EAST MEETS WEST

Featuring: SPO Women’s Choir, Yiping Chao, Conductor and Soprano; SPO Woodwind Quintet, Ted Runcie, Conductor; Kevin Zi-Xiao He, Shakuhachi; David Debono, Piano

Program:

*Ted Runcie: An Anansi Odyssey, for Narrator and Woodwind Quintet  (SPO Commission and Premiere) 

*Elizabeth Raum:  King Lear Fantasy, for Woodwind Quintet

 *Chris Meyer: New Work for Woodwind Quintet (SPO Commission and Premiere) 

 *Kevin Zi-Xiao He: New Work, for Shakuhachi and Piano (SPO Commission and Premiere) 

 Traditional Chinese Music for Soprano or Choir and Piano (Arranged byKevin Zi-Xiao He and *Eugene He) 

  •  Descendants of the Dragon, for Women’s Choir and Piano          
  •   So Many People in This World, for Women’s Choir and Piano 
  •  Slow Colored Lantern Song, for Women’s Choir and Piano 
  •  How Can I Rid My Mind of Her, for Soprano Solo and Piano 
  •  Song of Red Bean, for Soprano Solo and Piano 

* Canadian Composer

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Featuring:

Winds of the Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra: Laurel Swinden, Flute; Gillian Howard, Oboe;  Daniel Hasznos, Clarinet; Kristin Day, Bassoon; Gilles Thibodeau, Horn
Ted Runcie, conductor

The SPO Women’s Choir, Yiping Chao, conductor

Vanessa Yu, piano

and, Special Guest:  amuna baraka-clarke, Narrator

Musical stories from the global village, with music by Mozart, Joplin and local Canadian composers.

Program: (note: changed program)

Various:  Three Folk Songs from China:  The SPO Women’s Chorus

Scott Joplin: The Easy Winners, for Woodwind Quintet

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Magic Flute Overture, for Woodwind Quintet

Lauren Greenberg: Peculiar Procession, for Woodwind Quintet (Premiere and New Generation Composer)

Ferenc Farkas: Five Ancient Hungarian Dances, for Woodwind Quintet

(Intermission)

Schumann: Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13, Vanessa Yu, piano

Chopin: Etude in F major, Op. 10 No. 8

Bruno Degazio: The Inner Treasure, from Three Tales of Rabbi Nachman, for Narrator and Woodwind Quintet (SPO commission and premiere)

Ted Runcie – An Anansi Odyssey (Excerpt), for Narrator and Woodwind Quintet (SPO commission)