Opening Night with Alexander Shelley

Start: 2015-09-17T20:00:00-04:00
End: 2015-09-17T22:00:00-04:00
Location: Southam Hall

Echoes of Childhood

https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/11241

Alexander Shelley opens his tenure with two different takes on life and childhood: Mahler’s symphonic setting of a child’s view of heaven contrasting Nobel Prize-winner Alice Munro’s portrait of her own childhood as depicted in her short story Dear Life. Commissioned as a meditation on childhood and memory, Dear Life features soprano Erin Wall and the voice of legendary Canadian actor Martha Henry.

September 16 - 17, 2015

Southam Hall 1 Elgin Street Ottawa Canada

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Opening Night with Alexander Shelley

Sep 16 - 17, 2015

Southam Hall

Music Classical music

English
≈ 2 hours and 15 minutes · With intermission

World Premiere

Alexander Shelley opens his tenure with two different takes on life and childhood: Mahler’s symphonic setting of a child’s view of heaven contrasting Nobel Prize-winner Alice Munro’s portrait of her own childhood as depicted in her short story Dear Life. Commissioned as a meditation on childhood and memory, Dear Life features soprano Erin Wall and the voice of legendary Canadian actor Martha Henry.

Program Notes (pdf 1.9 MB)