Jim Elderton

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Brian Martin as Major General Stanley explains to the pirates that he’s still a very modern major general in Valley Vocal Arts presentation of The Pirates of Penzance

CLASSICAL NOTES: Studio puts pizzazz in Pirates

Jim Elderton reviews Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance, a comic operetta produced by Melina Moore’s Valley Vocal Arts studio.

Brian Martin as Major General Stanley explains to the pirates that he’s still a very modern major general in Valley Vocal Arts presentation of The Pirates of Penzance
Okanagan Symphony Orchestra maestra Rosemary Thomson, right, rehearses with OSO musicians in Kelowna Wednesday before their end-of-season performance of Russian Gems in Vernon Sunday.

Okanagan Symphony sparkles as season comes to an end

Symphony wraps up a successful year with its last concert of the season, Russian Gems, at the Vernon Performing Arts Centre Sunday.

Okanagan Symphony Orchestra maestra Rosemary Thomson, right, rehearses with OSO musicians in Kelowna Wednesday before their end-of-season performance of Russian Gems in Vernon Sunday.
The Rebel Alliance in Star Wars IV – A New Hope. The iconic George Lucas film features the famed Star Wars theme, composed by John Williams, that was performed by the Okanagan Symphony Sunday

Classical Notes: Symphony uses the force to relay movie magic

Review: Okanagan Symphony boldly goes where no symphony has gone before... wait wrong movie... This one was for the film fan everywhere!

The Rebel Alliance in Star Wars IV – A New Hope. The iconic George Lucas film features the famed Star Wars theme, composed by John Williams, that was performed by the Okanagan Symphony Sunday
A record-breaking 130 musicians perform on stage at the Performing Arts Centre for the Okanagan Symphony’s Fireworks concert, Sunday.

Classical Notes: Concert goes off with a bang

Okanagan Symphony crowds the stage at Performing Arts Centre for rousing performance of Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks.

A record-breaking 130 musicians perform on stage at the Performing Arts Centre for the Okanagan Symphony’s Fireworks concert, Sunday.
Deborah Voigt stars as Brünnhilde in Götterdämmerung, part of Wagner’s Ring cycle, which will be transmitted live from New York’s Metropolitan Opera House Feb. 11.

Classical Notes: Final Ring cycle screens

The Met Live in HD returns to Vernon's Galaxy Cinemas with Götterdämmerung, the last episode in Wagner's epic Ring cycle opera.

Deborah Voigt stars as Brünnhilde in Götterdämmerung, part of Wagner’s Ring cycle, which will be transmitted live from New York’s Metropolitan Opera House Feb. 11.

Brilliant ‘soundscape’ opens OSO season

The symphony opens its 2011-12 season accompanied by Kelowna Ballet and trumpeter Guy Few performing Schafer's The Falcon's Trumpet.

Anna Natrebko plays Henry VIII’s doomed wife Anne Boleyn in Donizetti’s Anna Bolena.

Live from The Met begins with Anna Bolena

The Saturday morning opera-goers “club” at Galaxy Cinemas is about to re-group, when the phenomenally successful screening of the series The Met: Live in HD returns for its sixth season.

Anna Natrebko plays Henry VIII’s doomed wife Anne Boleyn in Donizetti’s Anna Bolena.

Classical Notes: OSO season ends on strong note

At the Performing Arts Centre, only hours after the sets for Thoroughly…

Deborah Voigt plays Brünnhilde from Die Walküre for the first time at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. The Live at the Met series ends with the second opera from Wagner’s Ring cycle, to be screened at Galaxy Cinemas May 14.

CLASSICAL NOTES: Verdi and Wagner cap season

Metropolitan Opera’s HD-Live-at-the-Met finishes the season with two of the greatest in…

Deborah Voigt plays Brünnhilde from Die Walküre for the first time at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. The Live at the Met series ends with the second opera from Wagner’s Ring cycle, to be screened at Galaxy Cinemas May 14.

How the kids got their symphony

What if there was a very special symphony concert for children?