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Baroque Oratorio for Lent – Free performance show poster

Baroque Oratorio for Lent – Free performance at St. Basil’s Church

Dates: 3/24/2018

Theatre:

St. Basil’s Church


50 St. Joseph Street
Toronto, M5S 1J4

Phone: 416-926-7148

Tickets: Free, donations welcome

Running Time: 75 min.


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8:00-9:15 p.m. - The Musicians In Ordinary, St. Michael’s College Schola Cantorum, sopranos Christina Haldane and Maureen Fergusson, alto Rebecca Claborn, tenor Robert Kinar and bass Peter Warren perform Membra Jesu Nostri (“The most holy limbs of our suffering Jesus”) by Danish-German composer Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707). The seven-part oratorio describes the feet, knees, hands, sides, breast, heart, and face of the crucified body of Jesus. The other instrumentalists are Rezan Onen Lapointe, violin; Matt Antal and Eleanor Verrette, viola; Felix Deak, bass violin; Matthew Whitfield, organ; and John Edwards, theorbo.


Ages: Adults (and younger music lovers who can sit quietly through the performance).

Cast and Creative team for Baroque Oratorio for Lent – Free performance at St. Basil’s Church

The Musicians In Ordinary voices and strings, led by violinist Christopher Verrette

St. Michael’s Schola Cantorum directed by Michael O’Connor

Soloists:
Christina Haldane and Maureen Fergusson, sopranos
Rebecca Claborn, alto
Robert Kinar, tenor
Peter Warren, bass

Rezan Onen Lapointe, violin
Matt Antal and Eleanor Verrette, viola
Felix Deak, bass violin
Matthew Whitfield, organ
John Edwards, theorbo


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