{"id":47747,"date":"2017-11-07T12:55:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T17:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=47747"},"modified":"2017-11-07T17:46:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T22:46:27","slug":"music-department-to-put-strings-in-the-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/11\/music-department-to-put-strings-in-the-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Music department to put strings in the spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brock&#8217;s Department of Music is ushering fall out on a high note with two highly anticipated concerts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Walker Quartet will perform with faculty pianist Karin Di Bella on Friday, Nov. 10 in Partridge Concert Hall at the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_47749\" style=\"width: 247px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47749\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-47749\" src=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Karin-Di-Bella-300x397.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"314\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-47749\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pianist Karin Di Bella will perform alongside the Walker Quartet at the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre on Friday, Nov. 10.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The performance, which begins at 7:30 p.m., is presented by Encore! Professional Concert Series and is part of the Walker Cultural Leader Series, generously founded by Marilyn I. Walker.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The department\u2019s resident quartet will partner with Di Bella on two of the most iconic works in the string quintet repertoire, the Piano Quintets by Schumann in E-flat Major and Shostakovich in G Minor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The following night, Saturday, Nov. 11, will mark the return of the popular Guitar Extravaganza III to the performing arts centre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event, held as part of Brock\u2019s celebration of Canada\u2019s 150th anniversary, takes place in the Cairns Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An orchestra of 60 guitarists, including Brock students, local amateurs and professionals, will be directed by Brock guitar instructor Timothy Phelan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With music composed by Phelan, the evening will feature special guest soloists Matthew McAllister (Scotland) and Emma Rush (Canada), as well as a tribute held in memory of local musician Warren Stirtzinger by George Kane (U.S.) and James Bryan McCollum (Canada).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The concert will also include the premiere of Carpe Noctem \u2014 a six-movement work written by Niagara composer Floyd Turner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information on either concert, visit the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/miwsfpa\/music\/concerts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">department\u2019s events web page<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tickets for both performances are available by calling the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre Box Office at 905-688-0722 or by visiting <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/firstontariopac.ca\/Online\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">firstontariopac.ca<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_47750\" style=\"width: 1060px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47750\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-47750 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Walker-Quartet-1050x898.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"898\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-47750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Walker Quartet, including, from left, Anna Hughes, Faith Lau, Gordon Cleland and Vera Alexeeva will perform at the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre on Friday, Nov. 10.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock&#8217;s Department of Music is ushering fall out on a high note with two highly anticipated concerts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":47748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,37,1,4],"tags":[549,2909,4593,3176,3351,1298,5956],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47751,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47747\/revisions\/47751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}