Dr. Andrea McCrady
Dominion Carillonneur at the Peace Tower in Ottawa
Outdoor concert – Holy Family Plaza
12:15 p.m.
Free
Dr. Andrea McCrady was appointed Dominion Carillonneur of the Peace Tower Carillon in 2008. She began playing the carillon in 1971 at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut (B.A., 1975). While in Europe on a postgraduate fellowship, she studied at the carillon schools in the Netherlands, Belgium and France. She was carillonneur at St. Joseph’s Oratory while studying medicine at McGill University, in Montréal, followed by her hospital residency in Toronto, where she played the carillon at the University of Toronto and the Canadian National Exhibition. From 1990 to 2008, she coordinated the carillon program at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Spokane, Washington, where she also practised family medicine. In 2008, she retired from medicine upon receiving a Bachelor of Music magna cum laude from the University of Denver.
She is an adjunct professor of carillon studies at Carleton University in Ottawa. Dr. McCrady served for many years on the board of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America (GCNA), and as its president in 1988–1989. She has co-chaired the GCNA Ronald Barnes Memorial Grant Fund and the Heritage Music Committee. She served as secretary of the World Carillon Federation (WCF) from 1990 to 1996, and performed at the 1996, 2002, 2014 and 2021 WCF congresses.
PROGRAM
Rêverie de l’automne
Falling Leaves – Charles Zettek, Jr.
Feuille d’érable – Albert Larrieu, arr. A. McCrady
Feuilles volantes no 3 (d’après Louis Drouet) – arr. É. Allard
Les feuilles mortes – Joseph Kosma, arr. R.Giszczak
Blowin’ in the Wind – Bob Dylan, arr. A. McCrady
V’là l’bon vent – arr. A. McCrady
Colors of the Wind – Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz, arr A. McCrady
Sérénade au Québec
Variations sur « Alouette » – arr. C. Aubin
Ma mère Michel – arr. É.Vendette
Isabeau s’y promène – arr. A-A. Doane
Vive la canadienne – arr. É. Allard
Réunion à l’Université McGill
Our Meeting is Over – arr. R. Barnes
Those Were the Days – Boris Fomin, arr. J. Courter