Event
- Title:
- First Dreams: Epics for a New World
- When:
- Feb 19, 2010
- Where:
- Alix Goolden Performance Hall - Victoria
- Category:
- Victoria - Concerts
Description
Early Music Society of the Islands presents a vocal music concert with performing ensemble Constantinople, with guests Francoise Atlan and Enrique Solinis.
Epics for a New World combines Baroque music, Mexico and the singular vision of Latin America's first female poet, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, to create a fascinating programme. Differencias by Ruiz de Ribayaz and Santiago de Murcia are featured together with the fiery words of one of the Hispanic world's greatest writers.
Venue
- Venue:
- Alix Goolden Performance Hall
- Street:
- 907 Pandora St
- City:
- Victoria
- State:
- BC
Description
907 Pandora Avenue, Victoria BC Canada
The Alix Goolden Performance Hall, formerly a church sanctuary, is an elegant 800-seat venue featuring fine acoustics, a vaulted ceiling, filigree iron railings, carved wooden pews, and intricate stained glass windows. It is at once spacious and intimate. Named in honour of one of the Conservatory's original founders, the Alix Goolden Performance Hall plays host to many acclaimed international performers, while also serving the needs of the Conservatory students and faculty and the local community.
The hall has hosted readings by such internationally known authors as David Suzuki, Margaret Atwood, Timothy Findley, and Salman Rushdie. It has seen performances by musicians as diverse as Jean Stilwell, Moshe Hammer, Anton Kuerti, the Nylons, Daniel Lanois, the Arrogant Worms, Sarah Harmer and Randy Bachman. Such noted Conservatory alumni as Barbara Livingston and Walter Prossnitz have also performed in the hall.
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