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CONCERT #1 Johannes Brahms String Quartet in C minor, Op. 51, No. 1 If there was one great figure in European music that Brahms revered more than any other, that figure was Ludwig van Beethoven. With the Great Master’s bust … Continue reading
Igor Stravinsky Suite Italienne At the end of the Great War Igor Stravinsky underwent a radical shift in his compositional techniques and aesthetic aims. Gone were the gargantuan orchestras that had performed the lush, colorful scores of his pre-War ballets … Continue reading
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata in A flat, Op. 26 Beethoven begins to move away from the norms of the classical tradition in this unconventional four-movement sonata without a single movement in traditional sonata- allegro form. It opens with a noble, … Continue reading
Johann Sebastian Bach: French Suite No. 4 in E flat major, BWV 815 Bach composed suites for keyboard, for various solo chamber instruments, and for full orchestra, each comprising a varied and aesthetically balanced collection of dance movements written in … Continue reading
Our good friends at Vancity Theatre have created this special offer for VRS patrons: Save 15% on tickets to: PARSIFAL FROM THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN Sun, Jan 26 @ 12:30pm … Continue reading
Visiting New York is like a shot of adrenalin! I spent half my adult life in that city. Half of that was spent working at Columbia Artists when it was at it’s peak, learning the business of managing artists and … Continue reading
Franz Schubert: Die Winterreise The art songs of Franz Schubert lie at the foundation of the lied genre itself, and at the pinnacle of Schubert’s lieder output stands Die Winterreise, a song cycle remarkable for its vivid musical portraits of … Continue reading
Avi Avital: Kedma “To open the concert, I have chosen to perform a composition- improvisation of my own. Unlike a composer’s relationship to an instrument and to a musical form, the performer’s relationship to his instrument, as in this case, … Continue reading
The world is a poorer place for Nelson Mandela’s passing. Over the last few days I have read many articles about him and about my native South Africa during the dark days of apartheid. One item, in particular, surprised … Continue reading
Leoš Janáček: In the Mists Janáček’s four-movement piano cycle from 1912 presents us with intimate, personal and emotionally immediate music that stands stylistically on the border between eastern and western Europe. Its sound world is that of the fiddles and … Continue reading
