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Vancouver Symphony Orchestra & Stewart Goodyear

Great Performers Series

2025-03-17 20:00 2025-03-17 22:00 60 Canada/Eastern 🎟 NAC: Vancouver Symphony Orchestra & Stewart Goodyear

https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/36082

In-person event

For one night only, the NAC is delighted to welcome Conductor Otto Tausk and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO) back to Southam Hall. Any time the VSO is in town, it is surely a must-see performance. Guest pianist Stewart Goodyear takes on Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3, which many of the world’s best pianists consider to be the toughest piano concerto ever written. Composing a beautiful symphony is intricate and all-consuming work, but composing one for a tyrannical...

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Southam Hall,1 Elgin Street,Ottawa,Canada
Mon, March 17, 2025
Mon, March 17, 2025
8 PM EDT
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Music Classical music Masterworks Piano
  • Jocelyn Morlock Night, herself
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3
  • Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47
  • In-person event
  • ≈ 2 hours · With intermission
  • For one night only, the NAC is delighted to welcome Conductor Otto Tausk and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO) back to Southam Hall. Any time the VSO is in town, it is surely a must-see performance.
  • Guest pianist Stewart Goodyear takes on Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3, which many of the world’s best pianists consider to be the toughest piano concerto ever written.
  • Composing a beautiful symphony is intricate and all-consuming work, but composing one for a tyrannical dictator can be worth your life. Witness the life-or-death result by the great Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovitch. 

The National Arts Centre is honored to welcome the GRAMMY and JUNO Award-winning Vancouver Symphony Orchestra back to Ottawa and Southam Hall for an evening of beautiful music-making that will take audiences on a time traveling adventure. 

Joining the two orchestras is guest pianist and long-time friend of the NAC Stewart Goodyear, whose understanding of every note in Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 will lift you up to a sustained musical high, and it might be a while before you return to Earth. 

Continuing the classical high, audiences will experience Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5, which was written under the tempestuous whims of Josef Stalin’s mood. This hauntingly beautiful symphony, miraculously composed with a figurative noose around his neck, just might have saved Shostakovich’s life. 

Bringing us to present day is Night, Herself by beloved musician and composer Jocelyn Morlock. She was the VSO’s composer-in-residence before her untimely death in 2023 and wrote her JUNO Award-winning “My Name is Amanda Todd” for the NAC Orchestra’s wildly successful immersive symphonic experience Life Reflected, which celebrates the lives of four remarkable Canadian women. Night, Herself is a moody and elegant work inspired by the birds and nature our beloved Jocelyn found around her. 

Artists

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    Conductor Otto Tausk
  • Piano Stewart Goodyear
  • Featuring Vancouver Symphony Orchestra