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| Aug 9, 2012 Welcome to the OPENING WEEKEND of MusicFest Vancouver! |
Dear friend of MusicFest Vancouver,
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Swiss Piano Trio
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June Goldsmith
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10:30am Christ Church Cathedral
FREE lecture/demonstration
An overview of the history of some of the Piano Trio literature featured at MusicFest Vancouver with the Swiss Piano Trio and hosted by June Goldsmith. This is the first of our Industrial Alliance Inside the Music series. Read about the rest of the series here.
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Odlum Brown Gala Opening Concert - Here to Stay: The Gershwin Experience
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Here to Stay: The Gershwin Experience
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A multi-media Gershwin extravaganza featuring renowned pianist and Gershwin expert Kevin Cole, the brilliant singer Sylvia McNair, vocalist/tap sensation Ryan VanDenBoom and the Grammy award-winning Vancouver Symphony Orchestra led by guest conductor Leslie Dala. You'll hear favourites such as Rhapsody in Blue, I Got Rhythm, Summertime, and many more! Produced by Daniel Chilewich and Todd Gershwin of Premiere Media and Kevin Cole.
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Gabrieli's Venice: A Polychoral Vespers
 Sonorous compositions for voices, strings, and brass, on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the death of Gabrieli.
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SATURDAY August 11 - Day 2
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 Casavant Frères: 100 Years of Good Vibrations
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Organist Michael Dirk showcases the mighty Casavant Frères Opus 485 pipe organ in a lighthearted performance to mark its centenary. Everything from a tribute to Virgil Fox, Healey Willan, and an improvised accompaniment to a Laurel & Hardy movie - and free popcorn! Don't forget to wear your MusicFest Vancouver Surround Sound 3D Glasses to be entered to win a prize! Download the template here.
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Composer Jeffrey Ryan and conductor Owen Underhill provide an insider's look at this new work as it is brought to life by baritone Tyler Duncan and the Turning Point Ensemble.
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Nordic Voices: Ciels
8pm Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC
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Nordic Voices
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Nordic Voices is a six-voice a cappella ensemble whose vast repertoire ranges from medieval to modern music. One of Norway's best-loved ensembles, Nordic Voices has garnered considerable acclaim through frequent radio and television appearances and international touring. We're delighted to showcase them in the glorious acoustic of the Chan Centre at UBC, where their voices can truly soar heavenwards.
The program that the ensemble will sing is titled Ciels, (the French word for skies), but the word also has a poetic association with heaven and paradise. All religions have an idea about a paradise, a better place to come to after an earthbound life. Paradise, or heaven, has been depicted in music through music history and this fascinating program offers examples from the 1300's to today. If you love choral music this is a "must see" concert! This is the first six concerts in our BMO Main Stage Concerts series. Read about the entire series here.
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Jim Rotondi - "What Kind Of Fool Am I"
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New York City's Jim Rotondi & Cory Weeds' Quartet
8pm Cory Weeds' Cellar Jazz Club
Admission $20 Credit card reservations exclusively through Cory Weeds' Cellar Jazz Club @ 604.738.1959 Full details at cellarjazz.com
Fiery elegant trumpet with warm engaging tenor sax! Read about the rest of our Jazz at the Cellar series here.
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GUITAR DAY at PYATT HALL
VSO School of Music 843 Seymour (between Smithe & Robson)Three concerts in the stunning Pyatt Hall at the new VSO School of Music. This intimate, jewel-like hall is perfectly suited as a showcase for acoustic guitarists and we have some of the best, plus a wonderful cellist!
11am: Oberon Guitar Trio: Music of Our Time
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Oberon Guitar Trio
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purchase ticketsThis Calgary-based ensemble present contemporary classical music for three guitars.
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Ed Henderson, Way Home
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1pm: Celso Machado & Ed Henderson: Guitar Encounters purchase ticketsA collaboration between two Vancouver legends with a world view of music. 3pm: Bolshoy & Barnes: Brasileiras
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Daniel Bolshoy plays Enrique Granados
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5pm Christ Church Cathedral
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Quartango's program ranges from the classic tangos to tango nuevo and Piazzolla, plus explorations of other genres including jazz, opera, waltzes and jigs - all in their own inimitable style. They stole the show at Carnegie Hall with the New York Pops, and last summer performed to over 60,000 people with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra!
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Tyler Duncan
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8pm Vancouver Playhouse
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The dramatic tale of the Firebird as depicted musically by Stravinsky is adapted by Michael Bushnell and interpreted by Vancouver's premiere contemporary music ensemble. Jeffrey Ryan's recent commission The Whitening of the Ox, is inspired by the Zen Buddhist concept of the taming of the disordered mind to reach a state of enlightenment.
 See how these works are interpreted both musically and visually in a multi-media showcase.
Two legends from East and West meet in this exciting program that offers both aural and visual delight in what promises to be one of the most talked about concerts of the festival. Be there to be part of the conversation!
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8pm Roy Barnett Recital Hall - UBC School of Music
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An evening of Baroque concertos and chamber music from internationally acclaimed faculty members of the Vancouver Early Music Festival.
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Romantic Rome RafflePlan Your Own Roman Holiday!
If you love the thought of gelato on the Spanish Steps then you'll love our Romantic Rome Raffle! The grand prize includes two return air tickets - Vancouver to Rome - on Lufthansa Airlines, and three nights at the 5-star Hassler Roma hotel.
For over a century the Hassler at the top of the Spanish Steps has been recognized as one of Europe's legendary independently-owned five-star luxury hotels, synonymous with the highest quality of service, attention to detail and discretion. It's the perfect centrally located luxury base for your own Roman Holiday!
There are only 600 tickets available at $50 each. With the winning ticket to be drawn at the New York Voices concert at VanDusen Botanical Garden on August 19, this raffle in support of MusicFest Vancouver is sure to sell out fast!
Buy your tickets now!
To order your tickets, please call Paul Nash at 604.688.1031 ext. 112 or click here to email him at raffle@musicfestvancouver.ca
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The Insiders' Scoop
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2012 MusicFest staff
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Each issue of our newsletter will introduce a MusicFest Vancouver staff member who will share what concert they can't wait to hear. This week our Administrative Assistant Paul nash tells us why he's chosen Cristina Braga with Ricardo Medeiros & Sal Ferreras: Harpa Bossa Jazz as the show you HAVE to see!
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Paul
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"I love jazz (I worked my way through university playing jazz clubs), and I love singing (I'm a long-time member of the Vancouver Chamber Choir). And lots of the best jazz standards ever written have come from Brazil, from the likes of Tom Jobim and Joao Gilberto - even if you don't recognize their names, you'd immediately know many of their songs. (Samba is quite possibly the most infectious music on the planet... it's no coincidence that Brazil is renowned for its fantastic, danceable rhythms and luscious, chromatic harmonies.) So, just wait until you hear Cristina Braga next week! MusicFest Vancouver is lucky to have Cristina in our festival - she's a Brazilian superstar who's managed to turn the harp into a one-person jazz orchestra, while singing delicious samba melodies with just the right quality of smooth and smoky voice that you'd want in bossa nova. Fantástico!!!" Cristina Braga with Ricardo Medeiros & Sal Ferreras: Harpa Bossa Jazz Monday, August 13 5:30pm Christ Church Cathedral purchase tickets!  | |
Águas de Março with Cristina Braga and Ricardo Medeiros
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Months of preparations have come down to this, our opening weekend! Between 10:30am tomorrow morning and Sunday midnight there are TEN fantastic concerts or events to check out. You'll find a short description (because you need time to get last minute tickets) and a musical clip or two! 
