Volume 20, No. 8

Cantabile Choirs of Kingston ON 613 549 0099 info@cantabilechoirs.net cantabilechoirs.ca box 2273 kingston, on K7L 5J9

Newsletter April 2016

On Saturday April 9 we’ll be presenting ‘singin’ in the rain!’. This concert will be quite different from our usual presentation, but full of as much fun and wonderful sing-ing as ever.

The first half of the concert will feature the Junior Choir performing Monster Stomp, Come Closer and some wonderful Canadian folksongs - is there anyone not completely charmed by Wade Hemsworth’s Log Driv-er’s Waltz? The teen and adult choirs will

perform a beautiful arrangement of Gordon Lightfoot’s haunting Song for a Winter’s Night, Seasons of Love from Rent, Sarah Maclachlan’s Angel and an unforgettable medley of selections from Les Misérables, a perennial favourite with singers and audiences alike.

The second half of the night will feature the children’s choir performing Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat! This wonderful through-sung cantata has been performed in King-ston numerous times over the past 20 or so years, but there have been very few opportunities to enjoy it in its original format. Jo-seph was first presented as a 30-minute pop cantata in London in 1968 and was recorded as a concept album in 1969. After the suc-cess of the next Lloyd Webber and Rice piece, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph received stage productions beginning in 1970 and ex-panded recordings in 1971 and 1972. The musical was produced in the West End in 1973, recorded in 1974 and opened on Broad-way in 1982. Several major revivals and a 1999 straight-to-video film, starring Donny Osmond, followed.

Our concert version has been directed by Brett Christopher, Artistic Producer for Theatre King-ston, who has been a professional theatre artist working across the country since 2001. Celebrated as both a professional actor and director, Brett has worked with a variety of theatre companies includ-ing: Canadian Stage, Stratford Festival, Arts Club (Vancouver), Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Segal Theatre (Montreal), Thousand Islands Playhouse, Magnus Theatre, Sunshine Festival, Port Hope Festi-val, Actors Repertory Company, and Convergence Theatre. He and the children have been having a blast working on telling this musical story, and our

audiences are in for a treat! We are hoping to set up the stage for the concert on Sunday April 3 at 2:30. Volunteers make the job quick and easy and will be most welcome! Tickets are selling fast - if you don’t have yours, get them soon! Many thanks to our concert sponsors at Secker Ross and Perry.

Schedule Children’s Chorus In Costume Beginning Wed:

Rehearsals Mon. and Wed. will be from 4:15-5:30

Dress rehearsal Fri April 8: 4:15-5:15 Junior Choir 5:15-6:30 Children/Teens/Men and Women 5:15-7:00 Teens 5:15-7:15 Men and Women

Singin’ in the Rain!

Concert Week Schedule

Scholarship Info

Re-auditions - Juniors

Children’s & Teens Schedule

Announcements

In This Issue

Sat April 9:

1:00 – 2:00 Children/Teens/Men/Women (chil. In costume)

6:30 : Children in the lecture hall

YM/YW/M/W in the Upper Hall

WE STILL NEED DUTY PARENTS FOR SATURDAY NIGHT!!

Datta Family Scholarships The deadline for Datta Family 10th Anniversary Scholarship submissions is April 30. The guidelines and applications forms are available on the NEWS page at cantabilechoirs.ca. If you would like to have them emailed, let Hollie know. You can also pick up a copy from the Cantabile office.

Re-auditions for Juniors: Following the April 9 concert the Juniors are finished with rehearsal for the season , however there are re-auditions for next year; if your child is continuing with the Juniors or is hoping to move into the children’s choir next season the Junior Choir staff will hear your child during the following times: Friday April 15: 4:00-5:30 Re-auditions for Junior, surnames A-M Friday April 22: Re-auditions for Juniors, surnames N-Z If you can’t make the appointed day for your surname, please attend the alternate date. There is no need to contact the office to arrange a specific time.

Listen UP Kingston! The Children’s Choir continues to rehearse each Monday and Wednesday until Friday May 13 with the final presentation of Listen UP Kingston! With the Gryphon Trio at the Isabel Centre. The children will be required to be at the Isabel the whole day of Friday May 13. They will be working with the trio, other school children , and Rob Kapilow from New York City. Author, musician, animateur, Mr. Kapilow is well-known in the US as the host for young people’s concerts with symphonies such as New York, Chicago, Boston and others.

Teen Schedule & A New Open House

Following the April 9 concert the schedule for rehearsals will be as follows: Tuesday: 3:30-4:30 Young Men; 4:00-5:15 Young Women Thursday: 3:30-4:30 Young Women; 4:00-5:00 Young Men

Thurs May 5: OPEN HOUSE for YM / YW as part of the new city wide Juvenis Festival; Invite your friends to come along and sing with the combined Youth Singers from 4:00-5:00. Please note that this combines all the Young Men and Women’s choir dur-ing this time. Please arrive a little early to welcome potential new members. Refreshments after!

Concert for Kingston’s New Syrians The Open Voices and Inshallah community choirs - over 170 voices! - present a fundraising concert in support of Kingston’s newest Syrians . Tickets are available at interchurchrefugeepartnership.com Saturday April 2, 7:30 pm at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church

Recital Meg Batty, assistant with the YW choir, presents her graduating recital Sunday April 10, 5 pm at The Isabel. Admission is free - check it out!

Earth Day Concert

On Friday April 22 the Kingston Choral Society presents the Kingston premiere of Ola Gjeilo ’s Sunrise Symphonic Mass and other works to commemorate Earth Day. 7:30 pm in the concert hall at the Isabel. Tickets are available at theisabel.ca/tickets.

Maxine Thévenot in concert. Canada's acclaimed international artist Maxine Thévenot in concert Wednesday April 27, 2016, 7:30 pm at St. George's Cathedral. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear this wonderful Canadian organist who has appeared at Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's Cathedral-London, Notre Dame de Paris, New York, Berlin, Vienna, & Prague performing works by Bach, Buxte-hude, Mendelssohn, Messiaen, and more. Tickets are available from Novel Idea, The Church Bookroom, St George's Office.

Youth Singers Alumni Reunion Choir

Please encourage any alumni amongst your friends and family to check out the Cantabile Alumni facebook page! We need to know how many will be able to join us for the activities on May 28 / 29!

@CantabileChoirs Facebook.com/CantabileSings

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Do you have friends, family members, colleagues or school mates you think might enjoy singing with us?

If you do, make sure they know about our auditions, coming up this April and May.

There are posters and rack cards available at the office now, so grab as many as you need to help us spread the word!