Just Who is Living in our City?
Meet William Peltier by Abigail Richardson-Schulte More musicians and artists are moving to our city every day. Many of them keep their previous professional lives pretty intact and sometimes don&#…
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What Next Festival 2017 – Planting a seed…and Watering it Too
Read MoreLiam Ritz: Light Fragments with poetry by Julie Joosten May 27 at the HPO’s What Next Festival: the Rock on Locke by Abigail Richardson-Schulte In my first year as Composer-in-Residence with the…
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A What Next Festival Feature: Canada’s Musical Hero
Read MoreAn Unbelievable Story: Canada’s Musical Hero, Sir Ernest MacMillan by Abigail Richardson-Schulte On May 23rd 2017, the HPO will be performing a string orchestra concert as the first conce…
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Get to know Lara St. John
Read MoreCanadian-born violinist Lara St. John has been described as âsomething of a phenomenonâ and a âhigh-powered soloist.â HPO sat down with this world-renowned artist to learn what inspires her cr…
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Igor Stravinsky â Protester or Purist?
Read MorePetrouchka (revised 1947) â Igor Stravinsky Born June 17, 1882 in Oranienbaum (now Lomonosov), Russia Died April 6, 1971 in New York This work premiered on June 13, 1911 in Paris at the ThÊâtre du…
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Jean Sibelius and his Symphony No. 7
Read MoreJean Sibelius Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 105 Born December 8, 1865 in Tavastehus, Finland Died September 20, 1957 in Järvenpää, Finland This work was first performed on March 24, 1924 at the Ko…