Westminster United Church

Starts: 6:00 PM

Ends: October 18, 2019 - 8:00 PM

Location: Lecture Hall

Starts: 6:30 PM

Ends: October 18, 2019 - 8:00 PM

Location: Concert Hall, Lecture Hall, Chapel

Description: Friends and neighbours making good food, coffee, and music together

Starts: 10:30 AM

Ends: October 20, 2019 - 11:30 AM

Location: Sanctuary

Description: Guest Preacher: Neil Craton

Starts: 7:00 AM

Ends: October 21, 2019 - 11:00 PM

Location: Lecture Hall

Description: Details TBA

Starts: 6:30 PM

Ends: October 21, 2019 - 8:30 PM

Location: Concert Hall, Gym, TBA

Description: Sparks: 6:30 - 7:30 PM venue to be determined

Brownies: 6:30 - 8:00 PM in Concert Hall

Guides: 6:30 - 8:00 PM in Gym

Pathfinders: 6:30 - 8:30 PM venue to be determined

Starts: 5:30 PM

Ends: October 22, 2019 - 6:30 PM

Location: Lecture Hall

Starts: 6:30 PM

Ends: October 22, 2019 - 8:30 PM

Location: Concert Hall, Board Room, Gym

Description: Beavers: 6:30 - 8:00 PM in Concert Hall

Cubs: 6:30 - 8:00 PM in Gym

Venturers: 6:30 - 8:30 PM in Board Room

Starts: 1:00 PM

Ends: October 23, 2019 - 3:00 PM

Location: Library

Starts: 7:30 PM

Ends: October 23, 2019 - 9:30 PM

Location: Sanctuary

Description: "In the Olden Style":

Featuring Edvard Grieg's Holberg Suite "In the Olden Style," Prokofiev's Symphony No. 1, and Schubert's Symphony No. 5.

Admission: $15 adults/$5 students

Starts: 5:30 PM

Ends: October 24, 2019 - 6:30 PM

Location: Lecture Hall

Starts: 7:00 PM

Ends: October 25, 2019 - 8:00 PM

Location: Gym

Starts: 5:30 PM

Ends: October 26, 2019 - 8:00 PM

Location: Gym, Library

Description: Adults: $20
Children (6-12): $10
Under 5: FREE

Starts: 10:30 AM

Ends: October 27, 2019 - 11:30 AM

Location: Sanctuary

Description: Morning Service

Starts: 2:30 PM

Ends: October 27, 2019 - 4:30 PM

Location: Sanctuary

Description: SEBASTIAN HEINDL (Leipzig, Germany)

Sebastian Heindl, 21, is the winner of the 2019 Longwood Gardens International Organ Competition held in June, garnering the $40,000 Pierre S. du Pont First Prize. In addition, Heindl receives a contract with Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, and a 2019-20 performance at Longwood Gardens. Sebastian Heindl received his fundamental musical education as a chorister in St. Thomas Boys Choir Leipzig, and contributed as a youngster organist to the BBC TV documentary Bach: A Passionate Life with Sir John Eliot Gardiner at the famous Trost organ in Altenburg. Heindl recorded his debut CD at age 17 at Magdeburg Cathedral. Heindl studies church music at the University of Music in Leipzig, and in 2017 won the Northern Ireland International Organ Competition.

Three Concert Season Subscription (after June 1): $60
Single Adult Ticket: $25
Single Senior Ticket: $20
Single Student Ticket: $10
All tickets available at McNally Robinson after August 1 and at door

Starts: 6:30 PM

Ends: October 28, 2019 - 8:30 PM

Location: Lecture Hall, Concert Hall, Gym, Library

Description: Sparks: 6:30 - 7:30 PM in Lecture Hall

Brownies: 6:30 - 8:00 PM in Concert Hall

Guides: 6:30 - 8:00 PM in Gym

Pathfinders: 6:30 - 8:30 PM in Library

Starts: 5:30 PM

Ends: October 29, 2019 - 6:30 PM

Location: Lecture Hall

Starts: 6:30 PM

Ends: October 29, 2019 - 8:30 PM

Location: Concert Hall, Board Room, Gym

Description: Beavers: 6:30 - 8:00 PM in Concert Hall

Cubs: 6:30 - 8:00 PM in Gym

Venturers: 6:30 - 8:30 PM in Board Room

Starts: 1:00 PM

Ends: October 30, 2019 - 3:00 PM

Location: Library

Starts: 7:30 PM

Ends: October 30, 2019 - 9:30 PM

Location: Sanctuary

Description: Pre-concert event: 6:45 PM

The concert begins at 7.30pm on September 25th in Westminster United Church, 745 Westminster at Maryland.

Tickets, at $36 for adults, $34 for seniors and $15 for students and those under-30 (incl. GST), are available at McNally Robinson, Organic Planet (877 Westminster Ave), and on MCO’s Ticketline at 204-783-7377.

*********************************************************************************************** Dinuk Wijeratne: a Modern Polymath

Dinuk Wijeratne is one of Canada’s most sought-after classical artists.
The “exuberantly creative’ (New York Times) JUNO award-winner made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2004 as a composer, conductor, and pianist. He’ll brandish this triple-threat at this concert, conducting a number of masterworks and then setting down his baton to premiere, as a soloist, a gorgeous new piano concerto of his own inspired creation.
And then there are the megahits on the program. First up is Mozart’s Divertimento K137. Composed when Mozart was only 16 and trapped in a stifling work climate, the Divertimento—a typically light-hearted form whose name literally means ‘to amuse’—shouldn’t be a masterpiece. Yet it is. As always, Mozart finds profundity in levity, displaying the grace, elegance, humour, and exquisite beauty we associate with his more mature work.
There’s also Bartók’s Rumanian Folk Dances, a favourite of the MCO, and Grieg’s Holberg Suite, which many critics view as superior even to Grieg’s incidental music from Peer Gynt. That Wijeratne conducts these pieces while also soloing and composing for this concert is the sort of magic show that moves Chronicle Herald to exclaim, “Dinuk Wijeratne continues to astonish us.” A sentiment we share.
Dinuk Wijeratne
Praised by the CBC as an artist “internationally respected for his virtuosity and sensitivity as a musician”, Sri Lankan-born Dinuk Wijeratne is one of Canada’s most eclectic talents … He is the recipient of the 2008 Canada Council Jean-Marie Beaudet award for orchestral conducting; double Merritt Award nominations; Juilliard and Mannes scholarships; two Countess of Munster composition grants; the Sema Jazz Improvisation Prize; the Soroptimist International Award for Composer-Conductors; and the Sir John Manduell Prize—the RNCM’s highest student honor.”
—Canadian Music Centre

Starts: 5:30 PM

Ends: October 31, 2019 - 6:30 PM

Location: Lecture Hall