Carrick on Shannon Water Music Festival, Mansfield University Choir in Killarney, Exeter Cathedral Choir in CorkIn the context of the seventh Carrick on Shannon Water Music Festival, in the beautifully restored St George’s Church, Heritage & Visitor Centre, the choir of St Paul’s Church, Glenageary, Co. Dublin, will sing Choral Evensong under their director, Derek Verso. What makes this unique is not only is the this first time that Choral Evensong will be sung in this building since its restoration in 2008, but it also marks the first time to hear the church’s famous William Telford pipe organ, dating from 1847, since its restoration earlier this year. The organist next Sunday is a young Dublin student, Paul Mullen, who won the Stanford prize at the Dublin Feis Ceoil this year, and is organist in St Patrick’s Church, Greystones pass4sure 1Y0-309 Co Wicklow. The service will be jointly led by Canon Bill Atkins, Rector of the Mohill group of parishes and the Revd Fr Tulough Baxter, Curate of St Mary’s church. There will be music from the 8th century to the 21st century including Thomas Tallis’s setting of the Magnificat, a new arrangement of the traditional Irish hymn Bi Iosa Im Chriosa by the young Belfast music director and organist Philip Stopford, psalm 65 sung to music by C V Stanford as well as hymns by Charles Wesley. The service will end quietly with the 8th century words and plainsong melody of Before the ending of the day. Organ music to include Bach’s Prelude & pass4sure 070-158 Fugue in a minor and the Irish composer Eric Sweeney’s Secret Rose.
On Tuesday there will be a lunchtime concert in St Mary’s Church, Killarney, given by the Mansfield University Choir. The choir of Exeter Cathedral will sing Evensong in St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Cork, on Tuesday at 5pm and on Thursday will give a concert of Anglican Choral Classics in beautiful Pugin church of St Peter & St Paul.