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Kluxen – Wagner/Maazel: The Ring Without Words

Experience Wagner’s monumental Ring Cycle—Das Rheingold through Götterdämmerung—in a single, seamless symphonic journey. The Ring Without Words, arranged by Lorin Maazel, distills fifteen hours of drama into seventy-five minutes of breathtaking orchestral storytelling. Christian Kluxen leads one of the largest ensembles ever assembled by the VS in this landmark event for Wagnerians and newcomers alike.
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Season Special: Kluxen – Marc-André Hamelin Plays Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3

Canadian piano legend Marc-André Hamelin, hailed by The New York Times for his “near-superhuman technical prowess,” takes on the towering “Rach 3,” one of the most challenging concertos ever written. Christian Kluxen pairs it with Brahms’s heroic First Symphony, a work born of grief for Schumann yet resolved in radiant strength, affirming resilience through beauty. Not included...
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M is for Music!

Eight-year-old Sarah T. Murdoch isn’t thrilled about her class trip to the Symphony—no sharks, no climbing wall, not even a frog! But with the help of a conductor and a magical book, she discovers that the orchestra is full of adventure. Through music by Mussorgsky, Barber, Bizet, Saint-Saëns, and John Williams, Sarah learns that symphonic...
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Baigent & Crozman – Mozart’s Jupiter & Walton’s Cello Concerto

The program opens with Marcus Goddard’s Antarctica: Life Emerging, an immersive orchestral work and film tracing the fragility of life on one of the planet’s most extreme environments. The afternoon then turns inward with William Walton’s lyrical Cello Concerto, premiered by Gregor Piatigorsky and brought vividly to life by Canadian cellist Cameron Crozman. After intermission, Maurice...
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How to Train Your Dragon in Concert

A young Viking named Hiccup defies tradition when he befriends a ferocious dragon he calls Toothless, and together, these unlikely heroes must fight against all odds to save both their worlds. Featuring John Powell’s Oscar-nominated score performed live to picture by the Victoria Symphony, DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon is a thrilling experience for all ages....
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How to Train Your Dragon in Concert

A young Viking named Hiccup defies tradition when he befriends a ferocious dragon he calls Toothless, and together, these unlikely heroes must fight against all odds to save both their worlds. Featuring John Powell’s Oscar-nominated score performed live to picture by the Victoria Symphony, DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon is a thrilling experience for all ages....
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Sinatra and Friends in Hollywood (Qualicum Beach)

Come Fly With Me! This film-with-symphony event celebrates four-time Oscar®-winning songwriter Jimmy Van Heusen, whose music defined Hollywood’s golden era. VS Principal Pops Conductor Sean O’Loughlin’s arrangements and guest vocalists bring to life hits like Love and Marriage, All the Way, Ain’t That a Kick in the Head, My Kind of Town, for an unforgettable evening of swing and...
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Sinatra and Friends in Hollywood

Come Fly With Me! This film-with-symphony event celebrates four-time Oscar®-winning songwriter Jimmy Van Heusen, whose music defined Hollywood’s golden era. Hits like Love and Marriage, All the Way, Ain’t That a Kick in the Head, My Kind of Town and more come to life on stage and screen with iconic performances by Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Dean Martin,...

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For those of you unable to return to the concert hall, we will continue with our Virtual Season airing programs online and free of charge.

Pre-Concert Talk: Beethoven Symphony No. 8
Pre-Concert Talk: Beethoven Symphony No. 7
Pre-Concert Talk: Beethoven Symphony No. 6
Pre-Concert Talk: Chooi Plays Korngold
Pre-Concert Talk: Beethoven Symphony No. 4
Pre-Concert Talk: Goodyear Plays Shostakovich
Pre-Concert Talk: Beethoven Symphony No. 3
Pre-Concert Talk: Beethoven Symphony No. 2
Pre-Concert Talk: Beethoven Symphony No. 1
Pe-Concert Talk: Richard-Hamelin Plays Beethoven
Pre-Concert Talk: Celebrating John Williams!
Pre-Concert Talk: Mahler and Schumann, Being Robert Schumann, Part 3
Pre Concert Talk: Beethoven Symphonies
Pre Concert Talk: Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
VS Vignettes: Mike Byrne
Pre Concert Talk: Bach to Messiah
Pre-Concert Talk: Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony – Being Robert Schumann (Part II)
Pre-Concert Talk: Brahms Serenade No. 2 – Being Robert Schumann
Pre-Concert Talk: Gershwin and Beyond
vsNEW: Lost Lake – Stavros Chrysoulis
vsNEW: Medieval Sea – Danae Kong
vsNEW: Graveyard at Midnight – Atticus Dachsel Kerr
vsNEW: The Adventure – Angela Nguyen
VS Vignettes: David Michaux
VS Vignettes: Emily Salmon
VS Vignettes: Annabelle Stanley
VS Vignettes: Christopher Reiche Boucher
VS Vignettes: Darren Buhr
VS Vignettes: Tori Gould
VS Vignettes: Paul Beauchesne
VS Vignettes: Stacey Boal
VS Vignettes: Müge Büyükçelen
Pre-Concert Talk: Haydn Symphonies; Morning, Noon, and Night
Pre-Concert Talk: Vivaldi and Piazzolla
VS Vignettes: Christine Prince
vsNEW: Mirage on the Silk Road – Houtian Zhong
vsNEW: Explainer
Pre Concert Talk: NOW! Contemporary Canadian Voices
Pre Concert Talk: Mahler Symphony No. 9
Pre-Concert Talk: Schubert Symphony No. 9 – Kluxen’s Return
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
Angela Hewitt Plays Bach
Beethoven’s Triple Concerto

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