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The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra are taking their "Let the Music Move You" theme for the 2004-05 season quite literally as they prepare to embark on a tour of Northern Manitoba communities next month. As the final details are being put in place, the excitement is growing for the 2004 WSO Northern Tour that will see the 65-member orchestra perform daytime and evening concerts as well as daytime education and outreach workshops for the communities of Flin Flon, The Pas, Thompson, Gillam and Churchill. The Flin Flon performance is slated for September 21 at the R.H. Channing Auditorium. Maestro Andrey Boreyko will lead the talented WSO musicians in a program that includes Mikhail Glinka's Russlan and Ludmilla Overture, Franz Schubert's Rosamunde, Scott Macmillan's Introit and Antonin Dvo'ák's Symphony No. 8. Also featured on the WSO Northern Tour program is a piece titled Inuit Games that was written by WSO Composer-in-Residence T. Patrick Carrabré. The piece has delighted audiences in more than 22 countries worldwide. Pemik and Aksalnik, Inuit throat singers from Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, will be featured in the performance of Inuit Games, as they were during its premiere performance in 2002. The daytime education and outreach workshops will see members of the orchestra visit 18 schools and meet over 7,000 children. Workshop activities will include participation in band rehearsals, mini-concerts and question and answer sessions. Teachers will receive study guides from the WSO in advance of the tour that will assist in introducing the students to the art of symphonic music and the traditional instruments of the orchestra. The WSO Northern Tour takes place September 20 to 25, 2004. The WSO last visited northern Manitoba in 1998.
