Category: Review
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Concert Review: Bergmann Duo show that four hands are better than two
By Christine Pilgrim – Vernon Morning Star Sixty years ago, it was common to see a piano in a living room, with a stash of music nearby. Many of us stumbled through that music while others became more proficient and some even experienced the thrill of finishing on the same beat in a duet. But…
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Concert Review: Joes Are Way Above Average
By Christine Pilgrim for the Vernon Morning Star. No average Joes could captivate equally well with either their quips or the classics. The musically expert, highly entertaining Joe Trio comprises Cameron Wilson, chief musical arranger and wizard on violin; Allen Stiles, masterful storyteller and maestro on piano; and Charles Inkman, coaxer of music sweet enough…
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Concert Review: Les Violons Du Roy Play Music Fit For A King
By CHRISTINE PILGRIM for The Vernon Morning Star. Les Violons du Roy, its name adapted from that of the string orchestra that played for a 17th century French king, awed Tuesday’s North Okanagan Community Concert Association’s gala audience with music fit for any king, or queen for that matter. One young man said afterwards, “This…
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Concert Review: Montréal Musketeers Have Spirit
by Christine Pilgrim – Vernon Morning Star Published: April 30, 2014 A common spirit connects three French Canadian musical musketeers known on their six CDs as the Montréal Guitare Trio. The sum of their 30 fingers plucking, strumming, drumming and stroking their guitars, created by luthier Bruno Boutin, amounted to a triumphant close of the…
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Concert Review: Van Django Concert Adds Some Heat
by Christine Pilgrim – Vernon Morning Star Published: March 26, 2014 Vancouver-based acoustic string quartet Van Django breathed fire into gypsy jazz and left the audience smokin’ at the North Okanagan Community Concert at the Performing Arts Centre. Named in tribute to guitarist Django Reinhardt, Van Django is Vancouver’s answer to Paris’s Quintette du Hot…
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Concert Review: Parker Inspires & Connects With Audience
by Christine Pilgrim – Vernon Morning Star Published: Februray 5, 2014 The stage lit up (if somewhat late on cue) with concert pianist Ian Parker’s ebullient entrance and immediate connection with a virtually full house — despite competition from the NFL Super Bowl — at the North Okanagan Community Concert Association’s only matinée in its…
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Concert Review: Duo Gets Back To Bach
By Christine Pilgrim – Vernon Morning Star Published: November 27, 2013 Christie Reside and Terence Dawson, she on flute and he on piano, impressed North Okanagan Community Concert-goers at the Performing Arts Centre Friday with a palate of musical choices to suit every taste. Bach suited mine best. As Dawson said in his introduction to…
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Concert Review: A ‘Gem’ Opens Diamond Year For NOCCA
By Christine Pilgrim – Vernon Morning Star Published: October 29, 2013 The foyer at the Performing Arts Centre dripped diamonds (10 carat plastic) while another “gem” the size of a softball graced a silver draped stage drenched in classy, rich lighting to celebrate the North Okanagan Community Concert Association’s Diamond Jubilee, Saturday. And what better…
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