The Concept Rev. Prof.

June Boyce-Tillman MBE This is an exciting opportunity to explore a new way of music, prayer and meditation, a musical vigil for peace. We have gathered together local choral groups from a variety of sources community choirs, schools, and dierent faiths. We are using the church as a resonant meditative space; the groups are situated around the church in various ethereal spaces. Each have brought with them a repertoire of musical material which they enjoy singing. The musical material in cludes motets, hymns, worship songs and chants. The central part of the vigil is created by the participants on the basis of choice. Each group will choose when to sing and can also be invited by the congregation to sing. The congregation and performers can move around the building, lighting candles, praying, being quiet, as they choose, but also participating in creating the musical sound. My experience of pieces involving choice of this kind is that people become very sensitive to their surroundings and to one another. Some of the soundscapes will be very complex as a number of pieces are performed simultaneously in various areas of the cathedral and sometimes it will be quite simple with only one piece being performed, or even silence. The vigil will therefore reect the nature of peace making when everyone present will have a part in the creation of an experience of beauty and togetherness and experience intuitive ways of relating to and cooperating with others. The model of peace used here is one in which everyone does what they want to do but are responsible for working out how it ts with what others want to do a model for peace in society. Following the recent events in Woolwich we are very pleased to also welcome representatives from the Muslim faith among others to cel ebrate peace with us. We hope the peace and blessings created in this space tonight will encourage and support the interfaith work al ready taking place in Tower Hamlets and the wider community. The inspiration came from the choral piece Peacesong which I initiated and which was performed in the cathedral in March 2005. This used the various spaces in Winchester Cathedral in this way in one movement that thrilled the audience (who were sitting still in this case). This event will push the idea further allowing the congregation to move and also to have some hand in creating the event.
Lord, remember not only the men and women of goodwill, but also those of ill will. Do not remember all the suerings they have inicted upon us; remember the fruits we bear, thanks to this suering our comradeship, our loyalty, our humanity, courage, generosity, the greatness of heart which has grown out of all this. And when they come to judgement, let all the fruits that we have borne be their forgiveness. a prayer found beside a victim of the Holocaust

Greetings from the University of Winchester! The University of Winchester was founded by the church as an institution of higher education as long ago as 1840. Today, many years later, our Anglican Foundation is still of great importance to us, and one expression of this is our activity with the wider community through Foundation Music. Our mission is: to educate, to advance knowledge, and to serve the public good. This is also reected in our values statement where we say: We value freedom, justice, truth, human rights and collective eort for the public good. Foundation Music is right at the heart of the University. I am continuously delighted with the endless array of creative works which emerge. Space for Peace is at the core of this, and I am sure it will once again prove to be an amazing and memorable adventure for us all. The theme of peace is important for us too. We have set up a Research Centre for Reconciliation and Peace at the University, led by Dr Brian Walker, and in association with St Ethelburgas Centre for Reconciliation and Peace in London. I look forward to joining with you in music, prayer and meditation. With thanks to June and all who are involved with the event and with warmest wishes to you all. Professor Joy Carter, ViceChancellor

Acknowledgments Many thanks to all those choirs, musicians and indeed congregation who have contributed to tonight's unique event. Thank you also to the choir leaders for all their hard work in making it a success. Conducted and chants composed by Prof June BoyceTillman MBE Fr Alan Green, St John On Bethnal Green Chants accompanied by David Spidy Organisation and PR by Felicity Grin Other PR, marketing and design by SRM Department, The University of Winchester Thanks to all the sta at St John On Bethnal Green Programme design by Felicity Grin Choir Guides are students and alumni of Foundation Music at the University of Winchester

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The Movements

Movement One - Chanting for Peace Please make your way to the main part of the nave for the rst movement. The evening will be introduced by Rev. Prof June BoyceTillman & Rev Alan Green There will then be prayers to mark peace from Rabbi Mark Solomon, Cantor, Interfaith Consultant for Liberal Judaism and children from St Johns Primary School Followed by a moment of silence. The massed choirs on the chancel steps will sing chants from a number of dierent traditions. You are encouraged to join in with the following two chants. Shalom my friends, shalom my friends, Shalom, salaam. May peace my friends be with you today, Shalom, salaam. Lead us from death to life, from falsehood to truth. Lead us from despair to hope, from fear to trust. Lead us from hope to love, from war to peace. Let peace ll our hearts, ll our world, ll our universe. Peace, peace, peace. Peace, peace, peace. Words of the choirs chants: Sing of a place, a owering eld, where divisions end, Ill meet you there. Where there is love and joy and peace, where there is love, forgiveness grows. Walk gently, stand tall, for sacred is the earth. As the water with the rock and the air with the sun, may we be drawing nearer with love and respect. Come owing air serving every part of earth, bind us together in a unity.

Movement Two - Finding our place Each choir will process to its place around the cathedral singing one of their own pieces. Please remain still until all the choirs are in position.

Movement Three - Creating peace Please move around the cathedral, discover the choirs and listen, hear how the music merges and combines. Light a candle, sit and reect, take time. This part of the evening is experimental in nature. The participants will sing when they feel it is right or if you ask them to. They may join in with a piece or chant sung by a neighbouring choir. Details of the pieces the choirs have brought with them are on the following pages. Enjoy the sound of people as they use the unique acoustics of this fantastic building. There may be times of silence. You are more than welcome, and indeed encouraged, to join in with the choirs as they sing. Be a part of this event.

Movement Four - Peace Procession The groups will light candles and start to sing shalom, salaam, or om shanti or indeed any other word for peace which they may know in an alternate language as they process. Please collect a candle from one of the stewards and join in the procession to gather back in pews, as for movement one.

Movement Five - The Gathering The choirs on the steps will sing their chants as directed by Prof June BoyceTillman. Once again, please join in with the two chants from movement one as they are sung.

Movement Six - Continuing Peace When the chants that end movement 5 nish many people will wish to leave the building. However, for those who wish to stay and enjoy the atmosphere for a further with a few short chants, and time for reection, there will be a time in the Lady Chapel area (1) until 9.30pm. If you are leaving the church please leave as quietly as possible so that people who wish to have this space are able to access it as fully as possible. Thank you.

The Choirs: 1. Silver Tongue Trio Silver Tongue Trio was formed in November 2012 to prepare for a set of Jewish songs that had been requested at the Narberth A Capella Festival. Judith, Hannah Rose and Sophia have been singing and performing together since then, and expanding the repertoire to in clude other pieces. They have access to a huge range of music, as all three are choir leaders and members of the Natural Voice Practitioners Network. www.naturalvoice.net, www.judithsilver.com , https://www.facebook.com/hackneyharmony , http:// www.naturalvoice.net/pages/hannah_rose_tristram , www.breathbodymusic.net Ruths Song Gesher A Blessing Strange Music Hine Ma Tov (Judith Silver) (Judith Silver) (Judith Silver) (Hannah Rose Tristram) (Trad Hebrew)

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Rev. Susannah Reide Rev Susannah Reide comes to us tonight from St Albans Church in East Oxford. With a wide ranging background in singing, she has taken part in choral works, cantoring and gospel mu sic. Her experience has also allowed her the opportunity to sing in many languages

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St Johns Music Group Leader: David Spidy St Johns does not have a regular choir but ad hoc groups form to sing on special occasions. They will be singing an Anglican chant setting of Psalm 133: Behold, how good and joyful a thing it is: brethren, to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down unto the beard: even unto Aarons beard, and went down to the skirts of his clothing. Like as the dew of Hermon: which fell upon the hill of Sion. For there the Lord promised his blessing: and life for evermore.

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Rev. Razia Aziz Razia Aziz is a One Spirit Interfaith Minister, at the heart of whose ministry is sound: both song and the spoken word. Razias IndianMuslimBritish heritage and spiritual journey have led her to accept what is true in the heart of all faiths and all people, in the knowledge that God/Spirit is One, and speaks in every tongue, through every wisdom tradition, to every be ing. For her, it is often in the songs of these traditions that the heart resonance can be found which opens the door to the love of the Divine.

Om Namo Bhagavati Vasudevaya (Trad. Hindu Mantra Sanskrit) I am Earth / You are Spirit (Lou Beckerman and Razia Aziz) La Illaha Illallahu, MohammedaRasulallah (First Muslim article of faith Arabic)

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Croydon & South Norwood Community Choir plus Tower Hamlets Arts leaders We are regular Winchester SFP contributors and hoping to bring this wonderful event to Croydon this year for Silver Sunday. We are delighted to be joined by some of the 2012 training cohort of Tower Hamlets Community Arts leadership facilitators [email protected] Join us for our Sister Act song workshop 6th July. Bismillah Chashi Venu Adoramus Te Domine Ive Got Peace Like A River (Nickomos Tune) (Hebrew Trad.) (Taize) (Trad. Gospel)

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Rabbi Mark Solomon Rabbi Mark Solomon is minister of the Edinburgh, Manchester and Leicester Liberal Jewish communities, Interfaith Consultant for Liberal Judaism, and Lecturer in Talmud at Leo Baeck College, London. He is a cantor with many years' experience of both orthodox and progressive Jewish music.

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St Johns School Choir Choir Leaders: Alison Ticher & Lydia Bahi St Johns Primary School is located in Bethnal Green, and visits St Johns Church for termly celebratory services. The choir at St Johns has been estab lished for the past nine years, featuring children aged from 7 11 years old. Meeting on a weekly basis at lunchtimes, the group sings from a varied repertoire of songs, from modern songs from the popular charts, to more traditional songs and hymns. The choir have sung at a range of settings such as elderly care homes in the community; shopping centres and museums, to assemblies and church services. The choir are happy to be a part of this important event, and to reect upon ways to achieve true peace in our world. Children Want Peace Let There Be Peace On Earth (S. Wilson) (J.J. Miller & S. Miller)

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Song Travellers Choir Leader: Naamah Pinkerfeld GalOr Naamah Pinkerfeld GalOr is a passionate, spirit lled choir leader. She thoroughly enjoys leading people in song experiencing group singing as a wonderful, deeply unifying activity (very much needed in this time). She leads two community choirs: The Singing Forest Choir in Forest Row, East Sussex (where she lives) and St Ethelburgas Choir in central London. Her group tonight (of which she is a part) was formed especially for this event! Shalom Alcheim Dona Nobis Pacem Peace Be With You Always (Trad. Hebrew song, arr. Gil Aldema c.1974) (Nick Prater c.2008) (Alison Burns c. 2008)

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Dr mer ener Dr mer ener graduated Leeds Metropolitan University with a PHD in Cultural Studies/ Criti cal Theory And Analysis in 2011, and since has been heavily involved as an author in the research eld of Cultural Studies and Cultural Identity. This evening mer will be singing as oering of Turkish Su hymns.

10. Ven Matthew Steven Carlos There is an old story about how all existence arises, is sustained, and dissipates inside a single sacred syllable. Every grand civilisation and each simple life poised eternally on divine breath. These chants help bring consciousness of the breath, and with it the value of our fragile world. Makka Hannya Haramitta Shin Gyo Enmei Jukku Kannon Gyo Kan Ro Mon (Trad.) (Trad.) (Trad.)

Soloists: Andrew Blake, Saxophone David Spidy, Piano

Facility Information:

Disabled Access: Whilst we have attempted to make this event inclusive to disabled visitors, there are unfor tunately some building limitations. You will nd on the map (back page) participants loca tions have been numbered and colour coded. Numbers 1 6 are accessible for wheelchair users to access and communicate with performers. Routes to all other locations unfortunately involve steps or stairs, for visitors with mobility problems there are stairs with banisters to all oors, and you will nd seating on all levels should you need to rest. For any other assistance please nd one of the stewards or organisers.

Toilet Information: Toilets are located on an underground level of the building. There is a staircase to this level located behind a door near location 6 on the map (back page). Please be advised that this is an old staircase with some narrow sections and may not be advisable for people with mobility problems. The disabled toilet is located in our Crypt. To reach it you will need to go out the front door of the church and, once down the ramp, back across the forecourt to turn left out of the southern gate and go down the side of the church on Roman Road. At the rear of the church enter the Crypt through the blue doors. Turn left and follow the Crypt passage until you reach the toilets on your lefthand side.

Peace In The Heart Of The City Space For Peace, London 2013 has been hosted as a part of Interfaith Visions Lottery fund ed, Peace In The Heart Of The City. A two day event (3rd & 4th July 2013) dedicated to explor ing and sharing in new ways of working in interfaith. The event consist of community and interfaith workers, clergy, religious & spiritual leaders and interfaith ministers coming together to connect through deep listening and heartfelt shar ing, in discovery for inner peace. Rev Prof June BoyceTillman MBE and Foundation Music at The University Of Winchester were approached by Interfaith Vision to provide tonights celebration of peace. About Interfaith Vision: A nondenominational, nonprot organisation co founded by Interfaith Minister and Spir itual Counsellor Annie Blampied, Anglican priest Rev Alan Bayes, holistic activist Nigel An thony, and Interfaith Minister Rev Razia Aziz. The organisation looks to shift the focus from agreeing on theology, but rather sharing in a universal experience. The organisation was inspired by Opening To The Heart, a three day retreat hosted in Glastonbury, in 2010. Annie was highly motivated to organise this gathering in order to en courage the exploration of creating a universal experience. The main aims of Interfaith Vision are to share in a vision of open hearted interfaith encoun ters and communication, developing the relationships and connections between people of all faiths & beliefs and none, to aid in self discovery and acceptance, and to enable people to coexist more harmoniously and peacefully by equipping them to engage more eectively in community cohesion and sustainability. For further information about Interfaith Vision or any of their upcoming projects please con tact Annie Blampied on 01342 825511 or [email protected]

Foundation Music Mailing List Foundation Music is a network of students, sta and members of the local community who meet together regularly at the University of Winchester to make music. We run a wide variety of ensemble from choirs to African Drumming. All ensembles are open to anyone and there are no auditions. To nd out more about joining an ensemble please see www.winchester.ac.uk/music Or, if youd like to be kept informed of future concerts, which happen regularly both in and out of term time, send your name and email address to [email protected]

Retiring Collection for St John On Bethnal Green Development Fund: About St John On Bethnal Green: St John on Bethnal Green was built in 1828 by the architect Sir John Soane to serve the burgeoning and largely poor local population as London extended towards the east. The area was already characterised by immigrant communities because of its proximity to the docks: French Huguenots and European Jews had already settled here to be followed by many more notably further Jewish refugees throughout the Nineteenth century and, more recently, Bangladeshis and Somalis. Relative to the country as a whole, deprivation remains a serious problem in this borough, now named Tower Hamlets, with some of the highest levels of child poverty found in local neighbourhoods. The 2011 census reveals that Islam is observed by a higher proportion of people in Tower Hamlets 35% than in any other local authority in the UK, whilst Christianity is one of the lowest at 27%. Nevertheless, the role of the church remains essentially the same: providing worship for the Christians in the area, and seeking to serve all those who live here regardless of their faith or ethnicity. Our Crypt houses an alternative medical practice, a psychotherapist, an English for Speakers of Other Languages course and a Community Arts room. The Rector, Fr Alan Green is Chair of the Tower Hamlets Inter Faith Forum which seeks to foster good relations between the dierent faiths here, to support those who are victims of hate and prejudice and use our resources to foster harmony and celebrate the diversity of this vibrant borough.

1. Silver Tongue Trio 2. Susannah Reide 3. St Johns Music Group 4. Razia Aziz 5. Croydon & S. Norwood Community Choir 6. Mark Solomon 7. St Johns School Choir 8. Song Travellers 9. mer ener 10. Matthew Steven Carlos