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WSO to play Carnegie Hall
Vincent Ho
How does the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice -- and a few thousand clicks of a mouse.
The WSO announced Monday that it is one of six major regional orchestras heading to the famous New York City venue in 2014 for the fourth annual Spring for Music (S4M) festival. The orchestra plans to perform pieces from its New Music Festival, including Derek Charke's 13 Inuit Throat Song Games featuring throat singer Tanya Tagaq, WSO composer-in-residence Vincent Ho's The Shaman: Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra featuring Dame Evelyn Glennie, as well as R. Murray Schafer's Symphony No. 1.
The S4M orchestras are selected partially for the imaginative nature of their proposed programming in a two-pronged process that includes a juried selection committee and an online vote. The WSO topped the final tally with 3,059 votes, over 1,000 more votes than the second-place program.
The fourth Spring For Music festival, runs from May 5-10, 2014, at Carnegie Hall, and includes the New York Philharmonic (May 5), Seattle Symphony (May 6), Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (May 7), Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra (May 8) Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and May Festival Chorus (May 9) and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (May 10).
Tickets for the Spring for Music concerts are just $25 for any seat in the house. Travel packages will be announced by the WSO at a later date.
The WSO made its Carnegie Hall debut on March 3, 1979.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition January 24, 2012 C1
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