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CBS Music Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament Choir & Orchestra | |||||||||||||||||||||
CBS Music Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament Choir & Orchestra PO Box 10069 Christchurch New Zealand Website www.cathedral.org.nz Email don.whelan@xtra.co.nz |
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Wednesday at One The weekly Wednesday at One Pro-Cathedral concert series continues to attract a supportive audience, and presents a variety of soloists, ensembles and orchestras. Besides experienced local professional players, opportunities are provided for advanced performers from Canterbury University, and some local secondary schools. |
Music at the Catholic Pro-Cathedral The Cathedral Choir and Orchestra sing a Solemn Choral Mass at 11 am each Sunday at the Christchurch Catholic Pro-Cathedral, where they maintain an extensive repertoire of masses and motets. New members are welcome to the 7.30 pm Wednesday evening rehearsal at the CBS Music Centre, beside the Pro-Cathedral, at 373 Manchester Street, Christchurch. Sight reading ability is expected. Those interested are invited to contact the CBS Musical Director, Don Whelan, phone 358-5873. |
Town Hall Concert The CBS Choir featured at a Town Hall concert on Friday, January 27, 2023, as guests of singer-composer Marlon Williams. They sang a selection of favourite choral pieces, chosen from Marlon’s time with the choir, which included touring to the Baltic States, Portugal and Spain. |
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2026 Concert Music The musical concert year for CBS Music opened on Sunday, 1 February, with Summertime Strings, Suite No. 1 by J.S. Bach, Vivaldi's A Minor Concerto, played and directed by Janet Cubey, and Handel's Organ Concerto in F, with soloist Peter Low, directed by Henry Nicholson. NZ composition was represented by Concert Overture in D, an early Christchurch work by Douglas Lilburn, and the concert concluded with Corelli's Concerto Grosso in D, featuring soloists led by Natalia M. Lomeiko. Beloved Bach was recognised at 2 pm on Sunday March 1 by his Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, and the well-known Cantata 147: Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring, together with motets appropriate to the Lenten season by Victoria, Casals, Mozart and Mawby. The annual 8 pm Good Friday Bach St John Passion will be followed at 2 pm Sunday 14 June by Mystical Mozart, including his Symphony 39, and the rarely performed but richly varied Litany of the Blessed Sacrament, a work similar in style and substance to his Requiem. Another highly successful Christchurch Choral Festival was held at 2 pm Sunday, 9 August, and the usual Haydn concert was given at 2 pm, Sunday 6 September, featuring his Salve Regina, Symphony 98, and Heiligmesse. All Saints’ Day, Sunday November 1 at 2 pm will be marked by the Fauré Requiem, Cantique, and Bach’s Cantata 106 Actus Tragicus. The annual CBS Messiah will be at 1.30 pm on Sunday, December 6, and the Christmas Midnight Mass will acknowledge the Weber bicentennial year with his beautiful Jubilee MassThrough 2026, CBS Music continues its popular Lunch Plus Wednesday At One recital series, with details of each weekly artist posted on their web page - http://www.cathedral.org.nz |
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