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Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks

Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks

The members of the Pacific Baroque Orchestra join forces with the UBC Baroque Mentorship Orchestra and representatives from the Baroque string programme at the University of Washington to perform Handel’s suite for wind band written for the fireworks celebratio commemorating the end of the War of Austrian Succession in April of 1749.

Sunday April 3, 2016, 3:00pm
Chan Shun Concert Hall at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
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Handel’s Apollo e Dafne

Handel’s Apollo e Dafne

When public performances of opera were banned in Rome by papal edicts in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, opera audiences and composers turned to the dramatic cantata for their fix of lust, madness and death.

Friday March 18, 2016 | 7:30pm
The Vancouver Playhouse
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Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra – House of Dreams

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra – House of Dreams

An imaginative multi-media concert designed by Alison Mackay for Canada’s revered and treasured Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra. A magical journey to the meeting places of baroque art and music – five European homes where exquisite works by Bach, Handel, Vivaldi and Marais were played against a backdrop of paintings by Vermeer, Canaletto, and Watteau.

Friday March 4, 2016 | 7:30pm (Pre-concert talk at 6:45pm)
The Vancouver Playhouse
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Death and Devotion with Soprano Dorothee Mields

Death and Devotion with Soprano Dorothee Mields

German early music star soprano Dorothee Mields returns to Vancouver for a shared recital of seventeenth and early eighteenth-century North German sacred music with American baritone, Sumner Thompson. Marc Destrubé leads an ensemble of solo strings, gambas and a full continuo section.

Wednesday February 3, 2016 | 7:30pm
Telus Studio Theatre at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
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Watermusic: Orchestral Suites – Victoria Baroque Players

Watermusic: Orchestral Suites – Victoria Baroque Players

What happens when the best musical minds like Georg Philipp Telemann, George Frideric Handel, and Jean-Philippe Rameau are given free rein to depict royalty as well as the life of villagers and mariners?

Friday January 15, 2016 | 7:30pm
The Vancouver Playhouse
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Festive Cantatas – Praetorius Christmas Vespers

Festive Cantatas – Praetorius Christmas Vespers

Thirteen vocal soloists specializing in seventeenth-century music from all over North America, string band, cornetto and sackbut players, three theorbo players, and multiple keyboardists join together to recreate the joyful celebration of Christmas Vespers as it might have been heard under the direction of Michael Praetorius in seventeenth-century Germany.

Sunday December 20, 2015 | 3:00pm
Chan Shun Concert Hall at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
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Juilliard415 with conductor Nicholas McGegan

Juilliard415 with conductor Nicholas McGegan

EMV partners with Music in the Morning to bring Juilliard415, the principal period-instrument ensemble of the Julliard School, along with four vocalists and star guest conductor Nicholas McGegan, to the stage of the Vancouver Academy of Music. The programme includes Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 6 and Georg Philipp Telemann’s Die Tageszeiten, a collection of secular cantatas.

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, November 18-20, 2015| 10:30am
Vancouver Academy of Music
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Ensemble Dialogos – Swithun: A Medieval Miracle Play

Ensemble Dialogos – Swithun: A Medieval Miracle Play

One of Dialogos’s favourite repertoires, early medieval polyphony from Winchester, is at the origin of this programme. Through the voice of Wulfstan the Cantor, it follows the path of a penitent man haunted by his visionary or terrifying dreams, trying to escape from three raging Furies, wild like wolves, and finally finding salvation from Swithun, saint of all miracles.

Friday November 13, 2015 | 7:30pm
Telus Studio Theatre at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
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Music from the Court of Versailles – Byron Schenkman and Friends

Music from the Court of Versailles – Byron Schenkman and Friends

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.

Friday November 6, 2015 | 7:30pm
The Vancouver Playhouse
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Monteverdi Vespers of 1610

Monteverdi Vespers of 1610

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.

Friday October 23, 2015 | 7:30pm
Chan Shun Concert Hall at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
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Ensemble Caprice – Salsa Baroque: Music of Latin America and Spain of the 17th and 18th Century

Ensemble Caprice – Salsa Baroque: Music of Latin America and Spain of the 17th and 18th Century

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.

Thursday October 15, 2015 | 7:30pm (Pre-concert Talk - 6:45pm)
The Vancouver Playhouse
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Culture Days: The Path to Performance

Culture Days: The Path to Performance

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.

Friday September 25, 2015 | Open rehearsal: 4:30-5:30pm | Discussion: 5:30-6:30pm
Hodson Manor, 1254 West 7th Avenue
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