Lichfield Workshop 17 Sept 2016

As part of the Lichfield Heritage Weekend's Georgian Festival 2016,
Immanuel's Ground will be singing during the morning at
Wade Street Church
[post code WS13 6HL]
at 11.00 am, and again at 12.00 noon, for the benefit of
those visiting the Church.

At 2.00 pm the Quire will be leading a
Gallery Workshop for Singers and Instrumentalists
in the Hall adjoining the Church, to which everyone is welcome. The music will include hymns and metrical psalms from the period roughly 1740 to 1840, of the sort which predated the production of hymn books such as Hymns Ancient & Modern in 1851.

This hymn book imposed rigorous Victorian harmonies on the newly surpliced choirs formed by followers of the Oxford Movement, and thus helped to sweep away almost all the earlier church music, and the quires themselves, which were so characteristic of what we now call the West Gallery period.

Immanuel's Ground specialise in finding and revisiting the joyous harmonies of this forgotten era of church and chapel music, accompanied by the sort of instruments which replaced the organs destroyed by the Commonwealth, and written about by Thomas Hardy in his novels of Georgian times, such as Under the Greenwood Tree.

Music will be provided, the cost being approximately £2.
To help with preparing the music booklets, please contact
the Wade Street Church Office
Tel: 01543 253003 Email: office@wadestreetchurch.com
to confirm numbers, and also what instruments you will be bringing.

See also the church website at: http://www.wadestreetchurch.com/urc/home.pl

Further information can be had from

Sheila & Edwin Macadam
30 Eynsham Road, Botley, Oxford, OX2 9BP
Tel: 01865 865773 Email: shelwin8@tiscali.co.uk

http://immanuelsground.com