Solemn Evensong

The music in this service will feature the settings of the evening canticles by Godfrey Hewitt. Godfrey was the Organist and Choirmaster at Christ Church Cathedral from 1931 to 1980, after which he held the same position at St. Barnabas until his retirement in 1987. His settings of the evening canticles employ a unique combination of Anglican chant and plainsong, a musical device of Godfrey's own invention. These canticle settings have been rarely, if ever, sung in recent decades and we are delighted to be singing Godfrey's splendid music once again.