Happy Birthday NAC Orchestra!
40th anniversary of the first NA Orchestra performance
Mahler: "Titan" Symphony
October 8-9, 2009
Southam Hall, 8pm
Tickets from $19
- Pinchas Zukerman, conductor and violin
- Russell Braun, baritone
- J.S. BACH Violin Concerto in A Minor, BWV 1041
- LINDA BOUCHARD Songs for an Acrobat
- MAHLER Symphony No. 1 "Titan"
Happy 40th birthday, NAC Orchestra! We honour the day with former composer-in-residence Linda Bouchard’s Songs for an Acrobat, commissioned by the NAC during her tenure, and Mahler’s "Titan" Symphony, never performed before by the Orchestra. Listening guide posts include an unusual rendition of "Frère Jacques," played by the double bass, and a finale in which seven horns – their bells turned up – proclaim the heroic ending.
This concert is made possible in part through the Friends of the NAC Orchestra Kilpatrick Fund.
Musically Speaking: Pre-Concert Chats at 7 p.m. with music critic Jean-Jacques Van Vlasselaer
Oct. 8 in English: "The Beginning and Ending of a World"
Oct. 9 in French: "Début et fin d’un monde"
