Something Olde

Saturday 

November 9th

7:00pm

Hochstein School

Performance Hall

50 N Plymouth Ave

Rochester, NY 14614

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Sunday

November 10th

2:30pm

Memorial Art Gallery

Ballroom

500 University Ave

Rochester, NY 14607

Celebrating 10 years, Cordancia revisits some of its favorite repertoire.

A decade ago, Milhaud's "La Création du Monde" brought

a group of musicians together for a performance in 2009. 

This event became the creation of Cordancia. For this year's celebrations, Cordancia will perform La Création with dancers from BIODANCE and Rachel Lauber on the podium.

The program also features composer anniversaries and includes "Dreams" by George Antheil, "The Sleepers" by David Liptak with soprano soloist Tyler Cassidy-Heacock, and "Champagne Galop" by H. C. Lumbye. 

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Reception to follow Saturday evening performance

Everyone is welcome

Something New

Saturday

February 29th

7:00pm

with soloist

Lutheran Church

of the Incarnate Word

597 East Avenue

Rochester, NY 14607

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Sunday

March 1st

3:00pm

Saint

Theodore's Church

168 Spencerport Rd

Rochester, NY 14606

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It's Live: Stop Drop & Listen

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With music by living composers, the winner, Michael Huerta, flute, of the Nico Toscano Concerto Competition, with comedians Kerry and Abby, topped by a live performance and interview on WXXI's Backstage Pass, this program is filled to the brim with exciting features.

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Something New includes "Stop, Drop, and Listen," a humorous work for orchestra, actors and audience by Elizabeth A Kelly. ​Jazzy "Fountain of Steel" by  Australian composer, Aristea Mellos is light and joyful. Thomas Osborne's "Smoke Steel Stone Cinder" is inspired by the elements - the elements of industry. Peter Schickele's "Eine Kleine Nichtmusik" is playful but it's not all Mozart!

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(Please note that the soloist will not perform on March 1)

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Also presented on:

Tuesday, February 25th, 1:00pm

WXXI - 91.5

Backstage Pass 

280 State Stree

Rochester, NY 14614

Something Nordic,

Celestially Blue

Saturday

May 2nd

7:00pm

Lutheran

Church

of the Incarnate Word

597 East Avenue

Rochester, NY 14607

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Sunday

May 3rd

3:00pm

The Clover Center

1101 Clover St

Rochester, NY14610

The brilliantly blue skies of the north are displayed in music from Norway, Denmark, Iceland, and Finland. Violin soloist, Hildigunnur Hálldórsdóttir, is a former graduate of the Eastman School of Music and is currently a member of the Icelandic Symphony and the contemporary ensemble Caput. 

The program features dance music by Edward Grieg, echoes of Norse myth as interpreted by Niels W. Gade, recorded songs of birds in an interplay with orchestra by Einojuhani Rautavaara, and a violin concerto by Haukur Tomasson that portrays the violin as a traveller and the ensemble a landscape.