Blest Pair of Sirens

A Celebration of Voice and Verse

Sunday, October 19, 2014 at 3:00pm

Grace Church on-the-Hill, Toronto

Travel Advisory

Sunday, October 19 will be a busy day in Toronto. You might need to allow extra time to get to the concert.

• The Yonge subway line will be closed from Bloor to Eglinton in both directions
• There will be many road closures due to the Toronto Waterfront Marathon. Click here for details.

We open our season with a tribute to the English choral tradition. Featured is the stirring music of Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, whose magnificent Blest Pair of Sirens of 1887 marked the beginning of “the English musical renaissance.” Our program also includes Elgar’s beautiful partsong There Is Sweet Music, and works by Purcell, Handel, and Stephanie Martin.

Another highlight will be the première of a new commission by young Toronto composer Jared Tomlinson. This is an exciting concert of great variety, with soloists, chamber works, orchestra and special guests, the Aslan Boys Choir.

 

Tickets will be available online and via email until 9:00pm Saturday, October 18. 

There will be tickets available at the door on Sunday October 19.

Buy tickets onlineContact our box office: boxoffice@paxchristichorale.org

Blest Pair of Sirens
A Celebration of Voice and Verse

Pax Christi Chorale, Chamber Choir and Choral Scholars
With Emilio Andrew Viera, actor
Aslan Boys Choir 

 

I Was Glad - C.H. H. Parry

Reading: from The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare

There is Sweet Music Here - Edward Elgar 

An die Musik - Franz Schubert

Let the Bright Seraphim - G.F. Handel

Reading: Music all pow’r ful o’er the human mind - H. K White

Aslan Boys Choir

Jerusalem - C.H.H. Parry, arr. Edward Elgar

If Music Be The Food of Love - Henry Purcell

Orpheus With His Lute - Ivor Gurney

Song For St. Cecilia’s Day - John Dryden

Premiere- Commission - Jared Tomlinson 

Ode to Newfoundland - C.H.H. Parry, arr. S. Martin

And As I Wake - Stephanie Martin

from Die Meistersinger - Richard Wagner             

Music When Soft Voices Die - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Blest Pair of Sirens - C.H.H. Parry