UBC Symphony Orchestra at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

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      The UBC Symphony Orchestra is feting the 100th birthday of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring—but it needs to borrow a very special instrument to pull it off. The concert on Saturday (October 5) at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts will mark the first time the band has taken on the seminal work. The massive score requires the use of a bass trumpet—a little bit like a smaller tuba—and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s Bramwell Tovey has lent one to student Justin Chiang to play in the show. In other words, this big performance of an epic 20th-century work should be a blast.

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