Watch Party Idea – Time for a Picnic!
If you’re like us, you’re looking for little ways to get an escape! With our Trip to the Country live stream our goal is take you on a musical…
Mathieu’s Creative Pandemic
A new album, lessons & feature performance Life has been full of twists and turns for violinist Véronique Mathieu this past year. In March 2020, Mathieu was set to release…
The Lark Ascending
The Lark Ascending was originally written as a single-movement work for violin and piano by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. The composer was inspired by George Meredith’s 1881 poem of…
Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony
When you think of Ludwig van Beethoven, chances are you hear the infamous pulses of his fiery Fifth Symphony. But did you know that the symphony he composed simultaneously with…
All the Different Parts of Harder
Saskatoon composer Kendra Harder instantly grabbed the attention of the SSO’s Wind Quintet a few years ago when they workshopped an arrangement Harder had done for one of her classes…
Nielsen’s Wind Quintet
It was autumn in Copenhagen, 1921. Scandinavian composer Carl Nielsen had just put down the receiver of his telephone after having a brief conversation with his friend, the pianist Christian…
Poulenc Sextet
André George, a French reviewer for the periodical Les Nouvelles littéraires, once wrote that “with Poulenc, all of France comes out of the windows he opens.” One could extend such…
Musical Herstory 2.0
For centuries, the writers of musical textbooks (and the programmers of musical institutions) excluded women who composed. Motherhood. Quarantine. Saving one’s self from the guillotine with their piano skills. Composers…