Chor Leoni season brochure

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SEASON

2012 I 2013

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From Our Artistic Director This season marks Chor Leoni’s twentieth anniversary! Ever since its founding in 1992, this “choir of lions” has sought to bring you the best of the classics, to celebrate the folk music traditions of Canada, and to be a force for the creation of inspiring works for men’s choir. We have striven to be more than “a choir that stands in rows.” We’ve won awards, represented Canada at international events and competitions, and released acclaimed recordings. You have responded by taking us to your hearts, and for that we are deeply grateful.

This season marks my last as Artistic Director, but I’ll not be disappearing! I shall be stepping into an emerita role, as an exciting young conductor assumes artistic leadership of the choir. I’ve planned a special season to mark both this anniversary and the transition, and I hope you will join us on this musical journey. Along the way, we’ll contemplate immortality at our Remembrance Day concerts, draw close for warmth at our December show, celebrate great friendships in the Spring, and showcase twenty years of fun under the Bard tent.

Please join us – and as always, please come up and say hello!

Intonations Intonations of Immortality Saturday November 10, 2012 * • 4pm St Andrew’s United Church 311 Fitzwilliam St, Nanaimo – BPT event # 252492

Tickets: $25 adults I $20 seniors I $10 students (w/ID) Available at 1.800.838.3006 * NOTE: This performance is not part of the Season’s Ticket package

Sunday November 11, 2012 • 2pm West Vancouver United Church 2062 Esquimalt Ave, West Vancouver BPT event # 250128 Sunday November 11, 2012 • 7:30pm St John’s Shaughnessy Anglican Church 1490 Nanton Ave, Vancouver – BPT event # 250133 Tickets: $30 adults I $25 seniors I $15 students (w/ID) Available online at chorleoni.org or by phone 1.800.838.3006

“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting And cometh from afar.”

- William Wordsworth

s of Immortal Immortality: poets have written about it, conquerors have quested for it, people have dreamt of it.

Chor Leoni’s Intonations of Immortality explores through music and poetry the ephemeral vitality that lives on in collective memory and truly immortalizes individuals once they are gone. Featuring the premiere of a piece by Peter Togni plus beautiful works by Smith, Lauridsen, Lennox, and Thompson, this concert offers a musical progression through grief and sorrow onward to consolation and joy.

Luminous Ni Luminous Night

Tuesday December 18, 2012 • 7:30pm Wednesday December 19, 2012 • 7:30pm St Andrew’s-Wesley United Church 1022 Nelson St at Burrard, Vancouver BPT event # 250137

Tickets: $30 adults I $25 seniors I $15 students (w/ID) Available online at chorleoni.org or by phone 1.800.838.3006

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The longest night of the year draws nigh. The darkness is palpable as the Earth collectively holds its breath, awaiting the subtle planetary shift that turns the planet back towards the sun, warmth, and light. Luminous Night focuses on the sacred light of Christmas as well as Solstice traditions. Come and be warmed as Chor Leoni’s blanket of sound enwraps you in favourites old and new, including the premiere of a work for Winter Solstice written by Robert Sund.

Chor Leoni & Chor Leoni & Friends

Saturday March 23, 2013 • 7:30pm Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC 6265 Crescent Rd, UBC, Vancouver

Tickets: $30 adults I $25 seniors $15 students (w/ID) All seats reserved.

Ticketmaster.ca 1.855.985.2787 (event # ECN0323) Tickets may also be purchased in person at the Chan Box Office. Office hours are Tuesday to Saturday 12noon – 5pm.

For more information please call 604.822.2697

With generous support from: Peter & Joanne Brown Foundation, Jeff Mooney & Suzanne Bolton, and The Martha Lou Henley Charitable Foundation.

& Friends

For twenty years Chor Leoni has had one focus: the creation of beautiful music that reaches across the footlights to touch and move you. We’ve shared the stage with rock stars, opera superstars, and stars of the stage. Chor Leoni & Friends reunites some of them with the lions in a concert to mark a milestone in the choir’s life and honour our Founder and Artistic Director, Diane Loomer, C.M. With favourites from the past as well as the premiere of a brand new composition by R. Murray Schafer, this concert honours our past while looking firmly to the future!

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Best of Bard Best of Bard

Monday June 24, 2013 • 3pm PREVIEW matinée Monday June 24, 2013 • 8pm Monday July 1, 2013 • 3pm & 8pm BMO Mainstage tent at Bard on the Beach Kits Point at the foot of Whyte Ave Vanier Park, Vancouver

Tickets: June 24 PREVIEW matinée $25 adults I $10 Youth

July 1 matinée $37 adults I $15 Youth Evening shows $37 all tickets All seats reserved. Bard box office 604.739.0559 Note: single tickets available after March 20, 2013 Youth: must be 25 or under; tickets may be ordered anytime and must be picked up from the box office at least 1 hour prior to showtime; youth tickets are not mailed out; must produce valid ID

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Over twenty years of annual shenanigans on the Bard stage means that Chor Leoni has amassed a plethora of site-specific material for our Summer Solstice shows. Triumphal March from Aida? Done it.

Age of Aquarius? Check. Mafioso music? Yes. Often it has meant that selections appear in only one concert before being filed away in the library – till now! Diane has opened the vaults and put together a showcase that is guaranteed to amaze and delight you. Best of Bard will revisit many of these trademark numbers in a show full of memories, laughter, costumes, fun – and our trademark choreography. Laugh along with us as we present Best of Bard. We know you’ll go home smiling!

At Home At Home

Wednesday September 26, 2012 6:30pm – 9:30pm Tickets $150 – Limited Availability Christopher Gaze, Master of Ceremonies Picture a grand and gracious home, beautifully prepared food paired with carefully chosen wines, all accompanied by sparkling repartee. Now add in suave, tail-coated men attending to your whims and bursting into song. It’s a great recipe – but the critical ingredient is you! Join Chor Leoni for At Home, our annual fundraising evening in support of the choir, and put yourself in the midst of this joyous evening of entertainment!

NOTE: This event may be added to your Season’s Ticket Package or ordered separately.

Chor Leoni presents MYVoice (Mobilizing Young men’s Voices) Chor Leoni’s MYVoice program draws singers from schools throughout Metro Vancouver and provides an opportunity for young men to find their voices, develop confidence, and sing together. The program culminates in a high-energy performance that brings MYVoice and Chor Leoni together.

This concert is both family friendly and social media friendly – don’t forget your camera! #MYVoice2013 Saturday April 20, 2013 • 7:30pm Queens Avenue United Church 529 Queens Ave (at 6th St), New Westminster BPT event # 252492 Tickets: $15 Adults/Seniors I $10 Students (with GO cards) Available online through chorleoni.org or by phone through 1.800.838.3006 Enroll: chorleoni.org/MYVoice Questions? MYVoice@chorleoni.org * NOTE: This concert is not part of the Season’s Tickets Package but may be added to your order.

Supported by the RBC Emerging Artists Project with the support of

Celebrate our 20th Anniversary Year by becoming a NOVA donor!

NOVA donor level: $1750

Benefits: • Two reserved seating tickets to each of Chor Leoni’s regular season concerts* • Recognition in our concert programmes and on our website • Chor Leoni CD bundle • Charitable tax receipt issued according to CRA guidelines (*Reserved single seating is also available.)

In our 20th year as Canada’s preeminent male choir, your support continues to play a vital role in everything we do — enriching our programs, creating new choral works and helping to educate and encourage new singers. This special gift recognizes the importance of choral music in all our lives and in the life of our communities and we thank you for your generous support.

For more information about NOVA, please contact us at admin@chorleoni.org or call our office at 604.263.7061.

Become a NOVA donor and help Chor Leoni shine. Thank you!

special thanks to our sponsors and supporters

Martha Lou Henley Charitable Foundation

Major (Regulus) Donors Hager Family Foundation, Larry and Sherry Killam Jeff Mooney and Suzanne Bolton NOVA Donors Stephanie Carlson, Iris Dresser, Valerie & Richard Dunsterville, Doug Graeb, Shirley McAllister, Scott Family Fund, Eric and Beverly Watt

MYVoice in Concert April 20, 2013

Special Events At Home fundraiser September 26, 2012

Best of Bard June 17 & 24, 2013

Chor Leoni & Friends March 23, 2013

Luminous Night December 18 & 19, 2012

Intonations of Immortality November 10 & 11, 2012

20th Anniversary Season

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How to Purchase Tickets

One Stop Lion Shopping!

Season’s Tickets may be ordered until October 1, 2012.

Order online at chorleoni.org or fill out the form in this brochure.

Pay by credit card or by cheque – it’s your choice.

If you are using the order form in the brochure please be sure to include your cheque for the total or your credit card information.

Mail it to our office at: Chor Leoni, 949 W49th Ave, Vancouver BC V5Z 2T1 If you would like assistance with this form please call us at 604.263.7061.

Individual Tickets To purchase individual tickets online for: Intonations of Immortality or Luminous Night, please visit chorleoni.org.

The best way to ensure you have your tickets to Chor Leoni concerts is to become a subscriber – and you now save 25% by doing so! You also save all ticketing surcharges and are assured of having tickets in hand well before the curtain rises.

A Season’s Ticket Package consists of the same number of tickets for each of the following: Intonations of Immortality Luminous Night Chor Leoni & Friends Best of Bard Additional tickets may be added to your order at full price.

Indicate the number of additional tickets you would like for any given concert. These will not be discounted.

If you prefer to order by phone, please call Brown Paper Tickets 1.800.838.3006 and reference the performance’s BPT event code found on each concert page.

If you wish to sit with friends for Chor Leoni & Friends or Best of Bard, please consider consolidating your order to ensure your party is seated together.

For tickets to Chor Leoni & Friends visit ticketmaster.ca or call 1.855.985.2787. Tickets may also be purchased in person at the Chan Box Office, Tuesday to Saturday 12noon – 5pm. For more information please call 604.822.2697

You may also choose to include a donation to the choir or purchase tickets to our fabulous fundraiser At Home with Chor Leoni and/or the Chor Leoni presents MYVoice concert, making this a true “one stop lion shopping” experience!

Individual tickets for Best of Bard will go on sale through the Bard Box Office in March 2013. Watch our website for the announcement!

This Season’s Ticket offer expires October 1, 2012

SEASON’S TICKETS - 25% DISCOUNT

ADDITIONAL TICKETS AND EVENTS

Choose which performance of each of the four concerts in the series you would like to attend. Choose the same number of tickets to each of those performances. If you would like additional tickets to a given performance, use the yellow column to the right. Prices in the blue column include your 25% savings.

If you have ordered Season’s Tickets you may add additional tickets to individual concert performances and additional events. “At Home with Chor Leoni” tickets may be ordered and donations made without a Season’s Ticket order.

Intonations of Immortality

Sunday November 11, 2012 West Vancouver United Church 2:00pm

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Luminous Night

Tuesday December 18, 2012 St Andrew’s-Wesley United Church 7:30pm

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Wednesday December 19, 2012 St Andrew’s-Wesley United Church 7:30pm

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Chor Leoni & Friends

Saturday March 23, 2013 Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC 7:30pm

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Best of Bard

Monday June 24, 2013 *PREVIEW* BMO Mainstage Tent, Bard on the Beach 3:00pm

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All Seats

Monday July 1, 2013 3:00pm

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AT HOME WITH CHOR LEONI (fundraising event) Wednesday September 26, 2012

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MYVoice

Saturday April 20, 2013 Queens Avenue United Church

7:30pm Adult /

Senior At Home with Chor Leoni and MYVoice tickets may be ordered,

Student and donations made, without a Season’s Ticket Package.

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Please mail this form (and cheque if necessary) to: Chor Leoni Men’s Choir 949 W 49th Ave, Vancouver, BC V5Z 2T1 or fax to: 604.263.7063 All telephone orders (604.263.7061) must be accompanied by a credit card number and expiry date. If you need assistance with this form please call us or email admin@chorleoni.org. Orders will be processed as they arrive and your tickets will be mailed after October 9, 2012.

This Season’s Ticket Package offer is valid until October 1, 2012.