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Concerts 2008 - 2009

Our first concert was:

Les Illuminations

Featuring Alexa Wing, soprano

Friday, November 7 - 8:00 p.m.
           at St Joseph’s RC Church (Sandy Hill)
     a benefit in support of St Joe’s Supper Table

Sunday, November 9 - 2:00 p.m.
            
at St John’s

The programme includes:

  • Concerto grosso in C major, Op. 6 No. 10
               Arcangelo Corelli
  • Cantata No 209, “Non sa che sia dolore”
               Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Les Illuminations
               Benjamin Britten
  • Psalm and Jubilation
               Tracey Rush

Our second concert was:

 Carols by Candlelight

with the choir of St John’s Church

Sunday, December 14 – 3:00 p.m.
          
at St Paul’s Anglican Church, Kanata

Sunday, December 21 – 2:00 p.m.
          
at St John’s

The programme includes:

  • Magnificat
           John Rutter
  • and favorite carols of the season


Out third concert was:

Solos for Strings

Saturday, March 7, 2009 – 8:00 p.m.
          
at Woodroffe United Church

Sunday, March 8 – 2:00 p.m.
          
at St John’s

The programme includes:

  • Concerto grosso, Op. 3, No. 3
         Francesco Geminiani
  • Concerto in G major for two violas
         Georg Philip Telemann
  • Concerto in d minor for two violins,
         BWV 1043
         Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Suite for violin and viola
         Kurt Atterberg
  • Palladio
         Karl Jenkins –

Our fourth concert was:

Mozart Requiem

with the choir of St John’s Church

Sunday, March 29 - 2:00 p.m.
          
at St John’s

Palm Sunday, April 5 – 3:00 p.m.
          
at St Paul’s Anglican Church, Kanata

The programme includes:

  • Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky, Op. 35a
         Anton Stepanovich Arensky
  • Requiem
         Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart –

Our fifth and final concert was:

Sizzling Sounds of Spring

Featuring Thomas Annand, harpsichord

Sunday, May 31 – 2:00 p.m.
          
at St John’s

The programme includes:

  • Sinfonia No. 1 in C major
         Felix Mendelssohn
  • Concerto for Harpsichord in F minor,
         BWV 1056
         Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Harpsichord Concerto
         Walter Leigh
  • Elvis Goes Baroque
         Peter Breiner
     

 

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