Come and Celebrate World Music Day with CAMMAC Ottawa-Gatineau! Join us for a Reading of Part of Claus Bantzer's Jazz Mass for Choir and Jazz Combo Directed by Robert Filion Sunday October 1st, 1:30-4:30 p.m. St. Matthias Anglican Church, Parkdale and the Queensway (Bus #14; Parking At Rear) Free for CAMMAC Members, $8 Non-Members Claus Bantzer’s Missa Popularis/Jazz Mass captures, persuades and inspires for the reason that he brings together the styles of a polyphonic choir and monophonic expressive melismatics alternatingly, with a jazz not forced or ingratiating, to create a unified work. The Premiere of Missa Popularis was held at the 155th North German Broadcasting Corporation’s Jazz Workshop on November 27th 1980. We will be working on the last movement of the mass. Robert Filion directs the Choeur classique de l’Outaouais, the Ottawa Children’s Chamber Choir and the vocal ensembles of the Centre d'excellence artistique De La Salle. His choirs are renowned in Canada and internationally. Last May, the senior vocal ensemble from De La Salle took first prize in CBC Radio’s National Competition for Amateur Choirs. Instruments Needed for Jazz Combo: Bass, Drums, Soprano Sax . Amelie Langlois to be featured on piano. For further info contact Elizabeth Gillies at 613-724-3719. Want the music in advance? Please contact Bethany Armstrong at 613-730-2369.

EAR TRAINING AND SIGHT SINGING BASICS
St. Matthias’ Anglican Church 555 Parkdale Avenue (at Queensway)
Saturday, October 14, 2006. 2:00 – 5:00 p.m.

PART I: Introducing basic ear training skills

In this basic ear training workshop, we will be exploring the concept of tonality. Participants will learn to identify the tonic (or key-note) of simple melodies, and gain some understanding of how the elements of music come together around this key-note. Solfège will be introduced and will serve as a base to explore intervals and triads present within major keys, various scale singing exercises and the dictation of simple melodies.
Sunday October 29, 2006 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

PART II: Introducing basic sight-singing skills

In this introductory sight-singing workshop, participants will be using the “moveable doh” sight reading system, building on the bases from the ear-training workshop. Written exercises and melodies will be provided to enable the participants to translate the written symbols into vocal sound. In order to do this, we will prioritize analysis, solfège, and listening skills, such as tonic identification.

Participants are asked to please bring pencils and erasers to these workshops.
Advance registration recommended (form available at back of Newsletter).

Info: Margaret, 613-733-0182

2 sessions: Members - $20 in advance; $25 at the door Non-members - $30 preregistered; $35 at the door

BIO
Marie-Lynne Sauvé holds an ARCT diploma and a bachelor of music degree from McGill University. Since coming to Ottawa in 1999, she has sung with the Cantata Singers, has been assistant director for Le Choeur Classique de l’Outaouais and director of the Ottawa Baha’i choir. She has taught ear training as a teacher’s assistant at Carleton University and has offered workshops to members of the choirs she has conducted. She also works as a voice movement therapist, enabling people to know and to embody their voices.

Wales – Land of Song
Leader: Alan Thomas
Sunday, 22 October 2006 2:00-5:00 pm
St. Matthias’ Anglican Church
555 Parkdale Avenue (at Queensway)
Advance registration: CAMMAC members $10, non-members $15. At the door: $15 and $20.

The workshop, a celebration of Welsh history, language, and music, will include traditional songs, for example, The Ash Grove, All Through the Night, Men of Harlach, and well-known Welsh hymns such as Cwm Rhondda. It will feature the Cantorion Cerdd Dant, a women’s vocal ensemble that performs penillion (a tradition of singing an improvised melody and words to a familiar folk tune), accompanist Mary Muckle, harpist, and John Griffiths, tenor. Be prepared to sing in English and, after a brief language lesson, in Welsh, and to enjoy Alan Thomas’s stories of Wales, its people and music.

Alan Thomas, born in Wales and a graduate of the Universities of Manchester and Reading, has held teaching posts as Director of Music in high schools in England and Canada. Since 1977 he has been Organist and Choir Director at Westminster Presbyterian Church. He was guest conductor of the Parkdale Orchestra for three years and will play an organ concerto and a harpsichord concerto with them next spring. He is very active with the Welsh Society in Ottawa and in international Welsh music festivals. CAMMAC members and many others have enjoyed rehearsing Come Sing Messiah choruses under Mr. Thomas’s delightful direction for several years. More recently they have risen early for his “Almost Sunrise” singing on Easter Sunday.

Please use registration form at the end of this newsletter.

Contact: Barbara at 613-230-1531.

ENHANCING SIGHT-SINGING SKILLS
St. Matthias’ Anglican Church 555 Parkdale Avenue (at Queensway)
Saturday, November 4, 2006, 2:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Intermediate sight-singing workshop with Marie-Lynne Sauvé for singers and choristers. Participants in this intermediate workshop are expected to have some experience with sight-singing and some basic theory knowledge, especially in identifying tonalities, triads and intervals.

After introducing the “moveable doh” sight-reading system, we will sight-sing melodies in major and minor keys that include modulations, in single and multi-part settings. As in the previous workshop, we will prioritize analysis, solfège, and listening skills. Also, atonal exercises will be introduced, to sing and identify intervals in these contexts.

Advance registration recommended (form available at back of Newsletter).

Info: Margaret 613-733-0182

One session: Members - $10 preregistered; $15 at the door Non-members - $15 preregistered; $20 at the door

THE ESSENTIAL ELIJAH
A CAMMAC active listening event.
Sunday, November 5, 3:00-5:00pm Church of St John the Evangelist,
Elgin Street at Somerset (entrance at 154 Somerset W.)
Choir rehearsal room on the second floor.
CAMMAC members $10 in advance
Non-members $15
$5.00 supplement at the door if space permits.

Gordon Johnston will introduce us to Mendelssohn's great oratorio "Elijah" which will be performed at CAMMAC’s annual concert in February 2007. Using various recordings, we will compare performing styles and sounds, and look at the musical and religious influences in Mendelssohn's music. We expect to have the scores available, but bring one if you have it.

Well-known as the conductor of CAMMAC Ottawa-Gatineau's annual winter oratorio performances, Dr. Gordon Johnston is the Director of Music at the Church of St John the Evangelist, and is the conductor of the Strings of St John's. Registration will be limited to 50 participants so book early. There will be no break. Sip wine (or your choice) on a BYO basis.

Please use the registration form at the end of the newsletter.

Contact: Bethany 613 730-2369

Messiah Rehearsals with Alan Thomas
10 to 12:30
Parkdale United Church
Come to 1, 2, or all 3 sessions

Info: Barbara, 613-237-3154

Early Christmas Music Workshop, led by Jamie Macdonnell
3 to 5pm (yes three!)
St. Matthias Church

Info: Penny, 613 721-4927

Come! Sing Messiah! With Louis Lavigueur
Rehearsal 6pm, concert 8pm
Dominion-Chalmers United Church
Bring your own score!

Info: Barbara 613- 237-3154

January 6, 13, 20, 26, 28 and February 3, 2007
Mendelssohn's 'Elijah' with Gordon Johnston
rehearsals for Annual Concert, 2 to 5pm (except January 26th, 7:30 to 9:30pm)
St. Matthias Church

Info:Harry at 819 772-1774

Mendelssohn's 'Elijah' – Performance under the direction of Gordon Johnston
7 p.m., St. John the Evangelist Church

Info: Harry at 819 772-1774

Basically Brass Workshop with Karen Donnelly

Chamber Music Workshop 2007
This year’s chamber music workshop will be coached by Betsy MacMillan, who is very good with both early music and conventional chamber music literature. The workshop will be held on Saturday, February 17. A harpsichord will be available. The details are not yet worked out, but we are letting you know in plenty of time so that you can get together with your musical friends and decide what to play for the workshop.

More details will be given in the next newsletter.

Voice Production with Jackie Hawley
2-5 pm
St. Matthias

Dance Music for Early Instruments with Jennifer Davis

Info: Elizabeth at 613 724-3719

Come Sing at Easter (Almost Sunrise) with Alan Thomas
First Unitarian Church
6:30-8:30am

Info: Janet at 613 728-9657

AGM and Choral-orchestral reading with Tom Annand
To be determined
St. Matthias
2-5 pm