Festival Vancouver: An Ambitious New Summer Series Debuts in Vancouver
August 2000 saw the debut of the ambitious new Festival Vancouver. Ninety concerts and three operas (five of these world premieres) filled seventeen days, each day packed with a weekday noon-hour concert in the Alcon Beethoven Plus Series, a 5:00 p.m. choral series called Choral Connections, a major...
| Published in: | Canadian Theatre Review |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
2001
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ctr.105.011 https://ctr.utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/ctr.105.011 |
| Summary: | August 2000 saw the debut of the ambitious new Festival Vancouver. Ninety concerts and three operas (five of these world premieres) filled seventeen days, each day packed with a weekday noon-hour concert in the Alcon Beethoven Plus Series, a 5:00 p.m. choral series called Choral Connections, a major evening performance in the F.R. Graham Main Stage Series or an opera and a more intimate show in the 11:00 p.m. Late-Night Series. Weekends added a group of concerts at UBC’s First Nations Longhouse; Hallelujah Handel!, a musical theatre production for children; and a four-concert collection at the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden. As well, in a special day-long project, the Complete Cycle of String Quartets by R. Murray Schafer were performed by the Molinari, the Penderecki and the St. Lawrence quartets at the Chan Centre. |
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