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Kingston Symphony
The Kingston Symphony (KS) is a Canadian orchestra based in Kingston, Ontario. Since 2014 the principal conductor of the symphony has been Evan Mitchell. The ensemble performs most of its concerts at The Grand Theatre."Kingston Symphony" ''The Canadian Encyclopedia''. History The orchestra was founded in 1953 under the name the New Symphony Association of Kingston. The first principal conductor was ; he led the orchestra's debut concert of Joseph Haydn's ''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadians
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and Multiculturalism, multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World Immigration to Canada, immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of New France, French and then the much larger British colonization of the Americas, British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Jackson (conductor)
Brian Jackson (born 26 December 1943) is a British-Canadian conducting, conductor, organist and pianist. He became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1974. Until 2012 he was Principal Pops Conductor of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Orchestra London, and the Victoria Symphony. Early life and education Anthony Brian Jackson was born in Penzance, Cornwall, England."Brian Jackson: “A conductor is really like a glorified traffic cop.”" ''Nexus'', March 30, 2012 by Dylan Wilks He began performing as a concert pianist at age 6 and as an organist at the age of 12. He attended Clifton College in Bristol, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Musical is the adjective of music. Musical may also refer to: * Musical theatre, a performance art that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance * Musical film and television, a genre of film and television that incorporates into the narrative songs sung by the characters * MusicAL, an Albanian television channel * Musical isomorphism, the canonical isomorphism between the tangent and cotangent bundles See also * Lists of musicals * Music (other) * Musica (other) * Musicality Musicality (''music-al -ity'') is "sensitivity to, knowledge of, or talent for music" or "the quality or state of being musical", and is used to refer to specific if vaguely defined qualities in pieces and/or genres of music, such as melodiousness ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Orchestras
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and ec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Classical Music
In Canada, classical music includes a range of musical styles rooted in the traditions of Western or European classical music that European settlers brought to the country from the 17th century and onwards. As well, it includes musical styles brought by other ethnic communities from the 19th century and onwards, such as Indian classical music (Hindustani and Carnatic music) and Chinese classical music. Since Canada's emergence as a nation in 1867, the country has produced its own composers, musicians and ensembles. As well, it has developed a music infrastructure that includes training institutions, conservatories, performance halls, and a public radio broadcaster, CBC, which programs a moderate amount of Classical music. There is a high level of public interest in classical music and education. Canada has produced a number of respected ensembles, including the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, as well as a number of well-known Baroque orchestras and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Symphony Orchestras
This is a list of symphony orchestras that includes orchestras with established notability. A list of youth orchestras can be found at List of youth orchestras. Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo *Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste Egypt *Cairo Symphony Orchestra Ghana * National Symphony Orchestra Ghana *Pan-African Orchestra Morocco * Moroccan Philharmonic Orchestra South Africa *Cape Philharmonic Orchestra *Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra *Johannesburg Youth Orchestra * KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra *South African National Youth Orchestra Foundation Tunisia * Tunisian Symphony Orchestra North America and the Caribbean Canada *Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra *CBC Radio Orchestra *Edmonton Symphony Orchestra * Esprit Orchestra * Georgian Bay Symphony *Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra * I Musici de Montréal Chamber Orchestra *Kanata Symphony Orchestra *Kingston Symphony *Kitchener–Waterloo Symphony *Manitoba Chamber Orchestra *Montreal Symphony Orchestra (O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Paul Koprowski
Peter Paul Koprowski (born 24 August 1947, in Łódź) is a Canadian composer, conductor, music educator, and pianist of Polish descent. He became a Canadian citizen in 1976. As a composer he is chiefly known for his large output of symphonic works which began with his still frequently performed ''In Memoriam Karol Szymanowski'' (1963). He has twice won the Jules Léger Prize (in 1989 for ''Sonnet for Laura'' and in 1994 for his ''Woodwind Quintet'') and received the Canada Council's Victor M. Lynch-Staunton Award in 1989. His first ''Viola Concerto'' was awarded the Jean A. Chalmers National Music Award in 1997. He was nominated for a Juno Award in 2002 for ''Redemption'', a concerto for viola and orchestra. Koprowski began his musical training at the Academy of Music in Łódź, earning an Artist Diploma in 1966. He earned a master's degree from the Academy of Music in Kraków in 1969 where he was a pupil of Bolesław Woytowicz. He then studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
István Anhalt
István Anhalt, (April 12, 1919 – February 24, 2012) was a Hungarian-Canadian composer. Anhalt served as a professor of music at McGill University and founded the McGill University Electronic Music Studio. He also served as head of music at Queen's University, Kingston. His works earned him the reputation of one of the founding fathers of electroacoustic music in Canada. Among his pupils are Kevin Austin (composer), Kevin Austin, John Fodi, Clifford Ford, Hugh Hartwell, John Hawkins (Canadian composer), John Hawkins, Alan Heard, Richard Hunt (pianist), Richard Hunt, Donald Patriquin, and Alex Tilley. In 2003, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.Governor General of CanadaOrder of Canada: Istvan Anhalt, O.C., LL.D Press Office, Governor General of Canada, 2009-04-30. In 2007, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Selections from his correspondence with American composer George Rochberg were published in 2007. Early life and education Childhood Istvá ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Burge
John David Bryson Burge (born 2 January 1961) is a Canadian composer, music educator, and pianist. He has won a number of awards for his compositions, including the Alberta Culture Award (1982), the William Erving Fairclough Scholarship (1983), second prize in the Ithaca College Choral Composition Contest and Festival (1984), and five PROCAN Young Composers' Competition prizes between 1985 and 1988 among others. In 2009 he won the Juno Award for Classical Composition of the Year for his ''Flanders Fields Reflections''. Some music critics have likened his compositional style to that of Benjamin Britten and Maxwell Davies.John Burge at . Born in [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Srul Irving Glick
Srul Irving Glick (September 8, 1934 – April 17, 2002) was a Canadian composer, radio producer, conductor, and teacher. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he received a Bachelor of Music from the University of Toronto 1955, and a Masters of Music (Toronto), honorary FRCCO (1993). He continued his studies in Paris, France, with such masters as Darius Milhaud, Louis Saguer and Max Deutsch. He was a teacher of theory and composition himself at the Royal Conservatory of Music and York University. Glick was one of Canada's most prolific composers, having written in all media from chamber music to oratorio. He won numerous awards including the extraordinary Yuvel Award in 2000, presented by The Cantor's Assembly of America, for his "lifelong commitment to the composition of music that captures the heart and touches the soul"; the prestigious Ateret Kavod (Crown of Honour) Award in 2001 from the United Synagogue of America. He also received the J.I. Segal Award for his contribution to J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marjan Mozetich
Marjan Mozetich (born 1948) is a Canadian composer who has written music for theatre, film and dance, as well as many symphonic works, chamber music, and solo pieces. He has written compulsory competition pieces for the 1992 Banff String Quartet Competition (''Lament in the Trampled Garden'') and the 1995 Montreal International Music Competition (''L’esprit Chantant'' for violin and piano).Kristina Szutor, Florence Hayes, Gary J. Hayes"Marjan Mozetich" ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'', April 18, 2010 Co-founder of Arraymusic in Toronto, Mozetich served as their artistic director from 1976 to 1978. After his work with Array, he worked for some time at the University of Toronto music library, and he then became a freelance composer. Mozetich moved to Howe Island, near Kingston, Ontario, and taught composition at Queen's University, Kingston, Queen's University in Kingston from 1991 to 2010. He has won several awards, including the first prize in the CAPAC (SOCAN)-Sir Ernest MacMilla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chan Ka Nin
Chan Ka Nin (born 3 December 1949) is a Canadian composer and music educator of Chinese descent. He became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1971. He has been commissioned to write works for the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the CBC Radio Orchestra, the Esprit Orchestra, the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, New Music Concerts, the Quebec Contemporary Music Society, and Symphony Nova Scotia among many others. He has also been awarded funds to compose works by the Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council, Ontario's Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration, and the Toronto Arts Council.Ka Nin Chan at He has won two Juno Awards f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
