Lecture and Brunch
Robert Cooper, CM, artistic director of Chorus Niagara will talk about musical responses to the events of the Holocaust and other periods of persecution and discrimination leading into an examination of A Child of Our Time written by Michael Tippett in response to the events leading up to Kristallnacht. This piece will be the focus of the Chorus Niagara concert at the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre the following Saturday night.
Robert Cooper, CM is one of Canada's foremost choral musicians, the choral director of Chorus Niagara and the Orpheus Choir of Toronto, has taught at the University of Toronto, Faculty o Music and had the honour of conducting the National Youth Choir of Canada and A Celebration of Canadian Choral Music at Carnegie Hall