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Summer concert – Prayer and Praises

Pennine Singers Summer Concert – ‘Prayer and Praises’

Saturday 4th July, 7.30pm, St Paul’s Church, Huddersfield Road, Stalybridge

Come with us on a journey of prayer and praises through the ages, mixing quiet reflection and joyous celebration!

Our programme features Schubert’s sunny Mass in G from the Eucharist service, and Stanford’s serene Evening Service in G, traditionally sung at evensong.

We’re excited to perform a new work by Pennine Singers founder and former musical director Jack Pickford. Plus a wonderful Dan Forrest arrangement of And Can it Be, originally a hymn by Charles Wesley.

The concert also features the beautiful plainsong of Hildegard of Bingen, the earliest recorded female composer to have works surviving today, and a luminous arrangement of the same text, ba...

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