121298 NACO featuring Boris Brott, Ottawa, ON
Going to this concert was work, basically. And you thought you had it rough…
Category: National Arts Centre Orchestra
111717 NACO plays An American In Paris, Ottawa, ON
Attending the National Arts Centre Orchestra performance on November 17th, 2017 was a no brainer for me…
101417 NACO featuring John Storgårds plays Sibelius and Saariaho, Ottawa, ON
On October 14th, 2017 I attending this concert alongside my standard NAC-buddy JP and our tickets were in the second box, stage right. I was in great seats with great company, perched above the new-and-improved National Arts Centre and hearing the orchestra for the first time of the season.
092492 NACO plays Rossini, Brahms and Dvorak, Ottawa, ON
I suspect that this ticket from September 24th, 1992 marks the first time ever I saw the NAC Orchestra perform…
072510 NACO plays Gershwin, Mendelssohn, Estacio, and Prokofiev, Ottawa, ON
To my knowledge this is the only time the National Arts Centre Orchestra held a concert series on the festival site in front of the War Museum and I’m not sure why; it was a great show…
052213 NACO plays Led Zeppelin, Ottawa, ON
Sure, Led Zeppelin is one of the greatest guitar-centric, riff-oriented rock bands of all time, but they were also masters of folding lush orchestration into their thunderous, genre-defining catalog…
032407 NACO plays The Wizard of Oz, Ottawa, ON
I went to the show, Dorothy and her pals were victorious, that sneaky little wizard learned a thing or two as did that wicked old witch, the orchestra was as great as usual, and of course those flying monkeys freaked me right out…
022516 NACO plays Queen, Ottawa, ON
On February 25th, 2016 I went to the National Arts Centre for We Are The Champions; The Music Of Queen. It was part of their annual Pops series and despite the title of the show I knew exactly what I was in for…
021508 NACO plays Cole Porter, Ottawa, ON
The National Arts Centre Orchestra playing the Cole Porter songbook is the very definition of a Pops concert. Hearing such skilled musical technicians trained so well in the classics pull their bows over one of Tin Pan Alley’s greatest heroes is precisely the sort of thing…
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