Vancouver Chamber Choir gets Together with expansive choral works, September 24
The choral ensemble kicks off its 2021-22 season tonight with a daring, live, in-person concert
Vancouver Chamber Choir artistic director Kari Turunen.
Vancouver Chamber Choir presents Together, September 24 at 7:30 pm PDT at Pacific Spirit United Church (2205 West 45th Avenue).
A COMPOSITION SET to Finnish translations of four Federico García Lorca poems (Einojuhani Rautavaara’s “Suite” de Lorca); a score by the late Canadian choral-music pioneer R. Murray Schafer based on words Grade 7 students came up with when asked to create synonyms for the word “moonlight’ in an invented language (Epitaph for Moonlight); and a nonsensical musical adventure based on lines produced by an Internet search (Perttu Haapanen’s Readymade Alice): these are among the works that Vancouver Chamber Choir will bring to life on-stage this evening at its Together concert.
Kicking off the ensemble’s 2021-22 season, the expansive program illustrates the way choral music can be as diverse and daring as any other contemporary art form.
Under the guidance of VCC artistic director Kari Turunen, the choir will present premieres by B.C. composers Gerda Blok-Wilson (I Had No Time to Hate, set to the Emily Dickinson poem of the same name) and Don Macdonald (Moon Ravens) and will also offer a collection of traditional choral selections.
Another highlight of the ambitious lineup: Sydney Guillaume’s Kalinda, the artist’s breakthrough work. Originally from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, he arrived in the U.S. at the age of 11 speaking only French and Creole, and 2002’s Kalinda is set to a jubilant Creole text by the composer himself.
For more information, see Vancouver Chamber Choir.
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