Vancouver Bach Choir

VANCOUVER BACH CHOIR was founded in 1930 by Herbert Drost, its first conductor, and Harvey Wyness, the first president of the board. The large mixed-voice choir was heard regularly on radio in the 1930s and made the first cross-Canada broadcast of Handel's Messiah (1934). Operations were suspended in 1941 due to WWII but the choir was revived in 1950. It made its first recording in 1960 and under conductor Simon Streatfeild in the 1970s it toured eastern Canada and Europe. Bruce Pullan was...

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