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Salisbury was the first English cathedral to recruit girl choristers (in 1991) and, when in the cathedral, the girls' choir is usually wholly independent of the boys'. [2] The weekly services are equally divided between the boy and girl choristers throughout the school year. The choristers are educated at Salisbury Cathedral School, which is in ...
Salisbury Cathedral Choir holds annual auditions for boys and girls aged 7–9 years old for scholarships to Salisbury Cathedral School, which housed in the former Bishop's Palace. The boys' choir and the girls' choir (each 16 strong) sing alternate daily Evensong and Sunday Matins and Eucharist services throughout the school year.
Richard Godfrey Seal (4 December 1935 – 19 July 2022) was an English organist and conductor. From 1968 to 1997 he served as organist and master of the choristers at Salisbury Cathedral, [1] which in 1991 established a separate girls choir in addition to the existing boys cathedral choir, the first cathedral to do so.
In 1905, the cathedral choirs met in Salisbury, followed by Winchester in 1906. Bishop Wilberforce of Chichester died in September 1907, so the return to Chichester had to be delayed until 1908. Thereafter, the Three Choirs Festival , as it was then known, continued until 1913 when the annual meeting was suspended because of the First World War.
Composers wrote music to make full use of the traditional cathedral layout of a segregated chancel area and the arrangement of choir stalls into rows of Decani and Cantoris, writing antiphonal anthems. [15] A Village Choir, an 1847 painting by Thomas Webster, showing the musicians of a country parish church at that time.
The school was founded in 1091 at Old Sarum [3] [4] by Saint Osmund, the Bishop of Salisbury and Earl of Dorset, who was canonised in 1456. [5] [6] Osmund was born in Normandy and was a first cousin of William the Conqueror, King of England: William's father, Robert the Magnificent, Duke of Normandy, was the brother of Isabella, Countess of Séez, the mother of Osmund.
Bennett was a chorister at Salisbury Cathedral under Joseph Corfe. He was Organist and Master of the Choristers of Chichester Cathedral from 1803 and organist at the newly opened St John the Evangelist's Church, Chichester from 1813. His son, Henry R. Bennett succeeded him in both posts, in 1848 and 1849 respectively. Upon Thomas Bennett's ...
Salisbury Cathedral, which developed the Sarum Use in the Middle Ages.. The Use of Sarum (or Use of Salisbury, also known as the Sarum Rite) is the liturgical use of the Latin rites developed at Salisbury Cathedral and used from the late eleventh century until the English Reformation. [1]