May is the month of spring’s vitality when the Island Consort Chamber Choir celebrates the season with a program titled, “To Music: To Life!” This choir of classical and contemporary repertoire opens with William Byrd’s Late Renaissance celebratory “Laudibus in Sanctis” – moving in the 1st half through works by Monteverdi, Duruflé, Barber, Brahms, Beethoven and Bach. Pianist, Liam Pistor, will accompany the choir for Brahms’ “Four Quartettes”, Op 92 and a string quartet from the Nanaimo Chamber Orchestra will accompany the choir on Barber’s “Agnus Dei” (Adagio), Beethoven’s “Elegischer Gesang” and Bach’s “Jesus Bleibet Meine Freude”.
=0D=0A=The 2nd half begins with the spiritual, “My Lord, What A Morning”, followed by Rachmaninoff’s beautiful “Bogoroditse Devo”, two melodies from Sibelius and Dvorak symphonies, “Somewhere”, from Bernstein’s West Side Story, ending with two folk songs; “The Road Home” and “Proschai”, a song by the former Limelighters (1960’s) arranged for the Island Consort by Music Director, Bruce Farquharson. Liam Pistor, a former singer with the Island Consort – currently in Graduate Studies in Music at UBC, returns to accompany the choir on 3 songs.
=0D=0A=The choir performs Saturday, May 6th, 2:00 pm at Gabriola United Church and May 7th, 7:30 pm at St. Andrew’s United Church in Nanaimo.
=0D=0A=Tickets are available via the Port Theatre Box Office or at the door.
=0D=0A=For more information see https://www.islandconsort.ca/
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