Dear friends of the St. Lawrence Choir,

I'm delighted to invite you to our fifty-third season, already my eleventh as Artistic Director of the ensemble. The five productions we are offering you will be an opportunity to explore different facets of the sacred through a rich, profound, edifying and varied repertoire. As is my tradition, I like to present our Montreal audiences with rarely performed musical gems, at times for double choir, a cappella, and with orchestra. We'll be opening the season with Christmas arias with a South American flavour. Also on the program is the extraordinary fate of a biblical king in William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast, a powerful work which, set to jazzy rhythms, recounts the tragic fall of the famous monarch. You'll also hear the celestial voices of Les Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal in antiphonal harmonies whose echoes will resonate with you for a long time. So it's with great anticipation that I invite you to join us in discovering a contrasting repertoire that's sure to please.

Sincerely yours,

Philippe Bourque, Artistic Director