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March 10, 2011
Eastern Canada
Tour of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia
March 23 – April 3, 2011
Canada Council
and Ontario Arts Council Provide Major Support
Canada’s internationally acclaimed
choral ensemble and national choral legacy, the Elmer Iseler Singers, Lydia
Adams, Conductor, is pleased to announce their return to Eastern Canada
March 23 to April 3, 2011. Concerts and workshops will take place in six
major centres in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. This long-awaited return to the
Maritimes is especially meaningful to the choir’s artistic performance history.
From early music to spirituals, contemporary songs and original compositions the
Singers will bring a large portion of Canadian choral repertoire featuring music
by Stuart Calvert, Timothy Corlis, Eleanor Daley, Carleton Elliott, Lydia
Adams, John Estacio, Ruth Watson Henderson, Derek Holman, Jason Jestadt, Kenneth
Leslie, Peter-Anthony Togni and Healey Willan as well as music of
international composers .
The Elmer Iseler Singers and Lydia Adams, a graduate of Mt.
Allison University and a native of Glace Bay, Nova Scotia,
continue to influence young students, composers and audiences alike to pursue
the infinite beauty of choral music. Tour performances begin in the Riverfront
Capital of Fredericton, NB at the Music on the Hill Concert
Series. The choir then travels to the charming city of St. John, NB, by the Bay
of Fundy and onward to the New Brunswick Choral Federation-organized
workshops and concerts at the choral event of the year, Spring Choral Fest
at Mt. Allison University in Sackville, NB. A special Elmer
Iseler Singers concert will be held at the Mt. Allison Convocation Hall for
the Choral Fest participants, sponsored by the Mount Allison Performing Arts
Series with generous support of the J.E.A. Crake Foundation. The gala ending
concert of the festival with Franz Schubert‘s Mass in G will have
the Elmer Iseler Singers and Lydia Adams joining the Spring Choral Fest
registrants’ massed choir and Sackville resident Anne Sessa, director of the Bel
Canto Singers, to present a joint recital with the Mount Allison University Wind
Ensemble, conducted by Wesley Ferreira.
The Maritimes Tour continues with a Cobequid Arts Council-sponsored
concert in Truro, the “Hub of Nova Scotia” and then onwards to concerts
and choral workshops for the St. Cecilia Concert Society Concert Series
in Lunenburg, the home of the Bluenose and in Halifax, the
national historic site of Pier 21. CBC Radio 2 will record the
Halifax concert for future broadcast.
The Elmer Iseler Singers and Lydia Adams look forward to warm Maritime
hospitality and to sharing and showcasing a range of inspiring Canadian and
international music.
Elmer Iseler Singers Media
Contact:
Olena Jatsyshyn, Outreach & Communications 416.217.0537
Click here for PDF version.
Click here
for detailed Tour Schedule
Celebrating their 32nd
anniversary, Lydia Adams and the Elmer Iseler Singers are grateful to the Canada
Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and to local Maritime community
musical societies for their sponsorship and support. CBC Radio 2 will be
recording the Halifax concert for later broadcast on 'Choral Concert'.
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