Chronos Vocal Ensemble presents its second concert of Season Five, the 2017-2018 Season.
FRESH: New music from Canada
Featuring new music by Canadian composers, including the winner of the Chronos Vocal Ensemble Choral Composition Competition, Nicholas Ryan Kelly, and a premiere of a new commission from Alex Eddington.
With guests: Edmonton Youth Choir; John Wiebe, conductor.
Programme Note: Life: a blessing, beautiful and frail
The poet will ask us to name the blood of the world;
in verse, she'll call it Love.
The mystics, the monks, the prayerful will name it, too:
in prayer they'll call it God.
But all we know, beyond these names
is the dance between what is frail and what is beautiful
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We tire, perhaps,
of speaking of flowers
or God's masterful symmetry
reflected in everything:
how the orchid, soft and white
resembles, after a day's rain,
the ivory moon above its head.
How the best of symphonies
mimics the wind roving through a fist of leaves,
and the fingers of humming branches.
We tire because we know that genius, too, is a gust of wind
and our minds can be lost in one evening's storm.
We tire of speaking beauty
because the best of this world disappears:
great cities of yesterday decay in today's oceans.
The heads of lofty mountains are shaved by wind and rain.
the stars to which we pray, swallow, into some black mouth
millenniums of light.
We tire of speaking beauty
because it wears innumerable names;
Everyday, beauty is somewhere dying,
While elsewhere new beauty grows.
- Brandon Wint
Premiere Information: 5 March 2017, St. Barnabas Church, Ottawa, Ontario
Ewashko Singers, Laurence Ewashko conducting; Christopher Mallory, speaker
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As part of Calgary Boys’ Choir’s flight-themed 2013-14 season, this exciting multimedia concert features all levels of the Calgary Boys’ Choir in classical and modern songs about flight and things that fly.
Boys will be singing flight-themed songs including Mendelssohn’s “O for the wings of a dove,” a traditional First Nations’ “Fly like an Eagle” with drumming and choreography, and Pink Floyd’s “Learning to Fly” with 6 Minute Warning, Edmonton’s male a cappella sensation.
The choir will also present “Be like a bird” by Edmonton composer, Sheila Wright.
Hexaphone, Victoria’s six-member a cappella vocal ensemble presents Music in Me Singing an entertaining concert of works by women composers and arrangers. This season, Hexaphone replaces one male voice with a female voice, becoming three men and three women, and is honouring that change with the program’s exclusive focus on music written by women.
