The A Cappella Chamber choir presents – Under Heaven: Choral Reflections on Heaven and Humanity.

Our concert’s theme is inspired by the passage in Ecclesiastes “To Everything a Season Under Heaven”. This varied musical programme includes themes of heaven and spirit, light and earthly elements, flight and skies as well as musings on what it is to be human. Featuring Canadian composers, Classical favourites, as well as contemporary choral works, this varied programme will certainly be heavenly.

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Act One

Fyer, Fyer, My Hart – Thomas Morley
Rise Up, My Love, My Fair One – Healy Willan
Lift Thine Eyes to the Mountains (from Elijah) – Felix Mendelssohn
Four Strong Winds – Ian Tyson, arr. Larry Nickel
O Prairie Land – Stephen Chatman
The Song My Paddle Sings – Matthew Emery
Dancing Dancing River – Carol Ann Weaver
Slow Down – Ian Assersohn
Choose Something Like a Star – Randall Thompson

Act Two

What I Have Learned is This – Srul Irving Glick
Sleep – Eric Whitacre
Cloths of Heaven – Mark Sirett
Let the Heaven Light Shine On Me (Trad. Spiritual arr. Moses Hogan)
Bird’s Lullaby – Jeff Smallman
Lux Aeterna – Edward Elgar, arr. John Cameron
High Flight – Regan A. MacNay (Poem by John Gillespie Magee Jr.)
Heavenly Aeroplane – John Rutter
The Promise of Living (from The Tender Land) – Aaron Copland