special events
TransCanada Songbook
Monday, June 21, 2010

The Cultch
1895 Venables Street (at Victoria Drive), Vancouver

See Google Maps for directions.

Bar opens at 7:00 pm
Concert at 8:00 pm

 

Tickets just $20 ($10 students).

Available at the door, by phone at 604.251.1363, or online.

 

 

From Claude Vivier and R. Murray Schafer - Canada's most globally celebrated composers - to rising stars like Ana Sokolovic, Andrew Staniland and Jocelyn Morlock, the composers highlighted on this trans-Canada journey of song are as eclectic as our nation's people.

 

Come join Music on Main and the Vancouver International Song Institute at The Cultch, and hear the world premiere of a new song cycle by Leslie Uyeda and John Greer's heartwarming arrangements of classic Canadian tunes.

 

It's a not-to-be-missed celebration of song, featuring many of this country's finest singers and collaborative pianists, including singers Martha Guth, Robyn Driedger-Klassen, and Phoebe MacRae and pianists Erika Switzer, Laura Loewen, and Terence Dawson.

 

Don't miss it!

 

Complete programme:

 

Involuntary Love Songs

Jocelyn Morlock (text: Alan Ashton)
Martha Guth, soprano & Laura Loewen, piano


White Cat Blues (World Premiere)

Leslie Uyeda (Text: Lorna Crozier)
Robyn Driedger-Klassen, soprano & Terence Dawson, piano


Hymnen an die Nacht

Claude Vivier (text: Novalis)
Martha Guth, soprano & Erika Switzer, piano


Tanzer Lieder

Ana Sokolovic (text: Francisco Tanzer)
Phoebe MacRae, soprano & Laura Loewen, piano


Three Contemporaries

R. Murray Schafer (text: R. Murray Schafer)
Robyn Driedger-Klassen, soprano & Erika Switzer, piano

 


In memoriam: Maureen Forrester (1930-2010)

In memory of the great contralto, a performance of some of the Canadian songs she premiered, featuring artists from the Vancouver International Song Institute.

 





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