Special Services and Events

St Paul’s Institute’s series ‘Democracy and the Common Good’ seeks to foster a national conversation to emphasize the value of the common good to arrive at a policy framework to help address the existing anxieties facing our society. This event will look at the prospect of Brexit and its implications for the City of London in relation to freedom of movement and labour, drawing on our research carried out earlier this year. Using the question 'what kind of city do we want to be?' as our guide, we will be bringing together a panel of speakers to consider who is welcome here?

We are delighted to be joined by Rt Revd & Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally, Bishop of London, and the event is chaired by Shelagh Fogarty, broadcaster, LBC Radio.

John Nelson conducts Berlioz’s monumental Requiem, ‘Grande Messe des Mortes’, in the historic setting of St Paul’s Cathedral to mark 150 years – to the day – since the composer’s death.

The renowned American conductor and Berlioz expert leads a performance of over 300 musicians, featuring the Philharmonia Chorus and London Philharmonic Choir alongside the Philharmonia Orchestra, and with tenor soloist Michael Spyres.

Berlioz himself attended a performance at St Paul's Cathedral during his second visit to London in 1851, in a performance with over 6500 children taking part. “It was the most amazing thing [...] I have never seen or heard anything as moving in its immense grandeur than this gathering of poor children singing, arranged in a colossal amphitheatre,” he wrote.