This term promises to be an especially busy time for the Senior Choir. In addition to an extra Mass on February 2, we are learning music for Tenebrae (April 13), St Michael's Joint Concert (April 25), our Year-End concert on May 26, as well as two Outreach performances. Throw in to this list, our production of 'The Music Man' on March 20/21/22 - with over 50% of the senior choir taking part in this musical- and it follows that we have no time to waste.
I want to give some more information regarding the St. Michael's Concert on April 25 - as many parents will be unaware that this is taking place. St Michael's Choir School in Toronto is a semi-private Catholic choir school for boys from grades three to twelve. It was founded in 1937 and is overseen by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Toronto. They are bringing their Junior and Senior Choir on a tour of Western Canada - and one of their stops is in Calgary at SJCS - where we will be hosting a workshop with them and then an evening concert at Knox United Church downtown. St Michael's boasts a long list of alumni who have distinguished themselves in politics, the arts and of course music. This includes opera singers, keyboard virtuosos as well as a member of the band 'Bare Naked Ladies'. I know that this particular concert will attract a lot of interest from outside our school community -and I can predict that Knox will be at capacity for that evening. This event is a major stimulus for our Senior Choir to be the very best that they can be, and I know that this will be an eye and ear-opening experience for them. St Michael's has over eighty years of tradition behind it, while we are comparative youngsters. It will make for an interesting combination of two traditions and history. Malcolm V. Edwards
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Malcolm EdwardsMalcolm Edwards was born in Halifax, England and emigrated to Canada in 1967. He is a graduate of Sheffield College of Education (UK), Trinity College of Music, London, the University of Lethbridge, the University of Montana and has done further graduate work at the University of Northern Colorado. He taught music in junior and senior high school for twelve years in southern Alberta before joining the University of Calgary as a Professor of Music Education in 1980. He retired from the university after thirty-one years of service in 2011. In the community he was affiliated with the Youth Singers of Calgary for 21 years directing the Act Three and Senior divisions. In his retirement, he is now employed as an Adjunct Professor of Music at St Mary’s University, as the Artistic Director of the Calgary Men’s Chorus and as the Senior Choir Director at St John’s Choir Schola. He has held leadership positions within the Alberta Choral Federation, the Association of Canadian Choral Communities, served on the Board of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and is active as a choral adjudicator and workshop leader in schools and churches. He is the recipient of two awards from the Provincial Federation – one in recognition of advocacy in arts education and the second in recognition of exemplary service to choral music within the Province of Alberta. In 2004 he received recognition from the national body (ACCC) for twenty-five years of service to the Canadian choral community. Archives
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