CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 10 April 1999
From: The RCB Library
Email: RCB Library
Christ Church Cathedral Arts, which is an offshoot of the Dublin
Cathedral's Choir 500 Foundation, is a committee designed to foster and
promote artistic endeavour of a high standard in the unique ambience of
Christ Church. The cathedral has emerged as one of the most beautiful of
concert venues and its excellent acoustic makes it an attractive
location for performers and audiences alike.
Details are now available of the ambitious programme of music, drama
and liturgy which Christ Church Cathedral Arts has planned for the
coming months. The core of the programme are two series of recitals.
"Sundays at Seventeen" is a series of five concerts at 5.00
p.m. on Sunday evenings beginning on 18 April with a performance of
works of Corelli, Biber and Bach by Maya Homburger (violin) and Malcolm
Proud (harpsichord). Among the other musicians in this series will be
the alto saxophonist, Haken Lewin, who, with Peter Sweeney (organ), will
perform sacred music by Duke Ellington, the organist Anne Page who will
play Messiaen's last and greatest work, Livre du Saint Sacrement, the
Vanburgh String Quartet, and Christ Church baroque.
On Fridays in May and June there will be lunchtime organ recitals
featuring the cathedral organists, Mark Duley and Andrew Johnstone, and
guest performers Antoinette Baker, David Adams, Stephen Candow and
Desmond Hunter.
A celebrity choral series will include concerts by Worcester
Cathedral Choir, the New Zealand Youth Choir and the Christ Church Choir
who will perform pieces from the programme of their summer tour to New
Zealand. The Cathedral Choir will also be joined by Christ Church
Baroque for Festival Sung Eucharist as part of the Dublin International
Organ and Choral Festival, while the Lay Vicars Choral and the Dublin
Viols will come together for choral evensong on the Feast of St John the
Baptist.
As well, the Opera Theatre Company will present the London Baroque
Sinfonia and there will be a staging of The Parting of Friends an
ecclesiastical drama by the English playwright Kenneth Pickering.
Full details of the Christ Church Cathedral Arts programme may be had
from Helen Roycroft at 01-496 6740 or from the Music Secretary, Christ
Church Cathedral at 01-677 8099 or 01-679 8991 (fax) or click here to visit the Cathedral Arts web page.
Today (Saturday) the Archbishop of Armagh, Dr Robin Eames, concludes
a visit to London where he has been presiding at the annual meeting of
the Anglican Communion Finance Committee.
Tomorrow (Sunday) the services in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin,
will be sung by the choir of St Martin's parish church, Belfast, while
in Armagh the visiting choir in St Patrick's Cathedral will be the
Market Harborough Singers. The Sung Eucharist will resume in the Chapel
of Trinity College, Dublin where the preacher will be the Chaplain, Dr
Alan McCormack.
On Monday at lunchtime there will be a concert in Christ Church
Cathedral, Dublin by the Albertson College Choir from Idaho.
On Friday evening Senator David Norris will open a major new
exhibition in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. "Living Stones"
will celebrate the place of St Patrick's in the life of the city, record
its history as a building and an institution, and will define its role
at the close of the second millennium. "Living Stones" will
emphasis that St Patrick's is not merely a museum but a living building
at the heart of the life of the city and the nation.
In Cork there will be a recital of music and readings in Holy Trinity
Church, Frankfield, featuring Colin Nichols and Ben McDowell. Proceeds
will be divided between church funds and poverty in Singida, East
Tanzania.
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