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Review: Grand Philharmonic Chamber Singers/Dyck

Grand Philharmonic Chamber Singers | Waterloo | Howard Dyck, baton (in today’s Record)
Saturday evening’s Grand Philharmonic Chamber Singers concert was billed as a choral odyssey with the program containing pieces from different countries and in different languages, really related only on the basis of their sacred provenance. This strategy can sometimes end in tears but [...]

Review: Grand Phil Choir/Bradley, Enns Modolo, Shaw, Watson

The Grand Philharmonic Choir at the Centre In The Square, Kitchener. (A lightly edited version of this review appears in today’s Kitchener-Waterloo Record.)
Rossini Petite Messe Solonelle
with Leslie Ann Bradley, Jennifer Enns Modolo, Eric Shaw and Sean Watson.
Howard Dyck, baton.
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) hoped that Petite Messe Solonnelle, written in 1863 to satisfy the commission of a [...]

Review: Messiah with the Grand Philharmonic Choir

An edited version appears in today’s Kitchener-Waterloo Record.
Practically every choral society, no matter how meagre their resources, mounts an annual production of Messiah, by leaps and bounds Handel’s most famous work. There is something quite satisfying about participating in an event, knowing the same performance is being given in communities all across the world. [...]

Review: Jugendsängerfest

A review of the Grand Philharmonic Youth Choir/ Jugendsangerfest concert on Saturday evening. In the printed version, the sub rather humerously translated “r’s” as “aaar’s”.
The Jugendsängerfest (Young Singer’s Festival for readers who don’t have a German dictionary to hand) is modelled on a local tradition from the late 19th century where choirs from [...]