The Junior choir began the program by singing three pieces with impressively clean and unified vowels.  The Prepatory boys showed good breath management and breath longevity with their three pieces and ended with a crowd pleaser called “Cookie for Snip”.  The Prep boys are to be commended at being able to perform this piece unconducted!  The Seniors treated the audience to their award winning dynamic performance of “Lightning” and the smooth, flawless “Deo Gratias”.  To wrap up the program, the Men of Note successfully delivered what most choral groups and conductors dream of: sounds that are seamless and balanced, sounds that are perfect.

Dispersed in between the performances of these boys and men were other small group pieces and solos.  Cello, musical theatre songs from “It’s Saturday”, solos by two senior members graduating from the choir and solos from some of the Men of Note.   The concert concluded with a standing ovation and to the audience’s delight, the Men of Note returned to the stage with their barbershop encore “Silhouettes on the Shade”.  Truly delightful.

Concert review by Mary-Ann Lynch, Prep Choir parent

The Senoir Choir won 1st place in the 14 & under category.

The Junior Choir won 2nd place in the 10 & under category.

Seniors and Men of Note will return to the Canada Games Arena to assist in the Remembrance Day Ceremonies.

Saturday December 11, 2010 – 7 pm / Christian Fellowship Assembly

Sunday December 12, 2010 – 6 pm / Christian Fellowship Assembly

All levels of the Grande Prairie Boys’ Choir will offer up music of the season, and the ever popular ‘dads’ will join their sons in song.

Saturday, April 2, 2011 – 5:00 pm / Traquille Hall, St. Joseph Church

Come and enjoy yourselves at the GP boys’ Choir first ever Medieval Feast! It will be a feast for the eyes, ears and the pallet. Very limited seating at this event put on by the senior Choir and Men of Note.

All levels will compete in and support our local festival. Typically it is one night for the Preps, Juniors and Senoirs, and a separate occasion for the Voice Changers and Men of Note.

We at the GP Boys’ Choir can hardly believe that it started in 2001! We will celebrate this fantastic vent by inviting some of our favorite people back to perform with us. Our concert wouldn’t be complete without our reoccurring guests Trent Worthington and Epsilon who will join with alumni and the dads to perform “Construction - A Power Tool Concerto,” a work composed specifically for these, well, instruments. This concerto is exactly what the name suggests” a musical work played on the kinds of instrument and implements you’d normally see at construction sites!

The Seniors Choir and Men of Note sang in the opening and closing ceremonies of the Arctic Winters Games.

Here is a sample of the many emails the choir received after the event.

Hi Jeannie – The performance by the choir  last night with the Lord’s Prayer in Swahili, and the renditions of the five national anthems took my breath away.  At this morning’s  chef’s meeting, ‘Yana, the Russian chef expressed her heartfelt gratitude and appreciation on behalf herself, and the coaches, athletes and officials,  for the fact that it was the “right” version of the anthem, and asked how “they” meaning the choir,  could have known that.    Other chefs expressed their appreciation for their anthems as well.  I can tell you everyone one in the room this morning “felt the moment” and we were blown away by the fact that Grande Prairie had provided one of best memories  of the Games experience, which will never be forgotten.   Thank you Jeannie for making that possible! You rock!

Lois Harper, Manager
Culture & Sport Development
City of Grande Prairie