Canterbury Cathedral Choir Tour Highly Successful
Episcopal News Service. June 30, 1999 [99-099I]
(ACNS) The Canterbury Cathedral Choir, one of the world's preeminent choral ensembles, recently completed a highly successful 15 day tour of the U.S. and Canada.
The choir, a performing organization with an international reputation for high standards, is the residential musical ensemble for the spiritual seat of the 70 million member worldwide Anglican Communion, which reaches into more than 160 countries. As the birthplace of English Christianity and the church home to 103 archbishops of the Anglican Church, Canterbury Cathedral has become sacred to pilgrims as an international shrine.
The choir has conducted critically acclaimed tours in Europe and North America -- including a highly successful tour of the U.S. and Canada in 1994. In 1997, the choir celebrated the 1400th anniversary of the arrival of St. Augustine in Canterbury with concerts in Rome and throughout France. That same year, the Cathedral hosted an American Children's Choir Festival with over 400 participants.