La Scena Musicale Valentine's Day Choral Extravaganza

[Version franˆßais]

February 14, 2009 at 8 PM, Pollack Hall
555 Sherbrooke West, Montreal
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Four Centuries of Love Songs

3 Choirs
Concerto Della Donna,
Studio de musique ancienne de Montrˆ©al,
Musica Orbium

3 Conductors
Iwan Edwards
Christopher Jackson
Patrick Wedd

ONE Unforgettable Evening

VIP Tickets: $130 (including pre-concert reception and a $100 tax receipt). Buy 2 VIP tickets and receive a FREE 1-year subscription to LSM.
Reception:

• 6:30 PM-7:45 PM: pre-concert reception - food and wine will be served
• Intermission: Dessert reception, including a chocolate fountain
  

Concert Tickets:
30 $ (regular);
20 $ (seniors);
20 $ (students)

BONUS: Free Discovery CD

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Telephone Orders (until February 14 at 3 PM): 514-948-2520 ’Ä¢ gala2009@scena.org

Also on sales at
McGill Box Office: 514-398-4547
Admission Outlets: 514-790-1245

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Concert Program

Concerto Della Donna
Director: Iwan Edwards
Assistant director: Amy Henderson

Minnelied (Op. 4 Heft 1) ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ.......Johannes Brahms

Embraceable you...’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ.....Ira and George Gershwin, arr. Arne Dagsvik

Autumn of love (Seasons of love, No. 3) ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ......Eleanor Daley

Dacw ’Äònghariad I lawr yn y berllan ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ............. arr. Grace Williams

Bonjour, mon c‰ìur.....’Ķ’Ķ...........Orlando di Lasso, arr. Norman Greyson

It was a lover and his lass........’Ķ’Ķ..’Ķ..’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ..........Ward Swingle

Musica Orbium

Patrick Wedd, directeur artistique

Songs and Sonnets from Shakespeare .................................George Shearing

Live with me and be my love
When daffodils begin to peer
It was a lover and his lass
Spring
Who is Sylvia?
Fie on sinful fantasy
Hey, ho, the wind and the rain

-----------------------------------------------------Intermission-----------------------------------------------------------

Studio de musique ancienne de Montrˆ©al
Direction artistique: Christopher Jackson

Cantique des cantiques.......................................Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Introduxit me rex

Vox dilecti mei

Surge, propera, amica mea

Vidi speciosam’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’ĶTomas Luis de Victoria

Combined Choirs

Tous unis en chanson ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ......Paul Halley
Lieto godea sedendo ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ.......Giovanni Gabrieli
Las agachadas ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ................Aaron Copland