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February 7 & 9 at 8:00pm
Young People’s Concert
Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor
Former TSO Music Director Jukka-Pekka Saraste
returns to the podium to conduct Mahler’s
achingly romantic Ninth Symphony and the
Canadian première of a new work, Seht die Sonne,
by Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg.
February 23 at 1:30 & 3:30pm
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twittering birds in The Carnival of the Animals to
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For Openers: David Perlman
COVER STORY: Jacques Israelievitch David Perlman
DISCoveries (1): Editor’s Corner David Olds
Talivaldis Kenins remembered by Larry Lake
Studio de musique ancienne
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World View Karen Ages
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Choral Life Q & A - Julie Winn
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FOR OPENERS ...
Foreshortenings
This young year has already had some magical musical
moments which, no matter what transpires, will remain,
for me, among its highpoints.
One was in the midst of an extraordinary two day, twoconcert presentation by New Music Concerts. The focus of
the weekend was the work of Edgard Varèse (of whom it
has been said that he suffered by being the greatest composer of the 21st century in the middle of the 20th). But the
focus of the moment to which I am referring was not
Varèse but Varèse’s erstwhile student, composer Chou
Wen-chung who, well into his eighties, stood before us
tirelessly regaling us with extraordinary insights into his
own, and Varèse’s, music and lives.
The year was 1937 and Chou Wen-chung found himself in
Shanghai, after hardships he remained silent on, steps ahead
of the invading Japanese—Shanghai, as he tells it, was
peopled by expatriate Russians, Jews mainly, teaching the
music he had already had found himself drawn to. And then,
…. the moment: on one particular day, in the Englishlanguage newspaper, a story that the composer Maurice
Ravel had died. “It would not have occurred to me till that
moment” said Chou “that Ravel had been still alive.” And
immediately another thought: “And I said to myself ‘if
Ravel who is an undoubted composer could have been alive
only yesterday, then I, who am undoubtedly alive today, can
be a composer too.’”
And that moment put me in mind of another, several years
earlier, that had struck me the same way. It was a salonstyle concert presented by Off Centre Music Salons – Inna
Perkis and Boris Zarankin – and one of their guests that day
was violinist Jacques Israelievitch. He had played the
Debussy violin sonata and, in the context of the conversation
that flows easily at such salon-style events, Israelievitch had
mentioned that his own violin teacher had received the piece
from Debussy himself. Another one of those moments,
where history foreshortens itself – the line of demarcation
between the dead greats and our small selves blurring into
small specific meetings, in which lore and learning pass
from one living person to the next, and the notes on the
score become merely minutes of the meeting.
At least, that is how I’d remembered, or maybe
misremembered, the story, so in talking with Israelievitch
for this month’s cover story, I thought I’d better check.
“You’ve remembered it quite well” he said. My teacher
was Gaston Poulet, I was 10-14. I would hear him practise
the piece and started learning it that way. Yes, Debussy
himself had played the piano part for Poulet. I still remember being taken by Poulet to Passy, to Debussy’s tomb and
the big effect it had on me. It brought home the link we have
with these composers, flesh and blood.”
Welcome to another month of chance encounters in the
great continuum of musical common time.
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cover story
Jacques Israelievitch: leading ... a musical life
interviewed by David Perlman
PHOTO: MICHAEL SHAW, ASHLEY AND CRIPPEN
Fast-forward to June 7 and 8 on the Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s excellent website (www.tso.ca),
you’ll come across this:
The TSO salutes Jacques Israelievitch with a celebratory concert featuring him as soloist and conductor. The programme includes Israelievitch and longtime stand partner Associate Concertmaster Mark
Skazinetsky in Bach’s Double Concerto for Two
Violins in D Minor; Israelievitch as soloist in
Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D; and the world
premiere of a TSO commission by Canadian composer Kelly-Marie Murphy, Double Concerto for
Violin and Percussion, where Israelievitch will be
joined on stage by his son, Michael.
So I decided to get a bit ahead of the game, and interview him while
it’s still more or less “business as usual” (if there’s such a thing as
usual) for the TSO’s concertmaster of 20 years.
I’m interested in your comments on the choice of repertoire for that
June concert—I assume you had a say in the program!
JI: I proposed the progam ... The Bach ‘Double Violin’ to start: well
Bach is a great way to start any concert, and I wanted to recognize
the man who has turned my pages for 17 years: a fine person, fine
player, my associate concert master and a friend.
The Kelly-Marie Murphy Double Concerto for me and Michael is
in recognition of a new side to my career: the Duo with Michael.
With the Duo of course there is a pragmatic aspect to commissioning
—there is not much repertoire for percussion and violin. There is a
nice story here too. Ten years ago, for my fiftieth birthday, my wife
Gabrielle commissioned seven composers to write pieces for me.
One was someone very special to me, Michael Colgrass, and his
piece, called Hammer and Bow, for violin and marimba, was the
first time that my son Michael and I stood and played together this
way. He was fifteen then. Come June, I will for the first time in 36
years not be governed by the schedule of a symphony orchestra, and
this duo with Michael will be one of the things I will have more time
to pursue.
As for the Tchaikovsky, it stands as one of the great violin concertos and Tchaikovsky is very festive—so, a festive piece for a festive
occasion. It is also specially significant for me because it was the
first concerto I played as concertmaster with the St. Louis Symphony,
my first engagement as concertmaster, 30 years ago.
Part of the reason I wanted to do this story now, rather than closer to
June, was to get away from the general “sailing into the sunset” tone
that surrounds such things. Even with the dictates of a symphony
schedule you lead a very active musical life. Looking at the
WholeNote listings offers a couple of interesting glimpses into that—
symbolically rather fitting, because one is right at the beginning of the
period; the other, right at the end. February 3 you and Michael play a
little concert series, Primavera, in St Catharines; at the end, (March
2) you conduct the Koffler Chamber Orchestra.
Well we have talked about the Duo already. Conducting the Koffler
Chamber Orchestra is also an activity that will grow – we will probably do more concerts and I will have more time to devote to it. I’m
hoping to become involved with other aspects of the school too but it
is early still; generally more time for chamber music is something I
hunger for; and I will keep my faculty appointments at the University
of Toronto and the Royal Conservatory. The fact is I am only retiring
from this one appointment, (albeit a very important one). I have fortunately been healthy enough to do all these things and intend to be as
busy as before, but with my own schedule, not an orchestra’s.
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All that being said, this seems like a hugely busy
period at the TSO too: 6 conductors—(Charles
Dutoit, Saraste, Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Ludovic
Morlot, Rob Kapilow, and Oundjian). How difficult
is it working with this many conductors in short
order, compared to when the resident conductor is
on the podium most of the time?
First I should say I will not be playing all of the
weeks you have named. This is, to the orchestra’s
benefit and mine, a bit of a mini-sabbatical. Of the
six I will be there for Dutoit, Nezet-Seguin and
Oundjian, not for Saraste and the others. For the
orchestra it is an opportunity, prior to formal auditions, for my replacement to invite people to work
with the orchestra, to observe them.
Based on my own lack of knowledge, I wonder how many symphonygoers have a sense of what being the concertmaster entails, beyond
the applause for the orchestra being in tune ... .
The tuning is of course emblematic more than anything—not what the
job is about. In England they don’t call it the concertmaster, you
know, they call it the leader, and I think it describes the role better.
You are leader of the first violins, and as such leader of all the violins, and therefore, by extension, of all the strings, because of the
usual relationship of the violins to the string section. And again by
extension, you are leader of the whole body, in the relation of the
strings to the orchestra. How this plays out in general is that as leader you influence the style of the orchestra, its fundamental consistency. Consistency is profoundly important, especially when the orchestra is dealing with many different conductors. Don’t misunderstand
me: variety is very healthy, for orchestra and for audience alike. But
consistency of bowing style, of articulation, is what the individual
conductor can then build on. Because it is always helpful to have
something to fall back on.
It is mostly in rehearsal that the leader’s influence is felt, but not
only then. It is in performance too. And don’t forget that before the
rehearsals even start, four weeks before, it is the leader who prepares the bowings for the scores, turns them into the librarian who
must then distribute the scores, two weeks before rehearsal.
Every player goes into the actual rehearsal prepared. That is
automatic with a first rate, first tier orchestra. For all practical
purposes, the conductor should be able to expect that the process of
rehearsal is a process not of preparation but of refinement.
There are other things too... many other things. Take auditions.
For example, the concertmaster must sit at every audition, as someone whose opinion is sought, and who has the overall consistency of
the orchestra as a highest priority.
Still on the subject of this month’s conductors: this marks Saraste’s
first return to the TSO since his departure. What will he notice?
He will see that morale is good. That the orchestra is still well managed. That there are a lot more young people attending. Was the Hall
already refurbished when he left? He will notice that.
It was around the time of his departure that the orchestra was going
through the darkest time, perhaps, in its history, wasn’t it?
Without doubt it was the most difficult... .Complete uncertainty as to
whether we would have an orchestra at all. And being cut from 50 to
40 weeks was very precarious. I have to say I toyed with the idea of
leaving – but once I decided to stay, that was when the reduced
weeks actually made it easier to develop other activities like some
that we have talked about.
I’d like to say these twenty years have been wonderful. Not always
the happiest, but suffered together. There has been, consistently, a
lot of wonderful music making going on.
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of Smetana and Dvorak’s beloved Czech landscape. All the works recorded here were written between 1921 and 1931, although stylistically they could easily pre-date the turn of the
century. Joaquin Valdepeñas shines in the
charming Trio for clarinet, viola and piano with
by David Olds Steven Dann and David Louie. Dann is featured with Dianne Werner in the occasionally
latter which inspired Gould biographer
darker Sonata for viola and piano, but the
Michael Stegemann to create “The Glenn
highlights for me are the Quintet for piano and
Gould Trilogy – A Life” (Sony Classical
strings, where Louie and Dann are joined by
88697130642), including “The Idea of Music”, violinists Erika Raum and Marie Bérard and
“The Drop-Out” and “The Quiet in the Studio”. cellist Bryan Epperson, with its gently haunting
Produced for German
opening theme which returns in the final moveradio WDR-3 in
ment, and the lush String Sextet which adds
Cologne, this outviolist Yosef Tamir and cellist David Hetheringstanding three-part
ton to the strings mentioned above. You
documentary comwouldn’t know from this warm pastoral music
bines Gould’s words,
that at the same time he was writing these
in his own voice and
works Röntgen was teaching analysis classes
that of Tom Zahner
in the music of Hindemith, Stravinsky and
who portrays Gould
Schoenberg. Recorded at The Living Arts
much in the same
Centre in Mississauga last April, the sound is
way as Colm Feore did in “Thirty-two Short
as excellent as the playing.
Films…”, with performance excerpts, biographical information and musicological inCanadian composer Andrew Paul MacDonsights in a most extraordinary fashion. The
ald’s extensive output ranges from vocal setslightly risqué interaction between Gould and
tings to large orchestral works and he received
narrator Leslie Malton, who in imaginary diathe 1995 JUNO Award for Best Classical
logues takes Gould to task on numerous subComposition for his Violin Concerto. Like
jects and doesn’t put up with much of his non- Röntgen, MacDonald’s music is not necessarily
sense, is both intriguing and exhilarating. This
of its time – no envelopes are being pushed
3-CD talking book is an entertaining and
here – but also like Röntgen’s it is very well
thought provoking addition to the Gould canon
crafted and has a personal, expressive voice.
and I highly recommend it.
“The Winds of Thera” (Centrediscs CMCCD 12407) is the latest CD devoted to
A number of other discs to come my way
MacDonald’s work
recently also feature some very fine local
and it was released
performers. First is the latest addition to the
by the Canadian
discography of the ARC Ensemble (AssociMusic Centre just
ates of the Royal Conservatory) with “Right
before Christmas. It
Through the Bone” (RCA Red Seal
features accordionist
88697-15837-2) featuring chamber music by Joseph Petric,
Julius Röntgen. Previously unknown to me is oboist Normand
this Leipzig-born
Forget and the
composer (1855 Penderecki String
Quartet performing works written especially
1932) who spent his
for them. Commissioned by Petric, the 1997
professional career
title piece successfully balances the free-bass
in The Netherlands
accordion with string quartet and exploits the
where he co-founded
range of colours available to these “bellows
the Amsterdam Conand bows”. Petric and Forget, who perform
servatory of Music
frequently as a duo, are featured in the only
and whose lasting
piece which doesn’t involve strings, Primavera
legacy includes
“Gaudeamus”, a large house with a “floating” (after Botticelli) a somewhat angular and
expressive work involving extended techniques
music room built for him by one of his sons,
which later became the home of the “Gaudea- written for the duo’s 2006 summer tour of
Nova Scotia. The Penderecki’s Jeremy Bell
mus-Foundation”, an organization established
for the promotion of Dutch modern music after and Christine Vlajk are featured in Hymenaethe Second World War. The title of the disc is us, a wedding processional and dance for violin
and viola. Acting as a book-end to the work for
taken from a quote by Edvard Grieg: “Julius
accordion and strings with which the disc
Röntgen may not be as famous as his cousin
begins, Pythikos nomos dating from one year
Conrad (the pioneer of radiography) but his
earlier, is a quintet for oboe and strings. Macmusic is more powerful than X-Rays. It goes
Donald requires the oboist to double on English
right through the bone.” Listening to the disc
horn and oboe d’amore. Again colouration is a
before reading the liner notes I mistakenly
key factor and I love these sonorities which
assumed the composer to be Norwegian and
believed I could hear depictions of the Scandi- remind me of one of my favourite miniatures,
navian countryside à la Grieg and also traces
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EDITOR’S CORNER: February 2008
The Glenn Gould Foundation has designated
2008 as The Year of Glenn Gould. While most
of Gould’s Columbia recordings have stayed in
the catalogue throughout the years, and all are
currently available in the 80 CD “Complete
Original Jacket Collection” and the 70 CD, 8
box “Glenn Gould Edition” from Sony Classical, the world’s seemingly insatiable interest in
Canada’s most famous eccentric has resulted
in the commercial release of virtually every bit
of archival material available. Recent additions
to the Glenn Gould discography include the 6
CD set “The Young Maverick” (CBC
Records PSCD20306) including CBC radio
performances from the three years preceding
his signing with Columbia in 1955, and
“The Radio Artist”
(CBC Records
PSCD20315) which
brings together five
hour-long radio documentaries which
Gould “composed” for
the CBC. Highlights
of the mono piano discs include a 1954 performance of Bach’s Goldberg Variations and
the Concerto in D Minor with the strings of the
Toronto Symphony under Sir Ernest MacMillan’s direction, a number of Beethoven sonatas, and live performances of his first and
second piano concertos again with the TSO
and MacMillan, and the “Ghost” piano trio with
Alexander Schneider and Zara Nelsova. The
final CD features Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto with the CBC Radio Symphony and JeanMarie Beaudet and solo pieces by Schoenberg,
Webern and Berg. “The Radio Artist” includes
the three famous documentaries that exemplify
Gould’s “contrapuntal” approach, busily interweaving the voices of the participants in an at
times cacophonous collage - “The Idea of
North”, “The Latecomers” and “The Quiet in
the Land” - along with more straight-forward
portraits of Pablo Casals and Leopold
Stokowski.
While these archival
collections add to our
appreciation of the
mastery and maturity
of the young pianist
(Gould was 20 years
old in the earliest of
the recordings) and
of the technological
visionary who gave up public performance to
concentrate on the magic of the recording
studio to realize not only his vision of how
music should be heard, but also to “compose”
his ground-breaking documentaries. It is these
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Sunday, February 24, 2008 8:00 P.M.
Francophonia
Nadina Mackie Jackson, bassoon & Guy Few, trumpet
Longtime friends and colleagues from Québec and Ontario join forces to compose,
conduct and perform powerful new works for solo trumpet and solo bassoon with
orchestra. Featuring, “Chronicles”, a new double concerto by Alain Trudel and solo
works by Mathieu Lussier, this concert covers a vast palette of French colour and
virtuosity, from the coruscating chords of Debussy, fauvist colours of Jolivet to the
latin warmth of Lussier and insightful musical intelligence of Trudel. A rare and
thrilling opportunity to hear two of the finest wind soloists in company with harp soloist
Erica Goodman and the Toronto Chamber Orchestra conducted by Alain Trudel.
Thursday, February 28, 2008 8:00 P.M.
David Rudder’s Calypso Journey
With Lord Superior & Drew Gonsalves
Rolling Stone proclaimed Toronto-based David Rudder as “a Trinidad national hero
on the order of Marley in Jamaica, Fela in Nigeria and Springsteen in New Jersey”
This three-time calypso monarch invites Trinidad’s calypso legend Lord Superior and
Toronto’s youthful calypsonian Drew Gonsalves to Glenn Gould Studio. Join three
generations of performers as they reveal the hypnotic rhythms and power of the
calypso lyric, uncovering the roots of modern day soca, reggae, hip hop and rap.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 8:00 P.M.
Toca Loca - the P*P Project
Gregory Oh, Aiyun Huang &Simon Docking
When P*P meets pr*per, the only thing that becomes clear is that some boundaries
are anything but! Listen to Toca Loca, the hardest hitting ensemble in Canada, as
they play a program of entirely new songs written especially for them. The cuttingedge of Canada’s composers write P*P influenced work, the all-stars of jazz throw
their hats in the ring, and some of Canada’s most interesting indie-rockers flex their
contemporary music chops.
For complete details visit
www.glenngouldstudio.com
Tickets ($25 adult / $20 student/seniors) can be purchased in the following ways:
In Person by visiting the Glenn Gould Studio Box Office,
at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre, 250 Front St. West, Toronto,
during regular hours, 2:00 - 6:30 p.m., Mon-Sat. (except holidays)
x By Phone: (416) 205-5555 or By Fax: (416) 205-5551
x By Mail: Glenn Gould Studio Box Office,
250 Front St. West., Toronto, ON, M5V 3G5
x By Internet: visit www.glenngouldstudio.com
x
Glenn Gould Studio, Canadian Broadcasting Centre, 250 Front St. West, Toronto
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members Alistair Kay on trombone in Londonderry Air and Scott Irvine on tuba in Ellington’s title track. Jim Gardner and Raymond
EDITOR’S CORNER
Tizzard share trumpet duties, blending and
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phrasing seamlessly, and Joan Watson is, as
Benjamin Britten’s Phantasy Quartet for oboe always, impeccable on the horn. But as if this
and strings. Originally written for Lawrence
were not enough, they have brought in a ringer
Cherney and the Penderecki quartet, Normand in the form of guest artist Guido Basso whose
Forget proves himself more than up to the
mellow flugelhorn is featured on three of the
multi-tasking lead, alternating warmth and
jazzier tracks. The disc includes extended
lovely tone with barking multi-phonics as resuites by brass stalwarts Morley Calvert and
quired. Concert note: The Penderecki Quar- Howard Cable along with Trois Hommages by
tet performs for the Algoma Conservatory
Jim McGrath, a Toronto composer best known
Concerts in Sault Ste. Marie on February 9 and for his film and television work, and a tribute to
at the Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music
Glenn Gould in the form of Scott Irvine’s stateSociety on February 13. Joseph Petric is fealy arrangement of the aria from The Goldberg
tured in Gubaidulina’s Seven Words with cellist Variations. Concert note: The True North
David Hetherington in Soundstreams’ presen- Brass will be featured in concert with the
tation “The Seven Last Words” on March 16
Sudbury Symphony Orchestra on Saturday
here in Toronto.
March 1 at 2:00.
“Beginning to See the Light” is the latest
offering from the True North Brass
(www.truenorthbrass.com) and it features a
well-balanced overview of the diverse
interests of this
accomplished ensemble. They take
turns in the spotlight
with unusual forays
into the world of
melody from bass
One final note, in something of a departure
from its usual modus operandi Mooredale
Concerts will present an afternoon of choral
music this month featuring the excellent Norwegian ensemble Nordic Voices. The sixvoice, conductorless choir’s most recent CD
Regis Terrae – Music from the Time of
Charles V (Chandos CHSA 5050) features
music composed during the reign of the Holy
Roman Emperor who was also the King of
Spain from 1516 until his abdication in 1556.
Composers Manchicourt, Morales, Clemens
“non Papa”, Guerrero and Gombert
are featured on this
stunning Super
Audio disc. My
only nominal complaint is that the
repertoire, exquisite
and beautifully
performed as it is,
has a certain sameness due to its narrow focus
and didn’t sustain my interest throughout.
Concert note: This quibble will be moot however when Nordic Voices perform on February
3rd at Walter Hall. The concert promises music
from the 16th to the 21st centuries including
microtonal Norwegian folk music & Tuvan
overtone singing.
We welcome your feedback and invite submissions. CDs and comments should be sent to:
The WholeNote, 503 – 720 Bathurst St. Toronto ON M5S 2R4. We also welcome your input
via our website, www.thewholenote.com.
David Olds
DISCoveries Editor
discoveries@thewholenote.com
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TALIVALDIS KENINS
remembered by Larry Lake
Canadian composer Talivaldis Kenins
died on Sunday, January 20th. He was
88. He was born in Latvia, studied in
France and came to Canada in 1951.
He taught at the University of Toronto
from 1952 until his retirement in 1984.
He leaves a large body of work, including symphonies, concerti, cantatas, an oratorio and many solo and
chamber works for instruments and
voice.
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Those are the bare facts about Talivaldis Kenins. What they
don’t say is that Kenins was one of Canada’s finest composers. The
quality of his music was second to none. His craft was honed by
study in his native Latvia at the Conservatory at Riga with Joseph
Wihtol and at the Paris Conservatory with Simone Plé-Caussade,
Olivier Messiaen, and Tony Aubin. He’d had success as a composer
before coming this country. His Septet was conducted by Hermann
Scherchen at the Darmstadt Ferienkurse für neue Musik in 1950.
He was also an outstanding performer. When Kenins and his
wife Valda came to Toronto in 1951, he became organist and choirmaster of St. Andrew’s Latvian Lutheran Church, where he founded
the highly respected St. Andrew’s Latvian Choir.
Kenins was also a great teacher. His students included such
outstanding Canadian musicians as Edward Laufer, Walter Kemp,
Bruce Mather, Imant Raminsh, Arthur Ozolins, Tomas Dusatko,
Robert Pritchard, James Rolfe, Ronald Bruce Smith and Scott
Wilkinson. Many remember him not just as Professor Kenins but as
“Tali,” their friend and mentor.
Tali embodied the very definition of a European gentleman
of the old school. People meeting him for the first time were struck
by his tall stature and aristocratic bearing. He looked like what he
was: a descendant of one of the first families of Latvia. Although he
was a musical prodigy, composing from the age of seven, he was
expected to follow his father into diplomacy. When the Soviets invaded Latvia after the war, they systematically eliminated the Latvian
elite, including many of the Kenins family. Tali told me that he had
no doubt that he’d have been killed if he’d remained in Latvia. Although he spent the majority of his life in Canada, he was created
Officer of the National Three-Star Order of the Republic of Latvia in
recognition of his musical achievements.
I was proud to call him my friend. Over the years, I shared
many moments with Tali. Although some of our conversations were
broadcast on the CBC, the most important were private. There was
always something to learn from Tali and about him. Like most great
men, he was complex. And make no mistake, Talivaldis Kenins was
a great man. He leaves a marvelous musical legacy, but to those of
us who knew him, he was most important because of who and what
he was. Canadians should be grateful that he graced us with his
presence for fifty-six of his eighty-eight years. Unfortunately, his
music is all too rarely heard today. We owe it to him and to ourselves to protect and promote the great legacy he left us.
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New Music
Just south of Brampton,
Sinfonia Mississauga will
premiere Ron Royer’s
BY RICHARD MARSELLA
Rhapsody for Violin and
Chamber Orchestra at the
Living Arts Centre on February 23rd. The piece was
written specifically for
Mississauga concert master
Happy new year and thanks to WholeNote for this opportunity to
introduce myself. I’m Richard Marsella, composer, erstwhile musi- and composer Ruth Fazal,
in homage to the early 20th
cal terrorist, and the recently-appointed Regional Director for the
century rhapsodies of Ravel
Ontario Office of the Canadian Music Centre. I have always perand Bartok.
sonally enjoyed exploring the uglier side of music, so in this colTravelling westward,
umn, I have decided to highlight some of the, if not downright ugly
just outside WholeNote’s
at least offbeat, programs that are being presented in different areas
current coverage area, on
across Ontario. Although the odd stuff might not seem to be hapHappy 75th, R.M.S.
February 1st the Windsor
pening in the more remote parts of the province, I’m a believer in
the notion that if you look hard enough, you can find the musical
Symphony unleashes Andrew Staniland’s orchestral work Protestbroccoli in every city, no matter what its size.
musik at the Assumption Chapel as part of the Windsor Canadian
I’ll begin where I began: the Brampton Indie Arts Festival 2008, Music Festival. Written in 2003, when the Iraq war began, this
a festival I founded and helped direct for the last eight years. This
anti-war piece is still as current as ever. This is a daring festival
year’s festival promises to showcase some of the country’s oddest
lineup, also featuring works by Francois Rose, Geof Holbrook and
composers, performers, and patrons. It’s a three day carnival that
many more.
runs from February 13th to 15th 2008 at the Rose Theatre in downSpeaking of rebellion in Canadian music: an ostrich told me that
town Brampton. This festival has always tried to present engaging
it’s somebody’s 75th birthday: Happy birthday R. Murray Schafer.
ideas to its loyal audience. This year is no exception, as we present Here are some events happening in the next while to toast Mr.
performances by Dorit Chrysler, Evergreen Club Contemporary
Schafer’s 75th year on planet Earth. On February 10th at 3pm AmiGamelan, Toca Loca, Born Ruffians, AIM Toronto Orchestra and
ci Chamber Ensemble will perform Schafer’s Theseus for harp and
over one hundred more artists. You haven’t lived until you’ve witstring quartet. On Feb. 13th at the Rose Theatre, the Molinari
nessed Dr. Steve Mann’s States of Matter Quintet, where they play
String Quartet will perform Schafer String Quartet No. 11 at the
under-water instruments, and use brainwaves to generate sound.
Brampton Indie Arts Festival. Finally, the National Arts Centre’s
And from there, let me move to blowing my own new horn! On “Schafer at 75” concerts on March 28th and 29th feature his string
the night of February 15th, the Canadian Music Centre’s renowned
quartets, vocal and chamber music.
series New Music in New Places proudly presents composer ChristAnd there’s more. The Music Gallery hosts Alison Melville’s
ien Ledroit’s daring event entitled Tradewinds. This event promises The Bird Project on February 23rd in Toronto. A full evening of
to shake things up in the City of Hamilton, as it features music in
music, visuals and spoken word, brand new music for this project
the Hamilton GO Centre with works by Christien Ledroit, Payton
comes from Ben Grossman, Linda Catlin Smith, Peter Hannan, DeMacDonald and Robert Rosen performed by Parmela Attariwala
bashis Sinha, Alison Melville, and others, along with the music of
(violin) and Shawn Mativetsky (tabla).
Hildegard of Bingen, Messiaen, Bach, van Eyck, Hans Poser &
The same evening, on February 15th at the Jane Mallett Theatre, more.
Soundstreams Canada presents the first of two performances of The
On March 2nd the Koffler Centre of the Arts presents An AfterJourney (Pimoteewin) a compelling music drama for narrator, two
noon of Music and Culture with a wonderfully diverse program
soloists, choir and chamber orchestra. The Journey’s libretto was
featuring works by Mozart, Glick, Mozetich, Buczinsky, Gilles,
penned by internationally award winning playwright Tomson HighLeclerc & Levkovich. The Koffler Chamber Orchestra, under the
way, with a distinctive musical score by Melissa Hui and choreogra- direction of Jacques Israelievitch is featured, as is accordion virtuoso
phy by Michael Greyeyes. This world premiere features a chamber Joseph Macerollo.
orchestra, and the Elmer Iseler Singers, conducted by Lydia Adams.
Looking beyond the purview of this month’s issue, from March
This work is based on the Aboriginal myth of Weesageechak (the
12th to 16th, is the premiere of Juliet Palmer’s Stitch in Toronto at
Trickster) and Misigoo (The Eagle), and their journey far from the
Lennox Contemporary. This avant-garde work features the superland of the living to cross the river to the magic island where the
talented lineup of vocalists Christine Duncan, Patricia O’Callahan
Spirits of the Dead dance every night by the light of the moon.
and Neema Bickersteth. Anchored in the sounds and rhythms of
sewing, Stitch uncovers the emotional layers of the relationship be-
“Ear Broccoli” not boring
LINDBERG
Timo & Magnus – Finland Today | Friday February 8, 2008
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Guest Composer Magnus Lindberg with Timo Korhonen guitar
NMC Ensemble | Robert Aitken direction | David Hetherington cello
PREMIERES
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Michel Gonneville and his Protégés | Friday March 7, 2008
Gilbert | Ristic | Côté | Frechette | McKinley | Callado | Gonneville
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NMC Ensemble | Robert Aitken direction | Accordes quartet
Max Christie clarinet | Jean Laurendeau ondes Martenot
Premieres | Friday April 11, 2008
Alice Ho | So Jeong Ahn | Chris Paul Harman | Rodney Sharman | Juan Trigos
Glenn Gould Studio | 250 Front Street West | 416.205.5555
NMC Ensemble | Robert Aitken direction | Accordes quartet
Dieter Hennings guitar | Kathleen McLean bassoon
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Erica Goodman harp | David Swan piano
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tween woman and barely-tamed machine.
All this wonderful noise, no matter how subtle, might prove to be
too much of a good thing, so I highly recommend attending Jeffrey
McFadden’s classical guitar recital at Heliconian Hall on February
16th for subtlety of a different kind. Mr. McFadden is undeniably
one of the country’s finest guitarists. And speaking of subtlety, the
Gryphon Trio debut a new work by Marjan Mozetich on March 4th
at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts.
Last, from March 7th through March 12th, the Canadian Children’s Opera Chorus presents the much-anticipated opera from Canadian composer Alexander Rapoport. Part history of science, part
fantasy, Dragon in the Rocks is an opera for all ages, and you can
get a preview (pre-listen I should say) March 5 at the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre..
A colleague once told me: “If you’re bored, it’s because you’re
boring”. There is a lot to see and hear in several cities across Ontario. I hope you enjoy your serving of ear broccoli.
Richard Marsella is the Ontario Regional Director for the Canadian
Music Centre. He can be reached at rmarsella@musiccentre.ca
Celebrating 25 years
Lawrence Cherney, Artistic Director
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PIMOOTEEWIN
A magical Cree Opera with
Libretto by Tomson Highway
and Music by Meilssa Hui
A SOUNDSTREAMS WORLD PREMIERE
In cooperation with the Elmer Iseler Singers
February 15 & 16 @ 8 pm
Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front St. East
Pre-concert chat @ 7pm on Feb 15
Young Artist Overture @ 7pm on Feb 16
The Elmer Iseler Singers
Lydia Adams conductor
Xin Wang, soprano
Bud Roach, tenor
Cara Gee, narrator
Michael Greyeyes,
choreography & stage direction
Chamber Orchestra
Weesageechak (the Trickster) and Misigoo (The Eagle) journey across
the river to a magic island where the Spirits of the Dead dance every
night by the light of the moon. Weesageechak captures the spirits in a
basket but on the way back, one by one they begin to escape.
Tickets $37 adult/ $29 senior & arts worker/ $10 student.
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The Seven Last Words that
Christ spoke before his death
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WORLD VIEW
Klezmer Milestone
by Karen Ages
Freedman, Marilyn Lerner, Martin Van de Ven, Allan Merovitz, Evelyne
Datl, Anne Lederman and Rick Lazar to name a few, some of whom will
appear as guests Feb. 9 & 10. The current Bulgars, in addition to Buchbinder and Wall are Peter Lutek (clarinets), Tania Gill (piano), Victor
Bateman (bass) and Max Senitt (drums). So what does the future hold?
At the moment, there’s a new CD in the works, with original songs by
Buchbinder and Wall, with English lyrics and a political bent. “We’re closing the Chutzpah! Festival in Vancouver on March 2,” says David Buchbinder, “and as soon as the CD we’re currently mixing is ready, we’ll
book a cross-Canada tour. We’re very bullish about the new music and
think we’ll reach a much wider audience because most of the material is
in English as opposed to Yiddish – still very Jewish inspired, and clearly
from that sound world, but in no way traditional.”
CURRENTLY FLYING! starting from left: Dave Wall,
Peter Lutek, Tania Gill, Victor Bateman;
Bottom left: David Buchbinder; Bottom right: Max Sennit
Milestones are a time for celebration. This month, Toronto’s longest running Klezmer band, the Flying Bulgars, celebrate their 20th anniversary
with a concert at the Al Green Theatre (Miles Nadal JCC), on February
9 and 10. It all began with a few musicians getting together for a wedding
gig those many years ago, inspired by an early Klezmer Conservatory
Band recording. “I had just met (musician) Allen Cole at a party,” says
bandleader and trumpeter David Buchbinder, “and I believe he suggested
the others”. The others involved in that first wedding gig were Cole (piano/accordion, known to many as a music-theatre/opera composer), bassist
Mike Milligan, Ernie Tollar (winds), John Lennard (drums, percussion)
and none other than vocalist Holly Cole. Originally “there was no intention of taking it past that first, functional gig; but the response of the
wedding guests was so overwhelming that we decided to learn some
more music and take it into the clubs.” With a few changes in personel
(Victor Bateman as bassist, the addition of a violinist), the Bulgars soon
performed their first public gig at a sold-out Clinton’s Tavern, at a time
when Klezmer music had not been heard in Toronto for decades. In the
twenty years since, the band has put out five CDs and two music videos,
has had three Juno nominations, toured extensively in Canada, the US
and Europe, and is recognized for its contributions to the development of
New Jewish Music. Though rooted in the traditions of Eastern Europe,
the Bulgars are always exploring new ground, creating new compositions
and arrangements.
Buchbinder, and vocalist David Wall for instance, have very active
careers as composers well beyond the Bulgars (Buchbinder has several
bands on the go for which he writes most of the music, and also composes for film, television, theatre and modern dance). And the roster of those
who have passed through the ranks of the Bulgars over the years reads
like a who’s who of Canada’s best known jazz, folk, world and contemporary musicians. These include Daniel Barnes, Andrew Downing, Lori
Other highlights in brief:
Described as “the international Celtic band from Ontario that hardly ever
plays here”, Enter the Haggis performs at Hugh’s Room February 1
and 2... . The Ashkenaz Foundation presents a gala evening with the
legendary Theodore Bikel, star of song, stage and screen, February 2
at the George Weston Hall (Toronto Centre for the Arts). Now 83, Bikel
will perform songs in Yiddish, Hebrew, Ladino, Russian and English, backed
by pianist Tamara Brooks, and Toronto’s Beyond the Pale folk/klezmer
ensemble... . Dora Award winning dancer/choreographer Peter Chin’s
company Tribal Crackling Wind presents his latest creation, Transmission of the Invisible, a new multi-media dance work based on Chin’s
three years of research in Cambodia. Featuring music/sound design by
Chin and Garnet Willis based on their live recordings of Khmer musicians
on traditional instruments, as well as video by Cylla von Tiedemann, the
work plays at Harbourfront’s Enwave Theatre February 6-9.
The Sony Centre for the Performing Arts (formerly the Hummingbird) presents the Canadian premiere of African Footprint, South Africa’s longest running show which tells the history of that country through
music and dance, February 7–9. The 30-member troupe created by entertainer/producer Richard Loring, has performed worldwide... .
Presented by Wilkes, Loesser & Brookes Diamond Productions in association with Music Nova Scotia, DRUM! comes to Massey Hall February 8 as part of its Ontario tour. Representing Aboriginal, Acadian, Black
and Celtic cultures of Canada, the 20 musicians, dancers, drummers and
singers blend each culture’s distinct rhythms in what is bound to be an
exciting and inspiring show.
Toronto’s Indian/jazz fusion band autorickshaw kicks off its 2008
season with a concert at Lula Lounge, February 19. Band members Suba
Sankaran, Ed Hanley, Rich Brown and Patrick Graham are joined by
guest musicians Mark Duggan (percussion) and Dylan Bell (keyboards).
The evening will feature several of Duggan’s compositions, new pieces
by Sankaran and Brown, and tunes from their 2007 CD So the Journey
Goes... . One final news item: the Escola de Samba de Toronto performs in Sao Paolo, Brazil, February 1–5 and will be guests of honour at
the Carnaval celebrations there. The invitation came after exposure in
Brazil of the documentary film We Are Samba, produced by CBC’s Fifth
Estate editor Avi Lev. Congratulations to Alan Hetherington and the ensemble!
Karen Ages can be reached at worldmusic@thewholenote.com
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Early, Period
Don't miss the next two Toronto Consort presentations!
by Frank Nakashima
Dance of the sugar plum bassets?
The Toronto Consort is proud to present the renowned Montrealbased ensemble Constantinople which, since its founding in 1998,
has earned an international reputation for its unique juxtaposition
of medieval music and the living traditions of the Middle East,
especially the classical Persian tradition. Led by master setar
player Kiya Tabassian, in “Ay!! Amor…” the ensemble weaves a
tapestry of lovesongs from Persia, Armenia, Iberia and the French
trouvère repertoire, with special guest singer and collaborator
Françoise Atlan, whose own Judeo-Berber roots have given her a
deep affinity for Mediterranean singing traditions.
www.torontoconsort.org
Toward the Centre:
MUSIC FºR A MEDIEVªL
LABY|iNTH
February 29 & March 1, at 8 pm
The medieval labyrinth, found in many of the great Gothic
cathedrals of Europe, is a compelling symbol of the journey to
the centre (and back again), of the perils and the path of life,
and of beauty. In the Middle Ages pilgrims visiting the
labyrinth danced in this sacred space, and the Toronto
Consort has researched this ancient custom to present a
stunning program of music for the labyrinth: lively medieval
dance-songs, sophisticated renaissance polyphony by Josquin
Desprez, even music by J.S. Bach!
This concert is part of the
Sacred Spaces, Sacred Circles Arts Festival,
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Isn’t it interesting how certain
music becomes memorable or
special because of the instruments used in making it? Of
course, this phenomenon isn’t
necessarily restricted to “early
music” although Johann Georg
Albrechtsberger’s Concerto for
Jaw Harp and Mandolin does
come to mind. Hmmm, maybe
that’s not such a good example.
In some cases, though, one can
hardly even imagine the music
being played by instruments
other than the one for which it
was written. Take the use of a
celeste in The Dance of the
Sugar Plum Fairies (from
Sigiswald Kuijken (and his viola da spalla)
Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker
Tafelmusik, February 13th to 17th
Suite). Can you hear the music
in your mind in any other way?
Well, this month could well add to your list of pieces of music indelibly imprinted with the sound of the unusual instruments you will have
the opportunity of hearing.
Apparently, the basset (“little bass”) horn, a rare and oddly-shaped
instrument of the clarinet family, had a special place in Mozart’s
heart; he admired the magical, other-worldly sound of it. You will
have rare opportunity to hear not just one, but three basset horn players
together, performing Mozart’s Divertimenti and his Notturni for Basset
Horn Trio and Voices (February 23). Colin Savage, Stephen Fox, and
Nicolai Tarasov are the basset horn players who will be joined by
Michelyn Wright (soprano), Michele DeBoer (soprano), Esteban Cambre (bass-baritone).
It’s not likely that one would hear a tuba, for instance, playing music inspired by birds. Alison Melville’s recital of Music for the Birds
(February 14), using traverso, recorders, and seljefløyte, demonstrates a better-suited combination of music and instrument. Later
(February 23), also under Melville’s guidance, a multi-media presentation, The Bird Project, the repertoire ranges from medieval to contemporary, with music by Hildegard of Bingen, Messiaen, Bach, van
Eyck, Hans Poser & others.
During the past ten years, the Montreal-based ensemble, Constantinople, has earned an international reputation for its unique mixing of
European Medieval music and the traditions of the Middle East, especially the classical Persian tradition. Led by master setar player Kiya
Tabassian, this ensemble brings a living tradition of lovesongs from
Persia, Armenia, Iberia as well as the early French trouvère repertoire, with guest singer Françoise Atlan who is well-known for her
facility with Mediterranean singing traditions. (February 8, 9)
Special guest Sigiswald Kuijken, a pioneer of the early music movement as well as Tafelmusik director Jeanne Lamon’s violin teacher,
offers the Canadian premiere of a Bach suite played on a viola da spalla. What kind of viola is that, you ask? Go find out! Mozart’s “Linz”
Symphony on period instruments, and Haydn’s Symphony No. 82 nicknamed “The Bear” for the growling bass part, promise to make this an
evening that changes the way you listen (February 13–17).
And let’s not forget the voice as a specialized instrument: Music
written in the 1600s for virtuoso women singers, specifically for two
high voices and accompaniment, creates a very luscious texture. When
soprano Alexa Wing joins Hallie Fishel and John Edwards for a concert of Early Baroque music featuring works by the great Claudio
Monteverdi and by Barbara Strozzi (February 23), you’ll hear vocal
fireworks unlike that of any other period of music.
Staying with the topic (voice):
Handel had a special talent for
composing music for singers,
especially opera. These days, we
don’t hear music from his operas
much. However, this month there
will be two opportunities: a showcase performance of a forthcoming U of T Opera Division production of Handel’s Ariodante
(February 26); and an Opera in
Concert performance of Tamerlano with singers Lynne McMurtry, Shannon Mercer, Marcel van Neer, Jenny Cohen, Scott
Belluz, and the Aradia Ensemble
U of T Opera School alumna
under the direction of Kevin MalShannon Mercer
lon (February 3).
As part of the Sacred Spaces, Sacred Circles Arts Festival, a
celebration of music and architecture, the Toronto Consort has created a program of music for a medieval labyrinth (February 29,
March 1) with medieval dances and music by Josquin Desprez and
J.S. Bach, all of which was to be found in a sacred space.
Meanwhile, the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber
Choir explore the ancient Hebrew poetry of the Song of Songs which
has inspired glorious music by composers throughout time. This
concert, also part of the festival mentioned above, features music by
Purcell, Monteverdi, the Bach family, Healey Willan, Arabic music
sung by Egyptian-Canadian vocalist Maryem Tollar, and a new work
by Canadian composer Christos Hatzis (March 6–9).
Finally, an event that didn’t make it into the listings: Membra Jesu
Nostri by Dietrich Buxtehude is yet another rarely-performed choral
masterpiece, actually a cycle of seven cantatas. Nota Bene Period
Orchestra (www.nbpo.net), in collaboration with the Menno Singers, presents a performance of this work under the leadership of
artistic director, Borys Medicky, and music director, Linda Melsted
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Choral Scene
by Allan Pulker
From spring chickens to early canaries
Youthful Voices
I suspect that if you surveyed adult choristers you would find that the
majority of them sang in choirs when they were children and teenagers.
The fact that there are so many fine children’s and youth choirs in the
community certainly bodes well for the future of choral music and its
harmonising influence. One of these, the Univox Choir, Dallas Bergen’s
choir for young adults, (see October WholeNote) sings a program of
Renaissance and Baroque motets on February 1st. On the same day the
Bell’Arte Singers are bringing together three local high school choirs to
perform together at Christ Church Deer Park. Kudos to the folks at
Bell’Arte for this, enriching the lives of the members of the three choirs
involved and strengthening our choral tradition. Other performances by
children’s and youth choirs are: February 14 – the women’s choir of the
University of Western Ontario Faculty of Music; February 15 – the
Women’s Choir and St. Cecilia Singers of the U of T Faculty of Music;
February 24 - the Toronto Children’s Chorus Boys’ Choirs and Training Choirs; February 28 - the Bach Children’s Choir; February 29 – the
Master Chorale of the U of T Faculty of Music.
Choral Concert Programming
There are really two types of choral concerts – the ones composed of
many short compositions related to a theme and those built around large
landmarks, so to speak, of the choral repertoire. It is interesting how
many of the latter appear in this issue of WholeNote. There are, for
example, three performances of Rachmaninoff’s Vespers: February 22
& 24 by the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir with the Victoria Scholars;
and March 1 by the Tallis Choir. Two masterpieces of the English
Renaissance – William Byrd’s Great Service and Thomas Tallis’ Lamentations of Jeremiah – will be performed: the former by TACTUS Chamber Choir in Guelph on Feb. 23; the latter by the Grand Philharmonic
Chamber Singers on Feb. 23 & 24. The Grand Philharmonic Choir will
perform Rossini’s Petite Messe Solonnelle on Feb. 2 and on Feb. 21 the
St. James’ Singers will perform Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater. A recent largescale choral work, Derek Holman’s Requiem, will be performed by the
Orpheus Choir on March 2.
The program of many short compositions also has much to recommend it, as each work has a character and atmosphere of its own, creating fleeting but memorable moments, and giving the audience lots of
variety and changes of pace. The Timothy Eaton Memorial Church
Chamber Choir on February 15 and the Peterborough Singers on the
16th have programs built around a Valentine’s Day theme. The Amadeus Choir’s March 1 concert has a Celtic theme, the Gerald Fagan
Singers and Fanshawe Chorus’ program on March 2 is about travel, the
Toronto Welsh Male Voice Choir March 1 concert is programmed
around St. David’s Day, and the Victoria Scholars’ program on March 2
consists of works by Spanish composers, ancient and recent. Speaking
of Spanish composers, on the program of Nordic Voices’ February 3
Walter Hall concert, presented by Mooredale Concerts, will be rarely
performed compositions by the Spanish composer, Cristóbal Morales
(1512-53).
Extraordinarily two of our three professional choirs are expanding
their activities into opera this month: The Elmer Iseler Singers as part of
the world premiere February 15 of The Journey (Pimoteewin) with libretto by Tomson Highway and music by Melissa Hui; and on March
2 the Elora Festival Singers in a staged production of Purcell’s Did and
Aeneas.
Early canaries sighted! Finally, here’s a two-fold opportunity: first, to
help WholeNote get in fighting form for our annual spring Choral Canary pages; and, second, the chance to win tickets to the world renowned Harlem Gospel Chorus. See page 53 for details!
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A Choral Life Q&A PASSION HAS A VOICE
COMPILED AND EDITED BY MJ BUELL
featuring
Julie Winn
PHOTO: COLIN WINN
What was your first ever
choral experience?
I was 7 years old, in grade
2, and living in Montreal
when my first choral opportunity arose. I heard
over the school’s PA system that anyone in grade 3
Julie Winn (centre), with fellow Amadeus
choristers, Jane Gorman (left)
or older was welcome to
and Debbie DeChastelain (right).
audition for the school
choir. I ran home at lunch time and implored my mother to phone the
school and ask if I might be allowed to join, even though I was ‘underage’! Either my enthusiasm was endearing, or my major scale, sung
for Mr. Gutmanis in relatively decent tune, was considered adequate,
and I was allowed to join as a soprano. On a somewhat humorous
note, after a few rehearsals, I realized that the altos were being assigned MUCH more intriguing things to do. In a completely uncharacteristically subversive move, I slithered over to the alto section, and
stayed there, undetected, for the remainder of the year, blissfully
happy.
What choirs have you sung with?
I have sung with school choirs wherever I was studying: from my
grade 2 experience, through Beaconsfield High School in Montreal,
the Mount Allison (University) Choral Society and Women’s Chorus,
the Seton Chorale at Mount Saint Vincent University, a community
choir in Ajax , and the Amadeus Choir, where I have ‘resided’ most
happily for 18 years.
Are you currently singing with a choir?
I have been singing with the Amadeus Choir of Greater Toronto since
I moved to the Toronto area in 1990. I had been looking for an SATB
choral opportunity, and chose to audition for the Amadeus Choir after
attending a Christmas concert that really made an impact on me. The
songs presented through the Amadeus Choir’s Christmas Carol and
Chanukah Song Writing Competition were wonderfully innovative, and
the singing was exceptional. I could tell by the way the singers threw
themselves into the performances that they had a real passion for what
they were doing and a unique rapport with Lydia Adams, their conductor.
Where does your choral singing fit into other aspects of your life?
The real question here is, “How
does the rest of your life fit
around your choral singing?”
The choral experience has been
my passion for decades. It has
provided me with an artistic outlet, an intellectual challenge, the
camaraderie and rewards found
in collaborating with people who
share my interest, and at times,
an escape from life’s dingier
moments. My family supports
my obsession with choir; they
know it makes me happy!
What kind of concerts do you like
to attend? How often?
Because my own singing activities take me away from home
frequently, I don’t attend concerts as often as I’d like. This is
my dilemma; ultimately, I’d rather
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BAND Stand
Street Silver Band, Robert Redhead
will conduct his work, Quintessence.
Saturday, March 1 6:30 pm: The
by Jack MacQuarrie
Malta Band Club is hosting a special
It’s the beginning of a new year, and for many bands a time to relax after a
Tribute Evening to honour long time
hectic schedule: too many Christmas related performances packed into too few
member Sam Caruana. Sam began
days;the frustration of dealing with severe weather conditions which forced the
his musical training on French horn as
cancellation or rescheduling of many concerts. For me, personally, there was a
an eight year old in his native Malta.
silver lining to the vagaries of our December weather. My personal highlight was Since his band performed many paan unplanned performance. A brass quintet, of which I am a member, had been
rades, where marches were the order
scheduled to perform in a multi-group concert. Heavy snow and freezing rain
of the day, Sam soon tired of the less
forced a cancellation. When word got out that we had been snowed out, we were than challenging parts assigned to the
asked if we would care to play our planned repertoire at a pot luck dinner in a
French horns. Attracted to the counter
small Mennonite country church. After feasting on the most amazing array of
melodies of the euphonium, Sam
sumptuous food, we took our places at the front of the church. Children at our
switched, and soon after that added
Still stuck on his tuba:
feet, we played our previously planned program and then ventured out into the
trombone to his accomplishments.
BandStand’s MacQuarrie
frigid stormy night with a warm feeling of satisfaction.
After some years in Britain, Sam
Concerted effort: The Markham Concert Band has embarked on an effort moved to Canada in 1974 and soon became a regular at the fledgling Malta Band
to change their town council’s mind, arguing that bands and other community Club. Almost from the day he arrived in Canada he became involved in teaching.
musical groups are every bit as worthy of inclusion in a plan for a new recreation at the club. In the thirty plus years since his arrival hundreds of budding musicians
centre as swimmers, skaters and volleyball players. During a recent architect’s
of all ages, from young children to retired adults, have benefited from his tutelage.
presentation of plans for such a centre, it was obvious that musical groups had
Over the years he has also assumed the duties of conductor on at least three occareceived no consideration to date. Band and council representatives are now sched- sions. The Malta Band Club is located at 5745 Coopers Avenue in Mississauga.
uling visits to the municipally supported facilities of two or more bands in Southern Anyone interested in attending should contact the Club at 905-890-8507.
Ontario to observe how community musical groups are accommodated elsewhere.
Down the Road
Change of a different sort is taking place with the East York Concert Band.
Friday, April 11 to Sunday April 13: The Hannaford Festival of Brass, in
Ernie Walker, a member of the band since 1969 and conductor for the last 22
its fifth season, will take place in the Jane Mallett Theatre. Brass bands from
years, has retired and will become Music Director Emeritus. But the baton is in
good hands. Principal flute and Assistant Conductor Ramona Ehlert, a graduate of across Ontario and NewYork State will present their offerings. The weekend will
conclude with a performance by The Hannaford Street Silver Band, featuring a
the University of Toronto Faculty of Music, is the new Music Director. The
new triple concerto for trumpet, French horn and trombone by Gary Kulesha.
band’s 60th Anniversary Concert is planned for May 2008.
I’m also happy to report that the Lydian Wind Ensemble has been reconsti- Soloists for this work will be members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
May 30 to June 1, 2008: Plans for the first Ottawa International Brass Festival
tuted. Founded in 1998, by Bill Patton, the group stopped performing after Bill
suffered a near fatal heart attack in 2004. Now well enough to play again, Bill and are proceeding well, David Druce, conductor of the Maple Leaf Brass Band has
confirmed. More details should be available in time for our next issue.
2 other charter past members have rescued the Ensemble. Under the baton of
Steffan Brunette, founder of the Uxbridge Community Concert Band, the Ensemble resumed rehearsals in All Saints Catholic High School in Whitby last October.
They rehearse Thursday evenings and are looking for new members on most
instruments. For information contact Bill Patton at patton62@sympatico.ca.
The Kitchener Musical Society Band also has a new conductor, Dave Davidson, and now rehearse at Highland Road United Church, Kitchener on Monday
nights. For information contact Dave Davidson at 519-837-2678.
By the time this issue is distributed Weston Silver Band will have celebrated
their 87th anniversary with a special concert featuring a broad selection of favourites from concerts of previous years. The event, scheduled for January 27, featured guest appearances by four former conductors whose tenure spanned the
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by Jim Galloway
The Jazz Convention
2008 got off to a high energy
start when the 35th Annual
IAJE Convention Juggernaut
rolled into town with four days
of wall-to-wall concerts, clinics,
classes, panels, jam sessions
and displays all centred round
the business of jazz education. It
was impossible to take in everything and an endurance test just
to be there; but it gave some
opportunities to listen to some
significant members of the jazz
community - and not necessarily
as players, but expressing their
views and experiences verbally. The panel on the music of pianist
Wynton Kelly, for example, was a unique opportunity to hear bassist Paul West, drummer Jimmy Cobb and pianist Randy Weston
share their memories of and experiences with Kelly who, incidentally, died at age 43, in 1971, following an epileptic fit. He was, at
the time, appearing in Toronto at The Colonial Tavern.
On the Saturday afternoon there was a separate but timely event at
Roy Thomson Hall in the form of a tribute to Oscar Peterson. It
was free to the public thanks to the generosity of TD Canada Trust,
Roy Thomson Hall, National Arts Centre and a host of donors and
in-kind sponsors and suppliers.
Among the performers were pianist Monty Alexander and three
musicians who worked frequently with Mr. Peterson, Toronto bassist Dave Young, guitarist Ulf Wakenius and drummer Jeff Hamilton.
It has to be said that the afternoon was something of a mixed bag
ranging from a sincere if lengthy speech from the Right Honorable
Michaelle Jean, Governor General of Canada, an honest and revealing expression of love from Oscar’s daughter Celine, a warm tribute
given by Phil Nimmons and a somewhat self-indulgent speech by
Quincy Jones, interspersed with a variety of instrumental and vocal
performances, and winding up with the majestic voice of soprano
Measha Brueggergosman and the combined voices of The Nathaniel
Dett Chorale, The University of Toronto Gospel Choir, and Sharon
Riley and the Faith Chorale, performing Peterson’s “Hymn To Freedom”, directed by Andrew Craig. The proceedings were broadcast
live by CBC Radio.
Although he was acknowledged from the stage, it remains a mystery to me that Oliver Jones was sitting in the audience when he
most certainly should have been one of the participants.
In the December issue of WholeNote in 2002 (ironically, just
before the IAJE’s previous visit to Toronto), there is a conversation
between Oscar Peterson and myself, recorded at his home in Mississauga. In it he talks about his feelings on the direction jazz is taking,
about his favourite recording, about influences that shaped his music
and various incidents in his career. If you have any interest in reading it again, or for the first time, it has been posted conspicuously
on WholeNote’s website, www.the wholenote.com.
Chile For February
Also off on a high powered start to the year are bassist Dave
Young, saxophonist Mike Murley and saxophonist/pianist Phil Dwyer who are leaving on the “2008 Canadian Jazz Tour of Chile”.
It’s an example of the wheels of industry doing a good turn for jazz.
More specifically it’s about the fact that Chile and Canada share a lot
in common through their links in mining, and the jazz tour is aimed
at strengthening cultural links between the two countries. Canada’s
Barrick Gold Corporation, which has major mining operations in
Chile is supporting the tour and Air Canada is helping with transportation. (Let’s hope the flight isn’t cancelled.)
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There have been visits to
Chile in recent years by other
Canadian jazz artists including
Oliver Jones, Barry Elmes,
Bernie Senensky, Ed Bickert and
others. Dave, Mike and Phil are
welcome returnees: the three
musketeers - well, they are jazz
big shots -will join local musicians to play at festivals in Viña
del Mar, Frutillar, Copiapó and
Concón, as well as theatres and
club dates in Santiago, La Serena
and Vallenar.
presents
In TOwn
Here are a few of the highlights
in Toronto this month.
at
Chil’in out;
saxophonist Mike Murley
JAZZ.FM 91.1 continues their Sounds Of Jazz Series at The Old
Mill with the appearance on Monday February 4th of guitarist Bucky
Pizzarelli and special guests Neil Swainson on bass and Terry Clarke
on drums. A couple of weeks after that, The Three Tenors will hold
court, but not a word of Italian will be heard because we’re talking
about Alex Dean, Kelly Jefferson and Kirk MacDonald in a tribute to
the tenor saxophone.
If you are into something a little more esoteric you might want to
check out the Music Gallery at St. George the Martyr Church, located at 197 John St. On Friday February 8 at 8pm they will present
Timo and Magnus - Finland Today in their Classic Avant Series.
Artists appearing will be Magnus Lindberg, piano and Timo Korhonen, guitar, two of Finland’s leading musicians and with them New
Music Concerts Ensemble with Robert Aitken, flute and direction.
Not jazz, but interesting music.
Finally, if my editor permits, a smidgin of self-promotion: in 1993
my Wee Big Band made a CD called Kansas City Nights, recorded
before an audience at Toronto’s Montreal Bistro. Well, some fifteen
years later -(you can’t rush these things)-we have something like 400
arrangements in the book, the band has never sounded better and we
have a new CD, also recorded at the late, lamented Montreal Bistro.
On February 24th we are having a CD release party at the Japanese
Canadian Cultural Centre, a beautiful facility at 6 Garamond Court
(just off Wynford Drive, east of Don Mills Road) in Toronto. The
party gets under way at 4:00pm and you can join in the fun for a
modest stipend of $20. If you want to make a reservation, please call
416-515-0200 rather than the Cultural Centre.
As always, happy live listening! Our jazz listings, on page 49
offer a wealth of opportunity for it.
Fri Feb 1
Sat Feb 2
Fri Feb 8
Sat Feb 9
Fri Feb 15
Sat Feb 16
Fri Feb 22
Sat Feb 23
Fri Feb 29
Sat Mar 1
Fri Mar 7
Sat Mar 8
Fri Mar 14
Sat Mar 15
Fri Mar 21
Sat Mar 22
Fri Mar 28
Sat Mar 29
Blue Martini Duo
Peter Smith Trio
Heather Bambrick Trio
Sophia Perlman Duo
Pat Murray Duo
Bob Brough Duo
Russ Little Trio
Jazzophones
Stevie Vallance Trio
Lemon, Smylie, Peterson Trio
Bryan Toner Trio
Arnold Faber Trio
Waylen Miki Duo
Del Dako Trio
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OPERA AT HOME
by Phil Ehrensaft
On Opera
Janácek’s“House” will live
by Christopher Hoile
“They Say It Is My Greatest Work, But It Is Still Possible To Go
Higher”. So Leoš Janácek wrote to his muse Kamila Stösslová in
December, 1926, after a most successful reception of his penultimate
opera, The Makropulos Case. Janácek did go even higher in his
final opera, based on Dostoevsky’s autobiographical novel House of
the Dead, which captures the writer’s four years in Siberian prison
camps. Janácek began work on this grim material at the age of 73,
and concluded shortly before his death in 1928, while also composing his remarkable String Quartet No. 2, “Intimate Letters,” along
the way.
After Janácek’s death, two of his well-meaning students located
the third and final act of In the House of the Dead on the maestro’s
desk, found the work so sparsely orchestrated that they assumed that
it was incompletely orchestrated, and, with the best of intentions,
proceded to “complete” the orchestration, using all that Janácek had
taught them. For the posthumous 1930 premiere, the seemingly all
too grim conclusion was also softened up with an upbeat paeon to
freedom.
And so things remained from that posthumous premiere until the
never-flagging research efforts by conductor Sir Charles Mackerras
led to Janácek’s original final drafts. Mackerras confirmed that the
sparse orchestration was precisely what Janácek intended, to match
Dostoevsky’s bleak novel, and conducted the opera accordingly.
House of the Dead is the culmination of Janácek’s definitive career as classical music’s ultimate “late starter.” In fact the trajectory
of his life would make a fine opera plot, if it were not too implausible, even for opera. Born in 1854, Janácek was little known, for the
first 62 years of his life, outside his native Moravia, the secondary
province of a secondary country in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
His belated international repute was sparked by a 1916 Prague National Opera performance of Jenufa, a full twelve years after its
successful premier in Moravia’s provincial capital, Brno.
Janácek’s remaining twelve years unleashed one of the most intense bursts of compositional creativity in the history of classical
music, on all fronts: opera, orchestral, choral, art songs, and chamber music.The aging Czech composer went from one success to
another on the opera stage: Kat’a Kabanova (1921), The Cunning
Little Vixen (1923), The Makropulos Case (1925), and House of the
Dead. He became a deserved darling in international New Music
circles for his innovations in every sub-genre of composed art music.
And then, just as suddenly, his star plummeted after his death in
1928, only, slowly but surely, to again resume its rightful place in
the firmament. Not long after Janácek died, the Nazis assumed power, and the music of this pan-Slavic Czech nationalist was banned.
And then his idiosyncratic music remained out of fashion relative to
dominant New Music trends during the immediate post-war decades.
These very idiosyncrasies are, paradoxically, quite fashionable
again - he looms as prescient with respect to contemporary tastes.
Martin Bresnick, a composer based at Yale, underscores how
Janácek’s music was ahead of its time and consonant with our own
time: it emphasizes serious study of ethnic music outside the Western European core; uses unorthodox combinations of instruments or
unorthodox instruments; jettisons standard formal structures; places
passion and communication front and centre in experimental music;
and focuses on the innate musicality of language.
The sonic contours of everyday speech intrigued Janácek. He
pioneered empirical fieldwork on the rhythmic and melodic patterns
of Czech speech. And while his interpretations of “speech melodies” might not stand up to contemporary linguistic science, they
imbued him with a feel for the musicality of language that makes him
unique among opera composers. From the time of Janácek’s first
mature opera, Kat’a Kabanova, he wrote his own librettos. While
there’s no one-to-one correspondence between his work on “speech
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Operas to come
& Opera to Go
On January 15 in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre of the Four
Seasons Centre, the COC unveiled its 2008-09 season—and the news
is very exciting. Of the season´s seven mainstage operas, three are
COC premieres along with a new production of a beloved warhorse. The fall season begins on October 5 with Mozart´s “Don
Giovanni” starring Brett Polegato as the Don in a production last
seen in 2000. The first big surprise (and I mean big!) is Sergei
Prokofiev´s epic opera “War and Peace”, a COC premiere, the
work´s first fully-staged production in Canada, and the largest single
opera the COC has ever produced (with over 60 named roles).
The winter season begins January 24 with a new production of
Beethoven´s “Fidelio” with Adrianne Pieczonka in the leading role.
It runs in repertory with the COC premiere of Antonín Dvorák´s
“Rusalka”. Long ago Richard Bradshaw had promised Nicholas
Goldschmidt, co-founder of the COC, that he would stage this,
Goldschmidt´s favourite opera, for his 100th birthday. Now neither
one is with us but the pledge will be fulfilled with Michael Schade as
the Prince and Julie Makerov in the title role.
Verdi´s opera “Simon Boccanegra”, last seen here in 1979, opens
the spring season on April 11. Next comes the crowd-pleaser
Puccini´s “La Bohème” in a brand new production. The final offering will be the COC mainstage premiere of Benjamin Britten´s “ A
Midsummer Night´s Dream”, while in June Mozart´s “Così fan
tutte” will be the COC Ensemble Studio production.
All of this is in the realm of operas to come, but for the month of
February contemporary opera reigns. From February 14-23 is the
2008 instalment of Tapestry New Opera Works’ popular Opera to Go
series with seven world premieres of six 15-minute chamber operas
and a Bravo!FACT film by composer-writer teams who have graduated from Tapestry´s Composer-Librettist Laboratory. The allCanadian teams use eclectic techniques of music-making and production to push the boundaries of the operatic medium. The program
features “She sees her lover in the light of morning” by Craig Galbraith and Leanna Brodie about caution giving way to romance.
Brodie also partners with David Ogborn on “The Translator”, a
story about a woman who, having witnessed atrocity, involves herself
in a nation´s turmoil. “Peace of
my Heart” by Ogborn and Dave
Carley is a black comedy that
unravels an experience on the
operating table; and in “See
Saw”, by Andrew Staniland and
Anna Chatterton, the end of a
relationship raises plenty of uncertainty. A queen pursues an
unlikely mate in “The Colony”, a
quirky comedy by Kevin Morse
and Lisa Codrington; and in
“The Shaman´s Tale”, Morse
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PHOTO : MICHAEL COOPER
and Krista Dalby take us on a mythic journey that ends in the ultimate sacrifice. The program also includes the screening of “The
Perfect Match”, a Bravo!FACT film by Krista Dalby & New Zealand-based composer Anthony Young.
February 15 and 16, another new Canadian work has its world
premiere. This is “The Journey (Pimooteewin)” (libretto by Tomson Highway and music by Melissa Hui) part of Soundstreams 25th
anniversary season. The work is not called an “opera” per se but
“music drama for narrator, two soloists, choir and chamber orchestra”. Weesageechak (the Trickster) accompanied by Misigoo (the
Eagle) captures the Spirits of the Dead in a basket, but the Spirits of
the Dead are restless, and on the long journey back, one by one they
escape. Lydia Adams conducts the Elmer Iseler Singers and
Michael Greyeyes directs and choreographs.
Finally on February 22-24, Toronto Operetta Theatre presents a
first—a brand new Canadian operetta. This is “Earnest, the Importance of Being” by Victor Davies to a libretto by Eugene Benson.
Davies, perhaps best known for his popular “Mennonite Piano Concerto”, has just seen the premiere of his latest opera “Transit of
Venus” at Manitoba Opera in November last year. Benson, among
his prodigious scholarly and creative work, has written, among others, the librettos to “Héloise and Abélard” (1973) by Charles Wilson, commissioned by the Canadian Opera Company to mark its 25th
anniversary, and to Wilson’s “The Summoning of Everyman” (1973)
revived by Toronto´s Opera in Concert in 2004. Benson, who believes, as does operetta expert Richard Traubner, that the differences between the various types of music theatre are overstated, sees no
difficulty in writing an “operetta” for the 21st century. After all
Shakespeare´s plays have inspired successful works in all genres.
Why not Wilde´s?
NEW STARTS FROM OPERAS GONE
Former Tapestry ensemble member Tamara Hummel seen here in “Rosa” by
James Rolfe & Camyar Chai from Opera to Go 2004. James and Camyar also
wrote Elijah´s Kite, Tapestry´s touring production for schools. Rolfe, with Anna
Chatterton (paired with Andrew Staniland in this year’s Opera to Go), were
announced Jan 15 as the team for a new COC mainstage commission.
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QUODLibet
Innovative Programming
Music Toronto’s February 14
concert, mentioned above,
presents soprano, Zorana Sadiq,
by Allan Pulker
and pianist, Peter Tiefenbach,
with tabla player, Shawn MativetToronto Symphony Orchestra
sky in an innovative program of
The 36 days from February 1 to March 7 bring a wealth of music in works by Olivier Messiaen,
all genres – chamber music, orchestral music, instrumental and vocal Grieg, Tiefenbach, and the world
recitals. Less usual, the five weeks bring a veritable parade of dispremiere of Songs of Ecstasy by
tinguished guest conductors to the TSO podium.Charles Dutoit will
American composer, Shirish Koconduct one night only, on February 2; former TSO maestro Jukka
rde. The juxtaposition of MesPekka Saraste will lead the performances on February 7 & 9; Yansiaen and Korde seems particularnick Nézet-Séguin will conduct on February 13, 14 and 16. Rob
ly fitting, as Korde’s “composiKapilow, who conducts the TSO’s student concerts on February 23, tions are characterized by a lifeZorana Sadiq comes to
may not be a household name but you may want to take the houseMusic Toronto Feb 14
long search for a personal musihold to hear him. Roberta Smith, Associate Director of Artistic Ad- cal language [embodying] the influences of diverse musical tradiministration, Education at the TSO, writes: “Rob’s student concerts, tions.” Of Messiaen it has been written that “[his] musical language
delivered with incredible enthusiasm and energy, are the perfect
is derived from a number of varied sources, including Greek metrical
combination of education and entertainment.” Ludovic Morlot, con- rhythms, Hindu tradition, the serialism of Schoenberg, Debussy and
ductor of the TSO’s February 27 & 28 concerts, made his debut
bird-song….” It will be fascinating to hear music by these two comwith the New York Philharmonic in March 2006, replacing Chrisposers together, on what looks like a very versatile and challenging
toph Dohnanyi, and is, according to the New York Times “all busi- program.
ness on the podium.”
Music Toronto is also responsible for another innovative proThen, TSO music director Peter Oundjian returns to the podium: gram, February 15, when the Gryphon Trio, violinist Lynn Kuo,
March 1 for an all-Beethoven program, with soloist Lang Lang; and and violist Steven Dann, collaborate with The Roberto Occhipinti
March 5 & 6 for performances of the Britten Violin Concerto and
Quartet in the 6th annual “Crossings 2, Chamber at Lula” - a perShostakovich’s Leningrad Symphony. Looking further ahead, the
formance that fuses classical music with jazz and world music. This
Oundjian-inspired New Creations Festival, April 9-17, will focus on year’s event features the music of Roberto Occhipinti – bass player,
the work of French composer, Olivier Messiaen, whose 100th birth- composer, arranger, impresario, bandleader, producer, frequent winday will be December 10, 2008, making this his centenary year.
ner of the National Jazz Awards, and – along with Gryphon Trio
cellist, Roman Borys - resident genius of Music Toronto’s Lula
Messiaen
events. The music begins at 8:00 but the doors open at 6:00 for
No surprise therefore that works by Messiaen appear on a number
those who wish to begin the evening with dinner and a drink. This
of programs listed in this issue: February 5 the Canadian Opera
sounds like a great night out!
Company’s Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre Piano Virtuoso Series presents pianist Benjamin Cruchley who will perform, among
other things, selections from Messiaen’s Catalogue d’oiseaux and
Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant Jésus. Music Toronto’s February 14.
Discovery Series program includes Messiaen’s Poèmes Pour Mi. On
February 15 the Don Wright Faculty of Music in London will
present Mostly Messiaen, works for two, four and six hands on one
or two grand pianos.
Messiaen, as you may know, was intrigued by birds’ songs, and
in fact transcribed many of them. Recorder and baroque flute specialist Alison Melville picks up on this theme in a recital on February 14 in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, and later in the
month includes works by Messiaen in The Bird Project, on February 23 at the Church of St. George the Martyr.
ST. MATTHEW PASSION
by J.S. Bach
CONDUCTOR
3rd Annual
TORONTO SINFONIETTA CONCERTO
COMPETITION 2008
F or the best performance of solo concerto with
orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin
SOPRANO
CONTRALTO
Monica Whicher
Elizabeth Turnbull
TENORS
BASSES
Lawrence Wiliford Evangelist
Alex Dobson Jesus
Colin Ainsworth Arias
Russell Braun Arias
Toronto Children’s Chorus
Instruments: Strings, Piano, and Woodwinds
Age Categories: Under 16, 16 to 19 years
Friday, February 15, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Eglinton St. George’s United Church
Applications must be received before April 25, 2008
TICKETS (including beverage): $60 per person
Gala Concert: November 22, 2008, 7:30 PM
Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles Street West
To reserve tickets, call 416-481-1141, ext. 250
35 Lytton Boulevard, Toronto
DRESS REHEARSAL TICKETS: $20
For application and information visit:
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Proceeds shared by youth programmes of Eva’s Phoenix
and Toronto Symphony Adopt-A-Player
For more information on the Bach Consort, visit Bachconsort.net
The Majesty of the Horn
On February 8 St. Paul’s Foundation for the Arts presents a unique
event, The Majesty of the Horn, directed by Canadian Opera Company principal horn player Joan Watson, and horn player/educator
Gloria Ratcliffe. The horn sections of the COC Orchestra, the National Ballet Orchestra and the TSO will perform; and horn players
from a number of local schools, along with the Festival Singers of
Dr. Norman Bethune Collegiate, will join guest artist, Juno Awardwinner Jack Grunsky, in a performance of his composition, Child of
the Universe. The grand finale will be a fanfare by one hundred
horn players. What a fantastic idea! Kudos to Joan and Gloria!
Healey Willan
Saturday, February 16 is the fortieth anniversary of the death of
Healey Willan, the composer, organist and choir director whose
work is generally acknowledged to have shaped the development of
choral music in Canada. His musical language, though considered
conservative, even during his lifetime, was uniquely and recognizably his own; and his compositions are proving durable enough to be
frequently performed even today. Fittingly, the choirs of the Church
of St. Mary Magdalene, under the direction of their new music director, Stephanie Martin, are presenting “A Celebration of Healey
Willan’s Music” at 3:00 on February 16. Also February 16, in the
evening, the Healey Willan Singers are presenting tenor Ryan Harper
and baritone Andrew Mahon with pianists Brahm Goldhamer and
Andrew Ager in a solo recital of music by a number of composers,
including Andrew Ager, one of a number of fine composer/church
music directors around Toronto, a role pioneered by Willan so many
years ago.
Faculty Recitals
One of the benefits of living near several music schools is the professional level recitals frequently given by faculty. To mention a
few: February 1, Glenn Gould School flute-teacher Kathleen Rudolph will give a recital with TSO percussionist John Rudolph and
University of Western Ontario piano-teacher Stéphan Sylvestre. February 7, York University professors, cellist Mark Chambers and
pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico perform in the wonderful new
Tribute Communities Recital Hall. While Humber College doesn’t
appear to have anything this month, two Humber Music Department
teachers, pianist Hilario Duran and percussionist Mark Kelso, are
participating in Music Toronto’s Lula Lounge event. March 7, brilliant U of T Faculty of Music theory professor and pianist John
Kruspe, will perform a recital called, “A Hundred Years Ago,”
music by Debussy, Scriabin, Prokofiev, Berg, Webern and Stravinsky. Check the listings for many more music school concerts.
WE ARE ALL MUSIC’S CHILDREN
by mJ Buell
FEBRUARY’S Child…
Ah, the memorable pleasures
of summer music camp: the
pastoral setting, occasional
moonlight adventures, and of
course…the limitless
variations of chamber music
with your friends!
photo: summer, circa 1950
At Greenwood Music Camp,
Massachusetts: this Austrianborn young man had not even
visited Canada, although he
has now spent most of his life
here.
Think you know who
February’s child is?
Send your best guess to
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mailing address, just in case
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Winners will be selected by
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replies received by February
15, 2008.
Know someone whose photo
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are welcome (you can even
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WholeNote wants to know
Speaking of summer music
camp: the March edition of
WholeNote Magazine will
include our annual look at
Summer Music Education. If
we did NOT include your
favourite summer program
last year (amateur,
professional,youth, adult) or
if you know about a
wonderful new one,please let
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ALDEBURGH CONNECTION 43
ALL THE KING’S VOICES 20
AMADEUS CHOIR 42
AMERICAN SOUND COMPANY 59
AMICI CHAMBER ENSEMBLE 34
ART OF TIME ENSEMBLE 15
ASSOCIATES OF THE TSO 37
ATMA CLASSIQUE 5
AUTORICKSHAW 37
BACH CONSORT 28
CAMERON OGLIVIE RECORDING SERVICES 56
CANADIAN MUSIC CENTRE 46
CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 13
CANADIAN SINFONIETTA 34, 45
CANCLONE SERVICES 56
CARIBBEAN CHORALE 53
CATHEDRAL BLUFFS SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA 42
CHATAUQUA MUSIC FESTIVAL 23
CHRIST CHURCH DEER PARK 35
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JAZZ VESPERS 25
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CIVIC LIGHT OPERA COMPANY 27
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DANCAP PRODUCTIONS 61
ELORA FESTIVAL SINGERS 48
ESPRIT ORCHESTRA 4
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GLIMMERGLASS OPERA 46
GRAND PHILHARMONIC CHOIR 47
HANNAFORD STREET SILVER BAND 23
HARKNETT MUSICAL SERVICES 22
HELICONIAN HALL 53
KITCHENER WATERLOO CHAMBER MUSIC
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KOFFLER CENTRE 43
LONG & MCQUADE 16
MARJORIE SPARKS 53
MARKHAM THEATRE 9
MERRIAM SCHOOL OF MUSIC 3
MIKROKOSMOS 53
MISSISSAUGA CHILDREN’S CHOIR 39
MOOREDALE CONCERTS 32
MUSIC AT METROPOLITAN 19
MUSIC AT ST. CLEMENT’S 34, 44
MUSIC GALLERY 13
MUSIC PAD 56
MUSIC TORONTO 7, 24, 33,
35, 40, 45
MUSICIANS IN ORDINARY 39
NATHANIEL DETT CHORALE 41
NEW MUSIC CONCERTS 14, 45
OAKVILLE CHILDREN’S CHOIR 39
OFF CENTRE MUSIC SALON 40
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OPERA BY REQUEST 26, 38
OPERA YORK 38
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ORIANA WOMEN’S CHOIR 42
ORPHEUS CHOIR 44
OSHAWA DURHAM SYMPHONY 47
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TALLIS CHOIR 43
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TORONTO CHILDREN’S CHORUS 40
TORONTO CLASSICAL SINGERS 45
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TORONTO DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD 52
TORONTO MENDELSSOHN CHOIR 21
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TORONTO OPERETTA THEATRE 38
TORONTO PHILHARMONIA 33
TORONTO SINFONIETTA 28
TORONTO SUMMER MUSIC
ACADEMY AND FESTIVAL 20
TORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 6
TORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (#1) 2
TORONTO WELSH MALE VOICE CHOIR 42
U OF T FACULTY OF MUSIC 31
U OF T SCARBOROUGH CAMPUS 24
ULYSSEAN SOCIETY OF TORONTO 54
VIA SALZBURG 33
VICTORIA SCHOLARS 44
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WHOLENOTE LISTINGS
SECTIONS 1-5: INTRODUCTION
WholeNote’s listings are arranged into five distinct sections:
1) Toronto & GTA (Greater Toronto Area); 2) Beyond the GTA;
3) Opera and Music Theatre; 4) Jazz in Clubs; 5) Music-related
events that are not concerts, a.k.a. “the etcetera file”.
This issue contains listings from February 1 to March 7 in all
sections except Jazz in Clubs which stops at the end of Feb.
SECTION 1: Toronto & GTA (page 30-45) covers all of the City
of Toronto plus the adjoining “905” area - more or less corresponding
to the areas accessible from Toronto by phone without long distance
charges. Section 1 includes communities as far west as Oakville, as far
north as Aurora and as far east as Ajax.
In this issue Section 1 includes: Ajax, Aurora, Brampton,
Brampton, Kleinburg, Markham, Mississauga, Oakville,
Pickering, Port Credit, Richmond Hill, Thornhill,
Vaughan, Woodbridge
SECTION 2: Beyond the GTA (page 46-48) covers all areas of
Ontario outside Toronto and GTA. The towns and cities vary from
month to month depending on where we receive listings from. are
taking place.
In this issue Section 2 includes: Barrie, Brantford,
Burlington, Cambridge, Elora, Glen Williams, Guelph,
Halton Hills, Hamilton, Kitchener, Lindsay, London,
Newmarket, Oshawa, Owen Sound, Peterborough, Port
Hope, Sault Ste. Marie, St. Catharines, Stratford,
Sudbury, Waterloo, Winona
SECTION 3: Opera and Music Theatre (page 49) summarizes run
details for operatic and music theatre productions (including dance). It
offers a quick overview of what is happening is these genres.
SECTION 4: Jazz in Clubs (pages 49-50) is organized
alphabetically by club, and provides as much detail on what the clubs
are offering as we had at the time of publication, which varies greatly
from club to club. Phone numbers and website addresses are provided
to facilitate access to more up to date information.
SECTION 5: Announcements, Lectures/Symposia, Master
Classes…EtCetera (pages 50-52), are for music-related events and
activities, other than performances, which in our judgment will be of
interest to our readers.
A word of caution: a phone number is provided with every listing; in
fact, we won’t publish a listing without one. Concerts are sometimes
cancelled or postponed; artists or even venues change after the listings
are published. or occasionally corrected information is not sent to us in
time. So please check before you go out to a concert.
HOW TO LIST
Listings in WholeNote Magazine in these five sections are a free
service available, in our discretion, to eligible presenters. If you have
an event, send us your information NO LATER than the 15th of the
month prior to the issue or issues in which your listing is eligible to
appear. Listings can be sent by e-mail to
listings@thewholenote.com or by fax to 416-603-4791 or by
regular mail to the address on page 6. We can also answer questions
about listings at 416 323-2232 extension 21.
We do not, however, take listing information over the phone.
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LISTINGS: SECTION 1
CONCERTS: Toronto and GTA
Friday February 01
- 12:10: University of Toronto Faculty of
Music. New Music Festival: Opera Scenes by
Student Composers. Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s
Park. 416-978-3744. Free.
- 12:30: York University Department of
Music. Music at Midday: Oo La La! French
mélodies, performed by young singers from the
studios of Catherine Robbin, Stephanie Bogle,
Norma Burrowes, Michael Donovan, Janet
Obermeyer & Karen Rymal. Tribute Communities
Recital Hall, Accolade East, YU, 4700 Keele St.
416-736-5186. Free.
- 7:30: Canadian Opera Company. Puccini:
Tosca. Eszter Sümegi, soprano; Alan Opie,
baritone; Mikhail Agafonov, tenor; Robert Pomakov, bass. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing
Arts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. $60$275; $20(under 30). For complete run see
music theatre listings.
Music. New Music Festival: Karen Kieser Prize
in Canadian Music Presentation and Concert.
Prize winning composition; works by Tsontakis
and graduate student composers. Walter Hall, 80
Queen’s Park. 416-978-3744. Free.
- 8:00: Bell’Arte Singers. High School Three
Choir Festival. Bramalea SS, Sir John A. MacDonald SS & Unionville HS; Brenda Uchimaru,
guest director. Christ Church Deer Park, 1570
Yonge St. 416-207-6000 x6946. $15-$20.
- 8:00: Brenda Carol and Jon Long of Long
& McQuade.. 2008 Brenda Carol Renaissance
Jazz Fair. Nathan Hiltz, Ross MacIntyre, Sarah
Jerrom, Janice Hawke, Sam Dickinson and
others. Renaissance Cafe, 1938 Danforth
Avenue. 416-467-7959. $12(adv); $15(door).
- 8:00: Dancap Productions. The 25th Annual
Putnam County Spelling Bee. Elgin Theatre, 189
Yonge St. 416-644-3665 / 800-950-7469. $50$100. For complete run see music theatre listings.
- 8:00: Music Gallery. Bernardo Padrón Group.
New jazz-folk sound of Venezuela. Bernardo
Padrón, saxophone/composer; Marilyn Lerner,
keys & accordion; Justin Haynes, guitar; Alan
Hetherington, drums; Eliana Cuevas, guest
vocalist. 197 John St. 416-204-1080. $15;
$10(sr/member); $5(st).
- 8:00: Royal Conservatory of Music. Great
Artist Series - With French Flair. Music by Ravel,
Debussy & Jolivet. Kathleen Rudolph, flute;
Stephan Sylvestre, piano; John Rudolph, percussion. RCM Concert Hall, 90 Croatia Street. 416408-2824 x321. $15; $10(sr/st).
- 8:00: Sinfonia Toronto. Toronto’s Own.
Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony, Op.83;
Boccherini: Cello Concerto in B-flat; Beethoven:
Quartet Op.135 (orchestral version). Karen
Ouzounian, cello; Nurhan Arman, music director.
Grace Church on-the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale Rd. 416499-0403. $40; $32(sr); $12(16-29/st).
- 8:00: Sony Centre for the Performing
Arts. Rain: The Beatles Experience. Multidimensional tribute to the Beatles featuring
different scene, costume changes, video screens
and live camera projection, combining television
commercials and historical video footage from
the ‘60’s. 1 Front St. E. 416-870-8000. $35$70. For complete run see music theatre listings.
- 8:00: St. Clement’s Drama Group.
Schwartzspell. Based on the music and lyrics of
Stephen Schwartz. Revue conceived and compiled by Gerald Isaac. St.Clement’s Anglican
Church, 59 Briar Hill Ave. 416-203-1977 x25.
$15-$20.
- 8:00: Univox Choir Toronto. The Art of the
Motet. Works by Byrd, Handel, Lotti, Schütz,
Schein & others. Dallas Bergen, director. Dovercourt Baptist Church, 1140 Bloor St. W. 416697-9561. $10-$15; free(TDSB/TCDSB).
- 8:15: Stage West Hotel Theatre. 70s Fever.
A musical celebration. 5400 Dixie Rd. Mississauga. 905-238-0042/888-263-0684. Call for
prices. For complete run see music theatre listings.
- 8:30: Enter the Haggis. A night of celtic
music, Scottish piping and Canadian fiddling.
Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas St. W. $15(adv);
$17(door). 416-531-6604. Doors open at 6pm.
Saturday February 02
Music. Music at Midday: Oo La La! See Feb 1.
- 2:00 & 5:00: Toronto WinterCity Festival.
Alice in Wonderland. Based on the original story.
Netherlands’ Theatre Gajes. Nathan Phillips
Square, 100 Queen St. W. 416-338-0338. Free.
- 5:00: Glenn Gould School. Student Recital Alice Yoo, piano. Studio of Leslie Kinton. RCM
Concert Hall, 90 Croatia St. 416-408-2824.
Free.
- 7:30: Canadian Opera Company. Janácek:
From the House of the Dead. Based on Dostoevsky’s novel. Robert Pomakov, bass; David
Pomeroy, tenor; Pavlo Hunka, bass-baritone;
Robert Künzli, tenor. Four Seasons Centre for the
Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-3638231. $60-$275; $20(under 30). For complete
run see music theatre listings.
- 7:30: Clarkson Community Concerts.
Marvin Munshaw and Friends. Music from jazz
to classical. Christ Church, 1700 Mazo Cr.,
Mississauga. 905-855-0112. $25; $22(sr/st);
$10(pre-teen).
Music. U of T Symphony Orchestra. Beethoven:
Leonore Overture #3; Tsontakis: Violin Concerto
#2; Brahms: Symphony #1. Raffi Armenian,
director. MacMillan Theatre, 80 Queen’s Park.
416-978-3744. $18; $10.
- 8:00: Ashkenaz Foundation. Theodore Bikel Legendary star of song, stage, and screen. Mix of
songs in Yiddish, Hebrew, Ladino, Russian &
English. With Tamara Brooks. George Weston
Recital Hall, Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040
Yonge St. 416-979-9901. $47.25-$78.75.
- 8:00: Brampton Lyric Opera. Verdi: Rigoletto. Sabatino Vacca, conductor; Rachael HarwoodJones, Jay Stephenson, Charles DiRaimondo,
Gerrit Seppenwoolde. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre
Lane, Brampton. 905-874-2800. $10-$60.
- 8:00: Brenda Carol and Jon Long of Long
& McQuade. 2008 Brenda Carol Renaissance
Jazz Fair. Performers include Nathan Hiltz, Ross
MacIntyre, Sienna Dahlen, Layah Jane, Ori Dagan
& Brownman. Renaissance Cafe, 1938 Danforth
Avenue. 416-467-7959. $12(adv); $15(door).
- 8:00: Oakville Symphony Orchestra.
Mediterraneo. Rossini: Overture to La Gazza
Ladra; Rodrigo: Concierto Andaluz for Four
Guitars & Orchestra; Ravel: Ma Mère L’oye;
Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnole. Featuring
Warren Nicholson Guitar Quartet. Oakville Centre
for the Performing Arts, 120 Navy St. Oakville.
905-815-2021. $18; $12(sr); $8(st/ch).
- 8:00: Richard Margison & Friends. An
Evening of Song. Highlands Opera Studio Benefit.
Yorkminster Park Baptist Church, 1585 Yonge
Street. 888-222-6608. $75.
- 8:00: Scaramella. Musica Humana: Garden of
Earthly Delights. Works by Dvorak & Vaughan
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Williams. Rona Goldensher & Dafna Ravid,
violins; Kathleen Kajioka, viola; Rebecca Morton,
cello; Joelle Morton, double bass; Jeanie Chung,
piano. Victoria College Chapel, 91 Charles St.
West. 416-760-8610. $25; $20(sr); $15(st).
Schwartzspell. See Feb 1.
- 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Symphonie fantastique. Berlioz: Béatrice et
Bénédict Overture; Brahms: Concerto for Violin
and Cello; Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique. Renaud
Capuçon, violin; Gautier Capuçon, cello; Charles
Dutoit, conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe
St. 416-593-4828. $36-$123.
- 8:30: Enter the Haggis. A night of celtic
music, Scottish piping and Canadian fiddling. See
Feb 1.
Sunday February 03
- 12:00 noon: Derek Macrae. Guitar Solo
Concert. Classical, Spanish and popular music.
Ristorante Julia, 312 Lakeshore Road E. 905844-7401. Free.
- 1:30: CAMMAC/McMichael Gallery.
Sunday Concerts – David Occhipinti Jazz Duo.
McMichael Gallery, 10365 Islington Avenue,
Kleinburg. 905-893-1121 / 888-213-1121. Free
with gallery admission.
- 2:00: Oakville Symphony Orchestra.
Mediterraneo. See Feb 2.
- 2:00: ROM. Sunday Concert - Chinese New
Year Celebrations. Including traditional music,
activities and cultural rituals. 100 Queen’s Park.
416-586-8000. $20; $17(sr/st w ID); $14(514); free (members + 4 and under). Includes
access to all galleries and exhibitions.
- 2:00: Trio Bravo. Clarinet, Viola and Piano.
Music by Ellenwood, Jacob, Ravel, Peterson &
others. Terry Storr, clarinet; Baird Knechtel, viola;
John Selleck, piano. All Saints Kingsway Anglican
Church, 2850 Bloor St. W. 416-242-2131.
Advance: $18; $12.50(st/sr); door: $20; $15.
- 2:00 & 5:00: Toronto WinterCity Festival.
Alice in Wonderland. See Feb 2.
- 2:30: Opera in Concert. Handel: Tamerlano.
Lynne McMurtry, Shannon Mercer, Marcel van
Neer, Jenny Cohen, Scott Belluz; Aradia Ensemble; Kevin Mallon, conductor. Jane Mallett
Theatre, 27 Front St. E. 416-366-7723/800708-6754. $28-$38. 1:45: Backgrounder with
host Iain Scott.
- 3:00: Maria Dolnycky & Luca Amerino,
Duo Piano. Music on Canvas - Carnival of
Venice. Works by Vivaldi, Corelli & Boccherini.
Guests: Anatoliy Kupriychuk, bassoon; Corey
Gemmell, violin. KUMF Art Gallery, 2118-A
Bloor St. W. 416-766-6802. $20; $15(st/sr).
- 3:00: Mooredale Concerts. Norway’s Nordic
Voices. Music from 6th-21st century including
microtonal folk music & Tuvan overtone singing
traditions. Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s Park. 416922-3714 x103. $25; $20(sr/st).
Schwartzspell. See Feb 1.
- 3:00: Syrinx Sunday Salons. The Cerberus
Ensemble. Works by Beethoven, Schumann &
Kuerti. Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave. 416699-4949. $20; $15(st).
- 4:30: Christ Church Deer Park. Jazz
Vespers - Nancy Walker Trio. Nancy Walker,
piano; Kieran Overs, bass; Brian Barlow, drums.
1570 Yonge St. 416-920-5211. Free / donations
welcomed.
- 7:30: Flying Cloud Folk Club. Joe Jencks,
singer-songwriter. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick
Avenue. 416-410-3655. $20; $18(members).
- 8:00: Glenn Gould School. Student Recital –
Micajah Sturgess, French horn. Studio of Chris
Gongos. RCM Concert Hall, 90 Croatia St. 416408-2824. Free.
Monday February 04
- 8:00: Aviva Chernick. CD Release - In the
Sea. Aviva Chernick, voice; Tania Gill, piano;
Andrew Downing, bass. Heliconian Hall, 35
Hazelton Ave. 416-579-5366. $20($35 w. CD).
- 8:00: JAZZ. FM91. Sound of Jazz Concert
Series - Bucky Pizzarelli. Bucky Pizzarelli, guitar;
Neil Swainson, bass; Terry Clarke, drums. Old
Mill Inn, 21 Old Mill Rd. 416-595-0404. $27-$30.
Tuesday February 05
- 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre Piano Virtuoso
Series: Benjamin Cruchley. Mendelssohn: Songs
without Words; Medtner: War Sonata; Messiaen:
Catalogue d’oiseaux (selections) & Vingt Regards
sur l’Enfant Jésus (selections). Four Seasons
Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St.
W. 416-363-8231. Free.
Music. Music at Midday: New Music by Young
Composers. Original compositions by students
from the studio of David Lidov. Tribute Communities Recital Hall, Accolade East, YU, 4700 Keele
St. 416-736-5186. Free.
www.Mooredaleconcerts.com
Nordic Voices
Celebrated Norwegian 6-voice ensemble
in heavenly Spanish Renaissance music
created under Carlos V, a bloody despot
but also a great patron of the Arts!
Walter Hall 3pm Sunday Feb. 3
587-9411 Tickets: $25/ $20
416 926-1812
“thrilled the senses and sent an emotional
message no listener could miss” Washington Post
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- 7:30: St. James’ Cathedral. Mardi Gras
Opera Spectacular. Mozart, Verdi, Puccini: solos,
choruses and grand marches; Verdi: Grand March
from Aida. St. James Cathedral Choir and
soloists; Andrew Ager, conductor. 65 Church
Street. 416-364-7865. $30,$25.
- 8:00: Luminato / TD Canada Trust Toronto
Jazz Festival. Nikki Yanofsky. Repertoire from
jazz to swing and R&B. 9-piece Imani Gospel
Choir, 12-piece big band. Isabel Bader Theatre, 93
Charles St. 416-870-8000. $25-$50.
Wednesday February 06
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre Dance Series:
Giuseppe Condello / Via Salzburg Chamber
Orchestra - Movement. Stravinsky: Apollon
Musagète; Strauss: Capriccio - opening sextet.
Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts,
145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. Free.
- 12:00 noon: Yorkminster Park Baptist
Church. William Maddox, organ. 1585 Yonge St.
416-922-1167. Free.
- 5:00: Glenn Gould School. Student Recital –
Matthew Bagasao, piano. Studio of Marc Durand.
RCM Concert Hall, 90 Croatia St. 416-4082824. Free.
- 8:00: Tribal Crackling Wind / Harbourfront Centre’s WorldStage 08. Peter
Chin: Transmission of the Invisible. Cylla von
Tiedemann, video design. Enwave Theatre,
Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416973-4000. $30.
- 9:00 & 10:15: Mezzetta Restaurant.
Wednesday Concert Series. Maureen Kennedy,
vocals & Ben Bishop, guitar. 681 St. Clair Ave.
W. 416-658-5687. $7 cover.
- 7:30: Marquee Productions. Singin’ In the Rain.
Adaptation by Betty Comden & Adolph Green; Nacio
Herb Brown & Arthur Freed, songs. City Playhouse,
1000 New Westminster Dr., Vaughan. 905-7131040. $60; $54(sr/child). For complete run see music
theatre listings.
Music. Faculty Concert Series: - Mark Chambers,
cello, & Christina Petrowska Quilico, piano.
Works by Beethoven, Schumann, Pärt & Piazzolla. Tribute Communities Recital Hall, Accolade
East, YU, 4700 Keele St. 416-736-5888. $15;
$5(st).
- 8:00: Glenn Gould School. Student Recital Benjamin Chapman, piano. 90 Croatia St. 416408-2824 x322. Free.
Mahler Symphony 9. Magnus Lindberg: Seht die
Sonne (Canadian premiere); Mahler: Symphony
#9. Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-593-4828. $36-$123.
Chin: Transmission of the Invisible. See Feb 6.
- 8:00: Via Salzburg. Movement. Works by
Dvorak, R. Strauss, & Stravinsky. Giuseppe
Condello, corporeal mime artist; Mayumi Seiler,
artistic director. Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front
St. West. 416-205-5555. $50; $45(sr);
$20(st.w ID).
- 8:15: Stage West Theatre Hotel. Beauty &
the Beast. Based on the Disney story. 5400 Dixie
R. Mississauga. 905-238-0042. $74.10-$95.86.
For complete run see music theatre listings.
Friday February 08
- 7:30: St. Paul’s Foundation for the Arts.
The Majesty of the Horn. Cantin: Grande Messe
de Saint Hubert for Horn & Organ (arr. Hermann
Baumann) & Grunsky: Child of the Universe. Horn
sections from the COC, TSO, National Ballet,
free-lance musicians and amateurs from Ontario;
Toronto high-school and university students
featured. Jack & Cosima Grunsky, organ; Dr.
Norman Bethune Collegiate Choir; Eric Robertson,
organ; Gloria Ratcliffe, music director. St. Paul’s
Bloor St., 227 Bloor St. E. 416-961-8116 x251.
$5.
Toronto Philharmonia
Kerry Stratton, Music Director
Christmas in Vienna
SUNDAY DECEMBER 16 @ 3 pm
Thursday February 07
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre Chamber Music
Series - Glenn Gould School String Ensemble:
String Classics. Popular favourites to rarities.
Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts,
145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. Free.
Noon Hour Recital Series - Barry Peters, organ.
St. Paul’s Bloor St., 227 Bloor St. E. 416-9618116 x251. Free.
- 12:15: Music at Metropolitan. Noon at Met
Organ Recital – Patricia Wright, organ. 56 Queen
St. E. 416-363-0331 x26. Free.
- 1:30: Women’s Musical Club of Toronto.
Karina Gauvin, soprano, Marie-Nicole Lemieux,
contralto & Michael McMahon, piano. Walter
Hall, Edward Johnson Bldg., U of T, 80 Queen’s
Park. 416-923-7052. $35. *SOLD OUT*
- 10:00: KlezFactor. Post-Performance Show.
Klezmer music. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst
St. 416-558-9457. Free with ticket to Hannah
Moscovitch’s “The Russian Play” & “Essay”.
- 8:00: Music Toronto. Quartet Series - Tokyo
Quartet. Haydn: String Quartet in C, Op.50/2;
Auerbach: String Quartet #2 (Primordial Light);
Brahms: String Quartet in a, Op.51/2. Kikuei
Ikeda, Martin Beaver, violins; Kazuhide Isomura,
viola; Clive Greensmith, cello. Jane Mallett
Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, 27
Front St. East. 416-366-7723/800-708-6754.
$41-$45; 18-35 pay your age; $5(st, accompanying adult ½ price).
- 8:00: Toronto Philharmonia. Music of the
Americas. Baker: Turn on your cellphones; Pepin:
Quasar Symphony; Hovhaness: Mysterious
Mountain; Moncaya: Huapango; Bernstein: West
Side Story Medley. Kerry Stratton, conductor.
George Weston Recital Hall, Toronto Centre For
the Arts, 5040 Yonge St. 416-872-1111/416870-8000. $29-$59; $25-$49(sr).
Toronto Centre for the
Arts
Weston Recital Hall
5040 Yonge Street
(just north of Sheppard)
Kerry Stratton, conductor
St. Michael’s Choir School
Recreate the magic of an oldfashioned Christmas in Vienna with a concert designed for the
whole family to enjoy!
TICKETS: Adults $59/$53/$29, Seniors $49/$44.50/$25
www.torontophil.on.ca
416-733-0545
Via Salzburg presents
Thursday, Feb. 7 and Friday, Feb. 8, 2008 at 8:00 p.m.
Corporeal Mime Artist Giuseppe Condello interprets the music of Stravinsky and Via Salzburg.
Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front Street West, Toronto
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Music. U of T Wind Symphony: The Wind Band
in the Colonies. Works by Bernstein, Calvert,
Telfer, Grainger & Bennett. Jeffrey Reynolds,
conductor. MacMillan Theatre, 80 Queen’s Park.
416-978-3744. $10-$14.
- 8:00: Acoustic Harvest Folk Club. Fiddles &
Frets Music Series – Mike Stevens and Raymond
McLain. Harmonica virtuoso and Artscan Circle
founder. Birchcliff Bluffs United Church, 33 East
Rd. 416-264-2235. $20.
- 8:00: New Music Concerts / The Music
Gallery. Timo & Magnus - Finland Today. Works
by Kimmo Hakola & Magnus Lindberg. New
Music Concerts Ensemble; guests: Magnus
Lindberg, piano; Timo Korhonen, guitar; Robert
Aitken, flute and artistic direction. The Music
Gallery, 197 John St. 416-961-9594. $25;
$15(sr); $5(st). Pre-concert talk: 7:15.
- 8:00: Roy Thomson Hall/Massey Hall.
Drum! 20 musicians, dancers, & singers from
the Aboriginal, Acadian, Blanc & Celtic cultures.
Daryl Cloran, director; Doris Mason, musical
director. Massey Hall, 15 Shuter St. 416-8724255. $29.50-$59.50.
- 8:00: Toronto Consort. Constantinople - Ay!!
Amor…Music from early Persia, Armenia, Iberia,
and France. David Fallis, artistic director. Trinity
St. Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St. W. 416-9646337. $18-$40; $14-$34(st/sr).
- 8:00: Via Salzburg. Movement. See Feb7.
- 7:30: All the King’s Voices. From Mellow to
Mozart. Madrigals, Celtic and Canadian folksongs, spirituals, jazz, classical and latin music.
Advent Lutheran Church, 2800 Don Mills Rd.
416-225-2255. Freewill offering.
- 7:00: Collegium Musicum. Concert of
Classical Music. Works by Corelli, Molino, Faure,
Saint-Saens, Rimsky-Korsakov, Popper & Ravel.
Borjana Hrelja, piano; Janko Marjanovic, cello;
Chris Malone, guitar; Zachary Moss, flute.
Sanctuary of First United Church, 151 Lakeshore
Road West. Port Credit. 905-274-2573.$15;
$10(sr/st).
- 7:30: Metropolitan United Church. February Follies. Featuring Metropolitan Choir &
Friends. 56 Queen St. E. 416-363-0331. $20.
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- 7:30: Oakville Chamber Ensemble.
Mozartmania. Mozart string music including Eine
Kleine Nachtmusik. Stephane Potvin, conductor.
St. Simon’s Anglican Church, 1450 Litchfield Rd.
Oakville. 905-522-6841. $25; $15(st/sr); $5(15
& under).
Music. U of T Wind Ensemble. Plog: Concerto for
Trumpet and Wind Ensemble (newly revised);
Grainger: Lincolnshire Posy; works by Hart &
Ticheli. James Thompson, trumpet; Gillian
MacKay, conductor. MacMillan Theatre, 80
Queen’s Park. 416-978-3744. $10-$14.
Canadian Sinfonietta
February 9, 2008 8 pm
CHINESE NEW YEAR
CONCERT
Featuring vocalists:
LILI ZHANG
(Beijing style opera)
RICKY CHAN (Canto-pop)
Also featuring
work by Michael Pepa
Hayman, soprano; Christina Stelmacovich,
mezzo-soprano; David Sandall, organ; Laura
Jones, cello. Church of the Holy Trinity, 10
Trinity Square. 416-920-5025. By donation.
- 2:30: Unitarian Congregation of South
Peel. Sunday Afternoon Concert - Joyce Yu,
piano. Mozart, Haydn, Liszt, Mendelssohn,
Debussy & others. 84 South Service Rd, Mississauga. 905-278-5622. $10; free (under 16).
- 3:00: Amici Chamber Ensemble. The Golden
Harp. Saint-Saëns: Fantasie for violin and harp;
Villa Lobös: Jet whistle for flute and cello &
Chôros no. 2 for flute and clarinet; Schafer:
Theseus for harp and string quartet; Ravel:
Introduction and Allegro for flute, clarinet, harp
and string quartet. Heidi Krutzen, harp; David
Hetherington, cello; Joaquin Valdepeñas, clarinet;
Benjamin Bowman, violin; Steven Dann, viola;
Robert Aitken, flute. Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front
St. W. 416-368-8743. $45; $40(sr); $10(st).
- 3:00: Daniel Kushner. Bach in the Afternoon.
J.S. Bach: Sonatas and other works for violin and
piano. Jenny Crober, piano; Daniel Kushner, violin.
Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth. 416465-7443. Donations for Out of the Cold.
- 3:00: St. Clement’s Anglican Church.
Sundays at Three - The Art of A Cappella Song.
The Marion Singers; Tony Browning, conductor.
Sunday February 10
59 Briar Hill Ave. 416-483-6664. $20; $15(sr/st).
- 7:00: Kingsway-Lambton United Church.
The Spirit of Woman: A Song Story. Art songs,
Concert. See Feb 3.
- 2:00: ROM. Sunday Concert - Sharon Riley and musical theatre, opera arias, and spirituals. Amy
Dodington & Signa Love, sopranos. 85 The
Faith Chorale. Part of Black History Month
Celebrations. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. Kingsway. 416-231-9120. Free, donations
$20; $17(sr/st w ID); $14(5-14); free (members welcomed.
- 7:00: Such a Melodious Racket. Many
+ 4 and under). Includes access to all galleries
Rivers to Cross. Tribute to Salome Bey. Guido
and exhibitions.
- 2:30: Toronto Early Music Centre. Musical- Basso, Kollage, Russ Little, Ranee Lee & others.
George Weston Recital Hall, Toronto Centre for
ly Speaking - Pergolesi: Stabat Mater. Jenni
- 8:00: Mississauga Festival Choir. Festival
of Friends Massed Choir Festival. Eden United
Church, 3051 Battleford Road. 905-824-5578.
$20; $15(st/sr). Proceeds to local Mississauga
charity.
- 8:00: Music Gallery/Bluefog. Rick White,
The Luyas. Psychedelic rock. 197 John St. 416204-1080.$15; $10(sr/member); $5(st).
- 8:00: Toronto Consort. Constantinople - Ay!!
Amor…See Feb. 8.
- 8:00: Toronto Singing Studio. Vocal Mosaic
Choir: madrigals to spirituals. Works include
Brahms Rhapsody Op. 79, No. 1 in b. Linda
Eyman, music director; Christine Kim, guest
pianist. Bloor Street United Church, 300 Bloor St.
W. 416-455-9238. $12; $8(sr/st).
Mahler Symphony 9. See Feb 7.
- 8:00: York Symphony Orchestra. Russian
Genius. Glinka: Overture to Ruslan and Ludmilla;
Mozart: Bassoon Concerto; Borodin: Polovtsian
Dances; Tchaikovsky: Symphony #4. Trinity
Anglican Church, 79 Victoria St. Aurora. 416410-0860. $25; $20(sr/st); $10(12 and under).
- 8:00: Canadian Sinfonietta. Chinese New
Year Concert: Things that go buzz and chirp... Lili
Zhang & Ricky Chan. Newtonbrook United
Church, 53 Cummer Ave. 905-707-1200. $30;
$25(sr); $15(st); $10(ch).
- 8:00: Glenn Gould School. A Symphony of
Youth. St. Jude’s Church, 160 William St.,
Oakville. 905-844-3972. $28.
- 8:00: Mississauga Symphony.
Berlioz…With a Bang! Gillingham: Concertino;
Ager: Premiere for Percussion Soli; Mozart:
Turkish March; Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique.
TorQ percussion ensemble; John Barnum,
conductor. Hammerson Hall, 4141 Living Arts
Drive, Mississauga. 905-306-6000. $35-$45.
the Arts, 5040 Yonge St. 416-872-1111.
$54.86. Fundraising concert for the St. Christopher House Music School.
- 7:30: Christ Church Deer Park. Organ
Music and Compline - Six Sunday nights in Lent.
Compline from The Book of Common Prayer.
Gordon Mansell, organ. 1570 Yonge Street. 416920-5211. Collection taken.
- 7:30: Flying Cloud Folk Club. The Banjo
Special. Arnie Naiman, Chris Coole, Brian Taheny
& Chris Quinn. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick Avenue.
416-410-3655. $20; $18(members).
- 7:30: York Symphony Orchestra. Russian
Genius. Markham Theatre. 171 Towne Centre
Blvd. 905-305-7469. See Feb 9.
Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-3638231. Free.
- 12:00 noon: Hart House Music Committee.
Midday Mosaics Noon Hour Concert - A noonhour cabaret. Students from UofT Faculty of
Music. Music Room, 7 Hart House Circle. 416978-2452. Free.
Church. Jennifer Goodine, organ. 1585 Yonge
St. 416-922-1167. Free.
- 7:00: Tafelmusik. Mozart, Haydn and Bach
with a Twist. Mozart: Symphony #36 in C
“Linz”; Haydn: Symphony #82 in C “L’ours”.
Sigiswald Kuijken, guest director. Trinity St.
Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St.W. 416-964-6337.
$29-$68; $23-$61(st/sr).
Monday February 11
- 7:30: Toronto Opera Repertoire. Verdi: A
Masked Ball. In Italian with English surtitles.
Music. Chamber Music Series: Four Degrees of Giuseppe Macina, artistic director; Adolfo
Freedom. Murphy: Four Degrees of Freedom;
DeSantis, musical director. Bickford Centre
piano quartets by Mozart & Schumann. Erika
Theatre, 777 Bloor St. W. 416-978-8849. $25;
Raum, violin; Lydia Wong, piano; Teng Li, viola;
$15(sr/st). For complete run see music theatre
David Hetherington, cello. Walter Hall, 80
listings.
Queen’s Park. 416-978-3744. $22; $14(sr/st).
Music. Small Jazz Ensembles. Walter Hall, 80
Tuesday February 12
- 8:30: Serafin. Nothing Goes Quietly. Richard
- 8:00: Brampton Indie Arts Festival.
Underhill, baritone sax; Christopher Plock, tenor
Various Artists. Featuring Toca Loca, Molinari
sax; Great Bob Scott, drums; George Koller, bass; String Quartet, Claire Jenins avec Band, The PipKevin Clark, trumpet; Lyne Tremblay, guest
Squeek Orchestra & others. Rose Theatre, 1
vocalist. Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas St. W.
Theatre Lane, Brampton. 905-874-2800. $15(day).
416-531-6604. $15(adv); $17(door). Door
- 8:00: Civic Light Opera Company. The
opens: 6:00.
Rink. By John Kander & Fred Ebb. Julie Lennick;
Ashley Gibson; Joe Cascone, director. Fairview
Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall Dr. 416-755- 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.
1717. $25,$20. For complete run see music
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre Chamber
theatre listings.
Music Series: Glenn Gould School Harp Ensemble - 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Yundi
- The Romantic Harp. Four Seasons Centre for the Li Plays Tchaikovsky. Enescu: Romanian Rhapso-
and
Organ Music Compline
dy #1; Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto #1; Dvorak:
Symphony #6. Yundi Li, piano; Yannick NézetSéguin, conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60
Simcoe St. 416-593-4828. $41-$130.
Wednesday Concert Series - Heartstrings. Tim
Boyle, vocals; Kevin Barrett, guitar. 681 St. Clair
Ave. W. 416-658-5687. $8.
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre - Chamber
Music Series: Music for the Birds. Music and
words inspired by birds. Alison Melville, traverso, recorders, seljefløyte; Andrei Streliaev,
piano. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing
Arts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. Free.
Noon Hour Recital Series - Sharon Beckstead,
organ. St. Paul’s Bloor St., 227 Bloor St. E. 416961-8116 x251. Free.
Music. Thursdays at Noon: Music and Poetry:
Love in the Time of Decadence: Early Songs by
Alban Berg. Krisztina Szabó, mezzo-soprano;
Cameron Stowe, piano; Eric Domville, speaker.
Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-978-3744.
Free.
- 12:15: Metropolitan United Church. Noon
at Met Concerts: Emma Elkinson, flute & Joel
Green, piano. 56 Queen St.E. 416-363-0331.
Free.
- 2:00: Smile Theatre. The Great Farini. The
unusual adventures of William Leonard Hunt.
Cameron Hall, Yorkminster Park Baptist Church,
1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167. $10.
- 8:00: Brampton Indie Arts Festival.
Various Artists. See Feb 13.
- 8:00: Dancemakers. Martin Bélanger:
Spoken word/body. Tribute to the spoken word.
Dancemakers Centre for Creation, Distillery
District, 55 Mill St. Building 74. 416-3671800. $20.
at Christ Church Deer Park
Six Sunday nights in Lent beginning at 7:30 pm
- 8:00: Tapestry / Harbourfront Centre’s
WorldStage 08. Opera to Go 2008. Seven
short operas crossing disciplines. Composers
include Craig Galbraith, Kevin Morse, David
Ogborn; Andrew Staniland & Anthony Young.
Enwave Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, 231
Queens Quay W. $30(adv); $40(door); $25(preview); $20(st/cultural workers). 416-973-4000.
For complete run see music theatre listings.
- 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Yundi
Li Plays Tchaikovsky. Roy Thomson Hall. See Feb
13.
- 8:00: Wavelength/Music Gallery. Bruce
Peninsula. Indie folk, Huckleberry Friends (postpunk), Terry Riley’s “In C”. Social Music Workgroup. 197 John St. 416-204-1080. PWYC.
Friday February 15
- 7:30: Music at Timothy’s. TEMC Chamber
Choir - Songs of Love & Passion. Choral works.
Timothy Eaton Memorial Church, Flora McCrea
Auditorium, 230 St. Clair Ave. W. 416-9255977. $20; $15(sr/st).
- 7:30: Toronto Opera Repertoire. Puccini: La
Boheme. In Italian with English surtitles. Giuseppe
Macina, artistic director; Adolfo DeSantis,
musical director. Bickford Centre Theatre, 777
Bloor St. W. 416-978-8849. $25; $15(sr/st). For
complete run see music theatre listings.
Music. Choirs in Concert: Vox Femina. Women’s
Chorus; The St. Cecilia Singers; Robert Cooper &
Gloria Gassi, conductors. Christ Church Deer Park,
1570 Yonge St. 416-978-3744. $14; $8(sr/st).
- 8:00: Brampton Indie Arts Festival. Various
Artists. See Feb 13.
- 8:00: Dancemakers. Martin Bélanger: Spoken
word/body. See Feb 14.
- 8:00: Menaka Thakkar Dance Company.
NextSteps Series: Moving to Rhythm. Premiere
Dance Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, 207 Queen’s
Quay W. 416-973-4000. $20-$30.
- 8:00: Music Toronto. Chamber at Lula Lounge:
The Gryphon Trio with The Roberto Occhipinti
Quartet. Featuring Phil Dwyer, clarinet & saxophone; Hilario Duran, piano; Mark Kelso, drums;
Lynn Kuo, violin; Steven Dann, viola. Lula Lounge,
February 10th Gordon Mansell
Freelance organist
February 17th Juha Tikkanen
St Columba and All Hallows
February 24th Julia Dokter
Student organist
March 2nd Elisa Mangina
Assistant Organist,
St Martin-in-the-Fields, Toronto
March 9th Brent Fifield
Christ’s Church Cathedral, Hamilton
March 16th In lieu of organ music,
The Choir of Christ Church Deer Park
will sing a short devotional concert including
Palestrina’s Stabat Mater and
J.S. Bach’s motet Komm, Jesu, komm
All recitals (on the 1982 Karl Wilhelm tracker organ) will include
improvisation. The office of Compline, from The Book of Common
Prayer, will then be sung to gregorian chant.
1570 Yonge Street at Heath
(416) 920-5211
(north of St Clair Subway) www.christchurchdeerpark.org
- 8:00: Music Toronto. Discovery Series Zorana Sadiq, soprano & Peter Tiefenbach,
piano. Works include Olivier Messiaen: Poèmes
Pour Mi; Shirish Korde: Songs of Ecstasy; Grieg:
Songs; Tiefenbach: Nursery Rhymes and others.
Shawn Mativetsky, tabla. Jane Mallett Theatre,
St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, 27 Front St.
East. 416-366-7723, 800-708-6754. $15.
with a Twist. See Feb. 13.
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1585 Dundas St. West. 416-588-0307. $25;
show & dinner $65.
8:00: Royal Conservatory Orchestra.
Winter Dreams. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto
No. 2; Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique. Alasdair
Neale, conductor; Christine Kim, piano. George
Weston Recital Hall, 5040 Yonge St. 416-8721111. $20; $10(sr/st).
- 8:00: Sine Nomine. Plagues and Pestilence Music from the Era of the Black Death. Saint
Thomas’ Anglican Church, 383 Huron St. 416638-9445. $15; $10(sr/st/unwaged).
- 8:00: Small World Music / Karibuni
Radio. Hugh Masekela. Traditional township
jazz and mbaqanga of Soweto through classic
Afropop and onward11-piece ensemble including
Sibongile Khumalo; Nathi; Khaya Mahlangu &
others. . Phoenix, 410 Sherbourne St. 416-9223620. $30(adv). Doors open: 7:00.
- 8:00: Soundstreams Canada. The Journey
(Pimoteewin). Tomson Highway, libretto; Melissa
Hui, music; world premiere. Chamber Orchestra;
Elmer Iseler Singers; Lydia Adams, conductor.
Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front St. E. 416-3667723. $10-$37. 7:00: Young Artist Overture.
with a Twist. See Feb.13. PWYC(18-30).
- 3:00: Choirs of the Church of St. Mary
Magdalene. A Celebration of Healey Willan’s
Music. Including sacred choral music, secular
songs & Missa Brevis #12. Stephanie Martin,
music director; Andrew Adair, assistant organ,
Andrew Mahon, soloist. Church of St. Mary
Magdalene, 477 Manning Avenue. 416-5317955. $15.
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- 7:30: SongDreamer: Ruth Finlay & Her
Band. Live Tour. Fusion of world, new age and
folk. Ruth Finlay, lead voice/guitar; Gabe Sapienza,
drums; Robert Long, piano/voice; Scott Davies,
bass guitar; Alice Hwang, flute/voice & others.
Unity of Mississauga, 3075 Ridgeway Dr, Unit
6, 8 & 10, Mississauga. 416-693-9880. $15
- 7:30: TSO. Yundi Li Plays Tchaikovsky. Roy
Thomson Hall. See Feb 13.
- 8:00: Baarbad Ensemble. Kurdish Folklore
Music. Studio Theatre, Toronto Centre for the
Arts, 5040 Yonge St. 416-872-1111. $25-$30.
- 8:00: Dancemakers. Martin Bélanger: Spoken
word/body. See Feb 14.
- 8:00: Guitar Society of Toronto. Jeffrey
McFadden and Friends - Classical Guitar Concert.
Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave. 416-9228002. $25; $15(sr/st).
- 8:00: Healey Willan Singers. Young Artist
in Recital Series - Ryan Harper, Tenor. Music by
Vaughan Williams, Liszt, Duparc, Schumann,
Britten & Ager. Brahm Goldhamer, piano;
Andrew Mahon, baritone; Andrew Ager, piano.
Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, 151 Glenlake
Ave. 416-519-0528. $15; $10.00(sr/st).
NextSteps: Moving to Rhythm. See Feb.15.
- 8:00: North York Concert Orchestra.
Subscription Concert 2. Handel: Organ Concerto
#13 in F; Barber: Adagio for Strings; Gounod:
Petite Symphonie for winds; Gershwin: Promenade; Summertime from Porgy and Bess; Grofe:
On the Trail from Grand Canyon Suite. David
Bowser, conductor. Grace Church on-the-Hill, 300
Lonsdale Rd. 416-628-9195. $20; $15(sr/st).
- 8:00: Scarborough Philharmonic. Warm
Music For A February Evening. Music by Mozart,
Mendelssohn & Gassi. John Barnum, conductor.
Birchmount Park Collegiate, 3663 Danforth Ave.
416-429-0007. $30; $25(sr); $15(st).
- 8:00: Soundstreams Canada. The Journey
(Pimoteewin). See Feb 15
with a Twist. See Feb.13.
- 8:30: Living Arts Centre. Connie Kaldor,
singer/songwriter. Diverse repertoire from
Gospel to bluegrass. With Eve Goldberg, voice &
guitar. 4141 Living Arts Drive, Mississauga.
905-306-6000. $25+.
Sunday February 17
Concert. See Feb 3.
Sunday Concerts – Neil Douglas. Latin jazz
repertoire. McMichael Gallery, 10365 Islington
Avenue, Kleinburg. 905-893-1121 / 888-2131121. Free w gallery admission.
- 2:00: Bullhorn. Happy Fingers: A tribute to the
piano. Featuring Brian Dickinson, Gene DiNovi,
Thompson Egbo Egbo, Steve Koven, Joey Sealy
and John Sherwood. Diesel Playhouse, 56 Blue
Jays Way. 416-971-5656 / 877-971-5656.
$20.
NextSteps: Moving to Rhythm. See Feb. 15.
- 2:00: ROM. Sunday Concert - Irshad Khan, sitar
and tabla. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000.
$20; $17(sr/st w ID); $14(5-14); free (members
+ 4 and under). Includes access to all galleries
and exhibitions.
- 2:30: Alicier Arts Chamber Music. Love’s
Labours Lost. Valentine’s Programme. Borne:
Carmen Fantasy; Ravel: Chansons Madecasses;
Fauré: Piano Quartet in c; Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night’s Dream excerpts; Hanson: Serenade.
Christopher Lee, flute; Phoebe Tsang, violin;
Peter Cosbey, cello; Mariko Kamachi & Adam
Sherkin, piano; & others. St George’s on-the-Hill
Anglican Church, 4600 Dundas St W. 416-7313599. $20; $15(sr/st).
- 3:00: Debi Sander Walker. Patsy Cline
Sings the Classics. Frank Caruso, guest. Rose
Theatre, 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. 905-8742800. $25-$45; (under 13 accompanying adult
½ price). In support of the Salvation Army Honey
Church Family Life Resource Centre.
- 3:00: Hannaford Street Silver Band.
Salvation’s Blast!: the brass band and its role in
The Salvation Army. Robert Redhead: Quintessence. Spiritual to the Bone trombone ensemble;
Stephen Bulla, Robert Redhead, guest conductors.
Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre, 27
Front St. East. 416-366-7723/800-708-6754.
$34;$28(sr);$23(st). 2:15: pre-concert chat.
- 3:00: Hart House Sunday Concerts. Conrad
Chow and Boyon Koh: Valentine’s Day Spectacular. Great Hall, 7 Hart House Circle. 416-9782452. Free.
- 3:00: Orchestra Toronto. Dance Capitals of
the World: Madrid. Works by Glinka, Estacio,
Granados, Turina & others. Theatre Flamenco;
Errol Gay, conductor. George Weston Recital
Hall, Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge St.
416-467-7142. $35; $30(st/sr). 2:15: preconcert talk.
with a Twist. See Feb.13.
- 4:00: St. James’ Cathedral. Twilight Recital
Series: Allan Pulker, flute; Andrew Ager, organ.
J.S. Bach: Partita in a, Sonata in g. 65 Church
Street. 416-364-7865. Free.
- 4:00: St. Phillip’s Anglican Church. Jazz
Vespers - Kate Schutt. 25 St. Phillip’s Rd. 416247-5181. Offering.
Monday February 18
- 7:30: Associates of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Five Small Concerts: From the
Hacienda to the Salon. Alvarez: Metro Chabacano; Kreisler: Quartet in a; Elgar: Quintet for Piano
and Strings in A. Virginia Chen Wells, Carol Lynn
Fujino, violin; Daniel Blackman, viola; Kirk Worthington, cello; Talisa Blackman, piano.Trinity-St.
Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St. West. 416-4852717. $18; $15(sr/st).
Series~The Three Tenors. Alex Dean, Kelly
Jefferson and Kirk MacDonald, sax. Old Mill Inn,
21 Old Mill Rd. 416-595-0404. $22-$25.
- 8:00: Les Amis. Lynn Kuo, violin & Marianna
Humetska, piano. Works by Mozart, Ravel, Raum
& Pepa. Jamie Drake, Timothy Francom & Ed
Reifel, percussion. Arts & Letters Club, 14 Elm
St. 416-597-0223 x3. $20 (incl. dinner 6:30 &
concert:).
Tuesday February 19
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre – Chamber
Music Series: Marie Bérard, Teng Li, Winona
Zelenka - Goldberg Variations. Version for string
trio; also: Bowman: In Memory of Richard
Bradshaw (world premiere). Four Seasons Centre
for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W. 416363-8231. Free.
Music. Jazz at Noon: Rob Cappelletto Jazz
Quartet. ACE Lounge, 219 Accolade East, YU,
4700 Keele St. 416-736-5186. Free.
- 8:30: Autorickshaw. In Concert. Indo-jazz
funk fusion ensemble. Guests: Mark Duggan,
percussion; Dylan Bell, piano. Lula Lounge, 1585
Dundas St. W. 416-588-0307. $12. Doors: 7pm.
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre – Chamber
Music Series: Glenn Gould School Brass Ensemble - Brass Fanfare. Four Seasons Centre for the
Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-3638231. Free.
Church. Raphael Tambyeff, organ. 1585 Yonge
St. 416-922-1167. Free.
- 1:00 & 8:00: Unionville Theatre Co. Beauty
and the Beast. Alan Menken, music; Howard
Ashman & Tim Rice, lyrics; Linda Wolverton,
book; Carlene Flynn, producer; David Bertram,
director. Markham Theatre, 171 Town Centre
Blvd. 905-305-7469. Feb 20 only: $15(all);
$20;$18(sr/st/ch). For complete run see music
theatre listings.
Wednesday Concert Series - Roland Hunter Trio.
681 St. Clair Ave. W. 416-658-5687. $7.
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre Vocal Series:
COC Ensemble Studio - Czech Program. Rarely
performed works from key periods in Czech
history. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing
Arts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. Free.
- 12:00 noon: Chamber Music Society of
Mississauga Concerts. Barbara Croall, flute.
Native repertoire, traditional singing and spoken
word. Art Gallery of Mississauga, 300 City
Centre Dr. Mississauga. 905-848-0015. Free.
Noon Hour Recital Series - M. Raphael Tambyeff,
organ. St. Paul’s Bloor St., 227 Bloor St. E. 416961-8116 x251. Free.
at Met Concerts: Tom Fitches, organ. 56 Queen
St. E. 416-363-0331. Free.
- 2:00: Northern District Library. Piano
Recital. Schubert: Sonata in A, D. 959; Franck:
Prelude, Chorale et Fugue. Valentin Blomer, piano.
40 Orchard View Blvd. 416-393-7610. Free.
- 7:00: St. James’ Cathedral. Lenten Concert.
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater. St James Singers;
Andrew Ager, conductor. 416-364-7865. Free /
donations gratefully accepted.
Music. Faculty Concert Series: Catherine Robbin,
mezzo-soprano, Colin Ainsworth, tenor & Raisa
Nakhmanovich, piano. Works by Mendelssohn,
Brahms, Debussy & Britten. Tribute Communities Recital Hall, Accolade East, YU, 4700 Keele
St. 416-736-5888. $15; $5(st).
Associates of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra
- 4:30: Choirs of the Church of St. Mary
Magdalene. Evensong. Featuring the music of
Healey Willan. Free will offering. See Feb 16.
Vespers - Dixie Demons. Ross Woolridge,
clarinet; Dan Douglas, trombone; Steve Crowe,
trumpet; Paul Disera, banjo; Doug Burrell, tuba.
1570 Yonge St. 416-920-5211. Free / donations
welcomed.
Juha Tikkanen, organ. 1570 Yonge St. 416-9205211. Collection taken.
- 8:00: Bullhorn. Timely Manor Sunday Jazz
Series - Kevin Clark & the Skinny Dippers. Diesel
Playhouse, 56 Blue Jays Way. 416-971-5656 /
877-971-5656. $20.
- 8:00: Toronto Youth Wind Orchestra.
Godzilla Eats Las Vegas: Annual Fund-Raising
Event. Works by Manilow, Carmichael, and
Whitacre. Gi‘no Monopoli as “Elvis”. Le Parc
Conference and Banquet Centre, 8432 Leslie St.
416-321-8996. $15-$25.
Friday February 22
- 7:30: Brampton Folk Club. Friday Folk Night
Concerts - Canada’s Queen of the Topical Song.
Humorist/singer/songwriter Nancy White;
opening act Downtown Freddy Brown. Sanderson
Hall, St. Paul’s United Church, 30 Main St. South,
Brampton. 647-233-3655. $12; $10(st/sr).
- 8:00: Etobicoke Philharmonic Orchestra.
Ritmo Mediterraneo. Rossini: La Gazza Ladra
Overture; Baker: In Memoriam Gabriel Fauré;
Rodrigo: Concierto Andaluz for Four Guitars and
Orchestra; Ravel: Mother Goose Suite; RimskyKorsakov: Capriccio Espagnole. Warren Nicholson
From the Hacienda to the Salon
J. Alvarez
Fritz Kreisler
Edward Elgar
Metro Chabacano
Quartet in A minor
Quintet for Piano and
Strings in A major
Virginia Chen Wells Violin
Violin
Carol Lynn Fujino
Viola
Daniel Blackman
Cello
Kirk Worthington
Piano
Talisa Blackman
Monday February 18, 2008 7:30 pm
Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre
427 Bloor St. West (Bloor/Spadina)
Tickets $18 reg / $15 sen/stud
Call 416-485-2717
www.associates-tso.org
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- 1:30 & 3:30: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. And Furthermore They Bite! Saint-Saëns:
Carnival of the Animals; Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight
of the Bumblebee; Kapilow: setting of poem by
John Gardner; for ages 5 to 12. Rob Kapilow,
conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St.
416-593-4828. $17-$27.
- 4:30: Oakville Children’s Choir. Stories &
Songs in Canada & Beyond. Guest artists: Boni
Pueri Czech Boys Choir; Sarah Morrison, artistic
director. Clear View Christian Reformed Church,
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- 7:00: Mississauga Children’s Choir.
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6 choirs from Canada & the US. Cawthra Park
Guitar Quartet; Roberto De Clara, conductor.
Secondary School, 1305 Cawthra Road. 905Scarlett Heights Entrepreneurial Academy, 15
624-9704. $15; $10(sr/st).
Trehorne Dr. 416-231-5665. $20; $15(sr/st);
- 7:30: Opera by Request. Massenet: Werther.
free(under 16 w/adult).
Concert version. Laura McAlpine, Nicole Bower,
- 8:00: Masterworks of Oakville Chorus
James Janz, Tyler Kuhnert & Henry Irwin;
and Orchestra. Beethoven and Mozart Masses.
William Shookhoff, piano & music director. Christ
Beethoven: Mass in C; Mozart: Coronation Mass,
Church Deer Park, 1570 Yonge St. 416-455Regina Coeli K 276 & Ave Verum Corpus.
2365. $25; $15(sr/st).
Charles Demuynck, music director. St. Andrew
- 8:00: Academy Concert Series. Magic of
Catholic Church, 47 Reynolds St. Oakville. 905the Basset Horn. Mozart: Divertimenti &
257-7308.$20(adv); $18(adv sr/st); $10(adv ch).
Notturni for basset horn trio and voices. Colin
- 8:00: Music Gallery. Les Moineaux d’entendre
Savage, Stephen Fox, Nicolai Tarasov, basset
- Décagé. Evening dedicated to John Cage and
horns; Michele DeBoer, soprano; Ariel Hardwood
Fluxus. Works by Malcolm Goldstein, Pauline
Oliveros, Kunsu Shim, Gerhard Staebler, Martijn
-Massenet
Voorvelt and others. Nadia Francaville, D’Arcy
Philip Gray. 197 John St. 416-204-1080. $15;
$10(sr/member); $5(st). Doors open 7pm.
- 8:00: Opera York. Mozart: Don Giovannni. Full
orchestral production. English surtitles. YCDSB
Theatre, 525 New Westminster Dr. Thornhill.
905-763-7853. $30-$35.
February 23, 08 7:30 pm
- 8:00: Sony Centre. Trinity Irish Dance. Trinity
Christchurch Deer Park
Dancers, Chicago; Mark Howard, artistic director. 1 Front St. E. 416-870-8000. $35-$65
1570 Yonge St. (Yonge & Heath)
- 8:00: Toronto Mendelssohn Choir. Sacred
Music for a Sacred Space. Masterworks perTickets $25 at door 416 455 2365
formed a capella. Guests: the Victoria Scholars;
www.operabyrequest.ca
Noel Edison, conductor. St. Paul’s Basilica, 83
Power St. 416-598-0422 x24. $30-$65
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Stratford Summer Music, this adaptation of
Oscar Wilde’s comic masterpiece is fully staged.
Jeffrey Huard, Conductor • Guillermo Silva-Marin, Stage Director
featuring… Laird Mackintosh, Robert Longo, Mia Lennox-Williams,
Deanna Hendriks, Heather Shaw, Michael York, Keith O’Brien, Sean Curran
- 8:00: Toronto Operetta Theatre. Earnest,
The Importance of Being. By Davies & Benson.
Laird Mackintosh, Robert Longo, performers;
Jeffrey Huard, conductor. Jane Mallett Theatre,
27 Front St. East. 416-366-7723 / 800-7086754. $39-$78.
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Jones, mezzo-soprano; Esteban Cambre, bassbaritone. Eastminster United Church, 310
Danforth Ave. 416-927-9089. $15; $10(sr/st).
- 8:00: Acoustic Harvest Folk Club. Rosemary Phelan. With Jason LaPrade & Trevor
Mills. St. Nicholas Anglican Church, 1512
Kingston Rd. 416-264-2235. $15.
- 8:00: Alison Melville. The Bird Project.
Music, poetry, sound and visuals with repertoire
ranging from medieval to very contemporary.
Music by Hildegard of Bingen, Messiaen, Bach,
van Eyck, Hans Poser & others. Alison Melville,
artistic director, traverso, recorders & willow
flute; Katherine Hill, soprano; Kathleen Kajioka,
reader; Andrei Streliaev, piano; Debashis Sinha,
video/visuals. St George the Martyr Church, 197
John St. 416-588-4301. $15.
- 8:00: Masterworks of Oakville Chorus
and Orchestra. Beethoven and Mozart Masses.
See Feb 22.
- 8:00: Musicians in Ordinary. A Due Voci:
Italian Baroque Music. Early Italian Baroque
music for sopranos and theorbo. Works by
Monteverdi & Strozzi. Guest: Alexa Wing,
soprano. Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave. 416535-9956. $20; $15(st/sr).
- 8:00: Roy Thomson Hall/Massey Hall. Art
of Song: Cowboy Junkies. Michael Timmins,
guitar/songwriter; Margo Timmins, vocal; Peter
Timmins, drums; Alan Anton, bass and guests.
Massey Hall, 15 Shuter St. 416-872-4255.
$29.50-$49.50.
- 8:00: Sinfonia Mississauga. Flights of
Fantasy. Rossini: Overture to Il Signor Bruschino;
Royer: Fantasy for Violin & Orchestra; Ravel:
Introduction and Allegro; Elgar: Salut d’amour &
Chanson de nuit; Mozart: Symphony #40. Ruth
Fazal, violin; John Barnum, conductor. Hammerson Hall, 4141 Living Arts Drive, Mississauga.
905-306-6000. $35-$45.
- 8:00: Sony Centre. Harlem Gospel Choir.
Allen Bailey, founder, music director.1 Front St.
E. 416-870-8000. $26-$55
The Importance of Being. See Feb 22.
Sunday February 24
Concert. See Feb 3.
- 2:00: Off Centre. 13th Annual Schubertiad.
Music of Schubert. Kathleen Brett, soprano; Giles
Tomkins, baritone; Inna Perkis & Boris Zarankin,
piano. Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St. W. 416205-5555. $45; $35(st/sr).
- 2:00: Opera York. Mozart: Don Giovannni.
See Feb 22.
The Importance of Being. See Feb 22.
- 2:00:Visual and Performing Arts Newmarket. Tokai String Quartet. Newmarket
Theatre, 505 Pickering Cres. 905-953-5122.
$10-$24.
- 3:00: CBC Radio – Canada Live. Francophonia – Nadina Mackie Jackson, bassoon/Guy Few,
trumpet. Trudel: Double Concerto; works by
Lussier, Debussy, Jolivet. Glenn Gould Studio,
250 Front St. W. 416-205-5555. $25.
- 3:00: Heliconian Hall. Duo Recital. Works by
Poulenc, Beethoven, Granados, Debussy, Golijov
& Chaminade. Les Allt, flute; Roland Starr, piano.
35 Hazelton Ave. 416-868-6263. $15; $5(sr/
st). See ad next page.
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Sarah Morrison, Music Director
Janet Stachow, Associate Music Director
presents
Special Guests
BONI PUERI Czech Boys’ Choir
Conductor Jakub Martinec
“Stories and Song in
Canada and Beyond”
4:30 p.m. Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
ClearView Christian Reformed Church
2300 Sheridan Garden Drive, Oakville
For tickets call 905.337.7104 or visit
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Monday February 25
- 8:00: Rendez-vous with Jane Birkin.
Songs of Serge Gainsbourg and others. The
Music Hall, 147 Danforth Ave. 416-778-8163 /
416-870-8000.$47-$52.
- 8:00: Toronto Organ Club. Kings of Instruments. Concerts played on the X-66, the Allen
classical organ and the Baby Grand. St. James
United Church, 400 Burnhamthorpe Road. 905824-4667. $12; free(under 10).
Tuesday February 26
LISTEN!
All Songs Canadian
February 24, 2008, 4:00 pm
Timothy Eaton Memorial Church
230 St. Clair Avenue West, Toronto
This family concert will feature the five TCC
Training Choirs and the Boys' Choir in an
all-Canadian tribute. Repertoire will include
works by John Govedas, Marilyn Broughton,
Paul Halley and Stuart Calvert.
Tokai
String Quartet
Adult - $24.00 Student/Senior - $20.00
TCC Box Office 416.932.8666 x231
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Auditions for 6-16 year olds are
held March through May.
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Opera Division of the University of Toronto Spotlight on Handel. Showcase of forthcoming
production of Handel’s Ariodante. Four Seasons
W. 416-363-8231. Free.
Music. Jazz at Noon: York U Jazz Orchestra. Al
Henderson and Mike Cado, directors. ACE
Lounge, 219 Accolade East Building, YU, 4700
Keele St. 416-736-5186. Free
- 3:00: Toronto Mendelssohn Choir. Sacred - 2:30: Alchemy. An Hour of Chamber Music.
Music for a Sacred Space. See Feb 22.
Quantz: Trio Sonata; Strauss: Theme & Varia- 4:00: Toronto Children’s Chorus Training tions; Beethoven: Serenade; Parker:Pieces;
Choirs / Boys’ Choirs. All Songs Canadian.
Arnold: Quintet op 7. Henneke Cats, flute; Elke
Works by John Govedas, Marilyn Broughton, Paul Streisslberger, horn; Larkin Hinder, bassoon;
Halley & Stuart Calvert. Elise Bradley, artistic
Catherine Sulem, violin; Beverlee Swayze, viola;
director; Carole Anderson, Teri Dunn & MarieMarion Wilk, piano. New Horizons Tower, 1140
Claire Gervasoni, conductors. Timothy Eaton
Bloor St. W, 416-536-6111. Free.
Memorial Church, 230 St. Clair Ave. W. 416- 7:30: St. Clement’s Anglican Church.
932-8666 x231. $24; $20(sr/st).
Aaron Tan, organ. Works by Albright, Bach, Eben,
- 5:00: Masaryk Memorial Institute Inc.
Franck & Vierne. 59 Briar Hill Ave. 416-483George Grosman Jazz Quintet. Prague Restau6664. Freewill offering.
rant, 450 Scarborough Golf Club Road. 416-4394354. $20; $15(st).
Julia Doker, organ. 1570 Yonge Street. 416-9205211. Collection taken.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
2:00 pm
Newmarket Theatre
505 Pickering Crescent
Tickets available at the
Newmarket Theatre
Box Office tel: 905 953 5122
www.newmarkettheatre.ca
Adults: $24.00 Seniors: $19.00
Students: $10.00
- 8:00: Music Toronto. Jon Kimura Parker,
piano. Stravinsky (arr Parker): The Rite of Spring;
& other works. Jane Mallett Theatre, St.
Lawrence Centre for the Arts, 27 Front St. East.
416-366-7723 / 800-708-6754. $45,$41; 1835 pay your age; $5(st, accompanying adult ½
price).
- 8:00: Talisker Players Chamber Music.
Perfect Propriety. Works by Coulthard, Weill,
Seymour Barab, Omar Daniel, Lee Hoiby &
Stephen Chatman. Melanie Conly, soprano; Vilma
Vitols, mezzo-soprano; Doug MacNaughton,
baritone. Trinity St. Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St.
W. 416-466-1800. $30; $20(sr); $10(st).
perfect propriety
Church. Imre Olah, organ. 1585 Yonge St. 416922-1167. Free.
Music. Small Jazz Ensembles. Walter Hall, 80
- 8:00: Talisker Players Chamber Music.
See Feb 26.
Tchaikovsky Symphony 5. Chen Yi: Momentum
(Canadian premiere); Bartók: Viola Concerto;
Tchaikovsky: Symphony #5. Teng Li, viola;
Ludovic Morlot, conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60
Simcoe St. 416-593-4828. $36-$123
Wednesday Concert Series - Bill McBirnie, flute
& Robi Botos, piano. 681 St. Clair Ave. W. 416658-5687. $7.
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Melanie Conly, SOPRANO
Vilma Vitols, MEZZO SOPRANO
Doug MacNaughton, BARITONE
Peter Longworth, PIANO
The Talisker Players
February 26 & 27, 2008, 8 pm
Trinity St. Paul’s Centre
Tickets: $30 / $20 / $10
Information: 416-466-1800
www.taliskerplayers.ca
11th Annual FREE Noon Hour
Choir & Organ Concerts
at Roy Thomson Hall
Robert Pomakov, bass - Biblical Songs. Rarely
performed song cycle and other works based
on biblical texts set by Schutz, Buxtehude and
Charpentier. COC orchestra brass, woodwind
and string sections. Four Seasons Centre for
the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W. 416363-8231. Free.
- 12:00 noon: Roy Thomson Hall. 11th
Annual Noon Hour Choir & Organ Concerts Bach Children’s Chorus. Linda Beaupré, conductor; Eleanor Daley, organ. 60 Simcoe St. 416872-4255. Free.
- 12:10: St. Paul’s Foundation for the
Arts. Noon Hour Recital Series - Angus
Sinclair, organ. St. Paul’s Bloor St., 227 Bloor
St. E. 416-961-8116 x251. Free.
- 12:15: Metropolitan United Church.
Noon at Met Concerts: Andrew Adair, organ.
56 Queen St.E. 416-363-0331. Free.
- 2:00: Northern District Library. Chamber Music Recital: Works for Piano and Winds.
Beethoven, Willan, Ameller & others. Peter
Margolian, piano. 40 Orchard View Blvd. 416393-7610. Free.
Music. Faculty Concert Series: The Barry
Elmes Quintet. Barry Elmes, drums; Mike
Murley, saxophones; Kevin Turcotte, trumpet
& flugelhorn; Reg Schwager, guitar; Steve
Wallace, bass. Tribute Communities Recital
Hall, Accolade East, YU, 4700 Keele St. 416736-5888. $15; $5(st).
- 8:00: Bullhorn. Ciara Adams - CD Release:
Last of the Bohemians. Featuring Davide
Direnzo, Mike Janzen, Marc Rogers, Arthur
Kerekes (GMMF) & others. Lula Lounge, 1585
Dundas St. W. 416-588-0307. $10 (or $20
with new CD).
- 8:00: CBC Radio – Canada Live. David
Rudder’s Calypso Journey: Lord Superior,
Drew Gonsalves. Three generations of calypso
revealed. Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St.
W. 416-205-5555. $25.
Tchaikovsky Symphony 5. Roy Thomson Hall.
See Feb 27.
Friday February 29
Music. Choirs in Concert: From Tallis to
Taverner. Master Chorale; Brad Ratzlaff,
conductor. Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s Park. 416978-3744. $14; $8(sr/st).
- 8:00: COBA. NextSteps Series: Yebo!
Dance program celebrating the 15th season.
BaKari Lindsay, artistic director. Premiere
Dance Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, 235
Queen’s Quay W. 416-973-4000. $20-$30.
- 8:00: Nathaniel Dett Chorale. Voices of
the Diaspora Afro Brasileira. Brainerd BlydenTaylor, artistic director. George Weston
Recital Hall, Toronto Centre for the Arts,
5040 Yonge St. 416-872-1111. $15-$39.50.
- 8:00: Opera York. Mozart: Don Giovannni.
Markham Theatre 171 Town Centre Blvd.
Markham. See Feb 22.
- 8:00: Toronto Consort. Music for a
Medieval Labyrinth. Music for the labyrinth
including medieval dance-songs and renaissance polyphony. David Fallis, artistic director.
Trinity St Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St. W.
416-964-6337. $14-$40.
Saturday March 01
- 7:00: Amadeus Choir. A Celtic Celebration.
The Celtic Band & highland dancers. Benefit
concert to support the artistic initiatives of the
Amadeus Choir. Lydia Adams, conductor.
Toronto Botanical Garden, 777 Lawrence Ave.
E. 416-446-0188. $35; $30(sr/st).
- 7:30: Music on the Donway. Sandy
MacIntyre, celtic fiddler. Irish songs, fiddling,
step dancing & more. 7-piece Cape Breton
traditional band, “Steeped in Tradition.”
Donway Covenant United Church, 230 The
Donway W. 416-444-8444. $20; $12(12 &
under).
- 7:30: Tallis Choir. Rachmaninoff Vespers.
Rachmaninoff: Vespers; works by Tavener and
Featuring Roy Thomson Hall's magnificent
Gabriel Kney pipe organ
Bach Children's Chorus
Thurs Feb 28, 2008
Linda Beaupré, conductor • Eleanor Daley, organ
Olivier Latry, organ
Thurs April 17, 2008
Solo recital by the titular organist of Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris
FREE ADMISSION
For Info Call
416-872-4255
Online roythomson.com
All concerts commence at 12 NOON
Suitable for ages 6 and up
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Edwards Charitable Foundation
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Male Voice Choir
William Woloschuk, Conductor
Julie Loveless, Accompanist
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St. David’s Day Concert
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Christopher Thomas - M.C.
Northumberland Orchestra
Shannon Mercer - Soloist
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Clement Carelse - Organist
Gerald Martindale - Carillonneur
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Adaskin
Divertimento No. 6
Mendelssohn
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Bizet
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Schumann
Symphony No. 1
Saturday, March 1, 2008, 7:30 p.m
Metropolitan United Church
56 Queen Street East
Tickets: $25.00
Contact:
416-410-2254
www.twmvc.com
www.TICKETBREAK.com
Pärt. St. Patrick’s Church, 141 McCaul St.
416-286-9798. $25,$20(sr),$10(st).
- 7:30: Toronto Welsh Male Voice Choir.
St. David’s Day Concert. Northumberland
Orchestra & guests. William Woloschuk,
conductor. Metropolitan United Church, 56 Queen
St. E. 416-410-2254. $25.
- 7:30: Village Rhapsody Concert Series.
Duet & Trio. Works by Barber, Dvorak &
Juozopaitis. Terry Holowach, violin; Agile Storyk,
cello; Leokadija Kanovich, piano; Ilona DamasiusBeres, piano. Runnymede United Church, 432
Runnymede Rd. 416-766-9959. $20; $15(adv).
- 8:00: Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra. Subscription Concert 3. Mendelssohn:
Hebrides Overture; Bizet/Shchedrin: Carmen
Suite; Adaskin: Divertimento No.6; Schumann:
Symphony No.6. Norman Reintamm, conductor;
Andrew Dunsmore, percussion. P.C. Ho Theatre,
Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto, 5183
Sheppard Ave. E. 416-879-5566. $25, $20,
children under 12 free.
- 8:00: COBA. NextSteps : Yebo! See Feb. 29.
- 8:00: Living Arts Centre. Peter Appleyard.
Tribute to popular music from the 30s, 40s &
50s. Voices of Showtime. 4141 Living Arts Dr.
Mississauga. 905-306-6000. $28-$52.
- 8:00: Oriana Women’s Choir. Praise my
Soul: Hymns For Hers. Commissioned works by
Beckwith, Daley, Enns, Henderson, Holman &
more. William Brown, artistic director; James
Bourne, piano; Michael Bloss, organ. Grace
Church on-the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale Road. 416-9233123. $25; $20(sr); $10(st).
- 8:00: Toronto Consort. Music for a Medieval
Labyrinth. See Feb 29.
Special Performance. Beethoven: Piano Concerto
#1; Symphony #7. Lang Lang, piano; Peter
Oundjian, conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60
Simcoe St. 416-593-4828. $48.50-$140.
- 8:00: Windmill Theatre Productions. A
Little Night Music. Romantic music by Dvorak,
Fauré & Debussy. Brian Pritchard, artistic
director; Joshua Tamayo, musical director. Great
Hall, Unitarian South Peel Congregation, 84 South
Service Rd. Mississauga. 905-338-5702. $25.
Sunday March 02
- 2:00: Toronto All-Star Big Band. They’re
Playing Our Song. Tribute to the Big Band Era.
Zygmunt Jedrezejek, artistic director. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queen’s Quay W. 416973-4000. PWYC($15 suggested).
- 2:30: Aldeburgh Connection. Sunday Series
- The Tale of the Ostrich. Songs by Richard
Strauss. Joni Henson, soprano; Laura Tucker,
mezzo-soprano; Phillip Addis, baritone. Walter
Hall, Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen’s Park.
416-735-7982. $50.
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Sunday Concerts – Dr. Norman Bethune Collegiate Institute Piano and Flute Quartet. McMichael Gallery, 10365 Islington Avenue,
Kleinburg. 905-893-1121 / 888-213-1121. Free
with admission to gallery: $15; $12(sr/st).
- 2:00: ROM. Sunday Concert - Tafelmusik. 100
Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. $20; $17(sr/st w
ID); $14(5-14); free (members + 4 and under).
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- 3:00: Mississauga Choral Society. Sing
Canadian, eh! Beckwith: new work; contemporary
Canadian compositions. Guest: John Beckwith;
Mervin Fick, conductor. Hammerson Hall, Living
Arts Centre, 4141 Living Arts Dr. 905-3066000. $15-$35.
- 3:00: Orpheus Choir. Mystical Voices.
Holman: Requiem; works by MacMillan, Widor
and more. Jennie Such, soprano; Wallis Giunta,
mezzo-soprano; Cian Horrobin, tenor; Alex
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Moroney, organ; Robert Cooper, conductor.
Metropolitan United Church, 56 Queen St.E. 416530-4428. $30,$25(sr),$15(st).
- 3:00: St. Clement’s Anglican Church.
Sundays at Three - The Art of the Organ. Works
by Bach, Guilmant, Esposito, Nosetti & Vierne.
Massimo Nosetti, organ. 59 Briar Hill Ave. 416483-6664. $20; $15(sr/st).
- 3:00: Syrinx Sunday Salons. Peter Longworth, piano. Works by Brahms, Prokofiev &
Kuerti. Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave. 416699-4949. $20; $15(st).
- 3:30: Koffler Centre of the Arts. An
Afternoon of Music and Culture. Works by
Mozart, Glick, Mozetich, Buczinsky, Gilles,
Leclerc & Levkovich. Koffler Chamber Orchestra;
Joseph Macerollo, accordion. Temple Emanu-El,
120 Old Colony Road. 416-636-1880 x228.
$20; $18(sr/st). Pre-concert talk: 1:30.
- 4:00: Luba & Ireneus Zuk. Piano Duo. Works
by Hummel, Burge, Stankowych, Piazzola, Fiala,
Lashenko & Liszt. Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front
Street W. 416-762-7988. $30.
Vespers - Joe Sealy, piano & Paul Novotny, bass.
1570 Yonge St. 416-920-5211. Free / donations.
Elisa Mangina, organ. 1570 Yonge St. 416-9205211. Collection taken.
- 7:30: Victoria Scholars Men’s Choral
Ensemble. Gracias a la Vida - The Gift of
Spanish Song. Works by Tomás Luis de Victoria,
Javier Busto, Pablo Casals and Heitor Villa-Lobos.
Jerzy Cichocki, music director. Our Lady of
Sorrows Church, 3055 Bloor St. W. 416-7617776. $25; $20(sr/st).
- 8:00: COBA. NextSteps: Yebo! See Feb. 29.
- 8:00: Esprit Orchestra. Off the Edge - 25th
Anniversary Season. Vivier: Zipangu; Somers: Of
Memory and Desire; Cashian: Tableaux; Ford:
Peter and the Wolf Overture; Schmidt: A Fair.
Alex Pauk, conductor. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27
Front Street East. 416-366-7723. $32; $24(sr);
$15(st). 7:15: Pre-concert talk.
Monday March 03
Music. Music at Midday: Classical instrumental
recital featuring student soloists. Tribute Communities Recital Hall, Accolade East, YU, 4700
Keele St. 416-736-5186. Free.
Series~Dave McMurdo Jazz Orchestra. 21st
century musical compositions and arrangements.
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The gift of Spanish song
Enjoy the passion and drama of
choral music written by our Spanish friends.
Experience the emotionally colourful music of
our namesake Tomás Luis de Victoria,
as well as rarely-heard works by Javier Busto,
Pablo Casals and Heitor Villa-Lobos.
You might even hear some toreadors... Olé!
19-piece all-star jazz orchestra. Old Mill Inn, 21
Old Mill Rd. 416-595-0404. $30; $27(sr/st).
Tuesday March 04
- 12:00: Canadian Opera Company. The
University of Toronto Faculty of Music - Lives of
Others: A Prism of Song. Concert of art songs
from the 18th to 20th centuries. Four Seasons
West. 416-363-8231. Free.
Music. Jazz at Noon: York Student Jazz
Ensemble. Mike Murley, director; Tom Ionescu,
guitar; Jonathan Lum, alto sax; Andrew Maynard,
tenor sax; Zach Sutton, drums; Ben Young, bass.
Tribute Communities Recital Hall, Accolade East,
YU, 4700 Keele St. 416-736-5186. Free.
- 6:30 Alchemy. An Hour of Chamber Music.
Quantz: Trio Sonata; Strauss: Theme & Variations; Beethoven: Serenade; Parker:Pieces;
Arnold: Quintet op 7. Henneke Cats, flute; Elke
Streisslberger, horn; Larkin Hinder, bassoon;
Catherine Sulem, violin; Beverlee Swayze, viola;
Marion Wilk, piano.Valleyview Residence, 541
Finch Ave W, 416-398-0555. Free.
- 8:00: Dancap Productions. 3 Mo’ Divas.
Musical celebration of Class, Sass & Style.
Marion J. Caffey, writer/director. Winter Garden
Theatre, 189 Yonge St. 416-644-3665/800950-7469. Call for individual pricing.
Mystical Voices
Lush choral sonorities by
MacMillan, Widor and more
Featuring Requiem, the Toronto premiere of
Dr. Derek Holman’s dramatically compelling choralorchestral masterpiece
Jennie Such, soprano; Wallis Giunta, mezzo-soprano
Cian Horrobin, tenor; Alex Dobson, baritone
Talisker Players
Edward Moroney, organ
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Program. Program of Russian arias & art songs.
Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts.
145 Queen St. West. 416-363-8231. Free.
Noon Hour Recital Series - Janet Peaker, organ.
St. Paul’s Bloor St., 227 Bloor St. E. 416-9618116 x251. Free.
at Met Concerts: Senan Whelan, organ. 56 Queen
St.E. 416-363-0331. Free.
Music. Music at Midday. Young singers in the
classical vocal performance program. Tribute
Communities Recital Hall, Accolade East, YU,
4700 Keele St. 416-736-5186. Free.
- 1:30: Women’s Musical Club of Toronto.
Shannon Mercer, soprano. Walter Hall, Edward
Johnson Bldg., 80 Queen’s Park. 416-923-7052.
$35. *SOLD OUT*
Music. Le Salon de Chant. Young singers from
the studios of Catherine Robbin, Norma Burrowes, Stephanie Bogle, Michael Donovan, Janet
Obermeyer and Karen Rymal. Tribute Communi- 8:00: Music Toronto. Gryphon Trio. Mozetich: ties Recital Hall, Accolade East, YU, 4700 Keele
St. 416-736-5186. Free.
new work; Schumann: Trio in F, Op.80;
- 8:00: DanceWorks. Sashar Zarif Dance
Beethoven: Trio in D, Op.36 (Beethoven’s own
Theatre - Choreographies of Migration. Anar:
transcription after Symphony #2). Annalee
Patipatanakoon, violin; Roman Borys, cello; Jamie Pomegranate (world premiere); Zarif: Life is the
Feeling of a Migrating Bird (world premiere); &
Parker, piano. Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, 27 Front St. East. 416- other works. Harbourfront Centre, Enwave
Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.
366-7723 / 800-708-6754. $45; $41.
$27; $17(SR/STCADA/WIFT/SCDS).
- 8:00: Nightwood Theatre. FemCab 2008.
- 8:00: Tafelmusik. In the Garden of Earthly
Performing artists of every discipline celebrate
International Women’s Day. Featuring Eve Ensler, Delights. Music by Purcell, Monteverdi, the Bach
family, Healy Willan, and a new piece by Christos
Dawn Whitwell, Lillian Allen, Diane Flacks &
Hatzis. Tafelmusik Chamber Choir; Ivars Taurins,
others. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas St . W. 416conductor; Jeanne Lamon, music director. Trinity
944-1740 x7. $28.
St. Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St. W. 416-864Wednesday March 05
6337. $29-$68; $23-$61(sr/st).
- 8:00: TSO. Leningrad. See Mar 5.
- 12:00: Canadian Opera Company. The
- 8:30: Peggy Baker Dance Project. Portal.
New work from James Kudelka and Peggy
Canadian Children’s Opera Company. Highlights
Baker. Andrew Burashko, piano. Betty Oliphant
from Dragon on the Rock, newly commisioned
Theatre, 404 Jarvis St. 416-504-7529. $26;
opera by Alexander Rapoport ( music) & Marie Day
(lyrics). Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, $20(sr/st/CADA/ Equity); Friday: PWYC. For
complete run see music theatre listings.
145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. Free.
Friday March 07
Church. Daniel Norman, organ. 1585 Yonge St.
416-922-1167. Free.
- 8:00: Roy Thomson Hall/Massey Hall. Jazz Music. Music at Midday: York U Brass Ensemble. James Macdonald, director. Tribute Commu& Blue. Chick Corea, piano. Massey Hall, 15
nities Recital Hall, Accolade East, YU, 4700
Shuter St. 416-872-4255. $49.50-$69.50.
Keele St. 416-736-5186. Free.
- 8:00: TSO. Mini Wednesday Masterworks 3:
Shostakovich Leningrad Symphony. Britten: Violin - 7:30: U of T Faculty of Music. Faculty Artist
Series: A Hundred Years Ago... Music by Reger,
Concerto; Shostakovich: Symphony #7 (LeninDebussy, Scriabin, Prokofiev, Berg, Webern &
grad). Janine Jansen, violin; Peter Oundjian,
Stravinsky. John Kruspe, piano; John Beckwith,
conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St.
commentator. Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s Park.
416-593-4828. $36-$123.
416-978-3744. $22; $14(sr/st).
Thursday March 06
- 12:00: COC. Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre Music. Le Salon de Chant. See Mar 6.
- 8:00 DanceWorks. Sashar Zarif Dance
Vocal Series: COC Ensemble Studio - Russian
Theatre - Choreographies of Migration. See Mar
6.
- 8:00: Etobicoke Community Concert
Band. Classic Celtic. Strings and concert band,
John Edward Liddle, music director; Sandy
MacIntyre, guest fiddler. Etobicoke Collegiate
Auditorium, 86 Montgomery Rd. 416-410-1570.
$18; $15(sr); $5(st); free(ch).
Michel Gonneville
& His Protégés
artistic direction. Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front
St. West. 416-961-9495. $25; $15(sr); $5(st).
- 8:00: Sinfonia Toronto. Con Amore. Mozart:
Divertimento, K.137; Bach: Violin Concerto in a;
MacMillan: Two Sketches on French Canadian
Airs; Verdi: Sinfonia. Mary-Elizabeth Brown,
violin; Nurhan Arman, conductor. Grace Church
on-the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale Rd. 416-499-0403.
$40;$32(sr);$12(st.16-29).
END OF SECTION 1:
Toronto and GTA
Canadian Sinfonietta
Chamber Players
March 8, 2008 8 pm
Wine and Cheese
New Music Concerts
Glenn Gould Studio
Friday March 7
- 8:00: New Music Concerts. Michel Gonneville and his Protégés. Music by Gonneville, Ristic,
Côté, Frechette, McKinley & others. Max
Christie, clarinet; Jean Laurendreau, Ondes
Martenot; Accordes String Quartet; New Music
Concerts Ensemble; Robert Aitken, flute and
Featuring:
The RIVERDALE ENSEMBLE
with Narrator Elizabeth Davis
Crawley, Vaughan-Williams,
Arutunian
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LISTINGS: SECTION 2
CONCERTS: Beyond the GTA
Tuesday February 12
N.B. For a list of communities in this section
see LISTINGS INTRODUCTION, page 30
Friday February 01
- 12:30: Don Wright Faculty of Music.
Allison Wiebe, piano. 20th-century piano
music. von Kuster Hall, University of Western
Ontario, London. 519-661-3767. Free.
- 8:00: Capitol Theatre. Lunch at Allen’s.
Musical revue by Ian Thomas, Marc Jordan,
Cindy Church and Murray McLauchlan. 20
Queen St. Port Hope. 905-885-1071 / 800434-5092. $33.
- 8:00: Come Rain or Shine. Tribute to
songwriter Johnny Mercer. Written by Beth
McMaster & directed by Gillian Wilson.
Showplace Performance Centre, 290 George
St. Peterborough. 905-742-7469. $25.
- 7:30: Algoma Conservatory Concerts.
Intimate Sounds Series - Penderecki String
Quartet. Jeremy Bell & Jerzy Kaplanek, violin;
Christine Vlajk, viola; Simon Fryer, cello.
Water Tower Inn Pavilion, 360 Great Northern Road, Sault Ste. Marie. 705-945-7299.
$30; $10(st).
- 8:00: Capitol Theatre. Jane Bunnett,
soprano saxophone, flute & bandleader. 20
Queen St. Port Hope. 905-885-1071 / 800434-5092. $33.
Street Scene. See Feb 8.
- 8:00: Kawartha Jazz Society. EmilieClaire Barlow Sextet. Reg Schwager, guitar;
Nancy Walker, piano & Kelly Jefferson, tenor
saxophone. Market Hall, 336 George St.
Peterborough. 705-743-8750. $25(door);
$22(adv); $10(st).
- 8:00: Come Rain or Shine. See February 1.
- 8:00: Grand Philharmonic Choir. Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle. Howard Dyck,
conductor. Centre in the Square, 101 Queen
St. N. Kitchener. 519-578-1570/800-2658977. $43-$49.
- 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber
Orchestra. Viola and Strings. Music by Beck,
Hamerick, Juon, Partoe & Telemann. Sharon
Wei, viola; Graham Coles, music director.
Maureen Forrester Recital Hall, Wilfrid Laurier
University, 75 University Ave. W. Waterloo.
519-744-3828. $20; $15(sr/st w ID); $5(EyeGo); free(under 13).
Sunday February 10
Street Scene opera. See Feb 8.
- 3:00: McMaster School of the Arts.
McMaster Concert Band. Keith Kinder,
conductor. Convocation Hall, Rm 213, 1280
Main St. W., Hamilton. 905-525-9140
x24246. $10.
- 3:00: Wellington Winds. London Town.
See Feb 3. Grandview Baptist Church, 250
Old Chicopee Dr. Kitchener.
Sunday February 03
- 3:00: Primavera Concerts. Israelievitch
Music Society. Ernesto Tamayo, Guitar.
Duo. St. Barnabas Church, 33 Queenston. St. Works by Weiss, Barrios, Torroba, Brouwer &
Catharines. 905-685-4734. $25; $15(st).
Rodrigo. KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young St.
- 3:00: Wellington Winds. London Town.
W., Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $20; $15(sr);
Jennifer Enns Modolo, mezzo-soprano; Virginia $10(st).
Scarfino & Joe Schwartz, bassoon; Corey
Rempel, tuba; Michael Purves-Smith, conductor. First United Church, 16 William St.
Waterloo. 519-669-4409/519-579-3097.
Great Piano Music in
$5-$20.
The Music Room!
- 4:00: Grand Philharmonic Choir. Ross57 Young St.W., Waterloo
ini: Petite Messe Solennelle. Central Presbyte519-886-1673 • kwcms@yahoo.ca
rian Church, 7 Queen’s Sq., Cambridge. See
Feb 2.
Feb 15: Petronel Malan
Bach to Liszt/settings
Music Society. Akemi Mercer, Violin &
March
5: Janina Fialkowska
Rachel Mercer, Cello. Works by Haydn, Ravel,
Haydn,Schumann,Ravel,Chopin
Kodaly & Handel-Halvorsen. KWCMS Music
(her only concert in Ontario)
Room, 57 Young St. W., Waterloo. 519-886March 26: Peter Vinograde
1673. $20; $15(sr); $10(st).
Friday February 08
Bobbi Thompson, Classical Sax. Explorations
of the instrument. von Kuster Hall, University
of Western Ontario,, London. 519-6613767. Free.
- 8:00: Capitol Theatre. Michael Costello Sounds of Chopin. 20 Queen St. Port Hope.
905-885-1071 / 800-434-5092. $20.
Street Scene. Opera by Kurt Weill. Talbot
Theatre, University of Western Ontario,
London. $25; $20(sr/st). 519-679-8778.
- 8:00: McMaster University School of the
Arts. Celebrity Concert Series - Valerie Tryon,
piano. Works by Chopin, Rachmaninov, Liszt,
Scarlatti. Convocation Hall, 1280 Main St. West,
Hamilton. 905-525-9140 x24246. $5-$17.
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- 12:30: McMaster University School of
the Arts. Lunchtime Concerts - Elaine Lau &
Joseph Ferretti, piano. Works by Brahms,
Ravel, McPhee, Rzewski. Convocation Hall,
1280 Main St. West, Hamilton. 905-5259140 x24246. Free.
- 1:00: Halton Hills Cultural Centre.
Lunchtime Concert Series - Arash Noori,
guitar. 9 Church St. Halton Hills. 905-8777915 x2517. Free.
- 7:30: Marquee Productions. Singin’ In the
Rain. Newmarket Theatre, 505 Pickering
Cres., Newmarket. 905-713-1040. $60;
$54(sr/ch). For complete run see music
theatre listings.
Music Society. Penderecki Quartet. Haydn:
Quartet Op 76 #3 “Emperor”; Schubert:
Quartettsatz; Mendelssohn, Quartet Op.44
#1. KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young St. W.,
Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $20; $15(sr);
$10(st).
- 7:30: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.
Intersections 3: 21st century violin. Gilles
Apap, violin; Edwin Outwater, conductor.
University of Waterloo, Humanities Theatre,
200 University Ave., W., Waterloo. 519578-1570/519-745-4711. $35; $15(st/ch).
- 8:00: Don Wright Faculty of Music. Allfemale choir. von Kuster Hall, University of
Western Ontario, London. 519-661-3767. Free.
- 8:30: Beams of Light Yoga Studio.
Poetry and Sitar Concert. Neeraj Prem, sitar;
Duane Tucker, poet & reader. 1304 Highway
8, Winona. 905-520-7932.$25(adv). Poetry
reading: 7:30.
Friday February 15
Mostly Messiaen. Tina Yanchus, James
Hibbard, Laura Hibbard, piano. Works for two,
four and six hands on one or two grand pianos.
von Kuster Hall, University of Western
Intersections 3: 21st century violin. See Feb
14.
- 8:00: Canadian Music Centre. New
Music in New Places festival series - Trade
Winds. Works by Christien Ledroit, Payton
MacDonald & Robert Rosen. East meets west
musical event. Shawn Mativetsky, tabla;
Parmela Attariwala, violin. Hamilton GO
Centre, 36 Hunter St. E. Hamilton. 416-6916601. Free.
Music Society. Petronel Malan, Piano.
Works by Haydn, J. S. Bach, Mozart, Liszt &
Rachmaninoff. KWCMS Music Room, 57
Young St. W., Waterloo. 519-886-1673.
$20; $15(sr); $10(st).
- 7:00: Music at St. Luke’s. Never on a
Sunday. Greek Night featuring the Zorba
Dancers. Parish hall, 1832 Ontario St.,
Burlington. 905-639-7643/905-3355392.$30 (show and dinner - cash bar)
& Penderecki String Quartet
all Bach: Goldberg Var. + 2 concerti
March 30: Juana Zayas
Chopin/Liszt
April 10: Winston Choi
complete piano works of Elliott Carter
with Minghuan Xu: Carter Violin Sonata
April 24: Eric Himy
Debussy, Liszt
May 4: Marc Toth
late Beethoven
see Wholenote list on relevant dates
see our website for complete details
www.k-wcms.com
Kitchener-Waterloo
Chamber Music Society
• 1887 STEINWAY GRAND •
- 7:30: Burlington Civic Chorale. Music
of George Shearing and ABBA. Gary Fisher,
conductor. St. Christopher’s Anglican Church,
662 Guelph Line, Burlington. 905-6818109. $15.
- 7:30: Peterborough Singers. Songs of
Romance. Orff: Carmina Burana. Leslie Fagan,
soprano; Daniel Taylor, countertenor; Alexander Dobson, bass; Peterborough Children’s
Chamber Choir. George Street United Church,
Peterborough. 705-745-1820. $26(adult/
sr); $10(st).
- 8:00: Georgetown Bach Chorale. An
Evening of Early Music. Bach: Ciaconne for
solo violin and voices; Mazzinghi: Ye Shepherds Tell Me. Guest: Linda Melsted, violin.
OUPDF!St. Alban’s Anglican Church, 537 Main St.
Glen Williams. 905-877-8321. $20;
$10(st/ch).
Sunday February 17
- 2:00: Gallery Players of Niagara.
Niagara Winds. Music for flute, oboe, clarinet,
bassoon and French horn by Nielsen, Rossini,
Barber & Pierne. Douglas Miller, flute; Christie Goodwin, oboe; Zoltan Kalman, clarinet;
Patrick Bolduc, bassoon; Tim Lockwood,
French horn. St. Barnabas Anglican Church, 31
Queenston Street. St. Catharines. 905-4681525. $27; $24(sr); $11(st/ch).
- 2:00: Young People’s Concert Series.
Through History to the Future - Harmony and
the Masters. Viennese chamber music and
operatic arias by Mozart. Olga Tcherniak,
artistic director; students from the Glenn
Gould School and YAPA. Royal Botanical
Gardens, 680 Plains Road West, Burlington.
905-845-9504/416-408-2824 x321. $15;
$10(sr/st).
- 2:30: Georgian Bay Symphony. Winter
Winds. Music by Debussy, Nielsen, Arnold &
Ibert. GBS Woodwind Quintet. Knox United
Church, 890 4th Ave. E. Owen Sound. 519372-0212. $17; $15(sr/st); free(12 & under);
eyeGO.
Piano Plus Commentary. Gwen Beamish,
piano. von Kuster Hall, University of Western
- 3:00: Port Hope Friends of Music.
Quartetto Gelato. Works by Piazzolla, Leoncavallo, Piaf, & others. Capitol Arts Centre,
20 Queen St. Port Hope. 905-885-1071/
800-434-5092. $35; $15(st).
- 7:30: Brantford Symphony Orchestra.
Jeans ‘n Classics – 50 Years of Rock and Roll.
Music as popularized by the Beatles, Roy
Orbison and other icons. Dan Warren, conductor; The Jeans and Classics Band & guest
artists. Sanderson Centre, 88 Dalhousie St.
Brantford. 800-265-8781. $29-$42; $15$19(st). Pre-concert chat: 6:15.
Tuesday February 19
- 12:30: Don Wright Faculty of Music /
Early Music Studio. Period Music. Music of
the 17th and 18th centuries on period instruments. von Kuster Hall, University of Western
- 12:30: Don Wright Faculty of Music. A
Little Theatre Music. Symphonic Band program around the comedy by Aristophanes and
the plays of Shakespeare. Talbot Theatre,
University of Western Ontario, London. 519661-3767. Free.
Canadian Chamber Ensemble 2. Registry
Theatre, 122 Frederick, Kitchener. 519578-1570. $26; $15(st).
- 8:00: Don Wright Faculty of Music. St.
Cecila Singers. All-female choir. King’s
College, University of Western Ontario,
London. 519-661-3767.Free.
Pops 2: Sorry, I’m Canadian. Daniel Warren,
conductor. River Run Centre, 35 Woolwich St.
Guelph. 519-745-4711. $27-$50; $15(st/
ch).
Friday February 22
- 8:00: Capitol Theatre. Abba, Tina and Rod
(A Tribute). 20 Queen St. Port Hope. 905885-1071 / 800-434-5092. $33.
Pops 5: Sorry, I’m Canadian. Centre In
The Square, 101 Queen St. N. Kitchener.
See Feb 21.
- 9:15am, 10:15am & 11:15am: KitchenerWaterloo Symphony. Kinderconcerts 3:
Sounds from Around the World. Centre in the
Square, 101 Queen Street North, Kitchener.
519-578-1570. $10.
- 7:30 Oshawa Durham Symphony
Orchestra. Baroque Gems. Albinoni: Adagio;
Bach: Orchestral Suite No.2; Vivaldi: Concerto
for 2 Trumpets; Flute Concerto “The Goldfinch” RV428; Handel: Water Music; Royal
Fireworks Music. Massimo Mercelli, flute;
Koji Kawamoto, guest conductor. Calvary
Baptist Church, 300 Rossland Rd. E., Os-
hawa. 905-579-6711. $15-$40.
- 8:00: Grand Philharmonic Choir Chamber Singers. Brahms: Motets op.74;
Tallis: Lamentations of Jeremiah; Pärt:
Beatitudes; Langlais: Messe Solennelle; Enns:
Logos. Howard Dyck, conductor. First United
Church, 16 William St. Waterloo. 519-5781570 / 800-265-8977. $20; $10(up to gr.8);
$5(eyeGO).
Pops 5: Sorry, I’m Canadian. Centre In The
Square, 101 Queen St. N. Kitchener. See
Feb 21.
- 8:00 Niagara Symphony. From Glencoe
to County Derry. Music of Ireland and Scotland. Lionel Tupman, piper; Daniel Swift;
conductor. Sean O’Sullivan Theatre, 500
Glenridge Ave. St. Catharines. 905-6885550 x3257 / 866-617-3257. $25-$37. Preconcert talk: 7:15.
- 8:00: Tactus Vocal Ensemble. The Great
Service of William Byrd. Catherine Robertson,
director, Michael Bloss, organ. Guelph’s
Church of Our Lady 28 Norfolk St. Guelph.
$20; $10(st). 519-763-3000 / 877-5202408.
Sunday February 24
- 2:30 Niagara Symphony. From Glencoe
to County Derry. St. Catharines. See Feb
23. Pre-concert talk: 1:45.
- 3:00: La Jeunesse Youth Orchestra. In
the Spotlight. Selections by Dvorak, Saint
Saens, Sammartini & Weber. Port Hope
United Church, 34 South St, Port Hope. 866460-5596.$15; $12(st).
- 4:00: Grand Philharmonic Choir - Chamber Singers. St. James Anglican Church, 6
Hamilton St., Stratford. See Feb 23.
Presents
Five Centuries - Five Countries:
A Choral Odyssey
February 23 2008, 8 pm
First United Church, Waterloo
February 24 2008, 4 pm
St. James Church, Stratford
Music by Enns,
Pärt, Langlais,
Tallis and Brahms
Howard Dyck, conductor
Call Centre in the Square
box office for tickets
519-578-1579 or
1-800-265-8977
www.grandphilchoir.com
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...SECTION 2: Beyond the GTA
Monday February 25
Tenor. Philip Grant, Ken Lavigne & Frederik
Robert. Kiwanis Community Theatre Centre,
Music Society. Linda Melsted, Violin & Boris Main Stage, 107 Trunk Road, Sault Ste.
Marie. 705-945-7299. $30; $10(st).
Medicky, Harpsichord. Schmelzer: Sonata I;
Muffat: Sonata per violino e basso; Froberger: - 7:30: Chorus Niagara. Cathedral Glories!
Toccata (tba); Biber: Sonata representative & Holman: Requiem; works by Rachmaninoff,
Górecki, Bruckner, Halley & more. The Cathedral
Sonata #6 in c minor; Bach: Sonata 6 in G.
of St.Catherine of Alexandria, 67 Church Street.
KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young St. W.,
St.Catharines. 905-688-5550 x3257. $33;
Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $20; $15(sr);
$31(sr); $15(st).
$10(st).
- 7:30: Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra. A
Tribute to Arthur Fiedler. Daniel Swift, conductor.
Hamilton Place, 1 Summers Lane, Hamilton.
- 7:30: Weber Brothers. House Concert.
905-526-7756.
$36-$59; $32-$54(sr); $10(st);
Rock, blues, roots and folk music. Arts Re$5(ch).
source Centre, 45 Queen St. Oshawa. 905- 7:30: King Edward Choir. Voices of Light.
576-0417. $25 (includes refreshments).
Music by Dobrogosz, Elgar, Rutter & Lauridsen.
Doors open 7pm.
Collier St. United Church, 112 Collier St. Barrie.
- 8:00: Aengus Finnan. Lounge Event.
Showplace Performance Centre, 290 George St. 705-726-1916. $20.
Peterborough. 905-742-7469. $15; $10(adv). - 7:30: Lindsay Concert Foundation. Vancou- 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music ver Chamber Choir. Jon Washburn, conductor.
Glenn Crombie Theatre, Fleming College, Albert
Society. Duo Concertante. Beethoven: Violin
Sonatas Op.12 #1 & #2; Op.30 #2 & #3. Nancy St. S., Lindsay. 705-878-5625. $10-$25.
- 8:00: Georgian Bay Symphony. Vignettes.
Dahn, violin; Timothy Steeves, piano. KWCMS
Music Room, 57 Young St. W., Waterloo. 519- Music by Debussy, Hindemith, Kreisler, Respighi
& Stravinsky. Paul Earle, violin & viola. Centre
886-1673. $20; $15(sr); $10(st).
for the Arts, OSCVI Auditorium, 1550 8th St. E.,
Friday February 29
Owen Sound. 519-372-0212. $25; $23(sr/st);
- 7:00: Motus O Dance Company. East of the $5(12 & under); eyeGO.
- 8:00: Guelph Chamber Choir. Choral Gems.
Sun, West of the Moon. Movement and spoken
Guests: Da Capo Chamber Choir, Leonard Enns
word. Showplace Performance Centre, 290
and Gerald Neufeld, conductors. St. George’s
George St. Peterborough. 905-742-7469.
Anglican Church, 99 Woolwich St. Guelph. 519$15-$18.
- 8:00: McMaster University School of the 763-3000 / 877 520-2408. $30.
Arts. Celebrity Concert Series: Rosanna Riverso - 8:00: Port Hope Friends of Music. Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra. Veracini: Overture in g;
and Band. Rosanna Riverso, vocal. Convocation
Hall, 1280 Main St. West, Hamilton. 905-525- Handel: Suite in F from Water Music; Bach:
Concerto for 2 violins in d; Boccherini: Symphony
9140 x24246. $5-$12.
- 8:00: Northumberland Players. Urinetown. in d. Port Hope United Church, 34 South St. Port
Hope. 905-885-1071 / 800-434-5092. $35;
Music and lyrics by Mark Hollmann. Capitol
$15(st).
Theatre, 20 Queen St. Port Hope. 905-8851071. $23. For complete run see music theatre
Sunday March 02
listings.
Saturday March 01
Signatures 5. Edwin Outwater, conductor. River
- 2:00: Sudbury Symphony Orchestra. True Run Centre, 101 Queen Street North, Guelph.
519-745-4711. $27-$50; $15(st/child).
North Brass. Programme featuring Canadian
- 3:00: Elora Festival Singers. Purcell - Dido
composers and symphony solos. Glad Tidings
and Aeneas. Noel Edison, director; Elora Festival
Auditorium, Sudbury. 705-673-1280. $30Orchestra; Laura Pudwell, soprano. Knox Presby$33; $26-$29(sr 60+/st); $12-$14(under 18).
terian Church, 55 Church St. E., Elora. 519-846- 7:30: Algoma Conservatory Concerts.
0331 / 888-747-7550. $45.
Main Stage Series: Romanza - The Art of the
- 3:00: Symphony Hamilton. The Transcon-
tinental from Paris to Vienna: Orchestral
Folksongs. Offenbach: Orpheus and the
Underworld; Canteloube: Songs of the
Auvergne; Mahler: Symphony No.4 in G. Lita
Classen, soprano; James R. McKay, music
director. Royal Botanical Gardens, 680
Plains Rd. West, Burlington. 905-526-6690.
$5-$28.
- 3:30: Gerald Fagan Singers/Fanshawe
Chorus London. Permit Us Voyage. A concert
of favourites from the past 29 years. Gerald
Fagan, artistic director. Windermere on the
Mount, 1486 Richmond St., London. 866-2440762. $25; $20(sr.); $15(st).
$10(up to gr.8); $5(eyeGO). Benefiting the
Youth Choir Bursary Fund.
Wednesday March 05
- 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music
Society. Janina Fialkowska, piano. Haydn:
Sonata #46 in Ab; Schumann: Humoreske Op.20;
Ravel: Jeux dÉau; works by Chopin. KWCMS
Music Room, 57 Young St. W., Waterloo. 519886-1673. $20; $15(sr); $10(st).
Electric Thursdays 2. Daniel Warren, conductor.
Centre in the Square, 101 Queen Street North,
Kitchener. 519-578-1570. $10.
Thursday March 06
Monday March 03
Chorale. von Kuster Hall, University of Western
Electric Thursdays 2. See Mar 5.
Friday March 07
Tuesday March 04
- 12:30: McMaster University School of the Signatures 5. See Mar 2.
- 8:00: Tafelmusik. In the Garden of Earthly
Arts. Lunchtime Concerts: Brandon Leis, tenor.
Delights. See GTA March 6. 20 Queen St. Port
Convocation Hall, 1280 Main St. West, HamilHope. 905-885-1071 / 800-434-5092. $33.
ton. 905-525-9140 x24246. Free.
- 7:30: Grand Philharmonic Choir - Youth.
Bursary Benefit Cabaret. Works by Morley, di
Lasso, Palestrina, Passereau and others. Kitchener City Hall, 200 King St. W, Kitchener. 519BEYOND THE GTA
578-1570 / 800-265-8977. $20; $15(sr/st);
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LISTINGS: SECTION 4
JAZZ IN THE CLUBS
LISTINGS: SECTION 3
MUSIC THEATRE, OPERA, DANCE
DATES AND COMPLETE RUNS
N.B. For SECTION 4 criteria see page 30
N.B. For SECTION 3 criteria see page 30
- Abba, Tina & Rod. Capitol Theatre, Port Hope. See Beyond GTA Feb 22.
- Alice in Wonderland. Toronto WinterCity Festival. Theatre Gajes, Nathan Phillips
Square. See GTA Feb.2.
- An Evening of Song: Richard Margison & Friends. Highland Opera Studio. See GTA Feb 2.
- Beauty & the Beast. Stage West Theatre Hotel. Mississauga. Feb 7-29; Mar 1-30; Apr: 120: Call for times. See GTA Feb 7.
- Beauty and the Beast. Unionville Theatre Co. Unionville Feb 20-24.1:00 & 8:00. See
GTA Feb 20.
- Dragon in the Rocks (highlights). Canadian Children’s Opera Chorus. See GTA Mar 5.
- Earnest, the Importance of Being. Toronto Operetta Theatre. Feb 22,23: 8:00; Feb 24:
2:00. See GTA Feb 22.
- East of the Sun, West of the Moon. Motus O Dance Company. See Beyond the GTA Feb 29.
- Giuseppe Condello/Via Salzburg Chamber Orch. Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre
Series. See GTA Feb 6.
- Handel: Tamerlano. Opera in Concert. See GTA Feb 3.
- Janácek: From the House of the Dead. Canadian Opera Company. Feb 2, 5, 7, 13, 19, 22:
7:30; Feb 10: 2:00; Feb 16: 4:30. See GTA Feb 2.
- Lunch at Allen’s. Capitol Theatre, Port Hope. See Beyond GTA Feb 1.
- Martin Belanger: Spoken Word/body. Dancemakers. Feb 14-15:8:00. See GTA Feb 14.
- Massenet: Werther. Opera by Request. See GTA Feb 23.
- Midday Mosaics Noon Hour Concert. Hart House Music Committee. See GTA Feb 13.
- Mozart: Don Giovanni. Opera York. Feb.22, 24, 29: 8:00. See GTA Feb 22.
- NextStep Series: Moving to Rhythm. Menaka Thakkar Dance Company. Feb 15-17: 8:00.
See GTA Feb 15.
- NextSteps Series:Yebo! COBA. Feb 29-Mar 2: 8:00. See GTA Feb 29.
- Opera to Go 2008. Tapestry / Harbourfront Centre’s World Stage. Feb 14: Preview 8:00.
Feb 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23: 8:00; Feb 17:2:00. See GTA Feb 15.
- Peter Chin: Transmission of the Invisible. Tribal Crackling Wind. Feb.6-9: 8:00. See GTA
Feb 6.
- Portal. Peggy Baker Dance Project. Mar 6-9; Thursday-Saturday: 8:30; Sunday: 4:00. See
GTA Mar 6.
- Puccini: La Boheme. Toronto Opera Repertoire. Feb 15, 20, 23, 29: 7:30; Feb 17 & Mar. 2:
- Puccini: Tosca. Canadian Opera Company. Feb 1, 6, 9, 12, 14, 20, 23: 7:30; Feb 3, 17: 2:00.
See GTA Feb 1.
- Purcell: Dido and Aeneas. Elora Festival Singers. See Beyond GTA Mar 2.
- Rain: The Beatles Experience. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts. Feb 1-3: 8:00; Feb 2:
- Sashar Zarif Dance Theatre: Choreographies of Migration. DanceWorks. Mar 6,7: 8:00.
See GTA Mar 6.
- 70s Fever. Stage West Hotel Theatre. Feb 1-2: 8:15; Feb 3: 12:30 & 6:45. See GTA Feb 1.
- Singin’ In the Rain. Marquee Productions. Vaughan. Feb.7-9: 7:30; 9-10: 2:00. See GTA
Feb 7.
- Singin’ In the Rain. Marquee Productions. Newmarket. Feb.13-16: 7:30; 16-17: 2:00. See
Beyond GTA Feb 13.
- Street Scene. Don Wright Faculty of Music. Feb 8,9,10,12,15. See Beyond GTA, Feb 8.
- The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Dancap Productions. Feb 01-Feb 10; Tues
to Sat: 8:00; Wed, Sat & Sun mat.: 2:00. See GTA Mar 1.
- The Great Farini. Smile Theatre. See GTA Feb 14.
- The Journey (Pimoteewin). Soundstreams Canada. See GTA Feb 15.
- The Rink. Civic Light Opera Company. Feb.14-16; 21-23; 28, 29, March 1 (Thurs-Sat.): 8:00;
Feb13, 20, 27 (Wed): 7:00; Feb.17, 24, (Sun) & March 1 (Sat): 2:00. Feb. 13 & 21 sold out. See GTA
Feb 13.
- 3 Mo’ Divas. Dancap Productions. Mar 4, 6, 7, 11, 13, 14: 8:00; Mar 5, 8, 12, 15: 2:00 &
8:00; Mar 9: 2:00. See GTA Mar 4.
- Tribute to Songwriter Johnny Mercer. Come Rain or Shine. Peterborough. Feb 1,2:
8:00. See Beyond GTA Feb 1.
- Urinetown. Northumberland Players. Port Hope. Feb.29: 8:00; Mar. 1, 6, 7, 8: 8:00; Mar 2,
8: 2:00. See Beyond GTA Feb 29.
- Verdi: A Masked Ball. Toronto Opera Repertoire. Feb 13, 16, 22, 27 & Mar. 1: 7:30; Feb
24: 2:00. See GTA Feb 13.
- Verdi: Rigoletto. Brampton Lyric Opera. See GTA Feb 2.
Absolute Lounge
Hilton Suites Toronto/Markham Conference
Centre and Spa
8500 Warden Avenue, Markham
905-470-8500
Alleycatz
2409 Yonge St. 416-481-6865
Every Mon Salsa Night. Every Tue Whitney
Smith and C. Berardinucci Quintet. Every
Wed Jasmin Bailey and Co. Every Sun
Alleycatz Sunday Jam Session.
Feb 1,2 Groove Matrix. Feb 7 Soular. Feb
8,9 Lady Kane. Feb 14 Lady Kane. Feb 15,16
Soular. Feb 21 Urban Siren. Feb 22, 23
Soular. Feb 28 Graffiti Park. Feb 29 Lady
Kane.
Annabella Lounge
226 Carlton St.
416-944-3788
Every Fri: Jazz Cab w/ Whitney Smith
(www.whitneysmith.ca/schedule.html)
Arbor Room
Hart House @ the University of Toronto, 7
Hart House Circle
416-978-2452
Feb 1 Chris Donnelly Solo Piano. Feb 8 Mr.
Something Something. Feb 15 Kobo Town.
Feb 29 Hilario Duran Trio.
The Black Swan
154 Danforth Ave. 416-469-0537
Every Wed The Danforth Jam w/ Jon Long
and Friends.
Boiler House
55 Mill St. 416-203-2121
Cameron House
408 Queen St. West. 416-703-0811
Central, The
603 Markham St. 416-919-4586
www.thecentral.ca
C’est What
67 Front St. E. 416-867-9499
www.cestwhat.com
Every Wed. Hot Fo’ Ghandi.
Every Sat (matinee) The Hot Five
Jazzmakers.
Cervejaria Downtown
842 College St. 416-588-0162.
Every Wed The Jay Danley Quintet.
Chalkers Pub Billiards & Bistro
247 Marlee Avenue, 416 789-2531
http://www.chalkerspub.com
Every Wed Salsa lesson followed by live
music w/ La Nueva Revalacion.
Every Thu Girls Night Out Jam w/ Lisa
Particelli.
Feb 3 Tim Shia’s Worst Pop Band Ever. Feb
10 Lorne Lofsky Guitar Trio GUITAR CLINIC
4-6 PM (show @7). Feb 17 Norman Marshall
Villeneuve. Feb 25 Bernie Senensky.
Chick N’ Deli
744 Mount Pleasant Rd. 416-489-3363
www.chickndeli.com
Every Tue Jam Night
Every First Mon Advocats Big Band
Every Third Mon George Lake Big Band.
Cobourg, The
533 Parliament St.
416-913-7538
Commensal, Le
655 Bay St. 416-596-9364
www.commensal.ca
Music Fridays & Saturdays
6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
No Cover Charge
Feb 1 Richard Whiteman. Feb 2 Warren
Greig/Dan Eisen. Feb 8 Elizabeth Shepherd/
Dan Eisen. Feb 9 Leon Kingstone/Dan Eisen.
Feb 15 Ashley St. Pierre/Matt Newman. Feb
16 Don Campbell/Dan Eisen. Feb 22 Mark
Kieswetter. Feb 23 Beverly Taft/Dan Eisen.
Feb 29 Jonathan Marks Violin Jazz Duo w/
Fabrice Sicco.
The Concord Café
937 Bloor St W. 416 532-3989
Diesel Playhouse
www.dieselplayhouse.ca.
Feb 17 Happy Fingers: A Tribute to the Piano,
Kevin Clark and the Skinny Dippers.
Gate 403
403 Roncesvalles 416-588-2930
www.gate403.com
Feb 1 Mike Field Jazz Duo, Rachel Persaud
Jazz Band. Feb 2 Bill Heffernan and his
friends, George Marrick: “The Ray”. Feb 3
Amy Noubarian Jazz Duo, Dave and Levi Jazz
Duo. Feb 4 Moran Sadler solo, Amadeo
Ventura Latin-nu-Jazz Band. Feb 5 Shawn
Rahbek Jazz Trio, Julian Fauth and James
Thomson Blues Duo. Feb 6 Chantelle Wilson
Jazz Duo, Patrick Tevlin’s New Orleans Duo.
Feb 14 Miss Emily and The Blue Callers,
Heidi Lange Jazz Duo. Feb 15 Vantana 5 Jazz
Band, The Duettes. Feb 16 Bill Heffernan and
his friends, Irene Atman Jazz Duo. Feb 17
Shannon Butcher and Cam McCarroll, Peter
Hill Jazz Duo. Feb 18 Kevin Laliberte,
Flamenco Guitar Solo. Feb 19 Ted Hawkins
Jazz and Blues Duo, Julian Fauth and James
Thomson Blues Duo. Feb 20 Mike Delay
guitar Solo, Patrick Tevlin’s New Orleans Duo.
Feb 21 Donna Garner Solo, String Theory.
Feb 22 Fraser Melvin Blues Band, Elizabeth
Shepherd Jazz Band. Feb 23 Bill Heffernan
and his friends, Max Cann Singer/Songwriter.
Feb 24 The France St. Quartet, Eric St.
Laurent Jazz Band. Feb 25 Liam Morin,
Amaury Sanchez-Figueredo Jazz Band. Feb
26 Blue Canoe, Julian Fauth and James
Thomson Blues Duo. Feb 27 Bartek
Kozminski Flamenco Trio, Patrick Tevlin’s
New Orleans Duo. Feb 28 Kenny Simon
Guitar Solo, Cyndi Carleton Jazz Duo. Feb 29
Ashley St. Pierre Jazz Duo, Harley Card Jazz
Quartet.
Grossman’s Tavern
379 Spadina Ave. 416-977-1210
www.grossmanstavern.com
Every Mon Laura Hubert Band
Every Tue Brokenjoe ol’ timey tuesdays.
Every Sat Matinee: The Happy Pals.
Every Sun Night: Nicola Vaughan Acoustic
Jam, The Nationals with Brian Cober – Double
Slide Guitar Open Stage Jam.
Feb 1, 2, Kid Bastien Forever. Feb 6 Chloe
Watkinson and the Crossroads. Feb 7 Lil’
Blues Devils. Feb 8 Barking Sharks. Feb 9
Tony “Wild T” Springer. Feb 14 Patrick
Tevlin New Orleans Quartet. Feb 15 Third
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Fridays with Sandi Marie & Under the Bus,
Loose Wires. Feb 20 Chloe Watkinson and
the Crossroads. Feb 22 The Fire Numbers.
Feb 23 Caution Jam. Feb 27 Blues
Elements. Feb 28 Paige Armstrong. Feb 29
Happy Leap Year: Frankie Foo Ska.
Home Smith Bar
The Old Mill, 21 Old Mill Rd. 416-236-2641
Feb 1 Blue Martini Duo. Feb 2 Peter Smith
Trio. Feb 8 Heather Bambrick Trio. Feb 9
Sophia Perlman Duo. Feb 15 Pat Murray Duo.
Feb 16 Bob Brough Duo. Feb 22 Russ Little
Trio. Feb 23 Jazzophones. Feb 29 Stevie
Vallance Trio.
Hot House Cafe
Market Square, 416-366-7800
Every Mon. Jazz Brunch with the Ken
Churchill Quartet.
Kristoria French Fine Dining
104 Surrey St. E. Guelph
519-829-3265
Lula Lounge
1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307
www.lula.ca
Feb 1 Samba Squad Brazilian Carnaval Party.
Feb 2 Salsa Dance Party w/ Café Cubano.
Feb 3 Burning Bush and Sisters of Sheynville.
Feb 7 Adam Solomon and Tikisa. Feb 8 Salsa
Africa. Feb 9 Salsa Saturday w/ Ricky Franco.
Feb 10 Fado: A Night with Sonia Tavares.
Feb 14 Princes: The grrls play Prince Live.
Feb 18 d’bi.young.anitafrika CD and Book
Launch. Feb 19 Autorickshaw. Feb 20 HaitiCanada Student Solidarity Conference. Feb 22
Roberto Linares Brown CD Release. Feb 23
Salsa Dance Party w/ Cache. Feb 27 Ben
Sures and Angie Nussey CD Release. Feb 28
Ciara Adams w. Grand Analog. Feb 29 The
Creaking Tree String Quartet. Feb 4 FemCab
2008.
Liberty Bistro and Bar
25 Liberty St. @ Atlantic 416-533-8828
Manhattan’s Music Club
951 Gordon St. Guelph
519-767-2440
www.manhattans.ca
Feb 2 Richard Whiteman. Feb 8 Adrean
Farrugia. Feb 9 Rob Hannam. Feb 15 Rob
Fekete. Feb 16 Tania Gill. Feb 22 Matt
Newton. Feb 23 Chris Donelly. Feb 29 Norm
Amadio.
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.
Feb 6 Maureen Kennedy/Ben Bishop. Feb 13
Tim Boyle, Kevin Barrett. Feb 20 Roland
Hunter Trio. Feb 27 Bill McBirnie, Robi Botos
Mezzrows
1546 Queen St. W. 416-658-5687
Parkdale neighborhood pub featuring jazz and
blues on Saturday afternoons, Sunday evenings
and a live jam every other Wednesday.
N’Awlins Jazz Bar and Dining
299 King St. W. 416-595-1958
www.nawlins.ca
Every Tues Stacie McGregor
Every Wed Jim Heineman Trio
Every Thu Blues Night with Guest Vocalists
Every Fri/Sat All Star Bourbon St. Band
Every Sun Robi Botos.
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Odd Socks at Dovercourt House
804 Dovercourt Rd. 416-537-3337
Old Mill, The
21 Old Mill Rd. 416-236-2641
Feb 1, 2 Lost Vegas. Feb 4 Jazz FM – B.
Pizzarelli. Feb 5-8 Fifth Avenue. Feb 9 CHFI
Oldies w. Mike Cooper. Feb 11-16 Live Jive.
Feb 18 Jazz FM 3 Tenors. Feb 19-23
Ascension. Feb 23 Jazz For Herbie. Feb 2527 Rick Levine. Feb 28-29 Blast- Ink Spots.
Opal Jazz Lounge
472 Queen St. West. 416-646-6725
www.opaljazzlounge.com
Feb 12-16 John Sherwood /George Evans
(Fri/Sat Only). Feb 19-23 Cd Release: Fern
Lindzon. Feb 26-29 Bernie Senensky
Orbit Room
508A College St. 416-535-0613
Pantages Martini Bar and Lounge
200 Victoria St.
Every Fri: John Simoes and Aaron Peixoto.
Every Sat: Solo Piano: Various artists.
Pilot Tavern
22 Cumberland 416-923-5716
www.thepilot.ca
Quotes
220 King St. W.
416-979-7717
The Renaissance Cafe
1938 Danforth Avenue 416- 422-1441
Reservoir Lounge, The
52 Wellington St. E. 416-955-0887
www.reservoirlounge.com
Every Mon Sophia Perlman and the Vipers
Every Tue Tyler Yarema and his Rhythm
Every Wed Bradley and the Bouncers
Every Thu Janice Hagen
Every Fri Chet Valient Combo
Every Sat Tory Cassis
Revival Music Lounge
783 College St. 416-535-7888
Feb 27 Aubrey Bray with special guest
Vernon Reid.
The Rex Jazz and Blues Bar
194 Queen St. W. 416-598-2475
www.therex.ca
Feb 1 Hogtown Syncopators, Justin Bacchus,
Frank Tiberi w/ Sal Rosselli. Feb 2 Abbey’s
Meltdown, Jonah Cristal Clarke, David French,
Rob Campbell. Feb 3 Excelsior Dixieland
Jazz, Howard Willett, Sara Dell, Steve Kendry
Trio. Feb 4 Jake Wilkinson, Humber College
Student Jazz Ensembles. Feb 5 Project Blue,
Rex Jazz Jam. Feb 6 George Grosman, Del
Dako Quartet. Feb 7 Kevin Quain, Jim Lewis
& Frank Lozano Quintet. Feb 9 Abbey’s
Meltdown, Swing Shift Big Band, Aubrey
Dale’s my ID. Feb 10 Excelsior Dixieland
Jazz, Club Django, Sara Dell, Kervin Barreto.
Feb 11 Jake Wilkinson Quartet, Humber
College Student Jazz Ensembles. Feb 12
Project Blue, Rex Jazz Jam. Feb 13 George
Grosman, CD Release: Darryl Orr Quartet.
Feb 14 Kevin Quain, Darcy Hepner & Nick
Marchione Quintet. Feb 15 Hogtown
Syncopators, Justin Bacchus, Frank Botos.
Feb 16 Abbey’s Meltdown, Chris Hunt
Tentet, David French Trio, Alex Dean Quintet.
Feb 17 Excelsior Dixieland, Dr. Nick and the
Rollercoasters, Sara Dell, Lina Allemano. Feb
18 Jake Wilkinson Quartet, T.J.O. Feb 19
Project Blue, Classic Rex Jazz Jam. Feb 20
George Grosman, Mostly Other People Do
The Killing. Feb 21 Kevin Quain, Just Another
Standards Band. Feb 22 Hogtown
Syncopators, Justin Bacchus, Bob Brough
Quartet. Feb 23 Abbey’s Meltdown,
Composer’s Collective, Dave French Trio,
Vaughan Misener Trio. Feb 24 SPECIAL
EVENT: Bob Fenton Tribute, Freeway
Dixieland, Sara Dell, Random Access. Feb 25
Jake Wilkinson Quartet, John MacLeod’s Rex
Hotel Orchestra. Feb 26 Project Blue, Rex
Jazz Jam. Feb 27 George Grosman,
Drumheller. Feb 28 Kevin Quain, CD Release:
Stevie Vallance. Feb 29 Hogtown
Syncopators, Laura Hubert, Pat Collins
Quartet.
Safari Bar and Grill
1749 Avenue Rd. 416-787-6584
Saint Tropez, Le
315 King St. W. 416-591-3600
Live music 7 days a week
Spezzo Restorante
140 York Blvd. Richmond Hill 905-886-9703
Live jazz every Thursday.
Sydney’s Island Restaurant
5120 Dixie Rd, Mississauga
905-624-3444
Feb 15 Roselyn Brown.
Ten Feet Tall
1381 Danforth Avenue, 416-778-7333
www.tenfeettall.ca
Last Sun of Every Month Girls Night Out
Vocalists Jam.
Feb 3 Paul DeLong Combo. Feb 10 Andrew
Boniwell Trio. Feb 17 George Koller and Julie
Michels. Feb 24 The Cook’s Wife and Friends
featuring Carin Redman.
The Trane Studio
964 Bathurst St. 416-913-8197
www.tranestudio.com
Feb 2 Stevie Vallence.
LISTINGS: SECTION 5
ANNOUNCEMENTS, LECTURES/SYMPOSIA,
MASTERCLASSES, WORKSHOPS, ETCETERA
ANNOUNCEMENTS
open forum discussion & optional participation in
a conducting master class. Hosts: York
*Four Seasons Centre for the Performing University Wind Symphony, William Thomas,
Arts. Opera House Tours. Featuring the world’s
conductor; featured clinician: Craig Kirchhoff.
longest freespan glass staircase and a horseshoe- Accolade Centre East, Faculty of Fine Arts, York
shaped, European style auditorium, with
University, 4700 Keele Street. For more
phenomenal advancements in modern engineering information: obacs_reg@yahoo.ca
and acoustical design. Hour-long tours include
*February 24 2:00: Toronto Opera Club.
guided information and access to the City Room,
Puccini: Why Some Love Him and Some Hate
the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre and R.
Him. Audio/visual presentation by Colin Eatock.
Fraser Elliott Hall. Saturdays at 11:45am &
12 noon (with some exceptions). 145 Queen St. CDs to be won. Room 330, Edward Johnson
Bldg, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-924-3940. $10
West. 416-363-8231, fourseasonscentre.ca
includes refreshments.
$7(adults), $5(sr/st), free for children 12 and
under.
*February 28 12:10: University of Toronto
Faculty of Music. Opera Symposium: Handel’s
LECTURES/SYMPOSIA
Ariodante. Discussion by members of the
*February 9 9:30am-4:00: Canadian Opera creative team, with excerpts performed by the
cast. Chaired by Iain Scott. Walter Hall, 80
Company/Munk Centre for International
Studies. Opera Exchange Series:To Be or Not to Queen’s Park. 416-978-3744. Free.
Be: From the House of the (Living) Dead. Exploring *March 1 7:30: Toronto Gilbert & Sullivan
Janacek’s opera From the House of the Dead, in
Society. Talk on composer Franz Lehar with
various aspects. Panelists include Veronika
operetta excerpts performed. St. Andrew’s
Ambros, Donna Orwin, Alison Smith, Michael
Church, 117 Bloor East. 416-922-4864. Visitors
Beckerman, Astrid Janson & others. Isabel Bader $2.
Theatre, 93 Charles St. West. 416-306-2369.
MASTER CLASSES
$25, $15(UofT faculty), $5(st).
*February 3 1:30-4:00: Toronto Flute
*February 23 9:30am-4:30: OBA/York
University Wind Conductors’ Symposium. Circle. Informal performance masterclass/
workshop for flute enthusiasts of all ages and
Open to all music educators & university
students interested in improving their knowledge levels. Group participation. Presented by Margot
Rydall. Please call for location. Information:
of wind band literature and their skills as
duomusic@sympatico.ca or 416-463-1011.
effective music leaders. Demonstration groups,
2008
offers over $10,000 in scholarship & cash prizes
April 19-20, 2008
April 26-27, 2008
May 3-4, 2008
25, 2008
2008
(905) 513-0955
Faculty of Music. Master class in art song with
Carol Vaness. Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s Park. 416978-3744. Free.
Faculty of Music. Master class in art song with
Carol Vaness. Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s Park. 416978-3744. Free.
*February 10 2:00-5:30: Singing Studio of
Deborah Staiman. Master class in musical
theatre/audition preparation, using textual
analysis and other interpretative tools for the
“sung monologue”. Yonge & Eglinton area –
please call for exact location. 416-483-9532,
www.singingstudio.ca
*February 24 2:00-5:30: Singing Studio of
theatre/audition preparation. See Feb 10.
*March 2 2:00-5:30: Singing Studio of
theatre/audition preparation. See Feb 10.
WORKSHOPS
*February 2 2:00-4:00: Long & McQuade.
Heart of the Horn Clinic: How to Trim and Adjust
a Bassoon Reed. Fraser Jackson, clinician, will
discuss a basic and practical approach, dealing
with such topics as how a reed operates, how to
adjust for good response and tone, how to
construct a basic reed tool kit, how to store &
maintain your reeds, etc. Of interest to beginner,
intermediate & advanced players. Bring your
bassoons and reeds. 935 Bloor St. West. To
register: 416-588-7886. Free.
*February 3 1:30-4:00: Toronto Early
Music Players Organization. Workshop on
early music for winds & strings, led by Joëlle
Morton, performer on viola da gamba, violone &
double bass. Bring your early instruments and
stand; music provided. Lansing United Church, 49
Bogert Ave. 416-778-7777. $20, members free.
*February 8 7:30-10pm: Recorder Players’
Society. Opportunity for recorder and/or other
early instrument players to play Renaissance &
Baroque music in groups. Church of the
Transfiguration, 111 Manor Rd. East. 416-5347931. $10(CAMMAC member), $12(nonmember).
*February 9 2:00-4:00: Long & McQuade.
Heart of the Horn Clinic: The Balanced
Embouchure. New and dynamic system that can
be learned by any player in order to achieve brass
playing efficiency. Presented by Phil Mach. Bring
your horn! 935 Bloor St. West. To register: 416588-7886. Free.
*February 10 12 noon-6pm: Micah Barnes.
Stage Craft For Singers. Workshop designed to
move singers past their blocks & fears and into a
SUMMER PROGRAMS
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Baroque Summer Institute
June 1–14, 2008
Sponsored by
CLASSES & LESSONS
At the University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Member CIPF.
Join some of the world’s finest musicians in the field of baroque
performance for this 14-day training programme in instrumental
and vocal performance practice. Classes are offered in strings
(violin, viola, viola d’amore, cello and bass), woodwinds
(flute, oboe and bassoon), harpsichord, lute, guitar and voice.
A programme for conductors/directors is also available.
Advanced students, pre-professional and
professional musicians are invited to apply.
The Institute Offers:
• Masterclasses for solo
• Baroque opera workshops led
instrument and voice
by Marshall Pynkoski of
• Orchestra and choir rehearsals
Opera Atelier
led by Jeanne Lamon, Ivars
• Baroque dance workshops
Taurins, and faculty
led by Jeannette Zingg of
• Instrumental and vocal
Opera Atelier
• Participant performances
chamber ensembles
• Private lessons by Tafelmusik
including a Grand Finale concert
musicians
with the Tafelmusik Baroque
• Lectures/workshops on baroque
Orchestra and Chamber Choir
performance practice, theatre & art
For information visit www.tafelmusik.org
Or call 416.964.9562, ext.241 Email: tbsi@tafelmusik.org
Application Deadline:
March 20, 2008
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PIANO, WINDS, STRINGS
GUITAR & BASS
CHOIRS & ENSEMBLES
CHILDREN’S CLASSES
TEACHER TRAINING
S U M M E R R E G I S T R AT I O N
OPENS IN MARCH
www.rcmusic.ca
416.408.2825
Toronto: (Dufferin & Bloor)
Lawrence Park: (Glenview Senior P.S.)
Mississauga: (Cawthra & Lakeshore)
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melodies” and his intricate weaving of libretto
and music, there is an unusually pronounced
and informed sensitivity to the musicality of
speech that informs every moment of
Janácek’s mature operas.
He never rested on his laurels. In each
successive opera, he pushed himself onto
new ground. That is supremely the case in
House of the Dead, which both departs from
having a standard narrative line and a standard lineup of protagonists. True to Dosteovsky’s account, he portrays a gulag where
ceaseless privation and beatings deprive inmates of narrative. It is the end of history.
There are no heros and no plot, only one
damned incident after another. The cast is
entirely male, with the exception of a prostitute’s brief appearance. There are, however,
sparks of redemption, simple acts of generosity and empathy among men who have committed truly horrible crimes. At the end of
the opera, a political prisoner is released, and
a wounded eagle that the prisoners have tended is symbolically set free. But the opera
concludes with a return of the prisoners to
their infernal and incessant grind.
The real House of the Dead is captured in
a landmark 1980 Decca recording, with Sir
Charles conducting the Vienna Philharmonic,
The Vienna State Opera Chorus, and a firstline Czech cast singing in the original language. It can be purchased as part of a modestly priced, 9-CD set of the five Janácek
operas that have cycled from fame to obscurity and back again: Jenufa, Kat’a Kabanova,
The Cunning Little Vixen, The Makropulos
Case, and House of the Dead, all conducted
by Mackerras. (Decca 475 6872)
Mackerras’ box set of Janácek’s principal
operas unambiguously deserves the prized
place on the record shelves of opera devotees. Granted, Jenufa through Makropulos
are available on DVD, but there is, as yet,
no commercial House of the Dead DVD
(though some archival editions can be located with a bit of diligent Internet search).
But there’s a level of musical excitement in
the Mackerras box set that is not matched by
any DVD of the Janácek’s operas.
One cornerstone of the Janácek renaissance
on this side of the Atlantic was the “Janacek
and His World” festival organized in 2003
by Bard College, a highly innovative liberal
arts institution located 100 miles north of the
Big Apple. An ambitious scholarly conference was interspersed among equally ambitious concerts of music by Janácek and his
contemporaries. A companion book, edited
by Michael Beckerman and bearing the same
name as the festival, was subsequently issued by Princeton University Press. The
book kicks off with a first chapter by Leon
Botstein on the key role exercised by the
polymath and well-connected intellectual,
Max Brod, in making Janácek known to a
wider world. (Botstein, being simultaneously
the music director of the American Symphony and Jerusalem Orchestras, editor of the
Musical Quarterly, president of Bard College, and godfather to innovations in k-12
education, has firm grounding in how wellconnected polymaths operate!)
Upon discovering Janácek’s genius via
the 1916 Prague premier of Jenufa, Brod
became as effective a champion for him as he
was for Franz Kafka and Jaroslav Hašek.
Brod’s reviews in the German and Austrian
musical press, and then his translation of
Jenufa and Janácek’s subsequent operas into
German, were necessary vehicles for spreading the word about this most nationalist of
Czech composers. If you wanted to make it
in classical music before World War II, approval from Berlin and Vienna was mandatory.
A second key to Janácek’s late-life burst
of creativity was his muse, Kamila. The
“captured muse” and creative genius has
been a constant thread in Western culture
since ancient Greece, as Diane Paige explains
in a subsequent chapter of Janácek and His
World. (Whether Kamila was “captured” or
not remains a subject of titillating debate
among musicologists.) What is sure is that
Janáék, upon meeting the married Kamila,
almost four decades his junior, in 1917, was
deeply inspired and animated by his beloved
muse for the rest of his life.
Janácek mastered the vocabulary of his
time, but his shift from standard procedure,
like Debussy’s, was far greater than first
meets the ear. The music is so knock-down
gorgeous that we don’t immediately realize
how far the composer has taken us off the
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RECORDINGS
REVIEWED:
WINTER 2008
Classical and Beyond
Reviews by Terry Robbins
James Ehnes has
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the Barber, Walton
and Korngold concertos with another
outstanding concerto
CD, this time of the
Elgar Violin Concerto, recorded live
“in rehearsal and performance” at London’s
QEH in May of last year with Andrew Davis
and the Philharmonia Orchestra (ONYX
40235). In a recent CBC interview, Ehnes
spoke of the technical difficulty and emotional
demands of this concerto, and of his nervousness going into these performances - not that
you would ever know it from the resulting
recording, as Ehnes is in superb form and gives
a wonderful reading. The Serenade for Strings
completes the disc. (www.jamesehnes.com)
It can’t be often that
a recording project
of specifically-commissioned new
works results in a
disc as successful
and satisfying as
The Nightingale’s
Rhapsody (Cambria 1172), but this
CD of world-premiere recordings by clarinettist Jerome Summers with The Thirteen
Strings Chamber Orchestra of Ottawa under
Simon Streatfeild is a delight from beginning
to end, with the compositions here clearly
fulfilling Summers’ intention to commission
works that would display what he calls the
instrument’s “uniquely expressive yet dynamic
voice”. Two works by Ronald Royer open and
close the disc, with single works by Oliver
Whitehead, Michael Conway Baker and Dale
Reubart completing the programme. All are
winners - finely crafted, beautifully scored, and
strongly lyrical. (www.jeromesummers.com)
Concert note: Jerome Summers and The
Thirteen Strings will perform selections from
the new CD on March 14 at St. Andrew’s
Church in Ottawa.
Les trésors cachés (early-music EMCCD7766) is a selection of overture-suites and
concertos from Georg Philip Telemann’s
formative years, and the Montreal-based baroque orchestra Arion under Jaap ter Linden
does everything possible to breathe life into
music that could easily, in the wrong hands,
CD (T4Dragons
T4D 005-01); the
works range from
J. S. Bach and
Johann Mertz
through Tarrega
and Villa-Lobos to
Ginastera and Leo
Brouwer. There is
a great deal to
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pieces and the Ginastera Sonata. Patterson
displays a solid technique, although there are
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leave the listener
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luminous clarity and
vitality to their playing that makes the
best possible case
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recording quality is
The Ottawa guitarist Daniel Bolshoy, on his
excellent. A highlyrecommendable disc. (www.early-music.com) McGillicuddy’s Rant CD (Centaur Classics
CEN 1016), performs four interesting
Naxos has issued a second volume of Opera
and challenging
Overtures by Mozart’s contemporary Domenico Cimarosa, this time with the Toronto works with great
fluency; despite a
Chamber Orchestra under Kevin Mallon
few subdued mo(Naxos 8.570279). Despite their brightness
ments, his playing
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often leaps off the
sameness about the
disc. The title piece
works that serves to
by Clark Ross is a
underline the extent
world-premiere reto which Mozart was
cording; the other works are Sonata III by
simply on a different
Ponce, the rarely-heard Sonata by Antonio
planet than his conJosé, and Aquarelle by the contemporary
temporaries. Still,
Brazilian Sergio Assad. The booklet notes are
there is much to
excellent, but there is no information on reenjoy in the performances of what often feel more like early sym- cording dates or location, and - curiously - no
phonies than opera overtures, with fine playing timings for the tracks.
(www.danielbolshoy.com)
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Toronto’s St. Anne’s Church. A very pleasing
disc - and if you’ve ever wondered what the
overtures to La donna sempre al suo peggior
s’appiglia or Il fanatico per gli antichi RomReviews by Jim Galloway
ani sound like, here’s your chance!
(www.naxos.com)
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something of a
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the major items here are the Sonata, written in made Toronto his home, much to the delight
the early 1950s, and the Suite in Hommage to of his many followers in this town. In his
John Duarte from 1981. Recorded at St. John Generations Trio Dave Young and Andrew
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intrepid team of Bonnie Silver and Norbert
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recorded at The Old Mill in Toronto, is a
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board noise. (www.naxos.com)
gifted musicians. (416.465.9093) Concert
note: Gene DiNovi is one of the pianists
The American guitarist David Patterson
featured on February 17 at Happy Fingers:
presents a varied programme on his Esordio
A tribute to the piano at the Diesel Playhouse.
Traditional Jazz
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Extended Play –
Indie Jazz
phonist and pianist immersed themselves in
new techniques while attending the Banff
Centre for the Arts in 2005, the Torontobased combo depends on the two’s Paul DesReviews by Ken Waxman
mond-Dave Brubeck-like partnership. Berkok
– who wrote all the tunes – exhibits an easy
Fulfilling, extending or adapting accepted
styles to unique ends are the strategies of the swing throughout, while Laver’s airy obbligatos are usually pretty straightahead. Probaplayers featured in these notable jazz and
bly the most interesting track is Through
improvised music releases. A perhaps obviSacco’s Eyes, where a line of cadences arous sub-theme is the geographical necessity
rive from the pianist, while the saxman flutof migrating to major music centres. Alter-tongues and hardens his vibrato as the
though all the CDs were recorded either in
Montreal or Toronto, most of the participants rhythm section maintains a steady beat.
(www.arkanamusic.com)
aren’t natives. But the availability of gigs in
major cities serves as sufficient lures.
Kid Bastien Forever Kick-Ass New Orleans Jazz Party 2007 (New Orleans North
CD 0007) features good-time, happy, traditional jazz, played by dedicated musicians.
Every Saturday afternoon since about 1970,
Grossman’s Tavern has been the home of
New Orleans jazz in Toronto. Until 2003 and
his untimely death The Happy Pals were led
by Cliff “Kid” Bastien. The Happy Pals are
still there acting as keepers of the flame and
this session, recorded at Grossman’s in February of last year is dedicated to the memory
of the Kid. British reed player Brian Carrick is an added special guest and followers
of the band should be happy to add this one to
their collection. (www.HappyPals.ca)
In some cases talented and/or lucky improvisers also move to the United States, which
even in the 21st century accrues additional
status – and greater musical opportunities.
A different side of Laver is on display on the
See Through Trio’s Our Own Devices (See
Through Music), a chamber-jazz excursion
that’s probably the most notable disc here.
STT also showcases pianist Tania Gill, who
sometimes plays with Oelrichs, plus subtle
bassist Pete Johnston, a Windsor, N.S.-naEdmonton-born pianist John Stetch, a New
tive, who, like the saxophonist, is working on
York state resident, is an example of such a
his doctorate. Johnston, who composed 10 of
talented émigré. His Bruxin’ (Justin Time
the 12 tracks, voices each instrument equally,
Recorded at
JTR 8525-2) is a new take on the classic jazz negating the front line/rhythm section dichotSoundworks Propiano trio tradition, with the keyboardist
omy. Tunes range from cabaret-styled tangos
ductions in Grims- backed by bassist Sean Smith and drummer
to speedy rhythmic romps which show off
by, Ontario, DiRodney Green. Like most stateside Canucks, Laver’s split tones, slurs and tongue flutters.
rect From The
Stretch doesn’t downplay his identity, and at Gill’s versatility allows her to output pseudoFloor (JCP2007least two of his compositions – Inuit Talk
rags at some points, legato formalism at
03) showcases a
and The Prairie Unfolds – have titles that
others plus the bouncy tick-tock that characbop-influenced
resonate more north of the 49th parallel than terizes her own Bicycle. Polyphonically coaquintet led by
south of it. The first is a foot-tapping march lescing throughout, STT impresses without
American born,
whose repeated vamp makes the tune cool
pushing its collective voice beyond moderato
but now resident in Ontario, clarinettist,
but not cold. The later is as spacious as its
and andante. (www.seethroughmusic.com)
Buddy Aquilina. Apart from Benny Golson’s title, building warmly voiced, glistening
I Remember Clifford, the programme consists arpeggios before ebbing into double time
of interesting original compositions by the
riffs and bass thump. But perhaps the most
leader, pianist Bruce Tourney and trombonist definitive performance is Rectangle Blues,
Rob Somerville, plus contributions by Dave
which the pianist has been improvising on
Landon and Ken Taft. Nice to hear someone since his first CD. Encompassing key clipmasochistic enough to specialise in playing
ping and keyboard-wide jumps, it fits secureclarinet! (905.282.1544)
ly in the groove especially when Stetch and
Green trade fours at the finale.
By far the most contemporary sounding of
(www.justin-time.com)
this month’s batch of CDs, Montreal VariaEven more non-categorical are the timbres
tions - Montreal Jazz Club Session 3 (Analand textures exposed on cellist Mélanie Auekta AN 2 8833) features nine pianists promiclair’s Décor Sonore (ambiances magnénent on the Quebec
tiques AM 158), another aural stunner.
scene each playing
Leading a seven-piece ensemble including
one selection of
clarinettist Lori Freedman and guitarist Antotheir choice and all
ine Berthiaume as well as musicians manipuof them playing a
lating a laptop, foley sound effects, a piano,
variation on the
plus narration, the Drummondville, Que.same four note
born, Montrealer uniquely melds music and
motif. The pianists
everyday sounds. With the 20 tracks encomrange from Oliver
Similarly constituted is Arkana Music’s
Jones to Alain
Hyprovisation (Arkana MusicAM0001) with passing foley-created scrapes and squeaks
and non-specific buzzes and wheezes as well
Lefevre via Lorraine Desmarais and the
pianist Ali Berkok, bassist Gord Mowat,
result is a fascinating series of musical pordrummer Jake Oelrichs plus alto saxophonist as trilling chalumeau split tones, hollow
traits. (www.analekta.com)
Mark Laver. First organized when the saxo- wood cello thumping and under the bridge
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finger-picking, the results touch on musics
New, free, concrète and folkloric. Most
notable is an unintentional four-track intermezzo (Le fils, Les volets mous, Mes cerfvolant and Dream alarm) which uses the
cello’s shuffle bowing with a thick vibrato to
join floating, tongue-stopping reed lines,
string plinks, tangled ring modulator clangs
and natural thunder approximations into agitato but exhilarating patterns.
(www.actuellecd.com)
This folkloric bent, but with Asiatic and Arabic influences, is taken one step further in
guitarist Jean-Marc Hébert’s L’Autre
(Malasartes Musique MAM 004). Hébert,
who studied classical guitar at the University
of Toronto in the 1980s, orients his Montreal playing towards World Music-fusion in
groups such as Ragleela and Africa Musique. The CD’s seven tracks temper European folksiness with harsher Third World
textures. Hébert’s single-string frailing and
picking often suggests the additional overtones available from exotic strings, while
Marie-Soleil Bélanger, who also plays in
Ragleela, is able to display splayed and
flanged bow movement, whether playing
erhu or standard violin. Pierre Tanguay, one
of Montreal’s most versatile rhythm players,
adds his drums and “body percussion”
throughout, creating tunes that reference
droning ragas, serpentine Arabic melodies
and formal Cantonese operas as well as
western sounds. Although some of the tunes
exhibit a certain sameness in theme-variationand-recapitulation, the standout is Asie
Mineur, where the percussion beats could
come from tablas or talking drums, the
strings’ chromatic runs from a sarod and the
shrill string sluicing from the Indian classical
fiddle. In addition rock music-like backbeat
and note spraying improvised solos are also
prominent. (www.actuellecd.com)
In sharp contrast, Toronto guitarist Avi
Granite’s 6 Red Tree (Pet Mantis Records
PMR 003) eschews non-Western influences
for those of contemporary jazz. But still each
of the 10 tracks offers unexpected enhancements from members of the sextet. Building
up from the tough rhythms and near tomF EBRUARY 1- M ARCH 7 2008
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tom-like rim shots of drummer Nick Fraser
and the steady lope of bassist Neal Davis,
there’s enough space for the front line,
which includes keening vibrato runs from
tenor saxophonist Jonathan Kay, acrid undertones from alto saxophonist Chris Roberts
and the reverberations and shifting, tonguefluffing of trombonist Tom Richards. Polished and professional, Granite sounds most
solid when involved in subtle dual voicing of
chromatic guitar runs with trilling horns.
Throughout, no one slips too far outside,
with the few shrill and off-centre textures
very much a sideshow to the swinging main
event.
Displaying slurred fingering and speedy note
placement throughout, Haley appears more
relaxed on the other CD. On No Parsing, he
replicates tough bottleneck guitar runs, yet on
the atmospheric, Crashed Tanker, suggests a
variant of Country & Western picking that
could win favour Down East. Maritime
C&W fans may be puzzled by Valdivia’s
Keith Moon-like smashes and whaps on that
track though, not to mention Clutton’s sul
ponticello sweeps that produce electronic-like
drones.
Often the three build up to contrapuntal linkages that encompass tempo and pitch changes. Favouring rim shots over ruffs, the
drummer still propels Dangling Manifesto,
which is also notable for bass licks so fluid
they could come from an electric instrument.
Yet despite speedy note patterns and feedback expansions from Haley here, the trio’s
cooperation prevents any one from lick overindulgence. Both discs are distributed by
www.vergemusic.com.
Like fine wine: discs vintage and nouveau
These six CDs prove that thinking players can
Reviews by Bruce Surtees
use different aural road maps to arrive at
many destinations of similar musical signifievening’s. Gergiev’s own Philips (468 035-2)
From the first few years of the last century
cance.
recording with this orchestra comes close,
we have enjoyed the privilege of hearing, at
but does not quite match the luminous ferocity
first with the drop of the needle, composers
Because the best jazz demands particular
perform their own works in our home. Elgar of the live performance and we are left
chemistry, similar sessions can produce
mourning the absence of that young, superrecorded extensively for HMV, Britten for
variable results. That’s what happened on
energetic timpanist.
Decca, but it was American Columbia that
these next two trio discs by Toronto guitarist
undertook to comprehensively record the
Previous
favourites include the Decca recordGeordie Haley. While his East Delta Trio’s
towering innovator of the century, Igor
ing with Ashkenazy
Summer Garden Party is merely good, his
Stravinsky. Firstly with the New York Phil- and the Deutsches
Sea of Song Trio’s Blue Boat is exceptional.
harmonic and the
Symphony and BernColumbia Sympho- stein’s Sony recording
ny, then with the
with the New York
CBC Symphony
Philharmonic with
Orchestra and Elm- their incomparable
er Iseler’s Festival timpanist, Saul GoodSingers here in
man.
Toronto, and finally
with an orchestra
What proved to be the
assembled
for
him
in
California.
A sumptuhighlight of recent
Haley who moved
ously packaged omnibus collection of 22 CDs
reissues is the DVD of
west from Fredericwas issued in 1991 and included just about
Die Fledermaus in the
ton, N.B. in 1997 is
everything one would hope to hear in excel1972 filming conductone of Toronto’s
lent sound, all but a few in stereo. That set
ed by Karl Böhm with
most versatile guistill appears on a Toronto retailer’s web site
the Vienna Philhartarists and he works with many differentat $439.95. Sony has re-issued that set, albeit
monic. Böhm was not
sized bands. It’s odd that Summer Garden
without the extensive booklets, at, they say, a
the most bubbly conParty isn’t better. All the players are Marivery reasonable price (88697 103112, 22
ductor of his day but
timers – alto saxophonist Evan Shaw is a
he certainly knew the
Hartland, N.B. native and tabla player Vineet CDs). At this writing it has not yet appeared
in the local stores, but I understand this is to
Viennese repertoire of
Vyas hails from Truro, N.S. - plus EDT’s
unique instrumentation could open more mu- be rectified shortly. These are historic docu- the Strauss family. The attraction of any
ments that belong in every collection (slight
operetta or opera must be the cast and here
sical vistas. In contrast Blue Boat features
hyperbole), offering a rare opportunity to
we see and hear the cream of the crop circa
standard jazz trio instruments; and – at the
hear what the composer intended.
1970: Eberhard Wachter is Eisenstein; Gunrisk of highlighting regional disparities – the
dula Janowitz is Rosalinde; Erich Kunz is
other players are Ontarians: Burlington bassFrank; Wolfgang Windgassen is Prince Orist Rob Clutton and drummer Brandon Valdi- On the subject of Stravinsky, Valery
Gergiev brought his Kirov Orchestra to
lofsky and Waldemar Kmentt is Alfred. Divia from Chatham. Much of Boat’s seaworThomson Hall last December and treated a
rected by Otto Schenk, this scintillating prothiness can be attributed to Clutton, who
duction, which easily eclipses the DVD conkeeps the vessel on an even keel rhythmically sold out house to Le Sacre du Printemps
ducted by Carlos Kleiber, brings every charwhile providing space for the guitarist’s rapid preceded by the complete Firebird ballet.
These were incomparable performances
acter brilliantly to life as to their station born.
chromatic runs and the drummer’s rattles,
from every aspect, tempi, balances and
The lavish ball in the second act is a riot,
snaps and rolls.
perfect intonation and articulation from the
containing as it does, Mein Herr Marquis
sung by Renate Holm, the production’s
At Party’s best, as on Minor Figure, the title players. It was the timpanist who ‘stole the
show’, as he should because Stravinsky wrote Adele. The Frosch scene is an innocent detune and Ipperwash unanticipated connecLe Sacre that way, but
light as are the entire 137 minutes of this
tions are made, as when funky guitar licks
there were no lesser
delicious, ever fresh, Viennese pastry. (DG
are superimposed on top of Carnatic-style
players. Naturally, one
DVD 0734371, 4:3 video and 5.1 surround
beats or when false register asides from the
attempts to re-live the
sound).
saxophonist meet Haley’s ostinato lines.
While the guitarist occasionally sounds sitar- experience at home but
One of the first big hits of The New Vienna
like vamps to complement Vyas’ Indian con- no recording I own (I
have just about all of
School is Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder. A new
cepts, on Ipperwash all three fittingly evoke
them) matched that
recording is conducted by Michael Gielen
Native Canadian music to reflect its theme.
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with the SWR Symphony Orchestra of
Baden-Baden and Freiburg (Hänssler SACD
93.198, 2 hybrid discs). The well chosen
soloists are Melanie Diener (Tove), Yvonne
Naef (Waltaube), Robert Dean Smith
(Waldemar),
Gerhard Siegel
(Klaus-nar), Ralf
Lukas (Baur), and the
speaker is Andreas
Schmidt. The two
choirs are those of the
Bavarian Radio and
the Leipzig Radio. The
recording was made from 28-31 October 2006
during a celebratory tour made by the total
ensemble for Gielen’s eightieth birthday.
There is an enormous amount of information
in the SACD layer which happily exposes
details usually lost in the volume of sound
generated by the huge orchestra and two
choirs behind the soloists. Some listeners
may like to hear a more theatrical delivery
than Andreas Schmidt offers but in the
ensuing sunrise that may well be forgotten.
There is no shortage of Gurrelieders, but
none sounds better than this one.
c” ”
i
m
a
n
“ Dy
g
“Sizzlin
”
s
u
o
i
c
lis
“ Diva-
Gustav Mahler, superstitious about a ninth
symphony, called it Das Lied von der Erde
and nicely side-stepped the fate of he who
writes a ninth symphony. For this sixpart song cycle he
chose four translations by Hans
Bethge of verses
written by a wandering poet of the
Tang Dynasty, Li
Tai-Po, which he
published as The Chinese Flute. The second
song, The Lonely One in Autumn, is by Chang
Tsi. Der Abschied, the calm farewell to the
earth, combines the poetic thoughts of Mong
Kao-Yen and Wang Wei with the final lines
written by Mahler himself. BIS has issued a
version using Chinese texts by Daniel Ng
which are soon to be published by Universal
Editions (BIS-SACD 1547, hybrid surround
sound). These are reconstructions of the
original Chinese poems combined with a
Chinese translation of Mahler’s own text of
the four last lines. This recording can be
programmed to play the entire Chinese text
or to pick up the score where Mahler’s lines
appear and finish in German with those original words. The soloists are Warren Mok and
Ning Liang with The Singapore Symphony
Orchestra conducted by Lan Shui. Both soloists are well known in the West and have
been heard extensively in opera houses
throughout Europe and in North America.
The performances are very fine without exhibiting any heart-on-the-sleeve sentimentality which may or may not sound odd in Chinese. A footnote: as language and usage endlessly evolve the dialect spoken by the Chinese of the Tang Dynasty would not be understood today.
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Book Shelf
by Pamela Margles
Congratulations to writer Kevin Bazzana. His
biography of pianist Ervin Nyiregyházi, Lost
Genius, reviewed here last April, has been
short-listed for the 2008 Charles Taylor Prize
for Canadian literary non-fiction. The winner
will be announced on March 3.
After reading Bruce Haynes’ defense of
period performance, The End of Early Music, I
wondered whether his polemical tone was necessary today, given the inroads made by period
style. But then I read a review in the New York
Times of a fortepiano concert performed by
Robert Levin, who also performs on the modern
piano. The reviewer, Bernard Holland, wrote,
‘The modern piano is what we have and what we
are.’ He then went on to say that early-music
people need to ‘avoid the moral tone that
equates original with virtuous,’ or else they ‘risk
turning museum pieces into yard-sale items’. So
the battle continues.
The End of Early Music: A Period Performer’s History of Music for the Twenty-First
Century
by Bruce Haynes
Oxford University Press
304 pages; $39.50
Bruce Haynes is a period
instrument performer who
started out in the burgeoning early music movement
back in the sixties with
pioneers like Gustav Leonhardt and Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Although he now teaches at the University of Montreal, his book is far removed
from an academic study. For one thing, Haynes
concentrates on the performance aspects of the
history of music, using recorded examples, both
historical and contemporary, as illustrations.
For another, a colourful way of putting things,
like calling vibrato ‘the MSG of music”, reflects a very personal approach.
Haynes nails down the values that shape
period style, romantic style, and modern style.
For him, the enemy of period performance is,
surprisingly, not romanticism but modernism,
which he targets for its unyielding tempos,
unnuanced interpretations of rhythmic details,
continuous vibrato and seamless legato.
Of course, Haynes’ controversial opinions
invite challenges, especially regarding authenticity and the composer’s intentions. He underestimates the significance of the rapprochment
between period and modern ensembles which is
happening today, with ensembles on modern
instruments using modern tunings, like Les
Violons du Roy, the Berlin Philharmonic, and
the Munich Opera orchestra, paying great
attention to historically informed performance
styles, and even using baroque bows. At the
same time, period ensembles are moving forward chronologically into newer repertoire like
Beethoven, Bruckner, Elgar, and beyond. Rather than “The End of Early Music’, we may well
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generously spiced with puns, and, more often
than not, quite corny. For example, the local
choir comes from neighbouring Annville, so of
course is called the Annville Chorus. It’s funny
– and fun.
Steven Duff creates vibrant personalities for
Music in Medieval Europe:
his characters, and gives each one an interStudies in Honour of Bryan Gillingham
esting back story. There’s the narrator, a high
edited by Terence Bailey, Alma Santosuosso
school music teacher and camp director, his
Ashgate Publishing
wife Aileen, whose name changes to Alien as
456 pages; $99.95 US
she becomes his ex-wife, his boss and menThis collection of twenty
tor, a good-natured but outspoken priest, his
essays on medieval
lover, who also happens to be his wife’s stepmusic by international
mother, and a pompous Italian maestro, Anscholars honours Bryan
tonio d’Averso, who turns out to be a complete
Gillingham, a Canadian
fraud.
musicologist who teachDuff is a retired high school music teacher.
es at Carleton UniversiOne of the things I liked best about this tale is
ty. The broad range of
how he creates a fictional world where the
topics reflects the
chief livelihood is making music, and the charbreadth of his contributions to his field.
acters have an easy familiarity with music as a
Co-editor Alma Santosuosso, who teaches at way of life. Yet the characters, settings and
Wilfred Laurier University, examines the very even their outrageous situations ring true.
first dictionary of music, an influential source
which is especially significant for revealing
Jan Rubes: A Man of Many Talents
‘both the breadth and limitations’ of medieval
by Ezra Schabas
scholars. Unfortunately for those of us who
Dundurn Press
don’t read medieval Latin, the examples from 204 pages; $40.00
this extraordinary document aren’t translated.
Jan Rubes may be best
Her co-editor, Terence Bailey, Professor
known for his acting
Emeritus at University of Western Ontario,
looks at original descriptions of the medieval roles in movies like the
processions of the saints in Milan. These are Hollywood hit Witness,
and in television series
especially interesting because they had their
like Due South, where he
own special chants, many of which have
played a coroner who
survived. Fortunately Bailey does offer
sings opera arias while
translations of some the surviving instructions
dissecting bodies. But he
for these processions, making it possible to
counts as one of the most important singers in
imagine what they were like.
the history of opera in Canada. A key memOne of Canada’s most eminent musicolober of the Canadian Opera Company since its
gists, Andrew Hughes, pays tribute to Gillingham as ‘a good friend, inspiring scholar, advis- founding in 1950, he sang with the company
er and swift publisher of so many important and up until 1988.
In this authorized biography, Ezra Schabas
varied volumes.’ Hughes, Professor Emeritus
conveys Rubes’ natural ability to inhabit the
at the University of Toronto, writes about his
stage and create a vivid character. He could
own ongoing study of different versions of the
make an audience laugh. And he could sing
existing sources of medieval liturgy, and the
beautifully. But vocal problems prevented Rucomplex issues involved in identifying them.
bes from reaching the highest level as a singer.
This collection is aimed at the scholar and
specialist performer. But it rewards the general Schabas traces these problems to faulty technique acquired during Rubes’ formative years in
reader with a wealth of fascinating details,
his native Czechoslovakia. Later in Canada, he
providing invaluable in-depth glimpses into the
performed too frequently, and took on too many
music of this vast period.
roles outside his natural range.
Schabas is a former principal of the Royal
The Osterling Weekend: A Musical MisadConservatory of Music, Professor Emeritus
venture by Steven Duff
at the University of Toronto, and co-author of
Aydy Press
a history of the COC, Opera Viva. He is also
240 pages, paper; $18.99
a long-time friend of Rubes and his wife,
The cover of this novel
actor and founder of the Young People’s
features a grand piano, lid
Theatre Susan Rubes. Rubes’ recent health
opened, sitting on a treeproblems unfortunately prevented Schabas
lined pathway. On the
from interviewing him extensively. But he
piano bench is a pack of
has mined Rubes’ extensive archives, and
dynamite tied up with a
talked to many people who worked with him.
timer. Lighthearted tone,
This a compelling story of a remarkable
explosive plot. The story
life. The photos are great. Schabas writes
takes place mainly at a
about a particular performance, ‘He deserved
summer music camp run by the Birkenstock more attention.’ A list of Rubes’ appearances
County Roman Catholic School Board. The
in opera, radio and film, as well as any rehumour is frequently witty, always broad,
cordings, would have bolstered that claim.
be looking at the beginning – of its ascendancy.
As period performance values become more
and more inevitable, Haynes’ book becomes
more necessary.
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Baroque Orchestra & Chamber Choir
Jeanne Lamon, Music Director
Ivars Taurins, Director, Chamber Choir
Mozart, Haydn + Bach with a Twist
Wed Feb 13 at 7pm
Thurs – Sat Feb 14 – 16 at 8pm
Sun Feb 17 at 3:30pm
Join us for great symphonies by great
classical composers, as we present
Mozart’s jubilant “Linz” Symphony and
Haydn’s Symphony No. 82, nicknamed
“The Bear”. And the twist? The Canadian
premiere of Bach’s Cello Suite no. 1 in
G Major played on a viola da spalla by
early music pioneer Sigiswald Kuijken.
In the Garden
of Delights:
Music from the
Song of Songs
Apricots and pomegranates, figs and vine
blossoms…the sensuous love poetry of the
Song of Songs has inspired glorious music of
the baroque era and beyond. Join the Tafelmusik
Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir, tenor
Rufus Müller, vocalist Maryem Tollar, master
oud player Bassam Bishara and Temple Sinai Cantor
Gershon Silins for a multicultural exploration of
this ancient Hebrew poem. Featuring a new work
by Canadian composer Christos Hatzis.
Directed by Sigiswald Kuijken
Canadian
Premiere!
Directed by Jeanne Lamon and Ivars Taurins
Concept and Musical Programme by Alison Mackay
Thurs – Sat March 6 – 8 at 8pm
Sun March 9 at 3:30pm
with Narrated Poetry
Part of the Sacred Spaces, Sacred Circles Arts Festival,
a celebration of music and architecture, Spring 2008.
Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor Street West
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