2018 MBTS Programme:
If you haven’t been to MBTS before it is worth taking the time to read about how we programme. We are not a normal festival, in the sense that people normally buy tickets for a particular artist on a particular night. Instead, we create a “company” of individual artists from across the country and the globe, both jazz and classical, who then collaborate to create the programme.
Here below is this year’s programme. Scroll all the way down for the full programme. Please remember that all programming is subject to change.
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Concert 1
Sat eve, July 21st , 8:15 pm
pre-concert Fanfares
Three Fanfares, for horn in a distant rowboat and tuned ships horns (2015) C. Donison (b. 1952)
- Call and response between distant rowboat and boats (with cannon start)
- Call and response between less distant rowboat and boats (with siren start)
- Call and response between close rowboat and boats (with yelping siren start)
Bryn Badel, posthorn (in a rowboat) C. Donison: MIDI controller (on the Rix Centre balcony) CANADIAN COAST GUARD, cannon & sirens, Bamfleld Volunteer Boat Flotilla, John Masse Commodore
8:30 pm
Opening remarks
Mauro Giuliani 1781-1829
Overture to Mozart’s “La Clemenza di Tito”
Nova Vita
Jacob Cordover, Runar Kjeldsberg, guitar
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Edvard Grieg 1843-1907
Holberg Suite, op.40
Praeludium. Allegro vivace
Sarabande. Andante
Gavotte. Allegretto
Air. Andante religioso
Rigaudon. Allegro con brio
Cecily Ward, Tom Stone, Buon Park, Hua-Chu Huang, Aaron Schwebel, Carissa Klopoushak, Erin James, violins; Keith Hamm, Laila Zakzook, Lucas Blekeberg, Jacob Clewell, violas; Julie Hereish, Drew Comstock, Carmen Bruno, James Churchill, cellos
Intermission
Jacques Offenbach 1819-1880
Barcarolle (from “The Tales of Hoffman”)
Nan Hughes, mezzo-soprano, Jazimina MacNeil, mezzo-soprano, Marc Ryser, piano
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Jazz Selections TBA
Kelly Jefferson, saxophone
Brad Turner, trumpet
Neil Swainson, bass
Buff Allen, drums
Concert 2
Sunday Matinée, July 22nd , noon
Heitor Villa-Lobos 1887-1959
Prelude from Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4 (arr. Runar Kjeldsberg)
Jacob Cordover, guitar, Runar Kjeldsberg, guitar
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Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
Verklärte Nacht, op.4
Hua-Chu Huang, violin, Erin James, violin, Jacob Clewell, viola, Lucas Blekeberg, viola, James Churchill, cello, Carmen Bruno, cello
Intermission
Leo Brouwer b.1939
Micro Piezas
Homage to Darius Milhaud
Tranquilo
Allegro vivace
Vivacissimo muy ritmico
Sonoro
Jacob Cordover, guitar, Runar Kjeldsberg, guitar
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Franz Joseph Haydn 1732-1809
String Quartet in G major, op.77, no.1, Hob.III:81
Allegro moderato
Adagio
Menuetto. Presto
Finale. Presto
Erin James, violin, Cecily Ward, violin, Jacob Clewell, viola, James Churchill, cello
Concert 3
Sunday eve, July 22nd , 8:30 pm
Ludwig van Beethoven 1770-1827
Sonata in G major, op.96
Allegro moderato
Adagio espressivo
Scherzo: Allegro – Trio
Poco allegretto
Cecily Ward, violin, Marc Ryser, piano
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791
Piano quartet in g minor, KV 478
Allegro
Andante
Rondo. Allegro
Hua-Chu Huang, violin, Lucas Blekeberg, viola, Carmen Bruno, cello, Marc Ryser, piano
Intermission
Jacques Duphly 1715-1789
Allemende (arr. Runar Kjeldsberg)
La Vaucanson (arr. Runar Kjeldsberg)
Nova Vita,
Jacob Cordover, guitar, Runar Kjeldsberg, guitar
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Jazz Selections TBA
Kelly Jefferson, saxophone
Brad Turner, trumpet
Brian Dickinson, piano
Neil Swainson, bass
Buff Allen, drums
Concert 4
Monday , July 23rd , 8:30 pm
Benjamin Britten 1913-1976
Folksongs of the British Isles
The Crocodile
The Salley Gardens
There’s None to Soothe
Avenging and Bright
The Bonnie Earle o’Moray
Salley in our Alley
Early one Morning
Jazimina MacNeil, mezzo-soprano, Marc Ryser, piano
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Jules Massenet 1842-1912
Elegie
Nan Hughes, mezzo-soprano, Drew Comstock, cello, Marc Ryser, piano
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Carlos Gardel 1890-1935
Por una Cabeza (Tango)
Nan Hughes, mezzo-soprano, Drew Comstock, cello, Marc Ryser, piano
Intermission
Jazz Selections TBA
Kelly Jefferson, saxophone
Brad Turner, trumpet
Brian Dickinson, piano
Neil Swainson, bass
Buff Allen, drums
Concert 5
Tuesday, July 24th , 8:30 pm
Federico Garcia Lorca 1898-1936
Canciones Españolas Antiguas
Sevillanas de siglo XVIII
Las Morillas de Jaen
Los pelegrinitos
Nana de Sevilla
La Tarara
Jacob Cordover, guitar, Jazimina MacNeil, mezzo-soprano
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Mátyás Seiber 1905-1960
Four French Songs
Réveillez-vous
J’ai descendu
Le rossignol
Marguerite, elle est malade
Runar Kjeldsberg, guitar, Nan Hughes, mezzo-soprano
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François de Fossa 1775-1849
Quartet in A major, op.19, no.3
Lento sensibile sostenuto
Allegro agitato
Lento
Minuetto. Allegro
Rondo. Allegro
Runar Kjeldsberg, guitar, Jacob Cordover, guitar, Aaron Schwebel, violin, Drew Comstock, cello
Intermission
Jazz Selections TBA
Kelly Jefferson, saxophone
Brad Turner, trumpet
Brian Dickinson, piano
Neil Swainson, bass
Buff Allen, drums
Concert 6
Thursday, July 26th , 8:30 pm
Gerald Finzi 1901-1956
Let Us Garlands Bring (Five Songs after William Shakespeare), op.18
Come Away, Come Away, Death
Who is Sylvia?
O Mistress Mine
Fear No More the Heat o’ the Sun
It was a Lover and His Lass
Jazimina MacNeil, mezzo-soprano, Marc Ryser, piano
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Antoine de Lhoyer 1768-1852
Concerto for Guitar and Strings, op. 16
Tom Stone, violin, Buon Park, violin, Laila Zakzook, viola, Julie Hereish, cello, Runar Kjeldsberg, guitar
Intermission
American Songbook selections
Nan Hughes, mezzo-soprano, Christopher Donison, piano
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Jazz Selections TBA
Kelly Jefferson, saxophone
Brad Turner, trumpet
Brian Dickinson, piano
Neil Swainson, bass
Buff Allen, drums
Concert 7
Friday, July 27th , 8:30 pm
Robert Schumann 1810-1856
Der Nussbaum
Du bist wie eine Blume
Mondnacht
Die Lotosblume
Widmung
Nan Hughes, mezzo-soprano, Marc Ryser, piano
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Dmitri Shostakovich 1906-1975
Quintet in G minor, op.57
Prelude. Lento
Fugue. Adagio
Scherzo. Allegretto
Intermezzo. Lento
Finale. Allegretto
Aaron Schwebel, violin, Carissa Klopoushak, violin, Keith Hamm, viola, Emmanuelle Beaulieu Bergeron, cello, Marc Ryser, piano
Intermission
American Songbook selections
Jazimina MacNeil, mezzo-soprano, Christopher Donison, piano
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Jazz Selections TBA
Kelly Jefferson, saxophone
Brad Turner, trumpet
Brian Dickinson, piano
Neil Swainson, bass
Buff Allen, drums
Concert 8
Saturday, July 28th , 8:30 pm
Felix Mendelssohn 1809-1847
Octet in E-flat major, op.20
Allegro moderato ma con fuoco
Andante
Scherzo: Allegro leggierissimo
Presto
Aaron Schwebel, violin, Buon Park, violin, Tom Stone, violin, Carissa Klopoushak, violin, Laila Zakzook, viola, Keith Hamm, viola, Drew Comstock, cello, Julie Hereish, cello
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Leo Brouwer b. 1939
Baladas del Decamerón Negro
El arpa del guerrero
Huida de los amantes por el valle de los ecos
Balada de la doncella enamorada
Jacob Cordover, guitar, Buon Park, violin, Carissa Klopoushak, violin, Keith Hamm, viola, Emmanuelle Beaulieu Bergeron, cello
Intermission
Alexander Zemlinsky 1871-1942
Six Songs after Poems by Maeterlinck, op. 13
Die drei Schwestern
Die Mädchen den verbunden Augen
Lied der Jungfrau
Als ihr geliebter Schied
Und kehrt er einst heim
Sie kam zum Schloss gegangen
Nan Hughes, mezzo-soprano, Marc Ryser, piano
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Jazz Selections TBA
Kelly Jefferson, saxophone
Brad Turner, trumpet
Brian Dickinson, piano
Neil Swainson, bass
Buff Allen, drums
Concert 9
Sunday Matinée, July 29th, noon
David Popper 1843-1913
Requiem, op.66
Emmanuelle Beaulieu Bergeron, cello, Drew Comstock, cello, Julie Hereish, cello, Marc Ryser, piano
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Franz Joseph Haydn 1732-1809
Quartet in g minor, op.20, no.3, Hob III:33
Allegro con spirito
Minuet. Allegretto
Poco adagio
Finale. Allegro di molto
Carissa Klopoushak, violin, Buon Park, violin, Keith Hamm, viola, Emmanuelle Beaulieu Bergeron, cello
Intermission
TBA!
Concert 10
Sun eve, July 29th , 8:15 pm
pre-concert Fanfares
Three Fanfares, for horn in a distant rowboat and tuned ships horns (2015) C. Donison (b. 1952)
- Call and response between distant rowboat and boats (with cannon start)
- Call and response between less distant rowboat and boats (with siren start)
- Call and response between close rowboat and boats (with yelping siren start)
Bryn Badel, posthorn (in a rowboat) C. Donison: MIDI controller (on the Rix Centre balcony) CANADIAN COAST GUARD, cannon & sirens, Bamfleld Volunteer Boat Flotilla, John Masse Commodore
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8:30 pm
Concert start
Henry Purcell 1659-1695
Ode, “Sound the Trumpet”
Nan Hughes, mezzo-soprano, Jazimina MacNeil, mezzo-soprano, Marc Ryser, piano
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Nikita Koshkin b. 1956
L’istesso Tempo
Jacob Cordover, guitar, Emmanuelle Beaulieu Bergeron, cello
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Antonín Dvořák 1841-1904
Sextet in A major, op.48
Allegro – Moderato
Dumka. Poco Allegretto
Furiant. Presto
Finale: Tema con variazione. Allegretto grazioso, quasi andantino
Carissa Klopoushak, violin, Tom Stone, violin, Keith Hamm, viola, Laila Zakzook, viola, Julie Hereish, cello, Drew Comstock, cello
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Intermission
Brian Dickinson
Gentle Giant Suite
Company Jazz Ensemble
Company Strings
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Jazz Selections TBA
Kelly Jefferson, saxophone
Brad Turner, trumpet
Brian Dickinson, piano
Neil Swainson, bass
Buff Allen, drums
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Alberto Ginastera 1916-1983
Danza del Trigo
Jacob Cordover, Runar Kjeldsberg, guitar
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