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reathy flute interjections, chirping trumpets, and even an old typewriter bring to life the quicksilver music of Sea-blue circuitry written by Grammy award-winning American composer Manson Bates. Symphonie espagnole—typically considered a violin concerto, given the emphasis the solo violin receives—uses Spanish musical topics throughout and is one of the pieces that launched a vogue of […]

Celebrate the holidays with great music, a whole lotta fun, and with BROADSWAY … featuring four of Canada’s finest musical theatre, jazz and cabaret artists doing the music of Broadway – and the Holidays – their way and delighting audiences in
the process! Join Dora Mavor Moore award-nominee Diane Leah, JUNO and ECMA-nominee Heather Bambrick, international […]

holiday classic with a twist! If you love Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker suite then get ready for the Beatlecracker suite, which implants popular tunes from The Beatles into the Nutcracker suite. Harrison Yang Meng then performs Walton’s Concerto for viola and orchestra. This concerto was originally composed for violist Lionel Tertis; wary of the modernity of the […]

ne of Ravel’s earliest orchestral compositions, the Rhapsodie espagnole is divided into four movements. The first features a particularly prominent motif comprising pitches F–E–D–C-sharp; the motif is all the more notable in that it returns throughout the three subsequent movements. While musical Fantasies are traditionally a single movement, Debussy’s Fantasie for piano and orchestra has […]