LAKEHEAD U’S THIRD AGE LEARNING CONCERT COMBINES STORYTELLING OF ORILLIA MUSEUM OF ART, HISTORY WITH ORILLIA SILVER BAND
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com
ORILLIA — As life concerts are embracing multifaceted sides our brains.
Audiences no longer are left in their minds to frame images introduced by conductors who not only give rebirth to composer names, but try to explain what they intended when putting ink to five lines of music.
The Orillia Silver Band is no exception doing that recently in an evening at the movies to great success. Save for a Cowboys clip they fronted of gratuitous western gunplay by pre-teens barely old enough to be in breaches.
July 17 the Orillia Museum of Art and History (OMAH) and OSB are teaming up to assemble an engaging evening of music and multi-media storytelling focused on historical topics in our shared local culture.
Our Brass Roots: Music, Memory & Community presentation takes place on Thursday, July 17, 2025, 7:00 pm at the St. Paul’s Centre in Orillia. Event tickets are available from their OMAH website:
www.orilliamuseum.org/brass-roots-music-memory-community
And at the door.
“This is a fun multimedia concert/lecture with stories and musical selections that will appeal to anyone connected with the Orillia community” says Neil Barlow, the OSB’s music director.
The collaborative event is hosted by Lakehead University via its Third Age Learning Lakehead program, an organization dedicated to lifelong learning opportunities for older adults.
Topics and visual media explored in the lecture cover a wide variety of places, individuals, events and organizations that have had significant impact on the development of artistic culture in the City of Orillia.
The stories and visual information will be supported by musical selections provided by the OSB’s eleven-piece brass and percussion ensemble. Musical selections include Down Bourbon Street, a great collection of Dixie-era jazz, the Renaissance classic Canzon Duodecimi Toni by Gabrieli, the Duke Ellington ballad Chelsea Bridge, The Easy Winners piano rag by Scott Joplin, The Canadian Railroad Trilogy by Gordon Lightfoot, a selection of well-known tunes from the First World War era, and many more.
The evening promises to be an engaging montage of music, stories and visuals. A unique celebration of local heritage and culture.
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