Chor Leoni Remembrance Day Concert
byChor Leoni opens its 2024/2025 season with Shadows Into Dawn, the choir’s 33rd annual Remembrance Day Concert in Downtown Vancouver. This cherished annual tradition offers audiences a reflective sonic space to contemplate the realities and costs of war through song. Enter to win tickets.
Chor Leoni Remembrance Day Concert
- Date: November 11, 2024 at 2:00pm and 5:00pm
- Location: St. Andrew’s-Wesley United (1022 Nelson St, Vancouver)
- Tickets: Available online now for $20-$70
The moving program spans diverse texts and cultural perspectives, featuring arrangements of beloved folk and popular songs like Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin’”, Ben E. King’s “Stand By Me”, and “Bonny Wood Green”.
New works from Canadian composers also take center stage. Dr. Roydon Tse sets a Tang-dynasty poem by Du Fu, reflecting on soldiers sent to the frontier to fight for the emperor, while Chor Leoni’s new Composer in Residence, Marie-Claire Saindon, brings to life a text about learning to change by poet Rev. Raymond J. Baughan. Indigenous musician and Vancouver local Russell Wallace, in collaboration with local composer Sam Dabrusin, has arranged “Forgotten Warriors”, a piece originally written for Loretta Todd’s National Film Board film of the same name, for the 70 voices of the choir.
Accompanying the choir will be several local musical guests, including pianist Tina Chang (Vancouver Opera, Arts Club Theatre), organist Michael Dirk (Director of Music, St. John’s Shaughnessy Anglican Church), and trumpeter Katherine Evans (Turning Point Ensemble, Vancouver Brass Orchestra).
With its unique blend of folk, popular, and choral works, Shadows Into Dawn will lead Vancouver audiences on a transformative journey—from the shadows of war to the dawn of empathy, understanding, and hope.
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