Director of Music Blog - 2019
Advent – blink and you might just miss it !!
December 23rd, 2019 The season of Advent lasts for around four weeks - this rather short season (in comparison to Lent and Easter) leads into another even shorter season: Christmas - ...
Happy feast day !!
9th December, 2019 And so our Cathedral celebrates its Patronal feast - the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. Ever since its humble early days as the building we now refer to as ...
Bells
December 6th, 2019 Each Sunday before the 11am Solemn Sung Mass I hear our Cathedral bells chime - my mind is filled with many things in those final moments before Mass ...
Prayer of a young chorister
22nd November, 2019 Dear Jesus, thank you for my choir. Thank you for my choir friends – they are great and it’s fun when we are singing together and the pipe organ ...
NEWS ITEM – Evening of classics at Cathedral !!
13th November, 2019 Join us for an elegant evening of well-loved classics presented by the Cathedral Choir and the St George's College Chamber Orchestra this Sunday evening at 7:15pm !! This vibrant ...
The composer – and the Creator
8th November, 2019 As we prepare for the Cathedral’s upcoming concert, it always amazes me how music just seemed to pour out of some composers - their output of works is ...
The King to Whom all things live…
1st November, 2019 As we approach All Souls Day each year we have the usual array of performances of Requiems - Faure, Durufle...and rightly so. But is there something more to be ...
So what’s in a chant?
October 8th, 2019 It’s often said ‘what’s in a name?’ But how about this question: what’s in a chant? At first glance it’s just dots - and no expression markings - allegro, lento, ...
NEWS ITEM: WASO Chorus sings at St Mary’s !!
September 20th, 2019 The WASO chorus once again performs at St Mary’s Cathedral this coming Sunday at 2pm in what promises to be a sellout concert !! Singing Rachmaninov’s ‘Vespers’, this is ...
A Marian trilogy
September 13th, 2019 And so we find ourselves arriving at September - and a trilogy of Marian feasts to celebrate !! [caption id="attachment_4143" align="alignleft" width="244"] Flowers adorn Our Lady's statue to honour ...