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Weekly Blog – 2 November
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 - 12:10
As well as the Victoria requiem mass, we've had another interesting and challenging week of services: new to the repertoire was a motet by Johannes Eccard, Übers Gebirg Maria geht, and Purcell's fairly joyous anthem, Behold now, praise the Lord and we plan to record the latter along with Saturday's anthem, Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei, in January with St John's Sinfonia.
Weekly Blog – 30 October
Tuesday, November 1, 2011 - 12:55
A very Johnian service this week! As has been said before on this blog and in various bits of literature, we have had a number of commissions written for the Choir this year, being our Quincentenary. On Sunday the Choir sang the fourth of these five new works at Evensong composed by Scottish composer and Honorary Fellow of King's College, Judith Weir.
Weekly Blog – 23 October
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 13:24
We've all had a busy week and about to have another as term gets well under-way. Thankfully, the onslaught of essays, supervisions and lectures has been balanced by an excellent and diverse music list in Chapel. We started the week with a Festal Evensong for St Luke where we sang Bullock, Howells, Noble and Fauré, added a new piece of Byrd (Make we joy) to the Men's Voices repertoire on Wednesday and looked forward to Advent with Anthony Milner's Out of your sleep.
Weekly Blog – 9 October
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 13:23
Over this past weekend, Cambridge was host to members from the Howells Society and the Stanford Society who attended various events in a number of Colleges where music by these two were performed. It seemed fitting that their programme of events began and ended in St John's, the place which gave Howells much happiness during his time as Acting Organist during WW2. Saturday's timetable began by a talk in the Master's Lodge, given by Howells expert and former pupil, Paul Spicer, who highlighted the profound influence which Stanford had on Howells as a composer and as a musician of integrity.
Weekly Blog – Tuesday 4 October
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 13:00
The term has begun and we've already had a full week of services. After just a week singing together as a group, the Choir sang Langlais's Messe solennelle on Sunday morning which accompanied the instalment of three new Choristers, a ceremony during the middle of the service where the Head and Deputy Head Choristers place surplices on the incoming Choristers who are sworn into the Choir by the Dean and Director of Music. A civilised affair and rather different from that which took place during the first half of the last century.
Weekly Blog – 10 July
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - 13:00
Although the first day of term is officially Thursday (the start of lectures - Cambridge academic weeks run Thursday-Wednesday for some reason), the real 'start of term' is today, with the resumption of choral services in Chapel, beginning with the Matriculation Service. We've now met all of the new Choral Scholars and welcomed them warmly into the Choir, teaching them the tricks of the trade, Johnian traditions and bringing them in to the Choir's ethos which surrounds its sound and our singing - always an exciting time!
Iestyn Davies live from the Met
Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 12:00
On Monday 21 November 2011, countertenor Iestyn Davies (Chorister 1987-1993 and Choral Scholar 1999-2002) made his operatic debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in a performance of Handel's Rodelinda. Now as part of the Met Opera's 'Live in HD' season, this Johnian countertenor will make it onto cinema screens around the UK, alongside Renée Fleming and fellow countertenor, Andreas Scholl. Sensational in the 2004 Met premiere of Stephen Wadsworth’s much-heralded production, Fleming reprises the title role, joined by Stephanie Blythe.
Organ Scholar Success!
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 12:00
We've recently had huge success with our two organists!
John Challenger, currently Assistant Organist, has recently been appointed to the position of Assistant Director of Music at Salisbury Cathedral. John’s musical career began as a Chorister at Hereford Cathedral. Following Hereford, he was Organ Scholar of St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, and at St John’s College, Cambridge, where he studied as an Undergraduate 2008-2011.
Advent on iPlayer
Monday, November 28, 2011 - 17:55
Each year, since 1981, the Advent Carol Service is broadcast live from St John's College Chapel on BBC Radio 3. The service included motets, anthems and carols for the season of Advent. Music included motets by Guerrero, Goldschmidt and Eccard, carol arrangements by Stephen Cleobury and David Nield, recent British works by Anthony Milner and Edward Gardner and a new commission by Jonathan Harvey, a Graduate and Honorary Fellow of St John's. As with most years, the broadcast service was the second of two (some years there are three) and, on both nights, 840 people filled the Chapel.
Weekly Blog – Thursday 9 June
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 13:00
The proximity of the coming term is certainly beginning to show this week in the activity around College and around our University town. A particularly familiar presence is that of the large number of candidates for the Choral Trials being held this week. Notoriously tricky to coordinate, the Trials involve the applicants singing a formal audition in the Music Faculty and, often, singing to the Director of Music at their first choice College. We wish the best to all those applying this year!
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Choral Evensong , 6.30pm
Responses and Preces: Radcliffe
Psalm 119 vv. 81–96
Antiphon: Benedictus es
Sumsion in G
Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine
Hymn (NEH) 435 (omit v. 2)
Voluntary: Franck Cantabile
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