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It’s an important night in the cathedral tonight, as we have the installation service for our new Dean, the Venerable Dermot Dunne. Admission to the service is by ticket only, and we’re expecting a big crowd. There’ll be representatives from the diocese, and from across the southern province too – and a lot of extra […]
There’s nothing happening on the musical front this week, as the cathedral choir are on a half-term break. We get a week’s holiday in the middle of every term, which is a welcome rest – especially this term, after a very busy Trinity Sunday (our patronal festival) weekend. Last Friday we performed our annual summer […]
Over the last couple of weeks, there’s been quite a few auditionees visiting Dublin and spending some time with the cathedral choir. It’s great to see that the Gap Year Scheme has yielded such a large amount of interest, and we certainly have found several really good singers for next year. It’s just a shame […]
Some rather exciting news is beginning to leak out this morning regarding the cathedral choir. It seems that a TV production company that makes documentaries for RTÉ is going to make a fly-on-the-wall series about the Christ Church choir. For the next 2-3 months we’re going to have camera crews watching our every move – […]
I’m a bit sick of Christmas carols. Tonight was the second of our two carol services at the cathedral. On Sunday afternoon we had a couple of hundred people at our Five Lessons and Carols, and tonight we had a full house of about 500 folk for the diocesan Nine Lessons and Carols. This comes […]
It may be interesting for some people not involved in cathedral music to learn that choirs normally operate around academic terms. The involvement of children as boy and girl trebles, and also of young adults as choral scholars, means that choirs very often have to work in sync with schools and universities. The autumn (Michaelmas) […]