Meet the new director of music at England's Coventry Cathedral | CBC Music

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Canada's Rachel Mahon is the first woman to hold the position, and one of only a handful of female music directors at England's 50-odd cathedrals. | CBCMusic

Rachel Mahon will assume the music directorship of Coventry Cathedral in September 2020.

Today's Coventry Cathedral was built amid the ruins of the original 14th-century Gothic structure, which was bombed by the German Luftwaffe during World War II. "I particularly love the liturgy of the Anglican Church and the music that the church has produced and I love performing it," she reflected. "I love working with children — that's a big part of the job. We have a boys' choir and a girls' choir, and I love interacting with them and helping them to achieve their best results."Before working at Coventry Cathedral, Mahon held positions at three other English cathedrals: Truro Cathedral, St.

'When you look at the front of the cathedral, you see the organ on either side,' says Rachel Mahon of Coventry Cathedral's interior, which is dominated by a ceiling of Canadian cedar. "They got it completely perfect for the building. The way the organ sounds, it completely fills the space and everything blends — every different set of pipes blends with all the other stops and you can play so many different genres of music on there. I mean, you can play modern, you can play Baroque, you can play French and German. It all sounds great. And you really have to be here to experience it. If the organ is playing on full, it rumbles, you can feel the floor shaking.

 

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