7:30 pm - Bach to Bernstein!!
Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms is a challenging choral work, commissioned for the 1965 Southern Cathedrals' Festival at Chichester Cathedral. It has been described as one of Bernstein’s most exhilarating scores. Some material for this work was actually recycled from a musical that Bernstein never completed, The Skin of Our Teeth, and from early sketches of West Side Story, which was initially to have involved a Jewish-American gang. That’s the Bernstein part of this Spring concert. To discover just how we manage to take you from “Bach to
Bernstein”, you’ll have to join us at the concert!
Oriana Singers
St. Peter's Anglican
Church, 240 King st at College

8:00 pm - Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan
Evergreen Club is Canada’s first performing gamelan and is the only ensemble of its kind in Canada dedicated to the commissioning and performance of contemporary music. Audiences have been transfixed by their ravishing sounds. Evergreen Club is an eightmember ensemble that performs on bronze and wooden instruments collectively known as a gamelan, the traditional instrumental ensemble of the Indonesian archipelago. The group will perform both contemporary works and the traditional Sundanese music of West Java.