Spring arts 2019: Classical music presenters play trump cards

Both the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and Vancouver Opera have opted for a spring festival strategy with loose unifying themes — Music and Power at the VSO, Fables and Fairytales at the Opera.

In 2017, BBC4 presenter Suzy Klein delivered a fascinatingly chilling three-part television series called Tunes for Tyrants, a disquisition on how composers unwittingly wrote the soundtrack for 20th century dictators. Our own Otto Tausk conducted many of the orchestral excerpts, and he revisits the idea as the theme of the VSO’s 2019 Spring Festival.

There are so many musical and dramatic advantages to hearing the work in a jewel box venue: this aspect of VO’s festival strategy is a clear winner. Rachel Peake directs; Leslie Dala conducts.

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