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November 2015
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November 2015
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1 Sun
4pm - St Mary's Cathedral
Michael Butterfield
Retiring collection
2 Mon
12.30pm - Sydney Town Hall
Robert Ampt (Sydney City Organist) with Richard McGregor and Donald McKay (bagpipes)
Free
6.00pm - Christ Church St Laurence
REQUIEM MASS in D FLAT: IN COMMEMORATION OF ALL THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED, by Walter ValeFirst Australian performance, Christ Church St Laurence, All Souls' Day, 2nd November 2015, 6.00pm
Dr Walter Sydney Vale (1875-1939) was Director of Music at All Saints' Margaret Street from 1907 to 1939. Whilst there he designed that church's famous 1910 Harrison organ (containing pipes from the previous one by Hill & Sons, as at CCSL), composed a number of anthems and hymn tunes, and edited a Plainsong Psalter following study at Solesmes Abbey (this Psalter still often being used at CCSL Evensong). He was a personal friend of Rachmaninov and compiled a Mass setting from his Liturgy of St John Chrysostom in 1915, to aid All Saints' fund-raising for Russian prisoners in Germany. Rachmaninov was so delighted by the "new" work that he autographed the scores of every boy in the choir, linking his own name with theirs, the work was duly published by Boosey & Hawkes and remains in print.
Less well known outside London, Vale's Requiem was written in 1908 but was not published until the year before his death, though it had been regularly performed in the meantime. It enshrines Vale's three most notable musical influences - Eastern Orthodox and Gregorian Chant, held in a fine amalgam of English Romanticism. It is set for a "double" chancel choir in eight vocal parts, covering a range of nearly four octaves from the "Russian" bottom D flat bass notes, to the solo soprano's top B flat. Some of the more English aspects of the Mass slightly anticipate the later writing of Sir William Harris (1883-1973) whose exquisite setting of Donne's famous text Bring Us O Lord God, also in the lush "dark" key of D flat, is being sung as the Communion Motet on this occasion. Apart from its approachable and interesting musical qualities, the Vale work is of historic interest in that it is probably the first English setting of the Requiem Mass since the Reformation, and was undoubtedly not without controversy in 1908 when performance of such works would have been proscribed in most Anglican parishes. It is also presumed to be the first setting of this liturgical text in English (other than the Kyrie Eleison), using BCP and English Missal translations.
As well as being almost certainly the first Australian performance of the Vale, this is possibly also its first performance outside London. Thanks for this are due to former CCSL chorister Daniel Mitterdorfer, who returned to an original score in the British Library for this careful new edition by Crescendo Publications.
3 Tue
4 Wed
5 Thu
1.10 - 1.40pm St Andrew's Cathedral
Mark Bensted
$5 entry
6 Fri
7 Sat
Organ Ramble
11.30am - St Mary's Anglican Church, Waverley
2.00pm - St Jude's Anglican Church, Randwick
followed by the OMSS AGM
8 Sun
3.30pm - Sydney University Great Hall
GLEBE MUSIC FESTIVAL
Czech Philarmonic Children's ChoirAdmission free
(Carillon recital by University carillonists at 2pm)
9 Mon
10 Tue
11 Wed
12 Thu
1.10 - 1.40pm St Andrew's Cathedral
Philip Reichardt (St Phillip's, Eastwood)
$5 entry
8.00pm - Sydney Opera House
Cameron Carpenter performs on his International Touring Organ
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For a discounted ticket package, including Olivier Latry later in the month, please click here:
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13 Fri
14 Sat
7 pm - the Festival at Sylvania will present as a fundraiser Buster Keaton's classic, The General (1927).
John Batts will accompany the film and beforehand shall play a Conn organ with music and songs from the era.
Frank Vickery Village
Entrance at 42 Bellingara Road, Sylvania
7 – 8.30 pm with light refreshments
Tickets $20 at the door
AUSTRALIA'S SILENT FILM FESTIVAL
Website: www.ozsilentfilmfestival.com.au
Phone: 0419 267 318
Email: info@ozsilentfilmfestival.com.au
15 Sun
4pm - St Mary's Cathedral
Ross Cobb
Retiring collection
16 Mon
17 Tue
18 Wed
12 noon - Sydney Conservatorium
B.Mus final recitals
11.00am - Michael Butterfield
12 noon - Edith Yam
1.00pm - Marko Sever
Free entry
19 Thu
1.10 - 1.40pm St Andrew's Cathedral
$5 entry
20 Fri
21 Sat
3.30pm - St Mark's, Picton
Concert in aid of the restoration of the only Wordsworth organ in Australia.
Benjamin McKenzie Organist. The Choir and Orchestra of Wollondilli Anglican Grammar School.
Donation requested.
Refreshments provided.
Ample parking.
22 Sun
2 - 3pm Christ Church St Laurence, Sydney
Organ Recital Series on 3rd Sundays
Shin-Young Latry (Paris)
Enquiries: 0430 372 990
Entry by note donation
23 Mon
24 Tue
25 Wed
Time: 1:15 – 1:45pm
Place: St James' Church
Programme
BACH Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 538 'Dorian'
DUPRÉ Cortège et Litanie
BACH Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659 4
ELGAR Pomp & Circumstance No. 1
Alistair Nelson
26 Thu
1.10 - 1.40pm St Andrew's Cathedral
Andrej Kouznetsov (St John's Cathedral, Brisbane)
$5 entry
27 Fri
11.00am - Sydney Opera House
Olivier Latry - solo recital.
Tickets through the Opera House.
RECITAL CANCELLED DUE TO ILL HEALTH OF THE PERFORMER
1.10pm St Stephen's, Macquarie St, Sydney
Samuel Giddy (winner, Intermediate Section, Sydney Organ Competition 2014)Program details
Donation welcome
Enquiries: 0413 166 803 (or email Mark Quarmby)
28 Sat
7pm Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
NSW Youth Orchestra (inaugural concert)
Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony with organist Nico Tjoelker
Enquiries: info@nswyo.com.au
29 Sun
30 Mon
