WholeNote Magazine for September 2006

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For Openers…
This Month’s Cover: Duo Diorama
In Memoriam: John Weinzweig
DISCoveries: Editor’s Corner David Olds
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World View Karen Ages
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Something New Jason van Eyk
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FOR OPENERS ...
Welcome watchword
“Welcome” was going to be the watchword
of this “Opener”. But, as things turn out,
it’s not enough.
First, of course, is “welcome back” – to all
our regulars. Contributors, readers,
musicians – hope you’re recharged and
ready. The music awaits its audience. The
audience awaits its music.
(Also in the “welcome back” category:
Colin Eatock’s T.O. Diary returns (page
18). In his final column before heading off
to England in July 05, he wondered out loud
how WholeNote readers would “survive and
thrive in an irony-deprived environment until
my return”. For those of you who
somehow did, the long drought is over.)
Next comes just plain “welcome”:
—to our new BandStand columnist Jack
MacQuarrie who has set a blistering pace –
connecting with a mind-boggling sixty new
community bands and wind orchestras for
our eighth annual band list. Some readers say
the community band end of things doesn’t
even belong here. “The music’s just an
excuse for a party” they grumble. Hmmm.
Now there’s a concept.
—to our new listings co-ordinator Les
Redman, likewise hell-bent on establishing
new standards of thoroughness in the live
concert listings coverage that is our raisond’etre. Check out, for example, what we in
our Toronto-centric fashion call our “Further
Afield” concert listings. And imagine
gathering all that, one brochure and flyer at a
time.
—and welcome to you, if you are a first-time
WholeNote reader. This includes a special
welcome to those of you in town for the
Canadian Opera Company Ring Cycle. We
hope these pages open your eyes to our
city’s year-round musical riches, and that
you will return.
As I said at the outset, though, welcome is
not enough of a watchword, because it’s a
word that says only “hail” and not
“farewell”, and life is not like that. Too late
for our individual writers to address in their
regular columns, came news of John
Weinzweig’s passing. Larry Lake’s words
on the next page mark the moment of
“farewell,” a placeholder for the deserved
tributes to come.
David Perlman
Editor
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This month’s cover
Duo Diorama
BY ALLAN
Canadian pianist, Winston Choi and
Chinese violinist Minghuan Xu
– a married couple as well as musical
collaborators - are still in their twenties and
are still students – she at SUNY Stony
Brook, he at Northwestern University - but
each is already an accomplished artist with an
extensive list of accomplishments.
Choi is a laureate of the 2003
Honens International Piano Competition and
winner of the 2002 Concours International de
Piano 20e siècle d’Orléans. His first CD, the
complete piano works of Elliott Carter
received a five-star rave review from BBC
Music Magazine and his second, first of a
three-CD set of the piano music of French
composer, Jacques Lenot was awarded the
Grand Prix du Disque de l’Académie Charles
Cros. He has since finished recording the
second of the set as well as a CD of music
by impressionistic composers, all on the
Arktos label.
Minghuan Xu is a native of Beijing,
China, where she began playing violin at the
age of five. A winner of the Beijing Young
Artists Competition, she came to the United
States at the age of 14 to study at the Curtis
Institute, moving on to Northwestern
University As a duo they were the first
recipients of the Banff Centre for the Arts’
Rolston Fellowship in 2005 and in 2005-06
were ensemble-in-residence at Tufts
University. They gave their Carnegie Weill
Recital Hall debut last February and have
toured in many parts of the world, separately
as soloists and together as Duo Diorama. At
the time of writing they are together touring
South America.
While both are absorbing and
mastering the standard repertoire for their
instruments, they are also deeply committed
to the performance, support and
encouragement of the creation of new music.
In their artists’ statement they write: “…we
strive to present contemporary music in an
exciting, vibrant and communicative way.
Since our formation we have worked with
dozens of composers. Working intimately
with the composer and the exchange of ideas
during the creative process is an integral part
of our work. By having as much contact as
possible with those creative minds writing
music for us, we can have the best possible
input on the music. It is our dream to be able
to champion great new works…”.
They appear already to have done a
great deal of the type of work described in
their statement, having worked with many
composers, including William Bolcom,
Elliott Carter, Brian Ferneyhough, Bright
Sheng, Christian Wolff and John Zorn.
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The good news for WholeNote readers,
especially if you missed their soundaXis
Festival performance at the Music Gallery
last June, is that there are not one but two
opportunities to hear these very accomplished
young musicians. On Saturday, September
23 they will perform in Barrie’s Colours of
Music Festival and on Sunday, September 24
at the Music Gallery as part of the X
AVANT New Music Festival. The Barrie
program will feature the duo’s more
traditional repertoire – Brahms’ Sonatensatz,
Richard Strauss’ Sonata in E-flat, three
Preludes by George Gershwin transcribed by
Jascha Heifetz and a very early composition
by John Corigliano.
The program at the Music Gallery
will be a wonderful opportunity to hear them
perform works by living composers. The
duo has worked very closely with Mischa
Zupko on his work, Shades of Grey (which
was written for them, and of which they will
be playing one movement called “Trigger”),
and with Amy Williams on her work, Wrest,
which was also written for them. A third
piece on the program, Prisma by Felipe
Lara, was also written for the duo, but was
finished so close to their departure for South
America in mid-August that they have not
yet had the opportunity to play it for the
composer. This performance will be the
North American premiere. There is one work
by a Canadian composer on the program,
Wild Honey, a relatively recent work by the
outstanding young Canadian composer,
Omar Daniel.
Speaking of the difference between
preparing a program of traditional repertoire
and of contemporary works, Choi observed
that the biggest difference is that with the
work of living composers one has the
opportunity to be involved in the creative
process, even to influence, in a way that you
never can with a composer whom you have
never met, what he or she wanted to say in a
particular composition. You approach both
kinds of work with the question, “what is it
that I as a musician want to say?” and find a
balance between that and what the composer
wants or wanted to say. The work with
living composers, Choi said, has influenced
the way he perceives the composers of the
past; they become more real, more human,
closer to us, just as to their contemporaries
they were just other people, not superhuman
musical heroes.
These promise to be performances that we
will remember for a long time. Put them in
your calendars and reserve tickets early.
John Weinzweig
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1913-2006
I’m sad to report that the great
John Weinzweig, often called the
Dean of Canadian Composers,
passed away August 24.
John was a true giant of Canadian music. Before him, there
were no professional composers.
Then, there was one. Now, there
are many.
I recall John years ago defining
the term “professional” to me. His
definition was more stringent than
most. He said that a professional
composer was one who made his
or her living by writing music. He
then added with a smile that he
gave up his professional status
when he became a professor.
He was not only one of our
finest composers, he was also an
outstanding teacher. He founded
the Canadian League of Composers and the Canadian Music Centre and was a Life Member of
both organizations. He taught at
least three generations of Canadian composers, including Harry
Somers, Harry Freedman, John
Beckwith and R. Murray Schafer.
I count myself fortunate to have
studied with him.
Perhaps the public knew John
best as an outspoken advocate of
Canadian music. He never ceased
to defend our art form against all
threats. And I believe that it’s in
this role that he’ll be missed most.
As I said, John was my teacher.
But in later years, he also became
my friend. We served together for
many years on the Ontario Regional Council of the Canadian Music
Centre. I still can’t quite grasp the
fact that we’ll never again see him
seated at the table in the Chalmers
House boardroom. And I’ll never get one of those phone calls
that simply began, “What’s all
this nonsense at the CBC?”
And of course I can never call
him for the help and advice he
was so willing to give.
Sleep well, John. You laboured
for 93 years. We’d have loved to
keep you with us for 93 more.
Larry Lake
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Available for the first time is the
ebullient Jeux de cordes, a five
movement work from 1995 performed by the Erato String Quartet recorded in the studio of Radio
Suisse Romande in Geneva.
These three earlier works are
complemented by the 2002 vocal
the six quartets in two concerts for the Kitch- composition Clere Venus which takes its inIt was with shock and dismay that I read
spiration from the 16th century poet Louise
about the death of 31 year old guitarist Aaron ener-Waterloo Chamber Music Society a
Labé. Through her own oeuvre and the examBrock last month. Aaron, whose outstanding couple of years ago and was very impressed
ple of her literary salon, Labé became one of
debut CD “Toccata” I reviewed in these pag- with the way they had made these seminal
the first to assert women’s right to literary
works “their own”. I was particularly taken
es in the July issue, was also a contributing
creation. Gougeon takes seven of Labé’s sonwriter to the DISCoveries section. He was a with how the newest member of the group,
nets as his text for this work which is dedicatcellist Simon Fryer, blended with violist
truly gifted musician who will be sorely
ed to and movingly performed by Ms Parent.
missed and our sympathies go out to his fami- Christine Vlajk in some of the quasi-unison
ATMA Classique is another label that has
ly and friends. Donations in Aaron’s memory passages. The quartet has undergone a
number of personnel changes since moving to been serving as a voice for Canadian composmay be made to the Aaron Brock Trust, c/o
ers in recent years, with releases by the Mothe Brock Family, 53 Sherrick Dr., Gormley Canada from Poland in the late 1980s, most
linari String Quartet, the Ensemble contemON L0H 1G0, to be used to create a scholar- recently the replacement of cellist Paul Pulporain de Montréal and the Nouvel Ensemble
ford, who was the first Canadian to join the
ship or award in Aaron’s name.
We also note the absence from these pag- group and was a mainstay throughout much of Moderne among others. This latter, NEM as
its 20 year history. The Bartók cycle provides they are more familiarly known, have a new
es of writer Merlin Williams, but in this inrelease featuring commissioned works by
a bridge between old and new with Pulford
stance it is for happier reasons. Merlin has
Michael Oesterle (b.1968), Serge Provost
featured on the first four quartets and Fryer
decided to concentrate his creative energies
(b.1952) and Gilles Tremblay (b.1932). It is
on writing music and although I hope to tempt on the final two. The set also incorporates
Tremblay’s Á quelle heure commence le
him back from time to time to review partic- one of the signature traits of the group, with
temps? (At what time does time begin?) that
violinists Jerzy Kaplanek and Jeremy Bell
ularly interesting brass recordings, for the
gives the disc (ATMA ACD2 2376) its title.
time being he has given up his “Band Stand” taking turns in the “first” chair. One might
A “Lyrical monodrama, for bass-baritone,
column and is taking a break from DISCover- think these changes might lead to a less than
piano solo and chamber orchestra, on a text
cohesive whole, but this is not the case. The
ies. We wish Merlin well with his composigroup’s ensemble work is seamless and there by Bernard Lévy”, the work is dedicated to
tional activities and look forward to hearing
is a wonderful consistency of sound. Master- NEM conductor Lorraine Vaillancourt, singsome of the fruits of his labours.
er Michel Ducharme,
ing the Bartók cycle has become one of the
I’d also like to take this opportunity to
welcome the newest addition to our creative benchmarks by which quartets are measured pianist Jacques Drouin
and several members
team, jazz writer Ken Waxman. Ken, whose and I’m pleased to say that with this recording the PSQ has confirmed its position as one of the ensemble.
focus is the more avant-garde end of the
Dating from 1999,
of the finest ensembles around today.
spectrum, has previously been published by
In our last issue I promised a report on the this is the work of a
Saturday Night, CODA and MusicWorks.
Centrediscs “Portrait” of Harry Somers, but mature artist at the
For his maiden voyage at WholeNote Ken
peak of his form.
looks at new releases on two Montreal labels, as you will see in our “Discs of the Month”
ambiences magnétiques and Effendi, that fea- section I yielded this privilege to senior writ- Many of Tremblay’s
ongoing artistic concerns are present in the
ture veteran bass player Michel Donato, and er John Beckwith. The Somers portrait was
one of three Centrediscs releases to arrive on work, which is somewhat reminiscent of the
a curious offering from Philippe Lauzier,
my desk over the summer. Tiina Kiik shares earlier Vêpres de la Vierge in its chant-like
Miles Perkin and Robbie Kuster that comvocal line and characteristic use of extensive
bines improvisation with the chamber music her impressions of the “NorthWord”, the
brass and percussion, but there is a broader
Elora Festival Singers’ recording of the muof Béla Bartók.
palette of orchestral colour as strings take on
Bartók’s chamber music is also the focus sic of Leonard Enns in the following pages
and I’d like to tell you about “Á l’aventure!”, a prominent role. Michael Oesterle’s Annus
of violinist Jasper Wood’s new Endeavour
Mirabilis takes its inspiration from Albert
a collection of works by Denis Gougeon
CD with pianist David Riley, reviewed in
(Centrediscs CMCCD 11506). Gougeon was Einstein’s “Year of Miracles”, 1905, when
these pages by John S. Gray, as well as that
the physicist found original solutions to a
appointed composer in
of the first release that I will talk about this
number of problems in the natural sciences,
residence with the
month. The Penderecki String Quartet will
published his Theory of Relativity and unMontreal Symphony
release its recording of Bartók’s six string
veiled his famous equation e=mc2 . Written
quartets in September and in doing so will, to in 1989, the first to hold
that position, and the
the best of my knowledge, become the first
for fifteen instruments it is a rather sparse
title track was featured
Canadian ensemble to record this important
though rhythmic work, where only a few percycle in its entirety. I’ve actually been “hold- on the orchestra’s South
formers are heard at any given time. Serge
ing my breath” about this one since last March American tour early in
Provost’s Les ruines du paradis was inspired
when the PSQ performed at Music Toronto. his tenure. It was also
by the Russian wing of the Architecture ExAlthough the two disc set (Eclectra ECCD- selected as Best Orchestral Work in the 1991 hibit at the Venice Biennial in 2000 although
2075) was on sale at that performance, I was SOCAN competition. Originally performed
the piece did not take shape until 2004. The
by the Orchestre Métropolitain under Walter dramatic one movement work is divided into
told that the official
Boudreau’s direction in 1990, it is that prelaunch would not be
three sections, Utopias-Paradises-Ruins durmiere performance we are presented with on ing which the world is “first dreamed up, and
until September and
this recording. Like À l’aventure, the exuber- then torn down”. All in all this disc provides
was asked to hold off
ant and exhilarating song of joy Heureux qui, a remarkable snapshot of three important
on mentioning it in
comme featuring soprano Marie-Danielle
print. I had the pleaQuebec composers at different stages of their
Parent and the ensemble of the SMCQ has
sure of hearing the
careers.
been previously available on compact disc.
PSQ performance of
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TORONTO MENDELSSOHN CHOIR
06-07
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Guarneri String Quartet, St. Lawrence String
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Special Concerts
Celebrating Mary Morrison, John Beckwith and the
60th anniversary of our Music Education Program
Opera
Johann Strauss: Die Fledermaus
Britten: The Rape of Lucretia
FESTIVAL OF
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Prize in Canadian Music
Orchestral/Choral Concerts
U of T Symphony Orchestra and Choirs in
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Fri., Nov. 3, 2006 at 8 p.m.
7:15 p.m. pre-concert chat
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with Rick Phillips
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Mozart: 250, 251 . . . Forever
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vocal stars, we’re about to find out! Mezzo soprano Krisztina Szabó, soprano Shannon
Mercer and baritones Russell Braun and Peter McGillivray join us in celebrating our
beloved Mozart and his eternally beguiling ‘effect’.
April 1, 2007
12th Annual Schubertiad
With an annual tribute to our favourite composer, Off Centre makes up for whatever
recognition Schubert failed to achieve in life! This year soprano Rachael Harwood-Jones,
baritone Jason Nedecky, cellist Winona Zelenka, violinist Jacques Israelievitch and
pianists Inna Perkis and Boris Zarankin join us in commemorating Schubert.
May 6, 2007
Spanish Siesta: A musical journey through Andalusia with 3 Spaniards,
2 Frenchmen, a few Russians and a Pole!
Soprano Agathe Martel and tenor Benjamin Butterfield – Canadians by birth, Spaniards
at heart – welcome Spring with the tantalizing sounds of castanets and swishing flamenco
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October 22
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Masques et bergamasques
December 3
At the close of the nineteenth century neo-classicism flooded into
French poetry and music. In his Masques et bergamasques, Fauré
captures perfectly all the nostalgia of this vanished world.
The Greta Kraus
Centenary Schubertiad
January 14
A double celebration of the music of the world’s greatest songwriter
and of the centenary of our revered mentor, Greta Kraus, who was
for us an unparallelled resource of musicality and humanity.
The Anniversary Waltz
Silver Jubilee Gala
February 18
To mark our 25th anniversary, we present a concert of song in threequarter time, including Brahms’s Liebeslieder-Walzer. Taking its cue
from these pieces, our gala programme will continue to sing and
dance its way, with star singers in special guest appearances.
The Care of a Genius
April 29
Insecure as an artist, Sir Edward Elgar was nurtured and supported by
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Off Centre’s first opera-in-salon features soprano Jackalyn Short as Juliet and mezzo
soprano Emilia Boteva as Romeo, with Opera in Concert’s male chorus, in Bellini’s
I Capuleti e i Montecchi. Bellini’s opera revisits Romeo and Juliet, and Russian-German
pianist Simon Rozin Kim guides our rediscovery of this operatic masterpiece!
Five Sunday Afternoon Series concerts
I Musici de Montréal, chamber orchestra
Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building
November 5, 2006*
Shostakovich: A Drama in Life and Music (1:00 pm)
Come celebrate the tempestuous life and 100th birthday of Dmitri Shostakovich!
Renowned singers from the Mariinsky Theatre, violinist Michail Gantvarg, cellist Sergei
Roldugin and our very own pianists Inna Perkis and Boris Zarankin pay tribute to
Shostakovich’s life and art in a Concertplus! (3 hour long segments with 2 intermissions)
Recently in town ...
Agnes Grossmann
Conductor Agnes Grossmann is determined
to turn Toronto into a summer music destination/mecca. As artistic director of the first
Toronto Summer Music Academy and
Festival that took place at the University of
Toronto’s Faculty of Music last month, she
brought artists like Richard Goode, Menahem
Pressler, Russell Braun, the members of
Nexus, André Laplante and Janos Starker to
perform and teach. Students from across the
world participated. And audiences attended,
numerous and enthusiastic beyond the most
optimistic expectations.
The high point was undoubtedly the
staging of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, with
Grossmann herself leading singers from the
Academy, accompanied by the National
Youth Orchestra. On opening night, when
I attended, the audience was swept along by
Grossmann’s buoyant, stylish musical
direction, and Michael Albano’s dramatic
staging.
Grossmann is strikingly elegant, with a
glowing natural beauty. Her irrepressible
enthusiasm animated our conversation when
I talked to her in July, a couple of days
before the first group of Academy students
was due to arrive.
‘Students are coming here from across the
country, the United States, Europe, and Asia
to get finishing touches before they launch a
career,’ she told me with evident excitement.
‘The singers who are coming have all
finished their studies, and some of them
already have professional engagements and
management . We will provide what they
would experience performing in an opera
production in Europe. When these singers go
to audition in European opera houses, they
had better have six to eight roles completely
learned and, if possible, sung on stage with
an orchestra, if they want to succeed.’
‘The McMillan Theatre here has everything you need for opera – lighting, an
orchestra pit, excellent sound. And this
building is empty during the summer. It
couldn’t be better.’
Don Giovanni was an ideal choice, and
not because this is Mozart’s 250th anniversary year. ‘Don Giovanni is one of the most
complete operas. It is such a fabulous
mixture of humour and drama. What a rich
palette of expression!’
‘Since the drama happens in the recitatives, I will work on natural delivery of the
words. In the ensembles I want to get a real
unity of sound. All the singers need to have
the same kind of vocal technique. Even with
different singers from different backgrounds
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interviewed by Pamela Margles
Recently in Town … Agnes Grossmann conducts the National Youth Orchestra
in rehearsal for Don Giovanni.
the ensembles have to be like one instrument
- that’s my goal.’
Grossmann is adamant about performing
Don Giovanni in Italian. ‘I would not do it
in English, absolutely no. The whole piece
is based on Da Ponte’s fabulous text. It
absolutely needs to be sung in his Italian.
I don’t like operas in translation, especially
with the possibility of offering translations.
We will, of course, have surtitles.’
Grossmann was born in Vienna, and still
maintains a home there with her husband,
conductor Raffi Armenian. ‘My father,
Ferdinand Grossmann, was the choir master
for all the large choirs in Vienna, including
the opera choir, as well as for many years
artistic director of the Vienna Choir Boys. So
he worked with all the leading conductors,
like Bruno Walter and Herbert von Karajan.
When I was artistic director of the Vienna
Singakademie and the Vienna Choir Boys,
I also worked with great conductors, like
Claudio Abbado and Leonard Bernstein, just
as my father had.’
‘I started as a pianist. My father did not
want me to be treated as a child prodigy,
because his step-sister had been a child
prodigy, and then stopped developing after
the age of 15. He just didn’t want that to
happen again. So he became my first teacher.
He was a fabulous teacher, very creative.
I loved every moment of it. He had a superb
ear, with absolute pitch, which he kindly
passed on to me. Somehow at my very early
age we were in dialogue musically with each
other. He would do a musical question and
I would answer on the instrument.’
Grossmann laughs joyfully at the
memory. ‘It was a very, very, beautiful
childhood, before I started formal training.’
‘I wanted to become a pianist. My
grandmother was Lili Kraus, a very famous
pianist. She was my guiding light. She came
regularly to our home, which for me was
heaven on earth. I loved her playing - it was
just absolutely gorgeous. I loved sitting
underneath the piano, listening and watching
her hands.’
After later studies in Paris with Pierre
Sancan, Grossmann became Kraus’s assistant. ‘I performed quite a lot. Also, as pianist
in the Vienna Flute Trio, I toured a lot. And
I started giving concerts for Columbia
Artists. I had a very, very good career as a
pianist.’
In 1972 Grossmann won the prestigious
Mozart Interpretation Prize, and was set to
record the complete Mozart Piano Sonatas for
Philips. ‘I had this very strange feeling in
my right hand. Before going on tour I had
caught my hand in a door when a strong
wind came. I had some pain, but I thought
everything was fine. It was not. I had an
operation and was supposed to be able to
play after two or three weeks. But when I
went to the piano I could not lift this finger
anymore.’ She shows me how the muscle
between the thumb and first finger was
destroyed. ‘I did exercises, and I went to all
the specialists in the world. It was two years
of agony, with my father dying in the
meantime.’
‘Fortunately, my education gave me
options. I considered singing professionally,
but I wanted to have all the voices I had had
as a pianist. So I went back to university to
study conducting. My first year was very
difficult. The, one day when I was conducting Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony with
the student orchestra, the orchestra responded
in a way that I had not experienced before.
It sounded enormously homogeneous. It felt
amazing. I asked my teacher, “What has
happened here?” He said, “You have found
your language”. From then on my development was very fast.
‘After I finished my studies in Vienna
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Recently in town ... Agnes Grossmann
I still felt fragile, of course, because after
twenty-seven years of pianistic activities, not
to be able to do that anymore was a big
challenge. On the other hand, new colours
developed. I had to learn lots of new
repertoire, but because I had this ear, it came
very quickly.’
‘I was teaching at the university, but I
had very few possibilities for performing. I
said to myself, “I want to see what can be
done”. But in a city where no women were
allowed to play in the two main orchestras,
let alone conduct, men definitely dominated
the musical scene. A woman could be
successful as an instrumental or vocal
soloist, but as a conductor it was practically
impossible. As a woman I wasn’t even
allowed to conduct a church choir.’
Even some years later, in 1996, when
Grossmann became conductor of the Vienna
Choir Boys for three years, she was not
allowed to conduct when the boys sang in
the Royal Chapel in Vienna each Sunday.
‘In Vienna they still want to keep those
traditions. It’s unbelievable. I think they do
believe that the sound is different depending
on whether it’s a woman or a man. But I
absolutely do not think there is a difference.
A woman conductor can have sensitivity,
and the capacity for, how shall I say,
passionate expression, equally to that of a
man - no doubt about that. Music is neutral,
and musical expression is not dependent on
whether someone is a man or woman. It
depends on talent, a very good stick technique and the capacity to express yourself
dramatically.’
‘So in 1981 I left Vienna and came to the
University of Ottawa. This experience was
very, very important for me. I gave concerts,
guest conducted across the country, and led
the Chamber Players of Toronto. When I
took the Chamber Players to Europe, they
played in the Vienna Musikverein, the
famous, famous Golden Hall where so many
major works were premiered, and they
experienced the tremendous acoustics in this
hall. You cannot imagine how music sounds
there, and how little effort is necessary,
unlike Roy Thomson Hall, where it is so
difficult to achieve a round and unforced
sound.’
‘Since the Vienna Philharmonic rehearses
only in the Musikverein, their sound has
developed with their surroundings. This
Viennese sound has developed over several
hundred years in favourable acoustical
environments like that.’ It is that sound,
which has been passed down to her as a
living tradition, that Grossmann is intent on
passing on.
‘I cannot bring all these students to
Vienna, but I can bring to them people who
have a very similar musical sound concept
and a very similar message in life. Our
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faculty here all embody a sound concept
which is close to the Viennese style, which
is full of singing. These fabulous teachers
have produced many wonderful musicians,
and are willing to do that again and again, as
long as they are alive. That’s what I want to
bring to Toronto.’
‘There is incredible vocal talent here, no
doubt about that. But Canada is a young
country, and styles have yet to be established. I think there are very good conditions
for singing here. People are in harmony with
their inner life. Singers need that. If you
think too much, and you’re totally separated
from your emotions, you cannot sing well.
You need to feel floating and positive to
produce a beautiful sound.’
‘Sound production comes from a vital
inner musical vision of what you want to
express. To know what that is, you need to
know the content of the music. That is what
we want to foster here.’
‘There are far too many classical musicians today, and very few positions. Only
those who have something to say will
succeed - I can tell you that. They cannot all
teach. The only way they are going to make
it is if they have something very, very
special to say. There must be a shining
personality behind the interpretation.’
‘I do believe you need to know the
literature and art from the time and place of
the composer you are performing. If you
have never seen baroque buildings, can you
really understand the baroque sound? If you
have not seen the works of the impressionist
painters you will not completely understand
Debussy and Ravel. It is all linked.’
‘But stage directors in Europe today
usually know very little about music. They
cut the opera score, not caring at all what is
happening musically. The text is what they
like to bring out, and they even add in other
texts as well. It’s just incredible, there is
such a great lack of taste. They seem to be
mainly preoccupied with how much or how
little the women have on. Each opera
production has to have at least one rape.
Doesn’t that show that we are actually going
backwards? It’s demeaning, both for the role
itself, and for the female performer as well.’
‘Nowadays some stage directors actually
ask women to audition in their underwear,
even if they have the most beautiful voice in
the world … Just imagine - is that very
comfortable for a woman performer? I have
nothing against nudity. It can be beautiful.
The problem is when you have to do it, and
when it becomes so prominent in a production.’
‘Of course, Don Giovanni was obsessed
with women. But Mozart actually wanted to
show how Don Giovanni is a servant of his
obsession. He’s doomed to death because
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he’s lying all the time, making everybody
most unhappy, and creating terrible situations. It’s the way Mozart expresses that,
without moralistic preaching, that shows
such genius.’
‘Directors should understand his musical
language and transmit that into action. Of
course the text is in the forefront. Da Ponte’s
libretto is stunning. But if there is not
enough understanding of the musical content
then the staging will not come off, to my
mind.’
‘Our director for Don Giovanni, Michael
Albano, is incredible in the way he brings
life to his stagings, in total service of what is
happening musically. That is so fruitful for
young singers because he gives them tools to
bring out all the content, but he lets them be
themselves. He does impose his vision, yes,
but he gives them freedom to also create their
own.’
‘If there is no meaning behind an action,
it’s not very interesting. The question is
always, what do you want to express? That
is the only thing which counts.’
Among Grossmann’s conducting commitments next year include leading the University of Toronto Choirs and Symphony
Orchestra in Mahler’s Symphony no. 2 on
Friday March 30.
Grossmann’s recordings include:
Prokofiev’s Summer Day, Peter and the
Wolf, Winter Bonfire and Symphony No. 7
with Grossmann conducting the Orchestre
Métropolitan; CBC.
Vienna Choir Boys 500th Anniversary with
Grossmann conducting the choir in works by
Haydn, Salieri, and Mozart; Koch International Classics.
Donizetti’s Poliuto with José Carreras and
Katia Ricciarelli, accompanied by the Vienna
Symphony Orchestra under Oleg Caetani,
with Grossmann leading the Vienna
Singakademie; CBS.
2006-2007 Masterpiece Series featuring Sinfonia
Toronto with international soloists and conductors
Saturdays, 8 pm, Grace Church-on-the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale Rd
BEETHOVEN’S WORLD Oct 7
Richard Raymond, Pianist
CHAN KA-NIN The Land Beautiful
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 2
SHOSTAKOVICH Quartet No. 1 orchestral version
BEETHOVEN Grosse Fugue
AUTUMN COLOURS Nov 18
Jesus Amigo, Conductor
Angela Park, Pianist, Etsuko Kimura, Violinist
CHAUSSON Concerto for Violin and Piano
HARRY FREEDMAN Fantasy and Allegro
MOZART Quintet K614 orchestral version
CHRISTMAS FANCIES Dec 9
Floortje Gerritsen, Violinist
Ballet Espressivo
CORELLI Christmas Concerto
MOZART Violin Concerto No. 2
ANDRE PREVOST Scherzo
TELEMANN Don Quixote Suite
GADE Children’s Christmas Eve
FEBRUARY HEATWAVE Feb 3
Antonio di Cristofano, Pianist
HEALEY WILLAN Poem
CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 2
FUCHS Serenade No. 2
WINTER DREAMS Mar 10
Julian Milkis, Clarinetist
BRAHMS Clarinet Quintet
JEAN COULTHARD A Winter’s Tale
SHOSTAKOVICH Quartet No. 11 orchestral version
SPRING SONGS Apr 14
Mario Carbotta, Flutist
LISZT Angelus!
MICHAEL CONWAY BAKER Flute Concerto
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BRIAN CHERNEY Illuminations
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rather in what is written about them. This spring, the National Post
– a newspaper that seems aimed at well-educated, culturally engaged
readers – parted ways with its classical music critic, Tamara
Bernstein, and appeared to withdraw from classical music coverage
altogether. I soon learned that this was not an isolated incident.
July 7, 2006: At Hamilton’s Dofasco Centre for the Arts, an
audience of several hundred music lovers sits waiting to hear Anton
Kuerti play Beethoven piano concertos. But before Kuerti can play a
note, Boris Brott, director of the Brott Music Festival, makes an
announcement from the stage. He points out that that the Hamilton
Spectator has decided to drop classical music reviews from its
pages. “That’s not just our concerts,” he says gravely. “It’s the
Hamilton Philharmonic, the Bach-Elgar Choir – everybody.”
But the ever-resourceful Brott has an idea: if people would
write their own reviews and send them to the Spectator, perhaps they
might be published. At the very least, Hamilton’s daily would be
made aware that there are people in the community who care.
August 21: Over the last month, I’ve learned that declining classical
music coverage is one of those issues that some people just don’t
want to talk about. Bernstein had absolutely nothing to say on the
subject of her departure from the Post. And Leonard Turnevicius,
the classical music critic for the Hamilton Spectator, declined to be
quoted. However, Benjamin Errett, Arts and Life Editor for the
National Post, did reply to my e-mail query.
He told me that his newspaper did not generally review live
music performances of any kind. “Our reasoning is that we would
rather preview concerts and interview performers of note,” he
explained, “rather than review them, except in cases of long runs or
exceptional events.” Continued Errett: “To that end, our new
classical music writer, Stephen Cera, will be regularly appearing in
the Post as of September.” Cera is of course the man who ran the
legendary recital series at the Ford Centre (when it was still called
the Ford Centre), before it collapsed, along with the rest of the
Livent empire.
August 28: I receive a phone call from Jeff Day, an editor at the
Hamilton Spectator. Apparently, the “Spec” hasn’t entirely given up
on classical music reviewing – it just won’t review one-off performances. (Unfortunately, in Hamilton, that means pretty much everything of a classical nature, except for Opera Ontario’s productions,
which are performed twice.) And there will still be feature articles
about musicians. “Our focus has changed,” he says, “so we’ll be
able to give a lot of pre-publicity.” As for Brott’s letter-writing
campaign, Day responds, “I don’t know how many letters to the
editor have been written about this. But I haven’t received more than
three communications about it.”
But the news isn’t all bad, for those of us who want to read
about what happened at last night’s performance. When William
Littler retired from the Toronto Star last year, Canada’s largest
newspaper was presented with a perfect opportunity to drop classical
music reviews. It didn’t – and appointed John Terauds to take
Littler’s place. And at the Globe and Mail, Robert Everett-Green
and a host of freelancers (myself included, occasionally) continue to
review a wide variety of live classical performances.
There’s nothing wrong with previews and feature articles. At their
best, they can explore behind-the-scenes issues that aren’t generally
touched upon in reviews. But at their worst, they can be superficial
puffery that skirt around the central issue: how well musicians do
what they set out to do. That’s what reviews are for.
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There is something utopian about summer festivals, where the demands of ordinary life relax a little and everyone, performers and audience alike, seem more open to the call of music, to life less trammelled. At the Brott Festival’s July 7 performance of Beethoven’s
piano concertos we were able to shed right away the ordeal of getting there by GO Train (my suggestion in the July issue!). Similarly,
a late July day at the Festival of the Sound was glorious, with three
concerts, a really great talk about Robert Schumann’s music by
UWO professor Jeffrey Stokes and, at the end of the evening, a late
meal with a mix of audience and performers. Likewise, having dinner at the Victory, near the WholeNote office, and then bicycling
down Palmerston Avenue to the Toronto Music Garden to hear Les
Sonneurs de Montréal was a euphoric change of pace and atmosphere.
Toronto had other musical moments as well: a really fine
performance of the Debussy String Quartet by the Tokai Quartet at a
Toronto Summer Music Festival concert, an engaging evening of
performances by the young singers who were participants in the
same festival and a really entertaining performance of Don Giovanni
on an inexplicably cramped set at the MacMillan Theatre. Music
Mondays offered welcome interludes from the daytime heat and congestion in the other-worldly Church of the Holy Trinity. It was great
to get out of the city, but it was great also that there was so much
music in the city.
The festivals continue into September. I’ve already mentioned
the Colours of Music and X AVANT Festivals. Another we need to
get on our radar is the Sweetwater Music Weekend, September 2224, in Owen Sound and nearby Leith. Situated on the southern
shores of Georgian Bay, Owen Sound is a large town with a colourful, and cultural, history and an ever-growing intellectual and artistic
community of émigrés from Toronto and elsewhere. The weekend
offers a very diverse range of repertoire from the seventeenth to the
twenty-first Century performed by some of Canada’s best musicians,
who will also be conducting master classes during the daytime
hours. If you want to immerse yourself in music for a weekend, a
last musical fling as it were before the onset of winter, this is a great
way to do it. The Colours of Music Festival begins the same weekend but continues right through the following week and weekend, so
the musical spree can continue on right into the first day of October.
While in Parry Sound I chatted with artistic director, James
Campbell, about the economic spin-off of his festival. Local businesses, he told me, had complained about how slow things had been
there in the first few weeks of the summer and were grateful for his
festival, which they knew would give the local economy a welcome
“shot in the arm.” There can be no doubt that there is a tremendous
amount of economic activity generated by artistic initiatives such as
the summer and early autumn festivals and, for that matter, collectively by all the concerts listed in our magazine.
There seems, unfortunately, to be such a gap between this
reality and the popular perception, fuelled in large part by irresponsible journalism that would have us believe that interest in culture is
declining and only sports are good for the economy. The very fact
of WholeNote’s existence of course gives the lie to that notion, but,
as all too often happens, the preconceived idea hangs on long after
the evidence disproving it has become common knowledge. We lovers of art, of course, consider it far too crass to tell the people running the restaurants and other commercial enterprises that we patronize as part of our concert-going what it is that brought us there in the
first place. Maybe we need to drop this preconceived idea on our
part. If we don’t tell them, then who will? Nobody has up to now
and nobody will, and all they will hear is what they hear from the
mainstream media. Meanwhile hundreds of young musicians, like the
two on our season-opening cover, are living evidence of the vitality
of the artistic life, building it now and for the future right under the
noses of the naysayers who seem to believe that the only news
worth printing is bad news.
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EARLY Music
by Frank Nakashima
Essential Music: An Invitational Early Music Primer
Did you spend the summer trying
to stay cool listening to expensive,
mega-wide, 3-D, ear-popping, digital surround musical extravaganzas, either at home or in your car?
Perhaps you’d like to come down
to earth and get back to the essence of where our music comes
from. Perhaps you would like to
learn more about Early Music.
Consider attending the Toronto
Early Music Centre’s annual Early Music Fair on September 23rd:
an early music “open house” at the
historical Montgomery’s Inn (restored as a living museum to the
mid nineteenth century. Enjoy miniconcerts, exhibits, and information
about the art of historical music
performance.
If music of the Middle Ages interests you, how about going to
hear Sine Nomine Ensemble for
Medieval Music?
The intimacy of lutes and voices, as performed by the Musicians
in Ordinary will speak to you
whether you are from Mars or
Venus.
If you’d prefer your baroque music with a bit of an adrenalincharged edge, take in an I Furiosi
Baroque Ensemble event.
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Toronto’s Tafelmusik Baroque
Orchestra is one of the finest period orchestras in the world. In
celebration of music director Jeanne
Lamon’s 25 years of inspired leadership, her friends, the Montrealbased Arion Baroque Orchestra
have been invited to perform in a
concert featuring music written for
two orchestras!
Another period orchestra quickly gaining in stature through their
recordings on the Naxos label is
the Aradia Ensemble.
Opera existed before Rossini,
Puccini and Wagner. See and hear
what inspired generations of opera
composers, singers, and audiences in the historically inspired,
ground-breaking productions of internationally-acclaimed Opera Atelier.
If you enjoy choral music, you
should hear the Tallis Choir (directed by Peter Mahon, and named
after the great English composer
whose 500th birthday was celebrated last year), the well-established
Toronto Chamber Choir (directed by David Fallis), and the fledgling Studio Sixteen (directed by
Kevin Komisaruk), all of whom
offer some of the most exquisite
choral repertoire in the history of
the western world.
Founded in 1972, The Toronto Consort continues to present
masterpieces of early music – Medieval, Renaissance and early Baroque – in its programs.
Experience the difference in
Classical chamber music performed on period instruments as
presented by the Academy Concert Series, or the juxtaposition of
old and new, again on period instruments, in the Scaramella series.
Toronto is home to people who
make or mend historical keyboard
An Internet Early Music Treasure Map.
Just follow the links. Bon Voyage!
Academy Concert Series – www.academyconcertseries.com
Aradia Ensemble – www.aradia.ca
Claviers Baroques – www.claviersbaroques.com
Great Bass Viol, Joëlle Morton – www.greatbassviol.com
I Furiosi Baroque Ensemble – www.ifuriosi.com
Musicians in Ordinary – www.musiciansinordinary.ca
Opera Atelier – www.operaatelier.com
Stephen Fox historical clarinets – www.sfoxclarinets.com
Scaramella – www.scaramella.ca
Sine Nomine - www.pims.ca/sinenomine.html
Studio Sixteen – www.studiosixteen.ca
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra – www.tafelmusik.org
Tallis Choir – www.tallischoir.com
Toronto Chamber Choir – www.geocities.com/torontochamberchoir
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Toronto Early Music Centre – www.interlog.com/~temc
Viola d’amore – www.violadamore.com
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instruments (Claviers Baroques),
and clarinets (Stephen Fox), as
well as enthusiastic advocates for
their own particular instrument specialty, such as Joëlle Morton’s
Great Bass Viol, or Thomas Georgi’s viola d’amore.
And then there are people who
just love to play early music –
T.E.M.P.O. – the Toronto Early
Music Players Organization.
WholeNote’s listings and advertisements in any issue will include
many of these ensembles. Most
have websites (listed below) where
you can find details of their concerts, and samples of their music.
CHORAL Scene
by Larry Beckwith
I have spent the
past ten Julys of
my life burning up
the highway between Toronto and
Elora, taking part in
the annual Elora
Festival, a highly
varied event whose
focus is on choral
music. Under the
guise of a “sabbatical,” artistic director Noel Edison
supposedly took it
easy this summer
and gave over a
number of the festival’s concerts to
guest choral conductors. I say “supposedly” because
Edison managed to
direct the opening
night performance of Robert Levin’s version of the Mozart Requiem, as well as a demanding program of opera excerpts featuring
the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir,
Richard Margison and John Fanning, and a memorable reading of
Mahler’s 2nd Symphony with soloists Donna Brown and Susan
Platts near the end of the festival.
It was a revelation to work with
his guest conductors and be exposed to new and stimulating approaches to the art of singing. We
were introduced to three of Montreal’s leading choral conductors,
each of whom has distinctive and
prodigious gifts.
Julian Wachner’s encyclopedic
knowledge of harmony and form,
Lydia Adams,
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phenom Peter Dijkstra. I came
away from our midsummer Sunday afternoon performance quite
shaken by the sense of something
truly rare and special having occurred. It “rocked my world.” Of
his many talents, I was quite taken
by Dijkstra’s keen ear, knowledge
of the inner workings of the voice,
command of at least seven languages by my count, unerring sense of
rhythm, and devotion to the “composer’s wishes” as indicated by
even the smallest marking in the
score. Above all, though, I was
struck by this young man’s disarming maturity. He built strong
musical relationships with all of us
in a very short time and the result
was a remarkably intimate, warm,
nuanced, and principled performance. For me, unforgettable.
Which brings me more or less
up to the present day, and an unusually varied and busy choral/vocal September in Toronto.
I often wax nostalgic for the
wonderful Niki Goldschmidt Joy
of Singing festivals of 1989, 1993
and 2002. One of the highlights
of 1993 was the Russian male choir
Akafist, who gave several stunning
performances of repertoire seldom
heard in these parts. Well, Akafist
is touring southern Ontario extensively this month, so there is no
excuse to miss them. They’ll be in
Kingston, London, Barrie,
Markham, Kitchener, Guelph and
several other towns, and will give
more than one concert in Toronto.
For information and tour dates, visit
www.kennethgmills.com/akafist or
call 1-800-437-1454 or 416-410-0453.
Sept 3: The ageless Toronto Jewish Folk Choir kicks off the month
with a performance in the Ashkenaz
Festival at the Brigantine Room.
Sept 9: “In just a few years, The
Essentials have moved from their
humble beginnings in a parking lot
of an ice cream shop in London,
Ontario, to international acclaim as
one of the ‘finest a cappella groups
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Sept. 12: There is sparing use of
the chorus in Richard Wagner’s Der
Ring des Nibelungen, but as it begins the first of three complete cycles in Toronto’s new opera house
– and a new era - we wish the
Canadian Opera Company the very
best.
Stretching it
Though it might be stretching the
envelope of choral music, there are
three concerts in the the middle of
the month which feature some enduring and familiar vocal sounds.
Sept 15: “After six decades in the
limelight, Charles Aznavour, the
man who reinvented the French
chanson, brings his immortal song
stylings to Toronto for one last
time.” It all takes place at the Hummingbird Centre.
Sept 19: Something called Led
Zepplica invades Massey Hall for
a full-scale tribute to Plant, Page
and the gang. Not to be missed if
you’re into that sort of thing.
Sept 20: The veteran Canadian
singer-songwriter Ferron – she of
that immortal lyric “But life don’t
clickety clack down a straight line
track/It comes together and it comes
apart” – makes a rare stop in town
at Hugh’s Room: a beautiful voice
and old soul.
Sept 28: The Temptations bring
their smooth elegance to the Living Arts Centre. How sweet it
is…..
The Toronto Choral Society
A non-auditioned mixed-voice choir encouraging the
musical talent of members at every level of ability,
TCS is looking for TENORS and BASSES.
The 120-voice ensemble rehearses and performs at
Eastminster United Church on the Danforth,
Join us there in 2006 for:
THE LARKS, STILL BRAVELY SINGING,
a Remembrance Day tribute on November 10th
A BAROQUE CHRISTMAS IN WESTERN EUROPE,
with excerpts from seasonal works by Charpentier,
Vivaldi, Bach and Handel.
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Sept 27 and 28: The Toronto Symphony are into Beethoven in a big
way this month, culminating with
a performance of the mighty Symphony #9, conducted by Peter
Oundjian and featuring four outstanding young singers (Measha
Brueggergosman, Susan Platts,
Michael Colvin, and Brett Polegato) and the Toronto Mendelssohn
Choir.
Sept 30: We go from the sublime
to the ridiculous as something
called Play! A Video Game Symphony takes the stage of the Hummingbird Centre. “Performed by
full orchestra and choir,” screams
the breathless publicity, “PLAY!
features award-winning music from
a catalogue of blockbuster video
game titles. Outstanding graphics
on large screens above the orchestra accompany the scores, highlight-
ing memorable moments from the
video games.”
October 1: The male quintet
Alawyn gives its inaugural performance at the George Ignatieff
Theatre. Led by Kevin Komisaruk,
the concert features secular vocal
music by a host of the great Renaissance composers. For more information, visit their handsome
website at www.alawyn.com
October 4: Lastly, if you can’t get
a ticket to an opera, you can at
least get into the lobby of the new
opera house as the Canadian Children’s Opera Chorus gives one of
the first public performances in the
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre.
Show time is 5:30pm and the
event, though free, is ticketed.
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Edward Moroney, Accompanist
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Thrilling percussion and vocal energy, featuring the premieres of
Jonathan Dove’s The Passing of the Year and Toronto
composer Chan Ka Nin’s To God of All Nations ,
plus Bob Chilcott’s The Making of the Drum
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December 19 2006
A World Christmas - the Toronto premiere of Rihard Dubra’s
Cantata in Nativitate Domini , along with ‘world carols’ joyously
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World View
by Karen Ages
Summer is barely over, but the
concert season is back in full
swing, with too many events this
month to do justice to all, so here
are highlights, followed by a brief
list of upcoming world music education opportunities.
Festivals: Ashkenaz - A Festival of New Yiddish Culture, at
Harbourfront Centre, August 31 to
September 4. Free and ticketed
events include music, theatre, art,
dance, literature, cabaret and film
on Jewish themes. Visit www.
ashkenazfestival.com.
Small World Music, fifth annual fall festival, September 21 to
October 1 at various venues. Performers from around the world
include Natacha Atlas (Egypt),
Fiamma Fumana (Italy), Debashish Battacharya (India), African
Guitar Summit and more. See
www.smallworldmusic.ca.
8th Kalanidhi Dance Festival
and Conference - A Century of
Indian Dance, at Harbourfront
Centre, September 22 to October
1. Visit www.kalanidhifinearts
.org.
All three of these festivals, and
many of the following events, are
covered in detail in our concert listings section.
Special Events: Tang Concubines is a large scale action-musical extravaganza running September 7-16 at the Toronto Centre for
the Arts. Set in the era of China’s
T’ang dynasty (618-906 AD), this
story of love, lust and power is
told through a combination of
dance, acrobatics, music and martial arts featuring a huge cast, stunning sets and lavish costumes.
Also set in the T’ang dynasty,
Canadian composer R. Murray
Schafer’s Palace of the Cinnabar
Phoenix runs August 31 to September 9 in the Haliburton Forest.
This production is the eighth work
in his “Patria” cycle of large-scale
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Miscellaneous: A number of
concerts of Indian classical music
take place this month. The RaagMala Music Society presents Kala
Ramnath (violin) and Subhankar
Banerjee (tabla), September 9 in the
Medical Sciences Auditorium, U
of T. September 16: the Malhar
Group presents Sanjoy Banerjee,
Hindustani classical vocalist (with
tabla and harmonium) in a house
concert in Dundas; and the Raga
Music School presents Niraj Prem
(sitar) with Kiran Morarji (tabla)
in a CD release concert in Burlington. At U of T’s Faculty of
Music, Jim Kippen presents traditional and new music for tabla, September 21. And, Roy Thomson
Hall presents the legendary sitarist
Ravi Shankar in concert with his
daughter Anoushka Shankar, September 23.
On tour this fall in Canada and
the US, New York based Rob
Curto’s “Forró For All” makes a
stop at the Lula Lounge, September 10, with music from Northeast Brazil. They’ll be joined by
Toronto’s Afro-Brazilian percussion group Maracatu Nunca Antes,
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with vocalist Aline Morales. Also
September 10, Musica Beth
Tikvah presents The Diva and the
Fiddler, featuring soprano Shoshana Friedman-Brazeau and violinist
Moshe Hammer in a program of
Yiddish and Hebrew folk music,
and classical favourites, at Beth
Tikvah Synagogue.
Darbazi, Toronto’s Georgian
vocal ensemble, is preparing for
an up-coming trip to this Russian
region. They perform September
16 at Eastminster United Church
in a concert of traditional music
sung a cappella or with folk instruments. The Miles Nadal JCC
presents Balagan: traditional Jewish music, modern Israeli pop,
French cabaret, Mediterranean,
Afro-Cuban and Morroccan
rhythms, October 5 in the Al Green
Theatre. Arabesque Academy
presents Layali Arabesque (Arabesque Nights) with traditional
musicians and bellydancers, at
Gypsy Co-op, September 10,17,
24 and Oct 1. Sambacana (Brazilian Samba led by Alan Hetherington) performs at the Red Violin, September 2,9,16 & 30. And
the Akafist Chamber Choir, a 15
voice Russian male choir presented by the Kenneth G. Mills Foundation, performs extensively this
month, in Toronto and beyond.
Check the daily listings for a performance near you.
by Jason van Eyk
September is always an exciting
month in Toronto’s live music
scene, when the anticipation of a
new concert season puts a buzz in
the air. While at this time last year
ensembles had to contend with a
CBC lockout and the Music Gallery’s instability, this year’s outlook is much more positive, with
good news on a number of fronts
for Toronto’s new music community.
The first bit of good news is that
the Music Gallery has pressed forward and made remarkable recovery. Under the wing of a guiding
coalition, the Gallery’s financial
situation has improved, a new mission and programming structure are
in place, their board has been
strengthened, an advisory committee has been established, and a new
Executive Director has been hired.
The first 2006-07 season offering by the reincarnated Gallery will
be the X AVANT Festival. This
four-night international “X-plosion” of avant-garde musical talent runs September 21-24 from the
Gallery’s hub at St. George the
Martyr Church, and includes runouts to new locations like the Drake
Underground and Sneaky Dee’s.
The ultimate aim of the festival
is to unite the Music Gallery’s diverse programming in one tightly
curated, intensive weekend showcase, providing a sampler of the
tasty musical treats in the season
ahead. New Music diehards will
want to mark their calendars with
X AVANT dates for Toca Loca
(Sep. 22 at 7pm), Duo Diorama
(Sep. 24 at 4pm) and Continuum’s
collection of warped sonic works
entitled Blips and beeps (Sep. 24
at 9pm at Sneaky Dee’s). Other
events, including Barnyard Drama
and Deep Dark United (including
ambient techno-dub creator Jan
Jelinek), provide some interesting
variety for the palate.
For full X AVANT details visit
www.musicgallery.org or call 416204-1080.
The second bit of good news
comes from this summer’s inaugural soundaXis festival of architecture, music and acoustics. Not
only did soundaXis turn Toronto
into a playground of sound and
space exploration, it was also a
huge success. For the first two
weeks of June, 26 different arts &
cultural organizations collaborated
on a range of events, including 20
concerts and numerous screenings,
lectures, exhibitions, conferences,
symposia and installations. All
were enjoyed by capacity crowds,
received kudos from critics and
praise from overseas attendees.
The success of soundaXis has
provided inspiration for several
events that launch this fall, which
are taking ensembles out of the
concert hall and into interesting
new locations across the city.
Leading the pack is urbanvessel’s SLIP project, which follows
three singers, two dancers and one
drummer through the locker rooms
and swimming pool of the Harrison Baths – an urban oasis established in 1910 and now housed in
a facility built in the1960s. Urbanvessel is a new collective comprised of choreographer Yvonne
Ng, writer Anna Chatterton, designer Christie Pearson and composer Juliet Palmer, which focuses on site-specific, interdisciplinary
work that expands the idea of public space. SLIP will be the group’s
second public project and runs Sep.
20-22, with performances starting
at 9pm. Each performance begins
at the Music Gallery. Seating is
very limited, so be sure to reserve
tickets early. For more details visit
www. urbanvessel.com or call 416204-1080.
A number of musical
projects are taking
place during the city’s
first ever Nuit Blanche
all-night “contemporary art thing”. From
sunset on Saturday,
Sep. 30 to sunrise on
Sunday, Oct. 1 Torontonians are invited to
encounter their city in
unique ways designed
to broaden their experience of the urban
environment. The familiar will be discarded as Toronto is con- urbanvessel, “Slip”. L to R: Vilma Vitols,
Anna Chatterton and Aki Takahashi.
verted into an exhilarating artistic playground, featuring intriguing elec- Jumping ahead into the early days
troacoustic events dreamt up by two of October, CONTACT is also
imaginative local composers.
taking a leap into new spaces with
David Ogborn will transform their season-opener, Music for
Chalmers House - the Canadian Passengers, a free 4pm concert deMusic Centre’s national home – into signed for the main hub of Downsa giant dream-instrument. Entitled view Subway Station. With a subDream House, his multi-level, theme of “electronica unplugged”
multi-gallery sound installation will CONTACT will be performing
invite the public to experience the well-crafted acoustic arrangements
musical voices of some 650 Cana- of works by renowned electronic
dian composers who make up the artists such Aphex Twin and BriCMC’s collections. Over on the an Eno. These will be complementtraffic islands of University Ave- ed by a healthy dose of minimalnue, Micheline Roi will be offer- ism, with pieces by Philip Glass,
ing a headphones-based soundwalk Terry Riley, John Tavener, and
inspired by stories of Toronto’s Toronto’s own Ann Southam. For
underground Taddle Creek and the those urbanites unwilling to travel
de Grassi sisters of the Mackenzie so far north, the concert will be
Rebellion.
repeated downtown at the
Roi’s piece, Unearthed, asks O’Connor Gallery the following
“what happens when the present night at 8pm, but as a ticketed event
imposes its needs and desires on titled Aural Landscapes.
the past, and our geography and
For full details, visit
memories are buried?” A pressing www.contactcontemporarymusic.ca
question in light of our current glo- or call 416-902-7010.
bal condition. Both of these works
are offered as part of the Canadian So, get out and explore the new
Music Centre’s national New Mu- sounds of the city. Discover the
sic in New Places series, which musical geography of some thing
takes the music of Canadian com- new.
posers out of the concert hall and
into the communities where they (Jason van Eyk can be reached at
work and live. For more details 416-961-6601 x. 207 or
visit both www.musiccentre.ca/ jvaneyk@musiccentre.ca.)
nmi.cfm and www.livewithculture
.ca or call 416-961-6601 x. 207.
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BAND Stand
by Jack MacQuarrie
AS I SIT DOWN TO WRITE, the Canadian National Exhibition has just
opened for another season. The CNE used to mean one or more performances on either the Main Bandshell or the smaller North Bandstand, but now band concerts there are only a memory. Gone are the
“Feature Bands” from Britain, the USA and around the globe. One
could be tempted to believe that band concerts were as archaic as
saddle shoes and bobby socks and that town bands were extinct.
Times have changed, but, as you will see, the town band has not disappeared; it has evolved.
I have been asked, as the first challenge in my new role as
WholeNote’s Band Stand columnist to investigate the state of the band
community in Ontario by revising last year’s list and ferreting out others
to be added. With close to two hundred telephone calls, e-mails, web
searches and in-person chats over the past two weeks, I have my answer. Community bands in Ontario are alive and well. I started with a
list of 46 bands; the list now stands at 101, and is still growing. My
queries, without exception, were greeted with a warm and friendly response, and with almost every telephone call there were personal reflections of memorable performances, friends in common, and bands or
venues in which we had played. It has been like a two week long family
reunion. My only regret is that it will be impossible to accept all of the
invitations to visit and/or sit in with the bands contacted. Thank you all
who assisted, in particular, Keith Estabrooks of The Valley Concert
Band in Arnprior and Max MacDonald of the Perth Citizens’ Band.
Many of the bands I contacted have their own websites. The
home page of The National Capital Concert Band in Ottawa, www.nccb
.ca, is particularly impressive, while top marks for names go to the “No
Strings Attached Community Band” in Sudbury and “The Gravenhurst
Bifocals Band!” and for content to Graham Nasby of the Wellington
Winds, www.grahamnasby.com. Banding is certainly not dead.
With your participation, Band Stand can be a clearing house
to exchange information throughout our banding community. Please
stay in touch. Already, in my calling around, I have learned of a husband and wife who have been playing in one of the listed community
bands and now are moving to another community and will be looking
for a band which is a good match for their tastes and musical abilities. I hope this listing will assist them.
The list in the magazine includes the name of each band and a
contact name and phone number. The online version is located at
wwwthewholenote .com and includes: rehearsal day, time and location, conductor’s name, website, e-mail and who can join.
While the focus this month is on the listing of bands, I would be remiss if I did not mention two special events coming soon:
As part of the opening ceremonies for the new Rose Theatre
at 1 Theatre Lane in Brampton, on the Sunday Sept. 10th, 2006 at
8:00 pm The City of Brampton Concert Band will present “A Tribute
to Howard Cable”. As Guest Conductor, Dr. Howard Cable OC will
conduct a new work commissioned for the occasion.
A special event of a different sort takes place early in the fall
when the Etobicoke Community Concert Band hosts an open house
for potential new members to visit and sit in. Call for details of date,
time and place.
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WholeNote’s 8th Annual
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Dennis Locke 416-622-8389
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8 Wing Concert Band (Trenton)
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Etobicoke Youth Band
Michael Samotowka 416-239-9724
Acton Citizens’ Band
George Elliott 519-853-0356
Fergus Brass Band
Peter Harris 519-843-5609
Argonotes, Toronto Argonauts Band
Steve Hayman 416-769-2847
Festival Wind Orchestra (Toronto)
Shelley Goodman 416-491-1683
Ayr-Paris Band
Heidi Ostner 519-632-7433
Fort Erie Legion Concert Band
Brian Williams 905-227-0150
Barrie Concert Band
Betty Lillo or Henry Bergsma 705-436-5529 or
705-721-4168
Frontenac Community Concert Band
Rick Cory 613-549-7436 (Kingston)
Bayfield Winds Concert Band (Goderich)
Paul Dearlove 519-565-5611
Brampton Concert Band
David Harmsworth 905-451-6389 (h) or
905-451-0174 (b)
Brass Conspiracy (Toronto)
Dan Manley 416-409-4637
Brassroots (London)
Bram Gregson 519-264-2620
Brockville Concert Band
Karen Frech 613-345-2394
Burlington Concert Band
Harland R. Marshall 905-312-9544
Burlington Teen Tour Band
Laura Filman 905-335-7808
Caledon Concert Band
Andy Dunn 416-276-7852
Cambridge Concert Band
Elizabeth Reed 519- 653-1055
Carleton Place and District Community Band
Graham Ingram 613-253-0846
Centralaires Band (Ottawa)
Richard Nolan 613-745-2663
Chatham Concert Band
Dr. John Leigh 519-352-7167
Chinguacousy Band (Brampton)
Al Bourke 905-455-1917 or 416-435-1917
Clarington Concert Band (Bowmanville)
Colin Rowe 905- 697-8956
Concert Band of Cobourg
Andrew Jourard 905-697-3190
Dundas Concert Band
Dave Baldry 905-523-9500
East York Concert Band
Ernie Walker 416-266-1958
Encore …The Concert Band (London)
Judy Reid 519-473-1778
Georgina Brass Band (Keswick)
Don Giles 905-476-7123
Gravenhurst Bifocals Band
Bonnie Parkhill 705-645-8810
Greater Windsor Concert Band
Karen Barnes 519-726-6723
Guelph Concert Band
Terry Gillespie 519-824-9504
Haldimand-Norfolk Concert Band
Douglas Campbell 905-768-3969
Hamilton Concert Band
Dave Pearson 905-772-5205
Hannaford Community Band (Toronto)
Anita McAlister 905-847-7682
Hannaford Junior Band (Toronto)
Anita McAlister 905-847-7682
Hannaford Youth Band (Toronto)
Darryl Eaton 905-847-7682
Hart House Symphonic Band (Toronto)
Zoe Dille 416-978-5362
Highlands Concert Band (Haliburton)
Ken Loney 705-754-4074
Highlands Wind Symphony
Glen Carter 705 457-2862 (Haliburton)
Holland’s Glorie Band (St. Catharines)
Gus Jonker 905-934-7712
Intrada Brass (Mississauga)
Doug Field 905-849-0728
Kitchener Musical Society Band
Cathy Baer 519-571-0677
Koffler Concert Band (Toronto)
Resa Kochberg or Adrienne Cohen
905-731-4845 or 416-636-1880 x228
Koffler Concert Band Resa’s Pieces
Resa Kochberg or Adrienne Cohen
905-731-4845 or 416-636-1880 ext. 228
Encore Symphonic Concert Band (Thornhill) Lambton Concert Band (Sarnia)
Tom Robins 416-239-366
Norm Sutherland 519-882-1816
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Bob Fox 519-621-8707
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Lincoln Concert Band (Bowmanville)
Richard Rybiak 905-892-2105
Oxford Winds (Woodstock)
Ron Bailey 519-537-7871
Lindsay Kinsmen Band
Michael Warren 705-328-3212
Pembroke Legion Band
Barbara Blackstein 613-638-1994
London Concert Band
Robert Kennedy 519-439-4757
Perth Citizens’ Band
Max MacDonald 613-257-8099
Lydian Wind Ensemble (Whitby)
Jacqueline Boufford 905-666-1909
Petawawa Legion Community Band
Sheila Blore 613-584-2636
Malta Band Club (Mississauga)
Sam Caruana 416-290-6444
Peterborough Concert Band
Verne Hope 705-742-8193
Maple Leaf Brass Band (Ottawa)
Nick Reilly 613-592-5502
Pickering Community Concert Band
Charlotte Kimball 905-509-2459
Markham Concert Band
Rob Wells 416-464-0135
Port Colborne Concert Band
Brenda Fairchild-Green 905-685-1242
Metropolitan Silver Band (Toronto)
Michele McCall 416-480-0725
Regimental Band of The Lorne Scots
(Peel, Dufferin and Halton Regiment)
Henry Verschuren 416-564-312 (Brampton)
Mississauga Pops Concert Band
David Jordan 905-279 -2571
Muskoka Concert Band
Roger Bolt 705-687-0253
National Capital Concert Band
Stanley H. Clark 613-256-9783
Nepean Concert Band
613-825-9310
Newmarket Citizens’ Band
Catherine Zilli 905-713-2961
Niagara Falls Concert Band
Bob Durst 905-935-3276
Royal Canadian Legion Concert Band
Ted Winick 416-537-2299 (Toronto)
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Michelle Springer 416-286-1045 (Toronto)
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Mark Gadsby 519-754-4312 (Brantford)
Sandra McMillan 705-523-5627 (Sudbury)
Thornhill Community Band
North Durham Millennium Band
Joan or Lawry Sax 416-223-7152
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Brian Williams 905-227-0150
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Northdale Concert Band (Toronto)
Moe Jeffery 613-392-8366
Dixie McMorran 416-466-7409
University of Toronto Alumni Band
Oakville Wind Orchestra
Jack MacQuarrie 416-964-3642
905-466-9306 (Pager)
Uxbridge Community Concert Band
Orillia Silver Band
Steffan Brunette 905-852-5560
Steve Sanderson 705-326-7926
Valley Concert Band (Arnprior)
Orillia Wind Ensemble
Keith Estabrooks 613-832-2697
Anna Proctor 705-487-6724
Waterloo Concert Band
Oshawa Civic Band
Viki Ledwinka 519-846-5055
Bill Askew 905-579-2220
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Ottawa Community Concert Band (OCCB)
Dave Arthur 519-579-3097
Jim Glover 613-824-4294
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Ottawa Fire Department Band
Theresa MacDonald 905-876-0866
Paul Casagrande 613-831-5834
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Owen Sound City Band
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Jazz Notes
by Jim Galloway
Well, a lot of water has flowed
under the bridge since the last
WholeNote. The truly sad news is
that The Montreal Bistro has
joined the list of former great jazz
clubs in this city. Almost exactly a
year after the demise of The Top
O’ The Senator, the Bistro joins
The Colonial and Town Taverns,
Bourbon and Basin Street,
George’s Spaghetti House and several others where good jazz had a
home. Bad news travels fast and
there were e-mails from all over
Canada and the States expressing
concern.The loss of two major
clubs in a year is a sad reflection
on a city that boasts of being one
of North America’s entertainment
meccas but seemingly cannot support a major jazz room.
One of the home-town catch
phrases I hate is “world class
city”. If you have to say it, you’re
not one. I’m happy living in Toronto, but there are things which
disappoint me. The never-ending
chase for the buck; the lack of a
sense of history. If an interesting
old building stands in the way of a
new condominium, the odds are
heavily stacked. But the downtown
core is a comfortable size and easy
to move around in. Yonge Street
isn’t Broadway, Bloor Street isn’t
the Champs Elysees, Queen Street
West isn’t Soho – and that’s just
fine, thank you.
What matters are the things that
make a city work – economy, politics and culture. The latter reveals
the truly great cities of the world.
An outstanding example is New
York. Try making a list of songs
about NYC. If you can’t come up
with at least half a dozen, go to the
bottom of the class. Without much
effort I made a list of a dozen songs
and two musicals. There are songs
about Chicago, London, Paris, New
Orleans, Rome and on and on.
Where are the songs about Toronto? Dozens, you say? Yes, but,
where are they? Almost all have
faded into obscurity. (And jazz
buffs, Rob McConnell did write
T.O., but that was for Ted
O’Reilly, not Toronto!) Perhaps
the closest we came was “People
City,” by Gary Gray and Tommy
Ambrose, used as a signature tune
by CITY-TV in the early 70s. I
remember it well; it seemed to catch
the mood of the city at that time.
Some of the T.O. songs certainly had fascinating titles. The earliest published piece I could find
seems to have been a number called
“The Sunnyside Schottische”. Later
efforts included “Come to the Vale
of the Beautiful Don”, hardly fitting today, the “Toronto Two-Step
Novelty Dance” and more recently “The Toronto Subway Song”.
All of them forgotten.
Are our jazz clubs following
suit? With a wealth of wonderful
talent and the city’s reputation for
being a good jazz town, surely we
should be able to have our equivalent of Birdland in New York or
Ronnie Scott’s in London.
On a more positive note, a new
club opens its doors in August.
Sopra, at 265 Davenport begins a
5 nights a week policy featuring
top local musicians. It is located
above the up-market Mistura Restaurant and will go some way towards filling the void left by the
Bistro. Also new on the scene is
Halleluia Restaurant at 380 Eglinton West. They started on Thursdays in August (7-10pm), and in
September are planning to go to
two nights each week. Let’s hope
these are successful ventures.
The day life changed – again.
While writing this article, I
switched on the TV in time to hear
about the plot to blow up 10 planes
in mid-Atlantic. The ensuing security measures, including no carry on luggage for any flight in
Britain, came the day before I was
Islington United Church Jazz Concert Series
25 Burnhamthorpe Road
II
UUC
due to fly into Heathrow and take
a connecting flight to Edinburgh
with my soprano sax in its soft
leather bag which has for 30 years
carried it all over the world. I sat
there stunned by yet another turn
in our world’s downward spiral.
Have horn, can’t travel. Meanwhile, there wasn’t time to find a
hard case strong enough to survive baggage handlers and in any
case (no pun intended), although
airline security may be tight, it carries no guarantees for an unlocked
container holding a valuable musical instrument. So it was a frantic
phone call to Scotland to see if I
could rent or borrow a curved soprano saxophone.
The rented horn in Edinburgh
was of indeterminate origin and
make, but it played well enough,
although it was different enough
to make playing a challenge. Horn
players will know what I’m talking about. Little differences in layout, and the angle of the neck was
not at all the same and that took
some getting used to. At least I
had my own mouthpiece, which
had been packed in my suitcase.
I tried to get a feel for the yearround jazz scene in Edinburgh. At
In the Jazz Listings; go to page 49
WholeNote welcomes a number of new venues, with several more
to come. Two hotels – the Markham Hilton and The Pantages in
Toronto are booking top-quality jazz at their lounges. Guitarist Michael
Kleniec starts a new residency at Club Caya Coco, and Ten Feet Tall
on the Danforth is the new Wednesday Night home of Lisa Particelli’s
popular “Girl’s Night Out” Jam session. Venues like the Concord Café
(while not always booked far enough in advance to make our listings)
also are offering great jazz – stick your head in or phone.
Some great jazz at the Rex – including the hugely successful
Annual Tribute to John Coltrane with Pat Labarbera and Kirk MacDonald (Sep 21, 22, 23), and a performance by JazzFM’s Project Jazz winner Mike Ruby (Sep 25). The Hogtown Syncopaters also start a Friday
afternoon residency. They also can be found at Gate 403 (Sep 2).
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festival time it is active, but spotty
the rest of the year, although The
Jazz Bar on Chambers Street seems
to have regular programming and
there are a few other spots such as
Henderson’s, The Lot in the
Grassmarket and Eighty Queen St.
all featuring local players. Edinburgh is still one of the most beautiful cities in the world and, like
Toronto, the downtown core is of
a manageable size and easy to get
around. I like it.
London where I spent three days
is much more active, as one would
expect, even if it is a bit less so
than it used to be. But in the week
I was in Britain, London jazz fans
had the opportunity to choose from
a list that included Howard Alden,
Rashied Ali, Terence Blanchard
and John Colliani, all appearing in
clubs. Not New York, but not bad.
Meanwhile, here in Toronto we
still have The Rex and Reservoir
along with the dozen or so other
clubs that keep the music alive for
local musicians and The Happy
Pals still spread joy on a Saturday
afternoon at Grossman’s. So get
out there and enjoy some of that
live music.
Christ Church Deer Park, 1570 Yonge Street
(north of St. Clair at Heath St.) 416-920-5211
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Starts with a bang
The 2006-07 opera season starts
off with bang, the end of the world
no less, with the COC’s presentation of the first-ever Canadian Ring
Cycle, the first operas to take the
stage in the COC’s new home,
Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. We’ve seen the second through fourth operas in Wagner’s tetralogy since the 2003-04
season. On September 12 the COC
finally presents the first of the cycle, “Das Rheingold”, directed by
Michael Levine, who is also the
designer for the entire cycle.
The three cycles run Sep 12-17,
September 19-24 and September
26-October 1. The performances
are already 95% sold, but CBC
Radio Two will be broadcasting
the first cycle live for listeners
around the country--“Das Rheingold” Sep 12 at 6:30pm, “Die
Walküre” Sep 13 at 6:30pm, “Siegfried” Sep 15 at 1pm and “Gotterdammerung” Sep 17 at 1pm.
There have been significant cast
changes from the individual presentations of the last three operas.
British soprano Susan Bullock assumes the role of Brünnhilde for
the first and third cycles, while
Frances Ginzer sings the role only
in the second. Pavlo Hunka, heard
previously in the roles of Hunding
and Alberich, now sings the role
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of Wotan. Phillip Ens, who previously sang Fafner, now sings both
Fafner and Hunding. The rest of
the cast remains the same with
Christian Franz as Siegfried, Adrianne Pieczonka and Clifton Forbis
as Sieglinde and Siegmund, Robert Kunzli as Mime and Mats Almgren as Hagen. A host of special
events, lectures, films and seminars about Wagner and the Ring
accompany the Ring itself. See the
website at www.ringcycle.ca.
Immediately following the Ring,
the COC goes on to stage a regular full season, starting with Mozart’s 250th birthday in the form
of “Cosi fan tutte” (Oct. 17-Nov.
5). In December (6-10) the COC
Ensemble presents one of the most
unusual offerings of the year, a
double bill of William Walton’s
“The Bear” (1967) and the world
premiere of the comic opera
“Swoon” by James Rolfe, of “Beatrice Chancey” fame, at the Imperial Oil Opera Theatre. The new
year begins with two works Toronto has not seen for a long time,
namely Shostakovich’s “Lady
Macbeth of Mtsensk” (Jan. 31-Feb
23) and Gounod’s “Faust” (Feb
1-24). The first, in belated celebration of the composer’s 100th
birthday, hasn’t been seen in Toronto since 1988. The second,
amazingly, hasn’t been seen here
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Canada’s own Brunnhilde, Frances Ginzer, only in Cycle 2, shares the
COC role with Susan Bullock. Ginzer returns as Tosca for Opera
Ontario in May.
since 1985. The season concludes
with three familiar works--Verdi’s
“Luisa Miller”, (Apr 10-May 11),
Richard Strauss’s “Elektra” (Apr
21-May 19) and Puccini’s “La
Traviata” (May 4-26).
Opera Atelier celebrates the
Mozart year with a revival of its
popular “The Magic Flute” (Nov
17-25). The company’s new production in spring (April 28-May
5) is Gluck’s “Orphée et Eurydice”. This is Gluck’s large-scale
1774 Paris version of his 1762
“Orfeo ed Euridice” that OA presented in 1997. Andrew Parrott
conducts this Canadian premiere.
Toronto Operetta Theatre expands its offerings from three to
four this season. Its two most exciting offerings are by Leonard
Bernstein and Imre Kalman. Bernstein’s “Candide” (Dec. 27-Jan.
7), labelled by the composer as an
operetta, has not been seen in
Toronto since 1984 and stars Carla
Huhtanen, Peter McCutcheon and
Jean Stilwell. Next in February (1618) comes a real rarity in the form
of Kalman’s “Gypsy Violins” (“Der
Zigeunerprimas”) from 1912.
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The University of Toronto Opera Division presents Johann
Strauss’s “Die Fledermaus” (Nov.
9-12) and Benjamin Britten’s “The
Rape of Lucretia” (March 15-18),
while the Glenn Gould Vocal Ensemble at Royal Conservatory of
Music presents a major rarity in
Respighi’s 1922 opera “Sleeping
Beauty” (“La bella dormente nel
bosco”) (March 16-22).
Fans of early music will be
pleased to learn that Tafelmusik
will perform Henry Purcell’s semiopera “The Fairy Queen” (1692)
in concert (Nov. 29-Dec. 3) under
Richard Egarr. The Toronto Consort will present its first staged
opera in the form of the 1604 madrigal-comedy by Orazio Vecchi
(1550-1605) called “The Night
Games of Siena” (“Le veglie di
Siena”) (April 20-21) with dancers and commedia dell’arte artists.
Out of town, Opera Ontario celebrates the Mozart year with “Don
Giovanni” starring rising star Daniel Okulitch (Hamilton Oct. 19 &
21; Kitchener Oct. 27 & 29). The
company’s winter presentation is
Saint-Saens’s “Samson et Delilah”
in concert with Richard Margison,
Allyson McHardy and a 100-voice
choir (Hamilton Jan. 25 & 27;
Kitchener Jan. 31). To finish the
season, Canada’s own Brünnhilde, Frances Ginzer, appears in the
title role of Puccini’s “Tosca”
(Hamilton May 3 & 5; Kitchener
May 11 & 13).
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Der Ring on Screen and Disc
“But a miracle happens when the Ring is heard, no matter what the
insane ideas of narcissistic stage directors. Exegesis disappears
and the listener is swept into something primal, timeless, and is
pushed by elemental forces.” Harold C. Schonberg
Big screen, small screen, and now the very small screen of ubiquitous iPod’s don’t just exercise major impacts on contemporary culture, they are among its defining pillars. Film/tv muscled its way
into opera houses when stage directors grabbed an outsized role.
Compare that to operas written before the onset of “talkies” in the
1920s, where staging played a distinctly subordinate role to singers,
conductors and orchestras.
Even the ultimate opera showman, Richard Wagner, in constructing his Bayreuth cultural temple to strut his Gesamtkunstwerk (“total
work of art”), was driven by acoustical rather than architectural
splendour. Architecturally, Bayreuth’s squat hall is nothing much to
write home about, unless you happen to be Stravinsky: “It was like
a crematorium, and a very old-fashioned one at that, and one expected to see the gentleman in black who had been entrusted with the
task of singing the praises of the departed.”
But the hall, still the world’s largest freestanding timber building,
is exquisitely suited to Wagner’s dense orchestration. And, make no
mistake, dramatic purpose is served. Sinking the orchestra pit out of
sight, sombre ambient light and stark seating create just the relation
between audience and stage that Wagner thought appropriate. His
staging, though, was modest and conventional relative to the Ring’s
innovations in musical structures, libretto and exploration of the full
range of the human voice.
No fewer than six DVD sets of the
full Ring cycle have appeared since
DVD displaced VHS. Only one of
them respects this subordination of
staging, sets and costumes, the Met’s
1990 performance. (Deutsche Grammophon/Universal) I wouldn’t call
the staging modest – with the Met’s
enormous budget, nothing ever is but it’s most definitely subordinate.
This Met DVD Ring cycle is the
essential first purchase in building a
Wagner library. James Levine has
transformed the Orchestra from a
competent ensemble into a house orchestra worthy of Carnegie Hall.
Hildegard Behrens, Jesse Norman,
Wagner’s Gesamtkunstwerk.
Christa Ludwig, James Morris,
Sound-wise, though, Decca’s enSiegfried Jerusalem, and Dawn
gineers pulled out all the stops
Upshaw are among the who’s
for this first stereo recording of
who cast. Otto Schenk’s staging
is masterful. Video director, Bri- the Ring, which began in 1958
with Das Rheingold. Solti’s
an Large, is one of the best in
Ring was key in kicking off the
the business. The Met Ring is
stereo LP era, and its sound and
exemplary opera on film.
performances are still tough to
My other contender for a first
Wagner acquisition would still be beat. If you buy the CD set,
make sure you get the second
the landmark Solti audio record1997 re-mastering. Better yet, if
ing for Decca/Universal. The
you’re lucky, get the LP set,
Met DVD has the obvious advantage of displaying visually
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O Artin Shafa and a Mozartloving friend will have the pleasure of the Toronto Mendelssohn
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Identify this member of our music
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In 1772 Zoffany enjoyed a sev- guests of Music Toronto, will
September 15th, 2006.)
en-year stay in Italy with the pa- hear the Emerson Quartet
tronage of King George III and
(Thursday September 28th,8pm)
(Photo taken in Montreal, October 1948)
spent several years painting por- play Mozart’s Divertimento for
traits in India. Returning to Eng- string trio in E-flat, K.563 and
land he became a founder-mem- Brahms’ Piano Quartet in g,
ber of the Royal Academy
Op.25. Guest: Wu Han, piano.
July/August’s Child was...
(1768): generally reputed for his OCarol Ditner-Wilson and her
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A little fool lies here
brilliant technical skills and for
guest will hear the Exultate
(1756-91) Aged Eight, Holding a
Whom I held dear—
introducing greater liveliness and Chamber Singers Mozart 250,
A starling in the prime
Bird’s Nest, 1764-65 - a portrait
personal anecdote into English
(Saturday October 20th 8 pm) inattributed to Johann Zoffany.
Of his brief time
conversation pieces. But….
cluding Alma Dei Creatoris, Ave
Did you know that Papageno’s
Whose doom it was to drain
In two portraits of Mozart at- Verum Corpus, Salve Regina,
Death’s bitter pain…(etc)
thing for birds was shared by
tributed to Zoffany (the one
Exsultate Jubilate, Solemn VesMozart himself?
Another event in the same week, shown here and a lesser-known
pers, and choruses from Die ZaOn 27 May 1784, Mozart purthe death of Mozart’s father
portrait of Mozart at the age of
uberflöte and Idomeneo. Guest
chased a starling - according to an Leopold, may also have prompted ten) he painted the composer with soprano soloist Teri Dunn.
expense book in which he noted the this funereal behaviour. Some eight brown eyes, instead of blue, sug- OJay Stephenson and a guest
date, price, a musical fragment the days later, Mozart composed a gesting that Mozart may not have will be treated to Amadeus
bird apparently whistled, and the
divertimento for sextet (K. 522), actually sat for the paintings! In
Chamber Choir’s season openwords “Das war schön!”. Europe- nicknamed the Musical Joke: in- Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates er: Amadeus Sings Mozart Sunan starlings, notable for their abili- spired, some suggest, by the orof Penzance (1879), the Majorday October 21st, 7:30 pm.
ty to mimic, were popular pets at
ganized cacophony of starlings.
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Centre, 235 Queens Quay West. 416-973World Routes 2006 Festival. Ashkenaz: A — 11:00am: Harbourfront Centre World
$39.50-$59.50.
Routes 2006 Festival. Ashkenaz: A Festival 4000. Free.
Festival of New Yiddish Culture. Three-day
— 7:30: Mirvish Productions. The Lord of
— 7:30: Ashkenaz Festival. Paul Brody’s
of New Yiddish Culture. 235 Queens Quay
festival includes klezmer and middle-eastern
the Rings. Lyrics by Shaun McKenna and
Sadawi. New Jewish jazz, blues, East EuropeWest. See Sep 2. Last event today starts
inspired music. For concerts see Ashkenaz
Matthew Warchus; music by A. R. Rahman
an folk music & contemporary classical
11:00pm.
Festival events in concert listings; for other
and Varttina with Christopher Nightingale.
music. Paul Brody, trumpet/leader. Brigantine
musical events see Announcements, Etcetera; — 12:00 noon: Ashkenaz Festival. Blue
Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King St.
Room, York Quay Centre, 235 Queens Quay
Cows and Green Ducks: Stories, Sights &
for various other cultural events see HarWest. 416-872-1212. $78-$125. For comWest. 416-973-4000. $12.
Sounds from Marc Chagall’s World. Songs, in
bourfront web site or call. Last event today
plete run see music theatre listings.
Yiddish, Russian, French & English, tell stories — 8:00: Ashkenaz Festival. Ashkenazim &
starts 11:00pm. 235 Queens Quay West.
— 8:00: Capitol Event Theatre. Menoabout Chagall and his family, town, teachers & Merlin Shepherd Kapelye. Vocal quartet and
416-973-4000. Most events free, ticketed
pause Out Loud! Book & lyrics by Jeanie
band with original compositions based on
rabbis and the Czar; multimedia participatory
events indicated.
Linders. Jayne Lewis, Nicole Robert, Cynthia
Yiddish poems, Jewish and Russian folk songs
family concert, conceived & curated by
— 2:00: Chet Baker Foundation. Chet
Jones, Rose Ryan & Jenny Hall, performers.
and niggunim. Concert Stage, Harbourfront
Adrienne Cooper. Studio Theatre, York Quay
Baker Festival. Runs until 11:00pm, seven
Capitol Event Theatre, 2492 Yonge St. 416Centre, 235 Queens Quay West. 416-973bands in rotation, food/beverage, concessions, Centre, 235 Queens Quay West. 416-973872-1111. $52.95. For complete run see
4000. Free.
4000. Free.
arts/crafts. Lorne Lofsky, Kirk Macdonald,
music theatre listings.
— 8:00: Chet Baker Foundation. Chet
— 1:00: Ashkenaz Festival. Klezfactor.
Adrean Farrugia, Kevin Turcotte, Pat Labar— 8:00: Chet Baker Foundation. Chet
Baker & Latin Music. Reflection of Chet’s
Rock, jazz, klezmer & classical chamber
bera, Bernie Senensky, Alexis Baro, Steve
Baker International All-Star Tribute. Guest of
history with Latin, samba, bossa nova &
music. Ali Berkok, melodica/keyboards; Mark
Wallace, Eliana Cuevas, performers. Yongehonour: Carol Baker; Harold Danko & Hal
Pellizzer, guitars; Steve Gotlib, bass; Jennifer Brazilian music. Randy Brecker, Maurizio
Dundas Square, Yonge & Dundas Sts. 416Galper, piano; Herb Geller & Bob Mover, sax;
Giammarco, Riccardo Del Fra, Jane Bunnett,
Burford, violin; Mike Anklewicz, saxophone/
880-2438. Free.
Curtis Fuller, trombone; Kevin Turcotte,
clarinet/leader. Lakeside Terrace, Harbourfront Hilario Duran & Brian Dickinson, players; Latin
— 6:30: Jazz at Commensal. Leon Kingtrumpet; Nicola Stilo, flute; Ray Drummond,
Jazz Big Band; Hilario Duran, director. Music
Centre, 235 Queens Quay West. 416-973stone (sax) with piano. Commensal, 655 Bay
bass. Music Hall, 147 Danforth Ave. 416-880Hall, 147 Danforth Ave. 416-880-2438. $254000. Free.
St. 416-596-9364. Free.
2438. $25-$45. Concert Gala Fundraiser.
$45. Concert Gala Fundraiser.
— 7:00: Ashkenaz Festival. Veretski Pass. — 1:00: Ashkenaz Festival. Toronto
Jewish Folk Choir & Janie Respitz. Contempo- — 8:30: Hugh’s Room. Dr. Draw. See Sep 2.
Melodies
from
medieval
Poland,
dances
from
Our mistake
Bessarabia, Ruthenia & Bukovina, music from rary Jewish compositions in Yiddish, Hebrew, — 9:00pm: Ashkenaz Festival. Ashkenaz
In the Jul/Aug issue we listed an incorrect
Special Guests. Global klezmorim meet, jam
Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) & English. Alexander
the Ottoman Empire, played on violin, viola,
venue for the second Toyich International
& exchange musical notes. Toronto Star
Veprinsky, conductor. Brigantine Room, York
bass viol, button accordion, bass drum &
Gala Monster Concert. We regret the
Stage, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay
Quay Centre, 235 Queens Quay West. 416tsimbl. Cookie Segelstein, Stuart Brotman &
inconvenience caused.
West. 416-973-4000. Free.
973-4000. Free.
Joshua Horowitz, performers. Lakeside
— 9:00pm: Chet Baker Foundation. Up
— 2:00: Ashkenaz Festival. Kharkov
Readers who consulted our on-line
Terrace, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens
Klezmer Band. Rock, jazz, klezmer & classical and Coming Jazz Stars. Danny Depoe’s
listings at www.thewholenote.com would
Quay West. 416-973-4000. Free.
chamber music. Stanislav Rayko, violin/leader. Quartet with Robi Botos; David Virelles
have seen a correction notice directing
— 7:30: Ashkenaz Festival. Yiddish
Quartet; Jenna Andrews Quartet; Sophia
Concert Stage, Harbourfront Centre, 235
them to the correct venue. It is a good
Barbershop & Beyond the Pale. Yiddish
Perlman & Tory Cassis with Adrean Farrugia.
Queens Quay West. 416-973-4000. Free.
idea to check our web site for corrections,
male vocal harmony (Ashkenaz-commisLula Lounge, 1585 Dundas St. West. 416— 3:00: Ashkenaz Festival. Amsterdam
additions, and cancellations.
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sioned revival), and European folk (Balkan, Klezmer, Gypsy, Romanian) to
bluegrass, jazz, reggae, funk. Dave Wall,
vocals; DJ Socalled, performer; Kevin Fox,
bass; Mitch Smolkin, artistic director;
Eric Stein, leader. Concert Stage, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West.
416-973-4000. Free.
— 8:30: Hugh’s Room. Dr. Draw. Think
Mingus meets Marley, Beethoven & Bowie!
Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas St. West. 416531-6604. $23; $20(adv).
— 9:00pm: Lula Lounge. Lady Son y Articulo
Veinte. Afro-Cuban rumba/son band, includes
dance class. Yeti Ajasin, vocalist. Lula Lounge,
1585 Dundas St. West. 416-588-0307. $10.
— 9:30pm: Ashkenaz Festival. Yasmin
Levy. 15th century Ladino/Judeo-Spanish,
Flamenco & Turkish songs. Concert Stage,
Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West.
416-973-4000. Free.
— 9:30pm: Chet Baker Foundation. Chet
Baker/Gerry Mulligan 1950’s Tribute Concert.
Mike Malone, trumpet; Steve Wallace, bass;
Joel Haynes, drums; Pol Coussée, sax. The
Rex Jazz & Blues Bar, 194 Queen St. West.
416-598-2475. $10-$15.
— 10:00pm: Ashkenaz Festival. Odessa/
Havana: The Klezmer Cuban Connection.
Bulgar & Bembé, Sher & Son Montuno, Hora
& Habanera, including new works. Various
musicians; David Buchbinder, trumpet/composer; Hilario Durán, piano/composer. Harbourfront Centre Theatre, 231 Queens Quay
West. 416-973-4000. $18.
— 11:00pm: Ashkenaz Festival. Geoff
Berner “The Whiskey Rabbi”. Klezmer with
the energy & passion of punk. Geoff Berner,
accordion/vocals/songwriter. Brigantine Room,
York Quay Centre, 235 Queens Quay West.
416-973-4000. Free.
Front St. North, Port Credit. 905-271Local young jazz vocalists & musicians
Klezmer Band. See Sep 3. Concert Stage,
9449. $30.
with standards & original tunes. Lula
Harbourfront Centre.
Lounge, 1585 Dundas St. West. 416-588— 4:00: Ashkenaz Festival. Judith Cohen — 7:00: Summer Music in the Garden.
Bach at Dusk II. Bach: Sonata in C for
0307. $10.
and Tamar Ilana Cohen Adams. Ladino
unaccompanied violin. Linda Melsted,
— 7:30: The Kenneth G. Mills FoundaSephardic songs, medieval & traditional
baroque violin. Toronto Music Garden,
tion. Akafist Chamber Choir. 15-voice
music. Judith Cohen, vielle/’ud/dulcimer/
Russian male a cappella choir, singing
traditional percussion/vocals; percussion/
Free.
Russian folk songs & church music
vocals. Marilyn Brewer Community Space,
— 7:00: Taste of Toronto. Sol De Cuba.
spanning five centuries. Andrei V. MalyuYork Quay Centre, 235 Queens Quay West.
Cuban music. Metro Square, King St. West
tin, artistic director/conductor. All Ser416-973-4000. Free.
between Simcoe & John Sts. 416-217-0700. bian Saints Church, 2520 Dixie Road,
— 4:30: Ashkenaz Festival. Golem. KlezFree.
Mississauga. 905-272-5944. By donation.
mer-rock updated versions of old Yiddish
— 7:30: 2nd Chinese Performing Arts
— 8:00: Toronto All-Star Big Band. Big
tunes. Annette Ezekiel, accordion/vocals;
Festival. Tang Concubines. Action-Musical,
Band Ballroom. Big Band dancing to the swing
Aaron Diskin, vocals. Toronto Star Stage,
Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West. 100 performers, 600 costumes. Wendy Zhao, hits of the 1930’s and 40’s. Port Credit
pipa; Yongli, guzheng. Main Stage, Toronto
Ballroom, The Waterside Inn, 15 Stavebank
416-973-4000. Free.
Monday September 04
Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge St. 416-872- Rd. South, Mississauga. 905-891-7770. $5.
— 4:30: Ashkenaz Festival. Sasha Lu1111. $50-$75. For complete run see music
— 8:30: Hugh’s Room. Ron Nigrini CD
— 10:30am: Harbourfront Centre World
minsky and String Quartet. Traditional and
theatre listings.
Release. Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas St.
Routes 2006 Festival. Ashkenaz: A Festival original compositions by Ziganov (world
— 8:30: Hugh’s Room. Fruteland Jackson & West. 416-531-6604. $17; $15(adv).
of New Yiddish Culture. 235 Queens Quay
premiere, Ashkenaz commission). Sasha
Harrison Kennedy. Acoustic roots ‘n’ blues.
West. See Sep 2. Last event today starts
Luminksy, accordion/piano. Lakeside Terrace,
8:30.
Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West. Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas St. West. 416531-6604. $14; $12(adv).
— 12:00 noon: Ashkenaz Festival. Blue
416-973-4000. Free.
Arraymusic Studio, Suite 218 (enter at rear
Cows and Green Ducks: Stories, Sights &
— 5:30: Ashkenaz Festival. Greg Wall Trio: — 9:15pm: Taste of Toronto. Jeanine
Mackie. Pop, R&B & jazz. Metro Square, King door), 60 Atlantic Ave. 416-539-8752. $6Sounds from Marc Chagall’s World. Studio
Later Prophets. Music inspired by traditional
$10(sliding scale).
Theatre, York Quay Centre. See Sep 3.
melodies used to chant to Biblical texts. Aaron St. W. between Simcoe & John Sts. 416— 9:15pm: Taste of Toronto. Suzie Vinnick.
— 12:00 noon: Ashkenaz Festival. Blue
Alexander, percussion; Shai Bachar, keyboard; 217-0700. Free.
Blues, folk & pop. Metro Square, King St. W
Klezmer Moon. Klezmer and swing. Lakeside
Greg Wall, saxophone/leader. Brigantine Room,
Friday September 08
between Simcoe & John Sts. 416-217-0700.
Terrace, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens
York Quay Centre, 235 Queens Quay West.
— 11:00am: Taste of Toronto. Plakaso.
Free.
416-973-4000. $12.
Brazilian jazz & rumba. Metro Square, King
— 10:00pm: Lula Lounge. Cuban Fridays
— 12:15: Music Mondays. Michael Holt,
— 5:30: Ashkenaz Festival. Theresa Tova:
St. West between Simcoe & John Sts. 416with Cafe Cubano! Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas
voice & piano. Holt: Prelude in F-sharp;
Tova Sings Beyle CD Launch. Tribute to
217-0700. Free.
St. West. 416-588-0307. $10.
Prelude for Sand; Nino Wrote a Tune; The
acclaimed American Yiddish poet Beyle
— 12:25: Taste of Toronto. Santerias;
Whole World is a Song & others. Church of the Schaechter-Gottesman. Harbourfront Centre
World music. Metro Square, King St. West
Holy Trinity, 10 Trinity Square. 416-598Theatre, 231 Queens Quay West. 416-973between Simcoe & John Sts. 416-217-0700. — 11.00am: Taste of Toronto. Plakaso.
4521 x3. $5 suggested donation.
4000. $18.
Brazilian jazz & rumba. Metro Square, King
Free.
— 1:00: Ashkenaz Festival. Aaron Bensous- — 8:30: Ashkenaz Festival. Ashkenaz
St. West between Simcoe & John Sts. 416— 5:00: Taste of Toronto. Scott Marshall
san and the Dafina Orchestra. Songs from
Finale. Tribute to German Goldenshteyn,
217-0700. Free.
Quartet. Jazz. Metro Square, King St. W
Middle Eastern rhythms, jazz and Flamenco.
music expert and master clarinetist. Frank
between Simcoe & John Sts. 416-217-0700. — 11:00am & 2:00: Solar Stage. Snow
Toronto Star Stage, Harbourfront Centre, 235 London, Michael Alpert, Josh Horowitz,
White. Adapted from the Brothers Grimm by
Cookie Segelstein, Josh Dolgin, Paul Brody, & Free.
— 6:30: Jazz at Commensal. Warren Greig William Martyn, for ages 4-10. Solar Stage
— 2:00: Ashkenaz Festival. Chassidic Jazz more, performers; Alex Kontorovich, clarinet/
Children’s Theatre, Concourse Level, 4950
(guitar) with piano. Commensal, 655 Bay St.
Project. Traditional Chassidic melodies &
director. Concert Stage, Harbourfront Centre,
Yonge St. 416-368-8031. $10. For complete
416-596-9364. Free.
contemporary jazz. Tom Lippincott, guitar;
— 7:00: Southside Shuffle Blues and
Barbara Corcillo, cello; Marie Randel, violin;
Free.
— 1:00: Taste of Toronto. Jeanine Mackie.
Jazz Festival. Main Stage Concert. David
Felipe Lamoglia, saxophone; Dan Feiszli, bass;
Wednesday September 06
Clayton-Thomas; Roomful of Blues; The Three Pop, R&B & Jazz. Metro Square, King St. W
Robert Thomas Jr., percussion; Reuben Hoch,
Tenors Sax Kings. Memorial Park, Port Credit. between Simcoe & John Sts. 416-217-0700.
drums/composer. Concert Stage, Harbourfront — 12:30: Summer Serenades Smooth
Free.
Centre, 235 Queens Quay West. 416-973Jazz Wednesdays. Nicole Stoffman’s Jazz 905-271-9449. $35(wkend pass), $15(daily
pass).
4000. Free.
Boheme. Yonge Dundas Square, 1 Dundas St.
Jazz Festival. Fram Slokker Street Shuffle.
— 7:00: Taste of Toronto. The Imbayaku— 2:00: Ashkenaz Festival. Lenka Lichten- East. 416-979-9960. Free.
nas. Music from Equador. Metro Square, King Sean Cotton; Stan Street; Trouble & Strife;
berg and Brian Katz, Pashtes CD Release.
David Rotundo; Bebop Cowboys; Toronto AllSt. West between Simcoe & John Sts. 416Pashtes (Simplicity), based on Yiddish verse of Jazz Festival. New Orleans 2006 Gala.
Star Big Band & others. Lakeshore Rd. East
poet Simcha Simchovitch (who will attend),
Maple Blues Band & guests. Oasis Convention 217-0700. Free.
between Hwy. 10 and Stavebank, Port Credit.
unites chamber jazz, Jewish, classical,
Centre, 1036 Lakeshore Rd. East, Mississau- — 7:30: Lula Lounge. Babes in Jazz Land.
Brazilian & other world music. Guests:
ga. 905-271-9449. $175.
George Koller, Ernie Tollar & Alan HetheringThursday September 07
ton; Lenka Lichtenberg, vocals/composer; Brian
Katz, guitar/piano/arranger. Lakeside Terrace,
— 11:00am: Taste of Toronto. Plakaso.
Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West. Brazilian jazz & rumba. Metro Square, King
Free Lunchtime Concerts - Thursdays, 12:15 pm
416-973-4000. Free.
St. West between Simcoe & John Sts. 416— 2:00: Ashkenaz Festival. The Wandering 217-0700. Free.
Toronto Starlight Orchestra
Sept 7
Jew. By Alexander Shisho. Boris Sichon,
— 12:15: Music On The Hill. Toronto
Sept 14 “Cowboys & Angels” - Allison Lynn, gospel singer;
multiple instruments/movement/voice/adapta- Starlight Orchestra. St. John’s York Mills
Gerald Flemming, country
tion. Studio Theatre, York Quay Centre, 235
Anglican Church, 19 Don Ridge Dr. 416-225Sept 21 “Songs for a Chocolate Voice” - Sue Crowe
Queens Quay West. 416-973-4000. $10.
6611. Free.
Connolly, contralto; Becca Whitla, piano
— 3:00: Ashkenaz Festival. A Harstiker
— 12:25: Taste of Toronto. Santerias.
Nign: The Classical Voice in Jewish Song.
World music. Metro Square, King St. West
Sept 28 Mark Sepic Trio
Music of Jewish composers Weill, Kosma,
between Simcoe & John Sts. 416-217-0700.
The Choirgirlz
Oct 5
Glanzberg, Janowski, Weiner, Secunda and
Free.
Oct 12 “Music for Muses” - Kristine Dandavino, soprano;
others. Rosalie Becker, soprano; Franck
— 5:00: Taste of Toronto. Johannes LinMarianne Turner, piano; Joanne Averill-Rocha, flute;
Hagendorf, tenor; Jeff Cohen, piano. Brigantine stead. Nouveau flamenco. Metro Square, King
Kristen Theriault, harp
Room, York Quay Centre, 235 Queens Quay
St. W. between Simcoe & John Sts. 416West. 416-973-4000. Free.
217-0700. Free.
St. John’s York Mills Church, 19 Don Ridge Dr.
— 3:00: Ashkenaz Festival. Susan Watts,
Near York Mills subway. Close to Yonge and the 401.
trumpet & vocals in Concert. Toronto Star
Jazz Festival. Beggars Blues Banquet.
Stage, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay Singin’ for Sick Kids: Johnny Max & Chuck
416-225-6611
Free parking. Beautiful venue. Great music.
West. 416-973-4000. Free.
Jackson; Jimmy Cavallo & the Houserockers;
Supported
by the Toronto Arts Council
— 3:30: Ashkenaz Festival. Amsterdam
Beggars Blues Jam. Royal Canadian Legion, 35
35
598-2475. $15; $10(st with ID).
— 9:30pm: Ashkenaz Festival. The Socalled Orchestra: Hip hop, oy vey! Urban
rhyme & traditional klezmer. Josh Dolgin
(aka DJ Socalled ), performer. Concert
Stage, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens
— 11:00pm: Ashkenaz Festival. Marilyn
Lerner, Romanian Fantasy CD Launch & Aaron
Alexander’s Midrash Mish Mosh. Improvisations on traditional Yiddish melodies, and klezpunk-fusion. Marilyn Lerner, composer/piano;
Aaron Alexander, composer/drums/leader.
Brigantine Room, York Quay Centre, 235
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... CONCERTS: Toronto & nearby
905-271-9449. Free.
— 3:15: Taste of Toronto. TSO Brass
Quintet. Metro Square, King St. West between Simcoe & John Sts. 416-217-0700.
Free.
— 4:20: Taste of Toronto. The Essentials. A
Cappella Vocal. Metro Square, King St. W between Simcoe & John Sts. 416-217-0700.
Free.
— 5:20: Taste of Toronto. Melting pot.
Rock. Metro Square, King St. West between Simcoe & John Sts. 416-217-0700.
Free.
— 6:20: Taste of Toronto. Jorge Miguel.
Flamenco. Metro Square, King St. West
between Simcoe & John Sts. 416-2170700. Free.
— 6:30: Jazz at Commensal. Dan Eisen
(piano). Commensal, 655 Bay St. 416-5969364. Free.
An Evening of Opera
and Romantic Songs
Elena Ciorici - Soprano
Janna Routsinska - Piano
Works by
Puccini,
Bellini, Verdi,
Donizetti
and Strauss
Italian and
Russian Songs
Saturday, Sept 9 at 7pm
1570 Yonge St. at St. Clair
Tickets $25, $15 sen./stud.
416-638-1919 or 905-619-8047
— 7:00: Elena Ciorici. An Evening of
Opera and Romantic Songs. Works by
Puccini, Bellini, Verdi, Donizetti &
Strauss; Italian & Russian songs. Elena
Ciorici, soprano; Janna Routsinska,
piano. Christ Church Deer Park, 1570
Yonge St. 416-638-1919. $25; $15(sr/st).
Jazz Festival. Main Stage Concert.
Wickens/Knight; Downchild Blues Band;
Jeff Healey’s Jazz Wizards. Memorial
Park, Port Credit. 905-271-9449.
$35(wkend pass), $15(daily pass).
— 7:00: The Kenneth G. Mills Foundation. Akafist Chamber Choir. 15-voice
Russian male a cappella choir, singing
Russian folk songs & church music
spanning five centuries. Andrei V. Malyutin, artistic director/conductor. St. Arsenije Sremac Serbian Church, 508 Byron
Street South, Whitby. 905-668-2676. By
donation.
— 7:30: AIDS Committee of Toronto.
BroadwAID II: Benefit for ACT. Musical
theatre, popular & classical music. Ann
O’Kane, Marnie Kersten & Jeff MacLean,
performers. Bloor Street United Church,
300 Bloor Street West. 905-483-8121.
$10, $8 (st/sr).
— 7:30: Raag-Mala Music Society. Kala
Ramnath, violin. With Subhankar Banerjee, tabla. Medical Sciences Auditorium, U
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of T, 1 King’s College Circle. 416-2813725. $15-$35; member discount.
— 8:20 Taste of Toronto. Patrizia. Rock
Opera Diva Patrizia performs operatic
arias with her band. Metro Square, King
St. West between Simcoe & John Sts.
416-217-0700. Free.
— 8:30: Hugh’s Room. Rita Chiarelli CD
Release. Pop country, blues & blues-rock.
Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas St. West.
416-531-6604. $22; $20(adv).
— 9:00pm: Lula Lounge. Salsa Saturday
with Caché. Hardcore Salsa music, includes dance class. Lula Lounge, 1585
Dundas St. West. 416-588-0307. $10.
— 9:20pm: Taste of Toronto. Ruben
Vazquez & friends. Cuban. Metro Square, King
St. West between Simcoe & John Sts. 416217-0700. Free.
Sunday September 10
— 4:15: Taste of Toronto. Jaymz Bee &
his Royal Jelly Orchestra. Metro Square,
King St. West between Simcoe & John
Sts. 416-217-0700. Free.
— 4:30: Christ Church Deer Park. Jazz
Vespers. Alex Dean Quartet. 1570 Yonge
St. 416-920-5211. Free; donations welcome.
— 4:45: Taste of Toronto. Divine Brown.
Metro Square, King St. West between
Simcoe & John Sts. 416-217-0700. Free.
— 8:00: Beth Tikvah Synagogue Music
Committee. The Diva and the Fiddler. Classics, traditional Yiddish and Hebrew folk
music, contemporary favourites. Moshe
Hammer, violin; Shoshana Friedman;
soprano. Beth Tikvah Synagogue, 3080
Bayview Ave. 416-221-3433 x354. $35;
$50(reserved); $30(sr); $20(st).
— 8:00: Toronto Centre for the Arts.
Parissa, with Dastan Ensemble. Persian
traditional music. The Dastan Ensemble:
Hamid Motebassem, tar (Persian lute);
Hossein Behroozinia, barbat (oud); Saeed
Farajpouri, kamanche (spike fiddle); Pejman
Hadadi & Benham Samani, percussion;
Parissa, singer. George Weston Recital Hall,
Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge St.
416-872-1111. $25-$50.
— 8:30: Arabesque. Layali Arabesque
(Arabesque Nights). Traditional acoustic
music by the Arabesque Orchestra; professional bellydancers. Prof. Bassam
Bishara, vocals/oude; George Barbas,
dhoholla; Sebastian Gatto, katim; Suleiman Warwar, lead dumbek/leader. Gypsy
Co-op, 815 Queen St. West. $10 cover.
— 8:30: Hugh’s Room. The Glengarry
Bhoys. Celtic & roots music Hugh’s
Room, 2261 Dundas St. West. 416531-6604. $12; $10(adv).
— 9:30pm: Lula Lounge. Rob Curto’s
Forró For All, with Maracatu Nunca
Antes. Forró music from Northeast
Brazil. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas St.
West. 416-588-0307. $15.
bassoon and string trio in d, Op.40/2.
Larkin Hinder, bassoon; Heidi Behrenbruch, violin; Beverlee Swayze, viola;
Tricia Balmer, cello; Marion Wilk, piano.
Belmont House, 55 Belmont St. 416-9649231 x226. Free.
Tuesday September 12
— 1:00: St. James’ Cathedral. Music at
Mid-day. Bach: Prelude and Fugue in e,
BWV.548; Reger: Kyrie Eleison, Op.59/7;
Kenins: Ex Mari: Episodes from Georgian;
Hindemith: Sonate III; Diemer: Toccata for
organ. Michael Bloss, organ. 65 Church
St. 416-364-7865 x224. Free.
— 7:00: Alchemy. An Hour of Chamber
Music. Prokofiev: Piano Sonata #7 in Bflat, Op.83; Piazzolla: La Muerte Del
Ángel; Dvorak; Piano Quartet in E-flat,
Op.87. John Soloninka, violin; Nataliya
Laribi, viola; Jennifer Brunton, cello;
Leslie Myrick, Meri Gec, piano. Valleyview
Residence, 541 Finch Ave. West. 416-3980555. Free.
— 7:00: Canadian Opera Company.
Wagner’s Ring Cycle (Cycle 1 begins). Der
Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner;
see COC web site for related events. Pavlo
Hunka, Susan Bullock, Adrianne Pieczonka & other performers; Richard Bradshaw, conductor. Four Seasons Centre for
the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. West.
416-363-8231. $1400-$1700; $350$425(single performances, limited). For
complete run of this and all the cycles,
see music theatre listings. *SOLD OUT*
— 8:30: Hugh’s Room. Save The Revue
Benefit. Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas St.
West. 416-531-6604. $25.
— 12:00 noon: Southside Shuffle Blues
and Jazz Festival. Main Stage Concert.
Papa Grey; The Soul Reason Revue; Danny
Brooks & the Memphis Brothers; Shawne &
Jay Jackson & the Majestics; Detroit Women
& Motor City Express. Memorial Park, Port
Credit. 905-271-9449. $35(wkend pass),
$15(daily pass).
— 12:00 noon: Taste of Toronto. Kevin Clark’s
Jazz Kitchen. Metro Square, King St. W between
Simcoe & John Sts. 416-217-0700. Free.
— 1:25: Taste of Toronto. Terra Hazelton &
The Easy Answers. Metro Square, King St.
West between Simcoe & John Sts. 416-2170700. Free.
— 2:00: Scarborough Sunday Concerts.
Marie Gogo in Concert. Rotunda, Scarborough
Civic Centre, 150 Borough Dr. 416-396— 12:30: Summer Serenades Smooth
7398. Free.
Jazz Wednesdays. Lori Cullen. Yonge
— 2:45: Taste of Toronto. Christopher Plock
Dundas Square, 1 Dundas St. East. 416-979& The Swinging Outlaws. Metro Square, King
9960. Free.
St. West between Simcoe & John Sts. 416— 12:30: Yorkminster Park Baptist
217-0700. Free.
Church. Noonday Organ Recital. Chris
— 3:00: The Kenneth G. Mills FoundaMonday September 11
Dawes, organ. 1585 Yonge St. 416-922tion. Akafist Chamber Choir. 15-voice Russian
1167. Free.
male a cappella choir, singing Russian folk
songs & church music spanning five centuries. Music. Boismortier: Sonata for cello
Music. See Sep 11. New Horizons Tower,
Andrei V. Malyutin, artistic director/conductor. and bassoon in d, Op.40/1; Schubert:
Sonatensatz for piano trio in B-flat,
1140 Bloor St. West. 416-536-6111.
Cathedral of the Transfiguration, 10350
Woodbine Avenue, Markham. 416-872-4255. D.28; Glinka: Sonatensatz for Bassoon
and Piano; Glazunov: Elegy for viola and Concerts Canada. Béla Fleck and The
$30, $20(sr/st); $15(choirs).
piano in g, Op.44; Danzi: Quartet for
Flecktones. Pop, jazz, funk, bluegrass and
— 3:00: Walton Memorial United
Church. BroadwAID II. Musical theatre,
popular & classical music. Ann O’Kane,
Marnie Kersten & Jeff MacLean, performers.
Walton Memorial United Church, 2489
Free informal concerts on Thursdays from 12: 15 to 12:45
Lakeshore Blvd. West, Oakville. 905-8271643. $10, $8 (st/sr).
Metropolitan United Church, Queen at Church Streets
— 4:00: Association of Improvising Musicians Toronto/Now Lounge. Jazz & ImproSeptember 14 Patricia Wright, organ
vised Music. Showcasing local talent. Now
Metropolitan United Church
Lounge, 189 Church St. 416-769-2841. $6.
September 21 Michael Bloss, organ
Afternoon Twilight Recital. Mozart: Fantasia
Cathedral Church of St. James
in f, K.608; Willan: Introduction, Passacaglia
and Fugue. Michael Bloss, organ. 4:30: Choral
September. 28 Patricia Wright, organ
Evensong. 65 Church St. 416-364-7865
Metropolitan United Church
x224. Free.
— 4:00: Summer Music in the Garden.
October 5
Soobok Kim, Shim
Only in the Enchanted Realm of Song. Schubert: String Quartet in a, D.804; Haydn:
Toronto organist
Quartet in C, Op.9/1. Windermere String
Quartet: Rona Goldensher, Geneviève GilarMetropolitan United Church
deau, violins; Anthony Rapoport, viola; Laura
56
Queen
Street East at Church Street, Toronto
Jones, cello. Toronto Music Garden, 475
METROPOLITAN
416-363-0331 ext. 26 www.metunited.org
Noon at Met
classical music. 15 Shuter St. 416-8724255. $35.50-$49.50.
— 8:30: Hugh’s Room. Chantal Chamberland. Vocal jazz standards. Dan Lockwood, drums; Steve Pelletier, upright
bass; Eric Boucher, piano; Paul White,
alto sax. Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas St.
West. 416-531-6604. $17; $15(adv).
Thursday September 14
— 12:15: Metropolitan United Church.
Noon at Met Organ Recital: Patricia
Wright. 56 Queen St. East. 416-363-0331
x26. Free.
— 12:15: Music On The Hill. Cowboys &
Angels. Allison Lynn, gospel singer; Gerald
Flemming, guitar. St. John’s York Mills
Anglican Church, 19 Don Ridge Dr. 416-2256611. Free.
— 1:00 & 8:00: Harbourfront Centre/
Newton Moraes Dance Theatre. Saudes
do Brazil (Memories of my Brazil). Contemporary dance, exploring Brazilian & Latin American Cultures. Newton Moraes, artistic director. Harbourfront Centre Theatre, 235 Queens
Quay West. 416-973-4000. $28,$23;
$20(sr/st/CADA); $12(schools matinee). For
Music. See Sep 11. Northern District Library,
40 Orchard View Blvd. 416-393-7610.
— 7:00: The Mod Club. Nouvelle Vague,
Bande à Part CD Tour. Reflection of Caribbean
music between 1940 & 1970; Jamaica
(mento, ska/rocksteady, reggae), Trinidad
(calypso), Cuba (salsa), Haiti (voodoo) & Brazil.
The Mod Club, 722 College. 416-840-0501.
$18; $15(adv).
— 8:00: Toronto Philharmonia. Fire and
Ice. Somers: Picasso Suite; Sibelius: Violin
Concerto; Chopin: Piano Concerto #2. Cissy
Zhou; piano; Benjamin Bowman, violin; Kerry
Stratton, conductor. George Weston Recital
Hall, Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge
St. 416-872-1111. $53-$59; $44.50$49(sr).
— 8:30: Hugh’s Room. Alfie Zappacosta.
Silvio Pupo, piano; Claudio Vena, viola/accordion. Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas St. West.
416-531-6604. $23; $20(adv).
— 8:30: Lula Lounge. Bryan Vargas and ¡Ya
Esta!. 6-piece Afro-Latino funk/jazz/soul
band. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas St. West.
416-588-0307. $20; $15(adv).
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— 6:30: Jazz at Commensal. Double A
Jazz Trio. Commensal, 655 Bay St. 416596-9364. Free.
— 8:00: Hart House Theatre. Reefer
Madness: The Musical. Music by Dan
Studney, lyrics by Kevin Murphy, book by
Kevin Murphy & Dan Studney, Canadian
premiere. Elenna Mosoff, director. Hart
House Theatre, 7 Hart House Circle. 416978-8849. $20; $12(sr/st). For complete
— 8:00: Hummingbird Centre for the
Performing Arts. Charles Aznavour
Farewell Tour. Hummingbird Centre, 1
Front St. East. 416-872-2262. Call for
ticket prices.
— 8:00: Lula Lounge. Kollage. Hard Bop
band led by Archie Alleyne. Lula Lounge, 1585
Dundas St. West. 416-588-0307. $10.
— 8:00: North Toronto Institute of
Music. Hungarian Rhapsody. Music of
Hungarian composers Kodály, Bartók &
Liszt. Mary Kenedi, piano. Glenn Gould
Studio, 250 Front St. West. 416-2055555. $35; $25(sr); $15(st).
— 8:30: Hugh’s Room. Boys Do Girls.
Murray McLauchlan, Stephen Fearing, Greg
Quill, John Oswald, Scott Merritt & Danny
Greenspoon, performers. Hugh’s Room, 2261
Dundas St. West. 416-531-6604. $17;
$15(adv).
door), 60 Atlantic Ave. 416-539-8752. $6$10(sliding scale).
— 10:00pm: Lula Lounge. Bryan Vargas and
¡Ya Esta!. 6-piece Afro-Latino funk/jazz/soul
band. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas St. West.
416-588-0307. $20; $15(adv).
— 8:00: Acoustic Harvest Folk Club. The
Laws. Country-folk duo; opening set
Rosemary Phelan & Jason LaPrade.St.
Nicholas Anglican Church, 1512 Kingston
Rd. 416-264-2235. $15.
— 8:00: Glenn Chipkar & the Swing Shift
Big Band. The Songs of Sinatra. RBC
Theatre, Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living
Arts Dr., Mississauga. 905-306-6000, 888805-8888. $20-$35. All proceeds to the
Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of Canada.
Concerts Canada. John Prine in Concert.
Folk, rockabilly, country. Guest: Dan
Reeder. Massey Hall, 15 Shuter St. 416872-4255. $39.50-$56.50.
— 8:00: The Kenneth G. Mills Foundation. Akafist Chamber Choir. 15-voice Russian
songs & church music spanning five centuries.
Andrei V. Malyutin, artistic director/conductor.
St. Paul’s Basilica, 83 Power St. 416-3647588. $20; $15(sr/st/parishioners/choirs).
— 8:30: Hugh’s Room. Chris Whiteley &
Diana Braithwaite, Morning Sun CD Release.
Tribute to the classic blues sounds of the 30’s
and 40’s. Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas St.
West. 416-531-6604. $17; $15(adv).
— 9:00pm: Mercer Union. Music in Alternative Spaces. Isabelle Noel. 37 Lisgar St. 416536-1519. Free.
Sunday September 17
St. Michael the Archangel Serbian Orthodox
Church, 212 Delaware Ave. 416-616-8565.
By donation.
— 1:30: CAMMAC/McMichael Art Gallery. Sunday Concert Series. Club Django, jazz
ensemble. 10365 Islington Ave., Kleinburg.
— 6:30: Jazz at Commensal. Chris Mckhool 905-893-1121, 888-213-1121. Admission
(violin jazz duo) with piano. Commensal, 655
with gallery price: $15; $9(sr/st); $25(family);
Bay St. 416-596-9364. Free.
free(5 & under).
— 7:30: Darbazi Georgian Vocal Ensem- — 2:00: Scarborough Sunday Concerts.
ble. Georgian Music Concert. Traditional
Michel Berube in Concert. Rotunda, Scarbormusic from the Black Sea Republic of Georgia, ough Civic Centre, 150 Borough Dr. 416-396a cappella or accompanied on Georgian folk
7398. Free.
instruments. Eastminster United Church,
— 3:00: Oakville Symphony Orchestra.
310 Danforth Ave. 416-371-0710. $20;
Meet the Orchestra. Program designed to
$10(sr/st); PWYC(unwaged).
introduce young people to live orchestra
performance. Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts, 130 Navy St., Oakville. 905-8152021, 888-489-7784. $10; $5(st/ch).
— 3:00: Women’s Art Association. Heather Cumine. A concert of liturgical music. 23
Prince Arthur Ave. 647-438-0979. $20(door).
$6.
Afternoon Twilight Recital. Andrea Naccarato,
soprano; Andrew Ager, piano. 4:30: Choral
Evensong. 65 Church St. 416-364-7865
x224. Free.
— 4:00: St. Olave’s Church. Mozart 250.
Choral evensong, including music and anthems
to mark Mozart’s 250th; followed by
peaches & cream and an illustrated talk
by Douglas Cowling on Mozart’s life and
works. St. Olave’s Choir; Jenni Hayman,
soprano. St. Olave’s Anglican Church, 360
Windermere Ave. 416-769-5686. ContribuWWW . THEWHOLENOTE. COM
tions appreciated.
— 4:00: Summer Music in the Garden.
Works by Beethoven and Barber. Kirby
String Quartet: Aisslinn Nosky, Julia
Wedman, violins; Max Mandel, viola;
Carina Reeves, cello. Toronto Music
Garden, 475 Queens Quay West. 416-9734000. Free.
(Arabesque Nights). Gypsy Co-op. See Sep 10.
Monday September 18
— 8:00: Harbourfront Centre. Jazz.FM91
Sound of Jazz: Glenn Woodcock 30th
Anniversary Concert. Big Band standards,
Miller, Dorsey, Basie & Ellington. Dave
Stratham & Larissa Renee, vocals; Swing
Shift, Jim John, sax/leader; Glenn Woodcock, host. Harbourfront Centre Theatre,
$30; $27(member).
— 12:10: University of Toronto Faculty
of Music. Voice Performance Class. Welcome & vocal showcase. Walter Hall, Edward
Johnson Building, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-9783744. Free.
Mid-day. Bach: Toccata and Fugue in d,
BWV.538; Gade: Moderato Tone Poem,
Op.22; Guilmant: Sonata #4, Op.61. Gordon
D. Mansell, organ. 65 Church St. 416-3647865 x224. Free.
Wagner’s Ring Cycle (Cycle 2 begins). Der Ring
des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner; see COC
web site for related events. Pavlo Hunka,
Frances Ginzer, Susan Bullock, Adrianne
Pieczonka & other performers; Richard
Bradshaw, conductor. Four Seasons Centre for
416-363-8231. $1400-$1700, limited;
$350-$425(single performances, limited). For
complete run of this and all the cycles, see
— 8:00: Massey Hall/Jeff Parry Promotions/Annerin Productions. The Led
Zeppelin Experience. Kashmir, Stairway to
Heaven, Black Dog & more, recreated by Led
Zepplica, with light show. 15 Shuter St. 416872-4255. $39.50-$49.50.
— 12:30: Summer Serenades Smooth
Jazz Wednesdays. Alex Pangman. Yonge
Dundas Square, 1 Dundas St. East. 416-9799960. Free.
— 12:30: Yorkminster Park Baptist
Church. Noonday Organ Recital. Imre Olah,
organ. 1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167. Free.
— 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Opening Night: Beethoven Symphonies #1 &
8. Also Beethoven: Violin Concerto. Joshua
Bell, violin; Peter Oundjian, conductor. Roy
Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-593-4828.
$35-$120.
— 8:30: Hugh’s Room. Ferron. Hugh’s Room,
2261 Dundas St. West. 416-531-6604. $25;
$22(adv).
of Music. Thursdays at Noon. James
Kippen presents traditional and new
music for North Indian tabla drums, with
works by Becker & Hatzis. Pandit Probir
Kumar Mittra (tabla), and guests. Walter
Hall, Edward Johnson Building, 80
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Queen’s Park. 416-978-3744. Free.
Noon at Met Organ Recital: Michael
Bloss. 56 Queen St. East. 416-363-0331
x26. Free.
— 12:15: Music On The Hill. Songs for a
Chocolate Voice. Sue Crowe Connolly,
contralto; Becca Whitla, piano. St. John’s
York Mills Anglican Church, 19 Don Ridge
Dr. 416-225-6611. Free.
— 6:00: Bata Shoe Museum. Toronto
Chinese Orchestra in Concert. Selection of
traditional and modern Chinese classical
music. Bata Shoe Museum, 237 Bloor St.
West. 416-979-7799 x242. Free.
— 7:00: The Music Gallery/Association
of Improvising Musicians Toronto
(Interface series). X AVANT New Music
Festival. Jazz/new music composer/multiinstrumentalist Joe McPhee; Victor Bateman,
bass; Michael Keith, guitar; Rob Piilonen, flute;
free-pop quartet Deep Dark United, Alex
Lukashevky, leader. St. George the Martyr
Church, 197 John St. 416-204-1080.
$15(adv).
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, 5633 Hwy 7,
Markham. 905-294-5955. $15; $10(sr/st).
Beethoven Symphonies #2 & 6. Also Mahler:
Songs from Rückert Lieder. Marie-Nicole
Lemieux, contralto; Peter Oundjian, conductor.
Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-5934828. $35-$120.
— 8:30: Hugh’s Room. Haines & Leighton.
Traditional fiddle, accordion, guitar, bouzouki
& bodhran, blended with new technology.
Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas St. West. 416531-6604. $16; $14(adv).
— 9:00pm: Small World Music Festival.
Fiamma Fumana (Italy). Three women with
reverence for folk tradition & modern beatdriven sound. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas St.
West. 416-645-9090. $20; $15(adv).
Friday September 22
— 6:30: Jazz at Commensal. Elizabeth
Sheperd (vocals) with piano. Commensal, 655
Bay St. 416-596-9364. Free.
— 7:00: The Music Gallery. X AVANT
New Music Festival. Doom-drone-dub duo,
OM; new music collective Toca Loca, Gregory
Oh, piano/leader; jazz/new music duo Rogue
States, Gordon Beeferman, piano, Jeff Arnal,
percussion. St. George the Martyr Church,
197 John St. 416-204-1080. $15(adv).
— 7:30: Brampton Folk Club. Cindy Thompson, fiddle in concert. Opening act: Second
Wind, vocal group. Sanderson Hall, St. Paul’s
United Church, 30 Main St. South, Brampton.
647-233-3655. $12; $10(sr/st).
— 7:30: Kalanidhi International Dance
Festival. A Century of Indian Dance, Day 1.
The Legacy of Rukmini Devi, Kalakshetra
Troupe, Bharatanatyam, India; Spellbound,
Sutra Dance Theatre (Ramli Ibrahim), Odissi,
Malaysia; see web site for related events.
6:45: Dance Chat. Premiere Dance Theatre,
Queen’s Quay Terminal, 207 Queens Quay
West. 416-973-4000. $30,$25; $24,$20(sr/
st/members CADA, WDA, PACT, TAPA).
Andrei V. Malyutin, artistic director/
conductor. Eglinton St. George’s United
Church, 35 Lytton Blvd. 416-690-3880.
$20, $15(sr/st/choirs).
— 8:00: Small World Music Festival.
Natacha Atlas (Egypt). North African &
Arabic vocal music fused with western
electronics. Ten-piece acoustic ensemble.
Phoenix Concert Theatre, 410 Sherbourne St.
416-645-9090. $30; $25(adv).
— 8:00: Tapestry New Opera Works.
Opera Briefs 6. Alexander Dobson, Carla
Huhtanen, Keith Klassen, Jessica Lloyd,
singers; Tom Diamond, director; Alexander
Cann, conductor. Tapestry Studio, Studio 316,
Building 58: The Cannery, 55 Mill Street.
416-537-6066 x221. $25; $20(adv). For
— 8:30: Hugh’s Room. Christine Lavin.
Smart, funny & incisive songs. Brian Bauers,
multiple instruments. Hugh’s Room, 2261
Dundas St. West. 416-531-6604. $22.50;
$19.50(adv).
Musicians Toronto. Interface series:
Improvisers Interface with Joe McPhee. Jazz/
new music composer/multi-instrumentalist
Joe McPhee. Arraymusic Studio, Suite 218
(enter at rear door), 60 Atlantic Ave. 416539-8752. $15.
— 6:30: Jazz at Commensal. Dan Farrell
(piano). Commensal, 655 Bay St. 416-5969364. Free.
New Music Festival. Minimalist pioneer Tony
Conrad; Christine Duncan & Jean Martin’s
jazz-ambient-free-improv quartet Barnyard
Drama; electro-acoustic collaboration Telephone Project. St. George the Martyr Church,
197 John St. 416-204-1080. $15(adv).
— 7:30: Toronto Welsh Male Voice
Choir/Brampton Rugby Club. TWMVC in
Concert. St. Paul’s United Church, 30 Main
Street South, Brampton. 416-580-2147. $20.
Festival. A Century of Indian Dance, Day
2. Shanta Rati Mishra, Kuchipudi, India;
Tribanghi Dance Theatre, Zulu and Bharatanatyam, South Africa; Chitra-Warrior
Princess, Menaka Thakkar Dance Company, Bharatanatyam and Odissi, Canada;
see web site for related events. 6:45:
Dance Chat. Premiere Dance Theatre,
Queen’s Quay Terminal, 207 Queens Quay
West. 416-973-4000. $30,$25; $24,$20(sr/
st/members CADA, WDA, PACT, TAPA).
— 8:00: Bethel Canadian Reformed
Church Music Committee. Organ, Piano &
Panflute in Concert. Andre Knevel, organ/piano;
Jan Elsenaar, organ; Liselotte Rokyta, panflute. Bethel Canadian Reformed Church,
11251 Bayview Ave., Richmond Hill. 905939-9492. $10; $25(family).
— 8:00: Irish Choral Society of Canada.
Prayer in the Morning, Pub in the Afternoon.
Traditional Irish Music. Guests: LOKA;
Matthew Otto, accompanist; Karen L. A.
D’Aoust. Newman Centre, St. Thomas
Aquinas Chapel, 89 St. George St. 416653-9102. $20; $15(st/sr); $10(ch).
— 8:00: Roy Thomson Hall/Asian Television Network. Ravi Shankar, Anoushka
Shankar. Legendary sitarist, composer and
teacher Ravi Shankar, his daughter Anoushka
& an ensemble of Indian classical musicians.
60 Simcoe St. 416-593-4828. $49.50$99.50.
— 8:00: Samantha Chang. Samantha
Chang, Flute in Recital. Mozart: Flute Quartet
in D, K.285; Reinecke: Concerto for Flute in D;
works by Taffanel, Tan, Boehm & Karg-Elert.
Guests: Ellen Meyer, piano; Jessica Jia, violin;
Ping Zhang, viola; James Xia, cello; orchestra
of 36, Tony Fan, conductor. George Weston
Recital Hall, Toronto Centre for the Arts,
5040 Yonge St. 416-801-9196. Free.
5143. Free.
$6.
Afternoon Twilight Recital. Bruce Kirkpatrick
Hill, organ. 4:30: Choral Evensong. 65 Church
St. 416-364-7865 x224. Free.
New Music Festival. Duo Diorama: Winston
Choi, piano; Minghuan Xu, violin. St. George
the Martyr Church, 197 John St. 416-2041080. $15; $10(member); $5(st, door only).
— 4:30: Christ Church Deer Park. Jazz
Vespers. Rob Pilch & Lorne Lofsky. 1570
Yonge St. 416-920-5211. Free; donations
welcome.
Priyadarshini Govind, Bharatanatyam, India;
Nova Bhattacharya, Bharatanatyam contemporary, Canada; Devi: The Female Principle,
Mavin Khoo Dance Company, Bharatanatyam
Sunday September 24
and Ballet, England; see web site for related
— 1:00: Harbourfront Centre/Jeunesses events. 3:45: Dance Chat. Premiere Dance
Theatre, Queen’s Quay Terminal, 207 Queens
Musicales of Ontario. Music with Bite:
Quay West. 416-973-4000. $30,$25;
Trillium Brass. Part of ZOOM! Family
$24,$20(sr/st/members CADA, WDA, PACT,
Sundays, milk beverage and cookies
TAPA).
supplied. Brigantine Room, York Quay
— 5:00: Czech Community Centre at
Centre, 235 Queens Quay West. 416-973Masaryktown. Cenek Vrba, violin, and
4000. Free.
Yukiko Watanabe, piano in Concert. Works by
— 2:00: Scarborough Sunday Concerts.
All Star Big Band in Concert. Rotunda, Scarbor- Mozart, Wieniawski, Dvorak & Smetana.
ough Civic Centre, 150 Borough Dr. 416-396- Prague Restaurant, 450 Scarborough Golf
Club Rd. 416-430-4354. $20; $15(st).
7398. Free.
— 6:30: Hugh’s Room. Songwriters Festival.
— 2:00: The Kenneth G. Mills Foundation. Akafist Chamber Choir. 15-voice Russian Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas St. West. 416male a cappella choir, singing Russian folk
531-6604. $40. Fundraiser for the Jai Dee
songs & church music spanning five centuries. (Good Heart) Children’s Fund, all proceeds for
Andrei V. Malyutin, artistic director/conductor. the Anuban Kindergarten school in Southern
Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church, 23
Laos.
Henry St. 416-979-2900. By donation.
— 2:00: Toronto All-Star Big Band.
Sunday Concert Series. Rotunda, Scarborough — 9:00pm: Small World Music Festival.
Civic Centre, 150 Borough Dr. 416-396Carmen Consoli (Italy), singer-songwriter. Lula
male a cappella choir, singing Russian
folk songs & church music spanning five
centuries. Andrei V. Malyutin, artistic
director/conductor. St. Dimitar Bulgarian
Orthodox Church, 8501 Mississauga Rd.,
Brampton. 416-923-3880. By donation.
— 8:30: Hugh’s Room. An Evening of
Cabaret. Wilson Lumibao, Sue Piltch,
Sharlene Wallace, Peter Lebuis & David
Nelson, performers. Hugh’s Room, 2261
Dundas St. West. 416-531-6604. $22;
$20(adv).
Musicians Toronto. Improvisers interface
with Joe McPhee. Arraymusic Studio. See
Sep 22.
— 9:00pm: The Music Gallery/Mutek +
Vague Terrain. X AVANT New Music
Festival. Nuit Avant, featuring: Opulent-yetminimal techno Jan Jelinek; experiment
minimal techno naw; deep dark ambient
explorer Akumu; live/DJ VJ Nokami +
ether.mann. The Drake Underground, 1150
Queen St. West. 416-204-1080. $15(adv).
Samantha Chang’s Flute Recital
Saturday, September 23, 2006 8pm Free Admission
George Weston Recital Hall,Toronto Centre for the Arts 5040 Yonge Street
Tony Ho TangFan, conductor
Ellen Meyer, piano
Sean Lim, concertmaster
Jessica Jia, violin
Ping Zhang, viola
James Xia, cello
TAFFANEL Fantasie sur le Freyschutz
MOZART Flute Quartet in D K. 285
TAN A Caged Partridge’s Longing
BOEHM Grande Polonaise
KARG-ELERT Sonate Appassionata op. 140
REINECKE Concerto in D op. 283
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Lounge, 1585 Dundas St. West. 416-6459090. $20; $15(adv).
— 9:00pm: The Music Gallery/Wavelength. X AVANT New Music Festival.
Freak-folk-rock onslaught The Dirty Projectors;
Continuum Music presents Blip, works by
John Oswald, Nicole Lizee, Nick Brooke.
Sneaky Dee’s, 431 College St. 416-2041080. PWYC(door only).
Monday September 25
— 8:30: Hugh’s Room. Yale Strom. Klezmer
artist. Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas St. West.
416-531-6604. $25; $22(adv).
Kinnie Star & Tanya Tagaq (Canada). Hip hop,
rock, folk, R&B, electronica; Inuk throat
singing. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas St. West.
416-645-9090. $20; $15(adv).
of Music. Voice Performance Class. Third
Year Performance Class. Walter Hall, Edward
Johnson Building, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-9783744. Free.
Mid-day. Bruce Kirkpatrick Hill, organ. 65
Church St. 416-364-7865 x224. Free.
Wagner’s Ring Cycle (Cycle 3 begins). Der
Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner;
see COC web site for related events. Pavlo
Hunka, Susan Bullock, Adrianne Pieczonka & other performers; Richard Bradshaw, conductor. Four Seasons Centre for
416-363-8231. $1400-$1700, limited;
$350-$425 (single performances, limited).
For complete run of this and all the
cycles, see music theatre listings.
Excerpt from Satyabhama Kalapam, Vedantam
Venkata Naga Chalapathi & Ravi Mony,
Kuchipudi, India and Canada; Kumkum Mohanty, Odissi, India; Laya Chitra, Alakananda
Nath, Bharatanatyam, Canada; see web site
for related events. 6:45: Dance Chat. Premiere Dance Theatre, Queen’s Quay Terminal,
$30,$25; $24,$20(sr/st/members CADA,
WDA, PACT, TAPA).
Joaquin Diaz (Canada/Dominican Republic).
Traditional and original merengue tunes, vocals
& diatonic accordion. Lula Lounge, 1585
Dundas St. West. 416-645-9090. $15;
$10(adv).
— 12:30: Summer Serenades Smooth
Jazz Wednesdays. Serafin. Yonge Dundas
Square, 1 Dundas St. East. 416-979-9960.
Free.
Church. Noonday Organ Recital. John Tuttle,
organ. 1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167. Free.
— 7:00: Tafelmusik. Jeanne’s 25th Anniversary Celebration: Two Orchestras on Stage.
Works for two orchestras by Vivaldi, Handel,
Rameau and J. C. Bach. Tafelmusik Baroque
Orchestra; Arion Baroque Orchestra; Jeanne
Lamon, soloist/director; Jaap Ter Linden,
director. Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor
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St. West. 416-964-6337. $28-$65; $22$59(sr/st); $20(18 to 30 Face the Musik).
Festival. A Century of Indian Dance, Day
5. Gayatri, Janak Khendry Dance Company, Bharatanatyam, Canada; Ileana
Citaristi & Ramachandra Das, Chhau,
India; An Evening of Kuchipudi Dance,
Anuradha Nehru, Kamala Reddy, Revathi
Komanduri, Sasikala Penumarthi, Kuchipudi, U.S.A.; see web site for related
events. 6:45: Dance Chat. Premiere Dance
Theatre, Queen’s Quay Terminal, 207
Queens Quay West. 416-973-4000.
WDA, PACT, TAPA).
— 8:00: ERGO Projects. Lithuanian Exchange Concert. Works by Lithuanian and
Canadian composers. Glenn Gould Studio, 250
Front St. West. 416-410-1984. $25; $15(sr/
st).
Beethoven Symphony #9. Also Mahler: Songs
from Des Knaben Wunderhorn. Measha
Brueggergosman, soprano; Susan Platts,
mezzo; Michael Colvin, tenor; Brett Polegato,
baritone; Toronto Mendelssohn Choir; Peter
Oundjian, conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60
Simcoe St. 416-593-4828. $40.50-$127.
— 8:30: Hugh’s Room. Suzie Vinnick & Rick
Fines, Nothing Halfway CD Release. Hugh’s
Drum Nation (Canada). Celebration of
global percussion music. Kiyoshi Nagata,
Mark Duggan, Ravi Naimpally, Luis
Orgeboso, Debashis Sinha & Patrick
Graham, percussion (marimba, congas,
doumbecks, frame drums, taiko, mbira,
sinter, tabla). Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas
St. 416-645-9090. $20; $15(adv).
— 9:30pm: Patrick Watson. Patrick
Watson, Close to Paradise CD Launch. Alternative / electro / ambient. Robbie Kuster,
drummer; Mishka Stein, bass; Simon Angell,
guitar; Patrick Watson, singer/songwriter. The
Drake Underground, 1150 Queen St. West.
416-531-5042. $10.
— 8:00: Music Toronto. Members of
Emerson Quartet. Mozart: Divertimento for
string trio in E-flat, K.563; Brahms: Piano
Quartet in g, Op.25. Guest: Wu Han,
piano. Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence
Centre for the Arts, 27 Front St. East.
416-366-7723. $45,$41; 18-35 pay your
age; $5(st), accompanying adult ½ price.
— 8:00: Small World Music Festival. Ash
Dargan (Australia). Essence of the Australian Dreamtime in didgeridoo, ethnic
flutes & vocals. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas St. West. 416-645-9090. $20;
$15(adv).
Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre. See Sep. 27.
— 8:30: Hugh’s Room. Bag’d Benefit Concert. Boxers Against Guns and Drugs. Hugh’s
Gala Concert: Beethoven Symphony #9.
Measha Brueggergosman, soprano; Susan
Platts, mezzo; Michael Colvin, tenor; Brett
Polegato, baritone; Toronto Mendelssohn
Choir; Peter Oundjian, conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-593-4828.
$40.50-$127.
Mr. Something Something (Canada). Dance
rhythms of Nigeria, Senegal, Mali & Ghana.
Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas St. West. 416645-9090. $10.
Friday September 29
— 12:15: St. Andrew’s United Church.
Donald Bell, organist and friends in Recital. St.
Andrew’s United Church, 23 Main St. North.,
Markham. 905-294-0351. Free.
— 6:30: Jazz at Commensal. Ryan Oliver
(sax) with piano. Commensal, 655 Bay St.
416-596-9364. Free.
Loha, Sinha Dance (Roger Sinha & Natasha
Bahkt), Bharatanatyam and Modern, Canada;
Mohini Bhasmasura, Pasumarthi
Venkateswara Sarma (Usha Kala Niketan),
Kuchipudi, India; Abhinaya Darpana, Sandhya
Purecha, Bharatanatyam, India; see web site
for related events. 6:45: Dance Chat. Premiere Dance Theatre, Queen’s Quay Terminal,
WDA, PACT, TAPA).
All Saints’ Anglican Church, 300 Dundas St.
West, Whitby. 905-668-5101. $15.
— 7:30: University of Toronto Faculty of
Music. Faculty Artist Series: To be sung upon
the water: Music from the Ganges River to
the Mira River. Lorna MacDonald, soprano;
Peter Stoll, clarinet; Cameron Stowe, piano.
Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building, 80
Queen’s Park. 416-978-3744. $22; $12(sr/
st).
— 8:00: princess productions/DanceWorks CoWorks. IN(side)time: made in
Canada/fait au Canada. Soon: Louis LabergeCôté, choreographer; Sean Ling, dancer; Philip
Strong, composer; Laurel MacDonald singer.
Caecilia: Louis Laberge-Côté, choreographer;
Johanna Bergfeldt, dancer. Quator pour la fin
du temps: Daniel Belanger, choreographer;
Jean-Sébastien Côté, composer (inspired by
Oliver Messiaen). Winchester Street Theatre,
80 Winchester St. 416-366-7723.
$16(adv); $20(door, cash only); $14(sr/st/
CADA). For complete run see music theatre listings.
Hendrik Meurkens & Permutacoes (Brazil/
USA), Parabolica (Brazil/Canada). Samba jazz
on harmonica, vibes, piano, bass & drums;
bossa/samba, with singer Guiomar Cambell.
Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas St. West. 416645-9090. $20.
ERGO Projects...
HARVEST
of Music. Thursdays at Noon. Messiaen:
Visions de l’amen. Midori Koga, Jessica
a concert of new contemporary
Johnson, pianos. Walter Hall, Edward Johnson
chamber works by Lithuanian
Building, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-978-3744.
Free.
and Canadian composers
Noon at Met Organ Recital: Patricia Wright.
KRAUSAS (CAN)
56 Queen St. East. 416-363-0331 x26. Free.
NARBUTAITE (LIT)
— 12:15: Music On The Hill. Mark Sepic
Trio. St. John’s York Mills Anglican Church,
CAMERON (CAN)
19 Don Ridge Dr. 416-225-6611. Free.
ROSASCHI (LIT)
CROALL (CAN)
Purnima & Inverse, InDance (Hari Krishnan),
featuring
the ERGO Ensemble
Bharatanatyam, Canada; Ileana Citaristi, Chhau
solo, India; Sujata Mohapatra, Odissi, India;
under the direction of Alex Pauk
see web site for related events. 6:45: Dance
Chat. Premiere Dance Theatre, Queen’s Quay
September 27th, 2006 8pm
Terminal, 207 Queens Quay West. 416-973Glenn Gould Studio,
4000. $30,$25; $24,$20(sr/st/members
CADA, WDA, PACT, TAPA).
CBC Broadcasting Centre, Toronto
— 8:00: Living Arts Centre. The Tempta$25 general admission, $15 seniors/students
tions. Favourites like My Girl, Since I Lost My
Baby, I Can’t Get Next to You & more. HamCanada Council Conseil des Arts
merson Hall, Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living
du Canada
for the Arts
Arts Dr., Mississauga. 905-306-6000, 888805-8888. $49-$95; $5(eyeGO).
— 8:00: The Rose Theatre. Diana Krall in
Concert. Headlining the opening night gala for
The Rose Theatre (a black tie event),
performing material from her new CD,
From This Moment On. 6:30: cocktails.
The Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. 905-874-2800. $400.
door), 60 Atlantic Ave. 416-539-8752. $6$10(sliding scale).
Chaturanga Japan Troupe, Bharatanatyam,
Japan; Tribanghi Dance Theatre; Zulu &
Bharatanatyam. Harbourfront Centre Theatre,
WDA, PACT, TAPA).
— 4:00 & 8:00: Oakville Centre for the
Performing Arts. David Clayton-Thomas
in Concert. Guest: Roxanne Potvin.
Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts,
130 Navy St., Oakville. 905-815-2021,
888-489-7784. $59.99; $5(eyeGO).
— 6:30: Jazz at Commensal. Dan Eisen
(piano) + special guest. Commensal, 655 Bay
St. 416-596-9364. Free.
Ekaantha Seetha, A Lonely Furrow,
Cleveland Cultural Alliance choreographed by V.P. and Shanta Dhananjayan, Bharatanatyam, India & U.S.A.; see
web site for related events. Premiere
Dance Theatre, Queen’s Quay Terminal,
WDA, PACT, TAPA).
— 7:30: Toronto Centre for the Arts.
Salvation Army Melbourne Staff Band &
Canadian Staff Band. Old and new brass music
of the Salvation Army. Brian Burditt, bandmaster. George Weston Recital Hall, Toronto
Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge St. 416872-1111. $25; $20(sr/st).
Performing Arts. Play! A Video Game
Symphony. Live orchestra and choir in a
celebration of video game music. Hummingbird Centre, 1 Front St. East. 416-872-2262.
Call for ticket prices.
— 8:00: Mooredale Concerts. Mooredale
Concerto Players. Concertos: Vivaldi: Two
Violins and Two Cellos, F.IV #1; Viola
D’Amore in D, F.II #2; Two Cellos, F.III #2;
Four Violins, Op.3/4; Two Violins; Bottesini:
#2 for Double Bass in b; Mendelssohn: Violin
in d; Handel: Concerto Grosso, Op.6/7.
With: 8 violins; 2 violas; Kristine Bogyo &
Rafael Kuerti, cellos; Raphael McNabney,
double bass; Eric Paetkau, conductor.
Willowdale United Church, 347 Kenneth
Ave. 416-922-3714 x103. $25; $20(sr/st).
African Guitar Summit. Nine Canadian guitarists/vocalists of African origin (Guinea, Ghana,
Kenya, Burundi/Rwanda, Madagascar), Alpha
YaYa Diallo, Naby Camara, Pa Joe, Theo
Boakye, Kofi Ackah, Professor Adam Solomon, Mighty Popo, Donné Robert, Madagascar Slim. The Music Hall, 147 Danforth Avenue. 416-645-9090. $25;
$20(adv).
Beethoven Symphonies #4 & 5. Also: Mahler:
Songs of a Wayfarer. Susan Platts, mezzo
soprano; Peter Oundjian, conductor. Roy
Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-593-4828.
$35-$120.
with Caché. Hardcore Salsa music, includes
dance class. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas St.
West. 416-588-0307. $10.
formed in Italian. Arlene Alvarado, Kurt
Lehmann & Lydia Skourides, singers;
Opera in Concert Chorus, Robert Cooper,
director; José Hernández, music director/
piano. 1:45: Pre-concert talk by Iain
Scott. Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence
Centre for the Arts, 27 Front St. East.
416-366-7723, 800-708-6754. $38,$28.
— 3:00: Mooredale Concerts. Mooredale
Concerto Players. See Sep 30. Walter
Hall, 80 Queen’s Park.
— 3:00: Vox Finlandiae. Syyspuuhaa (Fall
Scramble). Lively Finnish singing. Suomi-Koti,
795 Eglinton Ave. East. 416-483-6947. $15;
$10(sr/st).
TRYPTYCH
www.tryptych.org
A Celebration of Music in Song
Ensemble TrypTych Chamber Choir
Lenard Whiting - Music Director
Featured Work:
Sunday October 01
— 11:00am & 2:00: Solar Stage. Jack
Grunsky. Musical journey around the world,
for ages 2 to 8. Solar Stage Children’s
Theatre, Concourse Level, 4950 Yonge St.
416-368-8031. $13.
— 1:00: Mooredale Concerts. Music &
Truffles Children’s Concert: What is a Concerto? Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in d; Vivaldi:
Concerto for Four Violins. Walter Hall, 80
Queen’s Park. 416-922-3714 x103. $10.
— 2:00: Alawyn. Madrigal Treasures from
Denmark and Flanders. Chanson in the golden
age of Dufay. George Ignatieff Theatre (Larkin
Building), Trinity College, 15 Devonshire Place.
416-559-2586. $20; $10(sr/st).
— 2:00: Harbourfront Centre. Toronto AllStar Big Band. Lakeside Terrace, York Quay
Centre, 235 Queens Quay West. 416-9734000. PWYC($15 suggested min).
— 2:30: Opera In Concert. La Rondine. The
Swallow, by Giacomo Puccini, lyric comedy in
three acts, libretto by Giuseppe Adami,
based on the German libretto by Alfred
Maria Willner and Heinz Reichert, per-
Charles Gounod’s
St. Cecilia Mass
Soprano: Jennifer Griffiths
Tenor: James Tuttle
Baritone: Tyler Kuhnert
Guest Conductors:
David Low
Lawrence Green
Sunday, October 1, 2006, 7 PM
Trinity Presbyterian Church
Bayview and the 401
Tickets: $20
416 763-5066 ext. 3/info@tryptych.org
Edward Franko, Lenard Whiting
Artistic Directors
SEASON OPENER …
La Rondine
Guillermo Silva-Marin, General Director
2006-07
Season
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Dialogues des
Carmélites
by Francis Poulenc (in French)
Alison d’Amato
by Giacomo Puccini (in Italian)
Music Director & Pianist
The effervescence of operetta and the bittersweet romance of opera combine Isabel Bayrakdarian SUN. NOV. 19 • 2:30 PM
for an unexpected thrill from the versimo master. Written for Vienna, the
‘little swallow’ tugs at your heart with a nostalgic glance over the shoulder
toward a vanished world.
José Hernández
Music Director & Pianist
SUBSCRIPTIONS ON SALE!
www.operainconcert.com
$6.
Afternoon Twilight Recital. Michael
Capon, organ. 4:30: Choral Evensong. 65
Church St. 416-364-7865 x224. Free.
Krishna Parijatham, Kuchipudi Dance Drama,
Anuradha Nehru, Kamala Reddy, Revathi
Komanduri, Sasikala Penumarthi, Kuchipudi,
U.S.A., Orissa Dance Academy (Gangadhar
Pradhan), Odissi, India; see web site for
related events. 3:45: Dance Chat. Premiere
Dance Theatre, Queen’s Quay Terminal,
Arlene Alvarado
Arlene Alvarado
Kurt Lehmann, Lydia Skourides
The Opera in Concert Chorus,
Robert Cooper, Chorus Director
SUN. OCTOBER 1 • 2:30 PM
Zaïde by W. A. Mozart (in German & English)
Kevin Mallon, Conductor, with Aradia Ensemble
SUN. JANUARY 28 • 2:30 PM
Die Tote Stadt
by Erich Korngold (in German)
Robin Wheeler, Music Director & Pianist
SUN. APRIL 1 • 2:30 PM
ST. LAWRENCE CENTRE FOR THE ARTS
416-366-7723 or 1-800-708-6754
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... CONCERTS:
Toronto & nearby
WDA, PACT, TAPA).
— 7:00: Ensemble TrypTych Chamber
Choir/Trinity Presbyterian Church
Choir. A Celebration of Music in Song.
Gounod: Messe Solenelle; & other works.
Guests: Jennifer Griffith, James Tuttle &
Tyler Kuhnert, performers; David Low, Lawrence Green & Lenard Whiting, directors.
Trinity Presbyterian Church, 2737 Bayview
Ave. 416-485-8911. $20.
Debashish Battacharya (India). Slide guitarist
playing Indian classical music & blues. Mod
Club Theatre, 722 College St. 416-645-9090.
$25; $20(adv).
Chango Family (Canada). Frenetic eclectic
worldly funk, Festival Closing Party.
Gladstone Ballroom, 1214 Queen St.
West. 416-645-9090. $15.
Tuesday October 03
of Music. Voice Performance Class.
Student Performances. Walter Hall,
Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen’s
Park. 416-978-3744. Free.
Tyndale University & Seminary, 25 Ballyconnor Ct. 416-226-6620. By donation.
Mid-day. Jeremy Tarrant, organ. 65
Church St. 416-364-7865 x224. Free.
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre Series:
Chamber Music. Members of the COC Orchestra, Ensemble Studio & National Ballet
Orchestra. Four Seasons Centre for the
Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. West. 416363-8231. Free.
— 8:00: Harbourfront Centre. Vashti
Bunyan in Concert. Guests: The Great Lake
Swimmers. Harbourfront Centre Theatre, 231
Queens Quay West. 416-973-4000. $24.
— 8:00: Toronto Fingerstyle Guitar
Society. Steve Howe, guitar in Concert. Rock/
classical/jazz-inspired original compositions.
Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for
the Arts, 27 Front St. East. 416-787-6524.
$40.
Wednesday October 04
— 12:00 noon: Hart House Music Committee. Midday Mosaics: Jamie Thompson & Friends. Jamie Thompson, flute,
and Royal Conservatory of Music colleagues, play classical and popular
works. Hart House Music Room, University of Toronto, 7 Hart House Circle. 416978-2452. Free.
Church. Noonday Organ Recital. Barbara
Hallam-Price, organ. 1585 Yonge St. 416922-1167. Free.
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre Series:
Vocal. Canadian Children’s Opera Chorus.
Four Seasons Centre for the Performing
Arts, 145 Queen St. West. 416-363-8231.
Free.
— 7:30: University of Toronto Faculty of
Music. Small Jazz Ensembles. Walter Hall,
Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen’s Park.
416-978-3744. Free.
— 8:00: Royal Conservatory of Music.
Folk Songs and Fairy Tales. Adams: Gnarly
Buttons for clarinet & chamber ensemble;
Short Ride in a Fast Machine; Stravinsky:
Firebird Suite(1919); Bernstein Symphonic
Dances from West Side Story. Kornel Wolak,
clarinet; Royal Conservatory Orchestra, Alain
Trudel, conductor. Glenn Gould Studio,
250 Front St. West. 416-205-5555. $15;
$10(sr/st).
— 8:30: Hugh’s Room. Geoff Muldaur. Folk,
blues & folk-rock. Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas
St. West. 416-531-6604. $25; $22.50(adv).
Thursday October 05
— 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre Series: Piano
Virtuoso. Jean-Philippe Sylvestre, piano. Four
Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145
Queen St. West. 416-363-8231. Free.
— 12:00 noon: CBC Radio. Music Around
Us New Generation Series: Shoko Inoue,
piano. Schumann: Arabeske Op.18, Davidbundlertänze Op.6, Theme and Variations (Ghost
Variations). Keith Horner, host. Glenn Gould
Studio, 250 Front St. West. 416-205-5555.
Free.
of Music. Thursdays at Noon. Bruch: Concerto for Viola and Clarinet; Swedish folksong
arrangements for viola and clarinet. Katharine
Rapoport, viola; Peter Stoll, clarinet.
FOLK SONGS AND FAIRY TALES
Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building, 80
Queen’s Park. 416-978-3744. Free.
The Royal Conservatory Orchestra
Alain Trudel conductor
Noon at Met Organ Recital: Soobok Kim, Shim.
Kornel Wolak clarinet
56 Queen St. East. 416-363-0331 x26. Free.
— 12:15: Music On The Hill. The ChoirADAMS Short Ride in a Fast Machine
girlz. St. John’s York Mills Anglican
ADAMS Gnarly Buttons
Church, 19 Don Ridge Dr. 416-225-6611.
STRAVINSKY Firebird Suite (1919)
Free.
BERNSTEIN Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
— 4:00: CONTACT contemporary music.
Music For Passengers. Music of Aphex Twin,
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 8 PM
Bowie, Eno, Glass, Lang, Pärt, Riley, Southam,
Glenn Gould Studio
Tavener & Vivier; part of The Downsview
Project: Electronica Unplugged. Downsview
250 Front Street West
Subway Station (Yonge/University Subway
$15 adults, $10 students & seniors
Line). 416-902-7010. Free.
— 8:00: Miles Nadal Jewish Community
Group rates available
Centre. Balagan. Traditional Jewish
tunes (with a twist) to modern Israeli pop,
416.205.5555
Hebrew Bossa Novas, classic French
www.rcmusic.ca/concerts
cabaret, Mediterranean, Afro-Cuban and
Morroccan Rhythms. Al Green Theatre,
MNjcc, 750 Spadina Ave. 416-924-6211
$12.50.
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Beethoven Symphony #3. Also Coriolan
Overture; Mahler: Kindertotenlieder. Russell
Braun, baritone; Peter Oundjian, conductor.
Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-5934828. $35-$120.
— 8:00: Via Salzburg. Trailblazers. Stravinsky: Concerto in D; Schubert: String Quartet in
a, D.804; Beethoven: Grosse Fuge, Op.133
arr for string orchestra. Mayumi Seiler,
artistic director. Glenn Gould Studio, 250
Front St. West. 416-205-5555. $50,
$45(sr), $20(st).
Friday October 06
— 8:00: CONTACT contemporary music.
Aural Landscapes. Music of Aphex Twin,
Bowie, Eno, Glass, Lang, Pärt, Riley, Southam,
Tavener & Vivier; part of The Downsview
Project: Electronica Unplugged. O’Connor
Gallery, Suite 100, 145 Berkeley Street. $15;
$10(sr/st); includes wine & cheese.
— 8:00: Roy Thomson Hall/P.E.O. Tours
Inc. Nana Mouskouri Farewell Tour:
Encore for UNICEF. Roy Thomson Hall, 60
Simcoe St. 416-872-4255. $64.50-$84.50.
— 8:00: Via Salzburg. Trailblazers. Glenn
Gould Studio. See Oct. 5.
— 8:30: Hugh’s Room. The Undesirables, and
Dala. Refreshing songwriting duo (new vibe
with roots clout), and female vocalists. Hugh’s
Saturday October 07
— 11:00am & 2:00: Solar Stage. Puss ’n’
Boots. Adapted by William Martyn, for
ages 3 to 8. Solar Stage Children’s Theatre, Concourse Level, 4950 Yonge St. 416368-8031. $10. For complete run see
Performing Arts. Eye of the Storm.
Japanese Taiko, Chinese traditional, and
Taiwanese aboriginal drums & dance.
Hummingbird Centre, 1 Front St. East.
416-872-2262. Call for ticket prices. For
— 7:30: Raag-Mala Music Society.
Hariprasad Chaurasia, flute and Vijay
Ghate, tabla. Medical Sciences Auditorium, U of T, 1 King’s College Circle. 416281-3725. $18-$38; member discount.
— 8:00: Massey Hall. Sergio Mendes
Brasil 2006. Samba, bossa nova & hiphop. Massey Hall, 15 Shuter St. 416-8724255. $49.50-$69.50.
— 8:00: Sinfonia Toronto. Beethoven’s
World. Chan Ka-Nin: The Land Beautiful;
Beethoven: Piano Concerto #2 in B-flat,
Op.19 (chamber version by Nurhan Arman); Grosse Fugue, Op.133 (orchestral
version by Felix Weingartner); Shostakovich: Quartet #1 in C, Op.49 (orchestral
version by Nurhan Arman). Richard Raymond, piano; Nurhan Arman, conductor.
Grace Church on-the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale
Rd. 416-499-0403. $40, $32(sr), $12(st &
GEN-YES(16-29)).
Beethoven Symphony #7. Also: Piano
Concerto #3; Mahler: Adagietto from
Symphony #5. Lief Ove Andsnes, piano;
Peter Oundjian, conductor. Roy Thomson
Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-593-4828. $35$120.
with Ricky Franco. Latin R&B, includes
dance class. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas
St. West. 416-588-0307. $15.
CONCERT LISTINGS
Further afield
Plans change! Always call ahead to confirm details
with presenters. While we make every effort to ensure
accuracy, things happen, and presenters and even
WholeNote make listing errors. Check online listings.
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Music Theatre/Opera/Dance PAGE 48
Jazz Clubs, QuickPicks PAGE 49
Announcements/Lectures Seminars/Etcetera PAGE 52
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free). Free with Gardens’ admission.
— 8:00: Guelph Jazz Festival. Bob Ostertag and Pierre Hébert in Concert. Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, 358 Gordon St.,
Guelph. 519-763-3000. Free.
— 1:00: Guelph Jazz Festival. Robert
Marcel Lepage in Concert. With Pee Wee et
Moi. Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, 358
Gordon St., Guelph. 519-763-3000. Free.
— 5:00: Guelph Jazz Festival. Jerry
Granelli’s Sandhills Reunion. Macdonald
Stewart Art Centre, 358 Gordon St., Guelph.
519-763-3000. Free.
— 8:00: Guelph Jazz Festival. Concerts in
the Church. Evelyn Petrova (in sanctuary);
Hard Rubber Orchestra (in Mitchell Hall). St.
George’s Anglican Church, 99 Woolwich St.,
Guelph. 519-763-3000. $27, $22(sr/st/low
income).
— 11:30pm: Guelph Jazz Festival. Torngat. Mitchell Hall, St. George’s Anglican
Church, 99 Woolwich St., Guelph. 519-7633000. $22, $17(sr/st/low income).
Friday September 08
Friday September 08
— 1:00: Guelph Jazz Festival. Tanya
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Friday September 01
— 12:00 noon: Theatre by the Bay. Snow
White’s Summer Adventure. By Clark
Harris. MacLaren Art Centre, 37 Mulcaster St., Barrie. 866-735-9243. $8. For
— 2:00: Huron Country Playhouse. The
Mikado. By Gilbert and Sullivan. RR#1,
Grand Bend. 519-238-6000. $29-$36. For
— 2:00: Stratford Festival. Oliver! Music
& lyrics by Lionel Bart. Festival Theatre,
55 Queen St., Stratford. 800-567-1600.
Call for ticket prices. For complete run see
music listings.
— 6:30: Patria Music/Theatre Projects.
The Palace of the Cinnabar Phoenix. By R.
Murray Schafer. Eleanor James, mezzo;
Eric Shaw, James McLennan, tenors;
Bruce Kelly, baritone & other performers.
Haliburton Forest. 416-596-8585. $75,
$65(sr/st), family rates. For complete run
see music theatre listings.
— 8:00: King’s Wharf Theatre. Anne of
Green Gables. By Dan Goggin. 97 Jury
Dr., Penetanguishene. 705-549-5555.
$29-$36. For complete run see music
theatre listings.
— 8:00: Lighthouse Festival Theatre.
Jasper Station. By Norm Foster and Steve
Thomas. Lighthouse Festival Theatre, 247
Main St., Port Dover. 519-583-2221. $28,
$25(st), $15(under 13).
— 8:00: Red Barn Theatre. Rock and
Roll. “The Monarchs,” a Nova Scotia
band once locally bigger than the Beatles,
reunite three decades later; seven players
sing and play, and two additional musicians. Written by John Gray. Loretta
Bailey, Todd Duckworth, Daniel Richard
Giverin, P. Robert Hughes, Frank Mackay,
Paul Rainville, cast members; Michael
Bianchin, director. Red Barn Theatre, 991
Lake Drive, Jackson’s Point. 905-7223249, 1-888-733-2276. $26; $22(sr/st/
mat); $15(12 & under); group rates. For
— 8:00: Stratford Festival. South Pacific.
Music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by
Oscar Hammerstein II. Avon Theatre, 99
Downie St., Stratford. 800-567-1600.
Call for ticket prices. For complete run see
— 8:00: Victoria Playhouse Petrolia.
Sophie Tucker: Last of the Red Hot Mamas.
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field St., Petrolia. 519-882-1221. $28. For
— 8:00: Mad & Noisy Gallery. Stay Tuned:
Creemore 2006 Series. The Rizdales; Laura
Repo opening. 154 Mill St., Creemore. 705466-5555. $8(advance), $10(door).
Sunday September 03
— 8:00 sundown: MusicaNoir Ensemble.
Orange Clouds. Part of the Fabulous Festival
of Fringe FilmMultimedia, a work by filmmakers John Greyson & Geoffrey Pugen,
music composed by Bongani NdodanaBreen, a study of the cultural capital of
“firstness”. With a chamber ensemble;
Chantelle Grant, Vanya Abrahams & Ray
McKenna, singers. Symphony Barn,
#393889 Concession 2 EGR, 3 km. north of
Grey Road 4, Durham. 519-369-3692. $10
(with 40-page libretto text).
Monday September 04
— 2:00: Drayton Festival Theatre. Twist
and Shout: The British Invasion. Musical
review featuring classic songs by The
Beatles, Gerry & the Pacemakers, The
Hollies, The Kinks, The Rolling Stones &
many others. Drayton Festival Theatre, 33
Wellington St. South, Drayton. 519-6385555, 888-449-4463. $36; $29(preview);
$20(18 & under); $29(group 20 or more). For
7:30: River Run Centre. Songbird Café. Local
acoustic singer/songwriters. Co-operators
Hall, River Run Centre, 35 Woolwich St.,
Guelph. 519-763-3000, 800-520-2408. $5.
— 8:00: Lighthouse Festival Theatre.
Vegas Knights. Musical tribute to the
crooners. Lighthouse Festival Theatre,
247 Main St., Port Dover. 519-583-2221.
$28, $25(st), $15(under 13). For complete
— 1:00: Guelph Jazz Festival. Marilyn
Lerner in Concert. Macdonald Stewart Art
Centre, 358 Gordon St., Guelph. 519-7633000. Free.
— 6:30: Royal Botanical Gardens. RedHot Jazz & Cool Blues. Chris Robinson.
Hendrie Park Gardens, Royal Botanical
Gardens, 60 Plains Rd. West, Burlington.
905-527-1158, 905-825-5040 (GTA toll
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... CONCERTS:
Further afield
Tagaq Gillis, Oliver Schroer & Ravi Naimpally. Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, 358
Gordon St., Guelph. 519-763-3000. Free.
— 5:00: Guelph Jazz Festival. Lê Quan
Ninh. Guelph Youth Music Centre, 75
Cardigan St., Guelph. 519-763-3000. $22,
$17(sr/st/low income).
— 7:00: Sharon Temple. Fall Illumination.
Classical music, plus candle lighting,
speakers, cake & coffee. Christopher
Hume & Albert Schrauwers, speakers;
Tapestry. 18974 Leslie St., Sharon. 905478-2389. $25.
— 8:00: Guelph Jazz Festival. Concerts in
the Church. Bill Dixon & Joëlle Léandre in the
sanctuary; Bik Bent Braam in Mitchell Hall. St.
George’s Anglican Church, 99 Woolwich St.,
Guelph. 519-763-3000. $32, $27(sr/st/low
income).
— 8:00: Victoria Hall. Brad Halls Words and
Music: The Songs of James Van Heusen.
Oscar winning songs and Broadway hits like
Moonlight Becomes You, All the Way, But
Beautiful, Imagination & more. Guests: Laura
Harp & Derrick Cunningham; Brad Halls. The
Concert Hall, Victoria Hall, 55 King St. West,
Cobourg. 905-372-2210, 888-COBOURG
x4153. $15.
— 11:30pm: Guelph Jazz Festival. Sao
Paulo Underground. Rob Mazurek; Mauricio Takara; Richard Ribeiro; Jason Ajemian. St. George’s Anglican Church, 99
Woolwich St., Guelph. 519-763-3000.
$22, $17(sr/st/low income).
— 11:45am: Guelph Jazz Festival. Guelph
Youth Jazz Ensemble. Guest: Lori Freedman;
Brent Rowan, director. Upper Wyndham
Street Jazz Tent, Guelph. 519-763-3000.
Free.
— 1:00: Guelph Jazz Festival. Black Ox
Orkestar. Upper Wyndham Street Jazz Tent,
Guelph. 519-763-3000. Free.
— 2:30: Guelph Jazz Festival. FAB Trio
in Concert. Also Larry Ochs, Peggy Lee &
Miya Masaoka. Guelph Youth Music
Centre, 75 Cardigan St., Guelph. 519-7633000. $27, $22(sr/st/low income).
— 2:30: Guelph Jazz Festival. Manouche.
Upper Wyndham Street Jazz Tent, Guelph.
519-763-3000. Free.
— 4:15: Guelph Jazz Festival. The Flying
Bulgar Klezmer Band. Upper Wyndham Street
Jazz Tent, Guelph. 519-763-3000. Free.
— 6:00: Guelph Jazz Festival. The Hylozoists. Upper Wyndham Street Jazz Tent,
Guelph. 519-763-3000. Free.
— 8:00: Guelph Jazz Festival. Main Stage
Concert. György Szabados & Vladimir Tarasov; Steve Coleman & Five Elements. River Run
Centre, 35 Woolwich St., Guelph. 519763-3000, 800-520-2408. $37, $30(sr/st/
low income).
— 8:00: Victoria Hall. Brad Halls Words and
Music: The Songs of James Van Heusen.
Victoria Concert Hall, Cobourg. See Sep 8.
— 10:30pm: Guelph Jazz Festival. Paul
Plimley, Tommy Babin & Hamid Drake.
Guelph Youth Music Centre, 75 Cardigan St.,
Guelph. 519-763-3000. $22, $17(sr/st/low
income).
— 11:30pm: Guelph Jazz Festival. The Bell
Orchestre. Mitchell Hall, St. George’s Anglican Church, 99 Woolwich St., Guelph. 51944
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763-3000. $22, $17(sr/st/low income).
Sunday September 10
— 12:15: Mid-Day Concerts at Centenary. Organ and Trumpet Recital. Shawn
— 10:30am: Guelph Jazz Festival. Mark
Grenke, organ, trumpet TBA. Centenary
Feldman & Sylvie Courvoisier. Also Xu
United Church, 24 Main Street West, HamilFengxia & Joe Fonda. Guelph Youth
ton. 905-522-6843 x26. Free.
Music Centre, 75 Cardigan St., Guelph.
— 12:30: Noon Hour Concert Series,
519-763-3000. $27, $22(sr/st/low income).
Conrad Grebel University College/The
— 11:00am: Shaw Festival. Sunday Coffee
Kenneth G. Mills Foundation. AKAFIST
Concert. Guests: company actors and
Chamber Choir. 16 voice male a cappella choir
musicians; Shaw Festival Quartet in
Friday September 15
from Moscow. Conrad Grebel University
Residence. Lobby, Festival Theatre, 10
— 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. College Chapel, University of Waterloo, 140
Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake.
Pops Series: Pops Heats Up. Herencia Latina, Westmount Rd. North, Waterloo. 519-885800-511-7429. Free.
0220 x226. Free.
— 1:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. Salsa band; Daniel Warren, conductor. Centre
Music in the Park. Local musicians in concert, In The Square, 101 Queen St. North, Kitchen- — 2:00 & 8:00: Schoolhouse Theatre St.
Jacobs. Nunsense. Book, music & lyrics by
er. 519-578-1570, 800-265-8977. $38musical petting zoo & other family activities.
Dan Goggin. Starring Karen K. Edissi; Marc
$50; $15(12 & under, rush all students);
Second Stage, Waterloo Park (Albert St.
Richard, director/choreographer. Schoolhouse
$5(eyeGO).
entrance), Waterloo. 519-578-1570, 800Theatre, 11 Albert St., St. Jacobs. 519-638— 8:00: The Kenneth G. Mills Founda265-8977. Free.
— 3:30: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. tion. Akafist Chamber Choir. 15-voice Russian 5555, 888-449-4463. $36; $29(preview);
$20(18 & under); $29(group 20 or more). For
Music in the Park. KWS open-air concert,
songs & church music spanning five centuries. complete run see music theatre listings.
musical petting zoo & other family activities.
Andrei V. Malyutin, artistic director/conductor. — 6:30: Royal Botanical Gardens. RedMain Stage, Waterloo Park (Albert St. enHot Jazz & Cool Blues. Tiffany Thompson.
St. Paul’s Cathedral, 472 Richmond Street,
trance), Waterloo. 519-578-1570, 800Hendrie Park Gardens, Royal Botanical GarLondon. 519-434-3225. $15.
265-8977. Free.
dens, 60 Plains Rd. West, Burlington. 905— 7:00: Guelph Jazz Festival. autorickSaturday September 16
527-1158, 905-825-5040 (GTA toll free).
shaw. With Kevin Breit and Trichy Sankaran.
Free with Gardens’ admission.
— 12:00 noon: Westben Arts Festival TheaGuelph Youth Music Centre, 75 Cardigan St.,
— 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber
Guelph. 519-763-3000. $22, $17(sr/st/low tre. A Taste of Westben Fundraiser. Music
Music Society. Marc Toth, piano in Concert.
throughout the afternoon, raffles, auction &
income).
Beethoven: Sonatas: Op.27/1, 2 (Moonlight),
more. Donna Bennett, Brian Finley & others,
— 7:30: ChamberWORKS. Romancing the
Op.101; Liszt: selections including Prelperformers. The Barn, 6898 Country Road 30,
Tone. Milhaud: Suite for clarinet, violin &
ude, Love-Death from Tristan. KWCMS
Campbellford. 877-883-5777. $60.
piano; Arriaga: String Quartet #3 in E-flat;
Music Room, 57 Young St. West, Water— 1:30 & 7:30: Toronto All-Star Big
Ponchielli: “Paolo and Virginia” for clarinet,
Band. Canadian Big Band Festival. Other band loo. 519-886-1673. $20; $15(sr); $10(st).
violin & piano; Puccini: Minuetto for string
— 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.
quartet; Respighi: Quintet for piano & string playing as well. CAW Centre, Port Elgin.
Signature Series in Guelph. Raum: Fanfare
quartet. Dofasco Centre for the Arts, Theatre 800-387-3456. $25 (mat.), $30 (eve.).
Overture; Schumann: Piano Concerto #1;
— 7:00: Raga Music School. Neeraj Prem,
Aquarius, 190 King William St., Hamilton.
Dvorak: Symphony #6. Angela Hewitt, piano;
Colours of Meditation CD Release. Kiran
905-522-7529, 800-465-7529. $30,$25;
Edwin Outwater, conductor. 6:45: pre-concert
Morarji, tabla; Neeraj Prem, sitar. 541 Brant
$25,$20(65+); $5(st, at door with ID).
talk with Jef ten Kortenaar. Main Stage, River
Street, Burlington. 905-639-6138.
Run Centre, 35 Woolwich St., Guelph. 519— 7:15: The Malhar Group Music Circle
Music Society. Todd Yaniw, piano in Concert. Beethoven: Sonata #18 in E-flat,Op.31/3; of Ontario. Baithak Style Recital of Hindusta- 763-3000, 800-520-2408. $40-$45; $15(12
& under, rush all students); $5(eyeGO).
ni Classical Vocal Music. Sanjoy Banerjee,
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; &
other works. KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young singer; Raya Bidaye, harmonium; Ashok Dutta, — 8:00: The Kenneth G. Mills Foundation.
Akafist Chamber Choir. 15-voice Russian male a
tabla; Sangeeta Ullal, tanpura. 8 Pirie Drive,
St. West, Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $20;
cappella choir, singing Russian folk songs &
Dundas. 905-627-7496. $10 (adv booking
$15(sr); $10(st).
church music spanning five centuries. Andrei
requested).
— 8:00: University of Western Ontario.
V. Malyutin, artistic director/conductor.
— 7:30: Waterford Old Town Hall Assoc/
Chamber Music Recital. Dohnanyi: QuinBrantford Symphony Orchestra. Pop Goes Dublin Street United Church, 68 Suffolk St.
tet in c for piano, 2 violins, viola & cello,
West, Guelph. 519-836-4056. $15.
the Music: Madawaska String Quartet.
Op.1; Mendelssohn: Octet in E-flat for 4
International folk and dance music. 76 Main
violins, 2 violas, & 2 cellos, Op.20. EdThursday September 21
St., Waterford. 519-443-6598. $20.
ward Turgeon, piano; Marc Ramirez,
—
7:30:
Prince
Edward County Music
Annette-Barbara Vogel, Olivia Hajioff, Mel — 8:00: Hamilton Philharmonic OrchesFestival. Chamber Works. Mozart: Quartet
tra. Music Italia! Favourites like O Sole Mio,
Martin & Eric Fujita, violins; Olivia
for oboe and strings, K.370; Forsyth: Lines to
Torno a Sorriento, orchestral overtures and
Hajioff, Marc Ramirez & Veronica Lee,
Fanny Brawne (Keats); La belle dame sans
popular opera duets and solos. Kurt Lehmann,
violas; Joel Becktell & Elizabeth McLelmerci for soprano and piano (premiere);
tenor; Monica Huisman, soprano; James
lan, cellos. von Kuster Hall, Music BuildForsyth: Six Episodes After Keats for violin,
Sommerville, conductor. Hamilton Place,
ing, UWO, London. 519-661-3767. Free.
cello and piano; Poulenc: Sonata for oboe and
1 Summers Lane, Hamilton. 905-526Monday September 11
piano; Fauré: Quartet for piano and strings #1,
7756. $25-$62; $22-$57(sr); $12-$29(st);
Op.15. Jonathan Crow, David Stewart,
$5(ch to 13).
Music Society. Matt Haimovitz, cello: Bach — 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. violins; David Harding, viola; Tanya Prochazka,
cello; Suzanne Lemieux, oboe; Donna Brown,
and Beyond. KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young
Pops Series: Pops Heats Up. Centre In The
soprano; Malcolm Forsyth, composer;
St. West, Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $25;
Square, Kitchener. See Sep 15.
Stéphane Lemelin, artistic director/piano; The
$20(sr); $15(st).
Sunday September 17
Church of St. Mary Magdalene, 335 Main St.
East, Picton. 613-393-3798. $20; $10(st).
— 2:00: Sharon Temple. Acoustic After— 12:15: Mid-Day Concerts at Centenoons Concert Series. Glenn Marais, guitar/
Friday September 22
nary. Organ Recital. Shawn Grenke, organ.
harmonica/piano/vocals. 18974 Leslie St.,
— 12:30: University of Western Ontario/
Centenary United Church, 24 Main Street
Sharon. 905-478-2389. $5.
The Kenneth G. Mills Foundation. 12:30
West, Hamilton. 905-522-6843 x26. Free.
— 7:00: The Kenneth G. Mills Foundation.
— 6:30: Royal Botanical Gardens. RedAkafist Chamber Choir. 15-voice Russian male a Fridays. Akafist Chamber Choir, singing
traditional Russian choral works, OrthoHot Jazz & Cool Blues. Trickbag. Hendrie
cappella choir, singing Russian folk songs &
dox church music and folksongs. von
Park Gardens, Royal Botanical Gardens, 60
church music spanning five centuries. Andrei V.
Kuster Hall, Music Building, UWO, LonPlains Rd. West, Burlington. 905-527Malyutin, artistic director/conductor. Doon
1158, 905-825-5040 (GTA toll free). Free
Presbyterian Church, 35 Roos St., Kitchen- don. 519-661-3767. Free.
— 7:30: All-Canadian Jazz Festival. Two
with Gardens’ admission.
er. 519-748-4540. $15.
Pops Series in Guelph: Pops Heats Up.
Herencia Latina, Salsa band; Daniel
Warren, conductor. Main Stage, River
Run Centre, 35 Woolwich St., Guelph.
519-763-3000, 800-520-2408. $40,$45;
$15(12 & under, rush all students);
$5(eyeGO).
New Voices. Kellylee Evans & DK Ibomeka, singers; Trinity College Jazz Ensemble. Concert Tent, Memorial Park, 31
Queen St., Port Hope. 905-885-1938. $30.
— 7:30: Prince Edward County Music
Festival. Chamber Works. Forsyth: Incantation,
for soprano and piano; Je répondrais …, for
solo piano; Schubert & Mahler: selected lieder;
Schumann: Quartet for piano and strings,
Op.47. David Stewart, violin; David Harding,
viola; Tanya Prochazka, cello; Donna Brown,
soprano; Malcolm Forsyth, composer; Stéphane
Lemelin, artistic director/piano. The Church of
St. Mary Magdalene, 335 Main St. East,
Picton. 613-393-3798. $20; $10(st); free(18 &
under with adult).
— 8:00: Barrie’s Colours of Music. A
Celtic Celebration. The Elmer Iseler Singers,
with fiddler Mark Haines & accordionist Tom
Leighton from Canada’s Maritimes. First
Christian Reformed Church, 33 Shirley Ave.,
Barrie. 705-725-1070. $35; $15(with
passport).
Signature Series. Raum: Fanfare Overture;
Schumann: Piano Concerto #1; Dvorak: Symphony #6. Angela Hewitt, piano; Edwin Outwater, conductor. 6:45: pre-concert talk with
Thomas Kay. Centre In The Square, 101 Queen
St. North, Kitchener. 519-578-1570, 800-2658977. $27-$50; $15(12 & under, rush all
students); $5(eyeGO).
— 8:00: SweetWater Music Weekend.
Faculty In Concert. Biber: La Pastorella for
violin and harpsichord; Martinu: Three Promenades for flute, violin and harpsichord; Cassado: Suite for Solo Cello; Beethoven: Grosse
Fuge, Op.133; Dvorak: String Quintet in G for
two violins, viola, cello and double bass,
Op.77. Faculty: Steven Copes, violin; Mark
Fewer, violin; Scott St. John, violin; Virginia
Barron, violin; Douglas McNabney, viola;
Denise Djokic, cello; Thomas Wiebe, cello;
Raphael McNabney, bass; Rosanne Wieringa, flute; Mélisande McNabney, harpsichord; Guy Few, piano; Peter Longworth,
piano. Historic Leith Church, 419134 Tom
Thomson Lane, Leith. 519-371-1754. $20.
— 11:30am: All-Canadian Jazz Festival.
Blow Your Own Horn: Jazz Parade. 10:30:
Jazz Parade workshop with Kevin Clark.
Walton St. to Memorial Park, 31 Queen St.,
Port Hope. 905-885-1938. Free.
— 12:00 noon: All-Canadian Jazz Festival. Kevin Clark & Dirty South. Concert Tent,
Memorial Park, 31 Queen St., Port Hope.
905-885-1938. $20(day pass); $30(wknd
pass); $10(8-17); free(7 & under).
— 12:00 noon: Barrie’s Colours of Music.
Cecilia String Quartet in Concert. Music of
Beethoven & Shostakovich. Sarah Nematallah,
Sharon Lee, violin; Caitlin Boyle, viola; Rebecca
Wenham, cello. Burton Avenue United Church,
37 Burton Ave., Barrie. 705-725-1070.
$15.
— 12:50: All-Canadian Jazz Festival.
Colborne Public School Band. Club Tent,
905-885-1938. $20(day pass); $30(wknd
pass); $10(8-17); free(7 & under).
Melissa Stylianou Quartet. Concert Tent,
905-885-1938. $20(day pass); $30(wknd
pass); $10(8-17); free(7 & under).
— 2:00: All-Canadian Jazz Festival. TD
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Canada Trust Young Jazz Showcase.
Club Tent, Memorial Park, 31 Queen St.,
Port Hope. 905-885-1938. $20(day pass);
$30(wknd pass); $10(8-17); free(7 & under).
Michele Grégoire Quintet. Concert Tent,
905-885-1938. $20(day pass); $30(wknd
pass); $10(8-17); free(7 & under).
— 2:30: Barrie’s Colours of Music. Duo
Diorama. Music of R. Strauss & Corigliano.
Winston Choi, piano; Minghuan Xu,
violin. Central United Church, 54 Ross St.,
Barrie. 705-725-1070. $25.
Canada Trust Young Jazz Showcase. Club
Tent, Memorial Park, 31 Queen St., Port
Hope. 905-885-1938. $20(day pass);
Brenda Earle Quartet. Concert Tent, Memorial
Park, 31 Queen St., Port Hope. 905-8851938. $20(day pass); $30(wknd pass); $10(817); free(7 & under).
Christopher Willes Quintet. Club Tent,
905-885-1938. $20(day pass); $30(wknd
pass); $10(8-17); free(7 & under).
Swing Rosie. Kira Callahan, Shannon Butcher
& Chantelle Wilson, singers. Concert Tent,
905-885-1938. $20(day pass); $30(wknd
pass); $10(8-17); free(7 & under).
— 5:45: All-Canadian Jazz Festival. Artie
Roth Quintet. Concert Tent, Memorial Park,
31 Queen St., Port Hope. 905-885-1938.
$20(day pass); $30(wknd pass); $10(8-17);
free(7 & under).
Christopher Willes Quintet. Club Tent,
905-885-1938. $20(day pass); $30(wknd
pass); $10(8-17); free(7 & under).
— 7:30: Prince Edward County Music
Festival. Chamber Works. Fauré: Selected
Songs; Britten: Metamorphoses after Ovid for
solo oboe; Forsyth: The Tempest for oboe &
string quartet; Dvorak, Piano Quintet, Op.81.
Jonathan Crow, David Stewart, violins, David
Harding, viola; Tanya Prochazka, cello; Suzanne Lemieux, oboe; Donna Brown, soprano;
Malcolm Forsyth, composer; Stéphane Lemelin, artistic director/piano. The Church of St.
Mary Magdalene, 335 Main St. East, Picton.
613-393-3798. $20; $10(st).
Oliver Jones Trio. Concert Tent, Memorial
Park, 31 Queen St., Port Hope. 905-8851938. $30.
— 8:00: Barrie’s Colours of Music. A
Choral Gala. Music of Handel, Mozart &
Tiefenbach. Elmer Iseler Singers, Barbara
McCann’s King Edward Choir, Steve Winfield’s Lyrica Choir & a Brass Choir; Lydia
Adams, conductor. First Christian Reformed
Church, 33 Shirley Ave., Barrie. 705-7251070. $40; $25(with passport).
Music Society. Rocca String Quartet.
Mozart: Quartet in d; K.421; Brahms: Quartet
in a, Op.51/2; & other works. KWCMS
Music Room, 57 Young St. West, Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $20; $15(sr); $10(st).
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Signature Series. Centre In The Square,
Kitchener. See Sep 22.
— 8:00: Music at St. Luke’s. Cabaret
Night. Works by White, Gershwin, Ellington & Debussy, Hollywood & Broadway
songs. Nick Settimi, tenor; Jason White,
piano. Parish hall, St. Luke’s Anglican
Church, 1382 Ontario Street, Burlington.
905-639-7643. $15.00.
Faculty In Concert. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto #6 in B-flat, BWV.1051; Schoenfield: Five
Days in the Life of a Manic Depressive;
Shostakovich: Piano Trio #2 in e, Op.67. See
Sep 22 for faculty. 10:00am: Student Masterclass, open to audit; 6:30: Pre-concert chat by
CBC’s Keith Horner. St. George’s Anglican
Church, 1049 4th Ave. East, Owen Sound.
519-371-1754. $20.
Sunday September 24
Music Society. Baird Trio, Violin, Cello &
Piano in Concert. Beethoven: Piano Trio,
Op.1/2; Pärt: Mozart, Adagio; Turina:
Circulo: Sunrise/Midday/Sunset; Babajanyan: Trio. KWCMS Music Room, 57
Young St. West, Waterloo. 519-886-1673.
$25; $20(sr); $15(st).
piano. First Christian Reformed Church, 33
Shirley Ave., Barrie. 705-725-1070. $25.
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Monday September 25
Guy Few, trumpet in Concert. Music of
Hubeau, Milhaud & Bernstein. Stephanie
Mara, piano. Central United Church, 54 Ross
St. (at Toronto St.), Barrie. 705-725-1070.
$15.
— 2:30: Barrie’s Colours of Music. David
Jalbert, pianist in Concert. Music of Mozart,
Fauré & Schumann. First Christian Reformed
Church, 33 Shirley Ave., Barrie. 705-7251070. $25.
— 8:00: Barrie’s Colours of Music.
William O’Meara, organ & piano in Concert.
Music of Albinoni, Saint-Saëns, Sarasate &
Dvorak (incl. Five Bagatelles). Jonathan
Tortolano, cello; Etsuko Kimura, Thomas
Cosby, violins; St. Andrew’s Presbyterian
Church, 47 Owen St., Barrie. 705-7251070. $25.
— 12:00 noon: All-Canadian Jazz Festival. Between Friends. Mose Scarlett,
Jackie Washington & Ken Whiteley, singers/musicians. Concert Tent, Memorial Park,
31 Queen St., Port Hope. 905-885-1938.
$20(day pass); $30(wknd pass); $10(8-17);
free(7 & under).
Canada Trust Young Jazz Showcase.
Club Tent, Memorial Park, 31 Queen St.,
— 12:00 noon: Barrie’s Colours of
Port Hope. 905-885-1938. $20(day pass); Music. Yegor Dyachkov, cello, David
Jalbert, piano in Concert. Music of De— 1:10: All-Canadian Jazz Festival. Brian bussy, Hindemith & Brahms. Central
Barlow & Brass. Concert Tent, Memorial
United Church, 54 Ross St. (at Toronto
Park, 31 Queen St., Port Hope. 905-885St.), Barrie. 705-725-1070. $15.
1938. $20(day pass); $30(wknd pass); $10(8- — 12:30: McMaster University School of
17); free(7 & under).
the Arts/The Kenneth G. Mills Founda— 2:00: All-Canadian Jazz Festival. Diana tion. Lunchtime Concert Series. Akafist
Panton, with Don Thompson & Reg Schwager. Russian Male Choir. Convocation Hall (UHConcert Tent, Memorial Park, 31 Queen St.,
213), University Hall, McMaster University,
1280 Main St. West, Hamilton. 905-525$30(wknd pass); $10(8-17); free(7 & under).
9140 x24246. Free.
Faculty In Concert. Haydn: String Quartet in BBravura: An Afternoon of Baroque. Music of
flat, Op.76/4 (Sunrise); Schulhoff: Concertino Purcell, Handel, Bach & Scarlatti. Guy
for flute (piccolo), viola and bass; Mascall:
Few, trumpet; Lorna MacDonald, soprano;
Labyrinth for solo violin; Dvorak: String
Che Anne Loewen, piano. First Christian
Quintet in E-flat, Op.97. See Sep 22 for
Reformed Church, 33 Shirley Ave., Barrie.
faculty. Historic Leith Church, 419134 Tom
705-725-1070. $25.
Thomson Lane, Leith. 519-371-1754. $20.
— 8:00: Barrie’s Colours of Music. Yale
Strom, clarinet, and P’Stromi in Concert.
Patricia O’Callahan, soprano in Concert. Music Klezmer music & Yiddish songs. Elizabeth
of Weill, Gershwin & Porter. Robert KortSchwartz, vocalist; Jeffrey Wilson, percusgaard, piano; Andrew Downing, double bass.
sion; Andrew Downing, double bass; Norbert
Burton Avenue United Church, 37 Burton Ave., Stachel, reeds; Peter Stan, accordion. HI-Way
Barrie. 705-725-1070. $25.
Pentecostal Church, 50 Anne St. North,
Barrie. 705-725-1070. $35; $15(with
Arnold Faber’s Vibré. Arnold Faber, vibraphone; pass).
Frank Rackow, saxophones; Greg Prior,
basses; Robin Tufts, drums/percussion.
Concert Tent, Memorial Park, 31 Queen St.,
Sopranos in Opera. Music of Gounod, Puccini
& Verdi. Andrea Naccarato, Jennifer Griffith,
— 4:00: All-Canadian Jazz Festival. Jake sopranos; Julie Loveless, piano. Burton Avenue
Langley Quartet. Concert Tent, Memorial
United Church, 37 Burton Ave., Barrie. 705Park, 31 Queen St., Port Hope. 905-885725-1070. $15.
1938. $20(day pass); $30(wknd pass);
— 12:15: Mid-Day Concerts at Centenary.
$10(8-17); free(7 & under).
Organ Recital. Shawn Grenke, organ.
— 5:30: All-Canadian Jazz Festival. Paul
Centenary United Church, 24 Main Street
Read Jazz Orchestra. Concert Tent, Memorial West, Hamilton. 905-522-6843 x26. Free.
Park, 31 Queen St., Port Hope. 905-885— 2:30: Barrie’s Colours of Music.
1938. $30.
Borealis String Quartet in Concert. Music
— 8:00: Barrie’s Colours of Music. Triple
of Mendelssohn, Joplin, Liszt, & TchaikoForte. Music of Haydn, Ives & Dvorak. Jasper
vsky: Souvenir de Florence. Patricia Shih,
Wood, violin; Yegor Dyachkov, cello; David
Yuel Yawney, violin; Nikita Pogrebnoy, viola;
Jalbert, piano. Central United Church, 54 Ross
Ariel Barnes, cello. Guests: Steven Dann,
St. (at Toronto St.), Barrie. 705-725-1070. $25. viola; Yegor Dyachkov, cello; Marc Toth,
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(September 27)
— 6:30: Royal Botanical Gardens. RedHot Jazz & Cool Blues. Suzanne Ramsey.
Hendrie Park Gardens, Royal Botanical Gardens, 60 Plains Rd. West, Burlington. 905527-1158, 905-825-5040 (GTA toll free).
Free with Gardens’ admission.
Baroque and Beautiful. Music of Vivaldi,
Bach, Handel & Pachelbel. Marc Toth,
piano; Festival Orchestra; Kerry Stratton,
conductor. First Christian Reformed Church,
33 Shirley Ave., Barrie. 705-725-1070. $35;
$15(with pass).
— 8:00: Orchestra London/University of
Western Ontario. Shostakovich Centennial.
Shostakovich: Five Fragments, Op.42; Chamber Symphony, Op.110; Cello Concerto #2;
part of the faculty’s Shostakovich Festival.
Thomas Wiebe, cello; Timothy Vernon, conductor. Talbot Theatre, Talbot College, UWO,
London. 519-679-8778. $39; $35(sr/st).
Steven Dann, viola in Concert. Music of
Brahms, Rota & Currier. Peter Longworth,
piano. Burton Avenue United Church, 37
Burton Ave., Barrie. 705-725-1070. $15.
— 2:30: Barrie’s Colours of Music. Marc
Toth, piano in Concert. Music of Beethoven &
Liszt. Central United Church, 54 Ross St. (at
Toronto St.), Barrie. 705-725-1070. $25.
— 8:00: Barrie’s Colours of Music. The
Toronto All-Star Big Band in Concert. Music of
Goodman, Ellington, Krupa & Miller. First
Christian Reformed Church, 33 Shirley Ave.,
Barrie. 705-725-1070. $35; $15(with
pass).
Remembering Shostakovich. Showcases
the composer’s playful, satirical side; part
of the faculty’s Shostakovich Festival.
John Hess, Stephan Sylvestre & Allison
Wiebe, piano; Jeffrey Stokes, speaker;
bass choir, Jennifer Moir, leader. Don
Wright Faculty of Music, UWO, London.
519-679-8778. $15; $10(sr/st).
Friday September 29
— 12:00 noon: Barrie’s Colours of Music. Jazz
Pianist Chris Donnelly in Concert. Jazz and
Ragtime, the music of Joplin, Peterson, Van
Heusen, Gismonti & Donnelly. Central
United Church, 54 Ross St. (at Toronto
St.), Barrie. 705-725-1070. $15.
12:30 Fridays: Shostakovich Songs. Shostakovich: songs based on the works of the great
Russian poets Pushkin, Lermontov & Tsvetayeva; part of the faculty’s Shostakovich
Festival. Patricia Green & Sophie Roland,
mezzo sopranos; Todd Wieczorek, baritone;
Vera Danchenko, piano. von Kuster Hall, Music
Building, UWO, London. 519-661-3767.
Free.
— 2:30: Barrie’s Colours of Music. JonesMaruri Duo in Concert. Michael Jones, cello;
Agustin Maruri, guitar. Burton Avenue United
Church, 37 Burton Ave., Barrie. 705-7251070. $25.
— 8:00: Barrie’s Colours of Music. An
Evening in Paris. Music of Ibert, Bizet, Ravel:
Introduction and Allegro; Debussy: Dances.
Judy Loman, harp; Ross Edwards, clarinet;
Nora Shulman, flute; Borealis Quartet; Kawartha Trio. First Christian Reformed Church,
33 Shirley Ave., Barrie. 705-725-1070.
$35; $15(with pass).
Music Society. Robert Gruca, guitar in
Concert. KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young St.
West, Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $20;
$15(sr); $10(st).
— 8:00: McMaster University School of
the Arts. Celebrity Concert Series. Concertos:
Vivaldi: Two Violins and Two Cellos, F.IV #1;
Viola D’Amore in D, F.II #2; Two Cellos, F.III
#2; Four Violins, Op.3/4; Two Violins; Bottesini: #2 for Double Bass in b; Mendelssohn:
Violin in d; Handel: Concerto Grosso, Op.6/7.
With: 8 violins; 2 violas; Kristine Bogyo &
Rafael Kuerti, cellos; Raphael McNabney,
double bass; Mooredale Concerto Players; Eric
Paetkau, conductor. Convocation Hall (UH213), University Hall, McMaster University,
1280 Main St. West, Hamilton. 905-5259140 x24246. $17; $12(sr); $5(st).
— 8:00: Orchestra London. Shower the
People. Tribute to the career of superstar
singer/songwriter James Taylor. Neil Donell,
vocalist; Mitch Tyler, conductor. Centennial
Hall, 550 Wellington St., London. 519-6798778. $38-$58.
— 8:00: Showplace Performance Centre. The Wailin’ Jennys in Concert. Mix of
original & traditional tunes of various
roots styles. Ruth Moody, soprano; Nicky
Mehta, mezzo; Annabelle Chvostek, alto.
Showplace Performance Centre, 290
George St. North, Peterborough. 705444-7089, 866-444-7089. $25.
— 12:00 noon: Barrie’s Colours of
Music. Nathaniel Anderson-Frank, violin
in Concert. Music of Brahms, Tiefenbach
& Sarasate. Cecilia Ignatieff, piano.
10:00am: Meet the Composer session
with Peter Peter Tiefenbach, composer-inresidence. Burton Avenue United Church,
37 Burton Ave., Barrie. 705-725-1070.
$15.
Shostakovich Piano. Shostakovich: Preludes
(five of 24); Sonata for piano #2; part of the
faculty’s Shostakovich Festival. Sergei Kvitko,
piano. von Kuster Hall, Music Building,
UWO, London. 519-661-3767. Free.
— 2:30: Barrie’s Colours of Music. An
Afternoon of Mozart. Robert Kortgaard, Peter
Tiefenbach, piano; & other performers. Central
United Church, 54 Ross St. (at Toronto St.),
Barrie. 705-725-1070. $25.
Shostakovich Opera. Shostakovich: scenes
from The Nose, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
District & Cheryomushki; part of the faculty’s
Shostakovich Festival. Room 104, Music
Building, UWO, London. 519-661-3767.
Free.
— 7:30: Oshawa Durham Symphony
Orchestra. Your Favourite Tchaikovsky.
Symphony of Destiny (#4); Piano Concerto. Guest: Alexander Markovich; Marco
Parisotto, music director. Calvary Baptist
Church, 300 Rossland Rd. East., Oshawa.
905-579-6711. $40, $20(st/ch).
Manhattan Echoes. Music of Carmichael,
Waller, Sondheim & Arlen. Gene Dinovi, piano;
James Campbell, clarinet; Graham Campbell,
guitar; Dave Young, double bass. First Christian Reformed Church, 33 Shirley Ave.,
Barrie. 705-725-1070. $35; $15(with
pass).
Orchestra. 30 Years in Vienna. Beethoven:
Piano Concerto #3 in c, Op.37; Dittersdorf:
Symphony in D; Ordonez: Symphony in f;
Salieri: La Fiera di Venezia Overture. Sarah Ho,
piano; Graham Coles, conductor. Maureen
Forrester Recital Hall, Aird Centre of Wilfrid
Laurier University, 75 University Ave. West,
Waterloo. 519-744-3828. $20, $15(sr/st).
— 8:00: Nota Bene Period Orchestra.
OktoberBaroqueFest. Music of 17th &
18th century Germany. Linda Melsted,
violin; Borys Medicky, harpsichord; Nota
Bene String Band. Parkminster United
Church, 275 Erb St. East, Waterloo. 519884-8753. $25; $22(sr); $10(st).
— 8:00: Orchestra London. Shower the
People. Centennial Hall, London. 519-6798778. See Sep 29.
— 8:00: The Kenneth G. Mills Foundation.
Akafist Chamber Choir. 15-voice Russian
Andrei V. Malyutin, artistic director/
conductor. St. George’s Cathedral, 270
King St., Kingston: 613-548-4617. $20;
$15(sr/choirs); $10(st).
— 8:00: Vital Spark Folk Society. Mike
Ford in Concert. Brooklin Community Centre,
45 Cassels Rd., Brooklin. 905-432-3237.
$20; $18(members).
Sunday October 01
— 1:00: Shaw Festival. The Golden Apple.
20th century retelling of Homer’s Odyssey &
Iliad. Music by Jerome Moross, book & lyrics
by John Latouche; Paul Sportelli, director.
Rehearsal Studio, Festival Theatre, 10
Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 800511-7429. $18. For complete run see music
theatre listings.
— 2:00: Schoolhouse Theatre St.
Jacobs. Nunsense. Book, music & lyrics
by Dan Goggin. Starring Karen K. Edissi;
Marc Richard, director/choreographer.
Schoolhouse Theatre, 11 Albert St., St.
Jacobs. 519-638-5555, 888-449-4463.
$36; $29(preview); $20(18 & under);
$29(group 20 or more). For complete run
see music theatre listings.
— 2:00: Stratford Festival. Oliver! Music
& lyrics by Lionel Bart. Festival Theatre, 55
Queen St., Stratford. 800-567-1600. Call
for ticket prices. For complete run see
Borealis String Quartet with James Campbell, clarinet in Concert. Music of Mozart,
Tiefenbach and Gilliland: Jazz Suite.
Central United Church, 54 Ross St. (at
Toronto St.), Barrie. 705-725-1070. $25.
Musically Speaking Series: Passing the
Flame. Handel: Overture to Royal Fireworks; Beethoven: Symphony #2 (finale);
Stravinsky: Firebird (excerpts); Weber:
Bassoon Concerto; Copland: El Salón
México; & more. Christian Sharpe, bassoon; Tom Allen, host; Daniel Warren,
conductor. Centre In The Square, 101
Queen St. North, Kitchener. 519-5781570, 800-265-8977. $25-$37; $13(12 &
under, rush all students); $5(eyeGO).
— 3:00: Nota Bene Period Orchestra.
OktoberBaroqueFest. Music of 17th & 18th
century Germany. Linda Melsted, violin; Borys
Medicky, harpsichord; Nota Bene string band.
Youth Music Centre, 75 Cardigan St.,
Guelph. 519-884-8753. $25; $22(sr);
$10(st).
Shostakovich Chamber Music. Shostakovich:
Viola Sonata; Seven Romances on poems by
Alexander Blok; Piano Quintet; part of the
faculty’s Shostakovich Festival. Luba Edlina,
piano; Annette-Barbara Vogel & Lem
Martin, violins; Virginia Barron, viola;
Thomas Wiebe, cello; Anita Kraus, mezzo
soprano. von Kuster Hall, Music Building,
UWO, London. 519-661-3767. $15; $10(sr/
st).
— 7:30: Brantford Music Club. Triple
Forte. Jasper Wood, violin; Yegor Dyachkov,
cello; David Jalbert, piano. Sanderson
Centre for the Performing Arts, 88 Dalhousie
St., Brantford. 519-758-8090. $25, $5(st).
— 8:00: Barrie’s Colours of Music/The
Kenneth G. Mills Foundation. Borealis
Akafist. 16-voice a cappella male choir from
Moscow. Burton Avenue United Church, 37
Burton Ave., Barrie. 705-725-1070. $25.
Kitchener-Waterloo
Chamber Orchestra
Graham Coles, Music Director
22nd Season presented by
30 YEARS IN VIENNA
with soloist Sarah Ho, Piano
Music by Beethoven, Ditttersdorf, Ordonez & Salieri
Saturday, September 30, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Maureen Forrester Recital Hall, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo
For ticket information and program details go to: www.kwchamberorchestra.ca
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Tuesday October 03
— 2:00: Drayton Festival Theatre. Twist
and Shout: The British Invasion. Musical
review featuring classic songs by The Beatles,
Gerry & the Pacemakers, The Hollies, The
Kinks, The Rolling Stones & many others.
Drayton Festival Theatre, 33 Wellington St.
South, Drayton. 519-638-5555, 888-4494463. $36; $29(preview); $20(18 & under);
$29(group 20 or more). For complete run see
— 7:30: Brantford Music Club. Stuart
McLean and The Vinyl Cafe. Based on the CBC
radio show, showcasing Canadian musicians,
featuring Murray McLauchlan. Sanderson
Centre for the Performing Arts, 88 Dalhousie
St., Brantford. 519-758-8090. $41.50,
$31.50(under 18).
— 7:30: River Run Centre. Songbird Café.
Local acoustic singer/songwriters. Co-operators Hall, River Run Centre, 35 Woolwich St.,
Guelph. 519-763-3000, 800-520-2408. $5.
— 8:00: Stratford Festival. South Pacific.
Music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar
Hammerstein II. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie
St., Stratford. 800-567-1600. Call for ticket
prices. For complete run see music theatre
listings.
Wednesday October 04
— 12:30: Noon Hour Concert Series,
Conrad Grebel University College.
Contemporary Art Music for Tenor Saxophone
& Piano. Willem Moolenbeek, tenor saxophone; Sandra Mogensen, piano. Conrad Grebel
University College Chapel, University of
Waterloo, 140 Westmount Rd. North, Waterloo. 519-885-0220 x226. Free.
— 7:30: Brock University. Stuart McLean
Live from The Vinyl Cafe. Based on the CBC
radio show, showcasing Canadian musicians,
featuring Murray McLauchlan. Sean O’Sullivan
Theatre, Centre for the Arts, Brock University,
500 Glenridge Ave., St. Catharines. 905688-5550, 866-617-3257. $49.
— 8:00: Orchestra London. Rachmaninoff’s
Third. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto #3 in d;
Shostakovich: Symphony #1, Op.10 in f.
Kemel Gekic, piano; Timothy Vernon, conductor. Forest City Community Church, 3725
Bostwick Rd., London. 519-679-8778. $33$48; $29-$42(sr).
Thursday October 05
— 11:00am: The Great Romantics Festival. Two-Piano Recital. Mozart: Sonata in D,
K.381; Schumann: Andante and Variations in
B-flat, Op.46. Elizabeth Pridonoff & Eugene
Pridonoff, pianos. 10:00am: Lecture, see
Announcements section. Convocation Hall
(UH-213), University Hall, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. West, Hamilton. 905525-9140 x23674. $20.
— 2:00: The Great Romantics Festival.
Lieder Recital. Brahms: 8 Zigeuner Lieder,
Op.103; Works by Mahler & R. Strauss. Lita
Classen, soprano; Allan Behan, piano. Christ’s
Church Cathedral, 252 James St. North,
Hamilton. 905-525-9140 x23674. $20.
Organ Recital. Mendelssohn: Sonata #5 in D;
Brahms: Two Chorale Preludes on ‘Herzlich
tut mich verlangen’, Op.122; Julius Reubke:
Sonata on Psalm 94, Grave, Larghetto “O Lord
God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew
thyself”, Adagio “Unless the Lord had helped
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me, my soul had dwelt in silence”, Allegro
“But the Lord is my defence and rock of my
refuge”. Ian Sadler, organ. Christ’s Church
Cathedral, 252 James St. North, Hamilton.
905-525-9140 x23674. $20.
— 7:30: Brock University. Stuart McLean
Live from The Vinyl Cafe. Sean O’Sullivan
Theatre, Centre for the Arts, Brock University,
St. Catharines See Oct 4.
— 8:00: Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra. The Great Romantics. Maxwell Davies:
An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise; Bruch:
Scottish Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra,
Op.46; Mendelssohn: Symphony #3 in a,
Op.56 (Scottish). Susanne Hou, violin; Horst
Förster, conductor. Hamilton Place, 1
Summers Lane. 905-526-7756. $25-$62;
$22-$57(sr); $12-$29(st); $5(ch to 13).
— 8:00: Kingston Theatre Organ Society.
Celebrating Silver! Richard Hills, theatre organ;
Guest: Chris Whyman, town crier/vocals. Church
of the Redeemer, 89 Kirkpatrick St., Kingston. 613-542-7601. $15; $5(st).
Music Society. Arianna Quartet in Concert.
String Quartets: Haydn: Op.76/4 (Sunrise);
Shostakovich: #1; Beethoven: #7, Op.59/1.
KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young St. W, Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $25; $20(sr); $15(st).
— 8:00: Orchestra London. Rachmaninoff’s
Third. Forest City Community Church, London. See Oct 4.
nary United Church, 24 Main St. West,
Hamilton. 905-525-9140 x23674. $20.
Piano Gala: “On Wings of Song”, Franz Liszt
Presents His Contemporaries. Liszt transcriptions, played by: Nancy Roldán: Chopin/Liszt;
Paul Barnes: Schubert/Liszt; David Witten:
Dessauer/Liszt; William Wellborn: Schumann/
Liszt; Justin Kolb: Mendelssohn/Liszt; Thomas
Mastroianni: Robert Franz/Liszt; Jay Hershberger: Eduard Lassen/Liszt; Valerie Tryon: Liszt/Liszt.
Host: Alex Baran. Centenary United Church,
24 Main St. West, Hamilton. 905-525-9140
x23674. $20.
Keynotes & Canapés: Music to Satisfy Your
Hunger. Telemann: Quartet in G from Tafelmusik (part 1); Mozart: Divertimento in B-flat;
Martinu: La revue de cuisine; Bach: Coffee
Cantata. Bob Villeneuve, host; Daniel Lichti,
baritone; Lesley Andrews, soprano; Keith
Diplock, tenor. Waterloo Entertainment
Centre, 24 King St. North, Waterloo. 519578-1570, 800-265-8977. $30; $20(12 &
under, rush all students); $5(eyeGO).
— 8:00: Mad & Noisy Gallery. Stay Tuned:
Creemore 2006 Series. Karyn Ellis; Clarie
Jenkins opening. 154 Mill St., Creemore.
705-466-5555. $8(advance), $10(door).
LISTINGS:
Opera, Music Theatre, Dance
Performances are listed by show title
A Century of Indian Dance. Kalanidhi
International Dance Festival. Runs daily Sep
22-Oct 1 (except Sep 25). See daily listings for
each day’s program; see Kalanidhi web site for
related events. Premiere Dance Theatre, Queen’s
Quay Terminal, 207 Queens Quay West (one
event at Harbourfront Centre Theatre, 231
Queens Quay West). 416-973-4000. $30,$25;
$24,$20(sr/st/members CADA, WDA, PACT,
TAPA).
Friday October 06
Anne of Green Gables. King’s Wharf Thea— 10:45am: The Great Romantics Festitre. By Dan Goggin. Sep 1: 8:00, Sep 2: 2:00 &
val. Scènes mignonnes sur 4 notes (Little
8:00. 97 Jury Dr., Penetanguishene. 705scenes on four notes). Schumann: Carnaval
549-5555. $29-$36.
(commentary & performance to mark the
Eye of the Storm. Hummingbird Centre for
150th anniversary of his death). Marguerite
the Performing Arts. Japanese Taiko, Chinese
Wolff, piano. 10:00am: Lecture, see Antraditional, and Taiwanese aboriginal drums &
nouncements section. Convocation Hall (UHdance. Oct 7-8: 7:30 . Hummingbird Centre, 1
213), University Hall, McMaster University,
Front St. East. 416-872-2262. Call for ticket
1280 Main St. West, Hamilton. 905-525prices.
9140 x23674. $20.
IN(side)time: made in Canada/fait au CanaPiano Gala: “Liszt’s Homage to Mozart”.
da princess productions/DanceWorks
Valerie Tryon: Confutatis maledictis and
CoWorks. Soon: Louis Laberge-Côté, choreograLacrymosa from the Requiem S.550; Giulio
pher; Sean Ling, dancer; Philip Strong, composer;
Draghi: Reminiscences de Don Juan S.418;
Laurel MacDonald singer. Caecilia: Louis LabergeWilliam Wright: A la Chapelle Sixtine: Miser- Côté, choreographer; Johanna Bergfeldt, dancer.
ere d’Allegri et Ave verum Corpus de Mozart
Quator pour la fin du temps: Daniel Belanger,
S.461; Daniel Glover: Fantasia on themes
choreographer; Jean-Sébastien Côté, composer
from “Figaro” S.697 (completed by Busoni).
(inspired by Oliver Messiaen). Sep 29-30: 8:00.
Ian Sadler, organ. 2:30: Lecture, see AnWinchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester St.
nouncements section. Centenary United
416-366-7723. $16(adv); $20(door, cash only);
Church, 24 Main St. West, Hamilton. 905$14(sr/st/CADA).
525-9140 x23674. $20.
Jack Grunsky. Solar Stage. Musical journey
— 8:00: McMaster University School of
around the world, for ages 2 to 8. Oct 1:
the Arts. Celebrity Concert Series. Dmitri
11:00am & 2:00. Solar Stage Children’s Theatre,
Levkovich, piano. Convocation Hall (UH-213),
Concourse Level, 4950 Yonge St. 416-368University Hall, McMaster University, 1280
8031. $13.
Main St. West, Hamilton. 905-525-9140
Jasper Station. Lighthouse Festival Theax24246. $17; $12(sr); $5(st).
tre. By Norm Foster and Steve Thomas. Sep 1:
8:00; Sep 2: 2:00 & 8:00. Lighthouse Festival
Piano Recital. Haydn: Sonata in C, H, XVI, 48;
Chopin: Barcarolle, Op.60; Sonata in b-flat, Op.35; Theatre, 247 Main St., Port Dover. 519-583Scriabin: Sonata #3; Rachmaninov: Five Preludes; 2221. $28, $25(st), $15(under 13).
Liszt: Grand Concert Fantasie on Spanish MeloLa Rondine. Opera In Concert. The Swaldies, S.253. Dmitri Levkovich, piano. Convocalow, by Giacomo Puccini, lyric comedy in three
tion Hall (UH-213), University Hall, McMasacts, libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on the
ter University, 1280 Main St. West, Hamil- German libretto by Alfred Maria Willner and
ton. 905-525-9140 x23674. $20.
Heinz Reichert, performed in Italian. Arlene Alvarado, Kurt Lehmann & Lydia Skourides, singers;
Saturday October 07
Opera in Concert Chorus, Robert Cooper, director;
— 11:00am: The Great Romantics FestiJosé Hernández, music director/piano. Oct 1:
val. Recital: Liszt and his Pupils. Songs by
2:30, 1:45: Pre-concert talk by Iain Scott. Jane
Schubert, Liszt, & Wolf. Janet Obermeyer,
Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the
soprano; Leslie De’Ath, piano. 10:00am:
Arts, 27 Front St. East. 416-366-7723, 800Lecture, see Announcements section. Cente708-6754. $38,$28.
Menopause Out Loud! Capitol Event Theatre. Book & lyrics by Jeanie Linders. Jayne
Lewis, Nicole Robert, Cynthia Jones, Rose Ryan
& Jenny Hall, performers. Sep 1: 8:00, Sep 2:
2:00 & 8:00, Sep 3: 2:00. Capitol Event Theatre,
2492 Yonge St. 416-872-1111. $52.95.
Monty Python’s Spamalot. Mirvish Productions. Book by Eric Idle, music by Eric Idle
and John Du Prez, Spamalot tells the tale of King
Arthur and his knights of the Round Table as they
embark on their quest for the Holy Grail, facing
flying cows, killer rabbits & taunting Frenchmen.
With Michael Siberry, Bradley Dean, Tom Deckman, Jeff Dumas, Pia C. Glenn, Christopher Gurr,
Richard Holmes & David Turner; Mike Nichols,
director. Sep 1-12. Tue-Sat: 8:00, Wed, Sat &
Sun: 2:00. Canon Theatre, 244 Victoria St. 416628-5602. $26-$110.
Nunsense. Schoolhouse Theatre St.
Jacobs. Book, music & lyrics by Dan Goggin.
Starring Karen K. Edissi; Marc Richard, director/
choreographer. Sep 20-Dec 31: 2:00 & 8:00
shows, call for details. Schoolhouse Theatre, 11
Albert St., St. Jacobs. 519-638-5555, 888449-4463. $36; $29(preview); $20(18 & under);
$29(group 20 or more).
Oliver! Stratford Festival. Music & lyrics by
Lionel Bart. Sep. 1-Oct. 29, various dates and
times. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen St., Stratford. 800-567-1600. Call for ticket prices.
Opera Briefs 6. Tapestry New Opera
Works. Alexander Dobson, Carla Huhtanen,
Keith Klassen, Jessica Lloyd, singers; Tom Diamond, director; Alexander Cann, conductor. Sep
22-23: 8:00. Tapestry Studio, Studio 316, Building 58: The Cannery, 55 Mill Street. 416-5376066 x221. $25; $20(adv).
Orange Clouds. MusicaNoir Ensemble. Part
of the Fabulous Festival of Fringe FilmMultimedia,
a work by filmmakers John Greyson & Geoffrey
Pugen, music composed by Bongani NdodanaBreen, a study of the cultural capital of “firstness”. With a chamber ensemble; Chantelle
Grant, Vanya Abrahams & Ray McKenna, singers. Sep 3: 8:00 (sundown). Symphony Barn,
#393889 Concession 2 EGR, 3 km. north of
Grey Road 4, Durham. 519-369-3692. $10
(with 40-page libretto text).
Puss ’n’ Boots. Solar Stage. Adapted by William Martyn, for ages 3 to 8. Oct 7-8, 14-15, 2122: 11:00am & 2:00. Solar Stage Children’s
Theatre, Concourse Level, 4950 Yonge St. 416368-8031. $13; $10(Oct 7).
Reefer Madness: The Musical. Hart House
Theatre. Music by Dan Studney, lyrics by Kevin
Murphy, book by Kevin Murphy & Dan Studney,
Canadian premiere. Elenna Mosoff, director. Sep
15-16, 20-23, 27-29: 8:00; Sep 30: 8:00 &
12:00 midnight (Nuit Blanche event). Hart House
Theatre, 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-8849.
$20; $12(sr/st).
Rock and Roll. Red Barn Theatre. “The
Monarchs,” a Nova Scotia band once locally bigger than the Beatles, reunite three decades later;
seven players sing and play, and two additional
musicians. Written by John Gray. Loretta Bailey,
Todd Duckworth, Daniel Richard Giverin, P. Robert Hughes, Frank Mackay, Paul Rainville, cast
members; Michael Bianchin, director. Sep 1:
8:00, Sep 2: 2:00 & 8:00. Red Barn Theatre,
991 Lake Drive, Jackson’s Point. 905-7223249, 1-888-733-2276. $26; $22(sr/st/mat);
$15(12 & under); group rates.
Saudes do Brazil (Memories of my Brazil).
Harbourfront Centre/Newton Moraes
Dance Theatre. Contemporary dance, exploring
Brazilian & Latin American Cultures. Newton
Moraes, artistic director. Sep 14-16: 8:00; Sep
14-15: 1:00. Harbourfront Centre Theatre, 231
Queens Quay West. 416-973-4000. $28,$23;
$20(sr/st/CADA); $12(schools matinee).
Snow White. Solar Stage. Adapted from the
Brothers Grimm by William Martyn, for ages 410. Sep 9-10, 16-17, 23-24, 30: 11:00am &
2:00. Solar Stage Children’s Theatre, Concourse
Level, 4950 Yonge St. 416-368-8031. $13;
$10(Sep 9).
Snow White’s Summer Adventure. Theatre by the Bay. By Clark Harris. Sep 1: 12:00
noon & 3:30, Sep 2: 10:30am. Mac- Laren Art
Centre, 37 Mulcaster St., Barrie. 866-7359243. $8.
Sophie Tucker: Last of the Red Hot Mamas. Victoria Playhouse Petrolia. Sep 1:
8:00, Sep 2: 2:00 & 8:00. By Valerie Boyle. Victoria Hall, 411 Greenfield St., Petrolia. 519882-1221. $28.
South Pacific. Stratford Festival. Music by
Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.
Sep 1-Nov 12, various dates and times. Avon
Theatre, 99 Downie St., Stratford. 800-5671600. Call for ticket prices.
Tang Concubines. 2nd Chinese Performing
Arts Festival. Action-Musical, 100 performers,
600 costumes. Sep 7-16: various times, call for
details. Wendy Zhao, pipa; Yongli, guzheng. Main
Stage, Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge
St. 416-872-1111. $50-$75.
The Golden Apple. Shaw Festival. 20th
century retelling of Homer’s Odyssey & Iliad.
Music by Jerome Moross, book & lyrics by John
Latouche; Paul Sportelli, director. Oct 1, 7: 1:00.
Rehearsal Studio, Festival Theatre, 10 Queen’s
Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 800-511-7429.
$18.
The Land of I Told You So. Shrimp Magnet
Theatre Company. A musical tale of a girl who
ignores advice and ends up with an apple tree
growing from her ears, includes dances, mask
work & audience participation, for ages 4-9, directed by Kate Keenan, written by Kate Keenan &
Lesley Halferty, composed by Ian Goodhue, choreographed by Lindsay Milakovic. Sep 1-4:
11:00am, 12:00 noon, 1:00 & 2:00. Lagoon
Theatre, Centre Island. 416-262-1178. PWYC
($5 per person suggested). *WEATHER PERMITTING*
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The Lord of the Rings. Mirvish Productions. Lyrics by Shaun McKenna and Matthew
Warchus; music by A. R. Rahman and Varttina
with Christopher Nightingale. Sep. 1-3. Princess
of Wales Theatre, 300 King St. W. 416-8721212. $78-$125.
The Mikado. Huron Country Playhouse. By
Gilbert and Sullivan. Sep 1: 2:00, Sep 2: 2:00 &
8:00. RR#1, Grand Bend. 519-238-6000.
$29-$36.
The Palace of the Cinnabar Phoenix. Patria Music/Theatre Projects. By R. Murray
Schafer. Eleanor James, mezzo; Eric Shaw,
James McLennan, tenors; Bruce Kelly, baritone &
other performers. Sep.1-3, 6-9: 6:30. Haliburton Forest. 416-596-8585. $75, $65(sr/st),
family rates.
The Wandering Jew. Ashkenaz Festival.
By Alexander Shisho. Boris Sichon, multiple instruments/movement/voice/adaptation. Sep 4:
2:00. Studio Theatre, York Quay Centre, 235
Queens Quay West. 416-973-4000. $10.
Twist and Shout: The British Invasion.
Drayton Festival Theatre. Musical review
featuring classic songs by The Beatles, Gerry &
the Pacemakers, The Hollies, The Kinks, The
Rolling Stones & many others. Sep 5-Oct 28:
2:00 & 8:00 shows, call for details. Drayton
Festival Theatre, 33 Wellington St. South, Drayton. 519-638-5555, 888-449-4463. $36;
$29(preview); $20(18 & under); $29(group 20 or
more).
Vegas Knights. Lighthouse Festival Theatre. Musical tribute to the crooners. Sep 5: 8:00,
Sep 6: 2:00 & 8:00; Sep 7: 2:00. Lighthouse
Festival Theatre, 247 Main St., Port Dover.
519-583-2221. $28, $25(st), $15(under 13).
Video Games Live. Massey Hall. Orchestras
and choirs perform music from the most popular
video games, along with video footage. Sep 1:
7:00. 15 Shuter St. 416-872-4255. $39.50$59.50.
Wagner’s Ring Cycle (Cycle 1 begins).
Canadian Opera Company. Der Ring des
Nibelungen by Richard Wagner; see COC web site
for related events. Pavlo Hunka, Susan Bullock,
Adrianne Pieczonka & other performers; Richard
Bradshaw, conductor. Sep 12: 7:00 & Sep 13:
7:00 & Sep 15: 2:00 & Sep 17: 2:00. Four
Queen St. West. 416-363-8231. $1400-$1700,
limited; $350-$425(single performances,
limited). *SOLD OUT*
for related events. Pavlo Hunka, Frances Ginzer,
Susan Bullock, Adrianne Pieczonka & other
performers; Richard Bradshaw, conductor. Sep
19: 7:00 & Sep 20: 7:00 & Sep 22: 2:00 & Sep
24: 2:00. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing
Arts, 145 Queen St. West. 416-363-8231.
$1400-$1700, limited; $350-$425(single
performances, limited).
for related events. Pavlo Hunka, Susan Bullock,
Adrianne Pieczonka & other performers; Richard
Bradshaw, conductor. Sep 26: 7:00 & Sep 27:
7:00 & Sep 29: 2:00 & Oct 1: 2:00. Four
Queen St. West. 416-363-8231. $1400-$1700,
limited; $350-$425(single performances,
limited).
Jazz in the Clubs
Absolute Lounge
Hilton Suites Toronto/Markham Conference Centre & Spa, 8500 Warden Avenue, Markham,
Tel: +1-905-470-8500
Sep 3 Jim Finlayson Trio. Sep 5 KC2. Sep 6
Rob Christian. Sep 7 Markham Gang Jazztet.
Sep 9 June Garber and Bernie Senensky. Sep
10 KC2. Sep 11 Starry Nights. Sep 13
Markham Gang Jazztet. Sep 14 Jim Finlayson
Trio. Sep 15 Rob Christian. Sep 17 Starry
Nights. Sep 18 Markham Gang Jazztet. Sep
19 June Garber and Bill King.
Alleycatz
2409 Yonge St. 416-481-6865
Every Mon Salsa Night. Every Tue Chris
Plock. Every Wed Jasmin Bailey and Co. Every Thu Peppa Seed.
Sep 1, 2 Lady Kane. Sep 8, 9 Soular. Sep 15,
Soular. Sep 16 Groove Matrix. Sep 22 Lady
Kane. Sep 23 Disco Night w. Neon Crush. Sep
27 Lady Kane. Sep 28 Groove Matrix. Oct 6
Lady Kane. Oct 7 Soular.
Arbor Room
Hart House @ the University of Toronto, 7 Hart
House Circle. 416-978-2452
Ben Wicks
424 Parliament St. 416-961-9425
www.benwickspub.com
Black Swan
154 Danforth Ave. 416-469-0537
Boiler House
55 Mill St. 416-203-2121
Cameron House
408 Queen St. 416-703-0811
C’est What
67 Front St. E
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.
Chick ‘n’ Deli
744 Mount Pleasant Rd. 416-489-3363
www.chickndeli.com
Every Tue Jam Night.
Sep 4 Advocats Big Band. Sep 7-9 Groove Matrix. Sep 14-16 The Zoo.
Club Caya Coco
304 Richmond St. W. 416-595-9000
Every Fri, Sat. Michael Kleniec.
Commensal
655 Bay St. 416-596-9364
Music Fridays & Saturdays 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
No Cover Charge
Sep 1 Beverly Taft. Sep 2 Leon Kingstone. Sep
8 Warren Greig. Sep 9 Dan Eisen. Sep 15 Double A Jazz Trio. Sep 16 Chris McKhool. Sep 22
Elizabeth Shepherd. Sep 23 Dan Farrell. Sep 29
Ryan Oliver. Sep 30 Dan Eisen.
The Concord Café
937 Bloor St. W. 416-532-3989.
Gate 403
403 Roncesvalles Ave. 416-588-2930
www.gate403.com
Sep 1 Suzana Da Camara Jazz Band. Sep 2
Hogtown Syncopators Band. Sep 3 Vaughan
Misener Jazz Brunch, 3J Jazz Trio, String Theory. Sep 4 Scott Kemp Jazz Collective. Sep 5
James Thomson and Julian Fauth Blues Duo.
Sep 6 Kenny Ladyshewsky and Robert Murphy.
Sep 7 The Peddlers. Sep 8 David Rotundo and
Jimmy Helverson. Sep 9 Bill Heffernan and his
friends, Son Robert Nu Blues Band. Sep 10
Amanada Martinez Latin Jazz Duo, Vaughan
Misener Jazz Brunch, 3J Jazz Trio, Cocktail
Jazz Band. Sep 11 Brendan Cassidy Jazz Trio.
Sep 12 James Thomson and Julian Fauth Blues
Duo. Sep 13 Michael Bogusky Piano Solo, Dave
and Levi Jazz Duo. Sep 14 Martin Aucoin Jazz
Piano Solo. Sep 15 Jeff Peacock and Jack McFadden Jazz Duo. Sep 16 Bill Heffernan and
Friends, Amanda Martinez Latin Jazz Duo. Sep
17 Vaughan Misener Jazz Brunch, 3J Jazz Trio,
Peter Hill Jazz Duo. Sep 18 Victoria Sanjana
Jazz Duo. Sep 19 James Thomson and Julian
Fauth Blues Duo. Sep 20 Michael Boguski Piano
Solo, Amy Medvick. Sep 21 Kristine Schmitt,
Juilan Fauth and Sam Petite Blues Trio. Sep 22
John Deehan Jazz Trio. Sep 23 Bill Heffernan
and his Friends, “CANO” Blues: Dave Burt Blues
Quintet. Sep 24 Vaughan Misener Jazz Brunch,
3J Jazz Trio, Elizabeth Shepherd Jazz Band.
Sep 25 Tom Juhas Duo. Sep 26 James Thomson and Julian Fauth Blues Duo. Sep 27 Michael
Boguski Piano Solo, Blues Canoe. Sep 28 Kevin
Laliberte. Sep 29 “Sabor” Latin Band. Sep 30
Bill Heffernan and his Friends, Sum of 5ive.
Graffitti’s Bar and Grill
170 Baldwin St. 416-506-6699
Every Wed. 6-8 James and Jay.
Grasshopper Jazz and Blues Bar
460 Parliament St. 416-323-1210
Grossman’s Tavern
379 Spadina Ave. 416-977-7000
www.grossmanstavern.com
Every Mon Laura Hubert Band. Every Wed
Mike MacDonald Open Stage Jam. Every Sat
The Happy Pals. Every Sun Nicola Vaughan
Acoustic Jam, The Nationals with Brian Cober.
Sep 15 Coldsweat. Sep 16 Zed Heal with Neil
Chapman. Sep 21 Dick Ellis Revival. Sep 22
Loose Wires. Sep 23 Tone Dogs. Sep 29 Frankie Foo.
Home Smith Bar
The Old Mill, 21 Old Mill Rd.
416-236-2641
www.oldmilltoronto.com
Sep 1 Prince Cave Duo. Sep 8 Rob Campbell
Trio. Sep 15 Doug Watson Trio. Sep 22 Bob
Parkins Duo. Sep 29 Suzana Da Camara Trio.
Oct 6 Christopher Plock Trio.
Hot House Café
Market Square. 416-366-7800
Jazz brunch every Sunday, with the Ken Churchill
Quartet.
Kristoria French Fine Dining
104 Surrey Street E. Guelph
519-829-3265
Sep 9 The Brenda Lewis and Margaret Stowe
Vocal-Guitar Classic Jazz Duo.
Le Saint Tropez
315 King St. W. 416-591-3600
Live music 7 days a week.
Lula Lounge
1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307
www.lula.ca
Sep 1 Cuban Fridays w. Caribe Son! Sep 2 Lady
Son y Articulo Veinte. Sep 3 Twenty Something:
Up and Coming Jazz Stars. Sep 4 Cuban Fridays
w. Café Cubano. Sep 8 Babes in Jazzland. Sep
9 Salsa Saturday w. Caché. Sep 10 Rob Curto’s
Forro For All. Sep 14 Bryan Vargas and Ya Esta.
Sep 15 Bryan Vargas and Ya Esta. Sep 15
Kollage. Sep 16 Salsa Saturday w. Café Cubano.
Sep 21 Small World Music Festival: Fiamma
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Fumana. Sep 22 Lady Son y Articulo Veinte.
Sep 23 Timbao Toronto. Sep 24 Carmen Consoli. Sep 25 Kinnie Star and Tanya Tagaq. Sep
26 Jaoquin Diaz CD Release. Sep 27 Small
World Music Presents Drum Nation. Sep 28
Ash Dargan. Sep 28 Mr Something Something.
Sep 29 Hendrik Meurkens and Parabolica. Sep
30 Salsa Saturday w. Caché.
Liberty Bistro and Bar
25 Liberty St. @ Atlantic Ave. 416-533-8828
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.
Mod Club Theatre
722 College St.
www.themodclub.com
N’Awlins Jazz Bar and Dining
299 King St. W. 416-595-1958
Every Tue Stacie McGregor. Every Wed Jim
Heineman Trio. Every Thu Blues Night with
Special Guest Vocalists. Every Fri/Sat All Star
Bourbon Street Band. Every Sun Robi Botos.
Odd Socks at Dovercourt House
805 Dovercourt Rd. 416-537-3337
Swing Dances, Lessons and Concerts.
The Old Mill
21 Old Mill Rd. 416-236-2641
Orbit Room
508A College St. 416-535-0613
Pantages Martini Bar and Lounge
200 Victoria St.
www.pantages hotel.com
Pilot Tavern
22 Cumberland St. 416-923-5716
www.thepilot.ca
Jazz every Sunday afternoon – Laila Biali Trio
(twice a month) and others.
Sep 2 Chris Gale Quartet. Sep 9 Bob Brough
Quartet. Sep 16 5 after 4 with Vitto Rezza.
Sep 23 Perry White Quartet. Sep 30 Barry
Elmes Quartet.
The Red Guitar
603 Markham St. 416-913-4586
www.theredguitar.com
The Reservoir Lounge
52 Wellington St. 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 Valiant Combo.
Every Sat Tory Cassis.
The Rex Jazz and Blues Bar
194 Queen St. W. 416-598-2475
www.therex.ca
Sep1 Hogtown Syncopators, Sultans of String,
Sal Rosselli Quartet. Sep 2 Ed Vokurka Swing
Ensemble, The Jazz Navigators, Laura Hubert
Band, Jeru. Sep 3 Excelsior Traditional Jazz, Dr.
Nick and the Rollercoasters, Swing Rosie, Jon
Maharaj Group. Sep 4 Peter Hill Ensemble, Ashley St. Pierre. Sep 5 Richard Whiteman Trio,
Classic Rex Jazz Jam. Sep 6 Julie Mahendran
Trio, Jeff Pointdexter. Sep 7 Kevin Quain, Archie
Alleyne and Kollage. Sep 8 Hogtown Syncopators, Sultans of String, Archie Alleyne and Kollage. Sep 9 Ed Vokurka Swing Ensemble, Swing
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Shift Big Band, Laura Hubert Band, Chris
Hunt Tentet +2. Sep 10 Excelsior Traditional Jazz, Club Django, Swing Rosie, Kirby
Barreto Quintet. Sep 11 Peter Hill Ensemble, Paul Ashwell Septet. Sep 12 Richard
Whiteman Trio, Classic Rex Jazz Jam. Sep
13 Julie Mahendran Trio, Don Palmer Quartet. Sep 14 Vinx, Rich Brown’s Rinse the
Algorithm. Sep 15 Hogtown Syncopators,
Sultans of String, Rich Brown’s Rinse the
Algorithm. Sep 16 Ed Vokurka Swing Ensemble, Far, Sara Dell, Trish Colter Sextet.
Sep 17 Excelsior Traditional Jazz, The Red
Peppers, Swing Rosie, Random Access. Sep
18 Peter Hill Ensemble, Paul Ashwell Septet. Sep 19 Gulfport Island Trio, Classic Rex
Jazz Jam. Sep 20 Julie Mahendran Trio,
URS Blochlinger Tribute. Sep 21 Kevin
Quain, Annual Birthday Tribute to John Coltrane. Sep 22 Hogtown Syncopaters, Sultans of String, Annual Birthday Tribute to
John Coltrane. Sep 23 Ed Vokurka Swing
Ensemble, Jerome Godboo and David Rotundo, Laura Hubert Band, Annual Birthday Tribute to John Coltrane. Sep 24 Excelsior Traditional Jazz, Freeway Dixieland, Swing
Rosie, Brenda Earle Quartet. Sep 25 Peter
Hill Ensemble, Michael Ruby Quartet, Sep
26 Richard Whiteman Trio, Classic Rex Jazz
Jam. Sep 27 Julie Mahendran Trio, Hendrik
Meurkens. Sep 28 Kevin Quain, Dan Weiss
Trio. Sep 29 Hogtown Syncopators, Sultans
of String, Dan Weiss Trio. Sep 30 Ed Vokurka Swing Ensemble, The TJO Big Band, Laura Hubert Band, Melissa Stylianou Quartet.
Safari Bar and Grill
1749 Avenue Rd. 416-787-6584
Every Tues Encore Jazz
Sassafraz
100 Cumberland St. 416-964-2222
Every Thu-Sun Washington Savage.
Every Sat, Sun Roy Patterson Trio.
Spezzo Ristorante
140 York Blvd. Richmond Hill.
905-886-9703
Live jazz every Thursday.
Ten Feet Tall
1381 Danforth Ave.
416-778-7333
Every Wed Girls Night Out Singers Jam.
Sep 3 Bonnie Brett Trio. Sep 10 Sultans of
Strings w. Chris McKhool. Sep 17 George
Koller and Julie Michels. Sep 24 Buddy
Aquilina w. Norm Marshal Villeneuve.
The Trane Club
964 Bathurst St. 416-913-8197
Every Wed in Sept. Fern Lindzon Jazz
Duo with Guests.
Wolfgang Puck Grand Café
6300 Fallsview Boulevard, Niagara Falls.
905-354-5000
Zazou
315 King St. W.
Live jazz
Every Fri and Sat Elizabeth Shepherd/solo
piano night.
Musical Life
Singing in the shower?
CHORAL SCENE
Ready to take it to the next level…
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Some of the benefits are:
♦ performance opportunity every
single week doing exciting and
rewarding music!
♦ guidance as you develop that
talent of yours!
♦ A welcoming, friendly and relaxed
environment (we make music
together after all…)!
Jean Ashworth Bartle
Jean Ashworth Bartle, founder and
music director of the Toronto Children’s Chorus for nearly 30 years
now, announced at the beginning
of the summer that the 2006-07
season would be her last at the
helm of this important Canadian
institution. That made the choir’s
July tour of Hungary, Slovakia and
Austria especially poignant and
memorable.
The send-off concert at the Toronto Centre for the Arts on July
11 was a substantial affair, accompanied by a sizeable instrumental
ensemble and featuring a plethora
of repertoire spanning the musical
eras, with a healthy dose of serious contemporary Canadian music,
for which the choir is well known.
As we stood for O Canada at the
end of the concert – corny as it
sounds – one couldn’t help but feel
proud of these fresh-faced musical
ambassadors of our country and
brush away a tear or two.
The tour was a resounding success, with important performances
in Budapest, Vienna and Salzburg
– among other places – mixed with
sight-seeing and the inevitable deep
bonding that happens on trips such
as these. The choir returned home
to record a CD of their tour program and give one final concert at
the Elora Festival before a welldeserved summer break.
There will be many tributes to
Jean Ashworth Bartle this year.
Her uncompromising approach
has set the bar very high for the
musical education of young people. She has not only trained up
thousands of youngsters and given them unforgettable musical
experiences, but she has inspired
dozens of other choral leaders in
communities across the country
to start up organizations with similarly high standards and lofty
goals.
Larry Beckwith
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Wesley Mimico United Church Choir
is inviting new members to join its
growing ranks.
Rehearsals resume on September 7,
2006 at 7:30pm (every Thursday
thereafter) at 2 Station Road, Toronto.
For more info, call 416-354-2701 and
ask for Emíle.
Do you play an instrument?
The Mimico Community Chamber
Orchestra will conduct auditions on
Sunday, September. 17 at Wesley
Mimico United Church, 2 Station Road,
Etobicoke from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Musicians who play any orchestral
instrument are invited to audition. Please
prepare two short, contrasting (i.e.
different tempos) selections that
demonstrate technical and musical
ability.
The orchestra performs four concerts a
year, beginning in the fall and ending in
May. Rehearsals are usually on Monday
evenings from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Call Emile at (416) 354-2701 or e-mail
eswanepoel@sympatico.ca for more info.
Looking for
a choir?
consult
WholeNote’s
CANARY PAGES
online at
In October,
WholeNote features
its MEMBERS.
Many choirs are
members, and will
have new information
on their 2006-07
seasons.
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JUBILATE SINGERS AUDITIONS
Director Isabel Bernaus leads a chamber choir with an eclectic,
multilingual repertoire with a 3-concert series and occasional
community performances. 2006-2007 season features three guest
conductors: Sherry Squires, Lenard Whiting, and David Bowser.
Openings in bass, soprano and tenor sections. Rehearsals are
Tuesdays 7:30 pm at St. Leonard’s Church (you are welcome to
sit in on a rehearsal). www.jubilatesingers.ca
Auditions on a Tuesday evening in September
at St. Leonard's Church 25 Wanless Ave. (near Yonge &
Lawrence). Email join@jubilatesingers.ca or
call 416-385-1502 to arrange a time.
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MCS has openings for paid Section Leads
Soprano Mezzo Soprano Baritone Bass
MALE Lead Soloists Wanted
Lead soloists (tenor and bass) needed for
St. John’s United Church (Victoria Park and 401)
Available Thursday evening practice and
Sunday morning service
Contact Neill Kernohan
416-491-1224 or neill@stjohns-uc.com
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MUSICAL LIFE: HOW I MET MY TEACHER
compiled and edited by mJ buell
Singing in the Summer
ANNOUNCEMENTS ... ETCETERA
ANNOUNCEMENTS
*September 2 7:00: Ashkenaz – A Festival
of New Yiddish Culture. Echoes and Shavings
of Yiddishland. Musical & dramatic tribute to the
July 2006…Downtown Summer Strings. Some of the city’s most
legendary Yiddish composer Mordekhay Gebirtig,
presented by LufTeater, Le Théâtre en l’Air. Har“hardcore”string players are at the end of four weeks of playing,
bourfront Centre Theatre, 235 Queens Quay
five half-days a week, as diverse a group of 8-15-year-olds as you
West. 416-973-4000. $18.
can imagine. The last item in their concert programme is “Hard
Times”. Nobody raises their bow, although all eyes are on the con- *September 3 1:00: Ashkenaz – A Festival
ductor’s face. Then, unexpectedly, with one breath, they all begin to of New Yiddish Culture. Echoes and Shavings
of Yiddishland. Harbourfront Centre Theatre. See
sing. It’s rough around the edges, not the trained singing of “choir
September 2 7:00.
kids”. The strings wind their way, section by section, into the arrangement, and everyone finds their way from singing into playing. The *September 3 1pm & 5pm: Sound Travels
Festival of Sound Art. SOUNDwalks. Featurpiece has a singleminded, powerful unity. It’s remarkably beautiful...
ing some of the many interesting acoustic sound
….As we seek mirth, and beauty, and music light and gay
marks on Toronto Island; includes Katz’s AirThere are frail forms fainting at the door.
borne, an outdoor soundwalk whereby particiThough their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say:
pants travel back in time through the Islands &
Hard times, come again no more.
the urban issues that have marked their existence. Begins at St. Andrew by-the-Lake Church,
(Stephen Foster)
Centre Island. 416-910-7231. PWYC.
“Choir at IMC Jazz Camp was my first singing experience since child*September 3 2pm-6pm: Sound Travels
hood.. Many of my friends were skeptical about mandatory choir reFestival of Sound Art. Sign Waves. Two interhearsal, but I looked forward to singing every morning after breakfast. active indoor sound installations: Beckstead’s
Coupled with a mild stretch and excercise routine, I found it energizing. Aur(e)ality, touching on themes of location/disloSo when school started I signed up for my high school choir. Choirs are cation & nature/culture; and McCartney’s
such an interesting dynamic, and so different from instrumental playing. Journées Sonores: Canal de Lachine, an interacMy bass sounds more or less like my stand partners bass (ie. they both tive installation documenting a soundscape
project based on soundwalks, historical research
sound like basses). My voice sounds completely different from my
& interviews. Also included: a Listening Gallery
neighbour in a choir (particularly for an untrained singer like myself).
of past Sound Travels performances accompanySinging can be very exposing: you feel a bond with those immediately
ing the Photo Exhibit by Stefan Rose. St. Andrew
around you, and those half way across the concert hall….Now I play
by-the-Lake Church, Toronto Island. 416-910with singers in opera, jazz bands, and musical theatre production. Choir 7231. PWYC ($5 suggested).
experience put me in the singers shoes, if only briefly…”
*September 3 3:30pm: Ashkenaz – A Festi(Dony Bullen, who plays bass and occasionally sings back-up
val of New Yiddish Culture. Around the
vocals, is in his fourth and most likely final year at the UniverWorld with Boris. Boris Sichon incorporates the
sity of Western Ontario, graduating in Theory & Composition.)
playing of approximately 25 instruments from his
unique collection, with audience participation.
“At CAMMAC’s OMC (Ontario Music Centre) Period 2 is always
Geared to music lovers of all ages. Brigantine
‘Choir for All’ - no other classes at this time.Vocalists and instrumental- Room, 235 Queens Quay West. 416-973-4000.
Free.
ists, participants and staff members are all encouraged to join. It’s a
wonderful mix of adults of all ages from different parts of the world and
with a wide range of musical ability. This year one of the annual participants, Helen Rainville Olders, was our accompanist. She comes with
her husband Henry from Montreal, usually bringing children and
grandchildren. Jenny Crober conducted, preparing us to perform half a
dozen beautiful songs. My favourite: Rose-cheek’d Laura, Come, a
poem by Thomas Campion set to music by Canadian composer Stephen
G. Chatman. I sang with our Klezmer band instructor, Jonno Lightstone
and Jenny’s supportive husband Steven Best. Jenny’s son, Liam, my
daughter, Penelope, and the other children at camp were happily engaged in a young-people’s music/visual arts program while the adults
were enjoying ‘Choir for All” and three other classes all before lunch!
(WholeNote’s circulation manager, Sheila McCoy sings with a
number of diverse vocal ensembles, including Studio Sixteen. )
*September 3 8:30pm: Ashkenaz – A Festival of New Yiddish Culture. The Huppah
Project: Music of the Jewish Wedding. Presented by Aviva Chernick, vocals; Aaron Lightstone,
ud/classical guitar; Jeffrey Wilson, percussion;
Angela Hammar, flute. Marilyn Brewer Community Space, 235 Queens Quay West. 416-9734000. Free.
*September 3 9:30pm: Ashkenaz – A Festival of New Yiddish Culture. Aszure & Artists and Laughter Through Tears with Les Yeux
Noirs. Dance solos, duets & ensembles. Choreography by Aszure Barton combined with music on
violin, accordion & electric guitar played by Les
Yeux Noirs: Eric & Olivier Slabiak. Followed by
screening of 1928 Soviet-era silent feature film
Laughter Through Tears. Harbourfront Centre
Theatre, 235 Queens Quay West. 416-9734000. $18.
of New Yiddish Culture. Aszure & Artists
and Laughter Through Tears with Les Yeux Noirs.
Harbourfront Centre Theatre. See Sep 3 9:30pm.
*September 12 – October 1: Canadian
Opera Company. Ring Festival. In-depth explorations of Wagner’s epic trilogy Der Ring des
Nibelungen, including demonstrations, lectures,
symposia, interviews, tours, films, performances,
young person’s guides, and more, held in the
COC’s new home, Four Seasons Centre for the
Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. West, and in
outside venues. Call 416-363-8231 or visit
www.coc.ca for detailed information.
*September 16 10am-4pm: Doors Open
Ontario. The Centre in the Square. Visit this
world-class live performing arts theatre. Backstage tours will explain the acoustical design and
provide access to North America’s second-largest
stage. 101 Queen Street North, Kitchener. 519747-5139. Free.
*September 23 & 24, 10am-4pm: Doors
Open Ontario. Guy Lombardo Music Centre.
Taped music of Lombardo’s Royal Canadians and
VOCAL TEACHER
Opera Singer Elena Ciorici
Provides unique learning experience
of authentic Italian Vocal School
Winner of International Contests –
performed in Europe for over 20 years
For beginners and advanced students
Preparation for International Contests
and Conservatory Competition
FOR DETAILS CALL ELENA CIORICI AT 416.638.1919
www.tescuano.com
INTERNATIONAL MUSIC ACADEMY
Unlocking human potential through Music.
High quality private music education for people
who believe in the changing power of music and arts.
GRAND OPENING: Saturday, September 9, 11:00 a.m. - 5 p.m.
For registered before September 15, one month FREE LESSONS.
4981 Highway 7, Suite 8 in Markham, Ontario. Free parking.
Phone: 905.489.4620
www.InternationalMusicAcademy.ca
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ANNOUNCEMENTS, LECTURES, MASTERCLASSES, ... ETCETERA
videotapes depicting his connection with London.
205 Wonderland Road South, London ON.
www.heritagelondonfoundation.org Free.
*September 23 12:00 noon-5:00: Toronto
Early Music Centre. 22nd Annual Early Music
Fair. Take in some mini-concerts, exhibits & information about the art of historical music performance. Montgomery’s Inn, 4709 Dundas Street
West. 416-394-8113. $6(adults), $3(st/sr), $2
(child under 12), $10(family), free to members of
TEMC, Heritage Toronto & Friends of Etobicoke’s Heritage.
*September 24 time tba: Tapestry New
Opera Works/Canadian Music Centre/
Playwrights’ Guild of Canada. Opera Briefs
6. Staged readings of new opera with introductions from creative artists, particularly writers.
NOW Magazine Stage, Word on the Street Festival, Queen’s Park. 416-537-6066.
*September 30 10am-7pm, October 1
10am-6pm: Toronto Music Expo. Everything
Music Under One Roof. International Centre,
6900 Airport Rd, Ste. 120, Mississauga. 416782-4072, www.torontomusicexpo.com
*September 30 11am-4pm: Doors Open
Ontario. Showplace Performance Centre Peterborough. Tour this performing arts facility, featuring a professionally equipped auditorium with
fantastic acoustics, comfortable seating for 647
and a spectacular stage. Located in the old Odeon
Theatre building. 290 George Street North, Peterborough. 705-742-7089, 1-800-461-6424. Free.
*September 30 7pm-October 1 7am: University of Toronto Faculty of Music/City of
Toronto. Nuit Blanche. In the lobby, all night
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electroacoustic installations called Night Music,
curated by composer Andrew Staniland. Outside,
Steve Mann & team’s water-activated sculptural
fountain Hydraulophone, the public is invited to
get wet & play. Philosopher’s Stage, “various
sleep-deprived world music collisions/encounters”. Edward Johnson Bldg, 80 Queen’s Park.
www.livewithculture.ca
*September 30: Toronto Early Music Players Organization. Bring your recorder to Femke Bergsma for a tune-up or repair. For location &
individual appointment times please call: 416537-3733. There will be individual charges for
work on the instruments.
*October 1 11am-4:30pm: Edward Johnson Music Foundation. 4th Annual International Music Day. Day of musical entertainment,
including an original musical play by Edwina Carson: “Íf – With All Your Heart”, unveiling of the
Edward Johnson Stamp, performances by community groups. River Run Centre, 35 Woolwich
St., Guelph. 519-763-3000, 877-520-2408.
PWYC.
*To October 1, all day: Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art. Sign Waves. Outdoor installations series including Prophet’s Synthecycletron, site-specific sound sculpture with power
generated by pedaling, activating electronic
sounds (Centre Island); and Mulder/Allik’s Sonic
Boardwalk, sound installation that generates a
microsound landscape activated by the kinetic
imprint of passing visitors (Ward’s Island boardwalk). Toronto Island. 416-910-7231. Free.
*National Association of Pastoral Musicians/Friars of the Atonement. Hymn Com-
petition: That All May Be One. Competition for
two liturgical songs to be sung at the 2007 NPM
National Convention, and in preparation for the
centennial observance in 2008 of the Week of
Prayer for Christian Unity. Submission deadline:
November 30, 2006. For details:
www.npm.org/Membership/hymncomp.htm
LECTURES/SYMPOSIA
*September 9 2:00-5:00: U of Western
Ontario, Don Wright Faculty of Music.
String instrument care and maintenance. Lecture
by cellist Joel Becktell. Music Bldg 345, UWO,
London. 519-661-2111 x85304.
*September 10 2:00: Toronto Opera Club.
Wives, Daughters and Renegade Twins. Audio
presentation by guest speaker Wayne Gooding,
who surveys Wagner’s Ring Cycle on disc. CDs to
be won. Room 330, Edward Johnson Bldg, 80
Queen’s Park. 416-924-3940. Non-members
$10.
*September 11 12:30: U of Western Ontario, Don Wright Faculty of Music. Lecturerecital by Joel Becktell, cello. von Kuster Hall,
UWO, London. 519-661-2111 x85304.
*September 18 7-9pm: Cambridge Centre
for the Arts. Ten Secrets of How YOU Can
Enjoy Opera! Presented by opera educator Iain
Scott. 45 Thorne Street, Cambridge ON. 519622-9676. $15, $13(members).
*September 29 7:00: U of Western Ontario, Don Wright Faculty of Music. The
War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin.
Film by Rhombus Media will be screened, followed by a roundtable discussion with producer
Larry Weinstein & visiting Russian artists. Talbot
College, Room 141, UWO, London. 519-6612111 x85304. $5.
*September 30 10am: Barrie’s Colours of
Music. Meet the Composer: Peter Tiefenbach.
Learn about the composing process from this
year’s Composer-in-residence. Burton Avenue
United Church, 37 Burton Ave., Barrie. 705-7251070. $15.
*October 4 8:00: Mozart Society. Film and
discussion on Mozart’s opera The Abduction from
the Seraglio. Presentation by Society president
John Endrenyi. First Unitarian Congregation, 175
St. Clair West. 416-201-3338. $15 suggested
donation; members free.
*October 5 10am: Great Romantics Festival. Carl Tausig: his life and work. Giulio Draghi,
speaker. Convocation Hall, 2nd floor University
Hall, McMaster University, Hamilton. 905-5259140 x23674. $20.
*October 6 10am: Great Romantics Festival. Ernst von Dohnányi: Hungarian Genius.
James Grymes, speaker. Convocation Hall, 2nd
floor University Hall, McMaster University,
Hamilton. 905-525-9140 x23674. $20.
*October 6 2:30: Great Romantics Festival.
Liszt and the Mozart Connection. William Wright,
speaker. Centenary United Church, 24 Main St.
West, Hamilton. 905-525-9140 x23674. $20.
*October 7 10am: Great Romantics Festival. Liszt and his Pupils: A Legacy on Record.
Jonathan Summers, speaker. Centenary United
Church, 24 Main St. West, Hamilton. 905-5259140 x23674. $20.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS, ... ETCETERA
MASTER CLASSES
of New Yiddish Culture. Yiddish Dance with
Leon Blank. Toronto Star Stage, Harbourfront
Centre. See Sep 2 6:30.
*September 6 10:30am: Guelph Jazz Festival. Inter-Provincial: Canadian Improvisers in
Dialogue. Workshop with Lori Freedman, Jerry
Granelli, Normand Guilbeault, François Houle,
Robert Marcel Lepage & others. Macdonald
Stewart Art Centre, 358 Gordon St. 877-5202408, www.guelphjazzfestival.com Free.
*September 7 10:30am: Guelph Jazz Festival. Workshop with Bill Dixon & guests. Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, 358 Gordon St. 877520-2408, www.guelphjazzfestival.com Free.
*September 8 10:30am: Guelph Jazz Festival. Percussion Discussion. Workshop with Lê
Quan Ninh, Paul Plimley, Richard Ribeiro, Jesse
Stewart (host), Mauricio Takara. Macdonald
Stewart Art Centre, 358 Gordon St. 877-5202408, www.guelphjazzfestival.com Free.
*September 8 3:00: Guelph Jazz Festival.
Arcade Emperor Underground: Montreal Meets
Chicago. Workshop featuring Jason Ajemian,
Thierry Amar, Pietro Amato, Scott Gilmore,
Gabriel Levine & others. Macdonald Stewart Art
Centre, 358 Gordon St. 877-520-2408,
www.guelphjazzfestival.com Free.
*September 10 1:30-4:00: Toronto Early
Music Players Organization. Workshop with
recorder player Drora Bruck & cellist Orit Messer. Lansing United Church, 49 Bogert Ave. 416778-7777. $20, members free.
*September 10 2:00: Association of Improvising Musicians Toronto (AIMToronto).
Improvisation workshop. Now Lounge, 189
Church St. 416-769-2841,
www.bumpywilson.com/nowseries.htm
WORKSHOPS
*September 16 8:00: Mill Race Folk Socie*September 2 6:30pm: Ashkenaz – A Festi- ty. Folk Club. Bring musical instruments, tunes
or just come to listen & participate in this open
val of New Yiddish Culture. Yiddish Dance
with Leon Blank. Public workshop in Balkan, Israe- music club format. Ernie’s Roadhouse Tavern, 7
li, Chassidic & European Jewish dance traditions, Queen St. West, Cambridge. 519-621-7135. $3.
with live klezmer music. Toronto Star Stage, 235 *September 20 7:30: Toronto Shapenote
Singing from Sacred Harp. Beginners welcome.
*September 2 8:00: Mill Race Folk Socie- St. Stephen-in-the-Fields, 103 Bellevue Ave. 416922-7997 or pleasancecrawford@rogers.com
ty. Folk Club. Bring your musical instruments,
your tunes or just come to listen & participate in
*September 22 7:30-10pm: City of Toronthis open music club format. Ernie’s Roadhouse
to. Dance & Dance-Ability. A 19th century EngTavern, 7 Queen St. West, Cambridge. 519-621- lish country dance workshop, featuring easy-to7135. $3.
learn dances in an authentic period setting. No
*September 3 11am: Ashkenaz – A Festival of New Yiddish Culture. Klez Kazoo
Orchestra. Sruli and Lisa introduce children to
songs,movement&rhythm
Klezmer music - on the kazoo – with singing,
foryoungchildren
clapping & dancing. Joined by kazoo performers
Zachery Mayer, Ilana Dresdner, Aaron Mayer &
Toby Dresdner. Toronto Star Stage, 235 Queens
of New Yiddish Culture. A Musical Journey
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with Yasmin Levy. Workshop setting carrying
listeners through a historical & musical journey
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beauty & power of Sephardic music. Lakeside
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*September 10 2:30-5:30: Singing Studio
of Deborah Staiman. Master class in musical
theatre/audition preparation. Yonge & Eglinton
area – please call for exact location. 416-4839532, www.singingstudio.ca
*September 11 5:30: U of Western Ontario, Don Wright Faculty of Music. Master
class with Marc Raminez and Olivia Hajioff,
violin. Music Bldg 125, UWO, London. 519-6612111 x85304.
*September 17 2:30-5:30: Singing Studio
of Deborah Staiman. Master class in musical
theatre/audition preparation. Yonge & Eglinton
area – please call for exact location. 416-4839532, www.singingstudio.ca
*September 23 10am-12 noon: SweetWater Music Weekend. Student master classes
by the 12 SweetWater faculty (see Sep 22 Concert Listing). Saint George’s Anglican Church,
1049 4th Ave. East, Owen Sound. 519-3763517. Free for participants & observers.
*September 29 3:00: U of Western Ontario, Don Wright Faculty of Music. Voice
master class with Vera Danchenko, pianist, vocal
coach & expert on Russian song. von Kuster Hall,
UWO, London. 519-661-2111 x85304.
*September 30 10am: U of Western Ontario, Don Wright Faculty of Music. Piano
master class with Luba Edlina, renowned pianist,
teacher & friend of Shostakovich. 519-6612111 x85304.
*October 6 6:00-8:00: U of Western Ontario, Don Wright Faculty of Music. Master
classes with Yehonatan Berrick, violin. Music
Bldg 125, UWO, London. 519-661-2111
x85304.
partners required; beginners welcome. Historic
Fort York, 100 Garrison Rd. 416-392-6907
x100. $10 (includes light historic refreshments).
Pre-registration required.
*September 24 10am-3pm: Canadian Opera Company/National film Board Mediatheque. Animate the Ring. Drop-in animation
workshop for young people aged 6 to 10. Learn to
create short animations inspired by the stories in
the Ring. Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, Four
Queen St. West. 416-363-8231. $5.
*September 24 2:00: Association of Improvising Musicians Toronto (AIMToronto). Improvisation workshop. Now Lounge. See Sep 10.
*September 25 7:30: Toronto Early Music
Centre. Vocal Circle. Recreational reading of
early choral music. Ability to read music desirable
but not essential. 12 Millbrook Cres. 416-9205025. Members free, $5(non-members).
*September 26 8:00: Toronto Folk Singers’ Club. Iinformal group meets for the purpose
of performance & exchange of songs. Tranzac
Club, 292 Brunswick Ave. 416-532-0900.
*September 30 10:30am-2:30: Church of
the Ascension. Music @ Ascension: Psalmody
Workshop. Dr. Giles Bryant, clinician. 33 Overland Dr. 416-444-8881. $15, $10 (includes
lunch).
*October 1 1:30-4:00: Toronto Early Music
Players Organization. Workshop on music
from the court of Maximilian of Austria, including
Isaac, Senfl & others, with recorder player Femke
Bergsma. Lansing United Church, 49 Bogert Ave.
416-778-7777. $20, members free.
*October 1 2:00: CAMMAC. Musical Reading.
Work tba, for singers and instrumentalists. Geoff
Butler, director. Elliott Hall, Christ Church Deer
Park, 1570 Yonge St. 416-421-0779,
www.cammac.ca $5(non-members).
*October 7 8:00: Mill Race Folk Society.
Folk Club. Open music club format, bring your
instruments & tunes or just come to listen.
Ernie’s Roadhouse Tavern, 7 Queen St. West,
Cambridge. 519-621-7135. $3.
*Royal Conservatory of Music. Japanese
Taiko Drumming. Learn basic drills & drumming
form along with a traditional song. Taught by
Kiyoshi Nagata. Tuesday nights beginning September 26 8:30pm. 90 Croatia St. 416-4082824, www.rcmusic.ca $274.
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INSTRUCTION
CLARINET LESSONS: all ages, reasonable, Toronto East, Scarborough, Pickering; RCM
exams, school assist, hobby. 416-694-8610.
CLASSICAL GUITAR LESSONS RCM
trained. Beginners welcome. Walter 416-9242168.
EAR TRAINING Help for singers who don’t
always sing on pitch. Song Bird studios 416825-3842.
EAR TRAINING, MUSICIANSHIP,
SIGHT-SINGING, THEORY, JAZZ THEORY. All levels, professional/serious beginners.
Art Levine, MA, ARCT. Host. “Art Music”, CBC.
30 years experience: RCM, UofT, York. 416-9248613.
www.artlevine.com;
artlevine@sympatico.ca
EVE EGOYAN seeks advanced, committed piano students (emu@interlog.com or
416-504-4297)
MUSIC LESSONS: PIANO, ORGAN
AND THEORY Music teacher with over twenty
years experience prepares students for examinations, festivals and competitions. Member of
ORMTA and RCCO. For inquiry, please call Tom
at 416-284-8085 or trschadl@aol.com
PIANO LESSONS: All ages, styles – beginner, classical, jazz, pop, RCM exams. Feel the joy
of making music! Peter Ness, ARCT. 416-7679747.
ROB CARROLL Jazz and classical guitar
instruction, theory, ear training 416-977-3531,
www.robcarroll.rsmrecords.com
SINGING TEACHER with MMus and professional performing experience accepting students for Fall. Classical and Musical Theatre. All
Levels Welcome. Call 416-200-4721.
THEORY, SIGHT-SINGING, EARTRAINING LESSONS: All grades, RCM
exam prep (rudiments, harmony, history, counterpoint). Learning can be fun and easy! Peter
Ness, ARCT. 416-767-9747.
VOICE LESSONS – for beginning to advanced intermediate students. Foster the unique
beauty in your voice with a natural classical technique at Sona Pacem Studio. Phone: 416-897-
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3841. Email: sonapacem@yahoo.com;
www.sonapacem.com
VOICE LESSONS Specializing in a healthy
balanced sound. Song Bird studios 416-825-8642.
INSTRUMENTS BOUGHT & SOLD
CELLO FOR SALE: ¾ German-made Hofner (5 ½ years old); reduced price $2,900 o.b.o.
Call Catherine at 905-637-9188.
FRENCH HORN Must sell, one-of-a-kind,
double horn, by Reynolds. Excellent condition.
Endorsement available. Call Jack at 416-721-4940.
HARDSHELL FIBERGLASS CASE to
suit ¾ size double bass. Has wheels and is not
too cumbersome. $800.00 or near offer. Ph: 416726-0328.
HEINTZMAN UPRIGHT GRAND PIANO in mint condition. Includes two person
bench & damp chaser. $2,900. Tel: 1-519-4221317.
MISCELLANEOUS
CONDUCTING MASTER CLASS. Jorma
Panula and Raffi Armenian (Conducting faculty), Abigail Richardson (Composer-in-residence), Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony (Orchestra-in-residence), January 17-19, 2007. Final
open rehearsal at Roy Thomson Hall (Toronto,
Canada). Applications deadline: September 15,
2006. For more information, visit
www.conductorsguild.org, e-mail to
guild@conductorsguild.org, or call at 804-5531378.
SPIDER DOLLY FOR 6’ TO 8’ GRAND
PIANO. Expandable, heavy metal, excellent
condition. $525 firm. Emailable jpeg available.
416-788-3290.
MUSICIANS AVAILABLE
BARD – EARLY MUSIC DUO playing recorder and virginal available to provide background atmosphere for teas, receptions or other
functions – greater Toronto area. For rates and
info call 905-722-5618 or email us at
mhpape@interhop.net
MUSIC FOR ALL OCCASIONS! Small
ensembles, Dance Band, Big Band; Cocktail Hour,
Dinner music, Concerts, Shows; Classical, Contemporary, Dixieland, Traditional and Smooth
Jazz! JSL Musical Productions 905-276-3373.
MUSICIANS WANTED
BASS & SOPRANO SECTION LEAD VACANCIES, St. John’s York Mills Anglican.
Traditional & challenging repertoire, competitive per service rate, good reading &
choral sound desired, solo opportunities w/
orchestra, near subway. Ph Robin Davis 905409-6121.
CHORAL DIRECTOR – CONTRACT POSITION
GRACE CHURCH ON-THE-HILL, ToronFirst United Church, Mississauga is seeking an
to, has an opening for a Countertenor
experienced choral director for our adult and
Lead. Contact Melva Treffinger Graham,
youth choir(s); exceptional organist already in
Director of Music, at 416-488-7884 x117
place. The individual must be comfortable with
for further information. A description of
both traditional and contemporary music styles
our vibrant music program is available at
and be able to work collaboratively with our orwww.gracechurchonthehill.ca
ganist, ministerial staff and choristers of all ages
and abilities. This position requires 15-18 hours
MALE SINGER seeks renaissance guitar acper week. Competitive salary is offered. Opporcompanist. Call Laurence at 416-767-2825.
tunities are also available to supplement income
through wedding/funeral services. Please send
resumes to: Shelley Ferrell, Chair, Music Search MUSICIANS & VOCALISTS WANTED. Help
Committee, First United Church, 151 Lakeshore raise funds for charity by volunteering with
Road West, Mississauga, Ontario, L5H 1G3 or e- our big bands. Saxophones/Trumpets/Trombones/Guitar/Piano/Bass/Drums. Visit
mail resumes to info@firstportcredit.com
www.sheratoncadwell.com and call Andrew
today @ 416-712-2555.
COME CELEBRATE OUR 20TH ANNIVERSARY! Ryerson University’s Oakham House
Choir invites new members to join for the 2006/
2007 season. In December we are presenting
CHRISTMAS WITH HANDEL: CORONATION ANTHEMS and ODE FOR ST. CECILIA’S DAY and in May 2007 PUCCINI’S MESSA DI GLORIA. Come experience the thrill of
producing these beloved major works. Not
restricted to the Ryerson Community. Auditions: Monday, September 11, 18 or 25 at
6:30pm. Oakham House Lounge, 2nd Floor,
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BOOK
Shelf
by Pamela Margles
Search of Alberto Guerrero
by John Beckwith
Wilfred Laurier University
Press, 178 pp, $34.95
Alberto Guerrero taught some of
Canada’s top musicians, including
Glenn Gould, R. Murray Schafer,
Stuart Hamilton, William Aide and
John Beckwith. Yet surprisingly
little has been written about him.
Beckwith has produced a thoroughly engrossing biography of
this brilliant pianist and important
teacher. There are no recordings,
diaries or letters, and sadly few of
his compositions and writings to
be found. But Beckwith has discovered new material, especially
regarding his early career in his
native Chile. Beckwith’s text is enlivened by his own recollections of
his beloved teacher, and those of
many students, family members
and colleagues he interviewed.
‘Guerrero always resisted the
idea of a method or system of
teaching,’ writes Beckwith, describing Guerrero’s emphasis on
objectivity and honesty as musical
values. Beckwith clearly resents
how Gould later downplayed not
just his only teacher’s influence on
him, but even his pianistic abilities.
Hamilton relates how he told Gould
that watching him play was like having a lesson with Guerrero.
Well-known to WholeNote readers through his CD reviews, Beckwith’s knowledge of music in this
country as a historian, composer,
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critic, professor emeritus and
former dean of the Faculty of Music at U of T is unmatched. Here
he has produced a fascinating,
well-documented portrait of Guerrero, establishing his lasting place
in Canadian music.
are sound, pinpointing Rabin’s gift
of ‘articulation and projection’ and
penchant for ‘emotive, schmaltzy
music’. This is an important cautionary tale.
The Selected Correspondence
of Aaron Copland
edited by Elizabeth B. Crist
and Wayne Shirley
Yale University Press, 284pp,
$45.00 US
Aaron Copland was a witty, playThe Musical Order of the World ful and candid letter-writer, right
by Siglind Bruhn
from his early letters to his parMichael Rabin
Pendragon Press, 256 pp,
ents. Copland’s professional life
by Anthony Feinstein
$36.00 US
was remarkably struggle-free, alAmadeus Press, 256 pages,
The list of 20th century composers though we do get an early hint of
$29.95 US
neurosis when he writes them, ‘I
deserving to be heard more freThroughout his short life, violinist quently is long. Topping mine
can’t get over the idea that if a
Michael Rabin had far more diffi- would be the stylish, versatile and
thing is popular it can’t be good!’
culties with daily living than with
Most poignant are letters to his
eloquent German, Paul Hindemith.
playing the violin. So it is entirely
teacher, the legendary Nadia BoulThis study of his work (along
appropriate that Anthony Feinstein, with that of his contemporary,
anger, to whom he wrote affecthe author of this biography, is a
novelist Hermann Hesse, and their tionately, ‘I still count our meeting
psychiatrist. Feinstein, who prac- relationship to the work of 17th
as the most important event of my
tises in Toronto, has written a
musical life.’ The most entertaincentury astronomer Johannes Kenumber of books, but this is his
ing are written to intimate friends
pler) is Siglind Bruhn’s fifth for
first on a musical subject.
like composer Israel Citkowitz,
Pendragon to explore the fertile
Feinstein does not hesitate to
and Leonard Bernstein, whom he
area between music and its philomake assessments. Relating how
addresses as Lensky, Lenotch, or
sophical subtexts. Her focus is on
Rabin’s parents took him out of
Lentshk. The most edifying reveal
Hindemith’s opera Die Harmonie
school at age 10 to practice all day, der Welt, as well as Hesse’s mys- Copland’s own view of his musiwhich meant he could no longer
tical novel, The Glass Bead Game. cal style. ‘You rather overdo the
play with other kids, Feinstein
dichotomy between my “severe”
Hindemith’s opera narrates
writes that ‘an important develop- events of the final 22 years of Ke- and “simple” sides,’ Copland
mental trajectory was truncated’
wrote to composer Arthur Berger.
pler’s life in the context of his
denying Rabin any life outside of
‘The inference is that only the sequest to discover the secret of the
music to sustain him emotionally.
vere side is really serious. I don’t
harmony of the world. Bruhn reFeinstein saves his sharpest
lates the very structure of the opera believe that.’
knives for Rabin’s mother who,
For the most part only Copto Kepler’s theories, and shows
according to Rabin’s sister, would how even Hindemith’s choice of
land’s side of a correspondence is
scream at him, hit him and make
printed. But when Schoenberg
pitches are based on Kepler’s
him repeat a passage 100 times
mathematical calculations of the or- publicly compares Copland to Stawhen he played out of tune. But
lin, Copland’s outrage over this
bit of the earth. But the ‘poetic
the father did nothing to stop the
‘gratuitous slam’ evinces a recore’ of the opera, for her, is the
abuse, or provide an alternative.
sponse from Schoenberg. ‘I am
poem of mourning Kepler wrote
Even Rabin’s teacher, Ivan Gala- when he lost his wife and son dur- always ready to live in peace.’
mian, who in different circumCrist and Shirley have done a thoring the plague of 1611.
stances produced many successful,
ough job of annotating and indexing.
Bruhn is a musicologist and
apparently mentally healthy musi- concert pianist. In this stimulating
A few of these letters have been
cians, seems somehow complicit.
published before. But the immeasurawork she offers the kinds of inFeinstein has a colourful narra- sights that are bound to send read- ble value of having them gathered in
tive style and an ear for linguistic
one volume is enough to make one
ers to the excellent Wergo recordnuance. His musical judgements
regret the prevalence of email today.
ing of Hindemith’s great opera.
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OPERA
at
Home
continued from page 32
which still sounds
better than CDs after
all these years.
Bayreuth, under
the Nazi regime, became culture central
for Hitler and company and paid the
price. When it reopened in 1951, its
artistic director, Wieland Wagner, Richard’s grandson, jettisoned Bayreuth’s traditional, arch-nationalist staging as one way of
breaking with Nazi associations, starting with
a minimalist, abstract Parsifal that tapped the
mythic while jettisoning the tribal, and culminating in a 1965 Ring cycle.
By 1976 (the Pierre Boulez/Patrice
Chéreau’s Ring) sparse and spare had been
trampled again, by Rhine maidens as Victorian trollops with a hydroelectric dam in the
background. It was an anti-capitalist Ring,
echoing the 1848 revolutionary Wagner, rather than the Wagner who thought it was his
divine right to be the greatest spendthrift and
schnorrer in the history of Western music.
We can catch the excitement, and Boulez’ lucid conducting, on a Philips/Universal DVD.
Between Wieland Wagner and Patrice
Chéreau, a modernist upheaval was launched
in the staging of standard operatic repertoire.
All of the four newer Ring sets are in this
genre, with the most extreme being the
Staatsoper Stuttgart cycle with Siegfried, for
example, as a boorish Hell’s Angel (Euroarts/TDK/Naxos). De Nederslandse Opera’s nicely performed Ring features a really
minimal minimalist semi-circular stage surrounding an orchestra on the same plane
(Opus Arte/Naxos). And earlier this year, in
a column entitled “A Ring for the Era of Climate Warming”, I called Harry Kupfer’s
Ring for Madrid’s Gran Teatre del Liceu
(Opus Arte/Naxos) a “brilliant theatrical extrapolation inspired by Wagner’s Ring.”
The most impressive of this post-modernist lot is a 1992 Bayreuth production conducted by Daniel Barenboim, staged, once
again, by the way-out Harry Kupfer (Warner Classics) with Walküre in shiny black
leather porno raincoats. Sharp camera work,
in richly saturated colours, captures Kupfer’s
off-beat inventiveness.
I return, however, to the Harold S. Schonberg quote which opens this article. When
Daniel Barenboim’s brilliant conducting
comes into play, captured in an exceptionally
fine soundtrack, a miracle does happen.
Music overpowers post-modern, narcissistic excess.
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Continued from page 12
In the category of “This just in”, literally
as we were making the final edits on September’s copy, I received a very special package
from Universal Music containing a 14 CD set
and 112 page booklet of James Levine’s recording with the Metropolitain Opera of
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James Morris,
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Released as a
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special edition” to
coincide with the Canadian Opera Company’s
Ring Cycle performances in the new Four
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for a remarkable $39.99. For any of you who
are unable to get tickets to the COC performances, or want to bone up on the cycle in advance, I want to draw your attention to this
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Haydn - Orlando Paladino
Petibon; Gerhaher; Schade;
von Magnus
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Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
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Even casual listeners of classical
music have a good idea of who
Franz Joseph Haydn was: the father of the classical symphony and
the pioneer of the string quartet. If
pressed, such listeners will also recall two oratorios, Creation and The
Seasons. Nobody, however, seems
to remember that Haydn also
wrote over fifteen operas and all
of them achieved both critical and
popular success in their time.
One of the reasons for this may
be the fact that for Haydn, opera
was a source of musical entertainment. No grand themes, no heartwrenching plots there. Instead, the
more convoluted or comical the libretto, the better. The music alone
was supposed to transcend the plot
failings, whether it was a shaggy
dog story of a trip to the Moon and
back or a parody of the seminal tale
of Orlando Furioso.
In fact, Haydn was right. His music does transcend ridiculous plot
twists and cartoonish characterizations. When given proper attention,
Haydn’s operas are musically daring, firmly gripping listeners and rewarding them with unknown yet
strangely familiar tunes (it would be
interesting to study Haydn’s influence
on 19th century opera composers).
We are fortunate to have the work
rediscovered by the brilliant Nikolaus
Harnoncourt and the Concentus Musicus Wien, with some fine singing
from Michael Schade, Patricia
Petibon, Elisabeth von Magnus,
Werner Gura and Malin Hartelius.
So please listen to Angelica’s aria
from the first act and then try to
name the first three operas that took
it for an inspiration. Or better still,
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listen to the entire opera and with your
heart still pounding, ask “Is it possible there are more?” And the happy
answer is: “Yes!”
Robert Tomas
Wagner - Parsifal
Domingo; Meier; Struckmann;
Selig; Bankl; Wiener Staatsoper;
Christian Thielemann
Deutsche Grammophon 477 6006
This live recording of Wagner’s final opera was made last year from
performances at the Vienna State
Opera. Placido Domingo’s voice has
become darker and more grainy
since he last recorded Parsifal. But
it still rings with thrilling clarity,
and shimmers with modulated colours. His German diction may contain unidiomatic Mediterranean flavours, but his ability to immerse himself in Parsifal’s personality with
intensity and conviction makes this
a thoroughly moving performance.
The casting is remarkable here.
Franz-Josef Selig is monumental
yet poignant as Gurnemanz, the
character who really holds the key
to this story. Falk Struckmann is
regal yet very human as Amfortas, the character whose suffering
drives the plot. Waltraud Meier,
the Kundry of our age, brings welcome lyricism to her dramatically
riveting portrayal of a character
whose best lines, like, ‘I never do
good’ and ‘I bring no happiness’,
are her most painfully anguished.
Christian Thielemann’s musical
direction is impassioned, with even
the most dramatically inert passages imbued with sweeping drive.
The large recording companies,
like DG, have been threatening to
stop producing expensive studio recordings of complete operas. But this
recording offers proof that live recordings, when produced with the
excellent sound, exceptional casts and
powerful direction of this one, can
take the place of the studio. The very
minimal stage noises here, like the
clattering of swords, merely add to
the excitement. What’s more, this live
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recording reproduces the singers’ pacing of their performances, and mirrors
the theatrical flow of an actual performance of this four-hour marathon.
Pam Margles
on March 9, 2007 at Roy Thomson
Hall.
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Stanford - The Revenge; Songs
of the Sea; Songs of the Fleet
Gerald Finley; BBC National
Chorus and Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox
Chandos CHSA 5043
L’Ange Marais Pieces à trois violes
Wieland Kuijken;
Les Voix humaines
ATMA ACD2 2374
This entertaining recording features
three not-often-heard extended choral works – two of which feature a
solo baritone voice – by the Irish-born
composer Charles Villiers Stanford.
Known primarily for a few gems
of Anglican Church music – and for
having taught a number of well-known
20th century English composers –
Stanford is a bit of an enigma otherwise. He spent time in Germany in
the late 19th century, befriending
Brahms and Offenbach, among others. But his music betrays nothing of
the earth-shattering compositional developments of the turn of the century.
The works on this CD span twenty
years of Stanford’s career but are held
together thematically by a strong connection to the sea and the adventurous life of the sailor. Songs of the
Fleet and Songs of the Sea are both
settings of the at times clunky poetry
of Sir Henry Newbolt, who was a
close friend of Stanford’s. The Revenge: A Ballad of the Fleet is a
gripping poetic tale by Tennyson that
flies along with drama and excitement,
thanks to the sensational male voices
of the BBC National Chorus of Wales.
The recording’s star, though, is Canadian baritone Gerald Finley, who
spins the ordinary lines that Stanford
gives him into pure gold. It is thrilling
to hear a singer of Finley’s calibre
completely throw himself into the task
at hand.
Kudos also to Hickox and his charges who imbue this recording with spirit and musicianship. It is a supreme
tribute to Stanford’s memory: His
music never sounded better!
Larry Beckwith
One of my neighbours, and I know
not which, is an enthusiastic student
of the bagpipe. Every day, this
neighbour sits in the backyard and
plays contentedly for hours at a
time. It has been known to interrupt
rehearsals and romantic conversations, to send hearing aids flying and
to cause heart attacks.
All of the side effects of my pitiless neighbour’s antics were as nothing to me until I tried to listen to
“L’Ange Marais” – the newest CD
from Les Voix Humaines and Wieland Kuijken. Marin Marais was
known as “the angel” due to the delicate beauty of his characteristically
French compositions, which was a
contrast to Antoine Forqueray’s
“devil”ish Italianate pieces scored for
the same instruments. Susie Napper,
Margaret Little and Wieland Kuijken
are the three most refined and musical viola da gambists the world has
to offer. Needless to say, this does
not go well with bagpipes.
The beautiful interweaving of the
instruments and exquisite musicianship was not lost on me, as I struggled to hear the ornate beauty of this
recording. This is by far one of the
most enticing periods in history, and
Marais one of the most enticing
composers from that period. The recording is superior to any that I have
heard of his pieces, and the performances are tremendous.
So I say to my neighbour – you may
upset my rehearsals, deafen my
grandmother, deprive my children of
sleep and repel my lovers, but you may
not mess with my Marais. This is war.
Gabrielle McLaughlin
EDITOR’S NOTE: Gerald Finley
has been nominated as Artist of
the Year for the prestigious Classic
FM Gramophone Awards 2006.
Finley will give a rare Toronto recital with Julius Drake at the piano
Ariosti - The Stockholm Sonatas I
Thomas Georgi; Lucas Harris;
Joelle Morton
BIS BIS-CD-1535
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The music heard on this recording,
represents one of the most significant
collections of baroque works for the
viola d’amore. Attilio Ariosti (b. Bologna 1666 – d. London 1729), was a
singer, organist, cellist and composer,
though remembered mostly as a player of the viola d’amore.
Since much of Ariosti’s scordatura
music was notated in tablature, which
indicates where to place one’s fingers,
the player still might not know what
pitch will occur because the strings are
not tuned in the traditional way! In the
program notes, Thomas Georgi offers
detailed explanation and scholarship
as to how he solved the many performing and interpretive puzzles.
This recording is beautifully balanced with all historical instruments
sounding clear and present. The musical sensitivity and single-mindedness of these players is magically
captured in this intimate ambience.
These performances offer delicate
shading and subtlety as a reward for
the careful listener. Because of this,
the repetitions of rhythmic patterns and
melodic motifs always remain fresh
and spontaneous. The lilting elegance
of the slow movements and the infectious toe-tapping rhythm of the
many dance movements seem to
make the 26 tracks fly by.
Frank T. Nakashima
The Musical Treasures of
Leufsta Bruk
Drottningholm Baroque
Ensemble
Bis BIS-CD-1526
In the early 18th century the little
Swedish principality of Leufsta was
owned by the Dutch industrialist Baron Charles de Geer, whose alreadyimpressive music library continued to
expand after his move to Sweden.
Drawing from this historic collection,
this disc offers us a rare glimpse into
18th-century Swedish musical life.
The disc opens and closes with violin concertos by Vivaldi (RV362) and
Tartini, both of which receive impres-
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sive renditions from soloist Nils-Erik
Sparf and his excellent colleagues.
Violinist/spy William Corbett is represented with a sweetly melancholic trio
for violins and continuo. Marcello’s
sixth cello sonata receives a stylishly
enthusiastic performance from Mime
Yamahiro-Brinkmann, followed by a
lightweight yet cheerful quartet by J.C.
Pepusch. Harpsichordist Björn
Gäfvert reveals his solo talents in a
thoroughly French ‘Ouvertüre’ by the
German gadfly C.F. Hurlebusch, and
Schaffrath’s Duetto IV is elegantly
and luminously played by Gäfvert and
traverso player Björg Ollén. Also included are some very entertaining folk
tunes set with continuo lines, although
I would have liked more variety in the
accompanying instruments. But that’s
my only quibble, and it’s very small.
Drottningholm Baroque play with
exemplary unanimity of ensemble,
phrasing and expression, and their ornamentation is always inventive yet
tasteful. The recorded sound and balance is excellent, as is the booklet, although the program neglects to mention that Gäfvert also plays organ.
Alison Melville
Mozart - Piano Sonatas
on Fortepiano
Robert Levin
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
82876-84236-2
There are few people alive today who
are more intimately familiar with the
music of Mozart than American musicologist and pianist Robert Levin,
who begins a project to record the
composer’s complete piano sonatas
with this recording of the first three,
K 279-281.
Levin here performs them on a
fortepiano which would have been
very familiar to the 19-year old composer himself. Levin is certainly not
the first to record these sonatas on the
fortepiano, but he is probably the first
to utilize the instrument to the fullest
degree. The deep resonating bass of
the piano is here replaced with twangy
clear low notes, while the upper register is anything but soft and lyrical.
Mozart was clearly revelling in the
opportunity for sudden dynamic contrasts which the fortepiano allows, and
these come out much more clearly on
Levin’s instrument than on the modern piano. Many pianists plumb these
works for sentimentality and warm
beauty, but Levin, playing at fast tempos emphasizes the innovative and unusual rhythmic and melodic aspects
of the works. A sense of flowing line
is achieved through balance and careful phrasing rather than seamless legato. Ornamentation is applied liberally and with flair; Levin even improvises his own cadenza in the third
movement of Sonata K 281.
The CD is accompanied by a fascinating and highly entertaining
DVD in which Levin discusses and
demonstrates his inspired approach
to these sonatas.
Seth Estrin
CONCERT NOTE: Robert Levin
will be speaking about his new completion of Mozart’s Mass in C Minor at performances of the work
with the Toronto Symphony on October 25th and 26th (also being performed on the 28th).
– Seiler demonstrates an elegant and
impeccable technique, while Immerseel’s sensitive accompaniment perfectly captures the wide ranging
moods inherent in Schubert’s score.
How perfectly this music would have
suited those musical soirées in early
19th century Vienna – as enjoyable
then as they are today.
The attractive packaging and fine
informative booklet only adds to the
appeal of this CD. Highly recommended.
Richard Haskell
FUTURE CONCERT NOTE:
Midori Seiler will join sisters Mayumi,
Naomi and Yuri who comprise the
Seiler String Quartet for a program of
Mozart, Vivier and Brahms at Glenn
Gould Studio on May 3 & 4, 2007. The
Via Salzburg concert also features the
choreography of Sasha Ivanochko.
CLASSICAL AND BEYOND
CLASSICAL AND
BEYOND
show-piece for the smooth, rich,
Philadelphia-cream string tone
Stokowski was famous for: high cellos alternate with violins on the melody, wringing passion from its rise and
fall, and slowing at every phrase-end.
The largest inclusion here is the
great organ Passacaglia, a favourite
of conductor-transcribers who began
as organists. Years ago Sir Ernest
MacMillan presented his own version
with the Toronto Symphony, and next
season Sir Andrew Davis promises
one of his own. Stokowski’s is a dramatic, all-stops-out rerun of the BachElgar Fantasie.
An enjoyable CD, if you can forget the last forty years of Bach-appreciation. Added are re-scorings of
well-known pieces by Handel and
Purcell, and an effective religious tonepoem created from two plainchant
hymns. The performances are fine.
John Beckwith
Editor’s Note: “Danse Macabre” is
available from the Organ Historical
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15 the TSO will perform Andrew yahoo.net/damamasmpltr.html
Davis’ transcription of Bach’s Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor. The
program also includes Stewart Goodyear’s performance of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 and TSO principal violist Teng Li is featured in Berlioz’ Harold in Italy.
Schubert - Sonatas for piano
and violin
Jos van Immerseel;
Midori Seiler
Mecenat Musical ZZT060501
Stokowski - Bach Transcriptions
Bournemouth Symphony
Orchestra; José Serebrier
Whenever we think of Schubert’s Naxos 8.557883
chamber-music, it’s invariably the
great Octet, the “Trout” quintet, or the “Komm, süsser Tod” (“Come, sweet
string quartets which come to mind. death”) is a 21-bar solo song by J. S.
Certainly more modest, but no less Bach. Leopold Stokowski’s orchesworthy, are the four sonatas for vi- tration supplies string harmonies, asolin and piano composed between signing the voice part to a unison of
1816 and 1817, when the composer trumpet, oboe, and three flutes,
was not yet 20 years of age. While joined in a second verse by harp and
these miniature gems have never muted brass. The result is both a luxbeen totally neglected, this new re- urious sonorous experience and an
cording featuring Jos van Immerseel unapologetic misreading of Bach’s
text. Igor Stravinsky said he “recomand Midori Seiler is a delight.
Immerseel is already known as a posed” a Bach organ work, rather
fine keyboard player and leader of than transcribing it. Arrogant? Perthe group Anima Eterna, while Seil- haps; Stravinsky regarded himself as
er has earned a reputation as one of Bach’s equal. But Stokowski reEurope’s finest Baroque violinists garded himself as Bach’s superior,
and member of the Akademie für transmuting the baroque originals for
Alte Musik. Together they bring a “the greatest of all instruments, the
youthful freshness to this music [modern] orchestra.”
Dynamics surge and heave, cawhich seems particularly appropriate in light of the composer’s young dence points are telegraphed, endage. For the recording, Immerseel ings typically undergo a grandiose
performs on a copy of an 1814 Vi- ritard underlined by a drum roll, or
enna pianoforte, while Seiler, a vio- else a hushed fade-out. The emotionlin crafted that same year – so the ality is Hollywoodian: Stokowski does
resulting sound is undoubtedly what for Bach what Cecil B. DeMille did
Schubert would have heard at the for the Bible. The “Air” from the
Orchestral Suite No. 3, beautifully
time of composition.
These are splendid interpretations set for strings by Bach, becomes a
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neck. But the real surprise is the arrangement of the Andante from
Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, in
Smyth’s own transcription. Beethoven
would have approved.
Smyth’s playing carries a real
sense of enviable breadth with these
works, and there is joy, too.
Holy Trinity, Chatham, has a very
short reverberation period, and as a
result the details shine through.
Smyth produced and engineered the
sessions himself. There are photographs of four of the pipe choirs, but
none of the talented Mr. Smyth. The
organ specification is detailed, as to
be expected. The cover painting by
Derrick Chow is striking. I have a
feeling that this is a strictly limited-edition release, however, so you should
grab a copy while they are available.
John S. Gray
Secrets of Dvorak’s
Cello Concerto
Jan Vogler; Angelika Kirchschlager; New York Philharmonic; David Robertson
Sony Classical 82876-73716-2
Danse Macabre
Marty Smyth, organ
Independent Smyth-01
Marty Smyth certainly gets around.
When not part of a duo, or of a chamber ensemble, or providing continuo for
larger works, he is music director at
Northlea United Church in Toronto.
But this CD of organ transcriptions
was recorded at Holy Trinity Anglican in Chatham, Ontario. In that sense
Smyth is very much a kindred spirit to
Peter Richard Conte of the massive
Wanamaker organ of Philadelphia (see
my review of “Magic!” in the March
2002 issue of WholeNote available
online at www.thewholenote.com).
The Chatham organ is the very antitheses of tracker-action purism, and
so Edwin Lamare’s Carmen Fantasia seems just the right thing to do.
Dvorak’s well-known Humoresque
shines under these conditions.
Lamare’s version of Liszt’s transcription of Saint-Saëns’ Danse Macabre
will raise hairs on the back of your
It should perhaps come as no surprise that Dvorak’s great Cello Concerto in B minor – begun during his
final months in America and completed after his return home – should
be the happy result of elements
drawn from both the Old and the
New World. But what were the influences on the 54 year old composer
as he created one of his most renowned works? This new Sony recording, featuring cellist Jan Vogler with the New York Philharmonic conducted by David Robertson, is an intriguing attempt to find
out. Opening with Dvorak’s love
song Lasst mich Allein evocatively
sung by Angelika Kirchschlager
accompanied by Helmut Deutsch,
the CD also features two vocal
pieces by Stephen Foster, Jeannie
with the Light Brown Hair and Wilt
Thou be Gone, Love?. The love
song was apparently a favourite of
a young lady with whom Dvorak
had been very smitten years earlier, and is quoted in both the second
and third movements of the concer61
to, while the two Foster numbers
naturally point to his American interests.
But what of the concerto itself?
While there are a multitude of recordings available, I find this one very
satisfying indeed. Vogler approaches the piece with much aplomb,
demonstrating a style which is both
confident and deeply expressive,
while the New York Philharmonic
under Robertson’s able baton provides a lively and spirited accompaniment. The disc concludes on a
lighter note, with Vogler, Kirchschlager and Deutsch joining forces
in Dvorak’s seven Gypsy Songs
Op.55 – a fitting end to a fascinating program. Highly recommended.
Richard Haskell
actly as the pianist played them. The
recording, made in Glenn Gould Studio, is exemplary.
An interesting and winning disc
with a bonus of a perfect version of
Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit, recorded at the same time.
Bruce Surtees
MODERN
MODERN AND
AND CONTEMPORARY
CONTEMPORARY
Stravinsky Conducts His
Own Works
Cologne Radio Orchestra,
vocal soloists and NWDR Men’s
Chorus; Baden-Baden Radio
Orchestra; Igor Stravinsky
Music & Arts CD1184
Contrasts - Bartók: Violin Works
Jasper Wood; David Riley;
Ricardo Morales
Endeavour END 1015
Mussorgsky
Pictures at an
Exhibition
Gloria Saarinen
Doremi CD DDR-71150
As far as war-horses go, Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition must
be high on the list. It is clear that
today’s pianists have technique to
spare and getting through Pictures
is not the hurdle it was even a generation ago. Performances today
are not the exceptional events they
once were.
It was with something less than
great expectations that I began listening to this new entry, especially
from an artist whose recordings
are associated with less monumental pieces. What a complete surprise when I found myself absorbed, not with the pianist but with
the music! So convincing is her
appreciation of Mussorgsky’s impressions of the Hartman paintings
that one becomes conscious, perhaps for the first time, what each
of these pictures is about. Hear, for
example, the lumbering Polish
Cart, or the difference in character between the two Polish Jews,
Goldenberg and Schmuyle.
On the technical side there are
no wrong or slurred notes that I
could hear and her playing is astounding, always assured and never tentative even though she is playing entirely from memory. The
rests, or in some instances their
absence, between sections are ex62
Editor’s Note: Benny Goodman’s
own Columbia recording of Contrasts, with violinist Joseph Szigeti
and composer Béla Bartók at the piano in 1940, is still available on compact disc (CBS/Sony MK 42227).
Béla Bartók’s chamber music is
good for the soul, or so I was informed by a mentor back in 1974.
Take heart, therefore, with Jasper
Wood’s new CD. Wood admits to
being drawn to Bartók’s folk element, and, given the preponderance of the sonata recordings, he
concentrates his attentions on the
rhapsodies.
Contrasts is the major work presented, a commission by Benny
Goodman. Spirited performances
flow effortlessly from Wood, Riley and Morales; you will not hear
a better Contrasts anywhere.
Szigeti’s arrangements of the Hungarian Folk Tunes are a delight.
Total time is only 55 minutes,
rare in this age, almost as if they
wanted the option of releasing it on
vinyl LP. Producer/engineer Anton Kwiatkowski does his customary first-rate job on the project,
assisted by the warm resonance of
Burlington’s Port Nelson United
Church. Wood plays the Canada
Council’s 1700 Taft Strad, which
almost seems a living thing in his
hands. The CF3 piano sounds very
warm, so that credit is certainly due
to technician Wayne Ferguson. Photographer David Cooper fails to catch
the musicians in the heat of recording, but gives us a stage-managed
picture of Wood, plus a thumbnail of
the musicians for the back cover.
Programme notes are superimposed over a background with some
deep-coloured edges resulting in
lines that are difficult to read, all
in the name of fashion.
John S. Gray
Saariaho - Complete Cello
Works
Momentary lapses in ensemble Alexis Descharmes
aside, these two discs of monophon- Aeon AECD 0637
ic live performances from 1951 and
1954 have a sharper edge and keen- There is surprisingly little known
er musicality than the comparative- about Italian composer Giacinto
ly pasteurised stereo recordings the Scelsi, even though he died less
composer made in the early 1960s. than twenty years ago. An eccenThe 1951 sessions, originally released tric aristocrat, he refused even to
on the Columbia label, include a be photographed. Even today his
somewhat strident sounding string approximately 150 works are rareorchestra in the 1928 ballet Apollon ly performed and recorded. But by
musagètes and an historic perform- the end of his life Scelsi had develance of the 1927 oratorio Oedipus oped a cult following, abetted by
Rex. This featured Peter Pears in committed performers like Francexcellent voice as Oedipus; a game, es-Marie Uitti, who worked closethough clearly challenged, Martha ly with the composer to produce
Mödl as Jokaste; the superb baritone some extraordinary cello pieces.
In the three pieces for string orHeinz Rehfuss as Kreon and the commanding bass of Otto von Rohr as chestra on this disc, the Munich
Tiresias. Translations of the narra- Chamber Orchestra under Christoph
tion (in German) and libretto (in Lat- Poppen creates luminous textures
in) are unfortunately not provided, from a severely limited palette of
though the otherwise informative lin- pitches. The title work, Natura Rener notes provide a synopsis culled ovatur, is especially dramatic,
highlighting Scelsi’s use of harmonfrom the Wikipedia.
The second disc features previ- ics, microtones, bent tones, trills,
ously unreleased performances from glissandi, tremolos, and vibrato to
Hans Rosbaud’s brilliant Baden- create uncanny dimensions of sound.
Baden Radio Orchestra. The orches- But even more moving here are the
tra’s proficient resident pianist Mar- solo cello works, with their exquiia Bergmann is the featured soloist site synthesis of the blissful and the
in the effervescent Capriccio for pi- melancholic. From the autobioano and orchestra and also contrib- graphical Trilogy – The Three Ages
utes the important piano part in an of Man Uitti performs the final moveexhilarating interpretation of the Sym- ment, Ygghur. Her transcriptions
phony in Three Movements. The of two of the three solo vocal works
poker-faced performance of the iconic that make up Three Latin Prayers,
Symphonies of Wind Instruments is the Ave Maria and Alleluja, are so
notable for its crisp, idiosyncratic expressive that, as with Ygghur,
articulation. Stravinsky sets some one wishes for the whole work.
Finnish composer Kaija Saariaunexpectedly blistering tempos in his
ho’s
thriving career has taken a deballet Jeu De Cartes to which the
orchestra, despite his apparently cidedly more conventional path than
clumsy upbeats, responds magnifi- Scelsi’s, with a busy performance
cently. These exciting performances and recording schedule, and notable
belong in the collection of every ad- triumphs. Yet her sound world is
every bit as distinctive, and her mumirer of this epochal composer.
Daniel Foley sic as memorable. ‘The cello is my
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Scelsi - Natura Renovatur
Frances-Marie Uitti; Munchener
Kammerorchester;
Christoph Poppen
ECM New Series ECM 1963
favourite instrument – at least I think
so because I come back to it on a
regular basis,’ she writes in notes to
this recording.
Saariaho creates fragmented,
dream-like episodes with unusual
confluences of colours. In Près and
Petals she uses real-time electronic
manipulation of the cello. She pairs
the cello with the bass clarinet in Oi
Kuu, and with the flute in Mirrors.
Sept Papillons is written for a solo
cello whose virtuosic and lyrical
splendours evoke the butterflies of
the title with a sublime balance of
fragility and power.
Young French cellist Alexis Descharmes is a wizard. Tossing off
spiralling glissandi, for instance, he
conjures up images which don’t
merely fly into space, but indeed
ascend to heaven.
These two discs are as enjoyable
as they are fascinating. They have
been produced with care, from the
fine sound quality to the informative
booklets, each containing an essay
by the performer.
Pam Margles
wasn’t until Kurtág read Kafka’s diaries and private texts, published
posthumously, that the idea of a musical setting germinated.
Snippets of text, brief observations, and sometimes single words
emerge through Kurtág’s method of
nibbling at the edges of the often-hermetic writing. If Kafka’s diaries are
filled with angst, regret and existential terror, so is Kurtág’s music. The
austerity of unaccompanied soprano
and violin, trying to decode the meanings, is at times reminiscent of Schoenberg’s Erwartung, but here there
is no moment of grace, no emotional liberation. Instead, the music is
demanding and compelling, as the
texts remain puzzling yet fascinating. Familiarity with the modern
musical idiom is a must, as Kurtág
does not offer any intellectual shortcuts or easy access points. In the
right hands (such as these), and for
the right ears, this is masterful music of exploration and contemplation.
Robert Tomas
Burt - The Animation of Lists;
The Archytan Transportations
Warren Burt
XI Records XI 130
Enns - NorthWord
Elora Festival Singers;
Kurtág - Kafka Fragments, Op.24 Noel Edison
Centrediscs CMCCD 10905
Juliane Banse, soprano;
Andras Keller, violin
ECM New Series ECM 1965
The musical development of György Kurtág to some extent parallels
that of his fellow countryman and
near contemporary György Ligeti,
the recently deceased giant of modern music. Both were born in Hungarian Transylvania, only three years
apart. Both had hoped to study with
Bartók, but those hopes were dashed
when Bartók died in the US in 1945.
Kurtág did get to study with two
greats of 20th century music however – Darius Milhaud and Olivier
Messiaen – during a sojourn in Paris
in 1957. In time, he himself became
a renowned and generous teacher and
among his pupils were András Schiff
and Zoltán Kocsis.
Kafka Fragmente is a work which
resulted from a fascination with the
works of that author, a fascination
that has lasted well over three decades. Apparently it was Ligeti who
first suggested Franz Kafka’s writings to his young friend. A reading
of Metamorphosis followed, but it
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creates the musical notion of “Oneness” of the Word and God. A
mournful and sombre oboe solo illuminates the rejection of the Word
in the otherwise diatonic and
dance-like second movement. The
triumphant final “Gloria” of the
third movement and the diatonic
organ part of the fourth movement
journey completes a moving work.
It is the serene nature of Enns’
music that is its greatest strength every note and harmony seems to
have been carefully contemplated.
The Canadian Music Centre has yet
again done an outstanding job promoting Canadian compositional talent.
Tiina Kiik
“NorthWord” features five choral
works by Canadian composer Leonard Enns based on the collection of
paintings entitled Northern Nativity
by Canadian artist William Kurelek,
and the perspective of Word as taken from the Gospel of John. The Elora Festival Singers under the direction of Noel Edison perform in their
usual flawless fashion along with
appearances by oboist James Mason,
organist Jurgen Petrenko and a selection by the DaCapo Chamber
Choir.
The highlight is the four-movement cantata Logos, a setting of the
verses from the Gospel of John for
choir, organ and oboe. Enns masterfully utilizes whole tone and diatonic scales to musically depict the
abstract Word versus the Human
respectively. The first movement
entitled “In the beginning was the
Word” is especially moving - under
the backdrop of the Elora Singers’
almost inaudible yet dynamically
building chant of the word “Logo”,
the lack of tension and resolution of
the whole note scale successfully
Microtonal minimalism is Warren
Burt’s calling card. Spread over the
length of two CDs, his latest opus is
a moving tribute to the sound of tuning forks composed in 2002 at the
request of Phill Niblock. According
to Burt, The Animation of Lists utilizes “self-built just-intonation tuning
forks, multi-tracked and computer
transposed […] exploring ideas of
complex just intonations, long scale
permutation structures, and […] pitch
and rhythm transpositions of pre-recorded materials.” The forks are
made of aluminium and there are
two kinds – treble and bass. Each
piece is around 16 minutes long and
each has a slow, nearly painful development. The fork is struck and
you’re able to hear reverb long afterwards, as it overlaps into the next
strike. This goes on for another fifteen minutes or so, at which point,
the next piece starts, sounding oddly
similar to the last one, but with a
slight shift in pitch. It’s a dream-inducing structure that travels across
clouded mystery lands of never-never, where sleep comes easy. Burt is
a serious composer of course and the
music is serious with a capital S.
The second composition, And the
Archytan Transpositions, uses heavy
transpositions of the tuning. This is
the way Burt got other pitches he
couldn’t produce with the forks themselves. A heavy-handed algorithm
was written to control the series of
pitches. In fact, just as haunting as
the previous piece, this one develops in a slow paced environment
surrounded by a ton of reverb coming from the forks and a delicately
disappearing sound.
It’s interesting to listen to the two
CDs side by side just to hear the
multitude of similarities and variances you’re bound to discover. Haunting and serious mind-altering music
from one of the reigning kings of
microtonal sounds.
Tom Sekowski
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JAZZ AND
IMPROVISED
JAZZ
AND
IMPROVISED
The Complete 1957
Riverside Recordings
Thelonious Monk with
John Coltrane
Riverside RCD2-30027-2
neer Rudy Van Gelder, “Soultrane”
finds Coltrane (now back with
Miles Davis) with a lovely trio of
Red Garland, Paul Chambers and
Art Taylor on a programme of obscure standards, including I Want
To Talk About You which he indelibly makes his own. The version
of Russian Lullaby is the performance that inspired writer Ira Gitler
to coin the phrase “sheets of
sound” in describing Coltrane.
Parenthetically, the other Prestige CDs include Miles’ great
“Walkin’” album, as well as Etta
Jones’ fine “Don’t Go To Strangers” breakthrough release, and
tenor stylist Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis’ “Cookbook, Vol. 1” with organist Shirley Scott.
Ted O’Reilly
Norman Granz’ Jazz in
Montreux - Joe Pass ’75
Joe Pass
Eagle Eye Media EE 39063-9
Soultrane
John Coltrane
Prestige PRCD 30006-2
By most standards, John Coltrane
was a late developer. A constant
searcher, the tenorman was in his
early thirties before he made his debut as a leader on a recording, or a
personal impression on the jazz
world, other than as a sideman, most
notably with Miles Davis. These two
excellent repackagings find Coltrane
about to break out as an important
and influential jazz artist.
As a sideman with Monk, he
was, by virtue of the pianist’s unique
melodies, forced to work on more
than the chordal implications of music that had fascinated him. These
Riverside studio sessions are not the
only documents of Monk/Trane: the
live Blue Note releases of “5 Spot”
and “Carnegie Hall” sessions present
the working quartet. For the most
part however, these are the complete
tapings of the production of a septet
album featuring Trane’s early idol
Coleman Hawkins along with trumpeter Ray Copeland and altoist Gigi
Gryce. The two CDs offer multiple
versions of most tracks, including
false starts and breakdowns, but fans
of these great artists will want to hear
it all, and you can programme the
playback to hear just the master takes.
Prestige Records was an independent New York jazz label that offered
exposure rather than money, but it
was also more willing to take a chance
on new names, or those under the
radar of the Major Labels. John
Coltrane was among them, and made
his first half-dozen leader appearances for Prestige.
As part of a reissue series based
on the name of the recording engi64
terpretation of Perdido with Rolf
Ericson featured on flugelhorn; Paul
Gonsalves’ gorgeous tenor on Happy Reunion, and the exquisite playing of Johnny Hodges throughout the
program. Even the mandatory drum
solo manages to be humorous and not
overbearing. Skilipoop, a Sam Woodyard showcase, makes one smile
rather than grimace. Pricy, but a Apparition
must for Ellington collectors.
Mark Eisenman Quintet
Don Brown Cornerstone CRST CD 129
Montreal 1964
Duke Ellington
VAI 4358
This is the second jazz telecast leased
from the CBC by Video Artists International. Originally broadcast in
April of 1964, it features the Duke
Ellington orchestra live in performance at the Casa Loma Club’s Le
Jazz Hot Room in Montreal. The
first VAI/CBC release, which showcased Woody Herman’s Thundering
Herd and is highly recommended,
had been a Radio-Canada studio production. The immediacy of a live
performance this time around is a
plus, although the picture quality’s
somewhat grainy owing to the less
than perfect location lighting. The
band’s performance more than makes
up for that shortcoming, however.
Actually, we get to see (and hear)
a bit more than what was originally
broadcast. The opening selection,
Boo-dah, is part of a sound check
from just prior to air time. The program as aired contains the expected
Ellington warhorses but also material that was new at the time. The
newer things include Afro-Bossa,
The Banquet Scene from Timon of
Athens, Skilipoop, The Prowling
Cat, Happy Reunion, and Blow by
Blow. Highlights include an excellent performance of Afro-Bossa, a
“jungle” piece from Ellington’s debut Reprise album; a delightful in-
This latest release in the ongoing series of concerts recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festivals during the 1970s
contains not one, but two, solo recitals by Joe Pass, the man known as
“the Art Tatum of the guitar”. The
concert filmed the evening of July 17,
1975 was the scheduled one. Apparently the audience response for that
performance was so great Norman
Granz talked Pass into giving an unscheduled recital the following afternoon. That one is here as well. Only
one tune, Montreux Changes, is duplicated and the second version is considerably different from the first.
Pass was truly a virtuoso musician who was influenced more by
Charlie Parker than he was by other
guitar players. His unsurpassed technique and deep harmonic sense allowed him to play incredibly fast,
clean, lines. It’s obvious from watching him here that Pass was an artist
in total command of his instrument.
Whether playing a contemplative
ballad such as More Than You Know
or a barnburner like Joe’s Blues,
Pass is very clearly in charge. Other
highlights include a thoughtful interpretation of Django Reinhardt’s Nuages (that sounds nothing like Reinhardt), and heartfelt readings of Willow Weep for Me and How Long
Has This Been Going On.
One thing I found puzzling was
the fact that even in tight close-ups
it’s impossible to see Pass’ guitar
pick. I’ve since learned he had a lifelong habit of breaking his picks in
two, then using only the smaller part.
Don Brown
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Mark Eisenman’s position in Canada’s jazz scene is a solid one as a
pianist, composer and teacher. As a
leader, it’s based mostly on the quality work of his long-lived trio with
bassist Steve Wallace and John Sumner on drums. With the addition of
Pat LaBarbera on reeds and John
MacLeod on trumpet and flugelhorn
(and cornet too, I think) Eisenman’s
talent as arranger is on show in this
new quintet release. It’s a happy
sounding session, with a deep groove
and musical music.
Mark’s articulate liner notes explain “The music was composed so
as to free the improviser from too
much thinking” as original melodies
such as Fathom and Gilt Be All Thy
Stars are built on standard repertoire
(How Deep Is The Ocean and Stella
By Starlight). Walking down these
familiar paths allows the improviser
to not worry where his feet need to
be placed, but rather notice new
things along the way.
Overall, the tone of “Apparition”
is modern boppish, with the Eisenman Trio becoming the Eisenman
Rhythm Machine for LaBarbera’s
relaxed-but-intense tenor, and
MacLeod’s intelligent brasswork.
There are some who will find all
this a bit ‘old fashioned’ perhaps
(there aren’t any nods to hip-hop,
or eighteen year old singers, for example), but others will rejoice that
these masters continue to create on
the highest level, and within the tradition of jazz.
In addition, the sound is first
rank: clear, clean and representative of the instruments.
Ted O’Reilly
The Hang
Dave Dunlop
Independent
(www.davedunlop.ca)
Dave Dunlop has played on CDs for
a wide range of artists such as Holly
Cole, Brian Hughes, Eddie Bullen,
Hilario Duran, Michael Pickett,
Roberto Occhipinti, Domenic Troiano, Manteca and Emilie-Claire
Barlow, but this is his first recording as leader. It is not “in your face”
hard driving music, but rather an
“ease back and listen” session with
mostly an eighth-note feel delivered
by drummer Mark Kelso. This is not
to suggest any lack of energy in the
music, which consists mostly of originals by Dave Dunlop, one of Toronto’s superior trumpeters, and Jim
McGrath who plays keyboard on the
recording. The two non-originals, I
Can’t help It and Alfie feature special guest Doug Riley.
The remainder of the band is made
up of some of Toronto’s top session
players. That’s another way of saying that the standard of playing is
very high! On guitar, Jim Tait, Steve
D’Angelo, David Baxter and Fred
Blumas play musical chairs, Pat
Kilbride adds his bass to four of the
numbers and on a couple of compositions saxophonist John Johnson,
always a welcome presence, adds
his considerable talents.
Jim Galloway
ing: Horacio “el Negro” Hernandez plays drums and the legendary
Paquito D’Rivera tears it up on alto
sax and clarinet.
Given that the number of venues
where a band of this size can play
together are few and far between, I
suspect most of these musicians have
not spent a lot of time playing as an
ensemble. It shows, at times, especially in the trumpet section, but the
upside is that the lack of blend adds a
rawness and immediacy to the
tracks, which makes it feel almost
like a live performance. This is good,
because I can’t imagine we’ll have
the pleasure of seeing this band in the
flesh too often. So don’t wait for the
performances. Get the disc.
Cathy Riches
Ellen’s Bar
Antoine Berthiaume;
Michel Donato; Pierre Tanguay
ambiences magnetiques
AM 152 CD
From the Heart
Hilario Duran and his
Latin Jazz Big Band
Alma Records ACD66062
Michel Donato Et Ses Amis
Europeens
Michel Donato; Francois Theberge; Piotr Wojtasik; Michael
Felberbaum; Karl Jannuska
Efendi FND050
Toronto’s Alma Records continues
to provide a home to top-notch noncommercial artists and to give us
quality recordings, as witnessed by
the release of this big band disc. And
this is the real deal: no synthesizers
or salsa, just genuine jazz, AfroCaribbean rhythms, and fine playing from the cast of dozens.
Ex-pat Cuban Hilario Duran is
fresh off a Juno win for last year’s
“New Danzon” and brings us “From
the Heart” which is a huge record,
rich with complex harmonies and
rhythmic colours. Duran plays piano,
arranged all of the tunes and wrote
most of them, too, so this is not only
“from his heart” but his fervent mind
and fiery hands, too.
With a 22-piece band it is, unfortunately, too space-consuming to list
all the superb players. However,
the special guests need highlight-
Forty years after he arrived on the
scene, Michel Donato is still Montreal’s first-call jazz bassist. These
CDs demonstrate why Donato, 64,
who has backed everyone from
chansonier Gilles Vigneault to pianist Oscar Peterson, is in such demand. Working with two sets of
younger musicians, he’s a powerful yet sympathetic time-keeper,
pushing the tunes along without
calling attention to himself.
On “Ellen’s Bar”, for instance, he
adds his rock-solid rhythm to 11 originals otherwise featuring two players better-known for their commitment to musique actuelle: guitarist
Antoine Berthiaume and drummer
Pierre Tanguay. A slight misnomer,
“Et Ses Amis Europeans” features
two continentals – trumpeter Piotr
Wojtasik and guitarist Michael Felberbaum, both Polish – plus two
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Québécois domiciled in France:
tenor saxophonist François
Théberge and drummer Karl Jannuska. The five play nine Freebop
originals.
Neither date is far out, unlike
Berthiaume’s earlier reductionist
CDs. Here the guitarist’s supple fills
and soloing lie within parameters set
by Herb Ellis and Bill Frisell, giving
the CD a country-ish vibe. Due to
the additional colours available from
the horn section, the quintet date is
more memorable. Expansive arrangements create voicing that
makes the band sound bigger than
five pieces. Have You Met Mr. Jones
is the stand-out track. Written by
Donato, it’s a slinky ballad centred
on the bassist’s rounded grace notes.
Around him are call-and-response
horn riffs and echoing guitar fills.
Elsewhere Donato’s woody lope
anchors the improvisations. Wojtasik showcases muted grace
notes; Théberge intense doubletongued trills and slurs; Jannuska
restrained rolling bounces; and
Felberbaum speedy runs.
Similar teamwork is apparent on
the other CD, although the guitarist takes most of the solos. In this
smaller setting Donato is more
sensed than heard, though his oblique, sturdy piloting remains. The
nub of Tanguay’s accompaniment
is rim shots and ratamacues,
unique additions to the guitarist’s
lapidary solos.
Using chiming runs, Berthiaume
shines with a natural romantic bent.
Prime instance of this is Nose Worthy. Sprinkled with C&W licks, the
straightforward melody skirts ordinariness due to drum rolls and
pops plus a walking bass line.
Tough plucking from Donato rescues other tunes where the guitarist’s finger-picking threatens to
move into supper club territory.
Both CDs are fine examples of
an older master’s collaboration
with younger improvisers.
Ken Waxman
Blues in the Night
Ann Hampton Callaway; Sherrie
Maricle; Diva Jazz Orchestra
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Extended play -- the depths of Karawitan
I. Classical Gendings
Gamelan of Central Java
Dunya fy 8041
II. Ceremonial Music
Dunya fy 8042
III. Modes and Timbres
Dunya fy 8073
IV. Spiritual Music
Dunya fy 8074
V. Gaya Yogyakarta
Dunya fy 8075
VI. Kraton Surakarta
Dunya fy 8103
VII. Edge of Tradition
Dunya fy 8104
Not simple field recordings these, each CD comes
with its own clearly-articulated theme, noted in its
title and supported in the liner essays by leading
scholars in the field.
Volumes I, II and IV arguably showcase the heart
of the tradition. The ritual gamelan Sekaten, which
performs monumental and iconic instrumental
pieces during the holy week celebrating the birth
and death of Prophet Mohammed, is featured
therein. An even earlier music, the Hindu-kingdom
era ceremonial repertoire performed at the palace
of Mangkunegaran (in the city of Surakarta) is
represented by the works ‘Kodhok Ngorek’ and
‘Carabalen’. Each of these is performed on its own
special gamelan on Vol. II.
On the other end of the spectrum, Vol. VII, “Edge
of Tradition” features a particularly fascinating and
musically satisfying experiment on track 2, ‘KomThe Italian label Felmay has released seven remarkable CDs of first-rate performances on sever- bang Mara’. Here, two female vocal soloists (pesindhen) inter-weave their different texts and melisal much admired Central Javanese gamelan (orchestras). For those unfamiliar with the term, I use matic vocal melodies which are derived from a
separate vocal genre called ‘macapat’ over game‘gamelan’ here not only for the percussion-based
lan accompaniment. This resultant mix may be
orchestra of Java, but also to refer to the music
particularly attractive to western ears attuned to
made on it. Javanese musicians amongst thempolyphonic music.
selves often use the flowery term ‘karawitan’ for
this traditional music.
Vol. III, “Modes and Timbres” offers a different
vantage point, one from which the various melodic
With mythic roots in the Sufi-influenced Javanese
modes used in gamelan are explored. In addition,
kingdoms of the 16th century, over time, gamelan
the different families of percussion, wind and
and its music has permeated the various levels of
string instruments are highlighted in novel and
Javanese society. Ethnomusicologist Daniel Wolf
writes in the liner notes: “Gamelan is played today revealing ways.
in Central Java by Muslims, Protestant and Roman These CDs by no means exhaust the range of curCatholic Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, as well as rent gamelan practice. In my wish-list for further
by the nominally Muslim adherents of Javanese mysti- volumes, I’d like to put in a request for the more
cism.” Thousands of gamelan sets are found in villag- popular offshoots of gamelan music. These include
es, palaces, radio stations and schools throughout this such genres as ‘Dangdut’ (in gamelan adaptation),
island of some 115 million inhabitants.
‘Sragenan’ and ‘Campur Sari’, none of which are
Gamelan is used as a medium for mediation by its represented in the present series. The latter genre
performers, as well as for various kinds of theatre: is so wildly popular in its homeland that some feel
dance, shadow puppetry and various genres of op- its dominance threatens established types of gamelan music. I would like to suggest that for a westera. Gamelan has also escaped its original island
confines over the last century and spread around the ern audience hungry for new ‘world music’ experiences, these upbeat and attractive 5 minute songworld. Today, Torontonians can boast of seven
gamelans of various types played by students, ama- based genres may serve as a tempting appetizer to
teurs and even professional musicians amongst us. the masterpieces of court art - which I personally
cherish - such as the 31 minute long Gending DanHow can a single series of seven CDs capture the
essence of this spiritually and aesthetically profound araja, Vol. I, track 3.
sound world? How can an outsider attempt to
present an extensive musical repertoire from a
living tradition of thousands of pieces, some with
roots going back 500 years, and still others composed yesterday? How can recordings capture the
intricate depth of the multifarious orchestral sound
of gamelan and present it in a meaningful way to
non-Javanese listeners?
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These are some of the issues addressed by Italian
gamelan aficionado, patron and music producer
John Noise Manis, whose many music projects can
be found on his site yantra@gamelan.it. These
seven Felmay CDs are a testament to his passion
for the gamelan music of Central Java. Since 2001,
he has intrepidly and repeatedly traveled to Java to
record this magnificent music at various music
conservatories, royal and princely courts, and
radio stations.
Taken as a collection these CDs add up to a comprehensive, though unorthodox, survey of wellrecorded Central Javanese gamelan-based music.
Even casual world music listeners will find individual CDs indispensable to their music libraries.
Hardcore heavy-metal (gamelan) aficionados will
certainly want to collect them all.
Andrew Timar
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Exceptional vocalist and composer,
Ann Hampton Callaway has chosen
a collaborative effort with drummer
Sherrie Maricle and the long-standing all-female “DIVA Jazz Orchestra” as her debut CD for the Telarc
recording label. Ann has said that
“Blues in the Night” is “the feistiest,
gutsiest, most let-your-hair-down CD
that I’ve ever recorded…” and indeed, with the full throttle big band
arrangements and exquisite material
drawn from the likes of Richard Rogers, Harold Arlen, Stephen Sondheim
and Cole Porter, this may indeed be
the case.
Her stunning vocal instrument is
fully featured, as well as the skills
of top-flight musician/arranger/composers Tommy Newsom, Matt Catingub and Bill Mays. Also shining on
the session is a rhythm section of
A-List “ringers” including Ted
Rosenthal on piano, Christian McBride on bass and Lewis Nash on
drums.
Of particular note is the title track.
Those familiar with her signature, crystalline-pure vocal style will be surprised at the soulful and gymnastic
rendering of this Harold Arlen classic. Ann’s witty, original I’m-TooWhite-To-Sing-the-Blues Blues, a
sumptuous and languorously slow rendering of Cole Porter’s It’s All Right
With Me and Sondheim’s harmonically sophisticated No One is Alone are
also standouts.
Ann Hampton Callaway’s overwhelming musicality and interpretive
skills make this CD a delight, and minimize whatever flaws are evident in
the instrumental performances of
DIVA, including the slightly fluctuating rhythm of time-keeper Maricle. But
one can’t help but imagine how these
charts would have sounded if interpreted by “The Boss Brass” or the
big bands of John Clayton or Frankie
Capp.
Lesley Mitchell-Clarke
free improvisation meshes with knowledge of notated New music. Architecturally organized, the nine originals
and two “covers” make up an exceptional version of chamber music that
avoids fussy inversion and directionless jamming.
One indication of the trio’s fearlessness is that the “covers” are of
compositions by Béla Bartók. Here,
the composer’s Bulgarian Rhythm
takes on a Latin tinge courtesy of
Robbie Kuster’s percussion and
ends with a section of double-tonguing by alto saxophonist Philippe
Lauzier, and double stopping from
bassist Miles Perkin.
Confirming their innovative thinking, the three follow a clarinet-plucked
bass-and-drum reading of Bartók’s
Melodie Pentatonique with an improv that flows from it. Reharmonized,
the tune incorporates distinctive tongue
stops and intense vibrato from Lauzier, reverberating strings from Perkin
and a modified march beat on wooden blocks from Kuster.
Probably the best example of their
mature talents is Perkin’s Broken
Glass, divided into sonata-like sections. Near the top, a sliding bass invention gives way to buzzing sul ponticello accompanied by squealing saxophone split tones and contrapuntal
drum pummelling. After a side-slipping
obbligato from the altoist is matched
by a walking bass line, the penultimate
variation harmonizes reed notes with
the bassist’s wordless vocalizing. Echoing sax runs plus answering arco
swipes from Perkin form the spacey
finale.
A 21st Century advance on jazz
chamber music, “Today is a Special
Day” more than lives up to the inference of its title.
Ken Waxman
Al Asha Bi Daha, Traditional
Songs of the Eastern Black Sea
Leigh Cline;
Nikolas Michaeilidis
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POT POURRI
POT POURRI
The Fox and the Lion
Trio Kavkasia
Traditional Crossroads
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Desert Song
Itamar Erez and the
Adama Ensemble
Independent IE2006
Musical fusion, or “East meets West”,
is the best way to describe this relatively new Vancouver-based group
Today is a Special Day
and its first CD, “Desert Song”. All
Philippe Lauzier; Miles
tracks (except one which is a tradiPerkin; Robbie Kuster
tional Jewish song) are composed and
ambiences magnétiques
arranged by the group’s leader, IsraeAM 149 CD
li-born Canadian Itamar Erez. Erez,
Audacious as well as artful, this Mon- who has come to world music from
treal disc shows what can result when a background in Western classical
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music, trained as a composer, guitarist and pianist in his native Israel as
well as in Europe. The other main influences on his music are from jazz,
flamenco, the Middle East and India.
As the composer on this CD, Erez
gracefully blends these different
sounds and traditions into eleven quite
beautiful and distinct pieces.
At least two of the other three musicians – Tony Nickels (bass clarinet,
English horn, oboe, flute) and Laurence Mollerup (bass) – are also
strongly based in Western art music. This definitely comes across in
the music and gives it an unusual
quality and character. Perhaps you
could say it is more refined, polite,
or constrained than your average
fusion or world music.
We hear some very fine and moving instrumental playing from Erez,
Nickels and Mollerup — sometimes
solo (e.g. the bass clarinet at the beginning of track 3, and guitar on track
6) but more often in a small ensemble, though each part is still transparent. The fourth musician is percussionist and tabla player Stefan Cihelka who
generally has more of a “background”
role in the musical mix.
For more information on the group
and to purchase the CD, check online
at www.itamarerez.com.
Annette Sanger
These two very different CDs of
music originating in adjacent geographic regions reveal the musical
passions which led the musicians far
afield from their Toronto homes.
“Al Asha Bi Daha” is a Pontic
Greek call to the dance. The Pontic
people, in case your historical geography is a little rusty, are descendants
of the ancient Greeks who settled on
the south eastern shore of the Black
Sea, in present-day Turkey. Featuring
the rhythmic virtuoso lyra (an ancient
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fiddle) playing and incisive singing of
Nikolas Michailidis, the CD purveys
16 dance tracks, essential for any oldschool Pontic dance party.
While none of the selections is more
recent than the 1970s – and the roots
of most are lost in the mists of time –
there is hope for the survival of this
ancient acoustic music in the current
sea of superficial electro-pop which
seems to pervade the popular Greek
and Turkish musical landscape,
thanks to musicians like Nikolas
Michailidis who are taking their heritage confidently into the 21st century. Between his cultural roots and
musical depth, and producer/guitarist
Leigh Cline’s dedication, the future of
Pontic music seems in capable hands.
Also in excellent hands – and voices – is the ancient tradition of choral
music from the eastern Black Sea
republic of Georgia, thanks to Toronto’s Alan Gasser and Trio Kavkasia.
For a small country, Georgia is blessed with a dazzlingly rich diversity of
languages and types of polyphonic
vocal music, arguably its primary
musical treasure. This three-part
choral music can be traced back at
least as far as the first millennium
CE, which predates even the first
polyphonic masterpieces premièred
at the Notre Dame cathedral!
On “The Fox and the Lion” three
eloquent voices and Georgian instruments (also played by the singers)
blend exquisitely in unusual tunings and
thrilling harmonic modulations. For
example, listen to the surprising, shifting vocal chords on Tsmindao Ghmerto (Holy God), track 7. What’s going
on here? Apparently, the tuning of the
voices relies on a series of ‘stacked’
intervals of pure beat-less fifths, instead of relying on the tonal subdivision of an octave used in most western music. This musical vocabulary
results in a dense three part texture
replete with various dissonances and
so-called ‘neutral thirds’ (nothing neutral about them!). All the songs ultimately resolve on a peaceful unison
or on one of those pure ringing fifths.
Just don’t expect this sophisticated
three part folk music to abide by the
rules of conventional western harmony – or to sound like Mozart!
I hope I haven’t made this remarkable music sound forbidding, for it can
be gentle and melancholy as in the
homesick song Sadats… track 12.
This is music for liturgy, work, weddings, the recounting of epic deeds and,
perhaps most importantly, for day-long
feasts called supra-s. Luckily for all
of us, this impressive choral tradition
that remains a part of daily life, especially in rural Georgia, is being championed locally by Trio Kavkasia.
Andrew Timar
OLD WINE IN NEW BOTTLES
Dmitri Shostakovich, perhaps the greatest composer of the 20th century, was born in St. Petersburg on September 25th 1906 and died on
August 9th 1975 in Moscow. He lived his creative life in a climate of tumult, conflict and
quite literally, in a reign of terror. He subsisted for many years with a packed bag ready in
the event that he would be taken from his home
“in the middle of the night”. How he survived
decades of trepidation and uncertainty is the
subject of many accounts of his personal and
public life written by his contemporaries and
by foreign biographers.
That Shostakovich was a perfectionist is already apparent in his first symphony written in
1926 when he was 19 years old. This precocious and agreeable work, already his opus 10,
was both academic and modern, performed
around the world and became part of the repertoire. His second opera, Lady Macbeth of
Mtsensk debuting in January 1934, immediately brought him great popularity until Stalin, via
Pravda, attacked the work as being unquestionably anti-Soviet. Disfavoured, he was denounced by many of his colleagues. At that time
and for decades later it was required that all
works of art must reflect un-remitting optimism
in the communist régime. Everyone was frightened of Stalin. Actually, not quite everyone.
Stalin was superstitiously wary of pianist Maria Yudina who stood up to him and was able to
criticize and rebuke him without fear. Ironically, perhaps, as he lay dying in 1953, the last
sounds Stalin heard were from his recording
of Yudina performing Mozart’s 20th piano concerto.
Fine Old Recordings Re-Released
by Bruce Surtees
ed by distinguished accompanists these versions
may well be the first choices for many. The
opera, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, is conducted
by Myung-Whun Chung. With full translations
included, this is veritable feast for those who
enjoy this repertoire.
The piano and chamber music album contains
the 24 Preludes, opus 31, 24 Preludes and
Fugues, opus 87, the two piano sonatas and other solo works, the cello sonata, the second piano trio and, of course, the piano quintet opus
57. Insightful playing Vladimir Ashkenazy,
Lilya Zilberstein, The Beaux Arts Trio, The
Fitzwilliam String Quartet, and others are intuitively sympathetic to the composer’s wishes.
and Gidon Kremer. Rudolf Barshai is heard conducting the four chamber symphonies he orchestrated from four string quartets. Also included is
the cantata, Song of the Forests, the two Jazz Suites
and many excerpts from ballets and film music. I
could cite example after example of the pleasures listening to the wide variety of works in this
set which, in many ways, is the least demanding
of the five.
The String Quartets are by the Emerson Quartet, a set much touted upon its release a few
years ago. Recorded live in 1994 (Late Quartets), 1998 (Middle Quartets), and 1999 (Early
Quartets) they are sharp edged and articulate,
ideal for today’s critical audiences. Nevertheless, my very first choice for these works remains the original Borodin Quartet recordings
(1 through 13 only as 14 and 15 had not been
written) recorded in the early 1970s while Rostislav Dubinsky, founder of the quartet in 1946,
was still their first violin (Chandos
CHAN10064, 4 CDs).
The vocal collection includes ten song cycles
sung by Luba Orgonasova, Natalie Stutzmann,
Ilya Levinsky, Sergei Leiferkus, Elena Zarem- All these treasures occupy only 12 centimetres
ba, Elizabeth Soderstrom, and others. Support- of shelf space. Amazing!
A most comprehensive collection of Shostakovich’s music has just been issued by Universal
comprising 36 CDs in five compact boxes, selling at budget prices. Under the Decca label
there are the 15 Symphonies (475 7413, 11
discs); concertos, orchestral suites, and chamber symphonies (475 7431, 9 discs); song cycles and Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (475 7441, 5
discs); Piano and Chamber Music (475 7425, 6
discs); and finally on DG the 15 String Quartets (475 7407, 5 discs).
For the symphonies, Haitink’s distinguished cycle was chosen. Symphonies 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 10,
& 15 are with the London Philharmonic and
the balance with the Concertgebouw. Russian
conductors who were contemporaries of the
composer may treat the scores as largely biographical but Haitink, whose background is
quite different, lets the composer speak for himself. Over the last few weeks I have listened to
an abundance of versions of most of the fifteen
and I must say that, taken as a whole, the
Haitink yields to no-one. His are never disappointing interpretively and the sonics are Decca’s best in both perspective and dynamics. A
top choice.
The concertos and orchestral suites box contains both cello concertos by Heinrich Schiff
with Maxim Shostakovich conducting and the
two violin concertos with Viktoria Mullova (1)
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DISCS OF THE MONTH:
Canadian Composer
Portraits
– Harry Somers
Various Artists
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Britten. Although the independent “Window on
Somers” project, half-a-dozen releases to date,
has splendidly made up for his previous neglect,
major pieces have remained unavailable. Portraits and Ovations, the joint efforts of Centrediscs
and CBC Records, have provided 2-CD albums
devoted to twenty or more individual composers
(one disc of a documentary “portrait” and one of
music), and supplemental albums each with more
of their music, five composers per album. This
new Somers release offers a documentary plus
ten pieces spread over not one but three discs. Of
the ten pieces, it is puzzling to discover from CBC
Records’ web-site, all but two are currently available on other CDs (“Harry Somers Celebration”,
“The Spring of Somers”, and “Stravinsky and
Somers”). According to the producer, Eitan Cornfield, there are to be no further “Ovations” releases; CBC Records no longer records Canadian “classical” composers.
The two fresh entries are nothing short of marvellous. Of Memory and Desire (1993; the title
derives from Eliot) is a broad statement for string
orchestra on several athematic schemes, mechanical to describe but transfixing to hear. The string
phrases sing out warmly; as usual with Somers,
the gradations of loud and soft are an essential
ingredient of the form. The only performance to
date of the Concertante (1982) for violin, percussion and string orchestra has remained in my mind
as among the most sensational of many astonishing achievements by Somers. The recording reproduces that performance. The solo violin
projects its complicated personality in an opening
one-minute solo, after which it weaves ornamental melody lines, engages in rapid dialogue with
the percussion, and presides over a series of jagged and insistent rhythmic passages, without ever
resorting to cliché. At one point all sections, including the soloists, share a melody of superhuman range, each passing a few notes to the next
as in a hold-your-breath tennis match. This exciting work has deserved more live performances;
may the excellent recording help make it better
known.
The re-issued numbers are all substantial and
worth re-hearing. Especially good to encounter
again are the witty and eclectic Picasso Suite and
the fine Third Concerto. Among still unrecorded
titles by this prolific composer are Stereophony
and Five Concepts, major orchestral scores from
the 1960s.
Cornfield’s documentary is a brave attempt,
but hardly an adequate “portrait” of Somers: e.g.,
Louis Riel is mentioned, but none of his other five
operas. The booklet’s unsigned tribute to the com-
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no such gesture for the other deceased composers in the series.
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Tristan is a turning point in Western music. Its
chromatic universe revolutionized harmony. Debussy’s career would be unimaginable without
Tristan. It surpasses all of Wagner’s other operas and perhaps any opera ever written. It is an
opera of ideas infused with the dark philosophy of
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The young French director Olivier Py’s total
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