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The Vancouver
Four Choir Festival

Press Release: please publish, post or distribute as a public service.
For immediate release March 1, 1975.

SECOND ANNUAL FOUR CHOIR FESTIVAL TO BE HELD IN VANCOUVER
dates: FRIDAY, MAY 2, 9, 23, 30, 1975
place/time: ST. JOHN'S SHAUGHNESSY ( Granville at Nanton ), 8:30 p.m.

performers: GALLERY SINGERS, FREDERICK CARTER, conductor
VANCOUVER BACH CHOIR, SIMON STREATFIcLD, conductor
VANCOUVER CHAMBER CHOIR, JON WASHBURN, conductor
CANTATA SINGERS, JAMES FANKHAUSER, conductor

featured composer: JOHANNES BRAHMS

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The month of May 1975 brings with it the second annual FOUR CHOIR FESTIVAL
to be held on the first two and the last two Friday evenings of that month
at St. John's Shaughnessy United Church. As a result of the enthusiasm
stimulated during last year's festival and the promise of an even more
exciting event this year the FOUR CHOIR FHSTIVAL is becoming a choral
tradition in Vancouver.

In an effort to provide some continuity to the festival each of the four
choirs will feature a major choral work by the German romantic, Johannes
Brahms.

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FRIDAY, MAY 2
GALLERY SINGERS, conductor FREDERICK CARTER .

Derek Holman: Make We Joy
William Byrd: Ne irascaris Domine
In resurrectione tua
Laudibus in sanctis
Victoria: QO magnum mysterium
Orlando Gibbons: 0 clap your hands
Vaughan Williams: Three Shakespeare Songs
Wilfrid Mellers: Cloud Canticle

Johannes Brahms; Weltliche gesange
Kodaly: Matra Pictures .