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BEGINNINGS Vancouver Chamber Choir Kari Turunen, Conductor 7:30PM | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2019 PACIFIC SPIRIT UNITED CHURCH, 2205 W 45TH AVE AT YEW ST
VA N C O U V E R C H A M B E R C H O I R
Artistic Director Kari Turunen began leading
the Vancouver Chamber Choir - one of Canada’s
premier professional choral ensembles - in
September 2019, its 49th concert season.
Board of Directors
George Laverock
Jon Washburn founded the choir in 1971 and it has
President become an amazing success story, ranking with
Dr. Jeanette Gallant (Oxford) the handful of North America’s best professional
Vice President choruses and noted for its diverse repertoire and
Adam J. Garvin, CPA, CMA performing excellence. The choir has presented
Treasurer concerts at home in Vancouver and on tour across
Brent Hunter Canada. International excursions have taken them
Secretary to the USA, Mexico, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Finland, France, Germany,
Matthew Baird the Czech Republic, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine.
Anne Bonnycastle
Honoured with the Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence by Chorus America, the choir
Dr. Donna Hogge
Wendy Kish has performed countless concerts and broadcasts, released 36 recordings and received numerous
Colin Miles awards. Foremost supporters of Canadian music, they are responsible for 334 choral works by 145
Dr. Robert Rothwell composers and arrangers, most of whom are Canadian. Over the years the choir has sung over
Dolores Scott 4,000 performances of works by Canadian composers, in addition to their extensive international
Anthony G.V. Tobin repertoire.
Cara Ventura
Marianne Werner The choir’s award-winning educational programs include the National Conductors’ Symposium
Jennifer Wilnechenko for advanced choral conductors, Interplay interactive workshops for choral composers, Focus
professional development program for student singers, OnSite visitations for school choirs, the
Honorary Patrons biennial Young Composers Competition, and many on-tour workshops and residencies.
John Bishop
Stephen Chatman
Tama Copithorne
David Cousins KARI TURUNEN, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Dr. Stephen Drance, O.C.
Sam Feldman Kari Turunen is the new Artistic Director of the Vancouver Chamber
Charles Flavelle Choir and the former artistic director of the male chorus Akademiska
Violet Goosen Sångföreningen, Kampin Laulu chamber choir, the choir of the cantors
Janis Hamilton
of the Finnish Lutheran Church, Chorus Cantorum Finlandiae, the all-
Ben Heppner, O.C.
Don Hudson male Ensemble Petraloysio and the Spira Ensemble. He has won numerous
Doris Luking prizes at national and international festivals with his groups. He was
Dr. John MacDonald, O.C. named choral conductor of the year in Finland in 2008.
Viviane Nitting Dr. Turunen was educated at the University of Helsinki and the Sibelius
Imant Raminsh
Elizabeth Rathbun
Academy. He has a Master’s degree in choral conducting and a Doctorate in
R. Murray Schafer early music performance practice from the University of the Arts, Helsinki.
He tries to balance scholarly activities with his artistic work and firmly
Administrative Staff believes that scholarship and performance can greatly benefit each other.
Dr. Kari Turunen He is a sought-after guest conductor, adjudicator, clinician and teacher of choral conducting, both in
Artistic Director Finland and abroad. He has also acted as the chairman of the Finnish Choral Directors’ Association
Steven Bélanger from the mid-90s until 2017 and is the artistic director of Aurore, an annual Renaissance music
Executive Director
festival in Helsinki.
Jon Washburn, C.M.
Founder & Conductor Emeritus Before becoming a full-time conductor, Dr. Turunen taught choral conducting and was the head
Nat Marshik of choral activities at the School of Music of the Polytechnic University of Tampere from 2001 to
Bookkeeper/Office Coordinator 2011. He is also a founding member of Lumen Valo, a professional vocal ensemble of eight voices.
Karen Seaboyer Lumen Valo has been a driving force on the early music scene in Finland since its conception in
Manager, Communications & Production 1993 and has made a name for itself in almost 250 concerts around Finland and Europe. The group
has recorded nine CDs, all of them critically acclaimed for their fresh programming and quality of
Vancouver Chamber Choir singing.
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CHAMBER CHOIR KARI TURUNEN, CONDUCTOR
sopranos
Emily Cheung
Christina Cichos
Beth Currie (Buono) BEGINNINGS
Lorraine Reinhardt
Madeline Lucy Smith
altos The Campers at Kitty Hawk Michael Dellaira
Dinah Ayre (b. 1949)
Martina Govednik
Hilary Ison
Fabiana Katz Virgo prudentissima Heinrich Isaac
Dolores Scott (c. 1450-1517)
tenors
Ian Bannerman
Eric Biskupski
Alouette Meets Her Maker Chris Sivak
(b. 1982)
Tom Ellis
Eric Schwarzhoff Christina Cichos, soprano
Taka Shimojima
basses
Four Songs of Love Sven-David Sandström
Steven Bélanger (1942-2019)
Jacob Gramit
Paul Nash
George Roberts
Wim Vermeulen INTERMISSION
Sonnet No. 76 Alfred Janson
(1937-2019)
Steven Bélanger, baritone
Icarus Kristopher Fulton
(b. 1978)
Piedzimšana (Birth) Pēteris Vasks
(b. 1946)
Fabiana Katz, drum
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Stage Management
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Archival Recorder
Pre-Concert Talks
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3N E W H O N O R A RY PAT R O N
Elizabeth Rathbun
You many have noticed that on page two of tonight’s concert program, we have added a number
of new Honorary Patrons. These are all people who have given strong support to the Vancouver
Chamber Choir in various ways over the years.
Today we are honouring Elizabeth Rathbun, who was the General Manager of the choir from 1980 to
1988. This was a tremendous growth period for the choir in many ways, including an expansion from 16
to 20 singers. She oversaw the conversion from budgeting with pencil and paper to Excel spreadsheets
on computer. During her period of leadership the choir held its first National Conductors’ Symposium
at UBC, sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts, and also collaborated in concerts with both
L’Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne (Michel Corboz) and the King’s Singers. Another highlight during
her tenure was the first overseas tour (in 1987) to China and Hong Kong. She was instrumental in
negotiations with the City of Vancouver to acquire and renovate the administrative offices of the choir
on the lower level of Hodson Manor, and she helped create the choir’s first three-year Strategic Plan.
Many recordings, commissions and tours took place during her eight years. “I loved nothing more than departing YVR on a
two-to-three-week tour with the choir and leaving behind the burdens of the office. I loved that time with the singers and the
repeated concerts in locations as disparate as Moosomin, Saskatchewan; Corner Brook, Newfoundland; and Little Rock, Arkansas!
I also relished the long-range planning sessions which took place every July together with Jon Washburn and Violet Goosen (Tour
Manager at the time).”
Elizabeth served on the British Columbia Arts Council, as founding president of Elektra Women’s Choir, and as a founding board
member of the Turning Point Ensemble. Leading up to the inaugural Festival Vancouver in the year 2000 she served as Assistant
Director, and she sang with Elektra Women’s Choir for 20 years.
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4P R O G R A M N O T E S , T E X T S & T R A N S L AT I O N S
BEGINNINGS
This first program of the 2019-2020 season and my tenure as Artistic Director of the Vancouver Chamber Choir is, unsurprisingly,
focused on Beginnings. I have chosen choral works that celebrate the commencement of something new, even if these stories do not all
end all that well. There are the Wright brothers taking flight, a new emperor being crowned, the first Canadian satellite, and there is Icarus
flying too close to the sun, as well as the Spring emerging from the cold sky. And there is naturally also love, the beginning of beginnings.
I also wanted to include Alfred Janson’s wonderful interpretation of Shakespeare’s defence of always writing in the same style. Its wonderful
lines (“So all my best is dressing old words new / Spending again what is already spent”) are both a defence of my taste in music and a call
to remain curious about music and styles less familiar to me. Whilst in the 2019–2020 season there will be an emphasis on things well-
known to me – early music, choral classics, music from Northern Europe and the music of living composers – I will be keeping a sharp
lookout on all things new and local. This season is in itself only the beginning of a journey and I am proud to embark on that journey
today in your presence. I have a feeling that this might just be the beginning of a beautiful friendship!
Michael Dellaira:
The Campers at Kitty Hawk
Michael Dellaira, a New York-based composer, is best known for his vocal, opera, musical theatre and choral music. Rather than
composing in a fixed style, Dellaira’s approach is from one context and text to another. The composer writes: “The […] U.S.A. Stories are
based on texts borrowed from The Big Money, the third novel in John Dos Passos’ trilogy USA. Dos Passos’ prose style in these portraits
[…] is characterized by long sentences and irregular rhythms, witty alliterations and colloquialisms. As a former rock musician, I found
them appealingly close to the spirit of pop lyrics, but of course without being lyrics at all.” He also characterizes the movement on the
Wright brothers’ flight to be representative of an important strand of American culture: ”… the promise of American progress, a blend
of science, utility, and risk.”
The Campers at Kitty Hawk
On December seventeenth nineteen hundred and three Bishop Wright of the United Brethren received a telegram from his
boys Wilbur and Orville, who’d gotten it into their heads to spend their vacation in a little camp out on the dunes of the North
Carolina coast with a homemade glider they’d knocked together themselves. The telegram read: SUCCESS FOUR FLIGHTS
THURSDAY MORNING AGAINST TWENTY ONE MILE WIND STARTED FROM ENGINE POWER ALONE.
The figures were a little wrong but the fact remains a couple of young bicycle mechanics from Dayton Ohio had designed and
flown for the first time ever a practical airplane.
In those days flying machines were the big laugh of all the cracker-barrel philosophers. They were practical mechanics; when
they needed anything they built it themselves. They hit on Kitty Hawk on the great dunes and sandy banks that stretch south to
Hatteras seaward. Overhead the gulls and swooping terns, fish hawks and cranes flapping across the salt marshes.
They were alone there and figured out the loose sand was as soft as anything they could find to fall in, taking off again and again
from Kill Devil Hill they learned to fly. Aeronautics became the sport of the day, congratulated by the czar, crown prince, the
King of Italy, King Edward for universal peace.
Taking off again and again they learned to fly. In the rush of new names the Brothers Wright passed from the headlines: Bleriot,
Farman, Curtiss, Ferber, Esnault, Petrie, Delagrange can blur the memory of the chilly December day two shivering bicycle
mechanics first felt their homemade contraption soar into the air, above the dunes of Kitty Hawk.
“I released the wire that held the machine to the track. The machine started forward into the wind. Wilbur ran at the side holding
the wing. The machine started slowly facing twenty seven mile wind, it lifted from the track. Wilbur was able to stay with it until
it lifted from the track after a forty foot run. The course of the flight up and down was erratic, the first flight in the history of the
world. The machine carried a man by his own power into the air in full flight forward without reduction of speed landed at a
point as high as that from which it started.”
When these points had been firmly established we packed our goods and returned home, knowing that the age of the flying
machine had come at last. – John Dos Passos
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5Heinrich Isaac:
Virgo prudentissima
This motet was written by Heinrich Isaac in 1507 for the Reichstag in Konstanz that confirmed Maximilian I as the Emperor of the Holy
Roman Empire. It is famous for several reasons: it is scored for six voice parts, not at all the norm at the turn of the 16th century; it is
huge in scope; it incorporates Isaac’s lengthy benediction to the new Emperor within a traditional antiphon, including a reference to
the composer (the Latin form Georgius) himself; the work manages simultaneously to pay tribute to earlier musical greats (tenor motet
tradition; mensural tradition) and to look forward (especially the use of motifs); and, above all, it is a magnificent piece of music. Isaac
juxtaposes solo and tutti sections, polyphonic and homophonic passages and creates wonderful sonorities. The ending has an energy that
is contagious.
Virgo prudentissima quæ pia gaudia mundo When the most wise Virgin, who brought holy joy to the world,
attulit, ut sphæras omnes transcendit et astra rose above all the spheres and left the stars beneath her
sub nitidis pedibus radiis, et luce chorusca shining feet in gleaming, radiant light, she was surrounded
liquit et ordinibus iam circumsepta novenis by the ninefold Ranks and received by the nine Hierarchies.
ter tribus atque ierarchiis excepta. Supremi She, the friend of suppliants, stood before the face of the
ante Dei faciem steterat, patrona reorum. supreme God. You who inhabit eternally the dazzling
Dicite qui colitis splendentia culmina Olimpi: lights of Heaven – Archangels, leaders of the spirits, and
Spirituum proceres, Anchangeli et Angeli et alme Angels, and sustaining virtues, and you thrones of princes,
Virtutesque Throni vos Principum, et agmina sancta, and you holy armies and you powers, and you dominions
vosque Potestates, et tu dominatio cæli of Heaven, and you fiery Cherubim, and you Seraphim,
flammantes Cherubin, verbo Seraphinque creati, created from the Word – say whether such a feeling of joy
an vos lætitiæ tantus perfuderit unquam has ever overwhelmed you as when you saw the assembly
sensus, ut æterni Matrem vidisse tonantis of the Mother of the everlasting Almighty. She is the queen,
consessum. Cælo, terraque, marique potentem powerful in Heaven, on land and at sea; every Spirit and
Reginam, cuius nomen modo spiritus omnis every human being rightly praises and adores her divine
et genus humanum merito veneratur adorat. majesty. >>
FOCUS ON CLASSICS Interplay
Interactive Workshops for
Composers with Kari Turunen
and the Vancouver Chamber Choir
VANCOUVER, BC:
OCTOBER 30, 2019 & MARCH 25, 2020
Deadlines for Vancouver workshops
October 1, 2019 for the October 30 workshop
7:30PM | FRIDAY, OCT 18, 2019 February 7, 2020 for the March 25 workshop
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WITH THE FOCUS CHOIR OF UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE SINGERS Composers are allotted individual rehearsal time (usually 30–45 mins)
CHLOE MEYERS & ELYSSA LEFURGEY-SMITH, VIOLINS with the Vancouver Chamber Choir and Kari Turunen. This time may be
ALEXANDER WEIMANN & NATALIE MACKIE, CONTINUO used to test completed work and/or try out new concepts. Choir,
Monteverdi and Schütz must have been soulmates. Monteverdi conductor, and composer dialogue about musical and technical
grew up in the rolling landscapes of Catholic Tuscany, while features, strengths, flaws, textures, colours, notations and many other
Schütz was in Protestant central Germany, but their musical aspects of successful choral writing. Each workshop is closely tailored
forms and ideals are uncannily similar. Their gift for setting texts to the needs and interests of the individual composer.
to music and enhancing the words made everything sound
natural. Buxtehude, Mendelssohn and Brahms were also There is no charge to composers for this workshop, thanks to the
masters of breathing life into words. generous support of the SOCAN Foundation.
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6Vos, Michael, Gabriel, Raphael testamur ad aures You, Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, we beg you to pour
illius, ut castas fundetis vota precesque out to her chaste ears our prayers and entreaties for the
pro sacro Imperio, pro Cæsare Maximiliano. sacred Empire and for Maximilian the Emperor. May the
Det Virgo omnipotens hostes superare malignos: all-powerful Virgin grant that he may conquer his wicked
restituat populis pacem terrisque salutem. enemies and restore peace to the nations and safety to the
Hoc tibi devota carmen Georgius arte lands. With faithful skill Georgius, the emperor’s Precentor and
ordinat Augusti Cantor Rectorque Capellæ. Kapellmeister, rehearses this anthem for you. The Governor
Austriacæ præsul regionis, sedulus omni, of the Province of Austria, diligent in all things, earnestly
se in tua commendat studio pia gaudia mater. commends himself to your holy pleasure, mother. The highest
Præcipuum tamen est Illi quo assumpta fuisti, place, however, belongs to Him by whom you were taken up,
quo tu pulchra ut luna micas electa es, et ut sol. so that you shine beautiful as the moon, excellent as the sun.
Cantus firmus: Cantus firmus:
Virgo prudentissima, quo progrederis, Virgin most wise, where are you going,
quasi aurora valde rutilans? Filia Sion. Daughter of Sion, shining out as brightly as the dawn?
Tota formosa et suavis es: You are most comely and merciful,
pulchra ut luna, electa ut sol. beautiful as the moon, excellent as the sun.
– Traditional; Heinrich Isaac
Chris Sivak:
Alouette Meets Her Maker
The Alouette I was the first Canadian satellite and was launched on September 26th, 1962. The launch made Canada the third nation,
after the USSR and the United States, to design and construct its own satellite and cemented Canada’s reputation as a space-faring
nation. Alouette’s mission lasted for 10 years before she was deliberately switched off on September 30th, 1972. She remains in orbit – as
a derelict – to this day.
In this piece, Alouette’s circuits inexplicably come alive after remaining dormant for over 30 years. As she becomes aware once again of
her orbit and proximity to earth she hears an inexplicable voice from deep space. The voice calls to her soothingly until its intentions are
revealed to be malicious once it threatens to literally pluck her from the sky (i.e. “Je te plumerai”).
Alouette panics and sends out desperate pleas for help but she can’t fight the forces pulling her to her doom. She careens to the ground below,
exploding in a fiery heap. The piece closes with the last gasp of life from her circuits before they are silenced forever. – Chris Sivak
Alouette, gentille Alouette, Lark, nice lark,
Alouette, je te plumerai. lark, I will pluck you.
– Folksong
Sven-David Sandström:
Four Songs of Love
Swedish composer Sven-David Sandström passed away in June. He was, in my view, one of the most important contemporary composers,
and especially his choral music has all the makings of a classical body of works. Four Songs of Love is from 2008 and belongs to his later
style, in which tonality is strongly present and a certain simplicity has taken over from the complexities of his earlier works. Four Songs of
Love is full of beauty, of lingering and of sensitivity to the poems. The music is dominated by a dialogue between the lovers (male voices
/ female voices) and many characteristics of Sandström’s choral music are ever-present: an orchestration of the choir by dividing the six
voice parts into anything between three and twelve parts, rich harmonies and the idiosyncratic “Sandströmian” small tremolos.
Let him kiss me with kisses of his mouth; Awake, o north wind
for thy love is better than wine. and come thou south;
Behold, thou art fair my love, blow upon my garden
thou hast doves’ eyes. that the spices thereof may flow out.
Let my beloved come
Until the daybreak, into his garden
and the shadows flee away, and eat his pleasant fruits.
turn, turn, my beloved,
and be thou like a roe or a young hart His left hand shall be under my head
upon the mountains of Bethor. and his right hand shall embrace me.
– Song of Songs (extracts from Chapters 1, 2, 4, 8)
7Alfred Janson: Kristopher Fulton:
Sonnet No. 76 Icarus
I only came across this work by a Norwegian composer last I had the good fortune of conducting the premiere of this work
winter and was immediately enchanted by the piece. Incredibly by Vancouver-based composer Kristopher Fulton when guest
enough, Alfred Janson died just weeks before Sven-David conducting the Laudate Singers here in 2007, when I had no
Sandström. I had programmed the works of both men for this idea I could ever end up where I am today. It thus felt only
concert well in advance of their demise – and perhaps this gives natural to include Icarus in this program as the third piece
deeper meaning to my initial program title: Beginnings – and on flying objects. Icarus has all the optimism of the Wright
endings. Janson’s work is from 2000 and both its harmonies brothers, but unfortunately the end is more reminiscent of our
and rhythmic patterns make it easy to understand that his satellite Alouette. Fulton’s work is scored for eight voices and
background was in jazz music. A reciting soloist (‘Baritone or has the same kind of ternary structure as Janson’s sonnet. In
Singing Actor’) has the main role in the beginning and end of the same manner the beginning and ending are more stagnant,
the work, while the middle section, in which the choir takes with sumptuous harmonies, and the middle part, a depiction of
over, is more dynamic, rhythmic and expressive. the flight, is energetic, rhythmical and soaring.
Why is my verse so barren of new pride, Icarus was boy destined to fall
So far from variation or quick change? Wondering at the sight of birds taking flight
Why with the time do I not glance aside And soaring far above the Earth.
To new-found methods, and to compounds strange?
Icarus dreams of flying,
Why write I still all one, ever the same,
receives his wings made by his father and
And keep invention in a noted weed,
Climbs up to the highest cliffs of his island prison and
That every word doth almost tell my name,
Prepares to take flight.
Showing their birth, and where they did proceed?
O! know sweet love I always write of you, Fly! Icarus the flying boy,
And you and love are still my argument; Screaming through the clouds above the Earth.
So all my best is dressing old words new,
Spending again what is already spent: Icarus slows his flight over Earth
For as the sun is daily new and old, far above the shores on his mainland home.
So is my love still telling what is told. Deciding whether or not to land.
Reflecting, debating, will he leave his new home
– William Shakespeare in the Heavens?
Icarus takes one last look at the Earth
and turns back toward the sky.
Icarus the flying boy,
Screaming through the clouds and sky.
Icarus, flying higher with each moment,
soars into the sky
And into the golden sun and falls…
… under his wings of wax.
– Kristopher Fulton
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8Pēteris Vasks:
Piedzimšana
If Sven-David Sandström’s choral works belong to the very best of the last 50 years, the same can be said of the choral works of Latvian
composer Pēteris Vasks. Vasks is a serious, uncompromising composer whose works still reach out to broader audiences thanks to
their emotional strength and high quality. Piedzimšana (Birth) is almost a mythical voyage into the rebirth of nature – and perhaps a
nationality, or even humankind. It is a cornucopia that seems to spill out new textures and elements, all anchored in limited musical
material. It waxes and wanes and winds its way to a hair-raising ending.
Saulīt manu augstu radu The sun is a great kin of mine
Ziemelim aizprecēta Married to the northern wind
Tāda nakte tāda diena Through the night through the day
Neredz sauli šai zemē The sun is gone from these lands
Vidū jūras vidū ledus Amidst the sea, amidst the ice
Saule kāra šūpulīti The sun hung up a cradle
Tur līgoja rīta ausma Where the dawn rocked away
Tur auklēja auseklīti And the morning star was nurtured
Nedod zemi nedod sauli Don’t let the earth, don’t let the sun
Ziemelim vārdzināt For the northern wind to weaken
Liesim varu, kalsim ratus Let us pour copper let us forge a wagon
Lai brauc saule skanēdama So the sun can ride forth resounding
Vara rati cauri brauca The copper wagon rode on
Grieztin grieza asi ledi The sharp ice churning churned
Tumša jūra sarktin sarka The dark red sea reddening reddened
No saulītes asinīm From the blood of the sun
Uz tām rīta robežām On the morning boundaries
Dzīvs ar dzīvu satikās The life is reborn
Zeme deva augumiņu The shape from the earth
Saule savu dvēselīti The soul from the sun
– Inese Zandere (Translation Rihards Kalniņš)
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DIRECTOR, KARI TURUNEN
BEGINNINGS
7:30PM FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2019
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FOCUS ON CLASSICS
7:30PM FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2019
Pacific Spirit United Church*
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STRANGE BEASTS
7:30PM FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2019
Koerner Recital Hall, VAM
CHRISTMAS ORATORIO
7:30PM FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2019
Orpheum Theatre
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A ROSE IN THE MIDDLE OF WINTER
7:30PM FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2019
Pacific Spirit United Church*
BYRDS AND BEES
7:30PM FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 2020
Pacific Spirit United Church*
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THE SOURCE
7:30PM SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2020
Koerner Recital Hall, VAM
A WILDERNESS OF SEA
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Pacific Spirit United Church*
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ST. JOHN PASSION
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