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Jeffrey Tucker, writer, editor, entrepreneur, musician |
archiveNick Gale (1975-2015), organist, choral director, for 13 years Master of the Music at the Cathedral of St. George in Southwark |
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I had the pleasure of attending two concerts this past summer at St. James Cathedral in Seattle conducted by Mr. Phillips. The first was at the opening of a week long workshop and included members of the Tudor Choir and the Tallis Scholars. The second was of most of the attendees at the workshop held the evening of the last day. I also have the very great blessing that the Tudor Choir is the resident ensemble at my parish church (Blessed Sacrament, in Seattle's University District) and of having sung in the traditional choir there with Mr. Doug Fullington, founder and director of the Tudor Choir.
They will be singing the Dominican Rite Mass at the parish on All Souls' Day, November 2nd. If anyone reading this is going to be in the area that evening, I suspect you would very much enjoy attending the Mass which is scheduled for 7:00pm. Music will be Portuguese polyphony, Dominican chant and pieces by Lobo, Rebelo, Durufle, Howells and Messiaen.
Pax et bonum,
Keith Töpfer
(Info on page 6, here: http://www.blessed-sacrament.org/bulletins/current.pdf)