Year: 2010

  • VRS SURPRISE GIFT CONCERT

    VRS SURPRISE GIFT CONCERT

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    Four years ago the Vancouver Recital Society launched a new venture – an annual ‘surprise gift concert’. The concerts have been held in the intimate and acoustically superb Telus Theatre in the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. It is one of Vancouver’s most special venues for chamber music. As the person responsible for choosing…

  • GET WIND OF THIS…

    GET WIND OF THIS…

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    I regularly receive e-newsletters from the Borletti-Buitoni Trust in London, and this most recent one contains a blog by Ramon Ortega Quero, the young Spanish oboist who will be gracing our stage at the Playhouse on Sunday, April 25.  If you don’t already have a ticket to this amazing young musician’s concert, try to finish…

  • WHAT’S SO SPECIAL ABOUT ‘SPECIAL’?

    WHAT’S SO SPECIAL ABOUT ‘SPECIAL’?

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    Each season, as we prepare our new brochure, I stew over the concept of concerts we list therein as ‘special’ concerts.  These so-called ‘special’ concerts are generally performed by artists who are well known, who will attract larger audiences (we always hope) and they are not part of any of our series concerts.  What I…