4: Weddings

Let the bells ring out! The recent wedding of our Music Administrator, Hannah, provides the opportunity to discuss the musical side of weddings in St Mary’s Cathedral. Meanwhile, as 2018 continues apace, next month the Choir will be going on tour to Belgium and Italy.

  • Music at the wedding of Hannah and Martin McCarthy:
    • Bridal procession: I was Glad, C. Hubert H. Parry (1848–1918)
    • Missa Rigensis, Uģis Praulins (b. 1957) (G, A)
    • Offertory: A new Song, James MacMillan (b. 1959)
    • Sanctus XI
    • During the signing of the Register: And I saw a new Heaven, Edgar Bainton (1880–1956)
    • Recessional: Zadok the Priest, George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)
  • The International Gregorian Festival of Watou