Lunchtime Organ Recital: Students from Merchant Taylors School

for 30 mins
The Temple Church, London
The Temple Church, Temple, London EC4Y 7BB, EC4Y 1BB, United Kingdom

Students from Merchant Taylors’ School

Dominic Detre
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
- Fantasia in G minor, BWV 542

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
- Rhosymedre, No.2 from Three Preludes founded on Welsh Hymn Tunes

Ethan Ghosh
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
- Prelude in B flat, BWV 560

Flor Peeters (1903-1986)
- Koraal from Suite Modale

Steven Kormushev:
John Ireland (1879-1962)
- The Holy Boy

John Rutter (b.1945)
- Toccata in 7

Merchant Taylors’ School was founded in the City of London in 1561 by the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors’, one of the ancient City Livery Companies or Guilds. In 1933 the school moved to Northwood on the north-west edge of London where it flourishes today with 950 boys aged 11 to 18. It retains its ancient links with the City of London where we perform regularly in St Paul’s Cathedral and at the Merchant Taylors’ Hall. The first Head Master of the school, Richard Mulcaster, included ‘singing, and playing an instrument’ in his curriculum for the boys, and Merchant Taylors’ boys provided dramatic entertainments for Queen Elizabeth I. Amongst Mulcaster’s early pupils was the poet, Edmund Spenser. The school has also produced several notable musical alumni, including the conductor Bryan Balkwill, the organist Percy Buck, and the composer Bob Chilcott.

The school has an active music department, with six full-time staff and twenty-two visiting music teachers. Each week nearly 300 individual music lessons take place, alongside rehearsals for numerous orchestras, bands, and choirs. The annual programme of events includes several large-scale concerts as well as competitions and informal concerts.

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Lunchtime Organ Recital: Students from Merchant Taylors School

for 30 mins
The Temple Church, London
The Temple Church, Temple, London EC4Y 7BB, EC4Y 1BB, United Kingdom

Students from Merchant Taylors’ School

Dominic Detre
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
- Fantasia in G minor, BWV 542

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
- Rhosymedre, No.2 from Three Preludes founded on Welsh Hymn Tunes

Ethan Ghosh
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
- Prelude in B flat, BWV 560

Flor Peeters (1903-1986)
- Koraal from Suite Modale

Steven Kormushev:
John Ireland (1879-1962)
- The Holy Boy

John Rutter (b.1945)
- Toccata in 7

Merchant Taylors’ School was founded in the City of London in 1561 by the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors’, one of the ancient City Livery Companies or Guilds. In 1933 the school moved to Northwood on the north-west edge of London where it flourishes today with 950 boys aged 11 to 18. It retains its ancient links with the City of London where we perform regularly in St Paul’s Cathedral and at the Merchant Taylors’ Hall. The first Head Master of the school, Richard Mulcaster, included ‘singing, and playing an instrument’ in his curriculum for the boys, and Merchant Taylors’ boys provided dramatic entertainments for Queen Elizabeth I. Amongst Mulcaster’s early pupils was the poet, Edmund Spenser. The school has also produced several notable musical alumni, including the conductor Bryan Balkwill, the organist Percy Buck, and the composer Bob Chilcott.

The school has an active music department, with six full-time staff and twenty-two visiting music teachers. Each week nearly 300 individual music lessons take place, alongside rehearsals for numerous orchestras, bands, and choirs. The annual programme of events includes several large-scale concerts as well as competitions and informal concerts.

More info Join online

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The care and protection of children, young people and vulnerable adults who are involved in Church activities is the responsibility of the whole Church. Everyone who participates in the life of the Church has a role to play in promoting a Safer Church for all.This Safeguarding Policy is based on the Safeguarding Policy Statement of the Church of England that was agreed and published by the House of Bishops in 2017. It sets out the Safeguarding Policy of the Diocese of London and in particular a summary of the roles and responsibilities of all church bodies and office holders as we work together to protect children, young people and vulnerable adults who are involved in church activities.

This policy makes six overarching policy commitments:

To promote a safer environment and culture
To enable and ensure safe recruitment practice and to support all those within the Church with any responsibility related to children, young people, and vulnerable adults
To respond promptly to every safeguarding concern or allegation
To offer pastoral care to victims/survivors of abuse and other affected persons
To offer pastoral care to those who are the subject of concerns or allegations of abuse and other affected persons
To respond to those who may pose a present risk to others.

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