Choir of Leeds Parish Church - 200th Anniversary Celebrations For Samuel Sebastian Wesley

200th Anniversary Celebrations For Samuel Sebastian Wesley

Special events held in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Samuel Sebastian Wesley on 14 August 1810 included a morning worship broadcast on BBC Radio Four on Sunday 15 August at 8.10 am. The Rector of Leeds, Canon Tony Bundock, officiated and the preacher was the lecturer, the Reverend Professor Simon Robinson. The boy choristers, choral scholars and lay clerks and members of St Peter's Singers with David Houlder at the organ provided the music. Later that same day, Simon Lindley gave a commemorative recital of the organ music of S S Wesley at the church. The SSW commemoration started at the beginning of July with a festal evensong on Sunday 4 July at 6.30 followed by a Gala Choral Recital of famous and greatly loved Anthems and organ music by Dr Wesley by Saint Peter's Singers of Leeds with organist David Houlder and conductor Dr Simon Lindley.