The Canadian Youngsters’s Opera Firm will current its annual winter live performance titled Music for a Winter’s Day and Night time. Two concert events will happen on the afternoon and night of November 29.
This system is a celebration of winter, together with songs about snow, ice, and the heat of getting collectively within the cozy indoors.
Two Concert events
Together with basic carols and songs of the season, the applications are constructed round Sarah Quartel’s Snow Angel, and embrace different music by a various vary of artists from Lully to Fleet Foxes and Gordon Lightfoot.
The CCOC will carry out with visitor artist Antonia Cambre, who will play the cello, and stage path by Chelsea Woolley.
Music for a Winter’s Day
The afternoon live performance is a relaxed, family-friendly efficiency that features songs concerning the enjoyable and surprise of the season from a toddler’s perspective. Greater than 100 younger singers, from the youngest choristers within the Butterfly Refrain to the Younger Artist Studio (an age vary that, collectively, spans ages 4 to 21).
Music for a Winter’s Night time
The night live performance options members of the Intermediate Refrain, Principal Refrain, and Younger Artist Studio, and the music will take the viewers on a journey that begins with the darkness of winter, however ends with hope.
“It evokes the kid in all of us to listen to the brilliant voices of the CCOC in live performance,” says newly appointed Inventive Director, Teri Dunn in a statemetn. “Their artistry is immense, their performances polished and compelling, and but it’s their sincerity that warms the center and brings mild to even the coldest days. This ensemble is a exceptional neighborhood — one the place a deep love of storytelling, and of each other, is unmistakably felt. It’s a pleasure and a privilege to share their brilliance with our audiences.”
Sarah Quartel: Snow Angel (2017)
Canadian composer Sarah Quartet is widely known internationally for her choral works. Her work has been broadly commissioned by ensembles such because the Orchestre de Paris, The Nationwide Youth Choirs of Nice Britain, the American Choral Administrators Affiliation, The Nationwide Youngsters’s Refrain of the USA, and lots of others, together with items which have premiered at Carnegie Corridor, Canterbury Cathedral, and the Church of the Rock in Helsinki, amongst many others.
Sarah was a choral singer from childhood, and focuses on the expertise of the singers and their connections to one another.
She has served as Composer-in-Residence for Vox Anima (London), Nationwide Concert events (New York Metropolis), Singing Women of Texas (Fort Price), and The Cathedral of St. John (Albuquerque). Sarah’s music has been carried out by Chanticleer, London Voices, Rajaton, The Swingles, The Gesualdo Six, New York Polyphony, and The Nathaniel Dett Chorale, amongst others.
Snow Angel is written for SATB choir with solo cello and piano, with a djembe within the fourth motion. By means of all 5 actions, the work delves into theme of affection, rebirth, and wonder. The textual content is instructed from the angle of kids, and the military of angels who look over them, and the musical and emotional language invitations the performers to play an element in storytelling.
Quartel created each the music and the phrases. The Prologue introduces the angels. Within the second motion (Creatures of Mild), Quartet’s textual content makes use of parts of a poem by Thomas Moore (1779 to 1852) to explain the angels. Whereas the third and fourth actions speak about kids — their innocence and full religion within the angels’ safety — the textual content of the fourth motion describes the third angel’s story.
Despite the fact that the snow might blow, there’s not a wind can cease my music.
For I do know that winter shelters life.
Performances
Performances happen on November 29 at 3:30 p.m. and seven p.m. on the Jane Mallett Theatre within the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts.
- Discover tickets and different particulars [HERE].
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