Vancouver Symphony to Premiere Vivian Fung s Flute Concerto Storm Within
The live streamed performance, titled Sun and Storm, also includes Schubert s Fifth Symphony.by BWW News Desk
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, led by Tania Miller, will perform the world premiere of JUNO-winning composer Vivian Fung s Flute Concerto Storm Within, featuring VSO principal flutist Christie Reside as soloist, on Friday, June 4, 2021 at 7:30pm PT. The live streamed performance, titled Sun and Storm, also includes Schubert s Fifth Symphony and is available on the VSO s virtual venue, TheConcertHall.ca, presented by TELUS.
Fung s Flute Concerto Storm Within, co-commissioned by the Vancouver Symphony, is a work in one continuous movement written during the fall and winter of 2020, at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic was raging and California, where Fung currently resides, was in full lockdown. She says, As I sat in my studio, powerful images and stories filtered in from the daily news - pro
Dealer Candice Madey inside her latest gallery. Courtesy of Candice Madey.
Not many dealers would be prepared to debut a new gallery in the depths of a global crisis. But as Candice Madey would tell you, it helps if you’ve done it before.
Back in 2008, the investment bank Lehman Brothers imploded less than a week after Madey opened On Stellar Rays, the well-respected New York gallery that she helmed until 2017. Now, Madey has returned to the Lower East Side, in the midst of a very different type of worldwide stress test, to open an eponymous gallery with a new perspective.
2020 has been a year where more than a million people have died.
Many were isolated in hospital beds, communicating with loved ones through a screen during their final moments. Decades ago, in the killing fields of Cambodia during the late 1970s, a different wave of death took place as the Khmer Rouge oversaw the genocide of millions.
Death became a familiar spectre for that nation, and this year for the world. We as humans grasp for our rituals, seeking to make sense of loss and attempting to mourn together while separate.
“It’s just basic human need,” said Phloeun Prim, executive director for Cambodian Living Arts.