• Apr
• 29

Making Music is a team sport

• Author: Donna
• Category: Westben News
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As I'm packing up to drive to London, Ontario  to sing a Pops Concert with Orchestra London (Sunday May 1 at 2:30), I'm revelling in the excitement of performing with such a large group of musicians.  It is definitely a team sport.  We rehearse for months separately and then come together for the final rehearsal before the performance.  Inspiration abounds when you join with other artists.  One never really knows what the performance will be like until it happens. Often exciting nuances happen and it is truly exciting.   May 14 & 15 bring another oppportunity for this magic to happen, with the collaboration of the Northumberland Orchestra and Choir and the Westben Festival Chorus and soloists. 

Imagine a full symphony orchestra with a chorus of over 70 singers performing one of the greatest pieces of classical music ever written as spring sunshine streams through the stain glass windows of one of Campbellford's most beautiful churches.  In a fitting celebration of spring, Franz Joseph Haydn's magnificent oratorioThe Creation is coming to Campbellford. The Westben Festival Chorus hosts the Northumberland Symphony Orchestra & Choir for a dazzling performance of Haydn's great masterpiece. Under the direction of maestro Michael Newnham the 100 minute oratorio will be the direction of maestro Michael Newnham the 100 minute oratorio will be performed at St. Mary's Catholic Church on Sunday, May 15 at 3:30 pm and May 14 at Trinity Church in Cobourg.

As I was watching the hockey game the other night, I saw the same excitement in the teams.