With guest artist Suzie LeBlanc
“At the moment, our world is living one of its largest migrations,
towards a different kind of world, one we hope will be more in sync with our
environment and our inherent human nature.” Suzie LeBlanc
With her 2008 recording Tout Passe, Order of Canada recipient and Grammy winning soprano, Suzie LeBlanc revisited the uprooting of her Acadian ancestors through song and tested the theme of Mouvance, or ‘migration’ as it applied to her own life, having left her native Nouveau-Brunswick at the age of 16 ‘like a migratory bird’ to explore the larger world.
While steeped from birth in Acadian Culture, she also carries a passion for European baroque music of the 17th and 18th centuries: celebrated music that Acadian settlers may have remembered from the old country - sometimes written by composers who also left behind their home and native land.
Through a tapestry of Baroque music and Acadian folk songs chosen while she was walking the 800 miles of the Compostela, Suzie will tell a story circling the Atlantic of her ancestors, their Great Upheaval in 1755 and the indomitable spirit of Acadian culture as it continues to thrive to this day.
Program
Three Dances from Alcyone by Marian Marais (1656 – 1728)
Marche en Rondeau – Gigue - Sarabande
Air d’Éolie (from Circé) by Henri Desmarets (1661 – 1741)
from Abdelazar by Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695)
Rondeau - Jigg - Hornpipe
Orpheus with his lute by Maurice Greene (1696 – 1755)
Rondeau from Fairy Queen – Menuet from Abdelazar by Henry Purcell
Fairest Isle from King Arthur by Henry Purcell
Auld Bob Morrice, The night her silent sable wore, and The lass of peaty’s mill
by Francesco Geminiani (1687 – 1762)
Largo from Sonata for Violin and Basso Continuo, Op. 4, No. 1 by Francesco Geminiani
Il va sans dire, by Jerome Blais
Andante from L’Amant anonyme by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745 - 1799)
Valse de ‘Cadien traditional song, arranged by Joseph Lanza
Avec un avocat traditional song, arranged by Andrew Creegan
This concert is generously supported by Janet Stewart.
On Demand Viewing Party: $40 (plus processing fee & HST)
Parking near First St Andrews United Church
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