Our 40th season kicks off – in Liverpool!

10/10/2019 16:02

The first concert, Hail Gladdening Light, in the Manchester Chorale’s 40th season was held in Liverpool’s Metropolitan Cathedral. The very appreciative audience didn’t quite fill (!) the 2300 capacity, but what do you expect when Liverpool are playing at home. The lay clerk David, who greeted us and opened the right doors for us, said we sang an excellent concert. He knew the best place to listen to us – the reverberation was enormous and went on for seconds after our last notes. And what a fantastic cathedral. The luminosity created by the stained-glass windows had a marked similarity to a certain Barcelona church (that still isn't finished).

 

Here’s the programme:

Ola Gjeilo Prelude
Tomás Luis de Victoria O Vos Omnes
Sergei Rachmaninov Bogoroditse Devo
Michael Fairbairn I Will Come to You
Anton Bruckner Os Justi
Moses Hogan We Shall Walk Through the Valley in Peace
Alonso Lobo Versa Est in Luctum
Stephen Paulus The Road Home
Jake Runestad Let My Love Be Heard
Kate Rusby Underneath the Stars
Charles Wood Hail, Gladdening Light

 

And here's a stamp from the same year The Manchester Chorale was formed:

Royal mail stamp featuring Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral from 1969

 

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Our Musical Director

 

Jill Henderson-Wild has been with us since 2006.

Her biographical notes are in the People page.

Our Assistant Musical Director

Dave Robinson

See the People page for more details

2024 Concert Dates:

 

  • 7 December 2024, 3:00pm, at Didsbury Baptist Church
  • 24 December 2024, 3:00pm in the Bridgewater Hall
  • 15 March 2025, 7:30pm, with Bury Youth Big Band at Bury Parish Church
  • 10 May 2025, 7:30pm, with the Master Singers at All Saints Parish Church, Cawthorne
  • 5 July 2025, 7:30pm, at the Bridge Church, Otley
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