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SUMMARY:Kluxen – Haydn & Strauss
DESCRIPTION:This program celebrates humor\, ingenuity\,and the blending of styles across three distinct musical voices. HK Gruber’s Manhattan Broadcasts sets the stage with its jazzy energy\, and tongue-in-cheek playfulness\, drawing on urban soundscapes. Haydn’s Symphony No. 60\, “Il Distratto”\, follows with its brilliant theatricality\, weaving a lighthearted narrative full of wit and surprising turns. The evening culminates with Richard Strauss’s Le bourgeois gentilhomme\, a charming suite that fuses Baroque elegance with Strauss’s characteristic warmth and humor\, evoking the whimsical world of Molière’s classic comedy. Together\, these works promise an engaging and richly textured musical journey. \n\nKNOW BEFORE YOU GO \nConcert duration: Approx. 90 minutes including one 20 minute intermission
URL:https://victoriasymphony.ca/concerts/kluxen-haydn-strauss-2/
LOCATION:Farquhar at UVic\, University Farquhar Auditorium\, Ring Road\, Victoria\, BC\, V8P 5C2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Sundays at the Farquhar
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SUMMARY:Appalachian Spring
DESCRIPTION:Known for his ability to bring new audiences to the concert hall\, the Calgary-born “disruptor-conductor” Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser leads a journey that touches on the beauty of nature and our need to care for our climate. The poetry of Wendy Jean MacLean is set by BC-based choral composer Nicholas Ryan Kelly in Earth\, Beloved\, a work that provides an uplifting message.
URL:https://victoriasymphony.ca/concerts/appalachian-spring/
LOCATION:Farquhar at UVic\, University Farquhar Auditorium\, Ring Road\, Victoria\, BC\, V8P 5C2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Sundays at the Farquhar
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SUMMARY:Kluxen & Feng – Strauss Oboe Concerto
DESCRIPTION:Richard Strauss idolised Mozart – although “modernising” Idomeneo was\, perhaps\, a step too far! Strauss’s Oboe Concerto is a magical\, late-in-life work\, played here by VS Principal Michelle Feng. Christian Kluxen also shakes up a three-movement Symphony with a non-Mozartean minuet\, and premieres a VS commission from Victoria’s own Anna Höstman.
URL:https://victoriasymphony.ca/concerts/kluxen-feng-strauss-oboe-concerto-2/
LOCATION:Farquhar at UVic\, University Farquhar Auditorium\, Ring Road\, Victoria\, BC\, V8P 5C2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Sundays at the Farquhar
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SUMMARY:VS Presents: Valdés\, Goodyear\, & VIS
DESCRIPTION:We welcome some returning guests as VS presents a special concert by the Nanaimo-based Vancouver Island Symphony. Cuban-born Cosette Justo Valdés has won the hearts of musicians and audiences on Vancouver Island. Now in her third season as music director of VIS\, she mates the madcap musical high jinks of Rossini alongside the happy spirits and bucolic folksiness of Dvořák. She has also invited pianist Stewart Goodyear—a longtime favourite in Victoria—to enchant with Ravel’s whip-cracking Concerto in G major\, a work that evokes jazz-age Paris.
URL:https://victoriasymphony.ca/concerts/vs-presents-valdes-goodyear-vis/
LOCATION:Farquhar at UVic\, University Farquhar Auditorium\, Ring Road\, Victoria\, BC\, V8P 5C2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Sundays at the Farquhar
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SUMMARY:Dvořák Symphony No. 7
DESCRIPTION:Canadian pianist Angela Cheng returns with a concerto that Mozart lovingly wrote with his student\, Barbara Ployer\, in mind. Dvořák’s love for his homeland was expressed in his Symphony No. 7. Its London premiere in 1885 brought him great international acclaim. Maestra Naomi Woo returns to share an overture by Emilie Mayer\, a pioneering and prolific composer in Germany in the mid-1800s.
URL:https://victoriasymphony.ca/concerts/dvorak-symphony-no-7/
LOCATION:Farquhar at UVic\, University Farquhar Auditorium\, Ring Road\, Victoria\, BC\, V8P 5C2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Sundays at the Farquhar
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SUMMARY:Kluxen – Atwood\, Heggie\, & Sibelius
DESCRIPTION:Ten years following the tragic death of his sister\, opera star Joshua Hopkins showcases a powerful song cycle that honours her memory and comforts those who are in grief. Co-commissioned by the National Arts Centre Orchestra and Houston Grand Opera\, composer Jake Heggie sets poetry by Margaret Atwood in a moving musical work that speaks out against domestic violence. Music of Sibelius (including VS’s own Russell Bajer on English horn for The Swan of Tuonela) balances the program with works of sublime beauty and pastoral comfort. \n 
URL:https://victoriasymphony.ca/concerts/kluxen-atwood-heggie-sibelius/
LOCATION:Farquhar at UVic\, University Farquhar Auditorium\, Ring Road\, Victoria\, BC\, V8P 5C2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Sundays at the Farquhar
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SUMMARY:Kluxen – Brahms Symphony No. 3
DESCRIPTION:The product of a summer’s holiday in 1883\, Brahms’s Third Symphony has been described as being “…artistically the most perfect.” A single movement from Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 was the inspiration for Britten to present a musical posy: What the Wildflowers Tell Me. The poetry of Pablo Neruda moved Peter Lieberson to create a song cycle for his wife\, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson\, “one of the most extraordinarily affecting artistic gifts ever created by one lover to another.” \n\nSundays at the Farquhar Series underwritten by Julie & Harry Swain\nConcert and Allyson McHardy underwritten by Dr. Fritz & Dora Boehm\nChristian Kluxen underwritten by Sandra Lackenbauer
URL:https://victoriasymphony.ca/concerts/brahms-symphony-no-3/
LOCATION:Farquhar at UVic\, University Farquhar Auditorium\, Ring Road\, Victoria\, BC\, V8P 5C2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Sundays at the Farquhar
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SUMMARY:Kluxen & Pouliot – Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
DESCRIPTION:“Oh\, how difficult it is to make anyone see and feel in music what we see and feel ourselves.” Early\, temperamental reactions to his Violin Concerto must have stung Tchaikovsky\, but it’s now a firm favourite of countless violinists\, including Canada’s Blake Pouliot. A set of comic portraits of personality types\, or temperaments\, triggered Nielsen to recreate them in musical form\, from the introverted (melancholic and phlegmatic) to the extroverted (choleric and sanguine). Composer Missy Mazzoli’s mesmeric Sinfonia is music ‘in the shape of the solar system\,’ weaving and coiling itself in a sequence of pulsing loops. \n\nSundays at the Farquhar Series underwritten by Julie & Harry Swain\nConcert underwritten by Natexa Verbrugge\nChristian Kluxen underwritten by Sandra Lackenbauer\nBlake Pouliot underwritten by George Lovick
URL:https://victoriasymphony.ca/concerts/kluxen-and-pouliot-tchaikovsky-violin-concerto/
LOCATION:Farquhar at UVic\, University Farquhar Auditorium\, Ring Road\, Victoria\, BC\, V8P 5C2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Sundays at the Farquhar
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SUMMARY:Kluxen – Liszt & Lieder
DESCRIPTION:Poetry\, mystical texts\, and an angelic altarpiece tie together this program of divine inspiration. Lyric tenor Josh Lovell returns home to Victoria to sing Finzi’s rhapsodic cantata and some of Strauss’s exquisite lieder in rich orchestral settings. Alongside the inspired ecstasy of Lizst’s tone poem and Hindemith’s imaginative symphonic portrait\, their spiritual connections will be unveiled. \n\nSundays at the Farquhar Series underwritten by Julie & Harry Swain\nChristian Kluxen underwritten by Sandra Lackenbauer\nConcert underwritten by Millingtons: Trustees of The Lou Williamson Scholarship Fund\nJosh Lovell underwritten by George Lovick
URL:https://victoriasymphony.ca/concerts/kluxen-liszt-and-lieder/
LOCATION:Farquhar at UVic\, University Farquhar Auditorium\, Ring Road\, Victoria\, BC\, V8P 5C2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Sundays at the Farquhar
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SUMMARY:Kluxen – Mozart & Bartók
DESCRIPTION:Two musical giants converge in a program that touches on music of the night. In modern parlance\, Mozart’s Gran Partita could be subtitled “My Big Fat Viennese Wind Symphony.” Its rich sonority stems from a palette of woodwinds with double bass\, likely written as an evening’s entertainment – music as big as all outdoors! Bartók paints a more complex canvas of mid-century Europe\, with two string orchestras astride with a bevy of percussion. Here the mystic contrasts with nature\, where genius and madness blur. Two colossal contrasts of orchestral colours! \n\nSundays at the Farquhar Series underwritten by Julie & Harry Swain\nConcert underwritten by Helen Stuart & Bob Hoogendoorn** Mozart Fund\nChristian Kluxen underwritten by Sandra Lackenbauer
URL:https://victoriasymphony.ca/concerts/kluxen-mozart-and-bartok/
LOCATION:Farquhar at UVic\, University Farquhar Auditorium\, Ring Road\, Victoria\, BC\, V8P 5C2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Sundays at the Farquhar
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SUMMARY:Kluxen – Mozart's Prague Symphony
DESCRIPTION:From the deceptively simple to disguised genius\, these works from different eras connect in intriguing ways. Ligeti’s Austro-Hungarian roots link the Vienna of old with the micro-melodic modern day. Mozart’s “Prague Symphony” features the same playful wit and melodic genius of his operas The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni. Korngold was viewed as modern day Mozart\, evolving from child prodigy in Vienna to a pioneering composer for stage and screen. And Nielsen’s neo-classical concerto\, featuring VS Principal Clarinet David Boutin-Bourque\, encapsulates the Danish composer’s often inscrutable personality. \n\nSundays at the Farquhar Series underwritten by Julie & Harry Swain\nConcert and David Boutin-Bourque’s performance underwritten by Helen Stuart & Bob Hoogendoorn** Mozart Fund\nChristian Kluxen underwritten by Sandra Lackenbauer
URL:https://victoriasymphony.ca/concerts/kluxen-mozarts-prague-symphony/
LOCATION:Farquhar at UVic\, University Farquhar Auditorium\, Ring Road\, Victoria\, BC\, V8P 5C2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Sundays at the Farquhar
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