PAGE 10, WEBYFRPM PRE8S% WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBE 28, 1M9 Symlphony o. presentlandel'-S Messiah.. On Sunday, -Dec. 2, 8 p.m., the. Oshawa rphony will, present HandeYl' ihet Coll ePark Chuîrchq, 1164 King SOt. E., Oshawa. Sponsored by Enthe concert will feature the ery Choir of tiie Church of St. Mary Magdalen. solodats Takako Yangia £rdy (soprano), Gisele FrM et (mezzo-soprno), Mark DuBois (tenor),, and Ronald Bermingham (base), and, the Oshiawa Sympony Orchestra conducted by Wmston Webber. The Gelery Choi of, the Church of St. Mary Magdalene, directed by Robert Hunter Bell, CUT lui . s soleniighmass every Suday from September to JuIy, as well as several weekday massstbroughout the. year. In addition, thi. choir presents recitals each season and às often invited to niake- guest eppearances. Ail mombers snfg on a volunteer basis. Dr. Heal. Willan, who bas been called te dean of Canadien composer., was the.oranst and choirmaster at S. Maiy Magdalene's from 1921 imtil bis deathin i 1968. His masses and motets are a regular feature in the. choir's repertoir., ini addition to a cappella works renging fr-om plainsong to Renaissance and arqeworlcs to contemporary pieces. Some accomplisbments of the. Giey Choir include *inning awards in tiie CBC competition for amateur choirs;. sponsoring a competition for Canadien cmoeato make the. centenary oftii church; being'broadcast b CBC-]Radio and CR-M hostng Sir David WilocksWho conducted thpm in a. concert of l6th century English music; performing in the. presence of Her Majety Qeen -Elizabeth the Queen MothierWho, during her 1989 royal vi*sit, attended mass at St. Mai'y"Magdalen.'s and unvei.ed a historic plaque conimemorating Willen's life and work. The Gallery Choir and Rituel Choir of St. Mary Magdalenes bave produced n. recordings, the most re cent by the. Gallery Choir (Music for Palm Sunday* and East.r, 1989) available on, cassette. Robert Hunter Bell is a Fellow of Trinity College, University of Tcronto wiiere h. teaches music i the. f&ulty of divinity and tiie Toronto Schéol of Theology. H. is aise orgnit and choirmaster of Trinity College and is director of music at the. Church of St. Mary Magdalene, where he conducte the. award-winning Gallery Choir and p!ays the. H.aley Willan Memorilorgan. A recent im* gat te, Canada from JapanfTkao Yanagida Lordly studied at the. Kunitechi College of Music i Tokyo whre se recived her masters degre. in 1984. The. year before, se was tiie winner of the. prestigious Kansai Japan-Italy Concorso ITr Gold medal. Follow*n her professional début in 1986 Lordly performed extensively in9Japan and Korea ini recital and'concert and han fr-equently been heard on Japanese radio, networks in national broadcasts. lIn April 1988,> e had tii. distinction of b.îng f.atured by the. Japanese Broadcasting Corpoain nisPromisinq Artiet Series - only tii. secon soprano te b. se honored in tiie 12-year hisftorayof tii. series. MezsoraoGisèle Fredette 9s ening career started an a young girl when she received formai instruction in piano and voice and won several top awards in music festivals including tiie Kiwanis and Manitoba Festivals and Le Festival de Granby,_ 1A versatile performer,. Frette's introduction te oratorio and sacred'music began as a sliet. in ciiurch choira, and furtiier. grounding in.tii. clessical repertoire was provided througii voice studies with Dorothy Lawsen and Herbert BelIyea in Winipeg and later with e Irene Jesener in Toronto and thre. yeara at tii. Toronto Conservatory of Music. Mark DeBois lias b.en universally and consistently. accleimied by critice for his outstending yric-tenor voice, its exceptional clarity and toal purity, and hie aristry polish, style and musicianfiiîp in performance. Ronald Bermingham made bis pperatic debut witi the. Vancouver Opera Association in 1973. That seme year, as .a wmnner of the. Metropolitan Opera Auditions for Western Canada- and a regional finaiet i the Seattle Met Auditions, h. was engaged by the. Canadien Opera Com-pany mn Toronto. During the. ensuing yeara, he app eared extensively tbroughout Canada and tii. United States witi tii, COC. European engagements fol- lowed and, as a resident ertiet with Opera Royale de Welanie i Là iege, Bermingham performed througiiout Belgium, France, Holland and Germiy. I 1978, he was awarded the CarIas Gomes Medal of Distinction in O)UT!f GISELE FREDETTE RONALD BIRbMGHAM TAKADO LOIRDLY YANAZIDA CHOO li«ght,ý sound show on, Dec. 2 The annual CHOO Christmas Ià ght and Sound Show is back! On Sunday, Dec. 2, al residents of Durhiam Region are 5,000 Christmas tre. lgiits at Durham regional headquarters building, 605 Rossand Rd. E. i Whitby. The. staff of 0H00 ]Radio -1390 AM wiilb. joied by Durham Region .chairman Gary H.rr.ma. as ne flicks the. switeh t. brighten Up the skies. The public i. invited te jin in Chiristmas caoling performed by The. Club Ceribe Huznmigbird Singera and refresiimente by I.oèb'sAjax Marketplace. The. event will culminate, the 'radio station's 1990contribution te the. Durhami Region'. Gift of Christmas Food andu Toy- Drive in support of Dunham'.s .les. fortunat. Prior te the tr.eelighting cereony, the. station wiil prsent a cheque representing -monies raised durig events held at various- locations tiirougiiout Durham Region. 0H00 staff- wiil be malcing collections for- The Gift* of Christmas Good and Toy Drive at ail General Motors gates on Friday, Nov. 30 at 6 a.m. and 3 pm. Ail GM employes are aed te give generously as partners with 0H00 Radio hiniielping the. needy of the Durhiam Region. GIFT CERTIFICATE This Certificate is worth $5 off any food purchased at Casey's. 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