Alexander’s
Ragtime Band

Frederick Hodges, pianoforte

November 7–7:30 pm Victoria
November 8–2:30 pm Duncan
November 10-2:30 pm Sidney
 

All the way from Berkeley, California, ragtime pianist Frederick Hodges presents the music of the Roaring Twenties and the age of the silent movie. Music by Hubie Blake, Scott Joplin and Irving Berlin will have you snapping your fingers, tapping our toes and dancing the Charleston or the saucey Black Bottom. Absolutely daring and outrageous!

2009-2010 Season
Box Office

New CD PALM COURT Souvenir's  celebrating Victoria's
Edwardian Heritage
featuring tenor Ken Lavigne
CD Sales

Enjoy behind-the-scenes
relationship with the orchestra.
Postering 3 hours Sept Feb April
Program Stuffing Parties
2-3 hours Oct Feb May
CD Sales at Concerts

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Palm Court Volunteer.
Call Brian Atwell
250-477-9732 Victoria
Marjorie Hewitt
250-748-8070 Cowichan
Dale Cripps
250-655-7132 Sidney

Message from the Music Director

I invite you to join us for another exciting season of light orchestral music played by your own Palm Court Light Orchestra. The 2009/10 season will be as usual a delightful mixture of well known pieces along side some rare treats.

The season begins with a brilliant ragtime pianist from Berkeley, California, who I had the pleasure of meeting with when I traveled to Oakland in June. Actually I was visiting the vintage music library at the Paramount Theatre and I came back with enough light music to play a concert every week. Amongst the dust of 80 years there were some real gems.

For our February, 2010 concert I am handing over the baton to a dear friend, Hungarian conductor Janos Sandor who with soprano Lambroula Pappas will present an authentic Viennese concert. There will be famous waltzes, marches and polkas from the Strauss family, the operettas of Franz Lehar and Emmerich Kalman and selections from Robert Stolz's The White Horse Inn.

Our last concert of the season in April will showcase the stunning operatic voice of Korean soprano Karina Choe. It will feature selections from West Side Story, Parisian comic opera and even La Boheme. The programme, a celebration of spring, will also contain many of your palm court favourites.

Please join me in the 2009/10 season and invite your friends!
Charles Job, Founder/Conductor

What is Palm Court Music?

Palm Court music brings forth images of potted palms, gracious grand hotels and ballroom dancers in elegant evening dress. The Palm Court Light Orchestra typically plays popular light classics from the early 1900s as well as marches, ragtime, and musical gems from the early days of cinema, between the two world wars. It is best described as light-hearted music that sends you home smiling!

Listen to :
Folies Bergeres
The Golden Tango

palm@victoria.tc.ca
Palm Court Concerts line 250.748.9964
1358 Garret Place, Cowichan Bay, BC VOR 1N2