The Christchurch School of Music ( - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 17 Jul 2017 06:38:15 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg The Christchurch School of Music ( - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Eminent Catholic composer Sir James MacMillan to conduct Christchurch singers https://cathnews.co.nz/2017/07/17/macmillan-eminent-composer-christchurch/ Mon, 17 Jul 2017 08:02:23 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=96559

A man who has been described as one of Britain's greatest living composers has accepted an invitation from the Christchurch Diocese Sacred Arts Team to visit. Sir James MacMillan will conduct singers in his St Anne's Mass at the 5.30pm Mass in St Mary's Pro-Cathedral on 23 July. He will speak later at the Music Centre Read more

Eminent Catholic composer Sir James MacMillan to conduct Christchurch singers... Read more]]> A man who has been described as one of Britain's greatest living composers has accepted an invitation from the Christchurch Diocese Sacred Arts Team to visit.

Sir James MacMillan will conduct singers in his St Anne's Mass at the 5.30pm Mass in St Mary's Pro-Cathedral on 23 July.

He will speak later at the Music Centre adjacent to the church. The event runs from 4-8pm, starting with rehearsals.

A CD of MacMillan's work was recently featuring in the top ten on Radio New Zealand Concert's Classical Chart.

He has previously conducted the NZSO, but on this visit to New Zealand he is conducting the National Youth Orchestra.

"I have always enjoyed working with young musicians, and have written for them over the years in various ways. I'm always keen to find out what new music is like in the various countries I visit."

"I especially enjoy performing new work by my younger colleagues"

MacMillan was first internationally recognised in 1990. His prolific work has since been performed and broadcast around the world.

He was Composer/Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic from 2000-2009 and Principal Guest Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Kamer Filharmonie until 2013.

MacMillan composed a congregational setting of the Mass which was used when Pope Benedict XVI visited the UK to beatify Blessed John Henry Newman.

He is a committed Catholic and his music reflects his Faith, Scottish heritage, social conscience and close connection with Celtic folk music.

The Catholic Herald named him Catholic Herald's Catholic of the Year 2015.

"We are honouring him for his fight against the new secular establishments, in the United Kingdom and especially in Scotland, that mock and marginalise the Catholic faith that Sir James has always upheld, whatever his political leanings."

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The Christchurch School of Music (CSM) is returning to its former home on the Catholic cathedral site in Christchurch's city centre. A complex of four portable buildings will be built by the Catholic diocese on land it recently purchased on the corner of Barbadoes St and Ferry Rd. The buildings will then be leased to Read more

School of Music returns to Catholic cathedral site... Read more]]> The Christchurch School of Music (CSM) is returning to its former home on the Catholic cathedral site in Christchurch's city centre.

A complex of four portable buildings will be built by the Catholic diocese on land it recently purchased on the corner of Barbadoes St and Ferry Rd.

The buildings will then be leased to the school.

Catholic diocese property and development manager Keith Beal said, "We want to step up our role in adding to the vibrancy of the city."

"This is about generating a buzz. This is the diocese playing its part in the recovery of Christchurch."

"We have been a silent force for four years."

"That has been about planning."

"We are ready to move now."

For 17 years the CSM's home was in the former convent for the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, but the building had to be pulled down after the earthquakes.

Since then the school's office has been in temporary facilities in Waltham Road.

Beal said that in the long term, they hope to build something more permanent for the school on the site.

The school, which has about 800 students, has not had a permanent home since the 2011 earthquakes destroyed their former building on Barbadoes St.

Expensive musical instruments and a large collection of sheet music are currently stored in a warehouse with no temperature control.

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