Christopher Dawes, FRCCO - Musician, Writer and Consultant
Publisher, Organ Alternatives (orgalt.com)
Director, The Summer Institute of Church Music (sicm.ca)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Halbert Gober [mailto:hal@...]
Sent: 19-Sep-04 9:13 PM
To: Chris Dawes
Subject: announcement from Gober Organs: First Church in Oberlin (UCC) inaugural concert on the Gober organ

Toronto, Canada, September 15^th, 2004

The OrgAlt Media Group announces a new resource for Canada’s organ community:

WWW.ORGANCONCERTS.CA – Canada’s Organ Concert Listings

The new Internet domain organconcerts.ca directs any form-enabled web browser to an online version of the OrgAlt Newsletter’s “The King in Concert” listings, which have been the definitive source for organ concert information in Canada since 1999.  Visitors may browse, search, or submit listings.  Listings received by OrgAlt for Newsletter publication by regular mail and other means are also posted automatically on organconcerts.ca.

organconcerts.ca consists of three listing sections: Series, Festivals, and Single Events, as well as a past-event archive and online listing submission form.  It is intended as a fast, up-to-date resource documenting current organ presenters and annual major events, as well as all publicly promoted single events that compose them for the benefit of concertgoers, performers and their agents, and presenters seeking networks for collaboration. When the page went up in May 2004 it contained roughly 60 series, 20 annual Festivals, and 200 single events.

Toronto-area production/communication company Organ Alternatives has examined, documented and stretched Canada’s organ culture since 1992, when it began listing concerts, interviewing major figures in the organ world, and offering innovative events at Toronto’s St. James’ Cathedral.  It continues to maintain the website www.OrgAlt.com, and to publish the biannual OrgAlt newsletter and distribute it to an estimated 1000 readers per issue via postal subscription and free Internet download.

For information:

September 14^th saw the online publication of OrgAlt’s #39 issue covering Fall/Winter 2004, the publication’s growth to 20 pages and the official launch of organconcerts.ca.  The paper copies of OrgAlt #39 will be in the mail next week.

#39 has as many feature articles, news from Canada and the world, and summary listings from OrgAlt’s new online resource, www.organconcerts.ca

Visit www.orgalt.com to download free of charge (2.2MB pdf file), or for information about paper subscription.

Features this issue

·      Bethel Christian Reformed Church, Newmarket-a Pipe Organ for A Song

·      At Home with Les Frères Casavant  

·      An Interview about Italy and Improvisation with Eugenio Fagiani

·      organconcerts.ca

·      The quiz/card game Orgel Probe

·      POW! Pipe Organ Weeks in London and Hamilton

·      Stratford Summer Music Organ Concerts & Academy with James Edward Goettsche

·      St. John’s, York Mills – organ trebles its specs electronically

·      Sundays at 3, Edmonton and Orgues Létourneau, entwined 25^th anniversaries

·      Rick Vanderlinden/Willlem Van Suijdam, Paul Halley, John Vandertuin, Christopher Herrick Luc Beauséjour and Yves-G. Préfontaine

This reminder just in, for Toronto/Hamilton area OrgAlters this coming Friday/Saturday.

-CD

-----Original Message-----
From: Lianne Tan [mailto:LTan@...]
Sent: 2-May-04 8:37 PM
To: Lianne Tan
Subject: Appleby Organ Festival May 7-8

Hi everyone!  I would be most grateful if you could help me disseminate this latest information for this coming weekend’s organ events at Appleby College’s John Bell Chapel!  Hope to see you there!

~Lianne Tan

APPLEBY COLLEGE INVITES YOU TO JOIN US FOR:

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(1) RACHEL LAURIN, Organist-Composer, in Concert at the new Casavant organ

Friday, May 7^th, 2004, 8 p.m., John Bell Chapel, $25.  Call 905-845-4681 ext. 400 or e-mail artsevents@...

            Programme:

                        Prelude in F Major, BuxWV 145 - D. Buxtehude (1637-1707);

Chorale An Wasserflüssen Babylon, BWV 653 - J. S. Bach (1685-1750);

Prelude and Fugue in E flat Major, BWV 552 - J. S. Bach;

~ Canadian Composers ~

Barrie Cabena (b. 1933)-Sonata da Chiesa III (Organ Sonata 30), Op. 242 (1992);

                        Raymond Daveluy (b. 1926)-Mélodie (2004) (premiere) and Scherzo (from 5^th Sonata);

Rachel Laurin (b. 1961)-Chaconne and Fugue in e minor, Op. 31, No. 3;

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(2) LAUDATE! A day of organ and choral development

Saturday, May 8^th, 2004, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., $50 ($45 for RCCO Hamilton members)

To register, call 905-845-4681 ext. 400 or e-mail artsevents@...

Registration at the door also welcome, but please call to let us know you are coming.

Schedule of the day:

9-10 a.m.:  Registration/Coffee/Tours of the Chapel by Father Lennox

10-11:45: Rachel Laurin Masterclass PLUS a Lecture on Her Own Works

§         Masterclass performers will be performing:

§         Laurin’s Prelude in B minor, and Fugue (from Toccata and Fugue) from Trois Pieces (performer: Patrick Carter)

§         Barrie Cabena’s unpublished Op. 262 No. 20 (performer: Paul Walrath)

§         Barrie Cabena’s Postludium from Sonata da Chiesa (performer: David Hall)

11:45-1 p.m.  Lunch provided, plus open time to play the organ, walk by the lake

1-2:45 p.m.:          Jerzy Cichocki Choral Conducting workshop, with the Appleby College 80-voice Chapel Choir, and Cantus Chamber Choir, focusing on:

§         warm-ups

§         developing the male voices

§         changing voices, eg. boys in Grades 7-8

§         choral conducting techniques

The Appleby Choirs will be singing:

§         Ave verum – W.A. Mozart

§         He prays alone – Patrick Liebergen

§         Brighten my soul with sunchine – Joyce Eilers

§         Cantate Domino – O. Pitoni

2:45-3:15               Coffee break

3:15-4                     Closing Chapel Service, featuring Psalm 150 by Michael Unger, commissioned choral/organ work

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Directions to Appleby College:

From the QEW (heading east from Hamilton or west from Toronto), exit Dorval Drive South (approx. 25 mins. west of Hamilton or 20 mins. west of Toronto)

Drive down Dorval to Lakeshore Road, and turn right on Lakeshore.

The College is just a few hundred metres down the road on your Left Hand Side.

Ample parking is available, and the Chapel is the first building you will see as you enter.

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The Appleby College Chapel Choir

Appleby College has a long tradition of choral music dating back to the school’s beginnings in 1911, making the Chapel Choir one of the longest running activities at Appleby College.  Amongst Appleby’s many activities the Chapel Choir is unique, as it brings together a large number of students from every grade.  The Choir leads weekly chapel services as well as performing at a variety of special functions including the annual Carol Services, Confirmation and Memorial Services, and local performances at retirement homes in the Oakville area.  In 2000, the Chapel Choir had the honour of singing for HRH Prince Andrew, the Duke of York.  The Chapel Choir is run with the assistance of a Student Executive, whose members take various musical and administrative roles and are instrumental in the organization and leadership of the choir. 

The Cantus Chamber Choir

The Cantus Chamber Choir was formed in the fall of 2001 in order to give dedicated singers at Appleby College the opportunity to perform at an advanced choral level.  Now in their third season, Cantus enjoys a busy performance schedule at Appleby College and in the wider Oakville community.  In March 2002, members of Cantus toured Italy and France, earning a silver award at the International Choral Competition and Festival in Riva Del Garda, Italy, while in May 2003 Cantus was invited to perform at the Suase!  International Choral Festival in Cape Breton, N.S. where the group was recorded by CBC Radio Two.  Other performance highlights have included silver awards at the Peel and Kiwanis Music Festivals as well as performing for Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu at the Mississauga Living Arts Centre.  Cantus recently returned from a successful performance tour of the Cayman Islands in February 2004.  The group’s next performance is a feature lobby concert at Roy Thomson Hall as part of the Canadian Independent Schools Music Festival on May 2, 2004.  The impressive achievements of the Cantus Choir can be attributed to the students’ professionalism and passion for choral music. 

Posted on behalf of Lianne Tan at Appleby College, Oakville, Ontario.

-----Original Message-----
From: Lianne Tan [mailto:LTan@...]
Sent: 5-Apr-04 6:23 PM
To: j.tuttle@...; wpwright@...; Mark@...; cteeuws@...; William Renwick; Paul Grimwood; chris.dawes@...; cabena@...; loonsong@...; Brent Fifield; Simon Irving; hog@...; opustwo@...; gracemusic2@...; flufda@...; joverdui@...; cfischer@...
Cc: Lianne Tan
Subject: Wanted: Performers for Rachel Laurin Masterclass May 8
Importance: High

Hello organ teachers and friends,

We are looking for some participants to play for Rachel Laurin on the new Casavant organ at Appleby College on Saturday, May 8^th, 10 a.m. – noon.

Rachel had asked for participants to present works by Laurin, Daveluy or Cabena, but if you or your students would like to present other composers, do let me know and I will run it by her.

This is a wonderful opportunity, and I hope that you will encourage your students to perform, or consider it yourself!!

Please let me know in the next week or two if you would like perform, and do contact me if you have any questions!

Thanks for your help in passing this message along to interested people,

Lianne Tan

Appleby College

Ps. Attached is the flyer with other information about the day and Laurin’s concert on the Friday evening!