DECEMBER 12, 2009 – "CANDLELIGHT"
Join us for our traditional Christmas celebration! Nathan Brock, assistant conductor of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, leads the Thirteen Strings through Johann Melchior Molter's Christmas Concerto. Then the Seventeen Voyces Ottawa Chamber Choir join us forTe Deum and Jubilate by Henry Purcell.
A Fantasia on Christmas Carols by Ralph Vaughan Williams will begin the second half, leading into the main piece of the night, A Christmas Scene by Gerald Finzi In Terra Pax, Op.39. This piece showcases solos from baritone Jesse Clark and 16-year-old sopranoist Bronwyn Thies-Thompson. The solos will evoke Robert Bridges’ poem, “A Frosty Christmas Eve.”
“A frosty Christmas eve
When the stars were shining
Fared I forth alone,
Where westward falls the hill
And from many a village
In the water'd valley,
Distant music reached me
Peals of bells were ringing
The constellated sounds,
Ran sprinkling on earth's floor
As the dark vault above,
With stars was spangled o'er.
Then sped my thoughts to keep,
That first Christmas of all
When the shepherds watching
By their folds ere the dawn,
Heard music in the fields
And marveling could not tell
Whether it were angels
Or the bright stars singing.”
We'll close the evening with three Christmas carols, sung by all – a perfect start to your holiday season.
Nathan Brock, Guest Conductor
Bronwyn Thies-Thompson, Soprano
Jesse Clark, Baritone
Seventeen Voyces (Kevin Reeves, Artistic
Director)
MOLTER Concerto pastorale in G (Christmas Concerto)
PURCELL Te Deum and Jubilate
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Fantasia on Christmas Carols
FINZI In Terra Pax, Op. 39 (Christmas Scene)
THREE CAROLS SUNG WITH AUDIENCE
8 pm at Dominion-Chalmers United Church,
355 Cooper Street, Ottawa
HOW TO GET TICKETS
You can buy tickets for this concert, or include them in a four-concert or six-concert series.
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