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Music at St Michael’s (20/04/2025)
At Choral Eucharist for Easter Sunday, the choir sings Jonathan Dove’s Missa Brevis (2009), an exuberant and celebratory piece for organ and chorus to kick start our Easter praise! The anthem is “Blessed be the God and Father”, written by S. S. Wesley for a service on Easter Day at Hereford Cathedral in 1834. This varied and expressive anthem features a quieter middle section for solo and upper voices, which is sung today by the junior choristers.
There is no choir at St Michael’s next week (Low Sunday), but the choir will be singing 3 services at Bath Abbey on the Saturday and Sunday. We’d love to see you there of course, or you may be able to see the services online at bathabbey.org.
Concerts at St Michael’s
A new season of concerts at St Michael’s begins on Friday, 2nd May with the SU Music Students’ “Showcase ‘25”, followed the following Saturday, 10th May, by a song recital by Simon Harper (tenor) and Eleanor Perks (piano): “Winter into Spring”. Mark your diaries now, and for more details and tickets see our concerts webpage (link above).
Join our Junior Choir
Our Junior Choristers start from Year 3 and Youth Singers from Year 7.
find out moreHalf-Term Singing Days
Open singing days run during half terms for those in years 3 and over.
find out moreListen to the Choir
Listen to audio and video recordings of the St Michael and All Angels’ Choir.
find out moreAbout us
We sing Choral Eucharists Evensongs, Carol Services,
The Family Service…We rehearse on Wednesdays from 7.30–9.00pm (6.30–7.45pm for younger singers) and before services. The choir doesn’t sing at St Michael’s immediately after Christmas and Easter, or during the school summer holiday, when cathedral visits are sometimes arranged.
Director of music: Andrew Hanley
The Choir and COVID-19
During COVID times, it was hard to keep singing! Yet as a choir, we found it more important than ever. We worked hard to keep a choral sound available, and keep practising. Virtual anthems and hymns were produced for services. We ran a “virtual pub” after Zoom-based choir practices, complete with the occasional “pub” quiz, and birthday and special occasion celebrations. From the first service featuring our recordings (Palm Sunday, 2020) through to the end of the second lockdown in May 2021, well over 100 recordings of our hymns, anthems, and psalms were used in our services.
You can view the recordings of these virtual anthems on the YouTube “NSABparish” channel. virtual anthems on YouTube