Demons and Angels

8:00 pm, Friday, October 17, 2025

Guest Artist: Michael Berkovsky, Piano

Join the Etobicoke Philharmonic on Friday, October 17, 2025 at Martingrove Collegiate Institute - 50 Winterton Drive, Etobicoke (map) - for Demons and Angels.

Canadian composer Matthew Donnelly's darkly humorous 'Grave Digger's Waltz' gets us into the Halloween spirit.

Pianist Michael Berkovsky plays Rachmaninoff's Variations on a Theme of Paganini in a study of contrasts: the hellish medieval liturgical Dies Irae contrasting demonic forces with some of the most tender and beautiful melodies ever created.

We close the evening celebrating the sheer joy of being alive with Dvorak's euphoric Symphony No. 8.

Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88, B. 163
Matthew J. Donnelly: The Grave-Digger's Waltz
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43