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Musical performances for the 2020-2021 season are presented by Cathedral Arts, a ministry of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Burlington, Vermont.
Cathedral Arts normally offers concerts in person in its resonant nave; however due to the COVID-19 pandemic, performers are participating remotely, and their offerings are shared with you via YouTube. Cathedral Arts is excited to move forward with several virtual performances to inspire and comfort during these strange times.
We began our season on December 8, 2020, with an organ recital by our Music Director Mark Howe and will continue through the spring of 2021. All concerts are pre-recorded videos posted on YouTube and will be presented at noon on Tuesdays, in keeping with our tradition. Our concert details are listed below.
Concerts and Art Exhibits at St Paul’s have a special niche in the arts world of Greater Burlington and beyond. We are eager to open our wonderful space once again, but for now, let us remind you of our hopes for the future with these virtual performances and a bit of where we have been.
Musical performances for the 2020-2021 season are presented by Cathedral Arts, a ministry of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Burlington, Vermont.
Cathedral Arts normally offers concerts in person in its resonant nave; however due to the COVID-19 pandemic, performers are participating remotely, and their offerings are shared with you via YouTube. Cathedral Arts is excited to move forward with several virtual performances to inspire and comfort during these strange times.
We began our season on December 8, 2020, with an organ recital by our Music Director Mark Howe and will continue through the spring of 2021. All concerts are pre-recorded videos posted on YouTube and will be presented at noon on Tuesdays, in keeping with our tradition. Our concert details are listed below.
Concerts and Art Exhibits at St Paul’s have a special niche in the arts world of Greater Burlington and beyond. We are eager to open our wonderful space once again, but for now, let us remind you of our hopes for the future with these virtual performances and a bit of where we have been.
2020 - 2021 Virtual Performances
December 8, 2020 ~ Mark Howe, Organ
Our debut concert features Mark Howe, Organist and Music Director, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Burlington, Vermont.
Program Notes from Mark:
The music I’ll be playing includes J.S. Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in A Minor, bwv543, which I set out to learn early in the pandemic; I had been introduced to this work when I was an undergraduate at Westminster Choir College in the 1970’s, and although others were captivated by it, I found it a bit dull. (Of course I did. I was 18.) When I picked it up this year, I found its richness and depth practically bottomless, and I now love to play it. It fits the organ here at St. Paul’s Cathedral like a glove.
I’ll also be playing Kathy Wonson Eddy’s Mist in the Valleys. Kathy’s a composer from Central Vermont; she’s also ordained in the United Church of Christ and has had a long affiliation with Bethany Church, UCC in Randolph. She and her husband Bob showed up at St. Paul’s a little over a year ago, and I made her acquaintance at that time; a bit later she sent me a couple of her scores, including this one. It is a misty and evocative piece that I enjoy playing.
Other works I’ll play will include Norman Coke-Jephcott’s Bishops’ Promenade—a favorite of Robert S. Kerr, who served as seventh Bishop of Vermont in the 1970’s and ‘80’s and was the first Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral —and one of Ethel Smyth’s lovely chorale preludes, Du, o schönes Weltgebäude, composed in the 1880’s, perhaps when she was a student in Leipzig.
I’ll close the program with the first piece I ever played on the organ at St. Paul’s Cathedral, the Fugue in E-flat, bwv 552 (sometimes called the St. Anne Fugue), of J.S. Bach.
Click the link here to watch Mark's concert.
Our debut concert features Mark Howe, Organist and Music Director, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Burlington, Vermont.
Program Notes from Mark:
The music I’ll be playing includes J.S. Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in A Minor, bwv543, which I set out to learn early in the pandemic; I had been introduced to this work when I was an undergraduate at Westminster Choir College in the 1970’s, and although others were captivated by it, I found it a bit dull. (Of course I did. I was 18.) When I picked it up this year, I found its richness and depth practically bottomless, and I now love to play it. It fits the organ here at St. Paul’s Cathedral like a glove.
I’ll also be playing Kathy Wonson Eddy’s Mist in the Valleys. Kathy’s a composer from Central Vermont; she’s also ordained in the United Church of Christ and has had a long affiliation with Bethany Church, UCC in Randolph. She and her husband Bob showed up at St. Paul’s a little over a year ago, and I made her acquaintance at that time; a bit later she sent me a couple of her scores, including this one. It is a misty and evocative piece that I enjoy playing.
Other works I’ll play will include Norman Coke-Jephcott’s Bishops’ Promenade—a favorite of Robert S. Kerr, who served as seventh Bishop of Vermont in the 1970’s and ‘80’s and was the first Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral —and one of Ethel Smyth’s lovely chorale preludes, Du, o schönes Weltgebäude, composed in the 1880’s, perhaps when she was a student in Leipzig.
I’ll close the program with the first piece I ever played on the organ at St. Paul’s Cathedral, the Fugue in E-flat, bwv 552 (sometimes called the St. Anne Fugue), of J.S. Bach.
Click the link here to watch Mark's concert.
February 23 ~ Young Artists Showcase Recital
Cathedral Arts continues its tradition of bringing the arts to the wider community on Tuesday, February 23, at noon!
We are thrilled to offer the 45th Young Artists Showcase Recital in a free virtual presentation by nine excellent young musicians. These pre-college Vermont statewide performers will demonstrate their virtuosity in vocal performance, piano, and cello, featuring pieces by Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Bach, Chopin, Mozart, Liszt, and Torroba.
Please join us for this exciting offering by clicking the link here .
Cathedral Arts continues its tradition of bringing the arts to the wider community on Tuesday, February 23, at noon!
We are thrilled to offer the 45th Young Artists Showcase Recital in a free virtual presentation by nine excellent young musicians. These pre-college Vermont statewide performers will demonstrate their virtuosity in vocal performance, piano, and cello, featuring pieces by Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Bach, Chopin, Mozart, Liszt, and Torroba.
Please join us for this exciting offering by clicking the link here .
Visual Arts at the Cathedral
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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.
To receive email announcements about concerts, please send your request to info@cathedralarts.org.
Also, you can follow us on Facebook at CathedralArts Burlington.
To receive email announcements about concerts, please send your request to info@cathedralarts.org.
Also, you can follow us on Facebook at CathedralArts Burlington.
