The Passion of Joan of Arc, with the Orlando Consort’s Voices Appeared
November 16 7:30pm
St. Andrew's United Church
The internationally acclaimed Orlando Consort enhances Carl Theodor Dreyer's silent film masterpiece The Passion of Joan of Arc (La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc,1928) with a live performance of Voices Appeared, a 5-voice a cappella soundtrack they devised for the film. Music composed during Joan’s lifetime complements Dreyer’s intense, unorthodox cinematic depiction of the saint's trial and death by fire. A Q & A with the singers will follow the performance.
Chamber Music Residency Concert
November 18 7:30pm
First Baptist Church
The Dalhousie Chamber Music Residency Program welcomes internationally renowned musicians for short residencies. This program inspires through chamber music coaching’s, masterclasses, open rehearsals, and career advice. The program coordinator is Leonardo Perez.
Dalhousie Chorus: Murmur
November 28 7:30 pm
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
The multidisciplinary performance of Murmur has appeared occasionally over the past decade in Halifax. Murmur returns to bring together poetry and music in a thought-provoking duet. The Dalhousie Chorus will guide the listener through this transformational journey of music and poetry. This mixing of artistic disciplines creates something greater than the individual works alone. This synergy is mirrored by the chorus members' creating that magical collaborative choral sound that is greater than that of individual voices alone.
DalTheatre: 7 Stories
November 29 - December 3
7:30 pm & Dec. 3, 2:00 pm
Sir James Dunn Theatre
A man stands on a ledge, about to leap from his apartment window. He is poised on the edge of a transformation, of a new way of seeing. But he is interrupted by his many neighbours, who are too preoccupied with their own problems to notice what he’s doing. Morris Panych’s highly theatrical play is a darkly funny and potent metaphor for being alive, for seeking to break free of limiting ideas, and for beginning again with fresh eyes.
Dalhousie Jazz Ensemble with Dr. Tammy Kernodle: This is what Freedom Sounds Like
December 3 7:30 pm
St. Andrew’s United Church
By incorporating spoken word and a unique live musical performance this presentation seeks to expand the perspective of existing scholarship that historizes the relationship that existed between music and the long black civil rights movement. It will explore how gospel, blues, and jazz advanced different contexts of resistance culture, activism, and protest from slavery to the Harlem Renaissance to the mid-century black civil rights movement during the 1960s. The concert will feature Dr. Kernodle’s oration integrated with original musical arrangements performed by the Dalhousie Jazz Ensemble performing selected songs relevant to the plight of the musicians represented in Dr Kernodle’s presentation.
Dalhousie Symphony Orchestra:
Symphonic Favourites
December 6 7:30 pm
St. Andrew’s United Church
The Fountain School of the Performing Arts presents the Dalhousie Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dr. Leonardo Perez. Audiences will be treated to a new orchestral commission by esteemed FSPA piano professor and composer Peter Allen, Mozart’s spirited and exhilarating overture to the Marriage of Figaro, and the intimate and beautiful Sinfionetta No.1 for Strings by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson. Lastly, audiences will be mesmerized by the depictions of nature and emotions in Beethoven’s "Pastoral” Sixth Symphony.
