An evening of romance awaits at Powell River Academy of Music on Friday, February 7.
Academy Chamber Choir, Trio Accord and guests conducted by Walter Martella, will fill the newly renamed James Hall with romantic music starting at 7:30 pm.
The concert features two of the most famous composers of the romantic era—Anton Dvorák from Prague and Franz Schubert from Vienna. The evening begins with Dvorák’s String Quintet in G major, op. 77 composed when he was 32 years of age. With Dvorák’s skill, the breadth and range of sound of this quintet is remarkable with surprisingly deep baselines and a sheer fullness of sound. Trio Accord and guests include top Vancouver orchestral players: violinists Mary Sokol Brown and Yuel Yawaney; violist Andrew James Brown; cellist Rebecca Wenham; and David Brown on double bass.
In the second half of the evening, Martella, the newly appointed music director of the academy, will conduct the Academy Chamber Choir and strings in a performance of Schubert’s Mass in G. The Mass, written when Schubert was just 18, is scored for soprano, tenor and bass soloists, mixed chorus, organ and strings. Richard Olfert plays the academy’s Klop pipe organ for this work. Schubert composed 600 Lieder, nine symphonies, 11 string quartets, 21 piano sonatas, 19 stage works and six masses plus a few dozen liturgical works before he died at age 31.
Tickets are $22, available at the Academy Box Office, 9:30 am to 4:30 pm Monday through Thursday at 7280 Kemano Street, online, by calling 604.485.9633 and at the door. Students 18 years and under are able to attend for free.
