Kindred Spirits Orchestra
Kristian Alexander | Music Director
DARK AND LIGHT
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2021 AT 8:00 P.M.
Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1: a perfect virtuosic balance of romantic passion, tradition and form. Composed at the turn of the century, Russian composer Scriabin’s Symphony No. 2 is a lush and brooding work surely to evoke the profoundest sentiment.
PASSION AND DRAMA
SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 2021 AT 8:00 P.M.
Prokofiev reconstructed by memory his Piano Concert No. 2, adding ten years of musical maturity and sophisticated compositional skill in this brilliant and evocative work. In 1829, Mendelssohn made his first trip to London for the première of his own Symphony No. 1, which he played five years earlier at his sister’s birthday party.
MELODIES OF EMOTION
SATURDAY MAY 1, 2021 AT 8:00 P.M.
The eloquent and richly ornamented Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor by Chopin. Composed within a single month in 1944, Prokofiev’s melodically rich Symphony No. 5 is a musical exaltation of the human spirit.
PÄRT, GÓRECKI AND SHOSTAKOVICH
SATURDAY, MAY 29, 2021 AT 8:00 P.M.
Arvo Pärt’s Canticum in Memoriam Benjamin Britten is a mournful and meditative elegy. Commissioned by the Polish Radio for the Composers Forum in 1980, Concerto for harpsichord and string orchestra by Henryk Górecki is a relentless raging tempest in musical form. Dmitri Shostakovich’s most extraordinarily scored symphony is his Fourteenth. Written for two voices, string orchestra and percussion, this work is a profound ode to the power of suffering and death.
BRUCKNER'S FIRST SYMPHONY
SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 2021 AT 8:00 P.M.
Schumann’s eloquently playful Overture, Scherzo and Finale is a light and gracefully succinct sinfonietta. Chinese contemporary composer Tan Dun’s New York Philharmonic commissioned score: Piano Concerto “The Fire.” Started in his early forties, Anton Bruckner periodically revised his Symphony No. 1 throughout is entire life, producing a sonorous and commanding work, akin to the composer’s mature style.
GRACE, FIRE AND BEAUTY
FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 2021 AT 8:00 P.M.
Schumann’s eloquently playful Overture, Scherzo and Finale is a light and gracefully succinct sinfonietta. Tan Dun’s New York Philharmonic commissioned score: Piano Concerto “The Fire.” Started in his early forties, Anton Bruckner periodically revised his Symphony No. 1 throughout is entire life, producing a sonorous and commanding work, akin to the composer’s mature style.
UNIONVILLE CANADA DAY CELEBRATION
THURSDAY, JULY 1, 2021 AT 8:00 P.M.
Celebrate the birth of our glorious nation with an unforgettable concert under the stars. The Kindred Spirits Orchestra presents musical favourites from the classics to Broadway and beyond.
