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Streamed live on 10 May 2024

Under the Artistic Direction of Laurie Evan Fraser. Celebrating our 30th Anniversary with four world premieres. Special Guests: The Boys' Choir of Maurice Cody Junior Public School of Toronto

Along with old favourites, the anniversary concert features four world premieres: 

* We’ll Live in Harmony, with words and music by Maurice Cody School fifth grader Gwyneth Twyford, arranged for the school’s boys’ choir by Laurie Evan Fraser, and performed together with the Upper Canada Choristers’ tenors and basses.

* To Greet the Sun, a commissioned three-movement work by David Archibald, a University of Toronto Masters student in composition, who has woven fragments of three Canadian poems (The Heart of Night by Bliss Carmen, Day Dawn by E. Pauline Johnson/Tekahionwake, and Sunrise Along Shore by L.M. Montgomery) to embody and celebrate the hope and possibility in beginning anew.

* Little Robin, a song about new beginnings composed and conducted by choir member Matthew Secaur, with lyrics by his daughter, Fiona Ibaseta. The song reflects the concert theme of New Beginnings.   

* Heartshine – Brilla Corazón, composed by Laurie Evan Fraser with lyrics in English and Spanish by Jacqui Atkin and Jacinto Salcedo. 

Interspersed with these will be music by Ola Gjello and arrangements of the unofficial Cape Breton anthem We Rise Again, Billy Joel’s And So It Goes, the wistful Scottish song Loch Lomond, Over the Rainbow, and So Let’s Begin Again from John Rutter’s “entertainment”, The Reluctant Dragon.  Recalling its 2019 Peace Through Music visit to Japan, the choir sings Hana Wa Saku (Flowers Will Bloom), written in response to the devastating 2011 Tohoku Tsunami, which took 18,000 lives.

Cantemos sung Todo Cambia (Everything Changes) from Chile, and Quinta Anauco (known in English as It Never Ends), dedicated to the  city of Caracas, Venezuela.

“New beginnings are possible every day,” said Laurie Evan Fraser, “often evolving out of adversity. The challenges we face can be opportunities to reinvent ourselves and foster growth, inspiring the creation of songs that encourage resilience and solidarity, hope and faith, and inner strength.”

Recorded on Friday, December 1, 7:30 p.m.

Navidad Nuestra, a folk drama telling the story of the Nativity through the rhythms and traditions of Hispanic America, ushers in the holidays when the Upper Canada Choristers and their accomplished Latin ensemble Cantemos present A Seasonal Journey.

With Laurie Evan Fraser conducting, pianist Hye Won (Cecilia) Lee, and guest musicians, the performance took place at Grace Church on-the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale Road, Toronto. Special Guests: Sikuris St Lawrence.

Streamed on Friday, December 2nd, 2022. 

Recorded on Friday Oct 2nd, 2020 at 7:30 PM.

Grabado el Viernes 2 de Octubre de 2020, a las 7:30 PM.

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