Welcome to Elektra Women's Choir 27th year and another choral season of excellence! Elektra strives to offer its audiences moving and engaging experiences of some of the finest choral music anywhere, performed with passion and skill. I invite you to join us as we embark on another exciting journey of making music together—because no performance is complete without an audience! To open the season, on November 29th and 30th, 2013 we welcome one of our favourite guest artists, harpist Heidi Krutzen, for a performance of Benjamin Britten’s celebrated A Ceremony of Carols. The Little Flower Academy Chamber Choir, under the direction of Marizza Mislang, is our guest youth ensemble. Next, a powerful Eastertime performance in the Chan Centre, Passion and Resurrection, co-produced with Chor Leoni Men’s Choir. The central works are David Lang’s Pulitzer Prizewinning The Little Match Girl Passion and the evening’s title work by Latvian composer Eriks Ešenvalds, whose compositions are the talk of the choral world. This is a major presentation not to be missed on April 12th, 2014. And to round out the season, Elektra returns to the intimacy and warmth of Ryerson Church on May 10th, 2014 with How the Blossoms are Falling, a program celebrating life’s passages and relationships. With the talents of pianist and composer Stephen Smith and the title composition by Ramona Luengen, this will be an evening of beauty and reflection.
Morna Edmundson, Artistic Director
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Elektra Women’s Choir welcomes you to “our house” to herald the Christmas season in style. Performed this year both in Vancouver and New Westminster, Chez Nous: Christmas with Elektra is a treasured tradition and a fresh new concert of extraordinary beauty. Pause and reflect on all that is meaningful to you at this time of year through the artistry of Elektra and their special guests. Celebrating the centenary of its premiere, Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols takes centre stage in a performance with Vancouver harpist, Heidi Krutzen. The twelve short movements of this 20th Century masterpiece, using English poems from the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries, evoke the mystery and humility of Christ's birth.
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Other works, familiar and new, round out this concert. Elektra, Artistic Director Morna Edmundson, and accompanist Stephen Smith also welcome the youthful voices of the Little Flower Academy Chamber Choir under the direction of Marizza Mislang, to this heartwarming performance.
7:30 pm-Ryerson United Church, 2195 West 45th A ve (at Yew St), Vancouver
SATURDAY, NOV . 3 0 TH , 2 0 1 3 2:00 pm-Queen's A venue United Church, 529 Queens A ve, (at 6th St), New Westminster
Purchase tickets online at http://bit.ly/cheznous2013 Adults $28 • Seniors $22 • Youth 18 and under, and students with valid ID $15 Service charges apply
Two of Canada’s top choirs, Elektra and Chor Leoni Men’s Choir, come together to present a program of powerful choral masterpieces from the past decade that view the traditional Passion story through a modern lens. David Lang’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Little Match Girl Passion draws its text and inspiration from the unlikely pairing of Hans Christian Andersen’s tale of The Little Match Girl and J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. In this emotionally charged work, the pain and longing of a homeless girl is transfigured into a human Passion story for our own time and place. Rising young choral star Eriks Ešenvalds’ Passion and Resurrection is a fiery, sumptuous, and ecstatic setting of the Passion for choir and string orchestra with soprano soloist. In this work, Ešenvalds has combined texts from Byzantine traditions as well as the Old and New Testament and has created a most powerful and immediate choral work.
SATURDAY , april 12 TH , 2014 7:30 pm-Chan Centre for the Performing Arts 6265 Crescent Road on the UBC Campus
Purchase tickets online at http://bit.ly/PassionResurrection Tickets $30 • Students with valid ID $15 Service charges apply
Music has the power to bring us into the moment and to reflect on the things that matter to us. Choral music, of course, has the added power of poem and prose, including time-honoured folk songs that have been touchstones for people across landscapes and centuries. To round out the season, Elektra returns to the intimacy and warmth of Ryerson United Church with How the Blossoms are Falling, a program celebrating life’s passages and relationships. With the talents of pianist and composer Stephen Smith and the title composition by Ramona Luengen, this concert will be a powerful evening of beauty and reflection. This is quintessential Elektra, the music and the sound that are celebrated around the world. Join us as we celebrate life’s joys and challenges through Canadian and international choral works.
SATURDAY, m ay 1 0 TH , 2 0 1 4 7:30 pm-Ryerson United Church, 2195 West 45th A ve (at Yew St), Vancouver
Purchase tickets online at http://bit.ly/howtheblossoms Adults $28 • Seniors $22 • Youth 18 and under, and students with valid ID $15 Service charges apply
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