OSO presents two radically different experiences for November
Interesting times are coming up, both for the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra, and for our audiences. They are presenting two radically different performances in November, but each one exceptional in its own way
SHIMMERING STRINGS
If traditional classical offerings are your preference, SHIMMERING STRINGS — featuring our wonderful string players — fits the bill beautifully. Violinists Rachel Kristenson, Susan Aylard, Martine denBok and Narumi Higuchi; violists Erin Macdonald and Sylvia Lange; and cellists Olivia Walsh and Martin Krátký come together in one of the one most exhilarating collaborations in the chamber music canon: Felix Mendelssohn’s Octet in E-flat Major, op.20.
True chamber music, neither a symphony in disguise nor a double quartet, each of the eight parts is a separate and indispensable component of the whole. The octet remained Mendelssohn’s own favourite among his youthful works — although it marked his full maturity as a composer, he was only 16 when he wrote it.
Thurs Nov 16 @ 7:00 pm
Venables Theatre, Oliver
Sun, Nov 19 @ 2:00 pm
Creekside Theatre, Lake Country
Sun Nov 19 @ 7:00 pm
Coldstream Community Hall, Coldstream
Felix’s much-beloved older sister, Fanny Hensel, is represented on this program with her String Quartet, also in E-flat Major. She was considered by many who knew them to be as musically gifted as Felix, but in their era, women were not encouraged to pursue professional careers, and her talent remained mostly unrecognized. Reworked from an earlier begun piano sonata, the String Quartet was performed only once during her lifetime
In 2011 American composer Caroline Shaw was inspired to write “Entr’Acte” after hearing the Brentano Quartet play Haydn’s Op.77 No.2, in particular the minuet and trio. Structured on that classical form but taking it a little further, her short work introduces this wonderful program of chamber music for strings.
Get SHIMMERING STRINGS info & tickets here
AMPLIFY
Interested in something that you wouldn’t normally associate with a symphony orchestra?
On November 18 the OSO plugs in and amplifies new artists and their music. Throat singing, beatboxing, Indigenous songwriting, and electronic dance music cross over with symphonic music to create an eclectic and electric evening of live music in a program aptly titled AMPLIFY.
We are excited to collaborate with throat singer/beatboxer Poppa Nuge, Syilx singer song carrier Cori Derickson, Cree cellist Kethra Stewart, and the innovative, gender-bending queer vocalist Quinn “Quarterback” Bates.
One performance only!
Sat Nov 18 @ 8 pm – Mary Irwin Theatre at the Rotary Centre for the Arts, Kelowna
