Here is a unique opportunity to hear the choir of the College as it was, and also some of the other music and audio associated with St Michael's and the Society since the closure. For recordings made of Evensong at the annual reunions, please see the individual Reunion pages.
Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman talks about SMC
SMC BBC Choral Evensong 10th June 1959 – Watson in E
Choir: Stanford in G (Solo: Stephen Brown, Treble; George Coles, Bass)
Address by Rev’d Andrew Walters, at Choral Evensong, 27th September 2006
Address by Rev’d Andrew Walters, at SMCS Reunion Dinner, 16th September 2006
“Grace before Meat” and “Grace after Meat”, recorded by Jenny Paxman, under the High Table in the Dining Hall, Commem, 1976
Choir LP “Sing Joyfully” 1964 (Side 1)
Choir LP “Seasons at St Michael’s” 1977
Choral Evensong and other archive recordings over the years.
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John Brown, SMCS Reunion Dinner, Toast to the Founder, September 2008
Roger Judd, Guest Speaker, SMCS Dinner Sept 2008
Brian Demaus, SMCS Reunion Dinner, Guest Speaker, September 2011
Jenny Paxman, SMCS Reunion Dinner, Toast to the Founder, September 2011
Unusual Schools – BBC Radio 4 “Fourth Dimension”. Broadcast in 1974 – Presenter: John Craven
Hymn: When all Thy Mercies, O My God, (Reunion Evensong, 2016) Tune: “Contemplation”, One of many compositions by the Founder.