The Friends of Christ Church Cathedral proudly presents Cathedral Concerts for 2010-2011, adding to the cultural fabric of the City of Hartford and the surrounding capital region. Concerts this year include the first Thursday series, “Lunch...Plus!”, which begins on Thursday, October 7, at 12:15 p.m. in the Cathedral House Auditorium; weekly Midday Organ Recitals, which began on Tuesday, September 14, at 12:35 p.m. in the Cathedral; Choral Evensong on various Wednesdays at 6:00 p.m. and Sundays at 3:30 p.m.; and the Music in Liturgy series throughout the year. Please refer to this page often for updated events. Also, please follow the links to download our full Concerts Brochure, Lunch…Plus! Brochure, or Midday Organ Recitals Brochure.
 


Lunch…Plus!
Thursdays, at 12:15, donations accepted. Lunch...Plus! goes brown bag this year. Bring your own lunch or stop by the Church & Main Delicatessen (20 Church Street) and pick-up the “Lunch...Plus! Special”.
October 7
North-German Baroque Organ Music - Kevin Jones
Canon Precentor Kevin Jones introduces the Lunch...Plus! audience to the new mechanical action organ in the Cathedral House Auditorium Balcony given to the Cathedral by St. James Church.
November 4
Brahms’ Piano Trio in B Major - The Lorelei Piano Trio - Mialtin Zhezha, violin, Benjamin Larsen, ‘cello & Yoon Lee, piano
December 2
“A Mini-Medieval Madrigal Mélange” – Costumed lunch feast features Madrigal singing and Music of the Christmas Season. Due to the overwhelming popularity of this event, seating is limited to 90 persons and is by advance reservation ONLY. ($10 includes full lunch.) Last year sold out. Don't miss it!
February 3
Great Operatic Arias & Ensembles – singers from the Hartt School
March 3
Solo pianist Eric Siepkes
April 7
The Rosewood Chamber Ensemble - Barbara Hopkins, flute, Judy Handler, guitar
Music in Liturgy
October 17, 10:00 a.m.
Choral Eucharist featuring Franz Schubert’s Mass in G. Cathedral Choir & Strings

December 5, 3:30 p.m.
Festival of Lessons & Carols for Christmas with the Cathedral Choir
December 24, 10:30 p.m.
Cathedral Choir Nativity Concert preceding Christmas Eve Mass–
Britten's A Ceremony of Carols with the Cathedral Choir & harpist Susan Knapp Thomas
February 13, 10:00 a.m.
Choral Eucharist featuring Jon Karl Hirten’s Mass for the Saint of Joy. Cathedral Choir
April 22, 12 noon
Cathedral Choir, soloists and organ sing Leo Sowerby’s Forsaken of Man
April 22, 6:00 p.m.
The Solemn Liturgy for Good Friday. St. John Passion, motets & reproaches by Victoria sung by the Cathedral Schola
May 1, 10:00 a.m.
Cathedral Choir & Ensemble “Hartford Jazz Mass” by Kevin Jones premiere

May 15, 10:00 a.m.
Choral Eucharist featuring Ramirez’ Misa Criolla. Cathedral Choir & Ensemble
Choral Evensong
Wednesdays at 6:00, Sundays at 3:30
September 29, 6:00 p.m.
Cathedral Choristers

October 13, 6:00 p.m.
Evensong Choir
October 27, 6:00 p.m.
Cathedral Choristers
November 7, 3:30 p.m.
Cathedral Choir. Evensong for All Saints' in thanks and honor of all Connecticut First Responders
November 17, 6:00 p.m.
Cathedral Choristers
December 15, 6:00 p.m.
Evensong Choir
January 12, 6:00 p.m.
Evensong Choir

January 26, 6:00 p.m.
Cathedral Choristers

February 16, 6:00 p.m.
Evensong Choir
March 2, 6:00 p.m.
Cathedral Choristers
March 20, 3:30 p.m.
Cathedral Choir. Evensong for the Second Sunday in Lent. Sponsored by the Friends of Christ Church Cathedral
March 23, 6:00 p.m.
Cathedral Choristers
April 13, 6:00 p.m.
Evensong Choir
May 11, 6:00 p.m.
Cathedral Choristers
Special Events
December 11, 5:00 p.m.
Christmas Angelicus - A New England Tradition. Chorus Angelicus & Gaudeamus, John McDonough, narrator, Kevin Jones, organist, Nicholas White, director
The cathedral will be filled with music and readings of the season, sung by Northwest Connecticut’s renowned choirs. Old and new arrangements of carols and seasonal songs will be performed, along with traditional carols for the audience.
Admission: $40/25/20/15.
www.chorusangelicus.org
860-496-8841
March 27, 4:00 p.m.
Organist Karel Paukert
Maestro Paukert will play Czech composer Petr Eben’s Paradise of the Heart and Labyrinth of the World (Eben’s last organ work). Sponsored by the Greater Hartford Chapter, AGO.
Free.
Midday Organ Recitals
Tuesdays, at 12:35, Free
September 14
Kevin Jones –
Charles-Marie Widor Allegro (Symphony VI, Op. 42); Louis Vierne Étoile du Soir; Toccata in b-flat minor)
September 21
George Chittenden –
Kenneth Leighton Six Hymn Fantasies
September 28
George Chittenden – British Organ Music: Welsh Hymnody, Psalm Preludes and Imperial Marches Edward Elgar Imperial March; Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4; Ralph Vaughan Williams Rhosymedre and Hyfrydol; Herbert Howells Psalm Prelude Set 1, No. 2
October 5
Kevin Jones – All Bach
Toccata in d (“Dorian”), BWV 538; Sonata in d, BWV 527
October 12
George Chittenden –
Jean Langlais Suite Medièvale; Hymne d’Action de Grâce: TE DEUM
October 19
George Chittenden – Music of the Chapel Royal
Thomas Tomkins A Fancy, Voluntary in a; Orlando Gibbons Fantazia of Foure Parts; William Byrd Fantasia in C
October 26
George Chittenden –
Percy Whitlock Plymouth Suite
November 2
Kevin Jones – Patriotic Organ Music for Election Day
Copland Fanfare for the Common Man; Dudley Buck Concert Variations on The Star Spangled Banner

November 9
George Chittenden – Organ works by Olivier Messiaen
Apparition de l’Eglise Eternelle; Le Banquet Céleste: Joie et Clarté des Corps Glorieux
November 16
George Chittenden – The Saint Clotilde Connection
Franck Choral in b minor; Tournemire Postlude Alleluiatique – (Domenica XXII post Pentecosten); Langlais Chant de Paix and Incantation pour un Jour Saint
November 23
Andrew Kotylo (Trinity Church-on-the-Green, New Haven) – Leo Sowerby Comes Autumn Time; Searle Wright Prelude on Brother James’s Air; Introduction, Passacaglia, and Fugue
November 30
George Chittenden –
George Frederic Handel: “Musick for the Royal Fireworks”, Largo from Xerxes; Hallelujah from Messiah
December 7
Kevin Jones –
Hugo Distler Partita on Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, Op. 8/I
December 14
George Chittenden – Organ music for Advent
Harald Gullichsen Lovsang skal all heimen kveda (Toccata over Wachet Auf!) ; Anton Heiller Variations upon Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland; Flor Peeters Toccata, Fugue and Hymne upon Ave Maris Stella)
December 21
George Chittenden – French Organ Music for the Nativity
Olivier Messiæn Les Enfants de Dieu; Marcel Dupré La Nativité; Louis-Claude Daquin Noël Suisse; Claude Balbastre Votre Bonté Grand Dieu
No concerts December 28-January
February 1
George Chittenden – Soviet Organ Music
Alexander Shaverzashvili Prelude and Fugue; Dmitri Shostakovich Passacaglia; Georgi Aleksandrovich Mushel Toccata
February 8
Kevin Jones – Music of Jehan Alain (1911-1940)
Trois Danses, Première and Deuxième Préludes Profane
February 15
George Chittenden – Scandinavian Organ Works (part i)
Egil Hovland Nu La Oss Takke Gud; Rued Langgaard Fantasia Patetica
February 22
George Chittenden – Scandinavian Organ Works (part ii)
Knut Nystedt Exultate; Fredrik Sixten Sonata for Organ
March 1
Kevin Jones –
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault Suite du Premier Ton
March 8
Maria Coffin – Music for Mardi Gras!
Johannes Matthias Michel Three Jazz Organ Preludes; Eugène Gigout Scherzo, Toccata
March 15
George Chittenden – Contemporary Compositions
Paul Mealor De Profundis; Raymond Caritas Pater Est
March 22
George Chittenden – Organ Works by Diderik Buxtehude
Passacaglia d-moll, BuxWV 161; Durch Adams fall, BuxWV 183; Ich ruf’ zu dir, BuxWV 196; Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder, BuxWV 178; Præludium g-moll, BuxWV 149
March 29
Peter Stoltzfus Berton (St. John’s, West Hartford) –
André Fleury Prélude from Prelude, Andante et Toccata; Franck Choral in b
April 5
Kevin Jones –
Dupré Prelude and Fugue in f, Op. 7/2; Franck Fantaisie in A
April 12
George Chittenden – Organ Music for Passiontide
Bach Valet will ich dir geben, BWV 736; O Mensch, bewein’ dein Sünde gross, BWV 622; Liebster Jesu, BWV 730 & 731; Prelude & Fugue in c, BWV 546
No concerts April 19 or 26
May 3
Kevin Jones –
Heiller In festo Corporis Christi; Jean Guillou Toccata

May 10
John Russell (Christ Church of Hamilton & Wenham
Hamilton, MA) – Program TBD
May 17
George Chittenden – Baroque Organ Music - Bach, Buxtehude & Bruhns
Nikolaus Bruhns Præludium e-moll; Bach Wo soll ich fliehen hin, BWV 646, Schmücke dich, O liebe Seele, BWV 654; Buxtehude Præludium D-Dur, BuxWV 139

Download concert brochures for more information:

Lunch…Plus!
Midday Organ Recitals
2010 - 2011 Concerts

To have your name added to the Cathedral Concerts email list, please send an email to dvancamp@cccathedral.org.

If you are a performing artist, and would like to be considered for the Lunch...Plus! series, please contact Kevin Jones, Canon Precentor & Director of Music, via regular mail at the Cathedral street address. Include in your letter a proposed program (no more than 40 minutes in length), a recent CD recording, and a press packet. Please note that packets and CDs cannot be returned, and that the series is booked approximately one year in advance. Thank you for your interest!