Dinner Tickets: $40 Donation
Registration Deadline: April 10
You are invited to a special evening hosted by the Cathedral Choir. Join us for a traditional English meal as we prepare for our residency in Worcester, UK. Bangers and Mash, with the vegetarian option of a wonderful Stuffed Portobello Mushroom, is the fare accompanied by a salad, and ready to be washed down with proper English libation, either stout or ale. Of course, we will have tea, lemonade and water for our non-beer-drinking friends.
During the meal, you will be entertained by some of our best talent, members of the Cathedral Choir. You may not recognize them without their Sunday vestments, but you will absolutely love their voices.
As if that were not enough, the dessert course will feature home-baked goodies from our choir members. And, service and general merriment will be provided by our singers and friends.
All of this is yours for a donation of forty dollars ($40). We ask that you pre-purchase tickets so we can prepare the appropriate number of meat and meatless servings. For you thirsty ones, you may have another brew for an extra four-dollar ($4) donation.
We look forward to seeing you at 7:00 PM on Friday, April 17, when we gather in the Cathedral Undercroft. Watch for coming announcements about this and other offerings, and details about how and where to purchase your tickets.
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The Cathedral Choir has accepted an invitation to perform a week-long residency at Worcester Cathedral in the UK this coming August. Our beloved choir, staff and family friends, making up a group of over forty, will be departing on Friday evening, August 7, and returning to Cincinnati on Monday, August 17.
We will sing a total of six Evensong services and a Sunday morning Eucharist on this “working” holiday trip. The choirs have not undertaken such a residency for twenty years, and we are very excited about the opportunity to share our love of the Anglican liturgical tradition. We will manage to squeeze in a couple of side-trips, including a day in THE university town, Oxford, a visit to the Cathedral and village at Tewkesbury and a day trip to the lovely restored mansion and grounds at Hanbury Hall. Such opportunities exist at cathedrals all over the UK to provide release time for the resident choirs’ holidays. We will miss being in the chancel with you for those two Sundays, but you will be left in capable hands for music leadership in our absence.
The Dean has stepped up with a generous supporting grant from the Coombe Fund, allowing us, along with donations from several of our own choristers, to cover the travel costs of all the professional staff. Rev. Canon Liesebet Gravley will accompany the choir as Chaplain for the trip, along with sharing the gift of her voice in the choir. The fifteen-plus dedicated volunteers of the Cathedral Choir have committed to covering their own costs for the trip.