Voyageur Storytelling Chordelle

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In which we tell you about Chordelle


Chordelle

Chordelle and the Old Masters Concert Series, Spring 2008
Chordelle is a new strain of performing art, a fusion of storytelling, classical music especially opera, and authentic northern Canadian spirit.


It is anatomically complex, performed from the heart and articulated with becoming clarity while keeping the tongue firmly planted in the cheek.


The Old Masters Project embraces Voyageur Storytelling’s enduring and diverse effort to enrich Canadian cultural life by borrowing Old Masters (particularly opera-lieder composers) from countries deemed (by us) to have surpluses, and Canadianizing them.


To meet the Chordelle crew, let the divine Mozart lead you there.


2008 Old Masters Concert Programme

The Old Masters Concert pursues its theme with story, song and recitation, weaving diverse melodies and harmonies with the rich delights of elevated language. Chordelle is a narrative experience of music and words, spoken and sung.


To see the Spring 2008 Old Masters Concert programme, let the almost-as-divine Beethoven lead you there.


Concerts in the Sprint of 2008

For our first Chordelle season we are planning six performances in southern Ontario for the Spring of 2008. The Schedule is:


Friday, April 11th, Hamilton Conservatory for the Arts (www.hcarts.ca), 8:00 pm

Saturday, April 12th, Guelph Youth Music Centre (www.gymc.ca), 8:00 pm

Sunday, April 13th: Kitchener Registry Theatre (www.registrytheatre.com), 2:00 pm


Saturday, May 24th, Paisley Town Hall, Bruce County (www.sunsets.com/paisley/townhall.htm), 8:00 pm

Sunday, May 25th, Owen Sound Leith Church. Grey County (www.leithchurch.ca), 2:00 pm

Unfortunately we have had to cancel our performance planned for Friday, May 23rd at the Aeolian Hall (www.aeolianhall.ca). Our apologies to London. We will try to come next year.

Ensemble Chordelle
Chordelle is performed by a trio of two tellers and a pianist.
Leslie Robbins-Conway and Paul Conway, Tellers
Anne Little, Piano


To learn more about these people, let the divinely melodious Schubert lead you to them.


(Photo by Peter Little)



Tickets and Prices
Tickets are now available from Voyageur Storytelling, or at the door.
Prices: $20 in advance, $22 at the door, $18 Students
Discounts available for groups and families. Give us a call or drop us a line.

Our addresses are:

Voyageur Storytelling

56 Brinkman’s Road RR 1, Miller Lake, Ontario N0H 1Z0
519-795-7477,

mail@voyageurstorytelling.ca



The Name "Chordelle"
The "cordelle" was the long braided leather rope used by voyageurs for tracking the canoes and boats up-stream, or lining them downstream, if the water was too fast. They were prized tools, and maintained with great care. We view Chordelle, the musical equivalent, in the same way.
Painting of voyageurs in rapids near Ottawa by P.K.Bainbrigge, 1838. Our source is www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/qc/lachine/natcul/natcul6a_e.asp, a Parks Canada page, which shows a more highly resolved image of this picture, and much else.



Recordings

We will make recordings available as soon as we can, as digilets to begin with, then as CD's. We expect this project to take three years to evolve fully.


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