Remembrance Day Music & Dance Performance in Celebration of Maurice Ravel's 150th birthday

Initially published in 1919, each movement of the piano suite Le Tombeau de Couperin was dedicated to a fallen soldier of the Great War but the music itself, although sometimes wistful, is not sombre--it is a reflection of the spirit of the friends and associates of the composer, those who had fallen in battle. When questioned about this, Ravel merely said "The dead are sad enough, in their eternal silence."

To put this exquisite music into context, it is preceded by the inspiration for Ravel's work: the Concerts Royaux, by François Couperin, and six Baroque Dances of that time (each corresponding to a movement of the dance suites by Couperin and Ravel: Menuet, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Rigaudon, Forlane), to give the audience a visual experience that will bring the music alive in the full splendour of colour and movement.

Featuring Tiffany Vong--harpsichord, Reese Carly Manglicmot--piano

Autrefois Historical Dance & Music Ensemble, Talitha MacKenzie, Director, Tim Macdonald--Baroque violin

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