May 2007 - The WholeNote

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Here is an Acrobat PDF Web version of the May 2007 issue of WholeNote Magazine. This Web
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Our feature this month is WholeNote’s 5th Annual Canary Pages - a Directory of Choirs. This
special 16-page supplement provides descriptions of over 135 choral organizations, in their
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WHOLENOTE INDEX OF ADVERTISERS MAY 1 - JUNE 7, 2007
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Acrobat Music 59
Adi Braun 54
Alexander Singers and Players 49
All Saint's Anglican Church (King City) 57
All the King's Voices 18 28
Amadeus Choir 33 57
Analekta 67
Anumi Guitar Records 67
Art of Jazz 72
Associates of the TSO 35
ATMA Classique 4
Bach Children's Chorus 33
Bata Shoe Museum 38
Beach Summer Vocal Program 57
Bellefair/Kew Beach United Church 54
Blue Bridge Festival 17
Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival 16
Canadian Children's Opera Chorus 38
Canadian Music Centre 69
Canadian Sinfonietta 34
CanClone Services 59
Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra 39
Celebrity Symphony Orchestra 33
Christ Church Deer Park 27
Christ Church Deer Park Jazz Vespers 23
Civic Light Opera 49
Classic Voice Instruction 52
Colours of Music Festival 70
Cosmo Music 21
Counterpoint Chorale 39
Deer Park Concerts 28
East York Choir 41
Elmer Iseler Singers 52
Ensemble TrypTych 30
Esprit Orchestra 2
Etobicoke Centennial Choir 53
Etobicoke Youth Choir 28
Exultate Chamber Singers 31
Festival de Lanaudière 71
Forte-Toronto Men's Chorus 34
George Heinl 22
Grand River Baroque 8
Group of Twenty-Seven 14
Hannaford St. Silver Band 29
Harknett Musical Services 20
Heliconian Club 59
High Park Choirs of Toronto 19
Hillcrest Christian Church 23
Hilton Hotel (Tundra Restaurant) 68
Jean Edwards/Song Journey 39
Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony 45
Li Delun Music Foundation 37 42
Live@Courthouse 51
Long & McQuade 12
Maestro Enterprises 38
Margaret Maye/Singers on Stage 23
Melodic Voices 42
Mikrokosmos 57
Miles Nadal JCC 35
Mississauga Choral Society 29
Music at Ascension 33
Music at St. Mark's 33
Music at Timothy's 32
Music Gallery 16
Music on the Hill 36
Music Toronto 9 13 27 31
Musicians in Ordinary 36
New Music Concerts 43
No Strings Theatre 52
North York Concert Band 40
Northdale Concert Band 21
Off Centre Music Salons 30
Opera Bel Canto of South Simcoe 47
Opera By Request 59
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Orchestra Toronto 40
Organix 70
Oriana Women's Choir 57
Orpheus Choir of Toronto 39
Oshawa-Durham Symphony Orchestra 46
Pasquale Bros. 59
Penthelia Singers 43
Peter Mahon 18
Piano & Keyboard Centre 10
Piano Gallery, The 15
Queensmen of Toronto Male Chorus 52
RCM Community School 53
Renaissance Singers 47
Riverdale Youth Singers 43
Robert Lowrey's Piano Experts 7
Rory McGlynn/Valentina Cudin 37
Roy Thomson Hall 5
Sinfonia Toronto 15
Sound Post 22
Soundstreams Canada 11
St. James' Cathedral 31
St. Michael's Choir School 18
Steve's Music Store 20
Syrinx Sunday Salons 30
Tafelmusik 3 13
Talisker Players 41
Tallis Choir 40
Tapestry New Opera 24
Toronto Children's Chorus 19 35
Toronto Choral Society 36
Toronto Jewish Folk Choir 43
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir 32
Toronto Opera Repertoire 54
Toronto Symphony Orchestra 6
Ukrainian Catholic University 53
Via Salzburg 26
Village Voices 27
VIVA! Youth Singers 19
Vocal Art Forum 52
WholeNote Classifieds 59
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Volume 12, #8, May 1 – June 7, 2007
ATMAclassique
The International Label from Canada
SUZIE LEBLANC
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For Openers and Backbeat (readers write)
DISCoveries: the CD Editor’s Corner David Olds
COVER: Drumming in the festival season (and all that jazz)
T.O. Musical Diary Colin Eatoc k
BEAT BY BEAT (The Live Music Scene)
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Quodlibet Allan Pulker
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World View Karen A ges
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Early Music Frank Nakashima
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Choral Scene Larry Beckwith
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Band Stand Jack MacQuarrie
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Some Thing New Jason van Eyk
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Jazz Notes Jim Galloway
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Focus On Opera Christopher Hoile
MUSICAL LIFE (1)
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We are all Music’s Children mJbuell
ACD2 2522
CALENDAR (Live Music Listings)
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Concer ts: Toronto & GTA
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Concerts: Beyond the GTA
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Opera, Music Theatre and Dance
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Jazz in the Clubs
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Announcements, Lectures, ... Etcetera
Baroque soprano Suzie LeBlanc has travelled
the back roads of Canada’s Maritimes in search
of the ancient songs of her own Acadian heritage.
“Tout passe evokes a historic rupture, the
deportation that, in 1755, turned the Acadians
into pilgrims in spite of themselves.”
Sung in Baroque French, with the strong
musical accents of their Celtic neighbours Suzie
brings you the original ‘Cajun’ music.
ACD2 2330
Suzie’s first
Acadian album,
La mer jolie,
explores the
Acadian’s
relationship
with the sea.
GREAT ARTISTS
GREAT MUSIC
GREAT SOUND
MUSICAL LIFE (2)
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How I met my teacher: mJbuell
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Toront o Musicians’ Association News Brian Blain
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BookShelf Pamela Margles
DISCOVERIES: records reviewed
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Vocal and Opera
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Early Music and Period Performance
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Classical and Beyond
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Modern and Contemporary
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Jazz
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Pot Pourri
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Discs of the Month
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Old Wine in New Bottles
BACK BEAT (continued): reader s write 70
OTHER ELEMENTS
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Contact Information and Deadlines
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Index of Advertisers
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WholeNote MarketPlace: Home, Education
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FOR OPENERS ...
Scope and scale
In this issue’s cover story, percussionist Aiyun Huang muses that one of
the advantages of organizing a festival, as compared to a concert series
spread out over time, is the savings that can be achieved. One campaign
to advertise eight concerts bunched together has to be more economical
that eight campaigns promoting one concert each time out. You can see
why concert presenters themselves would find the idea appealing.
But you can also see, alas, why the beancounters holding the whip
hand over the programme officers who disburse taxpayer money at
the arts councils would like the idea too. “Economies of scale” you
hear the beancounters boom. “Sexy economies of scale! Bigger is
better.” Which as we know, it sometimes is. But sometimes it isn’t.
Remember Lord of the Rings.
This year sees the arrival of a new King Kong on the local festival
scene – Luminato, bestriding the first ten days of June like a colossus.
Welcome aboard, guys. As you’ll see from reading our magazine,
you’re in pretty festive company. More than any year I can remember, the early part of this summer in the city is going to be a nonstop
“festival of festivals”, large and small.
There’s a tricky balance for the folks at Luminato to find, methinks.
Put the message out that the first ten days of June are totally unprecedented, and you run the risk of people getting the opposite message –
namely that if they can’t make it to Toronto during those ten days,
there’s no point in coming at all. “See, you can come back to our city for
culture any time” seems to me to be just as important a part of the
message to get across.
Speaking of big and little
WholeNote’s Canary Pages – safely tucked away at the centre of this
issue – is one of several, carefully colour-coordinated directories that we
put out during the course of the year: Canary in May (Choirs); Green in
June (Summer Music festivals of every shape and size across Ontario and
beyond); Blue in October … . The list goes on.
Of all of them, I find the Canary Pages the most inspiring; the one that
leaves me most hopeful about the future of the music. Once a year we
take a snapshot of the choral community, framed in such a way that
people interested in being part of a choir (singing or otherwise) can find
one that will suit their current circumstances and desires. Sometimes
it’s a chorister out there wanting to take the leap from non-auditioned
choral participation to something more challenging. Sometimes it’s the
reverse—someone wanting to scale back intensive choral involvement
without losing it altogether. Maybe this year’s Canary Pages will
actually help me take the plunge, get back into the choral swim. I
won’t be the first one helped.
David Perlman
BACK BEAT: READERS RESPOND
Tinkering with our cd reviews in last month’s magazine (there were only
abbreviated reviews in the magazine, full-length versions on the website)
drew the most ire from readers. We’ve had to do the same thing again this
month, and for the same reason - namely insufficient CD-related
advertising revenue to cover the costs of the space required. (If you can
think of a better solution to the problem, let us know.)
Here’s a sample of what we’ve heard from readers so far:
Dear Sir,
I object strenuously to the truncated jazz reviews in the April/May
issue of the magazine. As a jazz reviewer for an American publication for
nearly thirty years, I expected to have my deathless prose edited or
amended to some degree but never was it abbreviated or “chopped” with
the reader told to read the balance “on line”. You should be aware that
there are many old fogies like myself who are not on the internet and
never will be.
In the circumstances I would request that you send COMPLETE
transcripts of the jazz reviews in question. I also request your assurance
that future jazz reviews will appear intact in later issues of the
magazine.
Yours in frustration, John Nelson
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CD, Brahms Sonatas (CCS SA
24707), Wispelwey has captured my
heart once again. In a bold move he
and pianist Dejan Lazic have chosen
to include only one of Brahms’ original
compositions for cello and piano, Op.
38 the first of the two cello sonatas,
by David Olds
supplemented with (my favourite) a
transcription attributed to Brahms of
the Op. 78 violin sonata representing
While the recording industry re-invents itself as a web-based
the composer’s middle period and
phenomenon and the “majors” slash A&R, personnel and advertising
Wispelwey’s own transcription of the late clarinet (or viola) sonata Op.
budgets, padding their catalogues with endless re-issues, there is still a
120, No.1. In this cleverly programmed disc with program notes that
wealth of new material crossing my desk each month. In actuality,
about three quarters of the discs that we receive must go unnoticed due include a philosophical overview of Brahms’ career by Wispelwey and
a scholarly treatise on the works themselves by Clemens Romijn, we
to space and budget constraints. Some people have asked why we
seem to only print good reviews. The answer is simple – we receive so are presented with a convincing case for Brahms as a consummate
chamber composer and exceptional performances to clinch the debate.
much good material, more than we can possibly make room for, that it
would be a shame to devote space to discs we cannot recommend.
As successful as Channel Classics has become in recent years, most
Much of the material we receive is independent, artist-produced
would concede that the cream of the crop of smaller “high end” record
product and that of smaller commercial labels. Thanks to the World
labels with an extensive international catalogue is the Swedish BIS
Wide Web, individuals can now make their CDs widely available
label (also distributed by SRI). Founded by Robert von Bahr in 1973,
without depending on commercial distributors or retailers and that is
BIS is still in many ways a one man operation. Oh to be sure he has an
why you will find website addresses accompanying our reviews of
expert team at his disposal, but every one of the now more than 1,700
independent releases.
releases is personally approved by Mr. von Bahr. The most recent to
peak my interest includes two concertos by the Finnish modern master
The first disc I’d like to talk about this
Kalevi Aho, one for contrabassoon and one for tuba (BIS CD-1574).
month is just such a case in point. Four
I must confess that I don’t think I have ever heard a concerted work
Trees in Winter (www.anumi.ca) is a
for either of these instruments, and Aho’s writing makes me wonder
solo classical guitar release featuring
why. I am personally drawn to the growly sound of ultra-bass
original music composed and performed instruments – you just can’t beat the sound of a baritone sax for my
by Stephen Zurakovsky. Zurakovsky
ears, except with that truly rare animal, the bass saxophone – and I
studied at the University of Toronto and wish that they would be given centre stage much more often. Listening
was nominated for a Kitchener-Waterloo
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Arts Award for his previous recording. It
was in fact the K-W Regional Arts Fund
which made this current project possible.
The CD is dedicated to “the souls affected by the Great Ukrainian
Famine of 1932-33”. In the very personal program notes Zurakovsky
tells us “Four Trees in Winter is a musical Ukrainian/Canadian
reflection based on personal healing and family history… My father
suffered through one of the worst ethnic cleansings in history, where
seven to ten million Ukrainians died in an orchestrated famine. The
tragic emotions created an unbearable silence that has permeated
generations… Healing begins when we are silent no more. Let the
passion of music warm our hearts… Somehow and somewhere, my
new compositions released in me the power to look at life with joy,
compassion and gratitude.” I’m not sure that without the program notes
I would have realized the tragic inspiration of this music, because
Zurakovsky seems to have genuinely overcome the grief and personal
depression that led to the creation of these works which successfully
embody his hopeful vision of the future.
EDITOR’S CORNER
Another significant portion of the discs we receive are produced by
dedicated, independent labels which have established significant niches
in the marketplace. Channel Classics is a quality record label based in
Holland. The director, producer and recording engineer is C. Jared
Sacks. Having grown up in Boston Massachusetts, schooled at Oberlin
Conservatory and the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music with 15 years
experience playing French horn, Jared decided to turn his hobby of
recording into a profession in 1987. The label started in 1990 with the
name Channel Classics coming from the street he lived on in
Amsterdam.
Jared and his Dutch wife Lydi Groenewegen form the core of the
company which has grown to include an extensive catalogue of several
hundred releases with distribution in more than three dozen countries
around the world (including Canada through SRI). One of Channel’s
prime artists is the outstanding cellist Pieter Wispelwey, who first
came to my attention with his 1990 period instrument recording of the
Bach’s cello suites which still ranks among my favourite recordings of
these seminal works. With the release of his 24th Channel Classics
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WE ARE ALL MUSIC’S CHILDREN
by mJ buell
MAY’s Child ….
This little fellow’s mother used
to dress up his teddy bears
with bow ties for an audience.
He would later become known
for his fondness for bow ties,
and currently owns 64. That’s a
Lotte bow ties! (He is also a
renowned lover of puns).
“Playing together”
circa spring, 1947
Think you might know who
May’s child is?
Send your best guess to
[email protected].
(Anecdotes are welcome!)
Winners will be selected by
random draw among correct
entries received by May 15th,
2007.
APRIL’s Children …Adi
and Russell Braun
See page 56 for photos and
their shared memories
of musical life
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR WINNERS!
and keep up the good guessing!
TICKETS!
John Kent and a companion will enjoy dinner for two, and an
intimate evening of music with Adi Braun (Chris Donnelly, piano;
George Koller, bass; Mark Kelso, drums) as guests of
Live@Courthouse, on May 11. www.liveatcourthouse.com
Patricia and George Hiemstra, as guests of the Elora Festival, will
hear Russell Braun and the Elora Festival Singers in Oh
Shenandoah: folk songs from around the world, including settings by
Harry Somers, Mark Sirett, Vaughan Williams and John Rutter on
Friday, August 3 at 8pm (Gambrel Barn, Elora. 519-846-0331 or 1888-747-7550 or www.elorafestival.com)
RECORDINGS!
Kitty Liu will receive Mozart: Arie & Duetti Bayrakdarian, Schade &
Braun (2007 Juno Award for Classical Album Of The Year: Vocal or
Choral Performance, CBC Records)
Linda Litwack will receive Die Winterreise Franz Schubert - Russell
Braun & Carolyn Maule (2006 Juno Nominee, CBC Records)
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ACROBAT MUSIC 59
ADI BRAUN 54
ALEXANDER SINGERS AND PLAYERS 49
ALL SAINT’S ANGLICAN CHURCH
(KING CITY) 57
ALL THE KING’S VOICES 18, 28
AMADEUS CHOIR 33, 57
ANALEKTA 67
ANUMI GUITAR RECORDS 67
ART OF JAZZ 72
ASSOCIATES OF THE TSO 35
ATMA CLASSIQUE 4
BACH CHILDREN’S CHORUS 33
BATA SHOE MUSEUM 38
BEACH SUMMER VOCAL PROGRAM 57
BELLEFAIR/KEW BEACH
UNITED CHURCH 54
BLUE BRIDGE FESTIVAL 17
CANADA TRUST
TORONTO JAZZ FESTIVAL 16
CANADIAN CHILDREN’S OPERA CHORUS 38
CANADIAN MUSIC CENTRE 69
CANADIAN SINFONIETTA 34
CANCLONE SERVICES 59
CATHEDRAL BLUFFS SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA 39
CELEBRITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 33
CHRIST CHURCH DEER PARK 27
CHRIST CHURCH DEER PARK
JAZZ VESPERS 23
CIVIC LIGHT OPERA 49
CLASSIC VOICE INSTRUCTION 52
COLOURS OF MUSIC FESTIVAL 70
COSMO MUSIC 21
COUNTERPOINT CHORALE 39
DEER PARK CONCERTS 28
EAST YORK CHOIR 41
ELMER ISELER SINGERS 52
ENSEMBLE TRYPTYCH 30
ESPRIT ORCHESTRA 2
ETOBICOKE CENTENNIAL CHOIR 53
ETOBICOKE YOUTH CHOIR 28
EXULTATE CHAMBER SINGERS 31
FESTIVAL DE LANAUDIÈRE 71
FORTE-TORONTO MEN’S CHORUS 34
GEORGE HEINL 22
GRAND RIVER BAROQUE 8
GROUP OF TWENTY-SEVEN 14
HANNAFORD ST. SILVER BAND 29
HARKNETT MUSICAL SERVICES 20
HELICONIAN CLUB 59
HIGH PARK CHOIRS OF TORONTO 19
HILLCREST CHRISTIAN CHURCH 23
HILTON HOTEL (TUNDRA RESTAURANT) 68
JEAN EDWARDS/SONG JOURNEY 39
KITCHENER-WATERLOO SYMPHONY 45
LI DELUN MUSIC FOUNDATION 37, 42
LIVE@COURTHOUSE 51
LONG & MCQUADE 12
MAESTRO ENTERPRISES 38
MARGARET MAYE/SINGERS ON STAGE 23
MELODIC VOICES 42
MIKROKOSMOS 57
MILES NADAL JCC 35
MISSISSAUGA CHORAL SOCIETY 29
MUSIC AT ASCENSION 33
MUSIC AT ST. MARK’S 33
MUSIC AT TIMOTHY’S 32
MUSIC GALLERY 16
MUSIC ON THE HILL 36
MUSIC TORONTO 9, 13, 27, 31
MUSICIANS IN ORDINARY 36
NEW MUSIC CONCERTS 43
NO STRINGS THEATRE 52
NORTH YORK CONCERT BAND 40
NORTHDALE CONCERT BAND 21
OFF CENTRE MUSIC SALONS 30
OPERA BEL CANTO OF SOUTH SIMCOE 47
OPERA BY REQUEST 59
OPERA-IS 52
ORCHESTRA TORONTO 40
ORGANIX 70
ORIANA WOMEN’S CHOIR 57
ORPHEUS CHOIR OF TORONTO 39
OSHAWA-DURHAM
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 46
PASQUALE BROS. 59
PENTHELIA SINGERS 43
PETER MAHON 18
PIANO & KEYBOARD CENTRE 10
PIANO GALLERY, THE 15
QUEENSMEN OF TORONTO MALE CHORUS 52
RCM COMMUNITY SCHOOL 53
RENAISSANCE SINGERS 47
RIVERDALE YOUTH SINGERS 43
ROBERT LOWREY’S PIANO EXPERTS 7
RORY MCGLYNN/VALENTINA CUDIN 37
ROY THOMSON HALL 5
SINFONIA TORONTO 15
SOUND POST 22
SOUNDSTREAMS CANADA 11
ST. JAMES’ CATHEDRAL 31
ST. MICHAEL’S CHOIR SCHOOL 18
STEVE’S MUSIC STORE 20
SYRINX SUNDAY SALONS 30
TAFELMUSIK 3, 13
TALISKER PLAYERS 41
TALLIS CHOIR 40
TAPESTRY NEW OPERA 24
TORONTO CHILDREN’S CHORUS 19, 35
TORONTO CHORAL SOCIETY 36
TORONTO JEWISH FOLK CHOIR 43
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CONCERT LISTINGS
Wednesday May 02
Toronto & GTA
In this issue: Metro Toronto, Ajax, Bramalea, Brampton,
Kleinburg, Markham, Mississauga, Oakville, Richmond
Hill, Thornhill, Vaughan.
Concerts beyond the GTA PAGE 44
Music Theatre/Opera/Dance PAGE 48
Jazz in the Clubs PAGE 50
Announcements/Lectures/Etcetera PAGE 52
Performers and repertoire change!
Events are sometimes postponed or cancelled.
Call ahead to confirm details with presenters.
Tuesday May 01
— 12:00 noon: National Ballet of Canada.
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre Dance Series:
Claude Vivier’s Pulau Dewata (arr. Michael
Oesterle). Seiler String Quartet; Sasha Ivanocho,
dance/choreography. Four Seasons Centre, 145
Queen St. West. 416-363-8231. Free.
— 1:00: St. James’ Cathedral. Music at Midday. Eastman School students, organ. 65 Church
St. 416-364-7865 x224. Free.
— 4:15: Saint John’s Convent. Organ Recital.
Matthias Schmidt, organ. 5:00: Evensong. Saint
John’s Convent, Chapel of St. John the Divine,
233 Cummer Avenue. 416-226-2201 x305.
Offering.
— 7:30: COC. Elektra. By R. Strauss; Susan
Bullock, soprano; Ewa Podles, contralto; Thomas
de Mallet Burgess, dir.; Richard Bradshaw, cond.
Four Seasons Centre, 145 Queen St. West. 416363-8231. $60-$275; $20-$95(15 & under
with adult); $20(spec price, call). For complete
run see music theatre listings.
— 7:30: Toronto Youth Theatre Junior
Stage Stage. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
By Richard R. George/Roald Dahl. Papermill Theatre, 67 Pottery Rd. 866-808-2006. $29; $18.
For complete run see music theatre listings.
— 8:00: Actors Repertory Company. 36
Views. By Naomi Iizuka/Kiyoshi Nagata & Aki
Takahashi. Gordon Bolan, Kyra Harper, John Fitzgerald Jay, Gary Reineke, Marjorie Chan & Ginger Ruriko Busch, performers; David Ferry, dir.
Berkeley Street Theatre Downstairs, 26 Berkeley
St. 416-368-3110. $15-$30. For complete run
see music theatre listings.
— 8:00: Encore Entertainment. Blood Brothers. By Willy Russell, Mario D’Alimonte, dir.,
Ellen Kestenberg, mus. dir. Studio Theatre, 5040
Yonge St. 416-733-0558. $30; $28(65+/st);
$28(mat); $26.50(65+/st). For complete run see
music theatre listings.
— 8:00: Mirvish Productions. The Phantom
of the Opera. By Charles Hart, Richard Stilgoe &
Andrew Lloyd Webber. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King St. West. 416-872-1212, 800461-3333. $30-$160. For complete run see
— 8:00: Mirvish Productions/Theatre Gargantua. e-DENTITY. Royal Alexandra Theatre,
260 King St. West. 416-872-1212, 800-4613333. $20-$65. For complete run see music
theatre listings.
— 8:00: Panasonic Theatre. Menopause Out
Loud! Book & lyrics by Jeanie Linders. Jayne
Lewis, Nicole Robert, Cynthia Jones, Rose Ryan
& Jenny Hall, performers. 651 Yonge St. 416872-1111. $49.95. For complete run see music
theatre listings.
— 8:00: Royal Conservatory of Music.
Community School Concert Series: Repertory
Chorus & Chamber Choir: Songs of Love. Dr.
Margot Rejskind, dir. Church of the Redeemer,
162 Bloor St. West. 416-408-2824 x321. Free,
suggested donation to Out of the Cold Program.
— 8:30: Royal Conservatory of Music,
Glenn Gould School. Student Recital. Todd
Yaniw, piano. Concert Hall, 90 Croatia St. 416408-2824 x322. Free.
Thursday May 03
— 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.
— 12:30: Yorkminster Park Baptist
Church. Noonday Organ Recital. Marilyn Reesor, Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre Vocal Series:
Operatic Arias & Art Songs. Graduating artists
organ. 1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167. Free.
of the COC Ensemble Studio; Liz Upchurch, piano.
Four Seasons Centre, 145 Queen St. West. 416Glenn Gould School. Student Recital. Kornel
Wolak, clarinet. Concert Hall, 90 Croatia St. 416- 363-8231. Free.
— 12:15: Metropolitan United Church.
408-2824 x322. Free.
— 5:30: Canadian Opera Company. Richard Noon at Met Organ Recital: Senan Whelan. 56
Queen St. East. 416-363-0331 x26. Free.
Bradshaw Amphitheatre Jazz Series: Weather.
— 12:30: Christ Church Deer Park. Noonday
From classical jazz to folk, jazz & hip hop. UofT
Chamber Music. Emma Elkinson, Alison Melville,
Faculty of Music Robin Dann Sextet. Four Seaflutes; Borys Medicki, harpsichord. 1570 Yonge
sons Centre, 145 Queen St. West. 416-363Street. 416-920-5211. Collection.
8231. Free.
— 7:00: Philippine Women Centre of OnGlenn Gould School. Student Recital. Stephtario. Field: Land is the belly of man. Ted Hamilton, Tad Armitanio. Alvin Erasga Tolentino, cho- anie Lavoire, trumpet. Concert Hall, 90 Croatia
St. 416-408-2824 x322. Free.
reographer/performer. Betty Oliphant Theatre,
— 7:30: Canadian Opera Company. Luisa
404 Jarvis St. 416-878-8772. $50.
Miller. By Verdi. Serena Farnocchia, soprano;
— 7:30: Opera Atelier. Orpheus & Eurydice.
Mikhail Agafonov, tenor; Alexander MarcoBy Gluck. Colin Ainsworth, tenor; Peggy KrihaDye, Jennie Such, sopranos; Artists of the Atelier Buhrmester, baritone; Larissa Kostiuk, mezzoBallet; Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Cham- soprano; & others; Jose Marie Condemi, dir. Four
ber Choir; Jeannette Zingg chor.; Marshall Pynko- Seasons Centre, 145 Queen St. West. 416-363ski, dir.; Andrew Parrott, cond. 6:30: Introduction 8231. $60-$275; $20-$95(15 & under with
adult); $20(spec price, call). For complete run see
to the opera & its themes (Elgin Lounge). Elgin
Theatre, 189 Yonge St. 416-872-5555. $30— 7:30: Royal Conservatory of Music. Com$125; $20(st, call). For complete run see music
munity School Concert Series: Violin from
theatre listings.
— 7:30: Toronto Welsh Male Voice Choir. Scratch in Concert. Students of Vivian Waters in
recital. Room 305, 90 Croatia St. 416-408Annual Spring Concert. William Woloschuk, art.
2824 x321. Free.
dir. Eglinton St. George’s United Church, 35 Lyt— 8:00: JAZZ.FM91. Jazz Lives. Today’s jazz
ton Blvd. 416-410-2254. $25.
giants & tomorrow’s most promising superstars,
— 7:30: Toronto Youth Theatre Main
Stage. City of Angels. By Larry Gelbart, Cy Cole- Roberto Occhipinti, mus. dir. Convocation Hall, 31
man & David Zippel. Papermill Theatre, 67 Pot- King’s College Circle, 416-978-8849. $25-$55.
tery Rd. 866-808-2006. $33; $22(st). For com- — 8:00: Marquee Productions. The Secret
Garden. By Marsha Norman, Lucy Simon &
plete run see music theatre listings.
Frances Hodgson Burnett. City Playhouse— 8:00: Royal Conservatory of Music,
Vaughan, 1000 New Westminster Dr., Vaughan.
Glenn Gould School. Student Recital. Cory
905-713-1040. $25; $22(60+); $22(12 &
Knight, tenor. Concert Hall, 90 Croatia St. 416under). For complete run see music theatre list408-2824 x322. Free.
— 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Dvo- ings.
— 8:00: Music Toronto. David Jalbert, piano.
rak & Barber. Stucky: Son et lumière; Barber:
Violin Concerto; Dvorak: Symphony #7. Cho-Liang Corigliano: Étude Fantasy; Mozart: Rondo in F,
K.494; Skryabin: Sonata #5 in F-sharp, Op.53;
Lin, violin; Jeffrey Kahane, cond. Roy Thomson
Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-593-4828. $30-$117. Fauré: Nocturne #2 in B, Op.33/2; Nocturne #13
in b, Op.119; Wijeratne: new commission; Liszt:
— 8:30: Hugh’s Room. Susan Werner. Singer/
songwriter/multi-instrumentalist; agnostic gospel Spanish Rhapsody. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27
music with an edge, much humour, nods to jazz, Front St. E.. 416-366-7723, 800-708-6754.
$15; $5(st).
classic pop music. Guest: Christine Tier. 2261
— 8:00: Scarborough Music Theatre. The
Dundas St. West. 416-531-6604. $22.50;
Mikado. By Gilbert and Sullivan. Scarborough
$20(adv).
Village Theatre, 3600 Kingston Rd. 416-396— 9:00pm & 10:15pm: Mezzetta Restau4049. $21; $18(sr/st). For complete run see
rant. Jazz Guitar Magic. Lorne Lofsky, guitar;
Kieran Overs, bass. 681 St.Clair Ave. West. 416- music theatre listings.
— 8:00: Scrap Arts Music. Scrap Arts Music
658-5687. $7 cover.
In Concert. Percussion music on scrap metal.
Join Via Salzburg, Chamber Orchestra, for its last concert of the season.
Artistic director and world-renowned violinist Mayumi Seiler will be joined on-stage
by her sisters Midori, Naomi and Yuri for a memorable evening of music-making,
accompanied by the unique choreography of guest-dancer Sasha Ivanochko.
Via Salzburg, Chamber Orchestra
May 3 & 4, 2007, 8:00 p.m.
Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto • 250 Front Street West
Tickets: $50 • Tickets are also available at www.glenngouldstudio.com
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— 8:30: Hugh’s Room. Jon Brooks Ours and the
Shepherds CD Release. Songs about Canada at
war. Opening: Greg Quill. 2261 Dundas St. West.
416-531-6604. $16; $14(adv).
— 8:30: Small World Music/The Monayr
Asha Foundation. South Asian Music Festival:
Bollywood Fever. Indian jazz fusion, Bollywood
dance music. Gurpreet Chana, percussion; Sundar
Viswanathan, saxophone; Devika Mathur, vocals;
TC Raas Band; Bollywood Dance Pak. Lula
Lounge, 1585 Dundas St. West. 416-588-0307.
$20; $15(adv).
Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. 905874-2800. $35-$55.
— 8:00: Take My Hand Benefit. Alli’s Journey. Celebrating Canadian music. George Weston
Recital Hall, 5040 Yonge St. 416-872-1111.
$50-$150.
— 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestre. Dvorak & Barber. Roy Thomson Hall. See May 2.
— 8:00: Via Salzburg. Dance Related. Mozart:
String Quartet; Vivier (arr Oesterle): Pulau Dewata; Brahms: String Quartet. Seiler String Quartet.
Sasha Ivanochko, dancer/chor.; Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St. W.. 416-205-5555. $50;
$45(sr); $20(st).
Dmitri Bertman, dir. Four Seasons Centre, 145
Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. $60-$275; $20$95(15 & under with adult); $20(spec price, call).
— 7:30: Queensmen of Toronto Male Chorus. Brahms, Boats and Blessings, & A Musical
Tribute to Harry Learoyd. Brahms: Alto Rhapsody;
Ancient Prayers and Blessings (new Canadian
work); & other works. Guest artists. St. Andrew’s Church, 1579 Royal York Rd. 416-6260787. $15.
— 8:00: Absolutely Sinatra. Absolutely Sinatra Tribute Concert. Lady is a Tramp, My Way,
Friday May 04
New York New York, Fly Me to the Moon, That’s
Life, & more. Rick Sonata, vocalist; members of
Glenn Gould School. Student Recital. Gabor
the Toronto Symphony Orchestra; John Edward
Ekeles, clarinet. Concert Hall, 90 Croatia St. 416- Liddle, cond. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St.
408-2824 x322. Free.
416-872-4255. $55-$95.
— 7:00: Ella Poret’s Piano Studio. Student
— 8:00: Etobicoke Musical Productions.
Piano Recital. Donway Covenant United Church,
Man of La Mancha. By Dale Wasserman, Joe
230 The Donway West. 416-444-9113. Free.
Darion, & Mitch Leigh. Burnamthorpe Auditori— 7:00: Richmond Hill Montessori School. um, 500 The East Mall. 416-248-0410. $22;
Musical Flavours of the World. Spring concert.
$16(16 & under). For complete run see music
Main Stage, Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040
theatre listings.
Yonge St. 416-872-1111. $20.
— 8:00: Harbourfront Centre NextSteps/
— 7:00: Show One Productions. Young Stars Andrea Nann Dreamwalker Dance Comof the Young Century: Third annual Gala. Prodigies pany/Volcano. The Whole Shebang. Dancers,
from Eastern Europe and Canada. George Weston poets, filmmakers, songwriters & visual artists;
original compositions by Gzowski. Andy Maize,
$30-$50.
Josh Finlayson, Greg Keelor, Charlie Angus, Suzie
— 7:00: The Music Gallery/Over the Top
Ungerleider (Oh Susanna), musicians; Andrea
Festival. Michael Gira, Peter & the Wolf. Pop
Nann, art. dir./choreographer. Enwave Theatre,
Avant series; song-based music, plus sound231 Queens Quay West. 416-973-4000. $35;
scapes, found sound and loops. St. George the
$25(sr/st); $20(CADA). For complete run see
Martyr Church, 197 John St. 416-204-1080.
$20.
— 8:00: Massey Hall. Ron Sexsmith. Guest:
— 7:30: Canadian Opera Company. La Travi- Amy Millan, chanteuse. 15 Shuter St. 416-872ata. By Verdi. Nicoleta Ardelean, Inva Mula, so4255. $29.50-$34.50.
pranos; Gordon Gietz, Daniil Shtoda, tenors;
— 8:00: Performing Arts York Region. The
Meridian Trio. Unusual wind and chamber music.
Thornhill Presbyterian Church, 271 Centre St.
905-881-1941. $25; $20(sr/st).
— 8:00: RCM. Community School Faculty Concert Series: Toronto Arts Ensemble. Saint-Saëns:
Variations on a theme by Beethoven; art songs for
soprano & piano by de Falla, Sibelius, Duparc,
Rachmaninoff, & Barber; Beethoven: Trio for
clarinet, cello, & piano, Op.11; Stravinsky: Movements from Petrouchka; Spohr: 4 Songs for soprano, clarinet and piano; Mendelssohn: Piano trio
in d, Op.49. Karen Quinton, Susan Gagnon, Helen
Russell, Corey Gemmell, Stacie Carmona & Alla
Zacarelli, performers. Concert Hall, 90 Croatia
St. 416-408-2824 x321. $15; $10(sr/st).
— 8:00: Tempus Choral Society. Anything
Goes! Spring concert. St. Volodymyr Cultural
Centre, 1280 Dundas St. West, Oakville. 905845-0551 x226. $25; $20(sr/st).
— 8:00: Via Salzburg. Dance Related. Glenn
Gould Studio. See May 3.
— 8:00: voxworks. Dead Poets Society I: Robert Bridges & Friends. Vocal works by Berkeley,
Bridge, Finzi, Gurney, Holst, & Moeran. Judy
Maddren, reader; James Wells, art. dir. St. Wilfrid’s Church, 1315 Kipling Ave. 416-769-0111.
$20.
— 8:30: Living Arts Centre. Valdy in Concert.
Canadian pop & folk legend. RBC Theatre, 4141
Living Arts Dr., Mississauga. 905-306-6000,
888-805-8888. $39,$30,$25; $5(eyeGO).
— 9:00pm: Association of Improvising Musicians Toronto/Arraymusic. Leftover Daylight Series. Jazz & improvised music. Arraymusic Studio, Suite 218 (rear door), 60 Atlantic Ave.
416-539-8752. $6-$10(sliding scale).
— 9:30pm: SPEAK Music. Frank Patrick
Worlds In Transition CD Release. Elements of
folk, world, rock, blues, afro-beat, & ska. Guests:
Kevin Breit, Ian De Souza, Gary Taylor, Rob
Greenway, Brian Macmillan & others. Gladstone
Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St. West. $15.
416-707-8499.
Saturday May 05
— 12:00 noon: Royal Conservatory of Music. Community School Concert Series: Helen
Jacob Stein & Celtic Fiddle Ensemble. Room
305, 90 Croatia St. 416-408-2824 x321. $10;
$5(sr/st).
— 3:00 & 7:00: Toronto Stages Theatre
Company. Music from Disney’s 101 Dalmatians Kids! Mary Poppins, Cinderella, Song of the
South, The Little Mermaid, Beauty & the Beast,
Aladdin. Andrew Prashad, dir. Citadel Theatre,
304 Parliament St. 416-848-6293. $20; $15(4
to 18). For complete run see music theatre listings.
— 7:00: Ann Arbor Youth Chorale’s Concert Choir/Canadian Children’s Opera
Chorus. Classical Choral Concert. For ages 5+.
Bonnie Kidd, Ann Cooper Gay, dir. Church of St.
Mary Magdalene, 477 Manning Ave. 416-3660467. Free.
— 7:00: Toronto Swedish Singers. Beautiful
May! Choral music associated with the joys of
spring; guest artists. Agricola Church, 25 Old
York Mills Rd. 416-445-2889. $18; free(under
13).
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... CONCERTS: Toronto and GTA
— 7:30: Etobicoke Youth Choir. Celebration in
Song: 30th Anniversary Spring Concert. Pascal Du Perron, accompanist; Louise Jardine,
cond. Westway United Church, 8 Templar
Ave. 416-231-9120. $10; free (under 12).
— 7:30: Oakham House Choir of Ryerson
University. Messa di Gloria. Puccini: Messa
di Gloria; Bizet: Symphony in C. Toronto Sinfonietta; Matthew Jaskiewicz, cond. Calvin
Church, 26 Delisle Ave. 416-423-5059. $25;
$20(adv); $15(st).
— 7:30: Oakville Chamber Orchestra.
un4gettable. Miaskovsky: Cello Concerto in c;
Vivaldi: La folia; Beethoven: Symphony #4.
David Rehner, Arpad Josephson, violins; Alisa
Horn, cello; Stéphane Potvin, harpsichord.
Central Baptist Church, 340 Rebecca St.,
Oakville. 905-337-1083. $20; $15(sr/st);
$5(under 12).
— 7:30: ORGANIX 07. William Wright, organ, in Recital. Bach: Wir danken dir, Herr, wir
danken dir (Sinfonia from Cantata BWV.29);
Trio Sonata VI in G, BWV.530; Hesse: Introduction, Theme and Variation in A, Op.47;
Mozart: Adagio and Rondo in C, K.617; Widor:
Symphony V (Allegro Vivace & other works.
Deer Park United Church, 129 St. Clair Ave.
West. 416-241-9785. $20.
— 7:30: Royal York Road United Church.
A Gift of Song. Works by Mozart, Schubert,
Debussy, & Weill. Glynis Ratcliffe, soprano;
Amanda Johnston, piano. 851 Royal York Rd.
416-873-5644. $15.
— 7:30: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Kahane Plays and Conducts. Stucky: Son et
lumière; Ravel: Piano Concerto in G; Dvorak:
Symphony #7 in d, Op. 70. Jeffrey Kahane,
piano/cond. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St.
416-593-4828. $27.50-$71.
— 8:00: All the King’s Voices. A Musical
Collage. From madrigals to jazz including Celtic & Broadway songs. Willowdale United
Church, 349 Kenneth Avenue. 416-225-2255.
$15; $10(sr/st); $5(ch).
— 8:00: Bell’Arte Singers. Springtime with
Friends. Musical celebration of the world at
our doorstep; music of Canada’s diverse traditions. Guests: Cantabile Women’s Choir of
Kingston, Dr. Mark Sirett, cond.; Dr. Lee Willingham, music dir. Havergal College, 1451
Avenue Rd. 416-699-5879. $20; $15(sr/st).
— 8:00: Brampton Symphony Orchestra.
Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. With BSO Chorus,
Orchestra & soloists; Robert Raines, cond.
Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. 905874-2800. $45; $30(sr/st); $10(ch 8-12).
— 8:00: CanStage. The Rocky Horror Show.
By Richard O’Brien; Ted Dykstra, dir. Bluma
Appel Theatre, 27 Front St. E.. 416-3683110. Call for ticket prices. For complete run
— 8:00: Massey Hall. Sonny Rollins. Tenor
sax player from the golden era of jazz. 15
Shuter St. 416-872-4255. $49.50-$89.50.
— 8:00: MegaCity Chorus of Greater
Toronto. That’s Entertainment! A cappella
barbershop chorus. Guests: Charlie Farquharson (Don Harron); After Hours (Doo wop
group); Claudette, vocalist & Brad Brown, emcee; Chris Arnold, mus. dir. John Bassett Theatre, 255 Front St. West. 416-282-2603.
$30,$25.
— 8:00: Mississauga Festival Choir. Canadian Women of Song. Works by Canadian
female composers; Primadonna Choralis, a
salute to choral music by Mary Lou Fallis,
soprano & Peter Tiefenbach, piano. David Ambrose, art. dir. RBC Theatre, 4141 Living Arts
Dr., Mississauga. 905-306-6000, 888-8058888. $25; $23(sr/st); $18(12 & under).
— 8:00: Mississauga Symphony. Into the
West: A Cowboy Concert. Moross: The Big
Country; Ginastera: Estancia: Ballet Suite;
Fazzi: Western Suite for Guitar and Orchestra;
Livingston/Evans: Theme from Bonanza; Williams: The Cowboy Overture; Tiomkin: High
Noon; Barry: Dances with Wolves; Broughton:
Silverado. Guests: Alvin Tung, guitar; Missis-
sauga Youth Orchestra, Gregory Burton, cond.;
Mississauga Symphony, John Barnum, cond.
Hammerson Hall, 4141 Living Arts Dr., Mississauga. 905-306-6000, 888-805-8888.
$45,$35.
— 8:00: Newtonbrook Nights Concert
Series. Chamber Music Concert. Classical to
contemporary. Judith deHaney, piano; Rob
Trite, clarinet; Carina Reeves, cello. Newtonbrook United Church, 53 Cummer Ave. 416222-5417. $20.
— 8:00: Sinfonia Toronto. Sunshine. Cherney: Illuminations; Britten: Les Illuminations;
Dvorak: Sextet. Aline Kutan, soprano; Nurhan
Arman, cond. Grace Church on-the-Hill, 300
Lonsdale Rd. 416-499-0403. $40; $32(sr);
$12(16-29/st).
— 8:00: The Music Gallery. Arnold Dreyblatt: Composer in Residence. Classic Avant
series; Compositions based on harmonics, and
just intonation. Anne Bourne, cello; Rob Clutton, double bass, Nick Fraser, drums; John
Gzowski, guitar; Kathleen Kajioka, violin; Scott
Thomson, trombone; Arnold Dreyblatt, bass.
St. George the Martyr Church, 197 John St.
416-204-1080. $20; $15(adv); $15(sr/member); $10(st).
— 8:00: Toronto Mendelssohn Youth
Choir. The Music of Paul Halley. Sacred and
gospel arrangements, love songs for springtime. Lynn Janes, cond. Christ Church Deer
Park, 1570 Yonge St. 416-598-0422 x21.
$25; $15(sr/st).
— 8:00: Village Voices. Love Notes. Love in
its many musical forms, madrigals, classical
& romantic songs, & show tunes. Guests: Rob
Christian Jazz Quartet, Rob Christian, flute/
saxophone; Barry Peters, piano; Joan Andrews, dir. St Patrick’s Church, 5633 Highway #7, Markham. 905-294-8687. $15;
free(12 & under).
— 8:00: voxworks. Dead Poets Society I:
Robert Bridges & Friends.Works by Berkeley,
Bridge, Finzi, Gurney, Holst, & Moeran. Paula
Wing, reader; James Wells, art. dir. St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church, 151 Glenlake Ave.
416-769-0111. $20.
— 8:30: Hugh’s Room. Rita Chiarelli. 2261
Dundas St. West. 416-531-6604. $25;
$22(adv).
Sunday May 06
— 10:00am: RCM Community School Suzuki Department. Annual Non-Competitive
Suzuki Festival: Piano. Runs to 5:00; also Apr
29, May 13. Various rooms, 90 Croatia St.
416-408-2825. Free; students must register
to participate.
— 11:00am & 2:00: Solar Stage Children’s Theatre. The Beat Brothers. Blues,
jazz, world beat & soul, for ages 4 to 10. Concourse Level, 4950 Yonge St. 416-368-8031.
$13.
— 1:30: CAMMAC/McMichael Art Gallery. Sunday Concert Series. Mary Kenedi,
piano. 10365 Islington Ave., Kleinburg. 905893-1121, 888-213-1121. $15; $9(sr/st);
$25(family); free(5 & under).
— 2:00: Oakville Chamber Orchestra.
un4gettable. See May 5. St. Simon’s Church,
1450 Litchfield Rd., Oakville.
— 2:00: Oakville Wind Orchestra. Spring
Concert. Chris Arthurs, cond. Oakville Centre,
130 Navy St. 905-815-2021, 888-4897784. $TBA.
— 2:00: Off Centre Music Salon. Spanish
Siesta: A Musical Journey through Andalusia
with 3 Spaniards, 2 Frenchmen, a few Russians and a Pole. Works by Granados, Turina,
de Falla, Ravel, Debussy, Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, Shostakovich, & Moszkowski. Agathe
Martel, soprano; Benjamin Butterfield, tenor.
Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St. W.. 416466-1870. $45; $35(sr/st).
— 2:00: Royal Conservatory of Music.
Community School Concert Series: RCM Orchestras in Concert. Concert Hall, 90 Croatia
St. 416-408-2824 x321. $10; $5(sr/st).
— 2:30: Alicier Arts Chamber Music.
Spanish Accents. Borne: Carmen Fantasy;
Bernstein: West Side Story (selections) &
other works. Mirobolus Trio, Lakeshore Brass;
Phoebe Tsang, violin; Kim Schemeit, flute. St.
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Organist
William Wright
Saturday May 5, 2007, 7:30 p.m.
Performing works of Bach, Hesse, Mozart, Widor,
Mendelssohn, Rameau, Hollins, Grainger and Kerll
This is the final concert in the series and is the
opening event of Organix 07, a music festival running
from May 5 to June 1, 2007
General Admission $ 20.00
Students: $ 15.00
Call 416-241-9785 for ticket information or visit
www.organixconcerts.ca
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George’s-on-the-Hill Church, 4600 Dundas St.
West. 416-731-3599. $15; $12(sr/st/artworkers); $10(ch).
— 2:30 & 7:30: Scarborough Bel Canto
Choir. Water Night, Blue Skies. Spring Concert; classical, pops, folk, stage & screen.
Luciano Silva, dir. St. Dunstan of Canterbury
Church, 56 Lawson Rd. 905-509-1883. $15.
— 3:00: Choirs of Grace Church on-theHill. Praise the Lord, O My Soul: Canticles &
Anthems for Evensong. Ager: The Ransomed
of the Lord (premiere); Magnificat & Nunc
Dimittis; Carter: Praise the Lord, O My Soul;
works by Holman, Kodaly, Mendelssohn, Raminsh & Parry. Melva Treffinger Graham, cond.
Grace Church on-the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale Rd.
416-488-7884 x333. $15; $10(sr/st); $5(ch).
— 3:00: Echo Women’s Choir. Working in
Harmony. Salute to the workers of the world;
The Ballad of Springhill, & other songs about
coal mining in French (Les Charbonniers de
l’Enfer), Spanish, & English; dance & celebration songs in Turkish; U.S. mountain music;
We Do the Work; Transit Song. Guest:
Michael St. George, Dub poet; Alan Gasser,
Becca Whitla, conductors. Church of the Holy
Trinity, 10 Trinity Square. 416-588-9050 x3.
$15; $12(adv); $8(sr/st/un(der)waged).
— 3:00: Markham Concert Band. An Afternoon at the Bandstand. Gilbert & Sullivan:
Pineapple Poll; Sousa: Century of Progress;
Irvine: Hannaford Overture; music from Cats;
& other works. Markham Theatre, 171 Town
Centre Blvd. 905-305-7469, 866-768-8801.
$20.50; $15.50(sr/ch).
— 3:00: Mississauga Choral Society. A
Bouquet of Springsong. Greer: All Around the
Circle; Halley: Love Songs for Springtime.
Guests: The Mississauga Children’s Choir;
Chrys A. Bentley, cond. Hammerson Hall,
4141 Living Arts Dr., Mississauga. 905-3066000, 888-805-8888. $35,$25;
$30,$20(sr).
— 3:00: Syrinx Sunday Salons. Pamina
String Quartet. Schubert: Quartettsatz,
D.703; Coulthard: String Quartet #2; Glick:
String Quartet #2; Dvorak: String Quartet
#10 in E-flat. Etsuko Kimura, Min-Jeong Koh,
violins; Doug Perry, viola; Roberta Janzen,
cello. Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave. 416654-0877. $20; $15(st).
— 3:00: Toronto Chamber Choir. Kaffeemusik: Joan and Geoffrey Riggs Bach Cantata Series. Bach: Cantata BWV.78. (Jesu, der
du meine Seele), with analysis & full performance. Amy Dodington, soprano; Laura Pudwell,
alto; Kevin Skelton, tenor; Baroque orchestra;
David Fallis, dir./speaker. Christ Church Deer
Park, 1570 Yonge St. 416-763-1695. $20;
$16(sr/st).
Kahane Plays and Conducts. Ravel: Piano Concerto in G; Haydn: Symphony #99 in E-flat;
Dvorak: Symphony #7 in d, Op.70. Jeffrey
Kahane, piano/cond. George Weston Recital
Hall, 5040 Yonge St. 416-872-1111.
$71.75-$83.75.
— 4:00: Association of Improvising Musicians Toronto/Now Lounge. Jazz & Improvised Music. Showcasing local talent. 189
Church St. 416-769-2841. $6.
— 4:00: Panda Eye Passion. Mother’s Day
Italian Classics Gala Concert. Italian songs,
love duets, children’s choruses, opera arias,
and Oriental melodies. Canadian Children’s
Opera Chorus; Jennifer Fina, Natalie Rogerson,
singers; Mario Zhang, tenor; Orchestra Toronto; Ann Cooper Gay, Errol Gay, conductors.
Strings Attached
Sunday, May 6, 2007, 7:30 p.m.
Jane Mallett Theatre
Bramwell Tovey, Chief Conductor
Mark Fewer, violin soloist
The HSSB’s Chief Conductor and Artistic Advisor will be joined by
Vancouver Symphony Concertmaster Mark Fewer for a remarkable
evening of music-making. This concert will feature the world premier of
Tovey’s Nine Daies Wonder for solo violin, brass band and percussion
commissioned by the HSSB. In this work, Mark Fewer will spin the tale of
the legendary comic Shakespearean actor Will Kemp (a contemporary
and friend of the playwright) who danced from London to Norwich for
nine days straight in 1600. Other featured works include Holst’s St. Paul’s
Suite, Cable’s Banks of Newfoundland and Hiscock’s Mummer’s Carnival.
This concert is generously sponsored by Tsubaki of Canada Limited.
Long & McQuade
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sons, & John Wyre. Jennifer Moore, Suba Sanka- — 7:30: St. James’ Cathedral. St. James
ran, Maryem Tollar, vocalists. Lula Lounge, 1585 Singers & Cologne Philharmonic Orchestra in
Main Stage, Toronto Centre for the Arts,
Works. Dance works by Mozart, Tchaikovsky,
Dundas St. West. 416-588-0307. $10.
Concert. Vivaldi: The Four Seasons; Mozart: Con5040 Yonge St. 416-872-1111. $35-$90;
Bartok & others. John Kraus, dir. Performing
certo in A for Clarinet and Orchestra, KV 622;
Monday
May
07
$35(post-concert wine reception).
Arts Centre, Notre Dame CSS, 1375 Harwood
Bach: Komm, Jesu komm; Handel: organ concer— 4:00: Royal Conservatory of Music.
Ave. North, Ajax. 705-749-5839. $TBA.
to. Michael Bloss, organ. 65 Church St. 416-364Community School Concert Series: RCM Choirs
— 7:30: Flying Cloud Folk Club. Eve GoldGlenn Gould School. Student Recital. Evange- 7865 x224. $TBA.
in Concert. Vox Continental; Lyric Singers; Silver berg in Concert. The TRANZAC, 292 Brunswick los Gritzalis, double bass. Rm 305, 90 Croatia St. — 8:00: Roy Thomson Hall. Deborah Voigt,
Singers; Linda Eyman, dir. St. Leonard’s Church, Ave. 416-410-3655. $12; $10(sr); $6(st).
416-408-2824 x322. Free.
soprano, in Recital. Works by Mozart, Verdi,
25 Wanless Ave. 416-408-2824 x321. Free,
— 7:30: Hannaford Street Silver Band.
— 7:30: Royal Conservatory of Music. Com- Strauss, Respighi, Beach, & Bernstein. Brian
donations welcome.
Strings Attached. Tovey: Nine Daies Wonder, for munity School Concert Series: RCM Percussion
Zeger, piano. 60 Simcoe St. 416-872-4255.
— 4:00 & 7:30: St John’s York Mills
solo violin, brass band and percussion. Sarasate:
Ensembles. Paul Houle, dir. Concert Hall, 90
$40-$125.
Church. Musicfest: OH! Canada. Lighthearted
Zigeunerweisen; Gayfer (arr Hiscock): Canadian
Croatia St. 416-408-2824 x321. Free.
look at the artists & music of Canada. 100+
Landscape; Major-Marothy: Mischievous Spirit;
Glenn Gould School. Student Recital. Micajah
English handbells; three choirs; instruments;
Holst (arr Kenyon): St. Paul’s Suite; three NewGlenn Gould School. Student Recital. ChingSturgess, French horn. Rm 305, 90 Croatia St.
Christopher Jääskeläinen, fiddler; Carolyn Martin, foundland songs. Mark Fewer, violin/actor;
Ping Lin, double bass. Rm 305, 90 Croatia St.
416-408-2824 x322. Free.
dir. 19 Don Ridge Dr. 416-225-6611. $15;
Bramwell Tovey, cond. 6:45: Chat, Ray Tizzard
416-408-2824 x322. Free.
— 8:30: Hugh’s Room. Maria Muldaur. 2261
$5(ch).
with Bramwell Tovey & Mark Fewer. Jane Mal- — 8:00: Toronto Theatre Organ Society/
Dundas St. West. 416-531-6604. $32.50;
— 6:30: University of Toronto Gospel
lett Theatre, 27 Front St. E.. 416-366-7723,
Kiwanis Club of Casa Loma/ORGANIX 07. $30(adv).
Choir. Gospelfest 12: Live Recording. Christian 800-708-6754. $34; $28(sr); $23(st).
Simon Gledhill, theatre organ, in Recital. Light
Wednesday May 09
contemporary, traditional gospel, praise & wor— 7:30: Royal Conservatory of Music. Com- classics, showtunes & popular songs. 1 Austin
ship, and spirituals. Bayview Glen Alliance
munity School Concert Series: RCM Jazz Ensem- Terrace. 416-241-9785. $20.
Church, 300 Steeles Ave. East, Thornhill. 888ble. Tunes of Roger Mantie and RCM Jazz EnChurch. Noonday Organ Recital. Sharon BeckTuesday
May
08
222-6608. $20; $15(adv).
semble. The Rex, 194 Queen St. West. 416-408stead, organ. 1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167.
— 7:00: Kingsway-Lambton United Church. 2824 x321. Free.
Free.
Music Salon: Mostly Musical Theatre. Chris
— 7:30: York Symphony Orchestra. Great
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre Jazz Series:
Tsujiuchi with Melissa Davis. 85 The Kingsway. Film Music. Corigliano: Chaconne from the Red
Mixed Program. Jazz favourites & original com- Glenn Gould School. Student Recital. Hyemee
416-231-9120. Donations for artists.
Violin; Rota: La Strada Suite; Morricone: Music
positions. Humber Student All-Stars. Four SeaYang, cello. Concert Hall, 90 Croatia St. 416— 7:00: Richmond Hill United Church. Anfrom the Mission; Custer: Music from 007; Wil- sons Centre, 145 Queen St. West. 416-363408-2824 x322. Free.
nual Spring Choral Concert. With accompaniment. liams: Harry Potter Suite. Guest: Joanna Tang,
8231. Free.
— 6:00: ORGANIX 07. Trumpet & Organ.
10201 Yonge St., Richmond Hill. 905-884violin; Gregory Burton, cond. Markham Theatre,
— 1:00: St. James’ Cathedral. Music at Mid- Damase: Trois Prieres sans paroles; Plog: Four
1301. $20, or PWYC.
171 Town Centre Blvd. 905-305-7469. $25;
day. Eastman School students, organ. 65 Church Themes on Paintings of Edward Munch; Kalejs:
— 7:00: TrypTych. Broadway Showtunes &
$20(sr/st); $10(under 12).
St. 416-364-7865 x224. Free.
Toccata on Allein Gott. Michael Barth, trumpet;
Music Tracks. Choruses from: Oliver, The Sound — 8:30: Small World Music. South Asian
— 7:30: Esprit Orchestra. Red Hot New Wave Andrei Streliaev, organ. St. Andrew’s Church,
of Music, Born Free, Porgy and Bess, & more.
Music Festival: Evergreen Club Contemporary
Composers Festival: Rising-Star Composers.
383 Jarvis St. 416-241-9785. $5.
Ensemble TrypTych Chamber Choir, Lenard Whit- Gamelan presents Sunda Songs. Songs of love,
Works by Sokolovic, Litke, Curcin, Staniland &
— 8:00: Esprit Orchestra. Red Hot New Wave
ing, dir. Trinity Church, 2737 Bayview Ave. 416- loss, longing & devotion, from Sunda (West Java, others. Patricia Green, mezzo-soprano; Brian
Composers Festival: New Sounds for Fritz Lang’s
763-5066 x3. $20; $15(sr/st); free(12 & under). Indonesia); classical repertoire to popular compo- Current, Scott Good, curators. 6:00: Opening
Metropolis. Live-electronic film score & improvi— 7:30: Durham Chamber Orchestra. Dance sitions by Nano Suratno, Mark Duggan, Bill ParReception & Brian Current CD Launch; 10:00pm: sation. Parmela Attariwala, Kristin MuellerKanaka (jazz, free improvisation, pop & world
Heaslip, Scott Good, performers; David Ogborn,
music). Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas St. West.
performer/composer. 7:15: Chat with composer
416-815-7887. Free.
& musicians. Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave.
— 7:30: Royal Conservatory of Music. Com- 416-815-7887. $7.
munity School Concert Series: RCM World Music — 8:00: Royal Conservatory of Music,
Showcase. World musical tour with students & Glenn Gould School. Student Recital. Ke Mao,
faculty of the RCM World Music Centre. Concert mezzo-soprano. Concert Hall, 90 Croatia St. 416Hall, 90 Croatia St. 416-408-2824 x321. Free.
408-2824 x322. Free.
Syrinx Sunday Salons
presents
Pamina String
Quartet
12th Season!
at Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St. W.
Sunday May 6th, 2:00 pm
Spanish Siesta: A musical journey
through Andalusía with 3 Spaniards, 2
Frenchmen, a few Russians and a Pole!
Schubert, Coulthard, Glick, Dvorak
Sunday May 6, 2007 3pm
Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave
French Canadian soprano Agathe Martel though we assure you, she is Spanish at heart! ushers in the spring with the tantalizing sounds
of castanets and swishing flamenco skirts in the
music of Granados, Turina, de Falla and their
honorary Spanish brothers Ravel, Debussy,
Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, Shostakovich and
Moszkowski. Artistic Directors and pianists
Inna Perkis and Boris Zarankin join her in
our exciting season finale. ¡Olé!
Tickets $20, students $15
info: 416.654.0877 www.syrinxconcerts.org
Broadway Show Tunes & Film Tracks
Sunday, May 6, 2007
7.00 PM
Trinity Presbyterian Church
Ensemble TrypTych
Chamber Choir
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Tickets: $20/15
[email protected]
416 763-5066 ext 3
Enjoy the intimacy of the 19th Century Salon with our
“special blend” of music, poetry and pastry!
Tickets: $45/$35/$35 adults/seniors/students
Glenn Gould Studio Box Office: 416.205.5555
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— 8:00: Show One Productions. Luka
Okrostvoridze, piano, in Recital. Schumann: Fantasie in C, Op.17; Chopin: Nocturnes, in c, Op.48/1
& in f, Op.55/1; Etude #10 in b, Op.25; Rachmaninoff: Prelude in G, Op.32/5; Moments Musicaux, in e, Op.16/4 & in D-flat, Op.16/5; & other
works. David Lakirovich, violin. Studio Theatre,
5040 Yonge St. 416-870-8000. $20; $15(sr/st).
Holst: The Planets. Also Schumann: Cello Concerto; Richardson: Eris (world premiere). Alban Gerhardt, cello; Peter Oundjian, cond. 7:00: discussion with Rick Phillips. Roy Thomson Hall, 60
Simcoe St. 416-593-4828. $35-$120.
— 8:30: Hugh’s Room. Maria Muldaur. See
May 8.
— 8:30: Lula Lounge. David Buchbinder’s
Odessa/Havana. Two musical styles with Iberian
roots, sharing Arabic, Roma (Gypsy), Sephardic &
North African ancestry. David Buchbinder, trumpeter/composer; Hilario Durán, piano/composer;
Quinsin Nachoff, reeds/flute; Aleksander Gajic,
violin/viola; Roberto Occhipinti, bass; Mark Kelso,
drums; Jorges Luis “Papiosco” Torres, percussion. 1585 Dundas St. West. 416-588-0307.
$18; $15(adv).
— 9:00pm & 10:15pm: Mezzetta Restaurant. Jazz Guitar Magic. Ted Quinlan, guitar;
Mike Downes, bass. 681 St.Clair Ave. West.
416-658-5687. $7 cover.
Thursday May 10
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre Jazz Series:
Blues Meets Classical Guitar. Original compositions. William Beauvais, guitar. Four Seasons
Centre, 145 Queen St. West. 416-363-8231.
Free.
Noon at Met Organ Recital: Matthew Coons. 56
Chamber Music. Koichi Inoue, piano. 1570 Yonge
Street. 416-920-5211. Collection.
— 2:00: Northern District Library. Piano
Recital. Advanced students from the studio of
Lawrence Pitchko. 40 Orchard View Blvd. 416393-7610. Free.
— 7:00: Belmont House. An Hour of Piano
Classics. Works by Liszt, Smetana, Tchaikovsky,
& Scriabin. Leslie Myrick, piano. 55 Belmont St.
416-964-9231. Free.
— 7:00: Royal St. George’s College. Michele
Mele and Open Your Heart to Art! 120 Howland
Ave. 416-395-2940. $20; $100($80 tax receipt).
— 7:30: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra &
Chamber Choir. Handel’s Solomon. Michael
Chance, Karina Gauvin, Laurie Reviol, Colin Balzer,
Nathaniel Watson, performers; Ivars Taurins, dir.
Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St. West.
416-964-6337. $36-$77; $29-$69(65+/st).
— 8:00: Casey House. DQ ’07: Diva Oz Vegas,
The Grand Finale. Singing & dancing tribute to
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Hart House Theatre, 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-8849. $40.
— 8:00: Harbourfront Centre/Art of Time
Ensemble. The Toronto Song Book. Canadian
pop, jazz and classical songs in new arrangements. Phil Dwyer, sax; Justin Abedin, guitar;
Stephen Sitarski, violin; Rafael Hoekman, cello;
Sarah Slean, singer; Andrew Burashko, piano.
Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay West. 416973-4000. $36; $25(sr/st/artists).
— 8:00: Hillcrest Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Get a Lift With Jazz! The David
Warrack Sextet; vocalists Stevie Vallance, and
Swing Rosie. 2 Vaughan Rd. 416-361-0716.
$25; $15(sr/st).
— 8:00: Hummingbird Centre for the Performing Arts. Burn the Floor presents FloorPlay.
26 champion ballroom dancers from 13 countries. 1 Front St. E.. 416-872-2262. Call for
ticket prices. For complete run see music theatre
listings.
— 8:00: Music Toronto. Tokyo String Quartet.
Schumann: String Quartet in F, Op.41/2; Märchenbilder for viola and piano, Op.113; Piano Quintet in E-flat, Op.44. Guest: Jamie Parker, piano.
Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front St. E.. 416-3667723, 800-708-6754. $45,$41; 18-35 pay your
age; $5(st), accompanying adult ½ price.
Music TORONTO
Oundjian, cond. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St.
416-593-4828. $35-$120.
— 8:30: Hugh’s Room. Morgan Davis. 2261
Dundas St. West. 416-531-6604. $16;
$14(adv).
Fri May 11
Glenn Gould School. Student Recital. Matthew Bagasao, piano. Concert Hall, 90 Croatia St.
416-408-2824 x322. Free.
Glenn Gould School. Student Recital. Laure
Valiquette-Talbot, French horn. Rm 305, 90
Croatia St. 416-408-2824 x322. Free.
— 7:30: Faculty of University Settlement
Music and Arts School. Faculty Favourites. St.
George the Martyr Church, 197 John St. 416598-3444 x243/244. By donation/PWYC.
— 7:30: St. James’ Cathedral. Last Night of
the Proms. St. James’ Festival Chorus. Michael
Bloss, organ. 65 Church St. 416-364-7865
x224. $$20, $15(sr/st).
Chamber Choir. Handel’s Solomon. Trinity-St.
Paul’s Centre. See May 10.
— 7:30: Music @ Timothy’s. Rutter’s Magnificat. Timothy Eaton Concert Choir & Orchestra.
MUSIC
AT THE CATHEDRAL
The LAST NIGHT
of the PROMS
FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2007 • 7:30 pm
Regimental Band of the Royal Regiment
The Choirs of St. James Cathedral • Opera Soloists
Andrew Ager and David Low, conductors
$40 reserved seating with wine & cheese reception
$20 regular, $15 students/seniors
Doors open at 6:30 pm for Silent Auction
in support of St. James’ Singers South Africa tour
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“A Great and Glorious Victory” andAlto
“Sea-Dogs”
and Bass
by Andrew Ager • Portsmouth Choral
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the 07-08 season.
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Jonathan Willcocks, Andrew Ager,
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Glenn Gould School. Student Recital. Kathleen Murphy, soprano. Concert Hall, 90
Croatia St. 416-408-2824 x322. Free.
Holst: The Planets. Also Schumann: Cello Concerto; Richardson: Eris. Alban Gerhardt, cello; Peter
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TORONTO MENDELSSOHN
CHOIR PRESENTS
Mendelssohn’s
Lobgesang
Hymn of Praise
The concert will also include Alto Rhapsody,
Schicksalslied and Nänie, by Johannes Brahms.
NOEL EDISON, conductor
LESLIE FAGAN, soprano
SUSAN PLATTS, mezzo-soprano
LAWRENCE WILIFORD, tenor
THE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
230 St. Clair Ave. West. 416-925-5977. $20;
$15(sr/st).
— 8:00: Etobicoke Community Concert
Band. British Blast! British folk songs; Spitfire
Prelude; best of the Beatles; wartime singalong
medley & hits of Vera Lynn; Tchaikovsky: 1812
Overture; Carnival of Venice. Mary Duquesnay,
soprano; Rob Weymouth, trumpet; Hannaford
Youth Band, Darryl Eaton & Anita McAlister,
music dir.; John Edward Liddle, music dir. Etobicoke Collegiate Auditorium, 86 Montgomery Rd.
416-410-1570. $15; $12(sr); $5(st); free(ch).
— 8:00: Exultate Chamber Singers. Buxtehude and Bach. Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri,
BuxWV.75; Bach: Jesu, Meine Freude; organ
selections. John Tuttle, organ/cond. Saint Thomas’s Church, 383 Huron St. 416-971-9229.
$25; $20(sr); $15(st).
— 8:00: Feast of Fools Theatre. Nunsense! A
musical comedy. The Assembly Hall, 1 Colonel
Samuel Smith Park Dr. 416-231-3131. $24;
$18(sr/st). For complete run see music theatre
listings.
— 8:00: Fridays @ 8. An Evening of Musical
Theatre. Gilbert & Sullivan: Trial By Jury (concert
version, complete); & other works. Choirs and
Soloists of Lawrence Park Community Church,
Mark Toews, dir. Lawrence Park Community
Church, 2180 Bayview Ave. 416-489-1551
x21. $20; $15(sr/st).
— 8:00: Harbourfront Centre/Art of Time
Ensemble. The Toronto Song Book: An Evening
of New Arrangements & Old Music. Enwave
Theatre. See May 10.
— 8:00: Live Nation. Norah Jones. Jazz, country, blues & folk singer/songwriter/pianist. Massey Hall, 15 Shuter St. 416-872-4255. $47.50$57.50.
— 8:00: Northlea United Church. Grzegorz
Krawiec, Polish Classical Guitarist. Works by
Bach, Henze, Tarrega, Pasieczny, Barrios,
D’Angelo. 125 Brentcliffe Rd. 416-425-5252.
$20; $15(sr); $10(st).
Glenn Gould School. Student Recital. Mat-
thew Wicks, piano. Concert Hall, 90 Croatia St.
416-408-2824 x322. Free.
— 8:00: Toronto Heliconian Club Members.
Piano Concert. Works by Scarlatti, Chopin,
Brahms, Gardiner, Martin, & Szymanowski.
Lenore Beatty, Jane Blackstone, Arianne EwingChow, Mary Gardiner, Carla Hartsfield, Jennifer
Mancuso, & Joan Zarry, piano. Heliconian Hall,
35 Hazelton Ave. 416-910-5935. $20; $15(st);
free(12 & under).
— 8:00: Toronto Mendelssohn Choir. Lobgesang. By Mendelssohn. Also, Brahms: Alto Rhapsody; Schicksalslied & Nänie. Leslie Fagan, soprano; Susan Platts, mezzo-soprano; Lawrence
Wiliford, tenor; Noel Edison, cond. 7:15: preconcert chat with Rick Phillips. Yorkminster Park
Church, 1585 Yonge St. 416-598-0422 x24.
$35-$65; $30-$60(sr/st).
— 8:00: Upper Canada Choristers. Words &
Music. Choral settings of texts by Shakespeare,
Campion, Rosetti, Lampman, & Frost, composed
by Chatman, Rutter, Thompson, Debussy and
others. Toronto Horn Club, Barbara Bloomer, dir.;
& Allenby Public School Junior Choir, Alison
Bannerman & Laurie Evan Fraser, dir. Fairlawn
Avenue United Church, 28 Fairlawn Ave. 416256-0510. $20; $15(adv); free(children/teens
with adult).
— 8:30: Hugh’s Room. Carol Welsman CD
Release. 2261 Dundas St. West. 416-5316604. $27.50; $25(adv).
— 9:00pm: Association of Improvising Musicians Toronto/Arraymusic. Leftover Daylight Series. Jazz & improvised music. Arraymusic Studio, Suite 218, 60 Atlantic Ave. 416-5398752. $6-$10(sliding scale).
— 10:00pm: David Buchbinder Ensemble.
New Buchbinder Jazz Compositions. Peter Lutek,
Perry White, clarinet/saxophones; Marilyn Lerner,
piano; Rob Clutton, bass; Barry Romberg, drums.
The TRANZAC, 292 Brunswick Ave. 416-9238137. PWYC.
— 10:00pm: Small World Music/Music Africa. Ba Cissoko Electric Griot Land Tour. Kora
player from Guinea, with traditional griots music,
Friday, May 11, 2007 at 8:00 p.m.
7:15 p.m. pre-concert chat with Rick Phillips
of CBC Radio
Yorkminster Park Baptist Church
1585 Yonge Street, Toronto
Tickets: $30-$65
Tickets: 416-598-0422 x 21
www.tmchoir.org
Lobgesang is proudly sponsored by Michael and Janet Scott.
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Glick: Triumph of the Spirit; Robinovitch: Canziones por los Americas; Willan: Apostrophe to the
Heavenly Hosts; Kulesha: Shaman Songs. Matthew Larkin, organ; Lydia Adams, cond. Yorkminster Park Church, 1585 Yonge St. 416-4460188. $40; $35(sr/st).
Saturday May 12
— 7:30: Andrzej Rozbicki. Chopin and Friends.
— 11:00am & 2:00: Solar Stage Children’s Moniuszko: Overture: The Fairy Tale (Bajka);
Theatre. Pinocchio. Adapted by William Martyn, Lutoslawski: Little Suite; Buczynski: Fantasy on
for ages 3 to 10. Concourse Level, 4950 Yonge
themes of the Past; Chopin: Piano Concerto #1;
St. 416-368-8031. $13. For complete run see
Elgar: Polonia. Piotr Paleczny, piano; Joseph
Macerollo, accordion; Celebrity Symphony Or— 1:30 & 3:30: Toronto Symphony Orches- chestra, Andrzej Rozbicki, cond. Living Arts Centra. Mozart’s Magnificent Voyage. Selections
tre, 4141 Living Arts Dr., Mississauga. 905from Mozart symphonies, piano pieces & cham- 306-6000, 888-805-8888. $35-$55.
ber music; for ages 5-12. Classical Kids; Peter
— 7:30: Bach Children’s Chorus/Bach
Oundjian, cond. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. Chamber Youth Choir. All Creatures Great
416-593-4828. $26.50,$16.50.
and Small. Daley: New Work (world premiere); &
— 6:30: St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church/
other works. Elizabeth Beeler, choreography;
Classic Organ Works. ORGANic Evolution
Linda Beaupré, music dir./cond.; Eleanor Daley,
Concert: Exploring MIDI Technology in Restored
piano. George Weston Recital Hall, 5040 Yonge
Casavant. Selection of various genres demonStreet. 416-870-8000. $24; $20(sr/st).
strating the potential of this technology, interspersed with mini-lecture. David Smits, Rob
Adlers, organ. 383 Jarvis St. 416-705-2522. $10.
— 7:00: North Toronto Community Band.
Spring Rhythms. Jazz, classical, big band, marches & medleys by Charles, Holst, Tchaikovsky,
Sousa, Coates, & others. Josh Grossman, cond.
Crescent School, 2365 Bayview Ave. 416-4811978. $20; $15(adv); $10(sr/st).
— 7:00: Sinead Sugrue. An Evening of Opera,
Operetta & Beyond. Geoffrey Butler, tenor; Sinead Sugrue, soprano; Yevgeny Yablonovsky, baritone; Sabatino Vacca, piano. Christ Church Deer
Park, 1570 Yonge St. 416-846-5438. $30;
$20(sr); $10(st/ch).
— 7:30: Amadeus Choir. Triumph of the Spirit.
Triumph of the Spirit
Afro-pop, reggae, soul and hip-hop, withTiken Jah
Fakoly, K’naan, Amadou Bagayogo, guitar; Les
Nubians, female hip-hop collective & Emmanuel
Mabe. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas St. West. 416588-0307. $25; $20(adv).
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An all-Canadian programme of wide-ranging, spiritual
music by four of Canada's finest composers
Srul Irving Glick - TRIUMPH OF THE SPIRIT
Glorious colours, rhythmic beauty and beguiling harmonies
Gary Kulesha - SHAMAN SONGS
Inuit-inspired poetry set to earthy, beautiful choral music
Sid Robinovitch - CANCIONES POR LAS AMERICAS
Exciting Latin-American, Spanish and African textures and rhythms
Healey Willan
AN APOSTROPHE TO THE HEAVENLY HOSTS
Double-choir majesty from the “Dean of Canadian Composers”
The Amadeus Choir
Shawn Grenke - Pianist
Strings and Clarinet
Lydia Adams - Conductor
Saturday May 12, 2007, 7:30 p.m.
Yorkminster Park Baptist Church
1585 Yonge Street (1 block north of St. Clair)
Tickets: $40.00 Adult
$35.00 Seniors/Students
Student rush seats $10.00 at the door
Call the Amadeus Choir 416-446-0188
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— 7:30: Music at St. Mark’s. George Rocks!
George Heldt plays piano & organ music from
Bach to Broadway to Blues. St. Mark’s Church, 1
Greenland Rd. 416-444-6762. $15; $8(ch).
— 7:30: Peel Choral Society. Jazz Classics
and the Gospel Spirit. Choral arrangements of
jazz favourites, well known & new gospel. Peter
Stoll, clarinet; Mervin Fick, dir. St. John Fisher
Church Hall, 300 Balmoral Dr., Bramalea. 416961-6444 $15; $12(sr/st); $5(ch 5-10).
— 8:00: Acoustic Harvest Folk Club. Garnet
Rogers. Singer-songwriter. St. Nicholas Church,
1512 Kingston Rd. 416-264-2235. $15.
— 8:00: Canadian Sinfonietta. Cello Extravaganza. Holst: St. Paul’s Suite; Pepa: New Work
for solo cello and orchestra; Haydn: Cello Concerto in D, Op.101. Winona Zelenka, cello; Tak-Ng
Lai, cond. Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St. W..
905-707-1200 x2. $30; $25(sr); $15(st);
$10(11 & under).
— 8:00: Dewi Sant Welsh United Church.
Cyngerdd (Concert): The Way We Were. A nostalgic musical retrospective of the last 100 years at
Dewi Sant, in song, music, and spoken word.
Sheryl Clay, Jean Thompson, Dr. Cerwyn Davies,
performers. 33 Melrose Ave. 416-485-7583.
$5.
— 8:00: Forte - The Toronto Men’s Chorus.
Ten - The Concert. Art piece based on Ravel; selections from forthcoming Forte CD; cycle of
songs by local composers: Kie, Ager, Yan, Brennan, Quain, Collins, Straker, Cormier, Lewis, Nelson, Nagy, & Veldhoven. Guests: Oasis Vocal
Jazz, Stuart Sladden, dir.; Singing OUT!, Patrick
Huang, dir.; Edward Connell, music dir. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front St. E.. 416-366-7723,
800-708-6754. $25; $20(sr/st with ID).
— 8:00: Music @ Ascension. In Every Corner
Sing: A Concert for the World. Kodaly: Missa
Brevis (sections); Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs; Haazen: Missa Luba; & other works.
Chancel Choir. Church of the Ascension, 33 Overland Dr. 416-444-8881. $20; $15(sr/st).
— 8:00: North York Concert Orchestra.
Strauss & More. Strauss: Voices of Spring; Blue
Danube; Liszt: Les Préludes; Bowser: Overture: A
Moment Here on Earth; Schumann: Cello Concerto in a. Beata Csuka, cello; David Bowser, dir.
Willowdale United Church, 349 Kenneth Ave.
416-289-3553. $15; $10(sr/st).
— 8:00: Oakville Symphony Orchestra.
Gala Season Finale. A program of popular favourites. Marian Sjolander, soprano; Wendy Foley,
mezzo-soprano; Neil Balm, trumpet; Roberto De
Clara, cond. Oakville Centre, 130 Navy St. 905815-2021, 888-489-7784. $35; $30(sr);
$18(st).
Glenn Gould School. Student Recital. Emily
Donatelle, French horn. Rm 305, 90 Croatia St.
416-408-2824 x322. Free.
— 8:00: Small World Music/Times Square.
South Asian Music Festival: Kiran Ahluwalia
Wanderlust CD Release. Mix of ghazals and Punjabi folk, songs inspired by the sounds of Fado.
Guest: Shahid Ali Khan; Kiran Ahluwalia, vocalist
& her 5 piece ensemble. Enwave Theatre, 231
Queens Quay West. 416-973-4000. $30;
$25(adv).
— 8:00: Studio Sixteen. Zeffiri del Belpaese:
Italy’s Breath of Life. Rossi: Hashirim Asher
Lish’lomo (selections); 12-voice motets by Marenzio, Gabrieli, Palestrina. Kevin Komisaruk, dir.
Church of St. Mary Magdalene, 477 Manning
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Avenue. 416-559-2586. $20; $10(sr/st).
— 8:00: The Alexander Singers & Players.
The Pirates of Penzance. By Gilbert & Sullivan.
Angela Hawaleshka, art. dir. Leah Posluns Theatre, 4588 Bathurst St. 416-324-1259. $29.50;
$22(sr/st); $22.50(mat); $17(mat sr/st). For
complete run see music theatre listings.
— 8:00: The Oriana Women’s Choir. Children’s Voices Too! World premieres of works by
Brown, Daly, Hatfield, Henderson, Lang & Leungen, with texts by Toronto’s Urban Voices Student Poets (TDSB); Page: Nursery Rhyme Cantata; Fine: Alice in Wonderland; Chatman: Stars,
Blue and Ice; Raminsh: Deux Chansons; Henderson: Landscape and Night. James Bourne, piano;
William Brown, cond. Grace Church on-the-Hill,
300 Lonsdale Rd. 416-923-3123. $25; $20(sr);
$10(st).
— 8:00: Toronto Wind Orchestra Members.
Third Stream Winds. Works by Stravinsky, Varèse, Bernstein, Weill, Zappa. Tony Gomes, music
dir. Drake Hotel, 1150 King St. West. 416-4616681. $15; $10(st/sr).
— 8:30: Hugh’s Room. Marc Jordan. 2261
Dundas St. West. 416-531-6604. $40;
$37.50(adv).
Sunday May 13
— 1:00 & 3:00: Living Arts Centre. Judy &
David’s Boom Box. Children’s songs. RBC Theatre, 4141 Living Arts Dr., Mississauga. 905306-6000, 888-805-8888. $19; $16(12 &
under); $5(eyeGO).
— 2:00 & 7:30: ICEJ. The Covenant: The Story
of My People. Original musical by Elizabeth &
Robert Muren, recounting the story of the People
of Israel, from Abraham to the modern state.
Main Stage, Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040
Yonge St. 416-872-1111. $35-$150; $25$45(mat).
— 2:00: Mary Kenedi. Piano Recital. Works by
Mozart, Liszt, Kodály & Bartók. Briton House
Retirement Home, 720 Mount Pleasant Rd. 416488-2588. $15; $10(sr/st).
— 2:00: Oakville Symphony Orchestra.
Gala Season Finale. Oakville Centre. See May 12.
— 3:00: Northdale Concert Band. Fortieth
Anniversary Concert. Alumni conductors & players; Stephen Chenette, music dir. St. Jude’s
Church, 10 Howarth Ave. 416-444-4962. $10;
$8(sr/st); free(under 12).
— 3:00: Shevchenko School of Dance/
Kaniv Dancers. Annual Dance Revue. Annual
revue of the season’s work in dance and music.
Betty Oliphant Theatre, 404 Jarvis St. 416-5332725. $18.
Church St. 416-769-2841. $6.
— 4:00: Toronto Children’s Chorus. To Everything There is a Season. Holman: To Everything
There is a Season (premiere); Henderson: When I
Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple (premiere); & other works. Ruth Watson Henderson,
piano; Christopher Dawes, organ; Carole Anderson, Teri Dunn, Marie-Claire Gervasoni, conductors. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-8724255. $38; $30(sr/st).
— 4:30: Christ Church Deer Park. Jazz Vespers. The Gord Sheard Trio: Gord Sheard, piano;
Scott Alexander, bass; Brian Barlow, drums.
1570 Yonge St. 416-920-5211. Free, donations
welcome.
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— 5:00: Masaryk Memorial Institute. Nocturnes at Masaryktown: Drew Jurecka Jazz
Quintet. Prague Restaurant, Masaryktown, 450
Scarborough Golf Club Rd. 416-439-4354. $20;
$15(st).
Glenn Gould School. Student Recital. Michelle
Zapf-Belanger, violin. Concert Hall, 90 Croatia St.
416-408-2824 x322. Free.
— 7:30: Academy of Serbian Folk Dancing.
The Magic Flute of Bora Dugic. Pastoral elegies,
virtuoso compositions, & classical music on shepherd’s flute. Zoran Zivkovic, piano. Glenn Gould
Studio, 250 Front St. W.. 416-205-5555. $30.
— 7:30: Flying Cloud Folk Club. Finest Kind.
Folk singer/songwriters and multi-instrumentalists. Ian Robb, Ann Downey, & Shelley Posen,
performers. The TRANZAC, 292 Brunswick
Ave. 416-410-3655. $18; $16(sr/st).
— 8:00: Chinese Artists’ Society of Toronto/Baroque Music Beside the Grange. Lute
Legends: Ancient Airs from East & West. Crossculture solo & duo program. Wen Zhao, pipa;
Lucas Harris, lute. Church of St. George the Martyr, 197 John St. 416-546-1786. $15; $10(sr/
st/unwaged).
— 8:00: Esprit Orchestra. Red Hot New Wave
Composers Festival Finale: Gala Concert & Letters From Mignon CD Launch. Colgrass: Side by
Side, for harpsichord, altered piano & orchestra;
Schmidt: Grandma’s Sore Back; Ligeti: Concerto
for Cello and Orchestra; Schafer: Letters from
Mignon; Minnelieder. Shauna Rolston, cello;
Joanne Kong, piano/harpsichord; Eleanor James,
mezzo-soprano; Alex Pauk, cond. Jane Mallett
Theatre, 27 Front St. E. 416-366-7723, 800708-6754. $30; $16(sr); $10(st).
Monday May 14
— 7:30: Associates of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Rudolph Family Players. Devienne: Duo; Luedeke: Silence!; Stride (arr): Benny
Goodman Medley; Ravel: Pavane for a Dead Princess; Haydn: London Trio #1; Green: Xylophonia.
Kathleen Rudolph, flute; Theresa Rudolph, viola;
John Rudolph & Daniel Murphy, percussion. Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St. West. 416221-8342. $17; $14(sr/st); $10(elem st).
— 8:00: Al Green Theatre at the Miles Nadal JCC. David Buchbinder’s Odessa/Havana
Gala. Two musical styles with Iberian roots,
sharing Arabic, Roma (Gypsy), Sephardic & North
African ancestry; celebrating Lou Siminivitch for
the Downtown Jewish Day School. David Buchbinder, trumpeter/composer; Hilario Durán, piano/
composer; Quinsin Nachoff, reeds/flute; Aleksander Gajic, violin/viola; Roberto Occhipinti,
bass; Mark Kelso, drums; Jorges Luis “Papiosco”
Torres, percussion. 750 Spadina Ave. 416-9246211 x0. $18; $15(adv).
— 8:00: East York Concert Band. Around The
World with Music. Songs of the American West;
Korean Folk Rhapsody; In a Persian Market; Temple of the Nile; Carnival of Venice (trumpet trio);
British Isle Medley; Cape Cod Capers; Canada
Centennial theme song (CA-NA-DA). Ernie Walker, music dir. Blue Danube Restaurant, 1686
Ellesmere Rd. 416-266-1958. $12.50.
Glenn Gould School. Student Recital. Paola
Alarcon, flute. Rm 305, 90 Croatia St. 416-4082824 x322. Free.
Series: World Music Chorus. Folk music from
around the world, audience participation. Alan
Gasser, dir. Four Seasons Centre, 145 Queen St.
West. 416-363-8231. Free.
— 1:00: St. James’ Cathedral. Music at Midday. Eastman School students, organ. 65 Church
St. 416-364-7865 x224. Free.
— 7:30: Earl Haig Secondary School. Claude
Watson Choral Night. Works by Mozart, Mendelssohn & others. Grace Church on-the-Hill, 300
Lonsdale Rd. 416-395-3210 x20141. $10; $5(st).
— 7:30: Serenata Singers. Circle of our Song.
Show tunes, folk, & traditional. Toronto Korean
Presbyterian Church, 67 Scarsdale Rd. 416-4975952. $12.
— 8:00: Al Green Theatre at the MNjcc.
Jacques Israelievitch & Friends: Hammer &
Bow. Chamber music. Jacques Israelievitch,
violin; Michael Israelievitch, percussion. 750
Spadina Ave. 416-924-6211 x0. $20; $18(sr/
st); $10(10-14).
— 8:00: The Music Gallery/Rough Idea.
VTO 007: Cor Fuhler’s Corkestra. Jazz Avant
series; music from The Netherlands. Cor Fuhler,
clavinet/organ/synth/piano/; Anne la Berge, flutes/
electronics; Ab Baars, clarinet/tenor saxophone;
Tobias Delius, tenor saxophone/clarinet; Nora
Mulder, cimbalom; Michael Vatcher, percussion/
singing saw; Tony Buck, percussion; Wilbert de
Joode, double bass. St. George the Martyr
Church, 197 John St. 416-204-1080. $20;
$15(adv); $15(sr/member); $10(st).
— 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. The
Magical Music of Disney. The Lion King, Beauty
and the Beast, Mary Poppins, Peter Pan, Aladdin
& more. Ashley Brown, soprano; Billy Tighe,
tenor; Jefferey Berger, baritone; Mississauga
Choral Society; Erich Kunzel, cond. Roy Thomson
Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-593-4828. $32-$96.
Wednesday May 16
Church. Noonday Organ Recital. Corrine Dutton,
organ. 1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167. Free.
— 2:00: Serenata Singers. Circle of our Song.
Toronto Korean Presbyterian Church. See May
15.
— 2:00 & 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. The Magical Music of Disney. Roy Thomson
Hall. See May 15. $27-$64(mat prices).
— 6:00: ORGANIX 07. Thomas Fitches, organ,
in Recital. Buxtehude: Prelude and Fugue in fsharp; Utterback: Balm in Gilead, Swing Low:
Rheinberger: Fantasie-Sonata #17 in b, Op.181.
Tuesday May 15
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre World Music
Five Small
Concerts
Presented by
The Associates of the
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Featuring
The Rudolph Family Players with
Special Guest
In concert at
Trinity-St. Paul's Centre
427 Bloor Street West Toronto
Monday May 14, 2007 7:30pm
The Program will feature
François Devienne Duo For Flute and Viola
Raymond Luedeke Silence! For Viola and Percussion
Freed Stride, Arranger Benny Goodman Medley for Flute,
Marimba and Drum Set
Joe Green Xylophonia Xyloophone, Flutes, Percussion
Maurice Ravel Pavane for a Dead Princess, Flute ,Viola, Vibes
Joseph Haydnn London Trio #1 Flute Viola Marimba
Artists
Kathleen Rudolph, Flute, Theresa Rudolph, Viola, John
Ruudolph, Percussion + Guest Daniel Morphy, Percussion
Tickets $17.00 Regular, $14.00 Students / Seniors
For further information call (416) 221-8342
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St. Andrew’s Church, 383 Jarvis St. 416-2419785. $5.
— 7:30: Earl Haig Secondary School. Music
Elective Night. Concert Band, Concert Orchestra,
Stage Bands, Choirs, Recorders, Dance, & more.
Earl Haig S.S., 100 Princess Ave. 416-3953210 x20141. $10; $5(st).
— 7:30: Toronto Choral Society. Brahms’
Ein deutsches Requiem. Also Vaughan Williams:
Five Mystical Songs; Mercure: Cantate pour une
joie. Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth
Ave. 416-410-3509. $20.
Glenn Gould School. Student Recital. Joseph
Angelo, tenor. Concert Hall, 90 Croatia St. 416408-2824 x322. Free.
— 9:00pm & 10:15pm: Mezzetta Restaurant. Jazz Guitar Magic. Michael Occhipinti,
guitar; Luis Simão, bass/Brazilian guitar. 681
St.Clair Ave. West. 416-658-5687. $7 cover.
Thursday May 17
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre Renaissance
The Toronto Choral Society
Presents
Ein deutsches Requiem
by Johannes Brahms
and
Five Mystical Songs
by R. Vaughan Williams
Cantate pour une joie
by Pierre Mercure
Wednesday, May 16, 2007 7:30 PM
Eastminster United Church
310 Danforth Avenue
Tickets $20 from choir members or at the door
For more information, please visit our website at
www.torontochoralsociety.org
or call 416-410-3509
Festival Series: The Music of Renaissance England. Country-dances, rollicking ballads, elegant
lute songs & fantasias. The Toronto Consort. Four
Seasons Centre, 145 Queen St. West. 416-3638231. Free.
Noon at Met Organ Recital: Konrad Harley. 56
— 12:15: Music on the Hill Concert Series.
Sultans of String. Gypsy-jazz flamenco, Latin,
folk, & various world music influences. Chris
McKhool, violin; Kevin Laliberte, guitar; Drew
Birston, electric bass. St. John’s York Mills
Church, 19 Don Ridge Dr. 416-225-6611. Free.
Chamber Music. Mendelssohn: Trio in c. Corey
Gemmel, violin; Mary Katherine Finch, cello; Ronald Greidanus, piano. 1570 Yonge Street. 416920-5211. Collection.
Glenn Gould School. Student Recital. Marketa
Ornova, piano. Concert Hall, 90 Croatia St. 416408-2824 x322. Free.
— 7:30: Enoch Turner Schoolhouse. An Irish
Musical Entertainment – Serene and Spirited.
Original, traditional, Celtic and classical music.
Birling; Moira Nelson, harp/voice. 106 Trinity St.
416-863-0010. $25; $20(ETS members). ETS
Fundraiser.
— 8:00: Oakville Choral Society. A Cabaret
of Fabulous Favourites. Songs from popular musicals (New York, New York, My Fair Lady, &
more). Theatre Sheridan, Sheridan College, 1430
Trafalgar Rd., Oakville. 905-845-5359. $22;
$10(st/ch).
— 8:00: Toronto Philharmonia. Spring Reflections. Archer: Symphonic Suite; Gounod: Symphony #1 in D; Dvorak: Piano Concerto. Jan Simon,
piano; Kerry Stratton, cond. George Weston Recital Hall, 5040 Yonge St. 416-872-1111. $53$59; $44.50-$49(sr).
— 10:30pm: The Flying Bulgars. An Intimate
Public Performance. Early traditional Klezmer
music. Dave Wall, vocals; David Buchbinder,
trumpet; Peter Lutek, clarinets; Tania Gill; piano;
Victor Bateman; bass; Frank Botos, drums. The
TRANZAC, 292 Brunswick Ave. 416-9238137. PWYC.
Friday May 18
— 7:00: Mennonite New Life Centre of
Toronto. Latin-Jazz in the Beach: Hilario Duran.
Solo piano concert. 1774 Queen St. East. 416699-4527. $10.
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— 7:30: Flying Cloud Folk Club. Chris Langan
Weekend: Talent Extravaganza. Traditional Irish
Music. Brian McNamara, Hammy Hamilton,
Maire NiGrada, Patrick Ourceau, Paddy O’Brien,
& Pat Egan, performers. TRANZAC, 292 Brunswick Ave. 416-410-3655. $20; $18(sr/st).
— 7:30: Music for Missions. And my Spirit
hath Rejoiced. Choral concert of praise anthems
for choir. Andrea Naccarato, soprano; Jennifer
Loveless, Marty Smyth, organ; Andrew Ager,
cond. Knox Church, 630 Spadina Ave. 416-9218993. Free, donations welcome.
— 7:30: Willowdale Presbyterian Church.
Springtime For Mozart. Derrick Lewis, piano/
organ. 38 Ellerslie Ave. 647-238-2921. $15,
$10(sr/st); $5(12 & under).
— 8:00: Korea Times Daily. Night of Arias.
From various operas, sung by Korean artists, with
orchestra. George Weston Recital Hall, 5040
Yonge St. 416-872-1111. $20-$40.
— 8:00: Oakville Choral Society. A Cabaret
of Fabulous Favourites. Theatre Sheridan,
Oakville. See May 17.
Glenn Gould School. Student Recital. Eve
Eracleous, trumpet. Concert Hall, 90 Croatia St.
416-408-2824 x322. Free.
Glenn Gould School. Student Recital. Cassandra Warner, soprano. Rm 103, 90 Croatia St.
416-408-2824 x322. Free.
— 8:00: The Music Gallery/Rough Idea.
VTO 007: Fond of Tigers; Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan. Pop Avant series; layered,
nuanced music, meticulous odd-time composition
to improvisational abandon, from guitar, piano,
trumpet, drums x 2, bass, & violin septet; planned
and spontaneous improvisations, contemporary
music for Gamelan plus trombone & hurdy-gurdy.
St. George the Martyr Church, 197 John St. 416204-1080. $20; $15(adv); $15(sr/member);
$10(st).
— 9:30pm: Swamperella. Friday Night Cajun
& Zydeco Dance. 8:30: Tom & Myra’s two-step
& waltz instruction. Gladstone Hotel, 1214
Queen St. West. 416-531-4635. $10 cover.
Saturday May 19
Glenn Gould School. Student Recital. Robyn
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Cho, clarinet. Concert Hall, 90 Croatia St. 416408-2824 x322. Free.
— 2:00: Royal Conservatory of Music. Community School Concert Series: RCM Childrens
Choir & RCM Youth Choir in Concert. World musical tour with students & faculty of the RCM
World Music Centre. Gymnasium, 90 Croatia St.
416-408-2824 x321. Free.
Glenn Gould School. Student Recital. Anastasia Winterhalt, soprano. Concert Hall, 90 Croatia
St. 416-408-2824 x322. Free.
Glenn Gould School. Student Recital. Salvatore Gambino, tenor. Rm 305, 90 Croatia St.
416-408-2824 x322. Free.
— 7:30: Flying Cloud Folk Club. Chris Langan
Weekend: Gala Concert. Traditional Irish Music.
Brian McNamara, Hammy Hamilton, Maire NiGrada, Patrick Ourceau, Paddy O’Brien, & Pat
Egan, performers. Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre, 427
Bloor St. West. 416-410-3655. $25; $20(sr/st).
— 8:00: Arraymusic. Array Legacy Concert.
Arraymusic’s 35th anniversary, with commissioned/premiered works by Pauk, Mozetich, Rea,
Vivier, Volans, Baker, Abram, & Stevenson. 7:00:
Array artistic director’s talk. Recital Hall, East
Accolade Building, York University, 4700 Keele
St. 416-532-3019. Free.
— 8:00: Scaramella. The Sound and Fury. Rossini string quartets; Schubert Octet. Aisslinn
Nosky, Julia Wedman, violin; Patrick Jordan,
viola; Felix Deak, cello; Joëlle Morton, double
bass & other performers. Victoria College Chapel,
91 Charles St. West. 416-760-8610. $25;
$15(st).
— 8:00: The Musicians in Ordinary. Le
Printemps. Courtly Airs from 17th-century
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France; works by Moulinié, Lambert, de Visée, &
Marais. Guests: Christopher Verrette, Geneviève
Gilardeau, violins; Laura Jones, bass viol; MIO:
Hallie Fishel, soprano; John Edwards, theorbo/
guitar. Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave. 416535-9956. $20; $15(sr/st).
— 8:30: Hugh’s Room. John Prine Tribute.
2261 Dundas St. West. 416-531-6604. $20;
$18(adv).
Verrette, violin; Lucas Harris, lute; Rebecca Morton, cello. Church of the Holy Trinity, 10 Trinity
Sq. 416-920-5025. By donation.
Church St. 416-769-2841. $6.
Sunday May 20
— 10:00am: RCM Community School Suzuki Department. Annual Non-Competitve Suzuki
Festival: Piano. Runs to 5:00. Various rooms, 90
Croatia St. 416-408-2825. Free; students must
register to participate.
— 11:30am & 1:30: Free Times Café. The
Flying Bulgars Quartet at the “Bella Did Ya Eat?”
Jewish Brunch. Rootsy Yiddish Klezmer music.
David Buchbinder, trumpet; Peter Lutek, clarinets;
Tania Gill, piano; Victor Bateman, bass. 320 College St. 416-967-1078. $18.95, brunch incl.
— 1:30: CAMMAC/McMichael Art Gallery.
Sunday Concert Series. Susan Spier, violin; Dany
Nachman, piano. 10365 Islington Ave., Kleinburg.
905-893-1121, 888-213-1121. Admission with
gallery price: $15; $9(sr/st); $25(family); free(5
& under).
Glenn Gould School. Student Recital. Olenka
Slywynska, mezzo-soprano. Concert Hall, 90
Croatia St. 416-408-2824 x322. Free.
— 2:00: Scaramella. The Sound and Fury. See
May 19.
— 2:30: Toronto Early Music Centre. Musically Speaking: Words of Mercury, Songs of Apollo. Works by Corelli, Turini, Marini, Cima, Matteis, & others. Kathleen Kajioka, Christopher
Glenn Gould School. Student Recital. Darrell
Hicks, tenor. Concert Hall, 90 Croatia St. 416408-2824 x322. Free.
— 8:00: Soundstreams Canada. Cool Drummings International Percussion Festival: Marimba
Madness Launch Party. Hatzis: Fertility Rites;
premieres by Ho, Lozowchuk; works by Bach,
Piazzolla, Xenakis, & Abe. Beverly Johnston,
Anne-Julie Caron, Kuniko Kato, marimba; 3 Taiko
Drummers. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas St. West.
416-366-7723, 800-708-6754. $20; $10(st).
music. Dave Wall, vocals; David Buchbinder, trumpet; Peter Lutek, clarinets; Tania Gill; piano; Victor
Bateman; bass; Frank Botos, drums. The
TRANZAC, 292 Brunswick Ave. 416-923-8137.
PWYC.
Wednesday May 23
— 12:30: Yorkminster Park Church. Noonday
Organ Recital. Eric Robertson, organ. 1585 Yonge
St. 416-922-1167. Free.
Ten. Rory McGlynn
Glenn Gould School. Student Recital. Patricia
Sop. Valentina Cudin
Ahn, violin. Concert Hall, 90 Croatia St. 416-408th
May 20 , 7pm,
2824 x322. Free.
— 6:00: ORGANIX 07. Piano & Organ. SaintTrinity St. Paul’s
Saëns: Fantaisie; Carnival of the Animals (arr Hall,
United Church
verse by Ogden Nash). John Ford, narrator; Robert
Hall, piano; William O’Meara, organ. St. Andrew’s
— 7:00: Rory McGlynn. An Evening of Art
Church, 383 Jarvis St. 416-241-9785. $5.
Song and Opera Arias. Rory McGlynn, tenor;
— 7:30: Toronto Choristers. 15th Anniversary
Valentina Cudin, soprano. Trinity-St. Paul’s CenSpring Concert. Toronto’s Retired Teachers’ Choir.
tre, 427 Bloor St. West. 416-450-7897. By
Margaret Deeth, accompanist; Bruce Snell, cond.
donation.
Sir John A. Macdonald Collegiate, 2300 Pharma— 7:30: Li Delun Music Foundation. East
cy Ave. 416-779-8286. $10.
Meets West: A Night of Chamber Music. Asian — 8:00: Royal Conservatory of Music,
Heritage Month 2007. P.C. Ho Theatre, 5183
Glenn Gould School. Student Recital. Michael
Sheppard Ave. East. 416-490-7962. $18-$50
Ciufo, tenor. Rm 103, 90 Croatia St. 416-408— 8:00: Royal Conservatory of Music,
2824 x322. Free.
Glenn Gould School. Student Recital. Atalay — 8:00: Royal Conservatory of Music,
Altinok, percussion. Rm 305, 90 Croatia St.
Glenn Gould School. Student Recital. Younggun
416-408-2824 x322. Free.
Kim, piano. Concert Hall, 90 Croatia St. 416-408— 8:45: The Music Gallery/Rough Idea.
2824 x322. Free.
VTO 007: Koenjihyakkei. Pop Avant series.
— 8:00: Soundstreams Canada. Cool DrumContemporary progressive rock from Japan.
mings International Percussion Festival: Latin
Yoshida Tatsuya, drums/vocals; Sakamoto Ken- American Rhythms. Works by Alvarez, Chavez, de
go, bass/vocals; Kanazawa Miyako, keyboards/
Bandolim, Machado, & others. Tambuco with
vocals; Yamamoto Kyoko, vocals; Komori Keiko, Celso Machado, guitar/percussion. Walter Hall, 80
reeds/vocals. Horseshoe Tavern, 370 Queen St. Queen’s Park. 416-366-7723, 800-708-6754.
West. 416-204-1080. $20; $15(adv); $15(sr/
$30; $20(sr/artsworker); $10(st).
member); $10(st).
— 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Itzhak
Perlman Conducts. Beethoven: Triple Concerto for
Monday May 21
Violin, Cello and Piano; Tchaikovsky: Symphony
— 4:00: The Governor General’s Horse
#4. Schmidt-Perlman-Bailey Trio; Itzhak Perlman,
Guards Band. Garlands For the Queen. Victoria cond. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-593Day concert, music from Canada’s cultural herit- 4828. $40.50-$127.
age. St. Michael’s College School, 1515
— 9:00pm & 10:15pm: Mezzetta Restaurant.
Bathurst St. 416-482-4909. $20.
Jazz Guitar Magic. Brian Katz, classical guitar;
Rob Piltch, electric guitar. 681 St.Clair Ave. West.
Tuesday May 22
416-658-5687. $7 cover.
— 10:00pm: Soundstreams Canada. Cool
Drummings International Percussion Festival: Late
Festival Series: The Masque: An Introduction.
Night Latin Rhythms. Puerto Rican Bomba call-andActors, singers, dancers, visual artists & instru- response dance-drum spectacle. Toto Barriel, singmentalists in an hour of music, dance & spoken er/percussion; Sal Ferreras & members of Tambuword; audience. Toronto Masque Theatre, Larry co. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas St. West. 416-366Beckwith, art. dir. Four Seasons Centre, 145
7723, 800-708-6754. $20; $10(st).
Thursday May 24
— 12:15: St. Andrew’s United Church.
Karen Rymal, organ, in Recital. 32 Main St.
North, Markham. 905-295-0351. Free.
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre Chamber Music
— 1:00: St. James’ Cathedral. Music at Mid- Series: 19th- and 20th-century Virtuoso Reperday. Graham Schultz, organ. 65 Church St. 416- toire. Classical, contemporary, jazz, world & folk
364-7865 x224. Free.
music. Fluttera: Laura Chambers, Emma Zoë
Green, flutes; Jane Watson, piano. Four Seasons
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Centre, 145 Queen St. West. 416-363-8231.
Free.
Noon at Met Lute and Voice Recital: Benjamin
Stein. 56 Queen St. East. 416-363-0331 x26.
Free.
Treasured Memories. Glori Gage, vocals; Carol
Gibson, piano. St. John’s Church, 19 Don Ridge
Dr. 416-225-6611. Free.
Chamber Music. Works by Ysayë and Bach.
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416-408-2824 x322. Free.
— 8:00: Royal Conservatory of Music. ComJonathan Tortolano, solo cello. 1570 Yonge
munity School Concert Series: RCM Jazz Choir.
Street. 416-920-5211. Collection.
Neil Block, director. Concert Hall, 90 Croatia St.
— 2:00: Northern District Library. An After- 416-408-2824 x321. Free.
noon of Flute Music. Büsser: Prelude and Scherzo; — 8:00: Soundstreams Canada. Cool DrumLiebermann: Flute Concerto. Alberta Brown, flute; mings International Percussion Festival: Steve
TBA, piano. 40 Orchard View Blvd. 416-393Reich @ 70. Reich: Daniel Variations (Canadian
7610. Free.
premiere); Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices
and Organ; Music for Six Pianos. Members of the
Itzhak Perlman Conducts. Roy Thomson Hall. See Steve Reich Ensemble. See Announcements for
May 23. $27.50-$71.50 mat prices.
related conference events. MacMillan Theatre,
— 7:00: Canadian Children’s Opera Cho80 Queen’s Park. 416-366-7723, 800-708rus. Annual Junior Spring Concert. Choral &
6754. $40; $30(sr/artsworker); $20(st).
staged performances by Ruby, Apprentice, &
— 8:00: The Mosaic Trio. Inaugural PerformIntermediate Choruses. Imperial Oil Opera Theaance. Brass trio works by Frackenpohl, Nelhybel,
tre, Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Opera Centre,
& Uber. Ted Clark, trumpet; David Haskins, horn;
227 Front St. E.. 416-366-0467. $25; $15(sr/
Joel Green, trombone. Royal St. George’s College
st); $5(ch).
Chapel, 120 Howland Ave. 647-883-7359. $5.
— 8:00: Toronto Opera Ensemble. Operatic
Glenn Gould School. Student Recital. Megan
Highlights. Daniel Eby, director. Heliconian Hall,
Lindsay, soprano. Rm 103, 90 Croatia St. 41635 Hazelton Ave. 416-927-9800. $20.
408-2824 x322. Free.
Friday May 25
— 8:00: Civic Light Opera Company. Show
Boat. By Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein.
— 12:15: St. Andrew’s United Church. WilLesley Ansell, chor.; Joe Cascone, artistic direcliam Maddox, organ, in Recital. 32 Main St.
tor. Fairview Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall
North, Markham. 905-295-0351. Free.
Dr. 416-755-1717. $17.50(Thu). For complete
— 6:00: Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orrun see music theatre listings.
chestra. Pops! Gala Fundraiser. Pops favourites.
— 8:00: East Side Players. Rough Crossing.
Paul Weston, conductor. Metropolitan Centre,
By Tom Stoppard; musical comedy. Papermill
3840 Finch Ave. East. 416-879-5566. $65, incl
Theatre, Todmorden Mills, 67 Pottery Rd. 416dinner.
425-0917. $16; $12(st). For complete run see
— 7:30: Bata Shoe Museum. In the Shoes of
an Elizabethan Lady: The Passions and Scandals
— 8:00: New Adventures in Sound Art.
of Frances Walsingham. Concert and curator’s
Radio Kontakte Concert. Stockhausen: Kontakte
talk. The Musicians in Ordinary. 327 Bloor St.
(original 4-channel version); Dhomont: Figures de West. 416-979-7799 x242. $15; $10(sr/st);
la Nuit (Faces of the Night); other works on Deep free(Museum members); pre-registration reWireless 4 radio art compilation CD. Kevin Ausquired.
tin, presenter. See Announcements for related
— 8:00: Amici Chamber Ensemble. Bayrakevents. Ryerson University Student Campus Cen- darian. Kradjian (arr): Armenian Folk Songs for
tre, 350 Victoria St. 416-910-7231. $15;
soprano, clarinet, cello & piano; Khachaturian:
$10(sr/st); including CD.
Trio in g, for violin, clarinet and piano; Spanish
Songs for soprano & cello ensemble. Joaquin
Glenn Gould School. Student Recital. Cather- Valdepeñas, clarinet; David Hetherington, cello;
ine Rooney, soprano. Rm 305, 90 Croatia St.
Isabel Bayrakdarian, soprano; Serouj Kradjian,
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piano; Benjamin Bowman, violin. Glenn Gould
Studio, 250 Front St. West. 416-205-5555.
$45; $40(sr); $10(st).
— 8:00: Etobicoke Centennial Choir. Some
Enchanted Evening: Music from the American
Songbook. The Gershwins, Arlen, Porter, & others. Guest: John Sherwood, jazz pianist; Harris
Loewen, music director. Royal York Road United
Church, 851 Royal York Rd. 416-239-1131 x49.
$20.
— 8:00: Etobicoke Philharmonic Orchestra.
Conductor Collage: Triumphant Majesty. Mozart:
Overture to Idomeneo; Castelnuovo-Tedesco:
Concerto #1 for guitar; Tchaikovsky: Symphony
#5. Daniel Bolshoy, guitar; Roberto DeClara, conductor. Scarlett Heights Academy, 15 Trehorne
Dr. 416-239-5665. $20; $15(sr/st); free(16 &
under with adult).
— 8:00: Harbourfront Centre NextSteps/
Menaka Thakkar Dance Company. Riaz
(Practice), HomeComing, & Parashakti (Primordial Energy). Classical Bharatnatyam movements
with modern twist, Natasha Bakht, dancer/chor.;
Menaka Thakkar, chor. Premiere Dance Theatre,
207 Queens Quay West. 416-973-4000.
$30,$25; $24,$20(sr/st/arts professional). For
— 8:00: I Furiosi. Welcome to the Jungle.
Guests: Jed Wentz, traverso; Max Mandel, viola;
Olivier Fortin, harpsichord. Grace Church on-theHill, 300 Lonsdale Rd. 416-536-2943. $20;
$10(sr/st).
— 8:00: Jean Edwards. Song Journey. Jean
Edwards, soprano; Brahm Goldhamer, piano.
Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave. 416-4864172. $20.
— 8:00: Music at St. Clement’s. Max Woolaver & The Digby Ravens. Bluegrass. St. Clement’s
Church, 59 Briar Hill Ave. 416-483-6664. $20;
$15(sr/st).
— 8:00: Nathaniel Dett Chorale. And Still
We Sing: The Niagara Movement. Two actors;
Brainerd Blyden-Taylor, conductor. George Weston Recital Hall, 5040 Yonge St. 416-872-1111.
$22-$41.50; $22-$35.50(65+/st with ID).
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— 8:00: Soundstreams Canada. Cool Drummings International Percussion Festival: Nexus &
Friends. Works by Cage, Takemitsu, members of
Nexus; Ragtime, improvisation, & more. Guests:
Peter Erskine, drums; Hugh Marsh, electric violin;
Liam Teague, steel pan. See Announcements for
related conference events. Walter Hall, 80
Queen’s Park. 416-366-7723, 800-708-6754.
$30; $20(sr/artsworker); $10(st).
— 8:30: Hugh’s Room. Tanglefoot. 2261 Dundas St. West. 416-531-6604. $25; $22(adv).
NUVO II
New Choral Voices
A foray into new choral music: fresh,
innovative and inspired! Experience
the varied colours of the human voice
in works by Rihards Dubra, Stephen
Paulus, René Eespere, Frank Ticheli
and many more.
Saturday May 26
Cathedral
Bluffs
Symphony
Orchestra
Pops
Fundraising
Gala
Paul Weston
conducting
For details
see listings for
May 25th
Perennial
favourites by:
Bizet
Gershwin
Offenbach
Elgar
Strauss
Lehár and
Dvorák
Edward Moroney, accompanist
Robert Cooper, conductor
Saturday May 26, 7.30 p.m.
Grace Church on-the-Hill,
300 Lonsdale Rd
Tickets: $30 / $25 Senior / $10 Student
at the door or in advance.
Concert Sponsored by:
RAXMANENOV
— 8:00: Opera by Request. Music for Voice,
Viola & Piano. Works by Loeffler, Brahms &
others. Jessica Lloyd, mezzo-soprano; Luisa Cornacchia, viola; William Shookhoff, piano. Bartok
Room, North Toronto Institute of Music, 550
Eglinton Ave. E. 416-455-2365. $12; $10(sr/st).
— 8:00: Roy Thomson Hall. 1964: The Tribute. Beatles concert recreation. Gary “Paul”
Grimes, Mark “John” Benson, Terry “Ringo”
Manfredi, Tom “George” Work, performers. 60
Simcoe St. 416-872-4255. $29.50-$59.50.
Glenn Gould School. Student Recital. Brenna
McLane, viola. Rm 305, 90 Croatia St. 416-4082824 x322. Free.
— 1:00: Metropolitan United Church. Doors
Open Toronto & Toronto Organ Day. Metropolitan Silver Band, Fran Harvey, conductor; Matthew Coons, organ. 56 Queen St. East. 416-3630331 x26. Donations accepted.
— 1:30 & 7:30: Common Thread Community Chorus of Toronto. Planting the Seed. Folk
& world music. Guest: Eve Goldberg, folk singer.
Walmer Centre, 188 Lowther Ave. 416-4105022. $18; $15(adv); $15(sr/st); $12(adv sr/st);
or PWYC.
— 2:00: Hannaford Youth Bands. In Concert.
Youth, Community & Junior Bands; Anita McAlister & Darryl Eaton, conductors. Walter Hall, 80
Queen’s Park. 905-847-7682. $10; $5(sr/st).
— 2:00: Soundstreams Canada. Cool Drummings International Percussion Festival: Percussion Theatre. Schafer: Tantrika (choreography
David Earle); Aphergis: Le Corps a Corps; Andriessen: Workers Union; works by Tremblay, Cherney
William Woloschuk Director
presents
RACHMANINOV’S
VESPERS
Saturday May 26, 2007, 8 p.m.
Greek Orthodox Church of St. George
115 Bond Street (near Dundas Square)
Tickets: $15 advance, $20 door
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music director. Clearview Christian Reformed
Church, 2300 Sheridan Garden Dr., Oakville.
(premiere). Aiyun Huang, Ryan Scott, percussion; RENT. Bloor Street United Church, 300 Bloor St. 905-337-7104. $20; $15(sr/under 12).
West. 416-925-9872 x2166. $15.
McGill Percussion Ensemble; Eleanor James,
— 7:30: Orpheus Choir of Toronto. Nuvo II.
— 7:30: Brampton Folk Club. Annual Showsinger; Robert Cram, flute. See Announcements
Works by Paulus, Sandstrom, Hamilton, Mantycase Concert: Back to our Roots. Tom Lewis,
for related conference events. MacMillan Theajarvi, Rutter. Edward Moroney, accompanist;
tre, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-366-7723, 800-708- Brown Ale, performers. Sanderson Hall, St.
Robert Cooper, artistic director. Grace Church onPaul’s United Church, 30 Main St. South, Bramp- the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale Rd. 416-530-4428. $30;
6754. $20; $15(sr/artsworker); $10(st).
— 3:45: Metropolitan United Church. Doors ton. 647-233-3655. $12; $10(sr/st).
$25(sr); $10(st).
— 7:30: First Evangelical Lutheran Church. — 7:30: Tallis Choir. Six Bach Motets. Guest:
Open Toronto: Benjamin Stein, guitar/voice. The
Organ Party. Works by Buxtehude, Bach, BoellPark, 56 Queen St. East. 416-363-0331 x26.
Kate Bennett Haynes, cello; Peter Mahon, direcmann, & others. Andre Rakus, organ; Sarah Reid, tor. Church of the Holy Rosary, 354 St. Clair Ave
— 4:30: VIVA! Youth Singers of Toronto.
trumpet. 116 Bond St. 416-977-4786. $10;
Cultures and Customs. Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre,
West. 416-286-9798. $25; $20(sr); $10(st
free(ch with adult).
427 Bloor St. West. 416-788-8482. $18;
with ID).
— 7:30: North York Concert Band. Heroic
$12(sr/st).
Tales. Works by Gassi, De Falla, Huckeby,
— 7:00: Canadian Children’s Opera ChoWind Serenade. Beethoven: Prometheus, OverSchwarz, Whitacre, Fillmore, Offenbach, & othrus. Carmen With a Twist. Excerpts from Carture; Vivaldi: Flute Concerto in D (il cardellino
men & The Merry Widow. Canadian Youth Opera ers. John Liddle, conductor. Al Green Theatre,
(Goldfinch)); Dvorak: Serenade for Winds; WeinzChorus, with Principal Chorus & Boys Chorus of MNjcc, 750 Spadina Ave. 416-470-0272. $15; weig: Divertimento #1 for Flute and String Orthe CCOC. Christ Church Deer Park, 1570 Yonge free(under 12).
chestra; Britten: The Young Person’s Guide to the
Street. 416-366-0467. $25; $15(sr/st); $5(ch). — 7:30: Oakville Children’s Choir. Fiesta!
Orchestra. Nora Shulman, flute; Douglas Boyd,
— 7:00: Rainbow Voices of Toronto Choir. Latin American rhythms and folk songs. Johannes conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St.
Lindstead, flamenco guitar; Glenda Crawford,
Spring Concert. Including songs from musical
416-593-4828. $25.25-$70.50.
— 8:00: Counterpoint Chorale. RachmaniNorth York Concert Band
nov’s Vespers (All-Night Vigil). William Woloschuk, director. St. George’s Greek Orthodox
Conductor John Edward Liddle
Church, 115 Bond St. 416-253-4674. $20;
$15(adv).
— 8:00: Etobicoke Centennial Choir. Some
Enchanted Evening: Music from the American
An evening of dramatic musical stories,
Songbook. Royal York Road United Church. See
old favourites, music from the movies,
May 25.
— 8:00: Scarborough Philharmonic. The
and light classics.
Planets. Delius: The Walk to the Paradise Garden;
Vaughan Williams: Folk Songs of the Four SeaSaturday, May 26, 2007 – 7:30 p.m.
sons; Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March #4;
Al Green Theatre, Miles Nadal JCC
Holst: The Planets. Guests: Oriana Women’s
750 Spadina Ave. (corner of Bloor and Spadina)
Choir, William Brown, music director; John Barnum, conductor. Birchmount Park C.I., 3663 Dan-
Heroic Tales
Tickets: $15
forth Ave. 416-429-0007. $25; $20(sr); $15(st).
— 8:00: Soundstreams Canada. Cool Drummings International Percussion Festival: World
Beats. Traditions of India, Persia, Latin America,
the Caribbean, & Africa. Autorickshaw with
Trichy Sankaran; Safa Ensemble with Bill Brennan; Celso Machado, Sal Ferreras, Liam Teague,
Kwasi Dunyo & others, performers. See Announcements for related conference events. MacMillan Theatre, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-3667723, 800-708-6754. $30; $20(sr/artsworker);
$10(st).
— 8:00: Tapestry New Opera Works. 3Divas. Cabaret of favourite songs and newly commissioned works. Patricia O’Callaghan, Jean
Stilwell & Theresa Tova, performers. Ernest
Balmer Studio, 55 Mill Street, Building 58, Distillery Historic District. 416-537-6066 x221.
$25; $20(adv); $5.
— 8:00: Toronto Opera Ensemble. Operatic
Highlights. Daniel Eby, director. Glenn Gould
Studio, 250 Front St. West. 416-927-9800.
$30; $25(sr/st).
Sunday May 27
— 11:00am & 2:00: Canadian Opera Company/Zellers Ensemble School. The Magic
Flute. 45-minute version of Mozart’s opera, for
ages 4 to 11. Four Seasons Centre, 145 Queen
St. West. 416-363-8231. Free, adults must be
accompanying a child.
— 2:00: Intrada Brass. Salute to Youth.
Guests: The Halton Junior Jazz. Bram Gregson,
musical director. $29.50; $23.50(sr/st).
— 2:00: Metropolitan United Church. Mayhem at the Met. Metropolitan Silver Band &
Metropolitan Choir, Fran Harvey, conductor. 56
Queen St. East. 416-363-0331 x26. Donations
accepted.
416-470-0272
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ALLIS CHOIR
Directed By Peter Mahon
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Six Bach Motet#
with guest artist: Kate Bennett Haynes, cello
The crown of the choral repertoire.
Six masterpieces from the Leipzig master.
SATURDAY, MAY 26, 7:30 PM
Church of the Holy Rosary, 354 St. Clair Ave. W.
(next to St. Clair W. subway station)
Tickets: $25, $20 seniors, $10 students with ID
Info: 416.286.9798
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— 2:00: Shevchenko Choir/Kaniv Dancers/
Toronto Mandolin Orchestra. Songs, Music
and Dance of Ukraine, Canada & Other Lands.
Leah Posluns Theatre, 4588 Bathurst St. 416533-2725. $25; $23(sr/st); $12(ch).
— 2:00: Soundstreams Canada. Cool Drummings International Percussion Festival: Distillery
Drumming. See Announcements for related conference events. Pure Spirits Patio, Distillery Historic District. 416-504-1282. Free.
— 3:00: East York Choir. Spring Soul. Folk
songs, spirituals, & African music. Guests: Fulé
Badoe, Larry Graves, percussion; Adwoa Badoe,
storyteller/dancer; Elizabeth Acker, accompanist;
Jenny Crober, artistic director. Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth Ave. 416-425-3812.
$20; $15(sr); $10(st).
— 3:00: Orchestra Toronto. Concert Five.
Haydn: Symphony #104 (London); Brahms: Piano
on period instruments
Rona Goldensher, violin
Geneviève Gilardeau, violin
Anthony Rapoport, viola
Laura Jones, cello
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Sunday, May 27,
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Concerto #1. Neda Navaee, piano; Errol Gay,
conductor. 2:15: Pre-concert talk by Catherine
Manoukian, Artist-in-Residence. George Weston
$30; $25(sr/st); $10(18 & under).
— 3:00: St. Michael’s Memorial Chapel.
The William Byrd Singers. Renaissance & Baroque music. Peter Mahon, director. 7788 Yonge
St., Thornhill. 416-590-9412. $25; $20(sr/st).
Wind Serenade. Roy Thomson Hall. See May 26.
— 3:00: Windermere String Quartet. Boccherini, Haydn, Beethoven. Boccherini: Quartet #5
in D, Op.58; Haydn: Quartet in C, Op.20/2;
Beethoven: Quartet in A, Op.18/5. St. Olave’s
Church, 360 Windermere Ave. 416-769-7054.
$15; $10(sr/st).
Church St. 416-769-2841. $6.
— 4:00: St. Philip’s Church. Jazz Vespers.
Hilario Duran, Perspectiva. 25 St. Phillips Road.
416-247-5181. Offering.
— 4:30: Christ Church Deer Park. Jazz Vespers. The Brandi Disterheft Quartet: Brandi Disterheft, bass; Chris Gale, tenor sax; Darryl Orr,
alto sax; Sly Juhas, drums. 1570 Yonge St. 416920-5211. Free, donations welcome.
— 8:00: Tapestry New Opera Works. 3Divas. The Ernest Balmer Studio. See May 26.
— 8:00: The Music Gallery. Toca Loca: ONE
(a number divided by two). Palmer: W is for ...
(Canadian premiere); Ross New Work (premiere);
Rzewski: Bring Them Home!; solo piano music by
Kitzke, Koontz. Guests: Vilma Vitols, Marion
Newman, mezzo-sopranos; Opening: The Remainders (Katie Crown, Ryan V. Hays). St. George the
Martyr Church, 197 John St. 416-204-1080.
$25; $20(Deal With The Devil); $15(artist);
$10(st).
Monday May 28
— 8:00: Etobicoke Youth Strings. A Spring
String Collage. Handel: Sarabande for Strings;
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Young Prince and the
Young Princess; Trad: Celtic Fiddle Tune; Mozart:
Themes from Symphony #40; Telemann: Concerto, Presto. Islington United Church, 25 Burnhamthorpe Rd. 416-239-0523. Free.
Glenn Gould School. Student Recital. Patrick
Cashin, piano. Concert Hall, 90 Croatia St. 416408-2824 x322. Free.
Tuesday May 29
— 1:00: St. James’ Cathedral. Music at Midday. Fr. John Palmer, organ. 65 Church St. 416364-7865 x224. Free.
— 6:00: Halton Youth Symphony Orchestra/Halton Youth Chamber Orchestra. Season Final Concert. Janez Govednik, Caron Allen,
conductors. Oakville Centre, 130 Navy St. 905815-2021, 888-489-7784. $TBA.
music. Dave Wall, vocals; David Buchbinder,
trumpet; Peter Lutek, clarinets; Tania Gill; piano;
Victor Bateman; bass; Frank Botos, drums. The
TRANZAC, 292 Brunswick Ave. 416-9238137. PWYC.
— 8:00: House of Blues. Joan Armatrading:
Into the Blues. Guitarist/songwriter/singer. Music
Hall Theatre, 147 Danforth Ave. 416-870-8000.
$49.50.
— 8:00: Koffler School of Music. Koffler
Concert Band – Resa’s Pieces. Leah Posluns Theatre, 4588 Bathurst St. 416-636-1880 x228.
$10.
Glenn Gould School. Student Recital. Hanna
Matthijsse, violin. Concert Hall, 90 Croatia St.
416-408-2824 x322. Free.
— 8:00: Talisker Players Chamber Music.
Tyger, Tyger. Vaughan Williams: Ten Blake
Songs, for voice & oboe; Arnold: Five Blake
Songs, for voice & string quartet; Jacob: Songs of
Innocence, for voice & string trio; Eatock: Tears
of Gold, for voice, cello & harpsichord; Ridout:
Seasons, for voice, string quartet & piano. Norine
Burgess, mezzo-soprano; Colin Ainsworth, tenor;
Peter Longworth, piano. Trinity St. Paul’s Centre,
427 Bloor St. West. 416-466-1800. $25;
$20(sr); $10(st).
hogany. Fermenting Cellar, 55 Mill St., Distillery
Historic District. 416-872-1111, 866-5774277. $25.
— 7:30: East York Collegiate Institute.
Grease. 1950s high-school-based musical comedy. 650 Cosburn Ave. 416-396-2355. $10. For
— 7:30: St. James’ Cathedral. A Great and
Mighty Music. Works by Willcocks, Ager.
Guests: Talisker Players; Portsmouth Choral
Union, Jonathan Willcocks, conductor; St. James
Festival Chorus. 65 Church St. 416-364-7865
x224. $TBA.
— 8:00: Oasis Vocal Jazz. Spring Concert. Pop,
classical, Broadway, world music, & vocal jazz.
Stuart Sladden, director. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas St. West. 416-588-0307. $20.
— 8:00: Talisker Players Chamber Music.
Tyger, Tyger. Trinity St. Paul’s Centre. See May
29.
Brahms Symphony 2. Plus Dvorak: Violin Concerto. James Ehnes, violin; Jiri Belohlavek, conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-5934828. $35-$120.
— 9:00pm & 10:15pm: Mezzetta Restaurant. Jazz Guitar Magic. Roland Hunter, guitar;
Jesse Capon, drums; Jon Maharaj, bass. 681
St.Clair Ave. West. 416-658-5687. $7 cover.
Thursday May 31
Festival Series: Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas – A
3:00
Masque. Toronto Masque Theatre, Larry Beckwith, artistic director. Four Seasons Centre, 145
Noon at Met Organ Recital: Ryan Jackson. 56
French Songs. Connie Price, flute; Michelle Kyle,
piano. St. John’s York Mills Church, 19 Don Ridge
Dr. 416-225-6611. Free.
Chamber Music. Works by Haydn, Sarasate,
Moskowski. Trio Nomade: Caroline Chehade,
Andrea Picard, violins; Marie Helene Trempe,
piano. 1570 Yonge Street. 416-920-5211. Collection.
— 6:00: Al Green Theatre, MNjcc. MNjcc
Youth Choir. 3rd annual spring concert. 750
Spadina Ave. 416-924-6211 x277. $8(family).
— 8:00: LuminaTO/Art of Jazz Spring Celebration. Footprints: A Journey in Dance and
Drums. Jimmy Slyde, Felix “Pupy” Insua & Muna
Mingole; Veronica Tennant, host. Fermenting
Cellar, 55 Mill St., The Distillery Historic District. 416-872-1111, 866-577-4277. $39.50;
$25(st).
Wednesday May 30
Brahms Symphony 2. Roy Thomson Hall. See
— 12:30: Yorkminster Park Church. NoonMay 30.
day Organ Recital. Father John Palmer, organ.
Norine Burgess, MEZZO SOPRANO
— 9:00pm: Association of Improvising Mu1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167. Free.
— 5:30: Canadian Opera Company. Richard sicians Toronto/Arraymusic. Interface with
Colin Ainsworth, TENOR
cellist Thomas Charmetant. Arraymusic Studio,
Bradshaw Amphitheatre Renaissance Festival
Series: The Madrigal. Works by Verdelot, de Rore, Suite 218, 60 Atlantic Ave. 416-539-8752.
Peter Longworth, PIANO
Monteverdi, Morley, LeJeune & Scheidt. Toronto $15.
The Talisker Players
Chamber Choir, David Fallis, director. Four SeaFriday June 01
sons Centre, 145 Queen St. West. 416-363May 29 & 30, 2007, 8 p.m.
— 7:00: Royal Conservatory of Music. Com8231. Free.
munity School Concert Series: Ghanaian Drum— 6:00: ORGANIX 07. Percussion & Organ.
Trinity St. Paul’s Centre
Bolcom: Black Host, for organ, percussion & tape; ming Ensemble. Traditional Ghanaian drumming,
singing & dance. Master Drummer Kwasi Dunyo
Hakim: Agapê. Michael Capon, organ; Richard
Tickets: $25 / $20 / $10
& students. Concert Hall, 90 Croatia St. 416Moore, percussion. St. Andrew’s Church, 383
Information: 416-466-1800
408-2824 x321. Free.
Jarvis St. 416-241-9785. $5.
— 7:00: LuminaTO/Art of Jazz Spring Cele- — 7:30: ORGANIX 07. Finale Concert: Choir &
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Choir School; Rachel Laurin, organ; Jerzy Cichocki, conductor. St. James’ Cathedral, 65
Church St. 416-241-9785. $25.
— 8:00: CNIB/Li Delun Music Foundation. Piano for Vision Hope: Hu Hai Peng, piano, in Recital. Works by Beethoven, Chopin,
Ravel, & selections of Chinese & Canadian
music. George Weston Recital Hall, 5040
Yonge St. 416-872-1111. $25-$88.
— 8:00: LuminaTO. Book of Longing. Philip
Glass interprets poetry of Leonard Cohen (premiere). Ensemble of singers & musicians,
from indie rock, classical & new music circles; Philip Glass, keyboards. Elgin Theatre,
189 Yonge St. 416-872-1111, 866-5774277. $25-$125.
— 8:00: LuminaTO. Not the Messiah. By
Eric Idle & John Du Prez, comic oratorio (premiere). Toronto Symphony Orchestra; members of Toronto Mendelssohn Choir; soloists;
Eric Idle, soloist/narrator; Peter Oundjian, conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St.
416-872-1111, 866-577-4277. $25-$125.
— 8:00: LuminaTO. Vida!: A Celebration of
Life. Dance by List Alfonso’s Danza Cuba &
Omara Portuondo, fusing Spanish & AfroCuban influences (premiere). 25 female dancers; musicians. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260
King St. West. 416-872-1111, 866-5774277. $20-$85. For complete run see music
theatre listings.
— 8:00: LuminaTO/Art of Jazz Spring
Celebration. Tribute Concert: Kenny Wheeler & Friends. Dave Holland, Bob Brookmeyer,
Lee Konitz, Joe La Barbera, Don Thompson &
Norma Winstone. Fermenting Cellar, 55 Mill
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Choir. Around the World in Eighty Minutes.
Thomas Bell, music director. Royal Bank Theatre, 4141 Livings Arts Dr., Mississauga. 905St., Distillery Historic District. 416-872306-6000, 888-805-8888. $16(mat);
1111, 866-577-4277. $39.50; $25(st).
— 8:00: LuminaTO/Harbourfront Centre $18(eve).
New World Stage. Spiegel Tent ‘n Tavern. — 3:30 & 8:00: Les voix du coeur. From
Dancers, singers, aerialists, acrobats & show- Carmen to the Beatles/De Carmen aux
Beatles. Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St.
girls create Nouveau Varieté-style theatrical
entertainment. 235 Queens Quay West. 416- West. 905-883-7951. $20; $15(sr/st).
872-1111, 866-577-4277. $25. For comCelebration. Carla Bley & The Art of Jazz
plete run see music theatre listings.
Orchestra. Carla Bley, Steve Swallow,
— 8:30: Hugh’s Room. Carlos del Junco.
2261 Dundas St. West. 416-531-6604. $23; Howard Johnson and the AOJ Orchestra.
Pure Spirits Stage, 55 Mill St., Distillery His$20(adv).
toric District. 416-872-1111, 866-577— 9:00pm: Association of Improvising
Musicians Toronto/Arraymusic. Interface 4277. Free.
with cellist Thomas Charmetant. Arraymusic — 7:00: Scola Cantorum Choir. Psalms.
Studio, Suite 218, 60 Atlantic Ave. 416-539- Works by Telemann, Mendelssohn, Kodaly, &
Harmat. Ian Sadler, organ. St. Elizabeth of
8752. $15.
Hungary Church, 432 Sheppard Ave. East.
Saturday June 02
416-971-9754. $15; $10(sr/st).
— 11:00am: LuminaTO/Art of Jazz Spring — 7:30: Annex Singers. Heavenly Bodies:
Sun, Moon and Stars. Cabaret. St. Thomas’s
Celebration. Jazzrhythmics for Juniors.
Church Hall, 383 Huron St. 416-538-3108.
Toddlers to 8. Brian Katz & Artie Roth. Fermenting Cellar, 55 Mill St., Distillery Historic $15; $12(sr/st).
— 7:30: LuminaTO/Young Centre. Under
District. 416-872-1111, 866-577-4277.
Milk Wood. Play for voices by Dylan Thomas,
$10; free(under 16).
music written/performed by Mike Ross, sound
effects by Caoimhe Doyle & Stefan Fraticelli.
Celebration. Chris McKhool’s Fiddlefire!®.
Fermenting Cellar, 55 Mill St., Distillery His- Kenneth Welsh, actor; Ted Dykstra, director.
Young Centre, Building 49, 55 Mill St. Distilltoric District. 416-872-1111, 866-577ery Historic District. 416-872-1111, 8664277. $10; free(under 16).
577-4277. $40.
Celebration. Fruteland Jackson. Fermenting — 7:30: Melodic Voices Opera Company.
Cellar, 55 Mill St., Distillery Historic District. Romantic June. Classical, arias, & duets. Barbara Goldman, Christine Chan, Tatiana Kape416-872-1111, 866-577-4277. $10;
lush, sopranos; John Cutruzzola, tenor; Vaguif
free(under 16).
Kerimov, tenor/artistic director. Heliconian
— 2:00 & 7:30: Mississauga Children’s
Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave. 416-429-2386. $25;
$20(sr/st).
— 7:30: National Ballet of Canada. The
Four Seasons & Polyphonia & New Mrozewski. Music by Vivaldi, Ligeti & Louie. National
Ballet Orchestra; James Kudelka, Christopher
Wheeldon, Matjash Mrozewski, choreography.
Four Seasons Centre, 145 Queen St. West.
416-345-9595. $40-$190. For complete run
— 7:30: St. Andrew’s Presbyterian
Church. Music for a Spring Evening. Vocal
selections & handbell music. St. Andrew’s
Vocal Choir; The Bells of St. Andrew’s, The
Chimes of St. Andrew’s, Quintessence Handbell Ensemble; Heather & David Keith, solo/
duet handbells. 115 St. Andrews Rd. 416-
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438-4100. $10; $5(st).
— 8:00: Acoustic Harvest Folk Club. The
Rick Fines Trio. Acoustic blues/roots artist. St.
Nicholas Church, 1512 Kingston Rd. 416-2642235. $15.
— 8:00: Canadian Sinfonietta. Bach &
Sons, Since 1685. Bach: Violin Concerto in E;
Orchestral Suite #2; C.P.E. Bach: Suite for
String Orchestra; J.C. Bach: Concerto in c for
viola and strings. Joyce Lai, violin; Aleksandar
Gajic viola; Stephen Tam, flute; Tak-Ng Lai,
conductor. Newtonbrook United Church, 53
Cummer Ave. 905-707-1200 x2. $30;
$25(sr); $15(st); $10(11 & under).
— 8:00: Counterpoint Community Orchestra. Rhapsodys. Alfven: Midsommarvarka, Swedish Rhapsody #1, Op.19; Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody # 2 in c-sharp; Rachmaninoff:
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; Smetana:
The Moldau. John Alonso, piano; Terry Kowalczuk, music director. Saint Luke’s Church, 353
Sherbourne St. 416-925-9872 x2066. $18;
$15(adv).
— 8:00: LuminaTO. Book of Longing. Elgin
Theatre. See Jun 1.
— 8:00: LuminaTO. Not the Messiah. Roy
Thomson Hall. See Jun 1.
— 8:00: Tafelmusik. Tafelmusik Baroque
Summer Institute Concert: Delightfully Baroque. Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and
Chamber Choir. Ann Monoyios, soprano; Rufus
Müller tenor; Jeanne Lamon & Ivars Taurins,
directors. Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor
St. West. 416-964-6337. Free.
Celebration. Afro Cuban Jazz & Dance Party: Salsa Meets Jazz. Ricky Franco’s “P”
Crew. Fermenting Cellar, 55 Mill St., Distillery Historic District. 416-872-1111, 866577-4277. $29.50.
— 9:00pm: Association of Improvising
Musicians Toronto/Now Lounge. Interface with cellist Thomas Charmetant. 189
Church St. 416-769-2841. $15.
Sunday June 03
— 1:30: CAMMAC/McMichael Art Gallery. Sunday Concert Series. Taffanel Wind
Ensemble, flute, clarinet, bassoon, & guest
pianist. 10365 Islington Ave., Kleinburg. 905893-1121, 888-213-1121. Admission with
gallery price: $15; $9(sr/st); $25(family);
free(5 & under).
— 1:30: Spadina Museum. Music in the
Orchard: VentElation. Music of the late 18th
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& early 19th centuries. Wind octet: two
oboes, clarinets, horns, & bassoons. 285
Spadina Rd. 416-392-6910. Free.
Celebration. We Are One: Barry Harris and
Art of Jazz Community Voices. Pure Spirits
Stage, 55 Mill St., Distillery Historic District.
416-872-1111, 866-577-4277. Free.
— 3:00: Church of Saint Mary
Magdalene. Trinity Sunday Concert. Gregorian Chant; Willan: Lady Motets; Haydn: Te
Deum. With orchestra; Stephanie Martin, conductor. 477 Manning Ave. 416-531-7955.
Free, donations to Healey Willan Music Fund.
— 3:00: Penthelia Singers. 10th Anniversary Gala Concert. Works for women’s voices;
Bach: miniatures of cantatas; Brahms: folk
songs & canons; Beach: The Chambered Nautilus (Canadian premiere); Bartok. Strings,
harpsichord, & piano; Mary Legge, director.
Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St. West. 416205-5555. $20; $15(sr/st).
Church St. 416-769-2841. $6.
— 7:00: LuminaTO. Book of Longing. Elgin
Theatre. See Jun 1.
— 7:00: TrypTych. Heart and Soulstice:
Songs of Summer; Songs of Love. Cabaret
series. Lenard Whiting, Edward Franko, &
guests. West Hall Theatre, Trinity Church,
2737 Bayview Ave. 416-763-5066 x1. $20.
— 7:30: Toronto Jewish Folk Choir. 81st
Spring Concert. Barnes: excerpts from Sefarad, Fantasy on Jewish Themes; Heifetz: Di
Lererin Mire — Ghetto Cantata (Canadian premiere); Varshavsky: songs from Der bobes
cholem (Grandmother’s Dream); Lerner &
Wall: Klezmer compositions; Jewish & Yiddish theatre favourites. Guests: Marilyn Lerner, piano: David Wall, tenor; Miriam Eskin,
Belva Spiel, sopranos; Tanya Podolskaya, alto
& other performers. Leah Posluns Theatre,
4588 Bathurst St. 416-636-0936. $23;
$19(sr/st); free(12 & under).
Celebration. Tribute Concert: Jon Hendricks
and the Lambert, Hendricks & Ross Redux.
Fermenting Cellar, 55 Mill St., Distillery Historic District. 416-872-1111, 866-5774277. $39.50; $25(st).
— 8:00: New Music Concerts. Rohan’s
Cello. Berio: Sequenza XIV; Lanchares: Espera,
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Luz, Espera (Canadian premiere); Dillon: Eos;
Xenakis: Kottos; Shchetynsky: Pas de Deux;
music by Kahrs, Baggiani, Current. Rohan de
Saram, David Hetherington, cellos. 7:15: Introduction. St. George the Martyr Church, 197
John St. 416-204-1080. $25; $15(sr); $5(st).
Monday June 04
— 7:00: Riverdale Youth Singers/
Riverdale Young Singers. Voices In A
Vast Land. Works by Canadian composers.
Teodora Georgieva, Youth Singers conductor/
artistic director; Alkiviadis Leontarakis, Young
Singers conductor. St. John’s Church, 415
Broadview Ave. 416-875-1587. Free, donations accepted.
— 8:00: LuminaTO. Not the Messiah. Roy
Thomson Hall. See Jun 1.
— 5:30: Canadian Opera Company. Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre Vocal Series: The
Canadian Mosaic. Choral selections & choruses from A Midwinter Night’s Dream, The
Snow Queen, The Hobbit, & A Dickens of a
Christmas. Gergely Szokolay, Errol Gay, piano;
Canadian Children’s Opera Chorus, Ann Cooper
Gay, conductor. Four Seasons Centre, 145
— 7:30: Tapestry New Opera Works.
Wordplay. Festival of libretto readings & musical excerpts, including short operas of Opera
to Go 2008. Various times from 7:30. The
Ernest Balmer Studio, 55 Mill Street, Building
58, Studio 315, Distillery Historic District.
416-537-6066 x221. $10; $5(st). For complete run see music theatre listings.
— 8:00: Al Green Theatre at the MNjcc.
MNjcc Community Choir. Jazz, world, pop,
classical, & Jewish music. 750 Spadina Ave.
416-924-6211 x133. $10; $7(sr/st/ch);
$20(family, max 5).
Stravinsky: Fireworks. Also Firebird Suite
(1919); Brahms: Violin Concerto; Tragic Overture. Daniel Hope, violin; Peter Oundjian, conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St.
416-593-4828. $35-$120.
— 12:15: Music on the Hill Concert Series. Music in the Kitchen. Rose Bolton, fiddle;
Abby Zotz, vocals/guitar/bodhran/recorder. St.
John’s York Mills Church, 19 Don Ridge Dr.
416-225-6611. Free.
Stravinsky: Fireworks. Roy Thomson Hall.
$27.50-$71.50 mat prices.
— 7:30: LuminaTO. Constantinople. Cultures,
eras & ideologies converge in music-driven
multimedia fusion of light, movement &
sound, conceived by Christos Hatzis, with
Marie-Josée Chartier (premiere). Patricia
O’Callaghan, Maryem Hassan Tollar, singers;
Gryphon Trio. Bluma Appel Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, 27 Front St. East.
416-872-1111, 866-577-4277. $20-$50.
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Thursday June 07
— 12:00 noon: Tafelmusik. Baroque Summer
Institute Faculty Chamber Concert: Musical
Interlude. Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s Park. 416964-6337. Free.
Noon at Met Organ Recital: Kevin Komisaruk.
56 Queen St. East. 416-363-0331 x26. Free.
Tuesday June 05
— 1:00: St. James’ Cathedral. Music at
Mid-day. Widor: Symphony #8 in B, Op. 42/4
(excerpts). Kola Owolabi, organ. 65 Church St.
416-364-7865 x224. Free.
Wednesday June 06
Church. Noonday Organ Recital. Marty
Smyth, organ. 1585 Yonge St. 416-9221167. Free.
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Beyond the GTA
School, 374 Jerseyville Rd. West. 905-3047469. $20; $17(sr); $13(st). For complete run
Beyond GTA: Saturday May 05
— 7:00: Amabile Boys Choirs. Boychoir Festival and Concert. Guests: Oakville Treble Choir,
In this issue: Ancaster, Aurora,
Toronto Children’s Chorus Treble Choir, Grande
Bancroft, Barrie, Belleville, Bolton, Brantford, Burlington, Caledon East,
Prairie (Alberta) Boys Choirs; Carol Beynon, Ken
Fleet, conductors. Althouse College, 1137 WestCambridge, Campbellford, Cobourg, Creemore, Drayton, Dundas, Elora,
ern Road, UWO, London. 519-433-2649. $15;
Georgetown, Gravenhurst, Guelph, Hamilton, Kingston, Kitchener, Lindsay,
$12(sr); $10(st).
London, Marmora, Midland, Milton, New Hamburg, Newmarket, Niagara-on— 7:00: Lindsay Concert Foundation. Penderecki String Quartet. Glenn Crombie Theatre,
the-Lake, Orangeville, Orillia, Oshawa, Owen Sound, Peterborough, Port
Fleming College, 200 Albert St. South, Lindsay.
Dover, Port Hope, Sharon, St. Catharines, Stratford, Uxbridge, Waterloo
705-878-5625. $25; $10(youth).
— 7:30: Grand Philharmonic Children’s
Concerts: Toronto & GTA PAGE 26
Choir. Spring Concert. Carol Giesbrecht, conducMusic Theatre/Opera/Dance PAGE 48
tor. Benton Street Church, 90 Benton St., Kitchener. 519-578-1570, 800-265-8977. $17;
Jazz in the Club s PAGE 50
$13(sr/st); $10(ch to grade 8); $5 (eyeGO).
— 7:30: Lyrica Choir of Barrie. Fauré’s RequiAnnouncements/Lectures/Etcetera PAGE 52
em. Chamber orchestra; Jennifer Griffith, soprano; Dan Hambly, baritone; Brent Mayhew,
Performers and repertoire change!
accompanist; Steve Winfield, director/conductor.
Events are sometimes postponed or cancelled.
Burton Avenue United Church, 37 Burton Ave.,
Call ahead to confirm details with presenters.
Barrie. 705-737-0872. $15; $12(sr/st).
— 7:30: Musica St. James. The Burlington
David Mallis, director; Ann Barnshaw, music
Welsh Male Chorus. Richard Street, director. St.
Beyond GTA: Tuesday May 01
director. Loft, Drury Lane Theatre, 2269 New
James Church, 137 Melville St., Dundas. 905— 7:00: Peterborough Children’s Chorus.
Street, Burlington. 905-637-3979. $24; open- 627-1424. $15.
Voices of Spring. Monahan: Child of the World
ing & mat: $22(60+); $22(st 18 & under);
— 7:30: Peterborough Singers. Sacred Soul.
(premiere); Sirett: Though We Be But Children
$16(12 & under). For complete run see music
Choral music from the English cathedral tradition
(premiere); Hatfield: One for Frost, Two for Fire;
theatre listings.
to Afro-American spirituals. Wesley Warren,
Ain’t That News; The Lion Sleeps Tonight &
— 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Mu- organist; Sydney Birrell conductor; Brainerd
other works. Junior, Concert, & Youth Choirs,
sic Society. Eybler Quartet. Haydn quartets:
Blyden-Taylor, guest conductor. George Street
Maureen Harris-Lowe, director. George Street
Op.9/2; Op.54/1; Op.74/3; period instruments.
United Church, 534 George St., Peterborough.
United Church, 534 George St., Peterborough. Aisslinn Nosky, Julia Wedman, violins; Patrick
705-745-1820. $23; $12(st).
705-740-6110. $12; $6(st/ch); $30(family 2
Jordan, viola; Margaret Gay, cello. KWCMS Mu- — 7:30: The Cellar Singers. A Gilbert and
adults + 2 st/ch).
sic Room, 57 Young St. West, Waterloo. 519Sullivan Extravaganza. See May 4. St. Paul’s
— 7:30: River Run Centre. The Songbird Café. 886-1673. $20; $15(sr); $10(st).
United Church, 62 Peter St. North, Orillia.
Local acoustic singer/songwriters. Co-operators
— 8:00: Opera Hamilton. Tosca. By Puccini.
— 8:00: Achill Choral Society. With a Song in
Hall, 35 Woolwich St., Guelph. 519-763-3000, Frances Ginzer; Gaetan Laperriere; Tonio Di Pao- My Heart. Choir favourites from past years, folk
800-520-2408. $5.
lo; Daniel Lipton, conductor. Hamilton Place, 1
songs, classical pieces, spirituals, French selec— 9:00pm: Guelph Jazz Festival. Three Tues- Summers Lane. 905-526-6556. $27-$90. For
tions & songs from Broadway musicals. A. Dale
days of Jazz Fundraiser: Jayme Stone Quartet.
Wood, director. Christ Church Anglican, 22 Nancy
Wider sound, steeped in repertoire, technique, &
— 8:00: Talk Is Free Theatre. Bye Bye Birdie. St., Bolton. 519-941-5089. $16; $14(sr/st).
lore of old-time & bluegrass banjo music. The
By Michael Stewart, Charles Strouse & Lee Ad- — 8:00: DaCapo Chamber Choir. Daybreak:
Bookshelf’s Ebar, 41 Quebec St., Guelph. 519ams. Danny James Austin, chor./director. Park
Sounds of a New Day. Robinovitch: Canciones por
763-4952. $15; $10(concession).
Place Theatre, 100 Mapleview Dr., Barrie.
los Americas; Galian: Salseo; & other works.
705-792-1949. $26; $13(st). For complete run
Guests: The Eastwood Trebel Chorus; Leonard
Beyond GTA: Wednesday May 02
Enns, conductor. St. John the Evangelist Church,
23 Water St. North Kitchener. 519-725-7549.
Beyond
GTA:
Friday
May
04
Church. Larry Moser, clarinet, Ron Dolynchuk,
$20; $15(sr/st); $5(eyeGO).
viola, & Peter Bald, piano. 54 Queen St. North,
— 7:30: Canadian Orpheus Male Choir/
— 8:00: Georgetown Bach Chorale. Gala
Kitchener. 519-578-4430. Free.
Hamilton Children’s Choir. Fundraising Con- Concert. Bach: Concerto for Two Harpsichords
— 2:00: Shaw Festival. Mack and Mabel. By
cert. Heather Plewes, soprano; Margaret Bárdos, and Strings; Pachelbel: Canon in D; choral works
Jerry Herman & Michael Stewart. Benedict
mezzo-soprano; Jessie Filice, baritone. Christ’s
by Handel, Purcell. Hanna Manierka, Marina
Campbell, Glynis Ranney, Gabrielle Jones & oth- Church Cathedral, 252 James St. North, Hamil- Manierka, harpsichords; Georgetown Bach Choers, players; Paul Sportelli, musical director; Mol- ton. 905-523-7377. $20. Proceeds to the David rale and Chamber Orchestra; Ronald Greidanus,
ly Smith, director. Festival Theatre, 10 Queen’s
Davis Memorial Fund.
artistic director. Knox Church, 116 Main St.
Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 800-511-7429. — 7:30: The Cellar Singers. A Gilbert and
South, Georgetown. 905-877-8321. $25.
Call for ticket prices. For complete run see music Sullivan Extravaganza. Corinne Lynch, soprano;
— 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Ortheatre listings.
Jason Hales, tenor; John Dodington, bass; other
chestra. Heavenly Handel. Excerpts from Alci— 2:00: Stratford Festival. Oklahoma! By
soloists TBA; Albert Greer, artistic director.
na, Alexander, Brockes Passion, Giulio Cesare,
Rodgers & Hammerstein. Kyle Blair, Dan Cham- Gravenhurst Opera House, 295 Muskoka Rd. Hercules and other works. Fabiana Katz, mezzoeroy, David W. Keeley & other performers;
South. 705-326-8011. $25; $12(st).
soprano; The Renaissance Singers; Graham Coles,
Berthold Carrière, musical director; Donna Feore, — 8:00: Capitol Arts Centre. Harlem Gospel conductor. Maureen Forrester Recital Hall, Wildirector/chor. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen St.,
Choir. 20 Queen St., Port Hope. 905-885frid Laurier University, 75 University Ave. West.,
Stratford. 800-567-1600. Call for ticket prices. 1071, 800-434-5092. $35.
Waterloo. 519-744-3828. $20; $15(sr/st).
— 8:00: County Town Singers. Canadiana
— 8:00: Niagara Symphony. A Night at the
Spring Concert. Lviv Hall, Oshawa. See May 3. Proms … and More! Pomp and Circumstance,
Beyond GTA: Thursday May 03
— 8:00: Kingston Theatre Organ Society.
Rule Britannia, In a Monastery Garden, Pirates of
— 8:00: County Town Singers. Canadiana
The Silver Lining! Simon Gledhill, theatre organ;
Penzance & more. Daniel Swift, conductor. 7:15:
Spring Concert. Songs by Mitchell, Lightfoot,
guest: Chris Alfano, clarinet. Church of the RePre-concert talk. Sean O’Sullivan Theatre, Brock
Foster, & others. Lviv Hall, Oshawa. 905-427deemer, 89 Kirkpatrick St., Kingston. 613-542- University, St. Catharines. 905-687-4993 x2.
0201. $15; $12(sr).
7601. $15; $5(st).
$25-$39; $10(st).
— 8:00: Drury Lane Theatrical Produc— 8:00: Theatre Ancaster. Reminiscing: The
— 8:00: Northumberland Hospice. Toronto
tions. The Boys from Syracuse. Musical comedy. Sound of the 70’s. Auditorium, Ancaster High
All-Star Big Band. Tribute to hits of 30’s & 40’s.
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Capitol Arts Centre, 20 Queen St., Port Hope.
905-885-1071, 800-434-5092. $33.
— 8:00: Orchestra London. Spring Sing. Light
classics & traditional favourites. Guests: The
Beal Singers; Brian Jackson, conductor. Centennial Hall, 550 Wellington St., London. 519-6798778. $33-$49; $29-$45(sr/st).
— 8:00: TACTUS Vocal Ensemble. Shakespeare’s Music: A Day in the Life of Will. Guest
instrumentalists and actors. Guelph Youth Music Centre, 75 Cardigan St. 519-766-0371. $25;
$10(st/ch).
— 8:00: York Symphony Orchestra. Great
Film Music. Corigliano: Chaconne from the Red
Violin; Rota: La Strada Suite; Morricone: Music
from the Mission; Custer: Music from 007; Williams: Harry Potter Suite. Guest: Joanna Tang,
violin; Gregory Burton, conductor. Trinity Church,
79 Victoria Street, Aurora. 416-410-0860.
$25; $20(sr/st); $10(under 12).
Beyond GTA: Sunday May 06
— 2:30: Niagara Symphony. A Night at the
Proms … and More! Sean O’Sullivan Theatre,
Brock University, St. Catharines. See May 5.
1:45: Pre-concert talk.
— 2:30: Orchestra London. Spring Sing. Centennial Hall, London. See May 5.
— 3:00: Brock University Dept of Music.
Poet’s Choral Corner. Great choral settings of
great poetic works. Niagara Vocal Ensemble,
Harris Loewen, conductor. St. George’s Church,
83 Church St., St. Catharines. 905-688-5550
x3257. $15.
— 3:00: Georgetown Bach Chorale. Gala
Concert. See May 5. St. James’ Church, 6025
Old Church Rd., Caledon East.
— 3:00: Grand River Chorus. Great Masses.
Works by Byrd, Pärt, Gounod. Amanda Kind, soprano; Paul Jeffrey, tenor; Dane Wendell, bass;
Richard Cunningham, director. Alexandra Church,
410 Colborne St., Brantford. 519-759-7885.
$20; $15(sr/st); $5(ch/high school with ID).
— 3:00: La Jeunesse Youth Orchestra. Sonic Bloom. Orchestral favourites & concertos.
Laurie Mitchell, strings director; Michael Lyons,
music director. Port Hope United Church, 34
South Street. 866-460-5596. $15; $12(st);
$40(family of 4).
— 3:00: Wellington Winds. Connections to
Africa. MacMillan: Soweto Spring; Corigliano:
Gazebo Dances; Gillingham: Sub-Saharan
Rhythms; songs from Southern Africa; & other
works. Esther Farrell, mezzo-soprano; Michael
Purves-Smith, conductor. First United Church, 16
William St. West, Waterloo. 519-579-3097.
$20; $15(sr/st). In support of the Masai AIDS
Clinic, Lesotho, Africa.
— 7:30: The Burlington Concert Band. A
Spring Fling. Music & dancing with the Burlington
Concert Band and the Silver Swing Big Band
Dance Band. Burlington Holiday Inn and Convention Centre, 3063 South Service Rd. 905616-7335. $20. Proceeds to Hamilton Spectator
Summer Camp Fund.
— 2:00: Drayton Entertainment. Cash on
Delivery. By Michael Cooney. Alex Mustakas,
director. Drayton Festival Theatre, 33 Wellington St. South. 888-449-4463. $29-$36. For
— 8:00: Brad Halls. Words and Music: The
Songs of Stephen Sondheim. Selections from
West Side Story, Gypsy, Follies, Company,
Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, & others. Christine Vanderbank, Laura Harp, vocals; Brad Halls,
piano/vocals. Concert Hall, Victoria Hall, 55 King
St. West, Cobourg. 905-372-2210, 888-262M AY 1 - J UNE 7 2007
6874. $15.
— 8:00: Centre In The Square. Harlem Gospel Choir. 101 Queen St. North, Kitchener. 519- — 2:00: Westben Concerts at The Barn.
Choir Power. Selections from Joseph & the
578-1570, 800-265 8977. $34-$44.
Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat, Hansel &
Gretel, O Sifuni Mungi & other classical and
— 12:15: St. Andrew’s Church. Stephen Zura- Broadway works. Westben Youth Chorus & Red
kowsky, guitar. 54 Queen St. North, Kitchener. Strings String Quartet. 6698 County Road 30, 3
km NW Campbellford. 705-653-5508, 877519-578-4430. Free.
— 2:00: Sanderson Centre for the Perform- 883-5777. $10; $5(st).
— 8:00: Gryphon Theatre. Buddy Wasisname
ing Arts. Taste of Nova Scotia. Music of Don
& the Other Fellers. Songs, skits, traditional &
Messer, Anne Murray, Catherine McKinnon,
Natalie McMaster, The Rankin Family, Rita Mc- folk music from Newfoundland. Administrative
Centre, Bldg. C, Georgian College, 1 Georgian
Neil and others. Tom Leadbeater, tenor; Mark
Drive, Barrie. 705-728-4613. $44; $5(eyeGO).
Sullivan, fiddle. 88 Dalhousie St., Brantford.
— 8:00: KW Musical Productions. I Love You,
519-758-8090. $32.50.
You’re Perfect, Now Change. Musical comedy.
— 7:30: Guelph Male Choir. Spring Concert.
By Joe DiPietro & Jimmy Roberts. St. Jacobs
Nancy Fischer, accompanist; Ron Stubbs, direcCountry Playhouse, 40 Benjamin Rd. East, Wator. Trinity United Church, 400 Stevenson St.
terloo. 888-449-4463. $25. For complete run
North, Guelph. 519-824-4194. $10.
— 7:30: Vox Huronia. Colours in Harmony.
Ruthellen Shapero, accompanist; Roger Priddle,
Beyond GTA: Friday May 11
director. St. Paul’s Church, 308 King St., Mid—
8:00:
Kitchener Waterloo Opera. Tosca.
land. 705-533-2052. $TBA.
By Puccini. Frances Ginzer; Gaetan Laperriere;
— 8:00: Brad Halls. Words and Music: The
Songs of Stephen Sondheim. Concert Hall, Victo- Tonio Di Paolo; Daniel Lipton, conductor. Centre In
The Square, 101 Queen St. North, Kitchener.
ria Hall, Cobourg. See Jun 8.
519-578-1570, 800-265-8977. $27-$90. For
— 8:00: Marquee Productions. The Secret
Garden. By Marsha Norman & Lucy Simon.
Newmarket Theatre, 505 Pickering Cres. 905- — 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music Society. Wellington Winds Chamber Music
713-1040. $25; $22(60+); $22(12 & under).
Evening. Mozart: Quintet for Piano and Winds;
— 8:00: Orchestra London. Handel’s Heroine. Hindemith: Kleine Kammermusik; & other works.
Selections from Handel’s Ariodante & other oper- KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young St. West, Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $15; $10(sr); $8(st).
as. Kimberly Barber, mezzo-soprano; Timothy
— 8:00: Orangeville Concert Association.
Vernon, conductor. St. Paul’s Cathedral, 472
Richmond Street, London. 519-679-8778. $39; Bernie Senensky & The Moe Koffman Tribute
Band. Bernie Senensky, leader/piano; Bill Mc$35(sr/st).
Birnie, flute; Kirk MacDonald, alto/soprano saxes;
Reg Schwager, guitar; Kieran Overs, bass; Terry
Clarke, drums. Orangeville Town Hall Opera
House, 87 Broadway Ave. 519-942-3423, 800424-1295. $25; $10(st).
— 8:00: Orchestra London. Frozen Trax. Joni
Mitchell, Neil Young, The Guess Who, Bachman
Turner Overdrive, Shania Twain, Bryan Adams.
Centennial Hall, 550 Wellington St., London.
519-679-8778. $38-$58.
Street, Barrie. 705-721-4752. $10-$25.
— 7:30: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.
Keynotes & Canapés: Music and Words. *CANCELLED*
— 7:30: Music Alive. Music Alive Goes to the
Oscars. Music of Shrek, Guys & Dolls, Bugs
Bunny Show, Sister Act, West Side Story &
others. Jennifer & Chad Spaulding, hosts; Barbara
Pietrobon, Young Singers conductor; Millennium
Instrumental Ensemble; Alfred Kunz, artistic
director/conductor. Benton St. Church, 90 Benton
St., Kitchener. 519-662-3291. $15; $8(ch);
— 2:00: Stratford Festival. My One and Only. $40(family of 4).
By George & Ira Gershwin. Cynthia Dale, Laird
— 7:30: Oshawa Durham Symphony OrMackintosh, David W. Keeley, Dayna Tekatch,
chestra. Beethoven Spectacular. Piano concerti.
performers; Berthold Carrière, musical director.
Guest: Jean-Louis Steuerman, piano; Marco PariAvon Theatre, 99 Downie St., Stratford. 800sotto, music director. Calvary Baptist Church,
567-1600. Call for ticket prices. For complete
300 Rossland Rd. East, Oshawa. 905-579run see music theatre listings.
6711. $40; $20(st/ch).
— 3:30: Niagara Symphony & Carousel
— 7:30: Quinte Symphony. Mendelssohn &
Players. Jeunesses Musicales: All for One and Beethoven. David Stewart, violin; Gordon Craig,
One for All! Cushion Concert for families. Sullivan conductor. Bridge Street Church, 60 Bridge St.
Mahoney Courthouse Theatre, 101 King St., St. East, Belleville. 613-395-0444. $23; $5(st 6Catharines. 905-682-8326 x26. $10.
24).
— 7:30: Grand Philharmonic Youth Choir. — 8:00: Bach Elgar Choir. Brahms: Ein
Spring Concert. Willan: Gloria Deo Per Immensa Deutches Requiem. Laura Whelan, soprano; Peter
Saecula; Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine; Schafer: Barrett, baritone; Hamilton Philharmonic OrchesEpitaph for Moonlight. Sean Simpson, accompa- tra; Howard Dyck, conductor. Melrose United
nist; Nancy Tanguay, conductor. St. Peter’s
Church, 86 Homewood Ave., Hamilton. 905Church, 49 Queen St. North, Kitchener. 519527-5995. $30; $25(sr); $15(st).
578-1570, 800-265-8977. $20; $13(sr/st);
— 8:00: Burlington Civic Chorale. A Medie$10(ch to grade 8); $5 (eyeGO).
val Vision. Menotti: The Unicorn, The Gorgon and
— 7:30: Huronia Symphony Orchestra. Last The Manticore (with dancers and wind ensemble);
Night of the Proms. Elgar: Pomp and CircumSchafer: A Medieval Bestiary; the full sung servstance March # 1; Milhaud: Scaramouche; Rule
ice of Compline. St. Christopher’s Anglican
Britannia; Fantasia on British Sea Songs; Jerusa- Church, 662 Guelph Line, Burlington. 905-681lem. Daniel Rubinoff, saxophone; John Barnum,
8109. $18; $15(adv).
conductor. Collier Street Church, 112 Collier
(519) 578-1570
(800) 265-8977
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... CONCERTS: Beyond the GTA
— 8:00: Guelph Musicfest. Theresa Thibodeau:
A Family Affair. Solos, duets, from operatic arias
to broadway. Theresa Thibodeau, soprano; John
Medina, Adrian Kramer, baritones. Recital Hall,
Guelph Youth Music Centre, 75 Cardigan St.
519-993-7591. $30; $25(st); $28(adv); $22(st
adv). Proceeds in benefit of GYMC.
— 8:00: Northumberland Orchestra &
Choir. Inspired by Tango. Latin American &
Spanish dance music influenced by rhythms of
tango & flamenco. G. Krawiec, guitar; Matthew
Jaskiewicz, conductor/music director. Capitol
Arts Centre, 20 Queen St., Port Hope. 905885-1071, 800-434-5092. $22; $20(65+);
$8(st); free(under 12 with adult).
— 8:00: Nota Bene Period Orchestra. Road
to Brandenburg. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos #4
& #5 & other works. Borys Medicky, artistic
director, Linda Melsted, music director. Parkminster Church, 275 Erb St. East, Waterloo. 519884-8753. $25; $22(sr); $10(st); $5(12 & under, eyeGO).
— 8:00: One Voice Choir. Blue Skies: 10th
Anniversary Spring Concert. Favourite repertoire
from programs past. Debra Thompson, accompanist; Angela Wakeford, director. Trinity United
Church, 20 First Ave., Uxbridge. 905-8520084. $12; free(under 12 ).
— 8:00: Orchestra London. Frozen Trax. Centennial Hall, London. See May 11.
— 8:00: The Village Playhouse. Hammer &
Bow. Contemporary, classical, and world music.
Duo Israelievitch: Jacques Israelievitch, violin;
Michael Israelievitch, percussion. 5 Hastings St.
South, Bancroft. 613-474-0975. $22.
— 2:30: Orchestra London. The Magic Flute.
Family concert. Centennial Hall, 550 Wellington
St., London. 519-679-8778. $16.
— 3:00: Elora Festival Winter Series. Haydn & Schubert. Haydn: Nelson Mass; Schubert:
Mass in G. Elora Festival Singers, Noel Edison,
conductor. St. John’s Church, Henderson & Smith
Sts., Elora. 519-846-0331. $27-$30.
— 3:00: Nota Bene Period Orchestra. Road
to Brandenburg. See May 12. Guelph Youth
Music Centre, 75 Cardigan St.
— 3:00: Wellington Winds. Connections to
Africa. See May 6. Grandview Church, 250 Old
Chicopee Dr., Kitchener.
— 7:30: ChamberWORKS. Viennese Knights.
Mozart: Trio in B-flat for violin, cello & piano,
K.502; Brahms: Piano Quintet in f for piano &
string quartet, Op.34. Dofasco Centre for the
Arts, 190 King William St., Hamilton. 905-
522-7529, 800-465-7529. $30,$25;
$25,$20(65+); $5(st, at door with ID).
— 8:00: Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts. Buddy Wasisname & the Other Fellers.
Songs, skits, traditional & folk music from Newfoundland. 130 Navy St., Oakville. 905-8152021, 888-489-7784. $39.99; $5(eyeGO).
Beyond GTA: Monday May 14
— 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music Society. Gould Quartet. Mozart: String
Quartet K.499; Glenn Gould: String Quartet; &
other works. Atis Bankas, Terry Holowach, violins; Alexsander Gajic, viola; Teimour Sadykhov,
cello. KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young St. West,
Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $20; $15(sr);
$10(st).
Church. Sarah Cardwell, oboe, & Ann-Marie
MacDairmid, piano. 54 Queen St. North, Kitchener. 519-578-4430. Free.
— 7:30: Amabile Boys & Men’s Choirs.
That’s a Wrap. Rosemary Bannerman, Bonnie
Shewan Burroughs, Lois Williams, accompanists;
Carol Beynon, Ken Fleet, conductors. Chapel of
Mount St. Joseph, 1486 Richmond St., London.
519-433-2649. $15; $12(sr); $10(st).
— 7:30: Nith Valley Singers. Nith Valley
Singers Go to the Oscars. Music of Shrek, Guys
& Dolls, Bugs Bunny Show, Sister Act, West
Side Story & others. Jennifer & Chad Spaulding,
hosts; Barbara Pietrobon, Young Singers conductor; Millennium Instrumental Ensemble; Alfred
Kunz, artistic director/conductor. New Hamburg Community Centre, 251 Jacob Street.
519-662-3291. $15; $8(ch); $40(family of 4).
— 8:00: Guelph Musicfest. Valerie Tryon, piano, in Recital. Scarlatti: Sonatas (selected); Debussy: Preludes (selected); Brahms: Six Pieces,
Op.118; Grieg: Piano Sonata in e, Op.7. Recital
Hall, Guelph Youth Music Centre, 75 Cardigan
St. 519-993-7591. $30; $25(st); $28(adv);
$22(st adv). Proceeds in benefit of GYMC.
lute/guitar; Shannon Purves-Smith, recorders/
viols; Marilyn Fung, viola da gamba. 54 Queen St.
North, Kitchener. 519-578-4430. Free.
Signature Series in Guelph. Schumann: Cello Concerto; Saint-Saëns: Organ Symphony #3. Thomas
Wiebe, cello; Ian Sadler, organ; Simon Streatfeild,
conductor. 6:45: pre-concert talk with Jef ten
Kortenaar. Main Stage, River Run Centre, 35
Woolwich St., Guelph. 519-763-3000, 800520-2408. $40-$45; $15(12 & under, rush all
students); $5(eyeGO).
— 8:00: Guelph Musicfest. Annette-Barbara
Vogel, violin & Ken Gee, piano, in Recital.
Beethoven: Sonata for Piano & Violin in F, Op.24
(Spring); Szymanowski: Sonata for Violin & Piano
in d, Op.9; Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen, Op.20.
Recital Hall, Guelph Youth Music Centre, 75
Cardigan St. 519-993-7591. $30; $25(st);
$28(adv); $22(st adv). Proceeds to benefit
GYMC.
— 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music Society. Richard Dorsey, oboe; Nina Brickman, horn; Peter Vinograde, piano. Works by Reinecke, Herzogenberg & others. KWCMS Music
Room, 57 Young St. West, Waterloo. 519-8861673. $20; $15(sr); $10(st).
— 8:00: Sanderson Centre. Lynn Miles in
Concert. Pop, folk and country music. 88 Dalhousie St., Brantford. 519-758-8090. $21.
— 7:00: Albert College. Spring Concert. 160
Dundas St. West, Belleville. 613-968-5726.
Free.
— 8:00: Guelph Musicfest. Benefit Concert for
Suzuki String School of Guelph. Rachmaninov:
Cello Sonata in g, Op.19; Chausson: Poème for
Violin & Orchestra (piano), Op.25; Brahms: Piano
Trio #1 in B (1st mvmt). Stephanie Mara, Ken
Gee, piano; Adam Riggs, cello; Meredith McCallum, violin. Recital Hall, Guelph Youth Music
Centre, 75 Cardigan St. 519-993-7591. $20;
$15(st); $16(adv); $12(st adv).
Signature Series. Schumann: Cello Concerto;
Saint-Saëns: Organ Symphony #3. Thomas
Wiebe, cello; Ian Sadler, organ; Simon Streatfeild,
— 5:30: Perimeter Institute Dinner Conconductor. 6:45: pre-concert talk with Thomas
cert Series. Beethoven and Mozart on period
Kay. Centre In The Square, 101 Queen St. North,
instruments. Beethoven: Sonata #5, Op.24
Kitchener. 519-578-1570, 800-265-8977.
(Spring); Mozart: Sonata in B-flat. Boyd McDon$27-$50; $15(12 & under, rush all students);
ald, forte piano; Julie Baumgartel, violin. Black
$5(eyeGO).
Hole Bistro, 31 Caroline St. North, Waterloo.
— 8:00: Waterloo/Wellington Rainbow
519-883-4480. $60 (concert & dinner).
— 8:00: Metropolitan United Church. Music Chorus. Shakespearean Rainbows. Parkminster
from the Greatest Operas. Works by Bizet, Mo- United Church, 275 Erb St. East, Waterloo.
zart, Puccini, Verdi, & more. Rachel Mallon, Jan- 519-780-5446. $20; $15(adv); $15(sr/st);
et Loo, Graham Thomson, Aaron Agulay, & Suzy $5(under 12).
Smith, performers. 468 Wellington St., London.
519-777-5944. $20; $15(sr); $12(st).
— 7:00: Hamilton Children’s Choir. Why We
Sing: Annual Spring Concert. Zimfira Poloz, artistic director. Philpott Memorial Church, 84 York
— 8:00: Capitol Arts Centre. Buddy WasiBlvd, Hamilton. 905-527-1618. $20; $15(sr/
sname & the Other Fellas. Musical comedy. 20
st).
Queen St., Port Hope. 905-885-1071, 800— 7:30: Cantabile Choirs of Kingston. Earth
434-5092. $35.
and Fire. Guests: Cathy Armstrong, percussion;
Baobab Youth Performers; Akpolkli Drum &
Dance Society; all Cantabile Choirs except Train— 11:00am: Shaw Festival. Sunday Coffee
Concert. Guests: company actors and musicians; ing & Children’s Choirs, Mark Sirett, artistic
Shaw Festival Quartet in Residence. Lobby, Festi- director. Grand Theatre, 218 Princess Street,
Kingston. 613-530-2050. $15; $12(sr/st/ch).
val Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on— 7:30: Guelph Youth Singers. If Music Be
the-Lake. 800-511-7429. Free.
the Food of Love. Music inspired by food & ShakeBeyond GTA: Wednesday May 23
speare. Guests: Guelph Contemporary Dance
— 12:15: St. Andrew’s Church. Greensleaves Theatre; Linda Beaupré, conductor. Main Stage,
River Run Centre, 35 Woolwich St., Guelph.
Early Music Ensemble. Magdalena Tomsinska,
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519-763-3000, 877-520-2408. $20; $16(sr/
st); $5(eyeGO).
— 7:30: Junior Amabile Singers/Amabile
Da Capo Choir. Sing Sea to Sea. Debbie Grigg,
Angela Stanley, accompanists; Jacquelyn Norman, Wendy Gee, conductors. New St. James
Church, 280 Oxford St. East, London. 519-4332649. $15; $12(sr); $10(st).
— 7:30: Ontario Guild of English Handbell
Ringers. Spring Ring Final Massed Handbell
Concert. 150 English Handbell Ringers from
across Southern Ontario, massed & individual
group performances. Durham College Athletic
Centre, 2000 Simcoe St. North, Oshawa. 416655-2205. $10; $5(st).
— 7:30: York Chamber Ensemble. Summer
Solstice. Vivaldi: Summer (from The Four Seasons); Pergolesi: Stabat Mater; Elgar: String Serenade; Rutter: Requiem. Trinity Festival Chorus;
Trinity Youth Choir; Tony Browning, conductor.
Trinity Church, 79 Victoria Street, Aurora. 905727-6101. $15; $10(sr/st).
— 8:00: Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra.
Mellow Cello. Ravel: Tombeau de Couperin;
Tchaikovsky: Rococo Variations, Op.24; Korngold:
Cello Concerto in C, Op.37; Poulenc: Sinfonietta.
Denise Djokic, cello. 7:00: Pre-concert chat.
Hamilton Place, 1 Summers Lane. 905-5267756. $25-$62; $22-$57(sr); $12-$29(st);
$5(ch to 13).
Signature Series. Centre In The Square, Kitchener. See May 25.
— 8:00: The Gallery Players of Niagara.
New Sounds Niagara. Mais: Some Music For My
Canadian Friends; Arnold: Slew & Hop; Prevost:
Mobiles. Douglas Miller, flute; Patrick Jordan,
viola; Margaret Gay, cello. Niagara Artists Company, 354 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines. 905468-1525. $15; $10(st/arts worker).
— 8:00: The Renaissance Singers. Regal
Renaissance. Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli;
Mozart: Coronation Mass; works by King John of
Portugal & Henry VIII. Greg Walshaw, accompanist; Richard Cunningham, conductor/music director. St. Andrew’s Church, 54 Queen St. North,
Kitchener. 519-745-0675. $20; $15(sr/st);
$5(12 & under).
— 8:00: Waterloo/Wellington Rainbow
Chorus. Shakespearean Rainbows. Harcourt
United Church, 87 Dean Ave., Guelph. 519-7805446. $20; $15(adv); $15(sr/st); $5(under 12).
— 8:00: Westben Concerts at The Barn. To
Life: Fauré to Fiddler. Fauré: Requiem; Harnick &
Bock: favourites from Fiddler on the Roof. Donna
Bennett, soprano; Kim Dafoe, mezzo-soprano;
Daniel Lichti, baritone; Westben Festival Chorus,
Brian Finley, director. Saint Thomas’ Church, 201
Church St., Belleville. 705-653-5508, 877883-5777. $25; $10(st).
— 2:30: Amabile Youth Singers. Bon Voyage
and a Fond Farewell. Guests: Amabile Alumni;
Allison Berkshire-Eagles, accompanist; John
Barron, Brenda Zadorsky, conductors. First-St.
Andrew’s Church, 350 Queens Ave., London.
519-433-2649. $15; $12(sr); $10(st).
Musically Speaking Series: Salute to the Women
of Music. Verdi: Triumphal March from Aïda;
Mozart: Overture to Così fan tutte; Chopin: Les
Sylphides; Vivaldi: Concerto for 4 violins & more.
Anita Walsh, Sophie Drouin, Roxolana Toews,
Vicky Dvorak, violins; Tom Allen, host; Simon
Streatfeild, conductor. Centre In The Square, 101
Queen St. North, Kitchener. 519-578-1570,
800-265-8977. $25-$37; $13(12 & under, rush
all students); $5(eyeGO).
— 3:00: The Renaissance Singers. Regal
Renaissance. See May 26. St. Paul’s Church, 63
Grand Ave. North., Cambridge (Galt).
— 3:00: Westben Concerts at The Barn. To
Life: Fauré to Fiddler. See May 26. Marmora
Town Hall, 12 Bursthall St. 705-653-5508,
877-883-5777. $25; $10(st).
— 3:30: Gerald Fagan Singers. On Wings of
Song. Gerald Fagan, conductor. Chapel of Mount
St. Joseph, 1486 Richmond St., London. 519433-9650, 866-244-0762. $25; $20(sr);
$15(st).
— 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music Society. QuartetFest 07 #1: Enso Quartet,
with Gottlieb Wallisch, piano. Haydn: Op.20/1;
Dohnanyi: 2 Piano Quintets. Maureen Forrester
Recital Hall, Wilfrid Laurier University, 75 University Ave. West, Waterloo. 519-886-1673.
$25; $20(sr); $15(st).
— 10:30am & 1:30: Brantford Symphony
Orchestra. Young Persons’ Concert. One-hour
narrated symphony performance. Sanderson Centre for the Performing Arts, 88 Dalhousie St.,
Brantford. 519-758-8090. $9.
— 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music Society. QuartetFest 07 #2: Penderecki
Quartet, with Barry Shiffman, viola. Haydn: Op.
33/1; Mendelssohn: String Quintet #1; Janacek:
Quartet #2 (Intimate Letters). Maureen Forrester
Recital Hall, Wilfrid Laurier University, 75 University Ave. West, Waterloo. 519-886-1673.
$25; $20(sr); $15(st).
Electric Thursdays. Centre In The Square, Kitchener. See May 30.
— 7:30: Arcady. Arcady’s Young Artist Competition Winners Concert. St. Paul’s Church, 302 St.
George St., Port Dover. 519-583-1984.
$12.50; free(under 12).
Church. The Licorice Allsorts Woodwind Ensemble. 54 Queen St. North, Kitchener. 519-5784430. Free.
— 2:00: Sanderson Centre for the Performing Arts. Rosemary, Patti, Doris Day and
Friends. Music of Patti Page, Rosemary Clooney,
Doris Day, Jo Stafford, Peggy Lee and others.
Marie Gogo, singer. 88 Dalhousie St., Brantford. 519-758-8090. $32.50.
Electric Thursdays, the Wednesday Edition. Shout
it Out: Symphonic Kiss. Centre In The Square,
101 Queen St. North, Kitchener. 519-5781570, 800-265-8977. $29-$39.
Saturday, May. 26 – 8pm
St.Andrew’s Presbyterian, Kitchener
Sunday May. 27 – 3pm
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church,
63 Grand Ave. N. Cambridge
Missa Papae Marcelli – Palestrina
Regal
Coronation Mass – Mozart
Renai ssance
Tickets at Twelfth Night Music in Waterloo, and Etcetera and Kelly Greens Flowers
in Cambridge, at the door or call 745-0675
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St. North, Kitchener. 519-578-1570, 800265-8977. $38-$50; $15(12 & under, rush all
students); $5(eyeGO).
— 8:00: Musica St. James. A Silent Movie.
Improvised accompaniment by Kirkland Adsett.
St. James Church, 137 Melville St., Dundas.
905-627-1424. Collection.
Beyond GTA: Saturday June 02
— 7:30: Georgian Bay Concert Choir. The
Long Journey. Guests: Georgian Bay Children’s
Choir, members of the Georgian Bay Symphony
Orchestra; Henriette Blom, conductor. St. Andrew’s Church, 865 2nd Ave. West, Owen
Sound. 519-371-2935. $20.
— 8:00: Harlequin Singers. Broadway’s Best:
40th Anniversary Concert. Drury Lane Theatre,
Burlington. See Jun 1.
— 8:00: Jean Edwards. Song Journey. Jean
Beyond GTA: Friday June 01
Edwards, soprano; Brahm Goldhamer, piano. St.
— 7:30: Chorus Niagara. Celebrate. Mozart:
Luke’s Church, 27 Caroline St. West, CreeRequiem; Raminsh: Magnificat. Guests: Portmore. 416-486-4172. $20.
smouth Choral Union of England, Jonathan Will— 8:00: Karen Schuessler Singers. Strawcocks, conductor; Eve McLeod, soprano; Lynne
berry Fields. The Beatles, Petula Clark, Sir Elton
McMurtry, alto; Jason Nedecky, bass; Talisker
John, Eric Clapton, Queen. Sharon Beeler, Jason
Players; Robert Cooper, conductor. Cathedral of
Hakin, soloists; Stephen Holowitz, piano; KSS
St. Catherine of Alexandria, 67 Church Street, St. Union Jack Band; Karen Ann Schuessler, conducCatharines. 905-688-5550 x3257, 866-617- tor. Wesley-Knox Church, 91 Askin St., London.
3257. $32; $30(sr); $15(st); $5(eyeGO).
519-438-4460. $20; $17(sr); $10(st); $18(adv);
— 8:00: Harlequin Singers. Broadway’s Best: $15(sr adv); free(6-12).
40th Anniversary Concert. Singles & medleys
— 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Mufrom Showboat, Carousel, Annie Get Your Gun,
sic Society. WindFest Concert #1. Beethoven:
Gypsy, Oliver & others. Laura Pin, piano; Lynne
Quintet; von Herzogenberg: Quintet. Olena KlyuJamieson, percussion; Ryan Scot, flute; John
charova, Syd Bulman-Fleming, piano. KWCMS
Packer, director. Drury Lane Theatre, 2269 New Music Room, 57 Young St. West, Waterloo.
St., Burlington. 905-637-3979. $20.
519-886-1673. $15; $10(sr); $8(st).
Pops Series: Pops the Fiedler Way. Brian JackPops Series: Pops the Fiedler Way. Centre In The
son, conductor. Centre In The Square, 101 Queen Square, Kitchener. See Jun 1.
OPERA BELCANTO OF SOUTH SIMCOE
Operatic
Showcase IV
Excerpts from:
La Bohème
Don Carlo
Madama Butterfly
Carmen
The Barber of Seville
The Marriage of Figaro
I Lombardi
Orpheus and Euridice
Show Boat
and others
With Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Artistic Director, David Varjabed
Soloists:
Kathryn Knapp
Alicja Wysocka
Saturday May 26
Athina Babayan
7:30 P.M.
Monica Baz
Berdj Varjabedian
Admission
$30.00
Lorne Derraugh
Seniors
$25.00
Michael Mishukov
Leonid Kostrubin Students 18 and under $20.00
Pino Papa
Anthony Macri
Guest Pianist: Adolfo de Santis
Ekaterina Chelekhova
First Christian Reformed Church of Barrie
33 Shirley Avenue, Barrie, Ontario
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R. George, based on the book by Roald Dahl;
Charlie has a specially conducted tour of the
— 8:00: Milton Choristers. Bella Vivaldi. Vival- — 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Mu- mysterious chocolate factory. May 1: 7:30; May
5: 2:00. Papermill Theatre, Todmorden Mills, 67
di: Gloria; Magnificat; Beatus Vir; Beckett: instru- sic Society. QuartetFest Participants EnsemPottery Rd. 866-808-2006. $29; $18.
mental works. Guests: Arcady, Ronald Beckett,
bles #1. KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young St.
director; Norman Reintamm, accompanist; Sonja West, Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $10; $5(sr/
City of Angels. Toronto Youth Theatre
van de Hoef, artistic director. Knox Church, 170
st).
Main Stage. Book by Larry Gelbart, music by
Main St. East, Milton. 905-878-1632. $20;
Cy Coleman, lyrics by David Zippel; musical
Beyond GTA: Monday June 04
$15(sr/st); $10(ch).
comedy in contemporary jazz idiom, set in 40’s
— 8:00: Peterborough Symphony Orches- — 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Mu- Hollywood. May 2-5: 7:30. Papermill Theatre,
tra. Borealis Summer. Rautavaara: Cantus Arcti- sic Society. QuartetFest 07 #3: Cartier QuarTodmorden Mills, 67 Pottery Rd. 866-808cus (Concerto for Birds & Orchestra); Grieg: Sig- tet. Haydn: Op.54/2; Gougeon: Jeux de cordes;
2006. $33; $22(st).
urd Horsalfar Suite; Sibelius: Symphony #2.
Ravel: Quartet. KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young Cool Drummings International Percussion
Guests: Birds of the Arctic Circle; Michael
St. West, Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $25;
Festival: Percussion Theatre. SoundNewnham, conductor. Showplace Performance
$20(sr); $15(st).
streams Canada. Dance, dramatic gesture,
Centre, 290 George St. North, Peterborough.
voice, & movement; Schafer: Tantrika (choreograBeyond GTA: Tuesday June 05
705-742-1992. $33,$29.50; $15.50(st).
phy David Earle); Aphergis: Le Corps a Corps;
— 7:30: River Run Centre. The Songbird Café. Andriessen: Workers Union; works by Tremblay,
Beyond GTA: Sunday June 03
Local acoustic singer/songwriters. Co-operators
Cherney (premiere). Aiyun Huang, Ryan Scott,
— 2:00: Guelph Chamber Choir. Songfest
Hall, 35 Woolwich St., Guelph. 519-763-3000, percussion; McGill Percussion Ensemble; Eleanor
2007. Songs of love, laughter and longing. Main
800-520-2408. $5.
James, singer; Robert Cram, flute. May 26: 2:00.
Stage, River Run Centre, 35 Woolwich St.,
— 9:00pm: Guelph Jazz Festival. Three Tues- See Announcements for related conference
Guelph. 519-763-3000, 877-520-2408. $20; days of Jazz Fundraiser: Tallboys. Kevin Breit,
events. MacMillan Theatre, UofT, 80 Queen’s
$10(st); $5(eyeGO).
multi-instrumentalist; Matt Brubeck, cello; Jesse Park. 416-366-7723, 800-708-6754. $20;
— 2:00: Lindsay Concert Foundation. Young Stewart, percussion. The Bookshelf’s Ebar, 41
$15(sr/artsworker); $10(st).
Performers’ Recital. City of Kawartha Lakes
Quebec St., Guelph. 519-763-4952. $15;
Disney’s 101 Dalmatians Kids! Toronto
performing arts teachers showcase their music
$10(concession).
Stages Theatre Company. Musical based on
students. Glenn Crombie Theatre, 200 Albert St.
Disney film, Cruella De Vil plotting to steal the
Beyond GTA: Wednesday June 06
South, Lindsay. 705-878-5625. $10; $5(youth).
puppies for her new fur coat; also, songs from
— 3:00: Music at Sharon. Jacques Israeliev— 12:15: St. Andrew’s Presbyterian
classic (Mary Poppins, Cinderella, Song of the
itch and Friends. Pierné: Variations libres et finale Church. Cherry Fraser, mezzo-soprano, & Tina
South) & modern (The Little Mermaid, Beauty &
for flute, string trio & harp; Badian: Danse for
Kim, piano. 54 Queen St. North, Kitchener.
the Beast, Aladdin) Disney productions. Andrew
string trio; Prévost: Improvisation for solo violin; 519-578-4430. Free.
Prashad, director. May 5-26: Sat: 3:00 & 7:00;
Debussy: Sonata for flute, viola & harp; Ibert: Trio
Sun: 4:00. The Citadel Theatre, 304 Parliament
Beyond GTA: Thursday June 07
for violin, cello & harp; Françaix: A CINQ—QuinSt. 416-848-6293. $20; $15(4 to 18).
tet for flute, string trio & harp. Jacques Israeliev- — 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber MuDQ ’07: Diva Oz Vegas, The Grand Finale.
itch, violin; Teng Li, viola; Winona Zelenka, cello;
sic Society. QuartetFest Participants EnsemCasey House. Singing & dancing tribute to The
Judy Loman, harp; Susan Hoeppner, flute. Shar- bles #2. Maureen Forrester Recital Hall, Wilfrid
Wonderful Wizard of Oz in true DQ (Drag Queen)
on Temple, 18974 Leslie St. 416-598-3375.
Laurier University, 75 University Ave. West,
fashion - Las Vegas Style. Marlene Smith,
$45.
Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $10; $5(sr/st).
producer. May 10-18: 8:00; May 19: 2:00 &
8:00. Hart House Theatre, UofT, 7 Hart House
Circle. 416-978-8849. $40. Proceeds to Casey
House Foundation.
Please note: performances are listed by show title.
e-DENTITY. Mirvish Productions/Theatre
Gargantua. Multi-media, multi-disciplinary
Shows starting with “The” are listed under T.
production integrating text, movement, original
36 Views. Actors Repertory Company. By $28(65+/st with ID); $28(mat); $26.50(65+/st music, interactive projections & live online chat,
Naomi Iizuka; original music composed &
with ID).
looking at the ways human interaction has
recorded on traditional Japanese instruments by Burn the Floor presents FloorPlay. Humchanged since we’ve merged onto the information
Kiyoshi Nagata & Aki Takahashi; explores
mingbird Centre for the Performing Arts. highway. May 1-20: Shows at 2:00 & 8:00, call
relationship between imaginary & real, using
26 champions from 13 countries, ballroom
for dates & times. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260
Kabuki & Western forms; Canadian premiere.
dancing stripped to its raw essence. May 10-11: King St. West. 416-872-1212, 800-461-3333.
Gordon Bolan, Kyra Harper, John Fitzgerald Jay, 8:00, May 12: 2:00 & 8:00. 1 Front St. East.
$20-$65.
Gary Reineke, Marjorie Chan, & Ginger Ruriko
416-872-2262. Call for ticket prices.
Elektra. Canadian Opera Company. By R.
Busch, performers; David Ferry, director. May 1Bye Bye Birdie. Talk Is Free Theatre. Rock Strauss; unreduced score. Susan Bullock, soprano;
4: 8:00; May 5: 2:00 & 8:00. Berkeley Street
& Roll satire; book by Michael Stewart, music by Ewa Podles, contralto; Thomas de Mallet
Theatre Downstairs, 26 Berkeley St. 416-368Charles Strouse, lyrics by Lee Adams. May 3-26: Burgess, director; Richard Bradshaw, conductor.
3110. $15-$30.
call for dates/times. Park Place Theatre, 100
May 1, 10, 16: 7:30; May 6, 13: 2:00; May 19:
An Evening of Musical Theatre. Fridays @ Mapleview Dr., Barrie. 705-792-1949. $26;
4:30. See May 5 Announcements for Opera
8. Gilbert & Sullivan: Trial By Jury (concert
$13(st); $45(May 4, includes wine & hors
Exchange Symposium. Four Seasons Centre for
version, complete); & other works. Choirs and
d’oeuvres reception).
the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. West. 416Soloists of Lawrence Park Community Church,
363-8231. $60-$275; $20-$95(15 & under
Carmen With a Twist. Canadian ChilMark Toews, director. May 11: 8:00. Lawrence
with adult); $20(spec price, call).
dren’s Opera Chorus. Production excerpts
Park Community Church, 2180 Bayview Ave.
from Carmen & The Merry Widow. Canadian
Field: Land is the belly of man. Philippine
416-489-1551 x21. $20; $15(sr/st).
Youth Opera Chorus, with Principal Chorus &
Women Centre of Ontario. One-man multiAnnual Junior Spring Concert. Canadian Boys Chorus of the CCOC. May 26: 7:00. Christ media work (contemporary dance, film footage, &
Children’s Opera Chorus. Choral & staged
Church Deer Park, 1570 Yonge Street. 416-366- sound composition) paying homage to traditional
performances by Ruby, Apprentice, & Intermedi- 0467. $25; $15(sr/st); $5(ch).
rice harvesting; music by Ted Hamilton, video
ate Choruses. May 24: 7:00. Imperial Oil Opera
Cash on Delivery. Drayton Entertainment. installation by Tad Armitanio. Alvin Erasga
Theatre, Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Opera
Tolentino, choreographer/performer. May 2: 7:00.
British Farce (mistaken identities, double entenCentre, 227 Front St. East. 416-366-0467. $25;
Betty Oliphant Theatre, 404 Jarvis St. 416-878dres, startling revelations), by Michael Cooney.
$15(sr/st); $5(ch).
8772. $50. Benefit concert.
Alex Mustakas, director. May 8-Jun 2: call for
Blood Brothers. Encore Entertainment. By dates/times. Drayton Festival Theatre, 33
Grease. East York Collegiate Institute.
Willy Russell, Mario D’Alimonte, director, Ellen
Wellington St. South, Drayton. 888-449-4463. 1950s high-school-based musical comedy. May
Kestenberg, musical director; twin brothers grow $29-$36.
30-Jun 2: 7:30. 650 Cosburn Ave. 416-396up on opposite sides of the tracks. May 1-5: 8:00;
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Toron- 2355. $10.
May 6: 2:00. Studio Theatre, Toronto Centre for
to Youth Theatre Junior Stage. By Richard
the Arts, 5040 Yonge St. 416-733-0558. $30;
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I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change.
KW Musical Productions. Musical comedy
about love; book by Joe DiPietro, music by
Jimmy Roberts. May 10-19: call for dates/times.
St. Jacobs Country Playhouse, 40 Benjamin Rd.
East, Waterloo. 888-449-4463. $25.
La Traviata. Canadian Opera Company. By
Verdi. Nicoleta Ardelean, Inva Mula, sopranos;
Gordon Gietz, Daniil Shtoda, tenors; Dmitri
Bertman, director. May 4, 8, 12, 15, 17-18, 2223, 25: 7:30; May 20: 2:00; May 26: 4:30. Four
Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145
Queen St. West. 416-363-8231. $60-$275;
$20-$95(15 & under with adult); $20(spec price,
call).
Luisa Miller. Canadian Opera Company.
By Verdi. Serena Farnocchia, soprano; Mikhail
Agafonov, tenor; Alexander Marco-Buhrmester,
baritone; Larissa Kostiuk, mezzo-soprano; &
others; Jose Marie Condemi, director. May 3, 5,
9, 11: 7:30. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. West. 416-3638231. $60-$275; $20-$95(15 & under with
adult); $20(spec price, call).
Mack and Mabel. Shaw Festival. Romantic
musical about movie director Mack Sennett &
leading lady Mabel Normand; music & lyrics by
Jerry Herman, book by Michael Stewart.
Benedict Campbell, Glynis Ranney, Gabrielle
Jones & others, players; Baayork Lee, choreographer; Paul Sportelli, musical director; Molly
Smith, director. May 2-Oct 28: call for days &
times. Festival Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade,
Niagara-on-the-Lake. 800-511-7429. Call for
ticket prices.
Man of La Mancha. Etobicoke Musical
Productions. By Dale Wasserman, lyrics by
Joe Darion, music by Mitch Leigh, derived from
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. May 4:
8:00; May 5: 2:00. Burnamthorpe Auditorium,
500 The East Mall. 416-248-0410. $22;
$16(16 & under).
Menopause Out Loud! Panasonic Theatre.
Book & lyrics by Jeanie Linders. Jayne Lewis,
Nicole Robert, Cynthia Jones, Rose Ryan & Jenny
Hall, performers. Indefinite run: Tue, Thu, Fri:
8:00; Wed, Sat: 2:00 & 8:00; Sun: 2:00 & 5:30.
651 Yonge St. 416-872-1111. $49.95.
Mozart’s Magnificent Voyage. Toronto
Symphony Orchestra. Mozart’s young son
Karl goes to The Magic Flute and learns more
about his father; selections from Mozart symphonies, piano pieces & chamber music; for ages 512. Classical Kids; Peter Oundjian, conductor. ½hour preceding: pre-concert performance. May
12: 1:30 & 3:30. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe
St. 416-593-4828. $26.50,$16.50.
My One and Only. Stratford Festival. 30’sera comedy about daredevil pilot wooing bathing
beauty; music & lyrics by George Gershwin & Ira
Gershwin; book by Peter Stone & Timothy S.
Mayer. Cynthia Dale, Laird Mackintosh, David W.
Keeley, Dayna Tekatch, performers; Berthold
Carrière, musical director; Michael Lichtefeld,
director/choreographer. May 12-Oct 28: call for
dates & times. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie St.,
Stratford. 800-567-1600. Call for ticket prices.
Nunsense! Feast of Fools Theatre. A
musical comedy. May 11-12: 8:00, May 13:
2:00. The Assembly Hall, 1 Colonel Samuel
Smith Park Dr. 416-231-3131. $24; $18(sr/st).
Oklahoma! Stratford Festival. Love triangle
in turn-of-the century Oklahoma territory; music
by Richard Rodgers, book & lyrics by Oscar
Hammerstein II, based on the play Green Grow
the Lilacs by Lynn Riggs, original dances by Agnes
de Mille. Kyle Blair, Dan Chameroy, David W.
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Keeley, Nora McLellan, Blythe Wilson, performers; Berthold Carrière, musical director; Donna
Feore, director/choreographer. May 2-Nov 4: call
for dates & times. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen
St., Stratford. 800-567-1600. Call for ticket
prices.
Orpheus & Eurydice. Opera Atelier. By
Gluck; Canadian premiere 1774 version; in French
with English & French surtitles. Colin Ainsworth,
tenor; Peggy Kriha-Dye, Jennie Such, sopranos;
Artists of the Atelier Ballet; Tafelmusik Baroque
Orchestra and Chamber Choir; Jeannette Zingg
choreographer; Marshall Pynkoski, director;
Andrew Parrott, conductor. May 2, 4-5: 7:30.
6:30: Introduction to the opera & its themes
(Elgin Lounge). Elgin Theatre, 189 Yonge St. 416872-5555. $30-$125; $20(st, call).
Pinocchio. Solar Stage Children’s Theatre. Adapted by William Martyn, for ages 3 to
10. May 12-13, 19-20, 26-27, Jun 2-3:
11:00am & 2:00. Concourse Level, 4950 Yonge
St. 416-368-8031. $13; $10(May 13, 19 &
20).
Reminiscing: The Sound of the 70’s.
Theatre Ancaster. May 4-5: 8:00. Theatre
Auditorium, Ancaster High School, 374 Jerseyville Rd. West. 905-304-7469. $20; $17(sr);
$13(st).
Riaz (Practice), HomeComing, & Parashakti (Primordial Energy). Harbourfront
Centre NextSteps/Menaka Thakkar Dance
Company. Classical Bharatnatyam movements
with modern twist, Natasha Bakht, dancer/
choreographer; love story based on Sangam
poetry in classic Bharatnatyam, & contemporary
dance cycle about creation, sustenance, destruction & re-birth, Menaka Thakkar, choreographer.
May 25-26: 8:00; May 27: 2:00. Premiere
Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay West. 416973-4000. $30,$25; $24,$20(sr/st/arts
professional).
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre Dance
Series: Claude Vivier’s Pulau Dewata.
National Ballet of Canada. An homage to the
Balinese people, arranged by Michael Oesterle.
Seiler String Quartet; Sasha Ivanocho, dance/
choreography. May 1: 12:00 noon. Four Seasons
Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St.
West. 416-363-8231. Free.
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre Renaissance Festival Series: Purcell’s Dido and
Aeneas – A Masque. Canadian Opera
Company. Toronto Masque Theatre, Larry
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Beckwith, artistic director. May 31: 12:00 noon.
Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts,
145 Queen St. West. 416-363-8231. Free.
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre Dance
Series: The Dancer and the Dance. National Ballet of Canada. Marie-Josée Chartier,
dancer; Ginette Laurin, choreography. Jun 7:
12:00 noon. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. West. 416-3638231. Free.
Rough Crossing. East Side Players. By Tom
Stoppard; musical comedy spoofs playwrights,
Broadway musical troupe on liner to New York to
premiere hopelessly unprepared new work. May
24-27, May 30-Jun 3, Jun 6-9: 8:00. Papermill
Theatre, Todmorden Mills, 67 Pottery Rd. 416425-0917. $16; $12(st).
Show Boat. Civic Light Opera Company.
Music by Jerome Kern, book & lyrics by Oscar
Hammerstein; Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man, Bill,
Make Believe, After The Ball, Old Man River.
Lesley Ansell, choreographer; Joe Cascone,
artistic director. May 24-Jun 10: shows at 2:00,
7:00 & 8:00, call for details. Fairview Library
Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall Dr. 416-755-1717.
$20(weekend); $17.50(Wed/Thu); May 27 sold
out, some dates limited.
Spiegel Tent ‘n Tavern. LuminaTO/Harbourfront Centre New World Stage.
Reminiscent of the freewheeling European
cabarets of the 1920s, dancers, singers, aerialists, acrobats & showgirls create cornucopia of
Nouveau Varieté-style theatrical entertainment.
Jun 1-6, 10: 8:00; Jun 7-8: 9:00. Harbourfront
Centre, 235 Queens Quay West. 416-872-1111,
866-577-4277. $25.
The Beat Brothers. Solar Stage Children’s
Theatre. Performers record multiple instruments
to create a large band sound of blues, jazz, world
beat & soul, for ages 4 to 10. May 6: 11:00am
& 2:00. Concourse Level, 4950 Yonge St. 416368-8031. $13.
The Boys from Syracuse. Drury Lane
Theatrical Productions. Musical comedy
based on Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors.
David Mallis, director; Ann Barnshaw, music
director. May 3-5, 10-12, 17-19, 24-26: 8:00;
May 13, 20: 2:00. The Loft, Drury Lane Theatre,
2269 New Street, Burlington. 905-637-3979.
$24; opening & mat: $22(60+); $22(st 18 &
under); $16(12 & under).
The Four Seasons & Polyphonia & New
Mrozewski. National Ballet of Canada.
Music by Vivaldi, Ligeti & Louie. National Ballet
Orchestra; James Kudelka, Christopher Wheeldon, Matjash Mrozewski, choreography. Jun 2, 69: 7:30; Jun 3, 7, 9: 2:00. 45 minutes prior:
Ballet Talk. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. West 416-345-9595.
$40-$190.
The Magic Flute. Canadian Opera Company/Zellers Ensemble School. 45-minute
version of Mozart’s opera, performed in English;
for ages 4 to 11; part of Doors Open Toronto,
10:00am-5:00. May 27: 11:00am & 2:00. Four
Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145
Queen St. West. 416-363-8231. Free, adults
must be accompanying a child.
The Mikado. Scarborough Music Theatre.
By Gilbert and Sullivan. May 3-5, 10-12: 8:00;
May 6: 2:00. Scarborough Village Theatre, 3600
Kingston Rd. 416-396-4049. $21; $18(sr/st).
The Phantom of the Opera. Mirvish Productions. Mystery and suspense in the Paris
Opera House; lyrics by Charles Hart, Richard
Stilgoe, book by Richard Stilgoe & Andrew Lloyd
Webber, from the novel by Gaston Leroux.
Jennifer Hope Wills, John Cudia, performers;
Gillian Lynne, musical staging/choreography;
Harold Prince, director. May 1-Jun 3: call for
dates & times. The Princess of Wales Theatre,
300 King St. West. 416-872-1212, 800-4613333. $30-$160.
The Pirates of Penzance. The Alexander
Singers & Players. By Gilbert & Sullivan.
Angela Hawaleshka, artistic director. May 12,
17-19: 8:00; May 13, 20: 2:00; May 16: 12
noon. Leah Posluns Theatre, 4588 Bathurst St.
416-324-1259. $29.50; $22(sr/st);
$22.50(mat); $17(mat sr/st).
The Rocky Horror Show. CanStage. A
strange party … cult figures, pop culture, sing-along tunes. Book, music & lyrics by Richard
O’Brien; Ted Dykstra, director. May 1-5, call for
details. Bluma Appel Theatre, St. Lawrence
Centre for the Arts, 27 Front St. East. 416-3683110. Call for ticket prices.
The Secret Garden. Marquee Productions.
Book & lyrics by Marsha Norman, music by Lucy
Simon, based on the novel by Frances Hodgson
Burnett. May 9-11: 7:30; May 12: 2:00 & 7:30;
May 13: 2:00. Newmarket Theatre, 505
Pickering Crescent, Newmarket. 905-7131040. $25; $22(60+); $22(12 & under).
The Secret Garden. Marquee Productions.
Book & lyrics by Marsha Norman, music by Lucy
Simon, based on the novel by Frances Hodgson
Burnett. May 3-4: 7:30; May 5: 2:00 & 7:30;
May 6: 2:00. City Playhouse-Vaughan, 1000
New Westminster Dr., Vaughan. 905-713-1040.
$25; $22(60+); $22(12 & under).
The Whole Shebang. Harbourfront Centre
NextSteps/Andrea Nann Dreamwalker
Dance Company/Volcano. Dancers, poets,
filmmakers, singer/songwriters & visual artists;
original compositions by Gzowski. Andy Maize,
Josh Finlayson, Greg Keelor, Charlie Angus, Suzie
Ungerleider (Oh Susanna), musicians; Andrea
Nann, artistic director/choreographer. May 4-5:
8:00. Enwave Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, 231
Queens Quay West. 416-973-4000. $35;
$25(sr/st); $20(CADA).
Tosca. Kitchener Waterloo Opera. By
Puccini. Frances Ginzer; Gaetan Laperriere; Tonio
Di Paolo; Daniel Lipton, conductor. May 11: 8:00;
May 13: 2:00. Centre In The Square, 101 Queen
St. North, Kitchener. 519-578-1570, 800265-8977. $27-$90.
Tosca. Opera Hamilton. By Puccini. Frances
Ginzer; Gaetan Laperriere; Tonio Di Paolo; Daniel
Lipton, conductor. May 3, 5: 8:00. Hamilton
Place, 1 Summers Lane, Hamilton. 905-5266556, 800-575-1381. $27-$90.
Under Milk Wood. LuminaTO/Young
Centre. Play for voices by Wales’ greatest poet,
Dylan Thomas, music written/performed by Mike
Ross, sound effects by Caoimhe Doyle & Stefan
Fraticelli. Kenneth Welsh, actor; Ted Dykstra,
director. Jun 2: 7:30; Jun 3-4: 2:00 & 8:30.
Young Centre for the Performing Arts, Building
49, 55 Mill St., Distillery Historic District. 416872-1111, 866-577-4277. $40.
Wordplay. Tapestry New Opera Works.
Festival of libretto readings & musical excerpts,
including short operas of Opera to Go 2008. Jun
6-8: Various times from 7:30. The Ernest Balmer
Studio, 55 Mill Street, Building 58, Studio 315,
Distillery Historic District. 416-537-6066 x221.
$10; $5(st).
Vida!: A Celebration of Life. LuminaTO.
Dance by List Alfonso’s Danza Cuba & Omara
Portuondo, fusing Spanish & Afro-Cuban influences (premiere). 25 female dancers; musicians,
including Buena Vista Social Club’s Omara. Jun 12, 5, 7-8: 8:00; Jun 3, 10: 5:00; Jun 6: 2:00; Jun
9: 2:00 & 8:00. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260
King St. West. 416-872-1111, 866-577-4277.
$20-$85.
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Listings: Jazz in Clubs
Absolute Lounge
Hilton Suites Toronto/Markham Conference
Centre and Spa
8500 Warden Avenue, Markham
905-470-8500
May 1 Markham Gang Jazztet. May 3 Jim
Finlayson Trio. May 5 June Garber. May 8
KC2. May 12 Markham Gang Jazztet. May
15 Rob Christian with Sophia Perlman. May
17 Andre Roy. May 19 Roger Chong. May 22
June Garber. May 24 Markham Gang Jazztet. May 26 Jim Finlayson Trio. May 29 Rob
Christian w/ Sophia Perlman. May 31 KC2.
Alleycatz
2409 Yonge St. 416-481-6865
Every Mon Salsa Night. Every Tue Whitney
Smith and C. Berardinucci Quintet. Every
Wed Jasmin Bailey and Co. Every Thu
Sump’n Different w/ New Vocalists Weekly.
May 4, 5 Soular. May 11, 12 Lady Kane.
May 18, 19 Graffitti Park. May 25, 26, Lady
Kane.
Arbor Room
Hart House @ the University of Toronto, 7
Hart House Circle
416-978-2452
Ben Wicks
424 Parliament. 416-961-9425
www.benwickspub.com
Boiler House
55 Mill St. 416-203-2121
May 1 Tonino. May 2 Tonino. May 3 Richard Whiteman Trio. May 4 Jazz Masters
series w/ Ross Wooldridge. May 5 Bump.
May 6 Jazz Brunch with Kevin Clark. May 8
Tonino. May 9 Tonino. May 10 Richard
Whiteman Trio. May 11 Jazz Masters series
w/ Terry Promane. May 13 Mothers Day
Brunch Lester Maclean and Kevin Clark Band.
May 15 Tonino. May 16 Tonino. May 17
Kevin Clark Band. May 18 Jazz Masters Series with Pat LaBarbera. May 19 Bump Band.
May 20 Jazz Brunch. May 22 Tonino. May
23 Tonino. May 24 Kevin Clark Band. May
26 Bump Band. May 27 Jazz Brunch w/ Kevin
Clark Band. May 29 Tonino. May 30 Tonino.
May 31 Kevin Clark Band.
Cameron House
408 Queen St. West. 416-703-0811
Central, The
603 Markham St. 416-919-4586
www.thecentral.ca
C’est What
67 Front St. E. 416-867-9499
www.cestwhat.com
Every Wed Hot Fo’ Ghandi.
Every Sat (matinee) The Hot Five Jazzmakers.
Cervejaria Downtown
842 College St. 416-588-0162.
Every Wed The Jay Danley Quintet.
Chalkers Pub Billiards & Bistro
247 Marlee Avenue, 416-789-2531
http://www.chalkerspub.com
May 6 Guitar Clinic/Performance with Reg
Schwager. May 13 Bob Brough Quartet. May
20 Rich Underhill Quartet. May 27 Tara Davidson Quartet.
Chick N’ Deli
744 Mount Pleasant Rd. 416-489-3363
www.chickndeli.com
Every Tue Jam Night
Every First Mon Advocats Big Band
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Every Third Mon George Lake Big Band.
Commensal, Le
655 Bay St. 416-596-9364
www.commensal.ca
Music Fridays & Saturdays
6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
No Cover Charge
May 4 Kira Callahan/Nathan Hiltz. May 5
Leon Kingstone/Dan Eisen. May 11 Mark
Kieswetter. May 12 Warren Grieg/Dan Eisen.
May 18 Double A Jazz Trio. May 19 Beverly
Taft/Dan Eisen. May 18 Double A Jazz Trio.
May 19 Beverly Taft/Dan Eisen. May 25
Jonathan Marks Violin Jazz Duo. May 26
Elizabeth Shepherd/Dan Eisen.
The Concord Café
937 Bloor St W. 416-532-3989
Dominion on Queen
500 Queen St. E. 416-368-6893
www.dominiononqueen.com
Gate 403
403 Roncesvalles 416-588-2930
www.gate403.com
May 1 Kevin Laliberte Flamenco Guitar,
James Thomson, Donee Roberts and Julian
Fauth Blues Trio. May 2 Tervor Giancola Jazz
Band, Cocktail Jazz Band. May 3 Adrian
Shaw Jazz Duo, The Peddlers. May 4 Nolove
DJ, Patrick Tevlin’s New Orleans Duo. May 5
Bill Heffernan with his Friends, Linda Carone
Jazz Duo May 6 Kenny Yoshioka Blues Band,
John Emery Jazz Band. May 7 Matt Newton,
Mark McIntyre and Ethan Ardelli. May 8
Kevin LaLiberte Flamenco Guitar, James
Thomson, Donee Roberts and Julian Fauth.
May 9 Up the Line Blues Duo, Dave and Levi
Jazz Duo. May 10 Patricia Fagan Jazz Band,
Margaret Stowe Jazz Duo. May 11 Nico
Dann: The Lost Boys Jazz Trio, Hogtown
Syncopators. May 12 Bill Heffernan and his
Friends, Kristine Schmitt and the Powers That
Be. May 13 Kenny Yoshioka Blues Band, Cheryl Thibideau Jazz Duo. May 14 Phillipe Le
Jeune Jazz Trio. May 15 Kevin Laliberte
Flamenco, James Thomson, Donee Roberts
and Julian Fauth Blues Trio. May 16 Sean
Bellaviti and Julian Humphreys with Friends,
Karry Ladyshewsky & Robert Blues Duo. 17
Ali Berkok Jazz piano solo. May 17 Ali
Berkok Jazz Piano Solo, Scott Kemp Jazz
Collective. May 18 Roman Tom jazz and
blues duo, Ori Dagan May 19 Bill Heffernan
with his friends, Marieve Herington Jazz
Quartet. May 20 Kenny Toshioka Blues Band,
Peter Hill Jazz Duo. May 21 Allyson Morris
Group. May 22 Kevin Laliberte, James Thomson, Donee Roberts and Julian Fauth Blues
Trio. May 23 Eric St. Laurent Jazz Duo, Tanya Mass Jazz Duo. May 24 Marcel Alex
Aucoin Jazz Piano, String Theory Band. May
25 Joanna Moon Flamenco Latino with Quebec Edge Quartet, Sum of 5ive Modern Jazz
Band. May 26 Bill Heffernan with his friends,
Suzanna De Camara Jazz Band. May 27 Kenny Yoshioka Blues Band, Coleman Tinsley Jazz
Duo. May 28 Ashley St. Pierre Jazz Duo.
May 29 Kevin LaLiberte Flamenco Guitar
Solo, James Thomson, Donee Roberts and
Julian Fauth Blues Band. May 30 Blues Canoe, Max Senitt Latin Jazz Quartet. May 31
Ted Hawkins Blues Duo, Cam McCaroll Jazz
Duo.
Graffitti’s Bar and Grill
170 Baldwin St. 416-506-6699
Grasshopper Jazz and Blues Bar
460 Parliament St. 416-323-1210
Grossman’s Tavern
379 Spadina Ave. 416-977-1210
www.grossmanstavern.com
May 2 Sound from the Cloud. May 3 Dick
Ellis Revival. May 4 First Sundays with Sandi
Marie and Company, Jim Heineman Band.
May 5 The Happy Pals, Dare Devils of Soul.
May 6 Nicola Vaughan Acoustic Jam, The
Nationals with Brian Cober. May 7 Laura
Hubert Band. May 9 Backassward Comedy.
May 11 Gary Kendall Blues Band. May 12
The Happy Pals, The Ray. May 13 Nicola
Vaughan Acoustic Jam, The Nationals with
Brian Cober. May 16 Loose Wire. May 17
Ravon On. May 25 Frankie Foo. May 26
Juke. May 31 Blues Drivers.
Home Smith Bar
The Old Mill, 21 Old Mill Rd. 416-236-2641
www.oldmilltoronto.com
Hot House Café
Market Square, 416-366-7800
Every Mon Jazz Brunch with the Ken
Churchill Quartet.
Kristoria French Fine Dining
104 Surrey St. E. Guelph
519-829-3265
Lula Lounge
1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307
www.lula.ca
May 3 Lula World: Opening Night Bash! Bollywood Fever. May 4 Brazilian Party w. Maracatu and Montreal’s Bombolesse. May 5 Salsa
Superstar El Nino. May 6 Evergreen Club.
May 8 Esprit Orchestra New Wave Composers Festival. May 9 David Buchbinder’s Odessa/Havana with Hilario Duran. May 10 People
Project and Kobo Town May 11 Ba Cissoko.
May 12 Ray Barretto Tribute with Ralph Irizarry. May 15 Luis Mario Ochoa/Humber
College Latin Jazz Big Band. May 16 Avataar
Collective and Eccodek. May 17 Silk Road
Music Featuring Qiu Xia. May 17 (10:30pm)
Sunshine State. May 18 Direct from Italy
Vinicio Capossela (with Marc Ribot), Apostle
of Hustle. May 19 Havana Norte. May 20
Eliana Cuevas. May 20 Blackrose +Redsan.
May 22 Marimba Madness.
Liberty Bistro and Bar
25 Liberty St. @ Atlantic 416-533-8828
Live @ Courthouse
57 Adelaide Street East. 416-214-9379
www.liveatcourthouse.com
May 1 Ken Fornetran and Dave Restivo featuring Thyron Lee Whyte. May 3 Jazz FM91
Jazz Lives After Party. May 4, 5 Luis Mario
Ochoa Quartet. May 8 Elizabeth Shepherd
Trio. May 9 Eliana Cuevas. May 10 Vincent
Wolfe. May 11 Adi Braun. May 12 Joe Sealy. May 16 Alia Kadysh. May 17 Michael
Occhipinti and Creation Dream with special
guest Jeff Coffin. May 18 Michael Occhipinti
and Creation Dream. May 19 George Koller
Septet. May 22, 23 Daniel Barnes. May 24
Brownman Quintet. May 25, 26 Bernie Senensky Quintet. May 29, 30 Laila Biali. May
31 Pat Collins Quartet.
Manhattan’s Music Club
951 Gordon St. Guelph
519-767-2440
www.manhattans.ca
May 4 Richard Whiteman Trio. May 13 Monica Chapman Mother’s Day Special. May 19
Victor Bateman and Sean Bray. May 26 Tim
Shia Trio.
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Mezzetta
681 St. Clair Ave. W. 416-658-5687
Wednesday Concerts in a Café. Sets at 9 and
10:15. Reservations Recommended for first
set.
May is Guitar Masters Month!
May 2 Lorne Lofsky, Kieran Overs. May 9
Ted Quinlan, Mike Downes. May 16 Michael
Occhipinti, Luis Simao. May 23 Brian Katz,
Rob Piltch. May 30 Roland Hunter, Jesse
Capon, Jon Maharaj.
Mezzrows
1546 Queen St. W. 416-658-5687
Parkdale neighborhood pub featuring jazz and
blues on Saturday afternoons, Sunday evenings
and a live jam every other Wednesday.
N’Awlins Jazz Bar and Dining
299 King St. W. 416-595-1958
www.nawlins.ca
Every Tues Stacie McGregor
Every Wed Jim Heineman Trio.
Every Thu Blues Night with Guest Vocalists
Every Fri/Sat All Star Bourbon St. Band
Every Sun Robi Botos.
Odd Socks at Dovercourt House
804 Dovercourt Rd. 416-537-3337
Old Mill, The
21 Old Mill Rd. 416-236-2641
www.oldmilltoronto.com
Opal Jazz Lounge
472 Queen St. West. 416-646-6725
www.opaljazzlounge.com
Orbit Room
508A College St. 416-535-0613
Pantages Martini Bar and Lounge
200 Victoria St. 416-945-5444
Pilot Tavern
22 Cumberland 416-923-5716
www.thepilot.ca
Quotes
220 King St. W.
416-979-7717
Renaissance Café, The
1938 Danforth Avenue 416-422-1441
Reservoir Lounge, The
52 Wellington St. E. 416-955-0887
www.reservoirlounge.com
Every Mon Sophia Perlman and the Vipers
Every Tue Tyler Yarema and his Rhythm
Every Wed Bradley and the Bouncers
Every Thu Janice Hagen
Every Fri Chet Valient Combo
Every Sat Tory Cassis
Rex Jazz and Blues Bar, The
194 Queen St. W. 416-598-2475
www.therex.ca
May 1 Richard Whiteman Trio, Classic Rex
Jazz Jam. May 2 Alex Goodman Trio, Rich
Underhill Quintet. May 3 Snow Cycle, CD
Release: The Jazz Navigators. May 4 Hogtown Syncopators, Raoul and the Big Time,
Bob Brough. May 5 Ed Vokurka, A.B.L.E. Big
Band, Fender Rhodes Trio, Kiki Misumi Quartet. May 6 Humber College Community Music School Student Recitals, Swing Rosie, Don
Glazer Trio. May 7 Darren Sigesmund Trio,
Chris Hunt Tentet + 2. May 8 Richard Whiteman Trio, Rex Jazz Jam. May 9 Alex Goodman Trio, Bernardo Padron. May 10 Kevin
Quain, The Rhythm and Truth Brass Band.
May 11 Hogtown Syncopators, Justin Bacchus, Hugh Fraser Quintet. May 12 Ed Vokurka Swing Ensemble, Broken Joe Bluegrass,
Fender Rhodes Trios, Mike Downes Quartet.
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May 13 Excelsior Dixieland Jazz, Dr. Nick
and the Rollercoasters, Swing Rosie, Dan McCarthy Trio. May 14 Darren Sigesmund Trio,
John Cheesman Big Band. May 15 Richard
Whiteman Trio, Classic Rex Jazz Jam. May
16 Alex Goodman Trio, Julie Mahendran.
May 17 Kevin Quain, Frank Lozano & John
Geggie w. Jim Lewis. May 17 Hogtown
Syncopators, Frank Lozano and John Geggie
w. Jim Lewis. May 19 Ed Vokurka Swing
Ensemble, Swing Shift Big Band, Fender
Rhodes Trios, Rosemary Galloway. May 20
Excelsior Dixieland Jazz, Club Django, Swing
Rosie, Trombone Extravaganza: Alistair Kay
and Friends. May 21 Darren Sigesmund Trio,
Harley Card Quartet. May 22 Richard Whiteman Trio, Classic Rex Jazz Jam. May 23
Alex Goodman Trio, the T.J.O. May 24 Kevin
Quain, Mike Murley Septet. May 25 Hogtown Syncopators, Justin Bacchus, Mike Murley Septet. May 26 Ed Vokurka Swing Ensemble, Laura Hubert Band, Fender Rhodes
Trios, David Buchbinder. May 27 Excelsior
Dixieland Jazz, Freeway Dixieland, Swing
Rosie, Jennifer Petrielli. May 30 Alex Goodman Trio, Andrew Downing Quartet. May 31
Kevin Quain, Andrew Downing Quartet.
Safari Bar and Grill
1749 Avenue Rd. 416-787-6584
Saint Tropez, Le
315 King St. W. 416-591-3600
Live music 7 days a week
Spezzo Restorante
140 York Blvd. Richmond Hill 905-886-9703
Live jazz every Thursday.
Sydney’s Island Restaurant
5120 Dixie Rd, Mississauga
May 25 Roselyn Brown Quintet (Reservations
recommended.)
Ten Feet Tall
1381 Danforth Avenue, 416-778-7333
www.tenfeettall.ca
May 6 Steve Koven/Kenny Kirkwood. May
13 Pat Murray Quartet. May 20 Kira Callahan. May 27 Melissa Pizrowkowski Trio.
Trane Studio, The
964 Bathurst St. 416-913-8197
www.tranestudio.com
May 1 Split Square with the Marksmen.
May 2 Snow Cycle (live recording featuring
Rich Brown). May 3 Killarnoe by Sonnet
L’Abbe, Ultra Magnus. May 4 Noa Bursie,
Melissa Laveaux and Kyrie Kristmanson. May
5 Julie Michels. May 6 Rasta Festival Media
Launch. May 8 Acoustic Soul with DJ Black
Lotus. May 9 Subliminal Birthday Party. May
10 CaneFire with Jason Wilson and Tabarruk.
May 11 Sundar’s Induswest Project “Hope
and Infinity” CD Release. May 12 Caution
Jam. May 15 Jonathan Kay and the Lyttle
Kay Band. May 16 Mike Celia, David Celia,
Brownman. May 18 Radio Nomad. May 19
Hilario Duran Quartet. May 22 Acoustic Soul
w/ DJ Black Lotus. May 23 Elizabeth Shepherd, Reg Schwager, Brownman. May 24 Still
Points Quartet featuring Daniel Easty. May
25 Ernest Dawkins and the New Horizons
Ensemble Part 1. May 26 Ernest Dawkins
and the New Horizons Ensemble Part 2. May
29 Taurean Clarke Quartet. May 30 Eliana
Cuevas, Jorge Miguel, Brownman. May 31
Pashtes.
When the concert’s done ...
East of Yonge, all that jazz
by Sophia Perlman
As Jim Galloway mentions in his
column on page 23, the part of
the city around Massey Hall has
a rich jazz history. But while
there has been much mourning the
demise of venues like the Top O’
the Senator and the Montreal
Bistro in recent years, there is
still a wealth of places to hear live
jazz. This month, we’re taking a
look at some of the venues that
are within close range of this
wonderful, historic concert venue.
1. Pantages Martini Bar and
Lounge, 200 Victoria St.
www.pantageshotel.com
Perhaps the closest venue to
Massey Hall, the Martini Bar in
the upscale Pantages Hotel
presents live jazz booked by local
jazz personality Jaymz Bee on
Fridays and Saturdays.
What Will I Hear? Friday
nights feature the trumpet and
piano duo of John Simoes and
Aaron Peixoto – both graduates
of the Humber College Music
program. Saturday night features
a rotating roster of talented local
pianists. Last month, the list
included Robert Scott, David
Restivo and Ashley Wey.
Cover: None, and the bar offers
one hour complimentary parking
on jazz nights.
Menu: Upscale martinis, and light
appetizers.
Atmosphere: Recently re-styled
by the designers behind HGTV’s
“The Designer Guys” the bar
features two separate areas – the
bar itself and a separate seating
room known as the library with
couches and chairs for quiet
conversation.
Cover: Mondays, pay what you
can. Tuesday-Thursday, $5;
Friday/Saturday $10.
Menu: A wide range of cocktails,
martinis, and a broad enough menu
to suit most tastes.
Atmosphere: Varies from night to
night. The bar attracts jazz fans,
as well as theatregoers and Bay
Street types looking for a place to
unwind. Expect it to be noisy on a
Friday or Saturday. Note that this
venue is 19+
3. Dominion on Queen,
500 Queen St. E.
Located on Queen East near Parliament, Dominion on Queen is a
comfortable, local venue with
fiercely loyal regulars. Live jazz is
presented six (and occasionally
2. Reservoir Lounge,
52 Wellington St. E.
www.reservoirlounge.com
Located right across from the
Flatiron building, and steps from
both the St. Lawrence Centre and
the Hummingbird, this belowstreet level venue offers live
music 6 nights a week.
What will I hear? There is a
roster of musicians (including
yours truly) who play weekly.
The music tends to lean towards
TO LIST:
swing jazz, jump, and blues.
[email protected]
Video clips are available on their
by the 20th of the month before website.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS ...WORKSHOPS, ... ETCETERA
ANNOUNCEMENTS
*May 1-31: New Adventures in Sound Art.
Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission
Art. Month-long celebration of radio and transmission art. Radio artists, sound artists and enthusiasts can experience performances, sound
installations, new commissions, special radio
broadcasts, CD launch, workshops & conference.
Venues include the Drake Hotel underground;
inter/access, 9 Ossington Ave; Gallery 1313,
1313 Queen St. West; Ryerson Student Campus
Centre. 416-910-7231, www.deepwireless.ca
*May 5 & 6 9:30am-5pm: Elora Festival &
Singers. 19th Annual Book Sale. Books, LPs,
videos, games, puzzles, etc. Curling Rink, Elora.
519-846-0331 (drop-off and pick-up information).
*May 5 6pm-midnight: Opera York. Fundraising Gala. Features live concert with The Three
Canadian Tenors; silent and live auction; dinner
and dancing. Honourary patron Julian Fantino.
Famee Furlane, 7065 Islington Ave, Woodbridge.
905-763-7853. $100.
*May 8 & 10: High Park Choirs of Toronto.
Open Rehearsals. Participate in warm-ups, observe a rehearsal & meet our staff. Runnymede
United Church, 432 Runnymede Rd. RSVP: 416762-0657.
*May 10 6:00: Esprit Orchestra. Squeeze,
Squeeze, Squeeze. Fine wine, music, mini-silent
auction, surprises & Italian delicacies. Grano
Ristorante, 2035 Yonge St. 416-815-7887.
$125. Fundraiser for Esprit.
*May 10 6:45: Oakville Children’s Choir.
Celebrate Oakville – World Reflections: 6th Annual Fundraising Gala. International cuisine, world
musical performances, live & silent auction &
more. Guests: OCC Senior & Chamber Choirs,
Glenda Crawford, music director. Operating Engineers Banquet Hall, 2245 Speers Road, Oakville.
905-337-7104. $75pp, corporate tables avail.
*May 11 6pm & 7pm: Esprit Orchestra. Rea
Forum/Roundtable: The Paradox of Material
(6:00); Coffee Chat (7:00). Meet the composers
and soloists featured on May 13th Finale Concert
(see daily concert listings); mini performances by
soloists Shauna Rolston, Eleanor James, Joanne
Kong; composers Colgrass, Schmidt & Schafer
discuss their works. Elgin Rehearsal Studio, 158
Victoria St. 416-815-7887. Free.
*May 11-13: Robert Lowrey’s Piano Experts/Toronto Symphony Volunteer Committee. Bösendorfer National Piano Concerto
Competition. Features performances of works by
Hétu, Louie & Morawetz; final round: complete
piano concertos from the standard repertoire.
Public welcome. Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s Park.
416-593-7769 x358, www.tsvc.on.ca/
piano_competition Free.
*May 12, 11am-3pm: Chorus Niagara. Singathon. Come out to hear the Chorus sing, and
offer support through pledges or donations. Conductors will include artistic director Robert Cooper, Chorus Niagara supporters & local celebrities;
Lynne Honsberger, accompanist. Sears Court, Pen
Centre, St. Catharines. 905-371-1518. Income
tax receipts for paid pledges of $10 or more.
*May 12 12:00 noon-3:00: Guelph Youth
Music Centre. Kidsfest Open House: A Celebration of Music, Art & Fun. Arts festival for children of all ages; live performances by the K-W
Symphony, GYMC Kid’s Chorus and Jazz Ensemble, GYMC Orchestra; interactive performances
with African drummer Fule Badoe; demonstrations by music schools & instructors including
Suzuki, Orff & more. Guelph Youth Music Centre,
75 Cardigan St., Guelph. 519-837-1119. Free.
*May 12 7:30: St. Christopher House. Annual “Scoff and Scuff”- The Sweets of May.
Newfoundland Kitchen Party featuring traditional
Newfoundland music, stories, traditional dancing
& culture; cash bar & desserts. Community Hall,
248 Ossington Ave. 416-532-4828 x127.
$20,$15(advance), $25(door). Fund raising event.
*May 13 12 noon: Orchestra London. Serenade Brunch: Woodwind Ensemble. Enjoy the
Best Western Lamplighter Inn’s sumptuous
brunch, followed by chamber music performed by
Orchestra London members. 591 Wellington Rd.
South, London ON. 519-679-8778. $39, $35(sr).
*May 21 10am-4pm: Fort York National
Historic Site. Victoria Day. Celebrate with fife
and drum music, tours and more. 100 Garrison
Rd. 416-392-6907. $6, $3.25(sr/youth),
$3(child).
*May 26 10am-2pm: Deer Park United
Church/ORGANIX. Toronto Organ Day: Show
and Tell. Hands-on demonstrations of the pipe
organ for kids and adults, guided by William
Wright. 416-241-9785. 129 St. Clair Ave.
West. 416-962-3381. Free.
*May 26 11am-3:00: Metropolitan United
Church. Organ and carillon demonstrations
every hour. Patricia Wright and Matthew
Coons, organists; Gerald Martindale, carillonneur. 56 Queen St. East. 416-363-0331 x26.
Free; donations accepted.
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... ANNOUNCEMENTS ...WORKSHOPS, ... ETCETERA
*May 26 2:00: Church of the Redeemer.
Toronto Organ Day. Organ demonstration. 162
Bloor St. West. 416-922-4948. Free.
*May 26 2:00: St. Clement’s Church. Toronto Organ Day. Organ demonstration. 59 Briar Hill
Ave. 416-483-6664. Free.
*May 26 3:00: St. Thomas’ Church. Toronto
Organ Day. John Tuttle demonstrates St. Thomas’s
organ. 383 Huron St. 416-979-2323. Free.
*May 27 10am-5pm: COC. Doors Open Toronto. Guided & self-guided tours of the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts; performances for families of a specially adapted 45minute version of Mozart’s The Magic Flute at
11am & 2pm. 145 Queen St. West. 416-3636671, www.doorsopen.org Free.
*May 27 1pm-3:30: Metropolitan United
Church. Carillon demonstrations at 1pm, 2pm &
3pm; organ demonstration at 3:30pm. Patricia
Wright and Matthew Coons, organists; Gerald
Martindale, carillonneur. 56 Queen St. East. 416363-0331 x26. Free; donations accepted.
*May 27 2:00-5:00: Elmer Iseler Singers.
Strawberries and Champagne. Musical afternoon
with silent auction, refreshments & surprises.
Toronto Hunt Club, 1355 Kingston Rd. 416-2170557. $75. Benefit for the Elmer Iseler Singers.
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free, non-members by donation ($5 to $15 suggested).
*May 13 2:00: Toronto Opera Club. Some
of My Best Friends are Tenors. Audio presentation by guest speaker, Stuart Hamilton. CDs to be
won. Room 330, Edward Johnson Bldg, 80
Queen’s Park. 416-924-3940. $10.
*May 22-27: Soundstreams Canada. Cool
Drummings: An International Percussion Festival
LECTURES/SYMPOSIA
and Conference. May 25: Workshop on Improvi*May 3 7:30: The Globe and Mail/Aeropsation Techniques; Panel discussion: Cross Cullan. An Evening with Sir George Martin. Legentural collaborations; Information session: Codary Beatles producer in live multi-media presen- commissions and other Collaborative Projects;
tation. Sir George’s personal remarks & anecWorkshop/lecture with featured festival artists;
dotes; music of the Beatles. Winter Garden Thea- May 26: Instrument demonstration; Panel distre, 189 Yonge St. 416-872-5555. $68.
cussion: Composer’s Forum; Information session:
*May 5 9:30am-1pm: Canadian Opera
Crossing Borders for Percussionists; May 27:
Company. Elektra: Heroine or Hysteric? Sympo- Information Session: International Collaborations.
sium on the opera. Presenters include: John
UofT Faculty of Music, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-Noyes, Marija Euchner, Jill Scott, Linda Hutcheon 366-7723, 800-708-6754,
and Michael Hutcheon, Sherry Lee. 12 noon: Panel www.soundstreams.ca/festival.htm
discussion with members of the COC’s creative
*May 25-27: New Adventures in Sound
team. Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles St. West. Art. Radio Without Boundaries. A conference
416-363-6671. $15, $10(U of T faculty), $5(st). about radio & transmission arts. Confirmed
*May 7 8:00: Toronto Wagner Society. An speakers include: Hans Ulrich Werner, R. Murray
Evening with soprano Susan Bullock. Arts & Let- Schafer, Andra McCartney, Heidi Grundmann,
ters Club, 14 Elm St.
Eleanor King, Stephen Kelly & others. Ryerson
www.richard_wagner.tripod.com Members
University Student Campus Centre, 55 Gould
Street. 416-910-7231. $150-$300.
*May 31 12 noon-midnight. RCM Community School. Baystock. Featuring soul, pop &
rock bands made up of members of the Baystreet
financial community. The Round House, Steam
Whistle Brewery, 255 Bremner Blvd. 416-5992550. Fundraiser for RCM Outreach, Sick Kids
Foundation, and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. $50 (includes BBQ dinner & libations).
*June 3 11:00am: MNjcc. Great Jewish Composers. Lecture on Stephen Sondheim with host/
musician Jordan Klapman. 750 Spadina Ave.
416-924-6211 x133. $8 (includes coffee &
bagels).
MASTER CLASSES
*May 6, 13, 27, June 3 2:30-5:30: Singing
Studio of Deborah Staiman. Master class in
musical theatre/audition preparation, using textual
analysis and other interpretative tools for the
“sung monologue”. Yonge & Eglinton area –
please call for exact location. 416-483-9532,
www.singingstudio.ca
*May 13 7:00: Vocalway Studios. Voice
master class with Tom Schilling. Melrose United
Church, 86 Homewood Ave., Hamilton. 905546-5671, www.vocalway.com $35(participant), $10(auditor).
*May 22 6:00: Vocalway Studios. Voice
master class with Tom Schilling. See May 13.
College Street United Church, 452 College St.
Toronto.
WORKSHOPS
*May 3 8:00: Music Gallery. Arnold Dreyblatt will conduct a workshop on his just intonation tuning system and “sound of one string”,
including sound examples and a Power Point pres-
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entation. St. George the Martyr Church, 197 John St. 416-2041080. $10, $5(member/st).
*May 6 1:30-4pm: Toronto Early Music Players Organization. Workshop for viols & voices led by Betsy MacMillan. Lansing
United Church, 49 Bogert Ave. 416-778-7777. $20, members free.
*May 7 3:00-5:00: CMC/Esprit Orchestra. CMC Professional
Reading. Open rehearsal & performance of R.A. Baker’s Wings and
Engines: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, and G. Kim’s Symphony #2.
Alex Pauk, conductor. Part of the New Wave Composers’ Festival. Walter Carsen Centre, 470 Queens Quay West. 416-815-7887. Free.
*May 11 7:30-10pm: Recorder Players’ Society. Opportunity for recorder and/or other early instrument players to play Renaissance & Baroque music in uncoached groups. Church of the Transfiguration, 111 Manor Rd. East. 416-694-9266. $10(CAMMAC
member), $12(non-member).
*May 16 7:30: Toronto Shapenote Singing from Sacred
Harp. Beginners welcome. St. Stephen-in-the-Fields, 103 Bellevue
Ave. 416- 922-7997 or [email protected]
*May 26: Southern Ontario Chapter of the Hymn Society.
Workshop for Hymn Writers and Auditors. Led by Dr. Mary Louise
Bringle. Royal York Road United Church, 851 Royal York Rd. 647722-1618, [email protected] $30.
*May 27 2:00: CAMMAC. Musical Reading. Workshop on Haydn’s Creation for singers & instrumentalists, led by David Bowser.
Elliott Hall, Christ Church Deer Park, 1570 Yonge St. 416-4210779, www.cammac.ca $6, $10(non-members).
*May 28 7:30: Toronto Early Music Centre. Vocal Circle.
Recreational reading of early choral music. Ability to read music
desirable but not essential. 12 Millbrook Cres. 416-920-5025.
Members free, $5(non-members).
*May 29 8:00: Toronto Folk Singers’ Club. An informal
group that meets for the purpose of performance & exchange of
songs. Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave. 416-532-0900.
*June 1 7:30-10pm: Recorder Players’ Society. Opportunity
for recorder and/or other early instrument players to play Renaissance & Baroque music in uncoached groups. Church of the Transfiguration, 111 Manor Rd. East. 416-694-9266. $10(CAMMAC
member), $12(non-member).
*June 3 1:30-4pm: Toronto Early Music Players Organization. Workshop for recorder orchestra led by Avery Maclean. Music to be supplied in advance. Lansing United Church, 49 Bogert
Ave. 416-778-7777. $20, members free.
*June 6, 7, 8 7:30: Tapestry New Opera Works. Wordplay.
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WE ARE ALL MUSIC’S CHILDREN
MUSICAL LIFE
continued from page 25
Willing Slaves Raise the Roof
at Singsations Saturday
APRIL’S CHILDREN
Russell and Adi Braun
spent their childhood and teen years in Frankfurt and Bavaria, the children of Canadian baritone Victor Braun and
German mezzo-soprano Eraine Schwing-Braun.
The breathtaking success of Adi’s lateral move seven years
ago from classical music to jazz, and Russell’s ascending
stardom as one of the most sought-after lyric baritones on the
international stage, are fine histories in the making. They came
to Canada as young people with their families, bringing
with them musical talent and drive and childhood experiences. Nurtured by family, partners, mentors and their music
communities, they are realizing their dreams,
and contributing back.
panist, who increasingly had Russell “just
Ask either of these two articulate and emosing this”, and offered a little coaching.
tionally intelligent singers how music figured in
Music was always for sharing…they both
their childhoods and they will draw breath to
say this, too.
reply, and then there will be a long pause, folThrough his teens, Russell would play for
lowed by a sigh. It’s at once an expression of
his mother while she sang Schumann’s Frauenpleasure and of not knowing where to begin.
liebe un Leben, much in the same way that
Well now!… they both say….music was
people might share a favourite book or watch a
just…everywhere.
movie together. Recalling his parents’ tolerance
One parent or the other was always vocal- of his teenage appetite for Queen, Russell comising. Their childhood homes rang with
ments that his own child right now is asking
powerful voices: operatic music, lieder, the
for an I-Pod or similar device. Russell’s relucmusic theatre favourites of their parents’
tance is only partly out of concern for BenNorth American friends.
jamin’s undamaged hearing. Russell says he’d
There was the classical repertoire common rather the music was cranked up on speakers
to all young people who have piano lessons. where they can both hear it: “I want his music
Both speak of a visionary young piano teach- to be something we can share.”
er whose lessons sometimes consisted of
And he’ll tell you for sure how much he
“just listening to great music, and talking
loves to hear his sister sing: admiring the courabout it”, despite a (sometimes) authoritarian age and honesty it took to step away from the
father who demanded to know why they
music she was groomed to perform, to share
were not practising more scales.
without apology the music that is colourfully
More fundamentally, they were exposed
hers.
to the richness of the folk and popular music
Adi will tell you that it was her partner,
traditions from their mother’s German family Linda Ippolito, who entered her in a talent con- including a grandmother who spent 14
test where she would finally perform the music
years farming in South Africa - and the com- she hungered for, and her close friend soprano
plex of music that came from their father’s
Adrienne Pieczonka who affirmed “Oh…that’s
upbringing as a Mennonite in North Amerireally you!”, on hearing her sing a jazz tune:
ca: Here comes Peter Cottontail meets Sarie the cues she takes professionally are personal.
Marais…in Europe.
Inspired by improvisation and collaboration
Russell’s earliest memories include lying during a recent Banff Centre residency, Adi
under the piano during musical parties, and
affirms over and over again that music is for
watching mom exercise to Harry Belafonte
sharing (she might also tell you that she
records. Adi’s vivid memories of singing in sings for her appreciative cat).
the car mirror her brother’s: “You are my
They both say that it’s still SO easy to
Sunshine” and “Sometimes I feel like a
find their mother in any audience: how she
Motherless Child” in four-part harmony,
radiates pleasure, including (discreetly wearfrom Munich to Frankfurt.
ing little blue earplugs) listening in bars
There was room in their lives, as individuat- where their brother Torsten (ten years
ing teens, for shared fascination with Manhatyounger than Russell), fronts a metal band
tan Transfer, and Abba. Adi, in her basement
and plays keyboards.
bedroom was already secretly gorging herself
Adi:”Teaching is a very important part of
on Barbara Streisand and Judy Garland, and
my life: all ages, all backgrounds.It complaying her bongo drums to Santana recordpletes the cycle of giving and receiving. Muings. At 19 she presented her parents with a
sic
is the great transcender”
fait accompli demo recording – four jazz/music
theatre songs. Her parents were proud and ad- Russell: “I hesitate to say this, because it
miring, but their father in particular asserted
might sound a little peculiar, but I believe
that classical music was a better career choice.
that music is one of the most fundamental
By the time of moving to Canada (Adi
ways in which …not in any weird kind of
was 20, Russell was 17) both were already
way. ..… people…consummate….their relaserious music students –Adi as a classical
tionships with each other. “
singer, and Russell as a pianist. His move to
singing began with a teacher, also an accom- Lucky people.
mJ Buell
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by mJ buell
Saturday morning, late in April: Cameron Hall at
Yorkminster Park Baptist Church is bursting at
the seams with an array of ordinary-looking people of all ages, stretching, buzzing their lips, singing warm-up exercises with a conductor.
There’s coffee and tea brewing, fruit and cookies on side tables, piles of scores circulating, people
scrambling for chairs, shuffling pages.
Just another choir practice? Not at all. There’s
a rare buzz in the air, and a hungry look in the
eyes of the assembly.
After a brief review of Italian phonics, the pianist begins to strum the introduction. One by
one people transform as they start to sing. Eyes
brighten, chins lift, chests swell, spirits soar,
and the sound is astonishing: a potent reminder that opera choruses, often people who’d like
to be opera singers, often do not sound at all
like slaves, or servants, or soldiers, or village
people. Maybe they should.
“Va, pensiero, sull’ali dorate;
va, ti posa sui clivi, sui colli
ove olezzano tepide e molli
l’aure dolci del suolo natal!...”
The beloved, familiar Chorus of the Hebrew
Slaves from Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Nabucco
is well served by people bound by a common
passion, seeking freedom: in this case the passion is singing and the emotional freedom enabled by singing. The event is called Singsation Saturdays, a programme of the Toronto
Mendelssohn Choir.
Engagingly directed by Ann Cooper Gay,
whose years of experience in both opera and choral
conducting made her an ideal candidate for the
job, they sight-read choruses from Carmen, Merry
Widow, Flederdmaus, La Traviata, The results
were powerfully heartfelt, and remarkably accomplished. They were also treated to an impromptu, high-spirited performance by members
of the Canadian Children’s Opera Chorus (Ann
Cooper Gay is their regular conductor).
The TMC began these volunteer-run public
workshops (a brainchild of Noel Edison’s) in
1999 as an outreach initiative. People come to
sing major repertoire with a guest conductor
and members of the TMC. Guest conductors share
insights into the music, the composer, and the
historic context of the composition.
These days, including TMC members, regulars and newbies, it attracts upwards of 75
singers per session. The programme has
evolved over the years to include having a Canadian composer/conductor lead one of the now
five yearly sessions, and a Gospel workshop,
usually during Black History month.
Singsation Saturday workshops: 10:30 a.m.
to 1:00 p.m.; $10 per person per session,
scores available to borrow for the day. There’s
a social break with refreshments: a chance to
meet the conductor and visit with other singers. Participants are encouraged to either call
the TMC office at (416) 598-0422 ext.24 or email Kimber Jonah [email protected] to
register.
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MUSICAL LIFE (2)
AUDIENCE WANTED:
Young Canadian Pianists
Compete for Incredible Prizes
by mJ Buell
Twenty five years ago the Toronto
Symphony Volunteer Committee
launched a competition to encourage
and foster talented young local pianists. By 1994 it was a national competition, the winner performing in
the TSO’s Light Classic Series.
From 2001 to 2005 this biennial
competition was sponsored by TD.
Today it is the Bösendorfer National Piano Concerto Competition,
expanded from two days to three
to accommodate an increasing
number of participants.
The Bösendorfer connection is
new this year, raising the bar in
terms of extraordinary prizes and
opportunities for the winners.
Spearheaded by Robert Lowrey, this
giant step forward arose though
Lowrey’s association with the TSO
(the Mozart Festival, the New Creations Festival), and Maestro Peter
Oundjian’s appreciation for the
Schimmel and Bösendorfer pianos
which are the basis of Lowrey’s
business (Robert Lowrey’s Piano
Experts).
TSO Vice President of Marketing & Business Development Mike
Forrester mentioned that the Concerto
Competition was without a sponsor,
and Lowrey found himself thinking
that as a higher-profile event, it could
be more profoundly effective in assisting young musicians. And at the
end of a year of Mozart, how fitting
it would be that Austrian–based
Bösendorfer could be involved.
It’s a good fit: what better way
for Bösendorfer (who produce only
about 500 of their hand-made instru-
ments per year), to secure their own
future than by embracing one young
ardent musician at a time.
The first prize winner gets a
Bösendorfer practice instrument for
a full year, Bösendorfer instruments
for public performances, and a performance in the Bösendorfer hall in
Vienna, $4000 Roy Thomson Hall
cash prize, and an autumn performance with the TSO in the Light Classics series. That’s just the first prize.
Second prize: $3000 from the Toronto Symphony Volunteer Committee, and a performance with Mooredale Concerts, particularly auspicious
this year because of the death of
Kristine Bogyo, and (her husband)
pianist Anton Kuerti’s commitment
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AUDITIONS
2007 - 2008
Experience the sheer joy of singing with one of Canada's most
revered choral conductors as part of the Amadeus Choir,
renowned for its excellence and sheer beauty of sound.
the
Beach Summer
Voice Program
for
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We are seeking experienced choral singers
with good sight reading skills.
Call 905-642-8706 to set up your June audition.
Next season, the Amadeus Choir will perform works by
DALEY, HENDERSON, MARTIN, PART and VILLA-LOBOS, along with
Mendelssohn's choral masterpiece ELIJAH.
INFORMATION: 416-446-0188 OR [email protected]
Marjorie Sparks,
Artistic Director
In Toronto
LYDIA ADAMS,
Session 1: July 5-8
Session 2: July 12-15
Conductor and Artistic Director
More information:
416.944.3343
[email protected]
www.marjoriesparksvoicestudio.com
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Young Canadian
Pianists Compete
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to the continuation of Mooredale’s initiatives for
young musicians.
And that’s just the second prize…
May 11 and 12, the first round: public recitals
for each of 29 pianists between the ages of 16
and 23, at the Edward Johnson Building. Eighteen are Canadians from outside of Ontario, from
38 applicants who submitted audition tapes. Each
will play a varied 30 minute recital, including a
Canadian composition.
Recitals are free of charge. The public is encouraged to attend to provide audiences for these
astounding young pianists and to catch a glimpse
of the next great Canadian pianists.
The jury (Patricia Parr, Gary Kulesha, Isobel
Rolston and Ronald Turini), will choose finalists for the second round Concerto Competition
which begins at noon on Sunday May 12. Each
finalist will play a complete concerto with piano
accompaniment.
Recitals begin at 9:30am on May 11, and 10am
on May 12, Edward Johnson Building, U of T
Faculty of Music. The public is welcome.
Info: 416-593-7769 or
[email protected]
TMA
At the Juno Awards, this year’s TMA
Musician of the Year Nelly Furtado was
the big winner and hosted the event as well.
TORONTO MUSICIANS’ ASSOCIATION
Other TMA members who brought home
a Juno were Jim Cuddy (Adult Alternative
Album of the Year), Jack Grunsky (Chilby Brian Blain
dren’s Album of the Year) and Diana Krall
(Vocal Jazz Album of the Year). Toronto
TMA MEMBERS DOMINATE JUNO
groups fared well, too. Sisters Euclid, featurAND NATIONAL JAZZ AWARDS
ing last year’s TMA Musician of The Year,
TMA member Phil Nimmons won two
Kevin Breit won Instrumental Album of the
awards at the National Jazz Awards
Year and jacksoul brought home the R&B
(Clarinetist of the Year, Arranger of the
Year). The awards were dominated by To- Soul/Recording of the Year. Congratulations
to all the TMA members that play in some
ronto players including Don Thompson
of the winning groups and orchestras includ(Musician of the Year, Instrumentalist of
ing the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra
the Year), Terry Clarke (Drummer of the
who won Classical Album of the Year, VoYear), Robi Botos (Keyboardist of the
cal or Choral Performance.
Year), George Koller (Bassist of the
Year), Guido Basso (Trumpet Player of
the Year), Reg Schwager (Guitarist of the
Year), Mike Murley (Saxophonist of the
Year, Acoustic Group of the Year - Murley/Braid Quartet), Anne Lindsay (Violinist of the Year), Roberto Occhipinti (Jazz
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TMA prez Russ Little (Trombonist of the
Recording Engineer
Year). Diana Krall, a long-standing TMA
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of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Hannaford Street
Silver Band. The first three were
to Eddie Graf, Bobby Herriot
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When the concert’s done ...
head east of Yonge for jazz
Book Shelf
by Pamela Margles
continued from page 51
PHOTO ASHLEY HUTCHESON
seven) nights a week.
What will I hear? A
range of local musicians, ranging from
traditional jazz, to
big band to contemporary. Wednesday nights feature
Lisa Particelli’s
Girls’ Night Out –
a jam session
geared specifically
to be vocalist
friendly, and SunCourthouse Chamber Lounge
days feature a
5. Boiler House (Distillery),
broader jam session hosted by
55 Mill St.
Norm Marshall Villeneuve.
www.boilerhouse.ca
Cover: Varies from show to
Located in the historic Distillery
show. Check website for details.
District, the Boiler House, with
Menu: Great food, reasonably
its high ceilings and multi-level
priced. This writer recommends
that whatever you have, you have dining areas can accommodate
events for up to 700 people. It
it with the sweet potato fries.
also features live jazz Thursday
There is an almost mystifying
through Saturday nights as well
number of beers to choose from,
as a jazz brunch on Sundays, all
but Dominion makes it easy by
booked by music director,
offering a Tap Sampler special.
Grammy nominated trumpeter
Atmosphere: Very relaxed.
and vocalist Kevin Clark.
Adjoining rooms to the main bar
What will I hear? A range of local
have pool tables and big screen
TVs. On any night you are likely talents - this month, performances
will include Kevin Clark, Tonino,
to find a mix of jazz fans, and
neighborhood people looking for a and their Jazz Masters series, with
Ross Wooldridge, Pat LaBarbera
beer and a good meal.
and Terry Promane.
Cover: None.
4. Courthouse Chamber
Menu: Executive chef Jason
Lounge, 57 Adelaide St. E.
Rosso has put together two
www.liveatcourthouse.com
Conceived by Patrick Taylor and menus- one for dinner and one for
Nick di Donato, the Courthouse is brunch. Dinner entrees range from
the newest addition to Toronto’s around $26-$36 and offer a range
of dishes in the vein of wild
jazz club scene.
What Will I Hear? A huge range mushroom and roasted eggplant
cannelloni or northern venison.
of local and out of town guests,
The brunch menu has something
playing a range of jazz including
to suit just about anyone.
bebop, swing, fusion, latin and
Atmosphere: While you can hear
blues.
the band throughout the restauCover: Varies from show to
rant, you should specify if you
show. Check website for details.
Menu: The entrée menu includes want to be able to see, given the
size of the room. High ceilings
everything from lamb satay and
and wood paneling give the room
home made burgers, to poutine,
a classy feel.
goats cheese and Portobello
frittes, and runs from $7.
Finally... A couple of other
Atmosphere: High sweeping
ceilings and two levels of seating venues to visit in the neighbourgive the room a grand, classy feel. hood include C’est What (67
Front St. E. www.cestwhat.com)
The calibre of musicianship
and the Hot House Café (located
onstage is enough to inspire
serious listening, but the room is in Market Square), both of which
big enough to allow for conversa- also offer live music!
tion. Please note, this venue is
Next month we’ll broaden our
19+.
sweep to the horse-shoe around
the downtown core.
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Diagnosing Genius: The Life
and Death of Beethoven
by François Martin Mai
Foreword by Anton Kuerti
McGill-Queen’s University Press
288 pages, photos and tables;
$34.95
The thought that the librettist of
The Marriage of Figaro, Don
How could Beethoven compose
Giovanni and Così fan Tutte ended
such sublime, serene, and meanup running a grocery store in New
ingful music when ‘his body was
York City seems like fiction. In
wracked with illness’? In Diagfact Lorenzo Da Ponte’s entire
nosing Genius, Canadian psychilife, in Rodney Bolt’s lively narraatrist François Martin Mai extive, could be read as novel if it
plores the effects of Beethoven’s
weren’t for the detailed notes,
hearing loss. ‘With the courage
bibliography and index at the end.
of genius,’ writes Mai, ‘he
There actually exists plenty of
turned his crisis into an opportudocumentary evidence on Da Ponnity and a challenge.’
te’s life, including his own memBut it wasn’t just his hearing.
oirs, although Bolt takes pains to
Mai looks at the surprisingly
show how unreliable and selfcopious material evidence availaserving they are.
ble, including doctors’ records
Da Ponte lived a very long life
and analyses of Beethoven’s hair,
– he died in 1838 at age eightyto examine Beethoven’s various
nine. Throughout, he showed a
health problems. On top of – or
singular ability to ‘turn gold to
because of – his serious physical
dust’. Bolt blames this on his
ailments, he suffered from deobsessive self-absorption. He
pression, anxiety, anger and
spent his life getting in and out of
insomnia. Mai concludes that he
trouble over women, money or
probably had bipolar disorder.
politics. ‘There was something
‘I was on the point of putting an
preternatural about Da Ponte’s
end to my life – The only thing
charm,’ writes Bolt. ‘No matter
that held me back was my art.’
the scurrilities of which he might
So wrote Beethoven in the
be suspect, in spite of his impetushattering Heilegenstadt Testaousness, petty arrogance and at
ment, which Mai rightly treats as
times infuriating manner, person
central to his study. If Beethafter person melted to his allure.’
oven’s ‘prodigious energy’,
He was born Jewish, but con‘soaring spirit’, and ability to
verted to Christianity as a boy.
internalize his music helped him
Although he was ordained as a
deal with his deafness, the inner
priest, he had many affairs, and
peace he was able to find in his
even married. But he followed his
music helped him overcome the
own principles no matter what the
difficulties of his various other
consequences. His librettos for
diseases.
Mozart are, in fact, remarkable for
By delving so deeply into
their profound humanity.
Beethoven’s physical state, and
Bolt quotes an early draft of the
its relationship to his psychologimemoirs, where Da Ponte wrote,
cal state, Mai, who is also a
‘I think that poetry is the door to
pianist, is able to offer fresh
music.’ If only there were more
insights into the music. In the
evidence about how Da Ponte and
process, he provides a fascinating
Mozart worked with each other
glimpse into the complex relationand ‘delicately stitched the comic
ship between illness and creativiand serious together’ to produce
ty.
those three masterpieces.
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Lorenzo Da Ponte: The Adventures of Mozart’s Librettist
in the Old and New Worlds
by Rodney Bolt
Bloomsbury
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Brass Scholarship in Review:
Proceedings of the Historic Brass
Society Conference
edited by Stewart Carter
Pendragon Press
316 pages, illustrated; $70.00
In 1999, musicologists, performers, museum curators, even an
orthodontist and a mathematician
got together in Paris to explore
various aspects of historical brass
instruments and their players.
This collection of papers documents that meeting.
The title may be unprepossessing, but the contents are thoroughly
engaging. There’s a report on a
presentation by British conductor
Andrew Parrott, who is in Toronto
this month to conduct Opera Atelier’s
production of Gluck’s Orpheus and
Eurydice. He discusses how
recordings provide a ‘catalyst for
new ideas’ and allow lesserknown repertoire and performers
to be heard around the world.
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There is a call for the development of an ‘ergonomic mouthpiece’, since the most comfortable position for the player is not
often the one that produces the
best sound. Topics include how
the once-popular cornet pretty
well disappeared from the repertoire during the 19th century; and
why, given how popular Adolph
Sax’s instruments like the saxophone were in his day, none have
become permanent members of the
orchestra. Robert Philip discusses
the globalization of sound, with
the loss of distinctive national
characteristics like the ‘extraordinarily wild vibrant braying
sound’ of Russian brass heard
on early recordings.
There are wonderful illustrations, and, fortunately, an index.
As the use of period instruments
becomes more and more influential on performance practices
today, this book offers numerous
fascinating ways to approach the
subject of brass instruments as
they were before our time.
Outsider: John Rockwell
On the Arts, 1967 - 2006
by John Rockwell
Limelight Editions
567 pages, $45.95
This selection covers articles from
the past forty years, mostly written
for the New York Times. For some
pieces Rockwell has added a preface,
calling Herbert von Karajan and
Morton Feldman in Heaven, from
1989, ‘maybe my favorite.’
Rockwell favours clarity and
pungency over wit or didacticism.
But he is a stylish writer. He has
John Rockwell holds a singular
position among music critics. As no axe to grind, beyond searching
out ‘intensity of feeling and pasone who aims to ‘blur the division’. He will even report the
sions’ between different art
enthusiasm of the audience at a
forms, he gets accused of being
concert he wasn’t crazy about, as
too egalitarian. Yet he also gets
called an elitist. In any case, this in his review of Astor Piazolla
from 1989.
selection from his critical writHe seems to be more interested
ings on classical music, pop,
in the art itself than the people who
rock, dance, theatre, art, film,
books and ‘all manner of indefin- make it. Writing about his experience in Friedelinde Wagner’s masable cross-genre performance’
terclass in Bayreuth in 1965, he
makes it clear that he is neither.
Rockwell wrote appreciatively surely could have come up with
about John Adams, Philip Glass, more details about this odd, fascinating woman herself. But he’s a
Peter Sellars, Mark Morris, and
trustworthy companion, and this
Robert Wilson long before they
collection offers a valuable look at
became icons. He saw the vital
importance of Shostakovich to 20th the culture of the times we have
recently lived through.
century music before it became
generally accepted. At the same
John Rockwell moderates a contime he was praising Linda Ron- versation with Philip Glass and
stadt, Meredith Monk and AnLeonard Cohen in Toronto, 2pm
drew Lloyd Webber. He treats
on June 2 in the Winter Garden
rock music as a profoundly sigTheatre.
nificant art form.
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EDITOR’S CORNER continued from page 10
to these exceptional works I was left hoping
that Esprit Orchestra and the TSO might
respectively give our local journeyman lowriders Scott Irvine (tuba) and Fraser
Jackson (contrabassoon) the opportunity to
rattle our sphincters. I know that Scott has
recently acquired (for the COC’s Ring
Cycle performances) just the right
instrument for the task, but the liner notes
tell us that the contrabassoon concerto
requires a very recently designed instrument that I’m not sure even
exists in Canada yet. It would be worth while to beg, borrow or steal
one to hear this piece live!
On a slightly different scale, but still not in the same league as the
majors like Sony/BMG or Universal Music, Supraphon (distributed by
Gillmore Music in Canada) is the only former Eastern Bloc music
publisher to have maintained a number one position in its domestic
market since the Fall of the Wall, and has continued to measure up
successfully in the ever more competitive international environment.
Interestingly, former CBC Records executive Jana Gonda now heads
this national label in her native Czech Republic, which she had originally
fled after the Soviet invasion in 1968. Supraphon’s extensive catalogue
includes a wealth of archival material, but also features many new
recordings by outstanding Czech artists, such as the Panocha Quartet.
Founded in 1968, the ensemble came to international attention as the
laureates of the 1975 Prague Spring International String Quartet
Competition. Since that time they have
been frequent visitors to Canada and the
USA and have performed extensively
throughout Europe and the Middle East.
Their discography for Supraphon
comprises eight CDs which include the
complete chamber works of Dvorak,
works by Smetana, Fibich and Schubert,
and most recently, string quartets by Josef
Suk and Maurice Ravel (SU-3955-2).
The lesser-known work by Suk holds its own in the illustrious company
of Ravel’s gem and is given a loving performance by the Panocha.
Composed a few years before the Ravel in 1896, Suk’s quartet shows
some of the same sensibilities – late Romantic bordering on
Impressionism – while acknowledging the influence of mentors Dvorak
(his father-in-law) and Brahms. The disc offers the option of selecting
an alternate finale movement composed in 1915, and the Meditation on
an Old Czech Hymn “St. Wenceslas”. For me the Ravel is always like
visiting an old friend and the Panocha give us as fine a performance as
we would hope for. Of particular note is the sprightly tempo in the
Assez vif second movement and the emotional tension of the Très lent
third. All in all this is a welcome addition to the catalogue. Concert
note: The Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music Society presents
Quebec City’s Cartier Quartet performing the Ravel as part of
QuartetFest on June 4.
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VOCAL AND OPERA
Handel – Tobit
Various Soloists; Junge Kantorei;
Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra;
Joachim Carlos Martini
Naxos 8.570112-14
The art of pasticcio, a sophisticated form of
compiling music, reached its peak in the eighteenth century. That is why we can enjoy this
oratorio, created probably in 1764, even though
Handel himself died in 1759… This recording features exquisite playing
and uniformly good singing, with a special mention to Stephan MacLeod
as Raguel and Toronto’s own Barbara Hannigan as Azarias (the archangel Raphael in disguise). Yet another superb recording from Naxos and a
most welcome change after a season filled with multiple performances of
Messiah. Tobit probably won’t replace it in the public’s affections, but it
deserves a good – and repeated – listening...
Robert Tomas
Concert note: Tafelmusik performs Handel’s oratorio Solomon May 10-13
with Michael Chance and Karina Gauvin.
Verdi - Otello
Gran Teatre del Liceu;
Antoni Ros-Marba; Willy Decker
OpusArte OA 0963D
Because of Wagner’s increasing influence and popularity, in 1871 Verdi, at the pinnacle of his career,
lost his self-confidence, regarded his own operas of
melodic set pieces outmoded and stopped writing any
new work for 15 years. During this time, however he
subconsciously absorbed some of the essence of Wagnerian music drama and with an enormous amount
of will power he produced Otello, perhaps his finest work. What is so great
about Otello, is how Verdi succeeded in infusing Italian melody into the turbulence of music drama, forming a unique and original masterpiece…
Janos Gardonyi
Concert note: The Canadian Opera Company presents Verdi’s Luisa
Miller May 3, 5, 9, 11 and La Traviata May 4 - 26.
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Menotti - Help, Help, the Globolinks!
Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra;
Matthias Kuntzsch; Gian Carlo Menotti
ArtHaus Musik 101 281
Help, help, I may never ever watch another opera
film in the same way again! Faceless tube-like space
aliens named Globolinks, accompanied by an unearthly electroacoustic soundtrack, primitive lighting and mirrored sets, arrive to conquer the world,
yet disappear upon hearing human music! A school
dean learns to sing! A frustrated music teacher gets
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to, sort of, run the show and save the world (with a little help from her fellow
teachers and students)! The formidable electroacoustic, instrumental and vocal score, libretto and direction of Gian Carlo Menotti! Yes, this is outrageous,
but it is opera after all…
Tiina Kiik
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Measha Brueggergosman; Orchestre
symphonique de Quebec; Yoav Talmi
CBC Records SMCD 5236
If you want to hear why Measha Brueggergosman has quickly become one of Canada’s
most exciting singers, look no further than this
recording of works of Berlioz and Massenet.
Recorded in 2004 but only recently released, it
finds the soprano in superb voice, singing repertoire which suits her perfectly. Berlioz’s song cycle Les Nuits d’été lies somewhere between the
soprano and mezzo range, and Brueggergosman’s voluptuous middle range
is heard to excellent effect here. She carefully balances the exuberance
of the first and last movements with the introverted, yearning qualities of
the inner ones. Yet she always pays careful attention to diction and the
text. Many singers have recorded these songs, and in a crowded field,
Brueggergosman’s sensitive readings stand up against the best…
Seth Estrin
The Berlin Concert - Live from the
“Waldbuhne”
Placido Domingo; Anna Netrebko;
Rolando Villazon
Orchestra of the Deutchen Oper, Berlin;
Marco Armiliato
Deutsche Grammophon DVD 073 4302
…Perhaps hoping to replicate the Three Tenors
phenomenon, Deutsche Grammophon has issued
an exceptional concert recorded live at the Berlin Waldbuhne on July 7, 2006 and I must say that
this is the most outstanding event of its kind ever made available on DVD.
The concert consists of songs, arias, duets, and trios of solidly popular
repertoire. Sometimes a soloist, or two or three, goes ‘over the top’ but
who would not be swept along by the sense of occasion…
Bruce Surtees
topher Jackson’s new album, “Rise, O my soul” restricts itself to verse
anthems of the Elizabethan period, composed between 1600 and 1640.
Jackson’s three-decade reign as a leading force in early Baroque choral/
organ music has culminated in a seamlessly curated anthology. The music
is peerlessly performed by the 16-voice Studio de Musique Ancienne de
Montréal (SMAM) accompanied deftly by the Consort Des Voix Humaines – a highly respected 5 viols and organ ensemble in its own right…
Heidi McKenzie
Music & Sweet Poetry Agree
Matthew White
Analekta AN 2 9918
The smooth liquid sound of Matthew White
brings a repertoire of 16th and 17th century
English music by, among others, Dowland,
Campion, Morley, Wilbye, Byrd, Locke and
Purcell. While much of this music is similar in
quality, the singing is sweet, sensitive, beautifully in tune, and born of innate musicality. Equally charming are the various combinations of recorders, viols, cornetti and sackbuts, accompanying and providing tonal variety. The brass are particularly articulate and
stylish, especially in Matthew Locke’s Suite in D minor…
Frank Nakashima
Mondonville - Pieces de Clavecin
avec voix ou violon, Op.5
Luc Beauséjour; Shannon Mercer;
Hélène Plouffe
Analekta AN 2 9920
This disc of sacred psalm texts and violin sonatas combines three of Québec’s biggest claims
to fame – Shannon Mercer, soprano; Luc
Beauséjour, harpsichord and Hélène Plouffe, violin. The three of them seem to work together with ease and companionship,
which makes the recording a pleasure to hear. Mondonville’s sacred works
are markedly exquisite and they paint a picture of the French Baroque that is
not soon to be forgotten. Beauséjour plays with his usual confidence and
assurance of style, which lends a feeling of accomplishment to every work…
Gabrielle McLaughlin
Carmen Unzipped
Jean Stilwell; Patti Loach
Independent
CLASSICAL AND BEYOND
Offenbach - Romantique
Canada’s most beloved and sexiest “Carmen”
Jerome Pernoo; Les Musiciens
has just released an album that, while includdu Louvre; Marc Minkowski
ing the most famous aria from Bizet’s opera
Archiv Produktion 4476403
(Habenera), focuses on non-operatic fare
which nonetheless retains a sense of that charThis recording should perhaps be renamed “The
acter’s unbridled “liberté”. For this album, folforgotten Offenbach” or even “Offenbach redislowing on the heels of sold-out “Unzipped” cabaret performances for
covered”. Anyone expecting delicious tidbits from
Tapestry New Opera Works at the Distillery District, the gypsy/mezzo
Offenbach’s famous operettas will be disappointJean Stilwell and pianist and famous Beaches ‘bluestocking’ Patti Loach
ed. Esteemed French conductor Marc Minkowski,
provide a travel map of adventure and misadventure in love…
who formed his Les Musiciens du Louvre period instrument ensemble in
Dianne Wells 1982 to perform Baroque and Classical repertoire, has branched out to
Concert note: Jean Stilwell is featured along with Patricia O’Callaghan embrace the Romantic era and one of his favourite composers, Offenand Theresa Tova in Tapestry’s “3 Divas” at the Distillery May 26-27. bach… The centerpiece is the premiere recording of the composer’s recently unearthed Cello Concerto “Militaire”, which took painstaking detective work to assemble by music historian Jean-Christophe Keck…
EARLY MUSIC AND PERIOD PERFORMANCE
Janos Gardonyi
Rise, O My Soul - English Anthems
Studio de musique ancienne de Montreal;
Consort des Voix humaines; Christopher
Jackson
ATMA ACD2 2506
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sung in the context of an Anglican service. ChrisM AY 1 - J UNE 7 2007
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Prokofiev - Debussy - Wagner
Marina Piccinini; Adreas Haefliger
Avie AV 2087
Opera Fantaisie
Leslie Newman; John Lenehan
Independent F-LN0601
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CLASSICAL AND BEYOND, continued
These two CDs, have much in common, both
featuring accomplished Canadian women flutists, and both making welcome contributions to
the flute discography: Leslie Newman’s gives
us faultless, perhaps even definitive, readings of
repertoire from the “golden age of the flute”, in
which the technical and expressive possibilities
of the then new Boehm flute were being explored and defined; Marina Piccinini’s gives us
brilliant renderings of two masterpieces of the
flute repertoire, the Prokofiev Flute Sonata and Debussy’s Syrinx, and a
transcription of a violin masterpiece, César Franck’s A-Minor Sonata…
Allan Pulker
Solo
Angèle Dubeau
Analekta AN 2 8741-2
This is an entire album of solo works as the cover title implies; Ms. Dubeau’s personal tribute to
her instrument, the violin. Recorded during the
summer of 2006 in the late 19th century Church
of the Annunciation in Oka, Quebec, the reverberant acoustic provides Dubeau’s “Des Rosiers” Stradivarius violin (1733)
with a sonic partner supporting her well-spoken musical statements…
Frank Nakashima
Beethoven - Piano Sonata No.32 in
C minor, Op.111; Six Bagatelles Op.126;
An die ferne Geliebte, Op.98
Boris Zarankin; Giles Tomkins
DOREMI DDR-71151
Pianist Boris Zarankin is a regular performer
on the Toronto music scene, including appearances with the TSO as guest soloist. He is
also well known to music lovers who frequent
our smaller sized venues. These are the denizens of the Glenn Gould
Studio and the St Lawrence Hall and even more intimate rooms where
various committed entrepreneurial groups present salon-sized recitals and
events. Zarankin must also be a most inspiring teacher because this recording is the direct result his playing before a gathering in his home of
the Ajax-Pickering Branch of the Ontario Registered Music Teacher’s
Association. So impressed were these professionals that they wanted to
make a recording to share their enthusiasm…
Bruce Surtees
Brahms
Roberto Plano
Arktos 200691 CD
Schubert; Godowski
Xiang Zou
Arktos 200692 CD
Last October, I had the pleasure of serving on
the jury for the Fifth Honens International Piano Competition. Founded in Calgary in 1991,
the Honens is one of the world’s great music
competitions. Every three years pianists from
all parts of the globe compete for cash prizes
and an even more lucrative Artistic and Career
Development Program to launch and sustain
their careers. Honens seeks to discover “Complete Artists – musicians who add knowledge,
audacity, risk, individuality and the widest perspective to all they create or perform”. In addition to generous cash awards,
the Honens Foundation manages the careers of the top three Laureates of
each competition for three years, and produces CD recordings for these emerging artists on the Arktos label. Robert Plano and Xiang Zou were two of the
laureates of the Fourth Honens Competition in 2003…
Jamie Parker
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Editor’s Note: You can read about the third 2003 Honens Laureate Winston
Choi’s Arktos CD in the Editor’s Corner of our October 2006 issue, available
on-line at www.thewholenote.com.
Concert note: Reviewer Jamie Parker joins the Tokyo String Quartet in
Schumann’s Piano Quintet at Music Toronto on May 10.
Mozart - Cosi (un opera muet)
Pentaèdre
ATMA ACD22545
The idea of recording an opera without any
words might at first seem to be a contradiction in terms, but this disc by Pentaèdre, one of
Canada’s finest and long-lived woodwind quintets, proves that the drama of Mozart’s music
transcends any constraints of language or instrumentation. This project is the audible half of a collaboration between
Pentaèdre and a mime troupe called Omnibus. The dramatic framework
of Così fan tutte is maintained by the actions and expressions of the
mimes, who are joined on stage by the musicians (liberated from the orchestra pit), and the whole becomes a new kind of theatrical experience…
Colin Savage
Schumann - Symphonies 2 & 4
Gewandhaus Orchester; Ricardo Chailly
Decca 475 8352
Robert Schumann occupies a special place in
German music that continues to resonate to
this day as evidenced by the frequent allusions
to his music in contemporary compositions by
Kurtag, Widmann, Lachenmann and Holliger.
Gustav Mahler was also among the composer’s great admirers and often performed his symphonies in the later stages of his conducting career. To this purpose he prepared special editions
for his personal use. This recording is based on these editions…
Daniel Foley
Schumann - The Sonatas for
Violin and Piano
Jennifer Koh; Reiko Uchida
Cedille CDR 90000 095
The American violinist Jennifer Koh won the
1994 Tchaikovsky Competition, and now has
an impressive list of eight intelligently-programmed CDs to her credit, this being her
fourth for the Chicago-based independent label Cedille Records. If you know the Schumann violin sonatas at all, chances are you’re more familiar with the A minor Op.105 than the D minor
Op.121. The little-known and seldom-played third sonata in A minor,
WoO.27, however, is in some respects the more interesting…
Terry Robbins
Concertos for 1 and 2 Harps
Emmanuel Ceysson; Xavier de Maistre
Claves 50-2607
Is it owing to the harp’s delicate sound that
composers have tended to shy away from producing concertos for this “instrument of
kings”? In any event, among those who did
rise to the challenge were Carl Reinecke, Albert Zabel, and Elias Parish-Alvars, three 19thcentury composers featured on this Claves recording with French harpists Emmanuel Ceysson and Xavier de Maistre along with the RheinlandPflaz State Philarmonic under the direction of Hannu Lintu. Both soloists
studied in France (Ceysson at the prestigious Paris Conservatoire) and
both have been recent prize-winners in international competitions…
Richard Haskell
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Monumental Works for Winds
United States Marine Band
Naxos 8570243
Collage
Peabody Conservatory Wind Ensemble
Naxos 8570403
“The President’s Own” United States Marine
Band, is the oldest, finest and most prestigious
band in America. It was founded by decree in
Congress in 1798 and counts among its past directors the great John Philip Sousa. Naxos, as
part of its new series of Wind Band Classics, has
culled only the finest, studio quality recordings
from the USMB’s extensive public archives,
making this music globally available outside the
federally mandated confines of American nursing homes and elementary schools… The young
musicians of the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore are featured in the aptly-named “Collage”, a hodgepodge of wildly uneven pieces from the weedier patches of the wind band garden…
Daniel Foley
MODERN & CONTEMPORARY
Hammer & Wind Chamber Music of Leonard Enns
Various Artists
Independent MMCD 0701 (www.lenns.ca)
…Enns is a prolific composer, collaborator and
supporter of musicians in South-western Ontario.
The featured performers - pianist Catherine Robertson, soprano Stephanie Kramer, tenor saxophonist Willem Moolenbeek and string bassist
George Greer - all also teach with Professor Enns at Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo while pianist Boyd McDonald is Professor Emeritus at Wilfrid Laurier University. As to be expected, their
performances are excellent. The highlight for me is the title track, Hammer and Wind, a commission from Willem Moolenbeek premiered at the
World Saxophone Congress in Montreal in March 2000…
Tiina Kiik
Christos Hatzis - Dancing in the Light
Rivka Golani; Beverley Johnston; Suzanne
Lemieux; Symphony Nova Scotia; Bernhard
Gueller
Since hearing Eroticos Logos by Hatzis in the
mid-90’s, I have fallen in love with this composer’s ability to blend the traditional and the modern, the harmonic and the discordant, the melodic and the atonal. In fact, I
consider him one of the most melodic of modern composers. And it’s not
because melodies dominate his music - even though Love Among the Ruins,
his response to 9/11, features some neo-romantic flourishes á la Rachmaninoff.
It is more because melody appears in his scores, even amid cacophony, like a
flower blooming through a crack in concrete. In Hatzis’ music, the instruments sing, even when the song is a cry of anguish…
Robert Tomas
Concert note: Marimba soloist Beverley Johnston is one of the featured
artists during Soundstreams Canada’s “Cool Drummings” festival May
22-27.
Over his career, Claudio Parodi played everything from piano, clarinet,
electronics and tape. Through the years, he played, collaborated and recorded with everyone from Giuseppe Ielasi, Carla Bozulich, Barre Phillips, Le Quan Ninh to Nels Cline…
Tom Sekowski
JAZZ
One Hot Summer Night (Live at the Regent Theatre)
Brian Barlow
Rhythm Tracks RTCD0009
Southern Ontario’s jazz festival scene has been
enriched over the last half decade by Picton’s
“Prince Edward County Jazz Festival”. Drummer/percussionist Brian Barlow, a fixture on the
Toronto scene, lives in The County, and is the
festival’s creative director. He’s brought his wide understanding of the music
business to the task, presenting a wide range of solid jazz, appealing to fans
and casual listeners alike. For this concert last August, Barlow did it all: wrote
the fresh arrangements and led the band from the drum chair, and welcomed
guest artists Melissa Stylianou and Guido Basso to the stage. He just didn’t
know that the concert was being recorded. That turned out to be a good thing,
as no one felt any pressure to “perform”, they just performed…
Ted O’Reilly
The Melody Lingers On
Mike Murley; Tara Davidson; Guido
Basso; Red Schwager; Steve Wallace
CBC Records TRCD 3017
These performances were recorded at Glenn
Gould Studio in Toronto in February of last
year. The core group is the trio of Murley,
Schwager and Wallace, although they only
play The Shadow Of Your Smile as a trio.
For the rest of the CD Tara Davidson and Guido Basso are heavily featured, and nine of the twelve selections are sweetened by the addition of
a string section under the direction of Rick Wilkins.
There are three Murley originals and a rich selection of standards, show
tunes and Hollywood themes…
Jim Galloway
Hoarded Dreams
Graham Collier
Cuniform (www.cuneinformrecords.com)
One of the most notable of masterful British
composer Graham Collier’s orchestral suites,
Hoarded Dreams, is preserved here in its never-before-available premiere performance by
an all-star, 19-piece big band at the 1983
Bracknell Jazz Festival. Commissioned by the
British Arts Council, Collier ’s 70-minute, seven-part work slithers between compositions and improvisation. Additionally, the interplay among
the individualistic players transforms the layered creation as they interpret its multi-faceted contours. On hand are distinctive international jazzmen in full partnership with top-flight soloists from the United Kingdom…
Ken Waxman
Horizontal Mover (homage to Alvin Lucier)
Claudio Parodi
Extreme Records (www.xtr.com)
Kansas City Sounds
Bob Brookmeyer Septet & Octet
Fresh Sound FSRCD430
Lucky Thompson meets Oscar Pettiford
with Hank Jones; Jimmy Cleveland
Fresh Sound FSRCD424
Four classic 1950s albums make a welcome reIt’s great to see one of the world’s leading exappearance here. Kansas City Sounds has both
perimental music labels back in full swing. Afof
Bob
Brookmeyer’s
joyous
1958 United Artists LPs, “Kansas City Revisitter a long hiatus, for its inaugural release, Australian Extreme Records has chosen a new re- ed” and “Stretching Out”, while “Lucky Thompson Meets Oscar Pettiford”
cording from an Italian multi-instrumentalist. collates all the music originally issued on a pair of LPs by ABC-Paramount in
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1956. The Brookmeyer dates reflect the valve
trombonist’s Kansas City heritage - he grew up
with the musical legacy of the great K.C. jazzmen ringing in his ears… The Thompson-Pettiford is a desert island disc that should never be
out of the catalogue. The music captured at these
sessions displays jazz at its peak. Tenor saxophonist Lucky Thompson and virtuoso bassist
Oscar Pettiford were probably never heard to
better advantage than here…
Don Brown
Cocktails For Two
Joe Temperley; Harry Allen
Sackville SKCD2-3071
…Recorded at a specially organized bonus event
during Sunnie Sutton’s Rocky Mountain Jazz
Party in Denver, “Cocktails For Two” presents
the soulful baritone sax of Joe Temperley (he
turned 77 a week before the session) and the
singular tenor of 40 year old Harry Allen, with a wonderfully supportive
rhythm section of the elegant pianist John Bunch, solid Greg Cohen on
bass and the irrepressible Jake Hanna on drums. These great players
often cross paths at similar jazz party events, and that comfort level allows them to pick up their horns and cruise through a session of standards like this one. While mostly the full quintet, they mix it up a bit with a
trio feature for Bunch/Cohen/Hanna, the gently swinging My Romance;
Allen’s ballad feature Everything Happens To Me ; and a pretty one for
Temperley, Polka Dots and Moonbeams…
Ted O’Reilly
Back_Forward
Heribert Friedl
Non Visual Objects
(www.nonvisualobjects.com)
Trans~
Bernard Gunter; Heribert Friedl
Non Visual Objects
(www.nonvisualobjects.com)
With “Back_Forward”, Heribert Friedl has created a CD based solely on recordings of the hackbrett (cimbalom). A co-founder of the Vienna
based Non Visual Objects label, Friedl states “The
tracks should show the changes of concrete
sounds into abstraction, without losing the soul
of the sound itself. On “Back_Forward” musical movement happens in a clearly defined space.
Even though the initial point and the endpoint are
never the same, the path between is always equal.”… With his musical partner, Bernhard Gunter, on “Trans~” Friedl unravels a mysterious, eerie side....
Tom Sekowski
Stuart McLean’s History of Canada I Remember Wayne
Stuart McLean; CBC Radio Orchestra;
Mario Bernardi
…Stuart McLean’s “History of Canada” consists of two humorous works for narrator and
orchestra. Stuart McLean is his vintage self,
with delightful dead-pan irony in every line.
Stengam
His irreverent view of Canada’s history is very entertaining, and can be
Cor Fuhler
appreciated by those who are historically knowledgeable and those less
Potlatch P206 (www.vergemusic.com)
so. In fact, if one were completely ignorant of our national past, much is
Best described as a reductionist nocturne, “Sten- there to be learned from this thirty-four minute production…
John S. Gray
gam”, a solo piano outing, is more hypnotic than
harmonic. Featuring one continuous 20-minute
Song of the Lodz Ghetto
performance, plus two shorter introductory
Brave Old World
tracks, the CD highlights the talents of Dutch keyWinter & Winter (www .winterand winter.com)
boardist Cor Fuhler who uses such stimulators
as e-bows and magnets to transform the sound of an acoustic grand piano
Described as a musical performance piece,
as if electronic add-ons are altering its function. Without overdubbing, yet
“Song of the Lodz Ghetto” is a musical depicin full control of the instrument’s keyboard, strings and soundboard, Fuhtion of life in one of the largest ghettos in Poler ’s internal action include buzzy scratches with affiliated resonations so
land during the Second World War. Drawing
that each string’s overtone reflects back on the externally sounded note…
on ethnographic recordings of survivors made
Ken Waxman
by Israeli ethnomusicologist Gila Flam in the
1980’s, Brave Old World weaves together a
Concert note: Cor Fuhler’s Corkestra is featured in the Jazz Avant series
tableau of contiguous sound (each track segues into the next, sometimes
presented by the Music Gallery and Rough Idea on May 15.
with instrumental interludes), made up of songs composed in the Lodz
ghetto in the 1940’s as well as original pieces in the same style…
POT POURRI
Karen Ages
Gamelan from Central Java
Various Artists
ARC Music EUCD 1902
Clara Rockmore’s Lost Theremin Album
Clara Rockmore; Nadia Reisenberg
Bridge Records BRIDGE 9208
If you were to walk into a room with this CD
playing, not knowing what it was, you might
do an auditory double take - is that a human
voice, or a violin or cello with very extended
range, you might wonder? You’d be wrong on
all counts. One of the earliest electronic instruments, the Theremin, operating on the principle of valve oscillators
and ether waves, is essentially a wooden box with a number of knobs, and
two antennae to control pitch and volume by waving ones hands around
them. Clara Rockmore (born Clara Reisenberg in 1911 in Vilnius, Lithuania), was America’s greatest virtuoso on the instrument, and even helped
in its development, with inventor Leon Theremin. She in fact credits Mr.
Theremin with saving her “musical sanity”, as she had been an accomplished violinist before having to give it up due to physical problems…
Karen Ages
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Produced by Italian gamelan activist and archivist Giovanni Sciarrino this is an idiosyncratic introductory survey of the Javanese
gamelan, a type of orchestra with roots around
the late 16th century closely entwined with the
history of Indonesia. The tracks here were recorded in Java and also in the gamelan diaspora - Italy and England.
Starting our journey is one of the most ancient Javanese gamelan pieces,
Gendhing Munggang. This 3-tone melody, played on a sacred gamelan
from the court of the Sultan of Surakarta, was recorded in situ at the
Sekaten, an Islamic religious festival, as was Gendhing Sekaten, performed by gamelan Kyai Guntur Sari (Venerable Essence of Thunder), its
personal name suggesting connections to powerful forces of nature…
Andrew Timar
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DISCS OF THE MONTH
Ten Planets
Richard Sacks
Artifact Music ART-037
Selections from the 2006 National Tour
National Youth Orchestra of Canada;
Jacques LacombeIndependent
NYOC2 (www.nyoc.org)
I will try to avoid every cliché about the
NYOC here: this orchestra holds its own
alongside major professional orchestras, and
will be judged by that standard. The new CD
is an ambitious double-disc release,
containing something over 115 minutes of
excellent performances.
Leading off with Shostakovich’s 1st is a bold
stroke, and it certainly pays off: the orchestra’s
dynamic range is immense (careful, headphone
users!) and the players truly are in top form.
Debussy’s La Mer then follows, with such
accuracy and a real sense of the 1905 period,
that I’m afraid that I’ll be ignoring my favorite
Simon Rattle for some time to come. Who can
best the NYOC’s rendition of Chant de Rossignol
by Stravinsky? This 1914 tone poem is
challenging enough for big European
orchestras, yet these musicians make it sound
totally effortless. And they give us a finish of
great strength with Don Quixote by Strauss.
Conductor Jacques Lacombe deserves
accolades for his work on this CD.
The tracks were recorded over two days in
July 2006 in McGill’s legendary Pollack Hall.
Engineer Kevin Tighe and Producers Julian
Jeun and Georges-Etienne D’Entremont have
worked miracles with their microphones and
recorders. The photographers have even
included some monochrome action shots, but
the players are in their best duds, and so,
presumably, not captured during these sessions.
Unreservedly recommended.
John S. Gray
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This remarkable CD is quite
simply a tour de force of
musical creativity, with a
brilliantly paced program of Canadian
masterpieces played by the gifted percussionistcomposer Richard Sacks.
The disc opens and closes with Michael J.
Baker’s The Waldo, an extraordinary work for
marimba performed in its fraternal-twin
incarnations as both an acoustic and acoustic/
electronic piece. Baker’s grace of musical
gesture and senses of spaciousness and humour
are all beautifully in evidence here. Rodney
Sharman’s Apollo’s Torch for vibraphone is
exquisitely expressive, as are Barbara Monk
Feldman’s Verses for Vibraphone and
Glockenspiel, the latter of which in particular
has a pungent yet reflective ‘Zen’ flavour. The
richly varied sound worlds of James Tenney’s
Maximusic, and Sacks’s own Ten Planets with
its rich multiplicity of textures and rhythms,
make for the more high-octane expressions on
this disc. And every piece receives a
remarkable performance from Sacks, who
plays with great musical insight and sensitivity
as well as obvious technical virtuosity.
Sacks suggests listening to his disc in one sitting
– surprising, perhaps, in this world of i-Pod
snippet taking – but he rewards you richly for
so doing. Besides the virtuosity and
expressiveness, there’s a subtle yet distinctively
reflective quality to this disc which I very much
appreciated. Try it, you’ll like it.
Alison Melville
Concert Note: Rick Sacks is a long-time
member of Arraymusic whose “Array Legacy”
concert features music of Michael J. Baker and
other past Arraymusic directors at York
University’s Accolade Centre on May 19 th.
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FINE OLD RECORDINGS RE-RELEASED
For many, Bernard
Haitink’s Concertgebouw
(1962-1971) cycle of the
Mahler symphonies was
their introduction to these incomparable works. In the
early nineties when Philips
let loose most of their prized
artists and orchestras, they
were past the half-way
mark in a new Mahler/Haitink cycle with the postKarajan Berlin Philharmonic released on laser disc during 1992-1994. Philips returns them
to us on three DVDs with 1 & 2 together on
074 3131; 3 on 074 3132; and 4 & 7 on 074
3133. A 5th from the same series has never made
it to video. How different these performances
are from the Bernstein/Vienna complete cycle
as seen on the complete cycle from DG. The
patrician Haitink is no lesser a Mahler interpreter than the flamboyant Bernstein who unashamedly wears his heart on his sleeve. Both men
are intensely committed and get exactly what
they want from the players. Whereas Bernstein
really gets wrapped up in the scores and their
implications, Haitink is nowhere near as subjective which enables him to live not for the moment but keep some objectivity. I don’t believe
that one is better than the other but, in their way
I find them equally convincing. The video aspect is 4:3 on both but the sound is better on the
Haitink which postdates the Bernstein by up to
20 years.
RCA has issued five more SACD versions from
their Living Ster eo editions. Welcome are two
more from Fritz Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony; Don Quixote (Antonio Janigro,
cello) and Don Juan (88697-04604-2), and
“Spain” which comprises suites from Falla’s El
Amor Brujo (Leontyne Price), The Three-Cornered Hat and La vida breve , plus works by
Albeniz and Granados (88697-04607-2). Julian Bream plays “Popular Classics for Spanish Guitar” recorded in 1962 (88697-046062). Charles Munch and The Boston Symphony add Schubert’s 8th and 9th symphonies to their
catalogue of SACDs (88697-04603-2) and finally Heifetz in an album of Double Concertos
including Bach’s BWV1043 for two violins (Erick
Friedman), Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante K.364
(William Primrose, viola) and Brahms Double (Piatigorsky with Wallenstein conducting) (8869704605-2). Although each one is well worth having, I was disappointed in the brilliant but detached playing in the Brahms, demonstrating that
technique isn’t everything.
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Possibly no recorded
performance has attracted more international attention and
seen so many re-issues as
Glenn
Gould’s 1955 Goldberg Variations .
Here is one with a difference… a very big difference! On May 29th,
Sony will issue a 2006 “re-performance of the
1955 Goldberg Variations played by Glenn
Gould” (SACD hybrid 88697-03350-2).
Zenph Studios, a music-technology company in
Raleigh, North Carolina has developed a “ground
breaking” process. “Their process analyses a recorded piano performance and separates its musical attributes (pitch and duration of notes, velocity of key strikes, key releases, and so on)
from the surrounding noise, then encodes those
attributes digitally to allow the performance to
be replayed on a high-resolution computer-controlled piano like the Pro.” The Pro being “a ninefoot Yamaha Disklavier Pro grand piano, drawing on high-definition MIDI files, that can reproduce a digitally encoded performance with eight
times the precision of the ordinary Disklavier
marketed for home use.” So now you know that
a re-performance is “not a re-mastering or restoration of a recording, but a re-creation of the
original performance behind the recording.” This
Bruce Surtees
Editor’s note: Although Mr. Surtees was hesitant to “state the obvious” regarding Glenn
Gould’s notorious vocalizations, at my request he
provided the following addendum: Here is the
way Gould heard Bach in 1955 now without his
vocal embellishments. Presumably spontaneous,
he may have needed them to maintain coherence and line to his instrument. Does it add to or
detract from the instrument? If one feels it to be
an integral ingredient then this “re-performance”
can only be, at best, a suggestion of the original.
Personally, I find it quite illuminating.
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particular “performance” took place, very appropriately, in the CBC’s Glenn Gould Studio last
September. Needless to say, the sound on this
new disc is vastly superior and very much more
comfortable upon the ear than the 1955 mono
recording. A not-for-sale demonstration disc includes two different samples for comparison with
the original in the right channel and the Zenph
recording in the left. A few of us listening critically were able to detect no significant difference in any aspect between the old and the new.
So, on May 29th you might just hustle into your
local record store and be the first one on your
street to own the Glenn Gould 1955 performance in SACD surround sound. Oh yes, there is
a second version on the disc in binaural stereo. I
understand that Sony has undertaken to issue
more “re-performances” of different artists. I
wonder what Zenph can do with that famous
cylinder of Johannes Brahms playing.
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Saturday, May 5, 7:30 p.m.
William Wright - organ
Deer Park United Church
129 St. Clair Avenue W., (west of Yonge St.,
near Avenue Rd.)
Monday, May 7, 8:00 p.m.
Simon Gledhill
Casa Loma
One Austin Terrace (north of Dupont
subway station)
Wednesday, May 9, 6:00-6:30 p.m.
Michael Barth - trumpet
Andrei Streliaev - organ
St. Andrew’s Lutheran Latvian Church
383 Jarvis St. (corner of Carlton & Jarvis,
3 blocks east of Yonge)
Wednesday, May 16, 6:00-6:30 p.m.
Thomas Fitches - organ
St. Andrew's Lutheran Latvian Church
Wednesday, May 23, 6:00-6:30 p.m.,
Robert Hall - piano, William O'Meara - organ,
John Ford - narrator
St. Andrew’s Lutheran Latvian Church
Saturday, May 26, 10 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.,
Show and Tell
Deer Park United Church
129 St. Clair Ave. W., (west of Yonge St.,
near Avenue Rd.)
Friday, June 1, 7:30 p.m.
Finale Concert - Choir & Organ
Rachel Laurin - organ
The Senior Choir of St. Michael's Choir School
Jerzy Cichocki - conductor
St. James' Cathedral
Corner of King & Church Streets
(3 blocks east of Yonge St.)
On truncated reviews and downtown biases
I really don’t think the publishers have
given any thought to the readers. Whether the
record companies buy ads or not, I believe
most readers still expect to find reviews of the
latest releases in the magazine. I know that’s
my main reason for going out of my way to
pick up a copy. At the beginning of every
month I grab the new issue at the World’s
Biggest Bookstore, scan the reviews to find
out what’s new, then head over to HMV to see
if they’re in stock. The idea of having to go on
line to read the reviews is simply absurd!
Len
Some friends and I were discussing it the
other day and we all felt that fewer reviews
(even slightly longer) but complete reviews is
much better than the current idea of many
“snippets” (especially if they are only printed
in part).
Annette
And a second bogey (Toronto-centrism)
reared its hoar y head, but this time from a
source far less remote than usual:
I am writing to express my profound
displeasure with comments about York
University in the opening paragraphs of your
QuodLibet column in the March issue. You
mention there are many interesting recitals
taking place at York – and then in the next
breath, you actively dissuade people from
attending. This is an astonishing approach for a
publication that purports to support and reflect
the live music scene. If WholeNote’s mission
is to promote music events in the GTA and
beyond, you have done not only York but also
your readership a great disservice. The
reasons you give for your “thumbs down” –
geography and parking costs – are, I submit,
specious. You say that the trip to York is
“prohibitively long”. (Yet, in the preceding
sentence you mention concerts at Wilfrid
Laurier and Queen’s University. On my
map, the distance to Kitchener-Waterloo or
Kingston is considerably greater than the
trek from Bathurst and Bloor to North York.)
You are writing from a clearly
“downtown-centric” point of view – one
that seems counter-intuitive for a magazine
whose primary distribution area, according to
your marketing material, includes Port Perry,
Keswick, Orangeville and Brantford, and
whose pages feature many events listings
as well as advertisers outside the 416 area
code. In fact York University is readily
accessible, both by car and transit, for a very
large segment of the Toronto population –
not to mention the million+ residents in the
burgeoning 905 region in our backyard. For
those audiences, our location is far more
convenient than Roy Thomson Hall, Walter
Hall, Harbourfront or the Four Seasons
Centre for the Performing Arts.
Parking charges are of course a favourite
complaint of all Torontonians, including
myself. However, having attended a meeting
at the University of Toronto this week, I can
confirm that York’s parking fees are in fact a
little lower than U of T’s (and our parking is
much easier to find).
But the main and most worrisome point is
why you would use either of these issues to
discourage music lovers from coming out to
enjoy our concerts. We offered more than
three dozen events to your readership last
month. It is incomprehensible to me why you
would want to undermine the value of your
own publication and the efforts we at York
are making to build and support musical
culture and community.
Phillip Silver
Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts, York
Have your say by e-mailing [email protected]
or by mail to WholeNote Back Beat, 503-720 Bathurst Street, Toronto ON M5S 2R4
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THE Summer Classical Music Festival in Canada – in Joliette, 30 minutes from Montreal
A FEW HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 30th ANNIVERSARY SEASON
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TCHAIKOWSKY: 1812 Overture
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FRIDAY, JULY 13, 2007 AT 8 P.M.
Celebrated pianist Alain Lefèvre plays
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May 30-June 3
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