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Celebrating Parry

Date: Wednesday 21 November 2018 - Sunday 25 November 2018
Time: All day

The Oxford Bach Choir and Merton College combined to mark the 100th anniversary of Hubert Parry’s death with a festival of evensongs, recitals, talks and concerts celebrating the music of Hubert Parry and friends.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, Merton College
6:15pm Evensong - Merton College Chapel.
7:30pm ‘Parry’s Choral Odyssey’ – Lecture by Jeremy Dibble, Professor of Musicology, University of Durham - TS Eliot Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 22 November 2018, Merton College Chapel
1:15pm Organ Recital: Music by Parry and friends - Benjamin Nicholas Organ.
6:15pm Evensong.

Friday 23 November 2018, St John the Evangelist Church, Iffley Road, Oxford
7:30pm Parry: Songs of Farewell - Oxford Bach Choir.

Sunday 25 November 2018, St Helen’s Church, Abingdon
3:00pm Parry: Songs of Farewell - Oxford Bach Choir.

Sir (Charles) Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Bt by W. & D. Downey, published by Cassell & Company, Ltd, carbon print, published 1893 - © National Portrait Gallery, London (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)