Check an item off of your Okanagan summertime bucket list by spending a summer afternoon relaxing on the Mackie Lake House verandah overlooking Kalamalka Lake. You’ll love our selection of teas, delicious finger sandwiches, fluffy scones with Devonshire cream and preserves, and delicate desserts. Enhance your afternoon tea experience by adding a tour of the […]

Check an item off of your Okanagan summertime bucket list by spending a summer afternoon relaxing on the Mackie Lake House verandah overlooking Kalamalka Lake. You’ll love our selection of teas, delicious finger sandwiches, fluffy scones with Devonshire cream and preserves, and delicate desserts. Enhance your afternoon tea experience by adding a tour of the […]

Under the direction of conductor Dr. Terry Pitt-Brooke, Aura Chamber Choir presents its fall 2022 program. The program of seasonal music features French composers Cesar Franck, Francis Poulenc and Guillaume Costeley along with Bright Angels Sing by Ukrainian composer Kyrylo Stetsenko. The wonderful harmony of Hector Berlioz’s Shepeherd’s Farewell will bring a great smile to your face.

Don’t forget to bring your sing-along voice to enjoy four carols with the choir!

Enjoy a glass of wine, delicious charcuterie boards and sweets, and make a delightful Christmas craft to take home (or to gift!) using a teacup from our events collection.

Songs of Love and Springtime - Songs of Nature

Spring: the season of Nature’s awakening, and the season of love for all mortal beings!  AURA Chamber Choir celebrates this “amorous and fair season” with Songs of Nature, a potpourri of European choral music that spans five centuries. 

The title of our concert is taken from a set of partsongs by Czech composer Antonin Dvorak that celebrates the wondrous beauty and spirituality of the natural world.  AURA will perform three selections from this set, and four of his Six Moravian Lyrics, a lighthearted but touching glimpse of village romance.  Both sets will be performed in English. 

The program’s featured work is by Dvorak’s greatest fan and booster, Johannes Brahms: the Liebeslieder Waltzer (Lovesong Waltzes), op. 52.  In this set for mixed chorus and piano four hands, Brahms brilliantly pours the passion of the Gypsy musicians he heard in Viennese cafes into the vessel of the waltz and brews a drink that burns with the intoxication of love in all its forms: blissful and sweet, desolate and bitter, and so much more besides.  At the keyboard we have AURA’s award-winning pianist Marjorie Close and special guest Terry Logan, noted voice teacher and choir director in her own right.