Closing Gala
Sunday, June 7th at 2:30pm
Sir James Dunn Theatre, Dalhousie Arts Centre
6101 University Ave, Halifax
Concert Sponsor: Kathleen Jaeger
Ana Sokolovic's moving and timely memorial to the victims of residential schools, with text by Michelle Sylliboy, was written for Emma Pennell and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. It receives its premiere in Nova Scotia at this concert. Emma also brings us two arias by Ian Cusson, whose Empire of Wild will be performed at the Canadian Opera Company next season.
John Adams's The Chairman Dances - a "foxtrot for orchestra" - comprises music from his iconic opera Nixon in China, and we conclude in style, with a much-loved classic: Ravel's brilliant orchestration of Mussorgsky's tour-de-force of pictorial music. Don’t miss this year’s grand finale, featuring a 70-piece orchestra!
Ana Sokolovic
You Can Die Properly Now
(5’)
Emma Pennell, soprano
Ian Cusson
Dodo, mon tout petit and My Prayer is small, from Empire of Wild
(12’)
Emma Pennell, soprano
John Adams
The Chairman Dances
(14’)
Modest Mussorgsky, arr. Maurice Ravel
Pictures at an Exhibition
(35’)
Scotia Festival Orchestra
Jeffery Meyer, conductor
