SUMMER SUNDAYS @ St. James' Cathedral, Toronto

Sundays at 4pm in July and August followed by Choral Evensong



11th season: Cathedral organists of Canada, the U.K. and U.S.A.



St. James' Cathedral is at the corner of King and Church Streets in Toronto,
Canada;
Admission to these nine 30-minute concerts is free, although donations are
welcome at the conclusion of the recital, and a collection will be received
during the service of Choral Evensong which follows.





Sunday 20 July, 4:00pm

MICHAEL BLOSS, organ

Organist, Park Congregational Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Former Associate Organist and Choral Director, St. James' Cathedral



Olivier MESSIAEN (1908-1992)

Transports de joie (from l'Ascension)



Leo SOWERBY (1895-1968)

Fantasy for Flute Stops
(from Suite for organ)



Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750)

Passacaglia, c, BWV 582





MICHAEL BLOSS was born in Toronto. He currently serves as Director of Music
Ministries at First (Park) Congregational Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan,
having held previous appointments in Toronto as Director of Music Ministries
at Timothy Eaton Memorial Church and Associate Organist and Choral Director
at the Cathedral Church of St. James. In September 2003 Michael returns to
Toronto's St. James' Cathedral, this time as its 17th Organist and Director
of Music.



He was the first Canadian to win First Prize in the 1986 International Organ
Competition at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and to receive the top
prize at the 1992 IX. International J.S. Bach Organ Competition held in
Leipzig, Germany. Michael enjoys a varied life as chamber musician and solo
performer having made appearances in Europe, Japan, the US. and throughout
Canada. His US appearances have included performances at the Cadet Chapel,
West Point, the Cleveland Museum of Art, St. Paul's Cathedral, Detroit, as
well as Chicago's famed Fourth Presbyterian Church.



Increasingly, Michael is making a mark in the area of promoting healthy
music ministry in churches through a consulting enterprise known as
WorshipWorks. Interest in the holistic approach offered to revisioning music
and worship has sparked weekend workshops from Oshkosh to Toronto.





SUMMER SUNDAYS @ SJC



July 2003

6 MICHAEL CAPON, organ

Christ Church Cathedral, Fredericton

13 GILES BRYANT, organ

All Saints' Church, Peterborough (formerly of St. James'
Cathedral)

20 MICHAEL BLOSS, organ

Park Congregational Church, Grand Rapids (formerly, and imminently, of St.
James' Cathedral)

27 MERVYN COUSINS, RICHARD LEA, organ

Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral



August 2003

3 ANDREW KOTYLO, organ

graduate student, Indiana University (formerly of St. Paul's
Cathedral, Buffalo)

10 STEPHEN MALLINGER, organ

St. Luke's Cathedral, Sault Ste-Marie

17 MATTHEW LARKIN, organ

St. James' Cathedral, Toronto

24 FRANCES MACDONNELL, organ

Christ Church Cathedral, Ottawa

31 CHRISTOPHER DAWES, organ

St. James' Cathedral, Toronto



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