04april

Wednesday 2 April at 1.15pm
Emerging Artist Concert
Alexandra Boyling (cello) & Rio Xiang (piano)

Wednesday 9 April at 10.30am
Concert
The Highlands Sinfonia

Wednesday 9 April at 1.15pm
Midweek Lunchtime Concert
Michael de Huy (piano)

Sunday 13 April at 4.00pm
Choral Communion
St Jude's Chamber Choir

Wendesday 16 April at 1.15pm
Midweek Lunchtime Recital
Robbie Nelson (piano)

Good Friday 18 April at 4.00pm
Oratorio
The Seven Last Words of Christ (Théodore Dubois)
St Jude's Singers and Soloists

At 4.00pm on Good Friday, the St Jude’s Singers with soloists Karen Fitz-Gibbon (soprano), David Allen (tenor) and Michael Hissey (baritone), will sing the oratorio The Seven Last Words of Christ by the Romantic French composer and organist Théodore Dubois. This work was composed in 1867 for Saint Clotilde in Paris, where Dubois was the choir director (Maitre de chapelle).
In the twentieth century, the work became synonymous with Chicago’s Second Presbyterian Church where there has been an annual Good Friday performance since 1936! The work is in nine movements: one each for Christ’s seven words from the cross with and introductory movement and concluding prayer. It depicts the spiritually moving scenes of the crucifixion presented in musical composition; the angry crowds, the anguish of Jesus’ mother, the thief on the cross, and Christ’s suffering and death on the cross.

Easter Day
Sunday 20 April at 11.00am
Choral Communion
The St Jude's Chamber Choir

At the 11.00am Service of Choral Communion on Easter Day, the St Jude's Chamber Choir will sing a setting of the service by the great classical composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.Mozart composed this servicehe was Music Director for the Archbishop of Saltzburg (Austria). This service, which sets to music the traditional Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Benedictus and Agnus Dei, is in the form of a “Missa Pastoralis” and was probably composed shortly after Mozart returned from his third visit to Italy in 1773. Settings of this form were common in Italy in Mozart’s time. They are song-like and often use folk songs or other well-known melodies and use rhythms from Christmas Pastorales.
The Introit is Henry Ley’s setting of the Easter hymn “The Strife is O’er.” Ley was organist at Christ College Cathedral, Oxford, and for some time in charge of Chapel Music at Eton College. He was professor of organ at the Royal College of Music.
The Communion Motet is “Laudate Dominum” from Mozart’s “Vesperae solennes de confessore” a work based on Psalms for liturgical use in Salzburg Cathedral. The Laudate Dominum is a setting of Psalm 117 and is the most popular movement from this work.

23 April at 1.15pm
Midweek Lunchtime Recital
Glenn Amer (piano)

A recital inspired by ANZAC Day

World War One
Keep the home fires burning (Lena Guilbert Ford - Ivor Novello)
It’s a long way to Tipperary (Jack Judge and Harry Williams) Over There (George M. Cohan)
When you come to the end of a perfect day
(Carrie Jacobs-Bond)
Roses of Picardy (Frederick E. Weatherly - Haydn Wood) Somewhere a voice is calling (Eileen Newton - Arthur F. Tate)

World War Two
Trees (Joyce Kilmer - Oscar Rasbach)
WW2 Medley arranged by Glenn Amer:
Auf Wiederseh’n Sweetheart (Parsons - Storch)
The white cliffs of Dover (Burton - Kent)
When the lights go on again (Benjamin, Marcus and Seiler) We’ll meet again (Parker and Hughes)
We’ll gather lilacs
(“Perchance to Dream”, words and music by Ivor Novello)

Saturday 26 April

Sunday 27 April at 3.30am
Pre-Service Recital
Brett McKern (organ)

Programme:
French Organ Composers
F. Couperin, Offertoire from Messe pour les Paroisses
A. Guilmant, Offertory in G
L. Boellmann, Suite Gothique
   i.Introduction et chorale
    ii.Menuet gothique
    iii.Priere a Notre Dame
    iv.Toccata