Relayed from Holy Trinity Church
Processional Hymn, ' Come. Ye Thankful People, Come' (A. and M., No. 382)
'STANFORD in B Flat ' was one of the freshest and strongest things ever done in Church music ; so it seemed to choirmasters in 1879, and so the work is esteemed to-day. It was a very early product of the British renascence (its composer was only twenty then), and it had all the more significance because Church Music was one of the departments in which at that time stagnation was marked. Tho masterpieces of the past were at that time
' largely neglected, and when S. S. Wesley, one of our best Church composers, died in 1876, the -prospect was a dreary one. Then up rose the new British school-Parry, Stanford, Mackenzie, and later, Elgar, and each in his own special ' direction has given us tuneful, virile music. Stanford lived to write a very great deal more music, but lie never did anything more striking,
.considered in relation to the background of its time, than the Service in B Flat, a portion of which is here sung,
Hymn, ' To Thee, 0 Lord, Our Hearts We Raise ' (A. and M., No. 384)
-Address by the Rev. F. S. HORAN
Hymn, 'The Sower Went Forth Sowing' (A. and M., No. 386)
Recessional Hymn (A. and M., No. 370)