Under the Influence Festival
Join the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra for an unforgettable musical journey
A raucous and unforgettable musical journey that shines a light on the iconoclasts—genre-defying musicians and composers—whose creativity has led to profound artistic upheaval, join the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra for its most boundary-pushing festival yet.
Featuring music by Tchaikovsky, Frank Zappa, Tanya Tagaq, John Corigliano, if you love adventurous concerts, you need to check out this lineup.
Provocative: Percussion + Tchaikovsky
April 25, 2019, 7:30pm
Jack Singer Concert Hall, Arts Commons (205 8th Ave. SE)
$25 – $85
The electric violin and drumkit in Frank Zappa’s genre-blurring Revised Music for Low Budget Symphony Orchestra sets an audacious tone to this concert. This performance also includes the overwhelming emotion of Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony and Gareth Farr’s percussion concerto, Hikoi, featuring CPO Principal Percussionist Joshua Jones.
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Late Night: Sensory Overload with Tanya Tagaq
April 27, 2019, 9:00pm
Jack Singer Concert Hall, Arts Commons (205 8th Ave. SE)
$30
Venture into the visceral with this late-night performance featuring experimental vocalist Tanya Tagaq. The performance also includes Fausto Romitelli’s haunting and dissonant Dead City Radio and Barber’s First Symphony—an intense masterpiece from one of America’s greatest composers. And be sure to swing by early as a live audio-video performance by SNLPTR kicks off at 7:30pm.
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John Corigliano’s Mr. Tambourine Man
May 2, 2019, 7:30pm
Studio Bell, home of the National Music Centre (850 4th St. SE)
$30
Co-presented by the National Music Centre, John Corigliano presents his Grammy Award-winning work, Mr. Tambourine Man, set to the poems of Bob Dylan and featuring soprano Laura Hynes. The evening is rounded out by his dynamic work Stomp, performed by acclaimed violinist Lara St. John.
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Controversial Classics: The Rite of Spring + The Red Violin
May 3 & 4, 2019, 7:30pm
Jack Singer Concert Hall, Arts Commons (205 8th Ave. SE)
$25 – $85
Hear Academy Award-winning composer John Corigliano’s haunting Red Violin Concerto, performed by Canadian violin star Lara St. John, and his mind-bending Three Hallucinations. These two adaptations of film scores are complemented by the frenzied climax of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring.
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Under the Influence Festival runs April 25 to May 4, 2019. Head to calgaryphil.com for the full schedule.
