The National Arts Centre is the place to be on Canada Day -- Free NAC Orchestra concerts with Pinchas Zukerman, Unisong, and other activities throughout the day, July 1
June 21, 2002 -
Ottawa, Canada -- The doors will be open at the National Arts
Centre (NAC) all day on Canada Day, Monday, July 1. Activities
include a free concert and an open rehearsal of the National Arts
Centre Orchestra led by Music Director Pinchas Zukerman, and a free
concert by the 400-voice Unisong 2002 Choir, all in Southam Hall.
There will also be ongoing performances of music, dance theatre, and
drumming in the foyers, Theatre, Studio and Terraces of the NAC.
Everyone is welcome and no tickets are required for any of the
events.
The NAC's Canada Day celebration is presented by
Télévision Rogers and CPAC's Canada's
Political Channel.
The hour-long National Arts Centre Orchestra concert at 19:30
conducted by Pinchas Zukerman will feature the fourth movement of
Dvorak's Symphony No. 8, the violinists of the NAC Young
Artists Programme performing Paganini's Moto Perpetuum
(Perpetual Motion), and the cellists of the Young Artists
Programme performing Vivaldi's Concerto for Two Cellos.
The Orchestra's Apprentice Conductor Jean-Philippe Tremblay
will take over the Orchestra for Brahms' Hungarian Dance No. 1
and Dubinsky's We Rise Again featuring the Unisong
Chorus. Halley's stirring United in Song featuring the
Orchestra and Unisong Chorus led by Zukerman will bring the concert
to a rousing close.
There will be an afternoon rehearsal for this NAC Orchestra
concert open to the public at 15:30 for one hour.
The full Unisong 2002 chorus of 400 singers from 14 choirs from
coast-to-coast in Canada will present an inspiring concert at 10:00
in the morning in Southam Hall accompanied by the Unisong String
Quintet and led by Dr. Douglas Dunsmore, Professor of Music at
Memorial University, Newfoundland.
There's plenty of other entertainment throughout the day:
Théâtre de l'Aubergine will perform in the Studio
at 11:00, 13:00 and 15:30; The School of Dance will present dance
demonstrations in the Theatre at 12:30, 14:00 and 15:30; the Ragtime
Brass Sextet of trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba and percussion will
swing in the Foyer at 16:30 and 18:30; the Franco-Ontarien music
group Deux Saisons will liven the Terrace at 13:00 and 14:30; while
the Burundi Drummers will roam through the NAC periodically drumming
up excitement between noon and 15:30.
Individual choirs of the Unisong chorus will also perform on
Sunday, June 30, from 12:30 to 14:30 in the Foyer of the NAC.
Admission is free. This is one of a series of concerts the choirs
will perform in different parts of Ottawa from June 28 to July 2.
