Gold of Hours
Gold of Hours, a modern multimedia performance for orchestra and chorus of 19.
(PRWEB) September 29, 2005 -- Charlie Ringas, that rare, living Canadian classical Composer and Producer, presents Gold of Hours, a modern multimedia performance for orchestra and chorus of 19, Premiere Dance Theatre, Friday & Saturday, November 18 and 19 at 8 PM. Conducted by Scott Good, Designed by Campbell Walker and Produced by Chris Thack.
The Gold of Hours multimedia musical experience will be attractive to all music lovers but especially to patrons of innovation. Uniquely conceived poetic gestures, at once intimate and grand, enable a sense of familiarity and transparent scrims, shadow plays and special effects leave flowing, minimalist impressions, creating unexpected senses of scale.
Accessible, melodic, unexpected beauties and intriguing visions of jazz. Through the prism of New Music, dense layers, unusual structures, atmospheric idiosyncrasies, making a vital connection to the listener." -Toronto Star, 1/1/1999
Complex harmonies and constantly shifting rhythms...deeply beautiful and ultimately moving." - Revue, 10/2000
Peer over musical horizons, fascinating, always accessible listening." - Toronto Star 1/13/2001
Ringas background in live broadcasting, music for theater, dance, television and film lets him build a high bridge between what is comfortable and known and what is fresh and new in multimedia music.
Noted for excellence in production and performance, lived in Europe and worked extensively in music and multimedia exhibitions. In North America, he devised sonic environments for Christine Carsons Subterranean Metropolitan Opera in Edmonton, Montreal, Toronto and New York and was a member of Don Valley Parkway. Ringas Supermono Records features a catalogue of 17 Canadian recordings.
Chorus includes: Jennifer Moore, soprano, Maria Riedstra, alto, Timothy Corlis, tenor, Stephen Hegedus, baritone. The Orchestra includes: flute - Carol Savage, clarinet - Max Christie, bassoon -- Christian Sharpe, trumpet - James Freeman, trombone - Rupert Price, percussion - Roman DiNillo, marimba/vibes - Erin Donovan,
Harp - Kristen Theriault, piano - Kathryn Tremills, violin - Phoebe Tsang, viola - Christopher Turner, contrabass - Earl Brown.
Canadian composer Scott Good is the artistic director of Earshot Concerts, an organization devoted to the performance of contemporary
Canadian music. Campbell Walker brings his award-winning technical experience in visual mediums to Gold of Hours.
Charlie Ringas, Friday and Saturday, November 18 & 19, 2005
Premiere Dance Theatre, Harbourfront, Toronto
WHO: Charlie Ringas, his 19-piece orchestra and chorus including members of Esprit Orchestra, New Music Concerts, Toronto
Philharmonic, Windsor Symphony, Orchestra London, The Mississauga Symphony and Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.
WHAT: Gold of Hours: 76 minute multimedia suite for orchestra and chorus.
WHERE: PREMIERE DANCE THEATRE, 235 Queens Quay West, Toronto.
WHEN: FRIDAY and SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 and 19 - 8 p.m.
HOW: $36 tickets available at 416 973 4000, #1, (1--8 p.m., Tues -- Sat), York Quay Centre Box Office, 235 Queens Quay West.No service charge on box office purchases.
www.charlieringas.ca
James Monaco Publicity 416 686 3395.
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