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Sing for peace

File consists of a recording of the concert.

Performers: Young Artists Festival Choir 2000 ; MacMillan Singers ; Doreen Rao, conductor ; George Brough, accompanist ; U of T Concert Choir.

Program:

  • Joy Sounds / Christopher Dedrick
  • Sing Ye to the Lord, Motet I = Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 225 / J.S. Bach
  • The Tender Land. The Promise of Living / Aaron Copland
  • Requiem for a Millenium / Brian Finley (Donna Bennett, soprano ; Kathryn Sadler, mezzo-soprano ; Stephen Erickson, tenor ; Giles Tomkins, bass ; Brian Finley, piano)
  • Witness / traditional spiritual (arr. Jack Halloran)
  • Five Mystical Songs. Excerpts / Ralph Vaughan Williams (Wayne Strongman, conductor ; Matt Leigh Smith, pianist)
  • Mi'kmaq Honour Song / Lydia Adams (Heather Eyerly, student conductor)
  • African Celebration / Stephen Hatfield (Doreen Rao, conductor).

African celebration!

File consists of a recording of the concert, which took place at MacMillan Theatre.

Performers: Nexus and the University of Toronto Choirs ; Kathy Armstrong, guest artist ; Wayne Strongman, director ; University Concert Choir ; Kathryn Sadler, Doreen Rao, conductors.

Program:

  • LAWA / Kathryn Sadler (Sarah Whalen, soloist)
  • Kungala! a place to sing and shout / Stephen Leek
  • Past Life Melodies / Sarah Hopkins (Andrew Burton, Ari Barnes, Rachel Pomedli, Martin Kratky, celli ; Kathryn Sadler, conductor
  • Ghana Alleluia / Kathy Armstrong
  • Jabula Jesu / Stephen Hatfield
  • African Funeral Tune / Traditional (Ghana) (arr. Nexus)
  • Shona Mass / Lee Kesselman
  • Fra Fra / Traditional (arr. Nexus)
  • African Celebration / Stephen Hatfield
  • Gahu Songs / William Cahn, Kathy Armstrong.

Fairest women in song

File consists of a program and recording of the concert by the High Park Girls Choir (Ann Cooper Gay, conductor ; Errol Gay, accompanist); Oriana Singers (William Brown, conductor ; Ruth Watson Henderson, accompanist); University of Toronto Women's Chorus (Doreen Rao, conductor ; Ted Mulroney, accompanist); Ithaca College Women's Chorale; and Dr. Janet Galvan, Guest Festival Conductor.

Program:

  • Dixit Dominus. Dixit Dominus / Baldassare Galuppi
  • Bogh predvichniy / Ukranian Carol (arr. Anonymous)
  • Rise up, my love / Eleanor Daley
  • The blooming bright star of Belle Isle / Newfoundland Folk Song (arr. Eleanor Daley)
  • Song for Christina / Errol Gay and Alexander Rapoport
  • Requiem. In Remembrance / Eleanor Daley
  • Heart we will forget him / James Mulholland (Erin Cooper Gay, horn)
  • I'se the B'y / Newfoundland Folk Song (arr. John E. Govedas) (John Govedas, piano)
  • Come Ye Makers of Song ; When Music Sounds ; Johnny's gone a-sailing ; Nell Flaherty's Drake / Ruth Watson Henderson
  • Missa Brevis. Kyrie ; Gloria / Stephen Hatfield
  • Angels are everywhere / Daniel Pinkham
  • Cantique de Jean Racine / Gabriel Fauré
  • Vestigia / Imant Raminsh (Mark Skazinetsky, violin ; Simon Fryer, cello)
  • Sanctus / Rupert Lang
  • Danny Boy / Irish Traditional (arr. Dana Wilson)
  • I cannot hold you / Dana Wilson
  • Guaya Canal / Cantan / Francisco Nunez
  • How do I love Thee / Nathan Christensen
  • Echoing Green / William Mathias
  • My heart's friend / Imant Raminsh
  • Fairest Lady / Nick Page
  • Mayim / Peter Rothbart.

Noël François

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

Performers: University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra ; Lorna MacDonald, soprano ; Elmer Iseler Singers ; MacMillan Singers ; Concert Choir ; Women's Chorus ; Doreen Rao, Lydia Adams, Wayne Strongman, conductors.

Program:

  • Jesous Ahatonhia / Ernest Myrand, Healey Willan
  • Venez, mes enfants / arr. Donald Patriquin
  • Noël c'est l'amour / arr. André Bellefeuille
  • Il est né le divin enfant / arr. Derek Holman
  • A la claire fontaine ; Vive la Canadienne / arr. R.S. Eaton
  • J'entends le moulin / arr. Keith Bissell (Christine Stelmacovich, mezzo soprano)
  • Silent Night / Gruber, arr. D. Willcocks
  • Il est né le divin enfant / arr. John Rutter
  • Litanies à la Vierge Noire / Francis Poulenc
  • Cantique de Jean Racine / Gabriel Fauré
  • Noël des enfants / Claude Debussy
  • Gloria / Francis Poulenc
  • Une Cantate de Noël. Laudate Dominum / Arthur Honegger (Michael Thomas, baritone.)

Conducting masterclass with Sir David Wilcocks

File consists of a program and recording of a concert in Walter Hall.

Program:

  • Ubi caritas / Imant Raminsh (Mary Piercey)
  • Rosa mystical / Benjamin Britten (Adam Adler)
  • Gloria III / Francis Poulenc (Patricia Empringham)
  • Gloria IV / Poulenc (John Bryan)
  • Chichester psalms II / Leonard Bernstein (Bina John)
  • O ignis spiritus / Raminsh (Marta McCarthy)
  • Schaffe in mir Gott / Johannes Brahms (Kevin Skelton).

The Elmer Iseler chair in conducting and the Elmer Iseler national graduate fellowships in choral conducting

File consists of a program and recording of a concert in Walter Hall.

Program:

  • Shades of love. Awake my heart / R. Watson Henderson (MacMillan Singers ; Doreen Rao, conductor)
  • Remarks from the Honourable Henry N.R. Jackman, David W. Beach, and Doreen Rao
  • O Magnum mysterium / Morten Lauridsen (Elmer Iseler Singers ; Lydia Adams, conductor)
  • Remarks by J. Robert S. Prichard, Vern Heinrichs
  • Presentation of the distinguished visitor award to Sir David Willcocks
  • Remarks by Iseler family member
  • Songs of farewell. There is an old belief / Hubert H. Parry (MacMillan Singers ; Elmer Iseler Singers ; Doreen Rao, conductor)
  • Remarks by the Honourable Henry N.R. Jackman.

A tribute to Elmer Iseler

File consists of a program and recording of the concert in MacMillan Theatre.

Performers: Doreen Rao, conductor ; Sir David Willcocks ; The Elmer Iseler Singers ; Lydia Adams ; Philip Thomson ; University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra ; MacMillan Singers ; Concert Choir ; Women's Chorus.

Program:

  • Fest Overture, op. 32 (on Eine feste Burg) / Otto Nicolai
  • Adagio, op. 11 / Samuel Barber
  • Fantasy for Piano, Choir and Orchestra, op. 80 / Ludwig van Beethoven (Philip Thomson, piano)
  • Messiah. Worthy is the Lamb that was Slain / George Frideric Handel
  • Zadok the Priest / George Frideric Handel
  • How Lovely is Thy Dwelling / Johannes Brahms
  • King David. The Death of David / Arthur Honegger
  • The Hour has Come (Poem VI) / Srul Irving Glick.

Conducting recital

File consists of a program and recording of a concert in Walter Hall by the University of Toronto Choral Lab Choir, led by Lee Bartel, Lori-Anne Doloff, and Doreen Rao, with Mia Bach, piano. The performance include some of the following repertoire.

Program:

  • Sanctus / L. Bernstein
  • Fare thee well, love / S. Calvert
  • At the river / A. Copland
  • In remembrance / E. Daley
  • Echo song / O. di Lasso
  • Missa brevis / S. Hatfield
  • Ave verum corpus / W.A. Mozart
  • Requiem. Excerpts / W.A. Mozart
  • My heart's friend / I. Raminsh
  • Keep your lamps / arr. Thomas
  • Rise up, my love, my fair one / H. Willan.

Conducting recital

File consists of a program and recording of a concert in Walter Hall by the University of Toronto Choral Lab Choir, led by Lee Bartel, Lori-Anne Doloff, and Doreen Rao, with Mia Bach, piano. The performance include some of the following repertoire.

Program:

  • Sanctus / L. Bernstein
  • Fare thee well, love / S. Calvert
  • At the river / A. Copland
  • In remembrance / E. Daley
  • Echo song / O. di Lasso
  • Missa brevis / S. Hatfield
  • Ave verum corpus / W.A. Mozart
  • Requiem. Excerpts / W.A. Mozart
  • My heart's friend / I. Raminsh
  • Keep your lamps / arr. Thomas
  • Rise up, my love, my fair one / H. Willan.

Three choir festival concert

File consists of a program from a concert at St. Basil's Church.

Performers: MacMillan Singers ; University Symphony Chorus ; Lori-Anne Dolloff, Doreen Rao, Stephen Cottrell, conductors ; Ohio State University Chorale ; Hilary Apfelstadt, director ; University of Wisconsin-Parkside: Voices of Parkside ; James Kinchen, conductor.

Program:

  • Regina Coeli, K. 276 / W.A. Mozart
  • Reincarnation, op. 16. Mary Hynes ; The Coolin / Samuel Barber
  • I want to die easy / arr. Roland Marvin Carter
  • I was glad / Hubert Parry
  • Hymn to the creator of light / John Rutter
  • Love divine / John Burge
  • Sing joyfully / William Byrd
  • Faire is the heaven / William Henry Hams
  • Five mystical songs / Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Venite populi, KV 260 / W.A. Mozart
  • Requiem. In remembrance / Eleanor Daley
  • Selections performed by Ohio State University Chorale.

Choral music on campus : University of Toronto Faculty of Music choirs in concert

File consists of a program from a concert at St. Basil's Church.

Performers: MacMillan Singers ; James Pinhorn, conductor ; University Symphony Chorus ; Lori-Anne Dolloff, conductor ; University Women's Chorus ; Doreen Rao, conductor ; Catherine Marguerite Robin, soprano ; Daniel Ohlmann, tenor ; Nicolas Zekulin, bass ; Tsz-Ni Lily Hong, piano ; Markus Howard, student conductor ; Daniel Mullin, piano ; Jurij Konje, percussion.

Program:

  • Missa Brevis / Nancy Telfer
  • Mass in G / Franz Schubert
  • A l'Espérance du monde / Ramona Luengen
  • Alleluia, Amen / Imant Raminsh
  • Mass (choral excerpts) / Leonard Bernstein.

The Lloyd Bradshaw choral tribute

File consists of a program for an event that took place in MacMillan Theatre.

Performers: 1996 Ontario Youth Choir ; Elmer Iseler, conductor ; Canadian Children's Opera Chorus ; John Tuttle, director ; Lloyd Bradshaw Alumni Choir ; David Fallis, coordinator ; University of Toronto MacMillan Singers ; Doreen Rao, director ; University of Toronto Symphony Chorus ; Lori Dolloff, Steven Cottrell, directors.

Program:

  • Psalm 150 / Benjamin Britten
  • Welcome lovely Spring. O lovely dove ; Welcome sweet pleasure / James H. Laster
  • Serenade to music / Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • The Turtle dove / Vaughan Williams
  • Frostiana. Choose something like a star / Randall Thompson
  • The Tender land. The Promise of living / Aaron Copland
  • Rise up my love ; I beheld her ; Behold the tabernacle / Healey Willan
  • Alleluia / Randall Thompson
  • The Pirates of Penzance. When the foeman bares his steel / Gilbert and Sullivan
  • H.M.S. Pinafore. Act II, Finale / Gilbert and Sullivan
  • O clap your hands / Vaughan Williams
  • Nobody knows the trouble / Spiritual, arr. John Barron
  • Ride the chariot / Spiritual, arr. W.H. Smith
  • Requiem. Requiem aeternam I ; In Remembrance ; Requiem aeternam II ; In paradisum / Eleanor Daley
  • Requiem. In paradisum / Gabriel Faure
  • A German requiem. In paradisum / Johannes Brahms
  • A Christmas cantata. Laudate Dominum / Arthur Honegger.

One century : three traditions : a contemporary choral concert with the University of Toronto

File consists of a program from a concert at Victoria University Chapel, University of Toronto.

Performers: MacMillan Singers ; Doreen Rao, conductor ; George Brough, piano

Program:

  • Songs of Springtime, nos. 1, 2, 7 / E.J. Moeran (Jennifer Hoover, cosnductor)
  • Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam / Benjamin Britten
  • Prayer I ; Rosa Mystica ; God's grandeur / Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Turtle dove / Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • O clap your hands / Vaughan Williams
  • O music / David Brunner (Meran Currie-Roberts, cello)
  • Alleluia / Randall Thompson
  • Keep your lamps / arr. Andre Thomas
  • Nobody knows / arr. John Barron (John Barron, conductor)
  • The storm is passing over / arr. Barbara Baker (Stephen Hatfield, piano)
  • Tenebrae factae sunt / Ramona Leungen
  • Fruhlingslied / Rainer Maria Rilke (Markus Howard, conductor)
  • Alleluia, Amen / Imant Raminsh
    *A Song to David. III Exaltabo Te / Derek Holman (Shannon Hill, mezzo soprano ; Nick Zekulin, baritone) [Canadian premiere]
  • Elibama ; Jabula Jesu / Stephen Hatfield (Kathy Armstrong , percussion) [Canadian premiere].

Mother and child : A celebration of women and children in song

File consists of a program and recording of a concert in Walter Hall by the University Women's Chorus, conducted by James Pinhorn, with the MacMillan Singers.

Program:

  • Thank you God : a child's prayer cycle. O Lord, hear my voice today ; I thank you God / John Burge
  • Missa Brevis / Stephen Hatfield
  • Spirit of the child / Rupert Lang
  • Las amarillas / Hatfield
  • Salve regina / Ramona Luengen
  • Faywood school songs / Larysa Kuzmenko
  • Missa brevis / Nancy Telfer
  • She's like the swallow / Lori-Anne Dolloff
  • A l'Esperance du monde / Ramona Luengen
  • Gloria / Ruth Watson Henderson (Doreen Rao, guest conductor).

University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra and choirs

File consists of a program and recording of a concert in MacMillan Theatre by the University of Toronto Choirs and Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Doreen Rao and Dwight Bennett.

Program:

  • Symphony no. 6 in F major, op. 68 / Ludwig van Beethoven (Symphony Orchestra ; Dwight Bennett, conductor)
  • Rodelinda. Art thou troubled? / Georg Friedrich Handel
  • Cantique de Jean Racine / Gabriel Faure (North York Festival Singers ; University Women's Chorus ; James Pinhorn, cosnductor)
  • Messe de Requiem / Faure (Doreen Rao, conductor).

Voices of many lands : University Women's Chorus

File consists of a program and recording of a concert in Walter Hall by the University Women's Chorus, conducted by James Pinhorn.

Program:

  • Cantata no. 37. Herr Gott Vater / J.S. Bach, arr. Doreen Rao
  • Pergolesi suite. Inflammatus et accentus ; Quando corpus / Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, arr. Doreen Rao
  • I'll give my love an apple / arr. Imant Raminsh
  • Fare thee well love / arr. Stuart Calvert
  • The blooming bright star of belle isle / arr. Eleanor Daley.
  • Vestigia ; My heart's friend ; The chariot children / Imant Raminsh
  • Nukapiangwaq / arr. Stephen Hatfield
  • Ya faraoule / arr. Stephen Hatfield.

University of Toronto Symphony Chorus and Orchestra

File consists of a program and recording of a concert in MacMillan Theatre by the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the University of Toronto Symphony Chorus, the MacMillan Singers, and the University Women's Chorus, conducted by Doreen Rao.

Program:

  • Serenade to music / Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Night music / Derek Holman
  • A song to David / Holman
  • Abdelazer. Rondeau / Henry Purcell
  • The young person's guide to the orchestra, op. 34 : variations and a fugue on a theme of Purcell / Benjamin Britten
  • The tender land / Aaron Copland.

University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra ; Symphony Chorus ; MacMillan Singers ; Victoria Scholars ; University Women's Chorus

File consists of a program from a concert by the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Chorus, MacMillan Singers, Victoria Scholars, and Women's Chorus, conducted by Doreen Rao, in MacMillan Theatre.

Program:

  • Love divine / John Burge (world premiere)
  • Alto rhapsody, op. 53 / Johannes Brahms (Patricia Kern, mezzo soprano)
  • Slavonic dances in C major, op. 72, no. 7 / Antonin Dvorak
  • Candide. Overture / Leonard Bernstein (Lorna MacDonald, soprano)
  • Glitter and be gay / Bernstein (Lorna MacDonald, soprano)
  • A Midsummer night's dream, op. 61 / Felix Mendelssohn (Teri Dunn, soprano ; Chirstine Stelmacovich, mezzo soprano).

The MacMillan Singers : Celebrate the legacy

File consists of a program from a concert by the MacMillan Singers, conducted by Doreen Rao, with guests Elmer Iseler, Derek Holman, and James Maben, in MacMillan Theatre.

Program:

  • God save the Queen / arr. Sir Ernest MacMillan
  • Ave Maria / Imant Raminsh
  • Three motets, op. 38 / Charles Villiers Stanford
  • Motet V, Komm, Jesu komm / Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Missa brevis / Leonard Bernstein
  • If music be the food of love / Jean Belmont
  • The present time. Selections / Derek Holman
  • Magic songs / R. Murray Schafer
  • St. John's song / Veljo Tormis
  • God bless the master / Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • De mornin' come / arr. Wendell Whalum
  • Amazing grace
  • Song of deliverance / Sir Ernest MacMillan.

Carmina burana

File consists of a program and recording of a production of Carmina Burana by Carl Orff, as performed by the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dwight Bennett; the University Symphony Chorus and MacMillan Singers, directed by Doreen Rao; the University Women's Chorus and Lord Roberts Jr. Public School Chorus, directed by James Pinhorn; and the York Region Children's Chorus, directed by Cathy Cassel, with Gary Brown, baritone; Erika Tanner, soprano; Dean Kustra, countertenor. The performance took place in MacMillan Theatre.

University Women's Chorus

File consists of a program and recording from a concert in Victoria College Chapel by the University Women's Chorus, directed by Ann Cooper Gay.

Program:

  • O holy fire / Bruce Nicol (world premiere)
  • Motet, op. 39, no. 1. Veni, domine / Felix Mendelssohn
  • Dixit dominus / Baldassare Galuppi
  • Songs of the lights, Set II. White feathers / Imant Raminsh
  • Wind / Bernhard Heiden
  • La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina. Aure volanti / Francesca Caccini
  • Velvet shoes / Louise Murchison Evans
  • In Springtime / Janet Stensaas
  • Poor man Lazrus / arr. Jester Hairston
  • Bolyongas / Bela Bartok
  • On suuri sun rantas autius / Matti Hyokki
  • Dodi li / Nira Chen, arr. Doreen Rao
  • A ghaoth andeas! / arr. Errol Gay.

A festival of Glorias

File consists of a program and a recording of a concert in MacMillan Theatre by the University Symphony Chorus, University Women's Chorus (directed by Ann Cooper Gay), Chamber Singers, and members of the University of Toronto Orchestra, Brass Quintet, and Percussion, conducted by Doreen Rao.

Program:

  • Gloria / Ruth Watson Henderson (world premiere)
  • Songs of the great land / David Bowser (world premiere)
  • Concerto no. 6. Gloria / Dmytro Bortnianski
  • Gloria / Imant Raminsh (Toronto premiere).

University of Toronto Chamber Singers

File consists of a program and a recording of a concert by the Chamber Singers, conducted by Doreen Rao, with guest artist Robert Aitken, flute in Walter Hall.

Program:

  • Gloria / Dominick Argento
    Laudamus te / Antonio Vivaldi
  • Quoniam - Cum sancto spiritu / Imant Raminsh
  • The fluteplayer / John Burge (Canadian premiere)
  • Liebeslieder waltzes, op. 52 / Johannes Brahms
  • Spirit of the dead / Larysa Kuzmenko
  • At the river ; Simple gifts ; The promise of living / Aaron Copland
  • Precious Lord, take may hand / Thomas A. Dorsey, arr. Arnold Seirei.

Northern lights

File consists of a program and recording of a concert by the University of Toronto Chamber Singers, conducted by Doreen Rao, in Victoria College Chapel and Walter Hall.

Program:

  • Nukapianquak / adapted by Stephen Hatfield
  • Two Innuit songs / Sid Robinovitch
  • Shaman songs / Gary Kulesha
  • Regina coeli, KV 267 / W.A. Mozart
  • The garden of Seraglio / Wilhelm Stenhammar
  • Who can sail? / arr. Agnestig
  • Domaredansen / arr. Hallberg
  • Shout the glad tidings / Ned Rorem
  • Gloria / Thomas Weelkes
  • Gloria / Imant Raminsh
  • Gloria / Dominick Argento
  • Songs of South Africa / Traditional (Kathy Armstrong, guest artist).

The University of Toronto Chamber Singers and Chamber Orchestra

File consists of a program and recording of a lecture-demonstration by the University of Toronto Chamber Singers and Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Doreen Rao, of selections from an all-Mozart concert that was performed at St. Thomas' Anglican Church in Toronto and Lincoln Center, New York City, as part of the Mozart Bicentennial "the Masses-in-Concert" series.

The University of Toronto Chamber Singers and Chamber Orchestra

File consists of a program from a concert by the University of Toronto Chamber Singers, conducted by Doreen Rao, and the University of Toronto Chamber Orchestra, as part of the Mozart Bicentennial at the Lincoln Centre.

Program:

  • O Gottes Lamm, K. 343 / Mozart (Teresa Dunn, soprano)
  • Als aus Aegypten, K. 343 / Mozart (Stacey Fraser, soprano)
  • Kommet her, ihr frechen Sunder, K. 146 / Mozart (Barbara Hannigan, soprano)
  • Symphony no. 29 in A, K. 201
  • Mass in C, K. 317 / Mozart (Sharla Nafziger, soprano ; Diana Kim, mezzo soprano ; Mark McCallen, tenor ; Christopher Ryan, bass).

Brahms : A German requiem

File consists of a program from a performance by the University Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conducted by Doreen Rao, of Brahms' A German Requiem, in MacMillan Theatre, with soloists Diana Kim, soprano and Russell Braun, baritone.

Choral music on campus

File consists of a program from a concert in MacMillan Theatre.

Program:

  • Brass salute (University Brass Quintet: Jason Czuba, Jane MacKay, John Balsillie, Paul Bird, Scott Harrison)
  • University Chorus, directed by James Pinhorn:
    • I wonder as I wander / arr. Keith Bissell
    • Veni, veni Emmanuel / arr. Zoltan Kodaly
    • Ding dong merrily on high / arr. Keith Bissell (James Pinhorn, director ; David Jones, piano)
  • University Women's Chorus, directed by Ann Cooper Gay:
    • Hodie / Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
    • The nightingale / Thomas Weelkes
    • Deck the halls / arr. John Rutter (Ann Cooper Gay, director)
  • University Symphony Chorus, directed by Doreen Rao:
    • A boy was born / Benjamin Britten
    • Virga Jesse / Anton Bruckner
    • Hodie Christus natus est / Jan Pieters Zoon Sweelinck
    • Lullaby for the Christ child / Ruth Watson Henderson (Rebecca Whelan, soprano)
    • Light one candle / Peter Yarrow, arr. R. DeCormier (Doreen Rao, director ; George Brough, piano)
  • Combined choirs, brass, and audience:
    • O come all ye faithful / arr. Derek Holman
    • Hark! the Herald angels sing / arr. Derek Holman
    • Deck the halls / arr. Derek Holman
  • Messiah / George Frideric Handel (Doreen Rao, director ; Shelagh Tyreman, soprano ; Vilma Vitols, alto ; Torin Chiles, tenor ; Randall Jakobsh, bass).

The University Symphony Chorus and The Contemporary Music Ensemble

File consists of a program and recording of a concert by the University Symphony Chorus, conducted by Doreen Rao, and the Contemporary Music Ensemble, conducted by Pierre Hetu and Gary Kulesha, in MacMillan Theatre.

Program:

  • Quartino / Henryk Gorecki
  • With how sad steps / Owen Underhill
  • An island in the moon / David Bedford
  • Cosmopolitan suite / Chan Ka Nin
  • The unanswered question / Charles Ives
  • Songs of the lights / Imant Raminsh
  • Shaman songs / Gary Kulesha.

Messiah sing

File consists of a recording of a concert by the University Symphony Chorus with members of the Hart House Orchestra and the University of Toronto Symphony, conducted by Doreen Rao, in MacMillan Theatre.

Chamber Singers

File consists of a program and recording of a concert by the Chamber Singers, conducted by Doreen Rao, in Walter Hall.

Program:

  • Motet I, BWV 225. Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied / J.S. Bach (Leslie Dala, organ)
  • Chichester psalms / Leonard Bernstein (Geoffrey Sangwine, countertenor ; Harbara Hannigin, soprano ; Nanette Masson, mezzo soprano ; Mark McCallen, tenor ; Julia Seager, harp ; Christopher Ryan, bass ; Craig Hunter, percussion ; Leslie Dala, piano)
  • Shakespeare songs / William Mathias (Leslie Dala, piano).

Concert Choir

File consists of a program and recording from a concert by the Concert Choir, conducted by Doreen Rao, in Knox College Chapel.

Program:

  • West Side Story. Choral selections / Leonard Bernstein
  • Magnificat / John Burge
  • Magnificat / Imant Raminsh (Diana Kim, mezzo-soprano).

Symphony Orchestra and Symphony Chorus

File consists of a program and recording from a concert by the Symphony Orchestra, guest conducted by Pierre Hetu, and the Symphony Chorus, directed by Doreen Rao, in MacMillan Theatre.

Program:

  • Regina coeli, K. 276/ W.A. Mozart (Maria Antonakos, soprano ; Diana Kim, mezzo-soprano ; Greg Carpenter, tenor ; Gary Brown, baritone ; Rosemary Thomson, conductor)
  • Venite populi, K. 260 (248a) / W.A. Mozart (Fabio Mastrangelo, conductor)
  • Litaniae lauretanae BMV, K. 195 / W.A. Mozart (Shelagh Tyreman, soprano ; Vanessa Grant, mezzo soprano ; Timothy Stiff, tenor ; Randall Jakobsh, baritone ; Jeremy Hughes, conductor).
  • Concerto no. 4 in G major for piano and orchestra, op. 58 / Ludwig van Beethoven (Guy Lalime, piano)
  • Symphonie fantastique / Hector Berlioz.

Choral music on campus : University Symphony Chorus ; University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra

File consists of a program and recording from a concert by the University Symphony Chorus and University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Doreen Rao, with special guests, the Royal Conservatory Children's Choir, directed by Rosemary Thomson, in MacMillan Theatre.

Program:

  • God bless the master / arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Dormi dormi / arr. Mary Goetze
  • The virgin Mary had a baby boy
  • Messiah / George Frideric Handel (Sharla Nafziger, soprano ; Diana Kim, mezzo-soprano ; Nils Brown, tenor ; Randall Jakobsh, bass).

Choral music on campus : Concert choir

File consists of a program and recording from a concert by the Concert Choir, conducted by Doreen Rao, in Knox College Chapel.

Program:

  • Sing joyfuslly! / William Byrd
  • Venite, populi, KV 260 (248a) / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Mass for prisoners of conscience. Sanctus / John Burge
  • Mass for double chorus. Agnus Dei / Frank Martin
  • Magnificat. Gloria / Imant Ramnishs (Diana Kim, mezzo soprano ; Leslie Dala, piano)
  • Cantate pour une joie / Pierre Mercure (Katerina Papadolis, soprano)
  • L'enfant et sles sortileges. The bewitched child / Maurice Rave
  • Une cantate de noel. Laudate dominum / Arthur Honegger (Tim Birtch, trumpet ; Leslie Dala, organ)
  • If music be the food of love / Jean Belmont
  • The birds / Benjamin Britten
  • A choral symphony. The hour has come / Srul Irving Glick
  • Songs of a prospector / Steven Chatman (conducted by student conductors Mark Huang, Barbara Hannigan, Linda Traversy, Alexa Wing, and Dean Jobin-Bevans ; Leslie Dala, piano) (Toronto premiere).

University Symphony Chorus ; Concert Choir ; Chamber Orchestra

File consists of a program and recording from a concert by the University Symphony Chorus, Concert Choir, and Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Doreen Rao in MacMillan Theatre. The concert featured a performance of Mass for the Prisoners of Conscience by John Burge with soloists Margaret Terry, mezzo soprano ; Russell Braun, baritone ; Arlene Penaranda, treble.

St. Nicolas / Benjamin Britten

File consists of an announcement for and recording of a production of St. Nicolas by Benjamin Britten by Glyn Evans, tenor, the University Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, and the Claude Watson School for the Arts elementary choir, conducted by Doreen Rao.

Concert Choir : A Saint Cecilia day tribute to Benjamin Britten

File consists of a program from a concert by the Concert Choir, conducted by Doreen Rao, at Knox College Chapel.

Program:

  • Fanfare for St. Edmundsbury / Benjamin Britten
  • Lay a garland / R.L. de Pearsall
  • Ode for St. Cecilia's day / Henry Purcell
  • A.M.D.G. Ad majorem Dei gloriam / Benjamin Britten (Canadian premiere)
  • Hymn to St. Cecilia / Benjamin Britten
  • The world is charged with the grandeur of God / Arthur Bliss
  • A child of our time. Deep river ; Steal away ; Nobody knows / Michael Tippett.

University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra

File consists of a program and recording of a concert by the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra, directed by Michel Tabachnik, and the University Symphony Chorus, directed by Doreen Rao, in MacMillan Theatre.

Program:

  • Egmont overture / Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Piano concerto no. 1, op. 10 in D-flat major / Sergei Prokofiev (Grace Kim, piano)
  • Symphony of psalms / Igor Stravinsky (University Symphony Chorus ; Carol Isaacs and Carolyn Maule, pianos)
  • Choral fantasy, op. 80 / Ludwig van Beethoven (Shelagh Tyreman, Lori Klassen, sopranos ; Pamela MacDonald, alsto ; Greg Carpenter, Mark McCallen, tenor ; Brett Polegato, baritone ; Jennifer Francis, piano ; University Symphony Chorus).

The art of contemporary choral music

File consists of a program and recording from a two-day workshop presented in cooperation with Boddington Music Ltd. and the Ontario Choral Federation. Participants included John Poole, 1990 Wilma and Clifford Smith Visitor in Music; Doreen Rao; University of Toronto Concert Choir; Agincourt Collegiate Senior Choir, directed by Lee Willingham; Earl Haig Concert Choir, directed by Mary Legge; and composers-in-residence John Beckwith and John Burge.

Choral music on campus

File contains a program and recording of a concert in MacMillan Theatre.

Performers: University Women's Chorus ; Ann Cooper Gay, conductor ; University Symphony Chorus and Orchestra ; Claude Watson School for the Arts Choir ; Glyn Evans, tenor ; Doreen Rao, conductor.

Program:

  • Magnificat / Donald Patriquin
  • Salvator mundi / William Mathias
  • Saint Nicolas, op. 42 / Benjamin Britten.

Concert choir salutes Robert Shaw

File consists of a program from a concert by the Concert Choir, conducted by Doreen Rao, at the Canadian Club, Royal York Hotel.

Program:

  • Le crie de joie / Pierre Mercure
  • Orkney lullaby / Donna Gartman Schultz
  • Make our garden grow / Leonard Bernstein.

Choral music on campus : Concert choir

File consists of a program from a concert by the Concert Choir, conducted by Doreen Rao, in a special presentation for the University of Toronto Alumni Association in the Torel Room. The choir was accompanied by Janko Kastelic and Ruth Watson Henderson, piano.

Program:

  • Sing joyfully / William Byrd
  • Solomon. Music, spread thy voice around / G.F. Handel
  • Orkney lullaby / Donna Gartman Schultz
  • Four love song waltzes / Johannes Brahms
  • Cantate pour une joie. A cry for joy / Pierre Mercure (Katerina Papadolios, soprano)
  • Candide. Make our garden grow / Leonard Bernstein (Lisa Lindo, soprano ; Alexandra Newland, mezzo-soprano ; James Pinhorn Tenor ; Marcos Pujol, bass).

University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra

File consists of a program and recording of a concert by the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Michel Tabachnik, with the University Symphony Chorus, conducted by Doreen Rao, in MacMillan Theatre.

Progam:

  • Quebec May / Jean Coulthard
  • Concerto for violin and orchestra / William Walton
  • Symphony no. 7 in A major, op. 92 / Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Schicksalslied, op. 54 / Johannes Brahms

University Symphony Chorus

File consists of a program and recording of a concert by the University Symphony Chorus, conducted by Doreen Rao, with the University Singers Mixed Chorus, conducted by Lee Willingham, and the University Women's Chorus, conducted by Ann Cooper Gay, in Walter Hall.

Program:

  • Psalm 100 / Henrich Schutz (University Singers)
  • Mass in G major / Franz Schubert (University Singers)
  • Salut printemps / Claude Debussy (University Women's Chorus)
  • Ave Maria / Godfrey Ridout (University Women's Chorus)
  • Psalm 121 / Imant Raminsh (University Women's Chorus)
  • Though Philomena lost her love / Thomas Morley (University Women's Chorus)
  • Fly not so fast / John Ward (University Women's Chorus)
  • Madrigal / Robert Fleming (University Women's Chorus)
  • Castles of sand / Veronika J. Krausas (University Women's Chorus)
  • Drink to me only / arr. Jonathan Willcocks (University Women's Chorus)
  • Black is the colour of my true love's hair / arr. Owen Goldsmith (University Women's Chorus)
  • The Shenandoah blues / David J. Elliott (University Women's Chorus)
  • Quebec May / Jean Coulthard (University Symphony Chorus).

University of Toronto Concert Choir

File consists of a program and recording from a concert by the Concert Choir, conducted by Doreen Rao, in Walter Hall.

Program:

  • Non vos relinquam orphanos / William Byrd
  • Ave verum corpus
  • Sing joyfully
  • Locus iste / Anton Bruckner
  • Ave Maria
  • Mass in G major, BWV 236 / J.S. Bach
  • Music, spread thy voice around / G.F. Handel
  • Lullaby / Imant Raminsh
  • In the arms of Morpheus / John Weinzeig (world premiere)
  • Orkney lullaby / Donna Gartman Schultz
  • Cantate pour une joie. A cry for joy / Pierre Mercure
  • Four love song waltzes / Johannes Brahms
  • Serenade to music / Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Candide. Make our garden grow / Leonard Bernstein.
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