"O Fortuna" - The "Unplugged" version!

Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" as you've never seen it before!

Read the "classics" this summer!

Your "Sunday Baroque" host Suzanne Bona adds her suggestions to our summer book lists.

- Companion to Baroque Music (Compiled and edited by Julie Anne Sadie; University of California Press 1990) This is a good all around reference book.
- Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment (by James R. Gaines; Harper Perennial 2005)
- The New Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents (edited by Hans T. David and Arthur Mendel, revised and expanded by Christoph Wolff; WW Norton 1998)
- Handel (by Christopher Hogwood; Thames & Hudson 1996)
- Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (by Christoph Wolff; WW Norton 2000)
- Vivaldi: Voice of the Baroque (by H.C. Robbins Landon; University Of Chicago Press 1996)
- Master Musicians Series: Vivaldi (by Michael Talbot; Oxford University Press 2000)
- Master Musicians Series: Handel (by Donald Burrows; Oxford University Press 2001)

Here's a link to more summer reading recommendations.

Victoria Symphony Splash!

What a gorgeous setting for the August 3rd Victoria Symphony Splash! The concert includes a world premiere by local composer Tobin Stokes, the South Island Dancers and pieces premeired in 1858, the year of the founding of the Crown Colony of British Columbia. The concert ends with Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" complete with bells, cannons and who knows what else?!

Over The Rainbow

Remember Paul Potts from "Britain's Got Talent?" "Britain's Got Talent" has a way of finding some amazing people.