Music for a Sunday Afternoon: Spring Edition

Featuring the NAC Orchestra’s wind players

2025-04-13 15:00 2025-04-13 17:00 60 Canada/Eastern 🎟 NAC: Music for a Sunday Afternoon: Spring Edition

https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/36075

In-person event

​Three things to know ... Our popular Sunday afternoon series offers intimate music in the stunning setting of the historic Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre. In this musician-curated program, your favorite NACO wind and string players take to the stage to perform works spanning 200 years. From Germany to Romania and Argentina, this concert offers a first-class ticket to explore music from around the world. Sink into some seriously relaxing weekend vibes as you experience intimate...

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Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre,355 Cooper St,Ottawa
Sun, April 13, 2025
Sun, April 13, 2025
3 PM EDT
Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre 355 Cooper St Ottawa
Music Chamber music
  • Enescu Dectet for winds
  • OSVALDO GOLIJOV Last Round for two string quartets and bass
  • Bohuslav Martinů Nonet
  • SPOHR Nonet, op. 31

Featured artists

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    Musicians from the NAC Orchestra
  • In-person event
  • ≈ 1 hhour and 30 minutes · With intermission

​Three things to know ...

  • Our popular Sunday afternoon series offers intimate music in the stunning setting of the historic Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre.
  • In this musician-curated program, your favorite NACO wind and string players take to the stage to perform works spanning 200 years.
  • From Germany to Romania and Argentina, this concert offers a first-class ticket to explore music from around the world.

Sink into some seriously relaxing weekend vibes as you experience intimate performances from some of your favorite NACO musicians. Surrounded by the architectural marvels of the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre — revered for its top-notch acoustics — you'll feast on a program of musical delights from around the world.

Ludwig Spohr's Nonet for strings and winds gives each instrument the chance to showcase its unique voice and character. This work of lyrical beauty also inspired compositions of the same size and structure from two Eastern European composers featured on this program, Bohuslav Martinů's Nonet and George Enescu's Dectet for Winds.

Osvaldo Golijov also offers an homage to the music of his native Argentina — specifically the sensual spirit of the Buenos Aires tango. Evoking, in his words, the "eroticism of legs and torsos in the dance" and the "melancholy of the singer's voice," Golijov's Last Round for nine string players celebrates the tango revolution of the 20th century with music of heat and energy.

Artists

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    Musicians from the NAC Orchestra