Education Project: Vaughan Williams & Songs of Praise

11am Sunday 31st August
St. Marylebone Parish Church, Marylebone Road, London
(Vaughan Williams's Parish Church)

A commemoration of the great composer, who died 50 years ago, and his famous little blue hymn book of 1925, which first introduced such wonderful songs as Morning has broken, Lord of all hopefulness, My song is love unknown, Hills of the north rejoice, I vow to thee my country and Jerusalem. We're working with children in London, Andover, Oxford, Cambridge, Chelmsford, and the Daventry District to remind them of these classic melodies, now rarely sung in schools. Our work culminates in Songs of Praise services open to all, beginning with our launch:

The Service will include Vaughan Williams's Mass, and the anthems O taste and see and The Call. The organ voluntaries will be Rhosymedre and the Prelude & Fugue in C minor. The Youth Choir will sing Songs of Praise favourites including Martin Shaw's Mine eyes have seen the glory, Daisies are our silver and When a knight won his spurs. The sermon will be based on Vaughan Williams's belief that 'the provision of fine melody is a moral rather than a musical issue'.

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The picture below was embossed on the cover of Songs of Praise.