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Saturday, April 12, 2025

Performance exquisitely delivered

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  Darkness & Light Saturday 12 April 2025 Knox Church City Choir Dunedin delighted a well-filled Knox Church on Saturday evening with ...

City Choir takes on contemporary fare

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  Darkness & Light Saturday 12 April 2025 Knox Church City Choir Dunedin, at present with about 80 singers directed by David Burchell, g...
Monday, December 9, 2024

French-themed concert display of choral strength

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Joyeux Noël! French Music for Christmas Friday 6 December 2024 Knox Church Friday evening’s City Choir Dunedin (CCD) celebration of Christma...
Sunday, August 25, 2024

Requiem a first-rate concert

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Mozart  Requiem , 24 August 2024. Photo credit Pieter du Plessis Mozart  Requiem Saturday 24 August 2024 Dunedin Town Hall Presented by Dune...
Wednesday, July 3, 2024

Enchanting Visions of Heaven

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Visions of Heaven Friday 28 June 2024, St Paul's Cathedral ‘Enchanting’ was the word I heard as a capacity audience began to disperse af...
Monday, July 1, 2024

Stellar concert honours Matariki

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Visions of Heaven Friday 28 June 2024, St Paul's Cathedral As part of the Dunedin Organ Festival and Puaka Matariki Festival, City Choir...
Thursday, March 28, 2024

Rousing performance of Bach classic

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Bach's St John Passion City Choir Dunedin, Dunedin Town Hall Sunday 24 March 2024 Presented on Palm Sunday, J.S. Bach’s St John Passion ...
Monday, March 25, 2024

Passion still enthralling after 300 years

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Bach's St John Passion City Choir Dunedin, Dunedin Town Hall Sunday 24 March 2024 Bach wrote the St John Passion in 1724, and for 300 ...
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Choir’s best-ever ‘Messiah’ a treat

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Messiah, 25 November 2023. Photo: Ian Thomson Handel’s Messiah  City Choir Dunedin, Dunedin Town Hall  Saturday, November 25  Those who said...
Monday, November 27, 2023

A rite that endures for good reason

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Photo: Ian Thomson 25 November 2023 Messiah , City Choir Dunedin and Dunedin Symphony Orchestra, Dunedin TownHall, Saturday, November 25, 20...
Thursday, April 27, 2023

Choir rises to the occasion for concert

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Alleluia! Music for Eastertide Dunedin City Choir Saturday, 22 April 2023, Knox Church In "Alleluia! Music for Eastertide", City...
Monday, April 24, 2023

Highlights shine

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  Alleluia! Music for Eastertide Saturday 22 April 2023, Knox Church A full house turned out for the Easter celebration staged by City Choir...
Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Contrasting but complementary works beautifully performed

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Mozart  Requiem Saturday 26 November 2022 , Knox Church The vaulted roof and lovely acoustics of Knox Church were the perfect setting for Ci...
Monday, November 28, 2022

Strong performance of popular requiem

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Mozart  Requiem Saturday 26 November 2022 , Knox Church Mozart's Requiem is popular repertoire for large choirs, writes Elizabeth Bouma...
Monday, August 29, 2022

Excellent performance from choir and musicians

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City Choir Dunedin, Petite Messe Solennelle , Knox Church, Sunday, August 28  Knox Church was yesterday’s venue for City Choir Dunedin’s per...
Thursday, December 9, 2021

Stellar soloists make beloved classic sing

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Handel's Messiah Tuesday 7 December 2021, Dunedin Town Hall City Choir Dunedin, four fine soloists and Dunedin Symphony Orchestra turned...

Messiah: Soloists cap splendid showing

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Handel's Messiah Tuesday 7 December 2021, Dunedin Town Hall Handel could never have imagined Messiah , his oratorio written in 1741, wo...
Wednesday, June 2, 2021

An interesting and well-designed affair

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Applaud! Women in Music   Saturday 29 May 7:30 pm, Knox Church City Choir Dunedin’s latest concert, “Applaud! Women in Music” was an int...
Monday, May 31, 2021

Women soloists deliver intricate harmonies

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Applaud! Women in Music   Saturday 29 May 7:30 pm, Knox Church A near-capacity audience in a comfortably warm Knox Church heard a program...