ST. JAMES’ CHURCH, NORTON – CHOIR and MUSIC

Choral music has always been a strong feature of St James’

The church has a traditional, robed Anglican choir made up of boys and adults.

The choir provides music for two sung services each week (with the exception of Sunday mornings when there is a Parade Service).
This includes sung Mass on the 1^st, 3^rd and 4^th Sunday each month and a traditional, sung Evensong at 6.15 pm every Sunday evening.
A motet or anthem, drawn from the choir’s extensive repertoire, is normally performed at every service. From time to time, the choir
sings a full Choral Evensong to special settings of the Canticles and Responses.

Our accomplished Organist and Choir Master, Peter Hackett, also performs an organ voluntary at each service.

If you enjoy choral music and a traditional sung evensong, which relatively few churches now routinely offer, why not join us
on a Sunday evening at 6.15pm?

Scheduled Music for July 2010

Sunday 4^th July

Morning Sung Mass

Motet: “Very bread, good shepherd lead us” (Palestrina)

Voluntary: “Prelude in C BWV553 “ (JS Bach)

Sung Evensong

Anthem: “I was glad” (Boyce)

Voluntary: “Jesu, meine freude” (Rinck)

Sunday 11^th July

Morning Parade Service – No choir

Voluntary: “Tuba tune” (Lang)

Sung Evensong

Anthem: “Save us, oh Lord” (Bairstow)

Voluntary: “Finale on Llanfair” (Thiman)

Sunday 18^th July

Morning Sung Mass

Motet: “Jesu, the very thought is sweet” (Vitoria)

Voluntary: “Prelude and Fugue in C Minor” (Lübeck)

Sung Evensong

Anthem: “Jesu, joy of man’s desiring” (JS Bach)

Voluntary: “Voluntary in D” (Croft)

Sunday 25^th July

Morning Sung Mass

Motet: “Locus iste a Deo factus est” (Bruckner)

Voluntary: “Grand March from Aida” (Verdi)

Sung Evensong

Anthem: “Non nobis Domine” (Quilter)

Voluntary: “Postlude on Nunc Danket alle Gott” (Karg-Elert)