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Cantores Celestes Women's Choir Kelly Galbraith, Director The Emperor String Quartet Matthew Coons, Organ Paul Otway, Trumpet www.cantorescelestes.com www.facebook.com/CantoresCelestes twitter.com/Cantores_Choir December 7, 2013 Runnymede United C...  moreCantores Celestes Women's Choir Kelly Galbraith, Director The Emperor String Quartet Matthew Coons, Organ Paul Otway, Trumpet www.cantorescelestes.com www.facebook.com/CantoresCelestes twitter.com/Cantores_Choir December 7, 2013 Runnymede United Church, Toronto  

Cantores Celestes Women's Choir, directed by Kelly Galbraith, performing Shen Khar Venakhi ( You are a Vineyard ) A song of praise to the Virgin Mary, dating back at least 1000 years. Today it is often sung at Georgian weddings in honour of the bride. ...  moreCantores Celestes Women's Choir, directed by Kelly Galbraith, performing Shen Khar Venakhi ( You are a Vineyard ) A song of praise to the Virgin Mary, dating back at least 1000 years. Today it is often sung at Georgian weddings in honour of the bride. You are a vineyard Just blossoming, Young and good, Springing up in Eden. A fragrant poplar, Growing in Paradise. May God adorn you, None is more worthy of praise. You yourself, Are the sun brilliantly shining.  

MY RED BOOTS for mixed chorus: world premiere recording performed by members of the Rocky Mountain Chamber Choir - Virtual Singers. MY RED BOOTS is based on one of only several poems written by my mother, Jewish Holocaust survivor Rita Hoffman of bless...  moreMY RED BOOTS for mixed chorus: world premiere recording performed by members of the Rocky Mountain Chamber Choir - Virtual Singers. MY RED BOOTS is based on one of only several poems written by my mother, Jewish Holocaust survivor Rita Hoffman of blessed memory (1927–2018). Both she and my late father, Josef Hoffman, were Jewish Holocaust Survivors. My mother’s brief memoirs are housed at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. I have been trying to hear music for MY RED BOOTS for decades. It is fitting that my muse cooperated with me when I was seeking a text to set to music for the Rocky Mountain Chamber Choir’s 2024 call for scores, because global anti-Semitism has not been this rampant since the 1930s. During the events of October 7, 2023 in Israel, "Babies were taken from their mother's arms" just as in my mother's poem. Those with a conscience in the world must keep this evil from "happening again, and again, and again!" MY RED BOOTS My red boots and ruby earrings were s...    less

Missa in C "The Sparrow" KV220 Kyrie Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart April 23, 2016 Performance at Runnymede United Church, Toronto ON

Missa in C "The Sparrow" KV220 Gloria Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart April 23, 2016 Performance at Runnymede United Church, Toronto ON

Missa in C "The Sparrow" KV220 Sanctus Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart April 23, 2016 Performance at Runnymede United Church, Toronto ON

48 Singers,