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Windsor Symphony Orchestra celebrates sesquicentennial with musical ode to Canada

The Windsor Symphony Orchestra is celebrating Canada 150 this weekend with a show called "O Canada!"

"O Canada!" show includes renditions of Neil Young's Harvest Moon and the Hockey Night in Canada theme song

Jonathan Pinto · CBC News ·
Members of the Windsor Symphony Orchestra rehearsing Friday for the "O Canada!" performance. (Jonathan Pinto/CBC)

The Windsor Symphony Orchestra is celebrating the nation's sesquicentennial Oct. 28 and 29 with a show called "O Canada!"

Based on a project by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the show involves the entire orchestra, plus Windsor musician Kelly Hoppe and Juno award-nominee Heather Bambrick.

"We've got a little bit of classic rock ... and then we've got that famous 'Canada' theme," explained WSO assistant conductor Peter Wiebe, in reference to the iconic song from Canada's centennial celebrations.

Peter Wiebe is the assistant conductor of the Windsor Symphony Orchestra. (Jonathan Pinto/CBC)

"We've got a Burton Cummings tune ... a medley from the lovely operetta musical Anne of Green Gables — everything in the program is through and through Canadian music."

The show also includes the Hockey Night in Canada theme, a tune Wiebe calls Canada's "unofficial national anthem."

CBC Windsor dropped by the Capitol Theatre Friday while the symphony was rehearsing for the show.

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The Windsor Symphony Orchestra is based in the Capitol Theatre in downtown Windsor. (Jonathan Pinto/CBC)

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Jonathan Pinto is the host of Up North, CBC Radio One's regional afternoon show for Northern Ontario and is based in Sudbury. He was formerly a reporter/editor and an associate producer at CBC Windsor. Email jonathan.pinto@cbc.ca.

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