January 2020
Thaith Thiruvizha
Tamil Cultural and Heritage Celebration Sunday, January 12, 2020 at 2 p.m. at FLATO Markham Theatre 171 Town Centre Boulevard
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Unionville Theatre Company presents Cinderella
Unionville Theatre Company presents Cinderella Thursday, February 20 to Sunday, February 23, 2020 Venue: FLATO Markham Theatre 171 Town Centre Blvd. map Rodgers + Hammerstein's CINDERELLA is the Tony Award®-winning musical from the creators of South Pacific and The Sound of Music that's delighting audiences with its surprisingly contemporary take on the classic tale. This lush production features an incredible orchestra, jaw-dropping transformations and all the moments you love—the pumpkin, the glass slipper, the masked ball and more—plus some surprising…
Find out more »Markham at the Movies presents The Farewell
Markham at the Movies presents The Farewell Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at 7 p.m. Venue: FLATO Markham Theatre 171 Town Centre Blvd. map A family who, upon learning their grandmother has only a short while left to live, decide not to tell her and schedule a family gathering before she dies. Writer - Director: Lulu Wang Stars: Awkwafina, Tzi Ma, Diana Lin, Zhao Shuzhen, Lu Hong, Jiang Yongbo General Admission: $10
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Dervish
Friday, March 6, 2020 at 8 p.m. Location: FLATO Markham Theatre 171 Town Centre Blvd. map Celebrate an early St. Patrick’s Day with one of the world’s most renowned and imaginative interpreters of Irish folk music. Dervish has devoted the last three decades to gently reinventing the traditional songs of their homeland. The Great Irish Songbook is a dazzling live performance of technical brilliance and undeniable soul, endlessly fortified by immense creativity. Dervish’s intricately sculpted sound expands and widens and takes…
Find out more »Masters of Illusion
Saturday, March 14, 2020 at 7 p.m. Sunday, March 15, 2020 at 2 p.m. Venue: FLATO Markham Theatre 171 Town Centre Blvd. map “We’re talking knock-your-socks-off, JAW-DROPPING magic!” - Fox 4 News Masters of Illusion is back by popular demand! Starring the world’s greatest award-winning magicians, this 21st century magic show is unlike anything you have seen before - filled with modern illusions and arts of deception, performed live on stage. Cutting-edge illusionists perform sleight-of-hand, perplexing interactive mind magic, hilarious…
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THE FORBIDDEN SYMPHONY
Join Maestro Kristian Alexander as he leads the Kindred Spirits Orchestra in celebrating the first concert of the season, including an Opening Night Gala. Now a concert hall staple, Strauss Jr.’s enduring overture of captivating themes to Die Fledermaus (The Bat), is the embodiment of bubbly Viennese operetta. National Arts Centre Principal cellist Rachel Mercer returns to the KSO in a rousing performance of the aggressively passionate Concerto for cello and orchestra by French composer Édouard Lalo. Grieg handwrites “Must…
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LOCOMOTIVES, BUTTERFLIES AND PUPPETS
Stay warm this December as the KSO presents a concert of strikingly programmatic music filled with machinery, fantasy and folklore. “Locomotives vibrate in harmony” with Honegger’s mechanically modernistic mouvement symphonique: Pacific 231. Jing Ye narrates with her violin the Chinese “Romeo and Juliet” folk tale, The Butterfly Lovers-a story of broken hearts, beautifully set to music that merges eastern melodies with western instruments. A mischievous puppet comes to life in Stravinsky’s descriptive, imaginative and exhilarating score to the ballet Petrushka.…
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THE SPORT OF MUSIC
Artistic inspiration comes in many forms. The joy of sport is decidedly prevalent in the rhythmically rowdy Rugby by the avant-garde Swiss-French composer Honegger. At the request of his publisher, and in collaboration with a seasoned American violinist, Stravinsky penned his brightly bombastic neo-baroque Concerto for violin and orchestra. Motivated by the doctrine of Socialist Realism, Shostakovich withdrew the score of his enormously orchestrated Symphony No. 4, only to be performed 25 years after its creation. Kristian Alexander | conductor…
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MATTHIAS THE PAINTER
As a wedding present to the daughter of his most influential teacher, Stravinsky gifts the speedy fantasy entitled Fireworks – an early work that foreshadows the composer’s impending fame. Taking centre stage is internationally acclaimed pianist Alexander Panizza in performance of the Brahmsian-flavoured Burleske by German composer Richard Strauss, another young and prophetic piece on this program. In his orchestral suite Mathis der Maler, Hindemith finds balance between bliss and abomination to depict a musical portrait of a 15th century…
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WAR AND PEACE
Inspired by Maurice Maeternick’s essay “The Life of Bees,” Stravinsky’s Scherzo fantastique uses extensive chromatic constructs to depict life and activity in a hive of bees. For the 110th anniversary of the composer’s birth, Member of the Order of Canada and of the Order of Ontario Christina Petrowska Quilico performs Witold Lutosławski’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra—praised as one of the finest piano concertos of the twentieth century. Arthur Honegger’s Symphony No. 3, “Liturgique” was composed shortly after the Second…
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THE GREATEST SHOW
Stravinsky’s Circus polka, subtitled “For a Young Elephant”, was composed as a short ballet production for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey’s “Greatest Show on Earth;” the ballet was originally performed by several young elephants in pink tutus! Concertmaster of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra Jonathan Crow takes the spotlight to perform Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 2, whose second movement—a theme and variations—is an early example of a theme employing all twelve tones of the chromatic scale. For the grand…
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AROUND THE WORLD
Commissioned by Broadway producer Billy Rose, Stravinsky’s Scènes de ballet was written for a revue show in New York, and mixes typical Stravinskean rhythmic flare—including a dance in 5/8 time—with the more melodic sensibilities of Broadway. Sumi Kim, Grand Prize winner of the 2022 International Music Festival and Competition, performs Camille Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto no. 2; Saint-Saëns wrote the work over just 17 days, with only four days allotted for rehearsal before the Paris premiere in 1868. Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony…
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