Brightening Winnipeg winter nights with 'Lights On'
The Exchange District BIZ has announced a new winter festival that will focus on connecting Winnipeg's vibrant art scene and preserved history with lights on display.
Lights on the Exchange - Allumez le Quartier is inspired from festivals such as Luminothérapie in Montréal and Fête des lumières in Lyon. The new festival allows selected artists to express their creative talents in ways that highlights Winnipeg's history by using light art and design.
The gifts of tradition
Celebrating the start of their 98th season, the Winnipeg Boys’ Choir (WBC) presents “Peace, Joy and Love” – a choral concert sharing in the gifts of the season.
The gift that keeps on giving: Sistema Winnipeg presents their winter concert
Celebrating the best of the season, Sistema Winnipeg presents a varied and diverse musical offering in their winter concert.
“(The program) is a whole range of things, as is pretty typical of Sistema,” says music director Naomi Woo.
Joy tuba world!
This holiday season, a troop of tubists and a union of euphoniums – maybe even a smattering of sousaphones – return to the Centennial Concert Hall to present some low-end good cheer.
Manitoba Band Association’s “Tuba Christmas” takes place this Sunday, part of a broader brassy initiative.
A Christmas choral centenary
On Sunday, December 11, the Winnipeg Philharmonic Choir presents “Christmas with the Phil” – exactly 100 years to the day from their first concert in 1922.
Journey of Miracles: Leif Ove Andsnes unearths musical jewels of Dvorak
On October 28th, 2022 Sony Classical released the latest recording from the exceptional Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes. This latest CD features Antonin Dvorak’s rather unfamiliar thirteen piano pieces that are called his Poetic Tone Pictures.
UM Archives acquire rare book owned by famous Winnipeg philosopher
A collection at the University of Manitoba Archives, which possesses the first edition of the King James Bible, now adds a new book copy owned by Marshall McLuhan.
"He was famous for sort of predicting the World Wide Web and the Internet before it physically existed," says Brian Hubner, Acquisitions and Access Archivist at UM Archives and Special Collections. "He was a philosopher and a communicator of communication technology. I mean, he's world-famous. He's probably the most famous person that ever went to the University of Manitoba."
Building the operatic community at Manitoba Opera
As part of the initiatives surrounding their 50th anniversary season, Manitoba Opera has welcomed music students to serve as ambassadors over the coming year.