CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 6th July 2002
From: The RCB Library
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Music in Christ Church
This evening at 8.00 pm the twenty eight strong
Christ Church Cathedral Choir will give a Summer Concert in support of
its forthcoming tour of Croatia and Slovenia. The music will include
motets by Duruflé, Stanford and Parry. There will also be the premiere
of the award winning "Caintici Mhuire agus huimeoin" (the
evening canticles of Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis) written by choir
member Caitriona Ni Dhubhghaill and winner of the Best Irish Entry in
the RTE Church Music Competition.
On 17 July the choir begins its tour and the first
concert will be in the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in Labin, the
following evening. Concerts will also be given in the Church of St
Euphemia in Rovinj, in the Franciskanska Church, Ljubljana, and in
Maribor Cathedral. On Sunday 21 July the choir will take part in the
liturgy in St Nicholas' Church, Ljubljana.
As well as touring extensively in England, including
a residency in Westminster Abbey, the Christ Church Choir has also sung
in France, Germany and New Zealand, the home land of the Cathedral
Organist and Director of Music, Mark Duley.
There will be another manifestation of this New
Zealand connection on Thursday when the Choir of St Paul's Cathedral,
Wellington, will visit Dublin where they will sing Evensong in Christ
Church together with the Christ Church Choir. On Friday they will give a
free lunchtime organ and choral recital in Christ Church and will sing
Matins and Evensong in St Patrick's. Wellington Cathedral Choir is one
of New Zealand's foremost choral ensembles with twenty-five
semi-professional adult singers complemented by choral scholars,
cathedral choristers and a children's' choir.
A new Organist and Director of Music has been
appointed for St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh, in succession to Mr Martin
White who has retired after thirty four years service. He is Mr Theodore
Saunders who is presently Head of Music in Stoneygate School in
Leicester and Director of Music in the church of St James the Greater,
Leicester. Mr Saunders will take up his duties in September.
Today (Saturday) the Dublin and Glendalough
Diocesan Junior Camp begins in Gurteen Agricultural College, Co.
Tipperary, and continues for a week. Tomorrow (Sunday) the
Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Walton Empey, will pay a pastoral visit to
Greystones where the rector is the Archdeacon of Glendalough, the Ven.
Edgar Swann. In St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, the services will be
sung by the Choir of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, which is made up of
undergraduates, graduates and college staff directed by two Organ
Scholars from the college. This is the choir's first overseas tour.
On Monday, 8 July, there will be a concert of sacred,
secular and popular music by PROJEKT VOCAL - a prize winning German
Chamber Choir - in St Michan's Church, Church Street, Dublin 7, on
Monday 8 July at 8.00pm. Tickets are _8 and _5 (concessions) available
at the door from 7.30pm. Proceeds to the All Saints' Grangegorman
restoration appeal. Further details available from 01-8380469."
As part of this year's Dublin Liberties Festival the Gleemoor Ladies
Choir will give a concert in St Patrick's Cathedral on Friday at 8.00
pm. The choir is composed of forty women from Cape Town, South Africa.
CMS Ireland, the principal mission and development
agency in the Church of Ireland, has appointed the Revd Patrick
Comerford as its new Regional Officer and he will be based in Overseas
House, Dublin. This post will involve visiting churches throughout
Ireland - preaching, speaking, organizing mission events and building a
support network of parishes and people. He will be part of a team
responsible for promoting and developing the work of CMS both in Ireland
and in partnership with dioceses abroad. Mr Comerford, who was ordained
for the auxiliary ministry in 2000, has worked as a journalist for
thirty years, most recently as Foreign Desk Editor of The Irish
Times. He expects to take up his new post at the end of July.
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