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Our Guest Conductor, James Caswell

John Rutter's Mass of the Children, performed with the Ottawa Children's Chamber Choir, highlights the program. The choir's presentation of this beautiful work, first performed at Carnegie Hall in 2003, will be its Ottawa premiere. This Latin Mass with English texts starts with Kyrie, where we awake ("Awake, my soul"), and progresses to the peace of sleep with Dona nobis pacem. (More extensive notes about this wonderful music are available at choirs.org.uk.) Soprano Maghan Stewart and baritone Phillip Holmes join us as our guest soloists.

Continuing the theme of the children, we are pleased to reprise Margrit Cattell's 2004 suite, A Bunch of Nonsense, songs based on different childhood nursery rhymes such as There was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe and Rock-a-bye Baby. Along with these works, the choir will sing Don't Bend Down and Las Amarillas by Canadian composer Stephen Hatfield, and music by Aaron Copland.

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Composition Composer Performer(s)

Mass of the Children (2003)
Kyrie
Gloria
Sanctus and Benedictus
Agnus Dei
Finale (Dona nobis pacem)

John Rutter (1945-)

Maghan Stewart, soprano

Phillip Holmes, baritone

Instrumental ensemble

Ottawa Children's Chamber Choir

Cantata Singers of Ottawa

Intermission

I bought me a cat (1950)

Ching-a-ring chaw (1954)

arr. Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

Marlene Basarab, piano

Cantata Singers of Ottawa

Cantique de Jean Racine, Opus 11 (1865)

Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)

Sally Robinson, piano

Ottawa Children's Chamber Choir

Hotaru Koi (Ho, Firefly) - Japanese children's song (1987)

arr. Tamiki Hara Ro Ogura (1916-1990)

Ottawa Children's Chamber Choir

I'se the B'y (1996)

arr. John E. Govedas (-2005) Canadian composer

Sally Robinson, piano

Ottawa Children's Chamber Choir

The Music in Me

Berthold Carrière (1940-) Canadian composer

Sally Robinson, piano

Ottawa Children's Chamber Choir

A bunch of nonsense (2004)
Sing a song of sixpence
The owl and the pussycat
Doctor Foster
Rock-a-bye baby
There was an old woman
Hey diddle diddle

Margrit Cattell (1932-) Canadian composer † ‡

Carole Portelance, alto

Marlene Basarab, piano

Cantata Singers of Ottawa

Five Traditional Songs (1978)
The Girl I Left Behind Me
O Waly, Waly
Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron
Golden Slumbers
The British Grenadiers

arr. John Rutter

Marlene Basarab, piano

Cantata Singers of Ottawa

Las Amarillas (1995)

Stephen Hatfield (1956-) Canadian composer

Cantata Singers of Ottawa (treble voices only)

Don't Bend Down (2001)

Stephen Hatfield Canadian composer

Anne-Marie Lozier, soprano

Nava Lightstone, soprano

Marlene Basarab, piano

Cantata Singers of Ottawa