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Roses of Yore CD:

CD available for order: Roses of Yore 

Sample track:


Hark! The Echoing Air.mp3

Take a look inside
for CD details, more sample tracks, and ordering info.


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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