Ottawa Regional Youth Choir dusts off Vivaldi classic for Thirteen Strings performance

Inside St. Joseph’s Parish in Sandy Hill, dozens of young voices are melding in the reverberant space, exulting in the splendour of Antonio Vivaldi’s choral work Gloria.
The Ottawa Regional Youth Choir’s sopranos, altos, tenors and baritones — mostly Ottawa high school students — are arranged in a square, with their conductor, Jamie Loback, in the middle, next to their piano accompanist.
“We’re just kind of dusting it off,” Loback says in an interv