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Island Voices’ Comox and Campbell River concerts feature pictorial segment

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Choir director John Hooper leads his singers during a recent rehearsal. Photo supplied

The Island Voices Chamber Choir will fire the imaginations of their fall concert audience, as many of their pieces will evoke powerful images.

But for one song, actual images will take the place of imagination.

“I happened to meet Sasha Kondakov, a street photographer who had recently emigrated to Courtenay from Ukraine,” said choir director John Hooper.“I was fascinated with Kondakov’s photographs from Ukraine – not pictures of war but images of children sliding down a snowy hill, a grandmother carrying groceries, a wheat field.

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