Tag: Concert Review
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Concert review: NOCCA season ends in a melding of cultures
Below is a review of the fabulous final concert of NOCCA’s 2015/16 season. Don’t forget you can now reserve your seats and subscribe to the upcoming 2016/17 season “A Grand Year to Hear” at ticketseller.ca Review published on April 29th, 2016 by Christine Pilgrim – Vernon Morning Star There aren’t enough superlatives in English to…
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Concert Review: Duo is on a first-name basis with its audience
by Christine Pilgrim – Vernon Morning Star The North Okanagan Community Concert audience was treated to an evening of unadulterated excellence by the Wolak Donnelly Duo Sunday. The two musical showmen had us eating from their hands, from Kornel Wolak’s first explosion on to the stage, with his clarinet slithering through the opening notes of…
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Concert Review: Steinway’s last stand
by Christine Pilgrim – Vernon Morning Star Sunday afternoon on February 21st, 2016 saw the swan song of the North Okanagan Community Concert Association’s 1887 Steinway piano. It was grand. NOCCA president Paul Maynes announced that all the keys on the association’s virtual piano, raising funds toward the cost of the association’s replacement Steinway, had…
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Audience impressed with NOYSE
Review by the Vernon Morning Star The North Okanagan Youth Showcase of Excellence (NOYSE) was “absolutely phenomenal,” according to Gillian Thompson, one of the more than 300 audience members who attended the show Sunday at the Vernon Performing Arts Centre. “The range of talent took my breath away,” added audience member Marie Morris. “I loved it.…
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Concert Review: Borealis Opens Concert Series With Flair
Review by Christine Pilgrim – Vernon Morning Star Borealis String Quartet has played prestigious venues in New York, Rome, Beijing and Toronto, but it chose Vernon’s Performing Arts Centre to premiere the work specifically written for it by Coldstream’s Imant Raminsh, at the North Okanagan Community Concert Association (NOCCA) gala opening of its 2015/16 season…
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Concert Review: Choir Gives An ‘Elektra-fying’ Finale
Review by Christine Pilgrim – Vernon Morning Star The volunteer Vancouver-based women’s choir, Elektra, led by Morna Edmundson, closed the North Okanagan Community Concert Association’s season Saturday, May 23 with professional polish and aplomb. They were joined for their final piece, David MacIntyre’s Ave Maria, by Ancora, an Armstrong women’s choir led by Terry Logan.…
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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: 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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