Date: Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 8:00 pm & Sunday, November 25, 2012 at 2:00 pm
Venue: Crescent Fort Rouge United Church
This will be a fun and different Christmas with shape-note songs from New England and carols from the Shaker tradition, backwoods Appalachia, southern plantation slave quarters and the early Spanish churches of California and Latin America. In what is now a tradition, Michael McKay, Leonard Enns and Andrew Balfour will all be writing made-in-Manitoba arrangements of the American carol I Wonder As I Wander.
P.S. Watch for Mike McKay's send-up of Jingle Bells!
Admission is free (Please bring food for Winnipeg Harvest. Donations to Camerata Nova are welcomed to defray the cost of the concert.)
Date: Saturday, April 6, 2013 at 8:00 pm and Sunday, April 7, 2013 at 3:00 pm
(Both concerts will be preceded by a panel discussion,
at 7:15 and 2:15 pm respectively.)
Venue: Westminster United Church (745 Westminster Avenue)
Vespro Della Beata Vergine, composed by Claudio Monteverdi in 1610, is generally recognized to be the finest work in classical music before the time of Bach. Its 13 movements are full of rich change ups with sonatas, motets, hymns and psalms that can be intimate and prayerful or dramatic, joyous and romantic. It really will be The Full Monte: several soloists, including Luz Alvarez, Marni Enns, Kirsten Schellenberg, Doug Pankratz, Kris Kornelson and Derek Morphy, as well as members of Camerata Nova; 14 top-calibre period instrumentalists playing early instruments such as sackbut, dulcian, shawm, cornetto and theorbo; and a children's chorus performed by the Westgate Mennonite Collegiate Concert Choir. This will be the first time this great work has been performed in Winnipeg!
Individual Ticket Prices: Adults $28 | Seniors $23 | Students $12
Date: Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 8:00 pm & Friday, May 24, 2013 at 8:00 pm / Pre-concert talks at 7:15 both evenings
Venue: Crescent Fort Rouge United Church
Andrew Balfour is teaming up with renowned Winnipeg singer-songwriters Christine Fellows and John K. Samson, along with their associates, the Correction Line Ensemble, to create a concert about the culture, landscape, history and humour of Manitoba. Andrew and the ensemble will be collaborating on innovative new works and arrangements. The Correction Line Ensemble features cellist Leanne Zacharias, violinist Cristina Zacharias, percussionist Ed Reifel and composer/pianist Robert Honstein. The possibilities of combining voices with these instruments are endless—especially when we add harmonicist and electro-acoustic artist Gérald Laroche to the mix.
Manitoba may never be the same...
Individual Ticket Prices: Adults $28 | Seniors $23 | Students $12
