Originally published at Orange County Catholic
THE DIOCESE OF ORANGE is pleased to announce the Christ Cathedral music ministry’s 2024-25 concert season, which will include the recital debut of a newly refurbished pipe organ, Christmas music and an epic 19-hour marathon of Bach’s entire pipe organ catalogue.
The season begins on Nov. 13 at 7:30 p.m. with the inaugural recital of the Schoenstein & Co. pipe organ in the cathedral’s recently dedicated St. Callistus Chapel and Crypts. The 405-pipe, 8-rank instrument was formerly in a private home in Southern California and New York before Christ Cathedral acquired it and returned it to the Golden State.
The recital will feature soloist Steven Ball playing French music alongside Lauren McCaul, cathedral music administrator and soprano. Next is the annual Christmas at the Cathedral concert on Dec. 13 at 7:30 p.m. It will feature holiday favorites, as well as congregational carols complementing some of the most beloved Scripture readings about the birth of Jesus Christ.
The Bach marathon concert — dubbed “Bach-a-Thon!” — begins at the early hour of 6 a.m. on March 3 and is expected to last 19 hours, through 1 a.m. March 4. The complete organ works of J.S. Bach will be played on Christ Cathedral’s
