 |
||||||||||||
|
Summer Music at the Cathedral June–July, 2008 Summer Music at the Cathedral: The Cathedral has decided not to host a Summer Music Festival this summer. Please join us for exciting musical offerings in June and July, including programs in the Centennial Organ Recital series featuring Jr. Reilly Lewis, Bruce Newick and Douglas Major, the Independence Day Organ Recital with Cathedral organists Scott Dettra and Christopher Jacobson and the YouthCue concert. Events are free and open to the public. 
Centennial Organ Recital SeriesMonthly Sunday evening performances by internationally renowned organists As part of the celebration of the Cathedral’s Centennial, we will present many of the world’s finest organists in a special Centennial Organ Recital Series. This series will also celebrate the Great Organ in anticipation of the upcoming Organ Project which will see two new instruments installed in the Cathedral. This series will take the place of the regular weekly organ recitals for the 2007–2008 season. Recitals take place Sundays at 5 pm, and are free and open to the public. No reservations are required, with the exception of groups.
Cathedral Choral Society ConcertsQuarterly throughout the year Felix Mendelssohn, Elijah J. Reilly Lewis, conductor Sunday, May 18, 2008 at 4 pm Free Pre-concert discussion at 2:30 pm Mendelssohn’s oratorio tells the intensely dramatic story of the Old Testament prophet Elijah through scenes from his life. The music builds in part on the work of Mendelssohn’s baroque predecessors, Bach and Handel, but the style also marks Mendelssohn’s own emergence as an early romantic composer. Nmon Ford, Elijah; Kelley Nassief, soprano; Jennifer Hines, mezzo soprano; Benjamin Butterfield, tenor, Nicholas Bairatchnyi, treble. – Buy tickets online now or call the box office at 1 (877) 537-2228. – For more information, go to www. cathedralchoralsociety.org.
|
||||||||||||