{"id":7301,"date":"2026-04-17T07:37:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T07:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/7301\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T07:37:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T07:37:22","slug":"early-music-vancouver-summer-festival-celebrates-the-power-of-music-stir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/7301\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Music Vancouver Summer Festival celebrates the Power of Music \u2014 Stir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">In between, the Summer Festival\u2019s curators\u2014EMV artistic and executive director Suzie LeBlanc and Pacific Baroque Orchestra artistic director Alexander Weimann\u2014promise that audiences will come to fully appreciate why this year\u2019s theme is \u201cThe Power of Music\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cTogether,\u201d said LeBlanc in yesterday\u2019s announcement, \u201cwe are thrilled to create a festival that celebrates music\u2019s ability to move, transform, and connect us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Among the festival\u2019s other highlights:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Bach Dances, August 1 at The Dance Centre: Dancers Will Jessup, Alexis Fletcher, Emma Galvin, and Lazaro Silva are featured in this collaboration between Israeli choreographer Idan Cohen and Canadian cellist Elinor Frey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The Compass Rose, August 1 at West Vancouver United Church: Weimann plays J.S. Bach\u2019s solo organ works, including his Toccata and Fugue, Concerto,s and Trio Sonata No. 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Songline: Musical Hike, August 6 at Malcolm Knapp Research Forest: EMV 2026 artist-in-residence Mauillon leads the audience on a 90-minute nature walk while he sings selections from Songline, his album for solo voice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Florilegium, August 5 at Christ Church Cathedral: Ensemble COMTESSA offers a poetic meditation on the life cycle of flowers through a selection of English medieval songs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In between, the Summer Festival\u2019s curators\u2014EMV artistic and executive director Suzie LeBlanc and Pacific Baroque Orchestra artistic director&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[95],"class_list":{"0":"post-7301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vancouver","8":"tag-vancouver"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}