spine-tingly,
soul-touching sound.
Camerata Xara welcomes you
to our 2011/12 Season.
2011 - 2012 concerts
christina murray, artistic director
claire leger, movement / scenography designer
maureen mcgee, accompanist
tenille goodspeed, production manager
deirdre kellerman, apprentice conductor
fatty legs
- SUN. OCT. 30, 2011 | 6:30 & 7:30PM |
- Atrium, Weldon Law Building, 6061 University Ave, Halifax
Feisty Margaret Pokiak was the only girl made to wear itchy red knee socks in the residential school that tried to erase her Aboriginal culture. In collaboration with the authors of the book, Fatty Legs, and contemporary Aboriginal dancer Sarain Carson Fox, Xara will present a choral theatre piece that brings to life the northern landscape Margaret lived in and her courage to face her oppressor. The performance will take place amidst 300 linear feet of photographs from the residential school era of Canadian history.
A Child's Christmas in wales
- SUN. DEC. 4, 2011 | 4:00PM | First Baptist Church, Halifax
Evocative and soul warming music is woven together with a reading of Dylan Thomas' famous story A Child's Christmas in Wales. Alongside the Halifax Camerata Singers, Xara will present traditional and new Christmas repertoire as well as soaring descants atop audience carols.
wail: Songs of the brier island siren
- MAY 11 & 12, 2012 | 8:00PM | Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Halifax
Amidst the throws of the Fundy tide wanders the mythical Atlantic Siren, part woman, part bird. Her lonely song has lured generations of sailors to wreck their ships on Brier Island's shores. This full-length piece of choral theatre imagines the life of this sad, beautiful creature and the relationship between Siren and sailor.
Sea, Sky, and shore
- FRI. JULY 6, 2012 | 8:00 PM
As part of Mahone Bay's acclaimed summer music series, Xara presents songs of life near the sea from cultures near and far.
news
Xara will join the award-winning Halifax Camerata Singers with artistic director Jeff Joudrey in a family concert of Christmas music on Sunday, Dec. 4, 4 pm at First Baptist Church, Halifax.
Dylan Thomas’s celebrated story, A Child's Christmas in Wales will be woven throughout the performance. The nostalgic and popular story of a snowy Welsh Christmas is told from the view of a child and will be read by John Hancock, a familiar voice from CBC Radio.
The two choirs will present an enchanting selection of seasonal music from Canadian and international composers. Xara will present selections from John Rutter’s Dancing Day, as well as works by Claude Debussy, Samuel Barber, R. Murray Schafer, Finnish composer Heikki Sarmanto, and a Christina Murray arrangement of the traditional Swedish song, Stig in, Lucia, Stig in.
The audience will be invited to join the choirs for a singalong of familiar carols, accompanied by organist Shawn Whynot.
Tickets – $20 regular, $10 student – are available through our Online Ticket Wicket using PayPal or from choir members and at the door.