Unique versions of songs, part 3: classical

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Here’s the final list of superb videos, this time showing unique presentations of classical songs. Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Air on the G String” played by 2 cellos 2CELLOS Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings” played by one person playing all the parts on cello That Cello Guy Ludwig van Beethoven’s 4th movement from Symphony No. 5 […]

DaCapo Chamber Choir’s “Restoration”

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I went to the DaCapo Chamber Choir’s concert “Restoration.” Here is the program: Leonard Enns – The Hymn of the Cherubim Don Macdonald – Tabula Rasa Caroline Shaw – And the Swallow Leonard Enns – A Great Tide of Love (premiere) When Music Sounds The Farmer is King Foothils Carry Me Over the Deep David […]

KW Symphony’s “Elegance and Innovation”

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I attended the KW Symphony’s concert “Elegance and Innovation.” Here’s the program: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Symphony No 31 “Paris” Riho Esko Maimets — Ecdysis: Double Concerto for Piccolo, Harp, and Orchestra Ricard Strauss — Suite from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme The orchestra was conducted by Alexander Shelley, the National Arts Centre Orchestra’s music director. He […]

DaCapo Choir’s “Winding Toward Peace”

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I attended the DaCapo Chamber Choir’s concert “Winding Toward Peace.” Here’s the program: Anton Brucker – Locus iste (This place) * Jeffrey Van – A Procession Winding Around Me *+ By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame Beat! Beat! Drums! Look Down Fair Moon Reconciliation Tarik O’Regan – Tai vez tenemos tiempo (Maybe we have time) * […]

DaCapo Chamber Choir’s “Earthrise”

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I attended the DaCapo Chamber Choir’s concert “Earthrise.” Here’s the program: Henry Purcell – Hear My Prayer, O Lord Nicholas Ryan Kelly – Loam Jeff Enns – Moonset R. Murray Schafer – Epitaph for Moonlight Nicholas Ryan Kelly – Earthrise Leonard Enns – This Thirsty Land* Frank Ticheli – There Will Be Stars Special guests […]

DaCapo Chamber Choir’s “Dear Mother Earth”

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I attended the DaCapo Chamber Choir concert “Dear Mother Earth.” Here’s the program: In the Beginning — Aaron Copland * I Heard the Bird Cry — Kathryn Rose *** As On Wings — Leonard Enns Storm Birds — Maria Case *** The Passing of the Year — Jonathan Dove ** Dear Mother Earth — Leonard […]

DaCapo Chamber Choir’s “Be Like a Bird”

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I attended DaCapo Chamber Choir’s concert “Be Like a Bird.” Here’s the program: Be Like a Bird — Abbie Betinis One Ruby-throated Moment — Leonard Enns Mid-Winter Songs — Morten Lauridsen * Lament for Pasiphae Like Snow She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep Mid-Winter Waking Intercession in Late October Ondine (Prelude, Book 2, No. […]

O Canada

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Here’s our national anthem, played virtually by the KW Symphony… O Canada – Members of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony

DaCapo Choir’s “Life and love and wings”

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I attended the DaCapo Chamber Choir’s concert “life and love and wings.” The title is from a poem by e. e. cummings. Here’s the program: Lux aeterna — Edward Elgar From a Distant Star — Jeff Enns Let My Love Be Heard — Jake Runestad I thank You God for most this amazing day — […]

DaCapo Chamber Choir’s “The Sun’s Birthday”

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I attended the DaCapo Chamber Choir’s concert “The Sun’s Birthday.” The title is from a poem by e. e. cummings. Here’s the program: Hymn of the Cherubim — Leonard Enns Cathedrals in the Sand (from Castles in the Sand) — Kevin Lau* Khorurd Metz — Vahram Sarkissian O nata lux — Morton Lauridsen Cantique de […]