Posts Tagged ‘bassoon’
Review – Nova Scotia Youth Orchestra at St Matthew’s
Nova Scotia Youth Orchestra
Dinuk Wijeratne, Conductor
Nadina Mackie Jackson, Bassoon
St. Matthew’s United Church, Halifax
August 29, 2016
You might have missed it, Halifax, but last night was a big night for the bassoon. Dare I say the biggest? When a sublime Canadian soloist of Nadina Mackie Jackson’s caliber comes to town, well, it’s not an everyday thing, let me tell you, let alone when they play a bassoon concerto, a bassoon sonata, a new work by a young Canadian composer featuring the bassoon, and a couple of Carl Maria von Weber ditties as well.…
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