Intersections
We’re launching our new Intersections series in Kitchener-Waterloo this coming Thursday, October 18. I created this series because I’ve met so many interesting artists in the last few years who really deserved their own shows. I want to give them 90 minutes to be who they are — to play, talk, and share images and video. The thing all of these artists have in common is that they’re not “straight classical.” Their art intersects with classical music but doesn’t live exclusively there.
Take Wallace Halladay, our guest on Thursday …
He’ll bring us through the entire history of the saxophone, from early salon music to Charlie Parker to early concert pieces by Schmitt and Ibert. We’ll end two pieces by living composers, Muldowney and Kancheli.
Kancheli’s “Night Prayers” is a 20-minute piece which is more or less a musical haunted house (all of his music is, really …), we’re going to turn down the lights and project some images to go along with it.
After Wallace, we’ll feature composer Gabriela Lena Frank, and mad violinist Gilles Apap.
I hope you get the idea of what this series is about. I don’t know another orchestra that does it … I’ll let you know if it works!