Arts & Culture

For over a century, International Women's Day has been celebrated each year on March 8, and today Classic 107 is celebrating in style!

As outlined by UNESCO: "it provides an occasion to celebrate the progress made towards achieving gender equality and women's empowerment but also to critically reflect on those accomplishments and strive for a greater momentum towards gender equality worldwide."

And this year's theme – #InspireInclusion – truly encourages and embraces the goals of equality and empowerment, emphasizes the importance of diversity and equity in a society. 

Paris Meets Hong Kong: Canadian pianist Philip Chiu takes listeners on a musical Voyage

On February 9th, the ATMA Classique record label released a recoding called Voyages that features the outstanding Canadian pianist Philip Chiu performing the music of Debussy and Canadian composer Alice Ho.

Join the students of the Desautels Faculty of Music Musical Theatre Ensemble as they celebrate La Vie Bohème this weekend!  

Featuring scenes from Anne of Green Gables, Hamilton, Little Shop of Horrors, Little Women, Phantom of the Opera, Something Rotten, The Sound of Music and, of course, Rent, the show features student performers from the University of Manitoba.  

A musical phenom who made his orchestral debut at 11, Blake Pouliot has been impressing audiences for nearly two decades. 

Which is really saying something, given that the Toronto-born, New York-based violinist just turned 30.  

After a Winnipeg debut in 2021 performing the Samuel Barber violin concerto, Pouliot returns to town to perform Jean Sibelius’ Violin Concerto in D minor alongside the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra in their latest Thursday Classics concert.  

The show begins at 7 p.m. on March 7, 2024 with a pre-concert performance at 6:15.  

This Wednesday and Thursday, Winnipeg’s GroundSwell will be featuring a true Canadian piano phenom, pianist Corey Hamm.

For those unfamiliar with Corey Hamm, he is currently on faculty at University of British Columbia’s School of Music where he teaches piano and chamber music. He has commissioned more than 400 works for the piano, and has performed and taught all over the world, championing works by composers such as Henri Dutilleux, and Frederic Rzewski.

The Village Conservatory for Music Theatre – or the ViC for short – provides high-quality post-secondary performing arts training to aspiring actors and singers. 

This week, they present Inhibition Exhibition: A Community Celebration. In its fourth offering, what began as a year-end student showcase has grown into a full-blown, 5-day festival. 

“This year, our theme is ‘untethered,’” says artistic director Simon Miron. “It’s really about releasing the bonds that are holding us together.”  

This Wednesday, March 6th at 1:30 at the Gwen Sector Creative Living Centre at 1588 Main Street, the Music and Maven’s Concert and lecture series is presenting the amazing  Argentinian-Canadian singer-song writer Onna Lou in a concert called Onna Lou Sings Songs of Latin America

Fusing Latin pop rock with Latin-American folk rhythms, tango and flamenco, Onna Lou has been described as a complete artist who sings, writes, performs and records her own music with warmth, intimacy and immense talent.

Expect a little bit of everything at an upcoming Music ‘N’ Mavens concert at the Rady JCC.  

In a highly diverse program, The Luminous String Quartet runs the gamut in “From Bach to AC/DC.” 

“We really have to change the way that we’re playing,” explains Barg when asked about the variety of repertoire. 

“When it comes down to AC/DC we just rock out... but with Bach, you have to be absolutely specific and particular.”  

This Thursday, March 7th at 7:00pm, The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra is performing a rarely heard symphony by the fantastic Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg, his Symphony in C minor.  As we lead up to the WSO’s performance of this fresh youthful work, Classic 107 will explore Grieg’s other orchestral writing in the 1:00pm hour all this week on Intermezzo. Tune in as we put to air some of his most well-known and beloved music.

Monday, March 4: Lyric Suite (1891, 1904)

After a busy, monthlong celebration of literature in all of its forms -- which saw Classic 107 in partnership with McNally Robinson Booksellers visit three classrooms, bringing the gift of reading! -- a new month has arrived. Though, simply because "I Love to Read Month" has ended doesn't mean your love of literature has to stop! 

Chris Hall of McNally Robinson Booksellers returned to the Classic 107 studio with his latest picks in the ongoing feature "What to Read."