{"id":38270,"date":"2016-04-01T10:07:32","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T14:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=38270"},"modified":"2016-04-01T10:32:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T14:32:10","slug":"spring-glory-concert-featuring-brocks-student-choral-ensembles-taking-place-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/04\/spring-glory-concert-featuring-brocks-student-choral-ensembles-taking-place-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Glory concert featuring Brock&#8217;s student choral ensembles taking place Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The Viva Voce Choral Series is holding the evening program <em>Spring Glory<\/em> Saturday, April 2 at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Viva Voce Choral Series features Brock University&#8217;s student choral ensembles (men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s choruses) as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/avantichambersingers.com\" target=\"_blank\">Avanti Chamber Singers<\/a>, who serve as Ensemble-in-Residence for the Department of Music. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Under the direction of conductor Harris Loewen, these choirs perform multiple concerts throughout the academic year. They have also engaged in community outreach, collaborated with other Ontario choirs, and produced three CD recordings of works by Niagara composers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The April 2 evening program\u00a0will feature a variety of Canadian and international works, including premiere performances of\u00a0two works by Niagara composers. \u201cAve Maria\u201d by Eric Gero will be performed jointly by the two university choirs. They are joined by Avanti Chamber Singers and the Rondeau Brass for the grand finale, a multi-movement \u201cGloria\u201d by Brock Music Department composer Peter Landey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Other items on the program include musical settings of poetry by Emily Dickinson and Pauline Johnson, a suite of Irish folk songs and a variety of other choral part songs. Many of these items will feature Niagara violinist Gail Poulsen as well as individual members of the Rondeau Brass.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The event takes place at St. Thomas Anglican Church, 99 Ontario St. in St. Catharines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for seniors and students and $5 eyeGo high school program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Tickets are available at the door\u00a0or in a<\/span><span class=\"s1\">dvance at the<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0Brock University Bookstore, Thorold Music (289 Glendale Ave.) and Long &amp; McQuade (41 Geneva St.).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viva Voce Choral Series is holding the evening program Spring Glory Saturday, April 2 at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,37],"tags":[663,549,3982,3618],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38353,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38270\/revisions\/38353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}