The Festival Chorus, Virtual Choir, November, 2020
Cody Obst, Pianist & Assistant Director
Mel Kirby, Artistic Director
www.thefestivalchorus.com

The poem In Flanders Fields was written by John McCrae, a native of Guelph, Ontario, while serving as a Lieutentant-Colonel in the 1st Canadian Contingent in the First World War. Posted as a surgeon in the Battle of Ypres, Belgium, he wrote this poem in between the arrival of batches of wounded soldiers. It is read or sung at many Remembrance Day Services. McCrae died in France in 1918 on the western front.

This musical setting is by Newfoundlander, Alexander Tilley (b.1944), well known music educator, conductor, and composer.

This first virtual choir 'performance' by The Festival Chorus in the midst of the COVID pandemic began with members of the Chorus recording their individual voices in their homes, October-November, 2020, using learning and performance tracks created by Cody Obst, Chorus Accompanist and Assistant Director. The individual tracks were combined, mixed, and edited by Artistic Director, Mel Kirby using Audacity and the video created with iMovie.

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