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Our latest announcements, concert highlights, community initiatives, and behind-the-scenes glimpses into the life of the Vancouver Cantata Singers.
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Ave Maria – A Christmas Reprise Tradition
Every Christmas Reprise (since 2002), the Vancouver Cantata Singers have ended the program with Franz Biebl’s Ave Maria. The Ave Maria text dates back many centuries and countless music compositions have been inspired by it. A local fireman’s choir in Munich had asked Biebl to write something for the choir in anticipation of a choir festival
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Jean Coulthard: A threnody for her mother.
Jean Coulthard was only 25 years old when she lost her mother to a sudden, severe appendix attack in 1933, in the days before antibiotics. Her choral work, Threnody (a wailing ode, song, hymn or poem of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person), is dedicated to her mother, Jean Robinson Coulthard. Coulthard took
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Vancouver Cantata Singers offers a free, open rehearsal on Wednesday, Oct. 24th
The Vancouver Cantata Singers prepares for their season opening performance of Threnody: Requiem and Remembrance on November 10th by presenting a free, open rehearsal at St. James’ Anglican Church as part of The Heart of the City Festival. The choir will explore and share choral music of consolation and reflection at this time of year
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Tavener’s Song for Athene, an elegiac tribute to a friend
With an estimated 2.5 billion people tuning in, Princess Diana’s funeral on September 6, 1997 was one of the biggest televised events in history. Many would have heard John Tavener’s Song for Athene for the first time as the flag-draped casket of the late Diana, Princess of Wales, was carried out of Westminster Abbey, destined
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Howell’s Requiem, the influence of grief and loss
Herbert Howell’s Requiem has been hailed by a BBC review as ‘one of the most beautiful and searingly moving works in the entire English sacred musical canon.’ Sections of Howell’s Requiem were first composed in 1932, although it wasn’t until 1980 that the full work was published. Howell’s was deeply affected by the loss of his nine year old son, Michael, who
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Subscription and single tickets now on sale: 2018-19 Light and Darkness Season
All single tickets for Vancouver Cantata Singers 2018-19 Season: Light and Darkness are now on sale. Adult tickets: $35Student tickets (with valid student ID): $15Youth tickets (under 18 years old): $10 Save between 15-25% adult single ticket prices when you buy a subscription. Choose from three different subscription options and enjoy several subscriber perks. READ MORE
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Announcing the Vancouver Cantata Singers 2018-19 Season: Light and Darkness!
Darkness and light surround us in so many ways – environmentally, worldly, spiritually, and metaphorically. The four concerts of our 2018-19 season all reflect this juxtaposition in their own way. Threnody: Requiem and Remembrance embraces music as a lament and consolation; the Requiem text being repose for souls of the dead in asking for perpetual light. Our annual Christmas Reprise
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Kantatefeier! A Cantata Celebration: Celebration, Joy, and Hope
For our 60th anniversary performance this Saturday, Vancouver Cantata Singers debuts a brand new choral commission from Jocelyn Morlock, Io, Io!, alongside J.S. Bach’s cantatas: Wachet Auf (BWV 140) and Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (BWV 61), motets: Komm, Jesu, Komm (BWV 229), Lobet den Herrn (BWV 230), and O Jesu Christ (BWV 118) and a choral work by J.S.
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