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Hard on the heels of their concert devoted to music centred in Alice in Wonderland, Luminous Voices presented their final concert of the season: J.S. Bach’s… ....
by Steve Newton on January 25th, 2021 at 3:47 PM 1 of 2 2 of 2 The Pacific Baroque Orchestra will give an online performance of J.S. Bach Concertos this Wednesday (January 27). Two of Bach’s most beloved concertos exuberantly celebrate ensemble playing, a joy keenly felt by the musicians of Pacific Baroque Orchestra during this year of isolation, reads the event info. Each concerto features not a single soloist but rather a trio flute, violin and harpsichord in Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 and two violins accompanied by bass instruments in the Double Violin Concerto. The rest of the ensemble supports the soloists and comments on their playing often in a song-like alternation of catchy tutti refrain and fanciful solo verse. ....
Victoria musician Michael Jarvis, known to audiences for his wide, ever-present smile and mastery of the harpsichord, was what you would call a consummate musician. Until his sudden death on . . . ....
A native of Quebec, he worked extensively in Nova Scotia and Ontario, where he amassed a wide range of experience, most focused on rarely heard chamber music repertoire from centuries past. He taught at the University of British Columbia, the University of Toronto and Wilfred Laurier University in Waterloo, Ont., among other institutions, before moving to Victoria five years ago with his wife, Carolyn Sinclair. He continued to perform in a variety of ensembles and choirs in recent years around B.C., Alberta, Washington state and Oregon. His death drew an outpouring of tributes on Facebook, especially from the musicians who had worked with the multi-instrumentalist on his many projects. ....