Monthly Events
SEPTEMBER 23, 24 8:00 PM
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2
Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 in G major
Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor
Horacio Gutierrez, piano
“A red-hot firebrand producing the kind of excitement that made the blood pump and the brow sweat.” – Los Angeles Times
Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 is on everyone’s short list of the most popular piano concertos ever written. The music is full of soaring melodies, heart-stopping virtuosity and blazing optimism. We are proud to be joined by the eminent American pianist Horacio Gutierrez to open the WSO’s season.
Winnipeg Free Press
August 18, 2011
This weekend’s Barge Festival gala features the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra performing selections from the likes of Handel, Ponchielli, Strauss, Tchaikovsky and Hoe.
The young gun on that list is Winnipeg’s own classy singer-songwriter J.P. Hoe, who will appear with the WSO under the canopy at The Forks performing the Manitoba Time jingle he was commissioned to write by Travel Manitoba.
Hoe was tapped to pen the song earlier this year and completed it in two days.
“J.P.’s style of music, and the fact that he’s an up-and-coming Manitoba artist, drew us to him,” says Linda Whitfield, Travel Manitoba’s vice-president of advertising and communications.
Hoe has performed the ditty a few times with the WSO this summer — including Canada Day — but this weekend will probably be the last chance the public will get to hear it live, although it will continue to be used in the marketing campaign.
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Winnipeg Free Press
August 18, 2011
Beautiful music
Thank you to Bill and Shirley Loewen and to Richard Turner, principal harpist of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, for presenting the beautiful weekly free concerts at the Millennium Centre on Main Street.
The overflow audience of businesspeople, seniors, children and their parents thoroughly enjoyed several WSO artists every Tuesday lunch hour.
It is gratifying to have philanthropists such as the Loewens and musicians such as Turner who believe in bringing beautiful music to us during our hot summer days.
ROSLYN SILVER
Winnipeg
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