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This month’s issue features our GREEN PAGES, WholeNote’s annual Guide to the Summer
Music Festival Scene in southern Ontario and beyond. Regional maps of summer music
festivals are on pages 10 and 11. Our Listings of Summer Festivals from June 1 to July 7
begins on page 44. In-depth Profiles of 40 Music Festivals, “in their own words”, start on
page 12.
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Classical and Beyond
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Jazz and Improvised Music
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FOR OPENERS ...
GREAT CHAMBER MUSIC DOWNTOWN
Forget SARS. There’s a new disease sweeping town—every
bit as contagious as the winter blues (and just as seasonal).
It’s called Summer Musical Attention Deficit NeuroEmotional Satiation Syndrome and it’s coming your way
(affecting musicians and audiences alike). It manifests itself
most as intense depression—like the feeling one would get as
a child having successfully survived the school year, only to
find oneself plunged into a summer of having to hit the books
again. “Here I thought the season was over, and it’s back.
In spades! Only this time instead of school they’re calling it a
Festival of Learning!”
There is no cure to Summer M.A.D.N-E.S.S. There is,
however, an antidote: a heady potion called “listening out”.
That’s “out” in a number of different senses, all equally
useful, but definitely not to be taken all at once.
One is the simple “fresh air” sense—the heady mix of pollen
and music that characterizes classical pursuits at this time of
year. Music in the great outdoors can be grand (despite its
moments of discord, such as when the engine of the plane
taking off from the island airport is tuned to A440, and the
cello in the Music Garden is not). Set aside your usual
concert etiquette. Resolve not to shudder at amplified sound.
Resign yourself to hearty applause between movements of
works. Nay, go beyond resignation. Join in! After all you’re
still hearing complete works; unlike most of what you’ll get if
you stay shut in, disconsolately adjusting the volume on what
used to be your favourite radio station. On the subject of
radio, be warned. There is a form of S-M.A.D. in which
one repeatedly and irrationally turns the radio back on with a
sudden rush of dizziness like hope. (Akin to picking up the
phone to check for voicemail, even though you know it
hasn’t rung since the last time you checked.)
There’s another sense of “out” that bears thinking on too at
this time—as in “out of the ordinary”. It’s a fine time to
spread one’s wings, get out of the usual groove, listen to
something that ungaps the synapses. After all, all the music
series that you subscribe to are winding down, and the
landscape is dotted with festivals of every imaginable size and
shape. You could probably even find a summer cultural diner
that serves fare almost indistinguishable from your yearround norm. You could. But maybe now’s the time to branch
out. Re-tune your ears. Go soak in something you’d normally
dismiss as “noise”. Or as “facile”.
Reading the responses of the five musicians interviewed for
our summer “Green Pages”, there’s another “out” (as in “out
of the box”) you should consider. Festivals at their best (town
and country) throw a bunch of musicians together in one
place, unlike the regular season’s more usual lonely linearity—
arriving in the town from which that person you’d love to
play with sometime has just departed. Unusual combos, testy
repertoire. The sparks can fly.
So, one and all, listen out! Fight the season’s madness by
going there of your own free will.
David Perlman, editor
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SUMMER MUSIC GUIDE
Welcome to the Green Pages, WholeNote’s annual guide to the summer music festival scene in
southern Ontario and beyond!
We think that the summer is one of the best times of the year to experience music. With the bounty of music festivals happening this summer
in southern Ontario and its surroundings, both near and far, music becomes a destination like no other.
Only in summer can you hear music in outdoor venues that will inspire and rejuvenate: by a lake, on a hill, in a barn, in a country
church, or in the heart of downtown in amongst the skyscrapers . . .
As the summer approaches, we are reminded that it is more than just concert-goers who are eagerly anticipating this exciting time of
year. The musicians themselves—vocalists, percussionists, pianists, and others—also enjoy the high concentration of music, and the scenic
venues that the summer season brings.
So the way we see it, there’s two ways to look at music in summer: music as a festival—separate celebrations, with unique programs
and venues, and music as a travelling show—from the bird’s eye view of musicians, travelling across the continent, from festival to festival.
Whether you want to travel alphabetically as a listener or from venue to venue with a music-maker, we’ve got the details included here.
Hop from place to place with five active musicians, who give us the goods on their summer music plans (see Nick Torti’s running interview,
starting immediately below) or skim through our more than forty festival profiles to get info and contact details to help you plan your
summer. You can search out festivals by name (see profiles starting on page 12), place (using maps on pages 10 and 11), or date (using our
listings sections, commencing on page 32).
We hope it’s an enjoyable journey either way.
Lori Freedman, clarinetist, composer, improviser
What are you doing this summer?
In early June I’ll be at the soundaXis Festival in Toronto: June 5
in the Montreal sextet Transmission, performing contemporary
works from France, and June 7 in a panel discussion about music,
texture and material, with J Gzowski, LC Smith, and others. On
June 18 I’ll be in Montreal at The Off Jazz Festival, with an
evening of improvised music from L’Ensemble Ambiances Magnétiques, with C. Chan, G. Fabbro, and others. June 24 is a Girl
on Girl solo concert for CONTACT Contemporay Music Series
in Toronto. Mid-July takes me to St. John’s for Sound Symposium, giving an improvisation workshop on July 10, and a duo concert with Scott Thomson (trombone) on July 11. It’s back to Montreal later in the summer for an August 16 performance of solo
contemporary Italian music by members of Transmission at the
Jusqu’àux Oreilles summer music festival. Of course, these are
simply performance dates and do not include the obvious massive
accumulation of days and weeks of preparation.
Is it a typical summer for you?
Yes and no. Often, I play at the jazz festivals in Vancouver and
Halifax, but each summer the festivals and the projects with
which I am involved change. Over the past two or three years I
have had a kind of come-back in playing more contemporary
music as I used to do in the late 20th century. Although I have
kept performing, recording, and touring written music, since
1996 my activities as an improviser have been increasing. It feels
like my “playload” tripled in number and quite probably in ripening. Preparing tremendously difficult works will take up the majority of my time this summer.
How does music-making in the summer differ from the rest of the
year?
Most different is the ability to focus on the music...there are
fewer administrative bugs to deal with.
What are you looking forward to the most?
Focusing on/learning/discovering/creating the music!
As well as being a bit of a music junkie (practising, listening and
researching), I am contrarily an outside person. I need lots of air
and room to move. I will be swimming in the Mediterranean,
bike riding in the fields of Normandy and locally out the Lachine
Canal, looking for new places to pitch a tent, and unpacking boxes
from a recent move.
Your most fond memory from a previous summer?
Last summer I made two videos of two rather important solo concerts I performed. One was at the International Clarinet Conference in Vancouver, where I was yet again (this happened at another such event for bass clarinetists in Holland) the only musician to
present a purely improvised concert. The other video was filmed
here in Montreal, a solo concert of terrific and terrifically difficult
music from my repertoire. I had both these concerts filmed for an
upcoming DVD project I have with There Productions, to be released on the Mode record label out of New York.
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Mapping Your Summer
Music Festivals
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Colours of Music 2 Barrie
Festival of the Sound 3 Parry Sound
The Forest Festival 4 Haliburton
Highlands Opera Studio 5 Haliburton
Highlands Summer Festival 6 Haliburton
Huntsville Festival of the Arts 7
MAP B: South Central
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Ashkenaz Festival 1 Toronto
City of Toronto Historic Museums 2
Downtown Oakville Jazz Festival 3
Harbourfront festivals 4 Toronto
Markham Village Music Festival 5
Muhtadi International Drumming Festival 6
Toronto
Music at Sharon 7
TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival 8
Toronto Summer Music Festival 9
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Kincardine
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Stratford 10
London
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Niagara Region
Bayfield Festival of Song 1
Brott Music Festival 2 Hamilton
Collingwood Music Festival 3
Elora Festival 4
Grand River Baroque Festival 5 Ayr and Cambridge
Kincardine Summer Music Festival 6
Mill Race Festival of Traditional Folk Music 7 Old Galt and Cambridge
Niagara International Chamber Music Festival 8
Organ Festival on the Grand 9 Kitchener
Stratford Summer Music 10
SweetWater Music Weekend 11 Meaford and Owen Sound
’08 12 London
TD Canada Trust Sunfest ’08
MAP D: Points East
QUEBEC
5 Ottawa
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Joliette 2
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Canadian Guitar Festival 1 Kingston
Festival de Lanaudière 2 Joliette, QC
Montreal Baroque Festival 2008 3
Music at Port Milford 4
Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival 5
Prince Edward County Jazz Festival 6
Prince Edward County Music Festival 7
TD Canada Trust Ottawa International Jazz Festival 8
Westben - Concerts at The Barn 9 Campbellford
All-Canadian Jazz Festival 10 Port Hope
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ALL-CANADIAN JAZZ FESTIVAL
Anton Kuerti, pianist
I have a very busy summer, performing and giving master classes
at Collingwood Festival, Festival des Hautes-Laurentides, Orford, Calgary’s Morningside Music Bridge, Banff, Toronto Summer Academy and Festival, Vermont Festival, Niagara International Chamber Music Festival, and the Chethams Piano Festival
in Manchester, UK.
This is more than I have usually done in the summer—usually I
have taken August off entirely.
year?
Scenic locations, working intensively with groups of students
whom I have not met before, performing with outstanding fellow
artists, staying in one location for a whole week or more, and the
possibility of programming exotic repertoire.
Climbing some more mountains near Banff!
Performing Hermann Goetz’ wonderful Piano Quartet at Marlboro.
Maryem Tollar, singer
June 6 I’ll be singing with the East Coast New World Orchestra
led by Chris Church at the LuminaTO festival in Toronto. Then
I’m performing with Bharatanatyam dancer Lata Pada’s company, Sampradaya Dance Creations, on June 10 at the Canada
Dance Festival in Ottawa.
The Maryem Tollar Ensemble performs with Alfred Gamil
and Mohamed Aly from Cairo, Egypt on June 22 in Toronto, a
concert co-produced with Small World Music and the TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival. Early July brings the ensemble
to London, Ontario and Sunfest, while the end of the month
brings the ensemble to Calgary, where we perform with Gamil
and Aly again (July 25-27) as part of the Calgary Folk Music
Festival. Also as part of the Calgary festival, I teach a vocal
workshop on Arabic Music with Ernie Tollar. Then, in late July
(28–29), the Ensemble is performing at the Ottawa Chamber
Music Festival, and in early August (1–3) at the Blue Skies Festival.
I am teaching a vocal Arabic workshop, Ernie is teaching
saxophone, Arabic Flute, and world ensemble workshops from
August 3–10 at a Music Camp through the Ontario Music Centre
at Lakefield College on Lake Katchewanooka. And finally, from
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Sep 19 - 21 / Memorial Park,
Port Hope, ON (Map D)
The All-Canadian Jazz Festival
Port Hope highlights 13 ensembles
in a weekend celebration of the country’s best jazz. Friday night’s freeadmission opener features the
Danny Marks All-Star Blues Revue. Emilie-Claire Barlow plays the
Saturday Night headline concert.
Daytime concerts include Michael
Occhipinti’s Sicilian Jazz Project,
Laila Biali Trio with Guido Basso,
CaneFire, AlexCuba, and Nimmons
‘n’ Nine … Now. In Memorial Park,
downtown Port Hope, one hour
east of Toronto; park is licensed
and there are food vendors on site.
905-885-1938
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A SHKENAZ F ESTIVAL
Aug 26 - Sep 1 / Harbourfront
Centre and other venues, Toronto,
ON (Map B)
One of the largest and most prestigious events of its kind anywhere
in the world, Ashkenaz 2008 will
once again feature the best of the
global Yiddish/Jewish culture
scene, from traditional and boundary-breaking Klezmer and Yiddish
music, to diverse offerings in theatre, film, visual arts, literature, family programming, participatory
dance workshops, and the
Ashkenaz Parade. Headliners include: Jewish funk supergroup
Abraham Inc. (featuring Fred Wesley, David Krakauer, and Socalled);
Argentinian Yiddish Tango diva
Zully Goldfarb; legendary mandolinist/clarinetist Andy Statman;
Ukrainian brass band Konsonans
Retro; Kosher Gospel with Joshua
Nelson, Dave Wall, and Ken
Whiteley; Sephardic music with
Pharaoh’s Daughter, Mashala, and
Flory Jagoda; and much more!
416-979-9901
www.ashkenazfestival.com
BAYFIELD FESTIVAL OF SONG
Jun 7 - 8 / Town Hall, Bayfield,
ON (Map C)
The Bayfield Festival of Song,
Town Hall, Bayfield, Ontario. On
Saturday, June 7 at 11 am Stephen
Ralls and Bruce Ubukata present a
recital of music for piano duet,
Schubert in the morning. On June 7
at 8 pm soprano Nathalie Paulin
and mezzo Anita Kraus sing a programme of songs, duets and operatic highlights. The Bayfield Cocktail Book is Sunday, June 8 at 2:30
pm, with singers Lucia Cesaroni,
Kathleen Promane, Colin Ainsworth,
Benjamin Covey and pianists
Stephen Ralls and Bruce Ubukata
in an eclectic and effervescent programme, including Liebesleid-Lieder by Canadian composer John
Greer.
416-735-7982
www.aldeburghconnection.org
B LUE B RIDGE F ESTIVAL
Jun 6 - 8 / Sutton - Jackson’s
Point and Lake Simcoe, ON
(Map A)
Chamber Music, Poetry, Songwriters,
Choirs – and paddling Opera Singers!
Brenda Muller, artistic director.
Three concerts, 18 creative adventures featuring chamber music, poetry and song. A canoe/kayak paddle
with opera singers, Children’s Corner, historic horse-drawn wagon
tour, ferry ride and Strawberry Social combine with innovative concert
programming to produce this remarkable event. Festival hosts:
Ardeleana (Elkinson, flute; Muller,
cello; Maguire, piano), vocalists
Wallis Giunta and Andrea Cerswell;
poets Barry Dempster, Pat Keeney,
and Travis Lane. Guests include:
Yellow River Ensemble, Tapestry
Chamber Choir, Marie-Lynn Hammond, Magoo, Robert Owen, Chippewa Drummers. Premiers: Alice
Ho (Chinese/Western Instruments),
Jean Anderson (cello/piano).
289-470-1099
www.bluebridgefestival.com
B ROTT M USIC F ESTIVAL
Jun 14 - Aug 21 / Hamilton, ON
(Map C)
Brott Music Festival celebrates its
21st season as Canada’s largest orchestral music festival. And features classical, jazz, recital, pops
and education concerts in greater
Hamilton. 2008 guest artists include James Ehnes, Sophie Milman,
Lara St. John, John Fanning, and
Valerie Tryon. The Orchestra-inresidence is the National Academy
Orchestra, Canada’s only professional training orchestra—young
music graduates are paired with
professionals, both on and offstage. 2008 performances include
Beethoven’s Pastorale Symphony
and Dvorak’s New World Symphony and Firebird (1919). Season finale is Gustav Mahler’s magnificent Resurrection Symphony. Artistic Director is the charismatic and
innovative Maestro Boris Brott.
Subscription packages available.
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Festival of the Sound
2008
FESTIVAL
july 22 - august 17
www.brottmusic.com Jun 24 / Spadina Museum,
905-525-SONG or 888-475-9377 Toronto, ON (Map B)
Strawberry shortcake never tasted
so good. Fun family activities includC ANADIAN G UITAR F ESTIVAL
ing painting, outdoor sculpture, oriJul 17 - 20 / Loughborough
gami, stilt walking, cookie decoratLake, Kingston, ON (Map D)
Set on our very own campground ing, jam and ice-cream making, and
on Loughborough Lake, only 8 km live music from flutists Dani Campnorth of Kingston, the Canadian bell, Susan Williams and Faith AlGuitar Festival presents world class spector. $3, plus refreshments, inguitarists of both Canadian and includes tour of the century-old manternational fame under our big-top sion.
416-392-6910
tent. We celebrate our 5th season
www.toronto.ca/museums
this summer on the 40th anniversary of ‘Classical Gas’ with our
very special guest Mason Williams.
COLLINGWOOD MUSIC FESTIVAL
Our evening concert schedule runs
during the first three days and we The New Life Brethren in Christ
conclude the festival with the 5th Church, Collingwood, ON
Annual Canadian Fingerstyle Gui- (Map C)
tar Competition. Day, weekend or Collingwood Music Festival’s ninth
camping passes are available year includes Anton Kuerti (June
through www.ticketweb.ca. Swim- 21); Toronto Mendelssohn Choir
ming, children’s playground and (July 5); Etsuko Kimura, violin and
piano (July 10); Evergreen Club Ingreat food available.
donesian Gamelan Ensemble (July
613-544-2267
11); Triple Forte, violin, cello and [email protected]
ano (July 18); Yegor Dyachkov, celwww.canadianguitarfestival.com lo and piano (July 19); Barra Mac-
CITY OF TORONTO HISTORIC MUSEUMS
-Music in the Orchard
Jun 1, 8 & 15 / Spadina Museum,
Toronto, ON (Map B)
Spadina Museum: Historic House
and Gardens (285 Spadina Road,
beside Casa Loma) hosts its annual
free concert series in its verdant
spring gardens. Featured artists this
year are the Elspeth Poole Quintet
(June 1, 1:30-2:30 pm) performing
a program of Mozart and Brahms;
the Taffanel Wind Trio (June 8,
1:30-2:30 pm) performing an enchanting program of classical music; and VentElation (June 15, 1:302:30 pm), a Toronto-based windoctet performing works from the
late 18th and early 19th centuries.
-Strawberry Festival
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Neils (July 23); Nagata Shachu Japanese Drumming Ensemble (July
31); Richard Raymond, pianist (August 1); NEXUS (August 9); Arlo
Guthrie (October 28); Mark DuBois
(January 10, 2009). Our air-conditioned, comfortable and acoustically superior venue will make your
concert experience one to remember. Tickets are available on line.
1-888-283-1712
www.collingwoodmusicfestival.com
COLOURS OF MUSIC
Sep 26 - Oct 5 / Barrie, ON
(Map A)
Colours of Music—28 performances held noon, 2:30 pm and 8:00 pm
most days, held in churches throughout Barrie — choirs, orchestras,
quartets, pianists from across Can-
July 22
FESTIVAL OPENING CONCERT AT THE CARLU
featuring André Laplante, piano
July 23
Emerging Artists in Concert
July 24
Violin/Piano Recital: Mayumi Seiler & Tünde Kurucz
Pre-concert Lecture: Robin Elliott, PhD
July 25
July 26
Parisian Chansons of the Renaissance: Ensemble Clément Janequin
Pre-concert Lecture: Timothy McGee, PhD
July 29
Music and Painting: Molinari String Quartet with
an exhibition of Guido Molinari Paintings
Pre-concert Lecture: R. Murray Schafer, LLD (hon), D LITT
July 30
July 31
Rising Stars in Concert
August 1
August 2
featuring works by Academy Composers
Revolution and Tyranny in Europe: Leipzig String Quartet
Pre-concert Lecture: Robin Elliott, PhD
August 5
Music & Dance: Denise Djokic, Russell Hartenberger, Peggy Baker
Pre-concert Lecture: Christos Hatzis, PhD
August 6
August 7
Chamber Music Treasures: Anton Kuerti, Ian Swensen,
Douglas McNabney, Paul Katz, Jeffrey Beecher
Pre-concert Lecture: David Beach, PhD
August 8
August 9
Pressler & Friends: Menahem Pressler, Alexander Kerr,
Roberto Diaz, Paul Watkins
Pre-concert Lecture: Marcia Beach, PhD
August 12
Music & Masks: Gryphon Trio
Pre-concert Lecture: Chan Ka Nin, DMus
August 13
August 14-17 R. Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos
Pre-concert talks: Iain Scott
August 16
August 17
A Day at the Opera
PRE-OPERA LECTURE SERIES
May 29
K. Corey Keeble: Wine, Women & Song (by the other Strauss)
June 19
Domenico Pietropaolo: Commedia dell’Arte and Ariadne
August 13
Bryan Gilliam: Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos:
Conflict, Resolution, Transformation
Order your festival pass now and receive
a 40% discount off regular ticket prices!
ORDER YOUR TICKETS NOW!
416-597-7840
www.torontosummermusic.com
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ada and around the world. Belgium’s
Arriaga String Quartet serves as
this year’s Quartet-In-Residence,
performing concerts with clarinetist
James Campbell, Italian pianist
Gabriele Baldocci and the Penderecki String Quartet. The Elmer
Iseler Singers with True North Brass
celebrate the music of Howard Cable. CBCs Rick Phillips narrates
Prokofiev’s Peter & the Wolf with
pianist Jason Cutmore and organist
Daniel Sullivan. Prize-winning
Primus Mens Choir and Amabile
Boys Choir.
705-725-1070
www.coloursofmusic.ca
August 10–16
I will be
attending
Simon
Shaheen’s
Arabic Music Retreat in
South Hadley, Massachussetts.
Is it a typical
summer for
you?
Every summer is different because I usually play at
different
festivals
each year
and therefore
I’m in different parts of
the country.
And this is
the first time
I am bringing
international
guest artists
with me on part of my tour.
DOWNTOWN OAKVILLE
JAZZ FESTIVAL
year?
During the year, things are also very unpredictable from one year
to the next. I’m involved in so many different and varied projects
that it always keeps things very interesting. During the year, I
also have to take my children’s schedules into account. My oldest
child (my daughter) is in school, so just having that schedule
keeps us busy—my husband and I have to work around that schedule.
I most look forward to bringing our guests from Egypt. They are
such amazing players and such lovely people. It’s going to be
great to have them here with us.
One great thing about the summer season is that I get to see/play
with people who I don’t get to see that often, whether they also
live in Toronto—or on the other side of the country—or the world.
It’s usually in nice environments, at the festivals, etc. and the
nice weather just makes things even better.
Pius Cheung, marimba player
This summer, I have several concert tours. One to Europe earlier
in the summer. And then to South America. In between, there is
some time, not a lot, for me to compose and work on some unfinished compositions of mine. And also because I publish my own
music, I have to edit the print copies of my pieces for the printer
and then publish. And of course, I am most enthusiastic about
Stratford Summer Music. It is an honour to perform in my home
country of Canada.
Somewhat. As my career develops, more and more concerts
come by. And I am very happy about that.
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Aug 7 - 10 / Downtown Oakville,
ON (Map B)
Small Town Charm, Big Time Jazz!
Celebrating its 16th year, the 2008
Downtown Oakville Jazz Festival
will begin with a ticketed performance at the Oakville Centre for the
Performing Arts on Thursday, August 7. Moving into the weekend, the
event will play host to a variety of
talented jazz musicians, a number of
whom are world renowned. Experience a touch of Bourbon Street
right here in downtown Oakville with
three large outdoor stages and a
patio on every corner. Come and
enjoy these four days of great jazz
paired with incredible shopping, and
fantastic summer dining!
905-844-4520
www.oakvillejazz.com
FESTIVAL DE LANAUDIÈRE
Jul 5 - Aug 3 / Joliette, QC
(Map D)
A short drive from Montreal, the
Festival de Lanaudière is one of
the most highly regarded classical
music festivals in North America.
The Festival is mainly dedicated to
classical music (large-scale symphonic and choral works, intimate
chamber music, recitals) and brings
together some of the greatest artists the world has to offer. The
Amphitheatre is an exceptional facility which can seat 2,000 spectators in sheltered comfort, while the
lawn can accommodate an additional
6,000 out under the stars. To receive
the season brochure contact the Festival:
1-800-561-4343
www.lanaudiere.org
F ESTIVAL
OF THE
S OUND
Jul 18 - Aug 10 / Charles W.
Stockey Centre for the Performing
Arts, Parry Sound, ON (Map A)
The 29th annual Festival of the
Sound—Canada’s premier summer
chamber music event—takes place
at the Charles W. Stockey Centre
for the Performing Arts in Parry
Sound, on beautiful Georgian Bay.
Featuring noon, afternoon and
evening concerts, musical cruises
and a Jazz Canada weekend. 2008
performances include the NEW
Festival Chamber Orchestra, Trinity College Choir (Cambridge University), Carmina Burana, a Night
of Grand Opera, the Gryphon
Trio, The Virtuoso Violin, Moshe
Hammer, Rian de Waal, the Elmer
E LORA F ESTIVAL
Iseler Singers, New Zealand String
Quartet, Peter Appleyard, Phil
Jul 11 - Aug 3 / Gambrel Barn
and various churches, Elora, ON Nimmons, and a Canada Day cruise
with Shores of Newfoundland.
(Map C)
The 2008 Elora Festival is Bring- James Campbell, artistic director.
ing the World of Music to Elora.
1-866-364-0061 or 705-746-2410
The 29th season begins with Hanwww.festivalofthesound.ca
del’s Solomon, and we are thrilled
to welcome Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. T HE F OREST F ESTIVAL
The Classical Series includes An- Aug 22 - 31 / Haliburton Forest
dré Laplante, Destino, and the Choir and Wildlife Reserve, ON
of Trinity College Cambridge. The (Map A)
Jazz and Popular series hosts Ron The Forest Festival - Eco-Arts in
Sexsmith, Black Umfolosi, Hot Fu- Canada’s Haliburton Highlands.
sion, and Taiko! The Chamber Series The festival’s 2008 season is preincludes a Ralph Vaughan Williams sented by R. Murray Schafer’s PaTrilogy, and six other performances tria Music/Theatre. Our exciting
with works from Bach to Scarlatti. line-up of concerts, performances
The Starlight Series presents the and artists includes: Mary Lou FalDivas of Jazz, and the Elora Festi- lis, Canada’s foremost musical coval Singers round out the season medienne, with Peter Tiefenbach
with their Choral Series.
performing Primadonna Goes Into
519-846-0331 or 1-888-747-7550 The Woods; OnnanoKo , a highwww.elorafestival.com octane all woman Taiko Drumming
Ensemble, presenting Drumming to
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the Stars; Porkbelly Futures, a folk/
roots legend-in-waiting, with awardwinning author Paul Quarrington
and, back by popular demand, The
Forest Festival Brass featuring Stuart Laughton. All this plus woodland
dance performances, forest ecology seminars with R. Murray
Schafer, and a wilderness art show
under the direction of Reinhard Reitzenstein. What a festival!
705-754-4167
www.theforestfestival.com
GRAND RIVER BAROQUE FESTIVAL
Jun 13 - 15 / Ayr and Cambridge, ON (Map C)
The Grand River flows 300 kilometres through southwestern Ontario, and lends its name to a region
near the city of Kitchener, where
an annual Baroque music festival
has taken place since 2002. Each
summer, a series of concerts brings
the rich heritage and diversity of
the Baroque repertoire to audiences from Ontario and beyond. The
performances began in the spectacular Buehlow Barn in Ayr, and have
since expanded to include venues
in downtown Cambridge. In 2006,
Kevin Mallon was appointed artistic director of the Festival, and
the Aradia Ensemble became Orchestra in Residence.
519-404-5757
www.grbf.ca
HARBOURFRONT CENTRE
FESTIVALS
-World Routes 2008
Jun - Sep / Harbourfront Centre,
Toronto, ON (Map B)
WORLD ROUTES 2008: Free access to world-classical concerts.
Classical music aficionados rejoice!
This year Harbourfront Centre features top Canadian and International artists in a series of free classical
music concerts at WORLD
ROUTES 2008 (June to September).
Highlights include performances by The Gryphon Trio and excerpts from the Canadian operas
Filumena and Frobisher, during A
Rocky Mountain High: The Banff
Centre (June 27 to 29); a Canada
Day performance by the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra (July 1);
Classical Persian artists from Iran
at Tirgan: Iranian Festival, July 1720; and virtuoso performances
throughout South Asia Calling,
August 8-10. What Is Classical?
(July 25 to July 27) is a new festival
offering three days of innovative
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concerts that will have audiences
questioning the boundaries of classical music.
-What Is Classical?
Jul 25 – 27 / Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON (Map B)
Question definitions of classical
music this summer at Harbourfront
Centre. Have you ever wondered
What Is Classical? Harbourfront
Centre answers with various music and dance forms featured at our
new World Routes festival, July 25
until July 27. Explore Classical and
Operatic music from South Asia,
China, Africa and beyond in an atmosphere designed to make the genre more accessible to audiences of
all ages.
Musical highlights include New
York City’s East Village Opera
Company, who blend pop-rock and
opera, and transport classical music into the 21st century. U.S-based
Either/Orchestra combine the agility and freedom of a jazz combo
and the deep grooves of Ethiopian
traditions. Toronto’s own Queen of
Puddings Music Theatre provide a
forward-thinking approach to classical opera with an original work.
Other Opera themed performances include Beijing opera Master Sun
Yuan Chen and an opera for families by Cotton Robes Theatre.
416-973-4000
www.harbourfrontcentre.com
Enjoy three days of magnificent Baroque
music, just one hour west of Toronto
GRAND RIVER
BAROQUE
FESTIVAL
kevin mallon,
artistic director
JUNE 13, 14 & 15
tickets 519-578-1570
or 1-800-265-8977
The Centre in the
Square Box Office
www.centre-square.com
www.grbf.ca
H IGHLANDS O PERA S TUDIO
Aug / Haliburton, ON (Map A)
Highlands Opera Studio embarks
on its second season with Artistic
Directors Richard Margison and
Valerie Kuinka. Opera singers
spend three intensive weeks honing various aspects of their craft
under the tutelage of some of Canada’s top opera professionals and
then perform in an Opera Excerpts
Concert (August 15) and three
evenings featuring two one-act
comedic operas. (August 25, 27 and
29). Master classes are also scheduled for August 7, 8 and 9 in Minden. All other performances take
place at the Northern Lights Performing Arts Pavilion in Haliburton.
705-457-9933
www.highlandssummerfestival.on.ca
H IGHLANDS S UMMER F ESTIVAL
Jul 7 - Aug 5 / Northern Lights
Performing Arts Pavilion, Haliburton, ON (Map A)
The Highlands Summer Festival
features two concerts: Double
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How does musicmaking in the
summer differ
from the rest of the
year?
Well, every concert is different
already, no matter
summer or regular season. I think
of a performance
as a living entity
that is a product of
communication
between artist and
audience. Therefore, in that sense,
no concert is the
same. But perhaps
in the summer,
people are more
Pius Cheung
relaxed from the
weather and have less work, so they have more time for art and
music. The atmosphere tends to be warm and friendly. Which
makes for a good chance for artists to have a musical dialogue
with the audience.
Spending time with my family and dogs in Vancouver. I live in
Michigan now, so I rarely get to go back to Vancouver much.
Many summer music festivals I participated in when I was a
student allowed a free dialogue and the exchange of artistic, musical, and human ideas. I love sharing with others, and feeling
that energy a person feeds back to me as a reaction of my own
musical excitement.
Jerzy Kaplanek, violinist, Penderecki String Quartet
Teaching at Wilfrid Laurier University, on an academic timetable. In my mind our summer season begins once we are done
with the winter term. So the summer excitement began during the
Victoria Day weekend, when the quartet performed an all-Polish
program at Symphony Space in NYC. (It was satisfying playing
for such an appreciative audience!) Next? Quartetfest (May 20 to
June 6), our own annual festival, an intensive three-week program for musicians with serious chamber music interests, takes
place at our home, Wilfrid Laurier University. This year’s guest
instructors are the Arianna, Hyperion, and Silver Birch quartets,
and Italian pianist Jeannette Koekkoek. The students: four quartets and two piano trios, and the Herzog/McEvoy Piano Trio,
recipients of the Penderecki String Quartet Chamber Music Prize.
On June 7, the Quartet is taking part in the soundaXis Festival
in Toronto, performing works by Italian composers Piacentini,
Gentile as well as polish works by Penderecki and Panufnik.
Then on June 8, we perform at the Art of Jazz festival with Jane
Bunnett and Egberto Gismonti. Then we head south of the border… to the Music Mountain Festival in Connecticut, Indiana
University Summer Festival in Bloomington, Festival de Musica
de Camara in Aguascalientes, Mexico. Of course, we are
pleased to be part of our favourite Canadian festivals: Festival of
the Sound in Parry Sound and the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival! The quartet is also returning to the 20th anniversary of the
Southern Ontario Chamber Music Institute in Oakville, a festival
that means a lot to us.
The quartet’s summer activities end on August 23 in a very
magical setting of a charming and historic church in Leith, Ontario.
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Trouble (July 7, 22 and August 4):
pianist Melissa Stephens attempts to
mediate a musical debate between
two genres, Opera and Broadway.
Everyone wins, especially the audience, as the musicians discover they
have much more in common than
they thought. Under the Influence
(July 11, 21 and August 5) brings
together flautist Tom Regina, pianist and singer Lauren McInnes and
harpist Dawna Coleman for a delightful evening of music that will
leave you spellbound. At the Northern Lights Performing Arts Pavilion
in Haliburton.
705-457-9933
www.highlandssummerfestival.on.ca
HUNTSVILLE FESTIVAL
OF THE ARTS
Jul 3 - Aug 28 / Algonquin Theatre, Huntsville, ON (Map A)
The Huntsville Festival is a yearround celebration of the performing arts with a major emphasis in
the summer months of July and
August. The 2008 Festival features
national and international artists
including Jim Cuddy, Jesse Cook,
John McDermott, Michelle Wright,
pop icon Hawksley Workman and
humanitarian Stephen Lewis,
among others. A Jazz Festival is
held from July 30 to August 3.
During July there are additional free
events throughout the community.
Tickets range from $20 to $45 with
youth pricing. Tickets available
online or through the theatre box
office. Performances take place at
the Algonquin Theatre in Huntsville.
www.huntsvillefestival.on.ca
705-789-4975
I NDIAN R IVER F ESTIVAL
Jul 4 - Aug 24 / St. Mary’s
Church, Indian River, PE
In the summer of 2007, the Globe
and Mail recognized the Indian River Festival for having the “best collection of musicians of any small
festival in the country.” Under the
guidance of artistic director Robert
Kortgaard, this 2008 season is no
different with an array of superb
artists from contrasting musical
genres. Such artists include soprano
Mary Lou Fallis; a cappella ensemble Cantabile - The London Quartet; singer and song writer Dawn
Langstroth; and renowned classical violinist Susanne Hou. Held in
the historic St. Mary’s Church,
come experience this musical treasure in the heart of rural Prince Edward Island.
1-866-856-3733 or 902-836-3733
www.indianriverfestival.com
KINCARDINE SUMMER
MUSIC FESTIVAL
Aug 3 - 16 / Kincardine, ON
(Map C)
The renowned Kincardine Summer
Music Festival Concert Series runs
August 2 to 16.
Jazz concerts feature the great
Carol Welsman, Heather Bambrick,
Alex Dean, and more!
Blues concerts spotlight Rick
Fines, guitar; Suzie Vinnick, vocals;
and Carlos Del Junco, harmonica.
Classical concerts star NEXUS;
Peter Allen, piano; Foothills Brass
Quintet and the Montreal String
Quartet, plus the KSMF Symphony
Orchestra and Wind Ensemble, conducted by Matthew Jones and Nigel Evans. August 2: special concert
by Caledon, Scotland’s Three Tenors. In addition, the Kincardine Summer Music Festival offers 22 music
education programs over the twoweek festival, for all ages and abilities.
519-396-9716
www.ksmf.ca
LIVE FROM THE ROCK
FOLK FESTIVAL ’08:
FOLK RENDEZVOUS
Aug 8 - 10 / Red Rock, ON
(NE of Thunder Bay)
The north shore of Lake Superior is
the place to be the second weekend
in August, for the 6th annual “Live
From the Rock” Folk Festival. Red
Rock, Ontario is 100K east of Thunder Bay, nestled along the lakeshore
about 10 minutes off the TransCanada highway. The 50th anniversary
reunion for the Nipigon Red Rock
District High School is planned for
the three days preceding the festival. The on-site festival campground
opens at noon on Thursday August
7; music begins on three stages at
11 am on Friday morning and doesn’t
stop till the sun goes down on Sunday August 10. You can travel to the
festival by boat and dock at the Red
Rock marina, or come by land.
With food booths; artisans; the
Music and More tent; a family
stage; and four music stages—the
only thing lacking will be the time
to take everything in. At the Live
From the Rock Folk Festival you’ll
find singer-songwriters, world music, folk, alt country, blues, celtic,
bluegrass and more.
The entire lineup with links to
the artists’ sites can be found at
www.livefromtherock.com, or visit
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Lanaudière
the Live From the Rock page on
myspace. Participate in a songwriter’s workshop, sign up to play on
the open stage, jam around the
campfire or just soak up the sun
and the music at the 6th annual Live
From the Rock Folk Festival in Red
Rock, Ontario.
www.livefromtherock.com
M ARKHAM V ILLAGE M USIC
F ESTIVAL
Jun 20 - 21 / Markham Village,
ON (Map B)
From rock & roll to classical, country to world, jazz to Bollywood;
you’ll find a sound to please your
ears at the 30th annual Markham
Village Music Festival. Friday, we
have three powerhouse bands gracing our top three stages: Project
Phoenix, Brian Rose and the Little
Big Band and Too Drunk Too Fish!
Over 50 acts, 200+ entertainers.
You’ll also find great crafts and art
produced by local and international artists and artisans, from paintings and sculptures to flower pots
and jewellery, there are many new
artistic delights for your enjoyment.
And then there’s the food. Seventeen restaurants and a dozen street
vendors, more than enough variety
for most palates.
905-472-2022
www.markham-festival.org
MILL RACE FESTIVAL OF
TRADITIONAL FOLK MUSIC
Aug 1 - 3 / Old Galt downtown,
Cambridge, ON (Map C)
The 16th annual Mill Race Festival of Traditional Folk Music is a
free event taking place on four stages
in the old Galt downtown area of
Cambridge, Ontario over the Civic
Holiday weekend, August 1, 2 & 3.
Traditional forms of folk music and
dance are presented by many professional local and international
performers and groups. A children’s
stage and activity area, craft venJ UNE 1 - J ULY 7 2008
dors and events for folk musicians
and singers from the public to participate are also part of the festival.
All audience areas provide seating
and some are shaded by tents. The
festival will go on rain or shine.
519-621-7135
www.millracefolksociety.com
M ONTREAL B AROQUE F ESTIVAL
Jun 20 - 23 / Old Montreal, QC
(Map D)
Sirop Soie Safran/ Syrup Silk Saffron! From the enchanting East to
the worldly West, early music from
around the world will come alive in
the gardens, streets, tours, chapels, warehouses and circuses of Old
Montreal! Discover Baroque music and star-studded performers
from China, India, Haiti, Italy, Germany, France, Quebec and Nova
Scotia. Add a 19th century Klezmer band with their dance-mistress
and Dan Taylor singing Bach and
it’s a rendez-vous not to be missed!
1-514-845-7171
1-866-845-7171
www.montrealbaroque.com
M UHTADI I NTERNATIONAL
D RUMMING F ESTIVAL
Jun 7 - 8 / Queen’s Park, Toronto, ON (Map B)
The 9th Annual Muhtadi International Drumming Festival is a twoday event that celebrates the drum
as a global symbol of cultural unity. This free percussion-based
event is the largest of its kind in
Canada, offering over 30 live performances that represent more than
a dozen different world cultures,
as well as drumming workshops for
all tastes and experience levels. This
year, the sounds of a Caribbean
carnival will come to Toronto, with
the melodic steel pan at the heart
of the festival’s program. Afro-Pan,
Pan Fantasy, Hameed Shaqq the
Pan Piper, Silhouettes Steel Orchestra, and Toronto All-Stars are
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some of the featured acts.
landscapes. From string quartets to
416-504-DRUM (3786) great pianists, from tango to jazz;
www.muhtadidrumfest.com wine, music and song—this festival is unmatched in Ontario.
Tickets: $15 to $50, plus dining
M USIC AT P ORT M ILFORD
Jul 19 - Aug 16 / Prince Edward options.
1-800-511-SHAW (7429)
County, ON (Map D)
1-877-MUS-FEST (687-3378)
Music at Port Milford summer feswww.niagaramusicfest.com
tival and music school, established
in 1986, in historic Prince Edward
County, presents weekly perform- ORGAN FESTIVAL ON THE GRAND
ances by students and faculty art- July 13 - 16 / Kitchener, Waterists. This year’s faculty will include loo, and Guelph, ON (Map C)
the Tokai Quartet and Windermere Come and celebrate imagination—
Quartet in addition to Marie Berard, a dazzling showcase of musical artKathy Rapoport, Paul Widner, and istry, excitement, enrichment and
conductors, Michael Newnham and diversity inspired by the pipe orGeorge Garrett Keast. MPM offers gan. This adventurous four-day
four weeks of intensive chamber program is packed with a wide range
music study for serious string stu- of entertainments, concerts, workThe only typical thing about this summer is the fact that we are
dents, ages 13–18. Students, admit- shops, and even worship opportubusy from May to August almost constantly, just like the summer
ted competitively, work together with nities designed to shed the stuffy,
before and the year before that......
artist faculty mentors to produce mysterious, and humourless image
weekly performances of chamber, of the wind-powered giants that
orchestral and choral works.
year?
live in our churches—they can also
914-439-5039 dance and play in myriad colours
The most amazing difference is that we are at festivals, where
www.mpmcamp.org and moods. Featured performers
we can interact and collaborate with other artists and colleagues.
Collaborations are always fun. We get to perform with the othinclude: David Briggs, Nota Bene
ers, but also we get to spend time with our friends. This summer
Orchestra, DaCapo Chamber Choir,
M USIC AT S HARON
will bring to us opportunities to work with Jeannette Koekkoek;
Jun 1, 8, 15, & 22 / Sharon Tem- Jan Overduin, Willem Moolenbeek,
the Arianna Quartet; the Hyperion Quartet; James Campbell, our
Jonathan Oldengarm, Ryan Enright,
ple, Sharon, ON (Map B)
favorite clarinetist; cellists Mihai Tetel, Csaba Onczay and
Stroll the idyllic grounds of the his- Kirkland Adsett.
Mark Johnson; violist Atar Arad; accordionist Joseph Petric;
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toric Sharon Temple, then enjoy
harpist Caroline Leonardelli; and jazz saxophonist Jane Bunnett
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great music—in a place quite close
along with amazing Brazilian composer and pianist Egberto Gisto Toronto, that feels far away!
monti.
Music at Sharon returns for the sec- OTTAWA INTERNATIONAL
ond consecutive summer, presentWhat are you looking forward to the most?
CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
ing four concerts on Sunday afterAside from camping, all the collaborations and meetings with
Jul 25 - Aug 9 / Ottawa, ON
noons in June. Highlights include
friends has the most meaning for me. It is one of the few times in
(Map D)
soprano Suzie LeBlanc singing
the year when we can hang out
From July 25 to August 9, the OtSongs
of
Earth
and
Heaven;
a
with our fellow musician
tawa Chamber Music Society
friends, talk about music, swap Messiaen centenary tribute; and the presents the 15th anniversary edibrilliant
Vancouver
pianist
Sara
Davstories, and share a meal and a
tion of the International Chamber
is Buechner, in recital. The series
glass of wine.
Music Festival. Chamberfest ’08
concludes with the True North Brass
will feature over 110 concerts and
in a program that showcases the
Your most fond memory from a
over 250 internationally acclaimed
unique architectural qualities of the
previous summer?
musicians. The 15th anniversary of
My head is full of images. Just to Sharon Temple. Concertgoers that Chamberfest is cause for extra celegive you a few: Salzburg—after final day will enjoy a complimen- bration, and festival-goers will enjoy
playing our concert at the castle, tary glass of sparkling wine and re- a fantastic summer of innovative and
overlooking the city in the moon- freshments.
exciting programming. This year’s
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headliners include Isabel Bayrakdar6,7,8 June 2008
the Opera House of the Magic
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cert on the night of the blackout
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Sutton, Lake Simcoe,
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Colonial Tovar Festival—we
than forty concerts in venues that JAZZ FESTIVAL
played with pianist Jeremy
reflect the uniqueness of the Nia- Aug 14 - 17 / Regent Theatre
Menuhin (son of Yehudi)—the
gara region—world class wineries, and other venues, Prince Edbest Dvorak Quintet ever.
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Festival is a fabulous four days of
pure, mainstream jazz featuring
many of Canada’s premier musicians. This year Jim Galloway’s
Wee Big Band, the Sealy/Novotny
and Murley/Occhipinti duos, the
Robi Botos Trio, paying tribute to
the great Oscar Peterson, and the
remarkable Jackie Richardson, will
be playing the historic Regent Theatre in Picton. In addition to the
headline shows numerous satellite
venues around the County will be
showcasing some wonderful performers, such as the Canadian Jazz
Quartet, the John Sherwood Trio,
the Russ Little Quintet and many
others.
613-476-8416 ext. 28
[email protected]
www.pecjazz.org
PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY
MUSIC FESTIVAL
Sep 18 - 20 / Church of St. Mary
Magdalene, Picton, ON (Map D)
EC Music Festival welcomes composer-in-residence Alexina Louie, one
of Canada’s most often performed
composers, recipient of many
awards and honours that includes
Composer of the Year and a Juno
award for Best Classical Composition. Featured artists are Stéphane
Lemelin, artistic director and pianist; André Moisan, clarinettist; Tanya
Prochazka, cellist; the Penderecki
String Quartet, an internationally celebrated chamber ensemble; Jeremy
Bell, violin; Simon Fryer, cello; Jerzy
Kaplanek, violin; and Christine Vlajk,
viola; and the Canadian Guitar Quartet. Philip Candelaria, Denis
Donegani, Patrick Roux and Louis
Trépanier form this exciting quartet.
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Family Daytime Concerts: Canadian
Guitar Quartet presents a delightful
selection of music at Books & Company.
613-393-3798
[email protected]
www.pecmusicfestival.com
S TRATFORD S UMMER M USIC
Jul 21 - Aug 17 / Stratford, ON
(Map C)
Start with four weeks of great music. Add jazz each Friday and Saturday night and the return of Measha Brueggergosman, as well as Bill
Richardson & Friends. Free noonhour concerts at the CTV MusicBarge and four weeks of aftertheatre cabarets at The Church
Restaurant. Throughout the festival at City Hall is Forty-Part
Motet, the sublime music/art installation blending 16th century
choral music with 21st century technology. Sesame Street’s Bob McGrath delivers events for young
people (of all ages). Three concerts
by the organists and choristers of
St. Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh;
L’Orchestre de la francophonie canadienne; and an Opera Gala. Yes,
music does make it worth a visit to
Stratford!
1-800-567-1600
www.stratfordsummermusic.ca
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MUSIC IN
THE ORCHARD
at
Spadina Museum
FREE CONCERTS
Sunday Afternoons
from 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
Bring a picnic, a blanket
and the entire family!
June 1
The Elspeth Poole
Quintet performs a
program of Mozart and
Brahms.
June 8
Taffanel Wind Trio
performs an enchanting
program of classical
music.
June 15
VentElation, a Torontobased wind octet,
performs works from the
late 18th and early 19th
centuries.
SPADINA MUSEUM:
HISTORIC HOUSE
& GARDENS
285 Spadina Road
416-392-6910
www.toronto.ca/museums
www.livewithculture.ca
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intoxicating blend of traditional and
modern works thematically presented. Walter Buczynski’s tribute to
Earl Moss will round out the show.
519-371-2833
www.swmw.ca
TD CANADA TRUST OTTAWA
INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL
Jun 20 - Jul 1 / Confederation
Park, Ottawa, ON (Map D)
Jazz is for everyone and spans
across many genres such as blues,
swing, gospel, funk and urban
groove! The TD Canada Trust Ottawa International Jazz Festival is
the National Capital Region’s premier music event. Entering its 28th
year of consecutive programming,
this year’s star studded festival
features Gladys Knight, Herbie
Hancock - The River of Possibilities Tour, and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
to name only a few. As the only
outdoor music festival with a grand
presence in the city’s downtown
core, festivities this year will run
from June 20 - July 1.
613-241- 2633
www.ottawajazzfestival.com
TD CANADA TRUST SUNFEST ‘08
TD CANADA TRUST
TORONTO JAZZ FESTIVAL
Jun 20 - 29 / Toronto,
ON
(Map B)
Voted Canada’s Best
Jazz Festival for the last
two years, more than
1,500 musicians will entertain as the TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz
Festival gets underway
this summer. From bop
to swing, cool to fusion
and all musical points in
between, Toronto will
play host to a musical
celebration like no other.
Soak up the cool sounds
of jazz as more than 350
concerts across 40 locations take over the city!
Featured performers include Al Green, Michel
Legrand, Dave Brubeck,
Oliver Jones, Maceo Parker, Marcus
Miller, Nikki Yanofsky, Ahmad
Jamal, Blind Boys of Alabama, John
Schofield, and many, many more.
416-928-2033
www.torontojazz.com
TORONTO SUMMER
MUSIC FESTIVAL
Jul 22 - Aug 17 / Toronto, ON
(Map B)
Toronto Summer Music presents
its 3rd annual Festival of chamber
music and opera from July 22 to August 17. This year the festival features three new concert series highlighting chamber music, international artists, and a series presenting
music together with dance and visual art. Order your tickets now!
416-597-7840
www.torontosummermusic.com
Elora Festival
Church). The inventive Mark Fewer has invited the legendary James
Campbell and new sensation Michi
Wiancko—with other celebrity
guests not to be ruled out! This year
a stellar group of regulars returns:
Virginia Barron, Melanie Conly,
Jonathan Crow, Denise Djokic, Peter Longworth, Douglas McNabney,
Thomas Wiebe and Rosanne Wieringa. The three programs will be eclectic, daring, and notable for their
Westben - Concerts at The Barn
presents its 9th season. Symphony
and Operetta features the UBC
Opera Ensemble performing
Strauss’ Die Fledermaus. Spectacular Saturday Nights features
Schubertiad, commemorating the
musical genius of Franz Schubert;
and renowned tenor Michael Burgess. Classical 96.3FM’s Alexa
Petrenko hosts a Saturday Night at
the Opera featuring four acclaimed
Canadian opera singers. Tuesday
Evenings concert series welcomes
Quebec guitarist Patrick Kearney;
Les Voix humaines, “trapeze artists”
of the viola da gamba; Louis Lortie;
and an evening of classical piano
with Westben’s Brian Finley. Broadway in the Barn presents Lerner
& Loewe on Love and Jazz Out of
This World features Music of the
Mediterranean.
1-705-653-5508 or 1-877-883-5777
www.westben.on.ca
Jul 3 - 6 / Victoria Park,
London, ON (Map C)
Celebrate the arrival of summer in
style with Canada’s premier freeadmission festival of the global
arts. TD Canada Trust Sunfest ’08
will feature more than 30 top professional world music and dance
and jazz ensembles, including international headliners Seun Kuti &
Egypt 80 (Nigeria), Grupo Fantasma
(USA), Rizwan-Muzzam Qawwali
(Pakistan), Puerto Plata (Dominican Republic), Dobet Gnahore WESTBEN - CONCERTS AT
(Ivory Coast), Desandann (Cuba), THE BARN
Fallou Dieng (Senegal), Los Gai- Jun 28 - Aug 3 / Campbellford,
teros de San Jacinto (Colombia), ON (Map D)
Marimba Nacional de Concierto
(Guatemala), Etelvina Maldonado
More about our Green Pages. . .
(Colombia), and Mayra Andrande
WholeNote’s “Green Pages” summer music festival directory is published
(Cape Verde). Debuting this year
annually in June and updated regularly online at www.thewholenote.com.
is the sizzling component Sunfest
Fiesta: A Showcase of Latin
Links to festivals’ own websites are available from this site.
American Music & Dance.
If your festival missed our deadline for the print version of the Green Pages
519-672-1522
2008 but would like to register for the online version, e-mail
www.sunfest.on.ca
[email protected].
Festivals wishing to place events and concerts in our free concert listings
should e-mail information to [email protected]. Deadlines are
June 15 for concerts taking place during July and August, and August 15
for concerts happening during September and October.
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KEEPING JAZZ ALIVE IN
TORONTO AND BEYOND
By Ori Dagan
Summertime, and the living is easier than in wintertime up here.
Kids are jumping and pretty much everybody’s high on life. The sizzling temperatures give Torontonians a good reason to smile more
and talk to strangers on the streetcar. Birds spread their wings and
take to the sky, while parks are filled with good looking, rich mommies and daddies standing by, hushing babies who become amused by
doggies walking by. Oh, how the living is easy. One of these mornings you’re gonna rise up singing…
… Ideally because you went out to catch some jazz the night before. From Orangeville to Guelph, Oakville to Huntsville, you’ll
notice in the “Green Pages” of this issue that there is more jazz
going on in Ontario than one can shake a hockey stick at. Night and
day, all kinds of jazz can be heard this summer: instrumental, vocal,
big band, small group, swing, bebop, fusion, latin, free, experimental, and so on. Provincial capital Toronto is at the centre of this southern Ontario jazz blitz. Our city alone will boast 15 great days of jazz
this month:
ART OF JAZZ (June 4–8 www.artofjazz.org)
As the name may suggest, Art of Jazz is a different sort of festival,
and appropriately, it is artist-operated. “The Art of Jazz Celebration
continues to carve out its own distinctive niche as we expand and
explore jazz and its influence on all the art forms”, asserts Art of
Jazz President, Bonnie Lester. “We are honoured by the participation
of this year’s line-up of gifted musicians, dancers, writers, painters,
and educators—all joining us to celebrate the art of jazz, a music that
embraces tradition and change simultaneously and that speaks to the
freedom to innovate.” It isn’t surprising that one of its founders, and
executive producer, is coveted Canadian jazz export Jane Bunnett,
who is not only a famed flautist but also an ambitious musical explorer and jazz ambassador.
This year’s winners of the AOJ Lifetime Achievement Awards
are Hermeto Pascoal and Egberto Gismonti, who can both be described as Brazilian musical geniuses. Along with concerts by international luminaries Sheila Jordan, Steve Kuhn, Randy Weston, Billy
Harper, Cindy Blackman and our very own rising stars Brandi Disterheft, Elizabeth Shepherd and Kellylee Evans, there will be workshops, clinics and jam sessions and nightly late jam sessions that
don’t charge a cover! Who could ask for anything more?
TD CANADA TRUST TORONTO (June 20-29 www.torontojazz.com)
Now in its 22nd season, Toronto has expanded beyond the downtown
core from as far west as The Old Mill all the way east to Ten Feet
Tall on the Danforth. Most of the action takes place in the city’s centre, with Nathan Phillips Square as the heartbeat of this beautiful
beast. You can always find something that fits your level of budget
and interest. For the jazz lover or one who is curious about this music, it is recommended that you check out at least one Mainstage
show ($25–$40, three for $89, five for $139). Featured in this series
are legendary gospel group The Blind Boys of Alabama, the “Golden
Voice of Africa” Salif Keita and an exciting salute to Norman
Granz’s historic Jazz at the Philharmonic with some of the most
happening names in jazz today. For lovers of the guitar, there is one
not-to-be-missed presentation of three trios led by John Abercrombie,
Mike Stern and John Scofield, a triple-bill for only $30. In addition to
Grandmaster and Mainstage, this year’s series include Cabaret,
Guitar, The French Connection and Jazz By the Lake at the Enwave
Theatre in Harbourfront. The scope of this festival is indeed a tad
mind-boggling, and the many concerts will hopefully be ear-opening.
If you’re short on bread or worse still, low on dough, there are still
plenty of free admission shows, at Nathan Phillips Square during the
day and at various venues across the city every night. Musicians note
that this year, rather than at The Rex, the late night jam sessions will
take place nightly at the Dominion on Queen at 500 Queen Street
East.
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This festival of festivals (along
with others we’ll cover in the
July/August issue) is obviously
an exciting time for lovers of
this music. For musicians, on
the one hand, it’s great because
there are definitely more gigs up
for grabs and virtually no possibility of being cancelled due to
weather (knock on wood). However, it does give the impression
that jazz in this city is happy and
healthy. I’ll be honest with you
though, reader: the jazz scene
here is going through a rough
patch.
Even though Toronto is considered the jazz capital of Canada, there seems to be more talent
Nathan Phillips Sqaure: HQ for the
2008 TD Canada Trust Toronto
here than the city’s jazz club
Jazz Festival, June 20-29
audience can sustain. Tokyo has
300 jazz clubs; we can barely
keep a dozen running despite being known as a world-class jazz
capital. The recent closures of all-jazz-all-the-time establishments The
Montreal Bistro and The Top O’ The Senator left the jazz community stunned and saddened. Now we all cling to The Rex for dear life
as it is the last standing musical landmark to promise jazz music
every night.
While veteran performers are still active on the scene, so is a new
generation of accomplished players that has emerged in the past decade. Meanwhile young talent is constantly graduating from the four
jazz post-secondary institutions in southern Ontario: Humber College, Mohawk College, York University and the University of Toronto. The bottom line is, although the music is getting better all the
time, it’s getting harder and harder to make a living as a jazz performer in this city. We need our audience to grow along with us.
So, reader, on behalf of jazz musicians in this city, I implore you
to check out the vibrant musical palette of sounds during this season’s festival of jazz festivals.
Just as important, if you like what you hear here, we hope you’ll
check us out again even when the fish ain’t jumpin’ and it’s only the
cotton-pickin’ snow that’s high.
Music Mondays
All concerts begin at 12:15 p.m. and take
place at the Church of the Holy Trinity
(10 Trinity Square beside the Eaton Centre)
$5 suggested donation
June 2
Bryce Kulak & Colin Maier
Piano & multi-instrumentalist
June 9
Trio Bravo
Terry Storr
Kristen Therlault
Dr. John Selleck
June 16
June 25
Glenda del Monte Escalante
Triolette
Pat Agnew
Sheila McCoy
Laraine Herzog
June 30*
Clarinet
Viola
Piano
Piano
World View
by Karen Ages
What is classical?
When I first started writing this column in April 2004, I was asked
to define what I meant by “world music”. I came up with a definition which read, “traditional, classical, folk or contemporary music,
the origins of which stem from outside Western “high art” or “popular” culture, with generous room for the blurring of boundaries.”
In light of what’s been going on at CBC Radio 2 these days,
questionable changes to programming which have been documented
recently in print media and by the eloquent speakers at various “save
our CBC Radio 2” protest rallies, I am wondering if perhaps a redefinition of what is meant by “classical music” is in order.
First, let me add that as a long-time CBC listener (since about the
age of 12), I am dismayed by the recent and proposed changes to
Radio 2, which include the cancellation of “Two New Hours”, the
weekly program showcasing live performances of music by contemporary, primarily Canadian composers; the cancellation of both the
Young Performers and Young Composers competitions, both of
which have served, in the past, as launching pads for the careers of
many of this country’s finest artists; the relegation of “classical”
programming to the 10 am to 3 pm time slot, when most young
people are in school—a personal note here: as a teenager I was an
avid listener of the live concert show “Arts National”, hosted at the
time by Ian Alexander; it aired weeknights at 8 pm and was a significant part of my own musical education. The list of programming
changes goes on and has been documented elsewhere.
In its attempt to become less “elitist” and more reflective of the
tastes of a broader segment of the Canadian public, I believe the
CBC is off on the wrong tack, sacrificing quality programming in
order to attract a larger audience. In its attempt to be all things to all
people, I fear the CBC will end up a shallow entity with no real
identity, pleasing no-one in the end. I hope I am proven wrong.
Having said this, we are living in a changing, ie. more multi-cultural
society, and even if this were not the case, we are more aware of the
gifts that other cultures have to offer than we were say, 50 years
ago; perhaps instead of going in the direction it has, eliminating
most of what we commonly refer to as “classical” music in its programming, the CBC should have taken a different approach by
broadening the definition of “classical” to include the art music of
non-Western cultures. Still elitist? Perhaps. But wouldn’t it be amazing to turn on the radio at a specified time and hear some Japanese
Gagaku, or Indian Dhrupad, or Javanese Gamelan, or Chinese
Zheng, or, or, or..... Let the CBC keep doing what it has done well
in the past, and expand upon it.
So, this time around, instead of encompassing the broader definition of “world music” outlined above, I’ll highlight some classical
music on offer this month (and I hope you’ll forgive my not attempting to define exactly what I mean by classical!).
Toronto-based Arabic music scholar and musician Dr. George
Sawa has recently produced his first CD, The Art of the Early Egyptian Qanun, featuring 17th century Ottoman court music, Egyptian
sacred sufi dances, and other Egyptian music from the early 20th
century. He’ll be performing some of this repertoire and other classical Arabic music, June 11 at Mezzetta Cafe Restaurant, with his
Soprano
Mezzo-soprano
Piano
Anatoliy Kupriychuk, Allan Pulker &
Elena Tchernaia
Bassoon, Flute and Piano
*(Note: Location at the Marriott Hotel - room: TBA)
July 7
Koichi Inoue
Piano
For more information contact 598-4521 x222
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wife, Suzanne Meyers Sawa. Instruments will include the qanun
(psaltery), salamiyya (flute), darabukka (drum) and duff (tambourine). Come out and support these fine musicians. The food at Mezzetta’s is good too!
The Raag Mala Music Society presents a concert of Indian classical music, June 21 at the Medical Sciences Auditorium, featuring
Rajashree Karandikar, vocals; Raye Bidaye, harmonium; Milind
Karandikar, tabla; Neeraj Prem, sitar; Brandon McIntosh, sarod; and
Rachna Mehra, tabla.
Not strictly classical, but featuring some fine classical musicians,
Maryem and Ernie Tollar’s Cairo Toronto Collective performs at
Glenn Gould Studio, June 22, as part of the TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival. Canada’s premiere Arabic singer Maryem Tollar
and virtuoso wind player husband Ernie will be joined by oud and
violin master Alfred Gamil, and vocalist/violinist/ oud player Mohamed Aly, two stars of Cairo’s art music scene, as well as Toronto’s Bassam Bishara (oud, vocals), for a blend of jazz and Middle
Eastern music.
Harbourfront Centre has some interesting programming coming
up this summer, including a series of concerts under it’s World
Routes banner titled “What is Classical?” (much more about that in
the July/August issue). June 13–15 they’ll be hosting the finale to
this year’s LuminaTO Festival; Luminat’eau will feature music,
dance and film, including classical Indian vocalist Kiran Ahluwalia,
and traditional Pakistani music from Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali with
Sashar Zarif Dance Theatre, both on June 13. June 27–29, Harbourfront celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Banff Centre with a
festival of dance, theatre, music, film and literature inspired by this
world-renowned arts centre and its mountain setting. Music featured
June 27 and 28 includes “The Tehran Project”, the latest composition by Iranian classical musician/composer Amir Amiri. He’ll be
featured on santur (Persian hammer dulcimer) along with Los Angeles violinist Linling Hsu. And Harbourfront will again hold a series
of outdoor concerts at the Music Garden, from the end of June to
mid-August. The July 6 concert features the SamulNori Canada
Korean Drum Ensemble, with Han-Soo Jung on piri (bamboo double
reed flute) and So-Sun Suh on Hae-Geum (Korean fiddle).
More world music (in the broader sense) in brief: Celtic musician
Sarah Burnell (violin/voice) and her band launch their new CD,
Return Ticket, at Hugh’s Room, June 2; June 6, Roy Thomson Hall
presents Mohammad Reza Shajarian and the Ava Ensemble in a
concert of Persian classical song; the Jubilate Singers present a
concert of African and African-inspired music, with guests, the
North 44° Chamber Choir, June 7; the 9th Annual Muhtadi International Drumming Festival takes place at Queen’s Park June 7
and 8; David Buchbinder’s Odessa/Havana performs at Lula
Lounge on June 11, and his Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band performs at Clinton’s tavern on June 14; the eclectic Ensemble Polaris
presents “Very Many Strings Attached” with a focus on harp, guitar, violin, hurdy gurdy and Swedish nyckelharpa, June 19 at the
Music Gallery. Please see the listings for details on these and other
events.
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music ensembles. She can be reached at
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EARLY Music
by Frank Nakashima
The Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir, with soprano Ann Monoyios and tenor Rufus Müller (June 2), strut their
stuff as they mark the beginning of their two-week Summer Institute
for the study of baroque music. A casual noon-hour program of
baroque chamber music featuring members of Tafelmusik (June 7)
precedes one by the students’ orchestra and choir (June 11) directed
by Jeanne Lamon and Ivars Taurins. The Grand Finale concert
(June 14) combines the forces of Tafelmusik and the students in a
baroque extravaganza. All these programs above are free!
www.tafelmusik.org
The Toronto Early Music Centre presents “Musically Speaking,”
a one-hour enlightening program of historical performance, introducing the young violinist Elena Spanu who, with Thomas Georgi,
performs Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber’s music for violin and viola
d’amore (June 8).
Not too far away, in the beautiful rural setting of Cambridge and
Ayr, in Ontario, is the Grand River Baroque Festival (June 13 to
15) which offers four concerts of orchestral, chamber and choral
music. The “Five Nations” program presents works from the four
musically-dominant nations of the 17th and 18th centuries – Germany (Telemann’s Don Quixote), Italy (Albinoni’s Oboe Concerto),
England (Matthew Locke’s music for Shakespeare’s Tempest), and
France (Lully’s suite from Acis et Galatée). The fifth nation is represented by modern-day Estonian composer Arvo Pärt’s work, Fratres.
Meet for a pre-concert picnic at the Buehlow Barn, then enjoy the
“Bach meets Buxtehude” program performed by Cristina Zacharias
(violin), Teresa Van der Hoeven (soprano), Elin Soderstrom (viola
da gamba) and Hank Knox (harpsichord/organ). Afterward, if you’re
still hungry, a wonderful three-course meal is available at Hobson
Restaurant, within walking distance of the evening’s concert, Gloria,
featuring Vivaldi’s jubilant work of the same name. www.grbf.ca
From June 20 to 23, the Montreal Baroque Festival takes place.
The complete book of Rameau’s Pièces de clavecin en concerts will
be performed by Ensemble Masques. Oh, by the way, did you
know that Rameau was one of the most popular composers amongst
the French colonists in Haiti during the 18th century? One of Montreal’s newest groups, La Cigale, performs 18th century Irish music
in a concert titled Planxty O’Carolan (June 23); world renowned
virtuoso tabla and sarangi players, Pandit Sharda Sahai and Ramesh
Mishra respectively, give a recital (June 22); Ensembles Caprice and
Diolkidi, plus several others, present an Afro-French cultural history
of Haiti through the music and dances of the Chevalier de St.
George, Rousseau, Rameau, and Grétry (June 23).
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Ensemble Caprice and others present an Afro-French cultural history of
Haiti on June 23 at the Montreal Baroque Festival.
In a tribute to Glenn Gould, soprano Monika Mauch and countertenor Daniel Taylor offer a concert of Bach cantatas with The Bande
Montreal Baroque directed by Eric Milnes (June 22). A program of
love songs from 17th century France and China (June 20) will premiere Kun Opera which was banned during the Cultural Revolution.
It is interesting to note that Chinese decorative arts became the rage
in Europe during the 17th century and Chinoiserie was the décor of
choice for harpsichords! More 18th century music in a concert of
traditional Scottish and Québecois music featuring soprano Meredith
Hall, fiddler David Greenberg, fiddler Lisa Ornstein, La Nef and
Les Charbonniers de l’Enfer (June 20). Les Boréades de Montréal
and Les Voix Humaines’ Consort team up to play Venetian 17th
century music by Bassano, Rossi, Cima and Fontana.
The Oregon Bach Festival (June 27 to July 13) was founded by
Helmuth Rilling in 1970 when he first arrived in Eugene, Oregon,
to organize a series of workshops followed by an informal concert.
Today, it is one of America’s most important events devoted to
Bach’s music, with master classes along with lecture-concerts welcoming more than 3,000 visitors each year.
www.oregonbachfestival.com
Since its inauguration in 1990, the Berkeley Festival & Exhibition
has been regarded as one of the premier events of its kind, as early
music performers, scholars, instrument makers, publishers. and
enthusiasts gather for a week of concerts, lectures, and master classes on and around the University of California, Berkeley campus.
This year it takes place from June 3 to 8, and, as usual, is absolutely packed with fun and excitement. For example, the American
premiere of the 16th-century Mass by Alessandro Striggio for 40
and 60 voices which was recently rediscovered in France by Davitt
Moroney. And from Paris comes the world premiere performances
of Le Poème Harmonique’s Venezia delle strade ai Palazzi, with the
music of Claudio Monteverdi and Francesco Manelli, costumed and
staged to capture the atmosphere of 17th-century Venice.
There is also an assortment of self-produced “fringe” concerts
and events scheduled and organized by San Francisco Early Music
Society (www.sfems.org/fringe2008.htm), the American Bach Soloists International Young Artists Competition for Baroque Violin;
Early Music America’s annual conference and the Exhibition and
Music Marketplace of instruments, music, accessories, recordings,
publications, and “mini-concert” demonstrations of instruments;
performances by Piffaro, The Renaissance Band, The Concord Ensemble, and the Philharmonia Chamber Players; and a number of
concurrent events—Historical Harp Society’s 25th Annual Workshop
& Conference, American Recorder Society, Western Early Keyboard
Association, and Viola da Gamba Society. See the website:
www.bfx.berkeley.edu – and also the Cal Performances website at
www.calperformances.org.
Frank T. Nakashima ([email protected]) is the President of
the Toronto Early Music Centre, a non-profit charitable organization which promotes the appreciation of historically-informed performances of early music.
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Sound Art at its Finest
Dutch artist
Ricardo Huisman’s Super Sonic
Soundscape Shoes
allows the public
to hear and feel
the sounds under
their feet and
traveling through
their body. The
installation runs
from June 2–8 at
the Music Gallery
(noon to 5 pm).
Friendly readers, I write you this month after having recently
traveled to the utopian Festival du Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville
in Quebec. Seeing a city come to life with experimental music was a
huge inspiration to me. The tourism opportunities this festival has
provided Victoriaville are a model for cities in Ontario. It certainly
showed me that a small few creative minds can implement change in
their respective cities.
Speaking of creative minds, this month I had the chance to speak
with composer and sound artist Darren Copeland. Darren and his
organization New Adventures in Sound Art are in the midst of delivering their seventh program of the Deep Wireless Festival in the City
of Toronto.
I recall an early incarnation of the Deep Wireless Festival. Walking into the Rivoli several years ago, to a sold-out audience listening
to quadraphonic mixes of radio art, I remember thinking to myself
how special that event was, as it toasted the history of radio, while
plunging forward using surround sound and the limitless options it
provides.
The Deep Wireless Festival attracts one third of its annual audience from outside of Canada. The unique festival once again marks
Toronto as a leader in cultural distinction. Since 2002, the festival
and conference has expanded to include sculptural work that engages
with various aspects of radio. This year, Gallery 1313 features a
multimedia work called I T U (Intensive Treatment Unit) that originated as a radio piece by Tim Wainwright. Artist John Wynne has
now added visuals to heighten the experience. This piece runs from
May 25 to June 8 and it is free to attend (Sunday to Wednesday 1–6
pm).
Darren Copeland’s inspiration to start Deep Wireless with his
respective organization New Adventures in Sound Art
(www.naisa.ca) was drawn from a need to showcase all of the diverse radiophonic work in sound art in large-scale form. For electroacoustic composers, this medium is the equivalent of writing an
opera, as the works are all very language-based.
The Deep Wireless Festival engages in other modes of communication rather than just music, and sound. Darren Copeland’s own
works, from his experience, are better experienced in the concert hall
rather than on radio, so the festival was essentially born, like all
good festivals, out of necessity. Although Deep Wireless partners
with radio (CBC Radio One’s Outfront), the celebration of this genre in the concert hall is really necessary to experience live, using a
12-speaker mix.
Copeland seemed very excited about the Outfront pieces that have
been broadcast for radio throughout May, and will be featured in a
live concert on May 30 and 31 at the Ryerson Student Centre. The
live performance aspect is exciting, as it takes the radio art pieces
and expands them into 12. Also running in the month of June is an
installation at Le Labo in the Distillery District called Le vivant bruit
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du Corps by Chantal Dumas, an interactive sound installation which
questions the perception of space in relation to mobility.
Beginning in June, NAISA presents Sonic Boardwalk by Kristi
Allik & Robert Mulder. Sonic Boardwalk is a sound installation
located on the Ward Island boardwalk that generates a microsound
landscape activated by the kinetic imprint of passing visitors. It is
located outdoors on the west end of the boardwalk. Also on Toronto
Island, you will find Synthecycletron by Barry Prophet. Participants
on Synthecycletron will generate power by pedaling which will in
turn activate synthesizers and generate sounds. Synthecycletron is
located outdoors on Toronto Island between the Pier on the south
side of Centre Island and the boardwalk.
Another very intriguing installation by the Dutch artist Ricardo
Huisman running from June 2–8 at the Music Gallery (noon to 5 pm)
is a pair of over-sized clown shoes made out of foam called Super
Sonic Soundscape Shoes. By standing into “super sonic soundscape
shoes”, hearing and feeling the sounds under their feet and traveling
through their body, the public can “get in touch” with a speciallycomposed sonic portrait of Toronto.
As part of the ongoing soundaXis festival, don’t miss Sounds on
Paper: Five recent environmental electroacoustic works by Robin
Minard, including Nature morte with video components by artist
Susan Meinhardt. Presented by New Music Concerts in conjunction
with the concert on June 4, this installation runs from May 29 until
June 15 at Gallery 345.
Darren Copeland and his peers at New Adventures in Sound Art
are a perfect example of the wonderful impact arts organizations
and artists can have on a city. With festivals like soundaXis (May 15
to June 21) and Deep Wireless (May 1 to June 8), Toronto is absolutely overflowing with innovation, ideas, and a forward-thinking
model to build from. Enjoy.
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On Opera
by Christopher Hoile
A coproduction of Tapestry New Opera Works and Theatre Direct,
Sanctuary Song is part of the LuminaTO Festival this year. Composed by
Abigail Richardson (on left) and written by Marjorie Chan, the opera
runs June 6 to 14 at The Berkeley Street Theatre.
June used to be a fallow period for opera in Ontario, but not any
more. The change in the COC’s scheduling of its Ensemble
show, the success of Orchestra London in bringing fully staged
opera to that city and the second annual LuminaTO Festival have
provided tantalizing choices for the month.
The COC Ensemble Studio shows, once scheduled for December, now take place in June. This year’s offering is quite
unusual—a double bill of Don Giovanni (1787) by Giuseppe
Gazzaniga (1743-1818) and Renard (1922) by Igor Stravinsky.
Since, in a Darwinian way, only the strongest operas survive,
Mozart’s Don Giovanni that premiered only a few months after
Gazzaniga’s completely eclipsed its predecessor even though Gazzaniga’s had been quite successful. The Ensemble production will
give us a rare chance to see another perspective on the famous
story and to see what aspects Mozart’s librettist, Lorenzo Da
Ponte, borrowed for his own libretto. Stravinsky’s opera, based
on the barnyard allegories common to many cultures, placed the
singers in the pit while dancers acted the parts of the wily fox and
his victims. The Ensemble production will place the singers back
on the stage. Steven Philcox conducts and Tom Diamond directs
Don Giovanni, while Derek Bate conducts and Serge Bennathan
directs Renard. The operas run June 16, 18, 20 and 22 at the
Imperial Oil Opera Theatre. www.coc.ca
For more conventional fare head over to London for Orchestra
London’s fourth annual collaboration with Pacific Opera Victoria
in which the POV’s production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly
will transfer to the Grand Theatre for perfomances on May 30,
June 1, 5, and 7. Sally Dibblee takes the title role and Kurt Lehmann sings her callous lover Pinkerton. Timothy Vernon conducts and François Racine directs. Acording to the Orchestra
London website, the production “marks an important milestone
for Orchestra London’s Grand Opera project. The orchestra’s
board recently agreed to incorporate opera into Orchestra London’s three year strategic plan, making it a regular part of the
annual season.” www.orchestralondon.ca
The second annual LuminaTO festival brings four new operas
to Toronto—one Canadian and three American. The production of
the Canadian work Sanctuary Song is the world premiere of an
opera for “children of all ages” by Abigail Richardson set to a
libretto by Marjorie Chan. In it an aging elephant at an elephant
sanctuary in Tennessee recounts her life before and during her
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captivity to her trusted keeper of 22 years. This coproduction of
Tapestry New Opera Works and Theatre Direct is conducted by
Wayne Strongman and directed by Lynda Hill and features soprano Xin Wang and bass Alvin Crawford with Sharmila Dey and
Frank Cox-O’Connell. It runs June 6-14 at the Berkeley Street
Theatre. www.sanctuarysong.ca
All three American operas are by composer Mikel Rouse,
who is associated with a New York-based movement known as
“totalism.” Totalism, an outgrowth of “minimalism,” familiar
from the works of Philip Glass and Steve Reich, aims at greater
rhythmic complexity, particurlarly in creating enough surface
rhythmic energy to resemble pop music while retaining the background complexity of “serious” music. Rouse’s three multimedia
operas form a trilogy about American culture and the LuminaTO
Festival will provide the first chance ever to see all three together, albeit not in the order of composition.
First up (June 7–8) is Dennis
Cleveland (1996), the second
and best-known of the three.
The opera takes the form of a
televison talk-show (in the Toronto Film School Studio, Studio
887) as guests tell their sordid
stories to the title host. It soon
becomes clear they are telling
Cleveland’s own story. One of
the prime influences on the
work is Voltaire’s Bastards by
Canada’s own John Ralston
Saul. Next (June 10–12) is the
third opera The End of Cinematics
(1997), a meditation on the demise of art-house cinema in an
age of channel-surfing and YouTube. The series concludes June 13–
15 with the first opera, Failing Kansas (1995), a one-man work based
on Truman Capote’s novel In Cold Blood. All three involve the use of
state-of- the-art visual projections and Rouse’s technique of “counterpoetry” in which recorded voices, arranged in counterpoint with each
other and with Rouse’s own live vocals, create a tapestry of competing texts. Music samples and video trailers are available on the LuminaTO website (www.LuminaTO.com) as well as on Mikel Rouse’s
own website (www.mikelrouse.com). In fact, all three operas, along
with many others works by Rouse have been recorded and can be
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Jazz Notes
by Jim Galloway
Airline
Fractures
There was a time, when
musicians would get
together in a band room
or bar and the talk
among certainly the
younger players would
be about wine, women
Galloway was planning to talk about jazz this
and song, while the
month but once again the airlines got his goat.
older hands might reminisce about the booze and broads, but the main topics would be about
ailments and creaking bones.
Well, the playing field has levelled and there is one topic everybody talks about now—one common hardship that has made the
music almost a secondary thing, that has united us to the degree that
even drummers are accepted as equals!
Around the world members of the musical community suffer the
same indignities, humiliations, contumelies, (don’t look it up—it
means the same as the other discourtesies), sometimes rudeness and
occasionally even violence. I’m not speaking of rude, noisy audiences, so what is this common bond that today unites musicians of any
stylistic persuasion?
AIR TRAVEL. Airports have become something akin to human
stockyards, where you have to arrive up to two hours before a flight
that will be merely delayed if you are lucky and cancelled if you are
not. That is, of course, after you have gone through that Weapon Of
Mass Distraction, the security gauntlet, which is, at best, less than
really effective, but without any doubt, less than convenient and
sometimes absurdly intrusive (I have observed at least one little old
lady being patted down for hidden no-nos).
There is absolutely no guarantee that you will arrive at your destination on time, or even on the same day as your electronic ticket
says. More and more musicians (and other business travellers) are
opting to travel a day early, adding to the costs of the club or festival employing them, just so they can be there on time for a performance. Airlines oversell flights, which can mean that if you have a
tight connection and get to the gate too close to flight time your
“confirmed” seat may have been given to somebody else. Then there
are the flights where they load the passengers on to an aircraft that
then sits on the tarmac for a couple of hours or more. My personal
record is 6 hours at JFK without being offered so much as a glass of
water. Air travel is in disarray and airline employees, who for the
most part try to be helpful, are stressed and frustrated and know
what we suspect—it is only going to get worse.
As a proud Canadian, for years I have been loyal to Air Canada.
Over the past couple of years the decline in service has changed me
from an AC supporter to a frustrated and angry victim. However,
the sad reality is that the other carriers are just as bad—and we are at
their mercy. (As I write, American Airlines have just announced that
they are slashing domestic flights by 11% this year). If Kafka were
around today he would write “The Airport” instead of “The Castle”.
Jazz Festivals
We are swinging into the festival season this month—let’s hope that
all the performers manage to arrive in time to play—and from June
4–8 the 3nd Annual Art of Jazz Celebration will take place at the
Distillery Historic District in Toronto when Three Lifetime Achievements will be awarded. Brazilian composer, guitarist and pianist
Egberto Gismonti will be honoured on June 6; composer and multiinstrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal (also from Brazil) on June 7; and on
June 5, the most significant evening from a Canadian standpoint,
John Norris, founder of CODA Magazine and Sackville Records,
will be acknowledged for his significant contribution to jazz. The
evening includes feature performances by the Wray Downes Quartet
(with Reg Schwager, Dave Young and Ethan Ardelli), The Dan
Block/Jon-Erik Kellso Quintet (with Mark Eisenmann, Steve Wallace
and Terry Clarke), a solo set with Randy Weston plus Jim Galloway’s Wee Big Band and guest performances by Phil Nimmons,
Gene DiNovi and Andrew Scott. Details at www.artofjazz.org.
The TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival runs from June 20–
29 with a preview concert featuring Al Green on June 19 and a postfestival performance on July 2 with Dave Brubeck and The Toronto
Jazz Festival Orchestra. Throughout the actual festival dates there is
a wide-ranging array of talent with headliners ranging from Dr. John
(on opening night) to Michel Legrand with Phil Woods.It is a tenday jazz marathon and full details are available at
www.torontojazz.com.
Some of the other events within striking distance are Toronto’s
LuminaTO, June 6–15, the Brott Music Festival in Hamilton, with
events throughout the month, and Orangeville Blues and Jazz Festival, June 5–8.
Back To The Future
Before I leave you, this from AHN Media Corp. on September 8,
2007: “Frustrated with numerous and repeated technical problems that
had grounded its entire international route fleet of two Boeing 757s,
officials for Nepal’s state-owned airline committed the ritual killing of
two goats. Nepal Airline officials hoped that the sacrifice would appease
the Hindu Sky God, Akash Bhairab. Ritual animal sacrifice is a common and accepted practice in the Hindu religion.
An unnamed airline official said that the air carrier sacrificed the goats in
front of the airplanes, hoping to end the nagging problems that have
caused the airline to cancel flights and leave passengers stranded. Another senior airline official, Raju K.C. stated to the local press, “The snag
in the plane has now been fixed and the aircraft has resumed its
flights...” The difference is that now we are the lambs being led to
the slaughter.
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BAND Stand
by Jack MacQuarrie
Having attended a strictly academic high school with no music program, my first introduction to band music was in boys’ bands. Girls
didn’t normally ever get in. My first band had two girls as members,
but they were special cases: the bandmaster’s daughters. Our winter
months were spent honing our skills for the summer ahead. We rarely
appeared in public until the grass was green and skies were blue. Well
our skies are showing that inevitable blue cast, and I have had the
bright blue cast removed from my leg, so it’s time to think of summer
musical activities.
For most community bands there are two seasons: summer and the
rest of the year. By June 1, most of the community bands which
program concert series will have performed their final concert of the
season and will be preparing for the summer. A few bands take summer off, but most just shift gears. Whether it be performing at festivals, in parades, concerts in the park or country fairs, the summer
season brings out a different repertoire from the band’s library.
Reminiscing about my early banding days, I have fond memories
of very busy summers travelling almost every weekend to band tattoos throughout Southwestern Ontario. But this is one kind of tattoo
that seems to have faded. The only one that we are aware of this year
is the Canadian International Military Tattoo in Hamilton, and it is an
indoor military event, with no community bands participating.
What of other summer band events? It appears to be a time of
uncertainty with little on the horizon. We have learned that the Brass
in the Grass festival in Etobicoke has been cancelled for this year. On
a happier note, we understand that, after some somewhat uncertain
birth problems, the first Ottawa International Brass Festival, sponsored by the Maple Leaf Brass Band, will be proceeding as we go to
press with this issue (May 30 and 31). David Druce, conductor of the
Maple Leaf Brass Band has also reminded us to seek out the Band of
the Ceremonial Guard if in the Ottawa area this summer. David is also
the musical director of that renowned group.
In last month’s column we suggested that the end of the school year
could be a good time for community bands to reach out to students
who are leaving their high school bands behind as they head on to
higher education or a slot in the working world. In response to that
we received mail from Mr. Lawry Sax, President of the Thornhill
Community Band telling us of their band’s initiative in that area. His
excellent response is reproduced below and needs no further comment.
As a follow-up to your article in WholeNote regarding the summer
return of students to community bands, I thought I would make you
aware of the Thornhill Community Band’s outreach program to high
school students. This year, on June 10 at Westmount CI, Vaughan,
we will be sponsoring our 5th Annual Festival of Winds. All of our
local high school bands are invited to perform along with our band.
An informal reception after the performance helps students become
aware of community music opportunities after high school. Graduating music students are given leatherette music folders as a keepsake
with our website (www.TCBand.ca) engraved in gold on the cover so
that when their studies are completed and they want to return to instrumental music, all they have to do is look us up again on our
website. I hope your readership will be interested in this endeavour
and start their own program to promote music student graduates’
awareness of community bands.
In our ongoing quest for information on older community bands in
Canada, this month we have two more bands which trace their roots
in their communities back to the late 1800’s. In their recent concert
announcement, the Brampton Band state: The City of Brampton Concert Band (www.bramptonconcertband.com) was founded in 1884 by
the mechanics of the Haggert Foundry of Brampton, Ontario. Today,
it is one of Canada’s oldest, continuously performing concert bands.
We had no sooner received that information when the following arrived from Oakville: The Oakville Wind Orchestra is Canada’s oldest
continuously-operating community concert band. It was formed by
Captain R.B. Albertson in 1866 who trained it for the 20th Halton
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Infantry, which was the predecessor to the Lorne Scots.
Sponsorship of the band was
assumed by the Town of
Oakville in 1881, and has
continued to this day.
Their statement of claim
tells us that the predecessor of
The Oakville Wind Orchestra
presented its first public performance on Canada’s confederation day, July 1, 1867.
Although not a community
band news item, here’s one
piece of band news worth
noting. After more than forty
years without a band to play at
sporting events and other campus activities, the Department
of Athletics at the University
of Toronto has announced that
they hope to form a student
The Canadian International Military Tattoo
band in the near future. CON- brings music and more to Hamilton’s Copps
GRATULATIONS; it’s long
Coliseum, June 14 and 15.
overdue.
Coming Events:
Thursday June 12 6:00 pm The City of Brampton Concert Band
presents its Community Appreciation BBQ and Concert Gage Park,
Brampton. Saturday, June 14 7:30 pm and June 15 2:30 pm Canadian International Military Tattoo, Copps Coliseum, Hamilton.
Saturday, June 14 8:00 pm Brass Conspiracy presents Brass
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Choral Scene
In this issue, instead of my usual Quodlibet and Choral Scene
columns, we are publishing the text of a speech given by Tafelmusik’s Ivars Taurins at the May 24 rally outside the CBC Broadcast Centre to advocate for arts-centred programming on Radio 2.
In this text Taurins directly and succinctly addresses the philosophical rationale for our national radio network to continue to build
its programming schedule around art music.
From a purely practical angle, I might add, the CBC management’s thinking is about ten years behind the times. Remember the
old days when the popular wisdom was that interest in classical
music was dying out? Today’s realities reveal how dated that thinking is: WholeNote’s Listings, for example, could not exist in a climate of tepid interest in music. Our DISCoveries section reveals
unprecedented activity in the domain of recorded music. Our musical culture is dynamic, exciting and growing. It should be supported, promoted and shared nationally by the CBC.
If you wish to know more about the restructuring of programming at CBC Radio 2 and the efforts to stem the proposed changes, the website www.standonguardforcbcradio.ca has a wealth of
information. Also consult www.cbc.ca/radio2/.
PHOTO ALISON ROY
by Allan Pulker
At the rally: Signs of difficult times ahead. Protesters included choristers,
divas, instrumentalists, music students from all over, devout listeners to the
CBC 2 programs while commuting, and a host of celebrities.
PHOTO PETER HOBBS
from their own culture or not. And culture has always embraced the
cultivation of beauty and knowledge. The word culture comes from the
Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning “to cultivate”. And Culture needs to be cultivated and nourished.
It is not a commodity to be turned on and off like tap water at our
Protest rallies were held in Toronto and Vancouver on May 24. The
whim – it is a precious gift and legacy to be protected and tended if it is
Toronto group assembled at 12:30 pm, got organized, and entered the
to grow and flourish. It is the measure of a civilization, of its worth and
CBC building. After singing “O Canada” in the Atrium, the rally group contributions to future generations and civilizations.
gathered at nearby Simcoe Park for an afternoon of speeches by over
As John F Kennedy said “the life of the arts, far from being an
30 conductors, critics, performers, students, music professors, a doctor interruption or a distraction in the life of a nation, is very close to the
and a music critic.
centre of a nation’s purpose, and is the test of the quality of a nation’s
civilization.” He also said “I look forward to a nation that will not be
afraid of grace and beauty… a nation that will reward achievement in
Conductor Ivars Taurins’ closing address:
the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft… If art is
to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free.”
I’m here today because I have a passion for
Many of us in North America have not had to fight tooth and nail
the things I believe in. That passion runs
for our culture. Our art and culture have not been under attack or dedeeper than logic can rationalize or explain.
molished by ethnic, religious, or political strife. We take our cultural
Time and time again the old debate of the
legacy for granted.
relevance of western European art and muThose nations that have had to literally rebuild their culture from the
sic in our modern North American society
rubble of war, or revolution or natural disaster have, I believe, a deeper
rears its head. What relevance does the “old
respect and understanding of their cultural heritage. They have tended
World” have on our “enlightened” modern
to it and brought it back to life in the true meaning of cultivation.
society? The question of relevance has been
The culture I have been speaking of, though, is all too often conutilized by the CBC management in reevalufused or melded with another kind of culture, and that is the culture of
ating and restructuring its programming, not
entertainment and consumerism. Lord Kinnoul paid compliments to
only on radio but on television as well.
George Frideric Handel on “the noble entertainment” of his oratorio,
I begin by asking the question: what
Messiah. Handel is said to have remarked “My Lord, I should be
possible relevance could the music of Bach
sorry if I only entertained them; I wished to make them better.” His
and Mahler, and the paintings of Monet and other impressionists, have
point wasn’t a matter of elitism
with the strong traditional culture of Japan?
I hope to explain: Japan has identified in its society and culture what or snobbery, but of the betterment
are known as “national treasures”. These include not only examples of and enrichment of the intellect and
soul.
architecture, sculpture, painting, calligraphy, pottery, textiles, but also
And therein lies the rub: Art
“living national treasures”, including actors, musicians, potters, woodcan
be entertaining, but entertainblock printers, paper makers, and textile designers.
ment
isn’t necessarily art. EnterSo why does a culture steeped in its traditions adopt French imprestainment
is terrified of losing you,
sionism, or Mahler symphonies, or Bach cantatas. Why does Kyoto
and
is
willing
to change itself in
have the world’s leading museum of western European costume? Why
any
way
to
be
more to your taste.
does Japan have some of the world’s finest concert halls? What possiArt
doesn’t
give
a damn whether
ble relevance do these foreign things have to Japanese culture?
you’re
interested
in it or not, but it
And what possible relevance could a symphony by Beethoven,
will
speak
to
you
if
you give it the
Mozart or Tschaikovsky have to a child of the impoverished and crimetime
and
effort.
Art
challenges
ridden slums of Venezuela? How is it that that country could have 216
standards
of
conduct
and beauty. It
youth orchestras, and 176 children’s orchestras and 400 more ensemencourages
thought.
Entertainment
bles, orchestras and choirs with over 100 music schools involving
is only an affirmation of these
300,000 youngsters, 90 % of whom are from the county’s lowest ecoSales Representative
standards, and encourages simple
nomic class, all studying classical music?
acceptance.
The answer to both questions is that these seemingly disparate
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or to sit through and appreciate a classical symphony, or anything longer
than 3- minute bites.
And the entertainment industry is jumping at the opportunity to
exploit this, and to market art and culture under the auspices of entertainment and consumerism and call it Culture. It will teach you Tudor
history through bodice-ripper mini-series no better than a Harlequin
novel. It might as well teach us about Roman Britain by presenting the
musical Camelot.
And so our National Broadcasting System, which was created to be
the custodian of this country’s art and culture, the nation’s mouthpiece
for its artists through radio and television, has succumbed to the gods of
entertainment and commercialism. It judges art through ratings. It debates the relevance of Western art music in our North American society.
It seems unwilling to admit, or has lost connection to, the global
relevance of the pyramids, of the Taj Mahal, or the Parthenon… of the
songs of Hildegard von Bingen, Monteverdi’s Orfeo, Bach’s Goldberg
Variations, Mozart’s Requiem, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring… of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel, Da Vinci’s
Mona Lisa…or of Shakespeare and Goethe.
What possible relevance could these things have to the cultural
fabric of Canada?
They don’t realize that these “global treasures” are part of who we are
today. These treasures of culture are the benchmarks for our own efforts
of artistic expression. They are willing to share the profundity and richness
of their beauty and wisdom with us and make us better people for it.
So I stand here today with a challenge to you, Mssrs Lacroix and
Stursberg: I challenge you to look straight into the eyes of this country’s classical artists and composers: I challenge you to look into the
faces of Ben Heppner, Gerald Findlay, Richard Margison, Isabel
Bayrakdarian, Measha Brueggergosman, Karina Gauvin, Adrianne
Pieczonka, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Catherine Robbin, Nancy Argenta,
Suzie LeBlanc, Michael Schade, Russell Braun, Teresa Stratas and
Maureen Forrester .
I’d like you to look at James Ehnes, Andrew Dawes and the Orford
Quartet, Eve Egoyan, Anton Kuerti, Robert Aiken, James Campbell,
Angela Hewitt, Marc-Andre Hamelin, Louis Lortie, John Kimura Parker,
and Jamie Parker, and Janina Fialkowska, to name just the tip of the
iceberg.
I’d like you both to look into the eyes of R. Murray Schafer,
Eleanor Daley, Ruth Watson Henderson, Chan Ka Nin, James Rolfe,
John Oliver, Alexina Louie, Marjan Mozetich, and all the other Canadian composers we are blessed with;…and while we’re at it let’s add
Mario Bernardi, Bramwell Tovey, Simon Streatfield, Alain Trudel and
Yannick Nézet-Séguin to name just a few of the array of talented
orchestral and choral conductors this country has to offer; …and then
I’d like you to take a deep look into the eyes of the spirits of Lois
Marshall, John Vickers, Louis Quilico, Elmer Iseler, Sir Ernest Macmillan, John Weinzweig, Harry Somers, Harry Freedman, Srul Irving
Glick, Oscar Morawetz, Healey Willan and last but not least, Glenn
Gould, to name just a few.
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And don’t forget to look into the faces of the musicians, professional and amateur, in countless chamber ensembles, orchestras, and choirs
across this country, or the thousands of students in our universities and
conservatories, studying to be classical musicians, or the high school
students and elementary school children learning to sing or play an
instrument.
I challenge you today, Mr. Lacroix and Mr. Stursberg, to look into
the eyes of all these faces, alive and deceased, and tell them that what
they have poured their life’s passion into is of marginal interest to this
country, and that their artistry is not really relevant to culture… at least
not the culture of Canada.
And then tell them to their faces that in place of the legacy of the
hundreds of thousands of compositions of the world’s composers of art
music past and present… 7 centuries of repertoire… you will instead be
promoting the 30,000 other “songs”.
Because that is what you are saying to all of us here and across the
country by transforming the CBC—Canada’s national treasure and
custodian and patron of the arts and culture on our airwaves— into a
Las Vegas of mere glitzy facades of art and culture built on a foundation of slick commercialism and promoted by the entertainment industry
you wish to benefit from.
We, gathered here today, will not let you do this to our CBC. We
will not shrink away, or quiet down, or passively sit by, as you implement these changes. We will be back again and again until we have a
CBC that can truly be a national flagship to the world representing the
whole fabric of our finest art and culture.
Ivars Taurins is the Director of the Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Principal
Baroque Conductor of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, and Lecturer
at the Faculty of Music,University of Toronto. He served as master of
ceremonies at the Toronto rally.
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CANADIAN MUSIC COMPETITIONS 37
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WHOLENOTE LISTINGS
SECTIONS 1-6: INTRODUCTION
LISTINGS: SECTION 1
CONCERTS: Toronto and GTA
Sunday June 01
— 12:00 noon: New Music Concerts/
WholeNote listings are arranged in SIX DISTINCT SECTIONS:
1) Toronto & GTA (Greater Toronto Area); 2) Beyond the GTA;
3) Opera and Music Theatre; 4) Jazz in Clubs; 5) Summer
Music Festivals; 6) Music-related events that are not concerts, a.k.a. “The EtCetera file”.
This issue contains listings from June 1 to July 7 in all sections.
SECTION 1: Toronto & GTA (page 32-41) covers all of the City
of Toronto plus the adjoining “905” area - more or less corresponding to the areas accessible from Toronto by phone without
long distance charges. Section 1 includes communities as far west
as Oakville, as far north as Aurora and as far east as Ajax.
In this issue Section 1 includes:
Markham, Mississauga, Thornhill, Toronto & GTA
SECTION 2: Beyond the GTA (page 41-42) covers all areas of
Ontario outside Toronto and GTA. The towns and cities vary
from month to month.
In this issue Section 2 includes:
Alliston, Aurora, Barrie, Brantford, Burlington, Caledon,
Cambridge, Cobourg, Guelph, Hamilton, Jackson’s Point,
Kingston, Kitchener, Newmarket, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Norfolk County, Orillia, Peterborough, Sharon, Sunderland,
Waterloo
SECTION 3: Opera and Music Theatre (page 42) summarizes
run details for opera and music theatre productions (including dance).
It offers a quick overview of what is happening in these genres.
SECTION 4: Jazz in Clubs (page 43-44) is organized alphabetically by club, and provides as much detail on what the clubs are
offering as we had at the time of publication, which varies greatly
from club to club. Phone numbers and website addresses are provided to facilitate access to more up-to-date information.
SECTION 5: Summer Music Festivals (page 44-45) is organized alphabetically and offers a short description of each festival, as
well as listings of festival concerts or else a reference to where to find
concert listings in our other listings sections.
SECTION 6: Announcements, Lectures/Symposia, Master
Classes…EtCetera (pages 46-47) is for music-related events and
activities, other than performances, which in our judgment will be
of interest to our readers.
A word of caution: a phone number is provided with every listing;
in fact, we won’t publish a listing without one. Concerts are sometimes cancelled or postponed; artists or even venues change after
the listings are published; or occasionally corrected information is
not sent to us in time. So please check before you go out to a
concert.
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. Please note, the next issue is a double issue
covering both July and August.
Listings can be sent by e-mail to [email protected] 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.
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soundaXis. A Portrait of Robin Minard –
Sounds on Paper. Five recent environmentalelectroacoustic works by Robin Minard,
including Nature Morte with video
components by artist Susan Meinhardt.
Gallery 345, 345 Sorauren Ave. 416-9619594. Free. Installation continues to June 15.
— 1:30: CAMMAC/McMichael Gallery.
Sunday Concerts - Taffanel Wind Ensemble.
McMichael Gallery, 10365 Islington Avenue,
Kleinburg. 905-893-1121/1-888-213-1121.
Free w gallery admission: $15; $12(sr/st).
— 1:30: Spadina Museum Historic
House and Gardens. Music in the Orchard:
Elspeth Poole Quintet. Works by Mozart and
Brahms. 285 Spadina Rd. 416-392-6910.
Free.
— 2:00: Civic Light Opera Company.
Kismet. Music by Alexander Borodin, adapted
by Robert Wright, lyrics by George Forrest.
With Joe Cascone, Elizabeth Morriss, J.P.
Gedeon, Stephanie Douglas & David Hines;
Keith Bohlender, music director. Fairview Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall Dr. 416-7551717. $25; $20. For complete run see music
theatre listings.
— 2:00: Music Gallery/soundaXis. Concrete Toronto Music. A musical tribute to
Toronto’s iconic concrete architecture. New
and improvised works. Carla Huhtanen, voice;
Wallace Halladay, saxophone; Sandro Perri,
electronics; Tony Dekker, guitar & voice;
Knurl; Smith & Wiernik. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills Rd. 416-204-1080. Free
with admission to OSC: $18; $13.50(sr/st).
Or $20; $15(sr/st) with bus from Music Gallery at 1:00.
— 2:00: Penthelia Singers. A Victorian
Salon. Works by Brahms, Schumann, Gilbert
and Sullivan & others. Emilie Lom, harp; Judith deHaney, accompanist; Alice Malach,
conductor. St. Lawrence Hall, 157 King St. E.
416-229-0094. $20; $15.
— 2:00: Toronto Jewish Folk Choir.
Celebration of Yiddish Music and the 60th
Anniversary of the Founding of Israel. Miriam
Eskin, soprano; Artour Razgoev, tenor; David
Weiss, baritone; Herman Rombouts, bass; Lina
Zemelman, piano; instrumental ensemble;
Alexander Veprinsky, conductor. Leah Posluns
Theatre, 4588 Bathurst St. 416-636-0936.
$23; $19(sr/st); free(12 & under).
— 2:00: DUO. Celebrating the new CD Reflective. Works by Mozart, Bach, Chopin, Corea. Margot Rydall, flute; Ivan Zilman, guitar.
Beach Hebrew Institute, 109 Kenilworth Ave.
416-463-1011. Free(donation).
— 2:30: Alchemy. An Hour of Chamber
Music. Beethoven: Violin Sonata Op. 12 #1;
Gershwin: Lullaby; Dvorak: “American” String
Quartet. Catherine Sulem, John Soloninka,
Julie Kerekes, violins; John Bailey, viola;
Emma Slack, cello; Luis Kaj, piano. Valleyview
Residence, 541 Finch Ave. W. 416-3980555. Free.
— 3:00: New School of Classical Vocal
Studies. Annual Spring Recital. Daniel Eby,
artistic director; Dona Jean Clary, accompa-
nist. Women’s Art Association, 23 Prince
Arthur Ave. 416-927-9800. $20.
— 3:30: Tees & Carver. In Recital. Works
by Mahler, Brahms, Finzi & Vaughan Williams.
Andrew Tees, baritone; Kate Carver, piano.
Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth
Ave. 416-846-6045. $20; $15.
— 4:00: Choir of Christ Church Deer
Park. Favourite Anthems and Canticles.
Works by Sumsion, Wesley, Hill, Weelkes,
Howells & others. Bruce Kirkpatrick Hill, director; Dermot Muir, assistant organist. 1570
Yonge St. 416-920-5211. $15.
— 4:00: Vivace Vox. Music of Andrew Lloyd
Webber. Christine Kim, accompanist; Linda
Eyman, director. Church of St. Leonard, 25
Wanless Ave. 416-455-9238. $12; $8(st/sr);
$25(family).
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— 4:30: New Music Arts Projects/soundaXis. Acoustic Gambol - Chamber Music for
Found Objects. Composers Minden & Hallett
combine waterphones, bowed saws, theremin,
toy piano, found-object percussion, voice. Music Gallery, 197 John St. 416-925-3457.
$20; $15(sr); $10(st/child).
— 7:30: Organix Concerts. Closing Gala
Performance. Works by Vierne, Byrd & Mawby. Rachel Laurin, organ; senior choir of St.
Michael’s Choir School; Jerzy Cichocki, conductor. St James’ Cathedral, 65 Church St.
416-241-9785. $25.
— 8:00: Les AMIS Concerts/soundaXis.
Cantus Ensemble of Zagreb. Works by Seletkovic, Sipus, Dedic, Detoni & Pepa. Berislav
Sipus, conductor. Guests: Lynn Kuo, violin;
Lauren Phillips, mezzo; Dennis Patrick, electronics; Joseph Macerollo, accordion. Glenn
Gould Studio, 250 Front St. W. 905-7737712. $25; $20(sr/st).
— 8:00: Small World Music. Strunz and
Farah, acoustic guitars. Enwave Theatre, 231
Queen’s Quay W. 416-973-4000. $40.
— 8:00: Small World Music. Zarbang- Persian Qawwali. 6-member Persian percussion
ensemble. Imperial Oil Auditorium, Ontario
Science Centre, 770 Don Mills Rd. 647-2194833. $25-$45.
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Monday June 02
— 12:15: Church of the Holy Trinity. Music Mondays Series. Works by Bruce Kulak.
Bruce Kulak, piano; Colin Maier, multi-instruments. 10 Trinity Square. 416-598-4521
x304. $5 suggested donation.
— 2:00: Sick Kids Foundation. A Child’s
Painting. Works by Beethoven, Schubert,
Brahms & Mendelssohn. Samantha Fan, violin;
Emily Fan, piano; string orchestra; Victor Cheung, conductor. Victoria Chapel, 91 Charles
Street West. 647-281-7671. $18; $12. All
proceeds to Sick Kids Foundation.
— 7:30: Koffler Centre. From Anatevka to a
Galaxy Far, Far Away. Excerpts from Fiddler
on the Roof, Star Wars & The Incredibles.
Rese’s Pieces Concert Band; Rese Kochberg,
conductor. 4588 Bathurst St. 416-636-1880.
$5; free(under 6).
— 8:00: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra.
Delightfully Baroque. Ann Monoyios, soprano;
Rufus Muller, tenor; Tafelmusik Chamber
Choir; Jeanne Lamon, music director. Trinity
St. Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St. W. 416-9646337. Free.
Tuesday June 03
— 1:00: St. James’ Cathedral. Music at
Midday. David Low, organ; Gaynor Jones,
mezzo. 65 Church St. 416-364-7865 Free.
Chamber Music of Croatia. Works by Horvat,
Josipovic, Dedic, Saban & Ruzdjak. Members
of the Cantus Ensemble. Richard Bradshaw
Amphitheatre, Four Seasons Centre for the
Performing Arts, 145 Queen Street W. 905773-7712. Free.
— 8:00: Arraymusic/soundaXis. Scratch 4:
Music in Motion. The virtual sound-world of
multi-disciplinary composer Zack Settel. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington Ave.
416-532-3019. $20; $15( arts & culture
workers, seniors and under-employed).
poets. Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles St.
West. 416-961-9495. $25, $15(sr), $5(st).
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New Music Concerts
8:00 pm Wed June 4
— 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Mini Wednesday Masterworks 3 - Oundjian
and Dindo. Bernstein: Candide Overture;
Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante for Cello and
Orchestra; Corigliano: Symphony #2 for String
Orchestra. Enrico Dindo, cello; Peter Oundjian,
conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St.
416-593-4828. $36-$123.
— 8:00: Via Salzburg. Clarity. Works by
Corelli, Mozart, Eister & Mendelssohn. Dennis James, glass armonica; Mayumi Seiler,
artistic director. Glenn Gould Studio, 250
Front St. W. 416-205-5555. $50; $45(sr),
$20(st. w ID).
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— 8:00: New Music Arts Projects/soundaXis. Transmission Confirmed. Boulez:
Dérive; Xenakis: Plekto; Murail: 13 couleurs
du soleil couchant; Aperghis: Quatre pieces
fébriles; Vivier: Paramirabo. Lori Freedman,
clarinet; Guy Pelletier, flutes; Clemens Merkel, violin; D’Arcy Gray, percussion; Brigitte
Poulin, piano. Music Gallery, 197 John St.
416-925-3457. $25; $20(sr); $15(st).
— 8:00: TSO. Thursday Masterworks 4 Oundjian and Dindo. See Jun 4.
— 12:00 noon to 10:30: Muhtadi International Drumming Festival. Drum Ensembles. Performers include Afro Pan; Toronto
All-Star, Silhouettes, Synphonix & Pan Fantasy; also solo acts. Queen’s Park North,
Queen’s Park Cresc. 416-504-3786. Free.
— 6:00: Waterfront Blues. Steve Strongman. Bandshell, Woodbine Park, corner of Coxwell Ave. & Lakeshore Blvd. E. 416-6982152. Free.
— 6:30: Luminato. Count Basie Orchestra,
Guests: Nikki Yanofsky, Maryem Tollar, vocalists; East Coast New World Orchestra. YongeDundas Square, 1 Dundas St. E. 416-8721111. Free.
— 7:00: Luminato. Richardson: Sanctuary
Song. Tapestry New Opera Works/Theatre
Direct. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley
St. 416-368-3110. $15-$25. For run details,
see music theatre listings.
— 7:30: Luminato. A Midsummer Night’s
Dream. Dash Arts Production. Canon Theatre,
244 Victoria St. 416-872-1111. $50-$70.
For run details, see music theatre listings.
— 7:30: Luminato. Mozart Dances. Mark
Morris Dance Group. MacMillan Theatre,
Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen’s Park.
Thursday June 05
— 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre Chamber Music Series – Music for a Summer’s Day. Works
by Alwyn, Villa-Lobos, Takemitsu and Damase.
Leslie Allt, flute; Winona Zelenka, cello; Erica
Goodman, harp. Four Seasons Centre for the
Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-363Wednesday June 04
8321. Free.
— 12:10: St. Paul’s Foundation for the
— 12:30: Yorkminster Park Baptist
Arts. Noon Hour Recital Series – Andre
Church. In Recital. William Maddox, organ.
Rakus, organ. St. Paul’s Bloor St., 227 Bloor
1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167. Free.
St. E. 416-961-8116 x251. Free.
— 5:30: The National Ballet of Canada.
— 12:15: Metropolitan United Church.
Choreographic Explorations—Part II. Four SeaNoon at the Met. Janet Obermeyer, soprano;
sons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen
Patricia Wright, organ. 56 Queen St. E. 416St. W. 416-363-8321. Free.
363-0331 x26. Free.
— 7:00: Civic Light Opera Company. Kis— 12:15: Music on the Hill. Music Theatre.
met. See June 1.
Tanya Turner, soprano; Renee Strasfeld, mez— 8:00: New Music Concerts/soundaXis.
zo; David Meyers, piano. St. John’s York Mills
Sound and Poetry in Motion. Minard: The Book
Anglican Church, 19 Don Ridge Dr. 416-225of Spaces. Robin Minard & Jaap Blonk, sound
6611. Free.
Via Salzburg presents
Thursday, June 5 and Friday, June 6, 2008, at 8:00 p.m.
Via Salzburg Chamber Orchestra with Dennis James, Glass Armonica player.
Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front Street West, Toronto
Tickets: $50 • Available at www.glenngouldstudio.com
Telephone: 416-205-5555 or at the Glenn Gould Studio Box Office
Series Sponsor:
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LISTINGS: SECTION 1
CONCERTS: Toronto and GTA
416-872-1111. $50-$70. For run details, see
music theatre listings.
— 7:30: Regeneration Housing and Support Service. All That Jazz. Works by Weill,
Martinu, Dwyer, Kagel & Gershwin. Andrew
Burashko, piano; Stephen Sitarski, violin; &
John Johnson, saxophone. Trinity St. Paul’s
United Church, 427 Bloor St. W. 416-7039645. $25.
— 8:00: Andrew Tees, baritone. An
Evening of Song. With Kate Carver, accompanist. Bloordale United Church. 4258 Bloor St.
W. 416- 622-5274/416-622-6309. $20;
$15(sr/st).
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All Day. See June 6.
— 12:30: Waterfront Blues. Gina Sicilia.
Bandshell, Woodbine Park, corner of Coxwell
Ave. & Lakeshore Blvd. E. 416-698-2152.
Free.
Song. See June 6.
— 1:00: Luminato. Scottish Music Festival.
The Barra MacNeils, Sierra Noble, Ashley
MacIsaac. Yonge-Dundas Square, 1 Dundas
St. E. 416-872-1111. Free.
— 1:00 & 8:00: Luminato. A Midsummer
Night’s Dream. See June 6.
— 1:30: Waterfront Blues. Erin McCallum.
Toronto Star Stage, Woodbine Park, corner of
Coxwell Ave. & Lakeshore Blvd. E. 416-6982152. Free.
— 2:00: Civic Light Opera Company. Kismet. Run continues. See music theatre listings.
— 2:30: North York Suzuki School of
Music. Year-End String Concert. Korean Presbyterian Church, 67 Scarsdale Rd. 416-2225315. Free.
— 3:00: Waterfront Blues. Fathead. Bandshell, Woodbine Park, corner of Coxwell Ave.
& Lakeshore Blvd. E. 416-698-2152. Free.
— 4:00: Waterfront Blues. Jake & the
Fundamentals. Toronto Star Stage, Woodbine
Park, corner of Coxwell Ave. & Lakeshore
Blvd. E. 416-698-2152. Free.
— 4:00 & 9:00: Luminato. Rouse: Dennis
Cleveland. Toronto Film School Studio, Studio
887, 39 John St. 416-872-1111. $35.
— 5:30: Waterfront Blues. Sharrie Williams. Bandshell, Woodbine Park, corner of
Coxwell Ave. & Lakeshore Blvd. E. 416-6982152. Free.
— 6:00: Somewhere There/soundaXis.
Mystery Concert. Kyle Brenders. 340 Dufferin
St. 416-925-3457. $6.
— 7:00: St. Andrew’s Presbyterian
Church. Handbell Concert. Original works,
hymns, popular tunes. Bells of St. Andrew’s;
Chimes of St. Andrew’s; St. Andrew’s Vocal
Choir; Quintessence Handbell Ensemble; Handbell artists heather & David Keith. 115 St.
Andrews Rd. 416-438-4100. $10: $5(sr/st).
— 7:30: Bohemian Rhapsody. Music for
Minstrels, Dancers & Dreamers. Debussy:
Violin Sonata; Doppler: Andante & Rondo arr.
for flute and violin; Dvorak: Romance for Violin
& Piano Op.11; Glick: Flute Sonata; Hue: Fantaisie for Flute. Phoebe Tsang, violin; Christopher Lee, flute; George Brough, Adam Sherkin,
piano. Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave. 416731-3599. $20; $15(sr/st). $15; $10(adv).
Casual Concert – Celebrating Jacques Israelievitch. Bach: Concerto for Two Violins; KellyMarie Murphy: Concerto for Two Violins and
Percussion (world premiere); Tchaikovsky:
Violin Concerto. Jacques Israelievitch & Mark
Skazinetsky, violin, Michael Israelievitch, percussion; Peter Oundjian, conductor. George
Weston Recital Hall, Toronto Centre for the
Arts, 5040 Yonge St. 416-593-4828.
$28.50-$80.
— 8:00: Acoustic Harvest Folk Club. John
Finley and The Checkmates. St. Nicholas Anglican Church, 1512 Kingston Rd. 416-2642235. $15.
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— 8:00: Penderecki String Quartet and
New Music Arts Projects/soundaXis.
Intra/Introspections: Piacentini & Gentile.
Cage: A Flower & The Beautiful Widow of 18
Springs; Piacentini: For Four (Part IV); Penderecki: String Quartet No.2; Gentile: La giornata di Betty Boop, Quartetto I & Quartetto 3; &
other works. Guests: Duo Alterno. Music Gallery, 197 John St. 416-925-3457. $25;
$15(sr/st).
— 8:00: Voices. An Enlightening Journey.
Works by Palestrina, Brahms, Willan, Daley,
Bissell, Anderson & Teehan. John Stephenson,
organ; Ron Ka Ming Cheung, conductor. St.
Thomas’ Church, 383 Huron St. 416-5190528. $20; $15(sr/st).
— 8:00: Waterfront Blues. Duke Robillard.
Free.
— 8:00: New Music Arts Projects/soundaXis. The 11th Finger – Jenny Lin in Recital.
Nordschow: Detail of Beethoven’s Hair; Vivier:
Shiraz; Kampela: Nosturnos; Tenney: Chromatic Canon for piano and tape; Maguire: A Short
History of Lounge. Jenny Lin, piano. Music
Gallery, 197 John St. 416-925-3457. $25;
$20(sr); $15(st).
— 8:00: Performing Arts York Region.
Young Artists’ Concert. Finalists from this
year’s Founders Scholarship. Thornhill Presbyterian Church, 271 Centre St., Thornhill. 905707-8859. $10-$25.
— 8:00: Roy Thomson Hall. Mohammad
Reza Shajarian and Ava Ensemble. Persian
classical song. 60 Simcoe St. 416-872-4255.
$49.50-$69.50.
— 8:00: Via Salzburg. Clarity. See June 5.
— 8:00: Waterfront Blues. Root Doctor.
Free.
Sunday June 08
Saturday June 07
— 11:00am & 2:00: Solar Stage Children’s Theatre. The Pied Piper. A musical
version of the traditional story. 100 Upper
Madison Ave. 416-368-8031. $13. For complete run see music theatre listings.
— 12:00 noon: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra. Musical Interlude. A casual noonhour concert of Baroque chamber music.
Jeanne Lamon, music director. Walter Hall, U
of T Faculty of Music, 80 Queen’s Park . 416964-6337. Free.
— 12:00 noon: Muhtadi International
Drumming Festival. Drum Performances
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— 8:00: Jubilate Singers. African and African-inspired music. Guest: North 44oChamber
Choir; Geoffrey Butler, music director. Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth Ave.
416-385-1502. $20; $15(sr/st).
— 8:00: Luminato. Mozart Dances. See June
6.
— 8:00: North York Concert Orchestra.
Subscription Concert 4. Rossini: Overture to
The Barber of Seville; Grieg: Piano Concerto in
a Op.16; R.Strauss: Orchestral Suite from Der
Rosenkavalier. Su Jeon, piano; David Bowser,
conductor. Grace Church on-the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale Rd. 416-628-9195. $20; $15(sr/st).
— 11:00am, 1:00 & 3:00: North York Suzuki School of Music. Year-End Piano Concerts. North York Central Library Auditorium,
5120 Yonge St. 416-222-5315. Free.
— 12:00 noon: Waterfront Blues. Son Roberts Band. Toronto Star Stage, Woodbine Park,
corner of Coxwell Ave. & Lakeshore Blvd. E.
416-698-2152. Free.
— 12:00 noon to 7:00: New Music Arts
Projects/soundaXis. soundaXis in the
Street. New music as part of Pedestrian Sunday at Mirvish Village. Performers include
Nilan Perera, Ayal Senior, Aiyn Sof, Allison
Cameron Band, Don Scott Quartet, Kingdom
Shore, Sandro Perri, Grant Hart (Hüsker Dü)
and Basement Arms. Markham Street. 416925-3457. Free.
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— 1:00: Waterfront Blues. Paul Reddick
& the Sidemen. Bandshell, Woodbine
Blvd. E. 416-698-2152. Free.
— 1:30: Spadina Museum Historic House
and Gardens. Music in the Orchard: Taffanel
Wind Trio. 285 Spadina Rd. 416-392-6910.
Free.
— 2:00: Choralairs of North York. 45th
Closing Concert. Broadway, pop & folk songs.
Social Hall, Earl Bales Park Community Centre, 4169 Bathurst St. 416 631 0029. Free.
— 2:00: Luminato. Mozart Dances. See June
6.
Song. Run continues. See music theatre listings.
— 2:00: ROM. Sunday Concert - Toronto Sinfonietta. Polish program. 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.
— 2:30: Toronto Early Music Centre.
Musically Speaking. Music by Biber. Elena
Spanu, violin, viola d’amore; Thomas Georgi,
viola d’amore. Church of the Holy Trinity, 10
Trinity Square. 416-920-5025. Admission by
donation.
— 2:30: Waterfront Blues. Johnny Max
Band. Toronto Star Stage, Woodbine Park,
corner of Coxwell Ave. & Lakeshore Blvd. E.
416-698-2152. Free.
— 3:00: North York Concert Band. Concert for the Ages. Rich: Channel One Suite;
Hazo: Rush; Maltby: Jazz Waltz; Copland:
Stomp Your Foot; & other works. John Edward Liddle, conductor; guests: The Yorkminstrels Show Choir; Cathy Whiteside, conductor. Lawrence Park Collegiate Auditorium,
125 Chatsworth Dr. 416-470-0272. $15;
free(under 12).
— 3:00: Hart House. Spring Sunday Concert.
Laura Klassen, soprano; David Roth, baritone;
Zhenya Yesmanovich, accompanist; Emese
Virag, piano. 7 Hart House Circle. 416-9782542. Free.
Music by Hungarian Composers. Works by
Hollos, Togobitsky, Vajda, Kurtag & Catlin
Smith. Emese Virag, piano. Hart House, 7
Hart House Circle. 905-773-7712. Free.
Three at the Weston – Celebrating Jacques
Israelievitch. See Jun 7.
— 3:30: Toronto Early Music Centre.
Pastime With Good Company Viola da Gamba
Salon. Informal concert by members of the
Toronto viola da gamba community. Church of
St. Mary Magdalene, 477 Manning Ave. 416760-8610. Free (donations appreciated).
— 4:00: Luminato. A Midsummer Night’s
Dream. Run continues. See music theatre
listings.
— 4:00: Waterfront Blues. Watermelon
Slim & the Workers. Bandshell, Woodbine
Blvd. E. 416-698-2152. Free.
— 4:30: Christ Church Deer Park. Jazz
Vespers. Jim Galloway, saxophone; Ian Bargh,
piano. 1570 Yonge St. 416-920-5211. Free
(donations welcome).
— 7:00: Luminato. Rouse: Dennis Cleveland.
See June 7
— 7:30: Victoria Scholars. Cantemus, An
International Choral Tapestry. Works by
Bédard, Debussy, Glick, Lauridsen, Puccini,
Raminsh, Rossini, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky
& Vaughan Williams. Guest: David HetherJ UNE 1 - J ULY 7 2008
ington, cello. Our Lady of Sorrows
Church, 3055 Bloor St. W. 416-761-7776.
$25; $20(sr/st).
— 8:00 Continuum Contemporary Music/
soundaXis. INform. Works by Gervais, Magnanensi, Rizzuto, Sciarrino, Tenney. Marion
Newman, mezzo-soprano; Continuum Ensemble; Gregory Oh, conductor. Music Gallery,
197 John St. 416-924-4945. $5-$25.
Monday June 09
— 12:15: Church of the Holy Trinity. Music Mondays Series. Beethoven: Gassenhauer
Trio; Mozart: Kegelstatt Trio; Jacob:Trio. Trio
Bravo ( Terry Storr, clarinet; Baird Knechtel,
viola; John Selleck, piano). 10 Trinity Square.
416-598-4521 x304. $5 suggested donation.
— 7:00: Riverdale Youth Singers. Drumbeat. Choral music with percussion. Special
guests: Rodrigo Chavez & Brenda Joy Lem,
percussion; Ryan Slashinsky, artistic director.
St. John’s Presbyterian Church, 415 Broadview Ave. 416-875-1587. Free.
— 7:30: Associates of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Symphonic Masterworks
for a Very Small Orchestra. Mozart: Jupiter
Symphony arr. for Chamber Quartet; Martinu:
Trio for Flute, Cello & Piano; Dvorak: Slavonic
Dances, Op.46, selections. Hyung Sun Paik,
violin; Julie Ranti, flute; William Findlay, cello;
Bo Yon Koh, piano. Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre,
427 Bloor St W. 416-485-2717. $18;
$15(sr/st). See advertisement, next page.
— 7:30: Luminato. Color …For the End of
Time. Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time.
Gryphon Trio. Guest: James Campbell, clarinet. Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles Street
W. 416-872-1111. $25-$35.
— 7:30: Luminato. The Canadian Songbook.
Massey Hall, 15 Shuter Street. 416-8721111. $40-$60.
— 8:00: Beaches Presbyterian Church.
Hymns from the Rig Veda. Works by Holst,
Debussy, Ibert & Shankar. Lori Gemmell, harp;
Camille Watts, flute; Etsuko Kimura, violin;
Orly Bitov, cello; Kathleen Kajioka, viola. 65
Glenmanor Dr. 416-699-5871. $25; $10(st).
Proceeds to Refugee Fund.
Tuesday June 10
— 12:00 noon: RCM World Music Centre/
Canadian Opera Company. Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre World Series – Traditional Chinese Instruments. Anna Guo, yangqin;
Samuel Hong, yangqin and erhu; Ting Hong,
guzheng; Wendy Wen Zhao, pipa; Fred Wang,
dizi. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing
Arts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8321. Free.
— 1:00: St. James’ Cathedral. Music at
Midday. Andrew Ager, organ. 65 Church St.
416-241-9785. Free.
— 7:30: Luminato. Rouse: The End of Cinematics. Bluma Appel Theatre. St. Lawerence
Centre for the Arts, 27 Front Street E. 416872-1111. $25-$45. For run details, see music theatre listings.
— 8:00: Canadian Contemporary Music
Workshop/soundaXis. Foundation & Future:
25th anniversary of the CCMW. Works by
Southam, Dolin, Kulesha, Brubacher, Caravassilis & others. Composers Orchestra; Gary
Kulesha, conductor. St. Thomas’ Anglican
Church, 383 Huron St. 416-925-3457. $20;
($10(sr/st).
— 8:00: Luminato. All Fours/Violet Cavern.
Mark Morris Dance Group. MacMillan
Theatre, Edward Johnson Building, 80
Queen’s Park. 416-872-1111. $50-$70.
INform
soundaXis festival
Sunday, June 8, 8 pm
Music Gallery
197 John Street
The form and fabric of new music
Works by
Giorgio Magnanensi
Matthew Rizzuto
Aaron Gervais (World Premiere)
Justin Christensen (World Premiere)
James Tenney
Continuum Ensemble with Marion Newman
(mezzo) and Greg Oh (conductor)
$25 adults/$15 seniors & arts workers/$5 students
416.924.4945
www.continuummusic.org
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... 1: CONCERTS: Toronto and GTA
Wednesday June 11
Associates of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra
— 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company/
Kir Stefan. Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre
Series- Sacred Orthodox Chant. Kir Stefan
Serb Choir of St. Sava Serbian Orthodox
Church; Jasmina Vucurovic, conductor. Four
Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145
Queen St. W. 416-363-8321. Free.
— 12:30: Yorkminster Park Baptist
Church. In Recital. Andrei Streliaev, organ.
1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167. Free.
Summer Institute Orchestra & Choir. A concert featuring the Institute participants. Walter Hall, U of T Faculty of Music, 80 Queen’s
Park. 416-964-6337. Free.
— 7:00: musicworks and Electronic Music Foundation/soundaXis. Cage-Fest.
Cage: Birdcage; HPSHD. Performers include
Eve Egoyan, Marc Couroux, Bob Doidge, Tania
Gill, Gayle Young, & others. Ontario College of
Art & Design, 100 McCaul St. 416-9773546. $20.
— 7:30: Luminato. Rouse: The End of Cinematics. See June 10.
— 8:00: Luminato. All Fours/Violet Cavern.
See June 10.
Wednesday Masterworks 4 - Russian/American Festival - Thibaudet Plays Gershwin. Shostakovich: Tahiti Trot (variations on Tea for
Two); Gershwin: Piano Concerto; Prokofiev:
Romeo and Juliet (selections). Jean-Yves
Thibaudet, piano; Peter Oundjian, conductor.
Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-5934828. $36-$123.
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— 8:30: Small World Music/DB Works.
Odessa/Havana. 6-member Jewish/Cuban/
Jazz fusion ensemble directed by David Buchbinder. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas St. W. 416588-0307. $18; $15(adv).
Thursday June 12
— 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre Jazz Series
– The Bolling Suite. Chris Donnelly Trio; Leslie
Allt, flutes. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-3638321. Free.
Symphonic Masterworks for a
Very Small Orchestra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: “Jupiter” Symphony
arr. J. Hummel for Chamber Quartet
Bohuslav Martinu: Trio for Flute, Cello & Piano
Antonin Dvorak: Selections from Slavonic Dances
Op. 46
Hyung Sun Paik
Julie Ranti
William Findlay
Bo Yon Koh
Violin
Flute
Cello
Piano
Arts. Noon Hour Recital Series – Eric
Robertson, organ. St. Paul’s Bloor St.,
227 Bloor St. E. 416-961-8116 x251. Free.
— 12:15: Music on the Hill. Klezmer and
Jazz. Brian Katz, guitar; Jonno Lightstone,
clarinet/flute. St. John’s York Mills Anglican
Church, 19 Don Ridge Dr. 416-225-6611.
Free.
— 2:00: Northern District Library. An
Afternoon of Song with Triolette. Vocal duets
including classical pieces, folk songs, musical
theatre. Pat Agnew, soprano; Sheila McCoy,
mezzo-soprano; Laraine Herzog, pianist. 40
Orchardview Blvd. 416-393-7619. Free.
— 2:00:Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Matinee Masterworks - Russian/American
Festival - Thibaudet Plays Gershwin. Roy
Thomson Hall. See Jun 11. $28-$75.
— 7:30: Luminato. Rouse: The End of Cinematics. See June 10.
— 8:00: Luminato. Nunavut: Kronos Quartet.
Works by Saariaho, Charke, Sigur Rós, Xploding Plastix, Hurdy-Gurdy. Guest: Tanya Tagaq,
vocalist. Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles St
W. 416-872-1111. $40-$50.
Friday June 13
— 7:00: Luminato. Rouse: Failing Kansas.
Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst St. 416-8721111. $35. For run details, see music theatre
listings.
— 7:30: Church of the Messiah. In Recital.
An evening of song, piano improv & traditional
east coast music. Heather Taves, piano; Meredith Hall, soprano; Clara Hilts, spoken word.
240 Avenue Rd. 416- 922-4371. Free.
— 7:30: Luminato. Fiddle and the Drum/
Etudes/The Second Detail. Alberta Ballet,
National Ballet of Canada. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W.
416-872-1111. $20-$200. Run continues.
See music theatre listings.
— 7:30: Luminato/Harbourfront Centre.
Luminat’eau Carnival H2O: Kiran Ahluwalia.
Classical Indian vocalist. Sirius Satellite Radio
Stage, 235 Queen’s Quay W. 416-973-4000.
Free.
— 7:30: Oriole-York Mills United
Church. Summer Impressions. Works by
Debussy, and songs of summer. Derrick
Lewis, piano, Meri Dolevski, clarinet. 2609
Bayview Avenue. 647-238-2921. $15; $10
(sr/st); $512 and under).
— 8:00: Luminato. Nunavut: Kronos Quartet.
See June 12.
— 8:00: The Gala String Quartet and
Whiskey Jack. Bach in the Saddle. Works by
Bach, Dvorak & Mozart; also bluegrass &
gospel repertoire. Eastminster United Church,
310 Danforth Ave. 416-465-7443. $15.
Luminat’eau Carnival H2O: Rizwan-Muazzam
Qawwali. Sufi devotional music from Pakistan. Sirius Satellite Radio Stage, 235
Queen’s Quay W. 416-973-4000. Free.
— 9:30: Luminato. Nitin Sawhney: A Throw
of Dice. Members of the Toronto Symphony
Orchestra. The Molson Amphitheatre, 909
Lakeshore Blvd. W. 416-872-1111. $20.
— 11:00pm: Luminato/Harbourfront Centre. Luminat’eau Carnival H2O: DJ Rehka’s
Basement Bhangra. Popular music from South
Asia. Brigantine Room, 235 Queen’s Quay W.
416-973-4000. Free.
Saturday June 14
— 11:00am: Luminato/Harbourfront Centre. Luminat’eau Carnival H2O: States of
H2Orchestra. Water-based instruments by
Steve Mann. Natrel Pond. 235 Queen’s Quay
W. 416-973-4000. Free.
Luminat’eau Carnival H2O: The Harp of Fire.
Talisker Players Chamber Ensemble; guest
vocalists: Zorana Sadiq and Krisztina Szabó.
Neptune’s Cove. 235 Queen’s Quay W. 416973-4000. Free.
Luminat’eau Carnival H2O: Zari. Vocal group
of Georgian/Black Sea roots. Toronto Star
Free.
— 3:00 & 8:00: Singing Studio. A Feast of
Show Tunes. Solos, duets & ensembles from
Broadway musicals, old & new. Deborah
Staiman, producer/director. George Ignatieff
Theatre, 15 Devonshire Pl. 416-483-9532.
$20.
Luminat’eau Carnival H2O: The Shuffle De-
Brass
Treats
Tasty Tunes from
Saturday, June 14
8:00 pm
St. Thomas Anglican
383 Huron Street
Tix $12/Students $10
brassconspiracy.com
Monday June 9, 2008 7:30 pm
Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre
427 Bloor St. West (Bloor/Spadina)
Tickets $18 / $15 seniors/students
Call 416-485-2717
www.associates-tso.org
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mons. Toronto-based jazz trio. Natrel Pond.
235 Queen’s Quay W. 416-973-4000. Free.
Luminat’eau Carnival H2O: Karibeatz. Music
from the West Indies. Toronto Star Stage,
— 5:00: Toronto Masque Theatre. Masque
of the Inner Temple and Gray’s Inn. A recreation of the festivities celebrating the marriage
of Princess Elizabeth to Frederick V in 1613
through music, dance and video projections.
Music by Coperario. Peter Cockett, Larry
Beckwith, Marie Lacoursiere, artistic directors. Hart House Theatre, 1 Hart House Circle. 416-978-8849. $25; $15(st).
— 6:00: Luminato. Liebeslieder Waltzes/
Grand Duo. Mark Morris Dance Group. MacMillan Theatre, Edward Johnson Building, 80
Queen’s Park. 416-872-1111. $50-$70.
Luminat’eau Carnival H2O: Lady Son. Salsa/
Cuban. Neptune’s Cove, 235 Queen’s Quay W.
416-973-4000. Free.
— 7:00: Church of St. Columba and All
Hallows. Classics at St. Columba.
Beethoven: Spring Sonata; Bach: arias; & gospel. Juha Tikkanen, organ; Bernie Dolan, violin;
Serena Kemball, soprano. Fundraising concert
for Anglican Charity “Faithworks” 2723 St.
Clair Ave. E. 416-755-0301. $10.
Luminat’eau Carnival H2O: Dan Zanes.
Sea Shanties. Toronto Star Stage. 235
— 7:00: Toronto Danish Choir. Summer of
Seduction. A celebration of the season with
Danish summer songs, gospel hymns & art
songs. Brigitte Bogar, conductor. Danish Lutheran Church, 72 Finch Ave. W. 416- 2700333 $10.
— 7:30: Canadian Music Competition.
Benefit Gala Concert. Catherine Manoukian,
violin; David Jalbert, piano. Proceeds to benefit the CMC scholarship fund. Glenn Gould
Studio, 250 Front Street West. 416-2055555/416-787-6647. $45(general seating);
$100(sponsorship reserved).
The Grand Finale. A concert featuring the combined forces of the TBSI Orchestra, the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, the TBSI Choir &
the Tafelmusik Chamber Choir. Grace Church
on-the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale Rd. 416- 964-6337.
Free.
— 8:00: Brass Conspiracy. Brass Treats.
Light classics and pop treats for brass. Andrew Chung, music director. St. Thomas’
Church, 383 Huron St. 416-953-2176. $12;
$10.
Luminat’eau Carnival H2O: David Rudder.
Calypso music. Sirius Satellite Radio Stage,
Saturday Masterworks 1 – Russian/American
Festival - Thibaudet Plays Gershwin. See June
11.
— 9:00: Luminato. Homeland. Laurie Anderson. The Music Hall, 147 Danforth Ave. 416872-1111. $40-$50.
Luminat’eau Carnival H2O: Junior Reid. Reggae/dancehall. Sirius Satellite Radio Stage,
— 10:00pm: Luminato. Rouse: Failing Kansas. See June 13.
150th
BIRTHDAY CONCERT
Sunday June 15
— 1:30: CAMMAC/McMichael Gallery.
Sunday Concerts – Triolette. McMichael Gallery, 10365 Islington Avenue, Kleinburg. 905893-1121 / 1-888-213-1121. Free w gallery
admission: $15; $12(sr/st).
Luminat’eau Carnival H2O: States of
H2Orchestra. See June 14.
— 1:30: Spadina Museum Historic House
and Gardens. Music in the Orchard: VentElation Wind Octet. 285 Spadina Rd. 416-3926910. Free.
— 2:00: Contact Contemporary Music
and Royal Ontario Museum/soundaXis.
Cage: Fontana Mix; Eno: Discreet Music, &
new works by Young, Herriot & Nobles.
Guests: Ian Burse & Laura Kavanaugh, multimedia artists; People in Glass Houses. 100
Queen’s Park. 416-925-3457. Free with admission to ROM.
Luminat’eau Carnival H2O: Cheri Maracle.
Indie/acoustic/folk-rock. Sirius Satellite Radio
Free.
— 4:00: Luminato. Rouse: Failing Kansas.
See June 13.
Luminat’eau Carnival H2O: Batucada Carioca.
Brazilian drum music. Neptune’s Cove, 235
Luminat’eau Carnival H2O: Hot 8 Brass Band.
New Orleans jazz/funk. Sirius Satellite Radio
Free.
Monday
June 16 at 7:30 pm
Tuesday June 17
— 7:30: Thornhill Community Band. In
Concert. Popular music and show tunes. Mel
Lastman Square, 5100 Yonge St. 416-2237152.
— 7:30: Toronto Children’s Chorus. In
Concert. Guests: Phoenix Girls’ Chorus. Calvin
Presbyterian Church, 26 Delisle Ave. 416932-8666 x231. $20; $15(sr/st).
— 8:00: Festival Wind Orchestra. Summertime Pops. Gershwin: Embraceable You,
Someone to Watch Over Me, & selections
from Porgy and Bess. Fairview Library Theatre,
25 Fairview Mall Dr. 416-491-1683. $15.
— 8:00: Harbourfront Centre. Billy Bragg.
UK-based singer-songwriter. Sirius Satellite
Radio Stage, 235 Queen’s Quay W. $35;
$30(advance).
Pops Tuesdays - Last Night of the Proms. Rule
Britannia, Jerusalem, Land of Hope and Glory
& more; sing-along. Bramwell Tovey, conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416593-4828. $33-$98.
Wednesday June 18
— 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company/
Jeng Yi Korean Drumming Ensemble.
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre World Series
– Rain, Winds, Clouds, and Lightning. Jeng Yi
Korean Drumming Ensemble; Charles Hong,
Monday June 16
artistic director. Four Seasons Centre for the
— 12:15: Church of the Holy Trinity. Mu- Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-363sic Mondays Series. Vitier: Contradanza Festi- 8321. Free.
va; Lecuona: Gitanerias fr. Andalucia Suite; & — 12:30: Yorkminster Park Baptist
other works. Glenda del Monte Escalante,
Church. In Recital. Nicholas Schmelter, organ.
piano. 10 Trinity Square. 416-598-4521
1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167. Free.
x304. $5 suggested donation.
— 12:30: Yonge-Dundas Square. Sere— 7:30: Canadian Opera Company Ennades in the Square - Flat Fifth. Nova Scotian
semble Studio. Gazzaniga: Don Giovanni;
pop/folk band. 416-979-9960. Free.
Stravinsky: Renard. Adam Luthier, tenor; Lisa — 2:00 & 8:00: Toronto Symphony OrDiMaria,Yannick-Muriel Noah & Betty Allichestra. Pops Wednesday - Last Night of the
son, sopranos; Melinda Delorme, mezzo-soProms. Roy Thomson Hall. See Jun 17. $27prano; & other artists. Imperial Oil Opera
$67 (2pm); $33-$98(8pm).
Theatre, 227 Front St. E. 416-363-6671. For — 7:00: Twilight Concerts in the Park.
run details, see music theatre listings.
Etobicoke Community Concert Band. Apple— 7:30: Eugene Ysaye 150th Birthday
wood Homestead, 450 The West Mall. 416Concert. A tribute to the Belgian violinist622-4124. Free.
composer. Jacques Israelievitch, Paul Meyer, — 7:30: Canadian Opera Company Enviolins; young artists Amir Safavi, Jamie
semble Studio. Gazzaniga: Don Giovanni;
Kruspe; guest: Makoto Tani, koto. Heliconian Stravinsky: Renard. See June 16.
Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave. 416-694- 8520.
— 8:00: Fiddles & Frets Music and The
Free.
Flying Cloud Folk Club: Pierre Schryer in a
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... 1: CONCERTS: Toronto and GTA
CD Release Concert. Folk and traditional
music. Birchcliff Bluffs United Church, 33
East Rd. 416-264-2235. $20.
Friday June 20
— 12:00 noon: TD Canada Trust Toronto
Jazz Festival. Gary Morgan & PanAmericaThursday June 19
na. Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen St. W.
416-928-2033. Free.
Arts. Noon Hour Recital Series – Joanne Rich- — 3:00: TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz
ards Clark, organ. St. Paul’s Bloor St., 227
Festival. Gary Morgan – Big Band Latin
Bloor St. E. 416-961-8116 x251. Free.
Jazz. Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen St.
— 12:15: Music on the Hill. Music for Mus- W. 416-928-2033. Free
es. Works by Fauré, Berlioz, Gounod & Pou— 5:00: TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz
lenc. Kristine Danavino, soprano; Joanne
Festival. Félix Stüssi & Give Me Five. NathAverill-Rocha, flute; Marianne Turner, piano.
an Phillips Square, 100 Queen St. W. 416St. John’s York Mills Anglican Church, 19 Don 928-2033. Free.
Ridge Dr. 416-225-6611. Free.
— 6:00: TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz
— 12:30: TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival. Ray Walsh. Nathan Phillips Square,
Festival. Reggae Cowboys. Metro Square,
100 Queen St. W. 416-928-2033. Free.
225 King St. W. 416-928-2033. Free.
— 7:00pm to 11:00pm: Markham Village
— 2:00: Northern District Library. In Re- Festival. Artists include Angel Choir of Tocital. Students of Lawrence Pitchko. 40 Orronto, Too Drunk to Fish, Brian Rose and the
chardview Blvd. 416-393-7619. Free.
Little Big Band, Family Quarles, Gypsygrass,
— 7:30: St. James’ Cathedral. Midsum& others. Main Stage, North Stage, South
mer’s Ease – 1. Works by Bach, including
Stage, Robinson Stage. Markham. 905-472Concerto for Oboe and Violin; aria “Erbarme
2022. Free.
Dich”; & Brandenburg Concerto No. 6. An— 7:30: Canadian Opera Company Endrew Ager, organ; Vicki Hathaway, oboe; Dan- semble Studio. Gazzaniga: Don Giovanni;
iel Kushner, violin/viola; Elizabeth Morris, vio- Stravinsky: Renard. Run continues. See music
la; Elaine Robertson, mezzo. 65 Church St.
theatre listings.
416-364-7865 x224. Free(donation request— 7:30: St. James’ Cathedral. Midsumed).
mer’s Ease – 2. Bach: Cello Suite No. 5; Or— 8:00: Ensemble Polaris. Very Many
chestral Suite (quartet version); Ager: ChamStrings Attached. Marco Cera, guitar;
ber Symphony (premiere); Mozart: Horn ConKirk Elliott, violin, harp, accordion, bagpipes,
certo No. 3; Cimarosa: Concerto for Flute and
psaltery; Margaret Gay, cello; Ben Grossman, Oboe in G Major. Andrew Ager, organ; Daniel
hurdy gurdy; Katherine Hill, voice, nyckelharpa; Kushner, violin; George Meanwell, cello; Eliza& other artists. Church of St. George the Mar- beth Morris, viola; Allan Pulker, flute; Karen
tyr, 197 John St. 416-588-4301. $20 (reAges, oboe; & others. 65 Church St. 416-364duced for students, seniors & unwaged).
7865 x224. Free(donation requested).
— 8:00: MNjcc Jazz at the J. Ron Davis
— 8:00: Art of Time Ensemble. The SongSextet. Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina Ave.
book II. Popular songs reinvented and performed
416-924-6211 x0. $28; $24(adv); $15(st).
by Steven Page. Andrew Burashko, artistic direc— 8:00: TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz
tor & piano; Phil Dwyer, saxophone; Rob Piltch,
Festival. Al Green plus Dione Taylor. Sony
guitar; Steven Sitarski, violin. Enwave Theatre,
Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Yonge St.
Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queen’s Quay
416-928-2033. $32.50-$82.50.
West. 416-973-4000. $36.
— 8:00: CBC Radio’s Canada Live. Nation
Interrupted. A celebration of the culture of
Canada’s indigenous peoples. Nadjiwan, Jani
Lauzon, Morning Star River, Sucalejani Ensemble; MC Wabs Whitebird & Digging Roots.
Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St. W. 416205-5555. $20; $15(sr); $10(st & persons
with status cards).
Festival. Dr. John plus The Wild Magnolias.
Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen St. W.
416-928-2033. $40.
Saturday June 21
— 10:00am to 5:00pm: Markham Village
Festival. Artists include Pulse Danceworks,
Markham Concert Band, Kick up a Fuss Cloggers, Memories Unplugged, Not Affiliated Big
Band. Main Stage, North Stage, South Stage,
Robinson Stage & Carlaw Stage, Markham.
905-472-2022. Free.
Festival. Jeff Healey’s Jazz Wizards. Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen St. W. 416928-2033. Free.
Festival. John Norris. Nathan Phillips
Square, 100 Queen St. W. 416-928-2033.
Free.
Festival. Talkback Series: Danny Marks.
416-928-2033. Free.
— 3:15: Markham Village Festival. John
Stewart Band. South Stage, Main St.
Markham. 905-472-2022. Free.
— 3:30: Harbourfront Centre. Franco-Fête:
Guitarist Louis-Philippe Robillard. Toronto Star
Free.
— 4:00: Markham Village Festival. Gypsygrass. North Stage, Main St. Markham.
905-472-2022. Free.
— 4:00: Markham Village Festival.
Markham Jazz Festival All-Stars. Robinson
Stage, Robinson St. Markham. 905-472-
Elgar, Sea Pictures
Virginia Gallop Evoy
Mezzo Soprano
Gianmarco Segato
Baritone
Melodic Voices presents An Evening of Songs
A potpourri of classics from Bellini, Bizet, Mozart,
Puccini, Tchaikovsky and many more
Maestro Vaguif Kerimov, tenor
Also featuring sopranos
Barbara Goldman, Christine Chan and Tatiana Kapelush,
with Afa Kerimova, pianist
Saturday, June 21 at 7:30 pm
Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave. at Yorkville
Tickets: $25 (416) 429-2386
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Lusine Saribekyan &
Jennifer Yu, piano
Julian Fisher, viola
works by Brahms, de Falla,
Strauss, Saint-Saëns & Fauré
Heliconian Hall
35 Hazelton Ave.
Tickets $20/$15 Seniors & Students
[email protected] (416) 421-8518
2022. Free.
Festival. Steve Koven’s Project Rex. Nathan
Phillips Square, 100 Queen St. W. 416-9282033. Free.
Singer-songwriter Andrea Lindsay. Sirius Satellite Radio Stage, 235 Queen’s Quay W. 416973-4000. Free.
Swamperella. Authentic Cajun music. Toronto
Star Stage, 235 Queen’s Quay W. 416-9734000. Free.
— 7:30: Raag-Mala Music Society of Toronto. Local Talent Showcase. Medical Sciences Auditorium, 1 Kings College Circle, University of Toronto. 416-417-6739. $20; $15.
— 7:30: Melodic Voices. Romantic June.
Works by Bellini, Bizet, Mozart, Puccini,
Tchaikovsky & others. Barbara Goldman,
Christine Chan, Tatiana Kapelush, sopranos;
Vaguif Kerimov, tenor & artistic director; Afa
Kerimova, pianist. Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave. 416-429-2386. $25.
— 7:30: St. James’ Cathedral. Midsummer’s Ease – 3. Vaughan Williams: The Lark
Ascending; Mozart: Bassoon Concerto; Bach:
Trio Sonata with violin, flute, and bassoon.
Andrew Ager, organ; Daniel Kushner, violin;
Allan Pulker, flute; Andrej Golejas, bassoon.
65 Church St. 416-364-7865 x224.
Free(donation requested).
— 8:00: Art of Time Ensemble. The Songbook II. See June 20.
— 8:00: Cantores Celestes. The Circle Never Ends. Kelly Galbraith, director; Ellen Meyer,
pianist. Runnymede United Church, 432 Runnymede Rd. 416-236-1522. $10.
En Bref. Franco-Ontarian folk, jazz, blues &
rock. Sirius Satellite Radio Stage, 235
Festival. Susan Tedeschi/The John Hammond Quartet. Nathan Phillips Square, 100
Queen St. W. 416-928-2033. $30.
Mes Aïeux. Fusion of folk, funk, rap, disco,
bossa nova & chanson Française. Sirius Satellite Radio Stage, 235 Queen’s Quay W. 416973-4000. Free.
— 11:00pm: Harbourfront Centre. FrancoFête: Misteur Valaire. Electrojazz from Montreal. Brigantine Room. 235 Queen’s Quay W.
416-973-4000. Free.
Sunday June 22
Festival. Effendi Jazz Lab. Nathan Phillips
Square, 100 Queen St. W. 416-928-2033.
Free.
— 3:00: Mooredale Concerts. Mooredale
Youth Orchestra. Grieg: Holberg Suite; Elgar:
Serenade for Strings. William Rowson, conductor. Rosedale Heights School, 711 Bloor
St. East. 416-922-3714 x103. $15; $10(sr/
st).
Festival. Gene DiNovi – the Art of the Accompanist. Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen
St. W. 416-928-2033. Free.
Festival. Kye Marshall Jazz Quartet. BonarParkdale Presbyterian Church, 250 Dunn Ave.
416-928-2033. $15.
Festival. Russ Little with Don Vickery Trio.
St.Timothy’s Anglican Church, 4125 Sheppard
Ave. E. 416-928-2033.
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— 3:00: Virginia Gallop Evoy & Gianmarco Segato. A Recital of Song. Works by
Elgar, Brahms, Strauss, de Falla. Virginia Gallop Evoy, mezzo; Gianmarco Segato, baritone;
Julian Fisher, viola; Lusine Saribekyan, pianist.
Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave. 416-4218518. $20; $15(sr/st).
Festival. Sliding Hammers. Nathan Phillips
Square, 100 Queen St. W. 416-928-2033.
Free.
Festival. Talkback Series: John Johnson.
416-928-2033. Free.
Festival. Nikki Yanofsky. Diesel Playhouse,
56 Blue Jays Way. 416-928-2033. $40.
Festival. Alto Summit plus Geri Allen Quartet. Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen St. W.
416-928-2033. $30.
Festival. Maryem & Ernie Tollar’s CairoToronto Collective. Glenn Gould Studio, 250
Front St. W. 416-928-2033. $20.
ORGAN RECITAL
Petra Kim
with Korean Drum, Hae Gum
& Clarinet (See Listing)
Festival. Michel Donato Trio. Enwave
Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, 235
Queen’s Quay W. 416-928-2033. $25.
Wednesday June 25
Jazz Festival. Laila Biali Trio. Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen St. W. 416-9282033. Free.
— 12:30: Yonge-Dundas Square. Serenades in the Square – Ciara Adams. Jazz vocalist with a unique blend of styles. 416- 9799960. Free.
Festival. Brigham Phillips – Play in the TrumMonday June 23, 7:30pm
pet Section. Nathan Phillips Square, 100
Queen St. W. 416-928-2033. Free.
Christ Church Deer Park
1570 Yonge St. (St. Clair and Yonge) Festival. Carlos Bica & Azul. Nathan Phillips
Tickets: $20, $15 S/S
Square, 100 Queen St. W. 416-928-2033.
(416) 605-4901
Free.
Festival. Talkback Series: Mark Barnes.
Tuesday June 24
416-928-2033. Free.
Jazz Festival. Michel Berubé, Chantal ChamMonday June 23
Festival. Talkback Series: Jane Bunnett.
berland & George Evans. Nathan Phillips
Square, 100 Queen St. W. 416-928-2033.
416-928-2033. Free.
Jazz Festival. Art Tatum, Piano Starts Here. Free.
— 7:00: ESTuudio Chamber Choir. Vocal
ensemble from Estonia. Tobias-Duesberg:
416-928-2033. Free.
Festival. Archie Alleyne – His Life in Jazz.
Requiem; works by Sisask & Mägi. Toronto
— 12:15: Church of the Holy Trinity. Mu- Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen St. W.
Saalem Church, 2570 Bayview Ave. $20.
sic Mondays Series. A program of vocal duets 416-928-2033. Free.
416-465-2219. $20.
from opera, Broadway, cabaret & folk music. — 5:00: TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz
— 7:00: Mississauga Pops Concert Band.
Pat Agnew, soprano; Sheila McCoy, mezzoFestival. L’Orkestre des pas Perdues. Nathan
Summer Musical Mix. Heritage Glenn Resoprano; Laraine Herzog, piano. 10 Trinity
Phillips Square, 100 Queen St. W. 416-928Square. 416-598-4521 x304. $5 suggested
2033. Free.
donation.
Festival. Talkback Series: John Valenteyne.
Festival. Mark Miller – Words Worth. Nath- Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen St. W.
an Phillips Square, 100 Queen St. W. 416416-928-2033. Free.
928-2033. Free.
— 8:00: CONTACT Contemporary Music.
Girl on Girl - Lori Freedman. Works by CamFestival. Out of Orbit. Nathan Phillips
eron, Henneman, Jean, Sokolovic, Tower. Pri
Square, 100 Queen St. W. 416-928-2033.
Freedman, bass clarinet. The Gladstone, 1214
Free.
Queen Street West, 416-902-7010. $15;
$10(sr/st).
Festival. Talkback Series – Joe Sealy. Nath- — 8:00: TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz
an Phillips Square, 100 Queen St. W. 416Festival. Ahmad Jamal & Oliver Jones Trio.
928-2033. Free.
— 7:30: Petra Kim, organ. In Recital. Bach: 416-928-2033. $40.
Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue in C; Widor: Sym- — 8:00: TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz
phony for Organ No. 6; works by Brahms and Festival. Bill Charlap & Renee Rosnes. EnSchubert. Charles Hong, Korean drum; Suh So wave Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, 235
Sun, hae gum; Ronda Rindone, clarinet. Christ Queen’s Quay W. 416-928-2033. $30.
Church Deer Park, 1570 Yonge Street. 416— 8:00: TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz
605-4910; $20, $15 (sr/st).
Festival. James Hunter plus Big Bad Voodoo
Daddy. Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen St.
W. 416-928-2033. $25.
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tirement Home, 6515 Glen Erin Drive, Mississauga. 905-338-5768. Free.
— 7:30: Machari/Prosim Chocolatki/
Kundzuli/Megobrebi. Passion for Song. 4
Toronto-based vocal groups present the music
of the Georgian Republic, the Balkans, eastern
Europe & Russia. Sunderland Hall, First Unitarian Church, 175 St. Clair Ave. W. 416-7034975. $15 or pwyc.
Festival. Blind Boys of Alabama plus Cyrus
Chestnut Trio. Nathan Phillips Square, 100
Queen St. W. 416-928-2033. $30.
Festival. Charles Lloyd New Quartet. Nathan
Phillips Square, 100 Queen St. W. 416-9282033. $40.
— 8:00: Workman Arts. Notes On Art.
Works by Schumann and Beethoven. Mayumi
Seiler, Carolyn Blackwell, Benjamin Bowman,
violins; Rafael Hoekman, cello; Yuval Fichman,
piano. Workman artists accompany the performance with live painting - completed works
auctioned at end of evening. Workman Theatre,
1001 Queen St. W. 416-583-4339. Free.
Thursday June 26
Jazz Festival. Quintetto Denner. Nathan
Phillips Square, 100 Queen St. W. 416-9282033. Free.
Arts. Noon Hour Recital Series – James Bailey, organ. St. Paul’s Bloor St., 227 Bloor St.
E. 416-961-8116 x251. Free.
Festival. Ritmo Flamenco. Metro Square,
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225 King St. W. 416-928-2033. Free.
Festival. Jake Hanna. Nathan Phillips
Square, 100 Queen St. W. 416-928-2033.
Free.
Festival. Alexis Baro Sextet. Nathan Phillips
Square, 100 Queen St. W. 416-928-2033.
Free.
— 8:00: Music Gallery / Abient Editions.
A Night of Electroacoustics. Electro-acoustic
works by Olivia Block, Gordon Monahan, Joda
Clement. 197 John St. 416-204-1080. $15;
$10(sr/st).
Festival. Ernestine Anderson & Houston
Person. Enwave Theatre, Harbourfront Centre,
235 Queen’s Quay W. 416-928-2033. $30.
Festival. Marcus Miller. Opera House, 735
Queen St. E. 416-928-2033. $32.50;
$27.50(advance).
Festival. Salute to Jazz at the Philharmonic.
416-928-2033. $35.
Friday June 27
309 27 12:00 noon: TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival. Galloway’s Surprise
Swing Session. Nathan Phillips Square, 100
Queen St. W. 416-928-2033. Free.
— 12:15: St. Andrew’s United Church.
Noonhour Recitals. Lilian Wild, piano. 32 Main
St. N., Markham. 905-294-0351. Free.
Festival. Chris Daniels – Trad Mad. Nathan
Phillips Square, 100 Queen St. W. 416-9282033. $35.
Festival. Bill King’s Saturday Fish Fry. Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen St. W. 416928-2033. Free.
Festival. Talkback Series: Andrew Scott.
416-928-2033. Free.
— 7:00: Harbourfront Centre. Banff Rocky
Mountain High: The Teheran Project. Amir
Amiri, dulcimer; Linling Hsu, violin. Toronto
Star Stage, 235 Queen’s Quay W. 416-9734000. Free.
— 8:00: Music Gallery. Jazz & Improvisation. Evan Parker Trio: Evan Parker, reeds;
Barry Guy, bass, Paul Lytton, percussion. 197
John St. 416-204-1080. $25; $20 (advance,
sr); $15(st).
— 8:00: Citytv/Omni Television. Mondo
Muziko A- Go-Go - Psychotropical Orchestra.
A blend of Latin, Afrobeat & dub-reggae.
Yonge-Dundas Square. 416-979-9960. Free.
Mountain High: Crystal Magnets. Jazz piano
duo Andy Milne & Benoît Delbecq. Sirius Satellite Radio Stage, 235 Queen’s Quay W. 416973-4000. Free.
Festival. Bob Erlendson Quartet. Bonar-Parkdale Presbyterian Church, 250 Dunn Ave.
416-928-2033. $15.
Festival. Esbjorn Svenson Trio. Enwave Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queen’s Quay
W. 416-928-2033. $25.
Festival. John Scofield Trio plus Mike Stern
Trio plus John Abercrombie Organ Trio.
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Sunday June 29
Nathan Phillips Square, 100Queen St. W.
416-928-2033. $30.
— 9:30: Harbourfront Centre. Banff
Rocky Mountain High: Jane Bunnett.
Jazz. Sirius Satellite Radio Stage, 235
— 11:00pm: Harbourfront Centre. Banff
Rocky Mountain High: Jill Barber. A blend of
country, folk & jazz styles. Brigantine Room,
— 11:00am: TD Canada Trust Toronto
Jazz Festival. Jazz Mass. St. James’ Cathedral, 65 Church St. 416-928-2033. Free.
Mountain High: The Gryphon Trio. Sirius Satellite Radio Stage, 235 Queen’s Quay W. 416973-4000. Free.
Festival. Sybil Walker. Nathan Phillips
Square, 100 Queen St. W. 416-928-2033.
Free.
Saturday June 28
— 1:00: Harbourfront Centre. Banff Rocky Mountain High: Onalea Gilbertson. See June
Mountain High: The Teheran Project. See June 28.
27.
— 4:00: Music Garden. CelloFest. Music
— 2:00: Music Gallery. Improvisation Work- from Bach to Zappa. Garrett Knecht, Peter
shop. Evan Parker & Paul Lytton, percussion.
Cosbey, Alastair Eng, cello; Paul Widner, direc197 John St. 416-204-1080.
tor. 475 Queen’s Quay W. 416-973-4000.
Free.
Festival. Bill McBirnie – the Jazz Flute.
Festival. Groove & Graffitti. Nathan Phillips
416-928-2033. Free.
Square, 100 Queen St. W. 416-928-2033.
— 3:30: Harbourfront Centre. Banff Rocky Free.
Mountain High: Ohbijou. Indie folk pop. Sirius
Satellite Radio Stage, 235 Queen’s Quay W.
Festival. Naturally 7. Nathan Phillips Square,
416-973-4000. Free.
100 Queen St. W. 416-928-2033. Free.
Festival. SoulJazz Orchestra. Nathan PhilMountain High: Excerpts from Filumena &
lips Square, 100 Queen St. W. 416-928Frobisher. Works by John Estacio. Sirius Sat2033. Free.
ellite Radio Stage, 235 Queen’s Quay W. 416— 4:30: Harbourfront Centre. Banff Rocky 973-4000. Free.
Mountain High: Onalea Gilbertson. Jazz, thea- — 4:30: TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz
tre & cabaret. Toronto Star Stage, 235
Festival. Jazz Vespers with Brian Barlow
Trio. Christ Church Deer Park, 1570 Yonge St.
416-928-2033. Free.
Festival. Talkback Series: Roberto Occhipin- — 5:30: Harbourfront Centre. Banff Rocky
ti. Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen St. W.
Mountain High: Cheryl L’Hirondelle. Indie
416-928-2033. Free.
roots, vocals & keyboard. Toronto Star Stage,
— 6:30: Harbourfront Centre. Banff Rocky 235 Queen’s Quay W. 416-973-4000. Free.
Mountain High: Jill Barber. A blend of country, — 6:00: TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz
folk & jazz styles. Toronto Star Stage, 235
Festival. Talkback Series: Billy Bryans. NathQueen’s Quay W. 416-973-4000. Free.
an Phillips Square, 100 Queen St. W. 416— 8:00: Harbourfront Centre. Banff Rocky 928-2033. Free.
Mountain High: Bomba. Latin, jazz & world
— 7:30: Thornhill Community Band. A
music styles. Sirius Satellite Radio Stage, 235 Taste of Asia. Kennedy & Steeles, ScarborQueen’s Quay W. 416-973-4000. Free.
ough. 416-223-7152.
— 8:00: Music Gallery. Jazz, Improvisation — 8:00: TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz
& Avant-Rock. Feuermusik & Neptune. 197
Festival. Lizz Wright. Diesel Playhouse, 56
John St. 416-204-1080. $15; $10 (advance, Blue Jays Way. 416-928-2033. $40.
sr/st).
— 8:00: Roy Thomson Hall. Buena Vista
Festival. Salif Keita plus Toby Foyeh & OrSocial Club. Omara Portuondo, vocals; Robert chestra Africa. Nathan Phillips Square, 100
Fonseca, piano. 60 Simcoe St. 416-872Queen St. W. 416-928-2033. $30.
4255. $49.50-$79.50.
Monday June 30
Festival. Arturo Sandoval plus Hilario Duran — 12:15: Church of the Holy Trinity. MuTrio. Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen St.
sic Mondays Series. Saint-Saens: Sonata for
W. 416-928-2033. $30.
Bassoon & Piano; Devienne: Trio for Piano,
Flute & Bassoon; Piazzolla: Trio “Oblivion”.
Festival. Michel Legrand Trio with Phil
Anatolly Kupriychuk, bassoon; Allan Pulker,
Woods plus Quartetto Guido Basso. Four Sea- flute; Elena Tchernaia, piano. Toronto Marriott
sons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145
Hotel, 525 Bay St. 416-598-4521 x304. $5
Queen St. W. 416-928-2033. $30-$120.
suggested donation.
— 9:00: Harbourfront Centre. Banff Rocky — 9:00: Harbourfront Centre. World
Mountain High: M’Girl. Aboriginal world folk
Routes: Lee Scratch Perry. Dub Reggae. Sirius
ensemble. Toronto Star Stage, 235 Queen’s
Quay W. 416-973-4000. Free.
416-973-4000. Free.
Tuesday July 01
Mountain High: The McDades. Celtic & world
roots vocalists & musicians. Sirius Satellite
— 1:00: Harbourfront Centre. Canada Day:
Radio Stage, 235 Queen’s Quay W. 416-973- The Fort York Drums. Toronto Star Stage,
4000. Free.
— 11:00pm: Harbourfront Centre. Banff
Rocky Mountain High: Finding Synesthesia.
Manitoba Chamber Orchestra. Sirius Satellite
Andy Milne, pianist-composer; heather Cornell, Radio Stage, 235 Queen’s Quay W. 416-973dancer-choreographer. Brigantine Room, 235
4000. Free.
— 3:30: Harbourfront Centre. Canada
Day: Jackie Richardson and the Cougars.
Blues, gospel, funk and reggae. Sirius
Satellite Radio Stage, 235 Queen’s Quay
W. 416-973-4000. Free.
— 4:30: Harbourfront Centre. Canada
Day: Journey of the Canadian Fiddle. Performances by Alyssa Delbaere-Sawchuck,
Sherry & Matthew Johnson, Pierre
Chartand, Richard Forest & others. Toronto Star Stage. 235 Queen’s Quay W.
416-973-4000. Free.
Plants and Animals. Folk and country. Brigantine Room, 235 Queen’s Quay W. 416-9734000. Free.
Cana-drum, Journey of the Drum. Brenda MacIntyre & the Red Spirit Singers and Dancers;
Maracut Nunca Antes; Sonay Garbo Punjab
De; Amara Kante & others. Toronto Star
Free.
Singer-songwriter Basia Bulat. Sirius Satellite
Radio Stage, 235 Queen’s Quay W. 416-9734000. Free.
singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright. Sirius
416-973-4000. Free.
Wednesday July 02
— 7:30: Artists’ Garden Cooperative.
Plein Air Concert Series.’08. Choirgirlz, folk/
jazz ensemble. 345 Balliol St. 416-487-0705.
$10.
— 8:00: Harbourfront Centre. World
Routes: Seckou Keita SKQ. Afro-jazz fusion.
Sirius Satellite Radio Stage, 235 Queen’s
Quay W. 416-973-4000. Free.
Festival. Dave Brubeck Quartet & the Toronto Jazz Festival Orchestra. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W.
416-928-2033. $40-$130.
Routes: Seun Kuti and Egypt 80. Afrobeat.
Quay W. 416-973-4000. Free.
Thursday July 03
— 7:00: Music Garden. Fanfares by the
Lake. Music from England and Venice on period
renaissance instruments. Norman Engel, Andras Molnar, John Thiessen, trumpet; Edward
Reifel, timpani. 475 Queen’s Quay W. 416973-4000. Free.
Routes: Orchestra Baobab. Senagalese Afrosoul and jazz. Sirius Satellite Radio Stage 235
Friday July 04
— 2:00: Harbourfront Centre. Smirnoff Ice
Beats, Breaks & Culture: Woodhands. TorontoElectro-psych pop duo. Sirius Satellite Radio
Free.
— 8:00: Cityty/Omni Television. Mondo
Muziko A- Go-Go – Nomadic Massive. Montreal-based collective of independent hip-hop
artists.Yonge-Dundas Square. 416- 9799960. Free.
Beats, Breaks & Culture: Poni Hoax. New
wave emotronic music. Sirius Satellite Radio
Stage, 235 Queen’s Quay W. 416-9734000. Free.
J UNE 1 - J ULY 7 2008
— 9:30: Harbourfront Centre. Smirnoff
Ice Beats, Breaks & Culture: Ladytron.
Electro new-wave quartet. Sirius Satellite
— 11:00pm: Harbourfront Centre.
Smirnoff Ice Beats, Breaks & Culture: Ladytron DJs featuring Mira. Brigantine Room,
— 11:00pm: Harbourfront Centre.
Smirnoff Ice Beats, Breaks & Culture: PTR
10th Anniversary. Bands and DJs from the
Canadian indie label Public Transit Recordings.
Lakeside Terrace, 235 Queen’s Quay W. 416973-4000. Free.
Saturday July 05
— 12:00 noon to 10:30: Afrofest. 2008 Festival. Two days of African, dance, music and
theatre. Featured artists include Dobet
G’nahore; Femi Abosede & Culture Force;
Donne Roberts; Konyokonyo, Shego Band &
Shangaza Performers. Queen’s Park; also Lula
Lounge, 1585 Dundas St. W. 416-469-5336.
Beats, Breaks & Culture: Tortured Soul. Soulful R&B-inspired house music. Sirius Satellite
— 8:00: Opera By Request. Gluck: Orfeo ed
Eurydice. Anna Belikova, mezzo; Lindsay
Michael & Lisa Zhang, sopranos. William
Shookhoff, pianist & music director. Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave. 416 455-2365.
$20; $15(sr/st).
Beats, Breaks & Culture: Thunderheist. Electrocrunk booty-bass music. Sirius Satellite
Beats, Breaks & Culture: Crystal Castles.
Synth-punk music. Sirius Satellite Radio Stage, pin & Albeniz. Koichi Inoue, piano. 10
Trinity Square. 416-598-4521 x304. $5
suggested donation.
Sunday July 06
— 12:00 noon to 10:30: Afrofest. 2008 Festival. See July 5 (Queen’s Park only.)
Beats, Breaks & Culture: Shad. MC/musicians.
Quay W. 416-973-4000. Free.
— 4:00: Music Garden. Dancing Drums of
Korea. SamulNori Canada Korean Drum Ensemble. Guests: Han-Soo Jung, piri (bamboo
double reed flute); So-Sun Suh, Hae-Geum (Korean fiddle). 475 Queen’s Quay W. 416-9734000. Free.
Monday July 07
— 12:15: Church of the Holy Trinity. Music Mondays Series. Music by Faure, Cho-
OPERA BY REQUEST
Gluck’s Orfeo ed Eurydice
(Viennese version, with piano)
Anna Belikova, mezzo-soprano
Lindsay Michael and
Lisa Zhang, sopranos.
William Shookhoff,
pianist and music director.
Saturday, July 5, 8:00 pm
Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Avenue
Tickets $20/$15 S/S
Phone 416 455-2365 for reservations
LISTINGS: SECTION 2 - CONCERTS: Beyond the GTA
E., Burlington. 905-526-6690.
$28,$15,$5.
— 2:00: Guelph Chamber Choir. Afternoon — 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber
at the Proms. Elgar: Land of Hope and Glory;
Music Society / Quartetfest. Young Artist
Walton: Crown Imperial March; Parry: Jerusa- Concert I. KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young St.
lem; & other works. Gerald Neufeld, conduc- W., Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $15; $10(sr);
tor; guests: Guelph Concert Band & communi- $8(st).
ty choirs. River Run Centre, 35 Woolwich St.,
Monday June 02
Guelph. 519-836-5103. $20; $10(st).
— 2:00: Harlequin Singers. Broadway and — 7:30: National Academy Orchestra. A
Beyond. John Packer, director. Drury Lane
Dream is Born: Israel @ 60. Well-loved favourTheatre, 2269 New St., Burlington. 905ites and traditional works, including Fanfare
637-3979. $20.
for Israel, Kaddish, & The Moldau. National
— 2:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber
Academy Orchestra; Boris Brott, conductor;
Music Society. WindFest. Myslivicek: Octet guests: Gideon Zelermyer, cantor; Stephen
No. 3; Mozart: Gran Partita K. 361. WindFest Glass, guest conductor. Hamilton Place, 1
Players. Luther Village Chapel, 139 Father
Summers Lane, Hamilton. 1-888-475-9377.
David Bauer Dr., Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $36; $180(with pre-concert gala).
Free.
— 2:00: Shaw Festival. Wonderful Town.
Music Society / Quartetfest. In Concert.
Music by Bernstein; lyrics by Fields & Chodor- Beethoven: Quartet Op. 18, No. 2 in G; Bartok:
ov. Chilina Kennedy, Lisa Horner & others.
Quartet. No. 3; Mendelssohn, Quartet in f Op.
Roger Hodgman, director; Paul Sportelli, music 80. Hyperion String Quartet. KWCMS Music
director. Festival Theatre, 85 Shaw St. NiaRoom, 57 Young St. W., Waterloo. 519gara-on-the-Lake. 905-468-2172, 1-800886-1673. $20; $15(sr); $10(st).
511-7429. For run details, see music theatre
Tuesday June 03
listings.
— 2:30: Brampton Festival Singers. A
Singing Garden Goes to the Proms. Robert
See June 1.
Hennig, artistic director. Royal Ambassador
Wednesday June 04
Events Centre, 15430 Innis Lake Road, Caledon. 905-789-8045. $35; $32.50(sr).
— 12:00 noon: Midday Music with
— 2:30: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. Shigeru. Yoomi Jun Kim, piano. Hi-Way PenGenerations 4: An Exploration of Colour. Rus- tecostal Church. 50 Anne St. N. Barrie. 705sian & French Music. Edwin Outwater, con726-1181. $5; students free.
ductor. Centre in the Square, 101 Queen
Street North, Kitchener. 519-578-1570.
Run continues. See music theatre listings.
$15-$35; $15(st/child).
Thursday June 05
— 3:00: Uxbridge Chamber Choir. Orff:
Carmina Burana. Thomas Baker, conductor.
— 12:15: St. George’s Cathedral. NoonSunderland Town Hall, 120 River St. Sunder- hour Concert Series. Flutissimo Flute Choir;
land. 905-789-2676. $20; $12(sr/st); free
Anne Palmer, director. 270 King St. E. King(child under 12).
ston. 613-548-4617. Donations accepted.
— 3:00: Sharon Temple Music Society.
Songs of Earth and Heaven. Songs by Mozart, Music Society / Quartetfest. In Concert.
Poulenc, Fauré, Debussy, Messiaen & Weill.
Penderecki String Quartet, Hyperion String
Suzie LeBlanc, soprano; Robert Kortgaard,
Quartet & winners of the PSQ Chamber Mupiano. Temple of the Children of Peace, 18974 sic Prize 2008. Maureen Forrester Hall, WilLeslie St., Sharon. 416-597-7840. $45.
frid Laurier University, Waterloo. 519-886— 3:00: Symphony Hamilton. Sounds of a 1673. $25; $20(sr); $15(st).
Summer Night: Go for Baroque. Works by
Friday June 06
Bach. Members & friends of Symphony Hamilton; James R. McKay, music director. St.
— 8:00: Grand River Chorus. Double Choir
Matthew’s Anglican Church, 126 Plains Rd.
Splendour. A cappella pieces. Our Lady of LaSunday June 01
J UNE 1 - J ULY 7 2008
Salette, 88 Regional Road 67, La Salette, Norfolk County. 519-841-9708. $20(adult);
$15(sr/st); $5(high school st); $5(12 & under).
Music Society / Quartetfest. Young Artist
Concert II. Maureen Forrester Hall, Wilfrid
Laurier University, Waterloo. 519-8861673. $15; $10(sr); $8(st).
Thursday June 12
— 12:15: St. George’s Cathedral. Noonhour Concert Series. Kingston Community
Strings; R.J. Clark & James Coles, directors;
guest: Daryl Irvine, piano. 270 King St. E.
Kingston. 613-548-4617. Donations accepted.
— 8:00: Red Barn Theatre. Cowboys and
Saturday June 07
Outlaws. Musical review featuring a blend of
— 1:30: Windfall Ecology Festival. Earth, classic and new country. Conceived by Chris
McHarge & Colin Stewart. 991 Lake Dr. E.
Seas & Air. Chris McKhool, fiddler & children’s entertainer. Fairy Lake Park, Newmar- Jackson’s Point. 888-733-2276 / 905-7723249. $18-$30. For complete run see music
ket. 905-727-0491.
— 8:00: Grand Philharmonic Choir. Mary theatre listings.
Lou Fallis: Primadonna Choralis. Grand PhilharFriday June 13
monic Choir; Howard Dyck, conductor. Centre
—
8:00:
Brad
Halls.
Songs of Love Found.
in the Square, 101 Queen St. N. Kitchener.
Music devoted to new love. Elly McCall &
519-578-1570/800-265-8977. $47-$53.
Alison McNamara. Victoria Hall Concert Hall,
Music Society / Windfest. Beethoven: Quin- 55 King St. W. Cobourg. 905-372-2210.
$15.
tet Op. 16; Poulenc: Trio for oboe, bassoon,
and piano; & other works. Windfest Players II. — 8:00: Sun Records Show. The Sun
KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young St. W., Wa- Records Story. Gibson Centre, 63 Tupper
terloo. 519-886-1673. 15; $10(sr); $8(st). Street W., Alliston. 705-435-2828. $30.
Saturday June 14
Sunday June 08
— 1:30: Windfall Ecology Festival. Earth, — 7:30: Harbourtown Sound. Swinging
Sound. Guests: Chameleon vocal quartet;
Seas & Air. See June 7.
— 2:00: York Region Community Choir. Hamilton All-Stars Jazz Band. Company Point
On With The Show. Trinity Anglican Church,
79 Victoria Street, Aurora. 905-727-4575.
$10; $5(child).
— 3:00: Grand River Chorus. Double Choir
Splendour. St. Basil’s Church, Palace St.
Brantford. See June 6.
Messiaen Centennary Concert. Messiaen:
Quartet for the End of Time; Gilbert: new
work; Beethoven: Trio in B flat Op. 11. Louise
Bessette, piano; Olivier Thouin, violin; Yegor
Dyachkov, cello; Simon Aldrich, clarinet. Temple of the Children of Peace, 18974 Leslie St.,
Sharon. 416-597-7840. $45.
MUSIC AT SHARON
Wednesday June 11
Music Society. In Recital. Ben-Haim: Sonatina; Schumann: Abegg Variations, Carnival;
Bartok: Improv on Hungarian Peasant Songs;
Liszt: Petrarch Sonnet 104, Rhapsodie Espagnole. Shoshana Telner, piano. KWCMS Music
Room, 57 Young St. W., Waterloo. 519886-1673. $20; $15(sr); $10(st).
Louise Bessette
+ 3 colleagues
Honouring Messiaen
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Wednesday July 02
MUSIC AT SHARON Dokken,MUSIC
SHARON
keyboards. 270AT
King St.
E. King— 12:00 noon: Midday Music with
Church, 1500 Kern’s Rd. Burlington. 905592-1449. $35; $15(st).
— 7:30: Margaret Bardos, mezzo/Krista
Wegner, piano. Hungary Here We Come!
Centenary United Church, 24 Main St. W.
Hamilton. 905-522-6843. $10.
Music Society/ WindFest. Thuille: Sextet
for Piano & Winds; Damase: !7 Variations;
Krommer: Octet-Partita Op.76.WindFest Players III; guest: Cheryl DuVall, piano. KWCMS
Music Room, 57 Young St. W., Waterloo.
519-886-1673. $15; $10(sr); $8(st).
— 8:00: Showplace Performance Centre. Jeans ‘n Classics: Hotel California. Music
of The Eagles. 290 George St. N. Peterborough. 705-742-7469. $50.
MUSIC AT SHARON
ston. 613-548-4617. Donations accepted.
— 12:15: Trinity Anglican Church. Solo
and Duo Organ. Stephanie Burgoyne & William
Vandertuin, organ. 12 Blair Rd. Cambridge.
519-621-8860. Freewill donation.
— 8:00: Kitchener Waterloo Chamber
Music Society. In Recital. Clarinet quintets
by Mozart, Coleridge-Taylor and Vaughan Williams (Six Studies in English Folk-Song arr.
Adam Lesnick). Windermere String Quartet;
Joe Rosen, clarinet. KWCMS Music Room, 57
Young St. W., Waterloo. 519-886-1673.
$20; $15(sr); $10(st).
Shigeru. Amity Piano Trio. Sandra Ruttan,
piano; Michael Adamson, violin; Alyssa
Wright, cello. Hi-Way Pentecostal Church, 50
Anne St. N. Barrie. 705-726- 1181. $5;
students free.
Saturday June 21
— 8:00: Marmalade. Here Comes the Sun.
Collection of songs from jazz to pop. Edwina
MUSIC AT SHARON
Louise Bessette
Thursday July 03
— 12:15: St. George’s Cathedral. Noonhour Concert Series. The Cranberry Dixie and
Swing Band. 270 King St. E. Kingston. 613548-4617. Donations accepted.
Friday July 04
Douglas, director. Collier Street United
Church, 112 Collier St., Barrie. 416-7370260. $20.
— 8:00: Shaw Festival. A Little Night Music. Music by Stephen Sondheim. Morris Panych, director. Courthouse Theatre, 28 Queen
St. Niagara-on-the-Lake. 800-511-7429.
$45-$105. For complete run see music theatre listings.
Sunday July 06
— 7:00: Mississauga Pops Concert Band.
Summer Musical Mix. Orillia Outdoor Aqua
Theatre, Couchiching Park, 140 Canice St.,
Orillia. 705-722-4520. Free.
— 8:00: Cambridge Community Orchestra. Hot and Spicy Opera. Orchestral and vocal
Sunday June 15
music from the world ofpiano
opera & operetta
soprano
singers from the Cambridge
area.
— 2:00: Concert Hall. Sweet Water Country with young
Honouring
Messiaen
Music Series. Sweet Water Band and friends. Forward Baptist Church, 455 Myers Rd.,
Sunday,
June
1, 3St.pm
Sunday,
June
8, 3 pm
Cambridge.
519-623-4523.
Free (donations
Victoria
Hall Concert
Hall, 55 King
W.
accepted).
Cobourg. 905-372 2210 / 888-262-6874.
$18.55.
N.B. For SECTION 3 criteria, see page 32
Music Society. In Recital. Prokofiev: Sonata
—
A
Midsummer
Night’s Dream. LuminaTO. June 6-15. Call for times. See GTA June 6.
No. 2; Fauré: Sonata in A; Bach: Sonata in C
piano
— A Feast of Show Tunes. Singing Studio. June 14: 3:00 & 8:00. See GTA June 14.
for Solo Violin; Kreisler: “Haffner” Rondo.
soprano
Sean
Bennesch, violin; Justyna
Szajna, piano.
Honouring
Messiaen
— A Little Night Music. Music by Stephen Sondheim. Shaw Festival. June 4-October 4. Call
KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young St. W., Wa- for times. See Beyond the GTA June 4.
Sunday,
June
8,
3
pm
terloo. 519-886-1673. $15; $10(sr); $8(st).
— All Fours/Violet Cavern. LuminaTO/Mark Morris Dance Group. June 10, 11: 8:00. See
Sunday June 22
GTA June 10.
— Broadway and Beyond. Harlequin Singers. June 1: 2:00. See Beyond the GTA June 1.
— Cowboys and Outlaws. Red Barn Theatre. June 12-28. Call for times. See Beyond the
GTA June 12.
— Dennis Cleveland. By Mikel Rouse. LuminaTO. June 7: 4:00 & 9:00. June 8: 7:00. See
GTA June 7.
— Don Giovanni/Renard. By Gazzaniga/Stravinsky. Canadian Opera Company Ensemble
Studio. June 16, 18, 20: 7:30; June 22: 2:00. See GTA June 16.
— Failing Kansas. By Mikel Rouse. LuminaTO. June 13: 7:00; June 14: 10:00; June 15:
4:00. See GTA June 13.
— Fiddle and the Drum/Etudes/The Second Detail. LuminaTO/Alberta Ballet/National
Ballet of Canada. June 13-22. Call for times. See GTA June 13.
Sunday, June 22 — Kismet. Civic Light Opera Company. June 1, 7, 8: 2:00; June 4: 7:00. See GTA June 1.
piano
at 6:00 pm — Liebeslieder Waltzes/Grand Duo. LuminaTO/Mark Morris Dance Group. June 14: 6:00;
June 15: 2:00. See GTA June 14.
— Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray’s Inn. Toronto Masque Theatre. June 14: 5:00.
Sara Davis Buechner, Piano. Works by MoSee GTA June 14.
zart, Ibert, Poulenc, Weisgarber, Gershwin.
— Mozart Dances. LuminaTO/Mark Morris Dance Group. June 6: 7:30; June 7 : 8:00; June 8:
Temple of the Children of Peace, 18974 Leslie
2:00. See GTA June 6.
Sunday,
June
22
piano
St., Sharon. 416-597-7840. $45.
— Nitin Sawhney: A Throw of Dice.
at 6:00 pm
Monday15,
June3
16pm
LuminaTO/Members of the Toronto Symphony
Sunday, June
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Orchestra. June 13: 9:30. See GTA June 13.
Music Society. In Recital. Sowash: The Phi- — 6:00: Sharon Temple Music Society.
— Orfeo ed Eurydice. Music by Gluck.
Beginning to See the Light. Classical, tradition- Opera By Request. June 5, 8:00. See GTA
losopher Attends a Country Fair; Juon: Trio
al, Canadian, jazz, historic Sharon Band tunes. June 5.
Miniatures; Ketting: Variations on a Dutch
Children’s Song; D’Indy: Trio. Joe Rosen, clari- True North Brass. Temple of the Children of
— Sanctuary Song. LuminaTO/Tapestry
net; Cheryl DuVall, piano; Amber Ghent, cello. Peace, 18974 Leslie St., Sharon. 416-597- New Opera Works/Theatre Direct. June 6-14.
7840.
$45.
iStore your entire
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terloo. 519-886-1673. $20; $15(sr);
Thursday June 26
— The Pied Piper. Solar Stage Children’s
$10(st).
iScan your existing sheet
— 12:15: St. George’s Cathedral. NoonTheatre. June 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22, 28, 29.
music into the MusicPad
Tuesday June 17
hour Concert Series. The Kingston Chamber
11:00am & 2:00. See GTA June 7.
iHands-free page turning
Players. 270 King St. E. Kingston. 613-548- — The End of Cinematics. By Mikel Rouse.
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Music Society. Chamber Music Evening.
LuminaTO. June 10, 11, 12: 7:30. See GTA
iRuns on battery or AC power
Kitchener-Waterloo Community Orchestra.
June 10.
Sunday June 29
iService to scan and/or convert
KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young St. W., Washeet music to MusicPad
—
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Sun
Records
Story.
Sun
Records
terloo. 519-886-1673. $15; $10(sr); $8(st). — 3:00: Guelph Symphony Orchestra.
format available for a nominal
Shows. June 13: 8:00. See Beyond the GTA
Music in the Park. Light classics by Rossini,
fee
Thursday June 19
June 13.
Strauss, Sullivan, Puccini, Mozart & others;
also
a
Dixieland
Band.
Simon
Irving,
conductor.
www.musicpad.ca
— Wonderful Town. Music by Leonard
— 12:15: St. George’s Cathedral. NoonRiverside Park Bandshell, Guelph. 519-265- Bernstein. Shaw Festival. To October 4. Call
[email protected]
hour Concert Series. Canadian music of the
3999. Free.
1840s. Lawrence House, trumpets; Aurora
for times. See Beyond the GTA June 1.
647-722-4318
Suzie LeBlanc
Suzie
MUSICLeBlanc
AT SHARON
MUSIC AT SHARON
Sara Davis
Buechner
Sara Davis
Buechner
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LISTINGS: SECTION 3
MUSIC THEATRE, OPERA, DANCE
DATES AND COMPLETE RUNS
Louise Bessette
MUSIC AT SHARON
MUSIC AT SHARON
True North Brass
True North Brass
J UNE 1 - J ULY 7 2008
LISTINGS: SECTION 4
JAZZ IN THE CLUBS
Academy of Spherical Arts
1 Snooker St. (Formerly 38 Hanna Avenue)
Jun 13 Adi Braun Quartet
Alleycatz
2409 Yonge St. 416-481-6865
Every Mon Salsa Night. Every Tue “Swing
House” Band Swing and Jazz. Every Wed Jasmin Bailey and Co. Jun 5 Lady Kane. Jun 6 Lady
Kane. Jun 7 Urban Siren. Jun 12 Lady Kane. Jun
13 Graffiti Park. Jun 14 Graffiti Park. Jun 19
Urban Siren. Jun 20 Lady Kane. Jun 21 Urban
Siren. Jun 26 Urban Siren. Jun 27 Lady Kane.
Jun 28 Urban Siren. Jul 3 Graffiti Park. Jul 4
Lady Kane. Jul 5 Liquid.
Annabella Lounge
226 Carlton St. 416-944-3788
Every Fri: Jazz Cab w/ Whitney Smith
www.whitneysmith.ca/schedule.html
Big Mama’s Boy
554 Parliament St. 416-927-1593
www.bigmamasboy.ca
Every Sun Don Englert/Dan Ionescu Duo.
The Black Swan
154 Danforth Ave. 416-469-0537
Every Wed The Danforth Jam w/ Jon Long and
Friends.
C’est What
67 Front St. E. 416-867-9499
www.cestwhat.com
Every Wed. Hot Fo’ Ghandi.
Every Sat (matinee) The Hot Five Jazzmakers.
Cervejaria Downtown
842 College St. 416-588-0162
Every Wed The Jay Danley Quintet.
Chalkers Pub Billiards & Bistro
247 Marlee Avenue 416-789-2531
www.chalkerspub.com
Every Wed Salsa lesson followed by live music
w/ La Nueva Revelacion.Every Thu Girls Night
Out Jam w/ Lisa Particelli. Jun 1 Norman Marshall Villeneuve’s 70th Birthday Bash. Jun 8
Adrean Farrugia: Ricochet.
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.
Jun 6 Sarah Jerrom/Dan Eisen. Jun 7 Don
Campbell/Dan Eisen. Jun 13 Martin Alex Aucoin.
Jun 14 Adrean Farrugia. Toronto Downtown
Jazz Festival ... Jun 20 Sultans of String. Jun
21 Leon Kingstone/Dan Eisen. Jun 24 Warren
Grieg/Dan Eisen. Jun 25 Beverly Taft/Robi Botos.
Jun 26 Richard Whiteman/Rob McBride. Jun 27
Sophia Perlman/Dave Restivo. Jun 28 Kira Callahan/Mark Kieswetter.
The Corktown
175 Young St. Hamilton 905-572-9242
Jun 4, Jul 2 Big Band Wednesdays w/Darcy
Hepner: The Music of Thad Jones.
J UNE 1 - J ULY 7 2008
Dominion on Queen
500 Queen St. East 416-368-6893
www.dominononqueen.com
Jun 2 Mondo Mondays w. The McFiles. Jun 3
Gypsy Jazz Jam. Jun 5 Brian Rose Little Big
Band. Jun 6 Pug in a Tux Productions Cabaret
Fundraiser. Jun 7 Bill Colgate, East End Rockabilly featuring the Royal Crowns, Tenessee Voodoo
Coupe and DJ. Rockin’ Dave Faris. Jun 10 Gypsy
Jazz Jam. Jun 14 Bill Colgate, Dave Shaw. Jun
17 Gypsy Jazz Jam. Toronto Downtown
Jazz Festival ... Jun 18 Uptown Swing Band.
Jun 19 Toronto Art Orchestra. Jun 20 Kyle
McGyle Experience. Jun 21 York Jazz Ensemble. Jun 23 Big Smoke Big Band. Jun 24 Brian
Rose Little Big Band. Jun 25 Peggy Mahone
Quartet. Jun 26 Mega City Big Band. Jun 27
Bruce Cassidy’s Hot Foot Orchestra. Jun 28 San
Murata Trio. Jun 29 George Grossmans Bohemian Swing.
The El Mocambo
Jun 14 John Kameel Farah
Eton House
710 Danforth Ave. 416-466-6161
First Sunday of Every Month Joel Hartt.
Gate 403
403 Roncesvalles 416-588-2930
www.gate403.com
Jun 1 Clela Errington Blues Solo, Starry Nights,
Dave and Levi Jazz Duo. Jun 2 James Mcleney
Jazz Duo, Alex Coleman Jazz Band. Jun 3 Nadia
Hosko Jazz Quartet, Julian Fauth and James Thomson Blues. Jun 4 Donna Garner Piano Solo, Patrick
Tevlin’s New Orleans Duo. Jun 5 Sarah Jerrom
Jazz Trio, The Peddlers. Jun 6 Mike Field Jazz
Duo, Lorenzo Brunello: The Vandelays. Jun 7 Bill
Heffernan and his friends, Bartek Kozminski: El
Mosaico Flamenco Jazz Fusion. Jun 8 Clela Errington Blues Solo, The France St. Trio, Joanna Moon
Flamenco Latino w/ Quebec Edge Quartet. Jun 9
Sarah Bgin Jazz Quartet, Denise Leslie Jazz Band.
Jun 10 Marian Jago Jazz Trio, Julian Fauth and
James Thomson Blues. Jun 11 Ali Berkok Piano
Solo, Patrick Tevlin’s New Orleans Duo. Jun 12
Miss Emily and the Blue Callers, Scott Kemp Jazz
Collective. Jun 13 Morgan Sadler Solo, Wayne
Charles and Julian Fauth Blues Duo. Jun 14 Bill
Heffernan and his friends, Araujo, Harnett and Rahbek Jazz Trio. Jun 15 Clela Errington Blues, Rosalind Kindler Jazz Trio, Jorge Gavida Jazz Trio.
Jun 16 LuaSol Jazz Band, Kevin Lalberte. Jun 14
Terry Quinney: Trigger Fingers, Julian Fauth and
James Thomson Blues Duo. Jun 18 Shannon Butcher Duo, Patrick Tevlin’s New Orleans Duo. Jun 19
Chantelle Wilson Jazz Band, String Theory. Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival ... Jun 20 Vantana
5 Jazz Band, Max Senitt Latin Band. Jun 21 Bill
Heffernan and his friends, The Duettes. Jun 22 Clela
Errington Blues Solo, Margot Roi Jazz Band, Sultans of Strings. Jun 23 Joshua Goodman Jazz Band,
Ori Dagan: Swinging at Gate 403: A Tribute to Sarah
Vaughan. Jun 24 Double A Jazz Duo, Julian Fauth
and James Thomson Blues Duo. Jun 25 Michelle
Willis and Jeremy Bellaviti Jazz Duo, Melissa Boyce
and Kevin Laliberte. Jun 26 Kenny Simon, Cyndi
Carleton Jazz Duo. Jun 27 Fraser Melvin Blues
Band, Mr. Rick and the Biscuits. Jun 28 Harley Card
Jazz Quartet, Jen Sagar Jazz Trio. Jun 29 Clela
Errington Blues Solo, Amy Noubarian Jazz Duo, Eric
St. Laurent Jazz Trio. Jun 30 Carolyn Steingard
Jazz Duo, Ori Dagan: Swinging at Gate 403:
A tribute to Anita O’Day.
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.
Jun 4 Chloe Watkinson and the Crossroads. Jun
6 Dick Ellis and the Revival – Birthday Party.
Jun 7 Coldsweat. Jun 12 Patrick Tevlin New
Orleans Quartet. Jun 14 Graceful Daddy. Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival ... Jun 20
Barking Sharks. Jun 21 Caution Jam. Jun 25
Chloe Watkinson and the Crossroads. Jun 26
DarkPark Brassband. Jun 27 Swinging Blackjacks. Jun 28 Daredevils of Soul. Jun 3 Soul
Stack.
Healey’s Roadhouse
56 Blue Jays Way
Jun 26 Pinetop Perkins & Willie “Big Eyes”
Smith.
Home Smith Bar
The Old Mill, 21 Old Mill Rd. 416-236-2641
www.oldmilltoronto.com
Jun 6 Sean Bray Duo. Jun 7 Mark Ucci Trio.
Jun 13 Tara Davidson Duo. Jun 14 Russ Little
Trio. Jun 20 Reg Schwager Duo. Jun 21 Heather Bambrick Trio. Jun 27 Dusty Bohdan Duo.
Jun 28 Ron Davis Trio. Jul 4 Russell Drago Trio.
Jul 5 Bryan Toner Duo.
Hugh’s Room
2261 Dundas St. West 416-531-6604
www.hughsroom.com
Jun 1 Ray Rivers w. Jeff Morrison & Dennis
Amato and Wendi Hunter with Second Wind.
Jun 2 Sarah Burnell. Jun 3 Jane Harbury
presents: Discoveries w/ Soozi Schlanger, Corey
Heuvel, Marianne Turner, Daniel McKenzie. Jun
5-7 The Skydiggers. Jun 8 High Park Choirs
Piano Fundraiser. Jun 10 Mr. Rick and the Biscuits. Jun 11 Ndidi Onukwulu. Jun 12 Chris
Hillman. Jun 13 Girls Do Boys. Jun 14 Carlos
Del Junco. Jun 17 Kensington Market CD Release. Jun 18 Good Lovelies. Jun 19 Dala. Jun
20 The Undesirables & Creaking Tree String
Quartet. Jun 21 Terry Gillespie and the Granary
Band. Jun 22 The Actors Studio Concert Series.
Jun 23 An Evening with David Myles and Damhnait Doyle. Jun 25 Tip Splinter in Song and Story. Jun 26 Commingle Too! Jun 27 Riverboat
Revival. Jun 28 Jayme Stone and Mansa Sissoko CD Release.
Lula Lounge
1585 Dundas West 416-588-0307
www.lula.ca
Jun 4 A Night of Passion in Argentina. Jun 5
Lorraine Klassen. Jun 6 Reggae Night with the
Irie Band, Humble and DJ Chuck Bloom. Jun 7
Salsa Saturday with Ricky Franco. Jun 11 David
Buchbinder’s Odessa/Havana. Jun 12 Foggy
Hogtown Boys CD Release. Jun 13 Bernardo
Pardron Group. Jun 14 Salsa Dance Party w/
Cache. Jun 20 Tropijazz 08: Luis Mario Ocoa
and Cimarron. Jun 21 Tropijazz 08: Moda Eterna
– Ray Barretto Tribute. Jun 25 Tropijazz 08:
Alexis Baro. Jun 26 Tropijazz 08: Fernanda Cunha. Jun 27 Tropijazz 08: Joese Conde y Ola
Fresca. Jun 28 Salsa Dance Party w. Café Cubano.
Manhattan’s Music Club
951 Gordon St. Guelph
519-767-2440
www.manhattans.ca
Jun 6 Adrean Farrugia. Jun 13 Richard Whiteman. Jun 14 Tania Gill. Jun 20 Matt Newton.
Jun 21 Chris Donnelly. Jun 28 Rob Fekete.
Mezzetta
681 St. Clair Ave. W. 416-658-5687
Wednesday Concerts in a Cafe. Sets at 9 and
10:15. Reservations Recommended for first set.
Jun 11 George Sawa/Suzanne Meyers Sawa
N’Awlins Jazz Bar and Dining
299 King St. W. 416-595-1958
www.nawlins.ca
Every Tues Stacie McGregor. Every Wed.
Jim Heineman Trio. Every Thu Blues Night
with Guest Vocalists. Every Fri/Sat All Star
Bourbon St. Band. Every Sun Robi Botos.
Odd Socks at Dovercourt House
804 Dovercourt Rd. 416-537-3337
Jun 6 Stephen Fuller Duet. Jun 7 Drew Jurecka
Quartet. Jun 14 Shannon Butcher and her Choice
Cuts. Jun 28 Downtown Swing Quintet.
Old Mill, The
21 Old Mill Rd. 416-236-2641
www.oldmilltoronto.com
Jun 2-7 Fifth Avenue. Jun 9-14 Craig Ruhnke
Band. Jun 13 Jim Galloway’s wee Big Band.
Jun 16-18 Craig Ruhnke Band. Jun 20 Blast
from the past: Buble to Bocelli feat. Mitch Seekings. Jun 30-Jul 5 Lost Vegas.
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
Jun 1 Chris Gale Quartet. Jun 7 Bob Brough
Quartet. Jun 8 Maurizio Valente Quartet. Jun
14 George Koller Quartet. Jun 15 Robi Botos
Quartet. Jun 20 Julie Michels and Parlay. Jun
21 Kollage. Jun 21 Adam Small. Jun 22 Adam
Scott Quintet. Jun 23 Luis Mario Ochoa. Jun 24
The Pilot. Jun 25 The Lesterdays. Jun 26 Gene
Bertoncini. Jun 27 Ritmo Flamenco. Jun 28 Don
Thompson Reg Schwager Quartet. Jun 29 Roxanne Potvin.
Quotes
220 King St. W.
416-979-7717
Reservoir Lounge, The
52 Wellington St. E. 416-955-0887
www.reservoirlounge.com
Every Mon Sophia Perlman and the Vipers.
Every Tue Tyler Yarema and his Rhythm.
Every Wed Bradley and the Bouncers. Every
Thu Janice Hagen. Every Fri Chet Valient Combo. Every Sat Tory Cassis. Every Sun Luke
Nicholson and his Sunday Service.
The Renaissance Cafe
1938 Danforth Avenue 416-422-1441
Rex Jazz and Blues Bar, The
194 Queen St. W. 416-598-2475
www.therex.ca
Jun 1 Excelsior Traditional Jazz, Club Django,
Cooler Heads, Margot Roi Quintet. Jun 2 Griffith-Hiltz Trio, The Composers Collective Big
Band. Jun 3 Peter Hill Ensemble, Classic Rex
Jazz Jam. Jun 4 Shannon Butcher, Thyron
Whyte. Jun 5 Kevin Quain, Nowlin-Mulholland
Quintet. Jun 6 Hogtown Syncopators, David
French, Kelsley Grant. Jun 7 Abbey’s Meltdown,
Raoul and the Big Time, Ross MacIntyre, Jenn
Ryan and Cash Cow. Jun 8 Excelsior Traditional
Jazz, Beverly Taft Quartet, Cooler Heads, Johnny
Hodges Tribute. Jun 9 Griffith-Hiltz Trio, Sam
Noto Celebration. Jun 10 Peter Hill Ensemble,
Classic Rex Jazz Jam. Jun 11 Shannon Butcher,
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Brown’s Rinse the Algorithm, P.R. O. Jerome Godboo & David Rotundo, Laura HuLeyland Gordon. Jun 12 Kevin Quain, Metal- bert, Ted’s Warren Commission, Buddy
wood. Jun 13 Hogtown Syncopatros, David Aquilina, George Grossman, David French,
French, Metalwood. Jun 14 Abbey’s MeltP.J. Perry, Peter Hill, John MacLeod’s Rex
down, The Homeless, N.X.N.E. Festival. Jun Hotel Orchestra, Richard Whiteman Trio,
15 Sisters of Sheynville, Dr. Nick Blues,
Nordic Connect, The Deborahs, Jake
Cooler Heads, Dave Young Quartet. Jun 16 Wilkinson, Seamus Blake w/ Joel Haynes
Griffith-Hiltz Trio, Ari Hoenig & Punk Bob.
Trio, Worst Pop Band Ever, Justin BacJun 17 Peter Hill Ensemble, Rex Jazz Jam.
chus, Donny McCaslin, Karine ChapJun 18 Shannon Butcher, Rex Annual Play- delaine, Sara Dell, Alex Dean, D.M.B.Q,
th
er’s Party. Jun 19-29 Toronto DownAbbey’s Meltdown, The TJO, Chris Hunt
town Jazz Festival: The Rex Hotel’s Saxo- Tentet, Melissa Stylianou, John Ellis, The
phone Summit: Pat LaBarbera, Phil Dwyer, Botos Brothers, New Excelsior Traditional
Lester McLean, David Binney, Rich
Jazz Band, Freeway Dixieland Septet,
Club Django, Barry Romberg’s Random
Access Large Ensemble w/ Hugh Marsh.
Saint Tropez, Le
315 King St. W. 416-591-3600
Live music 7 days a week
Spezzo Ristorante
140 York Blvd. Richmond Hill 905-886-9703
Live jazz every Thursday.
The Stone Grill
51B Winchester Street 416-967-6565
www.stonegrillonwinchester.com
Every Sun Jazz Brunch with Archie Alleyne,
Robi Botos, Artie Roth. Jun 1 Kollage/The
Rhythm Section: Special Song Dedications
to Kairi.
Ten Feet Tall
1381 Danforth Avenue, 416-778-7333
www.tenfeettall.ca
Last Sun of Every Month Girls Night Out
Vocalists Jam. Jun 1 Gone Fussion. Jun 8 The
Lesters Feat. Tory Cassis. Jun 15 Scott Kempt
Trio. Jun 22 Dave Hutchinson Trio, Justin Bacchus Quintet. Jun 29 Julie Michels.
The Trane Studio
964 Bathurst St. 416-913-8197
www.tranestudio.com
LISTINGS: SECTION 5 - FESTIVALS - JUNE 1 - JULY 7
Afrofest 2008
Queen’s Park & Lula Lounge, Toronto
July 5-6
416-469-5336
www.musicafrica.org
Afrofest features two days of African concerts, dance, theatre and food, from noon to
10:30 pm. Featured artists include Ivory Coast
singing sensation Dobet G’nahore, Femi Abosede & Culture Force, Donne Roberts,
Konyokonyo, Shego Band and Shangaza Performers. For listings, see Section 1.
Art of Jazz Celebration
Distillery District, Toronto
June 4-8
1-888-222-6608
www.artofjazz.org
This year’s festival includes Hermeto Pascoal,
Egberto Gismonti, the Cindy Blackman Quartet, Kelly Lee Evans, Jim Galloway’s Wee Big
Band and others. For individual events, see website.
Banff: A Rocky Mountain High
Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
June 27-29
416-973-4000
Celebrate the Banff Centre’s 75th anniversary
with a festival of dance, theatre, music, film
and literature inspired by this world-renowned
arts centre. For daily listings, see Section 1.
Blue Bridge Music Festival
Sutton (ON)
June 6-8
289-470-1099
This three-day festival of music poetry and
song is hosted by the Ardeleana Chamber Music Society.
GAC = Georgina Arts Centre, 149 High St.
KUC = Knox United Church, 34 Market St.
BRPD = Black River Public Dock
SPPP = Sibbald Point Provincial Park
StJPH = St. James Parish Hall, 31 River St.
Jun 06 8:00: Opening Cabaret & Reception.
Andrea Cresswell, soprano; Wallis Giunta,
mezzo; Ardeleana Ensemble. GAC. $20.
Jun 07 11:30am: Melissa’s Song. StJPH. $5;
$20(family pass).
Jun 07 1:00: Opera Singers’ Barge Down the
Black River. Opera Singers; Magoo; Mayor
Grossi, Georgina Damselflyers. BRPD. Free.
(boat required).
Jun 07 1:00: Troubador Trail by Land. Horsedrawn tour. GAC. $2.
Jun 07 2:30: Troubador Stage. Marie-Lynn
Hammond & the Sirens of Stouffville; Yellow
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River Ensemble; Festival Musicians; Evergreen Recorder Ensemble; & other artists.
Cedar Grove Shelter SPPP. $10(or donation);
free(under 8).
Jun 07 8:00: Saturday Night Gala Concert.
Andrea Cresswell, soprano; Wallis Giunta,
mezzo; Blue Bridge Festival Orchestra, Choir
& others; Tony Browning, conductor. KUC.
$20.
Jun 08 12:00noon: Melissa’s Song. StJPH.
$5; $20(family pass).
Jun 08 2:30: Sunday Matinee Concert &
Strawberry Social. Ardeleana Ensemble. KUC.
$20; $15(sr/st).
Canada Day Festival
July 1
416-973-4000
www.harbourfrontcentre.ca
A day of music from around the world, including jazz, world, folk and singer-songwriter
styles. See Section 1 for detailed listings.
Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest
Ottawa River Parkway (Ottawa ON)
July 3-13
866-258-3748
www.ottwawbluesfest.com
This annual event is a showcase for local,
regional and international artists, featuring
hundreds of performers on multiple stages.
Artists include The Tragically Hip, The Blind
Boys of Alabama, Steely Dan, James Taylor,
and many others. Festival passes: $195; Day
passes: $32.50-$40.
Collingwood Music Festival
New Life Brethren in Christ Church,
28 Tracey Lane
Collingwood (ON)
June 21-August 9
888-283-1712
www.collingwoodmusicfestival.com
The Collingwood Music Festival presents a
summer season of concerts from around the
world. Featured artists include Anton Kuerti,
Evergreen Club Gamelan and the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir.
Jun 21 7:30: Anton Kuerti plays Beethoven.
$45.
Jul 05 7:30: Toronto Mendelssohn Choir.
$35.
Domaine Forget International Festival
Salle Françoys-Bernier
Saint-Irénée (QC)
June 13-September 1
www.domaineforget.com
418-452-8111
Domaine Forget, east of Quebec City, presents
a summer of concerts on the North shore of
the St. Lawrence River.
Jun 13 8:00: Brass Chamber Music. James
Watson, trumpet; Alain Trudel, trombone; Gail
Williams, horn. $20.
Jun 15 10:30am & 12:30: Musical Brunches.
Jazz. Daniel Marcoux Trio. $29.50;
$13.75(6-12 years); free (child 5 & under).
Jun 20 8:00: Chamber Music. Large Wind
Ensemble; Hansjorg Schellenberger, director.
$20.
Jun 21 8:30: Les Violons du Roy. Bernard Labadie, director. Guests: Nicole Trotier & Pascale Giguere, violins; Marie-Andrée Benny,
flute; Alexandre Tharaud, piano. $30.
Jun 22 10:30am & 12:30: Musical Brunches.
Brazilian Choro. Trio Cabuloso. $29.50;
$13.75(6-12 years); free (child 5 & under).
Jun 25 8:30: Early Music: Budowitz. Klezmer
Ensemble. $30.
Jun 26 8:30: Industrial Alliance Jazz Concerts. Stacey Kent, vocals; Jim Tomlinson,
saxophone; Art Hirahara, piano, Dave Chamberlain, bass, Matt Skelton, drums. $37.
Jun 27 8:30: Contemporary Music: Homage
to Stockhausen. Jonathan Cohler, clarinet;
Geneviève Déraspe, flute; Chloé Labbé, flute;
François Duval, basset horn. $28. Pre-concert
lecture: 7:30.
Jun 28 8:30: The Solists. Interpretation and
improvisation: Gabriela Montero, piano. $37.
Jul 02 8:30: Chamber Music. $32.
Jul 04 8:30: Discoveries. Judicaël Perroy,
guitar. $30.
Jul 05 8:30: Discoveries. Marianne Fiset,
soprano; Marie-Eve Scarfone, piano.
Jul 06 10:30am & 12:30: Musical Brunches.
French songs. $29.50; $13.75(6-12 years);
free (child 5 & under).
Festival International de Jazz
de Montreal
Montreal (QC)
June 26-July 6
888-364-0061
www.montrealjazzfest.com
Billed as the world’s largest musical event,
this festival features 3,000 musicians in numerous venues. This year’s artists include
Leonard Cohen, Woody Allen, Aretha Franklin,
James Taylor and others.
Ticket prices range from free to $250.
Franco-Fête 2008
June 21
416-973-4000
A one-day festival for Francophones and Francophiles, with live performances and family
programming. For detailed listings see Section 1.
Glimmerglass Opera
Cooperstown (NY)
July 5-August 24
607-547-2255
www.glimmerglass.org
This summer opera festival features professional productions in the Alice Busch Opera
Theatre on Lake Otsego, near Cooperstown,
New York.
Jul 05 8:00: Porter: Kiss Me Kate. Lilli Vanessi, soprano; Fred Graham, baritone; & other
artists. Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra; David
Charles Abel, conductor. To August 23. $51$126; $10(6-18 years with adult).
Jul 06 2:00: Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto.
Laura Vlasak Nolan, mezzo; Lyubov Petrova,
soprano; & other artists. Glimmerglass Opera
Orchestra; David Stern, conductor. To August
23. $51-$126; $10(6-18 years with adult).
Festival continues to August 24. For listings
past July 7, see July/August issue of The
WholeNote.
Grand River Baroque Festival
Ayr (ON)
June 13-15
519-404-5757
www.grbf.ca
This weekend festival features baroque concerts in an intimate setting.
BB = Buehlow Barn, Township Rd. 12, Ayr
HR = Hobson Restaurant, 20 Hobson St.,
Cambridge
CPC = Central Presbyterian Church, 7
Queens’ Sq., Cambridge
GLT = Galt Little Theatre, 47 Water St. S.
Jun 13 8:00: Five Nations. Music of Germany,
Italy, England, France & Estonia. Aradia Ensemble; Kevin Mallon, director. BB. $35; $10.
Jun 14 1:30: Bach Meets Buxtehude. Christina Zacharias, violin; Teresa Van Der Hoeven,
soprano; Elin Soderstrom, viola da gamba;
Hank Knox, harpsichord/organ. BB. $25-$10.
Pre-concert picnic, 12:00, $15.
Jun 14 8:00: Gloria. Aradia Ensemble with
Chorus; Laura Albino; soprano, Jennifer Enns
Modolo, mezzo; Sean Clark, tenor; Matt Grosfeld, baritone; Kevin Mallon, director. Works
by Purcell, Blow, Handel & Vivaldi. CPC. $35;
$10. Per-concert dinner, 5:00, HR, $35.
Jun 15 12:00noon: Nota Bene. Suites and
concertos by Kusser, Handel, Torelli & Biber.
Nota Bene Baroque Ensemble. GLT. $25; $10.
Pre-concert brunch, 10:30am, HR, $20.
J UNE 1 - J ULY 7 2008
Huntsville Festival of the Arts
Huntsville (ON)
July 3-August 28
1-800-663-2787
www.huntsvillefestival.on.ca
This festival offers diverse programming
throughout the summer months, from a Mozart programme by the Huntsville Festival
Orchestra to the Downchild Blues Band.
AT = Algonquin Theatre, 37 Main St. E.
TC = Trinity Church, 35 Main St. E.
TT = Spencer’s Tall Trees Fine Dining, 87
Main St. W.
Jul 03 8:00: Blues Brothers Revival. AT $35;
$15(18 & under).
Jul 04 8:00: Hawksley Workman. Alternative rock. AT $35; $20(18 & under).
Jul 05 8:00: Sophie Millman. Jazz standards
and contemporary. AT $35; $15(18 & under).
Jul 06 4:00: Mozart’s Mail. Music & letters
of Mozart. Huntsville Festival Orchestra; Kerry Stratton, conductor. AT. $35; $15(18 &
under).
Jul 07 12:15: Music at Noon. New Moon
Saxophone Ensemble. TC. Free.
WholeNote.
Indian River Festival
St. Mary’s Church, Kensington (PEI)
July 4-August 24
866-856-3733
www.indianriverfestival.com
This festival features an array of musicians
from contrasting genres. This year, artists
include Mary Lou Fallis, the a cappella ensemble Cantabile, singer-songwriter Dawn Langstroth, and classical violinist Susanne Hou.
Jul 04 7:30: Opening Extravaganza. Mary Lou
Fallis with host/pianist Peter Tiefenbach.
Guests: Summerside Community Choir and
Indian River Festival Chorus. $25
Jul 06 7:30: Duo Concertante. Violinist Nancy
Dahn & pianist Timothy Steeves. $24.
Toronto’s international festival of arts
and creativity enters its second year.
Headlining artists this year include the
Mark Morris Dance Group, Laurie Anderson and the Gryphon Trio. Performances
take place throughout Toronto, and admission prices range from free to $200.
For detailed listings, see Section 1.
Mariposa Folk Festival
Tudhope Park, Orillia (ON)
July 4-6
705-326-3655
www.mariposafolk.com
Folk, roots, blues, gospel, acoustic and world
music traditions in a family-friendly setting.
Artists on seven stages include Hayden, Joel
Plaskett, David Essig, Muhtadi and many others.
Weekend passes: $94-$79; $39(youth 17-24
yrs). Friday night admission: $49; $39(youth
17-24 years). Saturday or Sunday admission:
$59; $49(youth 17-24 years).
Markham Village Music Festival
Markham Village (ON)
June 20-21
905-472-2022
www.markham-festival.org
The Markham Village Music Festival is now in
its 30th year. The two-day free event features
rock, folk, jazz, country, global sounds and
dance.
All events are free. For detailed listings, see
Section 1.
Montreal Baroque Festival
Montreal (QC)
June 20-23
514-845-7171
This unique festival offers music from around
the world, beginning with a grand parade at
Place Jacques Cartier. Featured artists include
Les Boréades de Montréal, la Nef and Budowitz klezmer ensemble.
PJC = Place Jacques Cartier
H16 = Hangar 16, Quais du Vieux-Port
Lanaudière Festival
NDB = Chapelle Notre Dame de Bonsecours,
Jolliette (QC)
400 St. Paul E.
July 4-August 5
CR = Château Ramezay, 280 Notre Dame E.
450-759-7636
CE = Cirque Éloise / Gare Dalhousie
www.lanaudiere.org
GP = Galerie Pangée, 40 St. Paul W.
This festival features a month of concerts in
Jun 20 6:45: Grand Parade from the Four
and around Joliette, Quebec. Headlining artists
Corners of the Globe. Musicians from all over
include pianist Marc-André Hamelin, the Monthe world. PJC. Free.
treal Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre MétJun 20 7:30: La Traversée Miraculeuse. Traropolitain du Grand Montréal and the Orchesditional Scottish and Québécois music. Les
tre de Québec.
Charbonnieres de l’Enfer; La Nef; Meredith
JA = Joliette Amphitheatre
Hall, soprano; Lisa Ornstein & David GreenBC = Berthiere Church, 780 Montcalm St.
berg, violins. H16. $35; $25(sr) $10(st).
Jul 04 8:00: Carmina Burana. Orchestre MétJun 20 9:30: Chinoiseries. Love songs from
ropolitain du Grand Montréal; Choeur du festi17th France & China. Qian Yi & Samantha
val & other choirs; Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conLouis-Jean, sopranos; Tsuni Shou Ensemble &
ductor. JA. $15-$50.
Les Voix Humaines. NDB. $35; $25(sr)
Jul 05 8:00: Carmina Burana. See July 4.
$10(st).
Jul 06 2:00: Cantabile. A cappella quartet
Jun 21 12:00noon: Fiddler’s Fayre. David
from London sings Bach to the Beatles. JA.
Greenberg, violin. CR. Free.
12$-$25.
Jun 21 2:00: What’s This Klezmer? Tamas
Jul 07 8:00: In Recital. Franck: Violin Sonata
Gombei & Joshua Horowitz from Budowitz
in A; Mathieu: Fantaisie pour violon et piano;
Ensemble. CR. Free.
Lekeu: Violin Sonata in G. David Lefèrve, violin;
Jun 21 3:00: An Indian Improvisation. Pandit
Alain Lefèrve, piano. BC. $30.
Sharda Sahai & Shawn Mativetski, tabla. CR.
Free.
Jun 21 5:30: I Mercanti di Venezia! Les
WholeNote.
Boréades de Montréal & Les Voix Humaines.
NDB. $35; $25(sr) $10(st).
LuminaTO
Jun 21 7:30: Klezmer: Venezia-Varsovie. BuToronto
dowitz Ensemble. CE. $35; $25(sr) $10(st).
June 6-15
Jun 22 7:00am: Chinese Letters. Wen Zhao,
416-368-3100
pipa; Lucas Harris, lute. Bell Tower, NDB.
www.luminato.com
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$20; $15(sr); $10(st).
Jun 22 2:00: Gould, The Renaissance
Man! Rachelle Taylor, virginal. CR. Free.
Jun 22 5:30: Bach Cantatas, Vol. 5. Monika Mauch, soprano; Daniel Taylor, countertenor; Bande Montréal Baroque; Eric
Milnes, conductor. NDB. $35; $25(sr)
$10(st).
Jun 22 7:30: Saffron Soirée: Ohso Square or
the Calcutta Market!. Notturna Ensemble. CE.
$20; $15(sr) $10(st).
Jun 22 9:30: Saffron Soirée: Tabla, d’Haute.
Pandit Sharda Sahai, tabla; Ramesh Mishra,
sarangi. CE. $35; $25(sr) $10(st).
Jun 23 3:00: Planxty O’Carolan. Irish harp
music. Ensemble La Cigale; Marie Magistry,
soprano. GP. $20; $15(sr) $10(st).
Jun 23 5:30: Caribbean Soirée: Le Coulicam,
Persian King! Works by Rameau. Masques
Ensemble. GP. $20; $15(sr) $10(st).
Jun 23 8:00: Caribbean Soirée: Versailles
Voodoo! Samantha Louis-Jean, soprano; Chris
Coyne, tenor; Ensemble Diolkidi; Oswald Duran, Haitian flute; Ensemble Caprice. H16.
$35; $25(sr) $10(st).
Muhtadi International Drumming
Festival
Queen’s Park North, Toronto
June 6-8
416-504-3786
www.muhtadidrumfest.com
This festival showcases drumming groups and
traditions from around the world. Also included in this event are dance performances, vendors and international food. All performances
are free. For daily listings, see Section 1.
Music at Sharon
Temple of the Children of Peace, Sharon (ON)
June 1-22
416-597-7840
www.sharontemple.ca
Music at Sharon presents four Saturday concerts in June at the historic Temple of the
Children of Peace. Artists include soprano
Suzie Leblanc, pianist Sarah Davis Buechner
and the True North Brass. For detailed listings,
see Section 2.
Music in the Orchard
285 Spadina Rd., Toronto
June 1-15
416-392-6910
www.toronto.ca/culture/spadina.htm
Toronto’s Spadina Museum historic house and
gardens hosts its annual free concert series in
the orchard. Three concerts are presented on
Sundays in June. For daily listings, see Section 1.
Orangeville Blues and Jazz Festival
Orangeville (ON)
June 5-8
888-792-5837
www.orangevillebluesandjazz.ca
Artists from throughout North America. Artists include Garrett Mason, Emilie Claire Barlow, Jerome Godboo, Little G. Weevil and
others. Performances take place in the TD
Canada Trust Tent and at the Mill Street
Stage; also various pubs and restaurants.
Admission prices range from $25 to free.
Orford Festival
Gilles Lefebrve Concert Hall (Orford, QC)
June 20-August 16
819-843-3981, 800-567-6155
www.arts-orford.org
The Orford Festival presents a summer season of classical music and jazz, spread over
two months.
Jun 20 8:00: Thank You, Mr. Peterson. Jazz
standards and swing. Vic Vogel and Le
Jazz Big Band. $39.
Jun 21 8:00: In the Company of Greatness. Brian Manker, cello; André Laplante,
piano. $35.
Jun 27 8:99: Pietà’s 10th Anniversary. La
Pietà chamber orchestra; Angèle Dubeau, violin & conductor. $35
Jun 28 8:00: Les Ombres de Giverny. Michel
Strauss, cello; Maria Belooussova, piano. $35.
Jul 04 8:00: The Goldberg Variations. Les
Violons du Roy; Bernard Labadie, conductor.
$35.
Jul 05 8:00: Kuerti’s Choice. Anton Kuerti,
piano. $35.
Festival continues to August 16. For more
listings, see July issue of The WholeNote.
S.C.E.N.E. Music Festival
Venues throughout St. Catharines (ON)
June 29
416-870-8000
www.scenemusicfestival.com
This rock festival features 150 acts, including
Cancer Bats, Cursed, Creepshow, Hostage Life
and The Black Lungs. General admission $25.
Smirnoff Ice Beats, Breaks & Culture
Electronic Music Festival
Harbourfront Centre Toronto
July 4-6
416-973-4000
www.harbourfrontcentre.ca
This electronic music and culture festival enters its fifth season. A wide variety of elecronic musical genres are presented in free concerts and events. For daily listings, see Section 1.
Sound of Music Festival
Burlington (ON)
June 12-15
905-333-6364
www.soundofmusic.on.ca
Featuring more than 70 singer-songwriters,
including Tomi Swick, Kim Mitchell and Serena Rider. Performances take place on multiple
stages at Burlington’s Civic Square and on the
waterfront. All performances are free.
Spotlight Festival
Cambridge, Guelph, Kitchener, Waterloo &
Stratford (ON)
June 6-8
1-800-387-0058 x7403
www.spotlightfestival.ca
More than 100 activities will take place in
venues throughout five Ontario cities. Events
include conducting the Guelph Symphony Orchestra, and a memoir-writing workshop.
TD Canada Trust Ottawa International
Jazz Festival
Confederation Park, Ottawa
June 20-July 1
888-226-4495
www.ottawajazzfestival.com
Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Centre Jazz
Orchestra open this festival. Other artists
include Buddy Defranco, Herbie Hancock Quartet, Oliver Jones Trio and Gladys Knight.
Festival passes are $190; $105; $40(students). Individual tickets available; also some
free events.
TD Canada Trust Toronto Downtown
Jazz Festival
Toronto (ON)
June 21-July 2
416-929-2033
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www.torontojazz.com
Artists this year include the Dave Brubeck
Quartet, the Oliver Jones Trio, the Blind
Boys of Alabama, and many others. Performances take place at Nathan Philips
Square, Harbourfront Centre, the Four
Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts,
and many clubs and lounges throughout
the city. For detailed listings see Section
1.
ANNOUNCEMENTS, LECTURES/SYMPOSIA
MASTERCLASSES, WORKSHOPS, ETCETERA
ANNOUNCEMENTS
*June 1 12:00 noon: New Music Concerts/soundaXis Festival. A Portrait of
Robin Minard – Sounds on Paper. Five recent
environmental-electroacoustic works by Minard, including Nature morte with video components by artist Susan Meinhardt. Gallery
345, 345 Sorauren Ave. 416-961-9594.
Wasaga Beach Festival
Free. Installation continues to June 15 with
Wasaga Beach (ON)
daily viewing Tues-Sun from noon – 5pm.
June 20-22
416-698-2152
*June 1-September 1, dates & times tba:
www.wasagabeachfest.com
New Adventures in Sound Art. Sound
Rock, blues, funk and other styles are showTravels Festival of Sound Art: SOUNDwalks.
cased at the Wasaga Beach Festival. Artists
The listening “audience” moves through a
include Fathead, the Johnny Max Band and
place and the environment “performs”, creatDavid Rotundo. All performances are free.
ing a unique piece that can only occur during
the time of the walk. Begins at the clock towWaterfront Blues
er near the ferry docks on Centre Island. 416Woodbine Park, Toronto
516-7413, www.soundtravels.ca Free.
June 6-8
416-698-2152
*June 1-October 1: New Adventures in
www.waterfrontblues.ca
Sound Art. Sound Travels Festival of Sound
Included in this year’s festival are Duke Robil- Art: Synthecycletron. Outdoor interactive
lard, Sharrie Williams and Watermelon Slim & sound sculpture. Generate power for the sculpthe Workers. Performances take place at Toture by pedaling, activating synthesizer sound
ronto’s Woodbine Park. All events are free. For controlled by the participant. Centre Island,
detailed listings See Section 1.
south side between the Pier & the boardwalk.
416-516-7413, www.soundtravels.ca Free.
Westben Arts Festival Theatre
*June 2 time tba: Canadian Opera ComThe Barn, 6898 Country Road 30
pany/BMO Nesbitt Burns. 14th Annual
Campbellford (ON)
Opera Golf Classic. Day of golf, food, silent
705-853-5508, 877-883-5777
auction. Scarboro Golf and Country Club, 321
June 28-August 3
Scarboro Golf Club Road. 416-363-6671.
www.westben.on.ca
This year, the barn plays host to the University
of British Columbia Opera Ensemble, as well
as pianist Brian Finley, the Tokai String Quar½än
tet and other artists.
Jun 28 7:30: Symphonic Serenade. Westben
Festival Orchestra, UBC Opera Ensemble;
Dwight Bennett, conductor. $15-$60(champagne gala).
Jun 29 2:00: Magnificat Magnified. Soloists
from UBC Opera Ensemble, Dwight Bennett,
piano. $10-$18.
Jun 29 2:00: Symphonic Serenade. See June
28. $15-50; free(ages 5-20).
Jul 03 2:00: J. Strauss: Die Fledermaus. UBC
Opera Ensemble; Nancy Hermiston, stage
director; Richard Epp, music director & piano.
$10-33. To July 6.
after July 7 see the July/August issue of The
WholeNote.
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*June 2 8:00: Ontario College of Art &
Design/soundaXis. Rechenzentrum - Silence. Screening of Silence, by Berlin-based
multimedia ensemble Rechenzentrum. Vlad
Spicanovic, curator. Auditorium, OCAD, 100
McCaul St. 416-925-3457. Free.
*June 5-29, Fri-Sun, 1:00-5:00: New Adventures in Sound Art. Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art: Le vivant bruit du corps.
Interactive installation by Chantal Dumas,
which questions the perception of space in
relation to mobility & to the “other”. Le Labo,
55 Mill Street #317, Cannery Bldg #58, Distillery Complex. 416-516-7413,
www.soundtravels.ca Free.
*June 6 8:00-10:30. Mostly Waltz. Vintage
social dance series. First Fridays, live music
(mostly waltzes, but also some polkas, schottisches, blues and more) in a variety of styles
and tempos. Led by Stephen Fuller & David
Story. Listeners also welcome. St. Barnabas
Church Hall, 361 Danforth Ave. 416- 9290513. www.mostlywaltz.ca $10, $7.
*June 7: Royal Opera House/Opus Arte/
Digiscreen. Screening of Royal Ballet’s The
Tales of Beatrix Potter. For cinema locations,
times & to purchase advance tickets:
www.empiretheatres.com or
www.digiscreen.ca $19.95; $16.95(sr);
$9.95(child), excluding tax.
*June 8 12 noon- 9pm: soundaXis/Mirvish Village. Pedestrian (car free) Sunday.
Performers include Nilan Perera, Ayal Senior,
Eiyn Sof, Allison Cameron Band, Don Scott
Quartet & others. Markham Street west of
Bloor & Bathurst. www.mirvishvillagebia.com
*June 12 8:00-11:00pm: ROM. The Night
of the Avant Garde. A moveable feast and a
full and multi-sensational experience of video,
fashion, cuisine & music, including the North
American premiere of Bainbridge’s Music
Space Reflection. 100 Queen’s Park. 416586-8000. $200, $180(member).
*June 15-October 1: New Adventures in
Sound Art. Sound Travels Festival of Sound
Art: Sonic Boardwalk. Outdoor interactive
sound sculpture by Allik/Mulder which generates a microsound landscape activated by the
kinetic imprint of passing visitors. Ward’s
Island boardwalk, west end. 416-516-7413,
www.soundtravels.ca Free.
*June 21 10am – 2pm: Ontario Registered Music Teachers’ Association, Central Toronto Branch. Sale of Used Music.
Out-of-print items, old favourites, new music
– choral, collections, texts, teaching materials,
white elephant items. St. John’s Norway
Church, 470 Woodbine Ave. 416-694-5969.
Proceeds will benefit students in recitals and
scholarships activities.
*June 21: Royal Opera House/Opus
Arte/Digiscreen. Screening of Royal Ballet’s
The Sleeping Beauty. Starring dancers Alina
Cojocaru and Federico Bonelli, with music by
Tchaikovsky. For cinema locations, times & to
purchase advance tickets:
www.empiretheatres.com or
www.digiscreen.ca $19.95; $16.95(sr);
$9.95(child), excluding tax.
*June 24 4:30-7:30: Artists’ Garden Cooperative/Plein Air Garden Concerts.
7th Annual Launch Party. You are invited to
meet the workshop leaders, view the garden,
tea house & studio, sample music performances. 345 Balliol Street. 416-487-0705.
*June 25 12:00 noon - 4:00: Spadina
Museum: Historic House and Gardens.
Strawberrry Festival. Musical performances,
special exhibits, children’s games, strawberry
shortcake. 285 Spadina Rd. 416-392-6910. $3.
*June 30 8:00: Dora Mavor Moore
Awards. Celebrating excellence in theatre,
dance & opera on Toronto stages. 6:00: VIP
Star Patrons reception; 8:00: Dora Awards
Show; 10:30: After-Party. VIP Reception at
Rosewater Supper Club, 19 Toronto Street;
Awards & After-Party at Elgin and Winter
Garden Theatre Centre, 189 Yonge St. 416536-6468 x27. Regular tickets: $60 (includes
Awards & After-Party); VIP tickets: $160.
*July 4-27, times tba: New Adventures
in Sound Art. Sound Travels Festival of
Sound Art: Resonating Bodies: Bumble Domicile (Pollinator Series). Mixed media installation & community outreach project by Sarah
Peebles, which focuses on biodiversity of pollinators in the natural & urban ecosystems of
the GTA. New Gallery, 906 Queen St. West.
416-516-7413, www.soundtravels.ca Free.
*Hymn Society, Southern Ontario Chapter. Hymn competition on the theme: Singing
God’s Song in a Strange Land. Open to all contributors. The search is primarily for a text,
which may be submitted with a tune (original
or existing). Submission deadline: June 2,
2008. For further information:
www.sochs.org/competition.html
*Toronto General Hospital. Music for
Heart and Soul. Musical performers are invited to participate in Toronto General’s concert
Canadian Jazz Vocalist
& Recording Artist
ADI BRAUN
Now accepting a limited number of new
voice and piano students
~all styles and levels ~
~preparation for exams & auditions ~
“Every singer on the planet should take at least
one vocal lesson from Adi Braun... her technique
is a wonder to behold.” – Jamyz Bee, JAZZ FM91
For more information please call 416 . 651 . 8116
[email protected]
www.adibraun.com
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series, with performances on Thursday afternoons and Monday evenings in the DeGasperis
Conservatory, cardiac wing. For further information: 416-340-4115.
LECTURES/SYMPOSIA
*June 1 9am-5pm: soundaXis Festival.
Deep Wireless – Radio Without Boundaries
Conference. Exploring the potentials, boundaries & artist perspectives of radio and
transmission art. Keynote speakers include:
Tetsuo Kogawa (Japan), Chris Brookes
(Can), Jared Weissbrot (USA), TradeMark G
(USA), Chantal Dumas (Can) and others.
Alumni Room, Ryerson University Student
Campus Centre, 55 Gould St. 416-516-7413.
$85, $75 (single day rates).
*June 1 2:00: Toronto Opera Club. Elizabeth Schwarzkopf – cool, confident, commanding and completely captivating. Rick Phillips, guest speaker. CDs to be won. Room
330, Edward Johnson Bldg, 80 Queen’s Park.
416-924-3940. $10 (includes refreshments).
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in the literature and art of the 17th century,
which reappear in Strauss’s Ariadne auf
Naxos. University Club of Toronto, 380
University Ave. 416-597-7840. $50 (includes light refreshments).
MASTER CLASSES
* June 1 2:00-5:30: Singing Studio of
Deborah Staiman. Master classes 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
*June 10 6:00-8:00: Vocalway Studios.
Voice master class with Tom Schilling. College Street United Church, 452 College St.
905-546-5671, www.vocalway.com
$35(participant), $10(auditor).
*June 14 & 22, 7:00-9:00: Vocalway Studios. Voice master class with Tom Schilling.
Melrose United Church, 86 Homewood Ave.,
Hamilton. 905-546-5671, www.vocalway.
com $35(participant), $10(auditor).
*June 15 1:30-4:00: Toronto Flute Circle. Last Session of the Season. Informal performance masterclass/workshop for adult
flute enthusiasts of all levels, presented by
Margot Rydall. Group participation. Call for
location and information: 416-463-1011.
CLASSES & LESSONS
ALL AGES. ALL LEVELS.
WORKSHOPS
*June 1 1:30-4:00: Toronto Early Music
Players Organization. Workshop on early
music for winds & strings. Led by Kevin
Komisaruk, singer & performer on recorder,
harpsichord and organ. Bring your early instruments and stand; music provided. Lansing
United Church, 49 Bogert Ave. 416-7787777. $20, members free.
*June 4 7:00: Bravo School of Music.
Percussion Workshop. Led by Walter Maclean.
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*June 8 2:00: CAMMAC: Reading of
Brahms’ German Requiem, led by Brainerd
*June 7 5:30: Canadian League of Com- Blyden-Taylor, for singers and instrumentalposers/soundaXis. Music, Texture, Materi- ists. Please bring a music stand. Elliott Hall,
al. A panel discussion focusing on the theme Christ Church Deer Park, 1570 Yonge St.
of soundaXis ’08. Participants include Lori 416-421-0779. $10(non-members); $6(members); students free.
Freedman, John Gzowski, Sharon Kanach,
Linda Catlin Smith and James Harley. Music *June 14 10:30am: LuminaTO/Ontario
Science Centre. Exploring the Science of
Gallery, 197 John St. 416-964-1364. Free.
Followed by concert with Penderecki String Music. Interactive workshop where families
Quartet (see Section 1) and closing reception experiment with unusual materials to explore
hosted by CLC and the Canadian Music Centre. the science of sound waves, frequencies &
vibrations; interactive family sing-alongs
*June 19 6:30-8:30: Toronto Summer
Music Festival. Pre-opera Lecture: Comme- with Dan Zanes to follow. Ontario Science
dia dell’Arte and Ariadne. Lecture by Domenico Centre, 770 Don Mills Road. 416-696-1000. Free
Pietropaolo on the comic characters appearing with admission to the OSC (space is limited).
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*June 14 3:00: LuminaTO. Music Workshop and Family Jam Session. Local artists work with families to make simple
percussion instruments out of recycled
materials, followed by a How to Grow a
Family Band jam session using the instruments created. Vichy Healthy Skin Centre,
235 Queens Quay West. 416-872-1111.
*June 14 6:00-8:00: Bravo School of
Music. Jam Session. Teens age 10-16 welcome. Bring your instrument (drums, guitar).
Our instructors will help to set up your band.
842 Yonge St., Ste. 200. 416-928-0330.
Free.
*To June 15, Sundays 12 noon-2pm:
Worlds of Music Toronto. African Hand
Drumming. Led by Waleed Abdulhamid of Radio Nomad. Trane Studio, 964 Bathurst St.
416-588-8813. $20 each session, pay-as-youplay.
*June 18 7:30: Toronto Shapenote Singing from Sacred Harp. Beginners welcome.
Music Room, Bloor Street United Church, 300
Bloor St. W. (at Huron). 416- 922-7997 or
[email protected]
*June 24 8:00: Toronto Folk Singers’
Club. An informal group that meets for the
purpose of performance & exchange of songs.
Audiences are welcome. Tranzac Club, 292
Brunswick Ave. 416-532-0900.
*June 26 7:30: Toronto Early Music Centre. Vocal Circle. Recreational reading of early
choral music. Ability to read music is desirable
but not essential. 212 Riverdale Ave. 416920-5025. $5(non-members), members free.
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INSTRUCTION
EVE EGOYAN seeks advanced,
committed piano students
([email protected] or 416-894-6344)
STEINWAY GRAND PIANO - 1927
Hamburg Steinway model A, 6 ft. 2 in.
Satin ebony finish. Visit
www.theoctavemc.com to view this rare
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HARMONY/RUDIMENTS LESSONS
RCM exam preparation. Experienced RCM
examiner/music teacher. UofT music
graduate. Downtown Toronto location. Contact
M. Molinari at 416-763-2236 or
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ARE YOU PLANNING A CONCERT or
recital? Looking for a venue? Consider Bloor
Street United Church. Phone: 416-924-7439
x22 Email: [email protected]
PIANO LESSONS: All ages, styles –
beginner, classical, jazz, pop, RCM exams.
Feel the joy of making music! Peter Ness,
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THEORY, SIGHT-SINGING, EARTRAINING LESSONS: All grades, RCM
exam prep (rudiments, harmony, history,
counterpoint). Learning can be fun and easy!
Peter Ness, ARCT. 416-767-9747.
FOR SALE
FOR SALE: Small library of cello
music, individually or in its entirety. Solos,
chamber music, methods, studies; some
unused. Simone: 416-926-1578.
STEINWAY & SON “B” GRAND.
Purchased new in 1996. 6”11” x 5”8”
excellent condition, asking for $42K, call 416723-8286.
MISCELLANEOUS
REHEARSAL ACCOMPANIST
NEEDED. Irish Choral Society of Canada
commencing September ‘08. Tuesday
evening rehearsals, downtown Toronto.
Three-concert series. Call 416-467-5961
or email [email protected] for more
information.
BARD – EARLY MUSIC DUO playing
recorder and virginal available to provide
background atmosphere for teas, receptions or
other functions – greater Toronto area. For rates
and info call 905-722-5618 or email us at
[email protected]
SINGERS WANTED! The Irish
Choral Society of Canada is a community
SATB choir under the direction of Karen
L.A. D’Aoust exploring sacred, secular
and folk works centered around Irish and
other Celtic themes. Rehearsals are held
Tuesday evenings in downtown Toronto.
We are currently auditioning experienced
singers for all sections for our upcoming
seventh concert season. Interested
singers can book an audition or obtain
further details by calling 416-467-5971 or
email [email protected].
MUSIC FOR ALL OCCASIONS! Small
ensembles, Dance Band, Big Band; Cocktail
Hour, Dinner music, Concerts, Shows;
Classical, Contemporary, Dixieland, Traditional
and Smooth Jazz! JSL Musical Productions
905-276-3373.
SUZUKI PIANO TEACHER for
established school. Must have
minimum Suzuki Book 1 accreditation to
start and be qualified for advanced students.
Email resume to [email protected].
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CHOIR LEADS REQUIRED
Grace Church on-the-Hill,
Toronto. Soprano 1 or 2 & Alto 2 Leads,
St. Cecilia Choir (Tuesday evening
rehearsals); Countertenor Lead, Men’s
Choir (Thursday evening rehearsals).
Contact Melva Treffinger Graham,
Director of Music. 416-488-7884 x 117. A
description of our vibrant music program
is available at
www.gracechurchonthehill.ca.
VOLUNTEER MUSICIANS
WANTED for humanitarian fundraising
projects: Vocals / Saxophones / Trumpets
/ Trombones / Guitar / Piano / Bass /
Drums / Violins. Andrew 416-712-2555
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WE ARE ALL MUSIC’S CHILDREN
JUNE’s Child…
by mJ Buell
together and play... an intense sound that has really
stuck. At that age I also encountered East Indian
music… tabla… the mix of cultures was amazing.
My father always found “other things” for us
to do during Carnival time: I think he didn’t want
us hanging out, running around. But in February
1964, when we were about to move to Barbados,
I guess he wanted us to see a little bit of carnival
because we were leaving. We got into the car and
he said “Let’s listen for a steel band and find a
vantage point where we can see and hear…”. But
we found ourselves caught between bands
MAY’s Child …
….was Brainerd Blyden-Taylor, Artistic Director converging from two directions, and stuck in the
middle of all the celebrations - windows rolled up
and conductor of The Nathaniel Dett Chorale,
which he founded in 1998, named after renowned and the doors locked. People sat on the car and
bounced up and down. I was 10. It was
African-Canadian composer R. Nathaniel Dett
(1882-1943). Canada did not have a professional unforgettable.
The point at which you began to think of
ensemble dedicated to Afrocentric choral music,
yourself as a musician? I’d conduct chairs
where persons of African heritage could see
when I was supposed to be polishing floors on
themselves represented in the majority, and
Saturday. It meant moving all the chairs, so I’d
Brainerd felt compelled to fill this void.
The Chorale’s success all over North America line them up, play Handel’s Messiah on the reelto-reel, and conduct. (I still have a thing for the
is proof not only of this need, but also of their
Messiah ... a collection in fact – about 10
extraordinary collective musicianship.
different readings.)
Brainerd Blyden Taylor was born in Trinidad
In Barbados my father was principal of the
& Tobago and immigrated to Canada in 1973.
Wesleyan Methodist Seminary. He started a choir
He’s been guest conductor with the Toronto
Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Nova Scotia, the and insisted that all the seminarians sing. He also
Hannaford Street Silver Band, Nova Scotia Youth taught basic choral conducting, felt it was
important that they could lead. This was the start
Choir, Ontario Youth Choir and the New
of my formal training: he’d come home talking
Brunswick Choral Federation Youth Sing, and
about what they could/couldn’t do and I would
recently completed a 25-year tenure with The
say “I could do that!” I became his rehearsal
Orpheus Choir of Toronto.
accompanist. I became music director of my
Brainerd has taught at the U. of T. Faculty of
church just before my 14th birthday. It was a real
Music, is a Master Teacher with the Toronto
Board of Education, and is in constant demand as job, with my first real (pump) organ.
Do you remember ever thinking you would do
a clinician, adjudicator and lecturer.
At home in Toronto he’s also an active church anything else? There were a lot of things athletics, theatre arts, regimental music - but my
musician, currently Music Director of St.
father had strong feelings about anything that
Timothy’s Anglican Church.
involved Sundays. It wasn’t clear what my father
Earliest musical memory? “Sing them over again
DID want me to do. But I must have triggered
to me, wonderful words of life” ... my mother:
memories for him, from his own life before the
singing and whistling all the time - hymns
hounds of God got him: politics, athletics,
mostly, while she did her daily stuff.
music.
Other musicians in your family? I was born into
Brainerd’s mother championed his
the church: there’s always music around. My
emigrating to Canada in 1973 - a family friend
father was a minister of religion. He’d also studied mentioned an opening for a music director at
the violin. His brother, also a minister, played the Oakwood Wesleyan Church in Toronto. Three
accordion. My grandmother, my uncles and aunts years later a transitional year at the U of T
all sang.
opened the door to the Hart House Chorus
First experiences of making music? My father at where he met conductor Denise Narcisse-Mair,
the piano singing “come to family worship” every who would become a significant mentor.
morning to gather me and my three younger
Fenno Heath once told me that people should
sisters. We’d sing, read from scriptures, pray
only conduct if it’s all they want to do.
together.
Conducting is a calling, just like a priest feels
Memories of the time the picture was taken…?
called. It’s what draws me to the church. My job
Radio, records, and our Philips reel-to-reel tape
is to really present myself, open and willing to
recorder …. At school we sang in the morning,
the flow, to let the music speak, letting the magic
when we broke for lunchtime, and again at the end and the mystery happen, and through the choir to
of the day. Next-door to our house the people
the audience.
made steel drums. I remember the sound when
Face-to-face with little Brainerd in that photo,
they pounded the bumps into the heated pan,
is there anything you’d say?
cooled it down and tuned it. When they had a set
Stick to your guns little dude. We have the best
of drums ready a bunch of people would get
job in the world.
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If you think this is good, you should
see me write my last name! PHOTO:
SUZUKI CONCERT, SPRINGTIME CIRCA
1969, CALGARY.
Think you know who JUNE’s child
is? Send your best guess to
[email protected]
(be sure to send us your mailing
address, just in case your name is
drawn!) Winners will be selected by
random draw among correct replies
received by JUNE 15 2008.
!!Tickets & Recordings!!
CONGRATULATIONS
TO OUR WINNERS
Wilma Cromwell and Pat Foltas will
each receive a pair of tickets for The
Nathaniel Dett Chorale’s 2008
annual Christmas concert, An Indigo
Christmas: Afrocentric seasonal
music with a soulful message and a
social conscience - a heart-warmer
for a chilly December evening.
Jeanne Yuen will receive Carry
Me Home: The Story & Music of
The Nathaniel Dett Chorale.
Filmmakers Liam Romalis and
Gerald Packer won a Gemini award
for this portrait of Brainerd BlydenTaylor and the Chorale: works by R.
Nathaniel Dett and other Afro/
American
composers,
and
interviews with jazz pianist/educator
Ellis Marsalis, the late conductor/
composer
Moses
Hogan,
musicologist Rob Bowman, and
Mary Lou Fallis (Available from
Marquis Classics.)
Peter McGillivray will receive
Listen to the Lambs, the Nathaniel
Dett Chorale’s first CD: songs of
inspiration,
hymns,
and
arrangements of spirituals by
Canadian composer R. Nathaniel
Dett. (CDC 81293-2 Marquis
Classics / EMI Music Canada)
Music’s Children gratefully
acknowledges the Nathaniel Dett
Chorale,
Michelle
Lynne
Goodfellow, and significant others.
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MUSICAL LIFE:
WN: And then?
MC: A most interesting”problem”. As I got deeper into graphics
with the five I suggested that they might insert in with the graphics
some conventionally notated material with staff lines and clefs and
rhythms etc. They liked that, ... in fact began to get the urge to
write a whole piece with conventional notation. This raised my eyeexcerpts from an e-mail conversation
brows because this kind of highly advanced work in composition
with composer Michael Colgrass
can take months, or years, and our performance deadline was only
six weeks away! We could write orchestra pieces with graphic notaWholeNote: The creative spark for this exchange was appropriately
tion in that time, but scoring their pieces with specific rhythms,
enough a festival by that name.What was “Creative Sparks” exactly.
chords, orchestration and voicings ... I was pleased that working
Michael Colgrass: Alex Pauk, Music Director of Toronto’s Esprit metaphorically with graphics had given them insights and confiorchestra, got the idea of having experienced composers of various
dence, but the thought of making the quantum leap into full scoring
ages act as mentors, teaching middle school, high school and college for orchestra in the time we had left felt like the symptoms of a
students to create musical pieces that either their fellow students or
heart attack.
the Esprit musicians could play. Composers Scott Good, Douglas
WN: So what did you do?
Schmidt, Alex and I took on the task. On May 7th these works were
MC: Told them that if they were willing to make the necessary
premiered at MaRS hall in Toronto. Alex conducted grade 12
visits to my home for private lessons I would do it. I had three
youngsters from the Etobicoke School of the Arts in a piece that
two-hour visits each with two of them, four with another and five
they collectively wrote for chamber ensemble. Scott Good conducted
with another. These sessions were very intense and interspersed
children of North Toronto Collegiate in a set of variations which
with e-mails. Their pieces began to take shape, but even so, two
they had written as a group. Douglas Schmidt directed grade 8 and
weeks before the deadline I almost phoned Alex Pauk to say that we
9 students from the Rockcliff Middle School in a piece they wrote
would have to bow out. Instead I made myself available anytime of
depicting a storm. My students were members of the Claude Watson
day or night in these last two weeks and they came through with
School of the Arts. Two wrote pieces for orchestra, another wrote a
very hard work. We were still working out details on the pieces
duo for two violins, which she played herself with a school colduring the three-day rehearsal period, actually writing and re-writing
league, and two collaborated on a piece for orchestra, in which they
between rehearsals to put on the final touches. It was only at the
performed as soloists. Esprit played the orchestra works with Alex
last rehearsal I heard for the first time the completely finished works
conducting.
and I could hardly believe it. Leaving that rehearsal I was so excited
WN: How do you teach youngsters to write music when they have
I walked all the way home from the MaRS building saying to mynever done it before? Where do you start?
self, “We did it! We did it!” I could hardly sleep that night. The
MC: With a prayer! I had students from Alan Torok’s Music Theo- dress rehearsal and concert two days later on May 7 sounded even
ry class at Claude Watson, so they already knew something about
better and the audience at the premieres was extremely impressed,
music though not how to compose it. My approach was to teach
giving each composer a resounding applause. Watching each of them
them the principles of writing music through the use of graphic
bow somewhat selfnotation.
consciously following their work
WN: Which is?
brought tears to my
at 720 Bathurst Street
MC: Lines, curves, dots, jagged wedges, etc., whatever marks would
eyes.
represent sounds they might sing. I had the whole class of 27 create a
NEXT TIME:
work collectively on a blackboard, using these, then had the class
sing it as a chorus. Next I had them create their own individual piec- “Creative Sparks”
afterthoughts, and
es and conduct these with the class.
more on graphic
I explained through this graphics method how music is made,
notation.
that music is basically a compilation of sounds and shapes that are
interesting. That the best pieces are usually based on one simple
idea — a motif or melody, in graphic terms represented for example
by, say, one curved line varied in a number of different ways —
and that this single idea can be the basis for a whole movement or
even a whole work. (I played examples from the classical
composers.) Also that the sonata form is made from two
contrasting ideas (say, a curved line for the first theme
and then a series of dots for the second) presented separately and from which a conflict can result when these
two ideas are presented together, suggesting the need for
a resolution. I made the analogy that, in this way, a piece
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based on one simple underlying idea. I pounded this point
home for two months, always using graphics as the mode
Our comfortable five story red-brick building,
of notation because I could create musical examples very
at 720 Bathurst just south of Bloor has
quickly in this way.
high ceilings, big bright windows, and freight
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WN: Two months? How often did you visit?
MC: In the first semester, the whole class, about twice a
Short and long-term leases will be considered
week. In the second semester we whittled the group down
on a range of suites from 450 to 2000 or more
to those who wanted to write graphic pieces for the May
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: recordings reviewed
EDITOR’S CORNER: June 2008
The Victoria Day
weekend proved to
be a pleasantly gruelling ordeal as several late arrivals
forced their way to
the top of my listening pile. Most notable was a 6-CD set
(Naïve Montaigne
MO 782179) of historic (though not ancient)
performances of some significant and underrecorded works of the late Olivier Messiaen
(1908-1992), whose centenary will be celebrated this December. Of particular note are
1990 and 1991 live performances of Des Canyons aux Étoiles... and La transfiguration de
notre seigneur Jésus Christ under the direction of Reinbert de Leeuw, who was recently
in Toronto to conduct TSO Messiaen performances during the New Creations Festival. De
Leeuw’s 1991 performance inspired the composer to say “C’était une exécution extraordinaire.” Each of these enormous works, dating
from 1971–74 and 1965–69 respectively, which
feature a myriad of soloists and large orchestral forces (with choir added in the case of La
transfiguration), comprise 2 CDs and provide
book-ends for the (mostly) older works contained on the other two discs of the set. These
are the 1943 Visions de l’Amen for two pianos
(performed by de Leeuw and Maarten Bon)
and the 1988 80th birthday concert featuring
the composer’s wife Yvonne Loriod as piano
soloist with Ensemble Intercontemporain under
the direction of Pierre Boulez. The concert
featured the celebrated Oiseaux exotiques
(1955-56), Sept Haikai (1962), Couleurs de
la cité celeste (1963) and the world premiere
performance of one of the composer’s last
works, Un vitrail et des oiseaux (1986).
Listening to pieces representing the output of
more than four decades, I was reminded of a
colleague who once jokingly said in reference
to Messiaen’s music, “Why does Grandpa
always tell the same story?” Or as my own
father likes to say, “Don’t stop me if you’ve
heard this one.” Admittedly Messiaen’s music
always sounds like Messiaen (i.e. “the same”)
but what surprises me is that in spite of having
influenced several subsequent generations of
composers through his teaching, no one else’s
music sounds like his. His is a unique voice and
even if it is “always the same”, it is a glorious
story, exquisitely told. I highly recommend this
entire set, but for those who want to pick and
choose, the two double and two single discs
are available individually.
Another multi-disc set that drew my attention this month is Christina Petrowska Quilico’s new 2 CD collection INGS (Welspringe
Productions WEL0008) distributed by the
Canadian Music Centre (www.musiccentre.ca).
The disc’s unusual title is taken from Henry
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Cowell’s set Six
Ings (Floating,
Frisking, Fleeting,
Scooting, Waiting
and my personal
favourite, Seething)
which begins the
second disc. But
before I get too far
ahead of myself I’d
like to say how impressed I was with the programming of this set. From its opening track,
Ann Southam’s hypnotically beautiful Glass
Houses, to the close almost two and half hours
later with Omar Daniel’s Surfacing, the journey is a diverse, well-paced and extremely
well-executed one that spans the work of
fifteen 20th century composers, including four
Canadians. One of the most exceptional aspects of this set is the fact that these exciting
and seemingly flawless performances were all
recorded live. They were mostly culled from
the archives of CBC Radio 2 but some—jazz
inspired works by Masamitsu Takahashi and
Bill Westcott—were recorded during Petrowska Quilico’s faculty recital at York University’s
Accolade Centre in January 2007. CBC producer David Jaeger, the pianist’s main collaborator on this project, is also present as composer with Quasi Sospiri, an interactive work for
piano and computer-controlled electronics
which expands the scope of the instrument by
extending its reverberant qualities without
becoming jarringly synthetic. Coming midway
through the first disc it could be seen as providing a welcome respite to the potential sameness of an all-and-only-piano program, but
frankly the broad stylistic range of the repertoire renders this unnecessary and we are able
to appreciate Jaeger’s piece simply for what it
is—a sensuous exploration and amplification of
the piano’s acoustic world.
There are simply too many fine pieces to go
into detail here, so I will just mention the highlights for me: Messiaen’s Premiere communion de la Vierge (from Vingt regards sur
l’enfant Jésus), Alexina Louie’s Star Filled
Night and Takemitsu’s Les yeux clos. In addition, the hard-core post-serial school is represented by the Premiere Sonate of Pierre Boulez, while more accessible offerings include
Lowell Lieberson’s Apparitions, David Del
Tredici’s Fantasy Pieces and even a couple of
Art Tatum arrangements, I’ll Never Be the
Same and Don’t Get Around Much Anymore.
All in all this is a compelling and eclectic journey through the annals of 20th century composition. Incidentally, Christina Petrowska Quilico
will be the recipient of the 2008 Friend of
Canadian Music Award, to be presented by the
Canadian Music Centre and the Canadian
League of Composers this month.
But let’s not be fooled into thinking that
Petrowska Quilico’s disc has run the entire
gamut and exhausted the possibilities
of piano composition
in our time. A new
CD by Brigitte
Poulin, Édifices
naturels on the
Quatuor Bozzini
label (CQB 0805
www.acteullecd.com),
takes us on a tour of four very different landscapes mapped by Canadian composers James
Harley, Ana Sokolovic, Denys Bouliane and
Paul Frehner. Harley’s piece, which gives the
disc its title, was actually inspired by a landscape—the “beautiful and strange rock formations viewed at Bryce Canyon.” (Coincidentally it was Bryce Canyon that inspired Messiaen’s Des Canyons aux Étoiles mentioned
above.) Ana Sokolovic’s Danses et interludes
take the composer’s Baltic heritage as their
point of departure and utilize the rhythms of
the Serbian language. Bouliane’s contribution is
also a dance, but in his case one based on puns
and word games. The most extended and most
recent work included is Frehner’s 36-minute
Finnegans Quarks Revival completed in
2007. Its eight interrelated movements are
“named after the whimsical names of the
quarks that inspired them” – Down; Bottom;
Beauty; Strange; Charm; Up; Truth; Top. Of
course, as the composer points out, one of the
tenets of quantum theory is the basic interconnectedness of all phenomena, and he confesses
to having therefore taken some liberty in the
search for ways to relate ideas. That being
said, we are nonetheless presented with a
cohesive series of sometimes lyrical and always thoughtful sketches. Concert note:
Brigitte Poulin is one of the Montreal musicians involved in “Transmission”, presenting
works of Boulez, Xenakis, Murail, Aperghis,
Vivier and Manoury at the Music Gallery on
June 5 as part of the soundaXis festival.
The next disc also comes from Quebec but
in this instance explores the world of traditional
folk music through
three-part a cappella
vocals, lively instrumentals in “period”
style and original
songs. Genticorum
has been performing
together since 2000
and with the release
of their third CD La
Bibournoise
(www.genticorum.com) have firmly established themselves as players on the international folk circuit. This summer they will perform
in California, Vermont, Maine, British Columbia, Quebec, Newfoundland and August 15–17
at the Ottawa Folk Festival. Multi-instrumentalists all, the three perform on wooden flute,
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fiddle(s), guitar, jaw harp, fretless electric bass
(tastefully played and never seeming anachronistic) and foot-stomp percussion. The textures
created belie the fact that there are just three
people producing all that sound, but careful
listening confirms that this is indeed possible in
real (reel!) time: two singers and flute, okay
that’s three mouths; flute plus fiddle and
bass—that’s only three pairs of hands; add
several pairs of feet; well yes, three wellcoordinated people could do that all at once
and evidently they do. Highlights are the a
cappella title track—I’ve not been able to find
a definition for the word “bibournoise”, but the
song is about being confined in a wondrous
prison cell made of food, walls of mutton and
floors of ham, with buckets of wine to wash it
all down—and Hommage à André Alain/La
Gigue à Pierre Chartrand, a tribute piece
that begins as a gentle fiddle tune and morphs
into a lively dance. Once again it took careful
listening to separate the layers: fiddle, jaw
harp, bass and foot percussion. The final piece
Le Pommeau is a set of reels “composed in the
shower… Music to clean the soul and warm
the heart.” That works for me!
The final disc I want to mention also has a
French connection, but in this instance it is
Collette Savard’s
rural Franco-Ontarian heritage that
comes into play.
Now living in Toronto, she has
incorporated more
urban jazz and poporiented sensibilities
into her writing and
composition, crafting what she calls “a soulful
new style of folk music.” What drew me to
Collette’s new CD Zen Boyfriend
(www.collettesavard.com) is its instrumentation. I cannot think of another contemporary
instance where the main accompaniment is
provided by dulcimer or ukulele. Oh there is
ample acoustic guitar, with occasional dobro,
violin, viola, percussion, bass, and on one cut
even the baritone sax of Richard Underhill, but
the most intriguing tracks involve Savard’s
sturdy vocals with very meagre instrumentation, mostly provided by producer John Zytaruk. All the songs are original compositions.
Particularly effective are Quarter-Life Crisis
(banjo, guitar and bass) and the closing track
Over the Waves where Zytaruk’s lap steel (at
times reminiscent of John Gzowski’s haunting
work with Mary Margaret O’Hara) provides
the only support for Savard’s vocal melody and
sparse ukulele strumming. Concert note:
Collette Savard performs at Mitzi’s Sister
(1554 Queen St. West) on June 13.
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VOCAL AND OPERA
Bach and the Liturgical Year
Shannon Mercer; Luc Beauséjour
Analekta AN 2 9907
The twenty selections on this CD
performed by soprano Shannon Mercer, organist Luc
Beauséjour, oboist
Washington
McLain, violinist
Nicole Trotier and
cellist Amanda
Keesmaat present arias and organ chorales in
chronological sequence following the church
calendar. Traditionally, the church year
begins with Advent, but this recording organizes the material in a sequence more accessible to the modern world, starting with New
Year and then leading through Easter, Pentecost, Advent and Christmas, including observances and celebrations in between.
To lead us through the year with joy and
heartfelt celebration, a voice as light as a
breeze, lithe as a fairy and luminous as an
angel graces this repertoire along with a
Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro
Erwin Schrott; Miah Persson; Gerald
Finley; Dorothea Röschmann; Rinat Shaham; Royal Opera; Antonio Pappano
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suitably heavenly ensemble. Most notable is
the gorgeous tone and dancing lyricism of
Washington McClain playing baroque oboe
and oboe da caccia for which one thanks
Bach profusely for having given the oboist
equal voice in so many of the cantatas. From
the wealth of material one could choose from
Bach for the liturgical year, the choices here
are a good mixture of the familiar and the
relatively obscure, representing an appealing
range of masterful sacred selections to carry
us through the seasons.
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due to its inordinate length and countless long
secco recitatives that obstruct the flow of
musical progress. A lesser performance can
easily become tedious.
David McVicar’s unique new vision at
the work, his dynamic staging, action that is
constantly moving, talented and attractive
young cast makes it exciting to watch. And
hear. The musical success of any opera always depends on the conductor and in this
case Antonio Pappano, one of the best in the
world today in opera, makes us sit up from
the very first note of the overture. With generally fast tempos he reminds me of the great
von Karajan. His great skill is manifest in the
crucial 2nd act, where we go from duet to
trio, quartet, quintet, sextet and octet in one
gradual continuous buildup to the finale of
total mayhem.
The cast is simply superlative. As Figaro,
the new Uruguayan sensation Erwin
Schrott’s voice is dark and mellifluous (it
reminds me of Dmitri Hvorotovsky). As
Susanna, young Swedish soprano Miah Persson is charming yet mischievous with a delightful, sweet voice. Of the two more established ‘senior’ singers Montreal-born Gerald
Finley (Count) has a powerful, authoritative
deep baritone with temperamental and firm
characterization while international star German soprano, Dorothea Röschmann (Countess) delivers her two famous arias with true
emotion and wonderful Mozartian style. A
treasure. This is the Figaro to cherish.
Janos Gardonyi
of the action. The director, Laurent Pelly,
fashioned this production with her in mind,
and he takes full advantage of her willingness
to throw herself into a role.
Alessandro Corbelli’s combination of
bluster and tenderness makes for a wonderful
Sulpice, especially in his scenes with the
British mezzo Felicity Palmer as a marvellously nuanced Marquise of Berkenfeld. The
only cast member not in the Met broadcast is
the non-singing Duchess of Crackentorp,
here played – to the hilt – by the hugely popular British comedienne Dawn French. She is
much funnier than her arch American counterpart, and her spoken French – no pun
intended – is far better.
The conceptualized staging is very effective in captures the light-hearted insouciance
of this comedy, with an undulating stage
covered in maps, and props which include a
clothesline of dancing long-johns.
There’s been some fiddling with the libretto, especially when Dessay launches into a
hilarious diatribe. Even the English subtitles
take liberties – the French command, “Silence!” becomes “Put a sock in it!” This is
great opera - and great video.
Pamela Margles
Romantic Arias
Jonas Kaufmann; Prague Philharmonic
Orchestra; Marco Armiliato
Decca 475 9966
Most of the outstanding tenors who
have come onto the
Donizetti - La Fille du Regiment
Natalie Dessay; Juan Diego Florez; Royal opera scene during
the past decade are
Opera House; Bruno Campanella
light lyric voices
Virgin Classics 5 19002 9
especially suited to
Italian and French
Those who saw the
roles. But German
live broadcast of
tenor Jonas Kaufmann is different. His voice
Daughter of the Regiis intense and powerful, with a grainy texture,
ment from the Metromuch closer on the tenor scale to Jon Vickers
politan Opera last
than to Luciano Pavarotti. It is a disappointmonth will recognize
ment, then, that his first recital disc presents
this production taped at
standard fare for a lyric tenor - a predictable
Covent Garden in
assortment of arias from operas like Rigoletto,
January of 2007. The
La Traviata, La Boheme and Manon.
sets, costumes and
Kaufmann clearly puts his heart into these
direction are the same,
roles, and easily meets their technical deas is the cast, lead by
French soprano Natalie Dessay and Peruvian mands, but his voice lacks the openness and
sunny warmth required for the Italian roles or
tenor Juan Diego Flórez.
the suppleness and elegance for the French
Flórez is adorable in his lederhosen and
multi-coloured sweater – more Missoni than ones. While he adapts with finesse to different
characters and vocal styles, the unrelenting
Tyrolean. He’s very handsome, and moves
around the stage with delightful ease. But it’s baritonal quality of his sound is unsuited to
many of them.
his gorgeous tone and breathtaking agility
Selections from Die Freischutz and Die
that have made him the most exciting bel
canto tenor of our time. As usual, he brings Meistersinger show what he should be doing
more of - there are few tenors today who can
down the house with his thrilling string of
match him for his combination of power and
nine full-voiced high C’s in the famous Ah!
sensitivity in this repertoire. Perhaps
mes amis cabaletta.
Kaufmann’s good looks have tempted him to
Dessay is an ideal stage partner for Flótake on lyric romantic leads. But there are
rez. A natural actress and deft comedienne,
plenty of excellent tenors for Rodolpho and
she gets the most out of every phrase and
musical gesture – even while ironing or peel- Alfredo singing today, and all too few tenors
able to manage the heavy German roles he
ing potatoes. When she sings coloratura the
decorations and runs become an integral part
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excels in. For all Kaufmann’s strengths, this
recital promises more for his future than it
offers in the present.
Seth Estrin
Unsuk Chin - Alice in Wonderland
Sally Matthews; Bayerischen Staatsoper;
Kent Nagano
Medici Arts 2072418
When American conductor Kent Nagano
moved to the Bavarian
State Opera, he
brought this new opera
by Korean composer
Unsuk Chin with him.
The premiere last
summer in Munich
was controversial, the
newspapers in this
opera-addicted city reporting complaints by
Chin that German director Achim Freyer,
who always puts his own signature on his
work, was ignoring her intentions. But the
adventurous Munichers took to Alice with
enormous enthusiasm, as you can hear on
this DVD taped during its premiere run last
summer.
Chin and her co-librettist David Henry
Hwang, who wrote the libretto for Canadian
composer Alexina Louie’s The Scarlet Princess (and the play M Butterfly), have taken
the most darkly surreal bits from Lewis
Carroll’s beloved book, and fashioned them
into an angst-filled play – in every sense of
the word - on identity. Chin’s score draws on
many different styles. Her orchestrations are
diaphanous and vibrant. Yet she manages to
achieve a distinctive voice.
Freyer puts on a fabulous show. The problem is that the music is only one part of it.
His imaginative staging distracts from both
the subtleties of the music and the intricacies
of the text.
The bare stage is severely raked. Alice,
on stage for almost the whole opera, is surrounded by a fabulous array of costumed
acrobats and puppets. Her head is covered by
an oversized rag-doll mask. While the Queen
of Hearts roams on a platform near the bottom of the stage, the remaining eight singers
sit in a row at the base of the stage dressed
like courtroom judges - or mock Lewis Carrolls - cut off from the action on stage. The
singers, restricted though they are, all manage to create vivid characterizations. Sally
Mathews is captivating as Alice. Gwyneth
Jones, now over seventy, is a fearsome
Queen of Hearts. The remaining singers are
superb. Bass-clarinettist Stefan Schneider
provided a show-stopping interlude as the
doleful Caterpillar.
The Munich Opera orchestra is unfailingly
expert and versatile. Nagano, who leads
Montreal Symphony as well as the Munich
Opera, shows the kind of commitment to the
score that ensures a fully realized performance of this charming, thought-provoking,
and altogether entertaining opera.
Pamela Margles
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to be regarded as Canada’s most revered and
respected pianist.
Already famous for his interpretations of
Haydn - Six Piano Sonatas
Beethoven, Kuerti has turned to the music by
Anton Kuerti
Josef Haydn for his latest disc, his first ever
Analekta AN 2 9933
recording of keyboard music by the “father
of the symphony” (and the string quartet).
Rachmaninov - Nine Etudes-Tableaux;
While Haydn’s sonatas never have the draSchubert - Drei Klavierstücke
matic intensity of those by Beethoven, they
Alain Lefèvre
nevertheless contain a charm all their own,
Analekta AN 2 9278
and the six presented here - composed over a
span of some 40 years - are all fine examples
of his keyboard style. True to form, Kuerti
easily captures the gracious spirit of the music, playing with a delicacy and technical
precision that particularly suits the genre.
What cheerful-sounding music this is indeed.
Certainly not without passion - as Kuerti
points out - but almost always maintaining a
mood of happy optimism, making it a joy
both to play and to listen to.
From Toronto we go to Montreal for the
talents of Alain Lefèvre and another Analekta
recording, this time featuring the music of
This month, I was given not one, but two
piano recordings to look at, both on the Anal- Rachmaninov and Schubert. Born in Monekta label, and both featuring artists who are treal in 1962, Lefèvre was the 1980 winner
of the Alfred Cortot competition, and he
Canadian, either by birth or by adoption – a
treat indeed for a pianophile such as myself! made his debut two years later with violinist
Christian Ferras. While the Rachmaninov
As a result, the best piano-music coming
Etudes-Tableaux Op.39 and the Schubert
from my den this past week has sadly been
from my CD player rather than from my own Impromptus D946 may seem an unlikely
piano. The venerable Austrian-born musician combination on one disc, as the program notes
point out the two composers were remarkably
Anton Kuerti has made his home in Toronto
for the last 35 years, and has rightfully come similar. Both were pianists, both were intro-
CLASSICAL AND BEYOND
A new recording from
verts, and both were plagued by creative selfdoubts over the course of their respective
lifetimes. Lefèvre makes the pairing seem
totally logical, approaching the music with
great panache. The considerable technical
demands required by both composers are
easily met by a formidable technique, yet
Lefèvre also demonstrates a deep sensitivity,
a characteristic almost mandatory in performing the music of Schubert, with its intense
lyricism. My only quibble with this recording
is with the actual sound quality itself, which I
found at times to be too dry and “boxy” – a
little more resonance please! But this is a
minor issue, and only slightly mars an otherwise fine performance. Two worthy CDs
from Analekta, each with very different
repertoire, and each showcasing the talents of
a fine Canadian artist. Recommended.
Richard Haskell
Saint-Saëns - Piano Concertos 2 & 5
Jean-Yves Thibaudet; L’Orchestre de la
Suisse Romande; Charles Dutoit
Decca 475 8764
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pianist Jean-Yves
Thibaudet and
Swiss conductor
Charles Dutoit
show what a dynamic team they
make. Their irrepressible vitality in
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these two piano concertos by Saint-Saëns
creates a vivid presence, especially in the
way they weave the frequent cadenza-like
passages into the texture. At times they even
seem to be finishing each other’s sentences.
Saint-Saëns’ second concerto is one of the
most popular works of French Romanticism.
Its charms are readily apparent, right from
the rhapsodic opening, and Thibaudet brings
them out with a fine balance of playfulness
and poignancy. Saint-Saëns presents the three
movements in an unusual order - slow, fast
and very fast. Dutoit and Thibaudet makes
dramatic sense of this structure, shaping each
phrase to carry the momentum forward while
highlighting the gorgeous melodies.
Saint-Saëns’ fifth piano concerto – not to
mention his other three - is less often heard.
It’s hard to understand why. The harmonies
are alluring and often surprising, and the
melodies are plentiful and memorable.
Paired with the two Saint-Saëns concertos,
Franck’s single-movement Variation symphoniques seems like a sidelight, fine though
this performance is. What would really work
here is another concerto by Saint-Saëns, or
one of his shorter works for piano and orchestra.
In the booklet photos, Thibaudet appears
to be deep in contemplation. Yet these performances are as extroverted, sparkling and
wholeheartedly virtuosic as one hopes from
him. The orchestra plays with the desired
élan throughout.
Pamela Margles
Concert Note: Jean-Yves Thibaudet performs Gershwin’s Piano Concerto at Roy
Thomson Hall with the Toronto Symphony
under Peter Oundjian on June 11, 12 and 14.
MODERN & CONTEMPORARY
Shostakovich; Franck - Violin Sonatas
Sergey & Lusine Khachatryan
Naïve V 5122
Here is yet another
CD in the seemingly
never-ending stream
of impressive releases by world-class
young performers,
this time the artists
being the Armenian
brother and sister
duo Sergey and Lusine Khachatryan. Sergey
won the Sibelius Competition in 2000 and the
Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2005, and
clearly has a musical intelligence to match
his technical abilities.
The Franck sonata is a unique and distinctive work, and this performance captures all
of its moods perfectly, combining thoughtful,
contemplative playing and passionate strength
in a simply beautiful interpretation. Sergey
has a big, warm sound, together with a controlled intensity of tone that enables him to
sustain the extended sense of line that is so
crucial in this work. Lusine’s piano performance is no less impressive, her fine sense of
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rubato allowing her brother plenty of room
for his expansive phrasing.
The Shostakovich Sonata Op.134 from
1968 is a difficult work, both technically and
musically, with the composer attempting to
assimilate 12-tone thematic material within a
tonal - albeit highly chromatic - context, and
again the duo displays a solid grasp of structure, an unerring sense of tempo, and a perfect mixture of passion and sensitivity. The
middle Allegretto movement is simply explosive.
The booklet cover photo shows Sergey
disconsolately watching his music burn while
his sister calmly peruses the piano score, but
he needn’t have worried - the playing on this
outstanding CD provides all the fire you
could wish for.
Terry Robbins
Ernest Bloch; Benjamin Lees Violin Concertos
Elmar Oliveiros; National Symphony
Orchestra of Ukraine;
John McLaughlin Williams
Artek AR0042-2
I was pleased to
receive a new recording by Elmar
Oliveira, a splendid
violinist who deserves top billing on
major labels. A first
prize winner of the
Tchaikovsky International Competition in 1978, the Portuguese
government bestowed on him the highest
artistic honours. His new CD is no exception
to his high level artistry.
The beautiful violin concerto by Ernest
Bloch is not in the standard repertoire and
has not enjoyed that many recordings, even
though Schelomo, Bloch’s sensational work
for cello and orchestra, is basic cello repertoire. Bloch’s compositions fall roughly into
two categories, the ‘Jewish’ genre such as
Bal Shem, and From Jewish Life, and neoclassical, such as the Concerti Grossi, etc.
Oliveira does full justice to the 36 minute
score with beautiful and appropriate stylistic
qualities. Collectors will compare this performance to the out-of-print Menuhin whose
soulful, reverential, almost mystical playing
brings a different character to the work.
The Lees is a splendid disc-mate being a
pleasant and approachable work. Lees, a
very talented and highly respected contemporary composer, completed the concerto in
1959 and it was premiered by Henryk Szeryng with Erich Leinsdorf in Boston in
1963. It is a significant addition the violin
concerto repertoire. I enjoyed listening to it
for the first time for both its intrinsic qualities and Oliveira’s exquisite performance.
The orchestra is first rate and expertly
conducted by Williams who is also a concert
violinist. The recording quality is of the
highest order, both detailed and dynamic.
Highly recommended.
Bruce Surtees
Works for Violin and Cello
Antoine Bareil; Sébastien Lépine
XXI XXI-CD 2 1583
When compared to
the duet music
available for other
string combinations, the repertoire
for violin and cello
appears to be somewhat limited. The
major works in this
format were written in the 20th century, and several of them
are included on this excellent CD from the
Quebec duo Antoine Bareil and Sébastien
Lépine.
The main work on the disc is the Ravel
Sonata from 1922, one of the cornerstones of
the repertoire. Bareil and Lépine are in fine
form, giving a lyrical reading of the opening
allegro, handling the challenging multiplestopping in the tres vif second movement
with ease, displaying sensitivity in the slow
movement, and showing great rhythmic vitality in the finale.
Arthur Honegger’s Sonatina from 1932, a
favourite of mine from an old 1965 Supraphon LP with Josef Suk and André Navarra,
is a lovely work that would have sounded
even better with a bit more lyrical warmth
from Bareil. Andante and Allegretto, by the
contemporary Latvian composer Selga
Mence, four of Glière’s 8 Duets Op.39 from
1909 and the Handel/Halvorsen Passacaglia,
a firm favourite in its original 1894 violin/
viola form, round out the programme.
The performances occasionally convey a
sense of solid if somewhat workmanlike
musicianship rather than dazzling technique,
but in works where virtuosity itself is not the
primary focus that’s not really a major concern.
The CD was recorded in L’Eglise du
Sacre-Coeur de la Baie in Shawinigan in July
2006; the sound is clean and well-balanced,
although there is more than a little fingerboard noise and string buzz from the cello.
Terry Robbins
JAZZ AND IMPROVIZED
Straight to Plan B
One Up One Down
Independent OUOD – 002
(www.oneuponedown.ca)
OneUpOneDown
was originally the
piano and saxophone duo of Winnipegers Paul Shrofel and Cameron
Wallis, but they
now call Montreal
home, having both
trained in performance and composition at McGill University.
On this occasion they are joined by Kieran
J UNE 1 - J ULY 7 2008
Overs, bass, John Fraboni, drums, plus Rob
Piltch who appears on two numbers and puts
his stamp firmly on Manic Depression by
Jimi Hendrix. In addition to the Hendrix
number there are a couple of standards, Darn
That Dream and You Stepped Out Of A
Dream. The balance of the CD is made up of
interesting original material by the two coleaders, ranging from the moody Act One to
the exuberance of In The Ditch.
Shrofel and Wallis both display a good
melodic sense. The playing of Wallis shows
the influence of John Coltrane, but he is his
own man as well while pianist Shrofel has put
to good use the private training he received
from piano virtuoso Kenny Werner. The
group as a whole plays with with authority
and confidence and the album demonstrates
yet again the high standard of musicianship
to be found in the current crop of Canadian
musicians.
Jim Galloway
Twilight World
Marian McPartland; Gary Mazzaroppi;
Glenn Davis
Concord Jazz CCD-30538
There is a wide
ranging choice of
material on this
recording consisting
of a John Lewis
composition, Afternoon In Paris, four
songs by master
popular tunesmiths
— Close Enough For
Love by Johnny Mandel from the movie Agatha, Irving Berlin’s How Deep Is The
Ocean, Alfie by Burt Bacharach and Hal
David and Alec Wilder’s seldom heard
Blackberry Winter; Blue In Green by Miles
Davis, a pair of Ornette Coleman compositions - Turn Around and Lonely Woman - and
three originals, which reveal that Marian is
also a gifted composer herself, round out this
intriguing set of songs.
It’s a thoughtful, at times introspective
musical journey by someone who can look
back over an extraordinary life and career.
Marian McPartland who turned 90 this
year, recorded this album last fall. I have
been privileged to know her for more than
30 of those years and can attest to the fact
that she may have become in appearance a
little frail, but she is still a feisty character!
The fingers have perhaps slowed down a
bit, but the musicality is a built-in given. At
an age when any ordinary human being
would have trouble tying shoe laces this
remarkable lady still makes lovely music.
The CD is dedicated to her late husband,
trumpeter Jimmy McPartland.
Jim Galloway
J UNE 1 - J ULY 7 2008
EXTENDED PLAY - Festive Frequencies
By Ken Waxman
Arguments exist as to the commercial benefits of free trade agreements. But musicians
wish similar treaties existed for their trade.
In the period since NFTA, for instance, the
ability of performers to travel across borders
has become worse. That’s what makes festival season important. Foreign performers
ranging from respected veterans to savvy
tyros get Canadian exposure. Recent CDs
here capture older jazzers’ alchemy and
suggest newer players to watch.
Someone who has
been on the cutting
edge since the 1960s,
British saxophonist
Evan Parker brings
his questing spirit to
the emblematically
titled A Life Saved
By a Spider and
Two Doves, (Another Timbre at06 - www.anothertimbre.com).
Parker’s soprano saxophone is framed by
shimmering, pulsating and whirling percussion and electronics. The other musicians –
all British – are Mark Wastell playing tamtam, metal percussion and harmonium, Graham Halliwell using computer and electronics; and Max Eastley on arc, a nine foot long
instrument with one chord that is played with
a bow or glass rods.
The unyielding drones from arc and harmonium create the sonic bed on which these
improvisations rest. Additional electronic
prestidigitation from Halliwell means that
Parker’s carefully measured vibrations are
seconded by lyrical trills reconstituted from
his own output.
Although the saxophonist’s unhurried
modulations announce their distinctive presence as they peep from among the seeping
tones, all the players reach resolution on The
Chessboard Cherry Tree. Here turbidity is
shattered by ear-wrenching percussion abrasions and crackling electronic wave forms.
Most distinctively, Parker’s aviary slurs
coagulate and multiply with circular breathing. Utilizing ghost notes and flutter tonguing, his phrases color and connect the proceedings. Eventually the others’ blurred
harmonies bond with understated reed trills
for a satisfying climax.
If Parker finesses
his polyphonic tones,
then New Orleansbased tenor-saxophonist Kidd Jordan
burns through his
with molten energy.
Unlike Parker, Jordan performs infrequently in Canada.
You can hear why this is a loss on LIVE at
the Kerava Jazz Festival: Finland (Flying
Note FNCD 9012 www.kalimuse.com),
where his unbridled improvising is showWWW . THEWHOLENOTE . COM
cased. Associates of the septuagenarian saxophonist are percussionist Newman Taylor
Barker and Kali Z. Fasteau, who expresses
herself on mizmar, piano, flute, cello, synthesizer, violin, drums and soprano saxophone.
Announcing themselves on Trance Dance,
Baker rumbles, pops and rebounds, as Fasteau scrapes, stops and strums the piano’s
strings before turning to modal chording. For
his part, Jordan divides his sheets of sound
between screeching that abuts dog-whistle
territory, and slurred, subterranean growls.
Additional mass is added elsewhere when
Fasteau packs performances with thick synthesizer reverberations, screechy cello lines
or, drumming, joins Baker in producing press
rolls. Meanwhile Jordan ratchets from his
horn’s top to tip in a nanosecond, utilizing
vibrated split tones, double-tongued flattement and side-slipping. With Jordan expelling
staccato, free-form patterns and Fasteau
utilizing her soprano saxophone’s pinched,
ney-like tone, Sound Science is another effective track; timbres brush up against one another as identical notes appear in different
pitches.
Another improviser
who tours as frequently as Parker is
guitarist Scott
Fields. Chicagoborn, Fields moved
to Köln, Germany a
few years back. On
the witty Bitter
Love Songs (Clean
Feed CF 102 CD
www.cleanfeedrecords.com) he leads a trio
completed by a Portuguese rhythm section:
bassist Sebastian Gramss and drummer João
Lobo. Fields’ compositions, which match
liquid guitar runs, slinky bass lines and onthe-beat drumming, are still at variance with
their sardonic titles.
For instance My Love is Love, Your Love
is Hate features a spinning staccato theme
from Fields that is stretched with slurred
fingering until it seems that it will rupture,
but doesn’t. Working in double counterpoint,
the massed strings join to produce a barrage
of notes, with Fields sounding as if he’s
playing microtonally and Gramss slapping a
backbeat. Meanwhile Lobo’s flams precede
an intermezzo for ringing guitar licks. Note
clusters are lobbed between the players on
You Used to Say I Love You but So What
Now. But the strategy is different. Fields’
contrapuntal chording skirts C&W picking,
while Gramss resonates handfuls of lowpitched timbres. Eventually as the bassist
settles on legato pacing, Fields wraps up
with echoing, blues-based licks.
Gramss’ bass work owes its suppleness
to sonic extensions from older bass specialists such as New York’s Mark Helias, who
has recorded in Toronto. His Open Loose
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band includes drummer Tom Rainey and
tenor saxophonist Tony Malaby. On Strange
Unison (Radio Legs RL 013
www.markhelias.com), while the three
interlock instrumentally, Helias’ bass nevertheless set the pace, with resonations ranging
from traditional slap bass to staccatissimo
runs. Master of understatement, Rainey
blunts the backbeat, relying on cymbal cracks
and cross-pulsating drags. Skirting atonality
with flutter tonguing and pressurized overblowing, Malaby digs into each composition.
Silent Stutter, for example, finds him masticating hard and heavy slurs into clusters
which are subsequently expelled as foghorn
blats. In contrast, Blue Light Down the Line
is taken mid-tempo. As the bassist’s walking
is succeeded by mercurial stopping, Malaby
builds concentrated phrases. Soon physicality
is replaced by moderato coloration as timbres puffed by the saxophone are doubled
with arco swipes.
Gallery on June 27.
POT POURRI
Wings
NEXUS
Independent NEXUS 10915
(www.nexuspercussion.com)
Among contemporary music fans,
NEXUS has long
been considered one
of the world’s premiere percussion
ensembles – and
they have been
making music of the
percussive persuasion for an astonishing 37 years.
I think I just may be dating myself when
relating that I attended some of their early
memorable all-improvised concerts of the
early 1970s, but skimming through their 25
item discography serves as a reminder of
NEXUS’ insatiable musical appetites. It
reveals an astonishingly wide range of musical interests: from orchestral works, to early
20th century novelty tunes, to an album with
jazz pianist and composer Gil Evans.
The music on Wings, the newest addition
to their CD catalogue, yet again proves to
cover much intriguing musical ground.
At the heart of the album are seven songs
in popular Western idioms composed by the
prolific Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu,
and arranged for percussion ensemble by
various Nexus members. The fascinating
Takemitsu (1930-1996), created hundreds of
works for the concert hall, movies and it
seems more than a few pop songs. According to conductor Seiji Ozawa “Toru Takemitsu… is the first Japanese composer to write
for a world audience and achieve international recognition.” He also found time to write
a detective novel, plus he must be one of
very few serious composers who have appeared frequently on Japanese television as a
celebrity chef!
The NEXUS song arrangements and performances on Wings are deft, warm and
affecting. By turns infused with acoustic
light: delicate and resonant bells (in Sakura);
and darkness: funerary drumming in All That
the Man Left Behind When He Died, they run
the gamut of human experience and emotion.
The CD closes on an ecstatic note with its
most substantial composition, Russell
Hartenberger’s two-movement Telisi Odyssey. I’m not sure how, but the composer
manages to mystically merge Ghanaian with
South Indian musical rhythms and melodic
elements.
Andrew Timar
Another vibrant improvised music scene is
Chicago’s, spearheaded by reedist Ken Vandermark, a frequent
Canadian visitor. Like
other established players, Vandermark mentors younger players,
one of whom is bass
clarinetist Jason Stein.
A Calculus of Loss
(Clean Feed CF 104 CD
www.cleanfeedrecords.com), demonstrates
what Stein can do on his own, backed by
Kevin Davis’s cello and Mike Pride’s percussion.
As cohesive as the other groups here, one
of the trio’s advantages is that Davis takes
either the front-line guitar or rhythm-section
bass role. The other is that Pride’s percussion includes resonating vibraphone tinctures,
cantilevered cymbal patterns plus standard
drum beats.
Compositions such as Caroline and Sam
and That’s Not a Closet confirm the three are
as comfortable with New music as new
Swing. Balanced on vibraphone reverberations and scratched cello strings, the former
connects a near-madrigal melody with extended techniques as Stein sounds an intractable phrase in his body tube ignoring key
movement. Based on mood, rather than
rhythm, the result is contemplative without
sinking to lugubriousness. On the other
hand, That’s Not… is sprightly enough to
suggest mainstream swing, although Stein’s
roistering coloratura lines alternating with
jagged runs aren’t a standard scenario. Melodious, variations moderate the pace so Davis’
plinks and Pride’s cymbal pops are audible
in its resolution.
Some of these players may be on stage
Tango Notturno
this month; others may take a while to visit
Isabel Bayrakdarian; Serouj Kradjian
the area. All are worth hearing.
Tango Ensemble
CBC Records MVCD 1176
Concert Note: The Evan Parker Trio (with
Barry Guy and Paul Lytton) plays the Music
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The musical partnership of Serouj
Kradjian and Isabel
Bayrakdarian embodies the marriage
of musical genius,
virtuosity, passion
and a diverse and
eccletic and highly
engaging range of
styles. Here they celebrate Tango music in
all its dark and glorious sensuality, danger,
drama and bittersweet sentiment in a recording with standard favorites as well as some
surprising and exotic offerings. They include
selections by the famed masters Carlos
Gardel and Astor Piazzola, Jacob Gade (the
Danish composer of the classic Jealousy) as
well as Egyptian Fareed El-Atrache, and
Armenian Arno Babadjanian.
While some selections reflect traditional
styles and the development into forms such
as the milonga, others illustrate not only the
spread of the tango internationally, but also
its influence in film and cabaret. Kurt Weil’s
Youkali and Piazzola’s Rinascero share similar themes: a longing for escape and renewal.
Bayrakdarian handles these transitions from
playfulness to brazenness to despair and
longing with her great range of expressiveness, while the ensemble, led by Kradjian
whose arrangements along with bandoneon
player Fabian Carbone’s are superb, offers
the intelligence, virtuosity and complexity
that this music embodies.
Dianne Wells
The Art of Early Egyptian Qanun
George Sawa; Suzanne Meyers Sawa; Raymond Sarweh
Independent
(www.georgedimitrisawa.com)
This is a thoroughly
lovely compilation/
tribute album to the
qanun, featuring
music that spans
over two centuries
dating back to Ottomon’s court, and
including Egyptian
Sufi sacred dances
as well as early 20th Century Egyptian dances. Local Arab music veteran and singular
authority, George Sawa performs on a restored period psaltery dating back to the late
1800’s. He is deftly accompanied by Raymond Sarweh and Suzanne Meyers Sawa.
They complete the soundscape with a consortium of percussive instruments made of animals skins, wood, clay and brass.
The qanun has an unusually impressive
range, spanning three and a half octaves.
The last track on the ablum, Khamsa Sa’idi is
a set of five traditional Upper Egyptian songs
and dances. They showcase the versatility of
the instrument while at times allowing the
listener to reflect with the punctuated jinglejangle of tambourines centre stage.
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Track three, Tribute to Mohammed Ali
Street Composers, includes a spell-binding
mélange of Sawa’s own improvisations and
adaptations of anonymous traditional tunes.
My favourites are tracks 4, 6, and 8.
These pieces harken to 17th century instrumental preludes. Their neatly structured
sequences recall the intricate patterns and
mathematical geometry of a mandala. You
can hear the contrast to the later works in
their measured pace, and the melodies seem
to confine themselves to the soothing lower
registers. All of these pieces literally made
me want to get up and dance – in fact, I did
dance, and I hope you will too!
Heidi McKenzie
EXTENDED PLAY – The One Percent Solution
By Cathy Riches
How does the saying go? “Genius is one
percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration” or something like that. But when it
comes to creative pursuits, that little one
percent can be what elevates a work from the
mundane to good craft or even, dare I say it,
art. This month, we have several fine examples of what a muse can do.
Karrin Allyson is
one of the finest
jazz singers working today, and along
with a handful of
others — like Cassandra Wilson and
Holly Cole — she
looks beyond the
standard songbook
for repertoire. Her innovative 2004 release
“Wild for You” drew on pop and folk music
from the 70s and for this latest disc, Imagina
– Songs of Brasil (Concord Jazz CCD30428), Brazil is the inspiration. She applies
her soft, appealingly gravelly voice to a collection of lesser-known Brazilian tunes, mostly bossa novas written by the master, Jobim.
But other styles and composers are covered
here too, and being a sucker for an accordion, the standout for me is the title track, with
its European feel. Her usual stellar backing
crew, featuring Gil Goldstein on piano and
accordion and Rod Fleeman doing gorgeous
guitar work, once again plies its jazz sensibility to add freshness to well-established music
styles without veering too far from the essence of what makes Brazilian music so
compelling. www.karrin.com.
Luis Mario Ochoa looked to his Cuban heritage and heart for Momentos Cubanos
(LMOCD-3 www.cubanmusicproductions.com).
Ochoa is best
known for his ninepiece dance band
Cimarrón, but for
this disc he rounded
up just a handful of
his compañeros —
la crema de la crema of Cuban-Toronto musicians — to
make a more intimate record. For this outing Hilario Duran
joins Ochoa’s quintet: David Virelles on
piano, Paco Luviano on bass, the ubiquitous
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Luis Orbegoso and Jorge Luis Torres on
percussion, with Ochoa handling the guitar
work and adding his strong, emotive tenor to
the vocal tunes. A handful of the tracks are
instrumentals — the most notable being the
breezy title track — and are classic Cuban
(no hip hop or other urban styles here), with a
few nods to Brazil and Peru. With the lyrics
being sung in Spanish, English-speakers might
anticipate feeling a little in the dark, but
Ochoa is such an expressive singer, no translations are necessary. We get it.
www.luismario.com.
throughout the disc. Many of the musicians
are from the jazz world — Nancy Walker on
piano, Andrew Downing on bass, cello and
harmonium, Kevin Turcotte on trumpet, Ross
Wooldridge on clarinet — but there are also
touches of folk, classical, Celtic, and perhaps
even a little Bartok, so it all adds up to an
original and category-defying album. For
some composers, setting to music poems that
weren’t originally intended to be songs would
be a big challenge. But Lagan, Occhipinti and
company have seamlessly wedded the two
forms, devising tunes that artfully evoke the
ideas in the poems. This is grown-up, harmonically rich and complex music that does
full justice to the imaginative poetry it’s
based on. www.mandylagan.com.
Cathy Riches
Concert Notes: Luis Mario Ochoa plays
with the quintet June 23 at the Pilot Tavern
and July 17 at Hotel Le Germaine. Mandy
Lagan plays the Markham Jazz Festival
August 17.
Latin America and
particularly the 50th
anniversary of
bossa nova, are the
sources of inspiration for Riding on
the 65 brought to
us by the talented
bunch of people
known as Shirley
Eikhard (Shirley Eckhard Music
SEM2008). Lyricist, composer, singer, guitarist, keyboardist, bass player, percussionist, producer — Eikhard has once again done
it all on this disc. As amazing a feat as that
is, the lack of other musicians means songs
are sometimes not given the treatment they
deserve. Specialists can add expertise and
variety that is especially needed here on
percussion, given the Afro-Caribbean bent of
this record. But no matter. Eikhard’s warm,
throaty vocals and strong songwriting transcend the shortcomings, especially on the
beautiful Following Your Footprints, So Begins the End of the Affair, and the fun Crazy
from the Heat. www.shirleyeikhard.ca.
Who would have
thought Robert Louis
Stevenson, the 19th
century poet, would
be the source for a
2008 jazz recording? Mandy Lagan,
that’s who. Lagan is
a Toronto-based
singer, composer
and educator who collaborated with a number
of other composers, chiefly David Occhipinti,
to produce Verses (ML06CD). Occhipinti
also co-produced much of the album and his
stunning guitar work is a strong presence
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OLD WINE IN NEW BOTTLES
Fine old recordings re-released
reviewed by Bruce Surtees
For some reason or another I overlooked the
complete Tchaikovsky Cycle DVDs from
Arthaus. Actually I did play the Sixth Symphony disc and was mightily impressed but
recently played my way through the other
five DVDs that comprise the entire cycle.
They were recorded live at the Alte Oper,
Frankfurt in 1991 and performed by The
Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Fedoseyev.
Fedoseyev is not
the first name that
comes to mind when
one considers comparative performances by noted Russian,
or otherwise, conductors... we all know
who they are. So it
was an unexpected
revelation to experience his Pathétique
that utterly drains the emotions. As the last
heart-throbs ebbed away I was re-convinced
that this was Tchaikovsky’s greatest work; a
personal summation of his life, a valedictory
address for posterity. Of all the outstanding
recorded performances I know, from the
1938 Furtwangler through the other ‘great
ones’, this has the most profound effect.
Throughout the six DVDs, except to a
lesser extent in the concerted works, Fedoseyev and his orchestra communicate Tchaikovsky unlike any others that have reached my
ears. One stops critiquing the performance
and is drawn into the composer’s confidence.
Most rewarding and certainly quite unusual.
Here are the ArtHaus Musik couplings:
102121 Symphony No.1, Francesca da
Rimini, Rococo Variations (Antonio Meneses); 102123 Symphony No.2, Eugene Onegin
highlights (Lidia Chernikh, Alexander Nenadovsky); 102125 Symphony No.3, Swan Lake
excerpts, Concert Fantasia op.56 (Mikhail
Pletnev); 102127 Symphony No.4, 1812
Overture, Violin Concerto (Viktor Tretyakov); 102129 Symphony No.5, Overture in F
major, Piano Concerto No.2 (Pletnev);
102131 Symphony No.6, Serenade for
Strings, Piano Concert No.1 (Pletnev).
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Guild continues its
reissue CDs with
three new discs in its
Guild Historical line
which should please
collectors. Fritz
Reiner is heard live
with the NBC Symphony playing Mozart’s Overture to The Impresario (c.1947)
and Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf (1949)
narrated by, of all people, Lauritz Melchior.
The Danish tenor had become something of a
movie star at MGM and had just guested on
the popular TV series, Make Room for Daddy. So no one would be asking, ‘Lawrence
who?’ Melchior hams it up a bit and everyone
has good time. The major work is the Shostakovich Sixth with the New York Philharmonic (15 Aug 1943). Reiner is rather unsmiling
but the playing is articulate, perfect for the
composer’s transparent scoring. The sound is
of AM broadcast quality. Finally, from Chicago in 1957 Tchaikovsky, Debussy, and
Bach’s Fugue in G minor BWV578 in good
sound (GHCD 2333).
momentary drop in volume in the first movement. These are all live performances which
were not being played for posterity and a few
slips in intonation do not negate the value of
such historic documents.
In their heyday, Toscanini’s fans and those
of Leopold Stokowski were pitched in opposing camps. It appears that it was required of
music-lovers that they confess their allegiance. They both recorded exclusively for
RCA-Victor and who’s to say that this was
not a great marketing strategy? Still, Toscanini got to record with Stokowski’s Philadelphia
Orchestra (the better of the two) and
Stokowski appeared with the NBC Symphony. The Toscanini/Philadelphia sides were
royally screwed up by RCA but the
Stokowski/NBC discs were state-of-the-art
A two CD set from
and of demonstration quality. Included was a
Guild features Arsuite from Prokofiev’s Love for Three Orangturo Toscanini in an
es, which has not yet appeared on CD. A new
all Brahms proGuild disc of Leopold Stokowski and the NBC
gramme with the
(GHCD 2335) contains that suite. Although
New York Philharnot the Victor recording, it’s a live performmonic and Robert
ance from New York’s Civic Center on 18
Casadesus in the
November 1941, just nine days before the
second piano concerto
RCA session. The performance is fine but not
(GHCD 2337/8). All are new to the catamiked that well. A typical Stokowski Brahms
logue. The two Serenades, op.11 and op.16
Fourth follows recorded at the same event. A
were performed in April and March 1935.
This is the only complete Toscanini Sere- fine version of the second Edward MacDowell piano concerto with pianist Frances Nash
nade in D major to be issued and there was
second Serenade with the NBC from 1942 on is missing the last movement! This was a
live-to-air concert from Studio 8H and time
RCA-Victor. The sound of the Academic
had run out. The final track is some ballet
Festival Overture is a little thin. The B-flat
major concerto is something of surprise, with music from Ramuntcho by Deems Taylor.
altogether more affectionate conducting from The 1942 ballet died but Deems, author, composer and commentator lives on as the emcee
The Maestro than either of the two later
versions with Horowitz. Casadesus was more of the 1939 film Fantasia. As you know, Mr.
Stokowski, the old mousetro, got to shake
restrained and classical than the flamboyant
Horowitz and Toscanini accommodates him. hands with Mickey, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice himself.
The sound is quite good although there is
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Book Shelf
by Pamela Margles
Bravo Fortissimo Glenn Gould: The Mind
of a Canadian Virtuoso
by Helen Mesaros
American Literary Press
480 pages, photos; $39.95
In 1959, when
Glenn Gould was
twenty-seven years
old, he signed a
lease on a twenty-six
room mansion north
of Toronto to escape
his parents’ house.
Petrified, he ended
up cancelling the
lease, though he did
manage to move out
on his own. The same year he claimed to
have been severely injured when a piano
technician at Steinway greeted him with too
much enthusiasm. He needed endless treatments, which included an upper body cast.
Not long after, he withdrew from the concert
stage altogether.
For Toronto psychiatrist Helen Mesaros,
these events marked the beginning of his
decline, both psychological and physical.
Much of her book covers territory that has
already been dealt with in the many previous
studies of Gould’s life and mind. Mesaros is
not even the first psychiatrist to study what
shaped Gould’s mind. But no-one has done
so much detailed examination, or delved as
deeply into his childhood and youth. Mesaros spent fifteen years tracking down and
interviewing those who played a role in his
life, many of whom have now died. Some,
like his nanny and chiropractor, had not been
previously interviewed. Other key figures,
like his disapproving father and clueless
doctor (whose last name, Percival, is misspelled throughout), reveal things not previously uncovered. Everything from the Valentine’s Day poem he wrote his mother when
he was seven to his notoriously erratic driving habits come in for analysis.
Mesaros creates sympathy for Gould by
showing that if he hurt many people, his
own was the greatest hurt. Indeed, by the
end, he was ‘deeply disillusioned and abandoned man’. She emphasizes that that he was
helpless to control his eccentricities. So
why, she wonders, did no-one recognize
them as symptoms of clinical depression, and
tried to help him? However, Mesaros does
not explore the common links between creativity and depression. Nor does she say how
she would she have treated Gould – without
affecting his playing.
This book should be read not just for its
wealth of material, but for its profound insights. I would welcome a new edition to
edit out unwieldy explanations, irrelevant
personal comments and linguistic gaucheries.
It could include a detailed analysis of
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through, when a performance would be interrupted by clapping not just between movements but in the middle of a piece, and when
audiences rarely paid full attention to the
performance – but we can value the tradition
that emerged.
Gould’s relationship with Cornelia Foss,
whose recent emergence as Gould’s lover
Mesaros was just able to mention. Imagine if
she could interview her! Clearly, the story is Next fall, Marc-André Hamelin plays a recital for Music Toronto at the St. Lawrence
not finished.
Centre on November 11, when he will perform two of his own compositions as well as
After the Golden Age: Romantic Pianism
a work by golden age virtuoso Leopold Goand Modern Performance
dowsky.
by Kenneth Hamilton
Oxford University Press
319 pages, illustrations; $33.95
Kenneth Hamilton
was prompted to
write this study of
romantic piano style
by what he describes
as ‘a deep unease
with the sheer routine and funereal
boredom of some
piano recitals I have
attended (and no
doubt given).’ Hamilton, a Scottish pianist
and writer, offers a wealth of material based
on his studies of first-hand descriptions of
concerts, early recordings and scores produced by legendary performers like Liszt,
von Bülow and Busoni.
For Hamilton, pianists today – especially
what he calls the ‘urtext fetishists’ - are hampered by a too-reverential attitude to the written score. He longs for the expressive spontaneity of golden age pianists. It’s not that
pianists today aren’t talented, but they need
to take performing traditions into account
when performing works from the 19th century. Following in that tradition, a cadenza can
be stylistically jarring, chords can be arpeggiated freely, and rhythms can be elastic.
He would even encourage ‘preluding’, where
19th century virtuosi, most of whom were
composers, would introduce and connect
movements of a piece with improvised interludes.
His main target is not pianists but musicologists, who have co-opted the essential
job of editing scores, even though ‘their
academic skills are far more advanced than
their executive.’ Among the few pianists
today Hamilton singles out for unqualified
approval is Canadian pianist Marc-André
Hamelin who combines ‘a remarkable range
of tone colour with an inquisitive musical
intelligence.’
‘The message’, as handed down from
Liszt to his pupil Martin Krause to his pupil
Claudio Arrau, he writes, ‘seems to be communication, imagination, and variety.’ Hamilton’s delightful wit, narrative flair and
wealth of anecdotes encourage us listen to
this message, even though his ideas for its
application may be provocative. We may not
long for the days when a multi-movement
work would rarely be performed all the way
Rostopovich: The Musical Life of the Great
Cellist, Teacher and Legend
by Elizabeth Wilson
Ivan R. Dee
408 pages, photos;
$35.00 US
This biographical
memoir by British
cellist and writer
Elizabeth Wilson
serves as a fitting
tribute to the greatest
cellist of his time,
who died last year.
Wilson studied with
Rostropovich in Moscow during the 1960’s,
and interviewed him extensively later when
he was living in the west. So she knew him
well. She understands his musical milieu and
the political situation of those times. She
recounts her own experiences, along with
those of fellow students like Jaqueline du Pré,
Mischa Maisky and Natalya Gutman, who
recalls Rostropovich asking her during a
lesson, ‘Why are you playing like a policeman sitting in his booth?’
Rostropovich was prodigiously gifted as a
cellist, conductor, pianist and teacher. He
single-handedly shaped the modern cello
repertoire, premiering nearly two hundred
works. Wilson includes glimpses of composers close to him like Shostakovich, Prokofiev
and Britten. He stood as a beacon of integrity, even in his most trying times with the
Soviets. He emerges from these pages as a
warm, funny, passionate, generous, ebullient, engaging and utterly brilliant character.
He was clearly far more than a teacher for
Wilson and her fellow students. ‘He had
given us food for thought that lasted a lifetime’, she writes. Wilson is not uncritical,
just grateful.
One of the many wonderful stories he
told his class was how he blackmailed Benjamin Britten into writing the three suites for
solo cello. He threatened to do an embarrassingly elaborate curtsy when meeting the British Princess Royal if Britten wouldn’t agree.
The contract was drawn up on a restaurant
menu. Wilson points out that while Rostropovich recorded the first two suites, he
wouldn’t record the third. ‘He felt that this
music had its own mystical existence, in
some dimension beyond time’, she writes in
this exquisite memoir.
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