Concerts 2004 / 05

Our first concert of this season was:

The Virtuoso Clarinet

Featuring Greg Young, solo clarinet

Friday, October 22, - 8:00 p.m.
       at St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church.
    
(This concert was a fundraiser for St Joseph's Supper Table, a charity which provides food and help to people in need.)

Sunday, October 24, 2:00 pm
       at the Church of St John the Evangelist

Programme

  • Boyce - Suite for Strings
  • Finzi - Prelude
  • Tartini, arr Jacob -
       Concertino for Clarinet and Strings
  • Mourant - The Pied Piper *
  • Young -
       Variations on a Canadian Folksong
  • Warlock - Capriol Suite

Walter Mourant’s “The Pied Piper” is performed by kind permission of the American Composers Alliance.

 

Our second concert was:

A Season for Love

Featuring baritone Laurence Ewashko
and a newly-commissioned work for baritone and orchestra by Ottawa composer Margrit Cattell

Saturday, December 4 - 8:00 p.m.
       at Woodroffe United Church
Sunday, December 5 - 2:00 p.m.
       at the Church of St John the Evangelist

Programme

  • Torelli -
       Concerto Grosso in g minor, Op. 8, No. 6
  • Belanger - Noels pour les cordes
  • Silverman - 12th of December
  • Telemann - Christmas Cantata
  • Catell - commissioned work
  • Reinecke - Three Tone Pictures
  • Two Ukranian carols

 

Our third concert was:

Handel:  Dettingen Te Deum

With the CAMMAC Chorus and soloists

Sunday, January 30 - 4:00 p.m.
       at the Church of St John the Evangelist

 

Our fourth concert was:

Mozart Requiem

With the choir of St John's Church

Good Friday, March 25 - 8:00 p.m.
       at the Church of St John the Evangelist

Our fifth and final concert of this season was:

The King of Instruments

Featuring Pamela Hoswitschka, organ

Friday, May 13 - 8:00 pm
       at Woodroffe United Church
Sunday, May 15 - 2:00 p.m.
       at Knox Presbyterian Church,
             corner of Lisgar and Elgin

Programme

  • Mozart - Serenade, K. 525
       (Eine kleine Nachtmusik)
  • Bédard *- Concerto for organ and strings
  • Bridge - An Irish Melody
  • Rheinberger - Suite for organ, violin, cello
       and strings, Op. 149
* Denis Bédard is one of Canada's most prolific  composers of organ music.  His organ concerto was composed in 2000 for organist Richard Paré and Les Violons du Roy, and it has become an instant hit with organists and audiences across the country.  To find out more about Denis Bédard and his music, visit his website at www.cheldar.com.

 

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