Composer Jennifer Butler messes with Messiaen at the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s New Music Festival

"When is it right for a new-music festival to focus on the past? “Now” might be the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s response, and that’s entirely understandable. With the orchestra on the verge of entering its second century, and with music director Otto Tausk putting his personal stamp on its annual New Music Festival for the first [...]

By |2020-01-13T13:58:53-05:0013 January 2020|Categories: News|Tags: |

Classical music: New take on VSO’s New Music Festival as it revisits the recent past

2020's New Music Festival will have six events in four different venues that take advantage of the dark, dull, post-holiday time of the year to offer something exciting and extraordinary. "From to time music organizations decide to make important announcements with a certain extra amount of fanfare. The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra took that high profile [...]

By |2019-10-24T09:45:15-04:0024 October 2019|Categories: British Columbia, News|Tags: , , |
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