WpgSymphony: Tell us (or show us) your favourite Chaplin moment for a chance to win a pair of tickets to Modern Times on Thu, Apr 14!

WpgSymphony: Miss the New Music Festival? Fear not, CBC to the rescue! Check out Concerts on Demand for streaming concerts: http://tinyurl.com/5pjqql

WpgSymphony: Celebrate Easter at Bach’s St. John Passion feat. a stellar line-up of singers. One of the season’s most jam-packed masterworks, April 23.

Winnipeg Free Press
March 26, 2011
Gwenda NemerofskyThe Jeans ‘n’ Classics Band is a rock group based out of London, Ontario whose website claims they “understand orchestra culture and are committed to help in the building of younger, loyal and sustainable audiences for symphony orchestras.”

This may be why they’re back performing this weekend with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra for the ninth time. And while some older WSO Pops subscribers seem to have given away or traded in their tickets for tamer stuff, the newcomers who moved into their seats thoroughly enjoyed Friday night’s tribute to British band Pink Floyd and a host of other ’70s classic rock icons.

Lead singer Jean Meilleur, singers Katalin Kiss and Leah Salomaa, guitarist David Dunlop, electric bass Kevin Muir, drummer Jeff Christmas and Don Paulton on keyboard put together an exciting evening of music from the long-gone days of the rock concept album.

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http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/music/wsos-take-on-pink-floyd-is–rock-with-substance-118700824.html

WpgSymphony: 2 more WSO band names: @kaisaris [Insert Conductor's Name Here] and the Symphonetic Army @stephaniedda ‘Mickelthwate Symphonic Overdrive’

WpgSymphony: Thanks for some great band names! @jeanshelley symphony for destruction! @thebgeras WSO “Springload” @MissLisaSquire simply Symphonic

WpgSymphony: Thank you to those who came to The Music of Pink Floyd. Packed houses & great music made for three dazzling concerts.

WpgSymphony: Check out the review from the WSO’s Pink Floyd concert: http://tinyurl.com/6h3hmgb

WpgSymphony: The Jeans ‘n Classics band arrived & sounded AMAZING in rehearsal! Limited tix are left for this wknd so don’t just wish you were here!

Winnipeg Free Press
March 24, 2011
By Rob Williams

The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra will show off its dark side this weekend.

Winnipeg’s biggest band will team up with London, Ont.-based group Jeans SSRqn Classics for three performances of one of the most popular albums of all time, Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon. The concert celebrating the milestone release by the British progressive rockers gives a literal meaning to the term, symphonic rock.

“It is a proper rock SSRqn’ roll treatment,” says Peter Brennan, Jeans SSRqn Classic founder. “It’s not elevator-music homogenized Pink Floyd, it’s the real thing.”

Brennan scored the music for the show, one of almost 50 in the company’s catalogue, which includes full concerts of the songs of Queen, Elton John, the Beatles, Fleetwood Mac and Led Zeppelin.

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http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/music/wso-on-launch-pad-for-lunar-mission-118563149.html