Following the sold out success of Music on Main's one-night Steve Reich festival in 2006, Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad, PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, and Music on Main join forces to bring Steve Reich's Drumming to Vancouver for two nights only. It's a rare chance to hear the intricate rhythms of this monument of musical Minimalism. Filling Heritage Hall with the stark and sonorous iterations of its machine-like sonic structure, Steve Reich's Drumming brings together nine of Vancouver's top percussionists along with vocalists and flute.
Featuring the Music on Main All-Star Band
Percussion: Vern Griffiths, Sal Ferreras, Robin Reid, Lauri Lyster, Jonathan Bernard, Martin Fisk, Aaron McDonald, Brian Nesselroad & Danny Tones
Piccolo: Mark McGregor
Vocals: Alicia Hansen
Tickets $35 ($15 students)
To buy tickets call Tickets Tonight at 604.684.2787 or buy online at www.ticketstonight.ca.
Following the sold out success of Music on Main's one-night Steve Reich festival in 2006, Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad, PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, and Music on Main join forces to bring Steve Reich's Drumming to Vancouver for two nights only. It's a rare chance to hear the intricate rhythms of this monument of musical Minimalism. Filling Heritage Hall with the stark and sonorous iterations of its machine-like sonic structure, Steve Reich's Drumming brings together nine of Vancouver's top percussionists along with vocalists and flute.
Featuring the Music on Main All-Star Band
Percussion: Vern Griffiths, Sal Ferreras, Robin Reid, Lauri Lyster, Jonathan Bernard, Martin Fisk, Aaron McDonald, Brian Nesselroad & Danny Tones
Piccolo: Mark McGregor
Vocals: Alicia Hansen
Tickets $35 ($15 students)
To buy tickets call Tickets Tonight at 604.684.2787 or buy online at www.ticketstonight.ca.
Sunday, November 30, 2008, 8:00 PM
Ryerson United Church, 2195 W. 45 Ave, Vancouver
Presented in association with BC 150
The Turning Point Ensemble marks the centenary of the extraordinary French composer Olivier Messiaen with a performance of Quartet for the End of Time played by clarinetist François Houle, violinist Marc Destrubé, cellist Peggy Lee, and pianist Jane Hayes. This iconic work. composed and premiered in a prisoner-of-war camp in 1940/41, is described by New Yorker critic, Alex Ross, as, “the most ethereally beautiful music of the twentieth century.” Joining the Messiaen are three dynamic and colourful large ensemble pieces by one of Canada’s most skillful and internationally respected composers, Alexina Louie. The soloist in Louie’s Winter Music is violist, David Harding, and Ricochet features trombonist, Jeremy Berkman.
Friday, November 28, 2008, 8:00 PM
Ryerson United Church, 2195 W. 45 Ave, Vancouver
7:00 PM Pre-concert Artist Talk with Alexina Louie
Presented in association with BC 150
The Turning Point Ensemble marks the centenary of the extraordinary French composer Olivier Messiaen with a performance of Quartet for the End of Time played by clarinetist François Houle, violinist Marc Destrubé, cellist Peggy Lee, and pianist Jane Hayes. This iconic work. composed and premiered in a prisoner-of-war camp in 1940/41, is described by New Yorker critic, Alex Ross, as, “the most ethereally beautiful music of the twentieth century.” Joining the Messiaen are three dynamic and colourful large ensemble pieces by one of Canada’s most skillful and internationally respected composers, Alexina Louie. The soloist in Louie’s Winter Music is violist, David Harding, and Ricochet features trombonist, Jeremy Berkman.
