featuring the music of Weather Report, Hoagy Carmichael, Matt Harris, and Gordon Goodwin...
The University of Waterloo Chamber Choir sings a wide range of music including motets celebrating the 400th anniversary of William Byrd’s death in 1623, tintinnabuli music of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, and Vivaldi’s effervescent Gloria!
Dvorak's Cello Concerto with soloist Robert Choi, and Tchaikovsky Symphony n. 6 are on the programme this term.
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Joy Lapps Project, a steelpan led ensemble exploring Afro and Latin-Caribbean Jazz, with a hint of R&B and soul. Joy will share repertoire from her most recent release Girl In The Yard and also explore new arrangements of a few covers we know and love.
Join soprano Bethany Horst and pianist Charmaine Fopoussi for a February Recital of loves songs, featuring the Song of Songs by Canadian Srul Irving Glick as well as selections by Strauss and Delibes.
Using songs of Gilles Binchois and John Bedyngham, with their associated parody Masses — and new adaptations of poetry by Christine de Pizan — this program tells a late-medieval transition story, which is also a story of the progress of love, both sacred and profane.
Arab & Iraqi Classical music performed by the Maqamat Orchestra
Jung Tsai, the accomplished 2nd Associate Concertmaster of the KW Symphony, will perform 20th Century violin works. Franz Waxman’s virtuoso violin showpiece will be featured, entitled Carmen Fantasie. Other pieces include a work by eminent Canadian composer Elizabeth Raum, called Les Ombres.
Written by Sergei Prokofiev, Peter and the Wolf is a "symphonic fairy tale for children". The narrator tells a children's story, while the musicians illustrate it by using different instruments to represents each character in the story.