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Friday, October 23, 2026 – 7:30 pm
Ascension of Our Lord Church
375 Kitchener Ave
Westmount, H3Z 2G1
Bus : 24 – stop Sherbrooke / Kitchener
Métro : Atwater
Beneath the light of a blue-and-red stained glass window, on the worn pew of a London church, 400 years of music vibrate and shimmer. William Byrd and Henry Purcell invite us to a moment of fullness, where inter- woven voices answer the organ, while MacMillan, closer to our time, makes incandescent prayers resonate in modern colours. This dialogue between organ and voices is an invitation to rediscover four centuries of heaven on earth.
Co-produced with Canadian International Organ Competition
William Byrd (c. 1540-1623)
Second Service, T 195
I. Magnificat
II. Nunc dimittis
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei, Z. 135
Maurice Greene (1696-1755)
Lord, let me know mine end
George Thalben-Ball (1896-1987)
Elegy pour orgue
Charles Hubert Parry (1848-1918)
Hear my words, ye people
PAUSE
Charles Hubert Parry
Fantasia and Fugue in G major, Op. 188, pour orgue
Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)
Lo, the full, final sacrifice, Op. 26
Edward Wood Naylor (1867-1934)
Vox dicentis: Clama
James MacMillan (né en 1959)
A New Song
Soloists
Marie Magistry, soprano
Michiel Schrey, tenor
William Kraushaar, basse
Soloists and Choristers
Len Torrie, soprano
Josée Lalonde, alto
Choristers
Rebecca Dowd Lekx, soprano
Isabella Cuminato, Kristen De Marchi, alto
Nils Brown, Arthur Tanguay-Labrosse, tenors
John Giffen, Kevin Marimbu, bass
Mária Budáčová, organist
Andrew McAnerney, conductor