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| | Season Opener
September 15, 2018
Avondale United Church 7:30 pm
Join the Orchestra for the opening concert of this, our fourteenth season, featuring Stratford based flautist Liesel Deppe performing the Stephenson Piccolo Concerto. Like a Monet painting, Debussy’s ” Prelude a L’Apres Midi d’un Faune” shimmers, an evocative and haunting masterpiece heralding the beginning of modern music. Completing the evening is Russian composer Alexander Borodin’s heroic Symphony No. 2 including many of his most famous melodies.
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| | Passchendaele
November 3, 2018
Avondale United Church 7:30 pm
We welcome our guest speaker Paul Gross: Canadian actor, producer, director, singer and writer, as he shares stories relating to both his acclaimed movie and the World War I battle “Passchendaele”. Mr. Gross is joined on stage by fellow performer, David Keeley. The orchestra explores music of that time written by French (Ravel), English ( Elgar, Farrar and Butterworth), Canadian (MacMillan) and German (Korngold) composers.
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| | Revival House Classical Brunches
Sunday Brunch Events start at 11:30 am:
Classical Guitar
November 18, 2018
Colin Brisbois - Classical Guitar
Soprano, Piano
February 17, 2019
Katherine Napiwotzki - Soprano
David Murray - Piano
Clarinet, Bassoon, Piano
April 14, 2019
Kaye Royer - Clarinet
Alexandre von Wartburg - Bassoon
Eliza Lam - Piano
Stratford Kiwanis Stars
May 5, 2019
Stars of the Stratford Kiwanis Festival
Your family and friends will love the SSO Sunday Brunch Concert Series. These fundraising events feature local performers in support of the Orchestra. The $40 general admission includes brunch, music and a $20 tax receipt. Revival House is a unique Stratford venue offering farm fare, craft brews, wine and music in a refurbished church.
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| | House Concert Series
Sunday November 25, 2018
Kelly Walker and friends invite you to join them for a glass of wine, delicious finger foods and special performances by area musicians and actors.
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| | Christmas Sing-along
Friday December 14, 2018
Falstaff Family Center
This popular family-friendly fundraising event features performers, delicious food and a chance to sing your way into the Christmas spirit. Bring your wallets so you can "Buy a Carol" and purchase some Christmas treats.
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| | New Year in Vienna
January 1, 2019
Avondale United Church 3:00 pm
Join us for a New Year’s Day afternoon in Vienna with some of your favorite waltzes and polkas by Strauss and Anderson and also including works by Offenbach, celebrating the 200th anniversary of his birth. This year we will feature ballroom dancers as our guest artists, turning the flexible space at Avondale into a Viennese ballroom. As always, a Champagne reception will follow the concert.
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| | Celtic Celebration
January 26, 2019
Avondale United Church 7:30 pm
Returning to join the SSO for our annual Celtic Celebration is “Rant Maggie Rant” with their unique brand of Celtic music. The SSO will also play Irish favourites by Anderson and Grainger as well as “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling” arranged by our very own Bill Rowson. The Stratford Police Pipe Band is sure to add much to the concert with a selection of Scottish favourites including the stirring “Highland Cathedral”.
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| | Brahms’ First Symphony
March 30, 2019
Avondale United Church 7:30 pm
Canadian violist, Sharon Wei, joins us to perform Max Bruch's "Romance for Viola and Orchestra", Op.85 (1911).
Johannes Brahms began to work on his first symphony in 1854. It debuted in 1876. During that time, the perfectionist Brahms, ever cognizant that he was expected to compose music worthy of his reputation as Beethoven’s successor, destroyed many drafts. The long awaited Symphony No. 1 is an orchestral masterwork, paying homage to Beethoven in several themes. The concert will begin with the overture to Carl Maria Von Weber’s opera “Der Freischutz “.
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| | Best of the Crooners
May 11, 2019
Avondale United Church 7:30 pm
Grand Bend native Michael Vanhevel and the SSO will bring Howard Cable’s wonderful arrangements to the stage with some of the Best of the Crooners. Hear hits by all the greats from Nat King Cole, Paul Anka, Bobby Darin and old blue eyes himself - Frank Sinatra.
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| | Cows and Classics
Sunday, June 23, 2019 1:30 pm
A Concert in the Country
David and Annamarie Murray Farm
3844 West Perth Road 155
Mitchell, Ontario N0K 1N0
Bring your lawn chair and join us for our annual SSO outdoor concert, featuring our special guests in a magical garden setting.
Enjoy a stroll through Annamarie's magical perennial gardens while enjoying an afternoon of music by a wide range of guest performers.
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