Sat 5 October. Visit to Tyntesfield, National Trust property, former home of William Gibbs. We will sing Evensong in the splendid Chapel there at 3pm.

Sun 6 Oct, Harvest Festival 11am. Choral Mass Hymns:259: 262: 493. Mass in F, Sumsion. Motet:Thou visitest the earthm Greene. Bountiful Table of Baking, Preserves & Produce at 12noon.

6pm Choral Evensong & Benediction. Responses: Reading. Psalm 142. Hymn 205. Canticles: Tallis Short Service. Anthem: Locus Iste, Bruckner O salutaris: 269. Tantum Ergo: 268.

Tue 8 Oct, 5.30pm at Exeter Cathedral. Choral Evensong with Dedication of Memorial to St Wilfrid’s Community.

Sun 13 Oct, Trinity XVII. 11am Sung Mass. Hymns 324: 439: 445. Missa Lauda Sion, Palestrina. Motet: Ave verum corpus, Pearsall.

Wed 16 Oct, 7.30pm. St Michael’s Lecture. Prof James Clark. Re-thinking the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Author of several studies on late mediaeval religion and culture, Prof Clark was consultant for the BBC TV series, Tudor Abbey Farm.

Sun 20 Oct, Trinity XVIII. 11am Mass. Hymns 440: 310: 358. :4-part Mass, Byrd. Hear my prayer O Lord, Purcell.

Tue 22 Oct, 7pm for 7.30. Deanery Synod Meeting at St James’ Church, Mount Pleasant. Main Topic – Music & Psalms in Worship, led by Canon James Mustard, Cathedral Precentor. Open to all

Sun 27 Oct Saints Simon & Jude, Apostles. 11am Mass. Hymns:195: 214: 359. Mass in A minor, Casciolini. Give us the wings of faith, Bullock.

Sat 2 Nov, 7.30pm at St David’s Church. An Evening of Poetry & Music. Tickets £12, including canapés & drink.

Sun 3 November, All Saints. 11am Mass. Hymns 197: 226: 396. Missa ‘O quam gloriosum’, Luis de Victoria. Justorum animae, Stanford. 12noon Bountiful Table.

6pm All Souls’ Requiem Mass. Setting: Missa pro defunctis, Casciolini.
At St Michael’s, worship is traditional, music is excellent, people are friendly, and all are welcome. Please join us.

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Our own church choir will perform in February.

Yes, it’s our own 20-strong Church Choir in Concert on Wednesday the 19^th at 7.30pm singing a cappella sacred music on the theme of “Light”.  Recitals at St Michael’s, Mount Dinham, EX4 4EB, are free, with refreshments and a voluntary retiring collection to cover costs. Come and enjoy some of the best music from 4 of the past 5 centuries.

Advent Wreath – Five Candles

The arc of the 1st half is Advent – Mary – Candlemas

Manz – E’en So, Lord Jesus; Byrd – Vigilate; Lloyd – The Call

Howells – A Spotless Rose;  Britten – Hymn to the Virgin;  Grieg – Ave Maris Stella

Tallis – O Nata Lux;  Eccard – When to the Temple Mary went;  Wood – Nunc Dimittis

Whitacre – Lux Aurumque  (a live recording from our Candlemas Service is at

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=1020248 )

The themes of the 2nd half are Light – Remembrance – Evening

Harris – Holy is the True Light; Lloyd – View Me, Lord; Kendrika – Domine Lux Tui Amoris Lucet

Victoria – O Quam Gloriosum; Cornelius – Requiem Aeternam; Elgar – Lux Aeterna

Purcell – Nunc Dimittis ; Rheinberger – Abendlied; Tallis – Te Lucis Ante Terminum; Wood – Hail, Gladdening Light

The concert is typical of the bimodal distribution of our weekly liturgical repertoire, concentrating on 16^th century Renaissance polyphony and the 20^th century flowering of Anglican music, with traces of 17^th century Baroque and 19^th century Romanticism.

Paschal Candle and East Window

We are also singing a similar concert in the Chapel at Tyntesfield near Bristol, BS48 1NX, on Saturday 22nd February at 5.30pm.  (Tickets are £10 from the National Trust there.)  The spectacular Victorian Gothic Revival House and Chapel were created by William Gibbs (1790-1875) who funded the building of both our own glorious church and the chapel of Keble College, Oxford.

The other Recitals in this series will be:-

Thursday March 27th, 7.30 p.m. – Exeter Police Choir

Wednesday April 9th, 7.30 p.m. – Tim Othen (piano)

Wednesday May 21st, 7.30 p.m. – Alex West (organ)

A special inaugural recital on the newly installed St Jude’s/Clayesmore pipe organ will be given by David Briggs on Monday June 16th at 7.30 p.m. Tickets will be on sale nearer the time.

St Michael’s Church is a place of Christian worship and a lively centre for musical, cultural, heritage and conservation activities at the heart of the city of Exeter.

A reminder of our “MyDonate” fundraising account at:-

https://mydonate.bt.com/charities/heritagemusicdevelopmentstmichaels

The Peregrine webcam in the spire was damaged in January’s lightning strike and has had to be replaced.   Thank you.

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Our thanks to Matthew Wright for the Recital Series which he is running at St Michael’s to complement the Lecture Series run by David Beadle and his helpers; these are both bringing new people to our beautiful Church mid-week. 

This month our own Church Choir is in Concert on Wed 19^th singing a wide variety of sacred music around the theme of “Light”.  We shall also sing a similar concert in the Victorian Gothic splendour of William Gibbs’ Chapel at Tyntesfield near Bristol on Sat 22^nd. 

Sunday 2nd February – Candlemas – The Presentation of Christ in the Temple.  10.45am. Blessing the candles for the new year.  Setting: Charles Wood’s lovely Mass in F.  Motet: Lux aurumque, Eric Whitacre.

Lux, calida gravisque pura velut aurum et canunt angeli molliter modo natum.

Light, warm and heavy as pure gold and angels sing softly to the new-born babe.

Madonna and Child

Also First Sunday, 2nd Feb, Evensong and Benediction at 6pm.  Office Hymn NEH 54, Psalm 132, Reading Responses, Palestrina double choir Magnificat, Wood 6-part Nunc Dimittis, O Salutaris by Elgar, Tantum Ergo by Fauré and the Candlemas Anthem, “When to the Temple Mary went” by Johannes Eccard (1533–1611).

Singers who like a good Choral Evensong are welcome to join us on the 1^st Sunday of the month to rehearse the music beforehand at 4:45 pm; regular choir practice is Tuesdays 7:00-8:30pm.

Sunday 9th February, 4 before Lent, 10.45am.  Mass.  Setting: Mass in E, Darke.  Motet: Our conversation is in heaven, by Exeter born Walter Bond Gilbert (1829-1910).

Wednesday 12th February, 7.30pm.  St Michael’s Lecture.  Telling stories about Intersex and Christianity.  Dr Susannah Cornwall (Dept of Theology and Religion, Univ of Exeter).

Sunday 16th February, Septuagesima, 3 before Lent, 10.45am.  Mass.   Missa “O Quam Gloriosum” by Victoria was sung at short notice at Epiphany, so we may use Stanford in C&F today.  Motet: Ubi Caritas, Duruflé.

Wednesday 19th February, 7.30pm. St Michael’s Recital.  Our own Church Choir in a Concert of sacred motets on the theme of “Light”. (Free, donations welcome.)

Saturday 22nd February, 5.30pm in Tyntesfield Chapel.  St Michael’s Choir sings a Concert at this National Trust property at Wraxall, near Bristol, BS48 1NX. (Tickets £10 from NT.)  The spectacular Victorian Gothic Revival House and Chapel were created by William Gibbs (1790-1875) who funded the building of both our own glorious church and the chapel of Keble College, Oxford.

Sunday 23rd February, Sexagesima, 2 before Lent, 10.45am.  Mass.  Setting: Missa “Lauda Sion”, Palestrina.  Motet: Ave verum corpus, Byrd.

Sunday 2nd March, Quinquagesima, Next before Lent, 10.45am.  Mass.  Setting: Missa Brevis “Laetatus Sum”, Nigel Browne.  Motet: O Lord Thou art my God, by Exeter composer Kellow John Pye (1812-1901).

Sunday 2nd March, 6pm.  Evensong and Benediction.  Responses: Smith, Psalm: 84, Office Hymn: 241, Canticles: Walmisley in D minor, Anthem: Verleih uns Frieden, Mendelssohn. O salutaris, Liszt.  Tantum Ergo, Liszt.

Verleih uns Frieden gnädiglich, Herr Gott, zu unsern Zeiten.  Es ist doch ja kein andrer nicht, der für uns könnte streiten, denn du, unser Gott, alleine. (Martin Luther)

Give peace in our time, O Lord.  Because there is none other that fighteth for us, but only thou, O God. (Thomas Cranmer) 

Wednesday 5th March, Ash Wednesday, 7.30pm.  Mass with Imposition of Ashes.  Setting: Mass in A minor, Casciolini.  Motet: Thou knowest Lord the secrets of our hearts, Purcell.

A reminder that we do now have a “MyDonate” fundraising account.  The link is:
https://mydonate.bt.com/charities/heritagemusicdevelopmentstmichaels

We would appreciate donations towards the running costs of the Peregrine webcam or the cost of maintaining the high standard of music at St Michael’s; there are options for either.  Thank you.

HLF Acknowledgement board

HLF Project.  Thanks too to all who have helped with the Organ, Peregrine and Heritage Project over the past year.  Our half-way reports to the Heritage Lottery Fund have been accepted and I am pleased to be able to say that the next tranche of grant money has been received.  Work continues and many activities are planned for June 2014.

Richard Barnes.

Our Concert Programme includes

Advent – Madonna – Candlemas

*    Byrd – Vigilate
*    Lloyd – The Call
*    Howells – A Spotless Rose
*    Grieg – Ave Maris Stella
*    Tallis – O Nata Lux
*    Eccard – When to the Temple
*    Wood – Nunc Dimittis

INTERVAL

Light – Remembrance – Evening

*    Harris – Holy is the True Light
*    Kendrika – Domine Lux Tui Amoris Lucet/Fulge Jesu Fulge
*    Victoria – O Quam Gloriosum
*    Cornelius – Requiem Aeternam
*    Nunc Dimittis, in English – Purcell in Gminor
*    Rheinberger – Abendlied
*    Tallis – Te Lucis Ante Terminum
* Wood – Hail, Gladdening Light!

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