At the ANNEX
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Vancouver Brass Orchestra presents Love and Fate
In this, VBO's debut performance at the ANNEX, the ensemble will present music from two iconic scores, Sergei Prokofiev's music for the ballet, Romeo and Juliet, and Leonard Bernstein's music for the contemporary musical theatre adaptation of Shakespeare's classic tale of love and fate, West Side Story. The concert will also include an arrangement by VBO member, Andrew Poirier, of Eric Whitacre's wildly popular choral work, Sleep. The evening's program, presented without intermission, will invite the listener to not only be immersed in the shimmer and shine of a large brass ensemble, but also share in the journey these tragic love stories take in the ways music can express that which is beyond words.
The Vancouver Brass Orchestra is a large brass ensemble comprised of nearly twenty of Vancouver's leading brass instrumentalists, members of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the Vancouver Opera Orchestra, as well as faculty, alumni, and top students at the University of British Columbia's School of Music. We exist to foster community among local musicians, and share with our audiences a virtuosity and musicality that only a highly skilled large brass ensemble can deliver.
Presented with support from the Vancouver Civic Theatres.
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