Arts & Culture

Johann Joachim Quantz is a name best known amongst flute players.

For the uninitiated (admittedly, most of us), the eighteenth-century German-born composer is considered to be one of the great innovators of the instrument. He wrote hundreds of flute sonatas and concertos to showcase his own talent, impressing the likes of Bach, Haydn and Mozart. 

On January 13th,  Canadian pianist Francine Kay released her latest album on the Analekta record label called “Things Lived and Dreamt”.  

A new exhibit at MHC Gallery introduces its audience to thinking critically about different types of change with moments of time and personal struggles.

Grief and Grievance: Sites of Change opens today at 7:30 p.m. at the Mennonite Heritage Centre (MHC) Gallery which includes works from two artists; "Protest" by Briony Haig, and "The Grief Project," by Barb Bottle.

This weekend, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra presents Peer Gynt. A drama, written in verse, by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen with incidental music scored by Edvard Grieg.  

Premiered in 1867, the work presented by the WSO has been adapted by contemporary actor, producer, and writer John de Lancie – who serves as narrator – and features special guests: the University of Manitoba Singers and a pair of soprano Singer alums, Andrea Lett and Julie Lumsden.  

The wily and omnipotent Q in Star Trek: The Next Generation. The grief-stricken Don Margolis in Breaking Bad. The voice of Discord in My Little Pony. The troubled Eugene Bradford in Days of Our Lives.  

These are but a few of the many roles portrayed by the venerable American actor, director, producer, writer John de Lancie.  

The city’s foremost daytime concert and lecture series – Music N Mavens – returns to the Rady JCC.  

Two longtime Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra principals, Yuri Hooker and Meredith Johnson, are part of the backbone of the orchestra.  

Cello and double bass are foundational elements in the symphony’s sound though it isn’t often that we hear just the two without their colleagues, and certainly rarer still to hear them without any of their smaller string siblings.  

If you say the name Carl Czerny (1791-1857) to any student of music nowadays, the first thing that will get mentioned are the hundreds of keyboard exercises that he composed and are still being imposed on piano students to this day. It is for this reason largely, that Czerny has been put into the pigeon hole of pianist who wrote etudes for students, and nothing more.

Roots and Branches pairs established professional mentors with upcoming student artists in a brand-new, side-by-side mentorship and performance initiative.