18 -— Friday. Aprl 16, 1999 -- North Shore News

Vancouver
Secondary principal David
McMaster and his wife
Sheliey were justifiably
proud of the students.

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Treble choirs’ Feast of Stephen fills the soul

COMPOSER Stephen Hauicld was born ai BOC. and spent his
Childhood and durdes on Vincouver [stand but his music takes
Ws ampetus from folk and aborginal iathiences around lie
workd Te has been pertormied tor rovalty and prime ministers and
wen opin awards induding the Governor Generals Gold
Medal Phe West Vancouver Secondary choirs under the dirce
tion of Peter Vanderhorst have been focusing on his work, so tt
was a speaal thrill tor eversvone invelved to pull off a concert at
St Andrew's Wester Crited Chureh in Vancouver with HHatticld
in sttendance. As the music of the voung voices soared to dhe
nifters it was caw te credit: Hatfield's explaination that music,
evisting in time, seeks to create the fourth dimension -— infinity,

Jennifer Ryan (clockwise from back left), Heather Ray,
Tiffany Konieczny, Christina Mackintosh, Anna
Rogers, Colleen Jay and Sally Kemp were the ensem-
ble for The Three Kings that closed the first half of the
concen.

Doug Macauley, director of the
West Vancouver Youth Band and
a composer and award-winning
sound designer himself, was the
technician for the evening,

Proud parents Gail and David Stevenson and

daughter,

Senior Treble Choir member Amy

Sievenson. David is chairman of the board of
trustees for School District 45, while Gail has plans
for extending the family of treble choirs to one for

mums.

Christina Humphries (ceritre) sang the solo in
Schubert's An den Mono. Her fan club included
(from left} parents Gerry and Linda Humphries,
Ruth March and Bay Logie.

Dan Shook provided the haunting
oboe accompaniment to the con-
cert finale, Ower the Hil. At the
rear (from left) are Senior Treble
Choir members Katy Mascott,
Lynn Stelling, Katie Whibley
and Laura Marshall.

Ahe Lau Makani.

Stan Johnson has accompa-
nied the best, including Lena
Horne, Tony Bennett and Liza
Minnelli. Saturday he teamed
with Grade 11 student Risa
Kobayashi for Ahe Lau
Makani.

Kate Leslie is a member of the
Community Treble Choir, com-
prised mainly of school grads,
which occasionally joins with
the school's choirs as it did on
Saturday. She hasn't forgotten
former West Van Secondary
principal Warren Hicks.

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NEWS photos Martin Millerchip
West Vancouver Secondary's choral director Peter
Vanderhorst surprised composer Stephen Hatfield
with a lei before the world premiere performance of

Sherry Lee is a Grade 9 stu-
dent who has been piaying
the violin and piano since she
was six years old.

These rhythmic Senior Treble Choir girls are (from
left): Anna Rogers, Erin Bishop, Erin Sutherland,
Shanan Edgson and Camille Johnson. The use of
hand claps by a choir performing Hatfield's work in
Canterbury Cathedral, J.K. almost had it ejected by
church authorities.

Sampling cookies at the post-concert reception
were Junior Treble Choir members Emma
Heukelom (from left), Carolyn Campbell, Rebecca
Geddes and Leila Shahbazi.

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