St Peter's Choir -
Concerts & Special Events 2001

Event 1 - Music for Good Friday

April 13th, 2001, 8pm in St Peter's Church

Service of Tenebrae:

• Gesualdo - Tenebrae Responsories
• Allegri - Miserere

Event/Concert 2 - Psalms throughout the Ages

Saturday, April 28th, 2001 @ 2.30pm, McArthur Gallery,
National Gallery of Victoria

The choir of St Peter's Anglican Parish, Eastern Hill, Melbourne, presents a programme of 16th-20th Century musical settings of the Psalms interspersed with readings by Philip Harvey from some of the non-canonical psalms in the Qumran Library.

• Sing joyfully - William Byrd [Ps 81]
• Exsultate justi - Ludovico Viadana [Ps 33]

• Astiterunt reges - Carlos Gesualdo [Ps 2]
• O Lord in thy wrath - Orlando Gibbons [Ps 6]
• Miserere mei - Gregorio Allegri [Ps 51]

• Beati quorum via - Charles Villiers Stanford [Ps 119]
• I will lift up mine eyes - Walford Davies [Ps 121]
• Ecce nunc benedicite - GP da Palestrina [Ps 134]
• Oculi omnium - Charles Wood [Ps 145]

• Deus canticum novum - Giovanni Asola [Ps 144]
• Haec dies - William Byrd [Ps 118]

Readings by Philip Harvey, Librarian Joint theological Library, Ormond College, University of Melbourne.

Event/Concert 3 - July 22nd (Sunday) 1.30-3pm
St Mark's Anglican Church, George St, Fitzroy

A Celebration of 20th Century Organ & Choral Music**

Provisionally Including

Kenneth Leighton

• Hymn to the Trinity
• Drop, drop slow tears

• Martyrs (Organ Duet) Julian Clarke & Christopher Cook
• Solus ad victimam

• 2 On the day of my resurrection
• 3 An angel of the Lord
• 4a The Lord is my shepherd
• 4b I am the good shepherd

Give me the wings of faith [Isaac Watts]

Maurice Duruflé Quatre Motets:

• Ubi caritas
• Tu es Petrus
• Tantum ergo
• Tota pulchra es

• Here is the little door
• O salutaris hostia
• Psalm Prelude Set 1 No 2 [Ps37:11]
  But the meek shall possess the land: and delight themselves in abundant prosperity [RSV]
• Gloria and Agnus Dei from "Collegium Regale" Setting
• Salve Regina

Edgar Bainton

• And I saw a new heaven

**There will be a charge of $13/10 this concert, which includes afternoon tea.

Event/Concert 4 - October 20th (Saturday)

Madrigals in the wards of St Vincent's Hospital

Event 5 - November 2nd (Friday) 6.15pm, St Peter's Church

A liturgical performance of the Fauré Requiem

Event 6 - December 30th (Sunday) 7pm, St Peter's Church

A Service of Lessons & Carols

St Peter's Choir - 2001

Soprano I - Sharon Mulready, Helen Thomson, Kate Watson
Soprano II - Anthony Barbour, Jacqueline Smith*, Sue Wuttke
Alto I - Rachel Ellyard, Kathryn Buttery
Alto II - Philip Legge
Tenor I - Andrew Cole
Tenor II
Bass I - James Gunning, David Smith
Bass II - Brian Bubbers, Julian Clarke, John Watson*

Director of Music: Christopher Cook
Asst Organist: Giselle Baulch

* on leave

St Peter's is located on the intersection of Gisborne and Albert Streets, Eastern Hill, beside Parliament House and across the street from St Patrick's Cathedral. St Peter's parishioners come from all across the metropolitan area.

St Peter's Choir is an adult choir of men and women which furnishes the church's liturgical musical requirements every Sunday at 11.00 am High Mass and 5.00 pm Choral Evensong as well as on several major Feast Days (as advertised). The repertoire of the choir is drawn mainly from the Renaissance and Tudor periods and features composers such as Palestrina, Byrd, Tallis, Victoria. Works from the 19th & 20th Centuries are also performed. Plainsong forms a major part of the sung Ordinary of the Mass and of the Office of Evensong and is an integral part of St Peter's life and liturgical witness.

As in many Anglo-Catholic churches, at St Peter's music is treated as an important vehicle for creating an atmosphere that will encourage prayer and the experience of God through beauty. The music presented in the concerts, is principally drawn from material used in services at St Peter's.