Manitoba Live Music Event

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Camerata Nova presents
The Hermetic Ode:
Choral Alchemy

Date: Friday, May 8, 2015 at 7:30 pm

Venue: Muriel Richardson Auditorium, Winnipeg Art Gallery
(300 Memorial Boulevard)

Curators: Michael McKay with Michael Schellenberg

Conductor: Michael McKay

Hang on to your hats…transformation: magical or scientific, early and contemporary, is the rich theme around which Michael McKay has designed this concert. The repertoire is diverse and fascinating, from a piece written by Dufay for the opening of the famous Duomo in Florence in 1436 to a work by McKay celebrating the Masonic/alchemic design of the Manitoba Legislative Building. Fission and fusion are involved as various pieces get pulled apart and re-combined in various form. Electronics will play a role as will visuals. Michael Schellenberg is debuting a work for electronically altered choir and Manitoba visual artist Margruite Krahn is partnering with Andrew Balfour to produce a multimedia work with a series of panels on the theme of alchemy.

McKay, with his rich acting background, will narrate through the minefields and there will be humour as well as enlightenment and surprise.