Arts & Culture

This Saturday, December 2nd at 7:00pm at Westworth United Church, the Esprit Singers will be presenting a concert called “And Suddenly.”

For those unfamiliar with the Esprit Singers, they are Manitoba’s premiere women’s choir. They have performed in Iceland to rave reviews and have performed with some of Winnipeg’s best musicians. They have also commissioned new works and arrangements from such composers as Ron Paley, David Scott, Glenn Sutherland and Neil Weisensel

This Sunday, December 3rd at 1:00 on the Centennial Concert Hall’s Piano Nobile the Manitoba Band Association (MBA) will be warming up audiences hands, feet and especially ears with the low, warm, sonorous sounds of low brass courtesy of a mass choir of tuba and euphonium players.

This weekend, the winner of the 2023 Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition – or “E-Gré” as it’s often called – returns to Manitoba for an intimate recital at her old stomping grounds.  

Manitoba Opera’s first production of the season, “Li Keur: Riel’s Heart of the North”, opened this past Saturday and it is hard to overstate the significance of this cross-cultural, boundary-breaking historic opera.  

This Sunday, November 26th at 3:00pm at the Lutheran Church of the Cross, this Winnipeg Wind Ensemble will be presenting their first concert of the 2023-24 season. Called Field Full of Folk the concert will feature music of Gustav Holst, Florent Schmitt and Franz von Suppe amongst others.

This is the month of Movember. Around the world men are growing moustaches to bring awareness to men’s health issues, such as prostate cancer, testicular cancer and men’s suicide. The Movember Foundation has raised millions of dollars to help fund over 1200 hundred research projects in more than 20 countries.

Tune in to Intermezzo at 1:00pm this week, as Chris Wolf and Terry Klippenstein feature music composed by these five furry-faced composers.

This Saturday, November 18th the Museum at the Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq will open a brand new exhibit called Dark Ice. This is a collaborative exhibit that was conceived by artists Leslie Reid of Ottawa and photographer Robert Kautuk of Kangiqtugaapik (Clyde River) Nunavut in collaboration with the Ottawa Art Gallery.

Manitoba Opera breaks new ground – while honouring historic territory and stories – in their latest production.  

Li Keur: Riel’s Heart of the North is the first full-scale Indigenous-led opera to take place on a Canadian mainstage.