2007 – 2008 Concert Season Archives
An English Country Garden
Timmy Chooi, violin
Charles Job, conductor
2:30 pm May 18 Mill Bay
2:30 pm May 20 Sidney NEW!
2:30 pm May 25 Victoria
A wonderful gift for Mother’s Day! Beautiful music and fragrant flowers provide the setting for this first annual English Country Garden celebration of Spring. Conductor Charles Job and the Orchestra feature Victoria violin prodigy, Timothy Chooi, in a program of music by violin virtuosos-turned-composers Pablo Sarasate, Henri Wieniawski and Vienna’s Fritz Kreisler. Memorable music performed in the authentic Palm Court style. Join us in the lobby for our 21st Anniversary retrospective display.
Embraceable You
Barbara Blair , vocalist
Charles Job, conductor
7:30 pm October 6 Victoria
2:30 pm October 14 Mill Bay
2:30pm October 23 Sidney
Join Victoria diva Barbara Blair and the Orchestra featuring pianist Karel Roessingh in a tribute to the great voices of Ella Fitzgerald, Rosemary Clooney and Sarah Vaughan accompanied by the Hollywood arrangements of Paul Weston and Nelson Riddle. Enjoy the songs of George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern and Richard Rodgers.“Barbara’s voice is like warm cocoa on a winter’s night.” Leonard Camplin, Okanagan Symphony
 Operettas of the Silver Screen
Charlotte Corwin , soprano
Dr Donald Hunsberger, guest conductor
Charles Job, conductor
7:30 pm February 9 Victoria
2:30 pm February 10 Mill Bay
2:30pm February 12 Sidney
From New York’s renowned Eastman Wind Ensemble, Donald Hunsberger guest conducts Montreal soprano Charlotte Corwin and the Orchestra in the great operettas of the silver screen. Enjoy the music of Victor Herbert, Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg in selections from The Desert Song, Rose Marie, Naughty Marietta and The Student Prince. The program evokes memories of screen idols Nelson Eddy, Jeanette MacDonald and Mario Lanza. Romance your sweetheart this Valentine’s.
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