100 Years: A Celebration
Pointe Claire Centennial Concert
The West Island Youth Symphony Orchestra launches its 26th season
 Fresh from its own 25th Anniversary season and a highly successful tour of France and Switzerland, the West Island Youth Symphony Orchestra is launching its 26th season with a concert in celebration of the centennial of the City of Pointe Claire.
The concert will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, November 19 at St-Joachim Church, 2 Ste-Anne Street in Pointe Claire.
The concert will feature music that celebrates the West Island community’s French and English roots, including an orchestral suite from Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen, the majestic Crown Imperial coronation march by William Walton and the first of George Butterworth’s Two English Idylls, which were composed in 1911, the year of the City’s incorporation. The program will also include Leonard Bernstein’s brilliant Candide Overture and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8.
The featured soloist for the concert will be Pointe Claire resident Stephen Alarie, who will perform The Swan of Tuonela for solo English horn and orchestraby Jean Sibelius.
Our concert on February 25 will feature the beloved “New World” Symphony of Antonín Dvořák along with other “Music from The New World”, including An Outdoor Overture by Copland, Three Atmospheres by Canadian composer Norm Symonds and an orchestral suite from the film Pirates of the Caribbean.The May 5 “Spring Concert” will feature the orchestra’s principal horn player, Raphaël Santamaria, as well as the WIYSO’s Junior String Orchestra and chamber ensembles from the orchestra.
Other events this season will include the orchestra’s annual benefit Christmas Concert for West Island Community Shares, which will take place at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, December 11 at Mary Queen of Peace Church in Roxboro and will feature Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, and a concert for the City of Beaconsfield that will take place at Beaurepaire United Church on Sunday afternoon, April 22. Earlier in April, the orchestra will participate in the biannual festival of the Association des orchestres de jeunes du Québec.
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