THIS WEEK
Wednesday 24th December Christmas Eve
4pm Crib Service for Families
10.45pm Candlelit Midnight Mass (with carol singing from 10.30pm)
Thursday 25th December
Christmas Day
11am Festival Sung Eucharist
with carols
Preacher:
The Revd Stephen Coleman
Joseph Haydn - Little Organ Mass
T.L.de Victoria - O magnum
mysterium
J.S.Bach - Vom Himmel hoch da
komm ich Herr BWV 700
Sunday 28th December
The First Sunday of Christmas
11am Sung Eucharist
with cantor and organ
Preacher:
The Revd Stephen Coleman
Plainsong - Missa de Angelis
Thomas Mawdyke -
The Coventry Carol
Louis-Claude Daquin - Noel Suisse
Thursday 1st January
New Year’s Day
12 Noon – Eucharist
with carols to celebrate the New Year
Sunday 4th January
Feast of the Epiphany
11am Sung Eucharist
Preacher:
The Revd Stephen Coleman
Joseph Haydn - St Nicholas Mass
Felix Mendelssohn - When Jesus our Lord was born in Bethlehem
Peter Cornelius - The Three Kings
CHAPEL OPENING TIMES
The Chapel is normally open to visitors Monday - Friday 8am to 2.30pm. The Chapel is also open on
Saturdays for Occasional Offices and on Sundays for the 11am Sung Eucharist. Exceptons to weekday opening times are public holidays, private bookings, and staff annual leave.
ACCESSIBILITY
Step-free access to the Chapel is via a ramp through the main entrance. Please arrange in advance by contacting the Chapel office.
Audability: The Chapel's soundsystem is suitably fitted with
a loop system for pews directly
beneath the south gallery.
DIRECTOR OF MUSIC: Richard Hobson
Richard Hobson was born in Yorkshire. He was a chorister at Lichfield Cathedral and read music at Wadham College, Oxford where he was College Organist. After a post-graduate year at St John's College, Cambridge, he joined the staff of Latymer Upper School, Hammersmith in 1976, becoming Director of Music in 1982. In 1996 he became Director of Music at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood, a post from which he retired in 2012. He retains his connection with the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors' as Organist at the Livery Hall in the City of London.
Richard has been Organist and Director of Music of the Grosvenor Chapel since 1981. As well as directing the professional choir, he arranges the weekly Mayfair Organ Concerts. He has also recorded two CDs on the Chapel's highly acclaimed organ, completed in 1991, which he designed in collaboration with the organ builder William Drake.
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