InterVarsity Choral Festival
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The InterVarsity Choral Festival (IVCF) is an annual event in which university choirs from Ontario and Quebec, Canada, meet up and perform a combined concert. The festival is hosted and held on a rotational basis by the member choirs. In 2007, IVCF will be hosted by the University of Western Ontario Choir in London, Ontario.
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[edit] History
The InterVarsity Choral Festival was founded in 1949 by the NFCUS (National Federation of Canadian University Students) who suggested that there be a regular competitive music festival in Ontario. The solution was a yearly festival of university choirs. The original participants were McMaster University (Mac), the University of Western Ontario (UWO) and University of Toronto's Victoria College. Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, joined two years later.
By 1980, the festival had undergone some major changes. Toronto's Hart House Chorus and the Queens Choral Ensemble were now permanent participants while Guelph had dropped out. The competition was restructured into an adjudicated, non-competitive two day festival, and Mary Willan Mason, a noted Toronto writer and daughter of Healey Willan, donated a cup to be presented to the host choir to recognise their efforts in organising the festival.
[edit] Members
[edit] Current Members
Hart House Chorus, University of Toronto
Queen's Choral Ensemble, Queen's University
Simply Sweetly, McGill University
Trent University Concert Choir, Trent University
University of Western Ontario Choir, University of Western Ontario
[edit] Past Members
Ensemble Calixa Lavallée, University of Ottawa
McMaster University Choir, McMaster University
Ontario Agricultural College Union Philharmonic Choral Society, Ontario Agricultural College
Polyhymnia, Queen's University
Trinity Glee Club, University of Toronto
University of Guelph Chorus, University of Guelph
University of Ottawa Choral Ensemble, University of Ottawa
University of Toronto Chorus, University of Toronto
University of Waterloo Choir, University of Waterloo
Victoria College Choir, University of Toronto
