Enjoy the thrilling surround sound of all 17,000 pipes of the Hazel Wright Organ featuring our own Cathedral Organists making music for a good cause - all proceeds from the concert will go towards supporting the refurbishment project of the historic pipe organ of the Cathedral in Assisi, Italy, the mystical medieval birthplace of St. Francis and St. Clare.

Attend Holy Mass in Spanish at Christ Cathedral celebrating Our Lady of Guadalupe featuring traditional, congregational Spanish Marian hymns, and movements from the famed Mass of the Americas by living, California composer Frank La Rocca sung by the Diocesan Choir of Orange accompanied by the Hazel Wright Organ!

Meditate on the story of Christmas with timeless readings from Scripture, sung audience carols, and seasonal choral favorites featuring Whitacre's Lux Aurumque, Wayne Oquin's O Magnum Mysterium, and Rutter's Candlelight Carol. The Hazel Wright Organ and Cathedral Brass will lead the congregation in song and accompany the Diocesan Choir of Orange, the Cathedral Choirs, and the Diocesan Children's Choir.

Benjamin Sheen, currently Director of Music at Jesus College Cambridge, is one of the UK’s most established organists on both sides of the Atlantic. Hailed as ‘brilliant' by the New York Times, he is the 2013 winner of the Pierre S. du Pont First Prize in the inaugural Longwood Gardens Organ Competition and received Second Prize and the Jon Laukvik prize at the St. Alban’s International Organ Competition 2013. Before moving back to Oxford in January of this year, he spent seven years in New York City working at the world-famous Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue. Ben began his musical career as a chorister for six years at St. Paul's Cathedral in London, under the direction of John Scott, during which time he gained a music scholarship to Eton College. He holds degrees from the University of Oxford and the Juilliard School and is also a prize-winning Fellow of the Royal College of Organists.

Experience the next generation of sacred musicians - our performers tonight are current and former scholars of the Organ & Choral Scholar program here at Christ Cathedral. This advances, renowned program, made possible by your donations, gives young musicians considering a career in sacred music to become a part of the Cathedral Music Program under the tutelage and mentorship of the professional Cathedral Music Staff. Former scholars have continued their educations at prestigious institutions around the world including the Juilliard School in NYC, McGill University in Montreal, Rice University in Houston, and Yale.

Program presented in part by a generous donation from Lucy Dunn in honor of Dr. Robert Cummings, who served over 60 years as a composer, organist and teacher in the Diocese of Orange. May this help keep his music legacy alive in others.

David Enlow is a “commanding” organist (The New Yorker), conductor, and teacher based in New York, who is active in North America and Europe. He is Music Director of Park Avenue Synagogue, Organist & Choir Master of the Church of the Resurrection, and Assistant Conductor, Organist, and Repetiteur to the Clarion Music Society. David has taught church music, improvisation, and organ repertoire classes for local, regional, and national events of the American Guild of Organists (AGO), the Royal Canadian College of Organists, and at the Juilliard School, from which he received two degrees. David also received the Fellowship diploma, with both prizes for highest marks, from the AGO; this resulted in his joining the committee on professional certification, which sets the standards for national organist examinations and grades them. David then served two terms as Dean of the New York City Chapter AGO.

David’s program will feature an improvisation in honor of Dr. Bob Cummings.