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Upcoming Performances
2023-2024 Season
April 16, 2024, 12:00 p.m. ~ Vermont High School Touring Choirs
Choirs from Mount Mansfield Union High School, Rice Memorial High School, and Colchester High School present a collaborative performance led by Choral Directors Caleb Pillsbury, MMUHS Choral Director, and Kevin Ginter, Rice HS Choral Director, featuring selections from Mass in Blue by Will Todd, and a folksong arrangement of Amazing Grace, among others. The performance goes on tour at Worcester Cathedral in Worcester, England, on April 23rd and 27th, 2024.
This is a free concert. Donations to Cathedral Arts are always gratefully accepted. |
April 28, 2024, 3:00 p.m. ~ Counterpoint
For their 2024 Spring program, Counterpoint will present works by Brahms, Beethoven, and Bartok which mine the rich lode of European folk songs as inspiration for lively and sophisticated music for chamber vocal ensemble and piano.
Johannes Brahms’s Zigeunerlieder sets translations of Romani poetry to Brahms’ own original music, similar to his beloved Liebeslieder Walzer but with even more passion and verve. Ludwig van Beethoven never visited the British Isles, but over a period of several years he set dozens of traditional Scottish songs for singers with piano trio accompaniment. Counterpoint’s Artistic Director Nathaniel G. Lew has arranged seventeen of these into a cycle encompassing love, warfare, soccer, and drinking, and ending with the familiar Auld Lang Syne on which the audience is invited to sing along! Hungarian composer and ethnomusicologist Bela Bartok’s Four Slovak Folk Songs probably uses songs that he himself collected, set with evocative piano accompaniments and modernist harmonies. These contrasting choral works are balanced by lyrical movements for solo piano by the most famous 19th-century German female composers, Fanny Hensel and Clara Schumann. Tickets for this performance may be purchased at 7 Days Ticketing. |
April 30, 2024, 12:00 p.m. ~ Spring Reverie ~ Champlain Consort
The Champlain Consort performs Renaissance and Elizabethan music on period instruments. The members of the Consort perform on recorders, sackbuts (Renaissance trombones), cornetto, viola da gamba, capped reeds, and percussion, combining different types of instruments in "broken consort" tradition to recreate the distinctive sound of Medieval and Renaissance music.
The Champlain Consort has selected music from Medieval and Renaissance times that celebrates spring and birds. Although primarily an instrumental group, they will sing as well as play instruments for this joyous occasion. This is a free concert. Donations to Cathedral Arts are always gratefully accepted. |
May 21, 2024, 12:00 p.m. ~ Lynette Combs, Organist
Join us to hear a program by local organist and friend of the Cathedral Lynette Combs. Lynnette is the director of music at Christ Episcopal Church in Montpelier. She has given many solo organ recitals and also plays with ensembles and choruses, including the Onion River Chorus, Capital City Concerts, the Vermont Philharmonic and Scrag Mountain Music. She celebrated 40 years of being an organist in Vermont in September 2022, with a concert in each of the four churches where she has worked.
This is a free concert. Donations to Cathedral Arts are always gratefully accepted.
This is a free concert. Donations to Cathedral Arts are always gratefully accepted.
May 24, 2024, 7:00 p.m. ~ Transcontinental Piano Duo Elaine Greenfield and Janice Meyer
Since 1992, the Transcontinental Piano Duo has given workshops, master classes and performances nationwide, performing in university settings, at professional conferences, and in community concert series across the United States. Join us for an evening of spectacular musicianship and versatility.
Tickets for this performance will be available at 7 Days Ticketing. |
June 2, 2024, 3:00 p.m. ~ Let All the World in Every Corner Sing! ~ Vermont Choral Union
Let All the World in Every Corner Sing features 400 years of choral music for English Cathedrals, featuring anthems by Purcell, Locke, Handel, Goss, Ouseley, Elgar, Bairstow, Howells, Parry. We are pleased to present Sumner Thompson, Baritone Soloist.
The Vermont Choral Union has been performing for over 50 years. It is their mission is to promote choral music and enrich the cultural life of their community through the regular presentation of public concerts, while providing our members with opportunities to enhance their musical knowledge and skills. Tickets for this performance will be available at 7 Days Ticketing. |
August 20, 2024, 12:00 p.m. ~ Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival
Join us for this annual favorite showcasing Vermont's finest chamber music.
Now in their 15th season, the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival is known for its outstanding musicians, innovative programming, and educational activities under the leadership of violinist Soovin Kim and pianist Gloria Chien.
This is a free concert. Donations to Cathedral Arts are always gratefully accepted.
Now in their 15th season, the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival is known for its outstanding musicians, innovative programming, and educational activities under the leadership of violinist Soovin Kim and pianist Gloria Chien.
This is a free concert. Donations to Cathedral Arts are always gratefully accepted.
Visual Arts at the Cathedral
Janet McKenzie
Check out this link to a short documentary about the life and work of Vermont painter Janet McKenzie, who is challenging traditional Christian images by using women and people of color in depictions of Jesus, Mary, and other Biblical figures. The Cathedral Church of St. Paul hosted an exhibit of her work in November of 2016, and is lucky enough to have a painting of Janet's, called "Mary and Jesus with the papel picado," (seen left) as part of our permanent collection. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCYTIBHzQBA. |
For more information, please contact Ann Guillot (Chair) and Caleb Pillsbury (Artistic Director) via the Cathedral Administrator at admin@stpaulscathedralvt.org.
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