We will present three interesting programmes this season in our performance venue in Kanata - St. Paul's Anglican Church, 20 Young Road.
About our concert series
Welcome to the twenty-fifth season of the Kanata Choral Society! We look forward to presenting three concerts this year in our series.
We start the season on Saturday, December 3, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. with a concert entitled Christmas Through the ages. You will hear something from Medieval through the contemporary time periods, with stops in between at Renaissance, Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods. Included are excerpts from the Messiah , music by Bach, Berlioz, Britten, Rutter, Boris Ord and others. You will also enjoy the annual sing-a-long carols at Christmas time.
The next concert will take place on Saturday, February 18, 2011 at 3:00 p.m. and is entitled Music for the Fun of it! Included is "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)" is a popular song which originated as a jingle in the groundbreaking 1971 "Hilltop" television commercial for Coca-Cola. The song, produced by Billy Davis and performed by The New Seekers, portrayed a positive message of hope and love sung by a multicultural collection of teenagers on the top of a hill. It was so popular it was re-recorded by The New Seekers and by The Hillside Singers as a full-length song, dropping references to Coca-Cola, and became a hit record. Also on the program is "Hymn to Freedom," the latter composed in the 1960s and inspired by the U.S. civil rights movement. Oscar Peterson describes how the song came about as follows: "I tried, to the best of my ability, to recall the various church renderings of numerous Negro spirituals that I grew up with, and within this form I attempted to construct the melodic and harmonic first chorus of what was to become the "Hymn to Freedom." The melodic and harmonic line is total simplicity within itself, and to my thinking, personifies a form of Negro spiritual that might be sung in almost any of the black churches of America.". The King Singers are an a cappella vocal ensemble and the choir will perform some songs in their repertoire.
Our last concert, 25th Anniversary Favourites, features music performed over the past 25 years by the Kanata Choral Society. Some of the favourites of the choir are: the Gloria from Vivald's Gloria, the Heavens are Telling from Haydn's Creation, He, Watching over Israel by Mendelssohn and excerpts from Fauré's Requiem. The concert will take place on Saturday, May 12, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.
We encourage you to subscribe to this exciting season with the Kanata Choral Society.