SECOND MOTHER PLAYING AT EAGLECREST
Beach Flicks invites movie goers to get ready for the delightful Brazilian comic drama Second Mother Friday, March 10.
The film tells the story of Val who leaves her young daughter Jessica with relatives so she can earn money working as a housemaid for a wealthy Brazilian. She becomes financially stable but lives with the guilt of having not raised her daughter herself but looking after the family’s son who is the same age as her own daughter.
Her daughter, Jessica, wants to come to visit her mother. Val asks her employer’s permission to have Jessica come and stay with them for a short while. But when Jessica arrives, cohabitation is not easy. She doesn’t follow what is expected of her and starts to create tension inside the household.
Doors at the Eaglecrest Golf Course open at 6 p.m. and the film begins at 7 p.m. sharp. Tickets are $7.
For more information, visit www.beachflicks.ca.
— Submitted by Beach Flicks
NANAIMO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA PLAYING IN PARKSVILLE
The advent of March, and early spring, is particularly welcome this year following an uncharacteristically cold and stubborn winter. And the music of the Nanaimo Chamber Orchestra (NCO), under the direction of Karl Rainer, is a welcome partner to the season as it presents the program, Singers and Strings. The singers, the Island Consort Chamber Choir directed by Bruce Farquharson, will join with the NCO as guest performers, broadening the scope of music and adding extra sparkle for the audience to enjoy.
The orchestra alone will play the following: Mozart’s Divertimento 1, K. 186 which is one of four such works known as the Salzburg Symphonies, composed in 1772; Melancholia, a beautiful serenade in the romantic style of pastoral images and serenity composed by Eduard Nápravnik, a little-known late-19th Czech composer and organist who moved to St. Petersburg to become a prominent conductor; and Concerto Grosso for Strings, composed in 1950 by Ralph Vaughan Williams, a work in 5 contrasting movements that was designed for string players with a wide range of abilities.
They will perform Vivaldi’s Magnificat, with soloists from the ranks of the choir; sopranos, Skye Donald and Sharon Sinclair; alto, Monica Morosan and tenor, David Brown.
Although Brahms’s Geistliches Lied has traditionally been organ-accompanied, English conductor John Eliot Gardiner has recently written the accompaniment for strings, which we have obtained for these performances. The choir will finish with Mozart’s short but lovely Ave Verum Corpus.
The concert will be March 12 at 2:30 p.m. at St. Edmund’s Anglican Church. Admission is $20 for adults, $5 for students and children under 12 are free. Tickets are available through the Port Theatre box office or at the door.
For more information, visit www.nanaimochamberorchestra.com and www.islandconsort.ca.
— Submitted by the NCO
