Musique Royale, in partnership with the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic,
presents the world premiere of Scott Macmillan’s Within Sight of Shore.
Saturday, April 26 at 7:30 pm
St. John’s Anglican Church, 81 Cumberland St., Lunenburg
Within Sight of Shore, featuring Tempest Baroque Ensemble, led by violinist David Greenberg, and members of the Stadacona Band of the Maritime Forces Atlantic, is Scott Macmillan’s vivid portrayal of the events before and after the sinking of the HMCS Esquimalt, the last Canadian warship lost in World War II. Torpedoed by a German U-boat, 20 km from the mouth of Halifax Harbour on April 15, 1945, 27 members of a crew of 71 survived after enduring 6 hours in the frigid waters of the North Atlantic.
David Greenberg and Tempest Baroque Ensemble take centre stage for the first half of the program to perform arrangements of great Baroque masterworks by Vivaldi, Purcell and Rebel.
INFORMATION:
(902) 634-9994 or
stjartsalliance@eastlink.ca
Tickets are $25 (adult); $20 (seniors) and $10 (students) - available at Fulton's Pharmacy, 229 Lincoln St. and at the Musique Royale Office, 64 Townsend St. in Lunenburg
An encore performance will be held at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, at the heart of Halifax’s historic waterfront on Sunday, April 27 at 7:30 pm.
Musique Royale and the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic gratefully acknowledge our event sponsors, Clearwater Seafoods and Clearwater Ocean Prawns Venture as well as the financial assistance of the Nova Scotia Department Tourism, Culture and Heritage.
Biographies:
Scott Macmillan is recognized as one of Canada’s leading musicians. Throughout his distinguished career he has played an integral role in widening the audience for the music of Atlantic Canada both nationally and internationally. Equally at home on the podium, in the studio or behind a guitar, Mr. Macmillan is in great demand as a music director, performer/conductor, composer, arranger and producer. An exceptional guitarist, Scott Macmillan has been nominated seven times for ECMA’s, receiving the Instrumental Artist of the year Award in 1998, Best Classical Recording for MacKinnon's Brook Suite in 2002 and Bach Meets Cape Breton with Puirt a Baroque in 1995. He is well known for his work with Symphony Nova Scotia as a performer, conductor and arranger. Scott’s Celtic Mass for the Sea which he co-wrote with librettist Jennyfer Brickenden has been performed to high acclaim throughout Canada, the US and Europe.
David Greenberg's double career as both a baroque violinist and traditional fiddler began at an early age. He studied baroque violin with Stanley Ritchie at Indiana University's Early Music Institute, and moved to Canada in 1988 to join the Toronto-based baroque orchestra Tafelmusik. With Tafelmusik for 10 years, David performed orchestral, chamber, and solo roles in North America, Europe, and the Far East, and on more than forty recordings. David Greenberg also plays the vielle (medieval fiddle). He won first prize at the Erwin Bodky International Early Music Competition in 1988 with the Medieval Quintet, and he recorded vielle soundtracks for Atom Egoyan's film The Sweet Hereafter. David has gained the reputation in Cape Breton music circles as being one of the few people from outside the Nova Scotia island to have achieved a fluent command of the Cape Breton music idiom. With his wife, Kate Dunlay, he published Traditional Celtic Violin Music of Cape Breton, The DunGreen Collection.
David Greenberg is the founder/director of Tempest Baroque Ensemble. This early music ensemble focuses on authentic and exciting interpretations of baroque music on period instruments.
The Members of Stadacona Band of Maritime Forces Atlantic are part of a rich history of military music dating back to the founding of the city of Halifax in 1749.The Stadacona Band of Maritime Forces Atlantic is one of six regular force military bands serving the Canadian Forces.
