Amadeus Choir of Greater Toronto

presents

Earth Songs, Love Songs

Lydia Adams, conductor Shawn Grenke, piano

GUEST HOSTS:

Joan Andrews Anne Parks

FEATURING:

Bach Children’s Chorus and Bach Chamber Youth Choir, Linda Beaupré, conductor

Eleanor Daley, piano

Ruth Watson Henderson, piano

Ed Reifel, percussion

Samuel Morgenstein, percussion

Program:

I Will Sing Unto the Lord by Imant Raminsh*

text from Psalm 104

Salutation of the Dawn by Eleanor Daley*

Sanskrit (4th Century)

Presentation to the Ontario Trillium Foundation

Voices of Earth by Ruth Watson Henderson*

text from Canticle of the Sun by St. Francis of Assisi and poems by Archibald Lampman

Prologue – I – II – III – IV – V – Epilogue Intermission

Intermission

Liebeslieder Walzer, Op. 52 by Johannes Brahms

text from Polydora by G.F. Daumer English translation by Basil Swift

Laudate Dominum by W.A. Mozart

from Vesperae solennes de Confessore, K. 339

Prayer for Peace by Eleanor Daley*

attributed to St. Francis of Assisi

*Canadian Composer