Happy Holidays from Penthelia!

Our Seasonal Sing-Along Concert on December 14th was our most successful and well to date! It was a pleasure to have our families and friends join us in song and the many children that attended had us all laughing. What a wonderful way to celebrate being together. As Penthelia takes a holiday from rehearsals for (read more…)


Seasonal Sing-Along Concert – December 14, 2011

Vocal Treasures, our concert this past Sunday, was very much enjoyed by the audience and the choir alike. Congratulations to the choir and Artistic Director, Alice Malach, on a fantastic job! If you couldn’t make to the concert, there’s still a chance to see us before the year is over. Our annnual Seasonal Sing-Along concert (read more…)


Vocal Treasures Concert – December 4th, 2011

Penthelia Singers, with Artistic Director Alice Malach, invite you to join them for Vocal Treasures on Sunday December 4, 2011 at 3:00 PM. The afternoon will feature a variety of a cappella music for women’s choir ranging from Renaissance madrigals to contemporary Canadian compositions. Tickets $20/$15 student/senior. Rosedale Presbyterian Church. 129 Mount Pleasant Road. For (read more…)


Upcoming Auditions – January 11, 2012

Are you interested in singing with us or know someone who might be? Penthelia is holding auditions for new members on Wednesday, January 11th, 2012. Our rehearsals are held on Wednesday evenings at Rosedale Presbyterian Church (129 Mount Pleasant Road, just north of Bloor) Please contact us for more information.


Collaboration Concert with Renanim

On Sunday, November 6th, members of the choir performed alongside the Renanim Youth Singers at a retirement residence in north Toronto.. The concert was put on in honour of Holocaust Education week and featured Hebrew and Yiddish music and poetry. We sang three songs on our own and two with Renanim, “Oifn Pripitchuk” (By the Fireside), a song that resonates deeply for many, and “Eili, Eili” (My God). The latter was written by Hannah Senesh, who was born in Hungary and moved to Israel at the age of 18. With the war raging, she volunteered to go into Nazi controlled areas in Europe to help save Jewish lives. In 1944, she parachuted into Yugoslavia and was captured and killed.

The English words of “Eili, Eili” are as follows:

May these things never end:
The sand and the sea

The rustle of the water
The lightning in the sky

Man’s prayer.