The EMSB Chorale presents its Annual Spring Gala Concert,Sing of Spring, on Saturday, May 7, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. at Concordia University’s Oscar Peterson Hall, 7141 Sherbrooke St. W. Tickets: $15 adults / $10 students / $5 Children under 12
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Conductor Patricia Abbott, Assistant Conductor Marie-Ève Arseneau and pianist Anne-Marie Denoncourt are joined by musical guests Lucie Bouchard, flute, Sheila Hannigan, cello, and Kristie Ibrahim, percussion.
Program
Junior Chorale
The First Day of Spring – Keith Loftis, arr. Judith Herrington
Where Go the Boats? – E. Evan Copley
Tres canciones de los elementos – Victor C. Johnson
Bee! I’m Expecting You! – Emma Lou Diemer
Senior Chorale
Plaisir d’amour – Giovanni Martini, arr. Carl Strommen
Le temps a laissé son manteau – César Geoffray
Volkslied – Felix Mendelssohn
Tanzen und Springen – Hans Leo Hassler
The Blackbird – Nova Scotia folk song, arr. Gary Ewer*
Kingston Market – arr. Rosephanye Powell
Junior Chorale
The Ship of Rio – Benjamin Britten
Un château dans les nuages (Les Misérables) – Schönberg & Boublil, arr. Ed Lojeski
Medley from Mary Poppins – Richard M. & Robert B. Sherman, arr. Joyce Eilers
Senior Chorale
Silence My Soul – Francisco Feliciano
Blackbird – Lennon & McCartney, arr. Audrey Snyder
Omnia sol – Z. Randall Stroope
God Will Give Orders/Sweet Child (Snow Angel) – Sarah Quartel*
The Rhythm of Life (Sweet Charity) – Fields & Coleman, arr. Richard Barnes
Junior and Senior Chorales
Imbakwa – Jim Papoulis
The Dream/Le rêve – Nancy Telfer*
Though We Be But Children – Mark Sirett*
Ma come bali bene bela bimba (La Villanella) – trad., arr. Mark Sirett*
Gate, Gate – Brian Tate*
The Storm is Passing Over – Charles Albert Tindlay, arr. Barbara W. Baker
Harmonia mundi – anon.
* Canadian composers/arrangers
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