About the Event

Join us for this virtual event as Dr. Pat Armstrong will discuss promising practices to reimagine long-term care, including lessons learned through the pandemic regarding what is needed for the flourishing and dignity of residents, staff and families; how to bring joy to everyday life; and what we as citizens across ages can do to make an impact. This event is open to everyone.

About the Speaker

Pat Armstrong is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at York University, Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Focusing on women, work and the health and social services, she has published such books as Wash, Wear and Care; Clothes and Laundry in Long-term Care; Critical to Care: The Invisible Women in Health Services; Wasting Away; The Undermining of Canadian Health Care as well as many book chapters, journal articles and reports intended for public audiences. She been an expert witness before Tribunals and Commissions and led multiple research projects, including the 10-year “Re-imagining Long-Term Residential Care: An International Study of Promising Practices” and “COVID-19, families and long-term residential care”.

Guest Soloist: Ms Carina Canonico in Mozart’s “luscious” Concerto for

Clarinet.

Also live and onstage for the first time this year, hear the excitement of excerpts

from: Grieg’s Peer Gynt; the jubilant Brahms’ Serenade No. 1; plus the classical

romance of Schubert’s B minor Symphony No. 8

Student Special: FREE admission followed by FREE clarinet Workshop with

Carina Canonico, when you bring your instrument with you.

Tickets: $25 (adult), $20 (senior & student), Free (under 16) available in person

from Novel Idea Bookstore 156 Princess Street Kingston, from orchestra

members or online at www.orchestrakingston.ca

Please check Health Ministry guidelines for any restrictions on ticket sales at the

door or on Workshops, intermissions, food, or drinks. Please wear your mask.

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Carina Canonico

“The clarinet’s sound can be luscious or bright but I prefer its dark chocolate

tones the best,” says Orchestra Kingston’s Guest Soloist, Carina Canonico. She

explains how much she looks forward to performing Mozart’s masterpiece for

her chosen instrument, live and onstage at The Spire. “Mozart was right,” she

says about the clarinet, “when he said, ‘nobody with a heart could resist it.”

Principal Clarinetist with The Kingston Symphony, Canonico is also music

director, choir master and pianist at St. Mark’s as well as teacher of piano and

clarinet in her own Kingston studio. Ms Canonico has generously offered a free

Workshop after her concert to all clarinet students who bring their instruments

to the concert. “This is a great concert to show off what the instrument can do.

So, we’re inviting clarinet students at all levels in for free, followed by our free

workshop to get together and learn more about it.”

“And,” Canonico points out, “it’s not just about symphonic music. Whether it’s

jazz, funk, klezmer, or classical, the clarinet is very versatile … and that’s the key

to finding one’s style. Trying out all these styles keeps my music fresh.”

Originally from Courtice, east of Toronto, Canonico joined the KSO in 2018 and

performed this Mozart Concerto with them during a recent online concert.

“If you know music,” remarks John Palmer, Orchestra Kingston’s music director/

conductor, “you can never get enough of this Concerto and this will be

Kingston’s first chance this year to hear and watch Ms Canonico perform it live.”

It is in live performance that audiences may hear, see and feel the impact of this

music.

Composer, musician, and Orchestra Kingston’s president, Daniel McConnachie,

agrees. “This Concerto is the jewel in every clarinetist’s crown. It’s very moving,”

he laughs, “because whether a musician or audience member, you will find it

impossible not to move your body while it’s being performed. Our soloist

succeeds in making this difficult piece look easy.”

“Well,” comments Canonico, “it’s all about preparation. I can feel how the

orchestra grows and progresses in rehearsals in order to play convincingly in

concert. We really come to appreciate each other. Music brings people together

in an emotional experience. And then, in concert … being in the middle of it with

musicians all around,” Canonico pauses, “I think it is just an incomparable

experience.”

Orchestra Kingston’s May 8 concert also includes two evocative movements

from Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite, moving from the melancholy of “The Death of

Aase” to the exciting fireworks of “Hall of the Mountain King”. The jubilant first

movement of the Brahms Serenade No.1 will follow Intermission. Brahms is a

musical treat of which John Palmer remarks, “It gets the adrenalin working. But,

that’s Brahms.” The concert finale features Schubert’s B minor (The Unfinished)

Symphony, among the first to help bridge classical and romantic music: “You

feel it as much as you hear it,” Palmer concludes.

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Backgrounder

John Palmer, Conductor/Music Director.

Orchestra Kingston is a community orchestra based in Kingston, Ontario. Since

2008, we have presented concerts that feature a wide range of musical genres

with a particular emphasis on Canadian composers. Many of our concerts are

also presented in collaboration with other community ensembles and feature

professional soloists. We provide an opportunity for amateur musicians in the

Kingston area to play orchestral repertoire under the baton of a professional

music director in a relaxed but dedicated environment.

Join us for the musical featuring the music of Abba! May 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 2022 at 7 pm; May 8 matinee at 2 pm; Tickets $15 Adults, $12 Students/Seniors available at laurasecord.org or call 905-934-8501 ext. 63550

Volunteers will do your taxes free if income is 35k singles, 45k couples at the Library 345 Aylmer St N on Apr 22 from 9:00-3:30  on a first come first served basis Masks must be worn

Volunteers will do your taxes free if income is 35k singles, 45k couples at One Roof 99 Brock St on Apr 19 & 26 from 9:00-3:30 on a first come, first served basis. Masks must be worn

Haddock & Fries & Coleslaw.  Baked Fish & Baked Potato also available. 2 piece dinner $15. 1 piece dinner $11. Eat In or Take-Out. Legion opens @ 3pm. 

We meet Wednesday Mornings 8:30AM-12:00 Noon
Royal Canadian Naval Association, 1420 Lougar Street, Sarnia
New Members Are Invited

OUTLoud North Bay is hosting a garage and bake sale for the West Ferris graduating class of 2022. 

Belleville Public Library will host the Hastings County Historical Society for a talk on the Early History of Tyendinaga Township.

The Township of Tyendinaga is situated in the south-east corner of Hastings County. Jim Kennelly, a proud resident of Tyendinaga, will present an overview on the early history of the township, its early beginnings and struggles, its political challenges and socioeconomic realities.

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The Forest Band plays big band swing tunes and popular music.