Orchestras Canada

This Sunday, Symphony Nova Scotia is presenting an hour-long family concert that features not only excerpts from the classical music world’s Top Ten list, but also a giant silk screen as wide as the Rebecca Cohn stage, on which silk painter Holly Carr will paint the music she hears.  The program is conductor by SNS [...]

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Last Sunday, in partnership with the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra joined up with Haitian-American crossover artist Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) to present a special concert, with partial proceeds from ticket sales going to the Canadian Red Cross Haiti Earthquake Fund.  The repertoire included excerpts from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, John Weinzweig’s [...]

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Thanks to an 18-year-long collaboration between the Kingston Symphony, the Queen’s University School of Music, the Limestone District School Board, and the Algonquin and Lakeshore Catholic District School Board, more than 2,500 grade four students experienced a performance by the Kingston Symphony earlier this week. Here’s how it works: Each year, teachers representing the school [...]

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From Wednesday, February 17 to Friday, February 26, the National Arts Centre will enable its event patrons to have it all:  they can support their favourite athletes while continuing to attend NAC events. How is the NAC accomplishing this?  Three ways: Big screen televisions in the NAC lobby will stream CTV and RDS event coverage from [...]

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The salle Louis-Fréchette of the Grand Théâtre de Québec is the place to be on April 8, when the Orchestre symphonique de Québec presents its annual gala, New York, New York, featuring internationally renowned pianist Alain Lefèvre and the music of Gershwin, Ellington and Irving Berlin. After the concert, M. Lefèvre will perform a private recital [...]

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We really enjoyed reading a recent media release from Orchestra London about this Sunday’s concert on the Serenade Brunch series, featuring principal second violinist Sigmar Martin and London jazz stalwarts Art Covey (archtop guitar) and Larry Smith (acoustic bass).  What did we like so much?  Sig Martin’s recounting of his early – and current – [...]

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Earlier this week, Tafelmusik announced details of its 2010-11 season, which features a typically rich Toronto performance season; new electronic media projects, including the television broadcast of its Sing-Along Messiah on Bravo! Canada, and the on-line launch of a new film version of its internationally hailed Galileo Project; national and international performances, with concert and [...]

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From February 22 to March 3, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra presents its 6th annual New Creations Festival.  This year’s festival focuses on “music inspired by words”, and features three orchestral concerts, a chamber music program (presented in collaboration with Soundstreams Canada), tango dancing in the lobby of Roy Thomson Hall, and a wide array of [...]

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The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra is celebrating a certain international gathering in Vancouver this month in a brand new education concert that had its premiere yesterday (February 11) and will also be performed February 16 and 17. The concert was developed by the CPO’s Resident Conductor Mélanie Léonard, who chose the music, and local actor and [...]

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With pride and relief, we’re happy to advise readers of Orchestra News that the Orchestras Canada Comparative Report for fiscal year 2008-09 is now complete.  A record-breaking 61 Canadian orchestras shared their data this year:  we thank all of them, and we congratulate OC Statistician C. Stephen Smith on his work.  The detailed reports were [...]

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