February 2019 Published by FCC in conjunction with the Archdeaconry of

Bach, Beethoven, Tallis and the Erhu

The musical offerings in the City in February are as always numerous and diverse. Ammong the many recitals and concerts there are several that deserve mention on the front page of this edition of City EEvents. As we have stated in the past the selection below should not distractt and most certainly does not detract from the many potentially fine performances in the listings on the pages below. Essentially it is the customary case that these have 'caught the eye' of your editorial team.

As always organ recitals abound in the City churches and in February there will be no lesss than 24. In one 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. Bacch intended this to be a compendium of chorales for the whole church yearr. 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 (with a sketch for one other) so there are 118 'ghost' chorales awaiting completion. The task for contributing to thhe Orgelbüchlein Project is this: if Bach were alive today, how might he go about writing a short chorale prelude iin the Orgelbüchlein style? That said, style is entirely open. Many of the ‘schools’ of contemporary composition aree represented; minimalism, spirituality, new complexity, modernism, 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. Four compositions are featured in the organ recital given by Jeremiah Stephenson at St Lawrence Jewry on Tuesday 5th February. One of them is the very distinctive Prelude on the Old 100th by Iain Farrington. This very interesting piece provides one minute and 25 seconds of technical wizardry of organ‐playing described elsewhere as 'splashy, extrovert and jazzy, fun and joyful '. Morre information about the Orgelbüchleein Project can be found at: www.orgelbuchlein.co.uk

Also at St Lawrence Jewry, in the regular series of piano recitals to be heard on Mondays, two are of particular interest. On Monday 11th February and one week later on Monday 18th February Beethoven's piano sonata No 31 in A flat major Op 110 is to be heard played by two different soloists. This is a quite unusual occurrence in City piano recitals and this surely provides an opportunity to hear two potentially different intterpretations of this work.

On Friday 15th February at St Dunstan in the West, Amy Yuan will be playing the Erhuu, the Chinese two‐stringed bowed instrument. The erhu is a bowed, two‐stringed Chinese vertical fiddle, the most popular of this class of instruments. The strings of the erhu, commonly tunned a fifth apart, are stretched over a wooden drumlike resonator covered by a snakeskin membrane. The erhu has no fingerboard. The strings are suppoorted by a vertical post that pierces the resonator. Amy has played this quite unique stringed instrument at a previous recital in the City. She will be joined by other alumni from the Royal Academy of Music, and some visiting students from China. Clearly this recital is noteworthy in providing the opportunity to hear the sound of an out of the ordinary musical instrument..

Finally, and by no means least, 's extraordinary 40 part Spem in alium will be performed by the of King's College, London at St Bartholomew the Great on Saturday 2nd February. Intriguingly, amateur singers will have the opportunity to explore and actually sing this unique piece of polyphhony at a workshop earlier on the same day with the choir in their 'home' – the Chapel of King's College, London. FFull details are given at the listing for that Saturday. The experience of participating in the workshop should be mostt memorable. The editorial team (both of us) hope readers will forgive our extending of the boundary of the City by some half a kilometre in listing the event. Our pardonable excuse is that we are both alumni of KCL.

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 to 1300 Eucharist (said) with brief address St Dunstan in the West IN FEBRUARY 2019 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 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Woolnoth and a few churches ‘just over the City borders’. Entries are for Church 1230 Holy Communion (said), followed by coffee and sandwiches of services except where indicated otherwise. ‘1st Monday’, St Olave Hart Street ‘2nd Monday’ etc refer to the 1st Monday, 2nd Monday etc of the month. 1300 Holy Communion in the Crypt, with prayers with a focus on healing All Hallows by the Tower While every effort is made to ensure accuracy, the services shown are 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place subject to change at Bank or other holidays, immediately before, during 1300 to 1400 (any time) Contemporary Worship and after major festivals and during the summer months. You are strongly St Sepulchre without Newgate / Holy Sepulchre London advised to contact churches to check the details. 1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate 1305 Meditation (in the crypt chapel) St Mary le Bow 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields For a list of weekend (particularly Sunday) services please go to the 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn Friends of the City Churches website at www.london-city-churches.org.uk 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn and follow the links from ‘Events’ and ‘City Events’. 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, following buffet lunch at 1300 St Botolph Aldersgate 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, with sandwich lunch available St Helen Bishopsgate 1310 Holy Communion St Margaret Lothbury Monday 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 (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic orthodox rite) 1700 to 1730 ‘Words of Hope’ – quiet informal reflective service (0700 on 1st day of Hebrew religious month; 0900 on Bank Holidays) St Clement Eastcheap For details please see www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/ 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe Bevis Marks Synagogue 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0800 to 0830 Meditation (Moot Community – all welcome) St Mary Aldermary 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1830 Choral (traditional) (Choral Eucharist on 3rd Tuesday) 0815 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe St Sepulchre without Newgate / Holy Sepulchre London 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate Wednesday 1215 Eucharist St Michael Paternoster Royal 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 1300 to 1330 Choral Classics – music and readings St Stephen Walbrook 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 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1700 to 1800 ‘Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 0830 to 0915 Holy Communion St Lawrence Jewry Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1205 RC Mass St Joseph Bunhill Row 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1800 Choral Evensong (BCP) (During university terms – current term 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr continues to 11 March) St Michael Cornhill 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Abchurch 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) Tuesday St Mary Moorfields 1245 to 1315 (3rd Wednesday) Society of Friends (Quaker) Meeting for Worship 0715 Jewish Daily Service (see Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue Bunhill Fields Meeting House, Quaker Court, Banner St 0730 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal worship and teaching – come and go as 0745 Holy Communion (said) followed by coffee and croissants St Mary at Hill you wish St Margaret Lothbury 0745 Eucharist, followed by breakfast St Mary le Bow 1300 (1st Wednesday) Eucharist followed by discussion 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate 0745 to 0915 ‘Start: Stop’ – start the day by stopping to reflect – 10 minute 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place reflections beginning every 15 minutes - just drop in 1305 to 1400 ‘Not on a Sunday’ – informal worship with prayer and song, with St Stephen Walbrook coffee at start St Katharine Cree 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1305 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0800 to 0830 Morning Prayer (Moot Community – all welcome) 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields St Mary Aldermary 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn 0800 Morning Prayer St Michael Cornhill 1310 to 1340 ‘Moorgate Talks’ Bible Talk, following buffet lunch at 1300, 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields at Amber, CityPoint, 1 Ropemaker St, EC2Y 9AW 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street Linked with St Botolph Aldersgate 0815 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1315 Holy Communion (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 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 St Bride Fleet Street 1215 Eucharist (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster /continued 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less

Friday REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue IN DECEMBER 2018 AND JANUARY 2019 − continued 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square Wednesday ─ continued 0800 to 0840 Morning Taizé Chant (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 (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1730 to 1750 Evening Prayer (Moot Community – all welcome) 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church St Mary Aldermary 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1730 Choral Evensong (during legal term-time) Temple Church 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1230 Pastoral Conversation or Confession (Sacrament Chapel) St Mary le Bow 1800 Taizé Service All Hallows by the Tower 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 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 1800 Eucharist St Michael Paternoster Royal 1305 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1830 to 1915 Meditation Group: ‘Stressed in the City’ (Moot Community – 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields all welcome) St Mary Aldermary 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn 1900 Sung Eucharist St Andrew Holborn 1315 to 1400 Holy Communion St Lawrence Jewry

1700 to 1800 ‘Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship Thursday Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1800 to 2200 City of London House of Prayer – ‘Pursuit’ Prayer and Worship 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields Service All welcome (Free Church) City Temple 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1800 Paraklesis (replaced on 1st Friday and during fasting periods by Service 0815 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe of Holy Unction) Followed at 1900 to 2200 by Catechesis and Confessions 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow (Romanian Orthodox) St Dunstan in the West 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower 1800 (1st Friday) RC Low Mass in the Extraordinary Form (Not February) 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate St Etheldreda, Ely Place 0830 Holy Communion (said) St Mary le Strand 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church 1830 Jewish Friday Evening Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service St Andrew Holborn orthodox rite) (1930 in summer months – please check on 1210 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1215 to 1250 Bible Talk, with sandwich lunch available, followed by Question Time St Helen Bishopsgate 1215 Eucharist (BCP) St James Garlickhythe SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster IN FEBRUARY 2019 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) Friday 1 February St Mary Moorfields 1245 Choral Eucharist followed by light refreshments St Stephen Walbrook 1800 Solemn Evensong on the Eve of Candlemas, sung by the Choir 1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal worship and teaching – come and go as of Worcester College, Oxford St Mary le Bow you wish St Mary Woolnoth 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place Sunday 3 February 1300 to 1330 (Normally 1st Thursday) Private prayer and reflection (In February 1100 Sung Holy Communion for Candlemas (2 February) on 7 February) St Giles Cripplegate St Olave Hart Street 1300 Eucharist (normally choral on 1st Thursday) St Margaret Pattens 1800 Sung Eucharist for Candlemas St Mary le Strand 1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate 1305 Holy Communion (on 1st Thursday with Healing) followed by Monday 4 February tea and biscuits St Katharine Cree 1300 Choral Classics Music and readings on the theme of ‘To be a 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields Light’ - Celebrating Candlemas, with the Choral Scholars of St 1305 to 1335 ‘St Nick's Talks’ Bible Talk Sandwiches served from 1300 Martin in the Fields St Stephen Walbrook St Nicholas Cole Abbey 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn Tuesday 5 February 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn 1230 Eucharist (said) for Candlemas (2 February) St Dunstan in the West 1310 to 1350 Bible Talk, with sandwich lunch available, followed by Question Time St Helen Bishopsgate Wednesday 6 February 1315 to 1345 Lunchtime Service (Free Church) City Temple 1830 Patronal Feast Day Evensong St Vedast alias Foster 1315 Holy Communion St Martin within Ludgate 1315 Holy Communion (BCP said) (during legal term-time) Temple Church Thursday 7 February 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’ – contemplation, reflection and silent worship 1300 Choral Eucharist for Candlemas (2 February) with the Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street St Margaret Pattens Choir St Margaret Pattens 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1305 Holy Communion with Healing St Katharine Cree 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1800 Choral Evensong followed by Thursday Conversation at 1830 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow Please see the listing in the Events Section for further information 1800 (Normally 1st Thursday) Choral Evensong, followed by ‘Thursday St Mary at Hill Conversation’ at 1830 St Mary at Hill Friday 8 February 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 1930 RC Mass in the Extraordinary Form (Juventutem London) with 1805 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow music by Cantus Magnus, directed by Matthew Schellhorn 1900 to 2100 City of London House of Prayer - Equipping Night Service Praise and Worship (Free Church) City Temple St Mary Moorfields /continued

Tuesday 5 February SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS 1900 to 2100 St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate IN FEBRUARY 2019 ― continued On forgiveness and reconciliation: learning and growing in our human abilities for peace An evening with Dr Juanna Robles Monday 11 February For further information, including cost, and to book please go to 1300 Choral Classics Music and readings on the theme of ‘’Song of https://stethelburgas.org and follow the links from ‘Events’ Songs’ – Celebrating Valentine’s Day With the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields Thursday 7 February St Stephen Walbrook 1830 St Mary at Hill Thursday Conversation Wednesday 13 February Sheryl Haw in conversation with Prebendary Rose Hudson-Wilkin 1800 Choral Evensong, sung by the Choral Scholars of St Martin on Faith, Justice and the Public Square in the Fields St Stephen Walbrook Following Choral Evensong at 1800 Ending with refreshments Please see the listing in the Events Section for further information

Thursday 14 February Tuesday 12 February 1210 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate 1045 to 1530 St Andrew Holborn Oasis Day: ‘Songs from a strange land’ – Singing the Lord’s Song Monday 18 February in a strange land Led by Father Mark Young 1300 Choral Classics Music and readings on the theme of ‘The tree of Oasis Days offer a monthly time of quiet reflection to re-charge life’ – Celebrating seeds, plants and trees in the Bible one’s spiritual batteries with stimulating speakers With the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields Cost £15 – Lunch / tea & coffee provided St Stephen Walbrook Pre-booking required by Friday 8 February for catering purposes To book please telephone the Revd Martin Davies on Sunday 24 February 07429 612642 or e-mail [email protected] 1830 Lutheran Bach Vespers for Sexagesima with J S Bach’s Please enter via No 7 St Andrew Street BWV 181, Leichtgesinnte Flattergeister, performed by the City Bach Collective on period instruments Monday 18 February St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill 1800 St Mary le Bow The Boyle Lecture 2019: ‘Science, Religion and Ethics’’ Monday 25 February Lecturer - the Revd Professor Michael J Reiss, Professor of Science 1300 Choral Classics Music and readings on the theme of ‘All we like Education at University College London Institute of Education sheep’ – Sheep and shepherds in the Bible All welcome – seating limited and unreserved With the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields For further information please go to www.stmarylebow.org.uk and St Stephen Walbrook follow the links from ‘Boyle Lectures’

Friday 22 February LECTURES, COURSES, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS 22 to 24 February London Centre for Spiritual Direction, St Edmund King & Martyr IN FEBRUARY 2019 Open Door Retreat Training Led by Sister Marion Gormley A weekend course for spiritual directors and those in training for Friday 1 February spiritual direction, which will introduce participants to the 1000 to 1700 1 and 2 February background, content and material used in an Open Door Retreat St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate so that they can facilitate these retreats locally Participatory facilitation training: tools for inclusive spaces For further information, including cost and booking, please go to An interactive two-day training event which focuses on www.lcsd.org.uk and follow the links from ‘Courses & Events’ participatory tools for facilitators to create inclusive spaces for diverse groups Saturday 23 February For further information, including cost, and to book please go to 1000 to 1600 St Sepulchre without Newgate /Holy Sepulchre London https://stethelburgas.org and follow the links from ‘Events’ Fulfilling our Destiny as a Children of God A day-long retreat based around the music of Haydn’s choral 1100 to 1600 London Centre for Spiritual Direction, masterpiece The Creation St Edmund King & Martyr A chance to step back to look at what it means to be made in the Jesus our Spiritual Director: Lessons from the Master image of God and how this impacts on our relationship with God, Led by Alison Christian with ourselves and with others A session in the Developing Direction programme, designed to There is a cap on numbers for this event – please book your foster the ongoing development and support of spiritual directors place in advance A day to explore what spiritual directors can learn from Jesus to Light refreshments provided There will not be any live music inspire their ministry For further information and to book please go to https://hsl.church For further information, including cost and booking, please go to and follow the links from ‘Connect’ and ‘Events’ www.lcsd.org.uk and follow the links from ‘Courses & Events’ 22 to 24 February London Centre for Spiritual Direction, Saturday 2 February St Edmund King & Martyr 1000 to 1700 1 and 2 February Open Door Retreat Training Please see the listing for 22 February St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate Participatory facilitation training: tools for inclusive spaces Sunday 24 February Please see the listing for 1 February 22 to 24 February London Centre for Spiritual Direction, St Edmund King & Martyr Open Door Retreat Training Please see the listing for 22 February

Monday 4 February EVENTS & CONCERTS IN FEBRUARY 2019 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Recital: Mikhail Shilyaev – piano Programme: Friday 1 February Jánáček – Sonata ''From the streets'' 1.X.1905 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Bartók – Suite ''Out of doors’': Organ Recital: Jeremy Lloyd (Rochester ) Debussy – Suite ''pour le piano’' 1305 St Mary at Hill 1300 St Michael Cornhill Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society Organ Recital: Eleni Keventsidou (from Greece) Mendelssohn Birthday Concert and Programme: Clara Schumann 200th Anniversary Series Works by Mendelssohn, Bach, Alain, Reger, Saint-Saens, Anete Graudina – violin Zoltan Galyas – piano Wolfrum, Widor and the Greek Manis Hadjidakis.

Programme: Free admission. Retiring collection. Mendelssohn – Sonata in F minor Op 4 1305 St Martin Ludgate Clara Schumann – Three Romances Recital: Harriet Kirk – Mezzo-soprano Robert Schumann, arr. Kreisler – Fantasie Op131 Jennifer Vizinet – piano 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Programme: Recital: Guðný Jónasdóttir – cello Elisabeth Streichert – piano Bellini: Tre Ariette – Programme: Il fervido desiderio Dolente immagine di File mia Schumann – Fantasiestücke Op 73 Vaga luna che inargenti Janáček – Fairy Tale Gurney – Elizabethan Songs: Debussy – Sonata for Cello and Piano Sleep Under The Greenwood Tree Tears Nadia Boulanger – 3 pieces for Cello and Piano Vaughan Williams – Silent Noon Linden Lea Quilter – Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Music, When Soft Voices Die Love’s Philosophy

Saturday 2 February Admission is free but donations are gratefully received in aid of 1300 to 1500 King's College London, The College Chapel church and recital running costs Strand, WC2R 2LS 1300 St Stephen Walbrook A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event Choral Classics – Music and Readings with the Choral Scholars

Spem in Alium "To be a Light" – A Celebration of Candlemas

Join the Choir of King’s College London Choral Classics at St Stephen Walbrook offer thirty minutes of with their Musical Director Joseph Fort to explore sublime choral music from our Choral Scholars interspersed with readings on a theme. Thomas Tallis's extraordinary 40-part motet, Spem in alium. Free with a retiring collection Registration takes place from 1230 Workshop – 1300 to 1500 Tickets: £15 (including music hire) £5 (students) Tuesday 5 February Call our box office on 07528 776 625 1230 St Mary Abchurch or book online: http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/february/ Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. The recital will usually include an improvisation 1800 St Bartholomew the Great, Cloth Fair, EC1A 7JQ 1300 St Lawrence Jewry A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event Organ Recital: Jeremiah Stehenson (All Saints', Margaret Street) The Choir of King's College London Programme: Bach arr. Dupré – Sinfonia from Wir danken dir, Gott BWV 29 Conductor – Joseph Fort Bach – Dies sind die heil’gen zehn Gebot BWV 678 Programme: Purcell – Voluntary for Double Organ Thomas Tallis – Spem in Alium Bach – Kommst du nun, Jesu, vom Himmel herunter BWV 650 Tickets: £23 (premium) £18 (unreserved) £5 (children) — Meine Seele erhebt den Herren BWV 648 call the box office on 07528 776625 or book online: Mozart – Fantasia in F minor K608 From the Orgelbüchlein Project http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/february/ and follow the links Premium tickets include a reserved, a programme, and a voucher Jaques van Oortmerssen – Nun ruhen alle Wälder for a drink which can be redeemed either before the concert or Roxanna Panufnik – Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgethan, during the interval. Es bleibt gerecht Iain Farrington – Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir 1930 St Bartholomew the Great, Cloth Fair, EC1A 7JQ (Prelude on Old 100th) A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event Dan Locklair – ‘The peace may be exchanged’ and

The Angmering Chorale ‘The people respond: Amen!’ from Rubrics

Conductor – George Jones 1305 St Mary le Bow Programme: Recital: Ensemble Hesperi Karl Jenkins – The Armed Man For more information please go to: https://www.ensemblehesperi.com/ 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Tickets: £23 (premium) £18 (unreserved) £5 (children) — Recital: A Walbrook Music Trust Recital call the box office on 07528 776625 or book online: Atelier Quartet http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/february/ and follow the links 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Premium tickets include a reserved, a programme, and a voucher Recital: Marmara Piano Trio and Guest Artist for a drink which can be redeemed either before the concert or Mine Doğantan-Dack – piano Mona Kodama – violin during the interval. Thomas Gregory – cello with Juan Drown – viola A combined ticket for both of this evening's concerts is available, Programme: which offers a 25% discount — please call our box office for Brahms – Piano Quartet No. 2 in A major Op. 26 availability. Free Admittance – Retiring Collection

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN FEBRUARY 2019 − continued Friday 8 February 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Tuesday 5 February — continued Organ Recital: David Cook 1315 St Mary at Hill Recital: Square Mile Music Series 1305 St Mary at Hill Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society Hatty Haynes – violin APOLLO'S CABINET with piano accompanist Teresa Wrann – recorder Sophia Prodanova – violin Programme: Francisco Javier González – cello Alexander Wiegman – harpsichord Schubert – Sonata for violin in A majo, D 574 Op. posth. 162, Programme: Schumann – Sonata No.1 in A minor Op 105 Telemann – Trio Sonatas in A minor & F major Handel – Trio Sonata in F major HWV 389 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Castello – Sonata in stile moderne Tours of the Church Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day Recital: Inga Liukaitytė – piano or make a booking by emailing Sally Hannon at: Programme: [email protected] or telephoning 020 7427 0133. Beethoven – Sonata Op 31 No. 2 'The Tempest' Special tours for groups can also be arranged Bach-Busoni – Chaconne in D minor

Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Wednesday 6 February

1300 to 1345 St Stephen Walbrook 1315 St Dunstan in the West Walbrook Community Choir Organ Recital: Martin Ellis If you like singing, or would like to try it, come and join us in your

lunch hour! There are no auditions or fees, and ability to read 1930 St Stephen Walbrook music is not essential. Sing a variety of styles of music led by A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event experienced professional choir directors Iken Scholars 1305 St Olave Hart Street Recital: London Mandolin Ensemble Conductor – Matthew Dunn Sergio Vacca – mandolin Maxine Wiltshire – mandolin Programme: John Maw – octave mandola Alexander Hart – guitar Gesualdo – Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturfay

The London based Iken Scholars choir was formed in 2012 to sing 1315 St Dunstan in the West little heard Renaissance music in London as well as further afield Recital: Andrew Maginley – baroque lute Tickets: £23 (premium) £18 (unreserved) £5 (children) — 1315 Temple Church call the box office on 07528 776 625 or book online: Organ Recital: Greg Morris http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/february/ and follow the links Premium tickets include a reserved, a programme, and a voucher Thursday 7 February for a drink which can be redeemed either before the concert or 1305 St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield during the interval. A City Music Society concert to be given by Camiel Boomsma – piano Monday 11 February 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Programme: Recital: David Soo – piano Schubert – Sonata in B flat D960 Programme: Chopin – Nocturne Op. 55 No. 2 Beethoven – Sonata No. 31 in A♭major Op 110 Admission is free with a retiring collection Liszt – Petrarch Sonnet No 47 S.270 1305 St Olave Hart Street Liszt – Rhapsodie espagnole S.254, R.90 Recital: Natasha Sachsenmeier – violin Alissa Firsova – piano 1300 St Michael Cornhill 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Organ Recital: Organ Recital: Samuel Eriksson – Göteborg, Sweden Jack Spencer (,of Southwark Cathedral) 1800 St Mary at Hill Programme: Choral Evensong, followed by Thursday Conversation at 1830 Works by Schmidt, Heiller, Bohm and Dupre, Evensong will be sung by Seraphim, the St Mary at Hill Choir followed by the substantial and virtuosic Chorale Fantasia on Freu dich sehr, o meine Seele Sheryl Haw, International Director of Micah Global, will be in by Max Reger. conversation with The Revd Prebendary Rose Hudson-Wilkins. The topic will be 'Faith Justice and the Public Square' Free admission. Retiring collection.

Micah Global is an international organisation with a defined 1305 St Martin Ludgate mission. This is rooted in the Gospel and the aim of the Recital: Brompton String Quartet organisation is to address poverty, injustice and conflict with a Programme: clear prophetic voice. More information may be found on several Mendelssohn – Quartet No 2 in A minor websites including: Haydn – Movements from String Quartet Op 71 No 3 https://www.micahnetwork.org/welcome-micah-global in E♭major Hob III.72 We finish with a glass of wine at 1930 Admission is free All are welcome Admission is free but donations are gratefully received in aid of church and recital running costs

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN FEBRUARY 2019 − continued Thursday 14 February 1305 St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield Monday 11 February — continued A City Music Society concert to be given by 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Eblana String Trio Choral Classics – Music and Readings with the Choral Scholars Jonathan Martindale – violin Lucy Nolan – viola "Song of Songs" – Celebrating Valentine’s Day Peggy Nolan cello

Choral Classics at St Stephen Walbrook offer thirty minutes of Programme: sublime choral music from our Choral Scholars interspersed Finzi – Prelude and Fugue Op. 24 with readings on a theme. Sally Beamish – The King’s Alchemist Beethoven– Trio in G Op. 9 No. 1 Free with a collection Admission is free with a retiring collection Tuesday 12 February 1305 St Mary le Bow 1230 St Mary Abchurch Recital: Hatty Haynes – violin Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. The recital will usually include an improvisation 1305 St Olave Hart Street Recital: Andrea Timpanaro – violin Giulia Grassi – piano 1300 St Lawrence Jewry

School Organ Students Series 2019 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Tuesday 12 February to Tuesday 2 April Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays “The Glorious Baroque” (1) The first recital will be given by pupils from

St John's Choir School, Cambridge Friday 15 February 1300 St Stephen Walbrook 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Recital: A Walbrook Music Trust Recital Organ Recital: John Webber Sarah Maxted – soprano Michael Clayton – piano (St John the Evangelist, East Dulwich) 1305 St Mary le Bow Programme: Recital: Thomas Allery – harpsichord C S Lang – Fanfare

1315 St Bride Fleet Street Vivaldi (transcr JS Bach) – Concerto in A minor BWV 593 Jacques Berthier – Three Liturgical Meditations Recital: Blaze Ensemble Nigel Ogden – Penguin's Playtime George Vass – conductor Guilmant – Sonata No 2 in D major Op 50 tune Preludes: Programme: John Joubert – "The Old Hundredth" Haydn – Symphony no. 7 in C major, "Le midi" – "St Petert" Symphony no. 8 in G major, "Le soir" Vaughan Williams – "Rhosymedre " and "Hyfrydol" Free Admittance – Retiring Collection César Franck – Choral No 3 in A minor

1315 St Mary at Hill Admission is free – retiring collection Recital: Square Mile Music Series Claire Parkin – violin Emma Chamberlain – cello 1305 St Mary at Hill Andrew Blankfield – piano Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society Programme: David Richmond – violin Anna Lightbown – piano Mendelssohn – Piano Trio No 2 in C minor Op 66 Programme: 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Lili Boulanger – Deux Morceaux Tours of the Church Prokofiev – Five Pieces Op 35b Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Hahn – Sonata for violin & piano in C major Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day or make a booking by emailing Sally Hannon at: 1315 St Bride Fleet Street [email protected] or telephoning 020 7427 0133. Recital: Voce47: Special tours for groups can also be arranged Camilla Jeppeson – soprano Mary Reid – harp

Wednesday 13 February Programme: 1300 to 1345 St Stephen Walbrook Bellini – Oh! quante volte (I Capuleti e i Montecchi) Walbrook Community Choir Mozart – Ridente la calma K.152 If you like singing, or would like to try it, come and join us in your Schumann – Myrthen Op.25 lunch hour! There are no auditions or fees, and ability to read 1. Widmung 3. Der Nussbaum music is not essential. Sing a variety of styles of music led by Lehár – Meine Lippen, sie küssen so heiss (Giuditta) experienced professional choir directors Ravel – Cinq mélodies populaires grecques 1305 St Botolph Aldgate Britten – Cabaret Songs: 1. Tell me the truth about love Recital: Sarah McKenna – violin 2. Funeral Blues

Free entry with a retiring collection Gounod – Je veux vivre (Roméo et Juliette)

1305 St Olave Hart Street Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Recital: Julia Wallin – piano

1315 St Dunstan in the West 1315 St Dunstan in the West Recital: Sirius Chau – flute & Irena Radić – piano Recital: Amy Yuan – violin & Erhu - the Chinese violin and Friends (other alumni from the Royal Academy of Music, and 1315 Temple Church some visiting students from China) Organ Recital: Peter King (Organist Emeritus, Bath Abbey)

Tuesday 19 February EVENTS & CONCERTS IN FEBRUARY 2019 − continued 1230 St Mary Abchurch Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. Saturday 16 February The recital will usually include an improvisation

1930 St Sepulchre without Newgate / Holy Sepulchre London 1300 St Lawrence Jewry A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event Recital in the School Organ Students Series 2019 Singers of London Isaac Adni (Westminster School)

Conductor – Simon Toyne 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Programme: Recital: A Walbrook Music Trust Recital Brahms – Requiem Miguel Sobrinho – viola

Tickets: £19 (premium) £14 (unreserved) £5 (children) — 1305 St Mary le Bow call the box office on 07528 776625 or book online: Recital: Magdalena Loft-Hill – baroque violin http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/february/ and follow the links Thomas Allery – harpsichord Premium tickets include a reserved, a programme, and a voucher Programme: for a drink which can be redeemed either before the concert or Bach Obligato Violin Sonatas during the interval. 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: Women on the Verge

Sunday 17 February Emily Martin – soprano Elizabeth McDonald – soprano 1500 St Mary le Bow Kathryn Tremills – piano Concert: Arcubus Ensemble Director – Julian Collings Programme: 'Expectations and Desires' Programme: Songs by Hugo Wolf, Cecilia Livingston, Robert Spillman, Eric Whitaker – Setting of the single word 'Alleluia' Richard Pearson Thomas, Logan Skelton & Robert Aldridge – Hosanna to the son of David Free Admittance – Retiring Collection

Robert Parsons – Ave Maria 1315 St Mary at Hill – Haec Dies Recital: Square Mile Music Series James MacMillan – A setting of the Mass The Galliard Trio Russell Hepplewhite – Gloria Programme: (Russell Hepplewhite is composer-in-residence to the Arcubus Ensemble) Ravel – “Mother Goose” Suite Bizet – Suite “L’Arlesienne”

Tickets: £11 Please contact: 020 7246 5139 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Monday 18 February Tours of the Church 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Recital: Joanna Krauze – piano Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day Programme: or make a booking by emailing Sally Hannon at: Bach – French Suite No.5 in G major BWV 816 [email protected] or telephoning 020 7427 0133. Bach – Toccata in Fsharp minor BWV 910 Special tours for groups can also be arranged

Beethoven – Sonata No 31 in A♭major Op 110 Wednesday 20 February

Joanna Krauze performs through the joint St Lawrence Jewry 1300 The Hospital Church of St Bartholomew the Less and Worshipful Company of Musicians Scheme for young A City Music Foundation Lunchtime Recital prizewinners of the Company Emily Sun – violin Andrey Lebedev – guitar

1300 St Michael Cornhill Programme: Organ Recital: Andrew Furniss Selections from J.S. Bach’s Sonata for solo violin (Assistant Director of Music at Methodist Central Hall, Westminster). No. 2 in A minor BWV1003 Programme: and music for violin and guitar by Paganini and Piazzolla

Works by Widor, Bach, Saint-Saëns, Buxtehude, Jongen & Franck. Free entry with retiring collection

Free admission. Retiring collection. Seats in this small church may be reserved by registering on: www.citymusicfoundation.org/cmf-presents

1305 St Martin Ludgate 1300 to 1345 St Stephen Walbrook Recital: Hatty Haynes – violin and String Quartet Walbrook Community Choir Programme: If you like singing, or would like to try it, come and join us in your Haydn – String quartet in B minor Op 33 No 1 lunch hour! There are no auditions or fees, and ability to read Mendelssohn – String quartet in Eb major Op 12 No 1 music is not essential. Sing a variety of styles of music led by experienced professional choir directors Admission is free but donations are gratefully received in aid of church and recital running costs 1305 St Botolph Aldgate Organ Recital: Irena Kosikova 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Free entry with a retiring collection Choral Classics – Music and Readings with the Choral Scholars 1305 St Olave Hart Street "The Tree of Life" – Exploring seeds, plants and trees in the Bible Recital: Krystallos Quartet Choral Classics at St Stephen Walbrook offer thirty minutes of Freya Goldmark – violin Kalliopi Mitropoulou – violin sublime choral music from our Choral Scholars interspersed Marsailidh Groat – viola Zoe Saubat – cello with readings on a theme. 1315 St Dunstan in the W3est Free with a collection Recital: Jacob Bettinelli – bass-baritone Connie Luk – piano

Sunday 24 February EVENTS & CONCERTS IN FEBRUARY 2019 − continued 1830 St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill Bach Vespers performed by the City Bach Collective ― Thursday 21 February J S Bach ― Cantata Leichtgesinnte Flattergeister. BWV 181 1305 St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield and other German Baroque music performed as in Bach’s time

A City Music Society concert to be given by in a service of Lutheran Vespers

Marmen Quartet Monday 25 February Johannes Marmen – violin Ricky Gore – violin 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Joshua Hayward – viola Steffan Morris – cello Recital: Kanae Furomoto – piano Programme: Programme: Ginastera – 12 Preludios Americnos Haydn – Quartet in B flat Op.50 No. 1 Medtner – 'Primavera' Op39 No3 Mendelssohn – Quartet in F minor Op. 80 Mendelssohn – 'Spring Song' Op.62 No.6

Presented with the support of The Royal Philharmonic Society Schumann-Liszt – 'Frühlingsnacht' Op 39 No 12 Grieg – 'To Spring' Op 43 No 6 Admission is free with a retiring collection Kapustin – From '24 Jazz Preludes' Op 53 1305 St Mary le Bow No.1. Presto, No.4. Allegretto, No.9. Lento, No.17. Allegretto Recital: Sirius Chau – flute Irena Radić – piano 1300 St Michael Cornhill 1305 St Olave Hart Street Organ Recital: Jonathan Rennert Recital: Marcelle Zahra – piano 453rd lunchtime recital at St Michael Cornhill.

1315 St Dunstan in the West Programme: Recital: Works by Sir Edward Elgar, George Guest, Nicholas Webber, Jacob Bettinelli – bass-baritone Connie Luk – piano Harold Darke, Easthope Martin & Sir George Thalben-Ball.

1310 St Margaret Lothbury Free admission. Retiring collection. Organ Recital: Benedict Lewis-Smith & Julian Collings play “Virtuoso Organ Duets” 1305 St Martin Ludgate Recital: Imperial College Chamber Choir

Programme: "Celebrating 50th Anniversary of Moon Landings" Friday 22 February 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Admission is free but donations are gratefully received in aid of Organ Recital: Jonathan Stamp church and recital running costs

1305 St Mary at Hill 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society Choral Classics – Music and Readings with the Choral Scholars

Clara Schumann 200th Anniversary Series "All We Like Sheep" – Exploring sheep and shepherds in the Bible SCORDATURA Claudia Fuller – violin Rachel Watson – cello Choral Classics at St Stephen Walbrook offer thirty minutes of Thomas Ang – piano sublime choral music from our Choral Scholars interspersed with readings on a theme. Programme: Clara Schumann – Piano Trio in G minor Free with a collection Cecilia McDowall – Cavatina at Midnight Fanny Mendelssohn – Fantasia for cello and piano Tuesday 26 February Ethel Smyth – Suite in E major 1230 St Mary Abchurch Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. 1315 St Bride Fleet Street The recital will usually include an improvisation Organ Recital: Samuel Bristow 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Recital in the School Organ Students Series 2019 Programme: Handel/Daniel Moult – Water Music: 'Alla Hornpipe' Ellie-Mae McGlone (McAuley Catholic High School, Doncaster) Handel – Three Pieces for a Musical Clock: and Charles Francis (St Edmunds School, Canterbury) Menuet Air A Voluntary on a Flight of Angels 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Mozart – Fantasie in F minor K608 Recital: A Walbrook Music Trust Recital Wagner/Liszt – Tannhäuser Pilgrim's Chorus Kayleigh McEvoy – soprano with pianko accompaniment Wagner/Alexander Gottshalg – Tristan und Isolde - Vorspiel 1305 St Mary le Bow Percy Whitlock – Four Extemporisations Recital: Mary-Jannet Leith & Isobel Clarke – recorders Fanfare 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Recital: Titika Maragoula – soprano Hara Kostogianni – piano

Programme: Sunday 24 February Works by Massenet, Fauré, Debussy, Fauré; Chausson, 1400 The Great Hall – St Bartholomew's Hospital Donizetti Barts Academic Festival Choir & Orchestra Free Admittance – Retiring Collection HAYDN'S CREATION FROM SCRATCH 1315 St Mary at Hill

Come and join us for a wonderful afternoon of music to sing Recital: Square Mile Music Series or listen to Haydn's Creation. Everyone will be very welcome Zarebski Piano Duo There will no rehearsal. Piotr Rozanski and Grzegorz Mania Singers and listeners turn up at 1400 and off we go! Programme: Singers please bring your own music. Barber – Souvenirs Suite Op 28 Dvořák – Slavonic Dances Op 46 Free entry – donations welcomed to support Barts Cancer Unit Paderewski – Tatra Album Op 12

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN FEBRUARY 2019 − continued

Tuesday 26 February — continued 1415 St Bride Fleet Street We are indebted to Dickon Love, Tours of the Church Company Bellringer to the Worshipful Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Company of Clerks Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day for the following information or make a booking by emailing Sally Hannon at: [email protected] or telephoning 020 7427 0133. Special tours for groups can also be arranged

Wednesday 27 February 1300 to 1345 St Stephen Walbrook Walbrook Community Choir Open bellringing performances If you like singing, or would like to try it, come and join us in your lunch hour! There are no auditions or fees, and ability to read currently scheduled for the City of London music is not essential. Sing a variety of styles of music led by in February 2019 experienced professional choir directors

1305 St Botolph Aldgate Recital: Manu Brazo – saxophone & Prajna Indrawati – piano Saturday 9 February 1000 3 hr performance on the bells Free entry with a retiring collection by the Ancient Society of College Youths 1305 St Olave Hart Street at St Katharine Cree Recital: Susanna Braun – piano 1000 3 hr performance on the bells 1315 St Dunstan in the West by the Ancient Society of College Youths Recital: Carolina Blaskovic (Violin) & Will Fielding (Piano) at St Vedast alias Foster

1315 Temple Church ---- o ---- Organ Recital; Charles Andrews (All Saints, Margaret Street) Sunday 10 February Thursday 28 February 1000 3 hr performance on the bells 1305 St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield by London Ringers

at St Dunstan in the West A City Music Society concert to be given by

Royal College of Music Wind Ensemble 1400 3½ hr performance on the bells

Simon Channing – director by the Society of Royal Cumberland Youths at St Magnus the Martyr Programme:

Taffanel – Wind Quintet ---- o ---- D’Indy – Chanson et Danses Op. 50 Mozart – Serenade No. 12 in C minor K388 Saturday 16 February 1000 3½ hr performance on the bells Admission is free with a retiring collection by the Ancient Society of College Youths at St Giles Cripplegate 1305 St Olave Hart Street Recital: Lana Trotovsek – violin Maria Canyigueral – piano ---- o ----

Programme: Saturday 23 February Beethoven – Violin Sonata No 9 Op 47 – 'Kreutzer' 1000 3½ hr performance of Maximus on the bells by the Ancient Society of College Youths 1310 St Margaret Lothbury at St Michael Cornhill Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays “The Glorious Baroque” (2)

1900 The Crypt Hall of St Mary Moorfields, Eldon Street EC2M 7LS

Recital: Lorenzo Narici – violin Craig White – piano Programme: Prokofiev – Violin and Piano Sonata no.2 Op 94a Schubert – Violin and Piano Sonatina in D major D 384

It should be noted that the Crypt Hall is not accessible by City Events is published by wheelchair. The Friends of the City Churches in conjunction with 1930 Temple Church the Archdeaconry of London Concert: The Temple Church Youth Choir and printed by Copyprints: Programme to include: [email protected] Victoria – O quam gloriosum est Regnum Duruflé – Four , Sumsion – They that go down to the Sea in Ships, Ives – Listen sweet Dove, Mendelssohn – Hear my prayer & Richte mich, Gott Elgar – Give unto the Lord,

Please see Church website for tickets and more information https://www.templemusic.org/shop/churchchoir/

March 2019 Published by FCC in conjunctioon with the Archdeaconry of London

JAM at St Bride's and an Easter Concert at Barts

JAM is a creative, dynamic, forward‐thinking arts organisation, with new music at its core. It regularly collaborates with some of the most important composers, performers and other like‐minded organisations – BBC Singers, London Mozart Players, Onyx Brass and Radio 3. At the core of its activities is JAM on the Marsh, an annual multi‐arts festival built around Kent’s magnificent Romney Marsh and its famous medieval churches. The Festival embraces theatre, visual art, photography, poetry and education, with music very much at its core. Each year JAM on the Marsh crosses the Romney Marsh from Dungeness to Hythe and Lympne to New Romney. The Marsh churches are true beacons of culture and history; they are the heart of the festiival. Traditionally JAM launches its annual season with a special 'curtain‐raiser' concert at the City church of St Bride Fleet Street and 2019 will be no exceeption. On Thursday 21st March at 7.30pm JAM will present Music of our Time. It is a special concert as JAM goes back to its roots – that of commissioning, enabling and performing new music. In this concert three commissions will be revisited and they will be surrounded with six pieces from JAM's annual Call for Music. Details of the concert and how to obtain tickets may be found in the listings of this edition of City Events and online at: www.jamconcert.org

JAM stands for the John Armitage Memorial Trust. John Armitage had a successful careeer in advertising and was a gifted trumpet player who loved many forms of mussic. Most importantly he was a great innspirer of people. He firmly believed that people could often achieve far more than they themselves ever dreamed they could. When he retired he became a mature student, studying music at Christchurch College, Canterbury. In the summmer of 1998, nearing the end of his third year of study, John discussed with his son Edward an idea for promoting little known, living composers. The basis of the idea included putting on performances and recording theiir work. As a marketing professional he also wanted to try and introduce their music to radio stations, music journals and record companies. Sadly John died of cancer at the end of 1998. He was 63. In 2000, Edward, together with Charles Cochrane and Timothy Jackson, brought John's idea to fruition by founding the John Armitage Memorial Trust, initially to enable, promote, commission and support new music in the UK. In 2013, JAM on thhe Marsh, JAM's multi‐art festival based on Kent's Romney Marsh was piloted, and has subsequently grown with inncreasing success. Clearly John Armitage's initial idea has matured into an endeavour of which he would have been most justifiably proud. The opening concert of the 2019 Festival at St Bride Fleeet Street on Thursday 21st March promises be a fitting tribute to his visionary foresight.

On Monday 25th March at 7.30pm in the Great Hall of St Bartholomew's Hospital, Barts Academic Festival Choir and Orchestra will be performing their Easter Concert. The list of composers whose works will ffeature is characteristically eclectic – Verdi, Vaughan Williams, Haydn and Dvořák. Verdi composed his Four Sacred Pieces 1886 and 1897. They are Ave Maria, Laudi alla Vergine Maria (both a capella), Stabat Mater and , both with chorus and full orchestra. They were first performed together (without the Avve Maria) in a concert by tthe Paris Opera on April 7, 1898. Verdi liked the Te Deum best of the four works and reputedly wanted to be buried with the score. Those attending this interesting concert will have the oppportunity to hear another Te Deum, this time by Franz Joseph Haydn. 'Papa' Haydn wrote his Te Deum for the Empress Marie Thérèse near the end of hhis life in 1799. This short work was conceived on a large scale, and exhibits elements found in his symphonies. Vaughan Williams was an inveterate collector of folk songs throughout much of his career. He would often use their tthemes in his compositions or arrange them in various performing versions for unaccompanied chorus, and this is the case with the Five English Folk Songs, also to be heard. Lastly there is Dvořák's much‐loved New World Symphony coomposed in 1893 while he was the director of the National Conservatory of Music of America in New from 1892 to 1895. It is by far his most popular symphony, and one of the most popular of all symphonies, with memorable themes, especially the largo of the second movement played on the cor anglais. The proceeds from this concert will ggo to that most worthy of causes – the Barts Cancer Unit at St Bartholomew's Hospital.

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

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REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less IN MARCH 2019 1230 to 1300 Eucharist (said) with brief address St Dunstan in the West 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr The entries below show the normal pattern of services for City Churches 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) St Mary Moorfields and a few churches ‘just over the City borders’. Entries are for Church 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Woolnoth of England services except where indicated otherwise. ‘1st Monday’, 1230 Holy Communion (said), followed by coffee and sandwiches ‘2nd 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 1305 Meditation (in the crypt chapel) St Mary le Bow For a list of weekend (particularly Sunday) services please go to the 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields Friends of the City Churches website at www.london-city-churches.org.uk 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn and follow the links from ‘Events’ and ‘City Events’. 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, following buffet lunch at 1300 St Botolph Aldersgate 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, with sandwich lunch available St Helen Bishopsgate Monday 1310 Holy Communion St Margaret Lothbury 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 0715 Jewish Daily Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic orthodox rite) Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street (0700 on 1st day of Hebrew religious month; 0900 on Bank Holidays) 1700 to 1730 ‘Words of Hope’ – quiet informal reflective service For details please see www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/ St Clement Eastcheap 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 0830 Meditation (Moot Community – all welcome) St Mary Aldermary 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1830 Choral Evensong (traditional) (Choral Eucharist on 3rd Tuesday) 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow St Sepulchre without Newgate / Holy Sepulchre London 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1215 Eucharist St Michael Paternoster Royal Wednesday 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue St Mary Moorfields 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1245 Holy Communion St Mary at Hill 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 0800 to 0840 Morning Taizé Chant (Moot Community – all welcome) 1300 to 1330 Choral Classics – music and readings St Stephen Walbrook 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 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 1205 RC Mass St Joseph Bunhill Row 1800 Choral Evensong (BCP) (During university terms – current term 1215 to 1315 Elim Full Gospel Chinese Church Fellowship – All welcome continues to 11 March) St Michael Cornhill St Lawrence Jewry 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster Tuesday 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Abchurch 0715 Jewish Daily Service (see Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 0730 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow St Mary Moorfields 0745 Holy Communion (said) followed by coffee and croissants St Mary at Hill 1245 to 1315 (3rd Wednesday) Society of Friends (Quaker) Meeting for Worship 0745 Eucharist, followed by breakfast St Mary le Bow Bunhill Fields Meeting House, Quaker Court, Banner St 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal worship and teaching – come and go as 0745 to 0915 ‘Start: Stop’ – start the day by stopping to reflect – 10 minute you wish St Margaret Lothbury reflections beginning every 15 minutes - just drop in 1300 (1st Wednesday) Eucharist followed at 1345 to 1420 by discussion St Stephen Walbrook St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 0800 to 0830 Morning Prayer (Moot Community – all welcome) 1305 to 1400 ‘Not on a Sunday’ – informal worship with prayer and song, with St Mary Aldermary coffee at start St Katharine Cree 0800 Morning Prayer St Michael Cornhill 1305 Eucharist (in the church) 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 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1310 to 1340 ‘Moorgate Talks’ Bible Talk, following buffet lunch at 1300, 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower at Amber, CityPoint, 1 Ropemaker St, EC2Y 9AW 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate Linked with St Botolph Aldersgate 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1315 Holy Communion (in the crypt) (For 6 March see Special Services) 1215 Eucharist (BCP) St James Garlickhythe St Bride Fleet Street 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster /continued

Friday

REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue

IN MARCH 2019 − continued 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields

0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square

0800 to 0840 Morning Taizé Chant (Moot Community – all welcome) Wednesday ─ continued St Mary Aldermary 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields Come and go as you) wish St Bride Fleet Street 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 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) 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1730 to 1750 Evening Prayer (Moot Community – all welcome) 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr St Mary Aldermary 1230 Pastoral Conversation or Confession (Sacrament Chapel) St Mary le Bow 1730 Choral Evensong (during legal term-time) Temple Church 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 Taizé Service All Hallows by the Tower 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 1305 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1800 Eucharist St Michael Paternoster Royal 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 1830 to 1915 Meditation Group: ‘Stressed in the City’ (Moot Community – 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn all welcome) St Mary Aldermary 1315 to 1400 Holy Communion St Lawrence Jewry 1900 Sung Eucharist St Andrew Holborn 1700 to 1800 ‘Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street Thursday 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 1800 Paraklesis (replaced on 1st Friday and during fasting periods by Service 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square of Holy Unction) Followed at 1900 to 2200 by Catechesis and Confessions 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields (Romanian Orthodox) St Dunstan in the West 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1800 (1st Friday) RC Low Mass in the Extraordinary Form 0815 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe St Etheldreda, Ely Place 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower 1830 Jewish Friday Evening Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate orthodox rite) (1930 in summer months – please check on 0830 Eucharist (said) St Mary le Strand www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/) Bevis Marks Synagogue 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1210 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS 1215 to 1250 Bible Talk, with sandwich lunch available, followed by IN MARCH 2019 Question Time St Helen Bishopsgate 1215 Eucharist (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster Monday 4 March 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1300 Choral Classics Music and readings on the theme of 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) ‘The Gospels: Matthew’, with the Choral Scholars of St Mary Moorfields St Martin in the Fields St Stephen Walbrook 1245 Choral Eucharist followed by light refreshments St Stephen Walbrook 1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal worship and teaching – come and go as Wednesday 6 March – Ash Wednesday you wish St Mary Woolnoth 0800 Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes St Mary le Bow 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 0805 RC Mass with Imposition of Ashes St Mary Moorfields 1300 to 1330 (Normally 1st Thursday) Private prayer and reflection (In March 0815 Imposition of Ashes St Botolph Bishopsgate on 7 March) St Giles Cripplegate 0830 Eucharist with Ashing St Bartholomew the Great 1300 Eucharist (normally choral on 1st Thursday) St Margaret Pattens 1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate 1200 Eucharist with Ashing St Bartholomew the Great 1305 Holy Communion (on 1st Thursday with Healing) followed by 1200 RC Mass with Imposition of Ashes St Mary Moorfields tea and biscuits St Katharine Cree 1230 Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes All Hallows by the Tower 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 1230 Said Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes St Dunstan in the West 1305 to 1335 ‘St Nick's Talks’ Bible Talk Sandwiches served from 1300 1230 Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes St Mary le Strand St Nicholas Cole Abbey 1230 RC Mass with Imposition of Ashes St Mary Moorfields 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn 1305 Service for Ash Wednesday with Imposition of Ashes 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn St Botolph Aldgate 1310 to 1350 Bible Talk, with sandwich lunch available, followed by 1305 High Mass with Imposition of Ashes St Mary le Bow Question Time St Helen Bishopsgate 1315 to 1345 Lunchtime Service (Free Church) City Temple 1305 RC Mass with Imposition of Ashes St Mary Moorfields 1315 Holy Communion St Martin within Ludgate 1310 Choral Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes 1315 Holy Communion (BCP said) (during legal term-time) Temple Church St Botolph Bishopsgate 1700 to 1800 ‘ Space for Silence’ – contemplation, reflection and silent worship 1315 Choral Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street St Bride Fleet Street 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1330 Service for Ash Wednesday 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) St Ann's Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1715 Imposition of Ashes St Botolph Bishopsgate 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1730 RC Mass with Imposition of Ashes St Mary Moorfields 1800 (Normally 1st Thursday) Choral Evensong, followed by ‘Thursday Conversation’ at 1830 St Mary at Hill 1730 Choral Evensong for Ash Wednesday Temple Church 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 1800 Service for Ash Wednesday with Imposition of Ashes 1805 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1900 to 2100 City of London House of Prayer - Equipping Night Service 1830 Solemn High Mass for Ash Wednesday St Magnus the Martyr Praise and Worship (Free Church) City Temple 1900 Solemn Eucharist with Ashing St Bartholomew the Great

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Monday 25 March – The Annunciation of Our Lord to the Blessed SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS Virgin Mary IN MARCH 2019― continued 1230 Said Eucharist with address St Dunstan in the West 1300 Choral Classics Music and readings on the theme of ‘The Gospels: John’, with the Choral Scholars of Thursday 7 March St Martin in the Fields St Stephen Walbrook 1200 The Spital Sermon Preacher: The Bishop of London 1305 Sung Eucharist for the Feast of the Annunciation The sermon takes its name from the Priory or Hospital of St Mary St Mary le Bow Spital, a mediaeval house for tending London’s sick and poor 1900 Procession and Solemn Eucharist for the Feast of the It has been preached annually since the late 14th Century Annunciation and the Feast of Dedication of the Priory Church St Lawrence Jewry St Bartholomew the Great 1300 Choral Eucharist for the beginning of Lent St Margaret Pattens 1305 Holy Communion with Healing St Katharine Cree Tuesday 26 March 1800 Said Eucharist, followed at 1830 to 1930 by Lent Study Group 1830 RC Stations of the Cross St Mary Moorfields St Dunstan in the West 1800 Choral Evensong followed by Thursday Conversation at 1830 Wednesday 27 March Please see the listing in the Events Section for further information 1305 Eucharist with organ music St Mary at Hill Followed at 1330 with Cantata with music for voice and organ by J S Bach St Mary le Bow Monday 11 March 1300 Choral Classics Music and readings on the theme of ‘The Thursday 28 March Gospels: Mark’, with the Choral Scholars of St Martin 1800 Said Eucharist, followed at 1830 to 1930 by Lent Study Group in the Fields St Stephen Walbrook St Dunstan in the West

Tuesday 12 March 1830 RC Stations of the Cross St Mary Moorfields LECTURES, COURSES, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS IN MARCH 2019 Wednesday 13 March

1305 Eucharist with organ music Followed at 1330 with Cantata with music for voice and organ by Friday 1 March J S Bach St Mary le Bow 1100 to 1600 London Centre for Spiritual Direction, 1730 Choral Evensong, sung by the Bar Choral Society St Edmund King & Martyr Temple Church Mindfulness and the mind of God: Exploring Mindfulness through the Christian Tradition Led by Peter Tyler Thursday 14 March A session in the Developing Direction programme, designed to 1210 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate foster the ongoing development and support of spiritual directors 1800 Said Eucharist, followed at 1830 to 1930 by Lent Study Group The session aims to reflect on the nature of mindfulness, St Dunstan in the West especially as perceived from its Buddhist roots and how this may (or may not) relate to the wider tradition of Christian prayer Monday 18 March For further information, including cost and booking, please go to 1300 Choral Classics Music and readings on the theme of www.lcsd.org.uk and follow the links from ‘Courses & Events’ ‘The Gospels: Luke’, with the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields St Stephen Walbrook Thursday 7 March 1815 St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall Tuesday 19 March The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings 1830 RC Stations of the Cross St Mary Moorfields Spring Lecture Series 2019 Ruskin & the Idea of Craftsmanship Wednesday 20 March Given by Professor Peter Burman 1305 Eucharist with organ music Explores Ruskin’s thought and influence as an early advocate for Followed at 1330 with Cantata with music for voice and organ by vernacular buildings - not least for the local associations and J S Bach St Mary le Bow hereditary skills they embody in their materials and construction 1730 Choral Evensong for St Patrick’s Day (17 March) Temple Church Booking £11 (members of SPAB £10) 1800 Choral Evensong, sung by the Choral Scholars of St Martin For further information and to book please go to www.spab.org.uk in the Fields St Stephen Walbrook and follow the links from ‘What’s On’ and ‘Lectures’

Thursday 21 March 1830 to 1930 St Dunstan in the West Lent Study Group, following Eucharist at 1800 1800 Said Eucharist, followed at 1830 to 1930 by Lent Study Group St Dunstan in the West 1830 to 2130 St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate Generation Y, Spirituality and Social Change Friday 22 March An interactive conversation with some of the most inspiring next 1930 RC Mass in the Extraordinary Form (with Juventutem London) generation spiritual leaders St Mary Moorfields About how young people are doing faith differently, redefining the role of spirituality in social change and reinventing community, Sunday 24 March leadership and ritual for a new era 1800 Choral Evensong for the Eve of the Feast of the Annunciation For further information, including cost, and to book please go to St Mary le Strand https://stethelburgas.org and follow the links from ‘Events’

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Monday 18 March LECTURES, COURSES, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS 1100 to 1530 London Centre for Spiritual Direction, IN MARCH 2019 ― continued St Edmund King & Martyr Being a Guide on a Week of Accompanied Prayer Led by the Revd Alison Christian Thursday 7 March - continued A session providing basic training in guiding on a Week of 1830 St Mary at Hill Accompanied Prayer - introducing would-be guides to the Thursday Conversation principles of the work, the ‘how-to’ of care, support, discern Nicola Green, artist and social historian, speaks on Encounters, and pitfalls to avoid and offering suggestions and resources a new era in interfaith dialogue Open to trained spiritual directors or those who have offered Following Choral Evensong at 1800 Ending with refreshments spiritual direction as part of their ministry and want to take it further Please see the listing in the Events Section for further information For further information, including cost and booking, please go to www.lcsd.org.uk and follow the links from ‘Courses & Events’ Saturday 9 March 0930 to 1700 St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate Thursday 21 March Sacred Rebellion: Inner life, activism and our future 1815 St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall A one day gathering to explore the role of spirituality in community, The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings activism and ecology Spring Lecture Series 2019 For further information, including cost, and to book please go to Ruskin & the Land: The Guild of St George and Ruskin Land https://stethelburgas.org and follow the links from ‘Events’ Given by John Iles & Jenny Robbins Monday 11 March Explores Ruskin’s attitude to the land, seen in his establishment 1800 St Margaret Lothbury of a utopian agricultural community in the Wyre Forest as a The Bank Churches’ Lent Lecture practical alternative to mass production and mechanisation The Irreplaceable Human Being – Bonhoeffer in Lent Booking £11 (members of SPAB £10) Given by the Rt Revd Martin Lind, Bishop of the Lutheran Church For further information and to book please go to www.spab.org.uk and follow the links from ‘What’s On’ and ‘Lectures’ in Great Britain Following refreshments at 1745 All welcome 1830 to 1930 St Dunstan in the West

Lent Study Group, following Eucharist at 1800 Tuesday 12 March

1045 to 1530 St Andrew Holborn Sunday 24 March Oasis Day: ‘Giving ourselves a Positive Lent’ 1400 to 1630 London Centre for Spiritual Direction, Led by Martin Davies and Jane Franklin St Edmund King & Martyr Oasis Days offer a monthly time of quiet reflection to re-charge Annual Cornerstone Lecture – Soul Searching: Psychotherapy one’s spiritual batteries with stimulating speakers as a Spiritual Practice Cost £15 – Lunch / tea & coffee provided Given by Rabbi Howard Cooper Pre-booking required by Friday 8 March for catering purposes Cornerstone is a London based ecumenical network of Christians To book please telephone the Revd Martin Davies on who provide professional counselling and psychotherapy 07429 612642 or e-mail [email protected] Rabbi Cooper is the Director of Spiritual Development at Finchley Please enter via No 7 St Andrew Street Reform Synagogue and a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in 1100 St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall private practice – his lecture will explore how psychotherapy has City of London Historical Society Talk evolved into a profession which embraces secular and religious The Huguenots in Spitalfields practices and how the practitioner's stance, technique and All welcome – entry £10 approach partake of life's spiritual dimension For further information, including cost, and to book please go to Thursday 14 March www.cornerstonetherapy.org.uk 1400 to 1600 London Centre for Spiritual Direction,

St Edmund King & Martyr Thursday 28 March Ignatian Spirituality Course Open Afternoon 1240 St Lawrence Jewry A free open afternoon for those contemplating Ignatian training, The Haberdashers’ Company Golden Lecture who would like to meet leaders of the three year course and find ‘Seeking the welfare of the City: the role of the church in out more about it – the course provides an Introduction to Ignatian turbulent times’ Spirituality, exploring the call to spiritual accompaniment and what Given by the Bishop of London the Spiritual Exercises have to offer For further information, including how to book, please go to the 1815 St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall Ignatian Spirituality Course website at www.artsd.org.uk The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings

Spring Lecture Series 2019 1815 St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall Ruskin & Venice: An enduring influence on conservation The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings A dialogue exploring the influence and continued relevance Spring Lecture Series 2019 of Ruskin’s writings about Venice to conservation in the city Ruskin & Conservation: Saving St Petrock’s, Parracombe and world-wide - with architectural writer Gillian Darley, Given by Meriel O’Dowd (Churches Conservation Trust) Sarah Quill (Venice in Peril) and a panel of architects and In 1877, when the vicar enlisted the SPAB’s support to build a new conservationists representing a range of viewpoints church to save the historic St Petrock’s from damaging alterations, Booking £11 (members of SPAB £10) Ruskin was among the subscribers – the lecture takes up the story For further information and to book please go to www.spab.org.uk Booking £11 (members of SPAB £10) and follow the links from ‘What’s On’ and ‘Lectures’ For further information and to book please go to www.spab.org.uk and follow the links from ‘What’s On’ and ‘Lectures’ 1830 to 1930 St Dunstan in the West 1830 to 1930 St Dunstan in the West Lent Study Group, following Eucharist at 1800 Lent Study Group, following Eucharist at 1800

Monday 4 March — continued EVENTS & CONCERTS IN MARCH 2019 1305 St Martin Ludgate Recital Maria Włoszczowska – violin Friday 1 March Dinis Sousa – piano Programme: 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Janáček - Sonata for violin and piano Organ Recital: Martin Ellis Schumann - Sonata for violin and piano in D minor Op 121 1305 St Mary at Hill Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society Please note that this programme is an amendment to the one printed in copies of City Events distributed to churches PRINCE CONSORT BRASS QUINTET Ed Sykes, Henry Morley – trumpets Alexander Boukikov – horn Admission is free but donations are gratefully received in aid of Henry Newton – trombone Connor Gingall – tuba church and recital running costs Programme: Mozart – Marriage of Figaro – Overture Tuesday 5 March and works by Gabrieli, Koetsier and Michael Kamen 1230 St Mary Abchurch 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. Recital: Music Scholars of James Allen's Girls' School The recital will usually include an improvisation Jeanette Szeto – viola Viola Farbach – violin 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Ola Kiezun – cello Betania Johnny – violin School Organ Students Series 2019 Liliana Sierra – flute Sydney Lo – cello Tuesday 12 February to Tuesday 2 April Kathryn Bowers – voice The first recital in March will be given by pupils from Peter Gritton – accompanist (JAGS Director of Music) School 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Programme: Walbrook Music Trust Recital Vierne – Le soir Emma Besselaar – cello Antonio Oyarzabal – piano Granados – Andaluza (Spanish Dance no.5) 1315 St Mary at Hill Mozart – Adagio in E major K 261 Recital: Square Mile Music Series Devienne – Sonata in E minor 1st movement The Oriole Trio Leighton – Elegy Mozart – Alleluia Poppy Beddoe – clarinet Florian Belbeoch – cello Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Roelof Temmingh – piano

Saturday 2 March Programme:

1930 St Botolph without Bishopsgate Brahms – Clarinet Trio in A minor Op 114 (1891) A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Tours of the Church Springtime! Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day Celebrate St David's Day with London's only all-female Welsh or make a booking by emailing Sally Hannon at: choir, and then indulge in music inspired by Shakespeare and love! [email protected] or telephoning 020 7427 0133. Côr Dinas Choir Conductor – Andrew Cusworth Special tours for groups can also be arranged The London Humanist Choir Conductor – Laurel Neighbour Wednesday 6 March Programme: 1300 to 1345 St Stephen Walbrook Works by George Shearing (Extracts from 'Songs and Sonnets Walbrook Community Choir from Shakespeare'), Todd, Ayres, Assersohn and Whitacre If you like singing, or would like to try it, come and join us in your Tickets: £23 (premium) £18 (unreserved) £5 (children) — lunch hour! There are no auditions or fees, and ability to read call the box office on 07528 776 625 or book online: music is not essential. Sing a variety of styles of music led by http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/march/ and follow the links experienced professional choir directors Premium tickets include a reserved seat, a programme, and a voucher 1315 Temple Church for a drink which can be redeemed either before the concert or Organ Recital: Roger Sayer during the interval. 1830 to 2000 St Lawrence Jewry

Monday 4 March City of London Popchoir

1300 St Lawrence Jewry Popchoir is for anyone who loves to sing Stressed-out commuter, Recital: Kyoto Sekiguchi – piano worn-out parent, shy shower soprano, there's a place here to let Programme: your voice out. And with no auditions and no need to be able to Beethoven – Piano Sonata in C major Op 2 No 3i read music, there are no excuses! We sing brilliant songs with Schumann – Papillons Op 2 fabulous arrangements and have a great time. Chopin – Barcarolle Op 60 For more information please go to: https://www.popchoir.com/ 1300 St Michael Cornhill Organ Recital: Samuel Ali (Christ Church, Chelsea) Thursday 7 March 1300 St Stephen Walbrook 1305 St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield Choral Classics – Music and Readings with the Choral Scholars A City Music Society concert to be given by English Young Artists Sinfonia "The Gospels: Matthew" Robert Pepper ― conductor with music by Sheppard, Pearsall and Duruflé Ben Marshall ― oboe

Choral Classics at St Stephen Walbrook offer thirty minutes of Programme: sublime choral music from our Choral Scholars interspersed Vaughan Williams ― Concerto in A minor for oboe and strings Mozart ― Symphony No 40 in G minor K550 with readings on a theme.

Free with a retiring collection Admission is free with a retiring collection

Saturday 9 March EVENTS & CONCERTS IN MARCH 2019 — continued 1930 St Botolph without Bishopsgate A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event Thursday 7 March — continued 'In the Midst of Life' 1305 St Mary le Bow Recital: Oboe Quartet A concert of sacred music ranging from the 16th century to our own 1305 St Olave Hart Street The Pegasus Choir Conductor – Matthew Altham Recital: Kanae Furomoto – piano Programme: 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Works by Gombert, Allegri, Macmillan, Parsons, Jackson, Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series Mouton, Rachmaninov, Biebl, Sisask and Byrd Christian Gautschi – Zurich, Switzerland 1800 St Mary at Hill Tickets: £23 (premium) £18 (unreserved) £5 (children) — Choral Evensong, followed by Thursday Conversation at 1830 call the box office on 07528 776 625 or book online: Evensong will be sung by Seraphim, the St Mary at Hill Choir http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/march/ and follow the links Premium tickets include a reserved seat, a programme, and a voucher Nicola Green – Artist and Social Historian will be in conversation for a drink which can be redeemed either before the concert or with The Revd Prebendary Rose Hudson-Wilkins. during the interval. The topic will be 'Encounters: a new era in interfaith dialogue'' Monday 11 March Nicola Green seeks out some of the most important human stories around the world, as they are happening. Inspired by her mixed- 1300 St Lawrence Jewry heritage children she records these stories for future generations. Recital: Ben Schoeman – piano She is driven by her belief in the power of the visual image to record Programme: these momentous events, committed to her role as a ‘witness’ in our J S Bach/Egon Petri – 'Sheep may safely graze' turbulent and constantly changing world. She explores themes of (Schafe können sicher weiden) from the Cantata identity, race, faith, power, gender and leadership. Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd BWV 208 J S Bach – French Suite No 4 in E flat major BWV 815 We finish with a glass of wine at 1930 Liszt – Deux Légendes S 175 Admission is free All are welcome St Francis of Assisi's sermon to the birds 1930 St Katharine Cree St Francis of Paola walking on the waves Concert: Ad Libitum Chamber Choir 1300 St Michael Cornhill Conductor – Julian Collings Organist – Colin Spinks Organ Recital: Roger Judd (Sub-organist, St Laurence, Ludlow) Vaughan Williams’ rich and impassioned Mass in G Minor forms 1300 St Stephen Walbrook the centrepiece for this inspiring programme of music from the Choral Classics – Music and Readings with the Choral Scholars English choral tradition. The Gospels: Mark" Programme: with music by Byrd and Holst Works by Vaughan Williams, Stanford, Holst, HIowells, Sumsion and Choral Classics at St Stephen Walbrook offer thirty minutes of sublime choral music from our Choral Scholars interspersed Tickets £15; Students £12 Refreshments included with readings on a theme. Tickets will be available on the door or in advance from: Free with a retiring collection http://www.adlibitumchoir.co.uk/ 1305 St Martin Ludgate and follow the link at 'Concert Diary' within 'Concerts' Recital: Eleanor Kemp – mezzo-soprano

Hannah Johnstone – contralto Michael Collins – bass/baritone Friday 8 March Jan Christopher-Guthrie – piano 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Programme: Organ Recital: Patrick Hopper: "An Ode to England" 1305 St Mary at Hill A programme of English songs by Britten, Dring, Elgar, Harty, Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society Ireland, Rorem and Quilter MASQUERADE TRIO Admission is free but donations are gratefully received in aid of Nikki Wilkinson – baroque flute Tabitha Tuckett – baroque cello church and recital running costs David Parsons – lute & theorbo Tuesday 12 March Programme: Works by Leclair, Locatelli, Weiss and David Parsons 1230 St Mary Abchurch 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. Recital: Palisander The recital will usually include an improvisation Lydia Gosnell Miriam Monaghan 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Caoimhe de Paor Elspeth Robertson School Organ Students Series 2019 Recorders Tuesday 12 February to Tuesday 2 April Antidotum Arachne The second recital in March will be given by pupils from 16th and 17th-century victims of venomous spider bites were offered no Eton College medicinal cure or relief. Instead the local musicians would work together to 1300 St Stephen Walbrook find the correct melody, known as a 'tarantella', which could cure them of Walbrook Music Trust Recital their otherwise fatal symptoms The Centennial High School Choir from Minnesota, USA Programme: Works by Kircher, Merula, Vivaldi, Casulana, 1315 St Mary at Hill de Rore, Massaino, Agnes Dorwarth and William Byrd Recital: Square Mile Music Series Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Carolina Blaskovic – violin 1315 St Dunstan in the West Programme: Organ Recital: Martin Ellis J S Bach – Violin Sonata No 2 in A minor BWV 1003 Fauré – Violin Sonata No 1 in A major Op 13

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN MARCH 2019 — continued Thursday 14 March — continued

Tuesday 12 March — continued 1305 St Mary le Bow Recital: Susana Gilardoni – soprano 1415 St Bride Fleet Street 1305 St Olave Hart Street Tours of the Church Recital: Joanna Gutowska – cello Anna Szalucka – piano Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays 'The Glorious Baroque' (3) or make a booking by emailing Sally Hannon at: [email protected] or telephoning 020 7427 0133. Friday 15 March

Special tours for groups can also be arranged 1230 St Stephen Walbrook 1900 St Mary le Bow Organ Recital: Rashaan Allwood Concert: The City Chamber Choir 1305 St Mary at Hill Conductor – Stephen Jones Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society Programme: TRIO LAVOLTA 'Women of Note' Simon Marlow – piano Joyce Fraser – violin An explanation of music written by women including Felix Buser – cello Ruth Gipps ( & Nunc Dimittis), Cecilia McDowall, Programme: Rebecca Clarke, Lili Boulanger, Katrina Toner, Judith Weir Niels Gade – Noveletten Op 29 Tickets: £15 (£10 under 18s and full time students only) Josel Suk – Elegy available on the door or from: Martinů – Piano Trio No 2 in G minor http://www.citychamberchoir.org.uk 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: Friederike Bieber – soprano Achinoam Keisar – piano Wednesday 13 March Programme: 1300 to 1345 St Stephen Walbrook Delius – Seven Songs from the Norwegian (Songs 1,2, & 3) Walbrook Community Choir Korngold – Lieder des Abschieds If you like singing, or would like to try it, come and join us in your Debussy – Cinq Poèmes de Baudelaire (Songs 2 & 3) lunch hour! There are no auditions or fees, and ability to read Kurt Weill – Je ne t'aime pas music is not essential. Sing a variety of styles of music led by Free Admittance – Retiring Collection experienced professional choir directors 1305 St Botolph Aldgate Saturday 16 March

Recital: Natalie Smith – piano 1900 St Sepulchre without Newgate/Holy Sepulchre London Programme: The Musicians' Church Satie – Gymnopédie No 3 SATURDAY CONCERT SERIES Chopin – Grand Waltz in A flat major Op 42 Dúo Evocación Gershwin – Three Preludes For more details please go to: http://hsl.church/events/2019/ Gershwin- 'I Got Rhythm' from The Songbook and follow the links

Free entry with a retiring collection Monday 18 March 1305 St Mary le Bow Eucharist with organ music followed at 1330 by a cantata 1300 St Lawrence Jewry with music for voice and organ by J S Bach Recital: Marina Koka – piano 1305 St Olave Hart Street Programme: Recital: Susan Waters – soprano Chopin – Two Nocturnes Op 62: with Guildhall School of Music and Drama Vocal Ensembles No 1 in B major & No 2 in E major 1315 St Dunstan in the West Chopin – Piano Sonata No 3 in B minor Op 58 Green Chorus Spring Concert – the Japanese ladies' choir; they Marina Koka performs through the joint St Lawrence Jewry and started out in Golders Green, North London in 1986 Worshipful Company of Musicians Scheme for Prizewinners of the 1315 St Sepulchre without Newgate/Holy Sepulchre London Company The Musicians' Church 1300 St Michael Cornhill Free Lunchtime Recital with our Ensemble in Residence, Organ Recital: István Ella (Hungary) The Halcyon Quartet 1300 St Stephen Walbrook More details at https://www.halcyon-quartet.com/ Choral Classics – Music and Readings with the Choral Scholars

1315 Temple Church "The Gospels: Luke" Organ Recital: Polina Sosnina (Temple Church Organ Scholar) with music by Elgar and Parsons 1830 to 2000 St Lawrence Jewry City of London Pop Choir Choral Classics at St Stephen Walbrook offer thirty minutes of More information in the entry at Wednesday 6 March sublime choral music from our Choral Scholars interspersed Thursday 14 March with readings on a theme.

1305 St Giles Cripplegate Please note, this is a change of venue Free with a retiring collection for the concert originally listed to take place at 1305 St Martin Ludgate St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield Recital: Please refer to the website for more information: www.stmartin-within-ludgate.org.uk/music/ A City Music Society concert to be given by Admission is free but donations are gratefully received in aid of Trinity Laban String Ensemble church and recital running costs Nic Pendlebury ― conductor Programme: Tuesday 19 March Sally Beamish ― Variations on a theme of 1230 St Mary Abchurch Britten ― Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. Admission is free with a retiring collection The recital will usually include an improvisation

Wednesday 20 March — continued EVENTS & CONCERTS IN MARCH 2019 — continued 1300 to 1345 St Stephen Walbrook Tuesday 19 March — continued Walbrook Community Choir If you like singing, or would like to try it, come and join us in your 1300 St Lawrence Jewry lunch hour! There are no auditions or fees, and ability to read School Organ Students Series 2019 music is not essential. Sing a variety of styles of music led by Tuesday 12 February to Tuesday 2 April experienced professional choir directors The second recital in March will be given by pupils from 1305 St Botolph Aldgate Wellington College Recital: Mateusz Rettner – piano 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Programme: Walbrook Music Trust Recital Albéniz – El Albaicin Felix Yao An Hong – piano Chopin – Sonata in B flat minor Op 35 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Free entry with a retiring collection Recital: Nathan Meltzer – violin Elisabeth Brauss – piano 1305 St Mary le Bow Programme: Eucharist with organ music followed at 1330 by a cantata Bach – Sonata for Violin and Piano in E major BWV 1016 with music for voice and organ by J S Bach César Franck – Sonata for Violin and Piano in A major 1305 St Olave Hart Street Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Recital: Ami Lodge – flute So Yeong Kim – piano 1315 St Mary at Hill 1315 St Dunstan in the West Recital: Square Mile Music Series Recital: Carolina Blašković – violin Will Fielding – piano Nataliya Kartasheva – piano 1315 Temple Church Programme: Organ Recital: Greg Morris "The Story of Peer Gynt" 1830 to 2000 St Lawrence Jewry 1415 St Bride Fleet Street City of London Pop Choir Tours of the Church Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Popchoir is for anyone who loves to sing Stressed-out commuter, Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day worn-out parent, shy shower soprano, there's a place here to let or make a booking by emailing Sally Hannon at: your voice out. And with no auditions and no need to be able to [email protected] or telephoning 020 7427 0133. read music, there are no excuses! We sing brilliant songs with Special tours for groups can also be arranged fabulous arrangements and have a great time. 1930 St Bartholomew the Great For more information please go to: https://www.popchoir.com/ A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event

The Choir of St Catherine's College, Cambridge Thursday 21 March

Conductor – Edward Wickham 1305 St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield

present a recital of settings from the Book of , A City Music Society concert to be given by ranging from the explosive political motets of William Byrd Ming Xie ― piano to works from the 21st century, Programme: and reflecting the Psalms' enduring fascination for musicians. Rameau ― Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin – At the core of the programme is Gavotte et 6 Doubles Mendelssohn’s famous setting of Psalm 55, Beethoven ― Sonata in E♭ major Op 31 No3 Glazunov ― Sonata No 1 in B♭ minor Op 74 Programme: Works by Pärt, Byrd, Tallis, Schütz, Admission is free with a retiring collection Mendelssohn ('Hear my prayer/O for the wings of a dove'), 1305 St Mary le Bow Brahms, Stanford, Britten, Howells and Marsh Recital: Alexander Petrov – piano 1305 St Olave Hart Street Tickets: £23 (premium) £18 (unreserved) £5 (children) — Recital: Guildhall Harpists and Friends call the box office on 07528 776 625 or book online: 1310 St Margaret Lothbury http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/march/ and follow the links Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series Wednesday 20 March Istvan Ella – Budapest, Hungary

1300 The Hospital Church of St Bartholomew the Less 1900 The Crypt Hall of St Mary Moorfields, Eldon Street EC2M 7LS A City Music Foundation Lunchtime Recital Recital: The Portorius Quartet 'Duo di Basso' with Miguel Pliego (double bass) Toby Hughes – double bass Abel Selaocoe – cello Programme: Programme: Schubert – Quintet in C major D 956 Edgar Meyer – Duo for cello and double bass This was Schubert's last Chamber Work Emil Tabakov – Motivy Luigi Boccherini – Sonata for cello and basso continuo Admission free with retiring collection in A major G. 4: I. Adagio We regret that the Church and Crypt Hall are not accessible for Jean Françaix – Theme and variations (excerpts) those people in wheelchairs or with impaired mobility. Zdeněk Lukáš – Duo di Basso The only access to the Church is by the short flight of stairs Luciano Berio – Psy from the main entrance in Eldon Street. Giovanni Sollima arr. Selaocoe – Lamentatio Access to the Crypt Hall is by staircase from Church level. Zdeněk Lukáš – Rondo

Free entry with retiring collection Seats in this small church may be reserved by registering on: www.citymusicfoundation.org/cmf-presents

Friday 22 March — continued EVENTS & CONCERTS IN MARCH 2019 – continued 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: Carmel Edwards – soprano Din Ghani – lute Programme: Musicke in the Ayre Works by Besard, Campion, Dowland, Johnson, Moulinié, Boësset, Lambert and 'Anon'

The City Church of St Bride Fleet Street Free Admittance – Retiring Collection 1800 St Botolph Bishopsgate

JAM — The James Armitage Memorial Concert Concert: Preludes and Vollenteries Series No 18 Peter Shepherd Skaerved At 7.30pm on Thursday 21st March 2019 plays works for solo violin by Westhoff, Pisendel, Tartini and Sculthorpe Admission: £10 (£5) on the door, or from: Music of Our Time www.peter-sheppard-skaerved.com 1930 St Bride Fleet Street JAM will launch its 2019 season Concert: 'The Path of Purity' Vasari Singers with the London premiere of our 2018 commission conducted by Jeremy Backhouse Songs from the Marshes Vasari Singers will be taking you on a choral journey from the by Rory Boyle and Claudia Daventry Lamentations of St Gregory of Narek through images of light and flame, to the stars and heaven with a programme of 20th century and we will re-visit the powerful music featuring Schnittke's extraordinary work, the Concerto for The Fifth Continent Choir, alongside powerful pieces by Tavener, Ešenvalds and Chilcott by Paul Patterson and Ben Kaye Tickets: £20 (under 18 - £12) from: wwwvasarisingers.org commissioned by JAM in 2005 and follow the links 1930 St Katharine Cree Programme Concert: The City Wind Orchestra

Rory Boyle – Tallis's Light 'Mysterious Universe' Frederick Viner – Justorum Animae Programme: Richard Peat – Sanctorum Cantuarienses Works by Stephen McNeff, Patrick Miles, Roland Barrett, Helen Roe –Vidi Aquam Edwin Roxburgh, Wagner, Hans Zimmer Batman and Connor

Steven Nunes – Isabeau s'y promene Tickets: £12 (£10 concessions) from: http://www.citywind.org.uk David Nunn – Sitivit anima mea and follow the link from 'Events' Phillip Cooke – For he is our peace Rory Boyle – Smuggler Shanty (Songs from the Marshes) Saturday 23 March Rory Boyle – Bad Teeth No Bar (Songs from the Marshes) Paul Patterson – The Fifth Continent 1930 St Katharine Cree A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event

The concert will be performed by Cardiff Polyphonic Choir the Chapel Choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge Conductor – David Young with Onyx Brass Programme:

Fauré and Duruflé Requiems

Andrew Watts – counter-tenor Tickets: £23 (premium) £18 (unreserved) £5 (children) — call the box office on 07528 776 625 or book online: Organist — Simon Hogan http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/march/ and follow the links Conductor — Michael Bawtree Monday 25 March Tickets: £18, £12 Under 18s free 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Box Office: 0800 988 7984 or Recital: Olga Stezhko – piano www.jamconcert.org/season Programme: Debussy – 'Children's Corner' Suite L 119 Ravel – From 'Miroirs' Suite: ii. Oiseaux tristes iv. Alborada del gracioso v. La vallee des cloches Friday 22 March Scriabin – Vers la flamme Op 72 (1914) 1300 St Michael Cornhill 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Organ Recital: Rashaan Allwood ( Canada) Organ Recital: Polina Sosnina (Temple Church Organ Scholar) Choral Classics – Music and Readings with the Choral Scholars 1305 St Mary at Hill Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society "The Gospels: John" Adam Heron – piano with music by Tallis and Stainer

Programme: Choral Classics at St Stephen Walbrook offer thirty minutes of Bach – French Suite No 3 in B minor BWV 814 sublime choral music from our Choral Scholars interspersed Schubert – Piano Sonata in A minor D 845 with readings on a theme. Free with a retiring collection

Wednesday 27 March EVENTS & CONCERTS IN MARCH 2019 – continued 1300 to 1345 St Stephen Walbrook

Monday 25 March — continued Walbrook Community Choir More information at Wednesday 6 March 1305 St Martin Ludgate 1305 St Mary le Bow Recital: Rhys Bowden – tenor David Johnson - piano Eucharist with organ music followed at 1330 by a cantata Programme: with music for voice and organ by J S Bach Schumann – Liederkreis Op 24 (1840) 1305 St Olave Hart Street Beethoven – Piano Sonata No 21 (Waldstein) Op 53 (1804) Recital: London Panufnik Trio 2nd & 3rd movements Konstanzcja Smolorz – violin Edward Deakins – cello Britten – 1: "My beloved is mine and I am his" Op 40 (1947) Michael Lan – piano

Admission is free but donations are gratefully received in aid of 1315 St Dunstan in the West church and recital running costs Recital: Vasilis Rakitzis – piano 1930 The Great Hall – St Bartholomew's Hospital Programme: Chopin – Polonaise in C# minor Op 26 No 1 Barts Academic Festival Choir & Orchestra Four Mazurkas Op 24

Easter Concert Brahms – Four Ballades Op 10 1315 Temple Church Programme: Organ Recital: Roger Sayer Dvořák – Symphony No 9 in E minor Op 96 B.176 1830 to 2000 St Lawrence Jewry 'From the New World' City of London Pop Choir Vaughan Williams – Five English Folk Songs More information at Wednesday 6 March Verdi – Four Sacred Pieces Haydn – Te Deum in C major Hob XXIIIc.2 Thursday 28 March

Tickets at the door: Full price £15 Concessions £10 1305 St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield A City Music Society concert to be given by Proceeds from the concert will go to Barts Cancer Unit The Choir of Royal Holloway

Tuesday 26 March Rupert Gough ― conductor Programme: 1230 St Mary Abchurch Songs of Springtime ― An 'eve-of-Brexit' programme of music Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. by British and other European composers The recital will usually include an improvisation Admission is free with a retiring collection 1300 St Lawrence Jewry 1305 St Mary le Bow School Organ Students Series 2019 Recital: Guildhall Baroque Orchestra The second recital in March will be given by: 1305 St Olave Hart Street Luke Mitchell (Winchester College) Recital: Merak String Quartet and Clara Garde – violin Lucas Freitas – violin Josef Gaszka (King Edward's School School, Witley) Freya Hicks – viola Anna Garde – cello : 1300 St Stephen Walbrook 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Walbrook Music Trust Recital Guildhall School of Music and Drama Winds Concert: Fauré – Requiem 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Richard Townend with the Hill House Choral Scholars Recital: Varvara Maggs – piano and the Lothbury Singers with Benjamin Lewis-Smith (organ) Programme: Admission is free but a collection will be taken at the door Prokofiev – 'Legend' Op 12 No 6 Liszt – Sonata in B minor Friday 29 March

Free Admittance – Retiring Collection 1230 St Stephen Walbrook 1315 St Mary at Hill Organ Recital: Anthony Gritten Recital: Square Mile Music Series 1305 St Mary at Hill Nadine Nigl – violin Emma Besselaar – cello Concert: Music-at-Hill Concert Society Antonio Oyazarbal – piano Britain & Europe Series (Boyce Symphony Cycle) Programme: ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC CAMERATA Lili Boulanger – Piano Trios (1918) Adam Heron – conductor Aïda Lahlou – piano Frank Martin – Trio on Popular Irish Folk Tunes (1925) Programme: 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Elgar – Elegy Op 58 Tours of the Church For more information please refer to the Mozart – Piano Concerto No 13 in C major K 415 entry at Tuesday 5 March Boyce – Symphonies: No 1 in B flat major & No 4 in F major 1930 St Katharine Cree 1315 St Bride Fleet Street A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event Organ Recital: Ben Giddens 'Light from Darkness' Programme: City Consort of Voices Bach – Aus tiefer Not schrei' ich zu dir, BWV 686 Conductor – Tim Crosley Demessieux – Two Choral Preludes Vexilla Regis Stabat Mater Works by Brahms, Byrd, Elgar, Harris, Lauridsen, MacMillan, Bach – O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig, BWV 656 Saint-Saëns, Sullivan, Tavener, Tippett, Whitacre, Charles Wood, Langlais – Dominica in Palmis Victoria, Crosley, Esenvalds and Moore Dupré – Crucifixion from Symphonie-Passion Op 23 Tournemire – Improvisation sur le Te Deum Tickets: £23 (premium) £18 (unreserved) £5 (children) — call the box office on 07528 776 625 or book online: Free Admittance – Retiring Collection http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/march/

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN MARCH 2019 – continued We are indebted to Dickon Love,

Company Bellringer to the Friday 29 March — continued Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks

1900 St Botolph Bishopsgate for the following information Concert: The Giltspur Singers directed by Dr Chris Maxim Open bellringing performances 'Lamentations' — Music for Lent and Holy Week currently scheduled for the City of London Programme: in March 2019 Tallis – Lamentations of Jeremiah Allegri – Miserere Browne – Jesu, mercy, how may this be? Sunday 10 March Leighton – Crucifixus pro nobis 1530 3 hour performance on the Jubilee bells by the Ancient Society of College Youths Entry: £15 including refreshments at St Dunstan in the West 1900 The Crypt Hall of St Mary Moorfields, Eldon Street EC2M 7LS Recital: Merak String Quartet ---- o ---- with Miguel Pliego (double bass) Programme: Tuesday 12 March Mendelssohn – String Quartet No 3 in D major & F major 1400 3 hour performance on the Jubilee bells Op 44 No 1 by the Ancient Society of College Youths Schubert – String Quartet No 10 in E flat major at St Dunstan in the West D 87 (Op 125/1) Admission free with retiring collection ---- o ----

We regret that the Church and Crypt Hall are not accessible for Wednesday 13 March those people in wheelchairs or with impaired mobility. 1730 3½ hour performance on the Bow Bells Access to the Crypt Hall is by staircase from Church level. by the Ancient Society of College Youths Saturday 30 March at St Mary le Bow

1930 St Sepulchre without Newgate/Holy Sepulchre London ---- o ---- The Musicians' Church

SATURDAY CONCERT SERIES Sunday 17 March 1400 3½ hour performance on the bells 'Why Haydn? The Music and the Man' by the St James' Guild

Adoramus Choir & Orchestra at St Magnus the Martyr

Nicola Hooke – soprano Kate Turnpenny – mezzo-soprano 1400 3½ hr performance on the Bow Bells Carl de Figueiredo – tenor Richard Carver – bass by the Worcester Cathedral Guild Conductor – David Hooke at St Mary le Bow Orchestra Leader – Christine Townsend Programme: ---- o ---- Mass in Time of War (Paukenmesse) Hob XXII/9 Saturday 30 March Motet – Insanae et Vanae Curae 1000 3½ hr performance on the bells Symphony No 104 in D major H.1/104 "The London" by the Ancient Society of College Youths Tickets: £18 / £15 Under 16 £10 at St Magnus the Martyr Full details and tickets available from: www.adoramus.com 1000 3½ hr performance on the bells Ticket hotline: 07816 998 308 of Spliced Maximus 1930 St Stephen Walbrook by the Ancient Society of College Youths A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event at St Michael Cornhill The Ionian Singers

Jocelyn Coates – soprano ---- o ----

Timothy Salter – conductor Sunday 31 March An English Renaissance 1400 3½ hr performance on the bells

After a gap of two hundred years English choral music flourished by the Ancient Society of College Youths anew during the second half of the 19 C in a later Renaissance, at St Magnus the Martyr

and this momentum has remained in force up to our own times. The music in today’s programme reflects the changes in musical language from the late 1800s up to the present time. City Events is published by Programme: The Friends of the City Churches in conjunction with Works by Stanford, Elgar, Delius, Howells, Salter,Young, the Archdeaconry of London and Horovitz and printed by Copyprints: Tickets: £23 (premium) £18 (unreserved) £5 (children) — [email protected] call the box office on 07528 776 625 or book online: http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/march/ and follow the links Premium tickets include a reserved seat and a programme,

April 2019 Published by FCC in conjunction with the Archdeaconry of Londoon

Easter Offerings

The churches of the City of London will be holdingg well over 120 special services during the period of Holy Week and Easter Day itself, thus emphasising the great importance of this most significant of Christian Festivals. The services are all listed in the particular section of this publication. Much fine choral music will accompany these services. Significantly there will be two performances of The Crucifixion by Sir . These take place on Good Friday 19th April at Temple Church at 11.15am, and at St Bride Fleet Street at 2.00pm. Another work relating the story of the Crucifixion is the cantata Olivet to Calvary by John Henry Maunnder. This is lesser known than Stainer's work but it is a most worthy musiical contribution to the Easter story. It will be performed on Tuesday 16th April at a free lunchtime concert by the joint of the City Singers and the St Olave Singers at St Katharine Cree. It will also be performed on Good Friday 19th April at St Magnus the Martyr.

On Saturday 6th April, at All Hallows by the Tower, the London Orpheus Choir, now in its 74th year, will be singing in a City church for the first time. Their cooncert with the theme 'Songs of Hope' (particularly apt at this time) will include Fauré's Requiem, unusual in omitting the Dies Irae, and ending with In Paradisum, with its beautiful and uplifting melody comforting those mourning the loss of someone. Accompanying this piece will be 'Rejoice in the Lamb' by Benjamin Britten, an idiossyncratic jubilant song of praise for the beauty and mystery of creation. 'They That Go Down to the Sea in Ships' by , a most prolific 20th century composer of choral works, is set to a section of Psalm 107, describing men caught in a storm and being saved by God from their distress. The programme will be completed with the sacred motet by J S Bach, O Jesu Christ mein's Lebens Licht with its text of comfort and peace. Ending with that uplifting text set to Bach's glorious music, this will certainly set the seal on a concert with the aim of bringing hope to the listener,

As always there will be numerous recitals and concerts and these will contain works that may be described as unusual. At St Lawrence Jewry on Tuesday 16 April Catherine Ennis will be playing Iain Farrington's Orgelbüchlein Project contribution, Prelude on the Old 100th. These 1½ minutes of teechnical wizardry of organ‐ playing will certainly be in marked contrast to the complementary piece being played earlier in the recital – Voluntary on the Old Hundredth by Purcell.

Almost hidden in the wealth of music to be performed in the City churches during Aprril will be a work with what may only be described as popular appeal. At St Bride Fleet Street on Friday 5th April a violin recital will be given by Chu‐Yu Yang, with piano accompaniment by Tiing Khng Cha. The varied programme (works by Bartok, Fauré and Vaughan Williams) will conclude with Farewell to Cucullain, by Fritz Kreisler. This iis actually a transcription of that well‐loved melody, the Londonderry Air. The familiar tune will be played three times, in ascending registers, with some interesting harmonies in the accompaniment.

As we have explained in many previous issues of City Events the above revue is selective for the obvious reason of space. Close examination of the following pages wwill reveal a wealth of wonderful music, much of it allied with the important season of Easter. We hope that our readers will avail themselves to the full by experiencing as many as possible of the services, concerts and recitals in our active City churches.

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

Tuesday ─ continued

REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less IN APRIL 2019 1230 to 1300 Eucharist (said) with brief address St Dunstan in the West 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr The entries below show the normal pattern of services for City Churches 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) (Not 16 April) St Mary Moorfields and a few churches ‘just over the City borders’. Entries are for Church 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Woolnoth of England services except where indicated otherwise. ‘1st Monday’, 1230 Holy Communion (said), followed by coffee and sandwiches ‘2nd Monday’ etc refer to the 1st Monday, 2nd Monday etc of the month. St Olave Hart Street 1300 Holy Communion in the Crypt All Hallows by the Tower While every effort is made to ensure accuracy, the services shown are 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place subject to change at Bank or other holidays and immediately before, 1300 to 1400 (any time) Contemporary Worship during and after major festivals and holy days, and during the summer St Sepulchre without Newgate / Holy Sepulchre London months. You are strongly advised to contact churches to check the details. 1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate 1305 Meditation (in the crypt chapel) St Mary le Bow 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 (Not 16 April) St Mary Moorfields For a list of weekend (particularly Sunday) services please go to the 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn Friends of the City Churches website at www.london-city-churches.org.uk 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn and follow the links from ‘Events’ and ‘City Events’. 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, following buffet lunch at 1300 (Not 16 April) St Botolph Aldersgate 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, with sandwich lunch available St Helen Bishopsgate Monday 1310 Holy Communion St Margaret Lothbury 1700 to 1800 ‘ A Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 0715 Jewish Daily Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic orthodox rite) Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street (0700 on 1st day of Hebrew religious month; 0900 on Bank Holidays) 1700 to 1730 ‘Words of Hope’ – quiet informal reflective service For details please see www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/ St Clement Eastcheap 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 0830 Meditation (Moot Community – all welcome) St Mary Aldermary 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1830 Choral Evensong (traditional) (Choral Eucharist on 3rd Tuesday) 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow St Sepulchre without Newgate / Holy Sepulchre London 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1215 Eucharist St Michael Paternoster Royal Wednesday 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue St Mary Moorfields 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1245 Holy Communion (Not 22 or 29 April) St Mary at Hill 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 0800 to 0840 Morning Taizé Chant (Moot Community – all welcome) 1300 to 1330 Choral Classics – music and readings St Stephen Walbrook 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 ‘A 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 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 1205 RC Mass St Joseph Bunhill Row 1800 Choral Evensong (BCP) (During university terms) St Michael Cornhill 1215 to 1315 Elim Full Gospel Chinese Church Fellowship – All welcome St Lawrence Jewry Tuesday 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 0715 Jewish Daily Service (see Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Abchurch 0730 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 0745 Holy Communion (said) followed by coffee and croissants (Not 23 April) St Mary Moorfields St Mary at Hill 1245 to 1315 (3rd Wednesday) Society of Friends (Quaker) Meeting for Worship 0745 Eucharist, followed by breakfast St Mary le Bow Bunhill Fields Meeting House, Quaker Court, Banner St 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal worship and teaching – come and go as 0745 to 0915 ‘Start: Stop’ – start the day by stopping to reflect – 10 minute you wish St Margaret Lothbury reflections beginning every 15 minutes - just drop in 1300 (1st Wednesday) Eucharist followed at 1345 to 1420 by discussion St Stephen Walbrook St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 0800 to 0830 Morning Prayer (Moot Community – all welcome) 1305 to 1400 ‘Not on a Sunday’ – informal worship with prayer and song, with St Mary Aldermary coffee at start St Katharine Cree 0800 Morning Prayer St Michael Cornhill 1305 Eucharist (in the church) 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 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1310 to 1340 ‘Moorgate Talks’ Bible Talk, following buffet lunch at 1300, 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower at Amber, CityPoint, 1 Ropemaker St, EC2Y 9AW 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate Linked with St Botolph Aldersgate 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1315 Holy Communion (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1215 Eucharist (BCP) St James Garlickhythe /continued 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster

Friday

REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue

IN APRIL 2019 − continued 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields

0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square Wednesday ─ continued 0800 to 0840 Morning Taizé Chant (Moot Community – all welcome) 1700 to 1800 ‘ A Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship St Mary Aldermary Come and go as you) wish St Bride Fleet Street 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church 1730 to 1750 Evening Prayer (Moot Community – all welcome) St Mary Aldermary 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1730 Choral Evensong (during legal term-time) Temple Church 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1230 Pastoral Conversation or Confession (Sacrament Chapel) St Mary le Bow 1800 Taizé Service All Hallows by the Tower 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 1800 Eucharist St Michael Paternoster Royal 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 1830 to 1915 Meditation Group: ‘Stressed in the City’ (Moot Community – 1305 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow all welcome) St Mary Aldermary 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 1900 Sung Eucharist St Andrew Holborn 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn 1315 to 1400 Holy Communion St Lawrence Jewry Thursday 1700 to 1800 ‘A Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship

0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue Come and go as you wish (Not 19 April) St Bride Fleet Street 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 0805 RC Mass (Not 18 April) St Mary Moorfields 1800 Paraklesis (replaced on 1st Friday and during fasting periods by Service 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street of Holy Unction) Followed at 1900 to 2200 by Catechesis and Confessions 0815 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe (Romanian Orthodox) St Dunstan in the West 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1800 (1st Friday) RC Low Mass in the Extraordinary Form 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower St Etheldreda, Ely Place 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 0830 Eucharist (said) St Mary le Strand 1930 Jewish Friday Evening Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church orthodox rite) (1830 in winter months – please check on www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1200 to 1500 Confidential Drop-in Listening Service St Andrew Holborn 1210 Holy Communion (For 18 April see Special Services) St Botolph Bishopsgate 1215 to 1250 Bible Talk, with sandwich lunch available, followed by SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS IN APRIL 2019 Question Time St Helen Bishopsgate 1215 Eucharist (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster Monday 1 April 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1300 Choral Classics Music and readings on the theme of ‘All Things 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) Bright and Beautiful – The of Cecil Frances Alexander’ (On 18 April at 1230) St Mary Moorfields with the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields 1245 Choral Eucharist St Stephen Walbrook St Stephen Walbrook 1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal worship and teaching – come and go as Wednesday 3 April you wish St Mary Woolnoth 1300 Series: Peace of Mind – A Time for Every Season 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 2. — 'A time to Plant and a time to Harvest' 1300 to 1330 (Normally 1st Thursday) Private prayer and reflection (In April A Soundscape with live music and time for reflection and calm on 4 April) St Giles Cripplegate Entrance is free but donations are welcome 1300 Eucharist (normally choral on 1st Thursday) (For 18 April see Special Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square, EC1M 6AN Services) St Margaret Pattens 1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate 1730 Choral Evensong 1305 Holy Communion (on 1st Thursday with Healing) followed by Followed by Talk and Book Launch, Comparative Religious tea and biscuits St Katharine Cree Law: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, by Professor Norman Doe 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 (Not 18 April) St Mary Moorfields (Cardiff University) All welcome Temple Church

1305 to 1335 ‘St Nick's Talks’ Bible Talk Sandwiches served from 1300 Thursday 4 April St Nicholas Cole Abbey 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn 1300 Lent Choral Eucharist St Margaret Pattens 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn 1305 Holy Communion with Healing St Katharine Cree 1310 to 1350 Bible Talk, with sandwich lunch available, followed by 1800 Said Eucharist, followed at 1830 to 1930 by Lent Study Group Question Time St Helen Bishopsgate (Please see the entry for this date in the Lectures, Courses, 1315 to 1345 Lunchtime Service (Free Church) City Temple Workshops & Seminars section below) 1315 Holy Communion St Martin within Ludgate St Dunstan in the West 1315 Holy Communion (BCP said) (during legal term-time) Temple Church 1800 Choral Evensong followed by Thursday Conversation at 1830 1700 to 1800 ‘ A Space for Silence’ – contemplation, reflection and silent worship (Please see the listing in the Events Section for further information) Come and go as you wish (Not 18 April) St Bride Fleet Street St Mary at Hill 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) Monday 8 April Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1300 Choral Classics Music and readings on the theme of ‘Come my 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow Way, my Truth, my Life – The metaphysical poet George Herbert’, 1800 (Normally 1st Thursday) Choral Evensong, followed by ‘Thursday with the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields Conversation’ at 1830 St Mary at Hill St Stephen Walbrook 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields Wednesday 10 April 1805 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1730 A Passiontide Sequence – The Story of Holy Week in music and 1900 to 2100 City of London House of Prayer - Equipping Night Service readings Temple Church Praise and Worship (Free Church) City Temple /continued

Wednesday 17 April – continued SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS 1800 Taizé Prayer around the Cross A meditative candlelit service for

IN APRIL 2019 – continued Holy Week with times of prayer, silence and musical chants All Hallows by the Tower 1800 RC Tenebrae St Mary Moorfields Thursday 11 April 1800 Choral Evensong with the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields 1210 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate St Stephen Walbrook 1745 Sung Evening Prayer, followed by Sung Eucharist at 1805 1900 Eucharist with sermon St Bartholomew the Great St Mary le Bow 1900 Tenebrae Service, with music including Miserere mei, Deus 1800 Said Eucharist, followed at 1830 to 1930 by Lent Study Group by Allegri St Dunstan in the West (Please see the entry for this date in the Lectures, Courses, Workshops & Seminars section below) Thursday 18 April – Maundy Thursday St Dunstan in the West 1230 Said Eucharist St Dunstan in the West Sunday 14 April – Palm Sunday 1230 Holy Communion St Olave Hart Street 1000 RC Blessing of Palms, Procession and Mass St Mary Moorfields 1300 Music and Readings for Passiontide with the St Margaret 1030 Eucharist with Procession of Palms St Botolph Aldgate Pattens Choir St Margaret Pattens 1030 Procession and Sung Eucharist St James Garlickhythe 1305 High Mass, with Foot Washing and Stripping of the Altar 1100 Blessing of Palms, Procession and Solemn Eucharist, beginning St Mary le Bow at St Bartholomew the Less at 1100 and processing to 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate St Bartholomew the Great for the Eucharist, which begins 1315 Holy Communion St Martin within Ludgate at 1115 St Bartholomew the Great 1315 Choral Communion Temple Church 1100 Choral Eucharist with the St Bride’s Choir and Orchestra, with 1800 Sung Eucharist with Stripping of the Altars and Watch blessing and distribution of palm crosses St Bride Fleet Street St Botolph Aldgate 1100 Procession and High Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1800 Choral Eucharist and Stripping of the Altar St Bride Fleet Street 1100 Lutheran Choral Eucharist 1800 RC Mass of the Lord’s Supper (in the Extraordinary Form) St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill St Mary Moorfields 1100 Service for Palm Sunday St Michael Cornhill 1830 Liturgy of the Last Supper, with Foot Washing and Stripping of 1130 RC Blessing of Palms, Procession and Mass the Altars Followed by silent prayer, ending with Compline at 2030 St Joseph Bunhill Row All Hallows by the Tower 1115 Choral Mattins Temple Church 1830 Maundy Thursday Ceremonies and High Mass 1730 Choral Evensong with Sermon in Music St Bride Fleet Street St Magnus the Martyr 1800 Evening Service St Mary le Strand 1830 Lutheran Eucharist of the Last Supper 1830 Into the Hands of Sinners - a sequence of readings, music and St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill prayers for Holy Week St Bartholomew the Great 1900 Sung Eucharist St James Garlickhythe 1930 RC Mass of the Lord’s Supper St Joseph Bunhill Row Monday 15 April – Monday in Holy Week 2000 Mass of the Lord’s Supper with the Washing of Feet and Stripping of 1230 Said Eucharist St Dunstan in the West the Altar Followed by Watch at the altar of repose until midnight 1230 Holy Communion St Martin Ludgate St Bartholomew the Great 1230 Holy Communion St Olave Hart Street 2030 Compline All Hallows by the Tower 1300 Choral Classics with the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields – 2100 RC Tenebrae St Mary Moorfields movements from J S Bach’s St John Passion for Holy Week St Stephen Walbrook Friday 19 April – Good Friday 1305 Midday Office, with music for voices and organ St Mary le Bow 1030 Good Friday Liturgy St James Garlickhythe 1310 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate 1100 Service for Good Friday (partly bilingual) The Dutch Church 1900 Eucharist with sermon St Bartholomew the Great 1100 RC Stations of the Cross for Children St Joseph Bunhill Row 1100 Stations of the Cross St Magnus the Martyr Tuesday 16 April – Tuesday in Holy Week 1115 Choral Mattins Temple Church 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less 1130 Butterworth Charity Ceremony (in the churchyard) 1230 Said Eucharist St Dunstan in the West St Bartholomew the Great 1230 Holy Communion St Martin Ludgate 1200 Good Friday Liturgy with Veneration of the Cross 1230 Holy Communion St Olave Hart Street All Hallows by the Tower 1305 The Passion of Our Lord, sung to plainchant with choral motets 1200 Solemn Liturgy of the Passion St Bartholomew the Great St Mary le Bow 1200 onwards Good Friday Devotions: 1310 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate 1200 Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater 1830 RC Stations of the Cross St Mary Moorfields 1300 At the Foot of the Cross – an hour of devotion 1900 Eucharist with sermon St Bartholomew the Great 1400 Stainer's Crucifixion Wednesday 17 April – Wednesday in Holy Week All are welcome to any or all of these St Bride Fleet Street 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower 1215 Passion of the Lord St Vedast alias Foster 1205 RC Mass St Joseph Bunhill Row 1230 Holy Communion St Olave Hart Street 1230 Said Eucharist St Dunstan in the West 1300 Good Friday Liturgy St Magnus the Martyr 1230 Holy Communion St Martin Ludgate 1400 Liturgy of Good Friday St Botolph Aldgate 1230 Holy Communion St Olave Hart Street 1500 Solemn Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion St Dunstan in the West 1305 Holy Communion St Katharine Cree 1500 RC Liturgy of the Passion St Joseph Bunhill Row 1305 Eucharist with organ music 1500 RC Liturgy of the Passion (in the Extraordinary Form) Followed at 1330 by Cantata with music for voice and organ by St Mary Moorfields J S Bach St Mary le Bow 1800 Olivet to Calvary by J H Maunder St Magnus the Martyr 1310 Readings and Music for Passiontide -The Cycle of Christ’s 1800 RC Tenebrae St Mary Moorfields Incarnate Life St Botolph Bishopsgate 1830 Lutheran Liturgy of the Cross 1730 Choral Evensong for Holy Week Temple Church St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill 1900 Tenebrae St Bartholomew the Great /continued /continued

SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS Sunday 28 April IN APRIL 2019― continued 1830 Lutheran Bach Vespers for for the First Sunday after Easter, with J S Bach’s Cantata BWV 42, Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats, performed by the City Bach Collective on period Saturday 20 April – Holy Saturday (Easter Eve) instruments St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill 1800 RC Easter Vigil (in the Extraordinary Form) St Mary Moorfields 1800 Easter Vigil and First Mass of Easter St Stephen Walbrook 1900 Paschal Vigil St Magnus the Martyr Monday 29 April 1930 RC Easter Vigil St Joseph Bunhill Row 1230 Said Eucharist for St George’s Day (transferred from 23 April) 2000 Easter Vigil and First Mass of Easter St Bartholomew the Great St Dunstan in the West 2000 Lutheran Liturgy of Light St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill Tuesday 30 April 2000 Easter Vigil and First Communion of Easter Temple Church 1230 Said Eucharist for St Mark the Evangelist’s Day (transferred from 25 April) St Dunstan in the West Sunday 21 April – Easter Sunday 0600 Kindling of the Easter Fire followed by Egg Rolling in Fleet Street and breakfast St Bride Fleet Street 0600 Holy Communion – Easter Vigil St Olave Hart Street LECTURES, COURSES, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS 0900 Eucharist (in the Lady Chapel) St Bartholomew the Great IN APRIL 2019 0930 Early Morning Easter Service (in Dutch) followed by breakfast

The Dutch Church

1000 Family Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less 1000 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields Thursday 4 April 1030 Sung Eucharist with lighting of the Pascal Candle 1730 to 1930 London Centre for Spiritual Direction, St Botolph Aldgate St Edmund King & Martyr 1030 Sung Eucharist St James Garlickhythe Open Evening for the Encounter Course in Spiritual Direction 1100 Festal Eucharist with Blessing of the New Fire and Renewal of Free Open Evening for those interested in learning about Baptismal Vows All Hallows by the Tower Encounter, the London Centre for Spiritual Direction’s three year 1100 Solemn Eucharist with Renewal of Baptismal Covenant Formation Programme in the Art and Ministry of Spiritual Direction St Bartholomew the Great It is open to people from any background who want to explore and 1100 Easter Service (Services at this church are primarily in Welsh, develop their vocation to helping others discern and respond to with full translations given in the order of service) God’s Spirit in everyday life - the teaching is rooted in the Christian St Benet Paul’s Wharf tradition and is led by an experienced ecumenical team of tutors 1100 Choral Eucharist St Bride Fleet Street The next course starts in October 2019 1100 Easter Service (bilingual) The Dutch Church For further information and registration please go to 1100 High Mass St Magnus the Martyr www.lcsd.org.uk and follow the links from ‘Courses & Events’ 1100 Lutheran Choral Eucharist

St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill 1100 Holy Communion St Olave Hart Street 1830 to 1930 St Dunstan in the West 1100 Eucharist St Vedast alias Foster Lent Study Group on the theme of Pictures for Lent, following 1115 Choral Communion Temple Church Eucharist at 1800 This session will be led by Father Barry Orford 1130 RC Mass St Joseph Bunhill Row Light refreshments will be provided 1400 Lutheran Eucharist (in Swahili) St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill 1730 Choral Evensong St Bride Fleet Street 1830 St Mary at Hill 1830 Festal Solemn Evensong with Benediction Thursday Conversation St Bartholomew the Great Geoff Thompson, former world Karate champion and founder of Youth Charter UK, in conversation with the Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkin Tuesday 23 April - Tuesday in Easter Week Following Choral Evensong at 1800 Ending with refreshments 1230 Said Eucharist with the Blessing of the Paschal Candle Please see the listing in the Events Section for further information St Dunstan in the West

Wednesday 24 April – Wednesday in Easter Week 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate

Thursday 25 April – Thursday in Easter Week Friday 5 April 1130 Court of Common Council Service 1100 to 1600 London Centre for Spiritual Direction, An annual service before the first Court of Common Council of St Edmund King & Martyr the financial year, asking God's blessings and guidance for the Presence in Dying: Spiritual Care at the End of Life Common Council members as they undertake the Corporation's With Tony Kyriakides business throughout the year St Lawrence Jewry A session in the Developing Direction programme, designed to 1210 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate foster the ongoing development and support of spiritual directors

Saturday 27 April The theme of the session, ‘presence’ in dying, uses the framework 1800 The Official Virgin London Marathon Thanksgiving Service of: evocative presence; accompanying presence; comforting Join us as we give thanks for all that has been achieved through presence and hopeful presence the Marathon and for the gift of sport, which enables us to cross For further information, including cost and booking, please go to the barriers of different nations, cultures, colours and faiths www.lcsd.org.uk and follow the links from ‘Courses & Events’ All runners, families and friends are welcome All Hallows by the Tower

LECTURES, COURSES, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS EVENTS & CONCERTS IN APRIL 2019 IN APRIL 2019 ― continued

Monday 1 April 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Tuesday 9 April Recital: Angela Lau – piano 1045 to 1530 St Andrew Holborn Programme: Oasis Day: ‘Learning from Icons’ J S Bach – Prelude & Fugue in E flat minor BWV 853 Led by Father Anastasios Salapatas of St Panteleimon Greek Liszt – From 12 Lieder von Franz Schubert S558 Orthodox Church, Harrow ii. Auf dem Wasser zu singen viii. Gretchen am Spinnrade Oasis Days offer a monthly time of quiet reflection to re-charge Ravel – Miroirs one’s spiritual batteries with the stimulation of excellent speakers 1300 St Michael Cornhill Cost £15 – Lunch / tea & coffee provided Organ Recital: Seb Gillot (Medallist of the Musicians' Company) Pre-booking required by Friday 5 April for catering purposes Programme: To book please telephone the Revd Martin Davies on Bach – Fantasia & Fugue in G BWV 542 07429 612 642 or e-mail [email protected] Buxtehude – Ciacona in E BuxWV 160 Please enter via No 7 St Andrew Street Alain – Le jardin suspendu Mozart – Andante in F for mechanical organ K 616 Mendelssohn – Sonata 4 in E flat Op 65

Free Admittance – Retiring Collection 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Choral Classics – Music and Readings with the Choral Scholars Wednesday 10 April "All Things Bright and Beautiful" 1800 St Mary le Bow Tax for the Common Good The hymns of Cecil Frances Alexander A forum presented by JustShare with the Ecumenical Council for Choral Classics at St Stephen Walbrook offer thirty minutes of Corporate Responsibility and London Churches Social Action sublime choral music from our Choral Scholars interspersed The discussion will include: how much tax individuals and with readings on a theme. corporations should pay; ensuring that the tax system is fair, efficient, and transparent; and what the Christian tradition says Free with a retiring collection about the Common Good 1305 St Martin Ludgate The expert panel includes Father Simon Cuff (St Mellitus College), Recital: Kwanita Lau – violin Yohan Kim – piano David Haslam (retired Methodist Minister and Chair of Church Programme: Action on Tax Justice) and Anne Fairpo (Temple Tax Chambers, Mozart – Violin Sonata No 18 in G Major K 301 Past President of the Chartered Institute of Taxation) Ysaye – Sonata No 4 in E Minor Op 27 Followed by Q&A and refreshments. Beethoven – Violin Sonata No 7 in C minor Op 30 No. 2 Admission free – please register to attend Admission is free but donations are gratefully received in aid of For further information and to register please go to church and recital running costs https://bit.ly/2LhcmUY Tuesday 2 April 1230 St Mary Abchurch Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. The recital will usually include an improvisation 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Organ Recital: School Organ Students Series 2019

The final recital will be given by Paul Greally — Thursday 11 April 1000 to 1530 London Centre for Spiritual Direction, Watford Grammar School and the Junior Royal Academy of Music St Edmund King & Martyr and Inaugural Gabb Scholar of the Royal College of Organists Deepening Spirituality – A day of learning and refreshment in Lent Programme: Presented by the London Centre for Spiritual Direction in J S Bach – Prelude & Fugue in B minor BWV 544 partnership with the ecumenical Heart Edge network Frederick Stocken (b 1967) – Archangels Given the current focus on measuring growth by counting St Gabriel; St Raphael; St Michael numbers, this event explores what other kinds of ‘measurement’ Sweelinck – Fantasia Chromatica might be more appropriate, with opportunities to participate via Martin Stacey – Totentanz table talks and workshops 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Free event – donations welcome Walbrook Music Trust Recital For further information and registration please go to Yoon Seok Shin – piano www.lcsd.org.uk and follow the links from ‘Courses & Events’ 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: Mignonette Aarons – piano 1830 to 1930 St Dunstan in the West Programme: Lent Study Group on the theme of Pictures for Lent, following J S Bach – Italian Concerto BWV 971 Eucharist at 1800 Beethoven – Sonata No 24 in F sharp major Op 78 This session will be led by Father Guy Willis Chopin – Scherzo No1 in B minor Op 20 Light refreshments provided Nocturne No 2 in E flat major Op 9 Moszkowski – Caprice Espagnol Op 37

Free Admittance – Retiring Collection

Wednesday 3 April — continued EVENTS & CONCERTS IN APRIL 2019 - continued 1305 St Olave Hart Street Tuesday 2 April — continued Recital: Peter Mallinson and Matthias Wiesner – violas 1315 St Mary at Hill Evgenia Startseva – piano Recital: Square Mile Music Series 1315 Temple Church Charlotte Bröker – soprano John Ash – countertenor Organ Recital: James McVinnie Elena Topogonova – piano 1830 to 2000 St Lawrence Jewry Programme: City of London Popchoir Pergolesi – Stabat Mater Popchoir is for anyone who loves to sing Stressed-out commuter, 1415 St Bride Fleet Street worn-out parent, shy shower soprano, there's a place here to let Tours of the Church your voice out. And with no auditions and no need to be able to Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. read music, there are no excuses! We sing brilliant songs with Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day or make a booking by fabulous arrangements and have a great time. emailing Sally Hannon at: [email protected] For more information please go to: https://www.popchoir.com/ or telephoning 020 7427 0133. Special tours for groups can also be arranged Thursday 4 April

1900 St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield 1305 St Mary le Bow Recital: Genevieve Usher – soprano Chiawen Kiew – flute City Music Society 75th Anniversary Concert Chris Underhill – piano Guildhall Strings Conductor – Robert Salter 1305 St Olave Hart Street Programme: Recital: Harriet Kirk – mezzo-soprano Rossini – String Sonata No.1 in G 1310 All Hallows by the Tower Mendelssohn – String Symphony No.10 in B minor Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling Arensky – Variations on a theme of Tchaikovsky Op 35a 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Janáček – Suite for Strings Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series Admission to this concert is free but, in order to secure a place, donations are Hartmut Leuschner-Rostoski – Bayreuth, Germany requested either prior to the concert or post-concert. Applications for a place can be made by completing the application form available at the lunchtime concerts or 1800 St Mary Abchurch Peter Sheppard Skærved emailing to: [email protected] Following the concert there will be a wine reception in the cloisters. Preludes and Vollenteries 19

1930 St Stephen Walbrook Works by Vilsmayr, Biber, Klagenfurt Handskrift Chandos Chamber Choir and Hafliδi Hallgrímsson – Klee Studies(2019) world premiere A programme of music under the title of Prophecy 'Preludes & Vollenteries' explores the solo music of the baroque in Conductor: James Davey churches built and restored after the Great Fire of 1666. Progarmme: St Mary Abchurch is famed as a showcase for the work of Arvo Pärt (b. 1935) – Magnificat; Nunc Dimittis; Sir Christopher Wren & Grinling,Gibbons whose achievemnts Tribute to Caesar; Da Pacem Domine have been inspirational for this project, and for music written and Orlandus Lassus (c.1532-1594) – heard in Salzburg in the 1680s, when the church was built. Magnificat Secundi Toni Præter rerum seriem; Peter has worked with the great Icelandic composer Prophetae Sibyllarum Hafliði Hallgrímsson for many years. The delicacy & emotional Josquin Desprez (c.1450 – 1521) – Nunc Dimittis; refinement of his writing makes his music the perfect companion Præter rerum seriem to the violin writing of the 17th century Alexander L’Estrange (b. 1974) – The Prophet Admission: £10 (£5 concessions) on the door, or at: The Second World Performance of this piece www.peter-sheppard-skaerved.com Tickets: £12, concessions £8 in advance from

www.chandoschamberchoir.org.uk 1800 St Mary at Hill Wednesday 3 April Choral Evensong, followed by Thursday Conversation at 1830 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Evensong will be sung by Seraphim, the St Mary at Hill Choir London Ripieno Singers Geoff Thompson – Founder of Youth Charter UK will be in present a lunchtime performance of conversation with The Revd Prebendary Rose Hudson-Wilkins. Brahms and Liszt Conductor: Geoffrey Hanson Organist: Jon Dods Geoff Thompson was World Heavyweight and team Karate Programme: Champion between 1982 and 1986. Following his retirement from Domenico Alberti – O Jesu Salvator competitive sport, he established himself as an influential sports Brahms – Two Motets Opus 59 politician and administrator, with public and private sector Parry – Four Motets from 'Songs of Farewell' appointments promoting equality, diversity and inclusion at Liszt – Missa Choralis all levels of society. He is Founder and Executive Chair of Free entry – retiring collection Youth Charter, a UK-based international charity and UN non- 1305 St Botolph Aldgate governmental organization involved with the problems of educational non-attainment, health inequality, anti-social behaviour and crime. Recital: Duo Brikcius Anna Brikciusová & František Brikcius — cellos We finish with a glass of wine at 1930 Programme: Admission is free All are welcome Offenbach – Duo pour 2 Violoncelles Op 53 No 1 Gideon Klein (Arr. František Brikcius) – Duo for Violin and Cello 1900 St Katharine Cree Leoš Jánáček (Arr. František Brikcius) – Presto (1910) J S Bach – Mass in B Minor The Lloyds Choir with the Cohen Ensemble Free entry with a retiring collection and soloists from the . This recital celebrates the 200th anniversary of the birth of German-French composer Jacques Offenbach and the 100th Conductor: Jacques Cohen anniversary of Jewish composer Gideon Klein. Tickets: £21.50 (students £15 ) at the door or www.lloydschoir.com

Friday 5 April — continued EVENTS & CONCERTS IN APRIL 2019 - continued 1930 The Crypt Hall of St Mary Moorfields, Eldon Street EC2M 7LS

Recital: Matthew Shellhorn (piano) and Friends Thursday 4 April — continued An evening of Classical entertainment with something for 1930 St Botolph without Bishopsgate everyone from Mozart to Flanders and Swann A Brandenburg Spring Choral Festival Event Tickets : £15 (£12 concessions) This event is a charity recital in Choirs at Work aid of the Companions of the Order of Malta's work Two of the country's most dynamic workplace choirs perform a diverse programme of pop, gospel, folk and classical music We regret that the Church and Crypt Hall are not accessible for those people in wheelchairs or with impaired mobility. Citi UK Choir – Conductor Dan Ludford-Thomas Access to the Crypt Hall is by staircase from Church level. Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Choir – Conductor Philip Mitchell Saturday 6 April Tickets: £23 (premium) £18 (unreserved) £5 (children) — 1830 All Hallows by the Tower call the box office on 07528 776 625 or book online: Songs of Hope http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/april/ and follow the links A programme for Spring to lighten the heart.to be performed by Premium tickets include a reserved seat, a programme, and a The London Orpheus Choir voucher for a drink which can be redeemed either before the Conductor – Jessica Norton concert or during the interval. Programme: Fauré – Requiem Friday 5 April Benjamin Britten – Rejoice in the Lamb 1230 St Stephen Walbrook J S Bach – O Jesu Christ, Mein's Lebens Licht BWV 118 Organ Recital: Dr Andrew Earis Sumsion – They that go down to the sea in ships Director of Music, St Martin in the Fields Tickets: £18 on the door; £15 in advance from: 1305 St Mary at Hill www.londonorpheuschoir.co.uk Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society 1930 St Katharine Cree Charity Concert in aid of Buigiri School for the Blind, Tanzania Central London Orchestra Spring Concert Phillip Dyson – piano Programme: Programme: Tchaikovsky – Fantasy Overture Romeo & Juliet Mozart – Sonata in E flat major K 282 Beethoven – Symphony No. 3 in E♭ major "Eroica" Chopin – Waltz in C# minor Op 64 No 2 Tickets: £10 full / £8 students from: Scherzo in B flat minor Op 31 No 2 http://www.centrallondonorchestra.com and follow the links Tchaikovsky – Nutcracker Suite Selection

and works by Gershwin, Billy Mayerl and Zez Confrey Monday 8 April Free admission, retiring collection 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Music-at-Hill will now take an extended Easter break Recital: Svyatosiav Antipov – piano and its lunchtime concerts will resume on Friday 3 May. Programme: Please check our webste: www.musicathill.org.uk Scarlatti – Sonata “Fugue” in G minor K 30 L 499 for further details in due course Ravel – "Alborada del gracioso” from “Miroirs”, No.4 “Ondine” from “Gaspar de la nuit”, No.1 M.55 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Debussy – “Hommage à Rameau” from “Images”, Recital: Chu-Yu Yang – violin Tung Khng Chua – piano ♭m Programme: Liszt – Etude “Feux Follets” in B ajor Bartók – 6 Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56 Etude “Chasse-neige” in B♭minor Fauré – Violin Sonata No. 1 in A major Op. 13 from Transcendental Etudes Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on Greensleeves Ginastera – Piano Sonata No.1 Op.22 Kreisler – Farewell to Cucullain (Londonderry Air) Moszkowski – Caprice Espognol Op.37 1300 St Michael Cornhill Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Organ Recital: Alexander Berry (Bradford Cathedral) 1900 St Mary le Bow Programme: Concert: The Iken Scholars Bach – Prelude and Fugue in A BWV 543 Director – Matthew Dunn Saint-Saëns – 'The Swan', from 'Carnival of the Animals' Programme: Elgar – Prelude & Angel's Farewell from 'Dream of Gerontius' Sheppard – Media Vita and Lord's Prayer Vaughan Williams – Rhosymedre, White – Magnificat from 3 Preludes on Welsh Hymn-Tunes Finzi – Seven Partsongs based on Poems of Robert Bridges Spicer – Fanfares for Chad

Tickets: £15 / £10 students Email: [email protected] Free Admittance – Retiring Collection before 3 April to reserve tickets and get a 10% discount 1300 St Stephen Walbrook More information at: www.ikenscholars.co.uk Choral Classics – Music and Readings with the Choral Scholars 1915 All Hallows by the Tower "Come my Way, my Truth, my Life" CMS SPRING CONCERT City Music Services present a medley of items ranging from opera The metaphysical poet George Herbert arias to songs from the shows. Choral Classics at St Stephen Walbrook offer thirty minutes of Admission free - all welcome. sublime choral music from our Choral Scholars interspersed 1930 St Andrew Holborn with readings on a theme.

The City Chorus Free with a retiring collection will perform Rossini's Petite Messe Solonelle. Conductor – Paul Ayres 1305 St Martin Ludgate Tickets: £10.50 or email: : [email protected] Recital: to be arranged following late withdrawal – and collecting at the door. please see web site: www.stmartin-within-ludgate.org.uk/music/

Thursday 11 April EVENTS & CONCERTS IN APRIL 2019 - continued 1305 St Mary le Bow Recital: Nataly Galina – piano Tuesday 9 April 1305 St Olave Hart Street 1230 St Mary Abchurch Recital: Elisabeth Turmo – violin Elena Toponogova – piano Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. 1310 All Hallows by the Tower The recital will usually include an improvisation Organ Recital: David Cook 1300 St Lawrence Jewry 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis Organ Recital: The Magnificent Sound of Trumpet and Organ Programme: Richard Townend with Simon Sturgeon-Clegg – trumpet J S Bach – Prelude and Fugue in E b (“St. Anne”) BWV 552 2000 St Botolph Bishopsgate Franz Tunder & J S Bach – The City Community Choir Two choral preludes on Komm heiliger Geist: An informal concert under their director Naamah Pinkerfeld Cécile Chaminade – Auitre fois (arr. CE) Free entry, retiring collection Jehan Alain – Variations sur un thème de Clément Janequin; Friday 12 April Litanies 1230 St Stephen Walbrook 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Organ Recital: Richard Hobson Walbrook Music Trust Recital Director of Music, Grosvenor Chapel Dan-Iulian Druțac – violin Ljubica Stojanovic – piano 1315 St Bride Fleet Street 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: Duo J. Y. Recital: Iyad Sughayer – piano Sanghee Ji – violin Kevin Fan Yu – piano Programme: Programme: Mozart – Sonata in A minor K.310 Schumann – Sonata for Violin and Piano, Liszt – Consolations S 172 No. 2 in D minor Op 121 Chopin – Allegro de Concert Op.46 Prokofiev – Violin Sonata No. 2 in D major Op 94a

Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Free Admittance – Retiring Collection 1315 St Mary at Hill 1315 St Dunstan in the West Recital: Square Mile Music Series Organ Recital: Michael Bowden (St Mark, Regent's Park) Michiko Gibbs – violin Chikako Yamagata – violin 1930 St Katharine Cree Programme: A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event Miklos Rozsa – Sonata Op 15 Soul Legends Telemann – Sonata for two violins in B minor 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Featuring songs by Gregory Porter, Heatwave, Prince, Tours of the Church Aretha Franklin and Simon and Garfunkel, performed by For more information please refer to the entry at Tuesday 2 April London Soul Choirs with special guests Conductor – Abi Gilchrist Wednesday 10 April Tickets: £23 (premium) £18 (unreserved) £5 (children) — 1300 St Stephen Walbrook call the box office on 07528 776 625 or book online: Walbrook Community Choir http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/april/ and follow the links If you like singing, or would like to try it, come and join us in your Premium tickets include a reserved seat, a programme, and a lunch hour! There are no auditions or fees, and ability to read voucher for a drink which can be redeemed either before the music is not essential. Sing a variety of styles of music led by concert or during the interval. experienced professional choir directors 1305 St Botolph Aldgate Saturday 13 April Organ Recital: Julian Thomas 1900 St Andrew Holborn Programme: The London Welsh Chorale / Coral Cymry Llundain J S Bach – Prelude and Fugue in C BWV 547 present an Easter offering of a wonderful blend of the old and new. James – Voluntary in A minor 's Gift of Life is a counterpart to his Requiem. Bruna – Tiento de 1° tono de mano derecho There will be choruses from the Passion section of Handel's Messiah Bruhns – Praeludium in E minor, 'Great' and two wedding by Welsh composers — Free entry with a retiring collection – Let the People Praise Thee, O God, 1305 St Olave Hart Street Paul Mealor – Ubi Caritas Recital: For more information please go to: (written for the weddings of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer http://sanctuaryinthecity.net/ and Prince William and Catherine Middleton respectively) 1315 St Dunstan in the West Conductor – Dr Edward-Rhys Harry Recital: Michiko Gibbs & Chikako Yamagata – violin duo 1315 St Sepulchre without Newgate/Holy Sepulchre London Tickets: £15 at the door or from: The Musicians' Church www.londonwelshchorale.org.uk/ www.ticketsource.co.uk

Free Lunchtime Recital – The Halcyon Quartet Monday 15 April our Ensemble in Residence 1300 St Lawrence Jewry 1315 Temple Church Recital: Ugnius Paulikonis – piano Organ Recital: Paul Stubbings Programme: Director of Music, St Mary's Music School, Edinburgh Haydn – Variations in F minor Hob XVII:6 1830 to 2000 St Lawrence Jewry Piano Sonata E flat major Hob XVI:52 City of London Pop Choir Debussy – Images Book 1 More information in the entry at Wednesday 3 April Liszt – Hungarian Rhapsody No 12 in C# minor

1730 Temple Church Ugnius Pauliukonis performs through the joint St Lawrence Jewry A Passiontide Sequence: and Worshipful Company of Musicians Scheme for Prizewinners of The Story of Holy Week in Music and Readings the Company

Tuesday 16 April — continued EVENTS & CONCERTS IN APRIL 2019 - continued 1415 St Bride Fleet Street

Tours of the Church Monday 15 April — continued For more information please refer to the entry at Tuesday 2 April 1300 St Michael Cornhill 1930 St Katharine Cree Organ Recital: Benjamin Newlove A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event Organ Scholar & Assistant Director of Music at St Michael Cornhill 1300 St Stephen Walbrook The Sine Nomine Singers perform Choral Classics – Music and Readings with the Choral Scholars Cherubini's Requiem in C minor Also in the programme — Haydn's Little Organ Mass St John Passion Conductor – Richard Thomas Movements from Bach's Passion for Holy Week Tickets: £23 (premium) £18 (unreserved) £5 (children) — Choral Classics at St Stephen Walbrook offer thirty minutes of call the box office on 07528 776 625 or book online: sublime choral music from our Choral Scholars interspersed http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/april/ and follow the links with readings on a theme. Premium tickets include a reserved seat, a programme, and a

Free with a retiring collection voucher for a drink which can be redeemed either before the 1305 St Martin Ludgate concert or during the interval. Recital: Svyatoslav (“Slava”) Antipov – piano Programme: Wednesday 17 April

Scarlatti – Sonata “Fugue”in G minor K 30. L 499 1300 The Hospital Church of St Bartholomew the Less Ravel – Alborada del gracioso from Miroirs No 4 A City Music Foundation Lunchtime Recital Ondine from Gaspar de la nuit No 1. M. 55 Bartosz Glowacki – accordion Debussy – Hommage à Rameau from Images Book 1 Programme: Liszt – Etude Feux Follets in B flat major Works by Bach, Vivaldi, Penderecki and Piazolla Etude Chasse-neige in B flat minor Free entry with retiring collection from Transcendental Etudes Seats in this small church may be reserved by registering on: Ginastera – Piano Sonata No 1 Op. 22 www.citymusicfoundation.org/cmf-presents Moszkowski – Caprice Espognol Op 37 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Admission is free but donations are gratefully received in aid of church and recital running costs Walbrook Community Choir

1305 St Mary le Bow If you like singing, or would like to try it, come and join us in your Holy Week – Midday Office with music for voices and organ 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 Tuesday 16 April experienced professional choir directors

1230 St Mary Abchurch 1305 St Botolph Aldgate

Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. Recital: Boyan Ivanov – clarinet Lysianne Chen – piano The recital will usually include an improvisation Programme: 1300 St Katharine Cree Elgar – Salut d'Amour A free lunchtime concert to be given by Pablo de Sarasate – Carmen Concert Fantasie Op 25 the joint choirs of the City Singers and the St Olave Singers Schubert – Ave Maria

Olivet to Calvary Brahms – Hungarian Dance

J H Maunder's sacred cantata for tenor and bass soloists, Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue chorus and congregation, describing and commenting Free entry with a retiring collection on the events leading up to the crucifixion of Jesus. 1330 St Mary le Bow The conductors will be Colin Spinks and Stephen Harrow. Cantata with music for voice and organ by J S Bach There will be a retiring collection for maintenance of the joint Benefice. 1315 Temple Church Organ Recital: Roger Sayer 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis Thursday 18 April Programme: Gibbons – Fantazia of foure partes 1310 All Hallows by the Tower Purcell – Voluntary on the Old Hundredth Organ Recital: 'Music for Passiontide' by Jonathan Melling Iain Farrington – Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir 1310 St Margaret Lothbury (from the Orgelbüchlein project) Organ Recital: Richard Townend J S Bach – Two chorale preludes: Organ music for Passiontide and Easter O Mensch, bewein BWV 622; 1900 St Dunstan in the West O Lamm Gottes unschuldig BW659 Tenebrae Service – Music will include: Elgar – First movement from Sonata No.1 in G Gregorio Allegri – Miserere mei, Deus 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Walbrook Music Trust Recital Friday 19 April — Good Friday

Aliya Turetayeva – piano 1115 Temple Church 1305 St Mary le Bow Choral Mattins: The Crucifixion by Stainer Holy Week – The Passion of Our Lord sung to plainchant with choral motets 1200 St Bride Fleet Street 1315 St Mary at Hill As part of Friday Devotions – Stabat Mater by Pergolesi Recital: Square Mile Music Series

Jelena Makarova – piano 1400 St Bride Fleet Street Programme: As part of Friday Devotions – The Crucifixion by Stainer Takemitsu – Rain Tree Sketch Albéniz – Chants d'Espagne Op 232

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN APRIL 2019 - continued Thursday 25 April

Friday 19 April — Good Friday – continued 1305 St Olave Hart Street Recital: Roderick Seed & Kijoka Ohara – flutes 1430 St Bartholomew the Great Aleksander Szram – piano Ante Terminum Productions 1310 All Hallows by the Tower St John Passion Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling by J S Bach 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Conductor – Frederick Waxman Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series Evangelist – Richard Robbins Giovanni Perrucci – Fano, Italy Jesus – Michael Mofidian Pilate – Ivo Almond Friday 26 April Soprano – Raphaela Papadakis Alto – Katie Bray An immersive and intimate performance 1230 St Stephen Walbrook of Bach's St John Passion with rising stars of music Organ Recital: James Gough Assistant Organist, St Martin in the Fields Tickets: £10 Free to under 25s Online at: anteterminumproductions.com or on the door 1930 St Katharine Cree A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event

1800 St Magnus the Martyr Together in Song The Cantata – Olivet to Calvary by John Henry Maunder Two choirs will be perfoming Tradewinds – Conductor Melanie Harrold and Saturday 20 April Choriander – Rostislav Chudoba

1900 St Sepulchre without Newgate/Holy Sepulchre London visiting choir from Aachen, Germany

The Musicians' Church Tickets: £23 (premium) £18 (unreserved) £5 (children) — SATURDAY CONCERT SERIES call the box office on 07528 776 625 or book online: For more details please go to: http://hsl.church/events/2019/ http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/april/ and follow the links and follow the links Premium tickets include a reserved seat, a programme, and a voucher for a drink which can be redeemed either before the concert or during the interval. Tuesday 23 April 1230 St Mary Abchurch Saturday 27 April Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. The recital will usually include an improvisation The Dutch Church, Austin Friars 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Walbrook Music Trust Recital KING'S DAY CELEBRATIONS Berxwedan Kockaya – classical guitar Saturday 5th April

1315 St Mary at Hill On this day King Willem Alexander of the Netherlands Recital: Square Mile Music Series will celebrate his 52nd birthday. Riana Walsh – flute This day will not only be celebrated in the Netherlands for there will be Programme: a proper birthday party in the City of London for all to join! C P E Bach – Sonata in A minor At 2.00pm a Street Fair, for and by children will begin. There will be Dutch games and activities 1415 St Bride Fleet Street and bright orange lemonade to celebrate our King's birthday! Tours of the Church There will be musicians, various activities such as a scavenger hunt Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. in and around the church and classic Dutch games. Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day There will arts and crafts stalls and an art auction in the church. or make a booking by emailing Sally Hannon at: The day will end in the evening with a bang – the King's Party. [email protected] or telephoning 020 7427 0133. Special tours for groups can also be arranged Live music, drinks, bites and lots of people dressed in orange – the perfect finale for the King's Birthday. Tickets for this party will cost £10, including a free drink, Dutch bitterballen, cheese and live music

Wednesday 24 April For more information and to buy tickets for the party please go to: 1300 St Stephen Walbrook http://www.dutchcentre.com/ and follow the links Walbrook Community Choir If you like singing, or would like to try it, come and join us in your King's Day Schedule

lunch hour! There are no auditions or fees, and ability to read 1400-1730 Street fair and activities in and around music is not essential. Sing a variety of styles of music led by the Dutch Church and the Dutch Centre experienced professional choir directors 1545-1600 Toast by the Dutch Ambassador, Simon Smits 1600-1700 'Art in the City' auction 1305 St Olave Hart Street 1900-2300 King's Party in the Dutch Church and the Dutch Centre Recital: For more information please go to: http://sanctuaryinthecity.net/

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN APRIL 2019 - continued Tuesday 30 April — continuedl

1315 St Bride Fleet Street Sunday 28 April Recital: Ben Watkins – baritone JongSun Woo – piano

1700 St Stephen Walbrook Programme: A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event Beethoven – An die ferne geliebte Schubert – Schwanengesang (settings by Ludwig Rellstab) The Cecilian Singers present Free Admittance – Retiring Collection High Art to Hoe-down

A programme where music by Debussy,Llassus, Tallis and Rutter 1315 St Mary at Hill rubs shoulders with songs by Jerome Kern and Cole Porter. Recital: Square Mile Music Series Conductor – Jeremy Jackman Dominic Doutney – piano Programme: Tickets: £23 (premium) £18 (unreserved) £5 (children) — J S Bach – Prelude and Fugue in A minor call the box office on 07528 776 625 or book online: from the Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2. http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/april/ and follow the links Rachmaninoff – Preludes Op 32 Premium tickets include a reserved seat, a programme, and a No 8 in A major and No 13 in Db major voucher for a drink which can be redeemed either before the concert or during the interval. ********************************************************************************* 1830 St Anne's Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill Bach Vespers for the First Sunday after Easter We are indebted to Dickon Love, with J S Bach – Cantata BWV 42 Company Bellringer to the 'Am abend aber desselbigen Sabbats' Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks The City Bach Collective for the following information Hazel Brooks — leader-director

Admission free (retiring collection)

Open bellringing performances Monday 29 April currently scheduled for the City of London 1300 St Lawrence Jewry in April 2019 Recital: Antonina Suhanova – piano Programme: Saturday 6 April Berg – Piano Sonata Op 1 1530 3½ hour performance on the bells Schumann – Kreisleriana Op 16 at St Magnus the Martyr

1300 St Michael Cornhill ---- o ---- Organ Recital: Jonathan Rennert (Director of Music at St Michael Cornhill) Sunday 7 April 1300 3½ hr performance on the bells 1305 St Martin Ludgate by the Ancient Society of College Youths Recital: The Oscar Holch Quintet at St Magnus the Martyr Harriet Haynes, En Yuan Khong – violins Abigale Bowen, Oscar Holch – violas ---- o ---- Zachary Owen – cello Programme: Saturday 13 April Mozart – String Quintet No 2 in C Minor K 406/516b 1000 3 hour performance on the Jubilee Bells Dvořák – String Quintet No 3 in E flat major Op 97 by the Cambridge University Guild at St Dunstan in the West Admission is free but donations are gratefully received in aid of church and recital running costs 1400 3½ hour performance on the bells

by the Middlesex County Association Tuesday 30 April at St Magnus the Martyr

1230 St Mary Abchurch ---- o ---- Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. The recital will usually include an improvisation Saturday 27 April 1300 St Lawrence Jewry 1400 3 hr performance on the Royal Jubilee Bells Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis by Cambridge ringers at St Magnus the Martyr Programme: Nicola de Grigny – Hymne: Veni Creator spiritus Reger – Pfingsten Op 145 No 6 "The wind that shakes the barley" — Irish Traditional reel; version collected and recorded by Seamus Ennis (1919-1982); arranged for organ by CE City Events is published by Duruflé – Prélude, Adagio et variations sur le Veni Creator The Friends of the City Churches in conjunction with the Archdeaconry of London 1300 St Stephen Walbrook and printed by Copyprints: Walbrook Music Trust Recital [email protected] Serene Koh – piano

May 2019 Published by FCC in conjunction with the Archdeaconry of London

This month sees a most interesting number of events taking place in the City churchees. Certain of these are of particular liturgical importance. First there is Ascennsion Day, Thursday 30 May, which marks the end of the Easter season. In the listings below there will be found concise information concerning no fewer than 14 services being held on that day in certain of the City churches to mark this important event in the liturgical callendar. Some churches carry 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 andd 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 ceremony are listed in the Events section for Thursday 30 May.

Musical performances abound in the City churches during May and certain of these have ddefinitely 'caught the eye' of your editor. Of particular importance are the John Hill Memorial Organ Recitals takinng place on Tuesdays at St Lawrence Jewry commencing on Tuesday 7 May at 1.00pm. In this 14th Annual Programmme the John Hill series again presents brilliant young artists at the organ, with thee difference this year that they all just happen to be women. In the past there have been none, or one or two per series. This year the unintended imbalance has been redressed completely. Further to this theme, each of our five sstellar players has chosen some repertoire by women composers. Full details regarding the soloists and their programmes can be found by searching 'John Hill Memorial Series 2019'.

An unusual recital of piano music at St Dunstan in the West on Wednesday 29 May will be that to be given by Julieta Soledad Iglesias. Her recital will be devoted to the mmusic of the Argentine tango composer Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla (1921‐1992). He was a virtuoso player of the bandoneon and an arranger. He revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed Nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music and he regularly performed his own compositions with a variety of ensembles In 1992, American music critic Stephenn Holden described Piazzolla described as "the world's foremost composer of tango music". The recital promises to be a musical treat.

Another event with an aspect of music as its theme will be that taking place at St Stephen Walbrook on Tuesday 14 May devoted to the chaconne. The violin virtuoso Hugo Ticciati and friends aim to take listeners on a sweeping historical journey concerning the 'chacona' from its oorigins in South America through to tthe wonderful expressions of that musical form as exemplified by Purcell and Bach (Hugo will be playing the powerful chaconne from Bach's Partita No 2 in D minor) and also, intriguingly, in the works of Shakespeare. The evening promises to be a fascinating exploratory artistic experience.

Last, and certainly by no means least, we draw attention to the Thursday Conversation taking place at St Mary at Hill on Thursday 2 May. The subject will be Knife Crime. The Revd Rose Hudson‐Wilkin, Rector at the church and Chaplain at the Houses of Parliament will be in conversation with key persons working on the front lline (representing the family, school, the street, politics and the police) to try and work out how to stop the seemingly enndless killings on our streets. This will be a key opportunity to hear from those whho are closely involved with the challeenges arising from this most serious topic, with its devastating consequences for the families of those who have needlessly lost their lives.

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

Tuesday ─ continued 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES IN MAY 2019 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 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Woolnoth of England services except where indicated otherwise. ‘1st Monday’, 1230 Holy Communion (said), followed by coffee and sandwiches ‘2nd Monday’ etc refer to the 1st Monday, 2nd Monday etc of the month. St Olave Hart Street 1300 Holy Communion All Hallows by the Tower While every effort is made to ensure accuracy, the services shown are 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 1300 to 1400 (any time) Contemporary Worship subject to change at Bank or other holidays and immediately before, St Sepulchre without Newgate / Holy Sepulchre London during and after major festivals and holy days, and during the summer 1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate months. You are strongly advised to contact churches to check the details. 1305 Meditation (in the crypt chapel) St Mary le Bow 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields For a list of weekend (particularly Sunday) services please go to the 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn Friends of the City Churches website at www.london-city-churches.org.uk 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn and follow the links from ‘Events’ and ‘City Events’. 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, following buffet lunch at 1300 St Botolph Aldersgate 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, with sandwich lunch available St Helen Bishopsgate Monday 1310 Holy Communion St Margaret Lothbury 0715 Jewish Daily Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic orthodox rite) 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn (0700 on 1st day of Hebrew religious month; 0900 on Bank Holidays) 1700 to 1800 ‘ A Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship For details please see www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/ Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street Bevis Marks Synagogue 1700 to 1730 ‘Words of Hope’ – quiet informal reflective service 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields St Clement Eastcheap 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 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 0830 Morning Prayer (Not 6 and 27 May) All Hallows by the Tower St Mary Moorfields 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1830 Choral Evensong (traditional) (Choral Eucharist on 3rd Tuesday) 1215 Eucharist St Michael Paternoster Royal St Sepulchre without Newgate / Holy Sepulchre London 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) Wednesday St Mary Moorfields 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1245 Holy Communion (Not 6 and 27 May) 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 1300 to 1330 Choral Classics – music and readings (Not 6 and 27 May) 0800 to 0840 Morning Taizé Chant (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary St Stephen Walbrook 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 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1700 to 1800 ‘A Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 0830 to 0915 Holy Communion St Lawrence Jewry 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1205 RC Mass St Joseph Bunhill Row 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1215 to 1315 Elim Full Gospel Chinese Church Fellowship – All welcome 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields St Lawrence Jewry 1800 Choral Evensong (BCP) (During university terms – current term begins 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 13 May Not 27 May) St Michael Cornhill 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Abchurch Tuesday 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 0715 Jewish Daily Service (see Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue St Mary Moorfields 0730 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1245 to 1315 (3rd Wednesday) Society of Friends (Quaker) Meeting for Worship 0745 Holy Communion (said) followed by coffee and croissants (Not 28 May) Bunhill Fields Meeting House, Quaker Court, Banner St St Mary at Hill 1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal worship and teaching – come and go as 0745 Eucharist, followed by breakfast St Mary le Bow you wish St Margaret Lothbury 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1300 (1st Wednesday) Eucharist followed at 1345 to 1420 by discussion 0745 to 0915 ‘Start: Stop’ – start the day by stopping to reflect – 10 minute St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate reflections beginning every 15 minutes - just drop in 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place St Stephen Walbrook 1305 to 1400 ‘Not on a Sunday’ – informal worship with prayer and song, with 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square coffee at start St Katharine Cree 0800 Morning Prayer St Michael Cornhill 1305 Eucharist (in the church) 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 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1310 to 1340 ‘Moorgate Talks’ Bible Talk, following buffet lunch at 1300, 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower at Level 46 (City Izakaya), 46 Moorgate, EC2R 6EL 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate Linked with St Botolph Aldersgate 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church 1315 Holy Communion (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1215 Eucharist (BCP) St James Garlickhythe /continued 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster

Friday REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue IN MAY 2019 − continued 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 0800 to 0840 Morning Taizé Chant (Moot Community St Mary Aldermary Wednesday ─ continued 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1700 to 1800 ‘ A Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow Come and go as you) wish (Not 1 May) St Bride Fleet Street 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1230 Pastoral Conversation or Confession (Sacrament Chapel) St Mary le Bow 1730 Choral Evensong (during legal term-time) (For 1 May see Special 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) Services) Temple Church St Mary Moorfields 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 1800 Taizé Service All Hallows by the Tower 1305 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 1800 Eucharist St Michael Paternoster Royal 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn 1830 to 1915 Meditation Group: ‘Stressed in the City’ (Moot Community) 1315 to 1400 Holy Communion St Lawrence Jewry St Mary Aldermary 1700 to 1800 ‘A Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 1900 Sung Eucharist St Andrew Holborn Come and go as you wish (Not 3 May) St Bride Fleet Street Thursday 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 1800 Paraklesis (replaced on 1st Friday and during fasting periods by Service 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square of Holy Unction) Followed at 1900 to 2200 by Catechesis and Confessions 0805 RC Mass (Not 18 April) St Mary Moorfields (Romanian Orthodox) St Dunstan in the West 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1800 (1st Friday) RC Low Mass in the Extraordinary Form St Etheldreda, Ely Place 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 1930 Jewish Friday Evening Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower orthodox rite) (1830 in winter months – please check on www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/) Bevis Marks Synagogue 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 0830 Eucharist (said) St Mary le Strand 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS 1210 Holy Communion (Not 30 May - see Special Services) IN MAY 2019 St Botolph Bishopsgate 1215 to 1250 Bible Talk, with sandwich lunch available, followed by Question Time St Helen Bishopsgate Wednesday 1 May 1215 Eucharist (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1230 Said Eucharist (St Philip and St James, Apostles) 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster St Dunstan in the West 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1300 to 1330 Spring Series: Peace of Mind – A Time for every Season 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr May A time to weep, a time to laugh 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) A Soundscape with live music and time for reflection and calm St Mary Moorfields 1245 Choral Eucharist St Stephen Walbrook Entrance is free but donations are welcome 1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal worship and teaching – come and go as Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square, EC1M 6AN you wish St Mary Woolnoth 1730 Easter Carol Service Temple Church 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 1900 Service to celebrate the re-opening of the church following 1300 to 1330 (Normally 1st Thursday) Private prayer and reflection (In May refurbishment, with dedication of the new Baptistry and Lady Chapel on 2 May) St Giles Cripplegate St Andrew Holborn 1300 Eucharist (normally choral on 1st Thursday) St Margaret Pattens Thursday 2 May 1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate 1300 Easter Choral Eucharist St Margaret Pattens 1305 Holy Communion (on 1st Thursday with Healing) followed by 1305 Holy Communion with Healing St Katharine Cree tea and biscuits St Katharine Cree 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 (Not 18 April) St Mary Moorfields 1800 Choral Evensong 1305 to 1335 ‘St Nick's Talks’ Bible Talk Sandwiches served from 1300 Followed at 1830 by Thursday Conversation – discussion led by St Nicholas Cole Abbey the Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkin (Please see the listing in the Events 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn Section for further information) St Mary at Hill 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn 1310 to 1350 Bible Talk, with sandwich lunch available, followed by Thursday 9 May 1210 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate Question Time St Helen Bishopsgate 1315 to 1345 Lunchtime Service (Free Church) City Temple Sunday 12 May 1315 Holy Communion St Martin within Ludgate 1315 Holy Communion (BCP said) (during legal term-time) Temple Church 1100 Choral Eucharist 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn Part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music 1700 to 1800 ‘ A Space for Silence’ – contemplation, reflection and silent worship (see www.lfccm.com), including Schola Missa de Angelis by Come and go as you wish (Not 2 May) St Bride Fleet Street Roxanna Panufnik, accompanied by small string orchestra 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe St Bride Fleet Street 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 1730 Choral Evensong with Sermon in Music Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square Part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow (see www.lfccm.com), including Responses by Philip Moore, 1800 (Normally 1st Thursday) Choral Evensong, followed by ‘Thursday from Robert Hainault’s Evening Service in F Minor, Conversation’ at 1830 St Mary at Hill 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields Edmund Joliffe’s Wessobrunn Prayer and Tarik O’Regan’s 1805 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow anthem Surrexit Christus St Bride Fleet Street 1900 to 2100 City of London House of Prayer - Equipping Night Service 1800 Evening Service with music - Risen with Christ St Mary le Strand Praise and Worship (Free Church) City Temple /continued

Thursday 30 May – Ascension Day SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS 0805 RC Mass for the Solemnity of the Ascension St Mary Moorfields IN MAY 2019 – continued 1200 RC Mass for the Solemnity of the Ascension St Mary Moorfields 1205 RC Mass for the Solemnity of the Ascension St Joseph Bunhill Row Monday 13 May 1230 Said Eucharist for Ascension Day St Dunstan in the West 1230 Holy Communion (BCP) followed by tea and sandwiches 1230 RC Mass for the Solemnity of the Ascension St Mary Moorfields St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1300 Choral Eucharist for Ascension Day St Margaret Pattens 1300 Choral Classics Music and readings with the Choral Scholars of 1300 Choral Holy Communion for Ascension Day St Martin in the Fields St Stephen Walbrook Followed by the ascent of the church tower for the traditional 1800 Choral Evensong Blessing of the City of London S t Michael Cornhill In association with the London Festival of Contemporary Church 1305 High Mass on the Ascension Day St Mary le Bow Music (see www.lfccm.com), including Responses by James 1305 RC Mass for the Solemnity of the Ascension St Mary Moorfields Cryer, Magnificat by Bax, Nunc Dimittis by Alan Grey and 1310 Choral Eucharist for Ascension Day St Botolph Bishopsgate Vaughan Williams’ anthem Now as I beheld St Michael Cornhill 1730 RC Mass for the Solemnity of the Ascension St Mary Moorfields 1800 Festal Evensong for Ascension Day Tuesday 14 May Following the Beating of the Bounds Ceremony at 1615 1730 Choral Evensong All are welcome to follow the Beating of the Bounds procession Part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music (see around the parish and to join the choral service afterwards www.lfccm.com), including music by Kerensa Briggs and Robert All Hallows by the Tower Keeley 1900 Sung Eucharist for Ascension Day St Bartholomew the Great King’s College Chapel, King’s College London, Strand 1900 Ascension Day Service St James Garlickhythe 1900 RC Mass for the Solemnity of the Ascension Wednesday 15 May St Joseph Bunhill Row 1310 Choral Eucharist Part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music (see Friday 31 May www.lfccm.com), including ‘Twas in the year that King Uzziah died 1230 Said Eucharist (The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to St by George Benjamin and Philip Moore’s motet Sancte et sapienter Elizabeth) St Dunstan in the West King’s College Chapel, King’s College London, Strand 1800 Choral Evensong with the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields St Stephen Walbrook LECTURES, COURSES, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS IN MAY 2019 Saturday 18 May 1130 High Mass for the Patronal Festival of St Dunstan Preacher: The Very Revd Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster Thursday 2 May Sung by Chantage, with music including Haydn’s Little Organ 1830 St Mary at Hill Mass Thursday Conversation – discussion led by the Revd Rose Followed by a buffet lunch - cost £10.00 per head - for those who Hudson-Wilkin on Knife Crime – Enough is Enough have pre-ordered To order please contact the church administrator, Following Choral Evensong at 1800 Rebecca Haslam (email [email protected]) (Please see the listing in the Events Section for further information) St Dunstan in the West Monday 13 May Sunday 19 May 1830 to 2100 St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate 1000 Holy Communion Cooking class: global flavours – global citizens Part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music (see Learn the secrets of cooking a range of vegan-friendly Ethioipian www.lfccm.com), including David Fawcett’s motet Panis angelicus, dishes, followed by a sit-down dinner. This I know by Thomas Bell, and organ music by Peter Hurford Held in partnership with Migrateful, a cookery and language and David Bedford St Giles Cripplegate initiative where asylum seekers, refugees and vulnerable migrants 1100 Solemn High Mass teach their traditional cuisine Part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music (see For further information, including cost and details of booking, please www.lfccm.com), including Alexander Blustin’s Mass II and go to https://stethelburgas.org and follow the links from ‘Events’ Anthony Esland’s motet Ubi caritas St Magnus the Martyr 1830 Lutheran Bach Vespers, with J S Bach’s Cantata BWV 108, Tuesday 14 May performed by the City Bach Collective on period instruments 1045 to 1530 St Andrew Holborn Guest preacher: the Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally Oasis Day: ‘Meeting God in the Garden’ – exploring four St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill recurring movements within spiritual development Led by Chris Chapman, an experienced retreat leader and Monday 20 May spiritual director 1300 Choral Classics Music and readings with the Choral Scholars of Oasis Days offer a monthly time of quiet reflection to re-charge St Martin in the Fields St Stephen Walbrook one’s spiritual batteries with the stimulation of excellent speakers Cost £15 – Lunch / tea & coffee provided Wednesday 22 May Pre-booking required by Friday 10 May for catering purposes 1730 Choral Evensong in honour of William Marshal, hero of To book please telephone the Revd Martin Davies on Magna Carta, buried in the Temple Church on 20 May 1219 07429 612 642 or e-mail [email protected] Temple Church 1100 St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall Wednesday 29 May City of London Historical Society Talk 1900 RC Vigil Mass of the Ascension St Mary Moorfields The Role of Chief Commoner, given by Wendy Mead CC All welcome – entry £10

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN MAY 2019 Thursday 2 May — continued

1800 St Mary at Hill Choral Evensong, followed by Thursday Conversation at 1830 Evensong will be sung by Seraphim, the St Mary at Hill Choir

Wednesday 1 May Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkins

1300 Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square, EC1M 6AN "Knife Crime – Enough is enough" Series: Peace of Mind – A Time for Every Season "How many deaths will it take till they know that too many people have died" 3. — 'A time to Weep and a time to Die' A Soundscape with live music and time for reflection and calm The Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkin will be in conversation with key Entrance is free but donations are welcome players working on the front line (representing the family, school, the street, politics and the police) to try and work out how to stop 1300 St Stephen Walbrook the seemingly endless killings on our streets. Walbrook Community Choir If you like singing, or would like to try it, come and join us in your Admission is free All are welcome 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 1930 St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield 1305 St Botolph Aldgate City Music Foundation presents Recital: Jessie Tse – soprano Leonel Pinheiro – tenor Rokas Valuntonis – piano Ka Man Tsang – piano Winner of the 2018 Campillos International Piano Competition Programme: Works by Puccini, Mascagni and Donizetti Puccini – 'Hai ben ragione' from Il Tabarro Programme: Mascagni – 'Brindisi' from Cavalleria Rusticana Tchaikovsky – Dumka Op 59 Donizetti – Il dolce suono … spargi d'amaro Chopin – Four Mazurkas Op 6 Schumann – Études Symphoniques Op 13 Free entry with a retiring collection Scriabin – Piano Sonata No 2 in F sharp minor Op 19

Scarlatti – Keyboard Sonatas K 487, K 8 & K. 79 1305 St Olave Hart Street Debussy – Images Book 1 Recital: Ryoko Izutsu – piano Liszt – Mephisto Waltz No 1 'The Dance in the Village Inn'

1315 St Dunstan in the West Tickets: £18 £13 £8 Recital: Avalon Summerfield (soprano) and a small ensemble Booking: citymusicfoundation.org/cmf-presents specialising in Historical Performance and follow the links

1315 Temple Church

Organ Recital: Roger Sayer

1900 St Mary le Bow Friday 3 May A Brandenburg Spring Choral Festival Event 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Birds of Paradise Organ Recital: The choirs of Churchill College, Cambridge and Jonathan Dodds – Music Director of the Norfolk Camerata Murray Edwards College, Cambridge

present a programme of music and words inspired by birds

Conductor — Ewan Campbell 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Programme: Works by Orlando Gibbons, Vaughan Williams, Recital: River City Saxes Charles Villiers Stanford, Oliver Messiaen, Maurice Ravel, Chris Hooker – soprano saxophone, Lili Boulanger, William Byrd, , Hale Hambleton – alto saxophone, Richard Rodgers, Sef Conner and The Beatles Bob Lowdell – tenor saxophone, Tickets: £23 (premium) £18 (unreserved) £5 (children) — Debbie King – baritone saxophone call the box office on 07528 776 625 or book online: Programme: http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/may/ and follow the links anon. 17th C. arr. Ferenc Farkas – Old Hungarian Dances Premium tickets include a reserved seat, a programme, and a Intrada voucher for a drink which can be redeemed either before the Jean-Baptiste Singelée – Premier Quatuor op. 53 concert or during the interval. i. Andante - Allegro Faustin and Maurice JeanJean – Quatuor pour Saxophones Thursday 2 May 2. Doux Paysage Robert Clérisse – Introduction et Scherzo 1305 St Olave Hart Street Chris Dedrick – Sensitivity Recital: Irene Ninno – piano I Andantino; II Allegro; III Lento - Vivace James Rae – Geordie Hinny - Variations on a Tyneside tune 1310 All Hallows by the Tower Paul Nagle – Three Shades of Blues Organ Recital: David Cook Swing Style; Ballad Style; Latin Soul Funk Style

1310 St Margaret Lothbury Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays "The Glorious Baroque" (4)

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN MAY 2019 — continued

Tuesday 7 May

Friday 3 May — continued 1230 St Mary Abchurch Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. 1700 St Stephen Walbrook The recital will usually include an improvisation A Brandenburg Spring Choral Festival Event

Coro94 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Elgar – Lux aeterna (sung to 'Nimrod') T he John Hill Memorial Organ Recitals 2019 John Byron - Piano, In memory of John Hill, who gave so much help and Alžbeta Klasová - Soprano & Tenor Saxophones encouragement to young organists. The series of five recitals Michael Kibblewhite – Conductor will feature UK and international artists at the outset of their

Coro 94 embark on a pilgrimage through 600 years of choral careers. The first recital will be given by: music. Classic masterpieces like Elgar's Lux Aeterna, Purcell's Rachel Mahon (Canada) 'Hear My Prayer' and Lauridsen's O Magnum Mysterium stand Programme: alongside stunningly beautiful contemporary gems such as Allain's Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar, arr. J.S.Bach – 'O Dayspring', Esenvald's 'Only In Sleep', and Kverno's 'Corpus Concerto in G major BWV 592 Christi Carol'. A veritable palette of choral favourites! Percy Whitlock – Dolcezza (from 'Reflections;) The choir will be joined in three pieces by the young, Slovak, Ruth Watson Henderson – Chromatic Partita international saxophonist Alžbeta Klasová. The juxtaposition of Dietrich Buxtehude – Toccata in D minor BuxWV 155 choir and saxophone is a very special and increasingly popular Rachel Launn – Scherzo (from Symphonie No 1 Op 36) Gerald Bales – Petite Suite combination in contemporary music. For full information please search 'John Hill Memorial Series 2019' Full details of the programme can be found at: http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/festival and follow the links

Tickets: £23 (premium) £18 (unreserved) £5 (children) — 1300 St Stephen Walbrook call the box office on 07528 776 625 or book online: Walbrook Music Trust Recital http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/may/ and follow the links Albatross Saxophone Quartet Premium tickets include a reserved seat, a programme, and a voucher for a drink which can be redeemed either before the concert or during the interval. 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: Irena Radić – piano Programme: Brahms – Three Intermezzi Op 117 i. Andante moderato (E♭major) ii. Andante non troppo e con molto espressione (B♭ minor) iii. Andante con moto (C # minor) 1930 St Katharine Cree Schumann – Humoreske Op 20 A Brandenburg Spring Choral Festival Event Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Sound Connection London Sound Project Conductor – Sam Sommerfield 1315 St Mary at Hill

The London Sound Project brings together singers and Recital: Square Mile Music Series instrumentalists to create a soundtrack for modern city living. Romana Szczepaniak – violin Grzegorz Mania – piano Under the artistic direction of Sam Sommerfeld, their amateur Programme: singers and professional musicians bring to life exciting new Mozart – Sonata for violin & piano in B♭major KV 454 arrangements that stay with their audiences long after the last note Mozart – Sonata for violin & piano in E minor KV 304 has faded. They've been performing together since the summer of 2016 and last year were proud to become a registered charity 1415 St Bride Fleet Street The programme of this concert contains no fewer than 20 items. Tours of the Church The composers featured include Blondie, David Bowie, Kate Bush, Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Bob Dylan, Fleetwood Mac, Annie Lennox, Gregory Porter, Sting Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day and many others. Full information can be found at: or make a booking by emailing Sally Hannon at: http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/festival and follow the links [email protected] or telephoning 020 7427 0133. Tickets: £23 (premium) £18 (unreserved) £5 (children) — Special tours for groups can also be arranged call the box office on 07528 776 625 or book online: http://www.brandenburg.org.uk/festival and follow the links Premium tickets include a reserved seat, a programme, and a voucher for a drink which can be redeemed either before the concert or during the interval.

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN MAY 2019 — continued Friday 10 May — continued

Wednesday 8 May 1315 St Dunstan in the West Organ Recital: Martin Ellis (Portland, Oregon USA) 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Programme: This will include the following: Walbrook Community Choir Bach – Toccata in F BWV 540 More information at Wednesday 1 May Guilmant – Sonata No 5

1305 St Botolph Aldgate Recital: Ida Pelliccioli – piano Programme: Saturday 11 May Jean-Phillipe Rameau – Suite in A minor from Nouvelles Suites de Pièces de Clavecin (1726-1727) 19:30 St Andrew Holborn

Free entry with a retiring collection London Gay Symphonic Winds

From the exotic and high octane Danzón No. 2 by Márquez 1305 St Olave Hart Street to the hauntingly beautiful Dafydd y Garreg Wen, the traditional Recital: Yulia Chaplina – piano Welsh folk song, the LGSW Spring Concert is dedicated to the

truly diverse types of folk music that exist out there in the music 1315 St Dunstan in the West sphere. Our concert will also feature pieces by Shostakovich, Zaninelli, Sparke and Saint-Saëns Recital: Alexander Petrov – piano

Tickets: £10 at the door or £8 for an Advanced Ticket and free 1315 St Sepulchre without Newgate/Holy Sepulchre London programme from: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/lgsw The Musicians' Church Free Lunchtime Recital – The Halcyon Quartet our Ensemble in Residence 1930 St Mary le Bow

Concert: The Academy of St Mary le Bow

1315 Temple Church 'Flavours of the Baroque' Organ Recital: David Bendix (Roskilde Cathedral, Denmark) Soloist/Leader Magdelana Loth-Hill Director/Harpsichord – Thomas Allery

Thursday 9 May Recorders – Mary-Janet Leith and Alderman Sir Roger Clifford

Oboes – Alex Fryer and Ana Souza Leban 1305 St Mary le Bow Recital: Fidelity Choir – directed by Ben Lewis-Smith Programme: Handel – Concerto Grosso Op 6 No 1 in G major 1305 St Olave Hart Street Vivaldi – Concerto for two oboes in A minor RV 536 Recital: Julia Hartmann – piano Purcell – Chacony in G minor Z 730 Bach – Brandenburg Concerto in G major BWV 1049 1310 All Hallows by the Tower Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling Tickets: £14 Adult £12 Concessions £5 Students Tickets available online or on the door (cash only) from 1845 1310 St Margaret Lothbury To buy tickets online please visit: Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series https://www.academyofstmarylebow.com/concerts-1 Michael Funke – Bayreuth, Germany

Friday 10 May 1930 St Stephen Walbrook

Tunde Jegede: New Worlds Tour 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Organ Recital: Graham Thorpe – Tunde Jegede – kora/cello Rafael Guel – vihuela/percussion Postgraduate student at the Royal College of Music Sujnara Begum – movement/visuals

1315 St Bride Fleet Street " New Worlds: Visions of a traveller " Recital: Michelle Candotti – piano follows the journey of two legendary travellers Programme: from two very different epochs of history - Haydn – Sonata in E♭major Hob. XVI/49 D H Lawrence in Mexico and Ibn Battuta in medieval Africa. Allegro Adagio e cantabile Weaving the narratives of these two travellers with multi-media Finale: Tempo di Menuet visuals, the show is a meeting of worlds, a journey through time Tchaikovsky – Méditations Op 72 No 5 from the Pre-Columbian music of South America to the medieval Prokofiev – Sonata No 7 Op 83 Malian Royal Court music of the griots and the kora

Allegro inquieto Tickets: £10 for more information and tickets please visit: Andante caloroso https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tunde-jegede-new-worlds-visions- Precipitato of-a-traveller-tickets-60250725542 Free Admittance – Retiring Collection

Tuesday 14 May EVENTS & CONCERTS IN MAY 2019 — continued 1230 St Mary Abchurch Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. Sunday 12 May The recital will usually include an improvisation

1500 The Dutch Church, Austin Friars 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Bach Vespers Organ Recital: The John Hill Memorial Recitals 1918 Music by J S Bach and words of reflection Featuring UK and international artists at the outset of their careers Cantata: 'Christ lag in Todesbanden' BWV 4 Ilaria Centorrino (Italy) will be performed by the City Bach Collective on period instruments Programme: The organist will be David Titterington J S Bach, after Vivaldi – Concerto in C, 'Grosso Mogul' BWV 594 The Cantata will form part of a service which will be led by Maurice Duruflé – Choral varié sur le ‘Veni creator’ Op 4 The Revd Bertjan van de Lagemaat Miloš Sokola – Passacaglia quasi toccata sopra ‘B.A.C.H.’ Arno Landmann – Variationen Op 29 1500 St Mary le Bow über ein Thema von G.F. Händel Recital: Arcubus Ensemble Jeanne Demessieux – Octaves (from Six études Op 5)

presents a programme of choral works For full information please search 'John Hill Memorial Series 2019' Programme: Brahms – Geistliches Lied 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Duruflé – Quatre motets sur des themes gregoriens Walbrook Music Trust Recital Hepplewhite – Four Motets Katherine Clark – viola and voice Rheinberger – Mass for double choir in E flat major Programme: Tickets £11 at the door or: Rebecca Clarke – Three Irish Country Songs https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/arcubus-ensemble-sundays-3pm-tickets (arranged for singing violist) Elizabeth Maconchy – Five sketches for viola Imogen Holst – Suite for unaccompanied viola Rebecca Clarke – Three Old English Songs (arranged for singing violist) Monday 13 May 1305 St Mary le Bow 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Organ Recital: Thomas Allery Recital: John Paul Ekins – piano Director of Chapel Music, Worcester College, Oxford

Programme: This recital forms part of the Haydn – Andante & Variations in F minor Hob 17/6 London Festival of Contemporary Church Music Mozart – Sonata in C minor K 457 The recital will consist of contemporary British organ music, 1300 St Michael Cornhill including works by Robert Saxton, John Joubert, Philip Moore, and Organ Recital: Jeremy Lloyd Roxanna Panufnik. Full information concerning the Festival may Sub-Organist, Rochester Cathedral be found at: www.lfccm.com Programme: 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Bach – Fantasia & Fugue in G BWV 542 Recital: Kevin Ayesh – piano Böhm – Two Preludes on Christ lag in Todesbanden Demessieux – Variations on O Filii et Filiae Programme: Franck – Fantaisie in C Beethoven – Sonata in C minor Op 13 (Pathétique) Widor – Andante Cantabile, from Symphonie 4 Brahms – Intermezzo in A major Op 118 No 2 Elgar, arr Farrington – Pomp & Circumstance March No 5 Fauré – Impromptu no. 3 in A flat major Op 34 Chopin – Sonata in B minor Op 58 1300 St Stephen Walbrook iv. Finale: Presto, non tanto Choral Classics – Music and Readings with the Choral Scholars Free Admittance – Retiring Collection

Choral Classics at St Stephen Walbrook offer thirty minutes of 1315 St Mary at Hill sublime choral music from our Choral Scholars interspersed Recital: Square Mile Music Series with readings on a theme.

Free with a retiring collection Eve Baker – soprano Gina Lewis – soprano Robert Mingay-Smith – piano

1305 St Martin Ludgate Programme: Recital: Julian Hellaby – piano Purcell – Sound the Trumpet Programme: Delibes – Flower Duet from Lakmé Beethoven – 32 variations in C minor WoO80; Bellinin – 'Mira, O Norma' from Norma Ramskill – Three Preludes – G# minor; F# minor; C major; Brahms – Rhapsody in B minor Op. 79/1; 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Ireland – Rhapsody Tours of the Church Ireland – From 'Decorations' – Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. (i) ‘The Island Spell’; (iii) ‘The Scarlet Ceremonies’ Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day Admission is free but donations are gratefully received or make a booking by emailing Sally Hannon at: in aid of church and recital running costs [email protected] or telephoning 020 7427 0133.

Special tours for groups can also be arranged

Thursday 16 May EVENTS & CONCERTS IN MAY 2019 — continued 1305 St Olave Hart Street Recital: Katherine Clarke – viola Mimi Doulton – soprano Tuesday 14 May — continued Programme: Hillary Tann – Songs of the Cotton Grass for soprano and viola 1800 for 1830 St Stephen Walbrook Elisabeth Lutyens – The Singing Birds for speaker and solo viola Richard Melkonian – Four Middle Eastern Songs "From the Ground Up: The Chaconne" for soprano and viola A CD Launch Concert 1310 All Hallows by the Tower

Hugo Ticciati – violin Samuel West – reader Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling Luciana Mancini – mezzo-soprano Alberto Mesirca – theorbo/baroque guitar/classical guitar 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series O/Modernt's second album is a sweeping historical journey of the Ilaria Centorrino – Italy 'chacona' from its origins in South America through its sublimation in the art of Purcell and Bach, to its merging with Shakespeare and 1900 The Crypt Hall of St Mary Moorfields, Eldon Street EC2M 7LS beat poetry. In a pre-concert talk at 1800 Hugo Ticciati and fellow- Concert: Pedro Silva – cello: A final year student at the Guildhall performers reflect on themes explored in the album inner liner notes School of Music. There will be a post-concert reception with all the artistes and the Admission free with retiring collection ticket price includes one glass of wine or soft drink each. All tickets are unreserved seating. We regret that the Church and Crypt Hall are not accessible for those people in wheelchairs or with impaired mobility. Programme: The only access to the Church is by the short flight of stairs J S Bach – Chaconne from Partita No 2 in D minor from the main entrance in Eldon Street. for solo violin BWV 104 Access to the Crypt Hall is by staircase from Church level. Alessandro Picinni – Ciaconna in partite variate Barbara Strozzi – L'Eraclito amoroso Anonymous – Vuestros ojos tienen d'amor no sé qué Friday 17 May José Marin – Ojos pues me desdeñáis Dušan Bogdanovic – Chaconne from Suiite brève for solo guitar 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Organ Recital: For more information please visit the church Tickets: £20 Phone: 07886 196 450 or book online by email website: https://ststephenwalbrook.net/ For full information and to book tickets search: Hugo Ticciati: "From the Ground Up: The Chaconne"- Concert Diary 1315 St Bride Fleet Street and follow the links Recital: Buck Brass Trio

Katie Lodge – trumpet Timothy Ellis – french horn Wednesday 15 May Richard Buck – trombone Programme: 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Gabrieli – A caso un giorno mi guido la sorte Walbrook Community Choir Three Movements More information at Wednesday 1 May Brahms – Es ist ein Ros entsprungen Steven Verhelst – A Song for Japan 1305 St Botolph Aldgate Adams – Fugue Recital: Lance Mok – piano Ibert – Trois Pièces en Trio Programme: Mozart – Divertimento No4 K 229/439b Schumann – Nachtstücke Op 23 Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Fantasiestücke Op 111

Free entry with a retiring collection Saturday 18 May

1305 St Olave Hart Street 1300 to 1500 The Dutch Church, Austin Friars Recital: Elena Cappelletti – cello Lucas Jordan – flute London Bubble Theatre

1315 St Dunstan in the West Charting the Mayflower — 'The Deal' Recital: Yu Zhou Zhang – piano This London Bubble Theatre project brings together historians, 1315 Temple Church artists, volunteers and participants in the build-up to the Organ Recital: Tom Winpenney (St Alban's Cathedral) 400th anniversary in 2020 of the voyage of the 'Mayflower', to explore the history of the voyage and its contemporary resonances.

1830 to 2000 St Lawrence Jewry The project’s next public event ‘The Deal’, will be an interactive and City of London Popchoir explorative performance of the Separatists’ experience (the bulk of Popchoir is for anyone who loves to sing Stressed-out commuter, the Mayflower passengers who rejected the practices of the worn-out parent, shy shower soprano, there's a place here to let Church of England at the time) taking a closer look at their motives, your voice out. And with no auditions and no need to be able to read music, there are no excuses! We sing brilliant songs with their negotiations with King James I and the terms and conditions of the contract set out. This event will be free but ticketed. fabulous arrangements and have a great time. For more information please visit: https://www.popchoir.com/ For more information, please visit: www.londonbubble.org.uk

and click on 'Events' and then 'The Deal'

Tuesday 21 May EVENTS & CONCERTS IN MAY 2019 — continued 1230 St Mary Abchurch Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. Sunday 19 May The recital will usually include an improvisation

1300 St Lawrence Jewry 1200 to 1730 St Mary le Bow Organ Recital: The John Hill Memorial Recitals 1918

Featuring UK and international artists at the outset of their careers Circle the City – Christian Aid Event Katelyn Emerson (USA)

Programme: Circle the City is a family-friendly sponsored walk which takes J S Bach – Praeludium in E major BWV 566 place at the end of Christian Aid Week each year. Josef Rheinberger – Sonata VIII in E minor Op 132 (1883) We begin at St Mary le Bow with Registration at 1200. (movements ii, iii and iv) There will be a short pre-walk service at 1300. Horatio Parker – Allegretto, from Organ Sonata in E flat (1905) We then set out to visit a number of churches. Jean Langlais – Sonate en trio (1967) There are two distance options – 3 miles and 6 miles, Rachel Laurin – Finale Op 78 (2017) both starting and finishing at St Mary le Bow at 1730 For full information please search 'John Hill Memorial Series 2019' You can get involved in a variety of activities along the way – from challenges to pop-up exhibitions, musical performances to 1300 St Stephen Walbrook guided tours. The money raised through Circle the City Walbrook Music Trust Recital sponsorship will help our sisters and brothers around the world Liam Forster – clarinet

step up the fight to end poverty. 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: Michiko Shimanuki – piano For full information and how to register please search: Programme: St Mary le Bow and follow these links: Barry Mills – Three Meditations for Piano Events and then current programme and go to 19th May 2. 'There but for Fortune' 1830 St Anne's Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill Michiko Shimanuki – In My Fantasies... I Bach Vespers featuring a sacred cantata by J S Bach and other Schumann – Fantasie in C Op 17

German Baroque music, performed as in Bach's time in a service Free Admittance – Retiring Collection of Lutheran vespers:

J S Bach – Es ist euch gut, daß ich hingehe Cantata BWV108 1315 St Mary at Hill Recital: Square Mile Music Series The City Bach Collective. Jane Faulkner – violin Gary Peacock – piano Hazel Brooks — leader-director Programme:

Admission free (retiring collection) Mozart – Sonata in E flat Poulenc – Sonata for violin & 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 or make a booking Monday 20 May by emailing Sally Hannon at: [email protected] or telephoning 020 7427 0133. 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Special tours for groups can also be arranged Recital: Inga Liukaitye – piano Programme: Wednesday 22 May Messiaen – Vingt Regards sur l'enfant Jesus — Première Communion de la Vierge 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Schubert – Sonata in A minor D 784 Walbrook Community Choir Rachmaninov – Etude-tableaux Op 39 No 5 in E flat minor More information at Wednesday 1 May Chopin – Fantaisie in F minor Op 49 1305 St Botolph Aldgate Recital: Sabin Sergeeva – violin Kaoru Wada – piano 1300 St Michael Cornhill Programme: Organ Recital: Callum Alger Fauré – Violin Sonata in A major Op 13 No 1

Free entry with a retiring collection 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Choral Classics – Music and Readings with the Choral Scholars 1305 St Olave Hart Street Recital: Catherine Cheung – piano Choral Classics at St Stephen Walbrook offer thirty minutes of sublime choral music from our Choral Scholars interspersed 1315 St Dunstan in the West with readings on a theme. Recital: James Kirby – piano

Free with a retiring collection 1315 Temple Church Organ Recital: Jonathan Allsopp (Westminster Cathedral)

1830 to 2000 St Lawrence Jewry City of London Pop Choir More information in the entry at Wednesday 15 May

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN MAY 2019 — continued Tuesday 28 May

1230 St Mary Abchurch Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. Thursday 23 May The recital will usually include an improvisation

1305 St Mary le Bow 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Recital: The Kavinsky Trio – violin, saxophone and piano Organ Recital: The John Hill Memorial Recitals 1918 Featuring UK and international artists at the outset of their careers 1305 St Olave Hart Street Ghislaine Reece-Trapp (UK) Recital: Guildhall Harpists and Friends Programme: J S Bach – Prelude and Fugue in E minor BWV 533 1310 All Hallows by the Tower Judith Weir – Ettrick Banks Organ Recital: David Cook William Byrd – Fantasia in G Jean Langlais – Suite médiévale en forme de messe basse 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series For full information please search 'John Hill Memorial Series 2019' Hans-Georg Reinertz – Eupen, Belgium The final recital in this series will take place on Tuesday 4 June

1900 Temple Church 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Concert: The Temple Church Choir Walbrook Music Trust Recital Outcry Ensemble Celia Sofia Pena-Alvarez – piano Augusta Hebbert – soprano Ruth Kiang – mezzo-soprano Guy Cutting – tenor William Thomas – bass 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Roger Sayer – conductor Recital: Simon Watterton – piano Programme: Programme: Haydn – Symphony No 73 in D major – "La Chasse" Bach – 'The Well-Tempered Klavier': Book 1 Prelude and Fugue in C minor Te Deum Beethoven – Piano Sonata in E♭ Op 31 No 3 Nelson Mass Bach – 'The Well-Tempered Klavier': Book 1 Tickets: £15 £25 £35 £45 Prelude and Fugue in D minor For more information and tickets please visit: Beethoven – 'Ronda alla ingherese quasi un capriccio' in G major http://www.templechurch.com/ ('Rage over a lost penny')

and follow: Music; Concerts and the Diary Date link there 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 Friday 24 May emailing Sally Hannon at: [email protected] or telephoning 020 7427 0133. 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Special tours for groups can also be arranged Organ Recital: Harrison Cole – Senior Organ Scholar, Wells Cathedral

1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: The London Panufnik Trio Wednesday 29 May Konstancja Smolorz – violin Edward Deakins – cello 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Walbrook Community Choir Michael Lan – piano More information at Wednesday 1 May Programme:

Schubert – Piano Trio in B♭major Op 99 1305 St Botolph Aldgate Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Recital: William Fu – piano Programme: 1315 St Dunstan in the West Beethoven – Piano Sonata in A major No 28 Op 101 Recital: Zhu Sun – piano Brahms – From Klavierstücke Op 76 Movements 1, 3 and 4

Free entry with a retiring collection

1305 St Olave Hart Street Recital: Meliza Metzger – soprano Mario Kurtjak – guitar

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN MAY 2019 — continued Friday 31 May — continued

1900 The Crypt Hall of St Mary Moorfields, Eldon Street EC2M 7LS Wednesday 29 May — continued Concert: Lumen Quartet 1315 St Dunstan in the West composed of students from the Guildhall School of Music

Recital: Julieta Soledad Iglesias – piano Programme: Shostakovich – String Quartet No 3 in F major Op 73 'Homage a Piazzola' Schubert – String Quartet No 13 in A minor D 804 — The Anglo Argentine Society together with the Guild Church of St the 'Rosamunde' Quartet Dunstan in the West is pleased to present a lunchtime recital and a quartet by Mozart devoted to the music of Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla (1921-1992) — Admission free with retiring collection Argentine tango composer, bandoneon virtuoso and arranger. We regret that the Church and Crypt Hall are not accessible for Free entry – Retiring Collection those people in wheelchairs or with impaired mobility. The only access to the Church is by the short flight of stairs 1830 to 2000 St Lawrence Jewry from the main entrance in Eldon Street. City of London Pop Choir Access to the Crypt Hall is by staircase from Church level. More information in the entry at Wednesday 15 May

1900 St James Garlickhythe ********************************************************************************* Concert in aid of Vintners Foundation Sir Andrew Parmley – organ We are indebted to Dickon Love, Marcel Sinfonia Christian Spielmann – conductor Andrew Campling – conductor Company Bellringer to the Programme: Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks Handel – Arrival of the Queen of Sheba for the following information Holst – St Paul's Suite Andrew Campling – Concerto for Organ, Strings and Percussion Tickets: Please email: [email protected]

Open bellringing performances Thursday 30 May — Ascension Day currently scheduled for the City of London 1305 St Olave Hart Street in May 2019 Recital: Agata Daraskaite – violin James Cheung – piano

1310 St Margaret Lothbury Saturday 18 May Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays "The Glorious Baroque" (5) 1400 3 hr performance on the Royal Jubilee Bells 1615 All Hallows by the Tower by the Middlesex County Association Beating of the Bounds Ceremony at St James Garlickhythe All are welcome to follow the procession round the parish and 1500 3 hr performance on the Jubilee Bells to join us for the Choral Evensong afterwards. for the Patronal Festival For details of this interesting historical ceremony please refer at St Dunstan in the West to the article on the front page of this publication. 1500 3½ hour performance on the bells 1800 Festal Evensong for Ascension Day, with music by the at St Magnus the Martyr St Dunstan’s College Chapel Choir following the Beating of the Bounds ceremony at 1615, ---- o ---- Friday 31 May

1230 St Stephen Walbrook Sunday 19 May Organ Recital: Rupert Jeffcoat 1400 3 hr performance on the Royal Jubilee Bells 1315 St Bride Fleet Street by the Middlesex County Association Organ Recital: Samuel Ali (Christ Church, Chelsea) at St James Garlickhythe Programme:

J S Bach – Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor BWV 582 C P E Bach – Sonata in F major Wq. 70/3, H. 84 J Brahms – from Eleven Chorale Preludes Op 122 2. Herzlich tut mich verlangen City Events is published by J S Bach tr. Max Reger – The Friends of the City Churches in conjunction with from 'The Well-Tempered Klavier': Book 1 – the Archdeaconry of London Prelude and Fugue in B flat minor BWV 867 and printed by Copyprints: J S Bach tr. Marcel Dupré – from Cantata 29 [email protected] 'Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir' BWV 29 — Sinfonia

June 2019 Published by FCC in conjunction with the Archdeaconry of London

In the 21st century there are obviously many centenaries and one of these is of special interest to the Friends,. Queen Victoria was born on the 24th of May, 1819 and the Friends of the City Churches will be marking that historic occasion with a special service of Choral Evensong in St Mary Abchurch on Wednesday 26th June at 3pm. The service promises to be a memorable occasion with music performed at commemorative services during her long reign of 63 years. The printed Order of Servicce will contain a number of historic photographs, coupled with an informative article concerning her historic reiggn. All are cordially invited to attend the service. For catering purposes (after the service Victoria sponge will be served) it is important that those wishing to attend should contact the office of the Friends by email: contactt_us@london‐city‐churches.org.uk or on: 020 7626 1555.

Summer Music in City Churches is a fledgling festival, founded in 2018, presenting beautiful music to inspire, divert and engage, in ancient and architecturally stunning churches in London's Square Mile. The theme for the second festival in June 2019 is Words and Music. Commencing on Thursday 20th Junee there will be a week and a half of events. There will be sumptuous settings of poetry, lyrical music inspired by poetry, plays and literature, words that illuminate music with biographical insight and context, music of significance to literary heroes and heroines, and more: altogether it promises to be a lyrical celebration. A 'box' display can be found on the back page listing the dates and titles of the fifteen events. A number of the events in the festival are listed in the 'Events and Concerts' pages below. The website: http://www.summermusiccitycchurches.com/ gives full information concerning this innovative festival.

Then there is the Knollys Rose Ceremony. This anccient ceremony is held annually in June when the Master of the Watermen and Lightermen of the River Thames cuts a rose from a bush in the garden in Seething Lane and takes it to the Lord Mayor in Mansion House as a symbol of the fine imposed on Lady Constance Knollys in 1381 for erecting a footbridge between two of her properties in Seething Lane without permission. The ceremony will be held on Monday 17th June commencing at All Halllows by the Tower at 10.45am.

As part of the London Festival of Architecture St Lawrence Jewry on Monday 10th June is hosting an evening event — Re‐Imagining the Bounds —looking at the renewal and refurbishment of the church fabric. Of particular interest will be the new main entrance doors to the church. The event will be followed by an optional walk tracing the boundaries of St Lawrence Jewry. Full details are given at the entry in the lisstings below.

As always, musical events are numerous in June and, in addition to the Summer Music in City Churches described above, several of these 'catch the eye'. At St Botolph Aldgate on Wednesday 26th June the renowned American organist Gwenndolyn Toth makes a welcome return. She will be presenting another of her intriguing recitals of early organ music with the title 'Songs and Dances for Organ'. This will include workss from the fifteenth century Buxheimer Orgelbuch together with some sixteenth century compositions from France, the Netherlands and Spain. A particular point of musicological interest is that the tabular inscription off the Buxheim Organ Book consists of a seven‐line system and letters, the so‐called "older" German organ tablaturre. This recital promises to be a musical treat. Then at St Michael Cornhill on Monday 3rd June Christopher HHerrick will give a recital in which one of the items will be Liszt's Fantasia and Fugue on the chorale, Ad nos, ad saalutarum undam. This piece has been described as one of the greatest works written for organ, and the pinnacle of the nineteenth century organ repertoire. In the same recital, in marked contrast, Iain Farrington's variations on the 'Amazing Grace' will be performed. Again, this recital has the hallmarks of a veritable musical treat

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

Tuesday ─ continued REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES IN JUNE 2019 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less 1230 to 1300 Eucharist (said) with address St Dunstan in the West 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr The entries below show the normal pattern of services for City Churches 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) and a few churches ‘just over the City borders’. Entries are for Church St Mary Moorfields of England services except where indicated otherwise. ‘1st Monday’, 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Woolnoth ‘2nd Monday’ etc refer to the 1st Monday, 2nd Monday etc of the month. 1230 Holy Communion (said), followed by coffee and sandwiches St Olave Hart Street While every effort is made to ensure accuracy, the services shown are 1300 Holy Communion All Hallows by the Tower 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place subject to change at Bank or other holidays, immediately before, during and 1300 to 1400 (any time) Contemporary Worship after major festivals and holy days, and during the summer months. You are St Sepulchre without Newgate / Holy Sepulchre London strongly advised to contact churches to check the details. 1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate 1305 Meditation (in the crypt chapel) St Mary le Bow For a list of weekend (particularly Sunday) services please go to the 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields Friends of the City Churches website at www.london-city-churches.org.uk 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn and follow the links from ‘Events’ and ‘City Events’. 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, following buffet lunch at 1300 St Botolph Aldersgate 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, with sandwich lunch available St Helen Bishopsgate Monday 1310 Holy Communion St Margaret Lothbury 0715 Jewish Daily Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic orthodox rite) 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn (0700 on 1st day of Hebrew religious month) For details please see 1700 to 1800 ‘ A Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/ Bevis Marks Synagogue Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 0730 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1700 to 1730 ‘Words of Hope’ – quiet informal reflective service 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields St Clement Eastcheap 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0800 Meditation (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 (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower St Mary Moorfields 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1830 Choral Evensong (traditional) (Choral Eucharist on 3rd Tuesday) 1215 Eucharist St Michael Paternoster Royal St Sepulchre without Newgate / Holy Sepulchre London 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) St Mary Moorfields Wednesday 1245 Holy Communion St Mary at Hill 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 0730 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1300 Choral Classics – music and readings St Stephen Walbrook 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn 0800 Morning Taizé Chant (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1700 to 1800 ‘A Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 0830 to 0915 Holy Communion St Lawrence Jewry Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 1205 RC Mass St Joseph Bunhill Row 1800 Choral Evensong (BCP) (During university terms – current term 1215 to 1315 Elim Full Gospel Chinese Church Fellowship – All welcome 13 May to 8 July) St Michael Cornhill St Lawrence Jewry 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr Tuesday 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Abchurch 0715 Jewish Daily Service (see Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 0730 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe St Mary Moorfields 0730 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1245 to 1315 (3rd Wednesday) Society of Friends (Quaker) Meeting for Worship 0745 Holy Communion (said) followed by coffee & croissants) St Mary at Hill Bunhill Fields Meeting House, Quaker Court, Banner St 0745 Eucharist, followed by breakfast St Mary le Bow 1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal worship and teaching – come and go as 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields you wish St Margaret Lothbury 0745 to 0915 ‘Start: Stop’ – start the day by stopping to reflect – 10 minute 1300 (1st Wednesday) Eucharist followed at 1345 by discussion reflections beginning every 15 minutes - just drop in St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate St Stephen Walbrook 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1305 to 1400 ‘Not on a Sunday’ – informal worship with prayer and song, 0800 Morning Prayer (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary with coffee St Katharine Cree 0800 Morning Prayer St Michael Cornhill 1305 Eucharist (in the church) 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 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1310 to 1340 ‘Moorgate Talks’ Bible Talk, following buffet lunch at 1300, 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate at Level 46 (City Izakaya), 46 Moorgate, EC2R 6EL 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn Linked with St Botolph Aldersgate 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church 1310 Sung Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate 1215 Eucharist (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1315 Holy Communion (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster /continued

Friday REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue IN JUNE 2019 − continued 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 0800 Morning Taizé Chant (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary Wednesday ─ continued 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1700 to 1800 ‘ A Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow Come and go as you) wish (Not 12 June) St Bride Fleet Street 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1230 Pastoral Conversation or Confession (Sacrament Chapel) St Mary le Bow 1730 Evening Prayer (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 1730 Choral Evensong (during legal term-time) Temple Church St Mary Moorfields 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 1800 Taizé Service All Hallows by the Tower 1305 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 1800 Eucharist St Michael Paternoster Royal 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn 1830 Meditation Group: ‘Stressed in the City’ (Moot Community) 1315 to 1400 Holy Communion St Lawrence Jewry St Mary Aldermary 1700 to 1800 ‘A Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 1900 Sung Eucharist St Andrew Holborn Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street Thursday 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 0730 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1800 Paraklesis (replaced on 1st Friday and during fasting periods by Service 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields of Holy Unction) Followed at 1900 to 2200 by Catechesis and Confessions 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square (Romanian Orthodox) St Dunstan in the West 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1800 (1st Friday) RC Low Mass in the Extraordinary Form 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street St Etheldreda, Ely Place 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower 1930 Jewish Friday Evening Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate orthodox rite) (1830 in winter months – please check on 0830 Eucharist (said) St Mary le Strand www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/) Bevis Marks Synagogue

0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time) Temple Church 1210 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate 1215 to 1250 Bible Talk, with sandwich lunch available, followed by SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS Question Time St Helen Bishopsgate IN JUNE 2019 1215 Eucharist (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less Sunday 2 June 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1800 Evening Service celebrating Ascensiontide St Mary le Strand 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) St Mary Moorfields Monday 3 June 1245 Choral Eucharist St Stephen Walbrook 1300 Choral Classics Music and readings on the theme of ‘God is 1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal worship and teaching – come and go as gone up! – A celebration for Ascensiontide’ with the Choral you wish St Mary Woolnoth 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place Scholars of St Martin in the Fields 1300 to 1330 (Normally 1st Thursday) Private prayer and reflection (In June Including music by Finzi and Gibbons St Stephen Walbrook on 6 June) St Giles Cripplegate 1300 Eucharist (normally choral on 1st Thursday) St Margaret Pattens Wednesday 5 June 1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate 1300 to 1330 Spring series of soundscapes with live music: 1305 Holy Communion (on 1st Thursday with Healing) followed by Peace of Mind – A Time for every Season tea and biscuits St Katharine Cree June – A time to be born, a time to die 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields An opportunity for peace, calm and reflection 1305 to 1335 ‘St Nick's Talks’ Bible Talk Sandwiches served from 1300 Entrance is free but donations are welcome St Nicholas Cole Abbey 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square, EC1M 6AN 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn 1730 Choral Evensong to commemorate D-Day, 6 June 1944 Temple Church 1310 to 1350 Bible Talk, with sandwich lunch available, followed by Question Time St Helen Bishopsgate Thursday 6 June 1315 to 1345 Lunchtime Service (Free Church) City Temple 1315 Holy Communion St Martin within Ludgate 1305 Holy Communion - Healing Service St Katharine Cree 1315 Holy Communion (BCP said) (during legal term-time) Temple Church 1800 Choral Evensong followed by Thursday Conversation at 1830 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn (Please see the listing in the Events Section for further information) 1700 to 1800 ‘ A Space for Silence’ – contemplation, reflection and silent worship St Mary at Hill Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe Sunday 9 June 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 1000 RC Sung Mass for Pentecost Sunday St Mary Moorfields Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1100 Choral Eucharist in honour of the Queen’s Birthday 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow St Michael Cornhill 1800 (Normally 1st Thursday) Choral Evensong, followed by ‘Thursday Conversation’ at 1830 St Mary at Hill Monday 10 June 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 1300 Choral Classics Music and readings on the theme of ‘Faith, hope 1805 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow and love: Faith’ with the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields 1900 to 2100 City of London House of Prayer - Equipping Night Service Including music by Gibbons and Byrd St Stephen Walbrook Praise and Worship (Free Church) City Temple /continued

Monday 24 June SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS 1230 Said Eucharist for the Commemoration of the Birth of St John the IN JUNE 2019 – continued Baptist St Dunstan in the West 1300 Choral Classics Music and readings on the theme of ‘Faith, hope and love: Love’ with the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields Wednesday 12 June Including music by Bednall and Ireland St Stephen Walbrook 1730 Choral Evensong Followed by a talk on the Temple Church by the Master of the Wednesday 26 June Temple, the Revd Robin Griffith-Jones Temple Church 1500 Friends of the City Churches – Choral Evensong to mark the bicentenary of the birth of Queen Victoria on 24 May 1819 Thursday 13 June With music performed at commemorative services during her 1210 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate 63 year reign 1305 HMT Lancastria Association Annual Remembrance Service Followed by refreshments To remember and honour all those involved in the sinking of the All welcome – for catering purposes, those who wish to attend are asked to contact the Friends of the City Churches’ office – Lancastria in June 1940, Britain’s worst maritime disaster St Katharine Cree email: [email protected]

or telephone: 020 7626 1555 St Mary Abchurch Sunday 16 June 1000 RC Sung Mass for the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity 1730 Choral Evensong for St Peter’s Day (29 June) St Mary Moorfields Temple Church 1100 Choral Eucharist for Trinity Sunday, with the St Bride’s Choir and 1800 Choral Evensong, sung by the Choral Scholars of St Martin in Orchestra performing Dvořák’s Mass in D the Fields and the Walbrook Community Choir St Bride Fleet Street With Summer Garden Party All welcome – to help with catering numbers, those who wish Monday 17 June to attend are asked to let the church office know - email 1230 Holy Communion (BCP) followed by tea and sandwiches [email protected] or telephone 020 7626 9000 St Andrew by the Wardrobe St Stephen Walbrook 1300 Choral Classics Music and readings on the theme of ‘Faith, hope and love: Hope’ with the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields Friday 28 June Including music by Will Todd and Howells St Stephen Walbrook 0805 RC Mass for the Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus St Mary Moorfields Wednesday 19 June 1305 RC Mass for the Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus 1310 Choral Patronal Festival Service for St Botolph’s Day (17 June) St Mary Moorfields Preacher: the Very Revd Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury Followed by refreshments St Botolph Bishopsgate Sunday 30 June 1730 Choral Evensong to celebrate the institution of Holy Communion 1000 RC Sung Mass for the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (Corpus Christi) Temple Church St Mary Moorfields 1900 onwards Services and procession for the Eve of Corpus Christi 1830 Lutheran Bach Vespers for the Second Sunday after Trinity, 1900 Sung Mass at St Andrew Holborn with J S Bach’s Cantata BWV 76, Die Himmel erzählen die 1950 Procession from St Andrew Holborn to St Dunstan in the Ehre Gottes, performed by the City Bach Collective on period West instruments St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill 2010 Benediction at St Dunstan in the West Followed by refreshments – all welcome St Andrew Holborn & St Dunstan in the West LECTURES, COURSES, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS IN JUNE 2019

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1305 High Mass on the feast of Corpus Christi Thursday 6 June Preacher: James Milwain St Mary le Bow 1830 St Mary at Hill 1900 Procession and Solemn Eucharist for Corpus Christi Thursday Conversation St Bartholomew the Great Lieutenant Commander Becky Frater RN

in conversation with the Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkin, on: Sunday 23 June ‘Being the first not necessarily the best – tales from a female…’ 1000 RC Sung Mass for the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ Following Choral Evensong at 1800 Ending with refreshments (Corpus Christi) St Mary Moorfields Please see the listing in the Events Section for further information 1730 Choral Evensong with Sermon in Music on the theme of One Equal Music Friday 7 June Part of the 2019 Festival of Summer Music in City Churches 1100 to 1600 London Centre for Spiritual Direction, The Sermon in Music comprises: St Edmund King & Martyr Litany to the Holy Spirit by Peter Hurford (words by Robert Where is God in all this? How we ask about God in Spiritual Direction Herrick) With Julian Maddock Bring us, O Lord by William Harris (words by ) Explores how those engaged in spiritual direction might ask about At the round earth’s imagined corners by (words God with those who come to talk with them by John Donne) A session in the Developing Direction programme, designed to Please go to https://www.summermusiccitychurches.com for foster the ongoing development and support of spiritual directors further information about the festival and this service For further information, including cost and booking, please go to St Bride Fleet Street www.lcsd.org.uk and follow the links from ‘Courses & Events’

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LECTURES, COURSES, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JUNE 2019 IN JUNE 2019 – continued

Monday 10 June Sunday 2 June 1800 St Lawrence Jewry 1400 The Great Hall – St Bartholomew's Hospital Re-imagining the Bounds An evening looking at the renewal and refurbishment of the Barts Academic Festival Choir & Orchestra

church fabric, and then exploring the historic boundaries of St Lawrence Jewry Mozart – Credo Mass Haydn – Nelson Mass

Followed by an optional walk tracing those boundaries from scratch Tickets £15, including a wine and nibbles reception, available from Come and join us for a wonderful afternoon of music to sing [email protected] or from the church office or just listen to the music Part of the London Festival of Architecture Singers – bring your own music No rehearsal – straight in at 1400 Tuesday 11 June 1045 to 1530 St Andrew Holborn Free entry – donations welcome — going to Barts Cancer Unit Oasis Day: Windows into Prayer from George Herbert Monday 3 June Led by Bishop John Went Oasis Days offer a monthly time of quiet reflection to re-charge 1155 St Mary le Bow one’s spiritual batteries with the stimulation of excellent speakers An Event in the London Festival of Architecture Cost £15 – Lunch / tea & coffee provided Free Guided Tour with the Rector Pre-booking required by Friday 7 June for catering purposes Meet in the vestibule Donations welcome

To book please telephone the Revd Martin Davies on For full details of the Festival please visit: 07429 612642 or e-mail [email protected] www.londonfestivalofarchitecture.org

Wednesday 12 June 1300 St Lawrence Jewry 1730 Temple Church Recital: Tessa Uys – piano Choral Evensong, followed by a talk on the Temple Church by the Programme: Master of the Temple, the Revd Robin Griffith-Jones Mozart – Rondo in D major K485 Haydn – Sonata in B minor Hob XVI:32 Wednesday 19 June Schumann – Fantasiestücke Op 12 (1837) 1830 to 2100 St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate Schumann/Liszt – Widmung Blessed are the peacemakers: Exploring a Christian theology of peacebuilding and reconciliation in divided times 1300 St Michael Cornhill Led by the Revd Dave Tomlinson, Chaplain to St Ethelburga’s Organ Recital: Christopher Herrick Centre Programme: An interactive evening helping to think through what it means to Batiste – Grand Offertoire in D be a peacemaker with today’s challenges of division, tension Farrington – Amazing Grace and conflict Liszt – Fantasia & Fugue, Ad nos Free event, but please register for planning purposes For further information and to register, please go to https://stethelburgas.org and follow the links from ‘Events’

Saturday 22 June St Olave Hart Street 0930 to 1630 St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate The Enneagram of Peacemaking: Healing the soul to heal the world at 1.00pm A workshop on the Enneagram, a unique and powerful device that invites us to understand ourselves and other people more deeply. A Recital to be given by It details nine distinct personality styles or life strategies that describe the ways that each of us relates to our self, to others and the world. Berlin Counterpoint Led by the Revd Dave Tomlinson, Chaplain to St Ethelburga’s Centre Aaron Dan – flute Olivier Stankiewicz – oboe For further information, including cost and details of booking, please Sacha Rattle – clarinet Joost Bosdijk – bassoon go to https://stethelburgas.org and follow the links from ‘Events’ Lionel Speciale – horn Zeynep Özsuca – piano

Tuesday 25 June Programme: 1830 to 2115 St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate Integrating the Shadow: Essential inner work for activists and Mozart – Quintet for Piano and winds in Eb K452 peacemakers Poulenc – Sextet for piano and wind quintet Op 100 Led by Justine Huxley

An experiential evening for activists and peacemakers, looking at how the process of reclaiming shadow projections can empower Admission is free

our work For further information, including cost and details of booking, please go to https://stethelburgas.org and follow the links from ‘Events’

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JUNE 2019 – continued Tuesday 4 June — continued

1415 St Bride Fleet Street Monday 3 June — 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 – Music and Readings with the Choral Scholars or make a booking by emailing Sally Hannon at: "God is gone up!l" [email protected]

A celebration for Ascensiontide, including Finzi and Gibbons or telephoning 020 7427 0133. Special tours for groups can also be arranged Choral Classics at St Stephen Walbrook offer thirty minutes of sublime choral music from our Choral Scholars interspersed with readings on a theme.

Free with a retiring collection Wednesday 5 June

1305 St Martin Ludgate 1300 Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square, EC1M 6AN Recital: Klaudia Magdon – soprano George Webstder – piano Series: Peace of Mind – A Time for Every Season Programme: 4. — 'A time to be Born and a time to Die' “Springtime” – Themes of flowering trees, spontaneity and A Soundscape with live music and time for reflection and calm young passion found in vocal musical writings across different Entrance is free but donations are welcome compositional styles. The programme will include songs and operatic arias exploring the topic. 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Admission is free but donations are gratefully received in aid of Walbrook Community Choir church and recital running costs If you like singing, or would like to try it, come and join us in your lunch hour! There are no auditions or fees, and ability to read Tuesday 4 June music is not essential. Sing a variety of styles of music led by 1230 St Mary Abchurch experienced professional choir directors Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. The recital will usually include an improvisation 1305 St Botolph Aldgate 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Recital: Simone Alessandro Tavoni – piano Organ Recital: The John Hill Memorial Recitals 1918 Programme: Featuring UK and international artists at the outset of their careers Granados – Ballade: El Amor y la Muerte The final recital in this year's series will be given by from Goyescas, Book 2 Constance Taillard (France) Scarlatti – Sonata in B minor K 27 Programme: Sonata in D minor K 52 J S Bach – Prelude in E flat major BWV 552 Clara Schumann – Ballet des revenants Ermend Bonnal – Chopin – Ballade No 2 in F major Op 38 ‘La vallée du Béhorléguy, au matin’, from Paysages euskariens Liszt – Paraphrase on Rigoletto Theme by Verdi Jeanne Demessieux – Te Deum Op 11 Nadia Boulanger – Prelude in F minor Free entry with a retiring collection Henriette Puig-Roget – ‘Complainte’, from Three pieces for organ Louis Vierne – Final from Symphonie No 2 in E minor 1930 Temple Church Organ Recital: Thomas Trotter — with big screen projection For full information please search 'John Hill Memorial Series 2019' Programme: 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Harris – Flourish for an occasion Walbrook Music Trust Recital Handel – Organ Concerto Op 7 No 4 Helen Lacey – soprano Thalben-Ball – Elegy in B flat 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Joanthan Dove – The Dancing Pipes (2014) Recital: Katherine Clarke – viola and voice Rowley – Rustic Suite Mandakhtuya Dorj – piano Sarah McCabe – viola Duruflé – Suite Op 5 Programme: Tickets: £10 £15 from: Rebecca Clarke – Morpheus for viola and piano https://www.templemusic.org/shop/thomastrotter/ Kaija Saariaho – Nocturne for solo viola Frederic Chopin trans. Gregor Piatigorsky – Nocturne No 20 in C sharp minor Thursday 6 June

Lili Boulanger arr. Katherine Clarke – Nocturne for viola and piano 1305 St Mary le Bow Brian Elias – 'But When I Sleep' for solo viola Recital: Christian Dawson – piano Libby Larsen – 'In Such a Night' for viola duo Thea Musgrave – 'In the Still of the Night' for solo viola 1305 St Olave Hart Street – 'Out of the Night' for singing viola Recital: Leyla Cemiloglu – piano

Free Admittance – Retiring Collection 1310 All Hallows by the Tower 1315 St Mary at Hill Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling Recital: Square Mile Music Series Eve Baker – soprano Gina Lewis – soprano 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Robert Mingay-Smith – piano Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series Programme: Bo Ingelberg – Linköping, Sweden Purcell – Sound the Trumpet Delibes – Flower Duet from Lakmé Bellini – Mira, O Norma from Norma

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EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JUNE 2019 – continued Saturday 8 June

1900 St Andrew Holborn Thursday 6 June — continued London Euphonia Orchestra Conductor – Dano Peluso 1800 St Mary at Hill Piano – Rokas Valuntonis Choral Evensong, followed by Thursday Conversation at 1830 Programme: Evensong will be sung by Seraphim, the St Mary at Hill Choir Tchaikovsky – Piano Concerto No 1 in Bb minor Op 23 Lieutenant Commander Becky Frater RN Khachaturian - Adagio from 'Spartacus' Commandin g Officer 705 Naval Air Squadron will be in Masquerade Suite conversation with The Revd Prebendary Rose Hudson-Wilkins. Tickets: General Admission £12.50,

‘Being the first not necessarily the best – tales from a female…’ Concessions £10, Child Under 11 Free

Lt Cdr Becky Frater originally joined the Army in 1998 after three To buy tickets online please visit: years as a secondary school teacher in Bristol. After initial training https://www.londoneuphonia.com/ and follow the link 'Buy tickets' at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst she was commissioned directly into the Army Air Corps and was subsequently awarded her Army Wings in 2001. In 2006 she transferred to the Royal Navy and Monday 10 June

in 2007 gained her prestigious Royal Navy Wings in 2007. 1155 St Mary le Bow After a number of deployments she was selected to lead the Royal An Event in the London Festival of Architecture Navy Helicopter Display Team – the Black Cats during the 2010 Free Guided Tour with the Rector display season. Following deployment to Afghanistan she was Meet in the vestibule Donations welcome appointed CO of 705 NAS, the first female to command a Royal Navy Air Squadron. Lt Cdr Frater enjoys all sports especially For full details of the Festival please visit: hockey having represented England in the past and also having www.londonfestivalofarchitecture.org received her Combined Services colours. 1300 St Lawrence Jewry She and her husband have a 2½ year-old daughter. Recital: Tessa Uys – piano

We finish with a glass of wine at 1930 Programme: Admission is free All are welcome Schumann – Kinderszenen Op 15 (1838) John McCabe – Variations Op 22 (1964) 1900 The Crypt Hall of St Mary Moorfields, Eldon Street EC2M 7LS Liszt – Légende: St. Francois de Paule marchant sur Les Flots. Concert: Emilio de Geer – piano 1300 St Michael Cornhill A final year student at the Guildhall School of Music. Organ Recital: Alberto Brigandi (St Joseph's, Highgate Hill) Admission free with retiring collection Programme:

We regret that the Church and Crypt Hall are not accessible for Bach/Vivaldi – Concerto in A BWV 593 those people in wheelchairs or with impaired mobility. Debussy – Arabesque 2 (arr Roques) 1930 Temple Church Fauré – Pavane (arr Brigandi) Concert: Holst Singers Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition (arr Brigandi) Stephen Layton – conductor 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Choral Classics – Music and Readings with the Choral Scholars Programme: "Faith, hope, and love" Bruckner – Motets Byrd – Mass for four voices "Faith" including Gibbons and Byrd

Tickets: £10 £15 £20 Choral Classics at St Stephen Walbrook offer thirty minutes of For more information and tickets please visit: sublime choral music from our Choral Scholars interspersed https://www.templemusic.org/shop/holstsingers/ with readings on a theme.

Free with a retiring collection Friday 7 June 1305 St Martin Ludgate 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Organ Recital: Colin Spinks Recital: Marriane Town Smith – soprano 1305 St Mary at Hill Charlotte Collier – mezzo-soprano Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society Panaretos Kyriatzidis – piano

More information at: www.musicathill.org.uk Programme: 1315 St Bride Fleet Street This will include duets from Delibes, Mendelssohn, Verdi Recital: Margaret Pearman – soprano David Coussell – piano and Offenbach together with Mozart and Handel solos

Programme: Admission is free but donations are gratefully received in aid of H Purcell – The Indian Queen: church and recital running costs 'I attempt from love's sickness to fly' 1800 St Lawrence Jewry Dido and Aeneas: 'Thy hand Belinda' 'When I am laid in earth' Re-Imagining the Bounds

W A Mozart – Das Veilchen K476 As part of the London Festival of Architecture St Lawrence Jewry J Haydn – Scena di Berenice is hosting an evening looking at the renewal and refurbishment of Matyas Seiber – Four Greek Folk Songs: the church fabric. This will be followed by an optional walk tracing 'O my love how long'; 'Have pity on me' the boundaries of St Lawrence Jewry 'Each time, my love, you say farewell' 'O your eyes are dark and beautiful' Tickets: £15 may be obtained from the Church Office or: [email protected] A Dvořák – Rusalka: 'Song to the moon' Gipsy Songs Op 55: Songs my Mother taught me Wine and nibbles reception is included in the ticket price C M von Weber – Der Freischütz: Leise, Leise

Free Admittance – Retiring Collection

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JUNE 2019 – continued Thursday 13 June

1305 St Mary le Bow Tuesday 11 June Lunchtime Recital: Laura MacDonald – cello Lysandre Menard – piano 1230 St Mary Abchurch 1305 St Olave Hart Street Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. Recital: KUMORI SAXOPHONE QUARTET The recital will usually include an improvisation Lucinda Dunne Roland Burton 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Theo Hillborg David Zucci Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis 1310 All Hallows by the Tower Programme: Organ Recital: David Cook . “ A rushing mighty wind” 1310 St Margaret Lothbury The wind that shakes the barley (traditional Irish reel, Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays "The Glorious Baroque" (6) version collected by Seamus Ennis, arranged for organ CE) 1900 St Mary Aldermsry Nicolas de Grigny – Hymne: Veni Creator Spiritus (1699) 'Garden of Delights' Max Reger – Pfingsten Op 145 No 6 (1916) Orlando Chamber Choir Olivier Messiaen – From Messe de la Pentecôte (1949-50) Conductor – Lucy Goddard iv. Communion v. Sortie Maurice Duruflé – Chorale varié sur le Veni creator Smell the music — taste the sound 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Orlando Chamber Choir presents an all-sensory summer concert Walbrook Music Trust Recital with the fragrance of flowers and the sound of Franco-Flemish Ivan Hovorun – piano Renaissance gardens.

1315 St Bride Fleet Street Programme: Recital: James Kirby – piano Works by Guillaume De Machaut, Heinrich Isaac, Programme: Josquin Des Prez, Gaspar Van Weerbeke, Antoine Brumel, P Tchaikovsky – Six pieces from 'The Seasons' Op 37b Clément Janequin, Nicolas Gombert, Cipriano De Rore, 1. January: At the Fireside Jacob Clemens non Papa, Orlando Di Lasso and Janet Wheeler 2. February: Carnival 4. May: White Nights Tickets: £15; concessions £10 at the door

7. July: Song of the Reaper For full details of the works to be performed and to buy tickets in 11. November: Troika advance please vist: https://www.orlandochoir.org.uk/tickets 12. December: Christmas 1930 Temple Church L van Beethoven – Sonata in E major Op 109 Organ Recital: Roger Saye — with big screen projection

Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Programme: 1315 St Mary at Hill Dupré – Symphony No. 2 Op 26 Recital: Square Mile Music Series Reger – Fantasy and Fugue on B-A-C-H , Op 46 Ireland – Elegiac Romance Michael Horner Quartet Jonge – Toccata in D flat A Jazz Special! Tickets: £10 £15 from: 1415 St Bride Fleet Street https://www.templemusic.org/shop/rogersayer/ 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 Sally Hannon at: Friday 14 June [email protected] or telephoning 020 7427 0133. 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Special tours for groups can also be arranged Organ Recital: Robert Mingay-Smith (St Mary at Hill) 1305 St Mary at Hill Wednesday 12 June Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society Roger Chiang – violin Victor Coo – cello 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Sophia Yang – piano Walbrook Community Choir Programme: More information at Wednesday 5 June Dvořák – Piano Trio No 4 in E minor Op 90 B166 – 'Dumky' Trio 1305 St Botolph Aldgate Paul Schoenfeld – Café Music Recital: Mine Dogantan-Dack – piano 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Alisa Franklin – cello Chiawen Kiew – flute Recital: Simone Tavoni – piano Programme: Programme: Mendelssohn – Piano Trio No 1 in D minor Op 49 E Granados – from Goyescas (piano suite Op 11) Free entry with a retiring collection 5. El amor y la muerte – Balada (Ballad of Love and Death) 1305 St Olave Hart Street F Mompou – Three Paysages Recital: Jonathan Esteve Aranda – guitar La Fuente y la Campan; El Lago; Carros de Galicia 1315 St Sepulchre without Newgate/Holy Sepulchre London S Prokofiev – Sonata No 5 Op 135 The Musicians' Church F Liszt – Paraphrase on a Rigoletto theme by Verdi Free Lunchtime Recital – The Halcyon Quartet Free Admittance – Retiring Collection our Ensemble in Residence 1315 St Dunstan in the West Programme: Organ Recital: Martin Ellis This will consist of movements from

Dvořák – String Quartet No 12 in F major Op 96 — 'American'

Britten – 3 Divertimenti

Monday 17 June — continued EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JUNE 2019 – continued 1305 St Martin Ludgate Recital: Olive Murray – soprano Christopher Foreman – piano Saturday 15 June A Variety Feast of Songs and Arias 1900 St Sepulchre without Newgate/Holy Sepulchre London The Musicians' Church Programme: Works by Howells; Poulenc; Berlioz; Bizet; Julian Slade, Saturday Concert Series Chausson, Dvořák, Sullivan, Finzi, Haydn, Gershwin, Brahms, The Halcyon Quartet — our Ensemble in Residence Quilter, Rachmaninov,

Programme: Admission is free but donations are gratefully received in aid of Haydn – String Quartet in C major Op 20 No 2 Hob III.32 church and recital running costs Dvořák – String Quartet No 12 in F major Op 96 — 'American' Britten – 3 Divertimenti Tuesday 18 June Haydn – String Quartet in G major Op 76 No 1 Hob III.75 1000 to 1700 St Mary le Bow Tickets: Adults £15; Students £10: Child (under 18) £7 Continuation of the exhibition of paintings by Anne Leaver

For more information and tickets please visit: For more information please visit: www.annelever.co.uk https://stsepulchre.churchsuite.co.uk/events/p9j3hiie

1230 St Mary Abchurch Monday 17 June Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate.

1000 to 1700 St Mary le Bow The recital will usually include an improvisation Opening day of an Exhibition and Sale of Paintings by Anne Leaver For more information please visit: 1300 St Lawrence Jewry www.annelever.co.uk Organ Recital: Andrzej Malitowski (Royal Academy of Music; Nicholas Danby Trust Scholar) 1045 for 1100 All Hallows by the Tower Programme: Johann Sebastian Bach – Klavier-Ubung III The Knollys Rose Ceremony The recital will consist of 13 pieces taken from this work,

From 1045 participants will assemble in the church. sometimes referred to as the German Organ Mass, published in At 1100 they will process to Seething Lane Gardens where a rose will be 1739. It is considered Bach's most significant and extensive work cut. This will be taken in procession by the Company of Watermen and for organ, containing some of his most musically complex and Lightermen to Mansion House to be presented to the Lord Mayor in lieu of technically demanding compositions for that instrument. rent. All are welcome to watch the rose cutting ceremony and the The opening and closing movements of the work are the procession through the City. Entry to Mansion House is by invitation only Prelude (BWV 551) and "St Anne" Fugue in Eb major (BWV 552). [For more historical background to this ancient ceremony please refer to the article on the front page] 1300 St Stephen Walbrook 1155 St Mary le Bow Walbrook Music Trust Recital An Event in the London Festival of Architecture Kai Hei Chor – cello Constance Chow – piano Free Guided Tour with the Rector Meet in the vestibule Donations welcome 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: Haley Myles – piano For full details of the Festival please visit: Programme: www.londonfestivalofarchitecture.org F Chopin – Mazurkas Op 17 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Grande Valse Brillante Op 18 Recital: Tessa Uys – piano Nocturne Op 27 No 2 Programme: Nocturne Op 48 No 1 Schubert – 4 Impromptus Op 90 D899 Andante Spianato et Grande Polonaise Op 22 C minor- Eb major- Gb major- Ab major Beethoven – Sonata No 32 in C minor Op 111 Free Admittance – Retiring Collection

1300 St Michael Cornhill 1315 St Mary at Hill Organ Recital: Jeremiah Stephenson, (All Saints', Margaret Street) Recital: Square Mile Music Series Programme: Kanae Furomoto – piano Messiaen – L'Ascension Programme: Clérambault – Récit de nazard Albéniz – Works from Suite española No 1 Op 47 Duruflé – Prélude, Adagio et chorale Varié Liszt – Les jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este Debussy – Works from Préludes Book 1 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Choral Classics – Music and Readings with the Choral Scholars 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Tours of the Church "Faith, hope, and love" Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. "Hope" including Will Todd and Howells Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day

or make a booking by emailing Sally Hannon at: Choral Classics at St Stephen Walbrook offer thirty minutes of sublime choral music from our Choral Scholars interspersed [email protected] with readings on a theme. or telephoning 020 7427 0133. Special tours for groups can also be arranged Free with a retiring collection

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JUNE 2019 – continued Friday 21 June

1000 to 1700 St Mary le Bow Tuesday 18 June — continued Final day of the exhibition of paintings by Anne Leaver

1930 Temple Church 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Organ Recital: Greg Morris — with big screen projection Organ Recital: Paul Ayres Programme: Buxtehude – Praeludium in F# minor 1305 St Mary at Hill Sweelinck – Unter den linden grüne Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society Bach – Trio Sonata No. 3 in D minor BWV 527 International Make Music Day Vierne – Prelude (from 24 Pieces in free style) Duruflé – Prelude, Adagio and Choral Variations Tübinger Saxophon Ensemble on “Veni Creator” In association with the London Saxophone Choir Whitlock – Scherzetto from Sonata in C minor Harry Bath & Stuart Longley – conductors

Hollins – Triumphal March Programme: Tickets: £10 £15 from: Handel – Royal Fireworks Suite HWV351 (1749) https://www.templemusic.org/shop/gregmorris/ and works by Bach, Rameau, Piazzolla & Karl Jenkins

Wednesday 19 June 1315 St Bride Fleet Street 1000 to 1700 St Mary le Bow Recital: Thomas Plater – saxophone Steven Neugarten – piano Continuation of the exhibition of paintings by Anne Leaver Programme: For more information please visit: Graham Fitkin – 'Braemar' www.annelever.co.uk Gary Carpenter – Jonny spielt aus 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Dario Marianelli – Prelude Walbrook Community Choir Stanley Myers – Concerto for soprano saxophone More information at Wednesday 5 June 1st movement 1305 St Botolph Aldgate Takashi Yoshimatsu – Fuzzy Bird Sonata Recital: Kieran Reed – violin Shanna Hart – piano Programme: Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Johann Heinrich Schmelzer – Ciaconna in A major 1900 St Stephen Walbrook Sonata Quarta in D major (from Sonatae Unarum Fidium) Summer Music in City Churches J S Bach – Sonata in G major BWV 1021 Star Cross'd Lovers: Songs of love and devotion

Free entry with a retiring collection Grace Davidson – soprano David Miller – lute and theorbo 1305 St Olave Hart Street Songs of true love and devotion by Campion, Dowland, Humfrey Recital: Susanna Brawn – piano and Purcell.

Thursday 20 June Tickets: £15 Students - £7.50 1000 to 1700 St Mary le Bow Discount of 20% for groups of four or more Continuation of the exhibition of paintings by Anne Leaver For tickets please visit: For more information please visit: https://www.summermusiccitychurches.com/star-crossd-lovers www.annelever.co.uk 1305 St Olave Hart Street Recital: Angelina Kopyrina – piano 1310 All Hallows by the Tower Organ Recital: Stephen Binnington 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Saturday 22 June

Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series 1930 St Andrew Holborn David Löfgren – Stockholm, Sweden Crouch End Festival Chorus 1900 St Andrew Holborn David Temple – conductor Gabrieli Roar Ruth Rogers – violin An English Coronation Sarah Butler – cello The four coronations of the 20th century were enormous and Programme: extravagant. Paul McCreesh and Gabrieli will be joined by Vaughan William – Mass in G minor young singers from the David Ross Education Trust Youth Pēteris Vasks – Plainscapes Choir and Tiffin Boys’ Choir, to bring the history, ceremony and Anton Bruckner – Motets liturgy of these four extraordinary coronations to life John Tavener – Annunciation Programme: Benjamin Britten – Hymn to the Virgin This will include Robert Pearsall – Lay a Garland Handel – Coronation Anthem: 'Zadok the Priest' S S Wesley – Thou wilt keep him Tickets: £8, £15, £20 Parry – I was glad For more information and tickets visit: Stanford – 'Coronation' Gloria https://cefc.org.uk/our-concerts/our-next-concert/ Walton – 'Coronation' Te Deum

Tickets: General Admission £10, VIP £25, Under 16s Free For more information and tickets visit: http://www.gabrieli.com/event/english-coronation-st-andrew-holborn/ and follow the link 'BOOK HERE'

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JUNE 2019 – continued Monday 24 June — continued

1845 St Lawrence Jewry

Summer Music in City Churches Saturday 22 June — continued 'Let Us Garlands Bring' 1930 St Mary le Bow Summer Music in City Churches Thomas Humphreys – baritone Raya Kostova – piano Programme: Mad Dogs & Englishmen A recital of evocative and romantic songs by five English Mary Carewe – soprano Michael Dor – baritone composers who were direct contemporaries — Philip Mayers – piano Vaughan Williams, , Benjamin Britten, John Ireland and Roger Quilter. From green, rolling hills to thrilling, historic London; There will also be settings of Shakespeare songs and poems from seaside to stage... this is a celebration of the peculiarly from Emily Brontë to Rupert Brooke

English way of life - and love. With music by composers including Tickets: £15 from: , Noel Coward, George and Ira Gershwin, https://www.summermusiccitychurches.com/let-us-garlands-bring Lennon and McCartney, Ivor Novello, George Shearing, Andrew Lloyd-Webber, Benjamin Britten, and Sting; and words by T.S. Eliot, John Masefield, W.H. Auden, John Dryden, Stephen Sondheim, Don Black and William Shakespeare.

For the complete list of the 30 songs to be performed please visit Tuesday 25 June the website given below St Mary le Bow — Monday 24 to Thursday 27 June Tickets £20 (includes interval drinks) from: LIVE in the Churchyard https://www.summermusiccitychurches.com/mad-dogs-and-englishmen Free daily music, events, plus al fresco food and drink

For more information please see the entry at Monday 24 June Monday 24 June 1230 St Mary Abchurch St Mary le Bow — Monday 24 to Thursday 27 June Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. LIVE in the Churchyard The recital will usually include an improvisation

Free daily music, events, plus al fresco food and drink 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Organ Recital: Andrzej Malitowski For more information please visit the church website: Programme: www.stmarylebow.org.uk Felix Mendelssohn – Prelude and Fugue in D minor Op 37 No 3 and scroll down to LIVE. Max Reger – Melodia Op 59 No 11 The publicity will be updated soon with times Jean Guillou – Saga 1 Op 20 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Alexandre Guilmant – Organ Sonata No 1 Op 42 Recital: Tessa Uys and Ben Schoeman – piano duo 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Programme: Walbrook Music Trust Recital Beethoven / Scharwenka – Symphony No 7 in A major Op 92 Regina Freire – soprano 1300 St Michael Cornhill 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Organ Recital: Benjamin Newlove (Thalben-Ball Organ Scholar, Recital: Music Scholars of King Edward's School, Witley

and Assistant Director of Music at St Michael Cornhiill) Programme: Programme: J S Bach – Prelude and Fugue in G BWV 860 Leighton – Paean (Richie Zhang – piano) Whitlock – Fantasy Choral 1 in D flat A Vivaldi – Concerto No 3 'Il gardellino' — iii. Allegro Howells – Psalm Prelude, Set 2/1 F Couperin – Le je-ne-sais-quoi (Josh Cook – recorder) Willan – Introduction, Passacaglia & Fugue (1916) J S Bach – Suite 1 BWV 1007 — Prelude (Richie Zhang – cello) 1300 St Stephen Walbrook J Pernambuco – Sons de Carilhões - El noy de la mare Llobet Choral Classics – Music and Readings with the Choral Scholars (Adam Smillie – guitar)

"Faith, hope, and love" G Handel – Gavotte (Harry Naylor – bassoon) E Elgar – Idylle Op 4 No 1 "Love" including Bednall and Ireland trad. Russian: Black eyes (Dana Cha – violin) Choral Classics at St Stephen Walbrook offer thirty minutes of P Mascagni – Cavalleria Rusticana: Intermezzo sublime choral music from our Choral Scholars interspersed (Anna Gaszka – violin) with readings on a theme. J Clarke – Prince of Denmark's March

Free with a retiring collection (Kai-Meshach Walcot – trumpet) 1305 St Martin Ludgate S Lamb – Saturday's Child (Aidan Agar – trumpet) Recital: Emma Walker – piano C Debussy – Préludes: Voiles (Jozef Gaszka – piano) Programme: M Dupré – Prelude and Fugue in G minor Op 7 Chopin – Andante Spianato & Grande Polonaise Brillante Op 22 (Jozef Gaszka – organ)

Schumann – Sonata No 1 in F# minor Op 11 Free Admittance – Retiring Collection

Admission is free but donations are gratefully received in aid of church and recital running costs

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JUNE 2019 – continued Wednesday 26 June — continued

1305 St Olave Hart Street Recital: CITY CHAMBER ENSEMBLE Tuesday 25 June — continued Meliza Metzger – soprano 1315 St Mary at Hill Michael Gammie – conductor Recital: Square Mile Music Series Programme:

Karolina Gawarzewska – piano Puccini – Crisantemi SC 65 Mozart – Motet: Exsultate Jubilate K165 Programme: Mozart – Aria ‘Il capro e la capretta’ Dvořák – Slavonic Dances Op 72 From Act 4 of 'The Marriage of Figaro' Grieg – Norwegian Dances Op 35 Mozart – Symphony No.29 in A major K201 1315 St Dunstan in the West 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: Georgis Vardakis – piano Tours of the Church 1930 Temple Church Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day Organ Recital: Oliver Latry — with big screen projection or make a booking by emailing Sally Hannon at: Programme: [email protected] Saint-Saëns – Prelude and Fugue in Eb major or telephoning 020 7427 0133. Pierné – Prelude Special tours for groups can also be arranged Widor – Bach’s Memento from March of the Night Watchman

1930 St Andrew Holborn Bach – Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor BWV 582 Gigout – Aria from the Cantata for Pentecost Fidelio Orchestra Schumann – 4th and 5th Fugues on B.A.C.H. Love and Fantasies Liszt – Prelude and Fugue on B.A.C.H In this short but intense concert, the Fidelio Orchestra will take (syncretic version by Jean Guillou) you through some of the summits of post-romantic music. Tickets: £15 £20 from: Programme: https://www.templemusic.org/shop/olivierlatry/ Berlioz – Romeo and Juliet Part 2, Scene 1: Romeo Seul - Tristesse - Bruits Lontaines de Concert Thursday 27 June et de Bal - Grande Fête chez Capulets St Mary le Bow — Monday 24 to Thursday 27 June Wagner – Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde LIVE in the Churchyard — Final Day! Strauss – Tod und Verklärung Op 24

Free music, events, plus al fresco food and drink Tickets: £15 For more information and tickets visit: For more information please see the entry at Monday 24 June

https://www.fideliorchestra.art/events/2019/6/19/love-and-fantasy 1300 St Lawrence Jewry

Summer Music in City Churches Wednesday 26 June 'Capturing the Castle' St Mary le Bow — Monday 24 to Thursday 27 June 'Mark Bebbington – piano LIVE in the Churchyard Prograrmme: Free daily music, events, plus al fresco food and drink A lunchtime recital of evocative works for solo piano – For more information please see the entry at Monday 24 June with literary associations from Shakespeare to Victor Hugo to Dodie Smith. Works by Debussy (Clair de Lune), John Ireland, 1300 St Stephen Walbrook J S Bach and Robert Matthew-Walker Walbrook Community Choir Tickets: £15 from: More information at Wednesday 5 June https://www.summermusiccitychurches.com/capturing-the-castle 1305 St Botolph Aldgate 1305 St Olave Hart Street Organ Recital: Gwendolyn Toth Recital: Yulia Chaplina – piano

Songs and Dances for Organ 1310 All Hallows by the Tower

Programme: Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling 1310 St Margaret Lothbury The Earliest Organ Music Hans Kotter – Kochersperger Spanioler (16C) Summer Concert Conrad Paumann – Portugaler Spanioler Hill House Choral Scholars Ascensus cum descensu Head Chorister: Felix Townend with (From Buxheimer Orgelbuch c 1470) France The Lothbury Singers Anonymous manuscript c 1550 – Sy mon malheur Director : Richard Townend Quant je cogneu Organist : Benedict Lewis-Smith Programme Netherlands Haydn – In sanae et vanae curae From the Susanne van Soldt manuscript 1599 Orlande de Lassus – Susanna Vung Jour Mozart – Ave verum Spain Fauré – Cantique de Jeanne Racine Wesley – Blessed be the God and Father Sebastien Aguilera de Heredia – Elgar – Ave verum Obra de 8º tono alto: Ensalada (1618) Stanford – Coronation Te Deum

Free entry with a retiring collection Admission is free A collection will be taken at the door

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JUNE 2019 – continued Friday 28 June — continued

1315 St Bride Fleet Street Organ Recital: Julian Thomas Thursday 27 June — continued Programme: 1930 St Katharine Cree John Cook – Fanfare

Sweet Music, Sacred Music Charles-Marie Widor – Symphonie 6: 4. Cantabile J S Bach – Prelude and Fugue in B minor BWV 544 Ad Libitum Chamber Choir Charles Harford Lloyd – Allegretto

César Franck - Pièce Héroïque Julian Collings – conductor Colin Spinks – organ Free Admittance – Retiring Collection

Come and hear Ad Libitum’s tempting selection of English and French sacred choral treats. 1315 St Dunstan in the West Programme: Organ Recital: Diego Innocenzi Duruflé – Requiem Head of Organ Studies at the Conservatoire de Musique, Geneva Balfour-Gardiner – Evening Hymn with his Organ Class at the Conservatoire, Byrd – Mass for 5 Voices Programme: Parry – I was glad This will include works by Johann Sebastian Bach, César Franck and Louis Vierne. Tickets £15, £12 for students (includes refreshments) available from choir members, on the door, or from Eventbrite. For more information and to purchase tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sweet-music-sacred-music-tickets-61776751928 Saturday 29 June

1930 St Lawrence Jewry 1830 All Hallows by the Tower Summer Music in City Churches East London Chorus Summer Concert The chorus for East London and Docklands Carnival of the Animals will perform Sam West – narrator Vaughan Williams — Five Mystical Songs London Mozart Players Ben Pope – conductor in a programme of English choral music featuring works by Byrd,

Programme: Elgar, Finzi, Howells, Parry, Pearsall, Stanford, Sumsion, Saint-Saëns – Carnival of the Animals Vaughan Williams and Weelkes. Walton – Façade – an Entertainment Conductor — Jessica Norton Words by Edith Sitwell Tickets: £20 – ( Includes interval drinks) from: Tickets: £12; Concessions £19 https://www.summermusiccitychurches.com/facade-carnival-of-the-animals For more information and tickets please visit uj: www.eastlondonchorus.org.uk/category/concerts-coming-up 1930 St Andrew Holborn London Lawyers Music 1930 St Mary at Hill

Conductor – Chris Oakley English Baroque Choir Programme: Handel – The King Shall Rejoice Conductor – Jeremey Jackman

Browne – Jesu, mercy, how may this be? Polly Jackman – soprano Susannah Vernon – mezzo-soprano Handel – Zadok The Priest Samir Savant – tenor Charpentier – Te Deum Caroline Clemmow – harmonium Tickets: £15 For more information please visit: Programme: www.lawyersmusic.org.uk/ Rossini – Petite Messe Solonnelle Schubert – Part Songs

Tickets: £15; £13 (concessions) from EBC members and: Friday 28 June https://www.wegottickets.com/event/471073

1230 St Stephen Walbrook Sunday 30 June Organ Recital: Pavlos Triantaris 1830 St Mary at Hill (Lutheran) 1305 St Mary at Hill Bach Vespers for the 2nd Sunday after Trinity Recital: Music-at-Hill Concert Society with J S Bach Cantata BWV 76 Britain & Europe Series (Boyce Symphony Cycle) Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC CAMERATA performed by the City Bach Collective on period instruments BOYCE ENSEMBLE Hazel Brooks – leader & director Yassine Taoudi Benchekroun – conductor Admission free – retiring collection

Adam Heron – piano

Programme:

Elgar – 'Nimrod' from the Enigma Variations Op 36 (1899)

Mozart – Piano Concerto No 8 in C major K 246

Boyce – Symphony No 2 in A major & Symphony No 6 in F major

We are indebted to Dickon Love, Company Bellringer to the Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks Summer Music in City Churches for the following information

in the month of June

Thursday 20 at 1930 St Giles Cripplegate Voice and Verse Open bellringing performances currently scheduled for the City of London Friday 21 at 1900 St Stephen Walbrook Star Cross'd Lovers in June 2019

Saturday 22 at 1930 St Mary Le Bow Mad Dogs and Englishmen

Saturday 1 June Sunday 23 at 1430 Walking Tour 1400 3 hr performance on the Royal Jubilee Bells Shakespeare: Take Him For All in All by the Middlesex County Association

at St James Garlickhythe

Sunday 23 at 1730 St Bride Fleet Street Choral Evensong: One Equal Music Saturday 8 June 1000 3 hr performance on the Jubilee Bells

at St Dunstan in the West Monday 24 at 1845 St Lawrence Jewry Let Us Garlands Bring 1015 3½ hour performance on the church bells Tuesday 25 at 1300 St Giles Cripplegate by the Bristol ringers at St Michael Cornhill All The World's A Stage Sunday 9 June Tuesday 25 at 1430 Walking Tour Echoes of Shakespeare 1 1210 20 minute performance on the church bells for the Official Birthday of HM The Queen Tuesday 25 at 1845 St Giles Cripplegate following Choral Eucharist at St Michael Cornhill Beethoven – The Man Revealed

Tuesday 25 at 1930 St Giles Cripplegate: Sunday 16 June Beethoven: Piano Concertos 1 & 5 ('Emperor') 1400 3 hr performance on the Royal Jubilee Bells by the Ancient Society of College Youths

at St James Garlickhythe Wednesday 26 at 1930 St Giles Cripplegate: Elégie: Rachmaninoff, A Heart in Exile 1400 3½ hour performance on the church bells by the Society of Royal Cumberland Youths at St Magnus the Martyr Thursday 27 at 1300 St Lawrence Jewry: Capturing the Castle

Thursday 27 at 1430 Walking Tour Echoes of Shakespeare 2 Monday 17 June 1730 3 hr performance on the Jubilee Bells Thursday 27 at 1930 St Lawrence Jewry: by the Westminster Abbey Company at St Dunstan in the West Façade and Carnival of the Animals

Friday 28 at 1930 St Giles Cripplegate Saturday 29 June

A Midsummer Night's Serenade 1000 3½ hour performance on the church bells of Spliced Maximus Full details of all the events and how to obtain by the Ancient Society of College Youths tickets can be found at: at St Michael Cornhill

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A Prom, two challenges and a farewell

On Saturday 17 August St Sepulchre without Newgate (Holy Trinity London), the Musicianss' Church, will be hosting a BBC Promenade Concert featuring the BBC Singers in an extensive programme of English concert choral pieces spanning the 20th and 21st centuries. This is a ticket‐only event and full details are given at the listing.

Certain musical compositions acquire special significance because of their technical difficulty. One such piece is Réminiscences de Don Juan (S. 418), an opera fantasy for piano by Franz Liszt on themes from Mozart's Don Giovanni. It is extremely technically demanding and has been deescribed as one of the ten most difficullt pieces of piano music in the world. Conner Fogel will be accepting the challenge of this piece on Monday 29 July at St LLawrence Jewry in a recital of works by Liszt

On Tuesday 30 July in the organ recital at St Michhael Cornhill Benjamin Newlove will be accepting a similar challenge when he will be performing Reubke's Sonata on thee 94th Psalm. It is a very individual work regarded as being composed well for the organ, requiring advanced pedal technique and a careful use of all the organ's departments. It is considered to be one of the pinnacles of the Romantic repertoire.

Music‐at‐Hill (originally St Anne's Music Society) will be leaving the City at the end of August and it has been decided to devote some space to the history of this thriving organisation. Music at Hill, currently celebrating its golden jubilee season, oversees one of the longest‐running concert series in the City of London, having started life back in April 1969 as an outreach ministry of the Lutheran congregation based at St Anne & Agnes Church in Gresham Street. It remained there for some 44 years, moving in tandem with the Lutherans to its current home of St Mary‐at‐Hill six years ago. What began as a simple series of monthly organ recitals by the incumbent musical director Simonn Lindley had by the mid‐1980s been built up into a thriving beacon of music‐making by the joint vision of the Lutheran Pastor, Revd Ronald Englund and his Cantor, Peter Lea‐Cox. Peter was also responsible for founding the City's renowned Bach Cantata series, which via the monthly service of Lutheran Bach Vespers is still going strong in its fifth decade.

Following Peter‐Lea Cox's retirement, the Society was successfully run by the next Lutheran Cantor, Lübeck‐born Martin Knizia, for around a decade. Towards the end of this period the Lutheran Congregation and the Music Society were obliged to look for a new home (when the lease on St Anne & Agnes expired). Together, they moved their operations to St Mary‐at‐Hill, but while still co‐operating closely they decided to go their own separate ways both constitutionally and financially, so Music‐at‐Hill now operates as a freestanding concert society, under the artistic direction of Stuart Whatton.

These days, the Society still oversees a special Bach Festival every July (a tradition which has been maintained since 1996) but its core activity is its Friday lunchtime concert series. Whilst laying on a wide variety of chamber music, the series has built up a paarticular reputation for its Baroque and early music programming, aided by the resident harpsichord and chamber organ. This autumn Music‐at‐Hill is planning to move its home base again, this time outside the Square Mile, to the midtown location of St Giles‐in‐the‐Fields Church near Centre Point ‐ though it hopes tto retain residual links with its historic home in the City by returning to St Mary‐at‐Hill in future years for the July Bach Festtival.

To mark its 50th anniversary, and to bid goodbye to the Square Mile, Music‐at‐Hill is planning a special day of concerts on Friday 26 July at the climax of this year's Bach Festiival, which will include an exhibition of archival material and an early evening reception to which all concert‐goers are welcome. Thus will end 50 golden musical years of residence in the City of London. We here at City Events send Music at Hill our warmest wishes for its continuing success in its new home.

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

Tuesday ─ continued REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster IN JULY AND AUGUST 2019 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less 1230 to 1300 Eucharist (said) with brief address St Dunstan in the West 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr The entries below show the normal pattern of services for City Churches 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) and a few churches ‘just over the City borders’. Entries are for Church St Mary Moorfields of England services except where indicated otherwise. ‘1st Monday’, 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Woolnoth ‘2nd Monday’ etc refer to the 1st Monday, 2nd Monday etc of the month. 1230 Holy Communion (said), followed by coffee and sandwiches St Olave Hart Street While every effort is made to ensure accuracy, the services shown are 1300 Holy Communion 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 holy days, and during the summer months 1300 to 1400 (any time) Contemporary Worship (in particular during August). You are strongly advised to contact churches to St Sepulchre without Newgate / Holy Sepulchre London check the details. 1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate 1305 Meditation (in the crypt chapel) St Mary le Bow

1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields For a list of weekend (particularly Sunday) services please go to the 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn Friends of the City Churches website at www.london-city-churches.org.uk 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn and follow the links from ‘Events’ and ‘City Events’. 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, following buffet lunch at 1300) St Botolph Aldersgate 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, with sandwich lunch available St Helen Bishopsgate Monday 1310 Holy Communion St Margaret Lothbury 0715 Jewish Daily Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic orthodox rite) 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn (0700 on 1st day of Hebrew religious month) For details please see 1700 to 1800 ‘ A Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/ Bevis Marks Synagogue Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 0730 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1700 to 1730 ‘Words of Hope’ – quiet informal reflective service 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields St Clement Eastcheap 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0800 Meditation (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 (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 0830 Morning Prayer (Not 29 July) All Hallows by the Tower St Mary Moorfields 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1830 Choral Evensong (traditional) (Choral Eucharist on 3rd Tuesday) 1215 Eucharist St Michael Paternoster Royal St Sepulchre without Newgate / Holy Sepulchre London 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) Wednesday St Mary Moorfields 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1245 Holy Communion (Not in August) St Mary at Hill 0730 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn 0800 Morning Taizé Chant (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1700 to 1800 ‘A Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow Come and go as you wish (Not on Bank Holidays) St Bride Fleet Street 0830 Morning Prayer (Not 31 July) All Hallows by the Tower 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 0830 to 0915 Holy Communion St Lawrence Jewry Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time – not in August or September) 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields Temple Church 1800 Choral Evensong (BCP) (During university terms – current term 1205 RC Mass St Joseph Bunhill Row 13 May to 8 July) St Michael Cornhill 1215 to 1315 Elim Full Gospel Chinese Church Fellowship – All welcome St Lawrence Jewry Tuesday 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 0715 Jewish Daily Service (see Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1230 (1st Wednesday) Eucharist followed by discussion 0730 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate 0730 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 0745 Holy Communion (said) followed by coffee & croissants) (Not in August) 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Abchurch 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 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 0800 Morning Prayer (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary 1305 to 1400 ‘Not on a Sunday’ – informal worship with prayer and song, 0800 Morning Prayer St Michael Cornhill with coffee St Katharine Cree 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1305 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 0830 Morning Prayer (Not 30 July) All Hallows by the Tower 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1310 to 1340 ‘Moorgate Talks’ Bible Talk, following buffet lunch at 1300, 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn at Level 46 (City Izakaya), 46 Moorgate, EC2R 6EL 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time – not in August or September) Linked with St Botolph Aldersgate Temple Church 1310 Choral or Sung Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate 1215 Eucharist (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1315 Holy Communion (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster /continued

Friday REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue IN JULY AND AUGUST 2019 − continued 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 0800 Morning Taizé Chant (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary Wednesday ─ continued 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1700 to 1800 ‘ A Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time– not in August or September) 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe Temple Church 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1730 Evening Prayer (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary 1230 Pastoral Conversation or Confession (Sacrament Chapel) St Mary le Bow 1730 Choral Evensong (during legal term-time – not in August or September) 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) Temple Church St Mary Moorfields 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 1800 Taizé Service All Hallows by the Tower 1305 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 1800 Eucharist St Michael Paternoster Royal 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn 1830 Meditation Group (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary 1315 to 1400 Holy Communion St Lawrence Jewry 1900 Sung Eucharist St Andrew Holborn 1700 to 1800 ‘A Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship Thursday Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 0715 Jewish Daily Service (See Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 0730 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1800 Paraklesis (replaced on 1st Friday and during fasting periods by Service 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square of Holy Unction) Followed at 1900 to 2200 by Catechesis and Confessions 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields (Romanian Orthodox) St Dunstan in the West 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1800 (1st Friday) RC Low Mass in the Extraordinary Form 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow St Etheldreda, Ely Place 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1930 Jewish Friday Evening Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic 0830 Eucharist (said) St Mary le Strand orthodox rite) (1830 in winter months – please check on 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/) Bevis Marks Synagogue 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time – not in August or September) Temple Church 1210 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS 1215 to 1250 Bible Talk, with sandwich lunch available, followed by IN JULY 2019 Question Time St Helen Bishopsgate 1215 Eucharist (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster Monday 1 July 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1300 Choral Classics Music and readings on the theme of ‘The Stars 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr and Stripes Forever – Celebrating American Independence Day‘, 1230 to 1255 and 1330 to 1350 RC Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) including works by Copland and Bernstein St Mary Moorfields With the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields 1245 Choral Eucharist St Stephen Walbrook 1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal worship and teaching – come and go as St Stephen Walbrook you wish St Mary Woolnoth Wednesday 3 July 1300 RC Mass, followed by Confessions at 1320 St Etheldreda, Ely Place 1230 Said Eucharist for the Feast of St Thomas the Apostle 1300 to 1330 (Normally 1st Thursday) Private prayer and reflection (In July St Dunstan in the West on 4 July – not in August) St Giles Cripplegate 1730 Choral Evensong to celebrate the USA’s Independence Day 1300 Eucharist (normally choral on 1st Thursday) St Margaret Pattens and Canada Day Temple Church 1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate 1305 Holy Communion (on 1st Thursday with Healing) followed by Thursday 4 July tea and biscuits St Katharine Cree 1800 Choral Evensong followed by Thursday Conversation at 1830 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields (See the listing in the Events Section for further information) 1305 to 1335 ‘St Nick's Talks’ Bible Talk St Nicholas Cole Abbey St Mary at Hill 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn Sunday 7 July 1310 Holy Communion with short address St Andrew Holborn 1730 A Service of Celebration 1310 to 1350 Bible Talk, with sandwich lunch available, followed by Question Time St Helen Bishopsgate Choral Evensong with a celebration for all wedding couples who 1315 to 1345 Lunchtime Service (Free Church) City Temple have been married at St Bride’s Church, followed by refreshments 1315 Holy Communion St Martin within Ludgate Please email [email protected] if you would like to attend 1315 Holy Communion (BCP said) (during legal term-time – not in August St Bride Fleet Street or September) Temple Church Wednesday 10 July 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn 1730 Choral Evensong to celebrate Bastille Day Temple Church 1700 to 1800 ‘ A Space for Silence’ – contemplation, reflection and silent worship Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street Thursday 11 July 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1210 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square Sunday 14 July 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow Afternoon opening session of a Week of Accompanied Prayer 1800 (Normally 1st Thursday) Choral Evensong, followed by ‘Thursday (14 to 20 July) For further information and booking please go to Conversation’ at 1830 (Not in August) St Mary at Hill www.lcsd.org.uk and follow the links from ‘Courses & Events’ 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields London Centre for Spiritual Direction, St Edmund King & Martyr 1805 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1900 to 2100 City of London House of Prayer - Equipping Night Service continued Praise and Worship (Free Church) City Temple

SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS LECTURES, COURSES, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS IN JULY 2019 – continued IN JULY 2019

Monday 15 July Tuesday 2 July 1230 Holy Communion (BCP) followed by tea and sandwiches 1800 to 2000 St Mary Moorfields (in the Crypt Hall) St Andrew by the Wardrobe Crime and Punishment Seminar 1630 Annual Rededication Service, with the Lord Mayor in attendance Three speakers will discuss their unique insights and tales from Preacher: the Revd Katherine Hedderly, Area Dean of the City, inside the criminal justice system: Tom Lloyd, former chief constable, who will dedicate the new church doors St Lawrence Jewry Harry Potter, criminal defence barrister, and David Tadd, former head of New Scotland Yard’s forensic department Sunday 21 July For further information, cost and tickets please go to 1030 Sung Eucharist – Patronal Festival service for the Feast of St https://old-bailey.com/seminars/ or email [email protected] James the Apostle (25 July)

Followed by buffet lunch (tickets £15, children £6) Those who wish Thursday 4 July to come to the lunch are asked to email the church in advance at 1830 St Mary at Hill [email protected] St James Garlickhythe Thursday Conversation Monday 22 July Anna Soubry MP in conversation with the Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkin 1230 Said Eucharist for the Feast of St Mary Magdalene Following Choral Evensong at 1800 Ending with refreshments St Dunstan in the West See the listing in the Events Section for further information Wednesday 24 July 1730 Jazz Evensong to mark the end of the Legal Year Friday 5 July Temple Church 1100 to 1600 London Centre for Spiritual Direction, Thursday 25 July St Edmund King & Martyr 1230 Said Eucharist for the Feast of St James the Apostle The Gifts and Challenges of Diversity: and some implications for St Dunstan in the West Spiritual Direction Friday 26 July Led by Grace Owen and Mirjam Ngoy-Verhage 1230 Holy Communion to celebrate St Ann’s Day This session sets out to explore the potential implications of In the churchyard of the former church of St Ann, Blackfriars. diversity for spiritual directors and directees, reflecting on The church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666, personal stories and experiences and the parish was united with that of St Andrew by the Wardrobe For further information, including cost, and booking, please go The churchyard can be accessed by Church Entry and Ireland Yard. to www.lcsd.org.uk and follow the links from ‘Courses & Events’ If wet, the service will take place in St Andrew by the Wardrobe Followed by refreshments Monday 8 July St Ann’s Churchyard, Church Entry EC4Y 5EH 1830 to 2100 St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate Sunday 28 July Cooking class: global flavours – global citizens 1100 Patronal Festival Service (Holy Communion) for St Olave’s Day Learn to prepare some Nigerian dishes, followed by sit-down dinner. (29 July) St Olave Hart Street Held in partnership with Migrateful, a cookery and language 1115 Choral Communion, Baptism and Confirmation initiative where asylum seekers, refugees and vulnerable President and Preacher: The Rt Hon and Rt Revd Dame migrants teach their traditional cuisine Sarah Mullally, Bishop of London Temple Church For further information, including ticket price and details of booking, 1830 Lutheran Bach Vespers go to https://stethelburgas.org and follow the links from ‘Events’ Including J S Bach’s Cantata BWV 9, Es ist das Heil uns kommen 1900 St Bride Fleet Street hier. performed by the City Bach Collective The Tom Olsen Lecture 2019 Part of the St Anne’s Bach Festival 2019 ‘Enemies of the People’ – The Global Assault on Journalists St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill and Press Freedom

Given by Dr Courtney Radsch, Director of Advocacy at the SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS Committee to Protect Journalists Tickets £10 (students £5) in advance; £15 (students £10) on IN AUGUST 2019 the door For further information and to buy tickets please go to www.stbrides.com/olsen Tuesday 6 August 0805 and 1305 RC Masses for the Feast of The Transfiguration of Tuesday 9 July the Lord St Mary Moorfields 1045 to 1530 St Andrew Holborn Oasis Day: ‘Pilgrimage’ Thursday 8 August Led by the Revd Dr Raewynne Whiteley (Southwark) 1210 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate Oasis Days offer a monthly time of quiet reflection to re-charge Wednesday 14 August one’s spiritual batteries with the stimulation of excellent speakers 1900 RC Vigil Mass for the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Cost £15 – Lunch / tea & coffee provided Virgin Mary St Mary Moorfields Pre-booking required by Friday 5 July for catering purposes To book please telephone the Revd Martin Davies on Thursday 15 August 07429 612642 or e-mail [email protected] 0805, 1200, 1230, 1305 and 1730 RC Masses for the Feast of the

Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary St Mary Moorfields Wednesday 17 July Friday 23 August 1830 St Mary le Bow 1900 Procession and Solemn Eucharist for the Eve of the Feast of JustShare Forum: Artificial Intelligence & Sustainable Development St Bartholomew the Apostle St Bartholomew the Great For further information please go to www.stmarylebow.org.uk and follow the links from ‘Events’ and ‘Lectures, Debates, Forums’

LECTURES, COURSES, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS Tuesday 2 July — continued

Friday 12 July IN AUGUST 2019 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Walbrook Music Trust Recital Gualnumbi Trio Tuesday 13 August 1045 to 1530 St Andrew Holborn 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Oasis Day: ‘In the Shadow of Your Wings’’ Recital: Inês Costa – piano Led by Jane Franklin, retreat leader and spiritual director Programme: Oasis Days offer a monthly time of quiet reflection to re-charge Mozart – Piano Sonata No 13 in Bb major K333 one’s spiritual batteries with the stimulation of excellent speakers Debussy – from Préludes – Book 2 L 123 Cost £15 – Lunch / tea & coffee provided iii La puerta del vino v Bruyères Pre-booking required by Friday 9 August for catering purposes viii Ondine xii Feux d'artifice

To book please telephone the Revd Martin Davies on Free Admittance – Retiring Collection 07429 612 642 or e-mail [email protected] 1315 St Mary at Hill ********************************************************************************** Recital: Square Mile Music Series : For more information please visit:

http://www.stmary-at-hill.org/events/

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JULY 2019 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 Monday 1 July or make a booking by emailing Sally Hannon at: 1300 St Lawrence Jewry [email protected] Recital: Anna Le Hair – piano or telephoning 020 7427 0133. Programme: Special tours for groups can also be arranged Beethoven – Eleven Bagatelles Op 119 Brahms – Phantasien Op 116 1800 to 2000 St Mary Moorfields (in the Crypt Hall) Astor Piazzolla – Oblivion Crime and Punishment Seminar Three speakers will discuss their unique insights and tales from 1300 St Michael Cornhill inside the criminal justice system: Tom Lloyd, former chief constable, Organ Recital: Alessandro Bianchi (Lugano, Switzerland) Harry Potter, criminal defence barrister, and David Tadd, former head Programme: of New Scotland Yard’s forensic department Langlais – Suite Médiévale For further information, cost and tickets please go to https://old-bailey.com/seminars/ or email [email protected] Young – Variations on the American hymn tune Nettleton Åberg – Fantasy in A Weaver – Sine nomine Wednesday 3 July

Hielscher – Three Spirituals 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Germani – Toccata Op 12 Walbrook Community Choir If you like singing, or would like to try it, come and join us in your 1300 St Stephen Walbrook lunch hour! There are no auditions or fees, and ability to read Choral Classics – Music and Readings with the Choral Scholars music is not essential. Sing a variety of styles of music led by on the theme of ‘The Stars and Stripes Forever – experienced professional choir directors Celebrating American Independence Day‘, including works by Copland and Bernstein 1305 St Botolph Aldgate Free with a retiring collection Recital: Horn Dimension Paco Rodriguez – French Horn Dani García – piano 1305 St Martin Ludgate Programme: Recital: Jessica Summers – soprano Jelana Makarova – piano Franz Strauss – Fantasia Op 2 Programme: "Living Songs" Manuel de Falla – Popular Spanish Songs Admission is free but donations are gratefully received in aid of Vittorio Monti – Czardas for horn and piano church and recital running costs Popular/Anon – La Tara

Free entry with a retiring collection Tuesday 2 July

1230 St Mary Abchurch 1305 St Olave Hart Street Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. Recital: BUKOLIKA PIANO TRIO The recital will usually include an improvisation Roma Tic – violin Joanna Gutowska – cello

Anna Szalucka – piano 1300 St Lawrence Jewry

Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis 1830 to 2000 St Lawrence Jewry Programme: City of London Popchoir J S Bach – Prelude and Fugue in Eb BWV 552 (“St. Anne”) Popchoir is for anyone who loves to sing Stressed-out commuter, Handel (arr Dupré) – Organ Concerto No.13 in F worn-out parent, shy shower soprano, there's a place here to let (“The Cuckoo and the Nightingale”) your voice out. And with no auditions and no need to be able to Vierne – Pastorale (Symphonie 1/iii) read music, there are no excuses! We sing brilliant songs with Reger – Sonata No 2 in D minor: First Movement fabulous arrangements and have a great time. For more information please visit: https://www.popchoir.com/

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JULY 2019 - continued Friday 5 July

1230 St Stephen Walbrook Organ Recital: Laurence Lyndon-Jones (Assistant Organist & Director of the Girls' Choir at Chelmsford Cathedral) Thursday 4 July

1305 St Mary le Bow 1305 St Mary at Hill Music-at-Hill Concert Society Recital: Violin and Cello Duo The Opening Concert of the 24th St Anne's Bach Festival

1305 St Olave Hart Street Jenny Thomas – baroque flute Timothy Roberts – harpsichord Recital: Lorenzo Nanci – violin Stephen Gutman – piano Programme: 'Bach & Sons' 1310 All Hallows by the Tower Sonatas by JS Bach and his sons, C P E, J C and J C F Bach Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling 1310 St Margaret Lothbury 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays "A Summer Surprise" Recital: Albert Lau – piano Programme: 1800 St Mary at Hill Clara Schumann – Choral Evensong, followed by Thursday Conversation at 1830 Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann Op 20 Evensong will be sung by Seraphim, the St Mary at Hill Choir Robert Schumann – Piano Sonata No 1 in F# minor Op 11

Anna Soubry MP will be in conversation Free Admittance – Retiring Collection with The Revd Prebendary Rose Hudson-Wilkin. 1315 St Dunstan in the West

Anna worked as a television presenter and criminal barrister Organ Recital: Jamie Robertson before being elected to serve Broxtowe in Nottinghamshire as 1900 All Hallows by the Tower Member of Parliament in 2010. Anna served as a Health Minister, Defence Minister and attended Cabinet as the Minister CMS Summer Concert

of State for Small Business, Industry and Enterprise. She chose The CMS Chorale and City Music Services to return to the back benches in July 2016. She left the present a medley of music for a Summer evening, Conservative Party in February 2019 to sit as an Independent. ranging from opera arias to songs from the shows. We finish with a glass of wine at 1930 Admission by donation - all welcome. Admission is free All are welcome

1930 St Katharine Cree

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City Wind Orchestra present an epic journey MUSIC-AT-HILL of wind orchestration music with themes of searching and awakening. presents the twenty-fourth Programme: ST ANNE'S BACH FESTIVAL Edvard Grieg — Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 Sergei Rachnaninov — The Isle of the Dead, Opus 29 at the City Church of St Mary at Hill Keiron Anderson — Alice in Wonderland Harry Gregson-Williams — The Chronicles of Narnia A feast of Baroque Music John Barnes Chance — Elegy John Mackey — Aurora Awakes focusing on the timeless genius of J S Bach and other composers of the era, Tickets: £12, £10 from: http://www.citywind.org.uk/events both male and female Saturday 6 July

The concerts take place on each Friday in July 1500 Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square, EC1M 6AN culminating in a Festival Day on Friday 26 July A Recital of String Quartets and Lutheran Bach Vespers performed by musicians from on Sunday 28th July Guildhall School of Music & Drama Part of the Guildhall Chamber Music Festiva. Details of all the concerts are given below Programme: Schubert – Quartettsatz performed by the Fengari Quartet at the appropriate dates Widmann – Hunting Quartet performed by the Lumen Quartet Mozart – Quartet K 458, 'The Hunt' All events are free of charge .Suggested donation £5 performed by the Annexus Quartet Coffee and biscuits will be available Admission is free (Listeners are welcome to bring their own lunch) 1930 St Mary le Bow Concert: The Cantus Ensemble An Evening of Choral and Brass Music featuring the music of Jonathan Dove Tickets: On sale from: www.thecantusensemble.com

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JULY 2019 - continued Tuesday 9 July — continued

1315 St Mary at Hill Recital: Square Mile Music Series Monday 8 July Yoon Seok Shin – piano 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Programme: Recital: Sharon Barnea / Fami Choi – piano duo Beethoven – Piano Sonata in E flat major Programme: J S Bach – Italian Concerto in F major BWV 971 Schubert – Andantino varié in B minor Op 84 No 1 Haydn – Piano Sonata in C major Hob: XVI/50 Bach (arr Reger) – Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G major BWV 1048 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Schubert – Fantasie in F minor D 940 Tours of the Church Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. 1300 St Michael Cornhill Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day Organ Recital: Andrew Dewar (American Cathedral of Paris and or make a booking by emailing Sally Hannon at: Assistant Professor of Organ, Royal College of Music) [email protected] Programme to be announced or telephoning 020 7427 0133. Special tours for groups can also be arranged 1305 St Martin Ludgate Recital: Ben Mason and friends – Clarinet/Viola/Piano 1900 St Katharine Cree Programme: Mozart and Schumann Trios Music in Offices Choirs' Concert Admission is free but donations are gratefully received in aid of church and recital running costs Come along to the beautiful St Katharine Cree to hear what some of our MIO choirs have been learning this term. During the 1830 St Bartholomew the Great evening individual choirs will perform and then there will be joint performances of 'Bring me Sunshine' followed by a drinks City Music Society 75th Anniversary Concert reception. We will also be holding a business card competition on

Margarita Balanas – cello Vitaly Pisarenko – piano the night for a chance to win a singing session – you wouldn't want to miss out! Programme: J.S.Bach – Suite No. 3 in C BWV 1009 Tickets £6 from: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mio-choirs-summer-concert-2019-tickets- Beethoven – Variations on a theme from 'The Magic Flute' 60060252833 Helmers Pavasars – Fantasia Paganini – Variations on one string on a theme of Rossini

Admission is free but, in order to secure a place, donations are requested either prior to the concert or post-concert. Places must be reserved by emailing: Wednesday 10 July

[email protected] 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Walbrook Community Choir Tuesday 9 July More information in the entry at Wednesday 3 July

1230 St Mary Abchurch Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. 1305 St Botolph Aldgate The recital will usually include an improvisation Recital: Scordatura Collective Henrietta Hill – viola Poppy Beddoe – clarinet 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Rachel Watson – cello Corinna Boylan – cello Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis Thomas Ang – piano Programme: Programme: Buxtehude – Magnificat Primi Toni BuxWV 203 Anna Amalia – Divertimento in B flat major J S Bach – Concerto in G after Johann Ernst BWV 592 Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre – Sommeil J S Bach – Prelude and Fugue in C major BWV 547 Fanny Hensel – Capriccio in A flat major Alain – Variations sur un thème de Clément Janequin; Hildegard of Bingen – O Eterne Deus

Litanies Free entry with a retiring collection 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Walbrook Music Trust Recital 1305 St Olave Hart Street Alkyona Quartet Recital: Angela Hicks – soprano

Emma Purslow – violin Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux – violin Henrietta Hill – viola Jobine Siekman – cello 1315 St Dunstan in the West Recital: Harriet Kirk – mezzo-soprano 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: The Anern Trio 1315 Temple Church Lisa Ueda – violin Ian Byrne Brito – viola Nigel Blomiley – cello Organ Recital: Polina Sosnina – Temple Church Organ Scholar Programme: Schubert – String Trio in B flat major D 471 1830 to 2000 St Lawrence Jewry Allegro (The only complete movement of this work) City of London Pop Choir Reger – String Trio in A minor Op 77b More information in the entry at Wednesday 3 July

Free Admittance – Retiring Collection

Friday 12 July — continued

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JULY 2019 - continued 1900 St Mary le Bow The Giltspur Singers Summer Concert Programme: Wednesday 10 July — continued Palestrina's sublime Missa Aeterna Christi Munera; 1930 St Bride Fleet Street plus secular partsongs by a varied list of composers

The Choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge For more information and tickets please visit:

in Concert http://www.christophermaxim.co.uk/forthcoming-performances.html

Join us for an early evening concert by Selwyn College Choir 1930 St Andrew Holborn on the eve of their Annual Summer Tour Programme: City Chorus Summer Concert This will include music by Cecilia McDowall, Thomas Tallis, City Chorus presents Fauré's Requiem Thomas la Voy and Sarah MacDonald Please join us for this beautiful concert featuring soloists, An informal drinks reception will take place before the concert from piano, and the City Chorus choir 1800 in the Bridewell Hall at 14 Bride Lane, off Fleet Street The concert will commence at 1930 in St Bride's Church Tickets: £10.50 To buy tickets online please visit: Tickets: £10 for the social, £15 for the concert; http://www.londoncitychorus.com/tickets £20 for both social and concert

For tickets please visit:

https://www.selwynalumni.com/choir-concert Saturday 13 July

Thursday 11 July 1930 St Andrew Holborn 1305 St Mary le Bow The Roads We’ve Travelled – A Summer Concert Recital: Kirsty Chaplin – piano 1305 St Olave Hart Street Join Kensington Singers and Victoria Park Singers, Recital: Eleanor Corr – violin Emil Duncumb – piano with special guests the Maple Rose Quartet 1310 All Hallows by the Tower for a night of glorious choral music Organ Recital: David Cook Tickets: £10 (£8 concessions) in advance 1310 St Margaret Lothbury or £12 (£10 concessions) on the door Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series For more information and to buy tickets online please visit: Alessandro Bianchi – Como, Italy https://roads-weve-travelled.bpt.me/ 1900 St Katharine Cree

Lloyd's Choir Summer Concert Rachmaninov — All-Night Vigil Monday 15 July

Jacques Cohen – conductor 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Recital: Maite Aguirre – piano Tickets: £15 (£10 for students) available on the door, in advance Programme: from choir members or Eventbrite.co.uk (booking charges apply) Une soirée à Grenade — Maite Aguirre’s second piano album Refreshments are included in the ticket price Debussy – La soirée dans Grenade (from Estampes)

For further information please visit Albéniz – El Albaicín https://www.lloydschoir.com/performances Debussy – Sérénade interrompue de Falla – Cuatro piezas españolas (selection) Friday 12 July Vines – Cuatro Homenajes (selection) 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Debussy – Pagodes & Jardins sous la pluie (from Estampes) Organ Recital: Gary Desmond (Bath Abbey) 1305 St Mary at Hill 1300 St Michael Cornhill Music-at-Hill Concert Society Organ Recital: Stefan Donner (Vienna) 24th St Anne's Bach Festival Programme: Czerny – Prelude and Fugue in A Op 607 FOLLIA J S Bach – Trio Sonata in C BWV 526 William Summers – baroque flute Diane Moore – baroque violin Brahms – Fugue in A flat minor WoO 8 (1856) Ibrahim Aziz – bass viol Yeo Yat-Soon – harpsichord Mendelssohn – Sonata No 4 in B flat Op 65/4

Programme: 'Gold Blend Bach' Organ trio sonata arrangements and solo pieces by J S Bach 1305 St Martin Ludgate 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: Rebecca Allen – bassoon Carys Gittins – flute Recital: Mimi Doulton – soprano Dominic Degavino – piano Programme: Programme: Heitor Villa-Lobos – Bachiannas Brasileiras No 6 Purcell – It must be the food of love for flute & bassoon Music for a while Katherine Hoover – 'Winter Spirits' for solo flute Hark the Echoing air (from The Fairy Queen) Ross Edwards – 'Water Spirit Song' for solo bassoon Messiaen – Chants de terre et de ciel Eden Lonsdale – 'Cycles/Shadings' This composition has been specially commissioned for this Free Admittance – Retiring Collection event and will be performed as a world premiere

1315 St Dunstan in the West Admission is free but donations are gratefully received in aid of Recital: Kelvin McGregor – tenor Janet Bishop – piano church and recital running costs

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JULY 2019 - continued Wednesday 17 July

1300 St Stephen Walbrook Walbrook Community Choir Monday 15 July — continued More information in the entry at Wednesday 3 July 1730 St Lawrence Jewry Following the St Lawrence Jewry Annual Service at 1630 1305 St Botolph Aldgate (Please see the entry in the Special Services section above) Organ Recital: Zsombor Tóth-Vajna the Lord Mayor will officially open the photographic exhibition Programme: The Master of Purcell 'Who are 1 in 4'. In aid of Mental Health charity ‘Time to Change’, Waltham Forest champion and photographer Peter Milner has Voluntaries and Psalms by Doctor Blow (1649-1708)

created an exhibition illustrating the positive and negative sides of Free entry with a retiring collection mental health. The pictures demonstrate that mental health problems do not stop us from having skills, qualities and 1305 St Olave Hart Street Recital: Zara Jealous – flute Bethan Griffiths – harp personalities that shine through our personal lives. The exhibition will close on Friday 26 July 1315 St Dunstan in the West 1930 Great Hall of St Bartholomew's Hospital Recital: Lewis Kesterton – piano

Barts Academic Festival Choir & Orchestra 1315 Temple Church Summer Concert Organ Recital: Greg Morris

Conductor: John Lumley Leader: Margaret Banwell 1830 to 2000 St Lawrence Jewry Programme: City of London Pop Choir Dvořák – Symphony No 8 in G major Op 88 More information in the entry at Wednesday 3 July Verdi – Te Deum Elgar – The Music Makers Op 69 Thursday 18 July

Tickets at the door: £15 (£10 concessions) 1305 St Olave Hart Street profits going to the Barts Cancer Unit Recital: Julian Latham – viola Mackenzie Richards – violin Tuesday 16 July 1310 All Hallows by the Tower 1230 St Mary Abchurch Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. The recital will usually include an improvisation 1310 St Margaret Lothbury

Organ Recital: 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Organ Recital: Stefan Donner (Germany) Richard Townend plays the Annual Bach Commemoration Recital

Programme: [Johann Sebastian Bach: 31 March 1685 – 28 July 1750] Mozart – Adagio and Fugue in C minor KV 546 J S Bach – 1400 St Stephen Walbrook Jesus Christus, unser Heiland sub communion/pedaliter BWV 665 Recital: To be given by the visiting choir from Jesus Christus, unser Heiland alio modo BWV 666 Muziekcentrum, Eemnes, Netherlands Sauseng – Nachtwege - Zwei Stücke zur Passion (1989) Admission Free Merkel – Sonata for organ No 7 in A minor Op 140

Friday 19 July 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Walbrook Music Trust Recital 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Johannes Piano Quartet Organ Recital: For more information please visit: St Stephen Walbrook and follow the links 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: Jamie Torrance – guitar 1305 St Mary at Hill Programme: Music-at-Hill Concert Society – Sonatina Op 52 24th St Anne's Bach Festival J S Bach – Lute Suite in G minor BWV 822 Hazel Brooks – baroque violin Poppy Walshaw – viola da gamba Joaquin Turina – Sonata Op 61 Dan Tidhar – chamber organ Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Programme: 'Prelude to Bach' Music from the North German Protestant tradition 1315 St Mary at Hill with which Bach grew up Recital: Square Mile Music Series Naomi Wright – cello 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Programme: Recital: Yoon Seok (John) Shin – piano Britten – Cello Suite No 3 Op 87 Programme: 1415 St Bride Fleet Street J Haydn – Piano Sonata in F major Hob: XVI/23 Tours of the Church F Schubert – Allegretto in C minor D 915 Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. L van Beethoven – Piano Sonata in D minor Op 28 'Pastorale'

Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day Free Admittance – Retiring Collection or make a booking by emailing Sally Hannon at: [email protected] 1315 St Dunstan in the West or telephoning 020 7427 0133. Organ Recital: Martin Ellis Special tours for groups can also be arranged

Tuesday 23 July — continued

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JULY 2019 - continued 1315 St Mary at Hill Recital: Square Mile Music Series Michiko Shimanuki – piano Monday 22 July Programme: 1300 St Lawrence Jewry J S Bach – Chromatic Fantasia & Fugue in D minor BWV 903 Recital: Niklas Oldemeier – piano Chopin – Polonaise-Fantasie in Ab major Op 61 Programme: 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Schubert – Four Impromptus Op 90 (D 899) Tours of the Church H Karstens – Tanz der Masken Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day Niklas Oldemeier performs through the joint St Lawrence Jewry or make a booking by emailing Sally Hannon at: and Worshipful Company of Musicians Scheme for Prizewinners [email protected] of the Company or telephoning 020 7427 0133.

Special tours for groups can also be arranged 1300 St Michael Cornhill Organ Recital: Ian le Grice (London) Wednesday 24 July Programme: 1315 St Dunstan in the West J S Bach – Prelude and Fugue in B BWV 544 Recital: Kate Fun – contralto Buxtehude – Fuga in C BuxWV 137 1830 to 2000 St Lawrence Jewry Clérambault – Basse et Dessus de Trompette ou de cornet City of London Pop Choir séparé, en dialogue More information in the entry at Wednesday 3 July Liszt – Prelude and Fugue on BACH S.260 J S Bach – Ich ruf zu dir BWV 639 Thursday 25 July Parry – Prelude on 'Martyrdom' 1305 St Mary le Bow Le Grice – Prelude on Darwall's 148th Recital: Rebecca Allen – bassoon Carys Gittins – flute Lanquetuit – Toccata 1310 All Hallows by the Tower Tuesday 23 July Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling

1230 St Mary Abchurch Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. 1310 St Margaret Lothbury The recital will usually include an improvisation Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series Lionel Rogg – Geneva, Switzerland 1300 St Lawrence Jewry A programme of improvisations Organ Recital: Johannes Krahl (Germany, First Prizewinner Northern Ireland Organ Competition 2018) 2000 St Andrew Holborn

Programme: The City Academy Singers Duruflé – Prélude from Suite Op 5 presents Human J S Bach – Fugue 'St Anne' BWV 552/2 Mendelssohn – Sonata III in A major Op 65 No 3 (1844) A celebration of everything that makes us who we are Gubaidulina – Light and Darkness (1976) From love and loss, joy and pain — Human will feature J S Bach – Fantasia in G minor BWV 542/1 contemporary classics reinvented and reimagined Dupré – Fugue in G minor Op 3 No 7 in thrilling new arrangements Programme: 1300 St Stephen Walbrook This will included songs by Rag'n'Bone Man, Lorde, Keane, Walbrook Music Trust Recital The Cranberries and many more ….. Jane Gilbert – flute Neil Wright – piano Tickets: £12.50 1315 St Bride Fleet Street For more information and to buy tickets online please visit: Recital: David Sossa – guitar https://www.city-academy.com/singers-present-human Programme: José Pierri Sapere – Campera Friday 26 July

Enrique Kaliski Kriguer – Chiloé (Vals) 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Organ Recital: Stefan Donner (Vienna) Gilberto Rojas (arr. Fernando Arduz) – Flor de Santa Cruz (Carnaval) 1305 St Mary at Hill Antonio Lauro – Vals venezolano No 3 Music-at-Hill Concert Society Guyanese Folk Songs (arr. Hubert George) – 24th St Anne's Bach Festival Coming dung wid ah bunch ah roses; Festival Day marking the 50th Anniversary Cuma-Cuma fish; Ah wondah whey me Telma gawn of St Anne's Music Society and Music-at-Hill

Carlos Gardel Lepera (arr. Victor Villadangos) – Lunchtime Concert El día que me quieras Miguel Ángel Hurtado Delgado (arr. Riber Oré) – Yu-Wei Hu – baroque flute Magdalena Loth-Hill – baroque violin Kate Conway – viola da gamba Johan Löfving – theorbo Valicha (Huayno) Terry Pazmiño – Suite Ecuatoriana No 1 (Tomasa Garcés) Programme: 'Hidden Giants: Bach and his great female contemporaries' André Ong-Alo – Kaseko Dance (from Surinam) Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre – Trio Sonata in G minor Trad. Paraguayan (arr. Hüseyin Ensert) – Pájaro Campana Anna Amalia of Prussia – Sonata in F major for flute & basso continuo Luiz Bonfá (arr. Francesco Piccolo) – Samba de Orfeu J S Bach – Organ Trio Sonata No 4 in E minor BWV 528 Alfredo Mejía Vallejo (arr. Miguel Álvarez Martínez) – El Retiro Prélude and Courante from Solo Cello Suite BWV 1007 Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Sonata for violin & basso continuo

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JULY 2019 - continued Monday 29 July — continued

1300 St Michael Cornhill Friday 26 July — continued Organ Recital: Benjamin Newlove

1800 St Mary at Hill Programme: Music-at-Hill Concert Society J S Bach – Prelude & Fugue in A BWV 543 24th St Anne's Bach Festival Franck – Choral 2 in B Reubke – Sonata on the 94th Psalm Gala Concert Finale

CITY BACH COLLECTIVE

with soloists Tuesday 30 July

Hazel Brooks – violin Belinda Paul – oboe 1230 St Mary Abchurch Dan Tidhar – harpsichord Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate.

Programme: The recital will usually include an improvisation J S Bach – Ouverture BWV 1070 Air from Suite No 3 BWV 1068 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis Violin Concerto in A minor BWV 1041 Harpsichord Concerto in A major BWV 1055 Programme: Lollipops Double Concerto for oboe and violin BWV 1060 You are warmly invited to make requests (as soon as possible, This closing concert will be followed by please) for this recital a special Golden Jubilee reception 1300 St Stephen Walbrook 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Walbrook Music Trust Recital Organ Recital: David Gritten Nicole Johnson – mezzo soprano Programme: Richard Francis (b 1946) – A Celebration of St Denio 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Pierre Kunc – Adagietto Recital: Davide Sciacca – guitar Jean-Jacques Grunewald – Adoratio Programme: 'A Guitar at the Opera' Daniel Roth – Ave Maria Stella Michele Paturzo – Cavatina 'Casta Diva che Inargenti' Léon Böellmann – Deuxième Suite Op 27 (from Norma by Bellini) Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Johann Kaspar Mertz – Fantasy on the 'Sonnambula' op.35 Mauro Giuliani – 1315 St Dunstan in the West Theme with Variations on 'Tu vedrai la sventurata' Organ Recital: Richard Moore – (Sub Organist, Guildford Cathedral) (from Il Pirata by Bellini) Pietro Mascagni (arr. by Arling Schaeffer) – Saturday 27 July Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana

1030 All Hallows by the Tower Mauro Giuliani – Rossiniana No 5 Op 123 Napoleon Coste – Fantasy for guitar on Norma by Bellini Londinium: The Roman City Andrea Schiavo – Archè (2019, dedicated to Davide Sciacca)

As part of the Festival of British Archaeology, Free Admittance – Retiring Collection All Hallows is pleased to offer this guided walk around the Roman city of Londinium. 1415 St Bride Fleet Street The walk costs £10 per person Tours of the Church and lasts about two and a half hours – Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. no need to book, just come to All Hallows on the day. Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day or make a booking by emailing Sally Hannon at: Sunday 28 July [email protected] 1830 St Mary at Hill (Lutheran) or telephoning 020 7427 0133. Bach Festival Vespers Special tours for groups can also be arranged

J S Bach Cantata BWV 9 Es ist das Heil uns kommen her

performed by the City Bach Collective Wednesday 31 July directed by Hazel Brooks Free admission – (voluntary collection) 1315 St Dunstan in the West Recital: Rhys Bowden – tenor Monday 29 July 1300 St Lawrence Jewry 1830 to 2000 St Lawrence Jewry Recital: Conner Fogel – piano City of London Pop Choir Programme: More information in the entry at Wednesday 3 July Liszt – Bénédiction de Dieu dans la Solitude S 173/3 Liszt – Les jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este S 163/4 Liszt / Mozart – Réminiscences de Don Juan S 418

Conor Fogel performs through the joint St Lawrence Jewry and Worshipful Company of Musicians Scheme for Prizewinners of the Company.

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN AUGUST 2019 Tuesday 6 August — continued

1415 St Bride Fleet Street Tours of the Church Friday 2 August 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: For more information please visit: or make a booking by emailing Sally Hannon at: St Stephen Walbrook and follow the links [email protected]

1315 St Dunstan in the West or telephoning 020 7427 0133. Organ Recital: Andrew Furniss – (Assistant Director of Music, Special tours for groups can also be arranged Methodist Central Hall, London) Wednesday 7 August

1300 St Lawrence Jewry — Summer Music Festival

St Lawrence Jewry TRIO LAVOLTA

Joyce Fraser – violin Felix Buser – cello Simon Marlow – piano Summer Music Festival Programme: Frank Bridge – Miniatures For some years it has been a tradition at the City church of John Ireland – Phantasie Trio in A minor St Lawrence Jewry next Guildhall Charles Villiers Stanford – Piano Trio No 3 to hold a summer festival of some significance Admission is free with a retiring collection At St Lawrence Jewry this is seen as part of their Christian ministry to the musicians and to the City. 1315 St Dunstan in the West

Recital: Yoon-Seok Shin – piano Every weekday lunchtime

Monday 5th to Friday 16th August Thursday 8 August

1300 St Lawrence Jewry — Summer Music Festival a free concert, 10 in all, will be held from 1.00pm to 1.45pm for the pleasure of those who continue to work Lana Kuscer – flute Dongri Xie – piano throughout the summer season. Programme: Handel – Sonata in G major The theme this year will be Mozart – Rondo in D

"Creative Cross-Currents: Britain and Europe Entwined" Bax – Four Pieces Charlotte Bray – Here Everything Shines

All the concerts are listed below Ian Clarke – The Great Train Race Admission is free with a retiring collection Admission is free with a retiring collection Friday 9 August

1230 St Stephen Walbrook Monday 5 August Organ Recital: For more information please visit:

1300 St Lawrence Jewry St Stephen Walbrook and follow the links Opening Concert of the St Lawrence Jewry Summer Music Festival 2019 1300 St Lawrence Jewry — Summer Music Festival

BRIGHTON CHAMBER ENSEMBLE BOYCE CAMERATA Adam Heron – conductor / piano Rachel Ellis & Alexandra Dalton – violins Ros Hanson-Laurent – viola Siriol Hugh Jones – cello Programme: Steve Carroll-Turner – piano Elgar – Nimrod, from Enigma Variations Programme: Mozart – Piano Concerto 8 in C Major K 246 Elgar – Piano Quintet in A minor Op 84 Boyce – Symphony No 1 in B major; Symphony No 4 in F major Admission is free with a retiring collection Admission is free with a retiring collection Monday 12 August

Tuesday 6 August 1300 St Lawrence Jewry — Summer Music Festival 1230 St Mary Abchurch Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. DUO SEULA

The recital will usually include an improvisation Abigail Heath – clarinet Rachel Ueckermann – piano 1300 St Lawrence Jewry — Summer Music Festival Programme: KALEIDOSCOPE SAXOPHONE QUARTET Gerald Finzi – Five Bagatelles Sally MacTaggart, Guiy Passey, Jenni Watson, Alastair Penman Charles Villiers Stanford – Clarinet Sonata Op 29 soprano/alto/tenor/baritone saxophones (2nd movement) Programme: Arthur Bliss – Pastoral Henry Purcell – Fantazia VI Edwin York Bowen – Sonata for clarinet & piano in F minor Michael Nyman – Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds Edwin York Bowen (22 February 1884 – 23 November Django Bates – My First Scooter 1961) Paul Patterson – Cheapside Chase Admission is free with a retiring collection and works by David Lancaster, Andy Scott, Will Gregory & Jenni Watson Admission is free with a retiring collection :

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN AUGUST 2019 - continued Friday 16 August — continued

1315 St Dunstan in the West

Tuesday 13 August Organ Recital: John March

1230 St Mary Abchurch Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. Saturday 17 August The recital will usually include an improvisation 1500 to 1630 approx St Sepulchre without Newgate 1300 St Lawrence Jewry — Summer Music Festival (Holy Sepulchre London)

Tessa Uys – piano Programme: AT HOLY SEPULCHRE LONDON

Handel – Minuett in G minor from Suite de Pièces Beethoven – Variations on 'God Save the King' & 'Rule Britannia' The BBC Singers and Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin bring the Haydn – Sonata in B minor Hob XVI:32 Proms to London's Musicians' Church for a concert of English choral pieces spanning the 20th and 21st centuries. Mendelssohn – Two Songs without words Liszt – Hungarian Rhapsody No 12 in C# minor It is in the Musicians' Church where Proms founder-conductor Admission is free with a retiring collection: Henry Wood first learnt the organ and where his ashes were later laid to rest 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Tours of the Church Programme: Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. William Walton – Where does the uttered music go? Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day Benjamin Britten – Sacred and Profane or make a booking by emailing Sally Hannon at: John Ireland – The Holy Boy [email protected] Thea Musgrave – Rorate coeli or telephoning 020 7427 0133. Elizabeth Maconchy – From Three Donne Songs – Special tours for groups can also be arranged No 1: A Hymn to God the Father

1315 St Dunstan in the West – Valiant-for-truth Judith Weir – Missa del Cid Recital: Ivan Hovorun – piano Joanna Lee – At this man's hand Wednesday 14 August This will be a BBC commission – World Premiere

There will be no interval 1300 St Lawrence Jewry — Summer Music Festival

OMBRA To purchase tickets for this important event please visit: https://www.bbc.co.uk/eventsd/edbcd4 Aleksandra Henszel – flute Victoria Marsh – violin Katherine Clarke – viola Chris Terepin – cello NB Tickets will not be available from the church

Programme: Haydn – Divertimento in G Hob II:4 Tuesday 20 August Copland – Threnodies I & II Mendelssohn – Prelude and Fugue in G major Op 37 1230 St Mary Abchurch Mozart – Quartet in D major K 285 Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. Dvořák – Serenade for flute, violin, viola & triangle The recital will usually include an improvisation: Admission is free with a retiring collection 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Thursday 15 August Tours of the Church

1300 St Lawrence Jewry — Summer Music Festival Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Dayana Harizanova – cello Dimitar Kanchev – piano Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day Programme: or make a booking by emailing Sally Hannon at: Chopin – Sonata for cello and piano in G minor Op 65 [email protected] Franck – Prélude, Choral & Fugue or telephoning 020 7427 0133. Admission is free with a retiring collection Special tours for groups can also be arranged

Friday 16 August

1230 St Stephen Walbrook Wednesday 21 August Organ Recital: Johannes Krahl (Leipzig) 1315 St Dunstan in the West 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Recital: Peter Martin – lute Summer Music Festival — Final Concert

BUCK BRASS TRIO Friday 23 August Katie Lodge – trumpet Timothy Ellis – horn Richard Buck – trombone 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Programme: Organ Recital: Adam Chillingworth Andrea Gabrieli – A Caso Giorno Jacques Ibert – Cinq Pièces pour Trio 1315 St Dunstan in the West Johannes Brahms – Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen Organ Recital: Martin Ellis Timothy Bowers – Five Inventions for Brass Trio Francis Poulenc – Sonata for trumpet, horn and trombone

Admission is free with a retiring collection

We are indebted to Dickon Love, EVENTS & CONCERTS IN AUGUST 2019 - continued Company Bellringer to the Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks for the following information

Tuesday 27 August Open bellringing performances 1230 St Mary Abchurch currently scheduled for the City of London Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. in July & August 2019 The recital will usually include an improvisation

Tuesday 9 July 1300 St Stephen Walbrook 1400 3 hr performance on the Royal Jubilee Bells Concert: The Decus Ensemble by the Ancient Society of College Youths Tania Passendji and Hazel Correa – violins at St James Garlickhythe Clifton Hanson – viola Samara Ginsberg – cello

Programme: String Quartets by African composers Sunday 14 July The programme will include: 1400 3 hr performance on the Royal Jubilee Bells Godwin Sadoh – Egba - Musical Totem for String Quartet at St James Garlickhythe Justinian Tamusuza – Mu Kkubo Ery’ Omusalaaba

Tickets: £10 For more information and tickets please visit: Monday 15 July https://theafricanconcertseries.wordpress.com/ 1800 3½ hour performance on the church bells by the Ancient Society of College Youths 1415 St Bride Fleet Street at St Sepulchre without Newgate Tours of the Church Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Saturday 31 July Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day 1005 3½ hour performance on the church bells or make a booking by emailing Sally Hannon at: of Spliced Maximus by the Ancient Society of College Youths [email protected] at St Michael Cornhill or telephoning 020 7427 0133. Special tours for groups can also be arranged Saturday 10 August 1000 3½ hour performance on the church bells at St Sepulchre without Newgate

Wednesday 28 August Sunday 11 August

1315 St Dunstan in the West 1530 3 hr performance on the Royal Jubilee Bells Recital: A4 Piano Duo by the Ancient Society of College Youths Maria Paz Solis Leiton & Sebastian Teijeiro at St James Garlickhythe

Tuesday 13 August 1430 3 hr performance on the Jubilee Bells by the Ancient Society of College Youths Thursday 29 August at St Dunstan in the West 1305 St Mary le Bow Recital: Saturday 10 August Lydia Jane Haynes – mezzo soprano George Ireland – piano 1000 3½ hour performance on the church bells by the Ancient Society of College Youths at St Magnus the Martyr

Sunday 11 August Friday 30 August 1530 3 hr performance on the Royal Jubilee Bells 1230 St Stephen Walbrook by the Ancient Society of College Youths Organ Recital: Charles Wooler at St James Garlickhythe

1315 St Dunstan in the West Monday 19 August Organ Recital: Adam Chillingworth 1800 3½ hour performance on the church bells by the Ancient Society of College Youths 1900 St Lawrence Jewry at St Sepulchre without Newgate Recital: Yuko Sano – piano Tickets: £10, £15 from: Sunday 25 August https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/yuko-sano-piano-recital-tickets- 1215 3½ hour performance on the church bells 62787316554 of Bristol Surprise Maximus by Friends Reunited at St Magnus the Martyr

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A talk, modern organ music, animal inspiration and new pastures …..

At St Botolph Aldersgate an interesting series of ttalks continues in September. Thee talks are organised by the London City Presbyterian Church with the aim of taking a deeper look at aspects oof Reformed theology and practice as it relates to modern questions and issues. The goal is to achieve a better understanding of one's faith by taking a lead from the Scripture as it is summarised in the Reformed confessions. The focus of the September lecture will be on strategies for reading and interpreting the riches of Scripture, particularly through consideration of patterns of thought and approaches to interpretation from the church of ages past, and thus to help one more clearly understand the doctrine of the Trinity. The lecture entitled "Reading the Trinity: The Triune God in Narrative Discourse" is to be given by the Revd Dr Harrison Perkins on Saturday 21st September commencing at 7.00pm. Tea, coffee and other refreshments will be served after the lecture.

Compositions for the organ inspired by the Orgelbüchlein Project will be performed att St Lawrence Jewry on two occasions. On Tuesday 10th September Catherine Ennis will perform two pieces based on the familiar hymn tune – the "Old Hundredth". In a varied programme, including J S Bach and Parry she will play Henry Purcell's Voluntary on the Old Hundredth and following that, in very marked contrast, Iain Farrington's Prelude "Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir", also inspired by the hymn tune. They should provide interesting listening. Then later at St Lawrence Jewry, on Tuesday 24th September Jeremiah Stephenson will perform two pieces from the Project – Frederick Stocken's "Gieb Fried, O frommer, treueer Gott" and "O heiliger Geist, du göttliches Feuer" by Phillip Moore. Looking at the full programme, an earlier ppiece in that recital has caught the eye, 'The Reverend Mustard his installation prelude' by Nico Muhly, the American contemporary classical music composer and arranger. With other pieces by Stanford, Mendelssohn and John Stanley the recital promises to be mosst entertaining.

In recitals and concerts compositions by the performers themselves occur quite ofteen and this is happening on Friday 20th September at St Bride Fleet Street. In the recital, clarinettist Nadia Wilson will be joined by the musician and composer Martin Butler who will accompany her on the piano. In a varried programme one of the works to be performed has 'caught the eye'. This is Barlow Dale: Four Characteristic Piieces, composed by Martin Butler for clarinet and piano accompaniment. Nott for the first time an animal has been the inspiration for artistic composition. Martin Butler's aunt, Ruth Siverns, young fiancée of Philip Larkin and inspiration of some of his early poetry, wrote a book for children entitled 'Barlow Dale's Casebook', featuring a Blue Persian cat detective. The name was a parody amalgam of Sherlock Holmes, JJames Bond, Poirot and Dr Finlay's Casebook. Each of the four pieces is the name of a character who features in the book. The names are givenn in the listing. The pieces themselves are very interesting to listen to. The other works in the recital are by Josepph Horovitz, Claude Debussy and André Messager. The programme promises to showcase the technical excellencee of the two performers and the attention they will pay to the various musical styles featured in the programme.

Finally we remind readers and listeners that MATH – Music at Hill – continues to flourish, not at St Mary at Hill any more but in its new venue of St Giles in the Fields, near Centre Point at the junction of Charing Cross Road, Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Street. To discover the musical delights to be experienced please visit http://musicatthill.org.uk/ where the comprehensive programme of recitals for September, October and November may be found.

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Tuesday ─ continued REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES 1230 Holy Communion (said), followed by coffee and sandwiches IN SEPTEMBER 2019 St Olave Hart Street 1300 Holy Communion All Hallows by the Tower The entries below show the normal pattern of services for City Churches 1300 RC Mass St Etheldreda, Ely Place 1300 to 1400 (come any time) Contemporary Worship and a few churches ‘just over the City borders’. Entries are for Church St Sepulchre without Newgate / Holy Sepulchre London of England services except where indicated otherwise. ‘1st Monday’, 1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate ‘2nd Monday’ etc refer to the 1st Monday, 2nd Monday etc of the month. 1305 Meditation (in the crypt chapel) St Mary le Bow 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields While every effort is made to ensure accuracy, the services shown are 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn subject to change at Bank or other holidays, immediately before, during and 1310 Eucharist St Andrew Holborn after major festivals and holy days, and during the summer months 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, following buffet lunch at 1300 St Botolph Aldersgate (in particular during August). You are strongly advised to contact churches 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, with sandwich lunch available St Helen Bishopsgate to check the details. 1310 Holy Communion St Margaret Lothbury 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn For a list of weekend (particularly Sunday) services please go to the 1700 to 1800 ‘ A Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship Friends of the City Churches website at www.london-city-churches.org.uk Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street and follow the links from ‘Events’ and ‘City Events’. 1700 to 1730 ‘Words of Hope’ – quiet informal reflective service (Please telephone 0207 588 2638 to check) St Clement Eastcheap Monday 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0715 Jewish Daily Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic orthodox rite) 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) (0700 on 1st day of Hebrew religious month) For details please see Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/ Bevis Marks Synagogue 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0730 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields St Mary Moorfields 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1830 Choral Evensong (traditional) (Choral Eucharist on 3rd Tuesday) 0800 Meditation (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary St Sepulchre without Newgate / Holy Sepulchre London 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street Wednesday 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 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1215 Eucharist St Michael Paternoster Royal 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 0800 Morning Taizé Chant (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary 1245 Holy Communion St Mary at Hill 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1300 RC Mass St Etheldreda, Ely Place 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1310 Eucharist St Andrew Holborn 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn 0830 to 0915 Holy Communion St Lawrence Jewry 1700 to 1800 ‘A Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn Come and go as you wish (Not on Bank Holidays) St Bride Fleet Street 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time – not in August or September) 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe Temple Church 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 1205 RC Mass St Joseph Bunhill Row Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1215 to 1315 Elim Full Gospel Chinese Church Fellowship – All welcome 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow St Lawrence Jewry 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1800 Choral Evensong (BCP) (During university terms – next term 1230 (Normally 1st Wednesday but in September on 11 September) 14 October to 25 November) St Michael Cornhill Eucharist followed by discussion St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate Tuesday 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 0715 Jewish Daily Service (see Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Abchurch 0730 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1245 to 1315 (3rd Wednesday) Society of Friends (Quaker) Meeting for Worship 0730 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow Bunhill Fields Meeting House, Quaker Court, Banner St 0745 Holy Communion (said) followed by coffee & croissants) St Mary at Hill 1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal worship and teaching – come and go as 0745 Eucharist, followed by breakfast St Mary le Bow you wish St Margaret Lothbury 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1300 RC Mass St Etheldreda, Ely Place 0745 to 0915 ‘Start: Stop’ – start the day by stopping to reflect – 10 minute 1305 to 1400 ‘Not on a Sunday’ – informal worship with prayer and song, reflections beginning every 15 minutes - just drop in with coffee St Katharine Cree St Stephen Walbrook 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 0800 Morning Prayer (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) St Michael Cornhill 1310 to 1340 ‘Moorgate Talks’ Bible Talk, following buffet lunch at 1300, 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields at the cellar bar at The Gable, 25 Moorgate, EC2R 6AR 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street Linked with St Botolph Aldersgate 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1310 Choral or Sung Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1315 Holy Communion (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time – not in August or September) 1700 to 1800 ‘ A Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship Temple Church Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 1215 Eucharist (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 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less 1730 Evening Prayer (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary 1230 to 1300 Eucharist (said) with brief address St Dunstan in the West 1730 Choral Evensong (during legal term-time – not in August or September) 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr Temple Church 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Woolnoth /continued

Friday ─ continued REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street IN SEPTEMBER 2019 − continued 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time– not in August or September) Temple Church Wednesday ─ continued 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1800 Taizé Service All Hallows by the Tower 1230 Pastoral Conversation or Confession (Sacrament Chapel) St Mary le Bow 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 1300 RC Mass St Etheldreda, Ely Place 1800 Eucharist St Michael Paternoster Royal 1305 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1830 Meditation Group ‘Stressed in the City’ (Moot Community) 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields St Mary Aldermary 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn 1900 Sung Eucharist St Andrew Holborn 1315 to 1400 Holy Communion St Lawrence Jewry 1700 to 1800 ‘A Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship Thursday Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 0715 Jewish Daily Service (see Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 0730 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1800 Paraklesis (replaced on 1st Friday and during fasting periods by Service 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square of Holy Unction) Followed at 1900 to 2200 by Catechesis and Confessions 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields (Romanian Orthodox) St Dunstan in the West 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 1930 Jewish Friday Evening Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower orthodox rite) (1830 in winter months – please check on 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/) Bevis Marks Synagogue 0830 Eucharist (said) St Mary le Strand 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn 0900 Morning Prayer (during legal term-time – not in August or September) SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS Temple Church IN SEPTEMBER 2019 1210 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate 1215 to 1250 Bible Talk, with sandwich lunch available, followed by Question Time St Helen Bishopsgate Thursday 5 September 1215 Eucharist (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1300 Choral Eucharist St Margaret Pattens 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less Thursday 12 September 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1210 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate 1245 to 1330 Choral Eucharist St Stephen Walbrook 1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal worship and teaching – come and go as Monday 16 September you wish St Mary Woolnoth 1230 Holy Communion (BCP) St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1300 RC Mass St Etheldreda, Ely Place 1300 to 1330 (Normally 1st Thursday) Private prayer and reflection Wednesday 18 September (In September on 3 September) St Giles Cripplegate 1800 Choral Evensong St Stephen Walbrook 1300 Eucharist (normally choral on 1st Thursday) St Margaret Pattens 1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate Sunday 22 September 1305 Holy Communion (on 1st Thursday with Healing) followed by 1100 ‘Inspire Sunday’ Choral Eucharist, with the St Bride’s Choir tea and biscuits St Katharine Cree and Orchestra St Bride Fleet Street 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 1305 to 1335 ‘St Nick's Talks’ Bible Talk St Nicholas Cole Abbey Monday 23 September 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn 1300 to 1330 Choral Classics Choral music interspersed with readings 1310 Eucharist St Andrew Holborn St Stephen Walbrook 1310 to 1350 Bible Talk, with sandwich lunch available, followed by Question Time St Helen Bishopsgate Wednesday 25 September 1315 to 1345 Lunchtime Service (Free Church) City Temple 1730 Sung Eucharist on the opening day of Giving Thanks, an exhibition 1315 Holy Communion St Martin within Ludgate of paintings by Veronica von Degenfeld St Mary le Strand 1315 Holy Communion (BCP said) (during legal term-time – not in August or September) Temple Church Sunday 29 September 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn 1500 Harvest Festival Service 1700 to 1800 ‘ A Space for Silence’ – contemplation, reflection and silent worship Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street Services at this church are primarily in Welsh, with English 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe translation provided St Benet Paul’s Wharf 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 1500 Costermongers’ Harvest Festival Service Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square Preacher: the Venerable Chris Burke, Archdeacon of Barking 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow Preceded by a procession of Pearly Kings and Queens and 1800 (Normally 1st Thursday) Choral Evensong, followed by ‘Thursday Mayors of London Boroughs from the Guildhall Yard at 1430 Conversation’ at 1830 St Mary at Hill All welcome, but seating for the service is very limited, so 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields please arrive early St Mary le Bow 1805 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1830 Lutheran Bach Vespers 1900 to 2100 City of London House of Prayer - Equipping Night Service Praise and Worship (Free Church) City Temple Including J S Bach’s Cantata BWV 99, Was Gott tut, das ist 1900 (1st Thursday) Choral Evensong (BCP) (Most months - please check wohlgetan, and other German Baroque music, performed by the on www.greatstbarts.com) St Bartholomew the Great City Bach Collective on period instruments Free – donations welcome Friday St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill 0715 Jewish Daily Service (see Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields Monday 30 September 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1300 to 1330 Choral Classics Choral music interspersed with readings 0800 Morning Taizé Chant (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary St Stephen Walbrook 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields

LECTURES, COURSES, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS IN SEPTEMBER 2019 Saturday 21 September 1100 to 1600 London Centre for Spiritual Direction, St Edmund King & Martyr Supervision Skills for Spiritual Directors Friday 6 September Third day of a three day course. – please see the entry for 1830 to 2130 St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate Thursday 19 September Heart of Herat: Afghani culture through food, storytelling and music

Join your chef and host, Habib Sadat, for an evening that celebrates

Afghani culture through the flavours of traditional food, live music, art

and storytelling

For further information, including ticket price and details of booking, 1900 St Botolph without Aldersgate (London City Presbyterian Church) go to https://stethelburgas.org and follow the links from ‘Events’ London City Lecture Series

Reading the Trinity: The Triune God in Narrative Discourse Monday 9 September Given by the Revd Dr Harrison Perkins 1830 to 2100 St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate One of a series of free talks organised by the London City Cooking class: global flavours – global citizens Presbyterian Church (www.lcpc.org.uk) Join Lola to learn to prepare some Cuban dishes, followed by a This lecture describes reading strategies to help Christians see sit-down dinner. the doctrine of the Trinity in Scripture in unexpected places Held in partnership with Migrateful, a cookery and language (Please see also the front page of this issue) initiative where asylum seekers, refugees and vulnerable Followed by refreshments migrants teach their traditional cuisine For further information, including ticket price and details of booking, go to https://stethelburgas.org and follow the links from ‘Events’

Tuesday 10 September Tuesday 24 September 1045 to 1530 St Andrew Holborn 1100 St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall Oasis Day: ‘The Cost of Discipleship’’ City of London Historical Society Led by Doug Hiza and Martin Davies An illustrated talk about the route of The Elizabeth Line, given by Oasis Days offer a monthly time of quiet reflection to re-charge Mary Sinfield one’s spiritual batteries with the stimulation of excellent speakers All welcome – entry £5 Cost £15 – Lunch / tea & coffee provided Pre-booking required by Friday 8 September for catering purposes To book please telephone the Revd Martin Davies on 07429 612642 or e-mail [email protected]

Thursday 19 September Thursday 26 September 1100 to 1830 London Centre for Spiritual Direction 1800 to 2030 St Stephen Walbrook St Edmund King & Martyr The Fantastic Feats of St Stephen Walbrook Supervision Skills for Spiritual Directors An event about St Stephen Walbrook and how it continues to have a Led by Julie Leger Dunstan (Director for Formation and transformative impact on those who live and work in and visit the City Professional Development at the Centre) An array of special guests will speak about Henry Moore, A three day course –19 and 20 September at 1100 to 1830 and Christopher Wren, John Vanbrugh and the founding of the 21 September at 1100 to 1600 Samaritans, in conversation with Loyd Grossman and with music Supervision of spiritual directors is an important and creative from the St Stephen Walbrook Choir ministry - the course is for experienced spiritual directors, to learn Free event - part of the City of London’s Fantastic Feats: the how to support and supervise other spiritual directors Building of London programme For further information, including cost, and booking, please go (see www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/fantasticfeats) to www.lcsd.org.uk and follow the links from ‘Courses & Events’

Friday 20 September

1100 to 1830 London Centre for Spiritual Direction

St Edmund King & Martyr Friday 27 September Supervision Skills for Spiritual Directors 1100 to 1430 London Centre for Spiritual Direction Second day of a three day course. – please see the entry for St Edmund King & Martyr Thursday 19 September Safeguarding for Spiritual Directors

Led by Dawn Watson 1900 St Olave Hart Street A workshop for spiritual directors and those training to become City of London Archaeological Society Lecture spiritual directors, on the issues they need to consider when From Roman Activity East of the Forum to Post-Medieval working with vulnerable people and when dealing with situations Guildhall: Archaeological Excavations at 120 Fenchurch Street involving child or vulnerable adult abuse Given by Neil Hawkins For further information, including cost, and booking, please go Doors open at 1830 – please enter by the Hart Lane entrance to www.lcsd.org.uk and follow the links from ‘Courses & Events’ Lectures usually last about 50 minutes, followed by Q&A

Admittance free, and all welcome, but a donation of £3 is

requested to help meet expenses

Followed by light refreshments

Thursday 5 September EVENTS & CONCERTS IN SEPTEMBER 2019 1305 St Mary le Bow Recital: Ingrid Kvale – accordion

Monday 2 September 1310 St Margaret Lothbury 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Organ Recital: Recital: Hiroaki Takenouchi – piano Richard Townend plays "Music from … " (1) England Programme: Mozart – Rondo in A minor KV511 1800 St Mary at Hill Adagio in B minor KV540 Choral Evensong, followed by Thursday Conversation at 1830 Evensong will be sung by Seraphim, the St Mary at Hill Choir Fantasy in C minor K475 Sonata in C minor K457 A guest speaker will be in conversation with The Revd Prebendary Rose Hudson-Wilkins 1300 St Michael Cornhill Priest in charge at St Mary at Hill and Organ Recital: Simon Earl – (Christchurch Priory ) Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons Programme: For more information please visit the church website: The focus of this important event is to engage and debate http://www.st-michaels.org.uk/ important issues that have an impact on all our lives. and follow the link at 'Services and events' For more information concerning the event on this date please Tuesday 3 September visit https://www.stmary-at-hill.org/event/thursday-conversation/

1230 St Mary Abchurch We finish with a glass of wine and some friendly reflection Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. Admission is free All are welcome The recital will usually include an improvisation

1300 St Lawrence Jewry Organ Recital: Ben Collyer – Organ Scholar, Christ Church, Oxford Friday 6 September Programme: 1230 St Stephen Walbrook J S Bach – Prelude and "Wedge" Fugue in E minor BWV 548 Organ Recital: Geoffrey Tuson J S Bach – Two chorale preludes on 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland' BWV 660 & 659 1315 St Bride Fleet Street – Paean Recital: For more information it would be advisable to visit the J S Bach – Trio Sonata No 3 in D minor BWV 527 church website: http://www.stbrides.com/music/recitals.php Francis Pott – Laudes

1300 St Stephen Walbrook 1315 St Dunstan in the West Walbrook Music Trust Recital Recital: Daniella Cáceres – piano For more information it would be advisable to visit the church website: https://ststephenwalbrook.net/events/ Monday 9 September 1305 St Mary le Bow 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Organ Recital: Bach Series: Jeremiah Stephenson – Recital: Grzegorz Mania & Piotr Rozanski – piano duo (Acting Director of Music, All Saints', Margaret Street) Programme: All welcome – retiring collection Zelenski – Cracovienne from Polish Dances Suite Op 47

1315 St Bride Fleet Street Paderewski – Tatra Album Op 12 Nos 1,2 & 4 Recital: The LIPS Quintet Dvořák – Slavonic Dance Op 46 No 2 Dan Elson – oboe Hanna Barriga – flute Zarebski – Three Galician Dances Op 2 Charlotte Woolley – clarinet Matthew Sackman – horn Zelenski – Trauerklange Op 36 Rick Yoder – bassoon Brahms – Hungarian Dances Nos 4 & 1 Programme: Elliott Carter – Woodwind Quintet 1300 St Michael Cornhill Darius Milhaud – La cheminée du roi René Organ Recital: Paul Ayres – (London) Eric Ewazen – Roaring Fork Programme: J S Bach – St Ann: Prelude & Fugue BWV 552 Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Herschel – 2 pieces 1315 St Mary at Hill Stanford – 2 Preludes Op 101 Square Mile Music Series Anon (15c) Upon la ri me Organ Recital: Robert Mingay-Smith Trad. arr. Spiegl & Ayres – Radio 4 Theme Programme: Trad. arr. Ayres – Five 2-part inventions on Nursery Rhymes Howells – Master Tallis'Testament Page, Plant, arr. Ayres – Stairway to Heaven Tallis – EcceTempus Idoneum J S Bach – Prelude & Fugue in C major BWV 546 1305 St Martin Ludgate Recital: For more information please visit the church website: Wednesday 4 September http://www.stmartin-within-ludgate.org.uk/music 1305 St Botolph Aldgate Admission is free but donations are gratefully received in aid of Recital: Angelina Kopyrina – piano church and recital running costs Programme: For more information please visit the church website: http://www.stbotolphs.org.uk/music/choirs-and-concerts

Free entry with a retiring collection

Friday 13 September EVENTS & CONCERTS IN SEPTEMBER 2019 - continued 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Organ Recital: For more information it would advisable to visit the church website: http://ststephenwalbrook.net/events/ Tuesday 10 September 1315 St Bride Fleet Street 1230 St Mary Abchurch Recital: Zarębski Piano Duo Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. The recital will usually include an improvisation Piotr Różański – piano Grzegorz Mania – piano

Programme: 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Zelenski – Polonaise from Polish Dances Suite Op 47 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis Paderewski – Tatra Album Op 12 Nos 2, 3, 5, & 6 Programme: Dvořák – Slavonic Dance Op 46 No 2 J S Bach – Prelude in Eb BWV 552a Zelenski – Masovienne from Polish Dances Suite Op 47 Purcell – Voluntary on the Old Hundredth Brahms – Hungarian Dances Nos 6, 7 & 1 Iain Farrington – Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir Free Admittance – Retiring Collection (Prelude on the Old Hundredth – from the Orgelbüchlein Project) 1315 St Dunstan in the West Parry – Three Choral Preludes Organ Recital: Martin Ellis J S Bach – Fugue in Eb BWV 552b Saturday 14 September 1300 St Stephen Walbrook 1930 St Sepulchre without Newgate – Holy Sepulchre London Walbrook Music Trust Recital A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event For more information it would be advisable to visit the church Top of the Cops! website: https://ststephenwalbrook.ne/events/ Metropolitan Police Choir & Essex Police Choir Richard Fox & Norman Eastbrook – conductors 1305 St Mary le Bow Programme: Organ Recital: Bach Series: Thomas Allery – This toe-tapping concert will include works (Director of Music & Organist, St Mary le Bow) ranging from Handel's Hallelujah Chorus to an arrangement of Bohemian Rhapsody All welcome – retiring collection Tickets: £23 (premium) £18 (unreserved) £5 (children) — 1315 St Bride Fleet Street call TicketSource on 0333 666 3366 or book online: Recital: Stephen Raine – piano https://www.brandenburg.org.uk/september and follow the links Programme: Premium tickets include a reserved seat, a programme, and a Schubert – Piano Sonata No 21 in B flat major D.980 voucher for a drink which can be redeemed either before the

Free Admittance – Retiring Collection concert or during the interval

Monday 16 September 1315 St Mary at Hill 1000 to 1600 St Stephen Walbrook Recital: Square Mile Music Series Organ Recital: Jeremiah Stephenson The first day of 'Exiles' – Photography by Matilde Damele

Programme: This challenging collection of her work is inspired by the mix of Stanley – Voluntary in D minor Set 5 Op 8 cultures and the fast pace of life in the city. J S Bach – Schübler Chorales The exhibition will last until Tuesday 24 September Mozart – Fantasia in F minor K608 For more information about the photographer and her work please visit: https://ststephenwalbrook.net/exiles-by-matilde-demele/ Wednesday 11 September 1305 St Botolph Aldgate 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Recital: Ian Kelleher – guitar Recital: Svyatoslav Antipov – piano Programme: For more information please visit the church website: Programme: http://www.stbotolphs.org.uk/music/choirs-and-concerts Liszt – 104 dei Petrarca from Années de pèlerinage 2nd year "Italie" S 161 Free entry with a retiring collection Etude "Chasse-neige" in Bb minor 1315 St Dunstan in the West from Transcendental Etudes No 12 S 139 Recital: Andrew Maginley – baroque lute Rachmaninoff – Etude-tableau Op 33 No 8 in G minor Etude-tableau Op 33 No 7 in Eb major Thursday 12 September Beethoven – Piano Sonata "Appassionata" Op 57 No 23 1305 St Mary le Bow Liszt – Rhapsodie Espagnole S 254 Recital: Esther Kim – violin 1300 St Michael Cornhill 1310 All Hallows by the Tower Organ Recital: Benjamin Newlove – Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling Sir George Thalben-Ball Memorial Organ Scholar & Assistant Director of Music at St Michael Cornhill 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Programme: Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series Harwood – Sonata in C sharp Thomas Dessarano – Liège, Belgium S S Wesley – Larghetto in F sharp Choral Song & Fugue Bridge – Allegretto grazioso Stanford – Fantasia & Toccata in D / continued ………..

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN SEPTEMBER 2019 - continued Wednesday 18 September — continued 1305 St Botolph Aldgate Monday 16 September — continued Recital: SvyatoslavAntipov – piano 1305 St Martin Ludgate Programme: For more information please visit the church website: Recital: For more information please visit the church website: http://www.stbotolphs.org.uk/music/choirs-and-concerts http://www.stmartin-within-ludgate.org.uk/music Free entry 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: For more information it would be advisable to visit the Tuesday 17 September church website: 1230 St Mary Abchurch www.sanctuary inthecity.net/lunchtime-recitals Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. The recital will usually include an improvisation 1315 St Dunstan in the West Japonica Singers 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Music Director – Mikiko Ridd Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis A free lunchtime concert featuring classical music Programme: from Japan and the UK Louis Vierne – Symphonie No 1 in D Op 14 with several pieces inspired by birds and nature Prélude; Fugue; Pastorale; Allegro vivace; Andante; Final Free admission to all. Donations to the church at the end of the 1300 St Stephen Walbrook performance. For more information please visit: Walbrook Music Trust Recital https://japonicasingers.wordpress.com/events/ For more information it would be advisable to visit the church website: https://ststephenwalbrook.net/events/ 1830 St Lawrence Jewry Popchoir rehearsal For more information please visit: http://www.popchoir.com/ 1305 St Mary le Bow Organ Recital: Bach Series: Colm Carey – (Master of Music of the Chapels Royal, HM Tower of London) All welcome – retiring collection Thursday 19 September 1305 St Mary le Bow 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: Connor Tempest-Roe – piano Recital: Naama Liany – mezzo-soprano Catherine Imbert – piano 1305 St Olave Hart Street Programme: Recital: For more information it would be advisable to visit the Milhaud – Chansons de négresse church website: Poulenc – A sa guitare www.sanctuary inthecity.net/lunchtime-recitals F Garcia Lorca – Canciones españolas antiguas Piano: Granados – Danses Espagnoles 1310 All Hallows by the Tower Rodrigo – Cuatro Madrigales Amatorios Organ Recital: David Cook Montsalvatge – Canciones Negras ( ii, iv & v)

Free Admittance – Retiring Collection 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Organ Recital: 1315 St Mary at Hill Richard Townend plays 0 "Music from … " (2) France & Belgium Recital: Square Mile Music Series Organ Recital: Jonathan Rennert Programme: Howells – Allegro assai, from Sonata for organ (1939) Lemare – Summer Sketches Friday 20 September 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Wednesday 18 September Organ Recital: For more information it would advisable to visit 1300 St Bartholomew the Less the church website: http://ststephenwalbrook.net/events/ Multi-award-winning Polish accordionist Bartosz Glowacki is joined by guitarist Andrey Lebedev 1315 St Bride Fleet Street for a recital including solo and duo works by Recital: Nadia Wilson – clarinet Martin Butler – piano Bach, Rameau, Piazzolla and many more! Programme: Free entry with a retiring collection Horovitz – Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano Debussy – Première rhapsodie Book to be sure of a seat. Please search: Martin Butler – Barlow Dale: Four Characteristic Pieces Lunchtime Community Concert Series Bartosz Glowacki Andrey 1 Barlow Dale Lebedev and follow the links 2 Inspector Merlin

3 Miss Honeyflower 1300 St Stephen Walbrook 4 Asiam Rex Walbrook Community Choir Messager – Solo de concours If you like singing, or would like to try it, come and join us in your lunch hour! There are no auditions or fees, and ability to read Free Admittance – Retiring Collection music is not essential. Sing a variety of styles of music led by experienced professional choir directors / continued ………..

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN SEPTEMBER 2019 - continued Monday 23 September — continued

1305 St Martin Ludgate Friday 20 September — continued Recital: For more information please visit the church website: 1930 St Botolph Bishopsgate http://www.stmartin-within-ludgate.org.uk/music A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event Admission is free but donations are gratefully received in aid of church and recital running costs Rutter Requiem; Nine to Five

Music Space The Bridge Choir Tuesday 24 September Woolwich Chamber Choir Roos Kruiswijk – conductor 1230 St Mary Abchurch Emma Bond – conductor Organ Recital: Ian Shaw or associate. Programme: The recital will usually include an improvisation

This combined concert brings together two outstanding choirs. 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Featuring John Rutter's Requiem alongside music from the Organ Recital: Jeremiah Stephenson – All Saints', Margaret Street Beatles, Dolly Parton and George Michael Programme: Tickets: £23 (premium) £14 (unreserved) £5 (children) — John Stanley – Voluntary in D minor Set 5 Op 8 call TicketSource on 0333 666 3366 or book online: Mendelssohn – Sonata No 4 in Bb Op 65 No 4 https://www.brandenburg.org.uk/september and follow the links Nico Muhly – The Reverend Mustard his installation prelude Premium tickets include a reserved seat, a programme, and a From the Orgelbüchlein Project; voucher for a drink which can be redeemed either before the Frederick Stocken – Gieb Fried, O fromme, treuer Gott concert or during the interval Phillip Moore – O heiliger Geist, du göttliches Feuer Stanford – Fantasia and Toccata in D minor Op 57

Saturday 21 September & Sunday 22 September 1300 St Stephen Walbrook

London Open House Weekend Walbrook Music Trust Recital For more information it would be advisable to visit the church 1000 to 1700 St Mary le Bow Church and Crypt open website: https://ststephenwalbrook.net/events/ Guided Tours with the Rector: 1305 St Mary le Bow 1100, 1230, 1400 Free Guided Tours with the Rector Organ Recital: Bach Series: Charles Andrews – (meet in the vestibule under the tower 5 minutes earlier; (Associate Director of Music, All Saints', Margaret Street) donations welcome) All welcome – retiring collection

1315 St Bride Fleet Street 1000 to 1700 St Stephen Walbrook Recital: Zacharias Brandman – piano London Open House Weekend Programme: Beethoven – Sonata No 23 in F minor: Op 57 'Appassionata' Described by Pevsner as one of the ten most important buildings in Chopin – Mazurkas Op 63 England see Sir Christopher Wren's first dome, Henry Moore's only Scriabin – Sonata No 2 in G# major 'Sonata - Fantasy' Op 19 altar and explore the birthplace of the Samaritans. Liazt – Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 in C# minor S244/2 A warm welcome awaits! Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Monday 23 September 1315 St Mary at Hill St Mary le Bow 23 – 27 September Recital: Square Mile Music Series Exhibition and Sale of Paintings by Richard Tait Organ Recital: Max Barley Please visit the church website for details and opening times: Programme: https://www.stmarylebow.org.uk J S Bach – Prelude & Fugue in G major BWV 541

Bridge – Adagio in E 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Couperin – Offertoire from "Messe des Paroisses" Recital: Catherine Cheung – piano Vierne – Toccata in Bb flat minor Programme:

Schubert – Four Impromptus Op 142 D 935 Wednesday 25 September Chopin – Scherzo No 2 Op 31 1100 to 1730 St Mary le Strand Giving Thanks – the opening of an exhibition of paintings by 1300 St Michael Cornhill Veronica von Degenfeld – international painter and stained glass Organ Recital: Peter Stevens – Westminster Cathedral designer. The exhibition will run until Saturday 19 October. The Programme: For more information please visit the church website: church will be open between the hours given above Monday to http://www.st-michaels.org.uk/ Saturday. For more information please visit: and follow the link at 'Services and events' http://www.stmarylestrand.com

1200 to 1300 St Stephen Walbrook We are delighted to host a special champagne reception for 1300 St Stephen Walbrook guests attending the Long Lunch in St Swithun's Lane on Choral Classics – Music and Readings with the Choral Scholars City Giving Day. Find out more about the Lord Mayor's Appeal and to book tickets at: www.thelordmayorsappeal.org Choral Classics at St Stephen Walbrook offer thirty minutes of sublime choral music from our Choral Scholars interspersed 1300 St Stephen Walbrook with readings on a theme. Walbrook Community Choir More information at Wednesday 18 September Free with a retiring collection / continued ……….. / continued ………..

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Thursday 26 September — continued Wednesday 25 September — continued 1900 St Andrew Holborn 1305 St Botolph Aldgate Fidelio Orchestra presents Brahms Recital: Genevieve Ellis – Operatic Duets Programme: Programme: For more information please visit the church website: J Brahms – Variations on a Theme by Haydn Op 56a http://www.stbotolphs.org.uk/music/choirs-and-concerts J Brahms – Symphony No 2 in D major Op 73 Tickets: £15 Free entry with a retiring collection For more information and to buy tickets online please visit: 1305 St Olave Hart Street https://www.fideliorchestra.art/events/2019/brahms-squared Recital: For more information it would be advisable to visit the church website: www.sanctuary inthecity.net/lunchtime-recitals

Friday 27 September 1315 St Dunstan in the West Recital: Emmanuel Garnier – piano 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Organ Recital: For more information it would advisable to visit 1830 St Lawrence Jewry Popchoir rehearsal the church website: http://ststephenwalbrook.net/events/ For more information please visit: http://www.popchoir.com/ 1930 St Stephen Walbrook A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event Thursday 26 September CAPELLA SISTINA 1305 St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield Music for the Sistine Chapel

A City Music Society concert to be given by Iken Scholars Matthew Dunn – conductor THE MUSICIANS COMPANY CONSORT Adrian Butterfield – director/violin The Sistine Chapel in Rome is amongst the most celebrated, Charlotte Bowden – soprano renowned and beguiling places of worship in the world. Annabel Kennedy – alto Since its completion in 1483 and the celebration of its first Mass on Andrew Brown – tenor 15 August (Assumption Day) that year, it has inspired some of the Hugo Herman-Wilson – bass finest composers and musicians from Italy and across the world to Programme: Three by J S Bach create and perform new and exquisite music to support its worship. Du sollt Gott, deinen Herren lieben BWV 77 This concert is a celebration of that inspiration, with a particular Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren BWV 137 focus on the heyday of the Italian Renaissance Gott, wie dein Name, so ist auch dein Ruhm BWV 171 Programme:

Admission is free: post-concert donations welcome Giovanni Anerio – Salve Regina Felice Anerio – Ave Regina 1305 St Mary le Bow Tomas Luis de Victoria – Vadam et circuibo Recital: Emmanuel Garnier – piano Gregorio Allegri – Misere mei Deus Palestrina – Assumpta est Maria 1305 St Olave Hart Street Palestrina – Missa 'Assumpta est Maria in caelum'

Recital: For more information it would be advisable to visit the Tickets: £23 (premium) £18 (unreserved) £5 (children) — church website: call TicketSource on 0333 666 3366 or book online: www.sanctuary inthecity.net/lunchtime-recitals : https://www.brandenburg.org.uk/september and follow the links Premium tickets include a reserved seat, a programme, and a 1310 All Hallows by the Tower voucher for a drink which can be redeemed either before the Organ Recital: Angela Kraft Cross – San Francisco concert or during the interval 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series Ralph Gustafsson – Stockholm, Sweden

1800 to 2030 St Stephen Walbrook Saturday 28 September

Fantastic Feats – The Building of London 1400 to 1700 St Michael Cornhill An array of special guests will speak about Henry Moore, THE ENGLISH SOUL Sir Christopher Wren, John Vanbrugh and the founding of A Singer's Workshop presented by Jonathan Rennert Samaritans, in conversation with Loyd Grossman – John us to sing music by William Byrd and Henry Purcell with music from our choir in celebration of the Booking details online from: Fantastic Feats of St Stephen Walbrook, www.londonmotetandmadrigalclub.org.uk This will be a free event and is part of the City of London's Fantastic Feats: the Building of London programme which is part of the City of London's 2019 Arts and Culture Festival. Please visit: fantastic-feats-events-guide.pdf and follow the links

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EVENTS & CONCERTS IN SEPTEMBER 2019 - continued We are indebted to Dickon Love, Company Bellringer to the Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks Sunday 29 September — Michaelmas Day for the following information

1830 St Mary at Hill – St Anne's Lutheran Church City Bach Collective – Bach Vespers:

Cantata "Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan" BWV 99 Open bellringing performances J S Bach and other German Baroque music, performed as in currently scheduled for the City of London Bach's time in a service of Lutheran Vespers by the in September 2019 City Bach Collective

Sunday 8 September

1400 3½ hour performance on the bells Monday 30 September by the St James' Guild 1300 St Lawrence Jewry at St Magnus the Martyr Recital: Sohyun Park – piano Programme: Prokofiev – Eight pieces from 'Romeo and Juliet' Busoni – Carmen Fantasy BV 284 Monday 9 September 1800 3 hour performance on the Royal Jubilee Bells by the St James' Guild 1300 St Michael Cornhill at St James Garlickhythe Organ Recital: Jonathan Rennert (Lunchtime Recital No 455) Programme: Rawsthorne – Fanfare for Francis Saturday 21 September in celebration of Francis Jackson's 102nd birthday on 2nd October 0830 3 hour performance on the Royal Jubilee Bells J S Bach – Prelude and Fugue in C BWV 546 by the Ancient Society of College Youths Winlaw – In the Light of the Moon at St James Garlickhythe in celebration of the moon landing anniversary

J S Bach – Prelude and Fugue in G BWV 541 1330 3 hour performance on the Jubilee Bells Spratling – Clumber Chapel from Three English Churches (1981) by the Ancient Society of College Youths Pachelbel – Fugue in G on the Magnificat at St Dunstan in the West Elgar – Allegro Maestoso from Sonata 1 Op 28

1730 3½ hour performance on the bells

by the Ancient Society of College Youths 1300 St Stephen Walbrook at St Magnus the Martyr Choral Classics – Music and Readings with the Choral Scholars

Choral Classics at St Stephen Walbrook offer thirty minutes of (Eight members of the Ancient Society of College Youths sublime choral music from our Choral Scholars interspersed will be ringing in all three performances on this day) with readings on a theme.

Free with a retiring collection Saturday 28 September 1430 3 hr performance on the Royal Jubilee Bells 1305 St Martin Ludgate by the Middlesex County Association Recital: For more information please visit the church website: at St James Garlickhythe http://www.stmartin-within-ludgate.org.uk/music Admission is free but donations are gratefully received in aid of church and recital running costs

1930 Great Hall of St Bartholomew's Hospital City Events is published by Barts Academic Festival Choir & Orchestra The Friends of the City Churches Autumn Concert in conjunction with the Archdeaconry of London and printed by Copyprints: Conductor: John Lumley Leader: Margaret Banwell [email protected]

Programme:

Haydn – Symphony No 99 in E flat major Hob I:99

Haydn – Harmony Mass in B fla majort Hob XXII:14

Tickets at the door: £15 (£10 concessions)

profits going to the Barts Cancer Unit

October 2019 Published by FCC in conjunction with the Archdeaconry of London

A significant feature of this edition is the provision of a list of the services taking place in the City of London churches at the weekend. This is a comprehensive list which includes certain churches just over the boundary of the City. In addition we give the customary listings of the weekday services taking place in the City churches. While every effort has been made to ensure accuuracy, the services shown are subject to change, in particular immediately before, during and after major festivals, during the summer months and at Bank or other holidays. You are strongly advised to contact churches to check the details. It is our hope that these lists will be useful to all who acquire a copy of City Events.

Turning to the matter of services we have a category – 'Special Services'. As the name implies these are services taking place solely during the month of this edition of City Events. All of them are noteeworthy but one of them is particularly so. On Saturday 26 October at St Magnus the Martyr a Votive Mass of the Fourteen Helpers will be held. This service is for anyone who has suffered from cancer or has friends or family who have been affected by cancer. It is probably true to say that virtually every family has been so affected. The ffourteen helpers are Saints, each having a particular protective role with the emphasis on medical conditions. IIt is well worth visiting the website of the church of St Magnus the Martyr to see the list of the Fourteen Helpers. The service itself promises to be of comfort to those affected in any way by cancer.

At Temple Church on Thursday 10 October at 6.00pm an event with serious content significantly relevant to the challenging times in which we live will take place. 'The Sound of Nature' will provide a diverse programme of song inspired by nature interwoven with dedicateed commentary from leading environmental speakers focussing on the critical issue of climate change. This promises to be a fascinating evening. Nature's Voice, which includes members of thhe Temple Singers, will perform an eclectic number of pieces, no fewer than 19, ranging from Dowland to the Beach Boys, by way of Handel, Mendelssohn, Vaughan Williams, Britten and many others. More information and how to purchase ticket may be found at the listing.

A traditional event will take place at St Katharine Cree on Thursday 17 October when the 370th Lion Sermon will be delivered. The speaker this year will be Anne Boden, CEO of Starling Bank. The Lion Sermon is an annual sermon preached in St Katharine Cree with the traditional theme of 'Challenges to the Christian faith'. The sermon is given in memory of Sir John Gayner, Lord Mayor of London in the 17th century. While on a trading mission in Arabia he was faced with a lion in the Syrian desert. He prayed for mercy and the lion left without harming him. In gratitude Gayer endowed St Katharine Cree with a fund to preach ann annual sermon in memory of this event, gave money to charities, and bought a font for the church inscribed with hhis coat of arms.

Turning to strictly musical events two have certainnly 'caught the eye'. First, at Holy Sepulchre London, there is the second Selah Music Festival. Over three nights, 3rd, 4th and 5th of October tthe Gospel Music Industry Alliance will be curating a programme utilising the best of UK Gospel across a range of presentations and styles. Details can be found at the listing for Thursday 3rd October.

Finally, in this necessarily selective and therefore cooncise review, to turn to an interestiing sounding musical event, on Friday 4 October at St Mary Abchurch the chaallengingly named Tooting Broads flute duo will be giving a free concert – their 'Autumn Invitation'. The lady flautiists in question are Jane Gilbert and CCressida Godfrey who, with their accompanist Norman MacSween, will perform a most entertaining programme, fully listed at the appropriate date below. This event promises to be a musical treat not to be missed.

The Friends of the City Churches, Church of St Mary Abchurch, Abchurch Lane,, London EC4N 7BA Visit: www.llondon‐city‐churches.org.uk for more information and the location off the churches in the City St Benet Paul’s Wharf REGULAR WEEKEND SERVICES 1100 Morning Service (with Lord’s Supper on 1st Sunday) (primarily in Welsh – English translation provided) The entries below show the normal pattern of services for City churches and places of St Botolph Aldersgate worship and a few ‘just over the City borders’. They relate to Church of England 1100 Morning Worship (London City Presbyterian Church) services except where indicated otherwise. References to “1st Sunday”,“2nd Sunday” 1830 Evening Worship etc are to the 1st, 2nd etc Sunday of the month. While every effort is made to ensure accuracy, the services shown are subject to change, in particular immediately before, St Botolph Aldgate during and after major festivals, during the summer months and at Bank or other 1030 Sung Eucharist (with Sunday School for children) holidays. You are strongly advised to contact churches to check the details. St Botolph Bishopsgate 1030 Orthros (Morning Prayer) (Orthodox Church, Patriarchate of Antioch – SATURDAYSATURDAY 1100 Divine Liturgy (in English) Orthodox Parish of St Botolph) 1500 Worship (in the Church Hall) (Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus) Bevis Marks Synagogue St Bride Fleet Street 0830 onwards Jewish Shabbat (Sabbath) Morning Services (Spanish & Portuguese 1100 Choral Eucharist (with children’s Sunday Club on most Sundays – please Sephardic orthodox rite) For details see www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/ check on www.stbrides.com) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1730 Choral Evensong (with Sermon in Music on 2nd and 4th Sundays) 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) St Dunstan in the West 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 0900 to 1030 Matins (Romanian Orthodox) English Martyrs Tower Hill 1030 to 1230 Divine Liturgy 1200 to 1300 RC Eucharistic Adoration ending with Benediction St Etheldreda, Ely Place 1830 RC Vigil Mass 0900 RC Mass St Andrew Holborn 1100 Sung RC Mass in Latin 1700 Vigil (in English & Church Slavonic) (Orthodox, Russian Tradition – see St Giles Cripplegate Sunday) (Usually 1st, 3rd & 5th weekends –check on www.dormition.org.uk) 0800 Holy Communion (BCP) (1st Sunday) St Dunstan in the West 1000 Parish Eucharist with Sunday Club for children 1700 to 1800 Vespers (Romanian Orthodox) 1600 Evening Prayer (Most Sundays – please check with the administrator on St Joseph Bunhill Row 0207 638 1997 or email [email protected]) 1130 to 1530 Carmel in the City Spirituality Day (including RC service) St Helen Bishopsgate (1st Saturday of most months – check on www.carmelinthecity.org.uk) 1030 Morning Service (1st Sunday with Lord’s Supper) (provision for children) 1600 Afternoon Service (provision for children and youth group) SUNDAY SUNDAY 1800 Evening Service St James Garlickhythe All Hallows by the Tower 1030 Sunday Service (BCP) – normally sung Eucharist 1100 Sung Eucharist St Joseph Bunhill Row All Hallows on the Wall 1130 RC Mass 1100 Family Worship (City Gates Church) St Katharine Cree Bunhill Fields Meeting House, Quaker Court, Banner Street EC1Y 8QQ 1015 Liturgy (in Malayalam on 1st & 3rd Sundays, in English on 2nd & 4th 1100 Society of Friends (Quaker) Meeting for Worship (see www.bunhillquakers.org) Sundays) (St James Mar Thoma Syrian Church) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square St Magnus the Martyr 09.45 Eucharist (BCP) 1100 Solemn High Mass Christ Church Spitalfields St Margaret Pattens 0830 Holy Communion (BCP said service) (1st and 3rd Sundays) 1100 Sunday service in English (Salvation 1030 Morning Worship and Children’s Church 1330 to 1515 Sunday Chinese service in Cantonese/Mandarin Christian 1700 Informal Evening Worship with Junior Church from 1400 Church) City Temple St Martin within Ludgate 1100 to 1245 Sunday Worship, with ‘Youth Connect’ and Prayer at 1000 1100 Sunday Service in Mandarin/English (with translation) Followed by Fellowship Lunch at 1245 (Free (Elim Full Gospel Chinese Church) 1330 Sunday Focus (discipleship training activities for adults & youth) Church) St Mary Abchurch and ‘Kid’s Connect’ (for children aged 3 through primary school) 1300 (1st Sunday) Anglican Service for Russian speakers Dutch Church, Austin Friars St Mary Aldermary 1100 Service in Dutch (ecumenical) 1830 Evening Service (Moot Community – all welcome) (refreshments at 1800) English Martyrs Tower Hill Agape or Contemplative Service or Taizé Service or Eucharist 0900 RC Mass St Mary at Hill 1100 RC Mass 1100 Lutheran Eucharist (in English) (St Anne’s Holy Sepulchre London (St Sepulchre without Newgate) 1400 Lutheran Eucharist (in Swahili) (1st Sunday) Lutheran 1030 Contemporary Worship (with Holy Communion on 1st Sunday) with (Swahili Bible study on 3rd Sunday) Church) children’s programme St Mary Moorfields 1700 ‘5 in the City’ Contemporary Evening Service 1000 RC Mass Jewin Welsh Chapel, Fann Street St Michael Cornhill 1045 Morning Service (in Welsh & English) (Presbyterian Church of ) 1430 (1st Sunday) Service in Mandarin - St Helen Bishopsgate Mandarin- St Alban the Martyr, Holborn speaking congregation (On other Sundays at St Peter Cornhill) 0930 Family Mass St Nicholas Cole Abbey 1100 Solemn Mass 1100 to 1215 Contemporary Sunday Service (with creche, Sunday School and St Andrew by the Wardrobe youth club) (Refreshments from 1030 – service followed by informal lunch) 0900 Morning Prayer (St Gregorios Indian Orthodox Church) St Olave Hart Street 1000 Holy Qurbana (Divine Liturgy) (3rd Sunday in English – other 1100 Sung Holy Communion with children’s programme Sundays in Malayalam) St Peter Cornhill St Andrew Holborn 1430 Service in Mandarin - St Helen Bishopsgate mandarin-speaking 1030 Divine Liturgy (in English & Church Slavonic) (Orthodox, Russian Tradition – congregation (Except 1st Sunday – service at St Michael Cornhill) Parish of the Dormition of the Mother of God ) (Usually 1st, 3rd & 5th St Stephen Walbrook Sundays – please check on www.dormition.org.uk) 1100 Sunday Service (Salvation Church) St Bartholomew the Great St Vedast alias Foster 0900 Eucharist (said) (in the Lady Chapel) 1100 Sung Eucharist 1100 Solemn Eucharist Temple Church 1830 Choral Evensong (BCP) (about once a month ends with Benediction of 0830 Holy Communion (BCP said) During legal the Blessed Sacrament – please check on www.greatstbarts.com) 1115 Choral Mattins (BCP) (1st and 3rd Sundays) term-time St Bartholomew the Less Choral Communion (BCP) (other Sundays) 1000 Family Eucharist (Most Sundays – please check on www.greatstbarts.com)

Tuesday ─ continued REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES 1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate

IN OCTOBER 2019 1305 Meditation (in the crypt chapel) St Mary le Bow 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn The entries below show the normal pattern of services for City Churches and a 1310 Eucharist St Andrew Holborn few churches ‘just over the City borders’. Entries are for Church of England 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, following buffet lunch at 1300 St Botolph Aldersgate services except where indicated otherwise. ‘1st Monday’,‘2nd Monday’ etc refer 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, with sandwich lunch available St Helen Bishopsgate to the 1st Monday, 2nd Monday etc of the month. 1310 Holy Communion St Margaret Lothbury 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn While every effort is made to ensure accuracy, the services shown are subject to 1700 to 1800 ‘ A Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship change at Bank or other holidays, immediately before, during and after major Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street festivals and holy days, and during the summer months (in particular during 1700 to 1730 ‘Words of Hope’ – quiet informal reflective service (Please August). You are strongly advised to contact churches to check the details. telephone 0207 588 2638 to check) St Clement Eastcheap For a list of weekend (particularly Sunday) services please see the separate 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe ‘Regular Weekend Services’ section in this issue. 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square Monday 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0715 Jewish Daily Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic orthodox rite) 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 (0700 on 1st day of Hebrew religious month) For details please see St Mary Moorfields www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/ Bevis Marks Synagogue 1830 Choral Evensong (traditional) (Choral Eucharist on 3rd Tuesday) 0730 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe Holy Sepulchre London (St Sepulchre without Newgate) 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square Wednesday 0800 Meditation (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary 0715 Jewish Daily Service (see Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0730 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 0800 Morning Taizé Chant (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1215 Eucharist St Michael Paternoster Royal 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 1245 Holy Communion St Mary at Hill 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1300 RC Mass St Etheldreda Ely Place 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 0830 to 0915 Holy Communion St Lawrence Jewry 1305 to 1330 Meditation Group St Vedast alias Foster 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn 1205 RC Mass St Joseph Bunhill Row 1310 Eucharist St Andrew Holborn 1215 to 1315 Elim Full Gospel Chinese Church Fellowship – All welcome 1700 to 1800 ‘A Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship St Lawrence Jewry Come and go as you wish (Not on Bank Holidays) St Bride Fleet Street 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1230 (1st Wednesday) Eucharist followed by discussion 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Abchurch 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 1245 to 1315 (3rd Wednesday) Society of Friends (Quaker) Meeting for Worship 1800 Choral Evensong (BCP) (During university terms – next term Bunhill Fields Meeting House, Quaker Court, Banner St EC1Y 8QQ 14 October to 25 November) St Michael Cornhill 1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal worship and teaching – come and go as Tuesday you wish St Margaret Lothbury 0715 Jewish Daily Service (see Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1300 RC Mass St Etheldreda Ely Place 0730 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1305 to 1400 ‘Not on a Sunday’ – informal worship with prayer and song, 0730 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow with coffee St Katharine Cree 0745 Holy Communion (said) followed by coffee & croissants) St Mary at Hill 1305 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0745 Eucharist, followed by breakfast St Mary le Bow 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn 0745 to 0915 ‘Start: Stop’ – start the day by stopping to reflect – 10 minute 1310 to 1340 ‘Moorgate Talks’ Bible Talk, following buffet lunch at 1300, reflections beginning every 15 minutes - just drop in at the cellar bar at The Gable, 25 Moorgate, EC2R 6AR St Stephen Walbrook Linked with St Botolph Aldersgate 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate 0800 Morning Prayer (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary 1315 Holy Communion (said) (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) St Michael Cornhill 1700 to 1800 ‘ A Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 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 1730 Evening Prayer (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn 1730 Sung Eucharist, followed by refreshments St Mary le Strand 1215 Eucharist (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1745 Choral Evensong (during legal term-time – not in August or September) 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster (Not 16 October) Temple Church 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1230 to 1300 Eucharist (said) with brief address St Dunstan in the West 1800 Taizé Service All Hallows by the Tower 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Woolnoth 1800 Eucharist St Michael Paternoster Royal 1230 Holy Communion (said) St Olave Hart Street 1830 Meditation Group ‘Stressed in the City’ (Moot Community) 1300 Holy Communion All Hallows by the Tower St Mary Aldermary 1300 RC Mass St Etheldreda Ely Place 1900 Sung Eucharist St Andrew Holborn 1300 to 1400 (come any time) Contemporary Worship 1930 City of London House of Prayer – Men’s Prayer Meeting (Free Church) Holy Sepulchre London (St Sepulchre without Newgate) City Temple

Friday ─ continued 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square IN OCTOBER 2019 − continued 1800 to 2200 City of London House of Prayer – Pursuit Service – Prayer and Worship (Free Church) City Temple Thursday 1800 Paraklesis (replaced on 1st Friday and during fasting periods by Service 0715 Jewish Daily Service (see Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue of Holy Unction), followed at 1900 to 2200 by Catechesis and Confessions 0730 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe (Romanian Orthodox) St Dunstan in the West 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1930 Jewish Friday Evening Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields orthodox rite) (1830 in winter months – please check on 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/) Bevis Marks Synagogue 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn IN OCTOBER 2019 1210 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate 1215 to 1250 Bible Talk, with sandwich lunch available, followed by

Question Time St Helen Bishopsgate Wednesday 2 October 1215 Eucharist (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1045 Lord Mayor’s Election Day Service 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster The Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, Aldermen and Masters of the Livery 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr Companies come together to pray for God’s guidance before 1245 to 1330 Choral Eucharist St Stephen Walbrook electing the new Lord Mayor Seating for the public very limited 1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal worship and teaching – come and go as St Lawrence Jewry you wish St Mary Woolnoth 1745 Choral Evensong to celebrate the start of the Legal Year 1300 RC Mass St Etheldreda Ely Place Temple Church 1300 to 1330 (Normally 1st Thursday – please check on www.stgilesnewsite.co.uk) Thursday 3 October Private prayer and reflection St Giles Cripplegate 1245 Business Harvest Festival – Choral Eucharist 1300 Eucharist (normally choral on 1st Thursday) St Margaret Pattens St Stephen Walbrook 1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate 1300 Harvest Choral Eucharist St Margaret Pattens 1305 Holy Communion, followed by tea and biscuits St Katharine Cree 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 1730 Michaelmas Choral Evensong St Margaret Pattens 1305 to 1335 ‘St Nick's Talks’ Bible Talk Lunch available from 1300 1800 Choral Evensong followed by Thursday Conversation at 1830 St Nicholas Cole Abbey (See the listing in the Events Section for further information) 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn St Mary at Hill 1310 Eucharist St Andrew Holborn Friday 4 October 1310 to 1350 Bible Talk, with sandwich lunch available, followed by 1310 All Creatures Great and Small - Pet Blessing Service on the feast Question Time St Helen Bishopsgate day of St Francis of Assisi, with music from St Botolph’s Choir 1315 to 1345 Lunchtime Service (Free Church) City Temple All pets and their owners very welcome St Botolph Bishopsgate 1315 Holy Communion (Currently it is advisable to check on the church website – www.stmartin-within-ludgate.org.uk) St Martin within Ludgate Sunday 6 October 1315 Holy Communion (BCP said) (during legal term-time – not in August 1100 Harvest Festival Service St Olave Hart Street or September) Temple Church 1115 Choral Mattins for the First Sunday of the Legal Year 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn Temple Church 1700 to 1800 ‘ A Space for Silence’ – contemplation, reflection and silent worship Monday 7 October Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1300 Choral Classics Choral music interspersed with readings 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) St Stephen Walbrook Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square Tuesday 8 October 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1230 Holy Communion (BCP), followed by tea and sandwiches 1800 (Normally 1st Thursday) Choral Evensong, followed by ‘Thursday St Andrew by the Wardrobe Conversation’ at 1830 St Mary at Hill 1230 Harvest Festival service with the St Olave Singers 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields St Olave Hart Street 1805 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow Wednesday 9 October 1900 City of London House of Prayer - Equip Service - Prayer and Worship 0700 to 0845 20th Annual City Prayer Breakfast (Free Church) City Temple 1900 (1st Thursday) Choral Evensong (BCP) (Most months - please check Join Christians from across the City of London to pray for the City on www.greatstbarts.com) St Bartholomew the Great Guest Speaker: Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb Registration & breakfast from 0700 - Tickets £10 – for further Friday information and tickets go to https://hsl.church/city-prayer-breakfast 0715 Jewish Daily Service (see Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue Holy Sepulchre London (St Sepulchre without Newgate) 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square Thursday 10 October 0800 Morning Taizé Chant (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary 1200 Maritime Memorial Book Service 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields The Maritime Foundation’s Annual Service of Thanksgiving for 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street those whose names are recorded in the Memorial Book for those 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow who have been lost at sea, and for whom there is no known grave 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr All Hallows by the Tower 1230 Pastoral Conversation or Confession (Sacrament Chapel) St Mary le Bow 1210 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate 1300 RC Mass St Etheldreda Ely Place 1800 to 1930 St Ethelburga’s Feast Day An evening of celebration, music 1305 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow and Evensong with the St Botolph without Bishopsgate Singers 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields Free, but registration in advance essential For further information 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn and booking, please go to https://stethelburgas.org and follow the 1315 to 1400 Holy Communion St Lawrence Jewry links from ‘Events’ St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate 1700 to 1800 ‘A Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship /continued Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street

SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS LECTURES, COURSES, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS IN OCTOBER 2019 – continued IN OCTOBER 2019

Friday 11 October 1930 RC Mass in the Extraordinary Form with Juventutem St Mary Moorfields COURSES STARTING IN OCTOBER Sunday 13 October 1100 Fish Harvest Festival – the Annual Harvest of the Sea Service London Centre for Spiritual Direction includes a wet fish display, donated by the traders and at St Edmund King & Martyr fishmongers of Billingsgate Fish Market Course on Exploring Christian Spirituality Admission free, by ticket only For tickets please go to www.eventbrite.co.uk and enter ‘Fish Harvest Festival’ and Open to those of all traditions and faith groups, and anyone ‘London’ in the first two search boxes St Mary at Hill interested in exploring the theme of Christian spirituality 1300 Cantata Service The course comprises three modules and runs for 20 sessions over Including J S Bach’s Cantata BWV 47, Wer sich selbst erhöhet, two terms, with breaks for Christmas and Easter der soll erniedriget werden, performed by the City Bach Collective Sessions run from 1800 to 2045, with the first session on on period instruments, and organ music by J S Bach Monday 7 October 2019 and the last on Monday 30 March 2020 Dutch Church, Austin Friars 1800 Choral Evensong St Mary le Strand For further information, cost and booking

please go to www.lcsd.org.uk and Monday 14 October follow the links from ‘Courses & Events’ 1300 Choral Classics Choral music interspersed with readings ______St Stephen Walbrook

1800 Choral Evensong (BCP)

The first in the series for the current term on Mondays at 1800 – Holy Sepulchre, London

14 October to 25 November St Michael Cornhill The Bereavement Journey

Tuesday 15 October Working through grief and the loss of a loved one takes a long time 1900 RC Mass celebrated by Opus Dei St Mary Moorfields This six week course is for anyone who is bereaved, whether recently or dating back several years (except for those bereaved Wednesday 16 October within the past three months, for whom attendance is not advisable) 1800 Choral Evensong St Stephen Walbrook The course is based on Christian principles but is suitable Thursday 17 October for anyone, whether or not they have a Christian faith 1300 370th Lion Sermon – Speaker: Anne Boden, CEO of Starling Bank St Katharine Cree Sessions are from 1900 to 2130 on Monday 7,14,21 and 28 October, Sunday 20 October Monday 4 November and Wednesday 13 November, 1100 Harvest Thanksgiving Choral Eucharist St Bride Fleet Street beginning with a meal and followed by short filmed talks interspersed with opportunities for discussion in small groups Monday 21 October 1300 Choral Classics Choral music interspersed with readings For further information, cost and booking please go to St Stephen Walbrook https://hsl.church and follow the links from Wednesday 23 October ‘Connect’ and ‘Events’ 1745 Choral Evensong, followed by a lecture given by Grey Dorey, Sub-Treasurer of Inner Temple: Temple Diplomats from mid-16th Century – mid 20th Century All welcome Temple Church Tuesday 1 October Saturday 26 October 1900 to 2030 St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate 1200 Votive Mass of the Fourteen Holy Helpers Bridgebuilding: Making peace with conflict in the Church For anyone who has suffered from cancer or has friends or family An evening of conversation, with: who have been affected by cancer Alastair McKay author of the recent book Bridgebuilding; Music: Mass in E flat ‘Cantus Missae’, by Rheinberger Lia Shimada, who has long experience in mediation and St Magnus the Martyr community facilitation in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; and Sunday 27 October Rosemarie Davidson-Gotobed, the Church of England’s National 1830 Lutheran Bach Vespers Minority Ethnic Vocations Officer Including J S Bach’s Cantata BWV 80, Ein feste Burg is unser Free event – please book in advance for planning purposes Gott, performed by the City Bach Collective on period instruments For further information and booking, please go to Service in English, with the cantata performed in German https://stethelburgas.org and follow the links from ‘Events’ St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill Monday 28 October 1300 Choral Classics Choral music interspersed with readings Wednesday 2 October St Stephen Walbrook 1900 to 2100 St Mary Moorfields Hall Alpha – Dinner, Drinks and Discussion on the topics of the Wednesday 30 October Meaning of Life, Spirituality and God 1745 Choral Evensong for the feasts of All Saints and All Souls The course (which began in September) continues on the Temple Church Wednesdays in October For further details please email 1800 Choral Evensong sung by the Chiara Choir St Stephen Walbrook [email protected] Thursday 31 October 1900 RC Mass – Young City Catholics (Followed by dinner – for further /continued information, cost and booking please go to http://ycc-london.co.uk) St Mary Moorfields

Tuesday 8 October LECTURES, COURSES, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS 1045 to 1530 St Andrew Holborn IN OCTOBER 2019 – continued Oasis Day: The Spirituality of St Francis’ Led by Lydia McLean, Chaplain, University College London Hospitals Oasis Days offer a monthly time of quiet reflection to re-charge one’s spiritual batteries with the stimulation of excellent speakers Thursday 3 October Cost £15 – Lunch / tea & coffee provided 1830 to 2000 All Hallows by the Tower Pre-booking required by Friday 4 October for catering purposes JustShare Debate To book please telephone the Revd Martin Davies on Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Development 07429 612642 or e-mail [email protected] On how Artificial Intelligence can play a role in helping sustainable development and reaching the SD goals 1100 St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall Speakers to include the Revd Canon Dr Malcolm Brown, City of London Historical Society talk: The Martyrs of Smithfield Director of Mission and Public Affairs for the Church of England Given by Virginia Rounding, author of The Burning Time: The Admission free – all welcome, but please register in advance Story of the Smithfield Martyrs For further information and free registration please go to All welcome - Admission £10 https://bit.ly/2OXrs4i

1830 to 1930 St Mary at Hill Wednesday 9 October Thursday Conversation 1900 to 2100 St Mary Moorfields Hall Lt Col Sulle Alhaji, director of the Army Youth Outreach Team, Alpha – Dinner, Drinks and Discussion on the topics of the in conversation with the Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkin Meaning of Life, Spirituality and God Following Choral Evensong at 1800 The course (which began in September) continues on the Ending with refreshments Wednesdays in October For further details please email See the listing in the Events Section for further information [email protected]

Friday 11 October Friday 4 October 1800 to 2000 St Mary at Hill 1100 to 1600 London Centre for Spiritual Direction, Knowledge of the City Lecture Series 2019 St Edmund King & Martyr Introduction to the Guild and Livery Companies Radical Hospitality – Spiritual Accompaniment and Social Inclusion Speaker: Chris Green With Kate Monkhouse The second lecture in a series given by the City of London Guide Considers Ignatian ‘apostolic spirituality’ as a ‘faith that does Lecturers’ Association (the City Guides) on the Fridays in October justice’, and looks at working towards the spiritual inclusion of This talk traces the history and influence of the City of London’s others, taking the ministry of spiritual accompaniment to those who livery – one of the strongest unbroken traditions of livery might not otherwise be able to access it, and to those serving companies in the world, and still integral to the operation of the people at the margins Square Mile today A session in the Developing Direction programme, designed Tickets £10 (concessions for students, unemployed and aged 65+ to foster the ongoing development and support of spiritual £8; discount price for all 4 lectures in the series £32) directors For further information and tickets go to https://bit.ly/2k7epys For further information, including cost and booking, please go to www.lcsd.org.uk and follow the links from ‘Courses & Events’ Monday 14 October 1800 to 2000 St Mary at Hill 1830 to 2100 St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate Knowledge of the City Lecture Series 2019 Cooking class: global flavours – global citizens The Victorian City – Speaker: Hugh Dennis Join Elahe and Parastoo to learn to prepare dishes from Iran, The first lecture in a series given by the City of London Guide followed by a sit-down dinner. Lecturers’ Association (the City Guides) on the Fridays in October Tickets £38.32, covering the cost of ingredients, a booking fee and This talk takes a far-reaching look at the Victorian City of London, a donation to Migrateful, an initiative helping asylum seekers, considering not only its architecture but also technological, social, refugees and vulnerable migrants on their journey to employment demographic and commercial developments and the crucial and independence, and promoting integration influence of the railways For further information, including details of booking, please Tickets £10 (concessions for students, unemployed and aged 65+ go to https://stethelburgas.org and follow the links from ‘Events’ £8; discount price for all 4 lectures in the series £32) For further information and tickets please go to Tuesday 15 October https://bit.ly/2k7epys 1800 St Botolph Bishopsgate SAVE Britain’s Heritage Annual Lecture: Who Guards London? Monday 7 October Given by Sir Simon Jenkins Booking essential – tickets £20 (plus booking fee) 1800 to 2045 London Centre for Spiritual Direction, For further information and to book please go to St Edmund King & Martyr www.savebritainsheritage.org and follow the links from ‘Events’ Exploring Christian Spirituality

First session of a two term course Please see the box at the beginning of this section Wednesday 16 October 1900 to 2100 St Mary Moorfields Hall 1900 to 2130 Holy Sepulchre London (St Sepulchre without Newgate) Alpha – Dinner, Drinks and Discussion on the topics of the The Bereavement Journey Meaning of Life, Spirituality and God The first of a series of six sessions for those who have suffered The course (which began in September) continues on the bereavement Wednesdays in October For further details please email Please see the box at the beginning of this section [email protected]

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LECTURES, COURSES, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS EVENTS & CONCERTS IN OCTOBER 2019 IN OCTOBER 2019 – continued

Friday 18 October Tuesday 1 October

1800 to 2000 St Mary at Hill 1100 to 1730 St Mary le Strand Knowledge of the City Lecture Series 2019 Giving Thanks – Continuation of an exhibition of paintings by Museum of London – Past, Present and Future Veronica von Degenfeld – international painter and stained glass Speaker: Debbie Pearson designer. The exhibition will run until Saturday 19 October. The third lecture in a series given by the City of London Guide The church will be open between the hours given above — Lecturers’ Association (the City Guides) on the Fridays in October Monday to Saturday. For more information please visit: This talk explores the creation of the Museum, some of the http://www.stmarylestrand.com collection’s highlights, what goes on in various locations and some of the Museum’s ambitious future plans 1230 St Mary Abchurch Tickets £10 (concessions for students, unemployed and aged 65+ Organ Recital: Ian Shaw. £8; discount price for all 4 lectures in the series £32) The recital will usually include an improvisation For further information and tickets go to https://bit.ly/2k7epys 1300 St Katharine Cree 1900 St Olave Hart Street Lloyds Choir City of London Archaeological Society Lecture Autumn Concert Grave goods: Objects and death in later prehistoric Britain Conductor – Jacques Cohen Given by Dr Neil Wilkin (British Museum) Programme: Doors open at 1830 – please enter by the Hart Lane entrance Fauré – Requiem Lectures usually last about 50 minutes, followed by Q&A Elgar – Give unto the Lord

Admittance free, and all welcome, but a donation of £3 is Admission will be free with a retiring collection requested to help meet expenses Followed by light refreshments 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Wednesday 23 October Organ Recital: 1745 Temple Church Richard Moore – Sub-Organist, Guildford Cathedral Choral Evensong, followed by a lecture given by Grey Dorey, Programme: Sub-Treasurer of Inner Temple: Temple Diplomats from mid-16th John Ernest Cook – Fanfare for Organ Century – mid 20th Century J S Bach – Trio Sonata No 5 in C major BWV 529 All welcome Peter Hurford – Meditation from Suite Laudate Dominum César Franck – Prière from Six Pièces pour Grand Orgue 1900 to 2100 St Mary Moorfields Hall Matthias Weckmann – Magnificat Alpha – Dinner, Drinks and Discussion on the topics of the Meaning of Life, Spirituality and God The Organ Recitals in October will feature past beneficiaries of the The course (which began in September) continues on the Eric Thompson Trust and are given in support of the Trust For full details of the Trust and its current aims please visit: Wednesdays in October For further details please email https://www.stlawrencejewry.org.uk/content/pages/documents/1562589961.pdf [email protected] 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Friday 25 October Walbrook Music Trust Recital The Eos Ensemble 1800 to 2000 St Mary at Hill Knowledge of the City Lecture Series 2019 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Walls, Gates and other Barriers - Speaker: Francis Pugh Recital: Galliard Trio The final lecture in a series given by the City of London Guide Andrew Morris – flute & piccolo Martin White – oboe & cor anglais Lecturers’ Association (the City Guides) on the Fridays in October Alan Forshaw – piano & bassoon This talk explores the impact of the City’s history of marking and defining boundaries on the physical lay-out of the City and the Programme: lives of its citizens, comparing it with present-day equivalents Bizet – Suite: l'Arlésienne No 2 Tickets £10 (concessions for students, unemployed and aged 65+ Shostakovitch – Five Preludes £8; discount price for all 4 lectures in the series £32) Albéniz – Cantos de España

For further information and tickets go to https://bit.ly/2k7epys Free entry with a retiring collection

Wednesday 30 October 1315 St Mary at Hill 1900 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: Square Mile Music Series Wren Talk 2019: From Spires to Towers – The Politics of the Skyline Kanae Furomoto – piano Given by Eric Parry, a member of the Council of the Royal Academy Programme: and the Fabric Advisory Committee of Canterbury Cathedral Rachmaninov – Preludes Tickets £10 (Students £5 – ID required) Tchaikovsky – Les Saisons To buy tickets please go to www.stbrides.com and follow the links from ‘News’ 1415 St Bride Fleet Street 1900 to 2100 St Mary Moorfields Hall Tours of the Church Alpha – Dinner, Drinks and Discussion on the topics of the Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Meaning of Life, Spirituality and God Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day The course (which began in September) continues on the or make a booking by emailing Sally Hannon at: Wednesdays in October For further details please email [email protected] [email protected] or telephoning 020 7427 0133. Special tours for groups can also be arranged

Thursday 3 October — continued EVENTS & CONCERTS IN OCTOBER 2019 - continued 1305 St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield

A City Music Society concert to be given by

Wednesday 2 October Jesse Flowers – guitar Lotte Betts-Dean – mezzo soprano

1300 St Stephen Walbrook Andrey Lebedev – guitar

Walbrook Community Choir Winners of the Musicians' Company New Elizabethan Award 2018 If you like singing, or would like to try it, come and join us in your 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 Stephen Goss – Threnody experienced professional choir directors Phillip Houghton – Stele John Dowland – Three short pieces; Five songs Nick Drake – Five songs 1305 St Botolph Aldgate Recital: Luca Luciano – Clarinet Solo Project Admission is free with a retiring collection

Programme: 1305 St Mary le Bow Two Homage Pieces: Recital: Boris Spasski – piano Puccini – Prelude to Act III of Tosca Luca Luciano – Homage to Poulenc 1305 St Olave Hart Street Fantasia su terni Vivaldi, Mozart, Weber Recital: Bernice Lee – oboe Philip Shannon – piano

Fragment #6 1310 All Hallows by the Tower Gershwin – Summertime Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling Two Contemporary Studies: 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Luciano – Study on Quartertones; Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series Study on Microtonal Trills and Tremolos Luciano Zecca – Lecco, Italy Rondo Contemporaneo 1800 St Mary at Hill Free entry with a retiring collection Choral Evensong, followed by Thursday Conversation at 1830 1305 St Olave Hart Street Evensong will be sung by Seraphim, the St Mary at Hill Choir Recital: Diana Brekalo – piano Lieutenant Colonel Sulle Alhaji will be in conversation with 1830 St Lawrence Jewry Popchoir rehearsal The Revd Prebendary Rose Hudson-Wilkins. For more information please see the listing at Wednesday 9 October Lt Col Sulle Alhaji has had a distinguished career in the Army, serving with the Parachute Regiment in the 1982 Falklands War and Thursday 3 October subsequently in the Royal Army Physical Training Corps where he was responsible for designing the assurance process for all physical, adventurous and sport development in the Army.. His St Sepulchre without Newgate / Holy Sepulchre London current assignment is director of the Army Youth Outreach team. He has an interesting story of overcoming adversity, social mobility Selah Music Festival bullying, dealing with dyslexia and much more. He uses his story to mentor disenfranchised youths. This includes students such as A three day event those at pupil referral units or in secure homes. His story is changing the way some youths think about their own situation and is Thursday 3, Friday 4 and Saturday 5 October receiving encouraging feedback from the students and teachers

In its role as the National Musicians Church, Holy Sepulchre London We finish with a glass of wine at 1930 is committed to promoting and developing music that has been written to Admission is free All are welcome worship and glorify the God of the Bible. Holy Sepulchre London plans to promote performances of music written at any time in history by any culture 1900 Temple Church world-wide to worship, glorify or direct people towards God. Concert: The Sound of Nature

Holy Sepulchre London is proud to be hosting the second annual Nature’s Voice – which includes members of the Temple Singers – Selah Festival from Thursday 3 October to Saturday 5 October. will perform a diverse programme of song inspired by nature, interwoven with impassioned commentary from leading environmental This year the GMIA (Gospel Music Industry Alliance) have been invited to speakers, the underlying theme being the critical issue of climate curate a 3-day programme utilising the best if UK Gospel across the range of change. Allow music to do what it does best and remind us all why presentations and styles to be experienced. The result is an exciting mix of we need to sit up, listen and act.

talent packaged in each night as follows: “The world is no longer divided between those countries that have the obligation, and the rest. Everybody has the opportunity to present their Thursday 3 October – Spoken Word & Poetry Night own plans to grapple with climate change.” — Real Life, Powerful, Inspirational, Provocative James Cameron, advisor to the project

Friday 4 October – JUMP Music Video Awards – Nature's Voice: Jonathan Darbourne – director Highlighting Artistic Excellence in Visual Productions Peter Fiennes – speaker Farhana Tamin – speaker Dan Samsa – sound producer Saturday 5 October – Closing Highlights Celebrating Reggae and Gospel Music Programme: Twenty pieces of music will be performed with works UNESCO Global Heritage – Gospel Style by Janequin, Ravenscroft, Mundy, Britten, Pearsall, Dowland, Mendelssohn, Wilbert, Monte, Holliday, Vaughan Williams, Tickets from the website: https://hsl.church/selah-2019 Butterworth, Overton, Handel, Joni Mitchell and The Beach Boys

Doors open at 1830 Tickets: £15, £20, £30 may be purchased from: https://www.templemusic.org/shop/thesoundofnature/

A full listing of the programme can be found on the website

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN OCTOBER 2019 - continued Monday 7 October — continued

1305 St Martin Ludgate Friday 4 October Recital: Isabella Benia – mezzo soprano Leona Crasi – piano 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Programme: Organ Recital: Ryan Leonard Handel Arias – Verdi Prati - Mi lusinga il dolce affetto – Sta nell'ircana (from "Alcina") 1300 St Mary Abchurch Mozart Arias – Voi che sapete - Non so piu cosa son The Tooting Broads (from "Le Nozze di Figaro"); Jane Gilbert – flute and Cressida Godfrey – flute Se l'augellin sen fugge (from "La Finta Giardiniera")

Jane and Cressida's autumn invitation! Britten Song Cycle – A Charm of Lullabies Ireland – Love & Friendship We are delighted to invite you to The Tooting Broads free lunchtime Concert Admission is free but donations are gratefully received in aid of Once again we will be joined by our good friend, church and recital running costs the pianist Norman MacSween.

Programme: Tuesday 8 October Vivaldi – Concerto for two flutes in C major RV 533 — two flutes and piano 1230 St Mary Abchurch Field – Nocturne No 1 in Eb major H 24 — piano Organ Recital: Ian Shaw. Köhler – Second Concert Duet on a Cbopin Melody Op 28 — The recital will usually include an improvisation two flutes and piano 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Clara Schumann – Notturno in F major Op 5 No 2 — piano Organ Recital: Ourania Gassiou Doppler – Fantasie über Rigoletto Op 28 — Organist at the French Protestant Church London, two flutes and piano and at Athens Concert Hall (Megaron

Admission is free Programme: César Franck – Pastorale Op 19 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Dietrich Buxtehude – Von Gott will ich nicht lassen BuxWV 221 Recital: The Tee Trio Dietrich Buxtehude – Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott BuxWV 184 Weng Soon Tee – piano Laura Jane Armstrong – cello Otto Malling – Wo ist der König der Juden Clarissa Lim – violin [No 2 from Die Heiligen drei Königen Op 84] Programme: Charles-Marie Widor – Allegro Cantabile from Symphony No 5 in F Chopin – Piano Trio in G minor Op 8 Marcel Dupré – Preludio from Deuxième Symphony Op 26 Rachmaninoff – Trio élégiaque No 1 in G minor The Organ Recitals in October feature past beneficiaries of the Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Eric Thompson Trust and are given in support of the Trust For full details of the Trust and its current aims please visit: Monday 7 October https://www.stlawrencejewry.org.uk/content/pages/documents/1562589961.pdf

1300 St Lawrence Jewry 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Recital: Rustam Khanmurzin – piano Walbrook Music Trust Recital: D'Cruz Trio Programme:

Wagner-Liszt – Liebeslied 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Tchaikovsky-Pletnev – The Nutcracker Suite Recital: Julian Chan – piano Ravel – La Valse Programme: 1300 St Michael Cornhill Beethoven – Sonata in C major Op 2 No 3 Organ Recital: Simon Hogan Roslavets – Sonata No 1 (Acting Sub Organist, Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford) Saint-Saëns – Étude Op 111 No 6 Programme: Bairstow – Prelude in C Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Bingham – St Bride, assisted by angels Jackson – Toccata, Chorale & Fugue 1315 St Mary at Hill Bach – Prelude & 'Fiddle' Fugue in D major BWV 539 Recital: Square Mile Music Series

Jongen – Sonata Eroica Denise Gainey – clarinet James Zingara – trumpet Chris Steele – piano 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Choral Classics – Music and Readings with the Choral Scholars Programme: Music by UK based composers including: Jeffrey Boehm – Sonata for Three St Francis of Assisi Virginia Samuel – Flying Over Water Choral Classics at St Stephen Walbrook Andrew Wilson – Jennycliff Bay offer thirty minutes of sublime choral music 1415 St Bride Fleet Street from our Choral Scholars interspersed with readings

Free with a retiring collection Tours of the Church Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. /continued Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day or make a booking by emailing Sally Hannon at: [email protected] or telephoning 020 7427 0133. Special tours for groups can also be arranged

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN OCTOBER 2019 - continued Thursday 10 October

1305 St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield

Wednesday 9 October A City Music Society concert to be given by Andreii Iliushkin – piano 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Programme: Walbrook Community Choir J S Bach – Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue BWV 903 If you like singing, or would like to try it, come and join us in your Beethoven – Sonata in D Op 10 No 3 lunch hour! There are no auditions or fees, and ability to read Jánáček – Piano Sonata 1.X 1905

music is not essential. Sing a variety of styles of music led by Admission is free with a retiring collection experienced professional choir directors 1305 St Mary le Bow 1305 St Botolph Aldgate Recital: Fidelity International UK Choir Recital: Nicola Hands – oboe Jonathan Pease – piano

1305 St Olave Hart Street Free entry with a retiring collection Recital: Joanna Gutowska – cello Anna Szałucka – piano

1305 St Olave Hart Street 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Recital: Emmanuel Bach – violin Ella O’Neill – piano Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays "Music from ….. " (3) Holland and Scandinavia 1315 St Dunstan in the West Recital: Duo Tagide 1800 to 1930 St Ethelburga's Centre Ines Simoes – soprano Daniel Godinho – piano St Ethelburga's Feast Day Once a year we throw open our doors to celebrate our Feast Day 1315 St Sepulchre without Newgate – Holy Sepulchre London with friends and neighbours. We warmly invite you to join us for a Lunchtime Recital to be given by special evening of celebration including music, discussion and worship. Halcyon Quartet – the Ensemble in Residence Free admission Schedule for the evening: (timings approximate) 1740 Arrivals reception 1315 Temple Church 1800 Evensong with the St Botolph-without–Bishopsgate Singers Organ Recital: Roger Sayer (Temple Church) 1900 Drinks and nibbles

All are welcome. Places are free – Please register – seats are limited 1830 St Lawrence Jewry For more information contact Jane Morton on:

[email protected] Popchoir rehearsal Please ensure you view our Terms and Conditions and Refund Policy

Popchoir is for anyone who loves to sing! Stressed-out commuter, 1900 St Mary Moorfields the next Sam Smith, worn out parent or shy shower soprano, Viola Class Concert there's a place here to let your voice out and with no auditions and with students from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama no need to be able to read music there are no excuses! Popchoir is fun, relaxed and surprisingly cool. We sing brilliant Programme; songs, with fabulous arrangements and have a great time. Please visit the church website: www.stmarymoorfields.net Come and see for yourself

For more information please visit: http://www.popchoir.com/ Friday 11 October

1230 St Stephen Walbrook Organ Recital: Damon Ying 1900 St Bartholomew the Great 1315 St Bride Fleet Street We welcome acclaimed historian Tom Holland to discuss his new Recital: Nadia Umerkulova – piano book "Dominion: the Making of the Western Mind" Programme: In this book we are told how Christianity, once so revolutionary Scriabin – Five Preludes Op16; Two Etudes Op 8 and disruptive, became the most enduring and influential legacy of Stanchinsky – Five Preludes; Sonata in E flat minor

the ancient world. Dominion takes the broadest historical context Free Admittance – Retiring Collection from Babylon to the Beatles, Saint Michael to #MeToo, to tell the 1315 St Dunstan in the Wet story of how Christianity transformed the world Organ Recital: Martin Ellis

There will be a £10 entrance fee. All proceeds support the maintenance and restoration of the church. Saturday 12 October The tickets are available on Eventbrite. Please visit: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-conversation-with-tom-holland- 1930 St Andrew Holborn tickets-66314100259 Concert: The London Gay Symphonic Winds

present a selection of classics from the Stage and Screen Drinks will available to purchase in the Cloister Café before and after the event. Tickets: £8 in advance (includes a free programme) £10 on the door, kids go free Tickets may be purchased online at: www.ticketsource.co/uk/lgsw

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN OCTOBER 2019 - continued Monday 14 October — continued

1300 St Stephen Walbrook Choral Classics – Music and Readings with the Choral Scholars Sunday 13 October English Song 1500 The Dutch Church Choral Classics at St Stephen Walbrook Cantata Service — Music by J S Bach and words of reflection offer thirty minutes of sublime choral music

from our Choral Scholars interspersed with readings In the service Cantata BWV 47 Wer sich selbst erhöhet, der soll erniedriget werden Free with a retiring collection will be performed by the City Bach Collective, 1305 St Martin Ludgate a group of musicians who perform Bach on period instruments Recital: Darquise Bilodeau – soprano Marc Verter – piano Programme: The service is led by the Revd Bertjan van de Lagemaat Barber – Song selection The organist is Joseph Fort Bernstein – I hate music There will be refreshments after the service Poulenc – La courte paille

Daunais – Sept épitaphes plaisantes

1900 St Stephen Walbrook Admission is free but donations are gratefully received in aid of

A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event church and recital running costs

Brotherhood Choir Invicta Upper Voices Conductor – Opuene Igbikialabo Conductor – Joseph Prescott Tuesday 15 October

Programme: 1000 to 1700 "CREATION" The Brotherhood Choir's repertoire is headlined by Opening day of an Art Exhibition which comprises a mix of 'Your Will Is Not Undone' with additional music including abstract and representational work in a variety of media from a 'We Are The Chosen Of The Lord', and 'Centennial Praise'. wide group of artists. The exhibition is organised by a group which They will be joined in this concert by Invicta Upper Voices, encourages churches to commission contemporary art: one of London's leading a cappella chamber choirs. www.commission4mission.org Tickets: £23 (premium) £18 (unreserved) £5 (children) — The exhibition will be open daily 1000 to 1700 call TicketSource on 0333 666 3366 or book online: until Saturday 26 October https://www.brandenburg.org.uk/october and follow the links Entrance is free 1230 St Mary Abchurch Premium tickets include a reserved seat, a programme, and a Organ Recital: Ian Shaw. voucher for a drink which can be redeemed either before the The recital will usually include an improvisation concert or during the interval 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Monday 14 October Organ Recital: Andrzej Malitowski Organist, Church of St Anselm and Cecilia, London 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Recital: Mihaly Berecz – piano Programme: Programme: J S Bach – Prelude and Fugue in C major BWV 547 Haydn – Sonata in B flat Hob XVI/41 Felix Mendelssohn – Organ Sonata No 4 in B flat major Op 65 Beethoven – Sonata in G major Op 31/1 Marian Sawa – Fuga-Bolero Schumann – Waldszenen Op 52 Louis Vierne – Symphony No 1 Op 14 Andante – Final

Mihaly Berecz performs through the joint St Lawrence Jewry and The Organ Recitals in October feature past beneficiaries of the Worshipful Company of Musicians scheme for Prizewinners Eric Thompson Trust and are given in support of the Trust Symphony of the Company For full details of the Trust and its current aims please visit: https://www.stlawrencejewry.org.uk/content/pages/documents/1562589961.pdf 1300 St Michael Cornhill Organ Recital: Norman Harper (London) 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Programme: Walbrook Music Trust Recital: Soyan Park – piano McDowall – Church Bells beyond the stars Smith of Durham – Fantasia 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Boyvin – Pièces d'Orgue du 3me Ton Recital: Aidan Chan – piano Thrist – Prelude on Kingsfold Programme: Bakfark – Major Humpy Watson, His Frolicke Mozart – Allegro in B minor K 540 Debussy – Arabesque 2 Rondo in A minor K 511 Piano Sonata in A minor K 310 Widor – Praeludium Circulare & Final from Symphonie 2 Free Admittance – Retiring Collection /continued

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EVENTS & CONCERTS IN OCTOBER 2019 - continued Thursday 17 October

1305 St Mary le Bow

Recital: Margaret Pearman – soprano David Coussell – piano Tuesday 15 October — continued

1315 St Mary at Hill 1305 St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield Recital: Square Mile Music Series Intrigue and Love Hunter Mabrey – piano A City Music Society concert to be given by Programme: Please visit the church music website: https://www.stmary-at-hill.org/music/ and follow the links Eszter Balogh – mezzo-soprano Asako Ogawa – harpsichord

Programme: Handel – Crude furie degl' orridi abissi (Xerxes HWV 40) 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Cara speme (Giulio Cesare HWV 17) Tours of the Church Brilla nell'alma (Alessandro HWV 21) Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Rameau – L'entretien des Muses Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day Les Tourbillons or make a booking by emailing Sally Hannon at: Les Cyclopes [email protected] Vivaldi – Sposa son disprezzata (Bajazet) or telephoning 020 7427 0133. Gelido in ogni vena (Farnace) Special tours for groups can also be arranged Armatae face et anguibus (Juditha Triumphans)

Admissioon is free with a retiring collection

Wednesday 16 October

1300 St Bartholomew the Less 1305 St Olave Hart Street A City Music Foundation Event Recital: Betty Makharinsky – soprano Pavel Timofeevsky – piano New 2019 CMF Artist String Quartet the name of which will be revealed at a later date 1310 All Hallows by the Tower Organ Recital: David Cook Programme: Joseph Haydn – Quartet No 27 in D major Op 20 No 4 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn – String Quartet in E minor Organ Recital: Richard Townend Admission is free but it is advisable to book as the church is small plays "Music from ….. " (4) Italy and Spain and these recitals are popular http://www.citymusicfoundation.org/events/lunchtime-community-concert/

1300 St Stephen Walbrook

Walbrook Community Choir Friday 18 October More information at Wednesday 2 October 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Organ Recital: Marion Bettsworth Assistant Director of Music, St Michael's, Highgate, 1305 St Botolph Aldgate

Recital: Lance Mok – piano

Programme: 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Schubert – Piano Sonata in A major D 959 Recital: Mitra Alice Tham – piano Free entry with a retiring collection Programme: J S Bach – Toccata in G major BWV 918 Chopin – Sonata No 2 in B flat minor Op 35

1305 St Olave Hart Street Mitra Alice Tham – Hong Bao Special { Piano duet with Alice Chua) Recital: Meliza Metzger – soprano Ryoko Izutsu – piano Free Admittance – Retiring Collection

1315 St Dunstan in the West 1315 St Dunstan in the West Recital: Kavinsky Trio Organ Recital: Martin Ellis Amalia Young – violin Rob Burton – saxophone

Millicent McFall – piano

1900 St Olave Hart Street

Meeting of the City of London Archaeological Society

1315 Temple Church Grave Goods: Objects and Death in later prehistoric Britain Organ Recital: Charles Andrews (Temple Church) Speaker: Dr Neil Wilkin – Curator, Bronze Age Collection British Museum, Europe and Prehistory Department For more details please visit: www.colas.org.uk 1830 St Lawrence Jewry Popchoir rehearsal For more information please see the listing at Wednesday 9 October

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN OCTOBER 2019 - continued Monday 21 October

1300 St Lawrence Jewry Recital: Jinah Shin – piano Saturday 19 October Programme: 1100 to 1730 St Mary le Strand Beethoven – Sonata No 30 in E major Op 109 Giving Thanks – the final day of an exhibition of paintings by Liszt – Mephisto Waltz Veronica von Degenfeld – international painter and stained glass Ravel – La Valse designer. For more information please visit: http://www.stmarylestrand.com 1300 St Michael Cornhill Organ Recital: Jonathan Rennert Programme: Works by Ronald Arnatt, Sir Edward Elgar, 1400 to 1730 John Stanley, Sir William Harris and Josef Rheinberger St Sepulchre without Newgate – Holy Sepulchre London 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Come and sing Fauré Requiem. Choral Classics – Music and Readings with the Choral Scholars

Brandenburg Choral Festival's conductor Bob Porter invites you The River of the Water of Life to this Come & Sing event. These events are always a lot of fun and achieve some great work! Come along to look at Fauré's Choral Classics at St Stephen Walbrook Requiem in a bit more depth, and practice your vocal technique. offer thirty minutes of sublime choral music from our Choral Scholars interspersed with readings There is also an opportunity to join the Brandenburg Festival Chorus at 1900 to perform the work in our evening concert, Free with a retiring collection for which audience tickets can be booked separately. 1305 St Martin Ludgate Registration is at 1330 Workshop 1400 to 1730 Recital: Singers from Trinity Laban, Greenwich NB *Bring your own score – OUP edition preferably Antonia Thwaites – mezzo soprano; *When booking please state your voice part Thea Grace Callaghan – soprano; Polly Byron Green – soprano;

Tickets Dominic Westwood – baritone £14 for participants — call TicketSource on 0333 666 366 or: with piano accompanist https://www.brandenburg.org.uk/bcf-concerts/2019/10/19/come- Programme: Please visit the church website: and-sing-faur-requiem http://www.stmartin-within-ludgate.org.uk/music/ Admission is free but donations are gratefully received in aid of church and recital running costs 1900 St Sepulchre without Newgate – Holy Sepulchre London

A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event Tuesday 22 October Brandenburg Festival Chorus Brandenburg Singers 1230 St Mary Abchurch Robert Porter — Conductor Organ Recital: Ian Shaw. The recital will usually include an improvisation Singers from this afternoon's Come & Sing workshop join the

Brandenburg Festival Chorus to perform Fauré's Requiem. 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Tickets: £23 (premium) £14 (unreserved) £5 (children) — Organ Recital: Robert Smith call TicketSource on 0333 666 3366 or book online: Assistant Director of Music, York Oratory https://www.brandenburg.org.uk/bcf-concerts/2019/10/19/come- Programme: and-sing-faur-requiem J S Bach – Prelude and Fugue in E minor BWV 548 Premium tickets include a reserved seat, a programme, and a Handel arr Sigrried Karg-Elert – The Harmonious Blacksmith voucher for a drink which can be redeemed either before the Joseph Jongen – Pensée d’Automne concert or during the interval Bertie Baigent – A Quiet Pavan, with Canons (UK premiere) Donnacha Dennehy – Work for Organ Zsolt Gárdonyi – Mozart Changes 1930 Temple Church Concert: Collegium Musicum of London The Organ Recitals in October feature past beneficiaries of the Eric Thompson Trust and are given in support of the Trust French Choral Music For full details of the Trust and its current aims please visit:

Conductor – Greg Morris Organ – Daniel Moult https://www.stlawrencejewry.org.uk/content/pages/documents/1562589961.pdf

Mezzo-soprano – Sophie Harris 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Programme: Walbrook Music Trust Recital: Maisie Hulbert – soprano Duruflé – Requiem, Messe Cum Jubilo Poulenc – Litanies à la Vierge Noire FP 82 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Fauré – Cantique de Jean Racine Recital: Scordatura Collective Tickets: £16 (£14 concessions) available on the door or from Rachel Watson – cello Thomas Ang – piano https://coll-mus-lon.org.uk/future-concerts/ or phone 07812 599 340 Programme Clara Schumann – Quatre pièces fugitives Op 15 Henrëtte Bosmans – Sonata for cello and piano (1919)

Free Admittance – Retiring Collection

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN OCTOBER 2019 - continued Thursday 24 October

1305 St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield

Tuesday 22 October — continued A City Music Society concert to be given by

1315 St Mary at Hill Concone String Quartet

Recital: Square Mile Music Series Agata Daraskaite – violin Magdalena Loth-Hill – violin Laura MacDonald – cello Elitsa Bogdanova – viola George Ross – cello Programme: J S Bach – Cello Suite No 2 BWV 1008 Programme: Prokoviev – Sonata for cello and piano Op 119 Haydn – Quartet in D Op. 20 No. 4 Hob iii:34 Schumann – Quartet No. 2 in F Op. 41

1415 St Bride Fleet Street Admission is free with a retiring collection Tours of the Church 1305 St Mary le Bow Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Recital: Ivan Hovorun – piano Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day 1305 St Olave Hart Street or make a booking by emailing Sally Hannon at: Recital: Heather Ryall – clarinet [email protected] Marcello Deidda – violin or telephoning 020 7427 0133. Katherine Clarke – viola/voice Special tours for groups can also be arranged 1310 All Hallows by the Tower 1700 St Mary at Hill Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling City Chamber Choir 1310 St Margaret Lothbury 'Little Birds' Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series Stephen Jones conductor Luca Antoniotti – Cremona, Italy Philip Shannon piano Mirjam James cello

Programme: Friday 25 October This will be music inspired by a menagerie of feathered friends as well as numerous other animals. From the various 1230 St Stephen Walbrook characters in Bob Chilcott’s settings of Aesop’s Fables, to pieces Organ Recital: James Davy that evoke the nightingale (from Granados, to Howells and Organist and Master of the Chorister, Chelmsford Cathedral thence to Sherwin), it is the swan that takes pride of place, with musical settings by Saint-Saëns, in turn reimagined by Samuel 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Wilson, Chilcott and Gibbons (the composer!). There is much Organ Recital: Oliver Macfarlane more besides, and the evening comes home to roost with Eric Programme: Whitacre’s joyous and witty Animal Crackers and Little Birds. J S Bach – Fantasia in G BWV 572

For the full programme listing please visit: Mendelssohn – Sonata for Organ No 4 in B flat http://www.citychamberchoir.org.uk Widor – Adagio from Symphonie No 5 Pietro A Yon – Humoresque (Toccatina for Flute) Tickets: £15.00 (£10.00 under 18s and full time students only) Vierne – Pièces de fantaisie Op 54 No 6 — Carillon de Westminster available at the door or www.citychamberchoir.org.uk Free Admittance – Retiring Collection

Wednesday 23 October 1315 St Dunstan in the West

1300 St Stephen Walbrook Organ Recital: Mark Brafield Walbrook Community Choir More information at Wednesday 2 October 1900 All Hallows by the Tower Concert: Trials and Triumphs of Oriana by Fair Oriana

1305 St Botolph Aldgate Penelope Appleyard & Angela Hicks – sopranos Recital: Yook Seok (John) Shin – piano Sam Brown – lute Harry Buckoke – viola da gamba Programme: Haydn – Piano Sonata in F major Hob XVI/23 An atmospheric and intimate concert of music that explores the public and private personas of Queen Elizabeth I Schubert – Allegretto in C minor D915 Liszt – Hungarian Rhapsody No 13 in A minor S244/13 Tickets: £15 on the door (under 14s free)

Free entry with a retiring collection 1305 St Olave Hart Street Saturday 26 October Recital: James Kirby – piano

1000 to 1700 All Hallows by the Tower 1315 St Dunstan in the West Recital: Michiko Gibbs – violin Simon Trentham – cello "CREATION"

Yoriko Wakabayashi – piano Final day of the Art Exhibition which comprises a mix of abstract 1315 Temple Church and representational work in a variety of media from a wide group Organ Recital: Thomas Allery (Temple Church) of artists organised by comission4mission. Entrance is free

1830 St Lawrence Jewry Popchoir rehearsal For more information please see the listing at Wednesday 9 October

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN OCTOBER 2019 - continued Tuesday 29 October

1230 St Mary Abchurch Organ Recital: Ian Shaw. The recital will usually include an improvisation Sunday 27 October

1830 St Mary at Hill 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Bach Vespers Organ Recital: Polina Sosnina A service of Lutheran Vespers with music by J S Bach — Pettman Organ Scholar, London Oratory; Cantata – Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott BWV 80 Organ Scholar, St Martin-in-the-Fields performed by the City Bach Collective on period instruments Programme:

Free admission with a voluntary collection J S Bach – Prelude and Fugue in A minor BWV 543 Felix Mendelssohn – Organ Sonata No 6 in D major Op 65 César Franck – Prélude, Fugue & Variation in B minor Op 18 Kenneth Leighton – Paean

Monday 28 October The Organ Recitals in October feature past beneficiaries of the

1300 St Lawrence Jewry Eric Thompson Trust and are given in support of the Trust For full details of the Trust and its current aims please visit: Recital: Mihal Ritivolu – piano https://www.stlawrencejewry.org.uk/content/pages/documents/1562589961.pdf Programme:

Beethoven – Sonata No 31 in A flat major Op 110 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Ravel – Le Tombeau de Couperin Walbrook Music Trust Recital: William Searle – tenor Mihal Ritivolu performs through the joint St Lawrence Jewry and Worshipful Company of Musicians scheme for Prizewinners 1315 St Bride Fleet Street of the Company Recital: Sally Quantrill – flute Lydia Bosworth – piano Programme: 1300 St Michael Cornhill C P E Bach – Sonata in G major Organ Recital: The Fortieth Harold Darke Memorial Recital Cyril Bradley Rootham –

David Graham Suite in Three Movements for flute and piano Op 64 Gershwin – Prelude for piano arranged for flute and piano Professor in charge of organ at the Royal College of Music, Koechlin – Sonata for flute and piano who, as a senior RCM student, was the first Harold Darke Prizewinner, and the first Memorial Recitalist on 29 October 1979) Free Admittance – Retiring Collection

Programme: 1315 St Mary at Hill Professor Graham will play music by four former Recital: Square Mile Music Series professors at the RCM: Sir Hubert Parry, Harold Darke, Eve Baker – soprano Robert Mingay-Smith – piano Haris Kittos and Sir Charles Stanford Programme:

1415 St Bride Fleet Street 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Tours of the Church Choral Classics – Music and Readings with the Choral Scholars Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person.

Choral Classics at St Stephen Walbrook offer thirty minutes of Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day sublime choral music from our Choral Scholars interspersed or make a booking by emailing Sally Hannon at: with readings on a theme. [email protected] or telephoning 020 7427 0133. Free with a retiring collection Special tours for groups can also be arranged 1305 St Martin Ludgate Recital: Lucas Levin – viola Yi Shing Chen – piano Programme: Wednesday 30 October Schumann – Adagio and Allegro; Vieuxtemps – Capriccio Op 55 (Viola solo); 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Bridge – Pensiero and Allegro Appassionata; Walbrook Community Choir Rachmaninov – Andante from Cello Sonata Op 19; More information at Wednesday 2 October Hindemith – Viola Sonata Op 11 No. 4

Admission is free but donations are gratefully received in aid of 1305 St Botolph Aldgate church and recital running costs Organ Recital: Thomas Allery Programme: Giovanni Salvatore – Canzona Francese Seconda John Stanley – Voluntary in G major Op 5, No 3 J S Bach – Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein BWV 641 – A Fancy Johann Jakob Froberger – Toccata in F William Byrd – A Fancy for my Lady Newell

Free entry with a retiring collection

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN OCTOBER 2019 - continued We are indebted to Dickon Love, Company Bellringer to the Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks for the following information Wednesday 30 October — continued

1305 St Olave Hart Street Recital: VULCAN BRASS

Lucas Houldcroft – trumpet Patrick Wilson – trumpet Open bellringing performances Zac Hayward – horn James Graham – trombone currently scheduled for the City of London Charles Jones – tuba in October 2019

1315 St Dunstan in the West Tuesday 1 October Recital: 1800 3 hour performance on the Jubilee Bells Veronika Rettich – soprano Siobhan Mooney – mezzo-soprano by the St James' Guild Richard Black – piano at St Dunstan in the West

1315 Temple Church Saturday 5 October Organ Recital: James Thomas (St Thomas’ Stourbridge) 1400 3 hour performance on the Royal Jubilee Bells by the Middlesex County Association at St James Garlickhythe 1830 St Lawrence Jewry Popchoir rehearsal For more information please see the listing at Sunday 6 October Wednesday 9 October 1400 3½ hour performance on the Bells at St Michael Cornhill

1430 3½ hour performance on the Bells by the St James' Guild

at St Magnis the Martyr

Tuesday 8 October Thursday 31 October 1400 3 hr performance on the Royal Jubilee Bells

1305 St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield by the Ancient Society of College Youths at St James Garlickhythe A City Music Society concert to be given by

The Royal College of Music String Band

Mark Messenger – director Bethan Griffiths – harp ***********************************************************

Programme: Debussy – Danse sacrée et danse profane SAVE THE DATE Richard Strauss – Metamorphosen for 22 solo strings At St Mary Abchurch Admission is free with a retiring collection An Exhibition — The Spaces Between

by Gram Hilleard

1305 St Mary le Bow Monday 11th to Saturday 18th November 11am - 3pm

Recital: Helen Farrar – piano and film screening: Monday 12th, Wednesday 14th, Friday18th November at 1:30pm 1305 St Olave Hart Street Recital: Tamara Radjenović – soprano Wai-Yin Lee – piano A Silent Narrator walks 11 journeys through modern London; a city which is becoming unrecognisable in our own lifetime by over-evelopment. We visit 11 churches where we encounter 1310 St Margaret Lothbury a painting that depicts a place that has changed little during the Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays "J S Bach at Arnstadt" last 300 years. At each, spoken words are heard from a past event. These defined spaces all have a unique energy, their slowly weathering stones carrying the vibrations of past lives and events. They are ’The Spaces Between’. 1830 St Botolph Bishopsgaate

A Keats 200 Event — 'Nine Letters and Poems' The exhibition and film screening will be are free A donation to The Friends of the City Churches is appreciated An evening of readings and music on Keats' birthday in the church where he was baptised in December 1795

More information and tickets may be found at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nine-letters-and-poems-tickets- City Events is published by 69170459707 The Friends of the City Churches in conjunction with the Archdeaconry of London and printed by Copyprints: [email protected]

November 2019 Published by FCC in conjunction with the Archdeaconry of London

The Melba Coombs Memorial Fund

Over 25 years ago a charity called The Friends of the City Churches (FCC) was revived because there was at that time a very real threat of closure hanging over many of the 40 or so places of worship in the City of London. Following a successful nursing career, and running a significant part of what was then known as NADFAS (today’s Arts Society) Melba Coombs was persuaded to join the Friends and take on the challenge of getting tthe churches within the City open. Undeterred by some reluctance within the administration of some of the City churcches, it was she who got the doors open and from that small beginning the Friends of the City Churches has grown into a charity that now helps to keep some 20 churches open.

Sadly, Melba died in 2018. Undoubtedly she was one of those who made a difference, and it was that which inspired a private foundattion to donate £50,000 to a fund in her name — The Melba Coombs Memorial Fund — to boost permanently the small grants work that the FCC does as part of its mission. Grants of up to £2,000 are given for the repair of bells, clocks, lighting, banners, organs and vestments etc. In addition to the grant, for every pound that is raised up to a further £50,000, it will be matched by the foundation. To date we have raised over £12,000.

On Saturday 16th November at 11.00am the Chairman of the Friends of the City Churchess, together with City Guides and others, will lead a two hour walk around the majority of the City Churches, with thee aim of raising funds for the Melba Coombs Memorial Fund. It will start at St Mary Abchurch, the headquarters of the Friends, to undertake a western loop of churches, encompassing such wonders as St Bride Fleet Street and St Dunsstan in the West. Returning about 1.00pm for refreshments (participants are asked to bring their own) the walk will set off again at about 2.00pm for a shorter loop round the eastern churches, finishing at about 3.00pm back at St Mary Abchurch. Tickets are £10 from the Friends office or at the door. Contact information may be found in the 'box' display on page 10.

Also on Wednesday 20th November at St Mary Abchurch at 6.00pm there will be a recittal by the acclaimed soprano Iúnó Connolly. Born in Wiltshire and graduating from the Royal Academy of Music Iúnó haas embarked on a successful career, singing all over Europe, and we are very grateful that she is coming to St Mary’s to support the Melba Coombs Fund. Tickets are £20 from the Friends office.

Turning to other forthcoming significant musical events, at St Mary le Bow on Friday 22 November at 7.30pm the Iken Scholars, under their director Matthew Dunn, will be presenting 'Treasures of thee '. The Dow Partbooks are a collection of five partbooks compiled by Robert Dow (1553‐1588) in Oxford around 1581‐88. The collection includes mostly choral but also some insstrumental pieces. The partbooks, which are now held at Christ Church Oxford, are an important source for Tudor music, and the sole known source for some of the pieces. Robert Dow was a trained calligrapher and the books are unusually easy to read among manuscripts of the Tudor period and thus they rank among the most beautiful of all Tudor music manuscripts, and are also an important and authoritative source for the works they contain. The music to be performed will include works by , Robert Parsons, Robert White, Thomas Tallis and William Byrd. This event promises to be a musical treat.

Last, and certainly by no means least, there will be an opportunity to hear a work that is regarded as one of the greatest piano sonatas of all time. On Wednesday 20 November at 1.05pm, at St Botolph Aldgate, Ivan Hovorun will perform Beethoven's Piano Sonata No 29 in B flat major, Opus 106, known as the Große Sonate für das Hammerklavier, or more simply as the Hammerklavier. It is often considered to be Beethoven's most ttechnically challenging piano composition and one of the most demanding solo works in the classical piano repertoire. This recital also has great

musical promise.

The Friends of the City Churches, Church of St Mary Abchurch, Abchurch Lane,, London EC4N 7BA

Visit: www.llondon‐city‐churches.org.uk for more information and the location off the churches in the City

2 Tuesday ─ continued REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES 1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate 1305 Meditation (in the crypt chapel) St Mary le Bow IN NOVEMBER 2019 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn The entries below show the normal pattern of services for City Churches and a 1310 Eucharist St Andrew Holborn few churches ‘just over the City borders’. Entries are for Church of England 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, following buffet lunch at 1300 St Botolph Aldersgate services except where indicated otherwise. ‘1st Monday’,‘2nd Monday’ etc refer 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, with sandwich lunch available St Helen Bishopsgate to the 1st Monday, 2nd Monday etc of the month. 1310 Holy Communion St Margaret Lothbury 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn While every effort is made to ensure accuracy, the services shown are subject to 1700 to 1800 ‘ A Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship change at Bank or other holidays, immediately before, during and after major Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street festivals and holy days, and during the summer months (in particular during 1700 to 1730 ‘Words of Hope’ – quiet informal reflective service (Please August). You are strongly advised to contact churches to check the details. telephone 0207 588 2638 to check) St Clement Eastcheap For a list of weekend (particularly Sunday) services please go to the 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe Friends of the City Churches website at www.london-city-churches.org.uk 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) and follow the links from ‘Events’ and ‘City Events’. Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow Monday 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 0715 Jewish Daily Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic orthodox rite) St Mary Moorfields (0700 on 1st day of Hebrew religious month) For details please see 1830 Choral Evensong (traditional) (Choral Eucharist on 3rd Tuesday) www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/ Bevis Marks Synagogue Holy Sepulchre London (St Sepulchre without Newgate) 0730 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields Wednesday 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 0715 Jewish Daily Service (see Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 0800 Meditation (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary 0730 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0800 Morning Taizé Chant (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1215 Eucharist St Michael Paternoster Royal 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1245 Holy Communion St Mary at Hill 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1300 RC Mass St Etheldreda Ely Place 0830 to 0915 Holy Communion St Lawrence Jewry 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn 1305 to 1330 Meditation Group St Vedast alias Foster 1205 RC Mass St Joseph Bunhill Row 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn 1215 to 1315 Elim Full Gospel Chinese Church Fellowship – All welcome 1310 Eucharist St Andrew Holborn St Lawrence Jewry 1700 to 1800 ‘A Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster Come and go as you wish (Not on Bank Holidays) St Bride Fleet Street 1230 (1st Wednesday) Eucharist followed by discussion (For 6 November 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe see Special Services) St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Abchurch 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1245 to 1315 (3rd Wednesday) Society of Friends (Quaker) Meeting for Worship 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields Bunhill Fields Meeting House, Quaker Court, Banner St EC1Y 8QQ 1800 Choral Evensong (BCP) (During university terms – current term 1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal worship and teaching – come and go as 14 October to 25 November) St Michael Cornhill you wish St Margaret Lothbury Tuesday 1300 RC Mass St Etheldreda Ely Place 0715 Jewish Daily Service (see Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1305 to 1400 ‘Not on a Sunday’ – informal worship with prayer and song, 0730 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe with coffee St Katharine Cree 0730 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1305 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow 0745 Holy Communion (said) followed by coffee & croissants) St Mary at Hill 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 0745 Eucharist, followed by breakfast St Mary le Bow 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1310 to 1340 ‘Moorgate Talks’ Bible Talk, following buffet lunch at 1300, 0745 to 0915 ‘Start: Stop’:– start the day by stopping to reflect – 10 minute at the cellar bar at The Gable, 25 Moorgate, EC2R 6AR reflections beginning every 15 minutes - just drop in Linked with St Botolph Aldersgate St Stephen Walbrook 1310 Choral Eucharist St Botolph Bishopsgate 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1315 Eucharist (said) (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 0800 Morning Prayer (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary 1700 to 1800 ‘ A Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) St Michael Cornhill Come and go as you wish 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) St Bride Fleet Street Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 0830 Morning Prayer All Hallows by the Tower 1730 Evening Prayer (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1730 Sung Eucharist, followed by refreshments St Mary le Strand 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn 1745 Choral Evensong (during legal term-time – not in August or September) 1215 Eucharist (BCP) St James Garlickhythe Temple Church 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less 1800 Taizé Service All Hallows by the Tower 1230 to 1300 Eucharist (said) with brief address St Dunstan in the West 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1800 Eucharist (Please check on www.stjamesgarlickhythe.org) 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Woolnoth St Michael Paternoster Royal 1230 Holy Communion (said) St Olave Hart Street 1830 Meditation Group ‘Stressed in the City’ (Moot Community) 1300 Holy Communion All Hallows by the Tower St Mary Aldermary 1300 RC Mass St Etheldreda Ely Place 1900 Sung Eucharist St Andrew Holborn 1300 to 1400 (come any time) Contemporary Worship 1930 City of London House of Prayer – Men’s Prayer Meeting (Free Church) Holy Sepulchre London (St Sepulchre without Newgate) City Temple

Friday ─ continued 3 REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES 1700 to 1800 ‘A Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship IN NOVEMBER 2019 − continued Come and go as you wish St Bride Fleet Street 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square Thursday 1800 Paraklesis (replaced on 1st Friday and during fasting periods by Service 0715 Jewish Daily Service (see Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue of Holy Unction), followed at 1900 to 2200 by Catechesis and Confessions 0730 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe (Romanian Orthodox) St Dunstan in the West 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1830 Jewish Friday Evening Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields orthodox rite) (1930 in summer months – please check on 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/) Bevis Marks Synagogue 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow 1900 City of London House of Prayer – Pursuit Service – Prayer and Worship 0830 Eucharist All Hallows by the Tower (Free Church) City Temple 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate

0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn

1210 Holy Communion St Botolph Bishopsgate SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS 1215 to 1250 Bible Talk, with sandwich lunch available, followed by Question Time St Helen Bishopsgate IN NOVEMBER 2019 1215 Eucharist (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less Thursday 31 October 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1900 RC Vigil Mass for All Saints’ Day (1 November) with the Young 1245 to 1330 Choral Eucharist St Stephen Walbrook City Catholics St Mary Moorfields 1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal worship and teaching – come and go as you wish St Mary Woolnoth Friday 1 November (All Saints’ Day) 1300 RC Mass St Etheldreda Ely Place 0805 RC Mass for All Saints’ Day St Mary Moorfields 1300 to 1330 (Normally 1st Thursday – please check on www.stgilesnewsite.co.uk) 1200 RC Mass for All Saints’ Day St Mary Moorfields Private prayer and reflection St Giles Cripplegate 1215 Requiem Mass for All Souls’ Day (2 November) 1300 Eucharist (normally choral on 1st Thursday On 7 November St Vedast alias Foster Remembrance Service) St Margaret Pattens 1230 RC Mass for All Saints’ Day St Mary Moorfields 1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate 1305 High Mass for All Saints’ Day, with orchestra St Mary le Bow 1305 Holy Communion, followed by tea and biscuits St Katharine Cree 1305 RC Mass for All Saints’ Day St Mary Moorfields 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 1310 Choral Requiem for All Souls’ Day (2 November) 1305 to 1335 ‘St Nick's Talks’ Bible Talk Sandwiches available from 1300 St Nicholas Cole Abbey The service will include a special Act of Commemoration, during 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn which the names of the departed will be solemnly read aloud, and 1310 Eucharist St Andrew Holborn any relatives or friends present are encouraged to come forward 1310 to 1350 Bible Talk, with sandwich lunch available, followed by and light a candle in their memory Question Time St Helen Bishopsgate A book in which the names of the departed may be entered will be 1315 to 1345 Lunchtime Service (Free Church) City Temple available in the church office, or in the church during services, 1315 Holy Communion (Currently the regular services at this church are from mid-October St Botolph Bishopsgate undergoing reorganisation) St Martin within Ludgate 1730 RC Mass for All Saints’ Day St Mary Moorfields 1315 Holy Communion (BCP said) (during legal term-time – not in August or September) Temple Church Saturday 2 November (Commemoration of the Faithful Departed – 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn All Souls’ Day) 1700 to 1800 ‘ A Space for Silence’ – contemplation, reflection and silent worship 1900 All Souls’ Day service – Procession and Solemn Requiem with Come and go as you wish (Not 28 November) St Bride Fleet Street Mozart’s Requiem Mass St Bartholomew the Great 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) Sunday 3 November Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1730 All Souls’ Tide Service 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow A service at which family members, friends and loved ones who 1800 (Normally 1st Thursday) Choral Evensong, followed by ‘Thursday Conversation’ at 1830 St Mary at Hill have died are commemorated – their names are read aloud and 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields candles lit in their memory If you are planning to attend, and 1805 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow would like to name someone to be commemorated, please 1900 City of London House of Prayer - Equip Service - Prayer and Worship contact [email protected] St Bride Fleet Street (Free Church) City Temple 1900 (1st Thursday) Evensong in the City - Choral Evensong (BCP) followed by Monday 4 November refreshments (Most months - please check on www.greatstbarts.com) 1300 Choral Classics Choral music from the Choral Scholars of St Bartholomew the Great St Martin in the Fields, interspersed with readings on a theme – Israel in Egypt: Part 2 St Stephen Walbrook Friday 1700 Thanksgiving Service for the Lord Mayor’s Year in Office 0715 Jewish Daily Service (see Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue St Stephen Walbrook 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square Wednesday 6 November 0800 Morning Taizé Chant (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary 1230 to 1430 All Souls’ Service of Remembrance, in which 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street people are invited to name loved ones they have lost 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) St Mary le Bow A Soul Space service – keeping faith in changing times, a different 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster approach to the traditional Eucharist, which uses visuals, sounds 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr and space to reflect, and has a gentle contemplative feel 1230 Pastoral Conversation or Confession (Sacrament Chapel) St Mary le Bow People from all faith backgrounds and none are very welcome 1300 RC Mass St Etheldreda Ely Place Followed by a discussion led by the Revd Dave Tomlinson 1305 Eucharist (in the church) St Mary le Bow St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 1745 Choral Evensong Guest Preacher: the Bishop of Worcester 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn Temple Church 1315 to 1400 Holy Communion St Lawrence Jewry /continued

4 Sunday 24 November SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS 1830 Lutheran Bach Vespers IN NOVEMBER 2019 – continued Including J S Bach’s Cantata BWV 163, Nur jedem das Seine, performed by the City Bach Collective on period instruments St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill Thursday 7 November 1300 Remembrance Service St Margaret Pattens Monday 25 November 1305 Eucharist for All Saints’ and All Souls’ Days (1 and 2 November) 1230 Holy Communion (BCP) followed by tea and sandwiches with the City Singers St Katharine Cree St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1800 Choral Evensong followed by Thursday Conversation at 1830 1300 Choral Classics Choral music from the Choral Scholars of (See the listing in the Events Section for further information) St Martin in the Fields, interspersed with readings on a theme St Mary at Hill St Stephen Walbrook

Friday 8 November Wednesday 27 November 1730 Lord Mayor’s Admission Day Service St Lawrence Jewry 1745 Choral Evensong for St Andrew’s Day (30 November) Temple Church Sunday 10 November (Remembrance Sunday) 1050 Remembrance Sunday service: Choral Eucharist including a Friday 29 November liturgical performance of Fauré's Requiem Mass by the St Bride's 1800 Patronal Festival, celebrating the Feast Day of St Andrew the Choir and Orchestra St Bride Fleet Street Apostle (30 November), with a Solemn Mass and music from the 1055 Two minute silence followed by Remembrance Sunday Choral English Chamber Choir St Andrew by the Wardrobe Holy Communion (BCP) St Michael Cornhill 1055 Choral Mattins for Remembrance Sunday Temple Church 1100 Remembrance Sunday service (Services at this church are LECTURES, COURSES, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS primarily in Welsh, with full translations provided) IN NOVEMBER 2019 St Benet Paul’s Wharf 1800 Choral Evensong for Remembrance Sunday, sung by the East London Evensong Choir All Hallows by the Tower Friday 1 November 1800 Service of Remembrance with music St Mary le Strand 1100 to 1600 London Centre for Spiritual Direction, St Edmund King & Martyr Monday 11 November Tips for the Trade – The Practical Wisdom of the Ignatian Annotations 1300 Choral Classics Choral music from the Choral Scholars of Speaker: Antonia Lynn St Martin in the Fields, interspersed with readings on a theme – A day to explore, learn from and reflect on the Annotations by ‘They are at rest’ St Stephen Walbrook St Ignatius as a guide for those who accompany others on their walk with God Wednesday 13 November A session in the Developing Direction programme, to foster the 1745 Choral Evensong to celebrate the 125th Anniversary of the ongoing development and support of spiritual directors Foundation of the Bar Council For further information, including cost and booking, please go to Guest Speaker: Amanda Pinto QC, Chair-elect of the Bar Council www.lcsd.org.uk and follow the links from ‘Courses & Events’ Temple Church Thursday 7 November Thursday 14 November 1700 to 2030 St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate 1210 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate Spiritual Ecology and Systems Change: Practitioners’ Forum Bringing together Forum for the Future and St Ethelburga’s Monday 18 November Centre change maker communities, this event will offer a live 1300 Choral Classics Choral music from the Choral Scholars of exploration of the practical application of spiritual ecology and St Martin in the Fields, interspersed with readings on a theme – systems change: principles, practices and projects ‘The Lord’s my Shepherd’ St Stephen Walbrook For further information, including cost and booking, please go to 1745 Choral Evensong, attended by members of the Order of https://stethelburgas.org and follow the links from ‘Events’ Australia Association St Mary le Bow 1800 Choral Evensong 1830 St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall Followed at 1915 by dinner at the George & Vulture, 3 Castle The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings Court and a presentation on Are the Gospels reliable history? Autumn Lecture Series 2019: The Bold and the Beautiful – For further information see the listing in the Lectures, Courses, exploring new design for old buildings Workshops and Seminars section St Michael Cornhill First lecture in the series: Croft Lodge Studio, Herefordshire – A project of small delights and skilful solutions Tuesday 19 November Given by Kate Darby 1900 RC Mass in the Extraordinary Form with Opus Dei Booking £11 (members of SPAB £10) St Mary Moorfields For further information and to book please go to www.spab.org.uk and follow the links from ‘What’s On’ and ‘Lectures’ Wednesday 20 November 1745 Choral Evensong to celebrate USA Thanksgiving Day 1830 to 1930 St Mary at Hill Temple Church Thursday Conversation 1800 Choral Evensong St Stephen Walbrook Polly Toynbee of the Guardian in conversation with the Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkin Thursday 21 November Following Choral Evensong at 1800 1730 Choral Evensong for St Cecilia’s Day (22 November) with the Ending with refreshments St Margaret Pattens choir St Margaret Pattens See the listing in the Events Section for further information /continued

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1800 St Michael Cornhill Thursday 7 November – continued Choral Evensong, followed at 1915 by dinner at the 1830 to 2030 St Mary Moorfields George & Vulture, 3 Castle Court, with a presentation on Catholic Union Charitable Trust Public Lecture Are the Gospels reliable history? by the priest-in-charge of The Truro Review of Christian Persecution: Problems and Progress St Michael Cornhill, the Revd Charlie Skrine Speakers: The Rt Revd Philip Mountstephen, Anglican For further information, cost and to book tickets please go to Bishop of Truro, who carried out an independent review of https://bit.ly/reliable-gospels Foreign and Commonwealth Office support for persecuted

Christians - his final report was published in July 2019; and Rehman Chishti MP, who was appointed in September 2019 Wednesday 20 November as the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy on Freedom of 1800 St Mary le Bow Religion or Belief The Court of Arches Lecture: The Court of Arches: Its Bishop Mountstephen and Rehman Chishti will discuss the Jurisdiction and Jurisprudence – Entirely Settled? problems and progress in supporting Christians and others Given by Professor Norman Doe (Cardiff University), with a persecuted for their faith around the world response and vote of thanks by the Rt Worshipful Free lecture – all welcome Charles George QC, Dean of the Arches and Auditor.

Admission by ticket only (£6) – for booking please go to https://bit.ly/2G5O6k6 Tuesday 12 November 1045 to 1530 St Andrew Holborn Oasis Day: War through the Poets’ Eyes Thursday 21 November Led by Roger Blackstone, Martin Davies and Susan Hewlett 1830 All Hallows by the Tower Oasis Days offer a monthly time of quiet reflection for people who JustShare Debate need a day to re-charge their spiritual batteries and enjoy the Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Development stimulation of excellent speakers On how Artificial Intelligence can play a role in helping sustainable Cost £15 – Lunch / tea & coffee provided development and reaching the SD goals Pre-booking required by Friday 8 November for catering purposes Speakers to include the Revd Canon Dr Malcolm Brown, To book please telephone the Revd Martin Davies on Director of Mission and Public Affairs for the Church of England 07429 612642 or e-mail [email protected] Admission free – all welcome, but please register in advance

For further information and free registration please go to https://bit.ly/2OXrs4i Thursday 14 November 1830 St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings Autumn Lecture Series 2019: The Bold and the Beautiful – 1830 St Botolph Bishopsgate Church Hall exploring new design for old buildings The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings Second lecture in the series: Shahporan Mosque and Islamic Autumn Lecture Series 2019: The Bold and the Beautiful – Centre, Hackney - Exploring a contemporary British Muslim identity exploring new design for old buildings Given by Shahed Saleem Final lecture in the series: The Bard's House: Yr Ysgwrn, Booking £11 (members of SPAB £10) Snowdonia – A cultural symbol for the people of Wales For further information and to book please go to www.spab.org.uk Given by Niall Phillips and follow the links from ‘What’s On’ and ‘Lectures’ Booking £11 (members of SPAB £10) For further information and to book please go to www.spab.org.uk and follow the links from ‘What’s On’ and ‘Lectures’ Saturday 16 November 1030 for 1100 to 1600 London Centre for Spiritual Direction, St Edmund King & Martyr Network Day: Charism and Credentials Thursday 28 November A day for spiritual directors to explore the dynamic between the 1800 to 2000 St Mary Moorfields work of the Spirit and professional accountability Old Bailey Insight and Legal London – Crime and Punishment For further information, including cost and booking, please go to Seminar www.lcsd.org.uk and follow the links from ‘Courses & Events’ Three speakers will discuss their unique insights into the English legal system and how the law works on a day to day basis from an insider’s point of view Monday 18 November David Tadd, forensics expert and former head of forensic 1305 to 1400 St Mary le Bow investigations and operations at New Scotland Yard; Good Work: Meditation for Personal and Organisational Harry Potter, criminal defence barrister, author, and presenter Transformation of television programmes on the legal system and on capital Father Laurence Freeman OSB talks about his recent book about punishment, who is also a Church of England priest; and how meditation helps to make work good work, while Ian Puddick, a businessman who found himself at the centre transforming the workplace environment through more of a major police operation humanly rich and enjoyable encounters – copies of the book For further information, cost and tickets please go to available after the talk For further information and free registration https://old-bailey.com/seminars/ please go to https://bit.ly/2SkIZ4v

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Monday 4 November — continued

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN NOVEMBER 2019 1305 St Martin Ludgate Recital: William Jack – cello Laure Chan – piano Programme: A selection of their own duos —

Friday 1 November “East Meets West”; “1516”; “Luna Roja”; “Narrandera”; “Air” 1230 St Stephen Walbrook “Can't Help Falling In Love” for solo violin – Organ Recital: Gary Desmond made famous by Elvis Presley, reimagined by Laure Chan “Wonderwall” for solo cello – Oasis – 1315 St Bride Fleet Street reimagined by William Jack Recital: Stuart Raeburn – tenor David Elwin – piano “Can't Feel My Face”; “The Weekend” – Programme: arranged by Laure Chan and William Jack

George Butterworth & A E Houseman Admission is free but donations are gratefully received in aid of 'A Shropshire Lad' and other songs church and recital running costs The songs will be interspersed with the poetry of A E Houseman

Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Tuesday 5 November 1230 St Mary Abchurch Saturday 2 November Organ Recital: Ian Shaw. 1930 St Stephen Walbrook The recital will usually include an improvisation

A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event 1300 St Lawrence Jewry 'Flowers in the Night' Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis

Harlequin Chamber Choir Programme: Maurice Duruflé – Conductor – Amy Bebbington Fugue sur le thème du Carillon des heures Programme: de la Cathédrale de Soissons This will include works by Morten Lauridsen, Sir George Thalben-Ball – Elegy Benjamin Britten, Bob Chilcott , René Clausen, Daniel Elder, Georg Friedrich Handel – Peter Gritton, Paul Mealor, Josef Rheinberg, Kate Rusby Suite from Music for the Royal Fireworks Camille Saint-Saëns, Ed Sheeran, Arthur Sullivan J S Bach – Alle Menschen müssen sterben BWV 643 and John Wilbye, Théodore Dubois – In paradisum: Fiat lux (from Douze Pièces)

Tickets: £23 (premium) £18 (unreserved) £5 (children) — call TicketSource on 0333 666 3366 or book online: 1300 St Stephen Walbrook https://www.brandenburg.org.uk/ flowers-in-the-night/e-vyremq Walbrook Music Trust Recital: Ian Sankey – trombone and follow the links 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Premium tickets include a reserved seat, a programme, and a Recital: Sussex Camerata voucher for a drink which can be redeemed either before the concert or during the interval Rita French – 1st violin Martin Cummings – 2nd violin Lynn Whitley – 1st viola Jane Taunton – 2nd viola Christopher Cooper – cello Monday 4 November Programme: 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Beethoven – String Quintet in C major Op 29

Recital: Ashok Gupta – piano Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Programme: 1315 St Mary at Hill Beethoven – Bagatelles Op 33 Recital: Square Mile Music Series Brahms – Six pieces for Piano Op 118 Gershwin, arr Grainger – Love Walked In Martin Reed & Diana Hinds – violin Evelyn Sanderson – viola Emma Chamberlain – cello Ashok Gupta performs through the joint St Lawrence Jewry and Andrew Blankfield – piano Worshipful Company of Musicians Scheme for Prizewinners of the Company Programme: 1300 St Michael Cornhill Dvořák – Piano Quintet in A major Op 81 Organ Recital: Benjamin Newlove Programme: 1415 St Bride Fleet Street J S Bach – Fantasia and Fugue in G minor BWV 542 Tours of the Church J S Bach – Trio Sonata 3 in D minor BWV 527 Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Leighton – Prelude, Scherzo & Passacaglia Op 41 Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day Vierne – Final, from Symphonie 6 or make a booking by emailing Sally Hannon at: [email protected] 1300 St Stephen Walbrook or telephoning 020 7427 0133. Choral Classics – Music and Readings with the Choral Scholars Special tours for groups can also be arranged

G F Handel – Israel in Egypt Part 2 1800 St Botolph Bishopsgate Choral Classics at St Stephen Walbrook offer thirty minutes of Concert and CD Launch sublime choral music from our Choral Scholars interspersed Sonoro Choir directed by Neil Ferris with readings on a theme. 'In No Strange Land' – the choral music of Martin Bussey

Free with a retiring collection Free admission

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A City Music Society Concert to be given by Tuesday 5 November — continued The Bukolika Piano Trio 1830 The Dutch Church, Austin Friars The opening evening of the Low Countries Film Festival Roma Tic – violin Joanna Gutowska – cello For more information please visit: Anna Szalucka – piano

https://www.dutchchurch.org.uk/event/ Programme: The Festival continues on Wednesday 6 November Haydn – Trio in C Hob XV.27 Ravel – Trio in A minor

Wednesday 6 November Admission is free with a retiring collection 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Walbrook Community Choir 1300 St Olave Hart Street If you like singing, or would like to try it, come and join us in your Recital: Sian Philips – violin Constance Chow – piano 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 1305 St Mary le Bow experienced professional choir directors Recital: Gillian Spragg – piano

1310 St Margaret Lothbury Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series 1305 St Botolph Aldgate Recital: Cupra Duo Caroline Prénat – Lausanne, Switzerland

Sophia Elger – saxophone Aidan Chan – piano 1800 St Mary at Hill Programme: Choral Evensong, followed by Thursday Conversation at 1830 Jules Demeresseman – Fantaisie sur un thème original Evensong will be sung by Seraphim, the St Mary at Hill Choir G F Handel – Adagio and Allegro Polly Toynbee will be in conversation with S Rachmaninov – 14 Romances Op 34 No 14 The Revd Prebendary Rose Hudson-Wilkins. J S Bach – Sonata No 6 in A major .BWV 1035 N Rimsky-Korsakov – Flight of the Bumblebee Polly Toynbee worked for many years at The Guardian before

Free entry with a retiring collection joining the BBC where she was social affairs editor (1988–1995). She then worked at The Independent as a columnist and as associate editor. She later rejoined The Guardian. She has also 1300 St Olave Hart Street written for The Observer and the Radio Times. Recital: EOS Ensemble In 2003 she published Hard Work: Life in Low-pay Britain. For an Paul Evenden – clarinet Angela Najaryan – violin an experimental period she lived voluntarily on the minimum wage, Thomas Ang – piano which was £4.10 per hour at the time. She worked as a hospital

porter in a National Health Service hospital, a dinnerlady in a

primary school, a nursery assistant, a call-centre employee, a cake 1315 St Dunstan in the West factory worker and a care home assistant. The book is critical of Recital: Kiyoka Ohara – flute conditions in low pay jobs in Britain. Currently she serves as

President of the Social Policy Association. She is chair of the

Brighton Festival and deputy treasurer of the Fabian Society. 1315 Temple Church Organ Recital: James Henderson (Sherborne Abbey School) We finish with a glass of wine at 1930 Admission is free All are welcome

1830 The Dutch Church, Austin Friars 1930 St Andrew Holborn

The closing evening of the Low Countries Film Festival 'A Traveller's Notebook' For more information please visit: Orlando Chamber Choir https://www.dutchchurch.org.uk/event/ under their director Lucy Goddard together with Chelys Consort of Viols

1830 St Lawrence Jewry The 25th anniversary of the choir will be celebrated with a

Popchoir rehearsal year-long journey of sound during which the musical seasons throughout Europe will be experienced

Popchoir is for anyone who loves to sing! Stressed-out commuter, Programme: the next Sam Smith, worn out parent or shy shower soprano, This will include works by Banchieri, Byrd, Croce, de Victoria, there's a place here to let your voice out and with no auditions di Lasso, Gabrieli, Guerro, Hassler , Lobo, Morley, Praetorius, and no need to be able to read music there are no excuses! Schütz, Willaert and Wilby Popchoir is fun, relaxed and surprisingly cool. We sing brilliant songs, with fabulous arrangements and have a great time. The full programme, coupled with a fascinating musical itinerary Come and see for yourself can be found on the website Tickets; £15 (concessions £10) from: For more information please visit: http://www.popchoir.com/ https://www.orlandochoir.org.uk/tickets

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Monday 11 November

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN NOVEMBER 2019 - continued 1100 to 1500 St Mary Abchurch

The Spaces Between Friday 8 November by Gram Hilleard 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Opening Day of an Art Exhibition and film screening Organ Recital: Anthony Gritten:

1315 St Bride Fleet Street The exhibition will be open Monday to Friday, 1100 to 1500 Recital: "Keep the Home Fires Burning" commencing Monday 11 November and will close on Monday 18 November Wind & Words of World War 1 Chris Hooker – clarinet Dimitri Kennaway – piano The film screening will be held on: Valerie Fry – poetry Tuesday 12, Thursday 14 & Monday 18 November at 1330 Programme: A Silent Narrator walks 11 journeys through modern London; a city Wind and Words is a recital of clarinet and poetry based on the of often sharp contrasts in its architecture. However, there is much First World War which provides the link between the music and that has not changed significantly over the years. We visit 11 the words. It combines tunes of the period with poems of the churches where we encounter a painting that depicts a place that has time, weaving them into one continuous performance. changed little during the last 300 years. At each, spoken words are Composers featured include Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin heard from a past event. These defined spaces all have a unique and Ivor Novello among many others. Poets and authors energy, their slowly weathering stones carrying the vibrations of past include Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon and G K Chesterton. lives and events; they are ’The Spaces Between’.

Free Admittance – Retiring Collection The exhibition and film screening are free but a donation to The Friends of the City Churches is appreciated Saturday 9 November 1100 St Mary le Bow Bell Ringing for the Lord Mayor's Show 1300 St Lawrence Jewry

1830 St James Garlickhythe Recital: Yu Zhou Zhang – piano Programme: The Wall Chopin – Étude Op 10 No 1 London Chamber Choir Myriad J S Bach – Prelude and Fugue in C# major [WTC Book 1 ]

Conductor – Victoria Longdon Beethoven – Sonata No 26 in Eb major Op 81a Franck – Prélude, Chorale et Fugue FWV 21 9th November 1989, the fall of the Berlin Wall: 1300 St Michael Cornhill A moment in history of particular relevance today in a world where Organ Recital: Eric Chan tangible and intangible walls are being constructed around us. 2019 winner of the Harold Darke Memorial Prize – the top organ Programme: award at the Royal College of Music Rudolf Mauersberger – Wie Liegt Die Stadt So Wüst Programme: J S Bach – Jesu Meine Freude Darke – Bridal Procession in C (1965) Rheinberger – Abendlied J S Bach – Schmücke dich BWV 654 Billy Joel – And So It Goes Franck – Choral 1 in E (1890) Moses Hogan – The Battle of Jericho Bunk – Passacaglia in A minor Op 40

This concert will include spoken word, and lighter music released 1300 St Stephen Walbrook in 1989 such as Billy Joel’s And So It Goes. The programme will Choral Classics – Music and Readings with the Choral Scholars be a mix of light and dark; of music and storytelling, and will serve "They are at rest" as a poignant reminder not just of the dangers of erecting walls of all kinds, but also of the everyday lives which continue around them. Choral Classics at St Stephen Walbrook offer thirty minutes of

Tivkets: £12 in advance or £14 on the door Under 6s are free sublime choral music from our Choral Scholars interspersed with readings on a theme. To purchase tickets in advance please visit: http://myriadsingers.co.uk/ and follow the link at 'in advance' Free with a retiring collection

1930 St Katharine Cree 1305 St Martin Ludgate A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event Recital: Claire Ward – soprano with guitar accompaniment

Programme: Spanish and French music for voice and guitar '20th Century British Choral Masterpieces'

Allegri Singers Admission is free but donations are gratefully received in aid of church and recital running costs Conductor – Stephen Anthony Brown Tuesday 12 November Programme: 1230 St Mary Abchurch This will include works by Arnold Bax, William Henry Harris, Organ Recital: Ian Shaw. Benjamin Britten (Hymn to St Cecilia), Gustav Holst, The recital will usually include an improvisation , Edward Naylor, Charles Villiers Stanford, 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Michael Tippett (Five Spirituals from 'A Child of Our Time') Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis John Tavener, William Walton and Ralph Vaughan Williams Programme: Dieterich Buxtehude – Magnificat Primi Toni BuxWv 203 Tickets: £23 (premium) £18 (unreserved) £5 (children) — J S Bach – Choral Preludes: call TicketSource on 0333 666 3366 or book online: Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam BWV 684 https://www.brandenburg.org.uk/november Vater unser im Himmelreich BWV 682 and follow the links Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy – Sonata No 3 in A major Op 65 Premium tickets include a reserved seat, a programme, and a Henri Mulet – Two pieces from Esquisses Byzantines voucher for a drink which can be redeemed either before the (3) Rosace; (10) Tu es petra concert or during the interval

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EVENTS & CONCERTS IN NOVEMBER 2019 - continued Wednesday 13 November — continued Tuesday 12 November — continued 1315 St Sepulchre without Newgate/Holy Sepulchre London Recital: The Halcyon Quartet – our Ensemble in Residence 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Walbrook Music Trust Recital: Recorder Quartet Millie Ashton – violin I Leidy Sinclair – violin II Nathalie Green-Buckley – viola Hee Yeon Cho – violoncello 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: Big Smoke Brass – UK Free admission

Adam Hebditch – trumpet 1 Jonny Munn – trumpet 2 1315 Temple Church Peter Lewis – flugelhorn 1 Gabriel Askew – flugelhorn 2 Organ Recital: Benjamin Newlove (London)

Joe Tucker – tuba Tom Plumridge – percussion/drum set 1830 St Lawrence Jewry Programme: Popchoir rehearsal G F Handel, arr. P Lewis – The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, from Solomon Popchoir is for anyone who loves to sing! Stressed-out commuter, Bert Appermont, arr. A Hebditch – Section from A Brussels Requiem the next Sam Smith, worn out parent or shy shower soprano, Erroll Garner and Johnny Burke, arr. P Lewis – Misty there's a place here to let your voice out and with no auditions Evelyn Glennie, arr. G Askew – Little Prayer and no need to be able to read music there are no excuses! Bob Thiele and George David Weiss, arr. G Askew – Popchoir is fun, relaxed and surprisingly cool. We sing brilliant What a wonderful world songs, with fabulous arrangements and have a great time. Jonny Bates – Brass Quintet No. 2 Come and see for yourself Lt F J Ricketts, arr. T Plumridge – Colonel Bogey March N Rimsky-Korsakov, arr. P Lewis – Flight of the Bumblebee For more information please visit: http://www.popchoir.com/ Free Admittance – Retiring Collection

1315 St Mary at Hill Recital: Square Mile Music Series Thursday 14 November 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Charlotte Brosnan – soprano Robert Mingay-Smith – piano City of London Boys' School Lunchtime Recital Programme: 'Arias & Chanson' 1305 St Mary le Bow

Recital: Morta Grigaliünaitè – piano 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Tours of the Church 1305 St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield

Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. A City Music Society Concert to be given by Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day James Davison Quartet or make a booking by emailing Sally Hannon at: James Davison – trumpet Sam Watts – piano [email protected] Conor Chaplin – bass Will Glaser – drums or telephoning 020 7427 0133. Special tours for groups can also be arranged Programme: The quartet will present a rich mixture of standards and new works

Wednesday 13 November Admission is free with a retiring collection 1300 St Bartholomew the Less 1305 St Olave Hart Street A City Music Foundation Recital Recital: Mami Shikimori – piano

Giacomo Susani – guitar Programme: 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Works by Frescobaldi, Guiliani and Albèniz Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays "J S Bach at Weimar"

Free Admission with a voluntary donation 1830 All Hallows by the Tower For more information concerning the City Music Foundation Green City: Environment Quiz & Vegan Supper please visit: http://www.citymusicfoundation.org/

1300 St Olave Hart Street Test your knowledge of all things environmental and distinguish Recital: Emilie Capulet – piano climate change fact from hearsay or fiction. A fun quiz is followed by a vegan supper as we put learning into practice and share 1300 St Stephen Walbrook some new vegan recipes.

Walbrook Community Choir All are welcome, but RSVP to: [email protected] More information at Monday 6 November for catering purposes. 1305 St Botolph Aldgate Recital: Susana Gilardoni – soprano David Smith – piano 1930 St Stephen Walbrook

Programme: Concert: Canticum

F Paolo Tosti – Non t'amo più From Venice to Vaughan Williams: Choral Music in the Round Respighi – Nebbie Mussorgsky – Hopak Programme: Glinka – Barcarolla G Gabrieli – Angelus ad pastores ait a 12 Schubert – Du liebst mich nicht O magnum mysterium R Strauss – Wiegenlied Gloria a12 Fauré – Automne Schütz – Jauchzet dem Herren de Falla – Canción del amor dolido Guerrero – Duo Seraphim Carlos López Buchardo – Caminito J S Bach – Singet dem Herrn Vaughan Williams – Mass in G minor Free entry with a retiring collection Tickets: £12-15 from www.canticum.org.uk

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Day workshop for singers: Friday 15 November Come and sing Mexican Baroque Choral Gems 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Organ Recital: Philip Berg with Jagoba Fadrique

This day workshop is part of the 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Iberian and Latin American Music Society's Echoes Festival Recital: Duo Serenata For more information and tickets please visit: Brian Benedict – piano Paul Ellis-Howe – piano ttps://brownpapertickets.com/event/4337367 Programme: Beethoven – Sonata in D major Op 6 1900 St Botolph Bishopsgate Dvořák – Two Slavonic Dances Concert: Choral Treasures of the Mexican Baroque

Op 46 No 1 in C major Lacock Scholars Op 72 No 2 in E minor Director – Greg Skidmore Eleanor Franklin Pike – Valse-Mazurka Constant Lambert – Part of the Iberian and Latin American Music Society's Echoes Festival Trois Pièces Nègres pour les touches blanches For more information and tickets please visit: 1. Aubade 2. Siesta 3. Nocturne https://zespedes400.brownpapertickets.com W Ganz – Galop de Concert – Allons Vite! 1830 St Sepulchre without Newgate/Holy Sepulchre London Free Admittance – Retiring Collection A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event

1315 St Dunstan in the West HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BRANDENBURG! Organ Recital: Jamie Robertson Come and celebrate 10 years of making music with Brandenburg. Saturday 16 November We present a special evening encompassing classical music, jazz, folk, pop and more ….

Tickets: £23 (premium) £18 (unreserved) £5 (children) — call TicketSource on 0333 666 3366 or book online: St Mary Abchurch https://www.brandenburg.org.uk/november and follow the links

Premium tickets include a reserved seat, a programme, and a Saturday 16 November 2019 voucher for a drink which can be redeemed either before the concert or during the interval Melba Coombs Memorial Fund Walks Monday 18 November taking in some 39 City churches 1100 to 1500 The Spaces Between in the company of by Gram Hilleard the Chairman of the Friends of the City Churches Closing Day of an Art Exhibition and film screening and City Guides The film screening takes place at 1330

For more information concerning the exhibition Schedule for the day: please refer to the listing at Monday 11 November 1015 for 1100 Walkers set off on the Western Loop The exhibition and film screening are free but a donation to The Friends of the City Churches is appreciated 1300 approx. Walkers lunch at St Mary Abchurch 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Participants are asked to bring their own refreshments Recital: Will Berry – piano Tea and coffee will be available at the church Will is a young pianist who has recently graduated from the 1330 for 1400 Walkers set off on the Eastern Loop Royal Academy of Music. He is also the winner of the Worshipful Company of Musicians' Young Jazz Musician All are welcome of the Year Award. He will play a selection of his recent Tickets £10 flat rate per person for either or both walks repertoire.

from the Friends Office or on the door or Will Barry performs through the joint St Lawrence Jewry and Eventbrite (£10 – no fee) Worshipful Company of Musicians Scheme for Prizewinners https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/city-churches-marathon-walk-tickets- of the Company 77819138

The Friends of the City Churches, 1300 St Michael Cornhill Church of St Mary Abchurch, Organ Recital: Asher Oliver Abchurch Lane, London EC4N 7BA Programme:

email: [email protected] Bruhns – Präludium in E minor Franck – Prélude, Fugue & Variation Telephone: 020 7626 1555 Leighton – Paean Alain – Postlude pour l'Office de Complies For more information about the Fund Howells – Psalm Prelude, Set 1/3 please refer to the front page of City Events J S Bach – Prelude & Fugue in C minor BWV 546

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1315 Temple Church Monday 18 November — continued Organ Recital: Roger Sayer (Temple Church) 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Choral Classics – Music and Readings with the Choral Scholars 1800 St Mary Abchurch "The Lord's my Shepherd" Recital: In aid of the Melba Coombs Memorial Fund

Choral Classics at St Stephen Walbrook offer thirty minutes of Soprano Iúnó Connolly and pianist Dylan Perez will perform a sublime choral music from our Choral Scholars interspersed with readings on a theme. song recital to include works by Schubert, Fauré, Liszt, Rimsky- Korsakov, Poulenc and others Free with a retiring collection Tickets: £20 from the Friends office. For contact information Tuesday 19 November please refer to the 'box' display on page 10. 1230 St Mary Abchurch Organ Recital: Ian Shaw. 1830 St Lawrence Jewry The recital will usually include an improvisation Popchoir rehearsal 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis Popchoir is for anyone who loves to sing! Stressed-out commuter, Programme: the next Sam Smith, worn out parent or shy shower soprano, Jehan Alain – Suite for organ there's a place here to let your voice out and with no auditions Judith Bingham – St Bride assisted by angels and no need to be able to read music there are no excuses! Sir Edward Elgar – Popchoir is fun, relaxed and surprisingly cool. We sing brilliant Prelude and Angels' Farewell songs, with fabulous arrangements and have a great time. Allegro Maestoso; first movement from Sonata No 1 in G Come and see for yourself

For more information please visit: http://www.popchoir.com/ 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Walbrook Music Trust Recital: Byron Consort

1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: Dinah Pounds – flute Adam Pounds – guitar Programme: Thursday 21 November J-P Rameau, arr. A Pounds – Gavotte and Passepied 1305 St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield

J S Bach – Sonata No 1 in C major BWV 1033 A City Music Society Concert to be given by G F Handel – Sonata in E minor Trinity Laban Choir M Blavet – Sonata No 4 in A minor Conductor – Stephen Jackson Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Programme: Schütz – Motets for Advent 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Brahms – Drei Gesänge Op 42 Tours of the Church Distler – Motets from Geistliche Chormusik Op 12 Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Bax – This Worldes Joie

Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day Admission is free with a retiring collection or make a booking by emailing Sally Hannon at: [email protected] 1300 St Olave Hart Street or telephoning 020 7427 0133. Recital: Emilia de Geer – piano Special tours for groups can also be arranged 1305 St Mary le Bow Recital: Jenny Hughes – piano Wednesday 20 November 1300 St Stephen Walbrook 1310 St Margaret Lothbury

Walbrook Community Choi Organ Recital: International Celebrity Series

More information at Monday 6 November at 1300 Iris Rieg – Cologne, Germany

1305 St Botolph Aldgate 1900 St Mary Moorfields Recital: Ivan Hovorun – piano Messiah

Programme: performed by the Merry Opera Company Beethoven – Piano Sonata No 29 in Bb major Op 106 In this dramatisation of Handel's immortal work, twelve strangers "Hammerklavier" seek spiritual comfort in their struggle to understand the world. Free entry with a retiring collection Singing together in a church, they inspire each other to pick up the ragged ends of their faith and look to the future with hope. 1300 St Olave Hart Street Recital: Tanja Roos – violin Ilana Mordkovitch-Roos – piano Tickets: £16 (under 16s £19) from www.merryopera.co.uk or 03336 663 366 or on the door Doors open at 1830 1315 St Dunstan in the West Recital: Ann Hooley – solo violin

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EVENTS & CONCERTS IN NOVEMBER 2019 - continued Saturday 23 November — continued

1930 St Andrew Holborn Friday 22 November Concert: The Camden Choir with the Bromley Adult Choir 1230 St Stephen Walbrook and the Green Street Green Choir

Organ Recital: Matthew Blaiden accompanied by the London City Orchestra Conductor – Julian Willamson 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: The Lucent Duo Programme: Wagner – Overture to the Flying Dutchman Elisabeth Turmo – violin Elena Toponogova – piano (Guest conductor – Philip Keller) Programme: Sibelius – The Oceanides Schumann – Sonata for violin & piano No 1 in A minor Op 105 Vaughan Williams – A Sea Symphony Medtner – Sonata for violin and piano No 1 in B minor Op 21 Rimsky-Korsakov (transcription by Fritz Kreisler) – Tickets available at the door – £15 (students and under-18s £10) Danse orientale (from Scheherezade) or online: https://www.camdenchoir.london/events/

Free Admittance – Retiring Collection

1315 St Dunstan in the West Sunday 24 November Organ Recital: Martin Ellis — A Recital for St Cecilia's Day 1830 St Anne's Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill A Service of Lutheran Vespers with music 1930 St Katharine Cree performed by the City Bach Collective A Brandenburg Choral Festival Event J S Bach – Cantata BWV 163 Nur jedem das Seine Martin Mass for Double Choir together with other German baroque music, performed Pegasus Chamber Choir as in Bach's time on period instruments.

Conductor – Quintin Beer Free admission with a voluntary collection

Programme: Monday 25 November The centrepiece of the concert will be the stunning 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Mass for Double Choir by Frank Martin Recital: Albert Lau – piano The programme will also include works by Bairstow, Byrd, Programme: Clemens, Harris, Holst, Purcell and Victoria Clara Schumann (née Wieck) – For the full programme list please visit: Variations on a theme by Robert Schumann Op 20 https://www.brandenburg.org.uk/november and follow the links Fanny Hensel (née Mendelssohn) –

Four 'Lieder für das Pianoforte' Tickets: £23 (premium) £18 (unreserved) £5 (children) — Chopin – Ballade No 3 in Ab major Op 47 call TicketSource on 0333 666 3366 or book online: Liszt – Mephisto Waltz No 1 S 514 https://www.brandenburg.org.uk/november and follow the links

Premium tickets include a reserved seat, a programme, and a 1300 St Michael Cornhill voucher for a drink which can be redeemed either before the Organ Recital: Rupert Gough concert or during the interval Programme: Buxtehude – Präludium in D major BuxWV 139 1930 St Mary le Bow Vivaldi arr J S Bach – Concerto in A minor Concert: The Iken Scholars Alain – Variations sur Jannequin

Director – Matthew Dunn Villette – Elévation Op 22 Tournemire transcr Gough – Petite Rhapsodie improvisée Treasures of the Dow Partbooks Franck – Chorale 3 in A minor Programme: Works by John Taverner, Robert Parsons, Robert White, 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Thomas Tallis and William Byrd Choral Classics – Music and Readings with the Choral Scholars

Tickets: £10 on the door Choral Classics at St Stephen Walbrook offer thirty minutes of

A full list of the works to be performed may be found at: sublime choral music from our Choral Scholars interspersed www.ikenscholars.co.uk/future-performances with readings on a theme.

Free with a retiring collection Saturday 23 November 1800 St Lawrence Jewry Concert: 'O Radiant Dawn' 1305 St Martin Ludgate Recital: Adam Parrish – piano Barts Chamber Choir Programme: Conductor – Katie Thomas Matthew Sharp – cello For more information please refer to the website: Programme: http://www.stmartin-within-ludgate.org.uk/music/ Music on the theme of Light with works by MacMillan, Rutter, Admission is free but donations are gratefully received in aid of Magalhaes, Tallis, Whitacre and Gjeilo church and recital running costs Tickets: £15 from: barts-choir.com and follow the links

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Tuesday 26 November 1830 St Lawrence Jewry 1230 St Mary Abchurch Popchoir rehearsal Organ Recital: Ian Shaw. The recital will usually include an improvisation Popchoir is for anyone who loves to sing! Stressed-out commuter,

1300 St Lawrence Jewry the next Sam Smith, worn out parent or shy shower soprano, Organ Recital: James Carpenter (London) there's a place here to let your voice out and with no auditions Programme: and no need to be able to read music there are no excuses! Dieterich Buxtehude – Prelude, Fugue and Ciacona in C BuxWv 137 Popchoir is fun, relaxed and surprisingly cool. We sing brilliant J S Bach – Canonic variations on 'Von Himmel hoch' BWV 769 songs, with fabulous arrangements and have a great time. Come and see for yourself Oskar Lindberg – Sonata in G minor For more information please visit: http://www.popchoir.com/ 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Walbrook Music Trust Recital: Connor Heraghty – piano Thursday 28 November 1315 St Bride Fleet Street 1305 St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield Recital: Robert Bridge – piano A City Music Society Concert to be given by Programme: Chopin – Trois Nouvelles Études B 130 James Kreiling – piano

Schumann – Six movements from Carnaval Op 9 Programme:

Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Liszt – La lugubre gondola McCabe – Tenebrae Beethoven – Sonata in Ab Op 110 1315 St Mary at Hill Recital: Square Mile Music Series Admission is free with a retiring collection

Ellen Falconer – piano 1300 St Olave Hart Street Programme: Frank Martin – 8 Préludes Recital: Leah Stuttard – medieval harp, voice, bell G Enescu – Toccata from Suite No 2 Deborah Catterall – voice, singing bowl

S Rachmaninov – Preludes An intimate and loving look at Mary through the eyes of medieval song, liturgical chant and drama, with readings from the fascinating 1415 St Bride Fleet Street gnostic gospel of Mary Magdalene. Painted as a sinner and Tours of the Church prostitute by the early church, we will reclaim Magdalene, who, Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. in the words of Claire Pfann, academic dean at the University of Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day the Holy Land in Jerusalem, "must be seen for what she was: or make a booking by emailing Sally Hannon at: an independent woman who has discretionary time and wealth [email protected] coming from the city of Magdala, not identified by a father or a or telephoning 020 7427 0133. husband, whose life was dramatically restored, healed, and Special tours for groups can also be arranged changed by her encounter with this Jewish itinerant teacher and healer, Jesus of Nazareth.” Wednesday 27 November 1300 St Stephen Walbrook 1310 All Hallows by the Tower Walbrook Community Choir Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling More information at Monday 6 November at1300

1305 St Botolph Aldgate 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Recital: Christian Monti – piano Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays "J S Bach at Leipzig"

Programme: 1930 St Andrew Holborn J S Bach – French Suite No 4 BWV 815 A Concert to be given by Chopin – Étude Op 10 No 9 Brahms – Fantasien Op 116 Nos 1 – 3 London Lawyers' Music Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

Scriabin – Étude Op 8 No 5 Conductor – Chris Oakley Free entry with a retiring collection Programme: Cherubini – Requiem in C minor 1300 St Olave Hart Street Recital: Susana Vierira – soprano Cicely Hu – mezzo soprano Tickets: £12 Children £5 Erin Rossington – mezzo soprano For more information and tickets please visit: Susan Waters – piano www.tickettailor.com/events/lawyersmusic/291425

1315 St Dunstan in the West Recital: Mine Dogantan-Dack & Marmara Piano Trio

1315 Temple Church Organ Recital: Charles Andrews (Temple Church)

14 We are indebted to Dickon Love, Company Bellringer to the EVENTS & CONCERTS IN NOVEMBER 2019 - continued Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks for the following information

Friday 29 November

1230 St Stephen Walbrook Open bellringing performances Organ Recital: Mark Brafield currently scheduled for the City of London in November 2019

The following four performances are for the 382nd anniversary 1300 St Mary Abchurch of the foundation of the Ancient Society of College Youths in the City of London in 1637 Concert: Friday 1 November It was a lover and his lass: A whimsical look at love 1800 3 hour performance on the Royal Jubilee Bells by the Ancient Society of College Youths Gloriana: Women in Harmony of Spliced Surprise Major in six methods at St James Garlickhythe Conductor – Deborah Miles-Johnson Accompanist: Linden Innes-Hopkins Saturday 2 November 1000 3½ hour performance on the bells Programme: by the Ancient Society of College Youths Music from the Renaissance to the present day by Morley, at St Lawrence Jewry

Vaughan Williams, Brahms, Bartók, McDowell, Weelkes, 1000 3½ hour performance on the bells Coward, Giordano and Rutter, exploring the many aspects by the Ancient Society of College Youths of love, from the pastoral idyll to the dating game and Cambridge Youths and Cambridge University Guild of Spliced Maximus in six methiods Admission free; retiring collection at St Magnus the Martyr

1030 3½ hour performance on the bells Save the date! by the Ancient Society of College Youths of Spliced Maximus in six methiods at St Michael Cornhill This concert will be repeated Tuesday 6 November on Wednesday 3 December 2019 at St Stephen Walbrook 1400 3 hour performance on the Royal Jubilee Bells by the Durham University Society at St James Garlickhythe

Saturday 9 November 1315 St Bride Fleet Street 1000 3½ hour performance on the bells Organ Recital: Geoff Howells for the Lord Mayor's Show Programme: at St Lawrence Jewry

J S Bach – Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 538 1400 3 hour performance on the Royal Jubilee Bells Charles Camilleri – Wine of Peace (1976) by the Middlesex County Association for the Lord Mayor's Show at St James Garlickhythe Simon Preston – Alleluyas (1965) J S Bach – Variations on 'Sei gegrüsset, Jesu gütig' BWV 768 Tuesday 12 November 1345 3 hour performance on the Jubilee Bells Free Admittance – Retiring Collection by the Ancient Society of College Youths of Spliced Royal in five methods at St Dunstan in the West

Saturday 16 November 1315 St Dunstan in the West 1000 3½ hour performance on the bells at St Magnus the Martyr Recital: Tom Lilburn – countertenor & Luke Bond – organ Saturday 23 November 1000 3½ hour performance on the bells by the Ancient Society of College Youths of Cyclic Spliced Maximus 1900 St Sepulchre without Newgate/Holy Sepulchre London at St Magnus the Martyr

Evening Recital: The Halcyon Quartet 1400 3 hour performance on the bells by the Durham University Society Millie Ashton – violin I Leidy Sinclair – violin II at St Vedast Foster Lane

Nathalie Green-Buckley – viola Hee Yeon Cho – violoncello Sunday 24 November 1230 6 hour performance on the Royal Jubilee Bells A relaxed evening of Music and Wine by the Ancient Society of College Youths of Spliced Major in 40 methods with our Ensemble in Residence at St James Garlickhythe

Programme: 1400 3½ hour performance on the bells Alongside Beethoven's String Quartet in F major Op 18 No 1 by the Durham University Society the Halcyons look forward to collaborating with pianist at St Magnus the Martyr

Orly Watson to perform Mozart's famous Clarinet Concerto Monday 25 November arranged for Piano Quintet 1800 3 hour performance on the Jubilee Bells by the St James' Guiild Tickets: Adult – £15; Student – £10; Child (under 18) – £7 at St Dunstan in the West For tickets visit: https://hsl.church/events and follow the links Saturday 30 November 1030 6 hour performance on the Royal Jubilee Bells by the Ancient Society of College Youths 1930 St Botolph Bishopsgate at St James Garlickhythe Christmas Concert with award-winning a cappella choruses

London City Singers and Meantime Chorus City Events is published by Traditional and popular music followed by festive refreshments The Friends of the City Churches Information and tickets at: https://londoncitysingers.co.uk in conjunction with the Archdeaconry of London and printed by Copyprints:

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December 2019 & January 2020 Published by FCC in conjunction with the Archdeaconry of London

This issue of City Events is dominated rightly by the Festivals of Advent, Christmas and Epiphany. There will be numerous special services held in the City churches and these, over 100, are listed in the ensuing pages. It will be observed that a number of the services focus on a specific charity with the thoroughly lauudable aim of raising funds for that charity. Each of these occasions will also provide those attending with a wonderful opportunity to sing carols together with wonderful choirs.

One particular event, not a service, will enable participants to experience very special choral singing. A workshop will be held on Sunday 8th December at St Bride Fleeet Street devoted to that iconic mastterpiece, Handel's Messiah. Full details are given at the listing on page 10. This wwill be a musical and liturgical experience not to be missed.

On Monday 9th December at St Michael Cornhill a musical and spiritual experience of a different kind will take place. In what has become an annual event Jeremiah Stephenson will perform Olivier Messiaen's notable work for organ — La Nativité du Seigneur. This iconic nine‐movement musical meditation gives tthe 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.

If authenticity is one's objective then the performance of J S Bach's Christmas Oratorio on Friday 13th December at St Lawrence Jewry is not to be missed. The German Choir London will be singing tthat choral masterpiece in German. More seasonal music being sung in German is to be experienced on Friday 20th December at St Bartholomew the Great. The event, appropriately entitled 'Stille Nacht', is a carol service celebrating the Christmas muusic of the German‐speaking countries. There is the added attraction of glühwein and stollen being available before and after the service. Full details of the programme of music to be sung are to be found at the listing.

Choral music will obviously be an important part of the season's services and one in particular is the Mid‐Advent Carol Service to be held on Gaudete Sunday – Sunday 15th December at St Bartholomew the Great. The centrepiece of the music to be sung will be renditions of the seven O . This promises to be a veritable feast of glorious music in the Anglican choral tradition.

A seasonal event of a different kind will take place on Friday 6th December — the Aldgate Lantern Parade and Winter Fete. There will be community singing with choirs, dance, food, drink, activities, and the lighting of the Aldgate Square Christmas Tree. This will be a striking use of the recently completedd excellent civic amenity of Aldgate Square which has replaced what was a very large traffic island upon which the City church of St Botolph Aldgate was effectively marooned. This has all changed – very much for the better.

In the New Year the annual commemoration of the life of Admiral Arthur Phillip will take place on Monday 20th January at St Mary le Bow. Admiral Arthur Phillip was born near Cheapside and 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 in due course became the new nation of Australia. All are welcome to attend this important service. An address, a special feature of the service, will be given on a subjject relevant to the life of Admiral Arthur Phillip.

The words above give only a small taste of the many services and events being held in the City churches at this key time in the ecclesiastical calendar. We hope that the following pages will provide closer study and subsequent enjoyment and fulfilment. Thus It only remains for the team at City Events to convey seasonal greetings and good wishes 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

2 Tuesday ─ continued REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr

IN DECEMBER 2019 & JANUARY 2020 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Woolnoth 1230 Holy Communion (said) St Olave Hart Street 1300 Holy Communion (Not 10, 24 or 31 December) The entries below show the normal pattern of services for City Churches and a All Hallows by the Tower few churches ‘just over the City borders’. Entries are for Church of England 1300 RC Mass St Etheldreda Ely Place services except where indicated otherwise. ‘1st Monday’,‘2nd Monday’ etc refer 1300 to 1400 (come any time) Contemporary Worship to the 1st Monday, 2nd Monday etc of the month. Holy Sepulchre London (St Sepulchre without Newgate)

1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate Every effort is made to ensure accuracy, but even where not specifically noted 1305 Meditation (in the crypt chapel) (Not 24 or 31 December) St Mary le Bow below, the services shown are subject to change at Bank or other holidays 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields and immediately before, during and after major festivals and holy days (in 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn particular Christmas, New Year and Easter), as well as during the summer 1310 Eucharist (For 17 and 24 December see Special Services) months (in particular during August). You are strongly advised to contact churches St Andrew Holborn to check the details. 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, following buffet lunch at 1300 (Carol Services on 10 For a list of weekend (particularly Sunday) services please go to the and 17 December; no talks on 24 or 31 December) Friends of the City Churches website at www.london-city-churches.org.uk St Botolph Aldersgate and follow the links from ‘Events’ and ‘City Events’. 1310 to 1340 Bible Talk, with sandwich lunch available St Helen Bishopsgate 1310 Holy Communion St Margaret Lothbury Monday 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn 0715 Jewish Daily Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic orthodox rite) 1700 to 1800 ‘ A Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship (0700 on 1st day of Hebrew religious month) For details please see Come and go as you wish (Not in December) St Bride Fleet Street www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/ Bevis Marks Synagogue 1700 to 1730 ‘Words of Hope’ – quiet informal reflective service (Please 0730 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe telephone 0207 588 2638 to check) St Clement Eastcheap 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 0800 Meditation (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) (Not 24 or 31 December) St Mary le Bow 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 (Not 24 December – 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) (Not 30 December) St Mary le Bow see Special Services) St Mary Moorfields 0830 Morning Prayer (Not 30 December) All Hallows by the Tower 1830 Choral Evensong (traditional) (Choral Eucharist on 3rd Tuesday) 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate Holy Sepulchre London (St Sepulchre without Newgate) 1215 Eucharist St Michael Paternoster Royal 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster Wednesday 1245 Holy Communion (Not 23 or 30 December or 6 January) St Mary at Hill 0715 Jewish Daily Service (see Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1300 RC Mass St Etheldreda Ely Place 0730 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 0745 RC Morning Prayer (Not 25 December or 1 January) 1305 to 1330 Meditation Group St Vedast alias Foster St Mary Moorfields 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1310 Eucharist St Andrew Holborn 0800 Morning Taizé Chant (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary 1700 to 1800 ‘A Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 0805 RC Mass (Not 25 December or 1 January) St Mary Moorfields Come and go as you wish (Not in December or on Bank Holidays) 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street St Bride Fleet Street 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) (Not 25 December or 1 January) 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe St Mary le Bow 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 0830 Morning Prayer (Not 25 December or 1 January) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square All Hallows by the Tower 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) (Not 30 December) St Mary le Bow 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 St Mary Moorfields 0830 to 0915 Holy Communion (Not 25 December or 1 January) 1800 Choral Evensong (BCP) (During university terms) (For 2 December St Lawrence Jewry see Special Services) St Michael Cornhill 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn 1205 RC Mass (For 25 December see Special Services) Tuesday St Joseph Bunhill Row 0715 Jewish Daily Service (see Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 0730 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1230 (1st Wednesday) Eucharist followed by discussion (Please check on 0730 Morning Prayer (in the church) (Not 24 or 31 December) St Mary le Bow www.stethelburgas.org) St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate 0745 Holy Communion (said) followed by coffee & croissants) (Not 24 or 31 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr December) St Mary at Hill 1230 Holy Communion St Mary Abchurch 0745 Eucharist, followed by breakfast (Not 24 or 31 December) St Mary le Bow 1245 to 1315 (3rd Wednesday) Society of Friends (Quaker) Meeting for Worship 0745 RC Morning Prayer St Mary Moorfields Bunhill Fields Meeting House, Quaker Court, Banner St EC1Y 8QQ 0745 to 0915 ‘Start: Stop’:– start the day by stopping to reflect – 10 minute 1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal worship and teaching – come and go as reflections beginning every 15 minutes - just drop in you wish St Margaret Lothbury St Stephen Walbrook 1300 RC Mass St Etheldreda Ely Place 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1305 Eucharist (in the church) (Not 25 December or 1 January) 0800 Morning Prayer (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary St Mary le Bow 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) St Michael Cornhill 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 (Not 25 December or 1 January) 0805 RC Mass St Mary Moorfields St Mary Moorfields 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn 0830 Morning Prayer (Not 24 or 31 December) All Hallows by the Tower 1310 to 1340 ‘Moorgate Talks’ Bible Talk, following buffet lunch at 1300, 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate normally at the cellar bar at The Gable, 25 Moorgate, EC2R 6AR 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn Linked with St Botolph Aldersgate 1215 Eucharist (BCP) St James Garlickhythe (In December at All Hallows on the Wall; London Wall Carol 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster Services on 11 &19 December, no talks on 25 December or 1 January 1230 Eucharist St Bartholomew the Less For subsequent January dates please check on www.moorgatetalks.org) 1230 to 1300 Eucharist (said) with address (Not 24 or 31 December) 1310 Choral Eucharist (Not 4 or 25 December) St Botolph Bishopsgate St Dunstan in the West 1315 Eucharist (said) (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street /continued /continued

Thursday ─ continued 3 REGULAR WEEKDAY SERVICES 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) IN DECEMBER 2019 & JANUARY 2020 − continued Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) (Not 26 December) St Mary le Bow 1800 (Normally 1st Thursday) Choral Evensong, with ‘Thursday Conversation’ Wednesday ─ continued at 1830 (Please check on www.stmary-at-hill.org) St Mary at Hill 1700 to 1800 ‘ A Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 (Not 26 December) Come and go as you wish (Not in December) St Bride Fleet Street St Mary Moorfields 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 1805 Eucharist (in the church) (Not 26 December) St Mary le Bow Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1900 City of London House of Prayer - Equip Service - Prayer and Worship 1730 Evening Prayer (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary (Free Church) City Temple 1730 Sung Eucharist, followed by refreshments St Mary le Strand 1900 (1st Thursday) Evensong in the City - Choral Evensong (BCP) followed by 1745 Choral Evensong (during legal term-time – not in August or September) refreshments (Most months - please check on www.greatstbarts.com) (For Wednesdays in December see Special Services) Temple Church St Bartholomew the Great 1745 Evening Prayer (in the church) (Not 25 December or 1 January) St Mary le Bow Friday 1800 Taizé Service (For 18 December see Special Services Not 25 0715 Jewish Daily Service (see Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue December or 1 January) All Hallows by the Tower 0745 RC Morning Prayer (Not 27 December) St Mary Moorfields 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 (Not 25 December or 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1 January) St Mary Moorfields 0800 Morning Taizé Chant (Moot Community) St Mary Aldermary 1800 Eucharist (Please check on www.stjamesgarlickhythe.org) 0805 RC Mass (Not 27 December) St Mary Moorfields St Michael Paternoster Royal 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1830 Meditation Group ‘Stressed in the City’ (Moot Community) 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) (Not 27 December) St Mary le Bow St Mary Aldermary 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1900 Sung Eucharist St Andrew Holborn 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1930 City of London House of Prayer – Men’s Prayer Meeting (Free Church) 1230 Pastoral Conversation or Confession (Sacrament Chapel) (Not 27 City Temple December) St Mary le Bow 1300 RC Mass St Etheldreda Ely Place Thursday 1305 Eucharist (in the church) (Not 27 December) St Mary le Bow 0715 Jewish Daily Service (see Monday) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 0730 Morning Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn 0745 RC Morning Prayer (Not 26 December) St Mary Moorfields 1315 to 1400 Holy Communion (Not 27 December) St Lawrence Jewry 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1700 to 1800 ‘A Space for Silence’– contemplation, reflection and silent worship 0805 RC Mass (Not 26 December) St Mary Moorfields Come and go as you wish (Not in December) St Bride Fleet Street 0815 Morning Prayer (in the crypt) St Bride Fleet Street 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 0815 Morning Prayer (in the church) (Not 26 December) St Mary le Bow Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 0830 Eucharist (Not 26 December or 2 January) All Hallows by the Tower 1800 Paraklesis (replaced on 1st Friday and during fasting periods by Service 0830 Morning Prayer St Giles Cripplegate of Holy Unction), followed at 1900 to 2200 by Catechesis and Confessions 0900 Morning Prayer St Andrew Holborn (Romanian Orthodox) St Dunstan in the West 1210 Holy Communion (For 12 December see Special Services Not 26 1800 RC Evening Prayer, following Rosary at 1730 (Not 27 December) December) St Botolph Bishopsgate St Mary Moorfields 1215 to 1250 Bible Talk, with sandwich lunch available, followed by 1830 Jewish Friday Evening Service (Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic Question Time St Helen Bishopsgate orthodox rite) (1930 in summer months – please check on 1215 Eucharist (BCP) St James Garlickhythe www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/) Bevis Marks Synagogue 1215 Mass St Vedast alias Foster 1900 City of London House of Prayer – Pursuit Service – Prayer and Worship 1230 RC Mass St Bartholomew the Less (Free Church) City Temple 1230 Low Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1245 to 1330 Choral Eucharist St Stephen Walbrook 1250 to 1400 (any time) Informal worship and teaching – come and go as SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS you wish St Mary Woolnoth IN DECEMBER 2019 1300 RC Mass St Etheldreda Ely Place 1300 to 1330 (Normally 1st Thursday – please check on www.stgilesnewsite.co.uk) Private prayer and reflection St Giles Cripplegate Sunday 1 December 1300 Eucharist (normally choral on 1st Thursday (For 5 and 19 December see 1730 Advent Carol Service St Bride Fleet Street Special Services For 26 December and 2 January please check on 1730 Advent Carol Service St James Garlickhythe www.stmargaretpattens.org In January choral service on 9 January) 1800 Advent Carol Service St Mary le Strand St Margaret Pattens 1830 Advent Carol Service St Bartholomew the Great 1305 Eucharist (said) St Botolph Aldgate 1305 Holy Communion, followed by tea and biscuits St Katharine Cree Monday 2 December 1305 RC Mass, following Rosary at 1230 St Mary Moorfields 1230 Holy Communion (BCP) for advent, followed by refreshments 1305 to 1335 ‘St Nick's Talks’ Bible Talk Sandwiches available from 1300 (Carol Service on 19 December) St Nicholas Cole Abbey St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1310 Mass St Alban the Martyr Holborn 1300 The Bank Churches’ Advent Carol Service All welcome 1310 Eucharist (For 19 December see Special Services) St Andrew Holborn St Stephen Walbrook 1310 to 1350 Bible Talk, with sandwich lunch available, followed by 1800 Advent Carol Service by Candlelight (You are advised to arrive Question Time St Helen Bishopsgate early) St Michael Cornhill 1315 to 1345 Lunchtime Service (Free Church) City Temple 1900 Central London Samaritans Advent Carol Service (See the listing in 1315 Holy Communion (Currently regular services at this church are undergoing the Events Section for further information) St Stephen Walbrook reorganisation Hitherto services have recently taken place on the last Thursday of the month – not in December) St Martin within Ludgate Tuesday 3 December 1315 Holy Communion (BCP said) (during legal term-time – not in August 1800 Fight for Sight Carol Service (See the listing in the Events Section or September) Temple Church for further information) St Stephen Walbrook 1700 Evening Prayer St Andrew Holborn 1700 to 1800 ‘ A Space for Silence’ – contemplation, reflection and silent worship 1830 Short Evening Service with Advent hymns and homily Come and go as you wish (Not in December) St Bride Fleet Street (Followed at 1900 by Parish Supper in The Café Below – 1715 Evening Prayer (BCP) St James Garlickhythe to enquire about tickets - £30 in advance - please e-mail /continued [email protected]) St Mary le Bow /continued

4 Monday 16 December SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS 1230 Holy Communion (BCP), followed by tea and sandwiches IN DECEMBER 2019 – continued St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1300 Parish Festival of Lessons and Carols St Michael Cornhill 1800 Temple Church Carol Service (tickets not required) Wednesday 4 December (The same service is also sung on 15 December at 1115 - 1310 Choral Advent Carol Service St Botolph Bishopsgate tickets required – and 18 December at 1800 – tickets not required) 1800 Advent Carol Service, sung by the Temple Church Choir Temple Church (Tickets not required) Temple Church 1830 A Ceremony of Carols 1900 The Haemophilia Society Carol Service A carol service containing Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols, with a For further information and ticket prices and to book tickets please sequence of readings and hymns for the whole congregation go to https://tinyurl.com/y3ybnf8c St Botolph Bishopsgate St Bartholomew the Great Thursday 5 December 1300 Music and Readings for Advent St Margaret Pattens Tuesday 17 December 1800 for 1830 SAVE Britain's Heritage Christmas Carol Service 1300 Traditional Carol Service with choir, followed by refreshments For details please refer to the listing on page 8 St Mary le Strand St Andrew Holborn 1900 The Eve Appeal Festival of Carols at Christmas 1300 Lunchtime Carols A shortened carol service to fit into the For further information and ticket prices and to book tickets please lunchtime of a busy day St Bartholomew the Great go to https://eveappeal.org.uk/ and follow the links from ‘Get 1300 Carols for Choir and Audience, with readings for Christmas Involved’ and ‘Campaigns & Events’ St Botolph Bishopsgate St Lawrence Jewry 1800 Service of St Bartholomew the Great Sunday 8 December 1800 Advent Carol Service, with music by Chantage Choir, directed by Wednesday 18 December James Davey All welcome – followed by refreshments 1305 Community Carols St Botolph Aldgate St Dunstan in the West 1310 Choral Eucharist of the Advent St Botolph Bishopsgate Monday 9 December 1315 Parish Service of Lessons and Carols, sung by Freshfields Choir 1230 Eucharist for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, with address Followed by refreshments St Dunstan in the West St Dunstan in the West 1315 Lunchtime Carol Sing-Along (tickets not required) Tuesday 10 December Temple Church 1800 Parish and Ward Carol Service, followed by refreshments 1800 Taizé Prayer around the Crib All Hallows by the Tower St Andrew by the Wardrobe 1800 Carol Service St Mary at Hill 1830 Lessons and Carols Service Dutch Church, Austin Friars 1800 Parish Carol Service, followed by refreshments 1830 Parish Carol Service (RC) St Etheldreda Ely Place St Stephen Walbrook 1900 The Multiple Sclerosis Society Carols by Candlelight 1800 Temple Church Carol Service (tickets not required) For further information and ticket prices and to book tickets please (The same service is also sung on 15 December at 1115 - tickets go to https://www.mssociety.org.uk/ and enter ‘carols’ in the required – and 16 December at 1800 – tickets not required) search box St Botolph Bishopsgate Temple Church

Wednesday 11 December 1900 Advent Procession and Eucharist with choir, followed by 1310 Choral Eucharist of the Advent St Botolph Bishopsgate refreshments St Andrew Holborn 1800 A Christmas Celebration with Carols, sung by the Temple Singers 1900 Evening Carols (Services at this church are primarily in Welsh, (Tickets not required) Temple Church with full translations provided) St Benet Paul’s Wharf

Thursday 12 December Thursday 19 December 1210 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate 1200 Fleet Street Carols (repeated at 1700) All welcome – you 1900 Carol Service in aid of Providence Row, helping people affected are advised to arrive early St Bride Fleet Street by homelessness since 1860 St Mary Moorfields 1300 ‘Express’ Carol Service – A carol service in under 25 minutes Saturday 14 December St Andrew Holborn 1830 Austrian Christmas Service - readings, music and traditional 1300 Lunchtime Carols A shortened carol service to fit into the Austrian carols in English and German lunchtime of a busy day St Bartholomew the Great St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Mary at Hill 1300 Carol Service St Margaret Pattens 1305 Parish Christmas Carol Service Sunday 15 December All welcome – come when you can, leave when you must 1030 All age worship with Nativity St Botolph Aldgate St Mary le Bow 1030 Parish Carols St James Garlickhythe 1310 Parish Carol Service with the Choir and Band of Coopers’ 1100 Choral Eucharist St Michael Cornhill Company and Coborn School Followed by refreshments 1115 Temple Church Carol Service St Botolph Bishopsgate Tickets required – priority given to members of the Inns of Court 1700 Fleet Street Carols All welcome - you are advised to arrive early For tickets please contact [email protected] St Bride Fleet Street The same service will be sung again on 16 and 18 December at 1730 Lord Mayor’s Carol Service, followed by refreshments 1800, for which tickets are not required Temple Church All welcome St Lawrence Jewry 1500 Afternoon Carols (Services at this church are primarily in Welsh, 1830 Traditional Carols by Candlelight All Hallows by the Tower with full translations provided) St Benet Paul’s Wharf 1600 Festival of Lessons and Carols All Hallows by the Tower Friday 20 December 1730 Plainsong Evensong followed by Britten’s Ceremony of Carols 1830 Stille Nacht A carol service celebrating the Christmas music St Bride Fleet Street of the German-speaking countries St Bartholomew the Great 1830 Tomorrow I will come: Mid-Advent Carol Service A service linking Advent with Christmas, based on the great O Sunday 22 December Antiphons used in the seven days leading up to Christmas Eve 1730 Service of Nine Lessons and Carols St Bride Fleet Street St Bartholomew the Great 1830 Service of Nine Lessons and Carols St Bartholomew the Great

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SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS Wednesday 8 January IN DECEMBER 2019 – continued 1310 Festal Choral Eucharist of the Epiphany St Botolph Bishopsgate 1900 Mass of the Epiphany, followed by refreshments Monday 23 December St Andrew Holborn 1830 A Christmas Carol: A Dickensian Carol Service Intersperses readings from works by Charles Dickens with carols and hymns that Dickens may himself have known and sung St Bartholomew the Great Thursday 9 January 1210 Holy Communion (BCP) St Botolph Bishopsgate Tuesday 24 December (Christmas Eve) 1300 Epiphany Choral Eucharist St Margaret Pattens 1100 Choral Christmas Eucharist and Blessing of the Crib St Botolph Bishopsgate 1310 Vigil Mass of Christmas Said Mass with short address, followed by refreshments St Andrew Holborn Friday 10 January 1630 Sing Choirs of Angels A service of carols, readings and choral 1200 The City New Year Service St Michael Cornhill music St Bride Fleet Street 1800 Family Mass and Nativity (RC) St Joseph Bunhill Row 1800 ‘Midnight’ Mass St Magnus the Martyr 1800 High Mass in the Extraordinary Form (RC) St Mary Moorfields Sunday 12 January 2100 Sung Mass (RC) St Mary Moorfields 1100 High Mass Preacher: the Bishop of 2300 Midnight Mass of the Nativity St Bartholomew the Great Followed by the Blessing of the River Thames from London Bridge 2315 Christmas Eve Midnight Choral Communion Temple Church St Magnus the Martyr 2330 Midnight Mass by Candlelight, with music and carol singing from 2300 All Hallows by the Tower 2330 Midnight Mass St Botolph Aldgate 2330 Midnight Mass St Bride Fleet Street Monday 13 January 2330 Carols, followed at Midnight by Sung Latin Mass (RC) 1300 Choral Classics Choral music from the Choral Scholars of Please arrive by 2300 to be sure of a seat St Martin in the Fields, interspersed with readings St Etheldreda Ely Place St Stephen Walbrook 2330 Carols, followed at Midnight by Midnight Mass (RC) 1730 Plow Monday Service St Lawrence Jewry St Joseph Bunhill Row Plow, or Plough, Monday is the traditional start of the English agricultural year ― it is generally the first Monday after Epiphany. Wednesday 25 December (Christmas Day) References to the day date back to the late 15th century and it 1000 Family Mass (in English) with carols (RC) traditionally saw the resumption of work after the Christmas period. St Etheldreda Ely Place 1000 Sung Mass (RC) St Joseph Bunhill Row 1030 Christmas Day Eucharist with Carols and Blessing of Presents Wednesday 15 January St Botolph Aldgate 1800 Choral Evensong St Stephen Walbrook 1030 Christmas Day Sung Eucharist St James Garlickhythe 1100 Christmas Day Eucharist with Carols All Hallows by the Tower 1100 Choral Eucharist of Christmas Day St Bartholomew the Great Monday 20 January 1100 Christmas Day Choral Eucharist St Bride Fleet Street 1130 The Admiral Arthur Phillip Annual Commemoration Service 1115 Christmas Day Choral Mattins Temple Church St Mary le Bow Admiral Arthur Phillip, born near Cheapside, was Commander of Sunday 29 December the First Fleet that sailed from England in 1787 to found the colony 0930 Sung Mass (RC) for Feast of the Holy Family St Mary Moorfields of New South Wales, of which he was Governor and which became 1130 Sung Mass (RC) for Feast of the Holy Family the new nation of Australia St Joseph Bunhill Row 1300 Choral Classics Choral music from the Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields, interspersed with readings St Stephen Walbrook

SPECIAL SERVICES AND ALLIED EVENTS IN JANUARY 2020 Wednesday 22 January 1900 Solemn Evensong for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Preacher: The Most Revd Bernard Longley, Archbishop of Sunday 5 January Birmingham 1830 Epiphany Carol Service St Bartholomew the Great With music by Chantage Choir, directed by James Davey All welcome – followed by refreshments Monday 6 January (The Epiphany) St Dunstan in the West 1305 High Mass for the Epiphany of Our Lord St Mary le Bow 1800 Epiphany Mass – Holy Communion (BCP) St Andrew by the Wardrobe Monday 27 January 1300 Choral Classics Choral music from the Choral Scholars of Tuesday 7 January St Martin in the Fields, interspersed with readings 1700 Confirmation of Election of the Rt Revd Richard Jackson to the St Stephen Walbrook See of Hereford St Mary le Bow

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LECTURES, COURSES, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS EVENTS & CONCERTS IN NOVEMBER 2019 IN DECEMBER 2019

Friday 6 December 1100 to 1600 London Centre for Spiritual Direction, Friday 29 November

St Edmund King & Martyr 1300 St Mary Abchurch:

Enriching our Listening: Theology in Spiritual Direction It was a lover and his lass: A whimsical look at love Speaker: Sister Gemma Simmonds A session in the Developing Direction programme, to foster the ongoing Gloriana: Women in Harmony development and support of spiritual directors For further information, including cost and booking, please go to Conductor – Deborah Miles-Johnson www.lcsd.org.uk and follow the links from ‘Courses & Events’ Accompanist: Linden Innes-Hopkins

Tuesday 10 December Programme: 1045 to 1530 St Andrew Holborn Music from the Renaissance to the present day by Morley, Oasis Day: Let There be Light! Vaughan Williams, Brahms, Bartók, McDowell, Weelkes, Led by Father Mark Young Coward, Giordano and Rutter, exploring the many aspects Oasis Days offer a monthly time of quiet reflection for people who need a of love, from the pastoral idyll to the dating game

day to re-charge their spiritual batteries and enjoy the stimulation of an Admission free; retiring collection excellent speaker 1930 St Botolph Bishopsgate Cost £15 – Lunch / tea & coffee provided Pre-booking required by Friday 6 December for catering purposes Christmas Concert with award-winning a cappella choruses To book please telephone the Revd Martin Davies on London City Singers and Meantime Chorus 07429 612642 or e-mail [email protected]

Sunday 15 December London City Singers are joining with our friends in Meantime again 1000 to 1700 St Ethelburga’s Centre to bring you an evening of awesome a capella harmonies and some festive favourites to get you in the Christmas spirit! People’s Alchemy Lab: Afro-futurism, spiritual ecology and deep adaptation Traditional and popular music followed by festive refreshments Offers a radically imaginative exploration into community-rooted methods Information and how to obtain tickets can be found at: for responding to climate apartheid, state violence and environmental https://londoncitysingers.co.uk racism Saturday 30 November For further information, including cost and booking, please go to https://stethelburgas.org and follow the links from ‘Events’ 1000 to 2200 St Stephen Walbrook

Art Exhibition: Truth & Light by Charlotte Chan & Winnie Lou LECTURES, COURSES, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS Free admission For more information please visit:

IN JANUARY 2020 https://ststephenwalbrook.net/events/

and follow the link on the calendar

Friday 10 January ************************************************************************************ 1830 to 2100 St Ethelburga’s Centre, Bishopsgate

Launch session of Radical resilience: a deep adaptation training

course, running from January to May 2020 EVENTS & CONCERTS IN DECEMBER 2019

The programme will provide an opportunity to journey with a small group through deep adaptation and beyond, growing resilience for the sake of all Sunday 1 December life – it looks at the truth of our perilous times and asks how we can regenerate ourselves and our world 1300 to 1730 St Stephen Walbrook For further information and to register your interest, please go to Art Exhibition: Truth & Light https://stethelburgas.org and follow the links from ‘Events’ – applications Final day open until 6 December 2019 1730 St Bride Fleet Street

Tuesday 14 January Advent Carols ― All welcome 1045 to 1530 St Andrew Holborn Oasis Day 1800 St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace Oasis Days offer a monthly time of quiet reflection for people who need a Poetry and Acoustic Night with Open Mic day to re-charge their spiritual batteries and enjoy the stimulation of an A gathering where creativity, spirituality and social change meet excellent speaker For more details and to obtain tickets please visit: Pre-booking required by for catering purposes https://stethelburgas.org/events/ and follow the display link For further details, including cost and booking, please go to

www.oasisdays.org.uk Monday 2 December

1830 St Mary le Bow 1300 St Lawrence Jewry JustShare Forum For further information please go to Recital: Ben-San Lau – piano http://www.justshare.org.uk/ Programme:

Monday 20 January Haydn – Sonata in F major No.38 HobXVI:23 1100 to 1300 London Centre for Spiritual Direction, Brahms – Rhapsody in B minor Op.79 No.1 St Edmund King & Martyr Intermezzo in E major Op.116 No.6 Supervising Weeks of Accompanied Prayer, with Antonia Lynn Capriccio in D minor Op.116 No.7 A session for experienced spiritual directors who have already Granados – La maia y el ruiseñor Chopin – Sonata in Bb minor Op 31 been a guide on a Week of Accompanied Prayer and who have learned supervision skills and had experience of using them. Ben-San Lau performs through the joint St Lawrence Jewry For further information, including cost and booking, please go to and Worshipful Company of Musicians Scheme for www.lcsd.org.uk and follow the links from ‘Courses & Events’ Prizewinners of the Company

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EVENTS & CONCERTS IN DECEMBER 2018 − continued Tuesday 3 December

1230 St Mary Abchurch 1300 St Michael Cornhill Organ Recital: Ian Shaw. Organ Recital: Anthony Gritten The recital will usually include an improvisation who will pay homage to the French composer Eugène Gigout and his circle near the anniversary of his death – 9 December 1925 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Programme: Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis Gigout – Grand Choeur Dialogué (1881) Programme: Reuschel – Sonata 3 (1913) J S Bach – Fugue on the Magnificat BWV 733 Gigout – Communion in F (1890) Brahms – Chorale prelude: Es ist ein Ros’ enstprungen MacMaster – Grand Choeur (1891) Messiaen – Kunc – Absolute (1896) Les anges, les bergers, les mages (from La Nativité du Seigneur) Gigout – Trois Pièces (1896) Reger – Chorale Fantasia: “Wachet auf” Op 52 Prélude & Fugue - Andante varié - Allegro con brio

1300 St Stephen Walbrook 1305 St Martin Ludgate Concert: Recital: Marco Leung – flute It was a lover and his lass: A whimsical look at love Programme: A recital with the theme of “Let Music Speak”. With this specially themed programme and verbal introduction Gloriana: Women in Harmony

audiences usually find his recital an interactive and captivating Conductor – Deborah Miles-Johnson experience. The programme features a mix of the traditional Accompanist: Linden Innes-Hopkins and humorous side of flute music. Programme:

Programme: Music from the Renaissance to the present day by Morley, Claude Debussy – Syrinx; Vaughan Williams, Brahms, Bartók, McDowell, Weelkes, Georg Phillipp Telemann – Fantasie No10 in F minor; Coward, Giordano and Rutter, exploring the many aspects Saverio Mercadante – Variations on Mozart’s La ci darem la mano; of love, from the pastoral idyll to the dating game Jacques Ibert – Pièce; Admission free; retiring collection Brian Ferneyhough – Cassandra’s Dream Song;

Niccolo Paganini – Caprice No.24 in A minor; 1305 St Katharine Cree Ian Clarke – Zoom Tube. City Singers Admission is free but donations are gratefully received in aid of Christmas Concert church and recital running costs Angelic Visitations from the Messenger to the multitude 1800 St Michael Cornhill A Sequence of Music and Readings for Advent and Incarnation Advent Carols by Candlelight Traditional lessons and Advent carols for choir and for Music Director – Stephen Harrow

congregation You are advised to arrive early Free admission – Donations welcome All will be most welcome 1315 St Mary at Hill 1830 St Andrew Holborn Recital: Square Mile Music Series Coram’s Christmas Celebration Alice Beverley – soprano Tom Norrington – tenor

Coram's Christmas Celebration returns to the church of Andy Wallace – piano St Andrew Holborn, for a festive evening with glorious singing Programme: Works by Clara & Robert Schumann from the children of the Trevor-Roberts School Choir, 1800 St Andrew Holborn hosted this year by James O'Brien and readings from special guests including Mary Portas, RSPCA Christmas Concert followed by fabulous mince pies from Konditor & Cook Deck the paws and help the animals this Christmas and warming mulled wine. by joining us for a warm evening of spectacular carols You will hear of Coram's achievements during the year and songs in the beautiful Church of St Andrew Holborn. as we all come together for this special celebration. Your host for our festive, annual Christmas Concert will be RSPCA Ambassador and TV presenter Matt Johnson. Tickets: General Admission: £17.50 Children (Under 16): £8.50 We will also welcome special celebrity readers To purchase tickets please visit: https://www.coram.org.uk/xmas2019 and the incredible London International Gospel Choir 1900 St Stephen Walbrook who are best known for performing with Hugh Jackman, Take That and George Ezra. Advent Carols and Readings for the Samaritans Celebrate the 'pawlidays' with mulled wine and warm mince pies The Friends of Central London Samaritans are delighted to offer (included in your ticket price) after the concert.

an exceptional evening of seasonal music and readings for our Tickets: General Admission (Main pews): £20 (Upper Gallery): £10 Advent Celebration, in the very church where the Samaritans were Child – 16 and under (Main Pews): £10 (Upper Gallery): £5 born. The music will be directed by Dr Martin Neary, former Organist and Master of Choristers at Westminster Abbey. To purchase tickets please visit:

Readings by Simon Callow, Patricia Hodge, David Robb https://www.rspca.org.uk/getinvolved/events/christmasconcert and Zoë Wanamaker.

For more information and tickets please visit https://ststephenwalbrook.net/events/ and follow the links on the calendar 8 Wednesday 4 December — continued EVENTS & CONCERTS IN DECEMBER 2018 − continued 1900 St Botolph Bishopsgate

The Haemophilia Society Carol Service Tuesday 3 December — continued Join us for an evening of traditional carols, choral singing and 1800 St Stephen Walbrook guest readers for our annual Christmas Carol service. Fight for Sight Carol Service Celebrate the holidays with special readings and Christmas carols, There will be a fantastic array of popular carols and festive bringing our community closer together and supportinig the readings for all the family to enjoy. Following the concert, we will Haemophilia Society.

host a drinks reception with mince pies in the church. After the service there will be mulled wine and warm mince pies It’s the perfect opportunity to gather with friends and family at this (included in your ticket price) at the back of the church. festive time and support pioneering eye research. We hope you will be able to come along to this spectacular festive Please contact Rachel at: [email protected], event. For more information and to obtain tickets please search: or call 020 7264 3919 or visit Haemophilia Society Carol Service and follow the link https://ststephenwalbrook.net/events/ and follow the links on the calendar Thursday 5 December

1830 St Mary le Bow 1300 St Olave Hart Street Short Evening Service with Advent hymns and homily Recital: Lucas Jordan – flute Fabricio Mattos – piano

1900 Parish Supper in the Café Below 1305 St Mary le Bow Tickets: £30 in advance from: [email protected] Recital: Louis Ng – piano

1310 All Hallows by the Tower 1900 St Mary at Hill Organ Recital: David Cook Recital: Winter Music from Morley College 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Instrumentalists and singers from the Organ Recital: Richard Townend with the Hill House Scholars Advanced Chamber Music & Piano Accompaniment course 1800 St Andrew Holborn present a delightful programme of songs and chamber music by Brahms, Mozart, Schumann and Dove Afasic Christmas Concert

Tickets: £10 (includes a glass of wine) from: We are delighted that the wonderful Sir Derek Jacobi, https://www.morleycollege.ac.uk/events/2072-chamber-music-at-st- international star of stage and screen, has agreed to do a reading maryathill The Concordia Chamber Choir will be providing music throughout the evening; Wednesday 4 December and a number of young people with communication difficulties will be participating. 1300 St Olave Hart Street Recital: Blaze Ensemble There will be FREE wine and mince pies on arrival!

Tickets General Admission: £15 Child (Under 18): £10 Jude Lewis – flute Nick Ridley – oboe Claire Baughan – clarinet Sarah Finlay – bassoon To purchase tickets please visit: Andy Feist – horn Paul Guinery – piano https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/afasic-charity-christmas-concert-tickets- 78366908533

1800 for 1830 St Mary le Strand 1300 St Stephen Walbrook SAVE Britain's Heritage Walbrook Community Choir If you like singing, or would like to try it, come and join us in your is delighted to invite you to a festive evening of Christmas carols lunch hour! There are no auditions or fees, and ability to read and readings in with the superb Vox Cordis choir music is not essential. Sing a variety of styles of music led by 1800 Doors open experienced professional choir directors 1830 Christmas Carol Service begins 1930 Continue the evening with SAVE Britain's Heritage 1305 St Botolph Aldgate for drinks in the church and our Christmas party Recital: Fumi Otsuki – violin Sarah Kershaw – piano For more information and to book tickets please visit: Programme: https://www.savebritainsheritage.org/events/ Grieg – Violin Sonata No 1 Op.8 and follow the link at: SAVE Christmas Carol Service

Janáček – Ballad (con moto) from Violin Sonata 1900 St Botolph Bishopsgate Free entry with a retiring collection The Eve Appeal Festival of Carols at Christmas

1310 St Botolph Bishopsgate This truly magical event brings our Supporters, Trustees and Choral Advent Carol Service — All welcome Ambassadors together for an evening where we reflect on our achievements throughout the year, say thank you and remember 1330 St Mary le Bow the women and families who have been and continue to be affected by one of the five gynaecological cancers. Guided meditations for the Kingdom Season to Advent, after the Eucharist at 1305 The Service begins at 7.00pm and features a candlelit procession,

Cantata for voice and organ by J S Bach traditional Christmas readings and some favourite carols. Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn BWV 132 Festivities then continue with a drinks and canapé Reception where you can mingle with fellow guests as well as take part in our All welcome Golden Cracker Raffle.

For more information and to obtain tickets please search: The Eve Appeal Festival of Carols at Christmas for a direct link

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1600 St James Garlickhythe Friday 6 December A tea time concert of festive music

1230 St Stephen Walbrook by the Hanover Choir Organ Recital: Simon Bland Conductor: Victoria Longdon

1400 St Bartholomew the Great featuring Benjamin Britten's A Ceremony of Carols,

Brandenburg Choral Festival of London seasonal music by Rachmaninov, Elgar and Howells and carols for choir and audience. Brandenburg Traditional Christmas concert Tickets: £10 (1 ticket also admits 1 child free) This concert, including popular carols, Christmas music, from: https://hanoverchoir.org.uk/tickets/index.html audience participation and seasonal readings will send you home singing. Mulled wine and mince pies will be served in the interval and are included in the ticket price.

Doors Open at 1330 Tickets: £19.50 unreserved seating (child £5) from: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/brandenburg/t-evygzo 1930 St Bartholomew the Great

1600-1745 St Botolph Aldgate and Aldgate Square Collegium Musicum of London Chamber Choir

Aldgate Lantern Parade and Winter Fete Music Director: Greg Morris

Community Singing with choirs, dance, food, drink, activities will again display its versatility in a varied and witty programme and lighting of the Aldgate Square Christmas Tree guaranteed to add a sprinkle of seasonal cheer to a winter’s evening of festive songs spanning nine centuries. Free entry

1930 St Andrew Holborn Alongside works by Byrd, Gabrieli, Praetorius, Mendelssohn, Tavener and Lauridsen, there will be seasonal favourites like City Chorus presents its Christmas Concert Silent Night, Jingle Bells and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,

Paul Ayres - Conductor congregational carols, Yuletide readings and more than a few Programme: popular surprises.

Music by Gibbons, Buxtehude, Berlioz, Tickets: £15, concessions £12, and carols for the audience to sing under 16yrs and Hon members, free

Tickets: Available at: www.londoncitychorus.com from: https://coll-mus-lon.org.uk/future-concerts/

1930 St Katharine Cree

City Wind Orchestra celebrate their 10th anniversary with War & Peace

performing a collection of scores that depict war or its peaceful ending, spanning two hundred years.

Programme: – Music for the Royal Fireworks 1930 St Mary at Hill Aaron Copland – Fanfare for the Common Man Adam Gorb – Battle Symphony Thames Chamber Choir and Marcel Sinfonia

Alexander Borodin – Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor led by Andrew Campling and Christian Speilmann Hector Berlioz – Grande Symphonie Funèbre et Triomphale, Op.15 Programme: A concert of seasonal music featuring: Tickets: £12 (£10 concessions) Andrew Campling's celebrated oratorio Jesus of Nazareth, Please note that tickets for this event are pre-booked only. accompanied by celebratory works by other 20th century Following the concert there is a complimentary reception composers including Gustave Holst, Ralph Vaughan Williams held by the City Wind Orchestra and William Walton to which all ticket holders are cordially invited. Tickets: £12; £9 concessions; £7 student Saturday 7 December available online: thameschamberchoir.com and on the door from 1900 1400 St Stephen Walbrook

Brandenburg Choral Festival of London

Brandenburg Traditional Christmas concert

This concert, including popular carols, Christmas music, audience participation and seasonal readings will send you home singing. Mulled wine and mince pies will be served in the interval and are included in the ticket price.

Doors Open at 1330 Tickets: £19.50 unreserved seating (child £5) from: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/brandenburg/t-evygzo

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1900 St Andrew Holborn

Sunday 8 December Nicholls Spinal Injury Foundation’s

4th Annual Christmas Carol Concert

Enjoy stunning vocal performances

St Bride Fleet Street from award winning soprano Katie Marshall one of the most exciting young Come and Sing 'Messiah' artists in the classical world today. The incredible Walton Voices choir Sunday 8th December will also be performing alongside their inspirational Musical Director and conductor, Jonathon Kilhams.

The St Bride's Choir, Orchestra Join us in this historic and beautiful building and the Come and Sing Chorus to celebrate the onset of the festive season will be performing the first part of one and raise vital funds for a very worthy cause.

of the most popular works in classical music: Tickets: General Admission: £20 Handel's masterpiece, Messiah To purchase tickets please search: nsif carol concert Tickets are available to come and listen, and follow one of the several links displayed or if you want an experience to remember 1930 Great Hall of St Bartholomew's Hospital join the Come and Sing Chorus for a day and take part yourself Barts Academic Festival Choir & Orchestra

CHRISTMAS CONCERT Concise programme for the day Come and join us in the Great Hall at Barts 1030-1300 Workshop (Doors open at 1000) St Andrew Holborn for a wonderful programme of music 1415-1515 Brush-up chorus rehearsal St Bride's Church to put you in a festive mood for Christmas!

1615-1710 Rehearsal with Orchestra St Bride's Church Conductor: John Lumley Leader: Margaret Banwell 1730-1845 Performance ― Messiah Part 1 and Hallelujah chorus St Bride's Church Programme: Mozart – Sinfonia Concertante for four winds Full details and how to obtain tickets Elgar – Romance for bassoon and orchestra may be found on the website: stbrides.com Choruses from Handel's Messiah and Bach's Christmas Oratorio

Christmas Carols for choir and orchestra Tickets at the door: £15 (£10 concessions) 1800 St Dunstan in the West profits going to the Barts Cancer Unit Advent Carol Service 1930 Temple Church Chantage Choir will be singing under their director James Davey Handel’s Messiah 2019 There will be refreshments after the service Collegium Musicum of London Temple Players Greg Morris director Grace Davidson – soprano Jess Gillingwater – mezzo-soprano Nathan Vale – tenor Gareth John – bass Monday 9 December

1300 St Lawrence Jewry For more information and tickets please visit: Recital: Irene Radić – piano https://www.templemusic.org/shop/handelmessiah/ Programme: Tuesday 10 December This will include a selection of Rachmaninoff's Preludes Op 23

1230 St Mary Abchurch Organ Recital: Ian Shaw. 1300 St Michael Cornhill The recital will usually include an improvisation Organ Recital: Jeremiah Stephenson 1300 St Lawrence Jewry

will play the iconic 50-minute, nine-movement Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis meditation on the Christmas story Programme: La Nativité du Seigneur by Olivier Messiaen Buxtehude – Prelude and Fugue in G minor J S Bach – Canonic variations on “Von Himmel hoch” D’Aquin – Noël Suisse 1305 St Martin Ludgate Pietro Yon – Pastorale: Gesú bambino Recital For information please refer to the website: Mendelssohn – Allegro moderato maestoso in C http://www.stmartin-within-ludgate.org.uk/music/ Reger – Weinachten

Karg-Elert – Resonet in laudibus Andrew Carter – Toccata on “Veni Emmanuel”

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1930 St Mary at Hill Tuesday 10 December — continued Concert: London Strings Festival James Gilbert – tenor Mark Eden – guitar 1315 St Mary at Hill Programme: Recital: Square Mile Music Series Songs by Dowland, Schubert, Dodgson and Britten Come and Sing Carols Tickets: General Admission: £15 Student and Child £5 OAP £10

Charles MacDougall – tenor Robert Mingay-Smith – piano Full programme information and tickets from: https://www.londonstringsfestival.co.uk/lsfprogramme 1800 St Andrew by the Wardrobe and follow the links Annual Parish and Ward Service followed by mulled wine and 1930 St Stephen Walbrook mince pies Vasari Singers 1830 The Voces8 Centre, St Anne & St Agnes Church Carols by Candlelight City Chamber Choir Vasari Singers' Christmas concert is in aid of the A Winter's Night – music for Christmas. Michael Varah Memorial Fund.

Conductor – Stephen Jones Organ – Ivan Linford Hosted by Sir Richard Stilgoe Reader – David Kemp Conductor: Jeremy Backhouse Tickets: £30 pew seats or £20 bench/restricted view City Chamber Choir's concert this year features at: [email protected] or call 01306 731284. Cecilia McDowall’s Christmas cantata A Winter’s Night, in which she conjures up ‘a joyful atmosphere, delighting with familiar and surprising material in equal measure’. Wednesday 11 December We also include carols by Peter Hurford, the renowned organist who died earlier this year, as well as Herbert Howells’ rarely 1300 St Olave Hart Street heard Tryste Noel, and the usual mixture of familiar, well loved Recital: Tyler Hay – piano join-in-able pieces, as well as a first performance by 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Guildhall School of Music and Drama student Mathis Saunier, this year’s CCC Composer in Association. Walbrook Community Choir

Programme to include: More information at Wednesday 4 December Maria durch ein Dornwald ging arr. Stefan Claas With readings, and carols for choir and audience. 1315 St Dunstan in the West A Festive Celebration Tickets: £15 (£10 under 18s and full-time students only) featuring Workplace Choirs from around the City From: http://www.citychamberchoir.org.uk/ Conductor: Benedict Lewis-Smith All will be most welcome

1315 St Sepulchre without Newgate/Holy Sepulchre London Recital: The Halcyon Quartet — Ensemble-in-Residence 1900 St Botolph Bishopsgate Free admission The Multiple Sclerosis Society Carols by Candlelight

Join us for a special evening of traditional carols and choral music. 1800 Temple Church

there will be readings from Deborah Meaden, Nicola Walker, A Christmas Celebration with Carols Kadeena Cox MBE and Game of Thrones stars Kit Harrington and The Temple Singers Rose Leslie A more secular service of festive readings and carols For more information and to obtain tickets please search: Tickets not required All most welcome The Multiple Sclerosis Society Carols by Candlelight for a direct link Thursday 12 December 1900 St Dunstan in the West 1300 St Olave Hart Street A Christmas Celebration Recital: Michelle Candotti – piano

The Rodolfus Choir

Director Ralph Allwood MBE 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Organ Recital: With Carols and Choral Works including: Richard Townend plays music for Christmas from all over Europe Adam – O HolynNight Pearsall – In dulci jubilo Whitacre – Lux aurumque 1845 St Katharine Cree Britten – A Hymn to the Virgin Lloyd's Choir Christmas Concert McCartney – Wonderful Christmastime

Tickets: £20 / £15 / £10 A programme of new items and traditional facvourites From: www.therodofusfoundation.org.uk/events with conductor Jacques Cohen, organist Colin Spinks and Meridian Brass and follow the Christmas Celebration link Tickets: £15 (£10 for students) including refreshments Available on the door, in advance from members and Eventbrite.co.uk

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EVENTS & CONCERTS IN DECEMBER 2018 − continued 1830 St Bartholomew the Great Mid-Advent Carol Service – Gaudete Sunday Ero Cras — Tomorrow I will come Thursday 12 December — continued A special service linking Advent with Christmas based on the great O

1930 St Mary at Hill Antiphons used in the seven days leading up to Christmas Eve The music will consist of two settings of the Magnificat followed by The Humility of the Shepherds settings of the seven O Antiphons and closing with 'Tomorrow go ye forth' Orlando Chamber Choir by Gabriel Jackson.

This is an unticketed event and all are welcome to attend Lucy Goddard – director William Fairbairn – organ

Orlando Chamber Choir retells the Christmas story from the Monday 16 December humble shepherds’ point of view 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Recital: Tessa Uys and Ben Schoemann – piano We hope to increase the present-day relevance of our concert Programme: by donating the proceeds of our interval raffle to the New Horizon Youth Centre. The interval will be further enhanced Tessa and Ben will perform Beethoven’s 9th Symphony transcribed by Scharwenka for four hands. by wine, mince pies and more exotic Christmas fare. This recital will start their year-long series of concerts Programme: This will include works by Vaughan Williams, Aleotti, to celebrate Beethoven’s 250th birth anniversary. Monteverdi, Mouton, De Morales, Guerrero, Holst, Gallus, McGlade, Beamish and Willcocks This concert is our last lunchtime piano recital for 2019. It is also a special concert to raise funds for the restoration Tickets: £12 Concessions £10 from: 07377 757 666 of our grand piano. Following the recital there will be a free Full information from: http://www.orlandochoir.org.uk reception for the Friends of St Lawrence Jewry and the artists. But everyone is welcome to join us for a donation. Friday 13 December Please contact Katrina at the church office if you want to join the reception: [email protected] or 020 7600 9478 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Organ Recital: Stephen King 1300 St Michael Cornhill Annual Parish Festival of Lessons and Carols 1900 St Lawrence Jewry Traditional lessons and congregational carols, and celebratory choral music. All will be most welcome The German Choir London will perform 1305 St Martin Ludgate

Christmas Oratorio by J S Bach BWV 248 Recital: Operatic Ensemble: Marriane Town Smith – soprano Naomi Felix – mezzo-soprano sung in German with orchestral accompaniment Robin Whitehouse – tenor Panaretos Kyriatzidis – piano Directed by Barbara Höfling Programme: This will be a varied programme of opera arias and Miranda Ostler – soprano Barbara Ochs – alto ensembles from Adam, Verdi and Wagner Vernon Kirk – tenor Rupert Grössinger – bass Admission is free but donations are gratefully received in aid of Tickets: £20 and £15 on the door, or in advance: church and recital running costs

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/germanchoiroflondon 1815 St Dunstan in the West Freshfields’ Choir Carol Concert 1930 St Mary at Hill Director of Music & Organist/Pianist – Andrew Sackett London City Brass will perform brass band music for Christmas Followed by refreshments Free admission Admission will be free

1830 St Bartholomew the Great Saturday 14 December Carol Service: A Ceremony of Carols 1830 St Mary at Hill Austrian Carol Service This carol service contains the entire Ceremony of Carols 1930 St Botolph Bishopsgate by Benjamin Britten, accompanied by harp, Christmas Carols with the Godwine Choir and sung by the upper voices of the Priory Church Choir.

Come and join the Godwine Choir this Advent for a Yuletide Britten’s settings are distributed among a sequence of readings and hymns for the whole congregation. celebration of traditional and modern carols. As well as festive favourites for choir and audience we will be performing carols from Mulled Wine, Mince Pies and other refreshments are available in the Cloister before & after the service. around the world and across the centuries. In a beautiful candlelit church, with mulled wine and mince pies, it promises to be a Tuesday 17 December magical evening certain to get you into the Christmas spirit. 1230 St Mary Abchurch Organ Recital: Ian Shaw. Highlights of the programme will be Morten Lauridsen's The recital will usually include an improvisation O Magnum Mysterium, Gustav Holt's 'In the Bleak Mid-winter' and John Rutter's 'Nativity Carol' 1300 St Andrew Holborn Traditional Carol Service with choir, followed by refreshments To obtain tickets please search: 1300 St Bartholomew the Great Christmas Carols with the Godwine Choir for a direct link Carol Service: Tuesday Lunchtime Carols

Sunday 15 December An especially shortened carol service to fit into the lunchtime

1600 All Hallows by the Tower of a busy day A Festival of Lessons and Carols All welcome Music:

1730 St Bride Fleet Street Gaudete – anon Adam lay y-bounden – Ireland A performance of Ceremony of Carols by Benjamin Britten People look east – Barry Ferguson as part of the service of plainsong Evensong Still, still, still – arr. Andrew Gant Torches – Joubert

Wednesday 18 December — continued 13 EVENTS & CONCERTS IN DECEMBER 2018 − continued 1800 St Mary at Hill Carol Service All welcome

Tuesday 17 December — continued 1800 St Stephen Walbrook 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Parish Carol Service Carols for Choir and Audience Join our Choral Scholars, Community Choir, Featuring the renowned choir of St. Lawrence Jewry and all the Walbrook community for our special festive occasion. directed by Catherine Ennis, Following the service there will be mulled wine and mince pies with readings for Christmas contributed by the Vicar, Canon David Parrott

1300 St Stephen Walbrook 1900 St Andrew Holborn

Jane Gilbert's Christmas Recital Advent Procession with choir, followed by refreshments

A free recital featuring Jane Gilbert (flutes) and Neil Wright (piano)

1800 St Bartholomew the Great Carol Service: Nine Lessons and Carols Thursday 19 December

This service is always well-attended by Livery Companies 1200 St Bride Fleet Street associated with the church, but is open to everyone who Fleet Street Carols — all will be most welcome wishes to attend. Please note the start time 1300 St Andrew Holborm Mulled Wine, Mince Pies and other refreshments are available ‘Express’ Carol Service; in the Cloister before & after the service A Carol Service in under 25 minutes 1800 Temple Church

Celebrate Christmas with Carols 1305 St Mary le Bow The Parish Christmas Carol Service with Chamber Choir: Collegium Musicum of London Choral music, scripture, poetry, prose and seasonal hymns Greg Morris – conductor All welcome - come when you can, leave when you must Supporting access to justice through the work of Advocate (formerly the Bar Pro Bono Unit) and LawWorks. 1310 All Hallows by the Tower Tickets required. Festival Organ Recital: For further information and to book: Jonathan Melling & David Cook http://templechurchchristmas.eventbrite.com

Wednesday 18 December 1310 St Botolph Bishopsgate

1300 St Bartholomew the Less Parish Carol Service

City Music Foundation presents: with the Choir and Band of Coopers' Company and Coborn School followed by seasonal refreshments All welcome Rosalind Ventris – viola

Join us for a rarely heard programme with music to include works 1700 St Bride Fleet Street by J S Bach, Imogen Holst and Sally Beamish. Fleet Street Carols — all will be most welcome

The recital is free but it is advisable to book to be sure of a seat: 1730 St Lawrence Jewry http://www.citymusicfoundation.org/events/lunchtime-community- concert-3/ The Lord Mayor's Carol Service

Join us for a beautiful celebration anticipating Christmas,

1300 St Stephen Walbrook with the Lord Mayor and Corporation of London

and the celebrated choir of St. Lawrence Jewry. Walbrook Community Choir More information at Wednesday 4 December Following the service there will be seasonal refreshments

1305 St Botolph Aldgate in the Commonwealth Chapel Community Carols All are welcome . An opportunity to sing carols and hear the story of Christ's birth 1830 All Hallows by the Tower 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Traditional Carols by Candlelight All welcome Annual Carol Service

2000 St Andrew Holborn with the Lothbury Singers and the Hill House Brass Ensemble and Richard Townend – organ As the year draws to a close,

followed by mince pies and mulled wine join the City Academy Singers for

All will be most welcome 'Winter'

1315 St Dunstan in the West An intimate evening of festive favourites Parish Service of Lessons and Carols and year-round classics — Sung by Freshfields Choir Carols, anthems, ballads and more, Director of Music & Organist – Andrew Sackett all in beautiful new arrangements Followed by refreshments by musical director Eamonn O'Dwyer.

1315 Temple Church Tickets: General Admission: £10 Lunch-time Christmas Carol Sing-along To purchase tickets please visit: https://www.city-academy.com/winter Requests will be taken!

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A Christmas Carol: A Dickensian Carol Service

Friday 20 December This service intersperses readings from works by Charles

1230 St Stephen Walbrook Dickens (read by, among others, descendants of Charles Organ Recital: Jonathan Dodds Dickens) with carols and hymns that Dickens may himself 1930 St Lawrence Jewry have known and sung. Music: The Esterhazy Singers Pastoral scene from Messiah – Handel Of Yuletide Cheer I saw three ships come sailing in – Sandys

The Esterhazy Singers under their conductor Andrea Brown Merry Christmas – Leslie present a concert of Carols and Part-Songs, Old and New. In dulci jubilo – arr. Pearsall The programme features carols by composers A virgin most pure – Gilbert Victoria, Howells and Rutter amongst others Shepherds! Shake off your drowsy sleep – Stainer Hallelujah Chorus – Handel This concert is in support of Richard House Children's Hospice. London's first children's hospice Mulled wine, mince pies and other refreshments are Based in East London, Richard House provides palliative care to children available in the Cloister before & after the service. with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions across London Tuesday 24 December — Christmas Eve Tickets: General Admission £15, students £7.50, including interval drink 1630 St Bride Fleet Street

1830 St Bartholomew the Great Sing Choirs of Angels

Stille Nacht A service of carols, readings and choral music.

A carol service celebrating the Christmas music All are warmly welcome of the German-speaking countries. Music: ******************************************************************************** Wachet auf – J.S. Bach

O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf – Arr Walter Rein Es ist ein Ros – Goldschmidt EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JANUARY 2020 O Jesulein süß – Bach/Reger Ave Maria – Bruckner

Mariä Wiegenlied – Reger, arr Proulx Friday 3 January Stille Nacht – Andrew Carter 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Drei Könige wandern aus Morgenland – Cornelius Recital: For details please visit: stbrides.com/calendar Es wird ein Stern aus Jakob aufgehn – Mendelssohn and follow the link at this date on the calendar Glühwein, Stollen, mince pies and other refreshments are available in the Cloister before & after the service. Sunday 5 January

1830 St Bartholomew the Great

Sunday 22 December Epiphany Carol Service

1730 St Bride Fleet Street This service takes the great elements of the Epiphany – the star-led Kings with their gifts, the Holy Innocents, the Baptism Nine Lessons and Carols of Jesus, water turned into wine, the Light of the Epiphany, Please join us for this traditional annual service and weaves a dramatic tapestry of readings, choral music, and hymns out of these rich themes. The season of Christmas 1830 St Bartholomew the Great continues until Candlemas on Sunday 2nd February 2020. This service marks the transition from the joys of the Nativity Carol Service: Nine Lessons and Carols through tragedy to the first indications of the divinity of Jesus. This service is always well-attended by Livery Companies Music: associated with the church, but is open to everyone who Three Kings from Persian lands afar – Cornelius wishes to attend. A little child – Music: Videntes stellam – Poulenc Adam lay y-bounden – Ben Parry Lully, lulla – Leighton The holly and the ivy – Ola Gjeilo Think of how God loves you – James MacMillan Carol of the bells – Mykola Leontovych Dicit Dominus – Chant The lamb – Tavener Surge illuminare – Palestrina Joys seven – arr. Sing lullaby – Howells Monday 6 January What child is this – Rupert Gough 1300 St Lawrence Jewry The wise men and the star – Oliver Tarney Recital: David Soo – piano As I sat on a sunny bank – Malcolm Archer

For unto us a child is born – Handel 1300 St Michael Cornhill Mulled Wine, Mince Pies and other refreshments are Organ Recital: Benjamin Newlove available in the Cloister before & after the service. Programme: Works by Walton (Orb and Sceptre), Frank Bridge (Adagio), Elgar (the complete Organ Sonata of 1895)

Sunday 12 January 15 EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JANUARY 2020 − continued 1830 St Mary at Hill Concert: Hertfordshire Chamber Orchestra Tuesday 7 January Conductor – James Southall Leader – Mary Brace Benjamin Nabarro – violin Gemma Rosefield – cello 1230 St Mary Abchurch Organ Recital: Ian Shaw. Programme: The recital will usually include an improvisation Brahms – Double Concerto Op 107 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Jánáček – Adagio for small orchestra Dvořák – Symphony No 7 in D minor Op 70 Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis Programme: Tickets: At the door: General Admission – £15 Concessions – £10 Under 16 – Free 1415 St Bride Fleet Street Also available in advance by post from: Tours of the Church HCO, 50 Alric Avenue, New Malden, Surrey, KT3 4JN Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Please send sae and cheque payable to: Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day 'Hertfordshire Chamber Orchestra'

or make a booking by emailing Sally Hannon at: More information available from the website: [email protected] www.hertfordshirechamber orchestra.org.uk or telephoning 020 7427 0133. Special tours for groups can also be arranged Monday 13 January

1300 St Lawrence Jewry Wednesday 8 January Recital: Joshua Hooke – piano

1300 St Olave Hart Street 1300 St Michael Cornhill Recital: Please visit: http://www.stolave.weebly.com Organ Recital: Jonathan Allsopp (Southwell Minster)

1300 St Stephen Walbrook 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Choral Classics – Music and Readings with the Choral Scholars Walbrook Community Choir If you like singing, or would like to try it, come and join us in your Choral Classics at St Stephen Walbrook offer thirty minutes of lunch hour! There are no auditions or fees, and ability to read sublime choral music from our Choral Scholars interspersed with readings on a theme. music is not essential. Sing a variety of styles of music led by experienced professional choir directors Free with a retiring collection

Tuesday 14 January 1305 St Botolph Aldgate Recital: Claire Ward – soprano James Alford – piano 1230 St Mary Abchurch

Free entry with a retiring collection Organ Recital: Ian Shaw. The recital will usually include an improvisation

1315 St Sepulchre without Newgate/Holy Sepulchre London 1300 St Lawrence Jewry Recital: The Halcyon Quartet — Ensemble-in-Residence Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis

Free admission 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: For details please visit: stbrides.com/calendar Thursday 9 January and follow the link at this date on the calendar

Free Admittance – Retiring Collection 1300 St Olave Hart Street Recital: Susana Vieira – soprano Cicely Hu – mezzo soprano 1315 St Mary at Hill Susan Waters – piano Recital: Square Mile Music Series 1305 St Mary le Bow Hatty Haynes – violin Jon Sun Woo – piano Recital: Chun Yin Marco Leung – flute Programme: Beethoven – Violin sonata in Eb major Op 12 No 3 1310 All Hallows by the Tower Jánáček – Violin sonata Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling 1415 St Bride Fleet Street 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Tours of the Church Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. A Celebration Organ Recital Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day

for the Opening of the 70th season of these recitals or make a booking by emailing Sally Hannon at: featuring the "The City Trio" [email protected] or telephoning 020 7427 0133. Catherine Ennis, Jonathan Rennert and Richard Townend Special tours for groups can also be arranged

Friday 10 January Wednesday 15 January

1200 St Michael Cornhill 1300 St Bartholomew the Less The City New Year Service City Music Foundation presents:

Anna Cavaliero – soprano 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: For details please visit: stbrides.com/calendar The first of the Foundation's 2020 concerts will include repertoire and follow the link at this date on the calendar from the baroque period including works by Handel and Strozzi..

Free Admittance – Retiring Collection The recital is free but it is advisable to book to be sure of a seat:

1315 St Dunstan in the West http://www.citymusicfoundation.org/events/lunchtime-community- Organ Recital: Martin Ellis concert-4/

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EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JANUARY 2020 − continued 1230 St Mary Abchurch Organ Recital: Ian Shaw. The recital will usually include an improvisation Wednesday 15 January — continued 1300 St Lawrence Jewry 1300 St Olave Hart Street Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis Recital: Eleanor Ruth Fox – clarinet

1300 St Stephen Walbrook 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Walbrook Community Choir Recital: For details please visit: stbrides.com/calendar If you like singing, or would like to try it, come and join us in your and follow the link at this date on the calendar lunch hour! There are no auditions or fees, and ability to read Free Admittance – Retiring Collection music is not essential. Sing a variety of styles of music led by experienced professional choir directors 1315 St Mary at Hill Recital: Square Mile Music Series 1305 St Botolph Aldgate Emma Besselaar – cello Antonio Oyarzabal – piano Recital: Susanna Bailey – flute Ella O'Neil – piano Programme: Free entry with a retiring collection Music by Debussy, Martinů, Jánáček and Falla

Thursday 16 January 1415 St Bride Fleet Street

1300 St Olave Hart Street Tours of the Church Recital: Noah Zhou – piano Tours last until 1545 and cost £6 per person. Simply turn up at the Church on your chosen day 1305 St Mary le Bow or make a booking by emailing Sally Hannon at: Recital: The Corran Quartet [email protected] or telephoning 020 7427 0133. Joanna Ly – violin Kirsty MacLeod – violin Special tours for groups can also be arranged Edward Keenan – viola Molly McWhirter – cello Wednesday 22 January 1310 All Hallows by the Tower Organ Recital: David Cook 1300 St Olave Hart Street Recital: Emma Besselaar – cello Inga Liukaityté – piano

1310 St Margaret Lothbury 1305 St Botolph Aldgate

Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays Bach and Buxtehude (1) Recital: Ida Pelliccioli – piano

Free entry with a retiring collection Friday 17 January 1315 St Dunstan in the West 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: Fumi Otsuki – violin & Gina Kruger – piano

Recital: For details please visit: stbrides.com/calendar 1830 St Lawrence Jewry and follow the link at this date on the calendar Popchoir rehearsal Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Popchoir is for anyone who loves to sing! Stressed-out commuter, Monday 20 January the next Sam Smith, worn out parent or shy shower soprano, there's a place here to let your voice out and with no auditions 1130 St Mary le Bow and no need to be able to read music there are no excuses! The Admiral Arthur Phillip Commemoration Service Popchoir is fun, relaxed and surprisingly cool. We sing brilliant

Admiral Arthur Phillip, born near Cheapside, was Commander of songs, with fabulous arrangements and have a great time. Come and see for yourself the First Fleet of eleven ships that sailed from Portsmouth in 1787 to found the colony of New South Wales, of which he was Governor For more information please visit: http://www.popchoir.com/ and which became the new nation of Australia Thursday 23 January An Address will be given on a relevant subject. 1305 St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield All are welcome to attend the service A City Music Society concert to be given by

1300 St Lawrence Jewry The Guildhall Chamber Ensemble and Kerry Waller – piano

Recital: Marina Koka – piano Programme: Programme: Schubert – Impromptu in F minor Op 142 D935 Schubert – Quintet in A Op 114 D667 (The Trout) 1300 St Michael Cornhill Admission is free with a retiring collection Organ Recital: Jonathan Rennert Programme: Works by Rinck and Beethoven (both celebrating the 1300 St Olave Hart Street 250th anniversary of their birth), J S Bach, Statham, Recital: Juliette Roos – violin with piano accompanist

Walford Davies and Thalben-Ball 1310 All Hallows by the Tower Organ Recital: Jonathan Melling 1300 St Stephen Walbrook Choral Classics – Music and Readings with the Choral Scholars 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Organ Recital: Christian Gautschi Zurich, Switzerland Choral Classics at St Stephen Walbrook offer thirty minutes of sublime choral music from our Choral Scholars interspersed 1305 St Mary le Bow with readings on a theme. Recital: to be given by a Wind Ensemble

Free with a retiring collection

EVENTS & CONCERTS IN JANUARY 2020 − continued Tuesday 28 January — continued 17

1415 St Bride Fleet Street Tours of the Church Friday 24 January 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: Christian Gautschi Zurich, Switzerland or make a booking by emailing Sally Hannon at: [email protected] 1315 St Bride Fleet Street or telephoning 020 7427 0133. Recital: For details please visit: stbrides.com/calendar Special tours for groups can also be arranged and follow the link at this date on the calendar

Free Admittance – Retiring Collection

1315 St Dunstan in the West Wednesday 29 January

Organ Recital: Hamish Wagstaff 1300 St Olave Hart Street Recital: Marmara Piano Quartet Monday 27 January

1300 St Lawrence Jewry 1305 St Botolph Aldgate Recital: Louis Ng – piano Recital: Nataly Ganina – piano

1300 St Michael Cornhill Free entry with a retiring collection Organ Recital: Christian Gautschi (Rafz,Switzerland)

1300 St Stephen Walbrook 1315 St Dunstan in the West Choral Classics – Music and Readings with the Choral Scholars Recital: Lucia Veintimilla – violin & Connie Luk – piano

Choral Classics at St Stephen Walbrook offer thirty minutes of 1830 St Lawrence Jewry sublime choral music from our Choral Scholars interspersed Popchoir rehearsal with readings on a theme. Please refer to the listing at Wednesday 22 January

Free with a retiring collection

1305 St Martin Ludgate Thursday 30 January Recital: 1305 St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield Sirius Chan – London & Hong Kong Flautist (Royal College of Music – TillettTrust Young Artist 2018-19) A City Music Society concert to be given by

Kumi Matsuo – piano The Royal College of Music Wind Ensemble

Programme: Simon Channing – director CPE Bach – Sonata in G Major, Wq 86 Programme: Debussy – Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune Nielsen – Quintet in E Op 43 Brahms – Movement 1 from Sonata in Eb major Dvořák – Serenade in D minor Op 44 (arranged for alto flute and piano) Reinecke – Movements 1& 4 from ‘Undine’ Sonata Admission is free with a retiring collection Bolling – Sentimentale and Veloce from Jazz Suite for Flute and Piano 1300 St Olave Hart Street Recital: Please visit: http://www.stolave.weebly.com Admission is free but donations are gratefully received in aid of

church and recital running costs 1305 St Mary le Bow

Recital: Vóreios Trio Tuesday 28 January

1230 St Mary Abchurch 1310 All Hallows by the Tower Organ Recital: Ian Shaw. Organ Recital: Christian Grautschi Zurich, Switzerland The recital will usually include an improvisation 1300 St Lawrence Jewry 1310 St Margaret Lothbury Organ Recital: Catherine Ennis Organ Recital: Richard Townend plays Bach and Buxtehude (2)

1300 St Stephen Walbrook 1230 St Stephen Walbrook Walbrook Music Trust Recital Organ Recital: Please visit: https://ststephenwalbrook.net/events/ 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Recital: For details please visit: stbrides.com/calendar Friday 31 January and follow the link at this date on the calendar 1315 St Bride Fleet Street Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Recital: For details please visit: stbrides.com/calendar 1315 St Mary at Hill and follow the link at this date on the calendar

Recital: Square Mile Music Series Free Admittance – Retiring Collection Claudia Gallardo Uriarte – violin Programme: 1315 St Dunstan in the West Music by Beethoven and Ysaÿe Organ Recital: Christian Gautschi (Rafz, Switzerland)

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We are indebted to Dickon Love, 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 2020 in December 2019

Saturday 7 December Friday 1 January 1000 3 hr performance on the Jubilee Bells 1000 4 hr performance on the bells by the Ancient Society of College Youths by the St Paul's Cathedral Guild at St Dunstan in West at St Paul's Cathedral

1100 3½ hr performance on the bells ---- o ---- by the Society of Royal Cumberland Youths at St Michael Cornhill Saturday 4 January 1000 3½ hr performance on the bells 1400 3 hr performance on the Royal Jubilee Bells at St Lawrence Jewry

by the Middlesex County Association at St James Garlickhythe 1000 3½ hr performance on the bells by the Ancient Society of College Youths ---- o ---- at St Magnus the Martyr

Saturday 14 December ---- o ----

1000 3½ hr performance on the bells Saturday 11 January by the Ancient Society of College Youths 1030 3 hr performance on the Jubilee Bells at St Magnus the Martyr by the Middlesex County Association

at St Dunstan in the West 1000 3½ hr performance on the bells

by the Ancient Society of College Youths Sunday 19 January at St Michael Cornhill 1515 3 hr performance on the Royal Jubilee Bells by the Ancient Society of College Youths 1100 3 hr performance on the Royal Jubilee Bells at St James Garlickhythe

by the Hertford County Association at St James Garlickhythe Sunday 25 January 1515 3 hr performance on the Royal Jubilee Bells ---- o ---- by the Ancient Society of College Youths at St James Garlickhythe Sunday 15 December 1400 3½ hr performance on the bells Monday 26 January by the Ancient Society of College Youths 1730 3½ hr performance on the bells at St Magnus the Martyr by the Southwark Cathedral Society at St Giles without Cripplegate Monday 16 December 1800 3 hr performance on the Jubilee Bells by the St James' Guild at St Dunstan in the West

Saturday 21 December 1000 3½ hr performance on the bells City Events is published by by London ringers The Friends of the City Churches at St Magnus the Martyr in conjunction with the Archdeaconry of London 1000 3½ hr performance on the bells and printed by Copyprints: by the St Paul's Cathedral Guild [email protected] at St Michael Cornhill

St Benet Paul’s Wharf REGULAR WEEKEND SERVICES 1100 Morning Service (with Lord’s Supper on 1st Sunday) (primarily in Welsh – English translation provided) The entries below show the normal pattern of services for City churches and places of St Botolph Aldersgate worship and a few ‘just over the City borders’. They relate to Church of England 1100 Morning Worship (London City Presbyterian Church) services except where indicated otherwise. References to “1st Sunday”,“2nd Sunday” 1830 Evening Worship etc are to the 1st, 2nd etc Sunday of the month. While every effort is made to ensure accuracy, the services shown are subject to change, in particular immediately before, St Botolph Aldgate during and after major festivals, during the summer months and at Bank or other 1030 Sung Eucharist (with Sunday School for children) holidays. You are strongly advised to contact churches to check the details. St Botolph Bishopsgate 1030 Orthros (Morning Prayer) (Orthodox Church, Patriarchate of Antioch – SATURDAYSATURDAY 1100 Divine Liturgy (in English) Orthodox Parish of St Botolph) 1500 Worship (in the Church Hall) (Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus) Bevis Marks Synagogue St Bride Fleet Street 0830 onwards Jewish Shabbat (Sabbath) Morning Services (Spanish & Portuguese 1100 Choral Eucharist (with children’s Sunday Club on most Sundays – please Sephardic orthodox rite) For details see www.sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/ check on www.stbrides.com) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square 1730 Choral Evensong (with Sermon in Music on 2nd and 4th Sundays) 0800 Morning Prayer (BCP) St Dunstan in the West 1730 Evening Prayer (BCP) (Eucharist on Saints’ and Holy Days) 0900 to 1030 Matins (Romanian Orthodox) English Martyrs Tower Hill 1030 to 1230 Divine Liturgy 1200 to 1300 RC Eucharistic Adoration ending with Benediction St Etheldreda, Ely Place 1830 RC Vigil Mass 0900 RC Mass St Andrew Holborn 1100 Sung RC Mass in Latin 1700 Vigil (in English & Church Slavonic) (Orthodox, Russian Tradition – see St Giles Cripplegate Sunday) (Usually 1st, 3rd & 5th weekends –check on www.dormition.org.uk) 0800 Holy Communion (BCP) (1st Sunday) St Dunstan in the West 1000 Parish Eucharist with Sunday Club for children 1700 to 1800 Vespers (Romanian Orthodox) 1600 Evening Prayer (Most Sundays – please check with the administrator on St Joseph Bunhill Row 0207 638 1997 or email [email protected]) 1130 to 1530 Carmel in the City Spirituality Day (including RC service) St Helen Bishopsgate (1st Saturday of most months – check on www.carmelinthecity.org.uk) 1030 Morning Service (1st Sunday with Lord’s Supper) (provision for children) 1600 Afternoon Service (provision for children and youth group) SUNDAY SUNDAY 1800 Evening Service St James Garlickhythe All Hallows by the Tower 1030 Sunday Service (BCP) – normally sung Eucharist 1100 Sung Eucharist St Joseph Bunhill Row All Hallows on the Wall 1130 RC Mass 1100 Family Worship (City Gates Church) St Katharine Cree Bunhill Fields Meeting House, Quaker Court, Banner Street EC1Y 8QQ 1015 Liturgy (in Malayalam on 1st & 3rd Sundays, in English on 2nd & 4th 1100 Society of Friends (Quaker) Meeting for Worship (see www.bunhillquakers.org) Sundays) (St James Mar Thoma Syrian Church) Charterhouse Chapel, Charterhouse Square St Magnus the Martyr 09.45 Eucharist (BCP) 1100 Solemn High Mass Christ Church Spitalfields St Margaret Pattens 0830 Holy Communion (BCP said service) (1st and 3rd Sundays) 1100 Sunday service in English (Salvation 1030 Morning Worship and Children’s Church 1330 to 1515 Sunday Chinese service in Cantonese/Mandarin Christian 1700 Informal Evening Worship with Junior Church from 1400 Church) City Temple St Martin within Ludgate 1100 to 1245 Sunday Worship, with ‘Youth Connect’ and Prayer at 1000 1100 Sunday Service in Mandarin/English (with translation) Followed by Fellowship Lunch at 1245 (Free (Elim Full Gospel Chinese Church) 1330 Sunday Focus (discipleship training activities for adults & youth) Church) St Mary Abchurch and ‘Kid’s Connect’ (for children aged 3 through primary school) 1300 (1st Sunday) Anglican Service for Russian speakers Dutch Church, Austin Friars St Mary Aldermary 1100 Service in Dutch (ecumenical) 1830 Evening Service (Moot Community – all welcome) (refreshments at 1800) English Martyrs Tower Hill Agape or Contemplative Service or Taizé Service or Eucharist 0900 RC Mass St Mary at Hill 1100 RC Mass 1100 Lutheran Eucharist (in English) (St Anne’s Holy Sepulchre London (St Sepulchre without Newgate) 1400 Lutheran Eucharist (in Swahili) (1st Sunday) Lutheran 1030 Contemporary Worship (with Holy Communion on 1st Sunday) with (Swahili Bible study on 3rd Sunday) Church) children’s programme St Mary Moorfields 1700 ‘5 in the City’ Contemporary Evening Service 1000 RC Mass Jewin Welsh Chapel, Fann Street St Michael Cornhill 1045 Morning Service (in Welsh & English) (Presbyterian Church of Wales) 1430 (1st Sunday) Service in Mandarin - St Helen Bishopsgate Mandarin- St Alban the Martyr, Holborn speaking congregation (On other Sundays at St Peter Cornhill) 0930 Family Mass St Nicholas Cole Abbey 1100 Solemn Mass 1100 to 1215 Contemporary Sunday Service (with creche, Sunday School and St Andrew by the Wardrobe youth club) (Refreshments from 1030 – service followed by informal lunch) 0900 Morning Prayer (St Gregorios Indian Orthodox Church) St Olave Hart Street 1000 Holy Qurbana (Divine Liturgy) (3rd Sunday in English – other 1100 Sung Holy Communion with children’s programme Sundays in Malayalam) St Peter Cornhill St Andrew Holborn 1430 Service in Mandarin - St Helen Bishopsgate mandarin-speaking 1030 Divine Liturgy (in English & Church Slavonic) (Orthodox, Russian Tradition – congregation (Except 1st Sunday – service at St Michael Cornhill) Parish of the Dormition of the Mother of God ) (Usually 1st, 3rd & 5th St Stephen Walbrook Sundays – please check on www.dormition.org.uk) 1100 Sunday Service (Salvation Church) St Bartholomew the Great St Vedast alias Foster 0900 Eucharist (said) (in the Lady Chapel) 1100 Sung Eucharist 1100 Solemn Eucharist Temple Church 1830 Choral Evensong (BCP) (about once a month ends with Benediction of 0830 Holy Communion (BCP said) During legal the Blessed Sacrament – please check on www.greatstbarts.com) 1115 Choral Mattins (BCP) (1st and 3rd Sundays) term-time St Bartholomew the Less Choral Communion (BCP) (other Sundays) 1000 Family Eucharist (Most Sundays – please check on www.greatstbarts.com)