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Royal Conservatory of Music

Conductor

Alex Pauk

Orchestra

Esprit Orchestra

Instrumentalist

Erica Goodman

Harp

Singer

Kevin Ahfat

Piano

Esprit Orchestra presents: Circle Maps

Toronto

Canada

Koerner Hall

Esprit Orchestra presents: Circle Maps: Api-danza macabra Žuraj (+4 More)

Public

Api-danza macabra

Millefleur

Postludium

Circle Map

Concerto for Harp & Orchestra

Approved

Traversing rich and varied musical landscapes, this concert laments the dramatic ecological loss of bees and the associated acoustic loss (referencing its musical predecessor Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee), presents a tapestry of a thousand flowers in the constantly shimmering gestures of Martinaityte’s sonic garden, and delivers harp virtuosity in our Music Director’s harp concerto, specially written for Erica Goodman. Silvestrov’s Postludium, rippling with nostalgia and swirling memories, belies Vladimir Putin’s contention that Ukraine doesn’t exist as a country with its own cultural identity. In memoriam, we honour the late Kaija Saariaho performing her fabulous musical voyage through evocative sound worlds guided by texts of the great Persian poet Rumi.

English

Esprit Orchestra presents: Circle Maps by Žuraj, Martinaitytė, Silvestrov, Saariaho, Pauk, From (2023/2023), Conductor Alex Pauk, Koerner Hall, Toronto, Canada

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