Requiem Eucharist and Thanksgiving for the life of Belinda Wong-Barker
Tuesday, 30 March 2021, 2:00pm
St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne
Belinda Wong
17 June 1977 – 5 March 2021
1st Alto of Ensemble Gombert 2004-2021
Vice President 2006-2015
President 2015-2021
Chair of 2015 European Tour Committee
The choir leading the music comprised members past and present of Ensemble Gombert, and friends from other choirs with which Belinda sang.
Director – John O’Donnell, Director of Ensemble Gombert and Director of Music, All Saints’ East St Kilda
Organist – Calvin Bowman, Director of Music, St Andrew’s Brighton
Prior to service:
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Hymn Prelude on Rhosymedre
David Brown, Organist, St James’ Old Cathedral
JS Bach – Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele
Calvin Bowman
Introit
Calvin Bowman – To Daffadills
Kyrie
TL de Victoria – Missa pro defunctis a 6
Gradual Hymn
Blest are the pure in heart – English Hymnal 370 alt.
Offertory Motet
Johannes Brahms – Wo ist er ein so herrlich Volk
Sanctus/Benedictus
TL de Victoria – Missa pro defunctis a 6
Music during Communion
TL de Victoria – Agnus Dei, Missa pro defunctis a 6
William Byrd – Justorum animae
Carole King – You’ve Got a Friend (Sung by Sadie Mustoe)
Hymn
Now thank we all our God – New English Hymnal 413
Nunc Dimittis
Gustav Holst – Nunc dimittis
Postlude
JS Bach – Prelude and Fugue in B minor
Soprano
Kristy Biber; Victoria Brown; Helen Gagliano; Katharina Hochheiser; Claerwen Jones; Mandie Lee; Katherine Lieschke; Katherine Norman; Elizabeth O’Leary; Nina Pereira; Kathryn Pisani; Maria Pisani; Jacqueline Porter; Deborah Summerbell; Carol Veldhoven
Alto
Yi Wen Chin; Rebecca Collins; Niki Ebacioni; Helena Ekins; Jennifer Mathers; Jacqueline Ogeil; Gowri Rajendran; Emma Warburton
Tenor
Peter Campbell; Vaughan McAlley; Benjamin Namdarian; Ben Owen; Timothy Reynolds; Michael Stephens; Tim van Nooten; Christopher Watson
Bass
Thomas Bell; Tim Daly; Thomas Drent; Andrew Fysh; Jerzy Kozlowski; Michael Leighton Jones; Oliver Mann; Andrew Murray; Mike Ormerod; Christopher Potter; Michael Strasser; Mark Thawley; Nicholas Tolhurst
