Calgary Youth Orchestra
4825 Mount Royal Gate SW T3E 6K6 Calgary, AB, Canada

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Join us in celebrating the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth with a free online performance, live from the Rozsa Centre on November 20th at 8 pm. Featuring the UCalgary String Quartet: Edmond Agopian, violin Patricia Lee, violin (CYO alumna)... Dean O’Brien, viola Beth Root Sandvoss, cello https://www.stagestreamlive.tv/show/2088

This program was initiated in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, and it includes the performance of our very own violinist Isaac Willocks, and our Music Director and Conductor Edmond Agopian. Listen this Friday in the link in our bio! It is common to associate Black composers with the world of jazz. This concert, however, puts the spotlight on black composers who wrote in the classical music vein. Just like jazz musicians and composers, despite their immense sufferin...g and struggle with constant racism and discrimination, black composers of classical music have created compositions of the first order. One of the earliest documented black composers of classical music was Joseph Bologne (1745 1799) who wrote symphonies, concertos, string quartets and six operas. The creative voice of black composers is part and parcel of classical music, and this concert highlights their contribution. Some of the music is inspired by gospel music, jazz, other composers such as Mozart ( A la Mozart by Adolphus Hailstork) and by historical events (String Quartet No. 5 Rosa Parks by Daniel Bernard Roumain).

A Tribute to George Fenwick Our dear friend, colleague, mentor and overall amazing person, George Fenwick, passed away at the age of 56 on August 20th, after a long battle with cancer. We will all cherish the time we spent with him and an enjoyed his wit, kindness and companionship. His integrity, empathy and sense of ethics have made a lasting impression on everyone. His wonderful compositions very much revealed his character, great intellect, social concerns, love of nature...Continue reading

Don't miss Edmond Agopian's livestream performance tomorrow at 12 noon MST on Youtube by Emil Agopian Film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtD4vL-rFGo

Music is hope https: //www.chronicle.com/article/Can-Music-Save-Your-Life-/132040