Mann While edits for this recording were in progress, we lost another giant of the Anglican choral tradition in Sir David Willcocks. Willcocks is particularly well-known for his descants to beloved Christmas carols such as Once in Royal David's City and O Come all ye faithful, and for his time as Director of the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, A maiden most gentle traditional French melody One of Andrew Carter's many popular carols, A maiden most gentle text by the composer sets a lilting, traditional melody against a sparkling organ accompaniment.
The varied choral textures build to a double-choir climax on the final Ave Maria. Sir Philip Ledger A little child there is yborn Sir Philip Ledger's A Little child there is yborn is a joyful, light-hearted carol. To some listeners, it may suggest the influence of the composer's time with Benjamin Britten while serving as artistic director of the Aldeburgh Festival. In Dulci Jubilo First Recording That the name of Robin Milford is not better known today tells us more of the vicissitudes of the world of music than of the quality of his output.
Born the son of Sir Humphrey Milford, founder of the music department of Oxford University Press, Robin Milford enjoyed a prosperous upbringing and studied organ and composition at the Royal College of Music, where his composition teachers were Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
In Dulci Jubilo (hornpipe) on The Session
The latter once wrote to the conductor Adrian Boult, "lf I wanted to show the intelligent foreigner something worth doing which could only possibly come out of England, I think I would show him something of the work of Milford. His compositional career has embraced both large and small-scale choral works, orchestral and instrumental pieces, a piano concerto, two children's operas, music for television and specialist writing for such groups as the King's Singers. Star Carol text by the composer is a favourite carol at the Cathedral, especially with the younger choristers.
Commissioned and first performed by The Choir of the Royal Memorial Chapel, Sandhurst Peter Beaven, director this carol has quickly become a favourite in our Christmas repertoire at the Cathedral. Harmonically, expect the unexpected, alongside a shimmery musical soundscape. The soloist is Melody Hett. Each of the four verses presents the melody in a different light. The soloists are Meredith Wilder and Melody Hett. McNeil Robinson , arranger: Amongst these was this gem of an arrangement of Silent Night, complete with a beautiful descant, sung here by Jordyn Tatum and Melody Hett.
In addition to Sunday morning responsibilities, the Cathedral Choir sings for monthly services of Choral Evensong, on major feasts, participates in the Cathedral Commissions program, participates in community outreach concerts with other musical organizations such as the New Mexico Philharmonic, and is well-known for its internationally released recordings with Raven CD.
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Tours form an important part of the Cathedral Choir's evangelism to the greater musical and liturgical community. The Cathedral Chorister program offers to children aged a unique musical experience working with other children in preparation and weekly performance of the finest choral music written for children's voices.
Choristers form friendships with other music-loving children from Albuquerque and beyond. They receive expert instruction in music-reading and ensemble performance skills, and enjoy educational excursions to concerts of the New Mexico Philharmonic Orchestra and other ensembles. Participation in summer courses of the Royal School of Church Music throughout the USA is encouraged and also forms an important part of the program. She oversees and directs a program consisting of four choirs which tour nationally and internationally; produces the recordings of the Cathedral Choirs for the Raven CD label; and manages an extensive community outreach ministry, Friends of Cathedral Music, in cooperation with the Cathedral's food pantry.
She collaborates with the Diocese of the Rio Grande in all major Diocesan events at the cathedral including all diocesan ordinations and an annual Diocesan Choral Festival since Thevenot has also engaged in furthering the reach of the cathedral's music program to other, smaller parishes within the diocese by taking members of the cathedral choir to sing with and for these parishes.
In dulci jubilo, for chorus & ensemble (from the Polyhymnia caduceatrix)
Begun in through the Friends of Cathedral Music, the annual commissioning of new works for the Cathedral Choirs offers a unique opportunity for composers, the cathedral choirs and congregation alike to interact within the context of rehearsals, liturgy and at the Dean's Forum and sometimes at special choir fundraising events. The Cathedral Choirs have released critically acclaimed recordings under Dr. Thevenot's direction, and more with her as the organ accompanist, all available on the Raven CD label. Her compositions are published by Paraclete Press.
She has also served her community as chorus master for the New Mexico Philharmonic's Beethoven Symphony no. In , she conducted two performances of Bach's St. John Passion with her professional ensemble Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico. A native of Saskatchewan, Canada, Canon Dr. A year after graduating with his Master of Music degree, Edmund was appointed a Professor of Music Studies at the Guildhall School, a position he held from Over recent years Edmund Connolly has forged a career as an opera and concert singer, organist, piano accompanist and conductor, as well as developing a reputation as a private teacher and vocal coach to young professional singers.
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His students have included young singers preparing roles for the major UK opera companies and advanced students from the major London conservatoires. He currently maintains a busy voice studio in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
A lyric baritone, Edmund has sung major operatic roles in the UK and abroad. He has sung and understudied roles for companies including Glyndebourne Festival Opera, English Touring Opera and Garsington Opera, and his reputation as an intelligent, adaptable singer means he is in demand in music of all periods. He has also performed much major oratorio repertoire as a soloist: Voices of New Mexico in performances of Handel's Messiah.
John, where he accompanies the Cathedral Choir and Choristers in liturgies and concerts and is responsible for all musical and liturgical publications.
In dulci jubilo, BWV 729 (Bach, Johann Sebastian)
At the Cathedral, he also directs the Cathedral Cherubs ages and the Cathedral Chorale, a volunteer ensemble which participates in select services and concerts during the season. The choirs of St. The full choir comprises 46 voices l of which 20 form the mixed-voice Cathedral Chamber Choir and 8 form the treble Cathedral Choristers.
A full listing of program details and notes can be found at the Raven website. Todd Parker, a tenor soloist with the Cathedral Choir, composed his exquisite Ave Maria in as a gift to the choir. In dulci jubilo "In sweet rejoicing" is a traditional Christmas carol. In its original setting, the carol is a macaronic text of German and Latin dating from the Middle Ages. Subsequent translations into English, such as J.
Neale's arrangement "Good Christian Men, Rejoice" have increased its popularity, and Robert Pearsall's macaronic translation is a mainstay of the Christmas Nine Lessons and Carols repertoire. Bach 's chorale prelude based on the tune BWV is also a traditional postlude for Christmas services. The original song text, a macaronic alternation of Medieval German and Latin, is thought to have been written by the German mystic Heinrich Seuse circa According to folklore, Seuse heard angels sing these words and joined them in a dance of worship.
In his biography or perhaps autobiography , it was written:. Now this same angel came up to the Servant Suso brightly, and said that God had sent him down to him, to bring him heavenly joys amid his sufferings; adding that he must cast off all his sorrows from his mind and bear them company, and that he must also dance with them in heavenly fashion.
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Then they drew the Servant by the hand into the dance, and the youth began a joyous song about the infant Jesus The most popular that keeps the macaronic structure is R. A survey by BBC Music Magazine found this to be the second most popular choral Christmas carol with British cathedral organists and choirmasters. This translation is often criticised; Thomas Helmore made a mistake when transcribing the mensural notation of Piae Cantiones which led to the repeated "News, news" and "Joy, joy" phrase.
It is inconceivable that anyone of any real musical culture should have lent himself to this tinkering with a perfect tune for the sake of fitting it perforce to works of inferior merit. Jeremy Summerley in his radio documentary series A Cause for Caroling is more complimentary, saying that the mistaken repeated note is what makes that version of the tune memorable. Still another English translation, made in the 19th century by Arthur T. In dulci jubilo, Nun singet und seid froh!