Saskatoon Chamber Singers – ARMISTICE
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- Knox United Church - Saskatoon, View Map
- When
SHOW TIMES OF 2:00pm and 7:30pm.
THE ELEVENTH HOUR OF THE ELEVENTH DAY OF THE ELEVENTH MONTH – 1918 THE WAR IS OVER AND EVERYONE SANG. YET SORROW LINGERS FOR LIVES LOST.
The Saskatoon Chamber Singers will be performing to remember those who have lost their lives in battle. As usual, there will be the traditional Act of Remembrance: For The Fallen, Last Post, Silence, Reveille and O Canada. We will be joined by Dean McNeill as our guest trumpeter. Deborah Buck will be our reader in the afternoon and Eleanor Voegeli will be our reader in the evening. Cellist Scott McKnight will be joining us for our major work, Crimson Stain. This November’s concert will be somewhat different as the major work is a forty-minute piece called Crimson Stain, written by Vancouver composer Larry Nickel. It was written a year ago for the Halifax Camerata Singers to commemorate the battle of Passchendaele, so it seems only fitting that we should perform it on the 100th anniversary of the ending of World War 1; hence the concert title ARMISTICE. The opening piece on that concert is called Armistice 1918 – Everyone Sang. – James Hawn.
Tickets available at the door for $30.00, in advance for $25.00, for students $15.00. Tickets can be purchased at McNally Robinson Bookstore and saskatoonchambersingers.ca