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posted: Friday, 20 December, 2002
The new music list covering Christmas and the start of next year is now available online. Apart from this the the site has remained mainly unchanged during this busy period of the year, but there are plans underway for new developments next year which will be detailed here in due course. In the mean time, may I take this opportunity to thank all of our visitors for their continued interest and support of this site, and to wish everyone a very happy christmas and prosperous new year.
posted: Friday, 22 November, 2002
The new music list covering Advent is now available online; links have again been provided to amazon.co.uk from where recordings of the music can be purchased. The times of the Christmas services are available on the Cathedral web site, and the music list covering Christmas will be published here on 20 December. A new link has been added to the Cathedral School web site which gives information about the school as a whole.
Whilst not connected with Lichfield but with the world of cathedral music, Dr George Guest (the former organist of St John's College, Cambridge) died peacefully in his sleep at home on Wednesday 20 November.
posted: Wednesday, 20 November, 2002
Pathé has put its entire archive of newsreel footage online (according to a BBC report), at www.britishpathe.com; it appears to be quite a remarkable historical resource. Searching for terms such as 'cathedral choir' brings up some very interesting historical clips which can be viewed at no charge (there is a fee to download higher quality videos).
posted: Sunday, 11 November, 2002
The current Treasurer's Vicar has been appointed Precentor of Coventry Cathedral; he will be leaving Lichfield at Easter.
posted: Friday, 8 November, 2002
An advert for a new Bass Vicar Choral has appeared in today's Church Times (advert available under the 'Organists and Layworkers' sub heading), to start at some point between Christmas and Easter 2003. The application closing date is Friday 22 November.
posted: Friday, 1 November, 2002
An advert for next year's three choral scholars has appeared in today's Church Times (advert available under the 'Organists and Layworkers' sub heading). The application closing date is Friday 15 November.
posted: Thursday, 24 October, 2002
The new music list is now available on line, and it includes the ability to buy recordings of the music from amazon.co.uk. Music that is available through Amazon is indicated by [BUY]; clicking on this will open a new browser window from which the CD can be bought; this will become a regular addition to the on line music list in future. The Cathedral Choir is on half term holiday until Saturday 2 November when there will be a Requiem Eucharist at 5.30pm during which Faure's Requiem Mass will be sung.
posted: Sunday, 20 October, 2002
A new page has been added to this site containing a list of books, videos, and CDs relating to cathedrals and cathedral music in general. All of the titles can be puchased online through amazon.co.uk by clicking on the name.
posted: Friday, 27 September, 2002
Philip Scriven and Alex Mason were officially installed into the foundation earlier this month. The new music list is now available on line, but the Cathedral Choir are on half term from Saturday 19 October until Saturday 2 November. Donors to the Music Campaign have been invited to Evensong on Sunday 13 October during which they will hear a new item from the choir's repertoire: William Walton's Chichester Service. Biographies of Andrew Lumsden and Philip Scriven have been added to this site, as have a couple of new links to other web sites, and a broken link to the BBC R3 Choral Evensong page has been repaired.
posted: Friday, 30 August, 2002
The new academic year starts on Monday 9 Septmber for the Cathedral Choir, and the new music list is now available on line. Evensongs on Monday to Friday of the first week will be sung by the Lay Vicars Choral, with the exception of Wednesday 11 September when the full choir will be singing at an Evensong in the Cathedral to commemorate last year's terrorist attacks in America. Evensong on Sunday 15 September (3.30pm) will include the admission and installation of new choristers and the new organists into the Choral Foundation. On Sunday 22 September, the Eucharist (10.30am) is to commemorate Dr Samuel Johnson, and the music includes William Harris's (former assistant organist of Lichfield) setting of Johnson's last prayer: Almighty and most merciful Father. The annual reunion for the former choristers takes place on Saturday 28 September, and the 'Spinney' hymn will be sung during Evensong (5.30pm) as usual.
posted: Thursday, 22 August, 2002
The site has been updated to reflect the annual changes to the Choral Foundation, and also this year's new Organist, Philip Scriven, and his assistant, Alex Mason. New photographs of the choir, former choral scholars, and former organists (to accompany their biographies) have also been added. The discography now contains images of all the record sleeves with a single exception. On a technical note, the XHTML and CSS used throughout the site has been successfully validated by the W3C, and the title page displays the relevant icons to show this.
posted: Sunday, 18 August, 2002
Andrew Lumsden is being installed as Director of Music at Winchester Cathedral during their Evensong on Saturday 14 September, and Robert Sharpe as Organist and Master of the Choristers at Truro Cathedral during their Eucharist on Sunday 8 September.
posted: Sunday, 14 July, 2002
Andrew Lumsden, and Robert and Polly Sharpe were presented with gifts from the Cathedral community during Eucharist today. In a short cermony at the start of Evensong thanks were given for their work, and also that of the leaving choristers, choral scholars, and lay vicar during their tenures at Lichfield.
posted: Wednesday, 5 June, 2002
The site has been awarded the Summer 2002 Anglican Church Music Website Award by www.churchmusic.org.uk; this has been added to the list on the title page.
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