Festival Weekend 1997
"John Loughborough Pearson (Architect)"

1997 is the second weekend festival to be held at St. Stephen's over the May Bank Holiday weekend. The theme this year is to celebrate the centenary of the Architect
JOHN LOUGHBOROUGH PEARSON (1817 - 1897), with Music, Words and Flowers.

The Festival is a musical celebration within a liturgical framework and as such the highlights are the High Masses (on Saturday and Sunday).

Saturday 3rd May
10.45am FESTIVAL HIGH MASS
Celebrant & Preacher: Rt. Rev. Michael Scott-Joynt (Bishop of Wichester)
Music: Terribilis Est! Alleluia!
Canon Anthony Ceasar
(Festival commission, first performance)
Festival Organist: Martin Shellenberg
St Stephens Choir - Directed by Ian Harrison

3.00 pm LECTURE
Dr. Hilary J. Grainger - "John Loughborough Pearson"

4.30 pm FESTIVAL TEA
St. Stephen's Hall

6.00 FESTIVAL CHORAL EVENSONG
with Winchester Cathedral Choir
Directed by David Hill
Organist: Stephen Farr
Responses - Bernard Rose
Chants - Stanford

7.30 pm THE PERCY WHITLOCK ORGAN RECITAL
Organist: James Lancelot

SUNDAY 4th MAY
10.45 am HIGH MASS
Celebrant: Rev. Robin Harger
Preacher: The Very Rev. David Shearlock
(Dean of Truro)
Festival Organist: Martin Shellenberg
Music: Missa Brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo-Joseph Hayden
St Stephens Choir - Directed by Ian Harrison

1.00 pm FESTIVAL LUNCH
Norfolk Royale Hotel

2.00 pm - 6.00 pm FLOWER DISPLAY
St. Stephen's Fl 6.00 pm CHORAL CONCERT
Sung by the choir of St. Stephen's - Directed by Ian Harrison
Organist: Martin Shellenberg
Soloists: Sheila Olsen (Soprano)
Tim Ingold (Counter Tenor)
Danny Campbell (Tenor)
James Grocott (Bass)

Monday 5th May
11.00 am - 6.00 pm FLOWER DISPLAY
St. Stephen's Flower Group

6.00 pm COMPLINE