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I C::,<br />
· Bach's Jesu Meine Freude. Or if<br />
r A ~ce.-,e you fancy a trip out of town that<br />
night, Robert Cooper's Chorus<br />
by Larry Beckwith Niagara performs Rossini's<br />
Stabat Mater with a brilliant<br />
array of soloists.<br />
As I write these words, it's<br />
raining outside and winter seems<br />
to be to taking a short break, but<br />
we all know it will be back with<br />
a vengeance in the month of<br />
<strong>March</strong>. Thankfully, there are<br />
many fli'St-rate choral events to<br />
warm us up including many<br />
choral commemorations of the<br />
250th anniversary of the death of<br />
Johann Sebastian Bach.<br />
The flfst weekend of the month<br />
offers much choice to the choral<br />
aficionado. The Exultate<br />
Chamber Singers perform four<br />
Bach motets on <strong>March</strong> 3rd. The<br />
following day, the Canadian<br />
Cbihln:n's Opera Chorus teams<br />
up with the Toronto Symphony<br />
Youth Orchestra to perfonn<br />
Godfrey Ridout's channing<br />
Folksongs of Eastern Canada. On<br />
the evening of the 4th, the<br />
Toronto Camerata, under Melva<br />
Trelfmger-Graham's able<br />
direction, offer an intriguing<br />
programme featuring a work by<br />
Marten Lauridsen, Thomas<br />
Baker's Chinese Love LYrics and<br />
CHorcu. Gems<br />
rocrownTHe<br />
cenrurr<br />
Tickets ho<br />
($18 seniors &<br />
students)<br />
For Tickets Call<br />
530 -·44~8<br />
For three years now, choral<br />
impresario Donna Green has<br />
been presenting a concert entitled<br />
Sing for Sight, and tl1is year's<br />
edition takes plaee on U1e<br />
afternoon of<strong>March</strong> 5tll. Featuring<br />
guests tl1e magnificent Faitl1<br />
Chorale, the North Metro Chorus,<br />
the Bach Chamber Youth Choir,<br />
Hereti, and Voyces Past, this<br />
promises to be a fw1 afternoon for<br />
a worthy cause. Also on the<br />
aftemoon of the 5tll, the Toronto<br />
Chamber Choir gives an<br />
infonnal "Kaffeemusik" lecture<br />
and concert entitled "1l1e Psalms<br />
in Music" and tlle<br />
Concertsingers choir gives a<br />
concert highlighting the Haydn<br />
"Mass in tl1e Time of War". At<br />
8:00 on the 5tll tl1e awardwiiming<br />
Victoria Scholars team<br />
up with tl1e Elora Festival<br />
Singers in music by Widor,<br />
Hatzis, Durutle and Tavener.<br />
TI1e next weekend, on <strong>March</strong> II ,<br />
the Bach Elgar Choir welcomes<br />
RUTTer,<br />
MOZarT&<br />
MenDeLSSOifll<br />
81·" Fri. Mard1 24. loco St. jamf~· Cathedral<br />
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