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New Artistic Director and Exciting New Season for 2024/25
Dear Friends,
It is with great joy that we announce the renewal of our choir with a new Artistic Director and an exciting new concert just in time for the Christmas, 2024 season. As has been our tradition for decades we will be singing Handel's choral masterpiece "Messiah" for White Rock, South Surrey and South Frazer audiences. And once again we will providing a unique "up close and personal" performance with accomplished professional soloists and a full professional orchestra. There is no better way to kick off the Christmas season.
A Special Bonus for Our Loyal Patrons
All regularly priced tickets include a special "Handel Society Perk" of a 15% discount at any of Executive Table's fine restaurants, in Vancouver, North Vancouver, Richmond, and Squamish. These fine restaurants regularly score as #1 in Vancouver by Trip Advisor.
TICKET PRICES
Regular – $30
Senior/Student – $25
Students under 16 are admitted free
About "Hidden Gems" (performed May, 2023)
The Ascention Oratorio, (Cantata BWV 11)
This beautiful oratorio inexplicably is not often performed or recorded. This is likely due to its relatively short length (about 30 minutes) relative to Bach’s great Masterpieces such as the Easter Passions and Christmas oratorio. But it is also easily lost among the 240 Cantatas Bach created. We might call it a partially hidden gem.
This story of Jesus’ ascension into Heaven begins in a grand fashion with trumpets and drums leading the Alto aria Ach bleibe doch . We then hear more recitative by the Evangelist, leading to another aria, this time by the Soprano. And the work incorporates two beautiful chorals, finishing off with the grand style with which it opened.
We thank Thee, Lord (Cantata BWV 29)
Bach composed this sacred oratoria in Leipzig in 1731 for a festive church service marking the annual inauguration of a new town council. Bach scored the work in eight movements for four vocal parts and a festive Baroque orchestra. The organ dominates the first movement Sinfonia which Bach derived from a Partita for violin. The full orchestra accompanies the first choral movement and plays with the voices in the closing chorale, while a sequence of three arias alternating with two recitatives is scored intimately.Bach used the music from the choral movement for both the Gratias agimus tibi and Dona nobis pacem of his Mass in B minor. your customers raving about you on social media? Share their great stories to help turn potential customers into loyal ones.
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