{"id":365,"date":"2011-12-18T21:07:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T02:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=365"},"modified":"2011-12-18T21:07:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T02:07:42","slug":"classical-music-never-looked-as-hip-as-at-the-hands-of-nicholas-collons-aurora-orchestra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2011\/12\/18\/classical-music-never-looked-as-hip-as-at-the-hands-of-nicholas-collons-aurora-orchestra\/","title":{"rendered":"Classical music never looked as hip as at the hands of Nicholas Collon’s Aurora Orchestra"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I know that this place is called Musical Toronto, but I want to direct your attention across the frigid Atlantic to London, in the hope that you might be as ticked and inspired by the Aurora Orchestra as I’ve been.<\/p>\n

I wrote about this new group on my old Toronto Star blog, and Monday’s live, web-streamed performance at 3:30 p.m. ET (8:30 p.m. GMT) of Mozart’s Requiem<\/em> with the choir of Kings College, Cambridge, is a good excuse to mention them for the first time here.<\/p>\n

The Guardian is behind this webcast (I’m hoping we can see it here; BBC Television blocks their on-demand and some streaming broadcasts in North America), and you can read all about it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Besides having the coolest-looking season brochure I’ve ever seen (as accessed through the Guardian’s article), the Aurorans are mixing up the old ways of programming classical music — and doing it at the highest possible level of quality.<\/p>\n

They’re young, they’re keen and, hopefully, will keep on succeeding.<\/p>\n

Conductor Nicholas Collon (pictured above, also assistant conductor with the London Philharmonic Orchestra) is full of energy and bright ideas.<\/p>\n

Here’s a promotional video for the Aurora Orchestra’s just-released 2012 season, followed by Collon speaking on one of the group’s first concerts, Mozart Unwrapped.<\/p>\n

If you have time, check out Aurora’s website to hear a heart-melting little audio snippet by Erich Korngold, the Intermezzo from this Much Ado About Nothing Suite. Click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n