Concert Listings February 21-27

FREE Monday Noon Music UofA every Monday at noon in Convocation Hall.   A different program each week, the Monday Noon Music series features everything from western classical to world music. This quick 45-minute concert leaves you just enough time to get back to class or the office before the noon hour’s even over. Don't forget your lunch! 

February 15-26, 2011 various times Edmonton Opera: Rossini revised! - The Barber of Barrhead, TransAlta Arts Barns - Westbury Theatre

February 18 to 21, 8pm and February 19 and 21, 2pm 2011 Seussical Jr. Celebrate Family Day at Festival Place! 

Tuesday February 22, 2011 12pm FREE Robert de Frece, carillon (digital). Celebrate 100 years of the Alberta Legislature with the new carillon. Alberta Legislature building.

Tuesday February 22, 2011, 7:30 pm Edmonton Symphony Orchestra Enmax Hall, Winspear Centre. William Eddins, conductor , Rafał Blechacz, piano. Chopin’s Grande Polonaise Brillante and Second Piano Concerto, along with an all-Chopin solo recital in the concert’s second half. 

Thursday February 24 to March 5, 2011. Jekyll and Hyde, the Musical (in concert), by Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse.  Directed by Gregory P. Caswell, Musical Direction by Robert Bradford. La Cite Francophone Theatre. Contact Tix on the Square, limited tickets at the door. 

Thursday February 24, 2011 7:30pm New Edmonton Wind Sinfonia - Young At Heart. Winspear Centre. with the Northern Alberta Jr. High Honour Band.

Friday February 25, 2011, 7:30 pm and Saturday February 26, 2011, 8pm Edmonton Symphony Orchestra Enmax Hall, Winspear Centre. William Eddins, conductor and piano, Lucas Waldin, conductor. Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 “Eroica”, Purcell: Funeral Music for Queen Mary II, Bernstein: Symphony No. 2 “Age of Anxiety”.

Saturday February 26, 2011 7pm Edmonton Youth Choir "Dessert" Concert to support the Choir's China tour from July 4-18, 2011. Sunrise Community Church, 3303-37 St.

Saturday February 26 2011 7pm and Sunday February 27 3pm Cantilon Choirs Les Misérables In Concert, Belle Canto and the Cantilon Chamber Choir with special guest artists. Arden Theatre.

Sunday February 27, 2011 2pm Edmonton Youth Orchestra (senior and intermediate). Michael Massey, conductor. Winspear Centre.

Sunday February 27, 2011 3pm Da Camera Singers. In Paradisum - exploring the Requiem and other sacred texts. Music by Brahms, Fauré and Chesnokov. John Brough, conductor. Tickets $20 (adult) and $15 (students, seniors). First Baptist Church 10031 - 109 St.

Sunday, February 27, 2011 3pm Romantic Chamber Music, a fundraiser for the United Voices of Edmonton's trip to England in August. Robin Phillips, pianist, Judith Richardson, soprano, Andrew Sims, piano, Laura Snyder, french horn, Marie Krejcar, violin, Beth Levia, oboe, Tammy-Jo Mortensen, piano. Music by 

Johannes Brahms, 

Liebeslieder Waltzes, 

Carl Reinecke, and other Romantic German composers including German Lieder.  

Robertson-Wesley Church. 

Tickets, available at the door, are $15 for adults and $10 for students and seniors.

Sunday February 27, 2011 7:30pm Edmonton Recital Society, Caroline Stinson, cello, Sarah Ho, piano. Alberta College Conservatory, Muttart Hall. $30 Adult, $20 Student, Senior available at Tix on the Square or at the door. Student rush ticket at the door $10.

Sunday February 27, 2011 7:30pm These Are Our Songs - Vocal Alchemy. Music from the folk genre and great singer-songwriters. Guest, Jessica Heine plus more guest musicians. St. Andrew's United Church (9915 148 St). Contact Tix on the Square.