Update (November 20, 2020)
In person concerts suspended until at least December 7.
By now you will have heard yesterday’s announcement from the Office of the Provincial Health Officer, which bans concerts and events of any size where an in-person audience is present. This order is in effect for at least the next two weeks. Regretfully, this gives us no choice but to pivot this concert to a livestream-only event.
We appreciate that this will be very disappointing to those of you who have purchased tickets in the hopes of once again experiencing first-hand the richness of live music, for which there is no true replacement.
This concert will now be livestreamed from the cathedral on Saturday, November 28th at 7:30pm, and we would encourage you to join us virtually, as many people have been doing throughout the series.
We appreciate that these may be difficult times for you, financially. However, If you are able to donate the price of your ticket, we would be more than happy to issue you with a charitable receipt for the full amount. Please indicate your willingness to do so by emailing Alex Harvey (frontdesk@christchurchcathedral.bc.ca) with your mailing address (required by the CRA). As always, your donation will compensate these world-class musicians for their performance and enrich the musical life of this cathedral.
Of course, we would also be happy to issue a full refund, which you can request through your EventBrite emailed receipt. If you have any difficulties, please contact frontdesk@christchurchcathedral.bc.ca.
About the program
Christ Church Cathedral and the Emily Carr String Quartet are pleased to announce Portraits, a lineup of in-person concerts this fall at the cathedral. The Emily Carr String Quartet, now in its 15th Season, will present such musical masterpieces as Schubert's Death and the Maiden, Shostakovich 8th Quartet, Brahms Clarinet Quintet and contemporary works by Caroline Shaw and Jared Miller. Through social distancing, limited seating and repeat performances, Portraits will offer the community an opportunity to once again attend a concert in-person and to experience the power of live music.
The concert will be livestreamed our website (www.christchurchcathedral.bc.ca) and the Music at Christ Church Cathedral Facebook page.
ECSQ commission Strangled by Growth by New York-based composer Jared Miller takes its inspiration by Emily Carr’s painting of the name. Unyielding vine growth cloaks all by the hand and visage of a masked figure. The work stands proud beside the pillar of Johannes Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet in B minor. Guest performer Liam Hockley joins the ECSQ for this coming together of things old and things new.