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Our History Orchestra London Canada has been sharing the magic of live, orchestral music for more than 60 years. Founded in 1937 by conductor and violinist Bruce Sharpe, the London Civic Symphony Orchestra began as a community-based ensemble comprised of business people, teachers, homemakers and students. Under Sharpe, they presented many works by contemporary Canadian composers, including Barbara Pentland, Gerald Bales and Wayne Barlow. The orchestra was reorganized in 1950. A goodwill donation of $500 from the local Kiwanis Club led to the formation of a Board of Directors and the Woman's Committee. The orchestra also hired its first professional conductor, Martin Boundy, who would remain at the podium until 1969. Under Boundy's tenure, the ensemble played concerts in regional centres, introduced children's concerts and performed its first Pops concert. The renamed London Symphony Orchestra was incorporated in June 1957 but did not achieve fully-professional status until the

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About Amici Chamber Ensemble: Amici's aim is to perform the world's finest chamber music, with its most accomplished musicians,

eporchestra.ca

Dorothy requested the oboe in high school but was given a bassoon—which was kismet, as the Hamilton Philharmonic Youth Orchestra had a bassoonist opening the next year. She graduated in Mathematics from University of Toronto and escaped the stress of her corporate career by playing in community orchestras, small ensembles and pit orchestras. In addition to the joy of literally being immersed inside great music, Dorothy’s love of playing comes from the many talented, fascinating people she�

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Cameron Crozman, Cello

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Since 1976, the Hart House Orchestra has provided an opportunity for musical fellowship among members of the University of Toronto community with training and interest in performing symphonic works. The Orchestra is based in Hart House, a unique cultural and recreational centre at the heart of the University of Toronto, St. George Campus in downtown

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A NEW DAY was written at the request of trumpeter David Robertson for convocations at the University of Western Ontario. The music has a majestic and accomplished atmosphere filled with joy and amazement, many of the emotions felt at a convocation ceremony. With all the images of the future appearing in the listener’s mind as they move through the piece, Venables brings in the theme of a new day, sparking thoughts of endless opportunity and aspirations for anyone beginning a new chapter in their lives. LEVEL: C Sample Score Inner Cover

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“My chief aim was to awaken and permanently instill spiritual feelings not only in the singers but in the listeners.” – Beethoven Beethoven composed the Egmont Overture as part of the incidental music for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s tragedy Egmont , which dramatizes the life of Count Egmont,