Vancouver Bach Festival: Ebb & Flow
$18-$75 CAD ($10 CAD student rush; indigenous free); see event description for details
- Pacific Baroque Orchestra, Alexander Weimann, music director
- David Greenberg, violin
- David McGuinness, keyboard
- Fiona Tinwei Lam, Vancouver Poet Laureate
Georg Philipp Telemann — Hamburger Ebb' und Fluth ("Hamburg ebb and flood"), TWV 55:C3
George Frideric Handel — Water Music Suite No. 1 in F major, HWV 348
Join Vancouver's new Poet Laureate, Fiona T Lam; EMV's Artists-in-Residence; and the Pacific Baroque Orchestra in a musical celebration of water.
The Pacific Baroque Orchestra will perform Handel's Water Music – a suite of highly spirited dance pieces for a small orchestra. Originally intended for outdoor performance, the work premiered on a barge on the river Thames, where it provided entertainment for a royal cruise hosted by King George I of Great Britain on July 17, 1717. The king was so delighted with the new work that he asked to hear it over and over—for a total of four performances. Telemann's water music, Hamburger Ebb’ und Fluth, celebrated the centennial anniversary of the Hamburg Admiralty in 1723. The suite draws upon Hamburg's geographical location as an important and successful port on the river Elbe. Telemann illustrates the piece with mythological water deities and tone painting. Alasdair MacLean is a Canadian composer living in Nova Scotia. His piece for five strings, "The silken water is weaving and weaving", was inspired by a line from the poem Cape Breton by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1976).
Please review The Chan Centre's current COVID-19 protocols before attending this event: http://chancentre.com/covid-19-safety-foh/
Tickets (all prices in Canadian dollars):
Early bird (purchased before June 28): $28.80-$60
Individual tickets (purchased on/after June 28): $36-$75
Subscriber (with purchase of 3 or more events): $27-$56.25
Ages 34 & under: $18-$37.50
Student rush: $10
Indigenous patrons: Free (limit 1 per customer)