Anne Frank: At the Library Join us to remember Anne Frank, the courageous young Jewish refugee whose diary spoke eloquently for millions who suffered in the Second World War. We will have educational displays brought in from the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect in New York City. These will be displayed Oct. 20 to...
Whitbourn: Annelies James Whitbourn's moving cantata sets to music the diary of Anne Frank, a book which became a symbol of hope and goodness amid the brutality of the Second World War. Our production of this “devastatingly beautiful" work (Choir and Organ magazine) will be its first performance in Canada. Enhance your experience by taking...
Immortal Bach Meet J.S. Bach and his musical descendants and heirs in this beguiling presentation of motets by a family of Bachs and the works of other composers, such as Mendelssohn and Nystedt, who were deeply influenced by this greatest of composers. Works by J.S. Bach, J.C. Bach, J.L. Bach Felix Mendelssohn and Knut Nystedt....
Enchanting music for early winter and Christmas, including Britten's lovely Ceremony of Carols, the transcendent sonorities of Pärt's Bogoroditse Djevo, and excerpts from Sieben Magnificat Antiphonen. You will hear wineglasses used as instruments in Ēriks Ešenvalds' ethereal Stars, experience snowscape as sound in R. Murray Schafer's Snowforms, and much more. Winter Hymn Grand Philharmonic Chamber...
"Earth teach me suffering as old stones suffer with memory. Earth teach me freedom as the eagle which soars in the sky." These words, from a prayer of the indigenous Ute Nation prayer, are the text of Rupert Lang's Earth Teach Me. It's just one of several sublime compositions that we offer for an evocative...
Buy Tickets In October 1998, university student Matthew Shepard was targeted for his sexuality. He was kidnapped, severely beaten, tied to a fence and left to die in a lonely field. Twenty years after that terrible event, we perform Craig Hella Johnson's bold and transcendent work, which incorporates a variety of musical styles and texts,...
Buy Tickets In October 1998, university student Matthew Shepard was targeted for his sexuality. He was kidnapped, severely beaten, tied to a fence and left to die in a lonely field. Twenty years after that terrible event, we perform Craig Hella Johnson's bold and transcendent work, which incorporates a variety of musical styles and texts,...
