CE 1.1.25: St James's Church, Sussex Gardens, London [R]

[Pulcinella]

From St James’s Church, Sussex Gardens, London, with the Rodolfus Choir.

Introit: My life is hid (Roderick Williams) (world premiere)
Responses: Joanna Forbes L’Estrange
Psalm 115 (Knight)
First Lesson: Deuteronomy 30 vv11-20
Magnificat in C (Schubert)
Second Lesson: Acts 3 vv1-16
Nunc dimittis a 8 (Palestrina)
Anthem: The heavens are telling the glory of God (Haydn)
Hymn: O Christ the same, through all our story's pages (Londonderry Air)
Voluntary: Sortie on ‘In dulci jubilo’ (David Briggs)

Ralph Allwood (Conductor)
George de Voil (Organist)

Recorded 29 December.

[mopsus]

I don't recall an evensong broadcast from here before. What I do remember was talking to the vicar of Holy Innocents' in Manchester just before he moved to St James' in the mid 1990s, and being told that the first thing he'd do on arrival was abolish the paid choir. I wonder whether he succeeded and whether there is a resident choir there now.

[DracoM]

Do you mean 1.12.24?

[oddoneout]

Do you mean 1.12.24?

That's the Advent carol service isn't it?

[Vox Humana]

I don't recall an evensong broadcast from here before. What I do remember was talking to the vicar of Holy Innocents' in Manchester just before he moved to St James' in the mid 1990s, and being told that the first thing he'd do on arrival was abolish the paid choir. I wonder whether he succeeded and whether there is a resident choir there now.

There's music, at any rate:

https://stjamespaddington.org.uk/music-list/

[Pulcinella]

Do you mean 1.12.24?

No. The R3 website has CE entries up including this, on New Year's Day.

[Pulcinella]

That's the Advent carol service isn't it?

1.12.24 is indeed Advent Sunday: I've now added the service that day to the list.

PS: I've also changed the style of the heading to be more like BaL, i.e., date earlier.
Is this better?

[cat]

This church is frequently used for choral concerts.

[mopsus]

There's music, at any rate:

https://stjamespaddington.org.uk/music-list/

Looking at their website I see that they still have a professional choir, so either Rev Bill Wilson didn't do the damage he wanted to, or it got repaired after he left.