Christ Church Events: 4 - 31 March 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  4  -  F r i d a y  3 1  M a r c h  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 4 March
  13.15 - Concerts @ Christ Church 1 (Schola Gregoriana, Maynooth)
  17.00 - Choral Evensong (Cathedral Consort)
Tuesday 7 March
  13.15 - Church of Ireland Rebels I: Sean O’Casey (Prof. C. Murray)
  18.00 - Choral Evensong (Assistant Organists' Conference)
Wednesday 8 March
  18.00 - Choral Evensong (Cathedral Girls’ Choir with ATB Lay Clerks)
Thursday 9 March
  17.00 - Evening Prayer
Friday 10 March
  20.00 - Concert: Josh Ritter (Sold out)
Saturday 11 March
  13.15 - Concerts @ Christ Church 2 (Cathedral Girls’ Choir Students)
  17.00 - Choral Evensong (Ulster Society of Organists)
Sunday 12 March
  15.30 - Choral Evensong and baptism of Megan Caroline Griffiths
Tuesday 14 March
  13.15 - Church of Ireland Rebels II: Erskine Childers (Senator Mansergh)
Wednesday 15 March
  18.00 - Choral Evensong (Cathedral Girls’ Choir with ATB Lay Clerks)
Friday 17 March 2006
  14.00 - Cathedral open after the parade until 17.00)
Saturday 18 March
  13.15 - Concerts @ Christ Church 3 (David Bremner, organ)
  17.00 - Choral Evensong (Cathedral Consort)
Tuesday 21 March
  13.15 - Church of Ireland Rebels III: Sadbh Trínseach (Dr Hilary Pyle)
Wednesday 22 March
  18.00 - Choral Evensong (Cathedral Girls’ Choir with ATB Lay Clerks)
Saturday 25 March
  17.00 - Ecumenical RSCM Choral Festival Service for the Annunciation
Sunday 26 March
  15.30 - Choral Evensong (Cathedral Girls' Choir with ATB Lay Clerks)
  17.00 - An Eocairist (Eucharist in Irish)
Tuesday 28 March
  13.15 - Church of Ireland Rebels IV: Harry Nicholls (Dr Martin Maguire)
Thursday 30 March
  18.00 - Choral Evensong (Soprano Lay Clerks)
Friday 31 March
  11.00 - Episcopal Electoral College Service
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FULL DIARY DETAILS
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Saturday 4 March 2006 - Concerts @ Christ Church 1 (13.15)
Schola Gregoriana, a plainsong group from Maynooth
organised by cathedral lay clerk, Dermot Kiernan,
will give a recital of Gregorian & old Roman Chant.
For further information on the series is on the cathedral website at:
http://cccdub.ie/music/choir/2006/concerts-ccc-mar-april-2006.html
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Saturday 4 March 2006 - Choral Evensong (17.00)
Sung by the cathedral consort. Ayleward responses,
Farrant in E minor and Rutter 'Gaelic blessing'.
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Tuesday 7 March 2006 - Lunchtime Lecture (13.15)
The first of four lectures entitled 'Church of Ireland Rebels',
today's lecture will be on Sean O’Casey and will be given
by Professor Christopher Murray of the School of English
and Drama at University College Dublin. For information, see
http://cccdub.ie/archives/cc-lecture-series/lectures.html and
http://dublin.anglican.org/pr/2006/pr060218-ccc-cofi-rebels.html
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Tuesday 7 March 2006 - Choral Evensong (18.00)
Sung by the cathedral choir, evensong will be attended by
delegates to the Assistant Organists' Conference.
Moore responses, Lloyd 'Hereford service', Dove 'Seek him
that maketh the seven stars' and concluding organ voluntary,
Pott 'Empyrean'.
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Wednesday 8 March 2006 - Choral Evensong (18.00)
Sung by the cathedral girls’ choir with ATB lay clerks.
Ebdon responses, Stanford in B flat and
Goss 'O Saviour of the world'.
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Thursday 9 March 2006 - Evening Prayer (17.00)
Due to choral evensong taking place on Tuesday,
Thursday's office will be said evening prayer at 5.00pm.
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Friday 10 March	2006 - Evening Concert (20.00)
The American singer-songwriter, Josh Ritter, who is currently
living in Ireland, will give a concert in the cathedral at 8.00pm.
Unfortunately for fans wishing to buy tickets, the concert is
already sold out. However details of other venues on his Irish
tour are listed on his website. See online for details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Ritter
http://www.joshritter.com/v2/shows.html
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Saturday 11 March 2006 - Concerts @ Christ Church 2 (13.15)
Today's lunchtime concert will be given by students drawn from
within the Cathedral Girls’ Choir. For details of the series available at:
http://cccdub.ie/music/choir/2006/concerts-ccc-mar-april-2006.html
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Saturday 11 March 2006 - Choral Evensong (17.00)
Sung by the cathedral choir, choral evensong will be
attended by by the Ulster Society of Organists.
Music will include: Tippett (arr.), 'By and by',
Moore responses, Jackson in G, Harris 'Bring us
O Lord God' and concluding organ voluntary,
Duruflé 'Fugue sur le Nom d'Alain Op.7'.
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Sunday 12 March 2006 - Choral Evensong and Baptism (15.30)
Choral Evensong will include the baptism of Megan Caroline Griffiths,
the daughter of Anne O'Neill and Richard Griffiths, both former members
of the cathedral choir. Rose responses, Howells 'Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis
Collegium Regale', Pott 'A Meditation' and concluding voluntary,
Bach 'Prelude and Fugue in G major BWV541'.
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Tuesday 14 March 2006 - Lunchtime Lecture (13.15)
The second of four lectures entitled 'Church of Ireland Rebels',
today's lecture will be on former president of Ireland, Erskine Childers,
and will be given by Senator Martin Mansergh, a former special advisor
to the Taoiseach. For further information on the series, see online at:
http://cccdub.ie/archives/cc-lecture-series/lectures.html and
http://dublin.anglican.org/pr/2006/pr060218-ccc-cofi-rebels.html
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Wednesday 15 March 2006 - Choral Evensong (18.00)
Sung by the cathedral girls’ choir with ATB lay clerks
Rose responses, Noble in B minor and Wesley 'Wash me throughly'.
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Friday 17 March 2006 - St Patrick's day (14.00-17.00)
Due to the St Patrick's day parade which passes the cathedral
in the morning, the cathedral will be open from 2.00pm until
5.00pm only. For details of the St Patrick's Festival, see online at:
http://www.stpatricksday.ie
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Saturday 18 March 2006 - Concerts @ Christ Church 3 (13.15)
Today's lunchtime concert will be given on the organ by David Bremner,
a former holder of the joint Christ Church & St Patrick's cathedrals
organ scholarship and now organist of Sandford and St Philips, Milltown.
He has also organised a series of Lenten concerts at Sandford which
include a number of organ recitals and the premiere of a Viennese 'Passion'.
For further details of the Christ Church lunchtime recitals see online at:
http://cccdub.ie/music/choir/2006/concerts-ccc-mar-april-2006.html
For the Sandford Lenten Recital series, see online at:
http://dublin.anglican.org/pr/2006/pr060221-sandford-lent.html
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Saturday 18 March 2006 - Choral Evensong (17.00)
Sung by the cathedral consort. Reading responses,
Sumsion in G and Brahms 'Ach, arme Welt'.
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Tuesday 21 March 2006 - Lunchtime Lecture (13.15)
The third of four lectures entitled 'Church of Ireland Rebels',
today's lecture will be on Francesca Trench also known as Sadbh
Trínseach, and will be given by art critic, biographer and former Yeats
Curator at the National Gallery of Ireland, Dr Hilary Pyle. See online at:
http://cccdub.ie/archives/cc-lecture-series/lectures.html and
http://dublin.anglican.org/pr/2006/pr060218-ccc-cofi-rebels.html
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Wednesday 22 March 2006 - Choral Evensong (18.00)
Sung by the cathedral girls’ choir with ATB lay clerks
Leighton responses, Gibbons 'The Short Service',
Joubert 'O Lorde, the maker of all thing'.
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Saturday 25 March 2006 - Ecumenical RSCM Choral Festival Day (17.00)
As part of an Royal School of Church Music Ireland Festival Day which
will run from 11.00 until 18.00, an ecumenical RSCM choral festival service
for the Annunciation will be sung by the combined choirs from all traditions
at 17.00. Music to include Tavener 'Hymn to the Mother of God' and
Shephard 'Walsingham Magnificat'. Further details are available online.
Select 'RSCM festival service, Saturday 25 March' in the link below:
http://cccdub.ie/whatsnew/review/2006/06-03rev.html
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Sunday 26 March 2006 - Choral Evensong (15.30)
Sung by the cathedral girls' choir with ATB lay clerks
Leighton responses, Noble in B minor and Howells
'Like as the hart desireth the waterbrooks' with concluding
organ voluntary, Howells 'Psalm Prelude ‘De Profundis’'.
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Sunday 26 March 2006 - An Eocairist (17.00)
The Eucharist will be held in Irish in the Lady chapel at 17.00.
A knowledge of Irish is not essential for attendance at these services.
All are most welcome. Further details available online at:
http://dublin.anglican.org/irish/ir.html
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Tuesday 28 March 2006 - Lunchtime Lecture (13.15)
The last of four lectures entitled 'Church of Ireland Rebels',
today's lecture will be on Harry Nicholls, and will be given by Dr
Martin Maguire of Dundalk Institute of Technology. See online at:
http://cccdub.ie/archives/cc-lecture-series/lectures.html and
http://dublin.anglican.org/pr/2006/pr060218-ccc-cofi-rebels.html
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Thursday 30 March 2006 - Choral Evensong (18.00)
Sung by the soprano lay clerks. Plainsong responses,
Plainsong canticles and Ireland 'Ex ore innocentium'.
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Friday 31 March	2006 - Episcopal Electoral College Service
A service will take place at 11.00 for those attending the
Episcopal Electoral College to choose the next bishop of
Cashel and Ossory. Full details are available online at:
http://dublin.anglican.org/pr/2006/pr060221-electoral-college.html
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For details of availability for those choirs wishing to sing a residency
at Christ Church over the next year, visit our calendar of available dates:
http://cccdub.ie/music/visitingchoirs/visitingchoirs.html
http://cccdub.ie/music/visitingchoirs/visiting-choirs-calendar-2006.html
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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 March 2006 review at:
http://cccdub.ie/whatsnew/review/review.html

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Visit Cultivate, a new cultural centre in Essex Street West,
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Why not visit Dvblinia, the medieval exhibition, or their
new website available at: http://www.dublinia.ie.
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