Toffee for Christmas – Watch Party Idea
This post was part of our holiday celebrations in 2020, but we wanted to bring this wonderful recipe back for you! At the SSO offices, December means one thing…our Director of Administration is bringing Toffee …
Leroy Anderson’s Music is Christmas
Not many people do their best thinking during a heat wave. Then again, most people are not Leroy Anderson. The original idea for the light-hearted orchestral romp known as “Sleigh Ride” was born in the …
The Bear Necessities
Franz Joseph Haydn (1745-1809) is remembered today as one of the most prolific composers of the eighteenth century, and possibly of the whole Western music canon. He is commonly referred to as the father of …
Music Talk with Adam Johnson
Maestro Adam Johnson was the very first guest on the SSO’s Music Talk from McNally – that was 7 years ago! We’re thrilled to have him back leading this very important concert featuring the music …
The French Mozart
Many of the eighteenth-century composers whose names are still familiar today came from Vienna, Europe’s cultural capital at that time. It is therefore ironic the François Devienne (1759-1803), whose last name literally translates as ‘from …
A Little Knight Music
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799) was one of the most distinguished musicians and composers of late-eighteenth century France. Born in 1745 to a French aristocratic father and his African slave mistress, Nanon, Saint-Georges’ mixed …
Joseph Boulonge the Chevalier de Saint-Georges
Audiences today don’t know enough Joseph Bolonge, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, and we need to change that because he was an important figure in music history who’s music is making a major comeback. Chevalier de …
Beethoven 5
It had to be one of the most amazing concerts of all time: December 22, 1808. Beethoven had been given the free use of the Theater-an-der-Wien for a concert of his own. The event, lasting …
Jader Baum Spricht by Iman Habibi
Our performance with Maestro Nicolas Ellis includes the Canadian premiere of Iman Habibi’s work Jader Baum Spricht. The piece was recently performed at Carnegie Hall with the Philadelphia Orchestra under the baton of Yannick Nezet-Seguin. The …
Jerry Hu and the Shurniak Concerto Competition
The SSO has long partnered with the Saskatchewan Music Festival Association and the Regina Symphony Orchestra on a provincial competition that see young artists strive to win a chance to perform with the province’s two …
Music Talk from McNally with Nicolas Ellis
Conductor Nicolas Ellis joined the SSO’s CEO Mark Turner in conversation about the program for Beethoven’s 5th.
Experiencing the Music Together & Safely
We have an incredible track record here at the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra. There has not been a single Covid-19 related incident at the SSO since the start of the pandemic. We are also one of …
[Uncertain] Four Seasons
by Damon Gameau, January 2021 When audiences first heard Vivaldi’s Four Seasons in the early 18th century, it was a sensation. It gave audiences something they’d never experienced before. It communicated more than music. It …
Composer Beth Denisch
Beth Denisch’s music has been performed at Moscow’s Concert Studio of Radio “Kultura,” in Russia, at Jordan Hall in Boston, and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York, across the U.S., and in Canada, China, Ecuador, …
Composer Jessie Montgomery
Jessie Montgomery is an acclaimed composer, violinist, and educator. She is the recipient of the Leonard Bernstein Award from the ASCAP Foundation, and her works are performed frequently around the world by leading musicians and …
Dr. Ingrid Pickering
Dr. Ingrid Pickering is introducing our concert, The [Uncertain] Four Seasons. She is a professor at the University of Saskatchewan and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Molecular Environmental Science. Dr. Pickering’s area of research …
All things Eekwol
We knew we wanted to give the Four Seasons poetry the same [Uncertain] update that the music received, and we knew that we were not the ones to do so. This poetry needed a storyteller, …
Our Part to Play
We all have a part to play when it comes to the future of climate change. As individuals, we can make changes around our homes and workplaces. Changes like, washing our laundry in cold water …
All about Kerry DuWors
Hailed for her “soaring cantilena” (Gramophone Magazine), violinist Kerry DuWors has performed across Canada, the United States, Europe, Mexico, Japan and New Zealand. In demand as a versatile chamber musician, Kerry champions collaboration across an array …
Introducing Geneviève Leclair
Geneviève Leclair is Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music where she has been teaching since 2016 and an active guest conductor with organizations across Canada, the United States and the U.K. Highlights of the 2021-22 season …
How the [Uncertain] Four Seasons was written
In 2019 the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra performed a work called The For Seasons. It was a concept developed by Jung von Matt that used an algorithm that took climate data gathered from 1725 until 2019 to …
Louis Riel: Replacing the “Kuyas”
In 1967, Mavor Moore and Harry Somers had been commissioned by the Canadian Opera Company to write an opera for Canada’s Centennial. They chose Louis Riel as a subject, and created a piece that has …
Susannah’s Ain’t it a Pretty Night
Biblical stories have commonly found their way into the performing arts, often taking on the cultural flavour of the time in which they were created. You need look no further than shows like Andrew Lloyd …
One Hand, One Hearty Pair of Overtures
Long before Winnipeg ever faced off against San Jose, the jets and sharks were rumbling in the streets of New York City in Leonard Bernstein’s masterful 1957 musical, West Side Story. Bernstein was one of …
