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Events & Concerts
We regret that we are currently not holding worship in church.
For details of our worship, including on-line services, please see our Worship Services page.
General Information
Welcome to our Events and Concerts area. Here, you can find out about what’s happening at St. John’s.
If you are looking for information on our worship, please visit our Worship Services area, where you can find our service times, styles, and locations. Any variations from the regular pattern appear on this page.
Concerts
St John’s Church has held fortnightly lunch-time concerts since 1975. Concerts are held on alternate Thursdays throughout most of the year with breaks at Christmas, Easter and the summer. Please check this calendar for the next few dates (and programmes, when available).
Light refreshments are available from 11.45am and the concert begins at 12.30pm. There is usually an interval and the concert finishes at around 1.45pm.
Admission is free but there is a collection on the way out to cover expenses. Please come and join us!
Agenda
Posterboard 
Month 
Week 
Day November 2019 – February 2020
Nov
28
Thu
Nov 28 @ 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
The Nonesuch Orchestra
Grace Williams: Sea Sketches for String Orchestra (1944)
Arnold Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht (revision in 1943)
Dec
12
Thu
Dec 12 @ 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Adrienne Walters (soprano)
Mozart: Alleluia (from Exsultate Jubilate)
Carol: Once in royal David’s city
Handel: The Harmonious Blacksmith (piano solo)
Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer)
Carol: Hark! the herald-angels sing
Handel: Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Zion (from Messiah)
Britten: The Birds – Benjamin Britten
Britten: That Yonge Child
Howells: Come Sing and Dance
Carol: O little town of Bethlehem
Bartók: 1st Romanian dance (piano solo)
Verdi: E strano …Sempre libera (How strange … Always free) (from La Traviata)
Carol: O come, all ye faithful
Dec
22
Sun
Dec 22 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Today’s Sung Eucharist will be a joint service with the London Chinese Alliance Church, which normally worships at St John’s on Sunday afternoons.
Dec 22 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
A traditional celebration with Bible readings and carols. All welcome.
Dec
25
Wed
Dec 25 @ 10:00 am – 11:15 am
As well as the Festival Eucharist at 11.30 pm on Christmas Eve, there is a sung Eucharist at 10 am on Christmas Day. There’s no evening service on Christmas Day.
Jan
23
Thu
Jan 23 @ 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Dominika Rosiek (violin) and Miho Sanou (piano)
Brahms: Sonata Op. 78 No. 1 in G major for Violin and Piano
P.de Sarasate: Playera
Clara Schumann: Three Romances, Op. 22
Jan
26
Sun
Jan 26 @ 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Messy Church is church for all ages with a difference. Join us for crafts, songs, stories, food, and to explore the Christian faith together! Messy Church is a free event, but donations are welcome. We meet on the last Sunday of every month except August and December.
Feb
6
Thu
Feb 6 @ 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Valentin Schiedermair (piano)
William Byrd: Coranto (from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
Anon: Muscadin; The Irish Ho-Hoane
Bach: Bist Du bei mir, BWV 508; Partita No. 1 in B flat major, BWV 825
Bach: Prelude and Fugue in G sharp minor from the Well-Tempered Clavier Book II
Valentin Schiedermair: Ocean Waves (2019)
Mozart: Sonata in D major KV 311
Clara Schumann: Romance in B minor
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel: Il Saltarello Romano Op. 6 No. 4:Allegro molto
Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Souvenirs d’Andalousie, Caprice de concert
Feb
20
Thu
Feb 20 @ 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Joanne Rozario (clarinet) and Mark Nixon (piano)
Paul Reade: Excerpts from The Victorian Kitchen Garden Suite: 1 Prelude; 4 Exotica; 5 Summer
Claude Debussy: Première Rhapsodie
Robert Schumann: Fantasiestücke
Albeniz: Two Spanish Pieces arr. Alan Frank
Alec Templeton: Pocket Size Sonata
Francis Poulenc: Sonata
Feb
23
Sun
Feb 23 @ 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Messy Church is church for all ages with a difference. Join us for crafts, songs, stories, food, and to explore the Christian faith together! Messy Church is a free event, but donations are welcome. We meet on the last Sunday of every month except August and December.