to contact churches to check the details. 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less For a list of weekend (particularly Sunday) services please go to the 1230 to 1300 Eucharist (said) with brief address St Dunstan in the West Friends of the City Churches website at www.london-city-churches.org.uk 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr and follow the links from ‘Events’ and ‘City Events’. 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) St Mary Moorfields 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Woolnoth Monday 1230 Holy Communion (said), followed by coffee and sandwiches 0715 Jewish Daily Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic orthodox rite) St Olave Hart Street (0700 on 1st day of Hebrew religious month; 0800 on Bank Holidays) 1300 Holy Communion in the Crypt, with a focus on prayers for healing For details please see www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/ All Hallows by the Tower Bevis Marks Synagogue 1300 Lunchtime Service Christ Church, Spitalfields 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1300 to 1400 (any time) Contemporary Worship 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn St Sepulchre without Newgate 0800 Morning Prayer - short contemplative service (Moot Community – 1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate all welcome) St Mary Aldermary 1305 to 1335 Bible Talk, with lunch available after the talk 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields St Helen Bishopsgate 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1305 Meditation (in the crypt chapel) St Mary le Bow 0815 to 0915 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament Informal drop-in service for 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields prayer, adoration and Eucharistic meditation – come and go as you wish 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn St Dunstan in the West 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn 0815 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, following buffet lunch at 1300 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow St Botolph Aldersgate 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1310 Holy Communion St Margaret Lothbury 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service (if listeners available - Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street please check with church) St Andrew Holborn 1700 to 1730 ‘Words of Hope’ – quiet reflective service 1200 to 1230 Meditation Group: ‘Stressed in the City’ (Moot Community – St Clement Eastcheap all welcome) St Mary Aldermary 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1215 Eucharist (said) (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields St Mary Moorfields 1830 Choral Evensong (traditional) (Choral Eucharist on 3rd Tuesday) 1245 Holy Communion (Not on Bank Holidays) St Mary at Hill St Sepulchre without Newgate 1300 to 1400 Ecumenical Contemplative Prayer (Addison Room) St Edmund King & Martyr (London Centre for Spiritual Direction) Wednesday 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 1700 to 1800 ‘Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 0800 to 0845 Ecumenical Meditation Group All welcome Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street St Edmund King & Martyr (London Centre for Spiritual Direction 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0800 to 0830 Morning Taizé Chant (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1800 Choral Evensong (BCP) (during university terms – current term 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow continues until 9 July) St Michael Cornhill 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate Tuesday 0830 to 0915 Holy Communion St Lawrence Jewry 0715 Jewish Daily Service (see Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn 0730 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public 0745 Holy Communion (said) followed by coffee and croissants St Mary at Hill welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal 0745 Eucharist (in the church) followed by breakfast St Mary le Bow 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 0915 to 0945 Morning prayers, followed by coffee All welcome 0745 to 0915 ‘Start: Stop’ – start the day by stopping to reflect – 10 minute reflections St Edmund King & Martyr (London Centre for Spiritual Direction) beginning every 15 minutes - just drop in St Stephen Walbrook 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service (if listeners available - 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square please check with church) St Andrew Holborn 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 1205 RC Mass St Joseph Bunhill Row 0800 to 0900 Café Prayer – an opportunity for stillness and prayer, Bible reading continued/ and reflection Coffee served St Katharine Cree

Thursday ─ continued REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES IN 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place JUNE 2018 − continued 1300 to 1330 (Normally 1st Thursday) Private Prayer and Reflection St Giles Cripplegate 1300 Eucharist (normally choral on 1st Thursday) St Margaret Pattens 1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate Wednesday ─ continued 1305 Holy Communion, followed by coffee and sandwiches 1215 Eucharist (said) (BCP) St James Garlickhythe St Katharine Cree 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1305 to 1335 ‘St Nick's Talks’ Bible Talk St Nicholas Cole Abbey 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Abchurch 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn St Mary Moorfields 1310 to 1350 Bible Talk, with lunch available, followed by Question Time 1245 to 1315 (3rd Wednesday) Society of Friends (Quaker) Meeting for Worship St Helen Bishopsgate Bunhill Fields Meeting House, Quaker Court, Banner St 1315 to 1345 Lunchtime Service (Free Church) City Temple 1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal Worship and Teaching – come and go 1315 Holy Communion St Martin within Ludgate as you wish St Margaret Lothbury 1315 Holy Communion (BCP said) (during legal term-time) 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place Temple Church 1305 ‘Not on a Sunday’ – informal worship with prayer and song, followed 1400 to 1420 Prayers – Offering up the prayers from the church’s prayer board by coffee St Katharine Cree and the London Internet Church St Stephen Walbrook 1305 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’ – contemplation, reflection and silent worship 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 1310 to 1340 ‘Moorgate Talks’ Bible Talk, following buffet lunch at 1300, 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe at Amber, CityPoint, 1 Ropemaker St, EC2Y 9AW 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square Linked with St Botolph Aldersgate 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1310 Sung Eucharist (For 20 June see Special Services) 1800 to 2200 City of London House of Prayer – ‘Pursuit’ Prayer and Worship St Botolph Bishopsgate Service All welcome (Free Church) City Temple 1315 Holy Communion (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1800 to 1830 Eucharist (said) St Dunstan in the West 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn 1800 (Normally 1st Thursday) Choral Evensong, followed by ‘Thursday 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship Conversation’ at 1830 St Mary at Hill Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1805 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square

1730 to 1750 Evening Prayer (Moot Community – all welcome) St Mary Aldermary Friday 1730 Choral Evensong (during legal term-time) Temple Church 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1800 Taizé Service All Hallows by the Tower 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 1830 to 1915 Meditation Group: ‘Stressed in the City’ (Moot Community – all 0800 to 0830 Morning Taizé Chant (Moot Community – all welcome) welcome) St Mary Aldermary St Mary Aldermary 1900 Sung Eucharist St Andrew Holborn 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow Thursday 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1200 to 1500 Quiet Personal Prayer St Joseph Bunhill Row 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 1200 to 1230 Meditation Group: ‘Stressed in the City’ (Moot Community – 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields all welcome) St Mary Aldermary 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 0815 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1230 Pastoral Conversation or Confession (Sacrament Chapel) (or apply 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower at the Vestry) St Mary le Bow 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn St Mary Moorfields 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal 1305 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 1210 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate 1315 to 1400 Holy Communion St Lawrence Jewry 1215 Eucharist (said) (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1230 (1st Thursday) Eucharist followed by discussion 1800 Paraklesis (replaced on 1st Friday and during fasting periods by Service St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate of Holy Unction) Followed at 1900 to 2200 by Catechesis and 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr Confessions (Romanian Orthodox) St Dunstan in the West 1230 Eucharist St Mary le Strand 1800 (1st Friday) Low Mass in the Extraordinary Form 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) St Etheldreda, Ely Place St Mary Moorfields 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 1245 to 1330 Choral Eucharist with the St Stephen’s Voices, followed by light lunch 1900 to 2100 City of London House of Prayer - Equipping Night Service Praise St Stephen Walbrook and Worship (Free Church) City Temple 1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal Worship and Teaching – come and go as you 1930 Jewish Friday Evening Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic wish St Mary Woolnoth orthodox rite) (1830 in winter months – please check on

www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/) Bevis Marks Synagogue

Monday 25 June SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS IN 1300 Choral Classics 30 minutes of music and readings with the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields St Stephen Walbrook JUNE 2018

Tuesday 26 June

1700 Evensong― Service of Thanksgiving Sunday 3 June Join the National Churches Trust in celebrating the 200th 1100 Solemn Eucharist, Procession of the Blessed Sacrament and Anniversary of its predecessor charity, the Incorporated Church Benediction for the Sunday of Corpus et Sanguinis Christi Building Society in the presence of the Trust’s Vice Patron, St Bartholomew the Great HRH the Duke of Gloucester, and its joint President, 1100 Solemn High Mass for Corpus Christi Sunday with Procession the Archbishop of York and Benediction vSt Magnus the Martyr Admission free, but tickets for reserved seats must be booked 1830 Choral Evensong, with Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and in advance and are allocated on a first come, first served basis Benediction, for the Sunday of Corpus et Sanguinis Christi Early booking advised St Bartholomew the Great Go to www.nationalchurchestrust.org and click on ‘200 years of Monday 4 June the ICBS’ for further information and booking 1300 Choral Classics 30 minutes of music and readings with the St Paul’s Cathedral Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields St Stephen Walbrook Wednesday 27 June 1830 Music in Worship: One of a series of evenings with performances 1730 Choral Evensong for St Peter’s Day (29 June) Temple Church and spoken reflections, exploring the importance of music in worship

St Sepulchre without Newgate Thursday 28 June Thursday 7 June 1900 RC Vigil Mass for the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (29 June) 1230 Churchwardens Admission Service St Vedast alias Foster St Mary Moorfields 1300 Choral Eucharist with the St Margaret Pattens Choir Friday 29 June – Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles St Margaret Pattens 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1800 Choral Evensong followed by Thursday Conversation at 1830 1200 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields See the entry for this date in the Events & Concerts section below 1205 RC Mass St Joseph, Bunhill Row St Mary at Hill 1230 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields Sunday 10 June 1305 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1100 Choral Holy Communion ― In honour of The Queen’s Birthday 1730 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields St Michael Cornhill 1900 RC Mass St Joseph, Bunhill Row Monday 11 June 1930 RC Mass in the Extraordinary Form with Juventutem 1300 Choral Classics 30 minutes of music and readings with the St Mary Moorfields Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields St Stephen Walbrook

Wednesday 13 June

1730 Choral Evensong LECTURES, COURSES, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS

Followed by Book Launch of Tomb and Temple: Re-imagining IN JUNE 2018 the Sacred Buildings of Jerusalem, edited by Robin Griffiths-

Jones and Eric Fernie Temple Church Friday 1 June Thursday 14 June London Centre for Spiritual Direction, St Edmund King & Martyr 1210 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate 1100 to 1600 Exploring Healing in Spiritual Direction: 1305 HMT Lancastria Annual Remembrance Service Creative Reflections from a Therapeutic Community To remember and honour all those involved in the sinking of the Led by the Revd Elizabeth Baxter and Helen Warwick of Lancastria in June 1940, Britain’s worst maritime disaster Holy Rood House Centre for Health and Pastoral Care, Thirsk With music from Lloyds Choir St Katharine Cree Part of the Developing Direction programme, designed to foster

the ongoing development and support of spiritual directors Sunday 17 June For further information, including cost, and to book please go 1030 Patronal Festival ― Festal Eucharist for St Botolph’s Day to www.lcsd.org.uk and follow the links from ‘Courses & Events’ Preacher: the Rt Revd Christopher Herbert (former Bishop of St Albans) St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation & Peace, Bishopsgate Followed by a community picnic in Aldgate Square and the 1830 to 2100 Darkness, Imperfection and the Feminine church gardens, with bouncy castle, face painting and live music – A conversation with Justine Huxley and Ruth Scott on how free and open to all (Part of the Aldgate Square Festival, we can ‘reclaim the ancient feminine wisdom that respects 15-17 June – see www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/aldgatesquarefestival the destructive power of our darkness, and finds ways to for further details) St Botolph Aldgate include, celebrate, and harmonise it’ 1830 Bach Choral Vespers for the Third Sunday after Trinity Booking in advance required For further information, including With J S Bach’s Cantata BWV 135, Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder, cost and how to book, please go to www.stethelburgas.org performed by the City Bach Collective on period instruments and follow the links from ‘Events’ St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill 1930 St Mary Moorfields Monday 18 June Talk on St Thomas More: A Model Witness for the Lay Faithful 1300 Choral Classics 30 minutes of music and readings with the Part of a series of talks on Our Catholic Heritage Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields St Stephen Walbrook Given by Andrew Hogan, a parishioner and Catechist at

Our Lady of Grace and St Edward, Chiswick Wednesday 20 June Following refreshments at 1845 1310 Choral Patronal Festival Service for St Botolph’s Day (17 June) In the Crypt Hall Admission is free, with a retiring collection Celebrant: the Ven Luke Miller, For further information please e-mail [email protected] Preacher: the Very Revd , Dean of St Paul’s Followed by sparkling refreshments St Botolph Bishopsgate /continued

LECTURES, COURSES, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS

IN JUNE 2018 - continued EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JUNE 2018

Monday 4 June Friday 1 June 1830 St Sepulchre without Newgate Music in Worship: One of a series of evenings with performances and spoken reflections, exploring the importance of music in worship ART EXHIBITION Thursday 7 June

St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation & Peace, Bishopsgate Suzanne Perlman 1230 to 1430 Christian Fellowship lunchtime discussion led by Catching the Ephemeral Father David Cherry Following Eucharist at 1230 All welcome to drop in as you wish For further information please go to www.stethelburgas.org and follow the links from ‘Events’ at the Dutch Centre, Austin Friars

1830 St Mary at Hill A student of Oskar Kokoschka in Salzburg Thursday Conversation: Baron Bernard Hogan-Howe (former and Sidney Gross in New York, Metropolitan Police Commissioner) ‘In Conversation’ with 95-year-old artist Suzanne Perlman the Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkin. has carved her own distinctive career Following Choral Evensong at 1800 Followed by refreshments spanning seven decades and three continents. See the entry for this date in the Events & Concerts section below The exhibition title CATCHING THE EPHEMERAL refers to Perlman's express aim to capture 1900 St Bride Fleet Street the 'fleeting moment of insight' in her work Annual Wren Talk 2018: From Spires to Towers – the Politics of . the Skyline Opening times throughout June: Given by Eric Parry, architect, designer, writer and educator Part of the London Festival of Architecture Monday to Friday: 1000 to 1600 Tickets £10 in advance (online at www.stbrides.com, Saturday and Sunday: 1000 to 1700 by telephone from 0207 427 0133, or from the church office) or £15 on the door Students £5 on the door – ID required The exhibition will continue until Friday 31 August Doors open at 1830 and is open to the public with exception of days when For further information please go to www.stbrides.com and click the Main Hall is booked for private events. on ‘Annual Wren Talk’ Private curated tours can also be arranged.

Tuesday 12 June Admission is free More details may be found at: St Andrew Holborn 1045 to 1530 Oasis Day: Voyaging with Aidan and Hilda www.dutchcentre.com Led by Carol Few and Daphne Horder of the Community of Aidan and Hilda Oasis Days offer a monthly time of quiet reflection to re-charge 1230 St Stephen Walbrook one’s spiritual batteries with stimulating speakers Organ Recital: Michael Stephen-Jones Cost £15 – Lunch and tea/coffee provided Pre-booking required by Friday 8 June for catering purposes – 1305 St Mary at Hill to book please telephone the Revd Martin Davies on Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society 07429 612642 or e-mail [email protected] CAFÉ MOZART Please enter via No 7 Andrew Street, during restoration work Derek McCulloch – proprietor Rogers Covey-Crump – tenor to the church Jenny Thomas – flute Ilana Cravitz – violin Ian Gammie – guitar 1100 St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall City of London Historical Society Talk: Science and the City Programme: 'Singing the Poet's Song in a Strange Land' Given by Laurence Scales Vocal and instrumental music by Haydn's German contemporaries All welcome Admission £10 Ex-Music Society Chairman, Dr Derek McCulloch, returns to Wednesday 20 June St Mary at Hill in celebration of his recent 80th birthday. The songs will all be performed in his published verse translations of St Mary le Bow German song texts, many by Goethe. The instrumental items are 1830 to 2000 JustShare Event ― The Global Arms Trade: written for the combination of flute, violin and guitar that was Defending the Indefensible? popular in Germany circa 1800. A debate on current questions about the arms trade, including: What matters more, money or morals; 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: James Kirby – piano Whether the economic benefits outweigh human rights; and Whether the trade does more to harm human rights than it Programme: does to defend national security Schubert – Fragment from Unfinished Sonata in F# minor D571 Speakers include Andrew Smith, Campaign Against Arms Trade Beethoven – Sonata in E major Op 14 No 1 and Anna Stavrianakis, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Liszt – Six pieces from 'Années de pèlerinage' University of Sussex Première Année: Suisse Nos 1-3, 7-0 Please register to attend For further information and to register Free Admittance – Retiring Collection go to www.justshare.org.uk

Tuesday 5 June EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JUNE 2018 - continued 1200 to 1300 St Mary le Bow Guided tours of church and crypt with the Rector as part of the London Festival of Architecture Saturday 2 June Meet in the vestibule (under the tower) at 1155 1900 All Hallows by the Tower Free event – donations welcome "Dear Chocolate Soldier" www.londonfestivalofarchitecture.org In June 1916 a 6 year old girl watches her father wrap a packet of 1230 St Mary Abcurch chocolate for the brave soldiers at the front. A thought strikes her: Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. 'How will the soldier know it's from me?' Her father obligingly The recital will usually include an improvisation writes: ‘From Little Joan, Whiterock, Cornwall’. Six weeks later a 1300 St Lawrence Jewry letter arrives for Little Joan, the first of many from Bombardier Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis Edwin Hassall, still in the midst of the fighting at the Battle of the Programme: Somme. The story of the letters is told movingly and amusingly in Bach – Toccata and Fugue in F BWV 540 this docudrama, written by our own Kate Glover (Price), in a Vierne – Pastoral (iii) and Allegro Vivace (iv) cabaret style performance with poetry and popular songs from Symphonie No 1 in D from the period. Parry – Two Choral Peludes: Tickets £12 (£10 concessions) available on the door Hanover and On an Old English Tune Reger – Improvisation (Sonata No 2/i) Sunday 3 June 1300 St Stephen Walbrook 1400 The Great Hall of St Bartholomew's Hospital A Walbrook Music Trust Recital Verdi Requiem from Scratch Francesca Cannas – violin Evelina Kuznetsova – piano Come for a wonderful afternoon of music to sing or just to hear. 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Everyone is very welcome to come and sing or listen – bring your Recital: Yu Zhou Zhang – piano friends! Singers – bring your own music please! Programme: No rehearsal – straight into the Requiem at 1400 E Carter – Caténaires Free entry – donations welcomed – going to Barts Cancer Unit J S Bach – Prelude and Fugue in C sharp major, WTC I J S Bach/F Busoni – Chaconne in D minor Monday 4 June Chopin – Études Op. 10 Numbers 4, 6, 7, 10, 11 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Liszt – Transcendental Étude No. 4 'Mazeppa'

Recital: Tessa Uys – piano Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Programme: 1315 St Mary at Hill Chopin – Nocturne in C# minor Op posth Recital in The Square Mile Music Series Rachmaninoff – Constance Chow – piano

Prelude in C# minor Op 3 No 2 Programme: Prelude in B minor Op 32 No 10 Debussy – En Bateau from Petite Suite L 65 Etudes-Tableaux in C minor Op 33 No 3 York Bowen – Romance Op 35 No 2 Schubert – Four Impromptus D 899 Reverie in B major Op 96 Debussy – Pour le piano L 95 1300 St Michael Cornhill 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Organ Recital: Alexander Pott Tours of the Church (Musicians' Company's W T Best Scholar and Assistant, New Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. College, Oxford) Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day

Programme: or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: Bach – Toccata in E BWV 566 [email protected] Delius, arr Pott – Dance (North Country Sketches) or telephoning (+44) 20 7427 0133. Widor – Symphonie Romane Op 73 Special tours for groups can also be arranged

1300 St Stephen Walbrook Wednesday 6 June Choral Classics — 30 minutes of sublime choral music and 1305 St Botolph Aldgate readings with the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields Recital: Gina Lee – Solo Percussion Free with a retiring collection Programme: Eric Samut – Variations on Porgy and Bess 1305 St Martin Ludgate Bach – Invention No 13 and No 8 Recital: Nicola Hands – oboe Jonathan Pease – piano Keiko Abe – Dream of the Cherry Blossoms Programme: Compagnie Kahlua – Ceci n'est pas une balle? Anna Ignatowicz – Toccata Finzi – Interlude Donizetti – Sonata in F for oboe and piano Free entry with retiring collection Schumann – Romance in A minor Op 34 1315 St Dunstan in the West Brahms – Romance in F Recital: Margaret Pearman – soprano David Cousell – piano – Romance in D♭ 1315 Temple Church Puccini – Album leaf Organ Recital: Marco lo Muscio Sancan – Sonatine for oboe and piano Thursday 7 June

Donations in appreciation are gratefully received towards the 1305 St Olave Hart Street Recital: Irena Radić – piano church running costs. You are welcome to quietly consume sandwiches, tea, coffee, etc. for lunch. Admission is free with a retiring collection

1310 All Hallows by the Tower Organ Recital: Oliver Mcfarlane

Monday 11 June EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JUNE 2018 - continued 1300 St Lawrence Jewry

Recital: Tessa Uys – piano Programme: Wednesday 6 June – continued Schubert – Six Moments Musicaux D 780 Schumann/Liszt – Widmung Op 25 No 1 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Liszt – Legende: St Francois de Paule marchant sur les flots Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series 1300 St Michael Cornhill Daniel Chappuis (Vevey, Switzerland) Organ Recital: William Whitehead (Lincoln's Inn Chapel)

1800 St Mary at Hill Programme: Choral Evensong, followed by Thursday Conversation at 1830 Ernst arr. Bach – Concerto in G Evensong will be sung by Seraphim, the St Mary at Hill Choir Planyavsky – Orgelbüchlein Project: The Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkins will be in conversation with Nun gibt mein Jesus gute Nacht Baron Bernard Hogan-Howe, former Commissioner of the Bach – Vom Himmel kam der Engel Schar Metropolitan Police Gvirtzmann – Gelobet sei der Herr

We finish with a glass of wine at 1930 Bach – Ach wie nichtig, ach wie flüchtig Admission is free Donations are welcome J F Brown – Erbarm dich mein 1930 St Katharine Cree Bach – Dies sind die heiligen zehn Gebot Schumann – Fugues 3 & 5 on B-A-C-H Pomp and Circumstance Parry – Elegy (1918) Ad Libitum presents an evening of glorious music written for Stanford – Fantasia & Toccata in D kings, queens and royal occasions down the ages. 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Music for coronations, royal weddings and royal birthdays is Choral Classics — 30 minutes of sublime choral music and included, as well as an exciting choral version of Widor's readings with the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields Toccata from his Symphony No 5 arranged by the late Free with a retiring collection Sir David Willcocks. 1305 St Martin Ludgate Recital: Please see the church website: Colin Spinks – organist Julian Collings – conductor www.stmartin-within-ludgate.org.uk/music/ Programme: Byrd – O Lord, make thy servant, Elizabeth, our queen Tuesday 12 June Purcell – Come ye sons of art 1200 to 1300 St Mary le Bow Handel – Coronation Anthem from 'Zadok the Priest' Guided tours of church and crypt with the Rector Parry – Blest pair of sirens; I was glad as part of the London Festival of Architecture Wesley – Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace Meet in the vestibule (under the tower) at 1155 Howells – Behold, O God our defender Free event – donations welcome www.londonfestivalofarchitecture.org Willcocks – Sing! 1230 St Mary Abcurch Tickets: £15 (students £12) plus a small handling fee from Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. www.adlibitumchoir.co.uk/concerts/ The recital will usually include an improvisation and follow the eventbrite link 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Tickets can be purchased at the door Organ Recital: João Vaz (Lisbon)

We celebrate Portugal's National Day (10 June) with a recital by Friday 8 June the renowned Early Music specialist, João Vaz. 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Programme: Works by Domingos de S. José (17th c.) Organ Recital: Martin Ford Diogo da Conceição (17th c.), Carlos Seixas (18th c.) 1305 St Mary at Hill Jon Laukvik (b 1952), Marcos Portugal (1762-1830), Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society Luis de Freitas Branco (1890-1955), LUX MUSICAE LONDON J S Bach and João Vaz (b 1963) Harry Buckoke – viola da gamba Toby Carr – lute 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Aileen Henry – harp Sophie Creaner – recorder A Walbrook Music Trust Recital Daniel Thompson – tenor Classical Quintet Programme: 'Dowland's Denmark' 1315 St Bride Fleet Street 17th century music from the Court of Christian IV of Denmark Recital: Henry Tong – violin 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Programme: Recital: Lucía Veintimilla – violin, Greta Åstedt – piano Biber – Rosary Sonata No 16 'Passacaglia' Programme: Bach – Solo Violin Partita No.2 in D minor BWV 1004 Vivaldi – Violin Sonata no. 2 in A major RV 31 Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Schumann – Violin Sonata no. 1 in A minor Op. 105 1315 St Mary at Hill Bax – Violin Sonata No. 3 Recital in The Square Mile Music Series Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Jessica Summers – soprano Jelena Makarova – piano 1315 St Dunstan in the West Programme: "Songs of Living Words" Organ Recital: Martin Ellis 1415 St Bride Fleet Street 1930 St Mary Moorfields Crypt Hall Tours of the Church Concert: Avant Piano Trio Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Programme: Works by Suk, Debussy and Brahms Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day Free admission with a retiring collection or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: [email protected] or telephoning (+44) 20 7427 0133. Special tours for groups can also be arranged

Thursday 14 June — continued EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JUNE 2018 - continued 1930 St Mary Aldermary Cantate Domino Tuesday 12 June — continued Orlando Chamber Choir directed by Peter Foggitt At the core of this concert are three magnificent Bach motets 1415 St Bride Fleet Street coupled with settings of Cantate Domino and a range of choral Tours of the Church compositions from different periods – Renaissance, Baroque and Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. 20th century. Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day Programme: or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: Pitoni – Cantate Domino [email protected] Palestrina – Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes or telephoning (+44) 20 7427 0133. Hugo Distler – Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied Special tours for groups can also be arranged Tallis – Loquebantur variis languid 1900 Gresham Centre, St Anne and St Agnes Church chant – Cantate Domino One Song We Raise Bach – Motet: Komm Jesu, komm BWV 229 World-renowned vocal ensemble VOCES8 in concert performing Bach – Motet: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied a programme to celebrate the work of VCM Foundation chant – Veni Sancte Spiritus Tickets: £10 More information and tickets at: Monteverdi – Cantate Domino http://www.ticketgun.com/e/538 Bach – Motet: Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf BWV 226

Wednesday 13 June Tickets: £15 (concessions £10) from: 1305 St Botolph Aldgate 07930 908 666 or online: www.orlandochoir.org.uk/tickets Recital: Tessa Seymour – cello This website also gives very full background information Programme: regarding the concert programme Bach – Cello Suite No 1 in G BWV 1007 Cello Suite No 5 in C BWV 1011

Free entry with retiring collection Friday 15 June 1305 St Olave Hart Street 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Recital: Nadia Wilson – clarinet Martin Butler – piano Organ Recital: For more information please go to: www.ststephenwalbrook.net/events and follow the links Admission is free with a retiring collection 1305 St Mary at Hill 1315 St Dunstan in the West Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society Recital: Zhu Sun – piano IMPAVIDUS ENSEMBLE 1315 Temple Church Andrea Timpanaro – violin Teresa Wrann – recorder Organ Recital: Greg Morris Jacob Garside – viola da gamba The Complete Works of J S Bach - continued Marta López Frenández – harpsichord Programme: Chorale Preludes on Wie Schön leuchtet and 'Picturing Music, Picturing Words' Wir glauben all' an einen Gott A programme based on haikus and other poems by Fantasia and fugue in G minor BWV 512 Brian Nisbet (1959-2015), exploring how words can create pictures in our minds and music can do the same, featuring works For more information concerning this series of recitals in venues by Vivaldi, Purcell, Arne, Rebel and Marin Marais outside the City of London please go to : 1315 St Bride Fleet Street http://gregmorris.org.uk/bach/ Recital: Phillip Leslie – piano 1830 Temple Church Programme: After Choral Evensong at 1730: Book Launch: Beethoven – Sonata 28 in A major Op 101 Tomb and Temple, Stevenson – Peter Grimes Fantasy Re-imagining the Sacked Buildings of Jerusalem Scriabin – Etudes Op 8 Nos 2 and 12

Edited by Eric Fernie and the Reverend Robin Griffith-Jones Liszt – Paraphrase de concert sur Rigoletto S 434

Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Thursday 14 June 1315 St Dunstan in the West 1305 St Mary le Bow Recital: Hector Castro – classical guitar Lunchtime Recital: Katherine MacRae – soprano 1305 St Olave Hart Street Recital: Peter Mallinson – viola Matthias Wiesner – viola Saturday 16 June Evgenia Startseva – piano 1930 St Mary le Bow

Admission is free with a retiring collection Concert: 'A French Summer' 1310 All Hallows by the Tower Academy of St Mary le Bow Organ Recital: Anthony Gritten Alex Fryer – conductor

1310 St Margaret Lothbury Programme: Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays 'The Glorious Baroque' (7) Fauré – Prélude from Pelléas et Mélisande 1900 St Katharine Cree Françaix – Symphonie d'Archets (1948) Concert: The combined forces of: Ravel – Ma Mère l'Oye (Mother Goose) Suite St Olave's Singers The City Singers Wingrave Singers Programme: Tickets: Adults £14 Under 30s £12 Students £5 Haydn – Missa in Angustiis ('Nelson Mass') on the door (cash only) from 1845 or in advance from: Purcell – Welcome to all pleasures www.academyofstmarylebow.com Free Admission

Tuesday 19 June — continued EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JUNE 2018 - continued 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: Carolyn Wharton – piano Programme: Works by Chopin Saturday 16 June — continued Ballade No 3 in A♭major Op 47

1930 St Sepulchre without Newgate Nocturne in D♭ major Op 27 No 2 Saturday Concert Series Nocturne in F# minor Op 48 No 2 Dúo Evocación Two Études, Op.25 Olha Viytiv – soprano Hilario Segovia Badia – piano 1. in A flat major 'Aeolian Harp' 2. in F minor 'The Bees' Programme: Music by Richard Strauss, F Toldrà, Brahms, Ballade No 4 in F minor Op. 52

A Garcia Abril, Fauré, Debussy, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninoff Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Tickets will be available on the door. 1315 St Mary at Hill To obtain tickets in advance please go to: Recital in The Square Mile Music Series http://stsepulchres.org/music/concerts/ Susana Gilardoni Mirski – soprano Clive Pollard – piano Sunday 17 June Programme: 1130 approx St Botolph Aldgate Patronal Festival Schubert – An den Mond D 193 A Festival Eucharist at 1030 will be followed by a community Strauss – Zueignung Op 10 picnic in Aldgate Square and church gardens 1415 St Bride Fleet Street This is part of the Aldgate Square Festival,15-17 June. Tours of the Church For more details please go to: Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/aldgatesquarefestival Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day Monday 18 June or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: 1300 St Lawrence Jewry [email protected] Recital: Tessa Uys – piano or telephoning (+44) 20 7427 0133. Programme: Special tours for groups can also be arranged Handel/Kempff – Menuett in G minor from 'Suite de Pièces' Bartók – 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs Wednesday 20 June Beethoven – Sonata No 23 Op 57 in F minor – Appassionata 1305 St Botolph Aldgate 1305 St Martin Ludgate Recital: Recital: Please see the church website: Natasha Sachsenmeier – violin Jennifer Hughes – piano www.stmartin-within-ludgate.org.uk/music/ Programme: 1300 St Michael Cornhill Brahms – Sonata for Violin and Piano in D Op 108 No 3 Sarasate – Introduction and Tarantella Op 43 Organ Recital: Jonathan Rennert (lunchtime recital No 448) on George Thalben-Ball's 122nd birthday Free entry with retiring collection

Programme: 1305 St Olave Hart Street Recital: Henry Tong – violin Kaonu Wada – piano Howells – Rhapsody 3 in C# (1918) Thalben-Ball – Tune in E (1945) Admission is free with a retiring collection Darke – Rhapsody in E (1908) 1315 St Dunstan in the West Thalben-Ball – Edwardia (1974) Walford Davies – Interlude (1937) Recital: Karl Prybyloski – piano Thalben-Ball – Elegy (1934) 1315 Temple Church Organ Recital: Rosie Vinter Harris – A Fancy (1947) Thalben-Ball – Poema & Toccata Thursday 21 June 1300 St Stephen Walbrook 1305 St Mary le Bow Choral Classics — 30 minutes of sublime choral music and Organ Recital: Thomas Allery (Director of Music, St Mary le Bow) readings with the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields 1305 St Olave Hart Street Free with a retiring collection Recital: Catherine Chung – piano

Tuesday 19 June Admission is free with a retiring collection 1200 to 1300 St Mary le Bow Guided tours of church and crypt with the Rector 1310 All Hallows by the Tower as part of the London Festival of Architecture Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling Meet in the vestibule (under the tower) at 1155 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Free event – donations welcome Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series www.londonfestivalofarchitecture.org Benjamin Righetti (Lausanne, Switzerland) 1230 St Mary Abcurch 1930 St Giles Cripplegate Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. Summer Music in City Churches – Opening Concert The recital will usually include an improvisation "Storm and Refuge" 1300 St Lawrence Jewry City of London Choir Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis Maria Fontenais-Simmons – mezzo-soprano Programme: Mark Williams – organ Bozidar Vukotic – cello Reger – Te Deum (From Op 59) Hilary Davan Wetton – conductor Bach – Preludes and Fugues in D minor & D major, Programme: from Book 2 of the Well-Tempered Klavier Elgar – Great is the Lord Brahms – Prelude and Fugue in G minor Give unto the Lord Reger – Invokation, and Introduktion und Fuga Holst – Nunc Dimittis from Sonata No 2 Op 60 Duruflé - Requiem

1300 St Stephen Walbrook Tickets: £20 (including a glass of wine) Student concession 50% from: A Walbrook Music Trust Recital http://www.summermusiccitychurches.com/storm-and-refuge Henry Tong – violin Kaoru Wada – piano

Monday 25 June EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JUNE 2018 - continued

St Mary le Bow Friday 22 June Monday 25 – Thursday 28 June 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Live in the Churchyard – Free music events Organ Recital: Peter Yarde Martin . Monday 25 June 1305 St Mary at Hill 1300 Organ Recital: with popular music Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society Thomas Allery (Director of Music, St Mary le Bow) WINDSOR BOX AND FIR 1730 – 1830 Bell Ringing Jenny Thomas and Jonathan Morgan – flute duet 1915 – 2000 Concert: Academy of St Mary le Bow

Programme: 'Magical ': Tuesday 26 June Music by Handel, Telemann, W F Bach, Hotteterre and de Fesch 1230 – 1315 Lunchtime Recital: Fidelity London Choir 1800 – 2000 Jazz in the Churchyard: Alex Hitchcock Quintet 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: Antonio Oyarzabal – piano Wednesday 27 June Programme: c. 1230 – 1345 School Bands in the Churchyard Schumann – Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) Op 15 City of London Academy Islington Debussy – Children's Corner Movements 1 and 4 City of London Academy Highbury Grove Ravel – Ma mère l'Oye (piano solo version) 1800 – 2000 Jazz in the Churchyard: Nerija

Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Thursday 28 June

1200 Bow Lane: Jazz in the Lanes 1315 St Dunstan in the West c. 1230 – 1345 School Band in the Churchyard Recital: Matthew Chambers – violin City of London School

1300 Jazz in the Churchyard 1900 St Mary le Bow 1830 – 1930 Bell Ringing Summer Music in City Churches

"How are the mighty fall'n" Septura brass ensemble Programme: Brahms – Geistliches Lied Handel – Suite from Rinaldo 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Parry – Songs of Farewell (selection) Recital: Tessa Uys and Ben Schoeman Shostakovich – Quartet No 8 Programme: Tickets: £20 (including a glass of wine) Student concession 50% from Schubert – Allegro in A minor 'Lebensstuerme' D 947 https://www.summermusiccitychurches.com/how-are-the-mighty-fall'n Beethoven – Symphony No 5 in C mnior Op 67 (transcription for four hands by Franz Xaver Schwarwenka 1930 St Mary Moorfields Crypt Hall 1300 St Michael Cornhill Organ Recital: Timothy Wakerell – (New College, Oxford) Concert: Opari Duo A Celebration of Violin and Guitar music Programme: Free admission with a retiring collection Cook – Fanfare (1952) Reger – 3 Trios Op 47 (1900) Gigue – Kanzonetta – Fugue Hindemith – Sonata 1 (1937) Litaize – Lied (1939) Saturday 23 June Guilmant – Final, from Sonata 1 (1874) 1900 St Bartholomew the Great 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Summer Music in City Churches Choral Classics — 30 minutes of sublime choral music and After You've gone readings with the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields Weimar Cabaret and Prohibition Songs Free with a retiring collection Mary Carewe – soprano, accompanied by Harry the Piano 1305 St Martin Ludgate Recital: A rousing programme of fabulous cabaret songs celebrating the Gráinne Gillis – mezzo-soprano Margaret Lion – piano post-WW I era. With music by Kurt Weill, Friedrich Hollander, Programme: Irving Berlin, Cole Porter , George Gershwin and many more. This will include Elgar – 'Sea Pictures' and other songs Tickets: £20 (including a glass of wine) Student concession 50% For more information please go to: from: www.stmartin-within-ludgdate.org.uk/music/

https://www.summermusiccitychurches.com/afteryouve-gone Donations in appreciation are gratefully received towards the church running costs. You are welcome to quietly consume sandwiches, tea, coffee, etc. for lunch.

Tuesday 26 June — continued EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JUNE 2018 - continued 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Tours of the Church Monday 25 June — continued Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day 1930 St Stephen Walbrook or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: Summer Music in City Churches [email protected] or telephoning (+44) 20 7427 0133. "Breath of Hope" Special tours for groups can also be arranged New London Chamber Ensemble 1900 St Bartholomew the Great

Robert Manasse – flute Melanie Ragge – oboe Summer Music in City Churches Neyire Ashworth – clarinet Fraser Gordon – bassoon All Earthly Things Above Holst's Planets Suite Alexia Cammish – horn Michael Dussek – piano York2: John York and Fiona York – piano duet Programme: Gustav HIolst's monumental Planets Suit, premiered in 1918, Holst – Wind Quintet in A♭ Op 14 as rarely heard – in the composer's own transcription for piano Finzi – Five Bagatelles Op 23 (four hands), with a new dimension of evocative poetry-reading Ravel (arr Mason) – Tickets: £20 (including a glass of wine) Student concession 50% from: Vaughan Williams – Six English folk songs https://www.summermusiccitychurches.com/all-earthly-things-above

Lili Boulanger – D'un matin de printemps Erwin Schulhoff – Divertissement Poulenc – FP 100 Wednesday 27 June Tickets: £20 (including a glass of wine) Student concession 50% from: https://www.summermusiccitychurches.com/breath-of-hope 1300 St Giles Cripplegate Summer Music in City Churches Tuesday 26 June 'National Gallery' lunchtime piano recital

Adrian Brendle – piano 1200 to 1300 St Mary le Bow Guided tours of church and crypt with the Rector A concert inspired by Myra Hess's opening performance in her as part of the London Festival of Architecture series of morale-boosting lunchtime concerts in the National Meet in the vestibule (under the tower) at 1155 Gallery during World War Two. It will feature Dame Myra's Free event – donations welcome celebrated arrangement of J S Bach's Jesu, joy of man's desiring www.londonfestivalofarchitecture.org and Beethoven's Appassionata sonata – her great stalwart in times of particular trouble. 1230 St Mary Abcurch Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. Programme: The recital will usually include an improvisation J S Bach – Prelude and Fugue in C# minor BWV 849 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Beethoven – Piano sonata in F minor Op 57 Appassionata Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis Brahms – Three intermezzi from Op 119 Programme: Chopin – Nocturne in F# major Op 15 No 2 Mouret – Rondeau (from Symphonie de fanfares) (Arr CE) Waltz No 1 in E♭ major Op 18 Pachelbel – Ciacona in F minor J S Bach (transcribed by Myra Hess) – Jesu, joy of man's desiring Schumann – From Six Studies in Canonic Form Op 56 Saint-Saëns – Prelude and Fugue in B Op 99 No 2 Tickets: £15 Unreserved seating 50% concession for students from Vierne – Adagio and Final from Symphonie No 1 in D https://www.summermusiccitychurches.com/national-gallery-piano-recital

1300 St Stephen Walbrook 1305 St Botolph Aldgate A Walbrook Music Trust Recital Recital: Kaho Nagano – solo violin Barbican clarinet quartet Programme: 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Kaho will announce her programme in person on 27 June

Recital: Duo Benedict – Piano Duo Free entry with a retiring collection Stamatia Cottakis and Paul Ellis-Howe 1305 St Olave Hart Street Programme: Recital: Tanja Roos – violin Yundu Wang – piano Mozart – Andante and Variations K 501 Moszkowski – 'From Foreign Parts' Op 23 Admission is free with a retiring collection Fauré – 'Dolly' Suite Op 56 1315 St Dunstan in the West Ganz – 'Qui Vive!' - Grand Galop de Concert Op 12 Recital: Olive Murray – soprano Christopher Foreman – piano 1315 Temple Church Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Organ Recital: Greg Morris 1315 St Mary at Hill The Complete Works of J S Bach - continued Recital in The Square Mile Music Series Programme: Bartok Trio Trio Sonata No 6 Ich ruf' zu dir BWV 639 Jaga Klimaszewska – violin Max Mausen – clarinet Toccata and fugue in F BWV 540 Mateusz Rettner – piano Programme: For more information concerning this series of recitals in venues Khachaturian – Trio outside the City of London please go to : Shostakovich – Five Pieces http://gregmorris.org.uk/bach/ Bartók – Contrasts

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JUNE 2018 - continued 1930 St Giles Cripplegate Summer Music in City Churches – Festival Finale

"Flowers of the Field" Wednesday 27 June — continued Roderick Williams – baritone 1930 St Giles without Cripplegate City of London Choir Summer Music in City Churches London Mozart Players "Gathering Storm Clouds" Hilary Davan Wetton – conductor Mark Bebbington – piano with Rebeca Omordia – piano Programme: with Irene Loh – piano Warlock – Capriol Suite Programme: Butterworth – Gurney – Sehsucht (Longing); The Sea; Prelude in D♭ major (orch. Roderick Williams) Songs from A Shropshire lad Ireland – London Pieces Patrick Hawes – I know the music Vaughan Williams – Butterworth – The banks of the green willow The lake in the mountains Elgar – Chanson de matin Fantasia on Greensleeves Vaughan Williams – The lark ascending Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis Finzi – Requiem da camera (arr. Vaughan Williams and Maurice Jacobson for two pianos) Tickets: £20 (including a glass of wine) Student concession 50% from Delius – On hearing the first cuckoo in spring https://www.summermusiccitychurches.com/flowers-of-the-field (transcribed for piano duet by Peter Warlock) Frank Bridge – Sonata for piano 1930 St Mary le Bow Tickets: £20 (including a glass of wine) Student concession 50% from Concert: Unsung Heroes https://www.summermusiccitychurches.com/gathering-storm-clouds Choral Masterpieces of Renaissance Portugal The Iken Scholars, directed by Matthew Dunn, explore the Thursday 28 June beautiful world of early 17th century Portuguese polyphony 1305 St Olave Hart Street Programme: Recital: Elena Toponogova – piano Lobo ( c.1564-1646) – Audivi vocem de caelo Admission is free with a retiring collection Cardoso (1566-1650) – Requiem 1310 All Hallows by the Tower Tickets: £10 on the door £5 Students Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays 'The Glorious Baroque' (8) ********************************************************* 1800 St Stephen Walbrook Summer Music in City Churches Open bellringing performances "Farewell to Arms" – First World War songs Richard Robbins – tenor Guy Murgatroyd – piano currently scheduled for the City of London Jo Blake Cave – story-teller in June 2018 Programme: Howells – King David Gurney – Five songs of Rupert Brooke Saturday 2 June Ireland – The land of lost content 0930 3½ hr performance on the Bow Bells Finzi – Farewell to arms by the Ancient Society of College Youths James Macmillan – The children at St Mary le Bow

Tickets: £15 Unreserved seating 50% concession for students from 1000 3½ hr performance on the bells https://www.summermusiccitychurches.com/farewell-to-arms for the Anniversary of the Coronation at St Magnus the Martyr

Friday 29 June 1400 3½ hr performance on the bells 1230 St Stephen Walbrook by the Worcester Cathedral ringers Organ Recital: For more information please go to: at St Michael Cornhill www.ststephenwalbrook.net/events and follow the links 1305 St Mary at Hill Sunday 3 June 1430 3½ hr performance on the bells Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society by the St James' Guild BELLOT ENSEMBLE at St Magnus the Martyr Edmund Taylor – director Kate Agostino – violin Alexandra Kremakova – harpsichord Saturday 9 June Programme: The Flourishing Sinfonia & Concerto (Part 3) 1200 3 hr performance on the bells C P E Bach – Sinfonia in G major at St Vedast, Foster Lane Haydn – Violin Concerto in G major Mozart – Keyboard Concerto No 1 in D major K 107 (after J C Bach) Saturday 16 June 1315 St Bride Fleet Street 1000 3½ hr performance on the bells Organ Recital: Samuel Bristow by the Ancient Society of College Youths Programme: at St Michael Cornhill Couperin – Messe pour les Paroisses: Offertoire sur les Grands Jeux Saturday 30 June Laukvik – Orgelbüchlein Project: 1400 3½ hr performance on the bells by the Cambridge University Guild 'Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder' at St Magnus the Martyr Stephen Hough – Orgelbüchlein Project:

'Von Gott will ich nicht lassen' Liszt – Fantasie und Fuge über den choral 'Ad nos, ad salutarem undam' City Events is published by the Friends of the City Churches in conjunction with the Archdeaconry of London Free Admittance – Retiring Collection and printed by Copyprints: [email protected]

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A Festival Choir and Orchestra, Two Festivals and a unique temporary truce commemorated The Barts Academic Festival Choir and Orchestra will be giving their Summer Concert on Monday 16th July in the Great Hall of St Bartholomew's Hospital. This promises to be an inteeresting concert since they will be perforrming two works perhaps not that frequently heard. First there is Dvořák's 5th Symphony written in the summer of 1875, wheen he was 34, and receiving its first performance four years later. Dvořák revised the woork in 1887. Its style is pastoral, similar to Symphony No 6. An unusual musicological fact is that for a number of years the famous 'New World' Symphony No 9 was referred to as Symphony No 5 because it was the last of the five symphonies published during the composer's lifetime. The onee we now refer to as No 5 was given the number 3. Apparently the first four symphonies were not uncovered until after Dvořák's death. As if this was confusing enough there is the additional fact that the current Symphony No 5 was given the 76 by the publisher, whereas Dvořáák marked the autograph score as Opus 24. Readers should rest assured that the listing in this edition of City Events at the date Monday 16 July gives the correct information. The other piece to be performed in the concert is Puccini's Messa di Gloria which, interestingly, he composed as his graduation exercise. It was first perrformed in 1880 when it was apparently well‐received. However, Puccini did not publish the full manuscript, filing it away and thus it was not heard again in his lifetime. The work was eventually published in 1951 and performed in 1952, since when it has become a firmly established part of the choral repertoire. Strictly speaking, the piece is a full Mass, not a true Messa di Gloria (which contains only the Kyrie and Gloria and omits the Credo, Sanctus, Benedictus and Agnus Dei). The concert prromises to be an evening of glorious music and the profits from the evening will all go to that most worthwhile of causes — the Barts Cancer Unit. Two well‐established customary annual festivals will be taking place. First there will be the 23rd St Anne's Bach Festival at St Mary at Hill during July. We are promised a feast of baroque music with a focus on the timeless genius of Johann Sebastian Bach combined with a nod to François Couperin in his 350th year and other composers of the era. The opening concert of the Festival will take place on Friday 6th July. Then in August we have the St Lawrence Jewry Summer Music Festival in the first two weeks of August. The theme this year will be "Around the World in Ten Days: from East to Weest, from North to South". The opening conceert takes place on Monday 6th August, the theoretical geographical location being China, Japan and (via a somewhat lengthy trans‐globe leap) Hungary. The great continents are each 'visited' day by day (teen concerts in all) culminating in a concert devoted to classical and folk music from SSouth Africa, Guinea and Nigeria. A parrticularly intriguing concert is entitled 'Guildhall Down Under' on Friday 10th August, wwhen young musicians from the Guildhalll School of Music will perform (predictably from the title) works by Australian composers. This occasion will include a world premiere of a work by Emma Gregan, an up‐and‐coming horn player and composer based currently in Adelaide after several years in Brisbane. Once again organ recitals feature significantly ‐ 35 in all. Particular pieces that catch the eye arre "Concert variations on 'The Star‐spangled banner' " to be played by Catherine Ennis at St Lawrence Jewry on Tuesday 3rd July; 'Alleluyas' composed by the prestigious organist , to be played by Benjamin Newlove at St Michael Cornhill on Monday 9th July; the Clog Dance from the ballet 'La fille mal gardée', played by Catherine Ennis at St Lawrence Jewry on Tueesday 31 July; and finally, but certainly by no means least, the final concert at Temple Church on Thursday 5th July of the Greg Morris series, in which he has performed J S Bach's complete works for organ. It is particularly pleasing to note the increasing number of musical events taking place at St Sepulchre without Newgate. The concert taking place there on Saturday 7th July, to be given by the London Forest Choir and a viisiting choir from Strasbourg, Maîtrise de l'Opéra National du Rhin, features a particularly poignant work, 'The Christmas Truce', composed by Jonathan Rathbone, conductor of the London Forest Choir, with words by Graeme Curry and featuring pooems by the war poet Edward Thomas. This work will focus on the unique pause in hhostilities on the Front Line at Christmas 1914 when troops from the opposing sides met in no man's land, to mingle and exchange food and souvenirs.. A game of iimpromptu football was even played. This concert promises to be special bearing in mind the ongoing centenary commemoration of the Great War. One hesitates to venture into hyperbole but your editor feels justified in labelling this double eddition of City Events a bumper one with an amazing variety of musical performances listted and to be enjoyed. We now take a moonth off. The next edition will cover September and we hope our readers will have an enjoyable and musically rewarding summerr

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REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES 0800 to 0830 Morning Meditation (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary IN JULY AND AUGUST 2018 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street

0815 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe The entries below show the normal pattern of services for City Churches 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower and a few churches ‘just over the City borders’. Entries are for Church of 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate England services except where indicated otherwise. ‘1st Monday’, ‘2nd 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn Monday’ etc refer to the 1st Monday, 2nd Monday etc of the month. 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal While every effort is made to ensure accuracy, the services shown are 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service St Andrew Holborn subject to change at Bank or other holidays, immediately before, during 1215 Eucharist (said) (BCP) St James Garlickhythe and after major festivals and during the summer months. You are 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster strongly advised to contact churches to check the details. 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less 1230 to 1300 Eucharist (said) with brief address St Dunstan in the West For a list of weekend (particularly Sunday) services please go to the 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr Friends of the City Churches website at www.london-city-churches.org.uk 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) and follow the links from ‘Events’ and ‘City Events’. St Mary Moorfields 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Woolnoth 1230 Holy Communion (said), followed by coffee and sandwiches Monday St Olave Hart Street 0715 Jewish Daily Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic orthodox rite) 1300 Holy Communion in the Crypt, with a focus on prayers for healing (0700 on 1st day of Hebrew religious month; 0800 on Bank Holidays) All Hallows by the Tower For details please see www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/ 1300 Lunchtime Service Christ Church, Spitalfields Bevis Marks Synagogue 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1300 to 1400 (any time) Contemporary Worship 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square St Sepulchre without Newgate 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate 0800 Morning Prayer - short contemplative service (Moot Community – 1305 to 1335 Bible Talk, with lunch available after the talk all welcome) St Mary Aldermary St Helen Bishopsgate 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1305 Meditation (in the crypt chapel) St Mary le Bow 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 0815 to 0915 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament Informal drop-in service for 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn prayer, adoration and Eucharistic meditation – come and go as you wish 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn (Please check on church website) St Dunstan in the West 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, following buffet lunch at 1300 0815 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe St Botolph Aldersgate 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1310 Holy Communion St Margaret Lothbury 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service (if listeners available - 1700 to 1730 ‘Words of Hope’ – quiet reflective service please check with church) St Andrew Holborn St Clement Eastcheap 1200 to 1230 Meditation Group: ‘Stressed in the City’ (Moot Community – 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe all welcome) St Mary Aldermary 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 1215 Eucharist (said) (BCP) St James Garlickhythe Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields St Mary Moorfields 1830 Choral Evensong (traditional) (Choral Eucharist on 3rd Tuesday) 1245 Holy Communion (Not on Bank Holidays - not in August) St Mary at Hill St Sepulchre without Newgate 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields Wednesday 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1700 to 1800 ‘Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0800 to 0830 Morning Taizé Chant (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0815 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1800 Choral Evensong (BCP) (During university terms – current term 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower continues until 9 July Next term begins 15 October) 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate St Michael Cornhill 0830 to 0915 Holy Communion St Lawrence Jewry

0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn Tuesday 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public 0715 Jewish Daily Service (see Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal 0730 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) (Not in August) 0745 Holy Communion (said) followed by coffee and croissants St Mary at Hill Temple Church 0745 Eucharist (in the church) followed by breakfast St Mary le Bow 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service (if listeners available - 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields please check with church) St Andrew Holborn 0745 to 0915 ‘Start: Stop’ – start the day by stopping to reflect – 10 minute reflections 1205 RC Mass St Joseph Bunhill Row beginning every 15 minutes - just drop in St Stephen Walbrook 1215 Eucharist (said) (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn /continued/ 0800 to 0900 Café Prayer – an opportunity for stillness and prayer, Bible reading

and reflection Coffee served St Katharine Cree

REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES Thursday ─ continued 1300 Eucharist (normally choral on 1st Thursday) St Margaret Pattens IN JULY AND AUGUST 2018 − continued 1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate 1305 Holy Communion, followed by coffee and sandwiches

St Katharine Cree Wednesday ─ continued 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1305 to 1335 ‘St Nick's Talks’ Bible Talk St Nicholas Cole Abbey 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Abchurch 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn St Mary Moorfields 1310 to 1350 Bible Talk, with lunch available, followed by Question Time 1245 to 1315 (3rd Wednesday) Society of Friends (Quaker) Meeting for Worship St Helen Bishopsgate Bunhill Fields Meeting House, Quaker Court, Banner St 1315 to 1345 Lunchtime Service (Free Church) City Temple 1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal Worship and Teaching – come and go 1315 Holy Communion St Martin within Ludgate as you wish St Margaret Lothbury 1315 Holy Communion (BCP said) (during legal term-time) (Not in August) 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place Temple Church 1305 ‘Not on a Sunday’ – informal worship with prayer and song, followed 1400 to 1415 Prayers – Offering up the prayers from the church’s prayer board by coffee St Katharine Cree and the London Internet Church St Stephen Walbrook 1305 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’ – contemplation, reflection and silent worship 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 1310 to 1340 ‘Moorgate Talks’ Bible Talk, following buffet lunch at 1300, 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe at Amber, CityPoint, 1 Ropemaker St, EC2Y 9AW 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) Linked with St Botolph Aldersgate Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1310 Choral or Sung Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1315 Holy Communion (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1800 to 2200 City of London House of Prayer – ‘Pursuit’ Prayer and Worship 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn Service All welcome (Free Church) City Temple 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 1800 to 1830 Eucharist (said) (Please check on church website) Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street St Dunstan in the West 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1800 (Normally 1st Thursday) Choral Evensong, followed by ‘Thursday 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) Conversation’ at 1830 St Mary at Hill Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 1730 to 1750 Evening Prayer (Moot Community – all welcome) 1805 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow St Mary Aldermary

1730 Choral Evensong (during legal term-time) (Not in August) Friday Temple Church 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1800 Taizé Service All Hallows by the Tower 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 1830 to 1915 Meditation Group: ‘Stressed in the City’ (Moot Community – all 0800 to 0830 Morning Taizé Chant (Moot Community – all welcome) welcome) St Mary Aldermary St Mary Aldermary 1900 Sung Eucharist, followed by refreshments St Andrew Holborn 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields

0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street Thursday 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) (Not in August) 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn Temple Church 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1200 to 1230 Meditation Group: ‘Stressed in the City’ (Moot Community – 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street all welcome) St Mary Aldermary 0815 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower 1230 Pastoral Conversation or Confession (Sacrament Chapel) 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate St Mary le Bow 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public St Mary Moorfields welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) (Not in August) 1305 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow Temple Church 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 1210 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate 1315 to 1400 Holy Communion St Lawrence Jewry 1215 Eucharist (said) (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 1230 (1st Thursday) Eucharist followed by discussion Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate 1800 Paraklesis (replaced on 1st Friday and during fasting periods by Service 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr of Holy Unction) Followed at 1900 to 2200 by Catechesis and 1230 Holy Communion St Mary le Strand Confessions (Romanian Orthodox) St Dunstan in the West 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 1800 (1st Friday) Low Mass in the Extraordinary Form St Mary Moorfields St Etheldreda, Ely Place 1245 to 1330 Choral Eucharist with the St Stephen’s Voices, followed by light lunch 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields St Stephen Walbrook 1900 to 2100 City of London House of Prayer - Equipping Night Service Praise 1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal Worship and Teaching – come and go as you and Worship (Free Church) City Temple wish St Mary Woolnoth 1930 Jewish Friday Evening Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place orthodox rite) (1830 in winter months – please check on 1300 to 1330 (Normally 1st Thursday) Private Prayer and Reflection www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/) Bevis Marks Synagogue (In July on 12 July – not in August) St Giles Cripplegate

SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS LECTURES, COURSES, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS

IN JULY 2018 IN JULY 2018

Monday 2 July Monday 2 July 1300 Choral Classics 30 minutes of music and readings with the 1830 St Sepulchre without Newgate Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields Music in Worship: One of a series of evenings lasting about The music on this occasion will be Sir John Tavener's setting of 60 to 90 minutes, exploring the importance and beauty of the poem by William Blake – "The Lamb" music in worship Free with a retiring collection With performances of music, reflections on the music and worship Please note that this will be the final Choral Classics until they alongside them resume in the Autumn. It is advisable to consult the church website: https://ststephenwalbrook.net/ Thursday 5 July for the date of resumption. St Stephen Walbrook 1830 Music in Worship: One of a series of evenings lasting about 1230 to 1430 St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation & Peace 60 to 90 minutes, exploring the importance and beauty of Christian Fellowship lunchtime discussion, led by music in worship the Rt Revd Dr Trevor Musonda Selwyn Mwamba With performances of music, reflections on the music and Following Eucharist at 1230 worship alongside them St Sepulchre without Newgate Everyone welcome to drop in as they wish For further information go to www.stethelburgas.org and follow the links from ‘Events’

Thursday 5 July 1830 St Mary at Hill 1800 Choral Evensong followed by Thursday Conversation at 1830 Thursday Conversation with Christopher Tajah See the entry for this date in the Events & Concerts section below Christopher will begin by performing a 15 minute edit of the play St Mary at Hill Dream of a King He will then be in conversation with the Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkin Sunday 8 July on What is Martin Luther King Jnr’s Legacy? Are the things that 1115 Choral Mattins Sung by the Temple Church Choir with the he was fighting for up to his death still relevant today in 2018? Temple Youth Choir Temple Church Following Choral Evensong at 1800 Ending with refreshments at 1930 Monday 9 July See the entry for this date in the Events & Concerts section below 1800 Choral Evensong (BCP) (This service takes place weekly during university terms – the service on 9 July is the final one of the current term, and the first Tuesday 10 July service of the next term will be held on Monday 15 October) St Michael Cornhill 1045 to 1530 St Andrew Holborn Thursday 12 July Oasis Day: Living Generously 1210 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate Led by Catherine Armstrong (Spirituality Advisor for Stepney) Oasis Days offer a monthly time of quiet reflection to re-charge Wednesday 18 July one’s spiritual batteries with stimulating speakers 1800 Choral Evensong and Garden Party St Stephen Walbrook Cost £15 – Lunch and tea/coffee provided Pre-booking required by Friday 6 July for catering purposes – to book please telephone the Revd Martin Davies on Thursday 19 July 07429 612642 or e-mail [email protected] 1800 Service to celebrate the feast day of St James (25 July) Please enter via No 7 St Andrew Street, during restoration work to the church Followed by refreshments St Katharine Cree 1830 to 2045 St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation & Peace Indigenous perspectives and spiritual ecology: lessons on reviving Tuesday 24 July a sacred and interconnected world 1730 St Lawrence Jewry Annual Service Tiokasin Ghosthorse, a member of the Lakota (Sioux) Nation of Preacher: the Bishop of London, the Rt Revd South Dakota and a teacher of indigenous worldviews and Please come early to ensure a good pew knowledge, will share his perspectives through ritual, storytelling Followed by refreshments St Lawrence Jewry and music and in conversation with spiritual ecologist Zoe Vokes For further information, cost and to book please go to www.stethelburgas.org and follow the links from ‘Events’ Thursday 26 July 1800 Evensong for the feast day of St Anne St Anne & St Agnes, Gresham Street Friday 13 July 1100 to 1600 London Centre for Spiritual Direction, Sunday 29 July St Edmund King & Martyr 1830 Lutheran Bach Vespers with the City Bach Collective performing Gifts and Challenges: Spiritual Direction and Evangelical Spirituality music by J S Bach on period instruments: Led by Dawn Pointing and Val Smith Cantata BWV 168, Tue Rechnung! Donnerwort Part of the Developing Direction programme, designed to foster Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G major, BWV 1049 the ongoing development and support of spiritual directors Setting of the Creed, BWV 437 For further information, including cost, and to book please go St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill to www.lcsd.org.uk and follow the links from ‘Courses & Events’

SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS IN AUGUST 2018 EVENTS AND CONCERTS IN JULY 2018 — continued

Thursday 9 August Monday 2 July — continued 1210 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate

Tuesday 14 August 1900 RC Vigil Mass for the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed ART EXHIBITION Virgin Mary (15 August) St Mary Moorfields Suzanne Perlman Wednesday 15 August 0805 RC Mass for the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catching the Ephemeral St Mary Moorfields 1200 RC Mass for the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the Dutch Centre, Austin Friars St Mary Moorfields 1205 RC Mass for the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary . Opening times throughout July and August:

St Joseph, Bunhill Row Monday to Friday: 1000 to 1600 1230 RC Mass for the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Saturday and Sunday: 1000 to 1700 St Mary Moorfields

1305 RC Mass for the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary The exhibition will continue until Friday 31 August St Mary Moorfields and is open to the public with exception of days when 1310 Choral Eucharist for the feast day of the Blessed Virgin Mary the Main Hall is booked for private events. St Botolph Bishopsgate Private curated tours can also be arranged. 1730 RC Mass for the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary St Mary Moorfields Admission is free 1900 RC Mass for the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary More details may be found at: St Joseph, Bunhill Row

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LECTURES, COURSES, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS IN AUGUST 2018

Tuesday 14 August 1300 St Lawrence Jewry St Andrew Holborn Recital: Renata Konyicska – piano 1045 to 1530 Oasis Day: What a Shame Programme: Led by Jane Franklin and Susan Hewlett Beethoven – Sonata in C minor Op 13 Pathétique Oasis Days offer a monthly time of quiet reflection to re-charge Chopin – Impromptu No 3 in G flat minor Op 51 one’s spiritual batteries with stimulating speakers Debussy – Suite Bergamasque L 75 Cost £15 – Lunch and tea/coffee provided L'isle joyeuse L 106 Pre-booking required by Friday 10 August for catering purposes – 1300 St Michael Cornhill to book please telephone the Revd Martin Davies on Organ Recital: Colin Walsh () 07429 612642 or e-mail [email protected] Programme: Please enter via No 7 St Andrew Street, during restoration Bach – Prelude & Fugue In C BWV 546 work to the church Bennett – Elegaic Prelude Harwood – Dithyramb Vierne – Scherzo, from Symphonie 2 EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JULY 2018 Vierne – Final, from Symphonie 6 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Choral Classics — 30 minutes of sublime choral music and Monday 2 July readings with the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields

The music on this occasion will be Sir John Tavener's setting of The City Church of St Lawrence Jewry the poem by William Blake – "The Lamb" Free with a retiring collection

Summer Mosaics Exhibition Please note that this will be the final Choral Classics until they resume in the Autumn. It is advisable to consult the church Susan Parrott will be displaying mosaics website: https://ststephenwalbrook.net/ with a biblical theme for the date of resumption. throughout July and August 1305 St Martin Ludgate and into September Recital: Elisabetta Magnanti – piano Monday to Friday 9.00am to 5.00pm 1830 St Sepulchre without Newgate from Monday 2 July Music in Worship until the Open House weekend The next in our series of evenings exploring the importance and Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 September beauty of music in worship. Each evening isaround 60-90 when the opening hours will be minutes long, roughly three quarters of which will be music, with 10.00am to 5.00pm reflections on the music and worship alongside them.

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JULY 2018 — continued Thursday 5 July — continued 1310 All Hallows by the Tower Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling Tuesday 3 July 1315 St Margaret Lothbury 1230 St Mary Abcurch Recital: Richard Townend (organ) with the Hill House Scholars Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. 1800 St Mary at Hill The recital will usually include an improvisation Choral Evensong, followed by Thursday Conversation at 1830 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Evensong will be sung by Seraphim, the St Mary at Hill Choir

Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis Christopher Tajah – Dream of a King Programme: For the Thursday Conversation Christopher will perform a 15 J S Bach – Concerto in C after Vivaldi BWV 594 minute edit of his play 'Dream of a King' and will then be in Barber – Adagio for strings arr. Strickland conversation with The Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkins Dudley Buck – What is Martin Luther King Jnr's legacy? Are the things that Concert variations on 'The Star-spangled Banner' Op 23 Martin was fighting for right up to his death still relevant today? Reger – Introduction and Fugue (from Sonata No 2 in D minor) 1300 St Stephen Walbrook We finish with a glass of wine at 1930 A Walbrook Music Trust Recital: Admission is free All welcome Phillip Leslie – piano 1830 Temple Church 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Organ Concert: Greg Morris Recital: Richard Boothby – viola da gamba Final concert in the series of J S Bach's complete organ works: Programme: Programme: Telemann – Six (Nos 1,2,3,7,8,11) of the 12 Fantasias for Clavier-Ûbung III with Grace Davidson – soprano solo viola da gamba TWV 40:26-37 Tickets: £25, £15, £10

Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Booking: www.templemusic.org 1315 St Mary at Hill

Concert: Semper Fidelis Singers from Gordon's School Friday 6 July Programme: It is hoped to include the following pieces: 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Autumn Leaves – Joanna Forbes after Eve Cassidy Organ Recital: James Gough Spring will come again – Alexander l'Estrange Shosone Love /song – Traditional Native American Lyric, Music by Roger Emerson Over the Rainbow – Harold Arlen, arr Joanna Forbes after Eva Cassidy Thinking out loud – Ed Sheeran arr. Kirby Shaw Mary did you know – Pentatonix MUSIC-AT-HILL Seal's lullaby – Eric Whitmore 1415 St Bride Fleet Street presents the twenty-third Tours of the Church ST ANNE'S BACH FESTIVAL Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day at the City Church of St Mary at Hill or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: [email protected] A feast of Baroque Music or telephoning (+44) 20 7427 0133. focusing om the timeless genius of J S Bach Special tours for groups can also be arranged with a nod to Couperin in his 350th year and other composers of the era Wednesday 4 July 1305 St Botolph Aldgate Recital: Felicity Smith – cello Lucía Sánchez de Haro – piano The concerts take place on each Friday in July – Programme: full details are given below at the appropriate dates, Brahms – Violin Sonata No 3 in D minor Op 108 culminating in Lutheran Bach Vespers Rachmaninoff – Sonata for cello and piano in G major Op 19 on Sunday 29th July

Free entry with retiring collection 1305 St Olave Hart Street All events are free of charge with a retiring collection Recital: Blair/Mertens /duo Refreshments will be available Gillian Blair – saxophone Nathan Mertens – saxophone before and after each performance with David Gibson – piano 1315 St Dunstan in the West Enquiries to 07816 011 621 Recital: or email: [email protected] Siobhan Mooney – mezzo-soprano Matthew Pochin – tenor Benedict Lewis-Smith – piano Thursday 5 July 1305 St Mary le Bow Organ Recital Richard Moore (Sub Organist, Guildford Cathedral) 1305 St Olave Hart Street Recital: Ryoko Izutsu – piano

EVENTS AND CONCERTS IN JULY 2018 — continued Saturday 7 July 1400 to 1700 St Mary le Bow Bell Ringing – Ringing World National Youth Competition Friday 6 July — continued 1830 All Hallows by the Tower

1305 St Mary at Hill An Evening at the Opera Music-at-Hill East London Chorus Opening concert of the 23rd St Anne's Bach Festival Summer Concert Nicholas Hands – oboe Jonathan Pease – piano with a programme of choral dances and opera choruses Programme: Tickets: £12 (£10 concessions, under 16s free) J S Bach – Oboe Sonata in G minor BWV 1030b available on the door J S Bach – Siciliano from Sonata in E flat BWV 1004 1900 St Sepulchre without Newgate C P E Bach – Sonata in G minor London Forest Choir Couperin – Concert Royale No 1 and Conductor – Jonathan Rathbone selected works from Quatrième livre de pièces de clavecin in concert with a visiting choir from Strasbourg: 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Maîtrise de l'Opéra National du Rhin Recital: Shun Yin Ho – piano Conductor – Luciano Bibiloni Programme: Programme: J S Bach – Partita No 6 in E minor BWV 830 This will include The Christmas Truce composed by Liszt – Ballade No 2, S 171 Jonathan Rathbone for baritone solo/narrator, choir and Fazil Say – Paganini Jazz Op 5c chamber orchestra. The words are by Graeme Curry, with

Free Admittance – Retiring Collection poems by the war poet Edward Thomas. 1315 St Dunstan in the West This work will be sung by both choirs. Recital: Ivanov & Chen Clarinet & Piano Duo There will be new by Jonathan Rathbone Boyan Ivanov – clarinet Lysianne Chen – piano of works by Stanford, Wood, Stainer, Purcell, Fauré, Åhlén – 1900 All Hallows by the Tower plus Ralph McTell's 'Streets of London'; City Music Services Summer Concert all with professional orchestra and performed for the first time CMS Chorale and City Music Services Tickets from: http://www.londonforestchoir.org/ present a medley of music for a Summer evening, ranging from opera arias to songs from the shows Admission by donation All welcome 1930 St Katharine Cree Monday 9 July City Wind Orchestra 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Dances with Winds – Recital: Anna Le Hair – piano An evening of dance-fuelled music from America to Armenia! Programme: Programme: Schubert – Impromptu in A flat major D 935 – Excerpts from Appalachian Spring Chopin – Berceuse Op 57 Aram Khachaturian – Adagio for Spartacus and Phrygia Granados – 'The Maiden and the Nightingale' Adam Korb – Yiddish Dances from the suite Goyescas Op 11 – Les Biches Debussy – ' … Les sons et les parfums tournet dans l'air du soir' Cindy McTee – Ballet for Band from Préludes Book 1 Tickets: £12, £10 concessions from: Clair de Lune http://www.citywind.org.uk/cwo-concert-6-july-2018/ Grieg – Notturno Op 54 No 4 1930 St Sepulchre without Newgate Chopin – Ballade No 4 in F minor Op 52 1300 St Michael Cornhill

Organ Recital: Benjamin Newlove CAPTURED LIGHT (Sir George Thalben-Ball Organ Scholar and Londinium marks the centenaries of the deaths of Claude Assistant Director of Music, St Michael Cornhill) Debussy and Lili Boulanger with choral works by them and Programme: other French composers Walton – Crown Imperial

Leanne Singh-Levett – piano Andrew Griffiths – conductor Howells – Psalm Prelude, Set 1/1 Elgar – Maestoso, from Sonata 1 Programme: Stanford – Prelude in E flat, Op 101 Lili Boulange — Renouveau Cocker – Tuba Tune Claude Debussy — Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orléans Howells – Psalm Prelude, Set 1/2 , arr. Clytus Gottwald — Soupir Gabriel Fauré — Madrigal Preston – Alleluyas Maurice Duruflé — Quatre Motets sur des thèmes grégoriens 1305 St Martin Ludgate Claude Debussy, arr. Clytus Gottwald — Les Angélus Recital: Marrianne Townsmith – soprano Bernhard Crede – bass Lili Boulanger — Hymne au soleil Richard Black – piano Gabriel Fauré — Les Djinns Programme: Lili Boulanger — Les Sirènes Arias by Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Purcell, Massenet and Verdi, Claude Debussy — arr. Gottwald: Des pas sur la neige and duets by Verdi and Mozart Claude Debussy — L'isle joyeuse (piano solo) Maurice Ravel — Trois Chansons Lili Boulanger — Soir sur la plaine Tickets: £12 ('earlybird' discount) / £15; £10 – students and further information from: http://www.londinium-voices.org.uk/events

Wine will be served in the interval

Thursday 12 July — continued EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JULY 2018 — continued

Tuesday 10 July St Olave Hart Street 1230 St Mary Abcurch Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. Thursday 12 July at 1.05pm The recital will usually include an improvisation 1300 St Lawrence Jewry The Lascelles Memorial Concert Organ Recital: Andy Losq and Jacob Collins to be given in memory of (City University, London) Major-General Anthony Lascelles (1912-2000) Programme: a great supporter of the musical life at this church AL: Vierne – Carillon de Westminster

JC: J S Bach - Concerto in G after Johann Ernst BWV 592 Lana Trotovsek – violin AL: Böhm – Praeludium und Fuga in A moll Marta Canigueral – piano JC: Messiaen – Les Bergers from La Nativité du Seigneur

AL: Debussy – Clair de lune (arr Lloyd) Beethoven – Sonata in A major Op 12 No 2 JC: Vierne – Final from Symphonie No 1 in D Sonata in F major "Spring" Op 24 No 5 1300 St Stephen Walbrook

A Walbrook Music Trust Recital: Admission is free Helena Szwoch – violin A retiring collection will be donated to charity 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: Romana Szczepaniak – violin Grzegorz Mania – piano Programme: 1310 All Hallows by the Tower Chopin – Four Mazurkas Op 17 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling Brahms – Violin sonata No 3 in D minor Op 108 1315 St Margaret Lothbury Wieniawski – Polonaise in D major Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Angelo Castaldo (Naples Italy) 1315 St Mary at Hill 1900 Gresham Centre/St Anne and St Agnes Recital: Detta Dartford – flute Natasha Zielazinski – cello City Chamber Choir Little Jazz Mass 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Tours of the Church An attractive and uplifting programme of toe-tapping music Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. from Bob Chilcott Little Jazz Massand John Rutter Birthday Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day Madrigals– two of the foremost choral composers of our day – or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: plus a series of masterful arrangements of some well known jazz [email protected] standards together with the first performance of or telephoning (+44) 20 7427 0133. Clouds Away by our Composer in Association Katrina Toner. Special tours for groups can also be arranged Conductor: Stephen Jones Piano: Joe Hill

Wednesday 11 July Tickets: £15.00; (£10.00 under 18s and full time students 1305 St Botolph Aldgate only) online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/city-chamber-choir Recital: For information regarding this recital please refer to the or at the door church website: https://stbotolphs.org.uk/ Phone enquiries may be made to: 07715 351744. and follow the link at Music 1930 St Mary Moorfields Crypt Hall 1305 St Olave Hart Street Violin Recital Recital: Christine Stevenson – piano Free entry with a retiring collection 1315 St Dunstan in the West Friday 13 July Organ Recital: Andrew Furniss 1900 St Bride Fleet Street 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Concert: Selwyn College Chapel Choir Organ Recital: Jonathan Eyre 1305 St Mary at Hill Songs of Farewell: English Music for a summer's evening St Anne's Bach Festival Event by Parry, Elgar, Delius and Vaughan Williams Tickets: £15 may be obtained from: BRIDGE VIOLA ENSEMBLE Mark Gibbs, Anna Growns, Kesasri Pundarika & Katherine Clarke – https://www.selwynalumni.com/event-registration-page Programme: The concert is an event being held as part of a series of reunions Bach – Chaconne from Partita No 2 in D minor BWV 1004 of Selwyn College alumni. We are assured that members of the Bach – Cello Suite No 6 BWV 1012 public will be most welcome at the concert. Concerning pre- 1315 St Bride Fleet Street booking of tickets, on the page to be seen at the address given Recital: Maria Milanova – piano above the booking for tickets 'box' is the fourth item. Programme: Prokofiev – Ten Pieces from Cinderella Op 97 (1943) Thursday 12 July Rameau – Pièces de Clavecin (1724) 1305 St Mary le Bow Suite in E minor RCT 2 Organ Recital: Ronald Leith Pancho Vladigerov – from 'Episodes' Op 36 (Organist, St Mary's Cathedral, Aberdeen) 4. Improvisation 5. Toccata Free Admittance – Retiring Collection

Monday 16 July — continued

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JULY 2018 — continued 1930 Great Hall of St Bartholomew's Hospital Summer Concert Barts Academic Festival Choir & Orchestra Conductor: John Lumley Leader: Prunella Sedgwick Friday 13 July — continued Programme: 1315 St Dunstan in the West Dvořák – Symphony No 5 in F major Op 76 Recital: Abi Heath – clarinet Rachael Ueckermann – piano Puccini – Messa di Gloria 1930 St Mary le Bow Tickets: At the door on the night: £15 – Concessions £10 The Giltspur Singers Come and join us for an evening of glorious music Summer Concert Profits go to the Barts Cancer Unit Conductor – Christopher Maxim

Programme: Tuesday 17 July Orlando Gibbons – O thou, the central orb 1230 St Mary Abcurch The silver swan Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. Do not repine, fair sun The recital will usually include an improvisation Reginald Spofforth – Hail! Smiling morn! 1300 St Lawrence Jewry William Sterndale Bennett – Come live with me Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis – My love dwelt in a Northern land Programme: Toccata! William Beale – Come let us join the roundelay A programme of varied pieces all sharing the same title Christopher Maxim – Three Marriage Songs: Sweelinck – Toccata in C To God who gives our daily bread Frescobaldi – Toccata Quanta (from Second Book of Toccatas) Love is …. Froberger – Toccata da sonarsi alla levatione I have loved you Bach – Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565 – Five Flower Songs Pietro Yon – Toccatina for the flutes Tickets: Einar Trærup Sark – Toccata primi Toni £15 on the door – includes wine/soft drinks at the interval Gigout – Toccata in B minor Widor – Toccata from Symphonie No 5 in F 1930 St Mary Moorfields Crypt Hall 1300 St Stephen Walbrook String Quartet Recital A Walbrook Music Trust Recital: Free entry with a retiring collection Matthew Chambers – violin 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Saturday 14 July Recital: Hao Zi Yoh – piano 1030 All Hallows by the Tower Programme: A Guided Walk: Londinium – The Roman City Rachmaninov – From Ten Preludes Op 23 Nos 6 to 10. As part of the Festival of Archaeology Fringe, All Hallows is Ravel – Mirroirs Five movements each dedicated to a fellow pleased to offer this guided walk around the Roman City of member of the French avant-garde artist group Les Apaches Londinium. The walk costs £8 per person and lasts two and a Free Admittance – Retiring Collection half hours – no need to book, just come to All Hallows on the day 1315 St Mary at Hill Recital: Galliard Trio Monday 16 July Andrew Morris – flute & Martin White – 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Alec Forshaw – piano Recital: Kanae Furomoto – piano Programme: Programme: Mussorgsky – 'Pictures at an Exhibition' Schubert – Wanderer Fantasy Op 15 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Albéniz – From 'Suiite española' Op 47 No 1: Tours of the Church Asturias (Leyenda) – Castilla (Seguidillas) Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Liszt – 'Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este' Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day Gershwin/Fazil Say – Summertime Variations or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: 1300 St Michael Cornhill [email protected] Organ Recital: James Davy (Chelmsford Cathedral) or telephoning (+44) 20 7427 0133. Programme: Special tours for groups can also be arranged Parry – Chorale Prelude on Croft's 136th Franck – Fantaisie in A Wednesday 18 July Bach – Schmücke dich BWV 654 1305 St Botolph Aldgate Brahms – Fugue in A flat Recital: Gemma Kateb – piano Hampton – Lullaby from Suite 2 Dancing through time: baroque and romantic dances for piano Hakim – Variations on two themes Programme: 1305 St Martin Ludgate Bach – French Suite No 5 in G BWV 816 Recital: Isabella Fleming – violin Phillip Leslie – piano Chopin – Mazurkas: C# major Op 63 No 3 Programme: C major Op 56 No 2 Mozart – Violin Sonata No 27 in G major K 379 A major Op 17 No 4 Brahms – Violin Sonata No 2 in A Major Op 100 G major Op 50 No 1

Free entry with retiring collection 1305 St Olave Hart Street Recital: Anern Trio Lisa Ueda – violin Ian Byrne Brito – viola Nigel Blomi ley - cello

Monday 23 July EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JULY 2018 — continued

Wednesday 18 July — continued The City church of St Mary le Bow

1315 St Dunstan in the West Recital: Kate Fun – contralto Exhibition and sale of Paintings of St Paul's Cathedral Thursday 19 July by 1305 St Mary le Bow Organ Recital: David Newsholme Paul Brown (Assistant Organist, ) 1305 St Olave Hart Street Recital: LONDON CHAMBER PROJHECT Monday 23 to Friday 27 July Jemma Freestone – flute Lavinia Redman – oboe Sacha Rattle – clarinet Gareth Humphreys – bassoon 10.00am to 4.00pm each day Stephen Craig – horn Programme: Samuel Barber – Summer Music Op 31

Franz Danzi – Wind Quintet in B flat Op 56 No 1 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Carl Nielsen – Wind Quintet Op 43 Recital: Samson Tsoy – piano 1310 All Hallows by the Tower Programme: Organ Recital: Polina Sosnina This will include works by Purcell, Schubert and Brahms 1315 St Margaret Lothbury Samsom Tsoy performs through the St Lawrence Jewry and Organ Recital: Bach Festival: Richard Townend Worshipful Company of Musicians Scheme for young

prizewinners of the Company Friday 20 July 1300 St Michael Cornhill 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Organ Recital: Gerard Brooks Organ Recital: Please refer to the church website for details (Methodist Central Hall, Westminster) https://ststephenwalbrook.net/ Programme: 1305 St Mary at Hill Corr ette – Grand Jeu St Anne's Bach Festival Event Scarlatti – Sonatas in D, G & D (K 29, 31 & 96) FOLLIA Françaix – Suite Carmelite William Summers – baroque flute Diane Moore – baroque violin Bliss – Three Wedding Fanfares Yeo Yat-Soon – harpsichord Sam Stadlen – bass viol Elgar – Imperial March Programme: Elgar – Salut d'Amour Chamber works by Bach and Couperin and their Ives – Variations on America contemporaries

1315 St Bride Fleet Street Tuesday 24 July Recital: The Amici Trio 1230 St Mary Abcurch Elsie Woollard – oboe Mark Gibbs – viola Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. Christopher Atkinson – piano The recital will usually include an improvisation Programme: 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Debussy – Clair De Lune Organ Recital: William Hormann (The Netherlands) Ross Edwards – Two Pieces for Solo Oboe – Programme: one of which will be Ulpirra Jan Nieland – Toccata Schumann – Märchenbilder Op 113 Frescobaldi – Toccata per l'Elevazione 4. Langsam, mit melancholischen Ausdruck Bach – Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 645 Piazzolla – Oblivion Sinfonia from Cantata BWV 29 (tr, by Guilmant) – Schilflieder Messiaen – O sacrum convivium; Bach – Arioso from Cantata BWV 156 Transport de joie d'une âme devant la gloire du Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Christ qui est la sienne

Lefébure-Wély – Offertoire No 27 Saturday 21 July Boléro de Concert Op 166 1900 St Sepulchre without Newgate Vierne – Toccata in B flat minor Saturday Concert Series Reger – Toccata Op 59 No 5 in D

Christian Dawson (piano) and Catrin Woodruff (soprano) present 1300 St Stephen Walbrook a programme showcasing the virtuosic diversity of the piano as A Walbrook Music Trust Recital: well as celebrating lesser known works for voice and piano by Jane Gilbert – flute 20th century female composers. 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: Lewis Lev – piano Programme: Programme: This will include works by Mozart, Brahms, Chopin, Poulenc and Haydn – Sonata in D Hob. XVI:14 Liszt. Schumann - Papillons Tickets: £10/£7 concessions, available on the door Mussorgsky arr. Lev – Fantasy on themes from Boris Godunov Free Admittance – Retiring Collection

Sunday 29 July EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JULY 2018 — continued 1305 St Mary at Hill St Anne's Bach Festival Event LUTHERAN BACH VESPERS Tuesday 24 July — continued with the City Bach Collective led by Hazel Brooks Jenni Harper – soprano Helen Daniels – alto 1315 St Mary at Hill Greg Tassell – tenor Cheyney Kent – bass Recital: Michiko Gibbs – violin Miho Ebihara – piano featuring: Programme: Bach – Cantata BWV 168 'Tue Rechnung! Donnerwort' Brahms – Sonata No 3 in D minor Op 108 Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No 4 BWV 1049 1415 St Bride Fleet Street and Bach's setting of the Creed BWV 437 Tours of the Church Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day Monday 30 July or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: 1300 St Lawrence Jewry [email protected] Recital: Maite Aguirre – piano or telephoning (+44) 20 7427 0133. Programme: Special tours for groups can also be arranged Inspiration: Sounds of Spain Debussy – 'La soirée dans Grenade' from Estampes Wednesday 25 July Sérénade interrompue 1305 St Olave Hart Street Puerta del Vino Recital: Rebecca Moon – soprano Johan Hugosson - piano Friendship – 1315 St Dunstan in the West de Falla – Cuatro piezas españolas (selection) Recital: News Choir Aragonesa and Andaluza Pour le tombeau de Claude Debussy Thursday 26 July Collaboration: Ricardo Viñes, the premieres 1305 St Mary le Bow Viñes – Cuatro Homenajes (selection) Organ Recital: Terence Charlston Minuet spectral and Threnodie

(Professor, Royal College of Music) Debussy – L'isle Joyeuse 1310 All Hallows by the Tower Organ Recital: Anthony Burns-Cox 1300 St Michael Cornhill 1315 St Margaret Lothbury Organ Recital: Duncan Ferguson Organ Recital: Bach Festival: Lionel Rogg (Geneva Switzerland) (St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh) Programme: Friday 27 July Guilmant – Grand Choeur alla Handel 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Handel – Andante from Concerto in G Organ Recital: Please refer to the church website for details Bach – 'Dorian' Toccata & Fugue BWV 538 https://ststephenwalbrook.net/ Howells – Rhapsody 3 in C# 1305 St Mary at Hill Vaughan Williams – Rhosymedre Faulkes – Festival Prelude on Ein Feste Burg 1305 St Mary at Hill Vierne – Final, from Symphonie 1 St Anne's Bach Festival Event James Woodrow – guitar Audrey Riley – cello Programme: A selection of Bach chorale-based repertoire and instrumental Tuesday 31 July pieces, including the four Duos from the Clavierübung Part 3 1230 St Mary Abcurch and the Violin Fugue in G minor, plus modern works inspired by Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. Bach ….. The recital will usually include an improvisation Henri Sauguet – Révérence à J S Bach 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Jonathan Eato – Bach insert Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Programme: Lollipops! Organ Recital: Geoff Howells A programme including audience requests Programme: Bach – Toccata and Fugue in F BWV 540 Bach – Prelude and Fugue in B minor BWV 544 Johann Bernhard Bach – Chaconne in G Buxtehude – Magnificat Primi Toni BuxWV 203 Lully – Rigaudon de Louis XIV (arr. Tracey) Böhm – 'Vater unser im Himmelreich' Mozart – Variations on "Ah, vous dirai-je Maman" Francis Jackson – Toccata, Chorale and Fugue Hérold – The Clog Dance from the ballet "La fille mal gardée" (arr. Tracey) Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Alfred Hollins – Concert overture in C minor 1800 St Mary at Hill Robert Prizeman – Toccata "Songs of Praise" St Anne's Bach Festival Event The organ recitals at St Lawrence Jewry Rush hour Concerto Concert with teatime refreshments from 1730 will resume on Tuesday 4 September and a wine reception following the performance 1300 St Stephen Walbrook BELLOT ENSEMBLE A Walbrook Music Trust Recital: Edmund Taylor – director The Apeiron Duo: Programme: Paola Delucchi – violin Albert Lau – piano Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G major BWV 1048

Bach – Violin Concerto in A minor BWV 1041

Bach – Harpsichord Concerto No 1 in D minor BWV 1052

Wednesday 1 August EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JULY 2018 — continued 1315 St Dunstan in the West Recital: Gabriel Paulochenka – classical guitar

Tuesday 31 July — continued Thursday 2 August 1305 St Mary le Bow 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: Gabriel Paulochenka – guitar Recital: Veronica Henderson – cello Programme: Friday 3 August Bach – Cello Suite No 2 in D minor BWV 1008 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Gaspar Cassadó – Suite for Solo Cello Organ Recital: Please refer to the church website for details Free Admittance – Retiring Collection https://ststephenwalbrook.net/ 1315 St Mary at Hill 1305 St Mary at Hill Recital: Michiko Shimanuki – piano Programme: 1315 St Dunstan in the West Bach – French Suite No 5 BWV 816 Recital: Demelza Stafford – soprano Yoko Hirao – piano 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Tours of the Church Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day St Lawrence Jewry or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: [email protected] or telephoning (+44) 20 7427 0133. Summer Music Festival Special tours for groups can also be arranged For some years it has been a tradition at the City church of St Lawrence Jewry next Guildhall EVENTS & CONCERTS IN AUGUST 2018 to hold a summer festival of some significance At St Lawrence Jewry this is seen as part of their Christian ministry to the musicians and to the City.

Every weekday lunchtime

Monday 6th to Friday 17th August The City Church of St Lawrence Jewry a free concert, 10 in all, will be held from 1.00pm to 1.45pm for the pleasure of those who continue to work Summer Mosaics Exhibition throughout the summer season.

The exhibition of mosaics by Susan Parrott with a The theme this year will be biblical theme continues "Around the World in Ten Days: throughout July and August from East to West, from North to South"

and into September All the concerts are listed below

Monday to Friday 9.00am to 5.00pm Admission is free with a retiring collection until the Open House weekend Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 September when the opening hours will be 10.00am to 5.00pm 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Summer Music Festival – "Around the World in Ten Days" Concert 1: China, Japan, Hungary Constance Chow – piano

Programme: ART EXHIBITION Chinese folk music and works by Tan Dun and Liszt

Suzanne Perlman Tuesday 7 August Catching the Ephemeral 1230 St Mary Abcurch

at the Dutch Centre, Austin Friars Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. The recital will usually include an improvisation . Opening times throughout July and August: — 1300 St Lawrence Jewry

Monday to Friday: 1000 to 1600 Summer Music Festival – "Around the World in Ten Days" Saturday and Sunday: 1000 to 1700 Concert 2: Germany AMICI TRIO The exhibition will continue until Friday 31 August Elsie Woollard – oboe Mark Gibbs – viola and is open to the public with exception of days when Christopher Atkinson – piano the Main Hall is booked for private events. Programme: Private curated tours can also be arranged. Schumann – Märchenbilder Op 113 Admission is free August Klughardt – Schilflieder More details may be found at: ['Reed songs' - 5 Fantasiestücke after poems by Lenau for www.dutchcentre.com piano, oboe and viola, Op. 28 (1872)]

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN AUGUST 2018 — continued Tuesday 14 August 1230 St Mary Abcurch Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. The recital will usually include an improvisation Tuesday 7 August — continued 1300 St Lawrence Jewry 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Summer Music Festival – "Around the World in Ten Days" Tours of the Church Concert 7: Brazil & Argentina Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Beto Caletti & Mishka Adams – guitar, percussion & vocals Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day Programme: or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: Works by Jobim, Villa-Lobos, Buarque, Lobo, Echenique, [email protected] Romero & Caletti/Adams or telephoning (+44) 20 7427 0133. 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Special tours for groups can also be arranged Tours of the Church

Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Wednesday 8 August Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day 1300 St Lawrence Jewry or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: Summer Music Festival – "Around the World in Ten Days" [email protected] Concert 3: Bohemia & Moravia or telephoning (+44) 20 7427 0133. Tessa Uys – piano Special tours for groups can also be arranged Programme:

Jánáček – Sonata 1.X.1905; On an Overgrown Path

Dvořák – Na Svaté Hoře (from Poetic Moods Op 85 No 13)

Thursday 9 August Wednesday 15 August 1300 St Lawrence Jewry 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Summer Music Festival – "Around the World in Ten Days" Summer Music Festival – "Around the World in Ten Days" Concert 4: France Concert 8: North America BUKOLIKA PIANO TRIO SANDRA SCOTT SINGERS Roma Tic – violin Joanna Gutowska – cello Jocasta Roper, Angela Peachey, Jane Briers, Sarah Grange - sopranos Anna Szalucka – piano Hara Kostogianni – piano Programme: Programme: 'Songs from the States' Ravel – Piano Trio in A minor Vocal repertoire by Copland, Bernstein, Ned Rorem, Lili Boulanger – D'un soir triste; D'un matin de printemps Stephen Foster and traditional American spirituals

Friday 10 August 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Organ Recital: Please refer to the church website for details https://ststephenwalbrook.net/ 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Thursday 16 August Summer Music Festival – "Around the World in Ten Days" 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Concert 5: Australia Summer Music Festival – "Around the World in Ten Days" GUILDHALL DOWN UNDER Concert 9: Scandinavia Alice Girle – soprano Chavdar Mazgalov – piano, TRIO LAVOLTA Madeleine Randall – oboe Heather Ryall – clarinet, Joyce Fraser – violin Felix Buser – cello Simon Marlow – piano Rebecca Allen – bassoon Renée Kennedy – horn Programme: and members of the Guildhall Horn Ensemble Gade – Noveletten Grieg – Andante Programme: ‘Songs for the Shadowland’: Sibelius – Lovisa Trio A collection of works by Australian composers for soprano, piano, and horn ensemble, featuring artists from the Guildhall School of Music and including an Emma Gregan world premiere

Friday 17 August Monday 13 August 1230 St Stephen Walbrook 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Organ Recital: Please refer to the church website for details Summer Music Festival – "Around the World in Ten Days" https://ststephenwalbrook.net/ Concert 6: Great Britain 1300 St Lawrence Jewry WIND AND WORDS Summer Music Festival – "Around the World in Ten Days"

Chris Hooker – clarinet Dimitri Kennaway – piano Concert 10 Closing concert of the Festival – Africa Valerie Fry – poet & reader DULCIS ENSEMBLE Programme: 'Keep the Home Fires Burning' Olawale Playinka – leader World War One centenary commemoration: Programme: A recital of clarinet and poetry including melodies by Classical and folk music from South Africa, Guinea and Nigeria Jack Judge, Ivor Novello and Jerome Kern, and elegies about performed by this talented string nonet with flute and

Tommy & The Trenches, Fritz & The Front, Love & Loss

We are indebted to Dickon Love, EVENTS & CONCERTS IN AUGUST 2018 — continued Company Bellringer to the Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks for the following information

Saturday 18 August 1900 St Sepulchre without Newgate Open bellringing performances Saturday Concert Series currently scheduled for the City of London Haley Myles, Steinway Artist, presents a solo piano recital of in July & August 2018 works by Bach, Chopin and Liszt Programme: This will include Sunday 1 July Chopin – Ballade No 3 in A flat major Op 47 1400 3½ hr performance on the bells Scherzo No 2 in B flat minor Op 31 by the Cambridge University Guild Liszt – Concert étude: 'Un Sospiro' at St Magnus the Martyr Vallée d'Obermann from Années de Pélérinage Friday 6 July Tickets: Please go to: 1700 3½ hr performance on the bells https://www.eventbrite.com/e/haley-myles-steinway-artist-solo- at St Magnus the Martyr piano-recital-tickets-47130889760 Sunday 8 July 1400 3½ hr performance on the Bow Bells Tuesday 21 August by the Worcester Cathedral Guild 1230 St Mary Abcurch at St Mary le Bow

Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. 1430 3½ hr performance on the bells The recital will usually include an improvisation by the St James' Guild 1415 St Bride Fleet Street at St Magnus the Martyr Tours of the Church Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day Tuesday 10 July or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: 1400 3 hr performance on the Jubilee Bells by the Ancient Society of College Youths [email protected] at St Dunstan in the West or telephoning (+44) 20 7427 0133. Special tours for groups can also be arranged Sunday 22 July 1400 3½ hr performance on the bells by the Ancient Society of College Youths Wednesday 22 August at St Magnus the Martyr 1315 St Dunstan in the West Recital: Peter Martin – lute Sunday 29 July 1400 3½ hr performance on the bells by the Ancient Society of College Youths at St Magnus the Martyr Friday 24 August 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Saturday 18 August Organ Recital: Matthew O'Malley 1000 3½ hr performance on the bells by the Ancient Society of College Youths at St Michael Cornhill Tuesday 28 August 1230 St Mary Abcurch Sunday 19 August Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. 1430 3½ hr performance on the bells The recital will usually include an improvisation by the Ancient Society of College Youths at St Magnus the Martyr 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Tours of the Church Monday 20 August Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. 1730 3½ hr performance on the bells Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day at St Lawrence Jewry or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: [email protected] or telephoning (+44) 20 7427 0133. On Saturday 7 July the Ringing World National Youth Contest Special tours for groups can also be arranged will be taking place in London. 22 bands of young ringers will be competing for the Whitechapel Trophy. The final will take place at St James Garlickhythe Thursday 30 August on the Royal Jubilee Bells from 1400 to 1600 1305 St Mary le Bow with other ringing taking place at Recital: Piano and percussion duo St Magnus the Martyr and St Mary le Bow during the day

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Tuesday ─ continued

REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields IN SEPTEMBER 2018 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 0815 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe

0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower The entries below show the normal pattern of services for City Churches 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate and a few churches ‘just over the City borders’. Entries are for Church of 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn England services except where indicated otherwise. ‘1st Monday’, ‘2nd 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public Monday’ etc refer to the 1st Monday, 2nd Monday etc of the month. welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service St Andrew Holborn While every effort is made to ensure accuracy, the services shown are 1215 Eucharist (said) (BCP) St James Garlickhythe subject to change at Bank or other holidays, immediately before, during 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster and after major festivals and during the summer months. You are strongly 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less advised to contact churches to check the details. 1230 to 1300 Eucharist (said) with brief address St Dunstan in the West 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr For a list of weekend (particularly Sunday) services please go to the 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) Friends of the City Churches website at www.london-city-churches.org.uk St Mary Moorfields and follow the links from ‘Events’ and ‘City Events’. 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Woolnoth 1230 Holy Communion (said), followed by coffee and sandwiches St Olave Hart Street Monday 1300 Holy Communion in the Crypt, with prayers with a focus on healing 0715 Jewish Daily Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic orthodox rite) All Hallows by the Tower (0700 on 1st day of Hebrew religious month; 0900 on Bank Holidays) 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place For details please see www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/ 1300 to 1400 (any time) Contemporary Worship Bevis Marks Synagogue St Sepulchre without Newgate 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1305 to 1335 Bible Talk, with lunch available after the talk 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn St Helen Bishopsgate 0800 Morning Prayer - short contemplative service (Moot Community – 1305 Meditation (in the crypt chapel) St Mary le Bow all welcome) St Mary Aldermary 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn 0815 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, following buffet lunch at 1300 0815 Morning Prayer St Mary le Bow St Botolph Aldersgate 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1310 Holy Communion St Margaret Lothbury 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service (if listeners available - Come and go as you wish (Not 4 September) St Bride Fleet Street please check with church) St Andrew Holborn 1700 to 1730 ‘Words of Hope’ – quiet informal reflective service 1200 to 1230 Meditation Group: ‘Stressed in the City’ (Moot Community – St Clement Eastcheap all welcome) St Mary Aldermary 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1215 Eucharist (said) (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow St Mary Moorfields 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 1245 Holy Communion St Mary at Hill 1830 Choral Evensong (traditional) (Choral Eucharist on 3rd Tuesday) 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place St Sepulchre without Newgate 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn Wednesday 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1700 to 1800 ‘Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields Come and go as you wish (Not 3 September) St Bride Fleet Street 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 0800 to 0830 Morning Taizé Chant (Moot Community – all welcome) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square St Mary Aldermary 1745 Evening Prayer St Mary le Bow 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1800 Choral Evensong (BCP) (During university terms – next term begins 0815 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 15 October) St Michael Cornhill 0815 Morning Prayer St Mary le Bow

0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower Tuesday 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 0715 Jewish Daily Service (see Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 0830 to 0915 Holy Communion St Lawrence Jewry 0730 Morning Prayer St Mary le Bow 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn 0745 Holy Communion (said) followed by coffee and croissants St Mary at Hill 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public 0745 Eucharist, followed by breakfast St Mary le Bow welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) (Not in September) 0745 to 0915 ‘Start: Stop’ – start the day by stopping to reflect – 10 minute reflections Temple Church beginning every 15 minutes - just drop in St Stephen Walbrook 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service (if listeners available - 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square please check with church) St Andrew Holborn 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 1205 RC Mass St Joseph Bunhill Row 0800 to 0900 Café Prayer – an opportunity for stillness and prayer, Bible reading 1215 Eucharist (said) (BCP) St James Garlickhythe and reflection Coffee served St Katharine Cree 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 0800 to 0830 Morning Meditation (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary /continued/ 0800 Morning Prayer St Michael Cornhill

Thursday ─ continued REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES 1300 Eucharist (normally choral on 1st Thursday) St Margaret Pattens 1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate IN SEPTEMBER 2018 − continued 1305 Holy Communion, followed by coffee and sandwiches St Katharine Cree

1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields Wednesday ─ continued 1305 to 1335 ‘St Nick's Talks’ Bible Talk St Nicholas Cole Abbey 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Abchurch 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 1310 to 1350 Bible Talk, with lunch available, followed by Question Time St Mary Moorfields St Helen Bishopsgate 1245 to 1315 (3rd Wednesday) Society of Friends (Quaker) Meeting for Worship 1315 to 1345 Lunchtime Service (Free Church) City Temple Bunhill Fields Meeting House, Quaker Court, Banner St 1315 Holy Communion St Martin within Ludgate 1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal Worship and Teaching – come and go 1315 Holy Communion (BCP said) (during legal term-time) (Not in September) as you wish St Margaret Lothbury Temple Church 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 1400 to 1415 Prayers – Offering up the prayers from the church’s prayer board 1305 ‘Not on a Sunday’ – informal worship with prayer and song, followed by and the London Internet Church St Stephen Walbrook coffee St Katharine Cree 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn 1305 Eucharist St Mary le Bow 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’ – contemplation, reflection and 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields silent worship Come and go as you wish (Not 6 September) 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn St Bride Fleet Street 1310 to 1340 ‘Moorgate Talks’ Bible Talk, following buffet lunch at 1300, 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe at Amber, CityPoint, 1 Ropemaker St, EC2Y 9AW 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) Linked with St Botolph Aldersgate Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1310 Choral or Sung Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate 1745 Evening Prayer St Mary le Bow 1315 Holy Communion (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1800 to 2200 City of London House of Prayer – ‘Pursuit’ Prayer and Worship 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn Service All welcome (Free Church) City Temple 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 1800 (Normally 1st Thursday) Choral Evensong, followed by ‘Thursday Come and go as you) wish (Not 5 September) St Bride Fleet Street Conversation’ at 1830 St Mary at Hill 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 1805 Eucharist St Mary le Bow Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square

1730 to 1750 Evening Prayer (Moot Community – all welcome) St Mary Aldermary Friday 1730 Choral Evensong (during legal term-time) (Not in September) 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue Temple Church 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1800 Choral Evensong St Mary le Bow 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1800 Taizé Service All Hallows by the Tower 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 0800 to 0830 Morning Taizé Chant (Moot Community – all welcome) 1830 to 1915 Meditation Group: ‘Stressed in the City’ (Moot Community – all St Mary Aldermary welcome) St Mary Aldermary 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1900 Sung Eucharist, followed by refreshments St Andrew Holborn 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 0815 Morning Prayer St Mary le Bow 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public Thursday welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) (Not in September) 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields Temple Church 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1200 to 1230 Meditation Group: ‘Stressed in the City’ (Moot Community – 0800 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn all welcome) St Mary Aldermary 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 0815 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1230 Pastoral Conversation or Confession (Sacrament Chapel) 0815 Morning Prayer St Mary le Bow St Mary le Bow 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate St Mary Moorfields 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public 1305 Eucharist St Mary le Bow welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) (Not in September) 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr, Holborn Temple Church 1315 to 1400 Holy Communion St Lawrence Jewry 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and 1210 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate silent worship Come and go as you wish (Not 7 September) 1215 Eucharist (said) (BCP) St James Garlickhythe St Bride Fleet Street 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1230 (1st Thursday) Eucharist followed by discussion (Please check with 1800 Paraklesis (replaced on 1st Friday and during fasting periods by Service church) St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate of Holy Unction) Followed at 1900 to 2200 by Catechesis and 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr Confessions (Romanian Orthodox) St Dunstan in the West 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 1800 (1st Friday) Low Mass in the Extraordinary Form St Mary Moorfields St Etheldreda, Ely Place 1245 to 1330 Choral Eucharist with the St Stephen’s Voices, followed by light lunch 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields St Stephen Walbrook 1900 to 2100 City of London House of Prayer - Equipping Night Service Praise 1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal Worship and Teaching – come and go as you and Worship (Free Church) City Temple wish St Mary Woolnoth 1930 Jewish Friday Evening Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place orthodox rite) (1830 in winter months – please check on 1300 to 1330 (Normally 1st Thursday) Private Prayer and Reflection www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/) Bevis Marks Synagogue (In September on 13 September) St Giles Cripplegate

SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS Thursday 13 September 1100 to 1830 London Centre for Spiritual Direction, IN SEPTEMBER 2018 St Edmund King & Martyr

Supervision for Spiritual Direction, led by Antonia Lynn

A three day course for spiritual directors, continuing on Friday 14 Thursday 6 September September, 1100 -1830, & Saturday 15 September, 1100 -1600 1300 Choral Eucharist with the St Margaret Pattens Choir For further information, including cost & booking, please go to St Margaret Pattens www.lcsd.org.uk and follow the links from ‘Courses & Events’ 1800 Choral Evensong followed by Thursday Conversation at 1830

Please see the entry for this date in the Lectures, Courses etc Friday 14 September section below St Mary at Hill 1100 to 1830 London Centre for Spiritual Direction, Thursday 13 September St Edmund King & Martyr 1210 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate Supervision for Spiritual Direction See Thursday 13 September Sunday 16 September

1500 Costermongers’ Harvest Festival Service Preceded by a Saturday 15 September procession of Pearly Kings and Queens from Guildhall Yard 1100 to 1600 London Centre for Spiritual Direction, Preacher: The Revd Dan Warnke St Mary le Bow St Edmund King & Martyr 1700 Choral Evensong St James Garlickhythe Supervision for Spiritual Direction See Thursday 13 September Sunday 23 September

1030 Sung Eucarist – Harvest Thanksgiving St Botolph Aldgate Monday 17 September 1100 Inspire! Service of Celebration for St Bride’s 1100 to 1230 London Centre for Spiritual Direction, Choral Eucharist with the St Bride’s Choir and Orchestra St Edmund King & Martyr St Bride Fleet Street Weeks of Accompanied Prayer – Consultation Meeting 1830 Lutheran Bach Vespers with music by J S Bach led by the City For those with experience of such weeks Bach Collective on period instruments For further information & booking please go to www.lcsd.org.uk Including Cantata BWV 47, Wer sich selbst erhöhet, der soll and follow the links from ‘Courses & Events’ erniedriget werden

St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill Friday 21 September Wednesday 26 September 1830 to 2030 St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace 1500 Friends of the City Churches Harvest Festival On forgiveness and reconciliation: learning and growing in our The Service will be led by the Revd David Goodburn human abilities for peace St Mary Abchurch An evening with Juanma Robles to celebrate the Internationa Sunday 30 September Day of Peace For further information, cost and to book please 1030 Sung Eucharist go to www.stethelburgas.org and follow the links from ‘Events’ 30th Anniversary of the death of Catherine Eddowes

Guest Preacher – The Revd Canon Ann Easter St Botolph Aldgate 1500 Harvest Festival Service (Services at this church are primarily in Welsh. Translation is London Centre for Spiritual Direction provided) St Benet Paul’s Wharf at St Edmund King & Martyr

In addition to the courses, events etc in September (see above), LECTURES, COURSES, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS there will also a number of courses, groups etc at the Centre IN SEPTEMBER 2018 beginning in October, including the following:

Exploring Christian Spirituality Led by John-Francis Friendship and Nicola Mason Thursday 6 September A course in three modules running for 20 sessions on 1830 St Mary at Hill Monday afternoons over two terms Open to those of all Thursday Conversation Christian traditions, those of other faith groups, and others Nicola Williams, Service Complaints Ombudsman to the Armed interested in exploring the theme of Christian spirituality Forces, in conversation with Prebendary Rose Hudson-Wilkin Following Choral Evensong at 1800 Developing Direction 2018/19 Friday Programme Ending with refreshments at 1930 8 sessions on Fridays between October 2018 and July 2019 in the Please refer to the listing in the Events Section for more information Developing Direction programme, designed to foster the ongoing development and support of spiritual directors Tuesday 11 September The sessions, led by experienced practitioners, will cover a broad 1045 to 1530 St Andrew Holborn range of topics, themes and practice issues, and can be booked Oasis Day: ‘The Best ‘til Last?’ (The Blessings of Older Age) individually or as a whole

Led by the Revd Martin Davies Also other courses, groups etc for spiritual directors in the Oasis Days offer a monthly time of quiet reflection to re-charge Developing Direction programme, including Monthly Mondays, one’s spiritual batteries with stimulating speakers to share gifts and expertise, and a Monday evening group Cost £15 – Lunch and tea/coffee provided experiencing and exploring contemplative prayer Pre-booking required by Friday 7 September for catering purposes – to book please telephone the Revd Martin Davies on For further information about any of these, including cost & 07429 612642 or e-mail [email protected] booking, go to www.lcsd.org.uk and follow the links from Please enter via No 7 St Andrew Street, during restoration ‘Courses & Events’ work to the church

Thursday 6 September EVENTS & CONCERTS IN SEPTEMBER 2018

1305 St Olave Hart Street

Recital: For information please refer to the website:

[email protected] Monday 3 September 1310 All Hallows by the Tower 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Organ Recital: Thomas Allery Recital: Chang/Lau Duet (Director of Music, St Mary le Bow) Albert Lau and Yau Chang – piano: four hands 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Programme: Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series Schubert – Grand Rondeau in A major D 951 Joshua Brodbeck & Martin Kasparek – organ duets Guastavino – Romance del Plata (Sonatina) 1800 St Mary at Hill Fauré – Dolly Suite Choral Evensong, followed by Thursday Conversation at 1830 1300 St Michael Cornhill Evensong will be sung by Seraphim, the St Mary at Hill Choir

Organ Recital: David Pipe – (Leeds RC Cathedral and Director Nicola Williams, Service Complaints Ombudsman for the of the Royal College of Organists' Training Programme) Armed Forces will be in conversation with The Revd Rose Programme: Hudson-Wilkins Koomans – Choral Riff (Basso ostinato) Morgan – Huw Haven (2004) Nicola Williams took up the post of Service Complaints Bach (arr Best) – Chaconne from Partita In D BWV 1004 Commissioner to the Armed Forces in January 2015 and the Widor – Adagio from Symphonie 6 post subsequently transitioned to that of Service Complaints Demessieux – Te Deum Op 11 Ombudsman on 1 January 2016. Between 1985 and 2001 Nicola was a barrister in private Tuesday 4 September practice, practicing in a number of fields before the High Court, Crown Court and Court of Appeal. Since 2009 Nicola has also 1230 St Mary Abcurch been a Crown Court Recorder sitting on the London and South Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. Eastern Circuit. The recital will usually include an improvisation Nicola is a founder member of the Independent Advisory Group 1300 St Lawrence Jewry to the Metropolitan Police Service. Between 2004 and 2009 she Organ Recital: Organ Duets was a Commissioner at the Independent Police Complaints Martin Kasparek (Switzerland) & Jordan Brodbeck (USA) Commission. Prior to this she was a board member of the Programme: Police Complaints Authority from 2001 to 2004. John Rutter – Variations on an Easter theme In addition to being actively engaged as a mentor for young Samuel Wesley – Duet for Organ people from disadvantaged backgrounds, Nicola is also a Moritz Moszkowski – Spanish Dances published author. David Loxley-Blount – L'Esprit Magique (Love the 'you' you hide) We finish with a glass of wine at 1930 1305 St Mary le Bow Admission is free All welcome Organ Recital: Celebrating the music of J S Bach Alexander Pott (Assistant Organist, Magdalen College, Oxford) Friday 7 September 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: The Odora Trio 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Sophie Hinson – violin Hattie Butterworth – cello Organ Recital: Geoff Tuson Songeun Choi – piano 1305 St Mary at Hill Programme: Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society Haydn – Piano Trio No. 43 in C major Hob XV27 Elsie Woollard Oboe Trio Debussy – Piano Trio no. 1 in G major

Free Admittance – Retiring Collection The programme will include woirks by Bach, Mozart and 1315 St Mary at Hill Beethoven Organ Recital: Robert Mingay-Smith Programme: 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Baroque Greats No 1: Recital: Richard Hinsley – piano Haydn – Eight Pieces for Musical Clocks Programme: Handel – The Water Music This will consist of compositions by Richard – 1415 St Bride Fleet Street A Dance at Twilight Tours of the Church Flight Over a Mountain Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Calm Before the Storm Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day Chasing the Rain or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: A Sense of Foreboding [email protected] Timeless or telephoning (+44) 20 7427 0133. Cielo Caido Special tours for groups can also be arranged Sea of Light Prelude at Sunrise Wedding Day

Wednesday 5 September Free Admittance – Retiring Collection

1305 St Olave Hart Street Recital: Lasma Taimina – violin Antonio Oyarzabel – piano

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN SEPTEMBER 2018 - continued Tuesday 11 September — continued 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: Eos Ensemble Angela Najaryan – violin Paul Evernden – clarinet Monday 10 September Thomas Ang – piano 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Programme: Recital: Francesco Galici – piano Milhaud – Suite Op 157b Programme: Mozart (arr Paul Evernden) – Bach (arr Myra Hess) – Chorale BWV 147 String Duo for violin and viola in G major K 423 'Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring' Khachaturian – Trio

Bach (arr Busoni) – Chorale BWV 639 Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Chopin – Ballade Op 47 No 3 1315 St Mary at Hill Nocturne Op 55 No 2 Organ Recital: Robert Mingay-Smith Polonaise Op 44 Programm:e Debussy – Images Oubliées Baroque Greats No 2 – J S Bach: Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue Prelude & Fugue 'St Anne' in Eb BWV 552 1300 St Michael Cornhill Toccata in F BWV 540 Organ Recital: Ben Mills – (Prizewinner, Oundle Young 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Organists' Summer School School 2017) Tours of the Church Programme: Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Bach – Prelude & Fugue in G BWV 541 Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day Whitlock – Folk Tune or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: Mendelssohn – Organ Sonata 1 in F [email protected] Franck – Cantabile or telephoning (+44) 20 7427 0133. Bach – Wachet auf! BWV 645 Special tours for groups can also be arranged Parry – Fantasia & Fugue in G 1305 St Martin Ludgate Wednesday 12 September Recital: 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Marrianne Town Smith – soprano Naomi Felix – soprano Community Choir Richard Black – piano For more information please contact the church on: Programme: [email protected] Songs and arias by Strauss, Verdi, Mascagni and Franck 1305 St Botolph Aldgate

Admission is free – Donations are requested in aid of church & Recital: Peggy Wu – piano recital running costs 1305 St Olave Hart Street 1900 St Stephen Walbrook Recital: Jessie Tse – soprano Hiu Lam Lo – clarinet Maytree Recital Ka Man Tsang – piano by Mayfield Respite Centre 1315 St Dunstan in the West An evening recital to celebrate the role of volunteers in Recital: Piotr Rozanski & Grzegorz – Piano Duo/Four Hands befriending the suicidal. The event is being held in the church that is the birthplace of Samaritans and where the seeds of Thursday 13 September Maytree were first sown. 1305 St Olave Hart Street Recital: Sebastian Kolin – cello Caroline Palmer – piano Meliza Metzger Gomez – soprano Mario Kurtjak – guitar 1900 – Wine and Canapés 1310 All Hallows by the Tower 1930 – Recital Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling

Programme: 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Richard Strauss – Cello Sonata in F major Organ Recital: Richard Townend presents "A Vintage Collection" Manuel de Falla – Suite Populaire Espagnole Mozart – 12 Variations Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman Friday 14 September 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Tickets: £21.50 available from: Organ Recital: Joshua Xerri www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maytree-recital-at-st-stephen- 1305 St Mary at Hill walbrook-tickets Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society

Tuesday 11 September BELLOT ENSEMBLE 1230 St Mary Abcurch Edmund Taylor – director Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. Programme: The recital will usually include an improvisation The Development of the Italian Trio Sonata – Part 3 1300 St Lawrence Jewry 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Organ Recital: Luke Bond Recital: Pavel Ralev – guitar (Assistant Organist, St George's Chapel, Windsor) Programme: Come and hear the organist who played for the recent Royal J S Bach – Partita for violin No 2 BWV 1004 Wedding Sor – Introduction and Variations on a Theme by Mozart Op 9 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Barrios – La Catedral Lunchtime Music Recital: D'Cruz Piano Trio Boshikyov – Rêverie de Thrace 1305 St Mary le Bow Tansman – Cavatina Lauro – Vals Venezolano No 3 Organ Recital: Celebrating the music of J S Bach Terence Charlston (Professor, Royal College of Music) Free Admittance – Retiring Collection

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN SEPTEMBER 2018 - continued Monday 17 September — continued

1305 St Martin Ludgate

Recital: Wakana Gong – soprano Riku Matsubara – tenor Saturday 15 September Sayaka Aoki – piano 1400 to 1830 St Sepulchre without Newgate Programme: A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event Opera arias and duets by Handel, Bellini, Puccini, Bonocini, Tosti and Di Capua Come and Sing

Will Todd Mass in Blue with Will Todd Admission is free – Donations are requested in aid of church & recital running costs Join the Brandenburg Festival Chorus for this come-and-sing workshop exploring Will Todd's ground-breaking Mass in Blue

Tuesday 18 September Our 2018 Artistic Patron, Will Todd will put our volunteers through their choral paces with exercises designed to hone listening, 1230 St Mary Abcurch following and blending skills, before getting into his own exciting Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. choral setting The recital will usually include an improvisation

Registration from 1345 Workshop begins at 1400 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Informal performance at 1730 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis Programme: Tickets: £14 for participants £5 for audience members J S Bach – Toccata and Fugue in F major BWV 540 Call the box office on 07528 776 625 or book online at: Louis Marchand – Six pieces from http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/autumn/ and follow the links Pièces choisis pour Grand Orgue (1732) Brahms – Prelude and Fugue in G minor WoO 10 1900 St Sepulchre without Newgate Parry – Two Chorale Preludes: A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event 1. On an Old English Tune 2. Hanover James Pearson: 100 years of Jazz Piano James Pearson is the Artistic Director at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club 1300 St Stephen Walbrook A world-class pianist, composer and raconteur extraordinaire, Lunchtime Music Recital: Alan Dorn – piano in this whistle-stop tour through some of the Jazz piano greats, James takes us on a roller-coaster ride to the music of 1305 St Mary le Bow Oscar Peterson, Fats Waller, Jelly Roll Morton, Eroll Garner, Organ Recital: Celebrating the music of J S Bach and many, many more. James Johnstone As always with one of JP's performances there will be anecdotes (Professor of Early Keyboards at the Guildhall School of Music & and a few things you may not have known alongside some truly Drama, and at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance) great piano-playing … not to be missed. The concert will last for approximately one hour without an 1315 St Bride Fleet Street interval Recital: Kevin Sherwin – guitar Tickets: £23 (premium) £18 (unreserved) £5 (children) — Programme: call the box office on 07528 776625 or book online: Mendelssohn – Songs Without Words Op 30 http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/autumn/ and follow the links 3. Adagio non troppo Premium tickets include a reserved seat (this differs per venue Tárraga – Paquito according to acoustic, but is usually 3–5 rows from the front, near Meyerbeer – Coro dei vescovi (from L'Africaine) the centre aisle), a programme, and a voucher for a drink which Beethoven – Minuet No 3 WoO 10 can be redeemed either before the concert or during the interval. Villa-Lobos – Etude No 11 in E minor

Chopin – Nocturne Op 9 No 2 A combined ticket for both the afternoon's Come and Sing Tansman – Cavatina workshop and the evening's James Pearson concert is available Kevin Sherwin – Hymn in Two Parts which offers a 25% discount Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Monday 17 September 1315 St Mary at Hill 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Organ Recital: Robert Mingay-Smith Recital: Jonah Shim – piano Programme: Programme: French Romantics: Schumann – Kinderszenen Op 15 Widor – Toccata in F from Symphony No 5 Op 42 No 1 Beethoven – Sonata No 32 in C minor Op 111 Vierne – Symphony No 3 1300 St Michael Cornhill Organ Recital: Richard Gowers – (London; formerly Organ 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Scholar, King's College Cambridge) Tours of the Church Programme: Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Wagner (arr Lemare) – Overture, Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: Richard Strauss (arr Richard Gowers) – Zwischenspiel, from [email protected] Feuersnot or telephoning (+44) 20 7427 0133. Liszt – Fantaisie & Fugue on Ad nos, ad salutarem undam Special tours for groups can also be arranged

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN SEPTEMBER 2018 - continued Friday 21 September

1230 St Stephen Walbrook

Organ Recital: Graham Thorpe Wednesday 19 September 1305 St Mary at Hill 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society Community Choir Baltic Series (Latvia) For more information please contact the church on: Anete Graudina – violin Niklas Oldemeier – piano [email protected] Programme: 1305 St Botolph Aldgate J S Bach – Violin Concert o in E major Recital: Maggie Pearman – soprano Jazeps Vitols – Romance 1305 St Olave Hart Street Emils Darzins – Valse mélancolique Recital: Haley Morgan Myles – piano Kreisler – La Gitana 1315 St Dunstan in the West Schön Rosmarin Concert: Michael Taplin with Késia Decoté – piano Praeludium and Allegro Programme: Michael Taplin, a young, emerging composer, is putting together a 1315 St Bride Fleet Street concert with some friends and colleagues, including Brazilian Recital: Nafis Umerkulova – piano pianist Késia Decoté. They will be performing brand new music written Programme: by themselves, in addition to classic repertoire from the 20th century, Beethoven – Sonata Op 31 No 2 'The Tempest' focusing particularly on the work of under-represented female Stanchinsky – Nocturne in E major composers, for example . Scriabin – Four Preludes Op 22 Sonata No 4 Thursday 20 September 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Organ Recital: Graham Thorpe 1315 St Dunstan in the West 1305 St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield Organ Recital: Martin Ellis A City Music Society concert to be given by: The Musician's Company Consort Adrian Butterfield – director/violin Saturday 22 September

Jessica Cale – soprano Laura Hocking – alto 1000 to 1700 St Mary le Bow Laurence Kilsby – tenor Tom Edlin – bass The church will be open for Open House weekend Programme: Free guided tours of the church and crypt with the Rector J S Bach – Cantata: Wo gehest du hin? BWV 166 Gather five minutes early in the vestibule under the towe: J S Bach – Cantata: Es ist euch gut, daß ich hingehe BWV 108 Tours at: 1100 and 1230 Donations welcome J S Bach – Cantata: Wahrlich, wahrlich, ich sage euch BWV 86 1000 to 1700 St Stephen Walbrook 1305 St Olave Hart Street The church will be open for Open House weekend Recital: Chiyan Wong – piano 1030 to 1700 St Mary at Hill 1310 All Hallows by the Tower Lutherans host Open House, Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling 1400 Organ demonstration 1310 St Margaret Lothbury 1600 Concert of Reformation Music Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series Sarah Kim (Paris, France) 1930 St Katharine Cree Sunday 23 September A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event 1000 to 1700 St Mary le Bow We will Remember Them The church will be open for Open House weekend City Consort of Voices Free guided tours of the church and crypt with the Rector Tim Crossley – conductor Gather five minutes early in the vestibule under the towe:

Please join us for an evening of music to mark the centenary of Tours at: 1100, 1230 and 1400 Donations welcome the end of World War One. 1300 approx St Mary at Hill Programme: Lutherans host Open House throughout the afternoon, Parry – My Soul there is a country from Songs of Farewell including a talk on German writers in Stuart Britain at 1330 Holst – Nunc Dimittis Rachmaninoff – Borogoditse Dyevo from the All Night Vigil 1830 St Anne's Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill Dyson – o Music Bach Vespers with J S Bach: Cantata BWV 47 – Vaughan Williams – Gloria from Mass in G Minor 'Wer sich selbst erhöhet, der soll emiedriget werden' Gurney – Psalm 23 led by the City Bach Collective on period instruments Ravel – Trois oiseaux de paradis from Trois Chansons Holst – Home they brought her warrior dead from Songs from the Princess Monday 24 September Guest – For the Fallen Willan – How they so softly rest 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Parry – Lord let me know mine end from Songs of Farewell Recital: Fiachra Garvey – piano Howells – Requiem Programme: Tickets: £23 (premium) £18 (unreserved) £5 (children) — Field – Two call the box office on 07528 776625 or book online: Rachmaninoff – Sonata No 1 in D minor Op 28

http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/autumn/ and follow the links Fiachra Garvey performs through the joint St Lawrence Jewry Premium tickets include a reserved, a programme, and a voucher and Worshipful Company of Musicians Scheme for Prizewinners for a drink which can be redeemed either before the concert or of the Company during the interval.

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN SEPTEMBER 2018 - continued Thursday 27 September

1230 St Stephen Walbrook

Organ Recital: Monday 24 September — continued 1305 St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield 1300 St Michael Cornhill A City Music Society concert to be given by: Organ Recital: Jonathan Rennert – (Lunchtime Recital No 449) Rebecca Omordia – piano Programme: Programme: Byrd – Fantasia, from My Ladye Nevells Booke Beethoven – Sonata No 30 in E Op 109 Bédard – Gibraltar March (2017) Ayo Bankole – Sonata No 2 in C (The Passion) Bach – Fantasia & Fugue in C, BWV 537 Liszt – Étude de Concert in F minor (La leggierezza) Bairstow – Sonata in E flat Arr Clegg – Rubinstein's Russian Patrol 1305 St Mary le Bow Steel – Dancing Toccata Recital: David Harvey – guitar

Tuesday 25 September 1305 St Olave Hart Street 1230 St Mary Abcurch Recital: Hattie Butterworth – cello Jasmin Allpress – piano Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. The recital will usually include an improvisation 1310 All Hallows by the Tower 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Organ Recital: Christian Gautschi (Zurich, Switzerland) Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis Programme: 1315 St Margaret Lothbury John Stanley – Voluntary in C Organ Recital: Schumann – Three pieces from Six Studies in Canonic Form Op 56 Richard Townend plays J S Bach and his contemporaries Reger – Sonata No 2 in D minor i. Improvisation ii. Invokation iii. Introduktion und fuga 1305 St Mary le Bow Friday 28 September

Organ Recital: Celebrating the music of J S Bach 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Thomas Allery (Director of Music, St Mary le Bow) Organ Recital: David Cooki 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: Richard Boothby – viola da gamba 1305 St Mary at Hill Programme: Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society Telemann – Solo Fantasias For more information please refer to the church website: 1. in C minor - Adagio/Allegro; Allegro www.musicathill.org.uk/ 2. in D major - Vivace; Andante; Vivace; Presto 3. in E minor - Largo; Presto; Vivace 1315 St Bride Fleet Street 7. in G minor - Andante; Vivace; Allegro Organ Recital: Oliver Hancock (Director of Music at the 8. in A major - Allegro; Grave; Vivace Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick) 11. in D minor - Allegro; Grave; Allegro Programme: Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Whitlock arr. Malcolm Riley – March 'Dignity and Impudence' 1315 St Mary at Hill J S Bach – Chorale Prelude Organ Recital: Robert Mingay-Smith 'Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele' BWV 654 Programme: Howells – Six Pieces for Organ Quintessentially British: Master Tallis' Testament Walton – Crown Imperial Denis Bédard – Variations sur 'Amazing Grace' Elgar – Imperial March Widor – Symphonie no.6 Final

1415 St Bride Fleet Street Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Tours of the Church Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. 1930 St Botolph Bishopsgate Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: [email protected] Howells Requiem

or telephoning (+44) 20 7427 0133. Evoke Anglistenchor, Heidelberg Special tours for groups can also be arranged Victoria Ely – conductor Jan Wilke - conductor Tickets: £23 (premium) £18 (unreserved) £5 (children) — Wednesday 26 September call the box office on 07528 776625 or book online:

http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/autumn/ and follow the links 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Community Choir Premium tickets include a reserved seat (this differs per For more information please contact the church on: venue according to acoustic, but is usually 3–5 rows from the [email protected] front, near the centre aisle), a programme, and a voucher for a 1305 St Botolph Aldgate drink which can be redeemed either before the concert or during Recital: Sinus Chau – flute the interval. 1305 St Olave Hart Street Recital: Kanae Furomoto – piano

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN SEPTEMBER 2018 - continued

We are indebted to Dickon Love,

Saturday 29 September Company Bellringer to the Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks 1930 St Katharine Cree A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event for the following information Summertime — Gershwin and Tippett Wooburn Singers with Anna Sideris – soprano Rodney Earl Clarke – bass baritone Simon Howat – piano

Tom Hammond-Davis – conductor Open bellringing performances Programme: currently scheduled for the City of London Tippett – Five Spirituals from A Child of Our Time in September 2018 Gershwin – Three Preludes for Piano

Gershwin arr David Blackwell – S'Wonderful Gershwin – The Man I Love Gershwin arr Christopher Clapham – I got Rhythm Monday 3 September George & Ira Gershwin – Porgy & Bess (concert version) 1400 3 hr performance on the Jubilee Bells Tickets: £23 (premium) £18 (unreserved) £5 (children) — by the St James' Guild call the box office on 07528 776625 or book online: at St Dunstan in the West http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/autumn/ and follow the links Premium tickets include a reserved seat (this differs per venue according to acoustic, but is usually 3–5 rows from the front, near the centre aisle), a programme, and a voucher for a drink which can be redeemed either before the concert or during the interval. Saturday 8 September 1000 3½ hr performance on the bells Sunday 30 September by the Ancient Society of College Youths at St Michael Cornhill 1500 St Mary le Bow Concert: The Arcubus Ensemble Musical Director – Julian Collings Programme: Sunday 16 September Jonathan Dove – The passing of the year 1400 3½ hr performance on the bells Benjamin Britten – Hymn to St Cecilia by the Ancient Society of College Youths Russell Hepplewhite (Composer-in-Residence) – Missa Brevis at St Magnus the Martyr Gerald Finzi – Lo, the full, final sacrifice

Tickets: £11 To purchase these in advance please go to: http://www.arcubusensemble.com/sundays--3pm.html and follow the links Saturday 22 September

1900 St Mary le Bow 1400 3½ hr performance on the bells A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event at St Magnus the Martyr

Tavener Svyati

A programme of works for chorus and cello by Tavener, Derungs and Gjeilo Saturday 30 September Vocalino Wettingen 1430 3 hr performance on the Bells Martin Marker – cello David Rossei – conductor Programme: by the St James' Guild John Tavener – Svyati at St Magnus the Martyr Gion Antoni Derungs – Missa pro defunctis Op 57 (UK premiere)

Peter Sculthorpe – Requiem for cello alone Pavel Chesnokov – Spaseniye sodelal Op 25 No 5 Ola Gjeiloi – Reconciliation (sung in Russian) City Events is published by the Friends of the City Churches Serenity (O Magnum Mysterium) in conjunction with the Archdeaconry of London and printed by Copyprints: [email protected] Tickets: £23 (premium) £18 (unreserved) £5 (children) — call the box office on 07528 776625 or book online: http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/autumn/ and follow the links

Premium tickets include a reserved seat (this differs per venue according to acoustic, but is usually 3–5 rows from the front, near the centre aisle), a programme, and a voucher for a drink which can be redeemed either before the concert or during the interval.

Oct ober 2018 Published by FCC in conjunction with the Archdeaconry of London

In the coming weeks among the many services and events taking place in the City churches there is one of particular interest. At St Mary Abchuch on Wednesday 14 November at 3.00pm a special service of Evensong will be taking place. At that service, close to the centenary of the 1918 Armistice, the new Bishop of London, The Right Reverend and Right Honourable Dame Sarah Mullaly will dedicate a war memorial inscribed with the names of the fallen of both world wars who worked at Joseph Travers and Sons Limited. The large bronnze memorial, which was discovered in the crypt of St Mary Abchurch, is beinng rehung in the tower of the church.

When the memorial was first discovered it presentted something of a mystery. It bears the names of 49 men (38 from World War 1 and 11 from World War 2). Acrooss the top are the letters JTS and the date 1666. The Trustees of the Friends asked for volunteers to research the memorial and the men whose names are commemorated. Three members of the Friends of the City Churches came forward and after much research they discovered that the memorial belonged to a company of wholesale grocers called Joseph Travers and Sons Ltd, whose headquarters had been in Cannon Street close to the church, and whho claimed a founding date of 1666. Essentially the firm was a forerunner of today's multi‐national companies and at its zenith it was one of the largest wholesale grocers in the world with branches in Singapore, Malaya, Borneo and later South Africa. At one stage tthey had their own fleet of schooners to import tea, coffee, sugar, dried fruits, spices and groceries, as well as wine and spirits. The ships raced other competing firms 'tea clipper' style, and considered themselves to be rivals to the East India Company. There is evidence that the company were enlightened employers, the staff having pensions, paid sick leave and other benefits long before these were legislated for. However, the fortunes of the company were very seriously affected by the destruction of their warehouse in St Katharine Docks and their spice mills in Wapping in the London Blitz during World War 2. The loss of valuable and irreplaceable commodities inevitably contriibuted to the decline of the company. Posst‐war mergers and takeovers saw the eventual demise of the original family company.

Concerning the names on the memorial, research by the Friends team into the military and civil records of the men and regimental histories and war diaries revealed how disparate were their origins, lives and deaths, reflecting the company's world‐wide commercial interests. In only three cases was it not possiblle to identify the casualty positively. Many of these men are remembered elsewhere, but for some this is their sole memorial in the UK. Most interesttingly, one man, Albert Pearce, was originally not recognized as a war casualty by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC). However, as a result of the researches of the Friends team, he has since been accepted as official war dead, and commemorated by the recent erection of a headstone for him in Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, the headstone being of the iconic design to be seen in all CWGC cemeteries. The full biography of this most interesting memorial has been written up in a booklet which is now available.

The Service of Dedication of the memorial on Wednesday 14 November promises to be a memorable occasion and the Friends of the City Churches are honoured that their new patron Bishop Sarah will be officiating. All Friends and members of the public are most warmly invited to attend. We would ask those who wish to attend to contact the office of the Friends on 020 7626 1555 or at: contact_us@london‐city‐churches.orrg.uk since refreshments will be provided after the service.

The Friends of the City Churches, Church of St Mary Abchurch, Abchurch Lane, London EC4N 7BA Visit: www.london‐city‐churches.org.uk for more information and the location of the churches in the City

St Botolph Aldgate REGULAR WEEKEND SERVICES 1030 Sung Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate The entries below show the normal pattern of services for City Churches and a 1030 Orthros (Morning Prayer) (Orthodox Church, Patriarchate of Antioch) few churches ‘just over the City borders’, and relate to Church of England services 1100 Divine Liturgy (in English) except where indicated otherwise. References to “1st Sunday”,“2nd Sunday” etc 1500 Worship (in the Church Hall) (Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus) are to the 1st, 2nd etc Sunday of the month. While every effort is made to ensure St Bride Fleet Street accuracy, the services shown are subject to change immediately before, during 1100 Choral Eucharist (with children’s Sunday Club on most Sundays – please and after major festivals, during the summer months and at Bank or other check on www.stbrides.com) holidays. You are strongly advised to contact churches to check the details. 1730 Choral Evensong (with Sermon in Music on 2nd and 4th Sundays) St Dunstan in the West SATURDAY 0900 to 1030 Matins (Romanian Orthodox) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1030 to 1230 Divine Liturgy 0830 onwards Jewish Shabbat (Sabbath) Morning Services (Spanish & Portuguese St Etheldreda, Ely Place Sephardic orthodox rite) For details see www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/ 0900 RC Mass English Martyrs Tower Hill 1100 Sung RC Mass in Latin 1830 RC Vigil Mass St Giles Cripplegate St Andrew Holborn 0800 Holy Communion (BCP) (1st Sunday) During restoration work at this church the regular weekend services 1000 Parish Eucharist (Orthodox, Russian Tradition) are taking place at St Margaret Pattens 1600 Evening Prayer (Most Sundays – please check with the administrator on St Dunstan in the West 0207 638 1997 or email [email protected]) 1700 to 1800 Vespers, followed at 1800 to 2000 by Catechesis and Confessions St Helen Bishopsgate (Romanian Orthodox) 1030 Morning Service (1st Sunday with Lord’s Supper) (provision for children) St Joseph Bunhill Row 1600 Afternoon Service (provision for children and youth group) 1130 to 1530 Carmel-in-the-City Spirituality Day (including RC service) 1800 Evening Service (1st Saturday of most months – check on www.carmelinthecity.org.uk) St James Garlickhythe St Margaret Pattens 1030 Sunday Service (BCP) – normally sung Eucharist 1700 Vigil (in English & Slavonic) (Orthodox, Russian Tradition) St Joseph Bunhill Row (Usually 1st, 3rd & 5th weekends – please check on www.dormition.org.uk) 1130 RC Mass (During restoration work at St Andrew Holborn) St Katharine Cree 1015 Liturgy (in Malayalam on 1st & 3rd Sundays, in English on 2nd & 4th SUNDAY Sundays) (Mar Thoma Syrian Church) St Magnus the Martyr All Hallows by the Tower 1100 Solemn High Mass 1100 Sung Eucharist St Margaret Pattens All Hallows on the Wall 1030 Divine Liturgy (in English & Slavonic) (Orthodox, Russian Tradition – 1100 Family Worship (City Gates Church) Parish of the Dormition of the Mother of God ) Usually 1st, 3rd & 5th Bunhill Fields Meeting House, Quaker Court, Banner Street Sundays – please check on www.dormition.org.uk 1100 Society of Friends (Quaker) Meeting for Worship (During restoration work at St Andrew Holborn) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square St Martin within Ludgate 09.45 Eucharist (BCP) 1100 Sunday Service in Mandarin/English (with translation) (Elim Full Gospel Christ Church Spitalfields Chinese Church) 0830 Holy Communion (BCP said service) (1st and 3rd Sundays) St Mary Abchurch 1030 Morning Worship and Children’s Church 1500 (1st Sunday) Anglican Service for Russian speakers 1700 Informal Evening Worship St Mary Aldermary City Temple 1830 Evening Service (Moot Community – all welcome) (refreshments at 1800) 1100 to 1245 Sunday Worship Service with ‘Youth Connect’ at 1000 (Free Agape or Contemplative Service or Taizé Service or Eucharist 1330 to 1500 Sunday Focus (training activities for adults) and Church) St Mary at Hill ‘Kid’s Connect’ (for children aged 3 and upwards) 1100 Lutheran Eucharist (in English) (St Anne’s Dutch Church, Austin Friars 1400 Lutheran Eucharist (in Swahili) (1st Sunday) Lutheran 1100 Service in Dutch (ecumenical) (Swahili Bible study on 3rd Sunday) Church) English Martyrs Tower Hill St Mary le Strand 0900 RC Mass 1100 Sung Eucharist 1100 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields Jewin Welsh Chapel, Fann Street 1000 RC Mass 1045 Morning Service (in Welsh & English) (Presbyterian Church of Wales) St Michael Cornhill St Alban the Martyr, Holborn 1430 (1st Sunday) Service in Mandarin - St Helen’s Bishopsgate Mandarin- 0930 Family Mass speaking congregation (On other Sundays at St Peter Cornhill) 1100 Solemn Mass St Nicholas Cole Abbey St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1100 to 1215 Contemporary Sunday Service (with creche, Sunday School and 0900 Morning Prayer (St Gregorios Malankara (Indian) Orthodox Church) youth groups) (Refreshments from 1015 – followed by informal lunch) 1000 Holy Qurbana (3rd Sunday in English – other Sundays in Malayalam) St Olave Hart Street St Andrew Holborn 1100 Sung Holy Communion with children’s programme Please see under Saturday St Peter Cornhill St Bartholomew the Great 1430 Service in Mandarin - St Helen’s Bishopsgate mandarin-speaking 0900 Holy Communion (said) (in the Lady Chapel) congregation (Except 1st Sunday – service at St Michael Cornhill) 1100 Solemn Eucharist St Sepulchre Holborn 1830 Choral Evensong (BCP) (about once a month ends with Benediction of 1030 Contemporary Worship (with Holy Communion on 1st Sunday) with the Blessed Sacrament– please check on www.greatstbarts.com) children’s programme St Bartholomew the Less St Stephen Walbrook 1000 Family Eucharist (Most Sundays – please check on www.greatstbarts.com) 1100 Family Service (Salvation Church) St Benet Paul’s Wharf St Vedast alias Foster 1100 Morning Prayer (with Lord’s Supper on1st Sunday) (primarily in Welsh - 1100 Sung Eucharist translation provided) Temple Church St Botolph Aldersgate 0830 Holy Communion (BCP said) 1100 Morning Worship (London City Presbyterian Church) 1115 Choral Mattins (BCP) During legal 1830 Evening Worship (Choral Holy Communion on last Sunday) t erm-time

Tuesday ─ continued

0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES IN OCTOBER 2018 welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service St Andrew Holborn

1215 Eucharist (BCP) St James Garlickhythe The entries below show the normal pattern of services for City 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster Churches and a few churches ‘just over the City borders’. Entries are 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less for Church of England services except where indicated otherwise. 1230 to 1300 Eucharist (said) with brief address St Dunstan in the West ‘1st Monday’, ‘2nd Monday’ etc refer to the 1st Monday, 2nd Monday 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr etc of the month. 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) St Mary Moorfields While every effort is made to ensure accuracy, the services shown are 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Woolnoth subject to change at Bank or other holidays, immediately before, during 1230 Holy Communion (said), followed by coffee and sandwiches and after major festivals and during the summer months. St Olave Hart Street You are strongly advised to contact churches to check the details. 1300 Holy Communion in the Crypt, with prayers with a focus on healing All Hallows by the Tower For a list of weekend (particularly Sunday) services please see the 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place separate ‘Regular Weekend Services’ section in this issue. 1300 to 1400 (any time) Contemporary Worship St Sepulchre Holborn 1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate 1305 Meditation (in the crypt chapel) St Mary le Bow Monday 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 0715 Jewish Daily Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic orthodox rite) 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn (0700 on 1st day of Hebrew religious month; 0900 on Bank Holidays) 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn For details please see www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/ 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, following buffet lunch at 1300 St Botolph Aldersgate Bevis Marks Synagogue 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, with lunch available after the talk 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields St Helen Bishopsgate 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1310 Holy Communion St Margaret Lothbury 0800 to 0830 Meditation (Moot Community – all welcome) St Mary Aldermary 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 0815 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1700 to 1730 ‘Words of Hope’ – quiet informal reflective service 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow St Clement Eastcheap 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service (if listeners available - please 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow check with church) St Andrew Holborn 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 1215 Eucharist St Michael Paternoster Royal 1830 Choral Evensong (traditional) (Choral Eucharist on 3rd Tuesday) 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster St Sepulchre Holborn 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) Wednesday St Mary Moorfields 3 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1245 Holy Communion St Mary at Hill 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 0800 to 0840 Morning Taizé Chant (Moot Community – all welcome) 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn St Mary Aldermary 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1700 to 1800 ‘Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 0815 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0830 to 0915 Holy Communion St Lawrence Jewry 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn 1800 Choral Evensong (BCP) (During university terms – current term begins 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public on 15 October and continues to 3 December) St Michael Cornhill welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal

0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church Tuesday 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service (if listeners available - please 0715 Jewish Daily Service (see Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue check with church) St Andrew Holborn 0730 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1205 RC Mass St Joseph Bunhill Row 0745 Holy Communion (said) followed by coffee and croissants St Mary at Hill 1215 Eucharist St Michael Paternoster Royal 0745 Eucharist, followed by breakfast St Mary le Bow 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 0745 to 0915 ‘Start: Stop’ – start the day by stopping to reflect – 10 minute 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Abchurch reflections beginning every 15 minutes - just drop in 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) St Stephen Walbrook St Mary Moorfields 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1245 to 1315 (3rd Wednesday) Society of Friends (Quaker) Meeting for Worship 0800 to 0830 Morning Prayer (Moot Community – all welcome) Bunhill Fields Meeting House, Quaker Court, Banner St St Mary Aldermary 1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal worship and teaching – come and go 0800 Morning Prayer St Michael Cornhill as you wish St Margaret Lothbury 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street St Etheldreda, Ely Place 0815 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1305 ‘Not on a Sunday’ – informal worship with prayer and song, followed 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower by coffee St Katharine Cree 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1305 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn

Thursday ─ continued REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’ – contemplation, reflection and IN OCTOBER 2018 − continued silent worship Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe

1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) Wednesday ─ continued Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1310 to 1340 ‘Moorgate Talks’ Bible Talk, following buffet lunch at 1300, 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow at Amber, CityPoint, 1 Ropemaker St, EC2Y 9AW 1800 (Normally 1st Thursday) Choral Evensong, followed by ‘Thursday Linked with St Botolph Aldersgate Conversation’ at 1830 St Mary at Hill 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 1315 Holy Communion (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1805 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn 1900 to 2100 City of London House of Prayer - Equipping Night Service 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship Praise and Worship (Free Church) City Temple Come and go as you) wish St Bride Fleet Street Friday 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1730 to 1750 Evening Prayer (Moot Community – all welcome) 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square St Mary Aldermary 0800 to 0840 Morning Taizé Chant (Moot Community – all welcome) 1730 Choral Evensong (during legal term-time) Temple Church St Mary Aldermary 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1800 Taizé Service All Hallows by the Tower 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1830 to 1915 Meditation Group: ‘Stressed in the City’ (Moot Community – 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public all welcome) St Mary Aldermary welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal 1900 Sung Eucharist, followed by refreshments St Andrew Holborn 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster Thursday 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr

0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1230 Pastoral Conversation or Confession (Sacrament Chapel) 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields St Mary le Bow 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 0815 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1305 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1315 to 1400 Holy Communion St Lawrence Jewry 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public silent worship Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1800 to 2200 City of London House of Prayer – ‘Pursuit’ Prayer and Worship 1210 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate Service All welcome (Free Church) City Temple 1215 to 1250 Bible Talk, with lunch available, followed by Question Time 1800 Paraklesis (replaced on 1st Friday and during fasting periods by Service St Helen Bishopsgate of Holy Unction) Followed at 1900 to 2200 by Catechesis and Confessions 1215 Eucharist (BCP) St James Garlickhythe (Romanian Orthodox) St Dunstan in the West 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1800 (1st Friday) RC Low Mass in the Extraordinary Form 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less St Etheldreda, Ely Place 1230 (Normally 1st Thursday) Eucharist followed by discussion (Please 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields check with church) St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate 1930 Jewish Friday Evening Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr orthodox rite) (1830 in winter months – please check on 1230 Eucharist St Mary le Strand www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) St Mary Moorfields 1245 to 1330 Choral Eucharist with the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields, St Stephen Walbrook SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS 1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal worship and teaching – IN OCTOBER 2018 come and go as you wish St Mary Woolnoth 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 1300 to 1330 (Normally 1st Thursday) Private prayer and reflection Monday 1 October St Giles Cripplegate 1045 Lord Mayor’s Election Day Service Very limited seating for 1300 Eucharist (normally choral on 1st Thursday) St Margaret Pattens members of the public St Lawrence Jewry 1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate 1300 Choral Classics Music and readings on the theme of ‘All 1305 Holy Communion, followed by coffee and sandwiches Creatures of our God and King’ – Celebrating St St Katharine Cree With the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 1305 to 1335 ‘St Nick's Talks’ Bible Talk St Nicholas Cole Abbey St Stephen Walbrook 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn Thursday 4 October 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn 1300 Harvest Choral Eucharist St Margaret Pattens 1310 to 1350 Bible Talk, with lunch available, followed by Question Time 1800 Michaelmas Choral Evensong St Margaret Pattens St Helen Bishopsgate 1800 Choral Evensong followed by Thursday Conversation at 1830 1315 to 1345 Lunchtime Service (Free Church) City Temple Please refer to the listing in the Events Section for further 1315 Holy Communion St Martin within Ludgate information St Mary at Hill 1315 Holy Communion (BCP said) (during legal term-time) Temple Church 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn

SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS Sunday 28 October 1830 Lutheran Bach Vespers with J S Bach’s Cantata BWV115, IN OCTOBER 2018 – continued Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit, performed by the City Bach Collective on period instruments St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill Sunday 7 October 1030 Harvest Festival – Sung Eucharist St James Garlickhythe Monday 29 October 1800 to 2000 The October Special Wellspring 1300 Choral Classics Music and readings on the theme of ‘Blessed are A time of prayer and worship with music For further information the poor in Spirit’ – Exploring the Beatitudes please go https://hsl.church and follow the links from ‘Connect’ With the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields and ’Events’ St Sepulchre Holborn St Stephen Walbrook

Monday 8 October Wednesday 31 October 1300 Choral Classics Music and readings on the theme of ’I am’ 1900 RC Vigil Mass of All Saints (1 November) St Mary Moorfields With the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields S t Stephen Walbrook

Thursday 11 October 1200 Maritime Memorial Book Service LECTURES, COURSES, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS The Maritime Foundation's Annual Service of Thanksgiving for IN OCTOBER 2018 those whose names are recorded in the Memorial Book for those lost at sea and for whom there is no known grave All Hallows by the Tower 1210 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate Tuesday 2 October 1830 to 2000 All Hallows by the Tower Sunday 14 October ‘I was a stranger and you welcomed me?’ – Migration, politics and 1100 Harvest of the Sea Festival Service - Choral Mattins faith in the UK today Followed by an auction of fish donated by the Porters and A Christian Social and Political Thought lecture on migration Traders of Billingsgate Market St Mary at Hill and theology, given by the Revd Canon Steven Saxby, Vicar of 1500 Cantata Service led by the Revd Bertjan van de Lagemaat Walthamstow St Barnabas and St James the Great and Executive Words of reflection (in English) by H E Simon Smits, Officer of London Churches Social Action Dutch Ambassador to the UK Free admission For further information and registration please go With J S Bach’s Cantata BWV 12, Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, to www.justshare.org.uk Zagen, performed by the City Bach Collective on period instruments, and organ music by Bach (organist Anne Page) Thursday 4 October For further information email [email protected] 1730 to 1815 St Stephen Walbrook Dutch Church, Austin Friars Thursday Evening Discussion Group: Time and Space For an informal discussion of aspects of the Christian faith Monday 15 October All welcome 1300 Choral Classics Music and readings on the theme of ‘And I saw a new heaven’ – Exploring the Book of Revelations 1830 St Mary at Hill With the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields Thursday Conversation St Stephen Walbrook Dennis Marcus, Executive Director of Robert F Kennedy Human 1745 Choral Evensong, with singers from Lloyd’s Choir Rights UK, in conversation with Prebendary Rose Hudson-Wilkin, St Mary le Bow on Building a Sustainable Community 1800 Choral Evensong (BCP) The first in the series for this university Following Choral Evensong at 1800 term, continuing until 3 December St Michael Cornhill Ending with refreshments at 1930 Please see the listing in the Events Section for further information Wednesday 17 October 1730 Choral Evensong for St Luke’s Day (18 October) Temple Church Friday 5 October 1800 Choral Evensong St Stephen Walbrook 1100 to 1600 London Centre for Spiritual Direction, St Edmund King & Martyr Thursday 18 October – St Luke the Evangelist Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Faces: MBTI (Myers Briggs Type 1230 Eucharist with address St Dunstan in the West Indicator) Workshop for Spiritual Directors 1300 The annual Lion Sermon, to be given by Paul Sinton-Hewitt, Led by Sue Wilson founder of parkrun The first of 8 sessions on different subjects, on Fridays between With music performed by a chamber group from Lloyd’s Choir October 2018 and July 2019, in the Developing Direction St Katharine Cree programme The programme is designed to foster the ongoing development and support of spiritual directors Monday 22 October The sessions, led by experienced practitioners, will cover a broad 1300 Choral Classics Music and readings on the theme of ‘My spirit range of topics, themes and practice issues, and can be booked sang all day’ – The poetry of Robert Bridges individually or as a whole With the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields For further information, including cost and booking, please go to St Stephen Walbrook www.lcsd.org.uk and follow the links from ‘Courses & Events’ Friday 26 October 1930 RC Mass in the Extraordinary Form, followed by refreshments St Mary Moorfields

LECTURES, COURSES, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS EVENTS & CONCERTS IN OCTOBER 2018

IN OCTOBER 2018 – continued

Monday 1 October

Monday 8 October 1800 to 2000 London Centre for Spiritual Direction, St Edmund King & Martyr ART EXHIBITION At the Still Point: Accompanying the Contemplative The first session of a small Monday evening group for spiritual Suzanne Perlman directors, led by Liz Wilson, experiencing and exploring contemplative prayer Catching the Ephemeral Once a month until June 2019, For further information, including cost and booking, please go to at the Dutch Centre, Austin Friars www.lcsd.org.uk and follow the links from ‘Courses & Events’ . Opening times during October:

Monday to Friday: 1000 to 1600 Tuesday 9 October Saturday and Sunday: 1000 to 1700 1045 to 1530 St Andrew Holborn Oasis Day: ‘George Herbert – A Conflicted L:ife’ The exhibition will continue until Sunday 21 October Led by Roger Blackstone and is open to the public with exception of days when Oasis Days offer a monthly time of quiet reflection to re-charge the Main Hall is booked for private events. one’s spiritual batteries with stimulating speakers Private curated tours can also be arranged. Cost £15 – Lunch and tea/coffee provided Pre-booking required by Friday 5 October for catering purposes – Admission is free to book please telephone the Revd Martin Davies on More details may be found at: 07429 612642 or e-mail [email protected] Please enter via No 7 St Andrew Street, during restoration https://www.suzanneperlman.co.uk/copy-of-news work to the church

1300 St Lawrence Jewry Thursday 11 October Recital: Hiroaki Takenouchi – piano 1730 to 1815 St Stephen Walbrook Programme: Thursday Evening Discussion Group: Time and Space Mozart – Sonata in B flat major K 333 For an informal discussion of aspects of the Christian faith Medtner – Second Improvisation Op 47 All welcome 1300 St Michael Cornhill Organ Recital: Adrian Bawtree (Canterbury Cathedral) Programme: This will be a Programme of Requests by the Monday 15 October recitalist's father, whose birthday it is today! 1400 to 1645 London Centre for Spiritual Direction, 1305 St Martin Ludgate St Edmund King & Martyr Recital: 'Three Sopranos – a Feast of Soprano Arias & Song" Exploring Christian Spirituality The first session in a course in Livy Lewis, Klaudia Magdon & Marianne Town Smith, three modules, running for 20 sessions on Monday afternoons with Richard Black – piano over two terms, led by John-Francis Friendship and Nicola Mason Admission is free – Donations are requested in aid of church Open to those of all Christian traditions, those of other faith and recital running costs groups, and others interested in exploring the theme of Christian 1930 Great Hall of St Bartholomew's Hospital spirituality Barts Academic Festival Choir & Orchestra For further information, including cost and booking, please go to Autumn Concert www.lcsd.org.uk and follow the links from ‘Courses & Events’ Conductor: John Lumley Leader: Margaret Banwell Programme: Beethoven – Symphony No 7 in A major Op 92 Thursday 18 October Handel – Coronation Anthems HWV 258 – 261

1730 to 1815 St Stephen Walbrook Come and join us for an evening of wonderful music

Thursday Evening Discussion Group: Time and Space and bring your friends

For an informal discussion of aspects of the Christian faith Tickets at the door - £15 Concessions £10 All welcome All profits go to the Barts Cancer Unit

Tuesday 2 October Thursday 25 October 1230 St Mary Abchurch 1730 to 1815 St Stephen Walbrook Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. Thursday Evening Discussion Group: Time and Space The recital will usually include an improvisation For an informal discussion of aspects of the Christian faith 1300 St Katharine Cree All welcome Lloyds' Choir Autumn Concert Programme: Rheinberger – Mass in E flat: Kyrie and Gloria Tuesday 30 October Brentnall – 'When you go home' 1830 St Mary le Bow Cohen – 'Anthem for doomed youth' A JustShare event on Healthcare Bach – Mass in B minor BWV 232: Kyrie and Gloria Please check on www.justshare.org.uk Free Admission with a retiring collection

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN OCTOBER 2018 − continued Wednesday 3 October — continued

Tuesday 2 October — continued St Olave Hart Street

1300 St Lawrence Jewry Wednesday 3 October at 7.00pm Organ Recital in the Eric Thompson Charitable Trust Series 2018

Celebrating 25 years Founded in 1993

Ourania Gassiou City Chamber Ensemble with The French Protestant Church in London, Zeynep Özsuca Rattle – piano and at Athens Concert Hall (Megaron) Sacha Rattle – clarinet Programme: Reger – Trauerode Op 145 No 1 Conductor – Michael Gammie Mendelssohn – Organ Sonata No 3 in A major Op 65 Langlais – Chant de Paix (from Neuf Pièces No 3) Mozart's Last Concertos:

Bossi – Scherzo in G minor Op 49 No 2 Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat K595 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Clarinet Concert in A major K622 A Walbrook Music Trust Recital Caroline D'Cruz & Tracy Kennington – piano 4 hands Haydn – Symphony No 83 in G minor 'La Poule' 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: Chiyan Wong – piano Admission Free Programme: J S Bach – Capriccio on the departure of a beloved brother, BWV 992 Thursday 4 October T Adès – Blanca Variations 1300 St Stephen Walbrook R Schumann – Ghost Variations, WoO 24 Community Choir F Liszt – Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata, For more information please contact the church on: S 161/7 [email protected] Free Admittance – Retiring Collection 1305 St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield 1315 St Mary at Hill A City Music Society concert to be given by Recital in The Square Mile Music Series: Argenta Trio Raymond Brian – clarinet Nicolas Dupont – violin Margarita Balanas – cello Małgorzata Garstka – piano Programme: Saint-Saëns – Bassoon Sonata (arr for clarinet) Programme: Berio – Sequenza IXc Haydn – Trio No.39 in G (Gypsy) Hob XV/25 Nilufar Habibian – Illusion Debussy – Trio in G major L 5 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Shostakovich – Trio No. 1 in C minor Op. 8 Tours of the Church Admission is free with a retiring collection Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day 1305 St Olave Hart Street or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: Recital: Jessie Tse – soprano Leonel Pinheiro – tenor Phoebe Yu – piano [email protected] 1310 All Hallows by the Tower or telephoning (+44) 20 7427 0133. Special tours for groups can also be arranged Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series

Christian Gautschi (Zurich, Switzerland)

1800 St Mary at Hill Wednesday 3 October Choral Evensong, followed by Thursday Conversation at 1830 Evensong will be sung by Seraphim, the St Mary at Hill Choir 1305 St Botolph Aldgate Recital: Accendo Quartet Dennis Marcus, Executive Director of Robert F Kennedy Human Rights UK will be in conversation with Juliette Roos – violin Sabine Sergekeva – violin The Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkins. Alexander McFarlane – viola Daniel Benn – cello Programme: The topic will be 'Ripple of Hope – how we can build a compassionate and socially just society' Smetana – String Quartet Ni 1 "From my life" In E major

Free entry with a retiring collection We finish with a glass of wine at 1930 Admission is free All welcome The Accendo Quartet will be performing as part of the LSO pre- concert in the Barbican concert hall on Sunday 14 October at 1730 Friday 5 October 1305 St Olave Hart Street 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Recital: Lucinda Dunne – saxophone Organ Recital: Charles Andrews Jonathan Musgrave – piano 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: Miquel Villalba – piano Programme: J S Bach – Goldberg Variations BWV 988

Free Admittance – Retiring Collection

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN OCTOBER 2018 − continued Tuesday 9 October — continued 1300 St Stephen Walbrook A Walbrook Music Trust Recital Sunday 7 October For more information please contact the church on: 1700 St Bartholomew the Less, West Smithfield EC1A 7BE [email protected] Entrance: St Bartholomew's Hospital, Henry VIII gate 1315 St Bride Fleet Street

Psallite Women's Choir Recital: David Zucchi – saxophone Fionnuala Ward – piano Programme: Autumn Concert C Debussy – Rhapsody for alto saxophone Programme: Paule Maurice – Tableaux de Provence Palestrina – motets: Ave regina coelorum, i. Farandoule des jeunes filles Alma redemptoris mater ii. Chanson pour ma mie Janet Wheeler – 'Sing a song of joy' iii. La bohémienne Lassu – Magnificat; Margot labourez les vignes iv. Des Alyscamps l'âme soupire Morley, Weelkes, Lassus, Passereau - madrigals and chansons v. Le cabridan – 3 Shakespeare Songs; Dusk in June Barbara Thompson – Lili Cecilia McDowall – Deus qui claro lumine George Gershwin – Three Preludes (excerpts) Tickets: £10 Concessions £8 on the door 1. Allegro ben ritmato e deciso 2. Andante con rubato

Monday 8 October 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Recital: Ryan Drucker – piano 1315 St Mary at Hill Programme: Recital in The Square Mile Music Series: Beethoven – Sonata No 30 in E major Op 109 Margaret Aagesen Hughes – soprano Andrew Wilson – piano Chopin – Nocturne in B major Op 62 No 1 Programme: Franck – Prélude, Choral and Fugue FWV 21 William Jackson of Exeter – Five Songs 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Ryan Drucker performs through the joint St Lawrence Jewry and Tours of the Church Worshipful Company of Musicians Scheme for Prizewinners Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. of the Company Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day 1300 St Michael Cornhill or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: Organ Recital: Christopher Stokes – Manchester Cathedral [email protected] Programme: or telephoning (+44) 20 7427 0133. Franck – Pièce Héroique Special tours for groups can also be arranged Sweelinck – Variations on Mein junges Leben hat ein End Hurford – Laudate Dominum Wednesday 10 October Howells – Psalm Prelude Set 1/1 1300 Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square EC1M 6AU Reger – Dankpsalm 1305 St Martin Ludgate Peace of Mind A series of word and music soundscapes to calm the mind and enrich the soul Recital: Maria Thomas – oboe Peter Wakefield – flute, Jim Wills – Baritone Julian Cable – piano Summer becomes Autumn

Programme: This will be the second in a series of lunchtime events specially Telemann – Aria: ‘Kein Vogel kann im weiten Fliegen’ curated by singer and teacher Deborah Hudson and Debussy – Two Preludes Robin Isherwood, the Preacher at the Charterhouse. Britten – Excerpts from ‘Six Metamorphoses after Ovid’ These soundscapes feature both live and recorded sounds, Gluck – Dance of the Blessed Spirits songs and musical extracts from around the world and are for Fauré – 3 songs anyone who would like to escape their busy city lives for half an Roussel – Selection from ‘Joueurs de Flûte' hour, and immerse themselves in an aural world of calm. Telemann – Aria: ‘Ich sehe dich in deinem Worte’ Entrance is free with a suggested donation

Admission is free – Donations are requested in aid of church Two further soundscape events will take place as follows: and recital running costs Wednesday 14 November: Longing becomes peace Tuesday 11 December: From shadow to light

Tuesday 9 October More information about the Charterhouse, its history, its function, 1230 St Mary Abchurch and other events taking place there may be found at: Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. http://www.thecharterhouse.org/ The recital will usually include an improvisation 1300 St Stephen Walbrook 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Community Choir Organ Recital in the Eric Thompson Charitable Trust Series 2018 For more information please contact the church on: Celebrating 25 years Founded in 1993 [email protected] Joseph Fort 1305 St Botolph Aldgate Organist and Director of the Chapel Choir, King's College London Recital: Juhee Yang – violin Maria Tarassewicz – piano Programme Programme: Weckmann – Praeambulum Primi toni a 5 in D minor Ysaÿe – Solo violin sonata No 5 in G major Op 27

Gibbons – Fantasia in D minor Beethoven – Sonata No 1 in D major Op 12 J S Bach – Fantasia in G major BWV 572 Free entry with a retiring collection Brahms – Chorale Prelude Op 122 No 5 1305 St Olave Hart Street Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele Recital: David Sciacca – guitar Langlais – Trois Paraphrases Grégoriennes Op 5 No 3

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN OCTOBER 2018 − continued Sunday 14 October

1500 The Dutch Church, Austin Friars Wednesday 10 October — continued Cantata Service 1310 All Hallows by the Tower The Cantata, Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen BWV 12 Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling will be performed by the City Bach Collective. 1315 St Dunstan in the West As part of the Service there will be words of reflection by Recital: Belgard String Quartet His Excellency, Simon Smits, Dutch Ambassador to the United Kingdom Katarina Kostrevc – violin 1 Zlatina Stoyanova – violin 2 There will be refreshments after the service. Yoshinori Hayashi – viola Samuel Creer – cello For more information please contact: [email protected] Thursday 11 October 1305 St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield 1900 St Botolph Bishopsgate A City Music Society concert to be given by A Concert by Old Blues, for Old Blues. Behn Quartet The Old Blues Chamber Orchestra Kate Oswin – violin Alicia Berendse – violin returns for its second ever concert Lydia Abell – viola Ghislaine McMullin – cello to perform a programme of classical favourites to raise money for the Hasler Naval Recovery Centre Programme: in partnership with Gabriel's Friends. Jack Body – Three Transcriptions Sarah Stagg – Leader/Violin Benjamin Kirk – Conductor Debussy – Quartet in G minor L 85 Op10

Admission is free with a retiring collection Programme: 1305 St Olave Hart Street Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis Recital: Lucas Jordan – flute Elena Cappelletti – piano Tchaikovsky – Elegy for 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Beethoven – Violin Romance in F major Op 50 Beethoven – Symphony No 4 in B♭major Op 60 Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays J S Bach "The Early Years" Tickets: £15 (full), £10 (concessions) and more information from:

Friday 12 October www.obco.eventbrite.co.uk or call 07788 262 755 1230 St Stephen Walbrook (Prices exclude Eventbrite booking fee) Organ Recital: Benjamin Newlove 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: Maggie Cooper – soprano Laetitia Fédérici – piano Monday 15 October Programme: Bernstein – I hate music, A big Indian and a little Indian, 1300 St Lawrence Jewry I'm a person too Recital: Phillip Leslie – piano Barber – Nocturne, Rain has fallen, Programme: Sure on this shining night, I hear an army Haydn – Piano Sonata in C major Hob XVI: 50 Ives – Feldeinsamkeit Schumann – Humoreske Op 20 Brahms – Feldeinsamkeit, Die Mainacht Wie melodien zieht es mir 1300 St Michael Cornhill Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer, Ständchen Organ Recital: Jonathan Rennert (Lunchtime recital No 450) Walton – 3 Songs to Poems by Edith Sitwell Programme: Daphne, Through Gilded Trellises, Old Sir Faulk Campbell – Pageantry

Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Elgar arr Lemare – Salut d'amor 1315 St Dunstan in the West Howells – Allegro assai, from Organ Sonata (1934) Recital: Hunter Mabery – piano Vaughan Williams – Rhosymedre Bach – Pasacaglia BWV 582 Saturday 13 October Elgar – Vesper Voluntary 1 1900 St Mary le Bow Elgar – Allegro maestoso, from Organ Sonata (1895) A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event Europe in Harmony Weekly Choral Evensong at 6.00pm resumes A concert exploring the spread of musical influences throughout on Monday 15 October. Music will include Europe, including sacred works, madrigals and partsongs. Byrd’s‘Great Service’ and Purcell’s anthem, ‘Lord, how long’.

Felicitas Conductor – Simon Winters 1305 St Martin Ludgate Programme: Works by Pérotin, Giovanni, Palestrina, Victoria, Recital: Cantiaquorum Byrd, Hassler, des Prez, Willaert, Sermisy, Arcadelt, Lasso, Alexandra Caldon – violin Alex Caldon – trumpet

Bennet, Farmer, Schein, Gabrieli, Schütz, Monteverdi, Schubert, Libby Burgess – piano Pearsall,.Mendelssohn, Saint-Saëns, Finz and Stanford Programme:

"An American in Paris" – to include works by Bernstein For a full list of the works to be performed please go to: https://www.brandenburg.org.uk/bcf-concerts/2018/10/13/europe-in- Admission is free – Donations are requested in aid of church harmony and follow the link and recital running costs Tickets: £23 (premium) £18 (unreserved) £5 (children) — call the box office on 07528 776625 or book online: http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/autumn/ and follow the links Premium tickets include a reserved, a programme, and a voucher for a drink which can be redeemed either before the concert or during the interval.

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN OCTOBER 2018 − continued Tuesday 16 October — continued

1300 St Stephen Walbrook A Walbrook Music Trust Recital Jenni Harper – soprano Martin Ford – piano

St Mary Abchurch 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: Piano duo 'Beth & Flo': — Elsbet Remijn and Claudette Verhulst Monday 15 October at 6.00pm Programme: Ruben Naeff – The Aftermath SAVE Lecture: Resurrection Architecture Saint-Saëns – from 'The Carnival of the Animals' The death and life of Palmyra Introduction and Royal March of the Lion Cocks and Hens; Swift animals; Tortoises Kangaroos; Aviary The lecture will be given by Dan Cruickshank, Brahms – Waltzes Op. 39 historian, writer and founding member of 1 - B major, 2 - E major, 3 - G# minor, 6 – C# major SAVE Britain's Heritage. Reflecting on his Hungarian dances: 1 - G minor, 2 - D minor recent journey across Syria Dan will tell the Dvořák – Slavonic dance Op. 46, No. 7 - C minor story of Palmyra, focusing on its destruction Saint-Saëns – Carnival of the Animals: Aquarium; Finale Free Admittance – Retiring Collection back in 2015 and the current proposals to reconstruct it. By relating back to past 1315 St Mary at Hill examples of restored buildings that have fallen Recital in The Square Mile Music Series: victim to human destruction, in places such as Hunter Mabery – piano Ypres, Warsaw, and Dresden, Dan will explore Programme: Works by J S Bach, Chopin and MacDowell

what meaning reconstructed buildings can 1415 St Bride Fleet Street have. Is it possible for dead buildings to live Tours of the Church again? Is it possible for Palmyra to live again? Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day Tickets: £20 (plus Eventbrite booking fee) or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: [email protected] To obtain tickets search: or telephoning (+44) 20 7427 0133. SAVE Lecture at St Mary Abchurch Special tours for groups can also be arranged and follow the links 1930 St Katharine Cree A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event Chilcott – A Little Jazz Mass Sacred Music with a twist and traditional songs Tuesday 16 October by some of Britain's best-loved composers

1000 to 1700 All Hallows by the Tower Etcetera – the Civil Service Choir "JOURNEY" ART EXHIBITION Stephen Hall OBE – conductor

16 – 27 October, 1000 to 1700 daily (except during services) Programme: A contemporary art exhibition organised by commission4mission, – The Turtle Dove, The Lover's Ghost a group which encourages churches to commission contemporary art. Rutland Boughton – Early One Morning, The Seal Lullaby The exhibition will comprise a mix of abstract and representational work Eric Whitacre – Sleep in a variety of media by 23 artists. The imagery ranges from the Gustav Holst – I Love my Love, Swansea Town journey of life to geographical journeys, the journey of plastics in the Caz Besterman – In Flanders Fields oceans and the Stations of the Cross, among others. (a setting of five World War I poems) Entrance is free. – Irish tune from County Derry 1230 St Mary Abchurch Arthur Sullivan – The Long Day Closes Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. Bob Chilcott – Scarborough Fair The recital will usually include an improvisation Bob Chilcott – Waltzing Matilda 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Bob Chilcott – Five Days that Changed the World Organ Recital in the Eric Thompson Charitable Trust Series 2018 Bob Chilcott – A Little Jazz Mass Celebrating 25 years Founded in 1993 Tickets: £23 (premium) £18 (unreserved) £5 (children) — Hannah Parry call the box office on 07528 776625 or book online: Programme http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/autumn/ and follow the links Guilain – Suite du Premier Ton Premium tickets include a reserved, a programme, and a voucher J S Bach – Trio Sonata No 3 in D minor BWV 527 for a drink which can be redeemed either before the concert or Arvo Pärt – Pari Intervallo during the interval. Hannah Parry – Talaash Stanford – Organ Sonata No 4 Op 153 'Sonata Celtica' Movement III – St Patrick's Breastplate

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN OCTOBER 2018 − continued Thursday 18 October — continued

1305 St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield Wednesday 17 October A City Music Society concert to be given by Hin-Yat – piano Programme: 1300 St Bartholomew the Less Beethoven – Sonata in A Op. 101 A City Music Foundation Lunchtime Recital Scriabin – Twelve Études Op. 8

Gwenllian Llyr– harp Admission is free with a retiring collection

Programme: William Mathias – Improvisations Op 10 1305 St Mary le Bow Scriabin – Prelude and Nocturne for the Left Hand Op 9 Lunchtime Recital: Fidelity Choir Debussy – Rêverie L 68 Admission free – Retiring collection in aid of Arcubus, the City of Haidon Evans – Ymsonau London Social Investment Fund Liszt – Un sospiro from 3 Études de concert S 144 arranged for harp by Henriette Renié 1305 St Olave Hart Street Grace Williams – Hiraeth (Longing) Recital: Evgenia Startseva – piano Henriette Renié – Ballade Fantastique 1310 All Hallows by the Tower Free entry with retiring collection Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling

1300 St Stephen Walbrook 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Community Choir Organ Recital: For more information please contact the church on: Richard Townend plays J S Bach "The Great Organist at Weimar" [email protected]

1305 St Botolph Aldgate Recital: Asagi Nakata – piano Programme: Bach – Prelude and Fugue No 16 in G major BWV 861 Mozart – Sonata in D major K 311 Friday 19 October Liszt – Sarabande une Chaconne aus dem Sinspiel Almira 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Free entry with a retiring collection Organ Recital: Patrick Hopper

1305 St Olave Hart Street 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: London Chamber Project Recital: Victoria Puttock – saxophone Maria Wloszczowska – violin Tamara Elias – violin Programme: Matthew Huber – cello Sacha Rattle – clarinet Paule Maurice – Tableaux de Provence Zeynep Özsuca – piano i. Farandoulo di chatouno

ii. Cansoun per ma mio 1315 St Dunstan in the West iii. La boumiano Recital: Mine Dogantan-Dack & Marmara Piano Trio iv. Dis Alyscamps l'amo souspire

v. Lou cabridan

Amy Quate – Light of Sothis Thursday 18 October i. Grace, ii. Passion, iii. Faith 1300 St Katharine Cree Paul Creston – Sonata Opus 19 i. with vigor, ii. with tranquillity, iii. with gaiety

The Annual Lion Sermon Guest speaker: Paul Sinton-Hewitt CBE Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Founder of parkrun Music will be performed by a chamber group from Lloyd’s Choir 1315 St Dunstan in the West Organ Recital: Mark Brafield The Lion Sermon is an annual sermon preached on a Thursday on or near 16 October at the City church of St Katharine Cree. The sermon 1900 St Mary Moorfields Crypt Hall commemorates the memory of Sir John Gayer (or Gayre), (1564 – 1649). Recital to be given by a Chamber Ensemble He was a Cornishman who became Lord Mayor of London in 1646. He was also a Governor of the East India Company and briefly imprisoned in Free admission with a retiring collection the Tower of London for his Royalist sympathies. Apparently while travelling on a trading mission in Arabia – modern-day Syria – he became separated from his travelling companions and was stalked by a lion. Sir John prayed for assistance and the lion left him unharmed on account of his devout prayers and vows of charity. The story tells us that his travelling companions discovered Sir John sleeping in the desert next morning surrounded by the footprints of the lion. In gratitude for his deliverance he endowed the City church of St Katharine Cree with a fund for a sermon to be preached by an eminent guest on the theme of 'challenges to the Christian faith'. Sir John died in 1649 and is buried in the church His commemorative brass is to be found on the floor behind the altar.

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN OCTOBER 2018 − continued Tuesday 23 October

1230 St Mary Abchurch

Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate.

The recital will usually include an improvisation Saturday 20 October 1300 St Lawrence Jewry 1930 St Sepulchre without Newgate Organ Recital in the Eric Thompson Charitable Trust Series 2018 A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event Celebrating 25 years Founded in 1993

Baroque Classics Stephen Disley

Enjoy a feast of Baroque favourites sung by Director of the Girls' Choir and Sub-Organist, Southwark Cathedral

vOx Chamber Choir Conductor – David Crown Programme: Gabriel Pierné – Prélude (from Trois Pièces) Programme: Buxtehude – Ciacona in E minor BuxWv 160 Bach – Komm Jesu, komm; Lobet den Herrn Brahms – Chorale Prelude Op 122 No 10 Scheidt – Christ lag in todes banden Herzlich tut mich verlangen Praetorius – Nun komm der heiden heiland a 8 Langlais – Prélude sur une Antienne (from Neuf Pièces No 8) Pachelbel – Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied Frank Martin – Agnus Dei (arr. by Martin from 'Mass') Hiller – Alles fleisch ist wie Gras Gibbons – Fantazia of foure parts Vivaldi – Gloria RV589 Couperin – Chaconne in G minor (transcr. by Joseoh Bonnet) Handel – Coronation Anthem: Zadok the Priest Elgar – Imperial March Op 32 Tickets: £23 (premium) £18 (unreserved) £5 (children) — 1300 St Stephen Walbrook call the box office on 07528 776625 or book online: A Walbrook Music Trust Recital

http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/autumn/ and follow the links Constance Leung Chow – piano Premium tickets include a reserved, a programme, and a 1315 St Bride Fleet Street voucher for a drink which can be redeemed either before the Recital: Fleur Barron – soprano Bretton Brown – piano concert or during the interval. Programme: F Schreker – Four Songs A von Zemlinsky – Six Songs after Poems by Maurice Maeterlinck, Op. 13 C Ives – Tom Sails Away; In Flanders Fields; The Light that is Felt Sunday 21 October Montsalvatge – Cinco canciones negras:

1000 to 1700 The Dutch Centre at the Dutch Church, Austin Friars Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Last day of the Art Exhibition 'Catching the Ephemeral' showing 1315 St Mary at Hill paintings by Suzanne Perlman. For more information please refer Recital in The Square Mile Music Series: to the 'box' display at Monday 1 October above Drama Musica Programme: Flute Sonatas by Anna Bon di Venezia 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Tours of the Church Monday 22 October Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day 1300 St Lawrence Jewry or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: Recital: Zarebski Piano Duo: [email protected] Grzeborz Mania and Piotr Rozanski or telephoning (+44) 20 7427 0133. Programme: Special tours for groups can also be arranged Hindemith – Waltzes Op 6 (selection)

Barber – Souvenirs Op 28 Wednesday 24 October Corigliano – Gazebo Dances 1300 St Michael Cornhill 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Organ Recital: Tina Christiansen (Odense, Denmark) Community Choir Programme: For more information please contact the church on: Buxtehude – Präludium in F# BuxWV 146 [email protected] Matthison-Hansen – Concerto in D 1305 St Botolph Aldgate Alain – Le jardin suspendu Recital: Jack Horrocks – clarinet Vierne – Allegro from Symphonie 2 Free entry with a retiring collection Hansen – Dawn, light & creation (2012) 1305 St Olave Hart Street 1305 St Martin Ludgate Recital: James Kirby – piano Recital: Juliette Roos – violin with Ilana Mordkovich-Roos – piano 1315 St Dunstan in the West Programme: Recital: Fumi Otsuki – violin Georgios Vardakis – piano Enescu – Impromptu concertant Programme: Bach – Solo Violin Sonata No.1 in G minor; Ralph Vaughan Williams – The Lark Ascending Mozart – Violin Concerto no.4 in D major K.218 1. Allegro 6 Studies in English folksong Sibelius – Nocturne Op.51 No.3 Claude Debussy – La plus que lente L 121 Toru Takemitsu – Distance de Fée Admission is free – Donations are requested in aid of church Ralph Vaughan Williams – Romance and Pastorale and recital running costs

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN OCTOBER 2018 − continued Sunday 28 October

1830 St Anne's Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill Lutheran Bach Vespers with J S Bach’s Cantata BWV115, Thursday 25 October Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit, performed by the City Bach

1305 St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield Collective on period instruments A City Music Society concert to be given by

Christian Elliott – cello Robert Thompson – piano Monday 29 October Programme: Schumann – Adagio and Allegro in A flat Op 70 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Bridge – Two Pieces for cello and piano Recital: Michael Lan – piano Brahms – Sonata No.1 in E minor Op 38 Programme:

Admission is free with a retiring collection Mozart – Sonata in B flat major K 333 Ravel – La Valse 1305 St Olave Hart Street Recital: Olazti Trombone Quartet 1300 St Michael Cornhill Jamie Tweed Alistair Welsh Organ Recital: Annual Harold Darke Memorial Recital Alberto Belzunegui Samuel Taber Laurence Long (Harold Darke Memorial Prizewinner, Royal College of Music) 1310 All Hallows by the Tower Programme: Music by Bach, Darke and others Organ Recital: David Cook 1305 St Martin Ludgate 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Recital: Meliza Metzger Chamber Group Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series Programme: Mark Fitze (Berne, Switzerland) Donizetti – Quell guardo il cavaliere Mozart – Veilchen K 476; Abendempfindung K 523 Sor – Variations on a theme by Mozart Op 9 Friday 26 October Schubert – La pastorella al prato D528 (tr. M. Kurtjak) An die Musik D 547 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Ponce – Allegro non troppo e serioso from Sonata romantica; Organ Recital: Nicholas Morris Fauré – Le Papillon Et La Fleur Op 1 No 1 Mai Op 1 No 2 Rêve d’Amour Op 5 No 2 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Gounod – O légère hirondelle (arr. M. Kurtjak) Organ Recital: Mervyn Hogg Programme: Admission is free – Donations are requested in aid of church Bach – Fantasia in G major BWV 572 and recital running costs Franck – Pastorale Parry – Three Chorale Preludes from Set 1 a) Dundee, b) Rockingham, c) St Anne's Elegie (1918) Langlais – Hymne d'action de grâce 'Te Deum' Tuesday 30 October

Free Admittance – Retiring Collection 1230 St Mary Abchurch Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. The recital will usually include an improvisation

1300 St Lawrence Jewry Saturday 27 October Organ Recital: Stefan Therstam (Stockholm, Sweden)

1000 to 1700 All Hallows by the Tower 1300 St Stephen Walbrook "JOURNEY" ART EXHIBITION A Walbrook Music Trust Recital Final day of this exhibition Fabio Fernandes – guitar & flute For information about this exhibition please refer to the listing at 16 October 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: Iria Perestrelo – soprano Isabel Calado – piano 1930 St Botolph Bishopsgate Programme: A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event A L Moreira – Moda do Zabumba Chilcott – My Heart's Friend A J da Silva – De mim já se não lembra M Portugal – Fui-me confessar Maidstone Singers Notability J de Mesquita – Moda do Londu Conductor - Kathryn Ridgeway Conductor – Denise Jones J F Leal – Diz amor que te fiz eu, Nasci para ser infeliz

Tickets: £23 (premium) £18 (unreserved) £5 (children) — O prazer que sinto na alma, Lundum: call the box office on 07528 776625 or book online: Menina você que tem? Lundum: Esta noite Anonymous – Fado Amante; Fado Serenata; Fado de Lisboa http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/autumn/ and follow the links Premium tickets include a reserved, a programme, and a voucher J Palomino – Moda da Copa das Caldas for a drink which can be redeemed either before the concert M Portugal – Se dos males, Raivas Gostosas

or during the interval. Free Admittance – Retiring Collection

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN OCTOBER 2018 − continued We are indebted to Dickon Love, Company Bellringer to the

Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks Tuesday 30 October — continued for the following information

1315 St Mary at Hill Recital in The Square Mile Music Series: Trinity College of Music String Ensemble Programme: Errollyn Wallen – Photography Elgar – Serenade for Strings in E minor Op 20 Open bellringing performances Grażyna Bacewicz – Concerto for String Orchestra currently scheduled for the City of London in September 2018 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Tours of the Church Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day Tuesday 1 October or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: 1730 3 hr performance on the Royal Jubilee Bells [email protected] by the St James' Guild or telephoning (+44) 20 7427 0133. at St James Garlickhythe Special tours for groups can also be arranged

Saturday 6 October

1030 3½ hr performance on the bells Wednesday 31 October by the Society of Royal College Cumberland Youths 1300 St Stephen Walbrook at St Magnus the Martyr Community Choir For more information please contact the church on: [email protected]

Saturday 13 October 1305 St Botolph Aldgate 1100 3½ hr performance on the Bow bells Wilfred Owen 100: by the Ancient Society of College Youths Died 4 November 1918 aged 25 at St Mary le Bow Sambre – Oise Canal, France

Recital: Patrick Craig – countertenor Peter Holder – piano Programme: Sunday 21 October George Butterworth (1885-1916) – A Shropshire Lad When I was one-and-twenty 1430 3½ hr performance on the bells Is my team ploughing by the St James' Guild Paul Crabtree (b 1960) – Song of Songs at St Magnus the Martyr Other Love; The Lion; The Storm; The Piano Free entry with a retiring collection

Sunday 28 October 1305 St Olave Hart Street 1430 3½ performance on the Bells Recital: Susana Vieira – soprano by the Society of Royal College Cumberland Youths

1315 St Dunstan in the West at St Magnus the Martyr Recital: The Gaillard Trio

Andrew Morris – flute & piccolo Martin White – oboe & cor anglais Alec Forshaw – bassoon, harpsichord & piano City Events is published by the Friends of the City Churches in conjunction with the Archdeaconry of London and printed by Copyprints: [email protected]

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Remembrance

The recurring theme this month is remembrance. All of us are aware it is 100 years since the Great War ended and it is most appropriate that numerous services and events in the City churches in November will commemorate the end of 'the war to end all wwars'. In the special services seccttion the commemorative services are listed, particularly on Armistice Day, Remembrance Sunday, 11 November. Then there are the services associated with All Saints' Day – Thursday 1 November and All Souls' Day – Friday 2 November, all of which are listed.

At All Hallows by the Tower, leading up to Armistice Day, there will be installed in the Mariners’ Chapel a number of 'Tommies' — perspex silhouettes of soldiers as part of a national project which commemorates those who died in the First World War — 'There but not there’. Following the ceramic poppies of 2014 at the Tower of London, which represented the 888,246 British and Commonwealth Serviice men and women who lost their lives in the First World War, this 'Tommy' is a 10”/25cm high Perspex® figure of a World War One soldier. These may be purchased and delivered to one's home. Furthermore, it is possible to have the name of someone you wish to remember inscribed on the base of the statue. The profits from the sale of the Tommies will enable the following charities to be supported: The Royal Foundation, Walking With The Wounded, Combat Stress, Help for Heroes, The Commonwealth War Graves Foundation and Project Equinox: Housing Veterans. It is noteworthy that each of the Tommies and their commemorrative packaging are made by veterans employed by Royal British Legion Industries. The City churches of St Botolph Bishopsgate, St Bride Fleet Street and St Lawrence Jewry are also participating in the 'There but not there' project. Much more about the project may be found at http://therebutnotthere.org.uk/

On Armistice Day itself, Sunday 11 November, at All Hallows by the Tower the Merchant Navy Association is organising the reading of every name commemorated on the striking Lutyens First World War Memorial on Tower Hill. The Memorial has inscribed on its pannels names of the 36,083 members of the Merchant Navy and the Fishing Flleets in both World Wars who have no known grave but the sea. The reeading of the 12,318 First World War names will start at 6am and continue until 7pm with a break for the Memorial Service from 10.30‐ 12.30, and everyone is welcome to go along to listen. This event is particularly poignant since without the dedication of the members of the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleets in both World Wars we could not have survived.

Then there are the concerts with programmes thaat reflect the theme of Remembrance. One of these will take place at St Mary le Bow on Sunday 11 November itself. It carries the title 'In Remembrance'. The programme is listed at the date entry in the pages below. On the following day, Monday 12 November at St Stephen Walbrook, the regular 'Choral Classics' will consiist of music and readings on the theme "They shall grow not old". It should be noted that there are other concerts with the theme of Remembrannce and these are listed.

Finally on Sunday 11 November bell ringing will taake place across the City of London ffor Remembrance Sunday and especially at 12.30 pm to mark the 100th Anniversary of the end of the Great War

The Friends of the City Churches, Church of St Mary Abchurch, Abchurch Lane, London EC4N 7BA Visit: www.london‐city‐churches.org.uk for more information and the location of the churches in the City

Tuesday ─ continued

REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less IN NOVEMBER 2018 1230 to 1300 Eucharist (said) with brief address St Dunstan in the West 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) The entries below show the normal pattern of services for City Churches St Mary Moorfields and a few churches ‘just over the City borders’. Entries are for Church of 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Woolnoth England services except where indicated otherwise. ‘1st Monday’, ‘2nd 1230 Holy Communion (said), followed by coffee and sandwiches Monday’ etc refer to the 1st Monday, 2nd Monday etc of the month. St Olave Hart Street 1300 Holy Communion in the Crypt, with prayers with a focus on healing While every effort is made to ensure accuracy, the services shown are All Hallows by the Tower subject to change at Bank or other holidays, immediately before, during 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place and after major festivals and during the summer months. You are strongly 1300 to 1400 (any time) Contemporary Worship advised to contact churches to check the details. St Sepulchre without Newgate / Holy Sepulchre London 1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate For a list of weekend (particularly Sunday) services please go to the 1305 Meditation (in the crypt chapel) St Mary le Bow Friends of the City Churches website at www.london-city-churches.org.uk 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields and follow the links from ‘Events’ and ‘City Events’. 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn Monday 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, following buffet lunch at 1300 St Botolph Aldersgate 0715 Jewish Daily Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic orthodox rite) 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, with sandwich lunch available St Helen Bishopsgate (0700 on 1st day of Hebrew religious month; 0900 on Bank Holidays) 1310 Holy Communion St Margaret Lothbury For details please see www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/ 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship Bevis Marks Synagogue Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1700 to 1730 ‘Words of Hope’ – quiet informal reflective service 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square St Clement Eastcheap 0800 to 0830 Meditation (Moot Community – all welcome) St Mary Aldermary 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 0815 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1830 Choral Evensong (traditional) (Choral Eucharist on 3rd Tuesday) 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public St Sepulchre without Newgate / Holy Sepulchre London welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal 1215 Eucharist St Michael Paternoster Royal Wednesday 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields St Mary Moorfields 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1245 Holy Communion St Mary at Hill 0800 to 0840 Morning Taizé Chant (Moot Community – all welcome) 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place St Mary Aldermary 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1700 to 1800 ‘Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 0815 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 0830 to 0915 Holy Communion St Lawrence Jewry 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal 1800 Choral Evensong (BCP) (During university terms – current term 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church continues to 3 December) St Michael Cornhill 1205 RC Mass St Joseph Bunhill Row 1215 Eucharist St Michael Paternoster Royal Tuesday 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 0715 Jewish Daily Service (see Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 0730 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Abchurch 0745 Holy Communion (said) followed by coffee and croissants St Mary at Hill 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 0745 Eucharist, followed by breakfast St Mary le Bow St Mary Moorfields 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1245 to 1315 (3rd Wednesday) Society of Friends (Quaker) Meeting for Worship 0745 to 0915 ‘Start: Stop’ – start the day by stopping to reflect – 10 minute Bunhill Fields Meeting House, Quaker Court, Banner St reflections beginning every 15 minutes - just drop in 1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal worship and teaching – come and go as St Stephen Walbrook you wish St Margaret Lothbury 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1300 (1st Wednesday) Eucharist followed by discussion 0800 to 0830 Morning Prayer (Moot Community – all welcome) St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate St Mary Aldermary 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 0800 Morning Prayer St Michael Cornhill St Etheldreda, Ely Place 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1305 ‘Not on a Sunday’ – informal worship with prayer and song, with coffee 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street at start St Katharine Cree 0815 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1305 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public 1310 to 1340 ‘Moorgate Talks’ Bible Talk, following buffet lunch at 1300, welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal at Amber, CityPoint, 1 Ropemaker St, EC2Y 9AW 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service St Andrew Holborn Linked with St Botolph Aldersgate 1215 Eucharist (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1315 Holy Communion (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street /continued

Thursday ─ continued

REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields

IN NOVEMBER 2018 − continued 1805 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1900 to 2100 City of London House of Prayer - Equipping Night Service Praise and Worship (Free Church) City Temple Wednesday ─ continued Friday 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship Come and go as you) wish St Bride Fleet Street 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 0800 to 0840 Morning Taizé Chant (Moot Community – all welcome) 1730 to 1750 Evening Prayer (Moot Community – all welcome) St Mary Aldermary St Mary Aldermary 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1730 Choral Evensong (during legal term-time) (For 28 November see 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street Special Services) Temple Church 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public 1800 Taizé Service All Hallows by the Tower welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church 1830 to 1915 Meditation Group: ‘Stressed in the City’ (Moot Community – 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster all welcome) St Mary Aldermary 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1900 Sung Eucharist St Andrew Holborn 1230 Pastoral Conversation or Confession (Sacrament Chapel) St Mary le Bow Thursday 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) St Mary Moorfields 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1305 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1315 to 1400 Holy Communion St Lawrence Jewry 0815 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow silent worship Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public 1800 to 2200 City of London House of Prayer – ‘Pursuit’ Prayer and Worship welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal Service All welcome (Free Church) City Temple 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church 1800 Paraklesis (replaced on 1st Friday and during fasting periods by Service 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service St Andrew Holborn of Holy Unction) Followed at 1900 to 2200 by Catechesis and Confessions 1210 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate (Romanian Orthodox) St Dunstan in the West 1215 to 1250 Bible Talk, with sandwich lunch available, followed by 1800 (1st Friday) RC Low Mass in the Extraordinary Form Question Time St Helen Bishopsgate St Etheldreda, Ely Place 1215 Eucharist (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1830 Jewish Friday Evening Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less orthodox rite) (1930 in summer months – please check on 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1230 Eucharist (please check with church) St Mary le Strand

1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) St Mary Moorfields 1245 Choral Eucharist with the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS St Stephen Walbrook

1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal worship and teaching – come and go as IN NOVEMBER 2018 you wish St Mary Woolnoth 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 1300 to 1330 (Normally 1st Thursday) Private prayer and reflection Thursday 1 November – All Saints’ Day St Giles Cripplegate 0805 RC Mass for All Saints’ Day St Mary Moorfields 1300 Eucharist (normally choral on 1st Thursday) (For 8 and 22 November 1205 RC Mass for All Saints’ Day St Joseph Bunhill Row see Special Services) St Margaret Pattens 1230 to 1300 Said Eucharist, with brief address, for All Saints’ Day 1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate St Dunstan in the West 1305 Holy Communion (on 1st Thursday with Healing) followed by 1230 RC Mass for All Saints’ Day St Mary Moorfields tea and biscuits St Katharine Cree 1300 Choral Eucharist for All Saints’ Day St Margaret Pattens 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 1305 RC Mass for All Saints’ Day St Mary Moorfields 1305 to 1335 ‘St Nick's Talks’ Bible Talk St Nicholas Cole Abbey 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn 1305 Holy Communion for All Saints’ Day, with Healing 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn St Katharine Cree 1310 to 1350 Bible Talk, with sandwich lunch available, followed by 1730 RC Mass for All Saints’ Day St Mary Moorfields Question Time St Helen Bishopsgate 1800 Choral Evensong followed by Thursday Conversation at 1830 1315 to 1345 Lunchtime Service (Free Church) City Temple Please refer to the listing in the Events Section for further 1315 Holy Communion St Martin within Ludgate information St Mary at Hill 1315 Holy Communion (BCP said) (during legal term-time) Temple Church 1805 Sung Eucharist with Orchestra for the feast of All Saints 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’ – contemplation, reflection and With music including Haydn’s Little Organ Mass silent worship Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street St Mary le Bow 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 1900 RC Mass for All Saints’ Day St Joseph Bunhill Row Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1900 RC Mass for All Saints’ Day St Mary Moorfields 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1800 (Normally 1st Thursday) Choral Evensong, followed by ‘Thursday /continued Conversation’ at 1830 St Mary at Hill

Monday 12 November SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS 1300 Choral Classics Music and readings on the theme of ‘They IN NOVEMBER 2018 ― continued shall grow not old’ – Marking the 100th Anniversary of the end of World War I, with the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields St Stephen Walbrook Friday 2 November – Commemoration of the Faithful Departed Monday 19 November (All Souls’ Day) 1300 Choral Classics Music and readings on the theme of ‘A hymn 0805 RC Mass for All Souls’ Day St Mary Moorfields for St Cecilia’ – Celebrating the patron saint of music 1230 All Souls’ Day Service All Hallows by the Tower With the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields 1230 to 1300 Said Eucharist, with brief address, for All Souls’ Day St Stephen Walbrook St Dunstan in the West 1800 Choral Evensong 1305 Sung Requiem Mass for the commemoration of All Souls Followed by a glass of wine, then followed at 1915 by dinner in With music by Fauré, Schütz and Langlais St Mary le Bow the George & Vulture pub, 3 Castle Court, with brief address by 1305 RC Mass for All Souls’ Day St Mary Moorfields the Revd Charlie Skrine, Q&A and discussion 1310 Choral Requiem for All Souls’ Day St Botolph Bishopsgate Cost of dinner £25 plus purchase of drinks Please book dinner 1730 RC Mass for All Souls’ Day St Mary Moorfields in advance at www.st-michaels.org.uk St Michael Cornhill 1900 Solemn Parish Requiem for All Souls’ Day St Bartholomew the Great Tuesday 20 November Sunday 4 November 1830 Journalists’ Commemorative Service – Truth to Power 1730 Choral Service for All Souls’ Tide St Bride, Fleet Street An annual service to commemorate and support the journalists, camera-crew, photographers and support staff whose mission Monday 5 November it is to bring us the news 1300 Choral Classics Music and readings on the theme of ‘Remember, Speaker: Alexandra Schulman, former Editor-in-Chief of Vogue remember the fifth of November’ – Music at the time of Guy Fawkes St Bride Fleet Street With the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields Wednesday 21 November St Stephen Walbrook 1305 Eucharist, followed at 1330 by Advent Cantata St Mary le Bow Wednesday 7 November 1800 Choral Evensong St Stephen Walbrook 1730 Choral Evensong Followed at 1830 by the Ecclesiastical Law Society Lyndwood Thursday 22 November Lecture 2018, given by Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch, on 1305 Patronal Festival Service for St Katharine’s Day (25 November), Richard Hooker (1554 to 1600): Invention and Reinvention with Lloyd’s Choir St Katharine Cree Please see the listing in the Lectures, Courses, Workshops and 1800 Choral Evensong for St Cecilia’s Day St Margaret Pattens Seminars section for further information Temple Church Sunday 25 November Thursday 8 November 1830 Lutheran Bach Vespers with J S Bach’s Cantata BWV 116, 1210 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ, performed by the City Bach 1300 Remembrance Service St Margaret Pattens Collective on period instruments St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill Friday 9 November Monday 26 November From 12 noon Lloyds Remembrance Service, with Lloyd’s Choir 1300 Choral Classics Music and readings on the theme of ‘The Stars St Katharine Cree and Stripes forever’ – Celebrating Thanksgiving Day in the USA With the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields Sunday 11 November – Remembrance Sunday St Stephen Walbrook (Centenary of the Armistice ending World War I in 1918) Wednesday 28 November 1150 Choral Eucharist for Remembrance Sunday 1305 Eucharist, followed at 1330 by Advent Cantata St Mary le Bow Preacher: Pastor Barbara Neubert of St Paul’s Lutheran Church, 1800 Advent Carol Service Temple Church Lichterfelde, Berlin With Duruflé’s Requiem, performed as part of the liturgy by the Thursday 29 November St Bride’s Choir and Orchestra St Bride Fleet Street 1800 Said Eucharist, followed at 1830 by Advent Study Group 1050 Remembrance Sunday Service St Dunstan in the West Begins at 1050 at the Royal Fusiliers’ War Memorial, High Holborn, Friday 30 November – St Andrew the Apostle near to Chancery Lane Underground Station 1230 to 1300 Said Eucharist, with brief address, for St Andrew’s Day Continuing with a Service of Remembrance at the church, the St Dunstan in the West south aisle of which is the regimental chapel of the Royal Fusiliers St Sepulchre without Newgate / Holy Sepulchre London 1055 Sung Eucharist for Remembrance Sunday LECTURES, COURSES, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS All Hallows by the Tower IN NOVEMBER 2018 1055 Act of Remembrance followed by Solemn Requiem for Remembrance Sunday St Bartholomew the Great 1055 Choral Communion for Remembrance Sunday St Michael Cornhill Thursday 1 November 1055 Choral Mattins for Remembrance Sunday 1830 St Mary at Hill Guest Speaker: Timothy Garton-Ash, Professor of European Thursday Conversation Studies at Oxford University Temple Church Tessa Sanderson, Olympic gold medal winner, in conversation 1100 Remembrance Sunday Service (Services at this church are with Prebendary Rose Hudson-Wilkin primarily in Welsh, with an English translation provided in the order Following Choral Evensong at 1800 of service) St Benet Paul’s Wharf Ending with refreshments at 1930 1800 Choral Evensong for Remembrance, sung by the East London Please see the listing in the Events Section for further information Evensong Choir All Hallows by the Tower /continued

Tuesday 13 November LECTURES, COURSES, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS 1045 to 1530 St Andrew Holborn IN NOVEMBER 2018 ― continued Oasis Day: ‘One Dark Night – a journey of awakening with John of the Cross’ Led by Chris Chapman Oasis Days offer a monthly time of quiet reflection to re-charge Friday 2 November one’s spiritual batteries with stimulating speakers 1100 to 1600 London Centre for Spiritual Direction, Cost £15 – Lunch and tea/coffee provided St Edmund King & Martyr Pre-booking required by Friday 9 November for catering purposes Healing, Wholeness and Holiness: Exploring the Interface To book please telephone the Revd Martin Davies on between Psychotherapy and Spiritual Direction 07429 612642 or e-mail [email protected] Led by Julie Leger Dunstan Please enter via No 7 St Andrew Street, during restoration A session in the Developing Direction programme, designed to work to the church foster the ongoing development and support of spiritual directors For further information, including cost and booking, please go to Friday 16 November www.lcsd.org.uk and follow the links from ‘Courses & Events’ 1900 to 2130 St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate Emergence Magazine Pop-Up Event Tuesday 6 November Emergence Magazine is a newly launched publication exploring 1100 St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall the threads connecting ecology, culture and spirituality City of London Historical Society: Illustrated talk on The Lord The evening will feature live storytelling, documentary films, Mayor’s Show Day All welcome – entry £10 photography, and author readings that bring the magazine to life For further information, including cost, and to book please go to Wednesday 7 November https://stethelburgas.org and follow the links from ‘Events’ 1830 Temple Church Ecclesiastical Law Society Lyndwood Lecture 2018 Saturday 17 November Richard Hooker (1554-1600): Invention and Reinvention 1100 to 1600 London Centre for Spiritual Direction, Given by Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History St Edmund King & Martyr of the Church in the Faculty of Theology of Oxford University Network Day: Whose Calling – Issues of Vocation in (following Choral Evensong at 1730) Spiritual Direction Cost: £15 for members of the Ecclesiastical Law Society or the An annual network day for spiritual directors Canon Law Society of Great Britain and Ireland - £25 for A time to connect, pray and be inspired, with keynote speakers, non-members (Includes a drinks reception after the lecture) news and updates, time for networking, and lunch For further information and to book please go to For further information, including cost and booking, please go to https://ecclawsoc.org.uk and follow the links from ‘Events’ www.lcsd.org.uk and follow the links from ‘Courses & Events’

1900 to 2030 St Sepulchre without Newgate / Holy Sepulchre London Wednesday 21 November The Bereavement Journey 1830 St Mary le Bow The first session in a six week course (to 12 December) for A JustShare event on Protecting, Promoting and Realising the anyone who is bereaved, whether recently or dating back Rights of the Child several years (Attendance is not advisable for those who have Speakers to include Simon Wright, Save the Children UK, and been bereaved within the past three months) Chris Rose, Director of Amos Trust Based on Christian principles, the course is suitable for anyone Free event but please register in advance – for further with or without a Christian faith information and registration please go to www.justshare.org.uk For further information, including cost and booking, please go to https://hsl.church and follow the links from “Connect” and “Events” Friday 23 November 0930 to 1730 St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate Thursday 8 November Introduction Day to ‘The Way of Council’ 1815 St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall A one-day introductory workshop lead by Pippa Bondy, founder of The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings: Ancient Healing Ways Autumn Lecture on SPAB’s War Council is an ancient form and a modern practice that invokes the An evening of readings and images, exploring the impact of the experience of community, where we listen to everything – people, First World War through writings and SPAB's own historic archive place, and spirit - the roots of Council are within the natural world, Booking £11 (members of SPAB £10) spanning all cultures and beliefs For further information and to book please go to www.spab.org.uk For further information, including cost, and to book please go to and follow the links from ‘What’s On’ and ‘Lectures’ https://stethelburgas.org and follow the links from ‘Events’

Friday 9 November Thursday 29 November 1000 to 1630 St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate 1830 St Dunstan in the West Deep Democracy – Level 1 Training Advent Study Group First meeting The group will meet at this A two day training event on 9 and 10 November, giving time on Thursdays during Advent, following Eucharist at 1800 f participants basic skills and insights into the Myrna Lewis method of Deep Democracy, a practical approach to facilitating inclusive Friday 30 November decision-making and conflict resolution. 1100 to 1300 London Centre for Spiritual Direction, For further information, including on cost and booking, please St Edmund King & Martyr contact Petra Hilgers on [email protected] Safeguarding for Spiritual Directors An event for spiritual directors and those training to become Saturday 10 November spiritual directors, on the issues which need to be considered 1000 to 1630 St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate when working with vulnerable people. Deep Democracy – Level 1 Training (second day) For further information, including cost and booking, please go to Please see the entry for 9 November www.lcsd.org.uk and follow the links from ‘Courses & Events’

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN NOVEMBER 2018 Friday 2 November — continued

1305 St Mary le Bow Thursday 1 Novmeber Sung Requiem Mass 1305 St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield The commemoration of All Souls

'The reunitd tastes' with music by Fauré, Schütz and Langlais

18th century French chamber music in the Italian style 1315 St Bride Fleet Street A City Music Society concert to be given by Recital: David Keating – guitar Ana Julija Mlejnik – violin Ibrahim Aziz – viola da gamba Programme: Ian Peter Bugeja – harpsichord Bach – Prelude BWV 997 Programme: Astor Piazzolla – Adios Nonino Boismortier – Trio Sonata in E minor Bach – Violin Sonata no. 3 BWV 1005 Largo Leclair – Violin Sonata in A minor Op 1 No 1 Astor Piazzolla – Invierno Porteno Royer – Le Vertigo Bach – Prelude BWV 1006 from the Premier Livre of his Pièces de clavecin Astor Piazzolla – Primavera Portena Couperin – Movements from his Premier and Troisième Brian Head – Brookland Boogie Concerts Royaux Django Reinhardt – Nuages

Admission is free with a retiring collection Free Admittance – Retiring Collection

1305 St Olave Hart Street 1900 St Stephen Walbrook Recital: Olazti Trombone Quartet Piano Concert: Felipe Rodrigues Jamie Tweed Alistair Welsh Alberto Belzunegui Samuel Taber 1930 St Botolph Aldgate

1310 St Margaret Lothbury A Brandenburg Choral Autumn Festival Event

Organ Recital: Two a cappella vocal ensembles: Richard Townend plays François Couperin "le grand" Voce Nova and Omnia Voices to mark the 350th anniversary of his birth on 10 November 1668 for a programme that will include:

Antonio Lotti – Crucifixus and Herbert Howells – Requiem 1800 St Mary at Hill Programme: Choral Evensong, followed by Thursday Conversation at 1830 Evensong will be sung by Seraphim, the St Mary at Hill Choir Voce Nova Piers Kennedy – St Peter's Grace Tessa Sanderson CBE will be in conversation with Johannes Eccard – When to the Temple Mary Went The Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkins. René Clausen – Set Me As a Seal Tessa Sanderrson competed in six Olympic Games from 1976 to – Nachtlied 1996 winning Olympic Gold in the Women's Javelin in 1984. In Fernand Laloux – Tantum Ergo March 2004 in recognition of her services to sport she was Charles Villiers Stanford – Beati Quorum Via awarded the CBE. She was the first black woman to win an Olympic Gold medal. Born in St Elizabeth, Jamaica, Tessa Omnia Voices came to England and settled in Wolverhampton. She was a Charles Villiers Stanford – Farewell, my joy Board member of the Olympic Park Legacy Company and Edward Elgar – They are at rest continues to be involved in the area through her charitable Trad. arr. by Nigel Short – The dying soldier activity and academy school. Charles Hubert H Parry – There is an old belief Richard Rodney Bennett – A Good-Night We finish with a glass of wine at 1930 William Henry Harris – Bring us O Lord God Admission is free All welcome INTERVAL

1805 St Mary le Bow Voce Nova Sung Eucharist with Orchestra Antonio Lotti – Crucifixus The Feast of All Saints Richard Lloyd – View Me, Lord Music will include the 'Little Organ Mass' by Haydn Anton Bruckner – Os Justi Giovanni Palestrina – Alma redemptoris mater Friday 2 November – Abendlied 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Organ Recital: Mark Brafield Omnia Voices Herbert Howells – Requiem

1305 St Mary at Hill Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society Tickets: £23 (premium) £18 (unreserved) £5 (children) — Tchaikovsky Quasquicentenary Mini-Series: I call the box office on 07528 776625 or book online:

(in memoriam Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky, died 6.11.1893) http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/autumn/ and follow the links Enyuan Khong, Helena Logah – Premium tickets include a reserved, a programme, and a voucher Agnieszka Zyniewicz, Aleksandra Lipke – violas for a drink which can be redeemed either before the concert or Frederick Winterson, Tom Pickles – cellos during the interval. Programme: Tchaikovsky – Souvenir de Florence, Op 70

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN NOVEMBER 2018 − continued Monday 5 November — continued

1300 St Michael Cornhill Organ Recital: Charles Andrews (formerly All Saints', Margaret Street) St Sepulchre without Newgate / Holy Sepulchre London Programme: Bach – Prelude & Fugue in F BWV 534 Selah Music Festival Karg-Elert – Harmonies du soi - Lobe den Herren

A two day event Mendelssohn – Sonata 6 Reger – Te Deum Friday 2 and Saturday 3 November Brahms – Schmücke dich o liebe Seele Lloyd Webber – William Minuet In its role as the National Musicians Church, Holy Sepulchre London Harris – Flourish for an occasion is committed to promoting and developing music that has been 1300 St Stephen Walbrook written to worship and glorify the God of the Bible. Holy Sepulchre Choral Classics – Music and Readings with the Choral Scholars London plans to promote performances of music written at any time in "Remember, Remember the Fifth of November" — history by any culture world-wide to worship, glorify or direct people Music at the time of Guy Fawkes towards God. Free with a collection In its inaugural Selah Festival Holy Sepulchre London is featuring the 1305 St Martin Ludgate role of Jazz and its spiritual foundations and connection with people Recital: Marie Finne-Bray – soprano Sonja Hendunen – piano who follow Jesus. Two brilliant groups will be performing. Ice Maidens of Finland with guest performer Jouni Takala

Programme: Day 1: Friday 2 November – "The Roots of Jazz" Divine and beautiful music from contemporary Finnish masters, This will trace the spiritual history of Jazz through many of the great evergreen melodies by international classical composers, and Jazz standards featuring the Roots of Jazz Ensemble — light rays of musical numbers by Gounod, Verdi, Puccini, John Heering, Sarah Ellen-Hughes, Andre 'Saxman' Brown, Lloyd Webber, Sondheim and Finnish composers – Melvin Reeves, Phil Wain and J Fashole-Luke Palmgren, Nummi and Salmenhaara Tickets from the website: www.hsl.church/events/selah Admission is free – Donations are requested in aid of church Doors open at 1830 and recital running costs

Day 2: Saturday 3 November — The Eight Words Tuesday 6 November This is a Jazz Suite based on the eight sayings of Jesus in St John's 1230 St Mary Abchurch Passion. The instrumentalists will be Tim Boniface (), Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. Phil Merriman (piano), Ed Babar (bass) and Jon Ormston (drums) The recital will usually include an improvisation Tickets from the website: www.hsl.church/events/selah 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Doors open at 1830 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis

Programme:

Friday 2 November — continued Mendelssohn – Andante from Chorale Variations & Fugue (based on Luther's chorale Vater unser im Himmelreich) 1945 – 2130 Gresham Centre – St Anne and St Agnes from Sonata No 6 in D minor Op 65

Bach Club – Making Waves Saint-Saëns – Prelude & Fugue in B Op 99 No 2 J S Bach – Variations on Sei gegrüßet Jesu gütig BWV 768 In the footsteps of Bach's Friday night Coffee House concerts with his Leipzig students, our 21st century version promotes today's 1300 St Stephen Walbrook exciting new acts who introduce and perform to an audience of 18- Recital: Brahms Horn Trio 30s. Laura Snowden – classical guitar will play Bach's Third Cello suite arranged by Julian Bream followed by her own composition Anpao. Magnard Ensemble wind quintet will play 1305 St Katharine Cree Prelude and Fugue in B flat minor BWV 868 and Prelude and A Concert to mark one hundred years Fugue in C sharp minor BWV 849 from Bach's Well-Tempered since the death of Sir Charles Hubert H Parry (1848-1918) Clavier and Prelude and Fugue in F sharp major Op87 No 13 by (inspired by Bach), all imaginatively The City Singers and the St Olave Singers arranged for Wind Quintet. Tickets are free for 18-30s or £10 (all others) in advance on: The programme includes three hymns – 01883 717372 or at the door from 1915. All are welcome. Repton (Dear Lord and father of mankind) Rustington (Through the night of doubt and sorrow) Monday 5 November Laudate dominum (O praise ye the Lord) 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Two songs of farewell – Recital: Kanae Furomoto – piano My soul, there is a country Programme: Never weather-beaten sail Warlock – Folksong; Preludes Two motets – Tchaikovsky – 3 movements from Crossing the bar 12 Morceaux caracteristiques Op 37bis Prevent us, O Lord and the Coronation Anthem – I was glad [with 'Vivats'] Rachmaninov – Preludes: Op 23 No 4 in D major and No 5 in G minor No charge for entry Donations for the work of the benefice of Debussy – 3 movements from Préludes Book 1 St Olave Hart Street with St Katharine Cree

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN NOVEMBER 2018 − continued Thursday 8 November — continued

1305 St Mary le Bow Tuesday 6 November — continued Recital: Angelina Kopyrina – piano

1315 St Bride Fleet Street 1305 St Olave Hart Street Recital: Eric McElroy – piano Recital: Emily Kyte – mezzo soprano Natalie Burch – piano Programme: 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Ireland – London Pieces Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series Copland – Piano Sonata Hartmut Leuschner-Rostoski (Bayreuth, Germany) 1930 St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Concert: Agony and Ecstasy 1315 St Mary at Hill Orlando Choir Recital: Square Mile Music Series Director – Peter Foggitt Stuart Raeburn – tenor Programme: From the ecstasy of love to the Agony in the Garden, George Butterworth – A Shropshire Lad this Orlando Chamber Choir concert charts a course 1415 St Bride Fleet Street through the extremes of emotion. Tours of the Church The first half of the programme celebrates the Italian Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. madrigal’s journey to England, acquiring new texts and Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day decorations along the way, with works by Jacques Arcadelt, or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: Melchior Franck, Orlando Gibbons, Giaches de Wert, [email protected] John Wilbye and others. or telephoning 020 7427 0133. The Apostle Peter's abandonment of Jesus is explored in seven Special tours for groups can also be arranged sections of Orlando di Lasso’s extraordinary psychodramatic madrigal cycle Lagrime di San Pietro. The Dutch Centre at the Dutch Church, Austin Friars Peter Foggitt's set of miniature madrigals based on The Low Countries Film Festival 6 – 8 November Spenser's Epithalamion completes the evening.

This Festival is returning to the Dutch Centre for its 4th edition Tickets: £15 Concessions £10 from Expect a great selection of the best Dutch and Flemish movies, 07930 908 666 and www.orlandochoir.org.uk Q&As with filmmakers and much more. Please go to: http://www.dutchcentre.com and follow the links 1930 St Katharine Cree Wednesday 7 November 1300 to 1345 St Stephen Walbrook Walbrook Community Choir If you like singing, or would like to try it, come and join us in your Julian Collings – Director

lunch hour! There are no auditions or fees, and ability to read Peace Time music is not essential. Sing a variety of styles of music led by experienced professional choir directors. In the season of Remembrance and 100 years after the end of the 1305 St Botolph Aldgate First World War, Ad Libitum will perform Victoria's glorious Requiem and some heavenly anthems by British composers – Recital: Joy of Singing Milene Dzuik – mezzo-soprano Ashley Thompson – piano Programme: Programme: Tomás Luis de Victoria – Requiem (Officium defunctorum) a 6 Handel – Art thou troubled;(Rodelinda) Sir Edward Bairstow – Blessed City, heavenly Salem Ombra mai fu (Serse) William Byrd – Ne irascaris, Domine Gluck – Che faro senza Euridice Sir Edward Elgar – They are at rest Saint-Saëns – My heart at thy dear voice (Samson et Dalila) John Ireland – Greater love hath no man Franck – Panis angelicus Vaughan Williams – Linden Lea Tickets: £15 & £12 (Refreshments included) are avail able on the Schubert – Trauer der Liebe door or in advance from Eventbrite For details please go to: http://www.adlibitumchoir.co.uk/concerts/ and follow the links Free entry with a retiring collection 1930 St Mary le Bow 1305 St Olave Hart Street Recital: Naoko Keatley – violin Angela Barnes – horn 'The Beauty and the Sorrow'

Zeynep Özsuca Rattle – piano An evening of words and music remembering the First World War 1315 St Dunstan in the West Presented by the Marketors' Company Admission is free Recital: Davidona Pittock – soprano Nico de Villiers – piano Please register with: [email protected] Thursday 8 November 1305 St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield Friday 9 November A City Music Society concert to be given by 1230 St Stephen Walbrook TRINITY LABAN SAXOPHONE ENSEMBLE Organ Recital: Peter Wright Gerard McChrysral – director 1305 St Mary at Hill Programme: Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society Gabrieli – Canzona XV Couperin 350th Birthday Series Stevie Wonder – Funk Medley (in celebration of Francois Couperin, born 10.11.1668) Hannah Varty – Chromacity FOLLIA Holst – Moorside Suite (arr Rainsford) William Summers - baroque flute, Diane Moore - baroque violin Claire Loveday – Duodecet II Ibrahim Aziz - viola da gamba, Yeo Yat-Soon – harpsichord William Howarth – Shopping Trolley Dragrace

Admission is free with a retiring collection A choice programme of Couperin and his contemporaries

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN NOVEMBER 2018 − continued Monday 12 November 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Recital: Kevin Ayesh – piano Friday 9 November — continued Programme:

Beethoven – Sonata in C minor Op 13 – 'Pathétique' 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Robert Starer – Five Caprices Recital: Kiyoka Ohara – flute Seungwon Lee – piano Brahms – Intermezzo in A major Op 118 No 2 Programme: Chopin – Sonata in B minor Op 58 IV – Finale: Presto, non tanto Mel Bonis – Sonata 1300 St Michael Cornhill Saint-Saëns – Airs de ballet d'Ascanio Organ Recital: Jonathan Rennert (Lunchtime Recital No 451) Schubert – Variationen über das Lied 'Trockne Blumen' Programme: Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Moore – Paean (2009) 1315 St Dunstan in the West Stanley – Voluntary in D Op 5/8 Organ Recital: Martin Ellis Webber – Prelude & Fugue on a theme of De Cabezón Programme: IN MEMORIAM Frescobaldi – Ricercare cromatico post il Credo (1635) Elgar – Nimrod from the Enigma Variations Bach – Dorian Toccata & Fugue BWV 538 Brewer – March Héroique 1915 Stainer – March in D Vierne – Tryptique Op 58 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Stanford – Marcia Eroica 1923 from Op 189 Choral Classics – Music and Readings with the Choral Scholars Popplewell – Elegy - in memory of Harold Darke "They shall grow not old" – Vaughan Williams – Three Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes Marking the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I Parry – Elegy 1913 Free with a collection Elgar – Pomp and Circumstance March No 4 in G major 1305 St Martin Ludgate 1900 Temple Church Recital: Angelina Pavlov – piano REQUIEM Programme: Movements of the Requiem Mass by different composers, Beethoven – Sonata Op 10 No 3 in D major interspersed with motets reflecting on the centenary Ravel – Valses nobles et sentimentales of the 1918 Armistice Rachmaninov – Etudes Tableaux Op 39 No 1 Leighton – Five Studies Op 22 No 4 English Chamber Choir Elizabeth Weisberg – soprano Admission is free – Donations are requested in aid of church Rebecca Tayilor – organ and recital running costs

William Vann – conductor Tuesday 13 November

Tickets: £25, £20, £10 available from Temple Music Foundation 1230 St Mary Abchurch 020 7427 5641 www.templemusic.org Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. The recital will usually include an improvisation Saturday 10 November 1300 St Lawrence Jewry 1000 to 1500 St Bride Fleet Street Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis The Lord Mayor's Show Programme: The church will open between the times shown. There will be light Vierne – Prelude and Fugue from Symphonie 1 in D refreshments and hot drinks and the parade can be viewed on a Orgelbüchlein and Orgelbüchlein Project Chorales: large screen. Occasional short tours will be available throughout Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland the day. Einer Trærup Sark – Toccata primi toni (1951)

Sunday 11 November — Remembrance Sunday 1300 St Stephen Walbrook 1050 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: Molly McWirter – cello Chris Hotson – piano Choral Eucharist during which there will be a liturgical performance 1315 St Bride Fleet Street of Duruflé's Requiem Mass sung by the St Bride's choir Recital: Christian Dawson – piano accompanied by the St Bride's Orchestra Programme: 1900- 2100 St Mary le Bow Schumann – Kinderszenen Op 15 A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event Liszt – Harmonies poétiques et religieuses:–- Funérailles Années de pèlerinage: Suisse:– Vallée d'Obermann In Remembrance Free Admittance – Retiring Collection The Minerva Consort Conductor - John Andrews 1315 St Mary at Hill Recital: Square Mile Music Series Programme: Will Todd – Remembrance Eve Baker – soprano Robert Mingay-Smith – piano Bach – Funeral Motet - O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht Programme: Fauré – Cantique de Jean Racine Mahler – Ruckert-Lieder Will Todd – Before Action Purcell – Music for a while Parry – Songs of Farewell (selection) Ravel – Cinq Mélodies populaires grecques Will Todd – Amazing Grace 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Fauré – Requiem Tours of the Church Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Tickets: £23 (premium) £18 (unreserved) £5 (children) — Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day call the box office on 07528 776 625 or book online: or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/autumn/ and follow the links [email protected] Premium tickets include a reserved seat, a programme, and a or telephoning 020 7427 0133. voucher for a drink which can be redeemed either before the Special tours for groups can also be arranged concert or during the interval.

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN NOVEMBER 2018 − continued Friday 16 November 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Organ Recital: Martin Ellis Wednesday 14 November 1305 St Mary at Hill 1300 The Hospital Church, St Bartholomew the Less Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society Recital: Helen Charlston – mezzo soprano Toby Carr – lute World War One Centenary Commemoration

Programme: 'Lettera Amorosa' TRIO SONORITÉ PLUS ONE Solo vocal works by Monteverdi and Strozzi Özlem Çelik – clarinet Antoinette Abadzhiea – violin Daryl Giuliano – cello Jelena Makarova – piano Free entry with retiring collection Programme: 1300 Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square EC1M 6AU Messiaen – Quatuor pour le fin du temps

Peace of Mind A series of word and music soundscapes 1315 St Bride Fleet Street to calm the mind and enrich the soul Recital: Sussex Camerata Longing becomes peace Rita French – violin Martin Cannings – violin This will be the third in a series of lunchtime events specially Jane Taunton – viola Christopher Cooper – cello curated by singer and teacher Deborah Hudson and Programme: Robin Isherwood, the Preacher at the Charterhouse. Haydn – String Quartet Op.33 No 6 in D These soundscapes feature both live and recorded sounds, Schubert – String Quartet Op125 No 1 in Eb

songs and musical extracts from around the world and are for Free Admittance – Retiring Collection anyone who would like to escape their busy city lives for half an hour, and immerse themselves in an aural world of calm. 1315 St Dunstan in the West Entrance is free with a suggested donation Organ Recital: Ian Shaw One further soundscape event will take place as follows: : Tuesday 11 December: From shadow to light Saturday 17 November

More information about the Charterhouse, its history, its function, and other events taking place there may be found at: 1100 to 1745 The Dutch Church, Austin Friars http://www.thecharterhouse.org/ Quarterly Meeting of the Lute Society This will include a talk by Nigel North, a recital of 6-course 1300 to 1345 St Stephen Walbrook lute duets by Nigel North and Michael Gondko, mini-recitals Walbrook Community Choir by Martin Shepherd and Musicke in the Ayre If you like singing, or would like to try it, come and join us in your For full details please go to: lunch hour! There are no auditions or fees, and ability to read https://www.lutesociety.org/pages/meetings music is not essential. Sing a variety of styles of music led by experienced professional choir directors 1930-2130 St Sepulchre without Newgate 1305 St Botolph Aldgate A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event Recital German Grandeur Ning Hui See – piano "It was all started by a mouse …. "

Programme: A Night with Disney Voices Choir Bach – Keyboard Partita No 2 in B flat major BWV 825 Schumann – Sonata No 2 in G major Op 22 Conductor – Emma Taylor

Free entry with a retiring collection In association with the Music Club of London the Disney Voices 1305 St Olave Hart Street Choir will perform a wonderful selection of familiar songs, all from Recital: Angelina Kopyrina – piano Disney films

1315 St Dunstan in the West For a full list of the works to be performed please go to: Recital: Guangmei Chen – piano https://www.brandenburg.org.uk/bcf-concerts/2018/ and follow the link Thursday 15 November Tickets: £23 (premium) £18 (unreserved) £5 (children) — 1305 St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield call the box office on 07528 776 625 or book online: A City Music Society concert to be given by http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/autumn/ and follow the links Will Barry Quartet Premium tickets include a reserved seat, a programme, and a Will Barry – piano Alex Hitchcock – saxophone voucher for a drink which can be redeemed either before the Conor Chaplin – bass Marc Michel – drums concert or during the interval.

Will Barry is the winner of The Musicians' Company Young Jazz Monday 19 November Musician Award 2017

Admission is free with a retiring collection 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Recital: Marina Koka – piano 1305 St Olave Hart Street Programme Recital: Juliette Roos – violin Pedro Borges – piano Scriabin – Preludes Op 11 Nos 1, 2, 3 and 9 Debussy – Préludes Book 1 Chopin – Barcarolle Op 60 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Organ Recital: Marina Koka performs through the joint St Lawrence Jewry and Richard Townend plays François Couperin – "le grand" Worshipful Company of Musicians Scheme for Prizewinners of the and his contemporaries Company

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN NOVEMBER 2018 − continued Wednesday 21 November

1300 to 1345 St Stephen Walbrook Monday 19 November — continued Walbrook Community Choir

1300 St Michael Cornhill If you like singing, or would like to try it, come and join us in your Organ Recital: Ashley Wagner (Birmingham) lunch hour! There are no auditions or fees, and ability to read Programme: music is not essential. Sing a variety of styles of music led by Gowers – Toccata & Fugue experienced professional choir directors Scheidemann – Galliarda ex D Fournier – Cloches 1305 St Botolph Aldgate Bonnal – La Vallée de Béhorléguy Recital: Yuanwei Ping – piano Bach – Nun freut euch BWV 734 Programme: Alain – Fantaisie 2 Szymanowski – Three Preludes from Op 1 Debussy (arr Hirsch) – Danse (Numbers 1, 8 and 2) Scriabin – Piano Sonata No 1 in F major Op 6 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Choral Classics – Music and Readings with the Choral Scholars Free entry with a retiring collection "A hymn for St Cecilia" – Celebrating the Patron Saint of Music 1305 St Olave Hart Street Free with a collection Recital: Ida Pelliccioli – piano 1305 St Martin Ludgate Recital: Aditi Kar & Wakana Gong – sopranos 1330 St Mary le Bow Yuko Yagishita - piano Advent Cantata Programme: A recital of operatic and song repertoire from the European tradition, including works by Handel, Mozart, Bellini and Hahn Thursday 22 November

Admission is free – Donations are requested in aid of church 1305 St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield and recital running costs A City Music Society Concert to mark St Cecilia's Day

to be given by: Tuesday 20 November TRINITY LABAN CHAMBER CHOIR 1230 St Mary Abchurch Stephen Jackson – conductor Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. Programme: The recital will usually include an improvisation Elgar – There is such sweet music 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Britten – Choral Dances from Gloriana Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis Imogen Holst – Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow Programme: Libby Larsen – So blessedly it sprung Reger – Wachet auf Op 52 No 2 Peter Phillips – Cecilia virgo

Bach – Wachet auf BWV 645 from (Schübler Chorales) Admission is free with a retiring collection Vierne – Pastorale (iii) and Allegro vivace (iv) from Symphonie No 1 in D 1305 St Katharine Cree Alain – Litanies St Katharine's Day with the Lloyd's Choir 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Recital: Lyrit Milgram – violin 1305 St Mary le Bow 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: The Byron Consort of Harrow School Recital: Robert Bridge – piano Programme: 1305 St Olave Hart Street Bach – French Suite No 5 BWV 816 Recital: Lyrit Milgram – violin Michelle Santiago – piano Ravel – Le Tombeau de Couperin

Free Admittance – Retiring Collection 1310 St Margaret Lothbury 1315 St Mary at Hill Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series Recital: Square Mile Music Series Hans-Georg Reinertz (Eupen, Belgium)

Chanson, Song & Aria

Johanna Chambers – soprano Robert Mingay-Smith – piano Friday 23 November Programme: Poulenc – Les Chemins de l'amour 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Parry – My Heart is Like a Singing Bird Organ Recital: Edward Hewes Mozart – Voi Che Sapete 1415 St Bride Fleet Street 1305 St Mary at Hill Tours of the Church Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Tchaikovsky Quasquicentenary Mini-Series: II Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day MARMARA PIANO TRIO or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: Mona Kodama – violin Thomas Gregory – cello [email protected] Mine Dogantan-Dack – piano or telephoning 020 7427 0133. Programme: Special tours for groups can also be arranged Tchaikovsky – Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50

Sunday 25 November EVENTS & CONCERTS IN NOVEMBER 2018 − continued 1830 St Mary at Hill Bach Vespers Friday 23 November — continued CITY BACH COLECTIVE J S Bach – Cantata: Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ BWV 116 1315 St Bride Fleet Street This cantata will be performed with other German baroque music Recital: Adam Heron – piano as in Bach's time in a service of Lutheran Vespers Programme: Beethoven – Sonata no. 7 in D major Op 10 No 3 Monday 26 November

Liszt – Ballade No 2 in B minor S 171 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Chopin – Ballade No 4 in F minor Op 52 Recital: Simone Tavoni – piano Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Programme: Bach – Prelude and Fugue: BWV 862 and BWV 863 1315 St Dunstan in the West Beethoven – Sonata No 11 in B flat Op 22 Organ Recital: Mark van Vreden Chopin – Ballade No 2 in F major Op 38 Busoni – Toccata K 287: Preludio, Fantasia and Ciaccona 1900 St Mary le Bow A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event 1300 St Michael Cornhill Organ Recital: Graham Thorpe Howell's Requiem Programme: The Iken Scholars Conductor: Matthew Dunn Wesley – Larghetto in F#

Tickets: £23 (premium) £18 (unreserved) £5 (children) — Bach – Toccata, Adagio & Fugue BWV 564 call the box office on 07528 776 625 or book online: 3 short pieces from A Little Book in Memory of Hubert Parry http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/autumn/ and follow the links (who died 100 years ago): by Bridge, Thalben-Ball and Darke Premium tickets include a reserved seat, a programme, and a Howells – Psalm Prelude, set 1/3 voucher for a drink which can be redeemed either before the Brewer – Elegy concert or during the interval. Vaughan Williams – Rhosymedre Parry – O God, our help in ages past 1930 St Mary Moorfields Chamber Music Concert 1300 St Stephen Walbrook to be given by Hornton Chamber Orchestra Choral Classics – Music and Readings with the Choral Scholars Tickets at the door: £10 adults £8 concessions "The Stars and Stripes forever" – For more details please go to our website: Celebrating Thanksgiving Day in the USA www.stmarymoorfields.net Free with a collection

1305 St Martin Ludgate Saturday 24 November Recital: Marrianne Town Smith and Naomi Felix – sopranos with piano accompanist 1830 All Hallows by the Tower Programme: Arias, songs and duets from composers including East London Chorus & Orchestra Autumn Concert Verdi, Mozart and Britten Conductor – Jessica Norton Soprano – Emily Kirby-Ashmore Admission is free – Donations are requested in aid of church Programme: and recital running costs Purcell – Te Deum and Jubilate Deo Haydn – Nelson Mass Tickets: £12 £10 concessions on the door Under 16s free Tuesday 27 November

To purchase tickets in advance please go to: 1230 St Mary Abchurch www.eastlondonchorus.org.uk Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. All are welcome The recital will usually include an improvisation

1930 St Mary le Bow 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Illuminations Organ Recital: Sebastian Heindl (Germany) A Concert to be given by The Academy of St Mary le Bow 1300 St Stephen Walbrook with the Choir of Worcester College Oxford Recital: Enyuan Khong – violin Robert Forrest – tenor Thomas Allery – organ Alex Fryer – conductor 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Programme: Recital: Raymond Yiu – piano Pärt – Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten Programme: Britten – Les Illuminatioons Haydn – Sonata in C major Hob 48 Interval Andante con espressione, Presto Britten – Hymn to the Virgin Chopin – 2 Nocturnes Op 62 Pärt – Berliner Mass Bach/ F Liszt – Variations on 'Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen' Tickets: £14 Adult £12 Concessions £5 Student Tickets available online or on the door (cash only) from 1845 Free Admittance – Retiring Collection www.academyofstmarylebow.com

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN NOVEMBER 2018 − continued Thursday 29 November — continued

1310 St Margaret Lothbury Tuesday 27 November — continued Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays J S Bach and his contemporaries 1315 St Mary at Hill Recital: Square Mile Music Series 2000 St Botolph Bishopsgate Heart of the City Community Choir Horner Quartet – “A Jazz Special” An informal concert – 'Songs to warm up your Winter'

Jonny Ford – tenor sax Michael Horner – piano All welcome – suggested donation £10 Ali Watson – double bass Tom Potter – drums

1415 St Bride Fleet Street Friday 30 November

Tours of the Church 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Organ Recital: For more information please go to: Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day https://ststephenwalbrook.net/events/ or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: [email protected] or telephoning 020 7427 0133. Special tours for groups can also be arranged 1305 St Mary at Hill Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society 1830 St Botolph Bishopsgate TRIO PIERNÉ UBS Choral Society Winter Concert Lois Geldard – flute Clare Deniz – cello Programme: Alan Brown – piano Bernstein – Chichester Psalms Programme: Chilcott – A Little Jazz Mass Kuhlau – Grand Trio in G major Op 119

All welcome – Entry free Kapustin – Trio Op 86

1315 St Bride Fleet Street Wednesday 28 November Organ Recital: Polina Sosnina

1300 to 1345 St Stephen Walbrook Programme: Walbrook Community Choir J S Bach – Fugue in G minor BWV 578 If you like singing, or would like to try it, come and join us in your Buxtehude – Passacaglia in D minor BuxWV 161 lunch hour! There are no auditions or fees, and ability to read Franck – Chorale No 1 in E major music is not essential. Sing a variety of styles of music led by Vierne – Symphony no. 3 Cantilène experienced professional choir directors Howells – 3 Psalm-Preludes Set 1 Op 32 Psalm 23 Verse 4 Leighton – Paean 1305 St Botolph Aldgate Recital: Giulia Grassi – piano Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Programme: Debussy – Images, première Série Chopin – Scherzo No 2 in B flat major Op 3 1800 St Katharine Cree

City Wind Orchestra Concert Free entry with a retiring collection New York New York

1305 St Olave Hart Street To finish the 2018 season The City Wind Orchestra perform music Recital: Katherine Clarke – viola and voice Ben Smith – piano inspired by the bustling city of New York. Paul Turner joins the CWO as soloist in Gershwin's iconic Rhapsody in Blue 1315 St Dunstan in the West Recital: Simone Alessandro Tavoni – piano Programme: Leonard Bernstein – Overture from Candide 1330 St Mary le Bow Alfred Reed – In Memoriam Advent Cantata George Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue John Zdechlik - Celebrations Thursday 29 November Nigel Hess – East Coast Pictures - New York Ennio Morricone – Once Upon a Time in America 1305 St Mary le Bow Leonard Bernstein – Symphonic Suite from 'On the Waterfront' Recital: Hayley Morgan Myles – piano Tickets: £12 £10 concessions from: 1305 St Olave Hart Street http://www.citywind.org.uk/events/ Recital: Nadine Nigl – violin Alessandro Viale – piano

1310 All Hallows by the Tower Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling

We are indebted to Dickon Love,

Company Bellringer to the Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks for the following information Open bellringing performances currently scheduled for the City of London in November 2018 – continued

Open bellringing performances Monday 12 November currently scheduled for the City of London 1730 3 hr performance on the Royal Jubilee Bells in November 2018 by the St James' Guild at St James Garlickhythe

Friday 2 November Tuesday 13 November 1300 3½ hr performance on the bells 1400 3 hr performance on the Jubilee Bells by the Ancient Society of College Youths by the Ancient Society of College Youths at St Magnus the Martyr at St Dunstan in the West

1700 3 hr performance on the Jubilee Bells

by the Ancient Society of College Youths Friday 16 November at St Dunstan in the West 1730 3½ hr performance on the bells

by the Society of Royal Cumberland Youths 1730 3 hr performance on the Royal Jubilee Bells at St Magnus the Martyr by the Ancient Society of College Youths

at St James Garlickhythe

Saturday 17 November

1000 9 hour record length performance of

Zanuss Surprise Maximus (12,000 changes) Saturday 3 November on the bells by the Ancient Society of College Youths 0900 3 hr performance on the Royal Jubilee Bells at St Magnus the Martyr by the Ancient Society of College Youths

at St James Garlickhythe

1000 3½ hr performance on the bells Sunday 18 November by the Ancient Society of College Youths 1400 3 hr performance on the Royal Jubilee Bells at St Magnus the Martyr at St James Garlickhythe

1000 3½ hr performance on the bells 1430 3½ hr performance on the bells by the Ancient Society of College Youths by the St James' Guild at St Michael Cornhill at St Magnus the Martyr

Tuesday 20 November 1800 3 hr performance on the Royal Jubilee Bells Sunday 4 November at St James Garlickhythe 1400 3 hr performance on the Royal Jubilee Bells at St James Garlickhythe Sasturday 24 November 1000 3 hr performance on the Royal Jubilee Bells by the Ancient Society of College Youths Saturday 10 November at St James Garlickhythe 1000 3½ hr performance on the bells 1000 3½ hr performance on the bells for the Lord Mayor's Show at St Lawrence Jewry at St Magnus the Martyr 1000 3½ hr performance on the bells 1000 3½ hr performance on the bells by the University of London Society for the Lord Mayor's Show at St Michael Cornhill at St Lawrence Jewry

Sunday 25 November 1400 3½ hr performance on the bells Sunday 11 November by the Society of Royal Cumberland Youths Ringing will take place across the City at St Magnus the Martyr for Remembrance Sunday and especially at 1230 to mark the 100th Anniversary of the end of the Great War City Events is published by the Friends of the City Churches in conjunction with the Archdeaconry of London and printed by Copyprints: sales@copyprintsltd.

December 2018 & January 2019 Published by FCC in conjunction with the Archdeaconry of London

This issue of City Events is dominated rightly by the Festivals of Advent and Christmas. There will be numerous special services held in the city churches and these, 129 in total, are listed in the ensuing pages. A number of the services focus on a specific charity with the thhoroughly laudable aim of raising funds for that charity. Each of these occasions will provide those attending with a wonderful opportunity to ssing carols together with wonderful choirs. One particular event, not a service, will enable participants to experience very special choral singing. On Sunday 9th December at St Bride Fleet Street a workshop will take place devoted to Benjamin Britten's Cantata ‐ St Nicolas. More dettails are given at the listing and certaainly this is a musical, and dare one say, a liturgical experience not to be missed. It should be added that even iff one does not participate in the workshop there are several opportunities for the audience to sing.

A musical and spiritual experience of a different kind is to be found at St Michael Cornhill on Monday 10th December whhen Jeremiah Stephenson will, as in previous years, perform Messiaen's notable work for organ ‐ La Nativité du Seigneur. This iconic nine‐movement musical meditation gives the listener a dramatic and deeply‐felt interpretation of texts from the Christmas story. The work is regarded as a masterpiece, and one of the great organ works of all time.

At St Mary Mooorfields, Eldon Street on Wednesday 5th December there is to be a performmance of Handel's Messiah but with a difference. This is a dramatic staging by John Ramster, directed by him and presented by the Merry Opera Company. The staged production features a cast of just 12 singers who play the parts of strangers. They find themselves in church. Each has their own story and is seeking help and comfort. Some have faith, some do not. As the oratorio unfolds each has a distinct path to follow and a part to play. Starting as strangers they come together finding hope, fulfilment and serenity through The Messiah, reaffirming their faith.

There will be numerous opportunities for people to sing carols and two of these havee 'caught the eye'. At St Mary at Hill on Tuesday 4th December there is 'Come and Sing Carols ‐ an English Christmas' and one week later on Tuesday 11th December there is 'Come and Sing Carols ‐ an American Christmas'. It will be interesting to discover the possible differences and similarities of the occasions.

Two instrummental ensemble recitals promise to be interesting occasions in that ranges of allied musical instruments will be featured. On Friday 14th December at St Mary at Hill the Londoon Flute Quintet will give a recital featuring all the members of the flute family from bass flute up to piccolo. On Wednesday 19th December at the Hospital Church of St Bartholomew the Less the A4 Brass Quartet will give a concert featuring cornet, tenor horn, and euphonium.

In the New Year the annual commemoration off the life of Admiral Arthur Phillip will take place on Monday 21st January at St Mary le Bow. Admiral Arthur Phillip was born near Cheapside annd was Commander of the First Fleet that sailed from Portsmouth in 1787 to found the colony of New South Wales, of which he was Governor and which became the new nation of Australia. All are welcome to attend the service. An address, a special feature of the service, will be given on a subject relevant to the life of Admiral Arthur Phillip.

It only remains for the team at City Events to convey seasonal greetings and good wisshes to our readers at the close of another year of providing listings of services and events taking place in our unique City of London Churches.

The Friends of the City Churches, Church of St Mary Abchurch, Abchurch Lane, London EC4N 7BA Visit: www.london‐city‐churches.org.uk for more information and the location of the churches in the City

Tuesday ─ continued REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate IN DECEMBER 2018 AND JANUARY 2019 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal

1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service St Andrew Holborn The entries below show the normal pattern of services for City Churches and 1215 Eucharist (BCP) St James Garlickhythe a few churches ‘just over the City borders’. Entries are for Church of England 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster services except where indicated otherwise. ‘1st Monday’, ‘2nd Monday’ etc 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less refer to the 1st Monday, 2nd Monday etc of the month. 1230 to 1300 Eucharist (said) with brief address St Dunstan in the West 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr While every effort is made to ensure accuracy, the services shown are subject 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) to change immediately before, during and after major festivals, at Bank or St Mary Moorfields other holidays, and during the summer months. Some regular services in the 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Woolnoth City are subject to cancellation for much or all of December, because of special services and other events. In general, churches in the City are also 1230 Holy Communion (said), followed by coffee and sandwiches closed for a period over and after Christmas and over the New Year. St Olave Hart Street 1300 Holy Communion in the Crypt, with prayers with a focus on healing In some cases the entries below refer to specific dates when it is known that (Not 18 December, 25 December – see Special Services – or 1, 22 or 29 regular services will not take place, but that will also be the case on other January) All Hallows by the Tower dates and at other churches. You are strongly advised to contact churches to 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 (Not 25 December – see check the details. Special Services – or 1 January) St Etheldreda, Ely Place 1300 to 1400 (any time) Contemporary Worship (For 11 and 18 December see For a list of weekend (particularly Sunday) services please go to the Friends Special Services Not 25 December or 1 January) of the City Churches website at www.london-city-churches.org.uk and follow St Sepulchre without Newgate / Holy Sepulchre London the links from ‘Events’ and ‘City Events’. 1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate 1305 Meditation (in the crypt chapel) St Mary le Bow Monday 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn 0715 Jewish Daily Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic orthodox rite) 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn (0700 on 1st day of Hebrew religious month; 0900 on Bank Holidays) 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, following buffet lunch at 1300 (Carol Services on 11 and For details please see www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/ 18 December Not 25 December or 1 January) St Botolph Aldersgate Bevis Marks Synagogue 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, with sandwich lunch available St Helen Bishopsgate 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1310 Holy Communion St Margaret Lothbury 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 0800 to 0830 Meditation (Moot Community – all welcome) St Mary Aldermary Come and go as you wish (Not in December or 1-4 January) 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields St Bride Fleet Street 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) (Not 24 or 31 December) 1700 to 1730 ‘Words of Hope’ – quiet informal reflective service St Bride Fleet Street St Clement Eastcheap 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 1215 Eucharist St Michael Paternoster Royal 1830 Choral Evensong (traditional) (Choral Eucharist on 3rd Tuesday) 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster (For 11 and 18 December see Special Services Not 25 December or 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 1 January) St Sepulchre without Newgate / Holy Sepulchre London St Mary Moorfields 1245 Holy Communion St Mary at Hill Wednesday 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 (Not 31 December) St Etheldreda, Ely Place 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1700 to 1800 ‘Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 0800 to 0840 Morning Taizé Chant (Moot Community – all welcome) Come and go as you wish (Not in December or 1-4 January) St Mary Aldermary St Bride Fleet Street 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) (Not 26 December) St Bride Fleet Street Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0830 Morning Prayer (Not 26 December or 2 January) 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields All Hallows by the Tower 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate Tuesday 0830 to 0915 Holy Communion (Not 26 December) St Lawrence Jewry 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public 0715 Jewish Daily Service (see Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal 0730 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church 0745 Holy Communion (said) followed by coffee and croissants St Mary at Hill 1205 RC Mass St Joseph Bunhill Row 0745 Eucharist, followed by breakfast St Mary le Bow 1215 Eucharist St Michael Paternoster Royal 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 0745 to 0915 ‘Start: Stop’ – start the day by stopping to reflect – 10 minute 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr reflections beginning every 15 minutes - just drop in 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Abchurch (Not 25 December or 1 January) St Stephen Walbrook 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square St Mary Moorfields 0800 to 0830 Morning Prayer (Moot Community – all welcome) 1245 to 1315 (3rd Wednesday) Society of Friends (Quaker) Meeting for Worship St Mary Aldermary Bunhill Fields Meeting House, Quaker Court, Banner St 0800 Morning Prayer St Michael Cornhill 1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal worship and teaching – come and go as 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields you wish St Margaret Lothbury 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) (Not 25 December or 1 January) 1300 (1st Wednesday) Eucharist followed by discussion (Please check St Bride Fleet Street with church) St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate 0830 Morning Prayer (Not 25 December or 1 or 29 January) All Hallows by the Tower /continued

Thursday ─ continued REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES IN DECEMBER 2018 AND JANUARY 2019 − continued 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn 1310 to 1350 Bible Talk, with sandwich lunch available, followed by Wednesday ─ continued Question Time St Helen Bishopsgate 1315 to 1345 Lunchtime Service (Free Church) City Temple 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 (Not 26 December or 1315 Holy Communion (Not 27 December or 3 January) 2 January) St Etheldreda, Ely Place St Martin within Ludgate 1305 to 1400 ‘Not on a Sunday’ – informal worship with prayer and song, with 1315 Holy Communion (BCP said) (during legal term-time) Temple Church coffee at start (Not 26 December or 2 January) St Katharine Cree 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’ – contemplation, reflection and silent worship 1305 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow Come and go as you wish (Not in December or 1-4 January) 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields St Bride Fleet Street 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 1310 to 1340 ‘Moorgate Talks’ Bible Talk, following buffet lunch at 1300, Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square at Amber, CityPoint, 1 Ropemaker St, EC2Y 9AW 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow Linked with St Botolph Aldersgate 1800 (Normally 1st Thursday) Choral Evensong, followed by ‘Thursday 1310 Choral Eucharist (Not 5 December – see Special Services – or Conversation’ at 1830 St Mary at Hill 26 December) St Botolph Bishopsgate 1315 Holy Communion (in the crypt) (For 19 December and 2 January please 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields check with church) St Bride Fleet Street 1805 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 1900 to 2100 City of London House of Prayer - Equipping Night Service Praise and Worship (Free Church) City Temple Come and go as you) wish (Not in December or 1-4 January) St Bride Fleet Street Friday 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1730 to 1750 Evening Prayer (Moot Community – all welcome) 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields St Mary Aldermary 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1730 Choral Evensong (during legal term-time) (Not in December For 5 and 0800 to 0840 Morning Taizé Chant (Moot Community – all welcome) 19 December see Special Services) Temple Church St Mary Aldermary 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1800 Taizé Service (Not 26 December) All Hallows by the Tower 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) (Not 28 December) St Bride Fleet Street 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1830 to 1915 Meditation Group: ‘Stressed in the City’ (Moot Community – 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public all welcome) St Mary Aldermary welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal 1900 Sung Eucharist St Andrew Holborn 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster Thursday 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr

0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1230 Pastoral Conversation or Confession (Sacrament Chapel) 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields St Mary le Bow 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) (Not 27 December) St Bride Fleet Street 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 (Not 28 December) 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow St Etheldreda, Ely Place 0830 Eucharist (Not 27 December) All Hallows by the Tower 1305 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 0900 Quiet service of morning prayers (The Mission to Seafarers – public 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn welcome) St Michael Paternoster Royal 1315 to 1400 Holy Communion (Not 28 December) St Lawrence Jewry 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service St Andrew Holborn Come and go as you wish (Not in December or 1-4 January) 1210 Holy Communion (Not 27 December) St Botolph Bishopsgate St Bride Fleet Street 1215 to 1250 Bible Talk, with sandwich lunch available, followed by 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) Question Time St Helen Bishopsgate Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1215 Eucharist (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1800 to 2200 City of London House of Prayer – ‘Pursuit’ Prayer and Worship 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster Service All welcome (Free Church) City Temple 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1800 Paraklesis (replaced on 1st Friday and during fasting periods by Service 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr of Holy Unction) Followed at 1900 to 2200 by Catechesis and Confessions 1230 Holy Communion (said) St Mary le Strand (Romanian Orthodox) St Dunstan in the West 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 1800 (1st Friday) RC Low Mass in the Extraordinary Form St Mary Moorfields St Etheldreda, Ely Place 1245 Choral Eucharist followed by light lunch and prayers (Not 27 December) 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields St Stephen Walbrook 1830 Jewish Friday Evening Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic 1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal worship and teaching – come and go as orthodox rite) (1930 in summer months – please check on you wish St Mary Woolnoth www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 (Not 27 December) St Etheldreda, Ely Place 1300 to 1330 (Normally 1st Thursday) Private prayer and reflection (In December on 13 December) St Giles Cripplegate 1300 Eucharist (normally choral on 1st Thursday) (For 6 and 20 December see Special Services) St Margaret Pattens 1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate 1305 Holy Communion (on 1st Thursday with Healing) followed by tea and biscuits (Not 13 December – see Special Services Not 27 December or 3 January) St Katharine Cree 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 1305 to 1335 ‘St Nick's Talks’ Bible Talk St Nicholas Cole Abbey

Saturday 15 December SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS 1830 Austrian Carol Service (Lutheran - in German)

IN DECEMBER 2018 St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill

Sunday 16 December Sunday 2 December 1100 Christingle Holy Communion St Olave Hart Street 1700 Advent Carol Service St James Garlickhythe 1115 Temple Church Carol Service Sung by the Temple Church Choir 1830 Advent Carol Service St Bartholomew the Great Tickets are required for this service, and priority will be given ot 1830 Advent Carol Service St Bride Fleet Street members of the Inns of Court To request tickets please contact Catherine de Satgé at [email protected] Monday 3 December The same service will be sung on Thursday 6 December at 1800 1300 Bank Churches’ Advent Carol Service St Margaret Lothbury and Monday 17 December at 1800 (tickets not required for those 1800 Festival of Advent Lessons and Carols by Candlelight two services) Temple Church St Michael Cornhill 1400 Swahili Christmas Service (Lutheran) Wednesday 5 December St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill 1300 City of London Staff and Police Carol Service All welcome 1500 Afternoon Carols (Services in this church are primarily in Welsh, St Lawrence Jewry with an English translation provided) St Benet Paul’s Wharf 1305 Eucharist, followed at 1330 by Advent Cantata – Wachet auf, 1600 A Festival of Lessons and Carols All Hallows by the Tower ruft uns die Stimme (BWV 140) by J S Bach St Mary le Bow 1830 Tomorrow I will come – Ero cras: Mid-Advent Carol Service 1310 Choral Advent Carol Service St Botolph Bishopsgate St Bartholomew the Great 1800 Christmas Carol Service Sung by the Bar Choral Society 1830 Plainsong Evensong followed by Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols Temple Church St Bride Fleet Street 1830 Short Evening Service, with hymns and homily (Followed at 1900 by Parish Supper in The Café Below – to Monday 17 December enquire about tickets please e-mail [email protected]) 1230 Telegraph Carol Service St Bride Fleet Street St Mary le Bow 1300 Parish Festival of Lessons and Carols St Michael Cornhill Thursday 6 December 1800 Temple Church Carol Service Sung by the Temple Church Choir 1300 Music and Readings for Advent with the St Margaret Pattens Choir Tickets not required for this service St Margaret Pattens The same service will be sung on Thursday 6 December at 1800 1305 Advent Holy Communion with Healing St Katharine Cree (tickets not required) and Sunday 16 December at 1115 (tickets 1800 Choral Evensong followed by Thursday Conversation at 1830 required – please see the entry for that date) Please refer to the listing in the Events Section for further Temple Church information St Mary at Hill 1830 Carol Service with Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols 1800 Temple Church Carol Service Sung by the Temple Church Choir St Bartholomew the Great Tickets not required for this service 1830 Journalists’ Carol Service St Bride Fleet Street The same service will be sung on Sunday 16 December at 1115 (tickets required – please see the entry for that date) and Monday Tuesday 18 December 17 December at 1800 (tickets not required) Temple Church 1230 Carols for All and Holy Communion St Olave Hart Street 1300 Christmas Carol Service St Andrew Holborn Sunday 9 December 1300 Lunchtime Carol Service A specially shortened service designed 1800 Advent Carol Service Followed by refreshments to fit into the lunchtime in a busy working day St Dunstan in the West St Bartholomew the Great Tuesday 11 December 1300 Seasonal Reading and Carols St Lawrence Jewry 1310 to 1350 Carols by Candlelight Led by the church choir 1310 Parish Carol Service, with the Choir and Band of Coopers’ St Sepulchre without Newgate / Holy Sepulchre London Company and Coborn School Followed by seasonal refreshments 1800 Printers’ Carol Service St Bride Fleet Street St Botolph Bishopsgate 1830 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols (in English and Dutch) 1310 to 1350 Contemporary Christmas Carols Followed by refreshments Dutch Church, Austin Friars St Sepulchre without Newgate / Holy Sepulchre London 1900 Carols by Candlelight Led by the church choir 1730 Carol Service by Candlelight Followed by seasonal refreshments St Sepulchre without Newgate / Holy Sepulchre London St Mary at Hill 1800 Service of Nine Lessons and Carols No tickets required, but much Wednesday 12 December of the seating is reserved - unreserved seating is limited and 1305 Community Carols St Botolph Aldgate available on a first come, first served basis (Service repeated on 1310 Choral Eucharist of the Advent St Botolph Bishopsgate 23 December at 1830) St Bartholomew the Great 1530 Choral Evensong 1900 Carols by Candlelight Led by the church choir This service will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 – those attending St Sepulchre without Newgate / Holy Sepulchre London should arrive before 1500 St Stephen Walbrook 1800 Christmas Carol Service St Stephen Walbrook Wednesday 19 December 1830 Parish Carol Service (RC) St Etheldreda Ely Place 1305 Blue Christmas A quiet, contemplative service recalling the God 1900 Evening Carols (Services at this church are primarily in Welsh, of love who entered into the midst of the pain and mess of our with an English translation provided) St Benet Paul’s Wharf everyday lives St Botolph Aldgate 1310 Choral Eucharist of the Advent St Botolph Bishopsgate Thursday 13 December 1315 Parish Service of Lessons and Carols Followed by refreshments 1130 Carol Service with members and guests of The Stationers’ St Dunstan in the West Company and the Lexis Nexis Choir Open to all 1730 Lord Mayor’s Carol Service All welcome St Lawrence Jewry St Martin within Ludgate 1730 Christmas Carol Sing-Along Tickets not required 1210 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate Temple Church 1300 to 1330 Bitesize Carols Short lunchtime service of traditional carols 1800 Taizé Prayer around the Crib All Hallows by the Tower St Andrew Holborn 1830 A Star-Spangled Christmas Christmas music and readings from 1305 Community Carols with the HFW Choir St Katharine Cree North America St Bartholomew the Great

Tuesday 25 December – Christmas Day (continued) SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS 1030 Christmas Day Sung Eucharist St James Garlickhythe IN DECEMBER 2018 ― continued 1100 Christmas Day Eucharist with Carols All Hallows by the Tower 1100 Christmas Day Eucharist (Lutheran) St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill Thursday 20 December 1100 Solemn Eucharist of Christmas Day with Procession to the Crib 1200 Fleet Street Carols (lunchtime service) You are advised to St Bartholomew the Great arrive early St Bride Fleet Street 1100 Choral Eucharist for Christmas Day St Bride Fleet Street 1300 Lunchtime Carol Service A specially shortened service designed 1100 Christmas Day Holy Communion St Olave Hart Street to fit into the lunchtime in a busy working day 1115 Choral Mattins for Christmas Day Temple Church St Bartholomew the Great 1300 Carol Service with the St Margaret Pattens Choir ***************************************************************************************** St Margaret Pattens 1305 Parish Christmas Carol Service All welcome – come when you can, leave when you must LECTURES, COURSES, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS St Mary le Bow IN DECEMBER 2018 1700 Fleet Street Carols (early evening service) You are advised to

arrive early St Bride Fleet Street 1830 Traditional Carols by Candlelight All Hallows by the Tower Thursday 6 December 1830 Stille Nacht A carol service with music from the Germanic Christmas Tradition St Bartholomew the Great St Dunstan in the West – Advent Study Group Friday 21 December 1830 A Christmas Carol A carol service with readings from Charles The Eucharist at 1800 on Thursdays from 29 November to Dickens and music from his time St Bartholomew the Great Christmas, followed by an Advent Study Group at 1830, which were listed in the November issue of City Events, are Sunday 23 December currently being reviewed 1100 Carols and Communion St Vedast alias Foster You are strongly advised to check with the church administrator 1830 Service of Nine Lessons and Carols Please come early to be sure at [email protected] of a seat St Bartholomew the Great 1830 Service of Nine Lessons and Carols St Bride Fleet Street 1830 St Mary at Hill Monday 24 December – Christmas Eve Thursday Conversation 1100 Choral Christmas Eucharist and Blessing of the Crib Frank Field MP in conversation with Prebendary Rose St Botolph Bishopsgate Hudson-Wilkin 1630 Sing Choirs of Angels - A service of carols, readings and choral Following Choral Evensong at 1800 Ending with refreshments music for Christmas Eve St Bride Fleet Street Please see the listing in the Events Section for further information 1800 Family Mass and Nativity (RC) St Joseph, Bunhill Row 1800 Christmas Eve ‘Midnight’ Mass St Magnus the Martyr Friday 7 December 1800 High Mass in the Extraordinary Form (RC) St Mary Moorfields 1100 to 1600 London Centre for Spiritual Direction, 1830 Service of Nine Lessons and Carols (Lutheran) St Edmund King & Martyr St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill Body and Spirit: Embodied Awareness and Movement in Prayer 2100 Sung Mass (RC) St Mary Moorfields and Spiritual Direction 2300 Midnight Mass of the Nativity Please come as soon as possible Led by Rachel Michael after the church opens at 2200 to be sure of a good seat A session in the Developing Direction programme, designed to St Bartholomew the Great foster the ongoing development and support of spiritual directors 2300 Midnight Mass St Olave Hart Street A day to explore the often neglected interrelationship of body and 2315 Midnight Choral Communion Temple Church spirit within Christian spirituality; it will create a safe space to 2330 Midnight Mass by Candlelight, with music and carol singing practise connecting with our body in stillness and in movement, from 2300 All Hallows by the Tower with a focus on developing our capacity to listen to ourselves, to 2330 Midnight Mass St Botolph Aldgate God, and to others 2330 Midnight Mass St Bride Fleet Street For further information, including cost and booking, please go to 2330 Midnight Mass St Stephen Walbrook www.lcsd.org.uk and follow the links from ‘Courses & Events’ 2345 Midnight Mass – First Eucharist of Christmas St Martin within Ludgate Tuesday 11 December 2345 Midnight Mass– First Eucharist of Christmas 1045 to 1530 St Andrew Holborn St Vedast alias Foster Oasis Day: ‘With Open Hands’ – preparing to celebrate the birth of 2400 Sung Latin Mass (RC) following Carols at 2330 Christ through a day of prayer and reflection for body, mind and St Etheldreda Ely Place spirit 2400 Midnight Mass (RC) following Carols at 2330 Led by dance movement therapist Rachel Michael, who will help St Joseph Bunhill Row those present to reflect on this theme and guide us in the use of

Tuesday 25 December – Christmas Day gesture and gentle movement in prayer 0830 Christmas Day Holy Communion (said) Temple Church Oasis Days offer a monthly time of quiet reflection to re-charge 0900 Eucharist (in the Lady Chapel) St Bartholomew the Great one’s spiritual batteries with stimulating speakers 1000 Family Mass (RC – in English) with Carols Cost £15 – Lunch and tea / coffee provided St Etheldreda Ely Place Pre-booking required by Friday 7 December for catering purposes 1000 Sung Mass (RC) St Joseph Bunhill Row To book please telephone the Revd Martin Davies on 1030 Eucharist with Carols and Blessing of Presents 07429 612642 or e-mail [email protected] St Botolph Aldgate Please enter via No 7 St Andrew Street /continued

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN DECEMBER 2018 Tuesday 4 December — continued

1300 St Stephen Walbrook Monday 3 December A Walbrook Music Trust Recital Oliver Nelson – violin & Vasileios Rakitzis – piano - 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Recital: Anna Szalucka – piano 1305 St Katharine Cree Programme: City Singers Christmas Concert Paderewski – Humoresques de Concert Op.14 Album Antique: 'Advent to Incarnation – Watching for Night' Director – Stephen Harrow FKC Organist – Colin Spinks Menuet, Sarabande, Caprice Szymanowski – Scheherazade from "Maques" A Sequence of choral music and readings to herald and celebrate Chopin – Deux Nocturnes Op 27 the arrival of the Christ child, with the promise of salvation for all Mykietyn – Four Preludes for piano Programme: Anna Szalucka performs through the joint St Lawrence Jewry C H H Parry – My soul, there is a country far beyond the stars and Worshipful Company of Musicians Scheme for Prizewinners John Stainer – How beautiful upon the mountains of the Company Dominic Veall – There sprang a flower from out a thorn – Ave Maria 1300 St Michael Cornhill John Morehen – Joys seven Organ Recital: G F Handel – A Messiah Sequence

Benjamin Newlove – Sir George Thalben-Ball Organ Scholar, and together with Advent hymns for congregation and choir – Assistant Director of Music at St Michael Cornhill and readings with seasonal significance from

Programme: Requests of works by Bach, Parry, Darke, Howells, Sister Maria Boulding, Madeleine l'Engle, Walford Davies and Edmundson Evelyn Underhill, Stephen Leake and John Masefield

Free admission with a retiring collection Free Admission with a retiring collection for the maintenance of the joint benefice of St Olave Hart Street and St Katharine Cree 1305 St Martin Ludgate Recital: Richard Austen – baroque flute / recorder 1315 St Mary at Hill Michael Jenner – baroque violin Recital: Square Mile Music Series David Winfield – baroque cello Charles MacDougall – tenor Robert Mingay-Smith – piano COME & SING CAROLS – 'An English Christmas' Michael Strange – harpsichord

Jim Wills – baritone 1830 St Andrew Holborn Programme: London Phoenix Orchestra Christmas Concert Telemann – Aria with obbligato flute Programme: 'Ihr Völker, hört!' from TWV 1:921 Arnold – The Holly and the Ivy Handel – Trio sonata Op 5 No 1 Glazunov – From The Seasons: Winter J S Bach – Aria with continuo Kelly – Improvisations on Christmas Carols 'Ich gehe hin und komme wieder zu euch' from BWV 32 Coleridge-Taylor – Christmas Overture Telemann – Trio Sonata in F minor TWV 42:f2 Rimsky-Korsakov – The Snow Maiden Suite J S Bach – Aria with obbligao violin Anderson – Christmas Festival 'Hier in meines Vaters Stätte' from BWV 32 Sleigh Ride J S Bach – Trio sonata BWV 1038 Tickets for this concert are only available on the door For more information please go to: Admission is free but donations are gratefully received in aid of http://www.phoenixorchestra.org/ church and recital running costs 1830 St Stephen Walbrook 1830 St Andrew Holborn Fight for Sight's "Carols in the City" Coram's Christmas Celebration Popular Carols sung by the Medici Choir with Readings

Join us for a festive evening of glorious singing Hosted by Philip Mould OBE from the children of the Trevor-Roberts School Choir, readings Tickets: £50 Premium £25 Adult £10 child (Booking fee applies) from special guests including much-loved children's author To obtain tickets please search: Dame Jacqueline Wilson, followed by mince pies and warming 'Fight for Sight Christmas Carol Concert' and follow the link

mulled wine. 1930 St Mary le Bow You will hear of Coram's achievements during the 350th 2018 Carers Trust Christmas Carol Concert

anniversary year of Thomas Coram's birth as we all come together with the City of London Choir for this special celebration. directed by Hilary Davan Wetton Tickets: General Admission: £17.50 The concert will feature readings from esteemed stage, television Children (Under 16): £8.50 and film actor Timothy West CBE, and BAFTA award-winning To purchase tickets please go to: actor Anthony Andrews . https://www.coram.org.uk/event/xmas2018 The festivities will commence at 1800 with a drinks reception at Mercers' Hall. The Carol Concert will commence at 1930 (doors Tuesday 4 December open at 1910)

1230 St Mary Abchurch Tickets: £25 concert only; £60 including reception Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. For more information and to purchase tickets please contact 020 7922 7756 or cityoflondonchoir.org The recital will usually include an improvisation All funds raised will go towards supporting unpaid carers 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Organ Recital: James Carpenter (London)

Thursday 6 December — continued EVENTS & CONCERTS IN DECEMBER 2018 − continued 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays music for Advent and Christmas with the Choral Scholars Wednesday 5 December 1300 to 1345 St Stephen Walbrook 1800 St Mary at Hill Walbrook Community Choir Choral Evensong, followed by Thursday Conversation at 1830 If you like singing, or would like to try it, come and join us in your Evensong will be sung by Seraphim, the St Mary at Hill Choir lunch hour! There are no auditions or fees, and ability to read music is not essential. Sing a variety of styles of music led by Frank Field MP will be in conversation with experienced professional choir directors The Reverend Prebendary Rose Hudson-Wilkins. The topic will be 'The Politics of the Kingdom'

1305 St Botolph Aldgate MP for Birkenhead since 1979. Frank Field took up the post of Recital: Maria Kustas – piano Minister for Welfare Reform in 1997 and then lead the review Programme: into Poverty and Life Chances under David Cameron. Bach – Toccata in G major BWV 916 He currently chairs the Work and Pensions Select Committee Schumann – Allegro Op 8 and the All-Party Group on Hunger. Since 2001 he has chaired Debussy – Études: 9 – pour les notes répétées the Church Conservation Trust and from 2005 the Cathedral 12 – pour les accords Fabrics Commission

Free entry with a retiring collection We finish with a glass of wine at 1930

Admission is free All are welcome 1305 St Olave Hart Street Recital: Trio Khnopff 1830 St Botolph Bishopgate Sarah Fields – violin Romain Dhainauf – cello Stephanie Salmin – piano

Admission is free but donations, on which we rely, are very welcome Carol Concert 2018 – Carols by Candlelight 1315 St Dunstan in the West We are the largest charity in the UK supporting the millions Recital: Harriet Kirk – mezzo-soprano of people affected by hearing loss. You can help us fund the 1330 St Mary le Bow research that will lead to a cure for this growing problem within Following Eucharist at 1305 — a generation. You will also be helping us to offer practical and J S Bach – Cantata: 'Wachet auf ruft uns die Stimme' BWV 140 emotional support to those living with this life-changing condition every day. 1900 St Botolph Bishopsgate Enjoy Christmas carols and songs performed by the Addison Singers and the Deansfield Greenwich School Choir

CHRISTMAS CAROL SERVICE and inspirational readings by famous names throughout the evening. Special guests include: Join us for an evening of traditional carols, choral singing and Julian Rhind-Tutt, Scarlette Douglas and Mary Loudon. guest readers for our annual Carols by Candlelight. We hope you will be able to come along to this spectacular, festive The festivities will continue after the service, with mulled wine and mince pies and the chance to win some exclusive Christmas gifts. event. Complimentary mince pies and mulled wine will be served after the service. Tickets: £25 For more information and to obtain tickets please Tickets: £10 Adults; £5 Children; £5 Concessions contact: Email: [email protected] More information and to book tickets, please visit Telephone Katie: 0203 227 6177 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/christmas-carol-service-tickets-49841305687 Please note there will be a BSL Interpreter on the night.

If you are unable to purchase tickets online, please call 020 7939 0780 for assistance, or email: Friday 7 December

[email protected] 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Organ Recital: David Cook 1900 St Mary Moorfields, Eldon Street EC2M 7LS 1305 St Mary at Hill Handel's 'Messiah' Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society A Dramatic Staging by John Ramster BELLOT ENSEMBLE Tickets: £16 (under 16s £10) Edmund Taylor – director from the Box Office: http://www.merryopera.com 'The Development of the Italian Trio Sonata' – Part 4 Tel: 03336 664 466 and at the door Programme: Works by Albinoni, Vivaldi, Tartini, Sammartini and others Thursday 6 December 1305 St Olave Hart Street 1315 St Dunstan in the West Recital: Blaze Ensemble Organ Recital: Martin Ellis Paul Guinery – piano Jude Lewis – flute A Programme of Advent and Christmas Music Sue Treherne oboe Claire Baughan – clarinet Karg – Elert :- : Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme from Op 65 Sarah Finlay bassoon Andy Feist – horn Herbert Howells - Cradle Song 1913 Programme: Peeters - Variations on ‘King Jesus hath a garden’ 1936 Op39 Mozart – Quintet for Piano & Winds in E flat K452 Reger: From Op145: Weihnachten 1915/16 Thuille – Sextet for Piano & Winds in B fkat Op 6 William Lloyd-Webber: Six Interludes on Christmas Carols 1961 Admission is free but donations, on which we rely, are very welcome Robin Milford - Pastoral Dance on the Sussex Carol

1310 All Hallows by the Tower Garth Edmundson: Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling from Christmas Suite 1937: Toccata on Von Himmel hoch

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN DECEMBER 2018 − continued Monday 10 December

1300 St Lawrence Jewry Friday 7 December — continued Recital: Irana Radić – piano 1600 to 2100 St Botolph Aldgate & Aldgate Square Programme: Aldgate Lantern Parade and Winter Fete Brahms – Three Intermezzi Op 117 Festive choirs, dance, food, drink, activities and the lighting of the Schumann – Humoreske City of London's biggest Christmas Tree

Free entry 1930 St Andrew Holborn 1300 St Michael Cornhill City Chorus presents its Christmas Concert Organ Recital: Pam Ayres – Conductor Philip Shannon – Accompanist Jeremiah Stephenson – All Saints' Margaret Street Jose Zalba-Smith – Flautist Olivier Messiaen – La Nativité du Seigneur Programme: Works by Bach, Mathias, Praetorius, Lauridsen, Rutter, Berlin and As in previous years, Jeremiah returns to St Michael Cornhill carols for the audience to sing to play this iconic nine-movement musical meditation — Tickets: £10 at the door or from www.londoncitychorus.com a dramatic and deeply-felt interpretation of texts from the Christmas story Saturday 8 December 1500 St Andrew Holborn Free admission with a retiring collection London Gay Symphonic Winds Orchestra Say Noel! LGSW will be saying Noël by performing an eclectic mix of old f avourites, new discoveries and Christmas classics 1305 St Martin Ludgate As well as the great music, there will be mulled wine, mince pies, Recital: Scordatura Women's Music Collective carol sing-a-longs, Christmas jumpers and generous quantity of and goodwill to all. Come and enjoy a joyous afternoon with us. Rachel Watson Chamber Group – clarinet, cello & piano performing works by female composers Tickets: Advance Ticket + Free Programme from Programme: http://www.ticketsource.co.uk/lgsw Hildegard Von Bingen – O Eterne Deus NB Online sales close at 1030 on 8 December Hilary Tann – The Cresset Stone Tickets on the door from 1430 Augusta Holmès – Fantaisie 1930 St Botolph Bishopsgate Thea Musgrave – Canta, Canta Concert: 'A Cantus Christmas' Fanny Hansel – Fantasy The Cantus Ensemble directed by Dominic Brennan Admission is free but donations are gratefully received in aid of Join the Cantus Ensemble for our now famous Christmas concert. church and recital running costs An evening which mixes much-loved Christmas choral anthems with fantastic arrangements of modern day Christmas hits - all helped along with mince pies and mulled wine.. More information and tickets at: www.thecantusensemble.com 1830 St Andrew Holborn

Sunday 9 December Nicholls Spinal Injury Foundation (NSIF)

1345 or 1800 St Bride Fleet Street Following the success of last year’s ‘A Not So Silent Night’, Come and Sing: Britten – St Nicholas our Christmas Carol Concert is back for a third year.

We invite you to buy a ticket and come along to our performance Performances: From the amazing Walton Voices, of Benjamin Britten's St Nicolas Cantata. a handbell group and we are pleased to announce that If you would like to take part and join the choir for a day, sign up for Katie Marshall will be back. Check out her incredible voice: our Workshop and let conductor, Matthew Morley, guide you through http://katiemarshallmusic.com/music.html

learning the music and the evening performance. All money raised from the event will go directly to NSIF.

Previous experience of singing in a choir will be an advantage but Tickets are £20 + booking fee Please visit: not a prerequisite! You'll be standing alongside the professional https://www.nsif.org.uk/get-involved/events/christmas-carol-concert/ singers in our choir so it's a rare opportunity to brush shoulders

with some of the best ensemble singers in the UK.

Vocal Scores will be provided.

Buy a £20 Workshop Ticket for a day of music-making with 1930 The Great Hall – St Bartholomew's Hospital professionals, OR if you don't fancy singing but would like to listen, the workshop will culminate in a concert performance at 1830 Barts Academic Festival Choir & Orchestra Christmas Concert advance ticket price £10 (£15 on the door).

Schedule for the Workshop:: Programme: Tchaikovsky – Symphony No 4 in F minor Op 36 1345 Registration Choruses from Bach's Magnificat and the Christmas Oratorio 1400 to 1600 Workshop ending with Christmas Carols 1600 to 1700 Break – tea and cake provided 1700 to 1800 Tutti Rehearsal Tickets at the door on the night: £15 Concessions £10 1800 Performance There will be wine and mince pies in the interval Join us for a relaxed evening! For full information and tickets please visit: www.stbrides.com/ and follow the appropriate link All profits will be going to the Barts Cancer Unit in the 'News' section on the first page

Tuesday 11 December — continued EVENTS & CONCERTS IN DECEMBER 2018 − continued 1300 St Stephen Walbrook A Walbrook Music Trust Recital Alexandra Caldon – violin Alex Caldon – trumpet Monday 10 December — continued Libby Burgess – piano

1930 St Mary at Hill 1310 St Sepulchre without Newgate / Holy Sepulchre London Orlando Chamber Choir Carols by Candlelight led by the choir of Holy Sepulchre London Oliver John Ruthven – director Graham Thorpe – organ 1315 St Mary at Hill Puer natus est nobis Recital: Square Mile Music Series Christmas for Queen and commoners Charles MacDougall – tenor Robert Mingay-Smith – piano

At the heart of Orlando Chamber Choir's Christmas concert is COME & SING CAROLS – 'An American Christmas' Thomas Tallis' large-scale Missa Puer natus est nobis, based on the festive plainchant of the same title. 1830 Gresham Centre – St Anne & St Agnes The City Chamber Choir Tallis' magnificent mass is interspersed with Advent music from ‘O Magnum Mysterium’ – music and readings for Christmas William Byrd's “Gradualia” (1605), written to provide the recusant Catholic community with settings of the Mass Propers. Each of Stephen Jones – conductor Ivan Lingford – organ Byrd’s compositions is a small shining jewel of musical David Kemp – reader

inventiveness and text characterisation. The Christmas An early-evening concert of seasonal music and readings based constellation is completed by music from Tudor times to modern around settings of the text ‘O magnum mysterium’, plus City day, including Robert Parsons' exquisite Ave Maria and works by Chamber Choir’s usual much-loved mix of carols old and new. Ralph Vaughan Williams, Boris Ord, Benjamin Britten and Malcolm With a chance for wine and mince-pie fuelled audience Ruthven ……. participation! Drinks are served from 1800 but the stars of Orlando Chamber Choir's Christmas concerts are Programme: invariably the audience when they join in with the traditional carols! Poulenc – O magnum mysterium There will be festive readings too - with wine, mince pies and an Milhaud – O magnum mysterium interval raffle to complete this all-sensory Christmas evening. McDowall – Regina coeli

Admission is free with a voluntary donation Gjeilo – O magnum mysterium 1930 Temple Church Arr. Claas – Maria durch ein Dornwald ging As part of the Temple Winter Festival Schütz – Supereminet omnem scientiam; Concert: Pro hoc magno mysterio pietatis The Temple Church Choir and Temple Singers Martyn-West – In the frost of the night time Samuel Wilson (Composer in Residence) – Roger Sayer – director Greg Morris – organ The Kings’ Gloria, for choir and audience (first performance) Programme: With music by Praetorius, Bullard, Chilcott and J. S. Bach and Works by Warlock, Britten, Tavener, Samuelson, Tippett, carols for choir and audience Cornelius, Chilcott, Peacock, Ridout, Gardner, Lloyd and Perry Tickets: £15 £10 (under 18s and full-time students) Tickets: £30 £25 £20 £10 available at the door or by visiting: For more details and to purchase tickets please visit: www.citychamberchoir.org.uk www.templemusic.org and follow the link at 'Concerts' Phone enquiries may be made to: 07715 351 744

Tuesday 11 December 1900 St Botolph Bishopsgate

1230 St Mary Abchurch Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. Multiple Sclerosis Society Carols by Candlelight The recital will usually include an improvisation 1300 Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square EC1M 6AU Join us for a truly memorable evening of carols, choral music and Peace of Mind A series of word and music soundscapes readings in support of our work to stop MS.

to calm the mind and enrich the soul General admission tickets cost £25. Seating is unreserved, split From shadow to light across the ground floor and the balcony of the church. This will be the fourth and final event in a series specially curated  Premium tickets cost £65. This includes seating at the front of the by singer and teacher Deborah Hudson and church and a drinks reception after the concert. Robin Isherwood, the Preacher at the Charterhouse. For tickets please search: These soundscapes feature both live and recorded sounds, 'M S Society Carols by Candlelight' and follow the link songs and musical extracts from around the world and are for anyone who would like to escape their busy city lives for half an 1900 St Sepulchre without Newgate / Holy Sepulchre London hour, and immerse themselves in an aural world of calm. Carols by Candlelight led by the choir of Holy Sepulchre London

Entrance is free with a suggested donation 1930 St Stephen Walbrook More information about the Charterhouse, its history, its function, Carols by Candlelight and other events taking place there may be found at: Christmas Concert in aid of the Michael Varah Memorial Fund http://www.thecharterhouse.org/ Carols sung by the Vasari Singers, hosted by Sir Richard Stilgoe 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Tickets: £30 pew, £20 bench (restricted view) available from: Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis [email protected] Programme: Bach - Fugue on the Magnificat BWV 733 Messiaen – Three movements from La nativité du Seigneur — Les anges; Les bergers; Les mages Vierne – Adagio and Final from Symphonie No 1 in D

Thursday 13 December — continued EVENTS & CONCERTS IN DECEMBER 2018 − continued 1845 St Katharine Cree

Lloyds Choir Christmas Concert

Wednesday 12 December with Meridian Brass

1300 to 1345 St Stephen Walbrook Jacques Cohen – Conductor Colin Spinks – Organist Walbrook Community Choir Traditional Christmas Music and new works for choir If you like singing, or would like to try it, come and join us in your Programme: lunch hour! There are no auditions or fees, and ability to read Jacques Cohen – Cradle Song, The Lamb music is not essential. Sing a variety of styles of music led by Bernard Hughes – Shepherd's Carol experienced professional choir directors Steven Griffin – On Christmas Night 1300 Temple Church Percy Fletcher – Ring Out Wild Bells As part of the Temple Winter Festival Ronald Corp – The Bells of Paradise Organ Recital: Roger Sayer Carl Rutti – A Patre Ugenitus Programme: John Ireland – The Holy Boy Mendelssohn – Sonata no. 1 in F minor R Vaughan Williams – The Truth From Above Elert – Symphonic fantasia Jesu, meine Freude Patrick Hadley – I Sing of a Maiden Brahms – Six pieces from Choral preludes Op 22 Ian Brentnall – Away in a Manger

Free Admission As well as traditional carols for choir and audience

1305 St Botolph Aldgate Tickets: £15 (£10 for students) including refreshments, Community Carols available on the door, in advance from choir members or An opportunity to sing carols and to hear the story of Christ's birth Eventbrite.co.uk (booking charges will apply) 1305 St Olave Hart Street 1900 St Andrew Holborn Recital: Boris Bizjak – flute Lana Trotovsek – violin Organ Recital: The Anglo-Omani Society Maria Canyigueral – piano and friends invites you to join them for an evening In a programme of music with a festive flavour with organist Ian Hockley of the Royal Opera House Muscat Admission is free but donations, on which we rely, are very welcome 1310 St Sepulchre without Newgate / Holy Sepulchre London Free Admission but you are asked to register. To do this please search: Organ Recital with Ian Hockley and follow the link Recital: Halcyon Quartet

Millie Ashton – violin I Leidy Sinclair – violin II For more information please visit: http://www.aos-ngg.com/

Nathalie Green-Buckley – viola HeeYeon Cho – violoncello Friday 14 December The Halcyons will perform a monthly lunchtime concert 1230 St Stephen Walbrook as part of their residency at Holy Sepulchre London, Organ Recital: Polina Sosnina home of the Musicians' Chapel 1305 St Mary at Hill Free Admission Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society Couperin 350th Birthday Series Finale

Thursday 13 December FLAUGISSIMO ENSEMBLE

1310 St Margaret Lothbury Yu-Wei Hu, Boris Bizjak – flutes Johan Löfving – theorbo Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays music for Christmas from Masumi Yamamoto – harpsichord all over Europe Programme: François Couperin – La Françoise, from Les Nations 1830 St Botolph Bishopssgate Marin Marais – Pièces en Trio in G

Jean-Marie Leclair – Deuxième Recréation 1800 to 1930 St Mary at Hill

Annual Festival of Carols Recital: London Flute Quintet

It’s that time of year again! The Eve Appeal’s Annual Festival of Formed in 2015, this exciting ensemble uses all the Carols is returning for its 8th magical year. There will be a candlelit members of the flute family from bass flute to piccolo, procession, live music and a drinks & canapé Reception – all whilst Their programme includes Winter from the Four Seaons by raising crucial funds for our ground-breaking research and much- Vivaldi, excepts from the Nutcracker, some Bach, and needed awareness of the five gynaecological cancers. Alborada del gracioso by Ravel.

The service itself will begin at 1900 and last approximately Tickets £10 For more information and tickets please search: one hour before the Reception follows. 'London Flute Quintet – Winter Music Tickets' and follow the link

Tickets: £15 for the Service, 1915 All Hallows by the Tower £35 for the Service and the Reception City Music Services Christmas Concert Admission free All welcome For full details and to purchase tickets please search: 1930 Temple Church 'Eve Appeal Festival of Carols' and follow the link As part of the Temple Winter Festival

Concert: Handel's Messiah

Collegium Musicum of London The Temple Players Greg Morris – director Grace Davidson – soprano James Hall – alto James Way – tenor William Thomas – bass Tickets: £45 £35 £25 £15 Booking: www.templemusic.org

Monday 17 December EVENTS & CONCERTS IN DECEMBER 2018 − continued 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Recital: Catherine Cheung – piano Saturday 15 December Programme: Schumann – Sonata No 2 in G minor Op 22 1330 & 1800 Chopin – Barcarolle Op 60 St Sepulchre without Newgate / Holy Sepulchre London Rachmaninov – Preludes from Op 23: Nos. 4, 5, 6 & 7

The Metropolitan Police Choir 1300 St Michael Cornhill Parish Festival of Lessons and Carols: invites you to join them for their Christmas Concert,. 1815 St Dunstan in the West The concert will feature Christmas songs and carols Freshfields Choir Christmas Carol Concert and some of the choir's songs performed throughout the year.. Followed by refreshments There will be plenty of opportunity for the audience to sing along All welcome Free Admission and really get into the festive spirit. All welcome! . Tuesday 18 December Tickets: £8 adults, £4 age 11 and under, on the door or: metpolicechoir.co.uk 1230 St Mary Abchurch 1900 St Bartholomew the Great Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. The recital will usually include an improvisation

The Southend Boys and Girls Choirs 1300 St Lawrence Jewry

present an evening of festive music, including Carols for Choir and Audience Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of Carols Featuring the renowned choir of St Lawrence Jewry with harp accompaniment, directed by Catherine Ennis, with readings for Christmas and music by John Rutter, Bob Chilcott, Caccini contributed by the Vicar, Canon David Parrott All are welcome and much more, including popular audience carols.

Tickets: £11 (£1 under 16s) 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Book via 01702 465 460 or book online at: A Walbrook Music Trust Recital http://www.greatstbarts.com/ Jane Gilbert – flute Neil Wright – organ / piano and follow the links from 'Music and Concerts' and 'Concerts' . 1310 St Sepulchre without Newgate / Holy Sepulchre London 1930 St Katharine Cree Contemporary Christmas Carols Heroes Band Concert 1730 St Mary at Hill Christmas is Coming – A Festive Concert Carol Service by Candlelight All are welcome Tickets: £8 all ages 1800 Temple Church For more information about the band and tickets please visit: Concert: Celebrate Christmas with Carols https://www.theheroesband.org.uk Supporting the work of 1930 St Botolph Bishopsgate Advocate (Bar Pro Bono Unit) and LawWorks

Concert: 'Christmas with the Godwine Choir' Collegium Musicum of London Chamber Choir

Directed by Edward Hughes and Alex Davan Wetton Join us to celebrate Christmas and to support those in need of Come and join the Godwine Choir this Advent for a yuletide access to justice. The evening will include a mix of sing-along celebration of traditional and modern carols. As well as congregation carols and musical performances as well as seasonal festive favourites for choir and audience, we will be readings from guests to get you into the festive spirit! performing carols from around the world and across the Tickets: £10 to £45 centuries. In a beautiful candlelit church, with mulled wine Booking: and warm mince pies, it promises to be a magical evening https://www.eventbrite.com/e/celebrate-christmas-with-carols-at-temple-church

sure to get you into the Christmas spirit! 1900 St Sepulchre without Newgate / Holy Sepulchre London Highlights of the programme include: Carols by Candlelight

Leontovych – Carol of the Bells The Halcyon Quartet, current recipients of the Friends of the Sweelinck – Hodie Musicians’ Chapel Ensemble-in-Residence at Holy Sepulchre Whitacre – Lux Aurumque London, will perform and collaborate with the Choir at Holy Gardner – Tomorrow Shall be my Dancing Day Sepulchre for this special Carol Service, including a new commission by Joshua Pacey Tickets: Standard £10 Concessions £5 — Children under 16; Seniors over 60; Students with valid ID Wednesday 19 December

For tickets please search: 1300 The Hospital Church of St Bartholomew the Less 'Christmas with the Godwine choir' and follow the link A City Music Foundation Lunchtime Recital

Sunday 16 December A4 Brass Quartet

1600 All Hallows by the Tower Jamie Smith – Cornet Jonathan Bates – Tenor Horn A Festival of Lessons and Carols All welcome Michael Cavanagh – Baritone Horn Chris Robertson – Euphonium 1700 St Botolph Bishopsgate

Concert: 'Serenade at Christmas' Programme: A celebration of Christmas with carols sacred and secular arranged for brass. The programme includes works by An evening of song by candlelight, with singers from the West Poulenc, Bartók , Smetana and Jonathan Bates, as well as a End, Opera and TV proudly supporting Crisis at Christmas number of traditional carols, many of them arranged by For more information and tickets please search: Jonathan Bates.

Free mince pie and a glass of wine after the recital 'Serenade at Christmas at St Botolph Bishopsgate' and follow the link Admission is free

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN DECEMBER 2018 − continued SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS

IN JANUARY 2019

Wednesday 19 December — continued

Sunday 6 January

1310 St Margaret Lothbury Organ Recital: Christmas Carol Service with choir, brass and 1100 Choral Eucharist for the Epiphany St Michael Cornhill organ 1830 Epiphany Carol Service St Bartholomew the Great

Monday 7 January 1730 Temple Church

Christmas Carol Sing-along 1730 Plow Monday Service St Lawrence Jewry Tickets are not required Plow, or Plough, Monday is the traditional start of the English Requests will be taken agricultural year ― it is generally the first Monday after Epiphany. This will replace our usual Wednesday Evensong service References to the day date back to the late 15th century and it traditionally saw the resumption of work after the Christmas period.

Thursday 20 December Wednesday 9 January

1305 St Mary le Bow 1310 Festal Choral Eucharist of the Epiphany St Botolph Bishopsgate The Parish Christmas Carol Service (come when you can, leave when you must) Thursday 10 January

1310 All Hallows by the Tower 1210 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate Festive Organ Recital by Jonathan Melling and David Cook 1800 Choral Evensong followed by Thursday Conversation at 1830 Please refer to the listing in the Events Section for further 1830 All Hallows by the Tower information St Mary at Hill Traditional Carols by Candlelight Friday 11 January

1900 for 1930 St Andrew Holborn 1200 City New Year Service St Michael Cornhill Carols by Candlelight – Islington Choral Society

Michael Waldron – Conductor Sunday 13 January

Jenny Stafford – Soprano Laurence Williams – Baritone 1100 High Mass followed by the Blessing of the River Thames, and The programme includes Bob Chilcott's 'On Christmas Night' — those who live on, work on or use it, from London Bridge a musical celebration of the Christmas Story, St Magnus the Martyr and carols for the choir and audience The parishes of St Magnus the Martyr (on the north bank of the Tickets: General Admission £13.20 River Thames) and Southwark Cathedral (on the south bank) meet Balcony (restricted view) £6.60 in the middle of London Bridge, and each January the clergy of

To purchase tickets please go to: both churches process to this point and perform a short service https://www.islingtonchoralsociety.co.uk/events during which a wooden cross is cast into the river The custom harks back to an ancient Orthodox Church ceremony

Monday 14 January Friday 21 December

1230 St Stephen Walbrook 1300 to 1330 Choral Classics 30 minutes of music and readings St Stephen Walbrook Organ Recital: Jon Dods Monday 21 January

1305 St Mary at Hill 1130 The Admiral Arthur Phillip Annual Commemoration Service – Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society St Mary le Bow Akito Goto – cello Rosie Richardson – piano Admiral Arthur Phillip, born near Cheapside, was Commander of Programme: the First Fleet that sailed from England in 1787 to found the colony of Poulenc – Cello Sonata, 1st movement – Tempo di Marcia New South Wales, of which he was Governor and which became the Schumann – Adagio & Allegro new nation of Australia . All are welcome to attend the service Mendelssohn – Variations Concertantes Op 17 1300 to 1330 Choral Classics 30 minutes of music and readings St Stephen Walbrook

1800 St Mary le Bow Thursday 24 January

Concert: Carols by Candlelight in the Crypt Chapel to be given by 1900 Solemn Evensong for the Week of prayer for Christian Unity Iona Consort – vocal ensemble Refreshments follow the Service St Dunstan in the West Ben Lewis-Smith – conductor Tickets from Monday 28 January

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/carols-by-candlelight-tickets-48980182043 1300 to 1330 Choral Classics 30 minutes of music and readings St Stephen Walbrook

LECTURES, COURSES, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JANUARY 2019 IN JANUARY 2019

Friday 4 January

1230 St Stephen Walbrook Organ Recital: Emma Gibbins 1305 St Mary at Hill Tuesday 8 January 2019 Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society 1045 to 1530 St Andrew Holborn For information please visit: www.musicathill.org.uk Oasis Day: ‘A Mindful New Year’ Led by Shaun Lambert Oasis Days offer a monthly time of quiet reflection to re-charge one’s spiritual batteries with stimulating speakers Cost £15 – Lunch and tea / coffee provided Pre-booking required by Friday 4 January for catering purposes To book please telephone the Revd Martin Davies on Monday 7 January 07429 612642 or e-mail [email protected] Please enter via No 7 St Andrew Street 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Recital: Yoon-Sheek Shin – piano

1300 St Michael Cornhill Organ Recital: Oliver MacFarlane Free admission with a retiring collection

Thursday 10 January 1830 St Mary at Hill Thursday Conversation Following Choral Evensong at 1800 Ending with refreshments Tuesday 8 January 2019

Please see the listing in the Events Section for further information 1230 St Mary Abchurch Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. The recital will usually include an improvisation

1300 St Lawrence Jewry Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis

Thursday 24 January 1300 St Stephen Walbrook St Sepulchre without Newgate / Holy Sepulchre London A Walbrook Music Trust Recital Elysium Brass Alpha Course 2019

The launch of Alpha 2019 at Holy Sepulchre London will take place on 24 January 1315 St Bride Fleet Street For more details please go to https://hsl.church and follow Recital: For more information please search 'St Bride Fleet Street' the links from ‘Connect’ and ‘Try Alpha’ and go to the Calendar and click on Tuesdays and Fridays

Free Admittance – Retiring Collection :

1415 St Bride Fleet Street Tours of the Church Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: [email protected] or telephoning 020 7427 0133. Special tours for groups can also be arranged

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JANUARY 2019 Friday 11 January

1230 St Stephen Walbrook Organ Recital: Matthew Geer

Wednesday 9 January 1305 St Mary at Hill Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society 1300 to 1345 St Stephen Walbrook David Richmond – violin Anna Lightbown – piano Walbrook Community Choir Programme: If you like singing, or would like to try it, come and join us in your Lili Boulanger – Deux Morceaux lunch hour! There are no auditions or fees, and ability to read Sergei Prokofiev – Five Pieces Op 35b music is not essential. Sing a variety of styles of music led by Reynaldo Hahn – Sonata for violin & piano in C major experienced professional choir directors 1315 St Bride Fleet Street 1305 St Botolph Aldgate Recital: For more information please search 'St Bride Fleet Street' Recital: For more information please visit: and go to the Calendar and click on Tuesdays and Fridays https://www.stbotolphs.org.uk/music/choirs-and-concerts Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Free entry with a retiring collection 1315 St Dunstan in the West 1305 St Olave Hart Street Organ Recital: Martin Ellis Recital: Carolina Blaskovic – violin William Fielding – piano Monday 14 January 1315 St Dunstan in the West Recital: For information please visit: 1300 St Lawrence Jewry https://www.stdunstaninthewest.org/services-and-events Recital: Antonio Oyarzabal – piano 1300 St Michael Cornhill 1315 St Sepulchre without Newgate / Holy Sepulchre London Organ Recital: Jonathan Rennert Recital: Halcyon Quartet Free admission with a retiring collection : Free Admission 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Choral Classics – Music and Readings with the Choral Scholars

Free admission with a collection

Tuesday 15 January 2019

1230 St Mary Abchurch Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. Thursday 10 January The recital will usually include an improvisation

1305 St Olave Hart Street 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Recital: Elena Abad – violin Francesco Rocco – guitar Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis : 1310 All Hallows by the Tower 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling A Walbrook Music Trust Recital Holly Cook – flute 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays 'A New Year Miscellany' 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: For more information please search 'St Bride Fleet Street' 1800 St Mary at Hill and go to the Calendar and click on Tuesdays and Fridays Choral Evensong, followed by Thursday Conversation at 1830 Evensong will be sung by Seraphim, the St Mary at Hill Choir Free Admittance – Retiring Collection

The Reverend Prebendary Rose Hudson-Wilkins 1315 St Mary at Hill will be in conversation with Steven Powles, a specialist criminal Recital: Square Mile Music Series lawyer with particular expertise in international crime, extradition Ivan Hovorun – piano and human rights Programme:

We finish with a glass of wine at 1930 J S Bach – Chaconne Admission is free All welcome R Wagner – Tannhäuser

1415 St Bride Fleet Street Tours of the Church Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: [email protected] or telephoning 020 7427 0133. Special tours for groups can also be arranged

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JANUARY 2019 − continued Monday 21 January

1300 St Lawrence Jewry Recital: Dinara Klinton – piano Wednesday 16 January 1300 St Michael Cornhill 1300 The Hospital Church of St Bartholomew the Less Organ Recital: Philip Berg City Music Foundation Lunchtime Recital Series Free admission with a retiring collection Ariana Kashefi – solo cello Programme: 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Bach – Cello Suite in G major BWV 1006 Choral Classics – Music and Readings with the Choral Scholars Sibelius – Theme and Variations for solo cello Free with a collection Walton – Passacaglia for solo cello

Hindemith – Sonata for solo cello Op 25 No 3 1305 St Martin Ludgate Casals – Song of the Birds Recital: For details please visit the website: Free entry with retiring collection http://www.stmartin-within-ludgate.org.uk/music/

Admission is free but donations are gratefully received in aid of 1300 to 1345 St Stephen Walbrook church and recital running costs Walbrook Community Choir

If you like singing, or would like to try it, come and join us in your 1130 St Mary le Bow lunch hour! There are no auditions or fees, and ability to read The Admiral Arthur Phillip Annual Commemoration Service music is not essential. Sing a variety of styles of music led by experienced professional choir directors Admiral Arthur Phillip, born near Cheapside, was Commander of the First Fleet of eleven ships that sailed from Portsmouth in 1787 1305 St Botolph Aldgate to found the colony of New South Wales, of which he was Governor Recital: For more information please visit: and which became the new nation of Australia https://www.stbotolphs.org.uk/music/choirs-and-concerts An Address will be given on a relevant subject.

Free entry with a retiring collection All are welcome to attend the service

1305 St Olave Hart Street Recital: Lucy Cox – soprano Tom Jesty – piano Tuesday 22 January

1315 St Dunstan in the West 1230 St Mary Abchurch Recital: For information please visit: Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. https://www.stdunstaninthewest.org/services-and-events The recital will usually include an improvisation

1300 St Lawrence Jewry Thursday 17 January Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis

1305 St Olave Hart Street 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Recital: Freya Goldmark – violin Craig White – piano A Walbrook Music Trust Recital Katherine Clarke – viola 1310 All Hallows by the Tower Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling 1305 St Mary le Bow Lunch time Recital 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Programme: Music by Purcell Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays 'Bach and Buxtehude' (1) 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: For more information please search 'St Bride Fleet Street' Friday 18 January and go to the Calendar and click on Tuesdays and Fridays

1230 St Stephen Walbrook Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Organ Recital: Michael Nicholas 1315 St Mary at Hill 1305 St Mary at Hill Recital: Square Mile Music Series Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society Emma Besselaar – cello Akito Goto – cello Programme: Music by J S Bach, Zoltán Kodály and Phillip Glass

1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: For more information please search 'St Bride Fleet Street' 1415 St Bride Fleet Street and go to the Calendar and click on Tuesdays and Fridays Tours of the Church Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: [email protected] or telephoning 020 7427 0133. Special tours for groups can also be arranged

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JANUARY 2019 − continued Thursday 24 January — continued

1800 St Stephen Walbrook

A Brandenburg Choral Festival Concert

Oakham School Chamber Choir Wednesday 23 January Rutter Requiem 1300 to 1345 St Stephen Walbrook Walbrook Community Choir Tickets: £19 (Premium), £14 (Unreserved), £5 children from If you like singing, or would like to try it, come and join us in your www.brandenburg.org.uk/January or 07528 776 625 lunch hour! There are no auditions or fees, and ability to read music is not essential. Sing a variety of styles of music led by experienced professional choir directors Friday 25 January

1230 St Stephen Walbrook 1305 St Botolph Aldgate Organ Recital: Peter Foggitt Recital: For more information please visit: https://www.stbotolphs.org.uk/music/choirs-and-concerts

Free entry with a retiring collection 1305 St Mary at Hill

Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society 1305 St Olave Hart Street Australia Day Concert Recital: Elena Toponogova – piano Please check www.musicathill.org.uk for details 1315 St Dunstan in the West Recital: Marcelina Ziezio – violin Connie Luk – piano 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: For more information please search 'St Bride Fleet Street' and go to the Calendar and click on Tuesdays and Fridays

Thursday 24 January Free Admittance – Retiring Collection 1305 St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield

City Music Society 75th Anniversary Concert Monday 28 January to be given by GUILDHALL WIND ENSEMBLE 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Richard Benjafield – director Recital: Zhu Sun – piano

Programme: 1300 St Michael Cornhill Mozart – Serenade for 13 wind instruments in B flat K 361 Organ Recital: (Gran Partita) Benjamin Newlove – Sir George Thalben-Ball Organ Scholar, and Assistant Director of Music at St Michael Cornhill City Music Society presented its first concert on 4th January 1944 in the Guildhall School of Music in its original home in Free admission with a retiring collection John Carpenter Street. 75 years later, to celebrate our anniversary, we present an outstanding wind ensemble from 1300 St Stephen Walbrook the current Guildhall School of Music, playing Mozart's Choral Classics – Music and Readings with the Choral Scholars

Gran Partita, first played in a benefit concert in Vienna Free with a collection in 1784. In one of the most remarkable works for wind band ever written Mozart explores an extraordinary spectrum of 1305 St Martin Ludgate emotions, enhanced by the glorious combination of the Recital: For details please the website: darkly-hued basset and four French horns http://www.stmartin-within-ludgate.org.uk/music/ Admission is free with a retiring collection Admission is free but donations are gratefully received in aid of church and recital running costs 1305 St Olave Hart Street Recital: Julia White – oboe Andrea Kmecova – piano

Tuesday 29 January

1310 All Hallows by the Tower 1230 St Mary Abchurch Organ Recital: David Cook Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. The recital will usually include an improvisation

1310 St Margaret Lothbury 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis Lucas Arvidsson (from Hassleholm, Sweden)

1300 St Stephen Walbrook A Walbrook Music Trust Recital Thomas Plater – saxophone

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JANUARY 2019 − continued Wednesday 30 January — continued

1900 St Stephen Walbrook Tuesday 29 January — continued 'Treasures of Byzantium' 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Cantata Dramatica – Charity Concert Recital: For more information please search 'St Bride Fleet Street' and go to the Calendar and click on Tuesdays and Fridays in Aid of Lepra on World Leprosy Day

Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Four stunning new choral pieces by Nick Bicât and Solfa Carlile including the World Premiere of "Akathistos" by Nick Bicât, 1315 St Mary at Hill performed by Cantata Dramatica Soloists Recital: Square Mile Music Series Conductor – James Potter, Edward Leung – piano Programme: with the St Stephen Walbrook Community Choir Andrew Downes – Piano Sonata No 1 Op 12 and dancers from Middlesex University Stephen Hough – Piano Sonata No 2 'notturno luminoso' Tickets: £20 available from: http://www.cantatadramatica.com/shop/ and follow the link 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Tours of the Church Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day or make a booking by emailing Claire Seaton at: [email protected] or telephoning 020 7427 0133. Thursday 31 January Special tours for groups can also be arranged 1305 St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield

A City Music Society concert to be given by Ignis Trio —

Winners of the Ivan Sutton Chamber Music Prize 2018

Wednesday 30 January Enyuan Khong – violin Frederick Winterson – cello Felix Hong – piano 1300 to 1345 St Stephen Walbrook Programme: Walbrook Community Choir Beethoven – Trio in B flat Op 11 (Gassenhauer) If you like singing, or would like to try it, come and join us in your Brahms – Trio in C Op 87

lunch hour! There are no auditions or fees, and ability to read Admission is free with a retiring collection music is not essential. Sing a variety of styles of music led by experienced professional choir directors

1305 St Mary le Bow Lunchtime Recital: Aliya Turetayeva – piano 1305 St Botolph Aldgate Recital: For more information please visit: https://www.stbotolphs.org.uk/music/choirs-and-concerts

Free entry with a retiring collection 1305 St Olave Hart Street Recital: Boris Bizjak – flute Marcelle Sahra – piano

1305 St Olave Hart Street Recital: London Chamber Project 1310 All Hallows by the Tower Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling

1315 St Dunstan in the West 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Recital: Eudald Buch Torrents – piano Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays 'Bach and Buxtehude' (2)

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Company Bellringer to the Worshipful

Company of Parish Clerks for the following information

Open bellringing performances Open bellringing performances currently scheduled for the City of London currently scheduled for the City of London in January 2019 in December 2018

Sunday 9 December Saturday 12 January 1400 3½ hr performance on the bells 1000 3 hr performance on the Jubilee Bells by the Society of Royal Cumberland Youths at St Dunstan in West

at St Magnus the Martyr

Saturday 19 January Saturday 15 December 1000 3½ hr performance on the bells 1000 3 hr performance on the Jubilee Bells by the Ancient Society of College Youths at St Dunstan in West at St Magnus the Martyr

1000 3½ hr performance on the bells 1000 3½ hr performance on the bells by the Ancient Society of College Youths by the St Paul's Cathedral Guild at St Michael Cornhill at St Michael Cornhill

---- o ---- 1400 3½ hr performance on the Bow Bells Sunday 16 December by the St Paul's Cathedral Guild 1430 3½ hr performance on the bells at St Mary le Bow

by the St James' Guild ---- o ---- at St Magnus the Martyr Sunday 20 January Saturday 22 December 1430 3½ hr performance on the bells 1000 3½ hr performance on the bells by the Ancient Society of College Youths at St Magnus the Martyr by the Ancient Society of College Youths at St Michael Cornhill ---- o ----

Sunday 27 January Saturday 29 December 1400 3½ hr performance on the bells 1430 3½ hr performance on the Bow Bells by the Ancient Society of College Youths by the Society of Royal Cumberland Youths at St Magnus the Martyr at St Mary le Bow 1000 3½ hr performance on the bells Monday 31 December by the Society of Royal Cumberland Youths 1000 3½ hr performance on the Bow Bells at St Magnus the Martyr by the Central European Association at St Mary le Bow

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