Tapestry: Celebration Concert
Closing concert of Tapestry International Festival 2023
May 6, 2023 at 7:30 pm
Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver
This was the second of two concerts in the Tapestry International Festival 2023. See also the “Choral Threads” concert.
The worldwide choral community is connected in many ways. We conductors follow each other’s programming, exchange links and recordings, meet at conferences and online, co-commission music, and plan meaningful interactions. At Tapestry 2023, I was delighted to welcome two longstanding friends Melinda and Rebecca and their singers to Vancouver. These extraordinary leaders are part of my world – those of us committed to bringing excellent choral music sung by women to audiences everywhere.
No two choirs are alike, and showcasing that variety is part of what Tapestry International Celebration of Women’s Choirs is all about. It normally happens every three years and is a chance for me, the Elektra singers, and you to hear those flavours and varieties in sound, repertoire, and style. Our guest choirs for Tapestry International 2023 were Seattle-based Mirinesse Women’s Choir (Rebecca Rottsolk, Artistic Director) and The Women’s Chorus of Dallas (Melinda Imthurn, Artistic Director).
On this grand finale concert, each choir presented a short solo set, and then each of the three conductors led the massed choirs in a work they had brought from their own country. The repertoire list below shows Elektra’s solo works. The final three works were the massed choir selections. For full details of the concert’s repertoire, click on the concert program image on the left and skip to page 10.
Performance Pieces:
Canadian Work