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OFFICE AND VILLAGE SHOP LOCAL CHOIR NEWS

Choral Services and Musical Events at St Peter’s Church,
SHOP AND PO NEWS – APRIL 2024 Dorchester, during April
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Our monthly service of Choral Eucharist takes place on Sunday 14 April at
10.30am. The music includes Harris’s ‘Holy is the true light’, Gabrielli’s Missa Brevis in
The AGM was held on 22 February. The following committee members were re- F’ and ‘Ave regina caelorum’ by Samuel Wesley. All are welcome to this free
elected for this year: event and for refreshments afterwards.

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Peter Head Jo Neudegg On Saturday 20 April, between 12.30pm and 1.00pm, we welcome Dorchester-
based musicians Stefan Oakes (baritone) and Peter Oakes (piano) to perform a
Richard Killer Cindy Read lunchtime concert of operatic arias. This is a free concert and we hope you will
join us for an enjoyable half hour of wonderful music in the midst of your busy
Peter Martin Lesley Wilcox Saturday!
Chris Miller
Our monthly service of Choral Evensong takes place on Saturday 27 April at
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4.30pm, when we commemorate 100 years since the death of Sir Charles Villiers
There is still one vacancy on the committee so if you might be interested in joining Stanford. The music includes Stanford’s ‘Beati quorum via’, ‘Magnificat and Nunc
please have a word with one of the committee members or leave your name and dimittis in G’ and ‘The Lord is my shepherd’ along with Brian Cotterill’s ‘Preces &
contact details with the shop and one of us will get in touch. Responses in homage to Stanford’. All are very welcome to this free event and
The draft minutes of the meeting are on the community website but some points we hope you will join us for a glass of wine afterwards.
of interest are: Internationally renowned vocal ensemble, The Gesualdo Six, are coming to St
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 Extra Saturday opening to be trialled starting on 30 March, noon – 4pm. We Peter’s to give a concert on Friday 6 September at 7pm and tickets are already
selling quickly - don’t miss out! You can visit the box office here: https://
may also trial opening for an hour one evening a week to help customers
coming home from work. www.ticketsource.co.uk/st-peters-church-dorchester
 An e-mail contact list to be set up to provide a form of quick
communication with customers
advising things like new lines in
the shop, reminders of opening
times over bank holidays, any
bargains etc. If you would like to
be added to this list please
leave your name and e-mail
address in the shop.
 We will look into providing a
delivery service once a week – You can keep up with events via our website: www.dorchesteranglican.org.uk/
more details to follow. musicatstpeters or by following us on social media: Facebook: https://
 Ways of improving access to the www.facebook.com/musicatstpetersdorch - X (Twitter): @musicatstpeter -
s h o p w e r e d i s c u s s e d . Instagram @musicatstpetersdorch. If you would like to join our email list to receive
Unfortunately it was concluded news about our events, drop us a line at: musicatstpeters@mail.com. All of our
that the two obvious methods, ie installing either a ramp or a lifting social media and contact details can be found at: linktr.ee/musicatstpeters

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