Events

Please join us in person at the church or online to receive the officers' reports including a financial report of 2024 and to elect the committee for the year ahead.

This meeting will be online via Zoom and in person at St George's. If you wish to watch online, please use this Zoom link.

Conservationist Will Palin (son of Michael Palin) gives an account of his latest project on the historic Thames-side church, which was devastated by a fire in 2001. It has now been meticulously restored, featuring a new roof and an imaginatively redesigned interior.

He also gives an update on his last project at 900 year old St Bart's Hospital.

This talk will be online via Zoom and in person at St George's. If you wish to watch online, please register here to get the Zoom link. You can also pay at the door (cash or card).

Calling all WG Sebald fans! Working at the University of East Anglia, Dr Jo Catling is the most recent translator into English of the works of the German writer Professor WG Sebald. The latest collection of Sebald's lectures in English translation is out now. Translator Dr Catling visits us from the British Centre of Literary Translation (BCLT) at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, where Sebald taught until his untimely death in a car crash in 2001. The talk will take the form of an interview between Dr Catling and St George's Local Committee Chair Rick Jones. Waterstone's Broadgate will offer copies of the book for sale on the night.

This talk will be online via Zoom and in person at St George's. If you wish to watch online, please register here to get the Zoom link. You can also pay at the door (cash or card).

German hymnody was born in the Reformation, and, starting with Luther himself, has produced a treasure store of powerful and profoundly moving hymns which have given expression to a characteristic German sense of personal piety, an awareness of the natural world of creation, and Christian hope. Paired with simple yet compelling hymn tunes and arrangements from composers including Bach, Luther himself, Nicolai, Crüger, and Praetorius, these hymns continue to uplift and inspire. But they are not sung as much as they used to be. St George’s would once have resonated with these hymns each Sunday. Here is a rare chance to sing these tremendous classics once more, in the very kind of place for which they were originally intended.

Copies of all the hymns will be provided, with full four-part settings, allowing those who wish to do so to sing in harmony, which would be very much in the German hymn-singing tradition.

This event will be online via Zoom and in person at St George's. If you wish to watch online, please register here (tbd) to get the Zoom link. Download a copy of the music booklet from the With Cheerful Voice web site before the event. You can also pay at the door (cash or card).

We think of Christmas as a timeless tradition, perhaps going back to mediaeval days. But many familiar elements go back little further than the Victorian period, and that applies to many of the most popular Christmas carols. This evening we take you back to earlier times, to hear again Christmas hymns, carols and settings that were sung on the village green, around the hearth, and, sometimes, in church, in a different, more rural England. The familiar characters are there – angels, shepherds, the baby in the manger. But the music is different, ranging from exuberant and boisterous to reflective and poignant, all full of the wonder and intense excitement of this special season. On the way we shall all sing together two well-known Christmas carols which do go back to the old times. Finally, as is our tradition at this concert, we will finish with a German piece which this year is a short Bach Chorale from his Christmas Oratorio of 1734.

Most of the music in this evening’s concert comes from manuscript and book sources from well before the Victorian period, and much of it has been little sung for 200 years. We hope you enjoy rediscovering it.

Philip J Price, Musical Director London Gallery Quire

See more about the London Gallery Quire at https://www.lgq.org.uk/ .

The admission price of £8 includes Stollen and a measure of Glühwein or a soft drink if you prefer.
This concert will not be live streamed. Please purchase your ticket online in advance or at the door (cash or contactless).