Christ Church Events: 5 - 26 August 2006

[Christ Church Cathedral Dublin]

C H R I S T  C H U R C H  C A T H E D R A L  D U B L I N
S a t u r d a y  5  -  S a t u r d a y  2 6  A u g u s t  2 0 0 6
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D i a r y  O v e r v i e w
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Saturday 5 August
  17.00 - Choral Evensong (Cathedral Singers, Christ Church Oxford)
Sunday 6 August
  11.00 - Cathedral Eucharist (Cathedral Singers, Christ Church Oxford)
  15.30 - Choral Evensong (Cathedral Singers, Christ Church Oxford)
Wednesday 9 August
  13.15 - Lunchtime concert (Choir of Downing College, Cambridge)
Saturday 12 August
  17.00 - Choral Evensong (Choir of Bedford School)
Thursday 17 August
  13.15 - Lunchtime concert (Forrest County Singers, Mississippi)
Friday 18 August
  20.00 - Evening Concert (Andrew Miller, 'The Birth of Christ')
Saturday 19 August
  13.15 - Lunchtime concert (Duo, Eu)
  20.00 - Evening Concert (Andrew Miller, 'The Birth of Christ')
Sunday 20 August
  11.00 - Cathedral Eucharist (Choir of St Peter's Nottingham)
  15.30 - Choral Evensong (Choir of St Peter's Nottingham)
Monday 21 - Tuesday 22 August
  10.00 - Cathedral closed to public to filming of 'The Tudors’
Saturday 26 August
  13.00 - Lunchtime concert (Aisling Agnew & Matthew McAllister)
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FULL DIARY DETAILS
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We welcome a number of visiting choirs during the summer
who are contributing to worship at the cathedral for which we
are most grateful. Choral services may vary from those when
the cathedral choirs are in residence and so the cathedral
diary should be consulted for details of times:
http://cccdub.ie/whatsnew/diary/diary.html
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Saturday 5 August 2006 - Choral Evensong (17.00)
Sung by the cathedral singers of Christ Church, Oxford
Rose responses, Dyson in D and
Loach, 'Listen, sweet dove'.
For the Cathedral Singers of Christ Church, Oxford, see:
http://www.cathedralsingers.org.uk
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Sunday 6 August 2006 - Cathedral Eucharist (11.00)
Sung by the cathedral singers of Christ Church Oxford
Howells, 'Collegium regale' & Mawby 'Ave verum corpus'.
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Sunday 6 August 2006 - Choral Evensong (15.30)
Sung by the cathedral singers of Christ Church, Oxford
Rose responses, Howells in G and Wesley, 'Blessed
be the God and Father'.

For the Cathedral Singers of Christ Church, Oxford, see:
http://www.cathedralsingers.org.uk
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Wednesday 9 August 2006 - Lunchtime concert (13.15)
Sung by the choir of Downing College, Cambridge.
For full details of the choir and their recent tours, see:
http://www.dow.cam.ac.uk/~chapel/choir/index.html
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Saturday 12 August 2006 - Choral Evensong (17.00)
Sung by the choir of Bedford School
Rose responses, Stanford in B flat and
Howells, 'O pray for the peace of Jerusalem'.
For the chapel choir of Bedford School, see online at:
http://www.bedfordschool.org.uk/template.asp?page=376
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Thursday 17 August 2006 - Lunchtime Concert (13.15)
Sung by the Forrest County Singers, Mississippi.
For details of Forrest County in Mississippi, see:
http://www.co.forrest.ms.us
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Friday 18 August 2006 - Evening Concert (20.00)
A concert of work entitled 'The Birth of Christ', composed
and conducted by Andrew T. Miller, International Steinway
Artist, will take place on Friday & Saturday 18 & 19 August
at 8.00pm. The choir will feature soloists: Amy Bils, Kelley
O'Connor, Robert McPherson, John B. Cooper, Owen Gilhooly,
and Robin Tritschler, with narrator, Raymond Arroyo. The choir
consists of members of the three Dublin cathedrals as well
as a multi-denominational choir from the USA, and will be
accompanied by a 31 piece orchestra from the Dublin area,
and the cathedral organ. Tickets: Adult €10 and Concession
(Student, OAP) €8 available from the Dublin Tourism Centre,
Suffolk Street, Dublin 2.

For further information see online at:
http://cccdub.ie/whatsnew/diary/2006/birth-of-christ/boc-concerts.html
http://visitdublin.com/Events/AllDublinEvents/Detail.aspx?id=237&mid=3095
and www.andrewtmiller.org
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Saturday 19 August 2006 - Lunchtime Concert (13.15)
A duo performed by members off a pilgrimage from Eu, Normandy.
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Saturday 19 August 2006 - Evening Concert (20.00)
A concert of work entitled 'The Birth of Christ', composed
and conducted by Andrew T. Miller, International Steinway
Artist, will take place on Friday & Saturday 18 & 19 August
at 8.00pm. The choir will feature soloists: Amy Bils, Kelley
O'Connor, Robert McPherson, John B. Cooper, Owen Gilhooly,
and Robin Tritschler, with narrator, Raymond Arroyo. The choir
will consist of members of the three Dublin cathedrals as well
as a multi-denominational choir from the USA, and will be
accompanied by a 31 piece orchestra from the Dublin area,
as well as by the cathedral organ.
Tickets: Adult €10 & Concession (Student, OAP) €8 available
from the Dublin Tourism Centre, Suffolk Street, Dublin 2.

For further information see online at:
http://cccdub.ie/whatsnew/diary/2006/birth-of-christ/boc-concerts.html
http://visitdublin.com/Events/AllDublinEvents/Detail.aspx?id=237&mid=3095
and www.andrewtmiller.org
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Sunday 20 August 2006 - Cathedral Eucharist (11.00)
Sung by the choir of St Peter's Nottingham
Howells, 'Collegium regale' and Stanford 'Beati quorum via'.
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Sunday 20 August 2006 - Choral Evensong (15.30)
Sung by the choir of St Peter's Nottingham
Rose responses, Blair in B minor and
Harris, 'Faire is the heaven'.

For details of St Peter's Nottingham, see online at:
http://www.stpetersnottingham.org
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Monday 21 & Tuesday 22 August 2006 - Cathedral Closed.
Due to the filming of the television series, 'The Tudors' by Maple
Films, the cathedral will be closed on both Monday and Tuesday
the 21 and 22 August. 'The Tudors' will star Jonathan Rhys Meyers
as a young Henry VIII, Sam Neill as Cardinal Thomas Wolsey,
Jeremy Northam as Sir Thomas More and Dublin veteran, Barry
McGovern as Bishop Bonnivet.
For further details of 'The Tudors', see
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758790 and
http://www.ardmore.ie/newslatest.asp
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Saturday 26 August 2006 - Lunchtime Concert (13.00)
Today's lunchtime concert at the slightly earlier than usual time
of 1.00pm sees Aisling Agnew (flute) and Matthew McAllister
(guitar) returning again to Christ Church after a successful
lunchtime recital as part of Heritage Week in September last year.
This year, their tour of Ireland begins with Christ Church, moving
on to venues such as Emo Court, and the castles of Ferns, Ormond
Roscrea and Portumna, concluding in St Audoen's and finally
Parkes Castle in Leitrim. The programme will include works by
J.S. Bach, Heath, Caffrey, Fennessy, Borne, Poulenc and Ravel.
Admission to the cathedral is € 5 (Euro).
For details on both Aisling and Matthew's websites see:
http://aislingagnew.com/txp/index.php?s=news
http://www.matthewmcallister.com/txp/index.php?id=104
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All are most welcome to attend all cathedral services and events.
Details of these can usually be found online at:
http://cccdub.ie/whatsnew/diary/diary.html
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NEW! See the Dean's Vicar's August 2006 'Matters' at:
http://cccdub.ie/whatsnew/review/review.html

'The Reflecting City' documents Dublin's reconstruction:
http://www.reflectingcity.com

Visit Cultivate, a new cultural centre in Essex Street West,
http://sustainable.ie/cultivate

Why not visit Dvblinia, the medieval exhibition, or their
new website available at: http://www.dublinia.ie.
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