Due to the last-minute unavailability of a choir that had been booked to
sing at this event, Event Dimensions is seeking a choir to sing at the
switching on of the Christmas lights and launch of the Giving Tree
appeal at the Blanchardstown Centre on Wednesday 2 December between 3pm
and 5pm. Anyone who is able to offer assistance should contact the
Director of Event Dimensions, Sarah Jones, on 01 801 0333 / 086 860 5205
/ sarah@...



There are two must-have songs: "Joy to world" and "We wish you a merry
Christmas". Otherwise, I'm assuming that programming will be left to the
discretion of the choir involved.



Hope that someone can help!

Peter Parshall
Music Development Officer
Co-ordinator RSCM Ireland
Christ Church Cathedral
Christ Church Place
Dublin 8
Ireland

Tel: +353 (0)1 677 8099 ext 204
Fax: +353 (0)1 679 8991
Email: music@...
Web: www.cccdub.ie





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Motion of the Heart



New, cutting edge, early music production from eX



... the romantic heart, the spiritual heart, the anatomical heart and the
aesthetic heart are all here in a wild and beautiful music theatre presentation.
Baroque music sung and played on period instruments by top international artists
from England, France, Germany, Holland, Ireland and the United States, costumes
by one of Italy’s top theatrical costume designers and direction by Eric Fraad
are just some of the reasons that you shouldn’t miss this.



Musically sublime and visually exhilarating this is yet another ‘trade mark’
production from eX.



Monday 30th November at 8:00 PM

St. Peter’s Church, Drogheda

Tickets €10 (to include glass of wine) available at the door



Sunday 6th December at 3:00 PM

In Association with the National Gallery of Ireland

The Shaw Room, National Gallery of Ireland

Merrion Square West, Dublin 2

Tickets €22.50 Concession €17.50

Tickets available in advance online at:  www.Tickets.ie <http://www.tickets.ie/>

Tickets also available at the door



For further information please contact:

info@...





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Karina Lundström

Lundström Arts Management



Phone: +353 (0)1 8450444

Mobile: +353 (0)87 2426122

Skype: karina.lundstrom

Email:  <mailto:info@...> info@...

Web:  <http://www.lundstrom-am.com> www.lundstrom-am.com





Postal Address:

86 Ard na Mara

Malahide

Co. Dublin

Ireland



Member of International Artists Managers' Association





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Volunteer Concert Choral Singers
Apply as a December candidate for the
Rome Festival Concert Chorus June 27 to July 12, 2010

- Live among the inspirations of Rome, Italy

- Join artists from around the world

- Perform choral works with the Rome Festival Orchestra and Chorus

- Attend classes in conducting, voice, and diction

- For general information, email addresses of alumni, and application forms
visit web site http://www.romefestival.org

This opportunity is sponsored jointly by an American educational charity and an
Italian associazione culturale.

Email me directly to learn the best opportunities for you.  Kindly include your 
voice type, career status, and chorus.  I look forward to hearing from you and
helping you.

PLEASE NOTE:  Our reception address in the Empire State Building has changed. 
Please mail by first class mail to:
Rome Festival Volunteer Chorus
Empire State Building, 59th Floor
New York, NY 10118 USA

Molly Barber, Administrator romefestival@... "Those who do not hear the
music think the dancers mad"

The Culwick Choral Society presents:

MESSIAH George Frideric Handel

Proceeds in aid of ARC Cancer Support Centre

With guest soloists:

RÓISÍN O'GRADY (soprano),
ALISON BROWNER (alto),
EAMONN MULHALL (tenor),
ROLAND DAVITT (bass),

& Orchestra (Alan Smale, leader),

BERNIE SHERLOCK (conductor).

St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin 8
Wednesday 2nd & Thursday 3rd December, 8 pm

Tickets €30 (seating unreserved).

For tickets and credit card bookings:
ARC Cancer Support Centre, 65 Eccles Street, Dublin 7, Tel.: 01-8307333 or
email: messiah@... (no booking fee);
Ticketmaster: Tel.: 0818-719300 (subject to booking fee);
St. Patrick's Cathedral shop, Tel.: 01-4539472 or at www.stpatrickscathedral.ie.

Visit Culwick website:  www.culwick.org
Visit ARC website: www.arccancersupport.ie

General Manager - Association of Irish Choirs

The Association of Irish Choirs (AOIC) is the national resource and support
organisation for choral music in Ireland, providing a range of artistic and
education programmes, activities and supports for choirs, singers, teachers and
conductors. In addition, AOIC runs the Irish Youth Choir.

AOIC is in the process of moving to its new home on the vibrant campus of the
University of Limerick and seeks a General Manager to be based in AOIC's new
offices in the Concert Hall building. This new, full-time position offers an
exciting opportunity for the right candidate to be involved in the continued
development of AOIC at this time of change.

Reporting to the CEO, the General Manager will have responsibility for the
smooth and efficient day to day running of the organisation with a focus on
operations, administration, financial management, and projects management. The
postholder will be the central manager and liaison point for a small, remote,
distributed team.

This position would be ideally suited to someone with a background in arts
management and who has a knowledge of music, in particular choral music.

Further information is available on www.aoic.ie/news/

Closing date: 5pm on Tuesday 1st December 2009.

Email: ceo.aoic@...

AOIC is funded by the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon


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MESSIAH George Frideric Handel

THE CULWICK CHORAL SOCIETY (Dublin):

with:
Katy Kelly (soprano),
Chloe Hinton (alto),
Jacek Wislocki (tenor),
Tristan Caldwell (bass),

and
David Leigh (organ),
Culwick Ensemble, (leader Brona Fitzgerald),

BERNIE SHERLOCK (conductor).

Sacred Heart Church, Roscommon,
Friday 20 November 2009, 7.30 pm.

Tickets €20 (unreserved seating).

Tickets available from Roscommon Arts Centre Box Office,
Tel.: (090) 6625824, Mon-Fri 10am-5.30pm,
Web:  www.roscommonartscentre.ie.

The Culwick is honoured to bring Handel's Messiah to Roscommon for this
performance in the magnificent and atmospheric setting of the Sacred Heart
Church, Abbey Street, Roscommon.

Visit the choir's website:  www.culwick.org.

ONE DAY FINE
The National Chamber Choir of Ireland, conducted by Paul Hillier

The Great Hall, Queen's University Belfast
Tuesday, December 1st
8.00pm

The Shaw Room, The National Gallery of Ireland
Thursday December 3rd 2009
6.30pm

The National Chamber Choir of Ireland will present a collection of work which
explores Ireland's influence in choral music. The programme will span from the
early anonymous collection of the Dublin Troper, through to the much-loved music
of C.V Stanford, Arnold Bax, E.J.Moeran and Percy Grainger. It will also include
work by living composers, Ian Wilson and Kevin Volans.

The programme will include:

Laeta lux est hodierna (In honour of St. Patrick) - From the Dublin Troper
The Beloved and her Lover - Ian Wilson (UK Premiere)
One Day Fine - Kevin Volans
Irish Tune from Co. Derry - arr. Percy Grainger
The Blue Bird - C. V. Stanford
This Worldes Joie - Arnold Bax
Songs of Springtime- E.J. Moeran

Tickets Euro14 (Euro12 concession)
Tickets are available at the door, or in advance from the National Chamber Choir
Box Office on 01 7005665.

For further information, please visit www.nationalchamberchoir.com

Performance made possible with the kind support of the Arts Council of Ireland,
the Arts Council of Northern Ireland Lottery Funding  DCU, Dublin City Council
and the National Gallery of Ireland.

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Carols at Christ Church



A seasonal concert featuring

The choirs of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin



Tuesday 15 December 2009 & Wednesday 16 December 2009 at 8.00pm

Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin



Tickets Eur18 (concessions Eur14) from
www.tickets.ie/christchurchcathedral



Tickets also available from:

City Discs, Temple Bar Lane South, Dublin 2

Road Records, 16B Fade Street, Dublin 2

Plugged Record, Washington Street, Cork



Festive fun for all the family

Come and join in!

______________________________



Peter Parshall
Music Development Officer
Co-ordinator RSCM Ireland
Christ Church Cathedral
Christ Church Place
Dublin 8
Ireland

Tel: +353 (0)1 677 8099 ext 204
Fax: +353 (0)1 679 8991
Email: music@...
Web: www.cccdub.ie





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DEBRA Ireland are looking for some carol singers to help raise funds for our
charity over the Christmas period.

DEBRA Ireland is the national charity established in 1988 to provide patient
support services and to drive research into treatments and cures for those
living with the genetic skin condition, epidermolysis bullosa (EB).

This is a very distressing and painful condition which causes the skin layers
and internal body linings to blister and wound at the slightest touch.  Due to
the presence of constant wounds, patients with a severe form of EB are
susceptible to a very aggressive form of skin cancer, from as early as their
teenage years.

DEBRA Ireland is striving to end this heartache and pain by funding high level
research programmes to find treatments and cures for EB and skin cancer.

We have booked the venues and will supply you with everything you need; all you
have to do is come along with a band of merry singers!

If you are interested, please contact Jennifer on 01 412 6924 or email
jennifer@....

Your help would really mean the world to us, especially during these difficult
times.

Thank you!

Singing Psalms Vol 2 (Responsorial Psalms for Year C) is now published and
will be launched officially on:

Saturday 14th Nov in All Saints', Clooney, Derry @ 11am

and

Sunday 22nd Nov in St Finbarre's Cathedral, Cork, @ 7pm (Choral Evensong)

All welcome to attend either event - and even if you can't, buy the book!!!

Regards,

P

--
Rev'd Peter Thompson
Rector, St Michael's, Castlecaulfield & St Patrick's, Donaghmore
Warden, the Irish Guild of Organists and Choristers

http://www.geocities.com/irish_guild/
http://www.geocities.com/peteralrickthompson/

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Have you tried Julian's Dictionary of Hymnology? It's usually a reliable
source for originals.

P

2009/11/5 graham Walsh <khmusicfiles@...>

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>
> I wonder if someone can help...
> I'm looking for Henry Francis Lyte's ORIGINAL setting of his hymn "Abide
> with me".
> Most commonly sung to William Monk's "Eventide", my searching on the net
> for Lyte's original setting has been spectacularly unsuccessful!
> Thanks in advance.
> Graham Walsh
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--
Rev'd Peter Thompson
Rector, St Michael's, Castlecaulfield & St Patrick's, Donaghmore
Warden, the Irish Guild of Organists and Choristers

http://www.geocities.com/irish_guild/
http://www.geocities.com/peteralrickthompson/

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and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient you are
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Carols for All - 20th December in UL Concert Hall



‘Carols for All', Sunday 20th December, UCH Limerick

The Association of Irish Choirs and Limerick's University Concert Hall present
‘Carols for All’ on Sunday 20th December at 3.00pm.

Get into the true spirit of Christmas this year at University Concert Hall!

A host of singers will join a full brass band and celebrity guest readers for a
wonderful afternoon of music and song! The biggest choir in the mid-west region
will celebrate the true spirit of Christmas in the most traditional of ways,
through carols and Christmas songs

Join in and enjoy the sound of up to 1,000 voices in this delightful way to mark
the festive season!

Ticket prices: Adults €10 / Groups & Conc. €8
Tickets available from University Concert Hall, Limerick
T: 061 331549
w: www.uch.ie/events/122009_carols_forall.html


Association of Irish Choirs / Cumann Náisiúnta na gCór
Enhancing life through choral music
T: +353-(0)21- 4312296
E: info@...
W: www.aoic.ie



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Dunedin Consort 14 November 2009

8pm on 14 November 2009
Church of Ireland Collon

Dunedin Consort Bach Motets
Neil Metcalfe Consort Director

Collon Church provides the venue for Saturday evening’s concert where
the Dunedin Consort make their Republic of Ireland debut.  Winners of
the 2008 Midem Baroque Award and the 2007 Classic FM Gramophone Award
for Best Baroque Vocal Album for their recording of Handel’s ‘Dublin’
Messiah (Linn CKD 285), the Dunedin Consort, under the combined
Artistic Direction of John Butt, Susan Hamilton and Philip Hobbs, have
performed throughout Scotland and Europe.
The Consort has appeared at festivals in Belgium, Canada, France,
Italy, Spain, and the Channel Islands as well as at Edinburgh
International Festival. It has worked in collaboration with ensembles
including the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia 21, Scottish
Ensemble, Mr. McFall’s Chamber, Paragon Ensemble, Florilegium, La
Serenissima and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, has appeared on the
major BBC television channels, and been broadcast on Radio 3 and BBC
Scotland.

For their inaugural concert in this part of the world, Dunedin Consort
will perform a programme entitled “Bach’s Motets and his
Forefathers”.  J.S. Bach’s motets were seen as the pinnacle of
virtuosic and expressive choral writing even in the late eighteenth
century – a time when most of the composer’s output was entirely
forgotten. Mozart famously enthused about ‘Singet dem Herrn’ and
avidly studied its vocal parts, on a visit to Leipzig in 1789. Bach
himself seems to have taken particular pride in the genre,
distinguished by its use of singers on every line of music, with texts
exclusively from the Bible or the Lutheran chorale tradition. Motets
seem to have been cherished by the Bach family, and Sebastian was
largely responsible for preserving the works of his elder relatives
(it is likely that he requested J.C. Bach’s ‘Lieber Herr Gott’ to be
sung at his own funeral). By hearing three of his greatest motets side-
by-side those of the previous generations we can hear how the family
craft developed towards what later commentators saw as the type of art
that somehow transcends its original context and use. All the works
are superbly crafted, but we can also hear considerable expressive
character in the music of the earlier Bachs, such as Bach’s cousin,
Johann Michael (who was also his father-in-law) and particularly in
the motets of Michael’s brother, Johann Christoph. He was the organist
in Eisenach at the time Sebastian lived there, and his music sounds
almost Romantic in its extraordinarily direct expression.

Tickets €20 Concessions €15

For Box Office, contact Nicola on 087 6115679, or call into Ardee Town
Council Offices on the Fair Green, Ardee.

Dunedin Consort
‘heartfelt and beautiful singing… admirable clarity and direction.’
The Herald
Winners of the 2008 Midem Baroque Award and the 2007 Classic FM
Gramophone Award for Best Baroque Vocal Album for their recording of
Handel’s ‘Dublin’ Messiah (Linn CKD 285), the Dunedin Consort, under
the combined Artistic Direction of John Butt, Susan Hamilton and
Philip Hobbs, perform throughout Scotland and Europe.
John Butt is musical director for all larger projects and under him,
the group has consolidated its existing strength in the Baroque
repertoire, together with the development of the Dunedin Players as an
ensemble dedicated to performance with period instruments. The group
also continues to commission new pieces to complement the old: William
Sweeney, Errollyn Wallen, Peter Nelson and Sally Beamish have recently
written or arranged works to complement the era of George Buchanan and
Song of Songs settings of Heinrich Schütz, the motets of Bach and the
tercentenary of Buxtehude’s death.
The Consort has appeared at festivals in Belgium, Canada, France,
Italy, Spain, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands as well as at
Edinburgh International Festival. It has worked in collaboration with
ensembles including the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia 21,
Scottish Ensemble, Mr McFall’s Chamber, Paragon Ensemble, Florilegium,
La Serenissima and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, has appeared on the
major BBC television channels, and been broadcast on Radio 3 and BBC
Scotland.
Continuing to work with Linn records, in 2008 the Dunedin Consort &
Players released Bach’s last performing version, c.1742, of the St
Matthew Passion (Linn CKD 313) and Handel’s Acis and Galatea, was
released in November 2008.

GOETHE-INSTITUT CHOIR ANNUAL CHRISTMAS CONCERT
NATIONAL CONCERT HALL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30th at 8.00 pm

The Goethe-Institut Choir opens the Christmas season at the National Concert
Hall with "Gloria", a concert of choruses from works by Bach and Bruckner,
Haydn's Kleine Orgelmesse as well as instrumental works by Mozart, Rossini and
Dubois. Traditional European carols will complete this unique performance.

Tickets, priced at €22 (€18 concession) are available from www.nch.ie
or from the NCH box office on 01 4170000.

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Concert programme details:

Anton Bruckner
Gloria from Mass No. 2 in E minor

Gioacchino Antonio Rossini
Sonata III in C major
	 Young European Strings Chamber Orchestra
	 Conducted by Ronald Masin

Franz Josef Haydn
Mass No. 7 in B flat major, Hob. XXII:7, Missa brevis
Sancti Johannis de Deo —  Kleine Orgelmesse

Christmas carols
Il est né, le divin enfant
Gdy się Chrystus rodzi
Joy to the world
Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
Oíche Nollag
Silent Night/Oíche chúin/Stille Nacht
Adeste fideles/O come all ye faithful

Theodore Dubois, Toccata in G
	 Reinhold Meiser, Organ

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Divertimento in D major, KV 136
	 Young European Strings Chamber Orchestra
	 Conducted by Ronald Masin

Johann Sebastian Bach
from Mass in B minor, BWV 232
Gloria in excelsis — Et in terra pax —
Laudamus te — Gratias agimus tibi

Hi everyone,  We rehearse on Tuesday evenings 8-9:30pm, and perform
weekly on Sundays 12 noon mass in St John the Baptist church in the
village of Blackrock.  Re-formed in February this year, the choir has
quickly built up a core repertoire. We are interested in singing music
from plainchant, polyphony right through to contemporary music, with a
focus on the good stuff largely. The choir enjoy the music of John
O'Keefe, Ronan McDonagh and Patrice O'Connor especially.
We are always looking for new singers. currently we have 8 sopranos, 4
altos and 2 baritones. Most singers are active in other choirs around
the city including AIB choir, RTE Philharmonic Choir, UCD Philharmonic
Choir. Our members are drawn from all areas of Dublin with a wide array
of backgrounds, some are trained, others with a keen interest, and all
looking to develop a good level of sight reading and music appreciation.
In order for us to delve into and enjoy more fantastic choral music,
polyphonic music especially, we would invite ladies and gentlemen to
contact us (the usual cry for a tenor or 3 and a bass or 2). If you know
anyone looking for a great challenge, please mention it to them too.
Best wishes,
Tom Kehoe


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