Following on from a successful 2012 festival, Music and Beyond held a Celebration Concert on Saturday, 29th September. The selection of works included repeats of festival favourites as well as a few new choices. One person commented to me that the sheer variety meant that the flow of the concert was a little disjointed (the stage had to be set for each individual performance), but the quality was superb. NAC Culture Days - contemporary dance Again I really enjoyed Howard Cable's The Petty Harbour Bait Skiff along with the evening's offerings from the 'Jewish Composers Through The Ages' concert: Popper's Hungarian Rhapsody and Glick's 'The Rabbi's Wedding at the Palmerston Street Shul' from The Old Toronto Klezmer Suite . Both of these fun party tunes received great applause, even more than Seventeen Voyces ' rendition of Java Jive . Yannick-Muriel Noah dazzled with 'Es gibt ein Reich' from Ariadne auf Naxos , whilst Julie Nes...
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