Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

KYO Planning 'Armchair' Concert

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • KYO Planning 'Armchair' Concert

    KYO PLANNING 'ARMCHAIR' CONCERT

    Peterborough Examiner (Ontario)
    November 16, 2006 Thursday

    The Kawartha Youth Orchestra performs Nov. 26 at The Market Hall.

    "The musicians of the Kawartha Youth Orchestra and their conductor
    Michael Newnham invite you to join them in a musical excursion for
    the ears, and no passport is required," states a press release.

    The armchair trip takes place at 3 p.m. "On this voyage you will
    not only experience the impressive musicality of this group of young
    talented musicians, but also discover a number of genres of music as
    witnessed in the composers' motivation."

    Composer Franz Schubert wrote his Rosamund Overture as a commission
    for a well-heeled client, as incidental music to accompany an
    ill-fated opera of the same name. The impetus for Aram Khatchaturian's
    composition Masquerade Suite came not only from Lermontov's dramatic
    saga of a couple's jealousy and mistrust, but also from the troubled
    history of his Armenian homeland.

    Claude Debussy's composition Petite Suite evokes, in part, the sense
    of floating in a small boat on a stream. From a musical excerpt in
    Jacques Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman written to illuminate a young
    university student's stories of his three greatest loves as recounted
    to his drinking buddies, to Johann Sebastian Bach's cantata Jesu Joy
    of Man's Desiring drawn from a larger hymn meant to be played during
    a church service, you the listener are in for a varied experience!

    In a single afternoon's concert the audience will travel musically
    from Bach's Germany of the 17th century, through Debussy's France of
    the late 1880s to Katchaturian's adopted home of Russia in the mid
    20th century.

    Advance tickets are $10, available at Happenstance Books and Yarn
    in Lakefield, Titles Bookstore in Peterborough or by calling 705
    740-9018. Tickets will also be available at the door for $12.
Working...
X