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2008–2009 Programme
ORIANA Women’s Choir invites you to be part of our 37th
Concert Season. Be sure to send in your subscription and ticket orders
by October 3, 2008 for Early Bird prices!
Carols of the Continents:
music of North and South America
Saturday,
November 15, 2008
Grace
Church on-the-Hill,
300
Lonsdale Road, Toronto, Ontario
Celebrate the holiday season with music from both sides
of the equator. Featured guest artists include NUKARIIK, Inuit
performers of throat singing, drum dancing, and Ajaja songs; Andrew
Chan, harp; Rob MacDonald, classical guitar; Andrew Morris, percussion;
Leslie Newman, flute; Stephen Buck, cello. The program will include a
new commission by Ruth Watson Henderson entitled Gentle Mary Laid Her Child; Welcome Yule!
by William Brown; Carols and Lullabies, arranged by Conrad Susa, a
collection of traditional Spanish carols for choir, harp, and guitar as
well as Sir Christëmas
by Derek Holman based on a 15th century text for flute, cello, harp,
piano and percussion.
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Love Thy Neighbour:
music of Asia, Australia and Europe
Saturday,
March 7, 2009
Grace
Church on-the-Hill,
300
Lonsdale Road,
Toronto,
Ontario
ORIANA looks east and west to bring familiar music and
pieces rarely heard in North America to its audience—blending old and
new with a newly commissioned choir and piano piece by Chinese-Canadian
composer Ka Nin Chan. Guest artists include the Chinese Canadian Choir
of Toronto as well as Daniel Kushner and Rachel King, violin and
Elizabeth Morris, viola. The program will include Dixit Dominus
by Galuppi, Beatus Vir by Vivaldi, Four Seasons by
Zhou Long, selected pieces by Fauré
and Debussy, Tchaikovksy’s Chorus of the Peasant Girls from
Eugene Onegin, and Wagner’s Spinning Chorus from the Flying
Dutchman. The
evening will also feature a set of three songs for treble voices and
piano by Australian Stephen Leek entitled Ancient Cries.
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Our Kingdom:
music of the Commonwealth
Saturday,
May 9, 2009
Grace
Church on-the-Hill,
300
Lonsdale Road,
Toronto,
Ontario
Drawing on Canada’s connection with Great Britain,
ORIANA celebrates the ocean, the land and the heavens in a concert of
lively and inspiring music. The concert will feature the Toronto Welsh
Male Voice Choir as well as guest artists Stuart Laughton, trumpet and
Andy Beston, percussion. The Choir will premiere a new work
commissioned from Eleanor Daley. The program will include Psalm 150
and Missa Brevis in D by Britten, Magnificat by
Sumsion, Psalm 121, Ave Verum Corpus and Cantate
Domino by Raminsh along with Watane [an Iroquois
soundscape] by Sirett. This piece is scored for choir, rainstick,
windchimes, rattle, and hand drum. The singers will improvise
birdcalls, rustling leaves and rain. In addition, the Choir will
present works by Kesselman, Noble, Dalglish and Willcocks as well as a
number of Canadian arrangements by Stuart Calvert including Song
for the Mira.
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