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Choral Canada: National Arts and Culture Impact Survey (Complete by November 23rd!)
With the 2020-21 season underway, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have an outsized effect on the arts and culture sector in Canada. Choral Canada has joined forces with 30+ national and provincial arts service organizations representing a range of artistic disciplines across the country to co-commission the National Arts and Culture Impact Survey (NACIS). This survey is intended for professional arts organizations, artists, and arts workers across Canada.
To ensure that the professional segment of our Canadian choral arts sector is heard, we invite professional choral artists/individuals, as well as professional choral organizations, to fill out this survey. These professional artists/individuals include singers, conductors, artistic directors, composers, arrangers, administrators/managers/arts workers, and accompanists/collaborative pianists — anyone receiving fees or salaries for their work in the choral arts sector (non-education).
All professional arts organizations, artists, and arts workers across Canada are encouraged to participate in the survey by Monday, November 23, 2020. The survey will take approximately 10 to 15 minutes to complete. The more responses we receive, the better the data will be.
To read more about the National Arts and Culture Impact Survey, click here.
Join the HGMC for their Holiday Concert: Don We Now Our Gay Apparel – Home For The Holidays
Join the Halifax Gay Men’s Chorus for this years virtual holiday concert Home For The Holidays!The holiday season has always been a time for friends and family to join together and give thanks for each other and all that has been achieved in the past year. Though this year has been one of countless challenges we hope that through our music we can help to spread holiday cheer and remind us all of the many things we have to be thankful for and to provide hope for a better tomorrow.
The HGMC will be presenting new pieces, filmed and recorded socially distant as well as including numbers from last years holiday show.
So we encourage you to bake some Christmas cookies, hang the stockings and trim the tree and join us for the digital premier of Home For The Holidays on Thursday, December 17th at 8pm.
Don’t forget to follow HGMC on their social media platforms for further details on how to join on December 23rd.
Website: http://www.hgmc.ca/
Missing the Messiah? Check Out Against the Grain Theatre’s Messiah/Complex until January 7th!
Register today to watch Against the Grain Theatre’s interpretation of Handel’s Messiah. This “complex” interpretation of Messiah includes 6 languages, 12 soloists, 4 choirs, and is lifted by the mighty sounds of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and has been made possible in this socially-distanced era with hi- and low-tech solutions, and some superb audio and video editors. A reimagining of the Messiah, AtGT’s Messiah/Complex celebrates the diversity of Canada by uplifting the voices of 12 POC soloists as they connect their lived experience to the stories found in each aria. Those of us in Nova Scotia will be happy to see local choir, The Halifax Camerata Singers, singing the closing choruses, “Worthy is the Lamb” and the thrilling “Amen”.
For more information on this exciting project, visit Against the Grain Theatre’s webpage by clicking here.
Join the Aeolian Singers for VERITAS II with composer Marie-Claire Saindon
The Aeolian Singers are celebrating their 45th season doing what they love most: championing the voices of Canadian women in music. After a successful first concert with local composer and conductor Fran Farrell, the choir is excited to invite you to the second concert of their VERITAS program. This concert will feature the world premiere of “Flat Earth” by Marie-Claire Saindon. To make this event even more special, Marie-Claire will be discussing the French-Canadian choral canon from traditional folk songs to the contemporary. In addition to each world premiere, the choir will also perform past program favourites and festive seasonal selections.
The concert is planned to have both in-person and virtual options for attendance. Full event details and ticket information:
Composer: Marie-Claire Saindon
World Premiere: Flat Earth
Choral Demonstration: “Beyond the French-Canadian Canon: Tradition and Innovation”
When we say “French-Canadian choral piece”, what first comes to mind? If you thought of traditional loggers/fishermen songs or Christmas carols, you’re not the only one. But did you know that there is also a strong practice of modern French-Canadian choral music? Come explore what are some of those sonorities!
NSCF: We’d Love to Hear From You!
Despite the restrictions on singing that have been brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, choirs across Nova Scotia have been exploring new and innovative ways to maintain community. Has your choir been rehearsing online? In-person? A combination of both? Perhaps your choir has taken the term off from rehearsals but is exploring other ways to stay in touch. The Nova Scotia Choral Federation is seeking accounts of the successes and challenges that choirs have faced this term. We hope to share these short articles in E-notes and on our various social media platforms as a way to share ideas and approaches with our members.
If your choir is interested in sharing details on their term, please contact our Program Coordinator at ryan@nscf.ca.
St. George’s Round Church – Seeking Bass Section Leader
Bass Section Leader sought for the Choir of Saint George’s Round Church, effective early 2021. St George’s is a Prayer Book Anglican Parish with a strong and long-established choral tradition. The prospective candidate must have excellent sight reading, solid musicianship skills and choral experience. Rehearsals are Thursday evenings, regular services on Sundays at 10.30, as well as occasional evensongs and feast day services. Monthly stipends are based on the number of rehearsals and services.
St George’s is known for Early Music Performance, both liturgically and occasional concert performances. Just before COVID, the Parish Choir performed the Bach Magnificat in D with orchestra. This is an excellent opportunity for anyone who is interested in learning more about Renaissance and Baroque Music.
For more information, contact Director of Music, Garth MacPhee – music@roundchurch.ca
Halifax Camerata Singers – Voices of Remembrance (Nov. 10th at 7:30pm)
Camerata is thrilled to launch its 2020-21 season (34th) with a 30-minute online concert program for Remembrance Day, Voices of Remembrance.
Recorded for broadcast by Leaf Music on Facebook and YouTube on Tuesday, November 10 at 7:30 p.m., Voices of Remembrance is a moving program of music and readings about remembrance.
Special guest Curtis Dietz joins on trumpet for Eleanor Daley’s For the Fallen, and Camerata’s accompanist Lynette Wahlstrom is featured on two pieces. With many in-person gatherings limited this year, Camerata hopes that their program will help people find a way to pay tribute to lives lost.
For full concert details, visit the Voices of Remembrance Facebook Event page, by clicking here.
The Aeolian Singers present VERITAS
VERITAS
Three top Canadian composers.
Three brilliant new compositions.
Performances can be attended in person at St. Andrew’s United Church in Halifax, or live streamed.
The Aeolian Singers are celebrating our 45th season doing what we love most: championing the voices of Canadian women in music. Our ambitious VERITAS program will be split across three different concerts held on November 14, 29, and December 13. Each concert will feature a unique world premiere by one of three Canadian female composers commissioned by the choir. To make this event even more special, every performance will also include a collaborative demonstration led by its corresponding composer, giving audience members the chance to develop a deeper connection to this creative choral experience. In addition to each world premiere, the choir will also perform past program favourites and festive seasonal selections.
Our composers will also be hosting a virtual composer workshop for arts community professionals, emerging composers and interested students on November 15.
Why ‘VERITAS’?
Latin for “truth”, VERITAS embodies just how widely the truth is open to interpretation. Through their commissions, our composers have explored the theme of truth and allowed it to lead them down wildly different creative paths: Frances Farrell draws inspiration from the rose as a symbol of truth, something that can be stripped away petal by petal, then flourish in the most unexpected places. Marie‑Claire Saindon examines truth in the era of fake news, anti-vaxxers, deep-fake technology, and you-know-who. Carmen Braden challenges us to experience truth through the eyes of a child, with ever-evolving memories and impressions.
Join us as we embark on this opportunity to seek truth and share wisdom through spectacular shared choral experiences.
VERITAS Events
Veritas I: with composer Frances Farrell
Saturday, November 14 | 7:00 pm – 8:45 pm
Composer Workshop with composers Frances Farrell, Marie‑Claire Saindon and Carmen Braden
Sunday, November 15 | 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Veritas II: with composer Marie-Claire Saindon
Sunday, November 29 | 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Veritas III: with composer Carmen Braden
Sunday, December 13 | 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
BUY TICKETS
Purchase via PayPal below, or send e-transfers to treasurer@aeoliansingers.ca (please note performance date and type, e.g. “Nov 14 in-person”, in your e-transfer memo).
For more information, check out the Aeolian Singers’ Website: http://aeoliansingers.ca
Or their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/TheAeolianSingers/
Amadeus Choir of Greater Toronto Virtual Conducting Workshop- Apply Today!
This fully virtual conducting workshop (November 6-8) is open to established and emerging conductors of community choirs, school and university choral directors, church choir conductors, and choral conducting students.
The workshop covers gesture, score study, video analysis, repertoire, rehearsal technique, and career skills, and includes a one-hour private lesson with Artistic Director, Kathleen Allan. Master conductors Bramwell Tovey and Jean-Sébastien Vallée will be featured as special guests.
Five active participants will be selected through the application process. We also welcome auditors to attend all sessions (except for the private lessons).
Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until Oct. 26, 2020.
For full details on this virtual workshop, click here.