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2009/2010 Concert Season

Of Time and Place

The Turning Point Ensemble celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Canadian Music Centre in a colourful program featuring R. Murray Schafer’s magical Egyptian-inspired Arcana for solo voice and ensemble, and José Evangelista’s thrilling Alap and Gat, a work referencing the classical music of North India. TPE also unveils two premieres by Vancouver composers, Remember to Forget by Jaap Hamburger and Variations on Exact Tension by Jacqueline Leggatt.

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Son of Chamber Symphony

Co-presented with
Vancouver 2010
Cultural Olympiad

Vancouver 2010

It's Chamber Symphony night in Canada with TPE's third outing as part of the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad – a virtuosic spectacular in three periods.

  1. Arnold Schoenberg’s compact and sharply chiseled Chamber Symphony Op. 9 for 15 solo instruments, one of the masterpieces of the early twentieth century.

  2. The BC premiere of Pulitzer-prize winning American composer John Adams’ exhilarating newly completed Son of Chamber Symphony—“riveting and full of surprises” Los Angeles Times

  3. The world premiere of a new Chamber Concerto written for the occasion by one of Canada’s most innovative and inventive composers—John Oliver. Follow the composer's blog as he writes the music.

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Imprint

Turning Point Ensemble & SFU Contemporary Arts present

IMPRINT

The three extraordinary premieres by some of Canada's top artists are on the program for this spectacular event. There are only five performances of this must-see event where music, dance, theatre and technology meet in Vancouver's newest theatre in the heart of downtown. One of Canada's most original voices, Rudolf Komorous has composed Minx for the Turning Point Ensemble, one of the few major new works he has written in the last several years. Komorous, now in his late seventies, is one of Canada's unheralded treasures making this an extraordinary event. The premiere of Cut Flowers* by Linda Catlin Smith, one of Canada's most poetic composers. She has composed a work for soprano Phoebe MacRae and the Ensemble based on the secret love poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning - the Sonnets of the Portuguese. The work will be brought to life in a simple semi-staged performance directed by Penelope Stella.

The premiere of Imprint by composer Owen Underhill and choreographer Henry Daniel closes the evening. Imprint is a daring, site-specific interdisciplinary performance piece for 8 dancers, the Turning Point Ensemble, and telepresence technology.

Showtimes: June 17 - 20 @ 8pm, 2pm Matinee on Saturday, June 19 Turning Point's presentation of Cut Flowers is part of the artsong festival called Songfire Festival of Song. Our participation is Imprint, our June show, which includes a work by Linda Catlin Smith with text inspired by Browning. www.songfire.ca

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