Arts & Culture

Sacred Sounds for Holy Week: A Musical Journey on CLASSIC 107 

As we approach Easter Sunday on April 20, CLASSIC 107 invites you to join us at 1 PM each weekday for a special Holy Week series. This curated selection of sacred works reflects the profound themes of sacrifice, reflection, and redemption central to the Easter season. 

Two student ensembles from the University of Manitoba’s Desautels Faculty of Music are getting ready to present two early works from two of the biggest voices in the western classical music canon. 

The unique nature of the repertoire featured in the concert It Takes a Village is that the piano quintets it features by Antonin Dvořák and Dmitri Shostakovich are pieces that were initially conceived at around the same age as the students who are playing them.  

Baroque lovers, rejoice! This morning’s 9 a.m. hour on Classic 107 is basically a sonic pre-party for one of the most exciting concerts of the Winnipeg Baroque Festival: La Folia, performed by local period dream team In Fidem in Fidibus. If you’ve got tickets for this afternoon’s show at St. Margaret’s Anglican Church, consider this your musical appetizer.

Royal Winnipeg Ballet commissions Sahel Pascual for new work through MoBBallet partnership.

The Royal Winnipeg Ballet is welcoming a new choreographic voice into its studio this spring: Sahel Flora Pascual, a 2025 fellow with MoBBallet’s Pathways to Performance program.

The Winnipeg Baroque Festival has been serving up a feast of musical treasures since March 30, and this Palm Sunday, audiences can expect one of its most profound offerings yet. At 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 13, the Winnipeg Philharmonic Choir and the Winnipeg Singers will come together at St.

The Winnipeg Baroque Festival will feature its first-ever transatlantic collaboration in 2025 in two distinct concerts at Canadian Mennonite University’s Laudamus Auditorium. 

Local violin stalwart Karl Stobbe has joined forces with Berlin-based pianist Benjamin Moser to present The Goldberg Variations Plus and A New Take on an Old Mystery on April 14 and 16, respectively.  

Chairman of the Board. Old Blue Eyes. The Sultan of Swing. The Voice. 

Whatever nickname you choose, Frank Sinatra remains one of the most iconic figures of the 20th century. Beyond his unmistakable style and mystique, Sinatra was a musical genius whose flawless one-take studio recordings earned him the affectionate moniker “One Take Charlie.” 

If you’re in the mood for some high drama and virtuosic fireworks—Baroque style—mark your calendar for this Saturday afternoon. On April 12 at 2 p.m., the ensemble Fidem in Fìdibus returns to the Winnipeg Baroque Festival with La Folia, a concert bursting with energy, intimacy, and the gorgeously unpredictable nature of 17th-century music. 

“Do you know what my favourite part is?” says Jordan Miller. 

Even amidst the sadness of losing favourite parts and from behind the mask she must wear to protect herself as an immuno-compromised person, the artist’s eyes light up as she recounts it. 

We may not think about the designs that help us make things easier in our day-to-day lives, but there’s nothing like art to illuminate the elements we don’t pay full attention to. 

The Architecture & Design Film Festival is officially underway in the city of Winnipeg. Over the course of four days, it will showcase movies that highlight the importance of design in our lives from urban planning to graphics to architecture and everything in between.