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The Cecilian Singers
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Canadian born Doris Provençal, was born into a musical family. Her father was an organ builder, violinist and tenor, and mother an organist, pianist and mezzo-soprano. She moved from Montreal to Barbados in 1952 after she married. Even then she married into a musical family. For her in-laws were musical and immediately sought to involve their new daughter-in-law in the local music scene. She founded the Festival Choir in 1953 and the Cecilian Singers in 1971. For her outstanding work in the world of music in Barbados, she received the Andres Bello decoration from the President of Venezuela, Andres Perez, in 1978, the Queen's Silver Medal in 1978 as well, and the Barbados Silver Crown of Merit in 1986. She not only consolidated a proud tradition of "sweet singing in the choir" in her adopted homeland, but she set the standard by which all successive choral groups have been measured. Doris excelled as performer, producer, director, and radio personality, and, via her many years as a teacher, has endowed this country with an enduring legacy of fine music. Her work has brought joy to countless lives and will live on forever via her gifts to the nation: the beautiful Bajan Carol and the patriotic Barbados My Homeland to mention but a few. |
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