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Welcome to the first installment of our concert series featuring Studio Ghibli’s enchanting, iconic movie soundtracks, by legendary composer Joe Hisaishi.
Let us take you on a symphonic journey through the magical world of Studio Ghibli. This musical tribute will guide you through new and familiar storyscapes, from the scheming monarchies in Howl’s Moving Castle to Spirited Away’s mystical spirit world. Come experience a live orchestra bring two of Hayao Miyazaki’s most beloved films to life—films that taught a generation how to be brave, how to hope, how to dream, and encouraged us all to never lose our youthful wonder.
To wrap up this Ghibli offering, we will perform a specially commissioned piece combining Hisaishi’s evocative scores from all 13 Studio Ghibli films.
Welcome to the first installment of our concert series featuring Studio Ghibli’s enchanting, iconic movie soundtracks, by legendary composer Joe Hisaishi.
Let us take you on a symphonic journey through the magical world of Studio Ghibli. This musical tribute will guide you through new and familiar storyscapes, from the scheming monarchies in Howl’s Moving Castle to Spirited Away’s mystical spirit world. Come experience a live orchestra bring two of Hayao Miyazaki’s most beloved films to life—films that taught a generation how to be brave, how to hope, how to dream, and encouraged us all to never lose our youthful wonder.
To wrap up this Ghibli offering, we will perform a specially commissioned piece combining Hisaishi’s evocative scores from all 13 Studio Ghibli films.
Welcome to the first installment of our concert series featuring Studio Ghibli’s enchanting, iconic movie soundtracks, by legendary composer Joe Hisaishi.
Let us take you on a symphonic journey through the magical world of Studio Ghibli. This musical tribute will guide you through new and familiar storyscapes, from the scheming monarchies in Howl’s Moving Castle to Spirited Away’s mystical spirit world. Come experience a live orchestra bring two of Hayao Miyazaki’s most beloved films to life—films that taught a generation how to be brave, how to hope, how to dream, and encouraged us all to never lose our youthful wonder.
To wrap up this Ghibli offering, we will perform a specially commissioned piece combining Hisaishi’s evocative scores from all 13 Studio Ghibli films.
Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Academy Award®–winning feature-length film Encanto™ comes to life with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra performing the score. Encanto™ tells the tale of the Madrigals, an extraordinary family living in a magical house in the mountains of Colombia. When Mirabel, the only ordinary Madrigal, discovers the magic surrounding their home is in danger, she may be her family’s last hope. Encanto™ received an Academy Award®, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Producers Guild of America Award for Best Animated Feature. The soundtrack features original songs by Academy Award®–nominated, and Tony®-and-GRAMMY®-winning songwriter/composer Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton, Moana) with an original score by Academy Award®–nominated composer Germaine Franco.
Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Academy Award®–winning feature-length film Encanto™ comes to life with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra performing the score. Encanto™ tells the tale of the Madrigals, an extraordinary family living in a magical house in the mountains of Colombia. When Mirabel, the only ordinary Madrigal, discovers the magic surrounding their home is in danger, she may be her family’s last hope. Encanto™ received an Academy Award®, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Producers Guild of America Award for Best Animated Feature. The soundtrack features original songs by Academy Award®–nominated, and Tony®-and-GRAMMY®-winning songwriter/composer Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton, Moana) with an original score by Academy Award®–nominated composer Germaine Franco.
Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Academy Award®–winning feature-length film Encanto™ comes to life with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra performing the score. Encanto™ tells the tale of the Madrigals, an extraordinary family living in a magical house in the mountains of Colombia. When Mirabel, the only ordinary Madrigal, discovers the magic surrounding their home is in danger, she may be her family’s last hope. Encanto™ received an Academy Award®, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Producers Guild of America Award for Best Animated Feature. The soundtrack features original songs by Academy Award®–nominated, and Tony®-and-GRAMMY®-winning songwriter/composer Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton, Moana) with an original score by Academy Award®–nominated composer Germaine Franco.
Take the plunge with the Calgary Phil and conductor Kensho Watanabe into the kaleidoscopic sound world of Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, a journey into the psyche of an artist deep in the throes of unrequited love. After Maurice Ravel’s scintillating Alborada del gracioso, the Orchestra’s concertmaster Diana Cohen enthrals in Sergei Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto.
RAVEL Alborada del gracioso from Miroirs
PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 2
BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique
Join us in the lobby 6:35PM for our Pre-Concert chat.
KENSHO WATANABE conductor
DIANA COHEN violin
CALGARY PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Take the plunge with the Calgary Phil and conductor Kensho Watanabe into the kaleidoscopic sound world of Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, a journey into the psyche of an artist deep in the throes of unrequited love. After Maurice Ravel’s scintillating Alborada del gracioso, the Orchestra’s concertmaster Diana Cohen enthrals in Sergei Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto.
RAVEL Alborada del gracioso from Miroirs
PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 2
BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique
Join us in the lobby 6:35PM for our Pre-Concert chat.
KENSHO WATANABE conductor
DIANA COHEN violin
CALGARY PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA