Elektra Provides Celestial Shivers
Holst's The Planets, with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
 Elektra is thrilled to provide the mystic voices for the final movement of Holst's The Planets, in two performances with the Vancouver Symphony this weekend. Imogen Holst, the composer's daughter, said at the premiere in 1918 that "the ending of Neptune, the Mystic was unforgettable, with its hidden chorus of women's voices growing fainter and fainter... until the imagination knew no difference between sound and silence."
We know that it sends shivers up and down our spines as we sing it and we're pretty sure it will do the same for you! Come and enjoy.
Saturday, March 13 at the Orpheum, Vancouver
Monday, March 15 at the Bell Performing Arts Centre, Surrey
Full details at the VSO website here.
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Elektra Performs at Water's Edge 2010
"where music meets you"
Water's Edge 2010, a family friendly festival of world-class contemporary music and hands-on workshops & activities takes place March 19 - 21 at the Evergreen Cultural Centre in Coquitlam. Elektra is featured on the opening night (8 pm), along with the fabulous vocal jazz group, Night Train. We hope to see many of our friends from the area in the audience!
For more Water's Edge details (they have an astounding range of performers and activities scheduled over the three days), check out their website.
Elektra sings on Friday, March 19 (8 pm)
Evergreen Cultural Centre, 1205 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam
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Canadian Voices
Elektra & Chor Leoni sing the musical richness of Canada
 From Leonard Cohen to Stephen Smith, Joni Mitchell to Jocelyn Morlock, the richness of Canada's musical voice is unparallelled. Chor Leoni and Elektra Women's Choir join forces to celebrate and explore this musical gold mine in Canadian Voices. The programme includes an astonishing eleven premieres, including new works by Jocelyn Morlock, Stephen Smith, and Mark Sirett, as well as new arrangements by Kate Polsky, Ron Smail, and Ken Cormier. Each choir will present solo sets before combining to premiere Kristopher Fulton's Orpheus, a work co-commissioned by Elektra and Chor Leoni.
Canadian Voices offers the listener an opportunity to hear two of Canada's finest choirs perform alone and together in a coast-to-coast-to coast exploration of Canadian music ranging from avant garde to folk as Elektra and Chor Leoni proudly wave the maple leaf.
Don't miss it!
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Of Blogs, Photos & Memories
For the past two months Morna has been working with two promising young conductors who participated in Elektra's Conductor Mentorship Program. The program included time conducting Elektra. It takes courage to step in front of a renowned women's choir (or any choir) and say "Follow me!" Elektra salutes Michelle Harlow and Natalie Prichard for their dedication to learning and their unfailing sense of humour. Arlene Higg's wrote a great post about this for the Elektra blog and we invite you read it here.
Welcome the World: A Choral Gala was a huge success. What a treat to perform with 3 other top Canadian choirs (Vancouver Chamber Choir, Chor Leoni Men's Choir, and musica intima vocal ensemble) to a packed house at Vancouver's St. Andrew's-Wesley Church! This event, presented with Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad, was a great opportunity for us to hear these other choirs and to sing together in grand style. Stefanie Pielahn of redlemonphotography was there and captured some of the magic in the stunning photos you'll find in our flickr gallery. Over the past twenty-two years Elektra has performed in venues ranging from glittering concert halls and soaring churches to quiet rest homes and rehab wards, commissioned many new works that are now being sung by women's choirs all over the world, and established itself as a leader of the women's choir movement. That grand accomplishment happened due to the vision of its co-founders and co-conductors, Diane Loomer, C.M., and Morna Edmundson. Along the way they've gathered a huge number of wonderful memories, captured beautifully in From the Hearth. Why not pour yourself a glass of your favourite beverage and listen in as they share some of those memories and music in From the Hearth?
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Elektra Women's Choir
"To inspire and lead in the choral art form through excellence in performance and the creation, exploration and celebration of women's repertoire."
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Elektra gratefully acknowledges the support of 2010 Legacies Now, Government of British Columbia, City of Vancouver, Canada Council for the Arts, Martha Lou Henley Charitable Foundation, the Hamber Foundation, Nancy's Very Own Foundation, Wolrige Foundation, and BordenLadnerGervais. Elektra also thanks its many generous individual donors and volunteers - their support makes us sing.
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