The Vancouver Playhouse
An evening of delights from the trend-setting courts of Louis XIV and Louis XV, from the refined elegance of Couperin and Marais to the irresistible flamboyance of Duphly and Rameau.
Chan Shun Concert Hall at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
Monteverdi’s Vespers is a monumental masterpiece. Conductor and lutenist Stephen Stubbs leads nine soloists, the Vancouver Chamber Choir, and a collection of North America’s best seventeenth-century instrumentalists including the peerless Bruce Dickey on cornetto.
The Vancouver Playhouse
Salsa is the Spanish word for sauce, designating at the same time a dance as well as a family of musical genres in Latin-American music. It is this latter meaning and its ancient roots that inspire the title Salsa Baroque.
Hodson Manor, 1254 West 7th Avenue
Founded in 2009, Culture Days is a non-profit organization dedicated to building a national network of cultural connections devoted to providing Canadians with opportunities to participate in and appreciate all forms of arts and culture.
The Vancouver Playhouse
To start our 2015-16 Baroque Series at the Vancouver Playhouse, EMV partners with the Pacific Baroque Orchestra for a performance featuring Johann Sebastian Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 2 and 4 as well as concertos for solo recorder and solo trumpet by Georg Philipp Telemann.
Roy Barnett Recital Hall
Inspired by the stories of ‘courts of love’ presided over by twelfth-century noblewomen such as Eleanor of Aquitaine, this programme presents songs, stories and dances from the love-drenched world of the troubadours and minstrels of medieval Europe.
Yaletown Roundhouse
As was with people of color, the contribution of gay composers and musicians throughout history has been largely forgotten, hidden, or ignored. And in this “Age of Grindr”, where the “woof” of an app is stronger than the bite of wit, we need to be reminded that we have a responsibility as lay curators of culture.
Roy Barnett Recital Hall
Perhaps the most celebrated queen in Western music history, the Virgin Mary, has inspired countless sacred musical tributes. This programme includes two superb examples, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater for soprano and alto soloists and the less well-known, but equally poignant, Il pianto di Maria by Giovanni Battista Farrandini for mezzo-soprano.
Roy Barnett Recital Hall
Die Schöne Magelone tells Ludwig Tieck’s medieval love story about Peter, a young knight from Provence, and the beautiful princess Magelone. Set by Johannes Brahms for baritone, narrator, and piano, the fifteen songs are interwoven with unifying descriptive prose.
