Caution: high river conditions
With continued snowmelt and rising waters, the Calgary Fire Department advises against boating and all other water activities on the Bow and Elbow Rivers, effective June 29, 2026.
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Excite your imagination with vivid symphonic sound! Karen Kamensek conducts the Calgary Phil in Maxwell Davies’ delightful depiction of a wild Orkney wedding celebration capped by bagpipes at dawn, as well as Richard Strauss’s grand tone poem about human striving — whose majestic opening sunrise famously echoed in 2001: A Space Odyssey. A new work by Errollyn Wallen, the UK’s current Master of the King’s Music, completes the program.