The Queer Songbook Orchestra Play Songs from In and Around the ClosetSunday, September 21, 2014
at The Music Gallery Get tickets
The Queer Songbook Orchestra, in partnership with The ArQuives, is a 12-piece chamber pop ensemble, creating and performing a living archive of songs that have shaped the LGBTQ community. Focusing for this performance on songs with a connection to the closet – those held close during closeted times alongside those written by closeted writers – the orchestra play all new arrangements by some of Canada’s top talents. The QSO brings together a selection of the finest queer and allied musicians from Toronto and Montreal:
Sienna Dahlen, vocals Alex Samaras, vocals Casey Mecija, vocals Jennifer Burford, violin Evan Lamberton, cello Lief Mosbaugh, oboe/english horn Micajah Sturgess, french horn Shaun Brodie, trumpet Thom Gill, guitar Dan Fortin, double bass Ghislain Aucoin, piano Stefan Schneider, drums
Songs by Cole Porter, k.d. lang, Elton John, Billy Strayhorn, Joe Meek, Rodgers & Hart, Ani DiFranco, and more.
Arrangements by Bryden Baird, Gordon Grdina, Andrew Downing, Thom Gill, Ford Pier, Giorgio Magnanensi and others.
$20/$15 MG members, students and underemployed Advance tickets available at Glad Day Bookshop, Soundscapes or online at www.musicgallery.org. $25/$20 at the door.
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