Concert program for online video performance of For All The City 2023, released April 1, 2024.
FOR ALL THE CITY // A FREE CONCERT
reQuiem Fauré
November 5, 2023, Halifax
This concert is made possible with generous support from The John C. Kerr Family Foundation & Edmonds Landscape and Construction Services Limited
As Mayor of Halifax and on behalf of Regional Council, I am delighted to extend warm greetings and a special welcome to everyone attending For All The City: Fauré Requiem, an extravagant treat in a time of
Remembrance, presented by Capella Regalis Choirs. Music has the power to make us feel a full range of emotions , and t his beloved masterwork with orchestra will present a unique experience featuring a large choral cast and top-notch musicians concert goers are sure to enjoy. I want to acknowledge, with much appreciation, Capella Regalis Choirs, Artistic Director Nick Halley, the musicians, organizers, sponsors and generous donors for your dedication and promotion of music excellence that ’s accessible to everyone. Enjoy the live performance of one of the world’s most revered masterworks of music. Kindest regards,
Mike Savage Mayor
C APELLA R EGALIS C HOIRS gratefully acknowledge the support of our Friends in the 2023 — 24 season _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
‘ FOR ALL THE CITY ’ CONCERT SPONSORS :
The John C. Kerr Family Foundation
2023 — 24 SEASON SPONSORS : Barbara Butler Helga Guderley Sonya Kobes
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE :
Anonymous
Penelope Daborn
Jane Ritcey
Karen Anderson
Peter Fyfe
& Wilfred Moore
Gail & Larry Ashley
Douglas Hall
Helen Ryding
Scott Beard Bettina Berg
& Sherry Porter
Chris & Sandi Ryland Allan & Leslie Shaw
Brenda & John Hartley
& Chris Harlow Nicholas Bishop
John Himmelman
Ian Stewart
Jake Kerr
The Segelberg Trust Carol & Dave Veenstra
Stephen & Gillian Booth
Christopher Martin
James Burchill
Jane McKay-Nesbitt
Rose Wilson
George & Tia Cooper Mary Meisner ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
OTHER FRIENDS :
Nada Abdalla Janet Adams
Anonymous Anonymous
Jennifer Bain
& Simon Docking
Rod Affleck & Jade Fraser Gordon Armstrong
William Barker Sandra Barss
Olubusola & Stephen
Paula Arndt Robert Ayling & Philip John Anne Aylmer
Akinpelu
Emily & Garrett Barry
Margot Aldrich
Margaret Bayer Stephen & Dianne
Tom Allen
& Millie McDougall Janet & Tim Anderson Fred & Roma Angus
Kumiko Azetsu-scott
Beaufoy
Liang Bai
Dennis Begley
& Guojun Yang
Lorraine Beswick
Anonymous
Minjeong Bak
Drew Bethune
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Alexander Bickerton
Curtis Dietz
Peggy Hemsworth
David Black Nancy Blake
& Gina Patterson
& Michael LaLeune
Doreen Dixon Douglas Drdul
Anita Hernandez & Jamie Moshin
John Bottomley
Elizabeth Boudreau Trevor Brandenburg Rhea & Patrick Bright
Bryan & Catherine
Al & Merrill Heubach Alexandra Hickey David & Carol Hilchey Anthony & Jean Hillman
Drummond
John Duckworth
Will Brooks
& Anne Fouillard
Donna & Wayne
Rick Dunlop
Mary Hills
Burkhart
& Jayne Roma
Songtao Hou
Barbara Burke
Tom Easley
& Ning Xu
Bryan & Liz Burns
Leslie & Velvet Eliuk
Jason Hopkins
Tom Burrow
Peter Fillmore Daniela Rodica
& Johanna Nesbitt
& Helen Handfield-Jones Alison & Jacob Bussey
Robert Hulse
Firanescu
Phillip & Kim Hunt
Mark Butler
Kathy & Stan Fisher
Deanna Hurd
Kenneth Cameron
Brian Flemming Mayann Francis
& David Jones
Diane Carman
Jane Hurd Molly Hurd
Phillip & Lynne Carter Doug & Kaireen Chaytor
Blye Frank
Casey & Lydia Fulton
Michael Hymers
Michael & Britney
Nancy Fulton Mary Fyfe Jost
Kathleen Grant Jaeger
Chhangur
Andrea Jeffrey
Andrea Chircop
& Will Jost
& Eric Landry
Mary-Ellen Clancey
Marilyn Gabler Penelope Gael Bill & Margaret
Peter & Linda Jeffrey
Joan Cleather John Collins Judith Comeau
Jennifer Jones
John Keith
Gallacher
Judy Kennedy Robert Knapp
Harry Cook
Wayne Garland
Judith Cookey
Allan & Janet Gaskin
Ben Kobes
Stephen & Karen Cooper
Scott Gilbreath Rosemary Gill Wayne Grady Cheryl Graul
& Anna McQuaid
Thelma E. Costello John & Pam Crace
Langley LeBlanc
Medical Services Inc.
Angela Creaser Janet Creaser
Eunyoung Lee
Taha Hafez
Frank LeTourneau Philip & Sheri LeVine
Richard & Marilyn
James & Margaret
Cregan
Hallett
Shane Lindsay
Kay Crinean
Paul Halley
Yue Liu
Duncan & Pam Crowdis Alan & Laurie Cruess
& Margaret Race
William & Stella Lord
Anna Hamilton
Jolanta Lorenc Margot Louise
Ken Dauphinee Glenn & Marina
Cindy Hamon-Hill
Vivien Hannon
Frances Macdonnell Anne MacLaren Brian MacMillan Mary MacNevin Catherine MacNutt
Davidson
Cassandra Hanrahan Sherrill Rand Harrison
Glenn & Petra
Davidson
Laurel Haslett J L Hastey Inge Hatton
Taunya Dawson Rena Demone
Kim Marchand
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Penny Margolis
Barbara Phippen
Gary & Sandra Thorne
William & Germaine
John & Eleanor Power Genevieve & Louis
Lisa Totman
Marshall
Elizabeth Townsend John & Yvonne Vandyk
Tom & Huguette May
Pugh
Lisa McCabe
Judith Reade
Annette & Hank
William McFarlane
Rosanne Reeve-Newson
Vandenbrink
Nancy McFarlane-Smith
Barbara Richman Judith Riddoch Elsa Louise Riley Neil Robertson
Ken Vaughn Ann Wadden
Harold McGee Carol McKnight
Robert & Barbara
Christopher Meiklejohn
Walker
Patricia Miller Philip Mitchell
Janice Rofihe
Jia Wang Xue Wang
Nathaniel Rogers & Allidah Muller
David Monaghan & Gail Warriner John Montgomerie
Mona Wanous
Sally Roof
Karolyn Waterson David & Patricia
Shawn Rosvold Kiran Sachdev & Amy Smeltzer Dan & Joan Sargeant
David Morse
Watson
Melanie Nadeau & Scott Pickup Jacob Nagtegaal Phyllis Nickel Karen Nickerson
John Weagle Barbara West
Melissa Schoales Christine Scott Doug & Elaine
Clyde & Cheryl Wetmore
F. Maureen White
Linda Wieser
Gay & Stephen Osler
Sheppard
Dan & Michelle Wilband Anne T. Wing-Matier Peter & Irene Wilkinson
Kathy Osler
Margaret Shirley Katharine Sircom William Slights Steve Snyder
Abiola & Olusegun
Odebode
Patricia Williams Susan Williams
Oliver & Rosalie
Osmond
Blake Starratt
Gaye Wishart
Fraser Parke Barbara Pate
Sarah Stevenson Eric & Jolyn Swain Carole Swinamer Jean-Mario Tanyan
Margaret Withrow
Uwe & Colette Wittkugel
John S. Payzant Darlene Peters
Jeremy Wood Theresa K. Wolf Deb Woolway
Karen Peters
Anna Taylor
& Andrew Roof
& Richard Wurtz
The choristers, staff and Board of Capella Regalis would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to the parishioners of the former Saint Augustine’s at Jollimore Church and Rev. Marian Conrad, for the major bequest that parish announced last spring to Capella Regalis to support our youth choirs. We are deeply honoured to receive such a gift. It will help to ensure the vitality of Capella Regalis youth programs for years to come.
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Dear Friends,
For some time, Nick and Vanessa and the Capella Regalis team have been hoping to offer a concert as a gift to the HRM, free-of-charge to all. Their thinking was that to truly be a gift to the community, worthy of this exceptional place, the concert had to be world-class. Well, the Fauré Requiem, performed with superb orchestra, baritone Alexander Dobson, The Choir of All Saints Cathedral, and the boys, girls, and men of Capella Regalis, fits this criterion. The concert you are about to hear would be right at home in any cultural capital of the world. Thanks to the John C. Kerr Family Foundation and Edmonds Landscape and Construction Services Limited, our primary concert donors, the considerable expenses of this event have been underwritten so that money should not present a barrier to anyone wishing to attend. Like this concert, the Capella Regalis program, established in 2010, is offered free-of-charge to any young person who can commit to the schedule and has a willingness to engage in an education of the highest quality. Whenever I encounter the latest thinking on education, I realize that Capella Regalis ticks all the boxes espoused by these experts. In recent articles that draw conclusions as to why certain countries place so well on PISA tests (Programme for International Student Assessment), it has been suggested that students do better when they have a teacher who stays with them over a period of years. Nick has educated some of the Capella Regalis boys, now adults, for as many as thirteen years ; several of these former choristers are singing in the Young Men and Men’s sectio ns at today’s concert. The same will be the case with Vanessa when her recently formed girls choir matures. The core of the Capella Regalis education is discipline, focus, reliability, listening skills, analytic skills, civility, and teamwork. All these traits and values must be instilled in each member, simply to rehearse properly and sing an Evensong, much less present a concert such as the Fauré Requiem. And, speaking of teamwork, there's an aspect of the Men & Boys program that bears mentioning. Can you think of a sports team where the members range in age from 8 to 58, and the youngest are just as critical to the team as the oldest? In a men & boys choir, only the young ones can sing those soaring soprano lines. The men in the choir can no longer do that, but the boys can, and they relish making that unique contribution – at least until they can’t – and then they move to the men’s section and keep right on singing. Today ’s concert is bookended by two popular hymns for the commemoration of All Saints. These hymns call for all voices, trained and untrained, to join in with great enthusiasm, reminding us with words so appropriate to this occasion and this community: O blest communion, fellowship divine! / We feebly struggle, they in glory shine; Yet all are one in thee, for all are thine. / Alleluia, alleluia! Thank you all for coming today. Let’s hope “For All the City” becomes an annual event. ~ Paul Halley
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F OR A LL T HE C ITY 2023 Please hold your applause until the end of the concert.
Justorum Animae Justorum animae in manu Dei sunt, et non tanget illos tormentum mortis. Visi sunt oculis insipientium mori, illi autem sunt in pace.
The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there no torment shall touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: but they are in peace.
Words: Wisdom 3:1-2
Music: O. di Lasso (1532 — 1594)
Lasst uns erfreuen
HYMN Ye Watchers And Ye Holy Ones
The audience is invited to stand and sing the first two and last two verses.
All
1 Ye watchers and ye holy ones, Bright seraphs, cherubim and thrones, Raise the glad strain, Alleluia! Cry out, dominions, princedoms, powers, V irtues, archangels, angels’ choirs, O praise him, O praise him, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
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2 O higher than the cherubim, More glorious than the seraphim, Lead their praises, Alleluia!
Thou bearer of th’eternal wor d, Most gracious, magnify the Lord, O praise him, O praise him, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia! 3 All you with mercy in your heart, Forgiving others, take your part, O sing now: Alleluia! All you that pain and sorrow bear, Praise God, and cast on him your care: O praise him, O praise him, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Choir
Choir
4 And even you, most gentle death, Waiting to hush our final breath, O praise him, Alleluia!
You lead back home the child of God, For Christ our Lord that way has trod: O praise him, O praise him, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
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All
5 Respond, ye souls in endless rest, Ye patriarchs and prophets blest, O praise him, Alleluia!
Ye holy twelve, ye martyrs strong, All saints triumphant raise the song, O praise him, O praise him, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
All
6 O friends, in gladness let us sing, Supernal anthems echoing, O praise him, Alleluia!
To God the Father, God the Son, And God the Spirit, Three in One, O praise him, O praise him, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Words: J. A.L. Riley (1858 — 1945) & St. Francis of Assisi (1182 — 1226)
Music: Lasst uns erfreuen arr. J. Rutter (b.1945)
The audience is invited to sit.
Give Us the Wings of Faith Give us the wings of faith to rise Within the veil, and see The saints above, how great their joys, How bright their glories be. We ask them whence their victory came: They, with one united breath, Ascribe the conquest to the Lamb, Their triumph to his death. They marked the footsteps that he trod, His zeal inspired their breast; And following their incarnate God, They reached the promised rest.
Words: I. Watts (1674 — 1748)
Music: E. Bullock (1890 — 1979)
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Lord, Thou Hast Been Our Refuge Solo Quartet: Meghan Recker, Vanessa Halley, Jamie Whitley & Shaylan Burkhart
O God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Our shelter from the stormy blast, And our eternal home.
Lord, thou hast been our refuge from one generation to another.
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made, thou art God from everlasting, and world without end. Thou turnest man to destruction;
again thou sayest, Come again, ye children of men; For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday, seeing that is past as a watch in the night. As soon as thou scatterest them they are even as a sleep and fade away suddenly like the grass. In the morning it is green, and groweth up, but in the evening it is cut down, dried up, and withered. For we consume away in thy displeasure, and are afraid at thy wrathful indignation. For when thou art angry all our days are gone; we bring our years to an end as a tale that is told. The years of our age are threescore years and ten, and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength but labour and sorrow, so passeth it away, and we are gone. Turn thee again, O Lord, at the last. Be gracious unto thy servants. O satisfy us with thy mercy, and that soon. So shall we rejoice and be glad all the days of our life. Lord, thou hast been our refuge from one generation to another.
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made,
thou art God from everlasting, and world without end. And the glorious majesty of the Lord our God be upon us. Prosper thou the work of our hands, O prosper thou our handywork.
Words: Psalm 90 & I. Watts (1674 — 1748)
Music: R. Vaughan Williams (1872 — 1958) & W. Croft (1678 — 1727)
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R EQUIEM BY G ABRIEL F AURÉ (1845 — 1924)
Baritone soloist: Alexander Dobson
INTROITUS & KYRIE Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis. Te decet hymnus, Deus, in Sion, et tibi reddetur votum in Jerusalem.
Rest eternal grant them, O Lord, and may light perpetual shine on them. A hymn is fitting for you, God, in Zion, and a vow will be paid to you in Jerusalem. Hear my prayer; to you all flesh will come.
Exaudi orationem meam; ad te omnis caro veniet.
Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.
Kyrie eleison. Christe eleison. Kyrie eleison.
OFFERTORIUM O Domine Jesu Christe, Rex gloriae, libera animas defunctorum de poenis inferni, et de profundo lacu. Libera eas de ore leonis, ne absorbeat eas tartarus, ne cadant in obscurum. Hostias et preces tibi, Domine, laudis offerimus. Tu suscipe pro animabus illis quarum hodie memoriam facimus. Fac eas, Domine, de morte transire ad vitam, quam olim Abrahae promisisti, et semini eius. Amen.
O Lord Jesus Christ, King of glory, free the souls of the dead
from the pains of hell, and from the deep pit, from the mouth of the lion,
nor may the abyss swallow them, nor may they fall into darkness. Sacrifices and prayers to you, Lord, we offer: Receive those souls whom today we remember. Make them, Lord, to pass from death to life, which once you promised to Abraham and to his seed. Amen.
SANCTUS Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth. Pleni sunt coeli et terra Gloria tua. Hosanna in excelsis.
Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts. Full are the heavens and the earth with your glory. Hosanna in the highest.
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PIE JESU Pie Jesu Domine, dona eis requiem, dona eis sempiternam requiem. AGNUS DEI & LUX AETERNA Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona eis requiem, sempiternam requiem. Lux aeterna luceat eis, Domine: Cum sanctis tuis in aeternum, quia pius es. Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis. LIBERA ME Libera me, Domine, de morte aeterna, in die illa tremenda quando coeli movendi sunt et terra, dum veneris judicare saeculum per ignem. Tremens factus sum ego et timeo, dum discussio venerit, atque ventura ira. Dies illa, dies irae, calamitatis et miseriae, dies illa, dies magna et amara valde. Requiem aeternam, dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis. IN PARADISUM In paradisum deducant angeli: in tuo adventu suscipiant te martyres, et perducant te in civitatem sanctam Jerusalem. Chorus angelorum te suscipiat, et cum Lazaro quondam paupere aeternam habeas requiem.
Merciful Lord Jesus, grant to them rest; grant to them everlasting rest.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, Grant to them rest, everlasting rest. May light eternal shine on them, Lord, with your saints in eternity, for you are merciful. Rest eternal grant to them, Lord, and may perpetual light shine on them. Deliver me, Lord, from eternal death on that terrible day when the heavens will be moved along with the earth, when you will come to judge the world by fire. I am made to tremble, and I am afraid,
until the trial arrives, and the wrath to come: That day, the day of wrath,
of calamity, and misery, that day, the great day and very bitter. Rest eternal grant to them, Lord, and may light perpetual shine on them.
To paradise may the angels lead you: at your arrival may the martyrs receive you, and lead you into the holy city, Jerusalem. May the chorus of angels receive you, and with Lazarus, once a poor man, may you have eternal rest.
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Sine Nomine
HYMN For All The Saints
The audience is invited to stand and sing the first two and last two verses.
All
1 For all the saints, who from their labours rest, Who thee by faith before the world confessed, Thy Name, O Jesus, be for ever blessed. Alleluia, alleluia!
All
2 Thou wast their rock, their fortress, and their might: Thou, Lord, their Captain in the well-fought fight; Thou, in the darkness drear, the one true Light. Alleluia, alleluia! 3 O may thy soldiers, faithful, true, and bold, Fight as the saints who nobly fought of old, And win, with them, the victor’s crown of gold. Alleluia, alleluia! 4 O blest communion, fellowship divine! We feebly struggle, they in glory shine; Yet all are one in thee, for all are thine. Alleluia, alleluia! 5 And when the strife is fierce, the warfare long, Steals on the ear the distant triumph song, And hearts are brave again, and arms are strong. Alleluia, alleluia! 6 The golden evening brightens in the west; Soon, soon to faithful warriors cometh rest; Sweet is the calm of paradise the blest. Alleluia, alleluia! 7 But lo! there breaks a yet more glorious day; The saints triumphant rise in bright array; The King of glory passes on his way. Alleluia, alleluia! 8 From earth’s wide bounds, from ocean’s farthest coast, Through gates of pearl, streams in the countless host Singing to Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, alleluia, alleluia!
Choir
Choir
Choir
Choir
All
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Words: W. W. How (1823 — 1897)
Music: R. Vaughan Williams (1872 — 1958) arr. P. Halley
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P ERFORMERS
Nick Halley, Concert Director & Capella Regalis Director Paul Halley, Organist & Cathedral Choir Director Alexander Dobson, Baritone Soloist (Fauré Requiem)
CAPELLA REGALIS CHOIRS (as at November 5, 2023)
Boys Choir
Girls Choir
Senior Choristers
Senior Choristers Jenny Chen Hannah Hou Ellianna Lee Molly Sneddon Regular Choristers Tofarati Akinpelu Annie Chhangur
Lucas Tang
Regular Choristers Calvin Chhangur Gerasimos Delorey Nikolaos Delorey
Claude Fulton Clement Fulton Gavin Hilchey Jonah Sneddon
Helen Sim
Maggie Sneddon Stella Wilband
Junior Choristers Peter Fyfe Jost
Junior Choristers Océanne Hanrahan
Brendan Lee
Lochlan Sachdev
Doyoon Kim Jian Kim Yutong Liu Raphaela Oh
Harkin Yang
Probationers Program
Probationers Program
Daniel Walpola Mingzheng Xiao
Diana Bussey
Lucy Chhangur Claudia Hopkins Seraphina Lee Adedunmola Odebode Claire Sim Michelle Zhang
Men (* = former boy chorister)
Alto
Tenor
Bass
Scott Beard
Julien Davidson
Simon Blake
Owen Landry* Daniel Sneddon*
Peter Dietz *
Shaylan Burkhart Wyn Burkhart*
Samuel Swain * Jamie Whitley Peter Wilkinson
Tams Cookey
Trevor Hannon *
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ALL SAINTS CATHEDRAL CHOIR Dir. Paul Halley / Assist. Dir. Nick Halley Sopranos
Altos
Hilary Allister Elizabeth Halley Meghan Recker Tenors Scott Beard Peter Dietz Nick Halley Luc Therien Jamie Whitley
Eden Cowles Hendrik Fisher Vanessa Halley Daniel Sneddon
Basses
Simon Blake
Shaylan Burkhart Wyn Burkhart Trevor Hannon Kip Johnson Vincent Kong
ENSEMBLE REGALE Violas
Harp
Kirsty Money (orchestra leader)
Ellen Gibling
Alexandra Bates Carolyn Farnand
Trumpet
Megan Singer
Curtis Dietz
Cellos
Horns
Hilary Brown Rachel Desoer
Gina Patterson
Mimisu Lee
Bass
Timpani
Max Kasper
Erin Donovan
Violin (solo in Sanctus movement)
Organ
Jennifer Jones
Paul Halley
CAPELLA REGALIS ADMINISTRATION Nick Halley, Founder & Artistic Director Vanessa Halley, Executive Director & Girls Choir Dir.
OPERATING BOARD Barbara Butler, Chair
Scott Beard Curtis Dietz
Hannah Griffin, Assist. Executive Director
Hilary Allister, Probationers Dir. & Recruitment Officer
Andrew Griffin Nick Halley Paul Halley Janelle Lucyk
Scott Beard, Music Librarian
Paul Halley, Accompanist & Musical Mentor John Power, Box Office & House Manager
Henk Fisher, Head Usher Elizabeth Boudreau, Transportation Program Lead Rev Dr Helen Ryding, Chaplain (All Saints Cathedral) Canon Dr Gary Thorne, Chaplain (Emeritus)
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P ERFORMER B IOGRAPHIES CAPELLA REGALIS is a Canadian charity dedicated to training singers and performing choral music of the highest excellence. Founded in Nova Scotia by director Nick Halley in 2010 to build upon the best aspects of the European tradition of church choirs and to revitalize this method of music training in Canada, Capella Regalis now comprises a Boys Choir, Girls Choir, and professional Men's Choir (including Young Men with recently changed voices). Capella Regalis children’s choirs are free and open to any child who passes a basic audition. Capella Regalis Choirs regularly sing Choral Evensong in the Cathedral Church of All Saints, Halifax, as part of the Cathedral's Sundays at Four series. The choirs also perform concerts around Nova Scotia and beyond in a busy September – June season, and engage the public in many music outreach initiatives. Annual performances include tour programs of sacred and secular repertoire from across the Western tradition, and the popular, annual Christmas series, A Chorister's Christmas . In addition, each season Capella Regalis collaborates with other groups and world-class musicians in productions of major works such as J.S. Bach’s Easter Cantata BWV 4 , J.S. Bach's Saint Matthew Passion, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms , Bizet’s Carmen, Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols , Britten’s Saint Nicolas, Fauré ’ s Requiem , Handel’s Te Deum , Monteverdi’s Selva Morale e Spirituale, Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 , Orff’s Carmina Burana, the Paul Winter Consort’s Missa Gaia/Earth Mass , Rutter ’ s Visions , and Schütz's Musikalische Exequien. Capella Regalis has hosted other choirs and performing artists from the local community as well as from across Canada for special projects, and has completed seven performance tours in the Maritimes presented by Musique Royale. Capella Regalis has released three CDs: Love Came Down: Carols for Christmas (2019), Greater Love (2017) and My Eyes for Beauty Pine (2014), as well as many online performance broadcasts. Our philosophy: Access to excellence. In the performing arts world, a major barrier to participation is cost. At Capella Regalis, we are passionate about making professional-level choral music available to everyone because we know music has the power to transform the life of a person, whether that person is a child finding their voice or a listener finding beauty in a soul-stirring performance. We are committed to maintaining a level of excellence in choral music because we believe it is essential to the preservation and development of our cultural heritage. • Our free Probationers Program introduces children as young as six years old to the basics of music literacy and the joy of singing.
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• Our free Boys Choir and Girls Choir advance the musical and social growth of choristers through a disciplined approach to music studies. The result of this training for the children is access to some of the greatest music humankind has produced over the last 1,000 years, including new repertoire that responds to and expands that heritage. • Our free Young Men’s Program gives teenage boys with changing voices a pre-professional music training with an emphasis on leadership skills that help them navigate the challenging journey to adulthood. Many of our Young Men go on to become paid singers in our Men's Choir. • Capella Regalis supports the artistic practice of professional musicians living and working in Nova Scotia and across Canada. Our Men’s Choir employs a roster of professional adult singers to provide the alto, tenor, and bass voices for Capella Regalis performances, forming the backbone of our annual season of professional presentations, together with instrumentalists and other collaborating artists. The two goals of musical excellence AND accessibility for everyone inform all Capella Regalis programming decisions. Capella Regalis regularly offers free or pay-what-you-can live and online performances for the public, and shares a diverse range of musical repertoire with schoolchildren through free, interactive performances in local elementary schools. Capella Regalis is currently developing a Community Music Literacy Course to teach the basics of music reading through a free online course where anyone may learn at their own pace. For more information about these and other projects, we invite you to visit capellaregalis.com. The CHOIR OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS is directed by Grammy Award-winning composer, choral conductor, and organist Paul Halley. The choir comprises professional singers and choral scholars. The choir sings at the 11:00 AM Choral Eucharist most Sundays, September through June, and also offers services of Evensong, Lessons & Carols, and Readings & Music, as well as concert performances. For more information, visit cathedralchurchofallsaints.com. British-Canadian baritone ALEXANDER DOBSON has been praised for his musical and dramatic artistry on both opera and concert stages. He was lauded for his “gripping emb odiment of Wozzeck ” (Journal Voir) in a production of the Berg opera with Théâtre du Nouveau Monde and Orchestre Métropolitain , conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Other roles of note include the title role in Don Giovanni , the Count/ Le Nozze di Figaro and Thomas Betterton/ Prince of Players , all with Florentine Opera, and Guglielmo/ Così Fan Tutte, Belcore/ L ’elisir d’amore and Ned Keene/ Peter Grimes , all with L ’Opera de Montréal .
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Acclaimed for his accomplished blend of stagecraft and vocal ability, Mr. Dobson is particularly in demand for contemporary stagings. His recent performance as “The Master” in Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie’s production of Against Nature was praised for its “clarity and sustained feeling” ( The Globe and Mail ). Dobson was also acclaimed as “The Pilot” in Soundstreams’ production of Airline Icarus , a new opera by Brian Current. The recording of Airline Icarus was the winner of the JUNO for Classical Composition of the Year in 2015. The recording of Carlisle Floyd’s Prince of Players, with Florentine Opera and the Milwaukee Symphony, was released in April 2020 on the Reference Recordings label and received two GRAMMY® nominations. Alexander made his London debut at the Linbury Theatre with Royal Opera House Covent Garden in the premiere of The Midnight Court by Ana Sokolovic. He also was acclaimed for his appearances in a stage d performance of Zemlinsky’s Lyric Symphony directed by Atom Egoyan at Spoleto Festival USA. Other opera engagements include Raimbaud/ Le Comte Ory for Edmonton Opera, Maximilian/Candide with Calgary Opera ; “Guillaume” in the French version of Così fan tutte with Opera Lafayette; Count Almaviva/ The Marriage of Figaro with Against the Grain; Marcello/ La Bohème with Saskatoon Opera, Pacific Opera Victoria, and on television in BRAVO’s StreetScenes version of the work; Silvio/ Pagliacci for L'Opéra de Québec; Mercutio/ Roméo et Juliette for L’Opera de Montréal and also for Opera Ontario; Harlequin/ Ariadne auf Naxos for Calgary Opera, Sonora/ La fanciulla del West with L'Opera de Montreal; and Aeneas/ Dido and Aeneas with The Theatre of Early Music which he reprises this Fall . He has sung Escamillo/ Carmen in concert with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. Concert performances of note include Walton’s Belshazzar's Feast with Toronto Symphony and Sir Andrew Davis, Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfayer with Orchestre Métropolitain, Faure Requiem with the Windsor Symphony, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting the combined National Arts Centre Orchestra and Orchestre Métropolitain. He has sung Mozart’s Requiem with the Milwaukee Symphony and San Antonio Symphony; Haydn’s Seasons with Cleveland Orchestra; and Mozart’s Mass in C Minor with the St. Lawrence Choir. Alexander has sung Handel’s Messiah with Philadelphia Orchestra (Cristian Macelaru, conductor), Calgary Philharmonic (Nicholas McGegan), Kansas City Symphony (Julian Wachner) Orchestra London, National Arts Centre Orchestra (Paul Goodwin), St. Thomas Church in New York, Edmonton Symphony, Grand Philharmonic Choir, Elmer Isler Singers, Boris Brott Festival, and Spiritus Chamber Choir, Brahms Requiem with Pacific Chorale, and Bach’s St. John Passion with Bach Society of St. Louis. Among his many Canadian engagements this season are Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Hamilton Philharmonic. Mr. Dobson is also a dedicated recital artist. Composer Derek Holman wrote the song cycle Daybreak and a Candle End especially for Alexander and the Talisker Players. Mr. Dobson has also performed Dichterliebe with Talisker Players
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Chamber and Schubert’s Winterreise to great acclaim in Montréal, Victoria, England, Paris, and, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin at the piano, in Toronto. Alexander has also been heard frequently on CBC Radio Canada in recital and concert . Music and Coleman Lemieux Dance Company, Alexander graduated from the University of Toronto Opera Division and the Faculty of Music at the University of Western Ontario with Honours. He is also an alumnus of the Music Theatre Program at the Banff Centre, Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, the Steans Institute for Young Artists at Ravinia, and L’Atelier Lyrique de L’Opera de Montreal. Alexander is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes including those from the International Voice Competition of Paris (including the Edward Marshall Association Award for Outstanding Baritone), the Jeunesses Musicales National Competition, the Marilyn Horne Competition (Music Academy of the West), and the Jacqueline Desmarais Competition. Alexander just started teaching Applied Voice this Fall at Mount Allison University. An ardent singer since childhood, Alexander's solo début was at twelve years old, as a treble soloist in the Canadian premiere of Lloyd Webber's Requiem under conductor Elmer Iseler. NICK HALLEY is a drummer/percussionist, keyboardist, composer, and conductor. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of Capella Regalis, and Assistant Director of Music at the Cathedral Church of All Saints, Halifax. Nick founded and for eleven years (to 2021) directed The King’s Chorus, a choral society for members of the King’s and Dalhousie University communities. Nick was also the Assistant Director of the University of King’s College Chapel Choir from 2008 to 2021. In 2012, Nick was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in recognition of his contribution to Canada and Nova Scotia through the arts, particularly for his work with Capella Regalis Men and Boys Choir. For the 2013 — 14 season, Nick was the Host of CBC’s national radio program Choral Concert . As a drummer and world percussionist, Nick performs and records internationally with a wide range of musicians including American musical icon James Taylor, the late Oscar Castro-Neves, Dinuk Wijeratne, Sandeep Das, Chris Norman, Old Man Luedecke, Nazih Borish, Kinan Azmeh, Suzie LeBlanc, Paul Halley, and Viradouro Escola de Samba. He has taught at Boxwood Festival, Aldeburgh Festival, Interlochen Summer Festival, LAMP, and in other workshop venues around the world. For more information, visit www.nickhalley.com.
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PAUL HALLEY is a Grammy Award-winning composer, choral conductor, and organist. He is Director of Music at The Cathedral Church of All Saints in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Born in England, Halley was raised in Ottawa, Canada where he received his early musical training as a chorister and assistant organist with The Men and Boys Choir of St. Matthew’s Anglican Church. At age sixteen, he was made an Associate of the Royal Conservatory of Toronto. Awarded the organ scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge, Halley received his M.A. with prizes in composition and performance, and was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, winning first prize in the College examinations. Following four years post-graduate work as a church musician and teacher in Montreal, QC, Jamaica, W.I., and Victoria, BC, Halley was appointed Organist and Choirmaster at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City where he served for twelve years from 1977-1989. During his tenure at the Cathedral, Halley collaborated with The Paul Winter Consort, contributing as principal writer and keyboardist on multiple Grammy Award- winning albums released in the 1980’s and 1990’s. Following his departure from the Cathedral in 1989, Halley settled in rural Connecticut and founded the children’s choir, Chorus Angelicus , and the adult ensemble, Gaudeamus . In 1999, Halley became Director of Music at Trinity Episcopal Church, Torrington, CT where he inaugurated a Choral and Organ Scholars program in conjunction with Yale University’s Institute of Sacred Music. In 2007, Halley relocated to Halifax, Nova Scotia to become Director of Music at the University of King’s College (to 2021), and St. George’s Anglican Church (to 2011), as well as University Musician at Atlantic School of Theology (to 2015). In 2015 Halley became Director of Music at All Saints Cathedral, Halifax. Halley’s choral and instrumental compositions are distributed internationally by Pelagos Incorporated (www.pelagosmusic.com), the recording, music publishing and arts management company which he established with his wife Meg Race in 1998. Halley’s compositions have been commissioned or licensed by such entities as Sony Entertainment, John Williams and the Boston Pops Orchestra, CBC, The Toronto Symphony, and Canadian Brass. In addition to a regular output of liturgical music, Halley composes three to four commissions per year.
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