This Sunday is The Vox Humana Chamber Choir Concert. It’s been a long road preparing for this event, but things are really coming together now and I’m looking forward to the performance.
Most notably, we will be performing my published work “If Thou Wilt, Remember”. This won’t be the world premier of the piece since the Toronto Waldorf School high school choir sang it back in February. However, this will be the London (Ontario) Premiere and it will be the first time I will have conducted it in performance. We had our first rehearsal with the instrumental solo this evening. The part will be played by Josh Morrison on the alto sax. Josh was the one whole initially helped me way back when I was first writing the piece by giving me advice about wind instrument writing. He was instrumental (pun intended) in the eventually end product of a good, playable and satisfying instrumental part. I originally wrote it for soprano sax but later switch it to oboe…a decision that Josh is still trying to convince me was a mistake and is on something of a campaign to win me over to the alto sax. I won’t lie, this evening he made a very good case.
Anyway, there will be plenty of other great piece on the program including Healey Willan’s “Rise up my Love”, several saucy madrigals, some Elgar and some Palestrina. It should be a wonderful afternoon.
Date: Sunday, April 11th
Time: 3 pm
Location: Windermere on the Mount Chapel, 1486 Richmond Street
Tickets: Adult- $10, Student/Senior- $8.
If you have the time come on out and support us. It will be a delightful afternoon concert.
