Tag: recitals

  • PROGRAM NOTES: FLORIAN BOESCH AND MIAH PERSSON

    PROGRAM NOTES: FLORIAN BOESCH AND MIAH PERSSON

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    The Songs of Robert Schumann Robert Schumann was a composer steeped in literature. His compositions bear the dual imprint of both German musical and literary Romanticism. Literature was the family business, one might say, as his father, August Schumann, was both a publisher and a bookseller in Zwickau, Saxony, where the composer grew up. He…

  • PROGRAM NOTES: KSENIJA SIDOROVA

    PROGRAM NOTES: KSENIJA SIDOROVA

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    The Concert Accordion   Early Beginnings The accordion has for centuries been associated with music of a light or popular nature. Its portability, full harmonic texture and penetrating, reedy timbre have made it the ideal mini-orchestra for country dances and the perfect one-man house band for city cafés and music halls. The very sound of…

  • RU35: RECITALS FOR YOUNG VANCOUVERITES

    RU35: RECITALS FOR YOUNG VANCOUVERITES

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    Ru35 is a new program for discerning young Vancouverites between 18 and 35 who want to broaden their cultural horizons, impress a date or influence their network in a new way. Young adults get the opportunity to experience live solo performances by world-class classical artists, meet new people, and never break the bank doing it.…