A broad range of emotional responses come with the music in this, the penultimate concert of the Kamloops Symphony Orchestra’s season. The concert’s ending point is one of music’s celebratory high points, Vivaldi’s “Gloria.” But not before we have moved through more reflective emotional territory: Vaughan Williams’ “Tallis Fantasia” and “The Fruit of Silence” by Lithuanian composer Vasks. These and more recent works by American Jessie Montgomery and Kamloops-Canadian Stacey Brown are prelude to the triumph of “Gloria. To hear music excerpts, explore background and engage in discussion join us in April’s class.
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