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New College Oxford

Chapel Services

Hilary Term

2020

ELCOME to New College chapel. Music and worship have been at the

heart of the college since 1379, when William of Wykeham founded the college for ‘the increase of divine worship’ as well as ‘the growth of the

Liberal Arts, Sciences and branches of learning’. Today chapel services gather students, staff and fellows to mark key moments in the academic year, and serve as a respite from the busy life of term. A few services are particularly for members of the college, but most are open to all, and all are welcome. This booklet includes the music for each service, and can be used alongside the Evensong card and Sung Eucharist booklet; but chapel services ask very little of those who come through the door, as the combined voices of the choir raise our pleas to God, and we are merely invited to be still in this place where prayer has been valid for many centuries. Whether you are a person of strong faith or none, a member of college or a first-time

visitor, may you find peace and light in your time here. The Revd Dr Erica Longfellow, Dean of Divinity The Revd Susan Bridge, Associate Chaplain

HE Organist, Robert Quinney, is on sabbatical leave this term, and the chapel is delighted to welcome Dr James Lancelot, Canon Organist Emeritus and formerly Master of the Choristers and Organist at Durham Cathedral. Dr

Lancelot directs the choir this term and is responsible for the term’s music, including Epiphany Carols and Music & Readings for Lent. His time at Durham was marked by expansion of the choirs and a commitment to new commissions, including Sir

James Macmillan’s Missa Dunelmi. He is a notable recitalist and will be performing Messiaen’s La Nativité du Seigneur on Thursday 24 January (details below). All enquiries from families of potential choristers should be directed to the Choir Office (details below). Auditions take place in January for boys in year 2 for the choir’s probationer programme, which starts in year 3. The Chorister Open Day in the summer provides an introduction to chorister life and to New College School, where choristers receive generous bursaries.

The Choir welcomes contact with senior school musicians interested in applying for a choral award in New College. Interested applicants can find information on the University of Oxford website, or in the choral and organ scholar brochure on the

choir website. New College’s own ‘Experience Evensong’ programme offers young singers an opportunity to sing Evensong during University Term and to talk to choir staff and current choral scholars.

All information about choristerships and choral scholarships, as well as the Music List, Term Card, and details of concerts and recordings, can be found on the choir’s website, www.newcollegechoir.com. For further details and to contact the Organist, please email the Choir Administrator: [email protected]. James Lancelot, Acting Organist Charles Maxtone-Smith, Acting Assistant Organist Hamish Fraser, Organ Scholar

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HE CHAPLAINS are available to listen to any member of college. They can be

reached on [email protected], [email protected], and on 01865 279541.

In addition to the services listed in this booklet, the chapel hosts events for students and the wider college. Student Morning Prayer is on Thursdays in even weeks at 8.15 am, followed by free breakfast in hall, and finishing in time for 9.00am lectures. Soul Food is a discussion group that meets over a free lunch with home-baked treats on Thursdays from 1.00-2.00pm in 3 OB 6.

Sunday Evensong is followed by drinks in the Undercroft for students, staff and fellows of the college. One of the Catholic chaplains will be coming to say mass for staff, students, and

fellows of New College on Wednesday 12 February at 6.00pm. On Shrove Tuesday, 25 February, the Dean of Divinity will be serving pancakes for all students from 4.00-5.30pm at 1 Savile Road. Special Services this term include:

The Epiphany Procession at 5.45pm on Sunday 19 January will focus on the three miracles of new life that feature in the seasonal readings and in Luca Marenzio’s motet Tribus miraculis: the revelation of Jesus as the Messiah to the wise men from the east, the descent of the Holy Spirit on Jesus at his baptism, and Jesus’s first public miracle, turning water into wine at a wedding in the city of Cana. The service for the feast of Candlemas on Sunday 2 February at 5.45pm is one of the highlights of the college year, closing with a candlelit procession when the choir will sing Johannes Eccard’s When to the Temple Mary Went. A new setting of the Evensong canticles by Deborah Pritchard will be premiered at this service, commissioned by the college as part of the celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the admission of women students. Dr Bethany Sollereder, Research Fellow at the

Laudato Si’ Research Institute of ecology and social justice, will be preaching. There will be a solemn eucharist with ashing on Ash Wednesday, 26 February, at 6.15pm. The music will include Allegri’s Miserere; and the Associate Chaplain, the Revd Susan Bridge, will preach. At the end of term there will be a service of Readings & Music for Lent with motets by Tallis, Byrd, Allegri, Brahms and Mendelssohn. Professor Peter McCullough, General Editor of the Oxford Sermons of John Donne will read from Donne’s prose.

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JANUARY Hymns

11 Saturday 2.30 pm College Memorial Service for Peter Dickens

12 Sunday EPIPHANY I 3.00 pm Oxford Bach Soloists J. S. Bach, Cantatas 40, 65, 153, 154 & 190

www.oxfordbachsoloists.com

5.45 pm Evensong sung by the Choir of St Peter’s Cathedral, Adelaide Ives, Responses Psalm 29 (Attwood)

Mathias, Jesus College Service Dove, The Three Kings EH 40 Stanford, Allegro non troppo e pesante, Op. 101, no 2

___________________________________________________________________________ 17 Friday Antony of Egypt, 356

9.00 am Morning Prayer

6.15 pm Evensong Byrd, Responses

Psalm 89: 1-19 (Buck) Gibbons, Short Service G. Gabrieli, O magnum mysterium

18 Saturday Week of prayer for Christian unity

6.15pm Evensong Cornelius, arr. Atkins, The three kings Byrd, Responses Psalms 93, 94 (Macfarren, Wesley) Wood, Collegium Regale

How brightly shines the morning star (sheet) Wood, Hail, gladdening light Buxtehude, Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern JBL

JANUARY Hymns

19 Sunday EPIPHANY II 5.45 pm Epiphany Procession Dubois, Marche des rois mages HF Marenzio, Tribus miraculis G. Gabrieli, O magnum mysterium Clemens non Papa, Vox de caelo sonuit Bruckner, Tantum ergo sacramentum Mathias, A babe is born

Litaize, Epiphanie CMS

20 Monday Richard Rolle, 1349 8.30 am Morning Prayer

6.15 pm Evensong Moore, Responses Psalm 104 (plainchant) Moore, First Service Poulenc, Seigneur, je vous en prie

21 Tuesday Agnes, 304 9.00 am Morning Prayer

6.15 pm Evensong Leighton, Responses Psalm 106 (Parry, Langdon) Watson in E Warlock, Bethlehem Down

22 Wednesday Vincent of Saragossa, 304 9.00 am Morning Prayer

JANUARY Hymns

23 Thursday 9.00 am Morning Prayer

6.15 pm Sung Eucharist Langlais, Messe solennelle AM 4 Alleluia: Dominus regnavit AM 161

24 Friday Francis de Sales, 1622 9.00 am Morning Prayer

6.15 pm Evensong Leighton, Responses Psalm 149 (Stanford) Leighton, Magdalen Service Leighton, Let all the world 8.30 pm Messiaen, La Nativité du Seigneur

James Lancelot, Canon Organist Emeritus, Durham Cathedral, & Acting Organist, New College

All welcome: free entry

25 Saturday CONVERSION OF ST PAUL 6.15 pm Evensong Harris, Holy is the true light Leighton, Responses Psalm 67 (Gibbons) Howells, Collegium Regale

Palestrina, Magnus Sanctus Paulus AM 115 Howells, Rhapsody, Op, 17, no 1 HF

JANUARY Hymns

26 Sunday EPIPHANY III 5.45 pm Evensong Langlais, La Nativité (Poèmes Evangéliques) CMS Leighton, Responses All my heart, t. Bonn (sheet) Psalm 27 (Cooper) Jackson in G Maxwell Davies, Four Carols (O magnum mysterium) AM 53 Alain, Première Fantaisie JBL

27 Monday Holocaust Memorial Day


6.15 pm Evensong plainchant, Responses Psalms 126, 127, 128 (plainchant) Morales, Magnificat sexti toni (Anima mea) plainchant, Nunc dimittis Handl, Ante luciferum genitus

28 Tuesday Thomas Aquinas, 1274 9.00 am Morning Prayer

6.15 pm Evensong Grier, Responses Psalm 136 (Lloyd) Sumsion in G Walton, Set me as a seal

29 Wednesday 9.00 am Morning Prayer

JANUARY Hymns

30 Thursday Charles, King & Martyr, 1649 8.15 am Morning Prayer followed by breakfast – members of college only

6.15 pm Sung Eucharist Mozart, Missa brevis in F, K192 AM 238 Alleluia: Justus non conturbabitur AM 159

31 Friday John Bosco, 1888 9.00 am Morning Prayer

6.15 pm Evensong Grier, Responses Psalm 148 (Ashfield) Naylor in A Gibbons, Almighty and everlasting God

FEBRUARY

1 Saturday Brigid of Kildare, c.525 6.15 pm Evensong Tallis, O nata lux de lumine Grier, Responses Psalm 118 (Whitlock) Byrd, Second Service Byrd, Senex puerum portabat à5 AM 132 Buxtehude, Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, BuxWV 76 CMS

7.00 pm Organ Recital Hamish Fraser, Organ Scholar, New College

FEBRUARY Hymns

2 Sunday PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE (Candlemas) 5.45 pm Evensong J. S. Bach, Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, BWV 616 HF Grier, Responses Psalm 24 (Barnby) Pritchard, New College Service (first performance) Byrd, Senex puerum portabat à4 EH 380 Eccard, When to the temple Mary went EH 613

Preacher Dr Bethany Sollereder Research Fellow, Laudato Si’ Research Institute for ecology and social justice

3 Monday Anskar, 865 8.30 am Morning Prayer No Evensong

9.30pm Compline Sung by the Korrigan Consort

4 Tuesday Gilbert of Sempringham, 1189 9.00 am Morning Prayer

6.15 pm Evensong Tomkins, Responses Psalm 22 (Wesley)

Noble in B minor Taverner, Christe Jesu, pastor bone

FEBRUARY Hymns


6 Thursday Accession of Queen Elizabeth II 9.00 am Morning Prayer

6.15 pm Sung Eucharist Tye, Missa Euge bone AM 149 Alleluia: Mirabilis AM 119

7 Friday 9.00 am Morning Prayer

6.15 pm Evensong Tomkins, Responses Psalm 37 (Stainer) Tomkins, First Service

Byrd, O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth

8 Saturday 6.15 pm Evensong Tomkins, E’en like the hunted hind AM 198 Tomkins, Responses Psalms 42, 43 (Goss) Howells, Gloucester Service Howells, Like as the hart

Andriessen, Thema met Variaties JBL

7.00 pm Organ recital James Lancelot, Canon Organist Emeritus, Durham Cathedral, & Acting Organist, New College

FEBRUARY Hymns

9 Sunday THIRD SUNDAY BEFORE LENT 3.00 pm Oxford Bach Soloists J. S. Bach, Cantatas 155, 73, 81, 83 www.oxfordbachsoloists.com

5.45 pm Evensong Howells, Preludio ‘sine nomine’ CMS Tomkins, Responses AM 199 Psalm 112 (Marlow, after Monteverdi)

Casken, Evening Canticles Balfour Gardiner, Evening hymn AM 235 Elgar, Imperial March, Op. 32 (arr. Hesford) HF

Preacher The Revd Canon Verena Breed, Team Rector, Bicester (St Edburg), with Bucknell, Caversfield & Launton

10 Monday Scholastica, c.543 8.30 am Morning Prayer

6.15 pm Evensong Tallis, Responses Psalm 51 (plainchant) Gombert, Magnificat tertii et octavi tonorum

plainchant, Nunc dimittis Tallis, Hear the voice and prayer

11 Tuesday


6.15 pm Evensong Martin, Responses Psalms 59, 60 (Goss) Ives, Edington Service Parry, My soul, there is a country

FEBRUARY Hymns


6.00 pm Mass for the Catholic Chaplaincy

13 Thursday

8.15 am Morning Prayer followed by breakfast – members of college only 6.15 pm Sung Eucharist Byrd, Mass in five parts EH 426 Alleluia: Laudate Dominum EH 301

14 Friday Cyril & Methodius, 869 & 885; Valentine, c.269 9.00 am Morning Prayer

6.15 pm Evensong Martin, Responses

Psalm 73 (Flintoft) Byrd, Short Service Byrd, Prevent us, O Lord

15 Saturday Sigfrid, 1045 6.15 pm Evensong Schütz, Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt Martin, Responses Psalm 77 (Flintoft) Stanford in C

Howells, O pray for the peace of Jerusalem EH 278 Harris, Flourish for an occasion CMS

7.00 pm Organ Recital Charles Maxtone-Smith, Acting Assistant Organist, New College

FEBRUARY Hymns

16 Sunday SECOND SUNDAY BEFORE LENT 5.45 pm Evensong Tallis, Alleluia: per te Dei genetrix HF Martin, Responses EH 574 Psalm 136 (Lloyd) Byrd, Great Service EH 466 Weelkes, O Lord, arise into thy resting-place Gibbons, Fantasia of four parts JBL

17 Monday Janani Luwum, 1977 8.30 am Morning Prayer

6.15 pm Vespers plainchant, Responses Psalm 89: 1-19 (plainchant) Palestrina, Magnificat quarti toni Willaert, Ave regina coelorum

9.30 pm Compline Tye, In pace in idipsum Victoria, Nunc dimittis tertii toni

18 Tuesday 9.00 am Morning Prayer

6.15 pm Evensong Harris, Responses Psalms 93, 94 (Macfarren, Wesley)

Howells in E Walker, I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills

FEBRUARY Hymns



6.15 pm Sung Eucharist Duruflé, Messe Cum jubilo EH 396 Alleluia: Cantate Domino EH 437, t. Blaenwern


6.15 pm Evensong Tallis, Responses Psalm 73 (Flintoft) Sheppard, First Service

Sheppard, In pace in idipsum

22 Saturday 6.15 pm Evensong Tallis, Te lucis ante terminum Rose, Responses Psalms 108, 109 (Turle, Rimboult, Carnidge) Drayton, New College Service Whyte, Christe qui lux es et dies EH 485

Buxtehude, Passacaglia in D minor, BuxWV 161 HF

FEBRUARY Hymns

23 Sunday SUNDAY NEXT BEFORE LENT 5.45 pm Evensong J. S. Bach, Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 649 CMS Rose, Responses The sun is sinking fast (sheet) Psalm 99 (Ouseley) Tomkins, Fifth Service Tallis, Laudate Dominum omnes gentes EH 470 Lizst, Fantasia & Fugue on the theme B-A-C-H JBL

24 Monday


6.15 pm Evensong plainchant, Responses Psalm 119: 1-24 (plainchant) Lassus, Magnificat secundi toni Lassus, Nunc dimittis quinti toni Cavalli, Salve Regina


6.15 pm Evensong Rose, Responses Psalm 119: 73-96 (Turle, Pye) Stanford in B flat Weelkes, Alleluia, I heard a voice

FEBRUARY Hymns

26 Wednesday ASH WEDNESDAY 9.00 am Morning Prayer 6.15 pm Sung Eucharist, with Ashing Byrd, Mass in four parts Allegri, Miserere mei, Deus EH 414, t. ii Byrd, Memento homo quod cinis es

27 Thursday 8.15 am Morning Prayer followed by breakfast – members of college only

6.15 pm No service


6.15 pm Evensong

Byrd, Responses Psalm 136 (Lloyd) Byrd, Third Service Tallis, Salvator mundi II

29 Saturday 6.15 pm Evensong Farrant, Call to remembrance Byrd, Responses

Psalm 142 (Ashfield) Gibbons, Second Service Byrd, Miserere mei, Deus EH 93 Dupre, Cortège et Litanie, Op. 19, no 2 CMS

MARCH Hymns

1 Sunday LENT I 3.00 pm Oxford Bach Soloists J. S. Bach, Cantatas 144, 181, 18 www.oxfordbachsoloists.com 5.45 pm Evensong J. S. Bach, Erbarm dich mein, O Herre Gott, BWV 721 HF Byrd, Responses EH 73

Psalm 32 (Barnby) Purcell in G minor Purcell, O God, thou hast cast us out EH 362 Bach, Passacaglia in C minor JBL

2 Monday Chad, 672 8.30 am Morning Prayer

6.15 pm Vespers Psalms 13, 14 (plainchant)

Dufay, Magnificat quinti toni Leonarda, Ave regina coelorum

9.30 pm Compline Tallis, In pace in idipsum

Palestrina, Nunc dimittis tertii toni à5


6.15 pm Evensong

Tomkins, Responses Psalms 15, 16 (Hopkins, Howells) Leighton, Second Service Tavener, Hymn to the Mother of God

MARCH Hymns



6.15 pm Sung Eucharist EH 408 Mozart, Spatzenmesse EH 82


6.15 pm Evensong Tomkins, Responses Psalms 32, 33 (Barnby, Soaper) Bevan, Magnificat quinti toni

Holst, Nunc dimittis Purcell, Remember not, Lord, our offences

7 Saturday Perpetua, Felicity & Companions, 203 6.15 pm Evensong S. Wesley, Si iniquitates observaveris Tallis, Responses Psalm 37 (plainchant) Tallis in the Dorian mode

Tallis, Incipit lamentatio Ieremiae prophetae Was ever grief like thine? (sheet)

Buxtehude, Praeludium in G minor, BuxWV 149 CMS

MARCH Hymns

8 Sunday LENT II 5.45 pm Evensong J. S. Bach, Christe, aller Welt Trost, BWV 670 CMS Tomkins, Responses EH 152 Psalm 121 (Walford Davies) Byrd, Short Service Byrd, Infelix ego AM 471

J. S. Bach, Fantasia super ‘Valet will ich dir geben’, BWV 735

HF Preacher The Revd Emma Pennington Canon Missioner, Canterbury Cathedral

9 Monday 8.30 am Morning Prayer

6.15 pm Evensong Tallis, Responses

Psalms 47, 48 (plainchant) Canticles, Tonus Peregrinus & tone i Tallis, In ieiunio et fletu


6.15 pm Evensong Smith, Responses Psalm 69 (Smart)

Walmisley in D minor Wesley, Wash me throughly from my wickedness


MARCH Hymns

12 Thursday 8.15 am Morning Prayer followed by breakfast – members of college only

6.15 pm Sung Eucharist Howells, Collegium Regale EH 99, t. 315 Caswall EH 102


6.15 pm Evensong Smith, Responses Psalm 69 (Smart) Andrews in D Leighton, Drop, drop, slow tears

14 Saturday

6.15 pm Evensong Gibbons, Drop, drop, slow tears Smith, Responses Psalm 73 (Flintoft) Ives, Westminster Service Purcell, Hear my prayer EH 107 Stanley, Air in D Minor, Op. 7, no 2 HF

15 Sunday LENT III

5.00 pm Readings & Music for Lent No tickets required.

APRIL

Oxford Bach Soloists will sing the following concerts over Easter. 10 Friday GOOD FRIDAY

1.30 pm J. S. Bach, St John Passion 11 Saturday

3.00 pm J. S. Bach, Cantatas 4, 31 & 249

12 Sunday EASTER SUNDAY

3.00 pm Cantatas 66, 134, 67

13 Monday

3.00 pm J. S. Bach, Cantatas 104, 166, 37 Tickets from www.oxfordbachsoloists.com

Services sung by New College Choir resume on Friday 24 April.

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