Music Ministry - Cathedral Chorale and Cathedral Schola

 

  
The 70 Voice Cathedral Chorale was formed in 1980.  Entrance into the Choir is by audition/interview and is made up of trained volunteers from the Cathedral Parish and neighboring communities and professional singers who give of their time and talents and desire to sing in a choir of high quality.  The Choir has one professional recording.

 

    The Choir has sung at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City, the National Shrine in Washington, D. C., as well as premiering Gygory Orban's Missa Quarta in the Cathedral of Salzburg, Austria.  In addition to singing regularly at the 10:30 Sunday liturgy, the Choir sings at some extraordinary liturgies such as Christmas and Easter.  In 1998, the choir performed John Rutter's Gloria and Te Deum at Carnegie Hall with the New England Symphonic Ensemble.  The Chorale opened the Jubilee Year by performing Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with the 60 Piece South Shore Symphony and New York City Opera soloists in the Winter of 2000.

 

    The Special ensemble, the Cathedral Schola has been seen live on Diocesan Television from the Cathedral on Good Friday services.  The group is made up of advanced members of the larger choir.  They performed a concert of French Sacred Music including Faure's Requiem with the St. Peter's Chamber Singers of Bayshore in March of 2002.  The group specializes in music of the Renaissance Period.

 

    All members of the Choir are volunteers who give of their time and talents for the Glory of God.  In the tradition of Westminster Choir College, it is the conductor's goal to take a group of dedicated singers from a church and form them into choirs of good quality.

 

    The choir is presently directed by Michael L. Bower.  
 


   


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