Next concert POSTPONED – Date TBA

Centuries of Dance – POSTPONED – Date TBA

Update Thursday February 13, 2025: The concert is postponed due to the predicted weather and will no longer be held on February 16. A new concert date will be announced shortly.

3pm at St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park St. W., Dundas (corner of Cross and Park Streets)

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Centuries of Dance concert poster

Music and dance have always been performed together and the DVO is going to celebrate this artistic mixture—from polka to celtic, rock to tango! Hear The Sleeping Beauty Waltz, Polovetsian Dances, Crocodile Rock and Sabre Dance. Special guests: the DVO Celtic Ensemble, a chamber group from our Chamber Ensembles Program.

Programme:

  1. Edward German: Three Dances from Henry VIII
  2. Manuel de Falla: Ritual Fire Dance
  3. Béla Bartók: Rumanian Dances
  4. Johann Strauss, Jr.: Pizzicato Polka
  5. Piotr I. Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty Waltz
  6. Aleksandr Borodin: Polovtsian Dances
  7. arr. Laura Thomas: My Home-Pipers Cave-High Road to Linton (Reel set) featuring the DVO Celtic Ensemble
  8. Leroy Anderson: Blue Tango
  9. Elton John, arr. John Cerulli: Crocodile Rock
  10. Ronan Hardiman, arr. Larry Moore: Lord of the Dance
  11. Dmitri Schostakovich: Waltz No. 2
  12. Aram Khachaturian: Sabre Dance

Pay what you like. The venue is wheelchair accessible. Please remember that St. Paul’s is a fragrance-free facility.

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2025 Student Composer Competition

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The Dundas Valley Orchestra is accepting compositions (suggested length: 5 to 8 minutes) by students currently enrolled in a Canadian educational institution (secondary or post-secondary, full or part time).

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Dundas Valley Orchestra

Laura M. Thomas, B.Mus., M.F.A., Music Director

The Dundas Valley Orchestra provides amateur musicians the opportunity and joy of performing orchestral music. Musicians of all ages improve their skills and share this talent by performing community concerts and free concerts at community institutions such as nursing and retirement homes.

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Ontario Trillium Foundation The City of Hamilton
Ontario Trillium Foundation The City of Hamilton
Ontario Arts Council Hamilton Community Foundation
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Rotary Club of Dundas Hamilton Association for the Advancement of Literature, Science and Art
Rotary Club of Dundas Hamilton Association for the Advancement of Literature, Science and Art