Manitoba Music
Event
- Date
- Friday, Feb 6, 2015 at 8pm
- Performers
- Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
Canadian Mennonite University Chorus - Location
- Centennial Concert Hall
- Address
- 555 Main Street, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
About
Giya Kancheli & John Luther Adams
February 6, 2015 8:00 PM
Centennial Concert Hall
555 Main St
Winnipeg, MB
John Luther Adams: Become Ocean
Mason Bates: The B-Sides
Giya Kancheli: Dixi
Alexander Mickelthwate - conductor
Canadian Mennonite University Chorus
Rudy Schellenberg, & Janet Brenneman - co-directors
Giya Kancheli’s music has been a highlight of our New Music Festivals. Dixi, for mixed chorus and orchestra has been described as “Carmina Burana as re-imagined by Arvo Pärt.” The hushed string pianissimos that emerge from the reverberation of the tumultuous percussion fortissimos and the soft choral lines are hallmarks of Kancheli’s evocative style. Called "one of the most original musical thinkers of the new century" (Alex Ross, The New Yorker), John Luther Adams is a composer whose life and work are deeply rooted in the natural world.