Protect Us From War concert program

Erick Lichte Artistic Director

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Protect Us From War

28th Annual Remembrance Day Concerts

November 9 & 10, 2019 3 pm | West Vancouver United Church

November 11, 2019 4 pm | Orpheum Theatre

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NEW WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING

Zachary WadsWOrTh

When There is Peace an armisTice OraTOriO

chOr LeOni men’s chOir

Erick LichtE Artistic Director

BOrEALiS StriNG QUArtEt | LAWrENcE WiLiFOrD | ArWEN MYErS | rOBiN rEiD | MArtiN FiSk

Relive the emotional power and beauty of Zachary Wadsworth’s When There Is Peace, premiered by Chor Leoni last Remembrance Day. Commissioned to commemorate the centenary of the Armistice of World War I, When There Is Peace is a bold reflection on the moment when the guns fell silent and hope bloomed once more.

$20 each | 4 for $60 Available in the lobby.

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Chor Leoni men’s choir Erick Lichte Artistic Director

Protect Us From War

28th Annual Remembrance Day Concerts Generously sponsored by series sponsor

Saturday, November 9, 2019 Sunday, November 10, 2019 3pm | West Vancouver United Church

Monday, November 11, 2019 4pm | Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver

Post-Concert Talk Backs (November 11 only) Grab a drink and join us in the Westcoast Energy Hall for a Post-Concert Talk Back hosted by Artistic Director Erick Lichte.

West Vancouver performances are part of the Carter Cadillac North Shore Series sponsored by

Erick Lichte, Artistic Director Tina Chang, collaborative piano Marc Petrunia, organ Katie Rife, percussion Al Cannon, trumpet

Chor Leoni acknowledges that we are privileged to sing on the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Watuth First Nations.

Chor Leoni Men’s Choir 949 West 49th Avenue Vancouver, BC V5Z 2T1 admin@chorleoni.org | www.chorleoni.org

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elcome to Chor Leoni’s 28th annual Remembrance Day Concert and the choir’s 2019-20 season. We are honoured to mark this day in song and glad that you are here to share in our choir’s prayer for peace.

There are only a few unqualified masterpieces of the male choir repertoire and today we will present two of them. Samuel Barber’s A Stopwatch and an Ordnance Map and Veljo Tormis’ Varjele, Jumala, Soasta are not only some of the most original and challenging works of voices, but they each are powerful responses to the horror and pain of war. We present these masterworks alongside numerous new works, written for Chor Leoni in the past few years — Bob Chilcott’s 5 Ways to Kill a Man, riks Ešenvalds’ Long Road and a new choral setting of Kurt Weill’s Dirge for Two Veterans by B.C.’s own Nicholas Ryan Kelly.

Today, we will also sing two works by our Composer-In-Residence Zachary Wadsworth, including a new setting of Francis Ledwidge’s poem “To One Dead” as well as an excerpt from Zach’s oratorio When There is Peace which is being released today in a new recording of last year’s premiere.

In just a month we will return to the Orpheum for an exciting holiday collaboration with Arts Umbrella Dance Company as they dance to the musical merriment of Chor Leoni. It is sure to be one of the great performances of the season and we hope you can join us.

Erick Lichte, Artistic Director

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PROGRAMME

Invocation: We Will Remember Them Erick Lichte 5 Ways to Kill A Man Bob Chilcott The Turtle Dove English Trad, arr. Ralph Vaughan-Williams Byron Hanson, soloist

Boots

Don Macdonald

Freeman Woolnough, Reid Howard, soloist(s)

Varjele, Jumala, Soasta Veljo Tormis A Stopwatch and an Ordnance Map Samuel Barber Dirge for Two Veterans Kurt Weill, arr. Nicholas Ryan Kelly To One Dead Zachary Wadsworth Long Road riks Ešenvalds Stephen Baker, soloist

In Flanders Fields

Zachary Wadsworth

From When There Is Peace: An Armistice Oratorio

Last Post The Kontakion

Rupert Lang

For you, God only are immortal, the creator and the maker of all; and we are mortal, formed of the earth, World Premiere and to performance earth we shall return. Refrain.

Canadian Composer

recorded by Chor Leoni

For so did you ordain when you created me, saying, “You are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

All of us go down to the dust; yet even at the grave we make our song: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Refrain.

commissioned by Chor Leoni

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Texts & Translations

5 Ways to Kill a Man Music: Bob Chilcott Text: Edwin Brock There are many cumbersome ways to kill a man.

You can make him carry a plank of wood to the top of a hill and nail him to it.

To do this properly you require a crowd of people wearing sandals, a cock that crows, a cloak to dissect, a sponge, some vinegar and one man to hammer the nails home.

Or you can take a length of steel, shaped and chased in a traditional way, and attempt to pierce the metal cage he wears.

But for this you need white horses, English trees, men with bows and arrows, at least two flags, a prince, and a castle to hold your banquet in.

Dispensing with nobility, you may, if the wind allows, blow gas at him. But then you need a mile of mud sliced through with ditches, not to mention black boots, bomb craters, more mud, a plague of rats, a dozen songs and some round hats made of steel.

In an age of aeroplanes, you may fly miles above your victim and dispose of him by pressing one small switch. All you then require is an ocean to separate you, two systems of government, a nation’s scientists, several factories, a psychopath, and land that no one needs for several years.

These are, as I began, cumbersome ways to kill a man.

Simpler, direct, and much more neat is to see that he is living somewhere in the middle of the twentieth century, and leave him there.

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The Turtle Dove Music: Ralph Vaughan-Williams Text: English traditional Fare you well, my dear, I must be gone, And leave you for awhile; If I roam away I’ll come back again, Though I roam ten thousand miles, my dear, Though I roam ten thousand miles.

As fair thou art my bonny lass, So deep in love am I; But I never will prove false to the pretty girl I love, Till the stars fall from the sky, my dear, Till the stars fall from the sky.

The sea will never run dry, my dear, Nor the rocks never melt with the sun, But I never will prove false to the pretty girl I love, Till all those things be done, my dear, Till all those things be done.

O yonder doth sit that little turtle dove, He doth sit on yonder high tree, A-making a moan for the loss of his love, As I will do for thee, my dear, As I will do for thee.

Boots Music: Don Macdonald Text: Rudyard Kipling We’re foot—slog—slog—slog—sloggin’ over Africa!

Foot—foot—foot—foot—sloggin’ over Africa— (Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin’ up and down again!)

There’s no discharge in the war!

Seven—six—eleven—five—nine-an’-twenty mile to-day— Four—eleven—seventeen—thirty-two the day before— (Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin’ up and down again!)

There’s no discharge in the war!

Don’t—don’t—don’t—don’t—look at what’s in front of you.

(Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin’ up an’ down again!)

Men—men—men—men—men go mad with watchin’ ’em, And there’s no discharge in the war!

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Try—try—try—try—to think o’ something different— Oh—my—God—keep—me from goin’ lunatic!

(Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin’ up an’ down again!)

There’s no discharge in the war!

Count—count—count—count—the bullets in the bandoliers.

If—your—eyes—drop—they will get atop o’ you (Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin’ up and down again!)

There’s no discharge in the war!

We—can—stick—out—’unger, thirst, an’ weariness, But—not—not—not—not the chronic sight of ’em— Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin’ up an’ down again!

An’ there’s no discharge in the war! ’Tain’t—so—bad—by—day because o’ company, But—night—brings—long—strings—o’ forty thousand million Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin’ up an’ down again.

There’s no discharge in the war!

I—’ave—marched—six—weeks in ’Ell an’ certify It—is—not—fire—devils—dark or anything, But boots—boots—boots—boots—movin’ up an’ down again, An’ there’s no discharge in the war!

Varjele, Jumala, Soasta Music: Veljo Tormis Text: Kanteletar II: 323, 326 Varjele, vakainen Luoja, kaitse, kaunoinen Jumala

Protect us, steadfast Creator, protect, beautiful God.

kavioista vainovarsain, sorkista sotahevosten, rauan valkian varasta, terän tuiman tutkaimesta, tykin suuren suun e’estä, rautakirnujen kiasta, suurilta sotakeoilta, uron tappotanterilta, varjele vahingon teiltä, kaitse kaikista pahoista!

From the hooves of enemy foals, from the cloven hooves of war horses, from the fire of the iron, from the harsh point of the blade, from the front of the large mouth of the cannon, from the mouth of churning iron, from the large war fields, from the killing fields of the hero, protect us from the roads of harm, protect us from all evils!

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A Stopwatch and an Ordnance Map Music: Samuel Barber Text: Stephen Spender A stopwatch and an ordnance map.

At five a man fell to the ground And the watch flew off his wrist Like a moon struck from the earth Marking a blank time that stares On the tides of change beneath.

All under the olive trees.

A stopwatch and an ordnance map.

He stayed faithfully in that place From his living comrade split By dividers of the bullet That opened wide the distances Of his final loneliness.

All under the olive trees.

A stopwatch and an ordnance map.

And the bones are fixed at five Under the moon’s timelessness; But another who lives on Wears within his heart forever The space split open by the bullet.

All under the olive trees.

Dirge for Two Veterans Music: Kurt Weill, arr. Nicholas Ryan Kelly Text: Walt Whitman The last sunbeam Lightly falls from the finish’d Sabbath, On the pavement here, and there beyond it is looking, Down a new-made double grave.

Lo, the moon ascending, Up from the east the silvery round moon, Beautiful over the house-tops, ghastly, phantom moon, Immense and silent moon.

I see a sad procession And I hear the sound of coming full-key’d bugles, All the channels of the city streets they’re flooding, As with voices and with tears.

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I hear the great drums pounding, And the small drums steady whirring, And every blow of the great convulsive drums, Strikes me through and through.

For the son is brought with the father, (In the foremost ranks of the fierce assault they fell, Two veterans son and father drop’t together, And the double grave awaits them.)

Now nearer blow the bugles, And the drums strike more convulsive, And the daylight o’er the pavement quite has faded, And the strong dead-march enwraps me.

O strong dead-march you please me!

O moon immense with your silvery face you soothe me!

O my soldiers twain! O my veterans passing to burial!

What I have I also give you.

The moon gives you light, And the bugles and the drums give you music, And my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, My heart gives you love.

To One Dead Music: Zachary Wadsworth Text: Francis Ledwidge A blackbird singing On a moss-upholstered stone, Bluebells swinging, Shadows wildly blown, A song in the wood, A ship on the sea.

The song was for you and the ship was for me.

A blackbird singing I hear in my troubled mind, Bluebells swinging, I see in a distant wind.

But sorrow and silence, Are the wood’s threnody, The silence for you and the sorrow for me.

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Long Road Music: riks Ešenvalds Poetry: Pauline Bärda, Translation by Elaine Singley Lloyd I love, I love you night and day as a star in the distant sky.

And I mourn for this one thing alone that to love, Our lifetime was so short, so short.

A long road to heaven’s shining meadow, and never could I reach its end.

But a longer road leads to your heart, which to me seems distant as a star.

High above the arch of heaven bends and light so clear is falling.

Like a flowr’ing tree the world is blooming.

Overwhelmed, my heartt both cries and laughs.

Oh, like a flow’ring tree the world is blooming.

Overwhelmed, my heart both cries and laughs, and laughs.

A long road to heaven’s shining meadow, and never could I reach its end.

But a longer road leads to your heart, a longer road leads to your heart, my love! . . . which to me seems distant as a star.

A long road.

In Flanders Fields Music: Zachary Wadsworth Text: Moina Michael Oh! you who sleep in Flanders Fields, Sleep sweet – to rise anew!

We caught the torch you threw And holding high, we keep the Faith With All who died.

And now the Torch and Poppy Red We wear in honor of our dead.

Fear not that ye have died for naught; We’ll teach the lesson that ye wrought In Flanders Fields.

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ABOUT Chor Leoni Described as “one of the best male choirs on the continent” by Oregon Artswatch, Chor Leoni is one of the most active amateur ensembles in North America and performs more than 35 concerts a season to over 15,000 patrons. With stylistic grace and an adventurous spirit, Vancouver’s Singing Lions have enriched and transformed people’s lives through singing for over twenty-five years. The choir is fortunate and privileged to sing on the unceded traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

In 2019 the ensemble received the Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence from the professional choral organization, Chorus America. The award recognizes artistic excellence, contribution to the choral art form, and organizational stability over a long period of time and may only be given once in an ensemble’s lifetime.

The ensemble has been honoured with many awards at the national and international level including five first place awards in the CBC National Radio Competition for Amateur Choirs. Chor Leoni’s recordings are regularly featured on CBC, Minnesota Public Radio, KING-FM in Seattle and WFMT Chicago. The choir’s Wandering Heart recording received a perfect five-star rating from the UK’s prestigious Choir and Organ magazine.

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Erick Lichte Enjoying a diverse career as a conductor and composer, Erick Lichte has been hailed by Washington Post for the “audacity” of his programming and noted by the Chicago Tribune for the “meticulous preparation” of his choirs. The New York Times recently called his direction and composing “thrilling” and said of his work that the “sensation is tremendous and the musical chill effect engulfing.”

As a founding member, singer, and Artistic Director of the male vocal ensemble Cantus, Lichte created and sustained one of only two full-time vocal ensembles in the United States. From 20002009, his programming and artistic direction were heard in over 60 concerts a year and Lichte has collaborated with artists such as Bobby McFerrin, the Boston Pops, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Doc Severinsen, and the Minnesota Orchestra.

In January 2013 he began his tenure as Artistic Director of Chor Leoni and has grown the choir into one of the continent’s most active and popular amateur choirs. His first recording with Chor Leoni, Wandering Heart, received a perfect five-star review from the UK’s prestigious Choir and Organ Magazine, and Oregon Arts Watch has declared that, under his leadership, Chor Leoni is now “one of the best male choirs on the continent.” In the summer of 2018, he led Chor Leoni to multiple awards and Grand Prix appearances at both the Singapore and Bali International Choral Competitions.

His work with Cantus and Chor Leoni garnered him both the 2009 and 2019 Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence, the highest honour from the professional choral organization Chorus America.

An active proponent of new music, Lichte has commissioned over 250 new works from composers such as Lee Hoiby, riks Ešenvalds, Gavin Bryars, Jocelyn Morlock, Edie Hill, Mary Ellen Childs, Zachary Wadsworth and more.

He is an active composer and arranger, especially known for co-creating All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 which has toured North America annually and been performed on three continents. The work’s off-Broadway run in Greenwich Village garnered Lichte a Drama Desk Award for both his composing and his musical direction.

TINA CHANG Vancouver pianist and coach Tina Chang is currently on the music staff at Vancouver Opera as répétiteur and coach, and was most recently assistant conductor with the company’s production of Nico Muhly’s Dark Sisters. Past engagements include music directorship with Fear No Opera in Victoria, and as pianist and coach with the Atelier lyrique at the Opéra de Montréal. Tina regularly tours with mezzo-soprano, Barb Towell, performing traditional to contemporary song repertoire and melding it with theatre. She has toured with the group QuintEssence (vocal-piano quintet) to bring Classical music to communities throughout British Columbia.

Tina is on the music staff at Wexford Opera Festival in Ireland where she most recently assisted with Jacopo Foroni’s opera Margherita, last heard in 1852, as well as music directed Rossini’s La Scala di seta. She is also on staff at the soundSCAPE New Music Festival in Cesena, Italy, a musical exchange program between composers and performers.

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Al Cannon Performing Last Post for Chor Leoni’s Remembrance Day concerts for over a decade, Al Cannon has also performed on trumpet with the Vancouver Opera, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver New Music, Turning Point Ensemble, Vancouver Chamber Choir, and as a guest principal trumpet with BC regional orchestras including the Prince George, Kamloops, and Okanagan Symphonies. Dr. Cannon served as the Head of Brass at the Vancouver Academy of Music, with his brass students attending Interlochen, Tanglewood, California Institute of the Arts, the Curtis Institute, and the Universities of British Columbia, Toronto, and Victoria.

Currently the Music Director of the Guelph Youth Symphony and Assistant Conductor for the Guelph Symphony Orchestra in Ontario, Alexander has recently served as the Assistant Conductor for the Vancouver Philharmonic Orchestra and the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony in Ontario. He enjoys an active schedule as a sought-after performer, conductor, educator, ensemble contractor, arranger, and adjudicator.

Katie Rife Vancouver percussionist Katie Rife is a dynamic and active performer of classical and new music. Katie has performed in concerts presented by Music on Main, Vancouver New Music, Redshift Music Society, Turning Point Ensemble, and Driftwood Percussion, among others. She is the principal percussionist of the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra and has worked with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and Vancouver Opera. This season she is also performing with the Elektra Women’s Choir and the Phoenix Chamber Choir. Katie holds a Masters of Music and Professional Studies Diploma from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. A dedicated educator, she is on faculty at the Vancouver Academy of Music and the Langley Community Music School, and is a teaching artist at the Sarah McLachlan School of Music. She is looking forward to being back with Chor Leoni for their Christmas concerts next month.

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Members of Chor Leoni First Tenors Corey Hollett Ken Hollett Noel Hollett Shaun Jackman Derek Kief Bob Keyes Mark MacDonald Peter Spira William Ting Jaime Vargas Freeman Woolnough

Second Tenors Stephen Baker Craig Burnett Kevin Chiang Charles Crossin Jonathan Easey Conor Graham Byron Hanson Kyle Harland Choji Hayashi Bruce Hoffman Reid Howard Liam Kearns Lynley Lewis Rod Locke Marc Petrunia Keith Sinclair John Wyness John Zuidhof

Section Leaders Mark MacDonald, Byron Hanson, Greg Martin, Michael Soderling

Baritones Joseph Anthony James Carter Allan Cathcart Ian Farthing Mike Fletcher Doug Graeb Phil Jack Mike Jackman Peter Joosten Tom Kidd Paul Larocque Douglas Leung Greg Martin Rob McAllister Trenton Millar Greg Mohr Daniel Sheinin Ted Steiner

Basses Rick Bennett Stash Bylicki Garth Edwards James Emery Eric Kristensen David Love Derek McCracken Chris Moore Bob Rankin Larry Smeets Michael Soderling Nicholas van der Velden

Honorary Lifetime Members Christopher Gaze, o.b.c., m.s.m.

Martha Lou Henley, c.m.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS & STAFF CHAIR Rick Bennett Erick Lichte Artistic Director

Treasurer Marni Johnson Secretary Rod Locke MEMBERS AT LARGE Leanne Denis James Emery John Geddes Conor Graham Fred Lee Peter Joosten Masato Oki Patricia Penner

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STAFF Artistic Director: Erick Lichte Executive Director: Stash Bylicki Production Manager: David Carpenter Manager of Marketing & Patron Relations: Bruce Hoffman Administrative Assistant: Derek Kief Archivist: Eric Kristensen Collaborative Pianist: Ken Cormier FOUNDER Diane Loomer, c.m.

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The Diane Loomer Founders’ Circle Chor Leoni Men’s Choir is proud to launch the Diane Loomer Founders’ Circle to recognize those friends who have chosen to leave a gift in their will or estate to Chor Leoni. We name the circle after our beloved founder, Diane, because gifts of this magnitude ensure the legacy of Diane and Chor Leoni lives on for many years to come. We are so thankful for the commitment, foresight, and generosity of those who have left an estate gift, and we are honoured to acknowledge you in your lifetime for your unwavering support of Chor Leoni.

MEMBERS Rick* & Lorraine Bennett, Paul & Margaret Birch*, Ann Coombs, James Emery* & Rob McAllister*, Ian Farthing*, Jean Hurst, Jacqueline Joys, Len & Shauna Kirkham, Eric Kristensen* & Geoff Reid, David Love* If you are considering a gift in your will or estate plans to Chor Leoni, please contact us. We would be happy to provide sample will wording or chat with you about the incredible impact of your gift. Please contact Stash Bylicki, Executive Director, at 778.886.4612 or stash@chorleoni.org. * = current choir member

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Chor Leoni names its giving levels after the stars of the constellation Leo, the lion. Thank you to all of our benefactors and friends. Your generosity helps us shine!

This list acknowledges donations received from October 31, 2018 to October 31, 2019. If you detect any errors or omissions, please call the choir office at 604.263.7061.

For more information or to make a gift, please visit www.chorleoni.org/donate

DONORS REGULUS ($10,000+)

Paul* & Margaret Birch ADHAFERA ($5,000 - $9,999) Bob & Judy Hager Family Fund, Alix Brown, James* & Leslie Carter, Martha Lou Henley Charitable Foundation, Lesley Stowe & Geoffrey Scott, Marni Johnson & Gordon Roberts, William Wood NOVA ($2,000 - $4,999) Alan & Gwendoline Pyatt Foundation, Rick* & Lorraine Bennett, Richard & Valerie Bradshaw, Vincent Carey & Ed Friesen, Pete Chamberlain, Kevin Chiang*, David Cousins, Richard & Valerie Dunsterville, Heathcliff Foundation, Joan Henderson, Carol & Richard Henriquez, Paul & Darlene Howard, Fred Lee, Erick* & Ashley Lichte, Margaret Mason & Brian Taylor, Nader Mirhady & Chris Salton, Patricia Penner, Peter & Joanne Brown Foundation, Ian & Jane Strang, The Howard Foundation, Colleen & David Torrison, Eric & Beverly Watt DENEBOLA ($500 - $1,999) AllWest Insurance, Marsha Belanger, Ruth Brodie, Stash Bylicki* & Katerina Kwon, Stephanie Carlson, Nina & John Cassils, Liz Chaston, The Christopher Foundation, Garth Edwards*, Brian Fearncombe, Christa Frosch, John Geddes, Rusty & Lindy Goepel, Douglas Gordon, Doug Graeb*, Conor Graham*, Martha Hazevoet, Reid Howard*, Don & Pat Hudson, Douglas & Donna Jamieson Hume, Jane Hungerford, Jean Hurst, Mike Jackman*, Anne-Marie & Peter Kains, Liam Kearns*, Gary & Louise Kenwood, Bob* & Deborah Keyes, Jim Knight*, Paul Larocque*, Christine Lattey, Maureen McIntosh, Joan McLeod, Cindy McPherson, Lindy McQueen, John McVie & Cheryl Armstrong, Liz Meekison, Jennifer Meldrum, Alan & Mary Lou Miles, Darrell & David Mindell, Renee Nielly, Diane Norton, Masato Oki, Papertech Inc., Bob* & Margaret Rankin, The Reid Family Charitable Gift Fund, David Smith, Mary-Anne Stowe, Chris Wilson

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ZOSMA ($200 - $499) Sue & Bob Adams, Richard Anderson, Jean Arthur, Cora Ashburner, Jordan Back*, Laura & Paul Baker, Brenda Benham, Dianne Bentz, Melina Buckley, Lori Charvat, Kevin Chiang*, Eva Christopher, Judith Coffin, Ken Cormier*, Rita Cousins, Kimberley Cudney, Bill & Jeannie Denault, Count Enrico & Countess Aline Dobrzensky, Frances Dowdeswell, Brian Duncan, Janet Enns, John Evans, Lynn Eyton, Ian Farthing*, Sally Geller, Norma Goldie, Kate Gregory, Martha Hazevoet, Nancy Hermiston, Floyd Hill, Bruce Hoffman* & Dean Brown, Barry Honda*, Patricia Howard, Reid Howard*, Kathleen Hurl, Isabeau Iqbal, Muhammad Iqbal, Heather & Bill Ireland, Mike Jackman*, Anne-Marie & Peter Kains, Nancy Kemble, Margaret Kidd, Tom Kidd, Vlad Krajina, Bill & Denny Lang, Fred Lee, Lynn & Russel Lichte, Rod Locke* & Quinn Crosina, David Love* & Jim Harcott, Greg Lypowy, Gerald Lyseng, Greg Martin*, Tara May, Rob Mayhew, Debbie McLean, Joan McLeod, Douglas McRae, John McVie & Cheryl Armstrong, Peter Mercer & Ginger Shaw, Mary McDermid, Jean Mickelson, Lois Milsom, Greg Mohr*, Cheryl Neighbour, Christine Nicolas, Jane Nicolson, Elizabeth Noble, Diane Norton, Provincial Employees Community Service Fund, Peter & Elfriede Rohloff, John & Jacki Ross, Nicky & Doug Seppala, Bill & Pat Sexsmith, Marion & Andy Shaw, Joan Stewart, Lesley Stowe & Geoffrey Scott, Bruce Wright, John* & Sue Wyness, Linda Yorke, Kathy Yoshitomi RASALAS ($75- $199) Hugh & Diana Alley, Janet Allwork, Mamie Angus, Ogake Angwenyi, Sam & Mary Balden, Karen Bartlett, Rebecca Bennett, Maureen Bennington, Dianne Bentz, Ron Bergeron, Deb Berto, BlueShore Financial, Norma Boutillier, Susan Boutwood, Charles Budd, Marilyn Bullock, Burnaby Central Secondary School, David Carman, Marnie Carter, Ken Cassidy, Allan Cathcart, Sandra Chapman, Hui Chiang, Woody Chiang, Mimi Chow, Jan Christilaw, Kathy Ciechanowski, Larry Clausen & Myron Story, Burke & Hanneke Corbet, Denise Cunningham, Irving Dardick, Margaret Decicco, Marcus Degenstein, Moyra Dobson, Rita Douglas, Eleanor Elliott, Maia Farish, Diane Fast, Catherine Fenn, Linda Fraser, Debra & Blair Friesen, Michael Frost, Jeanette Gallant, Bridget Gilbride, Norma Goldie, Carolyn Goodall, Paula Gordon, Jean Gregson, Kirstin Hain, Anja Haman, Sabina Harpe, Barbara Hodgins, Ken* & Rosalind Hollett, Dan & Pam Horner, Tina & Rick Hulbert, Olga Ilich, Maria Irvine, Shaun Jackman*, Patti Janssen, Ingrid Molly Jonsson, Stan Kellett, Vlad Krajina, Jason Kur & Haydn Gurmin, John & Lulu Leathley, Sandi Lee, Sandra Lee, Karen Leung, Thomas & Connie Longworth, Jan Louden, Jo Ann Malysh, Ray Maxwell, Sandi Mcintosh-Kocaba, Brian McMillan, Gay Mitchell, Laree Mohr, Barbara Nelles, Aldred Neufeldt, Shirley Nickerson, Jim O’Hara, Marti Oppenheimer, Chris Owen, Samantha Parton, Barb Pearce, Trudy Pekarsky, Elizabeth Petrie, Muriel Richards, Catherine Rickey & Ross Ramsay, Adrianne Ross, Clare Saadien, Lucia Sartor, Milton Schlosser, Marion & Andy Shaw, Marilyn Slade, Helen Smith, Jane Srivastava, E J Stamp, Alexandra Starosta, Peter Suedfeld, Doug Syms, Marilyn Thorsteinsson, Timbre!

Choir, Ken & Patsy Tolmie, Derek von Essen, Alison Watt * Indicates current member of Chor Leoni.

SUSTAINING DONORS GIVING BY RECURRING MONTHLY DONATION Brenda Benham, Paul* & Margaret Birch, Stash Bylicki*, Kevin Chiang*, Garth Edwards*, Doug Graeb*, Conor Graham*, Joan Henderson, Bruce Hoffman* & Dean Brown, Reid Howard*, Jean Hurst, Mike Jackman*, Shaun Jackman*, Bob* & Deborah Keyes, Jim Knight, Eric Kristensen* & Geoff Reid, Roderick Locke* & Quinn Crosina, Mark MacDonald*, Greg Martin*, Tara May, Lindy McQueen, John McVie & Cheryl Armstrong, Jim O’Hara, Patricia Penner, Bob* & Margaret Rankin, Don & Heather Risk, Peter & Elfriede Rohloff, Helen Smith, Peter Spira* & Valerie Duma, Colleen & David Torrison, Jaime Vargas* 20

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m’anam & chor leoni

chor leoni men’s choir

Friday April 24 | 8pm

ChAn Centre For the PerForming Arts 6265 CresCent rd, UBC

Chor Leoni welcomes ireland’s m’AnAm and composer/conductor michael mcglynn to the Chan Centre for their north American debut.

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CHRISTMAS WITH CHOR LEONI:

ANGELS DANCE feaTuring The arTs umbrella Dance cOmpany

Orpheum Theatre | December 21 | 4pm & 8pm chorleoni.org

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