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January 11 2019

January 11 2019

Music of the Spheres: inspiration from the heavens

The ancient Pythagorean concept of ‘music of the spheres’ regards proportions in the movements of star and planets as assigned musical values. This ‘music’ is not usually thought to be literally audible but a harmonic, mathematical or religious concept. Further scientific exploration has determined specific proportions when orbiting bodies exert a regular, periodic gravitational influence […]


January 3 2019

January 3 2019

Win an Okanagan Wine Tour Package for two between May – September 2019!

Support Vancouver Cantata Singers this season by purchasing raffle tickets and be entered to win this sweet prize! Tickets: $10 each or $100 for 12 tickets Grand Prize: Round-trip airfare for two from Vancouver to Kelowna, a two-night 3 star-hotel stay, two-day rental car, a wine tour with Okanagan Wine Tours, dinner for two at […]


December 7 2018

December 7 2018

Ave Maria – A Christmas Reprise Tradition

Every Christmas Reprise (since 2002), the Vancouver Cantata Singers have ended the program with Franz Biebl’s Ave Maria. The Ave Maria text dates back many centuries and countless music compositions have been inspired by it. A local fireman’s choir in Munich had asked Biebl to write something for the choir in anticipation of a choir festival […]