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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
The Ghost Well Cared-For: Hoa Nguyen’s A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
What is a divinatory poetics? Can texts be haunted? This week, Toronto-based poet Hoa Nguyen dives into the narratives that prompted and sit within her new book of poetry,
A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure.
Host Lauren Korn chats with Hoa about the aftermath of the Atlanta shootings, the motorcycle troupe Hoa’s mother was a part of in the 1950s and ’60s, the many ways a text can haunt, and more!
Portrait Society Gallery of Contemporary Art opens an exhibition of Shari Urquhart s tapestries
Shari Urquhart, Its 10 o Clock Do You Know?, 1982. 71 x 107 inches.
MILWAUKEE, WI
.-Portrait Society Gallery of Contemporary Art is presenting this major exhibition in conjunction with The Warehouse. Forty years of Shari Urquharts fiber art tapestries are being presented in two Milwaukee venues. This is the first time this extraordinary group of more than 30 monumental, figurative textiles from the artists estate has been shown together.
In addition, Portrait Society presents a related show featuring the work of Chicago artist Phyllis Bramson, who attended graduate school with Urquhart.