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Dress Rehearsal Saturday May 2nd

Arrive at the church by 12.45 p.m. and be ready to sing by 1.00 p.m. Rehearsal will run until approximately 4.00 p.m. Please have your music in concert order and in a black binder. See our website calendar for the latest concert order. (P.S. No ‘dress’ required).

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Concert Night Monday May 4th

Arrive at the church by 5.45 p.m. and be on the risers by 5.55 p.m. for warm-up and run-throughs. Doors open at 7.00 p.m. to the audience. Show time is 7:30 p.m. – approx. 90 minutes with no intermission, but we will have a short time to sit down. 

*Take your reception goodies downstairs before going onstage.

If you use a light on your music, please be sure that it does not shine into the audience.

 ** Please return all scores afterwards except the ones you have printed yourselves! **

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Concert Attire

Concert attire is black top/shirt, long sleeve (3/4 to full length, and no sleeveless), black pants/skirt, black hose/socks (no white ankles please!) black shoes or boots.

No remarkably flashy/sparkly jewellery - it is distracting for the audience. 

Scarves/ties/neckwear will be provided by the choir.  Lovely blue for spring skies...

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Tickets

Ticket proceeds and unsold tickets must be returned to Deb Bosworth no later than the dress rehearsal on Saturday so everything can be tallied and returned to our treasurer on Monday before the concert.  Please fill in the front of the envelope!  If all, or a portion, of your money is your "donation", please indicate that on the front of the envelope so a tax receipt can be issued to you.  Note: If you include a cheque, be sure either your name is on it, or you have attached a note indicating it is on your behalf, so a tax receipt can be sent by our Treasurer to YOUR email address, which we have in our system).

If you have an envelope with pre-bought tickets to be picked up, please give them to Deb before the concert so she can give them to Chris at the front desk.

Thank you for all your efforts in ensuring a full audience for our concert!

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Concert Order

Part 1:

All the Little Rivers

Log Driver’s Waltz

Black Fly Song

Riviere

Lullaby to An Ancient River

Wood River

River (Joni)

Song for the Mira

The River (Alcorn)

Part 2:

Washing of the Water

Back to the River Saint John

Shenandoah

Down in the River

Down By the Riverside

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Scores

To Access the Printable/downloadable Scores:

You are responsible for accessing the 7 new electronic scores, so either print them, or read them on your device. As always, they’re in the “MVS current scores” folder on our Members website. 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lFF-qjufchHXbT3aewChP2AVFDdIX3U

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Practice Tracks

Practice are available for our use (a big thanks to Marc Coderre), but due to copyright restrictions, we can't publish the link on the website. Please contact Marjorie if you need the information.

Marjorie can be reached at: MusicaVivaMembership@gmail.com 

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Videos of Selected Songs

Michel Rivard singing Riviere:  

https://youtu.be/1-onATVjOkc?si=tZZ84H_9wXA6_qBX

Peter Gabriel's studio recording of Washing of the Water:

Washing Of The Water

Our arrangement of Washing of the Water:
The choir sounds fine and the recording gives a sense of the rhythmic feel.

Washing of the Water (with sheet music)

Lullaby to an Ancient River from the publisher's website:

Lullaby to an Ancient River - by Robbie Smith; arranged by Frances Farrell

Bliss Carman's poem 'The Rivers of Canada':
The composer has been 'inspired by' this poem, but has made something quite different out of the text.

Rivers Of Canada by Bliss William Carman