CANADIAN CLASSICS CLASSIQUES CANADIENS I SAW ETERNITY Corlis • Enns • Tiefenbach • Watson Henderson • Halley Galbraith • Mozetich • Sirett • Buhr • Raminsh • Chatman Elora Festival Singers • Noel Edison # Glenn Buhr (b. 1954): Agnus Dei (from The Ritchot Mass) (1996) 6:20 I SAW ETERNITY Text: Mass (Latin) 1 Timothy Corlis (b. 1972): Gloria (from Missa Pax) (2009) 7:08 $ Imant Raminsh (b. 1943): Psalm 23 (1985) 5:57 Text: Mass (Latin) Text: Bible (Psalms) 2 Leonard Enns (b. 1948): I saw eternity (2008) 6:37 % Stephen Chatman (b. 1950): Remember Text: Henry Vaughan (1622-1695) (Rossetti Songs, No. 2) (1999) 3:00 Text: Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) 3 Peter Tiefenbach (b. 1960): Nunc Dimittis (2003)* 3:29 Text: Bible (St. Luke) *Composed for the Elora Festival Singers Ruth Watson Henderson (b. 1932): Missa Brevis (1976) 12:25 4 Kyrie 1:56 Michael Bloss, Organ (track 9) 5 Gloria 3:45 Leslie De’Ath, Piano (track 1) 6 Sanctus – Hosanna – Benedictus 4:33 7 Agnus Dei 2:11 John Marshman, Cello (track 11) Text: Mass (Latin) Stephen Pierre, Clarinet (track 11) 8 Timothy Corlis: To See the Cherry Hung With Snow (2007)* 3:49 Elora Festival Singers Text: A.E. Housman (1859-1936) Noel Edison 9 Paul Halley (b. 1952): Bring Us, O Lord God (2002) 6:13 Text: John Donne (1572-1631) and Isaac Watts (1674-1748) Publishers: Cypress Press (Cypress Choral Music). Vancouver, B.C. Canada (track 1); Monarda Music, Waterloo, ON Canada (track 2); © Peter Tiefenbach (track 3); 0 Craig Galbraith (b. 1975): Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (2005)* 6:22 Gordon V Thompson Ltd. Canada (A Division of Warner Chappell Music) (tracks 4-7); Text: Liturgy of St. James, translated by Gerard Moultrie (1829-1885) © Timothy Corlis (track 8); Back Alley Music (ASCAP), Administered by Pelagos Inc. (track 9); © Craig Galbraith (unpublished) (track 10); © Marjan Mozetich (unpublished) (track 11); ! Marjan Mozetich (b. 1947): Flying Swans (2010) 8:48 © Mark G. Sirett (unpublished) (track 12); © Glenn Buhr (unpublished) (track 13); Text: Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), translated by Aurobindo Bose Gordon V. Thompson Music, Canada (A Division of Warner Chappell Music) (track 14); Highgate Press, A division of ECS Publishing, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (track 15) @ Mark G. Sirett (b. 1952): Bless the Lord for the Good Land (2000)* 3:50 Text: adapted from Bible (Deuteronomy) I Saw Eternity group’s recordings. In 1999 he moved to rural expressionism and minimalism into an original spiritual The music of Timothy Corlis is instilled by his background noted Canadian singers such as the late Maureen Connecticut, continuing his work with choirs and church style of post-modern romanticism, especially popular with of community singing in the south-western Ontario Forrester, Russell Braun and Donna Brown, and is now music by establishing the children’s choir, Chorus contemporary dance companies as well as the layman. (Canada) region of Kitchener-Waterloo. He holds a on faculty at the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Angelicus and the adult ensemble, Gaudeamus. Since When his 1997 Violin Concerto, ‘Affairs of the Heart’, was Master of Arts in Social and Political Thought from York Conservatory of Music in Toronto. He composed his 2007, Halley has been based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, broadcast on CBC Radio in Canada, the telephone University and a Masters of Music from the University of Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis on commission for the Elora where he is the Director of Chapel Music at the University switchboards lit up from coast to coast. Although much of Toronto. Currently, he is completing a Doctorate of Festival Singers in 2005. The Nunc Dimittis is the Latin of of King’s College and University Musician at the Atlantic his music has been instrumental and orchestral, Flying Musical Arts at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in the Song of Simeon, from the second chapter of St Luke. School of Theology. He is regularly commissioned to Swans, for choir and cello is an exception. The text is by Vancouver, as well as being a busy freelance composer, Simeon exclaims he is now ready to die after seeing what compose new music in a variety of genres, styles and the Nobel prize-winning Bengali poet and polymath, teacher and choral director. His music, described as he has long been waiting for, the promised Messiah. instrumentations. The Chronicle Herald of Halifax has Rabindranath Tagore. It was commissioned by the “atmospherically striking” and “bursting with vigour and Paired with the Magnificat or Song of Mary, the canticles described Halley as, “A perfect storm of energy and Cantabile Choirs of Kingston, Ontario, who gave the truth” is drawing a lot of attention in North America and is traditionally form part of the Evensong service of the creativity”. He has had a long, close and fruitful première in 2010 directed by Mark G. Sirett. now being performed and broadcast by some of Canada’s Anglican Church. relationship with the EFS Founding Conductor, Noel The founding director of the Cantabile Choirs of most prominent artists and ensembles. Reflecting his Ruth Watson Henderson is a popular and respected Edison. The anthem Bring Us, O Lord God was Kingston Mark Sirett graduated from Queen’s University belief that music can be a strong power for social change, name among the Canadian choral community. A graduate commissioned by the Grace Cathedral Choir of Men and in Kingston, before going on to earn both Master’s and the Gloria is the emotional heart of the Missa Pax by of the Royal Conservatory of Music and the Mannes Boys in San Francisco to honour the twenty-fifth Doctoral degrees in choral conducting and pedagogy from Corlis, a full half-hour Mass, given its première in 2009 by School of Music in New York, she originally planned on a anniversary of their Cantor. The texts, by John Donne and the University of Iowa. He has been on faculty at the the Elora Festival Singers. The popular excerpt from A career as a concert pianist. Always a lover of choirs and Isaac Watts, deal with the dream of paradise and University of Alberta, the University of Western Ontario Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman, To See the Cherry choral music, she was the longtime pianist for the Festival fulfilment in heaven. and Queen’s University. He established the Cantabile Hung With Snow, has also been set by Ralph Vaughan Singers of Canada, later the Elmer Iseler Singers, and the A native of British Columbia, Craig Galbraith holds a Choirs of Kingston in 1996, and under his direction they Williams, George Butterworth, John Ireland and Ivor internationally-renowned Toronto Children’s Chorus. Her Bachelor of Music in Composition from UBC and a Master have won numerous awards and distinctions at regional, Gurney. choral music is now performed across North America, and of Music from the University of Toronto where he is now a national and international choral competitions. He acts Leonard Enns is active as a Canadian composer, the Ontario Choral Federation has created a choral candidate for a Doctor of Music Composition. Although he frequently as a choral clinician, adjudicator and guest teacher and choral director. He obtained undergraduate composition competition in her name. The Missa Brevis is has long had a love of singing, vocal and choral music, his conductor. His many choral compositions, sacred and degrees in music from Wilfrid Laurier University and The one of her most popular works. Lacking a Credo, it was broad interests have also taken him into the worlds of secular, are often performed across Canada, and he has Canadian Mennonite Bible College, a Master’s degree in written in 1974 for the Elmer Iseler Singers. electroacoustic, chamber, opera and orchestral music. been commissioned by the likes of the National Youth choral conducting and a Ph.D. in Music Theory from Paul Halley has led a fascinating and varied career. Dedicated to nurturing and supporting young composers, Choir of Canada, the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and the Northwestern University in Chicago. On faculty at Conrad Born in England, he undertook his early musical training Galbraith serves as an Artistic Director of the Canadian Elora Festival Singers. The text of Bless the Lord for the Grebel College at the University of Waterloo, Enns is the in Ottawa, Canada, before returning to his homeland as Contemporary Music Workshop. He has received many Good Land comes from chapter eight of the Book of founding director of the Da Capo Chamber Choir. As part organ scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge. From 1977 prestigious commissions, including those from the Elmer Deuteronomy. of winning the 2008 Polyphonous Choral Competition in to 1990 he was Organist and Choirmaster at the Iseler Singers and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choral music is just one of the many interests of Seattle, Washington, Enns was commissioned for a piece Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. While Choir. Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence was Glenn Buhr. His compositions show influences that range that explored the concept of time. I Saw Eternity, set to a there, Halley was also a principal member of the Paul commissioned in 2005 by the Elora Festival Singers. The from the classical tradition to jazz, Broadway and music of text by the seventeenth-century Welsh physician and Winter Consort, the innovative and experimental musical ancient hymn has inspired many composers, most the near East and India. A composer, music curator, metaphysical poet Henry Vaughan, explores the Platonic group led by American saxophone player Paul Winter. famously Ralph Vaughan Williams. producer, band leader, teacher and improvisational idea of human time as a mere shadow of eternity. The The group’s most popular album Missa Gaia or Earth Born in Italy to Slovenian parents, Marjan Mozetich pianist, he holds degrees in music from the University of choir, divided into sections, is used antiphonally to create Mass included the traditional Mass text, among others, emigrated to Canada as a child.