Events

Events Listing Weinzweig Centenary Events will be listed here!

To add your event to our free, online calendar, email weinzweig100@gmail.com. 

Celebrating a Century of Canadian Music

03/10/2013

On Sunday, March 10 at 2pm, Dr. Réa Beaumont performs a solo piano recital at the CBC Glenn Gould Studio with a program featuring a century of Canadian music.  The concert includes works by John Weinzweig, Barbara Pentland, Violet Archer, Jean Coulthard, Colin McPhee, Walter Buczynski, Chan Ka Nin, Alice Ping Yee Ho.

Symposium: John Weinzweig, His Contemporaries and His Influence

03/09/2013

An academic symposium, hosted by the Institute of Canadian Music at the University of Toronto. 

John Weinzweig Centenary Celebration Concert

03/08/2013

The John Weinzweig Centenary Concert will launch John Weinzweig’s Centenary Year with an exciting, free concert event, featuring some of Canada's most renowned artists. The concert will feature a new commission by Andrew Staniland entitled Dear John.

Montreal Symphony Orchestra

02/08/2013

OSM premiere of John Weinzweig's Edge of the World (1946). The Edge of the World: Music for Radio No. 2 is a suite based on music from the 1945-46 CBC radio series The White Empire which featured narratives about northern explorers and was accompanied with a score written by John Weinzweig. Weinzweig's music for this series uses Inuit folk melodies and rhythmic figuring to add to the northern character of the work.

Lakehead University

02/05/2013

Lakehead University music faculty celebrate John Weinzweig's music and legagy. 

New Music Concerts

02/03/2013

Features a centennial tribute to John Weinzweig

Kingston Symphony

02/03/2013

John Weinzweig's Violin Concerto (1951-4) is played alongside Mozart and Schumann symphonies. This Concerto was Weinzweig's first and became a landmark in his career.

University of Toronto Wind Symphony

02/01/2013

Includes a performance of John Weinzweig's Round Dance.

Guitar Society of Toronto

01/12/2013

Includes a performance of John Weinzweig's Conversations for Three Guitars (1984). 

Queen's University Symphony Orchestra

11/30/2012

Queen's Symphony Orchestra performs Weinzweig's Red Ear of Corn Suite (1949).