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2011 Free Annual Holiday Concert
Manitoba Hydro Presents: SIR CHRISTEMAS
Preview: Not Your Everyday Christmas Concert
Catch a glimpse of Camerata Nova in rehearsal as the group and conductor Ross Brownlee prepare for the annual free holiday concert, this year entitled: Manitoba Hydro Presents Sir Christemas. The repertoire includes works of the rich music tradition of Great Britain from medieval 14th century right up to today, including three new and very different arrangements by local composers of What Child is This? (Greensleeves). Camerata Nova teams up with the Winnipeg Boys' Choir for the two performances at the cozy Crescent Fort Rouge United Church in Winnipeg on 8pm Saturday, November 26 and 2pm Sunday, November 27, 2011. The concert will allow an opportunity for the audience to sing along to celebrate the season.
Admission is free; however, donations are gratefully accepted. Bins will also be stationed at the entrance for contributions to Winnipeg Harvest.
Sound the Sackbuts!
A Little Piece of Heaven
Camerata Nova's final concert of the 2010/11 season, presented at the historic and beautifully airy St. Mary’s Cathedral in Winnipeg, Canada. Featuring glorious brass and choral music from the German and Italian Renaissance and interviews with the early music guest instrumentalists from Montreal and Boston and conductor Ross Brownlee. As one audience member expressed: "“What a rare opportunity to hear and see these old instruments in person! The performance was an inspiration… a little piece of heaven."
Sound the Sackbuts! (2011) podcast directed, filmed, and edited by Conrad Sweatman. En anglais seulement.
Directions: A Day in the Life of Mother Earth
Thunderbird House, 2011
Second in the 2010/11season three-part podcast series, Directions: A Day in the Life of Mother Earth includes interviews with Camerata Nova' artistic director, Andrew Balfour and Directions conductor, Mel Braun. Presented at the circular Thunderbird House, the intriguing and spiritual concert explores the musical meaning and magic of the four directions in different cultures, ancient and contemporary.
Directions: A Day in the Life of Mother Earth (2011) podcast directed, filmed, and edited by Conrad Sweatman. En anglais seulement.
Camerata Nova - Nova Nouvelet Christmas Concert 2010
A Christmas Gift of Music for the Soul
Highlights of Camerata Nova's 2010 Christmas concerts, Nova Nouvelet, which focused on early French music and featured didgeridoo choirs. The ensemble's founder and Artistic Director, Andrew Balfour, and President of the Board, Sandi Mielitz, share their thoughts on what make these free annual Christmas concerts surprising and unique. Conducted by Ross Brownlee, Nova Nouvelet was performed at the Manitoba Legislative Building and Crescent Fort Rouge Church in Winnipeg, Canada.
Camerata Nova - Nova Nouvelet Christmas Concert (2010) podcast directed, filmed, and edited by Conrad Sweatman.
First in a three-part series highlighting Camerata Nova's 2010/11 season concerts.
The making of Wa Wa Tey Wak
A collaboration between a composer, a choir, musicians and a videographer.
Wa Wa Tey Wak, composed by Andrew Balfour for Camerata Nova, is a work based on a modern Aboriginal legend about Chepi, a young girl who lived 300 years ago where the Red and Assiniboine rivers meet, just before the first contact with Europeans, before the tribes of the indigenous peoples of the prairies were scattered and their ways changed forever. Chepi is chosen by the trickster, Wisakedjak, to be given foreknowledge of this future. He assumes the form of a raven and coaxes Chepi into a trance, flinging her into the web of our modern time. She wanders the streets of Winnipeg, encountering the world of poverty and the street people, the lost tribe, who live in this harsh reality. The members of the lost tribe are the only ones who can see her. They recognize that she is lost and, at the same time, are exposed to her innocence and sense of hope. Chepi is finally returned to her own time by the spirits of the sky, Wa Wa Tey Wak, the Northern lights.
Documentary created by Radio-Canada Manitoba for Zig Zag (www.radio-canada.ca/zigzag); performance in Précieux-Sang Church, in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Our Vanishing Night
What happens when all the dark places are gone?
Music by Camerata Nova.
Light pollution: its real, destructive consequences are seldom recognized, but it is a problem with easy solutions that make economic sense. All living creatures rely on the Earth's regular rhythm of day and night to regulate internal cycles. Many use the protection of darkness to safely forage and mate. We exist in a balance with our environment, a delicate balance that we are shifting. In the process we are also losing our connection to the night sky and the universe beyond.
Earth imagery from NASA used in accordance with their copyright policy.
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