LENTEN MUSIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 111, 11 April 1936, Page 2

LENTEN MUSIC.

On Wednesday in Holy Week, the service of “Seven Lessons of the Cross” was sung in the evening at All Saints’ Church, a large congregation being present. The service, which was very devotional, consisted of appropriate anthems, solos and ciioruses from well-known works by eminent composers There were Lessons from the Gospels and Collects, all being suggested by the themes of the seven well-known hymns selected. This service took the place of the Passion music usually sung at All Sants’ Church, and was given again on Good Friday evening, instead of Stainer’s “Crucifixion.” From the commencement, on Wednesday, the congregation joined reverently and devoutly in the singing of the hymns and listened with interest to some very good concerted singing by the choir, the numbers being “God So Loved the World” (Stainer), “Behold the Lamb of God” (Handel), "O Saviour of the World” (Goss), and Sir Walford Davies’s beautiful “God Be in My Head.” There was some exceptionally fine solo singing by the four soloists. Miss N. Sutherland sang with appeal “Come Unto Him” from Handel's “The Messiah”; Mr H. Wilson feelingly sang “Thy Rebuke” and “Behold and See” from the same work; Gounod’s “There is a Green Hill” was devoutly sung by Mr J. Moxon, and Master Sefton Freeman gave a masterly interpretation of Bach’s “My Heart Ever Faithful.” Mr J. Holmes Runnicles, organist and director of the choir, was at the organ.