2026 Festival Program
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2026 Festival Program
Wednesday July 29
7:30 pm CPAC Theatre
AFCM Evening Concert 3 - Wonderful World with Christian-Pierre La Marca and his All-Star Orchestra
In this humanistic ode to nature, French cellist Christian-Pierre La Marca presents a packed multimedia programme on the theme of saving the planet. Featuring epic cinematography of our beautiful world by Yann Arthus-Bertrand and works by Fauré, Strauss, Glass, Saint-Saëns, Weill, Dvořák, Einaudi, and Tchaikovsky, you will be blown away!
Tickets start from $30 for patrons under 30 years of age and $86 for AFCM Friends.
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Concert Details
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Suite No. 1 in G major for Cello, BWV 1007
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Sonata for cello and piano, Op. 102 No.4: Andante-Allegro
FAZIL SAY
Sonata for cello and piano (Four Cities) - Sivas, Hopa
ANTONÍN DVORAK
From the Bohemian Forest: Silent Woods
ARIEL RAMIREZ
Alfonsina y el Mar
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS
“The Swan” from Carnival of the Animals
NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Flight of the Bumblebee from The Legend of Tsar Saltan
PHILIP GLASS
The Hours - The Poet Acts
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525
HENRY MANCINI (Johnny Mercer)
Moon River fr. Breakfast at Tiffany's
LUDOVICO EINAUDI
I giorni
NILS FRAHM
Ambre fr. Wintermusik
PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Valse Sentimentale for Cello and Piano, Op. 51, No. 6
ERNEST BLOCH
From Jewish Life: Prayer
HAROLD ARLEN
The Wizard of Oz: Somewhere Over The Rainbow
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA
Libertango
BOB THIELE (George David Weiss)
What A Wonderful World
Stefanie Farrands, Dimity Hall, Emmalena Huning, Dene Olding AM, Piers Lane AO, Irina Morozova, Charlotte Miles, Christian-Pierre La Marca, Kees Boersma, Jack Liebeck
