Halifax Camerata Singers Jeff Joudrey, artistic director with Lynette Wahlstrom, piano Curtis Dietz, trumpet VOICES OF REMEMBRANCE A concert of music and readings to remember lives lost but not forgotten November 11, 2020 Halifax Camerata Singers | VOICES OF REMEMBRANCE 1 In Remembrance Remembering and dedicated to … • Those who died in the Second World War that ended 75 years ago, including victims of the 1945 bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima • Six members of the Canadian Armed Forces, serving overseas on HMCS Fredericton, who died in a Cyclone helicopter crash off the coast of Greece in April 2020 • Capt. Jenn Casey, a native of Halifax, NS, who died in an air accident in May 2020 while flying with the Canadian Armed Forces Snowbirds Reading: Crimson Stain Larry Smeets * (b. 1955) Reader: Lt. (N) Simon Hardman Royal Canadian Navy/Canadian Forces Recruiting Group For the Fallen Eleanor Daley * (b. 1955) Curtis Dietz, trumpet In Flanders Fields Christine Donkin * (b. 1976) With Hope and Perseverance Remembering and dedicated to … • The 22 women and men slain on April 19–20, 2020 in Canada’s worst mass shooting, in Portapique and Wentworth, NS Reading: Because We Love, We Cry Sheree Fitch * (b. 1956) Reader: Sheree Fitch, Nova Scotia Author/Poet The Road Home arr. Stephen Paulus (1949–2014) Soloist: Amanda Zadeh, soprano How Can I Keep from Singing Sarah Quartel * (b. 1984) Soloist: Meg Currie, soprano Halifax Camerata Singers | VOICES OF REMEMBRANCE 2 With Love, Empathy and Compassion Remembering and dedicated to … • All who have died at home, in hospital, or in long-term care homes as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic Reading: Texts attributed to Albert Camus Albert Camus (1913–1960) Reader: Amanda Zadeh, BScN, RN Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Nova Scotia Health Ubi Caritas Ola Gjeilo (b. 1978) Lynette Wahlstrom, piano O Love Elaine Hagenberg (b. 1979) Lynette Wahlstrom, piano * Canadian composer/poet Acknowledgements This recording was made in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People. Jeremy VanSlyke, Recording Engineer, and the Leaf Music team Simon Hardman Sheree Fitch Amanda Zadeh St. Andrew’s United Church & Kevin Parks, Operations Manager Peggy Walt, Camerata General Manager John Lindsay-Botten, Camerata Concert Manager Andrea Rankin Sibley, Graphic Designer Jill Rafuse, Copy Editor Barbara Main, Camerata Librarian Recorded at St. Andrew’s United Church, Halifax, on Oct. 20 and Oct. 27, 2020 Halifax Camerata Singers | VOICES OF REMEMBRANCE 3 Halifax Camerata Singers HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA SOPRANO Meg Currie | Dana-Lynn Farrell | Barbara Main | Juliette Moncada Laura Beth Smith | Kallie White | Amanda Zadeh ALTO Mackenzie Costron-Li | Elyse Delaney | Rosalie Dowling Kelly Hart | Clare Maguire TENOR David Caldwell | Geoff Gillespie | Simon Hardman | Ryan Henwood Michael James | Frederick Li | John Lindsay-Botten BASS Bryan Crocker | Steven DeWitt | Joseph Goodwin | Spencer Gough Bertrum MacDonald | Robert Pecknold | Sean Pecknold | Bill Perrot The Halifax Camerata Singers is Atlantic Recordings: A Time for All Things (2015), Canada’s premier chamber choir. Founded Solace: Songs of Remembrance (2009), in 1986 by Artistic Director Jeff Joudrey, the Songs of the Stable: Christmas Music from Nova Scotia ensemble has distinguished Canada (2006), Songs of Home (1997), itself by performing exciting choral repertoire Celtic Mass for the Sea (1993) that covers all periods and styles, with special attention to Canadian music. Awards and Honors: 2017 nominee East Coast Music Awards for Classical The choir often appears in collaboration with Recording of the Year (A Time for All Things); chamber ensembles, Symphony Nova Scotia Winner, 2016 Music Nova Scotia Awards and other musicians, and since 2001 has for Classical Recording of the Year (A Time been the core choir of the Symphony Nova for All Things); Spotlight performance at the Scotia Chorus. The ensemble performs in first annual Edmonton International Choral regional concert series such as Music at the Festival 2017; Healey Willan Grand Prize Three Churches, Musique Royale, Dartmouth and 1st place, Chamber Choir Category, Community Concert Series, and Prince 2010 National Competition for Canadian Edward Island’s Indian River Festival. Amateur Choirs The Halifax Camerata Singers organization Website: www.HalifaxCamerata.org has an active program of commissioning Facebook: Halifax Camerata Singers choral music from Canadian and international Twitter : @HalifaxCamerata composers and is proud to encourage young Instagram: @HalifaxCamerataSingers singers through bursaries for the Nova Scotia Youth Choir. Halifax Camerata Singers | VOICES OF REMEMBRANCE 4 Jeff Joudrey ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Artistic Director Dr. Paul E. Tamblyn Music Educator Award, Jeff Joudrey is highly and in 2018 was honoured to conduct the regarded for his vision, National Youth Choir of Canada on its tour musical leadership, of Newfoundland and Labrador. and standards of excellence in choral Jeff is an enthusiastic supporter of Canadian music. He founded choral music and frequently commissions the Halifax Camerata works from both established and promising Singers in 1986, and composers. Committed to the development under his leadership the choir has developed of young singers, he has been guest an enviable reputation for performance conductor of the Nova Scotia Youth Choir, excellence and innovative programming, the Montreal CBC/McGill Youth Choir as well as for promoting choral music Festival, and Ottawa’s Unisong. In addition throughout Canada. he has served on the faculties of Dalhousie University and Acadia University, and the Jeff is Director of Music at Trinity-St. Stephen’s Nova Scotia Choral Federation’s Institute United Church, Amherst, and Chorus Master of Choral Conducting. of the Symphony Nova Scotia Chorus. He is a past president of Choral Canada and a A native of Nova Scotia, Jeff studied organ former president of the Nova Scotia Choral at Acadia University and the Haarlem Federation. In addition to serving on juries International Academy in the Netherlands for the JUNO and East Coast Music Awards, before attending McGill University to study the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts with organists John Grew and Raymond Council, and Choral Canada, he is in demand Daveluy. His choral mentors include nationwide as a choral clinician, teacher, Canadian conductors Elmer Iseler and adjudicator, and guest conductor. Jeff was Wayne Riddell, and German conductor the recipient of Sing Canada Harmony’s 2017 Helmuth Rilling. Lynette Wahlstrom PIANO Lynette Wahlstrom and accompanist, she has worked under is accompanist for the batons of Jeff Joudrey, Hilary Apfelstadt, the Halifax Camerata John Trotter, Charles Bruffy, Caron Daley, Singers and Symphony Julian Wachner, Robert Ingari, and Patricia Nova Scotia Chorus, Abbott and played for the studio classes collaborative pianist at of Christina Haldane, Michael Donovan, Dalhousie University’s Lucy Hayes-Davis, Greg Servant and Marcia Fountain School of Swanston. Lynette’s degrees include Bachelor Performing Arts, and of Music (Brandon University), Master of music director at First Baptist Church, Halifax. Piano Performance (Université de Montréal) She appears regularly in performances and Master of Accompaniment (McGill by Opera Nova Scotia, Fountain School of University). She is an active member of Opera Music/Dalhousie University, Halifax Summer Nova Scotia, Early Music Society of Nova Opera Festival, and the Nova Scotia Choral Scotia, and the Halifax chapter of the Royal Federation. In demand as repetiteur, coach Canadian College of Organists. Halifax Camerata Singers | VOICES OF REMEMBRANCE 5 Curtis Dietz TRUMPET A native of Hanover, finest orchestras, including the Montreal Ont., Curtis Dietz Symphony, the Canadian Opera Company, has been a member and the National Arts Centre Orchestra. of Symphony Nova He is a frequent collaborator with Grammy- Scotia since 1996. winning composer Paul Halley, and is He is a graduate of the a founding member of the Maritime Brass University of Montreal, Quintet. Curtis resides in Hacketts Cove, and also studied at the NS, with his wife, Gina Patterson, and University of Toronto three musically active children – Peter, and the Banff Centre. Curtis has performed Kate, and Greta. and recorded with some of Canada’s Thank You, Camerata Donors Sponsor ($1,000+) Gloria ($200–$299) Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundation Barbara Main Bertrum MacDonald Paddy Muir Oratorio ($500+) Cantata ($100–$199) Charlotte MacQuarrie Lisa Annand David Mercer Angela Dwyer-James Jill Rafuse Sylvia Koning Greg Lypowy Magnificat ($300–$499) Bob Mills Susan Covert William Perrot Jeff Joudrey Pippa Verrier Rabbi Raysh Weiss & Rabbi Jonah Rank Peggy Walt (in honour of Peggy & Shimon Walt) Andrea Rankin Sibley Madrigal ($24–$99) Maureen & John Gillespie Stewart Russell Donate online at www.canadahelps.org or send a cheque payable to: Halifax Camerata Singers 5595 Fenwick Street, Box 27035 Halifax, NS B3H 4M8 Black CMYK Halifax Camerata Singers | VOICES OF REMEMBRANCE 6 Pantone.