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Southwark Cathedral

20/08/09

Thursday 10 September, 3.00 pm

Gloria Patri

Afternoon recital - free admission

This choir was founded 60 years ago in June 1949 in Zwolle, the Netherlands

Director of the Choir is: Tromp van Goor

 

Wednesday 30 September 5.30pm

Choral Evensong

visiting choir: Hurstpierpoint College

 

3rd October 4.00pm

Choral Evensong

visiting choir: The Tamesis Cathedral Singers

 

8 October 6.30pm, coffee served 7.00pm start

The Education Centre, Southwark Cathedral

Talk: The Cathedral Archaeology by Nathalie Cohen, Cathedral Archaeologist

For more information please contact Susanna Bloomfield on 020 7367 6700 or David Payne on 020 7367 6734

 

10 October 7.30 pm Southwark Cathedral

All Saints 1885 Singers

Verdi's Requiem

For further information please contact Alison Hunka on alisonhunka1885@aol.com or 020 8788 1031

 

13 October 7.00pm Southwark Cathedral

Lecture

The Archbishop of Canterbury will speak on ‘Noah and the Flood: Lessons for the Twenty First Century'.  The event comes a mere seven weeks before the crunch United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen and will set the scriptural and theological agenda.  If you wish to reserve a seat please e:mail campaigns@operationnoah.org or ring 020 7324 4761 or write to Operation Noah, The Grayston Centre, 28 Charles Square, London N1 6HT

 

Exhibition: 17 October- 12 November, Southwark Cathedral

The Global Ethics Exhibition

This exhibition of ‘World religions - Universal peace - Global ethic' invites you to explore the fascinating world of the religions so that you can have a better understanding of the importance of their ethical messages for our present-day society.

The panels show seven traditions (Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Chinese, Sikh) with central ethical beliefs forming the substance of the text; one panel on the Enlightenment tradition, one on the shared Golden Rule, and four  on the recommendations of the Global Ethic formulation itself.

You can read more at http://www.weltethos.org/dat-english/07-projects-exhibition.htm

24 October, Southwark Cathedral, 7.00 pm

The Central Band of The Royal British Legion presents:

‘A Night at the Movies'

Come and experience A Night at the Movies, where film scores and songs from your favourite screen musicals are played live by the talented musicians of the Legion's Central Band.  Make a night of it by having a drink and a bite to eat in the Cathedral Refectory, which will stay open until the performance starts.  Tickets: £15.00

Tickets: 020 3207 2272 or e:mail rpride@britishlegion.org.uk

 

Sunday 25 October

Apple Day - A day to celebrate the 250 anniversary of the Bramley

Southwark Cathedral will be decorated with a cornucopia of apples and an especially devised Apple Day Cathedral Choral Eucharist at 11.00 am, as is usual, and Borough Market will be open promising an array of apple-y activities including an apple-pealing competition and apple-pressing.  The drama troupe The Lion's Part will perform in The Green Market and fun and games to be had by all in the South West Churchyard with The Ministry of Fun.  The Refectory will be serving a Bramley Apple echo-ing menu.

The Lion's Part will come complete with a huge Corn Queene effigy heavy with 'Plenty' - wheat, barley and other grains, and apples, root vegetables and foliage from the Borough Market - appears in a procession around the front of the Globe, Bankside, with the Company of actors and the time-honoured Hobby Horse in attendance, strung with cakes and loaves and led by the Berry Man - the Autumn incarnation of the original Green Man - decked with wild fruits and foliage, leads the company. He carries an Apple Tree to where it will be placed within the Bankside area, with general songs and music on the surrounding streets of the Market for everyone.

 

Wednesday 28 October, 5.30pm

Choral Evensong

visiting choir: St John the Baptist Choir

 

Thursday 29 October - 7.30 pm

An evening performance by Rick Jones at Southwark Cathedral

A reading of ‘Nathan the Wise' - a play written in the 18th century by playwright G E Lessing.  The central character is a thinly-veiled impersonation of Moses Mendelssohn, the grandfather of the composer, Felix Mendelssohn.  ‘Grandfather' Mendelssohn is known as the founder of the modern Jewish enlightenment.  For further information please contact Susanna Bloomfield on 020 7367 6700 or 6717

 

Thursday 5 November at 7pm

Moral Maze on 'Greed or Need?'

This is a World Congress of Faiths event and members of the WCF committee are at the time of going to press working on the membership of the panel and on the set of experts to be questioned.  For further information please contact The Secretary of the South London Interfaith Group on secretary@southlondoninterfaith.org.uk 

 

7 November 4.00pm

Choral Evensong

visiting choir: St Mary's Attleborough and The Norrold Singers

 

8 November at 4.15pm for 4.30pm

Prayers for Peace on Remembrance Sunday

This is a joint South London Inter Faith Group/World Congress of Faiths event. Rabbi Jackie Tabick, Chair of WCF, will be present and participating. There will be a candle installation 'in the midst'.  At 5.30 pm those attending will move in to the Education Centre where refreshments will be served.  For further information please contact The Secretary of the South London Interfaith Group on secretary@southlondoninterfaith.org.uk 

 

11 November, 7.30 pm

Mozart's Requiem

The Royal Choral Society concert

The Royal Choral Society was formed soon after the opening of the Royal Albert Hall in 1871 and its subsequent history reads like a Who's Who of the musical world.

Former RCS conductors include Charles Gounod and Malcolm Sargent - the latter, described as ‘the finest British choral conductor of his generation', had a forty year association with the choir. The RCS has always had a wide repertoire; their performance of new works has been a feature, with Verdi and Dvorák conducting the choir in premieres of their own works. More recently, the choir has given first performances of works by Ariel Ramirez and Geoffrey Burgon.

Our Musical Director, Richard Cooke, took over the baton from his distinguished predecessors in 1995. An experienced singer himself, he understands the capabilities of choral singers and is able to bring out the full potential of individual voices.

For tickets please contact:

Virginia Edwyn-Jones, Administrator, Royal Choral Society
Studio 9, 92 Lots Road, London SW10 0QD

virginia@royalchoralsociety.co.uk
Tel: 020 7376 3718

 

Wednesday 18 November, 5.30pm

Choral Evensong

visiting choir: Whitgift Choristers

 

Thursday 19 November, 7.00 pm

"A Sea of Stories"

An evening for the first National Inter-Faith week (15th - 22nd November).  Storytellers from five faiths (Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu and Buddhist) will devise a programme of stories from different religious traditions, linked together by universal themes.  Southwark Cathedral is just one of the leading places of worship chosen for this series.  Other locations include the West London Synagogue, the Central London Mosque and The Jamyang Buddhist Centre.  For further information please contact:

Simon Keyes

Director

St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace

78, Bishopsgate, London, EC2N 4AG

Tel: +44 (0)20 7496 1618

http://www.stethelburgas.org/

 

Saturday 21 November, 7.30pm

Wimbledon Choral Society

Brass Adastra

Conducted by Neil Ferris

 

Programme

Parry                     Blest Pair of Sirens

Rutter                   Lord, Thou Hast Been Our Refuge

Walton                 Music from Henry V

Rutter                   Gloria

MacMillan           Exsultet

Patterson            Magnificat

 

Tickets

£15 (Central Nave), £10 (Side Aisle), £7.50 (Student - any seat)

Tel: 020 8605 2266

Online: www.wimbledon-choral.org.uk/tickets

 

With music from British composers, this will be Neil Ferris' first concert in his new role as Musical Director of Wimbledon Choral Society.   From Parry to Patterson, and with the support of Brass Adastra, there is much to savour in this opening concert of the choir's new season.

 

5 December

The Merbecke Choir concert in association with Seafarers UK

Special guests: His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornets

For more information please e:mail the Choir Director, Mr Huw Morgan on llewmorgan@yahoo.co.uk or telephone Susanna Bloomfield on 020 7367 6717 or 6700

 

 

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