Posts Tagged ‘Symphony Nova Scotia’
Review: Meaghan Smith and SNS
If there’s a show I could press rewind on and listen to all over again, it would be Meaghan Smith’s recent Maritime Fusion concert with Symphony Nova Scotia. It was really that much fun. She’s funny, she paints quirky miniature paintings, and she makes us laugh and cry. She’s the kind of gal you could totally girl crush on.
Her lovely songs were even more beautiful with the symphonic arrangements of SNS bassoonist Chris Palmer.…
Read MoreReview: Sleeping Beauty (Ballet Jörgen and Symphony Nova Scotia)
Canada’s Ballet Jörgen returned to the Cohn last month with a gorgeous production of Sleeping Beauty, choreographed by Artistic Director Bengt Jörgen, and bringing a winter-weary Halifax the promise of spring beauty.
I’m lamenting the loss to our community of arts journalists Elissa Barnard and Andrea Nemetz, who are currently in the fourth month of a seemingly never-ending strike at the Chronicle Herald, but it seemed a great pity that there would be no mention made somewhere of these magical performances.…
Read MoreReview: Leonie Rettig and SNS
Leonie Rettig is a very brave twenty-something. Imagine travelling to Canada from Germany to perform for the very first time under the baton of a maestro (Bernhard Gueller) who has watched you grow up musically since you were a teenager. You practice, you travel, you check in to your hotel, you rehearse with the orchestra. All is ready. You get your concert clothes on, you go to the hall, and, so cruelly that it’s hard to even remember, five minutes before you go onstage, inexplicably the lights go out in the concert hall.…
Read MoreReview: Celtic Tenors at Symphony Nova Scotia
It wasn’t even St. Paddy’s Day, but you wouldn’t have known by the good cheer in evidence at yesterday’s Rebecca Cohn Auditorium, with an audience pumped for a good time at one of three well-attended shows by Ireland’s The Celtic Tenors. Fresh from performances at the DeCoste in Pictou and the Savoy Theatre in Glace Bay, the Tenors did not disappoint their many fans, with the audience clapping and singing along to their favorites in a program of traditional, classical and opera pops hits.…
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