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www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Friday, May 3, 2013 | 28 Farewell moment with Chamber by Dominik Kurek Oakville Beaver Staff Artscene "Connected to your Community" No, the Oakville Chamber Orchestra is not going away, but there will be a farewell moment at its concerts on Saturday and Sunday. The group will end the season with Johann Sebastian Bach's Violin Concerto #2 in E and Orchestral Suite #3, to go along with Joseph Haydn's Symphony #45, also known as the Farewell Symphony. "Haydn felt that his musicians were overworked and so he wrote this piece, the Farewell Symphony, in which they all, one at a time, get up and leave the stage at the end of the piece," said Masterworks artistic director Charles Demuynck, who will conduct. "He was just trying to give a hint to his boss, the Prince Esterházy, that they should all have a holiday." And just as the musicians walked off the stage in 1772 in the prince's summer home in Eszterháza, Hungary, so will the musicians in Oakville. Approximately 25 players will get up in turn during the last five minutes of the music piece and walk off the stage. "By the end of the piece, there will be two people playing," Demuynck said. Oakville teen violinist Leslie Ashworth will be the featured soloist at the concert's performance of Bach's Concerto. The Concerto, Demuynck said, is one that people will recognize, as its music is famous. The other Bach piece of music will also be recognizable to people, particularly the Air. "There's no way you could not recognize this piece. It's one of the most famous pieces," Demuynck said. Demuynck invites anyone to the concert, also called Farewell Symphony. "It's going to be a lot of excellent music that people are already familiar with and we have Leslie Ashworth who is a really and extremely talented young person. It's going to an entertaining and fabulously excellent concert," he said. The Saturday concert is at Central Baptist Church, 340 Rebecca St. at 7:30 p.m. The Sunday concert is at St. Simon's Anglican Church, 1450 Litchfield Rd. at 3 p.m. Tickets cost $30 for general admission, $25 for seniors, $20 for students or $15 for children. For tickets and more information, visit www. oakvillechamber.org. The Oakville Wind Orchestra is rehearsing for Sunday's concert titled Around the World in Eighty Tunes. The performance will be at The Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts at 2 p.m. photo by Graham Paine ­ Oakville Beaver (Follow on Twitter @halton_photog) Around the world of music with wind orchestra by Dominik Kurek Oakville Beaver Staff You can go around the world without having to leave town. The Oakville Wind Orchestra is presenting its concert, titled Around the World in Eighty Tunes, featuring music from across the globe. "We're tapping into the Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days from 1793. What we're trying to do is head around the world in music. We're going around the world in music," said music director Chris Arthurs. The concert is on Sunday (May 5) at The Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts at 2 p.m. It will feature the wind orchestra and guest performances by the Streetsvillebased Queen's York Ranges Pipes & Drums. The concert will kick off with Canadian music, then switch over to folk and cow- boy tunes from the U.S. west. The Pipes & Drums will perform music from the British Isles. The wind orchestra will then metaphorically hop on a boat to Africa, and first play sea songs and then some African tunes, such as A Night in Tunisia as arranged by Paul Murtha and then The Lion King, arranged by Paul Higgins. Audiences will also hear classical music with the performance of Rossano Galante's The Winged Stallion. Music will also include a Tijuana Brass in Concert performance. The Pipes & Drums will return for a second set, consisting of international music, featuring the sounds of places such as France, Australia, Scotland, England, Wales, Ireland and Canada. There will also be some contemporary music, including Michael Jackson and The Beatles tunes. There is also a planned encore featuring The Muppet Show theme. "People are going to hear some great music, they'll feel great about Oakville and you really have to see the wonders of live music," Arthurs said. "So much of our music is push and play, iPods, computers, TV. This is an opportunity to see real people make real music right here in the community and it's really good." He said the concert will showcase the talent that is available in the community. "I just want to showcase the amazing talent we have running around Oakville, not in just in the OWO, but in the symphonies and the choirs, big bands and small brass bands. The people of Oakville have to know there is just such talent shopping with them at Tim Hortons, walking down the street with them, playing with their kids in the park," he said. Tickets cost $20 and are available at www.oakvillecentre.ca. The Centre is located at 130 Navy St. The wind orchestra will also be hosting a free summer concert series at Coronation Park, 1426 Lakeshore Rd. W., that kicks off Tuesday, July 2 and continues for six consecutive Tuesdays. The concerts start at 7 p.m. Get into spring with voice and harp concert at Central Baptist Church It will be a night of classical music when two Oakville-raised musicians get together for a concert on Wednesday, May 8. The voice and harp concert, titled Music for a Spring's Eve, will feature the talents of soprano Laurie Farrow Reviol and harp player Sharlene Wallace. The concert is at Central Baptist Church, 340 Rebecca St., at 7 p.m. Farrow Reviol grew up in Oakville but currently resides in Germany. Later this month, she's also performing with the Oakville Symphony Orchestra. She was educated at the University of Toronto in piano and voice. Her voice has been heard in operas, at concerts and on radio broadcasts throughout Europe and North America. Wallace is a Classical harpist, educated at U of T, who tours and performs internationally as a performer and gives workshops and master classes, as well as adjudicates. She's on the faculty of York University, teaching lever and pedal harps. The Oakville concert will feature the music of Franz Schubert, Guiseppe Verdi, Claude Debussy and Gabriel Fauré, along with folk songs and other styles of music. Tickets cost $20. Tickets are available at the door, at L'Atelier Grigorian, 210 Lakeshore Rd. E., or online at www.harpramblings. com.