To Sit and Dream – The Upper Canada Choristers

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In Person and Online – A concert highlighting women composers and hoping for a better future. Laurie Evan Fraser conducts the 35-voice mixed choir and its accomplished Latin ensemble Cantemos, with pianist Hye Won Cecilia Lee. The program ranges from 12th century Gregorian chant to Renaissance madrigals, choral works inspired by the folk rhythms of Venezuela and Argentina, and celebratory works by living composers in the U.S. and Canada. Highlights include Dr. Rosephanye Powell: To Sit and Dream (to poetry by Langston Hughes); Sarah Quartel: Snow Angel; Hildegard von Bingen, arr. By Carlotta Ferrari: O splendidissima gemma; songs by South American composers Modesta Bor (Venezuela) and Liliana Cangiano (Argentina).

IN PERSON: Fifty in-person tickets @$25 are available for sale to fully vaccinated people aged 12 and up, on a first-come basis. Available from Eventbrite.

ON-LINE STREAMING: free, but donations are welcome, to cover the costs. On YouTube and Facebook.

Event Artists

Upper Canada Chorus; Cantemos Latin ensemble, Laurie Evan Fraser, conductor; Hye Won Cecilia Lee: piano

To Sit and Dream – The Upper Canada Choristers

Date/Time
Friday, October 1, 2021
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Location
Grace Church on-the-Hill
300 Lonsdale Road
Toronto, Ontario
Canada, M4V 1X4

Price
$0-25

Phone
416-256-0510

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