2011 CONCERT SEASON
MISSA GAIA - Saturday 18 June, 6pm, Lincoln Events Centre, William St, Lincoln Township
Music Director Brian Law considers this was the most popular concert the Choir has presented. It is a Mass celebrating Earth, and the auditorium is filled with the calls of wild animals, from the forests and plains and the deep seas, waiata, pulsating Brazilian rythms with extraordinary jazz vocals, mixing the words of St Francis of Assisi and the liturgy of the Mass. This is a concert as you have never experienced before! Unique, wonderful, uplifting and inspiring…
Due to the earthquake and subsequent venue and concert changes, the discount offered in the annual programme can no longer be offered. Bookings are limited, to avoid disappointment ph 366 6927.
Featuring Paul Halley, Theresa Thomason and Nicholas Halley
Tickets from $40 and $25.00 please phone the Choir office on 366 6927.
VERDI REQUIEM
Due to the earthquake this concert has been cancelled. This wonderful event will be included in the Choirs programme for 2012.
Dame Malvia Major
MESSIAH - Saturday 3 December, 7.30pm - Christ's College Hall
SOLD OUT - We have no more tickets for sale - as of 25 November 2011 - Thank you!
Music Director Brian Law calls this “Our Christmas Gift to the City” and this year we are making it even more of gift with a special ticket price.
Handel’s Messiah is the most loved and inspired religious masterpiece, composed in 24 days in 1741 and forever carrying an emotional impact with exquisite harmony of sound and word. When he had written the Hallelujah chorus he wrote: I did think I did see all Heaven before me, and the great God himself!”
Literary scholar Charles Jennen wrote the words based on the New and Old Testament. He wrote: “Handel says he will do nothing next winter, but I hope I shall persuade him to set another Scripture Collection I have made for him and perform it for his own benefit in Passion Week. I hope he will lay his whole Genius & Skill upon it, that the Composition may excel all his former Compositions, as the subject excels every other subject. The subject is Messiah.”
Anna Leese - Soprano
Kate Spence - Mezzo
Keith Lewis - Tenor
Martin Snell - Bass
Tickets sold out Christchurch City Choir office - Ph: (03) 366 6927, email: citychoir@xtra.co.nz