Collect for St Martin's Day

Instrumentation

Tenor solo, ATBarB

Other Information

This work was written for Peter White and the Songmen of Leicester Cathedral. It was first performed on St Martin´s Day [Wednesday 10th November] in 1976 and repeated on Ash Wednesday [23rd February] in 1977 as part of Leicester Cathedral´s Golden Jubilee. It never became a regular work with the Songman so parts were reworked as part of the composer´s own Mass to the Trinity.

Collect for St Martin´s Day:

"O God who callest Martin from military service to be a leader in the army of Christ: Give us grace to follow his faith, his compassion and his apostolic zeal that others may be won by us into the ranks of righteousness; through the same Thy Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen"

The image on the left is from the stained glass window in St Martin´s House, the Diocesan Centre for the Leicester See. Below left is the initial manuscript  sketch for the work and below right is the part of Leicester Cathedral´s service & music listing for February 1977.