Events

The World Beloved: Bluegrass & Beyond

Bluegrass Music, also known as "Old Time Music" or "Old Folk Music," is a North America indigenous music founded by immigrants in the early 20th century. Bluegrass incorporates influences from black spirituals, blues and jazz into Maritime traditional songs, fiddle and dance music.  Carol Barnett's The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass is the featured piece.

Discover unique and beautiful interpretations of bluegrass music by the UW University Choir!  Tickets are available at the door.

Each Instrumental Chamber Ensemble consists of two to seven players, playing selected pieces from great composers.  Sometimes we have classical guitars or brass groups, but the most common grouping is stringed instruments with a piano accompaniment.  This term we have three different groups performing.

Come join us for a wonderful Sunday evening concert, with delicious Grebel refreshments to follow.

This earth-themed concert features Earth Voices, a performance piece by Carol Ann Weaver for readers, soundscape, and visuals, with texts by 24 Mennonite writers from North and South America, Middle East, and Africa.  The soundscape is based on Carol's compositions, on-site field recordings, and visuals, which frame and synergize with the spoken word.  This piece seeks to find voices which can lead us into a deeper knowledge of the earth and our relationship to it.

Music by 12 ACWC Composers (Association of Canadian Women Composers). Featured composers are Hildegard Westerkamp, Emily Doolittle, Gayle Young, Carol Ann Weaver, Jana Skarecky, Laura Pettigrew, Diane Berry, Carmen Braden, Joanne Bender, Caroline Bordignon, Katerina Gimon, and Emily Walker.  Performers include clarinetist Tilly Kooyman; vocalists Rebecca Campbell, Gord Burnett, Valerie Nunn; Laurier Singers conducted by Lee Willingham; Amaranth player Gayle Young; and many more.

Dark Tales: Caplet, Debussy, and Louie

The Factory Arts String Quartet will be playing with guest artist Lori Gemmell, who is a well known local performer and the Principal Harpist for the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. 

The Community Gamelan is a collaborative learning and music-making experience on an ensemble of bronze instruments from the island of Bali. Open to any interested community members, players participate in a satisfying group music-making experience and learn about another culture and its music at the same time.  These are a repeat of the Oct 15 workshops.
Register for workshops or join the Gamelan.
 

The world renowned Attacca Quartet will be performing the following pieces:

Haydn String Quartet Op.50 no. 6 "The Frog"
Haydn String Quartet Op. 74 no. 2

Amy Schroeder, Keiko Tokunaga - violin
Luke Fleming- viola
Andrew Yee - cello

The Attacca Quartet website

Canadian soprano Leslie Fagan is a regular at Carnegie Hall, and well known to local audiences.  She and pianist Lorin Shalanko will be performing together.

Pärt's rarely performed composition frames the Gospel of John from the New Testament in a meditative, almost hypnotic style. It was inspired by medieval music and the minimalism for which he is famous.  This concert is part of a celebration for the ​80th birthday of Arvo Pärt, so well loved and admired by listeners worldwide.  Arguably the world’s most popular composer of contemporary classical music, his music is revered in his homeland of Estonia and around the world.

Students participating in the Fall 2015 Music Studio program perform music they have studied this term.