Music at St.Michael’s Church

Oldwood Road

Tenbury Wells

2006 Season

Friday 14^th April	Good Friday Service of Meditation
7.00pm	Requiem by Mozart
	The Bromyard Choral Society
	Director: Richard Popple; Organist: Martyn Lane
Sat 13^th May	Choral Evensong
4.30pm	Lichfield Cathedral Chamber Choir
	Director: Nigel Argust
Sun 14^th May	Sung Eucharist & Choral Evensong
10.00am & 3pm	Emmanuel Church Choir, Sutton Coldfield
	Director: Richard Mason. Organist: Toby Barnard
Sun 21^st May	Sung Eucharist & Choral Evensong
10.00am & 3.00pm	The Orrishmere Singers.
	Director: Bernard Crosby
Sun 28^th May	Sung Eucharist & Choral Evensong
10.00am & 3.00pm	The Fountain Singers.
	Director Karen Friel. Organist: Duncan Courts
Sat 3^rd June	Organ Recital
7.30pm	John Pryer, Organist at The Oratory, Birmingham
Sat 10^th June	Buckinghamshire Organists’ Association
3.00pm	Visitors Welcome
Sun 11^th June	Choral Evensong
3.00pm	St Paul’s Singers.   Director: Richard Popple
Sun 18^th June	Sung Eucharist & Choral Evensong
10.00am & 3.00pm	Quindici
	Director: Suzanne Edwards
	Organist: Tim Mills

Sat 24^th June	Organ Recital
7.30pm	Toby Barnard.
	Organist Emmanuel Church, Sutton Coldfield
Sat 1^st July	Concert of Church Music associated with
7.00pm	St. Michael’s College
	The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
	Director: Christopher Robinson
	Organist: James McVinnie
Sun 9^th July	Choral Evensong
3.30pm	The More Singers
	Director: Richard Silk
Sat 15^th July	Worcester Organists Association
3.00pm	Visitors Welcome
Sat 22^nd July	Organ Recital
7.30pm	Andrew Fletcher, Organist and Director of Music
	St Thomas. Church, Stourbridge
Sat 16^th September	The Centenary of St Michael’s College Society
11.00am	Sung Eucharist    Hereford Cathedral Choir
	Master of the Choristers: Geraint Bowen
	Organist: Peter Dyke
2.30pm	Celebrity Organ Recital
	Roy Massey, formally Organist of Hereford Cathedral
4.45pm	Choral Evensong
	Emmanuel Church Choir, Sutton Coldfield
	Director: Richard Mason
	Organist: Toby Barnard
Sun 24^th September	Sung Eucharist & Choral Evensong
10.00am & 3.00pm	The Elysian Singers
Patronal	Director: Paul Richards
Festival
Wednesday	BBC Live Broadcast     Choral Evensong
27^th September	The Abbey School Choir, Tewkesbury
4.00pm	Director: Ben Nicholas
	Organist: Carleton Etherington
	Visitors are welcome but are requested
	to be seated by 3.40pm
Sun 15^th October	Choral Evensong
3.00pm	Feckenham Church Choir
	Director: Clare Furey
	Organist: Michael Mott
Sun 12^th November	Remembrance Sunday
10.00am	Sung Eucharist
	The Hereford Singers
	Director: Peter Percival

Sat 16^th December	Christmas Carol Service
6.30pm	The Birmingham University Singers
	Director: John Whenham
Sun 17^th December	Sung Eucharist and Choral Evensong
10.00am & 3.00pm	The Birmingham University Singers
	Director: John Whenham

Programmes:

All payable at the door

                                    Organ Recitals:         £6.00  (Concessions £4.00)

                                             Concerts           £8.00

Proceeds of Concerts and Recitals in aid of

St.Michael’s Church Funds for major roof repairs

Details of any additional Choral Services by

Visiting choirs will appear in the Local Press

Music at St. Michael’s 2006

Welcome to another year of Music at St.Michael’s - a reminder as to why this beautiful building and its attendant College came into being in the first place.

Opened in 1856, the College was built to promote and revive Anglican Church Music under the guidance of its founder, Sir Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley. That it succeeded, as many composers and organists of the last 150 years would testify, is without doubt. Unfortunately, it could not withstand the many social and economic pressures of the 1980’s and in 1985 the College closed.

St Michael’s Parish has been able to continue a programme of conservation repairs to the Church with the support of The Council for the Care of Churches, English Heritage, The Garfield Weston and Wolfson Foundations, The Historic Churches Preservation Trust, (National and Worcs & Dudley), The William and Jane Morris Fund and the Allchurches, Lesley David, Alan Evans Memorial, Idlewild and Manifold Trusts.

Thanks to strong support from the Ouseley Trust, the St. Michael’s College Society and the local community, we have also to maintained some of

Sir Frederick’s original wishes in the Choral Services and Organ Recitals

Please join us whenever you can: you will be most welcome

St.Michael’s Church is situated 2 miles south west of Tenbury Wells on the A4112 to Leysters and Leominster

Please visit

www.smcsociety.co.uk for details of the history of the Church & former College

Further info telephone Jenson Jones 01885 483445;

Mobile: 07974 604247

jenson.jones@hemscott.net