KYO PLANNING ‘ARMCHAIR’ CONCERT
Peterborough Examiner (Ontario)
November 16, 2006 Thursday
The Kawartha Youth Orchestra performs Nov. 26 at The Market Hall.
"The musicians of the Kawartha Youth Orchestra and their conductor
Michael Newnham invite you to join them in a musical excursion for
the ears, and no passport is required," states a press release.
The armchair trip takes place at 3 p.m. "On this voyage you will
not only experience the impressive musicality of this group of young
talented musicians, but also discover a number of genres of music as
witnessed in the composers’ motivation."
Composer Franz Schubert wrote his Rosamund Overture as a commission
for a well-heeled client, as incidental music to accompany an
ill-fated opera of the same name. The impetus for Aram Khatchaturian’s
composition Masquerade Suite came not only from Lermontov’s dramatic
saga of a couple’s jealousy and mistrust, but also from the troubled
history of his Armenian homeland.
Claude Debussy’s composition Petite Suite evokes, in part, the sense
of floating in a small boat on a stream. From a musical excerpt in
Jacques Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffman written to illuminate a young
university student’s stories of his three greatest loves as recounted
to his drinking buddies, to Johann Sebastian Bach’s cantata Jesu Joy
of Man’s Desiring drawn from a larger hymn meant to be played during
a church service, you the listener are in for a varied experience!
In a single afternoon’s concert the audience will travel musically
from Bach’s Germany of the 17th century, through Debussy’s France of
the late 1880s to Katchaturian’s adopted home of Russia in the mid
20th century.
Advance tickets are $10, available at Happenstance Books and Yarn
in Lakefield, Titles Bookstore in Peterborough or by calling 705
740-9018. Tickets will also be available at the door for $12.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
