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The curtain that rises next week in celebration of the Thunder Bay Symphony Orcestra’s golden anniversary is in a word exceptional.
Not only will this city’s premiere orchestra launch its Masterworks series by featuring a young Canadian violinist who claimed his place on world-class stages well before he was into his second decade, but also by introducing to this community its newest music director Arthur Post.
Next Thursday evening Maestro Post claims his podium to lead the symphony into its 50th anniversary season of fine, fine music simply and appropriately themed as “listen to the future.”
Guest violinist Jonathan Crow’s mercurial career began to take shape when the now 33-year old virtuoso was only six and enrolled in the Suzuki method at Prince George Music School. By age 15 he was studying in the Master Class at the Banff Centre, an extraordinary hub nestled in the Rocky Mountains that houses the best and the brightest in musical and other artistic fields and allows them to achieve and excel beyond even their own dreams.
Having recently experienced a mere few days there as part of the audience for the finals of the 10th Banff International String Quartet Competition, this reporter near-overwhelmed as she was happily received a little glimpse into the calibre of people who are invited and able to go there either to study or perform.
Notes from Jonathan Crow’s bio make it clear he was destined to rise to the top. By age 19 he auditioned for and was awarded the Associate Second Principal Violin with the Montreal Symphony.
A scant six years later he became “the youngest concertmaster to lead a major North American orchestra. Currently Jonathan is Assistant Professor of Violin at McGill University.”
Crow appears in Thunder Bay to perform Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D major. Notes describe the composer’s lone masterpiece in this genre “as one of the best known of all violin concertos but also the hardest to play.”
Yet unlike Tchaikovsky’s other “melancholic and extremely emotional works, this concerto is an exception: the overall feeling is full of gaiety and sunshine.”
Brought to life by Crow’s remarkable prowess on his instrument with his bow, it’s sure to be absolutely breathtaking.
Also on the program billed as “big and bold” will be Kulesha’s Celebration Overture, Heidrich’s Happy Birthday Variations and Beethoven’s Symphony No.7 in A major.
A short listen to the beginning of the second movement, the Allegretto, elicited images of landscapes and classical courtyards cloaked in autumn’s crisp dusk: bewitching and slowly, beautifully building into the majesty that constitutes all of Beethoven’s music.
Throughout this new season plan to celebrate together with the symphony and music director Arthur Post a glorious golden anniversary and the beginning of a sixth decade in Thunder Bay. Curtain for Masterworks I entitled Celebration rises at the Community Auditorium next Thursday, Oct. 14 at 8 p.m. sharp.
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Not only will this city’s premiere orchestra launch its Masterworks series by featuring a young Canadian violinist who claimed his place on world-class stages well before he was into his second decade, but also by introducing to this community its newest music director Arthur Post.
Next Thursday evening Maestro Post claims his podium to lead the symphony into its 50th anniversary season of fine, fine music simply and appropriately themed as “listen to the future.”
Guest violinist Jonathan Crow’s mercurial career began to take shape when the now 33-year old virtuoso was only six and enrolled in the Suzuki method at Prince George Music School. By age 15 he was studying in the Master Class at the Banff Centre, an extraordinary hub nestled in the Rocky Mountains that houses the best and the brightest in musical and other artistic fields and allows them to achieve and excel beyond even their own dreams.
Having recently experienced a mere few days there as part of the audience for the finals of the 10th Banff International String Quartet Competition, this reporter near-overwhelmed as she was happily received a little glimpse into the calibre of people who are invited and able to go there either to study or perform.
Notes from Jonathan Crow’s bio make it clear he was destined to rise to the top. By age 19 he auditioned for and was awarded the Associate Second Principal Violin with the Montreal Symphony.
A scant six years later he became “the youngest concertmaster to lead a major North American orchestra. Currently Jonathan is Assistant Professor of Violin at McGill University.”
Crow appears in Thunder Bay to perform Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D major. Notes describe the composer’s lone masterpiece in this genre “as one of the best known of all violin concertos but also the hardest to play.”
Yet unlike Tchaikovsky’s other “melancholic and extremely emotional works, this concerto is an exception: the overall feeling is full of gaiety and sunshine.”
Brought to life by Crow’s remarkable prowess on his instrument with his bow, it’s sure to be absolutely breathtaking.
Also on the program billed as “big and bold” will be Kulesha’s Celebration Overture, Heidrich’s Happy Birthday Variations and Beethoven’s Symphony No.7 in A major.
A short listen to the beginning of the second movement, the Allegretto, elicited images of landscapes and classical courtyards cloaked in autumn’s crisp dusk: bewitching and slowly, beautifully building into the majesty that constitutes all of Beethoven’s music.
Throughout this new season plan to celebrate together with the symphony and music director Arthur Post a glorious golden anniversary and the beginning of a sixth decade in Thunder Bay. Curtain for Masterworks I entitled Celebration rises at the Community Auditorium next Thursday, Oct. 14 at 8 p.m. sharp.
symphony's golden season golden seasons
