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Palm Sunday Procession

Following Palm Sunday and the start of Holy Week, the Cathedral Choir will be singing a number of special services through Holy Week and into Easter.

Good Friday 22nd April 10am

Good Friday Liturgy:
Sanders – Reproaches
Dvorak – Blessed Jesu
Ducasse – Crux Fidelis

Easter Eve 23rd April 8pm

Easter Eve Vigil:
Walton – Missa Brevis
Mawby - Exultet
Ducasse – Crux Fidelis

Easter Day 24th April

10am Eucharist:
Haydn – St Nicholas Mass
Ledger – This joyful Eastertide

3:30pm Evensong:
Jackson in G
RVW – Rise Heart, The Call, and Let all the World from the Five Mystical Songs

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

Another early start for the girls’ choir this morning, as we were off to sing the BBC Radio Four Daily Service at Emmanuel Church in Didsbury.

At 7am 13 sleepy choristers, one director of music, one organist, one choral scholar and a matron left Abbey Square for Didsbury. We arrived  just after 8 and were greeted by the producer for the day, Simon Vivian. After Mr Roberts’ vigorous warm-ups of “tongue trills”, “lip trills”, “John Scott has red hair”, “my car has flat tyres” and “see far see far see” we had a run-through of all the music for the service; How Beautiful Are The Feet (Handel), Lord of All Hopefulness and Ye Servants of God.

After a fully timed run-through we had a quick tea and coffee break, before going live.

The service went smoothly, with beautiful solos from Olivia Hunt (Head Chorister), Lucy Rushforth and Becky Bowler(Leading Choristers), and descants from Olivia Hunt and Alice Capper (Head and Leading Choristers). The reading was done by Laura Rushforth who read with clarity and confidence, and Mr Roberts remembered to conduct all the “Amens” and the Lord’s Prayer!

After praise from Simon about how well we had done and how fabulous we are sounding, we got straight on the coach back to Chester (no rest for the wicked, eh!) and back to school.

We had a brilliant time and we’re all looking forward to doing it again on March 28th, so make sure you tune in!