Nanaimo Chamber Orchestra is featuring a taste of the Baroque and Romantic eras as part of its season finale concert – Summer Serenade.
On Saturday and Sunday, June 21-22, the 30-member ensemble will take the stage, directed by Karl Rainer, and present the music of four composers.
Audience members will experience Francois Couperin’s Fantaisie in D Minor, Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s six-movement Suite and Max Bruch’s Romance for Viola with soloist Jeremy Rainer, a student at Nanaimo District Secondary School and is a member of both the Nanaimo Chamber Orchestra and Fiddelium.
For the grand finale, the orchestra will take the stage with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings, a four-movement piece.
"The first as a sonatina intended to render the style of Mozart, the second, a familiar and lyrical waltz, the third, elegie which echoes motifs of life and death, and the fourth, finale – a light-hearted Russian dance," the orchestra stated in a press release. "First performed in St. Petersburg in 1881, the composer wrote that, 'I've accidentally written a Serenade for String Orchestra in four movements: I just love it terribly, and I'm dying for it to see the light of day as soon as possible.'”
Concerts are set for Saturday, June 21, at 2:30 p.m. at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, and Sunday, June 22, from 2:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Church in Ladysmith.
Tickets are $25 for adults, $5 for students and free for children under the age of 13. They can be purchased online at www.nanaimochamberorchestra.com or at the door.
