Director of Music Blog
NEWS ITEM – Cathedral Concert Series 2019 opener supports Notre Dame, Paris
April 29th, 2019 The Cathedrals Concert Series 2019 opened with a programme of both reflective and exhilarating music to celebrate the Easter season and Divine Mercy Sunday. Following news of the ...
Christ, my hope, has risen – Alleluia !!
April 25th, 2019 How wonderful that the Church allows us to extend our Easter joy into the week following Easter Sunday making it the Easter Octave. And so we, with great joy, can ...
Precious (musical) jewels of Holy Week
April 18th, 2019 The Church has over many centuries accumulated such musical treasures - divinely inspired texts and melodies spun into the most beautiful musical masterpieces to move us to prayer and ultimately bring ...
NEWS ITEM: Cathedral hosts WAAPA students !!
This Thursday evening (11th April), WA's finest young singers perform Gabriel Fauré's Requiem, conducted by Kristin Bowtell and accompanied by organist Stewart Smith, filling St Mary's Cathedral with the transcendental ...
NEWS ITEM: Prayerful, Lenten sounds fill Cathedral
April 8th, 2019 The Cathedral was filled with prayerful sounds with its annual Lenten tribute to Our Lady which took place yesterday, Sunday 7th April, as a prelude to the Solemn ...
Ordinary Time – ordinary music?
January 20th, 2019 No. Upon reflection, if the Eucharist is the ‘source and summit of the Christian life’ (Lumen Gentium Art 11) and we are ministering to something which Roman Missal refers ...
The music of Epiphany
January 8th, 2019 And so our journey through the Christmas season leads us to Epiphany - perhaps we’ve already packed away the tinsel, but let’s remind ourselves that we are still ...
The 12 days of Christmas – huh?
December 28th, 2018 It really does sometimes seem that Christmas begins somewhere in late November and ends somewhere around Boxing Day...A couple of years ago I was in the city shopping ...
Christmas thoughts from our choristers
December 14th, 2018 As the Cathedral’s Music Programme prepares for the celebrations of Christmas, here are some thoughts from some of our youngest choristers: ‘I am celebrating my second Christmas here St. ...