Music for Holy Trinity Church
Many congratulations!
Jack Mustard (now a member of our Men’s Choir having moved from the Youth Choir) has passed the ABRSM Grade 5 Singing Performance Exam with Distinction. Many congratulations to him for this super achievement.
Vicky Wood has recently gained an LRSM (Licentiate of the Royal Schools of Music) for Singing. The examination consisted of a 45-minute song recital, from memory (piano accompanist: Sara Wood) and a written paper discussing the form, poetry and interconnection of the fourteen songs. Congratulations to our Assistant Director of Music.
An enormous congratulations and well done to both Jack and Vicky!
HOLY TRINITY CHURCH MUSIC
Sunday 1st February
11am: Parish Eucharist – Alter Chorum
Anthems: Let all mortal flesh keep silence (French Traditional); Purify my heart
(Doersken); Nunc Dimittis (Tallis’ Canon); Fairest Lord Jesus (Silesian Folksong)
Organ Voluntary: Prelude in F – J.S. Bach
5.30pm: Choral Evensong for Candlemas
Responses: Ayleward
Psalm: 24 (chant: Rosenior)
Canticles: Stanford (in Bb)
Anthems: O nata lux (Tallis); Hodie beata virgo (Byrd); The Lamb (Tavener)
Sunday 8th February
11am Parish Eucharist – Youth & Men’s Choirs
Anthems: And Christ be all in all (Smith); Jesus Christ, the apple tree (English
Folksong); As water to the thirsty (Coleman arr. Barnard); Lord, I stretch my hands to
you (Althouse)
Organ Voluntary: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba – Handel
Sunday 15th February
11am: Parish Eucharist – Choir Half Term Holiday
Sunday 22nd February
11am: Parish Eucharist – Choristers’ Mums’ Choir
Anthems: Turn thy face from my sins (Attwood); Domine Deus (Vivaldi); O love that
wilt not let me go (Peace); Lead us, heavenly father (Quilter)
Organ Voluntary: Pieds en l’air – Warlock
5.30pm: Compline – Men’s Choir
Anthem: Miserere (Allegri)
CHRISTMAS GENEROSITY
The collection following our Christmas Day Carol Service (6pm) amounted to £665.15 for
Thames Hospice. Thank you to all who attended and gave so generously.
And thank you to our hard-working choristers who, across the four choirs, presented 32
different carols over the Advent, Christmas & Epiphany seasons.
Available now on YouTube (The Choirs of Holy Trinity Church, Cookham)
COOKHAM SURPRISE MINOR: Ding-a Ding-a Ding (by Greg Gilpin)
https://youtu.be/81RuswSnGdc?si=jcoUwSOSoixnAo8s
youtube.com/@HTCCChoirs57
Available on YouTube (Cookham Choirs)
FOR THOSE WE LOVE BUT SEE NO MORE
Music and prayer for All Souls and Remembrance
https://youtu.be/Up5al4LjARA?si=ASk2hfecYnwtpEzg
Available on YouTube: YOU RAISE ME UP With love and best wishes to Joyce Banks in her new home
https://youtu.be/-RwpLFqedGA?si=t0yvFCNqp2JpkgdM
Holy Trinity Church Choirs
The Youth Choir, Men’s Choir, Choristers’ Mums’ Choir and Alter Chorum (for ladies aged sixty and over) between them sing for the morning service (11am) each Sunday and two Sunday evening (6.30pm) services a month during term-time. Singing between three and six anthems on any Sunday – plus responses, canticles, psalms and communion settings as required – the repertoire of the choirs is extensive and varied. Music at Holy Trinity is maintained to a high and constant standard.
Holy Trinity holds four annual carol services – for Advent, Christmas, Epiphany & Easter – and upholds the unique tradition of a Carol Service on Christmas Day (6.30pm). This tradition began in 1955 when Christmas Day fell on a Sunday. The vicar at the time, Reverend Michael Westropp, deemed that a carol service on the Sunday either before or after Christmas Day would be too far removed. Thus, he initiated the holding of the Carol Service on Christmas Day itself. Met with little support from many congregation members in the first instance, he persevered, and the popularity of this celebration grew.
In recent years the supporting of charity through the retiring collections at the carol services (Advent, Christmas Day & Epiphany) has been maintained. As a result, the services have raised in excess of £10,000 in total for various local and national charities.
Recordings, radio and television appearances and visits to cathedrals and neighbouring churches have been a feature of the music at Holy Trinity throughout Sara Wood’s time as Director and Organist. In recent times, online musical offerings on YouTube have also become a staple fixture of the choirs’ output.
CHOIR PRACTICES:
Tuesday
5.50 – 6.25pm: Alter Chorum*
6.30 – 7.05pm: Youth Choir
Wednesday
6.55 – 7.30pm: Choristers’ Mums’ Choir
Wednesday or Saturday: Men’s Choir
*every other week
Services at Holy Trinity are supported by the use of the fine three-manual Walker pipe organ and a Bluthner boudoir grand piano.