A Tale of Two Masses: November Concerts in Waterford and Dublin

 In its first visit to Waterford, the internationally acclaimed and multi-award-winning chamber choir New Dublin Voices and its conductor Bernie Sherlock explore a Tale of Two Masses written almost 500 hundred years apart: the sublime Missa Aeterna Christi Munera by Palestrina, and the prophetic and unconventional Missa Tiburtina by Giles Swayne.

"I'm delighted that New Dublin Voices is giving what I am fairly sure will be the Irish premiere of my Missa Tiburtina - a piece dating from 1984 (the height of the Thatcher years) which looks at a religious ritual with which we are familiar, in the context of the realities of a greedy & divided world." (Giles Swayne)

Fresh from its clean sweep of 6 awards at the 11th International Choir Contest of Flanders-Maasmechelen in Belgium (including Choir of the Festival and Best Contemporary Work), NDV will also pay tribute to Waterford-based composer, Ben Hanlon, who has written two works in the last two years for the choir. New Dublin Voices will also perform a selection of other sacred pieces including Beati Quorum Via by Stanford and Z. Randall Stroope’s The Conversion of Saul, his graphic and electrifying depiction of Paul’s experience on the road to Damascus.

Christ Church Cathedral Waterford, Saturday November 5th at 8pm.

This programme will be repeated in Dublin in St. Ann’s Church Dawson St, on Friday November 11^th at 8pm.

Tickets: €15/€10 (conc.) available at the door

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