Corlis Archives - Toronto Mendelssohn Choir https://www.tmchoir.org/tag/corlis/ Canada’s Choir for 130 Years Wed, 02 Jun 2021 21:08:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Toronto Mendelssohn Choir marks the beginning of the holiday season with glorious sounds! https://www.tmchoir.org/toronto-mendelssohn-choir-marks-the-beginning-of-the-holiday-season-with-glorious-sounds/ Wed, 06 Dec 2017 20:51:38 +0000 https://www.tmchoir.org/?p=2940 Dave Richards, Toronto Concert Reviews.

For the eighteenth consecutive year, the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir has begun its hectic December schedule of performances with its Festival of Carols. The cathedral-like Yorkminster Park Baptist Church was festooned with twenty-five foot high Christmas trees at either side of the chancel, lit with thousands of sparkling lights. The sounds of the TMC, organist David Briggs, the Canadian Staff Band of the Salvation Army, and the Canadian Children’s Opera Company was glorious. This was indeed the beginning of a month of great music, celebration and festivities.

From the opening bars of Bob Chilcott’s arrangement of the Sussex Carol, the energy of the choir’s rhythmically charged singing was joyfully uplifting.

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]]> ELORA FESTIVAL opens with a celebration of life, love and redemption! https://www.tmchoir.org/elora-festival-opens-with-a-celebration-of-life-love-and-redemption/ Sat, 09 Jul 2016 14:36:04 +0000 https://www.tmchoir.org/?p=2267 David Richards, Toronto Concert Reviews. Last night, the Opening Night Gala (of the Elora Festival) brought together the widely acclaimed Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, the Elora Festival Singers, the Elora Festival Orchestra and four superb soloists in two magnificent and large choral orchestral works. The performance took place on the outskirts of the historic village in a mammoth storage barn transformed into a cathedral-like concert hall. The program opened with moving multi-verse arrangements of ‘God Save the Queen’ and ‘O Canada’. The audience felt goosebumps from the glorious choral-orchestral sound that gave a hint of the very special evening that was about to unfold.

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]]> Transported: New Ears Respond to Sacred Music in a Sacred Space https://www.tmchoir.org/transported-new-ears-respond-to-sacred-music-in-a-sacred-space/ Wed, 30 Mar 2016 21:58:40 +0000 https://www.tmchoir.org/?p=2108 As a first time choral concert-goer, I truly did not know what to expect walking into St. Paul's Basilica that Wednesday evening. I was immediately taken aback by the beauty of the church, however it was soon taking second seat to the beautiful music of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir.

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]]> Toronto Mendelssohn Choir Soars! https://www.tmchoir.org/toronto-mendelssohn-choir-soars/ Sat, 26 Mar 2016 19:57:36 +0000 https://www.tmchoir.org/?p=2105 David Richards, Ontario Arts Review.

Good Friday at St. Paul’s Catholic Church was the perfect day and place for a concert by the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir. The choir made wonderful use of the church’s magnificent acoustics, not to mention the elaborately decorated sanctuary. The concert of sacred music in such beautiful surroundings, on this special day, made the spirits soar. If Good Friday was meant to send a message of peace, hope and love to mankind, then the Mendelssohn Choir was an inspirational messenger.

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]]> Sacred Music for a Sacred Space 2016 Program Notes https://www.tmchoir.org/sacred-music-2016-program-notes/ Tue, 01 Mar 2016 20:47:45 +0000 https://www.tmchoir.org/?p=2039 Artistic Director Noel Edison has always enjoyed the combination of Renaissance with contemporary music in a concert program. For him, it’s the similarity between the openness and simplicity of the structure of these compositions that works so well together.

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]]> TMC announces 2015/16 season https://www.tmchoir.org/tmc-announces-201516-season/ Tue, 28 Apr 2015 14:45:20 +0000 https://www.tmchoir.org/?p=1355 The TMC’s 2015/16 season will build on the success of the 2014/15 season and create great musical experiences for audiences– from the drama of the story of creation captured in music by Haydn, to the romance of choral lieder by Brahms and Schubert, and the contemplative space created in the works of contemporary composers.

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]]> A wondrous variety https://www.tmchoir.org/a-wondrous-variety/ Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:21:04 +0000 https://www.tmchoir.org/?p=267 The 2013 Good Friday concert at St. Paul’s Basilica featured the Mendelssohn Singers, the 70-voice choir formed in 2003 from the ranks of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir. As in previous Good Friday concerts, music from various eras was sung (in this case from the 16th to the 21st centuries) and once again the choir used various spaces within the church to wonderful effect.

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]]> Sacred Music for a Sacred Space 2013 Program Notes https://www.tmchoir.org/sacred-music-for-a-sacred-space-2013-program-notes/ Sat, 30 Mar 2013 01:25:55 +0000 https://www.tmchoir.org/?p=895 Except for a couple of years at the Dresden Court, Antonio Lotti (c.1647-1740) spent his career in Venice, working his way up from singer to organist to maestro di cappella at St. Mark’s Basilica. Lotti was an innovative composer of almost thirty operas, but in his sacred music he tended to rely on the great traditions of Renaissance polyphony. J.S. Bach, G.F. Handel and Felix Mendelssohn all knew and admired his music. Today he is known almost exclusively for his many settings of the Crucifixus text from the Credo of the mass. Why he wrote so many has remained a mystery but it may have been for insertion into mass settings by other composers.

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