Lord Mayor at our 90th Birthday Concert

Fantastic to welcome the Lord Mayor of Leeds - Councillor Jane Dowson to our pre-Easter concert last week.

Photo by Chris Midgley: http://photomidgley.zenfolio.com/

Best wishes for a happy Easter to all!!

90th Birthday Concert

2018  will be our 90th birthday year, for which an exciting programme of events is in the pipeline. First of these will be the 90th birthday concert on March 20th, which will feature music either written for Leeds or by composers with Leeds connections. This will include Ralph Vaughan Williams' Towards the Unknown  Region in addition to pieces by Edward Bairstow, Andrew Carter, David Darling, Edward Elgar,  Tim Knight, S. Liddle Arr. Sumner Salter, Simon Lindley, and Philip Wilby.

Practice at home:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1NDleuDlj-4OZ3HlpriQdk66RZl-duXt

http://www.learnchoralmusic.co.uk/Vaughan-Williams/Unknown/unknown.html

"Jesu, Grant me this I Pray" by Orlando Gibbons

https://youtu.be/PX134Xnd_wo

Raising of Lazarus by Paul Stetsenko

https://youtu.be/nJfBn029dxU

Vacancy: Society Secretary

Old photos of St Margaret's

Thanks to Ellie Cockroft of Horsforth Memories & Trivia Facebook page for these lovely old photos of St Margaret's.

Before spire was built 1890s

Before current houses were built

Today

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