Focus on Youth
provides students grades 9-12 with a jam-packed day of choral
activities. It includes three concerts, a workshop with award-winning
Vancouver composer/arranger, choral director, musician, educator and
engaging speaker, Brian Tate, and a picnic lunch in the beautiful
Meewasin Valley Park.
The concerts feature the Flatland Singers (Manitoba high school honour
choir), DMCice from Winnipeg, the Swift Current Comprehensive Chamber
Choir, and Lux Luceat, a mass choir with the University of Manitoba
Singers, the University of Saskatchewan Greystone Singers and the
University of Alberta Madrigal Singers. This is a excellent enrichment
experience (and a wonderful year-end activity!). Don’t let your
students miss the opportunity to experience some of Canada’s top
youth choirs in concert and spend a day immersed in this calibre of
choral programming.
The cost is $40 per person (in groups of 12 or more) or $50 for
individuals or smaller groups. More information and registration is
available
on-line.
When
Daisies Pied
Prairie
Voices' Fundraising Dessert Concert
Prairie Voices Choir will wrap up an
eventful tenth season with their annual fundraising dessert concert.
The ‘When Daisies Pied’ concerts are always a favourite of
audiences and choristers alike, and a wonderful way to end the
season. Share in the final performances of this year’s
pieces, as well as a variety of new selections. New repertoire
includes “Vainamoisen Veneretki,” an original composition
written for Prairie Voices by Soila Sariola of Rajaton, and “Slow
Me Down,” arranged by three Prairie Voices choristers. Hot
103 radio host and friend of the choir Ace Burpee will reprise his role
as MC for Friday night’s performance.
Hailed by composer Sid Robinovitch as “the wave of the future for
choral music,” Prairie Voices is known for their passionate style
of performance, which combines exceptional vocals with engaging
presentation to provide the ultimate choral experience. The
award-winning youth choir performs innovative contemporary choral music
from all over the world, while placing an emphasis on Canadian and
Manitoban composers. They are excited to be wrapping up their
tenth season with these final performances of 2009/2010.
‘When Daisies Pied'
Maranatha Church (910 Sturgeon)
Friday and
Saturday, May 7th and 8th, at 7:00 p.m.
Tickets are $12 for
students and
seniors (65+) and $20 for adults, and include dessert. Tickets
can be
purchased from choir members or at the door, but sell out fast!
If you
cannot get in touch with a chorister but wish to purchase your tickets
in advance, you may contact info@prairievoices.ca to arrange to pick up
tickets prior to the concert.
Bill and
Irmgard Baerg Honoured
WSO
Gala and Awards Dinner
The
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra will be honouring the work and contribution
of Bill and Irmgard Baerg to Winnipeg's music community at the WSO
Spring Gala on April 21.
Most of you have known and worked with Bill or Irmgard for many years
and may wish to attend to support their recognition in this way. All
proceeds of this fundraising event will be used to support the
education and outreach programming of the WSO.
If you have not already purchased your tickets for our upcoming Annual
Spring Gala and Awards Dinner fundraiser, please call Terri at 949-3987.
Podium 2010
Experience
the Harmony
May 20 to 23, 2010
Saskatoon SK
Congratulations and
best wishes to the three Manitoba choirs invited to perform:
University of
Manitoba Singers, Elroy Friesen, conductor
DMCice,
Cynthia Wahl, conductor
Flatland
Singers, Kristel L. Peters, Korey Peters, Vic Pankratz and
Rick Heppner Mueller, conductors
