The new season at Camerata Nova celebrates Manitoban music and musicians


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amerata Nova’s 2017-2018 season offers an exciting range of music featuring Manitoba performers and composers.


Highlighting the new schedule is a celebratory win-


ter concert featuring the two Gabrieli composers, Andrea and his nephew Giovanni, who transformed Renaissance music, and an homage to the music of Manitoba’s Métis, including an original work by Eliot Britton, as artistic director Andrew Balfour and his performers again offer innovative renderings in cel- ebration of choral music from the Renaissance to the present day.


Major concerts this season: • Snow Angel – Nov. 25 and 26, at Crescent Fort


Rouge United Church, a five-movement work by Canadian Sarah Quartel exploring love, rebirth and beauty through the eyes of children. A children’s cho- rus from the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s Siste- ma music program and the talented Winnipeg teenage cellist Juliana Moroz join Camerata Nova to perform this internationally acclaimed work.


In addition, the company promises its customary


blend of beauty and quirk, from three renditions of O Magnum Mysterium (one from the perspective of the animals in the stable) to Canadian carols and arrange- ments, sing-alongs and a suite of Santa Claus songs from resident composer Andrew Balfour. Conductor: Vic Pankratz. • A Tale of Two Cities – Feb. 24 and 25 at West- minster United Church. Camerata Nova presents an early music extravagan-


za with an expanded period choir, soloists and 10 top period instrumentalists. In a mere 40 years, Andrea Gabrieli and his nephew Giovanni transformed the entire face of Renaissance music and in the process changed the old city of Venice into a cultural magnet of Europe. Their music is showy and glorious with contrasting choirs of voices and instruments calling and responding to one another. Featured local soloists include Dan Peasgood and Dayna Lamothe. This is the first Manitoba performance of this thrilling cho- ral-music blockbuster. Not to be missed! Conductor: John Wiens. • Red River Song – April 28 and 29, at Église Précieux-San. Louis Riel’s Manitoba was filled with


Camerata Nova. Photo by Chris Black.


the squeal and squeak of wooden wheels turning on wooden axles -- the sound of Red River carts, mixed with fiddles and voices. Camerata Nova and violinist/ fiddler Claudine St-Arnauld partner to celebrate the poetry, music and wood-on-wood technology of the 1870s, featuring the songs of Métis bard Pierre Falcon with tales of the buffalo hunt and the Battle of Seven Oaks. The concert also features a new work commis- sioned from Manitoba Métis composer Eliot Britton, with a surprise guest. Conductor: Mel Braun. Other highlights: • Camerata Nova Christmas Repertoire available for other choirs. Visit the e-carols page at cameratanova.com for ex-


citing new arrangements of well-known favourites, in- cluding The Huron Carol, Noël Nouvelet, I Wonder As I Wander and Coventry Carol.


• Manitoba Hydro’s Santa Claus Parade Concert. A


light holiday concert with Camerata Nova in the atri- um of the Manitoba Hydro Building, Nov. 18 from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., • New Music Festival Performance, in Westminster United Church


The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra has again hon-


oured Camerata Nova with an invitation to perform at its New Music Festival, during its choral night. The group’s offering is The Window of Appearances from Akhnaten, by famed composer Philip Glass. Tickets for individual concerts are available at McNally Robinson Booksellers by phone (204-918-4547), at cam- eratanova.com, or at the door. Subscriptions are available for three concerts and for a two-concert minipackage. For more information email Carolyn Rickey, Camerata Nova executive director at info@cameratanova.com.


Medicine can be a menace – perhaps a deadly


one – to the pet in your house Pain medications, anti-depressants and prescription drugs like Abilify and Advair Diskus are leading causes of sickness for dogs and cats.


ave we become a society of pill- poppers? One might think so in looking at the way medica- tion use here is rising each year. So it shouldn’t therefore be a surprise that the fastest growing cause of pet poison- ings is the ingestion of human drugs. Leaving pill bottles on the counter-


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top, nightstand or coffee table is an accident waiting to happen. Dogs in particular can easily chomp through the plastic container and, if you know dogs, will likely consume the entire contents. Occasionally we spill pills on the floor (sometimes thanks to those child-proof tops) and the dog may race us to pick them up. We may not know how many dropped and an errant pill may have rolled under a distant piece of furniture to be found later by a curious pet. Damages stomach


Veterinaries have reported that the greatest number of drug poisonings is caused by ingesting pain medications. A single dose of non-steroidal anti-inflam- matories (NSAIDS) such as ibuprofen (for example, Advil) and naproxen (Aleve) can cause pets serious stomach and intestinal damage. Acetaminophen (Tylenol, as an example) in its various strengths and concoctions can result in liver failure and damage to a pet’s red blood cells. Next on the list of common drug poi-


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sonings are antidepressants (Cymbalta, Prozac). While antidepressants are occa- sionally prescribed for pets, their dose is much lower than that for humans. Just one pill can cause serious poisoning in a small animal. Prescription sleep aids (Ambien, Lunesta) have also become common culprits. Perhaps one reason for this is that these are left out in the open or in a handy spot for easy access and so the owner will remember to take one. Unfortunately, it’s easy access for the pet as well. Among the most widely prescribed


drugs, Abilify and Advair Diskus are two of the most lethal. Abilify is an anti- psychotic agent that can cause a host of serious problems for pets, including sei- zures, so immediate veterinary attention is needed. Advair is an asthma medica- tion commonly administered by an in- haler. When a dog chews the inhaler, several doses are delivered at once, often producing a life-threatening situation. The top three most commonly sold prescriptions, Lipitor, Nexium and Plavix, have what is considered a wide margin of safety. They will make your pet sick, but they’re not considered tox- ic. Of course, swallowing a large amount of any drug creates a serious situation. If you see your pet ingest a medica-


tion, call your vet or an animal emer- gency hospital. Be ready to tell them the


Never leave your medication lying around - the results could be deadly.


name of the drug, how many pills were likely ingested and how much time has elapsed. Follow their instructions. Vomiting is a common reaction to the ingestion of medications and this is usu- ally a good thing, since the greater the amount of the drug that can be ejected from the body the better. If you don’t see your pet ingesting the pills but the animal is suddenly in distress, look for evidence that a drug may have been con- sumed.


Dangers overlooked


While most people are aware of the dangers of insecticides, herbicides and products that bear the skull and cross- bones, they are less mindful of their own medications. Because they are safe for us, we forget that they can be harmful,


even deadly, for our pets. Don’t be like the homeowners who install a burglar alarm after they’ve been robbed. Keep drugs, both prescription and over-the- counter, in a secure place that is quite high, out of the reach of dogs and cats. If you keep pills in a bag or purse, store the item on a high shelf.


The senior segment of society take the greatest number of medications so this caution is particularly important for us. Sometimes even with all the safety mea- sures taken, accidents can happen. Keep on hand the numbers you would call and the places you could go should such an emergency occur. For some medica- tions there are antidotes, so a trip to a veterinary facility ASAP can often save a pet.


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