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What is Luminous Voices doing New Year's Eve?
Do you yet have your tickets for A Luminous New Year's Eve? Don't miss out for some incredible music, including a new work by Canadian composer Kristopher Fulton!
Just some of the music we’re preparing for A Luminous New Year's Eve. We will again serve gourmet chocolates and sparkling wine at the intermission, and perform the world premiere of a new work by Canadian composer Kristopher Fulton!
Tickets: http://luminousnye3.bpt.me
Two-concert subscriptions also available (A Luminous New Year's Eve & Leap of Faith)
Lest We Forget
Every November 11, we pause to reflect on and honour the sacrifices made by those who bravely served Canada to fight for our freedom. Here is a live recording of There Will Be Rest by Frank Ticheli from our debut concert five years ago.
Every November 11, we pause to reflect on and honour the sacrifices made by those who bravely served Canada to fight for our freedom. Here is a live recording of There Will Be Rest by Frank Ticheli from our debut concert five years ago.
Available now: Two-concert Season Subscriptions!
Still reliving the opening concert of our fifth-anniversary season? Eager to hear us sing again, or introduce your friends and family to our concerts? Well, we have the solution: a two-concert season subscription!
Still basking in the memory of the glorious sounds of Pärt's Berliner Messe, the concert that kicked off our fifth-anniversary season? (Be sure to read the review by the Calgary Herald!)
Eager for more of our singing? Or perhaps introduce friends and family to our concerts?
Get a two-concert season subscription! They make great gifts! A two-concert season subscription gets you tickets to:
- A Luminous New Year's Eve, which has become a wonderful Calgary tradition, complete with chocolates and sparkling wine!
- Leap of Faith, at which we will premiere another Canadian choral work, composed by Halifax-based composer Peter-Anthony Togni for choir and two flutes.
Hope to see you at our next concerts!
A few of Tim's favourite things
Our founding artistic director says Sunday's concert could be titled, “Some of my favourite choral music”. How does Tim Shantz explain the thought process behind choosing the four works we will perform at the Bella Concert Hall to officially kick off our fifth-anniversary season? #yycmusic #yycarts #yycchoral #fifthanniversaryseason
“This concert could be titled “Some of my favourite choral music”.”
When you're as experienced a musician as Timothy Shantz, there's a lot of music you can put into a concert. So why did he choose these four pieces specifically -- works by Johannes Brahms, Frank Martin, Arvo Pärt and Tarik O'Regan -- to open Luminous Voices' fifth-anniversary season?
Tickets -- http://berlinermesse.bpt.me
Season subscriptions -- http://luminousvoices1718.bpt.me
Frank Martin's "Mass" appeal
What makes Frank Martin's unaccompanied Mass for Double Choir so popular that we consider it a 'staple of contemporary choral repertoire'? Three conductors of Alberta-based, award-winning choirs weigh in.
“I felt that a personal expression of religious belief should remain secret and hidden from public opinion. ”
Of all the works in Swiss composer Frank Martin's catalogue, one of the most celebrated and performed is his unaccompanied Mass for Double Choir. Completed in 1926, the composer would not allow the work to be performed until 1963; he considered the work to be a 'matter between God and myself'. Since its premiere, the work has gained a tremendous following, and has become a staple of contemporary choral repertoire.
Frank Martin (1890-1974)
So what makes the Mass for Double Choir so special? Three conductors of Alberta-based, award-winning choirs -- Leonard Ratzlaff, Jordan Van Biert and Timothy Shantz -- offer their scholarly insights and experience on the work, and why it deserves such praise.
Leonard Ratzlaff and Jordan Van Biert sing the Mass with us this weekend, conducted by Timothy Shantz, to kick off our fifth-anniversary season. Tickets are still available: http://berlinermesse.bpt.me