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Join us at 11am on Saturday, November 11 in the Abray South Field of Honour for Remembered Aloud

At 11am a bell will toll 11 times, followed by 2 minutes of silence.

11 brass players and 2 choirs (musica intima and The Vancouver Bach Choir) will all gather, and sing/play a simple Phrase of Remembrance together. All the performers will then begin to move away from each other, and each person in their own time will read a name out loud from a grave marker, and then sing or play the Phrase of Remembrance, until the they have left the Field of Honour. 

Both together as a group, and as separate, independent voices, we are unified in the belief that war must not happen again as the human cost is far too high.

This will be a silent ceremony aside from the singing and reading of names, there will be no introduction.

Over 12,000 veterans rest in Mountain View, and the hope is this event will speak several hundred names out loud, and each of those people will be given a small moment of individual reflection.

We invite all of you to join us in silent meditation as the music and performers move across the Field of Honour, and to reflect on the sacrifices made by so many. Your presence to witness the ceremony and hear the names and repetition of the Phrase of Remembrance is what gives this unique performance life and power.

We respectfully acknowledge that our work and gatherings take place on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples– the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations

Little Chamber Music, SUM Gallery and Mountain View Cemetery present

When I Stop Saying Your Name – Five Songs of Grief and Grieving

World premiere of new works by Leslie Uyeda

Featuring Krisztina Szabó, mezzo-soprano
Poetry reading by Lorna Crozier

Thursday, March 16
Two showtimes: 7 pm & 8:30 pm (each performance approx. 45 min)
Celebration Hall at Mountain View Cemetery (5455 Fraser St.)

Free admission

On March 16 Little Chamber Music and SUM Gallery join forces to present a new song cycle by Vancouver composer Leslie Uyeda. Featuring acclaimed mezzo-soprano Krisztina Szabó, poetry by Lorna Crozier (OC), and a chamber ensemble of Vancouver’s finest, When I Stop Saying Your Name – Five Songs of Grief and Grieving will be presented twice in the same evening, alongside readings by Crozier and the premiere of a new instrumental work by Uyeda, Grief Lies Onward.

Featuring acclaimed mezzo-soprano Krisztina Szabó, with composer Leslie Uyeda leading the chamber ensemble from the piano (Rebecca Whitling – violin, Mark Takeshi McGregor – flute, Liam Hockley – clarinet, and Cristian Márkos – cello), the Celebration Hall at Mountain View Cemetery is the perfect location for this musical examination of the difficult process of grief and grieving.

Piano generously supplied by Tom Lee Music

Little Chamber Music is committed to excellence in new music, inter-arts creations, barrier-free, artist-led community projects and events, and unique cost-free public performances.

Our multi-form works that blur the lines between disciplines and genres have afforded us an enviable reputation where all anyone expects from us is the unexpected!

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