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December 29th
IndependentChapelle Du Roi/Alistair Dixon, St John's, Smith Square, London

December 28th
BBC NewsBlack Santa raises over £250,000

December 24th
Cambridge
Evening News
Choirboys slip in race for Christmas top spot

Times

O come, all ye faithful

Hymns Ancient & Modern make way for Songs, New & Inclusive

Telegraph

Sacred mysteries

December 23rd
TelegraphQueen to praise compassion for victims of 2005

British Satellite News

Songsters bring some Christmas Cheer                

Yorkshire Post

Life and times of dedicated Minster team

ic North Wales

On a high note

Guardian

£1m legal bill rocks a musical institution

December 22nd
TelegraphPerfect playlist: Christmas carols

Manchester
Evening News


David's touch of brass

December 21st
Cambridge
Evening News

Girls' choir to break 1,000-year tradition

Guardian

The King's Consort
December 20th
Cambridge
Evening News

Rock's bad boys take on the voice of angels

Belfast Telegraph

£130,000 is raised already: Black Santa

Guardian

In praise of ... Christmas carols

December 19th
TelegraphBleak outlook as Silent Night slips
December 18th
TimesClassical: New Releases: Various Composers: On Christmas Day

December 17th
Belfast TelegraphThis Life: 'Santa's' causes

Telegraph

Surplice requirements
James Vaughan explores the unusual
but rewarding life of a choral scholar

My perfect weekend: Aled Jones

Times

Sunday Worship
Fourth Sunday of Advent (DEC 18)


Carol services

Christmas Carol Services 2005

Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day Services

December 15th
Cambridge
Evening News
Choirboys take on TV

New York Times

Boys and Adults Gathered for a 'Messiah' Spectacle
article includes video file

Telegraph

Festive Voices

December 13th
IndependentJohn Rutter: The choir master

December 12th
Hereford CathedralCathedral Choir to tour California in 2006Hereford

Cathedral’s assistant organist to be heard on BBC Radio 3

Guardian

Christmas with Bach

The universal musician

So what's so good about Bach then?

Sir John's passion

December 10th
TelegraphClassical CD of the week

December 9th
The King's School, ElyGirls' Choir Director appointed

Times

Sunday Worship. Third Sunday of Advent (Dec 11)

Guardian

All together now

December 7th
Cambridge
Evening News.

Choirboys draw record audience

Times

King’s College Choir

Washington Post.com

A Sound Much Sweeter Than the Sum of Its Parts

December 3rd
TimesSunday Worship.
Second Sunday of Advent (Dec 4)

Sing, choirs of angels


King's College Chapel Choir

EDP24

Britten Sinfonia
December 2nd
Cambridge
Evening News

Walking with gowns is a serious danger

Episcopal Life

The British are coming!

Telegraph

Radar pinpoints tomb of King Edward the Confessor

December 1st
BBC NewsAncient royal tomb is uncovered

Herts Advertiser          

Peter's legacy recognised by choir fund


November 30th
BBC NewsFirst black Archbishop enthroned

This is Hertfordshire

Top honour for abbey music maestro

In pictures: Archbishop enthroned

EDP24

Stars shine for Christmas at cathedral

Hereford Cathedral
Press Release

PRINCE OF WALES TO HOST MAJOR CELEBRATION FOR HEREFORD CATHEDRAL

Cambridge
Evening News

Top spot hope for Choirboys.

November 28th

Learning their lessons

November 26th
The Choir of
New College, Oxford
Messiah for Sale!

November 25th
TimesSunday Worship.Advent Sunday (Nov 27)

November 24th
TelegraphWhy we are better than Westlife

Peterborough Today

CHORISTERS: Singing the praises of being in a choir

November 21st
Cambridge
Evening News
Voices of angels fight for top spot

BBC News

Cathedral set to appeal for funds

November 19th
TelegraphGregorian Chant
Choir of King's College, Cambridge, cond Stephen Cleobury

Times

Westminster Abbey Choir/James O'Donnell

November 11th
icLiverpoolEx-organist Noel a worldwidewinner

Yorkshire Post Today

Minster slashes deficit as visitor revenues rise

Times

Sunday Worship
Second Sunday before Advent & Remembrance Sunday (Nov 13)


Winchester College Chapel Choir

November 9th
BBC NewsChoirboy stars in King Kong film

November 7th
BBC NewsYoung Choristers hit right note

Ham&High Broadway 24

Organist takes on Mendelssohn

November 5th
TimesSunday Worship.
Third Sunday before Advent (Nov 6)

Make my day: Sunday

November 2nd
icCoventry15,000 turn out as cathedral reborn

Times

All faiths stand united as London remembers the victims of July 7

November 1st
Telegraph                   Geoffrey Norris reviews The King's Consort at Cadogen Hall


October 30th
TimesA service of remembrance

October 29th
TimesSunday Worship.
Fourth Sunday before Advent (OCT 30)

Choir of Trinity College Cambridge/ Richard Marlow

October 28th
Trinity College, CambridgeNew Director of Music Appointed

October 27th
TimesModel of St Paul's is highlight

Telegraph

Leonardo to grace Queen's 80th birthday Exhibition and a service at St Paul's lead celebrations

NSPCC

Choirboys' Christmas single to help children's charity

October 26th
BBC NewsQueen's birthday events unveiled
Express and StarCathedral's £3.5m revamp bid
Bridlington TodayChoirboys awards

October 24th
TimesEngland pays tribute to the parson's son who became a hero

Telegraph

Service brings Nelson's appeal up to date

October 22nd
TimesTrade secrets: pulling out the stops

Sunday Worship.
Last Sunday after Trinity (OCT 23)

Telegraph

Queen pays tribute to Nelson and starts a chain of 1,000 beacons

October 21st
TelegraphCelebrations sail to a spectacular end

October 20th
EDP24The nation's toast to Horatio Nelson

October 19th
BBC NewsChoirboys gun for Westlife hopes

October 18th
TimesFather Alan Rees

October 17th
Cambridge Evening NewsChoirboy band tipped for No 1
icLiverpoolIan Tracey, Liverpool Cathedral
Yorkshire PostSchool likely to get plan approval
St Paul's CathedralHip Hip Horatio! Kids go free at St Paul's
TelegraphThe healing power of song

October 16th
TelegraphTrafalgar week events

October 15th
Cambridge Evening NewsHallelujah!
Girls allowed a voice in choir after 1,000 years

Times

Sunday Worship
Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity (OCT 16)

October 12th
TimesThe angels of St Paul's are lost to nation

October 11th
TelegraphAbbot Alan Rees

October 10th
ChristianityToday.comThe Magical History Tour

icCoventry

Cathedral's visitors just drive on by

icBirmingham

£1m cathedral restoration bid

October 9th
TimesMusic: Angels with perky faces

October 8th
TimesSunday Worship
Twentieth Sunday after Trinity (OCT 9)

Telegraph

Sacred mysteries
A burglary in the Abbey

October 6th
BBC NewsCathedral charges wipe out debt
TimesConcert: John Rutter 60th Birthday Gala

October 3rd
BBC NewsCathedral reveals hidden secrets

October 1st
Times                       Sunday Worship 
Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity (OCT 2) 


September 30th
Chester
Evening Leader

Cathedral venue for music festival

September 28th
Church of England
Newspaper

An organist in my belfry

September 27th
BBC News£10m vision for cathedral future

Telegraph

Noel Mander

September 24th
TimesPilgrims progress to a land of saints and cathedrals

September 23rd
BBC NewsRestored organ will open festival

Telegraph

Abbess Bernadette Smeyers

September 22nd
TimesHave you heard the one about the vicar and the organist?

September 21st
EDP BusinessCall for pillars to support cathedral

Yorkshire Post Today

Minster appeal aims to uphold choral tradition

EADT

Visitors flock to see Cathedral tower

September 19th
Peterborough TodayRESTORATION: Heart of the city will beat again

EDP24

Church back on the Nelson trail

September 17th
TimesSunday Worship.
Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity (SEP 18)

September 12th
Yorkshire Post TodayCathedral overhaul boosted by bank donation

September 9th
BBC NewsGirls allowed into church choir

icCheshire Online

Cathedral fees keep visitors out

Cambridge Evening News

Cash and visitors rolling into Cathedral

Times

Sunday Worship.
Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity (SEP 11)

September 8th
IndependentPreview: RPO Plays Rutter's Requiem, St Paul's Cathedral, London

September 7th
Southwell Minster .org
Minster chorister heads for stardom

September 3rd
BBC NewsCathedral re-dedicated to saint

September 2nd
Ely CathedralCathedral Chorister's head for stardom

Southwell Minster

Minster chorister heads for stardom

BBC News

Choirboys land £500k record deal

U.tv

Choirboys set for stardom
.

Guardian

Treble ahead

Brain Damage.co.uk

ROGER WATERS SUPPORTING CAMBRIDGE CHARITY PROJECT

Times

Sunday Worship.
Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity (4 SEP)

September 1st
 
Guardian                  Westminster Abbey dean to step down


August 31st
Yorkshire PostCathedral set to start work on decaying roof

icHuddersfield

Role at Royal School

BBC News

Cathedral to 'recognise' saint

Telegraph

Spectacular re-enactment of Nelson's state funeral

Telegraph

Final voyage of a fallen hero

August 30th

icBirmingham

Right note for new choir image

icLiverpool

Ian Tracey, Liverpool Cathedral

August 28th

Times
IN THE BEGINNING
Britten, Copland, Finzi, Pizzetti
Gloucester Cathedral Choir, cond Andrew Nethsingha
Avie AV 2072

August 27th
TimesSunday Worship.
Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity

August 26th
Wood and Vale 24 All the King’s men aspire to great things

August 23rd
Yorkshire Post TodayPipe dream becomes a reality

August 21st
Observer/GuardianMeet the cost of your class act

August 20th
TimesSunday Worship. Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity

August 16th
peterboroughtodayHERITAGE SECURITY: £50,000 to keep cathedral safe

August 15th
BBC NewsNew position for cathedral dean

August 13th
EDP 24Cathedral gets its annual spring clean

Times

Sunday Worship. Twelfth Sunday after Trinity

August 12th
BBC NewsMemorial service for bomb victims

August 11th
EDP 24Suffolk roots of a Norfolk hero

Telegraph

St Paul's organ recital is red litter day for binman

Guardian

Three Choirs festival

August 10th
NSM NLINE scena.orgThe little label musicians love

August 4th
TimesSunday Worship.Eleventh Sunday after Trinity

August 3rd
BBC NewsAbbey oak door 'Britain's oldest'

August 2nd
BBC News                 Doing the work of God in the city  


July 30th
TimesSunday Worship.Tenth Sunday after Trinity

July 25th
TimesArise Bury St Edmunds

July 23rd
TimesSunday Worship. Ninth Sunday after Trinity

EADT

Thousands turn out to greet Royal couple
July 19th
Peterborough todayTRIBUTE: Singing praises of a former PM

July 18th
Bury Free PressCharles and Camilla to visit new tower

icLiverpool

The Tallis Scholars - Chester Cathedral

July 17th
BBC NewsCathedral repairs pass milestone
July 16th
TimesSunday Worship. Eighth Sunday after Trinity

Guardian

Listen up

Yorkshire Post Today.

How you can help restore York Minster

Indystar.com

Meridian Street Episcopal churches' singing takes flight

July 15th
Hexham CourantBARLEY TAKES ORGAN RECITAL IN HIS STRIDE

July 13th
BBC NewsNew book to mark restored organ

July 11th
Times'Today we follow the example of the war generation'

Bury Free Press

Historical masterpiece

July 9th
TimesSunday Worship. Seventh Sunday after Trinity

I'd like to teach the kids to sing
July 8th
BBC NewsPrince to attend tower ceremony

Telegraph

Archbishop and the Pope condemn 'evil' attacks

July 7th
Herts24Peter has elgar for lunch
July 2nd               
Times                    Sunday Worship. Sixth Sunday after Trinity  


June 30th
TimesMethodism and a madness for making music

Telegraph

Sculpture offers a glimpse of heaven from St Paul's

June 28th
BBC NewsPsalter returns to cathedral city

June 27th
Yorkshire PostHistoric cathedral to close for repairs

June 25th
TimesSunday Worship. Fifth Sunday after Trinity

June 23rd
BBC NewsCathedral faces repair cash blow

Telegraph

Paying for St Paul's

June 22nd
The Equal Music Company, St Paul's Cathedral, London

Belfast Telegraph

Cathedral spire plan
June 20th
BBC NewsCathedral's own brew goes on sale

June 18th
TimesSunday Worship. Fourth Sunday after Trinity

At Your Service

Church coffers are half full, not half empty

Telegraph

Sentamu becomes Britain's first black archbishop

June 17th
GuardianJunior Proms
June 16th
BBC NewsCathedral bridge design unveiled

Guardian

Dark days for St Paul's

June 15th
TimesCardinall's Musick

June 12th
TimesClassical: New Releases: Christopher Tye: Latin & English Church Music

June 11th
BBC NewsCathedral 's £12.5m music target

Times

Sunday Worship. Third Sunday after Trinity

Guardian

Classical music preview

June 10th
TelegraphThe glory of St Paul's is unwrapped

Guardian

Interior of St Paul's - brighter than even Wren saw it

Times

St Paul's interior loses its veil of smog

BBC News

Cathedral roof job marked on top

June 9th
BBC NewsSt Paul's £11m clean-up revealed

June 4th
BBC News'Exceptional' choir seeks funds

Times

Sunday Worship.   Second Sunday after Trinity

Telegraph

'Singing frees my soul'
June 2nd
TimesRadio choice

Guardian

Artist saddened by theft of quilt from cathedral

June 1st
GuardianWestminster Abbey closes doors to Da Vinci Code

BBC News                

Quilt tapestry 'stolen to order'

Scotsman.com

Cathedral hit in midnight raid


May 31st
BBC NewsWeb sale plea over cathedral raid

May 28th
TimesSunday Worship. First Sunday after Trinity

At your service

May 21st
Belfast TelegraphBelfast organist to get honour
TimesSunday Worship. Trinity Sunday
May 20th
IndependentCopyright ruling 'deprives public of rare music'
Herts 24Simon returns for Festival

May 16th
TimesThe Ivory Tree

HoldtheFrontpage
filed 13th

Post reporter becomes cathedral verger for the day

May 14th
TimesSunday Worship. Whit Sunday / Pentecost

At your service

Telegraph

Sacred mysteries

May 13th
GuardianStainer: The Crucifixion: Gilchrist/ Bailey/ Farr/ Choir of Clare College, Cambridge/ Brown

May 12th
BBC NewsCathedral cuts its debt by half
Westminster to hold Nelson mass
TelegraphCloud of petals for victims of tsunami

May 11th
BBC News'Love survives' for tsunami victims

In pictures: Tsunami memorial

Guardian

Britain remembers tsunami dead

May 7th
TimesSunday Worship. Seventh Sunday of Easter

May 6th
Telegraph                  Classical CDs of the week   


April 30th
TimesSunday Worship. Sixth Sunday of Easter

At your Service
April 29th
Onlineopion.comGiving boys a voice

April 26th
Scotsman.comCathedral Dean Resigns

April 25th
GuardianHow pop and television damage our culture
April 24th
BBC NEWSBenedict XVI is installed as Pope
In pictures: Benedict XVI's inauguration

April 23rd
BBC NewsCounty selects best-loved hymns
TimesSunday Worship. Fifth Sunday of Easter

April 22nd
TimesBach Choir/Hill

April 21st
Herts AdvertiserOrganists sign up for festival

April 20th
BBC NewsQueen leads Pope congratulations

April 18th
Peterborough TodayMEMORIAL: Farewell to man who 'saved the cathedral'
April 17th
BBC NewsDame boosts cathedral fundraising

April 16th
TimesSunday Worship.  Fourth Sunday of Easter
April 14th
TelegraphFond farewell to a roaring giant

April 13th
TimesSimon Preston

Guardian

Simon Preston

April 9th
TimesSunday Worship. Third Sunday of Easter
TelegraphOrder of service   Royal Wedding

Telegraph

United by grief, they put aside their differences to celebrate the life and works of a man who had touched their lives
Telegraph
opinion

Christianity in a Godless age

Times

The funeral of Pope John Paul II: minute-by-minute


The silent monks break TV ban to watch ceremony

Guardian

The final farewell

BBC News

Pope buried in St Peter's crypt
April 8th
BBC NewsWorld mourns Pope at Rome funeral

April 7th
BBC NewsHymns of thanks for Pope's life

Citizen Online

Britain’s Rodolfus Choir comes to Wolfeboro

April 6th
BBC NewsCathedral work at half-way mark

April 4th

BBC News

Royal Wedding postponed

April 2nd
BBC NEWSPope John Paul II dies in Vatican

Times

Sunday Worship. Second Sunday of Easter

Telegraph

Meredith Davies

Telegraph
filed 27th March

Traditional songs beat the 'happy clappers' hands
down in search for Britain's best hymns
                               
April 1st
ic CheshireCathedral admission fee is here to stay


March 31st
BBC NewsMan aims for 32-hour organ record

Times. (letters)

Let us pray

March 30th
Scotsman.comRussian Version of Creed to Be Sung at Royal Blessing

March 29th
GuardianPaul Spicer: lone voice

March 26th
TimesSunday Worship. EASTER DAY

At your service

March 25th
TimesPulling out the stops
BBC NewsManuscript returned to cathedral
Police defend royal visit arrests   (filed 24th)

March 24th
TimesChurch services: Good Friday
Welwyn and Hatfield Times
Choir scoops TV title
Ham and High Broadway
filed 10th March

Sour note for the Ally Pally organ rebuild

EDP 24

Funding for Cathedral moves step closer

Herts 24

Lunch with young organist

March 22nd
London SE1
filed 21st
Southwark's Peter Wright is top organist

March 21st
BBC News
filed 20th

Repairs to cathedral tower stone

March 19th
TimesSunday Worship. Palm Sunday

At Your Service

Charles and Camilla wedding blessing to be televised by BBC

March 17th
BBC News
filed 15th

Minster launches £30m window plea

March 13th
TimesArchitecture: The last Anglican cathedral

March 12th
TimesSunday Worship.  Fifth Sunday of Lent
At your service

March 11th
Church of England
Newspaper
Aled Jones: Still flying high

March 10th
BBC NewsCathedral restoration cash boost
TimesWhat is the key to their success?
The Chorus
GuardianSongs of praise

March 5th
TimesSunday Worship.  Fourth Sunday of Lent
Cambridge News
filed 2nd

Chapel offers music for Easter

March 3rd
Yorkshire Post
filed 2nd
Minster to benefit from £344,000
ecclesiastical heritage windfall

Times

Dr Stuttaford answers your questions on the voice

BBC Humber

Music at Holy Trinity, Hull

March 1st
Times                       Out of tune   
EDPCathedral - Let there be light

February 27th
TimesRadio Waves: Paul Donovan: Fit for King’s

February 26th
TimesSunday Worship. Third Sunday of Lent

At your service

Guardian

Classical music preview
An Immortal Legacy, Cambridge 
Late Music Festival, York

February 25th
TimesDown the tubas: music is dying in our schools
February 23rd
BBC NewsSongs celebrate cathedral's tower

peterboroughtoday
filed 23rd

RESTORATION:
Cathedral organ will soon be back on song
February 19th
TimesSunday Worship.  Second Sunday of Lent

At your service

Classical CDs

icLiverpool

£2m grant for hall and its famous organ

Guardian

Dean faces church court

February 13th
Ledger EnquirerWestminster organist will give recital in Legacy Hall

February 12th
TimesSunday Worship. First Sunday of Lent

February 11th
BBC NewsHistoric chapel's Royal blessing

February 10th
BBC NewsCathedral given £250,000 donation

February 7th
icWalesYou never know who's going to be in the congregation - members of the Royal Family, world leaders

icLiverpool

£10m facelift for city's cathedral

February 6th
BBC NewsCathedral lighting in cash crisis

Cathedral opens after renovation

February 5th
TimesSunday Worship. Fourth Sunday of Epiphany

February 2nd
icNorthWales       Chance to follow in Aled's footsteps  

January 29th
TimesSunday Worship. Fourth Sunday of Epiphany

January 25th
icNorthWalesElliot, 10, singing for appeal

Telegraph

Rupert Christiansen reviews A Child of Our Time by the ENO at Coliseum

January 22nd
TimesSunday Worship. Third Sunday of Epiphany
GuardianClassical music preview.  Elgar In Canterbury
Cathedrals grant cut irks Church

January 21st
TimesCathedral award plugs the heavens
TelegraphCathedrals' heritage cash cut by 75pc
The maestro who's gambling on the glories of Bach
Telegraph
Opinion

Philistines in the Treasury
Yorkshire PostRegion to benefit from £1m cash for cathedral repairs
Manchester Online
filed 20th


World tour treat for boy who hits the high notes

January 20th
BBC NewsCash boost for London cathedrals

January 19th
GuardianYork clears Minster for youth days

January 18th
TelegraphAn 'aha' moment in the composer's world
TimesRCM Chamber Coir & Orchestra/ Schreier

January 17th
TimesMacMillan Weekend
Guardian'Bullying' dean faces church court trial
EDP 24Choir of King’s College, Cambridge

January 15th
TimesSunday Worship. Second Sunday of Epiphany
TelegraphPlease Bishop, can I have my uncle's ball back?

January 14th
GuardianRadio Pick of the Day

Remembering Tippett

January 13th
Yorkshire PostBells ring out for cathedral appeal
Express and Star
Cathedral gets £50,000 from Lottery
Times
filed 12th

Praise God and put me on the waiting list

January 8th
TimesSunday Worship. The Baptism of Christ
New stones for old
A classical education
TelegraphRise in numbers going to church
Sacred mysteries. Will cathedrals pay the price?

January 6th
BBC News
filed 5th

Unknown donor boosts music appeal
January 4th
Times
filed 3rd
Education: Sing and you’re winning
Collections targeted by thieves

January 3rd
TimesRadio Waves: Paul Donovan:Ludvig in the air
January 1st
TimesSunday Worship. Second Sunday of Christmas

BBC News

First view of new cathedral tower

Asian disaster: How to help

Scotsman.com

Cathedral's Santa Appeal Raises £500,000 for Asian Disaster Relief 
 
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