Cathedral School - Thanksgiving Evensong
Tuesday 30th June
To mark the closing of Exeter Cathedral School at the end of this academic year, Choral Evensong on Tuesday 30th June was A service of Thanksgiving for Exeter Cathedral School.
Due to the expected numbers attending, the service was held in the nave and extra seating was laid out between the choir stalls and the organ. These provisions were well-founded, as the service was attended by over 700 people (763 to be precise, if the choir and clergy are included!). The congregation included several previous Directors and Assistant Directors of Exeter Cathedral Music, former choristers and members of the back row, two former ECS headmasters, the school governors, as well as many current and former members of school staff and pupils, with their associated families.
Exeter Cathedral Old Choristers' Association provided a drinks reception afterwards in the cathedral.
Order of service:
Conductor: Timothy Noon - Director of Music
Organist: Michael Stephens-Jones - Assistant Director of Music
Responses: Michael Walsh
Hymn: I, the Lord of sea and sky (last verse arranged Timothy Noon)
Psalm 150 - O Praise God in his holiness
First lesson: Isaiah 40: 25-31
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis: St Paul's Service - Howells
Second lesson: Luke 24: 13-35
Anthem: Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen - Brahms
Sermon: The Ven. Hilary Dawson - Canon Treasurer (former Chaplain and teacher at ECS, and parent of former Exeter chorister Michael Dawson)
Prayers: read by Cressida Parsons (Chair ECOCA) and two ECS pupils
Hymn: Angel-voices ever singing
Organ Voluntary: An Occasional Trumpet Voluntary - Patrick Gowers
Photo: Michael Stephens-Jones, Assistant Director of Music