ANTHEMS This Sunday the Parish Choir will be singing Sir Edward Elgar’s ‘Light of the World’ from his cantata, The Light of Life with words by the Reverend Edward Capel-Cure (1860-1949). As the musicologist, Michael Kennedy (1926-2014), says in his book The Life of Elgar (2004): ‘…In the spring of 1895 Elgar was commissioned to…
[youtube http://youtu.be/vC4pvgPULe8] “I will sing and speak praises unto the Lord” While George Frederic Handel was quoting Psalms in his work “The Lord is my light” (HWV 255), he very well could have been referring to the music that was performed at Saint Thomas’ by the Zachow Players and Consort on February 9th. Named after the…
