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| Majka Demcack at St. Augustine's 26 October 2024 |
Ignatz's Scordatura at St. Anselm's with Marc Destrubé
El Concierto Barroco at St. Anselm's
An Intimate Concert at St. Anselm's Anglican Church
Before my Rosemary died on December 9 2020 we would go to just about any Early Music Vancouver concert at the Chan. We frequented the Orpheum and the Turning Point Ensemble’s concerts at the downtown campus of Simon Fraser University.
My choice has now changed. I want to go to smaller venues like Pyatt Hall and the Orpheum Annex. I would never return to anything in that huge white elephant that is the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.
Of late I have been following a young violinist (graduate of Julliard) called Majka Demcack. I went to a couple of her concerts. One at St. Agustine’s Church in Kitsilano was an extraordinary combination of baroque music with the concept of infinity.
This
Saturday there will be a concert, with Demcack at the intimate St. Anselm’s
Church on the way to UBC that begins at 3pm. Amazingly the suggested $20 ticket
includes lovely food and drinks. On the harpsichord is my longtime friend Christina Hutten.
But best of all is to be in a small space and to recognize people from past concerts. Face to face combination in this 21st century is a rarity.
It was at St.Anselm's that in 2023 and 2024 I was present at Marc Destrubé's performances of Bach's 6 suites for unaccompanied violin. To witness this sort of concert is an extreme rarity and there are few performers who can play them.
