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Glebe Report November 12, 2021
Glebe Collegiate gets ready to celebrate 100 years By Christy Griffin We will fight and we will battle for the good of Glebe We are proud of the yellow and blue, On the track and in the gym and on the football field We are first and our equals are few. Eus Protus, ever foremost is the shout of Glebe and her name ever greater shall be. Glebe Collegiate, Glebe Collegiate we will fight for thee Our school G L E B E.
The Glebe Collegiate girls field hockey team kicks butt! The GCI girls won the city wide field hockey championship! Their coach, Colin Harris is “just amazing.”
If this song rings a bell, you might be a Glebe Collegiate alum of. . .um. . .a certain age. The school is readying to welcome back all students and staff on what promises to be a funfilled anniversary weekend. Reserve May 13-15, 2022 in your calendar, and join us for a stellar Opening Night, parading from Lansdowne to the back campus for the Student Council barbecue, visiting decade rooms, the return of the Saturday night dance and so many more events. The volunteer committee is still looking for a few hands to help with the planning and for the weekend event itself. Contact Paddy via volunteers@glebe100.ca for more information. The website www.glebe100.ca is regularly updated, and registration for the anniversary weekend will be open mid-November. If you have walked by GCI recently, you will see the newly installed outdoor classroom, a recent development made possible by the support of the Ottawa Carleton-District School Board, the school council and the Ottawa Community Foundation. We look forward to seeing you next May! Christy Griffin is chair of the 100th Anniversary Committee of the Glebe Collegiate Parent Council.
Glebe Collegiate’s outdoor classroom is one response to the exigencies of the pandemic. PHOTO: LIZ MCKEEN
Live concerts return to Southminster By Roland Graham After the forced closure for the past 19 months, the doors of Southminster United Church are open for music once again. The church’s celebrated Wednesday noon-hour concert series restarted in September and has concerts planned for live audiences until the end of 2021 and beyond. The symbolism of open doors – a plain reference to accessibility and welcome – has been central to the identity of the series since its debut on the Ottawa music scene in 2012. DOMS, which stands for “Doors Open for Music at Southminster,” has always been open to all and offered freely, with admission being by donation only. Music lovers in Ottawa have been unrelentingly supportive; the series has survived for nine seasons on the strength of donations alone, including through the pandemic when concerts were streamed to the Internet and accessible for online viewing only. DOMS will continue following a hybrid model of being both live and live streamed simultaneously, the one positive change for live music production in response to the pandemic. The fall 2021 DOMS lineup includes a fine roster of new and returning artists, performing everything from solo keyboard and chamber music to jazz ensembles and more, each week until Christmas. “Pianophiles” and folks
who supported the acquisition of Southminster’s new nine-foot Steinway will have several opportunities to hear D606 (serial number and colloquial moniker for the piano) in action this fall. Last month, days before DOMS kicked off, legendary conductor Ricardo Muti addressed a firsttime live audience in Chicago, reminding them of the importance of live music in our lives. Paraphrasing, he said: in promoting culture, we uplift souls, minds and relationships, which are just as important as salvaging the economy. “We are here to give – and you to receive – the sounds of beauty and harmony ... without which the world becomes more savage.” The pandemic has laid bare the suffering that comes from isolation, not only to under-employed artists and waiters, but to each one of us as humans and as a society. Our fervent hope at Southminster is to restore a bit of the lost equilibrium in the world through our musical presentations, and we hope you will be able to participate. DOMS concerts are presented weekly on Wednesdays at noon hour at Southminster United Church (15 Aylmer Avenue). Doors open at 11:40 a.m., and proof of vaccination is required on entry. View the complete DOMS line-up online and find links to past and present live streams at southminstermusic.com.
November 17 – “The Classical Piano” In his debut solo recital, pianist Jeremy Hare-Chang (student of Roland Graham) explores contrast in idiosyncratic works by J. S. Bach, Beethoven and Chopin. November 24 – “French Connection” Duo Cecilia – Gertrude Létourneau (flute) and Catherine Donkin (piano) – plays a colourful program of music by Mel Bonis, Jules Mouquet and Claude Debussy. December 1 – “An Afternoon in Paris” Andrew Sords (violin) and Cheryl Duvall (piano) unite to play works by Poulenc, Chopin, Ravel and Saint-Saëns in this characterful and impassioned program. December 8 – “Firebird” Alexis Reed (soprano) and Lucas Porter (piano) offer a blended 19th/20th century program of vocal and solo piano works by Granados, Stravinsky, Strauss and Grieg. December 15 – “Shakespeare’s Viola” A pairing of music and poetry: works by Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky and Ichmouratov arranged for viola interspersed with Shakespeare, Walter and Misbakhova. Elvira Misbakhova, viola Irina Krasnyanskaya, piano Alina Ichmouratov, narrator December 22 – “Christmas with Caelis” Caelis Academy Ensemble, directed by Matthew Larkin, presents a traditional Christmas Festival of Lessons and Carols in the English high Cathedral style.
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DECEMBER 10-12, 2021
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