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ORONO To presented last Friday’s Masterworks IV concert, “Mozart & Schubert,” Bangor Symphony Orchestra Music Director and Conductor Lucas Richman made the most of a reduced orchestra and fit together three works that share similar instrumentation. The online concert also included the little-known composer, Marianna Martines’s Sinfonia in C Major. In his pre-concert talk, Maestro Richman expressed his delight at discovering the piece. Featuring Martines, he noted, advances the symphony’s goal of programming works by composers, including women, who are under-represented in Western classical music. Scored for strings, flute, oboes, French horns, and harpsichord, the Austrian composer’s Sinfonia is a charming piece in three movements.
Is it finally over?
The Des Moines Symphony will perform the last livestreamed show of its 2020-21 “Live from the Temple” season, titled Fantaisie en Français, at 7 p.m. Thursday.
There s one more virtual show, the annual Yankee Doodle Pops, on July 2 before the symphony resumes performances with a live audience with its Water Works Pops shows at Lauridsen Amphitheater in September.
After that, the hope is to stage a 2021-22 season post-pandemic style. That means a careful return to in-person audiences, said symphony spokeswoman Megan Helmers. Following our in-person concerts at Water Works Park on Labor Day weekend, our goal is to launch our 84th Season at the Civic Center in September 2021, Helmers said in an email. We hope to have more details to announce sometime in June, including concert dates, repertoire, guest artists, and health and safety protocols for audiences.
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Press Release – City Choir Dunedin
City Choir Dunedin is pleased to announce Applaud! Women in Music, a concert presented by City Choir on Saturday 29 May at 7:30 pm in Knox Church, George Street, Dunedin.
We celebrate the contribution of women to choral music, as symbolised by St Cecilia, the patron saint of music. She was a noble lady of Rome around 230 AD who, despite her vow of virginity, was forced by her parents to marry a pagan nobleman named Valerian. During the wedding Cecilia sat apart singing to God in her heart. She was later declared the saint of musicians.
The programme includes works by Marianna Martines (Austria), Cécile Chaminade (France), Tamsin Jones (United Kingdom), Rosephanye Powell (America), and New Zealander Felicia Edgecombe. Also included is Benjamin Britten’s