Please join the Yarilo Contemporary Music Ensemble: pianists Anna Levy and Jane Hayes, with guests the Borealis String Quartet, narrator David Skulski, with multi-media by 11thirty Media, as it honours three Canadian composers who departed from us before their time: Nikolai Korndorf, Roussi Tarmakov, and Claude Vivier.
This concert is a musical prayer for three Canadian composers who left behind an incredible musical legacy.
On the program will be world premieres of works by John Burke (for Claude Vivier), and Gheorghi Arnaoudov (for Roussi Tarmakov), and the Canadian premiere of a composition by Faraj Karayev (for Nikolai Korndorf). Also on the concert will be music by Jocelyn Morlock, Giya Kancheli, and Alfred Schnittke. Narrator David Skulski will read verses penned by the 11th-century Armenian mystic St. Gregory of Narek.
The concert takes place on Friday, November 20, 8:00 pm. at the Orpheum Annex Theatre, 823 Seymour Street, Vancouver.
Tickets: $20/$15 (Early Bird until November 13, 2015)
at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/amen-part-ii-today-tickets-18978882348
