A feel
for the harp
By
Joe Couture, Leader-Post February 11, 2010
'Romance
of Dance'
Regina
Symphony Orchestra with Cecile Denis and the Youth
Ballet
Company of Saskatchewan.
8
p.m., Saturday
Conexus
Arts Centre
Cecile
Denis has loved the harp for decades.
"The
playing of it, I've had the love of, ever since I was little,
ever since I was six years old," she said. "It's
... very immediate. Your fingers are in direct contact with
the strings. The sound-making is direct -- you don't have
keys, or bow, or frets or anything in between. It's just you
and the strings. It's also an instrument you feel against
you. The vibrations, you can send out, because you feel them."
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Orchestra
enthralls with classic sounds
By Joe
Couture, Leader-Post February 16, 2010
REGINA
SYMPHONY
Orchestra
Conexus
Arts Centre
The Regina
Symphony Orchestra featured the familiar and the fantastic
during its show The Romance of Dance at the Conexus Arts Centre
Saturday night.
The evening
began with the performance of "Flamenco Dance,"
which was composed by the RSO's principal oboist Elizabeth
Raum. The music was taken from two scenes from Raum's ballet,
Carmen: The Passion, which was commissioned and performed
by the Winnipeg Ballet in 2007. "Flamenco Dance,"
like selections from Raum's ballet the RSO has performed before,
was rich, full and colourful. The beautiful work made for
an engaging opening to the evening.
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