The Nanaimo Chamber Orchestra will highlight its string players with 'The Voice of Music' concert, featuring guest soprano Eve-Lyn de la Haye.
The Vancouver-based musician will sing Manuel de Falla’s Seite Canciones Populares Espanoles (Seven Popular Spanish Songs), accompanied by the orchestra at a concert on Saturday, March 1.
“These seven well-known, songs, composed in 1914, all deal with love and courtship, and spring from the rhythms and harmonies of various regions of Spain; Asturias, Aragon and Andalusia,” noted a news release from the orchestra.
The orchestra’s principal violinist, Sarah Oliver, will be featured as a soloist for a performance of English composer Ruth Gipps’s Jane Grey – a Fantasy for Viola and Strings.
“The program ends with one of Benjamin Britten’s early works (age 21); the not-so-simple Simple Symphony written in four movements: Boistrous Bourrée, Playful Pizzicato, Sentimental Sarabande and Frolicsome Finale,” the news release added.
The Nanaimo concert will be at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church on March 1 at 2:30 p.m. There will also be a performance at St. Mary’s Church in Ladysmith on March 2 at 2:30 p.m.
Tickets are $25 and can be purchased from http://nanaimochamberorchestra.com or at the door.
