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International
Organ Festival
2010

Festival
International
d'Orgue
2010

Program Summary

(as of 2010-07-09)

Sunday July 18, 2010

12:00 - 19:00
VCM: Registration and displays
14:00 - 18:00
VCM: Meet & Greet
15:30
RBCM: Carillon Recital (Rosemary Laing)
Cancelled due to a conflicting car rally. Recitals are presented Saturdays and Sundays at 15:00 during the summer.
16:30
CCC: College Service (Evensong)
17:30
Meal Break
20:00 (doors open 19:00)
CCC: Organ Concert (David Palmer (organ), Alan Matheson (flügelhorn), Cathedral Strings)
21:30 - 23:00
V18: President's Welcoming Reception (cash bar)

Monday July 19, 2010

07:30
VCM: National Council Breakfast Meeting
07:30 - 19:00
VCM: Registration & Displays
09:00
VCM: Welcome, Keynote Speaker (Paul Halley)
11:00 - 12:15   Concurrent Workshops, Block 1
FMUC: Pacific Northwest and other Coastal Tracker Organs
VCM: Sacred Choral Music Reading Session
FBC: Repertoire and Registration for Small Organs
12:15
Meal Break
13:30
StAP: Organ Concert (Dan Miller)
14:45 - 16:00   Concurrent Workshops, Block 2:
StAP: Youth and the Organ
COOL: Our Organ is Dying
StAP: Organs in BC
16:00 - 16:30
StAP: Refreshments
16:30
StAP: RCCO Annual General Meeting
18:30
Meal break
20:00 (doors open 19:30)
StJD: Organ Concert (Paul Jacobs)
21:15 - 22:30
VCM: Vendors' Reception (cash bar)

Tuesday July 20, 2010

08:30 - 09:45   Concurrent Workshops, Block 3:
FMUC: Japanese Organ and Harpsichord Music
VCM: Improvisation for organ and other instruments
StJD: Contemporary Canadian Organ Music
10:00 - 11:15   Concurrent Workshops, Block 4:
FMUC: Chinese and Korean Organ and Harpsichord Music
VCM: Organists' Musculoskeletal Health Issues
StJD: Performing Messaien - Tips on Learning and Interpreting
11:30
VCM: Centennial of Casavant opus 400 (1910), under restoration
12:00
FMUC: Buffet Lunch
13:00
FMUC: Choral Concert (Linden Singers, Nickel commission)
14:30 - 16:45   Concurrent Events
Butchart Gardens Tour, with visit to Aeolian player organ
(note: leaves at 14:15, arrives back ~18:00)
Open Organs Walking Tour - see convention handbook
Guided visit to Oak Bay Village
  • Casavant opus 890 (1921, rebuilt 1986), St. Mary the Virgin
  • Organs of Winchester Gallery
  • Penny Farthing Pub or Blethering Place Tea Room
17:00
StARC: Prayer in the Taizé tradition
17:45
Meal Break
(President's Advisory Council Supper Meeting)
19:00
CCC: Cathedral Change Ringers
20:00 (doors open at 19:00)
CCC: Organ Concert (Tong-Soon Kwak)
CCC: Organ gallery visits
CCC: Reception

Wednesday July 21, 2010

08:00
VCM: Convocation Rehearsal
08:30 - 09:10
VCM: Canadian Music Centre presentation
09:30 Historic Organs
CCC: Bevington (1862), Harrison & Harrison (1927)
COOL: T. Appleton (1845?)/S.S. Hamill (1867)/J. Bergstrom (1875)
StAA: Casavant opus 516 (1913)
12:30
COOL: Bag Lunch
13:15 Historic Organs (by bus)
St. Saviour's: Albert Pease (1880)
St. Paul's: Peter Conacher (1891)
15:45
Board buses and return to VCM
15:00 - 18:00
VCM: Displays
16:30
VCM: Convocation (Thomas Chase, MC)
19:00
Banquet in Chinatown, with entertainment by:
  • Ocean Rain Chinese Dancers, 海洋雨舞蹈团
  • Hexaphone vocal ensemble (incl. commissioned work)

Thursday July 22, 2010

06:50
Bus departs Chateau Victoria
07:10
Bus departs Carleton Plaza
07:30
Bus departs University Centre
09:00
Ferry travel to Tsawassen ferry terminal
10:45
Bus travel to downtown Vancouver
~11:30
Granville Island: Meal break, sightseeing
13:30
Holy Rosary Cathedral (RC): Bédard plays Bédard; open console
15:30
Christ Church Cathedral (AC): organ crawl, cathedral history
 
Hotel check-in
Meal break
20:00
St. Andrew's-Wesley (UC): Light-hearted program by Vancouver Centre members; displays about Vancouver performers and composers; reception

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