Lisgar CI Spring Music
April 20 @ 3:00 pm
Lisgar Collegiate Institute, a high school for grades 9 to 12, was established in 1874. The music program began in 1918 with the orchestra being formed to raise the spirits of students from the daily news of WWI casualties. At the end of the war, the ensemble became an official school orchestra, the first ever Canadian Secondary School Orchestra. This initiative led to the addition of music to the school curriculum. The Band was started in the 1950’s.
Lisgar music groups perform many concerts in the community, and at National and Regional festivals. Smaller ensembles have been invited to perform in churches, at chamber concerts, in museums and art galleries, at official functions in the Houses of Parliament, and the Senate. Performing tours have taken the senior groups to cities across Canada, the United States, Finland, Russia, England, The Netherlands, Austria, China, Italy and Germany.
This concert is free and open to the public.
