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The organ demonstrations will begin at 4:15 and 5:00 PM.  Christina Hutten will begin with some music, and then invite the audience to join her in exploring the workings of the mechanical-action organ in the side chapel at St. Andrew’s Wesley. The church’s music director, Darryl Nixon, will demonstrate the large organ in the church sanctuary.

Entry is free, though donations are welcome.  Please do not hesitate to invite friends and bring the children in your lives.

Since St. Andrew’s Wesley is such a large, beautiful space, you are invited to come to listen and to explore the church, rather than sitting solemnly in a pew for the duration of the concert.  Christina will have to do some walking herself, since she intends to perform on both the main organ and the chapel organ.  The programme will include music by Bach, Mendelssohn, Froberger, and Bruhns.

Entry is free, though donations are welcome.  Please do not hesitate to invite friends and bring the children in your lives.

Michael Dirk offers a concert to celebrate Adrian Koppejan’s Opus 20 turning 20 years at Good Shepherd Catholic Church.

(pre concert pipe-chamber projected slide-show- prepared by the Royal Canadian College of Organists –  Vancouver Center)

Concert Prelude: Sinfonia from Cantata No 29 – JS Bach/arr Dupre (1731)
Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir (We thank you, God, we thank you) – Psalm 75
(based on Bach’s Violin Partita No 3)

Opening hymn – All Creatures of our God and King – St Francis of Assisi/Psalm148/Friedrich Spee (1225/1623)

Tribute to the Dutch origins of the commissioner and organ builder:
Ballo del Granduca – Petr Sweelinck (1589)

Tribute to the inaugural concert October, 1995 (Darryl Nixon, organist)
Prelude and Fugue in F – Darryl Nixon (1995)

<<Stella Maris Choir: Freedom Trilogy – Paul Halley (1994)>>

Tribute to Fr Galvon and Fr Dion
Variations sur «Nous chanterons pour toi, Seigneur» (“The Old Hundredth”) – Denis Bedard (1995)

Closing Hymn – Now Thank We All Our God – Rinkark/Crüger (1636/1647)

Concert Postlude – Carillon de Westminster – Louis Vierne (1927)

Trumpeters Katherine Evans and Christopher Robertson will present a programme of music for two trumpets and solo trumpet, with organist Darryl Nixon.

Duets by Gervaise, Webber, Bach, Aldrovandini, Charpentier, Delibes.

Trumpet solos by Peeters, Handel, Copeland, Stevens.

Organ solos by Bach and Handel

More details to come.  As always, look forward to costumes, dark music, and lots of seasonal treats at the reception afterwards!

Music ranging from the Renaissance to the 21st century, including J. S. Bach’s masterpiece the Passacaglia and Fugue (see complete programme below).

Performance visible on a giant screen at the front of the Cathedral.

Denis Bédard, who was born in Quebec City in 1950, first studied music at the Conservatoire de musique de Québec, graduating with first class honours in organ, harpsichord, chamber music, counterpoint and fugue. He continued his studies in Paris and Montreal, as well as in Amsterdam with Gustav Leonhardt, and was laureate of the “Prix d’Europe” in 1975 and of the CBC Radio Talent Competition in 1978. A professor at the Conservatoire de musique de Québec from 1981 until 1989 and organ professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver from 2001 until 2004, Denis Bédard was organist at St-Coeur-de-Marie church in Quebec City for 19 years and then became organist at St-Roch church, also in Quebec City, in September 1997. Since September 2001 Denis Bédard has been organist and music director at Holy Rosary Cathedral in Vancouver. He is a very active concert artist and has given recitals across Canada, in the United States, in France and in Brazil.

Denis Bédard’s compositions include more than twenty chamber music works as well as orchestral and vocal music and many organ works. He has received commissions from Radio-Canada, the CBC, the Québec Symphony Orchestra and various professional musicians in Canada, England, France, Switzerland and the U.S. Many of his works have been performed internationally (U.S.A., France, Monaco, England, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Poland, Estonia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Greece, South Africa, Namibia, New Zealand, China, Japan, Singapore, Vietnam, Brazil, Ecuador, Israel, Russia), particularly at international organ and saxophone conventions, and several have been recorded on CD. His music, essentially tonal and melodic, is characterized by a concern for formal clarity and immediate communication with as vast a public as possible.

Programme:

Diderik Buxtehude: Passacaglia in D minor, BuxWV 161

Girolamo Frescobaldi: Aria detta la Frescobalda

Antonio Valente: La Romanesca

Gaston Litaize: Vingt-quatre Préludes liturgiques: No. 2

Denis Bédard: Variations sur “Sine Nomine”, Variations sur “Ubi Caritas”

Alexandre Guilmant: Offertoire (O Filii), Op. 49, No. 2 from “L’Organiste pratique

Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck: Variations on the chorale “Mache dich mein Geist bereit”

Diderik Buxtehude: Prelude, Fugue and Ciacona, BuxWV 137

Samuel Scheidt: Psalmus: Da Jesus an dem Kreuze stund

Johann Sebastian Bach: Chorale Preludes “Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier”, BWV 730 & BWV 731

Johann Sebastian Bach: Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582

A fundraiser for Syrian Migrants through the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund www.pwrdf.org.

Programme:

Buxtehude          A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
Haydn                Variations on “Austria”
Dvorak               New World Symphony
Callahan            On Eagle’s Wings
Walford Davies  Jesu Dulcis Memoria
Arr. Baljeu          Un Canadien errant
Hill                      Praise My Soul
Howells              Psalm Prelude Opus 32, #3
Bach                  St. Anne Fugue

St. John’s Vancouver Choir – David Poon, Organ – Terence Fullerton, Conductor

Organist Michael Murray and guests Shane Hanson, Corey Hamm, and soprano chorus, perform works by Vierne, Bach, Hill, Pärt, Walcha, Litaize, and Sweelinck.

Vierne: Pastorale (from Op.31)
J.S. Bach Prelude and Fugue in B Minor BWV 544
Hill: Panic at the Discotheque
Pärt: My Heart’s in the Highlands
Walcha: Three Chorale Preludes
Litaize: Sonate à deux
Sweelinck: Psalm 140