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$5 per single ticket or $10 per subscription will be donated to Amnesty International (Canada). 

The Diversity Project, Feb. 2003:
During African Heritage Month in February 2003, Ensemble Noir will once again launch The Diversity Project. The concerts and workshops presented in the series celebrate diversity, with an emphasis on the music of Africa and Diaspora. This is Ensemble Noir's core programming for African Heritage Month and includes residencies by distinguished international artists including special guest composer AKIN EUBA (Nigeria). Other artists and ensembles include: ERGO PROJECTS & BARBARA CROALL (Canada); composer ALICE HO (Canada); soprano LINDA BUKHOSINI (South Africa); soprano DAWN PADMORE (Liberia); PAUL BEAUSCAGNE (Canada). Exciting music, embracing diversity. Full details in November.

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MAINSTAGE SERIES OCT-JAN: 

Concert 1: Retrospection
October 26, 2002. 8PM (Pre-concert Discussion 7.15PM)

An evening of new music for strings and harp
ARVO PART: Fratres
ARVO PART: Summa
GUSTAVO LEONE: Red Quintet (Ensemble Noir Commission, World Premiere)
KARIM AL-ZAND: Duet for Viola & Harp
FLORENCE PRICE: Retrospection (Arr. Lucius Weathersby)
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR PERKINSON: String Quartet No.1 "On Calgary"
CHAN KA NIN: Reflection; Ave Mari Stella (World Premiere)

Concert 2: African Dancing Ground
November 23, 2002. Music Gallery at St George, 197 John St 
Ensemble Noir presents a joint concert with Ossia, the world-famous ensemble of young new music pioneers resident at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester. Music for mbiras (African thumb piano), strings & harpsichords.

GWANZURA GWENZI & SAMUEL MUJURU: Nhemamusasa; Nyamaropa
MARTIN SCHERZINGER: Across the Dancing Ground 
MARTIN SCHERZINGER: A Prayer Wheel to Suck Water from Nowhere
KEVIN VOLANS: White Man Sleeps 
(Original version for harpsichords, viola da gamba & percussion)
BONGANI NDODANA: Rituals for Forgotten Faces No. 4 
BONGANI NDODANA: Road going nowhere


Concert 3: The Soldier's Tale
January 27, 2003. Music Gallery at St George, 197 John St.
Igor Stravinsky wrote L'histoire du soldat in exile at the outbreak of World War I in 1918. The work is influenced by jazz and ragtime and also reflects the disillusionment felt by many in that time. This concert also features a new work by Bongani Ndodana commemorating the life of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko. 

IGOR STRAVINSKY: L'histoire du soldat (The Soldier's Tale)
CLAUDE VIVIER: Pièce pour violon et clarinet
BONGANI NDODANA: Biko Memorial