USA & Canada
Loughborough High School Old Girl Hetty Boardman-Weston (2000-07) is touring the United States with the University of Cambridge Choir of Christ's College. The choir are celebrating it's 800th Anniversary this year and is also celebrating the bicentenary of its alumnus Charles Darwin, and the 500th anniversary of the death of its foundress Lady Margaret Beaufort.
The tour starts with two concerts in the Boston area. After visiting several more venues in New England, the choir will reach NYC and sing Eucharist at the Cathedral of St John the Divine on the 12th July. Following concerts in Philadelphia and Wilmington DE, the tour will end in the Washington D.C. area, where the choir will sing Evensong at the National Cathedral.
Christ's College Choir is widely recognized as one of the best mixed choirs in Cambridge. As well as singing Evensong twice a week in the College, it performs frequently in Cambridge and London, broadcasts regularly on BBC Radio, and undertakes an international tour every year. In recent years the choir has toured Australia, Canada (singing at St James's Cathedral, Toronto), and the West Coast of the USA (singing at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco). Compact disc releases include Of a Rose: Carol settings by Britten and Leighton (2007); Stanford Magnificat for Double Chorus, Parry Songs of Farewell (2004); Howells Requiem, Britten Rejoice in the Lamb (2002). In December 2008 Sir Philip Ledger conducted the choir in a CD recording of his music.
The tour repertoire spans the range of English and European choral traditions from the Renaissance to the 20th century and includes Scarlatti Stabat Mater, motets by J.S. Bach, Parry Songs of Farewell, and Britten Rejoice in the Lamb and Hymn to St Cecilia.
For frequently-updated information on the tour, visit www.cambridgechoir.co.uk
Feel free to put any questions to the tour organizer, Edward Turnham ejat3@cam.ac.uk
Performance schedule:
29th June: 7.30pm concert, St. Peter's Episcopal Church, 4 Ocean Street, Beverly, MA 01915 www.stpetersbeverly.org. Tickets $20. To purchase tickets in advance, phone 978-922-3438, e-mail trish@stpetersbeverly.org or write to ‘Christ's College Concert' at the church address.
30th June: 7.30pm concert, First Parish Congregation Church, One Church Street, Wakefield, MA www.fpccwakefield.com. Free admission, with retiring collection.
2nd July: 7.30pm concert, Cathedral Church of St. Paul, 2 Cherry St, Burlington, VT 05401 www.stpaulscathedralvt.org/. Adult $20, Student/Senior $15, Under age 15 $10. Tickets are available at the Hopkins Bookshop 877-287-2422 or through the Flynn Box Office 802-863-5966, or on the door.
3rd July: 7.30pm concert, Church of St. Katherine Drexel, Hidden Springs Road, Alton, New Hampshire 03809 www.stkdrexel.com. Tickets $20. This concert is part of the Wolfeboro ‘Arts on the Edge' festival: to purchase tickets in advance, visit http://www.artsedgewolfeboro.org/
4th-5th July: Liturgies at the Church of St. John the Evangelist, Newport RI www.saintjohns-newport.org
7th July: 7.30pm concert, First Congregational Church of Nantucket, 62 Centre St, Nantucket, MA 02554 www.nantucketfcc.org. Adult $20, Student/Senior $15. To purchase tickets in advance, phone the church office 508-228-0950.
8th July: 8pm concert, First Congregational Church, Falmouth, 68 Main St, Falmouth, MA 02540 www.firstcongfalmouth.org. Free admission, with retiring collection.
9th July, 7.30pm concert, St. Peter's Episcopal Church, 70 Maple Ave, Morristown, NJ 07960 www.stpetersmorristown.org. Adult $15, Student/Senior $10. To reserve tickets, email Brian Harlow bharlow@stpetersmorristown.org or phone 973-538-0555x18.
12th July: 11am Eucharist, Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, NYC www.stjohndivine.org. Featuring Kodaly: Missa Brevis, and Parry: I Was Glad.
12th July: 8pm concert, St. Peter's Episcopal Church, 313 Pine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106 www.stpetersphila.org. Tickets $15. Contact the church office: 215-925-5968
13th July: 8pm concert, Christ Church Christiana Hundred, 505 E. Buck Road, Wilmington, DE 19807-0510 www.christchurchde.org. Free admission, with retiring collection.
14th July: 5.30pm Evensong, Washington National Cathedral http://www.nationalcathedral.org/
15th July: 8pm concert, Memorial Baptist Church, 3455 N Glebe Rd, Arlington, VA 22207 www.memorialbaptistchurch.org. Free admission, with retiring collection.
