APRIL 17  2:00 pm

“Enchantment Theatre adds a beautiful visual narrative to Scheherazade, Rimsky-Korsakov’s stirring orchestral music. The audience was mesmerized by both.”
- The Cleveland Orchestra

This highly acclaimed theatre group from Philadelphia is known for its stunning productions. Scheherazade’s one-thousand-and- one tales are told to heal her King and to save his kingdom. Through these fantastic stories, the King experiences adventures both great and small, and discovers his true capacity to love. Music, like theatre, has the power to illuminate and transform. The orchestra will evoke Scheherazade musically as the Enchantment Theatre Company introduces it dramatically, using masks, puppets, magic and movement. The result of this collaborative, combined effort will move the audience to discover a marvelous tale in a new and meaningful way.

Richard Lee, conductor
Enchantment Theatre Company

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PRE-CONCERT ACTIVITIES
Children can participate in musical activities such as crafts, rhythm ensembles and round-singing. They can visit the Conducting Station where they get the chance to conduct a group of musicians or visit the Instrument Petting Zoo for an opportunity to touch and play the orchestral instruments that they will see performed during the Sundays with the Family concerts. Pre-Concert Activities begin at 1:00 p.m.

March 20  2:00 pm

Performed by the same production company that brought you Jack and the Beanstock, The Mysterious Maestro is a story about a little girl who moves to a
town without music. She solves the mystery of this musical silence with the help of a talkative rat and her own passion for grand music. Eventually, she melts the heart of a desperate conductor with an infamous past. Fuelled by the music of Verdi, Mendelssohn and Liszt, as well as original compositions by Alberta composers Dave Pierce and Donovan Seidle, The Mysterious Maestro travels through dark nights and hidden caverns and examines the nature of musical perfection.

Richard Lee, conductor
Dandi Productions

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PRE-CONCERT ACTIVITIES
Children can participate in musical activities such as crafts, rhythm ensembles and round-singing. They can visit the Conducting Station where they get the chance to conduct a group of musicians or visit the Instrument Petting Zoo for an opportunity to touch and play the orchestral instruments that they will see performed during the Sundays with the Family concerts. Pre-Concert Activities begin at 1:00 p.m.

February 13  2:00 pm

“I love travelling the world and meeting new people, and can’t wait to meet you!”
- Manny Tuba

Join WSO favourite Manny Tuba on his next adventure around the world as he explores new places along the way on his magical tuba ride! Along with special guests, aerial artists, dancers and actors, Manny travels the world with the WSO musicians in search of making new friends, playing new instruments, and enjoying new discoveries - only to find out at the end of a long and winding road, there really is no place like home!

Richard Lee, conductor
Manny Tuba, travel guide

For more info, click here.

PRE-CONCERT ACTIVITIES
Children can participate in musical activities such as crafts, rhythm ensembles and round-singing. They can visit the Conducting Station where they get the chance to conduct a group of musicians or visit the Instrument Petting Zoo for an opportunity to touch and play the orchestral instruments that they will see performed during the Sundays with the Family concerts. Pre-Concert Activities begin at 1:00 p.m.

December 5  2:00 pm

“For those in search of the truly zany, the undisputed king is Al Simmons…A popular, wildly original performer…”
- Maclean’s Magazine

He’s a musician! He’s an inventor! Al Simmons - iconic Manitoba children’s entertainer - presents an all-new show with a special Holiday theme. With his quick wit, lanky legs, flipper like feet and rubber face, it’s as if he was genetically engineered for comedy.

Al Simmons is a creative genius with the soul of a vaudevillian and a wizard of one-liners whose humour touches a responsive chord in people of every age. This Juno Award winner’s act is at once frantic and engagingly simple; it is a tourde-force of ingenious, charming silliness.

Richard Lee, conductor
Al Simmons, entertainer

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PRE-CONCERT ACTIVITIES
Children can participate in musical activities such as crafts, rhythm ensembles and round-singing. They can visit the Conducting Station where they get the chance to conduct a group of musicians or visit the Instrument Petting Zoo for an opportunity to touch and play the orchestral instruments that they will see performed during the Sundays with the Family concerts. Pre-Concert Activities begin at 1:00 p.m.

October 31  2:00 pm

“It was without a doubt one of the best we have ever attended! The music is always wonderful, but we so enjoyed Frank Oden.”
- Patron

Frank Oden writes and performs lyrical concert programs merging original poetry, humour, education, and theatrical production values with a live symphonic performance. He began creating this unique form in collaboration on a series of Halloween concerts, resulting in the House of Halloween. Frank Oden’s spooky Halloween poems are fun, funny and simply enchanting for even the youngest listeners. Oden performs with linguistic bravado; he is a verbal stunt man with auniquely theatrical style - combining the power of a Shakespearean actor, the presence of a great magician and the physicality of a Warner Brothers cartoon.

CELEBRATE HALLOWEEN!Come to the concert in costume and be eligible to win prizes!

PRE-CONCERT ACTIVITIESChildren can participate in musical activities such as crafts, rhythmensembles and round-singing. They can visit the Conducting Stationwhere they get the chance to conduct a group of musicians or visit theInstrument Petting Zoo for an opportunity to touch and play theorchestral instruments that they will see performed during the Sundayswith the Family concerts. Pre-Concert Activities begin at 1:00 p.m.

Richard Lee, conductor
Frank Oden, poet-narrator

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