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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.
Programme:
Toccata in G Johann – Adam Reinken (1623–1722)
Fantasia super ut re mi fa sol la – Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562–1621)
Toccata sexta oder sechstes musicalisches Blumen-Feld – Johann Speth (1664–post 1719)
Missa in Festis B. Mariæ Virginis I (from Fiori Musicali) – Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643)
Jesu wollst uns weisen – Heinrich Scheidemann (ca. 1596–1663)
Toccata auff 2 claviere – Heinrich Scheidemann (attrib.)
Jesus Christus unser Heiland – Franz Tunder (1614–1667)
Toccata septima (from Apparatus Musico-Organisticus) – Georg Muffat (1645–1704)
Choir and organ, a cappella choir and solo organ, featuring living composers such as Eric Whitacre, Stephen Chatman, Morten Lauridsen and Denis Bédard with new commissions by Kristopher Fulton and Ed Henderson. Laudate means praise, and for Laudate Singers, every concert is a joyful celebration. The choir combines technical artistry with the ability to make all kinds of choral music accessible, and the final result is always luminous and transcendent. Holy Rosary Cathedral Organist and Music Director Denis Bédard has given recitals across Canada, in the United States, in France and in Brazil and his works are performed throughout the world