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Playbill speaks with "Bugs Bunny on Broadway" (and "Bugs Bunny at the Symphony") creator and conductor, George Daugherty.
PLAYBILL: We realise you've probably told the story a hundred times, but how DID you got the idea for Bugs Bunny On Broadway?
GEORGE DAUGHERTY: Well, I think a hundred times would be an extremely conservative estimate. I'm sure I've told this story at least a thousand times! But it's always fun to remember how we got this thing going . . .
To put it in a nutshell, I had two very strong reasons behind my desire to create Bugs Bunny on Broadway. The first stemmed from my great memories…
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By Valerie Hill, Record Staff
The Record, Dec. 15, 2010
This weekend's Christmas concert with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony will be a bit like the traditional turkey dinner for jazz performer Tim Louis: lots of preparation and then it's all over in a short time.
Not that the Kitchener musician is complaining. It's not every day that a jazz singer/pianist is asked to headline for the symphony. That means and entire evening of Christmas cheer with the symphony's principal trumpet Larry Larson and his Men With Horns, along with the Grand…
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AG: The problem is that one of the most beautiful concertos of all times is the Dvorak Cello concerto, which makes it hard for any other cello concerto to to be loved as much, but now playing the…Read More »
Alban Gerhardt, our soloist for the concert was nice enough to answer a few questions for us by email.
KWS: On your blog you talked about how orchestras often choose the 3 or 4 most famous cello concertos to be played. Obviously they are played so often for many reasons, but what is an overlooked concerto that you think deserves to be performed more often? What is your favourite cello concerto?
AG: The problem is that one of the most beautiful concertos of all times is the Dvorak Cello concerto, which makes it hard for any other cello concerto to to be loved as much, but now playing the…Offline
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April 14, 2010
By Valerie Hill, Record staff
http://news.therecord.com/arts/article/698236
Wait a minute. If they're an a cappella group, meaning the quartet sings without musical accompaniment, then how come they are performing with a…
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March 25, 2010
By Valerie Hill Record staff
http://news.therecord.com/arts/article/688728
He is a bit embarrassed by the description and points out that having a sensuous, light touch is as important as rousing audiences with heart-thumping sounds. Performing with the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony's concert this weekend, Wolfram will do both.
In a phone interview from…
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From Guelph Mercury/The Record
permalink: http://news.guelphmercury.com/arts/article/607509
March 10, 2010
The Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony will go a little green this weekend as the wildly entertaining music of the East Coast rocks the area in celebration of St. Patrick's Day in both Guelph and Kitchener.
In a concert entitled From The Rock, Newfoundland's virtuoso accordion player Bernard Felix will partner with Cape Breton's Scott Macmillan, a guitarist, conductor, composer and multiple East Coast Music Awards winner. Together they make quite…
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January 27, 2010
By Valerie Hill, Record staff
http://news.therecord.com/arts/article/662959
As a teenager, Stefan Jackiw was considered a violin prodigy, a mantle the New York-based violinist prefers to ignore. "People called me that, but I didn't see myself as that," said the now 24-year-old Jackiw, who is a soloist at this weekend's Kitchener Waterloo Symphony concerts in Kitchener and Guelph. What he can't ignore are the accolades and references to the young violinist as one of the most significant artists of this generation. "I never felt it was a source of pressure," said Jackiw…
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Monday, December 14, 2009
By Nicole Laidler for the National Broadcast Orchestra of Canada
http://nboc.ca/?p=375
Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 0 in E-flat major was written in 1784 when the composer was only 14 years old. It survives as a one-piano reduction, which was clumsily re-orchestrated by German musicologist, Willy Hess, in the 1940s.
Kuerti, known the world over for his performances of Beethoven's five other piano concertos and 32 piano sonatas, wanted to add Concerto No. 0 to his repertoire. He decided to make his own attempt at filling in the musical blanks.
Kuerti recently shared his thoughts…
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Published in The Record, December 09, 2009
By Valerie Hill, Record staff
http://news.therecord.com/article/642014
KITCHENER - Brian Jackson hates to compare his upcoming Christmas concert to a circus - because that would make him a ring leader - yet that is a pretty good label for a show that includes dancers, two choirs, an orchestra, a handbell choir, the song Send in the Clowns and soloist Marisa McIntyre, finalist in the How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria reality television show.
"I call it a royal variety show," said the British born Jackson, pops conductor for the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony over…
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Published September 17, 2009, in Exchange Magazine
http://www.exchangemagazine.com/morningpost/2009/week38/Thursday/091703.htm
KITCHENER - This Friday night marks the opening of the Conrad Centre for the Performing Arts (CCPA) in Downtown Kitchener with a gala event celebrating the launch of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony (KWS) concert season.
In spring 2009, the Manfred & Penny Conrad Family Foundation stepped in to preserve the former King Street Theatre Centre as a community-based venue for Performing Arts for the Region, with the KWS as anchor-tenant and building manager.
As President and CEO of The Cora Group,…
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