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LONDON COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA
MAY 2024 NEWSLETTER
The final concert of our fiftieth-anniversary season will take place on Sunday, May 12, at 3:00 PM at Western University’s Paul Davenport Theatre. Please note that this concert won’t be at our usual location!
All campus parking will be free on the day of the concert. The closest lot to the theatre is the Talbot College lot, immediately across the street from Talbot College. Though this lot has parking meters, you won’t need to pay. (A full parking map is available on Western’s Parking Services website.)
The concert will have an intermission, and there will be a catered reception afterward for both audience and performers. We hope to see you there!
Our concert tickets are $25 for adults, $20 for seniors, $15 for students, and $5 for children under 12. You can buy tickets online at OnStageDirect.com/lco or with cash or cheque at the door the day of the concert.
For more information about the orchestra or our upcoming concerts, please visit lco-on.ca. You can contact us with questions or comments at info@lco-on.ca and subscribe to this newsletter at http://tinyletter.com/LCOnewsletter. We also invite you to follow us on Facebook (/LondonCommunityOrchestra), Twitter (@lco_on), and YouTube, where you can watch a recording of our November 2021 concert.
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This concert features energetic and evocative compositions from the twentieth century. The Mother Goose Suite (1910–11) by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) musically depicts the story of Sleeping Beauty, along with other fairy tales that fill her dreams, such as Beauty and the Beast and Tom Thumb. Kaleidoscope (1948, revised 1949 and 1960) by the Quebecois composer Pierre Mercure (1927–1966) presents swirling orchestral colours, driving rhythms, and rapidly changing moods. And the Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in D minor (1932) by Francis Poulenc (1899–1963) is alternately dramatic and playful. It echoes Mozart, jazz, and gamelan music.
For the Poulenc concerto, we are thrilled to feature Dr. Kyung Kim and Dr. Michael Kim as piano soloists. Both have performed extensively as soloists and chamber musicians across North America, Asia, and Europe. Their performance is not to be missed!
Kyung Kim is Piano Division Coordinator and Associate Professor at Western University’s Don Wright Faculty of Music. She has given solo recitals at venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Seoul Arts Center, the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts in Seoul, the Salzburg Mozarteum’s Großer Saal, and the Franz Liszt Academy’s Grand Hall in Budapest—and concerto performances with the Winnipeg Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, among many others. She holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Michael Kim is Dean of the Don Wright Faculty of Music. He has performed as a soloist with numerous orchestras, including the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra London, the Boston and Cincinnati Pops, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and the BBC Scottish Symphony. He was silver medalist in the 1992 Scottish International Competition in Glasgow, a prizewinner in the Leeds and Ivo Pogorelich International Piano Competitions, and grand prizewinner of the Canadian Music and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation National Radio Competitions. He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Juilliard School.
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Many thanks to our audience members for your support! We appreciate the opportunity to contribute to London’s culture and community through music. We’re especially grateful to our generous donors and sponsors, who make it possible for us to bring our music to you.
There are two ways that you can donate to support the orchestra’s fiftieth-anniversary season: visit CanadaHelps online or send a cheque payable to London Community Orchestra to 340 Victoria St, London, ON N6A 2C8.
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Best wishes,
Jonathan De Souza, LCO Newsletter Editor & Violist
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