Review: Vancouver Opera s choice of The Music Shop was a good one The Music Shop is a deliberate trifle, three-quarters of an hour of silliness, but elegantly written in a slyly evocative conservative modern idiom
Author of the article: David Gordon Duke
Publishing date: Mar 14, 2021 • March 14, 2021 • 2 minute read • Amanda Weatherall was at her best as a demented Valkyrie in the Vancouver Opera s The Music Shop. Photo by Mike Southworth /jpg
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On Saturday evening Vancouver Opera offered the digital and Canadian premiere of Richard Wargo’s 1993 short comic opera The Music Shop, in a staging designed to showcase the talents of a sextet from this year’s crop of Yulanda M. Faris Young Artists.
Funny, you sang that: New Vancouver Opera production takes a comical, refreshing turn For most contemporary composers, serious is the name of the game. And that makes Richard Wargo’s The Music Shop, part of a trilogy of operas based on Chekhov, all the more special
Author of the article: David Gordon Duke
Publishing date: Mar 10, 2021 • March 10, 2021 • 3 minute read • Opera films as classic sitcom and don’t we all need a little comic pick me up these days? Photo by Courtesy, Autumn Coppaway
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Sonic Boom Music Festival doubles its offerings for spring 2021 â online, of course Festival offers a whole new set of programs, including music for oboe or English horn, compositions for organ and trombone, and various works for various combinations
Author of the article: David Gordon Duke
Publishing date: Mar 03, 2021  â¢Â March 3, 2021  â¢Â 3 minute read  â¢Â The intrepid Rachel Kiyo Iwassa offers a piano recital. She is in concert on March 23 and 27. Photo by Ema Peter
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One might think the business of offering online classical music will be all about sure things and traditional favourites. Thatâs been a sort of knee-jerk response from many groups in many centres.
Recital Society brokers a series full of international artists especially for Vancouver A new streamed series of recitals is coming to Vancouver listeners courtesy of the Vancouver Recital Society, starting in March.
Author of the article: David Gordon Duke
Publishing date: Feb 24, 2021 • February 24, 2021 • 3 minute read • Timothy Ridout, an outstanding viola soloist. Kaupo Kikkas/Courtesy of Young Classical Artists Trust
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A new streamed series of recitals is coming to Vancouver listeners courtesy of the Vancouver Recital Society, starting in March.