**After numerous considerations for various scenarios, we regret to inform you that we will be postponing our November 8 concert. We are still securing the venue; however the concert is tentatively re-scheduled to 1pm Sunday, December 13 at the King Eddy (438 9 Ave SE, Calgary, AB T2G 0R9). More details including a list of protocols/guidelines will be provided before then. **

A presentation of musical landscapes of composers whose mentors helped to shape the compositional voices we clearly know today. We are exploring and sharing the influence these mentors had and how those relationships helped forge their own unique and strong voices.

Perhaps the most notable to mention is Nadia Boulanger, who was really a mentor of modern composition. There is a long list of great composers that studied with her including Astor Piazzolla, Aaron Copland, Igor Stravinsky and Quincy Jones. Many unique voices indeed!

The musical selections take the listener on a varied journey of the intimate subtleties and colours of Claude Debussy, the harmonically rich expressions of Samuel Barber, and the intense rhythm and heat of Astor Piazzolla’s Le Grand Tango while gaining both an understanding and reflection on the power of the positive relationship between mentor and student.

PERFORMERS

Beth Root Sandvoss, cello

Nan Hughes, mezzo-soprano

Susanne Ruberg-Gordon, piano

PROGRAM

Boulanger - Three Pieces for Cello and Piano

Debussy - Ariettes Oubliees

Barber - Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 6

Copland - Poems of Emily Dickinson

Piazzolla - Le Grand Tango

Hammerstein - The Sound of Music, My Favourite Things, Bill, Comedy Night

Sandheim - Send in the Clowns, Losing My Mind, Everything's Coming Up Roses