Dean of Belfast the Very Revd John Mann and Bishop Edward Darling with clergy who robed for the Harry Grindle Memorial Evensong
The late Harry Grindle was honoured by the chamber choir he founded in a special Memorial Evensong on Sunday 16 November.
More than 400 people attended the service and heard the preacher, Bishop Edward Darling, use the word ‘perfection’ to describe Harry, a man whose approach to music in Northern Ireland was ‘very inclusive.’
The service was sung by the Priory Singers, the group Harry founded in 1986. Director Robert Thompson said it was a fitting way to acknowledge his immense contribution to church music.
In his sermon, Bishop Darling said: “It is that word ‘perfection’ which today I would want to use to sum up the life of Harry Grindle. As Lord Eames wrote of him in his Foreword to Harry’s own autobiography “REPRISE – An Irish Church Musician looks back”: ‘He has become a household name for perfection in preparation and production of choral work which has brought great beauty to congregations and audiences’.
Bishop Darling recalled how he first met Harry in 1960 when Harry was organist of Willowfield Parish Church …read more
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