Select soloists for New Ross ‘Messiah’; Lunchtime Concert at St Ann’s Dawson Street; High note as Meath soprano joins the Vienna Boys’ Choir; WIT Youth Choir; France hears the gospel, or at least the music; Dean’s wife renews musical attack on VAT
Select soloists for New Ross ‘Messiah’
New Ross Singers are in the final week of rehearsals for Messiah, which will be performed in the Parish Church, New Ross on Sunday at 8.15pm.
Four soloists are essential to Messiah and New Ross Singers have engaged Colette Delahunt, Victoria Massey, Dermot Doyle and Eoin Power for the roles.
http://www.kilkennypeople.ie/lifestyle/entertainment/select-soloists-for-new-ross-messiah-1-3759178
Lunchtime Concert at St Ann’s Dawson Street
Fuse – The fourth in a series of chamber music concerts by students of the Royal Irish Academy of Music takes place on Thursday May 10 at 1.15 pm in St Ann’s Church on Dawson Street. Entrance is free but there will be a retiring collection at the end of the concert with a suggested donation of €5.
High note as Meath soprano (11) joins the Vienna Boys’ Choir
An 11 – year old boy from Dunboyne, Co Meath, has become the first Irish person to be accepted into the prestigious Vienna Boys’ Choir. Evan Pyne was invited to join the world-famous choral group in February after a week-long audition in the Austrian capital.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/meath-boy-accepted-into-vienna-boys-choir-548907.html
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2012/0425/1224315148005.html
WIT Youth Choir
Waterford Today – The WIT Youth Choir have over the past number of years established themselves as one of the finest youth choirs in Ireland. Following on from winning the National Youth Choir competition in Cork for the past three years, this year they won the Youth …
http://www.waterford-today.ie/waterford-entertainment/16339-w-i-t-youth-choir-16339.html
France hears the gospel, or at least the music
ENI – Gospel music is popular in France. Listeners don’t always understand the words, since they’re in English, but they understand the emotion, according to some performers.
http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=5623
Dean’s wife renews musical attack on VAT
Wakefield Cathedral unveiled a second protest song at a national charities tax summit in London. “VAT ditty — the sequel with the George Osborne sextet” — features, Pamela Greener, the wife of the Dean of Wakefield, again take the Chancellor to task in a lyrical fashion. See:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i26K2jvX6AQ