Voice Studies at the University of Toronto Presents: OraSTORYo! Our Birth, Rebirth, and Re-Emergence

Featuring singers from the Graduate Oratorio Ensemble and Dr. Kathryn Tremills, collaborative pianist.

The Tuesday Voice Series is made possible in part by a generous gift from Dianne W. Henderson.

PROGRAM

Vajrasattva: Meditation on Buddha: a one hundred syllable mantra 

Traditional

Enquan (Frank) Yu

Homme, tu n’es plus seul! (Ève)

Jules Massenet
Louis Gallet

Emma MacNeil, Christian Matt

On Mighty Pens (The Creation)

Franz Joseph Haydn
English trans. after Gottfried van Swieten

Wen Shan Wang

Quia Respexit (Magnificat)

Carl Philip Emmanuel Bach

Emma MacNeil

III. Magnificat (Christmas Oratorio)

Bob Chilcott

Taline Yeremian; Ensemble; 
Yuan Chen, conductor

Magnificat in D major, BWV 243 

Johann Sebastian Bach
V. Et Misericordia
VIII. Deposuit 

Taline Yeremian, Enquan (Frank) Yu

Thou Only Hast the Words of Life (The Light of Life)

Edward Elgar
Edward Capel-Cure
Christian Masucci-Facchini

The World You’re Coming Into (Liverpool Oratorio)

Paul McCartney, Carl Davis
Yuan (Alba) Chen

O, wie selig ist das Kind (Athalia)

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Ernst Raupach after Jean Racine

Wen Shan Wang, Taline Yeremian

Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac (The Chester Miracle Plays, 16th Century: The Stories of Lot and Adam)

Benjamin Britten

Christian Masucci-Facchini, Christian Matta

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