New Westminster singers will be in the spotlight when Phoenix Chamber Choir winds up its season.
The choir is offering up Through the Looking Glass, featuring a program that explores “reflections on identity, technology and self-perception in the digital age,” as a press release notes. It’s on Saturday, May 11 at St. John’s Shaughnessy Church (1490 Nanton Ave., Vancouver).
Guest conductor Kathleen Allan will lead the choir in music by Jeff Enns, Arvo Pärt, Gustav Holst, Benjamin Britten and more. The centrepiece will be an eight-movement cantata by Canadian composer Jason Noble that adapts Lewis Carroll’s 1871 Through the Looking Glass into a contemporary metaphor of being drawn into a deep abyss of technology and social media.
Andrew Staniland’s On the Surface of Water, which closes the program, features an iPhone instrument to be played by the audience.
In the choir's ranks are some familiar New Westminster faces: Barb Paul, longtime music teacher at Lord Kelvin Elementary School; Carolyn Shiau, a pathologist at Royal Columbian Hospital; and Vaughn Chauvin, a pharmacist and owner with Indigo Pharmacy Group.
Concert time is 7:30 p.m., with a pre-concert talk at 7 p.m. Regular-priced tickets are $30, or $25 for seniors and students, $10 for youth.
Tickets are available online through phoenixchoir.com.
