Happy New Year
01/01/10 08:38 Filed in: Press
Upcoming performance on January 7th with Symphony Nova Scotia and the New Music Network – part of their Forum 2010 being held in Halifax on Jan. 7 – 9, 2010.
Canadian composers unveil new music at Dunn Thursday, Jan. 7 at 7:30 p.m. at the Sir James Dunn Theatre
Symphony Nova Scotia partners with the Canadian New Music Network, Upstream Music Association and Vocalypse Productions to present New Music for a New Year, a concert of all-new Canadian music on Thursday, Jan. 7 at 7:30 p.m. at the Sir James Dunn Theatre, Halifax. Conducted by Symphony Nova Scotia Music Director Bernhard Gueller, it features six diverse works for orchestra by composers Mark Armanini, Sandeep Baghwati, Jérôme Blais, Tim Brady, Paul Cram, and Derek Charke.The performance also serves as the opening event of the Canadian New Music Network's international Forum 2010 conference, Partnering Diversity. Cram's Beyond Benghazi is a collision of jazz improvisation and high-energy orchestral composition, while Charke's Inuit Throat Singing Games crosses cultural boundaries into the North. Armanini's Heartland features erhu player Lan Tung, Blais' Dremlen Feigl oyf di tsvaygn is sung in Yiddish by Halifax's Janice Jackson and Brady's Three or Four Days After the Death of Kurt Cobain uses music from the Nirvana song Smells Like Teen Spirit. Tickets are $20, $15 and $10, and are available at the box office at 494-3820 or 1-800-874-1669 or online at http://artscentre.dal.ca.
Canadian composers unveil new music at Dunn Thursday, Jan. 7 at 7:30 p.m. at the Sir James Dunn Theatre
Symphony Nova Scotia partners with the Canadian New Music Network, Upstream Music Association and Vocalypse Productions to present New Music for a New Year, a concert of all-new Canadian music on Thursday, Jan. 7 at 7:30 p.m. at the Sir James Dunn Theatre, Halifax. Conducted by Symphony Nova Scotia Music Director Bernhard Gueller, it features six diverse works for orchestra by composers Mark Armanini, Sandeep Baghwati, Jérôme Blais, Tim Brady, Paul Cram, and Derek Charke.The performance also serves as the opening event of the Canadian New Music Network's international Forum 2010 conference, Partnering Diversity. Cram's Beyond Benghazi is a collision of jazz improvisation and high-energy orchestral composition, while Charke's Inuit Throat Singing Games crosses cultural boundaries into the North. Armanini's Heartland features erhu player Lan Tung, Blais' Dremlen Feigl oyf di tsvaygn is sung in Yiddish by Halifax's Janice Jackson and Brady's Three or Four Days After the Death of Kurt Cobain uses music from the Nirvana song Smells Like Teen Spirit. Tickets are $20, $15 and $10, and are available at the box office at 494-3820 or 1-800-874-1669 or online at http://artscentre.dal.ca.
