KING’S COLLEGE CHAPEL Michaelmas Term 2018 CHORAL SERVICES with concerts and recitals KING’S COLLEGE CHAPEL Dean The Revd Dr Stephen Cherry @StephenCherry1 [email protected] Director of Music Dr Stephen Cleobury @SJCleobury [email protected] Chaplain The Revd Andrew Hammond @AndrewFrRaphael [email protected] Dean’s Verger Mr Ian Griffiths [email protected] Label and Media Manager Mr Benjamin Sheen @ChoirOfKingsCam [email protected] Assistant Director of Music Mr Ben Parry @benparrymusic [email protected] Dean’s PA Mrs Caryn Wilkinson [email protected] Director of Music’s PA Ms Caroline Walker [email protected] 2 CONTENTS page Welcome 4 Introductory notices 5 Choral services 10 Organ recitals 34 Concerts at King’s 37 Please note that the use of cameras, recording equipment, video cameras and mobile phones is not permitted in Chapel. Some services and recitals are recorded each week for webcasts: you can listen to these throughout the year on the King’s College website. www.kings.cam.ac.uk/choir/listen/webcasts.html 3 WELCOME Thank you for picking up this booklet: in it, you will find all the information about choral services, organ recitals and concerts in King’s College Chapel between September and December 2018. This term, we will be particularly mindful of the centenary of the end of the First World War. This war had a devastating impact on the membership of the College and was also the motivation for holding a special service for the city on Christmas Eve: the first Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, in 1918. Accordingly, there will be a special service on the evening of Sunday 11th November, but, that morning, there will be no service in Chapel, as the Clergy and Choir will join in the city's commemoration at the War Memorial. Furthermore, the week before, we will have as our invited preacher the Reverend Dr Jonathan Knight, Padre of the City of Cambridge branch of the Royal British Legion. Other visiting preachers this term include the Reverend Rachel Mann, who has written a book about the impact of the First World War on religious belief and affiliation, and Canon Victoria Johnston of Ely Cathedral. We will also have sermons from our Vice- Provost, Professor Nick Marston, and Ms Cecilia Greenlaw, Deputy Head of King's College School. We continue to have public services every day at 12.30 in a side-chapel. On Wednesdays, there will be a period of silent meditation in the Memorial Chapel — further preparation for the centenary of the end of the First World War. Whether you are a College member, a regular attender of services, an occasional visitor, or a person who knows us through our webcasting, I offer you hope that, whenever and however you share in the life of the Chapel, you will be inspired, encouraged and refreshed. The Revd Dr Stephen Cherry Dean 4 INTRODUCTORY NOTICES CHORAL SERVICES Members of the public are welcome at all services. The top stalls are reserved for members of King’s College and their guests. Members of the University, upon making themselves known to the Chapel staff, may be invited to sit in the sub-stalls. Services are normally sung by King’s College Choir on Sundays and from Tuesdays to Saturdays. Services on Mondays are sung by King’s Voices, the College’s mixed-voice choir, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. Services on weekdays normally last about 45 minutes; at the weekend, they last a little longer — up to 55 minutes. Services of Holy Eucharist on Sundays and Feast Days, at which a sermon or homily is preached and a full Mass setting sung, may last up to an hour and a quarter. Those who are unable to remain in Chapel for the entire service are respectfully asked to sit in the Ante-Chapel. In King’s Chapel we are using a lectionary devised specifically for our needs: this is because the existing lectionaries provided by the Church of England do not always suit our particular circumstances. The College Lectionary aims to nourish the community for which the Chapel exists, whilst at the same time providing readings which can be heard profitably by visitors without being obscure or mystifying. On Monday evenings, the second reading is a passage from the Centuries of Thomas Traherne. Plainsong is often sung at services here, and often in Latin; especially at sung Eucharists and when only the choral scholars sing. In particular, the Introit, Alleluia and Communion are usually sung to plainsong from the Graduale Romanum and also, occasionally, the Ordinary parts of the Mass. The numbers printed next to Introits, anthems and motets correspond to those found in the red anthem books; the numbers next to the psalms to those in the blue psalters; the numbers next to plainsong to page numbers in the Graduale Romanum; and the numbers next to hymns to those in the green New English Hymnal. LUNCHTIME SERVICES There is a celebration of the Eucharist at 12.30 in a side chapel on most weekdays. When the choral evening service is Holy Eucharist, the 12.30 service is the Office of Readings, at which we hear and reflect on passages: one from the Bible, and one from the great spiritual writers. 5 INTRODUCTORY NOTICES PREACHING THIS TERM September 23 Professor Nicholas Marston, Vice-Provost September 30 The Chaplain October 7 The Dean October 14 The Chaplain October 21 Ms Cecilia Greenlaw, Deputy Head, King’s College School October 28 The Revd Rachel Mann, Priest and Poet November 4 The Revd Dr Jonathan Knight, Padre of the City of Cambridge Branch of the Royal British Legion November 18 Canon Victoria Johnson, Ely Cathedral November 25 The Dean Christmas Day The Dean Homilies are offered at services of Holy Eucharist on Festal occasions during the week. CHAPEL COLLECTIONS The College receives no money from public or church funds to support the life of the Chapel and Choir, so we ask you to give generously to the retiring collections taken after services and recitals. Envelopes for your gift are available throughout the Chapel: please use them for your donation, completing the Gift Aid details if you are a UK taxpayer. Twenty percent of all donations received in collections is given to charities as determined by the College’s Charitable Donations Committee, chaired by the Chaplain. Charities who have benefitted from Chapel donations include: Cambridge Mayor’s Day Out, King’s Hedges Educational Federation, Cogwheel, Campus Children’s Holidays, STARS bereavement counselling, Cambridge Student Community Action, Mosaic Clubhouse (Lambeth), Centre 33, Education Partnership Africa, Help 4 Forgotten Heroes (Myanmar), The Stroke Association, and Lifeline/Lifecraft. These grants also draw on funds allocated directly by the College. The Dean is always pleased to hear from anyone who would like to make a significant or ongoing donation to support some aspect of the Chapel’s life. 6 INTRODUCTORY NOTICES ORGAN RECITALS As always, the Director of Music and the two organ scholars contribute to the weekly recital series, and this term we shall also hear a recital by Eleanor Carter of Clare College, who is the organ scholar of King’s Voices. Visiting players from beyond Cambridge include the New Zealand–born organist now working in the U.S., Thomas Gaynor, who was a prize-winner at the St Albans International Organ Festival, and Andrzej Malitowski, a Polish-born organist now working in London, who is the Nicholas Danby Trust scholar for 2017–18 . Our series has for many years supported the St Albans Festival and the Danby Trust, which are both so important in the nurturing of young players. Also performing are Andrew Unsworth from the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Mark Brafield, who combines a legal career with playing the organ, and Sebastian Heindl from Bach’s Church, St Thomas, Leipzig, where he sang as a boy treble and is now organ scholar. MUSIC On Sunday 30th September, Schubert’s Mass in G will be sung with string accompaniment; this music will be heard again on Christmas morning, again with strings. Last term, the music of Parry was explored through his Songs of Farewell, written in the shadow of World War I. The centenary of Parry’s death, on Sunday 7th October, will be marked at evensong by the inclusion of his Great service and two of his most famous pieces: the anthem I was glad and the hymn O praise ye the Lord. Some of Parry’s organ music will be featured in the voluntaries at this service. There is also some prominence given to the music of Herbert Howells: all the canticles, save the Creed, from his setting for King’s, Collegium Regale, will be heard during the course of the term. On Sunday 28th October, there will be a chance to hear most of Dvořák’s Mass in D at the morning service; the Choir has recently performed this work with members of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at the Prague International Festival. On Remembrance Sunday, 11th November, Fauré’s Requiem will be given with orchestral accompaniment at the service at 6.00pm. Dr Stephen Cleobury Director of Music 7 INTRODUCTORY NOTICES KING’S COLLEGE CHOIR RECORDINGS Choir recordings are available on CD and to download from the College website. By purchasing the Choir’s recordings from us, you are directly supporting the activities of the Chapel & Choir: thank you. This term we have two major releases. The first, available in September, is a recording by former Organ Scholar, Richard Gowers, of Messiaen’s La Nativité du Seigneur.