le="text-align: justify;">Schola Cantorum Jubilate was responsible for the concert held at St. John's Co-Cathedral in occasion of the World Hospice & Palliative Care Day. It started at 7.30pm with the Co-Cathedral filled with around 800 people. The audience had the opportunity to listen to the Schola's performance in a special ambience…the unique and ever-lasting splendour of the Cathedral. Thanks to restoration which is being carried out, this national heritage continues to impress the visitors, even the Maltese who regularly attends for services held there.
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le="text-align: justify;">The concert included some pieces a cappella which were: ‘O Sacrum Convivium' (Bartolucci), ‘Regina Coeli' (Bartolucci), ‘Christus Factus Est' (Debono) and the premier ‘Jesu Dulcis Memoria' (Portelli). The other choral part involved Dr. Hugo Agius Muscat who played the Mascioni organ. The pieces were: ‘Ave Verum Corpus' (Mozart), ‘Jubilate Deo' (Bartolucci), ‘Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring' (Bach), ‘Make me a channel of your peace' (Temple), ‘Unto us a child is born' and ‘Hallelujah' both from Handel's ‘Messiah' . Marouska Attard, the director and soprano, interpreted ‘Lowly they kneel' (Handel) and ‘Hear My Prayer' (Mendelssohn). She was accompanied by Dr. Agius Muscat who interpreted also the ‘Overture' from ‘The Fireworks Music' by Handel and the ‘Toccata in F' from ‘Organ Symphony No. 5 by Widor. During the concert, Dr. V. Zammit, Chairman of the Malta Hospice Movement delivered a speech during which he talked about the Hospice Movement's voluntary work with patients suffering from cancer and their families. In fact at the end of the concert, the congregation was invited to contribute financially towards the Maltese Movement. Dianne Angie Portelli Galea was the compere of ‘Musica Sacra'. Present for the concert were journalists whose positive critique was seen later on the local media.
