(zt) This Sunday on Afternoon In Concert (Sunday 1:00 p.m., 1:30 NT) guest host Les Dala presents music performed by one of the biggest sensations of the classical piano world -- Lang Lang.
Today you can hear Lang Lang performing Schubert, Bartok and Debussy from his recent residency at Roy Thomson Hall (see Lang Lang Adopts Toronto), and also in conversation from his subsequent performances for the Vancouver Recital Society.
Les Dala is the Music Director and Conductor of the Prince George Symphony and the Chorus Director and Assistant Conductor with Vancouver Opera, so he brings a wealth of experience to the programme -- and curiosity about music -- today he also speaks with author John Ibbitson about The Landing, a new young adult fiction book about learning and loving to play music.
Les also takes a look at the newly released video game "Wii Music" in which you can conduct a virtual orchestra. (Fun, as long as they take your tempo.)
Also on SAIC, a concert featuring Mason Bates, the composer and DJ who recently collaborated with The Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. KWS music director Edwin Outwater said that this kind of collaboration "...fills me with hope for the future of orchestral music. Now, more than ever before, our music is connected to other kinds of music and art."
Finally, you can hear Felix Mendelssohn's String Quartet No. 2 In A Minor, Op. 13 in a performance by Australia's TinAlley String Quartet, winners of the 9th Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2007.