DO THIS BEFORE YOU HOG THE TV FOR THE WORLD CUP.

Your school-going kids will begin a well-earned holiday starting tomorrow. From 12 June to 12 July, many of you will hogging the TV and rooting for your favorite team.

Can I suggest that you kick-off the kids vacation by treating them to the charity performance by the Canticle Singers. Take them to the Matinee performances 3pm this Saturday or Sunday at the Lambang Sari, Istana Budaya. Also take the mothers for the evening performance ……kind of peace-offering before 12 June……

IT ALL BEGAN IN RESPONSE TO HELPING THE LESS FORTUNATE

The seeds for initiating this vocal ensemble were first sown in October 1989 when HK was commissioned to organise a one night Gala Concert as a fund raiser for a local student scholarship fund. The concert would feature a visiting 33 member community Filipino choir, His Sounds led by Romulo G Pizana, a mathematics professor by profession and an alumni of the world renown Philippine Madrigal Singers. The concert which offered a rich accapella collection of classical numbers, spirituals, popular and Broadway hits; was an enormous success and the audience just clamoured for more and were rewarded accordingly. HK had been exposed to leading foreign choirs but had never heard anything as heavenly as those Filipino voices which made an indelible impression and home in his heart.

However it was not until the middle of 1992, in a response to the need of a Senoi community in Perak for some badly needed motorcyles, that a few music aficionados got together to do fund raising concert. A vocal ensemble was born under the banner of "The Canticle Choir" (subsequently renamed "The Canticle Singers" or "TCS") and The Word by Claire Cloninger and Tom Fettke, marked our first production which was staged on Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th December 1992 at Trinity Methodist Church, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. Although the vocal group numbered only 14 comprising 6 sopranos, 3 altos, 2 tenors, 2 basses and 1 narrator; they rendered a vocally satisfactory performance which was well received by almost full houses.

Over the years TCS has expanded its repertoire to in include a diverse genre of music including folk, pop, rock, jazz and gospel, Broadway and has also staged full length musical productions. Our musical numbers are performed either accompanied by a live music ensemble or full orchestral trax or acappela.

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