{"id":656515,"date":"2026-05-08T18:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/656515\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T18:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:34:08","slug":"a-choral-feast-4-brings-vancouver-chamber-choir-together-with-two-alberta-ensembles-may-14-stir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/656515\/","title":{"rendered":"A Choral Feast 4 brings Vancouver Chamber Choir together with two Alberta ensembles, May 14 \u2014 Stir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Joining it is Edmonton\u2019s Chronos Vocal Ensemble, with cutting-edge gems like B.C. composer Dorothy Chang\u2019s 2022 work \u201cHear My Prayer\u201d (and its tip of the hat to Henry Purcell), as well as maverick composer Caroline Shaw\u2019s 2017 work \u201cand the swallow\u201d and Stuart Beatch\u2019s 2023 composition \u201cWhat She Gave Me\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Those two ensembles also combine on \u201cDeux\/Two Solitudes\u201d, by rising contemporary Franco-Ontarian composer Marie-Claire Saindon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">But there\u2019s much more century-hopping to come. After intermission, Calgary\u2019s Luminous Voices range from \u201cEgo flos campi\u201d, by the 16th century\u2019s Jacobus Clemens non Papa, to works by Woodland Cree\u2013Dene composer Sherryl Sewepagaham, not to mention the world premiere of Stephanie Martin\u2019s \u201cStreamside\/To Birds\u201d, complete with solo performances by baritone Nicholas Allen, mezzo-soprano Sara Staples, and soprano Julie Crouch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joining it is Edmonton\u2019s Chronos Vocal Ensemble, with cutting-edge gems like B.C. composer Dorothy Chang\u2019s 2022 work \u201cHear&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-656515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}