WholeNote Magazine for July 1 - September 7, 2008

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Here is an Acrobat PDF Web version of the combined July/August 2008 issue of WholeNote
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This month’s issue features not only our regular five event listings sections, but also a bumper
crop of Summer Festival Listings beginning on page 35 and continuing to page 45.
(Interviews with the curators of four summer festivals, our main feature, starts on page 8.)
Additionally, our June issue contained our annual "Green Pages" – extended profiles of many
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FOR OPENERS ...
GREAT CHAMBER MUSIC DOWNTOWN
Be thankful for small mercies, dear readers. Such as, for
example, the fact that the music we cover mostly measures its
seasons from September to June. So you get spared the lists of “best
of, worst of, most surprising, least heralded” that swamp papers and
periodicals at the end of the calendar year. After all, who needs
reflection in July when the sun on the water can do it for you?
Not to disillusion you if you love that kind of thing, but you do realize,
don’t you, that they’re just a sneaky way for writers to file two
stories at once, two weeks before Christmas, so they can get the hell
out of town to avoid having to read all the “best, worst, most” stuff
that swamps papers and periodicals at the end of the calendar year.
And even if we wanted to, it’s hard to know when we could, these
days, because even the good old September-to-June classical scene
barely stops to catch breath before galloping off into the summer
onset.
That being said, this year we’ve succumbed and decided to have a bit
of a go at the “best of” seasonal cusp comment thing. Thank you to
our seven beat columnists for getting into the spirit of things allowing the editorial staff to turn the tables and have the writers
answer the questions instead of asking them. Same five questions to
each, mostly but not entirely looking back. Fun for us (and them, it
seems.) We hope for you as well.
Come to think of it, no one asked me for my responses. So here goes,
anyway.
In answer to the first question? – a tie: Yannick Nezet-Seguin, a
good four inches off the podium, sailing into the final movement of
the Brahms Fourth (energico e passionato as it says in the score –
except there wasn’t one in sight) and the TSO hanging on for dear
life, revelling in the ride; and Anton Kuerti on the stage at Walter
Hall (again with nary a note in sight) walking back and forth between
keyboard and front of stage, walking the audience back and forth
through the Diabelli Variations (and then, seated at the keys taking
the piece all the way to heights that before I’d only half heard in it).
Second question? – probably the boatload of cash siphoned off by
govt. to the new festival on the block; the grand design being, it
seems, to convince the world that the only time Toronto is worth
visiting culturally is during the first couple of weeks in June. Um,
am I missing something?
Third – I’d have spent more space than this remembering the kick in
the stomach hearing that the COC 2007-2008 season would start
without Richard Bradshaw at the helm – just when it seemed that
“music director” and “conductor” were set to become the bigger
part of his COC legacy. (And perhaps reflecting a bit on the fact that
today’s announcement by the COC of a successor, fills only one of
the three pairs of shoes that Bradshaw wore.) Could have been
worse, though. They might have appointed a stage director to the job.
Question four? Soweto String Quartet will get me almost all the way
to Elora’s Gambrel Barn for a late July jaunt to listen to a jazz singer
I like.
And as for question five – can’t possibly top the columnists’ flights of
fancy on that one. (Although doubtless a few readers will want to
try.) If you think you can, send your suggestions to editorial@
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pretending they were my own ideas, of course.
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Serving up
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Four “festivals” through their curators’ eyes
Interviews by David Perlman, Allan Pulker, and Catherine Muir
There are dozens of summer music series and festivals in this part of
Canada. Each one has its own character - a “fit” with the landscape it
is set in. And behind each one there is a visionary, a “curator” who
plans and programmes it, taking months to make sure each detail is
right before the summer comes. From southernmost and western
Ontario to the eastern townships of Quebec, we’ve picked four festivals and talked to their directors about the curatorial process. These
festivals are not only geographically representative but also reflect
the range of the festival experience: Summer Music in the Garden,
Festival de Lanaudière, Niagara International Chamber Music Festival, and Stratford Summer Music.
For each of the dozens of festivals in our festival listings, there is
some individual like the people interviewed here with an equally
fascinating vision and story to tell. We hope that after you meet
these four, you will turn to our festival listings and discover,
through each one’s programming, the people who make it happen.
spelling of the composers’ names. So now I make sure there’s at
least one concert of early 17th-century Italian music each season.
(This year it’s Folia, on July 27.) And string quartets, which are
one of the most sophisticated forms of music-making, are always
hugely popular at the Garden. Yes, people who think that classical
music is passée, or that it’s a pill that needs to be sugared, definitely
need to come to the Music Garden!
So how do you choose?
It’s a juggling act, on many levels: there are moments each year
when it feels like a big, crazy Rubik’s cube that will never fall into
place! Returning versus new artists; balancing genres of music—
Medieval-Renaissance, Baroque, “standard” European canon, new
music, South Asian classical, Middle Eastern classical; Chinese
music, Japanese music… And I’ve been trying to expand the contemporary dance component, although that requires commissioning
Tamara Bernstein, Summer Music in the Garden
money, as well as dancers-choreographers who are comfortable
working on the grass, in a very low-tech environment. The cultural
The Toronto Music Garden opened in 1999; and its first concert
series was held in 2000. Tamara Bernstein came on board as cura- eclecticism is really important to me. You can always hear music
from different ethnic cultures in Toronto if you’re plugged into a
tor/artistic director in 2001.
particular community. But I think it means a lot to people when they
Tamara: Don Shipley, who was then head of programming for Harcan enjoy classical or traditional music from their own culture in a
bourfront Centre, invited me. Even though—true confession!—I had
mainstream, public space like the Music Garden. (Where else can
never even been to the Music Garden, and didn’t even realize there
you see women in saris clapping and singing along in the chorus of
was a summer concert series in it — I said yes immediately. I was
a Yiddish song?) This takes multiculturalism to a whole different
very, very drawn to curating, and to the whole concept. Imagine: a
level, for me.
chance to share music I love, and musicians whose playing I love,
I’ve also started to pay attention to—all right, obsess over!—the
with the whole city; to give musicians a chance to perform for a
overall shape and flow of the season. The simplest example: the
much wider demographic than you usually find in classical music
Music Garden is all about a piece for cello (Bach’s Suite No. 1 in G
concerts, and to experiment with programming without having to
Major for solo cello), so I now like to open the season with a small
worry about selling tickets—what a gift! Sure, there’s a price to pay ensemble of cellos. It’s “culturally neutral” because it’s about the
for being outdoors, and that first season I didn’t know what to exGarden itself. Also it’s an ensemble concert, so that puts the focus
pect with ambient noise, rainouts, amplification, and whether musion community. I like to return to Bach in a more reflective way in
cians would want to play outdoors. But I just approached some of
the final stretch of the season, in the Bach at Dusk concert that hapmy favourite musicians and hoped for the best. Right from the start
pens in early September. Right now Winona Zelenka is working her
the musicians were fantastic. What I hadn’t anticipated was the mag- way through all six of Bach’s Suites for solo cello—one a year!
ic of the Music Garden itself… . I’m still constantly amazed by how That’s always a special moment.
intently Music Garden audiences listen, given that this is an outdoor
Other things?
concert. I’ll never forget a solo improvisation that the dancer Julia
Sasso performed without music last summer: the audience’s intense, There are a zillion—large versus small groups, new music, old musilent attention was such a strong presence that it “drowned out” any sic, dance—you name it, I will agonize over it! And I know that
there are some loyal audience members who can only come to the
ambient noise, odd though that sounds! It also fascinates me to see
how attentive children are during Music Garden concerts. My theory Thursday night concerts, and others who only come Sunday afteris that because they know that if they need to move around they can, noons. So I try to make sure that if there are three string quartets on
they don’t need to move around (though I love it when children—or a season, they don’t all perform on the same day of the week. Also
Harbourfront Centre, which produces the Music Garden concerts,
adults, for that matter—get up and dance).
has a different theme, or focus, each summer. (This year’s is “BorThe Music Garden concerts have certainly confirmed my own
ders.”) I tuck it away in my subconscious, listen to what musicians
faith in classical music. People are hungry for this stuff! And I’m
not just talking about “greatest hits”: The first time I programmed a whom I like are excited about right now, and try to give them the
opportunity to perform that. Then when I’ve finished booking the
concert of wacky, early 17th-century Baroque violin sonatas, I had
season, I return to Harbourfront’s theme. And you know what? So
no idea how it would go over: Baroquies adore this music, but a
typical symphonic musician would have no idea what to do with it— far it has always worked out. I hope this doesn’t sound as if the
curating is all anxiety. I really enjoy it as a creative process too, and
the musical language is so different. Well, the audience went crazy
over it—afterwards a little boy, maybe eight years old, begged for a try to leave room for serendipity and intuition - that’s the fun part!
CD by the group; adults came up with pens and paper, wanting the I find it hard to imagine the series anywhere else at this point.
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“In my first season,
2001, a sudden thunderstorm brought an abrupt
end to a children’s
concert created by
violinist Julia Wedman
and double bassist
Peter Pavlovsky, just
as the concert got
underway. We all fled
for shelter, but Peter
and Julia got soaked.
Then the sun came back
out, and a small group of children returned with their parents, and Peter and
Julia didn’t have the heart to turn them away. There was no way we could use
amplification at that point—the ground was too wet—so everyone cozied up
and they gave their show anyway. We are now much better prepared, with
tarps, umbrellas etc.! I don’t think any performers have actually gotten wet
since that one time.”
I’m glad you feel the same way about the venue as I do! The beauty
and creativity of the Music Garden attracts performers and choreographers (just as some of its flowers specifically attract butterflies!),
and that makes my life much easier! Performing out of doors is not
easy in musical genres that demand the kind of subtlety that we expect from classical musicians. But musicians really respond to the
Music Garden, partly because of the audiences, and because the
concerts are free, but also because the sheer beauty of the venue is
so inspiring. And although I’m totally biased, I would say that the
concerts give the Music Garden its voice. I cycle there during nonconcert times, and see its different lives, the light at different times
of day, etc. But to me it always seems to be listening, waiting for
the next concert!
People come from all over the city to the concerts—I know one
senior who walks most of the way from Scarborough every Sunday.
At the risk of sounding flakey, I also feel that the concerts leave a
sort of a psychic imprint, as it were, on the Garden—energy that
contributes to its spirit of place. For instance, one of the 13 boulders
that half encircle the willow tree will always be “Julia’s rock” for
me now, because it’s the boulder that choreographer-dancer Julia
Sasso sat on in the beautiful piece she created for last year’s season
(to Heinrich Biber’s Passacaglia for solo violin). You felt as though
that boulder had been waiting for Julia its whole long life!
This year’s programming in particular?
I’m looking forward to every concert so it’s hard to single things
out… A couple of new dance works commissioned through Harbourfront Centre. Aug 17 Hari Krishnan and his company inDANCE give the world premiere of a full-length piece inspired by
South Asian mythology (Five Gods, Two Kings and the Frog Princess)—it’s large-scale, for the Music Garden, with 10 dancers and
six musicians. Keiko Kitano (dancer-choreographer) and Aki Takahashi (musician-composer) are creating a shorter piece for Sep 11,
inspired by the Music Garden’s willow tree, which in Japanese tradition is often connected to ghosts, particularly of women. We also
have a few out-of-town performers this year: Kiri Tollaksen, North
America’s pre-eminent cornettist, is coming up from Ann Arbor to
perform 17th-century music with Linda Melsted’s group Folia (July
27); and percussionist Aiyun Huang is coming in from Montreal to
do a solo recital July 24, but instead of showing up with a van full
of instruments, as percussionists usually do, she has set herself the
challenge of designing a program for which all the instruments have
to fit in her suitcase.
Wish list? Crystal ball?
Wish list: In general, I’d like there to be less noise everywhere in
the world; I’d like Canada’s artists—particularly in the performing
arts— to be better paid than they usually are — they are the soul of
our cities. We also need more free concert series like the Music
Garden and the series in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, in the
new opera house.
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WholeNote you called the
Amphitheatre de
Lanaudière “a place unlike any other.” Can you
say more?
If you go to the Tanglewood or Ravinia Festivals, they have nice settings, but none of these
places have a natural amLanaudière’s natural outdoor amphitheatre
phitheatre like Lanaudière.
People are on the lawn,
and the audience doesn’t
I started the Festival de Lanaudière in 1978.
have a good view of what’s happening on
As time went on, my job as director folstage, whereas at Lanaudière, we have a
lowed
a very natural path. Progression was
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very gradual—not effortless, but still very
you have an excellent view under the roof,
natural and continuous. I am 80 years old
but on the lawn you have a good view of
this year, and because of my age I need to
everything happening on stage. Also, the
rely more on my team—there are currently
acoustics are exceptional. We have artists
from all over the world that have been com- eight employees full time at the festival. A
lot of the legwork is being shifted to my
ing to this festival for years and years for
team.
the acoustics. I remember a famous bass
singer from the Metropolitan Opera, Paul
I’m assuming that to some extent touring
Pliscka, who has sung at music festivals
artists choose themselves based on availaaround the world—he says, “I’ve done them bility. But there is also a great artistic asall, in Europe and America, and this place is pect to your job. Can you talk about that?
where the sound is different. Usually singWhen you want to attract European artists
ing outdoors is overwhelming… because
especially, if they are not on tour in North
there is not the resonance of a concert hall
America it is very difficult to bring them in
or music room. Singing outdoors takes a lot for a one-night stand. So naturally we work
of effort. At Lanaudière I can sing in a very with other classical music festivals in North
relaxed and natural manner.”
America, exchange ideas and collaborate, and
Before 1989, the festival was held only
we will all choose a particular artist so that a
in different small churches in the area, and
tour will fly. The tour is very similar every
at the cathedral in Joliette. Now we have the year for the musicians we bring in from
amphitheatre, still in very good condition
Europe—they go to the Lincoln Centre, Tanafter 18 years, and still have the small
glewood, Ravinia, and the Hollywood Bowl
churches for events such as recitals and
in Los Angeles. And here. To Joliette.
chamber music.
But there’s more to it than just itinerarymaking. The festival has a very clear vision
Does it get easier or harder with time?
I’ve been doing this since…always. I started statement: we balance accessibility by programming known works with original and
studying music at the age of five, and as a
lesser-known works. We sometimes premiere
teenager I was already accompanying and
Canadian works, as we did last summer and
organizing concerts for friends. And at the
we will doing again this summer, which
age of 25, I became the person in charge of
involves taking a risk. Classical music is not
the Jeunesse Musicales du Canada, the Naa very popular art form, so we have to work
tional Youth Orchestra. I was in charge of
with a limited budget. We can’t afford to
the NYO in the Lanaudière area. Being in
lose money and go overboard , so we balcharge of the NYO, I organized classical
music concerts here in the region of Joliette, ance top notch soloists and upcoming artists.
There are artists on the brink of becoming
to which ballet, theatre, and other forms of
international stars, but after a while they are
dance were later added. And then later on I
caught up in Europe and don’t come to
became in charge of the school of music at
North America anymore, so we try to get
the Joliette seminary. In 1967 I founded the
them to come to Lanaudière before they
Camp musical de Lanaudière, a training
become too famous! July is downtime for
centre for youth of 8-17. This camp still
European musicians, but it’s our big time, so
exists, and this summer it is training 500
we have to count on the touring musicians.
students over 2 months. I had the idea for
the Festival de Lanaudière in 1963, after
Lanaudière in one sentence?
visiting the famous Salzburg and Beyreuth
Simply put, the Lanaudière festival is the
festivals in Europe. I thought that if these
most important classical music festival in
small cities can have important festivals,
Canada. To elaborate, we are the only festiwhy can’t Joliette have a similar festival? So val that is on the list of large-scale touring
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after 30 years the same enthusiasm. The
sense of continuity is important to emphasize. My heart is in the essence of what
classical music is and that means the music
itself. I don’t see any compromise in the
quality that we are programming currently. I
am very open to renewing the way it is presented, however. For example, this summer,
our production of Holst’s The Planets will
be accompanied by projections of images
from NASA on a giant screen and a narrator
commenting on the images. I am not against
renewing the way things are presented withEuropean orchestras. Very few smaller festi- out compromising on the quality of the festivals can afford to bring in what we can. For val. The big challenge nowadays is to get the
younger audience to be interested in classical
example, this year we have a 30-piece bamusic when they aren’t exposed to it at an
roque ensemble—Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, from Freiburg, Germany, performing an early age in school or in their families. Durall Mozart concert with famed baritone Chris- ing the summer children and youth are usually away with their families or are busy with
tian Gerhaher. Last summer we had Paavo
Järvi, the conductor in charge of the Cincin- summer activities. So we offer free admission for children under 12. And our Artistic
nati Orchestra, at Lanaudière for a complete
Ambassador Alain Lefevre is very dedicated
Beethoven symphony cycle, with the
to youngsters and tours schools every year
Deustche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen,
initiating youth to classical music.
another orchestra from Germany.
Beyond the huge time commitment to Festival
In 2005, you told us that “the festival was
born of a dream”. Did you dream that after de Lanaudiere, what do you do (the rest of
the year)?
30 years it would be this?
The festival has the same mission and vision I am also the director of the Camp musical
de Lanaudière. I direct a choir in Joliette,
going into its 31st year as when it started,
everything has been done with a great sense and I attend daily mass.
of continuity, a tradition of excellence, and
John Miller, Stratford Summer Music
thors other than Shakespeare than by the bard
himself, we are presenting programming that
is more than Bach and Shostakovich. We’ve
got Bilodeau, Cheung, Hatch, Richards and
Schafer - and they’re all Canadians!
In my Canadian Music Centre days we
used to worry about ghettoizing contemporary composers. Here I’m not segmenting
classical musicians and composers but rather
setting their performances among jazz, music
theatre, bands, children’s music, even a
touch of r/r as with our August Civic Holiday salute to musical traditions and celebrated
artists from this very community.
Seems like everything out there musically in
the summer is labelled “-fest” or “festival”.
You don’t.
We must be the only festival in Canada
which does its damnest not to be known as a
festival, because when one says “festival”
and “Stratford”, one naturally thinks of our
drama colleagues. So, we at Stratford Summer Music work hard to market ourselves
without the “f” word - our name simply says
where, when and what. Yet, having said
that, there is one major lesson I’ve learned
from watching the Stratford Festival closely
over many years. What made the S.F.’s 14
years under Richard Monette’s direction such
winners has been variety. Like Monette, I
shamelessly want to admit that people have
widely differing tastes. Just as the Stratford
Festival annually offers more plays by auJ ULY 1 - S EPT 7 2008
How did it start?
A few influences came together to lead me to
start Summer Music. I’ve always felt that
music should be an integral part of the Stratford cultural experience, all the more so
because music and the visual arts were seen
by the founders of the Festival as complementary to theatre.
During the 14 years I was executive director of The Glenn Gould Foundation, there
were always inquiries - most often international- about Gould and his days as the director of classical music, and a performer, in
Stratford in the 1950s and ’60s. This city
and its music history seemed always to be
with me. Then in December 1993, my partner and I bought a house here as our weekend home to be out of Toronto. On moving
day, December 16, I arrived in Stratford,
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tired, and I went downtown for lunch, where
I ran into the Mayor. He asked what I was
doing back in town and when I told him,
remarked, “Great, so when can we have
music again in the summers?”
Later, in 1999, when Yo-Yo Ma was to
receive the annual Gould Prize, the cellist
and his family came to Stratford to see a
performance of David Young’s play, Glenn,
after which Yo-Yo and I stayed up very late
one night at his B&B while I outlined my
vision for what music could be in this city.
“You get it started”, he said, “and I promise
I will come.” (We’ve not arranged this yet,
but we will!)
Well, all those episodes kept percolating
in my mind and I was always dreaming up
potential seasons of artists and repertoire. By
2000 the fantasies were so consuming that
my partner, Andrey, told me this was beginning to bother him. “Fish, or cut bait,” he
said strongly—and that was all the impetus I
needed to begin organizing a Board and
calling some artists I knew. Our first season
of two modest weeks took flight in 2001 and
now we’re at four weeks with a Board and a
community anxious to see Summer Music grow.
Again, I must tip my hat to the legacy of
theatre in Stratford. Scores of people want to
perform in this city because they know it
stands for the best in the arts. I’ve had sensational proposals from artists and composers, sometimes via embassies, tourists and
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visitors. This summer, for instance,
we’re welcoming Bob McGrath, a
celebrated American musician
known for his commitments to music education and to young people
through the music on his tv show,
“Sesame Street”. His visit came
about because the leader of a New
York-based trio, which had worked
with McGrath for many years,
dropped by my office, unannounced,
last August, when he was walking
downtown during his annual Stratford Festival visit. This chap asked
to speak with me about his group and
whether they could be part of a
future Summer Music season. The
result is two concerts for children
this August and McGrath will also
deliver our annual Harry Somers
Lecture, about his personal passion: the importance of music in every education program.
If there’s any downside to the “theatre
legacy” aspect, it would be how many proposals I get featuring Shakespearean texts put
to music, thinking this is what our audiences
will want. Regrettably, however, such themes
lead to the very sort of public identification
which I outlined above as our nemesis.
Overall the kismet of who visits, and what
happens in Stratford, is extremely important
in helping me build a season. (And I have a
Stratford’s Music Barge
secret weapon! — the Bed & Breakfast home
owners, many of whom quietly tell me of the
famous musicians staying in their establishments who have slipped into Stratford to
enjoy the theatre. I won’t name names –
they’ll show up in future concerts!) And the
calendar of course also sometimes tells you
what to do. Our co-operation with the Austrian government and airline, leading to the visit
of the Marionette Opera Theatre of Schonbrunn Palace in Vienna, came about as part of
the international salute to Mozart in 2006.
Our tribute programming honouring Glenn
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Gould in 2007 celebrated his 75th birthday
year. And in 2010, we’ll have our tenth season and celebrate some of the events from
our first decade.
So while we work hard to identify ourselves before the public as not being the
Stratford Festival, there is no doubt that the
Festival has created a huge and positive
setting where music can flourish. I often say
that we simply could not have grown to four
weeks and 86 events in eight years if we had
set ourselves in business in Woodstock.
(Sorry about that, Woodstock.)
If there is one over-riding principle
which guides the general development of a
Stratford Summer Music season it is my
desire to be fresh and unique in our programming. This doesn’t always happen, but
in retrospect, I think our seasons have been
notably different from what other summer
festivals have been presenting. Also important, a commitment to support and present
Canadian composers, arising directly from
my years as Director of the Canadian Music
Centre twenty-five years ago. I’m particularly pleased to say that this year we will have
Pius Cheung, Peter Hatch, Murray Schafer
and Mark Richards, a young composer who
has boldly written his own opera, Hamlet,
here for Summer Music. We’re working
with Hatch and Richards in the development
of major new works they’re developing;
we’re honouring Schafer in his 75th birthday
year by reviving one of his finest environmental works, and we’re presenting the
young composer/marimbist Cheung, in one
of his first Ontario concerts. I have every
intention to keep the profile and participation
of composers high so long as I’m at the
helm of Stratford Summer Music.
One interesting change over the years
relates to our scheduling. We began totally
by setting our concerts and events around the
2pm and 8pm theatre shows. But now we’re
starting to claim our own ground with our
first effort in 2008 to set concerts at the
same time periods as the Festival. We’ll
have, for instance, a 2pm Sunday recital by
Measha and jazz sets at 9:15pm and
10:15pm. I’m anxious to see how these time
slots will work and if we find people coming, then we’ll do more of this next year.
After all, as the merchants, locals and B&B
owners constantly remind me, not everyone
here is at a drama in the afternoon and the
evening.
Looking ahead, if private and public
sector supporters continue to be with us as
they are, one can expect to see Stratford
Summer Music grow. The extent of the
private sector’s support is another interesting
aspect of our particular festival—damn,
there’s that “f” word again.
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Atis Bankas’ Niagara
Reading about John Miller’s Stratford Summer Music on the previous pages brings to
mind another summer music series that
shares its home base with a giant theatre
festival. The Shaw Festival and the Niagara
International Chamber Music Festival peacefully cohabit Niagara-on-the-Lake in the
Niagara Peninsula to the south of Toronto,
as Stratford Summer Music and the Stratford
Festival do to the west. I talked with the
Niagara festival’s founder and artistic director Atis Bankas recently about the Niagara
Festival’s past and present and how he deals
with Niagara-on-the-Lake’s theatrical “elephant in the room”.
Bankas, a violinist and veteran of the first
violin section of the
Toronto Symphony
Orchestra, was born in
Lithuania. He began to
play the violin there at
the age of five and as a
young man won violin
competitions in Eastern
Europe and played in
the symphony in Vilnius. In 1980, in search
of a better society than
that fostered by Soviet
socialism, he gave up
all he had, including
his citizenship, and
came to Canada with a
mere eighty dollars and
no prospects. Prepared
to do anything to make
a living, he was fortunate to land a paying job
with the Niagara Symphony, and the very
next year he joined the Toronto Symphony.
He has also had a distinguished teaching
career on both sides of the border, but currently limits his teaching to the Glenn Gould
Professional School.
“What possessed you,” I asked, “to start
a summer music festival?”
“It really started as a summer course in
Muskoka. It was a high-level course with
faculty from all over the world, and the festival just grew out of it.” The Muskoka Lakes
Summer Festival acquired its own existence,
he explained, independent of the course, and
then the facility where it was held was sold
and finding an affordable replacement proved
impossible. “So I began to look in the part
of Canada which I had first gotten to know
—Niagara— and approached Brock University.” To make a long story short, the summer
program was at Brock for a number of summers, but three years ago he decided to bring
it to an end. The summer festival, however,
that he started at the same time in Niagaraon-the-Lake continued and is now celebrating
its tenth season.
I asked how he went about programming
the festival. Not surprisingly, Bankas sometimes takes his cue from the Shaw Festival’s
programming: this season, for example, the
festival is offering two works by Stephen
Sondheim, Follies and A Little Night Music.
This summer, complementing the Shaw Festival, he is offering Marry me a Little, Sondheim’s setting of songs from his other musicals in a dialogue-free plot about the relationship of two people, each in separate Manhattan apartments.
He also takes his cues from the writings
of the theatre festival’s namesake as well.
Shaw’s famous music criticism, Bankas explains, provides a more or less inexhaustible
supply of thematic material. To programs of
music that Shaw reviewed or which was
composed or was popular during Shaw’s
time, he will add readings
from Shaw, read by actors from the Shaw Festival. Bankas’ August 11
show, Shaw on Mozart and
Bax, is this season’s incarnation of this type of
programming. This year’s
festival is also offering
The Wizard and His
Parrot, a retelling by
Gladys Evan Morris of
the Pygmalion story, on
which Shaw’s play, Pygmalion, was based.
But it seems there is a
second giant on Bankas’
turf. “This area already
had something to offer
before I came, the Shaw
Festival—and the wineries,” says Bankas.
Taking inspiration from the vineyards and
wine-making that the region is known for, the
wineries (there are eighteen wineries in
Niagara-on-the-Lake alone) provide themes
and venues for many of the festival’s programs. One of the most popular is the Mozart
weekend morning series, which takes place
in local wineries, where you can listen to
Mozart quartets and trios while tasting wine!
This summer’s festival offerings also include
Vivaldi Underground on August 9 at the Inniskillin Winery with wine and hors d’oeuvres
as well as music by the Red Priest.
Yet another of his programming themes
comes from the location’s proximity to the
American border—you can actually see the
United States across the Niagara River from
the festival’s office above the Pump House
Art Gallery in Niagara-on-the-Lake. The
“Musical Bridges” concerts are all built
around this theme. One of these on August
14 will feature The CanAmerata Quartet,
composed of two Canadian musicians and
two from Buffalo, New York, on August
14, performing a program of music by Canadian and American composers.
With the Shaw Festival sharing his festival’s space and the Niagara wineries and the
American border mere kilometres away,
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Bankas’ approach to festival programming may seem
to stem more
from geography
than perhaps
other festival’s
programming
might, but at
heart, as with all
music festivals,
his programme
Ready for the music.. . the Vivaldi Underground concert
has the festival
on August 9 at the Inniskillin Winery features wine, hors
patrons’ interd’oeuvres and music by the Red Priest.
ests front and
centre. “Deep down I’m an educator,” says Bankas. “I want people
to know what’s good in music and share with them and educate them
in one way or another. I want people to make connections that they
might not ordinarily make, to trigger their thinking and investigation.”
The 2008 season seems to offer it all—the festival’s press release for
this year’s tenth anniversary season invites patrons to “Have lunch
with Stephen Sondheim, share a glass of wine with Vivaldi, spend the
night with Brahms and wake up with Mozart.”
Seems the Niagara festival is indeed a feast for the ears. In fact,
Bankas says he often thinks in terms of food in the way he serves up
music at the festival: “Which dish goes best with which dish? What
do you offer for hors d’oeuvres—the overture, the opening? What’s
the main course?” His words conjure up a visual image of how the
diverse elements of his programming come together like a wonderfully varied but balanced meal—as he explains, “A concert has to make
that kind of sense in the way the elements are connected.”
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Artists include soprano Shannon Mercer, mezzo Krisztina Szabo,
baritone Olivier Laquerre, violinist Jacques Israelievitch, Michael
Israelievitch on marimba, accordionist Joseph Macerollo, flutist
Robert Aitken and the Zarankins (including Young Artist soprano
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November 23, 2008
Our 14th Annual Schubertiad: Winterreise
The inhabitants of Toronto are going to hate us: bass baritone
Peter McGillivray and pianist Boris Zarankin bring in the Winter
early - with Schubert’s immortal vocal cycle, Die Winterreise. But not to
worry, we promise a taste of the Spanish Costa del Sol too. As always,
Inna Perkis and Boris Zarankin will delight us with their four hand
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January 25, 2009
Italian Salon: Rossini’s La Petite Messe Solennelle
Our Italian Salon marks the Torontonian premiere of Rossini’s
La Petite Messe Solennelle for four singers (direct from Italy!):
soprano Serena Farnocchia, mezzo Francesca Provvisionato, tenor
Antonio Poli, bass Paolo Pecchioli, two pianos – Inna Perkis and
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Turning the Tables
In With the New QUODLibet World View EARLY Music
2008/2009
Ever wonder what our columnists do when they’re not writing for
WholeNote? This issue, we’ve turned the tables on our columnists,
and interviewed them! We asked them to reflect on the past year and
look ahead to the next in the music world in southern Ontario and
tell us what stands out for them in their “beat” and out. And just for
fun we asked what their dream local musical collaboration would be,
their CD of choice for a road trip, and where this road trip would
take them. Read on to learn which musical group Richard Marsella
has named Canada’s weapons of mass destruction, Chris Hoile’s
reason for attending the Fringe this year, and why Allan Pulker can
think of better things to do in the Rogers Centre than watch baseball!
Think back? What was your favourite concert or most magical
musical memory in the past season?
Karen Ages (World View): A sold-out performance by Les Mystère
des Voix Bulgares—I’d long heard this group (also known as the
Bulgarian Women’s Chorus) on recordings, but hearing them live
was a real treat! Imagine 23 women, each with soloist capabilities,
singing in tight harmonies, in that piercing Bulgarian style. It was
incredible!
Also, as an oboist, I freelance with a number of orchestras here
and there. My most memorable gig this season was playing English
horn in Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, with the Kingston Symphony.
What an amazing work! And I’ve enjoyed other magical moments in
Kingston, in particular the annual outdoor Fort Henry concerts. It
always amazes me how they time the live cannons and fireworks
perfectly at the end of
Tchaikovsly’s 1812
Overture!
Richard Marsella
(In With the New):
What a year…By far,
one of my favorite concerts from the past season was TOCA LOCA’s masterful presenWhen he’s not on post at the CMC, Richard
tation of their P*P
Marsella creates “extreme vaudeville”
Project at the Glenn
tunes as Friendly Rich
Gould Studio on March
25. The concert drove home the fact that a new generation of Canadian composers has certainly landed.
The musicianship of the trio is really unprecedented. Percussionist
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drew Staniland’s Made in
China), then the trio mashing Alanis Morissette’s
Hand in my Pocket in the
next (Juliet Palmer’s Five).
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Jim Galloway (Jazz Notes):
I had the great pleasure of
playing a ballad with a wonderful pianist, John Bunch,
at a recent jazz party…his
accompaniment was close to
being sublime. Definitely a
musical memory I shall
treasure. Another personal
highlight was at the recent Memories: Karen Ages with the Kingston
Art Of Jazz tribute to John Symphony at Fort Henry. To her left,
Norris, when the three ten- principal oboist Barbara Bolte.
ors Kira Payne, Dan Block
and John McMurchie locked horns in a friendly jousting match in the
musical interlude between Diminuendo and Crescendo In Blue. I
thought it was pretty special and that The Wee Big Band played
really well that night. Unfortunately, the Globe & Mail critic thought
otherwise and panned us. So a highlight for me was a flickering
candle for him. Oh well, one man’s
meat is another man’s poisson!
Allan Pulker (Choral Scene, Quodlibet): Of the concerts I have heard
this season, one that really stood out
was violinist Phoebe Tsang with
pianist George Brough, playing Debussy’s Sonata for Violin and Piano,
and Dvorak’s Romance for Violin
and Piano (Op.11 In F minor).
Phoebe’s total commitment to bringing that music fully to life at the
Heliconian Hall was very inspiring.
Frank Nakashima (Early Music): In
this past season, members of Tafelmusik performed nine of Heinrich
Jim Galloway’s Wee Big Band
Ignaz Franz von Biber’s Mystery
plays at the recent Art Of Jazz
(Rosary) Sonatas, based on the Mystribute to John Norris
tery of the Life of Christ, some of the
most beautiful music ever written for violin. These virtuosic works
were showcased by some of the finest exponents of the baroque violin, Christopher Verrette, Julia Wedman and Aisslinn Nosky, all of
whom offered brilliant performances of these remarkable masterpieces.
Jack MacQuarrie (BandStand): My most magical musical memory is
not of a band event! It was an amazing performance of Handel’s
Messiah by the combined forces of the Elmer Iseler Singers and The
Amadeus Choir. In particular it was the crystal clear rendering by
soprano Meredith Hall. I have always held the opinion that audiences
listen with their eyes as well as their ears. At all times Ms. Hall’s
radiant smile matched her crystal clear voice and confirmed to all
present that she was totally immersed in the music.
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John Tavener’s “In Memoriam Annon Lee Silver”
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Aaron Copland – “In the Beginning,”
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Chris Hoile (On Opera):
My most magical musical
exerience of the season was
without a doubt Opera
Atelier’s production of
Idomeneo. With a powerhouse cast of Measha
Brueggergosman, Kresimir
Spicer, Peggy Kriha Dye
and Michael Maniaci, with
Andrew Parrott’s conducting, it proved to be an
absolutely thrilling experiMarc Hervieux in Opera Hamilton’s 2006
ence.
production of La Traviata. Hervieux is a
feature tenor and one of the four soloists in
In your “beat”, what
Popera in the coming Opera Hamilton 2008was the most newsworthy 09 season.
event or biggest development during the past year?
November 01, 2008 - Mozart in Paris, 1778
February 07, 2009 - Not just “Messiah”
April 25, 2009 - Inspired by Greece
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Richard Marsella: Soundstreams
Canada securing a hefty commission
for R. Murray Schafer’s The Children’s Crusade, which will be premiered next June as part of LuminaTO 2009—this new opera work
will feature over 150 performers,
including the Canadian Children’s
Opera Chorus and the Toronto Consort.
I was also very excited to hear
about the announced collaboration
between composer Christos Hatzis
and librettist Margaret Atwood on
the new chamber opera Pauline to
Jim Galloway “at work” in the
summer, taking shots of
be premiered in early 2010. The
performers at the TD Canada
opera will be based on the life of
Trust Toronto Jazz Festival
Pauline Johnson (1861-1913), a
woman ahead of her time, who travelled across Canada, the United
States and Great Britain giving readings of her own work in an era
when such female independence was rare and remarkable.
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2008/09 Season
Chris Hoile: The most important Canadian opera news story of the
past season has been the near-death and rebirth of Opera Ontario.
Once the fourth largest producer of opera in Canada, the company
had to cancel its 2007-08 season because of severe financial difficulties. Yet, due to the hard work of General Director David Speers,
the amazing generosity of Hamilton businesses that forgave the company its loans and the more than 80% of subscribers who donated
their tickets, the company was able to demonstrate that it had firm
local support and could rebuild. Now in an unexpected but welldeserved happy ending, it has reverted to its original name of Opera
Hamilton and has just announced its 2008-09 season of The Magic
Flute and Madama Butterfly, showcasing Canadian talent—Colin
Ainsworth, Alex Dobson and Shannon Mercer are already scheduled
for Flute.
Karen Ages: The opening of Musideum, a new multi-cultural musical instrument store at 401 Richmond. I haven’t been there yet, but I
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Frank Nakashima: I’d have to say the launch of a concert season by
The Toronto Continuo Collective. They are a group of musicians
who study the art of accompaniment, on lutes, theorbos, Baroque
triple harp, harpsichord and violas da gamba, under the direction of
Lucas Harris and Borys Medicky. Their first program of the season
featured early 17th century music from Italy, Spain, Austria and
Poland. Definitely one of Toronto’s best-kept musical secrets.
Jim Galloway: The demise of IAJE (International Association of
Jazz Education), coming after a less than successful event in Toronto (not necessarily related), showed cracks in what was regarded as
a relative stronghold of jazz.
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Jack MacQuarrie: The appearance of a variety of different types of
new outreach programs to encourage young people to continue with
their music after leaving high school. A group of students have taken the initiative to establish a new community band in Scarborough
to encourage recent graduates to continue their music as an avocation
(www.continuingmusic.ca). Hopefully this initiative will be emulated
in other communities!
Allan Pulker: Elise Bradley taking over the Toronto Children’s Chorus from Jean Ashworth Bartle. This is an organization that has over
the years made a major impact on the lives of many young people,
including a good many who have gone into music professionally.
For it to move ahead through a major transition like this is an indication of its strength as an organization and its likelihood of being
around for a long time to come.
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Allan Pulker:
If there is
such a thing
as a “must
hear” this
Janet Cardiff’s Forty-Part Motet at Shawinigan Space,
Shawinigan, Quebec. Allan Pulker hopes to visit the
summer I
installation this summer at Stratford Summer Music.
think it is
Janet Cardiff’s sound installation “Forty-Part Motet,” which can be
visited every and any day of the week except Mondays and Tuesdays
from July 23 to August 17 at Stratford City Hall thanks to Stratford
Summer Music. Each of the separate vocal lines of Thomas Tallis’
famous forty-part motet, Spem in alium has been recorded separately. The recordings are played back through 40 speakers placed as a
circle of sound around the auditorium. Listeners inside the circle can
approach each of the singers individually or, by standing in the middle
of the room, hear all of them together.
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Chris Hoile: If I were writing my column as usual I would have
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version of Handel’s Acis and Galatea will be presented by the Classical Music Consort at the Factory Theatre July 3-12 and a remount
of David Ogborn’s environmental Opera on the Rocks, presented by
the Ambient Opera Society, will be mounted at Paupers Pub July 2–
13.
Frank Nakashima:
Don’t miss the
world-famous Ensemble Clement Janequin, singing a program of “Parisian
Chansons of the
Renaissance” (July
26) as part of the
Toronto Summer
Music Festival. No
one can do it better
than these guys!
Also, Montreal’s
Frank Nakashima (wearing another hat) as composer
Ensemble Caprice
Virgil Thomson in the upcoming feature film
makes a rare appearadaptation of John Greyson’s “Fig Trees”, a video
ance in these parts (at
opera collaboration with Toronto composer David
the Elora Festival),
Wall about AIDS activists Zackie Achmat and Tim
McCaskell.
performing music by
Vivaldi, Sammartini,
Handel, Caldara and Bach (July 27). And some Toronto Music Garden concerts may be of interest to early music lovers: ”Fanfares by
the Lake” (July 3); “The Secret of the Good Life” illustrating the
evolution of the chaconne (July 10); “The Sunniest of All Keys”—
music by Haydn and Mozart in my favourite key (July 17); “Blowing/
Bowing in the Wind”—music from 17th-century Italy and Germany
(July 27); and “A Tale of Two Lutes” (August 24), presenting the
European lute and the Chinese pipa.
Richard Marsella: On Thursday June 26 The Music Gallery
presents a night of fine experimental electroacoustic music featuring
Gordon Monahan, Olivia Block and Joda Clement. Two nights later,
on June 28 at The Music Gallery, be sure not to miss Feuermusik
featuring Jeremy Strachan (woodwinds) and Gus Weinkauf (percussion) as they release their second CD No Contest with special guests
Neptune. On Tuesday August 5, the Toronto Summer Music Festival 2008 presents the world premiere of Christos Hatzis’ In the Fire
of Conflict (for percussion, and cello) at Walter Hall, U of T
attempts to stretch the boundaries of what we commonly refer to as
“classical” music. This series features eight concerts, covering a
spectrum of genres; in the “world music” category, there’s a Beijing Opera demo
and workshop, and
Riffat Sultana and
Party perform
Pakistani folk and
classical songs,
both on July 26.
Jack MacQuarrie:
Since in my column I usually talk
about things that
have already happened, for me I
could not possibly
Jack MacQuarrie’s favourite road trip music:
have left out my
Le Kiosque à Musique
impressions of a
single week in late May when I was treated to performances of no
fewer that seven new compositions performed by very diverse
groups.
First, the final concert of the season for the Hannaford Street
Silver Band featured three Overtures, the winning entries in the
Band’s recent competition for new compositions. Composer Michael
Snelgrove had journeyed to Toronto from his home in Newfoundland to hear his composition performed at that concert.
Later that week, the annual spring concert for the students of Dr.
Norman Bethune Collegiate of Scarborough featured four original
works commissioned for the occasion. The school has a very high
percentage of students of Chinese ancestry, and as a music project,
the students were asked to submit their favourite Chinese folk songs,
which were then presented to noted American composer Elliot Del
Borgo. From this melange of material the composer produced a most
engaging suite for the Senior Band, Five Songs of China. With the
composer conducting, we were captivated by music which bridged
the gap from the ancient Eastern traditions to a work ideally suited
for the modern concert band.
What CD would you take on a summer road trip?
Richard Marsella: Captain Beefheart’s Clear Spot.
Jim Galloway: A composite CD with some ballads by Ben Webster
including This Is All I Ask, Peace Piece played by Bill Evans, I’d
Climb The Highest Mountain by Pee Wee Russell, one by John
Coltrane, maybe Easy To Remember, and to be unashamedly romanKaren Ages: Harbourfront has some interesting programming coming
tic, the first movement of Brahms’s Concerto for Violin and Orchesup. Tiragn: Iranian Festival (July 17-20) showcases Persian culture,
tra in D major (Op. 77). Is there room for all of that on a CD?
including eleven concerts, most of which are free (see
Jack MacQuarrie: My CD of choice transports me back musically
www.tirgan.com). Most of the concerts feature classical Persian
music on traditional instruments, while others feature electronic mu- one hundred years. It is Kiosque 1900 performed by Le Kiosque à
sic and jazz with Persian influence. “What is Classical” (July 25-27) Musique under the direction of Alain Trudel. This seven-member
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virtuoso ensemble recreates the spirit of the times with a variety of
genres including the overture to the opera La Rose Nuptial by Calixa
Lavallée, composer of O Canada. It transports me to a shaded park
bench near a typical gazebo-style bandstand such as the one I remember in the Halifax Public Gardens.
Chris Hoile: I’ve taken to listening to spoken-word downloads. I’m
working my way through the complete short stories of Saki (i.e.
H.H. Munro) and I like the satirical Times-Online broadcasts of The
Bugle. Road noise is not so hard on dance band music of the 1920s
and ’30s and I have at least four CDs of Max Raabe and his Palast
Orchester that I haven’t had a chance to listen to yet.
Allan Pulker: A couple of years ago I acquired the six-CD set called
The Music of Armenia. I would take it for the sublime choral music
and the music for duduk.
Karen Ages: My cousin, Freida Abtan, is in the midst of a doctorate
in electronic music. She recently had a piece involving video/sound
manipulation performed at Montreal’s Mutek festival, and her work
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Frank Nakashima: I’d take The Skye Consort’s Traditional Celtic
Melodies, a fusion of early music and folk, with countertenor Matthew White, on the ATMA label (ACD 2 2236). It’s a wonderfully
fresh-sounding collaboration, charming and infectiously joyful.
And where would you go for this road trip?
Allan Pulker: First I’d go to Niagara-on-the-Lake to hear the St.
Petersburg String Quartet on August 8. Then I’d go to Stratford to
hear “Forty-Part Motet” and then back to Niagara-on-the-Lake to
hear “Ancient Traditions of Azerbaijan” on August 13. In between,
wine-tasting and Mozart sounds like a great idea, or maybe a play in
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Frank Nakashima: I would go to New Brunswick, to the Lamèque
International Baroque Festival (www.festivalbaroque.com) or to the
other coast, and the Vancouver Festival, also a
great program
(www.earlymusic.bc.ca).
Jack MacQuarrie: My personal journey would be
along the Eastern shore of
Nova Scotia to visit the
many small communities
along that stretch of Canada’s coastline which I used
to visit regularly during my
navy days. There would be
stops at Lawrencetown,
Musquodoboit Harbour,
Owl’s Head, Clam Harbour
and many others along the
road to Ecum Secum.
Richard Marsella: I’d take a
drive through Steyr, Austria, one of the prettiest
towns I’ve seen.
Jack MacQuarrie on deck with his tuba last
winter. Now mobile again, he’d like to take
to the open road and visit some of his old
Navy haunts along the southeastern shore of
Nova Scotia.
Chris Hoile: In my other
guise as a theatre critic, I cover everything at both the Stratford
Shakespeare Festival and at the Shaw Festival, so nearly all of my
road trips have Stratford or Niagara-on-the-Lake as their destination!
Karen Ages: I hope to take in a play at the Stratford Festival, then I’ll
be participating once again in Murray Schafer’s “Wolf Project” in
the Haliburton Forest.
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Leapfrogging ahead to next year, if you could conjure up a concert collaboration for the 08-09 season between someone usually
covered in your “beat” and artists in any one or two of our other
WholeNote “beats”, what would it be?
Karen Ages: This past season, Tafelmusik joined forces with Cantor
Gershon Silins, Arabic vocalist Maryem Tollar (who also played
qanun) and other arabic instrumentalists in a gourgeous program
titled “In the Garden of Delights: Music from the Song of Songs.”
Not such a stretch when it comes to Baroque music. So, how about
something a little more wacky, like, Toca Loca meets Trichy Sankaran. The latter’s virtuosity on mrdangam as well as his extraordinary
ability to vocalise Indian drum syllables at alarming rapidity suggests
Karen’s collaboration idea for 08-09: Trichy Sankaran meets Toca Loca.
to me some sort of kinship with virtuoso contemporary pianists Greg
Oh and Simon Docking and star percussionist Aiyun Huang...maybe
not such a stretch after all. As for the repertoire they’d play, I have
confidence in the imaginative programming abilities of the folks concerned!
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Richard Marsella: I’d love to hear a collaboration between the AIM
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Jack MacQuarrie: My collaborator “beat” would be Early Music. I
would hope to program a series of concerts tracing the history of
community instrumental ensembles in Canada. There are sufficient
records of band concerts in Ontario from the 1850s that would provide a guide for programming. Would we be able to locate all parts
of the proposed music? That could require some ingenuity. As for
instrumentation, we might find that more challenging. Did they have
such instruments as ophicleides, helicons, sacbutts, serpents and
sarrusaphones to go with their cornets, and saxhorns? If they did,
where would we locate instruments in playable condition? Perhaps
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Jim Galloway: It might be interesting to put a horn player, let’s say
saxophonist Mike Murley, with Nagata Shachu, the wonderful group
of traditional Japanese drummers, and let them go wherever the music would take them, although I refuse to admit that I have a yen to
hear such a performance!
Chris Hoile: In 2003 I reviewed the premiere of a jazz opera called
Québécité by D.D. Jackson and George Elliott Clarke that attempted
to tell a modern story using various modes of jazz and world music
as its medium. While it was not entirely successful, it did show how
exciting such a combination could be. A jazz/world music opera
would be particularly appropriate for a modern retelling of a classic
story set in such a multicultural country as Canada.
Allan Pulker: A couple of months ago I saw the film I recommended
in my column, The Singing Revolution, about the role choral music
played in the liberation of Lithuania from Soviet domination. The
liberation happened largely because about 140 years ago a huge annual choral singing festival involving around 20,000 people all singing together was organized. I’d love to see us do something like this
in Canada, maybe at the Rogers Centre!
Frank Nakashima: I think a collaboration between the Opera Division of the Faculty of Music at U of T and the Toronto Continuo
Collective could do something for the advancement of vocal art. It
would also be great to assemble several local choirs to perform Striggio’s gigantic Missa sopra Ecco si beato giorno in 40 and 60 parts.
Any exchange of musical ideas can be a healthy thing!
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ST. JAMES’ CATHEDRAL 25
ST. JOHN’S MUSIC 20
STRATFORD SUMMER MUSIC 10
SUMMER OPERA LYRIC THEATRE 27
SUMMERWORKS THEATRE FESTIVAL 29
SWEETWATER MUSIC WEEKEND 13
TORONTO CHAMBER CHOIR 19
TORONTO CHAMBER CHOIR 50
TORONTO CLASSICAL SINGERS 18
TORONTO OPERA REPERTOIRE 48,49
TORONTO OPERETTA THEATRE 2
TORONTO SUMMER MUSIC 26,28,64
TORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 4
TORONTO WELSH MALE VOICE CHOIR 30
TRYPTYCH 27
WESTBEN ARTS FESTIVAL THEATRE 13
WHOLENOTE MARKETPLACE 52
WORLDSONGS 27
Y.C.CHAU AND SONS PIANOS 21
YAMAHA CANADA 53
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LISTINGS: SECTION 1
CONCERTS: Toronto and GTA
WHOLENOTE LISTINGS
SECTIONS 1-6: INTRODUCTION
WholeNote listings are arranged in SIX DISTINCT SECTIONS:
1) Toronto & GTA (Greater Toronto Area); 2) Beyond the GTA;
3) Opera and Music Theatre; 4) Jazz in Clubs; 5) Summer
Music Festivals; 6) Music-related events that are not concerts, a.k.a. “The EtCetera file”.
This issue contains listings from July 1 to September 7 in all
sections.
SECTION 1: Toronto & GTA (page 24-31) covers all of the City
of Toronto plus the adjoining “905” area - more or less corresponding to the areas accessible from Toronto by phone without
long distance charges. Section 1 includes communities as far west
as Oakville, as far north as Aurora and as far east as Ajax.
In this issue Section 1 includes:
Markham, Mississauga, Pickering, Thornhill, Toronto &
GTA.
SECTION 2: Beyond the GTA (page 32-33) covers all areas of
Ontario outside Toronto and GTA. The towns and cities vary
from month to month.
In this issue Section 2 includes:
Ancaster, Barrie, Burlington, Cambridge, Cobourg,
Goderich, Guelph, Hamilton, Jackson’s Point, Kingston,
Kitchener, London, Newmarket, Orillia, Picton, Port Elgin,
Sharon, Stratford, Waterloo, Windermere
SECTION 3: Opera and Music Theatre (page 33) summarizes
run details for opera and music theatre productions (including dance).
It offers a quick overview of what is happening in these genres.
SECTION 4: Jazz in Clubs (page 34-35) is organized alphabetically by club, and provides as much detail on what the clubs are
offering as we had at the time of publication, which varies greatly
from club to club. Phone numbers and website addresses are provided to facilitate access to more up-to-date information.
SECTION 5: Summer Music Festivals (page 35-45) is organized alphabetically and offers a short description of each festival, as
well as listings of festival concerts or else a reference to where to find
concert listings in our other listings sections.
SECTION 6: Announcements, Lectures/Symposia, Master
Classes…EtCetera (pages 45-46) is for music-related events and
activities, other than performances, which in our judgment will be
of interest to our readers.
A word of caution: a phone number is provided with every listing;
in fact, we won’t publish a listing without one. Concerts are sometimes cancelled or postponed; artists or even venues change after
the listings are published; or occasionally corrected information is
not sent to us in time. So please check before you go out to a
concert.
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from September 1 to October 7.
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Tuesday July 01
— 12:00 noon to 10:00: 93.5 FM. Country
Canada Jam. Artists include The Higgins,
Crystal Shawanda, Deric Ruttan. Woodbine
Park, corner of Coxwell Ave. & Lakeshore
Blvd. E. 905-521-9900. Free.
— 1:00: Harbourfront Centre. Canada Day:
The Fort York Drums. Toronto Star Stage,
235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. Free.
Manitoba Chamber Orchestra. Sirius Satellite
Radio Stage, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-9734000. Free.
Jackie Richardson and the Cougars. Blues,
gospel, funk and reggae. Sirius Satellite Radio
Stage, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.
Free.
Journey of the Canadian Fiddle. Performances
by Alyssa Delbaere-Sawchuck, Sherry & Matthew Johnson, Pierre Chartand, Richard Forest
& others. Toronto Star Stage. 235 Queens
Quay W. 416-973-4000. Free.
Plants and Animals. Folk and country. Brigantine Room, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-9734000. Free.
Cana-drum, Journey of the Drum. Brenda MacIntyre & the Red Spirit Singers and Dancers;
Maracut Nunca Antes; Sonay Garbo Punjab
De; Amara Kante & others. Toronto Star
Free.
Singer-songwriter Basia Bulat. Sirius Satellite
Singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright. Sirius
Satellite Radio Stage, 235 Queens Quay W.
416-973-4000. Free.
Festival. Dave Brubeck Quartet & the Toronto Jazz Festival Orchestra. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W.
416-928-2033. $40-$130.
— 9:00: Harbourfront Centre. World
Routes: Seun Kuti and Egypt 80. Afrobeat.
Sirius Satellite Radio Stage, 235 Queens Quay
W. 416-973-4000. Free.
Thursday July 03
— 7:00: Harbourfront Centre/Summer
Music in the Garden. Fanfares by the Lake.
Music of Renaissance England and Venice, to
the present. Norman Engel, Andras Molnar,
John Thiessen, trumpets; Edward Reifel, timpani. Toronto Music Garden, 475 Queens
Quay W. 416-973-4000. Free.
— 8:00 & 9:00: Somewhere There. Improvised Music. Dutch Cake Trio (at 8:00);
Michael Keith, guitar; Marcus Quinn, clarinet;
Allison Cameron, amplified objects (at 9:00).
340 Dufferin St. 416-530-5881. $6.
— 8:15: Classical Music Consort/Toronto
Fringe Festival. Handel: Acis and Galatea.
Tom Macleay, tenor; Rosie Coad, soprano;
John Bacon, tenor; David Roth, baritone; Ashiq
Aziz, artistic director. Factory Theatre, 125
Bathurst Street. 416-966-1062. $10.
— 9:30: Harbourfront Centre. World
Routes: Orchestra Baobab. Senagalese Afrosoul and jazz. Sirius Satellite Radio Stage, 235
Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. Free.
Friday July 04
— 1:00 to 6:00: Sound Travels Festival/
InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre. Resonating Bodies: Bumble Domicile.
Installation of bee and wasp nesting. New
Gallery, 906 Queen St. W. 416-516-7413.
Free. To July 27.
— 1:15: Blue Fire Productions. Death to
Dating. Written by R.J. Downes & Kathryn
Malek. Music & lyrics by David Hein. Brad
Hampton, Julia deSotto, Kesta Graham, Kevin
Morris & others; Victor Correia, director. FacWednesday July 02
tory Theatre, 125 Bathurst St. 416-504— 7:00: Toronto Fringe Festival. Notes
9971. $10. For run details, see music theatre
from the Pit. Helen Kopec, playwright & cellistings.
list. The Rivoli, 334 Queen St. W. 416-966— 2:00: Harbourfront Centre. Smirnoff Ice
1062. $10.00.
Beats, Breaks & Culture: Woodhands. Toronto— 7:30: Artists’ Garden Cooperative.
Electro-psych pop duo. Sirius Satellite Radio
Plein Air Concert Series.’08. Choirgirlz, folk/
jazz ensemble. 345 Balliol St. 416-487-0705. Free.
$10.
— 5:00: Acky-Made/Toronto Fringe Fes— 8:00: Harbourfront Centre. World
tival: Old Growth: a play with music. By Alex
Routes: Seckou Keita SKQ. Afro-jazz fusion.
Eddington. Alex Eddington & Aura Giles. Glen
Sirius Satellite Radio Stage, 235 Queens Quay Morris Theatre, 4 Glen Morris St. 416-966W. 416-973-4000. Free.
1062. $10. For run details see music theatre
— 8:00: TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz
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OPERA BY REQUEST
Gluck’s Orfeo ed Eurydice
(Viennese version, with piano)
Anna Belikova, mezzo-soprano
Lindsay Michael and
Lisa Zhang, sopranos.
William Shookhoff,
pianist and music director.
Saturday, July 5, 8:00 pm
Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Avenue
Tickets $20/$15 S/S
Phone 416 455-2365 for reservations
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— 7:30: Opera by Request. Mozart: Così
fan tutte. Nadine Guertin & Sarah Iles, soprano; France Caya, mezzo; Henry Irwin &
Terence Shawn, baritones; William Shookhoff,
music director & pianist. Stonegate Room, 34
Stonegate Rd. 416-455-2365. $15.
— 8:00 Citytv/OMNI Television. Mondo
Muziko A-Go-Go: Nomadic Massive. Hip-hop
across borders. Yonge-Dundas Square, 1 Dundas St. E. 416-979-9960. Free.
— 8:00: Harbourfront Centre. Smirnoff Ice
Beats, Breaks & Culture: Poni Hoax. New
wave emotronic music. Sirius Satellite Radio
Free.
Beats, Breaks & Culture: Ladytron. Electro
new-wave quartet. Sirius Satellite Radio
Free.
— 11:00pm: Harbourfront Centre.
Smirnoff Ice Beats, Breaks & Culture: Ladytron DJs featuring Mira. Brigantine Room,
— 11:00pm: Harbourfront Centre.
Smirnoff Ice Beats, Breaks & Culture: PTR
10th Anniversary. Bands and DJs from Public
Transit Recordings. Lakeside Terrace, 235
Saturday July 05
— 12:00 noon to 10:30: Afrofest. 2008 Festival. Two days of African dance, music and
theatre. Featured artists include Dobet
G’nahore; Femi Abosede & Culture Force;
Donne Roberts; Konyokonyo, Shego Band &
Shangaza Performers. Queens Park; also Lula
Lounge, 1585 Dundas St. W. 416-469-5336.
— 12:30: Toronto Fringe Festival: Old
Growth: a play with music. See July 4.
— 1:00 to 11:00: Corso Italia BIA. Corso
Italia Toronto Fiesta. Performances by Josephine Biundo, Lou Martin, Marco D’Amico,
Café Cubano & others. Corso Italia BIA Stage,
1241 St. Clair Ave. W. & St. Clair Stage,
1295 St. Clair Ave. W. 416-240-9338. Free.
Beats, Breaks & Culture: Tortured Soul. Soulful
R&B-inspired house music. Sirius Satellite
Dating. See July 4.
Beats, Breaks & Culture: Thunderheist. Electrocrunk booty-bass music. Sirius Satellite
— 8:00: Opera by Request. Gluck: Orfeo ed
Eurydice. Anna Belikova, mezzo; Lindsay
Michael & Lisa Zhang, sopranos. William
Shookhoff, pianist & music director. Heliconian
Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave. 416-455-2365. $20;
$15(sr/st).
Beats, Breaks & Culture: Crystal Castles.
Synth-punk music. Sirius Satellite Radio Stage,
Monday July 07
416-536-5439. $30.
— 10:30pm: Classical Music Consort/
Toronto Fringe Festival. Handel: Acis and
Galatea. Run continues. See music theatre
listings.
Wednesday July 09
— 7:00: Applewood Homestead. Twilight
Concerts in the Park. Etobicoke Community
Concert Band. 450 The West Mall, Etobicoke.
416-622-4124. Free.
— 7:30: Artists’ Garden Cooperative.
Plein Air Concert Series ’08. Julia Kolar, ambient pop vocalist. 345 Balliol St. 416-4870705. $10.
Thursday July 10
— 6:30: Aradia Ensemble. A Taste of
France. Works by Lully, Leclair & Couperin.
Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave., 416-9244670. $30.
Music in the Garden. The Secret of the
Good Life: The Chaconne’s dance to fame.
Evolution of the chaconne: from sixteenthcentury Mexico to the High Baroque. Geneviève Gilardeau, violin; Lucas Harris, lute, theorbo, baroque guitar; Kate Bennett Haynes, cello.
Toronto Music Garden, 475 Queens Quay W.
416-973-4000. Free.
— 7:30: The Lansdowne Sax Quartet. In
Concert. Guest: Allison Bent, percussion.
Works by Schudel, D’Rivera & Teehan. Victoria College Chapel, 91 Charles St. W. 647881-1499. $10; $8(advance; $10)
— 8:00 & 9:00: Somewhere There. Improvised Music. Michelangelo Iaffaldano, Sandor
Ayzenstat & Allison Cameron, found objects
— 12:15: Church of the Holy Trinity. MuSunday July 06
sic Mondays Series. Music by Faure, Chopin
— 12:00 noon to 10:30: Afrofest. 2008 Fes- & Albeniz. Koichi Inoue, piano. 10 Trinity
Square. 416-598-4521 x304. $5 suggested
tival. See July 5 (Queens Park only.)
donation.
— 1:00 to 9:00: Corso Italia BIA. Corso
Italia Toronto Fiesta. Performances by Lou
Martin, Carlo Coppola, Marco D’Amico, Imbay- Dating. Run continues. For details, see music
akunas & others. Corso Italia BIA Stage, 1241 theatre listings.
St. Clair Ave. W. & St. Clair Stage, 1295 St.
Tuesday July 08
Clair Ave. W. 416-240-9338. Free.
— 1:00: St. James’ Cathedral. Music at
— 2:00: Sunday Serenade Concert SeMidday. Works by Cimarosa & Bach. Allan
ries. Rene Barda. Scarborough Civic Centre
Pulker, flute; Karen Ages, oboe; Andrew Ager,
Rotunda, 150 Borough Dr. 416-338-3295.
organ. 65 Church St. 416-364-7865. Free;
Free.
— 3:00: Harbourfront Centre. Smirnoff Ice offering.
Beats, Breaks & Culture: Shad. MC/musicians. — 9:00: Small World Music. SummerSirius Satellite Radio Stage, 235 Queens Quay world: Rachid Taha. Algerian punk-rock. The
Phoenix Concert Theatre, 410 Sherbourne St.
W. 416-973-4000. Free.
— 4:00 Harbourfront Centre/Summer
Music in the Garden. SamulNori: Dancing
Drums of Korea SamulNori Canada Korean
Drum Ensemble; Korean drums; guests: HanSoo Jung, piri (bamboo double reed flute); SoAll concerts begin at 12:15 p.m. and take
Sun Suh, Hae-Geum (Korean fiddle). Toronto
place at the Church of the Holy Trinity,
Music Garden, 475 Queens Quay West. 41610 Trinity Square. $5 suggested donation
For information call (416) 598-4521 x222
Music Mondays
SUMMER CONCERTS
AT ST. JAMES CATHEDRAL
Organ recital every
Tuesday in July
1:00 pm
free admission
Twilight Series every
Sunday year-round,
4:00 pm
(free admission),
followed by
Choral Evensong.
65 Church St.
(King at Church)
416 364 7865
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973-4000. Free.
— 4:00: St. James’ Cathedral. Sunday
Twilight Recital Series. Peter Nikiforuk, organ. 65 Church St. 416-364-7865. Free; offering.
— 4:30: Toronto Fringe Festival: Old
Growth: a play with music. Run continues.
See music theatre listings for details.
— 4:45: Classical Music Consort/Toronto
Fringe Festival. Handel: Acis and Galatea.
See July 3.
— 7:30: Music for a Summer’s Evening:
A Concert Benefiting the Erindale Presbyterian Church’s Family Sponsorship Fund. Danielle
Leroux, flute; Aury Murray, collaborative pianist; other solo voice and instrumental performers. Erindale Presbyterian Church. 1560 Dundas Street West. Mississauga. 416-2320927. $10 (at door)
July 7
Koichi Inoue Piano
July 14
Bill McBirnie Jazz Flute, Robi Botos Piano
July 21
Sarlena Ohmtola Vocals, Ashtar Ron Allen Violin
Rick Hyslop Violin, Gurpreet Chana Percussion
July 28
Linda Melsted Baroque Violin, Kiri Tollakssen Cornetto
Dominic Teresi Dulcian, Borys Medicky Harpsichord
Aug. 4
Laurel Swinden Flute, Kevin Ramessar Guitar
Aug.11
Jordan Klapman Swing Band, Jordan Klapman Piano
Adi Braun Vocals, Tony Quarrington Guitar
Drew Birston Bass
Aug. 18 Emma Elkinson Flute, Fiona Jane Wood Piano
Aug. 25 Christina Petrowska Quilico Piano
Sept. 1
The Café Olé, Celia Pall Vocals
Scott Metcalfe Piano, Paul Metcalfe Saxophone
Benjamin Barrile Flamenco, Dustin Shaskin Bass
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... SECTION 1: Toronto & the GTA
(at 8:00); Rob Clutton, bass; Mauro Savo guitar; Allison Cameron, amplified objects (at
9:00). 340 Dufferin St. 416-530-5881. $6.
— 8:30: Small World Music. Black Umfolosi. Music and dance from Southern Africa.
Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas St. W. 416-5316604. $25; $22(advance).
Friday July 11
Friday July 11, 7:30 pm
Sunday Aug. 24, 2:00 pm
Moira and Elena
www.willowmyst.com
— 7:30: Friends of the Museums of Mississauga. On the Verandah concert series.
Original, celtic and classical works. Moira
Nelson, harp and voice; Elena Jubinville, cello
and voice. Benares Historic House, 1507
Clarkson Road North, Clarkson. 905-6154860. PWYC.
Muziko A-Go-Go: People Project. Folk idioms
from around the world. Yonge-Dundas Square,
1 Dundas St. E. 416-979-9960. Free.
— 8:00: Harbourfront Centre. Ritmo y
Color: SalsAfrica. Fusion of salsa and African
music. Sirius Satellite Radio Stage, 235
Color: Etelvina Maldonado. Bullerenge singer
from Colombia. Sirius Satellite Radio Stage,
Saturday July 12
Color: Plan C. Latin Hip-Hop Funk fusion. Sirius
416-973-4000. Free.
— 8:00: Small World Music. Summerworld: New Javanese Shadows. Gamelan
Madu Sari & Ki Seno Nugroho. Harbourfront
Centre, Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay
W. 416-973-4000. $30.
Color. Puerto Plata. Sonero music from the
Dominican Republic, played by guitarist José
Cobles. Sirius Satellite Radio Stage, 235
Sunday July 13
— 2:00: Sunday Serenade Concert Series. Bohemian Swing Band. Scarborough Civic Centre Rotunda, 150 Borough Dr. 416-3383295. Free.
Music in the Garden. Down by the Sally
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Muziko A-Go-Go: Socalled. Klezmer hip-hop.
Gardens: Songs of Summer, Nature, Love and Yonge-Dundas Square, 1 Dundas St. E. 416979-9960. Free.
Loss. Folk, classical and popular songs by
Rorem, Schubert, Ovalle, Burns, Nakada, Hirai, — 9:30: Harbourfront Centre. Tirgan Iranian Festival. Masoud Shoari Trio. Fusion of
and Farley. Meredith Hall, soprano; Bernard
Persian and Indian classical styles. Sirius SatFarley, guitar. Toronto Music Garden, 475
ellite Radio Stage, 235 Queens Quay W. 416Queens Quay West. 416-973-4000. Free.
— 4:00: St. James’ Cathedral. Sunday Twi- 973-4000. Free.
light Recital Series. John Jull, piano. 65
Saturday July 19
Church St. 416-364-7865. Free; offering.
— 1:00 to 11:00: Africa New Music. Festi— 4:30: Harbourfront Centre. Ritmo y
Color. Pistonlera. Latin alt-folk. Sirius Satellite val Bana Y’ Africa. Artists include Maracata
Radio Stage, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973- Nunca Antes, Roberts Donna, Ijovudu Dance,
Daniel Nebiat, Nutifafa African Performance
4000. Free.
& King Kester Emeneya. Dundas Square, 1
Monday July 14
Dundas St. E. 416-536-8240. Free.
— 12:15: Church of the Holy Trinity. Mu- — 5:30: Harbourfront Centre. Tirgan Iranian Festival. Shiraz Ensemble. Lakeside Tersic Mondays. Bebop, swing and Cuban/Brazilian. Bill McBirnie, flute, Robi Botos, piano. 19 race. 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.
Trinity Sq. 416-598-4521 x304. $5(suggest- Free.
— 7:30: Clay & Paper Theatre. Horse
ed donation).
Feathers: The Bygone Era of the Dufferin Race
Track. See July 18.
Midday. French Romantic Masterpieces. An— 8:00: Harbourfront Centre. Tirgan Iranidrew Ager, organ. 65 Church St. 416-364an Festival. Behna Ensemble & Lian Ensemble.
7865. Free; offering.
Persian influenced jazz and electronic music.
Tuesday July 15
Sirius Satellite Radio Stage, 235 Queens Quay
— 9:00: Small World Music. Master Musi- W. 416-973-4000. Free.
— 8:00: Harbourfront Centre. Tirgan Iranicians of Jajouka, featuring Bachir Attar. Music from Morocco. The Phoenix Concert Thea- an Festival. Darya Dadvar. Vocalist fuses Pertre, 410 Sherbourne St. 416-536-5439. $30. sian, opera, jazz and blues styles. Enwave
Theatre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973Wednesday July 16
4000. $30.
— 11:00pm: Harbourfront Centre. Tirgan
Iranian Festival. Soul Nidus. Alt-rock. BriganPlein Air Concert Series ’08. Taffenel Wind
tine Room, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973Ensemble. 345 Balliol St. 416-487-0705.
4000. Free.
$10.
Thursday July 17
Sunday July 20
Music in the Garden. The Sunniest of All
Keys. Haydn: Quartet Op. 20 No. 2 (the “Sun”
Quartets); Mozart: “Dissonance” Quartet, K.
465. Windermere String Quartet: Rona Goldensher and Geneviève Gilardeau, violins; Anthony Rapoport, viola; Laura Jones, cello. Toronto Music Garden, 475 Queens Quay W.
416-973-4000. Free.
— 8:00 & 9:00: Somewhere There. Improvised Music. Allison Cameron, amplified objects; Jason Benoit, banjo (at 8:00); Ryan Driver, synth; Stephen Parkinson, guitar; Allison
Cameron, amplified objects/electronics (at
9:00). 340 Dufferin St. 416-530-5881. $6.
— 9:00: Harbourfront Centre. Tirgan Iranian Festival. Mohamad Reza Lotfi and Shayda
Ensemble. Iranian composer, tar and setar
player. Sirius Satellite Radio Stage, 235
Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. $25.
— 12:30: Toronto Summer Music Festival. Emerging Artists Concert. Church of the
Redeemer, 162 Bloor St. W. 416-585-4464.
Free.
— 2:00: Sunday Serenade Concert Series. George Lake Big Band. Scarborough Civic
Centre Rotunda, 150 Borough Dr. 416-3383295. Free.
— 2:00: Harbourfront Centre. Tirgan Iranian Festival. Barbod Ensemble. Kurdish melodies and dance music. Toronto Star Stage.
Music in the Garden. Strong Winds and
Occasional Thunder. Brass and percussion
sections of the National Youth Orchestra of
Canada. Toronto Music Garden, 475 Queens
Quay W. 416-973-4000. Free.
— 4:00: St. James’ Cathedral. Sunday Twilight Recital Series. Natalie Mahon, soprano
and Richard Whittall, countertenor. 65 Church
St. 416-364-7865. Free; offering.
— 4:30: Harbourfront Centre. Tirgan Iranian Festival. Chakvak Ensemble. Persian classical music. Lakeside Terrace. 235 Queens
Quay W. 416-973-4000. Free.
Track. Run continues. See music theatre listings.
Friday July 18
— 10:00: Small World Music. Psychotropical Orchestra. Latin Afrobeat fusion. Lula
Lounge, 1585 Dundas St. W. 416-588-0307.
$15.
— 11:00: Harbourfront Centre. Tirgan
Iranian Festival. Technofunk Collective & Cold
Trap. DJs present techno, house and electronic music. Brigantine Room, 235 Queens Quay
W. 416-973-4000. Free.
Track. Written by David Anderson and Krista
Dalby; Chris Wilson, music director. Outdoors
at Dufferin Grove Park, opposite Dufferin
Mall, s.of Bloor St. 416-537-9105. PWYC
(suggested $10).
Monday July 21
— 12:15: Church of the Holy Trinity. Music Mondays: RagaMelodix. Allen: Hindustani
music. Sarlena Ohmtola, vocals; Ashtar Ron
Allen & Rick Hyslop, violin; Gurpreet Chana,
percussion. 19 Trinity Sq. 416-598-4521
x304. $5(suggested donation).
— 8:00: Music Gallery / RMS Concerts.
Matmos: Martin Schmidt & Drew Daniel,
synthesizers. 197 John St. 416-204-1080.
$20.
Tuesday July 22
Midday. French Romantic Masterpieces. Andrew Ager, organ. 65 Church St. 416-3647865. Free; offering.
— 8:00: Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts. Cinderella. By Rodgers & Hammerstein. Bathurst Street Theatre, 736
Bathurst St. 416-872-1111. $22.
ANDRÉ
LAPLANTE, piano
Tuesday, July 22, 8 pm
— 8:00: Toronto Summer Music Festival.
Opening Concert. Chopin: Nocturne in F Op.
15/1; Fantasie in f Op. 49; Three Mazurkas
Op. 63; Liszt: Années de Pelerinage Book 1;
Sonata in b. André Laplante, piano. The Carlu.
444 Yonge St. 416-585-4464. $50. Postperformance champagne reception included.
Wednesday July 23
Free.
Concerts in the Park. Weston Silver Band. 450
The West Mall, Etobicoke. 416-622-4124.
Free.
Plein Air Concert Series ’08. Michael Kleniec,
jazz guitar. 345 Balliol St. 416-487-0705.
$10.
— 8:00: Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts. Cinderella. See July 22.
Thursday July 24
Music in the Garden. Percussion in a Suitcase. Music by Matthew Burtner, Alvin Lucier, Javier Alvarez, Roberto Sierra, Georges
Aperghis & John Adams. Aiyun Huang, percussion. Toronto Music Garden, 475 Queens
Quay W. 416-973-4000. Free.
— 8:00: Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts. Cinderella. Run continues. See
music theatre listings.
Violin/Piano Recital. Debussy: Violin Sonata in
g; Franck: Sonata in A; Messiaen: Theme and
Variations; Beethoven: Violin Sonata in c Op.
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Markham Bandstand, Main St. at Fred Varley
Dr., Unionville. 905-477-0117. Free.
— 8:00: Capricorn 9 Productions. Something’s Rockin’ in Denmark. See July 25.
— 8:00: Summer Opera Lyric Theatre.
Semele by G.F. Handel. Raisa Nakhmanovitch,
music director; Guillermo Silva-Marin, stage
director. Robert Gill Theatre, 214 College
Street. 416-978-7986. $25;$20(sr/st). For
run details see music theatre listings.
Friday July 25
— 7:30: Toronto Summer Music Festival. Parisian Chansons of the Renaissance. Ensemble Clément Janequin. Walter Hall, Edward
Emerging Artists Concert. Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queens Park. 416- Johnson Building, 80 Queens Park Cresc. 416585-4464. $37; $27(sr/st). Pre-concert chat
585-4464. Free.
6:45.
— 8:00: Capricorn 9 Productions. Something’s Rockin’ in Denmark. Music and book by — 9:30: Harbourfront Centre. What is
Classical? Either/Orchestra, featuring Malatu
Cliff Jones. Jane Mallet Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts. 27 Front St. E. 416- Astatke. Ethnic jazz. Sirius Satellite Radio
Stage. 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.
366-7723. $40; $30.
Free.
— 8:00: Harbourfront Centre. What is
Classical? Toronto Youth Wind Orchestra.
Sunday July 27
Sirius Satellite Radio Stage. 235 Queens Quay
— 2:00: Sunday Serenade Concert SeW. 416-973-4000. Free.
ries. Two for the Show. Scarborough Civic
Centre Rotunda, 150 Borough Dr. 416-338Vanessa by Samuel Barber. Michael Rose,
3295. Free.
music director; Guillermo Silva-Marin, stage
director. Robert Gill Theatre, 214 College
Classical? Orphea and the Golden Harp. AdapStreet. 416-978-7986. $25;$20(sr/st). For
tation of Monteverdi’s Orfeo by Cotton Robes
run details see music theatre listings.
Theatre. Toronto Star Stage. 235 Queens
Classical? East Village Opera Company. Opera Quay W. 416-973-4000. Free.
with pop arrangements. Sirius Satellite Radio — 2:00: Sound Travels Festival. InstallaStage. 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. tions. Works by Jennifer Schmidt, Colin
Asquith, Terry Nauheim, Stefan Rose & Laura
Free.
— 11:00pm: Harbourfront Centre. What is Rose. St. Andrew- by-the-Lake Church, Centre
Classical? Toca Loca. Experimental classical Island. 416-516-7413. $10. Runs Sundays to
Aug. 30. Pwyc.
trio. Brigantine Room. 235 Queens Quay W.
— 2:00: Sound Travels Festival. Sounds of
416-973-4000. Free.
Toronto Island. Rob Piilonen and Matt Miller.
Saturday July 26
St. Andrew-by-the-Lake Church, Centre Island.
416-516-7413. $10.
Classical? Beijing Opera Demo & Workshop.
Lakeside Terrace. 235 Queens Quay W. 416- Vanessa by Samuel Barber. See July 25.
— 3:00: Hart House Singers. Renaissance
973-4000. Free.
Gems. Sacred and secular choral works by
Palestrina, Josquin, Weelkes, Lassus, and
Classical? Riffat Sultana and Party. Contemporary Pakistani music. 235 Queens Quay W. others. David Arnot-Johnston, conductor;
Anna Vanesyan, organ. Trinity College Chapel,
416-973-4000. Free.
6 Hoskin Ave, U of Toronto. 416-978-2452.
Free; food donations for U of T Food Bank are
Lakme by Leo Delibes. David Eliakis, music
director; Guillermo Silva-Marin, stage director. welcome.
Robert Gill Theatre, 214 College Street. 416- — 4:00: Harbourfront Centre. What is
978-7986. $25;$20(sr/st). For run details see Classical? Sokolovic: Love Songs. See July
26.
Classical? Sokolovic: Love Songs. Lauren Phil- Music in the Garden. Blowing/Bowing in the
lips, mezzo. Studio Theatre. 235 Queens Quay Wind. Music from 17th-century Italy and
Germany. Folia (Kiri Tollaksen, cornetto; Linda
W. 416-973-4000. Free.
Melsted, baroque violin; Dominic Teresi, dul— 7:00: Unionville Summer Concerts.
cian (early bassoon); Borys Medicky, harpsiMarkham Concert Band. Cartoon Symphony,
chord). Toronto Music Garden, 475 Queens
Cats, Swingin’ Songs, My Canada My Love,
Songs of Billy Joel. Doug Manning, conductor. Quay W. 416-973-4000. Free.
30 no. 2. Mayumi Seiler, violin; Tünde Kurucz,
piano. Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building,
80 Queens Park Crescent. 416-585-4464.
$37; $27(sr/st). Pre-concert chat 6:45.
— 8:00 & 9:00: Somewhere There. Improvised Music. The Allison Cameron Band (at
8:00); Jason Benoit, banjo; Eric Chenaux, guitar; Allison Cameron, electronics (at 9:00).
340 Dufferin St. 416-530-5881. $6.
— 4:00: St. James’ Cathedral. Sunday Twilight Recital Series. Victoria Hathaway, oboe;
Andrew Ager, organ. 65 Church St. 416-3647865. Free; offering.
— 6:30: Mississauga Pops. Port Credit
Sunset Concert Series. Outdoor concert. Memorial Park Pavilion, Port Credit. 705-7224520. Free.
SUMMER OPERA
LYRIC THEATRE
Monday July 28
— 12:15: Church of the Holy Trinity. Music Mondays: Blowing and Bowing in the Wind.
Works by Buchner, Kempis & Nicolai. Linda
Melsted, violin; Kiri Tollakssen, cornetto; Dominic Teresi, dulcian; Borys Medicky, harpsichord. 19 Trinity Sq. 416-598-4521 x304.
$5(suggested donation).
presents
Tuesday July 29
Midday. French Romantic Masterpieces. Andrew Ager, organ. 65 Church St. 416-3647865. Free; offering.
— 7:30: Thornhill Community Band. In
Concert. Mel Lastman Square, North York.
416-223-7152. Free.
— 7:30: TrypTych. A Tale of Two Tenors.
Edward Franko & Lenard Whiting, tenors;
Brett Kingsbury, piano. Trinity Presbyterian
Church, 2737 Bayview Ave. 416-763-5066
x1. $25; $20(sr/st).
— 7:30: Weston Silver Band. In Concert.
Little Ave. Memorial Park Bandshell,
Little Ave. & Weston Rd. 416-249-6553.
Free.
— 8:00: Dancap Productions. Avenue Q.
Elgin Theatre, 189 Yonge St. 416-872-5555.
$50-$90.
Lakme by Leo Delibes. See July 26.
Molinari Quartet. Gubaidulina: String Quartet
No. 2; Schafer: String Quartet No. 11; Webern, String Quartet Op. 28; Schnittke: String
Quartet No. 2. Walter Hall, Edward Johnson
Building, 80 Queens Park Cresc. 416-5854464. $37; $27(sr/st). Pre-concert chat 6:45.
Heroines,
Tragedy,
Redemption!
2008 WORKSHOP
PRODUCTIONS
Guillermo Silva-Marin, Stage Director
Semele
by
G. F. Handel
(in English)
Raisa Nakhmanovich,
Music Director
July 26, 30 & Aug. 1
at 8 pm
Aug. 3 at 2 pm
Vanessa
by
Samuel Barber
(in English)
Michael Rose, Music Director
A
enors
T
2
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Ta
starring
Edward Franko
Lenard Whiting
July 25 & Aug. 2 at 8 pm
July 27 & 30 at 2 pm
Lakme´
by
Léo Delibes
(in French)
with surtitles)
as the
David Eliakis, Music Director
2 tenors
July 29 & 31 at 8 pm
July 26 & Aug. 2 at 2 pm
Brett Kingsbury, Piano
ROBERT GILL THEATRE
Community Singing at Sharon Temple
world traditions in a museum setting
Worldsongs Ensemble
Sunday, July 27, 3 PM
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
7.30 PM
Trinity Presbyterian Church
2737 Bayview Avenue
Village Harmony
Sunday, August 10, 3 PM
w w w .sharontemple.ca
416-588-9050, ex 2
admission by free-w ill offering
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Tickets: $25/20
416 763 5066 ext. 1
info@tryptych.org
214 College Street at St. George
Tickets: $25 (incl.GST)
$20 Seniors/Students
on sale Mon. June 23
Theatre Box Office:
416-978-7986
Mon-Fri 1-5 pm & performances
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Samba, swing, hip-hop & reggae. Yonge-Dundas Square. 1 Dundas St. E. 416-979- 9960.
Free.
See July 29.
— 8:00: Harbourfront Centre. Island Soul:
Crazy. Calypso and Soca from Trinidad. Sirius
Vanessa by Samuel Barber. Run continues. See Satellite Radio Stage, 235 Queens Quay W.
416-973-4000. Free.
— 7:00: Applewood Homestead. Twilight — 8:00: Summer Opera Lyric Theatre.
Concerts in the Park. Etobicoke Community
Semele by G.F. Handel. Run continues. See
Concert Band. 450 The West Mall, Etobicoke. music theatre listings.
416-622-4124. Free.
Saturday August 02
Plein Air Concert Series ’08. Darbazi. Choral
music from the Georgian Republic. 345 Balliol
St. 416-487-0705. $10.
— 7:30: No Strings Theatre. Sondheim: Into
The Woods Jr. Denise Williams, artistic director. Al Green Theatre at the MNjcc, 750
Spadina Ave. 416-924-6211 adv $22(adult);
$17(youth); all tickets at the door $25.
Semele by G.F. Handel. See July 26.
Wednesday July 30
Thursday July 31
Monday August 04
— 12:15: Church of the Holy Trinity. Music Mondays. Works by Pessard, Michigo Miyagi, Bartok, Piazzolla & others. Laurel Swinden, flute; Kevin Ramessar, guitar. 19 Trinity
Sq. 416-598-4521 x304. $5(suggested donation).
Canadian Premiere
Maboroshi no Koto
A Koto Concert by Grandmasters
from Japan and North America
LEIPZIG
STRING
QUARTET
Wednesday August 6, 2008 at 7:30pm
Saturday, August 2, 8 pm
Revolution and Tyranny in Europe. Wolf: Italian
Serenade; Shostakovich: String Quartet No.
15; Beethoven: String Quartet in e Op. 59/2.
Leipzig String Quartet. Walter Hall, Edward
Johnson Building, 80 Queens Park Cresc. 416585-4464. $37; $27(sr/st). Pre-concert chat
6:45.
Michael Rose. Black Uhuru anthems. Sirius
416-973-4000. Free.
Sunday August 03
— 1:00: Thornhill Community Band. In
Concert. Black Creek Pioneer Village, 1000
Murray Ross Parkway, North York. 416-223Friday August 01
7152. Free.
— 7:30: Toronto Summer Music Festival. — 4:00:. St. James’ Cathedral. Sunday
Emerging Artists Concert. Walter Hall, EdTwilight Recital Series. Elisa Mangina, organ.
ward Johnson Building, 80 Queens Park. 416- 65 Church St. 416-364-7865. Free; offering.
585-4464. Free.
— 8:00: Citytv/Omni Television. Mondo
Philippe (Toto) Laraque. Haitian guitarist. ToMuziko A-Go-Go: Kae Sun/Tumi & Friends.
ronto Star Stage, 235 Queens Quay W. 416www.nostringstheatre.com
LINDA KAKO- CAPLAN
TORONTO, CANADA
A Part of the Broadway Junior Collection
Kobayashi Hall,
Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre
28
JUNIOR
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6 Garamond Court, Toronto
Admission: $30 general, $25 students & JCCC members
Al Green Theatre
750 Spadina Ave
Tickets: 416.441.2345 or info@jccc.on.ca
(at Bloor)
80th Ann
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Tickets
$22 adults (in advance)
$17 stu./sen. (in advance)
$25 at the door
Music and Lyrics by
Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Lapine
KAZUKO MURAMOTO
SAN LORENZO, USA
the koto with a celebratory concert featuring
contemporary compositions of the late koto genius,
Katsuko Chikushi. Joining her are two of the world’s
highest-ranked koto performers: from Japan, Junko
Chikushi, third-generation Iemoto (Head) of the
Chikushikai Koto School in Fukuoka and granddaughter
of Katsuko Chikushi, and from California, Kazuko
Muramoto, a disciple of Katsuko Chikushi and the
highest-ranked member of Chikushikai outside Japan.
presents
INTO THE WOODS
JUNKO CHIKUSHI
FUKUOKA, JAPAN
Experience the evocative sounds of Koto,
the Japanese floor harp, in an incomparable evening of
music by three Grandmasters.
Canada’s Linda Kako- Caplan marks twenty-five years on
No Strings Theatre
July 30 & 31, ‘08
7:30 pm
Tuesday August 05
— 8:00: Somewhere There. Improvised
Music. Ken Aldcroft, guitar; Allison Cameron,
amplified objects; Jean Martin, drums/electronics/turntables. 340 Dufferin St. 416-5305881. $6.
Music and Dance. Hatzis: In the Fire of Conflict
(premiere); Britten: Solo Suite No. 1; Koldaly:
Cello Sonata. Denise Djokic, cello; Russell Hartenberger, percussion; Peggy Baker, choreographer &
dancer. Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building, 80
Queens Park Cresc. 416-585-4464. $37;
$27(sr/st). 6:45: Pre-concert chat.
AP
AN
Music in the Garden. Radical Masters:
Unconventional Works by Mozart, Bartok and
Beethoven. Bartok: Quartet No. 3; Beethoven:
Quartet Op.135; selections from Mozart:
Quartet in E flat Major, K.428. Kirby String
Quartet: Aisslinn Nosky and Julia Wedman,
violin; Max Mandel, viola; Carina Reeves, cello.
Toronto Music Garden, 475 Queens Quay
West. 416-973-4000. Free.
— 7:30: No Strings Theatre. Sondheim: Into
The Woods Jr. See July 30.
Rising Stars. Soloists and chamber ensembles.
Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building, 80
$27(sr/st).
See July 29.
— 8:00 & 9:00: Somewhere There. Improvised Music. Victor Bateman, bass; Tania Gill,
keys; Allison Cameron, amplified stuff (at
8:00); Christine Duncan, vox; Scott Thompson,
trombone; Allison Cameron, amplified things
(at 9:00). 340 Dufferin St. 416-530-5881.
$6.
Lakme by Leo Delibes. Run continues. See
973-4000. Free.
The Abyssinians. Reggae. Sirius Satellite Radio Stage, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-9734000. Free.
CANADA –
James Lapine
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Further information: www.koto.ca
CALL 416.924.6211 ext. “0” :: www.mnjcc.org
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Wednesday August 06
Friday August 08
Free.
Concerts in the Park. Toronto All-Star Big
Band. 450 The West Mall, Etobicoke. 416622-4124. Free.
Plein Air Concert Series ’08. Steve Raiken,
folk/blues vocalist. 345 Balliol St. 416-4870705. $10.
— 7:30: Japanese Canadian Cultural
Centre. Maboroshi no Koto. A koto concert
by Grandmasters from Japan & North America, including Linda Kako Caplan, celebrating her
25th year of koto playing. Special guests:
Junko Chikushi & Kazuko Muramoto. 6 Garamond Court. 416-441-2345. $30; $25(st/
JCCC members).
— 8:00: Southern Ontario Chamber Music Institute. 2008 Summer Concert Series
– Afiara String Quartet. Works by Mozart,
Beethoven, Bartok. St. Andrew RC Church, 47
Reynolds Street, Oakville. 905-815-2021.
$50-$80 (four concert series); $10-$30.
— 1:00 to 6:00: Sound Travels Festival.
Creating Sound Portraits. Jørgen Teller creates unique sound portraits for audience members. Location TBA, Toronto Island. 416-5167413. Free.
— 7:00: Sound Travels Festival. Improvising Space. Ellen Waterman, Mark Zurawinski,
Germaine Liu & Megan-Fay Rothschild. Toronto Island Soundwalk Route (outdoors). 416516-7413. Free.
Emerging Artists Concert. Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queens Park. 416585-4464. Free.
— 8:00: Cityty/Omni Television. Mondo
Muziko A-Go-Go: Eccodek. A blend of downtown grooves, electronica & world dub. YongeDundas Square, 1 Dundas St. E. 416-9799960. Free.
— 8:00: Sound Travels Festival. Portrait
Concert. Electroacoustic works by Robert
Normandeau. St. Andrew-by-the-Lake Church,
Centre Island. 416-516-7413. $10.
— 9:30: Harbourfront Centre. South Asia
Calling. Autorickshaw and Brass Bollywood.
Indo-jazz and Bollywood styles. Sirius Satellite
— 12:30: Flaming Mamie Productions/
Summerworks Theatre Festival. Stravinsky: L’Histoire du Soldat. See Aug 9.
Thursday August 07
Summerworks Theatre Festival. Stravinsky: L’Histoire du Soldat. Factory Theatre,
125 Bathurst St. 1-888-222-6608. $12.
Music in the Garden. Persian Music for a
Summer Night. Traditional and original music.
Pirouz Yousefian, santur (ancient hammer
dulcimer); Farzad Yousefian, percussion. Toronto Music Garden, 475 Queens Quay West.
416-973-4000. Free.
— 7:00 & 10:00: Downtown Oakville
Jazz Festival. Strings Attached. Dianne
Reeves, vocalist; Russell Malone & Romero
Lubambo, guitars. Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts, 130 Navy St. Oakville. 905844-4520. $85.
Chamber Music Treasures. Beethoven: Trio in
D Op. 70/1; Schubert: Quintet in A (“Die Forelle”). Anton Kuerti, piano; Ian Swenson, violin;
Douglas MacNabney, viola; Paul Katz, violoncello; Jeffrey Beecher, double bass. Walter
Hall, Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queens
Park Cresc. 416-585-4464. $37; $27(sr/st).
Pre-concert chat 6:45.
Saturday August 09
— 2:00: Sunday Serenade Concert Series. Toronto Starlight Orchestra. Scarborough Civic Centre Rotunda, 150 Borough Dr.
416-338-3295. Free.
— 2:00: Sound Travels Festival. Ariadne
Calling. Extended vocal work by Wende Bartley. St. Andrew-by-the-Lake Church, Centre
Island. 416-516-7413. $5.
Calling. Irshad Khan. Sirius Satellite Radio
Free.
Music in the Garden. Orfea. By Lawrence
Cotton and Greg Robic. Music by Monteverdi,
Concert Series Sponsor
NEWALTA
2008
S OUTHERN O NTARIO
C HAMBER MUSIC I NSTITUTE
Summer Concert Series
Celebrating1988~2008
20Years
Wednesday, August 6
St. Andrew RC Church
47 Reynolds Street, Oakville
PRE-CONCERT TALK 7:30 PM
PERFORMANCE 8:00 PM
PENDERECKI STRING QUARTET
Thursday, August 14
St. Jude’s Anglican Church
160 William Street, Oakville
PRE-CONCERT TALK 7:30 PM
PERFORMANCE 8:00 PM
20TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
HOMECOMING GALA & CONCERT
Sunday August 10
— 1:00: Sound Travels Festival. Improvising Space. See Aug. 8.
presents
(l'Histoire du Soldat)
The Soldier's
Story
August 7th to 16th
by Igor Stravinsky
www.summerworks.ca ticketweb 1.888.222.6608
J ULY 1 - S EPT 7 2008
In Downtown Oakville
AFIARA STRING QUARTET
— 7:00: Sound Travels Festival. Improvising Space. See Aug. 8.
Calling. Tirtha, featuring Vijay Iyer. Traditional
and contemporary South Indian music. Sirius
416-973-4000. Free.
— 8:00: Sound Travels Festival. Sound
Portrait. Works by David Ogborn & Jørgen
Teller. St. Andrew-by-the-Lake Church, Centre
Island. 416-516-7413. $10.
Pressler and Friends. Schumann: Piano Quartet in E flat Op. 47. Brahms: Piano Quartet in
g Op. 25. Menahem Pressler, piano; Alexander
Kerr, violin; Roberto Diaz, viola; Paul Watkins,
violoncello. Walter Hall, Edward Johnson
Building, 80 Queens Park Cresc. 416-5854464. $37; $27(sr/st). Pre-concert chat 6:45.
Calling. Aashish Khan, sarod; Chaudhuri, tabla.
South Indian music. Sirius Satellite Radio
Free.
Flaming Mamie
Productions
Mozart & Offenbach. Lawrence Cotton, baritone; Brooke Dufton, soprano; Rachad Feizoullaev, piano; Colin Maier, woodwinds. Toronto
Music Garden, 475 Queens Quay West. 416973-4000. Free.
— 4:00: St. James’ Cathedral. Sunday Twilight Recital Series. Works by Elgar. Elaine
Robertson, mezzo; Andrew Ager, organ. 65
— 8:00: National Youth Orchestra of
Canada. Murphy: new work; Prokofiev:
Scythian Suite; Mahler: Symphony No. 1.
Guest conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Roy
Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-872-4255.
$39.50; $19.50(sr/st).
TICKETS $10-$30
4-concert series
$50-$80
Oakville Centre
Box Office
1-888-489-7784
boxoffice@oakville.ca
L’atelier Grigorian
905-338-2360
Saturday, August 16
Featuring:
The SOCMI String Orchestra
premiere of a piece by
Composer-in-residence
Abigail Richardson
Willis Hall at Appleby College
540 Lakeshore Rd. West, Oakville
HOMECOMING GALA
& COCKTAIL RECEPTION 6:00 PM
CELEBRATION CONCERT 8:00 PM
SOCMI STUDENT SHOWCASE
Sunday, August 17
Willis Hall at Appleby College
540 Lakeshore Rd. West, Oakville
PERFORMANCE 2:00 PM
WWW.SOCMI.ORG
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Monday August 11
— 12:15: Church of the Holy Trinity. Music Mondays. Adi Braun’s new jazz album,
“Live at the Metropolitan Room.” Adi Braun,
vocals; Jordan Klapman, piano; Tony Quarrington, guitar; Drew Birston, bass. 19 Trinity
Square. 416-598-4521 x304. $5(suggested
donation).
Summerworks Theatre Festival. Stravinsky: L’Histoire du Soldat. Run continues, See
Free.
— 7:00: Village Harmony. Village Harmony
Teen Touring Ensemble. Community-singing
traditions from around the world. Larry Gordon, Alan Gasser & Dessi Stefanova, leaders.
First Unitarian Church, 175 St. Clair Ave. W.
416-588-9050 x2. PWYC.
Plein Air Concert Series ’08. Margot Roi &
Group, jazz vocalist. 345 Balliol St. 416-4870705. $10.
Thursday August 14
Sunday August 17
Tuesday August 12
Wednesday August 13
presents
“An Evening of Song”~
“Noson O Gân”
Featuring
The Llanelli Male Choir
on tour from Wales
and
The Toronto Welsh Male Voice Choir
newly returned from their performance at Carnegie Hall
William Woloschuk, Artistic Director
Julie Loveless , Accompanist
Saturday, September 20, 7:30pm
56 Queen Street East, Toronto
Tickets: $25.00
or
416-410-2254
www.twmvc.com
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www.TICKETBREAK.com
Saturday August 16
— 11:00: Harbourfront Centre. Hot and
Spicy Food Festival. The Goods. DJs Andy
Williams & Scott C. Brigantine Room, 235
Spicy Food Festival. Marina Fariha. Brazilian
jazz and Bossa Nova. Sirius Satellite Radio
Free.
Spicy Food Festival. Femi Abosede. Nigerian
singer/saxophonist. Sirius Satellite Radio
Free.
Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos. Run continues.
See music theatre listings.
Emerging Artists Concert. Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queens Park. 416585-4464. Free.
– 20th anniversary homecoming gala and concert. Richardson: new work for string orchestra. Willis Hall, Appleby College, 540 Lakeshore Rd. West, Oakville. 905-815-2021.
(Gala reception: 6pm.) $50-$80 (four concert
series); $10-$30.
Spicy Food Festival. Raul Midon. Latin-influenced R&B and soul. Sirius Satellite Radio
Free.
Music and Masks. Gryphon Trio. Mozart: Divertimento in B flat K254; Chan: And the
Masks Evoke; Ravel Trio in a. Walter Hall,
Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queens Park
Cresc. 416-585-4464. $37; $27(sr/st). 6:30:
Pre-concert chat.
The Toronto Welsh
Male Voice Choir
group. Sirius Satellite Radio Stage, 235
Music in the Garden. Cecilia String Quartet.
Schumann: Quartet No. 3; Wade: Quartet (premiere). Sarah Nematallah and Min-Jeong Koh,
violins; Caitlin Boyle, viola and Rebecca Wenham, cello. Toronto Music Garden, 475
Queens Quay West. 416-973-4000. Free.
Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos. Emerging singers;
Agnes Grossman, music director; Titus Hollweg, stage director; National Academy Orchestra of Canada. MacMillan Theatre, 80
$37(sr/st). 6:15: Pre-performance chat. Run
continues. See music theatre listings.
–Penderecki String Quartet. Works by
Beethoven, Ryan, Mendelssohn. St. Jude’s
Anglican Church, 160 William Street,
Oakville. 905-815-2021. $50-$80 (four concert series); $10-$30.
– SOCMI student showcase. Institute participant ensembles. Willis Hall, Appleby College,
540 Lakeshore Rd. West, Oakville. 905-8152021. $50-$80 (four concert series); $10$30.
— 2:00: Sunday Serenade Concert Series. Sheraton Cadwell Orchestra. Scarborough Civic Centre Rotunda, 150 Borough Dr.
416-338-3295. Free.
Spicy Food Festival. Elizabeth Shepherd, jazz
vocals & keyboards. Sirius Satellite Radio
Free.
Music in the Garden. Five Gods, Two Kings
and the Frog Princess. Fusion of traditional and
contemporary Bharatanatyam dance. InDance;
Hari Krishnan, artistic director. Toronto Music
Garden, 475 Queens Quay West. 416-9734000. Free.
Friday August 15
— 4:00: St. James’ Cathedral. Sunday Twi— 7:30: Toronto Summer Music Festival. light Recital Series. Diocesan Girls’ Choir. 65
Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos. See Aug 14.
— 17 4:30: Harbourfront Centre. Hot and
Muziko A-Go-Go: Telmary. Cuban hip-hop jazz Spicy Food Festival. Salsa on 6. Sirius Satellite
poet. Yonge-Dundas Square, 1 Dundas St. E.
Radio Stage, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973416-979-9960. Free.
4000. Free.
— 8:00: Somewhere There. NOW Series:
Spicy Food Festival. Ultramagnus. Afrobeat.
Improvised Music. Allison Cameron, amplified
Sirius Satellite Radio Stage, 235 Queens Quay & acoustic instruments. 340 Dufferin St.
W. 416-973-4000. Free.
416-530-5881. $6.
Monday August 18
Spicy Food Festival. Zal Idrissa Sissokho et
Buntalo. Kora player with Afro-Mandingo
— 12:15: Church of the Holy Trinity. Mu-
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sic Mondays. Works by Françaix, Schocker,
Petrowska Quilico, piano. 19 Trinity Sq. 416- — 4:00: St. James’ Cathedral. Sunday TwiTsurumoto & Telemann. Emma Elkinson,
598-4521 x304. $5(suggested donation).
light Recital Series. Christopher Ku, organ. 65
flute; Fiona Jane Wood, piano. 19 Trinity Sq.
Tuesday August 26
416-598-4521 x304. $5(suggested donation).
— 5:00: Ashkenaz. Lache Cercel and the
— 7:00: Ashkenaz. Konsonans Retro. Ukrain- Roma Swing Ensemble. Swinging East EuropeThursday August 21
ian Brass Band. Barry Zukerman Amphitheaan music. Harbourfront Centre Sirius Stage,
tre, Earl Bales Park, 4169 Bathurst St. 416235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. Free.
Music in the Garden. Evening Ragas in the 979-9901. Free.
— 6:30: Ashkenaz. Zully Goldfarb. Yiddish
Garden. North Indian ragas. Aruna Narayan,
Tango Guests: Roxanna and Fabian, dancers.
Wednesday
August
27
sarangi; Akshay Kalle, tanpura. Toronto Music
Enwave Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, 235
Garden, 475 Queens Quay West. 416-973— 9:00: Ashkenaz. Nayekhovichi & Daniel
Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. $18.
4000. Free.
Kahn and the Painted Bird. Klezmer and Yid— 7:15: Ashkenaz. Consonans Retro. Ukrain— 8:00: Dancap Productions. Jersey Boys. dish music. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen St. W.
ian Brass Band, with dance. Ann Tindal Lawn,
Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge St.
416-979-9901. $10.
Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W.
416-872-1111. $60-$90.
416-973-4000. Free.
Thursday August 28
— 8:00: Ashkenaz. Pharaoh’s Daughter.
Friday August 22
Mizrachi, Sephardic and Hasidic music. Sirius
Music in the Garden. Mizu to Ki no Uta
Stage, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay
Muziko A-Go-Go: Staylefish. Reggae-rock fu(Voices of Wood and Water). Nagata Shachu
W. 416-973-4000. Free.
sion. Yonge-Dundas Square, 1 Dundas St. E.
taiko ensemble; Guest: Keiko Kitano, dancer— 9:30: Ashkenaz. Kosher Gospel. Joshua
416-979-9960. Free.
choreographer. Toronto Music Garden, 475
Nelson, with David Wall & Ken Whiteley. Sir— 8:00: Dancap Productions. Jersey Boys. Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. Free.
ius Stage, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens
See Aug 21.
— 8:00: Ashkenaz. Abraham Inc. Klezmer
Quay W. 416-973-4000. Free.
— 9:30 Harbourfront Centre. Telus Taifused with hardcore funk. Sirius Stage, Har— 11:00pm: Ashkenaz. Canadian Cabaret.
wanfest: Eastern Legends. Chai Found Music bourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416Hosted by Socalled. Lakeside Terrace, HarWorkshop. Music and dance ensemble. Sirius 973-4000. $18(advance).
bourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416Satellite Radio Stage. 235 Queens Quay W.
973-4000. Free.
Friday August 29
416-973-4000.
— 11:00pm: Ashkenaz. Marilyn Lerner and
— 8:00: Citytv/Omni Televsion. Mondo
Friends. Jazz. Guest artists: Adrienne Cooper
Saturday August 23
Muziko A-Go-Go: Mr. Something-Something. & David Wall, vocals; Jason Rosenblatt, har— 2:00 & 8:00: Dancap Productions. Jer- Afrobeat band.Yonge-Dundas Square, 1 Dunmonica; Michael Winograd, clarinet; & others.
sey Boys. Run continues. See music theatre
das St. E. 416-979-9960. Free.
Brigantine Room, Harbourfront Centre, 235
listings.
Saturday
August
30
— 7:00: Unionville Summer Concerts.
Monday September 01
Markham Concert Band. Selections from An- — 7:00: Ashkenaz. Di Fidl Kapelye. Klezmer
nie, Oliver, Joseph and the Amazing Technistring quartet. 416-973-4000. Lakeside Ter- — 12:15: Church of the Holy Trinity. Mucolor Dreamcoat, Back to the Future, Funiculi race, Harbourfront Centre, 416-973-4000.
sic Mondays. The Café Olé. Latin jazz. Celia
Funicula. Doug Manning, conductor. Markham Free.
Palli, vocals; Scott Metcalfe, piano; Paul MetBandstand, Main St. at Fred Varley Dr., Union- — 7:00: Ashkenaz. Flying Bulgars. Klezmer
calfe, saxophone; Benjamin Barrile, flamenco
ville. 905-477-0117. Free.
band. Brigantine Room, Harbourfront Centre,
guitar; Dustin Shaskin, bass. 19 Trinity Sq.
— 9:30: Harbourfront Centre. Telus Tai235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. Free.
416-598-4521 x304. $5(suggested donation).
wanfest: Eastern Legends. See Aug. 22.
— 7:00: Ashkenaz. Mitch Smolkin CD Re— 1:00: Ashkenaz. Bosnian-Jewish Songs.
lease.
Yiddish
music.
Enwave
Theatre,
HarEnwave Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, 235
Sunday August 24
bourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. $18;
— 2:00: Sunday Serenade Concert Se973-4000. $15; $18(advance).
$10(advance).
ries. Oscar Kay Orchestra. Scarborough Civic — 8:00: Ashkenaz. Konsonans Retro. Ukrain- — 1:00: Ashkenaz. Di Fidl Kapelye. Klezmer
Centre Rotunda, 150 Borough Dr. 416-338ian Brass Band. Sirius Stage, Harbourfront
string quartet. Guest: Kurt Bjorling, clarinet.
3295. Free.
Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. Lakeside Terrace, Harbourfront Centre, 235
— 2:00: City of Pickering. Treble in the
Free.
Park outdoor concert series. Original, celtic
— 9:30: Ashkenaz. Klez Dispensers CD Re— 1:00: Ashkenaz. Tribute to Bess Shockett.
and classical works. Moira Nelson, harp and
lease. Klezmer and jazz. Sirius Stage, HarBrigantine Room, Harbourfront Centre, 235
voice; Elena Jubinville, cello and voice, Espla- bourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. Free.
nade Park, (Pickering City Hall), 1 The Espla973-4000. Free.
— 2:15: Ashkenaz. Andy Statman. Fusion of
nade, Pickering. 905-420-4660 ext. 2064
— 11:00pm: Ashkenaz. Nayekhovichi & Danfree.
iel Kahn and the Painted Bird. See August 27.
— 2:00: Ontario Youth Choir. In Concert.
416-973-4000. Free.
Works by Handel, Mendelssohn, Lotti, Sirett,
— 11:00pm: Ashkenaz. Sephardic Cabaret.
Daley, Schafer, Henderson & others. Linda
Hosted by Ralph Benmergui. Lakeside Terrace,
Beaupré, director; Jane Perry, accompanist.
Grace Church-on-the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale Rd.
416-973-4000. Free.
416-923-1144. $10.
Sunday August 31
Music in the Garden. A Tale of Two Lutes. — 2:00: Ashkenaz. Shtreiml. Innovative JewMusic for European lute and Chinese pipa.
ish and Turkish music. Sirius Stage, HarLucas Harris, lute; Wen Zhao, pipa. Toronto
bourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416Music Garden, 475 Queens Quay West. 416- 973-4000. Free.
973-4000. Free.
— 2:15: Ashkenaz. If Cows Could Fly. Allan
— 4:00: St. James’ Cathedral. Sunday Twi- Merovitz, author & actor; Ronald Weihs, direclight Recital Series. Lee Dunleavy, organ. 65
tor; klezmer band. Studio Theatre, HarChurch St. 416-364-7865. Free; offering.
bourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. $10.
— 7:00: My Mississauga Concert Series. — 3:00: Ashkenaz. Beyond the Pale. Guest:
Mississauga Pops. Central Library Square,
Vera Lozinsky. Kelzmer and Balkan folk-fusion.
301 Burnhamthorpe Rd W. 905-279-2571.
Enwave Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, 235
Free.
— 3:45: Ashkenaz. Sisters of Sheynville.
Monday August 25
Yiddish swing and klezmer. Sirius Stage, Har— 12:15: Church of the Holy Trinity. Mu- bourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416sic Mondays. Works by Southam, Messiaen,
973-4000. Free.
Takahashi, Westcott & Tatum. Christina
J ULY 1 - S EPT 7 2008
Jewish styles with bluegrass and avant-garde
jazz. Enwave Theatre, Harbourfront Centre,
235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. $25.
— 2:30: Ashkenaz. Vira Lozinsky. Israeli
vocalist. Lakeside Terrace, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.
Free.
— 5:00: Ashkenaz. If Cows Could Fly. See
Aug. 31.
— 5:00: Ashkenaz. Jewish Songs of War and
Peacemaking. Adrienne Cooper & Marilyn
Lerner, vocals. Brigantine Room, Harbourfront
Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.
Free.
— 5:00: Ashkenaz. The Huppah Project. CD
release. Lakeside Terrace, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.
Free.
— 6:00: Ashkenaz. Gypsophilia. Jazz and
European gypsy music. Toronto Star Stage,
416-973-4000. Free.
— 6:30: Ashkenaz. Deep Minor. Jazz-influenced “radical Jewish music.” Brigantine
Room, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay
W. 416-973-4000. Free.
— 9:00: Ashkenaz. Consonans Retro. Ukrainian Brass Band. Sirius Stage, Harbourfront
Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.
Free.
Thursday September 04
Music in the Garden. Bach at Dusk. Bach’s
Suite No. 1 in G. Winona Zelenka, cello. Toronto Music Garden, 475 Queens Quay W. 416973-4000. Free.
Sunday September 07
— 2:00: Sunday Serenade Concert Series. Swing Shift Band. Scarborough Civic
Centre Rotunda, 150 Borough Dr. 416-3383295. Free.
— 4:00: St. James’ Cathedral. Sunday Twilight Recital Series. Andrew Ager, organ. 65
— 8:00: Music Gallery. Jeff Reilly, bass
clarinet; Barry Guy, double bass; Maya Homburger, violin. Biber: Die Verkundigung & “Jesus am Olberg”; also works by Barry Guy &
Jeff Reilly. 197 John St. 416-204-1080.
$20; $15(sr); $10(st).
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LISTINGS: SECTION 2
CONCERTS: Beyond the GTA
Rd. No. 1, Picton. 613-471-1444. $20.00$29.95; tea (2:00pm)$12;
dinner(8:00pm)$39. Meal and show package
only. For run details see music theatre listN.B. For a list of communities in this section
ings.
— 7:30: Brott Festival. Showstopper!
see LISTINGS INTRODUCTION, page 24
Chausson: Poème; Ravel: Tzigane; Berlioz:
Symphonie Fantastique. National Academy
Tuesday July 01
Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E flat; Vizzutti:
Orchestra; Boris Brott, conductor. Guest:
Sun
Rising
Concerto;
Dvorak:
Symphony
No.
9.
— 2:00: Shaw Festival. A Little Night MuLara St. John, violin. Dofasco Centre for the
National
Academy
Orchestra;
Boris
Brott,
sic. Music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.
Arts, 190 King William St., Hamilton. 1Court House Theatre, 26 Queen St. Niagara- conductor. Guest: Jens Lindemann, trumpet.
888-475-9377. $25; $20(sr); $10(st).
Dofasco
Centre
for
the
Arts,
190
King
Wilon-the-Lake. 905-468-2172 or 800-511— 7:30: Weston Silver Band. In Concert.
liam
St.,
Hamilton.
1-888-475-9377.
$25;
7429. $25-$105.
Central Park Bandshell, New Street and Teen
$20(sr);
$10(st).
— 2:00: Stratford Festival. The Music
Tour Way, Burlington. 416-249-6553.
— 8:00: Red Barn Theatre. Vegas Nights.
Man. By Meredith Wilson. Avon Theatre, 99
Free.
Run
continues.
See
music
theatre
listings.
Downie St., Stratford. 1-800-567-1600.
Thursday July 17
$78-$134.
Sunday July 06
— 8:00: Stratford Festival. Cabaret. By
— 12:15: St. George’s Cathedral. NoonJoe Masteroff & John Kander. Avon Theatre, — 2:00: Skyliner’s Big Band. Sunday Out- hour Concert Series. Judith Vachon, soprano;
door
Concert.
Swing
music.
Ron
Robbins,
di99 Downie St., Stratford. 1-800-567-1600.
Gloria Fox, piano. 270 King St. E. Kingston.
rector. Coldwater Mill, 7 Mill St. Coldwa$78-$134.
613-548-4617. Donations accepted.
ter. 705-722-4520. Free.
Wednesday July 02
— 2:30: Kitchener Musical Society Band. — 2:00 & 8:00: Festival Players of
Prince Edward County. Picton Papers.
In Concert. Roos Island Bandshell, Victoria
— 12:00 noon: Midday Music with
See July 16.
Park,
80
Schneider
Ave.,
Kitchener.
519Shigeru. Amity Piano Trio. Sandra Ruttan,
576-2129.
Free.
Friday July 18
piano; Michael Adamson, violin; Alyssa
Wright, cello. Hi-Way Pentecostal Church, 50 — 7:00: Mississauga Pops Concert Band. — 2:00 & 8:00: Festival Players of
Summer Musical Mix. Orillia Outdoor Aqua
Anne St. N., Barrie. 705-726-1181. $5;
Prince Edward County. Picton Papers.
Theatre, Couchiching Park, 140 Canice St.,
students free.
Run continues. See music theatre listings.
Orillia.
705-722-4520.
Free.
— 2:00: Shaw Festival. Wonderful Town.
Saturday July 19
Music by Bernstein; lyrics by Fields & ChodorWednesday July 09
ov. Festival Theatre, 85 Shaw St., Niagara— 7:30: Brott Festival. It’s Love, Actually.
on-the-Lake. 905-468-2172 or 800-511National Ballet of Canada performs to music
7429. $25-$105.
by Tchaikovsky, Wagner & Bernstein. Chan
— 2:00: Stratford Festival. Cabaret. See
Hon Go & Aleksandar Antonijevic, soloists.
July 1.
Mohawk College McIntyre Theatre, 135 Fen— 8:00: Stratford Festival. The Music
nell Ave. W., Hamilton. 1-888-475-9377.
Man. See July 1.
$25; $20(sr); $10(st).
Thursday July 03
Thursday July 10
— 12:15: St. George’s Cathedral. Noon—
12:15:
St.
George’s Cathedral. Noonhour Concert Series. The Cranberry Dixie and
Swing Band. 270 King St. E. Kingston. 613- hour Concert Series. Donelda Gartshore, flute;
Laura Seiffert, oboe; Michael Namer, bassoon;
548-4617. Donations accepted.
— 2:00: Shaw Festival. A Little Night Mu- Dina Namer, piano. 270 King St. E. Kingston.
sic. See July 1.
— 2:00: Stratford Festival. The Music
Friday July 11
Man. Run continues. See music theatre list—
7:30:
Brott
Festival. NAO Open Rehearsings.
al. Brahms: Symphony No. 2. Melrose United
— 8:00: Red Barn Theatre. Vegas Nights.
Last Night at the Proms
Tribute to the great Las Vegas entertainers of Church, 86 Homewood Ave. Hamilton. 1888-475-9377. Free.
the 50s and 60s. By Chris McHarge, Colin
Sat., July 19th, 2008, 7:30 PM
Stewart & Derek Marshall. 991 Lake Dr. E.
Saturday July 12
www.brottmusic.com
Jackson’s Point. 1-888-733-2276 / 905— 8:00: Concerts at St. John’s. Christina
or1-888-475-9377
772-3249. $18-$30.
Hutten, organist. St. John the Evangelist An— 8:00: Shaw Festival. Wonderful Town.
glican Church, 23 Water St. N., Kitchener.
— 7:30: Brott Festival. British BlockbustSee July 2.
519-743-0228. $15.00 (at door).
er: A Summer Evening at the Proms! Works
— 8:00: Stratford Festival. Cabaret. Run
by Handel, Purcell, Webber & Tchaikovsky.
continues. See music theatre listings.
Sunday July 13
Arcady Singers; Argyll & Sutherland HighFriday July 04
— 3:00: Brott Festival. High Tea with Trylanders; National Academy Orchestra; Brian
Jackson, guest conductor. Hamilton Place, 1
— 8:00: Shaw Festival. A Little Night Mu- on. Works by Chopin, Scarlatti, Mozart &
sic. Run continues. See music theatre listings. Liszt. Valerie Tryon, piano. St. John’s Anglican Summers Lane, Hamilton. 1-888-475Church, 272 Wilson St. E., Ancaster. 1-888- 9377. $25; $20(sr); $10(st).
— 7:30: Brott Festival. Hot Jazz with So475-9377. $40; $35(sr) $20(st).
— 8:00: Kingston Symphony Orchestra.
phie Milman. Philpott Memorial Church, 84
York Blvd., Hamilton. 1-888-475-9377. $25; — 7:00: Kitchener Musical Society Band. 1812 at the Fort. Guests: The Abrams
In Concert. Centennial Park Bandshell, 90
Brothers. Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture; &
$20(sr); $10(st).
Westmount Rd. N., Waterloo. 519-576other works. Fort Henry. Kingston. 613— 8:00: Marmalade. Here Comes the Sun.
2129. Free.
546-9729. $25; $20(sr); $15(st);
Collection of songs from jazz to pop. Edwina
— 7:00: Weston Silver Band. In Concert.
$10(youth); free(6 & under).
Douglas, director. Collier Street United
Orillia Aqua Theatre Bandshell, Couchiching
Church, 112 Collier St., Barrie. 416-737Sunday July 20
Park, 140 Canice St., Orillia. 416-2490260. $20.— 8:00: Red Barn Theatre.
6553.
Free.
—
3:00:
Brott
Festival. High Tea in the
Vegas Nights. See July 3.
Gardens: Big, British & Brass. Works by
Wednesday
July
16
Saturday July 05
Walton, Vaughan Williams, Alford & others.
— 2:00 & 8:00: Festival Players of
Hannaford Street Silver Band. Royal Botani— 2:00: Shaw Festival. Wonderful Town.
Prince Edward County. Picton Papers. By cal Gardens, 680 Plains Rd. W., BurlingRun continues. See music theatre listings.
Leslie Arden. Waring Hall, Hwy 33 & County
ton. 1-888-475-9377. $40; $35(sr) $20(st).
— 7:30: Brott Festival. Kiss My Brass!
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Festival 08
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— 7:00: Kitchener Musical Society Band.
In Concert. Lions Harbour Park, 168 West St.,
Goderich. 519-576-2129. Free.
— 7:00: La Piazza. Quartetto Gelato. Market
Square, Main St. S., Newmarket. 905-9535122. $26.50.
— 3:00: Sharon Temple. An Intimate Afternoon with Award Winning Guitarist, David
Howard. Music by Albeniz, Rodrigo, Tarrega,
Barrios and Santana. 18974 Leslie St., Sharon. 1-905-895-1934. $25; $20(sr/st/ch).
Wednesday July 23
— 7:30: Brott Festival. Russian Rhapsody.
Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini; Stravinsky: Firebird Suite; Rimsky-Korsakov: Scherezade. National Academy Orchestra; Boris Brott, conductor. Guest: Valerie Tryon, piano. Melrose United Church, 86 Homewood Ave., Hamilton. 1-888-475-9377. $25;
$20(sr); $10(st).
— 7:30: National Youth Orchestra of Canada. Murphy: new work; Prokofiev: Scythian
Suite; Mahler: Symphony No. 1. Alumni Hall,
University of Western Ontario, London. 416532-4470. Donation.
Thursday July 24
— 12:15: St. George’s Cathedral. Noonhour
Concert Series. Michael Lukaszuk, guitar, Andrew Weng, piano. 270 King St. E. Kingston.
Saturday July 26
— 3:00: Brott Festival. Windermere Pops.
Michael Burgess, tenor. Windermere House,
2508 Windermere Rd. Windermere. 1-888475-9377. Free.
— 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber
Music Society. Tokai String Quartet. Haydn:
Op. 77 No. 1; Czerny: Quartet No. 1; MacMillan: Two Sketches on French-Canadian Folk
Songs; Dvorak: Quartet, Op. 96, “American.”
KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young St. W. Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $25; $20 (sr);
$15(st).
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Sunday July 27
— 3:00: Sharon Temple/Worldsongs Vocal Camps. Worldsongs Ensemble. Vocal
music traditions from around the world. Val
Mindel, Greg Furlong, Alan Gasser & Becca
Whitla, vocalists. 18974 Leslie St. Sharon.
416-588-9050 x2. Pwyc.
— 7:30: National Youth Orchestra of Canada. Murphy: new work; Prokofiev: Scythian
Suite; Mahler: Symphony No. 1. Gospel Temple, 2295 Princess St., Kingston. 416-5324470. Donation.
Monday July 28
Music Society. Members of Orchestra@UW.
Salieri: Concerto for Flute and Oboe; Franck:
Violin Sonata ; Glick: Klezmer Wedding; also
works by Mendelssohn & Telemann. KWCMS
Music Room, 57 Young St. W., Waterloo.
519-886-1673. $15; $10 (sr); $8(st).
Wednesday July 30
— 7:30: Brott Festival. La Dolce Vita: Italian
Opera Favourites. Opera excerpts by Puccini,
Verdi, Mozart & others. Sinead Sugrue, soprano; Mia Lennox-Williams, mezzo; John Tiranno, tenor; John Fanning, bass. National
Academy Orchestra; Boris Brott, conductor.
Mohawk College McIntyre Theatre, 135 Fennell Ave. W., Hamilton. 1-888-475-9377.
$25; $20(sr); $10(st).
J ULY 1 - S EPT 7 2008
Music Society. Chi-Ming Shui, Piano. Bach:
Partita No. 1 in B-flat; Rachmaninoff: Sonata
No. 2 in b-flat; Scriabin: Preludes Op. 11 Nos.
1-24; Ginastera: Suite de Danzas Criollas; FanLing Su: Temple Festival Suite. KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young St. West, Waterloo.
519-886-1673. $20; $15 (sr); $10(st).
Tuesday August 12
— 7:30: Brott Festival. Klezmania! Kleztory
Klezmer Band. Adas Israel Synagogue, 125
Cline Ave. S., Hamilton. 1-888-475-9377.
$30; $25(sr); $10(st).
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Festival 08
LISTINGS:
SECTION 3
MUSIC THEATRE, OPERA
DATES AND COMPLETE RUNS
Thursday August 14
— A Little Night Music. Music by Stephen
Sondheim. Shaw Festival. To October 4: call for
times. See Beyond the GTA July 1.
— 12:15: St. George’s Cathedral. Noon— Acis and Galatea. Handel. Classical Music
hour Concert Series. Tim Stiff, tenor, Michel
Consort/Toronto Fringe Festival. July 3: 1:15,
Szczesniak, piano. 270 King St. E. Kingston.
July 6: 4:45, July 8: 10:30pm, July 10: 12:00
noon, July 12: 7:30. See GTA July 3.
Friday August 01
— Ariadne auf Naxos. R. Strauss. Toronto
Summer Music Festival. Aug 14-16: 7:30; Aug
— 7:30: Brott Festival. The Music of
17: 2:00. See GTA Aug 14.
Queen. National Academy Orchestra; Boris
— Avenue Q. Dancap Productions. Elgin TheaMahler
2:
“Resurrection”
Brott, conductor; Guests: Jeans ‘n Classics;
Friday August 15
tre. From July 29. See GTA July 29.
Arcady Singers. Mohawk College McIntyre
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
— Cabaret. Joe Masteroff & John Kander.
—
7:30:
Brott
Festival.
Siren
Songs
of
the
Theatre, 135 Fennell Ave. W., Hamilton. 1www.brottmusic.com
Stratford Festival. To Oct 25. See Beyond GTA
Mediterranean. World jazz performed by Mar888-475-9377. $25; $20(sr); $10(st).
July 1.
or 1-888-475-9377
ia Antonakos, vocalist. Royal Botanical GarSaturday August 02
— Cinderella. Rodgers & Hammerstein. Randens, 680 Plains Rd. W., Burlington. 1-888dolph Academy for the Performing Arts. July
ston,
mezzo;
Arcady
Singers;
Brott
Festival
475-9377.
$25;
$20(sr);
$10(st).
— 12:00noon to 10:00: Y108. Picnic in the
22, 23, 24, 25: 8:00, July 26:200 & 8:00. See
Choir; National Academy Orchestra Alumni;
Park. Artists include Teenage Head, Rides
Sunday August 17
Boris Brott, conductor. Mohawk College McIn- GTA July 22.
Again & Age of Daze. Gage Park, corner of
tyre Theatre, 135 Fennell Ave. W., Hamilton. — Così fan tutte. Mozart. Opera by Request.
Main St. E. & Gage St. N., Hamilton. 1-800- — 3:00: Brott Festival. Hgh Tea with GiJuly 4. See GTA July 4.
1-888-475-9377. $25; $20(sr); $10(st).
ampierro
Sobrino.
Mozart:
Clarinet
Concerto;
267-7625. Free.
— Death to Dating. R.J. Downes & Kathryn
Copland: Clarinet Concerto; Barber: Adagio for
Sunday
August
24
Wednesday August 06
Malek. Blue Fire Productions. Factory Theatre.
Strings. National Academy Orchestra; Boris
— 7:00: Kitchener Musical Society Band. July 4: 1:15, July 5: 7:30, July 7: 5:00, July 8:
Brott, conductor. Guest: Giampierro Sobrin,
— 12:00 noon: Midday Music with
Shigeru. Mathew Walton & Jon Bondoc, duo clarinet. St. John’s Anglican Church, 272 Wil- In Concert. Queen’s Park Bandshell, 55 Queen 1:15, July 9: 9:15, July 11: 5:45, July 12:
11:30. See GTA July 4.
pianos. Hi-Way Pentecostal Church, 50 Anne son St. E., Ancaster. 1-888-475-9377. $40; St., Stratford. 519-576-2129. Free.
— Horse Feathers: The Bygone Era of the
St, N. Barrie. 705- 726-1181. $5; students $35(sr) $20(st).
Wednesday September 03
Dufferin Race Track. David Anderson &
— 6:30: Skyliner’s Big Band. In Concert.
free.
Krista Dalby. Clay and Paper Theatre. July 18—
12:00
noon:
Midday
Music
With
Swing
music.
Ron
Robbins,
director.
Orillia
— 7:30: Brott Festival. Four Seasons X 2.
Works by Vivaldi & Piazzolla. National Acade- Outdoor Aqua Theatre, Couchiching Park, 140 Shigeru. Kuhlau: Duo Sonata; Chopin: Ballade Aug 17: call for times. See GTA July 18.
No. 1 in g; Peros: Eden; Godard: Suite of Three — If Cows Could Fly. Allan Merovitz.
my Orchestra; Boris Brott, conductor. Guest: Canice St., Orillia. 705-722-4520. Free.
— 7:30: Kitchener Musical Society Band. Pieces; Gershwin: Three Preludes; Borne: Car- Ashkenaz. Studio Theatre, Harbourfront. Aug
Lindsay Deutsch, violin. St. John’s Anglican
Church, 272 Wilson St. E., Ancaster. 1-888- In Concert. Beach Bandshell, Port Elgin. 519- men Fantasy. Allan Pulker, flute; Elena Tcher- 31: 2:15, Sep 1: 5:00. See GTA Aug 31.
— Into The Wood Jr. Sondheim. No Strings
naia, piano. Hi-Way Pentecostal Church, 50
576-2129. Free.
475-9377. $25; $20(sr); $10(st).
Theatre. Al Green Theatre. July 30: 7:30. See
Anne St. N., Barrie. 705-726-1181. Adults
Tuesday August 19
Thursday August 07
GTA July 30.
$5, Students Free.
— Jersey Boys. Dancap Productions. Toronto
—
8:00:
Kitchener-Waterloo
Chamber
Centre for the Arts. From Aug 21. See GTA Aug
Music Society. Alessandra Ammara, Piano.
In Concert. Riverside Park Bandshell, 685
21.
Woolwich St., Guelph. 519-576-2129. Free. Chopin: Etudes Op. 25 Nos. 1 & 7; Fantasy in
— L’Histoire du Soldat. Stravinsky. Flaming
f Op. 49; Barcarolle Op. 60; Ballades Nos. 1 &
Allan Pulker, Flute
Saturday August 09
Mamie Productions/Summerworks Theatre
4; Scelsi: 12 Preludes. KWCMS Music Room,
Elena Tchernaia, piano
Festival. Aug 7: 4:30, Aug 9: 12:30, Aug 11:
— 6:00 & 8:00: Coburg Summer Theatre. 57 Young St. W., Waterloo. 519-886-1673.
8:30, Aug 12: 10:30, Aug 15: 4:30, Aug 16:
$25; $20 (sr); $15(st).
Trial by Jury. Gilbert & Sullivan. Olde Bailey
8:30. See GTA Aug 7.
Court, Victoria Hall, 55 King St. W., CoWednesday August 20
— Lakme by Leo Delibes. Summer Opera
bourg. 905-372-2210.
Lyric Theatre. July 26, Aug 2: 2:00; July 29,
Sunday August 10
31: 8:00.
Music Society. Roberto Prosseda & Ales— Old Growth. Alex Eddington. Acky-Made/
sandra Ammara, Piano 4-Hands: Bach:
— 3:00: Sharon Temple/Village HarmoToronto Fringe Festival. Glen Morris Theatre
Brandenburg
No.
3
(arr.
Reger);
Grieg:
Peer
ny. Village Harmony Teen Touring Ensemble.
July 4: 5:00, July 5: 12:30, July 6: 4:30, July
Community-singing traditions from around the Gynt; Clementi: Barcarole on Mendelssohn;
7: 10:00pm, July 8: 7:00, July 11: 4:00, July
Williams: Fantasy on a Fragment of Menworld. Larry Gordon, Alan Gasser & Dessi
12: 8:00.
Stefanova, leaders. 8974 Leslie St. Sharon. delssohn; selected Songs Without Words;
— Picton Papers. Leslie Arden. Festival PlayMendelssohn:
Midsummer
Night’s
Dream
416-588-9050 x2. PWYC.
ers of Prince Edward County. July 16, 17, 18,
— 6:00 & 8:00: Coburg Summer Theatre. Music. KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young St.
19, 20, 2:00 & 8:00. See Beyond GTA July 16.
W., Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $25; $20(sr);
Trial by Jury. See Aug. 9.
— Semele by G.F. Handel. Summer Opera
— 7:00: Cambridge Concert Band. In Con- $15(st).
Lyric
Theatre. July 26, 30, Aug 1: 8:00; Aug 3:
cert. Forbes Park, Cambridge. 519-745Thursday August 21
2:00. See GTA July 26.— The Music Man.
6554. Free.
Wednesday
Meredith Wilson. Stratford Festival. To Nov 1:
— 7:30: Brott Festival. Resurrection Sym— 7:00: Weston Silver Band. In Concert.
September 3, 12:00 noon
call for times. See Beyond GTA July 1.
phony. Croal: Dagwaagin; Mahler: Symphony
Kiwanis Pavilion Bandshell, Upper Queen’s
— Trial by Jury. Gilbert & Sullivan. Coburg
No.
2.
Leslie
Fagan,
soprano;
Marcia
SwanPark, 55 Queen St., Stratford. 416-249Summer Theatre. Aug 9, 10 , 15, 16, & 17:
6553. Free.
6:00 & 8:00 (with dinner package). Aug 10, 17:
Monday August 11
3:00. See Beyond GTA Aug 9.
— Vanessa by Samuel Barber. Summer
— 3:00: Coburg Summer Theatre. Trial by
Just enter your street number and postal code
Opera Lyric Theatre. July 25, Aug 2: 8:00; July
Jury. Run continues. See music theatre list27, 30: 2:00. See GTA July 25.
into our Distribution Point Locator and
ings.
— Vegas Nights. Red Barn Theatre. July 3-29:
you’ll
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call for times. See Beyond GTA July 3.
In Concert. Brewmeister Green. Waterloo.
— Wonderful Town. Bernstein. Shaw Festi519-576-2129. Free.
Go to www.thewholenote.com. It’s on the first page! val. To Oct. 5. See Beyond GTA July 2.
Thursday July 31
— 7:00: Philipsville Summer Arts/Village Harmony. Village Harmony Teen Touring Ensemble. Community-singing traditions
from around the world. Larry Gordon, Alan
Gasser & Dessi Stefanova, leaders. 1407
County Road 8., Philipsville. 416-588-9050
x2. PWYC.
— 7:00: Cambridge Concert Band. In Concert. Riverside Park, 685 Woolwich St.,
Guelph. 519-745-6554. Free.
Midday Music with Shigeru
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JAZZ IN THE CLUBS
Alleycatz
2409 Yonge St. 416-481-6865
Every Mon Salsa Night w/ DJ Frank Bischun w/
Lessons. Every Tue “Swing House”. Every
Wed Erol Fisher and Co. Jazz and Soul. Jul 3
Graffitti Park. Jul 4 Lady Kane. Jul 5 Liquid. Jul
10 Lady Kane. Jul 11 Graffitti. Jul 12 Groove
Matrix. Jul 17 Graffitti Park. Jul 18 Soular. Jul
24 Lady Kane. Jul 25 Off The Wall. Jul 26 Off
The Wall. Jul 31 Urban Siren. Aug 1 Lady Kane.
Aug 2 Lady Kane. Aug 7 Lady Kane. Aug 8 Off
the Wall. Aug 9 Off The Wall. Aug 14 Graffitti
Park. Aug 15 Lady Kane. Aug 16 Groove Matrix.
Aug 21 Lady Kane. Aug 22 Graffitti Park. Aug
23 Graffitti Park. Aug 28 Graffitti Park. Aug 29
Liquid. Aug 30 Liquid.
Annabella Lounge
226 Carlton St. 416-944-3788
Every Fri Jazz Cab w/ Whitney Smith
(www.whitneysmith.ca/schedule.html)
Big Mama’s Boy
554 Parliament St. 416-927-1593
www.bigmamasboy.ca
Every Sun Don Englert/Dan Ionescu Duo.
The Black Swan
154 Danforth Ave. 416-469-0537
Every Wed The Danforth Jam w/ Jon Long and
Friends.
C’est What
67 Front St. E. 416-867-9499
www.cestwhat.com
Every Wed. Hot Fo’ Ghandi.
Every Sat (matinee) The Hot Five Jazzmakers.
Cervejaria Downtown
842 College St. (416) 588-0162.
Every Wed The Jay Danley Quintet.
Chalkers Pub Billiards & Bistro
247 Marlee Avenue, 416 789-2531
http://www.chalkerspub.com
Every Wed Salsa lesson followed by live music
w/ La Nueva Revalacion.
Every Thu Girls Night Out Jam w/ Lisa Particelli.
Jul 6 Mark Eisenman Quartet. Jul 13 Bernie Senensky Quartet. Jul 20 Tara Davidson Quartet. Jul
27 Pat LaBarbera Quartet.
Chick N’ Deli
744 Mount Pleasant Rd. 416-489-3363
www.chickndeli.com
Every Tue Jam Night.
Every First Mon Advocats Big Band.
Every Third Mon George Lake Big Band.
Cobourg, The
533 Parliament St. 416-913-7538
Commensal, Le
655 Bay St. 416-596-9364
www.commensal.ca
Music Fridays & Saturdays
6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
No Cover Charge
Jul 4 Beverly Taft/ Marcel Aucoin. Jul 5 Dan Eisen. Jul 11 Julie McGregor/Norman Amadio.
Jul 12 Sarah Jerrom/Ali Berkok. Jul 18 Kira
Callahan and Special Guest. Jul 19 Warren/Paul
Wiggins. Jul 25 Leon Kingstone/Bob Kingstone.
Jul 26 Richard Whiteman.
The Corktown
175 Young St. Hamilton 905-572-9242
Jul 2 Big Band Wednesdays w/Darcy Hepner:
The Music of Thad Jones.
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McKinnon Jazz Band, Eric St Laurent Jazz Band.
Aug 9 Brian Gladstone Blues Duo, Stevey Ross
Latin Jazz Quartet. Aug 10 Shannon Butcher and
Cam McCarroll, Joanna Moon Flamenco Latino
with Quebec Edge Quartet. Aug 11 Christopher
Dominion on Queen
Butcher Jazz Band, Ori Dagan: Swinging at Gate
500 Queen St. East 416-368-6893
403. Aug 12 John Russon Jazz Band, Julian
www.dominononqueen.com
Fauth and James Thomson. Aug 13 Ali Berkok
Jul 1 Gypsy Jazz Jam. Jul 3 Brian Rose Little
Piano Solo, Patrick Tevlin’s New Orleans Duo.
Big Band. Jul 6 Diamond Black. Jul 7 The McAug 14 Miss Emily and the Blue Callers, Scott
Flies. Jul 8 Gypsy Jazz Jam. Jul 13 Diamond
Back. Jul 15 Gypsy Jazz Jam. Jul 20 Diamond Kemp Jazz Collective. Aug 15 Ventana 5 Jazz
Band, Nico Dann: The Dan Four. Aug 16 Jon
Back. Jul 22 Gypsy Jazz Jam. Jul 26 The
Brook with his friends, The Café Ole Latin Band.
Grass Gypsies From Boston. Jul 27 Diamond
Aug 17 The France St. Quartet, Terry Quinney
Back. Jul 29 Daniel Jamieson NYC Quartet.
Aug 1 Nick Morgan Quartet. Aug 2 Bill Colgate. Trio. Aug 18 Denise Leslie Jazz Trio, Kevin LalibAug 4 Mondo Mondays with the McFlies. Jul 5 erte. Aug 19 Ken McDonald Jazz Trio, Julian
Fauth and James Thomson. Aug 20 Will Fisher
Gypsy Jazz Jam. Jul 7 Brian Rose Little Big
Jazz Trio, Patrick Tevlin’s New Orleans Duo.
Band. Jul 12 Gypsy Jazz Jam. Jul 19 Gypsy
Aug 21 Alex Coleman Jazz Band. Aug 22 Fraser
Jazz Jam.
Melvin Blues Band. Aug 23 Clela Errington with
Eton House
her friends, Max Cann. Aug 24 Matthew Farit
710 Danforth Ave. 416-466-6161
Jazz Trio, Jeff Peacock Jazz Trio. Aug 25 Jeff
First Sunday of Every Month Joel Hartt.
Scarrott Jazz Trio, Mike Field Jazz Duo. Aug 26
Gate 403
Bill Evans Jazz Trio, Julian Fauth and James
403 Roncesvalles 416-588-2930
Thomson Blues Duo. Aug 27 Patricia Duffy Jazz
www.gate403.com
Patrick Tevlin’s New Orleans Duo. Aug 28 KenJul 1 Araujo, Harnett and Rahbeck Trio, Julian
ny Simon Guitar Solo, Cyndi Carleton Duo. Aug
Fauth and James Thomson. Jul 2 Michele Law- 29 Tina Nodwell Jazz trio, Elizabeth Shepherd
rence Jazz Trio, Patrick Tevlin’s New Orlean’s
Jazz Band. Aug 30 Klaus Anselm Jazz Band,
Duo. Jul 3 Sarah Jerrom Jazz Trio, The PedRobert Davis, Up the Line Blues Duo. Aug 31
dlers. Jul 4 Morgan Sadler, Serafin: The littlest
Amy Noubarian Jazz Duo.
jazz orchestra. Jul 5 Ryan Oliver Jazz Band,
Grossman’s Tavern
Melissa Boyce and Kevin Laliberte. Jul 6 Grant
379 Spadina Ave. 416-977-1210
Curle, Starry Nights, Joanna Moon Flamenco Latwww.grossmanstavern.com
ino with Quebece Edge Quartet. Jul 7 Zach SutEvery Mon Laura Hubert Band.
ton Jazz Group, Neil Whitford Jazz Quartet. Jul
Every Tue Brokenjoe ol’ timey tuesdays.
8 Ken Yoshioka Blues Duo, Julian Fauth and
Every Sat Matinee: The Happy Pals.
James Thomson. Jul 9 Tova Kardonne’s StandEvery Sun Night: Nicola Vaughan Acoustic
ards, Patrick Tevlin’s New Orleans duo. Jul 10
Jam, The Nationals with Brian Cober – Double
Miss Emily and the Blue Callers, Heidi Lange
Slide Guitar Open Stage Jam
Jazz Duo. Jul 11 Peter Bertozzi Jazz Trio, Max
Jul 3 Soul Stack. Jul 4 Ernest Lee and Cotton
Senitt Latin Band. Jul 12 Clela Errington Blues
Traffic. Jul 11 Soul Stack. Jul 19 Dare Devils
Duo, Eric St. Laurent Jazz Band. Jul 13 Grant
of Soul. Jul 25 FrankieFoo. Jul 26 Caution Jam.
Curle Solo, Shannon Butcher and Cam McCaroll,
Cocktail Jazz Band. Jul 14 Tim Shia Jazz Duo, Healey’s Roadhouse
Ori Dagan: Swinging at the Gate. Jul 15 Lindsay 56 Blue Jays Way
Beaver Jazz Band, Julian Fauth and James
Home Smith Bar
Thomson. Jul 16 Double A Jaz z Duo, Patrick
The Old Mill, 21 Old Mill Rd. 416-236-2641
Tevlin’s New Orleans Duo. Jul 17 Chantelle Wil- www.oldmilltoronto.com
son Jazz Band, String Theory. Jul 18 Ventana 5 Jul 4 Russell Drago Trio. Jul 5 Bryan Toner Duo.
Jazz Band, Mark Metiene: Mr. Quartet. Jul 19
Jul 11 David Hutchison Trio. Jul 12 Plakaso
Jazz Paragus, Dave Burt Blues Band. Jul 20 Cle- Duo. Jul 18 Bob Brough Duo. Jul 19 Susana
lea Errington Friends, France St. Quartet, Mr Rick Dacamera Trio. Jul 25 Buddy Aquillina Trio. Jul
and Biscuits Blues Band. Jul 21 Rosalind Kindler 26 RC Jazzophones Duo. Aug 1 Waylen Miki
Jazz Band, Kevin Laliberte Flamenco Trio. Jul 22 Duo. Aug 2 Bill McBirnie Trio. Aug 8 Russell
Julie McGregor Jazz Duo, Julian Fauth and
Drago Trio. Aug 9 Harris Mark Duo. Aug 15
James Thomson. Jul 23 Patricia Duffy Jazz
Tara Davidson Duo. Aug 16 Peter Smith Trio.
Trio, Patrick Tevlin’s New Orleans Duo. Jul 24
Aug 22 Martin Aucoin Trio. Aug 29 Reg SchwaKenny Simon Guitar Solo, Amy Isnor Jazz Duo.
ger and Kiki Misumi Duo. Aug 30 Mary Manacci
Jul 25 Fraser Melvin Blues Band, Elizabeth Shep- Trio.
her Jazz Band. Jul 26 Michelle Rumball with her
Hot House Cafe
friends, Sweet Derrick Blues Band. Jul 27 Clela
Market Square, 416-366-7800
Errington with her friends, Amy Noubarian Duo,
Every Mon. Jazz Brunch with the Ken Churchill
Dan Neil Jazz Band. Jul 28 Jeff Scarrott Jazz
Quartet.
Trio, Mike Field Jazz Duo. Jul 29 Patricia Fagan
Jazz Trio, Julian Fauth and James Thomson. Jul Hugh’s Room
30 Nodia Hosko Jazz Trio, Patrick Tevlin’s New 2261 Dundas St. West. 416-531-6604
Orleans Duo. Jul 31 Glenda Del Monte Escalan- www.hughsroom.com
Jul 3 Kruger Brothers. Jul 4 Desandann with
te Piano, Mood Swing Band. Aug 1 Morgan SaJane Bunnett. Jul 6, 7 Pete Seeger with Tao Rodler, Ben Bowen: The Book of Gnomes. Aug 2
driguez Seeger and Guy Davis. Jul 9 Brooke MillJackson Sims Blues Duo, Melissa Boyce and
er w/ Don Ross and Jordan O’Connor. Jul 10
Kevin LaLiberte. Aug 3 Starry Nights, Dave and
Black Umfolosi. Jul 11 Alfie Zappacosta. Jul 12
Levi Jazz Duo. Aug 4 Zach Sutton Jazz Group,
Bob Erlendson w/ Café Ole. Jul 15, 16 Ian TysMarian Jago Jazz Trio. Aug 5 Araujo, Harnett
on. Jul 17 Kevin Breit’s Folk Alarm. Jul 18 Catand Rahbek Jazz Trio, Julian Fauth and James
ie Curtis. Jul 19 Tony Gouveia. Jul 22 Barra
Thomson. Aug 6 Donnar Garner Piano Solo,
Patrick Tevlin’s New Orleans Duo. Aug 7 Sarah MacNeils. Jul 24 Humber College Songwriter’s
Circle. Jul 25 Jack De Keyzer. Jul 26 Dare DevJerrom Jazz Trio, The Peddlers. Aug 8 Dan
ils of Soul. Aug 6 Norm Hacking Tribute. Aug 7
Andy Irvine. Aug 9 David Francey. Aug 12 Don
Ross and Andy McKee. Aug 13 Compadres. Aug
14 Royal Wood. Aug 15 Kate Bush Tribute. Aug
16 Garnet Rogers. Aug 17 House of Doc. Aug
18 Country Joe McDonald. Aug 20 Sylvia Tyson.
Aug 21 Firefly Cabaret. Aug 22 Arun Pal Band.
Kristoria French Fine Dining
104 Surrey St. E. Guelph. 519-829-3265
Lula Lounge
1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307
www.lula.ca
Jul 3 Healing Dr. Brown. Jul 5 Brahma Folia,
Salsa Saturday w/ Ricky Franco. Jul 6 Bossa
Brunch. Jul 9 Jonathan Coulton w. Paul and
Storm. Jul 10 Canefire. Jul 12 Salsa Dance
Party w/ Café Cubano. Jul 13 NYC Nation Beat
featuring Maracatu Nunca Antes. Jul 16 Colliding Lights. Jul 17 Uncle Mike presents Reggae
Forward. Jul 18 Smallworld Music and Dos
Mundos Presents: Invasion Psychotropical. Jul
19 The Toronto Cuban All-Stars. Jul 23 Salviano
Pessoa. Jul 26 Salsa Dance Party W/ Lady Son Y
Articulo Veinte. Jul 31 Kinga. Aug 2 Salsa Saturday w/ Ricky Franco. Aug 14 Uncle Mike
Presents Reggae Forward.
Manhattan’s Music Club
951 Gordon St. Guelph. 519-767-2440
www.manhattans.ca
Mezzetta
681 St. Clair Ave. W. 416-658-5687
Wednesday Concerts in a Café. Sets at 9
and 10:15. Reservations recommended for first
set.
Mezzrows
1546 Queen St. W. 416-658-5687
Parkdale neighborhood pub featuring jazz and
blues on Saturday afternoons, Sunday evenings
and a live jam every other Wednesday.
N’Awlins Jazz Bar and Dining
299 King St. W. 416-595-1958
www.nawlins.ca
Every Tues Stacie McGregor
Every Wed Jim Heineman Trio.
Every Thu Blues Night with Guest Vocalists
Every Fri/Sat All Star Bourbon St. Band
Every Sun Robi Botos.
Odd Socks at Dovercourt House
804 Dovercourt Rd. 416-537-3337
Jul 5 Ragweed Jazz Band. Jul 26 Notorious.
Old Mill, The
21 Old Mill Rd. 416-236-2641
www.oldmilltoronto.com
Jul 7-12 Lost Vegas. Jul 14-19 Endless Summer. Jul 21-25 Nightfly. Jul 28-Aug 2 Fifth Avenue. Aug 1 Smooth Jazz – Nick Colionne. Aug
5-7 Live Jive. Aug 8 Four80East. Aug 11-16
Live Jive. Aug 15 Kellylee Evans. Aug 18-23
Rick Levine. Aug 22 Liberty Silver and Friends.
Aug 25-30 Rick Levine.
Orbit Room
508A College St. 416-535-0613
Pantages Martini Bar and Lounge
200 Victoria St.
Every Fri John Simoes and Aaron Peixoto.
Every Sat Solo Piano: Various artists.
Pilot Tavern
22 Cumberland 416-923-5716
www.thepilot.ca
Pazzo Ristorante
70 Ontario St. Stratford Ontario. 519-2736666
Jul 5 Steve Wallace Quartet. Jul 6 Ryan Oliver
Quartet. Jul 13 Kollage.In Oscar’s Footsteps Piano Series:Jul 25, 26 Pianist Robi Botos. Aug 1,
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2 Brian Dickinson Trio. Aug 8,9 Lorraine Desmarais. Aug 15, 16 Dave Young.
Quotes
220 King St. W.
416-979-7717
Reservoir Lounge, The
52 Wellington St. E. 416-955-0887
www.reservoirlounge.com
Every Mon Sophia Perlman and the Vipers
Every Tue Tyler Yarema and his Rhythm
Every Wed Bradley and the Bouncers
Every Thu Janice Hagen
Every Fri Chet Valient Combo
Every Sat Tory Cassis
Every Sun Luke Nicholson and his Sunday Service.
Revival Music Lounge
783 College St. 416-535-7888
Rex Jazz and Blues Bar, The
194 Queen St. W. 416-598-2475
www.therex.ca
Jul 1 George Grosman Trio, Rex Jazz Jam. Jul
2 Shannon Butcher, Dave Hutchinson. Jul 3
Kevin Quain, Mark Eisenman Quintet. Jul 4 Hogtown Syncopators, Mark Eisenman Quintet. Jul
5 Abbey’s Meltdown, Laura Hubert, Justin Bacchus, Kingsley Etienne. Jul 6 Excelsior Dixieland
Jazz, Andrew Boniwell, Arkana Music. Jul 7
Jake Wikinson Quartet, Alex Coleman’s Tribute
to Mingus. Jul 8 George Grossman Trio, Rex
Jazz Jam. Jul 9 Shannon Butcher, Extremeties.
Jul 10 Kevin Quain, Victor Bateman. Jul 11
Hogtown Syncopators, Sara Dell, Daniel Barnes.
Jul 12 Abey’s Meltdown, Swing Shift Big Band,
Justin Bacchus, Vaughan Misener. Jul 13 Excelsior Dixieland Jazz, Dr. Nick Blues, Diane Nalini
Quartet. Jul 14 Jake Wilkinson Quartet, “The
Sing Is”. Jul 15 George Grossman Trio, Rex
Jazz Jam. Jul 16 Shannon Butcher, Monsoon.
Jul 17 Kevin Quain, Eric St. Laurent Quartet. Jul
18 Hogtown Syncopators, Sara Dell, Rich Underhill. Jul 19 Abbey’s Meltdown, Jonah CristallClarke, Justin Bacchus, Steve Koven’s Project
Rex. Jul 20 Excelsior Dixieland Jazz, Club Django, Andrew Boniwell, Lukiwski & Lund. Jul 21
Jake Wilkinson Quartet, John Cheesman Jazz
Orchestra. Jul 22 George Grossman Trio, Rex
Jazz Jam. Jul 23 Shannon Butcher, Daniel
Jamieson. Jul 24 Curtis MacDonald, God’s Gift
to Yoda. Jul 25 Hogtown Syncopators, Sara Dell,
Bob Brough Quartet. Jul 26 Abbey’s Meltdown,
Jake Chisolm, Justin Bacchus, Ernesto Cervini.
Jul 27 Excelsior Dixieland Jazz, Freeway Dixieland, Andrew Boniwell, Vincent Wolfe. Jul 28
Jake Wilkinson Quartet, Dave McMurdo Jazz
Orchestra. Jul 29 George Grossman Trio, Classic Rex Jazz Jam. Jul 30 Shannon Butcher,
Mark Laver 7. Jul 31 Kevin Quain, Ben Ball
Quartet.
Saint Tropez, Le
315 King St. W. 416-591-3600
Live music 7 days a week
Spacco Italian Eatery & Bar
2273 Royal Windsor Drive. Oakville Ont. 905884-1958
www.spacco.ca
Spezzo Restorante
140 York Blvd. Richmond Hill 905-886-9703
Live jazz every Thursday.
The Stone Grill
51B Winchester 416-967-6565
www.stonegrillonwinchester.com
Every Sun Jazz Brunch with Archie Alleyne,
Robi Botos, Artie Roth.
Ten Feet Tall
1381 Danforth Avenue, 416-778-7333
www.tenfeettall.ca
Last Sun of Every Month Girls Night Out Vocalists Jam
Jul 6 Steve Ambrose and Friends. Jul 13 Kingsley Etienne. Jul 20 Margot Roi. Jul 27 Margaret
Stowe Trio. Aug 3 Mark Sepic.
The Trane Studio
964 Bathurst St. 416-913-8197
www.tranestudio.com
Jul 4 James King Band. Jul 5 Where’s
D’Angelo?. Jul 8 Acoustic Soul. Jul 9 Daniel
Barnes Quintet. Jul 10 Booklaunch Tightrope
Books, Ryan Oliver. Jul 11 Avi Granite 6. Jul 12
Trane 5th Aniversary Part 3 featuring Julie
Michels, George Koller and friends. Jul 15 Fundraiser. Jul 16 Trevor Falls Collective. Jul 17
Demo Cates Band. Jul 18 Celebrating Coltrane
40 Years later: Concert and Film, The Shawn
Nyquist Quartet. Jul 19 Celebrating John Coltrane 40 Years Later: Concert and Film P. 2 Black
Underground Quintet with Neil Brathwaite. Jul
20 Up from the Roots Poetry Lounge. Jul 22
Acoustic Soul Open Mic Jam. Jul 23 Michele
Mele Quartet. Jul 24 Brownman Electryc Trio.
Jul 25 Live from Philly Elliot Levine w. The Sharron McLeod Quintet. Jul 27 Ray Mingus Big
Band. Jul 29 The Outlanders with Brett Higgins.
Jul 30 The Steven Ward Band. Jul 31 Daniel Jameison.
LISTINGS: SECTION 5
SUMMER FESTIVALS AND SERIES
Afrofest 2008
Queen’s Park & Lula Lounge, Toronto
July 5-6
416-469-5336
www.musicafrica.org
Afrofest features two days of African concerts, dance, theatre and food, from noon to
10:30 pm. Featured artists include Ivory Coast
singing sensation Dobet G’nahore, Femi Abosede & Culture Force, Donne Roberts,
Konyokonyo, Shego Band and Shangaza Performers. For listings, see Section 1.
Ashkenaz: A Festival of New Yiddish
Culture
Toronto, August 26-September 1
416-979-9901
www.ashkenazfestival.com
This biennial festival offers music, theatre,
film, visual arts, literature, family programming, participatory dance workshops, and the
Ashkenaz Parade. Most performances take
place at Harbourfront Centre. For daily listings,
see Section 1.
Beaches International Jazz Festival
Toronto, July 18-27
416-410-8809
www.beachesjazz.com
This annual event celebrates its 20th anniversary this summer. Headlining artists include
Johnny Rawls, Lou Pride, Cimarron and the
Sultans of String. Performances take place in
Woodbine Park (at the corner of Lakeshore
Blvd. and Coxwell Ave.), Kew Gardens and on
stages along Queen St. E.
KG = Kew Gardens, 2075 Queen St. E.
NGS = New Generation Stage, Woodbine Park
TDM = TD Canada Trust Main Stage, Woodbine Park
YS = Youth Stage, Woodbine Park
Jul 18 6:00: Markham Youth Big Band. YS. Free.
Jul 18 6:00: Roxanne Potvin. Vocalist, guitarist &
songwriter. TDM. Free.
Jul 18 6:30: David Buchbinder & Odessa/Havana. Cuban-Jewish fusion. NGS. Free.
Jul 18 7:45: Karen Andrew’s Dance Ensemble.
TDM. Free.
Jul 18 8:00: Johannes Linstead. Flamenco guitar.
NGS. Free.
Jul 18 8:00: Dr. Draw. Jazz violinist. TDM. Free.
Jul 19 11:30am: Toronto All-Star Big Band. YS.
Free.
Jul 19 11:30am: Rachel Persaud. Vocalist. TDCTMS. Free.
Jul 19 1:30: Quincy Bullen Band. YS. Free.
Jul 19 1:30: Sophia Perlman/Adrean Farrugia
Quartet. Vocalist with quartet. NGS.
Jul 19 1:30: Matt Wigler. Keyboards. TDM. Free.
Jul 19 3:30: Lucian Gray Jazz Fusion. YS. Free.
Jul 19 3:30: Groove Corporation. Funk, RnB band.
NGS. Free.
Jul 19 3:30: Cimarron. Cuban jazz. TDM. Free.
Jul 19 5:30: Toth Brothers. Guest: Robi Botos,
piano. YS. Free.
Jul 19 5:30: Jeremy Ledbetter and Canefire.
Caribbean jazz. TDM. Free.
Jul 19 5:30: Dr. Draw. Jazz violinist. TDM. Free.
Jul 19 7:30: Johannes Linstead. Flamenco Guitar. NDS. Free.
Jul 19 7:30: Dance Theatre Studio. TDM. Free.
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Multiple StagesArts & CraftsChildren's StageRain or Shine
Allison Lupton Band
Mel M’rabet Ensemble
Andrew Queen &
the Fuzzy Fellers
Oakville Ale and Sword
Orange Peel Morris
Cambridge Splinters
Rallion
Rant Maggie Rant
Crucible
Crumbly the Clown
Relative Harmony
Rembetika Hipsters
Deborah Quigley &
Martin Gould
Robert Davis
Doc Rossi
Featuring some of Toronto’s best jazz musicians
with a brief reflection by Jazz Vespers Clergy
Farewell to Erin
Jazz Vespers resumes on Sunday, September 7th at 4:30 p.m.
(for our 11th great season!)
We wish all a summer filled with grace, peace and great music!
Thank you to all of our musicians and the rest of our Jazz Vespers
community for making our 10th year so extraordinary!
Foxtail
Please visit our website: www.thereslifehere.org
Roger Scannura and
Ritmo Flamenco
Forest City Morris
&Sword
Silk Road
Tethera
Toronto Morris Men
Johnny Collins, Jim Mageean
& Graeme Knights
Jake
photo: Frank Cento
Tiit Kao
Zoe the Clown
Zubrivka
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Cambridge Tourism www.cambridgetourism.com 622-2336 1-800-749-7560
Christ Church Deer Park, 1570 Yonge Street
(north of St. Clair at Heath St.) 416-920-5211
Admission is free.
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Jul 19 8:30: Kelly Hunt. Vocals and keyboards.
TDM. Free.
Jul 20 11 am: Layla Zoe. Blues vocals. TDM. Free.
Jul 20 11:30am: Toronto All-Star Big Band. YS.
Free.
Jul 20 12:00 noon: June Garber. Jazz vocalist.
NGS. Free.
Jul 20 12:30: Alexis Baro. Trumpet. TDM. Free.
Jul 20 1:30: Quincy Bullen Band. YS. Free.
Jul 20 2:00: Woodbine Park All-Stars. NGS. Free.
Jul 20 2:15: Karen Andrew’s Dance Ensemble.
TDM. Free.
Jul 20 3:00: Richard Underhill. Saxophone. TDM.
Free.
Jul 20 3:30: Lucian Gray Jazz Fusion. YS. Free.
Jul 20 5:00: Johnny Rawls. Blues guitar. TDM. Free.
Jul 20 5:30: Toth Brothers. Guest: Robi Botos,
piano. YS. Free.
Jul 20 7:00: Lou Pride. Blues vocals. TDM. Free.
Jul 24 7:00 to 11:00: Streetfest. Artists include
Dr. Draw, Blackboard Blues Band, Taurean Clark
Quartet, Sultans of String, Otis Blue & others. Free.
Jul 26 11:30am: Elizabeth Shepherd Trio. KG.
Free.
Jul 26 12:30: The Sicilian Project. KG. Free.
Jul 26 2:00: The Sisters Euclid. KG. Free.
Jul 26 3:30: Tad Robinson Band with Alex
Schultz. KG. Free.
Jul 26 5:00: Jamaica to Toronto. Soul, funk &
reggae. KG. Free.
Jul 27 11:30am: Brandi Disterheft. Bassist and
songwriter. KG. Free.
Jul 27 12:30: Anne Lindsay. Jazz violin. KG. Free.
Jul 27 2:00: Lady Son y Articulo Veinte. Latin
fusion. KG. Free.
Jul 27 3:30: The Young Divas with Bill King’s
Rhythm Express. KG. Free.
Jul 27 5:00: Tab Benoit. Cajun Blues. KG. Free.
Brott Music Festival
Throughout Hamilton (ON)
June 14-August 21
1-888-475-9377
www.brottmusic.com
Hamilton’s music festival features the National Academy Orchestra of Canada, conducted
by Boris Brott. This year’s guest artists include violinist James Ehnes, pianist Valerie
Tryon and jazz singer Sophie Milman. Performances take place in various venues, including the Dofasco Centre for the Arts, Melrose
United Church and Mohawk College. Ticket
prices range from $10 to $40. For daily listings, see Section 2.
Canadian Guitar Festival & 5th Annual
Fingerstyle Guitar Competition
Loughborough Lake Holiday Park
3060 Sydenham Rd., South Frontenac (ON)
July 17-20
1-888-506-1418
www.canadianguitarfestival.com
Twenty-four guitarists will participate in this
competition, with public performances. Artists include Don Adler, Craig D’Andrea, Pierre
Bensusan and others. Weekend pass is available for $85.
Jul 17 7:00 to 11:00: In Concert. Craig
D’Andrea, Joey Wright, Pino Forastiere, Wendell Ferguson & Stephen Fearing. $25;
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$12.50(st).
Jul 18 7:00 to 11:00: In Concert. Jay Calder,
Don Alder, John Doan, Gregory Hoskins &
Pierre Bensusan. $25; $12.50(st).
Jul 19 7:00 to 11:00: In Concert. Antoine
Dufour, Gareth Pearson, Andrew White &
Mason Williams. $25; $12.50(st).
Jul 20 10:00am to 4:00: 2008 Fingerstyle
Guitar Championship. $15; $7.50(st).
Canadian Open Old Time Fiddle Competition
Shelburne (ON)
August 6-10
705-435-4479
www.shelburnefiddlecontest.on.ca
Currently in its 58th year, this event features
competitions from August 6 to 9. The final
competition on August 9 features young fiddle
and stepdancing groups, the Ballagh Bunch,
Triple Explosion, and Step’n Time with The
Ziebarth Family. Event packages are available
for $40, and $20(child under 12). Individual
events are $10-$20.
Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest
Ottawa River Parkway (Ottawa ON)
July 3-13
866-258-3748
www.ottawabluesfest.com
This annual event is a showcase for local,
regional and international artists, featuring
hundreds of performers on multiple stages.
Artists include The Tragically Hip, The Blind
Boys of Alabama, Steely Dan, James Taylor,
and many others. Festival passes: $195; Day
passes: $32.50-$40.
Clear Lake Chamber Music Festival
Onanole Community Centre, Riding Mountain
National Park (MB)
August 1-4
204-571-6547
www.clearlakechambermusicfestival.com
Manitoba’s only chamber music festival enters its third season. The festival’s artistic
director is pianist Alexander Tselyakov, and
this summer’s event is hosted by composer T.
Patrick Carrabré. Festival passes: $70; $50
(student). Individual tickets $20-$30.
Collingwood Music Festival
New Life Brethren in Christ Church, 28 Tracey Lane
Collingwood (ON)
June 21-August 9
888-283-1712
www.collingwoodmusicfestival.com
The Collingwood Music Festival presents a
summer season of concerts of music from
around the world. Featured artists include
Anton Kuerti, Evergreen Club Gamelan and the
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir.
Jul 05 7:30: Toronto Mendelssohn Choir. $35.
Jul 10 7:30: In Recital. Etsuko Kimura, violin;
Megumi Okamoto, piano. $35.
Jul 11 7:30: Evergreen Club Gamelan. Music on
Indonesian instruments. $35.
Jul 18 7:30: Triple Forte. Works for piano trio.
$35.
Jul 19 7:30: In Recital. Yegor Dyachkov, cello;
Jean Saulnier, piano. $35.
Jul 23 7:30: Barra MacNeils. Celtic music. $35.
Jul 31 7:30: Nataga Shachu. Japanese taiko
drum ensemble. $35.
Aug 01 7:30. In Recital. Richard Raymond, piano.
$35.
Aug 09 7:30: Nexus. Percussion ensemble. $35.
Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival
Cooperstown (NY)
July 11-August 19
1-877-666-7421
www.cooperstownmusicfest.org
This festival is set in the Upstate-NY town
famous for the Baseball Hall of Fame and the
Glimmerglass Opera. Performances take
place in venues around the town.
CEC = Christ Episcopal Church, 60 Fair St.
FM = Farmers’ Museum, 5775 State Hwy 80
ORH = Otesaga Resort Hotel, 60 Lake St.
TH = Templeton Hall, 63 Pioneer St.
Jul 11 7:30: Nature Calls. Schubert: Trout
Quintet; Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals
(arr.); Biber: Sonata Representativa; Crumb:
Vox Balanae. FM. $30; $15(8-18 years). 7:00
Pre-concert chat.
Jul 12 11:00am: What’s at Four? Family
introduction to the Parker String Quartet. TH.
$15(family). 10: 30am: Hands-on crafts.
Jul 13 7:30: Parker String Quartet. Works by
Beethoven, Haydn & Janacek. FM. $30;
$15(8-18 years). 7:00: Pre-concert chat.
Jul 23 7:30: Enchanted Baroque. Works by
Bach, Purcell & Telemann. CEC. $30; $15(818 years). 7:00: Pre-concert chat.
Aug 03 7:30: Daedelus Quartet with David
Shifrin. Brahms: Clarinet Quintet; also works
by Haydn & Shostakovich. 7:00: Pre-concert
chat. $30; $15(8-18 years).
Aug 07 7:30: Flute Fest at the Otesaga. OTR.
Free.
Aug 09 7:30: Chords and Strings. Baroque to
Bossa Nova. Sarah Wolfson, soprano; Brazil
Guitar Duo. FM. $30; $15(8-18 years). 7:00:
Pre-concert chat.
Aug 13 7:30: Trio Soloisti with Linda Chesis,
flute. Works by Beethoven, Frank & Ravel. FM
$30; $15(8-18 years). 7:00 Pre-concert chat.
Aug 16 11:00: Go for Baroque. Bach:
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5. $15(family). TH.
10:30am: Hands-on crafts.
Aug 17 7:30: Gala 10th Anniversary Concert.
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 3-6. FM.
$30; $15(8-18 years).
Aug 19 7:30: The Brubeck Brothers Quartet.
Jazz with a mix of funk, blues and world music. ORH. $30; $15(8-18 years).
Corso Italia Toronto Fiesta
St. Clair Ave. W., Toronto
July 5-6
416-240-9338
www.torontofiesta.com
Toronto’s St. Clair Ave. W. plays host to this
free festival, with two days of music on two
stages. Featured artists include Marco
D’Amico, Jospehine Biundo, the Cobra Kings
and the Toronto All-Star Big Band. For daily
listings, see Section 1.
Domaine Forget International Festival
Salle Françoys-Bernier
Saint-Irénée (QC)
June 13-September 1
www.domaineforget.com
418-452-8111
Domaine Forget, located east of Quebec City,
presents a summer of concerts on the North
shore of the St. Lawrence River. This summer’s performers include Les Violons du Roy,
pianist Stéphane Lemelin and the Orchestre
symphonique de Québec.
Jul 02 8:30: Chamber Music. Alexandre Dacosta, violin; Wony Song, piano. $32.
Jul 04 8:30: Discoveries. Judicaël Perroy, guitar.
$30.
Jul 05 8:30: Discoveries. Marianne Fiset, soprano; Marie-Eve Scarfone, piano. $30.
Jul 06 10:30am & 12:30: Musical Brunches:
French songs. Carmen Genest, voice & percussion; David Jacques, guitar; Sylvain Neault, violin.
$29.50; $13.75(6-12 years); free (child 5 &
under).
Jul 09 8:30: The Soloists. Matteo Mela and
Lorenzo Micheli, guitars. $37.
Jul 11 8:30: Domain Dance. Endanza; Edgar
Zendejas, choreographer. $28.
Jul 12 8:15: Great Concerts. Puccini: selected
arias and duets. Orchestre symphonique de
Québec; Yoav Talmi, conductor; guests: Sondra
Radvanovsky, soprano; Richard Margison, tenor.
$40.
World Music. Bazirka. $29.50; $13.75(6-12
years); free (child 5 & under).
Jul 16 8:30: Vocal Art. From Bach to the Beatles.
Cantabile Vocal Quartet. $37.
Jul 17 8:30: Chamber Music. Eve & Basle, musical jugglers; François Rabbath, bass; Sylvain Rabbath, piano. $32.
Jul 18 8:30: Industrial Alliance Jazz Concerts.
Nikki Yanofsky, vocals. $50-$100.
Jul 19 8:30: Great Concerts. Orchestre Symphonique de Québec; Jean-François Rivest, conductor;
Guests: Stéphane Lemelin, piano; Karina Gauvin,
soprano. $40.
Voices of Brazil. Virginie Hamel, voice; Vincent
Gagnon, piano; Guillaume Bouchard, bass.
$29.50; $13.75(6-12 years); free (child 5 &
under).
Jul 20 8:30: Country Festival. Latourelle Orchestra. Free.
Jul 23 8:30: Early Music. Vivaldi: La Follia. Ensemble Caprice. $30.
Jul 24 8:30: Industrial Alliance Jazz Concerts.
Michael Kaeshammer, piano; Marc Rogers, bass,
Mark Maclean, drums. $37.
Jul 25 8:30: Chamber Music. Régis Pasquier,
violin; James Dunham, viola; Philippe Muller, Paul
Marleyn, Johanne Perron & Ryan Molzan, cellos;
Pascal Rogé, piano. $37.
Jul 26 8:30: Chamber Music. Régis Pasquier,
Mark Fewer, Jonathan Swartz, Yehonatan Berick, violins; James Dunham, Jean-Luc Plourde,
violas; & others; guest: Oliver Jones, piano. $32.
Harp music from Paraguay. Gisèle Guibord &
Robin Grenon, harps. $29.50; $13.75(6-12
Jul 30 8:30: Early Music: Love Songs from the
Mediterranean. Ensemble Constantinople. $30.
Aug 01 8:30: The Soloists. Marc-André Hamelin.
$37.
Aug 02 8:30: Les Violons du Roy; La Chapelle de
Québec; Bernard Labadie, conductor; Guests:
Lydia Teuscher, soprano; Andreas Karasiak,
tenor. $40.
Aug 03 10:30am & 12:30: Musical Brunches:
World Music. Small World Project. $29.50;
$13.75(6-12 years); free (child 5 & under).
Aug 06 8:30: Domaine Dance. Cas Public; Hélène
Blackburn, choreographer. $28.
Aug 08 8:30: Chamber Music. Jonathan Crow,
Claude Richard & Gwen Thompson, violins; Peter
Slowik, viola; Matt Haimovitz, cello; & others.
$32.
Aug 09 8:30: Chamber Music. Moscow String
Quartet. $32.
Waltzes. Denis Labrie, accordion. $29.50;
Aug 15 8:30: Contemporary Music. Piano music
inspired by bells. Louise Bessette, piano. $28.
Aug 16 8:30: Vocal Art. Works by Bach and his
contemporaries. Theatre of Early Music Choir and
Orchestra; Daniel Taylor, conductor. $37.
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Aug 17 10:30am & 12:30: Musical Brunches .
Bernard Cimon, accordion. $29.50; $13.75(6-12
Aug 22 8:30: Industrial Alliance Jazz Concerts.
Tiger Okoshi, trumpet; Lorraine Desmarais, piano;
Michel Donato, bass; Camil Bélisle, drums &
others. $37.
Gypsy Jazz. Denis Labrie, accordion. $29.50;
Aug 30 8:30: Industrial Alliance Jazz Concerts.
Denzal Sinclair Trio. $37.
Aug 31 10:30am & 12:30: Musical Brunches.
Philippe Amyot, violin; Yvon Bouchard, guitar;
Jean-Philippe Arsenault, bass. $29.50;
Electric Eclectics Festival
The Funny Farm, 202 Scotch Mountain Rd.,
Meaford (ON)
August 3-5
Friday, August 1, 2008 • 8:00 p.m.
519-378-9899
www.electric-eclectics.com
elorafestival.com
This self-styled “irritainment” festival offers
three days of electroacoustic music. Artists
Jul 12 8:00: Black Umfolosi. Musicians and
include Bluble, Fossils, Hallicrafters, dd/mm/
dancers from Zimbabwe. GB. $38.
yyyy and others. A shuttle bus from Toronto is Jul 13 2:00: Bach to Bach. Elora Festival Singers;
available (see website for info). Weekend pass: Elora Chamber Players; Noel Edison, conducting.
$60. Day passes: $10-$30.
StMC. $35.
Elora Festival
Jul 13 4:00: Triple Forte. Jasper Wood, violin;
(Elora ON)
Yegor Dyachkov, cello; David Jalbert, piano.
July 11-August 3
StJC. $35.
888-747-7550
Jul 13 7:00: Kiri Te Kanawa in Recital. Brian
www.elorafestival.com
Ziegler, accompanist. GB. $45-$150.
This summer, Elora’s annual festival includes a
Jul 17 7:30: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Early Influmusical tribute to Ralph Vaughan Williams, and
ences. Kimberly Barber, voice, & other musicians.
the penultimate recital of Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. KPC. $35.
EPS = Elora Public School, 288 Mill St. E.
Jul 17 9:00: Laila Biali. Singer-songwriter-pianGB = Gambrel Barn, Wellington Rd. 21
ist. George Koeller, bass; Larnell Lewis, drums.
KPC = Knox Presbyterian Church, 55 Church St. GB. $20.
StJC = St. John’s Church, corner of HenderJul 18 4:00: Festival Kids Camp Performance.
son & Smith streets.
EPS. $5.
StMC = St. Mary’s Church, 267 Geddes St.
Jul 186/16/08
8:00: André Laplante,
Piano. GB. $38.
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Jul 11 3:00: Handel’s Solomon – Open Rehears- Jul 19 2:00: Duo Affinité. Nadina Mackie Jackal. GB. $5.
son, bassoon; Guy Few, trumpet & piano. StJC.
$35.
Jul 19 4:00: Die Schöne Müllerin. Colin Ainsworth, tenor; James Bourne, piano. StJC. $35.
Jul 19 8:00: Hot Fusion. Latin jazz. Amanda
Martinez & Justin Hines, vocals; Vasyl Popadiuk,
Gypsy violin. GB. $38.
Jul 20 2:00: Paradise Rediscovered. Elora Chamber Players; Noel Edison, conductor. StJC. $35.
Jul 20 4:00: Harp Connections. Sharlene Wallace, harp; Susan Piltch, flute & piano; Adrian
Dolan, accordion & fiddle; Kevin Muir, bass.
StJC. $35.
Jul 23 8:00: TD Canada Trust Young Performers
Competition Final Round. StJC. $15.
Jul 24 7:30. Ralph Vaughan Williams’ London.
Music of Britten, Holst & Vaughan Williams.
KPC. $35.
Jul 24 9:00: Elizabeth Shepherd in Concert. Blend
of jazz-funk, soul, blues & samba. Elizabeth Shepherd, piano & vocals; Scott Kemp, bass; Colin
Kingsmore, drums. GB $20.
Sunday, July 13, 2008 • 7:00 p.m. Jul 25 8:00: Trinity in the Barn. Works by Britten, Walton, Purcell, Parry & Praulins. Choir of
elorafestival.com
Trinity College Cambridge; Stephen Layton, direcJul 11 8:00: Opening Night – Handel’s Solomon. tor. GB. $38.
Karina Gauvin, soprano; Robin Blaze, counterten- Jul 26 12:00 noon: Conductors’ Workshop. Choir
of Trinity College Cambridge; Stephen Layton,
or; Lawrence Wiliford, tenor; James Westman,
director; Elora Festival Singers; Noel Edison,
baritone; Elora Festival Singers; Elora Festival Orchestra; Noel Edison, conductor. GB. $65. 7:25: Pre- director; Ross Inglis, piano. StJC. $15.
Jul 26 8:00: Ron Sexsmith in Concert. Singerconcert talk.
Jul 12 11:00am to 3:00: Fair in the Square. songwriter. GB. $38.
Jul 27 2:00: Double Double. Vaughan Williams:
Sultans of String, Junkyard Symphony,
Elora Festival Singers & others. Metcalfe St. Mass in G; & other works. Elora Festival Chorus;
Noel Edison, director; Choir of Trinity College
& Mill St. W. Free.
Destino
6/16/08
2:14:09 PM
Cambridge; Stephen Layton, director. GB. $38.
Jul 27 4:00: Vivaldi and his Secret Bride. Works
by Vivaldi, Sammartini, Handel, Caldara & Bach.
Ensemble Caprice; Guest: Mary Magistry, soprano. StJC. $35.
Jul 30 5:00: Matthew Larkin Organ Recital.
Works from the romantic era. StJC. $20.
Jul 31 7:30: Ralph Vaughan Williams Vocal Music. Songs to texts by Housman, Shakespeare &
Blake. KPC. $35.
Jul 31 9:00: Sophia Perlman and the Vipers.
Jazz. GB. $20.
Aug 01 8:00: Destino. Vocal trio performs opera,
gospel, R&B, soul, jazz, musical theatre & pop.
GB. $38.
Aug 02 2:00: Broadway Bound. Works by Kern,
Berlin, Bernstein, Sondheim & others.
Elora Festival Singers; Noel Edison, director;
David Warrack, piano. StJC. $35.
Aug 02 8:00: Taiko! Nagata Shachu Japanese
drum ensemble. GB. $38.
Aug 03 2:00 & 4:00: Hymn Tasting. Hymns by
Tiefenbach (premiere) & others. Elora Festival
Singers; Noel Edison, director; Guests: Rev.
Patrick Patterson & Canon Robert Hulse, speakers. StJC. $35.
Fergus Scottish Festival & Highland Games
Fergus (ON)
August 8-10
1-866-871-9442
www.fergusscottishfestival.com
This three-day festival of Celtic culture offers
music, dance and handcrafts. Musicians include Tom Leadbetter, The Cunninghams, Keltic Kudzu and the Fergus Pipe Band. Performance venues include the Grand Theatre and
Sleeman’s Highland Pub. Daily passes from
$15-$40.
Festival Alexandria
The Abbey, Glen Nevis (ON)
June 29-July 4
613-347-1602
www.theabbey.com
This Eastern-Ontario festival features Sunday
concerts throughout July. Performances take
place at The Abbey, 21489 Butternut Lane,
Glen Nevis.
Jul 06 3:00: The Best of Baroque. Works by
Bach, Couperin, Corelli, Handel & Vivaldi. Hank
Knox, harpsichord; Ramsey Husser & Katherine
Manker, violin; Brian Manker, cello. $20
Jul 13 3:00: The Magic and Mystique of the
Oboe. Music by Saint-Saëns, Wolpe, Carter, Britten & Mozart. Theodore Baskin, oboe; Katherine
Manker, violin; Jasmine Schnarr, viola; Karen
Baskin; cello; Lauretta Altman, piano. $20.
Jul 20 3:00: Ensemble Made in Canada. Music
by Debussy, Strauss, and Dvorak. Judy Kang,
violin; Rachel Mercer, cello; Angela Park, piano.
$20.
Jul 27 3:00: The Beethoven String Quartets, Part
1. Johannes Jansonius & Katherine Manker,
violin; Jasmine Schnarr, viola; Brian Manker,
cello. $20.
Festival Bana Y’ Africa
Dundas Square, Toronto
July 19-20
416-536-8240
www.africanewmusic.org
Africa New Music presents a two-day festival
of contemporary African music at Toronto’s
Dundas Square. This year’s artists include
Maracatu Nunca Antes, Roberts Donna and
King Kester Emeneya. All events are free. For
details, see Section 1.
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Aug 01 2:30: Music for a Summer Afternoon –
Russian Inspiration. Anagoson & Kinton, piano
duo, Paul Stewart, piano. CSC. $16-$19.
Aug 01 7:30: Music for a Summer Evening.
Jul 23 7:30: Music for a Summer Evening.
Festival d’Été de Québec
Kevin McMillan, baritone, Suzanne Shulman,
Gryphon Trio. Ernst Kovacic, Gil Sharon,
Quebec City (QC)
flute; James Campbell, clarinet; Mark Kaplan,
violins; Steven Dann, Uri Mayer, violas; Ans- violin; Graham Oppenheimer, viola; Clancy NewJuly 3-13
si Karttunen, Jack Mendelssohn, cellos.
1-888-992-5200
man, cello; Luba Dubinsky, Paul Stewart, Yael
CSC. $22-$31.
www.infofestival.com
Weiss, pianos; Anagoson & Kinton, duo piano.
Quebec City celebrates its 400th anniversary Jul 24 12:00 noon: Music for a Summer Noon.
CSC. $22-$31.
with a ten-day festival in July. Headlining art- New Zealand String Quartet; Madawaska String Aug 02 12:00 noon: Jazz for Kids. Young perists include Charles Aznavour, Linkin Park, and Quartet; Steven Dann, viola. CSC. $16-$19.
formers in a celebration of jazz. CSC. Free.
Jul 24 2:30: Music for a Summer Afternoon.
the 1970s progressive rock group Yes. PerAug 02 2:30: Young Jazz. Graham Campbell
Moshe Hammer, Gil Sharon, violins; Uri Mayer, Quintet. CSC. Free.
formance venues include the Plains of Abraham and the Palais Montcalm. Passes availa- viola; Glen Montgomery, piano. CSC. $16-$19.
Aug 02 7:30: Jazz Legends Play Standards. GuiJul 24 7:30: Music for a Summer Evening. Ernst do Basso, trumpet; Mike Murley, saxophone;
ble for $30.
Kovacevic, Gil Sharon, violins; Steven Dann, Uri
David Young, bass; Gary Williamson, piano; Terry
Festival International de Jazz de
Mayer, violas; Anssi Karttunen, Jack MenClarke, drums. CSC. $22-$31.
Montreal
delssohn, cellos; Rian de Waal, Glen Montgomery, Aug 03 2:30: Music for a Summer Afternoon –
Montreal (QC)
pianos. CSC. $22-$31.
Phil Nimmons at 85. Phil Nimmons, James
June 26-July 6
Jul 25 10:30am: Music for a Summer Morning. Campbell, clarinet; Suzanne Shulman, flute; Gra1-888-364-0061
Madawaska String Quartet; Ernst Kovacic, violin; ham Oppenheimer, viola; Graham Campbell, guiwww.montrealjazzfest.com
Anssi Karttunen, cello; Glen Montgomery, piano. tar; Sean Nimmons, piano; Joseph Macerollo,
Billed as the world’s largest musical event,
CSC. $13-$16.
accordian. CSC. $16-$25.
this festival features 3,000 musicians in nuJul 25 12:00 noon: Music for a Summer Noon.
Aug 03 7:30: Swing Swing Swing – Peter Applemerous venues. This year’s artists include
Leonard Cohen, Woody Allen, Aretha Franklin, James Campbell, clarinet; Moshe Hammer, vio- yard at 80. Peter Appleyard, vibes; Reg Schwager, guitar; David Young, bass; John Sherwood,
James Taylor and others. Ticket prices range lin; Magdelena von Eccher, piano; New Zealand
String Quartet. CSC. $16-$19.
piano; Terry Clarke, drums; Carol Welsman, vocalfrom free to $250.
Jul 25 7:30: Music for a Summer Evening.
ist. CSC. $22-$31.
Festival of the Sound
Moshe Hammer, Ernst Kovacic, Gil Sharon, vio- Aug 04 7:00: Sunset on the Bay Musical Cruise.
Parry Sound (ON)
lins; Steven Dann, viola; Rian de Waal, piano;
Ian McDougall, trombone; Dave Young, bass;
July 18-August 10 2008
Festival Chamber Orchestra. CSC. $31-$40.
John Sherwood, piano; Terry Clarke, drums; Carol
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Jul 26 10:00am: Strings on the Bay. Madawas- McCartney, vocalist. GBC. $35.
www.festivalofthesound.ca
ka String Quartet. GBC. Sold out.
Aug 05 12:00 noon: Music for a Summer Noon This summer, Parry Sound’s summer festival Jul 26 7:30: Happy Birthday Gene. Gene DiNovi; Back to Bassics. Joel Quarrington, David Young,
features more than 200 artists from three
James Campbell, clarinet; Andrew Scott, guitar; double bass; Mark Fewer, violin; Graham Oppencontinents. This year’s performers include the David Young, bass. CSC. $60.
heimer, viola; Marc Johnson, cello; Guy Few,
Gryphon Trio, the Penderecki Quartet and the Jul 27 2:30: Music for a Sunday Afternoon. –
Craig Harley, piano. CSC. $16-$19.
piano duo Anagnoson & Kinton.
Gene DiNovi at 80. Gene DiNovi, piano; James
Aug 05 8:00: Gala Dinner Concert at Manitou.
CSC = Charles Stockey Centre for the PerCampbell, clarinet; Andrew Scott, guitar; David
Penderecki String Quartet. IM. $22-$31.
forming Arts, 2 Bay St.
Young, bass; New Zealand String Quartet. CSC.
Aug 06 12:00 noon: Music for a Summer Noon.
GBC = Georgian Bay Cruise
$16-$25.
Paul Stewart, piano; Penderecki String Quartet;
IM = Inn at Manitou, Highway 124, McKellar. Jul 28 7:00: Sunset on the Bay Musical Cruise.
Colin Fox, narrator. CSC. $16-$19.
Jul 18 7:30: “Fireworks” Gala Opening Concert. Trinity College Choir. Stephen Layton, conductor. Aug 06 2:30: Music for a Summer Afternoon.
Jan Lisiecki, Glen Montgomery,
GBC. $35.
Marc Johnson, cello; Penderecki String Quartet.
Magdelena von Eccher, pianos; James Campbell, Jul 29 12:00 noon: Music for a Summer Noon.
CSC. $16-$19.
clarinet; Gryphon Trio; Penderecki String Quartet; Manuela Milani, Martin Chalifour, violins; GuyAug 06 7:30. Music for a Summer Evening –
Strings Across the Sky. CSC. $31-$40.
laine Lemaire, viola; Julian Armour, cello; Paul
Carnival. Suzanne Shulman, flute; James CampJul 19 12:00 noon: Family Concert. Strings
Stewart, piano; Chamber Players of Canada. CSC. bell, David Bourque, clarinets; James McKay,
Across the Sky; Andrea Hansen, director. CSC.
$16-$19.
bassoon; Guy Few, trumpet; Mark Fewer, Julie
Free.
Baumgartel, violins & others. CSC. $22-$31.
Jul 19 7:30: Music for a Summer Evening - PiLaurence Kayaleh, violin; Paul Stewart, piano.
Aug 07 12:00 noon: Music for a Summer Noon.
ano Gala. Anagoson & Kinton, piano duo; Jan
CSC. $16-$19.
Monica Whicher, soprano; Festival Baroque. CSC.
Lisiecki, Glen Montgomery, Jamie Parker,
Jul 29 7:30: Music for a Summer Evening. Trini- $16-$19.
Magdelena von Eccher, pianos. CSC. $26-$35.
ty College Choir, Stephen Layton, conductor. CSC. Aug 07 2:30: Music for a Summer Afternoon.
Jul 20 7:30: Music for a Sunday Evening - Re$26-$35.
Guy Few, trumpet; Mark Fewer, violin; Stephanie
membering Charles Stockey. Denis Brott, cello;
Jul 30 12:00 noon: Music for a Summer Noon.
Mara, piano. CSC. $16-$19.
James Campbell, clarinet; Madawaska String
Weiss-Kaplan-Newman Piano Trio. CSC. $16-$19.
Aug 07 7:30: Music for a Summer Evening.
Quartet; Jeffrey Stokes, double bass & others.
Mark Fewer, violin; Graham Oppenheimer, viola;
CSC. $22-$31.
Martin Chalifour, Manuela Milan, violins; GuyJoel Quarrington, double bass; Marc Johnson,
laine Lemaire, viola; Julian Armour, cello; Paul
cello; Penderecki String Quartet; Festival Winds.
Gryphon Trio. CSC. $22-$31.
Stewart, piano. CSC. $16-$19.
CSC. $22-$31.
Jul 21 7:00: Sunset on the Bay Musical Cruise.
Jul 30 7:30: Music for a Summer Evening. CSC. Aug 08 12:00 noon: Music for a Summer Noon.
Sharlene Wallace, celtic harp; Adrian Dolan, acNew Zealand String Quartet; Weiss-Kaplan-New- Mark Fewer, violin; Paul Stewart, piano; David
cordion & fiddle; Kevin Muir, bass. GBC. $35.
man Piano Trio. CSC. $22-$31.
Bourque, bass clarinet; Festival Winds. CSC. $16Jul 22 12:00 noon: Music for a Summer Noon.
$19.
James Campbell, clarinet; Luba Dubinsky, piano; Aug 08 7:30: Music for a Summer Evening. SuJul 22 2:30: Music for a Summer Afternoon.
New Zealand String Quartet. CSC. $16-$19.
zanne Shulman, flute; Guy Few, trumpet; Julie
Jul 31 2:30: Music for a Summer Afternoon Baumgartel, Mark Fewer, violin; & others; FestiJul 22 7:30: Music for a Summer Evening - The Opera Without Words. James Campbell, clarinet; val Chamber Orchestra. CSC. $31-$40.
Virtuoso Violin. Moshe Hammer, Ernst Kovacic, Mark Kaplan, violin; Paul Stewart, Yael Weiss,
Aug 09 9:00: Winds on the Water. Festival
Gil Sharon, violins; New Zealand String Quartet; piano. CSC. $16-$19.
Winds. GBC. $65.
Glen Montgomery, piano. CSC. $26-$35.
Jul 31 7:30: Music for a Summer Evening. Kevin Aug 09 12:00 noon: Family Concert. Members of
Jul 23 11:00am: Overture. Rian de Waal, piano. McMillan, baritone; Mark Kaplan, violin; Gillian
St. Paul’s United Church Choir (Orillia); Carol
CS. Free.
Ansell, viola; Andre Laplante, Paul Stewart, Yael Choir Orff Ensemble. CSC. Free.
Weiss, pianos; New Zealand String Quartet. CSC. Aug 09 7:30: Music for a Summer Evening – A
Rian de Waal, piano. CSC. $16-$19.
$22-$31.
Night of Grand Opera. Leslie Fagan, soprano;
Aug 01 12:00 noon: Music for a Summer Noon. Gabrielle Prata, mezzo-soprano; Mark DuBois,
Andre Laplante, piano. CSC. $16-$19.
tenor; Gregory Dahl, baritone; Guy Few, Paul
38
Stewart, piano; Festival Winds. CSC. $26-$35.
Aug 10 2:30: Music for a Sunday Afternoon.
Leslie Fagan, soprano; Mark Dubois, tenor; Peter
McGillivray, baritone; Elmer Iseler Singers; &
others. CSC. $22-$31.
The Forest Festival
Haliburton Forest (ON)
August 22-31
705-754-4167
www.theforestfestival.com
The Forest Festival is located on the edge of
Algonquin Park, near the town of West Guilford. This summer, the venue offers a variety
of artists, including Mary Lou Fallis, Stuart
Laughton and Pork Belly Futures. Also featured
this year will be a site-specific art installation
by Reinhard Reitzenstein. Festival Passes are
available for $150, or $120 for students.
BL = Bone Lake
LM = Logging Museum
Aug 22 7:45: Primadonna Goes Into the Woods.
Mary Lou Fallis, soprano; Peter Tiefenbach, piano.
BL. $30; $20(st).
Aug 23 4:00: Stuart Laughton and Peter Tiefenbach. Works for trumpet and piano by Handel,
Schafer, Bernstein, Irvine & others. BL. $15;
$10(st).
Aug 23 7:45: Primadonna Goes Into the Woods.
See August 22.
Aug 24 3:00 Forest Dance. Davida Monk with
M-Body. BL. $15; $10(st).
Aug 25 7:45: Haliburton Area Performers. BL. By
donation.
Aug 26 3:00: Forest Dance. See August 24.
Aug 26 7:30: Porkbelly Futures. Blues band, with
literary readings by Paul Quarrington. LM. $30;
$20(st).
Aug 27 7:30: Porkbelly Futures. See August 26.
Aug 28 7:30: Porkbelly Futures. See August 26.
Aug 29 7:45: Drumming to the Stars. OnannoKo
Drumming Ensemble. BL. $30; $20(st).
Aug 30 4:00: Drumming to the Stars. See August
29. $15; $10(st).
Aug 30 7:45: Forest Festival Brass. Works by
Handel, Schafer, Irvine & others. BL. $30;
$20(st).
Aug 31 7:45: Forest Festival Brass. See August
30.
Francofolies de Montreal
Throughout Montreal
July 24-August 3
1-866-908-9090
www.francofolies.com
This festival of popular French music and culture celebrates its 20th anniversary. This summer’s artists include les Moquettes Coquettes,
Gregory Charles and Victoria Abril. Performance venues include the Théâtre Maisonneuve,
Pavillon Air Transat and Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier.
Admission prices range from $14.50 to
$24.50.
Glimmerglass Opera
Cooperstown (NY)
July 5-August 24
607-547-2255
www.glimmerglass.org
This summer opera festival features professional productions in the Alice Busch Opera
Theatre on Lake Otsego, near Cooperstown,
New York.
Jul 05 8:00: Porter: Kiss Me Kate. Lilli Vanessi,
soprano; Fred Graham, baritone; & other artists;
Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra; David Charles
Abel, conductor. To August 23. $51-$126;
$10(6-18 years with adult).
Jul 06 2:00: Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto. Laura
Vlasak Nolan, mezzo; Lyubov Petrova, soprano; &
other artists; Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra;
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David Stern, conductor. To August 23. $51$126; $10(6-18 years with adult).
Jul 19 8:00: Wagner: Das Liebesverbot. Marc
Schnaible, baritone; Claudia Waite, soprano; &
other artists; Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra;
Corrado Rovaris, conductor. To August 22. $51$126; $10(6-18 years with adult).
Jul 26 8:00: Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi.
Sandra Piques Eddy, mezzo; Sarah Coburn, soprano; Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra; David
Angus, conductor. To August 24. $51-$126;
$10(6-18 years with adult).
Aug 03 11:30am: Mendelssohn: Midsummer
Night’s Dream. Caitlin Lynch, soprano; Angela
Brower, mezzo; Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra.
$48.
Aug 17 11:30am: Mendelssohn: Midsummer
Night’s Dream. See August 3.
Guelph Jazz Festival
Guelph (ON)
September 3-7
519-763-4952
www.guelphjazzfestival.com
Only a few concerts were announced at time
of publication. For further listings, see the
festival’s website.
RRC = River Run Centre, 35 Woolwich St.
Sep 05 8:00: Instant Composers’ Pool Orchestra
and Satako Fujii. RRC.
Sep 06 8:00: Tortoise. Instrumental quintet. RRC.
Sep 07 2:00: John Zorn’s Electric Masada & The
Dreamers. RRC.
Harbourfront Centre
235 Queen’s Quay W., Toronto
Throughout the summer
416-973-4000
www.harbourfrontcentre.com
Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre presents an
array of festival programming throughout the
summer months. Performances take place at
several venues, including the Sirius Satellite
Radio Stage, the Toronto Stage, the Brigantine
Room and the Lakeside Terrace.
Canada Day: July 1
Smirnoff Ice Beats, Breaks & Culture: July 4-6
Ritmo y Color: July 11-13
Tirgan Iranian Festival: July 17-20
What is Classical?: July 25-27
Island Soul: August 1-4
South Asia Calling: August 8-10
Hot and Spicy Food Festival: August 15-17
Telus Taiwanfest: August 22-23
Ashkenaz: August 26-September 1 (see
Ashkenaz in Festival listings)
For daily listings, see Section 1.
Hillside Festival
Guelph Lake Conservation Area, Guelph (ON)
July 25-27
519-763-6396
www.hillsidefestival.com
Among this year’s acts are the Bourbon Tabernacle Choir, the Cowboy Junkies and Hawksley Workman. Performances take place on
multiple stages; campsites are available. Daily
passes are available for $45.
Home County Folk Festival
Victoria Park, London (ON)
July 18-20
519-432-4310
www.homecountry.ca
Celebrating its 35th season, this festival offers performances by Pat Robitaille, Pork Belly
Futures, the Light of East Ensemble, Beyond
the Pale and others. Handcraft demonstrations
and sales are also featured. All events are
free.
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Jul 06 7:30: Duo Concertante. Violinist Nancy
Huntsville Festival of the Arts
Aug 03 8:00: Manteca. Worldbeat jazz fusion.
Dahn & pianist Timothy Steeves. $24.
Huntsville (ON)
AT $35; $15(18 & under).
Jul 11 7:30: Cantabile – Comedy and the
July 3-August 28
Aug 07 8:00: Anne Lindsay Band. Jazz violin. AT. Classics. Sacred music to jazz from this
1-800-663-2787
$32; $15(18 & under).
English vocal ensemble. $24.
www.huntsvillefestival.on.ca
Aug 08 8:00: Rik Emmett Does Clapton. AT.
Jul 13 7:30: Ensemble Caprice. Early music
This festival offers diverse programming
$35; $15(18 & under).
ensemble from Montreal. $24.
throughout the summer months, from a MoAug 09 8:00: Salute to the Boston Pops. HuntsJul 14 7:30: The People’s Gospel Choir of Monzart programme by the Huntsville Festival
ville Festival Orchestra; Kerry Stratton, conductreal. Kim Sherwood directs this vocal ensemble.
Orchestra to the Downchild Blues Band.
tor. AT. $40; $15(18 & under).
$24.
AT = Algonquin Theatre, 37 Main St. E.
Aug 13 8:00: Classic Albums Live. Live perform- Jul 18 7:30: Summer’s Tide. Dawn Langstroth,
TC = Trinity Church, 35 Main St. E.
ance of Led Zeppelin II. AT. $32; $15(18 & unsinger-songwriter. $24.
TT = Spencer’s Tall Trees Fine Dining, 87
der).
Jul 20 7:30: In Celebration. Musical tribute to
Main St. W.
Aug 14 8:00: Compadres. Celtic-Latin duo. AT.
Anne of Green Gables. Members of the CharlotteJul 03 8:00: Blues Brothers Revival. AT. $35;
$32; $15(18 & under).
town Festival Orchestra. $25.
$15(18 & under).
Aug 15 8:00: Magic of Ireland. Traditional Irish
Jul 25 7:30: Cabaret on Malpeque. Patricia
Jul 04 8:00: Hawksley Workman. Alternative
dance, music & song. AT. $32; $15(18 & under). O’Callaghan, soprano; Robert Kortgaard, piano;
rock. AT. $35; $20(18 & under).
Jul 05 8:00: Sophie Milman. Jazz standards and Aug 27 8:00: Jesse Cook. Latin/flamenco/world- Andrew Downing, bass; Danny Oore, saxophone.
beat. AT. $40; $20(18 & under).
$25.
contemporary. AT. $35; $15(18 & under).
Jul 27 7:30: Get Ready to Tango! Quartango.
Jul 06 4:00: Mozart’s Mail. Music & letters of
Huntsville Jazz Festival
Mozart. Huntsville Festival Orchestra; Kerry
See Huntsville Festival of the Arts, July 30 – $25.
Aug 01 7:30: Bonbons in the Snow. Works by
Stratton, conductor. AT. $35; $15(18 & under). 3 August.
Grieg. Zorana Sadiq, soprano; Christianne RushJul 07 12:15: Music at Noon. New Moon Saxo- Indian River Festival
ton, mezzo; Graham Thompson, tenor; Peter
phone Ensemble. TC. Free.
Kensington (PEI)
Tiefenbach & Robert Kortgaard, piano; Alcan
Jul 08 12:15: Music at Noon. Jack Hutton, rag- July 4-August 24
String Quartet. $25.
time piano. TC. Free.
1-866-856-3733
Aug 02 7:30: Saturday Night at the Opera. Arias,
Jul 08 8:00: Jim Cuddy. Singer-songwriter. AT.
www.indianriverfestival.com
duets and instrumental excerpts from opera.
$40; $20(18 & under).
This festival features an array of musicians
Zorana Sadiq, soprano; Christianne Rushton, mezJul 08 12:15: Music at Noon. Huntsville Commu- from contrasting genres. This year, artists
zo; & Graham Thompson, tenor. Peter Tiefennity Band; Jordan Riley, director. TC. Free.
include Mary Lou Fallis, the a cappella ensembach & Robert Kortgaard, piano. Alcan String
Jul 09 8:00: Jully Black. Singer-songwriter. AT. ble Cantabile, singer-songwriter Dawn LangQuartet. $25.
$32; $15(18 & under).
stroth, and classical violinist Susanne Hou. All
Aug 03 7:30: Viva Italia! Vocal and instrumental
Jul 10 12:15: Music at Noon. Victoria Thompperformances take place in St. Mary’s Church,
work by Boccherini, Bottesini, Respighi &
son, soprano; Ruthellen Shapero, piano. TC. Free. 68 Broadway St. N., Kensington.
others. $25.
Jul 10 8:00: Downchild Blues Band. AT. $35;
Jul 04 7:30: Opening Extravaganza. Mary Lou
Aug 08 7:30. Gypsophilia. Jazz and European
$15(18 & under).
Fallis with host/pianist Peter Tiefenbach. Guests:
gypsy music. $24.
Jul 11 12:15: Music at Noon. Reconaissance A
Summerside Community Choir and Indian River
Aug 09 7:30: Mireille Proulx. Jazz violinist. $24.
Cappella Choir. TC. Free.
Festival Chorus. $25.
Jul 11 8:00: Unforgettable…Brothers of Song.
Music of Nat King Cole. AT. $35; $15(18 &
under).
Jul 12 8:00: Marc Jordan & Dawn Langstroth.
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Jul 13 2:00: Tunes @ Tall Trees. Tobin Spring,
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guitar & vocals. TT. $15.
Jul 14 12:15: Music at Noon. Bob Plunkett &
Friends. TC. Free.
Jul 15 12:15: Music at Noon. Merry Winds Clarinet Quartet; Kathy Kilbourne, leader. TC. Free.
Jul 16 12:15: Music at Noon. Bob Attfield. TC.
Free.
Jul 16 8:00: In Recital. Melanie Conly, soprano;
Peter Longworth, piano. AT. $32; $15.
Jul 17 12:15: Music at Noon. Carol Hardy, flute;
Marion Haggart, piano. TC. Free.
Jul 18 12:15: Music at Noon. Just 8. Jazz vocals. TC. Free.
Jul 18 8:00: Hannaford Street Silver Band. AT.
$35; $15.
Jul 19 8:00: Les Stroud. Singer-songwriter.
Guest: Pierson Ross. TC. $35; $20(18 & under).
Jul 20 8:00: You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown.
North Muskoka Players. AT. $15; $8(18 & under); $40(family). To July 26.
Jul 24 8:00: Michelle Wright. Country singer.
AT. $40: $20(18 & under).
Jul 25 8:00: Barra MacNeils. Celtic music. AT.
$32; $15(18 & under).
Jul 26 8:00: Tenor John McDermott. AT. $40:
$20(18 & under).
Jul 30 8:00: Hilario Durán Trio. Latin Jazz. AT.
$32; $15(18 & under).
Jul 31 8:00: Marcus Belgrave. Dixieland Jazz.
AT. $35: $15(18 & under).
Aug 01 8:00: Michael Kaeshammer. Jazz
piano & vocals. AT. $32; $15(18 & under)
Aug 02 8:00: Dione Taylor. Jazz vocals. AT.
$32; $15(18 & under).
Aug 03 2:00: Jazz in the Garden. TT. $15(18 &
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piano. CSZ. $25.
Jul 18 8:00: The Planets. Copland: Fanfare for the
Common Man; Nielsen: Symphony No. 4;
Holst: The Planets. Orchestre Métropolitain du
Aug 10 7:30: ECMA and Music PEI Award Win- This festival features a month of concerts in
Grand Montréal; Jean-Marie Zeitouni, conductor;
ners’ Showcase. Nathan Wiley; Tim Chaisson; the and around Joliette, Quebec. Headlining artists Guest: Pierre Chastenay, narrator. JA. $15-$47.
Saddle River String Band. $24.
include pianist Marc-André Hamelin, the Mon- Jul 11:00am: Masterclass with Alain Lefèvre.
Aug 15 7:30: The Team Canada of Trombones.
treal Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Mét- JAM. Free with pass.
Contemporary, operatic & jazz repertoire. I Trom- ropolitain du Grand Montréal and the Orchesboni ensemble from Vancouver. $24.
tre Symphonique de Québec.
Aug 16 7:30: Youth Legacy Performance. UPEI
BC = Berthiereville Church, 780 Montcalm
Music Society. $15.
St., Berthiereville
Aug 17 7:30: Prelude to a Dream. Susanne Hou, CA = Church of L’Assomption, 153 du Porviolin. $24.
tage St., L’Assomption
Aug 22 7:30: Matt Anderson. Singer-songwriter. CL = Church of Lavaltrie, 1341 Notre Dame
$25.
St., Lavaltrie
Aug 24 7:30: Da Vinci Codex. Toronto Consort.
CSAR = Church of St-Alphonse-Rodriguez,
$24.
960 Notre Dame St. Alphonse-Rodriguez
CSC = Church of St-Calixte, 2692 Principale
Kincardine Summer Music Festival
St., St-Calixte
Kincardine (ON)
CS-E = Church of St-Esprit, 82 St-Isidore St.,
August 2-16
St-Esprit
1-866-453-9716
CSM = Church of St-Mélanie, 910 Principale
www.ksmf.ca
This summer festival combines live perform- St., St-Mélanie
CSS = Church of St-Sulpice, 1095 Notre
ances with musical instruction. This year’s
performing artists include pianist Peter Allen, Dame St., St-Sulpice
the Foothills Brass and the Scottish trio Cale- CSZ = Church of St-Zénon, 6171 Principale
don. Admission prices range from free to $20. St., St-Zénon
JA = Joliette Amphitheatre, 1575 Basse de
BBG = Bruce Bar and Grill, 750 Queen St.
Roc Blvd., Joliette
BWGI = Best Western Governor’s Inn, 791
JAM = Joliette Art Museum, 145 Wilfrid
Durham St.
KBP = Kincardine Beach Pavillion, foot of Dur- Corbeil St., Joliette
LPCR = La Purification Church of Repentigny,
ham St.
Jul 19 2:30: Alain Lefèvre Shares the Stage.
445 Notre-Dame St., Repentigny
KDSS = Kincardine District Secondary
Works arranged for multiple pianos by Glinka,
StPdJ = Church of St-Paul-de-Joliette, 8
School, 885 River Lane
Liszt, Arensky, Rachmaninoff, Arutunian, LutoBrassard
Blvd.,
St-Paul-de-Joliette
KPC = Knox Presbyterian Church, 345 Durslawski & others. Eight pianists. JA. $12-$25.
Jul 04 8:00: Carmina Burana. Orchestre Métroham St.
politain du Grand Montréal; Choeur du festival & Jul 19 8:00: Alain Lefèvre – Master of CeremoVP = Victoria Park, Queen St.
nies. Concertos for two, three and four pianos by
other choirs; Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor.
Aug 02 8:00: Caledon. Scotland’s Three TenBach & Mozart. Orchestre du Festival; Daniel
JA.
$15-$50.
ors. KPC. $20.
Myssyk, conductor. Guests: eight pianists. JA.
Jul 05 8:00: Carmina Burana. See July 4.
Aug 03 8:00: Andrew Downing’s Arts and Let$15-$47.
ters Ensemble. Fusion of jazz, roots, classical & Jul 06 2:00: Cantabile. A cappella quartet from
London sings Bach to the Beatles. JA. $12-$25. Jul 20 8:00: Jazz and the Blues in Song. Swing
gypsy. BWGI. $20.
Jul 07 8:00: In Recital. Franck: Violin Sonata in A; music by Ellington, Armstrong & others. Terra
Aug 04 8:00: Heather Bambrick. BWGI. Jazz
Hazelton and Her Easy Answers. JA. $12-$25.
Mathieu: Fantaisie pour violon et piano; Lekeu:
vocalist. $20.
Jul 21 8:00: Transcendental Piano I. Liszt: HarViolin Sonata in G. David Lefèvre, violin; Alain
Aug 05 8:00: The Blues. Rick Fines, Suzie Vinmonies poétiques et religieuses (excerpts); MesLefèvre, piano. BC. $30.
nick, Carlos del Junco. BWGI. $20.
siaen: Vingt regards sur l’Enfant Jésus (excerpts).
Jul
08
8:00:
A
Romantic
Cathedral
from
Lisitsa.
Aug 06 8:00: Twice 5. Alex Dean Quintet &
Schumann: Kinderszenen; Beethoven: Sonata in f, Inon Barnatan, piano. CSAR. $25.
Dave McMurdo Quintet. BWGI. $20.
Jul 22 8:00: Transcendental Piano II. Liszt: HarOp. 57; Rachmaninoff: Étude-Tableau in a, Op.
Aug 07 4:00: Sploink. Jazz. VP. Free.
39; Op 32 Preludes in g sharp, G, b & g; Thalberg: monies poétiques et religieuses (excerpts); Legend
Aug 07 8:00: Carol Welsman. Jazz vocals &
No. 2, St Francis of Paulo Walking on the Waves;
Fantasy on Rossini’s Barber of Seville; Liszt: Topiano. BWGI. $20.
Messiaen: Visions de l’Amen, for two pianos.
tentanz. StPdJ. $25.
Aug 08 7:00: KSMF Jazz Student Showcase.
Jimmy Brière, David Jalbert & Maneli Prizadeh,
Jul 10 8:00: Beneath the Frescoes of
KDSS. $10.
piano. CL. $25.
Michelangelo. Works by Palestrina, Maurenzio,
Aug 08 8:00: Stardust Big Band. KBP. $20.
Jul 24 8:00: Romantic Songs of Schubert and
Cesare,
Mazzocchi,
Ugolini
&
Frescobaldi.
Studio
Aug 09 8:30: Robbie Antones Blues Machine.
Schumann. Thomas Meglioranza, baritone; Reiko
de musique ancienne de Montréal; Christopher
BBG. $15.
Uchida, piano. CSM. $25.
Jackson, conductor. CS-E. $25.
Aug 10 4:00: Al Mullins Jazz Aggregation. VP.
Jul 11 8:00: Puccini Celebration. Arias and duos Jul 25 8:00: Two Orchestras. Works by MarFree.
quez, R. Strauss & Ravel. Orchestre de la Francofrom La Bohème, Madama Butterfly, Turandot,
Aug 10 8:00: Wind Song. Patricia Creighton,
phonie Canadienne; Jean-Philippe Tremblay, conTosca & others. Sondra Radvanovsky, soprano;
flute; Peter Allen, piano. KPC. $20.
ductor; Guest: Marianne Fiset, soprano. JA. $15Aug 11 8:00. Nexus Percussion Ensemble. KPC. Richard Margison, tenor; Orchestre symphonique
de Québec; Yoav Talmi, conductor. JA. $15-$50. $39.
$20.
Jul 26 8:00: Handel’s Favourites. Chandos AnJul 12 8:00: Bird Extravaganza. Works inspired
Aug 12 8:00: Peter Allen, piano. KPC. $20.
thems 2, 5 & 6; Gloria. Lydia Teuscher, soprano;
by birds, by Liszt, Handel, Gounod, Stravinsky,
Aug 13 8:00: Foothills Brass. KPC. $20.
Andreas Karasiak, tenor; Les Violons du Roy; La
Aug 14 8:00; The Montreal Quartet. KPC. $20. Messiaen, Saint-Saëns & Ouelette. Orchestre du
Chapelle de Québec; Bernard Labadie, conductor.
Aug 15 8:00: Sounds Symphonic. KSMF Faculty Festival; Jean-Marie Zeitouni, conductor; Guest:
JA. $15-$47.
Aline
Kutan,
soprano;
Stewart
Goodyear,
piano.
Summer Orchestra, Matthew Jones, conductor;
Jul 27 8:00: Love Songs: Arabic and Andalusian
KSMF Faculty Wind Ensemble; Nigel Evans, con- JA. $15-$47.
music. Constantinople; Guest: Françoise Atlan,
Jul 13 8:00: Romeo and Juliet Meet in the Pasductor. KDSS. $20.
vocalist. JA. $12-$25.
sionate World of the Tango. Astorias Ensemble;
Aug 16 1:00: Grand Finale Student Showcase.
Jul 28 8:00: Pianistic Wonder – Ingrid Fliter.
Contempotango.
JA.
$12-$25.
KSMF Bands, Strings, Choirs, Symphony OrchesHaydn: Sonata No. 53 in e; Beethoven: Sonata No.
tra and Chamber Music students. KDSS. $5.00. Jul 15 8:00: Thouin-Dyachkov Duo. Works
18 in E flat, Sonata No. 31 in A flat; Schubert:
for violin and cello by Schulhoff, Honegger, MarLanaudière Festival
tinu & Ravel. Olivier Thouin, violin; Yegor Dyachk- Impromptu in c. CSS. $25.
Joliette (QC)
Jul 29 8:00: Marc-André Hamelin Plays Alkan’s
ov, cello. LPCR. $25.
July 4-August 5
Jul 17 8:00: Les Nuits d’Été. Works for voice and Monumental Sonata. Berg: Sonata, Op. 1; Chopin:
450-759-7636
Sonata No. 2 in b flat, Op. 35; Alkan: Concerto for
piano by Berlioz, Grieg, Hahn, Roy & Obradors.
www.lanaudiere.org
solo piano, Op. 39, Nos. 8-10. CA. $25.
Michèle Losier, mezzo; Louis Dominique Roy,
40
Jul 31 8:00: Bold Colours and Gentle Hues.
Works by Marais, Couperin and Forqueray. Luc
Beauséjour, harpsichord; Juan Manuel Quintana,
viola da gamba. CSC. $25.
Aug 01 8:00: A Miracle. Mozart: Symphonies
Nos. 34 & 36; Clarinet Concerto; Horn Concerto
No. 1. Christian Gerhaher, baritone; Lorenzo Coppola, basset clarinet; Teunis van der Zwart, horn;
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra; Gottfried von der
Goltz, conductor. JA. $15-$39.
Aug 02 8:00: Nagano and Verdi’s Requiem. Sondra Radvanovsky, soprano; Elena Maximova,
mezzo; Arturo Chacon-Cruz, tenor; John Relyea,
bass; Choeur St-Laurent; Marika Kuzma, chorus
master; Orchestre symphonique de Montréal;
Kent Nagano, conductor. JA. $15-$50.
Aug 03 2:00: Caravana Flamenca: Music and
Dance from Andalusia. José Luis Pérez, vocalist;
Dominique Soulard, guitar; Éric Breton, percussion: & others. JA. $12-$25.
Live from the Rock Folk Festival
Pull-a-Log Park, Red Rock (ON)
August 8-10
705-345-5552
www.livefromtherock.com
This Northern Ontario festival features folk,
blues and other styles. Artists performing this
year include Dean McTaggart, Manitoba Hal,
Cosmic Granola and Flamenco Caravan. Camping and marina facilities are available. Weekend pass for $50; $40 (senior & youth); $10
(child).
Mariposa Folk Festival
Tudhope Park, Orillia (ON)
July 4-6
705-326-3655
www.mariposafolk.com
Folk, roots, blues, gospel, acoustic and world
music traditions in a family-friendly setting.
Artists on seven stages include Hayden, Joel
Plaskett, David Essig, the Sultans of String,
Muhtadi and many others.
Weekend passes: $79-$94; $39(youth 17-24
yrs). Friday night admission: $49; $39(youth
17-24 years). Saturday or Sunday admission:
$59; $49(youth 17-24 years).
Mill Race Festival of Traditional Folk
Music
Cambridge (ON)
August 1-3
1-800-749-7560
www.millracefolksociety.com
This free festival is presented in various venues in Downtown Galt, near the Grand River.
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Performers this year include. Rant Maggie
Rant, the Rembetika Hipsters, the Toronto
Morris Men and Farewell to Erin.
Aug 01 7:00 to 11:00: Various performers.
Aug 02 12:00noon to 11:00: Various performers.
Aug 03 1:00 to 11:00: Various performers; also folkdancing workshop.
Music at Port Milford
Picton (ON)
July 25-August 16
613-476-7735
www.memcamp.org
SMMAC = St. Mary Magdelene Anglican
Church, 335 Main St., Picton
The emphasis of Music at Port Milford is
string repertoire This year’s ensemble-in-residence is the Tokai Quartet of Toronto. Festival
passes are available for $60, or $30 for students.
Jul 25 8:00: Windermere Trio. SMMAC. $25;
$10(st).
Aug 01 8:00: MPM Faculty Concert. SMMAC.
$25; $10(st).
Aug 08 8:00: Tokai Quartet. SMMAC. $25;
$10(st).
Aug 15 8:00: Tokai Quartet. SMMAC. $25;
$10(st).
Muskoka Music Festival
Port Carling (ON)
June 25-August 21
1-888-311-2787
www.artsinmuskoka.com
Set in cottage country, this festival offers a
summer season of concerts and music theatre. Featured artists this year include violinist
Jasper Wood, vocalist Sylvia Tyson, and the
Fiddler’s Three.
Church, 41 Byron St.
ERB - The Epicurean Restaurant & Bistro, 84
Queen St.
IW - Inniskillin Winery, 1499 Line 3, Niagara
Parkway
MCSP- Mount Carmel Spiritual Centre, 7021
Stanley Ave., Niagara Falls
MRC - Market Room, Courthouse, 26 Queen
St.
NDC - Nathaniel Dett Chapel, 5674 Peer St.
Niagara Falls
OLPP - Old Library, Pillar & Post Hotel, 48
John St.
PEW - Peller Estates Winery, 290 John St.
PVAC - Pumphouse Visual Arts Centre, 247
Ricardo St.
PWH - Prince of Wales Hotel, 6 Picton St.
SMAC - St. Mark’s Anglican Church, 41 Byron
St.
SPB - Simcoe Park Bandshell, 26 Queen St.
Jul 21 7:30: Gala Opening Concert. Philharmonic
String Quartet; Gould String Quartet; Festival
Strings. SMAC. $35.
Jul 24 7:30: The Heart & Soul of Tango. Nelson
Lohnes, baritone; Alexander Sevastian, accordion;
Francis Ilona, dancer; Festival Strings. PWH. $30.
Jul 24 7:30: Musical Bridges. Heather Conner,
piano; Atis Bankas, violin; Roman Mekinulov,
cello. ACNU. Free.
Jul 25 7:30: Music Glenn Gould Avoided. Robert
Silverman, piano. SMAC. $35.
Jul 25 10:15: JazzAfterPlay. John Sherwood Trio. ERB. $15.
Jul 26 7:30: Visiting Paris. Heather Connor, piano; Kornel Wolak, clarinet. PVAC. $30.
Jul 26 10:15: JazzAfterPlay. Larry Bond Trio
ERB. $10.
Jul 27 11:00am: Mozart & Wine. Festival
Strings. PEW. $20.
Jul 27 4:00: Jazz Vespers. Paul Pacanowski,
piano/saxophone; Mark Dunn, bass; Mike McClelland, drums; Jim Swan, vocals. MCSC. $30.
Jul 27 7:30: In the European Tradition. Joel Hastings, piano; Festival Strings. PVAC. $30.
Jul 28 11:00am: Showcase of Young Virtuosos.
Katya Poplyansky, violin; Yaroslav Pugach, piano.
MRC. $15.
Jul 28 7:30: Musical Bridges. Heather Connor,
piano; Atis Bankas, violin; Roman Mekinulov,
cello. AHSM. $30.
Jul 30 7:30: Reel Music 1 – The Eagle (1925).
Andrae Streliaev, piano.
Jul 31 7:30: Russian Romantics. Peter Cosbey,
cello; Bravo Quartet OLPP. $30.
Aug 01 7:30: Beethoven & Beyond. Mykola Suk,
piano; Gould String Quartet. PVAC. $30.
Aug 01 10:15: JazzAfterPlay. Kurt Lund Quartet
ERB $10.
Aug 02 11:00am: Mozart & Wine. Festival
Strings. PEW. $20.
Aug 02 2:00: Songs of Freedom. Vanya Abrahams, tenor; Craig Winters, piano; Jon Osbaldeston, narrator. NDC. $30.
Aug 02 4:30: Vivaldi Underground. Festival
Strings. IW. $40.
Aug 02 7:30: Parade of Young Talent. Julia
Dawson, soprano; Bora Kim, violin/piano;
Karolina Kubalek, piano; Emma Meinrenken,
violin; Blake Pouliot, violin; & others.
SMAC. $30.
Aug 02 10:15: JazzAfterPlay. Brandi Disterheft
Quartet; Sophia Perlman, vocals. ERB. $15.
Aug 03 11:00am: Mozart & Wine. Festival
Strings. PEW. $20.
Aug 03 2:00: P.G. Woodlouse. Jon Osbaldeston,
actor; Barbara Worthy, actress; Patty Jamieson,
piano. SMAC. $20.
Aug 03 7:30: Songs of Freedom. Vanya Abra-
CHAMBER MUSIC & SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
AUGUST 2-16
JAZZ & BLUES
JCM = Johnston’s Cranberry Marsh, Cranberry Rd., Bala
PCMCC = Port Carling Memorial Community
Centre, 3 Bailey St., Port Carling
RMCT = Rene M. Caisse Theatre, 100 Clearbrook Trail, Bracebridge
Jul 10 7:30: Toronto All-Star Big Band. PCMCC. $25.
Jul 12 3:00: Cranberry Blues. JCM. $10.
Jul 17 7:30: Jasper Wood & David Jalbert.
Works for violin and piano. PCMCC. $25.
Jul 24 7:30: Fiddlers Three. PCMCC. $25.
Jul 27 7:30: The Ugly Duckling. Musical adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s tale. Katherine
Devlin, Geoff Kolomayz & others. PCMCC. Run
continues to August 2. Also August 10. $25.
Jul 31 7:30: Adi Braun. Jazz. PCMCC. $30.
Aug 03 7:30: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe. Marla Brennan, Stevie Jay & others. PCMCC. Run continues to August 10. (August 9
RMCT.) $14.
Aug 07 7:30: Sylvia Tyson. PCMCC. $25.
Aug 14 7:30: Jack Hutton. Ragtime piano. PCMCC. $25.
Aug 21 7:30: Canefire. Caribbean jazz. PCMCC.
$25.
Niagara International Chamber Music
Festival
Niagara-on-the-Lake (ON)
July 21-August 16
1-800-511-7429
www.niagaramusicfest.com
This 27-day chamber music festival features
classical, jazz and world music in the heart of
Ontario’s wine-country.
ACNU - Alumni Chapel, Niagara University,
5795 Lewiston Rd. Lewiston, NY.
ADSM - Addison Hall at St. Mark’s Anglican
KINCARDINE SUMMER
MUSIC FESTIVAL 2008
August 2-9
August 10-16
Caledon, Scotland’s Three Tenors
Andrew Downing’s Arts and Letters
The Jazz Singer: Heather Bambrick
Blues Night with Rick Fines,
Suzie Vinnick & Carlos del Junco
Twice 5: Alex Dean Quintet and Dave
McMurdo Quintet with Lisa Martinelli
Sploink Jazz ensemble
Jazz Artist Carol Welsman
Jazz Student Showcase
Stardust Big Band
Robbie Antone’s Blues Machine
Al Mullin’s Jazz Aggregation
Wind Song: Patricia Creighton
with Peter Allen
NEXUS: percussion ensemble
Piano Spectacular: Peter Allen
Foothills Brass Quintet
Montreal Quartet
Sounds Symphonic:
KSMF Symphony Orchestra and
Wind Ensemble with Mark Lee
Grand Finale Student Showcase
KSMF Ticket Box Office: 519-396-9400 • Jerome Flowers and Gifts: 760 Queen St.
Kincardine’s Scottish Shop: 519-396-1960 www.ksmf.ca 519-396-9716 866-453-9716
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Jul 15 12:00 noon: Ryan Enright, Organ. TUC.
$15.
Jul 15 4:30: Da Capo Chamber Choir. Works
by Cabena, Nystedt, Todd, Kalinnikov,
hams, tenor; Craig Winters, piano; Jon Osbald- Jul 05 8:00: Kuerti’s Choice. Anton Kuerti, piano. Wadsworth & Enns. Daniel Cabena, countereston, narrator. SMAC. $35.
$35.
tenor; Tim Pyper, organ; Leonard Enns, conAug 04 11:00am: Young Violin Virtuosos.
Jul 11 8:00: Brahms and Mendelssohn. New ductor. DSUC. $20.
Daniel Milkis, violin; Pavel Nersessian, piZealand String Quartet; Wonny Song, piano. $35. Jul 15 7:00: The Carillon in Concert. Richard M.
ano. MRCH. $15.
Jul 12 8:00: Homage to Perlemuter. Jacques
Watson, carillonneur. StGAC. Free.
Aug 04 7:30: Niagara Express. Quartetto Gelato. Rouvier & Anny Hwang, piano. $35.
Jul 15 8:00: David Briggs, Organ. StGAC. $20.
SMAC. $35.
Jul 18 8:00: The Chronicles of Anna Magdelena Jul 16 9:00am: International Improvisation ComAug 06 7:30: Reel Music 2. Julian Milkis, clariBach. Kimy McLaren, soprano; Martin Robidoux, petition Finals. StAPC. Free.
net; Sima Kustanovich, piano; Roman Mekinulov, harpsichord; Elin Söderström, gamba. $35.
Jul 16 5:30: Jan Overduin, Organ. Guest: Willem
cello. AHSM. $30.
Jul 19 8:00: Big O, little o. A celebration of Oscar Moolenbeek, saxophone. Music by Cabena, Enns
Aug 07 7:30: Sondheim: Marry Me a Little.
Peterson. Oliver Jones Trio. $35.
& Bedard. 1stUC. $20.
Stephen Simms, tenor; Cheryl Mullings, soprano; Jul 25 8:00: Quartets in Concert. Peter Stumpf,
Ottawa International Chamber Music
Roger Perkins, piano. PVAC. $30.
cello; string students of André Roy. $35.
Aug 08 7:30: In and Out of Russia. St. Petersburg Jul 26 8:00: Debussy, Tchaikovsky and Madame Festival
String Quartet. SMAC. $35.
von Meck. Trio Hochelaga; Albert Millaire, narra- Ottawa (ON)
July 25-August 9
Aug 08 10:15: JazzAfterPlay. Mike Field Trio.
tor. $35.
1-613-234-8008
ERB. $15.
Jul 31 8:00: From Europe to America. Works
Aug 09 11:00am: Mozart & Wine. Gould String arranged for six pianos. Olivier Godin, Claire Ouel- www.chamberfest.com
Quartet. PEW. $20.
let, Marianne Patenaude, Lorraine Prieur, Sandra Since its inception in 1994, the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival has grown to
Aug 09 11:00am: The Wizard and his Parrot.
Murray & Francis Perron, pianos. $35.
Christopher Newton, actor; Barbara Worthy,
Aug 01 8:00: From Europe to America. See July 31. become one of the world’s leading presenters
of chamber music. This summer, featured
actress; Paul Pacanowsky, clarinet; Anna
Aug 02 8:00: Visions of Prague. Performers
artists include soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian,
Dynarowska, piano. MRCH. $20.
include Louis Lortie, piano, Augustin Dumay &
Aug 09 4:30: Vivaldi Underground. Festival
Elissa Lee, violin; Sebastian Krunnies, viola. $35. pianist Louis Lortie, the Leipzig Quartet and
Strings. IW. $40.
Aug 08 8:00: Death in Venice. Louis Lortie, piano; the Shanghai Quartet.
CBC – CBC Ottawa, 181 Queen St.
Aug 09 7:30: Kuerti in Recital. Anton Kuerti,
Mathieu Roy, cinematographer. $35.
piano. SMAC. $35.
Aug 09 8:00: The Brahms Double Concerto. Jeu- CCC – Christ Church Cathedral, 420 Sparks
St.
Aug 09 10:15: JazzAfterPlay. John Sherwood,
nesses Musicales World Orchestra; Franz-Paul
CJE – Church of St. John the Evangelist, 154
piano; Peter Appleyard, vibes. ERB. $20.
Decker, conductor; Guests: Masuko Ushioda,
Somerset St. W
Aug 10 11:00am: Mozart & Wine. Gould String violin; Laurence Lesser, cello. $39.
CMCT – Canadian Museum of Civilization
Quartet. PEW. $20.
Aug 10 2:30: Magnificent Vienna!. Louis Lortie,
Theatre, 100 Laurier St., Gatineau, Que.
Aug 10 2:00: Argentinean Ball. Sebnem Mekinu- piano, & other artists. $35.
DCUC – Dominion –Chalmers United Church,
lov, soprano; Roman Mekinulov, cello; Avsegul
Aug 15 8:00: Ravel’s Concerto in G. Jeunesses
355 Cooper St.
Kush, piano; Atis Bankas, violin. PVAC. $30.
Musicales World Orchestra; Josep Vicent, conFBC – First Baptist Church, 140 Laurier Ave.
Aug 10 7:30: Celebrating Japan. Ryusuke Numa- ductor; Guest: Ivan Martin, piano. $35.
jiri, piano; Gould String Quartet. SMAC. $35.
Aug 16 8:00: Viva España! Jeunesses Musicales GRH – Grounds of Rideau Hall, 1 Sussex Dr.
Aug 11 2:00: Showcase of Young Virtuosos.
World Orchestra; Josep Vicent, conductor; Guest: KPC – Knox Presbyterian Church, 120 Lisgar St.
MSUC – McLeod-Stewarton United Church,
Bacos Quartet. MRCH. $15.
Marianne Fiset, soprano. $35.
507 Bank St.
Aug 11 7:30: Shaw on Mozart & Bax. Gould
Organ Festival on the Grand
PB – Plaza Bridge, Wellington St.
String Quartet; Christopher Newton, narrator.
Guelph, Kitchener & Waterloo (ON)
RCL – Royal Canadian Legion, Montgomery
$30.
July 13-16
Branch, 330 Kent St.
Aug 13 2:00: Music of Azerbaijan. Silk Road
416-743-4362
SAPC – St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, 82
Chamber Orchestra. PVAC. Free.
www.festivalotg.ca
Aug 13 7:30: Reel Music 3 - Charging the Rhino. This festival features four days of organ music Kent St.
SGC – St. Giles Church, 174 First Ave.
David Wall, piano; Festival Strings. PVAC. $30.
and events in historic churches in the Grand
UOP- University of Ottawa, Perez Building,
Aug 14 2:00: Music by Canadian & American
River Valley. Performances take place in
50 University Dr.
Composers. Atis Bankas, Antoine Lefebvre, vioKitchener, Waterloo and Guelph.
Jul 25 8:00: Gala Opening Concert. Isabel
lins; Natasha Sharko, viola; Roman Mekinulov,
1stUC = First United Church, 16 William St., Bayrakdarian, soprano; Serouj Kradjian, piano;
cello; Juroslav Pubach, piano; CanAmerata Quar- Waterloo
Tango Notturno. DCUC. $10-$35.
tet. PVAC. $30
KCHR = Kitchener City Hall Rotunda, 200
Jul 25 10:30: Late Night at the Legion – The
Aug 14 7:30: A Stop on the Silk Road: The Music King St. W.
Tango Continues. Fabian Carbone, bandoneon;
of Turkey & Azerbaijan. Avsegul Kush, piano;
SSUC = Dublin St. United Church, 68 Suffolk surprise performers. RCL. $10-$35.
Atis Bankas, violin; Roman Mekinulov, cello; Seb- St. West, Guelph
Jul 26 12:00 noon: Anagnoson & Kinton. James
nem Mekinulov, soprano; Silk Road Chamber
StAPC = St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church,
Anagnoson & Leslie Kinton, piano duo. DCUC.
Ensemble. SMAC. $35.
54 Queen St. N., Kitchener
$10-$35.
Aug 15 7:30: Sondheim: Marry Me a Little.
StGAC = St George’s Anglican Church, 99
Jul 26 2:00: Junior Stars. Performances by
Stephen Simms, tenor; Cheryl Mullings, soprano; Woolwich St., Guelph
young artists. SAPC. $10-$35.
Roger Perkins, piano. PVAC. $30.
StMLC = St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church,
Jul 26 7:30: Mayumi Seiler & Tuende KuAug 15 10:15: JazzAfterPlay. Brandi Desterheft Benton & Charles, 54 Benton St., Kitchener
rucz. Mayumi Seiler, violin; Tuende Kurucz,
Trio; Rain Sultanov, saxophone. ERB. $15.
StMRCC = St. Mary’s Roman Catholic
piano. SAP. $10-$35.
Aug 16 7:00: Final Gala Concert. Brent Carver;
Church, 56 Duke St. W., Kitchener
Jul 26 8:00: Andre Laplante, piano & the ShangLaura Burton, vocals; Gould String Quartet. TUC = Trinity United Church, 74 Frederick
hai Quartet. DCUC. $10-$35.
IW. $120.
St., Kitchener
Jul 26 8:00: Brass Bounty. Ottawa Festival
Orford Festival
Jul 13 8:00: Jazz Vespers. Brad Moggach, lead- Brass. MSUC. $10-$55.
Gilles Lefebvre Concert Hall (Orford, QC)
er. StAPC. Free.
Jul 26 10:30: Late Night at the Legion.
June 20-August 16
Jul 13 10:00pm: Berlin: Symphony of a Great
Creaking Tree String Quartet. RCL. $10-$35.
819-843-3981, 800-567-6155
City (1928). Silent movie with Kirkland Adsett,
Jul 27 11:00am: Meet the Artist. Mayumi Seilwww.arts-orford.org
organ. StMLC. $20.
er, violin. UOP. $10-$35.
The Orford Festival presents a summer seaJul 14 9:00am: Ellen Waterman, Flute and Voice. Jul 27 1:00: Meet the Artist. Shauna Rolston,
son of classical music and jazz, spread over
Harley: Soundscape Composition. KCHR. Free.
cello. UOP. $10-$35.
two months. Artists include Anton Kuerti, Les Jul 14 5:00: Jonathan Oldengarm, Organ. Music Jul 27 3:00: Meet the Artist. Andre Laplante,
Violons du Roy and the New Zealand String
by Lauren, Kloppers, & improvisation. StAPC.
piano. UOP. $10-$35.
Quartet.
$15.
Jul 27 4:00: Grounds of Rideau Hall – Free ConJul 04 8:00: The Goldberg Variations. Les Violons Jul 14 8:00: Bach Concerti for Four Organs. Nota cert. Creaking Tree String Quartet. GRH. Free.
du Roy; Bernard Labadie, conductor. $35.
Bene Period Orchestra. StMRCC. $20.
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Jul 27 7:30: Trio Hochelaga. Douglas McNabney,
viola; Trio Hochelaga. CJE. $10-$35.
Jul 27 8:00: Shanghai Quartet. DCUC. $10-$35.
Jul 27 8:00: Alexander Tselyakov & Friends.
Alexander Tselyakov, piano; Shauna Rolston, cello
& others. SAPC. $10-$35.
Jul 27 10:30: Late Night at the Legion. Creation
Jazz Ensemble. RCL. $10-$35.
Jul 28 12:00 noon: CBC Radio – Studio Sparks.
Performers from the festival. CBC. Free.
Jul 28 12:00 noon: Dedicated Works by Two
Composers. Alexander Tselyakov, piano.
CDUC. $10-$35.
Jul 28 12:00 noon: La cornemuse. Lawrence
Vine, horn; Sarah Jeffrey, oboe; Lisa Moody, viola;
Dina Michelson Namer, piano. SAPC. $10-$35.
Jul 28 2:00: New Zealand String Quartet. FBC.
$10-$35.
Jul 28 2:00: Young People’s Concert – Come
Dance with Us. Kenneth Simpson, percussion; Bel
Canto Wind Quintet. UOP. $10-$35.
Jul 28 7:30: Steven Dann & Friends 1. Ernst
Kovacic, violin; Steven Dann, viola; Anssi Karttunen, cello; Andrew Burashko, piano. CJE. $10$35.
Jul 28 8:00: Messiaen @100 1 – Thomas Annand & Friends. Thomas Annand organ; Mark
Fewer, violin; Andrew Tunis, piano. DCUC. $10$35.
CHAMBERFEST ‘08
Keller Quartet
Monday, July 28, 8 pm
Jul 28 8:00: Premium Ticket Concert - Keller
Quartet. SAP. $10-$55
Jul 28 10:30: Late Night at the Legion- Sicilian
Music Project. Michael Occhipinti, guitar; Kevin
Turcotte, trumpet; Barry Romberg, drums; Roberto
Occhipinti, bass; Hugh Marsh, violin. RCL. $10-$35.
Jul 29 10:00am: Musical Musings with Harry
Halbreich. Harry Halbreich, musicologist &
speaker. DCUC. Free.
Jul 29 12:00 noon: CBC Radio 2 – Studio Sparks.
Jul 29 12:00 noon: Virtuosic Piano Transcriptions. Rian de Waal, piano. DCUC. $10-$35.
Jul 29 12:00 noon: The Hungarian in
Brahms. James Campbell, clarinet; Jamie
Parker, piano; New Zealand String Quartet.
SAP. $10-$35.
Jul 29 12:00 noon: Noon Under the Bridge. Toronto-Cairo Collective. PB. Free.
Jul 29 2:00: Steven Dann & Friends 2. Ernst
Kovacic, violin; Steven Dann, viola; Anssi Karttunen, cello. FBC. $10-$35.
Jul 29 7:30: Art of the Arabic Violin. Maryem
Tollar, vocalist/ ganun; Alfred Gamil, oud/ violin;
Mohammed Aly, vocalist/violin/oud; Ernie Tollar,
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saxophone/flute; Levon Ichkhanian, guitar; Debashis Sinha, percussion. CJE. $10-$35.
Jul 29 8:00: Keller Quartet & Friends. Douglas McNabney, viola; Denise Djokic, cello;
Keller Quartet. DCUC. $10-$35.
Jul 29 8:00: Shauna Rolston & Heather Schmidt.
Shauna Rolston, cello; Heather Schmidt, piano.
SAPC. $10-$35.
Jul 29 10:30: Late Night at the Legion – The
Ultimate Improv Session. Toronto-Cairo
Collective. RCL. $10-$35.
Jul 30 10:00am: Musical Musings with Harry
Jul 30 12:00 noon: CBC Radio Two – Studio
Sparks. Performers from the festival. CBC. Free.
Jul 30 12:00 noon: Stephane Lemelin & the
NAC Orchestra Winds. Kimball Sykes, clarinet; Charles Hamman, oboe; Vincent Parizeau, bassoon; Lawrence Vine, horn;
Stephane Lemelin, piano; Gryphon Trio. DCUC.
$10-$35.
Jul 30 12:00 noon: Tokai String Quartet. SAPC.
$10-$35.
Jul 30 2:00: Open Rehearsal & Demonstration.
Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan. RCL.
$10-$35.
Jul 30 2:00: Hinrich Alpers, piano. CJE. $10-$35.
CHAMBERFEST ‘08
Louis Lortie
piano
Wednesday, July 30, 8 pm
Sunday, August 3, 8 pm
Jul 30 8:00: Augustin Dumay & Louis Lortie.
Augustin Dumay, violin; Louis Lortie, piano.
DCUC. $10-$35.
Jul 30 8:00: Music Moves. Erika Raum, Stephen
Sitarski, violins; Gryphon Trio. CMCT. $10-$35.
Jul 30 8:00: Les Voix Baroques 1. Suzie Leblanc,
soprano; Matthew White, countertenor; Lawrence Wiliford, tenor; Tyler Duncan, bass-baritone. CCC. $10-$35.
Jul 30 10:30: Late Night at the Legion – Evergreen & Friends. Mark Fewer, violin; Denise Djokic, cello, Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan.
RCL. $10-$35.
Jul 31 10:00am: Musical Musings with Harry Halbreich. Harry Halbreich, musicologist
& speaker. DCUC. Free.
Jul 31 12:00 noon: CBC Radio 2 – Studio Sparks.
Jul 31 12:00 noon: Schubert: Die Winterreise.
Daniel Lichti, bass-baritone; Leslie De’ath, piano.
DCUC. $10-$35.
Jul 31 12:00 noon: Beethoven: Violin & Cello
Sonatas. Mark Fewer, violin; Denise Djokic, cello;
Jamie Parker, Kyoko Hashimoto, pianos. SAPC.
$10-$35.
Jul 31 2:00: Japan & Canada Commemorating
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80 Years of Diplomatic Relations. Marc Djokic,
violin; Kyoko Hashimoto, piano. SAPC. $10-$35.
Jul 31 8:00: Celebrating Poland. Penderecki
String Quartet. SAPC. $10-$35.
Jul 31 8:00: Evergreen Club Contemporary
Gamelan & Friends. Mark Fewer, violin; Douglas
McNabney, viola; Denise Djokic, cello; Heather
Swartz, harp; Evergreen Club Contemporary
Gamelan. DCUC. $10-$35.
Jul 31 8:00: Les Voix Baroques 2. Suzie Leblanc,
soprano; Matthew White, counter-tenor; Lawrence Wiliford, tenor; Tyler Duncan, bass-baritone. CCC. $10-$35.
Jul 31 10:30: Late Night at the Legion – Joseph
Petric & Friends. Joseph Petric, accordion. RCL.
$10-$35.
Aug 01 10:00am: Musical Musings with Harry
Aug 01 12:00 noon: CBC Radio 2 – Studio
Sparks. Performers from the festival. CBC. Free.
Aug 01 12:00 noon: Celebrating Ukraine. Monica
Whicher, soprano; Joan Watson, horn; Hinrich
Alpers, piano; Gryphon Trio. DCUC. $10-$35.
Aug 01 12:00 noon: Platero y Yo. Simon Wynberg, guitar; Colin Fox, narrator. FBC. $10-$35.
Aug 01 2:00: Old Friends Reunited. Stephen
Sitarski, violin; Barry Shiffmann, viola; Desmond
Hoebig, cello; Andrew Tunis, piano. SAPC. $10$35.
Aug 01 8:00: Gilles Apap. Gilles Apap, violin;
Myriam Lafargue, accordion. DCUC. $10-$35.
Aug 01 8:00: Penderecki String Quartet &
Friends. Robert Cram, flute; Penderecki String
Quartet. SAPC. $10-$35.
Aug 01 8:00: Two Tales. James Sommerville,
horn; Tom Allen, trombone; Santee Smith, dancer;
Gryphon Trio; Hamilton Philharmonic Members.
CMCT. $10-$35.
Aug 01 10:30: Late Night at the Legion – Mark
Fewer, Monica Whicher & Friends. Mark Fewer,
violin; Monica Whicher, soprano; John Geggie,
bass. RCL. $10-$35.
Aug 02 10:00: Musical Musings with Harry
Aug 02 12:00 noon: Gwen Hoebig & David Moroz. Gwen Hoebig, violin; David Moroz, piano.
CJE. $10-$35.
Aug 02 12:00 noon: Ann Monoyios & Lucas
Harris. Ann Monoyious, soprano; Lucas Harris,
lute/theorbo. KPC. $10-$35.
Aug 02 2:00: Vivaldi & the Gypsies. Ensemble
Caprice. CCC. $10-$35.
Aug 02 5:00: Hinrich Alpers & Stephen Sitarski.
Stephen Sitarski, violin; Hinrich Alpers, piano.
CJE. $10-$35.
Aug 02 8:00: True North Brass & Eric Robertson. Eric Robertson, organ; True North
Brass. DCUC. $10-$35.
Aug 02 8:00: Premium Ticket Concert - St. Lawrence String Quartet & Friends Celebrate the 75th
Aniversary of the Banff Centre. James Sommerville, horn; Barry Shiffman, viola; Desmond Hoebig, cello; St. Lawrence String Quartet. SAPC.
$10-$55.
Aug 02 8:00: Constantinople’s Ay!! Amor…
Francoise Atlan, vocalist; Constantinople. CCC.
$10-$35.
Aug 02 10:30: Late Night at the Legion – Take
this Waltz with Patricia O’ Callaghan Trio. Patricia O’Callaghan, mezzo-soprano. RCL. $10-$35.
Aug 03 2:00: Monica Whicher & Joel Quarrington. Monica Whicher, soprano; Joel Quarrington, double bass. SAPC. $10-$35.
Aug 03 4:00: Grounds of Rideau Hall – Free Concert. True North Brass. GRH. Free.
Aug 03 5:00: Hoebig/Moroz Trio. Gwen Hoebig,
violin; Desmond Hoebig, cello; David Moroz, pi-
ano. CJE. $10-$35.
Aug 03 8:00: Premium Ticket Concert -Louis
Lortie & Mathieu Roy’s Death in Venice. Louis
Lortie, piano; Mathieu Roy, filmmaker. DCUC.
$10-$55.
Aug 03 8:00: St. Lawrence String Quartet &
Tokai String Quartet. SAPC. $10-$35.
Aug 03 8:00: Different Trains. Ensemble Caprice; Quatuor Bozzoni. CCC. $10-$35.
Aug 03 10:30: Late Night at the Legion – Carmen’s Fantasies. Patricia O’Callaghan, soprano;
Stephen Sitarski, violin; Tom Allen, trombone;
Lori Gemmell, harp. RCL. $10-$35.
Aug 04 2:00: Music of Our Time 1. Gwen Hoebig, violin; James Sommerville, horn; David Moroz, piano; St. Lawrence String Quartet. DCUC.
$10-$35.
Aug 04 2:00: Tribute to Claude Vivier. Robert
Cram, flute; Jaycynthe Riverin, piano; Gryphon
Trio; Quatuor Bozzini. SAPC. $10-$35
Aug 04 4:00: Music of Our Time 2. Lawrence
Vine, horn; Made in Canada; Tokai String Quartet.
CJE. $10-$35.
Aug 04 7:00: MusicWalk with R. Murray
Schafer. DCUC. Free.
Aug 04 8:00: R. Murray Schafer @75. Tom Allen, trombone; Lori Gemmell, harp; Duo Concertante; Quatuor Bozzzoni; True North Brass.
DCUC. $10-$35.
Aug 04 10:30: Late Night at the Legion –NEXUS
Movie Show. NEXUS. RCL. $10-$35
Aug 05 12:00 noon: Music of Our Time 3 –
Inspired by Jazz. Duo Concertante; Cecilia String
Quartet. SAPC. $10-$35.
Aug 05 2:00: Music of Our Time 4. Quatuor
Bozzini. DCUC. $10-$35.
Aug 05 2:00: Young People’s Concert – Duo
Concertante. UOP. $10-$35.
Aug 05 4:00: Messiaen @100 2 – Two Pianos.
Stephane Lemelin, Andrew Tunis, pianos. DCUC.
$10-$35.
Aug 05 5:00: Music of Our Time 5. Gary Kulesha, composer/violin. DCUC. $10-$35.
Aug 05 7:30: Vienna Piano Trio 1. CJE. $10$35.
Aug 05 8:00: Leipzig String Quartet 1. SAPC.
$10-$35.
Aug 05 8:00: Nexus. CMCT. $10-$35.
Aug 05 10:30: Late Night at the Legion – The
Session Continues. Surprise artists. RCL. $10-$35.
Aug 06 12:00 noon: Noon Under the Bridge. Cecilia String Quartet. PB. Free.
Aug 06 12:00 noon: Leipzig String Quartet 2.
SAPC. $10-$35.
Aug 06 12:00 noon: Robert Pomakov & Friends.
Robert Pomakov, bass. DCUC. $10-$35.
Aug 06 2:00: Beethoven & Brahms. Duo Concertante; Made in Canada. CJE. $10-$35.
Aug 06 2:00: Seeking Gould 1. Karishmeh Felfeli,
piano. CMCT. $10-$35.
Aug 06 7:30: Let There be Mozart! Stephane
Lemelin, piano; Made in Canada; NAC Orchestra
Winds. CJE. $10-$35
Aug 06 8:00: The Art of Glenn Gould. Karishmeh
Felfeli, piano. DCUC. $10-$35.
Aug 06 8:00: Vienna Piano Trio. SAPC. $10-$35.
Aug 06 10:30: Late Night at the Legion – Karishmeh Felfeli ,piano. RCL. $10-$35.
Aug 07 12:00 noon: Minsoo Sohn & Friends.
Minsoo Sohn, piano; Rachel Mercer, cello. DCUC.
$10-$35.
Aug 07 12:00 noon: Peacocks & Cowgirls. Lori
Gemmell, Jennifer Swartz, harp. CJE. $10-$35.
Aug 07 5:00: Galaxie Rising Stars Gala Concert.
Up and coming vocalists. SAPC. $10-$35.
Aug 07 8:00: Premium Ticket Concert – Quartetto Gelato. DCUC. $10-$55.
Aug 07 8:00: Leipzig String Quartet & Stephane
Lemelin, piano. SAPC. $10-$35.
Aug 07 8:00: Adrian Butterfield & Friends. Adrian Butterfield, violin; David Miller, Kathia Robert,
violas; Myron Lutzke, cello. CCC. $10-$35.
Aug 07 10:30: Late Night at the Legion – Fusion.
Jennifer Swartz, harp; Lori Gemmell, harp; Quartetto Gelato. RCL. $10-$35.
Aug 08 12:00 noon: Martha Guth, Erika Switzer
& Friends. Martha Guth, soprano; Erika Switzer,
piano. SAPC. $10-$35.
Aug 08 12:00 noon: Messiaen @100 3 – A
World Premiere. Louise Bessette, piano; Estelle
Lemire, ondes Martenot. CJE. $10-$35.
Aug 08 2:00: The Voice of Bach. Adrian Butterfield, violin; David Miller, viola; Myron Lutzke,
cello; Choir of the Theatre of Early Music; Daniel
Taylor, director. RPC. $10-$35.
Aug 08 5:00: Crazy! I Furiosi Baroque Ensemble.
CCC. $10-$35.
Aug 08 8:00: Next. Paul Merkelo, Niklas Eklund,
Rex Richardson, trumpets. SAPC. $10-$35.
Aug 08 8:00: Premium Ticket Concert – Path to
Paradise. Choir of the Theatre of Early Music;
Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie, dancers. DCUC.
$10-$55.
Aug 08 10:30: Late Night at the Legion – Province of Impossible. Juliet Palmer, vocalist/clarinet; Christine Duncan, Aki Takahashi, vocalists.
RCL. $10-$35.
Aug 09 10:00am: Musical musings with Harry
Aug 09 12:00 noon: Virtuoso Tango. Renee-Paule
Gauthier, violin; Andrew Mah, guitar. CJE. $10-$35.
Aug 09 12:00 noon: Music from the Rococo.
Ottawa Baroque Consort. SG. $10-$35.
Aug 09 2:00: Minsoo Sohn’s Vituosity. Minsoo Sohn, piano. SAPC. $10-$35.
Aug 09 8:00: Closing Gala Concert – Choral
Extravaganza. Robert Pomakov, bass;
Gryphon Trio; Amadeus Choir; Elmer Iseler Singers. DCUC. $10-$55.
Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art
Toronto
June1-October 1
416-516-7413
www.soundtravels.ca
New Adventures in Sound Art presents the
10th anniversary-edition of Sound Travels. The
festival features gallery installations and outdoor sound sculptures, as well as outdoor and
indoor concerts, site-specific performances,
soundwalks, artist talks and workshops. For
daily listings see Section 1.
Stratford Summer Music
Stratford (ON)
July 21- August 17
519-271-2101
www.stratfordsummermusic.ca
Now in its eighth season, this four-week mu43
piano. PR. $20 cover.
Aug 09 11:30: Cabaret. Jane Bunnett & the
Spirits of Havana Jazz Band. CR. $35.
Aug 10 7:00am: Murray Schafer: Music for
sic festival features performers from Canada Aug 01 11:15am: Music from Scotland. St.
Wilderness Lake. Brooke Dufton, soprano, 12
and Europe. This summer’s artists include
Mary’s Choir, Edinburgh, Nicholas Weare,
trombones. AR. Free.
Measha Brueggergosman, Jane Bunnett and
organ; Duncan Ferguson, conductor. KC.
Aug 10 10:00am: Janet Cardiff’s Forty Part
Orchestra London Canada.
$20; $25.
Motet. CH. Admission by donation.
AF = Avon Flats
Aug 01 12:30: BargeMusic. Gin Lane Trio. AR.
Aug 10 10:30am: Guerrilla Music Events. DT.
AR = Avon River, behind War Memorial, York St. Free.
Free.
CH = City Hall, 1 Wellington St.
Aug 01 3:00: Family Programming - I Love MuAug 10 12:30pm & 3:00: BargeMusic. South
CR = Church Restaurant, 70 Brunswick St.
sic. How About You? Pallisades Virtuosi; Bob
American folk group The Imbayakunas. AR. Free.
DT = Downtown, various streets
McGrath, speaker. SA. $10; children free.
Aug 10 2:00: Measha Brueggergosman in RecitKC = Knox Church, 142 Ontario St.
Aug 01 9:15: Jazz at Pazzo. Brian Dickinson
al, Measha Brueggergosman, soprano; Justus
PR = Pazzo Ristorante, 70 Ontario St.
Trio. PR. $20 cover.
Zeyen, piano. SA. $35.
SA = St. Andrews Church, 25 St. Andrew St.
Aug 01 11:30: Cabaret. Jackie Richardson, vocalAug 10 8:00: Music & Meditation. Music of Dan
TPI = Tom Patterson Island
ist. CR. $35.
Jones. TPI. Free.
Jul 21 9:30: Opening Night – Sibold’s Grand
Illumination. AF. Free.
Jul 23 10:00am: Janet Cardiff’s Forty Part
Aug 02 10:30am: Guerilla Music Events. Peter
Aug 13 12:30: BargeMusic. Horns of RoncesMotet. CH. Admission by donation.
Hatch, composer. DT. Free.
valles. AR. Free.
Jul 23 11:15am: Young Canadian Artists in ReAug 02 11:15am: Music for a Summer’s Day. St.
cital. Pius Cheung, marimbist. CH. $20.
Mary’s Choir, Edinburgh. Nicholas Weare, organ;
Jul 23 12:30: BargeMusic. Les Chauffeurs à
Duncan Ferguson, conductor. KC. $20; $25.
Aug 14 11:15am: Unsung Dogs of the Great
pieds. AR. Free.
Aug 02 12:30 & 3:00: BargeMusic. Gin Lane
Composers. Bill Richardson & friends. SA. $25.
Trio.
Aug 14 12:30: BargeMusic. Horns of RoncesMotet. CH. Admission by donation.
Aug 02 3:00: Family Programming – Music for
valles. AR. Free.
Jul 24 11:30am: Cabaret. Laird Mackintosh &
All Ages. Pallisades Virtuosi; Bob McGrath,
Aug 14 11:30: Cabaret – Between Engagements.
Dayna Tekatch, vocals. CR. $35.
speaker. SA. $10; children free.
Paula Wolfson, vocalist; Jonathan Monro, piano.
Aug 02 9:15: Jazz at Pazzo. Brian Dickinson
CR. $35.
pieds. AR. Free.
Trio. PR. $20 cover
Aug 02 11:30: Cabaret. Jackie Richardson, vocalMotet. CH. Admission by donation.
ist. CR. $35.
Jul 25 11:30am: Cabaret. Laird Mackintosh &
Free.
Dayna Tekatch, vocals. CR. $35.
Aug 15 12:30 & 3:00: BargeMusic. Horns of
Aug 03 10:30am: Guerilla Music Events. Peter
Roncesvalles. AR. Free.
pieds. AR. Free.
Hatch, composer. D. Free.
Aug 15 9:15: Jazz at Pazzo. Dave Young, bass;
Jul 25 9:15: Jazz at Pazzo. Robi Botos, piano;
Aug 03 12:30 & 3:00: BargeMusic. Jeng Yi
Gary Williamson, piano. PR. $20(cover).
Perry White, sax. PR. $20 cover.
Korean Drummers. AR. Free.
Aug 15 11:30: Cabaret. Between Engagements.
Aug 03 2:00: Salute to Scotland Finale. Alasdair
Paula Wolfson, vocals; Jonathan Monro, piano.
Elliot, tenor; Christopher Dawes, organ; Allan
CR. $35.
Jul 26 10:30am: Guerilla Music Events. Peter
Eaton, pipe major; Andrea Dawes, violin. KC.
Hatch, composer. DT. Free.
Admission by donation ($10 suggested)
Jul 26 12:30/3:00: BargeMusic. Les Chauffeurs Aug 03 8:00: Music & Meditation. Music of Dan Motet. CH. Admission by donation.
à pieds. AR. Free.
Jones. TPI. Free.
Free.
Jul 26 9:15: Jazz at Pazzo. Robi Botos, piano;
Aug 16 12:30: BargeMusic Finale. Kincardine
Yvette Tollar, vocals. PR. $20 cover.
Scottish Pipe Band. AR. Free.
Jul 26 11:30: Cabaret. Laird Mackintosh & Day- Aug 06 12:30: BargeMusic. Newfoundland enAug 16 7:30: Festival Finale 2008. Roger Honeyna Tekatch, vocals. CR. $35.
semble Rowdy Stout. AR. Free.
well, tenor; James Westman, baritone; Gary
Relyea, bass-baritone; Orchestra London Canada,
Timothy Vernon, conductor. KC. $25; $35.
Jul 27 10:30am: Guerilla Music Events. Peter
Aug 07 11:15am: Measha Brueggergosman,
Sunfest ’08: A Celebration of World CulHatch, composer. DT. Free.
soprano. Justus Zeyen, piano. SA. $35.
tures
Jul 27 12:30 & 3:00: BargeMusic. Les ChaufAug 07 12:30: BargeMusic. Newfoundland enLondon (ON)
feurs à pieds. AR. Free.
semble Rowdy Stout. AR. Free.
Jul 27 7:30: L’Orchestre francophonie canaAug 07 11:30: Cabaret. Jane Bunnett & the July 3-6
519-672-1522
dienne. Marianne Fiset, soprano; JeanSprits of Havana Jazz Band. CR $35.
www.sunfest.on.ca
Philippe Tremblay, conductor. KC. AdmisAug 08 10:00am: Janet Cardiff’s Forty Part
World music, jazz and dance are featured at this
sion by donation.
four-day event in London’s Victoria Park. All perJul 27 8:00: Music & Meditation. Music by Dan Aug 08 11:15am: Measha Brueggergosman,
formances are free.
Jones. TPI. Free.
soprano. Justus Zeyen, piano. SA. $35.
Aug 08 12:30: BargeMusic. Newfoundland enTD Canada Trust Ottawa International
semble Rowdy Stout. AR Free.
Jazz Festival
Jul 30 12:30: BargeMusic. Gin Lane Trio. AR.
Aug 08 9:15: Jazz at Pazzo. Lorraine Desmarais, Confederation Park, Ottawa
Free.
piano. PR. $20 cover.
June 20-July 1
Jul 31 10:00am: Janet Cardiff’s Forty Part Aug 08 11:30: Cabaret. Jane Bunnett & The 888-226-4495
Spirits of Havana Jazz Band. CR. $35.
www.ottawajazzfestival.com
Jul 31 11:15am: Anthems from the English
Aug 09 7:00am: Murray Schafer: Music for
Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Centre Jazz
Choral Tradition. St. Mary’s Choir, Edinburgh;
Wilderness Lake. Brooke Dufton, soprano, 12
Orchestra open this festival. Other artists include
Nicholas Weare, organ; Duncan Ferguson, conduc- trombones. AR. Free.
Buddy Defranco, Herbie Hancock Quartet, Oliver
tor. KC. $25; $20.
Jones Trio and Gladys Knight. Festival passes are
Jul 31 12:30: BargeMusic. Gin Lane Trio. AR.
$190; $105; $40(students). Individual tickets
Free.
available; also some free events.
Jul 31 4:00: Harry Somers Lecture. Bob McFree.
TD Canada Trust Irie Fest
Grath, speaker. CH. Free.
Aug 09 11:15am: Measha Brueggergosman,
Toronto
Jul 31 11:30: Cabaret. Jackie Richardson, vocal- soprano. Justus Zeyen, piano. SA. $35.
August 1-4
ist. CR. $35.
Aug 09 12:30 & 3:00: BargeMusic. Newfound905-799-1630
land ensemble Rowdy Stout. AR. Free.
www.iriemusicfestival.com
Aug 09 9:15: Jazz at Pazzo. Lorraine Desmarais,
This four-day festival of reggae and world music
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takes place at Queen’s Park, Nathan Phillips
Square and Ontario Place. All events are free.
TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival
Toronto (ON)
June 21-July 2
416-929-2033
www.torontojazz.com
For detailed listings see Section 1.
Toronto Summer Music Festival
Toronto
July 22-August 17
416-585-4464
www.torontosummermusic.com
The theme for this year’s Toronto Summer
Music Festival is “In the Fire of Conflict,” an
exploration of the artistic responses to human
struggle. Guest artists include pianists Menahem Pressler, André Laplante and Anton Kuerti; the Gryphon Trio and the Leipzig String
Quartet. As well, the festival features free
“Emerging Artists” concerts. For detailed
listings, see Section 1.
Uptown Waterloo Jazz
Waterloo (ON)
July 10-13
519-885-1921
www.uptownwaterloojazz.ca
The Alexis Baro, Molly Johnson, Manteca and
Odessa Havana are among the featured artists
at this festival. Performances take place under
a tent at Waterloo City Centre.
WCC = Waterloo City Centre, 100 Regina St. S.
Jul 10 7:00: Opening Night Gala. Alexis Baro
Sextet. WCC. $40.
Jul 11 6:00 to 10:00: Friday Concerts. William
Sperandei Quintet, DK Ibomeka, Molly Johnson.
WCC. Free.
Jul 12 12:00noon to 10:00: Saturday Concerts.
Cadence, Top Pocket Jazz Quartet, The Young
Divas, Mark Eisenman Quintet, Odessa Havana,
Manteca. WCC. Free.
Jul 13 12noon to 5:30: Adi Braun Quartet, Folk
Alarm, Kellylee Evans. WCC. Free.
Vancouver Early Music Festival
Vancouver (BC)
July 27-August 14
604-732-1602
www.earlymusic.bc.ca
This summer event, presented by the Vancouver Society for Early Music, features cellist
Jaap ter Linden, soprano Suzie LeBlanc, Montreal’s Constaninople ensemble, and the festival’s own Early Music Vancouver Baroque
Orchestra. Performances and pre-concert
chats take place at the University of British
Columbia.
Westben Arts Festival Theatre
The Barn, 6898 Country Road 30
Campbellford (ON)
705-853-5508, 877-883-5777
June 28-August 3
www.westben.on.ca
This year, the barn plays host to the University of British Columbia Opera Ensemble,
as well as pianist Brian Finley, the Tokai String
Quartet and other artists.
Jul 03 2:00: J. Strauss: Die Fledermaus. UBC
Opera Ensemble; Nancy Hermiston, stage
director; Richard Epp, music director & piano.
$10-$33. To July 6.
Jul 08 7:00: Classical Guitar of the Night. Patrick
Kearney, guitar. $10-$33.
Jul 12 5:00: Schubertiad. Various artists. $7.50$15(per 75-minute segment) $40.50-$20.25(all
three segments).
Jul 13 2:00: Bennett, Manker & Laplante. Donna
Bennett, soprano; Brian Manker, cello; André
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Laplante, piano. $10-$33. 1:00: Pre-concert chat.
Jul 15 7:00: Piano of the Night. Brian Finley,
piano. $10-$33.
Jul 19 2:00: Tokai String Quartet. $10-$33.
Jul 19 7:30: Of Eros & of Dust. Michael Burgess, tenor; Brian Finley, piano. $15-$40.
Jul 20 2:00: New Zealand String Quartet. $10$33. 1:00: Pre-concert chat.
Jul 22 2:00: Lerner & Loewe on Love. Donna
Bennett, soprano; Laura Pudwell, mezzo; Colin
Ainsworth, tenor; Curtis Sullivan, bass-baritone;
Brian Jackson, conductor. $10-$33.
Jul 22 7:00: da Gambas of the Night. Susie Napper & Margaret Little, viola da gamba. $10-$33.
Jul 26 7:30: Saturday Night at the Opera. Monica Whicher, soprano; Elizabeth Turnbull, mezzo;
Keith Klasssen, tenor; Gary Relyea, baritone;
Brian Finley, piano; Alexa Petrenko, host. $15$40.
Jul 29 7:00: Lortie & Dumay. Louis Lortie,
piano; Augustin Dumay, violin. $15-$40.
Aug 02 2:00: Portuguese Fado. Catarina Cardeal,
vocals; Mike Siracusa, guitar. $10-$33.
Aug 02 7:30: Spanish Flamenco. Robert
Michaels, guitar. $10-$33.
Aug 03 2:00: Greek Rembetika. Rembetika Hipsters. $10-$33.
LISTINGS: SECTION 6
ANNOUNCEMENTS, ... ETCETERA
ANNOUNCEMENTS
*July 4 - 27, times tba: New Adventures in
Sound Art. Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art:
Resonating Bodies: Bumble Domicile (Pollinator
Series). Mixed media installation & community
outreach project by Sarah Peebles, which focuses
on biodiversity of pollinators in the natural &
urban ecosystems of the GTA. New Gallery, 906
Queen St. West. 416-516-7413,
www.soundtravels.ca Free.
*July 5 10am-2pm: Organ Festival of the
Grand. Organs Exposed! See what’s behind all
the whistles & groans in a pipe organ as you get
to explore their amazing innards. Two locations:
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Queen &
Weber, Kitchener and St. John the Evangelist
Church, Duke & Water, Kitchener. 416-7434362. Free.
*July 27 - August 30, Sundays only (except
Saturday August 30), 2-6pm: New Adventures in Sound Art. Sound Travels Installations. Sonic portraits of cities from around the
world playing on a multi-channel system; interactive sound art greeting cards by Jennifer Schmidt,
Colin Asquith & Terry Nauheim; 10th anniversary
interactive edition of the Sound Travels Documents by Stefan & Laura Rose. St. Andrew bythe-Lake Church, Toronto Island. 416-516-7413.
Recommended admission $5.
*August 6 - 10: Shelburne Rotary Club.
58th Annual Canadian Open Old Time Fiddle
Championship. Features top fiddlers in competition, fiddle workshops, giant Fiddle Parade
featuring the Metropolitan Toronto Police Winged
Wheels, fiddle jam session, open-air market &
more. Centre Dufferin Recreation Complex
(Shelburne Arena), Shelburne. 519-925-2600
x230, www.shelburnefiddlecontest.on.ca Event
package: $40, $20(12 years & under); individual
prices for single events.
*August 8 & 9, 1-6pm: New Adventures in
Sound Art. Soundportraits. Spend one hour with
Danish sound artist Jorgen Teller & he will
generate a sound art piece that is about you. (The
best three soundportraits will be heard on August
9 in a concert at St. Andrew-by-the-Lake Church.)
Toronto Island, location TBA. 416-516-7413.
Free.
*August 8 & 9 at 7:00; August 10 at 1:00:
New Adventures in Sound Art/Canadian
Association for Sound Ecology. Sound
Travels Festival of Sound Art: Improvising Space
with Ellen Waterman. Go on a guided SOUNDwalk and encounter music emanating from
unusual locations by Waterman, Zurawinski, Liu
& Rothschild, Toronto Island along the SOUNDwalk route. 416-516-7413. Free.
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*August 10 2:00: New Adventures in
Sound Art. Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art:
Ariadne Calling. Walk a labyrinthian trail while
immersed in an extended vocal universe composed by Wende Bartley. St. Andrew by-the-Lake
Church, Toronto Island. 416-516-7413. $5.
*August 22 7:00: Toronto International
Film Festival Group/Royal Academy of
Dance. The Turning Point in a Dance Career.
Screening of Herbert Ross’s The Turning Point,
featuring Dame Antoinette Sibley DBE and
Mikhail Baryshnikov, followed by discussion with
Veronica Tennant and questions from the audience. Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, 317
Dundas St. West. www.cinemathequeontario.ca
$11.56 (non-member); $7.08 (member/st/sr/
child).
* To September 1, dates & times tba: New
Adventures in Sound Art. Sound Travels
Festival of Sound Art: SOUNDwalks. The
listening “audience” moves through a place and
the environment “performs”, creating a unique
piece that can only occur during the time of the
walk. Begins at the clock tower near the ferry
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ETCETERA
MARK VUORINEN, MUSIC DIRECTOR
docks on Centre Island. 416-516-7413,
WORKSHOPS
*July 16 7:30: Toronto Shapenote Singing
* To September 24, Wednesdays at 11am: from Sacred Harp. Beginners welcome. Music
Toronto Music Garden. Guided Tours. Explore Room, Bloor Street United Church, 300 Bloor St.
seasonal blooms while learning about the garden’s W. (at Huron). 416- 922-7997 or
unique design and history. 45-minute walking
pleasancecrawford@rogers.com
tours led by Toronto Botanical garden volunteer
*July 29 8:00: Toronto Folk Singers’ Club.
guides. 475 Queens Quay West. Self-guided 70- An informal group meeting to perform & exminute audio tours hosted by Yo-Yo Ma and Julie change songs. Audiences are welcome. Tranzac
Messervy are also available for a rental fee of $5 Club, 292 Brunswick Ave. 416-532-0900.
at the Marina Quay West office, 539 Queens
Quay West (daily from 10am to 8pm). 416-973- *August 11 -16: CONTACT contemporary
music/University Settlement Music & Arts
4000, www.harbourfrontcentre.com
School. Music From Scratch. Workshop for
*To October 1: New Adventures in Sound youth 7-25 years. St. George the Martyr Church,
Art. Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art: Sonic
197 John St. 416-598-3444 x243. Free.
Boardwalk. Outdoor interactive sound sculpture
*August 20 7:30: Toronto Shapenote
by Allik/Mulder which generates a microsound
Singing from Sacred Harp. Beginners welcome.
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SCARBOROUGH BEL CANTO CHOIR
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members are auditioned to determine voice
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Singers are warmly invited to join our
dynamic SATB community choir.
We are celebrating our 42nd season in 2008-2009
and welcoming our new Music Director,
CARON DALEY.
Auditions will be held on September 2, 2008.
Interested singers are also invited to attend the choir’s
Open Rehearsal on Tuesday, September 16, 2008.
For further information, visit our website at:
www.etobicokecentennialchoir.ca
or call Elizabeth Fisher at 416-253-0214
TOR welcomes lyric tenors and
baritones to audition for roles in La
Cenerentola, and one of Tosca or
Carmen. Some soprano roles still
available as well. To be held
August 30, 2008, 2 pm–6 pm.
auditions@toronto-opera.com,
or voice mail at 416-698-9572.
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JULY & AUGUST’s Children… have all gone to music
camp. ALL of Music’s Children
should have this opportunity!
The contest will resume in September.
Know someone whose photo
should appear on this page in
the coming season? Your suggestions are always welcome!
musicschildren@thewholenote.com
JUNE’S CHILD….
Annalee Patipatanikoon grew
up in Calgary, Alberta. She is
one of Canada’s most respected
violinists and one-third of the
Gryphon Trio along with Jamie
Parker (piano), and Roman Borys (cello). The Gryphon Trio
was ensemble-in-residence for
ten years with the Music Toronto concert series. Annalee combines a busy chamber music career with her University of Toronto teaching commitments.
Her own teachers have included
Dr. Lise Elson (Mount Royal
College), Aaron Rosand (The
Curtis Institute), Franco Gulli
and Miriam Fried (Indiana University). Annalee is a laureate of
Belgium’s Queen Elizabeth International Violin Competition.
(Questions most often asked? Annalee’s last name is of Thai origin; and she performs on a 1907 Carlo Oddone violin.)
Earliest musical memory? Running around and playing in Suzuki
group class.
Other musicians in your family? My mother was a trained nurse
and amateur pianist. She insisted that her children study a musical
instrument until age 18. I’m the oldest and the only professional musician. The second oldest started with the violin but spent the majority of her time learning the cello. She is now a nurse and Coordinator for the Alberta Blood and Marrow Transplant Program. The
youngest also started with violin and progressed to piano and finally
voice. She is a Grade 4 school teacher and Literacy Coach in Northern Washington State in the US.
First experiences of making music? Apparently I sang all the time
as a child. Violin lessons were something fun: I had a whole new
set of friends to see once a week! I started at the age of 3. I believe
I was 4 when this Suzuki Final Concert photo was taken in Calgary.
…with others? Saturday string quartets. My teacher, Lise Elson, organized three violin students and a willing cellist. The violinists took
turns playing viola.
... of thinking of yourself as a musician? I was 9, at Meadowmount Summer School (8 weeks in upstate New York). I met some
new, slightly older friends. I was so impressed with their talent and
dedication… this was what I wanted to do!
Do you remember ever thinking you would do anything else?
In my final year at the Curtis Institute we all filled out career surveys. Mine revealed that I might make a good Forest Ranger or Fire
Fighter. Six weeks later I received an invitation from the Philadelphia Fire Department to come and join the force!
Face-to-face with little Annalee in that photo, is there anything
you’d say? Nice legs!
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community-based opera organization, is seeking
enthusiastic choristers for its 2009 season
performances. Our chorus is a non-auditioned
ensemble, and welcomes singers of all ages,
experience, and voice types. Above is a scene from the
final moments of last year’s production of Verdi’s A
Masked Ball – you could be in the picture next year!
Rehearsals will begin in early October.
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In summer time…? I attended
weeklong music camps throughout B.C. and Alberta when I
was 5. Later, summer music
schools in the US and Europe,
usually most of the summer.
Great memories from places like
Meadowmount, the Banff Centre
and Sienna, are rekindled every
time I stop into these places to
do a little teaching or coaching.
Summer music festivals are like
camp for grown-up musicians!
This summer will be no exception
for Annalee and the Gryphon
Trio, who are the Artistic Programming Directors and Artistsin-Residence for Ottawa’s Chamberfest (July 26-August 9).
A Choral
Life Q&A
COMPILED AND EDITED BY MJ BUELL
Featuring Ryan Knowles
What was your first ever choral
experience?
Massey Hall, in my first annual
Christmas concert with St.
Michael’s Choir school, I was
nervous and excited, and I really
enjoyed performing…that night
was one of the happiest nights of
my life.
Are you currently singing with a
choir?
The choir that I’ve been privi!!Tickets & Recordings!!
leged to sing in since grade 3 is
CONGRATULATIONS
St. Michael’s Choir School. I
TO OUR WINNERS
Daisy Leung, and Mohsin Bhujwalla have sung in the elementary,
each win a pair of tickets to hear MU- junior, and senior choirs. The
SIC AND MASKS: the Gryphon Trio choirs have an astounding quality
at Toronto Summer Music Academy of sound that only an all-male
choir can produce.
and Festival - a program of contrast-
Professional Singing
Opportunities
The Toronto Chamber Choir will be
holding auditions for the following paid positions:
Section-Leader: Tenor
Section-Leader: Bass
To arrange an audition, please contact the Music Director,
Mark Vuorinen at: mark.vuorinen@utoronto.ca
Visit us at: www.torontochamberchoir.ca
REGENT PARK SCHOOL OF MUSIC
Part-Time Job Opportunity:
Piano, Cello or Violin teachers
Locations: Queen St./River St.
Jane St. /Finch Ave.
Qualifications:
A) A university under-graduate degree in music and an ARCT diploma,
or the equivalent in teaching experience.
B) Performance experience.
C) Excellent mentoring, communication, and team work skills.
D) Shows sensitivity towards working with diverse and
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E) Violin teacher applicants must have experience leading an advanced
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Please send a current resume, two references with contact information,
and a cover letter outlining your experience no later than Tuesday, July
15th, 2008 to:
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Fax: 416-364-1628
Email:regentparkschoolofmusic@on.aibn.com
Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
EMAIL AND FAX ONLY
For more information about the school, please visit:
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ing repertoire with elements from
many cultures - Tuesday, August 5
(8:00pm Walter Hall). Frances Giles
and a friend will be the guests of Music Toronto to hear the Gryphon Trio,
playing Haydn, Schmidt and Mendelssohn on Thursday, November 6.
Jeanne Yuen and Otto Rath will receive Schubert: Complete Piano Trios
- Gryphon Trio (ANALEKTA)
Music’s Children gratefully acknowledges The Gryphon Trio, Sophie Vayro, Myron Kozak at Toronto Summer
Music, and Jennifer Taylor at Music
Toronto.
TRYPTYCH
WANTED
Choristers (all voices) for
Ensemble TrypTych
Chamber Choir
REWARD
An exciting season of great
choruses from opera,
oratorio and easy
listening repertoire.
WHERE
Trinity Presbyterian Church
2737 Bayview Ave
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WHEN
Rehearsals on Tuesday
7:30-9:45 PM
CONTACT US
416 763 5066 ext. 3
etcc@tryptych.org
How did you choose the choir?
They chose me! I never really
knew that I liked to sing, no one
else seemed to know either! I
actually didn’t even really listen
to much music. Mrs. Kathleen
Arab, a vocal coach at the Choir
School, was scouting for potential
choirboys at my old school. Out
of my entire class of about 32
people in grade 2, only I was
chosen for a further audition in
downtown Toronto: vocal and
academic tests. Because choral
opportunities present themselves
all year round, the school must
know that those accepted will be
able cope with an ever-changing
schedule. The Choir School is not
just for the rich; it is a school for
the gifted.
Where does your choral singing
fit into other aspects of your life?
Choral singing is every part of
my life now! While many of my
friends are out playing soccer,
I’m frantically trying to sightread the tenor 1 part of a sixteenpart piece. The senior choir sings
at the five o’clock Saturday afternoon and Sunday noon Mass every week for the entire school year
at St. Michael’s Cathedral. When
concert season kicks in at the Choir
School, you have to put your
entire life on hold! Rehearsals
from 3:30 to 5:00 come almost
daily. Most concerts are in the
evening, so we have some semblance of a normal life on the
weekends! This summer the Choir
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From Courts on High, is a recording seventy years in the making, with all twenty-five selections
composed by one of the school’s
music directors or close associates. All boys and men’s voices
are featured, from the sweetest
and youngest to a full 250-voice
finale(the title track). Ryan, in
grade 11 this fall, says:
I am in all of the songs perPHOTO: DOMNIC MELINO
The Oakville Children’s Choir
Sarah Morrison, Music Director
Janet Stachow, Associate Music Director
Providing world class vocal, musical and performance training
to young people.
16-year-old Ryan Knowles with Dr. Cichocki,
in St. Michael’s Cathedral.
School is going to Prague to take
part in an international choral
festival. Here we will have the
chance to sing with other professional choirs from around the
world. I can’t wait!
What concerts to you like to attend?
I attend some concerts by the Toronto Children’s Chorus: this is
mostly because my sister is in
choir, but also because I enjoy
some of the non-religious pieces
that we do not get to perform. I
also attend concerts of the Victoria
Scholars, a tenor and bass choir
directed by a most brilliant and
insane man, Dr. Jerzy Cichocki.
He makes any choir sound professional, and I especially enjoy the
complex program.
Cichocki, I see four things: control, a passion for good music,
for perfection, and only the
slightest hint of insanity- I mean,
musical genius! Doc doesn’t let
anything slide; a flat note, a
wrong rhythm, a weak entry, and
he stops everything to fix it. He
will rehearse one phrase seven or
eight times, and then… if it’s
perfect, he will ask us to do it
three more times!
An anecdote?
We were singing Christmas repertoire in Pickering. The audience was silent. Doc raised his
hands … and someone’s cell
phone rang behind him. Doc’s
hands drop to his sides, and he
turns around slowly to face the
person with the phone. All was
quiet. The person averted her
What qualities make you admire a eyes from Doc, and turned off
her cell phone with embarrasschoral conductor?
When I look at the very successful ment. Doc turned around, flashed
a smile, and the concert began!
and admirable conductor of the
Choir School’s senior choir, Jerzy The school’s newest recording,
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formed by the senior choir. We
were recording right around the
time my voice was starting to
break, so it was interesting hearing my voice on the CD! My
favourite is the De Profundis,
composed by Tomas Dusatko, a
teacher at the Choir School. This
piece is dark and sinister, and
very emotive.
AUDITIONS FOR 2008/2009
Don’t miss this opportunity for your child to sing with
The Oakville Children’s Choir
as we celebrate15 years of musical excellence!
For more information, or to book an audition for this world-class choir,
call 905.337.7104 or visit www.oakvillechildrenschoir.org
MUSIC DIRECTOR
Northminster United Church is seeking a skilled musician who is
energetic, creative, flexible and willing to work in a cooperative
manner with our Minister and Worship Team to plan and provide a
variety of music that enhances our worship services.
The successful candidate will be competent in playing piano, a 2manual Casavant organ, and in directing SATB and youth choirs —
and will be comfortable with a range of music from traditional to
contemporary and global, in a variety of instrumentations.
Please send applications to Paul Studt, Northminster United
Church, 255 Finch Ave. West, North York, ON. M2R1M8. E-mail:
nucmusic@gmail.com
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Gould’s creative output. In fact, he made the
The Mozart Abert presents is far more apbulk of his recordings – over ninety – on it.
pealing – and convincing – than the idiot saIn 1971 Gould had CD 318 shipped to a re- vant depicted by confections like the popular
cording session in Cleveland. He ended up
film Amadeus. His Mozart is a sensitive, affacanceling the session, but the piano arrived
ble, spontaneous, yearning, anguished, innoback in Toronto with a split soundboard and
cent, emotionally complex, imaginative and
cracked iron plate. Edquist was the first one to gentle soul. With psychological insight, Abert
examine the badly damaged piano, and Hafner vividly shows how all these qualities are exdescribes in detail what he found. We realize
pressed in each of Mozart’s works. “For him,”
how heart-breaking Gould’s ultimately fruitless he writes, “form was not a fixed pattern or
efforts to restore the piano were, and how
dead letter: rather, it was something that was
emotionally stressful it was for him to find an- created and new with each new work, a living
other piano to replace it.
force inexplicably bound up with him and his
But given the number of interviews Hafner inner life”.
undertook, according to her notes, there’s surNor is Mozart here the helpless incompetent
prisingly little other new material here. There is often depicted. Abert credits Mozart with connot enough – new or revisited – to fill a book,
trol over his own destiny, tragic though it may
so Hafner gets sidetracked into topics like pi- ultimately be. He shows how Mozart’s probano manufacture, Edquist’s early life, and
lems with money and recognition arose from
Gould’s love affair with Cornelia Foss, all of
the same non-judgmental credulousness which
which, while interesting, have little to do with
made him able to create such great operatic
her story.
characters. In contrast to many of today’s
Hafner includes a bibliography, but her refscholars, Abert is quite sympathetic to Moerences are at best spotty, and many direct
zart’s father, Leopold, and much less so to his
quotations have no citations whatsoever. One wife, Constanze. Important musical figures of
paragraph starts out, “All of Edquist’s tinker- the time like Paisiello are given the deserved
ing eventually created an instrument that was
attention they rarely get.
so jittery it got what can only be described as
In his introduction, editor Cliff Eisen calls
the hiccups.” At the end of the same paraAbert’s chapter on Mozart’s personality the
graph she writes that eventually Gould “started heart of this book, but for me that description
referring to the extra notes - the “hiccups” belongs to the following chapter on Mozart’s
as his “friends”.” Who is she quoting here creativity, where Abert describes how Mozart,
herself? Gould? Edquist?
who composed away from the keyboard, beAt least Hafner doesn’t revisit Gould’s child- came a different person when improvising at
hood, which has been covered many times by
the keyboard. Eisen has provided invaluable
writers more elegant and insightful than she.
indexes, bibliography and musical examples.
Her breezy style, peppered with phrases like
His marvelous footnotes are easily accessible
“popped up all over the place”, tends towards
at the bottom of each page, and musical examhyperbole. From what I know of Edquist, who ples abound. Stewart Spencer has translated
was my piano tuner for a number of years, he this mammoth work into thoroughly enjoyable
would appreciate being described, justly, as a
English, leaving no trace of it being a translation.
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The Cellist of Sarajevo
by Steven Galloway
Knopf Canada
272 pages; $29.95
Once a day, a cellist performs Albinoni’s Adagio in G minor in the bombed-out Sarajevo
marketplace where twenty-two people have
just been massacred.
The cellist’s brave act
of defiance, which
leaves him exposed to
the snipers positioned in
the hills above the city,
provides a focus for the
three main characters in
Canadian writer Steven
Galloway’s new novel.
A sharp-shooter
known as Arrow, recruited from her university target shooting team, has been assigned to
protect the cellist. Kenan, who had been an
accounting clerk, risks his life to get water for
his family and an unlovable old neighbour. Dragan, whose family escaped Sarajevo before the
siege started, tries to get to his job at a bakery
without getting shot.
Galloway builds up layers of vivid images
like that of Kenan crossing a bridge right after
watching his friend shot on the bridge. The effect of the cellist’s music is expressed literally
when Arrow watches a sniper set himself up to
shoot the cellist, but just sits, mesmerized by
the music, instead of firing.
Although the cellist in Galloway’s story remains nameless, he is practically inseparable
from the actual cellist of Sarajevo, a man
named Vedran Smailovic, who, like the unnamed cellist, had been principal cellist of the
Sarajevo Symphony Orchestra before the civil
war that tore the former Yugoslavia apart. Galloway attempts to clarify the line between fact
and fiction by writing in an afterword that the
actions of Smailovic “inspired this novel, but I
have not based the character of the cellist on
the real Smailovic.” His disclaimer, however, is
not only unconvincing but disingenuous, especially with the famous photo from 1992 of
Smailovic playing amidst the ruins right on the
book-jacket. Even if he is not identified by
name in the photo credits, it’s clear who he is
and what he represents. In any case, Galloway
does not really describe what he calls the character of the cellist enough for us to make any
distinction. It is his actions that matter.
Choppy phrases and sentences like, “Arrow
knows that twenty-two people died here, and a
multitude were injured, will not walk or see or
touch again. Because they tried to buy bread.
A small decision. Nothing to think about.” can
get tedious. But much more frequent are elegant, flowing passages like this description of
Kenan’s despair, “There are times when he
doesn’t know how he manages not to evaporate, how his clothes don’t fall to the floor,
emptied of what little substance he was filling
them with.” Moving images like that stayed
with me long after I finished reading this novel.
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: recordings reviewed
EDITOR’S CORNER: July-August 2008
In this age of sound bytes, highlights and “classical music favourites” (i.e. song-length clips
from well-worn workhorses) it is a rare luxury
to be able to immerse oneself in an unfamiliar
hour-long dramatic work that runs the gamut of
moods and emotions. Such was my pleasure
this month when I discovered the expansive
Symphony No.1 of Danish composer Rued
Langgaard (1893-1952) on the Da Capo label
(6.220525). Completed at the age of seventeen, the expansive
work was deemed
unplayable in Langgaard’s homeland.
It languished for
three years until
championed by conductor Max Fiedler
who gave the work
its premiere with
the Berlin Philharmonic. That concert also included another orchestral work by the young
composer, Sphinx, and Langgaard’s own performance of his Preludio patetico on the organ of the Berlin Philharmonic Hall. This
would turn out to be the highlight of Langgaard’s entire career as the First World War
interrupted any chance of further success in
Germany. He returned home to Denmark
where his Symbolist-influenced Scriabin-like
scores led to repeated failures and disappointments and in fact his music never found favour
in his homeland during his lifetime. Undaunted
by his outsider status, however, he went on to
compose 16 symphonies and had completed
431 works by the time of his death. Taking
Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Bruckner and Richard
Strauss as his inspiration, the First Symphony is
an epic tone poem. Set in the five movement
form of Beethoven’s Pastoral and Berlioz’
Symphonie Fantastique, it depicts a journey
up a mountain from the breaking surf below to
the peak where the “view with the wide horizon, the high-vaulted sky and the faraway
blue-sparkling sea with the white crests fills
the heart with new courage to face life.” It is a
journey I am glad to have had the opportunity
to share, thanks to the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and conductor Thomas Dausgaard.
Another symphonist
previously unknown
to me came to my
attention thanks to
WholeNote colleague Karen Ages
and publisher Allan
Pulker, who were
among the musicians featured in a
concert of chamber music by Alexander
Jacobchuk in May. The Ukrainian-born com54
poser won international composition prizes in
Switzerland, Germany and Belgium in the
1990s before moving to Canada. The CD
Symphonic Works
(www.alexanderjacobchuk.com) includes
Jacobchuk’s first symphony “Chornobyl’s Biorhythms”, Symphony No.2 and the symphonic
poem “Golden Gate”. Although the brief biography available on the Canadian Music Centre
website states that his works were widely published, performed and broadcast in his homeland before he emigrated, this is not the case
with two of the pieces presented here. Although composed in 1982, Golden Gate, which
aims to recreate the atmosphere of early Kyiv
beginning in the ninth century and follows its
turbulent history to the present day, had to wait
until 1996 for its premiere which took place
here in Toronto at Massey Hall under the direction of Volodymyr Kolesnyk. The First
Symphony was composed in 1986 shortly after
the Chornobyl catastrophe but it too had to
wait to see the light of day, not receiving its
first performance until two decades later. In
that instance the premiere, recorded here, did
take place in his homeland however, with the
Symphony Orchestra of the National Radio of
Ukraine in Kyiv conducted by Volodymyr
Sheiko. The work, a testament to the composer’s personal experience and memories of the
events surrounding the nuclear disaster, is in
two movements. Its strident opening is followed by a contemplative and finally hopeful
movement reflecting Jacobchuk’s belief in a
bright future for his compatriots. Symphony
No.2, a one movement depiction of “mankind
confronted by the cataclysmic events occasioned by globalization”, was more readily accepted. First heard shortly after its completion
in 1987 it went on to a number of subsequent
performances both at home and abroad. While
there is nothing “ground-breaking” in this music, it is certainly well-crafted and expressive
and I find it a welcome addition to Canada’s
orchestral landscape.
returned with the
album “One More
Time” in 2006. Not
content to rest on
his laurels, or perhaps simply heeding
Dylan Thomas’ exhortation “Do Not
Go Gentle into That
Good Night”, we
are now presented with Second Time
Around (Justin Time JUST 229-2) on
which the stellar pianist is joined by bassist
Éric Legacé and drummer Jim Doxas.
This new CD is well balanced between ballads and barnburners, Jones originals and
standards like Misty and When I Fall in Love,
the traditional Precious Lord and even Surrey
with the Fringe on Top. Having caught his
“second wind” and showing no signs slowing
down, let’s hope that the seventy four year old
pianist decides that “Second Time Around” is
just a new beginning.
The final disc came
with the re-discovery of an old friend
through the
WholeNote listings
last month. I was
intrigued to find a
notice for “Bach in
the Saddle Again”,
a concert featuring
Whiskey Jack and the Gala String Quartet. I
knew that Bob McNiven, a long-lost classmate
of mine and fellow guitar picker, had been in
Whiskey Jack for a number of years and wondering if he still was I decided to investigate
further. When it turned out that the Gala String
Quartet is headed by violinist Daniel Kushner
with whom I’ve had the pleasure playing my
cello on occasion, I simply had to go to Eastminster United to check out this hybrid concert
that featured, so to speak, “both kinds of music”
– i.e. Country AND Western (art music). It
The other discs that have found a place in the turns out that Whiskey Jack, whose illustrious
rotation on my CD player this month are quite history has included a decade of sharing the
a bit different, although they also reflect long
spotlight on the Tommy Hunter Show and exmusical traditions. Further on in these pages
tensive touring with the iconic Stompin’ Tom
you will find Ken Waxman speaking of an inConnors, is celebrating its 30th anniversary,
fluential Montreal-born jazz pianist – “no, not
and sure enough after 28 years Bob McNiven
that one” he says in a veiled reference to Os- is still “pickin’ and a-grinning” along with
car Peterson. In Ken’s case he is revelling in
founding father Duncan Fremlin. The band has
the CD re-release of an older title by Paul
expanded from its original quartet formation
Bley. In mine it is a brand new recording by
(vocal harmonies with banjo, guitar, mandolin
another Montrealer, but one with direct ties to and bass) to include fiddle, drums and female
the great O.P. As a child, Oliver Jones used
vocals (Arlene Zock) in the concert I attended,
to sit on the porch of the Peterson’s house lis- as well as harmonica and accordion on their
tening to the older boy play and in fact he got
latest CD WhiskeyJackMusic.com (which
his first piano lessons from Oscar’s sister Dai- not-surprisingly is also the address of their
sy. After a much publicized but evidently failed website). The concert was an eclectic mix of
foray into retirement earlier this decade, Jones classical string quartet music – lighter fare
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such as you might hear at weddings – and
Whiskey Jack’s varied repertoire of bluegrass,
Western swing, country and pop (such as Paul
Anka and the Everly Brothers) with a touch of
gospel thrown in for good measure. McNiven’s
string arrangements for the ensemble numbers
brought both groups together in a way that entranced the fans from both camps. And speaking of having a foot in both camps, cellist
George Meanwell proved his own versatility by
stepping out of the quartet to sing a couple of
his own songs while strumming a guitar. En-
semble highlights for me were Ghost Riders
in the Sky, Tumblin’ Tumbleweeds, Let it be
Me and My Window Faces South, all of
which appear on the Whiskey Jack CD. Missing from the CD is their arrangement of Lyle
Lovett’s If I had a Boat and McNiven’s own
Barefoot Sadie, but we are treated to Dream
Baby (immortalized by Roy Orbison), and Willie P. Bennett’s When I’m Gone. I must confess this latter sent shivers down my spine
upon hearing the lyric “the only time they’ll
think of me is in a prayer – when I’m gone”
Verdi - Un ballo in maschera
Katia Ricciarelli; Jukith Blegen;
Bianca Berini; Luciano Pavarotti;
Louis Quillico; Metropolitan Opera
Chorus and Orchestra; Giuseppe Patane
Decca 0743227
It was the time almost 30 years ago when the
VOCAL & OPERA
modern day dementia
Puccini - La Bohème
of updating, minimizAnna Netrebko; Rollando Villazon; Boaz ing, ‘controversializDaniel; Nicole Cabell; Stephane Degout;
ing’ of opera was yet
Vitalij Kowaljow; Bayerischen
unknown and audiencRundfunks; Bertrand de Billy
es got their money’s
Deutsche Grammophon 00289 477 6600
worth with double
A recording of the
digit interest. This
world’s most popuglorious performance,
televised from the
lar opera with the
world’s most faMet in 1980, has now
mous soprano-tenor
justly become a milepairing is hardly an
stone in the history of that renowned opera
original concept.
house.
But it is also one
Giuseppe Patane was an outstanding internot likely to disappreter of Verdi and Puccini and this performpoint, and even if
ance comes from what New Yorkers affecthis new recording is not going to displace
tionately refer to as the ‘Patane Years’ when
classic recordings of La Bohème (with Paeach time he was in the pit was a great
varotti/Freni or Björling/de los Angeles)
event. True follower of Toscanini, a legenfrom the catalogue, it is certainly a worthy
dary advocate of this, Verdi’s most passionaddition. First and foremost comes Rolando
ate opera, Patane lets the dramatic intensity,
Villazón, whose beautiful, lyrical voice and
lyricism, passion and even humour work
ardent passion is ideally suited to the role of naturally with his sense of pacing and well
the poet Rodolfo – perhaps more so than any judged, but always exciting, tempi.
tenor since Pavarotti. He throws himself into
The principals? Pavarotti at his prime!
the role pulling out all the stops emotionally
Worthy successor of Gigli, who was always
and musically, and the results are consistent- regarded as the ultimate Riccardo, a very
ly outstanding. Anna Netrebko, his frequent difficult tenor role, Pavarotti takes the highpartner on stage and recording, is an affectest prize, with his magnificent vocal power,
ing Mimi, beautifully sung if somewhat
colour, sensitivity and emotional range. Ricconventional dramatically. For all the warmth ciarelli comes close second, the strong draand tenderness of her voice, her sound is
matic soprano in all registers and wonderfully
more veiled and introspective than
sympathetic characterization makes a great
Villazón’s, lacking that simplicity and hones- partner. Canadian Louis Quilico, who inheritty of an ideal Mimi. The young soprano
ed the title ‘world’s greatest Verdi baritone’
Nicole Cabell is an alluring Musetta, though from Tito Gobbi in that interim period before
perhaps too similar in tone to Netrebko. The Renato Bruson appeared on the scene, is
rest of the Bohemians sound suitably youth- similarly a great asset. Last but not least,
ful and sing well, if without particular disJudith Blegen, a fine American coloratura
tinction. Bertrand de Billy, always an expert who had just begun her distinguished career
conductor, leads the superb Bavarian Radio
in this role, is radiant. A feast to the eye and
Orchestra in a tight, incisive performance that the ear.
gives way to melting lyricism in all the right
Much more could be written. Strong, unplaces. Though taken from live concert perhesitating recommendation.
formances, the recording has the superb
Janos Gardonyi
sound and the forward placement of soloists
typical of a studio recording.
Seth Estrin
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for the first time since Willie’s untimely passing
earlier this year.
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Janácek - From the House of the Dead
Olaf Bar; Eric Storlossa; Stefan Margita;
Peter Straka; Mahler Chamber Orchestra;
Arnold Schoenberg Choir; Pierre Boulez
This production of
Janácek’s final opera,
recorded at the 2007
Aix-en-Provence
Festival, marks the
much-anticipated
reunion of conductor
Pierre Boulez and
director Patrice
Chéreau, whose 1976
Bayreuth Ring cycle
remains a landmark
production.
In a documentary clip, as Chéreau and
Boulez discuss how closely Janácek’s libretto
follows Dostoevsky’s novel, we witness their
extraordinary rapport which shows in every
aspect of this production. The subject matter
is grim: a group of murderers, thieves, political prisoners, and victims of misfortune
explain how they ended up in a Siberian labour camp. Like Dostoevsky, Janácek clothes
the brutal stories in resonant beauty. It’s
utterly moving when they all sing “My eyes
will never see the land where I was born.”
But the hopelessness of their situation, underlined by the massively high concrete walls on
stage, is alleviated when one of the prisoners
is freed.
Under Chéreau’s insightful direction, as
each soloist emerges from the ensemble, we
get to know him – and, in that way, the
whole ensemble. Movement and dance are
used effectively, especially when the prisoners put on an entertainment for themselves.
Instead of uniforms, the prisoners wear tattered street clothes, making each one individually recognizable.
The cast is altogether terrific. Boulez’s
conducting is powerfully angular, but always
sensitive to Janácek’s lyrical lines. In the
fascinating rehearsal footage, there’s a precious moment when Chéreau calls to the
costume designer, Caroline de Vivaise,
“Caroline!”, and John Mark Ainsley sings
out fortissimo, “Caroleeeeene!”. Chéreau
says, “Thank you, John. We always need a
tenor – somewhere.”
Pamela Margles
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EARLY MUSIC &
PERIOD PERFORMANCE
Handel - Israel in Egypt
Various Soloists; Aradia Ensemble;
Kevin Mallon
Naxos 8.570966-67
Kevin Mallon is
establishing himself
very quickly as
Canada’s crown
prince of period
performance. Not
that we should
forget his Irish
roots or his work
with the Cork Opera or even the fact that
frequently he is invited to guest-conduct
standard repertoire and contemporary music.
It is, however, the music of the Baroque that
Mr. Mallon delivers to our eager ears with
great aplomb. Aradia Ensemble is a wonderful grouping of very talented musicians and
Mallon’s recent artistic appointment as the
director of Grand River Baroque Festival in
Ayr, Ontario bodes well for a continuation of
this trend. This recording of Handel’s oratorio, second in the minds of the admirers only
to Messiah, is a good example of how carefully and sensitively these musicians handle
the score. Moreover, the cast of mostly very
young soloists provides a uniformly excellent
vocal tone, with all of them performing this
well known, well loved oratorio with enthusiasm and talent. Though considered a failure
in Handel’s times, Israel in Egypt is anything
but. Sure, it suffers the usual sins of a Baroque oratorio: repetitions, extensive borrowing from other works and even other composers (I guess today we would call the lengthy
quote from Stradella’s Qual Prodigio plagiarism) – but it also delivers stirring and beautiful music, set to some of the most dramatic
biblical episodes. Had it been written as an
opera, rather than an oratorio, I am sure it
would have been Handel’s greatest triumph.
With the universally know libretto – 10
plagues, burning bush and parting of the Red
Sea – great choruses and some of the best
arias, it would have given Aïda a run for its
money. As is, it is a great showcase for
Aradia’s and Kevin Mallon’s abilities.
Robert Tomas
The Balcarres Lute Book
Sylvain Bergeron
ATMA ACD2 2562
“The Balcarres
Lute Book” performed by Baroque
lutenist Sylvain
Bergeron is a masterpiece. Bergeron
performs a selection
of pieces from this
important post-1640
British source of
lute music with sensitivity, respect and
thoughtfulness.
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The works are presented in six “Suites”,
each of which is based on a specific musical
theme like The Lady’s Suite and the Suite
Imperial sweetnesse. The majority of works
are attributed to arrangements by the Scottishbased gentleman mister Beck, of whom not
much is known. (He was probably an Edinburgh lute teacher.) This is early Scottish
folk music which has not yet been wrought
with the familiar dotted rhythm aka “Scotch
snap”. It is fascinating to compare the two
versions of Jock the lairds brother from the
suite of the same name. Both by Mr. Beck,
one is Jean Mores way and the other John
Morison’s way. It is hypothesized that each
individual introduced the work to Beck who
then notated the version. Similar in melody,
John Morison’s version includes an harmonic variation that adds substance to a simple
tune and illustrates Beck’s refined skills in
transcription.
Sylvain Bergeron is a brilliant musician
who weaves an unforgettable aural tapestry.
A solid lute technique combined with an
uncanny musical intellect and impeccable
phrasing makes his performance sound fresher and more joyous with each subsequent
listening. I could go on and on about how
great I think Mr. Bergeron plays, but better
to experience his music yourself. A treasure.
Tiina Kiik
have the range of Ewa Podles or Marilyn
Horne, but her fine, smoky mezzo carries
Orlando’s fury with an impeccable precision.
Further connection of this CPO disc to the
naïve project is the instrumental ensemble.
Modo Antiquo has already contributed several recordings to the (soon to be complete)
library of new Vivaldi recordings. Though
the cover art won’t match the other disks, it
should be included among every collector’s
possessions.
Robert Tomas
CLASSICAL AND BEYOND
Beethoven - The Ideals of the French
Revolution
Maximilian Schell; Adrianne Pieczonka;
Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal
Chorus; Orchestre Symphonique de
Montréal; Kent Nagano
Analekta AN 2 9942-3
The first of these
two CDs contains
The General, an
allegory in the form
of a soliloquy with
music. The text is
based on the writings of General
Romeo Dallaire
Vivaldi
who was head of the
Orlando Furioso
U.N. peacekeeping mission in Rwanda during
Modo Antiquo;
1993-4. Beethoven’s entr’acte music for
Federico Maria
Egmont is heard between the spoken passages
Sardelli
conveyed with compassion and conviction by
CPO 777 095-2
Maximilian Schell, a perfect choice to portray
The monumental
the alienated general whose explicit orders
project of the rewere to merely observe the continuing brutality
cording all of Vivaland slaughter.
di’s scores (over
The concept for this 21st century utilization
400) by the naïve record label is possible only
of Beethoven’s 200 year old scores came
because of a near miracle. That miracle was
from conductor Kent Nagano who continues
facilitated by generous patronage of the
to prove that he is a sensitive musician who
Venetian “Red Priest” by his benefactors. It
habitually sees beyond the score to find the
enabled Vivaldi to create his own private
composer. In the notes, musicologist Paul
archive, which upon his death (all 27 neatly
Griffiths, who wrote the text, explains how
bound volumes of it) simply passed on to his
he achieved his goal to blend words and mubeneficiaries and collectors. His 20 operas,
sic into a tale, using neither names nor locaonly intermittently successful usually in lotion, not of victory but defeat. He wrote new
cales other than Vivaldi’s beloved Venice and
words for Beethoven’s oddity, Opferlied, for
denounced by the likes of Marcello, never
soprano, chorus and orchestra, opus 121b,
conformed to the rules of their times. Vivaldi
with which The General ends.
had no time for the strict Italian opera strucThe second CD has a lyrical, beautifully
ture. He did not employ the megastar castrati
balanced and finely nuanced performance of
(Farinelli was said to have loathed his muthe Fifth Symphony, the orchestra sounding,
sic), instead writing some of the most incredto my ears, better than they ever did under
ible music for mezzo-sopranos and contralDutoit. Perhaps it’s that they recorded in the
tos. Orlando Furioso, a mid-career work
Place des Arts, their home. The disc is
remains one of the best known. It is partially
rounded out with the Egmont Overture and
due to the enduring and immensely popular
two excerpts plus the Opferlied, again sung
story of Orlando, a knight from the Charleby Pieczonka as heard on the first disc. This
magne era. The other reason is more, well,
only makes sense if Analekta also intends to
operatic. Nel profundo, Orlando’s aria from
release this disc separately.
the first act, is one of the most beloved mezExcellent sound throughout this most unuzo-soprano arias of the Baroque. In this new
sual and attractive package, which is, we
recording, Orlando shimmers and amazes
hope, just the first Nagano/OSM recording
anew. Despite the convoluted libretto, it is a
from Analekta.
musical gem, given its due here in a finely
Bruce Surtees
performed version. Anne Dessler may not
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4; Waltzes; Mazurkas; Barcarolle
Ingrid Fliter
EMI 5 14899 2
Brahms - Variations Op.21; 24; 35
Olga Kern
Harmonia Mundi HMU 907392
Two recent CDs feature repertoire from the
romantic period, performed by artists who
both made their Toronto debuts in recent
months – Ingrid Fliter who performed with
the Toronto Symphony in January and Olga
Kern who was featured with the Moscow
Virtuosi under Vladimir Spivakov’s baton at
Roy Thomson Hall in May.
I admit I had never heard of Ingrid Fliter
before I was introduced to this all-Chopin
recording on the EMI label. Ms Fliter is a
native of Argentina, where she was the laureate of several competitions, and where she
made her debut in Buenos Aires at the age of
16. She later continued her studies in
Freiburg and Rome and, in 2000, was the
silver medalist at the Chopin Competition in
Warsaw. Could she possibly be the next
Martha Argerich? Admittedly, an all-Chopin
disc is an easy way to my heart, but I find
this one particularly outstanding. The program itself is finely balanced, featuring three
major works – the B minor sonata, the Barcarolle, and the fourth Ballade, interspersed
with various mazurkas and waltzes. In addition to her flawless technique, the playing is
noble and poetic, at all times displaying the
subtle nuances ever present in the music of
Chopin. Martha, I do believe you have a
successor!
I was more familiar with the name Olga
Kern whose disc on the Harmonia Mundi
label features three sets of Brahms’ variations, Op. 21, 24 and 35. Gold medalist at
the 11th van Cliburn competition in 2001,
Kern studied in her native Russia, where she
initially won acclaim as the prize-winner at
the Rachmaninov competition at the age of
17. Since then, she has earned a reputation
as an artist of international stature. The earliest set of variations on this disc, the Op. 21,
dates from 1853, the year Brahms toured
with the violin virtuoso Remenyi, so it was
perhaps not surprising that this music has a
decidedly Hungarian flavour, even to the
point of using a Hungarian theme as the basis.
Kern plays with a strong assurance, displaying a formidable technique that we might
expect from a Russian-trained pianist. More
familiar are the variations on a theme by
Handel, and the two sets of variations on a
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theme by Paganini, the latter used by Rachmaninov 70 years later. This must be among
the most difficult piano music Brahms ever
wrote, requiring an almost super-human
technique – as challenging for the pianist as
Paganini’s etudes are for the violin. Not
surprisingly, Ms Kern effortlessly captures
the ever-changing moods of the music, from
the delicacy of Variation 5 in the first set, to
the robust bravura of the first variation in the
second. In all, these are two most satisfying
discs – great music superbly performed –
who could ask for more?
Richard Haskell
Karajan - In Concert
Berliner Philharmoniker;
Herbert von Karajan
Karajan or Beauty as I See It
A Film by Robert Dornhelm
See It lets the historic footage and interviews
with prominent musicians who worked closely with Karajan speak for themselves. In
interview, pianist Evgeny Kissin says that
Karajan opened hidden potential in him.
Daughter Isabel von Karajan recalls seeing
her father in tears only once – after a performance with Kissin. Both René Kollo and
Christa Ludwig recall how, when they started
having vocal problems, he dumped them,
even though they were still in their prime and
had worked together for years. Dornhelm
cleverly cuts between footage of Leonard
Bernstein and Karajan rehearsing the Berliners to highlight their contrasting conducting
styles, Bernstein uninhibited and Karajan
thoroughly disciplined.
A few of the historical clips appear in
Jasný’s documentary as well, but Dornhelm,
freed by Karajan’s death, is able to present a
more well-rounded portrait. So it is disappointing that he skims so lightly over key
controversies in Karajan’s career, such as his
ties to the Nazis, his later problems with the
Berlin players and, above all, his distinctive
orchestral sound, which today remains the
most important aspect of his legacy.
Pamela Margles
MODERN AND
CONTEMPORARY
From audio recordings alone it can be hard
today to understand why Herbert von Karajan
so dominated his age. Now, almost twenty
years after his death, his unified textures and
seamless phrasing have lost favour to a less
mannered, more historically informed style.
Yet those who heard him live tend to consider
the experience transformative.
The centenary of Karajan’s birth this year
has inspired record companies to make even
more recordings by him available. These two
video releases are especially valuable for allowing us to not just hear but see him at work.
The two-disc set Karajan in Concert contains filmed concerts with his orchestra, the
Berlin Philharmonic, recorded in the 1970’s,
with Karajan both conducting and directing
the innovative filming. In a gripping performance of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto
no. 2 with Alexis Weissenberg, the intrepid
camera peers over the pianist’s shoulder,
sweeps around the players and pans out to
the renowned Berlin Philharmonic Hall.
Karajan conducts every work from memory,
without a score. That’s just as well, since he
keeps his eyes closed. The one-hour documentary portrait of Karajan made by director
Vojtech Jasný in 1970 shows how the real
work was done in lengthy rehearsals, where
Karajan keeps his eyes wide open. He even
tells jokes.
Robert Dornhelm’s recent one-and-onehalf hour documentary Karajan or Beauty as I
Messes de Theodore Dubois &
Maurice Duruflé
Antonio Figueroa; Marc Boucher;
Les Voix d’Elles; Regis Rousseau
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Claudel Callender, - Messe du Pardon;
Hymnes; Cantiques
Ensemble Vocal Vox Luminosa:
Jacques Giroux
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These two sacred music offerings on the
XXI-21 label both feature alumni from Les
Petits chanteurs, a choir school that was
founded in 1956 primarily to provide music
for religious ceremonies at Saint Joseph’s
Oratory on Mount Royal, Montreal, but has
since become internationally renowned. The
current director, Gilbert Patenaude, founded
Les Chantres Musiciens in 1992, a superb
male voice choir consisting of graduates from
Les Petits chanteurs. From an uncharacteristically simple mass setting by Dubois to the
complex harmonic changes (a cappella) in
Florent Schmitt’s Psalm 112 and Cantique de
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Siméon, to Langlais’ Corpus Christi and Duruflé’s Messe “Cum Jubilo”, Les Chantres
Musiciens carry off the nuances and difficult
turns with aplomb. For César Franck’s setting of Psalm 150, the choir is augmented by
another of Pautenaude’s excellent choirs,
l’ensemble vocal des Voix d’Elles.
The second CD features another alumnus
of Les Petits chanteurs, Claudel Callender,
an accomplished singer who composed the
featured Messe de Pardon as well as directing the Ensemble Vocal Vox Luminosa. This
mass on the theme of forgiveness has a joyful
character, full of hope and enthusiasm for the
reconciliation of a troubled world. There are
some delightful, almost playful organ passages for Jacques Giroux and lovely solos by
mezzo Chantal Denis and soprano Andrée de
Repentigny as well. A service centred around
this mass would be sure to cheer the congregation and no doubt organists will be looking
to incorporate this score into their choir’s
repertoire.
Dianne Wells
Kenneth Leighton - Organ Concerto;
Concerto for String Orchestra;
Symphony for Strings
John Scott; BBC Nat’l. Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox
Chandos CHAN 10461
Conductor Richard
Hickox makes a
return visit to Cardiff from his Australian duties, once
again directing his
old Welsh orchestra,
and this wonderful
disc is the result.
Kenneth Leighton
has been under-represented in recordings lo
these many years, so Chandos is doing a good
service in bringing this out. Leighton’s Concerto for String Orchestra Op.39 is the
crowning glory of the project – for many his
definitive creation – written when he was at the
height of his creative powers. Here the musical
forces give it the most loving attention.
Almost as highly regarded is his late (1970)
Concerto for Organ, Strings and Tympani, a
breathtaking excursion in moderately dissonant tonal language. Also, Chandos has included the early Symphony for Strings Op.3
from Leighton’s student days.
Orchestra, soloists and conductor are at all
times deftly accurate, precise and expressive. The acoustics of Saint David’s Hall,
Cardiff, were never better than on those two
days in late November 2006 when this was
recorded. Perhaps my ears are just too sensitive, but I can hear a high-frequency whistle
at the start of several tracks, but otherwise
the recording is without equal. There are two
precious photographs: one of the 1979 organ
concerto performance, which has the appearance of a 1905 image, and there is Leighton
with his old 1920’s Bechstein B. Wonderful.
A disc to treasure.
John S. Gray
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EXTENDED PLAY – STRING R0UND-UP
By Terry Robbins
This has been a great month for outstanding
violin CDs. At the top of the pile is the new
Super Audio disc of the Tchaikovsky & Glazunov Violin Concertos by Vadim Gluzman
and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra under Andrew Litton (BIS BIS-SACD-1432).
From the opening bars of the Glazunov we
are treated to performances of depth and
brilliance that never falter. Gluzman is in
particularly glorious form in the Tchaikovsky,
with a simply breathtaking finale, as fast as
any you’ll hear, but with dazzling technique
and articulation. Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir d’un
Lieu Cher is a perfect link between the two
concertos, consisting of three Tchaikovsky
pieces as orchestrated by Glazunov, the first
– Meditation – being the original slow movement of the Violin Concerto. As if any further ties were needed, Gluzman plays the
Stradivarius violin once owned by Leopold
Auer, who premiered the Glazunov concerto
in 1905. The Bergen Philharmonic and Litton
are superb partners throughout, supplying
every nuance of tempo and dynamic you
could wish for in supremely satisfying interpretations. Stunning performances, and a
wonderful CD.
Not far behind comes another outstanding
disc, the Dohnanyi Violin Concertos Nos. 1
& 2 with Michael Ludwig and the Royal
Scottish National Orchestra under JoAnn
Falletta (Naxos 8.570833). I must admit –
somewhat shamefully – to not knowing that
Dohnanyi wrote any violin concertos, let
alone two, and – even more shamefully – to
not knowing Michael Ludwig; how anybody
could not be aware of a player of this worldclass quality is baffling. Ludwig is the Concertmaster, and JoAnn Falletta the Music
Director, of the Buffalo Philharmonic
Orchestra, and they clearly work well together. The first concerto dates from 1915, and is
in the German Romantic tradition of Brahms
and Bruch, while the second, from 1949 when
Dohnanyi had moved to the US, is closer to
Barber and Korngold in style. Ludwig and the
RSNO are superb throughout, and the recording quality is outstanding. Another ‘must buy’
disc!
Naxos is also the source of the third CD in
this group, one that features works for solo
violin and violin and piano by John Corigliano
and Virgil Thomson in the excellent American Classics series (Corigliano: The Red
Violin Caprices; Naxos 8.559364); the performers are Philippe Quint and William
Wolfram. The Caprices and Thomson’s Eight
Portraits are for solo violin; Corigliano is
also represented by his Violin Sonata from
1963 and Thomson by Three Portraits and
Five Ladies. Quint is tremendous in the solo
pieces, although his assorted breathing noises
do become a bit annoying after a while.
Last, but by no means least, is another
fascinating CD from the American violinist
Jennifer Koh with her regular accompanist
Reiko Uchida. Koh always programmes with
imagination and intelligence, and this CD,
String Poetic (Cedille CDR 90000 103) is no
different, presenting a challenging but rewarding collection sub-titled American
works: a 21st century perspective. The title
track is the World Premiere Recording of a
5-movement suite written for Koh by Jennifer Higdon; Lou Harrison’s Grand Duo,
John Adams’ Road Movies, and Carl Ruggles’ Mood, a short work completed from
early sketches found after Ruggles’ death in
1971, complete the disc. This isn’t always
music that’s easy to listen to, but it’s hard to
imagine better performances.
The string quartets
of Carl Nielsen
really should be
better-known than
they are, so it’s
good to see
the arrival of the
Super Audio CD
Nielsen String Quartets Vol.2 by The
Young Danish String Quartet (DACAPO
6.220522). This disc has the F minor Op.5
from 1890 and the Eb major Op.14 from
1898, and the Young Danish give solid, idiomatic performances, as you would expect
given the shared nationality. Gramophone
magazine said that their Volume 1 CD “set
benchmark standards” for Nielsen’s quartets
– not that there seems to be a great deal of
competition. Certainly the tone here is better
than in the 2-volume Naxos set by the Oslo
String Quartet, but I would have preferred a
little less reverb and a bit more closeness in
the recording.
Ernst Toch was an
established and
highly successful
composer when
Hitler’s rise to
power in 1933
forced him – and
many other Jewish
composers –to flee
Germany. Toch
ended up in California in 1935, but never
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acclaimed Austrian
pianist, Fritz Pauer
– alternating between saxophone
and vocal duets. Ms
Cooper has long
been one of the jazz
world’s best-kept
secrets. Residing in
Vienna since 2006,
she previously spent a number of years in
New York City, recording, touring and performing with her own quartet, as well as top
international musicians such as Dave Liebman and Renée Rosnes.
“Tales of Love and Longing” is a series of
JAZZ AND IMPROVIZED
intimately told musical stories (nine standards
and one original), and begins with a simple
All About Jazz, Volume One - The Octet
and gorgeous arrangement of Hoagy CarBob Erlendson
michael’s rarely performed Winter Moon.
Independent
(www.cdbaby.com/
Austrian piano icon Fritz Pauer has an imcd/boberlendson)
possibly facile and yet sensitive touch,
matched only by Cooper’s sonorous, multiOne may wonder
textural saxophone sound. Her instrument
why someone who’s
sings with a genderless human ache. As a
been such an imporvocalist, Cooper is a no-nonsense, in-tune
tant part of this
purist in the mode of Julie London or the
country’s jazz scene
technically superior Helen Merrill in her
as long as Bob Erfabulous prime. Every note is placed perfectlendson has is so
ly, with a knowing, sadder-but-wiser nuance.
poorly represented
A stand-out is Tommy Wolf’s I’m a Fool to
on record. But the
Want You. With such a melodramatic lyric, a
pianist/composer/educator is certainly not
singer might be tempted to chew up the scenalone. Consider for example fellow pianists
ery. Not so for the ever-tasteful Ms Cooper,
Wray Downes, Ian Bargh and Mark Eisenwho wears her jazz vocal hat on this track.
man. What little there is on record by those
worthies has them mainly in the role of side- She has, instead, positioned the tune with an
un-cluttered elegance, while rendering her
men. It’s been the same with Erlendson, on
the scene since 1952. Prior to this release the vocal with a dollop of plaintive longing. Pauer
74 year old veteran had made only one other constructs another flawless solo on this tune.
album as a leader, a solo performance issued His prestigious piano chops are simply
breathtaking. By the way, Sheila Cooper can
in 1988 that, according to this set’s notes,
also swing – as she does on Irving Berlin’s
was “neglected into obscurity”.
jaunty How Deep is the Ocean. This CD is a
All the music on this octet date was re“must-have” for any jazz lover, as there’s no
corded at the Calgary C-Jazz Festival in
August of last year. Al Muirhead is on trum- doubt that it will be a perpetual joy.
Lesley Mitchell-Clarke
pet, Dave Reid, trombone, Gib Monks, alto,
Eric Allison, tenor, Gerry Hebert, baritone,
John Hyde, bass, and John de Waal, drums, Lily Swings
Lily Frost
with the leader on piano and electric keyMarquis 774718-1393-2-0
boards. All nine tunes are originals written
by Erlendson over the past half century, in a Lily Frost is a Toronto musician whose singsome cases for other musicians with whom
ing and writing career has taken her to some
the pianist worked, tenorman D. T. Thomp- interesting places,
son and vocalist Jody Drake among them.
both geographically
Erlendson’s music is as comfortable as an
and stylistically.
old pair of shoes. It’s obvious that the octet Gigging in Canada,
was a working group and the players sound Cairo and Tahiti,
completely at home with the material. I eaand covering such
gerly await Volume Two in what I hope will diverse genres as
be an ongoing series.
lounge, country,
Don Brown and Latin, Frost has
developed into a
Tales of Love and Longing
versatile performer with the experience to do
Sheila Cooper; Fritz Pauer
justice to her latest project, a tribute to the
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music of Billie Holiday.
(www.sheilacooper.com)
With The Swinging Dukes (Clive “Pops”
Jackson,
bass fiddle; Steve Taylor, drums;
For her third album as vocalist, saxophonist
and arranger, uber-talented and quirky Cana- Chris Dean, guitar and banjo; Jimmy Roy
pedal steel; plus Greg Shea and Waylen
dian-born jazz artist Sheila Cooper has chosen to express herself in duo format with the Miki, piano) backing her, “Lily Swings” has
recaptured the prominence and recognition he
enjoyed in Europe. Naxos has released an
interesting CD of some of his solo and chamber music, performed by Spectrum Concerts
Berlin, in their American Classics series
(Toch: Piano Quintet; Naxos 8.559324). The
Violin Sonata No.2 and Burlesken for Piano
are from Toch’s Berlin years, and the Piano
Quintet and Three Impromptus for Cello are
from 1938 and 1963 respectively. All are
performed beautifully, with Daniel Blumenthal (Piano), Annette von Hehn (violin) and
Frank Dodge (cello) outstanding in their respective roles.
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a distinct alt-country feel and the live-off-thefloor recording technique gives it an upbeat,
Saturday night dance hall vibe as opposed to a
dark, smoky jazz club mood one might expect.
Mercifully, Frost has chosen to honour
Holiday without attempting to imitate her.
That said, on some of the tunes Frost coaxes
out the vocal qualities she shares with Holiday – bright horn-like timbre and fast vibrato
– and delivers it all in a cool, controlled manner. Holiday was no belter, and was once
famously appraised by Ethel Waters as singing like her “shoes are too tight”. So while I
wouldn’t go that far with Frost – she and the
band have a lot of fun with these tunes – I
found myself wishing on a few occasions that
they would let out the reins a bit more. But
this is a record made by seasoned pros who
have no doubt been there and done the high
octane thing and have come to appreciate the
understated power of being able to just plain
Swing.
Cathy Riches
EXTENDED PLAY EXPATRIATE (AND
HOMEBODY) SOUNDS
By Ken Waxman
Eager collaborators, as much as geographic
proximity, is responsible for the migration of
gifted Canadian
improvisers to the
United States.
One of the music’s
distinctive stylists
with profound effects on jazz’s evolution from the early
1950s on was a
Montreal-born pianist. No, not that one
… but Paul Bley. Bley’s associations with
reedists Ornette Coleman and Jimmy Giuffre
are well known. A reissue from 1990, 12+6
In A Row (hatOLOGY 649,
www.hathut.com) is not only a milestone in
Bley’s evolution, but points out another development the pianist helped to initiate: partnership with like-minded Europeans. Bley’s
associates here are Austrian flugelhornist
Franz Koglmann and Swiss reedist Hans
Koch. The title’s inferences to 12-tone rows
are realized with sparse contrapuntal harmonies, broken counterpoint and skittering runs
from the pianist, tongue slaps and chalumeau
vibrations from Koch’s bass clarinet and chromatic lip burbles from Koglmann.
Yet obtuse formalism doesn’t overshadow
jazz roots. Bley’s Solo 2 includes righthanded bass syncopation, and there’s an
excursion into waltz time on Duo 2. Meanwhile Solo 6 channels boogie-woogie forefather Jimmy Yancy, in a Europeanized fashion, with Bley bearing down on the keys while
simultaneously tinkling higher pitches. The
piano-less Duo 3 highlights intersections
between Koglmann’s brassy, triple-tonguing
and overblown split tones from Koch’s alto
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saxophone. Fulfillment of the notated-improvised mandate is obvious on pieces like Trio 5
which harmonizes distanced piano patterns,
smeary reed obbligatos and airy brass nodes.
Bley was already well-established as Vancouver bassist Lisle Ellis
was making his first
U.S. forays in the
1970s. Over time Ellis
established himself in
partnerships with
California-based
players like pianist
Mike Wofford and
flutist Holly Hofmann, or East Coasters like trombonist
George Lewis and saxophonist Oliver Lake.
Now a New Yorker, Ellis’ Sucker Punch
Requiem (Henceforth Records 104,
www.henceforthrecords. com), subtitled An
Homage to Jean-Michel Basquiat, ruminates
on the short life and creative sensibilities of the
visual artist. Utilizing electronics and sound
design as well as his bass, Ellis admixes Susie
Ibarra’s percussion, and the vocal tones, sound
samples and processing of Pamela Z., with
instrumental contribution from his bi-coastal
associates. Structured like a traditional mass,
but with layers of sonic contributions, the
program is rough, meandering and a bit unfinished – like Basquiat’s art – but the end
product is true to the painter. Exposition and
thematic recapitulation mirror one another;
the purely instrumental passages tell most of
the story. Especially important are processional piano chording, aviary flute asides and
the thick motions of Ellis’ plucked strings.
Declarative alto saxophone, cocooning trombone slurs and watery flute burbles are often
played off against one another, as are Ellis’
mellow arco lines, Wofford’s hunt-and-peck
comping and Ibarra’s pings, flams and rolls.
probably never imagined Volunteered Slavery
with junkeroo steel drum echoes and metallic
steel guitar riffs elaborating the theme. Even
Driftwood’s folksy tune gets an injection of
guitar distortion and sax squeals. Eclecticism
has its own rewards, however, as the trio
proves on the original Good Evening Mr.
Dammers, named for a punk-rocker. Rather
than punk, the sound is that of surprise with
chirping reed lines doubled by electronics,
sharp finger picking and conga drum pops.
POT POURRI
Moving from eclecticism to experience,
Canadian improvised music’s Brangelina is
Vancouver-based married couple cellist Peggy Lee and drummer Dylan van der Schyff.
Lee is featured in pianist Wayne Horvitz’
Gravitas Quartet on One Dance Alone,
(Songlines SGL SA1571-2
www.songlines.com), a charming excursion
into chamber jazz featuring cornetist Ron
Miles and bassoonist Sara Schoenbeck. It
was recorded in Seattle, as was Zemlya (Leo
Records CD LR 507, www.leorecords
.com), which puts van der Schyff’s drums,
percussion and laptop with Irishman Mark
O’Leary’s guitar and electronics plus the
viola and processing of Winnipeg-born,
American-resident Eyvind Kang.
As filled with pulsating and triggered
oscillations as One Dance is with pastoral
suggestions, Zemlya doesn’t overuse electronics. In fact when Kang picks his fiddle
If Ellis’ homage showcases musical tangents,
mandolin-like, the three approximate the
consider Radio I-Ching’s The Fire Keeps
sound of a rural string band. Story of Iceland
Burning (Resonant Music 004 www. radioPart II and Sorcery, with their carnatic overichingnewyork .com)! Among the composers
tones, bring the partnership into focus. Mulrepresented are jazzers Thelonious Monk and
ti-faceted, the latter features rim shots and
Roland Kirk, Arab
cymbal slapping from the drummer, scrapped
stylist Hamnza El
and strained spiccato viola lines and spidery
Din, Hollywood’s
riffs from the guitarist extended with whamAlfred Newman and
my-bar finesse. Elements of staccatissimo
country picker Jimstop-time lead to a climax of fiery timbral
mie Driftwood.
dislocation, abetted by snare pounding, with
Ching is Dee Pop
the 10 strings reaching such whirling deron drums and pervish-like speeds that they almost sonically
cussion, Don Fiorino
blur. More balladic …Iceland evolves from
on guitar, lap steel
van der Schyff’s ruffs and in sympathy with
and mandolin, and ex-Torontonian Andy Haas
Kang’s contrapuntal plucks. Folksy, chromaton sax and electronics. (Haas was a member
ic, and splintered with irregular drum beats,
of 1970s New-Wave rock band Martha & The
the theme produced by O’Leary’s finger-style
Muffins before moving to New York). Ching’s
runs is surrounded by Kang’s rococo detailstrength lies in adapting its instruments’ texing.
tures to unexpected ends: Haas’ triple tonguReturning to One Dance, chamber jazz is
ing and Fiorino’s lotar-like claw-hammer
the watchword for the Gravitas Quartet, with
banjo licks on El Din’s Gala 2000; and a
intermezzos and interludes more common
Hawaiian lounge treatment for Newman’s
than riffs or vamps. Yet recital-friendly inMoon Over Manakoora, complete with slack
strumentation and bucolic licks can’t mask
key resonations, chuffing and chiming from
the hard-centre of Horvitz’s compositions,
Pop, and syrupy sax trills. Meantime Kirk
nor their jazz antecedents. A Walk in the Rain
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for instance, adds Lee’s sul ponticello squeals
and Schoenbeck’s burbling accents to the
swinging call-and-response. It ends with
sped-up bassoon riffs and harmonic piano
swells, which then reverse themselves into
Chopinesque keyboard chording and doublereed breaths. This CD’s neither-fish-norfowl program keeps the tracks interesting.
With eclogue-like formalism never fully accepted, many parts are gently subversive.
For every bit of open-horned romanticism
from Miles, there’s a matching squeak from
Lee; and for every moderato vibration from
Schoenbeck, there’s astringent dynamics
from Horvitz.
These Canadian-affiliated CDs are memorable outings. The inadvertent irony is that
only Lee and van der Schyff haven’t had to
emigrate to build careers.
O Canada! - The Perfect Anthology and
History of Our Anthem
Various Artists
XXI XXI-CD 2 1600
Just in time for Canada Day, we are
presented with a CD
that is the most nationalistic expression
of musicological
study that you will
find anywhere in the
world. Imagine the
very idea of Decca
making a historical record of God Save the
Queen, or Deutsche Grammophon doing such
a treatment on arrangements of Deutschland
uber alles. It would be entirely too absurd to
imagine.
But this is Canada, and a complete CD of
O Canada arrangements takes its place in the
canon. Given our national insecurities (minority parliament, on-again, off-again Quebec
nationalism, and ever more absurd posturing
from our giant southern neighbour) this recording seems right for the time.
No fewer that 22 separate tracks – the
Toronto and Montreal Symphony Orchestras,
the Canadian Brass and the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir amongst many others – give
an overview of the National Anthem (as it
has been officially since the mid-1960s) from
recordings old and new. The recent reconstruction of the historically authentic 1880’s
arrangement of Calixa Lavillée’s tune by Les
Voltigeurs de Québec is quite refreshing.
Some of the more common versions, by the
RCMP band and others of that ilk, will leave
you with indelible mental images of The
Prime Minister or Governor-General opening
a public works project, against a backdrop of
bright yellow hard hats.
Two different musicologists contribute
essays, and both are admirably translated into
English. Even the plastic jewel case is archival: it is impossible to damage the CD by
dropping the heavy duty case on the floor.
John S. Gray
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Birth
Araz Salek
Independent
www.arazsalek.com
Araz Salek, born in
Iran and now based in
Toronto, began playing the tar (a plucked
lute with three sets of
double stings and a twin-bowled wooden body)
at the age of 8, and two decades later his mastery shows. The debut CD of this tar virtuoso is
a testament to a new and eloquent voice enriching our Canadian cultural landscape.
Having thoroughly imbibed the Iranian
classical repertoire of vocal and instrumental
radifs (established melodic phrases transmitted via the oral tradition) under Iranian masters, Salek has produced in “Birth” a fully
realised and mature musical statement within
that tradition. Most refreshing in this recital
is the purist approach taken by Salek. One
hears only the clear and intimate string voice
of the tar in its various technical and affective guises. I also couldn’t help but be impressed with this artist’s single-minded decision to stick with a single dastgah called
Dashti (with a keening optional ¼ tone on
its third scalar note) for the entire of non-stop
duration of the album’s 10 tracks. This selfimposed restriction, as in many artistic realms,
is actually a springboard to creativity. The
music’s movements progress masterfully from
moody free-metered introductions (taqsîm)
embellished with complex mellismas, to songlike metered expositions.
I can’t claim to be more than a casual fan of
classical Iranian music with its well-developed
systems of radif, dastgah (modal scales), and
idiosyncratic rhythms and meters, but I must
say I was mightily impressed with Araz Salek’s
debut solo flight on CD on a purely music level.
Andrew Timar
OLD WINE IN NEW BOTTLES – Fine old recordings re-released - by Bruce Surtees
Friedrich Gulda, who remains one of my favourite pianists of the last generation, was born
in Vienna in 1939 and died in 2000. Hearing his
recordings, one could never infer that he was
an outrageous and bizarre musician who embraced every genre of music and survived his
most vociferous and malicious critics. He was
a superlative and insightful interpreter of the
classical repertoire, specialising in Bach, Mozart and Beethoven but a glance at the CD and
DVD catalogues reveal an encyclopaedic repertoire. His playing was never tentative even
when improvising. His complete Beethoven
Sonatas, recorded in 1967 by Amadeo and now
available at a ridiculously low price from Brilliant Classics, are arguably the most persuasive performances available (Brilliant BR
92773, 9 CDs). Martha Argerich said that he was her
finest teacher. “He was one
of the most talented people I
ever met”, she stated.
DG has issued a DVD entitled So What?! (073 4376, 1
DVD) which includes an intriguing biography of Gulda,
mostly compiled from filmed
interviews with him over the
years and videos of many of
his public performances,
some of which were wildly
eccentric. Another bonus feature is a revealing 1986 interview by Joachim Kaiser. The
body of the DVD is occupied
by a live performance from
1981 played on clavichord
and piano. Bach, beautifully
played on the clavichord, includes Gulda’s appreciation of the instrument. He then turns 45
degrees to the piano which sits at a right angle
to the clavichord to continue with Debussy, Mozart and little talk about Schubert’s Wanderer
after which he thanks the audience for not applauding his performance. Gulda was not an
ordinary musician and this is no ordinary collection. But it is a super package!
Gulda is also heard on a new Medici Arts
CD (MM024-2) in performances from 1957
playing Beethoven’s Third with the Cologne
Radio Symphony conducted by Mario Rossi plus
the Appassionata and the no.28, op.101 Sonatas.
In clear mono sound from the WDR Cologne, it
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is clear why he already was much admired.
Alexis Weissenberg is a classical pianist who,
as Ziggy Weissenberg, played jazz in New
York, including Birdland, in the 1950s. A new
DVD from Medici Arts (307804) begins with
the celebrated 1965 film of Three Movements
from Petrushka performed by Weissenberg
that remains, to this day, unique in concept and
execution. This original black and white production is not simply a video of a performance of
these ferociously difficult obstacle courses, but
a visual work of art devised and created in
Stockholm by film maker Ake Falck. It took 10
days to film and as Weissenberg explains on a
bonus feature, it would be prohibitively expensive today.
Broadcast videos of Prokofiev,
Scriabin, Rachmaninov, Chopin,
Bach and the Brahms second
concerto from 1969 conducted
by Georges Prêtre round out the
disc.
natas; no.4 K.282, no.8 K.310,
and no.16 K.545, followed by
eight of the 12 Chopin Etudes
op.10 and four from op.25. Unaware until shortly before the
concert that it was to be filmed,
he reluctantly agreed on the
condition that they would not
illuminate the stage and that no cameras or
technicians would be in his line of sight. It was
his practice by this time, to have only a single
40 watt bulb trained on the music. I think it all
worked out rather well, as we can see all we
wish to with no distractions. As a bonus we see
three items from a BBC broadcast of 1969 playing Rachmaninov and two Chopin Etudes at
breakneck tempi, cutting about a minute each
from the later Chopin performances. Musically, I prefer the later versions.
Centering around of the third
quarter of last century, Artur
Rubinstein was one of the only
three or four pianists who name
Tatiana Nikolayeva plays Shoswas recognized around the
takovich Preludes and Fugues
world (the others were Padis the title of another Medici
erewski, Horowitz, and someArts DVD (3085248). This inone else). Judging only from his
spired opus, in essence 24 little
recordings, he played better
masterpieces, was written in
just four months from October after the 1940s than before, which is really say10, 1950 to February 25, 1951 is ing something. In answer to a leading question,
he stated that he was not the world’s best playseen in BBC broadcasts from
er, merely different. “An artist must be
December 1992, the year before Nikolayeva’s
death. One is not ever likely to witness such an alone... in a world by himself and not an imitator.” Included on a new DG DVD (073 4445)
intimate homage to a departed friend as conare the Beethoven Third Concerto and the
veyed in every note by Nikolayev as she, in effect, recites each piece. On a bonus BBC docu- Brahms First, both with Bernard Haitink and
the Concertgebouw Orchestra (1973). Both are
mentary, complete with archive footage of
patrician performances with pianist and conShostakovich in performance, she talks about
ductor in total harmony, presenting music
the genesis of the 24, which she inspired and
premiered, and her friendship with the compos- making of the highest order. The orchestra
under Haitink has a lovely breathy sound that
er. She quotes conductor Kurt Sanderling who
is most attractive. These are performances
believed that the Preludes and Fugues are “the
that will, I believe, never become weariintimate diary of Dmitri Shostakovich; not the
quartets, not the symphonies... an intimate dia- some. The solo pieces are previously unrery, kept for himself, that brings happiness to all leased performances of Schubert’s Impromptu
opus 90 no.4; Brahms’ Capriccio in B minor
of us.” A rather romantic view, but why not?
op.76 no.2 and Intermezzo op.117 no.2; and as
Sviatoslav Richter is the third DVD in this trio a finale, Chopin’s second Scherzo, op.31. The
bonus on this disc is Rubinstein at 90, in which
of pianists issued by Medici Arts in which we
are invited to a recital at the Barbican on March the pianist opens up to Robert MacNeil in 1977
in a film made by Unitel and shown on PBS sta29, 1989 (3085208). We hear three Mozart sotions. A beautiful disc.
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