Wed April 27 | 8:00 PM

$24 | $12 Student/Senior | eyego

Popular Standards

Conrad Centre for the Performing Arts
36 King Street West

A co-presentation with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, this concert of pop-referential music performed by members of the KWS, with pianist Greg Oh and mezzo-soprano Anne-Marie Donovan, will feature music by Mauricio Kagel, Philip Glass, John Adams, a premiere of a new work by Nicole Lizee, and will reference pop greats from marching band music to Ellington to Steppenwolf.

Program

Mauricio Kagel: Ten Marches to Miss the Victory

John Adams: American Standard

Philip Glass: Changing Opinion, from Songs of Liquid Days

Nicole Lizee: Simulakra TBA

David Lang/Steppenwolf: Born to be Wild

 

With a goal of reinventing the orchestral experience, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, led by Music Director Edwin Outwater, has taken the nation by storm. Frequent collaborations with rock musicians, electronic artists, composers, authors, scientists, authors and others push the envelope musically and turn audience expectations inside-out.

Formed in 1945, the KWS is the cultural centrepiece of the Waterloo Region. The orchestra comprises 52 professional musicians and plays more than 100 performances of music from early Baroque composer Monteverdi through commissioned music by Arcade Fire bassist and Canadian composer Richard Reed Parry. The orchestra is nationally praised for its world-class performances, has an education program unparalleled for an organization of its size.