Skate at Assiniboine Park

UPDATE (Tuesday, Jan. 10):  The Duck Pond is open for skating and there is colder weather coming later tonight!

UPDATE (Friday, Jan. 6): Due to warm temperatures and slushy snowfall, the Duck Pond will remain closed today. Workers will be scraping and flooding the ice so that it can reopen it in good skating condition as soon as possible, hopefully this weekend.

The Assiniboine Park Duck Pond opens for skating December 30th at noon!

Trio Pass a great way to see WSO

Choose any 3 WSO concerts for only $79 (up to $153 value) from the concerts listed below (click concert titles for more information). This is perfect for gift-giving – it’s your best value for 2012.

Benefits of the WSO’s Trio Pass:

• Save up to 52%
• Save up to $74 – the equivalent of at least one concert
• 20% discount on additional tickets for friends and family or yourself for additional WSO concerts this season
• Free exchanges to another performance of the same concert or into any other TrioPass selection

Concerts:

For Michael – The Music of Michael Jackson
February 10-11, 8 pm
February 12, 2 pm

Dvorak’s New World Symphony
Beyond the Score
February 25, 8 pm

Parker Plays Brahms 2
March 2-3, 8 pm

Broadway Rocks
March 16-17, 8 pm
March 18, 2 pm

WSO Continues 2011-2012 Brandon Season

The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra (WSO) continues its 2011-2012 Brandon season. With an impressive line-up – both in programmes and guest artists – the season provides concert-goers with profound musical experiences until February.

Upcoming Concerts:

American Masters
Sunday, February 19, 3 p.m.

John Estacio: Bootlegger’s Tarantella
Barber: Violin Concerto                                   
Bernstein: On the Town: Three Dance Episodes
Copland: Appalachian Spring

North American composers are featured in this colourful and vividly themed program, welcoming the fast-rising star Augustin Hadelich in his WSO debut, along with Larry Rachleff, a world-renowned conducting teacher, and among America’s most communicative conductors.

Mozart & Stravinsky
Sunday, March 25,  3 p.m.

Mozart: Sinfonia concertante in E-flat major, K. 297b
Debussy: Printemps
Stravinsky: The Firebird: Suite

A Mozart concerto-times-four and a chance to hear the WSO’s fabulous principal wind players in one of his most delightful compositions. Conductor Alexander Mickelthwate rounds out this vivid program with Stravinsky’s classic and exotic The Firebird: Suite.

Tickets are are on sale now at the Western Manitoba Centennial Auditorium at (204) 728-9510, online at wmca.ca, or at the Brandon Ticketmaster Keystone Centre at (204) 726-3555.