November 15/96

Capilano College Singers silhouette Notre Dame Cathedral.

A Busy Schedule Provides Great Music for Canadians

Ce College Singers had an exciting April and May in 1996 and the spring of 1997 is shaping up to be very interesting as well.

Last April, Capilano College Singers were the showcase choir for Festival Nelson. There they performed for an audience of more than 1,500 people comprised of more than 1,000 students from Washington and B.C., plus 500 local residents. The day after the concert, we gave a morning workshop for a Washington choir.

In May, the choir spent three days in Montreal where it performed in the massive St. Joseph’s Oratory and opulent Notre Dame Cathedral. The main reason for this week long trip was an invitation to perform at the Association of Canadian Choral Conductors’ biennial symposium, which was held in Quebec City. We gave a concert for more than 500 choral conductors from across the country and were the workshop choir for the famous choral directors Paul Hillier and Nicole Paiement. We also sang in Canada’s oldest stone church in the Mount Royal District of Old Quebec City. This was truly a wonderful experience for our College choir.

On Friday, December 6, and Sunday, December 8, the Capilano College Singers, Capilano College Community

Choir and Cecilia Ensemble will give their annual Choirs, Brass and Organ concert at St. Andrew’s United Church in North Vancouver. This festive concert will feature many of the great Christmas classics of the past and many Canadian works as well. And yes, there will be sing-along carols!

In the last week of January, Capilano College singers will make a five-day tour to Kamloops, Salmon Arm, Vernon, Kelowna, and Penticton. The choir will give school workshops/concerts, a concert at Okanagan University College, and a B.C. Choral Federation workshop/ concert in Penticton.

On March 7, Capilano College Singers will give its third annual concert in Squamish as guest artist for the Howe Sound Performing Arts Society.

On April 6 at 3 p.m., Capilano College Community Choir, Capilano College Singers and Cecilia Ensemble will give an exciting concert at the Centennial Theatre. The major works to be featured are the delightful Schubert Mass in C (we celebrate the 200th anniversary of Franz Schubert’s birth in 1997) and dramatic “Lord Nelson Mass” by Joseph Haydn for choirs, soloist and orchestra.

We hope you will have an opportunity to attend at least one of our upcoming concerts!

Submitted by Lars Kaario

A Personnel Note

\ , Je have filled various positions recently and congratulations go

out to Brenda Briscoe who was the successful candidate for two temporary positions — clerk typist IV, Adult Special Education, and the project assistant in WestCoast Reader. The new RFT Pure & Applied Sciences divisional assistant, replacing Lynne Chatwin (who will be leaving us shortly) is Kathy Chute. Sheila Drzazgowski has returned from a restful leave and is back in her position as divisional assistant of ABE. Welcome back Sheila.

Marianne Ketchen is temporarily working as the move coordinator, handling all the exciting aspects involved in the huge move to the Birch Building. This is a very important and stressful position. Thanks, Marianne, for your efforts in getting all the players in place. To assist Computer Services in relocating all the required computers to the new building, we have recruited eight temporary computer movers, so you may see some new (and old) faces around.

Submitted by Dale Gagne

Sharon Miletic, ECCE receptionist, displays quilt made for new Centre.

Quilt Celebrates Opening

'o celebrate the opening of the new

Capilano College Child Care Centre, each student in the graduating Early Childhood Care and Education class of ’96 sewed a quilt piece representing a song from their childhood. Sharon Miletic generously donated her sewing expertise to complete a beautiful quilt that will be displayed beside the office of Janet MacDonald, manager of Child Care Services at Capilano College.