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The 29th annual Victoria Symphony Splash is this weekend

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It’s that time of the year again: the 29th annual Victoria Symphony Splash is this Sunday!

The Victoria Symphony Splash is one of the largest annual symphony events in North America, and attracts up to 40,000 Victoria residents and visitors from all over the world.

Audience members will gather on the lawns across from the provincial legislature and watch as the Victoria Symphony performs from a floating barge moored off shore.

“This year’s Splash will be a blockbuster!” music director Christian Kluxen says, as musicians will play a number of selections from classic movies, including E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Star Wars and more.

There will be a couple of featured guests as well, including opening act Dock Side Drive and 17-year-old violist Danielle Tsao.

Tsao is the second musician in her family to be selected as the Splash’s Young Soloist. (Her sister Carolyn played the piano in 2007.) She’s performed with the Victoria Chamber Orchestra, the Sidney Classical Orchestra, and the VCM Showcase Orchestra. Following Symphony Splash, she’ll be soloing with the Sooke Philharmonic this October.

And that’s not all: as in years past, the performance will be capped off with an incredible fireworks display set to the bombast of Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture.”

Here’s this year’s program:

  • O Canada
  • Candide Overture – Bernstein
  • Robin Hood and His Merry Men – Korngold
  • Aladdin Suite (Festival March, Spiritual Dance) – Nielsen
  • Suite for Viola and Orchestra (Prelude & Gallop) – Vaughan Williams
  • Gone with the Wind; Main Title – Steiner
  • Dance of the Clowns from the Snow Maiden – Rimsky-Korsakov

INTERMISSION

  • Prelude to Act 3 from Lohengrin – Wagner
  • Prince and the Pauper Suite (Duel) – Korngold
  • Love Theme from Cinema Paradiso – Morricone (arr.Krogstad)
  • ET (Flying Theme) – Williams
  • Star Wars (Main Title Theme) – Williams
  • Berliner Luft – Lincke
  • 1812 Overture – Tchaikovsky
  • Amazing Grace

Families can also check out the Splash Family Zone on the lawns at the Empress Hotel from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Activities include face painting, an instrument petting zoo(!), a bouncy castle, and more.

Victoria Symphony Splash

  • When: Sunday, August 5, 2018, 1 p.m. – 10 p.m.Victoria Inner Harbour
  • Where: Victoria Inner Harbour
  • Admission: By donation
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Myles Sauer
Former staff editor and writer at Victoria Buzz.

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