Elmer Iseler, Choral Visionary
’ÄúVISIONARY’Äù Concert & Book Launch
Celebrating 30th Anniversary Season
Sunday, September 21 at 7:00 p.m. at Our Lady of Perpetual
In addition to celebrating the Elmer Iseler Singers’Äô 30th anniversary season, this concert marks the 10th anniversary of Lydia Adams as Artistic Director and Conductor. Special guest Walter Pitman (O. C., O. On.) joins Canada’Äôs foremost vocal ensemble to introduce ’ÄúElmer Iseler, Choral Visionary’Äù (Dundurn Press 2008) - the first-ever biography of the choir’Äôs founder. With a personalized forward written by Jessie Iseler and over 50 black & white photos, the Iseler story belongs to the thousands of singers and hundreds of conductors that have ever sung and worked with Elmer Iseler. All proceeds of sales through the Elmer Iseler Singers go towards the work of the Elmer Iseler Singers.
Elmer Iseler was pivotal to the development of choral music in
The September 21 performance features John Beckwith’Äôs Sharon Fragments; Imant Raminsh’Äôs Ave Verum Corpus; Ruth Watson Henderson’Äôs Missa Brevis; Maurice Duruflˆ©’Äôs Quatre Motets (Ubi caritas, Tota pulchra es, Tu es Petrus and Tantum ergo); Henryk Miko‰Çaj Gˆ„recki’Äôs Totus Tuus, Op. 60; and Eric Whitacre’Äôs When David Heard.
The Elmer Iseler Singers Board of Directors is pleased to announce that this 2008/2009
’ÄúVISIONARY’Äù Concert and Book Launch: Sunday, September 21, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.
Our Lady of Perpetual
Special Guest: WALTER PITMAN, O.C., O. On.
Author of ’ÄúElmer Iseler, Choral Visionary’Äù (Dundurn Press)
Tickets: $35/ regular - $30/Seniors - $10/Students (with valid student i.d.)
Please call Janet Johnson at 416-217-0537 for tickets and information.
Labels: Choral, literature, Toronto
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