{"id":103145,"date":"2024-04-09T10:14:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T14:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=103145"},"modified":"2024-04-09T10:14:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T14:14:01","slug":"preview-bach-elgar-choir-brings-cinematic-space-journey-hamilton-london-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2024\/04\/09\/preview-bach-elgar-choir-brings-cinematic-space-journey-hamilton-london-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"PREVIEW | The Bach Elgar Choir Brings Cinematic Space Journey To Hamilton, London, Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Bach Elgar Choir (Photo courtesy of BEC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Bach Elgar Choir is bringing a musical and cinematic trip to the stars to Hamilton, London, and Toronto. Titled Space Journey, the concert pairs choral masterworks with a film made of high resolution images of the cosmos.<\/p>\n

The combination may seem a natural blend of stirring sounds and images, but it came together, as BEC Artistic Director Alexander Cann told The Hamilton Spectator, out of a fascination for slides taken on the Voyager spacecraft. They\u2019d been left to him by his father, a physicist who\u2019d worked with NASA.<\/p>\n

It formed the core of an idea that BEC took to area filmmaker Mark Bochsler<\/strong>, who created a video, adding other high-res images from the Voyager probes, as well as the James Webb Space Telescope. The film will play as the choir sings.<\/p>\n

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The Bach Elgar Choir (Photo courtesy of BEC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Music<\/h2>\n

The program includes atmospheric works, many of them written on the theme. Here are some of the highlights.<\/p>\n

Charles Villiers Stanford<\/strong> published his Three Latin Motets<\/strong>, Op. 38, in 1905. It is believed he composed them some five to ten years earlier, as a teacher at Royal College of Music in London. The three movements consist of:<\/p>\n