Church

Please note there will not be an evensong service this Sunday, 16 June.  Instead, please join us for the choir’s summer concert at 6.00pm.  For details, please click here.

The choir has been invited to sing a service of choral evensong next Sunday, 21 April at 5.00pm in Nun’s Cross Church in Killiskey, Ashford, Co. Wicklow (A67 WP83).  The service will be led by the rector of Nun’s Cross, Revd. Jack Kinkead.  All are most welcome to attend.

For those who may not wish to make the drive, a service of said compline will replace evensong in Saint Bartholomew’s that evening.

Directions to Nun’s Cross Church from Dublin:

• Take the N11/M11 towards Wexford
• Exit at junction 15 towards Ashford
• At the first roundabout, take the second exit towards Glendalough/Roundwood
• At the second roundabout, take the first exit towards Ashford/Glendalough (R772)
• At the third roundabout, take the second exit to continue on R772
• At the fourth roundabout, take the second exit to R764
• Veer left at the V
• At the end of the road, turn left
• Follow signs for Nun’s Cross Church.  The church will be to your right.  Parking is available on the roadside and beside the national school.

Photos by Robin Heather

PLEASE NOTE: Due to a match at the nearby Aviva Stadium, parking in the Ballsbridge area will be in high demand.  Attendees are encouraged to use public transport to reach the church.  We are located about five minutes’ walk from the S2, 4, 7, and 7a bus lines (use the American Embassy stop) and 10-15 minutes’ walk from the 39a, 46a, 145, and 155 bus lines (use one of the stops on Morehampton Road in Donnybrook).  The nearest DART station is Sandymount.

You read Yeats.  I read Yeats.  Next door reads Yeats.  He’s on the leaving cert.
And each of us sees something a little different…

Chamber choir New Dublin Voices with conductor Bernie Sherlock invited composers from around the world to share how they read Yeats.  They picked poems and turned them into music—fresh, striking, powerful pieces, full of light and darkness.  And then they sent them to Dublin.

On Saturday, 13 April, New Dublin Voices will lift the words of Yeats and the notes of these brilliant pieces off their manuscript pages and bring them to full dramatic and expressive life in the beautiful surroundings and warm acoustics of Saint Bartholomew’s.

The concert will include world premieres of new commissions, funded by the Arts Council, of Yeats settings by England’s Roxanna Panufnik and Ireland’s Jonathan Nangle.

Tickets are €20 (€15 concession) and available here.

“Composers who are female are not rare. They are just too rarely performed, even today.”
—Jessica Duchen

The Gaudete Singers return to Saint Bartholomew’s for their spring concert, Assisted by Angels: Women Composers from Bingen to Bingham.  This performance will showcase a millennium’s worth of women whose musical works are all too often overlooked, from the 12^th century scores of Hildegard von Bingen to the pieces debuted by English composer Judith Bingham in recent years.  Other artists in the programme include Caterina Assandra, Clara Schumann, Amy Beach, Susan Spain-Dunk, Imogen Holst, Betty Roe, and Judith Weir.  Tickets are €20 (€15 concession; €5 students) and will be available at the door.