Our choir and organists are working hard to prepare beautiful music for the month of the December. Advent Lessons and Carols is a special, candlelit service that helps us enter into the holy season of Advent. This will take place on Sunday, November 28 at 4 PM. You will sing...
Concert for Journées de la culture Friday September 24, 2021 – 7 PM Organists Adrian Foster and Joel Peters will present a concert unlike any you’ve heard before. Their group, Earth World Collobartive, specializes in immersive story concerts that integrate electronics, original compositions, projection, lighting, and special effects. The Cathedral will look...
“The disciples knew the Lord Jesus in the breaking of the bread.” The bread which we break, Alleluia, is the communion of the Body of Christ. One body are we, Alleluia, for though many we share one bread. Right before we receive Communion, we (or the choir) typically sing the...
We are happy to continue this vital ministry of Evening Prayer. Due to current COVID restrictions, a socially distanced and masked quartet will sing Evensong. Listen live at 4 PM every Sunday on radiovm.com or 91.3 FM. Watch live from the Cathedral Facebook page or Youtube.
As one of the most important festivals in the Church’s year, Easter is usually a musical feast as well as a feast for the soul at Christ Church Cathedral. Undeterred by the continuing difficulties placed on church music programmes around the world, our talented singers and musicians of the cathedral...
For the Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple, our Cathedral Choir sing Stanford’s beautiful setting of the Song of Simeon, the Nunc dimittis, from his Service in G major.
A very Merry Christmas from the Cathedral Choir and all the Music Department.
Join us this afternoon for our service of Organ Vespers: Prelude: Elegy – Sir George Thalben Ball Welcome – Dr Jonathan White, Director of Religious Music Opening Responses – Abingdon Set Psalm 119:113-136 First Lesson – Ezekiel 33:23, 30 – 34:10 Magnificat: The Shrewsbury Service – Jonathan White Second Lesson:...
If you missed the first webinar being hosted by the Anglican Diocese of Montreal and our own Music Department, you can view the whole session online below. Don’t forget to sign up for the next workshop which will be looking at some of the practical features and security on Zoom,...
In case you missed it (or if you’d like to listen again) here is a recording of our Organ Vespers Service for the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin. The officiant for the service was Cathedral Lay Reader Vivian Lewin, and the music was expertly played by our...
On what scriptural passage is “Joy to the World” based? Did Handel actually write the music? Find out in this video! Thank you to chorister Catharine Murray for singing “I Sing th’Almighty Power of God” at the end.
Learn more about the chorales of Martin Luther and those who came after him. Thank you to chorister Normand Richard for singing “Now Thank We All Our God” at the end.