Hi Everyone!
We hope you are enjoying the beautiful light of the season!
What a beautiful year this has been! We are so very moved and full of Grace & Gratitude from all the wonderful support we’ve received throughout this year, this awesome musical journey we’ve been on ….
Please take a look at our Holiday Gratitude Gift Special we’ve set up just for you for you and your family and friends …. Click here
Wishing you All the Very Best of Good Health, Peace, Joy, Love & Light,
Mark & Zoe
“Truly Magical” … “A Moving Experience” … “The gift of voice and music was intoxicating” … ”A Father-Daughter bond the likes of which I have never seen in my life” … ”Rich, peaceful” … ”I was lit up by the end of the evening”
… What a wonderful feeling, to hear and read all of these and know that we’ve touched some souls and shared Light and Love with them. Thank you!!!!
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Dearest friends and family,
I cannot begin to even attempt to find ways to thank everyone properly for the gifts that we have given to so many in the community. There were people swaying to the music with the biggest and most joyful smiles on their lit up faces, couples holding hands and cuddling, exchanging loving glances of deep knowing of our inter-connectedness and our glorious bonds, and in the end, the profound, loud and seemingly endless applause, another full-house standing ovation brought the evening to a warm and wonderful close. But, truth be known, it was really brought to a warm and wonderful “open” !!!! 
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Thank you Rev’s. Dan and Marianna for inviting us to perform this concert and for paving the way to make it happen so gracefully; Thank you Matt and Don for your wonderful tech set ups; Thank you Jennifer for bringing together such magical voices of both choirs and blending them with our own and the entire audience’s!
Thank you to ALL the Cantoria musicians and singers for your kind, detailed, and beautifully delicate additions, blends, ornamentations, and overall performances that made this evening a truly magical event.
The opening performances by Wendy and Pepe & Navaro were so lovely, moving, and really set the stage for a meditative, contemplative evening of inspiring music from our diverse and beautiful world,
Cantoria was magic. Everything was there, balanced, in tune, in time, and most importantly, in Spirit,
When Zoe and I sang our songs, and Mark, Wendy, Pepe and Navaro joined in on the fly … you would hardly know this was the first time they had all heard that song. It sounded and felt like a record, a really GOOD record! We are so humbly in awe! Keep a look out for the video coming soon to YouTube and AutumnStudios.ca !!!!
And after the choirs sang, and the audience sang along, well, the reaction is beyond description …. Forgive my repetition, but it was indeed “truly magical”.
And after all was said and done … All of our spirit and joy this evening …. together we helped to raise nearly $2,000.00 for First United to help those in need on the downtown east side. As the colder weather approaches, we can all feel a little more warmth in our hearts knowing that we have helped bring a little more warmth in theirs.
I am once again humbled and brought to tears as I read each email that comes in, listen to each voice on the phone…. So many kind souls have all played a big role in making dreams come true for so very many. And I really do believe that we helped bring some kindness and peace to our world. Thank You!!!!!!
The beautiful sounds, spirit, magic, for all the support we gave to those in need, … For all this I don’t really know how to say a proper “Thank You”. So please just know that I feel deep and loving grace and gratitude to each and every one who has helped in some way or another to make these dreams a reality.
With Love, Peace, Joy and Humble Gratitude,
Mark
As we round out the final details, we are so very excited about this concert’s programme, and so deeply encouraged by the warm and wonderful response we’re received! Seats are selling fast! Some important updates: ROLAND Canada is graciously sponsoring this important event, Famed author and World Kindness master Brock Tully will take the stage to make some special announcements, and now TWO choirs from St. Andrew’s will join Mark & Zoe Fenster, Wendy B. Stuart, Pepe Danza, Vancouver Opera Orchestra’s concertmaster Mark Ferris, VSO’s assistant principle cellist Zoltan Rosznyai, and all our harmony singers and musicians for our Full Ensemble Grande Finale: what will surely be a glorious cadence to the evening’s magical musical presentation.
Please remember this is a fundraiser for First United MIssion, 100% of profits go to those in need on the downtown east side. Looking forward to seeing you there!
Tickets only $20 > St. Andrew’s ~ 604.985.0408; North Vancouver Arts Council ~ 604.988.6844
Thank you all for your enthusiastic requests for an Encore Performance! We’re ON!!!! Please join the complete CANTORIA ensemble, together with special musical guests: Joseph “Pepe” Danza’s Ocean of Sound, Wendy Stuart’s solo KOTO performance, & Mark Ferris {concertmaster for the Vancouver Opera Orchestra}…
…for an Inter-Faith Concert fundraiser event to offer needed support and aid for our downtown east side. 100% of profits will go toward aid and support through First United.
Sunday, November 7, 2010 @ St. Andrew’s United, 1044 St. Georges Ave, North Vancouver
Tickets are only $20 (all inclusive) for a wonderful evening of Universal Healing Music for Peace. Please call 604-985-0408 for tickets
We look forward to seeing you there
As Zoe and Mark prepared for our very first participation in a United Church Sunday Service, we were so lovingly guided by the caring hearts and hands of Rev. Dan Chambers and the wonderfully talented music Director Marsha Goold. As we saw the congregation members enter, we could see as well as feel their smiling faces and hearts shine a loving glow throughout the sanctuary.
We were there to share in the reflection of what Reverend Dan entitled “The Seeds of Reconciliation”. He spoke of the Truth of our connectedness and the Universal Love that surrounds and embodies us all, and Mark shared the stories about how his parents survived the holocaust via the caring courage and heroism of many, including a Catholic family, an African American soldier and even a Nazi SS officer – all of whom risked their own lives in order to save my parents’ and others’.
We spoke of the Grace of humanity – when we understand and Love our connections, see and feel our commonalities, and embrace our universal beauty. And we collectively felt that when we do so, there is Heaven on Earth.
Zoe and I sang and played some selections from Cantoria during the service … and we felt such loving support for universal peace as we shared the many smiles from the pews, and then again in the foyer as we spoke, shook hands, and shared hugs with the congregants. Thank you to all who shared your hugs, kind words, love and support, and to the many who took home the Cantoria CD. We wish you much peace and joy. Thank you for sharing yours with us!
Also, for those of you who have may not know … we have updated our website … there are now CONCERT VIDEOS available for viewing … AND to answer the many requests, you can now purchase a music DOWNLOAD of Cantoria for only $11.99 !!!!
Love and Blessings to all,
Namaste,
Mark & Zoe
Words alone could not express the profound Joy & Gratitude we were and are feeling. You, our audience, were so amazing, so present, so full of Grace and Love, and we all felt such deep connection and Peace Thursday night! It was a magical night indeed!!!!
Amir & Amy’s opening performance was nothing short of Stellar; Nathen was inspirational, melodic, and so very moving; Pepe’s Ocean of Sound was an experience so vast it defies expression, it is felt; and the 13 piece ensemble performance of Cantoria felt so beautiful, and when we heard your applause, and saw you standing, we were moved to a level of gratitude and humility we had not before known or felt.
Thank you! Your presence and presents are gifts we’ll hold in our hearts forever…
Special thanks to the staff at The Cultch – specifically Jenn, Tony, Fred, Zoe, and Alexa for helping our premiere concert be all that it could be. You guys are AMAZING!
And thanks once again to the Harmony singers, and all our musicians for doing such a wonderful job.
Thanks to all the people who support this Musical Journey of Peace, to all the people who purchased CD’s at the show (or whenever for that matter), and to everyone who is now seeing that there is indeed Harmony in Every Colour
Love & Blessings,
Mark & Zoe
Tonight … Meditative, Inter-Cultural, Inter-Faith Vocal & Instrumental Music from Ancient Spirituality for Today’s Peaceful Presence …
Love & Blessings to ALL!
See you tonight, Love & Light,
Mark & Zoe
Hi Everyone!
Just one more night … to a truly magnificent event!
The Premiere Concert of CANTORIA
~ Thursday, June 10, 7:30pm @ The Cultch ~
The Province http://www.theprovince.com/Cantoria
Where Vancouver Magazine http://where.ca/Cantoria
Cal Koat’s Worldbeat http://worldbeatcanada.com/Cantoria
MeetUp.com http://www.meetup.com
The Arts Report
CiTR 101.9 Radio
www.citr.ca/
The Magic is indeed growing and blossoming… Looking forward to seeing you there!
By Tom Harrison, The Province June 8, 2010
Gigs with a difference
- Mark Fenster and daughter Zoe present music from their Cantoria CD, an album inspired by the Sacred Scrolls (Cultch, Thursday).
THE PROVINCE JUNE 3, 2010
Mark Fenster -Cantoria Premiere Concert
Mark Fenster, his daughter Zoe, and special guests from the VSO, VICO and Pepe Danza perform spiritual music – The Cultch, 1895 Venables St – June 10, 7:30 p.m. – $25, www.autumnstudios.ca
Read why the Georgia Straight chose this as their “Straight Choice”! …
Spiritual Journey
June 3, 2010Mark and Zoe Fenster at the Cultch. – Buy tickets for the Premier Concert -
It will be a family affair at the Cultch next Thursday (June 10) as Mark Fenster and daughter Zoe celebrate the release of their CD, Cantoria. The music is inspired by the ancient Sacred Scrolls, the foundation for faiths like Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The veteran singer/songwriter will perform songs from the spiritually infused, meditative album alongside his daughter and musicians Pepe Danza, Bill Sample, and members of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
Tickets are available at the VECC Box Office (604-251-1363) or visit the Autumn Studios Web site
http://straight.com/article-326739/vancouver/spiritual-journey
Autumn Studios | Cantoria
