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Roses of Yore CD:
Current Video Appearances (Pandemic Projects):
Anthem Rejoice and Sing This Christmas Morn - E. Daley
Fairlawn Avenue Senior Choir and Guests
Ron Gorveatt – Sound and Video Editor
Fairlawn Avenue United Church, Toronto
Dec. 20, 2020
Quartet: I Sing of a Maiden - E. Daley
Soprano 1 – Amy Dodington
Soprano 2 – Anne Bornath
Alto 1 – Andrea Ludwig
Alto 2 – Lynn Featherstone
Fairlawn Avenue United Church, Toronto
Dec. 6, 2020
St. James' Anglican Church, Orillia:
Advent Festival of Lessons & Carols
with Amy Dodington, soprano; Christina Bosco, mezzo soprano; Jeff Campbell, organ, piano
3:51 Once In Royal David’s City
14:19 How Beautiful Are the Feet (from Messiah) - G.F. Handel
28:43 Lo, How a Rose
32:38 My Soul Magnifies the Lord - J. Carter
36:36 Still, Still, Still - M. Wilberg
54:34 Angels Watching Over Me - J. Raney
1:08:14“Hark! The Herald Angels Sing!”
Dec. 6, 2020
In Flanders Fields - E. Daley
Fairlawn Avenue Senior Choir and guest choristers
Fairlawn Avenue United Church, Toronto
Nov. 8, 2020
Amy's Reading for Remembrance Service:
Easter Morning - Eleanor Farjeon
Reader: Amy Dodington
Fairlawn Avenue United Church, Toronto
Nov. 8, 2020
Double Quartet: O Lord, Support Us - E. Daley
Soprano – Anne Bornath, Amy Dodington
Alto – Lynn Featherstone, Andrea Ludwig
Tenor – Willis Bote, Phil Smith
Bass – Scot Denton, Giles Tomkins
Fairlawn Avenue United Church, Toronto
Nov. 1, 2020
Double Quartet: Psalm 100 - E. Daley
Choir 1 – Amy Dodington, Andrea Ludwig, Willis Bote, Scot Denton
Choir 2 – Anne Bornath, Lynn Featherstone, Phil Smith, Giles Tomkins
Fairlawn Avenue United Church, Toronto
Oct. 11, 2020
Thanks be to Thee - S. Ochs
Amy Dodington, soprano, Jeff Campbell, organ
St. James' Anglican Church, Orillia
Oct. 11, 2020
“You Raise Me Up” - B. Graham/ R. Lovland
Amy Dodington, soprano, Jeff Campbell, piano
St. James' Anglican Church, Orillia
Oct. 11, 2020
Quartet: This Sanctuary of My Soul - E. Daley
Soprano I – Amy Dodington
Soprano II – Anne Bornath
Alto I – Andrea Ludwig
Alto II – Lynn Featherstone
Fairlawn Avenue United Church, Toronto
Oct. 4, 2020
Prelude: Come, I Pray Thee - W. H. Anderson
Soprano – Anne Bornath, Amy Dodington
Alto – Lynn Featherstone, Andrea Ludwig
Tenor – Willis Bote, Phil Smith
Bass – Scot Denton, Giles Tomkins
Fairlawn Avenue United Church, Toronto
Sept. 13, 2020
Amy Dodington, soprano; Eleanor Daley, piano
Come Unto Him (from Messiah) – G. F. Handel
Fairlawn Avenue United Church, Toronto
Aug. 30, 2020
“O Rest in the Lord” from Elijah - F. Mendelssohn
Amy Dodington, soprano; Jeff Campbell, organ
St. James' Anglican Church, Orillia
Aug. 9, 2020
Amy's interview at Fairlawn Avenue United Church, Toronto:
She talks about life during the pandemic, and what she misses about the church.
Aug. 2, 2020
Amy Dodington, soprano; Eleanor Daley, piano
Pie Jesu (from Requiem) by Gabriel Fauré
Fairlawn Avenue United Church, Toronto
Aug. 2, 2020
Video Clips from Recitals:
Concert Potpourri: Passages from "Ah! Je veux vivre!" (Romeo et Juliette; Gounod) - "I Want To Sing In Opera" (Arthurs) - "Mondnacht" (Schumann) - "Anakreons Grab" (Wolf) - "Rejoice Greatly" (Messiah; Handel) - "Aus Liebe" (St. Matthew Passion; J.S. Bach) - "Не Пой, Красавица" (Rachmaninoff) - "Eriskay Love Lilt" (Scottish trad arr. Kennedy-Fraser) - "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise" (Seitz)
Pianists Svetlana Gojevic, Ellen Meyer, Doreen Uren Simmons, Geoffrey Conquer, Shawn Grenke.
Locations: Huntsville, Gravenhurst, Barrie, Toronto, 2010-2011
"Parlour" Songs:
The Jasmine Door, by Alicia Scott, words by Fred Weatherly, 1909
pianist Ellen Meyer, Toronto, 2010
This is one of my favourites: The words are by Fred Weatherly, who wrote the words to Danny Boy. The song is about an older woman whose husband has lost interest in her, but she still loves him just as strongly and passionately as she ever did. This sentiment, to my mind, can also apply to these old "parlour" songs. People today have forgotten many of them, but the abandoned songs still have “roses sweet as those of yore…”
"Parlour" Songs:
Roses of Picardy
by Haydn Wood, words by Fred Weatherly, 1916
Pianist Doreen Uren Simmons
Barrie Colours of Music Festival, September 2011
"Parlour" Songs:
I Hear You Calling Me
by Charles Marshall, 1908
Doreen Uren Simmons, piano
Barrie Colours of Music Festival Sept. 2011
Art Songs:
Gretchen am Spinnrade
by Franz Schubert
Ellen Meyer, piano
Toronto, 2010
Gretchen, madly in love with Faust, sits at
her spinning wheel with her spinning thoughts. She has lost her peace
and will never find it again. She obsesses about Faust, how wonderful
he is. Distracted by the ecstatic memory of his kiss, her spinning
stops. But it inexorably starts up again, as do her thoughts.
Art Songs:
Romance:
"Silence Ineffable"
by Claude Debussy, poem by Paul Bourget
Ellen Meyer, piano
Toronto, 2010
The music and silence of the moment when two hearts fall in love.
Art Songs:
The Secrets of
the Old
by Samuel Barber
Ellen Meyer, piano
Toronto, 2010
Music Theatre:
"I Could Have Danced All Night" (My Fair Lady)
Ellen Meyer, piano
Toronto, 2010
Music Theatre:
"If I Loved You"
(Carousel)
Ellen Meyer, piano
Toronto, 2010
Opera:
"Un
bel di" (Madama Butterfly)
(Note: I'm a lyric rather than dramatic
soprano but find this aria to be quite effective in my solo shows)
Ellen Meyer, piano; Toronto, 2010
Butterfly
is a Japanese woman abandoned by her American
husband, a naval Lieutenant. In this scene, her maid wants
her to "move on" since there has been no sign of him in three years.
Butterfly admonishes her for her lack of faith and describes in rich
detail the fine day when he will return. “You can have your fears,” she
says to
her maid. “I with my sure faith will wait for him!” By the way, at the
end of the opera he does return as she predicted, but he brings his
American wife with him. Butterfly
sends her son out to greet his father while she kills herself behind a
screen. That’s opera for you!
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