Music at St Teath
Director of Music and Organist: Geoff Burton MMus BMus(Hons) BSc(Hons) ACertCM
Retired Medical Research Scientist
Educated Universities of Birmingham, London and Surrey
Deputy Musical Director Wadebridge Male Voice Choir
Director of Music Augmented Choirs of St Minver and StTeath
Phone 01208 862022 mailto:geoff.carncobba@lineone.net
The music for the choral services is led by the St Teath Church Choir which is a mixed, robed choir.
The repertory of church music used for the services is wide ranging. For Choral Communion the settings used are Grayston Ives for Festive seasons and John Harper's A Mass for All Seasons for Ordinary Time. The hymn book used is Hymns Old and New published by Kevin Mayhew, http://www.kevinmayhewltd.com ,whilst the psalms are sung in a range of styles including plainsong, traditional anglican chants, responsorial psalms and on occasions, psalm songs. Chants are taken from the RSCM Chant Book published by the Royal School of Church Music, http://www.rscm.com , and Chants Old and New also published by Kevin Mayhew. Taize chants are sung from time to time whilst anthems are sung on a regular basis. The choir is augmented on special occasions and welcomes people who wish to contribute to the music of the church in this way.
For Holy Week the choir combines with the choir of St Minver Parish Church and is augmented by local singers to rehearse a major Passion work for Holy Week. Performances take place in St Teath Parish Church on Palm Sunday and in St Minver Parish Church on Good Friday. In the past three years works performed have been Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, Handel's Passion of Christ (Brocke Passion) and Bach's St Mark Passion. These latter performances were the first to be given in English of a recent reconstruction of the work published by Barenheiter and translated into English and the English narrative adapted to Bach's music, with permission, by the Director of Music. In 2001 choirs gave successful performances of the Passion Music from Handel's Messiah Part II together with Eric Thiman's The Last Supper . For 2002 the choirs performed Love Unknown, a modern cantata on the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus. The text is by the late Edwin Le Grice, past Dean of Ripon Cathedral, with the music composed by Malcolm Archer, Master of the Choristers at Wells Cathedral. The work was first published in 1991 by Kevin Mayhew.
For Holy Week 2003 the Augmented Choirs will be joined by a full orchestra for a performance of Faure's Requiem Op.48. The performance will take place as part of Evensong on Palm Sunday April 13th at 6.00p.m.. This year a further performance will be given in St Mabyn Church on Wednesday April 16th in addition to the traditional Good Friday performance in St Minver Church at 7.00p.m.. These will be accompanied by organ only.
In the Advent season a traditional service of the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols is sung on the evening of Advent 4 in even years, and an Advent Carol Service sung on Advent Sunday evening in odd years.
The choir would welcome new members of all voices which would allow a more extended repertory of church music to be sung.
Visiting singers of all voices on holiday in the area are always welcome to join us for choral services.
Choir practices are held every Thursday evening at 7.00p.m. finishing around 9.00p.m. with an adjournment to the local hostelry (the landlord is a bass in the choir!).
Choir Music for March 2003
Sunday March 2nd
2003 Sunday next before Lent
6.00p.m.
Evensong
Hymn:
82 Christ, whose
glory fills the sky
Ratisbon
Responses:
Ferial
Psalm:
2 Nixon
(CO&N159)
Office
Hymn: 197 Hark, my soul, it is the Lord (in A)
Saint Bees
Magnificat:
Mothersole (CO&N 156)
Nunc
Dimittis: Seivewright
(CO&N 7)
Anthem:
Lead me, O Lord
Text and Music: Andrew
Gant b.1963)
(NABp.52)
Hymns:
78 Christ is
the world’s true light
Rinkart(Kommt Seelen)
467 Tell out, my
soul, the greatness of the Lord
Woodlands
462 Sun of my soul
Abends
Vesper:
St Teath Vespers
Text: H. C. Goodwin Music:
trad.
Wednesday Mar. 5th Ash Wednesday
7.00p.m.
Choral Communion with Imposition of the Ashes
Hymn: 90 Come down, O love divine Down Ampney
Gradual Hymn: 454 Spirit of the living God Iverson
Offertory Hymn: 341 My God, accept my heart this day (tune 1) Belmont
Communion Hymn: Just as I am, without one plea (tune 2) Saffron Walden
Post Communion Hymn:145 Forty days and forty nights Aus Der Tiefe (Heinlein)
Thursday Mar. 6th 7.00p.m. St Teath 8.15p.m. Faure’s Requiem
Sunday March 9th
2003 1st Sunday
of Lent
10.30a.m.
Choral Communion
Hymn: 261 Jesu, lover of my soul (tune 1) Aberystwyth
Communion Setting: Mass For All Seasons – Harper
Anthem: Turn thy face
from my sins
Gospel Acclamation: Praise to you, O Christ, King of eternal glory.
The Lord is a great God, O that today you would listen to his voice, harden not your hearts.
Praise to you, O Christ, King of eternal glory.
Gradual Hymn: 133 Firmly I believe and promise (tune 2) Shipston
Offertory Hymn: 451
Songs of thankfulness and praise
Saint Edmund
Communion Music: Responsorial Psalm 25.1-9 (PAMEp.133)
Post Communion Hymn: 80 Christ the Lord is risen again Württemberg
Thursday
Mar. 13 7.30p.m. Percival
Institute, St Minver
Sunday March 16th
2003 2nd
Sunday of Lent
10.30a.m.
Choral Communion
Hymn: 362 O for a thousand tongues to sing (tune 1) Lyngham
Communion Setting: Mass For All Seasons – Harper
Anthem: Lord, for thy
tender mercies sake
Gradual Hymn: 220 How sweet the name of Jesus sounds Saint Peter
Gospel Acclamation: Praise to you, O Christ, King of eternal glory.
The Lord is a great God, O that today you would listen to his voice. Harden not your hearts.
Praise to you, O Christ, King of eternal glory.
Offertory Hymn: 288 King of glory, King of peace Gwalchmai
Communion Hymn: 341 My God, accept my heart this day (tune 1) Belmont
Post Communion Hymn: 30 And can it be Sagina
Thursday Mar. 20th 7.00p.m.
St Teath 8.15p.m. Faure’s
Requiem
Sunday March 23rd
2003 3rd
Sunday of Lent
10.30a.m.
Choral Communion
Hymn: 33 Angel voices ever singing Angel Voices
Communion Setting: Mass For All Seasons – Harper
Psalm: 19 Woodward (RSCM161)
Gradual
Hymn: 512 Thou art the way
Gospel Acclamation: Praise to you, O Christ, King of eternal glory.
The Lord is a great God, O that today you would listen to his voice. Harden not your hearts.
Praise to you, O Christ, King of eternal glory.
Offertory Hymn: 536 All my hope on God is founded Michael
Communion Hymn: 222 I am the bread of life
Post Communion Hymn: 536 We
sing the praise of him who died
Bow
Brickhill
Thursday March 27th
7.30p.m. St Minver
Church – Faure’s Requiem
Sunday
March 30th 2003
4th Sunday of Lent – Mothering Sunday
10.30a.m. Family
Service – no choir
Crocus in bloom outside the south door of the Parish Church of St Tetha