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The return of our Annual Halloween Member’s Recital draws near!
Costumes, spooky organ music, bad jokes, wacky decorations, and fun seasonal facts approach rapidly!
This year it will be on Saturday evening, October the 26th
at St. Andrew’s-Wesley downtown (Burrard and Nelson), so mark the date!
Susan Ohannesian presents 7 centuries of organ music from 7 countries including a new work by Paul Ohannesian.
Music by Gabrieli, Tomkins, Couperin, Bach, Lidon, Mendelssohn, Franck, Stanford, Hovhaness, Bédard, Ohannesian
This recital will follow the 10:30 am Remembrance Day service. You are welcome to attend either the service or the recital or both. There will be a light lunch to follow the recital in the parish hall.
Programme:
Paean (1967) – Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988)
Prelude and fugue in G (BWV 550) – Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Three Preludes on sacred melodies:
Vater unser im Himmelreich – Georg Böhm (1661-1733)
Go Do Mo (2003) – Jürgen Rehberg
Komm, o komm, du Geist des Lebens (2006) – Gunther Martin Göttsche
Fantasia in f minor (K608) – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Pièce Héröique (no.3 of ‘Trois Pieces pour Grand Orgue’) – César Franck (1822-1890)
Two pieces by Olivier Messaien (1908-1992):
Le Banquet Celeste, Joie et clarté des corps glorieux (no.6 from ‘Les Corps Glorieux’)
Meditation on “Once in Royal David’s City” (2004) – Jan Janca
Winter Night (“Sleigh Ride”) – Frederick Delius/ arr. Robert Hebble (1862-1934)
Trumpeting Organ Morgan (2002) – Karl Jenkins
Cathedral organist Denis Bédard and organist Rachel Alflatt in a lively programme spanning the centuries, including a little known work by Mendelssohn, the premiere of a new work by Denis Bédard, and some seasonal music on well known tunes. Performance visible on a giant screen at the front of the Cathedral.
Programme:
Claude Gervaise: Four Renaissance Dances
Claude-Benigne Balbastre: Two French Noels (Grand Dei ribon ribeine, Laissés paître vos bêtes)
Johann Christian Bach: Duetto in F major
Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow: Two Chorale Preludes on “Nun Komm de Heiden Heiland”
Johann Sebastian Bach: Chorale Prelude “Nun Komm de Heiden Heiland”
Johann Georg Albrechtsberger: Prelude and Fugue in B flat major
Denis Bedard: Variations sur “D’ou viens-tu, bergere” (world premiere)
Denis Bedard: Huit Invocations
Denis Bedard: Theme et Variations
Felix Mendelssohn: Fugue in D major
Robert J. Powell: Angels among Us
Denis Bedard has given recitals across Canada, in the United States, in France and in Brazil and also pursues an international career as a composer. He has written over a hundred and twenty compositions and his music is performed and recorded throughout the world. He has received commissions from Radio-Canada, the CBC, the Quebec Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Canadian College of Organists, the Victoria Scholars in Toronto, the Laudate Singers, Monaco Cathedral, and various professional musicians in Canada, England, France, Switzerland and the U.S.
Rachel Alflatt has given concerts throughout the province of Quebec, as well as in Ontario, New Brunswick, and British Columbia. She has also performed with the West Coast Symphony Orchestra and the New Westminster Symphony Orchestra and has recorded for the CBC’s French network, Radio-Canada FM. She is organist and music director at Queen’s Avenue United Church.
For the third consecutive year, St. John’s Vancouver is presenting their long-established Brass and Organ Concert at Kerrisdale Presbyterian Church. This allows St. John’s organist Terry Fullerton to utilize the fine Casavant pipe organ at Kerrisdale. Terry is joined by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Brass Quintet for some sparkling, seasonal music, witty banter from the brass players, and a few singalong carols thrown in for good measure.
Get into the Christmas spirit with these fine musicians. The church has a great acoustic for brass instruments, and there is plenty of seating available on the main floor and in the balcony.
Carols & Music for Christmas, featuring Bach’s Christmas Cantata BWV 63.
The Choir of Ryerson United Church
Bryn Nixon, Conductor
Guest organist Edward Norman
Christmas Organ Concert (with audience participation and use of a projection screen).
Program includes music by: J.S. Bach, Denis Bédard, L.C. d’Aquin, Louis Becker, S. Karg-Elert, and the Dutch organists: Jan Zwart and Feike Asma.
Refreshments served after the concert, wheelchair accessible.
Organist: Frank Ezinga (Langley)
Ay-Laung Wang (VSO Principal Organist) and Marcus Goddard (VSO Associate Principal Trumpet and an award winning composer) are brilliantly gifted performers who have dazzled and moved audiences from around the world through live performances in over twenty countries across three continents, as well as in numerous broadcasts and recordings. Their performance will include works by Purcell, Telemann, Bedard and Marcus Goddard. Performance visible on a giant screen at the front of the Cathedral.
- St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, 2:30 – 3:30 pm
- St. Paul’s Anglican Church, (this is a change of venue) 4 – 5:45 pm
- Holy Rosary Cathedral. 6 – 8pm
The event starts at 2:30 pm at St. Patrick’s Church, on the west side Main (Vancouver) between 12th and 13th. There is bus service along Main (see the Translink website) and ample parking at St. Patrick’s behind the church. Anyone needing lifts from there to St. Paul’s and then to Holy Rosary Cathedral, please email Rachel at <cheldar@cheldar.com>. Skytrain stations are easily accessible by foot from Holy Rosary Cathedral.
Light refreshments will be served at St. Paul’s, and donations will be accepted at that point to cover costs.
Each organ will be introduced, and then participants can have a close look at the organs, and have an opportunity to play the organs. And take some pictures and videos…!
St. Patrick’s Catholic church
The Leslie Smith organ is a brand new 2/14 tracker in the German Baroque style. Originally planned for Guardian Angels Catholic church, the organ has now found the perfect home in the lively but clear acoustics of St. Patrick’s Catholic church. For specs: http://trackerorgan.wordpress.com/specifications/
St. Paul’s
Casavant two-manual organ from the early 1900’s, rebuilt by Casavant in the 1950’s.
Beautiful historic space and instrument.
Also: Sabathil one-manual Harpsichord (8′ and 4′), well-tempered (not equal-tempered).
Holy Rosary Cathedral
And this is your chance to play the magnificent organ at Holy Rosary Cathedral! http://www.holyrosarycathedral.org/concerts/the-organ/
Concert – Organ and Voice: “Play, Sing, Pray.”
Sacred music by Dietrich Buxtehude, Michael Praetorius, Felix-Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Joseph Rheinberger
Organist Christina Hutten with soprano Jane Long
When: Sat, February 15, 2014, 2:30 pm
Where: Maranatha Canadian Reformed Church, 12300 – 92 Ave, Surrey, B.C.
Free admission, donations accepted for heritage pipe organ re-leathering.
Refreshments served, Wheelchair accessible.
contact: maranathaorgan@gmail.com
Christina Hutten is a Ph.D. student in musicology at the University of British Columbia. She earned a master’s degree in organ performance from Arizona State University, where she studied with Kimberly Marshall.
Jane Long works as a chamber singer, concert soloist, and recitalist. She graduated with her master’s degree in music from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, England.