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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!
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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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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NEXT CONCERT:
 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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