ORIANA Women's Choir

CHILD WITH THE STARRY CRAYON

William Brown, Artistic Director
James Bourne, Piano

Sample 1 Child with the Starry Crayon
by Eleanor Daley | Listen

Sample 2 L'orage by Donald Patriquin | Listen

Sample 3 Le Secret by Imant Raminsh | Listen

Child with the Starry Crayon is the result of a collaboration between the ORIANA Women's Choir and the Toronto District School Board. Six composers were commissioned by the choir to set selected student poetry to music for our special Poetry and Music Project. With the generous assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Laidlaw Foundation, and the Harbinger Foundation, the choir commissioned Stephen Chatman, Eleanor Daley, Ruth Watson Henderson, Donald Patriquin, Imant Raminsh, and Mark Sirett to select students' poems and set them to music.

Released Fall 2004

Track Listing

1 Child with the Starry Crayon Doreen Marriott, soprano	Eleanor Daley	4:52
2 Quant j’ai ouy le tabourin Jennifer Kerr, soprano Becky Voth, soprano	William Brown	6:07
3 Stars	Stephen Chatman	1:38
4 Blue	Stephen Chatman	1:51
5 Ice	Stephen Chatman	1:04
6 Landscape	Ruth Watson Henderson	2:37
7 Night	Ruth Watson Henderson	3:39
8 L’orage i) L’orage ii) In My Heart iii) Something Creepy Joy Juckes, spoken Jennifer Kerr, soprano Susan Lewczynski, alto	Donald Patriquin	6:39
9-10 Deux chansons Nuit solitaire Le secret	Imant Raminsh	2:05 2:44
11 Les étoiles	Mark Sirett	2:53
12-14 Rose Trilogy The Red, Red Rose The White Rose Doreen Marriott, soprano The Lost Rose	Eleanor Daley	3:42 2:29 3:58
15 Puisque tout passe Jennifer Kerr, soprano Becky Voth, soprano	William Brown	3:45
Total Time		51:16

About the Cover Artwork
Child with the Starry Crayon by Nastasha Opus, Artist.

This interpretation was created by Natasha after reading the poem, "Child with the Starry Crayon".

The students in Ms. Tuyet Duong's Grade 5 class at Duke of Connaught Junior and Senior Public School, Toronto District School Board, all created a visual image of the poem.

Natasha's design was created with the use of pastels and was selected as the compact disc artwork winner.

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