Cathedral Choir plays key role
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| 19 Mar 2011
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Chris Oldham, the ChristChurch Cathedral Administrator, leads the choir onto Hagley Park.
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Jeremy Woodside, the Acting Director of Music at ChristChurch Cathedral, rehearsing the junior choristers at Christ's College.
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Junior chorister Benedict Sullivan rehearses before the memorial service.
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Chorister Patrick Manning fortifies himself for the feature duet, "Pie Jesu", with Dame Malvina Major.
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Patrick Manning gets a hand to slip into his chorister's robe.
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No stagefright evident here: Chorister Nathanael Wain before the memorial service.
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Now this hooks on to that, and the other tucks in here... Chorister William Pegg dresses for the memorial service.
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Chorister Nathanael Wain holds still while his robe is adjusted.
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Frazer Densem adjusts the ruff of Ben Johnson before the Cathedral Choir takes the stage.
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Backstage before the main event - and a couple of bantamweight choristers stage a mock square-off.
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Dame Malvina Major and Patrick Manning complete their Pie Jesu duet.
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The ChristChurch Cathedral Choir sings the final blessing.
The ChristChurch Cathedral Choir played a key role in the National Memorial Service.
They sang the final blessing to music by the contemporary English composer John Rutter:
The Lord bless you and Keep you
The Lord make his face to shine upon you
To shine upon you and be gracious
And be gracious unto you.
And one of their number, Patrick Manning, who is a student at Christ’s College, sang Pie Jesu as a duet with Dame Malvina Major.
The February 22 quake smashed the cathedral that is the choir’s musical and spiritual home.
So when they gathered in the Christ’s College music theatre at 9:30 on the morning of the memorial service, it was the first time they’d rehearsed together since that jolt.
Lloyd Ashton recorded their day with his camera.
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