Diamond Jubilee Concert
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Saturday 26th May at 7:30pm at Chester Cathedral
Directed by Philip Rushforth
Organ: Benjamin Chewter
Programme
Zadok the priest GF Handel
Thou God of wisdom Orlando Gibbons
I was glad Henry Purcell
I My Best-Beloved’s Am John Rutter
(Choirbook for the Queen)
My heart is inditing GF Handel
Interval
I was glad CHH Parry
O hearken Thou Edward Elgar
Organ Solo:
Crown Imperial William Walton
Blest pair of Sirens C H H Parry
Tickets £12.50/£7.50 from the Cathedral Box Office
Choristers join Music Soceity Choir in Mass of the Children
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Senior Choristers from the Cathedral Choir will be joining the massed forces of the Chester Music Society Choir in the cathedral on Saturday 7th May, 2011 at 7:30pm as they present Poulenc’s Gloria and Rutter’s Mass for the Children. The Rutter is written for an adult mixed choir, children’s choir, soloists and orchestra. The text is taken from the Latin Mass augmented with suitable English texts.
Tickets: £17, £12 (Nave: numbered, reserved): £6 (Aisles, unreserved, restricted view). Reduced prices available. Telephone 07805 475816 or 0845 241 7868
Read MoreHappy Christmas from Chester Cathedral Choir
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Chester Cathedral Choir wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Listen to choral evensong which broadcast on Weds 22nd December, available on iPlayer
Come to the Christmas services; 9 Lessons and Carols on 23rd Dec @6:30pm or 24th Dec @3:30pm, Midnight mass sung by the Nave Choir at 11:15pm on 24th Dec or Christmas Eucharist on 25th December at 10am
Read MoreChristmas Choir Concert – Saturday 19th December
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Chester Cathedral will be presenting a programme of seasonal festive favourites performed by the combined girls, boys and lay clerks of the Cathedral Choir in Concert for Christmas on Saturday 19th December, 2009 starting at 19:30.
Tickets for the event are available from the cathedral website.
Prices: Adults £10, Children £6 and Family £30
Chester Summer Music Festival, 2nd July 2009
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To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Chetham’s School, Manchester, the girls’ and boys’ choir will be joining Chetham’s Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and the Chester Bach Singers for a performance of Walton’s popular, rousing and extrovert ‘Belshazzar’s Feast’, conducted by David Hill.
The concert will take place in the Cathedral on 2nd July at 7.30 P.M.
Belshazzar
Fundraising Concert at Eaton Hall
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By kind permission of Their Graces the Duke and Duchess of Westminster, the cathedral choir along with students of the King’s School, Chester will be putting on a fund-raising concert in the Chapel and Long Room at Eaton Park.
Tuesday 9th June, 2009 at 7:30pm
Tickets £15 available from Victoria Houghton on 01244 683678
Light refreshments are included
Proceeds in aid of the Cathedral Choir’s forthcoming Paris Tour
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