Order of Service  

3.00 pm, 18 July 2011
St Mary's Church, Fairford

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Music

 

Concluding with pieces from Bach’s St Matthew Passion: Herzlich thut mich verlangen and Ebarme dich
 
 
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Welcome
 
The Rev’d Brian Atkinson
 
   
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Congregation
 
In My Life
(Lennon / McCartney)

 
 
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Martin's life
 
1   The early years – Roland Clare
 
   
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Music
 
All This Time
(Clive Carroll) – Gummo Clare, guitar
 
 
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Martin's life
 


2   At Clare College, Cambridge – Kevin Mead
 

 
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Reading
 
Cold are the Crabs
(Edward Lear) – Richard Wilkinson
 
 
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Martin's life
 
3   At The New Inn, and with Fairford Amateur Dramatic Society – Barry and Jean Kilgariff
 
 
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Congregation
 
Pleasant and Delightful
(trad.)

Please join in harmoniously, repeating the last line of each verse
 
 

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Martin's life
 
4   At Oxford University Press – Rachael Claridge and Thomas Webster
 
 
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Music
 
Tamacun
(Rodrigo y Gabriela) – Gummo Clare and Nick Clare, guitars
 
 
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Reading
 
Psalm 98 – Simon Mumford
 
 
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Martin's life
 
5   The family – Nick Clare
 
 
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Congregation
 
For Those in Peril on the Sea
(Whiting / Dykes)
 
 
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Martin's life
 
6   Recent days – Nicky Turner
 
 
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Music
 
Jigsaw Puzzle of Life
(Anna McGarrigle)
 
 
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Prayers
 
The Rev’d Brian Atkinson
 
   

Music
 
Jollity Farm
(Sarony)

Please join in lustily with the responses: ‘grunt, howl, grunt, howl’, ‘mee-ow, mee-ow’,‘woof, woof, woof, woof’ and other animal calls, drawing on your knowledge of rustic life and/or the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
 
 
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Music
 
Trick of the Night
(Brooker / Fisher / Reid)

‘It’s a trick of the night
Everything is all right ...’
 
 
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Prayers
 
The Rev’d Brian Atkinson
 
   

Music
 
Dead Man Blues
(Jelly Roll Morton)
 
 


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Congregation
 
You are invited to process, while the music is playing, via the West Door and through the churchyard for The Committal
 
 



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Retiring collection: in aid of a new fund, set up in Martin’s memory, to help provide music lessons for children at Farmor’s School; and to help Noah’s Ark Children’s Venture.

The family wishes to thank everyone who has sent their kind condolences and/or come to this service; additional thanks go to Farmor’s School, Noah’s Ark Children’s Venture, the Rev’d Brian Atkinson, and all who have contributed to today’s celebration of Martin’s life.

Please come back to 1 Park Villas for tea, buns and more music.
 
   

Martin Clare Music Fund
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Floral graphic by Otto Martin