NEWSLETTER Parish of St George Hanover Square St George’s Church Grosvenor Chapel March—June 2014 Issue 27
Photograph of William Kent’s ‘Last Supper’ by Heath Cooper Inside this issue The Rector writes 2 Quite by chance, the reredos at St The Rector writes trenchantly on Lear in Lent & beyond 4 George’s gets two mentions in this page 3, Fr Richard stimulatingly on Soldiering on 5 issue of the Parish Newsletter: first page 4, John Plummer compellingly New prisons mission 6 in the article on page 7 anticipat- on page 6 and Mark Hewitt challeng- ing Roisin Inglesby’s talk on William ingly on pages 5 & 9! William Kent’s London 7 Kent on 2nd April and then in the 16th June 1914 8 piece on page 8 marking the cen- Might one or more of these articles Financial stewardship 9 tenary of the suffragette bombing prompt the start of a Letters page in Services at St George’s 10 of St George’s when the painting, the next edition? The editor would Mayfair Organ Concerts 13 then attributed to Sir James Thorn- welcome any such contributions. Services at Grosvenor Chapel 14 hill, escaped damage. Hyde Park Place Estate Charity 15
1 well, with well in excess of a with children at the Sung Eucharist hundred worshippers, and the at 11am. Followed by customary Carol Service for St George’s refreshments. Hanover Square School was also a great occasion. Thank you to all St George’s Patronal Festival will involved. We of course plan to be kept on the Sunday after Easter celebrate the Christmas Eve ser- (27th April) and the preacher will vice again this year and build on be Fr Mark Nicholls SSC who is the response. Vicar of St Mary’s, Rotherhithe – a church built by John James on a Morning Calm has resumed daily much more historic site than this Monday – Friday at 8.45am. The area (dating from at least 1282), best postgraduate keyboard play- although not paid for as was this ers from the Royal College of Mu- church by a grant from Queen sic performing for 8 – 10 minutes Anne. Despite this the people of a varied Classical Repertoire fol- Rotherhithe went ahead and paid lowed by a time of quiet reflec- for the building themselves. The tion/prayer/meditation and end- parish has proud connections with ing with short formal prayers. the Pilgrim Fathers.
There are daily prayers in Christian Aid Community Partner- church, Monday – Friday at ship. The Parochial Church Council 12.10pm The Midday Office is have agreed in principle to raise The Rector, The Revd said on most days, but with the £5000 over the coming year/18 Eucharist on Fridays and Saints months towards a project which Roderick Leece, writes: Days. Please join us if you are in will attract triple match funding the area. from European Community funds, Going the distance: Mark Hewitt and we are in the process of se- and a good group of committed vol- Requiem for departed loved lecting which project to support unteers have met recently to focus ones will be celebrated on Friday from those suggested. I will write on a renewed effort to raise the 4th April at 12.10pm. Please in- more about this in the next issue £500,000 we still need to pay back form the Verger if you wish to of this Newsletter, but the thought the money we have borrowed to include the names of loved ones. of our £5000 resulting in a total of complete the recent Restoration His contact details appear on the £20,000 for some of the poorest and install the new organ. We met back page. and most needy I hope will encour- after receiving news of a most gen- age a generous response. erous donation from Andy and Bar- The Annual Parochial Church bara Taylor, and Lee and Chrissy Meeting will be on Wednesday Rogation Sunday is on 25th May Broughton, who have contributed 30th April in St. George’s at and after the Sung Eucharist there £100,000 to St George's via our 6.30pm and is preceded by the will follow the traditional walk American Friends. I am extremely Annual Vestry Meeting to elect around the boundaries of our par- grateful for their support, and en- Churchwardens. Please join us to ish of Mayfair ‘Beating the couraged that it has reduced the hear reports back and plans for Bounds’. Hopefully, as in some for- final target from £600 to £500k. the future. mer years, we will have time to organise this as a sponsored walk I am appealing to all who have al- Holy Cocktail Hour Open House with proceeds going to support our ready supported the Campaign to with drinks on Wednesdays at the Christian Aid Community Partner- consider extending their support Rectory, 21a Down Street W1J ship when their various pledges run out. 7AW - entrance in Brick Street In my case, this was in December opposite the tapas bar on the Marriage Renewal Sunday will be last year, and my intention is to following dates: 26th February, on Sunday 6th July renew my Standing order for the 21st May, 18th June. Please feel same modest amount. Over 4 years welcome to drop in between 6.30 Baptism Renewal Sunday will be and with Gift Aid the total raised is -8.00pm. on Sunday 21st September much higher than might be imag- ined, and if as many as are willing Mothering Sunday is on Sunday Prisons Mission. I would like to renew their pledges then this would 30th March (when clocks go for- draw attention to John Plummer's be a great start towards what we ward) and all children and fami- article on page 6 about this most believe will eventually be a suc- lies as well as children from our imaginative initiative which I am cessful finish! St George’s Hanover Square delighted the Parochial Church School are warmly invited to join Council have voted to support. On Christmas Eve at 4.30pm The us for what are thrice yearly ser- There has already been a response Solemn Sung Eucharist of the Vigil vices where children are involved and I urge anybody who is inter- of Christmas, which included the in leading worship/reading, and ested to be in touch as soon as singing of children’s carols around the sermon geared to families possible. the crib, was supported extremely 2 Joint Lent Group this year is spon- only divorced clergy, but bishops Lenten Organ Preludes sored by St George's, St John's Hyde as well. My guess is that many, if
Park Crescent and the Grosvenor not most clergy, have had enough Each Sunday during Lent, before Chapel. An inspired series based on (not to mention the long suffer- the 11 o’clock Sung Eucharist, King Lear. Please see details else- ing laity) and are now past caring Robin Walker, Assistant Organist where in this issue. about the prohibitions of bishops, and Assistant Director of Music, and that the nation will look to will play a short seasonally- St George’s Day Community Con- its parochial clergy for a proper rd appropriate prelude to the service. cert on Wednesday 23 April at lead. He will start to play at approxi- 7.00pm Admission Free, but dona- mately 10.45am except for Palm tions/proceeds to support our Chris- I understand the reasoning of Sunday when he will start at tian Aid Community Partnership. those who wish to man the bibli- 10.40am. Featuring (among others) Mayfair cal barricades on the issue of
Community Choir, Fr Simon Hobbs same sex relationships, although and Fr Roderick Leece. question the inconsistency of not Sunday 9th March getting worked up about other First Sunday in Lent Marriage Preparation for couples examples of behaviour that fall Pärt (b. 1935) marrying at St George's or the short of the Christian ideal of Mein Weg hat Gipfel und Grosvenor Chapel. Fr Richard and I marriage. Namely, any form of Wellentäler are in discussions about providing a extra marital sex, divorce, re- ‘My path has its peaks and its facilitated day for engaged couples marriage etc. Getting so hung up valleys’ in May and will be contacting all about the gay issue is causing concerned as soon as the plans are serious damage to the reputation agreed and confirmed. of the CofE at large, and appears Sunday 16th March to most people to be homopho- Second Sunday in Lent Services of Celebration following a bic. A church which is supposed Frescobaldi (1583-1643) Civil Partnership or Same Sex Mar- to preach the love of God is re- Toccata Terza (per l’organo da riage. I wrote about some of the garded as deeply unpleasant and sonarsi all’Elevazione) issues surrounding Same Sex Mar- offensive. Toccata Duodecima riage when the Parochial Church
Council submitted a response to the St George's has, for over half a
Government's proposals - in favour century been fairly 'progressive' Sunday 23rd March of them. Christian Marriage remains in its attitude towards any who Third Sunday in Lent as it always has - a beautiful and fall short of the Christian ideal Bull (1562-1628) holy sacrament and an ideal to- (as well as encouraging aspiration In Nomine (in A minor) wards which all should aspire as towards that ideal) and has wel- Voluntary best they can. However, in practice comed many divorced couples for and for decades, the reality is that remarriage or services of bless- the vast majority of people have ing. Indeed we are renowned as a Sunday 30th March sexual relations either before or church where people bring their Fourth Sunday in Lent outside of marriage, whatever the love for each other before God. Brahms (1833-97) teaching of the Church. This does This tradition I intend to main- Fugue in A flat minor WoO 8 not mean however that we abandon tain, and would welcome ap- the ideal of marriage. But it does proaches from any couple who mean we as a church need to get wish to arrange of Service of Sunday 6th April real, and unfortunately the bishops Celebration in church following Passion Sunday of the CofE have recently issued their (civil) marriage or partner- Parry (1848-1918) unrealistic and unworkable forbid- ship. Three chorale preludes from Set 1 dings towards gay people (and Rockingham (When I survey clergy) which are unlikely to be fol- Ideas for Lent reading the wondrous cross) lowed. There are proposals for yet more conversations (after decades) Choose Life: Melcombe (New mercies, and there has been, once again, a Christmas and Easter Sermons in each returning day) serious failure of leadership. British Canterbury Cathedral. Christe, Redemptor Omnium society (and most of Europe and the by Rowan Williams (Bloomsbury) (Jesu, the very thought is Americas) has moved on, although sweet) evidence suggests there is a genera- Sacred Space for Lent 2014 tional gap in attitudes about this by the Irish Jesuits th issue. The mood in the church and (Ave Maria Press) Sunday 13 April country I believe has been mis- Palm Sunday judged, and bishops appear to be The Archbishop’s Lent Book for Bach (1685-1750) taking the same route as they did 2013 received excellent reviews Organ Partita on ‘Sei gegrüβet, over divorce - only in the end to and you might like to pick up Jesu gütig’ BWV 768 yield to the complexities of human A b i d i n g by Ben Quash relationships. They now accept not (Bloomsbury) if you missed it last year. 3 Lear in Lent and beyond: keen to satire the ways in which we let ourselves off the hook, in the twisted, yet pointed words he places “this great stage of fools”. on Edmund’s lips: by The Rev’d Dr. Richard Fermer William Shake- This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, speare’s, King when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit Lear is the spur of our own behaviour,--we make guilty of our to our joint Lent disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as Course this year. if we were villains by necessity; fools by It is not an easy heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and play, but nei- treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, ther always is liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of life, nor the planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, challenge of by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion Lent that we of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish must look disposition to the charge of a star! deeper. It is a dark, shocking There is no easy answer to the question: “Where is play, yet during God in this?” Shakespeare is more interested in the Lent are we not “smell of mortality”, than actually imagining how the called to look at Paschal Mystery, the mystery of the pattern of Christ’s our shadows, dying and rising is to work out in the lives of his char- unmask our acters. There is, of course, a brief moment of respite blindness and invite the grace of God’s healing and re- when Lear and his faithful daughter Cordelia are re- demption? united, where Lear gives us a blissful vision of cradled humanity: As a result of his betrayal by two of his daughters and his own blindness in having trusted them and rejected his No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison: only loving sibling - “Thou shouldst not have been old till We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: thou hadst been wise,” says the King’s fool – the Lear is, When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down, as Christ, driven off into the wilderness, the place of And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, storms as fowl as the one’s we have recently experi- And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh enced this winter, the place of those, like Edgar thrown At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues to the margins of society and sanity by lies, deception Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, and reversals. Lear is stripped of his kingship, status, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; affectionate family life and comfort, all his reference And take upon's the mystery of things, points, so that he questions his very identity: “Who is it As if we were God's spies. that can tell me who I am?” Perhaps, Lent is a safe space for us to ask that same question. However, even such a good and precious vision is far from reality. They cannot be so cocooned. Both are Christ’s temptation in the desert is also about identity, imprisoned and Cordelia hanged and Lear next renters his own identity and a refinement of his own perception the stage carrying the body of his daughter, crying : of his mission. However, it is first and foremost a time of “Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones:// testing, rather than a time of breaking and abandon- Had I your tongues and eyes, I'ld use them so//That ment. For that we have to wait until the darkness of the heaven's vault should crack.” cross: “My God! My God! Why hast thou forsaken me?” For Lear, the wilderness is the place of the cross, the Maybe we can see the pattern of the Paschal Mystery place of being pushed to his very limits, to the point of in the reconciliation of Lear and Cordelia, Gloucester being overwhelmed: “O! Let me not be mad, not mad, and Edgar, Lear and Kent. Yet, King Lear is principally sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!” a play of Lent and Good Friday, and not Easter Day. It Lear is not on his own, comparable traumas are also to is for our faith to imagine the hope, the new life, the afflict a number of characters - Kent, Gloucester, Edgar, bringing of light out of darkness. Cordelia – as eyes are gorged out, men are stripped to nakedness, young women hung by the rope! There is a Yet, in the meantime, as we reflect in Lent on how our stripping of the outward façade of humanity – Ecce Homo response to Christ may be deepened, we would do well – says Lear, to the half-starved, naked, wretch that is to grapple, as Shakespeare does, with our own blind- the betrayed Edgar: “Thou art the thing itself: unaccom- ness and self-deception, our broken relationships, modated man is no more but such a poor bare, forked some of which will often be at the level of our closest animal as thou art.” He sees himself in the mirror. family, and what it means to forgive and be forgiven, and finally, how often, in life, we must be decon- The question is very much: where is God in this? Yet, structed in order to be re-formed. These are themes of God cannot be the primary accused in the dock. Shake- Lent. They are also themes of Lear. speare is searing in his exposure of human motivation, of human blindness and self-deception, of foolishness and The weight of this sad time we must obey, weakness, of greed and ambition. Human responsibility Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. is all to evident and cannot be evaded. Shakespeare is 4 Soldiering on… coming one? BAPTISMS, It is such an easy way to do- nate, and from my own experi- MARRIAGE Mark Hewitt, ence, once you have set up the BLESSINGS, Campaign Chairman writes: standing order you really do not FUNERALS & notice it leaving your account The beginning of a new year is always each month. MEMORIAL a great time for renewed impetus and Someone giving £50 per month SERVICES focus, and this has certainly been the (or £11.53 a week, or say 4 IN THE PARISH case with the Campaign. Starbucks’ cappuccino’s) for 4 years would be giving a total of NOVEMBER 2013 – Whilst it is fair to say that my post £3,000 to the Campaign, after FEBRUARY 2014 box was not what you would call Gift Aid has been included. ‘swamped’ with responses (!) follow- If we had just 165 people do- ing my appeal for assistance in form- ing this then the debt ing a new committee in our last news- would be gone! Baptisms at St George’s letter, I am delighted to say that I So do beat a path to the Ves- have been joined by a group of 5 try door and grab a pledg- Henry Aronowitz-Mercer members of the congregation ready ing form! Alice Davis to roll up their sleeves and spur the Gabriel Lake-Atkins Campaign forward. We have already A number of the people who Bruno Calver met a couple of times to get things are already giving under the Amelia Broughton rolling, and the basis of a plan is be- pledging scheme are coming to Alice Raskin ginning to form. As a result, whilst we the end of their initial period Sophie Hubbard-Brown are aware of, and a little daunted by, and as a result we will be the hill we need to climb, spirits are speaking to each of them to see high and I am certain that we will if they would kindly consider re Baptisms at Grosvenor overcome the challenge of paying off -upping so to speak! As you will the debt we incurred to install the have already read, the Rector Chapel new organ. is leading by example in this way and I hope that others will Liza Stritzke As you will have read in the Rector’s be able to follow. Percy Gabb opening statement, 2014 got off to an amazing start with a single donation Finally, whilst the new commit- of £100,000 as well as a couple of tee has gotten off to a good Marriage Blessings at St other unexpected gifts. As a result, start, please consider giving of George’s the amount of outstanding loan that your time and joining “we we as a congregation owe has re- happy few, we band of broth- Emma Simpson & Simon Stock duced to £530,000. This start is even ers”! Work with us on achiev- Rebecca Yarnold & Jefferson more striking when you set it against ing our target. It really isn’t too Cowhig the fact that the total raised by the onerous and if there are enough Jia Li & Boyong Yan Campaign in 2013 was £102,000. What of us then the level of commit- a result and great start to the year! ment you would be looking at is going to be around a couple of Funerals at Grosvenor Clearly, much more remains to be hours a week and attendance at Chapel a short monthly Committee done and in our next Newsletter I can meeting. update you on the plan that the Peter Sommer newly formed committee comes up Jean Arendt with. But in the meantime: If you are willing to help in this final stage: through establishing a pledge, At the start of 2013, we had 26 giving of your time or any other way, people donating on a monthly please do catch me on a Sunday to Memorial Service at basis to the Campaign and 6 discuss; contact me through the ves- Grosvenor Chapel others on a quarterly basis. If try; or email me at campaign you were one of these, then I @stgeorgeshanoversquare.org Nick Robinson trust that you are aware of how very grateful all at St George’s I look forward to hearing from you! are for your support. If you are
not one of these, then may I Mark A. Hewitt
please ask you to consider be- Campaign Chairman
LEAR IN LENT A joint Lent course presented by St George’s, St John’s, Hyde Park and Grosvenor Chapel Wednesday Evening’s in Lent at Grosvenor Chapel Full details see page 15
5 Reciprocal value The new Prisons Mission aims to achieve reciprocal value for both the churches and the prisons. Each participating church will have a small team from the congregation who gain some understanding about prisons, their inmates, ac- tivities, successes and failures. Also, the members of the prison chaplaincy teams will visit annually to preach, attend a committee meeting and review progress. As members of the team and the wider congregation continue to learn more about these usually unseen and unknown institutions, more services needed by the chap- lains will become understood and, where possible, delivered.
Wormwood Scrubs Prison one of 14 prisons in London The Pilot Project Chaplaincy teams Consultations have been held with The New Prisons Mission During the last year CTiW has devel- chaplains at Pentonville, Wands- oped a new initiative to enable its worth and Wormwood Scrubs pris- by John Plummer members to engage in constructive ons and all are keen to pro- ceed. The CTiW executive has de- relationships with prisons. The ob- jective is to enable clusters of cided to commence a pilot project Our church is one of the first to enrol which will match up to to eight churches of different traditions to in the pilot project of the new Prisons member churches with these three build sustainable partnerships Mission launched at the AGM of major prisons for a trial pe- Churches Together in Westminster on with prison chaplaincy teams at riod. Each of the churches will 20th January. This will enable a small specific London prisons. Every prison nominate two or three initial rep- team of volunteers to work with chap- has a chaplaincy team comprising resentatives who will be sensitively lains in the ministry to people in pris- full and part time Anglican and Ro- introduced to the prison system ons. man Catholic priests, with members and carefully supported as they of other Christian denominations begin to work with the chaplaincy There are 85,552 people in prisons in and representatives of world faiths, teams. After about six months the Britain today. Men, women, children including Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, operations will be reviewed and between 10 and 17, mothers and ba- Muslim and Sikh, joining as re- evaluated. If it is found to be suc- bies. Of the 14 prisons in London quired. Each team provides regular cessful and beneficial to all the some are among the biggest in Europe worship and religious teaching for parties, lessons will be learned and with 1800 inmates and hundreds of applied and the project rolled out staff. Even these are not enough, so prisoners and staff as well as pas- toral care for inmates and their to include more churches and pris- many prisoners are detained far from ons. It is expected that establish- their homes. All prisoners are locked families. ments responsible for women and up in our name, but most disappear children in custody would be added from public view from the moment of CTiW member churches will endeav- our to provide the services and sup- to the list. sentence. They are "out of sight, out port needed and identified by the of mind" until they emerge, blinking Churches and Prisons "Twinned" chaplaincy teams rather than those into the light, when they are dis- The new Prisons Mission was first charged having paid the penalty for chosen by the churches or their con- introduced to the congregation of their crimes. Not surprisingly, many go gregations. Examples given by the St George's church on Prisons Sun- on to offend again. chaplains include attendance for day last November. It is believed worship in prisons, help with differ- that this will provide a realistic Invisible prisoners ent forms of liturgy, bible classes, means by which ordinary Christians Exceptions to this invisibility are choral and musical assistance, liter- can try to practise their ministry to rare. Recently these have included acy, numeracy and mentoring, re- people in prisons: members of a Vicky Pryce and Chris Huhne, Also, the settlement support and receiving very vulnerable and isolated tabloid press takes voyeuristic interest offenders into churches on discharge group. By Prisons Sunday in No- in people convicted of particularly from custody. The purpose of these vember 2014 there should be tangi- horrific crimes such as Peter Sutcliffe activities is to add strength and ble progress and a better informed and Rosemary West. Most disappear congregation. People who worship behind prison walls unseen by most range to the work of the chaplaincy teams. They operate under great at St George's are justifiably proud MPs, councillors, doctors, journalists, of our beautiful church, our music priests and members of the public pressure to provide much needed services to some very distressed and and our history. In future, we may including the congregations of our also become proud to be twinned churches. anxious inmates and relations. with one of the major London pris- ons.
6 London Handel Festival Concert
Monday 10th March at 7.00pm
Kimberly Marshall — organ
HANDEL & BACH, COSMOPOLITANS OF THE ORGAN
Handel Concerto in B flat HWV306 Largo from Xerxes HWV40 Concerto in F Op4 No 5 HWV293
JS Bach Passacaglia in C minor BWV582 Sinfonia from Cantata No 29 BWV29 transcribed by Marcel Photograph of William Kent’s ‘Last Supper’ by Heath Cooper Dupré Concerto in D minor after Vivaldi William Kent’s London land in 1719 after a decade spent BWV596 in Italy. We shall also be enlight-
ened about the social/political Alexandre Guilmant Art History at St George’s in- context of the Hanoverian suc- Two adaptations of Handel’s Music: cluding the altarpiece you cession. Paraphrase on ‘See the conqu’ring may never have thought hero comes!’ An important part of William about? March upon Handel’s ‘Lift up ye Kent’s work are his designs for Heads’ the civic and Royal spaces of Lon- Roisin Inglesby, Assistant Curator don and these are a central part Tickets: £15—unreserved seating of the V&A’s exhibition “William of the exhibition at the Victoria Kent: Designing Georgian Brit- and Albert Museum from March http://www.london-handel-festival.com ain” [at the V&A between 22nd 22nd to July 13th this year. or telephone 01460 53500 March and 13th July] will talk about Kent’s work in London, and the William Kent 1685 -1748 was con- London in which Kent worked. She sidered a paragon of good taste charts his progress from decorative at a time when the second Palla- painter to architect of some of Lon- dian Revival was in full swing. don’s most recognizable public Between the era of Wren and buildings, and talks about the sig- Adam, Kent worked in painting, At the V & A nificance of holding the first major sculpture, interior decoration, exhibition of Kent’s work in London furniture, sculpture, costume, today. metal work, theatrical design and landscape gardening. In garden Frances Williams writes: history, Kent was seen as an im-
portant figure, being the van- Since at St George’s we have the guard of the revolution against advantage of a central London loca- the more formal gardens of the tion the focus will be on William 17th century, creating spaces that At St George’s Kent’s work in London, with the were comparable with the paint- inclusion of our own altarpiece ings of Claude and Poussin. Many ‘Last Supper’ 1724 (an early work of his interior designs are sump- of Kent’s), painted when Kent still tuous, looking back to the era of William Kent’s London had aspirations to be a painter Baroque as does his funerary rather than an interior designer/ A talk by Roisin Inglesby monument of John Churchill, 1st architect. This will lead us on to Duke of Marlborough (carved by the larger architectural projects he Wednesday 2nd April John Michael Rysbrack) and was involved in during the 1730s housed in Blenheim Palace and 1740s. Of enormous interest 1.00 pm Chapel, Oxfordshire. He played a will be the inclusion of some his- dominant role in shaping English St George’s, Hanover Square torical context to provide us with taste for more than twenty years. some basic ‘scene setting’ in order Entrance £3.00 to understand what London was like when Kent returned to work in Eng-
7 in prison.
Just over a fortnight later on 4th July, the New York Tribune re- ported under the headline “Suffs’” Bomb Disguised Blessing – doesn’t one envy the precision of the punctuation? [Ed] – that ‘expert examination of the windows of St George’s, Hanover Square, reveals the fact that there must be an entire reglazing of them to insure the preservation of the windows in this famous church, which have stood the test of time and weather since the early sixteenth century . . . It is expected to begin the work in August when people leave town. Then Mr Bell [the stained glass artist, Reginald O. Bell] and his assistants hope to have the church practically to themselves. Accord- The aftermath of the explosion of a suffragette bomb in St George’s ing to the artist, the windows Photograph © Mirrorpix/Robana used with permission were so badly shaken by the suf- fragette bomb explosion . . . that th Sunday 16th June 1914 10 o’clock on Sunday 16 June, a severe thunderstorm or even too two hours after the verger had vigorous playing of the organ might bring about a collapse. By a by Stephen Wikner locked up after Sunday evensong. As the Feilding Star in New Zea- providential coincidence the bomb One of the many surprising features of land reported, the bomb explosion occurred after the re- the months that preceded the out- ‘consisted of a canister of gun- cent disastrous thunderstorm break of war in Europe in late July and powder and metal filings. It was which shook London earlier in the early August 1914 was how little pub- in a lady’s handbag and was ig- day.’ lic attention was given to the conti- nited by a candle. A middle-aged nental crisis in the British political woman had been the sole occu- One can only presume the work arena. The dominant issues of the day pant of the pew near the chancel was carried out in August but of throughout the first seven months of in which it was found.’ The Ore- course by then the Great War was 1914 were Irish home rule and the gon News reported that the under way and the suffragette very real fear of an Irish civil war; woman wore ‘a checked dress’ campaign had been put on the widespread industrial unrest and the and that an envelope had been back burner. increasingly violent acts of those de- found in the church on which was manding the vote for women. written: ‘A protest against the Sadly, we have no record of the torture of women.’ identity of the middle-aged And it was in this latter context that woman in the check dress. on Monday 17th June 1914 St George’s This was not the first bomb to be found itself on the front pages of detonated in London churches by newspapers around the world. The suffragettes in 1914. On 1st March New York Times reported: one went off in the building we now know as St John’s, Smith In his talks with reporters on Saturday Square. On 5th April there was a Col Roosevelt made several jocose similar explosion in St Martin-in- remarks about suffragettes. Yester- the-Fields and on 11th June, just day, while he was enjoying the seclu- five days before the explosion in sion of Chequers Court, the Bucking- St George’s, a bomb went off hamshire residence of Lieut Col Ar- under St Edward’s Chair in West- thur Lee, militants exploded a bomb minster Abbey. During the after- in St George’s, Hanover Square, the noon of 16th June, there had also church in which the ex-President was been a considerable disturbance married in 1886. The famous Dutch at St Paul’s Cathedral during a stained-glass window was badly dam- service attended by high court aged but fortunately Sir James Thorn- judges and the Lord Mayor when hill’s “The Last Supper” below it, es- suffragettes had chained them- caped injury. selves to pews chanting “God save Mrs Pankhurst” and protest- A bomb had indeed gone off at about ing about the torture of women
8 Financial stewardship to most churches.
Mark Hewitt, Parish Treasurer writes: Each church pays a Diocesan Quota, and ours was a little over £51,000 last year, and will be £53,000 in
2014. The quota is what each church pays in to the As you may be aware, St George’s finance year is the ‘central pot’ from which the Diocese funds clergy calendar year, which makes things a little easier to con- stipends, housing costs etc. Each church agrees the trol. This means that as I write this, our Parish Adminis- level it is able to pay every year, which is related to trator, Stephen, is currently finalising all our numbers its overall financial position. In light of my comment ready for the auditors, a task I know, understandably, above about the historic arrangements under which he looks forward to as much as root canal work! we are run, you will not be surprised to learn that St
George’s is, as a result, one of the largest net givers The good thing is that the draft numbers show that in in this regard, as the diocese bears so little in terms 2013 we had a surplus of £15,000 at St George’s. Our of clergy costs for us. income came in at £362,000 and in the last Newsletter we had the exciting overview of how St George’s will The final main expense is the church running costs. have generated this amount! As you would expect, these include the likes of utili-
ties, cleaning, supplies and the like. As promised, in this edition we get on to the far more fun topic of where did all the money go?! So these are the main expenses, and as the chart
shows, they total just under ¾ of our total costs. In 2013, it cost us £347,000 to achieve everything we Other significant ones include insurance on the completed as a church, which is no small amount. As church building (where due to our location we cover you will see in the chart, the main 4 categories of ex- any damage caused by terrorism) and the interest on penses were: our music, the costs of staffing the parish our outstanding debt covering the remaining price of office, our contribution to the diocese and then the run- the organ. ning costs of the building itself.
Clearly £347,000 is an enormous amount of money Our church has a great musical tradition and we are and we are fortunate to have income from our his- proud to be able to continue this and ensure that it con- toric investments to help us cover everything. But tinues for future congregations. This was a main driver our weekly collections do play a significant role in behind the purchase of the new organ. this and I am pleased to say that following my com- ments in the last newsletter a few more members of the congregation have switched their weekly offer- tory to a standing order, to ensure their donation is given even if they are away.
If this is something that you would like to follow up and you would like to set up a standing order, or join the Regular Giving scheme, please speak to anyone in the Vestry, who will be delighted to advise you.
So what would you like me to cover next time? ……………. Let me know!
Mark A Hewitt Treasurer
When we come to look at the cost of music, then we are London Handel Festival Film really talking about our professional choir, our organists and the costs of buying any sheet music as required. Tuesday 25th March Overall, this splits in to two parts: first is the cost of our normal services, which come in at around £700 a time. 7.00-8.15pm This is a cost we bear as a parish. Secondly, this expense line includes the choir costs relating to special services HONOUR PROFIT AND PLEASURE such as weddings and concerts. Now for these, you will recall that we have a separate income stream and so Simon Callow stars as Handel in Channel 4’s 1985 this is not a real cost for the church as we charge this film of Handel’s life in London. Made on a small on. budget, it tells the story of his life after he moved
to England in the 1710s. The film gives some insight The costs of running the parish office include the sala- ries of 4 people but exclude the Rector. Due to an his- into his personality along with some amusing staging toric arrangement, St George’s rector is not paid for by of his operas. the Parish or the Diocese but, rather, is funded from a related charity – an arrangement that is very different Tickets: £8 http://www.london-handel-festival.com
9 Tuesday 11th March Tuesday 25th March 8.45am Morning Calm The Annunciation of the Blessed 12.10pm Midday Prayer Virgin Mary 8.45am Morning Calm Wednesday 12th March 12.10pm Holy Communion St Gregory the Great, Bp of Rome, 604 Wednesday 26th March 8.45am Morning Calm 8.45am Morning Calm 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer 5.45pm Holy Communion 5.45pm Holy Communion
th Thursday 13 March Thursday 27th March Ember Day 8.45am Morning Calm 8.45am Morning Calm 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer Friday 28st March th Friday 14 March 8.45am Morning Calm Ember Day (final - resumes Monday 28th April) 8.45am Morning Calm 12.10pm Holy Communion 12.10pm Holy Communion Sunday 30th March th Sunday 16 March Fourth Sunday in Lent Second Sunday in Lent Mothering Sunday 8.30am Holy Communion 8.30am Holy Communion Services at St George’s 10.45am Lenten Organ Prelude (see 10.45am Lenten Organ Prelude page 3) nd (see page 3) Sunday 2 March 11.00am Sung Eucharist 11.00am Sung Eucharist Quinquagesima Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector 8.30am Holy Communion Missa Papae Marcelli (Palestrina) Missa Brevis in F (Haydn) 11.00am Sung Eucharist Sicut cervus (Palestrina) Ave Maria (Parsons) Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector Ricercare terzo tono (Anon- Prelude & Fugue in A (Bach) Messe Solennelle (Widor) Palestrina?) Cantique de Jean Racine (Fauré) Monday 31st March nd th Final from 2 Symphony (Widor) Monday 17 March 12.10pm Midday Prayer 8.45am Morning Calm rd Monday 3 March 12.10pm Midday Prayer Tuesday 1st April 8.45am Morning Calm 12.10pm Midday Prayer th 12.10pm Midday Prayer Tuesday 18 March 8.45am Morning Calm nd th Wednesday 2 April Tuesday 4 March 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer 8.45am Morning Calm 5.45pm Holy Communion th 12.10pm Midday Prayer Wednesday 19 March 8.45am Morning Calm rd th Thursday 3 April Wednesday 5 March 12.10pm Midday Prayer St Richard, Bishop of Chichester, ASH WEDNESDAY 5.45pm Holy Communion 1253 8.45am Morning Calm 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Holy Communion Thursday 20th March with imposition of ashes 8.45am Morning Calm Friday 4th April 12.10pm Midday Prayer St Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, 397 th Thursday 6 March 12.10pm Holy Communion 8.45am Morning Calm Friday 21st March 12.10pm Midday Prayer St Benedict, Abbott of Monte Sunday 6th April Casino, c 550 Passion Sunday th Friday 7 March 8.45am Morning Calm 8.30am Holy Communion St Perpetua, Martyr at Carthage, 203 12.10pm Holy Communion 10.45am Lenten Organ Prelude (see 8.45am Morning Calm page 3) 12.10pm Holy Communion Sunday 23rd March 11.00am Sung Eucharist Third Sunday in Lent Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector th Sunday 9 March 8.30am Holy Communion Missa iste Confessor (Palestrina) First Sunday in Lent 10.45am Lenten Organ Prelude Crucifixus (Lotti) 8.30am Holy Communion (see page 3) Fantasia in C minor BWV 562 (Bach) 10.45am Lenten Organ Prelude (see 11.00am Sung Eucharist page 3) Celebrant & Preacher: Fr Reginald Monday 7th April 11.00am Sung Eucharist Bushau 12.10pm Midday Prayer Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector Missa Euge Bone (Tye) Mass for Four Voices (Byrd) O Lord in thy wrath (Gibbons) Tuesday 8th April Miserere (Allegri) Fantasia in C (Gibbons) 12.10pm Midday Prayer O Mensch, bewin dein Sünde groß (Bach) Monday 24th March Wednesday 9th April th Monday 10 March 8.45am Morning Calm 12.10pm Midday Prayer 8.45am Morning Calm 12.10pm Midday Prayer 5.45pm Holy Communion 12.10pm Midday Prayer
10 th Thursday 10 April Sunday 27th April Sunday 11th May 12.10pm Midday Prayer St George’s Patronal Festival Third Sunday after Easter 8.30am Holy Communion 8.30am Holy Communion Friday 11th April 11.00am Sung Eucharist 11.00am Sung Eucharist 12.10pm Holy Communion Celebrant : The Rector Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector Preacher: Fr Mark Nicholls Missa Brevis in D (Mozart) Sunday 13th April Missa Brevis (Kelly) Sing joyfully (Byrd) Palm Sunday Give us the wings of faith (Bullock) Caprice sur les Grands Jeux 8.30am Holy Communion Pomp & Circumstance March No 4 (Clerembault) 10.40am Lenten Organ Prelude (Elgar) (see page 3) Monday 12th May 11.00am Sung Eucharist Monday 28th April 8.45am Morning Calm Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector 8.45am Morning Calm 12.10pm Midday Prayer Missa Brevis (Grayston Ives) 12.10pm Midday Prayer Passion according to St Matthew Tuesday 13th May (Lassus) Tuesday 29th April 8.45am Morning Calm Hosanna to the Son of David (Weelkes) St Mark the Evangelist (transferred) 12.10pm Midday Prayer Valet will ich dir geben BWV 736 8.45am Morning Calm (Bach) 12.10pm Midday Prayer Wednesday 14th May 8.45am Morning Calm Monday 14th April Wednesday 30th April 12.10pm Midday Prayer Monday in Holy Week 8.45am Morning Calm 5.45pm Holy Communion 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer 5.45pm Holy Communion 5.45pm Holy Communion Thursday 15th May 8.45am Morning Calm th Tuesday 15 April Thursday 1st May 12.10pm Midday Prayer Tuesday in Holy Week SS Philip & James, Apostles 12.10pm Midday Prayer 8.45am Morning Calm Friday 16th May 5.45pm Holy Communion 12.10pm Midday Prayer 8.45am Morning Calm 12.10pm Holy Communion th Wednesday 16 April Friday 2nd May Wednesday in Holy Week 8.45am Morning Calm Sunday 18th May 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Holy Communion Fourth Sunday after Easter 5.45pm Holy Communion 8.30am Holy Communion Sunday 4th May 11.00am Sung Eucharist Thursday 17th April Second Sunday after Easter Part of the London Festival of Maundy Thursday 8.30am Holy Communion Contemporary Church Music 12.10pm Midday Prayer 11.00am Sung Eucharist Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector 5.45pm Holy Communion Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector Missa Brevis (Antony le Fleming) Missa Cantate Domino (Lobo) Strengthen for service (Ayres) Friday 18th April Hallelujah (Handel) Firebird (Frederick Frahm) GOOD FRIDAY Fugue in D (Scarlatti) World Premiere 10.00am Good Friday Liturgy 2.30pm Vespers Monday 5th May Monday 19th May J S Bach St Matthew Passion 8.45am Morning Calm St Dunstan, Archbishop of (Tickets only from 01460 54660. See 12.10pm Midday Prayer Canterbury, page 16 for details) Restorer of Monastic Life, 968 Tuesday 6th May 8.45am Morning Calm Sunday 20th April St John the Evangelist 12.10pm Midday Prayer EASTER DAY ante Portam Latinam 8.30am Holy Communion 8.45am Morning Calm Tuesday 20th May 11.00am Sung Eucharist 12.10pm Midday Prayer 8.45am Morning Calm Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector 12.10pm Midday Prayer Coronation Mass (Mozart) Wednesday 7th May Haec Dies (Byrd) 8.45am Morning Calm Wednesday 21st May Dankpsalm (Reger) 12.10pm Midday Prayer 8.45am Morning Calm 5.45pm Holy Communion 12.10pm Midday Prayer Monday 21st April 5.45pm Holy Communion No services Thursday 8th May 8.45am Morning Calm Thursday 22nd May nd Tuesday 22 April 12.10pm Midday Prayer 8.45am Morning Calm 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer Friday 9th May rd Wednesday 23 April 8.45am Morning Calm Friday 23rd May 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Holy Communion 8.45am Morning Calm 5.45pm Holy Communion 12.10pm Holy Communion
Thursday 24th April 12.10pm Midday Prayer
Friday 25th April 12.10pm Holy Communion
11 Sunday 25th May Sunday 8th June Sunday 22nd June Fifth Sunday after Easter Whit Sunday First Sunday after Trinity Rogation Sunday 8.30am Holy Communion 8.30am Holy Communion 8.30am Holy Communion 11.00am Sung Eucharist 11.00am Sung Eucharist 11.00am Sung Eucharist Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector Missa Brevis (Dove) Mass in G (Schubert) Whitlock in G Loquebantur variis linguis (Tallis) Ave verum corpus (Elgar) Light of the World (Elgar) Komm. Heiliger Geist BWV 651 (Bach) 1st Movement, Sonata in G (Elgar) Menuetto-Impromptu (Ireland) Monday 9th June Monday 23rd June Monday 26th May 8.45am Morning Calm 12.10pm Midday Prayer St Augustine, first Archbishop of 12.10pm Midday Prayer Canterbury, 605 Tuesday 24th June 8.45am Morning Calm Tuesday 10th June Birth of St John the Baptist 12.10pm Midday Prayer 8.45am Morning Calm 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer Tuesday 27th May Wednesday 25th June The Venerable Bede, Wednesday 11th June 12.10pm Midday Prayer Monk at Jarrow, Scholar & St Barnabas, the Apostle 5.45pm Holy Communion Historian, 735 8.45am Morning Calm 8.45am Morning Calm 12.10pm Midday Prayer Thursday 26th June 12.10pm Midday Prayer 5.45pm Holy Communion 12.10pm Midday Prayer
th Wednesday 28 May Thursday 12th June Friday 27th June 8.45am Morning Calm 8.45am Morning Calm 12.10pm Holy Communion 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer 5.45pm Holy Communion Sunday 29th June Friday 13th June St Peter the Apostle th Thursday 29 May Ember Day 8.30am Holy Communion ASCENSION DAY 8.45am Morning Calm 11.00am Sung Eucharist 8.45am Morning Calm 12.10pm Holy Communion Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector 12.10pm Midday Prayer Missa Sine Nomine (Hassler) Sunday 15th June Give us the wings of faith (Bullock) th Friday 30 May Trinity Sunday Tocata in G BuxWV 164 (Buxtehude) 8.45am Morning Calm 8.30am Holy Communion 12.10pm Holy Communion 11.00am Sung Eucharist Monday 30th June Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector 12.10pm Midday Prayer Sunday 1st June Stanford in C Sunday after Ascension Day The Cherubic Hymn (Glinka) 8.30am Holy Communion Fugue in E flat BWV 552 (Bach) 11.00am Sung Eucharist Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector Monday 16th June Missa Ascendens Christi (Victoria) 8.45am Morning Calm God is gone up (Finzi) 12.10pm Midday Prayer Transports de joie (Messiaen) Tuesday 17th June Monday 2nd June St Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c 250 8.45am Morning Calm 8.45am Morning Calm 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer
rd Tuesday 3 June Wednesday 18th June 8.45am Morning Calm 8.45am Morning Calm 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer 5.45pm Holy Communion th Wednesday 4 June 8.45am Morning Calm Thursday 19th June 12.10pm Midday Prayer Corpus Christi 5.45pm Holy Communion 8.45am Morning Calm 12.10pm Holy Communion th Thursday 5 June St Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Friday 20th June Bishop, Apostle to Germany, Translation of Edward, Martyr, 754 King of West Saxons, 979 8.45am Morning Calm 8.45am Morning Calm (final) 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Holy Communion
th Friday 6 June 8.45am Morning Calm 12.10pm Holy Communion
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MAYFAIR ORGAN CONCERTS a weekly series of lunchtime organ concerts at St George’s Church, Hanover Square & Grosvenor Chapel Tuesdays 1.10 – 1.50pm
Tuesday 4th March Tuesday 6th May St George’s Grosvenor Chapel Robin Walker* Andrew Benson-Wilson
Tuesday 11th arch Tuesday 13th May Grosvenor Chapel St George’s Margaret Phillips* Richard Hobson
Tuesday 18th March Tuesday 20th May St George’s Grosvenor Chapel Edward Dean* Marilyn Harper
Tuesday 25th March Tuesday 27th May Grosvenor Chapel St George’s Alexander Pott* Jonathan Vaughn
Tuesday 1st April Tuesday 3rd June St George’s Grosvenor Chapel Anne Page* Chris Farr
Tuesday 8th April Tuesday 10th June Grosvenor Chapel St George’s Freddie James* Julian Thomas
Tuesday 15th April Tuesday 17th June St George’s Grosvenor Chapel Simon Williams* Richard Brasier
Tuesday 22nd April Tuesday 24th June Grosvenor Chapel St George’s Richard Hobson (organ) Gerard Brooks & Moyra Montagu (oboe)
Tuesday 29th April St George’s Gerdi Troskie
Asterisked concerts are presented in association with the London Handel Festival.
Admission to all Mayfair Organ Concerts is free but there is a retiring collection.
13 Sunday 6th April Sunday 25th May The Fifth Sunday of Lent The Sixth Sunday of Easter 11.00 Sung Eucharist 11.00am Sung Eucharist Palestrina Missa sicut lillium inter Darke Communion Service in F major spinas SS Wesley Blessed be the God and Byrd Emendemus in melius Father Gordon Jacob Festal Flourish Sunday 13th April Palm Sunday Thursday 29th May 11.00am Sung Eucharist Ascension Day Handl Missa Undique Flammatis 7.00pm Sung Eucharist Weelkes Hosanna to the Son of David Lobo Missa O Rex gloriae Victoria St Matthew Passion Byrd Viri Galilaei Lassus Improperium Bach Heut’ triumphiret Gottes Sohn
Thursday 17th April Sunday 1st June Maundy Thursday Sunday after Ascension 7.00pm Sung Eucharist of the Last 11.00am Sung Eucharist Supper Victoria Missa Ascendens Christus Services at Grosvenor Chapel Lassus Missa Ocatvi Toni Palestrina O Rex gloriae Poulenc Vinea mea electa Stanley Voluntary in F Op.7 no.10 In addition to the Sunday Sung Vaughan Williams Love bade me welcome Sunday 8th June Eucharist detailed here, a said Duruflé Ubi caritas Pentecost Eucharist is celebrated each Tallis The Lamentation of Jeremiah 11.00am Sung Eucharist Thursday morning at 8.00am and Howells Missa Collegium Regale every day (Monday to Friday) Friday 18th April Francis Jackson Come, thou holy Daily Prayer is said at 12.30pm. Good Friday Paraclete 1.00pm The Liturgy of Good Friday Tallis O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit Sunday 2nd March Plainsong The St John Passion Nicolas de Grigny Dialogue sur les The Sunday next before Lent John of Portugal Crux Fidelis grands jeux 11.00am Sung Eucharist Victoria The Reproaches Sheppard The Western Wind Mass Tippett Steal away Sunday 15 June Phillips In splendente nube Lotti Crucifixus etiam pro nobis Trinity Sunday Bach Prelude in B minor 11.00am Sung Eucharist Sunday 20th April Mozart Spatzenmesse K220 Wednesday 5th March Easter Day (with orchestra) Tchaikowsky Hymn to the Trinity Ash Wednesday 11.00 Sung Eucharist Bach Fugue in E flat 7.00pm Sung Eucharist & Walford Davies O sons and daughters Imposition of Ashes Mozart Missa Solemnis in C K337 Sunday 22 June Tallis Short Communion Service Handel Hallelujah First Sunday after Trinity Tallis In ieunio et fletu Widor Toccata in F 11.00am Sung Eucharist Eccard Mass for Five Voices Sunday 9th March Sunday 27th April Blow Salvator mundi salva nos The First Sunday of Lent The Second Sunday of Easter Jean Adam Guilain Dialogue 11.00am Sung Eucharist 11.00am Eucharist with hymns Plainsong The lent Prose Sunday 29 June Victoria Missa trahe me post te Sunday 4th May Peter and Paul, Apostles Allegri Miserere mei The Third Sunday of Easter 11.00am Sung Eucharist Byrd Ne irasceris Domine 11.00am Sung Eucharist Haydn Missa Brevis in F Byrd Mass for Five Voices Philips Gaudent in coelis Sunday 16th March Taverner Dum transisset sabbatum Bach Fugue in B minor The Second Sunday of Lent Couperin Offertoire sur les grands 11.00am Sung Eucharist jeux Lassus Missa super Frere Thibault Tallis Sancte Deus Sunday 11th May Tallis If ye love me The Fourth Sunday of Easter 11.00am Sung Eucharist Sunday 23rd March Caesar Missa Brevis Capella Regalis The Third Sunday of Lent Peter Philips Surgens Jesus 11.00am Sung Eucharist Buxtehude Praeludium, Fuga & MacMillan Missa Brevis Ciacona Walton A Litany Sunday 18th May Sunday 30th March The Fifth Sunday of Easter The Fourth Sunday of Lent 11.00am Sung Eucharist 11.00am Sung Eucharist Victoria Simile est regnum coelorum Esquivel Missa O Virgo sanctissima Anerio Alleluia. Christus surrexit Taverner Mater Christi Anon Voluntary for Double Organ
14 THE HYDE PARK PLACE ESTATE CHARITY
CIVIL TRUSTEES
At their meeting on Wednesday 27th November 2013, the Civil Trustees of the Hyde Park Place Estate Charity awarded grants totalling £35,805 to the follow- ing organisations:
St Vincent’s Family Project
Shelter
CLIC Sargent
Macmillan Cancer Support
Beanstalk
Housing Justice
Vitalise
Brent Centre for Young People
West London Day Centre
Motor Neurone Disease Association
St George’s School
St George’s Hanover Square - Refreshment Coupon Scheme ST JOHN’S SMITH SQUARE
The next meeting of the Civil Thursday 13th March, 2014 at 7.30pm Trustees will be held on Wednesday 12th March 2014 The London Chorus with the New London Orchestra, in asso- (application deadline: Friday 28th February). A further meet- ciation with the University of Durham. ing will be held on Wednesday 4th June 2014 (application dead- Ronald Corp conducts this celebratory programme and the Or- line: Friday 23rd May). chestra is joined by baritone Thomas Allen, organist Simon Wil- liams and Alumni of Durham University. The next meeting of the Ecclesi- astical Trustees will take place Stanford Concert Piece for Organ and Orchestra, op. 181 on Sunday 1st June 2014. Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs
Dyson Choral Symphony ‘O Give Thanks unto the Lord’ Shirley Vaughan (World Premiere) Clerk to the Trustees Tickets: £25, £18, £12 On line: [email protected] or by phone: +44 (0)20 7222 1061
15 PARISH OF ST GEORGE, HANOVER SQUARE St George’s Church, The Vestry, 2A Mill Street, London W1S 1FX Tel: 020 7629 0874 Email: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Website: www.stgeorgeshanoversquare.org
St George’s Hanover Square Foundation Email: [email protected]
Hyde Park Place Estate Charity Email: [email protected]
Grosvenor Chapel, 24 South Audley Street, London W1K 2PA Tel: 020 7499 1684 Email: [email protected] [email protected] Website: www.grosvenorchapel.org.uk
GOOD FRIDAY VESPERS FRIDAY 18th APRIL 2014 AT 2.30PM J S BACH ST MATTHEW PASSION
presented in association with the London Handel Festival
Nathan Vale Evangelist George Humphreys Christus & arias Erica Eloff soprano Louise Innes mezzo soprano Choir of St George's, Hanover Square (Director Simon Williams) London Handel Orchestra (leader Adrian Butterfield ) Laurence Cummings conductor
Tickets: £45, £40, £35, £32, £30, £12, £10 - reserved seating Online booking : www.london-handel-festival.com Telephone booking : 01460 54660
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