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Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’
For Saturday 6 June 201
Three Choirs’ Concert in St Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny
For a fourth consecutive year, the music department at St Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny will host a series of Sunday afternoon concerts in June. This year’s series starts romorrow (Sunday) with an exciting combined performance by the cathedral choirs of St. Canice’s Kilkenny, Christ Church Waterford and St. Mary’s Limerick. The programme includes the combined choirs in a performance of Schubert’s Mass in G, conducted by St Canice’s choral director David Forde and accompanied by cathedral organist, Malcolm Proud. Eric Sweeney will conduct the choir of Christ Church Cathedral Waterford in his own Mass of St. Patrick, accompanied by organist Cecilia Keogh. Peter Barley will conduct the choir of St. Mary’s Cathedral Limerick in music by Byrd and other composers. St. Canice’s Cathedral choir will perform a range of choral works, and will also be conducted and accompanied by cathedral organ scholar Róisín Rowley–Brooke. All three choirs will combine for a performance of Parry’s famous choral masterpiece I was glad. With over 60 voices, the Three Choirs’ Concert at 4pm on 7th June event promises to be a most memorable event.
The concert series will continue on each Sunday throughout June, with chamber music concerts in the intimate surroundings of the cathedral chapter room. Sunday 14th sees Kilkenny–based recorder player Laoise O’Brien and guitarist Michael O’Toole returning having performed to great acclaim in the 2014 series. Soprano Roisin O’Grady will sing Purcell and Schubert on Sunday 21st, accompanied by Malcolm Proud. The final concert will take place on Sunday 28th June with violinist Marja Gaynor, cellist Aoife Nic Athlaoich and harpsichordist Malcolm Proud. The concerts are at 4pm, tickets are €15 (€10), and available at the door or in advance from the cathedral on (056) 776 4971. Refreshments are available after the concerts, with an opportunity to meet and chat with the artists.
Today (Saturday) the Rt Revd Dr Paul Colton will preside at the Cork, Cloyne and Ross Diocesan Synod which will be held in the Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork. This evening (Sunday), at 6.30pm, the Guinness Choir will sing in St Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin, in celebration of the restoration of the cathedral in 1865 by Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness. During the interval Canon Charles Mullen will give a talk on the restoration which is the subject of an exhibition in the Irish Architectural Archive. Admission to the cathedral for this event is free and all are welcome.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning the Archbishop of Armagh, Dr Richard Clarke, will preach at the Patronal Festival in St Columba’s church, Knock and in the afternoon he will be the preacher at the RUC George Cross Service in St Mark’s church, Newtownards. In Dublin the annual Ecumenical Service will be held at St Columcille’s Holy Well, Ballycullen, at 3pm while at Evensong in St Patrick’s cathedral there will be a commemoration and thanksgiving for the Guinness restoration of the cathedral at which the preacher will be the Dean, the Very Revd Victor Stacey. The Gaudete Singers, directed by David Leigh, Assistant Organist of St Patrick’s cathedral, will provide ‘Night and Day’, music and poetry for a summer’s evening from Byrd to the Beatles, in Freemason’s Hall, Molesworth Street, Dublin at 8pm.
The lunchtime recital in St Mary’s cathedral, Limerick, on Wednesday will be given by Peter Sebestyen (cello) and Stuart O’Sullivan (piano) who will play works by Beethoven and Brahms.
On Thursday evening the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Michael Jackson, will attend a reception to welcome the new ambassador of Egypt.
Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’