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Choir sings in the season
Begin your celebration of the
Christmas season by attending a
choral feast of seasonal music with
the Blyth Festival Singers on Dec.
11 at Wesley-Willis Church,
Clinton. The programme will
feature excerpts from Bach's
Christmas Oratorio, the Jazz
Gloria by Natalie Sleeth, the
German Lullaby of the Shepherds,
and many old favourites of the
season.
Guests performing with the choir
are Catharine Sadler, Sarah
Parkinson, Julie Meyers, and
Michael Wood.
Soprano Catharine Sadler
received her ARCT in singing
performance from Queen's
University. She also studied in
England and will be releasing her
first CD in December.
A native of Norwich, England,
Renowned baritone performs
Renowned Canadian baritone,
Kevin McMillan will perform in
two Masterworks concerts with
Orchestra London Wednesday,
Dec. 14 and Thursday, Dec. 15 at 8
p.m. at Centennial Hall.
In a classical Christmas concert,
Mr. McMillan will be performing
with soprano Leslie Fagan, the
Guelph Chamber Choir and
London Pro Musica. Maestro
Gerald Neufeld will conduct the
Orchestra through Torelli's
Christmas Concerto Op. 8 No. 6,
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on
Greensleeves and Fantasia on
Christmas Carols and excerpts
from Bach's Christmas Oratorio
BWV248.
Mr. McMillan has quickly
become one of the most sought
after concert baritones of his
generation. Winner of a 1992
GRAMMY Award, he has
performed with virtually every
major orchestra in North America
with renowned conductors such as
Masur, Norrington, Blomstedt,
Commissiona, Davis Jarvi and
Dutoit. Mr. McMillan's reputation
is growing in Europe where he has
contralto Sarah Parkinson has
recently moved to Toronto where
she is studying with Mary Morrison
at the University of Toronto.
The trumpet of Julie Meyers is
well known in the area. The
Goderich native is a graduate of the
University of Western Ontario,
having studied with Jim Ford and
Eric Schultz. Julie currently plays
with Brass Roots.
Mike Wood is a percussionist
with the Stratford Festival
Orchestra, directs the University of
Waterloo Stage Band, and is
percussion instructor in Waterloo's
Faculty of Music.
Well known children's choir
director Joan Perrie will bring the
Brussels Junior School Choir to
perform with the Festival Singers
in the afternoon concert, accom
panied by Joanne King.
made many auspicious debuts in
major centres like Berlin, Munich,
Leipzig, Hamburg, Madrid and
Cologne.
After preliminary schooling in
his native Canada, he studied at the
Britten-Pears School in England,
and did graduate work at the
Julliard School in New York.
His vocal proficiency and
scholarly musicianship afford him a
broad range of styles and periods in
the orchestral and oratorio
repertoire - from Bach's St.
Matthew Passion and the title role
of Monteverdi's Orfeo to Mahler's
Leider eines fahrenden Gesellen
and Penderecki's St. Luke Passion.
He counts among his concert
presentations the roles of
Schaunard in Puccini's La Boheme
and Papageno in Mozart's Die
Zauberfloete.
Mr. McMillan has debuted with
resounding success in both London
and New York, and is one of the
busiest recitalists in Canada,
regularly heard on CBC broadcasts.
Most recently, he was invited for a
Under Choral Director Wade
Wittaker, the Blyth Festival Singers
are about to present their 15th
concert of Christmas music to the
region. The choir's accompanist is
Carol Carter, organist and choir
director at First Presbyterian
Church in Seaforth.
Tickets for these special concerts
at 2:30 and 7:30 are $8 advance,
$10 at the door; students under 18
$6.
Ticket outlets include the Blyth
Festival Box Office (523-9300),
Crossroads in Clinton (482-5855),
Les Ciseaux, Clinton (482-3826),
The Dutch Store, Clinton (482-
7302), Bob & Betty’s Variety,
Seaforth (527-1680), Campbell's
Photography, Goderich (524-7532),
Bluewater Office Equipment,
Wingham (357-1554) and choir
members.
return engagement in Lyon, France
after a debut there which received
much critical acclaim. He also
appeared during the opening season
of the North York Recital Hall
series to rave reviews.
He has recorded for London/
Decca, Dorian, Chandos, Deutsche
Harmonia Mundi, and Pro Arte.
Two of his Canadian releases for
Marquis and CBC Records were
nominated for JUNO Awards and
his recording of Orff's Carmina
Burana with Herbert Blomstedt
and the San Francisco Symphony
was awarded a GRAMMY in
1992.
In addition to performances in
London, the Orchestra and
vocalists will perform in Guelph on
Sunday, Dec. 11 at the Church of
Our Lady and again on Saturday,
Dec. 17 at the Chatham Cultural
Centre.
Tickets for performances in
London, Dec. 15 and 16 are
available at the Orchestra London
Box Office, 520 Wellington Street,
or by calling (519) 679-8778.
Tickets are $28, $24, $20 and $17
(less $2 for students and seniors).
THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1994. PAGE 27.
Stratford grosses
$17,261,022 in 94
General Manager Gary Thomas
announced early last week the final
box office figures for the Stratford
Festival's 42nd season. The six
month season, which encompassed
a total of 498 performances of 10
productions in three theatres earned
gross box office revenue of
$17,261,022.
Total attendance for the season's
productions was 466,091 represent
ing 60.4 per cent of capacity. The
increase in attendance of 18,253
from the 1993 season is particularly
encouraging given that the Festival,
in an effort to reduce expenses,
scheduled 23 fewer performances
in 1994.
In analyzing the end of season
results, Mr. Thomas expressed his
pleasure with the marked increase
in both box office revenue and
attendance, noting that, "this is the
first time in the Festival's history
that we have exceeded $17,000,000
in box office receipts, the first time
since 1989 that we have exceeded
60 per cent capacity, and the
second consecutive season of box
office revenue and attendance
increases."
Mr. Thomas added "Richard
Monette's inaugural season as
artistic director met with great
critical acclaim; the marked
increase in attendance is a
testament to the quality of our
productions."
Although advance sales and
attendance figures were lower than
budgeted, he said, the consistently
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