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Seasonal a cappella choral music featuring the sublime beauty of Saturday,Arvo Pärt and December Jonathan Dove 14, , 2013 - 8:00 PM as well as imaginative settings of traditional carols by Ola Gjeilo. John Brough, conductor

Seasonal a cappella choral music featuring the sublime beauty of Advance ticket adult: $18.00 Arvo Pärt and Jonathan Dove, Advance ticket student/senior: $13.00 asAll wellSaints’ as Cathedralimaginative settings of traditionalDoor ticket adult: $20.00 carols by Ola Gjeilo. Door ticket student/senior: $15.00 10035-103 Street Advance tickets may be purchased Edmonton, Alberta online at: www.dacamera.ab.ca

Advance ticket adult: $18.00 Advance ticket student/senior: $13.00 All Saints’ Cathedral Door ticket adult: $20.00 Door ticket student/senior: $15.00 10035-103 Street Advance tickets may be purchased Edmonton, Alberta online at: www.dacamera.ab.ca Programme Da Camera Singers

John Brough, Artistic Director Magnificat – Arvo Pärt (b. 1935) Loretta Dueck, Accompanist Miriam Krause, Meghan Rayment and Jolene Rech, Soprano RJ Chambers, Choral Assistant Kimberley McMann, Business Manager There Is No Rose – Don Macdonald (b. 1966) Meghan Rayment, Soprano Soprano Alto Tenor Bass Kathy Drouin-Carey Michelle Andrews RJ Chambers Scott Allison The Three Kings – Jonathan Dove (b. 1959) Miriam Krause Jo-Anne Bacon Rem Kooistra Fred Osman Kasujja Meghan Rayment and Miriam Krause, Soprano Cheryl Krueger Kathleen Brough Wayne Poon Gary Krueger Wendy Legaarden Cathy Grant Kevin Riep Alto Lo Meghan Rayment Celeste Ireland Russ Wilkinson Bruce Shaw Gaudete – Karl Jenkins (b. 1944) Wendy Vanderwel, Soprano Jolene Rech Ruth Krahn * Fred Wright Frank Thede Jo-Anne Bacon, Alto Elizabeth Stolte Amanda Nix-Lemko RJ Chambers, Tenor Nicole Toupin Judith Plumb Fred Osman Kasujja and Frank Thede,Bass Wendy Vanderwel Barb Sabo Katherine Wells Christmas Carols, Volume 1 – Ola Gjeilo (b. 1978) *not singing in this performance O Come, O Come, Emmanuel In the Bleak Midwinter God Rest you Merry, Gentlemen Wendy Vanderwel, Nicole Toupin, Soprano

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The Lamb – John Tavener (1944-2013)

O Magnum Mysterium – Lee Dengler

Christmas Carols, Volume 2 – Ola Gjeilo Away in a Manger The Holly and the Ivy Since its inception in 1961, Da Camera Singers, season, Da Camera Singers has performed on Coventry Carol now under the direction of John Brough, has many occasions with the Edmonton Symphony The First Nowell established a strong presence in the Alberta Orchestra and the Alberta Baroque Ensemble Miriam Krause and Jolene Rech, Soprano choral community and holds the distinction of under the direction of such esteemed conductors RJ Chambers, Tenor being Edmonton’s longest-standing chamber as Bernard Labadie, Ivars Taurins and William choir. The choir performs a diverse repertoire that Eddins. In March 2012, Da Camera Singers, as well Sleep, Little Baby, Sleep – Jake Runestad (b. 1986) encompasses classical music from the Renaissance as many alumni singers from the choir, celebrated to the 21st century, oratorios, and folk song its 50th anniversary with a presentation of Carl Run, Shepherds, Run! – Jonathan Dove arrangements and other lighter works. As well as Orff ’sCarmina Burana. being active with their own annual three-concert John Brough, Artistic Director RJ Chambers, Choral Assistant Dr. John Brough is in his ninth year as artistic director RJ Chambers began his great love of music early in his of Da Camera Singers. He has led the choir in concerts childhood. He began studying piano as a young boy featuring such works as Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana; Bach’s and began vocal and choral training in Grade 8. After Cantata No. 4, Christ Lag in Todes Banden; and Handel’s graduating from high school, RJ pursued a Bachelor of Arts Dixit Dominus. Dr. Brough has also prepared the choir for degree in Music with an emphasis in vocal performance appearances with the Alberta Baroque Ensemble and the and graduated with honours. While studying at college, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. RJ gained a great passion for music theory and harmony. Dr. Brough received his Doctor of Music degree from He served as a teaching assistant for advanced music the University of Alberta and studied conducting with theory and harmony courses as well as privately tutoring Leonard Ratzlaff, Debra Cairns and Malcolm Forsyth a number of theory and harmony students. Currently, (Alberta); Jon Washburn (Vancouver); Lawrence Ewashko RJ sings with the University of Alberta Madrigal Singers (Ontario); and Frieder Bernius (Stuttgart, Germany). In and has recently sung with Scona Chamber Singers November 2008, he led the Alberta Baroque Ensemble and Pro Coro Canada. As well, he has a large amount of and Richard Eaton Singers in a rare production of Handel’s accompaniment experience and currently serves as the Solomon with world-renowned soprano Nancy Argenta music director of Parkland Celebration Choir. and countertenor Daniel Taylor. Dr. Brough is sought after throughout Canada as an adjudicator and clinician. He sits on the board of examiners for Conservatory Canada. He currently teaches music history and conducting at the Concordia University College School of Music. Dr. Brough has sung with Musica Divina (Ottawa) and Madrigal Singers (Edmonton) and continues to perform with Pro Coro Canada. He is organist and director of music at Holy Trinity Anglican Church. John lives in Sherwood Park with his wife Kathleen and their daughter Annie.

Loretta Dueck, Accompanist A native Albertan, Loretta Dueck completed her Bachelor of Music degree in piano at the University of Alberta with Professor Alexandra Munn. Previous studies include a B.Ed. and a B.A. in music. In 1975, upon completion of her B.Ed. degree, Ms. Dueck taught high school in Brisbane, Australia. In 1984, Ms. Dueck was employed by the University of Alberta as an accompanist in the voice studios and continued in that position until 1991. She has also toured with the Alberta Opera Touring Association, and is presently involved in teaching privately and accompanying. Da Camera is delighted to have Loretta Dueck as our resident pianist, a position she has held for many glorious years! divisions. Motives from this melody are found many divided voices within the sections of Program Notes throughout the piece, used as accompanying the choir, creating a lovely, luscious sound. Of This evening’s concert explores some of the as it begins, subdued and peaceful. figures under stretched-out melodic passages. particular interest are the simple but beautiful most beautiful and creative settings of seasonal Jonathan Dove is one of Britain’s most The general feeling of the piece becomes setting of Away in a Manger and the creative music written in the last thirty years. highly accomplished and commissioned occasionally quite chaotic, depicting a large waltz effect found in theCoventry Carol. The opening piece on the program, Estonian composers. He is equally comfortable writing group of shepherds running every which way, Although the carols will be very familiar to composer Arvo Pärt’s Magnificat, the Canticle for unaccompanied choir as for full operatic organizing their forces toward Bethlehem. most of you, the arrangements are so inspiring of Mary, is written in the tintinnabuli style, forces. The Three Kings, a setting of words Karl Jenkins’s very short setting of the that they give new life to the pieces. a compositional technique invented by the by Dorothy L. Sayers, was commissioned for traditional 16th-century Piae Cantiones On November 12 of this year, we lost one of composer himself in the 1970s. Tintinnabuli is the 2000 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols carol Gaudete is an extremely energetic England’s finest choral composers with the a word describing the sound of a struck bell. at King’s College Cambridge. Sayers’s division arrangement, making use of unexpected passing of Sir John Tavener. His legacy includes Long sustained of the kings into harmonic shifts that a wealth of choral lines and clean three ages, with a give the piece a very literature that is homophonic stanza each—young, angular feel, creating performed all over (chordal) writing are middle and old an interesting mix the world. His used throughout, respectively—gives of medieval and setting of William creating a clarity the piece its structure; modern at the Blake’s The Lamb of tone, but at the melancholic same time. It was was composed for the same time a mood is immediately commissioned and the 1983 Festival sense of suspended established by the recorded by Nigel of Nine Lessons animation. Pärt beautifully simple Short’s Tenebrae and Carols at King’s alternates between lullaby refrain. Dove ensemble in 2006. College Cambridge. duet lines, in which achieves a magical The two featured It is simple in form one voice carries a transformation carol collections and short in length, simple melody while at the start of on our program yet powerfully the other (sung the third stanza, this evening come beautiful. John tonight by three by unexpectedly from Norwegian Rutter describes soprano voices) switching to the composer Ola Tavener as having sings one sustained major mode. He Gjeilo (Yay-lo). The the “very rare gift” of note, and full lush then expands the seven carols were being able to “bring choral sections. scoring at “many a commissioned an audience to a There is no time gaud and glittering by Kammerkoret deep silence.” And, signature given, toy,” the inner voices Nova in 2011, and according to Steven and the piece flows providing a sparkling published in 2012 Isserlis, “he had along at a chant-like pace. pointillistic accompaniment to the slower- in two volumes. his own voice. He Vancouver composer Don Macdonald moving melody. An ecstatic climax is reached; We will sing all seven of the carols for you wasn’t writing to be popular – he was writing has begun to make a name for himself as a but this subsides into a wistful repeat of the tonight, volume one on the first half of the the music he had to write.” composer of large film scores. However, his opening refrain, leaving a question-mark program and volume two on the second. Jake Runestad is a young award-winning setting of the 15th-century text There Is No hanging over the scene. Run, Shepherds, Run, Volume one consists of three well-known composer from the United States. His teachers Rose, which honours the Virgin Mary, takes which we will perform on the second half of carols, O Come, O Come, Emmanuel; In the have included Kevin Puts, from the Peabody on a more introverted feel. The opening note, this program, was commissioned in 2001 by Bleak Midwinter; and God Rest You Merry, Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, sung by the women of the choir, expands to the Spitalfields Festival and performed by the Gentlemen. The carols are set for double choir and acclaimed composer Libby Larsen. Sleep, create the imagery of a flower, opening one City Chamber Choir under the direction of and make creative use of interplay between Little Baby, Sleep is a lullaby based on the note at a time until the flower is fully revealed. Stephen Jones during the Christmas season of the two choirs, as well as solos. The carols in swaying movement of lulling a young child to He continues with this concept through the 2001. The piece is designed around a simple volume two, Away in a Manger, The Holly sleep. The work is rich with subtle harmonic piece, gradually increasing in volume until the melody (which we will sing for you before the and the Ivy, Coventry Carol, and The First motion and stark dynamic contrast. bell-like “Gloria in excelsis Deo”. The piece ends performance) presented in different canonic Nowell, are scored for single choir, but include structures ranging from 2-part to 4-part Saturday, mArch 1, 2014 7pm Special Guest: Jordan Van Biert Jeremy Spurgeon, organ West end christian reformed church conductor 10015 149 Street, edmonton, AB

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IN CONCERT Schubert’s Mass in G with chamber orchestra, special guests Chronos Vocal Ensemble All Saints Anglican Cathedral, 10035 103 Street Edmonton, Alberta Jordan Van Biert, conductor Edmonton’s newest chamber choir presents its first full concert: Music of Bach, Schütz, Mendelssohn Advance tickets available through choir members or and Brahms and featuring Rheinberger’s stunning double-choir Mass in E Flat “Cantus Missae” Chronos Vocal Ensemble Advance tickets available Tix on the Square: 780-420- $17/15 advance, chronosvocalensemble.com 1757, tixonthesquare.ca $20/18 at the door through choir members or $17/15 advance Tix on the Square: 780-420-1757 $20/18 at the door tixonthesquare.ca vocalalchemy.com Text and Translations Gaudete – Karl Jenkins Magnificat – Arvo Pärt Magnificat anima mea Dominum, My soul doth magnify the Lord. Gaudete, gaudete! Christus est natus Rejoice, rejoice! Christ is born et exsultavit spiritus meus in Deo salvatore meo, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. Ex Maria virgine, gaudete! (Out) Of the Virgin Mary – rejoice! quia respexit humilitatem ancillae suae. Because he hath regarded the humility of his Tempus adest gratiæ The time of grace has come – Ecce enim ex hoc beatam me dicent omnes handmaid; Hoc quod optabamus, what we have wished for, generationes, for behold from henceforth all generations shall Carmina lætitiæ songs of joy call me blessed. Devote reddamus. Let us give back faithfully. quia fecit mihi magna, Because he that is mighty Deus homo factus est God has become man, qui potens est, hath done great things to me; Natura mirante, To the wonderment of Nature, et sanctum nomen eius, and holy is his name. Mundus renovatus est The world has been renewed et misericordia eius in progenies et progenies And his mercy is from generation unto generation, A Christo regnante. By the reigning Christ. timentibus eum. to them that fear him. Fecit potentiam in brachio suo, He hath shewed might in his arm: Ezechielis porta The closed gate of Ezekiel dispersit superbos mente cordis sui; he hath scattered the proud in the conceit of their Clausa pertransitur, Is passed through, heart. Unde lux est orta Whence the light is born, deposuit potentes de sede He hath put down the mighty from their seat, Salus invenitur. Salvation is found. et exaltavit humiles; and hath exalted the humble. Ergo nostra contio Therefore let our gathering esurientes implevit bonis He hath filled the hungry with good things; Psallat iam in lustro; Now sing in brightness et divites dimisit inanes. and the rich he hath sent empty away. Benedicat Domino: Let it give praise to the Lord: Suscepit Israel puerum suum, He hath received Israel his servant, Salus Regi nostro. Greeting to our King recordatus misericordiae, being mindful of his mercy: sicut locutus est ad patres nostros, As he spoke to our fathers, Abraham et semini eius in saecula to Abraham and to his seed for ever. The Lamb – John Tavener Little Lamb, who made thee? Little Lamb, I’ll tell thee, Dost thou know who made thee? Little Lamb, I’ll tell thee; There Is No Rose – Don Macdonald Gave thee life and bid thee feed. He is called by thy name, There is no rose of such virtue, as is the rose that bare Jesu. Alleluia. By the stream and o’er the mead; For he calls himself a Lamb. For in this rose contained was heaven and earth in little space. Res miranda. (Wondrous thing) Gave thee clothing of delight, He is meek and he is mild, Softest clothing wooly bright; He became a little child. For by that rose we may well see that he is God in persons three. Pari forma. (One in form) Gave thee such a tender voice, I a child and thou a lamb, The angels sungen the shepherds to: Gloria in excelsis Deo. (Glory to God in the highest)Gaudeamus . Making all the vales rejoice? We are called by his name. (Let us rejoice) Little Lamb, who made thee? Little Lamb, God bless thee! Leave we all this worldly mirth and follow we this joyful birth. Transeamus. (Let us cross over) Dost thou know who made thee? Little Lamb, God bless thee!

The Three Kings – Jonathan Dove O Magnum Mysterium – Lee Dengler The first king was very young, With eyes downcast and reverent feet O magnum mysterium, O great mystery, O balow, balow la lay, He brought his incense sad and sweet, et admirabile sacramentum, and wonderful sacrament, With doleful ballads on his tongue, O balow, balow la lay, ut animalia viderent Dominum natum, that animals should see the new-born Lord, jacentem in praesepio! lying in a manger! O balow, balow la lay, Gifts for a baby King, O. He came bearing a branch of myrrh Beata Virgo, cujus viscera Blessed is the Virgin whose womb Than which no gall is bitterer, The third king was very old, meruerunt portare was worthy to bear O balow, balow la lay, O balow, balow la lay, Dominum Christum. Christ the Lord. Both his hands were full of gold, Alleluia. Alleluia! Gifts for a baby King, O. O balow, balow la lay, The second king was a man in prime, Many a gaud and glittering toy, O balow, balow la lay, Baubles brave for a baby boy The solemn priest of a solemn time, O balow, balow la lay, O balow, balow la lay, Gifts for a baby King, O. Sleep, Little Baby, Sleep – Jake Runestad Sleep, little Baby, sleep, The eternal Arms around thee; The holy Angels love thee, The Shepherd of the sheep And guard thy bed, and keep In perfect love has found thee. A blessed watch above thee. Sleep thro’ the holy night, No spirit can come near Christ-kept from snare and sorrow, Nor evil beast to harm thee; Until thou wake to light Sleep, Sweet, devoid of fear And love and warmth tomorrow. Where nothing need alarm thee. The Love which doth not sleep, Arvo Pärt

Run, Shepherds, Run! – Jonathan Dove Run, shepherds, run where Bethlem blest appears, This is that night - no, day - grown great with bliss, We bring the best news, be not dismayed, In which the power of Satan broken is; A Saviour there is born more old than years, In heaven be glory, peace unto the earth! Amidst heaven’s rolling heights this earth who Thus singing, through the air the angels swam. Jonathan Dove stayed And cope of stars re-echoed the same. In a poor cottage inned, a virgin maid Run, shepherds, run to Bethlehem! A weakling did him bear, who all upbears; There is he, poorly swaddled, in a manger laid, To whom too narrow swaddlings are our spheres:

Hark the Herald Angels Sing Karl Jenkins Hark! The herald angels sing, Christ, by highest heaven adored; Hail the heaven-born Prince of Peace! “Glory to the new born King, Christ, the everlasting Lord; Hail the Sun of Righteousness! peace on earth, and mercy mild, late in time behold him come, Light and life to all he brings, God and sinners reconciled!” offspring of a virgin’s womb. risen with healing in his wings. Joyful, all ye nations rise, Veiled in flesh the Godhead see; Mild he lays his glory by, join the triumph of the skies; hail th’ incarnate Deity, born that man no more may die, with th’ angelic host proclaim, pleased as Man with man to dwell, born to raise the sons of earth, “Christ is born in Bethlehem!” Jesus, our Emmanuel. born to give us second birth. John Tavener Hark! the herald angels sing, Hark! the herald angels sing, Hark! the herald angels sing, “Glory to the new born King!” “Glory to the new born King!” “Glory to the new born King!”

Joy to the World Joy to the world, the Lord is come! Joy to the world, the Savior reigns! He rules the world with truth and grace, Let earth receive her King; Let all their songs employ; and makes the nations prove let every heart prepare him room, while fields and floods, rocks, hills, the glories of his righteousness, Ola Gjeilo and heaven and nature sing, and plains and wonders of his love, and heaven and nature sing, repeat the sounding joy, and wonders of his love, and heaven and nature sing. repeat the sounding joy, and wonders of his love. repeat the sounding joy.

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Featuring the Missa Brevis of Zoltán Kodály and the Requiem of Maurice Duruflé. An afternoon of uplifting celebratory songs and Psalm settings, including inspiring works by Palestrina, Bach, Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Ives. With Catherine Daniels, mezzo-soprano, Michael Kurschat, baritone and Jeremy Spurgeon on the restored organ of Holy Trinity Anglican Church. Featuring the Da Camera Chamber Orchestra.

In conjunction with Advance ticket adult: $18.00 the Holy Trinity Advance ticket adult: $18.00 This concert is being presented in Advance ticket student/senior: $13.00 Concert Series. Advance ticket student/senior: $13.00 First Baptist Church partial fulfilment of RJ Chambers’ Holy Trinity Anglican Church Door ticket adult: $20.00 Door ticket adult: $20.00 Master of Music Degree in Door ticket student/senior: $15.00 Door ticket student/senior: $15.00 10031-109 Street conjunction with University of 10037-84 Ave Advance tickets may be purchased Advance tickets may be purchased Alberta, Department of Music. Edmonton, Alberta online at: Edmonton, Alberta online at: Holy Trinity www.dacamera.ab.ca Concert Series www.dacamera.ab.ca Da Camera Singers thanks all of our donors! Associates Chiropractic Clinic J. Isabel McRae Randy and Rose Abele Jovan Misic Michelle and Ed Andrews Karen O’Brien Lorna Arndt Off Whyte Floral Studio George and Judy Bennett Greg Randall John and Kathleen Brough Ardelle Ries Marguerite Burns Gordon Ritchie Anne Campbell Barb and Steve Sabo Donna Clanfield Gerhard Schaefer Joyce Clark Mark Sirett Laurier Fagnan Anne-Marie Stacey Donna Feldberg William Stares Alan Fielding Barrie Stinson Phyllis Fowler TELUS Corporation Evelyn Grieger Frank Thede Gordon and Elsie Hepburn Ellinor and Ernest Townend Pat Huck Roy and Joan Townend Melanie Ireland Frank and Roseanne Thede Ruth and Harvey Krahn Michelle Y. Vetro Sonya Kunkel Russell Wilkinson Pat Larsen Judy Yeoman Wendy Legaarden Randy Zutter Colette Mathews Da Camera Singers thanks the Government of Alberta Community Spirit Program for its generous support. Da Camera Singers relies on generous support from our audience members and from the community. Please consider donating to Da Camera Singers. Donations will be accepted at the front of house tonight, or by mail at Da Camera Singers Box 903 Edmonton, Alberta T5J 2L8 All donations will receive a tax receipt. Acknowledgements Erik Visser - graphic design Our reception volunteers All Saints’ Anglican Cathedral Jolaine Kerley Holy Trinity Anglican Church Robert Clark Judith Plumb Kimberley McMann Our front-of-house volunteers All our casino volunteers