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Category: Classical Music
Here is a little teaser for our up coming show at the Annex in Vancouver on May 6th:
A two-and-a-half-thousand-year-old love story (based on a story from Virgils Aeneid), allied with 350-year-old music composed by musical genius Henry Purcell and a libretto written by the English poet laureate Nahum Tate and, of course, for these performances only, a lively bunch of contemporary puppets! Dido and Aeneas was one of the very first operas to be written in English, whose first public performance was in 1688 at a private girls school in the (then-) village of Chelsea.
While the six instrumentalists (five strings plus harpsichord) and six voices from the Postmodern Camerata, led by guest musical director Dr Charles Barber (Artistic Director of City Opera Vancouver), present the music in all its baroque splendour, three puppeteers and thirty puppets (the latter ranging in size from six inches to six feet) bring to life the characters in this timeless tale of love gone wrong: a queen desperate for a new chance at joy, a hero washed up on a foreign shore but under direction of the Gods, a sorceress and two evil witches, some very fickle sailors, and a blooded wild beast …
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Just a few audio highlights from our 2016 October concert. If you missed it, you can hear the full concert right here!
Encore Performance! Tickets on sale now! Get yours while you can!
Music of the United States of America constitutes the Postmodern Camerata chamber ensemble’s first concert of their third season: Barber’s Dover Beach, Copland’s Appalachian Spring, Riley’s In C, Argento’s Dover Beach Revisited, all written within a seventy-five year period (1931–2004). This music is, by turn, neo-classical, neo-romantic, minimalist and modernist: come along and you get to match them up, on Sat. Oct. 22nd (7pm St Paul’s Anglican Church) and Sun. Oct. 23rd (3pm Dunbar Heights United Church, note new time). For more information, including tickets, see: www. postmoderncamerata.com/tickets.
The opening concert programme of the 2016/2017 series of the PMC’s third season explores the works of American composers Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Dominick Argento and Terry Riley. Tickets to this event are available now. The concerts take place at St. Paul’s Anglican Church on Saturday, October 22nd at 7:00 pm, and Dunbar Heights United Church on Sunday October 23rd, 2016 at 3:00 pm.
The opening concert programme of the 2016/2017 series of the PMC’s third season explores the works of American composers Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Dominick Argento and Terry Riley. Tickets to this event will be made available soon. The concerts take place at St. Paul’s Anglican Church on Saturday evening, and at Dunbar Heights United Church on Sunday afternoon.
For tickets, visit us here.
The Postmodern Camerata 