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Martin Kull, general manager of the Centennial Concert Hall, is looking forward to the return of live performances. The concert hall is undergoing extensive renovations during the pandemic shutdown. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
When the doors of the province’s largest multipurpose performing arts hall reopen to the public, prepare to kick up your heels.
Winnipeg Free Press
When the doors of the province’s largest multipurpose performing arts hall reopen to the public, prepare to kick up your heels.
Not just the resumption of ballet, opera and live music at the Centennial Concert Hall will be worth celebrating, but because upcoming renovations will uncover a large section of wood flooring on the Piano Nobile level, said Robert Olson, CEO of Manitoba Centennial Centre Corp., which operates the hall.
Today in Music History - Dec. 16
The Canadian Press 2020-12-16
Today in Music History for Dec. 16:
In 1770, German composer Ludvig Van Beethoven was born in Bonn. Universally recognized as one of the greatest composers ever, Beethoven s work crowned the classical period and also marked the start of the romantic era in music. Beethoven expanded the classical sonata and symphony, and his influence on the composers who followed was immense. His deafness began when he was about 30 and was total by his late 40s. While his affliction did not hamper his creativity, Beethoven never heard much of his later work. He died, after a long illness, in 1827 in the middle of a raging thunderstorm. It is said that the dying Beethoven shook his fist defiantly at the heavens.