| A list of Venues where DCU have performed over the years |
| The two venues pages show all of the concert venues in which the DCU have performed since its inception back in 1866 - right up to modern times. This page shows venues further afield including our trips abroad. |
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Concert venues further afield |
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 Southwell Minster.
This became the cathedral of Nottinghamshire in 1884, but this church of the Blessed Virgin Mary has been a minster (or missionary church) covering most of Nottinghamshire since Saxon times.
Two concerts were performed here by the DCU: the first was a fund raising concert with the DCU joining with the Nottingham Harmonic Choir to sing Elgar's Dream of Gerontius, with Adrian Boult conducting and an orchestra from the Royal College of Music. The Minster boys sang the angel chorus from up in the triforium and it was a resounding success.
The second concert was 5 years later when we sang Verdi's Requiem conducted by Maurice Handford; the orchestra was again from the RCM. According to Peter Haslam: "They brought the biggest bass drum I think I've ever seen; the walls of the Minster, I swear, bulged outwards every time we sang the big Dies Irae part!"
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Spring, 1966
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Italy: DCU's 1st. overseas trip |
April, 2004 |
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Chiesa di S. Stefano al Ponte Vecchio, Florence.
The church was originally constructed in the 11th and 12th century in a Romanesque style with a polychrome marble facade. The interior featured three aisles. In the 14th century, the exterior was renovated. Of the original facade, only the marble work around the portal remains. Between 1631 and 1655, the interior of the church was renovated to convert the three aisles to an open hall. A crypt was added and the interior was redesigned to include a choir.
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Basilica Di San Giovanni, Lucca.
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De Montfort Hall, Leicester.
DCU have performed twice here jointly with the Leicester Phil. in 2005 & 2007.
See the concert programmes.
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March, 2005
October, 2007 |
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Pears School, Repton.
This elegant hall is deceptively named, as it is no longer used as a school and has nothing to do with pears. Its primary use is as an assembly hall, and it usually serves as an exam hall.
Pears (pronounced, with typical Reptonian perverseness, as "Pierce") was a headmaster of even stricter than usual renown. It is alleged he could decapitate a schoolboy at twenty paces with a rolled up ball of A4.
Our 3rd. Patron's Concert was performed here in 2006 with Dame Emma Kirkby.
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March, 2006 |
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St. Oswald's Church, Ashbourne.
This is a lovely 13th Century church, which has the oldest brass consecration plate in this country and the second oldest in Europe.
The building is widely acknowldeged as one of the grandest in Derbyshire.
Built in the shape of a cross with a full set of bells, it has a spire of 212 feet.
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May, 2006 |
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St. Mary's Church, Wirksworth, Derbyshire.
This is a fine 13th century building which stands in a pleasantly open churchyard just off the centre of the town. It was built on the site of earlier Norman and Saxon churches and has a long history - it may well have been founded by Betti, a Saxon missionary who came to what was then the kingdom of Mercia with Elchfrida of Northumbria, when she married the Mercian king in 653.
DCU performed Handel's Messiah here. |
December, 2006 |
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Merton College Chapel, Oxford.
The Chapel has been a place of prayer and worship for over 700 years. Work on the church of St Mary and St John, now the Quire of Merton College Chapel, started in the late 1280s.
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June, 2007 |
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Germany: DCU's 3rd. overseas trip. |
May, 2008 |
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Basilika St. Aposteln,
Cologne.
The Basilica of the Holy Apostlesis Romanesque church in Cologne (Köln), located near Innenstadt's busy Neumarkt. The former collegiate church is dedicated to the twelve Apostles. It is one of twelve Romanesque churches built in Cologne in that period.
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Altenberger Dom, Altenberg.
Altenberg Dom or Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in Altenberg founded in 1133. In 1803, it was dissolved during the secularisation of Germany and fell into ruin. Starting in 1847 under King Frederick William IV of Prussia, a thorough restoration was carried out, and the restored church is now interdenominational and is used by both Roman Catholics and Protestants.
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St. Peter's Church, Alstonefield.
This church dates partly back to Norman times but has been heavily altered several times throughout the centuries, mainly in 1590 when most of the chancel was rebuilt and later in 1870.
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June, 2009 |
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St. John the Baptist Church, Tideswell.
This church is known as the 'Cathedral of the Peak' because it is the largest and most beautiful church in the area. It dates back to 1400 and was restored in 1875.
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June, 2010 |
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Czech Republic: DCU's 4th. overseas trip. |
May/June, 2011 |
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St. Nicholas Church, Old Town Square, Prague.
Beautiful St. Nicholas Church at the Old Town Square was completed in 1735. It replaced a parish church, mentioned in records dating back as early as 1273. It wasn't until 1901, when the Krenn House was demolished, that its lovely white façade became visible to the rest of the Old Town Square. It simply gleams, hit by the sun during the day and lit by strong white lights at night.
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St. Mary Magdelene's, Karlovy Vary.
The church, flanked by two superb towers, is one of the rare Baroque monuments of the town. A masterpiece by Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer (1689-1751), it was finished in 1736. Its outline contrasts sharply with the C19 spirit of Karlovy Vary.
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