Vancouver Chamber Choir Jon Washburn, conductor
TOUR 2019 Feb 22, 7:30 pm Robertson Wesley United Church, Edmonton, AB (Presented by Richard Eaton Singers) Feb 24, 2:30 pm Bella Concert Hall, Calgary, AB (Presented by The Festival Chorus) Feb 25, 7:30 pm Southminster United Church, Lethbridge, AB (Presented by the University of Lethbridge) Feb 26, 7:30 pm Christ Lutheran Church, Regina, SK (Presented by the Prairie Chamber Choir) Mar 1, 7:30 pm Eglinton St. George’s United Church, Toronto, ON (Presented by the Elmer Iseler Singers) Mar 3, 7:30 pm Anglican Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, St. John’s, NL (Presented by the Bruneau Centre for Excellence in Choral Music) Mar 6, 7:00 pm St. Andrew’s United Church, Halifax, NS (Presented by Cecilia Concerts) Mar 7, 8:00 pm St. Ninian’s Cathedral, Antigonish, NS (Presented by Antigonish Performing Arts Series) Mar 8, 7:30 pm Convocation Hall, Wolfville, NS (Presented by Acadia Performing Arts Series) Mar 9, 7:30 pm Trinity-St. Stephen’s United Church, Amherst, NS (Presented by Music at Trinity) Mar 10, 3:00 pm St. John’s Anglican Church, Lunenburg, NS (Presented by Musique Royale) Mar 15, 8:00 pm Shaughnessy Heights United Church, Vancouver, BC VANCOUVER CHAMBER CHOIR
e Vancouver Chamber Choir is one of Canada’s national treasures, an Board of Directors outstanding professional vocal ensemble noted for George Laverock its diverse repertoire and President performing excellence. Dr. Jeanette Gallant (Oxford) Vice President e Choir has been Kassia Grewal, C.P.A., C.A. performing to audiences Treasurer at home in Vancouver and on tour across Canada Brent Hunter Secretary since it was formed in 1971 by conductor Jon Janis Hamilton Past President Washburn. International excursions have taken the Wendy D Photography Matthew Baird JoAnne Barnum Vancouver Chamber Choir to the USA, Mexico, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Anne Bonnycastle Finland, France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine. Cameron Haney Honoured with the Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence by Chorus America, the Dr. Donna Hogge Vancouver Chamber Choir has to its credit countless performances and broadcasts, over 30 Wendy Kish recordings and numerous awards. Foremost supporters of Canadian music, Jon Washburn and Emily McClendon Colin Miles the Choir have commissioned and premiered more than 250 Canadian choral compositions. Over Laurent Munier the years they have sung nearly 3,000 performances of 350 pieces by 120 Canadian composers in Yuliya Neverova addition to their extensive international repertoire. David Rosborough e Choir’s award-winning educational programs include the National Conductors’ Symposium Dr. Robert Rothwell for advanced choral conductors, Interplay interactive workshops for choral composers, Focus! Cara Ventura Marianne Werner professional development program for student singers, OnSite visitations for school choirs, the Jennifer Wilnechenko biennial Young Composers Competition, and many on-tour workshops and residencies.
Honorary Patrons John Bishop JON WASHBURN, Maurice Copithorne, Q.C., LL.D. ARTISTIC & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Dr. Stephen Drance, O.C. Sam Feldman Jon Washburn is the longtime Conductor and Artistic Director of Charles Flavelle the Vancouver Chamber Choir. Well known internationally for his Ben Heppner, O.C. mastery of choral technique and interpretation, he travels widely as Don Hudson guest conductor, lecturer, clinician and master teacher. He is also an Dr. John MacDonald, O.C. R. Murray Schafer active composer, arranger and editor and has had many compositions published, performed and recorded around the world. Administrative Staff In 2001 Mr. Washburn was named a Member of the Order of Canada Jon Washburn, C.M. Photo: Yukiko Onley (the nation’s highest civilian honour) and in 2002 received Queen Artistic & Executive Director Elizabeth’s Golden Jubilee Medal for his lifetime contribution to Steven Bélanger Canadian choral art. Mr. Washburn received a Distinguished Service Award from the Association General Manager of Canadian Choral Conductors in the spring of 1996 and the Louis Botto Award from Nat Marshik Chorus America in June 2000, in recognition of “innovative and entrepreneurial spirit in the Bookkeeper/Office Coordinator development of a professional choral ensemble of exceptional quality.” He was given the Friends Karen Seaboyer of Canadian Music Award 2000 by the Canadian Music Centre (CMC) and the Canadian League Manager, Communications & Production of Composers in recognition of his outstanding contribution to Canadian composers’ music. In the fall of 2009, he was named a CMC Ambassador and in 2010 received a star on the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame’s Starwalk. In 2012 Mr. Washburn received the Queen Elizabeth II Vancouver Chamber Choir Diamond Jubilee Medal. In June 2014 he received the Michael Korn Founders Award for 1254 West 7th Avenue Development of the Professional Choral Art, presented by Chorus America. Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6H 1B6
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2 VANCOUVER VANCOUVER CHAMBER CHOIR CHAMBER CHOIR JON WASHBURN, CONDUCTOR Beth Buono MUSIC SEA TO SEA Emily Cheung e Farewell Tour Christina Cichos Lorraine Reinhardt Edmonton, Calgary, Lethbridge, Regina, Toronto, St. John’s, Halifax, Madeline Lucy Smith Antigonish, Wolfville, Amherst, Lunenburg, Vancouver
st is programme marks the Vancouver Chamber Choir’s 92nd tour in the last 48 years. It is Jon Washburn’s 91 tour with the Choir and perhaps his last, as he steps down at the end of this season to become the Choir’s Conductor Emeritus. Dinah Ayre In honour of the occasion, the repertoire of this concert consists of the Choir’s TOP TEN LIST, the actual 10 pieces Fabiana Katz which have received the most performances over the years, o en on tour. e actual number for each is printed under Karen Mang the title. (NB: If you count only eight pieces, it’s because there are two encores... only if we need them, of course!) Dolores Scott Kar yn Way PROGRAMME
Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden Praise the Lord, all ye nations Johann Sebastian Bach Tom Ellis 106 performances (1685-1750) Matt Gaskin Carman J. Price Trois chansons de Charles d’Orléans Claude Debussy Eric Schwarzhoff ree Songs on poems of Charles d’Orléans (1862-1918) Grant Wutzke 113 performances Dieu ! qu’il la fait bon regarder ! Lord! you’ve made her lovely to behold Steven Bélanger Quant j’ai ouy le tabourin! When the little drum I hear Cameron Haney Yver, vous n’estes qu’un villain! Winter, you are such a scoundrel Paul Nash Dolores Scott, alto George Roberts Lorraine Reinhardt, soprano Dinah Ayre, alto Eric Schwarzho , tenor Paul Nash, bass Wim Vermeulen Ave, verum corpus Hail, true body Imant Raminsh 64 performances (b. 1943) Hymn to Saint Cecilia Benjamin Britten 67 performances (1913-1976) Kathleen Allan Christina Cichos, soprano Fabiana Katz, alto Eric Schwarzho , tenor Wim Vermeulen, bass Fiona Blackburn George Roberts A Stephen Foster Medley Stephen Foster Carrie Tennant 60 performances (1826-1864) Joel Tranquilla 1. Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair 4. Beautiful Dreamer 2. Camptown Races 5. Oh! Susanna! 3. My old Kentucky home Carman J. Price, tenor Karyn Way, alto Madeline Lucy Smith, soprano Dinah Ayre, alto Eric Schwarzho , tenor George Roberts, bass
INTERMISSION Mátra Pictures Zoltán Kodály 70 performances (1882-1967)
Please turn off all phones. 1. Vidróczki’s Hunting 4. Summer Time 2. e Farewell 5. Stealing Chickens Recording devices of any kind are strictly prohibited. 3. e Message Many Cameo Soloists A Garden of Bells R. Murray Schafer James Ong (b. 1933) Stage Management 82 performances Corporate Graphics Rise! Shine! Four Spirituals Jon Washburn Graphic Design 91 performances (b. 1942) Violet Goosen Development and Tour Manager 1. Sometimes I feel like a motherless chil’ 3. Swing low, sweet chariot 2. ere is a balm in Gilead 4. Rise! Shine! for the Light is a-comin’ José Verstappen Programme Typography George Roberts, bass Fabiana Katz, alto
3 PROGRAMME NOTES, TEXTS & TRANSLATIONS
Johann Sebastian Bach Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden
Many people, especially musicians, consider J.S. Bach to be the greatest composer of all time. His purest choral music can be found in his several German motets which were probably composed for special occasions, mostly birthdays and funerals. e motet Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden, BWV 230, is a setting of Psalm 117, Praise the Lord, all ye nations. Bach has devised a truly joyful interpretation with the four vocal parts sharing equally in vigorous melodic interplay. e constant involvement of all the voices seems to emphasize the words “all people” in the text. e orid lines and trumpet-like themes perfectly represent the idea of praise. A more chordal middle section brie y represents the gentler concepts of mercy and truth, but quickly reverts back into energetic counterpoint, building towards the nal section - an extended Alleluia of great vitality.
Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden; Praise the Lord, all ye nations; preiset ihn, alle Völker! praise him, all people! Denn seine Gnade und Wahrheit For his mercy and truth waltet über uns in Ewigkeit. rule over us forever. Alleluja. Hallelujah. Psalm 117
Claude Debussy Trois chansons
e French Impressionist Claude Debussy was famed for his colouristic orchestral canvases - he could make even a single piano sound like an orchestra. In Trois chansons, three settings of poems by the 15th-century French poet Charles d’Orléans, Debussy worked the same magical e ect for an ensemble of unaccompanied voices. e modern choral ear is used to such colours, but in 1898 these would have seemed remarkable indeed! Each of the three chansons has its own unique mood and texture. e rst, Lord! you’ve made her lovely to behold, is as gentle and sensuous as the woman it describes. In the second, When I hear the little drum, the soloist’s melody depicts a lazy young girl who yawns and pulls the bedclothes over her head in order to block out the distant excitement portrayed by the choral voices. In the third song, Winter, you are such a scoundrel! the mean season of cold and snow is vilied by contrasting it to the gentle breath of summer.
Dieu ! qu’il la fait bon regarder ! Dieu ! qu’il la fait bon regarder, Lord! you’ve made her lovely to behold, la gracieuse bonne et belle; a graceful, good, and beauteous one; pour les grans biens que sont en elle, for the many virtues she possesses, chascun est prest de la loüer. everyone is ready to sing her praises. Qui se pourroit d’elle lasser ? Who could ever tire of her? Tousjours sa beauté renouvelle. Ever fresh is her beauty. Dieu ! qu’il la fait bon regarder, Lord! you’ve made her lovely to behold, la gracieuse bonne et belle; a graceful, good, and beauteous one; par de ça, ne de là, la mer whether near or far over the sea, ne scay dame ne damoiselle there is neither woman nor maiden qui soit en tous bien parfais telle. who is so perfect in every way. C’est ung songe que d’i penser. To even suggest that is but a dream.
Quant j’ai ouy le tabourin Quant j’ai ouy le tabourin When I hear the little drum sonner, pour s’en aller au may, sounding, to call us all to the maypole, en mon lit n’en ay fait affray in my bed I do not stir myself ne levé mon chief du coissin; nor li my head from the pillow; en disant: il est trop matin I say: it’s too early ung peu je me rendormiray. and I let myself sleep a little longer.
4 Quant j’ai ouy le tabourin When I hear the little drum sonner, pour s’en aller au may, sounding, to call us all to the maypole, jeunes gens partent leur butin; I hear the young ones sharing their favours; de non chaloir m’accointeray nonchalantly I listen à lui je m’abutineray to them while I lie there; trouvé l’ay plus prouchain voisin. having found a closer neighbour.
Yver, vous n’estes qu’un villain Yver, vous n’estes qu’un villain; Winter, you are such a scoundrel; esté est plaisant et gentil summer is pleasant and gentle en témoing de may et d’avril as witness April and May qui l’accompaignent soir et main. who always accompany her. Esté revet champs, bois et fl eurs Summer clothes fi elds, woods and fl owers de sa livrée de verdure in their garb of green et de maintes autres couleurs and of many other colours, par l’ordonnance de nature. as ordained by nature. Mais vous, Yver, trop estes plein But you, winter, are too full de nège, vent, pluye et grézil. of snow, wind, rain and hail. On vous deust banir en éxil. I’d like to banish you into exile. Sans point fl ater je parle plein: With frankness I say plainly: Yver, vous n’estes qu’un villain. winter, you are such a scoundrel.
Charles d’Orléans, translations edited by Jon Washburn
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5 MUSICA IN CASA 2018/19 a n k y o u A series of intimate house concerts in support of the Vancouver Chamber Choir’s fundraising efforts to tonight’s Concert Patron Albertina Chan, harp with special guest Dolores Scott, mezzo-soprano Janis Hamilton. Enjoy an evening of music for harp by Hindemith, Ravel, Fauré, Debussy and more, accompanied by fine wines of the south Okanagan and exquisite cheeses from les amis du FROMAGE. e Vancouver Chamber Choir
Albertina Chan is a versatile harpist, performing the traditional appreciates your support repertoire along with anything different and off-beat in and around her hometown of Vancouver. She has performed with the VSO, Music on Main, the Erato Ensemble, the Vancouver of our performance. Chamber Choir, the Vancouver Film Orchestra and the Vancouver Opera Orchestra, and received the Jessie Award for Significant Artistic Achievement for her performance in Patrick Street Productions’ The Light in the Piazza.
Mezzo-soprano Dolores Scott has performed in an extraordinarily diverse variety of styles and settings: opera, music theatre, symphony orchestra, early music and chamber choir. She currently serves as Artistic Director of the Young People’s Opera Society of BC.
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6 Imant Raminsh Ave, verum corpus
Imant Raminsh is a British Columbian composer, violinist and choral conductor of Latvian heritage. Raminsh has written extensively for orchestra as well as chamber music and song, yet it is his singular gi for choral music that has been the hallmark of his career. His distinctive choral textures, lush harmonic palette, lyrical melodic sense and prodigious output have earned him accolades as British Columbia’s most outstanding composer in the choral idiom, including the recent awarding of the Order of Canada. is lyrical setting of the traditional Latin hymn Ave, verum corpus became Raminsh’s rst widespread success when it was premiered in 1977 by Jon Washburn and the Vancouver Chamber Choir. Since that time it has taken its place as a classic in the core repertoire of Canadian choral music.
Ave, verum corpus, Hail, true body, natum de Maria Virgine; born of the Virgin Mary; vere passum, who truly suff ered sacrifi ce immolatum in cruce pro homine. on the cross for men; Cujus latus perforatum, From whose pierced side vero fl uxit sanguine. fl owed a wave of blood; Esto nobis prægustatum To us be a foretaste mortis in examine. in death’s agony. O clemens, O pie, O sweet one, O pious one, Fili Mariæ, Son of Mary, Amen. Amen.
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7 Peter R. Allen e Banks of Newfoundland
Peter R. Allen, who was born and educated in Wales, came to Canada in 1969. He has a Doctorate in Choral Conducting from the University of Iowa, has taught music at universities in four provinces and was active for many years as an adjudicator across Canada. Since 1987 he has been based in Ontario, but this arrangement of e Banks of Newfoundland from 1980 is one of several written around the time he spent teaching at Memorial University in Newfoundland.
e springtime of the year is come, And when those summer toils are o’er, Once more we must away; We return with spirits light; Out on the stormy Banks to go, To see our sweethearts and our wives, In quest of fish to stay. Who helped us in the fight. Where seas do roll tremendously, From where the wild sea billows foam, Like mountain peaks so high; ere by cold breezes fanned; And the wild seabirds around us, Out on the stormy billows, In their mad career go by. On the Banks of Newfoundland. Out there we spend our summer months, Midst heavy fog and wind; And often do our thoughts go back, To the dear ones left behind.
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8 Benjamin Britten Hymn to Saint Cecilia
Composed in 1942 to a poem by W.H. Auden, Benjamin Britten’s Hymn to Saint Cecilia is perhaps his nest work for unaccompanied choir. An inspired tribute to the patron saint of music, this theme undoubtedly had a special personal signicance to Britten, who himself was born on Saint Cecilia’s Day (November 22) in 1913. Britten’s remarkable ability to mirror the meaning of the text in his music is fully demonstrated in this music. Especially delightful are the passages near the end where the solo voices imitate violin, ute, drum and trumpet in turn. e form of the poem is carefully followed in the music, articulated by the refrain “Blessed Cecilia, appear in visions...” which itself appears three times to the same musical material.
I In a garden shady this holy lady III O ear whose creatures cannot wish to fall, With reverent cadence and subtle psalm, O calm of spaces unafraid of weight, Like a black swan as death came on Where Sorrow is herself, forgetting all Poured forth her song in perfect calm: e gaucheness of her adolescent state, And by ocean’s margin this innocent virgin Where Hope within the altogether strange Constructed an organ to enlarge her prayer, From every outworn image is released, And notes tremendous from her great engine And Dread born whole and normal like a beast undered out on the Roman air. Into a world of truths that never change: Restore our fallen day; O re-arrange. Blonde Aphrodite rose up excited Moved to delight by the melody, O dear white children casual as birds, White as an orchid she rode quite naked Playing among the ruined languages, In an oyster shell on top of the sea; So small beside their large confusing words, At sounds so entrancing the angels dancing So gay against the greater silences Came out of their trance into time again, Of dreadful things you did: O hang the head, And around the wicked in Hell’s abysses Impetuous child with the tremendous brain, e huge flame flickered and eased their pain. O weep, child, weep, O weep away the stain, Lost innocence who wished your lover dead, Blessed Cecilia, appear in visions Weep for the lives your wishes never led. To all musicians, appear and inspire: Translated Daughter, come down and startle O cry created as the bow of sin Composing mortals with immortal fire. Is drawn across our trembling violin. O weep, child, weep, O weep away the stain. O law drummed out by hearts against the still II I cannot grow; Long winter of our intellectual will. I have no shadow at what has been may never be again. To run away from, O flute that throbs with the thanksgiving breath I only play. Of convalescents on the shores of death. I cannot err; O bless the freedom that you never chose. ere is no creature O trumpets that unguarded children blow Whom I belong to, About the fortress of their inner foe. Whom I could wrong. O wear your tribulation like a rose. I am defeat [Blessed Cecilia, appear in visions When it knows it To all musicians, appear and inspire: Can now do nothing Translated Daughter, come down and startle By suffering. Composing mortals with immortal fire.] All you lived through, Dancing because you Poem by W. H. Auden No longer need it For any deed. I shall never be Different. Love me. [Blessed Cecilia, appear in visions To all musicians, appear and inspire: Translated Daughter, come down and startle Composing mortals with immortal fire.]
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10 Stephen Foster/Jon Washburn A Stephen Foster Medley
Stephen Foster was America’s Schubert - the lyric laureate of the 19th-century South. With Foster, sentiment became a virtue, expressed in sweet harmonies and haunting tunes. e underlying emotion of these songs is nostalgia; a pervasive longing for things lost which seems to permeate the very intervals of the melodies. Like Schubert, Foster died young and poor, as though fullling the prophecies of his own songs. Jon Washburn’s medley of favourite Stephen Foster songs was composed in 1985 for the Vancouver Chamber Choir, and premiered on a concert called Music of the Great Songwriters.
Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair Beautiful Dreamer I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair, Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me, Borne, like a vapour on the summer air; Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee, I see her tripping where the bright stream play Sounds of the rude world heard in the day, Happy as the daisies that dance on her way. Lull’d by the moonlight have all passed away! Many were the wild notes her merry voice would pour, Beautiful dreamer, queen of my song, Many were the blithe birds that warbled them o’er. I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair, List while I woo thee, with so melody; Floating like a vapour on the so summer air. Gone are the cares of life’s busy throng, Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!
Camptown Races Oh! Susanna e Camptown ladies sing this song, (Doodah! doodah!) I come from Alabama e Camptown race track five mile long, (O doodah day!) With my banjo on my knee, I come down there with my hat caved in, I’se goin’ to Lou’siana now, Go back home with a pocket full of tin. My true love for to see. e longtail filly and the big black hoss, It rain’d all night the day I le , ey fly the track and they both cut across, e weather it was dry; e blind hoss sticken in a big mud hole, e sun so hot I froze to death, He can’t touch bottom with a ten foot pole. Susanna, don’t you cry. (refrain) (refrain) Goin’ to run all night! Oh! Susanna, Goin’ to run all day! Oh! don’t you cry for me; I’ll bet my money on the bobtail nag, I come from Alabama Somebody bet on the bay. With my banjo on my knee. Ol’ muley cow come on the track, I had a dream the other night, e bobtail fling her o’er his back, When ev’rything was still, en fly along like a railroad car, I thought I saw Susanna dear Running a race with a shootin’ star, A-comin’ down the hill.
My Old Kentucky Home e buckwheat cake was in her mouth, e tear was in her eye; e sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home, I says I’se coming from the South, ‘Tis summer, all cares fly away; Susanna, don’t you cry. e corntop’s ripe and the meadow’s in the bloom, Stephen Foster While the birds make music all the day. e young folks roll on the little cabin floor, All merry, all happy and bright; Oh by’n’ by hard times comes a-knockin’ at the door, INTERMISSION en my old Kentucky home, good night. Weep no more my lady, O weep no more today! We will sing one song for the old Kentucky home, for the old Kentucky home far away.
11 Zoltán Kodály Mátra Pictures
Zoltán Kodály, one of Hungary’s nest composers and music educators, was also an important researcher and collector of Eastern European folksongs. It was his conviction that traditional Hungarian music should form the main repertory for music teaching in Hungary, a basic tenet of the now-famous “Kodály Method”. e in uence of these studies on his own compositions is evident in his Mátra Pictures — an imaginative choral suite combining several folk-like songs which paint scenes of Hungarian village life. e rst celebrates the famous Hungarian outlaw and folk-hero, Vidróczki; the second is a young man’s farewell from his sweetheart, including mutual warnings to remain faithful, or else! e third song expresses the young man’s longing for home and loved ones; the fourth is an atmospheric summer scene. e last song is a rousing marketplace tableau, complete with gossip, complaints, matchmaking, and general high spirits!
Vidróczki’s Hunting “Now the golden sun sinks slowly. Where to shelter? Where securely? O Vidróczki’s herd, you thunder. orns shall gently guard my sleeping Roving Mátra hills, you plunder. and the briar be my keeping.” We are chasing far behind you, surely we will never fi nd you. us he leads the gentle colt so far away, as the sun is rising for another day, rough the stormy woods you ramble, like a shadow silently they disappear; crushing fern and bush and bramble. someone’s horse is stolen but they’ll not come here. “Even if I overtake you, surely I will never break you?” Have you heard the news of where Vidróczki’s gone? Stephen Pinter killed him ‘neath the noon-day sun. “Bring my trusty axe and follow, Stephen Pinter killed him with a single blow: I can track him through this hollow.” such the cruel villainy that laid him low. “Should a rock or crevice lame them, surely will disaster claim them.” Who will wash his body, wash away the blood? Whosoever lays him out be blessed by God. And on those who bury him, bring blessings all, as the rains, the autumn rains, so gently fall. Sleep now so ly in the deep ground, mourn with me but make you no sound. “Rise Vidróczki, anger fi re you: Even now six courts require you.” “What care I, I must deny them, presents were it twelve, I’d still defy them.”
e Farewell I am leaving home now, leaving all behind me. In the world I’ll fi nd my fortune, here I’ll never fi nd me. Sadness fi lls my heart now, as you go your way, love; only one thing do I ask you: that you never stray, love. musica intima, together with guest cellist Rebecca Wenham explores emotion through If you truly love me the human cry, featuring music of Bach, blessings shall I give you; Lotti, Nystedt, and Morlock, as well as a new but if you should dare be fi ckle, commission by Alfredo Santa Ana, “The River I shall not forgive you. of Hellos and Goodbyes,” with a text by BC Poet . Colin Browne e Message FRI APR 12, 2019 | 7:30 PM MORE INFO Small bird so ly singing, St. James Community Square musicaintima.org small bird so ly singing, 3214 W 10Th Ave Vancouver 604.731.6618 fl y with my message home, O so swi ly winging.
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Murray Schafer, Vol. 4: ree outstanding major Comes a lad to chide her, works recorded in 2018 for the composer’s* 85th birthday: the title piece for choir and orchestra, teasing as she passes: plus e Star Princess and the Waterlilies and Narcissus and Echo. “Maiden, I’d be knowing, e Healing Series whither are you going?” Music for Healing Box Set All of the Vancouver Chamber Choir’s remarkable healing CDs in “I am raking, one collection, including the original 2-disc “Family Set” of volume II. gathering and making Finding the Still Point music for healing A healing ambience of calm, warmth and the hay for winter’s snowing.” consolation projected through 15 beloved choral favourites* with interconnecting Gregorian chants. “You should not be mowing, Unexpected Gi s music for healing II Familiar folk music in choral arrangements with cutting hay or hoeing. several meditations for harp based on the same* themes. You’d be better A Quiet Place music for healing III An outstanding collection of choral treasures sitting in a pretty room, chosen to help find peace, quiet and healing* in today’s hectic world. busy with your sewing.” e Masters Series Stealing Chickens BaroqueFest Festive music of Bach, Purcell, Handel and Monteverdi from a gala Expo 86 Hey, all the speckled hens - concert, with Jon Washburn and Michael Corboz conducting their professional choirs from Canada and Switzerland. see the rooster lead them; Jesu, meine Freude; Komm Jesu, komm; Singet dem Herrn; Der Geist Hey, Julie, bring them home, Bach - e Six Motets hil unser Schwachheit auf, *Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden and Fürchte dich nicht. you’re the one to feed them. Missa Brevis Four contrasting short masses by Haydn Missa Brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo, Chicky here and chick-chicka-chickery Fauré Messe basse, von Weber Jubelmesse and Christoph Bernhard Missa Durch Adams Fall. Chase them ‘til you’re dizzy; Music to Hear Renaissance, Classical and Modern vocal chamber music by Mozart, Beethoven, For a wife a farmer’s life Schubert, Shearing, Beckwith, Janequin, Crequillon and de Sermisy. Is busy, busy, busy. Simple Gi s Canadian, American and Scottish folksongs in a variety of attractive modern “Hey you sluggard how you lied settings by Imant Raminsh, Mack Wilberg, Louis Applebaum, Aaron Copland and Ian McDougall. may the raven take your hide! e Canadian Composer Series rough your lazy stupid pride A Garden of Bells R. Murray Schafer, Vol. 1: Early choral works including Miniwanka, my grey hen just up and died.” Epitaph for Moonlight,* Snowforms, Gamelan, Sun, Fire, Felix’s Girls and A Garden of Bells. “Who is going for the wine now? Once on a Windy Night R. Murray Schafer, Vol. 2: Four major mid-career choral works Why’s he taking so much time now? including A Medieval Bestiary,* Seventeen Haiku, Vox Naturae and the tempestuous Once on a Blast him, why’s he not returning? Windy Night. Don’t he know my throat is burning?” Imagining Incense* R. Murray Schafer, Vol. 3: Recent choral works including Magic Songs, “Here’s a thought that you’ll agree with. ree Hymns, Rain Chant, Alleluia, Beautiful Spanish Song, Imagining Incense and other works. Our guest has no eyes to see with. Songs of the Lights Imant Raminsh, Vol. 1 Magnificat, Ave verum corpus, Ave Maria, e Great Sea and more. If he had then he’d be knowing Imant Raminsh, Vol. 2 Missa Brevis in C Minor, Earth Chants & smaller works. It is time that he was going.” Earth Chants Due West Stephen Chatman, Vol. 2 With oboist Roger Cole and pianist Linda Lee omas. “I’ve two pretty daughters dear; Due East Stephen Chatman, Vol. 3 e Canadian composer’s latest pieces since 2000. Harken now to what you hear. Rise! Shine! Music of Jon Washburn Including e Star, A Stephen Foster Medley, Chinese Where are fairer girls than these? Melodies, Rossetti* Songs, God’s Lamb, Noel Sing We!, Behold I build an house and Rise! Shine! You may marry which you please.” Love Songs for a Small Planet Alexina Louie Love Songs for a Small Planet, Srul Irving Glick “One can marry off a daughter, Canticle of Peace, R. Murray Schafer Magic Songs and Imant Raminsh In the night we shall go in. if fine linen you have bought her. Sons are easy too, I’m thinking e Christmas Recordings if they’ve wine, good wine for drinking.” A Dylan omas Christmas e Vancouver Chamber Choir’s signature performance of A Child’s Christmas in Wales, read by* Welsh actor Russell Roberts with special carol settings by Jon “Get out of my way! Be quick now! Washburn. Go! or must I fetch a stick now? A World Christmas Carols and seasonal songs of many lands from guitarist and arranger You insult me, I’m defenseless, Ed Henderson, the Worldfest Ensemble and the Vancouver Chamber Choir with Jon Washburn go before I beat you senseless.” conducting. Christmas music with a colourful Central and South American English version adapted by Jon Washburn e Miracle of Christmas flavour played by the ensemble Ancient Cultures with several tracks featuring the Vancouver Please turn page quietly. Chamber Choir.
13 R. Murray Schafer A Garden of Bells
R. Murray Schafer is Canada’s most outstanding avant garde composer. He has written in all forms, especially orchestral music, chamber music and music theatre. He worked for many years in the eld of music education, developing musical creativity among children. As a professor of communications at Simon Fraser University, in the 1970s, he developed the World Soundscape Project and his in uential book e Tuning of the World has been translated into many languages. Schafer has a fondness for choral music which dates from his youth when he was a choir boy. A long-standing association with the Vancouver Chamber Choir has yielded several new choral works and four recordings of his collected choral compositions entitled A Garden of Bells, Once on a Windy Night, Imagining Incense and e Love that Moves the Universe. e remarkable tintinnabulous tour-de-force called A Garden of Bells was commissioned by the Vancouver Chamber Choir with the assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts. It was given its rst performance by the Choir in February of 1984. It is an imaginative aural landscape described by the composer in this way: In A Garden of Bells I have in mind a scene which does not exist; a soniferous garden lled with bells of all shapes and sizes, through which the traveller might wander at leisure and be entertained by a tintinnabulation of sounds, not loud but beckoning, sometimes near, like owers, but more o en far like the voices of distant friends, which so breezes barely bring to our ears. roughout A Garden of Bells the sonorities and timbres of many di erent kinds of bells are suggested. e words of the text have been chosen to suggest some of these qualities. Numerous people supplied the onomatopoeic words for “bell” which provide the text: Graham Metson, Don Wherry, Gayle Young, David van Egmond and singers from the Vancouver Chamber Choir. A few other bell-words have been derived from Sinhalese, Spanish, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Swahili, etc.
Jon Washburn Rise! Shine!
Over the years, Jon Washburn has arranged many spirituals, and he chose four of the best known from this traditional choral repertory for the suite Rise! Shine! Spirituals are powerful expressions of basic emotions and beliefs. e texts are simple but heartfelt; the tunes and rhythms foreshadow the development of early jazz. In this suite of four beloved spirituals, there is a loosely-structured progression of emotion from sadness to joy. First is the utter desolation of Sometimes I feel like a motherless child. en comes a glint of hope in ere is a Balm in Gilead, the recognition of possible salvation in Swing low, sweet chariot and nally the jubilation of Rise! Shine! is suite was speci cally composed for the Vancouver Chamber Choir’s 1989 tour of the former Soviet Union, in anticipation that we might be feeling “a long way from home”, as the rst song says. Its premiere, however, was sung at Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria in October 1988.
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child - a long way from home Sometimes I feel like I got no friends - a long way from home CALLING Sometimes I feel like I’m almost gone - a long way from home. STUDENTS ere is a balm in Gilead to make the wounded whole, ere is a balm in Gilead to heal the sin-sick soul. OF ANY AGE! Swing low, sweet chariot, For only $15, you can enjoy some of comin’ for to carry me home. Canada’s fi nest choral concerts when you I looked over Jordan and what did I see? A band of angels comin’ a er me. purchase rush tickets to Vancouver Chamber comin’ for to carry me home. Choir regular season performances. Rise! shine! for the Light is a-comin’. All students and youth Ma’ Lord says he’s comin’ bye n’ bye. (26 and under) are welcome. is is the year of the Jubilee Tickets are available Ma’ Lord has set his people free. one hour in advance of this year’s I’m gonna shout and never stop, Shaughnessy Heights United Church Until I reach the mountain top.
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R. Murray Schafer, Vol. 4
8pm Friday, April 19, 2019 is latest addition to the Vancouver Chamber Choir’s outstanding series of Schafer choral works was recorded in 2018 as a special The Orpheum celebration of the composer’s 85th birthday, funded through the Canada Council for the Arts’ New Chapter program. Vancouver Chamber Choir & Orchestra e title piece for choir and orchestra is a magnicent setting of selected Pacifica Singers cantos from Dante’s Paradiso in which the poet tries to look into the face of God. Featured is e Star Princess and the Waterlilies, a delightful Vancouver Youth Choir creation allegory for alto solo, narrator, women’s chorus and percussion. Jon Washburn, conductor Also Narcissus and Echo, based on the story as told by the Latin poet Ovid, set for a cappella chorus with baritone and soprano soloists.
Jon Washburn draws all his soloists, choirs, alumni and orchestra together for a wonderful evening of music to celebrate the passage of his 48 years as leader of the Vancouver Chamber Choir. The music is resplendent - J.S. Bach's marvellous Missa brevis in G minor, Tarik O'Regan’s mystic and evocative Solitude Trilogy, a premiere performance of Jon Washburn's . Two Canadian Folksongs and a celebratory massed performance of Artists include e Vancouver Chamber Choir and Vancouver Chamber Orchestra, Ralph Vaughan Williams' glorious Steven Bélanger (baritone), Fabiana Katz (alto), Christina Cichos Five Mystical Songs. (soprano), George Roberts (narrator), Brian Nesselroad and Jonathan Bernard (percussion) and the Vancouver Chamber Choir’s long-time conductor and artistic director, Jon Washburn. 1.855.985.ARTS (2787)
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