Ten Questions for Alex Pauk
Alex Pauk is an artistic activist, a composer, a conductor, driving force behind many commissions for other Canadian composers, and the Founding Music Director & Conductor of the Esprit Orchestra,...
View ArticleEsprit Tunes the World
Tonight Esprit Orchestra, led by Conductor & Music Director Alex Pauk, marked the beginning of their 30th season with a program celebrating the excellence of Canadian music, a concert titled “The...
View ArticleEsprit : Stars, Suns, Sacre
There were three items on the Esprit Orchestra program tonight in Koerner Hall, interconnected by the laws of physics. The center-piece was a performance of a reduced version of Stravinsky’s Le Sacre...
View ArticleEsprit’s McPhee
I picked up Esprit Orchestra’s CBC recording of Colin McPhee in the lobby at one of their concerts earlier this year. I’d reviewed their live performance in October of Tabuh-tabuhan (1936) a reading...
View ArticleEsprit /Evergreen: O Gamelan
“O Gamelan” is both José Evangelista’s composition & a handy name for tonight’s program by Esprit Orchestra, suggesting a genuine reverence for the Balinese ensemble of that name. Many of the...
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