Voyageur Storytelling Chordelle Old Masters Gallery

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In which we tell you about

the Old Masters Project and the

Old Masters who appear in our Chordelle Concerts

The Old Masters Project (Chordelle Gallery)

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

We have been performing this repertoire a cappella. It becomes Chordelle when we add musicians, anything from a piano to a full orchestra. For our first Chordelle concert series we are delighted to be joined by pianist Anne Little from Port Elgin, an artist of immense dedication, wonderful talent, and rare personal charm.

Our audiences enjoy this repertoire as we present it now; with Anne's artistry the result ought to evoke some form of listener's ecstasy.

The Old Masters in the Chordelle Gallery are:

Bear, the Ultimate Old Master (c.200,000BCE to present)

When the songs of the North were about to be lost, it was Bear who saved them. Nothing northern could survive without such Generosity.

Mozart, Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
The first, and still the most active and inspirational “Old Masters” composer. When others flag, he always comes through.

Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
From Pastoral to Wilderness is but a short step for this great Master, who blesses even a humble fishing story with High Fidelio-sity.

Schubert, Franz Peter (1797-1828)
The Trout was taken, but the rattlesnake’s gently percussive tale tickled his melodic storyteller’s ear and fetched him into our fold

Joplin, Scott (1868-1917)
The southern voice finds a place in the North, as the whip-poor-will proves, and pursuers of eugenious mermaids learn.

Britten, Edward Benjamin (1913-1976)
This Master, not so old, actually came to the North , listened intently to its voices, and blended their authenticity with his own.

Wagner, Wilhelm Richard (1813-1883)
Who better to provide a mighty voice for Bear himself, the very pith and moment of authentic northern Canadian Spirit.

Sullivan, Arthur Seymour (1842-1900)
The minstrel wandered over the mountain and over-heard the why and wherefore of at least one over-bearing domestic story.

Verdi, Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco (1813-1901)
His operatic tribute to troubadors provides a perfect link between the pulse of Chordelle and the rhythms of Nature.

We will add our other Old Masters, those who do not appear in the Chordelle concert, at some future date.