麻豆约拍

A service of thanksgiving and celebration for the 2024 麻豆约拍 Proms, live from Holy Sepulchre Church, London.

At the beginning of the Proms each year, the bronze bust of Sir Henry Wood (founder of the Proms) is taken from its home at the Royal Academy of Music and positioned on the stage at the Royal Albert Hall. On the first night of the Proms, a chaplet of laurel is placed over the head of the statue by two of the Prommers, and at the end of the season the chaplet is moved to sit on Henry Wood's gravestone in Holy Sepulchre (the National Musicians' Church) as part of an act of commemoration, which forms part of this service.

Introit: How calmly the evening (Elgar)
Responses: Ben Parry
Office hymn: All my hope on God is founded (Michael)
Psalms 149, 150 (Stanford, Stanford)
First Lesson: 2 Chronicles 5 vv7-14
Canticles: Stanford in B flat
Second Lesson: Ephesians 5 vv8-20
Anthem: God is light (Cecilia McDowall)
Hymn: I vow to thee my country (Thaxted)
Voluntary: Six Short Preludes and Postludes Op 105 (Postlude) (Stanford)

Peter Asprey (Director of Music)
Joshua Ryan (Organist)