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Friday, November 23, 2007 8:00 P.M.
Dione Taylor – A Little Respect
With special guests
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Sharon Riley and The Faith Chorale
One of Canada’s most intriguing R&B and
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Aretha Franklin, the “Queen Of Soul.” Dione and
a star-studded group of musicians will trace
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November 1 & 3 at 8pm
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Roxana Constantinescu, contralto
Lothar Odinius, tenor
Nathan Berg & Klaus Haeger, basses
University of Toronto Bach Festival Singers
November 6 at 8pm
November 7 at 2 & 8pm
Jack Everly, conductor
Stewart Goodyear, piano
Judy McLane, soprano
Programme includes Rhapsody in Blue,
They Can't Take That Away From Me,
and Someone to Watch Over Me.
November 8 at 8pm
Peter Oundjian, conductor
Anton Kuerti, piano
Joan Tower: Fourth Fanfare for the
Uncommon Woman
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, "Emperor"
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4
Oundjian & Ehnes
November 28 at 8pm
November 29 at 2pm
Alisa Weilerstein, cello
Andrew Burashko, piano
Mozart: Symphony No. 38 "Prague"
° Concerto for 2 String Orchestras,
Martinu:
Piano and Timpani
Dvořák: Cello Concerto
Chopin Piano Concerto
November 10 at 7:30pm
November 11 at 3pm
Rozalyn Chok, piano
Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra
Elgar: "Nimrod" from Enigma Variations
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1
Mussorgsky arr. Ravel: Pictures at
an Exhibition
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November 17 at 7:30pm
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For Openers: Messiahs, new Mallet(t)s, and old Mad Kings
COVER STORY: Anton Kuerti David Perlman
Feature: Angèle Dubeau mJ Buell
DISCoveries: Thoroughly modern Monteverdi Phil Ehrensaft
BEAT BY BEAT (The Live Music Scene)
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Quodlibet Allan Pulker
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World View Karen Ages
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Early Music Frank Nakashima
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Choral Scene Allan Pulker
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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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On Opera Christopher Hoile
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MUSICAL LIFE (2)
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How I met my teacher -- remembering Donna Wood
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BookShelf Pamela Margles
DEBUSSY • La Mer & Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
MERCURE • Kaléidoscope
BRITTEN • Four Sea Interludes
BACKBEAT: readers reply
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Musical Pursuits; Listings Avant; Getting with the Programme
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OPENERS
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Of many Messiahs, new Malletts,
old Mad Kings, and more
Mad King
One of the particular pleasures of swimming in the WholeNote
concert listings stream for as long as I have, is you start picking up
resonances from concert seasons long hidden in the mists of time.
Take Summer Opera Lyric Theatre’s Nov 23 presentation of Eight
Songs for a Mad King by Peter Maxwell Davies, celebrating 100
years of the Department of Psychiatry (U of T). Who but a
WholeNote listings junkie (and an insider at that!) would remember
that very same piece featured in the very first issue of this
publication as the very first production of a brand new opera
company called Queen of Puddings.
Never willing to let any show see the light of day before its time,
Q.o.P. co-directors Dairine Ni Mheadhra and John Hess will
sometimes wait years for a show to ripen, before unleashing,
apparently out of nowhere, a Beatrice Chancey or Midnight Court.
So it’s fun to notice that in the selfsame month as Maxwell Davies’
mad old king is re-rearing his head, Queen of Puddings will be giving
us a glimpse of not one but two new shows: Ana Sokolovic’s Six
Voices for Sirens; and James Rolfe’s Fire. (Nov 7, Richard
Bradshaw Amphitheatre Vocal Series)
Note, too, that it is the level of detail in the listings in question that
makes this delightful bit of associative thinking possible. As reader
Arthur Holland observes (see BackBeat, page 62) there’s a
difference between a good listing and a bad one.
New Mallett
Thinking back to those early days of WholeNote (Pulse as it was then
called) it’s easy to fall into the trap of seeing the city’s significant
presenters as having evolved in the same time frame as our own
magazine - Queen of Puddings, OffCentre Music Salons, even the
Gryphon Trio all fit the bill. But it’s also true that some of the major
players in today’s scene were already major players before we
existed: Jeanne Lamon’s Tafelmusik; Bob Aitken’s New Music
Concerts, Alex Pauk’s Esprit Orchestra, to name but three..
It’s actually Alex Pauk and Esprit that have got me thinking along
these lines, because I attended a week or so ago at the Jane Mallett
Theatre as Pauk received the Molson Award, the Canada Council’s
richest prize. At some moment during the breezy concert that
encapsulated the award ceremony, I found myself looking round at
the Jane Mallett thinking, “gee I had forgotten how much I like this
place.” Then and only then I remembered that the whole building had
just undergone a renovation. I’d call that a success - fixing things up
so your audience feels right at home, only more so.
Many Messiahs
It’s too early to tell whether the seasonal flood of productions of
Handel’s Messiah has abated this year, but I’m guessing it has,
somewhat. I count only eight between now and December 7, which is
where this month’s listings end. Right now, as I say, my money
would be on last year once all the December listings are in.
... And more
Speaking of December’s listings reminds me to remind you -- next
issue is a DOUBLE ISSUE (December/January combined). So
January listings will need to be in by November 15 -- a whole lot
earlier than usual - in order to avoid disappointment.
David Perlman, editor
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COVER STORY
Anton Kuerti: Toronto
INTERVIEWED BY
David Perlman: Were we to take a purely Toronto-centric approach to
things (heaven forbid), then the “beginning” of the Anton Kuerti story
would be the moment when, unheralded and unknown, you stepped into
the breach at the last minute to replace Dame Myra Hess with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in 1961. Does that event even stand out as a
particular landmark any more, either in terms of your relationship
with this city, or the twists and turns of your musical life?
DAVID PERLMAN
Women’s Musical Club’s concerts are, of course, in Walter Hall now,
where Mooredale Concerts has been these many years. I am hoping you
will talk about Moore-dale Concerts in this time of intense transition.
PHOTO MARTIN TOSOIAN
Mooredale Concerts was entirely the brainchild and the passion of my
beloved Kristine Bogyo, and though I sometimes gave advice it was not
always taken, and I only participated occasionally. It will change now,
as she played in most of the concerts herself. As
Anton Kuerti:Yes indeed! I had just been in
Erika Raum, among others, said, “Kristine
Toronto to play with the CBC Orchestra, conalways played soulfully” and the finest musiducted by Ettore Mazzoleni, Brahms D minor
cians were always happy to come back again and
Concerto, I believe, and returned to Cleveland
again. She went through the repertoire very
where I was living; I had hardly been home for
comprehensively, including rare pieces like the
more than a few hours when I was called by the
Bruckner Quintet. There was ample rehearsal
TSO to see if I could come right back to play
time, she did not believe in throwing things toBeethoven’s Concerto #4. I had not played it for
gether overnight as happens at many festivals.
several years, but I agreed, and practised nonOne of the most outstanding performances was
stop to get it back into my head and fingers. I am
of the extremely difficult Kodaly Duo, with
sure this concert was a key catalyst in my getting
Erika Raum, which we may eventually release
offered the position at the U. of T. [Pianist in
on a CD.
residence, then an associate prof.]
Mooredale used mainly local musicians, and
Your upcoming recital with the Women’s Musical
gave opportunities to countless young artists, such
Club of Toronto (Nov 15 with Teng Li) is one reason
stars as Russell Braun, Measha BrueggergosI wanted to do this story now. It’s your fourth
man, Isabel Bayrakdarian, Stewart Goodyear,
WMCT recital, the others being ’63, ’65 and ’69.
long before they became famous. This will
Out of curiosity I looked up the first one [in Hanna
continue, as will the modest admission prices.
and Fred Feuerriegel’s “History of Concerts and
I am only disappointed that the newspapers
Performances of the WMCT”]. It was another cangive us so little coverage; over the hundred or
so concerts Mooredale has presented over the years, I don’t think we
cellation with Anton Kuerti to the rescue. In this case it was Peter Serkin,
have had more than 3 or 4 reviews in the major dailies, though we have
son of your own teacher. In any case, I didn’t know if it’s ridiculous to
always presented very special repertoire and wonderful artists. At the
ask if you remember what you played, so I looked it up. It was Brahms:
next concert Nov. 24 and 25 the Tokai Quartet gives the first Toronto
Intermezzi (op 119/1,2,3,4); Beethoven: Sonata #6 (op 10/2): Hindemith:
performance of the great Quartet in E minor by Carl Czerny, which is in
Sonata #3 (Bb); and Schumann: Carnaval (Op 9). Does anything strike
my opinion a true masterpiece, plus a wonderful quartet for clarinet and
you about it?
strings... . It would seem that something like this would deserve some
I would not have remembered the repertoire of that concert without your attention, but then I guess the informal atmosphere and the low prices
help! And I am astonished to see that the Beethoven Op. 10 No. 2 Sonata have made critics scornfully dismiss the series as a “Ma and Pa” venture, as Tamara Bernstein so crudely put it once.
was on the program, as it will be again in the up-coming concert; pure
coincidence! I do not think I would start a recital now with Brahms Op.
The Syrinx Chamber series takes as a thematic through-line the work of
119, and I have not played the Hindemith for years, though I do like it
one Canadian composer—in previous years, Srul Irving Glick, Oskar
very much and think that Hindemith is being unjustly neglected.
Morawetz, Walter Buczynski. This year it’s you!
Can you trace changes in yourself musically by revisiting your relationI have composed off and on throughout my life; as a teenager I studied
ship with a piece? Take Schumann’s Carnaval, which was also on that
with Henry Cowell, among others. I have never actively promoted my
program. If you listen to the 1979 Analekta recording you made of it,
compositions, and do not perform them often. I feel that performers
would interest or what prevail?
ought to try to compose, if only to enhance their appreciation of the genIt has actually been very long since I performed the Carnaval, although I ius of the great masters. It seems unnatural to spend one’s life with
could contemplate reviving it. I hardly ever listen to my own recordings, music and not be tempted to create one’s own. …. My music is harexcept if I hear them by chance on the radio. That happened to me about monically fairly dissonant, on the whole, but melodically it is vaguely
diatonic.
3 years ago, late at night, on CBC’s “Galaxy”, which – scandalously –
I find much music of the past 60 years far too complex. Chamber
identifies neither the piece nor the performer, just sends music out anonmusic’s natural habitat is the impassioned amateur. Can you imagine
ymously, as though no one could have the slightest interest in what or
who is playing. It was Beethoven’s Sonata Op. 2 No. 3, and I thought to amateurs getting together to read through string quartets by Schoenberg
or Elliot Carter (the Juilliard Quartet needed more than 50 rehearsals to
myself, “Damn it, this pianist plays it much better than I do”. After
prepare his third quartet)? I think even some of my own composiwriting to Galaxy I found out – to my pleasure – that it was indeed my
own recording. The Carnaval I did hear on radio a few years ago, and it tions are perhaps more dissonant and complex than necessary.
surprised me in that the virtuosity was better than I expected, but the
How would Anton Kuerti: Cleveland (for example) have been different
whimsy and extravagance was somewhat less than I hoped for.
from Anton Kuerti: Toronto? (Thank you Dame Myra!)
There are several works which I have recorded more than once,
indeed the Hammerklavier I have recorded three times, one of them live Toronto has been a great choice for me, and has treated me very generously. I don’t know what might have happened elsewhere. The CBC has
(well, there are a few inserts….) I do think in this case the latest is by
made a huge contribution over the years, though its support of the arts
far the best, though that is not necessarily always the case. I have been
does seem to be withering at the moment. In the U.S. the need to battle
afraid to compare too carefully the new versions of Beethoven’s last
militarism, fundamentalist religion and imperialism – and plain stu5 sonatas with the complete set made long ago, because it would be
pidity – make it hard to concentrate on one’s own interests: there
depressing if the earlier ones were better! Of course the piano, the
venue, the recording equipment all play their roles, and in any case a seem to be too many crucial issues that need constant attention.
recording is always a snapshot from a particular day.
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PHOTO:TONY AUBREY/ THE NEW CLASSICAL
BY MJ BUELL
A little girl after a school performances asked: “Madame
Dubeau …the fireman will put
water on a fire. And a doctor will
bring help to a sick person, the
teacher teaches us …what does a
musician do?”
“Mon dieu, I thought to myself,
what kind of a question is that?”
Dubeau at 7 would have had the
good fortune just to know.
“A musician,” she replied, is
there to bring little moments of
joy to people.”
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DUBEAU’S LA PIETA:
Little Moments of Bonheur
EDITOR’S CORNER by David Olds will return
Our CD editor takes break for the month (recharging his batteries
for the Christmas onslaught?).
In his stead (tipping a hat to Opera Atelier’s current landmark
Toronto production of the work), PHIL EHRENSAFT takes a look at Il
ritorno di Ulysse in Patria, as an expression of
Thoroughly modern Monteverdi
The birthplace of the modern market-driven world economy was the
Italian peninsula’s Renaissance era commercial city-states. And the
queen of these was Venice. In 1567, when Claudio Monteverdi was
born in Cremona, Venice was the primary intermediary in the trade
Angèle Dubeau at the New Classical
between Europe and Asia, and the primary musical centre of the
96.3 fm launch party in September.
Western world - a 16th century New York, London, and Paris rolled
Angèle Dubeau’s achievements reflect a determined, ambitious
up into one.
ascendancy: a solo career studded with successful recordings, a decBy the time that Monteverdi died in 1643,
ade hosting Radio-Canada broadcasts, a thriving summer festival
after a three decade stint as the maestro de
(Music in the Mountains). She’s a Member of the Order of Canada,
cappela at Venice’s Basillica di San Marco,
recipient of the Calixa-Lavallée award, a Knight of the Ordre NationVenice had ceded its commercial supremacy
al du Québec.
to Amsterdam. The centre of gravity shifted
The underpinnings of that independence and drive, captured in
from the Mediterranean basin to the North
October’s Music’s Children photo, are her experiences of shared
Atlantic. Dutch vessels dominated the seas.
music, from a very young age, reflected in her adult life by La Pietà
Amsterdam became the centre of science
- her string ensemble, whose constancy, like a sparkling constellation
and art. Venice, on the other hand, retained
in the Dubeau universe, is being celebrated by a 10th anniversary tour
its predominant musical role during the sevand a new CD, Une Conte des fées – Fairy Tale (Analekta).
enteenth century, the central plank in the
Angèle says that while a little child is discovering an instrument, if
creation of modern opera as we know it.
mom and dad are happy, and the teacher is happy, the child is happy
too. I remember kissing goodnight my violin and putting a little blanL’incoronazione di Poppea
While the first operatic venket on it, at 4 or 5…
tures were in the patrician salons (1643). Both rank among the
But by age 8 or 10 music-making has to be shared to thrive. You
finest works in the four-century
and courts of Florence, Veneneed to find a reason… why do you play? You understand this when
history of modern opera. They
tians extended these via the first
you play with others, and ultimately you bring this to the audience.
are the culmination of Montevercommercial opera theatres, beWhat a beautiful way of living…bringing these little moments of
di’s musical genius.
ginning in 1637 with Teatro San
bonheur.
Il ritorno, continuing its Opera
Cassiano. Nine other Venetian
That photo was taken at a group lesson: not an unusual thing today, opera houses were established
Atelier Toronto run November 1-3,
but in 1969 the Suzuki method was radical and new. As a child you
is superbly represented on DVD as
during the seventeenth century,
develop a taste for making music by seeing others your age also play- attracting musicians and audienc- part of the Nikolaus Harnoncourt/
ing music, sharing music, then going outside to play ball and eat
Jean-Pierre Ponnelle productions
es from all over Europe.
chips. It’s very social and seriously important. Jean Cousineau’s
Impresarios, investors, profes- of Monteverdi’s three extant
approach put in each child this little spark that would grow with them: sional opera companies, booming
operas, L’Orfeo (1607) plus Il
that music is fun to listen, to share, to do.
ritorno and L’Incoronzione. All are
box seat sales, and individual
Sharing continued with L’Orchestre des jeunes de Joliette and with ground floor tickets drove Venice’s landmarks of opera on film. Ponsummers at music camps. I remember crying when my parents came opera scene. Much of the capital
nelle, called “the father of the
to pick me up. We all wanted to stay there, making an orchestra,
opera film” was both a theatre
came from nobles, but the demaking chamber music, singing, having swimming and sports.
director and master film maker.
mands for elaborate staging and
effects came from the new paying The Monteverdi trilogy was shot
Fast forward to 1997.
on 35 mm film at the Opernhaus
As a soloist on the road, and when you are alone practising…the soli- audience. As Patrick Barbier
Zurich between 1978 and 1980. It
tude is sometimes heavy to bear. You have to remember what you get observes: “There lay the two-fold
is available on finely mastered
from other musicians and the audience, for the answer why you do this. genius of Venice: that of having
Deutsche Grammophon DVDs.
transformed a luxury product par
In 1997, Angèle Dubeau created La Pietà for an all-Vivaldi reHarnoncourt, as one of the
cording for an ensemble of 12. Determined they would perform with- excellence into a commercial
pioneering conductors of early
product accessible to the general
out a conductor, imagining who to work with, the first who came to
music on period instruments, had
mind was a woman, as it happened, and the second and third. By the public; ... [and daring to imagine]
some difficult musical choices.
that social classes as far apart as
time the ensemble, named for the Venetian girls’ orphanage (VivalThere is no surviving score of any
princes and ordinary people could
di’s music school), was half-formed, the concept was irresistible –
of Monteverdi’s operas in his own
inspired also by Jean Diwo’s acclaimed novel “Les Violons du roi”. be together in the same place and
hand. Each practical edition stirs
The women in La Pietà share not only their musicality, but a common experience the same emotions ...
up a scholarly storm. As Harold
watching one single spectacle.”
human quality.
Monteverdi, the grand doyen of Schonberg aptly explains, “There
When we look to the world, it goes so fast. The little moments of
are problems deciding what Monsoftness we bring with the music: everybody needs those in their life. Venetian music, gave the new
commercial scene a big boost with teverdi’s directions really meant,
What we say is, “here is the music. Without prejudging, open your
what his orchestra really was.”
his final two operas, Il Ritorno di
heart and it will bring you somewhere”.
FOR MUSIC’S CHILDREN, PLEASE SEE PAGE 23 Ulysse in Patria (1641) and
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“Powerful and versatile”
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Sunday, November 11, 2007, 3 p.m., Jane Mallett Theatre
Curtis Metcalf, Resident Conductor; Tom Allen, Host and Story Teller
Sponsored by NSK Canada Inc.
Tom Allen, host of CBC Radio Two’s Music and Company, weaves his unique form of storytelling around the history, myths and legends that arise from human conflict. This concert
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Croall’s remarkable lament for Native Canadian soldiers Gi-Giiwe Na?, commissioned by
the HSSB, and Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture.
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A New Oratorio by Brian Cherney, Based
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The world renowned Hilliard Ensemble
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Tafelmusik Chamber Choir in a poignant
world premiere by Canadian composer Brian
Cherney, based on text by extraordinary
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Rachmaninoff’s Vespers
Wednesday, November 28 @ 8pm
Young Artist Overture @ 7pm
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St. Anne’s will resonate with the glorious
sounds of Moscow’s Academy of Choral
Arts in a program of sacred Russian choral
music by Rachmaninov, Bortnyansky and
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QUODLibet
by Allan Pulker
Brampton Lyric Opera and the Rose Theatre
November 24 at 8pm, Brampton Lyric Opera will present its annual
fundraising concert, “An Evening of Opera with Maria Pellegrini.” Pellegrini, who in a career of over four decades has sung with some of the
greatest names in opera, will perform with full orchestra and chorus a
program of great arias from the operatic repertoire.
Brampton Lyric Opera was incorporated in
2004 as a not-for-profit charitable corporation, by tenor/entrepreneur, Emilio Fina, who
began producing concerts ten years ago with
the aim of starting an opera company. The
first four full operatic productions were done
under less than ideal conditions in the spaces
available in Brampton at the time, the Heritage and the Lester B. Pearson Theatres. “The
ground work of becoming known over the
Emilio Fina
next two years,” he told me, “was vital before
we moved into the Rose Theatre.” The 2006-07 season, the company’s
first in the Rose Theatre, in Fina’s words, “…helped put us on the
map….” It gives the company “…everything we need to function properly and gives the audience the feeling of intimacy that the houses in Europe
give.” The company’s tenancy in the Rose Theatre has been, he says,
“harmonious and mutually beneficial.” November 24 we can experience
the company at the Rose Theatre, and their first operatic production of
the season will be Verdi’s Rigoletto on February 2, 2008.
Early in the month the TSO with
the University of Toronto Bach
Festival Singers, conducted by
Helmuth Rilling will perform J.S.
Bach’s St. John Passion at Roy
Thomson Hall on November 1 & 3.
On November 2 Show One Productions brings the Terem Quartet to
the Jane Mallett Theatre - not a
string quartet but accordion, domras
and a very large bass balalaika -who
perform Russian folk and gypsy
music, pop and classical music with
“virtuosity …freakish humour
[and] a … wild attitude…!” Another unusual concert will be Soundstreams’ “An Unfinished Life,”
featuring Canadian composer Brian
Cherney’s settings of the writings
of Dutch Jewish writer Etty
Hillesum on her experience of the
Holocaust. The performers will
include a “virtuoso chamber orchestra,” the Tafelmusik Choir and
Britain’s renowned Hilliard Ensemble, one of the finest vocal
ensembles in the world. Soundstreams’ artistic director, Lawrence Cherney, was the recipient
of the 2007 Muriel Sherrin Award
for International Achievement in
Music, presented to him at the
Mayor’s Arts Awards Luncheon
in October.
Distinguished Visitors Angèle
Dubeau’s La Pietà will perform at
the Winter Garden Theatre on
Thursday, November 8th, and in
various other Ontario cities in November and December.
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Three pianists of international
stature visit in November, two of
them, regrettably, the same
evening, November 16. Venezuelan-born Gabriela Montero
performs the great piano repertoire and also magnificent improvisations in a baroque style.
Russian pianist, Anya Alexeyev,
will perform an orchestral version
of Dvorák’s Piano Quintet with
Sinfonia Toronto. The third pianist, Brazilian-born Arnaldo Cohen, will perform a mostly Brazilian program for Music Toronto at
the Jane Mallett Theatre Nov 27.
On November 16 British flutist
and composer, Ian Clarke, will
give a master class and a recital at
the Victoria College Chapel, presented by Long and McQuade.
Soprano Measha Brueggergosman will perform at Roy Thomson
Hall on November 25, and Show
One Productions will present Russian bass-baritone, Dmitri Hvorostovsky on November 29 at Roy
Thomson Hall.
The same evening at the
Markham Theatre for Performing
Arts our September 2006 cover
artists, Duo Diorama, Minghuan
Xu and Winston Choi, will give a
recital bridging the worlds of classical music and jazz, with music
composed by George Gershwin,
Paul Schoenfield, and William
Grant.
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World View
by Karen Ages
ST. MATTHEW PASSION
by J.S. Bach
CONDUCTOR
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SOPRANO
CONTRALTO
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TENORS
BASSES
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Toronto Children’s Chorus
Friday, February 15, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Eglinton St. George’s United Church
35 Lytton Boulevard, Toronto
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Sunday Nov. 2 • 8pm
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Tuesday Nov. 6 • 8pm
IVA BITTOVA (CZ)
Saturday Nov. 11 • 8pm
ROCK PLAZA CENTRAL + INHABITANTS
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A JAMES TENNEY FESTIVAL
Friday Nov. 23 • 8pm
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Monody, Spectrum 1, Bridge
Saturday Nov. 24 • 8pm
NUMUS with Eve Egoyan,
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performing Koan, Three Rags, Three
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Once again, there are plenty of
exciting concerts of music from
around the world this month.
First off is the Terem Quartet,
a group of Russian conservatory
trained musicians whose mix of
gypsy, folk, pop and classical
idioms has taken them to the
Barcelona Olympic Games in
1992, the G8 Summit in 2006,
St. James’ Palace on the invitation of Prince Charles, and
next year to an appearance with
the Berlin Philharmonic. They
will be at the Jane Mallett Theatre on November 2.
December 5 at Glenn Gould Studio,
November 1 marks the beginEliana Cuevas
ning of Holocaust Education
Week, which will include several concerts of music by Jewish composers. November 5 “Out of the Depths: A Canadian musical response to
the Holocaust” features soprano Ramona Carmelly and pianist Nicole
Bellamy in works by Canadian Jewish composers; November 6,
Soundstreams Canada presents “An Unfinished Life”, a new oratorio
by Montreal composer Brian Cherney, based on the journals of Dutch
Jewish author Etty Hillesum and Jewish composers of the Renaissance,
performed by the Hilliard Ensemble, Tafelmusik Chamber Choir,
Chamber Orchestra, and narrator Marilyn Lightstone; November 10,
pianist Mona Golabek tells the story of her mother, Austrian musical
child prodigy Lisa Jura, in “The Children of Willesden Lane: Beyond the Kindertransport - A memoir of love and survival”. November 11, “Jewish Composers in the Holocaust” explores Jewish
music in Germany and Central Europe during 1920-1945 with soprano Belva Spiel and narrator Jerry Fink, as well as the “Ghetto
Cantata” Di Lererin Mire, with the Toronto Jewish Folk Choir.
Harbourfront Centre’s Salvador Allende Arts Festival for
Peace, November 9 – 11, will include La Peña Latinoamerica, a
night of popular Latin American Music. On November 10 Noche de
Percusión showcases Arabic and North African influence in Latin
American music. November 11, Chilean instrumental and vocal
ensemble Quilapayun performs here for the first time in 30 years.
Cuban music comes to the Lula Lounge November 16 and 17 by
way of Klimax, Cuba’s most sophisticated Timba band. November
18, Indo-Canadian vocalist and award-winning Kathak dancer Bageshree Vaze releases her new CD “Tarana”, at Harbourfront’s Enwave Theatre.
The 9th annual Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards take place
November 30 at the Rogers Centre. Nominees fall into 24 categories
and include both artists and music industry professionals. The
Awards are part of the Canadian Aboriginal Festival & Pow Wow,
Rogers Centre, November 30 - December 2.
Toronto Taiko ensemble, Nagata Shachu (formerly Kiyoshi Nagata), will premiere new works, and celebrate founder Kiyoshi Nagata’s
25 years as a taiko performer on December 1 at Ryerson Theatre.
On December 2 at Lula Lounge the Tia Anita Project will hold
a family event promoting a new compilation CD for use in learning
environments with children, with the proceeds going to the Stephen
Lewis Foundation. The CD titled Ladybug features many local
world music specialists of a variety of genres.
In closing, on December 5 at Glenn Gould Studio the highly accomplished Toronto-based Venezuelan singer/songwriter, Eliana
Cuevas, has a release concert for her new CD, VIDAS. I’ve had a
sneak preview and loved what I heard. How truly blessed we are to
have so much great talent in this city! See you there!
Karen Ages is an oboist who has also been a member of
several world music ensembles. She can be reached at
[email protected].
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EARLY Music
by Frank Nakashima
On October 20th the Tallis Choir of Toronto performed Alessandro
Striggio’s (1540-1592) magnificent forty-part motet, Ecce Beatam Lucem, and most of you missed it! This work ended an evening of musical splendours from the German Renaissance including music by Jakob
Handl, Hans Leo Hassler, and Rolandus Lassus. It was a gigantic
surround-sound of 80 singers at St. Patrick’s Church on McCaul Street
- a once-in-a-lifetime experience!
Ah, this is more like
it, with the concert season
in full swing! Canada’s
first fully-staged period
production of Monteverdi’s The Return of Ulysses, continues (November
1 – 3), performed by
Opera Atelier with The
Toronto Consort in the
pit while Tafelmusik tours
The Toronto Consort
Asia.
The Toronto Consort then moves straight into its celebration on
November 9-10 of the remarkable reign of Queen Elizabeth I, the golden age of English music and literature, with music for voices and instruments and Karen Woolridge playing the part of Her Majesty! On December 7-8 the Consort moves on to the rhythmic sensuality of 16th
and 17th century Spain and Latin America for their program “Serenissima una noche,” which will include rarely heard masterpieces from Baroque Mexico and Guatemala. Website: www.torontoconsort.org
The Windermere String Quartet will use period instruments on
November 11 to perform Fodor’s Quartet in B flat, Eybler’s Trio in C
op.2, and Beethoven’s Quartet in F, op.59 no.1.
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Tafelmusik will dazzle audiences with works by Zelenka, Veracini,
Locatelli, Schobert and Vivaldi from November 14 to 18 in their “Dazzling Baroque” program, which they describe as some of the most flamboyant music of the late baroque era. Website: www.tafelmusik.org
One way to celebrate the Christmas season will be to hear Bach’s
Christmas Oratorio and Magnificat performed by Tafelmusik (November 29, 30, December 1, 2), directed by Ivars Taurins, with Ann
Monoyios (soprano), Daniel Taylor (countertenor), Rufus Müller (tenor), and Tyler Duncan (baritone). Tafelmusik presents the story over
two nights: Cantatas 1, 2, and 3 on Thursday and Saturday, and Cantatas 4, 5, and 6 on Friday and Sunday, completing each program with
Bach’s famous Magnificat. There will be one additional performance on
Tuesday, November 27 at the Toronto Centre for the Arts.
On November 17 the Academy Concert Series presents a program
of Vivaldi’s trio sonatas in a celebration of the remarkable musical heritage of his birthplace, Venice. It has been said that music could be
found in almost every aspect of life, and was to Vivaldi a constant
source of musical inspiration. The players are Nicolai Tarasov (baroque
oboe/recorder), Paul Meyer (baroque violin), Paul Jenkins (organ), and
Laura Jones (baroque cello). website: www.academyconcertseries.com
Toronto’s “other” baroque orchestra, the Aradia Ensemble, under
the direction of conductor Kevin Mallon, present George Frideric Handel’s oratorio, Israel in Egypt (November 11), with choir and soloists –
Jennie Such (soprano), Jennifer Enns Modolo (alto), Nils Brown (tenor), and Sean Watson (bass). On December 9 they will be back with a
Christmas program of Christmas Concerti, by Locatelli and Corelli,
Alessandro Scarlatti’s Cantata per la notte di natale, and excerpts from
Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s Magnificat. website: www.aradia.ca
On November 25 the Toronto Chamber Choir, directed by David
Fallis, sings music written in honour of St. Cecilia in a program that
includes Henry Purcell’s Welcome to All the Pleasures, and also some
modern works. Website: www.torontochamberchoir.ca
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Choral Scene
by Allan Pulker
Ecce Cor Meum
Paul McCartney’s composition, Ecce Cor
Meum (Behold my heart), for choir with orchestra, was commissioned by Magdalen College at Oxford University to commemorate the
college’s 550th anniversary. Its American premiere took place last year amidst considerable
hoopla – a live broadcast on National Public
Radio, an interview with the composer and
streaming audio broadcasts. Two local choral
conductors, Ken Fleet of London Pro Musica
and Robert Cooper of the Toronto Orpheus
Choir and Chorus Niagara, have brought their
choirs together to present the Canadian premieres of the work – October 27 in London,
November 3 in Toronto and November 4 in
St. Catharines. I listened to a couple of excerpts online and thought McCartney’s gift for
melody came through and the orchestration
supported and enhanced the melodic line.
Cooper agreed with me about that and also
observed that the work is structurally very
well put together and has immediate appeal.
“The simplicity of the text,” he said, “is a
Robert Cooper, above;
good thing, because it reaches people. McCaand Ken Fleet
rtney has a talent for writing with immediacy,
a way of touching people and relating to their daily lives, and it is this
that really comes through in Ecce Cor Meum.
cities: the King Edward Choir in Barrie on November 9, the Elora
Festival Singers in Elora on November 11, Centenary United Church in
Hamilton on November 11, the Karen Schuessler Singers in London on
November 17, the Mississauga Choral Society on November 11 and the
Cantabile Chorale on November 11 in Thornhill.
Touching briefly on the Advent/Christmas theme, November
and December have a good many listings for concerts of the wonderful
choral music inspired by these observances.
Scanning the listings, I am reminded that behind as well as in
front of every choir there is a human being, on the strength of whose
leadership qualities it succeeds and thrives – or not. To be a choral
conductor is to be a remarkable human being – first and foremost, a
consummate musician, guided in one’s choice of repertoire by good
judgement and realism about your choir’s capabilities, a logistician, who
can pace individual rehearsals and the whole series of rehearsals leading
up to a performance so that everyone in the choir is ready by the time of
the performance, a charismatic leader and a psychologist, knowing when
to encourage and when to steer your choristers away from complacency,
never showing any negativity or disrespect towards either the choir or
individual members. We are very fortunate in Canada to have many,
perhaps more than can be reasonably expected, fine choral conductors,
truly extraordinary people with gifts quite out of the ordinary. Let’s not
forget how important their contributions are, not only to music-making,
but as examples of how to be a positive influence and a leader in one’s
life, in any line of work.
The three focal points for choral music at this time of the year are
Remembrance Day, Advent and Christmas.
The observance of Remembrance Day, traditionally the recognition of
the sacrifices made by the thousands of servicemen who died in the two
world wars appears, quite rightly, to be extending to acknowledge the
deaths of millions in the Holocaust. Two concerts in particular relate to
the Holocaust, Soundstreams’ “An Unfinished Life,” (Nov. 6) which I
have already mentioned in Quodlibet, and “Jewish Composers in the
Holocaust,” which significantly takes place at a Lutheran Church, St.
Ansgar’s, on November 11. According to our listings the choir that will
be performing in this event is the Toronto Jewish Folk Choir. On
November 10 the Amadeus Choir is presenting “Humanity in Time of
War,” described as a multi-media event focusing on Remembrance Day.
Other Remembrance Day concerts in Toronto are St. James’ Cathedral
and the Church of the Advent, both on November 11. There will be
Remembrance Day concerts in a number of other Southern Ontario
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BAND Stand
by Jack MacQuarrie
In last month’s BandStand column we broached the subject of the
paperwork required for the smooth operation of any band. I was pleased
to receive more than the usual feedback from readers; in particular, I
thank Julie Palmer, president of the Silverthorn Symphonic Winds for
her suggestions. The discussion opened last month has thus turned into
a lively exchange on many more aspects of the governance and management of bands, which I will briefly summarize here:
Aims and objectives: The term community band can cover a very
broad spectrum of groups with quite disparate objectives. It is important
to define where a band fits into this spectrum.
Ability level: Every band needs to define clearly the ability levels expected of members, in order to attract members on a level corresponding to
its aspirations.
Auditions: Requiring auditions may scare off some people; conversely,
a really good player wanting to play challenging repertoire with other
high-level players will probably consider only organizations that require
an audition.
Bylaws: Usually these would form a part of the Constitution and would
include the Code of Conduct which was mentioned last month. Who
determines how and when to invoke the rules and the degree of consistency of their application are usually addressed in the bylaws.
Charitable status: The advantage of charitable status is that members
can be given receipts for membership dues as tax deductible charitable
donations and that it makes corporate sponsorship possible. The disadvantage is the paperwork required by the Canada Revenue Agency.
Insurance: Insurance is a vital matter neglected in last month’s column.
As a minimum this should include coverage for replacement value of the
band’s library, instruments and any office equipment.
Permits: Most bands rehearse in community centres, churches, Legion
Halls and schools with varying limitations on their use. A well defined
permit will prevent capricious changes to the limitations and the space
allotment.
Repertoire and programming: These decisions are made by the musical director within the context of the organization’s aims and objectives.
There were also some additional thoughts on the topics of constitutions,
membership dues and seniority, which I covered last month. For those
of you who are interested, more detailed coverage is available on the
WholeNote website – www.thewholenote.com/bandstand. Since so
much of this is applicable to other organizations, even non-musical ones,
this is not exclusively of interest to people who play in bands.
Annual Band Directory
Last month we indicated that the WholeNote Annual Band Directory
would be delayed while we incorporated some planned changes. We
have been working on it steadily since then, but the magnitude of the job
has been a force to be reckoned with and we’re still reckoning with it! I
am now hoping to have it ready in time for the December/January issue.
The Plumbing Factory Brass Band
Coming Events - see the listings section for full details
Sunday, November 11 3pm: The Hannaford Street Silver Band
presents Battlefield Brass conducted by Curtis Metcalf and narrated by
special guest Tom Allen, the host of CBC Radio Two’s Music and
Company. From Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture to William Walton’s
film score for The Battle of Britain, they will trace in music and narration the history, myths and legends that arise from human conflict. The
concert will also feature Barbara Croall’s lament for Native Canadian
soldiers, Gi-Giiwe Na? (Are you going home?) commissioned specially
for this concert.
Wednesday, November 21 7:30 pm: Dr. Henry Meredith and The
Plumbing Factory Brass Band open their 13th season with Vocations
and Avocations, music representing occupations & preoccupations,
duties and diversions, including von Suppé’s Poet and Peasant Overture,
Sousa’s Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and the Overture to The Caliph of
Baghdad. Beginning at 7pm the trombone ensemble, Stevie’s Sliders will
entertain as audience members arrive.
Sunday, November 25 4:00 pm The Northdale Concert Band will
perform a concert of music from the British Isles at Don Mills United
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SOME THING New
As a teacher at York
University in Toronto, Tenney influenced several generBY JASON VAN EYK
ations of Canadian composers, performers and teachers.
As the leaves turn colour and the days become colder, we pause
After his imposed retirement
once again to reflect on life’s natural cycles - of change, of loss,
from York in 1999, he was
and of those larger events beyond our control. In turn, we are ininvited to return to CalArts,
spired to think of the influence that one human being can have on
where he had begun his
these seemingly immutable cycles and the amazing power one can
career, to become the Chair
exert through a unique voice. These potent themes permeate this
month’s upcoming concerts, which reflect back on many lives richly in Composition. But at that
point, his mark on Toronlived.
to’s new music community
Soundstreams continues its 25th anniversary season on Nov. 6
at Metropolitan United Church with the premiere of a new work, An had become indelible, as we
can see by this long-planned
Unfinished Life, a setting by Montreal composer Brian Cherney of
Composer James Tenney
celebration of his work.
excerpts from the wartime letters and diaries of Dutch author Etty
The
retrospective
weekend
begins
on
November 23rd with ArrayHillesum, who died at Auschwitz in 1943. Her writings are classics
music’s season opener, a programme of works created by Tenney
of 20th-Century spirituality, exploring how the author experienced
for the ensemble or premiered by its performers under his superviGod in the context of persecution. The performers will be the
sion. The following night, NUMUS assembles an all-star ensemble Hilliard Ensemble in collaboration with the Tafelmusik Chamber
pianists Eve Egoyan and Casey Sokol, violinist Malcolm Goldstein,
Choir and a chamber orchestra, conducted by Ivars Taurins. A
and the Toronto Percussion Quartet – to perform some of his betterYoung Artist Overture, the Cawthra Park Chamber Choir singing
known solo and chamber works. NUMUS will present this same
works by Canadian composers Srul Irving Glick, Sid Rabinovitch
concert in Waterloo on November 23 under a different name, In
and Ben Steinberg, will precede the 8 p.m. concert.
memoriam: James Tenney, at Maureen Forrester Recital Hall, WilCBC radio personality, Tom Allen, will weave his unique style
of storytelling into the Hannaford Street Silver Band’s November frid Laurier University. On November 25th, Evergreen Club Gamelan Ensemble recreates one of Tenney’s famous home salons. The
11 program of music that builds on the history, myth and legends
that arise from human conflict. A highlight of the programme will be Ensemble will perform Road to Ubud, and discuss the score; coma new work from composer Barbara Croall titled Gi-Giiwe Na? (Are posers and performers will share, show or talk about works and
You Going Home?), a lament for Native Canadian soldiers fallen in working with James Tenney; and there will be demonstrations on
four pianos of alternate tuning systems used by Tenney.
war.
The community is invited to talk, eat, drink, and share ideas and
The Talisker Players’ November 20th and 21st programme at
Trinity-St. Paul’s focuses on the music and writings of Indian poet, music inspired by one of Toronto’s great teachers. All events in the
mystic, musician and peacemaker Rabindranath Tagore on the beauty Tenney retrospective weekend are co-presented with the Music Gallery at St. George the Martyr Church. For more info and links to the
of art and its importance in fostering peace and understanding. Speindividual ensembles’ websites, visit www.musicgallery.org. For
cial features of the event will be a selection of Tagore’s songs artickets call 416-204-1080.
ranged for the Taliskers by Indian-Canadian composer Suddhaseel
So come out and explore a change of musical seasons. Celebrate
Sen and works for various chamber music configurations, including
the long-living power of creation through some thing new.
Songs of Tagore II and Three Songs from Gitanjali, by the acclaimed Punjabi-British composer Naresh Sohal. Completing the
(Jason van Eyk is the Canadian Music Centre’s Ontario Regionprogramme will be other Tagore-inspired pieces from Arthur Shepal Director. He can be reached at 416-961-6601 x. 207 or
herd, André Caplet, Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, and John Foulds.
[email protected]).
November 23, 24 & 25 the new music community devotes three
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that of composer James Tenney, whose work is a microcosmic
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Jazz Notes
by Jim Galloway
This is the time of year when I usually send my article in from Europe and this being no exception, I’m writing from Vienna. I
thought that a ‘good news’ story about a jazz club would make a
refreshing change after all the gloom and doom surrounding the club
scene in Toronto.
The club is called Jazzland and it is in the heart of old Vienna and
as is so often the case the story of the club is really a story of love
and dedication on the part of Axel Melhardt and his wife, Tilly.
Jazzland opened its doors in March of 1972 which makes it one of
the longest running clubs with the same ownership and with jazz six
nights a week anywhere in the world.
Axel’s father Edgar was a successful actor with the Vienna Volkstheater and his mother, Ilse Glarys was a well-known singer-actress who, at age 34 was encouraged by a vocal teacher to study
opera because she was a natural coloratura soprano and in 1938 was
given a five year contract with the Vienna State Opera. But at dawn
on Saturday, March 12, 1938 Hitler invaded Austria. Ilse never got
to sing a note with the Opera Company because ‘she looked too
Jewish.’ It was the end of her singing career, although they did
honour her contract.
Axel was born in 1943 and grew up in an environment of classical music. His mother took piano lessons from a woman who had
been a pupil of Gustav Mahler and who also earned some extra
money by baby-sitting the young Axel. He also took piano lessons
and was steeped in the music of Mozart with absolutely no awareness of jazz.
In fact, the connection to classical music ran deep. Axel’s great,
great uncle on his father’s side of the family was Antonin Dvorak!
The way in which jazz entered the young Axel’s life is one of those
funny twists of fate. He had a date to go out with a girl and they
arranged to meet in front of a movie house near where she lived not to go to the movies, but the cinema was simply a convenient
meeting place. He waited and waited but the girl never arrived. Too
embarrassed to go home and admit he had been stood up, he decided
to go into the cinema, not even bothering to look at what was showing. The film was The Benny Goodman Story and Axel was transfixed. He sat through the movie three times and went back the next
day. The following week he sold all his rock ‘n roll records and
began buying jazz. He never saw the girl again.
Jazz was not exactly a household word in those days; in fact it
was relatively unknown as was another of his passions - science
fiction. But Axel is clearly a man who likes a challenge and he took
up writing science fiction, is a published author and for a time created a literary magazine showcasing emerging writers which gained a
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sizeable following
in the Germanspeaking world.
He was also gaining attention in
Viennese circles
as a jazz collector
and historian. By
the mid 60s he
was also handling
the affairs of a
local group, The
Red Hot Pods
and the eventual
Jazzland in the heart of old Vienna: Axel Melhardt
transition to
running a jazz club seemed almost inevitable.
It became a reality in 1972 in a 500 year old cellar and over the
years has remained true to Axel’s concept of featuring leading Austrian musicians with a regular sprinkling of guest artists, mostly
American. Over the 35 years the list of players is a Who’s Who of
jazz that swings. Just a few of the names will give some idea Howard Alden, Monty Alexander, Harry Allen, John Allred, Chet
Baker, Dan Barrett, Joanne Brackeen, Bob Brookmeyer, Ray
Brown, Ray Bryant, Benny Carter, Doc Cheatham, Cyrus Chestnut,
Arnett Cobb, Al Cohn, Kenny Davern, “Wild Bill” Davis, “Lockjaw” Davis, “Wild Bill” Davison, “Sweets” Edison, Roy Eldridge,
Kurt Elling, Herb Ellis, Margie Evans, Art Farmer, Benny Golson,
Johnny Griffin, Scott Hamilton, Gene Harris, Jon Hendricks, Earl
Hines, Art Hodes, Javon Jackson, Hank Jones, Oliver Jones, Barney Kessel, Lee Konitz, Diana Krall, Dave Liebman, Joe Lovano,
Junior Mance, Jay McShann, Brad Meldau, James Moody, Nicholas
Payton, Ken Peplowski, Bucky Pizzarelli, Alvin Queen, Zoot Sims,
Ralph Sutton, Buddy Tate, Clark Terry, Lew Tabackin, Stanley
Turrentine, Warren Vache, Allan Vache, Ben Webster, Teddy Wilson, Kai Winding and Phil Woods and on and on.
But don’t imagine that Axel has achieved all this on his own. His
wife, Tilly, has been a tower of strength and a never-ending source
of support and encouragement. Last month they celebrated 34 years
of marriage and Axel freely admits that without her things could
never have gone so well. They have a 23 year old son, Julius, who
this year has taken a more active part in the club, and a staff that
would be the envy of any club owner.
Another significant thing I have observed is the high percentage of
young faces in the audience. On any given night about half the audience is on the sunny side of 30, many of them students and many of
them tourists, but receptive to jazz and that, believe me, is a very
refreshing sight.
Axel has a fund of anecdotes, one of them concerning The Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Willi Boskowsky, the world’s most fa-
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mous interpreter of Johann Strauss. Boskowsky, concertmaster with
the Vienna Philharmonic, for many years conducted the orchestra for
the annual New Year’s concert and did so in the old style of the
master himself, with his violin held in one hand, conducting with the
other and playing the appropriate passages. He died in 1991, but his
reputation lives on and his influence is still profound.
In the late 60s the Preservation Hall Band was booked to give a
concert in Vienna. The 2000 seat auditorium was sold out and so a
second afternoon concert was scheduled for the same day in a smaller venue. The flight was delayed - it happened even back then-and
the band had to go straight to the hall wearing the clothes they had
travelled in.
Trumpeter Dee Dee Pierce was wearing a somewhat tattered t-shirt
with a tear under the right armpit and the rest of the musicians were
distinctly casual in appearance. Backstage, after the concert, Willi
Boskowsky, in full formal wear came into the dressing room,
walked over to Dee Dee, who had no idea who this intruder was,
hugged him and proclaimed, “I have to dress like an ape to draw my
audience, but you fellows make wonderful music without any of the
bullshit!”
He also has an interesting story regarding Friedrich Gulda, most
famous for his interpretations of Beethoven, but also interested in
contemporary jazz. In the early 70s Gulda expressed a desire to play
at Jazzland. This was at a time in his career when he was commanding very healthy concert fees and, if the engagement was in Vienna,
a suite at the Imperial Hotel available to him the week before and
after the engagement. At Jazzland he played for two nights at a tiny
fraction of his normal fee and stayed in a small flat above the club!
On the first night he played until 2am, but played very little piano,
by far the bulk of the playing being done by the other musicians, but
ending the evening on a sonorous low B on the Bosendorfer, specially installed for the occasion. Axel was a little put out at how
little Gulda had played throughout the entire evening and suggested
there was no real need to tune the piano just for the low B having
been sounded; Gulda, perhaps feeling some guilt, did a complete
turnaround on the second night and gave a dazzling display of different piano styles ranging from Errol Garner through Art Tatum to
Oscar Peterson!
According to Axel however, he was unhappy because he did not
have an individual sound of his own when playing jazz and turned to
avant-garde where he was more able to be an original voice.
Incidentally, a footnote to the story is that the club now has its
own Bosendorfer!
Jazzland - the little club with a big heart. Long may it continue.
Happy live listening! Our jazz club listings are on page 49.
On Opera
by Christopher Hoile
Little Shop on Main Street: Te-Amim founder and artistic director Helena
Fine; Edith Grosman, widow of Oscar-winning writer Ladislav Grosman
(and herself a Holocaust survivor); and director Mark Cassidy
OPERA ONTARIO. On October 15, Opera Ontario announced that
it would continue its emergency fundraising drive until November 1.
General Director David Speers notes, “There is a sense of real positive
progress. If we can reach the $500,000.00 plateau by that date, we
can move ahead with a revised season that would include “Popera”
(featuring tenor Richard Margison and soprano Adrianne Pieczonka),
“The Magic Flute” (rescheduled from its original October dates) and
“Madama Butterfly” in April. There is also the possibility of a Benefit
Super Recital featuring up to twenty of Canada’s finest singers in the
spring. I’ve received call after call from artists offering their services to
make sure we are successful in saving a company which has made its
reputation through the engagement and promotion of Canada’s finest
singers. They see this as a way of repaying the company for those
early opportunities”.
If the Opera is successful in moving ahead with the 2007-08 season,
it will continue to fundraise through the season with the objective of
securing $1 million and eliminating its long-standing cash deficit.
Donations can be made to Opera Hamilton, #905, 105 Main Street
East, Hamilton, ON, L8N 1G6. Tax receipts will be issued. For
further information please contact: David Speers, General Director,
905 527 7627, x229, [email protected].
RICHARD BRADSHAW. On Thursday, November 1, 2007 at 8pm
the Canadian Opera Company presents “Richard Bradshaw, 19442007: A Musical Celebration”, a free concert honouring its late General
Director, Richard Bradshaw at the Four Seasons Centre for the
Performing Arts. The concert salutes not only Mr. Bradshaw’s
musical life, but the remarkable gifts he gave to his adopted country—
an opera company of international renown and one of the finest opera
houses in the world. Guest artists confirmed to date include baritone
Russell Braun, bass Robert Gleadow, soprano Joni Henson, soprano
Adrianne Pieczonka, bass Robert Pomakov, and mezzo-soprano
Krisztina Szabo. These Canadian opera stars join members of the COC
Ensemble Studio and the acclaimed COC Orchestra and Chorus in a
mixed program of choruses, orchestral pieces, and opera arias—music
associated with Mr. Bradshaw or music that he especially loved.
Tickets are free and are available on a first-come, first-served basis
only at the Four Seasons Centre Box Office, 145 Queen St. W., as of
Saturday, October 27 beginning at 8am. Tickets are limited to two per
person, must be accepted as assigned and are not replaceable.
HOLOCAUST EDUCATION WEEK. The 27th Annual Holocaust
Education Week, November 1-11, features three offerings of note to
lovers of music theatre. First is the Canadian premiere of “The Shop
on Main Street”, a seven-character drama with music by Bernard Spiro
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and David Nagy. It is based on the novel by Czech author Ladislav
Grosman, best known as a 1965 Academy Award-winning film. The
story explores the relationship of Tono, a good-natured carpenter, and
Rosalie, an elderly Jewish widow who runs a shop in a small Slovakian town when the persecution of the town’s Jews changes their lives.
Public performances are Nov. 10 and 15 with school performances
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Nadal JCC - 750 Spadina Ave. For tickets and information contact TeAmim Music Theatre at 416-642-0430, email [email protected] or
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On Nov. 14 at 8pm there will be a performance of Udo Zimmermann’s opera “The White Rose” (“Die Weisse Rose”) from 1968 for
two voices with piano accompaniment. It deals with a group of
University of Munich students, including siblings Hans and Sophie
Scholl, who formed an anti-fascist resistance movement named “White
Rose”. The students wrote and circulated leaflets across Germany in
protest of Hitler’s regime. They were caught and executed by the
Nazis in 1943 hoping their deaths would lead to further anti-war
activism. The performance takes place at The Music Room, Hart
House, University of Toronto. A discussion with Dr. George
Wittenstein, surviving member of the White Rose resistance group, will
follow the performance. For tickets and information, call Hillel of
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Then on Nov. 5 at 7pm at Baycrest Wagman Centre, 55 Ameer
Ave., mezzo-soprano Ramona Carmelly and pianist Nicole Bellamy
will give a recital entitled “Out of the Depths: a Canadian Musical
Response to the Holocaust” consisting of Canadian works inspired by
the Holocaust, featuring musical selections by Srul Irving Glick, Helen
Greenberg, Milton Barnes, Oskar Morawetz, and the premiere of a
new commission by Chad Martin, “A Prayer For Prayer”. For more
information check the website at www.holocausteducationweek.com.
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WE ARE ALL MUSIC’S CHILDREN
by mJ Buell
November’s Child
The water is wide, I cannot get o’er
And neither have I wings to fly..
Give me a boat, that can carry two
And both shall row, my love and I.
violin - it’s what I do. it’s how I
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No wings required for this curly haired
cherub. Already a choirboy at St. Matthew’s
Church in Ottawa, he went on to find his
own unique way to soar very, very high,
travel far over the water, and home again.
photo circa 1976, a cottage near Muskoka
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If you could time travel and
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them?
Oh for sure! Number one is listen
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life is great! And then: your raison
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They are the source of your energy. Finally: don’t ever trust conductors.
Think you know who November’s child is?
Send your best guess to [email protected]
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by November 15 2007.
You will find out by yourself!
OCTOBER’S Child … was Angèle Dubeau
Earliest musical memory?
At home, in my bed every Sunday morning waking up to music from the
old stereo, my father’s way to wake up the family to go to church: often
singers…opera… he loved opera…there was a funny LP of Hawaiian
music…if we were running very late to make us laugh and hurry…..
I started violin at 4, so I don’t remember my first notes. But I
remember playing in the kitchen for my parents…the stand is very
low…and putting music on it knowing I was not able to read it, but I
felt so important, playing for them…
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Where did music, both formal and informal, fit into your everyday Winter Garden Theatre (Saint-Saëns, Glick, Morricone, Piazolla, De
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I am the 7th of 8 children, almost the youngest. Everyone played an
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Miriam Chun, John Van Burek, and Paulette Popp will rehear a trumpet, a viola, a cello a flute. So when I got my own instruceive Un Conte de Fées – Fairy Tale, (ANALEKTA 2 8725): La Pietà’s
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my life. Somebody asked me in an interview “what would you be if not a Music’s Children gratefully acknowledges the generous and good-humoured participation of Adrienne Lloyd, Shira Gilbert, Marie-Pierre
violinist” and I think I looked completely stupid … because I don’t
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ACADEMY CONCERT SERIES 33
ACROBAT MUSIC 56
AKAFIST 16
ALDEBURGH CONNECTION 34, 38, 42
ALL THE KING’S VOICES 30
AMADEUS CHOIR 29
AMICI 13
ANALEKTA 6, 61
ANNEX SINGERS 40
ART OF JAZZ 20
ATMA CLASSIQUE 5
BACH CHILDREN’S CHORUS 44
BACH CONSORT 14
BELL’ARTE SINGERS 53
CANADIAN CHILDREN’S OPERA CHORUS 44
CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 22
CANADIAN SINFONIETTA 26, 33
CANCLONE SERVICES 56
CATHEDRAL BLUFFS SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA 30
CENTENARY UNITED CHURCH 46
CHRIST CHURCH DEER PARK 25
CHRIST CHURCH DEER PARK /
CHURCH OF ST. MARY MAGDALENE 31
CHRIST CHURCH DEER PARK
JAZZ VESPERS 20
CHURCH OF ST. MARY MAGDALENE 37
CIRRUS ENSEMBLE 37
CLASSICAL 96.3 FM 63
COSMO MUSIC 17
COUNTERPOINT CHORALE 39
DAVID VARJABED 51
EGLINTON ST. GEORGE’S
UNITED CHURCH 40
ELMER ISELER SINGERS 43
ENSEMBLE TRYPTYCH CHAMBER CHOIR 43
ESPRIT ORCHESTRA 4
FORTE MEN’S CHORUS 44
GEORGE HEINL 20
GOSSAMER WINGS 19
HANNAFORD STREET SILVER BAND 12
HARKNETT MUSICAL SERVICES 17
HELICONIAN HALL 52
I FURIOSI 43
JUBILATE SINGERS 35
KITCHENER-WATERLOO CHAMBER
ORCHESTRA 48
KOFFLER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 34
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LINDEN SCHOOL 51
LONG & MCQUADE 21
MARJORIE SPARKS 34
MARKHAM THEATRE 9
MIKROKOSMOS 52
MISSISSAUGA CHORAL SOCIETY 45
MOOREDALE CONCERTS 36
MOUNT DENNIS UNITED CHURCH 52
MUSIC AT METROPOLITAN 32
MUSIC AT ST. CLEMENT’S 27
MUSIC AT THREE FORTY-FIVE 43
MUSIC GALLERY 14
MUSIC TORONTO 7, 26, 31, 37
NAGATA SHACHU 39
NORTH YORK CONCERT ORCHESTRA 53
NUMUS CONCERTS 35
OFF CENTRE MUSIC SALONS 41
OLD MILL INN AND SPA 19
ONSTAGE AT GLENN GOULD STUDIO 2
OPERA BEL CANTO OF SOUTH SIMCOE 47
OPERA BY REQUEST 51
OPERA IN CONCERT 41
OPERA-IS 22
ORCHESTRAS MISSISSAUGA 36
ORIANA WOMEN’S CHOIR 40
ORPHEUS CHOIR 26
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Performers and repertoire change!
Events are sometimes postponed or cancelled.
Call ahead to confirm details with presenters.
Thursday November 01
- 12:00: Canadian Opera Company. The
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre Chamber
Series: Accordion Now from Street Corner to
Concert Hall. Works by Berio, Pritchard, Hatzis. Joseph Petric, accordion; Alan Stanbridge,
music-sociology professor. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St.
West. 416-363-8231. Free.
- 12:10: St. Paul’s Foundation for the
Arts. St. Paul’s Noon Hour Recital Series:
Tom Fitches, organ. St. Paul’s Bloor Street
Anglican Church. 227 Bloor St. East. 416961-8116 x251. Free.
- 12:10: University of Toronto Faculty of
Music. Thursdays at Noon: Toronto Wind
Quintet. Music by Danzi, Fine, Hindemith.
Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-9783744. Free.
- 12:15: Music at Metropolitan. Noon at
Met Organ Recital. Janet Peaker, organ. 56
Queen St. East. 416-363-0331 x26. Free.
- 12:30: Christ Church Deer Park. Noonday Chamber Music Concerts. Music by Bach
& Vivaldi. Nata Belkin, cello; Bruce Kirkpatrick
Hill, organ. 1570 Yonge St. 416-920-5211.
Free.
- 12:30: York University Department of
Music. Singing our Songs. Young artists from
the studios of Catherine Robbin, Norma Burrowes, Stephanie Bogle, Michael Donovan,
Janet Obermeyer & Karen Rymal perform
LUNCHTIME CHAMBER MUSIC
at
CHRIST CHURCH DEER PARK
November 1: Nata Belkin, cello;
Bruce Kirkpatrick Hill, organ
Music by Bach, Vivaldi, and others
November 8: Les Yeux Brass
Steven Bitaxi and Roger Twance,
trumpets; Elizabeth Fava, French horn
Stephen Ruttan, trombone; Jeff Wu, tuba
Music by Ewald, Bach, Holst and others
Five
concerts in
November
November 15:
Aisslinn Nosky, solo violin
Music by J.S. Bach
All concerts
start at
12:30 pm
November 22:
Rhonwen Derbez, soprano
English art songs
416-920-5211
November 29: Empire Trio
Bozena Szubert, violin;
Ron Harry, cello; Renata Zorawska, piano
Sonatas by Buxtehude, Mozart, Vivaldi,
and others
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... CONCERTS: Toronto and GTA
arias, art songs & ensemble pieces. Nathalie
Doucet-Lalkens, piano. Tribute Communities
Recital Hall, Accolade East, YU, 4700 Keele
St. 416-736-5186. Free.
- 7:00: St. James’ Cathedral. The Eve of all
Souls. Faure: Requiem. Choir of St. James’
Cathedral/St. James Singers. Andrew Ager,
conductor. 65 Church St. 416-364-7865.
Free; offering.
- 7:30: Opera Atelier. Monteverdi – Return
of Ulysses. Carla Huhtanen, Olivier Laquerre,
Cory Knight, Stephanie Novacek, Laura Pudwell, Vicki St. Pierre, Michiel Schrey and other
performers; Artists of the Atelier Ballet; The
Toronto Consort; David Fallis, conductor; Marshall Pynkoski, director; Jeannette Zingg, choreographer. Elgin Theatre, 189 Yonge St. 416872-5555. $30-$130, $20(st). For complete
run see Opera/Music Theatre listings.
Music. Faculty Concert Series: The Sundar
Viswanathan Quartet. Jazz standards and
original compositions. Sundar Viswanathan,
sax & voice; Dave Restivo, piano; Ethan Ardelli, drums; Mike Downes, bass. Tribute Communities Recital Hall, Accolade East, YU,
4700 Keele St. 416-736-5888. $15($70/
series);$5(st).
- 8:00. Canadian Opera Company. Richard
Bradshaw, 1944-2007: A Musical Celebration. Free tickets (limit two p/p). Available as
of Saturday, October 27 at 8:00am. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts Box office, 145 Queen St. 416-306-2303.
- 8:00: Curtain Call Players. Joseph and
the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Andrew
Lloyd Webber, music; Tim Rice, lyrics. Fairview Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall Drive.
416-703-6181. $22. For complete run see
music theatre listings.
Bach Festival Singers; Helmuth Rilling, conductor. Part of the International Bach Festival. Roy
Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-593-4828.
$36-$123.
Friday November 02
- 11:00am&2:00: Solar Stage Children’s
Theatre. Tailor of Gloucester. Musical based
on the Beatrix Potter story. Zenon Skrzypczyk:
director & musical adaptation; Martyn
Skrzypczyk, composer: Carly Heffernan; Jessica Leibgott; Madryn McCabe; Nicholas Terpstra. 100 Upper Madison Ave. 416-3688031. $13;$10(Nov. 3 only). Ages: 3-8. For
complete run see music theatre listings.
Music. Singing our Songs. Raisa Nakhmanovich, piano. See Nov 1.
- 8:00: Music Gallery. Hauschka, piano/
electronics; John Kameel Farah, piano/electronics/harpsichord. Church of St. George the
Martyr, 197 John. 416-204-1080. $15;
$10(advance/member/st).
- 8:00: Jazz at Oscar’s. Jenny Owen Youngs.
Arbor Room, Hart House, University of Toronto, 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-2452. Free.
- 8:00: Music Gallery. Double bill: John
Kameel Farah. piano + electronics, with video
by Eamon MacMahon; Hauschka, piano +
electronics. 197 John St. 416-204-1080.
$15;$10(adv/st/member)
- 8:00: Show One Productions. Terem
Quartet. Andrey Konstantinov, domra soprano;
Alexey Barshchev, domra alto; Andrey Smirnov, bayan-accordion; Mikhail Dzyudze, boublebass balalaika. Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, 27 Front Street
East. 416.872.1111/416.366.7723. $55;
$45.
- 8:30: Mississauga Arts Council. Good
Rockin’ Tonight. Living Arts Centre, 4141
Living Arts Dr. Mississauga. 905-306-6000.
$25 and up.
Saturday November 03
- 8:00: Music Toronto. Quatuor Bozzini.
Vivier (arr Oesterle): Pulau Dewata; Stiegler:
Namenlose Garten; Brahms: String Quartet in
B flat, Op.67. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front
St. East. 416-366-7723, 800-708-6754.
$45, $41(18-35); $5(st, accompanying adult
½ price).
- 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Bach: St. John Passion. Laura Albino, Agnes
Zsigovics, soprano; Roxana Constantinescu,
contralto; Lothar Odinius, tenor; Nathan Berg,
Klaus Haeger, bass; University of Toronto
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- 3:00: Toronto Children’s Chorus. Songs
from across the Seas and SeasoNZ. Songs
that celebrate the connection between Canada
and New Zealand. Elise Bradley, artistic director. Metropolitan United Church, 56 Queen St.
East. 416-932-8666 x231. $30; $26(sr/st).
- 7:00: Nomans Land Promotions. Indian
Ocean. Indian music fused with jazz and rock.
Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Exhibition Place.
647-294-1410, 416-263-3600. $20-$50.
- 7:30: Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Toronto. Trial by Jury & 1875. St. Andrew’s
United Church, 117 Bloor St. East. 416-9224415. $5 (vistor); free(member).
- 7:30: Music On The Donway. Music of
Daniel Rubinoff and his Influences. Works by
Rubinoff, Debussy, Schumann & Tallis; Klezmer. Vania Chan, soprano; Ellen Meyer, piano;
Daniel Rubinoff, saxophones; singers from the
Tafelmusik Baroque Choir. Donway Covenant
United Church, 230 The Donway West. 416444-8444. $20;$12(12yrs & under).
- 7:30: Orpheus Choir. Ecce Cor Meum.
McCartney: Ecce Cor Meum; Chatman: Proud
Music of the Storm. Leslie Ann Bradley, soprano; Orpheus Choir of Toronto, Chorus Niagara, London Pro Musica Choir; Orchestra
London; Robert Cooper, Ken Fleet, conductors.
Yorkminster Park Baptist Church, 1585 Yonge
Street. 416-530-4428. $50;$40.
- 7:30: Toronto Welsh Male Voice Choir/
East End Refugee Committee.. An Evening
of Song. St. John’s Norway Anglican Church,
470 Woodbine Ave. $20(door).
- 7:30: Willowdale United Church. Charity Fund Raising Concert for Oxfam Canada.
Works by Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt. Thomas
Yu, Elina Kelebeev, Leonard Gilbert, Ricker
Choi, piano. 349 Kenneth Ave. 416-8899461. PWYC.
- 8:00: Ballet Jorgen Canada. Anastasia.
A new, full-length, all Canadian original production tracing the mystery of the young Grand
Duchess. Original score by Russan/Canadian
composer Ivan Barbotin; Sue LePage: sets and
costumes; Bengt Jorgen, artistic director &
choreography. The Toronto Centre for the Performing Arts, 5040 Yonge Street. 416-8721111. $44-$71.
- 8:00: Brampton Symphony Orchestra.
Sympfusion. A celebration of Brampton’s diverse talent plus guest dignitaries. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Lane. 905-874-2800.
$50;$40;$20.
- 8:00: Canadian Sinfonietta. Young Artists Concert. Laurien Gibson, soprano; James
Zhang, flute. Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front
St. West. 905-707-1200 x2.
$30(adult);$25(sr);$15(st);$10(child).
- 8:00: Korean Canadian Symphony
Orch. Gala Concert. The program includes
Haydn’s Cello Concerto in C, Sarasate’s Zige-
a season with sizzle
Ecce Cor Meum
Behold My Heart – an oratorio for our times
Sir Paul McCartney
Proud Music of the Storm
Stephen Chatman
Featuring
Orpheus Choir of Toronto
Chorus Niagara
London Pro Musica Choir
Conducted by
Robert Cooper, Ken Fleet
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2007, 7:30 PM
Yorkminster Park Baptist Church, 1585 Yonge Street
Leslie Ann Bradley, soprano
Edward Moroney, organ • Amabile Boys Treble Concert Choir • Orchestra London
Tickets $50 / $40 ($45 / $35 until Oct. 20) seniors/students discounts available
For tickets call 416-530-4428, email [email protected], or online at:
www.orpheuschoirtoronto.com
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unerweisen, and Popper’s Hungarian Rhapsody
Op. 68. Soo Bae & Julie Jung, cello; Elissa
Lee, violin; Dale Kim, viola; Richard Lee, music
director. George Weston Recital Hall, 5040
Yonge St. 416-937-6410. $35.
- 8:00: Roy Thomson Hall/Massey Hall/
Ad Libitum Productions Inc. Bernard Lachance, singer/songwriter. Massey Hall, 15
Shuter St. 416-872-4255. $34.50.
Bach: St. John Passion. Roy Thomson Hall.
See Nov 1.
Youth Without Shelter & Women’s Habitat.
- 2:00: Off Centre Music Salon. Italian Bel
Canto Salon. Chopin’s cantabile piano repertoire inspired by Bellini’s melodic style. Lucia
Cesaroni, soprano; Lunne McMurtry, mezzo
soprano; Boris Zarankin, piano. Glenn Gould
Studio, 250 Front St. West. 416-205-5555.
$45(regular);$35(sr/st).
Sunday November 04
- 2:00: Trio Bravo. Music by Ellenwood,
- 12:00: Derek Macrae. Guitar Solo Concert. Jacob, Ravel, Peterson, Reade, Babiak and
Classical, Spanish and popular music. RisMozart. Terry Storr, clarinet; Baird Knechtel,
torante Julia, 312 Lakeshore Rd. East. 905viola; John Selleck, piano. All Saints Kingsway
844-7401. Free.
Anglican Church, 2850 Bloor St. West. 416- 1:30: CAMMAC/McMichael Gallery.
242-2131. $18;$12.50(regular);
Sunday Concerts. Stephanie Chua, piano/cello. $20;$15(door).
McMichael Gallery, 10365 Islington Ave. 1- 2:30: Alicier Arts Chamber Music. Not
888-213-1121. $25;$15;$9.
So Strictly Ballroom. Mirobolus Jazz String
- 2:00&7:30: Living Arts Centre. Sweet
Trio. St. George’s on-the-Hill, 4600 Dundas
Dreams: A Tribute to Patsy Cline with Leisa
St. West. 416-731-3599. $20;$15.
Way. Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living Arts
- 3:00: Toronto Mendelssohn Choir.
Drive. 1-888-805-8888, 905-306-6000.
Raised in Song - Great Hymns and Choruses.
$20-$28.
Audience sing-along with great hymns & cho- 2:00: George Ignatieff Theatre. Flute and ruses from favourite oratorio masterworks.
Guitar Concert. Eileen Fawcett, flute; Pat
Noel Edison, conductor; Giles Bryant, raconDoherty, guitar. 15 Devonshire Place. 416teur; William Maddox, organ. Yorkminster
463-9126. $10.
Park Baptist Church, 1585 Yonge St. 416- 2:00: Jazz at R.Y. The Rick Wilkins Quar922-1167.
tet. Royal York Road United Church, 851 Royal - 4:00: St. James’ Cathedral. Twilight ReYork Rd. 416-231-1207. $20;$17(sr). In aid
cital Series: Allan Pulker, flute; Andrew Ager,
of various causes including Local Outreach,
organ. C.P.E. Bach: Sonata in a; J.J. Quantz:
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Concerto in G. 65 Church St. 416-364-7865.
Free.
- 4:30: Christ Church Deer Park. Jazz
Vespers - The Kevin Turcotte Quartet. Tribute
to Clifford Brown. 1570 Yonge St. 416-9205211. Free/donations welcome.
- 4:30: St. Clement’s Anglican Church.
Commemoration of All Souls. Vierne: Messe
Solennelle. St. Clement’s Choir, Thomas Fitches, conductor. 59 Briar Hill Ave. 416-4836664. Donation accepted.
- 7:30: Flying Cloud Folk Club. Claude
Méthé. Québec traditional fiddler, singer &
composer accompanied by Dana Whittle &
Denise Levac. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick Avenue. 416-410-3655. $20;$18(members).
- 7:30: January Reznicek, viola & Eduard Spacil, piano. Viennese Duo. Works by
McConnell, Rapoport, Kreuz, Sulzer, Schrodl &
Hueber. Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave.
905-773-7712. $20;$15;$10.
- 8:30: Hugh’s Room. Ian Tyson. 2261 Dundas St. West. 416-531-6604.
$40;$37.50(adv).
- 7:30: Royal Conservatory of Music.
ARC - Continental Britons: Jewish émigrés to
the UK. Robert Khan: Lieder aus “Jungbrunnen” for voice and piano trio; Berthold Goldschmidt: Two Morgenstern Songs for voice
and string trio; Hans Gal, Clarinet Quintet, Op.
107; Franz Reizenstein, Piano Quintet in D,
Op. 23. Simon Wynberg, artistic director; Peter Barrett, baritone; Benjamin Bowman, violin; Steven Dann, viola; Bryan Epperson, cello.
Glenn Gould Studio. 250 Front St. West. 416205-5555. $20; $10(sr/st).
Music. Contemporary Music Ensemble. Gary
Kulesha, director. Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s
Park. 416-978-3744. Free.
Music. Classical instrumental recital. Featuring student soloists. Tribute Communities
St. 416-736-5186. Free.
Monday November 05
- 7:00: Civic Light Opera Company.
Here’s Love – The Miracle on 34th Street
Musical. Meredith Willson, composer; Joe
Cascone, director & designer; Civic Light Opera Company’s repertory troupe; Lisa Malcolm; Bob Deutsh; Emma-Burke Kleinman.
Fairview Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall
Drive. 416-755-1717. $20-$25. For complete run see music theatre listings.
- 7:00: Holocaust Education Week. Out of
the Depths: A Canadian Musical Response to
the Holocaust. Music inspired by the holocaust, including works by Glick, Greenberg,
Barnes & Morawetz; Martin: A Prayer for
Prayer (new commission). Ramona Carmelly,
mezzo; Nicole Bellamy, piano. Baycrest Wagman Centre, 55 Ameer Ave. 416-635-2883
x301. Free.
- 7:15: Toronto Theatre Organ Society/
Kiwanis Club of Casa Loma. Wurlitzer
Theatre Organ Pops. Donna Parker, organ.
Casa Loma, 1 Austin Terrace. 416-499-6262.
$21(door); $20(advance).
Music. YU Chamber Choir. Works by Palestrina, Certon, Fauré, Poulenc, Rossini, Daley,
Ahlen, Pärt, Britten & Whitacre. Nathalie Lalkens-Doucet, piano. Lisette Canton, director.
Tribute Communities Recital Hall, Accolade
East, YU, 4700 Keele St. 416-736-5186.
Free.
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- 5:30: Queen of Puddings Music Theatre. The Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre
Vocal Series: A Cappella. Ana Sokolovic: Six
Voices for Sirens; James Rolfe: Fire. Four
Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145
Queen St. West. 416-363-8231. Free.
- 7:30: Penthelia Singers. A Season of
Light. Works for women’s voices by Glick;
Raminsh; Telfer and more. Debbie Pady, violin;
Senya Trubashnik, oboe; Alice Malach, conductor. Rosedale Presbyterian Church, 129 Mount
Pleasant Road. 416-229-0094. $20;$15.
Music. Small Jazz Ensembles. Walter Hall,
80 Queen’s Park. 416-978-3744. Free.
Music. World Music Festival. Chinese Orchestra, Kim Chow Morris, director; Japanese
Ensemble, Linda Caplan, director; Korean
Drum Ensemble, Charles Hong, director. Tribute Communities Recital Hall, 219 Accolade
East, YU, 4700 Keele St. 416-736-5186.
Free.
- 9:00: Mezzetta Restaurant. Mike Murley,
sax; David Occhipinti, guitar. 681 St. Clair
Ave. West. 416-658-5687. $7 cover.
- 2:00: Northern District Library. Piano
Recital. Music by Mozart, Chopin, Chausson,
- 8:00: JAZZ. FM91. Sound of Jazz Concert
- 8:00: Music Gallery/Gary Topp. Iva BitGershwin, Piazzolla. Advanced students from
Series: Kind of Blue. Kevin Turcotte, Pat Latová, violin/voice. Church of St. George the
the studio of Lawrence Pitchko. 40 Orchard
Barbera, Richard Underhill, Bernie Senensky,
Martyr, 197 John. 416-204-1080. $30(adView Blvd. 416-393-7610. Free.
Brandi Disterheft and other musicians. Old
vance only).
- 7:30: Angèle Dubeau and La Pietà 10th
Mill Inn, 21 Old Mill Rd. 416-595-0404.
- 8:00 Soundstreams Canada. An UnfinAnniversary Tour. Works by Saint-Saëns,
$25;$22.
ished Life. Cherney, Hillesum: An Unfinished
Glick, Morricone, Piazolla, De Falla, Brahms,
- 8:30: Hugh’s Room. Ian Tyson. See Nov. 4. Life; world premiere. Hilliard Ensemble; MariLiszt, Enescu & Heidrich. Wintergarden Thealyn Lightstone, narrator; Tafelmusik Chamber
tre. 416-872-5555. $29-$59.
Tuesday November 06
Choir; Chamber Orchestra; Ivars Taurins, con- 7:30: University of Toronto Faculty of
- 12:00_noon: Canadian Opera Company. ductor. 7:00: Young Artist Overture. MetroMusic. Opera Series: Donizetti: L’elisir
The Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre World
politan United Church, 56 Queen St. E. 416d’amore. Sandra Horst, conductor; Michael
Music Series: Nalinese Gendèr Wayang Quar- 366-7723. $37,$29,$10.
Patrick Albano, director. MacMillan Theatre,
tet. Seka Rat Nadi, gamelan. Four Seasons
80 Queen’s Park. 416-978-3744. $26; $16.
Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen
Gershwin Galore. Rhapsody in Blue; Porgy and
For complete run see music theatre listings.
St. West. 416-363-8231. Free.
Bess (selections); Tin Pan Alley standards
- 12:10: University of Toronto Faculty of (They Can’t Take That Away from Me, SomeMusic. World Music Festival. Cuban music
Music. Voice Performance Class: In Remem- one to Watch Over Me, & others). Judy
ensembles. Ruben Esguerra & Paul Ormandy,
brance. Students with Douglas Bodle & Mia
McLane, soprano; Stewart Goodyear, piano;
directors. Tribute Communities Recital Hall,
Bach, piano. Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s Park.
Jack Everly, conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60
YU, 4700 Keele St. 416-736-5186. Free.
416-978-3744. Free.
Simcoe St. 416-593-4828. $33-$98.
- 8:00: Les AMIS. Zagreb Saxophone Quar- 12:30: York University Department of
- 8:30: Hugh’s Room. Ian Tyson. See Nov. 4.
tet. Works by Mozart, Penderecki, Detoni,
Music. Jazz at Noon: YU Jazz Orchestra. Al
Sipus & Pascal. Church of the Redeemer, 162
Wednesday November 07
Henderson, director. Tribute Communities
Bloor St. West. 905-277-9928. $20;$10.
- 12:00_noon: Yorkminster Park Baptist
- 8:00: Mississauga Arts Council. MissisSt. 416-736-5186. Free.
Church. Emilja Neufeld, organ. 1585 Yonge
sauga Players. Foster: Self Help. BurnThursday
November
08
- 1:00: St. James Cathedral. Music at Mid- St. 416-922-1167. Free.
hamthorpe Library Theatre, 1350 Burnday Recital Series - Edward Connell, piano.
hamthorpe Rd East. 905-812-1759. $17-$20.
Chopin, the 24 preludes. 65 Church Street.
Music. World Music Festival. Klezmer EnRichard Bradshaw Amphitheatre Chamber
416-364-7865. Free.
semble, Brian Katz, director; Middle Eastern
Series: Signatures. New chamber music by
- 8:00: Toronto Philharmonia Orchestra.
- 8:00: Mirvish Productions. Sweeney
Ensemble, Bassam Shahouk, director; Balkan
graduate student composers, including piano
Memory and Reflection. Kositsky: Requiem for
Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. The
Music Ensemble, Irene Markott, director. Trib- trio, music for solo cello, trio for flute, harp & Cecilia; Brahms: Requiem. Canadian Children’s
Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King St.
ute Communities Recital Hall, 219 Accolade
viola. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Opera Chorus; High Park Children’s Choir; ToWest. 416-872-1212, 800-461-3333. Call
East, YU, 4700 Keele St. 416-736-5186.
Arts, 145 Queen St. West. 416-363-8231.
ronto Philharmonia Chorus. Kerry Stratton,
for prices. For complete run see music theatre Free.
Free.
conductor. George Weston Recital Hall, Toronlistings.
- 2:00 & 8:00: TSO. Gershwin Galore. Roy
to Centre For the Arts, 5040 Yonge St. 416Thomson Hall. See Nov. 6.
Met Organ Recital. Patricia Wright. 56 Queen 872-1111/416-870-8000. $29-59; $25-49
St. 416-363-0331 x26. Free.
(sr).
- 12:30: Christ Church Deer Park Angli- - 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra
can Church. Noonday Chamber Music ConHosts. Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Tower:
certs. Music by Ewald, Bach,& Holst. Les
Fourth Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman;
Yeux Brass: Steven Bitaxi & Roger Smith,
Beethoven: Piano Concerto #5 (Emperor);
trumpet; Elizabeth Fava, French horn; Stephen Tchaikovsky: Symphony #4. Anton Kuerti,
Ruttan, trombone; Jeff Wu, tuba. Christ
piano; Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Peter
Church Deer Park Anglican Church, 1570
Oundjian, conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60
Yonge St. 416-920-5211. Free.
Simcoe St. 416-593-4828. $36-$123.
- 8:30: Hugh’s Room. Alasdair Fraser/Natalie
Music. World Music Festival. Flamenco guitar Haas/Genticorium. 2261 Dundas St. West.
Kerry Stratton, Music Director
ensemble: Roger Scannura, director; World
416-531-6604. $32.50; $28.50(adv).
Music Chorus: Andrea Kuzmich, director. Trib- - 9:00 and 11:00: Trane Studio. Blues guiute Communities Recital Hall, YU, 4700 Keele tarist Josh White. 954 Bathurst St. 416-913St. 416-736-5186. Free.
8197. $15.
Toronto Philharmonia
Memory and Reflection
Thursday November 8 @ 8 pm
Toronto Centre for the Arts
Weston Recital Hall
An Evening of Remembrance
Friday, November 9th, 2007 at 7:30pm
Letters written home by Canadian Soldiers,
Music for Remembrance Day, & Wartime Songs
5040 Yonge Street
featuring:
Kerry Stratton, conductor
Bridget Hogan, soprano
Mathew Zadow, baritone
TORONTO PHILHARMONIA CHORUS,
CANADIAN CHILDREN’S OPERA CHORUS,
HIGH PARK CHILDREN’S CHOIR
“one
Brahms: Requiem
Kositsky: Requiem for Cecilia
of our finest
concert halls has a
worthy resident
orchestra”
Colin Fox, actor
The Mississauga Children’s Choir
The Salvation Army’s North York Temple Band
Glenn Barlow, conductor
Robert Crabtree, piper
The Choir of St. Paul’s
Eric N. Robertson, organist & conductor
St. Paul’s Bloor Street Anglican Church
227 Bloor Street East,
Toronto, Ontario
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Tickets $20 in Advance & $25 at the Door
Available from the Harbourfront Centre Box Office
Presented by
St. Paul’s
Foundation
For the Arts
Telephone: 416 973 4000 (option 1)
Online: www.harbourfrontcentre.com
er & Redford. Jack Hattey, director; Dr. Elisa
Mangina, assistant director. 151 Glenlake
Ave. 416-767-7491. Collection taken & donation for a parish charity. Reception to follow.
- 8:00: The Toronto Consort. The Queen. A
celebration of Elizabeth I with music for voices, lutes, bandora, cittern, gambas, violin, and
keyboard. Karen Woolridge plays the part of
the good queen. David Fallis, artistic director.
Trinity St. Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St. W.
416-964-6337. $14-$40.
- 8:00: Victoria College Choir. Fall Concert. Collection of German chorales & folk
songs; selections from Mozart’s Vespere Solemnes de Confessore. Taylor Sullivan, director. Victoria College Chapel, 73 Queen’s Park
Cres., U of T. Free. 416-585-4521.
- 8:00: Roy Thomson Hall/Massey Hall.
Globe Trotting: Whirling Dervishes of Turkey.
Rumi: Sema. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe
St. 416-872-4255. $39.50-$59.50.
GGS Voices - Vocal Showcase. Art songs &
opera. William Littler, guest emcee. RCM Concert Hall. 90 Croatia St. 416 408 2824 x
321. $15;$10(sr/st).
- 9:00: Harbourfront Centre. Salvador Allende Arts Festival for Peace. La Peña Latinoamericana. Popular Latin American music with
Santerias World Music, Marcelo Puente and
Diego Marulanda. Brigantine Room, 235
Queen’s Quay West. 416-973-4000. $6.
- 7:30: Amadeus Choir. Humanity in Time
of War. A multi-media event focusing on Remembrance Day. Works include the Messe by
Frank Martin, Requiem by Eleanor Daley, and
presents
~E
QUEEN
November 9 & 10, 2007 at 8 pm
Which queen? you ask. Why, can there be any other than
Fair Oriana, our good Queen Bess, she who claimed to
have the body “of a weak and feeble woman” but to
“have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of
England too”? By whom we mean Elizabeth I, who
reigned over the golden age of English music and
literature, and was herself a brilliant writer. Join us as
we celebrate this remarkable monarch, with music for
voices, lutes, bandora, cittern, gamba, violin and
keyboards, and actor Karen Woolridge playing the part
of Her Majesty herself!
www.torontoconsort.org
Sponsored by
For Tickets call 416-964-6337
the Dona Nobis Pacem by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Rebecca Whelan, soprano; Jesse Clark
baritone; Shawn Grenke, organ; Lydia Adams,
conductor. Yorkminster Park Baptist Church,
1585 Yonge St. 416-446-0188. $35.
- 7:30: Holocaust Education Week. The
Children of Willesden Lane: Beyond the Kindertransport – A Memoir of Love & Survival.
Story of pianist Lisa Jura as told by her daughter, pianist Mona Golabek, in narrative &
music. Sephardic Kehilla Centre, 7026
Bathurst Street, Thornhill. 416-635-2883
x30. Free.
- 7:30: Toronto Choral Society. The Larks
Still Bravely Singing. A presentation of music,
sound, visuals, and narration honouring Remembrance Day. Toronto Choral Society. Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth Ave.
416-410-3509. Free-will offering ($20 suggested).
- 7:30: Toronto Sinfonietta. Gala Concert.
Music by Tchaikovsky; Bruch; Hue; Mozart;
Rachmaninov and Liszt. Matthew Jaskiewicz,
music director; Winners of violin, woodwinds
& piano 2nd concerto competition. Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles St. West. 416-4104379. $30;$15(21 and under).
- 7:30: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. A
Star is Born. Elgar: Nimrod, from Enigma Variations; Chopin: Piano Concerto # 1 in e; Mussorgsky (arr Ravel): Pictures at an Exhibition.
Members of the Toronto Symphony Youth
Orchestra; Rozalyn Chok, piano (winner Toronto Symphony Volunteer Committee Piano Competition); Peter Oundjian, conductor. Roy
$26-$72.
Humanity In Time Of War
Friday November 09
Music. World Music Festival. Caribbean
Steelpan Orchestra: Lindy Burgess, director;
Escola de Samba: Tevor Yearwood, director.
Tribute Communities Recital Hall. AfricanAmerican Ensemble, Catherine Wilson, director. ACE Lounge, 219 Accolade East, YU,
4700 Keele St. 416-736-5186. Free.
- 7:30: St. Paul’s Foundation for the Arts.
Letters Home. Colin Fox, narrator; Mississauga Children’s Choir; Thomas W.D. Bell, conductor; Salvation Army’s North York Temple
Band; Glenn Barlow, conductor; Roberts
Crabtree, piper; Choir and Soloists of St.
Paul’s; Eric N. Robertson, music director &
organist. St Paul’s Bloor Street, 227 Bloor
Street E. 416-973-4000 or at the door. $20.
Music. World Music Festival.West African
Ensembles: Mande, dir. Anna Melnikoff, Tribute Communities Recital Hall; and Ghana, dir.
Kwasi Dunyo & Larry Graves, ACE Lounge,
219 Accolade East, YU, 4700 Keele St. 416736-5186. Free.
- 8:00 Elettra Media. Robert Bruce, composer/pianist. Talk & live performance for In Between the Lines - Book One. Also includes
musical selections from Bound for the Tenderness of Eden. Music Room, Hart House, 7
Hart House Circle. 416-978-8849. $20;
$15(sr/st).
- 8:00: Jazz at Oscar’s. Mélissa Laveaux.
Arbor Room, Hart House, University of Toronto, 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-2452. Free.
- 8:00: St. Martin-in-the-Field’s Anglican
Church. The Annual Advent Carol Service.
Music by Britten, Rachmaninoff, Vann, Gardn-
- 7:30: Wexford Heights United Church.
Wexford Heights Chancel Choir. Works by
Thomas Tallis, John Rutter, Oscar Peterson,
Rodgers/Hammerstein & others. Andre Rakus,
director; William Turnbull; Serenata Singers;
Audrey McLeod, director. Wexford Heights
United Church, 2102 Lawrence Ave E. 416757-0676. $10; $8(sr/st); Free(children under
12).
- 8:00: Canadian Ballet Theatre.
GISELLE. Music by Adolphe Adam, music;
Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa,
Rostislav Zakharov, Choreography; Bolshoi
Ballet, set and costumes; Nadia Veselova
Tencer, artistic director. Elgin Theatre, 189
Yonge Street. $87,$75,$55.
- 8:00: Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra. Brahms: Academic Festival Overture; Dvorák: Symphony No.7.; operatic excerpts by Mozart, Charpentier and Bernstein.
Norman Reintamm, conductor; Katie Murphy,
vocal. P.C. Ho Theatre, Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto, 5183 Sheppard Ave.
East. 416-879-5566. $25, $20, children under 12 free.
- 8:00: Jana Skarecky. Emily, The Way You
Are. Excerpts from the one-woman opera
about Emily Carr; works for piano, voice, cello,
& violin. Ramona Carmelly, voice; Di Brandt,
libretto; Joe Ferretti, Brenda Muller, Catherine
Maguire. Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave.
$15;$10
- 8:00: Music Gallery. Rock Plaza Central &
Inhabitants. Jazz-rock, country-rock. Church of
St. George the Martyr, 197 John. 416-2041080. $15; $10(member/st).
Music. William Porter Organ Recital. 7:15:
Lydia Adams, Conductor and Artistic Director
With guest host Rick MacInnes-Rae.
Long-time war correspondent for CBC Radio
Stories of courage and self sacrifice are interspersed with
glorious music in this evening dedicated to showing the
other side of war - not the brutality, but the humanity and
compassion from one human being to another.
Requiem - Eleanor Daley
Messe - Frank Martin
The Woman with the Alabaster Box - Arvo Pärt
Dona Nobis Pacem - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Rebecca Whelan, soprano • Jesse Clark, baritone
Shawn Grenke, piano • Lydia Adams, conductor
Saturday, November 10th, 2007, 7:30 p.m.
Yorkminster Park Baptist Church
1585 Yonge Street - 1 block north of St. Clair
Tickets: $35 General Admission
Student Rush Seats $10 (at the door only)
Call the Amadeus Choir: 416-446-0188
Website: www.amadeuschoir.com
Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St. West
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Pre-concert lecture by Kerala Snyder. Knox
College Chapel, 59 St. George St. 416-3630331 x26. $20; $15(st/RCCO members).
- 8:00:The Toronto Consort. The Queen.
See listing for Nov. 9.
- 10:30: Harbourfront Centre. Salvador
Allende Arts Festival for Peace. Noche de
Percusión. Arabic and North African influenced Latin American music, Afro Peruvian,
and Cuban music, with Sambito and Son Aché.
Brigantine Room, 235 Queen’s Quay West.
416-973-4000. $6.
Sunday November 11
- 12:00: Derek Macrae. Guitar Solo Concert.
See Nov.4.
- 2:30: Holocaust Education Week. Jewish Composers in the Holocaust. Musical odyssey relating the flourishing of Jewish music in
Germany & Central Europe in the years 19201945, including Heifetz: The Ghetto Cantata;
Di Lererin Mire (Mire the Teacher). Belva
Spiel, soprano; Jerry Fink, narrator; Toronto Jewish Folk Choir. St. Ansgar Lutheran Church, 1498
Avenue Road. 416-635-2883 x301. Free.
Cathedral
Bluffs
Symphony
Orchestra
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presents
THE LARKS, STILL BRAVELY SINGING
Please join us for a one-hour presentation in music,
sound, visuals and narration honouring the Canadian
men and women who served in World War II.
Saturday, November 10, 2007
7:30 pm*
Eastminster United Church
310 Danforth Avenue
(1 block west of Chester subway)
Lest we forget.
*Free-will offering, $20 suggested donation
at the door would be gratefully received.
Please call 416-410-3509
Or visit our web site at www.torontochoralsociety.org
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Ave. (near Jane & St. Clair). 416.763.2713.
$20 Fundraiser for the new pipe organ.
- 3:00: Hannaford Street Silver Band.
Battlefield Brass. Walton: film score to The
Battle of Britain; Bulla: Firestorm; Croall: GiGiiwe Na?; Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture.
Curtis Metcalf, conductor; Tom Allen, host &
narrator. 2:15: Pre-concert chat with Curtis
Metcalf, Tom Allen & Barbara Croall, hosted
by Ray Tizzard. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27
Front St. East. 416-366-7723. $34; $28(sr);
$23(st); group rates.
- 3:00 Mississauga Choral Society. Peace
in Our Time. Doug Hicton, narrator; Mervin
The Toronto Choral Society
Norman Reintamm
Principal Conductor
CBSO/RCM
competition
winner
Katie Murphy
Soprano:
Opera excerpts
from Mozart
Charpentier and
Bernstein
- 2:30: Unitarian Congregation of South
Peel. A Concert of African music. Adam Soloman, guitar. 84 South Service Road. 905-2785622. $20. children under 16 free.
- 3:00: Cantabile Chorale of York Region/King Edward Choir of Barrie. Remembrance Day Concert. Jenkins: The Armed
Man (A Mass For Peace). Robert Richardson,
conductor. Thornhill United Church, 25 Elgin
St.. 905-731-8318. $20.
- 3:00: Church of the Advent. Fauré’s Requiem and Music for Remembrance. Clem
Carelse, director; John Stephenson, organist.
The Schola Ecclesiam Choir. 40 Pritchard
Fick, conductor. Christ Church United, 1700
Mazo Cr., Clarkson. 905-278-7059. Free will
offering.
- 3:00: The Windermere String Quartet.
Concert Series. Fodor: Quartet #4; Eybler Trio
Op. 2; Beethoven Quartet in F, Op. 59 #1. St.
Olave’s Anglican Church, 360 Windermere
Ave. 416.769.7054. $12-$18.
- 3:00: Canadian Ballet Theatre. Giselle.
See Nov.10.
Star is Born. Roy Thomson Hall. See Nov 10.
- 4:00: Christ Church Deer Park. Mozart’s
Requiem. The combined choirs of Christ
Church Deer Park and The Church of St. Mary
Magdalene; Renita Reitz, soprano; Heather
Jewsen, alto; Sasha Bataligin, tenor; Matthew
Zadow, bass; Bruce Kirkpatrick Hill, music
director. 1570 Yonge St., 416-920-5211.
$25.
- 4:00: All the King’s Voices. Requiems by
Faure and Mozart. A presentation of two requiems marking Remembrance Day. With orchestra and soloists. Grace Church on the Hill,
300 Lonsdale Rd. 416-225-2255. $20;
$15(st./sr); $5(children).
- 4:00: Association of Sound Healing
Technologies and Research. World Music
Peace Concert. Ash’tar Ron Allen, Indian bamboo flute, and the Whole Wide World Music
Ensemble. Upstairs Studio, The Village Healing Centre, 240 Roncesvalles Ave. 416-5457141. $15; $10(adv) free(ch w/ adult).
- 4:00: St. James Cathedral. Music for
Remembrance Day. Andrew Ager, organ; St.
James Singers. 65 Church Street. 416-3647865. Free.
- 4:00: Vesnivka Choir. Olzhych: Poetry in
Music. Music by Lawryshyn. Katerina Tchoubar, soprano; Serhij Danko, baritone; Toronto
Ukrainian Male Chamber Choir. All Saints’
Kingsway Anglican Church, 2850 Bloor St.
West. 416-763-2197, 416-246-9880.
$25;$20.
- 4:30: St. Clement’s Church. Organist in
Recital: Thomas Fitches. Music of Bach,
Braga, Franck, Langlais. 59 Briar Hill Ave.
416-483-6664. Freewill offering.
- 7:00: Harbourfront Centre. Salvador
Allende Arts Festival for Peace. Quilapayún.
Chilean instrumental and vocal folk music
ensemble. Enwave Theatre, 235 Queen’s
Quay West. 416-973-4000. $45.
- 7:30: Dr. Vicky Santiago. Martha Joy –
Live. Canadian Idol finalist Martha Joy is
joined by tenor Larry Tozer and Cardinal Carter Academy for the Arts choir. Proceeds donated to Sunnybrook Veteran’s Wing. George
Weston Recital Hall, 5040 Yonge St. 416872-1111. $30-$50.
- 7:30: Flying Cloud Folk Club/Mariposa. Tamarack reunion - Songs of the Canadian
Landscape. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick Avenue.
416-410-3655. $20;$18(members).
- 7:30: Aradia Ensemble. Israel in Egypt by
Handel. Kevin Mallon, Conductor; Jennie
Such, soprano; Jennifer Enns Modolo, alto;
Nils Brown, tenor; Sean Watson, bass.
Church of the Holy Sacrament, 24 Cheritan
Ave. 416-461-3471. $25.
- 8:00: Music Gallery. Rock Plaza Central
& Inhabitants. A double bill featuring two
Canadian ensembles where country rock
meets instrumental jazz. 197 John St.. 416204-1080. $15; ($10 adv.); $10 (members
& students).
La Música Magnífica from South America:
Caetano Veloso. Caetano Veloso, singer/poet/
guitar. Massey Hall, 15 Shuter St. 416-8724255. $49.50-$69.50.
Free.
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre Vocal Series:
Duetting Divas. Program of operatic & art song
repertoire. COC Ensemble Studio Graduates
Shannon Mercer & Krisztina Szabó, voice; Liz
Upchurch, piano. Four Seasons Centre for the
Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. West. 416363-8231. Free.
Music. YU Women’s Chorus. Mechem: Seven
Joys of Christmas & other works by Hawley,
M. Haydn, Reger, Hatfield, Daley & Henderson.
Nathalie Lalkens-Doucet, piano. Lisette Canton,
director. Tribute Communities Recital Hall,
Accolade East, YU, 4700 Keele St. 416-7365186. Free.
- 8:00: 416 Toronto Creative Improvisers
Festival. Intro to Improv. Nobuo Kubota solo;
Sarah Peebles, sho; David Sait, guzheng; Drumheller; The Selfish Gene. Tranzac Club, 292
Brunswick. 416-923-8137. $5.
- 8:00: Music Toronto. Quatuor Arthur-Leblanc. Prévost: Mouvement; Shostakovich:
String Quartet #4; Schubert: String Quartet
#14 in d (Death and the Maiden). Hibiki Kobayashi, Brett Molzan, violins; violist Jean-Luc
Plourde, viola; Ryan Molzan, cello. Jane Mallett
Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, 27
Tuesday November 13
Front St. East. 416-366-7723, 800-708- 12:10: University of Toronto Faculty of 6754. $45,$41; 18-35 pay your age; $5(st,
accompanying adult ½ price).
Music. Voice Performance Class: Student
Performances. Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s Park.
416-978-3744. Free.
- 1:00: St. James Cathedral. Music at
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre Jazz Series:
Midday Recital Series -Stillman Matheson,
Mainstream Jazz. The Humber Contemporary
organ. 65 Church Street. 416-364-7865.
Jazz Ensemble, 10-piece band accompanied by
vocals. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing
Arts, 145 Queen Street West. 416-363-8231.
Free.
- 12:00: Yorkminster Park Baptist
Church. William Lupton, organ. Yorkminster
Park Baptist Church. 416-922-1167. Free.
- 7:00: Tafelmusik. Dazzling Baroque. Works
by Boccherini, Zelenka, Veracini, Locatelli, Mondonville, and Vivaldi. Jeanne Lamon, music
director. Trinity- St. Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor
St. West. 416-964-6337. $29-68, /$23-61
(st/sr).
80 Queen’s Park. 416-978-3744. Free.
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- 8:00: Mississauga Arts Council. Brampton Music Theatre: Grease. Rose Theatre.
905-794-6068. For complete run see music
theatre listings.
Gillett Entertainment Group and Live
Nation. Frank Sinatra Jr., Frank Sinatra Jr.,
vocal/arranger/bandleader/piano. Roy Thomson
Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-872-4255. $69.50.
- 9:00: 416 Toronto Creative Improvisers Festival. A Night of Rat-Drifting. Eric
Chenaux, Djs the influences of impro; The
Thorpe; The Guayaveras. Tranzac Club, 292
Brunswick. 416-923-8137. $5.
- 9:00: Mezzetta Restaurant. Sultans of
String. World-jazz flamenco. Chris McKhool,
violin; Kevin Laliberte, guitar. 681 St. Clair
Ave. West. 416-658-5687. $7 cover.
Met Organ Recital. Elisa Mangina. 56 Queen
St. 416-363-0331 x26. Free.
Music. YU Baroque Ensemble. Works by Ruggieri, Stradella, Leclair & Corelli. Mark Chambers, director. Tribute Communities Recital
Hall, Accolade East, YU, 4700 Keele St. 416736-5186. Free.
- 12:30: Christ Church Deer Park Anglican Church. Nonday Chamber Music Concerts. Music by Bach and others. Aisslinn
Nosky, violin. Christ Church Deer Park Anglican Church, 1570 Yonge St. 416-920-5211.
Free.
- 1:30: Women’s Musical Club of Toronto. Anton Kuerti, piano, & Teng Li, viola. Hay-
dn: Sonata # 52 in E-flat; Beethoven: Piano
Sonata #6 in F, Op.10/2; Brahms: Sonata for
Viola and Piano in E-flat, Op.120/2; Schubert:
Sonata in c, D.958 (Op.Posth.). Walter Hall,
Edward Johnson Bldg., U of T, 80 Queen’s
Park. 416-923-7052. $35. *SOLDOUT*
- 7:30. Theatre Erindale. Women of the
Klondike. World Première adaptation of Frances Backhouse’s book. Marc Richard, director;
Christopher Dawes: musical directior. 3359
Mississauga rd., N, Mississauga. 905-5694369. $14;$9(sr/st).
80 Queen’s Park. 416-978-3744. Free.
Music. Faculty Concert Series: Bill Westcott,
piano. Ragtime, blues & stomps. Tribute Communities Recital Hall, Accolade East, YU,
4700 Keele St. 416-736-5888. $15($70/
series); $5(st.)
- 8:00 : Kerry Stratton. A Boston Pops Tribute. Music by Bernstein, Gershwin, Sousa,
Gould, Rodgers, Tchaikovsky and others. Kerry
Stratton, conductor. Markham Theatre for the
Performing Arts, 171 Town Centre Blvd. 905305-7469. $56.
- 8:00: Toronto Masque Theatre. Commedia! Rebel: Les Caractères de la danse (ballet);
St. Vincent Millay: Aria da capo (theatre);
Clyde Henry Productions: Jan Zenek Disparet
(film), and more songs, poetry and dance exploring the fine line between comedy and tragedy in life and art. Derek Boyes, Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière, Arlene Mazzerolle, Martin
Julien, William Webster, Larry Beckwith and
other performers. Winchester Street Theatre,
2007-08 SEASON
COMMEDIA!
COMMEDIA
15, 16, 17 November, 2007
8:00 pm
WINCHESTER STREET THEATRE
80 Winchester St.
with Derek Boyes, Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière,
Larry Beckwith, Kathleen Kajioka,
Joelle Morton, Borys Medicky and other guests
An interactive evening featuring
a short play,
a ballet, a film, poetry, songs
and dances
exploring the fine line between
comedy and
tragedy in life and art
CALL: 416.410.4561
FOR SEASON SUBSCRIPTIONS
AND SINGLE TICKETS
HENRY PURCELL
“Let loud Renown with all her
thousand Tongues,
Repeat no Name but his in
her immortal Songs”
24, 25, 26 April, 2008
8:00 pm
Meredith Hall
THE INDIAN QUEEN
BETTY OLIPHANT THEATRE
404 Jarvis St.
Directed by Derek Boyes,
choreographed by Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière
soprano Meredith Hall, tenor Daniel Auchincloss
and a host of other familiar TMT artists
Larry Beckwith leads a period instrument band
from the violin.
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80 Winchester St. 416-410-4561. $25,
$22(sr/st). For complete run see Opera/Music
Theatre listings.
- 8:00: Tafelmusik. Dazzling Baroque. (See
Nov.14).
Oundjian & Ehnes. Vaughan Williams: Fantasia
on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; Walton: Violin
Concerto; Ridout: Ballade for Viola and Orchestra; Elgar: Enigma Variations. James Ehnes,
violin/viola; Peter Oundjian, conductor. Roy
$36-$123.
- 9:00: 416 Toronto Creative Improvisers Festival. Somewhere There is Here.
Kyle Brenders and Scott Thomson; HolyBlueGhost; Brodie West and Brent Tanemura.
Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick. 416-9238137. $5.
Friday November 16
Music. YU Brass Ensemble. James MacDonald, director. Tribute Communities Recital
Hall, Accolade East, YU, 4700 Keele St. 416736-5186. Free.
- 7:30: Music at Metropolitan. All the
Things You Are. Music and stories for life’s
journey. Rev. Tim Elliottm, priest/piano and
Rev. Malcolm Sinclair, minister/singer. Metropolitan United Church, 56 Queen St. 416-3630331 x26. $15.
Music. Faculty Artist Series: M is for Man,
Music, Mozart. Andriessen: song cycle; works
by Mozart. Cameron Stowe, piano; Heather
Bambrick, vocals; Gillian MacKay, conductor.
Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-9783744. $22;$14.
- 8:00: Kohar Symphony Orchestra and
Choir. 160 member orchestra and choir from
Gyumri, Armenia. Sets and costumes by Sue
LePage. George Weston Recital Hall, 5040
Yonge St. 416-872-1111. $25-$92.
- 8:00: Mississauga Arts Council. Etobicoke Musical Productions: Cabaret. 500 The
East Mall. 416-248-0410. $20-$23. For complete run see music theatre listings.
Gabriela Montero, piano. Selection of Baroqueinspired improvisations. Glenn Gould Studio,
250 Front St. West. 416-872-4255. $29.50.
Celebritas Entertainment. Ballroom For
Life. Elizarov Dance Theatre, waltz, tango,
quickstep, foxtrot, rumba, cha cha, jive, paso
doble, samba. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe
St. 416-872-4255. $60-$85.
- 8:00: Sinfonia Toronto. Two Giants: Dvorak & Elgar. Dvorak: Piano Quintet in A (orchestral version); Elgar: Suite from the Spanish Lady; Introduction and Allegro. Anya Alexeyev, piano; Nurhan Arman, music director.
Grace Church-on-the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale Rd.
416-499-0403. $40; $32(sr); $12(16-29/st).
Nov. 14).
- 10pm: 416 Toronto Creative Improvisers Festival. Eclectic Soiree. Bitchin’; The
Tiny Orchestra; Alien Life Bomb. Tranzac
Club, 292 Brunswick. 416-923-8137. $5.
- 10:00pm: Lula Lounge. Klimax with DJ
Billy Bryans. 1585 Dundas St. West. 416588-0307. $15.
- 2:00: University Settlement Music and
Arts School. Concert of Scholarship Winners.
St. George the Martyr Church, 197 John
St. 416- 598- 3444 x243. Free, donations
welcome.
- 7:30: Burlington Civic Chorale. Brahms
– Zigeunerlieder. Also works by Elgar, Rossini,
Schumann, Vaughan Williams, Chatman,
Mechem, Daunais and Halley. Gary Fisher,
music director; Laura Pin, accompanist. St.
Christopher’s Church, 662 Guelph Line, Burlington. 905-335-5863. $18, $15(advance).
- 7:30: Music at St. Luke’s. In Praise of the
Seasons. Guests: Praise Unlimited, singing
group. Parish Hall, 1383 Ontario Street. 905639-7643. $20.
- 7:30: Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Church. The Celebration Concert. The liturgical year in music and hymns. Our Lady of Sorrows Church Choir; William Omeara, director.
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, 202 St.
Patrick St. 416-598-3920. $25;$20.
- 7:30: Thornhill United Church. November Delights. Concert of light music presented
by the choirs & instrumentalists of the church.
25 Elgin St., Thornhill. 905-889-2131. Freewill offering.
Oundjian & Ehnes. $28.50-$80. See Nov. 15.
- 7:30: U. of T. Scarborough. Music of All
Latitudes. Greco-Arabic Ensemble Maza
Meze. The ARC Theatre, 1265 Military Trail.
Soprano
Daniel Auchincloss
Tenor
LARRY BECKWITH
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
DEREK BOYES &
MARIE-NATHALIE LACOURSIÈRE
ARTISTIC ASSOCIATES
torontomasquethatre.ca
416-978-8849. $12; $10(st./sr).
Music. World Music Ensembles. African
drumming and dancing; folk roots; Balinese
gamelan; Klezmer; Steel Pan. MacMillan Theatre, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-978-3744. Free.
- 8:00: Acoustic Harvest Folk Club. Jon
Brooks. St. Nicholas Anglican Church, 1512
Kingston Rd. 416-264-2235. $15.
- 8:00: Academy Concert Series. Inspired
by Venice. Vivaldi: Baroque trio sonatas. Nicolai Tarasov, baroque oboe/recorder; Paul Meyer, baroque violin; Paul Jenkins, organ; Laura
Jones, baroque cello. Eastminster United
Church, 310 Danforth Ave. 416-927-9089.
$15; $10(sr/st).
- 8:00: Canadian Sinfonietta. A Bulgarian
Exchange. Raitcho Christov, conductor. Studio
Theatre, Toronto Centre for the Performing
Arts, 5040 Yonge St. 905-707-1200 x2.
$30(adult);$25(sr);$15(st); $10(child).
- 8:00: Long & McQuade/Miyazawa
Flutes. Ian Clarke, flute in Recital. Compositions by Clarke. Jean Desmarais, piano. Victoria College Chapel, 93 Charles St. West. 416588-7886. $10.
- 8:00: North York Concert Orchestra.
Subscription Concert 1. Beethoven: Egmont
Overture; Mozart: Concerto for Horn #4 in E
flat K.495; Dvorak: Symphony #9 in e From
the New World. David Haskin, horn; David
Bowser, conductor. Grace Church on-the-Hill,
300 Lonsdale Rd. 416-628-9195. $20;
$15(sr/st).
Greek National Tourism Organization.
Globe Trotting: Pavlo. Pavlo, guitar/composer/
singer. Massey Hall, 15 Shuter St. 416-8724255. $39.50-$59.50.
Nov.14).
Sunday November 18
- 12:00noon: Derek Macrae. Guitar Solo
Concert. See Nov.4.
- 1:30: CAMMAC/McMichael Gallery.
Sunday Concerts. William Blake: Songs of
Innocence. Glynis Ratcliffe, vocal. McMichael
Gallery. $25, $15, $9.
- 2:00: Scarborough Civic Centre. Sunday
Concert Series - Two for the Show. Rotunda,
150 Borough Drive, Scarborough. 416.
338.3295. Free.
- 2:30: Alchemy. An Hour of Chamber Music.
Haydn: Trio for flute, cello, piano; Bartok: Duos
for flute, violin; Debussy: Petite Suite piano
duet; Meyer: Concerto Retro; Rowley: English
Folksongs. Henneke Cats, flute; Julie Kerekes,
violin; Gabe Shapiro, cello; Marcia Beach, piano; Meri Gec, piano. Valleyview Residence,
541 Finch Ave W. 416-398-0555. Free.
- 3:00: Hart House. Sunday Concerts. Piano
music from the classical, romantic and contemporary eras. Su Jeon, piano. The EckhardtGramatte Winner National Tour. Great Hall,
Hart House, University of Toronto. 416-9782452. Free.
Music. YU Concert Choir. Talisker Players
orchestra & soloists. Haydn: Lord Nelson
Mass. Lisette Canton, director. Metropolitan
United Church, 56 Queen St. East. 416-7365186. $15;$5(st).
Nov.14).- 4:00: Friends of Doug Riley.
Celebration Concert in Memory of Doug Riley.
Debbie Fleming, Michael Burgess, David Clayton Thomas, Motherlode, Dr. Music & many
other performers. Convocation Hall, University
of Toronto, 31 King’s College Circle. 416-9788849. $25-$55. Concert & CD sales to benefit the Doug Riley Scholarship Fund at Faculty
of Music, UofT.
- 4:00: St. James Cathedral. Twilight Recital Series - Patricia Wright, organ. 65 Church
Street. 416-364-7865. Free.
- 4:00: St. Philip’s Anglican Church. Jazz
Vespers: Roberto Occhipinti Quartet. 25 St.
Phillips Road. 416-247-5181. Offering.
- 4:30: Christ Church Deer Park. Jazz
Vespers. The Fred Duligal Quartet. Tribute to
Colman Hawkins. Fred Duligal, tenor sax; Ian
Barge, piano; Duncan Hopkins, bass; Don Vickery, drums. 1570 Yonge St. 416-920-5211.
Free/donations welcome.
- 6:00: Tarana. Cd Release Concert. Visual
music featuring songs adapted and arranged
for Indian classical dance, sung by Bageshree
Vaze. Enwave Theatre, Harbourfront Centre,
231 Queen’s Quay West. 416.973-4000.
$15;$12 (adv/sr/st)
- 7:30: Flying Cloud Folk Club. Ragged But
Right - CD release. Kathy Reid-Naiman &
Arnie Naiman. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick Avenue. 416-410-3655. $20;$18(members).
- 7:30: Northminister United Church
Choir. Vivaldi’s Gloria. Katharine Phillips,
director; David Phillips, organ. Northminister
United Church, 255 Finch Ave. West. 647378-4096. Offering.
Free the children. Million Dollar Youth Initiative Gala. African children’s choir; Craig &
Marc Kielburger, speakers., Roy Thomson
Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-872-4255.
Monday November 19
- 2:30: Alchemy. An Hour of Chamber Music.
New Horizons Tower, 1140 Bloor St W. See
November 18.
- 7:30: Aldeburgh Connection/University
of Toronto Faculty of Music. Opera Series:
Young Artists in Recital. Allison Arends, soprano; Kathleen Promane, mezzo; Bruce Ubukata, piano. Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s Park.
416-978-3744. $18; $12.
Music. YU Concert Choir. Talisker Players
orchestra and soloists. Haydn: Lord Nelson
OUR LADY OF
MOUNT CARMEL CHURCH
Celebrating its 140th Anniversary and
completion of the Church Restoration
presents
The Celebration Concert
The Liturgical Year in Music
& Hymns To Mary
by
Our Lady of Sorrows Church Choir
Conductor: William O’Meara
Saturday Nov. 17, 7:30 pm
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church
(just west of the St. Patrick subway
station at Dundas and University)
Tickets $25.00 regular, $20.00 s/s
Tickets available at the door
or by cheque, payable to
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church.
202 St. Patrick Street,
Toronto, ON M5T 1V4
Info: 416-598-3920
www.ourladyofmountcarmel.ca
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Mass. Lisette Canton, director. Tribute Communities Recital Hall, Accolade East, YU,
4700 Keele St. 416-736-5888. $15;$5(st)
- 8:00: JAZZ. FM91. Sound of Jazz Concert
Series~Lush Life: Billy Strayhorn Remembered. Works of the Duke Ellington arranger.
Mike Murley; Kevin Turcotte; William Carn;
Nick Fraser; Steve Wallace and more. Old Mill
416-205-5555. $40. Preferred seating and
champagne reception, $100.
- 8:00 Marjorie Sparks, soprano. In Recital, with Brahm Goldhamer, piano. Song by
Debussy, Duparc & R. Strauss. Grace Church
on the Hill, 300 Lonsdale Rd. 416-944-3343.
$20
director. Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s Park. 416978-3744. Free.
Inn, 21 Old Mill Rd. 416-595-0404. $25; $22.
- 8:00: Koffler Concerts. A Bach Evening. A
Music. York U Jazz Festival - York U Jazz
concert featuring the music of Bach with the
Choirs. Bob Hamper, Mim Adams, directors.
Koffler Chamber Orchestra. Works include the
Tribute Communities Recital Hall, YU, 4700
Triple Concerto in C major, the Violin Concerto
Keele St. 416-736-5186. Free.
in E; Piano Concerto in d. Robert Silverman,
- 8:00: Talisker Players Chamber Music.
Tuesday November 20
piano, Jacques Israelevitch, music director and
The Harp of Fire. Works by Sohal, Shepherd,
violin. Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St.W.
Foulds, Caplet and Ivanov. Zorana Sadiq, soRichard Bradshaw Amphitheatre Dance Seprano, Kristina Szabo, soprano, Mary McGeer,
ries: Bas-Reliefs. Duets set in a scenic environ- artistic director. Trinity St Paul’s Centre, 427
ment. Marie-Josée Chartier & Dan Wild,
Bloor St.West. 416-466-1800. $30, $20 (sr),
dance; Betty Goodwin, visual art; Ginette Lau- $10 (st).
rin & Guillaume Bernardi, choreography. Four
Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Music. York U Jazz Festival - York Jazz EnQueen St. West. 416-363-8231. Free.
sembles. Mark Eisenman, Frank Falco, Kelley
Jefferson & Mike Murley, directors. ACE
Music. New Music by Young Composers.
Lounge, 219 Accolade East, YU, 4700 Keele
Works by graduate composition students from St. 416-736-5186. Free.
the studio of David Mott. Tribute Communi- 9:00: Small World Music. Tinariwen.
ties Recital Hall, Accolade East, YU, 4700
Musicians of the Touareg people of the Sahara
Keele St. 416-736-5186. Free.
desert. (Advance tickets at Soundscape
- 1:00: St. James Cathedral. Music at Mid- Records, 572 College St.) Mod Club, 722 Colday Recital Series - Quirino DiGuilio, organ.
lege St. 416-588-4663. $25 advance, $30
Music of Italy. 65 Church Street. 416-364door.
7865. Free.
- 2:00: Lowe’s. White Christmas. Irving Berlin, composer. Graham Rowat, Kate Baldwin,
Nora McLellan, Barry Flatman, Jayme ArmRichard Bradshaw Amphitheatre Piano Virtuostrong. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts.
so Series: Romanticism. Works by Granados,
416-872-2262. $37-$150. For complete run Mompou, Albeniz. José Menor, piano. Four
see music theatre listings.
Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145
Music. 7 O’Clock Swing Band. John Jasavala, - 12:00: Hart House Music Committee.
RECITAL
MARJORIE SPARKS
SOPRANO
BRAHM GOLDHAMER
PIANO
GRACE CHURCH ON THE HILL
300 Lonsdale Road, Toronto.
November 19, 2007 at 8 p.m.
For information call 416-944-3343
ADMISSION $20
www.marjoriesparksvoicestudio.com
Aldeburgh
C O N N E C T I O N
with
The Faculty of Music
University of Toronto
Celebrating the art of song
www.aldeburghconnection.org
Allison Arends
soprano
Kathleen Promane
mezzo
Bruce Ubukata
piano
Schumann’s Frauenliebe und-leben, Strauss’ Brentano-Lieder,
Richard Rodney Bennett’s A Garland for Marjorie Fleming,
Howard Ferguson’s Discovery and duets by Mozart &
Beethoven
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 7:30 p.m.
WALTER HALL $18/$12 (416) 978-3744
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the harp of ﬁre
THE
talisker
players
chamber
music
Zorana Sadiq, SOPRANO
Krisztina Szabó, MEZZO SOPRANO
Ed Hanley, TABLA
Peter Longworth, PIANO
The Talisker Players
November 20 & 21, 2007, 8 pm
Trinity St. Paul’s Centre
Tickets: $30 / $20 / $10
Information: 416-466-1800
www.taliskerplayers.ca
Midday Mosaics Noon Hour Concert. Brahms:
Sonata #2 for Cello and Piano Op.99; Bartok:
Suite Paysanne Hongroise; Poulenc: Sonata for
Flute and Piano. Adriana Pera & Stephanie
Chua, cello-piano duo; Izabella Budai & Teresa
Zaleski, flute-piano duo. Hart House Music
Room, 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-2452.
Free.
- 12:00: Yorkminster Park Baptist
Church. Andrew Adair, organ. Yorkminster
Park Baptist Church. 1585 Yonge Street.
416-530-4428. Free.
Music. York U Jazz Festival - York jazz vocalists. Richard Whiteman, director. ACE Lounge,
219 Accolade East, YU, 4700 Keele St. 416736-5186. Free.
- 7:30: Mozart Society. Works by Mozart,
Haydn, Hummel. Katerina Englichova, harp;
Milan Brunner, flute; Marta Laurincova, piano.
First Unitarian Church, 175 St. Clair Avenue
West. 416-439-4354. $25(door); free to
members.
80 Queen’s Park. 416-978-3744. Free.
Music. York U Jazz Festival York - Jazz Ensembles. Artie Roth, Kevin Turcotte, Roy Patterson, Lorne Lofsky & Kelly Jefferson, directors. ACE Lounge, 219 Accolade East, YU,
4700 Keele St. 416-736-5186. Free.
- 8:00: Talisker Players Chamber Music.
See Nov. 20.
- 9:00: Mezzetta Restaurant. David Mott,
sax; Matt Brubeck, cello. 681 St. Clair Ave.
West. 416-658-5687. $7 cover.
- 12:15:Music at Metropolitan Noon at
Met Organ Recital. Dexter Roberts and
friends. 56 Queen St. 416-363-0331 x26.
Free.
- 12:30: Christ Church Deer Park Anglican Church. Noonday chamber music concerts. English art songs. Rhonwen Derbez,
soprano. 1570 Yonge Street. 416-920-5211.
Free.
Music. York U Jazz Festival - York jazz vocalists. Bob Fenton, director. ACE Lounge, 219
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80 Queen’s Park. 416-978-3744. Free.
Music. York U Jazz Festival - York Jazz Ensembles. Anthony Michelli, Kevin Turcotte,
Lorne Lofsky, Mark Eisenman, Jim Vivian &
Mike Malone, directors. ACE Lounge, 219
- 8:00: DanceWorks. Harbourfront Centre’s
NextSteps Series - Manga. Serge Bennathan,
choreographer; Susie Burpee & Linnea Swan,
dance; Bertrand Chenier, music; Jat GowerTaylor, set. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens
Quay West. 416-973-4000. $27; $17 (sr/st/
CADA/WIFT/SCDS). For complete run see
Friday November 23
Music. YU Chamber Strings. Peggy Hills,
- 7:30: Brampton Folk Club. Friday Folk
Night concerts - Our Scottish Roots with Maria Dunn & David Leask. Sanderson Hall, St.
Paul’s United Church, 30 Main St. South,
Brampton. 647-233-3655. $12;10(st/sr).
Music. Choirs in Concert: Celebremus. Celebrating Music & its patron Saint Cecilia. Music by Orban. Women’s Chorus, Robert Cooper,
conductor. Victoria College Chapel, 93 Charles
St. West. 416-978-3744. $14;$8.
- 7:30:Smile Theatre. Gift of the Magi A
presentation of O. Henry’s classic story. Yorkminster Part Baptist Church. 1585 Yonge St.
416-922-1167. $10.
Music. York U Jazz Festival - YU Jazz Orchestra. Works by Fletcher Henderson, Al
Henderson, Gerry Mulligan. Al Henderson &
Mike Cado, directors. Tribute Communities
Recital Hall, YU, 4700 Keele St. 416-7365186. Free.
- 8:00: Arraymusic/The Music Gallery/
NUMUS. Celebrating James Tenney. Tenney:
Monody; Spectrum 1; Bridge.The Arraymusic
Ensemble. 7:15: Pre-concert talk. Church of
St. George the Martyr, 197 John. 416-2041080. $20; $15(Gallery members); $10(sr/st,
arts workers, underemployed).
- 8:00: Clarkson Music Theatre. Wonderful. Meadowvale Theatre, 6315 Montevideo
Rd. 905-615-4720. For complete run see mu-
sic theatre listings.
- 8:00: Living Arts Centre. Holly Cole .
Michael Kaeshammer. Living Arts Centre,
4141 Living Arts Dr. 905-306-6000. $39
and up.
- 8:00: On Stage at Glenn Gould Studio.
Dione Taylor – A Little Respect. Dione Taylor
pays a musical tribute to Aretha Franklin. With
David Clayton-Thomas; Sharon Riley; the Faith
Chorale. Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St. W.
416-205-5555. $40, $35(st/sr).
Tribute Concert for the late Richard Bradshaw.
Beethoven: Symphony #9; Britten: Peter
Grimes, four Sea Interludes; Wagner: Lohengrin prelude to Act 3. Royal Conservatory Orchestra, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Canadian
Children’s Opera Chorus. George Weston Recital Hall, Toronto Centre for the Arts. 416872-1111. $20; $10(sr/st).
- 8:00: Summer Opera Lyric Theatre.
Eight Songs for a Mad King. By Maxwell Davies. Celebrates 100 Years of the Department
of Psychiatry (U of T). Bruce Kelly, baritone;
Jose Hernandez, conductor; Guillermo SilvaMarin, stage director. Performance followed
by presentation by neuropsychiatrist Dr. Anthony Feinstein. Betty Oliphant Theatre, 404
Jarvis St. 416-978-8849. Free, but tickets
must be pre-ordered.
- 3:00: Etobicoke Suzuki School of Music. Winter Concert. School concert, over 100
violin & cello students ages 3 to 18 performing a variety of classical and popular repertoire. Location in Etobicoke TBA. 416-2394637. Free.
- 7:00: EarthTones 2007. Music for Hope.
Students & Faculty at U of T’s Faculty of
Medicine; Sheila McCarthy, host. Convocation
Hall, 31 King’s College Circle. 416-978-2764.
$15(door);$10(adv). proceeds to support international children’s initiatives.
- 7:30 Mississauga Children’s Choir. The
Advent of Song. Thomas Bell, conductor.
Westminster United Church, 4094 Tomken
Rd., Mississauga. 905-273-9505. $12,$5.
- 7:30: Opera Encore. Puccini: Boheme. Text
by Murger and Illica. Richard Valdez, artistic
director. Heliconian Club, 35 Hazelton Ave.
416-603-4791.
- 7:30: The Togogo Grannies of Bloor
Street United Church & The Old Orchard Blossoms of St Timothy’s Anglican Church. A Benefit Concert on behalf of
the Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign
of the Stephen Lewis Foundation. The Nathaniel Dett Chorale, Brainerd Blyden-Taylor, founder & conductor & The University of Toronto
Gospel Choir, conductor Lisa Toussaint. Bloor
Street United Church, 300 Bloor St. W. 416766-6481. $25.
Music. U of T Wind Ensemble. Schwantner:
Concerto for Percussion and Wind Ensemble;
works by Bernstein & Mackey. Dame Evelyn
Glennie, percussion solo; Gillian MacKay, conductor. MacMillan Theatre, 80 Queen’s Park.
416-978-3744. $14;$10.
- 7:30: Westminster United Church. The
Advent of Song. Mississauga Children’s Choir.
4094 Tomken Road. 905-273-9505.
$30(family of 4);$12(adult); $5(sr&st).
- 8:00: Arkady Yanivker & Yuri Meyrowitz. Violin & Piano Sonata Recital. Music
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by Korngold, Prokofiev & Brahms. Glenn Gould
Studio, 250 Front St. West. 416-205-5555.
$30; $25(sr); $15(st).
- 8:00: Brampton Lyric Opera. Gala Concert. Mark Dubois and Shek Ko, conductors.
Maria Pellegrini with BLO soloist, orchestra
and chorus. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Lane,
Brampton. 905-874-2800. $35$75(adult);$31.50-$67.50(sr/st).
- 8:00: Jubilate Singers. The Roots of
Christmas. Caroline Spearing, conductor. Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth Ave.
416-536-5750. $20;$15(sr);$10(st).
- 8:00: Mississauga Children’s Choir. The
Advent of Song. Westminster United Church,
4094 Tomken Rd. 905-273-9505. $5-$30.
- 8:00: Mississauga Symphony. Mostly
Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto;
Symphony #4 (Italian); Handel: Royal Fireworks. Benjamin Bowen, violin; John Barnum,
conductor. Hammerson Hall, 4141 Living Arts
Drive, Mississauga. 905-306-6000. $35$45.
- 8:00: Mooredale Concerts. Tokai String
Quartet. Krommer: Quartet in B flat for Clarinet and Strings; Czerny: String Quartet in e;
Bartok: String Quartet #2; Murphy: Dark Energy. Guest: Robyn Choi, clarinet. Willowdale
United Church, 349 Kenneth Ave. 416-9223714 x103. $25; $20(st/sr).
- 8:00: NUMUS/Arraymusic/The Music
Gallery. Celebrating James Tenney. Tenney:
Koan for solo violin; Three Rags for solo piano;
Three Pieces for Drum Quartet; To Weave (a
meditation) for piano; Ergodos III for pianos.
Eve Egoyan, Casey Sokol, piano; Malcolm
Goldstein, violin; Toronto Percussion Quartet.
Church of St. George the Martyr, 197 John.
519-896-3662. $20; $15(Gallery members);
$12(sr/st, arts workers, underemployed).
- 8:00: Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts. Daniel Bolshoy, Canadian-Israe-
li guitarist. Pre-Opening Season Concert. Richmond Hill United Church, 10201 Yonge St.
Richmond Hill. 905-737-8985 x6007. $?
Lexus. Eastern Expressions: Yamato Drummers of Japan. Yamato, drums. Roy Thomson
Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-872-4255. $49.50$69.50.
- 8:00: Toronto Saxophone Society. Saxophone with Strings. Music of Denisov, Steinberg, Anklewicz and more. Mike Anklewicz,
saxophone; Soohyun Nam, cello; Ben Plotnick,
viola. Arraymusic Studio, 60 Atlantic Ave.
416-558-9457. $10.
Sunday November 25
- 12:00: Derek Macrae. Guitar Solo Concert.
See Nov.4.
- 1:00: Mooredale Concerts. Music & Truffles Children’s Concerts: Tokai String Quartet
with Robyn Choi, clarinet. Music by Bartok,
Krommer & Czerny. Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s
RICHMOND HILL
Centre for the Performing Arts
Proudly Presents
Daniel Bolshoy
Canadian-Israeli
Classical Guitarist
Our first presentation in our
pre-opening season!
Saturday November 24, 2007 8:00 p.m.
Richmond Hill United Church
10201 Yonge Street, Richmond Hill
For tickets call (905) 737-8985 ext. 6007
Proudly sponsored by
Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts
Opening October 2008
(but celebrations begin on November 24!)
www.Mooredaleconcerts.com
TOKAI QUARTET
with Robyn Cho, clarinet
1st Toronto performance of a stunning
Carl Czerny Quartet, plus Bartok #2 &
an enchanting Krommer Clarinet Quartet
Sat. Nov. 24, 8 pm - Willowdale United Church
Sun. Nov 25, 3 pm - Walter Hall
(Music & Truffles at 1 pm)
$25/$20
416 587-9411
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Park. 416-922-3714 x103. $10.
- 1:00pm&3:00pm: Mississauga Arts
Council. Giggle and Stomp. Bruno Roy &
Janic Gingras. Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living
Arts Dr. 905-306-6000. $19 (children $3
off).
Concert Series - North York Concert Orchestra. Rotunda, 150 Borough Drive, Scarborough.
416. 338.3295. Free.
- 2:00: The Sound Post. Fall Salon Concert.
Mayumi Seiler, violin & friends. 93 Grenville
St. 416-971-6990. Free.
- 2:00: St. Anne’s Anglican Church. Centennial Celebration: St. Cecilia Concert. Program of British choral music relating to the
period of the 100th anniversary of this National Historic Site. St. Anne’s Festival Choir. 270
Gladstone Ave. 416-922-4415. Freewill offering.
- 2:00: University Settlement Music and
Arts School. Concert of Chamber Music. St.
George the Martyr Church, 197 John St. Free,
donations welcome. 416- 598- 3444 x243.
- 2:00: Roy Thomson Hall. International
Vocal Recitals: Measha Brueggergosman, soprano. Roger Vignoles, piano. Roy Thomson
Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-872-4255. $25$85.
- 2:30: The Music Gallery/Arraymusic/
NUMUS. Music Gallery Open House: Celebrating James Tenney. Tenney: Road to Ubud
& other music. Evergreen Club Gamelan, Arraymusic Ensemble, Stephen Clarke, piano &
others. Church of St. George the Martyr, 197
John. 416-204-1080. $20; $15(Gallery members); 410(sr/st, arts workers, underemployed).
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- 3:00: Mooredale Concerts. Tokai String
Quartet. See Nov 24. Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s
Park. 416-587-9441.
- 3:00: Toronto Chamber Choir. Kaffeemusik: Welcome to all the Pleasures. A
celebration of St. Cecilia’s Day, with music by
Purcell, Vaughan Willams, and more. David
Fallis, artistic director. Christ Church Deer
Park, 1570 Yonge St. 416-763-1695. $20;
$16.
- 4:00: Northdale Concert Band. Music
from the British Isles. Don Mills United
Church, 85 Parkwoods Village Drive. 416444-4962. Free.
- 4:00&7:00: Roy Thomson Hall/Massey
Hall/Starvox Entertainment. Mazowsze’s
Warsaw Christmas. Polish carols and dances.
Massey Hall, 15 Shuter St. 416-872-4255.
$39.75-$69.75.
- 4:00: St. John’s Convent. Cantibile Choir.
Cheryl Chung, conductor. St. John’s Convent,
233 Cummer Ave. 416-226-2201 x305.
Free will offering.
- 4:30: Church of St. Mary Magdalene.
Festival of Chant Concert - Celebrating 85
Years of Gregorian Chant. Robert Castle, Cantor; St. Mary Magdalene’s Women’s Schola;
Schola S. Grégoire; Jean Pierre Noiseux, Music Director; Andrew Adair, interim Organist.
477 Manning Avenue. 416-531-7955. $10;
$5(sr/st).
- 5:00: Czech Community Centre. Nocturnes at Masaryktown. Katerina Englichova,
harp; Milan Brunner, flute; Marta Laurincova,
piano. St. Wenceslas Church. 416-439-4354.
$20(general);$15(st).
- 7:30: Flying Cloud Folk Club. Scrievet.
Three piece acoustic ensemble; Christine Storey, fiddle & voice; Ed Nicol, guitar, mandolin,
bouzouki & voice; Scott Henderson, border
pipes, highland pipes, flute & whistles.
Tranzac, 292 Brunswick Avenue. 416-4103655. $20;$18(members).
- 8:00 Esprit Orchestra. Off the Edge –
25th Anniversary Season. Schnittke: Concerto
for Piano and String Orchestra; Schafer: Scorpius; Freedman: Town; Harman: 14 Chorale
Melodies; Gougeon: Clare Venus. Andrew
Burashko, piano; Marie-Danielle Parent, soprano; Alex Pauk, conductor. Jane Mallett
Theatre, 27 Front Street East. 416-3667723.$32, $24 (sr), $15 (st). 7:15: Pre-concert talk.
Monday November 26
Music. Chamber Music Series: Wind Spectacular: Strauss Edition. R. Strauss: Serenade
Op.7; Suite in B flat Op.4; First Sonatina for
Winds “From an invalid’s workshop”. Members of the Toronto Wind Quintet & guests.
Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-9783744. $22;$14.
- 8:00: Toronto Organ Club. Frank Iacino
and Andre van den Hoogen, organ. St; James
United Church, 400 Burnhamthorpe Rd. 905824-4667. $12; free to children under 10.
Tuesday November 27
- 12:00noon: Canadian Opera Company.
The Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre Urban
Music Series: Hymn to Night. Works by
R.Murray Schafer. GGS New Music Ensemble, chamber orchestra & soprano. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145
Music. Voice Performance Class: French Art
Song. With Ginette Duplessis and Mia Bach.
Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-978-3744.
Free.
- 1:00: St. James Cathedral. Music at Midday Recital Series -Rachel Mahon, organ. 65
Church Street. 416-364-7865. Free.
Music. YU Medieval & Renaissance Ensemble. Judith Cohen, director. 235 Accolade
East, YU, 4700 Keele St. 416.736-5186.
Free.
Music. Student Composers Concert. Walter
Hall, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-978-3744. Free.
- 8:00: Cirrus Ensemble. Chamber Music
for Woodwinds and Strings. Works by Bach;
Krommer; Strauss; Stravinsky and Schoenberg. Walmer Road Baptist Church, 188
Lowther Ave. 416-535-6728. By donation.
- 8:00 Hart House. Hart House Symphonic
Band. Repertoire including John Adams: Short
Ride in a Fast Machine. Great Hall, Hart House, 7
Hart House Circle. 416.978.2452. $?
8:00: Opera Ontario. Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra: Daniel Lipton, director; Richard
Margison, tenor; Sondra Radvanovsky, soprano; Daniel Sumegi, baritone; Catherine
Kenn, mezzo-soprano. Living Arts Centre,
4141 Living Arts Dr., Mississauga. 905-3066000. $45 and up. *POSTPONED*
- 8:00: Music Toronto. Arnaldo Cohen, piano.
Schoenberg: Six Little Pieces, Op.19; Chopin:
4 Scherzi; works by Brazilian composers including Braga, Dutra, Gnattali, Guarnieri, Levy,
Mignone, Nazareth, Nepomuceno, Santoro,
Villa-Lobos. Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, 27 Front St. East.
416-366-7723, 800-708-6754. $45,$41;
18-35 pay your age; $5(st, accompanying
adult ½ price).
- 8:00: Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts. Little Women. A musical adaptation. Jim Betts, music & lyrics; Nancy Early, book; Jeffrey Huard, musical director.
Bathurst Street Theatre, 736 Bathurst St.
416-924-2243. $22. For complete run see
- 8:00: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra.
Bach - Christmas Oratorio. Anne Monoyios,
soprano; Daniel Taylor, countertenor; Rufus
Muller, tenor; Tyler Duncan, baritone; Ivars
Taurins, conductor. George Weston Recital
Hall, 5040 Yonge St. 416-872-1111. $25$69.
- 12:00noon: Yorkminster Park Baptist
Church. William Maddox, organ. Yorkminster
Park Baptist Church. 1585 Yonge Street. 416530-4428. Free.
Music. YU Male Chorus. Works by Whitacre,
Mäntyjärvi, Sibelius, Hoddinott, Spevacek,
The Cirrus
Ensemble
Chamber Music for
Woodwinds and Strings
Including works by Bach,
Krommer, R. Strauss,
Stravinsky and Schoenberg
Tuesday, November
27th, 8:00 pm
Walmer Road Baptist Church
188 Lowther Ave.
(north of Bloor, west of Spadina)
Admission by donation
(416) 695-8208
[email protected]
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Wilberg Thompson & Loomer. Lisette Canton,
- 5:30: Canadian Opera Company/Canadian Children’s Opera Company. Richard
Bradshaw Amphitheatre Series: CCOC goes
RUBY! Program of seasonal favourites with
choral & operatic classics. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St.
West. 416-363-8231. Free.
- 7:30: Aldeburgh Connection. Schubert’s
Cosmology. Songs about the sun, moon and
stars. Virginia Hatfield, soprano; Colin Balzer,
tenor; Stephen Ralls & Bruce Ubukata, piano.
Glenn Gould Studio, 416-735-7982, 416205-5553. $55 include intermission reception.
80 Queen’s Park. 416-978-3744. Free.
- 8:00 Soundstreams Canada. Russia’s
Academy of Choral Arts. Sacred Russian choral music; Rachmaninov: Vespers. Moscow’s
Academy of Choral Arts; Alexander Popov,
conductor. 7:00: Young Artist Overture. St.
Anne’s Anglican Church, 270 Gladstone Ave.
416-366-7723. $30,$22,$10.
Czech Journey. Mozart: Symphony #38,
K.504 (Prague); Martino : Concerto for 2
String Orchestras, Piano and Timpani; Dvorak:
Cello Concerto. Alisa Weilerstein, cello; Andrew Burashko, piano; Peter Oundjian, conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416593-4828. $36-$123.
- 9:00: Mezzetta Restaurant. Marilyn Lern-
Music. Jazz Ensembles: Vocal Jazz Ensemble and 11 O’Clock Jazz Orchestra. Lisa Marer, piano; Ernie Tollar, flute/sax. 681 St. Clair tinelli & Terry Promane, directors. Walter
Ave. West. 416-658-5687. $7 cover.
Hall, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-978-3744.
$14;$8.
- 12:00noon: Canadian Opera Company.
Music. YU Symphony Orchestra. TchaikoThe Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre Chamber vsky: Romeo & Juliet Overture, Marche Slav,
Series: Chamber orchestra concert. Works by Glinka, Russlan & Ludmilla Overture; Borodin:
Wagner, Copland & Stravinsky. members of
Symphony No.2 in b excerpts. Mark Chamthe National Ballet of Canada Orchestra; David bers, director. Tribute Communities Recital
Briskin, conductor. Four Seasons Centre for
Hall, Accolade East, YU, 4700 Keele St. 416the Performing Arts, 145 Queen Street West. 736-5888. $15;$5(st).
416-363-8231. Free.
- 8:00: DanceWorks. Bas-Reliefs. Multi- 12:10: University of Toronto Faculty of disciplinary collaboration using Canadian paintMusic. Thursdays at Noon: Opera a Casa.
er Betty Goodwin’s pictorial work as a startOperatic music arranged/transcribed for piano ing point. Marie-José Chartier, artistic direc(2, 4, 6 and 8 hands) and other instruments.
tion. Music by Alexander MacSween &
Mia Bach, Andrea Grant, piano with guest
Gaétan Leboeuf; Chartier & Dan Wild, dance;
performers. Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s Park.
Julie Fox, costumes & scenography; Peter
416-978-3744. Free.
Mettler, video. Harbourfront Centre’s Enwave
Theatre. 231 Queens Quay West. 416-973Met Organ Recital. Matthew Coons. 56 Queen 4000. $27, $17(sr/st/CADA/WIFT/SCDS). For
St. 416-363-0331 x26. Free.
- 12:30: Christ Church Deer Park Angli- - 8:00: Markham Theatre for the Performcan Church. Noonday chamber music coning Arts. Duo Diorama – An Evening of Rhythm
certs - Empire Trio. Sonatas by Buxtehude,
and Blues. Mix of classical & jazz, with music by
Mozart, Vivaldi, and others. Bozena Szubert, Gershwin, Schoenfield & Grant. MingHuan Xu,
violin; Ron Harry, cello; Renata Zorawska,
violin; Winston Choi, piano. 171 Town Centre
piano. 1570 Yonge St. 416-920-5211. Free.
Blvd. 905-305-7469. $47.
- 2:00: Northern District Library. Recital - 8:00: Show One Productions. Dmitri
for Violin and Piano. Beethoven: Sonata #5
Hvorostovsky, baritone. With Moscow’s
“Spring”; Mozart: Sonata #2 in E flat; WieniAcademy of Choral Art and the Moscow
awski: Polonaise Brillante Op.21. Elizabeth Loe- Chamber Orchestra; Constantine Orbelian,
wen Andrews, violin; Daisy Leung, piano. 40
conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St.
Orchard View Blvd. 416-393-7610. Free.
416-872-4255. $55-$150.
- 8:00: Tafelmusik. Bach, Christmas OratoCzech Journey. Roy Thomson Hall. See Nov 28.
rio (Cantatas 1-3) and Magnificat. Ann
Monoyios soprano,; Daniel Taylor, countertenor; Rufus Muller, tenor; Tyler Duncan, baritone. Ivars Taurins, conductor. Trinity-St.
Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St West. 416-9646337. $78, $55, $37/ $71, $48, $29 (st./sr).
Friday November 30
soprano; Michelle Simmons, mezzo-soprano;
Allison Wiebe, piano. St. George the Martyr
Church, 197 John St. $15;$10 (sr/st). 416598- 3444 x243. Benefit Concert for the University Settlement Music and Arts School.
Music. The 100-voice YU Gospel Choir. Robi
Botos, piano. Gospel works by Smallwood,
Walker, Lewis & Franklin. Karen Burke, director. Tribute Communities Recital Hall, Accolade East, YU, 4700 Keele St. 416-7365888. $15;$5(st)
- 8:00: Art of Touch. Buxtehude Tercentenary
Commemoration. Works by Buxtehude, Scheidt, Scheidemann, Weckmann, Tunder, Froberger and others. Kevin Komisaruk, organ. Knox
College Chapel, University of Toronto, 80
Queen’s Park. 416-978-2079. $40 (adult);
Free (st & 18 under).
- 8:00: Canadian Aboriginal Music
Awards Concert. Performances by Aboriginal artists. Rogers Centre, 1 Blue Jays Way.
416-872-1111. $35(advance); $40(door).
- 8:00: Markham Theatre for the Performing Arts. John McDermott, tenor. Holiday music & favourites. 171 Town Centre
Blvd. 905-305-7469. $56.
- 8:00: Masterworks of Oakville Chorus
and Orchestra. Messiah by Handel. Mary
Mother of God Catholic Church, 2475 North
Ridge Trail, Oakville. 905-257-7308. $20;
15(sr/st);$10 children.
- 8:00: Tafelmusik. Bach, Christmas Oratorio (Cantatas 4-6) & Magnificat. See Nov 29.
- 8:00: Mississauga Arts Council. Christmas Concert. City Centre Musical Productions. Eleanor Calbes, director. Clearview
Christian Reform Church. 905-820-1833.
$15-20.
- 8:00: Mississauga Arts Council. Romantic Fantasy Concert- Instrumental Favourites.
Forte Music Canada Ltd. Living Arts Centre,
4141 Living Arts Dr. 905-855-1030.
- 9:00 Hart House. Brandi Disterheft Quintet. Arbor Room, Hart House, 7 Hart House
Circle. 416.978.2452. Free.
- 7:30: Counterpoint Chorale. Peace! Handel and Harmony. Church of the Holy Trinity,
Saturday December 01
19 Trinity Square. 416-253-4673. $25;
$20(adv).
- 7:30: University Settlement Music and Music. Electroacoustic Music. Recent work
Arts School. The Sung Caress. Anne Yardley, by student, faculty & guest composers. WalTHE
Aldeburgh
C O N N E C T I O N
Celebrating
the art of song
Schubert’s Cosmology
Virginia Hatﬁeld soprano
Colin Balzer tenor
Stephen Ralls &
Bruce Ubukata piano
Songs about the sun, moon and stars - powerful
images of life and love in German poetry
Be our guest for Viennese delicacies and wine!
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 7:30 p.m.
GLENN GOULD STUDIO
Tickets $55 (416)-205-5555
(includes intermission reception )
www.showplace.org
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ter Hall, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-978-3744. Free.
- 2:00 & 8:00: Lowe’s. White Christmas.
Irving Berlin, composer. Graham Rowat, Kate
Baldwin, Nora McLellan, Barry Flatman,
Jayme Armstrong. Nov 20-Jan 5. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts. 416-872-2262.
$37-$150.
- 2:30 & 7:30: Assembly Hall. Celtic Christmas Celebration: Fundraiser for St. Paul’s
United Church. Celtic music, dance & traditions from England, Ireland, Scotland & Wales,
with pipers, dancers & fiddlers. 1 Colonel
Samuel Smith Park Dr. 416-259-6541.
$20(advance only).
- 3:00: U. of T. Scarborough. Sounds of the
Season. A concert of seasonal favourites. Concert Choir and String Ensemble, Lenard Whiting, director, Wind Ensemble, Lynn Tucker,
director. ARC Theatre, 1265 Military Trail.
416-978-8849. $12; $10(st./sr).
- 7:00: Kelita. Heavenly Night. Christmas
benefit CD and concert. Kelita, singer/song-
writer; guest: Jacob Moon. The Meeting
House, 2700 Bristol Circle, Oakville. 905465-3885. $25(advance); $35(door). To aid in
the restoration of children rescued from the
sex trade in Cambodia.
- 7:30: Annex Singers. What Sweeter Music. Charpentier: Messe de Minuit pour Noel;
Maria Case: the World’s Desire (premiere);
also music by Rutter; Whicher; Hatfield; singalong carols. St. Thomas’s Church, 383
Huron St. 416-968-7747. $15;$12(sr/
st);free(under 12). Refreshment to follow.
- 7:30: Clarkson Community Concerts.
Skylark Trio. Vocal sounds of the Big Band era.
Christ Church, 1700 Mazo Cr., Mississauga.
905-855-0112. $25; $22(sr/st); $10(12 &
under).
- 7:30: Etobicoke Youth Choir. Towards
Peace: Annual Holiday Celebration Concert.
Pascal Du Perron, accompanist; Louise Jardine, conductor. Westway United Church, 8
Templar Dr. 416-231-9120. $10; free (under 12).
William Woloschuk Artistic Director
...dedicated to the community
and to the performing arts
- 7:30: Oakville Chamber Ensemble. Charpentier: Messe de Minuit. Stéphane Potvin,
conductor. St. Simon’s Anglican Church, 1450
Litchfield, Oakville. 905 522 6841. $?
Music. Choirs in Concert: Magnific! Rejoice in
Songs of the Season. Music by Honegger, Pärt
& Burge. MacMillan Singers & Master Chorale, Doreen Rao & Brad Ratzlaff, conductors.
MacMillan Theatre, 80 Queen’s Park. 416978-3744. $14;$8.
- 7:30: Village Voices Choir. Bach’s Magnificat. St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, 143
Main St. North. Markham. 905-294-8687.
$15. children 12 and under free.
- 7:30: Wexford Heights United Church.
Otterbein College Choir. Dr. Gayle Walker,
director; festive performances of Advent and
Christmas music: Hans Leo Hassler: Verbum
caro factum est; Randall Thompson: Alleluia;
Greg Knauf: Gloria. Wexford Heights United
Church, 2102 Lawrence Ave E. 416-7570676. Freewill offering.
- 8:00: Acoustic Harvest Folk Club. John
Huston with The MadriGALS. St. Nicholas
Anglican Church, 1512 Kingston Rd. 416-2642235. $15.
- 8:00: Counterpoint Community Orchestra. James Aylesworth, vioin. Brahms: Symphony No.1; Vivaldi: Autumn; Ridout: Fall Fair;
Tchaikovsky: selections from Swan Lake. Terry Kowalczuk, conductor. St. Luke’s United
Church, 353 Sherbourne St. 416-802-1082.
$18(door);$15(adv).
December 01 continues
In support of University Settlement Music & Arts School
(www.usrc.ca/m&a.html)
The Sung Caress:
Peace! Handel & Harmony
a ‘seasonal’
exploration
Of the love song
Mireille Asselin, Soprano
Vasil Garvanliev, Baritone
Friday, Nov. 30, 2007, 7:30 pm
Church of the Holy Trinity
10 Trinity Square
(adjacent to the Eaton Centre)
Featuring solo and duet song by Chausson, Fauré,
Mendelssohn, Grieg, Barber, Argento & more
$20 in advance, $25 at the door
Sing-Along Messiah
ANNE YARDLEY (SOPRANO)
MICHELLE SIMMONS (MEZZO-SOPRANO)
ALLISON WIEBE (PIANO)
Deanna Hendriks, Soprano
Olenka Slywynska, Mezzo-Soprano
Cory Knight, Tenor
Vasil Garvanliev, Baritone
Karen Rymal, Organist
Sunday, Dec. 2, 2007, 4 pm
Saint Mary of the Angels RC Church
1481 Dufferin St. (at Davenport)
Free admission
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30TH @ 7:30 PM
TICKETS: $15 (ADULTS) $10 (STUDENTS/SENIORS)
St. George the Martyr Church
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Add your voice to the
Eglinton St. George’s
United Church presents splendour of Handel’s
A Sing-Along
MESSIAH
Sunday, December 2nd 3:00 p.m.
Peter Merrick, Music Director
Ruth Watson Henderson, Piano
With Organ, Trumpet & Timpani
Adults: $20 Students: $15
For tickets call: 416-481-1141 ext. 250
VISA and MasterCard are accepted
masterpiece in an intimate
church setting.
Seating is by voice part
and non-singers are
welcome. Please bring a
score if you have one.
Always wanted to sing
solos in Messiah? Singers
who wish to will be invited
to join our fabulous
soloists for parts of the
arias.
Eglinton St. George’s
United Church
35 Lytton Boulevard
Toronto, ON M4R 1L2
(Six blocks south of Lawrence
Ave., one block west of Yonge St.)
www.esgunited.org
- 8:00: Masterworks of Oakville Chorus
and Orchestra. Messiah by Handel. Mary
Mother of God Catholic Church, 2475 North
Ridge Trail, Oakville. 905-257-7308. $20;
15(sr/st);$10 children.
- 8:00: Mississauga Arts Council. Christmas Concert. City Centre Musical Productions. Eleanor Calbes, director. Clearview
Christian Reform Church. 905-820-1833.
$15-20.
- 8:00: Mississauga Festival Choir. A
Brassy Christmas. Rutter: Gloria; other works;
music by Chilcott, Loomer, Pinkham; guest
brass and percussionists; sing-along. Andrea
Grant, accompanist. Royal Bank Theatre, Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living Arts Dr., Mississauga. 905-306-6000. $25, $23(sr/st),
$20(12 & under).
- 8:00: Nagata Shachu. Tsuzure (tapestry).
Japanese taiko and music group. Annual concert premiering new works and celebrating
Kiyoshi Nagata’s 25 years as a taiko performer. Ryerson Theatre, 43 Gerrard St. E. 416978-8849. $30;$25(st/sr); $25(adv);20(adv.
st/sr).
- 8:00: Oriana Women’s Choir. Patapan!
Carols. William Brown, artistic director;
James Bourne, piano; Beverley Johnson, marimba; Leslie Newman, flute. Grace Church onthe-Hill. $25, $20, $10.
- 8:00: Perth Productions. A Celtic Christmas. An evening of traditional holiday and Celtic repertoire. Peter Ian McCutcheon, tenor;
Margaret Mikelait, piano; Rob Crabtree, piper.
Jubilee United Church, 40 Underhill Drive,
416-438-9458. $25.
Jazz & Blues: Toronto Blues Society’s 21st
Annual. Women’s Blues Revue, artists. Massey Hall, 15 Shuter St. 416-872-4255. $35$45.
- 8:00: Ryerson University. The Liberties
of Susan Howe: a pOemPERA by Udo Kasemets. Live & pre-recoded singing and speaking
voices; instrumental music & video projections; Susan Howe & Linda Catlin Smith,
speakers, Susan Layard, singer/speaker; Udo
Kasemets, piano; Pierre Tremblay, video artist; Richard Sacks, audio master. The Eaton
Auditorium, Rogers Communication Centre
(Auditorium 204); 80 Gould Street. 416-9795000. Free.
- 8:00: Scarborough Philharmonic.
Christmas Around The World. Humperdinck:
Hansel and Gretel Prelude; Liadov: Russian
Folk Songs; Waldteufel: Skater’s Waltz;
Adam: O Holy Night; Gassi: Ding Dong Merrily. Bach Children’s Chorus & Bach Chamber
Youth Choir; John Barnum, conductor. Birchmount Park Collegiate Institute, 3663 Dan-
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forth Ave. 416-429-0007. $30; $25(sr);
$15(st).
- 8:00: Tafelmusik. Bach, Christmas Oratorio (Cantatas 1-3) & Magnificat. See Nov. 29.
- 8:00: Toronto Youth Wind Orchestra.
Orff: Carmina Burana. Leslie Fagan, soprano;
Darryl Edwards, tenor; Kevin Macmillan, baritone; Toronto Mendelssohn Choir; and choirs
from Agincourt Collegiate High School,
Woburn Collegiate Institute, MacDonald High
School and Northlea Elementary School. Toronto Centre for the Arts. 5040 Yonge St.
416-870-8000. $15-$25.
Sunday December 02
- 11:00am&2:00 Solar Stage Children’s
Theatre/Shoestring. Magic Flute. Opera for
children based on Mozart’s opera. 100 Upper
Madison Ave. 416-368-8031. $13. Ages: 4+.
- 1:30: CAMMAC/McMichael Gallery.
Sunday Concerts. Camerata Tibia, early music
ensemble. McMichael Gallery. $25, $15, $9.
- 2:00: Off Centre Music Salon. FrancoSpanish Salon: Mallarme et/y Garcia Lorca.
Music by Ravel; Poulenc; Bizet; De Falla and
Turina. Norine Burgess, mezzo soprano; Oliver
Laquerre, baritone; Joe Macerollo, accordion.
Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St. West. 416205-5555. $45(regular);$35(sr/st).
Concert Series - Dukes of Harmony. Rotunda,
150 Borough Drive, Scarborough. 416.
338.3295. Free.
- 2:30: Aldeburgh Connection. Sunday
Series. Martha Guth, soprano; Colin Ainsworth, tenor; Peter McGillivray, baritone;
Stephen Ralls & Bruce Ubukata, piano. Walter
Hall. 416-735-7982. $50;$12(st).
- 2:30: Opera in Concert. Die Drei Pintos.
By Weber/Mahler. Eric Shaw, Daniel Lichti,
Jesse Clark, performers; Opera in Concert
Chorus, Robert Cooper, director; Robin Wheeler, music director/pianist. 1:45: Backgrounder
with host Iain Scott. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27
Front St. East. 416-366-7723, 800-7086754. $38,$28, group rates.
- 2:30 & 7:30: Scarborough Bel Canto
Choir. Once upon a Christmas. Brian Taylor,
director; guest organist. St. Dunstan of Canterbury Church, 56 Lawson Rd. 416-2844428. $15.
- 3:00: East York Choir. Songs for a Winter’s Day. Excerpts from Handel’s Messiah;
selections by Canadian composers & songwriters including Eleanor Daley, Gordon Lightfoot, Jane Siberry. Charlene Santoni, Kasia
Sadej, Andrew Haji, Jeremy Ludwig, soloists;
Talisker Players Orchestra & other performers; Jenny Crober, artistic director. Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth Ave. 416-
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- 3:00: Eglinton St. George’s United
Church. Sing-along Messiah. With organ,
trumpet and timpani. Peter Merrick, conductor; Ruth Watson Henderson, Piano. Eglinton
St. George’s United Church, 35 Lytton Blvd.
416-481-1141, ext. 250/416-690-3880.
$20; $15(st).
- 3:00: Markham Concert Band. A Seasonal Celebration. Anderson: Christmas Festival
& other seasonal music; carols; singalong.
Doug Manning, music director. Markham Theatre for the Performing Arts, 171 Town Centre Blvd. 905-305-7469.
- 3:00: Northdale Concert Band. Christmas Concert. St. Jude’s (Wexford) Anglican
Church, 10 Howarth Ave. 416-444-4962.
Free.
- 3:00: Ryerson University. The Liberties
of Susan Howe: a pOemPERA by Udo Kasemets. See Dec.1.
- 3:00: Symphony Orchestra of Canada.
Expressions of Canadian Heart. Canadian and
World classical music. Stefanos Karabekos
conductor. George Weston Recital Hall, 5040
Yonge St. 416-872-1111. $25-$65.
Music. YU Wind Symphony. Works by
Grainger, Hazo, Colgrass, Holst, Bernstein &
others. William Thomas, director. Tribute
Communities Recital Hall, Accolade East, YU,
4700 Keele St. 416-736-5888. $15;$5(st)
- 3:30: Tafelmusik. Bach, Christmas Oratorio (Cantatas 4-6) & Magnificat. See Nov.29.
- 4:00: St. James Cathedral. Twilight Recital Series - Christopher Ku, organ. 65 Church
Street. 416-364-7865. Free.
- 4:30: St. Clement’s Church. Advent Carol
Service. Music by Archer, McKie, Near, Palestrina, Vann. St. Clement’s Choir. 59 Briar
Hill Ave. 416-483-6664. Freewill offering.
- 7:30: Counterpoint Chorale. Sing-Along
Messiah. St. Mary of the Angels RC Church,
1435 Dufferin. 416-253-4673. $25; $20(adv).
- 7:30: Flying Cloud Folk Club. Jiig. Tradi-
tional songs & tunes. Ian Robb, voice; James
Stephens, viola, violin, mandolin & tenor guitar; Ian Clarke, guitar; Greg T. Brown, fiddle &
accordion. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick Avenue.
416-410-3655. $20;$18(members).
- 7:30: Peel Choral Society. Christmas
Concert. St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 66A
Main St. South. 905-840-6547.
$15(adult);$12(sr&st);$5(5-10yrs).
- 7:30: York Symphony Orchestra. French
and Bel Canto Opera Highlights. Arias, duets
& orchestral works by Massenet, Bizet, Bellini, Puccini, Donizetti, Rossini & others. Giovanna Carini & Katie Murphy, sopranos; Romulo Delgade, tenor; Paul Weston, guest conductor. Markham Theatre, 101 Town Centre
Blvd, Markham. 905-305-7469. Call for ticket prices.
- 8:30: Hugh’s Room. 3 For the Road. Tim
Harrison, Mose Scarlett, Mike Stevens. 2261
Dundas St. West. 416-531-6604. $22; $20(adv).
Scarborough
Bel Canto Choir
is proud to present their
Christmas concert:
“Once upon a
Christmas”
Brian Taylor, director
Sunday Dec. 2
at 2:30 and 7:30
St. Dunstan of Canterbury
Church, 56 Lawson Rd.
Tickets $15 at the door
SURTITLES sponsored by:
Guillermo Silva-Marin, General Director
D ie D rei P intos
by Carl Maria von Weber
completed by Gustav Mahler
(in German)
Comic confusion ensues when the protagonist
is impersonated by not just one but two other
characters in the course of the opera.
Eric Shaw
Daniel Lichti
Jesse Clark
Robin Wheeler, Music Director & Pianist
Opera in Concert Chorus, R. Cooper, Chorus Dir.
SUNDAY DECEMBER 2
ST. LAWRENCE CENTRE
AT 2:30 PM
FOR THE
ARTS
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Music Director
Sunday December 2, 2007 – 3:00 pm
For tickets call (416) 872–1111 or purchase
in person at Ticketmaster outlets or at the
Toronto Centre for the Arts Box Office
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Monday December 03
Music. Gamelan & Klezmer. Main lobby, Ed- 12:10: University of Toronto Faculty of ward Johnson Bldg, 80 Queen’s Park. 416Music. Taiko Drumming. Gary Kyoshi Nagata, 978-3744. Free.
director. Main lobby, Edward Johnson Bldg,
- 5:30: Canadian Opera Company. Richard
80 Queen’s Park. 416-978-3744. Free.
Bradshaw Amphitheatre Series: An Evening of
- 7:30: Cantabile Chorale of York ReDuets in Opera and Song. Works by Mengion/Metropolitan Silver Band. Joy of
delssohn, Schumann & Tchaikovsky. Adrianne
Christmas. Songs of the season; carol sing.
Pieczonka, soprano; Laura Tucker, mezzo; Liz
Robert Richardson & Fran Harvey, conductors. Upchurch, piano. Four Seasons Centre for the
Thornhill United Church, 25 Elgin St. 905Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. West. 416731-8318. Admission by food donation; silent 363-8231. Free.
offering.
- 7:30: Canadian Opera Volunteer Com- 8:00: Toronto Theatre Organ Society/
mittee. 60th Anniversary Gala. A concert
Kiwanis Club of Casa Loma. Lance Luce,
featuring past celebrity scholarship winners and
organ. Casa Loma, 1 Austin Terrace. 4162007 recipients. Iain Scott, master of ceremo499-6262. $21.
nies. Walter Hall, U. of T. Faculty of Music, 80
- 8:30: Hugh’s Room. Loudon Wainwright III. Queen’s Park. 416-978-3744. $30; $15; Gala
2261 Dundas St. West. 416-531-6604.
and Gala Cocktail Reception, $125.
$42.50; $37.50(adv).
- 7:30: Toronto Welsh Male Voice Choir.
Christmas Concert. Cyngerdd Nadolig with
Tuesday December 04
Deanna Hendriks, solo/soprano. Eglinton St.
- 12:00: Canadian Opera Company EnGeorge’s United Church, 35 Lytton Blvd. 416semble Studio. Richard Bradshaw Amphi410-2254. $25
theatre Series: Seasonal Songs. Selection of
- 8:00?: Eliana Cuevas. CD Release Conmusic celebrating the festive season. Four
cert. Eliana Cuevas Quintet & guests. Glenn
Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Gould Studio, 250 Front St. West. 416-205Queen St. West. 416-363-8231. Free.
5555.
Music. Voice Performance Class: Song Recital.
Emanuel Ax Plays Beethoven. Mozart: SymGraduate student singers and pianists. Walter
phony #4, K.19; Beethoven: Piano Concerto
#4; Bruckner: Symphony #4 (Romantic).
- 1:00: St. James Cathedral. Music at Mid- Emanuel Ax, piano; Peter Oundjian, conductor.
day Recital Series -Andrew Adair, organ. 65
Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-593Church Street. 416-364-7865. Free.
4828. $41-$130.
- 9:00: Mezzetta Restaurant. Celebrating
Music. Guitar Orchestra. Jeffrey McFadden, Hannukah with David Buchbinder Quartet.
director. Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s Park. 416David Buchbinder, trumpet; Victor Bateman,
978-3744. Free.
bass; Peter Lutek, sax; Dave Wall, vocals &
piano. 681 St. Clair Ave. West. 416-658Keytone. Paul Anka: 50th Anniversary Tour. 5687. $10 cover.
Massey Hall, 15 Shuter St. 416-872-4255.
Thursday December 06
$82-50-$135.50.
Strauss: Violin Sonata, Op.18; Goodyear: New
Work for piano (premiere). Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Bldg., U of T, 80 Queen’s Park.
416-923-7052. $35. *SOLD OUT*
- 7:30: Art of Jazz. Afro Cuban Social Club. Jane
Bunnett, musician. Art of Jazz Studio 202, 55
Mill Street Bldg 74. 416-840-7663. Free.
Music. Jazz Ensembles: 10 O’Clock Jazz
Orchestra. Paul Read, director. Walter Hall,
80 Queen’s Park. 416-978-3744. $14;$8.
Emanuel Ax Plays Beethoven. Roy Thomson
Hall. See Dec 5.
Band. Christmas Pops. Greatest hits of
Christmas past & present. Guests: Etobicoke
Youth Choir, Louise Jardine, music director;
John Edward Liddle, ECCB music director.
Etobicoke Collegiate Auditorium, 86 Montgomery Rd. 416-410-1570. $18; $15(sr);
$5(st); free for children.
- 8:00: Quodlibet Chamber Choir. I Sing of
a Maiden. Hassler: Missa Dixit Maria; a capella choral works from the 15th century to the
present. Marcus Reinkeluers, director. St.
Leonard’s Anglican Church, 25 Wanless Ave.
416-255-6749. $12; $10(st/sr).
- 8:00: Elmer Iseler Singers. Handel’s
Messiah. Amadeus Choir, Meredith Hall, soFriday December 07
prano; Anita Krause, mezzo; Mark DuBois,
- 7:30: Ensemble TrypTych Chamber
tenor; Alexander Dobson, bass. Lydia Adams,
Choir. Handel’s Messiah. A concert featuring conductor. Metropolitan United Church, 56
Part 1 of Handel’s masterpiece plus seasonal Queen Street East. 416-217-0537.
favourites. Sinfonia TrypTych, Lenard Whiting, $45;$40(sr/st).
music director. Trinity Presbyterian Church,
- 8:00: Etobicoke Centennial Choir. That
2737 Bayview Ave. 416-763-5066. $25;
Christmas Feeling. Landey: Gloria; Williams:
$20(st./sr).
Fantasia on Christmas Carols; selection of
- 7:30: Pax Christi Chorale. Handel: Messi- seasonal carols and songs. Olenka Slywynska,
ah. Erin Bardua, soprano; Heather Jewson,
mezzo soprano; Leslie Kingham, piano and
mezzo; David Vanderwal, tenor; David Roth,
organ; Harris Loewen, music director. Royal
bass; Stephanie Martin, director; full orchesYork Road United Church, 851 Royal York
tra. Grace Church on-the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale
Road. 416-239-1131 x49. $20.
Rd. 416-491-8542. $30; $25(sr); $22(st);
$5(child under 12). Please bring a donation for Lexus. Preservation Hall Jazz Band-A Creole
the Daily Bread Food Bank.
Christmas. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St.
416-872-4255. $29.50-$59.50.
Music. U of T Wind Symphony: Classics for
- 8:00: The Toronto Consort. Serenissima
Wind Band. Works by Vaughan Williams, Reed una Noche. Christmas music from Spain and
& Persichetti. Jeffrey Reynolds, conductor.
Latin America, including rarely heard masterMacMillan Theatre, 80 Queen’s Park. 416pieces from Mexico and Guatemala. David
978-3744. $14;$10.
Fallis, artistic director. Trinity St. Paul’s Cen- 8:00: Etobicoke Community Concert
tre, 427 Bloor St. W. 416-964-6337. $15-$48.
Met Organ Recital. Michael Capon. 56 Queen
- 12:00noon: Yorkminster Park Baptist
St. 416-363-0331 x26. Free.
Church. Janet Peaker, organ. Yorkminster
- 1:30: Women’s Musical Club of ToronPark Baptist Church, 1585 Yonge Street. 416- to. James Ehnes, violin & Stewart Goodyear,
530-4428
piano. Mozart: Violin Sonata, K.526; R.
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ENSEMBLE TRYPTYCH
CHAMBER CHOIR
LENARD WHITING
MUSIC DIRECTOR
LOOKING
AHEAD
The Toronto Singing Studio
Linda Eyman, Music Director
presents
VivaceVox
handel
MESSIAH
In Their Premier Concert, with guest artists
part 1
Gary Labovitz, viola and
Nellie Labovitz, violin
&
Christmas
favourites
Morley, Farmer, Billings, Schubert, Tchaikovsky and more.
TRYPTYCH
Christine Kim, Accompanist
8:00 p.m. Saturday, December 8, 2007
Bloor Street United Church, 300 Bloor St W.
Tickets: $15 & $10 ◊ 416-455-9238 for information
FRI., DEC. 7, 2007
7.30 PM
TICKETS $25/20
TRINITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
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EIS
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Elmer Iseler Singers
Lydia Adams, Conductor
29th Season
Friday, December 7, 2007 – 8:00 p.m.
MESSIAH
by G. F. Handel
Metropolitan United Church – 56 Queen St. East
SOLO
“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on
sunsets and makes night air smell better.” -HENRY ROLLINS
Guest artists:
Graham Hargrove, percussion
James Johnstone, harpsichord
Special Guest Artists: The Amadeus Choir
Soloists - Meredith Hall, Anita Krause, Mark DuBois and
Alexander Dobson
Pre-Messiah Dinner at the Albany Club – 91 King Street E.
Saturday, December 8th, 2007 at 8 p m
Calvin Presbyterian Church
26 Delisle Avenue, Toronto
Saturday, February 16, 2008 – 8:00 p.m.
THE JOURNEY
CONCERT TICKETS:
$20 - Adults | $10 - Seniors & Students
Jane Mallet Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre – 27 Front St. E.
Tickets available only at the door.
In collaboration with Soundstreams Canada
“Pimooteewin – The Journey” – Melissa Hui (World Premiere)
Libretto by Tomson Highway
Choreography by Michael Greyeyes
with Narrator, Soprano and Tenor Soloists
Friday, March 7, 2008 – 8:00 p.m.
CHORAL CELEBRATION
Syrinx Sunday Salons
presents
Metropolitan United Church – 56 Queen St. East
Rea Beaumont, piano
Music by Whitacre and Willan and a World Premiere by
Christos Hatzis.
Special Guest Artists: Vancouver Chamber Choir,
Jon Washburn, conductor
with guest Kelly Tiernay, flute
Keurti : 6 Arrows;
A Program of French Impressionists:
Debussy, Roussel, and Ravel
2180 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M4N 3K7
Canada Council Conseil des Arts
du Canada
for the Arts
ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL
’
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FOR TICKETS CALL 416-217-0537
Monday to Friday 9 am - 5 pm
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Sunday December 9, 2007 3pm
Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave
arts
An arm’s length body of the City of Toronto
Tickets $20, students $15
info: 416.654.0877 www.syrinxconcerts.org
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The BACH CHILDREN’S CHORUS
and the BACH CHAMBER YOUTH CHOIR
Linda Beaupré, Conductor
Eleanor Daley, Pianist
Saturday, December 8, 2007 at 7:30pm
Celebrate the season of snow, Christmas, Chanukah and
family gatherings with the BCC's appealing youth.
George Weston Recital Hall
5040 Yonge Street
(north of Sheppard Ave.)
Company in Residence
Tickets: $20 and $24 at the Toronto Centre
box office or TicketMaster at 416.870.8000
bachorus.org
at the Toronto Centre
for the Arts
The Bach Children’s Chorus, a member of Choirs Ontario, is grateful for funding received from the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council.
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Choral Society
MISSISSAUGA
Beyond the GTA
Mervin Fick
Acting Conductor
WITH SINFONIA MISSISSAUGA
AND
MISSISSAUGA CHILDREN¶S CHOIR
PRESENTS
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL¶S
Messiah
Sun. Dec. 9 2007
HAMMERSON HALL
3:00 PM
Living Arts Centre
TICKETS $15 ² «call «905-306- 6000
TORONTO MENDELSSOHN CHOIR PRESENTS
FESTIVALof
CAROLS
A Cheerful Choral Christmas
Cheerful music and stories will
brighten your Christmas at the
annual Festival of Carols. Noel Edison
will conduct and narrate the
evening’s festivities, integrating
delightful seasonal anecdotes with
lighthearted repertoire.
Tues., Dec. 11, 2007, 8:00 p.m.
Yorkminster Park Baptist Church
1585 Yonge St., Toronto
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In this issue: Aurora, Barrie, Belleville, Brantford, Burlington, Caledon, Cobourg, Cookstown, Drayton, Dundas, Georgetown, Guelph, Hamilton, Kingston, Kitchener, Lindsay, London,
Milton, Newmarket, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Orillia, Oshawa, Peterborough, Port Hope,
St.Catharines, Stratford, Waterloo, Whitby.
Concerts: Toronto & GTA PAGE 25
Music Theatre/Opera/Dance PAGE 45
Jazz in the Clubs PAGE 49
Announcements/Lectures/Etcetera PAGE 49
Performers and repertoire change!
Events are sometimes postponed or cancelled.
Call ahead to confirm details with presenters.
SOLOISTS:
MONICA WHICHER, SOPRANO
LYNNE MCMURTRY, MEZZO-SOPRANO
LAWRENCE WILIFORD, TENOR
MARK PEDROTTI, BARITONE
NOEL EDISON
Conductor and Narrator
MICHAEL BLOSS
Organ
THE FESTIVAL BRASS
TORONTO MENDELSSOHN
YOUTH CHOIR
TORONTO MENDELSSOHN
CHOIR
CONCERT LISTINGS
www.mcs-on.ca
Tickets: $30 -$65
416-598-0422
www.tmchoir.org
with Prologue, in concert with piano accompaniment. William Shookhoff, pianist/music director;
- 12:10: University of Guelph. Thursdays at
Kristine Dandavino; Lenard Whiting; Tyler KuhnNoon Concert Series: Derek Yaple-Schobert, piert; Henry Irwin, performers. Whitby Baptist
ano. Works by Grieg. MacKinnon Building,
Church, 411 Gilbert St. 416-455-2365.
Rm.107, University of Guelph. 519-824-4120 $20;$15(sr/st).
x53988. Free.
- 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Or- 12:30: University of Western Ontario.
chestra. Signature 2. Centre In The Square,
Thames Scholars. Musical gems from the Renais- Kitchener. See November 2.
sance, Baroque and beyond. 12-voice vocal en- 8:00: Port Hope Friends of Music. Pendsemble. von Kuster Hall, Don Wright Faculty of
erecki Quartet. Haydn: String Quartet in F, Op.77/
Music, University of Western Ontario. London. 2; Beethoven: String Quartet in e, Op.59/2. Capi519-661-2043. Free.
tol Arts Centre, 20 Queen St., Port Hope. 905- 2:00: Stratford Festival. Oklahoma! Based
885-1071, 800-434-5092. $35;$15(st).
on the play Green Grow the Lilacs by Lynn Riggs;
Beyond GTA: Sunday November 04
Richard Rodgers, music; Oscar Hammerstein II,
book & lyrics; Agnes de Mille, dance; Berthold
- 2:00: Visual and Performing Arts NewCarrière, musical director; Donna Feore, director/ market. Andre Laplante. Works by Mozart,
choreographer. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen St.
Schubert, Beethoven & Prokofiev. Andre LaplanStratford. 800-567-1600. Call for ticket prices. te, piano. Newmarket Theatre, 505 Pickering
Cres. Newmarket. 905-953-5122.
$24;$19;$10.
Beyond GTA: Friday November 02
- 2:30: Kingston Symphony Association.
- 12:30: University of Western Ontario.
Masterworks Series concert - Musical MonAnita Kraus and John Hess. Mahler songs. Anita archs. Anhalt: World Premiere; Mozart: Clarinet
Kraus, mezzo soprano; John Hess, piano. von
Concerto in A, K. 622; Beethoven: Symphony No.
Kuster Hall, Don Wright Faculty of Music, Univer- 1. Glen Fast, Conductor; Gordon Craig, Clarinet.
sity of Western Ontario. London. 519-661Kingston Gospel Temple, 2295 Princess Street,
2043. Free.
Kingston. 613-530-2050. $33-$42; $30- 8:00: Capitol Theatre. Juan Martin - A Fla$38(sr); $15-$20(st).
menco Guitarist. 20 Queen street, Port Hope. - 2:30: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Or800-434-5092/905-885-1071. $31.
chestra. Generations 1: The Magic of Music.
- 8:00: Hamilton Theatre Inc. Urinetown: The Edwin Outwater, conductor. Centre In The
Musical. Book & lyrics by Greg Kotis; music &
Square, Kitchener. 519-578-1570. $15lyrics by Mark Hollmann. Steven B. Andrews,
$35;$15(st/children).
Erik Canaria, Lauren Dobbie, Matt Dyck, Sabrina - 3:00: Chorus Niagara. Sublime Love! Ecce
Feser & other performers. The Downtown Arts Cor Meum. Sir Paul McCartney, composer. Lake
Centre, 28 Rebecca St., Hamilton. 905-522Street Armoury,cnr welland and lake . 905-6883032. $23; $20(sr); $15(st); group rates. For
5550, ext. 3257. $33;$31(sr);$15(st).
- 3:00 St. Luke’s Anglican Church. The 2007
- 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Or- Great Fall Hymn Sing. Works by Bissell, Bach,
chestra. Signature 2. Steven Sitarski, violin;
Shaw & Rutter; selection from the 7000 hymns
Edwin Outwater, conductor. Centre In The
written by Charles Wesley, to celebrate the
Square, Kitchener. 519-578-1570. $27-$50; 300th anniversary of his birth. The choirs of
$15(st/children).
West Plains United & St. Luke’s Anglican Churches. St. Luke’s Anglican Church 1371 Elgin Street,
Beyond GTA: Saturday November 03
Burlington. 905-639-7643. $10;$8(sr/st).
- 7:30: Fanshawe Chorus London. A Mozart - 3:00: Symphony Hamilton. Finnish AdvenFestival. A concert of music by Mozart including ture: The Music of Jean Sibelius. Sibelius: Finlanthe Requiem, the Vesperae Solonnes & the
dia, Op.26; Violin Concerto in d, Op.47; Symphony
Priest’s Chorus from the Magic Flute. Leslie FaNo.2 in D, Op.43. Corey Gemmell, violin; James
gan soprano; Stephen Harland, tenor; Robert Tow- R. McKay, music director/conductor. Royal
ers, bass; the Concert Players Orchestra, Gerald Botanical Gardens, 680 Plains Rd. West, BurFagan, artistic director. Centennial Hall, London. lington. 905-526-6690. $28;$15;$5.
1-866-244-0762. $25; $20(sr.); $15(st).
- 7:30: Opera by Request. Mascagni: Cavalle- UWO High School Honour Choir. von Kuster
ria Rusticana; Purcell: Dido and Aeneas. Complete Hall, Don Wright Faculty of Music, University
Beyond GTA: Thursday November 01
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of Western Ontario. London. 519-661-2043.
Free.
- 4:00: Canadian Ballet Youth Ensemble.
Jazzcracker. Ellington: Nutcracker Suite. New
Horizon Ensemble and All Star Jazz Band; Roberto Campanella, choreography. Hamilton Place
Great Hall, 50 Main St. West. Hamilton. 905527-7666. $25 and up.
- 7:30: Cellar Singers. Brahms: Requiem. Janet Obermeyer, soprano; David Jefferies, bass;
Huronia Symphony; John Barnum, /conductor.
Fisher Auditorium, 125 Dunlop Street West,
Barrie. 705-721-4752. $25;$12(st).
Beyond GTA: Monday November 05
- 7:30: Cellar Singers. Brahms: Requiem. Janet Obermeyer, soprano; David Jefferies, bass;
Huronia Symphony; John Barnum, /conductor.
Guardian Angels Catholic Church, 115 West St.
North, Orillia. 705-325-3722. $25;$12(st).
Beyond GTA: Tuesday November 06
- 12:00_noon: Brock University. Music by
Bach, Clarke & Dutilleux. Patricia Dydnansky,
flute; Erika Reiman, piano. Concordia Lutheran
Seminary, Brock University, 22 Robinson St., St.
Catharines. 905-688-5550 x3817. Free.
- 7:30: River Run Centre. The Songbird Café.
Local acoustic singer/songwriters. Co-operators
Hall, 35 Woolwich St., Guelph. 519-763-3000,
800-520-2408. $5.
Beyond GTA: Wednesday November 07
Anniversary Tour. Works by Saint-Saëns,
Liszt, Enescu & Heidrich. Imperial Oil Theatre,
Sarnia. 519-332-6591.$27
Noon Concert Series: Moonlight Recital. Oni
Buchanan, piano. MacKinnon Building Rm 107,
University of Guelph. Guelph. 519-824-4120
x53988. Free.
- 12:30: University of Western Ontario. Les
Choristes. von Kuster Hall, Don Wright Faculty of
Music, University of Western Ontario. London.
519-661-2043. Free.
- 7:30: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra. Intersections 2: Latin Currents with
Gabriela Lena Frank. Edwin Outwater, conductor.
Humanities Theatre, Waterloo. 519-5781570. $35;$15(st/children).
- 8:00: Nuncrackers. Port Hope Festival
Theatre. A nunsense Christmas musical with
humour, carols and a “Secret Santa” audience
participation. November 8-25: 8:00. Capitol Arts
Centre, 20 Queen street, Port Hope. 905-8851071/800-434-5092. $27; $24(mat).
- 8:00: University of Western Ontario. Patricia Green and Midori Koga. Pentland: Ice Age and
Imagination of Their Hearts. Patricia Green, mezzo soprano; Midori Koga, piano; Kimberly Cole,
clarinet; Caroline Stuart, violin and Dessislava
Nenova, cello. von Kuster Hall, Don Wright Faculty of Music, University of Western Ontario. London. 519-661-2043. Free.
Mathieu Langlois and Sandra Mangsen. Mathieu
Langlois, baroque flute; Sandra Mangsen, harpsichord. von Kuster Hall, Don Wright Faculty of
519-661-2043. Free.
- 7:00: The Gibson Centre. Jerry White & His
Gentlemen of Swing. Dance, swing, latin & dixieland Music. Jerry White, trumpet & voice; Bob
Livingston, trombone; Stan Perry, drums; Lenny
Boyd, bass & Mike Lewis, piano. 63 Tupper
Street West, Alliston. 705 435 2828 x22. $25.
- 8:00: Capitol Theatre. Creaking Tree String
Quartet. Sculthorpe Studio Theatre, Capitol Theatre, 20 Queen street, Port Hope. 905-8851071. $25.
- 8:00: King Edward Choir. Special Remembrance Day Concert. Karl Jenkins: The Armed
Man, A Mass for Peace. Barbara McCann, director; Jim Leonard, accompanist; Cantabile Chorale
of York Region, guest. Collier Street United
Church, 112 Collier Street, Barrie. 705-7261916. $20.
Liszt, Enescu & Heidrich. Kingston College, Niagara Falls Campus 905-353-8709
- 3:00: Elora Festival Singers. In Remembrance. Music by Vaughan Williams; Faure; Chatman and others. Noel Edison, artistic director. St.
John’s Church. Elora. 519-846-0331, 1-888747-7550. $35.
- 4:00: Centenary United Church. Centenary
United Concert Series - Grant Us Peace. VaughanWilliams: Dona Nobis Pacem; Glick: Triumph of
The Spirit Massed Choir. Dr.Adam Adler &
Shawn Grenke, conductors. 24 Main St W.,
Hamilton. 905-522-6843. $20.
Liszt, Enescu & Heidrich Convocation Hall, McMaster University, Hamilton. 905-525-9140 x
27671 - $17
- 7:30: McMaster University School of the
Arts. Celebrity Concert Series. Angèle Dubeau
and La Pietà String orchestra. McMaster University Convocation Hall, 1280 Main St. West.
Hamilton. 905-525-9140 x24246. $25.
- 7:30: Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra.
Lest We Forget. Beethoven: Egmont Overture &
Incidental music; Morawetz: Concerto for Harp
and Orchestra; Hindemith: Mathis der Maler.
Erica Goodman, harp. James Sommerville, conductor. 1 Summers Lane, Hamilton. 905-5267756. $20.
- 7:30: Oriana Singers. New Beginnings. Trinity United Church, 15 Chapel St., Cobourg. 905372-2210, 888-262-6874 x4153. $18, $16(sr.
& st.), $5(child).
Liszt, Enescu & Heidrich. Hi-Way Pentecostal
Church. Barrie. 705-728-0720
- 8:00: DaCapo Chamber Choir. One – In the
Beginning. Copland: In the Beginning; Rautavaara:
Credo; R. Thompson: The Peaceable Kingdom.
Esther Farrell, mezzo-soprano. Leonard J. Enns,
director. St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church,
corner Duke and Water Streets, Kitchener.
$20, $15.
- 8:00: The Gibson Centre. Justin Hines - singer, songwriter. 63 Tupper Street West, Alliston.
705 435 2828 x22. $ 22
- 8:00: Guelph Chamber Choir/University
of Guelph Choirs/Hart House Orchestra. In
Remembrance Concert. Music includes
Beethoven: Symphony #9. River Run Centre, 35
Woolwich St., Guelph. 519-763-3000, 877520-2408. $30; $10(st).
- 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music
Society. Sandra Mangsen & Mathieu Langlois.
Dornel: Suite in b; Telemann: 2 Fantasias for solo
flute; Froberger: Toccata IV; Bach: Sonata in G;
Couperin: Septieme Concert; Scarlatti: 3 Harpsichord sonatas. KWCMS music room, 57 Young
St. West, Waterloo. 519-886-1673.
$20;$15;$10.
- 12:30: McMaster University School of the
Arts. Lunchtime Concerts. Shoshana Telner,
piano. McMaster University Convocation Hall,
1280 Main St. West. Hamilton. 905-5259140x24246. Free.
Sophie Roland and John Hess. Sophie Roland,
mezzo soprano; John Hess, piano. von Kuster
Hall, Don Wright Faculty of Music, University of
Western Ontario. London. 519-661-2043. Free.
- 8:00: Kitchen-Waterloo Chamber Music
Society. Trio Fibonnacci. Harley: Trio; Plamondon: Le froid dans l’escalier; Frehner: Quark’s
tropes; Schumann: Trio no. 1 in d op. 63. JulieAnne Derome, violin; Gabriel Prynn, cello; Jacynthe Riverin, piano. KWCMS music room, 57
Young St. West, Waterloo. 519-886-1673.
$20;$15;$10.
Noon Concert Series: Trio Fibonacci~New
Paths New Voices: New Canadian Music for
Violin, Cello and Piano. MacKinnon Building,
Rm.107, University of Guelph. Guelph. 519824-4120 x53988. Free.
- 7:30: Lindsay Concert Foundation. Sinfonia
Toronto. Nurhan Arman, music director; Anya
Alexeyev, Piano. Glenn Crombie Theatre, Sir
Sandford Fleming College, Albert Street South,
Lindsay. 705.878.5625. $25;$10.
Fibonacci Trio. a concert of contemporary repertoire. Julie-Anne Derome, violin, Gabriel Prynn,
cello, and Jacynthe Riveri, piano. von Kuster Hall,
Don Wright Faculty of Music, University of Western Ontario. London. 519-661-2043. Free.
Friday Night Live Series - I’ll Be Seeing You - 2:00: Royal Conservatory of Music.
Songs of the War Era. Songs including It’s a Long
Through History to the Future: Young People’s
Way to Tipperary, Lili Marlene, Down by the
Concerts at the Royal Botanical Gardens - From
Chant to Madrigal: Early Music. Sacred & secular Riverside, music of the forties, Big Band hits and
sentimental favourites. Glen Fast, Conductor;
genres of the time period, including the various
instruments of the Medieval & Renaissance era. Duncan Hopkins, Bass. Kingston Gospel Temple,
2295 Princess Street, Kingston. 613-530Students from the Glenn Gould School. 680
Plains Road West, Burlington. 905-845-9504. 2050. $33-$42;$30-$38(sr);$15-$20(st).
$15; $10(sr/st).
Society. Ann Elliott-Goldschmidt, violin; Bruce
- 2:00: University of Western Ontario. OpVogt, piano. Brahms: Sonata no. 1 in G, op. 78;
era Guild Scholarship Concert. Bishop Cronyn
Beethoven: Sonata no. 7 in c, op. 30 #2; Jaffe:
Memorial Church, 442 William St. London.
“Cluck Old Hen” Variations for solo violin; Carle519-661-2043. Free.
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ton Elliott solo piano work. KWCMS music room,
57 Young St. West, Waterloo. 519-886-1673.
$20;$15;$10.
- 8:00: Perimeter Institute. Jazz in the Black
Hole. Dave Restivo Quartet. 31 Caroline St.
North, Waterloo. 519-883-4480. $20.
- 8:00: The Gibson Centre. Almost ABBA.
Featuring all the greatest hits of ABBA. 63 Tupper Street West, Alliston. 705 435 2828 x22.
$30
- 8:00: University of Western Ontario. Gala
of Great Theatre Music. Theatre music from
Strauss to Lehar, Gilbert & Sullivan to Rogers &
Hammerstein, and John DuPrez. UWOpera and
Musical Theatre Ensemble. Talbot Theatre, University of Western Ontario. London. 519-6798778. $15;$10.
Ronald Greidanus, Matthew Pope and Clara Wilson, harpsichords. St. James Anglican Church,
Caledon East. 905-877-8321. $25;$10(st/
child).
- 4:00: St. Paul’s United Church. Music
Tends the Heart & Hugs the Soul. Celebrates the
40th birthday of composer and hymn writer Paul
Chappel. Sara Chappel, Soprano; Richard Crossman, Tenor; David Gerry, Flute; Patricia Johnston, harp; Anne Barnshaw, piano. Music and
poetry by Chappel, including the world premiere of
new music and a new hymn. St. Paul’s United
Church, 29 Park Street West, Dundas. 905628-1296. A freewill offering. Reception to follow the concert.
Society. Rocca Quartet. Beethoven: op.18/3 in
D; Brahms: op. 51 #2 in a; Hétu: #2. Kerry DuWors, Jenny Thompson, violins; Theresa Rudolph,
viola; John Marshman, cello. KWCMS music
room, 57 Young St. West, Waterloo. 519-8861673. $20;$15;$10.
- 2:00: Westben Concerts at The Barn. The
Littlest Angel at St. John’s. See Nov 17.
- 3:00: Georgetown Bach Chorale. Advent
Concert. Music by Buxtehude; Vivaldi and Bach:
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring; Albinoni: Adagio in
g. with the Georgetown Chamber Orchestra.
Celebrate Canada Music Week. Works by Raum
and Schafer. Gwen Beamish, piano, Ron George,
horn, Mel Martin, violin, Patricia Green, mezzo
soprano, and John Hess, piano. von Kuster Hall,
Don Wright Faculty of Music, University of Western Ontario. London. 519-661-2043. Free.
- 5:30: Perimeter Institute. Tangos for Three.
31 Caroline St. North, Waterloo. 519-8834480. $65.
- 7:30: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra. Concertorama with Leila Josefowicz.
Edwin Outwater, conductor. Federation Hall,
Waterloo. 519-578-1570. $30;$15(st).
- 8:00: Centre in the Square. Opera
Series~Margison & Company: PopEra!. Centre
in the Square, 101 Queen St. North. Kitchener.
519-578-1570/1-800-265-8977. $39 and up.
- 8:00: Clearly Classic Concerts. Music by
Brahms and Khachaturian. Jeremy Bell, violin,
Mark Thompson, clarinet, Susan Lee, piano. St.
James Church, 137 Melville St. Dundas. 1-905304-3637. $25, $22 (sr/st).
- 8:00: The Gibson Centre. Erin McCallum &
Roadtrip. Blues music. 63 Tupper Street West,
Alliston. 705 435 2828 x22. $15
- 8:00: NUMUS. In memoriam: James Tenney.
Maureen Forrester Recital Hall, Wilfrid Laurier
University, Waterloo. 519-896-3662. $20;
$12.
Rd., Orangeville. 519-925-3765. $15.
- 8:00: The Gibson Centre. Amity Trio.
Michael Adamson, violin; Alyssa Wright,cello;
Sandra Tuttan, piano & voice. 63 Tupper Street
West, Alliston. 705 435 2828 x22. $20.
Society. Contemporary Canadian Music Week.
Enns: Three for two, Hammer and Wind;
Adaskin: Daydreams; Stewart: Singen Wol; McDonald: Triumph of Love. Willem Moolenbeek,
saxophones; Cheryl Duvall, piano. KWCMS Music
Room, 57 Young St. West, Waterloo. 519-8861673. $15;$10;$8.
Beyond GTA:: Sunday November 25
Littlest Angel. See Nov 17.
Masterworks Series - Song of Destiny. Clarke:
Festival Te Deum; Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
Littlest Angel at St. John’s. Christmas story by
in e, Op. 64; Brahms: Schicksalslied; Borodin:
Charles Tazewell, in a seasonal choral celebraPolovtsian Dances. Glen Fast, Conductor; Melinda
tion. Chick Reid, Narrator; Westben Festival ChoRaymond, violin & assistant concertmaster KSA;
Beyond GTA: Monday November 19
rus, Westben Youth Chorus, Brian Finley, Kim
Kingston Choral Society; Ian Juby, chorus master;
Dafoe, directors. St. John’s United Church, 50
Queen’s Choral Ensemble; Mark Sirett, conducBridge St. West, Campbellford. 705-653UWO Symphonic Band. Talbot Theatre, Universitor. Kingston Gospel Temple, 2295 Princess
5508, 877-883-5777. $30; $15(st).
ty of Western Ontario. London. 519-661-2043.
Street, Kingston. 613-530-2050. $33- 7:00: Milton Choristers. A Commemoration Free.
- 2:00: Westben Concerts at The Barn. The $42;$30-38(sr);$15-20(st);$10(ch).
of the Town of Milton’s 150th anniversary. ChoLittlest Angel. See Nov 17.
- 2:30 Niagara Symphony. The Passion of
ral classics. Milton Historical Society; Jenny
- 7:30: Peterborough Singers. Yuletide
Angels. Scriabin: Reverie, Op.24; Mozetich: The
Panda, poet. Knox Presbyterian Church, 170 Main - 12:30: University of Western Ontario.
Cheer. Canadian Staff Band of the Salvation
Passion of Angels: Concerto for Two Harps;
St. East, Milton. 905-878-1632.
Jazz Ensemble. Talbot Theatre, University of
Army; Brian Burditt, bandmaster & conductor.
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6 in b, Op.74 (“Pathe$20;$15;$10.
Western Ontario. London. 519-661-2043. Free. George Street United Church, Peterborough.
tique”). Nora Bumanis, Julia Shaw, harp; Daniel
- 7:30: Grand Philharmonic Youth Choir.
$26(adult/sr); $10(st).
Swift, conductor. 1:45: Pre-concert talk. Sean
Beyond
GTA:
Wednesday
November
21
Jugendsangerfest. Schubert: Mass in G. Kitchen- 8:00: Achill Choral Society. The Silver
O’Sullivan Theatre, 500 Glenridge Ave., St. Caer–Waterloo Symphony Youth Orchestra; Nancy - 12:30: University of Western Ontario.
Sounds of Christmas. Wood: On this Day Earth
tharines. 905-688-5550 x.3257, 866-617Tanguay, conductor. St. Peter’s Church, Kitchen- Whimsical Notions. Symphonic Band features
Shall Ring (cantata) & other music. A. Dale Wood, 3257. $25,$33,$37.
er. 519-578-1570/1-800-265-8977. $10-$20. fantasies of six composers. Talbot Theatre, Uni- director. St. Timothy’s RC Church, 42 Dawson
- 7:30: Opera Bel Canto of South Simcoe.
versity of Western Ontario. London. 519-661Operatic Showcase. A presentation of operatic
2043. Free.
OPERA BEL CANTO OF SOUTH SIMCOE PRESENTS
favourites .with works by Puccini, Verdi, and
- 7:30: Plumbing Factory Brass Band. VocaLeoncavallo. Soloists include Kathryn Knapp; Alici- tions and Avocations. Suppe: Poet and Peasant
ja Wysocka; Athina Bahayan; with opera chorus
Overture; Sousa: Nobles of the Mystic Shrine &
and orchestra conducted by David Varjabed. St.
salvation army march. Henry Meredith, director.
John’s United Church, 56 Victoria St. E. AllisByron United Church, 420 Boler Road, London.
ton. 705-435-3730. $30; $25(sr); $$20(st).
519-471-1250, 519-685-5974, 519-659- 8:00: Georgetown Bach Chorale. Advent
3600. $12;$6(door), $10;$5(advance). Stevie’s
Concert. Music by Buxtehude; Vivaldi and Bach:
Sliders trombone ensemble prelude performance
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring; Albinoni: Adagio in at 7pm.
g. with the Georgetown Chamber Orchestra.
- 8:00: Kitchen-Waterloo Chamber Music
Excerpts
Ronald Greidanus, Matthew Pope and Clara Wil- Society. Chamber Music Between the Wars.
W ith Opera Chorus
from:
son, harpsichords. Knox Presbyterian Church,
Khatchaturian: Trio for violin, clarinet and piano;
and Orchest ra
L a B oh è m e
Georgetown. 905-877-8321. $25;$10(st/
Prokofiev: quintet for violin, oboe, clarinet and
A r t i s t i c D i r e c t o r,
child).
bass; Britten: Fantasy Quartet for oboe, violin,
Trovatore,
D a v i d Va r j a b e d
- 8:00: Karen Schuessler Singers. Of War
viola and cello; Gershwin: Three Preludes for
L a Trav iat a,
and Peace. Readings & reflections by Ted Barris, clarinet and piano. Jeremy Bell, violin; Mark
I Pagliacci,
with organ, trumpet, bagpipes & percussion.
Thompson, clarinet; Susan Lee, piano; Graham
DonGiovanni
Wesley-Knox United Church, 91 Askin St., LonMacKenzie, oboe; Kathleen Kajioka, viola and
L ak me,
don. 519-858-3202. Advance:
others. KWCMS music room, 57 Young St.
Romeo and
$18;$15(sr);$10(st); door: $20;$17(sr);$10(st); West, Waterloo. 519-886-1673.
Juliette,
children 6-12 free.
$25;$20;$15.
and others
of Great Theatre Music. See Nov 16.
Soloists:
K athr y n Knapp
Noon Concert Series:Pianistic Portraits. Roman
Alici ja Wysock a
- 2:00: Gallery Players of Niagara. The
Rudnytsky, piano. MacKinnon Building, Rm. 107,
At hina B abayan
Saturday, Nov. 17, 2007
Brahms Cycle Continues. Music for piano trio by University of Guelph. Guelph. 519-824-4120
L o ren a T o s o n i
Brahms & Mendelssohn. Julie Baumgartel, violin; x53988. Free.
M o n i c a B az
7:30 P.M.
Margaret Gay, cello; David Louie, piano. Knox
Ekaterina C h e l e k h o v a
Admission $30.00
Presbyterian Church, 53 Church Street, St. CaWind Ensemble. Talbot Theatre, University of
Leonid Kostrubin
tharines. 905-468-1525.
Western Ontario. London. 519-661-2043. Free.
Seniors $25.00
Lorne Derraugh
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Students $20.00
of Great Theatre Music. See Nov 16.
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Guest Pianist: Ashot Ariyan
St . John’s United C hurch
56 Victoria Street East,Alliston, Ontario
FOR TICKETS CALL: 705-435-3730
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- 3:00: Durham Community Choir. Handel:
Messiah. John-Charles Coolen, director, Melanie
Conly, Vicki St.Pierre, James McLennan, Alexander Dobson & The Talisker Players. College Park
Seventh-day Adventist Church. 1164 King Street
East, Oshawa. 905-683-3197. $20;$14(children 12 and under).
- 3:00: University of Western Ontario. Brennan Connolly and Orchestra. Concerto for Marimba; Frehner: Overture 200; Kodaly: Hary Janos
Suite; Ravel: Alborada del gracioso. Alumni Hall,
Don Wright Faculty of Music, University of Western Ontario. London. 519-679-8778. $15;$10.
- 3:30: Gerald Fagan Singers. Christmas with
Bach. A concert of music celebrating the seasons
of Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany. With the
Concert Players Orchestra. Gerald Fagan, artistic
director. Windermere on the Mount, 1486 Richmond St., London. 1-866-244-0762. $25;
$20(sr); $15(st).
- 8:00: Achill Choral Society. The Silver Sounds of
Christmas. Wood: On this Day Earth Shall Ring
(cantata) & other music. A. Dale Wood, director.
St. James RC Church, 2118 Adjala-Tecumseth
Townline, Colgan. 519-925-3765. $15.
- 8:00: Toronto Welsh Male Voice Choir.
Christmas With A Welsh Accent. Northumberland Orchestra. Trinity United Church, 15 Chapel
St. Cobourg. $22.
Beyond GTA: Saturday December 01
705-742 7469. $45.
- 9:15am, 10:15am & 11:15am : KitchenerWaterloo Symphony Orchestra. Kinderconcerts 2: Special Gifts! Tony Christie, cello. Centre
In The Square Lobby, Kitchener. 519-5781570. $10.
- 7:30: Grand Philharmonic Children’s
Choir. Christmas concert. Susan Watt and Robert Wilkie, co-conductor. St. Aloysius Church,
Traynor Ave. Kitchener. 519-578-1570/1-800265-8977. $10.
- 7:30: Guelph Youth Singers. Christmas
Concert. River Run Centre, 35 Woolwich St.
Guelph. 519-763-3800. $22;$16(sr/
st);$5(eyeGO w ID).
- 8:00: Grand River Chorus. Christmas with
The Grand River Chorus. Concert including carol
sing & songs from our first CD. Stephanie Kramer, soprano; Richard Cunningham, director. Wesley United Church, 69 Superior St., Brantford.
519-759-7885. Call for ticket prices.
- 8:00: Harlequin Singers. Christmas in Song.
Guarneri Duo with Vasile Beluska. Tchaikovsky’s
See Nov 29.
op.50. von Kuster Hall, Don Wright Faculty of
- 8:00: John Laing Singers. A Garland of
Carols. Christmas carol and new collections.
519-661-2043. Free.
Central Presbyterian Church, corner of Charlton
- 7:30: Fanshawe Chorus London. Christmas
and Caroline St. Hamilton. 905-628-5238/1Celebration. The annual family concert of Christ877-628-5238. $22; $19(sr/st).
mas favourites. Percussion Trio; St. Mary School
- 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony OrChoir; Children’s Audience Choirs; Peter Garland,
chestra. Pops 3: The Magic of Mark DuBois.
Master of Ceremonies, Gerald Fagan, artistic
Brian Jackson, conductor. Centre In The Square,
- 12:30_and_8:00: University of Western
director. Centennial Hall, London. 1-866-244Kitchener. 519-578-1570. $27-$50; $15(st/
Ontario. Percussion Ensemble. Talbot Theatre, 0762. $15; $5(children 12 and under).
children).
University of Western Ontario. London. 519- 7:30: University of Western Ontario.
- 8:00: University of Western Ontario. An661-2043. Free.
UWO Singers and St. Cecilia Singers. St. Peter’s
nette-Barbara and Paulina Zamora. A program of
Basilica,
London.
519-661-2043.
Free.
women composers including Smyth: violin sonata.
Annette-Barbara Vogel, violin and Paulina Zamora,
- 12:15: Greensleaves. Playford&Purcell: Mad Society. Alexander Tselyakov.
piano. von Kuster Hall, Don Wright Faculty of
Songs. Magdalena Tomsinka, lute; Shannon
Beethoven: Sonata no.7 in D op.10 #3;
Purves-Smith, recorders/viols; Marilyn Fung, viola Liszt: Sonata in b S.178; Rachmaninov: Sonata
519-661-2043. Free.
da gamba. Stephanie Kramer, soprano. St. Anfor Piano no. 2 in b flat op. 36; Carrabré: Sonata
- 8:00: York Symphony Orchestra. French
drew’s Presbyterian Church, 54 Queen St. North, #1 for Piano Solo. KWCMS music room, 57
and Bel Canto Opera Highlights. Arias, duets &
Kitchener. 519-669-1327. Free with lunch
orchestral works by Massenet, Bizet, Bellini,
purchased.
$25;$20;$15.
Puccini, Donizetti, Rossini & others. Giovanna
- 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony OrCarini & Katie Murphy, sopranos; Romulo DelEarly Music Studio. 17th-and 18th-century music chestra. Pops 3: The Magic of Mark DuBois.
gade, tenor; Paul Weston, guest conductor. Trinity
on period instruments. von Kuster Hall, Don
Brian Jackson, conductor. Centre In The Square,
Anglican Church, 79 Victoria St., Aurora. 416Wright Faculty of Music, University of Western Kitchener. 519-578-1570. $27-$50; $15(st/
410-0860. $25; $20(sr/st); $10(children 12 &
Ontario. London. 519-661-2043. Free.
children).
under).
- 5:00: THEZine. 4th Annual Kiss My Tiara.
Adele Alfano, chief sparkle officer; Lilac Cana,
See Nov 29.
Beyond GTA: Sunday December 02
vocal; Marishka, dance; Way-Off Broadway Sing- - 8:00: McMaster University School of the
2:00:
Achill Choral Society. The Silver
ers from London. Burlington Holiday Inn, Guelph
Arts. Celebrity Concert Series:Baroque Music.
Sounds of Christmas. Wood: On this Day Earth
Line/South Service Rd, Burlington. 519-620Luc Beauséjour, harpsichord; Phillippe Magnan,
Shall Ring (cantata) & other music. A. Dale Wood,
3852. $60.
baroque oboe; Tracey Smith Bessette, soprano.
director. Christ Church, Mytham Rd, Little Lever,
- 7:30 Oshawa Durham Symphony Orches- McMaster University Convocation Hall, 1280
Bolton. 519-925-3765. $15.
tra. A Night at the Opera. Popular Italian and
Main St. West. Hamilton. 905-525-9140
- 2:00: The Gibson Centre/Alenbe Theatre.
French operatic areas. Jose Luis Duval, tenor;
x24246. $17, $12, $5.
Crossing Delancey. Romantic comedy/musical.
Guillermo Ruiz, baritone; Marco Parisotto, con- 8:00: The Gibson Centre/Alenbe Theatre.
See Nov. 30.
ductor. Calvary Baptist Church, 300 Rossland Rd. Crossing Delancey. Romantic comedy/musical.
- 2:30: Mohawk College Singers. Gloria! - A
E., Oshawa. 905-579-6711. $40,$15.
63 Tupper Street West, Alliston. 705 435 2828
Christmas Celebration. David Holler, directior;
- 8:00: Showplace Performance Centre.
x22. $20. See music theatre listings.
Cecile Desrosiers, piano. St. Mark’s Anglican
Holly Cole. 290 Gage St. N. Peterborough. 1Church, 41 Byron St., Niagara-on-the-lake. 905526-7938. $20;$15(sr/st).
- 3:00: Patricia Dydnansky, flute. Recital. Dr.
Erika Reiman, piano. MacNeill Baptist Church,
1145 King Street West in Hamilton. Works by
Schubert, JS Bach, Ian Clarke & Dutilleux. 905308-9053. Free will offering.
Graham Coles, Music Director
- 3:00: Symphony Hamilton. To the North
23rd Season presented by
Pole: A Family Christmas Festival. Anderson:
Christmas Festival; Waldteufel: Skaters Waltz;
ALPINE CHRISTMAS
Mozart: Musical Sleigh Ride. James R. McKay,
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO CHAMBER CHOIR
music director/conductor. Royal Botanical GarSunday, December 9, 2007 at 7:00 pm
dens, 680 Plains Rd. West. Burlington. 905Annual Silent Auction starts at 6:15 pm.
526-6690. $28, $15, $5.
Maureen Forrester Recital Hall, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo
- 3:00: Wellington Winds. Fairy Tales and
For ticket information and program details go to: www.kwchamberorchestra.ca
Christmas Legends. Ted Follows, narrator;
Noon Concert Series: Student Soloists Day. A
showcase of students in the applied music program. MacKinnon Building, Rm. 107, University
of Guelph. Guelph. 519-824-4120 x 53988.
Free.
Cabaret concert. John Packer, director. Drury
Lane Theatre, 2269 New St., Burlington. 905637-3979. $20.
- 8:00: University of Western Ontario. Piano
duo: Anagnoson & Kinton. Works by Martinu,
Mozart, Dvorak, Lutoslawski and Gershwin. von
Kuster Hall, Don Wright Faculty of Music, University of Western Ontario. London. 519-6612043. Free.
Kitchener-Waterloo
Chamber Orchestra
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Michael Purves-Smith, conductor. St. Peter’s
Lutheran Church, 810 King St. East. Cambridge. 519-669-4409/519-579-3097. $20;
$15; $5.
Beyond GTA: Tuesday December 04
- 12:30: University of Western Ontario. Les
Choristes and Chorale. Talbot Theatre, University
of Western Ontario. London. 519-661-2043.
Free.
- 7:30: River Run Centre. The Songbird Café.
Local acoustic singer/songwriters. Co-operators
Hall, 35 Woolwich St., Guelph. 519-763-3000,
800-520-2408. $5.
Christmas concert. Music of the 17th- and 18thcenturies performed with period instruments.
Thames Scholars and Early Music Studio. St.
Peter’s Seminary Chapel, London. 519-6798778. $15;$10.
Beyond GTA: Wednesday December 05
Joyous Sounds. St. Cecilia Singers and UWO
Singers. von Kuster Hall, Don Wright Faculty of
519-661-2043. Free.
Beyond GTA: Thursday December 06
Society. A Thousand Twangling Voices. Lussier:
Fanfare for trumpet and bassoon; Weber: Romance for bassoon and piano; Boismortier: Duo
for corno and bassoon; Beethoven: Variations on a
Theme of Mozart for bassoon and piano; Hoffman: Miniatures for solo trumpet; Koechlin: Trois
Pièces pour basson et pian; Douglas: Partita for
bassoon and piano. Guy Few, trumpet; Nadia
Mackie, bassoon. KWCMS music room, 57
$25;$20;$15.
Beyond GTA: Friday December 07
- 7:00: Port Hope Festival Theatre. Cinderella. Fractured fairy tale for the entire family. Capitol Theatre, 20 Queen St. Port Hope. 905-8851071, 800-434-5092. $24; $21(sr); $13(st).
- 7:30: The Cellar Singers. Christmas Concert. Henderson: The Last Straw and a variety of
Christmas selections. Albert Greer, director.
Trinity United Church, Gravenhurst. 705-6454273, 705-687-8078. $25;$12.
- 7:30: Perimeter Institute. Classical World
Artists Series Emanuel Ax, piano. 31 Caroline St.
North, Waterloo. 519-883-4480. $59; $29(st
with ID).
Liszt, Enescu, and Heidrich. St. Matthew’s
Church , Ottawa. 613-234-4024.
- 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra. Signature 3. James Judd, conductor;
Karen Gomyo, violin. Centre In the Square, Kitchener. 519-578-1570. $27-$50; $15(st/children).
- 8:00: Ottawa Chamber Music Society.
Bach and Beyond. Alfred Schnittke: Quintet
(1972-1976); J.S. Bach: Double Concerto c,
BWV 1060; Mendelssohn: Octet in E flat, Op.20,
leggierissimo; Johann Gottlieb Janitsch: O Haupt
voll Blut und Wunden; J.S. Bach: Concerto in a,
BWV 1041. Moderntimes 1800; Andreas Helm,
oboe; Ilia Korol, violin; Piroska Batori, violin; David
Drabek, violin; Jan Krigovsky, violin. St. Andrews
Presbyterian Church, Ottawa. 82 Kent St.
$30;$15(st).
Opera, Music Theatre, Dance
jazz
Laliberte. Nov 6 Thomas Juhas Jazz Band,
James Thomson, Donee Roberts andJulian Fauth
Please note: performances are listed by show title.
Blues Trio. Nov 7 Joel Visentin Jazz Band,
Patrick Tevlin’s New Orleans Duo. Nov 8 Emily
*Bas-Reliefs: DanceWorks. Nov 29-Dec 1: *Manga: DanceWorks. Nov 22-24; 8:00.
and the Blue Callers, Scott Kemp Jazz Collective.
See Nov. 22 for details
8pm. See Nov. 29 for details.
Nov 9 Vantana 5 Jazz Band, Sweet Derrick
*Cabaret: Etobicoke Musical Productions * Nuncrackers. Port Hope Festival TheaBlues Trio. Nov 10 Bill Heffernan with his
Nov 16,17, 23, 24,30: 8:00; Nov18, 25, Dec1: tre. Nov 8-10,15-17,21-24:8:00; Nov
friends, Allyson Morris Group. Nov 11 Alex
10,11,13,15,17,18, 20,22,24,25:2:00. See
2:00. See Nov. 16 for details
Coleman Jazz Trio, Cocktail Jazz Band. Nov 12
*Cinderella: Port Hope Festival Theatre. Beyond GTA Nov. 8 for details.
Graeme Thompson Jazz Band. Nov 13 Kenny
* Oklahoma! Stratford Festival. closes Nov
Dec 7-23: shows at 2:00 & 7:00. See Beyond
Simon, James Thomson, Donee Roberts and
4. See Nov 1 for details.
GTA, Dec 7 for details.
Julian Fauth Blues Trio. Nov 14 Amy Medvick,
* Return of Ulysses: Opera Atelier. Novem- Absolute Lounge
* Commedia!:Toronto Masque Theatre. NoKarry Ladyshewsky and Robert Murphy. Nov 15
vember 15,16,17: 8:00. See Nov. 15 for details. ber 1,2,3: 7:30. See Nov. 1 for details
Hilton Suites Toronto/Markham Conference
Double A Jazz, String Theory. Nov 16 Fraser
*Crossing Delancey: Alenbe Theatre. Nov * Self Help: Mississauga Players.Nov8Centre and Spa
Melvin Blues Band, Patrick Tevlin’s New Orleans
30: 8:00; Dec 1: 8:00; Dec 2: 2:00. See Nov. 30 10,15-17: 8pm; Nov 11: 2pm. See Nov. 8 for details 8500 Warden Avenue, Markham
Duo. Nov 17 Bill Heffernan with his friends, Max
* Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of
for details.
905-470-8500
Senitt Latin Quartet. Nov 18 Chris Virtue Jazz
*Die Drei Pintos. Opera in Concert. Decem- Fleet Street: : Mirvish Productions. Nov. 6
Alleycatz
Duo, Peter Hill Jazz Duo. Nov 19 Up The Line
– Dec 9. www.mirvish.com
ber 2: 2:30. See Nov. 2 for details.
2409 Yonge St. 416-481-6865
Blues Duo. Nov 20 Joshua Goodman Jazz Band,
* Tailor of Gloucester: Solar Stage Chil*Eight Songs for a Mad King: Summer
Every Mon Salsa Night. Every Tue. Whitney
James Thomson, Donee Roberts and Julian Fauth
Opera Lyric Theatre. November 23: 8:00. See dren’s Theatre. Nov 3, 4, 10, 11, 17, 18, 24,
Smith and C. Berardinucci Quintet. Every Wed Blues Trio. Nov 21 Martin Alex Aucoin Piano
25, & Dec 1; 11 am & 2 pm. (Upper Madison
Nov. 23 for details.
Solo, Jason Raso Funky JazzBand. Nov 22 Sarah
*Grease: Brampton Music Theatre. Nov 14- Ave, North York) Nicholas Terpstra. Dec 15, 16, Jasmin Bailey and Co. Every Thu Sump’n
Different w/ New Vocalists Weekly.
Jerrom Jazz Trio, Amaury Sanchez Fifuerdo
22, 23, 27, 28, 29, 30 & Jan 2, 3, 4, 5, 6: 11
17. See Nov 14 for details.
Jazz Band. Nov 23 Heidi Lange Jazz and Swing
Arbor Room
*Here’s Love - The Miracle on 34th Street am & 2 pm. (Village Playhouse. Bloor West VilBand, Elizabeth Shepherd Jazz Quartet. Nov 24
lage) For details see Nov 2.
Hart House @ the University of Toronto, 7 Hart
Musical: Civic Light Opera Company. DeBill Heffernan with his friends, Sultans of String.
cember 5-23. Dec. 5, 12, 19: 7:00; Dec. 6-8, 13- *Urinetown: The Musical. Hamilton Thea- House Circle
Nov 25 Ori Dagan: Swinging at Gate 403, Yin
tre Inc. Nov 2,3,9,10: 8:00; Nov 4 & 11: 2:00. 416-978-2452
15, 20-22: 8:00; Dec. 9, 16, 22, 23: 2:00 .
Hwang Jazz Band. Nov 26 Ashley St. Pierre
See Nov. 2 for details.
Nov 2 Jenny Owen Youngs. Nov 9 Melissa
www.civiclightopera.com
Jazz Duo. Nov 27 Adam Teixeira Jazz Trio,
*White Christmas: Sony Centre. Nov. 20 - Laveaux.
*Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor
James Thomson, Donee Roberts and Julian Fauth
Jan 5. www.sonycentre.ca.See Nov. 20 for deDreamcoat. Curtain Call Players. Nov 1,
The Black Swan
Blues Trio. Nov 28 Blue Canoe, Syndi Carleton
3,7,8 & 9: 8:00; Nov 3,4, & 10: 2:00. See Nov 1 tails.
154 Danforth Ave. 416-469-0537
Jazz Duo. Nov 29 Chantelle Wilson Jazz Band,
* Women of the Klondike: Theatre Erinfor details.
Every Wed The Danforth Jam w/ Jon Long and
Suzana Da Camara Jazz Band. Nov 30 Harley
dale. November 15, 16, 20,21, 22, 23: 7:30;
* L’elisir d’amor: University of Toronto
Friends.
Card Jazz Band, David Rotundo and Jimmy
November 24: 2:00; November 17, 24: 8:00.
Faculty of Music. Nov 8,9,10: 7:30; Nov 11:
C’est What
Helverson Blues Duo.
See Nov 15 for details
2:30. See Nov. 8 for details.
* Little Women: Randolph Academy for the *Wonderful Town: Clarkson Music Thea- 67 Front St. E. 416-867-9499
Grossman’s Tavern
www.cestwhat.com
Performing Arts. Nov 27-Dec 1: 8:00. See Nov tre. Nov23-24,29,30 & Dec1: 8pm;
379 Spadina Ave. 416-977-1210
Every
Wed.
Hot
Fo’
Ghandi.
Nov25,Dec1: 2pm. See Nov. 23 for details.
27 for details.
www.grossmanstavern.com
Every Sat (matinee) The Hot Five JazzmakEvery Mon Laura Hubert Band
ers.
Every Tue Brokenjoe ol’ timey tuesdays.
Cervejaria Downtown
Every Sat Matinee: The Happy Pals.
842 College St. (416) 588-0162.
Every Sun Night: The Nationals with Brian
Every Wed The Jay Danley Quintet.
Cober – Double Slide Guitar Open Stage Jam.
Nov 1 Homeless. Nov 2 Sandi Marie and
Chalkers Pub Billiards & Bistro
Company w/ Alan Mason, Gary Kendall Blues
247 Marlee Avenue, 416 789-2531
Band. Nov 3 Dare Devils of Soul. Nov 8 Patrick
http://www.chalkerspub.com
presents
Tevlin New Orleans Quartet. Nov 9 Soul Stack.
Every Thu Girls Night Out Jam w/ Lisa PartiNov 10 Blues of Cats Fundraising .Nov 14 Chloe
celli.
and the Crossroads. Nov 16 The Blues Drivers.
Nov 11 Bob Brough Quartet.
Nov 23 Loose Wires. Nov 24 Caution Jam. Nov
Chick N’ Deli
29 Box Full of Cash. Nov 30 Frankie Foo.
744 Mount Pleasant Rd. 416-489-3363
Christmas Music from
Home Smith Bar
www.chickndeli.com
The Old Mill, 21 Old Mill Rd. 416-236-2641
Every Tue Jam Night
Spain & Latin America
Every First Mon Advocats Big Band
Nov 2 Linda Carone Trio. Nov 3 Russ Little Trio.
Every Third Mon George Lake Big Band.
December 7 & 8, 2007 at 8 pm
Nov 9 Stevie Gee Duo. Nov 10 Heather BamCommensal, Le
brick Trio. Nov 16 Mike Cado Duo. Nov 17 Bill
Flashy rhythms and sensuous melody have always
655 Bay St.† 416-596-9364
McBirnie Trio. Nov 23 Bryan Toner Trio. Nov 24
marked Christmas celebrations in the Spanish-speaking
www.commensal.ca
Shawn Bray Trio. Nov 30 Harris Mark Duo.
Music
Fridays
&
Saturdays†
nations of the world, on both sides of the Atlantic. For
Hot House Cafe
6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
our Yuletide concert this year we turn to 16th and 17thMarket Square, 416-366-7800
No Cover Charge
century Spain and Latin America, presenting music
Every Mon. Jazz Brunch with the Ken Churchill
Nov 2 Sophia Perlman/Adrean Farrugia. Nov 3
Quartet.
Don Campbell/Dan Eisen. Nov 9 Elizabeth
which is by turns haunting, boisterous, soulful and
Shepherd/Dan Eisen. Nov 10 Double A Jazz
Lula Lounge
altogether irresistible. Join us for this journey to the
Trio. Nov 16 Beverly Taft/Dan Eisen. Nov 17
1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307
lands of villancicos, ensaladas, xácaras and romances,
Warren Grieg/Dan Eisen. Nov 23 Kira Callahan + www.lula.ca
including rarely heard masterpieces from Baroque
Special Guest. Nov 24 Leon Kingstone/ Dan
Nov 1 Jake Langley. Nov 2 Flamenco with La
Eisen. Nov 30 Jonathan Marks Violin Jazz Duo Morocha and Juan Dino, Cuban Dance Party w/
Mexico and Guatamala.
w/ Fabrice Sicco.
Lady Son y Articulo Veinte and DJ Fab. Nov 3
December 7 sponsored by the
Salsa Saturday w. Ricky Franco and DJ Fab. Nov
Gate 403
Consulate General of Spain
8 Princess: The grrrls play Prince Live. Nov 9
403 Roncesvalles 416-588-2930
Jorge Miguel’s Trio + Cache. Nov 10 Cuban
www.gate403.com
www.torontoconsort.org
Dance Party w/ Tipica Toronto and DJ Billy
Nov 1 Ashley St. Pierre, The Peddlers. Nov 2
Bryans. Nov 14 Robert Scott Trio Live In ConMichael O’Grady Blues Band, Terry van Horne.
cert. Nov 15 Swing Rosie’s Farewell Concert and
Nov 3 Bill Hefffernan with his friends, Mr. Rick
and the Biscuits. Nov 4 Ken Yoshioka Blues Band, Dance Party. Nov 16 Evaristo Machado, Klimax
w/ DJ Billy Bryans. Nov 14 Afternoon PercusTrinity-St. Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St. West
Salsa and Swing Dance night. Nov 5 Kevin
in the
clubs
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UNA NºCHE
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jazz in the clubs
ANNOUNCEMENTS, ... WORKSHOPS, ETC
Nov 5 Peter Hill Ensemble, UofT. Student Jazz
Ensembles. Nov 6 Ali Berkok Trio, Classic Rex
Jazz Jam. Nov 7 Victor Bateman Trio, Gospel
ANNOUNCEMENTS
sion Workshop, Klimax w/ DJ Billy Bryans. Nov Event: Rhythm and Truth. Nov 8 Kevin Quain,
21 Odessa/Havana CD Release. Nov 22 Yawo. From Australia: Peter Knight Quintet. Nov 9
*November 3 5:00: Brantford
Nov 23 Cuban Dance Party w/ very special guest Hogtown Syncopators, Sara Dell, Vaughan
Symphony. A Magical Night In Venice.
Benny Escalante. Nov 24 Cuban Dance Party w. Misener Trio. Nov 10 Abbey’s Meltdown, Swing Evening of Italian cuisine & complimentary
Cafe Cubano.
Shift Big Band, Justin Bacchus, Mike McClennan chocolate treats; performance by Brantford
Octet. Nov 11 Excelsior Dixieland Jazz, Beverly Symphony Orchestra musicians & others; live
Manhattan’s Music Club
& silent auctions; dancing, & more. 5:00:
Taft, 5+2 Brass Ensemble, Sean Bray Quartet.
951 Gordon St. Guelph
Nov 12 Joel Haynes Trio, UofT Student Ensem- Silent auction & cocktails; 6:30: Dinner.
519-767-2440
Hellenic Community Centre, 475 Park Road
bles. Nov 13 Ali Berkok Trio, Classic Rex Jazz
www.manhattans.ca
Jam. Nov 14 Victor Bateman Trio, From Vancou- North, Brantford. 519-759-8781.
Nov 17 Adrean Farrugia Trio.
ver: Jodi Proznick Quartet. Nov 15 Kevin Quain, $95(includes $44 charitable donation receipt).
Mezzetta
Proceeds directed towards preserving the
New CD: Rich Underhill Quintet. Nov 16 Hog681 St. Clair Ave. W. 416-658-5687
performing arts in our communities.
town Syncopators, Sara Dell, Rosemary GalloWednesday Concerts in a Cafe. Sets at 9 and
way Quartet. Nov 17 Abbey’s Meltdown, The
*November 3 8:00: First United Church
10:15. Reservations recommended for first set.
TJO Big Band, Justin Bacchus, From MOntreal/ Waterloo. The Phantom of the Opera. 1925
N’Awlins Jazz Bar and Dining
CD RElease/ Gale Rodriguez Group. Nov 18
silent film starring Lon Chaney. Featuring live
299 King St. W. 416-595-1958
Excelsior Jazz Band, George Grossman Bohemi- organ accompaniment by Ian Sadler. 16
www.nawlins.ca
an Swing, Shannon Butcher, Bruce Cassidy. Nov William St. West, Waterloo. 519-885Every Tues Stacie McGregor.
19 Peter Hill Ensemble, UofT Student Jazz
4472, 519-746-6768. $18(advance),
Every Wed. Jim Heineman Trio.
Ensembles. Nov 20 Ali Berkok Trio, Classic Rex $20(door), $10(st).
Every Thu Blues Night with Guest Vocalists.
Jazz Jam. Nov 21 Victor Bateman, Mark Laver
*November 4 7:00: ECHO Women’s
Every Fri/Sat All Star Bourbon St. Band.
7. Nov 22 From NY Mike RUby CD Release
Choir. Fall Fling and Square Dancing. Evening
Every Sun Robi Botos.
Event, Kirk MacDonald Quartet .Nov 23 Hogof song, scrumptious baked goods & preserves
town Syncopators, Sara Dell, Kirk MacDonald
Old Mill, The
sale, pie raffle & square-dancing. All-ages
Quartet.
Nov
24
Abbey’s
Meltdown,
Dr.
Nick
21 Old Mill Rd. 416-236-2641
event. Live music with Anne Lederman, fiddle
and the Rollercoasters, Justin Bacchus, From NY
& Lorraine Sutton, caller. No dancing partner?
Nov 1,2 Ascension. Nov 3 CHFI Broadcast. Nov Amy Cervini Quartet. Nov 25 Excelsior Dixieland Not a problem! Church of the Holy Trinity, 10
5 Sounds of Jazz FM91. Nov 6-10 Fifth Avenue. Jazz, Freeway Dixieland, Shannon Butcher,
Trinity Square. 416-588-9050 x3. $10,
Random Access. Nov 26 Peter Hill Ensemble,
Nov 12- 14 Fifth Avenue. Nov 15, 16 The
$25(family) (sliding scale).
Caverners. Nov 17 Fifth Avenue. Nov 19 Sounds John MacLeod’s Rex Hotel Orchestra. Nov 27
*November 11 10:45am: Fort York
of Jazz FM91. Nov 20-22 Ascension. Nov 23 Ali Berkok Trio, Classic Rex Jazz Jam. Nov 28
National Historic Site/IODE, Toronto
Victor Bateman Trio, Nathan Hiltz Trio: CD
Galaxy All Star Big Band. Nov 24 Ascension.
Chapter. Remembrance Day Ceremony.
Release. Nov 29 Kevin Quan, Dan Weiss Trio.
Nov 26-Dec 1 Jay Boehmer.
Nov 30 Hogtown Syncopators, Sara Dell, From Processional parade led by fife and drum;
Opal Jazz Lounge
military costumed staff from historic Fort
NY: Dan Weiss Trio.
472 Queen St. West. 416-646-6725
York; standard bearers from the IODE. To
Saint Tropez, Le
www.opaljazzlounge.com
honour soldiers from the Toronto Garrison
315 King St. W. 416-591-3600
Nov 20-24 John Sherwood. Nov 27-Dec 1
who have fallen in war. Fort York parking lot,
Live
music
7
days
a
week
Brian Dickinson/Ted Quinlan.
100 Garrison Road, to Strachan Avenue
Spezzo Restorante
Pantages Martini Bar and Lounge
Military Cemetery, just west of Historic Fort
140 York Blvd. Richmond Hill 905-886-9703
200 Victoria St.
York. 416-392-6907. Free.
Live jazz every Thursday.
Every Fri: John Simoes and Aaron Peixoto.
*November 25 1:00-4:00: Amici
Every Sat: Solo Piano: Various artists.
Ten Feet Tall
Chamber Ensemble. 20th Anniversary
1381 Danforth Avenue, 416-778-7333
Pilot Tavern
Gala. Beethoven: Trio; Schumann: Spanische
www.tenfeettall.ca
22 Cumberland 416-923-5716
Liebeslieder; music by Piazzolla; Armenian
Last Wed of Every Month Girls Night Out
www.thepilot.ca
folk songs; Bob Rae: newly composed song.
Vocalists Jam.
Nov 3 Bob Brough Quartet Nov 4 Gene Pool
Isabel Bayrakdarian, soprano; Bob Rae, piano/
Nov 4 Jazz ‘N’ Laughs w/ Ilana Waldston. Nov
Boys. Nov 10 20 Years of New Ownership
composer; Patricia Parr & Serouj Kradjian,
11 Elizabeth Shepherd.
Anniversary party: Return of Tenor Madness
piano; Benjamin Bowman, violin; members of
(Mat) The Jive Bombers (Eve). Nov 11 Kollage.
Amici. Grano Ristorante, 2035 Yonge St.
The Trane Studio
Nov 17 David Virelles Quartet. Nov 18 Pat
416-368-8743. $100.
964 Bathurst St. 416-913-8197
Carey Quartet. Nov 24 Richard Underhill Quarwww.tranestudio.com
*November 25 2:30-5:30: Music Gallery/
tet. Nov 25 Robi Botos Quartet.
Nov 1 Ernest Dawkins New Horizons Ensemble. Arraymusic/NUMUS. Music Gallery Open
Nov Nick Brownman Ali. Nov 3 Ernest
Quotes
House: Celebrating James Tenney. Tenney:
Dawkins. Nov 4 Kobena Aqua Harrison. Nov 5
220 King St. W.
Road to Ubud & other music. Composers &
Ernest Dawkins. Nov 6 Dinner/Comedy w/ Jay
416-979-7717
performers will discuss works & working
Martin. Nov 7 Chris Rouse, Carlos Morgan and
Nov 2 Dave McMurdo. Nov 9 Chase Sanborn.
with Tenney; demonstrations on Tenney’s use
Wade O. Brown. Nov 8 Josh White Jr. Nov 9
of tunings. Performers include Evergreen Club
Reservoir Lounge, The
Nick Brownman Ali. Nov 10 Yvonne Moore.
Gamelan, Arraymusic Ensemble, Stephen
52 Wellington St. E. 416-955-0887
Nov 11 Tiki Mercury-Clark. Nov 12 Poetry
Clarke, piano & others. Church of St. George
www.reservoirlounge.com
Reading w. Josh White Jr. Nov 13 Kalabash.
the Martyr, 197 John. 416-204-1080. $20;
Every Mon Sophia Perlman and the Vipers.
Nov 14 Tribute to Sam Cooke w. Glen Rickets
$15(Gallery members); $10(sr/st, arts
Every Tue Tyler Yarema and his Rhythm.
and Eddie Bullen w. band. Nov 15 HIlario DUran. workers, underemployed).
Every Wed Bradley and the Bouncers.
Nov 16 Nick Brownman Ali. Nov 17 Demo
Every Thu Janice Hagen.
Kates: Tribute to Grover Washington Jr. Nov 18 *December 1 1:00-7:00: St. Clement’s
Every Fri Chet Valient Combo.
Sister Lois: Tribute to Mahalia Jackson. Nov 19 Church. 6th Annual Art Show and Sale. 59
Every Sat Tory Cassis.
Poetry w. Ursula Rucker. Nov 20 Ursula Rucker. Briar Hill Ave. 416-483-6664.
Rex Jazz and Blues Bar, The
*December 2 2:00-5:00: Elmer Iseler
Nov 21 Donee Roberts. Nov 22 Joe Sealy
194 Queen St. W. 416-598-2475
Singers. Sherry and Shortbread. Join in the
Quartet. Nov 23 Nick Brownman Ali. Nov 24
www.therex.ca
silent auction & enjoy music of the holiday
Neil Brathwaite and Michael Shand: Trubute to
Nov 1 Kevin Quain, From NY: Pandemic. Nov 2 Herbie Hancock. Nov 25 Eddie Bullen. Nov 26
season. Albany Club, 91 King St. East. 416The Hogtown Syncopators, Sara Dell, Kingsley
conversation with Frances Ann Solomon. Nov 27 217-0537. In support of the activities of the
Etienne Trio. Nov 3 Abbey’s Meltdown, Laura
Alexander Brown: Tribute to Clifford Brown and Elmer Iseler Singers.
Hubert Band, Justin Bacchus, Kiki Misumi
Dizzy Gillespie. Nov 28 Kingsley Ettienne
Quartet. Nov 4 Excelsior Dixieland Jazz, Club
Quartet: hnouring Jack McDuff. Nov 29 Adam
Django, Shannon Butcher, Jay Boehmer Jazz.
Solomon and Tikisa. Nov 30 Nick Brownman Ali.
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LECTURES/SYMPOSIA
*November 4 2:00: Toronto Opera Club.
Freudian Literature from Pélleas et Mélisande
to The Wizard of Oz. Video presentation by
guest speaker John Rutherford. CDs to be
won. Room 330, Edward Johnson Bldg, 80
Queen’s Park. 416-924-3940. $10.
*November 8 12:10: University of
Toronto Faculty of Music/Royal
Canadian College of Organists (Toronto
Centre). Symposium on Dietrich Buxtehude:
Lecture by Dr. Kerala Snyder. Walter Hall, 80
Queen’s Park. 416-978-3744,
www.globalserve.net/-chubb/rcco/
buxtehude300.htm Free.
*November 21 8:00: Toronto Wagner
Society. A Broadcaster’s Experience with
Wagner. Lecture by Howard Dyck. Arts and
Letters Club, 14 Elm St.
www.torontowagner.org Members free, nonmembers by donation ($10 suggested).
Toronto Faculty of Music. Presentation by
percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie. Walter
*Northumberland Learning Connection/
Port Hope Friends of Music. Bricks,
Bohemians, and Passionate Lovers. Looking at
opera in 5 lectures: Nov 8: The Architecture
of Acoustics: the Design of Toronto’s New
Opera House with Gary McCluskie; Nov 15:
Puccini’s La Bohème with Clayton Scott; Nov
22: Verdi’s Greatest Love Duets, La Traviata
with Iain Scott; Nov 29: Verdi’s Greatest
Love Duets, Un Ballo in Maschera with Iain
Scott; Dec 6: Verdi’s Greatest Love Duets,
Otello with Iain Scott. All lectures at 7pm at
the Columbus Community Centre, 232
Spencer Street, Cobourg. For tickets & more
information: 905-349-3402,
www.northumberlandlearningconnection.ca
MASTER CLASSES
*November 4 2:00-5:30: Singing Studio
of Deborah Staiman. Master class in
musical theatre/audition preparation, using
textual analysis and other interpretative tools
for the “sung monologue”. Yonge & Eglinton
area – please call for exact location. 416-4839532, www.singingstudio.ca
Western Ontario. Baroque flute
masterclass with Mathieu Langlois. von
Kuster Hall, Don Wright Faculty of Music,
UWO, London. 519-661-2043. Free.
*November 10 10am: University of
Toronto Faculty of Music/Royal
Canadian College of Organists (Toronto
Centre). Symposium on Dietrich Buxtehude:
William Porter Organ Master Class. Knox
College Chapel, 59 St. George St. 416-9783744, www.globalserve.net/-chubb/rcco/
buxtehude300.htm $10(non-RCCO members).
*November 13 11:30am: York
University Department of Music. Lieder
masterclass with Che Anne Loewen. Singers
from the classes of Catherine Robbin &
Norma Burrowes. Observers welcome.
Tribute Communities Recital Hall, Accolade
East, YU, 4700 Keele St. 416-736-5186.
Free.
*November 16 2:30: York University
Department of Music. Vocal masterclass
with Leslie Fagan. Singers from the studios of
Catherine Robbin, Norma Burrowes, Stephanie
Bogle & others. Observers welcome. Tribute
Communities Recital Hall, Accolade East, YU,
4700 Keele St. 416-736-5186. Free.
*November 17 1:00-4:30: Long &
McQuade/Miyazawa Flutes. Flute master
class with Ian Clarke. Victoria College Chapel,
93 Charles St. West. 416-588-7886.
$30(performers), auditors free.
*November 17 & 25 7:00-9:00:
Vocalway Studios. Voice master class
with coach Tom Schilling. Melrose United
Church, 86 Homewood Ave., Hamilton. To
reserve a spot: 905-546-5671,
www.vocalway.com $35(participant),
$10(auditor); $25(performers, ACTRA &
Equity members with card), $8(auditors,
ACTRA & Equity members with card).
*November 18 1:30-4:00: Toronto Flute
Circle. Informal performance masterclass/
workshop for flute enthusiasts of all ages &
levels. Group participation. Presented by
Margot Rydall. Location tba. 416-463-1011
or [email protected]
*November 18 2:00-5:30: Singing Studio
musical theatre/audition preparation. See Nov
4.
Toronto Faculty of Music. Voice
Performance Class: Lute Song Master Class
with John Edwards. Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s
Park. 416-978-3744. Free.
*November 20 6:00-8:00: Vocalway
Studios. Voice master class with Tom
Schilling. See November 17 & 25. College
Street United Church, 452 College St.
Toronto.
Western Ontario. Violin masterclass with
Vaslie Beluska. von Kuster Hall, Don Wright
Faculty of Music, UWO, London. 519-6612043. Free.
*December 2 10:00am: University of
Western Ontario. Piano chamber music
masterclass with Paulina Zamora. von Kuster
Hall, Don Wright Faculty of Music, UWO,
London. 519-661-2043. Free.
*December 2 2:00-5:30: Singing Studio
musical theatre/audition preparation. See Nov
4.
WORKSHOPS
*November 3 & 4 2:00-5:00: CAMMAC.
Ghanaian Music. Workshop with Ghanaian
musicians. Morningside-High Park
Presbyterian Church, 4 Morningside Ave. 416421-0779, www.cammac.ca.
*November 4 1:30-4:00: Toronto Early
Music Players Organization. Workshop on
early music for winds and strings, led by Susie
Napper. Bring your early instruments & stand.
Lansing United Church, 49 Bogert Ave. 416778-7777. $20, members free.
*November 6 2:00-4:00, 7:00-9:00:
Remenyi House of Music. Choral
Workshop with Bob Chilcott. Hear & sing his
compositions. Limited seating. Church of the
Redeemer, 162 Bloor St. West. 416-9613111 x218.
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*November 7 7:30: Penthelia Singers.
Open Rehearsal. Come sing with us for an
evening & meet the members afterwards at a
meet and greet. Rosedale Presbyterian Church,
129 Mount Pleasant Rd. To register: 416538-2378.
*November 10 9am-6pm: Grand River
Chorus. Calling All Singers: Choral
Development Workshop. Led by Richard
Cunningham; ending with a goodwill concert
featuring the pieces learned during the day.
Wesley United Church, 69 Superior Street,
Brantford. 519-759-7885.
*November 16 7:30-10pm: Recorder
Players’ Society. Opportunity for recorder
and/or other early instrument players to play
Renaissance & Baroque music in groups.
Church of the Transfiguration, 111 Manor Rd.
East. 416-534-7931. $10(CAMMAC
member), $12(non-member).
*November 18 9:45am-5:00: Royal
Conservatory of Music Community
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the creation of a new song, helping it to evolve
as it progresses through three different
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*November 18 2:00: CAMMAC. Musical
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MUSICAL LIFE
“How I Met My Teacher”
remembers Donna Wood 1920-2007
BY MJBUELL
We must have a light touch and a special sense of humour. Take
music seriously, but don’t take yourself too seriously…
(Donna Wood in her book for teachers: Move, Listen, Sing, Play)
Music’s Child for October, Angèle Dubeau (see page 10) speaks
ardently about a first teacher whose teaching method included ensemble playing from the (then radical and new) Suzuki method, to
joyfully engage children in sharing music so that music would always
have a place in their lives … “Jean Cousineau’s approach was to put
in each child this little spark …” she says.
Her remark made me think of someone who, directly or indirectly, was the first teacher of my own children who today are all diversely but intensely musical and musically appreciative. Each of
them attended classes, from the age of 3, called “Preparatory Music” taught either by Donna Wood, or by a teacher trained by Donna.
A few days after speaking with Ms Dubeau I was saddened to hear
that Donna Wood died on October 7, at the age of 87. Many are feeling this loss: colleagues, former students and their parents, and
former students who became teachers, or better teachers.
Born in 1920, in Saskatoon, Donna Wood came to Toronto in the
late 1930s on a scholarship, and graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Music. She later certified as an Early Childhood Educator,
Institute of Child Study, U of T.
As an RCM student Donna began teaching at St. Christopher Settlement House in Kensington Market. Years of practical experience
in inner-city day care and co-op nursery schools inspired her to develop Preparatory Music classes at the Conservatory for children
aged 3 to 7 and Music with your Baby classes for parents and their
children aged 6-36 months.
Donna taught courses in teacher training, gave workshops across
Canada for teachers and caregivers, and presented papers at the
International Society of Music Education (ISME) in the USA, Austria, Hungary, Australia, and Finland. In 1987, The Association for
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The Bell’Arte singers
have launched a search for a
Music Director.
Interested candidates can contact the
Search Committee by email at
[email protected]
or visit the website at www.bellartesingers.com
For more information contact
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Don’t just listen to music…
Make it!
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Join other songwriters to craft a new
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HOW I MET MY TEACHER:
DONNA WOOD: 1920-2007
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Education
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Donna Wood at an ECMA anniversary celebration
Early Childhood Education, Ontario presented
her with the Children’s Service Award and
medal for outstanding contributions toward
improving the quality of life for young children.
In 1990 Donna founded the Early Childhood
Music Association (www.ecmaontario.ca)
which continues to provide advocacy, education and leadership towards Donna’s vision
that there should be high quality musical experiences in the lives of all children.
In 1991, she helped create and implement
an advanced cross-disciplinary Early Childhood Music Education Certificate, through
Ryerson University’s School of Early Childhood Education and the Royal Conservatory.
T RIBUTES
What impressed me about Donna was her
grace - she was equally at home surrounded
by children, lying on her back with her feet up
in the air imitating a bat hanging from the
ceiling, as she was giving a lecture at an
international conference on early childhood
music, or nurturing her apprentices. Not only
a top-notch music educator of small children,
she had the foresight and determination to
train apprentices… That was Donna.
(Mary Kirton, Toronto)
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Donna was always ahead of her time. She
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ago. when almost no one was thinking that it is
important to teach young children music.
She studied all of the20th century approaches to music education and developed her own
curriculum, where the main goal was to raise
a musical child through the highest quality
musical experiences. The well-being of the
child was always Donna’s priority.
I met Donna in the summer of 1993, when I
took her Music in Early Childhood Course
offered through the RCM. The course literally
changed my entire life: this passion of hers
was so contagious. She has raised generations
of devoted Music in ECE teachers. I am so
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thoroughly modern Monteverdi
“There are problems in resolving his figured
basses, there are problems in performance
practice, especially in relation to the singers.”
So too for the staging, acting, and costuming.
Authentic Monteverdi, like authentic Shakespeare, is at best an educated hypothesis.
Harnoncourt and Ponnelle imaginatively
recreate for a contemporary audience, an early
seventeenth century stage set, and how performers within it would move and sing.
As to the music, Monteverdi’s scores
were deliberately partial, only the figured
bass and voice line. The composer and his
musicians knew how to fill things out. Restricting information protected them against
pirating. Sort of a Baroque Digital Rights
management scheme, if you will. Harnoncourt, with his deep knowledge of all of Monteverdi’s output, must make calls at every
turn.
Twenty-five years later, Harnoncourt returned to the Opernhaus Zurich with a very
different Il ritorno (available as an ArtHuas
DVD). A period instrument ensemble is combined with a starkly minimalist staging evoking
Jerzy Grotowski’s “poor theatre” movement.
There is a logic to this approach, sort of. Seventeenth century Venetian staging gloried in going
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over the top; approaching myth in an extravagant fashion was a way to enthrall their audience. So how does one enthrall a contemporary audience? Minimalism, they seem to
argue, has that resonance. Besides, that way
Monteverdi’s ingenious, path-breaking marriage of words and music will shine through,
especially in the scholarly hands of Harnoncourt.
That it doesn’t work has something to do
with the way people process operatic information. The earlier version’s “mind’s eye Baroque” has a majesty and dignity that the 2002
Zurich production does not match, even though
the latter production is beautifully executed.
The same comments apply, in my view, to a
2003 Virgin Classics DVD featuring William
Christie’s Les Arts Florissants ensemble, with
its radically staged prologue, where the representative of Humanity sings in the buff. So does
Humanity in Glen Wilson and Pierre Audi’s
production of Il ritorno at De Nederlanse
Opera, on an ArtHaus DVD). Only this time
Humanity is a woman discreetly covered by
her flowing blond hair.
Somehow I think that we don’t have to
strip to indicate that we’re all naked before
the gods.
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Book Shelf
by Pamela Margles
thorough notes, score samples, a
discography and a detailed index. The
beautiful jacket, binding and endpapers seem
fitting.
Ruth Crawford Seeger’s Worlds:
Innovation and Tradition in TwentiethCentury American Music
edited by Ray Allen and Ellie M. Hisama
University of Rochester Press
320 pages; US $75.00
Robert Schumann: Life and Death of a
Musician
by John Worthen
Yale University Press
512 pages, photos; US $40.00
As a composer, Ruth
Crawford Seeger
created some of the
most daring works of
early American modernism. She stopped
writing music after
her first child was
born, but went on to
do pioneering work in
American folk music.
This collection does
full justice to the
breadth of Crawford
Seeger’s accomplishments. Writers with
backgrounds in music theory, education,
folklore, history, and women’s studies take
various viewpoints. Occasionally they even
contradict each other. Taylor Greer writes, ‘It is
tragic that she died before discovering a way of
uniting the two art forms she so adored’. But
Melissa de Graaf sees her final composition
from 1939, Rissolty, Rossolty as an attempt to
‘integrate the two aesthetics,’ high modernism
and folklore.
Judith Tick, who has written Crawford
Seeger’s biography and edited her writings,
describes her place in history. Her
compositions influenced composers like Elliott
Carter, John Cage and Pauline Oliveros. In a
lovely memoir, folksinger and songwriter
Bess Lomax Hawes recalls as a teenager
helping out her father, John Lomax, her
brother Alan, and Crawford Seeger in their
work collecting and documenting folksongs.
While two of her children, folksingers Mike
Seeger and Peggy Seeger, are profiled, stepson Pete Seeger, the greatest folksinger to
come out of the folk revival Crawford Seeger
did so much to foster, is barely mentioned.
Crawford Seeger emerges from the book as
an accomplished and fascinating woman, whose
early death in 1953, when she was just fiftytwo, was a loss in many ways. There are
Schumann’s life
and music are usually interpreted
from the perspective of his final
‘ghastly’ madness.
But John Worthen
insists that Schumann’s life, and
especially the music must be separated from the disease
that destroyed his
mind. He is convinced that Schumann suffered not from
schizophrenia but from syphilis. True, he
was anxious and melancholic. But Worthen
finds that much of that was brought on by
physical problems - his panic and phobias,
for instance, being caused by insomnia.
Worthen even examines Schumann’s autopsy
report, published for the first time in English.
Instead of considering every problem in his
life as a step closer to madness, Worthen looks
carefully at individual issues, such as the hell
that Friedrich Wieck, Schumann’s one-time
mentor, put him through before he was finally
able to marry Wieck’s daughter, Clara. He
portrays Schumann as self-possessed, thoroughly in charge of his own life and determined
to follow his own road – at least until things
started going terribly wrong in 1854, when
he tried to drown himself in the Rhine. He
died two years later in an insane asylum.
Worthen offers numerous musical insights.
He defends Schumann’s orchestral writing,
pointing out how the heaviness and muddiness
it is often accused of can be cleared up by the
use of period instruments. He pays a lot of
attention to the copious documentary material,
like the diaries of both Clara and Robert,
whose love represents ‘one of the great
romances of musical history’. This is an
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exemplary biography. The index has detailed
sub-headings, and even the endnotes are
fascinating.
Wild Harmonies: A Life of Music and
Wolves
by Helénè Grimaud
translated by Ellen Hinsey
Riverhead Books (Penguin)
247 pages; US
$24.95
‘My gaze is often
disturbing,’ writes
the French pianist
Helénè Grimaud.
Grimaud describes
herself as a willful
and uncontrollable
child. She grew up
in a loving family.
But she was isolated, and overwhelmed by her
own negativity. But when she was seven, she
discovered the piano. ‘Music converted me.
It saved me’, she writes.
Grimaud describes eloquently the physical
pleasure she gets from playing. She seems to
feel every experience directly in her hands.
For her, each composer represents an
individual world of sound, so she refers, for
instance, to the ‘pain bordering on ecstasy
that one hears in Brahms’ music’. Playing the
piano is, for her, a ‘high-wire act’ She even
talks abut the burden of being a beautifullooking woman, which indeed she is.
She calls Glenn Gould ‘a musical older
brother’, admiring his freedom, passion, and
truthfulness. ‘He lives at the core of what he
interprets’, she writes, obviously thinking of
herself as well. Using a personal style,
Grimaud intersperses her memoirs of her
own life with vignettes on various subjects,
from children who have been discovered
living in the wild, to the treatment of wolves
throughout history. Her obsession with
wolves, and the wilder aspects of human
nature they reflect – has lead her to start a
wolf sanctuary in upper New York State.
This is an enthralling memoir – tempestuous, rhapsodic, and, indeed, disturbing.
Grimaud has published a new volume of
memoirs in France, and I’m looking forward
to it coming out in English soon.
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VOCAL
Schubert – Schwanengesang;
Mendelssohn - Songs
Jan Kobow; Kristian Bezuidenhout
ATMA ACD2 2339
Schubert’s final song
cycle, Schwanengesang, doesn’t tell a story in the same way that
the earlier cycles Die
schöne Müllerin and
Winterreise do. There
are fourteen songs by
three poets, Rellstab,
Heine and Seidl. They have moments of hope
and joy. But mostly there’s heartache and longing. German tenor Jan Kobow gives a dramatically riveting presentation by finding the emotional core of each song.
Kobow is capable of great tonal beauty, but
he’ll take on a steely quality for expressive effect. He extracts details in the texts to bring out
the full range of Schubert’s moods. But he resists mannerisms. This is especially gratifying in
the best-known song, Ständchen, which he
makes fresh and heartfelt. His Frühlingssehnsucht is brilliant, especially in the way he builds
up to the final exclamation, ‘Only you!’. Kobow
finesses the elaborate internal rhymes of In der
Ferne so that the layers of meaning are revealed.
Only in the exposed Der Atlas does he become
too forceful, so that even the piano must push its
sound to keep up. Otherwise, Kristian Bezuidenhout’s fortepiano sparkles and dances in the sustained textures. He is a true partner here, colourful, dramatic and soulful.
The booklet notes dismiss the six Mendelssohn
songs as charming, but no masterworks. Fortunately
Kobow doesn’t seem to agree, because he sings
them with such graceful passion that he leaves no
doubt of their mastery. They make an ideal complement. Full texts and translations are included.
Pamela Margles
EARLY MUSIC AND PERIOD
PERFORMANCE
J.S., W.F. and C.P.E. Bach – Trio Sonatas
A deux fleustes esgales - Valerie Balssa;
Jean-Pierre Pinet
Zig Zag ZZT2040601
Handel – Recorder Sonatas
Ensemble Fitzwilliam
Zig Zag ZZT2030201
Geminiani - Concerti Grossi
Ensemble 415; Chiara Banchini
Zig Zag ZZT2040301-2
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I first encountered the CDs of France’s ZigZag
Territoires through an old friend, whose playing
was featured on one particular disc, and since
that time the label has never failed to impress
me. The three recordings here described uphold
their high musical and audio standards with
projects of fine music, disarmingly played.
My favourite of the
three is a CD featuring
five sonatas for two traversi and continuo by
members of the illustrious Bach family. From
the opening, an adaptation of a C.P.E. Bach
sonata for a single flute
and basso continuo, one is bathed in the soft, radiant glow of sound which is one of the great
perks of this instrumental combination – and it’s
a beautiful place to be. Flutists Valérie Balssa
and Jean-Pierre Pinet make an excellent team,
and the mind-meld of the continuo players is extraordinary. I was particularly delighted by cellist Hager Später-Hanana’s broad palette of colour and articulation. The quirky sound of E major, a difficult tonality which Quantz said flutists
ought to announce to an audience so their listeners know what they’re up against, needs no excuses in a trio by C.P.E. Bach. J.S. Bach’s familiar sonata in G receives one of its best renditions here – of particular note is the relaxed but
spooky third movement – and an arrangement
of his BWV1028 features a luxurious, improvisatory opening adagio and sparkling allegros. A
dazzling performance of a trio by brilliant and
wacky Wilhelm Friedemann Bach rounds out the
program.
Many regard the Handel recorder sonatas as
student pieces, an unfortunate view since these
pieces are some of the
best-crafted music in the
instrument’s repertoire
and a genuine test of musicianship, taste and inventiveness. Their challenge is laudably met by
recorder player Jean-Pierre Nicolas, who makes
a strong personal statement with inventive yet
well-controlled ornamentation, a great sense of
rhythm, masterful technique, and thoughtful interpretation throughout. His three continuo-playing colleagues are a great band, creatively varying their colours and playing with blistering speed
or refined delicacy as required.
To round out my ZZT
repast I was treated to
the church and chamber
violin sonatas of Corelli’s op. V, as arranged for
orchestra by Francesco
Geminiani in 1726/27.
It’s fascinating to hear
these great sonatas, so
enormously popular and influential for decades
after their composer’s death, played as concerti
grossi. The program offers a good variety of both
styles of sonata, and the performance by Chiara
Banchini’s Ensemble 415 is full of musical chiaroscuro, elegance, tenderness and drama.
I loved all these discs. ZZT’s recorded sound,
always engineered by Franck Jaffrès, is excellent, and I admire their use of contemporary cover
art created by Anne Peultier specifically for each
disc. Though on one hand I wish there were
more detailed notes and biographical information provided, on the other it’s gratifying that the
listener is thereby asked simply to respond to the
music and the performance as they stand: no arguments, impressive achievements or frills attached.
Alison Melville
Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
Sarah Chang;
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
EMI 3 94431 2
60 years ago Vivaldi’s
music was for the most
part unknown and virtually absent from the concert stage and recorded
repertoire. The man
largely responsible for
the re-awakening of interest in Vivaldi in general – and The Four Seasons in particular –
was the American violinist Louis Kaufman,
whose 1947 first-ever recording of the concertos has been re-issued in the Naxos Historical
series (8.110297-98).
Subsequent recordings of The Four Seasons
have covered almost every possible approach
from large to small ensemble, and from rich, almost Romantic playing through standard Baroque
style to the revisionist performance technique of
Il Giardino Armonico. This new CD from Sarah
Chang is among the most satisfying I’ve ever
heard; played by a small ensemble with a firm
grasp of period style, the concertos burst with
energy, vitality and character.
Chang’s playing is impeccable throughout, displaying an unerring sense of Vivaldi’s musical
requirements and a wonderful range of tone colour and dynamics. The sonnets that appear in
the score are printed in full in the booklet – which
unfortunately contains virtually nothing else apart
from eight full-page colour photos of the soloist
in various glamorous poses – and Chang remarks
on their specific imagery and their importance
from a performing perspective, noting that the
ideas are integral to the way she plays the work.
The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra’s performance is outstanding and sympathetic; perfectly
balanced and beautifully recorded, they echo
Chang’s interpretation every step of the way.
The concerto in G minor, Op.12 No.1, rounds
out a superb disc.
Terry Robbins
CLASSICAL AND BEYOND
Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 29;
Schumann - Piano Concerto
Evgeny Kissin; London Symphony
Orchestra; Sir Colin Davis
EMI 3 82879 2
Piano virtuoso Evgeny Kissin continues his col57
laborations with Sir
Colin Davis in this CD
of concerti by Mozart
and Schumann. Recently, the two helped
celebrate Davis’ 80th
birthday with a performance of Beethoven’s 3rd Piano Concerto with the LSO in London. The rapport that
they have established is very evident in this recording, which displays tremendous ensemble
playing throughout.
The Schumann concerto in particular shows
their affinity with one another – rubato passages
are free, yet together. My favourite moments included the recapitulation of the first movement,
where Kissin displays a lovely sense of intimacy. And, in the second movement, there are a
few gorgeous phrases that are wonderfully spacious while maintaining horizontal direction. Kissin shows real concerto playing expertise throughout with regard to ensemble playing and projection. He ever so slightly anticipates entrances so
that he’s heard over the orchestra, but never so
much that it sounds like he’s early, or that the
orchestra is late.
The Mozart Concerto No.24 in C minor
(K.491) is played with strength and drama. There
is a great dynamic range in this interpretation,
which is meant for a big hall. As a result, I felt
that occasionally the quality of sound was a bit
hard for my taste. With Mozart and Schubert, I
just never want to hear a hard sound, but I fully
understand that this happens when you’re playing music like this with a big orchestra in a big hall.
It is fortunate for us that Kissin has successfully made the difficult transition from prodigy to
maturing artist with seeming ease.
James Parker
Beethoven - The Nine Symphonies
Russian National Orchestra;
Mikhail Pletnev
Deutsche Grammophon 477 6409
With the multitude of
Beethoven Symphony
cycles available, both
recent and historic (and
histrionic), a sensible
music director who
braves the marketplace
with yet another complete cycle would do so
to introduce a fresh approach with new insights.
To my pleasant surprise, Pletnev does just that.
Pletnev earned international acclaim for his
formidable keyboard technique which was introduced to the outside world in 1987 in a storming
version of the Liszt B minor sonata. Since then
he has recorded extensively for DG and Virgin
both as pianist and conductor.
Universal (i.e. DG, Philips, Decca, et al), already had the field very well covered with admirable versions for every musical taste so what is
this new set all about? For me, every symphony
generated excitement and rediscovery, often with
a sense of hearing Beethoven’s scores for the
first time. Some movements, naturally, do not stir
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as most others do but this is to be expected in
such a monumental undertaking. And a monumental undertaking it is. When Toscanini finally
agreed to record the Ninth in 1952, after the last
take Maestro said to a colleague “You know,
young conductor, I have played this symphony
for fifty years – fifty years – and finally I think I
understand something.”
Throughout this new cycle there is always a
perceivable pulse ensuring a steady and logical
unfolding of the composer’s intentions as Pletnev so persuasively senses them. These performances breathe. There are so many instances of
uncommon phrasing, subtle accents and lengthened fermatas combined with freedom of expression given to exposed instruments. The Russian National Orchestra, of the correct size and
weight for these works, performs flawlessly,
achieving gorgeous textures and refined balances. A listener certainly could not place it geographically. Pletnev’s communication with his
musicians appears intuitive but he is clearly in
command as Mravinsky was with his orchestra.
As expected, over the years I have accumulated and am familiar with more than a few complete cycles conducted by well known and not
so well known batoneers (to coin a noun). Pletnev breathes fresh air. Simply astonishing. DG’s
engineering exemplifies state of the art. Obviously, highly recommended.
Bruce Surtees
Mahler Symphony No. 5
Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of
Venezuela; Gustavo Dudamel
MODERN AND
CONTEMPORARY
Terezin/Theresienstadt
Anne Sophie von Otter;
Christian Gerhaher; Bengt Forsberg;
Daniel Hope
This CD is the result
of Anne Sofie von Otter’s inspiration while
performing at the year
2000 Holocaust Forum
in Stockholm. The Israel-based Terezin
Chamber Music Foundation had engaged
her to sing a selection of pieces composed by
camp inmates most of whom were later executed at Auschwitz. The Theresienstadt concentration camp, located about 60 kilometres north of
Prague, held many of the Jewish cultural and
intellectual elite of Czechoslovakia, Germany,
Austria and Holland. For the sole purpose of propaganda, the Nazis allowed plays, operas, concerts and cabarets to be performed for inmates,
visitors and inspectors from the Red Cross.
In listening to the selections on this CD, one is
acutely aware of the composers’ commitment to
maintain the strength of human spirit and dignity
in the face of unspeakable suffering. Sprinkled
generously amongst musical expressions of angst
and sorrow are hints of beauty, joie de vivre and
even humour, as heard in cabaret songs by Karel Svenk, Adolf Strauss and Martin Roman. Other
pieces are piercingly haunting, particularly a lullaby by Ilse Weber, a nurse who reportedly sang
it along with the children she accompanied to
the gas chamber. The disc ends with Erwin
Schulhoff’s agitated and fiery violin sonata,
played by virtuoso Daniel Hope who evokes a
frenetic and defiant grasp for life.
Both Sofie von Otter and baritone Christian
Gerhaher perform brilliantly in Czech, Yiddish,
German and French with a stirring emotional
range. In addition to von Otter’s long-time piano
accompanist Bengt Forsberg are Ib Haussmann,
clarinet, Bebe Risenfors, accordion & guitar,
Philip Dukes, viola and Josephine Knight, cello.
Dianne Wells
The tremendously
charismatic Venezuelan conductor Gustavo
Dudamel, a mere 26
years old, was recently named to succeed
Esa-Pekka Salonen at
the Los Angeles Philharmonic in the 2009
season. Since winning the 2004 Gustav Mahler
Conducting Prize with his interpretation of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony in Bamberg he has been in
constant demand as a guest conductor with the
great orchestras of the world. Looking very much
like the young Simon Rattle with his unruly locks
of hair, Dudamel is the product of Venezuela’s
visionary orchestral educational scheme popularly known as El Sistema. Founded by the economist and musician Jose Antonio Abreu in 1975,
this program seeks to lift gifted youngsters out
of the barrios through participation in a network
of 220 youth orchestras, of which the Orquesta
Sinfónica Simón Bolívar is the crown jewel.
Dudamel’s lively performance emphasizes the
extreme emotional contrasts of Mahler’s score
leavened with a nascent spiritual dimension he
credits to the counsel of the venerable Claudio
Abbado. My principal reservation about this recording is that despite the greatly expanded string
section the 100 musicians of the Simón Bolivar
orchestra provides, the string tone frequently
sounds pale and unfocused, notably so in pianis- Concert Notes: November 5-11 is Holocaust
simo passages such as the principal theme of Remembrance Week and related events in Tothe opening movement and again in the excep- ronto include: “Out of the Depths - A Canadian
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tionally languorous Adagietto movement. Possibly the instruments available in Venezuela are
not the best, and/or the hall may be at fault.
Dudamel’s impulsive tempo shifts also seem to
catch the orchestra by surprise on occasion,
though they are quick to recover. Even so, a great
deal of attention is paid to the finest details of
Mahler’s score. The more exuberant and vehement passages are positively electrifying, while
the problematic architecture of the Rondo Finale
is for once thoroughly convincing. Dudamel is
the real deal. Keep an eagle eye on him.
Daniel Foley
Music Response to the Holocaust” November 5
at the Baycrest Wagman Centre; the premiere
of Brian Cherney’s “An Unfinished Life” November 6 at Metropolitain United Church (Soundstreams Canada); “The Children of Willesden
Lane: Beyond the Kindertransport - A Memoir
of Love and Survival” November 10 at the
Sephardic Kehilla Centre; and “Jewish Composers in the Holocaust” November 11 at St. Ansgar Lutheran Church.
cluded, as is Paul Gonsalves’ tenor interlude on
Diminuendo in Blue and Crescendo In Blue.
(Be sure to watch for a little addendum after the
credits roll, as the band packs up and the audience leaves. Taciturn Johnny Hodges is actually
caught smiling!
high standards of production and packaging have
been applied to Jazz Icons Series 2, dating from
1958 through 1966.
The artists are influential masters who had
achieved international fame in the ‘50s and ‘60s,
or even earlier. They were all riding high at the
time, but only Dave Brubeck continues to reThose of us who were
mind us of a period when real jazz was so widelucky enough to witly appreciated.
ness Joshua Bell’s perThe discs are all in rich black & white (nearly
formance of the Red
all
sharp and clear), with well-balanced sound.
Violin suite at the MasIncluded are authoritative 24-page booklets and
sey Hall New Music
detailed production credits. Most come from
Festival a few years
several sources — only the Ellington is a single
ago will welcome this:
concert — and are a mix of live and studio perCorigliano, with a commission from the Baltimore Symphony, has re- formances, and in some cases even rehearsals
worked that suite into a major concerto for violin are included. Running times are as short as 65
and orchestra. All the pivotal points of the film minutes, up to two hours.
score are intact, and yet the piece is re-cast into “Dave Brubeck Live in ’64 & ’66”
a four-movement concerto that would have (2.119005) has the classic quartet with Paul
pleased Paganini or Heifetz.
Desmond, Eugene Wright and Joe Morello in
Corigliano, for many long years a craftsman concert in Belgium and Germany, playing from
of orchestration, has given a muscular score for their repertoire such favourites as St. Louis
Bell to negotiate. After the tortuous Chaconne Blues, In Your Own Sweet Way, and two verand Scherzo movements, the pastoral Andante sions each of Koto Song and (of course) Take
seems just the right thing to do, and with good Five. They take delight in each other’s work,
speakers or headphones, you can wallow in the and the joy spreads to the audience. I think Paul
sound without feeling any guilt.
Desmond’s work here is among the best I’ve
Joshua Bell plays the work with the confidence seen.
due to he who virtually owns the work, in all its “John Coltrane Live in ’60, ’61 and ’62”
forms. Yet I detect no callousness: there is lov- (2.119007) shows the artist in transition from
ing attention to every note and phrase. Alsop has sideman to leader of one of the most important
polished the Baltimore strings like never before. groups in jazz. The 1960 German studio performProducer Steven Epstein and his team of engi- ance (while on a JATP tour) is really the Miles
neers capture every nuance in spacious stereo.
Davis quintet sans the trumpeter. Trane’s on tenor
To round out the CD, Sony has included with Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy
Corigliano’s 1962 Violin sonata, with Jeremy Cobb on three tracks, then Stan Getz joins in a
Denk taking the keyboard duties. There are the medley, and stays around for Hackensack, when
usual highly posed photographs and notes in three Oscar Peterson replaces Kelly. (I never would
languages.
have thought of that possibility). The ’61 session
Strongly Recommended.
has Coltrane’s own group – McCoy Tyner, RegJohn Gray gie Workman and Elvin Jones – plus Eric DolJohn Corigliano The Red Violin Concerto; Violin Sonata
Joshua Bell; Marin Alsop
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra;
Sony Classical 87876 88060-2
JAZZ AND IMPROVIZED
phy. The last session in ’65 in Belgium is the forall-time-quartet, with Jimmy Garrison on bass for
Workman. There’s an hour and a half of very
important music here.
Jazz Icons - Series 2
Dave Brubeck; John Coltrane; Duke
Ellington; Dexter Gordon; Charles
Mingus; Wes Montgomery; Sarah Vaughan
Reelin’ In The Years Productions
(distributed by Naxos)
If you were a good little jazz fan last Christmas,
Santa brought you some wonderful DVDs of vintage European TV performances. There is still
time to mend your ways for 2007, because
you’re going to want these follow-ups. The same
“Duke Ellington Live in ’58” (2.119001) is
a single concert by the orchestra, back on top
again after the Newport triumph of 1956. Amsterdam’s famous Concertgebouw is the setting
for a jewel of a document. That the film quality
here is a bit dark and murky does not detract
from artists like Johnny Hodges, Ray Nance,
Harry Carney and “the piano player”. The diligence of the Jazz Icons producers turned up
tracks that had been edited from the original
Dutch broadcast, giving us a fine Clark Terry
feature on Harlem Airshaft never seen before.
Hodges’ All Of Me and Things Ain’t… are in-
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“Dexter Gordon Live in ’63 & ’64”
(2.119002) differs from the other releases in
that the stylish tenorman was resident in Europe,
rather than on tour. He roamed from his Copenhagen home, working all over with various groups.
The 1964 sessions in Holland and Belgium find
him with George Gruntz, Guy Pederson and the
fine drummer Daniel Humair. The tunes are bop
favourites (Gordon was the first important bebop tenorman) like A Night In Tunisia, Lady
Bird and Blues Walk, along with Body And Soul.
The ’63 Swiss concert at the Lugano Festival is
with Americans-in-Europe Kenny Drew at the
piano, a frequent collaborator, and Art Taylor on
drums with French bassist Gilbert Rovere. These
recordings show why Gordon was such an influence on the European artists.
“Charles Mingus Live in ’64” (2.119006)
documents three events in eight days of a tour
by the bassist’s sextet (quintet on the Belgian
studio gig, as trumpeter Johnny Coles became
ill). With the bassist/leader/composer are Coles,
Clifford Jordan on tenor, Jaki Byard at the piano
and Dannie Richmond on drums, and especially
Eric Dolphy on flute, alto and bass clarinet. It
was known that Dolphy would stay in Europe at
the end of the tour, and a particularly poignant
moment comes in a rehearsal sequence when
Mingus asks him how long he’d be staying. “No
more than a year…” he responds. Dolphy died
about 10 weeks later. These are important documents in the unique Mingus oeuvre, a talent that
spreads over all of jazz.
“Wes Montgomery Live in ’65” (2.119003)
finds the guitarist in the spring of the year in three
countries, with three different groups. Without
giving up his own sound, Montgomery was able
to continue to play jazz while enjoying considerable commercial success in this period. His sweet
personality is especially on display in the Dutch
studio rehearsals of a session with the Pim Jacobs
trio. They’re almost more interesting than the
finished takes. A couple of days later he’s in
Belgium for a studio session with his working
trio of Harold Mabern, Arthur Harper and Jimmy Lovelace. In London a month later, while
working at Ronnie Scott’s club he did a TV show
with Stan Tracey, Rick Laird and Jackie Cougan. Scott is the compere, talking about Wes in
the third person while he sits beside him! The
music’s fine, though the staging awkward.
“Sarah Vaughan Live in ’58 &’64” (2.119004)
catches Sassy’s essential shyness which came
out when without an audience. She seems to not
know where to look, not that that affects her
singing one whit. What an instrument her voice
was! And how well she uses it! The two ‘58
sessions in Sweden (studio) and Holland (concert) have Ronnell Bright, Richard Davis and an
English drummer, Art Morgan on signature tracks
like Lover Man, September In The Rain and
Tenderly. Half a dozen years later she’s in Sweden again, with Kirk Stuart, Buster Williams and
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George Hughes in a theatrical setting, showing
much more confidence on the stage. This is fine
Vaughan, at a peak in her career.
This second Jazz Icons series matches the
first, and more. Given that the vaults in Switzerland, Germany and England hold many more sessions, and Japan, Canada and the U.S. are untouched so far, let’s hope Reelin’ In The Years
continues to search for more great music.
Ted O’Reilly Reasons for Moving
Darren Johnston; Fred Frith; Devin Hoff;
Larry Ochs; Ches Smith
NotTwo MW 779-2 (www.nottwo.com)
As well as trumpet solos which range from the
elegantly muted to raucous plunger work, Burlington, Ontario native Darren Johnston seems to
have contributed sly local references to this notable co-op session, recorded in his new Bay area
hometown. Some of the tune titles are Deep
North, Distant Cities and QEW [!]. Yet this CD
of 10 instant compositions impresses even more,
since the trumpeter’s skills are judiciously inteOnce Smitten
grated among the trills, pops and honks of Larry
Sophia Perlman & The Vipers
Ochs’ saxophones; the crunching reverb and disIndependent SPV07
On this debut disc, Sophia Perlman and her “Vi- torted runs from Fred Frith’s guitar; plus Devin
pers” (Howard Moore on trumpet and vocals; Hoff’s thick bass chords and the rumbling back
Pat Carey on saxophones; Robi Botos on piano; beat of Ches Smith’s drums.
On tunes like Deep North, Johnston is an oaMitchell Lewis on guitar, Terry Wilkins on acoustic bass, Jeff Halischuk on drums and special sis of measured calm. His minimalist and unfussy
guests Richard Underhill on alto with Chris Gale playing smoothly limns the theme, as saxophone
and Tallulah Blankenship on tenor) infuse each trills wiggle and guitar lines ripple. QEW almost
tune with infectious energy. Sophia wraps her replicates the abrupt and unexpected lane changrich, smoky, lived-in alto voice around a collec- es on the highway, as Ochs’ irregular sopranino
tion of bluesy-swingers, including several origi- squeaks alternate with Johnston’s tremolo trinal compositions by arranger, T.C. Wilkins and plets. Other tunes, such as the bubbling Biocarmaterial drawn from the catalogues of Tom Waits, bon Man add thumping drumming and triggered
Harold Arlen, W.C. Handy and Duke Ellington. guitar wah-wah pedal peals to the trumpeter’s
The recording is arranged in a fairly tradition- brassy smears.
Johnston’s double-tongued, staccato timbres
al mode by T.C. Wilkins, peppered with a New
Orleans feel. Particularly charming is the origi- lockstep with spacey reverb from Frith, above
nal title track, Once Smitten - Twice Shy, which back beat drums and thumping bass to decorate
features a vocal duet between Sophia and Ochs’ snorting rendition of the title track. The
trumpeter, Howard Moore – bringing to mind some musical alchemy produced confirms the stateof the wonderful collaborations by the late Ray ment expressed in the title and may even explain
Charles and Betty Carter. Another pleasing Johnston’s relocation.
Ken Waxman
number is the jazzy Kicks, which enables Sophia
to show that she can easily handle the lilting subtlety of a pre-boppish ballad. Sadly, Horace Silver’s Song For My Father is a bit off of the
POT POURRI
mark. A heavy-handed, non-authentic Latin twist,
unnecessary scat singing and a new, inferior set
of lyrics all cloud the original beauty of the tune.
Ms. Perlman’s strong, linear delivery harkens
to early blues vocalists, (with perhaps a nod to
the more contemporary Jeri Southern and Keely
Smith). Her timbre and approach, and that of
the Vipers, are perfectly suited to this sort of
thematically retro material, however, at times
vocal intonation comes into question (particularly in the mid-range), but this is a small and correctible issue, considering the scope of Sophia Buttercup Bugle
Perlman’s honest, entertaining, and satisfying Lori Cullen; True North Brass
Independent LC2007 (www.myspace.com/
performance.
Lesley Mitchell-Clarke loricullen)
Singer-songwriter Lori Cullen has released her
Concert Note: Sophia Perlman and the Vipers fourth CD, and as opposed to her last disc on
perform every Monday night at the Reservoir which she covered a variety of songwriters, “ButLounge, 52 Wellington St. East.
tercup Bugle” is almost all her own doing.
Cullen’s style leans to mellow folk/pop/jazz
with personal, poetic lyrics. Her voice is light,
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clear and, although uniquely hers, a little bit Feisty
(Leslie Feist, that is). The True North Brass quintet (James Gardiner and Barton Woomert, trumpets, Joan Watson, French horn, Alastair Kay,
trombone, and Scott Irvine, tuba) is prominently
featured, with arrangements by Chris Dedrick.
All those rich, round horn lines add much gorgeousness to the goings on. (Everyone should
have a little tuba on their CDs, methinks.) Tightly harmonized, shimmery backing vocals (Rebecca Pellett, Rachelle Courtney) and Kurt Swinghammer’s inventive guitar soundscapes strongly
influence the overall sound.
If there’s a flaw to this disc, and that’s a big
if, it’s that there’s a certain sameness to the tunes.
All the tracks clock in around the 3-minute mark
and have similar tempos and instrumentation, so
the songs tend to blur together somewhat. On the
other hand, Cullen is staying true to her style and
personality and carving out a niche for herself – a
warm, inviting niche a person can curl up in.
Cathy Riches
Concert note: Lori Cullen’s CD release event,
featuring a 12-piece band, is at Hugh’s Room on
November 16th & 17th.
On the Line
Swamperella
Cattail Records CR-003
Swamperella is one of Toronto’s favourite Cajun live dance bands, renowned for its toe-tapping and spontaneous performances. This enviable energy has been successfully captured on
their third CD release, “On the Line”.
Even though almost half of the tracks are the
band’s arrangements of traditional Cajun compositions, covers such as B. Chavis’ Paper in
My Shoe elevate the band’s status to “authentic” purveyors of the Zydeco style. Band members Soozi Schlanger (vocals, lead fiddle, washboard), Peter Jellard (vocals, button accordions,
fiddle), Conny Nowe (acoustic and electric guitars), Rachel Melas (acoustic and electric bass)
and Dave Pontello (drums and triangle) really
do love what they are playing. The result is a
well-rehearsed tight band with a firm grip on a
musical style which is not the easiest to master.
The biggest surprises are two original songs.
Schlanger’s vocals on her heart wrenching song
Same Old You are unforgettable. Button accordionist Peter Jellard’s instrumental Frankenstein
is a rhythmical and melodic marvel for the instrument with a superb backing by the rest of
the band.
Co-produced by Swamperella and studio genius John Switzer, the sound quality is first rate. It
is also good to hear Switzer play bass as a special guest along with Burke Carroll on lap steel
and dobro. My only disappointment was the fact
that I could not locate the song lyrics that the
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VOCAL
Ah Mio Cor - Handel Arias
Magdalena Ko en ;
Venice Baro ue Orchestra;
Andrea Marcon
Deutsche Grammophon Arkiv
Produktion 4776547
Reviewed by Seth Estrin
Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto;
Octet; 3 Lieder (arr. Violin)
Daniel Hope; Chamber
Orchestra of Europe; Thomas
Hengelbrock
Deutsche Grammophon
477 6634
Reviewed by Larry Beckwith
Strauss - Enoch Arden;
Five Piano Pieces
Mozart - Don Giovanni
RIAS Kammerchor; Freiburger Patrick Stewart; Emanuel Ax
Barockorchester; Ren Jacobs Sony Classical 88697-09056-2
Reviewed by Daniel Foley
Harmonia Mundi HMC
801964.66
Reviewed by Bruce Surtees MODERN AND
Viva Villazon
Rolando Villazon
Virgin Classics 504762 2
CONTEMPORARY
Abbey Road Duos
Evan Parker; Matthew Shipp
Treader trd 009
(www.treader.org)
Reviewed by Ken Waxman
OLD WINE IN NEW
BOTTLES
Reviewed by Bruce Surtees
Shostakovich - Piano Quintet,
Piano Trio No.2 and 4 Waltzes
Nash Ensemble
Virgin Classics 09463 91337
Bernstein - West Side Story
te Kanawa; Carreras; Troyanos;
Ollmann; Horne; Bernstein
Deutsche Grammophon
4477101
bigniew Preisner Silence, Night Dreams
AND
Teresa Salgueiro; Camerata
Silesia; Marek Mos
Arias for Rubini
Brahms - Symphonies
Juan Diego Florez; Academie EMI 3 93999 2
Reviewed by Robert Tomas Vienna Philharmonic; Leonard
Nazionale di Santa Cecilia;
Bernstein
Roberto Abbado
Miklos Rozsa - Sonata for Solo
Deutsche Grammophon 073
Decca 475 9079
Reviewed by Robert Tomas Violin; Variations on a Hungarian 4331
Peasant Song
Phillippe Quint; William Wolfram Brahms - Double Concerto;
Naxos 8.570190
EARLY MUSIC
Violin Concerto
AND PERIOD
PERFORMANCE
AND
Gidon Kremer; Mischa Maisky;
Vienna Philharmonic;
Leonard Bernstein
4333
Miklos Rozsa - Violin Concerto;
Sinfonia Concertante
Heu Fortuna
Anastasia Khitruk;
La Rota
Andrey Tchekmazov; Russian
Atma ACD2 2561
Philharmonic Orchestra;
Brahms - Four Overtures;
Reviewed by Frank Nakashima Dmitry ablonsky
Serenade No.2
Naxos 8.570350
Vienna Philharmonic; Leonard
Alla Turca
Reviewed by Terry Robbins
Bernstein
Monika Mauch; Ensemble
Caprice; Matthias Maute
Asian Piano Avantgarde 4354
ATMAACD2 2347
Indonesia
Reviewed by Frank Nakashima Stephan Schleiermacher - piano
Brahms - Piano Concertos
Musikproduktion Dabringhaus
Krystian imerman; Vienna
und Grimm MDG 613 1322-2
CLASSICAL AND
Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein
(www.mdg.de)
BEYOND
Reviewed by Andrew Timar
4332
Beethoven - Symphonies 3 8 JAZZ AND
The Eternal Callas
Deutsche
Maria Callas
IMPROVIZED
Kammerphilharmonie,
EMI 509995 00720 95
Bremen; Paavo J rvi
Serenade to a Bus Seat
RCA Red Seal 88697-13066-2
Clark Terry Quintet
The One and Only
Reviewed by Bruce Surtees
Riverside RCD 30189
Maria Callas
Reviewed by Jim Galloway EMI 094639 63412
Beethoven - Piano Sonatas
Op.101; Op. 106
The Thelonious Monk Orchestra Live at the Waldbuhne
Mitsuko chida
at Town Hall
Max Raabe Palast Orchester
Philips 475-866-2
Thelonious Monk Orchestra
EuroArts 2055678
Reviewed by Heidi McKenzie
Riverside RCD 30190
Reviewed by Jim Galloway
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liner notes stated could be found on the band’s
website!
The cold weather is coming. Warm yourself
up by putting on your dancing shoes and getting
“On the Line” with Swamperella.
Tiina Kiik
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Concert Note: Swamperella will release “On
the Line” at the Gladstone Ballroom on November 17.
I received a multi-layered treat yesterday.
Live at Massey Hall
Pavlo
Independent SGM 09 (www.pavlo.net)
Listening to Pavlo’s
“Live at Massey Hall”
I feel like I missed one
of the best parties of
the year. Pavlo is a Toronto-based guitarist
and songwriter whose
oeuvre is self-described
as “Mediterranean music”. The main influence is Greek, with George
Vasilakos and Spyros Gazetos’ fiery bouzouki
playing being a big feature, but flamenco, salsa
and other Latin styles also rear their rhythmic
heads. With about a dozen musicians filling out
the ranks of the band, naming them all would be
too space-consuming, but besides those mentioned, the core players are Randy Rodrigues on
bass, and Gino Mirizio on percussion. The energy and exuberance of the October 21, 2006 performance is infectious as the audience claps
along, hoots and whistles (and I suspect dances
in the aisles) and it’s apparent from the liner notes
and photos of salsa and belly dancers that much
of the rich, varied performance couldn’t be captured on the recording. Pavlo is a true performer, if his extensive touring schedule is any indication. (I got tired just reading it – and cold. Thetford Mines in February?? That’s dedication.) So
while I can recommend getting this disc, better
advice would be to get yourself to any of the
dozens of upcoming performances listed on his
website (above).
Cathy Riches
Concert Note: Pavlo returns to Massey Hall
on November 17th.
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MUSICAL AND OTHER RECREATIONAL PURSUITS
1: I picked up my copy of WholeNote early this time! 2: I noticed my name amongst the
Music’s Child winners. The Bach Gamba Sonatas CD will be something new to our
ears. 3: I was thrilled to read the “Musical Life” article highlighting Nat Watson and
Elly Winer, especially since it arose from a casual bit of e-mail correspondence with
your writer, who used it to craft a polished article with photos, in a very short time.
mJbuell, the writer, said your magazine is not big enough for long detailed articles, but
your agility and speed probably make big (and some small) publications sit up and take
notice. Bravo! (Note: so far, I am stumped on October’s Music’s Child.)
My husband Michael added that the benefits for musicians of biking (or getting out for
any activity) are not just to preserve our physical, spiritual and mental fitness, but one
also gets to meet interesting characters. If ever you hear about musicians wanting to
organize a sporting event (specifically: cycling), let me know. Michael, has decades of
experience racing, coaching and organizing bike races. He is involved in several
different sports, has contacts in sports marketing and organization, and would enjoy
being involved in such a pursuit.
Best wishes and Happy Thanksgiving
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LISTINGS AVANT
I thought I would take the opportunity to put forward an idea I have been mulling over
for some time. This stems from the fact that, while having the first week of the
following month included in each issue is a great idea, it is nonetheless still true that
there is a time in the month when one might want to plan activities for the coming
weekends and one has only one or perhaps two weekends’ listings available to go on.
With the print medium this may be the best solution possible, but now that the listings
are online something better seems to me to be attainable. In the nature of things many
concerts are planned months ahead and I don’t see why, if WholeNote has information
about them, a provisional listing could not be made and posted online, with ample
warnings that the list is not final and that it will be updated at intervals. If posters do
not presently notify WholeNote of their long-term plans, presumably they would do so
once they were made aware that there was a reason why they should. I assume that
WholeNote staff prepare the listings in advance with such information as they have,
rather than doing the job all at once and just before publication (I know that is how I
would do it if it were my job!), so all that would be required would be to format the list
for online access and put it up, not a huge addition to your workload. Thanks for your
consideration of this idea.
Peter Newton
GET WITH THE PROGRAM!
Some of your words from your website: “...perhaps concerts in London should not be
listed under the same rubric as concerts in Belleville.” Who cares about rubrics? You’re
doing great, Just keep on doing it. I have no problem scanning a page Kingston to
London, if the listings are good. An example of a good listing would be one that shows
the detailed program of what we’re going to hear. Make everybody show the program
or say “no listing”. There’s music that I can’t stand. I want to know before I drive
from Oakville to Kitchener, see the program, then make an ugly scene at the box office
for my money back.
Small cavil: Just add the date to every entry. Save me shooting off the top of the page
for it, and finding my way back to make a reservation.
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