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For Immediate Release June 14, 2007 HOPE, PEACE, LOVE, FUN: Chor Leoni Announces 2007/2008 SeasonVancouver's award-winning Chor Leoni Men's Choir (Diane Loomer, C.M., Artistic Director) is pleased to announce its 2007/2008 season, which includes performances in West Vancouver, Burnaby, Abbotsford, Port Moody, and Vancouver. The season begins in grand style on October 3 with At HOME with Chor Leoni, the choir’s annual fundraising evening, where delicious food and wine, a stunning venue (this year in Southlands), and the choir 'up close and personal’ all make for an elegant evening of entertainment. This year’s fundraising focus is the choir’s outreach program called PROMYS: PROgram for Mentoring Young Singers. November brings the choir’s annual Remembrance Day concerts, and Chor Leoni’s comforting strength has become synonymous with the day. HOPE is a concert expressing our need to maintain faith in the face of ongoing conflict. Repertoire includes the world premiere of a new piece for Remembrance Day entitled "We Two . . .” with poetry by Walt Whitman and music by Steve Sametz, as well works by Rautavaara, Elgar, Schubert, Chilcott, and Beethoven. Featuring carols by some of Vancouver’s favourite composers and readings from beloved Canadian writers, PEACE is Chor Leoni’s Christmas offering of a ‘West Coast lessons and carols.’ In the tradition of Yuletide Fires the choir invites you to sit in quiet candlelit peace in the midst of the often too frantic preparations for the upcoming holidays to enjoy the premieres of new carols by Stephen Smith, Jonathan Quick, Willi Zwozdesky, Larry Nickel, Rupert Lang, and more. Audiences love Chor Leoni for its highly professional approach to a diverse musical history, and LOVE offers a celebration of that trove as the choir explores the rich heritage of repertoire for men’s voices. Featuring music by Britten, Victoria, Poulenc, and Tormis, to name just a few, this is repertoire the men love - and so will you! Chor Leoni concludes its season with three performances of FUN, the choir’s annual party in the Bard's tent at Vanier park. For this show the lions are going galactic: cosmic dust, celestial music, dazzling stars, and extraterrestrial entertainment. Savvy fans know the best way to ensure tickets to these extremely popular summer concerts is to purchase season tickets. Chor Leoni’s 2007/2008 season tickets as well as tickets to At HOME with Chor Leoni are available now on-line at www.chorleoni.org. HOPE, PEACE, LOVE, FUN: be part of Chor Leoni’s new season and experience it all! Chor Leoni Men’s Choir, Diane Loomer, C.M., Artistic Director 2007/2008 Season At HOME with Chor Leoni Wednesday, October 3, 2007 @ 6:30 Location revealed after tickets are purchased. HOPE Saturday, November 10, 2007 @ 7:30 pm Christ Church Cathedral 690 Burrard St., Vancouver, BC Sunday, November 11, 2007 @ 3 pm West Vancouver United Church 2062 Esquimalt Ave., West Vancouver, BC Tickets from ticketmaster 604.280.3311 PEACE Sunday, December 16, 2007 @ 3 pm New Westminster Christian Reformed Church 8255 13th Ave., Burnaby, BC Monday, December 17, 2007 @ 7:30 pm Tuesday, December 18, 2007 @ 7:30 pm Ryerson United Church 2195 W. 45th Ave., Vancouver, BC Tickets from ticketmaster 604.280.3311 LOVE Friday, April 4, 2008 @ 8 pm Matsqui Centennial Theatre 32315 South Fraser Way, Abbotsford, BC Tickets through Valley Concert Society 604.859.5192 Saturday, April 5, 2008 @ 7:30 pm Shaughnessy Heights United Church 1550 W. 33rd Ave., Vancouver, BC Tickets from ticketmaster 604.280.3311 Sunday, April 6, 2008 @ 3 pm Evergreen Cultural Centre, Coquitlam, BC Tickets through Evergreen Cultural Centre 604.927.6555 FUN Monday, June 16 & 23, 2008 @ 8 pm Monday, June 23, 2008 @ 3 pm matinee Bard on the Beach tent Vanier Park, Vancouver, BC Bard Box Office 604.739.0559 after March 15, 2008. |