Remembrance Day concert for Music Niagara
It will be a musical and theatrical Remembrance Day in Niagaraon-the-Lake Sunday.
Music Niagara’s annual Remembrance Day concert will gather local singers, musicians and actors for an “emotional and respectful commemoration” of the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. It takes place at 11:45 a.m. at St. Mark’s Church, immediately following a ceremony at the cenotaph.
Performing will be baritone Alexander Dobson doing music by George Butterworth, pianist Victoria Kohan playing Paderewski, soprano Inga Filippova Williams singing a collection of Russian romances, and violinist (and Music Niagara artistic director) Atis Bankas playing Vaughan Williams’ “The Lark Ascending.”
Joining them will be veteran Shaw Festival performer Guy Bannerman, reading personal and literary excerpts of Allied soldiers’ accounts of the Great War.
The concert follows a Shaw Festival season in which three plays commemorated the century mark of the First World War’s end.
A free Canteen lunch will be provided prior to the show at 11:30 a.m. in Addison Hall, adjacent to the church.
Tickets are free, but organizers are asking for a $20 donation to support Royal Canadian Legion Branch 124 in Niagara-on-the-Lake, for its elevator fund.