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Thursday, June 30 · 7:30 PM
In partnership with Travel Manitoba, we’re featuring Winnipegger J.P. Hoe performing his own songs with new orchestrations!
Program:
Dvorak: Slavonic Dance in G minor, Op. 46 No. 8
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, Mvmt I
Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana: Intermezzo
Offenbach: Orpheus in the Underworld: Galop (Can Can)
Bizet: Carmen: Aragonaise; L’amour est un oiseau rebelle; Seguedilla (both with soloist); Toreadors
INTERMISSION
Strauss: Thunder & Lightening Polka
Zimmer: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
J.P. Hoe: It’s Manitoba Time
J.P. Hoe: Always
Schwartz/Ricketts: Wicked: Highlights
Williams: Superman March
Winnipeg Free Press
June 30, 2011
Music, entertainment, cake… it’s Canada’s 144th, and everyone’s invited to celebrate our home and native land
It’s time once again to show a little true patriot love for our home and native land as it turns the big one-four-four.
Think of Canada Day as Thanksgiving meets Valentine’s Day minus the turkey, and with maple-leafed revelry for 34 million rather than romance for two.
Here are a few places around Winnipeg where you can count your blessings and paint the town red and white to celebrate Canada Day 2011 (many of which will have free birthday cake):
The Forks
There’s enough stuff going on at Winnipeg’s original meeting place to keep families busy from noon until nearly midnight — arts and crafts, traditional drumming, dancing and storytelling, buskers, artisans and free Canada Day birthday cake.
Read the rest here: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/the_tab/pick-a-party-any-party-124762734.html
Winnipeg Free Press
June 24, 2011
Bizet, Offenbach and Strauss’s work will waft across Assiniboine Park tonight.
The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra is giving a free performance at the park’s Lyric Theatre tonight at 7 p.m.
This concert features Heather Kozak, mezzo-soprano and former Rose Bowl winner, as well as Winnipegger J.P. Hoe performing his own songs with new orchestration.
The performance is one of the top highlights of Assiniboine Park’s 2011 summer entertainment series at the Lyric Theatre.
“This is absolutely one of the major summer highlights for us at Assiniboine Park,” said Kevin Hunter, Assiniboine Park Conservancy’s director of marketing and communications.
Read the rest here: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/music/WSO-performing-at-parks-124491334.html
Winnipeg Free Press
June 23, 2011
WINNIPEG’S International Cello Festival of Canada was a sweet-sounding success that drew more than 5,000 music-lovers to concerts, master classes, talks and other events, the Winnipeg Arts Council has announced.
The five-day, multi-venue festival, which ended Sunday, was the first of its kind in Canada.
It was “filled with inspiration, exhilaration and passion,” said Ottawa-based festival artistic director Paul Marleyn, a participating cellist and former Winnipegger. “We’ve seen phenomenal virtuosity and breathtaking artistry from everyone involved.”
Jointly produced by WAC and the Agassiz Music Festival, the cello extravaganza was the final event of Winnipeg’s $4-million Cultural Capital of Canada 2010 program, which spilled over into 2011. It showcased the cello in chamber works, solo recitals and concertos performed with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra and Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.
Read the rest here: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/arts/cello-festival-of-canada-sweet-sounding-success-124408014.html
