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Concerts 2001/ 02


Tom Barnes photo 28 Sep 01


A Special Pre-season Concert

This special concert was held on
Friday, September 28 - 8:00 p.m.
First Unitarian Congregation
30 Cleary Avenue, Ottawa

Our first regular concert of the season was ~

Beauty and the Bassoon

With our guest Ben Glossop, solo bassoon

Sunday, October 28, 2001 2:00 pm at St John's

  • Concerto in G major, Op. 7 No. 4 (Tomaso Albinoni)
     
  • Bassoon concerto in C minor, VIII:14 (Antonio Vivaldi)
     
  • Divertimento in D major (Michael Haydn)
     
  • Two dances from Suite in F (C.H.H. Parry)
     
  • Ciranda das sete notas (Heitor Villa-Lobos)
     
  • Hoe Down, from Rodeo (Aaron Copland)


Our second regular concert this season was:

A Christmas Celebration

With the Euphonia Chamber Choir, Matthew Larkin, conductor

Friday, December 14, 7:30 p.m. St Matthew's Church
                                                               (Glebe Ave).
Sunday, December 16, 2:00 p.m. at St John's

  • Magnificat (Dietrich Buxtehude)
     
  • Première Suite de Noëls (François Joseph Gossec)
     
  • Christmas Oratorio (Camille Saint-Saëns)
     
  • Popular carols and songs of the season

 


Our third concert of this season was:

Solos for Strings

Sunday, February 24, 2002 2:00 p.m. at St John's

  • Short Overture for Strings (Jean Berger)
     
  • Concerto for Two Violins BWV1043 (J.S.Bach)
    Vlada Chametka and Katherine Tinkler, solo violins
     
  • Trauermusik (Paul Hindemith)
    Jack McGowan, solo viola
     
  • Sonata in C for Organ and Orchestra
    (W.A. Mozart)
    Gordon Johnston, solo organ
    Paul Whiteley, conductor
     
  • String Symphony No. 9 in C (Felix Mendelssohn)

 

Our last Concert of this season was:

Harp's Delight

With our guest Lucile Brais Hildesheim, solo harp

Friday, May 10, 8:00 p.m. at Woodroffe United Church
Sunday, May 12, 2:00 p.m at St. John's

  • Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 1 (Arcangelo Corelli)
     
  • Music from "Distressed Innocence" (Henry Purcell)
     
  • Danse sacrée et danse profane (Claude Debussy)
     
  • Elegy (Gerald Bales)
     
  • Concerto for celtic harp and orchestra (Mark Mitchell)
             (This is a commissioned work)

 

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