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Sunday 1st
June
Festival Thanksgiving Mass
11am
Preacher, Canon Martin Warner,
Canon Treasurer, St. Paul’s Cathedral
Monteverdi, Missa in illo tempore
“Visita, quaesumus Domine” by Richard
Peirson (This is a
commission by the St. Stephen's
Festival)
Although
the Festival began on Friday with the
first recital and Art Exhibition, the
spiritual heart of the week was the
Festival Thanksgiving Mass on Sunday 1st
June. Here we summed up our thanksgiving
for the gifts of God in creation and
most especially for man's sharing in the
creativity of God, through all the arts
from painting to music, drama to
sculpture, architecture to gardening.
Our
preacher, Canon Martin Warner reflected
on the spiritual and divine dimension of
the arts and their importance both in
worship and in mediating something of
God’s saving purposes among us.
This year
the Festival commissioned a new motet
from Richard Peirson.
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ART
EXHIBITION
The
exhibition at this year's Festival
opened on Friday and we were glad to
have Cecil Rice and Diana Green with us
for the evening as well as some artist
representatives of Apt Creations,
members of the Camphill Village
Community. The different artists' work
varied in both style and content. Diana
Green's etchings of the creation story
from Genesis evoking from the viewer a
deep sense of introspection and wonder.
Cecil Rice gives us a sense of the
grandeur which comes from the work of
human architecture, set in its natural
landscape and interacting with it in
light and colour. The Apt artists, above
all, give us a fun appreciation of the
people, places and animals that populate
the world around us. Their work speaks
powerfully to us of the insights that
can be conveyed by art even by those who
find other ways of communicating
difficult.
Links:
http://cecilrice.theartistsweb.co.uk/
www.aptcreations.co.uk
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Each
Midday at 1pm
The midday recital series provided us
with a varied and contrasting feast of
music. The performers, mostly from the
Royal College of Music were engaging and
exciting providing programmes of
favourites traditional and modern. We
would like to thank all of our
performers for their contribution to the
Festival and a particular 'thank you' to
Mary Cosgrave, Professional Relations
Manager at the RCM, for her invaluable
help in arranging the recitals.
For a review of Festival
concerts
please
click here
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