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The Orchestra
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The British High Commission
in Ottawa
held a reception
at Earnscliffe in honor of
Divertimento Orchestra
April, 2008
"Ottawa's best-kept musical secret"
"A hidden jewel"
"High calibre of music"
Divertimento Orchestra is an Ottawa-based group of
75 musicians.
It began in 1984 as a small ensemble
playing in someone's basement for their own pleasure and has evolved into a
full-fledged
community symphony
under the direction of Gordon Slater.
Divertimento played two all-English concerts
Vaughan
Williams, Overture to "The Wasps"
Coleridge-Taylor, Violin Concerto,
Mark Hartt-Palmer, violin
(Canadian première)
Elgar, Enigma Variations
And as an encore
a tune that everyone left humming
Elgar, Pomp & Circumstance March No. 1
Earnscliffe was the private home
of Canada's first Prime Minister,
Sir John A. Macdonald.
He owned and lived in it for several years
before his death there in 1891. |
Photo of Lois by Bill Blackstone
Events
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by Lois Siegel |
British High Commissioner Anthony Cary
and his wife Clare
Divertimento Orchestra
conductor Gordon
Slater with his wife Elsa |
Mark and Jill Hartt-Palmer
Mark was guest performer, April concerts
Divertimento Orchestra
Coleridge-Taylor, Violin Concerto
Mark
Hartt-Palmer is the “leader” or concertmaster of the
Chichester Symphony
Orchestra
West Sussex, in the south of England |
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