“The Windsor Symphony Orchestra will be performing a special concert on Oct. 3, solely featuring the music of Jewish composers,” writes Ron Stang in Wednesday’s (9/27) Canadian Jewish News (Toronto and Montreal). “ ‘There’s a rich repertoire of music composed by Jewish composers,’ said Jay Katz, executive director of the Windsor Jewish Community Centre [in Windsor, Ontario].… Katz, who was the executive director of the Windsor Symphony Orchestra from 2001-2007 and came up with the idea for the concert, said the Jewish community and symphony have long collaborated on various projects…. ‘We’re lucky in Windsor that we have one of the best regional orchestras in the country here in our midst,’ … he said. The Oct. 3 concert will feature … Felix Mendelssohn, Jacques Offenbach, George Gershwin, Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein…. The Jewish center will also play host to a month-long photographic exhibit, which will open the same night. It will showcase Israel’s natural beauty and highlight the country’s forestation efforts, water management and agriculture…. Assistant conductor Peter Wiebe … will [conduct and] provide short bios of the composers. Windsor’s modern dance troupe, HNM Dance Company, will also perform.”
Posted October 2, 2017
