Composer, arranger, WWS oboist and music director emeritus Michael Purves-Smith provides unique insight into his thinking as he transcribed Strauss’ Four Last Songs, to be featured on our concerts on October 23 and 30, 2016. Why Transcribe Strauss’ Four Last Songs? by Michael Purves-Smith When Jan Narveson of the Kitchener Waterloo Chamber Music Society first …
By Michael Purves-Smith, Conductor Emeritus of the Wellington Wind Symphony Howard Cable passed away on March 30, 2016 at the age of 95. The last concert of the Wellington Wind Symphony this season will include the composer’s beautiful arrangement of the national anthem, O Canada. It is hard to overestimate Howard Cable’s contribution to band …
Please join us on Sunday December 13 at 8 pm for our special Yuletide concert. Please note that there is one performance only! Featuring: Shostatakovich’s Festive Overture C’est Noel! by Canadian André Jutras Grainger’s Sussex Mummers’ Christmas Carol Reed’s Alleluia! Laudamus Te Britten’s Courtly Dances Bach’s Air from Suite No. 3 in D I Heard …
This Sunday November 1 we mark the second performance of our On the Road Again program. We are very pleased to have mezzo-soprano Jennifer Enns Modolo joining us once again to perform Gustav Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer). The orchestral song cycle was a relatively new form when Mahler wrote these …