HOPE

The 15th Annual Remembrance Day concert

November 10 & 11, 2007

Is our deep desire for peace and its actuality an impossibility? Chor Leoni chooses to explore this perplexing question in a concert that acknowledges the conflict around us, encourages us to HOPE and rediscover peace when it is absent. Join us as we explore this eternal quest in works by Beethoven, Chilcott, Lindberg, and more. HOPE features the world premiere of a new Remembrance Day work by Steven Sametz, poetry by Walt Whitman.

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:

• $28 Adults
• $23 Students/Seniors
• Veterans admitted free

Available from ticketmaster (604) 280.3311
service charges applicable
General Admission

For the November 10th performance, $20 tickets for seating in the Cathedral’s chancel will be available at the door 15 minutes before concert start time on the evening of the performance. These seats offer great sound but limited sight lines as they are behind the choir.

PROGRAMME

For the Fallen	Mike Sammes
Over Yonder	American trad., arr. Diane Loomer
Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal	tune: "Invitation" arr. Alice Parker
O Welche Lust from Fidelio	Ludwig van Beethoven
Hope is the Thing with Feathers	Einojuhani Rautavaara
three movements from Panihida no. 2	Pavel Chesnokov
So sviatimi upokoy
Pripev i irmos, psen 9-ya
Vechnaya pamiat
Five Ways to Kill a Man	Bob Chilcott
We Two	Steven Sametz
Christmas in the Trenches	J. McCutcheon, arr. Don Macdonald
Iam Lucis Orto Sidere	Anton Bruckner
Choose Something Like a Star from Frostiana	Randall Thompson, arr. Stephen Smith
When the Day is Over	Susan Crowe, arr. Stephen Smith
Last Post
Kontakion	Rupert Lang

Notes & Reviews

• HOPE: Chor Leoni's 15th Annual Remembrance Day Concerts (November 2, 2007) Afghanistan, Iraq, Darfur: Only three places of many in our modern world where strife and warfare seems all-encompassing. As we approach another Remembrance Day, named long ago to commemorate “the war to end all wars,” it is tempting to give in to despair. Is our deep desire for peace and its actuality an impossibility? That is the question Diane Loomer, C.M., artistic director of Chor Leoni Men’s Choir, has chosen to explore in HOPE, the opening concerts of the choir’s new season. ...
• Rush seats ($20 each) Available for Nov 10 HOPE (November 1, 2007) Even though ticketmaster may be out of tickets for our November 10 performance of HOPE at the Cathedral, there are rush seats available! ...
• Young 'lions' add their voices to choir's tribute (November 8, 2007) For the average young man, choral singing doesn't even make it onto the coolness scale. Problem is, there are lots of guys out there who like to sing. Chor Leoni, Vancouver's award-winning all-male choir, is well aware of this fact -- and decided to do something about it. Read the rest of David Gordon Duke's article, (Special to The Sun) Published: Thursday, November 08, 2007. Posted with the author's permission. ...
• PROMYS Makes the Vancouver Sun (November 8, 2007) For the average young man, choral singing doesn't even make it onto the coolness scale. Problem is, there are lots of guys out there who like to sing. Chor Leoni, Vancouver's award-winning all-male choir, is well aware of this fact -- and decided to do something about it. ...
• Thank You For HOPE (November 10, 2007) I was so moved that I had to remind myself to breathe at times! ...
• Blog Posts From Our PROMYS Participants (November 1, 2007) Read what PROMYS participants from 2007 and previous years have to say about the PROMYS program and Chor Leoni. ...

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