50 Years of Music with the NAC Orchestra

Conducted by Alexander Shelley

2019-10-03 20:00 2019-10-03 22:00 60 Canada/Eastern 🎟 NAC: 50 Years of Music with the NAC Orchestra

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The NAC Orchestra is celebrating 50 years with free activities all week long. See the full list here. View the Monday, September 30 concert details here   This spectacular evening of music celebrates the prowess of the NAC Orchestra after 50 remarkable years by shining a light on the singular virtuosity of its members. With a program chosen specifically to showcase the phenomenal agility of the National Arts Centre Orchestra at 50 years young, we honour the organization and the...

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Southam Hall,1 Elgin Street,Ottawa,Canada
Thu, October 3, 2019
Thu, October 3, 2019
8 PM EDT
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Music Classical music Masterworks
  • Kevin Lau Dark Angels Suite
  • SALIERI Concerto for Flute and Oboe in C major
  • Béla Bartók Concerto for Orchestra
  • ≈ 2 hours · With intermission

The NAC Orchestra is celebrating 50 years with free activities all week long. See the full list here.

View the Monday, September 30 concert details here

This spectacular evening of music celebrates the prowess of the NAC Orchestra after 50 remarkable years by shining a light on the singular virtuosity of its members. With a program chosen specifically to showcase the phenomenal agility of the National Arts Centre Orchestra at 50 years young, we honour the organization and the individuals who have championed creativity and excellence in music at all levels – from the classroom to the concert hall.

As one of Canada’s busiest young composers, Kevin Lau has had works commissioned and performed by orchestras and ensembles around the world. The NAC commissioned his Dark Angels, a taut and lyrical work that celebrates the orchestra’s extraordinary musicality and skill, for its 2017 Encount3rs dance project to wide critical acclaim.

Rightly or wrongly, Antonio Salieri’s musical reputation has often been impugned, especially vis-à-vis his relationship with Mozart, but he dominated the Italian-language opera scene for decades. His purely instrumental works are less well known, and his Concerto for Flute and Oboe remained unpublished for 188 years after it was written. Tonight this lovely work comes to life in the hands of the NAC Orchestra’s principal flutist Joanna G’froerer and principal oboist Charles “Chip” Hamann. Friends since the days of summer music camp, G’froerer and Hamann joined the NAC Orchestra at nearly the same time and have cemented their musical camaraderie in the years since.

Béla Bartók began work on his curiously named Concerto for Orchestra from his sickbed in hospital where he suffered from undiagnosed leukemia. The request for a commission from the Boston Symphony Orchestra re-energized Bartók, though, and the result is this delightfully contradictory concerto that treats entire sections of instruments as soloists, to brilliant effect.

Concert made possible in part through the Friends of the NAC Orchestra Kilpatrick Fund.

Artists

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    NAC Orchestra
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    conductor Alexander Shelley
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    Flute Joanna G’froerer
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    Oboe Charles Hamann