"United in Song" -SATURDAY - with Guest Soloist Gabriel Lewis-O'Connor :)

Here is a sneak peak of the evening song lineup...

PROGRAMME "UNITED IN SONG"

The Stairwell Carollers perform
My Bonny Lass     Thomas Morley (1557 - 1602)
Eya, eya gaudeamus                                                                             Pierre Massie
El grillo                                                              Josquin des Prez (c. 1450 - 1521)
Ach, wei des Leiden                                               Hans Leo Hassler (1564 - 1612)
Un jour vis un foulon                                              Roland de Lassus (1530 - 1594)

Glebe Choirs perform
When It Was Yet Dark                                                              Arr: Stephen Hatfield
Non Nobis Domine                                Rosephanye Powell, arr: William C. Powell
Indodana                                                         Arr: Michael Barrett and Ralf Schmitt
Wade In The Water                                                                             Arr: Rob Dietz
Daemon                                                                      Gyorgy Orban

Stairwell Carollers and Glebe choirs perform
La la la, je ne l'ose                                                         Pierre Certon (1510 - 1572)
I Am Not Yours                                                                             Z. Randall Stroope
Abendlied                                                                      Josef Gabriel Rheinberger
Hostias & O Domine                                          Gabriel Fauré adapted by P. Massie
               Hostias Soloist: Gabriel Lewis-O'Connor

"United in Song"

Saturday, May 5th 8:00pm

St. John Chrysostom Church, 295 Albert St, Arnprior

with guest choirs from Glebe Collegiate 

and guest soloist Gabriel Lewis-O'Connor 

from the world renowned a cappella group Chanticleer.

Advance tickets, $15 available at...

• Glebe Collegiate Music Dpt, 212 Glebe Ave
• From choir members
• Jim's Restaurant 54 Elgin St W, Arnprior Phone: 613-623-5089
• St. Chrysostom church office - Telephone: 613-623-2282 Email:parish@saintjohnchrysostom.org

• ONLINE ticket purchases at CANADA HELPS

• Tickets at the door are $20.

Enjoy the concert, but don't forget to visit our CD table for Cookbooks,  CDs and Stairwell Swag tote bags and mugs!

About The Carollers:

Pierre Massie began our a cappella choir, The Stairwell Carollers, back in 1977 while studying in the French music program at U. of O. We are ranked with the best of Ontario choirs, having won the 2010 and 2013 OMFA competitions. 

A registered Canadian charity, we help local charities with our concert, CD and cookbook sales. 
Net proceeds go to charity.

Please DONATE to help make our 40th year workshops happen! 

CC Podcast S. 2 #5a - Working out Laud

In this weeks Choral Cacophony Podcast episode (Second of two parts) the Stairwell Carollers work on a piece called Resonet in laudibus.  It's a latin Sacred composition from the 14th century for SATB choir, transcribed by our director, Pierre Massie.
Chapter 1 - Pierre continues rehearsing the song with the choir, working on timing, singing the soprano and alto parts himself.

Chapter 2 - Some reminders of latin pronunciation and then we practice!

Chapter 3 - Pierre snaps his fingers as signal for timing. Silliness ensues sometimes - it is rehearsal after all! And a final try.

About The Stairwell Carollers:

Pierre Massie began our a cappella choir way back in 1977 while studying music at Ottawa U. The Stairwell Carollers are ranked with the best of Ontario choirs, winning both the 2010 and 2013 Ontario Music Festival Association competitions. 

A registered Canadian charity, we also help local charities with our concert, CD and cookbook sales. Net proceeds benefit charity.

Please DONATE to support our 40th year workshops! 

Esto les Digo, performed by the Stairwell Carollers, Youtube concert video

Ottawa choir, The Stairwell Carollers, sing Esto les Digo, a Sacred contemporary piece, written by Kinley Lange.

Here is a link to the sheet music.

You tube live concert video of this beautiful Spanish language song

Audio: Tom Barnes.  Recorded at St. Barnabas Church, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, June 4th, 2016.
Videographers: Luc Nugent. Kolin Casagrande
Editing: Pierre Massie

Photos: Holly Massie

About The Stairwell Carollers:

Pierre Massie began our a cappella choir way back in 1977 while studying music at Ottawa U. The Stairwell Carollers are ranked with the best of Ontario choirs, winning both the 2010 and 2013 Ontario Music Festival Association competitions. 

A registered Canadian charity, we also help local charities with our concert, CD and cookbook sales. Net proceeds benefit charity.

Please DONATE to support our 40th year workshops! 

John Rutter Youtube Playlist of Stairwell Caroller performances PLUS HOW TO EMBED YOUTUBE VIDS

A thrilling event coming up in the spring besides Stairwell Caroller concerts is John Rutter's visit to Ottawa. Our director, Pierre, has always had a soft spot for Rutter's work - thus, we have been singing Rutter's compositions and arrangements for many years now.

Here is a Youtube playlist I made of some of the pieces the Stairwell Carollers have sung by the British master composer, John Rutter.
Enjoy!

YouTube - like everything has changed. There used to be an option on the playlist page to embed a playlist, but that seems to have disappeared in the change-up. If you found it please tell me in a comment below. They now have a tiny tutorial HERE to embed videos and playlists. I couldn't make it work, so I went to my old embeds to find a simpler path.

Check out the code below, which is sized exactly like our playlist embedded above.

Simply replace OUR ID (in RED) with the ID of YOUR playlist. Copy and paste into your blog or website HTML. You can adjust the size simply by changing the height and width values (another option no longer available on YouTube)

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLrLOtu8KN9cVBbcvJRJOuIwr08vOBYaDp
" width="750"></iframe>

Please comment below - I would love to hear of your success with my work-around.

DONATE to support our 40th year events  All Donations receive a charitable receipt.

About The Stairwell Carollers:

Pierre Massie started our a cappella choir in 1977 while a music student at Ottawa University. The Stairwell Carollers are ranked with the best of Ontario choirs, winning both the 2010 and 2013 Ontario Music Festival Association competitions. 

A registered Canadian charity, we also help local charities with our concert, CD and cookbook sales.

Canadian Compositions and arrangements by Pierre Massie now available for SATB choirs

You may not be aware that our Director, Pierre Massie, is also an award-winning choral composer and arranger! On his newly launched site to showcase his emerging Song Catalogue, he had this to say:

"I am pleased to announce that my original Canadian Choral Compositions and Arrangements are now available for digital download from SMP Press, partner to Sheet Music Plus.

For many years now Sheet Music Plus has been one of my favourite sources for sheet music for my choir, The Stairwell Carollers.

I will keep you posted as I upload new pieces for your perusal.

Ciao,
Pierre"

I am so proud of his accomplishments! Please take a moment to check out his work. Most pieces are suitable for SATB mixed choirs.

BONUS!
Here is a Youtube Playlist of some of his arrangements and original Compositions sung by the Stairwell Carollers.