Category: 20-21 Season
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PROGRAM NOTES: EMA NIKOLOVSKA
Mezzo-soprano Eva Nikolovska has curated an intriguing recital program of songs composed in the forty years between 1865 and 1905, a selection that highlights the changing styles of music emanating from three important centres of music-making. From Vienna there are the contrasting voices of the traditionalist Brahms and his aesthetic adversary Hugo Wolf, from France…
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Virtually VRS: Benjamin Baker and Timothy Ridout play Mozart, Sibelius, Martinu, & Halvorsen
This is one of our videos from our Virtually VRS series. See more of our Virtually VRS recitals here.
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Virtually VRS: Tristan Teo plays Schumann, Kapustin & Mussorgsky
This is one of our videos from our Virtually VRS series. See more of our Virtually VRS recitals here.
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PROGRAM NOTES: TRISTAN TEO
PROGRAM NOTES: TRISTAN TEO Robert Schumann Widmung (arr. Franz Liszt) The year 1840 was Robert Schumann’s Liederjahr, his ‘year of song’. After 10 years of writing almost exclusively for the piano, Schumann in 1840 burst into song, composing well over a hundred Lieder. One song collection, Myrthen Op. 25, had a special meaning for…
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Virtually VRS: Jaeden Izik-Dzurko plays Scriabin, Schumann and Rachmaninoff
This is one of our videos from our Virtually VRS series. See more of our Virtually VRS recitals here.
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PROGRAM NOTES: JAEDEN IZIK-DZURKO
Alexander Scriabin Valse Op. 38 It is easy to see why Alexander Scriabin was known as “the Russian Chopin.” Like his Polish musical forebear he wrote almost exclusively for the piano and began his career by composing mazurkas, waltzes, nocturnes, preludes and études. In this Valse we catch the composer near the end of his…
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CANCELLING THE REMAINDER OF OUR 2020-21 SEASON
This is the announcement we were hoping we wouldn’t have to make: we’re cancelling the balance of our 2020-21 Season. No doubt this news won’t come as a surprise, but it’s terribly disappointing nonetheless. When we announced the cancellation of our fall concerts back in July, we held on to the hope that we’d be…
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VRS CONCERTS FROM SEPTEMBER THROUGH DECEMBER 2020 ARE CANCELLED
We’ve made the difficult decision to cancel all concerts scheduled to occur in the first half of the 2020-21 Season. The eleven cancelled concerts include, in chronological order: soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci, The Jerusalem Quartet playing all the Beethoven Quartets (five concerts), cellist Abel Selaocoe, trombonist Peter Moore, pianist Tamara Stefanovich, cellist Zlatomir Fung, and…