When I Walk in the City

Whether you are walking in the heat of the sun reflected off skyscrapers or under the twinkle of the streetlights at night, there is no energy quite like that of the city; there is so much to see and hear all at once.

Our guest writer this week is Joy Kogawa, joykogawa.ca

This week we are featuring the following music performed by the Amadeus Choir:


“From Heaven Distilled A Clemency" from Triptych by Tarik O'Regan
Copyright ©  2005 by G. Schirmer, Inc. (ASCAP) obo Novello & Co Ltd.
All rights reserved. Used with permission

"Sure on this Shining Night" by Morten Lauridsen
Copyright © 2005 Peer Music

"Beloved" by Rita Ueda
All  rights reserved. Used with permission.

"When the Earth Stands Still" by Don MacDonald
Copyright © 2016 by Galaxy Music Corporation, Inc. (ASCAP), a division of ECS Publishing Group. www.ecspublishing.com Used with permission. All rights reserved.


All Choral recordings featured in this podcast were performed and recorded by the Amadeus Choir of Greater Toronto

Incidental music is composed and performed by Pouya Hamidi.


About SONGWALKS:

Join the Amadeus Choir of Greater Toronto for Songwalks: Choral music for your daily journey. Each episode is designed to accompany your walk through the city or countryside, at dawn or at dusk. They're the perfect way to let your imagination loose as you move through the world around you. You'll hear music by composers throughout the ages recorded by the Amadeus Choir, and spoken word poetry by leading Canadian writers, as well as members of the Amadeus Choir.
Weekly episodes premiere on May 11th.
Search "Songwalks" on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.

amadeuschoir.com/songwalks

About THE AMADEUS CHOIR OF GREATER TORONTO

Enlivening Toronto’s arts community for 47 years, the award-winning Amadeus Choir is a semi-professional choir of auditioned voices from Toronto and the surrounding areas. The Choir champions the best of choral music and premieres works of Canadian and international composers through a self-produced Toronto concert series, guest performances, and special events. Known well beyond Toronto through tours, festivals, recordings, and national and international radio broadcasts, the Choir collaborates with many professional performing arts organizations in the GTA.  

The Amadeus Choir is proud to take a leading role in educating the next generation of choral musicians by providing workshops for conductors, composers, singers, and students. The Choir is known for its strong support of Canadian music, and regularly commissions work from established and emerging Canadian composers.  

Throughout its history, the Amadeus Choir has received numerous awards, most recently the Association of Canadian Choral Communities's "Most Innovative Performance" award in 2014 for “Music of the Spheres,” a multi-media collaboration with the Elmer Iseler Singers, the Ontario Science Centre, and the Roberta Bondar Foundation.

In 2019, after celebrating the 35-year leadership of Lydia Adams, the Choir welcomed Kathleen Allan as Artistic Director and Conductor.