Thursday 5 January 1:10PM Lunchtime Live! ... Dutch courage … Continuing this season’s monthly organ recital series, Around the World. Music by Andreissen, Sweelinck, de Klerk, van Noordt and Monnikendam. Admission free, with retiring collection. More information can be found here. Saturday 14 January 5:30PM Choral Evensong at St Edmundsbury Cathedral The Boys’ Choir sing Choral Evensong at St Edmundsbury Cathedral (Bury St Edmunds) and will give the world première of their newly commissioned ‘Third Service’ from Michael Finnissy. For more information on Michael Finnissy please click here. Friday 20 January 7:00PM A Ceremony of Carols : The Girls & Men in Concert The Girls of All Saints give a concert performance of Britten’s much loved ‘A Ceremony of Carols’, with the atmospheric harp accompaniment provided by Rowena Bass. They will be joined by the men of the choir to perform Charpentier’s ‘Messe de Minuit pour noël’, and will welcome in the New Year with two very different settings of ‘A New Year Carol’ by Britten and Herbert Howells. More information, including details of how to purchase tickets, can be found here. Thursday 2 February 1:10PM Lunchtime Live! ... in the state of Denmark … The sixth in this season’s monthly organ recital series, Around the World. Featuring music by Buxtehude & Nielsen. Admission free, with retiring collection. More information can be found here. Friday 11 February to Saturday 18 February The Boys on Tour! The boys’ choir undertakes its first ever solo tour. They will be giving concert performances in St Rumbold’s Cathedral (Mechelen, Belgium), Elisabethkirche (Marburg, Germany), The Church of the Holy Cross (Jyllinge, Denmark), the Cathedral of Our Lady (Haderslev, Denmark), St Mary’s Cathedral (Ribe, Denmark), the Oude Kerk (Zoetermeer, The Netherlands), and the European Space Centre in Leiden! Please do get in touch for any further information on any of these performances. Sunday 19 February 11:15AM Choral Matins at St Alban’s Abbey The Girls and Men hold a residency at St Alban’s Abbey, performing the Morning Canticles in E by Gordon Lawson, and Morten Lauridsen’s much-loved setting of ‘O nata lux de lumine’. Thursday 1 March 1:10PM Lunchtime Live! … a Belgian bunfight … The seventh in this season’s monthly organ recital series, Around the World. Featuring music by van der Kerckhoven, Peeters, Lemmens, and of course César Franck. Admission free, with retiring collection. More information can be found here. Thursday 8 March 7:30PM Sir Andrew Motion – Step into my shoes Under the title “Following in John Clare’s footsteps’, Sir Andrew talks about walking, writing and poetry and will read the work of various poets, including his own. For more information, including details of how to purchase tickets, please see Step_into_my_shoes.pdf. HOLY WEEK & EASTER For full information on our Holy Week and Easter Services please see here. Thursday 5 April 1:10PM Lunchtime Live! … from Russia with love … The eight in this season’s monthly organ recital series, Around the World. Featuring the ‘Passacaglia’ from ‘Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk’ by Shostakovich, as well as music from Prokofiev, Mushel, Stravinsky, and six movements from Mussorgsky’s ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’, transcribed for organ by Keith John. Admission free, with retiring collection. More information can be found here. Saturday 28 April 3:00PM The Service of Licensing of The Reverend Dr David McConkey We officially install and welcome Fr. David McConkey as our new Parish Priest in a grand ceremonial service, featuring all the choirs associated with All Saints. Please be seated no later than 2:40PM when the Processions begin to arrive. Full information to follow. Sunday 29 April 10:30AM and 6:00PM Festal Services with CD Launch Our new Parish Priest leads us in Sunday worship for the first time; at these service the Girls’ Choir will launch their latest CD, Notre Père. Sunday 20 May 6:00PM Book of Common Prayer Anniversary Service Choral Evensong sung in celebration of the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, with the première of a specially commissioned anthem by James Davy. Thursday 7 June 1:10PM Lunchtime Live! 2012 Summer Series The summer series of weekly Organ Recitals commences (the final recital is on Thursday 19 July at 1:10PM, with monthly recitals recommencing on Thursday 6 September at 1:10PM) . Full information to follow in March 2012; for details of past programmes, please see here. Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 June Services at York Minster The Choirs sing in residence at York Minster; Saturday Choral Evensong at 5:15PM, Sunday Choral Mass at 10:00AM, Choral Matins at 11:15AM and Choral Evensong at 4:00PM. Full details to follow in April 2012. Saturday 7 July 7:30PM Berlioz Te Deum in Ely Cathedral The Boys’ Choir of All Saints join the Huntingdonshire Philharmonic to perform Hector Berlioz’s colossal masterpiece. More information can be found here.