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This is not your grandparents Messiah This is not your grandparents Messiah By Dan Bilefsky Normal text size Advertisement A gay Chinese-Canadian tenor struts through the streets of Vancouver, joyously proclaiming that ev ry valley shall be exalted as the camera focuses in on his 6-inch stiletto heels. Messiah/Complex soloist Julie Lumsden on set for her video shoot on Lake Louise, AB. Credit:Daniel Thomson A Tunisian-Canadian mezzo-soprano reimagines Jesus as a Muslim woman in a headscarf. In Yukon, an Indigenous singer praises the remote snow-covered landscape in Southern Tutchone, the language of her ancestors. This is not your grandparents ....
The Globe and Mail Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file . This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer Handout In a normal year, Canadians flock to churches and concert halls for their annual fix of the holiday staple Handel’s Messiah. Yet in 2020, Messiahs are hard to come by, because of the pandemic and its shuttering of the performing arts as we know it. Up there with office holiday parties, an indoor space filled with people joyfully hollering the Hallelujah Chorus is decidedly a risky activity. ....
Messiah Paul Wells: Ten camera crews across the country, a dozen soloists performing in a half dozen languages and one remarkable version of Handel s Messiah. Paul Wells, Maclean s Updated December 11, 2020 Near the end of Part I of George Frideric Handel’s oratorio Messiah, a singer urges listeners to spread the good news of Christ’s birth. “Oh Thou that tellest good tidings to Zion,” she sings, “Get up into the high mountains.” In any production, much depends on accidents of timing and place. In the extraordinary version of the Messiah that Toronto’s Against The Grain Theatre will reveal this weekend in a free webcast, the soloist for Oh Thou That Tellest is Diyet van Lieshout, a member of Kluane First Nation in southwest Yukon. She was filmed at the edge of the Kluane Icefield, the world’s largest non-polar ice field, a shelf of ice thousands of square kilometres in size. The high mountains are present, too, in ....
Paul Wells: Ten camera crews across the country, a dozen diverse soloists performing in a half dozen languages and one remarkable version of Handel's Messiah ....