Vancouver Chamber Choir Pacifi ca Singers Vancouver Chamber Orchestra Nathalie Paulin, soprano Daniel Cabena, countertenor Isaiah Bell, tenor Stephen Hegedus, bass-baritone Jon Washburn, conductor
8pm Friday, December 7, 2018 | The Orpheum 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 MESSIAH CHAMBER CHOIR GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL Beth Buono Emily Cheung PROGRAMME NOTES Christina Cichos Lorraine Reinhardt Madeline Lucy Smith Messiah is quite possibly the greatest success story in the history of choral music. e premiere performance, conducted by Handel himself more than 250 years ago, was well enough received to encourage the composer to present the work several more times. Since then, the growth and spread Dinah Ayre of the work’s popularity has been nothing short of phenomenal. Many of the North American Fabiana Katz choral societies established in the past century and a half were rst founded speci cally to perform Karen Mang Dolores Scott this piece. Now beloved worldwide, the piece receives well over a hundred performances annually Kar yn Way in a wide variety of versions.
Handel was a great composer, and an equally great pragmatist. He wrote the massive work in only Tom Ellis twenty-four days: a near-miraculous pace by modern standards, but by no means unusual for Matt Gaskin him. With each successive performance, he adjusted the work to suit the situation, taking into Carman J. Price account especially the availability and abilities of vocal soloists. e “autograph” score, as originally Eric Schwarzhoff written, was in fact never performed by him without some (and usually several) alterations, Grant Wutzke additions, deletions or transpositions. As a result, the cumulative material handed down to modern interpreters permits a wide degree of latitude in customizing performances. Jacob Gramit Handel spent his maturity working in London during the reign of King George II. Both George, the Cameron Haney Paul Nash last foreign-born English monarch, and Handel were German imports who had known each other George Roberts well in the “old country”. Handel’s last position in Hanover had permitted him generous allowance Wim Vermeulen for travel, and the city of London with its growing wealth and splendour exerted a strong pull on the young and ambitious composer. By virtue of extended trips, he was able to establish himself as an opera composer in England before nally moving there on a permanent basis. Georgian oratorio grew directly out of opera, as an accommodation to a church prohibition. During Kathleen Allan Advent and Lent, the two principle periods of solemn preparation within the liturgical year, staged Fiona Blackburn entertainments were regarded as inappropriate. But the drama, spectacle and narrative force of George Roberts opera was so popular with its public that the demand did not simply vanish. Accordingly, Handel Carrie Tennant met his public half-way by setting major biblical narratives to music, scoring them for musical Joel Tranquilla forces every bit as impressive as opera (orchestra, chorus and soloists), but without costumes, props, sets or specialized lighting. e sacred subject matter avoided con ict with church authorities, and provided the composer with a task be tting his genius: to write music so compelling that it would set a mood, tell a story and touch the emotions, all without extra-musical theatrical assistance. e occasion for the composition of Messiah was a 1742 bene t concert for a foundling’s home (a shelter for children in need) in Dublin, Ireland. As was becoming increasingly common, the performance occurred not within a church or cathedral, but within a public “Musick hall”. ough In order to sustain the mood, Messiah, like most oratorios, is closely based on well-known biblical narratives, it is unusual in it is best to hold your applause two respects. To begin with, its subject is taken not from the stories of Old Testament prophets or until the end of each set. kings, but from the New Testament: of the three main parts, the rst addresses the annunciation Please turn off all phones. and events surrounding Jesus’ miraculous birth, the second his su ering, execution and the spread Recording devices of any kind of his message, and the third of the redemption of the world by faith. Furthermore, though it is are strictly prohibited. chronologically organized in terms of events related to Jesus’ life, the piece is not, strictly speaking, narrative. e libretto is a compilation of verses from the Bible, most of which do not primarily Yvan Morissette forward the plot, but rather provide ample opportunity for re ection, exultation and contemplation. Stage Management Perhaps the composer judged that the stories of Christmas and Easter were so well known to his Corporate Graphics audience as to make a mere re-telling unnecessary. Graphic Design Violet Goosen ough the narrative is less tightly structured than much opera or oratorio, the drama is every Development bit as intense. e dotted-rhythm French Overture style of the opening evokes the Kingship of José Verstappen Christ, while the minor mode makes clear that this is no merely triumphalistic tale. roughout the Programme Typography work, major choruses act as structural pillars, containing scenes of powerful dramatic and ironic
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Vancouver Chamber Orchestra A JOYFUL CHRISTMAS Presenting Nicol Matt from Germany 8pm Friday, December 14 | Pacifi c Spirit United Church* Jon Washburn, conductor
Choirs, soloists, alumni and orchestra 2019 are drawn together for a resplendent LOVE AND MERCY Presenting Erick Lichte from Portland/Vancouver evening celebrating Jon Washburn’s 48 years 8pm Friday, January 25 Shaughnessy Heights United Church leading the Vancouver Chamber Choir. MASTERPIECE Famous Choruses of Great Composers Hear J.S. Bach’s marvellous Missa brevis in G 8pm Saturday, February 16 minor, Tarik O’Regan’s mystic and Shaughnessy Heights United Church MUSIC SEA TO SEA The Farewell Tour evocative Solitude Trilogy and a 8pm Friday, March 15 | Shaughnessy Heights United Church
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4 force (He trusted in God) and stunning contrasts (Since by man came death). Between the pillars, recitatives and arias provide intimacy and pathos (He was despised; I know that my redeemer liveth). Handel’s mastery of drama and counterpoint are merged to wonderful e ect: memorable musical ideas are repeated, inverted, extended, compressed and combined: not to prove his academic credentials but primarily to serve the drama. As English was Handel’s second language, some aspects of the text setting are surprising, including the occasional mismatch between syllabic stress and musical meter. But successfully Missing out navigating these surprises, along with the sheer vocal virtuosity on the latest news? required to perform the piece, have become points of pride among the generations of singers who have taken on the Sign up for the Vancouver Chamber Choir’s challenge. To quote Francis Bacon: “ ere is no excellent beauty e-announcements and receive all the latest information that hath not some strangeness in the proportion”. right away about concerts, tours, workshops, auditions, Hearers of this work frequently report that they have travelled the range of human experience and emotion, and this is quite fundraising dinners and more. true: both tragedy (traditionally understood to denote dramas Simply visit our website that end in death) and comedy (those that end in marriage) are found here, and in their full senses. Jesus’ su ering and death and scroll down our home page to are portrayed, but so is the promise of the eventual marriage join our email list. between Christ and his Bride, the great congregation of all who have opened their hearts to Him. www.vancouverchamberchoir.com Programme notes by John William Trotter
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* NEW RELEASE ! e Love that Moves the Universe R. Murray Schafer, Vol. 4: ree outstanding major works recorded in 2018 for the composer’s* 85th birthday: the title piece for choir and orchestra, plus e Star Princess and the Waterlilies and Narcissus and Echo. e Healing Series Music for Healing Box Set All of the Vancouver Chamber Choir’s remarkable healing CDs in one collection, including the original 2-disc “Family Set” of volume II. Finding the Still Point music for healing A healing ambience of calm, warmth and consolation projected through 15 beloved choral favourites* with interconnecting Gregorian chants. Unexpected Gi s music for healing II Familiar folk music in choral arrangements with several meditations for harp based on the same* themes. A Quiet Place music for healing III An outstanding collection of choral treasures chosen to help find peace, quiet and healing* in today’s hectic world.
e Masters Series BaroqueFest Festive music of Bach, Purcell, Handel and Monteverdi from a gala Expo 86 concert, with Jon Washburn and Michael Corboz conducting their professional choirs from Canada and Switzerland. 8pm Friday, December 14, 2018 Bach - e Six Motets Jesu, meine Freude; Komm Jesu, komm; Singet dem Herrn; Der Geist hil unser Schwachheit auf, *Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden and Fürchte dich nicht. Pacific Spirit United Church Missa Brevis Four contrasting short masses by Haydn Missa Brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo, (formerly Ryerson United Church) Fauré Messe basse, von Weber Jubelmesse and Christoph Bernhard Missa Durch Adams Fall. Music to Hear Renaissance, Classical and Modern vocal chamber music by Mozart, Beethoven, 2205 West 45th Avenue at Yew Street Schubert, Shearing, Beckwith, Janequin, Crequillon and de Sermisy. Simple Gi s Canadian, American and Scottish folksongs in a variety of attractive modern Vancouver Chamber Choir settings by Imant Raminsh, Mack Wilberg, Louis Applebaum, Aaron Copland and Ian McDougall. Nicol Matt, conductor e Canadian Composer Series A Garden of Bells R. Murray Schafer, Vol. 1: Early choral works including Miniwanka, This Christmas concert will introduce Epitaph for Moonlight,* Snowforms, Gamelan, Sun, Fire, Felix’s Girls and A Garden of Bells. Artistic Director candidate Nicol Matt Once on a Windy Night R. Murray Schafer, Vol. 2: Four major mid-career choral works including A Medieval Bestiary,* Seventeen Haiku, Vox Naturae and the tempestuous Once on a from Germany. He will be leading a Windy Night. wonderful and diverse Christmas Imagining Incense* R. Murray Schafer, Vol. 3: Recent choral works including Magic Songs, repertoire including Francis Poulenc’s ree Hymns, Rain Chant, Alleluia, Beautiful Spanish Song, Imagining Incense and other works. Songs of the Lights Imant Raminsh, Vol. 1 Magnificat, Ave verum corpus, Ave Maria, e Hodie Christus natus est, Benjamin Britten’s Great Sea and more. A Hymn to the Virgin, Ola Gjeilo’s Spotless Earth Chants Imant Raminsh, Vol. 2 Missa Brevis in C Minor, Earth Chants & smaller works. Stephen Chatman, Vol. 2 With oboist Roger Cole and pianist Linda Lee omas. Rose, Ivo Antognini’s Laudate Dominum Due West Due East Stephen Chatman, Vol. 3 e Canadian composer’s latest pieces since 2000. and other seasonal songs and carols Rise! Shine! * Music of Jon Washburn Including e Star, A Stephen Foster Medley, Chinese by Reger, Rachmaninoff, Busto, Melodies, Rossetti Songs, God’s Lamb, Noel Sing We!, Behold I build an house and Rise! Shine! Love Songs for a Small Planet Alexina Louie Love Songs for a Small Planet, Srul Irving Glick Ramírez, Sixten, Chilcott, Berring, Canticle of Peace, R. Murray Schafer Magic Songs and Imant Raminsh In the night we shall go in. Sandström and more. e Christmas Recordings A Dylan omas Christmas * e Vancouver Chamber Choir’s signature performance of 1.855.985.ARTS (2787) A Child’s Christmas in Wales, read by Welsh actor Russell Roberts with special carol settings by Jon Washburn. vancouverchamberchoir.com A World Christmas Carols and seasonal songs of many lands from guitarist and arranger Ed Henderson, the Worldfest Ensemble and the Vancouver Chamber Choir with Jon Washburn conducting. e Miracle of Christmas Christmas music with a colourful Central and South American flavour played by the ensemble Ancient Cultures with several tracks featuring the Vancouver Chamber Choir.
6 PACIFICA SINGERS FIONA BLACKBURN, DIRECTOR
Paci ca Singers is a select vocal ensemble which exists as part world of professional music making, it is an experience of great of the Vancouver Chamber Choir organization. e ensemble value for singers intending to make a career in music. Current performs with Jon Washburn and the Vancouver Chamber members live throughout the lower mainland, with many Choir on three or four concert programmes each season and serving as conductors, music educators, and/or professional also presents one or two independent concerts with its own singers in their communities. conductor, Fiona Blackburn. Most rehearsals are held on ursday evenings, with occasional Paci ca Singers provides an ideal performance venue for weekend rehearsals and additional dress rehearsals as required. experienced and motivated choral singers whose goal is to make For more information or to schedule an audition time, please music at a very high level. By providing direct exposure to the email: ona@ onablackburn.com.
Cassie Lu spring Tatiana Bourlova Dan Deranleau Richard Bergen assistant director Jennifer Grants Evan Goldenberg Douglas Colwell Catherine Campolin Heather Horwood Tim Hunt Anthony G.V. Tobin Catherine Crouch Pauline Lo Jason McArthur Ken Weremchuk Maria Koebsch Kia O’Kane Douglas McSavaney Alexis Lytle Sarah Rossiter Nancy Squair Jenny Shan Robyn Van Luven Jenny Vermeulen
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7 VANCOUVER SOLOISTS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA NATHALIE PAULIN, SOPRANO Soprano Nathalie Paulin has established herself in the United States, Angela Cavadas Canada, Europe and the Far East as an interpretive artist of the very concertmaster rst rank. Winner of a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Lawrie Hill Opera Performance, she has collaborated with internationally renowned Mary Sokol Brown conductors on both the concert platform and in opera. As well, critics Domagoj Ivanovic have been lavish in their praise. Reviewing from Chicago, John van Patricia Armstrong Rhein noted that “Paulin in particular is a real nd; her rich, agile voice possesses great depth and allure, her manner radiates sensuous charm.” Ms. Paulin debuted for L’Opéra de Montréal as Mélisande in Pélléas et Heilwig von Koenigsloew Mélisande and for Chicago Opera eater as Galatea in Acis and Galatea. She was re-engaged by Evelyn Creaser-Rumley Laura Chenail Chicago Opera eater for the title role in Semele and for Mary in La Resurrezione, both by Handel. Susan Cosco She has also been heard as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro for Cincinnati Opera and the Dallas Opera featured her in Carmen and Cunning Little Vixen. e New Brunswick native’s recent engagements have included Blow’s Venus and Adonis for Andrew Brown Clavecin en Concert, Lonely Child for Symphony Nova Scotia, Goercki’s Symphony No. 3 for the Isabelle Roland Winnipeg Symphony and Cherubini’s Stabat Mater for Ottawa’s irteen Strings. Of special interest Beth Nickel were performances of scenes from late 18th Century French operas by Sacchini, Cherubini and Martini conducted by Ryan Brown for Opera Lafayette in D.C. and New York. Other credits in the USA and Canada include Messiah for Portland Baroque, the Naples Philharmonic, the New Zoltan Rozsnyai Jersey Symphony and Orchestre symhonique de Trois-Rivières, Fauré’s Requiem for the Vancouver Cristian Markos Symphony, Carmina Burana for Festival de Lanaudière, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 for the Kingston and Ottawa symphonies, Bach Cantatas for Stratford Summer Music, the title role in eodora for Vancouver Early Music, the Countess in Le nozze de Figaro for Opera Lyra Ottawa and Beethoven’s David Brown Mass In C with Tafelmusik. Frequently heard on both the French and English CBC networks, she is a past winner of the Montréal Roger Cole Symphony Competition and holds a Master’s Degree from the Université de Montréal. She won the Emma Ringrose Dvorak prize and has also received awards and prizes from the George London Foundation in New York, the Young Mozart Singers’ Competition in Toronto and the Canadian Music Competition. Ms. Paulin is currently a member of the Vocal Department at the Faculty of Music, University of Allan orpe Toronto.
Katherine Evans DANIEL CABENA, COUNTERTENOR Daeyong Ra Canadian countertenor Daniel Cabena is highly regarded in both Canada and Europe for prize-winning performances ranging from Baroque to contemporary repertoire. Phillip Crewe As Lydie-Anne in the 2016 world premiere of Les Feluettes (March/ Bouchard) with Opera de Montreal, critic Richard Turp declared his performance as “both profoundly touching and utterly compelling, his Bryn Nixon vocal poise and theatrical aplomb constantly rewarding.” Mr. Cabena’s 2017-2018 season took him to Montreal with A Sanctuary Michael Jarvis in Song, a captivating recital of 20th century English and Canadian song with pianist Stephen Runge, followed by performances of Edmonton Opera’s Les Feluettes. Other Canadian engagements included Messiah with Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms with Kitchener – Waterloo Symphony and Grand Philharmonic Choir, and his soloist debut at the National Arts Centre in a Bach/Handel programme with Les Violons du Roy, Bernard Labadie, conductor. He has performed in Europe with Musica Fiorita, Ensemble Diapsalma, Le Concert Spirituel and the Schlossmediale Festival, and looks forward to St. John Passion with Ottawa Choral Society in 2019. He holds an Honours Bachelor of Music from Wilfrid Laurier University, a Doctorate of Music from l’Université de Montréal, and completed a Master in Specialized Early Music Performance at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Switzerland.
8 ISAIAH BELL, TENOR Isaiah Bell’s performances are characterized by his “beautiful tenor, command of style, and natural stage pres- ence”. e Canadian-American combines a “willingness to invest himself wholly into the character” and “at- tractive, youthfully sexy stage presence” with “exquisite lyricism” and a “strong, glorious voice with heroic, oratorio-style ring.” In October, he created the role of Antinous, the doomed lover of the Roman emperor Hadrian, in the world premiere of Rufus Wainwright’s Hadrian at the Canadian Opera Company. He appeared alongside omas Hampson as Hadrian and Karita Mattila as Plotina. Immediately following that, he sang Britten’s War Requiem with the National Arts Centre Orchestra, and will soon return to Carnegie Hall for Handel’s Messiah with the Oratorio Society of New York. Mr. Bell recently revisited Mark Morris’ double-bill production of Curlew River/Dido and Aeneas at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, giving “a performance of exquisite poignancy” ( e New York Times) as the Madwoman in Curlew River. is season sees solo debuts at Carnegie Hall (Haydn’s Creation), and with the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music (Cavalli’s Gli amori d’Apollo e di Dafne), Opera Atelier (Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria), and the Seattle Symphony (Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9). He also returns to sing with conductor Nicholas McGegan and Philharmonia Baroque (Handel’s Atalanta at the Caramoor Festival), and in 2019 will debut the role of Acis in Acis and Galatea, with the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra. Other notable engagements include George Benjamin’s Written on Skin conducted by the composer with the Toronto Symphony and the Tanglewood Festival; Strauss’ Elektra and Bach’s St. Matthew Passion under Yannick Nézét-Séguin; Britten’s Owen Wingrave, under Mark Wigglesworth at the Aldeburgh and Edinburgh Festivals; Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang with Bramwell Tovey and the Vancouver Symphony; Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at l’Opéra- éâtre de Metz in France; and, with Kent Nagano and l’Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette and a Decca recording of the Honegger/Ibert opera L’Aiglon.
STEPHEN HEGEDUS, BASS-BARITONE Hailed by the Ottawa Citizen as a singer possessing “…an instrument of rare beauty, majestic and commanding from the bottom of his range to the top,” Stephen Hegedus is that rarest of bass-baritones, totally at home in the works of Puccini and Weill as well as those of Bach and Mozart. Especially appreciated for his performance in Messiah, he has been heard in Handel’s masterpiece with the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, l’Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Seattle Symphony, Houston Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Edmonton Symphony, the Vancouver Chamber Choir, Naples Philharmonic and Victoria Symphony. e role of Leporello in Don Giovanni returns to his schedule this season for Manitoba Opera and in Edmonton for Le comte Ory by Rossini and Messiah for the symphony. He appears for I Musici de Montreal in Bach’s Magni cat, Rossini’s Stabat Mater for the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony and Haydn’s Missa in tempore belli for the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir. Fluent in French, English and Hungarian, Mr. Hegedus’ 2017-2018 season included Messiah with Nézet-Séguin and l’Orchestre Métropolitain, Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amore for Vancouver Opera, the Count in Le nozze di Figaro and Neptune/ Time in Monteverdi’s e Return of Ulysses, both for Opera Atelier, Colline in La Bohème for Paci c Opera Victoria and with the under Bay and Regina symphonies. A prize winner at the Lyndon Woodside Oratorio Competition, hosted by the Oratorio Society of New York, his extensive concert experience includes appearances with the Vancouver Symphony (Mozart’s Requiem), Winnipeg Symphony (Haydn’s Creation), the Grant Park Festival (Dvorak’s e Spectre’s Bride, Brahms’ Requiem), l’Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (Bernstein’s A Quiet Place), the Victoria Symphony (Bach’s Weihnachts-Oratorium), l’Orchestre symphonique de Québec (Bach’s Magni cat and Bruckner’s Te Deum), and the Aldeburgh Festival (Bach’s B Minor Mass). Operatic roles include the title role in Le nozze di Figaro, Leporello and Masetto (Don Giovanni), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Albert (Werther), Nick Shadow ( e Rake’s Progress), Collatinus ( e Rape of Lucretia), Talbot (Maria Stuarda), Sprecher (Die Zauber öte) and Angelotti (Tosca). He has been engaged by the Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Canadian Opera Company, l’Opéra de Montréal, and Against the Grain eatre.
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PART 1 AIR (Bass) e people that walked in darkness have seen a great light, and OVERTURE they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. Isaiah IX, 2 RECITATIVE (Tenor) Comfort ye, comfort ye, my people, saith your God; speak ye CHORUS comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her welfare is For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned. e voice of him government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be that crieth in the wilderness; prepare ye the way of the Lord, called Wonderful, Counsellor, the mighty God, the everlasting make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Father, the Prince of Peace. Isaiah IX, 6 Isaiah XL, 1-3 AIR (Tenor) PASTORAL SYMPHONY Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill made low: the crooked straight and the rough places plain. RECITATIVE (Soprano) Isaiah XL, 4 ere were shepherds, abiding in the field, keeping watch over CHORUS their flock by night. And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, fear not, for see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to Isaiah XL, 5 all people: for unto you is born this day in the city of David a RECITATIVE (Bass) Saviour which is Christ the Lord. And suddenly there was with us saith the Lord of hosts: yet once a little while, and I will the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land, saying, Luke II, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13 and I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come. e Lord whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his CHORUS temple, even the messenger of the covenant whom ye delight Glory to God in the highest, and peace on earth, goodwill in, behold he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts. towards men. Luke II, 14 Haggai II, 6, 7 and Malachi III, 1 AIR (Soprano) AIR (Alto) Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion, shout, O daughter of But who may abide the day of his coming? And who shall Jerusalem, behold thy king cometh unto thee. He is the stand when he appeareth? For he is like a refiner’s fire. righteous Saviour and he shall speak peace unto the heathen. Malachi III, 2 Zachariah IX, 9, 10 CHORUS RECITATIVE (Alto) And he shall purify the sons of Levi, that they may offer unto en shall the eyes of the blind be opened, and the ears of the the Lord an offering in righteousness. Malachi III, 3 deaf unstopped; then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the RECITATIVE (Alto) tongue of the dumb shall sing. Isaiah XXXV, 5, 6 Behold, a Virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call DUET (Alto and Soprano) his name Emmanuel: “God with us”. Isaiah VII, 14 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: and he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom and gently AIR (Alto) and CHORUS lead those that are with young. Come unto him all ye that O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion, get thee up into the labour, and are heavy laden, and he will give you rest. Take his high mountain: O thou that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem, yoke upon you, and learn of him, for he is meek and lowly of li up thy voice with strength, li it up, be not afraid: say unto heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls. the cities of Judah: behold your God. Arise, shine for thy light Isaiah XL, 11 and Matthew XI, 28, 29 is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. Isaiah XL, 9 and Isaiah LX, 1 CHORUS His yoke is easy, and his burden is light. Matthew XI, 30 RECITATIVE (Bass) For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory INTERMISSION shall be seen upon thee, and the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. Isaiah LX, 2, 3
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12 PART 2 AIR (Soprano) How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of CHORUS peace, and bring glad tidings of good things. Romans X, 15 Behold the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the AIR (Bass) world. John I, 29 Why do the nations so furiously rage together, and why do the people imagine a vain thing? e kings of the earth rise AIR (Alto) up, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and He was despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and against his anointed. Psalm II, 1, 2 acquainted with grief. He gave his back to the smiters, and his cheeks to them that plucked off his hair; he hid not his face CHORUS from shame and spitting. Isaiah LIII, 3 and L, 6 Let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their yokes from us. Psalm II, 3 CHORUS Surely, he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; he RECITATIVE (Tenor) was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh them to scorn; the Lord iniquities, the chastisement of our peace was upon him. And shall have them in derision. Psalm II, 4 with his stripes we are healed. Isaiah LIII, 4, 5 AIR (Tenor) CHORUS ou shalt break them with a rod of iron, thou shalt dash them All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to in pieces like a potter’s vessel. Psalm II, 9 his own way. And the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. Isaiah LIII, 6 CHORUS Hallelujah, for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. e RECITATIVE (Tenor) kingdom of this world is become the kingdom of our Lord All they that see him laugh him to scorn; they shoot out their and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. King of lips, and shake their heads, saying, Psalm XXII, 7 Kings and Lord of Lords. Hallelujah. Revelation XIX, 6; XI, 15; XIX, 16 CHORUS He trusted in God that he would deliver him; let him deliver him, if he delight in him. Psalm XXII, 8 PART 3
RECITATIVE (Tenor) AIR (Soprano) y rebuke hath broken his heart, he is full of heaviness; he I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the looked for some to have pity on him, but there was no man, latter day upon the earth; and though the worms destroy this neither found he any to comfort him. Psalm LXIX, 21 body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. For now is Christ risen from the dead, the first fruits of them that sleep. AIR (Tenor) Job XIX, 25, 26 and I Corinthians XV, 20 Behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto his sorrow. CHORUS Lamentations I, 12 Since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection RECITATIVE (Tenor) of the dead; For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. I Corinthians XV, 21, 22 He was cut off out of the land of the living, for the transgression of thy people was he stricken. Isaiah LIII, 8 RECITATIVE (Bass) Behold I tell you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall AIR (Tenor) all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the But thou didst not leave his soul in hell, nor didst thou suffer last trumpet. I Corinthians XV, 51, 52 thy holy one to see corruption. Psalm XVI, 10 AIR (Bass) CHORUS e trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised Li up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye li up, ye everlasting incorruptible, and we shall be changed. I Corinthians XV, 52 doors, and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? e Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. CHORUS e Lord of hosts: he is the King of glory. Psalm XXIV, 7-10 Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, and hath redeemed us to God by his blood, to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, AIR (Alto) and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. Blessing ou art gone up on high; thou hast led captivity captive and and honour, glory and power be unto him that sitteth upon received gi s for men: yea, even for thine enemies, that the the throne, and unto the Lamb, for ever and ever. Amen. Lord God might dwell among them. Psalm LXVIII, 18 Revelation V, 12-14
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NEW RELEASE! e Love that Moves the Universe R. Murray Schafer, Vol. 4
is latest addition to the Vancouver Chamber Choir’s outstanding series of Schafer choral works was recorded in 2018 as a special celebration of the composer’s 85th birthday, funded through the Canada Council for the Arts’ New Chapter program.
e title piece for choir and orchestra is a magni cent setting of selected 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 creation allegory for alto solo, narrator, women’s chorus and percussion. 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.
. Artists include e Vancouver Chamber Choir and Vancouver Chamber Orchestra, Steven Bélanger (baritone), Fabiana Katz (alto), Christina Cichos (soprano), George Roberts (narrator), Brian Nesselroad and Jonathan Bernard (percussion) and the Vancouver Chamber Choir’s long-time conductor and artistic director, Jon Washburn.
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