Ottawa Choral Society
Presents

Saturday, April 12, 2008
8:00 PM

Ottawa Choral Society
Matthew Larkin  CONDUCTOR

Teresa van den Boogaard  ORGAN

Tickets: Adults $30, Students $10

Tickets may be purchased on-line at www.ottawachoralsociety.com
Collected Works in Westboro (Wellington at Holland)
Leading Note (370 Elgin)
Compact Music in the Glebe (785A Bank St)
and CD Warehouse (all Locations)
and at the door
Information 613-725-2560
www.ottawachoralsociety.com

THREE CHORALE PRELUDES
ON WELSH HYMN TUNES /
BRYN CALFARIA - RHOSYMEDRE - HYFRYDOL
Ralph Vaughan Williams

MASS IN G MINOR
TE DEUM IN G
Ralph Vaughan Williams

MISSA BREVIS  Zoltán Kodály

In this 50th anniversary year of the death of Ralph Vaughan Williams, we pay homage to that great British composer, and to his Hungarian contemporary, Zoltán Kodály.  Composing on opposite sides of Europe, these men revived the polyphony of Bach and Palestrina, and the great Elizabethans and Jacobeans, and added back the native songs of their people.  On his journeys through Britain, RVW catalogued over 800 English folk songs while Kodály,with Bartok, gathered over 100,000, safeguarding the musical heritage of their countrymen in a war-shattered Europe.  They were ancient moderns; their great Masses offer a fascinating comparison and complement.