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Regina orchestra to perform in Estevan

As part of what is described as its “largest music on the road tour to date,” the Regina Symphony Orchestra (RSO) will be bringing its sounds to the Energy City late next month.

As part of what is described as its “largest music on the road tour to date,” the Regina Symphony Orchestra (RSO) will be bringing its sounds to the Energy City late next month. The RSO will be performing at Estevan Comprehensive School on March 26 at 2:00 p.m. 

The show will be one of many the RSO puts on, as part of its Music on the Road tour, which began on Feb. 15. This year’s tour represents the first time the RSO has embarked upon a multi-community tour of southern Saskatchewan. The tour’s intent is to bring live orchestral music to communities in the southern part of the province, through performances and educational presentations.

The performance will involve the RSO’s 24-piece chamber orchestra, under the guidance the new music director Gordon Gerrard, who will be acting as conductor, and participating in the music by playing the piano. This tour will be the first on which Gerrard will be joining the musicians of the RSO on a tour of southern Saskatchewan.

In a media release from the RSO, Gerrard stated he is excited to tour and experience the open skies and warm hospitality of the province’s southeast, as the tour will be something of a homecoming for the prairie-raised music director.

“I grew up on a farm just outside of Brandon, Manitoba, and know I the Prairies well, so to venture out into southern Saskatchewan again is very exciting for me,” said Gerrard. “The RSO is one of the great cultural treasures of southern Saskatchewan, and I’m thrilled to be able to bring it to communities that may have never experienced it before. Music is one of life’s greatest gifts, and we are all made richer in the sharing of it.”

The music that the audience can expect to hear when the RSO rolls into Estevan entails a mix of traditional classic pieces, including Mozart’s Symphony No. 29 in A Major, a number of pop-music-inspired pieces including George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, suites from Leonard Bernstein’s Candide and Charles Rodger’s South Pacific.