The Herbert Howells Society

Promoting the music of British composer Herbert Howells CH (1892-1983).

President SIR JOHN RUTTER - Chairman PAUL SPICER

[The Herbert Howells Society @HowellsSociety]

The Howells Legacy
(5 episodes) https://t.co/TCHn0qlaEK

[London Chamber Ensemble @LonChamberEns]

@mvdaily We are thrilled to have been invited to give a concert at @ThreeChoirs #Gloucester 31.7.26, featuring string quartets by Howells and his teacher Charles Wood from our @SOMMRecordings albums (cover of our new one to be revealed soon!) @HowellsSociety @cvs_society @BMusicSociety

[John Quinn @JQGl]

A rewarding disc of secular choral music by Herbert Howells from Ikon and @davidhconductor @hyperionrecords @HowellsSociety My review for @MusicWebInt is at https://t.co/tS5Z7asicC

[Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford @ChChCathedralOx]

Live now: Choral Evensong from @CathedralSchool

Prelude: Price - Adoration
Responses: Morley
Psalm: 135
Canticles: Jackson in G
Anthem: @HowellsSociety - Like as the hart
Voluntary: Smyth - Prelude and Fugue 'O Traurigkeit, O Herzeleid'

https://t.co/mvZHG5RLIY

[London Chamber Ensemble @LonChamberEns]

🎶Sat 23 May, 2pm @EMF_music @DartingtonTrust LCE Quartet: @MadeleineM_Vln & Gordon MacKay violins, Bridget Carey viola, @cellospooner 📣launching our Charles Wood (1866-1926) String Quartets 💿 @SOMMRecordings 1st recordings + Howells, Alwyn, Delius. @BMusicSociety @DevonLife

[Dr Jonathan Clinch @jonathanclinch]

Happy Easter!

https://t.co/mFduvddtfH

[Westminster Abbey @wabbey]

'Alleluia! Christ is risen!'

A very happy Easter to you from all of us at Westminster Abbey

[The Herbert Howells Society @HowellsSociety]

Tonight!
BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 in Concert, Howells' Hymnus Paradisi https://t.co/mnXJp13I07

[The Herbert Howells Society @HowellsSociety]

Choral Conducting | The Crowood Press - https://t.co/BTTNE6pwfN @PaulSpicer6

[The Herbert Howells Society @HowellsSociety]

Walking in the Snow (1950)
A Spotless Rose (1919)
Sing Lullaby (1920)
Coventry Antiphon (Xmas Day 1961)
Here is the little door (1918)
Long, long ago (1950)
O mortal man (1942)
When First Thine Eies (Xmas Day 1925)
Pastorale (Op.28 - Xmas Day 1917)
Penguinski (1933)

[Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford @ChChCathedralOx]

Live now: Carols from @ChCh_Oxford sung by @Frideswides:

Carols including:

Todd - My Lord has Come
@bobchilcott - Sussex Carol
@HowellsSociety - the little Door
@johnmrutter - What Sweeter music
Rathbone - The Oxen
Warlock - Benedicamus Domino

https://t.co/jKlMok5EBz

[The Herbert Howells Society @HowellsSociety]

Long, long ago (1950)

https://t.co/LioRtOXAgU

[The Herbert Howells Society @HowellsSociety]

Insta-Howells 👇
https://t.co/u6b8rLKeWp

[Ian Skelly @Ianskellyradio3]

A happy penguin - the starting point for this morning’s Essential Classics Playlist, if you’d be so kind as to suggest an idea, inspired by music for a 5 minute ballet about Penguins by Herbert Howells. Not, I think, something he wrote for Evensong. Join me 9.30 @BBCRadio3.

[The Herbert Howells Society @HowellsSociety]

Howells Gloucester is unthinkable without a pipe organ. Please do consider supporting the @GlosCathedral In Tune Music and Organ Campaign: https://t.co/1DB8KFggYp

[The Herbert Howells Society @HowellsSociety]

Insta-Howells 👇
https://t.co/u6b8rLKeWp

[Dr Jonathan Clinch @jonathanclinch]

Howells, A Hymn for St Cecilia.
The Autograph manuscript from the Worshipful Company of Musicians. The only piece he ever wrote that was to be sung in procession!
https://t.co/p2KfSw42W4

[All Saints Hertford @AllSaintsHertf]

Tonight's Choral Evensong is based on John 18.33-37 'Pilate questions Jesus - are you a King'. Led by Canon Simon the service includes music by Frith, Murrill, Leighton and Howells (Hymn to St Cecilia, whose feast day it was yesterday).

#AllWelcomeAlways

[Music for Common Prayer @loudcymbals]

Today's Choral Mattins for the Sunday next before Advent from St. Michael at the North Gate Church, Oxford

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Te Deum and Jubilate in C
by Benjamin Britten
Psalm: 85
Anthem: Hymn for St Cecilia – Herbert Howells

https://t.co/hdWHNZ7Q3N

[Joel Colyer @jcolyermusic]

Today's music at @stfranciswgc
Christ the King

Eucharist:
Howells Collegium Regale
Christus vincit - Baker

Evensong:
Oculi omnium - Wood
Clucas Responses
Noble in B minor
A hymn for St Cecilia - Howells

[The Herbert Howells Society @HowellsSociety]

Howells, King of Glory (1949).
Based on a poem by George Herbert.

https://t.co/s0fvWyn5Ze

[Westminster Abbey @wabbey]

We're celebrating the feast of Christ the King at our services today.

Everyone is welcome to join us as we stream Evensong from the Abbey at 3pm (GMT). The service will be sung by the Lay Vicars with music by Poulenc, Sumsion and Duruflé and you can watch live or on demand at:
https://t.co/xKK1map9AT