Westminster is a cabaret, old chum!

The Seven Deadly Sins, Kurt Weill’s ‘sung ballet,’ is at the heart of this ambitious concert. Soprano Measha Brueggergosman is welcomed back by Anne Manson as we get our cabaret on in Westminster Church!

This music was shaped by the period leading up to and including the Second World War. Its composers were profoundly affected by its horrors; Gideon Klein was an organizer of cultural life in Theresienstadt concentration camp, and Pavel Haas was a Czech composer who perished in the Holocaust.

Anne Manson on this concert
and Kurt Weill’s ‘The Seven Deadly Sins’

“The program has its roots in ‘Entartete Musik,’ which was banned by the Nazis who labeled it ‘degenerate.’ Many of these ‘degenerate’ composers were writing some of the most interesting music of the time, blurring the lines between classical music and jazz. Weill was particularly noted for this. Harmonically, Klein was using some of the same techniques.”

Pre-concert event

Members of the Brandon University School of Music Opera Studio, David Playfair, director; 6:45 pm

MCO Pizza Club

Book at least 3 days in advance for the MCO Pizza Club! Arrive at 6 pm for pizza and a pre-concert presentation with instructor Barbara Hamilton. Tickets are $7.50 for students including pizza; adults pay regular price. MCO Pizza Club sponsored by Dr. R. Bruce McFarlane.

Repertoire

Pavel Haas
Study for String Orchestra

Arnold Schoenberg
Selection of cabaret songs

Gideon Klein
Partita for Strings

Kurt Weill
The Seven Deadly Sins

This performance of The Seven Deadly Sins
is funded in part by the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Inc.,
7 East 20th Street, New York NY 10003.

Concert sponsor: Gail Asper & Michael Paterson

Project support: The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba

 

 

Anne Manson / Music Director and Conductor

MCO's 2010/11 season is sponsored by The Great-West Life Assurance Company.
Support has been received from Media sponsors The Winnipeg Free Press, CBC Radio One 990,
CBC Radio 2 98.3, Espace musique 89,9 and Golden West Radio. Heartstrings gala sponsor:
Mann Financial Assurance Limited. Sponsor of open dress rehearsals: Canadian Bridge Federation.
Arts Accessibility Program: Sun Life Financial.

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