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Winter 2013 · Past concert

It's Beginning to Sound Like Christmas

The choir in black, with coloured ties for the men, singing before the organ pipes and a Christmas flower arrangement, the conductor in the foreground with her back to the camera.
The Spectrum Singers in concert, winter 2013. From a concert video shared by Janneke Smith.

Performances

  • Friday, December 6, 20137:30 pm
  • Saturday, December 7, 20137:30 pm

Venue

St Michael's Cathedral608 Sutherland Avenue, Kelowna, BC

Doors

7:00 pm, show at 7:30 pm

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The programme

A Christmas programme that mixed classical and jazz. It opened with Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor on the cathedral’s pipe organ and closed with Taking a Chance on Love in Kirby Shaw’s arrangement. Between them came three Mozart pieces (Gloria, Kyrie and Lacrimosa), Natalie Sleeth’s Jazz Gloria, It Was a Lover and His Lass in the Swingle Singers’ arrangement, I Sing Out, Carol of the Bells, and jazz settings of carols including It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas.

Guest artists

  • Elizabeth Wocks — Piano
  • Sandra Fletcher — Pipe organ
  • Alex Buck — Jazz piano
  • Stephen Buck — Saxophone
  • Lonnie Burma — Percussion
  • Darko Cuk — Bass

Direction

Directed by Kim Kleineberg, Artistic Director of the Spectrum Singers Kelowna.

In the press

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Concert poster for It's Beginning to Sound Like Christmas, listing dates, venue and ticket prices.
The original poster for It's Beginning to Sound Like Christmas, Friday, December 6, 2013.

Listen

From the concert

  • 4:11

    A Child Is Born

  • 1:24

    A Festive Madrigal

    arr. Donald Moore

  • 3:27

    Caro Mio Ben (2014)

    arr. Earlene Rentz

  • 2:38

    Exultate Jubilate Deo

  • 1:57

    Gloria

  • 1:58

    Kyrie Eleison

    by W.A. Mozart, arr Leininger

  • 3:04

    Lacrimosa

  • 3:22

    Ubecaritas

  • 2:22

    Carol of the Bells

    arr. P. Wilhousky

  • 4:00

    I Sing Out

    by M. Hayes

  • 3:18

    It was A Lover and a Lass

    by W. Swingle

  • 3:26

    Calypso Lullaby

    arr. J. Raney

  • 8:40

    Fugue and Toccata in D Minor

    by J.S. Bach

  • 2:07

    It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

    arr. M. Huff

  • 4:10

    Jazz Gloria

    by N. Sleeth

  • 3:53

    Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

  • 4:31

    A Child Is Born

    arr. J. Kunz

  • 3:21

    Caro Mio Ben

    arr. E. Rentz

  • 2:01

    Taking A Chance On Love

    arr. K. Shaw

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