 Season 5 2011-2012 Capital Vox News: • 70s Flashback tickets are currently on sale. Available from choir members, at Alcorn Music Studios, or at the NAC box office. • Elise Letourneau's "Peace Prayer" has been chosen as the winning entry in the 2012 ACCC Competition for Choral Writing. It is slated for publication with Cypress Choral Music and will be performed by the National Youth Choir in May 2012 under the direction of Ivars Taurins. • Elise Letourneau's "Ave Maria" has been chosen as the winning entry in the 2011 Ruth Watson Henderson Choral Composition Competition. It will be presented in May 2012 by the Toronto Children's Chorus under the direction of Elise Bradley. • Our new rehearsal space is at 953 Gladstone (at Loretta). • Hooray! We have received a City of Ottawa grant in support of our proposal to record a CD. • Capital Vox Jazz Choir wishes Natalie Prest (alto alumna) all the best in her music studies at Humber College. Congratulations Natalie! • Elise Letourneau has been chosen as a speaker for Podium 2012, the national choral symposium presented by the Association of Canadian Choral Communities and Choirs Ontario. • Elise Letourneau is one of three composers selected by Jon Washburn to have a piece workshopped by the Vancouver Chamber Choir at the Winnipeg session of Interplay 2011. • Capital Vox Jazz Choir, Inc. is a non-profit charitable organization. | This season's programmes: Beatlemania!!! Saturday November 19, 2011 Dominion-Chalmers United Church An evening celebrating the music of The Beatles. Thirty singers, a professional rhythm section, and guest performers from Canterbury High School, the Capital Youth Jazz Orchestra, and the Four Seasons String Quartet. 70's Flashback Friday March 9 and Saturday March 10, 2012 NAC 4th Stage Join Capital Vox Jazz Choir, music director Elise Letourneau, and one smokin' hot band as they explore the music of the 1970's. Play that funky-rockin'-groovin' music choir boy! Blue Skies Smiling Saturday May 12, 2012 Canada Space and Aviation Museum Our 5th Anniversary Concert! Big band sounds, swing dancing, and music from the WW2 era and the Golden American Songbook meet poetry, literature, and imagery - and we are looking forward to integrating veterans' stories in our presentation. Reception follows. Our next performance: 70's Flashback Friday March 9 and Saturday March 10, 2012 NAC 4th Stage Join Capital Vox Jazz Choir, music director Elise Letourneau, and one smokin' hot band as they explore the music of the 1970's. Play that funky-rockin'-groovin' music choir boy! THANK-YOU!!! To everyone who attended a concert, took a programme ad, volunteered an hour, gave us good advice, and otherwise pitched in to help us make things work out. |  A note from the music director - Elise Letourneau Dear Friends of Capital Vox Jazz Choir– It is with tremendous pleasure that I invite you to the Capital Vox Jazz Choir's 5th Concert Season. We offer you jazz and contemporary choral music at its best - from the lush harmony of Bill Evans and the elegance and texture of Duke Ellington, to the infectious rhythms from Blues to Big Band to Bebop to Brazilian; classic standards as well as songs that are destined to become standards, the excitement of new music, the immediacy of poetry and the spoken word, and the rich tapestry that is vocal jazz. This season we specifically spend more time exploring the idea of "new standards". Standards grow and change with the passage of time, just like the people who love a song until it achieves its own star in our cultural songbook. Here's to timelessness! Let us bring vocal jazz into your life - come and join us for another groovin' season celebrating the universal voice and the current sounds of choral music. Sincerely,  |
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Canada's First Community Jazz Choir
Our 5th Season 2011-2012
Elise Letourneau, Music Director
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
