My young-YA/middle-grade fantasy Fireboy, a nominee for Best Young Adult Novel in this year’s Aurora Awards, is also a finalist for the 2027 Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award in the Northern Lights Division. This is …
I’m thrilled to announce that I’m up for two Aurora Awards this year! Fireboy is on the ballot for Best Young Adult Novel, and The Worldshapers is once again on the ballot for Best Fan …
I spent a good chunk of today at Wordbridge, the annual writers’ conference in Lethbridge, Alberta. My main reason for coming was to launch a Shadowpaw Press title (Broken Realm by Jenna Greene, a Lethbridge …
This is Easter weekend; last weekend, I sang in the Easter concert of First Baptist Church here in Regina as a guest soloist and chorister. The whole concert is worth listening to, but if you’d …
I put a link to this in the previous post on my Aurora-eligible work for 2025, but wanted to highlight it. This was my contribution to the Shapers of Worlds Volume V anthology, and it …
The Aurora Awards are Canada’s best-known science fiction and fantasy awards, voted on by fans every year. I’ve been fortunate enough to win twice, for Marseguro (DAW Books) (soon coming out in a new edition from Tuscany …
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My review of the Regina Symphony Orchestra concert with Trio Frontenac…
…is online this morning at the LeaderPost. Here’s how it begins:
Crisp execution, snappy passing, solid teamwork and an exciting finish — the Regina Symphony Orchestra’s Mosaic Masterworks concert Saturday night had it all.
Sorry, what did you think I was talking about?
Blame Maestro Victor Sawa for the football metaphor: he referenced the Super Bowl in his introductory remarks (he was cheering for Arizona, by the way). Fortunately, it fits.
Quarterbacks can only dream of play execution as crisp as that of Trio Frontenac, comprising Darren Lowe on violin, his wife Suzanne Beaubien on piano, and Blair Lofgren on cello.
The Quebec City trio with deep Regina roots (both Lowe and Lofgren hail from here) played with precision and panache in Beethoven’s rarely-heard Triple Concerto.
Permanent link to this article: https://edwardwillett.com/2009/02/my-review-of-the-regina-symphony-orchestra-concert-with-trio-frontenac/
