Sunday, October 6, 2019 at 5:00 pm
Choral Evensong
THE ST. WILFRID CHOIR & ORCHESTRA
Music by David Hogan & Philip Stopford
Tuesday, December 24, 2019 at 9:30 pm
Concert of Carols & 10 p.m. Choral Eucharist
THE ST. WILFRID CHOIR & ORCHESTRA
Music by G. F. Handel, Mark Sirett, Andrew Carter, John Tavener & What Child is This? arr. Grant Cochran
Sunday, November 3, 2019 at 5:00 pm
Choral Evensong
THE ST. WILFRID CHOIR
Music by Orlando Gibbons, Edward Elgar & C. V. Stanford
Benjamin Cunningham (Westminster Abbey), guest organist
Sunday, December 1, 2019 at 5:00 pm
Advent Lessons & Carols
THE ST. WILFRID CHOIR & ORCHESTRA
The choir and clergy of St. Wilfrid's invite you to participate in Advent Lessons & Carols. A beautiful way to complete your Thanksgiving weekend and an inspired candlelit evening to begin the season of Advent. Music by Bach, Gibbons, Sirett, Carter, Gjeilo, Rutter, Lauridsen and Leighton. Sunday, December 1 at 5:00 p.m. Reception follows.
This event is very popular; arrive early.
Sunday, December 8, 2019 at 3:00 pm
The Many Actual Moods of Christmas
ORANGE COUNTY WOMEN'S CHORUS
The holiday season is one of joy, warmth, and togetherness….but it can include some other emotions that choirs never seem to sing about! We’re taking an honest and humorous musical look at the “most wonderful time of the year” with a program that combines the music of community and celebration with works about everything from the winter doldrums to the overabundance of Facebook posts on Christmas morning. We think you’ll relate, and we know you’ll love it! Oh, and don’t lift a finger afterward—we’ll serve you snacks and drinks following the concert, and we’ll clean everything up.
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Sunday, March 1, 2020 at 5:00 pm
Choral Evensong
THE ST. WILFRID CHOIR
Evensong with music by American composers
Presented with the American Guild of Organists, Orange County Chapter
David Hogan: Magnificat & Nunc Dimitis
Craig Hella Johnson: All of Us (Considering Matthew Shepard)
Calvin Hampton: Five Dances for Organ
Sunday, November 6, 2022 at 10:30am
Gabriel Faure: Requiem Mass (excerpts)
THE ST. WILFRID CHOIR & ORCHESTRA
The choir is joined by strings for the beloved Requiem Mass as we remember loved ones who have gone on to the larger life in heaven.
Sunday, November 20, 2022 at 10:30am
Louis Vierne: Solemn Mass (excerpts)
THE ST. WILFRID CHOIR
Celebrate Christ the King with dramatic music for choir and organ composed by the famed organist of Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris.
Sunday, November 19, 2022 at 7:00pm
Sunday, November 20, 2022 at 3:00pm
The Sisterhood of Cecilia
ORANGE COUNTY WOMEN’S CHORUS
November 22 is the Feast of St. Cecilia. She’s not just the patron saint of music—she was also a woman of strength and spirituality, and we’re singing music by and about Cecilia and her mighty soul-sisters from long-ago eras and distant lands, from Hildegard to Enheduanna to Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz to Mirabai. Love gorgeous music
about the power of the feminine spirit? This program is made for you.
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FOLLOWING PERFORMANCE WERE CANCELLED DUE TO PARISH SUSPENSION OF ALL EVENTS
Saturday, March 14, 2020 at 7:00 pm
High on the Mountain; Deep in the Valley: The Music of Johannes Brahms
ORANGE COUNTY WOMEN'S CHORUS
Our international prizewinning friends, Men in Blaque (Joseph Huszti, Artistic Director), join us for a concert of works by one of the greatest of the Romantic masters: the sublime Johannes Brahms, whose mastery of intricate craft and profound emotion have made his music soul food for singers and listeners around the world. (Modernist composer Elliott Carter famously said of his student days, “We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms….which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are.”) Come enjoy some of his best-loved works—sacred and secular, accompanied and a cappella, cheerful and poignant.
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Thursday, April 9, 2020 at 7:00 pm
Maundy Thursday Worship
THE ST. WILFRID CHOIR
Music by Maurice Durufle, Orlando Gibbons, & Thomas Tallis
Friday, April 10, 2020 at 12 pm (noon)
Good Friday Worship
THE ST. WILFRID CHOIR
Music by Anton Bruckner, John Sanders, & Samuel Wesley
Sunday, April 12, 2020 at 10:30 a.m.
Easter Sunday Choral Eucharist
THE ST. WILFRID CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA
Music: Five Mystical Songs, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Le tombeau de Couperin, & Maurice Ravel
Sunday, May 3 at 2020 5:00 p.m.
Choral Evensong
THE ST. WILFRID CHOIR
Music by Herbert Howells & Philip Moore
Saturday, June 6, 2020 at 7:00 p.m.
Make Them Hear You!
ORANGE COUNTY WOMEN'S CHORUS
Operas and musicals aren’t just entertaining—they’ve also shined a spotlight on the important social issues of their eras, and introduced audiences to a whole lot of memorable characters walking groundbreaking paths through the world. We’ll sing some of our favorite tunes from some of our favorite trailblazing shows, from South Pacific to Spring Awakening, Hairspray to Hamilton, in this rousing season-ending celebration for all ages!
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