John Hooper – Music Director
With guests:
Quadra Singers
Website – quadrasingers.wordpress.com
Thom Knutson – Music Director
Joyce Baker – Accompanist
[Saturday March 18th]
Comox Valley Children's and Youth Choir
Website – comoxvalleychildrenschoir.com
Sophie Simard – Artistic Director
Coralea Klassen – Accompanist
[Sunday March 19th]
ISLAND VOICES CHAMBER CHOIR captures the human spirit through experiential a cappella performance, drawing audiences into a world of rich emotion, exotic sounds, and sheer fun. The music they perform encapsulates the human experience, allowing the thoughts and feelings of human beings to be shared, building relationships between listeners and performers.
Contents
Program to be selected from the following.
Chi la Gagliarda, Donne [All who love music] – Baldassare Donato
All who love music, hear what we are bringing.
Come hear our song and listen to our voices
As we gather here together, we make music with our singing.
Come Away, Sweet Love – Thomas Greaves
Come away sweet love, and play thee
Lest grief and care betray thee
Leave off this sad lamenting
And take thy heart’s contending
The nymphs to sport invite thee
And running in and out delights thee.
Sing We and Chant It – Thomas Morley
Sing we and chant it
While love doth grant it.
All things invite us
Now to delight us.
Not long youth lastest,
And old age hasteth.
Now is best leisure
To take our pleasure.
Ubi Caritas – Imant Raminsh
Ubi caritas est amor Deus ibi est
Where there is charity and love, God is there.
Congregavit nos in unum Christi amor
Gathering us together is Christ’s love
Timeamus et amemus Deum vivum
Let us revere and love the living God.
Et ex corde diligamus nos sincero
And love one another with a sincere heart
Ubi caritas est amor Deus ibi est
Where there is charity and love, God is there.
Simul ergo cum in unum congregamur
Likewise, therefore, when we come together as one
cessent jurgia maligna cessent lites.
Let us cease all quarrels and strife
Et in medio nostri sit Christus Deus
And in the midst of us, let Christ be
Ubi caritas est amor Deus ibi est
Where there is charity and love, God is there.
Simul quo que cum beatis videamus
May we also see, along with the blessed,
Glorianter vultum tuum Christe Deus
The glory of your face, O Christ
Gaudium quod est immensum atque probum
Let there be immeasurable joy
Saecula infinita saeculorum. Amen.
Now and forevermore. Amen.
Meplalian – Budi Susanto Yohanes
Penonton-penonton ampun, beribu ampun. Titiang kalintang pongah.
We (the dancers) ask a thousand apologies of the audience;
Bocah tanpe dasar. Mesolah ulihanjengah. Meplalian briak-briuk sinamian.
We are innocent children without experience Wanting only to dance our best, playing and swaying together.
Weave a Silence – Janet Smiley
[I] weave a silence onto my lips,
weave a silence into my mind,
weave a silence within my heart.
[I] close my ears to distractions,
close my eyes to attractions,
close my heart to temptations.
Calm me, O Lord, as you stilled the storm
Still me, O Lord, keep me from harm
Let all the tumult within me cease.
Fold me, Lord, in your peace
— David Adam
Dies Irae Michael – John Trotta
Dies irae, dies illa
Day of wrath, that day
Teste David cum Sibylla
(The testimony of David with Sibyl)
Solvet saeclum in favilla
Will dissolve the world in ashes
Mors stupebit et natura
Death and nature will marvel
Cum resurget creatura
With the risen creature
Judicanti responsura
To respond to the judge
Recordare, Jesu pie, Ne me perdas,
Remember, merciful Jesus, Leave me not
Huic ergo parce, Deus
Therefore, spare him, O God
Dona eis requiem. Salva me!
Grant them eternal rest. Save me!
O Earth, Loving Mother – Mark Sirett
O earth, loving mother
Nurture us, breathe in us
Something of your beauty,
Your wisdom and your light.
Your ancient mountains, gleaming seas
Fill our hearts with care;
Through blazing sun and darkest night,
Breath in us, breathe in us
O earth, who was long before our time,
And after many years remains.
Careless and blind we wander from you.
Breath in us breathe in us.
— Archibald Lampman
Calypso – Jan Holdstork
The Fox – arr. Richter & Shaeffer
Cover Me in Sunshine – Maureen McDonald and Amy Allen
Paper Heart – Jeremy Fisher
Count on It – Kevin Memley
Scars To Your Beautiful – Caracciolo, Tillman & Wansel
At the Milonga – Sandra Milliken
Come to the Milonga where they dance the tango
Breathe the fire and passion of the dance of love
Walking, turning, pause in a close embrace
Captivating rhythms tell us Este es el tango.
Come to the Milonga, Let the spirit guide you
Be intoxicated by the dance duet
Step and bend and pose in the line of dance.
Be transported by the music, Este es el tango.
Telamo. I love you.
— Murray Milliken
¡Cantar! [Sing!] – Jay Althouse
Good-Night – Paul Laurence Dunbar & Matthew Emery
River in Judea – Marcus, Feldman & Leavitt
Alleluia, Alleluia – Amy Bernon
Il Zapaione Musicale [A musical dessert] – Adriano Banchieri
Come, now, as we are drinking, join together in singing
Who sings soprano? I am a bold soprano!
Where is the alto? Here is my sultry alto!
Here is the tenor! (We adore our tenor)
Who sings in a falsetto? Oh, I can sing falsetto!
Are you the basso? I am the bass and sing with bravado!
This celebration, in mixed formation, is your recreation,
A sweet and tasty musical creation.
Sparrow’s Jig – Bruce Sled
As long as the sparrow flies the barley grows as does the rye
And all the while a lilting cry
The sparrow is a fiddling a tiny bow upon her wing
As I roved out one May morning
I hear my love so sweetly sing
With shoes so black and stockings white
With hair as dark as night
She had a dark and roving eye
A shiny things she longed to spy
Her wings so quick upon the sky
She left not a feather for me to sigh
Danny Boy – arr. Casey Rule
Oh, Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From glen to glen and down the mountainside.
The summer’s gone and all the roses falling.
‘Tis you, ‘tis you must go and I must bide.
So come ye back when summer’s in the meadow
Or when the valley’s hushed and white with snow
‘Tis I’ll be here in sunshine or in shadow
Oh Danny Boy, oh Danny Boy, I love you so.
And if you come, and all the flowers are dying,
If I am dead, as dead I well may be,
You’ll come and find where I am lying
And kneel and say an “Ave” there for me.
And I shall hear, though soft you tread above me,
And all my grave will warm and sweeter be.
For you will bend and tell me that you love me,
And I will sleep in peace until you come to me.
Vocal Pizzicato – Raymond Rhea
Represented in concert.
Island Voices Chamber Choir
John Hooper – Music Director
Courtney Blake
Vanessa Brcic
Celia Brogan
Alan Brown
Greg Cousineau
Austin Diotte-Turner
Stephanie Eakle
Shannon Frappier
Cecile Godel
Robert Godel
Herb Graf
Pam Gregg
Lesley How
Thom Knutson
Brian Lawrence
Denise Marquette
Kevin Marquette
Julie Matthews
Georgina Nicoll
Stephanie Nicoll
Jo-Anne Preston
Bob Rennie
Andrea Ritchie
Jody Rodgers
Barth Siemens
Michael Smale
Ellie Smith
Holly Tripp
Kevin Tuck
Helen Van Spronsen
Bo Waite
Orlando Wiebe
Quadra Singers
Thom Knutson – Music Director
Joyce Baker – Accompanist
Soprano
Jennifer Banks-Doll
Teresa Bourgoyne
Daniela Hubert
Kristi Montgomery
Stacey Nielsen
Adriana Sammarelli
Linda Spetch
Amanda Weinerman
Carol Woolsey
Alto
Susan Bain
Jessica Hammersmark
Judith Hayes
Karen Holmes
Bonnie Olesko
Julia Peters
Ruth Powell
Carolyn Prentice
Debbie Quigg
Jody Rodgers
Heather Simpson
Ann Sutton
Joan Varley
Margot Wood
Tenor
Bonnie Brownstein
Allan Edwin
Guy Holmes
Hanna Lewandowski
Desmond Rutherford
Kevin Tuck
Jenny Zoia
Bass
Mel Dery
Marc Doll
David Jenkinson
Ian MacLean
John Walton
Norris Weimer
Sam Whittingham
Comox Valley Children's and Youth Choir
Sophie Simard – Artistic Director
Coralea Klassen – Accompanist
Children’s Choir
Sonia Aiello
Shekina Allen
Lucy Ashton
Niko Belanger
Avery Berg
Hadley Burgess
Livia Clarke
Stella Dakin
Willow Densmore
Annalise Deforge
Eva Dickin
Elle Dufault
Wade Dufault
Sterling Evans
Fia Fisher
Naomi Frank
Peyton Garcha
Isla Graves
Canyon Hawkes
Emilia Holyome
Claire Hyndman
Maya Kezes-Wyatt
Delilah Kinnee
Sasha Kitto
Ari Knott
Leo Knott
Cedar Lamb
Jillian MacEachern
Pippa Lefebvre
Leonora Matte
Mia Mergens
Mackenzie Moldenhauer
Batiel Okobay Tekle
Hazel O’Rourke
Asha Paramio
Anaelle Paris
Vienna Petch
Thora Redway
Harley Rewcastle
Tai Sato
Sora Sato
Helen Stehura
Stella Stehura
Nadia Straathof
Anwyn Therrien
Violet Tunnah
Mackenzie Thomas
Drew Thompson
Declan Westphal
Esme Wind
Jaci Woods
Ella Yule
Allen Zheng
Youth Choir
Miles Boyd
Emma DeSipio
Rachel Loewen
Renée Loewen
Carla McClintock
Elodie Pelletier
London Purden
Chanel Shepherd
Syke Stowe
Millie Vaillant
Toby Zuriell Jadaong
We thank our sponsors.
Island Voices Chamber Choir
🎵 Black Creek United Mennonite Church
🎵 St. Peter's Anglican Church
🎵 Comox Valley Presbyterian Church
🎵 The Music Plant
🎵 Benjamin Moore House of Colour
🎵 Blue Heron Books
🎵 Eby’s Business
🎵 Mary Gray
🎵 Pam Gregg
🎵 John Hooper
🎵 Anonymous from our choir and community
Comox Valley Children's and Youth Choir
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