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.
Poland Parables, music by Carol Ann Weaver, is a set of pieces based on text by Canadian Mennonite writer Connie Braun who recounted difficult, impossible, and heart-rending stories from her own family members during WWII, Poland — stories of displacement, trauma, loss, and hardship.
Today, Scotland’s patron saint, Andrew the Apostle, anchors Scottish national identity in an annual holiday on his feast day. But in the century leading up to the Scottish declaration of independence, the 1320 Declaration of Arbroath, Saint Andrew’s significance expanded from that of a local saint to become the central figure in the foundation of Christianized Scotland. This lecture will feature the performance of medieval liturgical music made at the Cathedral of St Andrews to celebrate Saint Andrew’s relics, showing how liturgical music shaped history.
Come and join the University Choir as they explore themes of winter through works by G.F. Handel, Randall Stroope, Edward Elgar, Randall Thompson, and many more.
This concert will feature Concerto Competition winner Garnet Zhao playing Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor with the orchestra@uwaterloo.
Five different ICE groups will perform a wide variety of classical music pieces.
A Concert Featuring Canadian Compositions and their composers …
Please join us for a celebration of the diversity of church song in Voices Together Hymnal.
Please join us for the end of term concert at Knox Presbyterian Church
Students in the Spring 2024 Music Studio courses perform music they have studied this term in three end-of-term recitals.
All are welcome.