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SACKVILLE EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL
October 11-16, 2011
Suzie LeBlanc, a long-awaited return!
Great music interpreted by artists of world renown.
The seventh season of this increasingly popular festival presents, once again, a series of concerts of the highest caliber.
Soprano Suzie LeBlanc returns to present her widely heralded concert, “At the Fishhouses”, a tribute to the centennial of the poet, Elizabeth Bishop. Bishop was raised in Great Village, Nova Scotia, became poet laureate of the United States, and is acknowledged today as one of the great American poets of the 20th century. The programme includes contemporary settings of Bishop’s poems, as well as Baroque selections, accompanied by a chamber orchestra conducted by David Greenberg.
Chamber music continues with an intimate concert by Margaret Little (viola da gamba) and Sylvain Bergeron (archlute) in the harmonious surroundings of the Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University.
And don’t miss the grand final concert by the Louisbourg Choir, under the direction of Monique Richard, accompanied by an ensemble of period instruments as they present an array of works ranging from Monteverdi to Bach and Pergolesi.
All this takes place amid a panoply of fall colour in the charming town of Sackville, New Brunswick with its sylvan university campus and its award-winning Waterfowl Park. Music and Nature! Who could ask for more?
