welcome!Greetings and welcome to our ESG concert season! Our 2019–2020 series includes some of Canada’s finest performers and ensembles.

We begin our season with ‘ESG Remembers’ which features our ESG Concert Choir and Chamber Orchestra. This spectacular concert pays tribute to the 100th anniversary of the Peace Treaty with choral masterworks to the concertSERIES fallen, including the Rutter Requiem and other works by Mark Sirett, 2019–2020 and Eleanor Daley.

Our second concert, ‘Gloria!’, will feature Chamber Orchestra, Organ and our ESG Concert Choir. This yearly tradition is an opportunity to FEATURING SOME get yourselves into the Christmas spirit with carols, choir, organ and orchestra. OF CANADA'S For our third concert, the Elmer Isler Singers, with Artistic Director Lydia Adams, team up finest performers with long-time friends and colleagues, the Elora AND ENSEMBLES Singers and their conductor Mark Vuorinen, in a concert featuring stunning choral classics from Canada and beyond.

We hope you will consider being a part of this very exciting season of concerts at ESG.

Shawn Grenke Director of Music

35 LYTTON BLVD., • 416.481.1141 35 LYTTON BLVD., TORONTO • 416.481.1141 35 LYTTON BLVD., TORONTO • 416.481.1141 www.esgunited.org www.esgunited.org www.esgunited.org ESG Remembers SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27TH, 2019 AT 4:00 P.M. ESG Choir and Chamber Orchestra order form Join ESG as we remember all those who have been affected by SUBSCRIBE NOW TO OUR war. Featuring the hauntingly beautiful Requiem of John Rutter 2019-20 CONCERT SERIES! and other moving and reflective pieces by Eleanor Daley, ESG REMEMBERS Ruth Watson Henderson, Mark Sirett and more. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27TH, 2019 AT 4:00 P.M

Andrew Adair, organ Clare Scholtz, oboe Krista Rhodes, piano GLORIA Angela Schwarzkopf, harp SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8TH, 2019 AT 4:00 P.M John Brownell, percussion Shawn Grenke, conductor Benjamin Louwerscheimer, cello SOARING VOICES SUNDAY, APRIL 26TH, 2020 AT 4:00 P.M

The subscription price for all three concerts is Gloria! $99 regular/ $75 student. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8TH, 2019 AT 4:00 P.M. Y ES, I WANT TO SUBSCRIBE ESG Choir, Organ and Chamber Orchestra I would like to order ______subscriptions for a An ESG Christmas with Orchestra, Choir and Organ. total of $______. Featuring Mark Hayes’ Gloria, Ola Gjeilo’s The Rose, I would like to make a donation of $______to Stars Ešenvalds' and other seasonal favourites. the series.

Andrew Adair, organ NAME:______Claire Harris, piano John Brownell, percussion PHONE:______Chamber Orchestra Shawn Grenke, conductor EMAIL:______❒ Yes, add my name and email address to the Eglinton St. George’s United Church concert mailing list.

PAYMENT INFORMATION Soaring Voices! ❒ Cheque enclosed, payable to ESG United Church SUNDAY APRIL 26TH, 2020 AT 4:00 P.M. Singers and the Elora Singers Unite   #: ______

TWO GREAT CHOIRS, ONE GREAT SOUND! EXPIRY: ______/ ______Lydia Adams and Mark Vuorinen, Conductors NAME ON CARD: ______Glorious sounds await you when two great choirs merge to present spectacular music, including the 36-voice work, Deo Gratias, by Ockeghen, Ave Maria by Franz Biebl and Eglinton St. George's United Church the stunning Rheinberger Abendlied. Also works by: Ēriks  35 Lytton Blvd. Toronto, ON M4R 1L2 Ešenvalds, Hussein Janmohamed, Paul Mealor, Arvo Pärt,  [email protected] Uģis Prauliņš, and R. Murray Schafer.  esgunited.org

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