Collingwood Summer Music Festival – Scheherazade

Enjoy in your living room or at the drive-in!

7:30pm – Gates Open

8:30pm – Pre-Concert Talk

9:00pm – LIVE Concert

A Canadian Premiere!

Starring acclaimed Lebanese-Canadian opera singer Joyce El-Khoury in the role of Scheherazade well supported by Serouj Kradjian and ensemble – a Canadian first! A exotic fusion of traditional masterworks featuring Maurice Ravel’s Scheherazade alongside twentieth-century Lebanese songs and many other jewels of the East.

Sashaying up the red-carpeted stairs of London’s Royal Opera House for the camera, resplendent in a Marchesa gown, El-Khoury is the very embodiment of a prima donna.

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This concert will also feature the projection of a a plein air painting session with local artist Bill Franks, during the song ‘Oblivion.’

PROGRAM

• Shéhérazade (Maurice Ravel)
I Asie
II La flûte enchantée
III L’indifférent
• Give me the flute- Aateny el Nay (Najib Hankash-Kahlil Gibran)
• Swear to me little bird- Rah halfak bel ghosn ya asfour (Wadi El Safi)
• I love you Lebanon-Bahebbak ya Lubnan (Rahbani Brothers)
BREAK
• Due Vocalizzi Boghos Gelalian
• Enamored of roses-Ya Aashikata el wardi (Zaki Nassif)
• Flower of my dreams-Ya zahratan fee khayalee (Farid el Atrache)
• Oblivion* (Astor Piazzolla)
• Youkali (Kurt Weill)
• Beautiful Dream – Tcheknagh Yeraz (Arno Babadjanian)
• Por Una Cabeza (Carlos Gardel)

Joyce El-Khoury, Soprano
Serouj Kradjian, Piano and Arrangements
Joseph Petric, Accordion
Kathleen Kajioka, Violin
Jesse Dietschi, Double Bass
Naghmeh Farahmand, Percussion
Bill Franks, Painter

VENUE

New Life Church Auditorium, 28 Tracey Lane, Collingwood, ON

Note: This “hybrid” concert will be livestreamed online AND projected outdoors at the church’s spacious parking lot (drive-in). The pre-concert talk will be audio-only for digital customers.

This event has been made possible with the gracious support of Jane Moysey, REALTOR® Royal LePage Locations North, Brokerage