Toronto Mendelssohn Choir: Endangered

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reation by Barbara Assiginaak – a TMC commission

In the Beginning by Aaron Copland

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Mass for the Endangered by Sarah Kirkland Snider – a Canadian premiere

More on the works.

Barbara Assiginaak says of Creation: “I am so honoured to be invited to work with the Tkaronto Mendelssohn Choir and to seek a way to honour my ancestors and family who did not always have a voice, or else had no one who would listen to them. It is a huge responsibility I have carried as the child of a residential school survivor, through decades of working through the medium of so-called classical music and finding a way to respect that tradition while also honouring Anishinaabeg traditions and language. Chi miigwetch.”

Mass for the Endangered is a hymn for the voiceless and the discounted, a requiem for the not-yet-gone. Using original text by writer, visual artist, and musician, Nathaniel Bellows, in combination with the traditional Latin, Mass for the Endangered embodies a prayer for endangered animals and the environments in which they live.

Enjoy the concert in person (limited tickets will be sold and strict Covid-19 health and safety protocols will be in place) or enjoy it livestreamed from home.

Tickets will go on sale January 2022.

Event Artists

Jean-Sébastien Vallée, conductor; Simon Rivard, conductor; Chamber Orchestra; Toronto Mendelssohn Choir; Barbara Assiginaak, Composer

Toronto Mendelssohn Choir: Endangered

Date/Time

Saturday, May 28, 2022
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Location

Yorkminster Park Baptist Church and Online
1585 Yonge St. (just north of Yonge and St. Clair)
Toronto, Ontario
Canada, M4T 1Z9

Price

$20 Concert Livestream / $30-90 In person

Phone

416-408-0208

Website

https://www.tmchoir.org/event/endangered/

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