{"id":1017,"date":"2022-08-14T17:24:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T00:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rcco.bc.ca\/wp\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2022-08-14T17:25:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T00:25:06","slug":"rcco-vancouver-centres-2022-members-recital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rcco.bc.ca\/wp\/blog\/rcco-vancouver-centres-2022-members-recital\/","title":{"rendered":"RCCO Vancouver Centre\u2019s 2022 Members\u2019 Recital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Rachel Alflatt<\/p>\n<p>Our annual Members\u2019 Recital was in person for the first time since 2019, and took place at St. Mary\u2019s Kerrisdale Anglican Church on May 28, at 7 pm.\u00a0 Susan Ohannesian, who was organist at St. Mary\u2019s until her retirement in June 2021, hosted and organized the event, as she has for several years now, which was much appreciated by both the performers and the audience.<\/p>\n<p>Centre President Angelique Po opened the concert with Nicolaus Bruhns\u2019 <em>Nun Komm der Heiden Heiland<\/em>, followed by Huiyuan (Cindy) Ma performing J. S. Bach\u2019s <em>Contrapunctus 12<\/em> from the Art of the Fugue, arranged by Xiaosheng Zhao.\u00a0 Rachel Alflatt then gave the concert premiere of a new work by Denis B\u00e9dard: <em>Deux Pi\u00e8ces<\/em> (Petite Valse and Postlude en si mineur).\u00a0 Susan Ohannesian followed with Johann Pachelbel\u2019s <em>Chorale and Six Variations on \u201cAch was soll ich S\u00fcnder machen?\u201d<\/em>. \u00a0Our youngest performer, Isaac Howie, who is studying organ at UBC with Centre Vice-President Michael Dirk, gave an impressive rendition of Felix Mendelssohn\u2019s third Sonata, and Frank Ezinga closed the concert with Carol Williams\u2019 <em>Suite for Organ<\/em>, Opus 5\u00a0(Festiva, Mirage and Friesan March).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcco.bc.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_4858-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1018 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rcco.bc.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_4858-copy-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4858 copy\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rcco.bc.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_4858-copy-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rcco.bc.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_4858-copy-1024x736.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rcco.bc.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_4858-copy.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was a reception in the parish hall after the concert, and Marianne Huestis, our invaluable organ technician for BC and part of Washington State, was honoured for her recent 80<sup>th<\/sup> birthday!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rachel Alflatt Our annual Members\u2019 Recital was in person for the first time since 2019, and took place at St. Mary\u2019s Kerrisdale Anglican Church on May 28, at 7 pm.\u00a0 Susan Ohannesian, who was organist at St. Mary\u2019s until her retirement in June 2021, hosted and organized the event, as she has for several &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcco.bc.ca\/wp\/blog\/rcco-vancouver-centres-2022-members-recital\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RCCO Vancouver Centre\u2019s 2022 Members\u2019 Recital&#8221;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rcco.bc.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rcco.bc.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rcco.bc.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rcco.bc.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rcco.bc.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rcco.bc.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1139,"href":"https:\/\/www.rcco.bc.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/1139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rcco.bc.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rcco.bc.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rcco.bc.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}