Nanaimo – Home
Featuring: Audience Picks
Guest Artist: Calvin Dyck, Violin
Conductor: Pierre Simard
Saturday, April 5, 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Port Theatre, Nanaimo
Tickets: 250-754-8550 www.porttheatre.com
Classics
can be such FUN with Audience Picks!
In a joyful and fun-filled evening of light, familiar,
tuneful and melodic music, the Vancouver Island Symphony comes home on
Saturday, April 5, after their musical journey around the world, when they
present the last of this season’s Timeless Treasures Series in a very unique
concert titled Nanaimo-Home.
“This city did not exist when the bulk of classical music
was written,” explains Pierre Simard. So how will the illustrious Simard present
a concert filled with music that represents Nanaimo? “I am sending the ball
back into the audience, to make it Nanaimo’s choice. It’s essentially a
one-of-a-kind show - rather like a symphonic jukebox. The orchestra will rehearse
the most recognizable tunes in the light classical repertoire then throughout
the evening the audience will choose. I will be doing this in various ways –
but I don’t want to reveal too much… it’s just so much fun! The music is from
all the periods – baroque, classical, romantic, Mozart, and situation music
like Pomp and Circumstance.”
The jukebox – Before going
out to the audience Simard will warm up the orchestra with the invigorating Toreador. From then on the audience
picks from Air on the G string, Hungarian Dance no. 5, Morning Mood from Peer Gynt, overtures
to the Marriage of Figaro, William Tell and Light Cavalry, Can-Can, Pachelbel’s Canon,
Blue Danube Waltz, and selections
from Swan Lake and La Traviata. Adds Simard, “The musicians are so familiar
with these pieces.”
World premiere – To further
honour Nanaimo, the VI Symphony has commissioned a violin concerto by young
Canadian composer Emily Doolittle especially for this evening. “To have
violinist Calvin Dyck perform Emily’s new composition Sapling alongside great classical tunes is a perfect way to
celebrate Nanaimo and Home,” says Simard.
And, how better to describe spring in Nanaimo than with
musical movements titled Branching, Bending and Leafy Green. Says Dyck, “Each of the movements has their own
character, and yet all flowing together. Branching
is energetic, very Stravinskyesk, twiggy. Bending
is much more lyrical, gentle waves of softness, like feeling the movement of
the air. And Leafy Green is up-beat,
cheerful and almost bouncy, happy and light; spring-like in several meanings of
the word.”
“We close the show with My Homeland by Antonin Dvořák,” adds Simard. “It’s the perfect way
to end this year’s Timeless Treasures as we head into celebrating our 20th
season – in Nanaimo!”
Tickets - for Nanaimo-Home are available by
calling 250-754-8550.
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