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Vol 18 No 8
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11th Annual Choirs Directory
The JOYof SINGING
An A Cappella Q& A
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point. Thank you Adam and Karen for making it happen.
Granted, it’s not all the choirs out there, by any means, but it’s a
great base to build from, from which the joy of singing along can root
and flower.
As for the “spring is sprung, grass is riz” part of the rhyme, sad to say,
these days it’s the spring that’s harder to spot than the birdies, what
with climate change goosing the year from ice to full-blown summer
in what seems to be only a matter of weeks. You can tell by the way
the so-called summer festivals edge their start dates back towards early
June every chance they get. Used to be we could publish a May issue
without the word summer being spoken in it. Now June seems to be
imitating sisters July and August every chance it gets.
Where am I going with all this? Tiptoeing towards a major announcement — namely that this year we’ve decided to bow to the inevitable
and accept that June is a full-blown part of the summer, and that the
best way for us to serve our readers is to bring out a combined June/
July/August issue that we can put in your hands well in time to plan.
Just think! No more having to cross refer two issues of the magazine
for information on one festival or summer series.
Much more about this in the coming weeks. But for now all our best
for sweet music and no rough winds to shake the darlin’ buds of May
in this all too short of seasons.
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So why is it that a cappella singing feels
less intimidating than singing in a choir?
AARON JENSEN, artistic director of SING!: When
many people hear the phrase “a cappella” they think
Glee — visions of spirited high school students recklessly
brandishing “jazz hands” (or the even more saccharine,
“spirit fingers”) and belting out triadic auto-tuned
harmonies with bravado — but the term has much older
roots. “A cappella,” literally meaning “in the manner of the
chapel,” refers to all vocal music performed with no instrumental accompaniment. This umbrella term covers the
music of countless styles, genres and cultural backgrounds.
Even though SING! is an a cappella festival, we’ve
branded ourselves as a “vocal arts” festival to best represent this diversity. Under our roof, patrons can hear all
manner of a cappella including: classical choral groups,
vocal jazzers, gospel choirs, world ensembles, live-looping
artists, pop vocal bands, barbershop quartets, collegiate
glee-clubbers, vocal improv collectives and even a cappella
comedy troupes.
So does a festival like SING! help to bridge the gulf
(if there is one) between solo and choral singing?
What’s in it for people coming from a more formal (if
that’s the right word) choral background? And on the
other hand, for bathtub divas what does it say about
the potential joys of showering with a few friends?
Whether you get your vocal kicks in the confines of your
shower, or flanked by a legion of professionally trained
choristers, the common ground is one and the same: the
joy of singing. I strongly believe that all people have the
ability —a
nd every right —t o express themselves as part of a
vocal community, regardless of their musical background.
In addition to SING!’s eclectic performance mandate
it is of utmost importance to us that we provide our
community with the opportunity and permission to sing
in a safe and welcoming environment. The festival is dedicated to exploring the possibilities of the human voice and
taking anyone along on the ride, from the most accomplished vocal virtuosos to the humblest tavern bellowers.
Say a bit about your From Sea to Sea song cycle
project: conception, hurdles along the way
and “final” shape (if anything ever is really final).
From Sea to Sea has been in the works for close to
four years now. In 2008, I hatched the idea to compose
a major choral song cycle that featured a vocal setting of
one poem per province and territory of Canada — “From
sea to sea” (Canada’s national motto). Ever since then, I
have been pouring through countless volumes of Canadian
poetry (which has been a true pleasure), chasing down
publishers, lawyers and copyright holders (which has
been less so), and composing.
Who are your poets?
I finally settled on a mix ranging from such beloved
historic figures as Robert Service and Lucy Maud Montgomery, to contemporary innovators such as Gwendolyn
MacEwen, Christian Bök and Shane Koyczan. My goal has
been to compose a series of pieces every bit as diverse as
the country that inspired them. Composing it has taken
me into a real hodgepodge of subjects: overtone singing,
the braille alphabet, traditional bodhrán jig patterns
and so forth. The final song cycle includes everything
from contemporary classical choral pieces to lively folk
melodies, from minimalistic soundscapes to rhythmic,
jazz-informed harmonic works.
When during SING! is the premiere?
Sunday, May 12 at 2:30pm, proudly featuring the Elora
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Festival Singers, the Elmer Iseler Singers, Cawthra Park
Chamber Choir, Countermeasure, the SING! Singers
featuring Denzal Sinclaire, and our host, Marilyn
Lightstone.
How did the marriage with Harbourfront
come about? What would you say are
the biggest pros and cons?
Like so many marriages, our courtship was fast and
furious. The SING! board officially formed in the fall of
2011, and we had the lofty ambition to put on a large-scale
festival by early spring (only six months later). We really
lucked into our partnership with Harbourfront Centre.
Our mandate lined up beautifully with theirs, and our
artistic vision lent itself to the sort of programming that
they’re renowned for. With us being the new kid on the
block, their stamp of approval gave our festival a certain
legitimacy from day one. Their team provided us (and
continues to provide us) with an incredible amount of
behind-the-scenes support.
And the not so perfect, if there’s anything?
Though laudable, Harbourfront Centre’s 80% free
programming mandate has proved an interesting challenge. To meet this 80% quota, and at the same time
program the number of ticketed concerts and workshops
necessary to keep the festival afloat, has meant scheduling
over 100 events over the festival’s four-day run. It’s a challenge we have gladly taken in stride.
You were still with Cadence at the time
of the first SING!, right? What’s different
now in terms of goals and pursuits?
I had actually given my notice to Cadence around the
time that the SING! board was first forming. I would
say that my goals and pursuits have remained relatively
consistent since then — I’ve just granted myself the time
and space to actualize a larger number of them. I tend
to be happiest when I have several artistic pots in the
fire ... several pots in the artistic fire?... At the moment I
am recording, gigging and touring with three vocal groups:
Countermeasure, a 15-voice vocal band that I co-founded
three years ago; Retrocity, a 1980s a cappella pop octet;
and The Watch, a new quartet that will be representing
Canada at Serenade! Washington, DC Choral Festival this
coming July. I will be releasing a solo album in December,
a project that’s been in the works for the past several years,
and I continue to busy myself with ongoing new commissions and musical director/clinician work.
How much of your life does SING!
consume and why is it worth it?
Developing the SING! festival has been a full-time volunteer position from the beginning. I truly believe in this
project and am supported by a tireless board of directors
who share the same vision and drive. It has been a labour
of love and I feel that I’ve every reason to feel optimistic
about our prospects. It is no small accomplishment for
a large-scale festival to break even in its first year. We’ve
received tremendous support and investment from some
of the foremost choirs and vocal groups (both locally and
internationally) and the message that keeps coming back
is that there is huge (and ever-growing) interest in what
we’re offering. SING! is working with a ten-year business
model and artistic vision. Vocal music is flourishing in
Toronto, and we plan on leading the singing revolution. —interview by David Perlman
The SING! Toronto Vocal Arts Festival takes place
at Harbourfront Centre, May 9 to 12.
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DISCo v e r i e s
Richard Wagner {May 22, 1813–February 13, 1883}
Wagner at 200
A Tribute
BY Janos Gardonyi
I
n the 1 9 th century when no TV, radio or celebrity-driven pop
music existed, musical theatre was the chief entertainment for the
newly formed middle classes and its creators became the celebrities. The greatest of these emerged simultaneously: Verdi and Wagner,
both born in the same year, 1813. Verdi continued the tradition of writing
operas as musical entertainment, albeit raised to a level of perfection.
But Wagner took it as his purpose in life to revolutionize the genre by
the infusion of his own ideas, ambitions, problems — all that occupied
his thoughts — and turning the music and drama, with a new emphasis
on the orchestra, into one coherent unit. The end result was a distillation of his thought processes set to music that became a new entity,
with words no longer depending on someone else but written by himself.
So each of the works became autobiographical in a sense and dealt with
universal issues giving them a timeless quality. There are dozens of fine
recordings for every one of these operas, but in the following paragraphs
I have selected just one CD set for each. Most of these are my favourites
or, if more recent, are considered the best by renowned authorities.
Wagner was born in Leipzig into a poor family,
no prodigy and with next to no musical education.
Hearing Beethoven, however, triggered a magic
chord to becoming a composer. His young years
were a series of frustrating attempts to earn a living
made more difficult by an early marriage to actress
Minna Planer. Pursued by his creditors and driven
by ambition he took flight in 1840 and reached
Paris. Here he wrote his first opera of consequence Der Fliegende
Holländer (1841) inspired by a life-threatening sea voyage, but already
encapsulating his principles of music drama. With an overwhelming
presence of stormy seas roaring in the orchestra the cursed Dutchman
is really searching for erlösung or redemption in the figure of a loving
wife who will be faithful and devoted. >>Der Fliegende Holländer:
Simon Estes; Lisbeth Balslev; Matti Salminen; Bayreuther
Festspiele 1985; Woldemar Nelsson; Philips 434 599-2, 2 CDs,
also on DVD
Both the themes of redemption and search for
an ideal woman carry through in subsequent
dramas. Written back home in Dresden, Tannhäuser (1844), is a more ambitious work in which
Wagner explores man’s struggle between erotic
(Venus) and spiritual (Elisabeth) love, the latter
giving him redemption with her self-sacrifice. >>Tannhäuser, Dresden version; Hans Hopf;
Elizabeth Grümmer; Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; Berlin State Opera;
Franz Kontwitschny; EMI 7 63214-2, 3 CDs
In Lohengrin (1848), his first major breakthrough, the basic theme is loneliness but here the
search for an ideal woman ends in tragedy because
of her inherent weakness and betrayal. Apart from
all this, both of these “operas” also germinate his
other life-long interests: German mythology, the
legend of the Holy Grail (Lohengrin) and the role
of the artist in society represented by his fascination with the Sängerkrieg or singing contest in Tannhäuser, the latter
coming back much later in a different context in Die Meistersinger. >>Lohengrin: Jess Thomas, Elizabeth Grümmer, Dietrich
continues on page 66
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Beat by Beat | Music Theatre
Originals
June 14–23
Tickets on sale now
T
theatre companies, neither known for musical
production, break new ground this month by presenting on
their main stages original musicals written and composed by
Canadian artists. The first show, by Soulpepper theatre, opens on
May 9, and while its title may
lack originality, the production
certainly doesn’t. An update
of a “comedy with songs” that
Theatre Columbus created in
1996, The Barber of Seville
reunites its creators — Michael
O’Brien (writer), John Millard
(composer) and Leah Cherniak
(director) — for a fresh look at
the runaway hit that won DORA
Alistair Newton and
Kimberly Persona.
awards for outstanding musical
production, score, and female
performance. Needless to say, the show arrives with buzz.
“But original?” you ask. “What about Rossini’s opera?”
As if to answer such a question, Michael O’Brien points
out that Gioachino Rossini based The Barber of Seville on
a comedy that French playwright Pierre Beaumarchais
wrote in 1775, the first of his “Figaro trilogy.” Well before
Rossini’s opera buffa premiered in 1816, Beaumarchais’
play (itself an opéra comique — a mixture of spoken words
and music) inspired other writers and composers (most
notably Mozart) to pen variations. This type of borrowing,
far from exceptional in the theatre, is common, with
writers and composers using a variety of sources to create work whose
originality often relies on form more than content. Certainly, this is
the case with the two musicals I preview here.
As O’Brien sees it, Soulpepper’s take on The Barber of Seville
“combines the best elements of Beaumarchais’ play with highlights
of the Rossini opera and a few twists of our own, creating an all-new
contemporary version ...” Using a highly theatrical representation
of 18th-century Spain as his touchstone, the Toronto playwright
heightens the play’s comic elements at every turn. “Dialogue and
lyrics are a colourful mish-mash of classic romance and modern
irreverence. Plot and characters are faithful in spirit to both
Beaumarchais and Rossini, though I’ve thrown in a few big surprises
that I hope will delight those who know the source material well.”
Discussing the music he composed for the play, John Millard
addresses the similarities and differences between O’Brien’s script and
those of his predecessors. “Michael used the dramaturgical structure
of the [Beaumarchais] play and placed the musical moments where
they belonged inside it. All the recitative is gone. The songs function
the way they do in most theatrical situations, in that very little action
takes place inside them. Mostly they reveal states of emotion: current,
past or future. Many of the recognizable themes are there [but] it’s
not the opera. It’s an entertainment of our own devising, based on
[the work of] Rossini and Beaumarchais.” Ultimately, Millard regards
the score as a “high end folk music version” of Rossini’s creation,
noting that it includes “patter songs, cavatina and arias. There is also a
Scottish folk song, a couple of things of my own invention and quotes
from many different sources.”
Arguably, it is the quotes and references that most distinguish
the show as contemporary — a mash-up typical of late 20th-century
performance that is clever, tuneful and fun. In many shows from
this period, style uses content as a pretext for coups des théâtre that
foreground the paradox of combining live performers with technological wizardry. Barber is no exception although, rather than treat its
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happy to elucidate in an interview. “I think that Lady Gaga is a kind
of climax — or perhaps denouement — of post-modernism. Gaga is
the ideal cipher to explore and explode our current cultural moment,
ruled as it is by hipster ersatz-irony and obsession with authenticity.
[…] Gaga is obsessed with persona and fantasy and self-aware selfexpression, and that’s really what theatre is all about.”
Ecce Homo, like Newton (the company’s artistic director), is
preoccupied with theatre in extremis — or, more precisely, “total
theatre” as it was theorized by artistic visionaries like Meyerhold
and Antonin Artaud in the early 20th century. For them, “selfaware self-expression” was tantamount to theatre as theatre, not as a
representation of life. Ecce Homo, founded in 2005 by Newton, Matt
Jackson, a production designer, and Austrian installation artist Edith
Artner, defines its goal as “stylized theatrical works with strong sociopolitical content which synthesize text, music, dance and design
to yield a total theatrical experience. Ecce Homo strives to equally
sources with reverence, it lampoons them with a playful vigour that
is as physical as it is stylized. In the press release for the 1996 production of the show, Theatre Columbus celebrated the act of “freely
plundering from Rossini’s opera” even as it reduced its summary
of the plot to a cryptic sentence: “A lovesick nobleman seeks the
woman of his dreams but to win her, he must enlist the help of the
mercurial Figaro.” More telling of the company’s theatrical goals and
achievements with the prodution was its contention that the play
leads the audience “into a madcap spiral of deceit, disguise, trickery
and mayhem.”
In productions such as this, style is tantamount to sensibility. In this
particular Barber, the sensibility is simultaneously base and sophisticated — an appropriate combination given the show’s debt to bouffon
and commedia dell’arte — theatrical styles that elevate mime and
exaggerate gesture with a precision akin to dance. The style was noteworthy in the Theatre Columbus production, of which Kate Taylor
noted in her review for the Globe and Mail: “From the
slightest gesture to the smallest prop, every opportunity
for a laugh is exploited
in a hugely detailed
production. It takes a
great deal of control to
create the appearance
of reigning confusion on stage; Theatre
Columbus has plenty.”
The onstage band
that John Millard has
assembled to accompany the Soulpepper
cast promises to
further extend the
stylish originality that
the play achieved in
its first production.
John Millard.
Millard’s use of banjo,
violin, accordion, bass,
guitar and flute is unconventional to musicals, let alone opera, yet
“true to the spirit of Rossini,” he suggests, though he quickly adds “but
it’s quite a different creature.” He explains that “In some of the pieces
I’ve attempted to replicate [Rossini’s] score. In other arrangements,
we’ve approached it in the form of a lead sheet. In others, a re-envisioning. It’s a broad approach.” The cast, he notes, which mixes new
faces and seasoned veterans like Stratford stalwart Dan Chameroy who
plays Figaro, is “discreetly miked,” a tip of his hat to current fashion.
There’s nothing discreet about our second original either: Of A
Monstrous Child is a new musical that recalls Weimar cabaret in its
coupling of queer provocation and steamy style in the service of a
political aesthetic. Created by Ecce Homo for Buddies in Bad Times
Theatre, which co-produces the piece on its main stage starting
May 15, the show’s subtitle, “A Gaga Musical,” offers a key to the
production’s theme that Alistair Newton, its writer and director, is
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style Persona mimics the pop star so expertly that she calls into question the idea of personal authenticity in much the same way that the
show interrogates the notion of originality.
This latter theme is best illustrated by the score of the piece which,
ironically, is not credited to a composer. “I view Lady Gaga as an
appropriation artist, in the tradition of painters like Jasper Johns and
musicians like Girl Talk,” Newton explains. “It only seems appropriate
to create a score that deconstructs and reconstructs and mashes up
bits and pieces of existing pop music to create something ‘new.’” To
achieve this end, Newton, along with his musical director, Dan Rutzen,
and sound designer, Lyon Smith, devised a process by which Newton
would suggest “how certain pieces of songs might fit together — related
by a similar key, or a hook that seems to fit” at any given moment.
Rutzen’s task was to translate Newton’s instincts into vocal arrangements and the basic outline of the instrumentation, which he then
would give to Smith to create the final backing tracks. “Both Dan and
Lyon are taking on several roles in this project — producer, session
musician, vocal coach etc. — and they’ve combined their talents to
create a unique musical experience.”
Unique equals original? Hardly, in that all the music in the show
has been heard before, although not in the way it is presented here.
Onstage: a cello, piano and live, amplified voices; offstage: recorded
sound. “You’ll hear many recognizable pieces of songs throughout the
show,” Newton comments, “though no part of my artistic practice is
ever entirely straight ...”
A rock-show with choral singing and acoustic moments: something
like a Lady Gaga concert by way of Yoko Ono and a Gregorian choir?
Rossini, via banjo, accordion and flute?
See both, and then you decide on the effect ... and the label. If
you must. balance politics and entertainment, to challenge audiences visually,
intellectually and emotionally; to produce work on big themes for
troubled times.”
While Lady Gaga might seem a strange choice on which to focus
a musical with such lofty pursuits, Newton says otherwise. “I think
Gaga is actually a deadly earnest figure in a pop-cultural landscape that prizes detachment above all. I think her project is to elicit
intimacy through artifice, and my work attempts to do the same.”
Besides, as he points out, Of A Monstrous Child is not about Gaga per
se but, rather, one of her fans who loses his way en route to a Lady
Gaga concert and encounters the ghost of Leigh Bowery, a performance artist who died in 1994.
Described by Boy George as “modern art on legs,” Bowery has
become more famous in death than in life, an irony that Newton
exploits by making him emcee of the evening’s shenanigans that
proceed in cabaret fashion. Introducing a who’s who of artists,
academics and celebrities whose work Lady Gaga has used in her
rise to fame, Bowery gives “the monstrous child” (and the audience)
a crash course in queer performance. Simultaneously he constructs
a dialectic in which originality and fame square off. As Newton puts
it: “Leigh sought the kind of fame Gaga has achieved but he wasn’t
willing to compromise, even slightly [to get it]. A part of Gaga’s genius
is her ability to sell downtown aesthetics to a midtown audience. I’m
not sure what Leigh would have thought of her.”
For Newton, Bowery is “the rarest of pop cultural figures: a total
original.” To play him, the director has cast Bruce Dow, a masterful
singer and actor as well as a consummate comic whose latest incarnation as King Herod in the Stratford production of Jesus Christ
Superstar landed him on Broadway. At his side, celebrated comedian
and impersonator Gavin Crawford plays a host of famous artists and
intellectuals that includes Bjork, Marina Abramović and Andy Warhol.
To bring Lady Gaga onstage, Newton employs the talents of Kimberly
Persona whose uncanny resemblance to the pop star extends the
musical’s interrogation of authenticity. With her voice, movement and
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Well, guess what? Bugs is back in town! And you’ll be able to test
Daugherty’s theory when “Bugs Bunny at the Symphony” returns
to the Sony Centre after its hugely successful 2011 engagement.
Celebrating over two decades of Bugs Bunny on the concert stage, the
production involves projecting the classic cartoons onto a large screen,
while an orchestra, in this case the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony,
provides a live accompaniment, with Daugherty conducting. It’s great
fun for both the audience and orchestra (though a little more tricky for
the latter). There are two performances in Toronto on May 18, a 2pm
matinee and a 7pm show. Two days earlier, on the 16th, Daugherty
will conduct the KWS on home turf at Kitchener’s Centre in the
S H ARNA SEAR L E
Square, at 7pm.
And what’s on the program? In addition to the two iconic cartoons
ossini , wagner , von suppé , Tchaikovsky, Smetana, Donizetti,
mentioned, I dangle a carrot with a few others: Baton Bunny, with
Grieg, Offenbach, J. Strauss, Liszt. Sure, they all hold membership in the pantheon of great composers, but do you know what music by von Suppé, orchestrated by Franklyn; Zoom and Bored
(Road Runner “epic”), with an original
else they have in common? Bugs Bunny, Elmer
score by Stalling and Franklyn, based
Fudd, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck and Wile E. Coyote,
Bugs
on
“The Dance of the Comedians” from
to name some of those lovable Looney Tunes
Bunny
The Bartered Bride by Smetana; A Corny
characters who have danced, pranced, chased
at the
Concerto, with music by Stalling, based
and raced around on screen, to the music of
Symphony.
on Tales of the Vienna Woods and The
those aforementioned composer heavyweights,
Blue Danube by Johann Strauss II; and
or rather, to brilliantly conceived and executed
Long-Haired Hare, with an original
adaptations, orchestrations, arrangements
score by Stalling, “after” Wagner, von
and “borrowings” of their music by American
Suppé, Donizetti and Rossini. You’ll also
composers, Carl Stalling and Milt Franklyn, the
hear selections from the Great American
ingenious creators of the symphonic soundSongbook and traditional American folk
tracks to those zany Warner Bros. cartoons
songs. And there will be “guest appearof yesteryear. (They sure don’t make ’em like
ances” by Tom and Jerry, the Flintstones
they used to.)
and Scooby-Doo, not to mention an
Looney Tunes: Remember The Rabbit of
appearance by Tweety and Sylvester in a
Seville? (1949) — “Welcome to my shop, let
cartoon titled (presciently) Home Tweet
me cut your mop, let me shave your crop.
Home, with an original score by Franklyn.
Daintily, daintily.” (Can’t you just hear/see Bugs
I guarantee it will contain a lot more than
Bunny, dressed in a barber’s outfit, beckoning
140 notes ... and lots of character.
Elmer Fudd with that Rossini-inspired score
This is serious entertainment, folks.
à la Stalling?) And what about What’s Opera,
Resist (and poo-poo) at your own risk. Besides, as Daugherty
Doc? (1957) that amazing tour de force where Franklyn manages to
contends: “If most people — even the most highbrow of opera and clascondense the four nights of Wagner’s Ring cycle into seven exhilarating orchestral minutes to accompany the cartoon capers as Bugs
sical music lovers — were to admit the truth, they would fess up that
and Elmer battle it out in a parody of Wagner operas. It’s famous, of
they heard their first strains of the Ring cycle or ... The Barber of Seville
course, for Fudd’s “Kill the Wabbit,” sung to the tune of Wagner’s
courtesy of Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd.” As for Stalling and Franklyn,
“Ride of the Valkyries,” from Die Valküre. As George Daugherty, creator Daugherty holds them in high regard, suggesting that they’re “up
and conductor of “Bugs Bunny at the Symphony” has said, “Once
there” with the likes of Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein. Come
you’ve seen Elmer Fudd chasing about on screen singing “Kill the
see for yourself.
wabbit, kill the wabbit,” you will never hear Wagner’s “Ride of the
Lenny tunes: Staying with the screening-with-live-orchesValkyries” the same way again.”
tral-accompaniment idea for a moment, if watching Looney Tunes
Tunes Looney
and Loved
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cartoons isn’t your
thing, but Bernstein
is, then you’re in
luck! Because, on
May 28 (7:30) and
29 (1:30 and 7:30),
at Roy Thomson
Hall, Bernstein’s
dazzling score to
West Side Story will
be performed by
the TSO, while the
2011 re-mastered
version of the film
(with original
vocals and dialogue
intact) is shown,
in high definition, on the big
screen. “West
Side Story: film
with live orchestra,” was initiated and shepherded by The Leonard
Bernstein Office in New York City, to mark the 50th anniversary of
the film which was originally released in October of 1961. You can
read about the amazing journey of the West Side Story reconstruction project — starting with the startling fact that the original score
materials did not exist — at westsidestory.com/news. The piece, alone,
is a loving tribute to the film, and offers a real appreciation for, and a
fascinating, in-depth account of, the complexities involved in bringing
a project of this nature to fruition.
Steven Reineke, recently appointed principal Pops conductor of
the TSO (and music director of the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall),
will conduct the TSO in what is sure to be a magical and memorable experience. We’re invited to enjoy the two evening concerts with
“drink in hand” and popcorn, both available for purchase.
I have to say that as an unabashed fan of the film’s music, choreography and Sondheim lyrics, the TSO’s bringing it even further to life is
going to be very “cool.”
(And if you’d like to hear the TSO play more Bernstein, you can
catch the orchestra at the George Weston Recital Hall on June 2,
3:30pm, in a performance of his Overture to Candide, along with
Elgar’s Enigma Variations and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.
Bramwell Tovey conducts and is at the piano.)
Birthday tunes: And with that nod to Bugs and Bernstein accomplished, I close this column with two bicentennial birthday
acknowledgments: Wagner was born on May 22, 1813, and Verdi on
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October 10. Both the Oakville Symphony
and the Etobicoke Philharmonic Orchestras
mark the Verdi milestone with concerts
titled, coincidentally, “Viva Verdi.” On May 11
(8pm) and 12 (2pm) at the Oakville Centre for
the Performing Arts, the OSO offers selected
Verdi overtures, arias and duets, with guest
soprano Laurie Reviol. On May 24, the EPO
returns to the Martingrove Collegiate, at
8pm, and performs the “Triumphal March”
and “Ballet Music” from Aida, “Va Pensiero”
from Nabucco and other selections. Baritone
Jeffrey Carl and soprano Rachel Cleland join
conductor Sabatino Vacca, along with special
guest, tenor Richard Margison — another
coup for the EPO! (Last month, it was
pianist Arthur Ozolins performing the
Rachmaninoff Third.)
For its free noonhour Chamber
Music Series in the Richard Bradshaw
Amphitheatre, the Canadian Opera Company
presents “Happy Birthday, Wagner” on, you guessed it, the composer’s
actual birthday, May 22. The intriguing program, featuring the cellists
of the COC Orchestra, includes arrangements of Wagner’s opera overtures for four cellists, Bizet’s Carmen Fantasy for five cellos, and a
work by 19th-century cellist, David Popper, who knew and admired
Wagner, subsequently transcribing several of his piano solo works for
cello. Hmmm. I wonder what either of them would have thought of
Stalling’s and Franklyn’s way with Wagner.
Th-Th-Th-Th ... That’s all folks! Christie Goodwin
The Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra
accompanies a scene
from West Side
Story, Royal Albert
Hall, June 2012.
Sharna Searle trained as a musician and lawyer, practised a
lot more piano than law and is listings editor at The WholeNote.
She can be contacted at [email protected].
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Lesson of Da Ji, which is scored for voices and an ensemble of baroque
instruments including violin, lute and recorder as well as traditional
Chinese instruments. The Blow piece relates the story of the beautiful
and seductive goddess Venus, tragically struck as a result of her own
selfish decisions. Ho’s work, on the other hand, tells of a Chinese
concubine of the Shang dynasty, now understood mostly as an interfering supernatural being or a conniving seductress — ah, but is she
tortured by deep inner conflicts? This presentation features among
its wonderful cast Peking Opera artist William Lau, who plays a traditional female role representing the “Dark Moon.”
On May 24, 25 and 26, women of talent and vision are celebrated
in the Toronto Consort’s “A Woman’s Life,” created by Alison Mackay.
She is the designer of such multi-disciplinary shows as “The Galileo
Project,” House of Dreams” and “The Four Seasons, a Cycle of the Sun,”
each one incorporating stunning
Philip Fournier and
imagery, moveEdwin Huizinga.
ment and gorgeous
music to allow the
audience to bear
witness to a culture
vividly brought to
life. In the present
production, she
explores the lives
and accomplishments of women
composers and
singers from
the Middle Ages,
Renaissance
and early
Baroque — women
such as Hildegard
of Bingen, Barbara
Strozzi and
Francesca Caccini.
The Consort is
joined by guests,
actors Maggie
Huculak and Karen
Woolridge.
Aspects of Venus, even her ablutions apparently, are explored by
soprano Dawn Bailey and the Elixir Baroque Ensemble, in TEMC’s
last concert of the season on May 26. Bailey is surely one to watch; her
extensive résumé includes art song, oratorio and operatic appearances
Of Bach,
Espresso and
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wo of my favourite things in life are Bach and espresso. So
when someone gets the idea of actually combining the two, I
get the feeling he’s done it just for me. There’s a Bach-playing
duo who obviously have a plan to meet me for coffee, and they are
baroque violinist Edwin Huizinga and harpsichordist Philip Fournier.
Their plan: an ingenious tour of coffee houses in Toronto’s west
end, designed to forever ensnare unsuspecting coffee drinkers into
an everlasting love of Bach and classical music performance. The
engaging Huizinga (you may have noticed him playing in any one
of several groups in town — Tafelmusik or Aradia for example — he’s
the imposing fellow with the long red hair who plays his violin with
obvious passion) tells me more:
“The idea is that so many musicians travel the world, and often
don’t really get the benefit of getting to know their community, people
on their street, people in their ‘hood.’ And vice versa, where the
community often doesn’t realize the talent living ‘in their own backyard.’ These evenings will be free, super casual, super intimate, super
up close and personal, and will feature an hour or more of music
of Bach for harpsichord and violin; we will be playing some solos
and some of the obbligato violin sonatas as well. The events will also
include some words about the pieces, some conversation about us and
the instruments we play.”
And they are two interesting musicians. Besides being an accomplished violinist in a whole range of genres from improv to indie rock
to baroque to modern, Huizinga was a founding member of the international network Classical Revolution — an organization of musicians
dedicated to performing high-quality chamber music in non-traditional settings — begun in San Francisco in 2006. Fournier is organist
and music director at St. Vincent de Paul, a specialist in Gregorian
chant, a well-known recitalist on harpsichord and organ who has
been called one of the finest organists of his generation.
You’ll find them in three coffee houses on these dates: May 6:
Baluchon (Sorauren Ave.); May 7: The Common (College and Dufferin);
May 8: Sam James (Harbord and Clinton). It all culminates in a
concert of Bach at Holy Family Church on May 18, where hopefully
some of the audience will have had the pleasure of first hearing them
over a latte.
There’s a different tour you can take this month, one which centres
on the theme you could call aspects of the feminine nature.
On May 10, 11 and 12, Toronto Masque Theatre’s “The Lessons of
Love” pairs two masques drawn from two traditions, Blow’s Venus
and Adonis of 1683 and Alice Ping Yee Ho’s newly composed The
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Others of note
!!May 10: Michael Kelly was an Irish tenor, composer, actor and
theatrical manager whose career led him to artistic centres all over
Europe; along the way he met and made friends with many of the
most celebrated musicians of the day. Not the least of these friendships was with Mozart, whom he met in Vienna. In Kelly’s memoir
Reminiscences he describes an evening’s entertainment he attended,
a quartet party where the performers were Haydn, Dittersdorf, Vanhal
and Mozart — it must have been quite an event! In “An Evening with
Michael Kelly,” the Eybler Quartet recreates the music heard that
evening while their guest, actor R.H. Thomson reads from Kelly’s
Simone Desilets is a long-time contributor to The WholeNote
in several capacities who plays the viola da gamba.
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May 24 & 25 at 8 pm
May 26 at 3:30 pm
A Woman’s Life explores the lives and talents of
women composers and singers from the Middle
Ages, Renaissance and early Baroque, featuring
music by Hildegard of Bingen, Barbara Strozzi
and Francesca Caccini. Alison Mackay, former
member of the Toronto Consort and creator of
Tafelmusik’s The Galileo Project and House of
Dreams, creates another stunning evening of
music, words and projected imagery. With Toronto
actors Maggie Huculak and Karen Woolridge.
Generously supported by Al and Jane Forest
For Tickets call 416-964-6337 or order online
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memoir and other writings. Gallery Players of Niagara present the
same program May 12 in St. Catharines.
!!May 11: The Peterborough Singers directed by Sidney Birrell is
a 100-voice choir which celebrates the conclusion of their 20th season in their hometown of Peterborough with the performance of a
masterpiece, Bach’s B Minor Mass. Soloists include soprano Leslie
Fagan, mezzo Laura Pudwell, tenor Adam Bishop and baritone
Peter McGillivray.
!!May 25: Who else but I FURIOSI Baroque Ensemble would
present a program titled “HIGH”? The plot is best described by themselves: “I FURIOSI rises from the depths and soars to new heights in
this program of lofty heavens. Baroque gods always descended in a
machine — but whence? Since those gods always returned up high,
the ensemble endeavours to find out what all the fuss is about up
there.” Guest for this concert, which takes place at St. Mary Magdalene
Church, is lutenist and theorbist Lucas Harris.
!!May 30, 31, June 1 and 2: You shouldn’t be surprised to find
19th-century repertoire on Tafelmusik’s upcoming program (namely,
Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony, the Coriolan and Egmont Overtures,
and Chopin’s Second Piano Concerto) — after all, they’ve been pushing
the boundaries of their repertoire for some years now; also, they have
as their next soloist the wonderful Polish-Canadian pianist Janina
Fialkowska, a Chopin specialist, playing an 1848 Pleyel piano — the
same model as that used by Chopin when he gave his last concert at
the Salle Pleyel in Paris in 1848, and one of very few to survive.
!!June 2: In a concert titled “Master Works of J.S. Bach,” organist Philip Fournier (of the coffee house duo above) plays three great
works: Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in G, several fugues from the Art of
Fugue, and the C Minor Passacaglia, on the Gober/Kney tracker organ
at The Oratory, Holy Family Church. in Canada and abroad, in new music and old. She’s especially sought
after for her interpretations of music from the 17th and 18th centuries.
In this concert she and the Elixir Ensemble
perform music of the French Baroque,
including a cantata by Colin de
Blamont, La Toilette de Venus.
And finally, on May 27 the
Toronto Continuo Collective
presents “The Immortal Soul
of Psyche.” An astoundingly
Dawn Bailey.
beautiful mortal woman,
Psyche had to overcome
impossible obstacles in order
to win her lover, the god Eros;
through perseverence she was
rewarded with immortality and
everlasting happiness. Works by
Locke and Lully unfold her story,
performed by singers, guest instrumentalists and the Continuo Collective
themselves, a group dedicated to the
study of the art of expressive continuo playing.
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stunning acoustic experience sure to stretch you wide open. In
fact, my body can still remember the reverberations I experienced
back in 2000 when this piece was performed at the Tenney farewell concert in Toronto. A single note on an instrument of choice is
played as a tremelo for “a long time.” It begins at the threshold of
hearing and rises in volume to an extreme threshold before returning
again to silence. A simple concept yet the complex sonic results are
unforgettable.
The festival evening will wind down with Hit Parade by Christof
Migone. Participants lie face down and pound the pavement with a
microphone. Everyone has their own amplifier positioned as far away
as possible and can take breaks after each 100 hits. A sonic playground
extraordinaire!
June 1 brings
a performance
by current and
founding members
of the legendary
improvising
ensemble CCMC
(who also were
the founders of
the Music Gallery),
and a cutting edge
electronic piece,
La chambre des
machines, created
by Martin Messier
and Nicolas
Bernier who digitally transform
sounds made from machine gears and cranks. The night ends at the
Walper Hotel with the members of Freedman (Justin Haynes, Jean
Martin and Ryan Driver) performing on a ukulele, a suitcase and a
street-sweeper bristle.
Xenakis and Beyond: Just preceding “Between the Ears” is another
festive gathering called “Random Walks: Music of Xenakis and Beyond”
running from May 24 (in Toronto) to May 25 (in Waterloo). Presented
by the Fields Institute, the Perimeter Institute and the Institute for
Quantum Computing in Waterloo, this two-day event will focus on
the music, ideas and influence of Greek composer and architect Iannis
Xenakis. Concert presentations of his string quartet, percussion and
electroacoustic music will be intermingled with lecture and discussion sessions. Xenakis was a 20th-century “heavy weight,” whose
ideas continue to have a profound impact across many disciplines.
Part of the festival will be devoted to exploring and taking stock of the
range of this influence on, among others, composers, mathematicians,
architects and computer scientists.
Xenakis’ music is often quite physically demanding on the
performer, requiring a high level of technical prowess. That should
bode well for some extraordinary concert experiences. Performers
include the JACK Quartet, renowned for its “explosive virtuosity,”
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n last month ’ s column, I spoke about the act of listening, and
how music creators have been evolving compositional strategies
that bring more awareness to the ways we listen. When we slow
down and open our whole being to engage with the sounds our ears
are receiving, we truly do enter into a realm of perception that transcends normal
everyday life. This
can, of course,
happen when
we are listening
to traditional
music, but when
the creative and
artistic intention is focused
on creating shifts
in our perception of sound, it
is easy to feel as
if we are slipping
into an “alternaThe JACK Quartet.
tive universe.” This
is how Musical
Toronto blog-writer John Terauds describes his experience of listening
to Ann Southam’s music as performed by Eve Egoyan — a concert I
wrote about in that same column in April.
The Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound on May 31 and June 1
in Kitchener presents a perfect opportunity to stretch our listening
awareness even further. This year’s festival, “Between the Ears,” offers
a wide range of events including concerts, sound installations, a
regatta of origami boats in a reflecting pool, performative sculptures,
late night improvisations and a street market. On May 31, some wild
things are in store for festival-goers, including the percussion music of
Australian composer Erik Griswold. His pieces have been described as
the place where music and kinetic sculpture merge. Imagine a percussionist playing an array of temple bells and bowls accompanied by the
sounds and rhythms created by a cone-shaped pendulum spilling 50
pounds of rice through a large funnel. This is Griswold’s work Spill.
In his piece Strings Attached for six percussionists, the gestures of
the performers become a living sculpture. Their mallets are attached
with nylon ropes to a lighting rig, thus visually magnifying their
movements.
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and an extensive list of percussion soloists and ensembles, including
Montreal’s Aiyun Huang and Toronto’s TorQ Percussion Quartet. For a
great essay on Xenakis’ string quartet music, I recommend the article
written by James Harley, accessible through a weblink on the festival’s
home page (google “Random Walks”). Noted speakers include musician and author Sharon Kanach who worked closely with Xenakis
for many years, and composer/computer programmer Curtis Roads,
former editor of the Computer Music Journal who also pioneered a
form of computer sound creation known as granular synthesis.
More on string quartets: May seems to be the month not only
for experimental music festivals, but also for string quartets specializing in contemporary music. Besides the JACK Quartet mentioned
above, the Mivos Quartet from New York will be offering two concerts
with slightly varying programs on May 24 at Gallery 345 and May 25
at Heliconian Hall. The young players of this quartet came together
in 2008 after graduating from the Manhattan School of
Music and set out to expand the
quartet repertoire
Marion Newman
by commissioning
and Derek Kwan
and collaborin The Lesson
ating with a wide
of Da Ji.
cross-section of
contemporary
composers. A third
quartet — the Torontobased Magenta String
Quartet — will be
presenting works by
Toronto composers
Eatock, Gfroerer
and Vachon on
May 25 at Eastminster
United Church.
East and West: The East and West musical dialogue continues in
two extraordinary events this coming month. First up is a production
by the Toronto Masque Theatre of The Lesson of Da Ji written by two
of Toronto’s own: composer Alice Ping Yee Ho and librettist Marjorie
Chan. Traditionally, masque is a fusion of music, dance and theatre
which flourished in Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries. This
new work, which runs from May 10 to 12 at the Al Green Theatre, will
be a contemporary take on the older form based on the true story of
the Shang dynasty concubine Da Ji and the King who took revenge on
her secret lover. The music will blend European baroque instruments
with various eastern instruments including the pipa, erhu and guquin,
which Da Ji learns to play as part of the narrative. A traditional Peking
Opera dance performance will complement the blending.
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The second East and West event will be Soundstreams’ season
finale concert, “Music for China,” on May 14, which also happens to
be their first stop on the way to touring in China. Featuring music for
chamber orchestra written by Chinese, North American and European
composers, the concert will include performances by the Canadian
Accordes String Quartet and the Chai Found Music Workshop — an
ensemble from Taiwan that specializes in contemporary classical as
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well as traditional Chinese and Taiwanese music. I do have to note
a heartening feature of this concert program, even though it is not
ore than any other musician before Wagner, Beethoven
mentioned in any of the media releases (which is not to be taken as
exemplified the idea of composer as spiritual leader, the artist
a criticism, but rather a sign of progress). All works on the program
as visionary genius who compels the support of performers,
are written by women, with the exception of the piece composed by
teachers and historians to realize his dreams and ideas.
Murray Schafer. This fascinating lineup includes composers Dorothy
Beethoven is an approachChang (USA), Fuhong Shi (China), Alexina Louie (Canada) and Kaija
able genius, though. His
The Toronto Mendelssohn
Saariaho (Finland).
achievements are leavened and
Choir and Festival Orchestra
Contemporary choral: Four concerts of contemporary choral music humanized by his vulnerability,
performing at Koerner Hall.
are in store for lovers of this genre. The Oriana Women’s Choir celehis awkwardness bordering on
brates the 80th birthday of Ruth Watson Henderson on May 25 with
misanthropy and his loneliness.
a concert featuring several of her compositions along with premieres
Through the insights we garner
by emerging composers. On June 1 the Amadeus Choir joins with
from his letters and notebooks
the Bach Children’s Chorus to present Henderson’s Voices of Earth
we are witness to his very human
and a premiere by Eleanor Daley. And on May 10, the Upper Canada
struggles with friends, family
Choristers sing music of the Americas, including pieces by Astor
and colleagues, to his frantic
Piazzolla (Fuga y misterio) and Eric Whitacre (Lux Aurumque) sung
rewriting and experimentation
by their highly accomplished Latin ensemble Cantemos. If you haven’t with his own work.
yet heard the virtual choir version of Lux Aurumque — it’s a must. Go
With few exceptions, every
note of Beethoven’s oeuvre
to YouTube and search it out. Whitacre’s music is also included in the
feels like something is at stake.
Da Capo Chamber Choir’s concerts on May 4 (Kitchener) and May 5
To be involved in a perform(Waterloo), along with works by Leonard Enns and Glenn Buhr.
ance of his work sometimes
Emerging: New sounds by young composers can be experienced
seems, in a small way, like
at two events, both happening on May 25. At the Music Gallery, the
∆TENT ensemble performs works by emerging local and international sharing in his struggles. As
much as any of his works, the
composers, while the group called “(insert TITLE)” showcases works
for the marimba. Arraymusic presents their annual Young Composers’ Missa Solemnis — performed in
Workshop Concert with premieres by four emerging composers
Toronto on May 15 by the Toronto
who have spent the month workshopping and experimenting with
Mendelssohn Choir — exemplifies
members of the Array ensemble to create their new pieces.
this phenomenon.
With such an eclectic mix of concerts representing widely diverIt’s generally accepted that Beethoven did not write sympathetically
ging aesthetics to choose from, this month offers the perfect time to
for voices. He was certainly not alone in this. In many instances Bach
open your ears to something you may not have encountered before.
appeared to think of the voice as an instrument with a human being
And in so doing, you will be right in step with the stimulating forces
attached. Many of both composers’ solo and choral vocal lines, beautispring offers. fully wrought, are only possible to execute faithfully as long as the
singer does not have to breathe for minutes on end.
The choral section of Beethoven’s famous Ninth Symphony is a halfWendalyn Bartley is a Toronto-based composer and electro-vocal
hour long vocal rollercoaster ride that taxes both the solo quartet and
sound artist. [email protected].
the choir with sustained high tessitura writing, dynamic extremes that
require skilled vocal control, long instrumental-style passages with no
room to breathe, all combined with the challenge of being heard over
the wall of sound created by brass, winds, strings and tympani.
The Missa Solemnis is the same thing, multiplied by three.
It is the extreme nature of the vocal writing in the Missa Solemnis
that makes it especially challenging. Beethoven’s cruelly high melodic
lines and virtuosic instrumental writing were well beyond the capabilities of the players and singers of the time, and the first performance
of the work (in Russia, 1824) was famously ragged. It was not
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it back after rehearsal with their sanity intact. If they can do it, so can
you. Here are a few concerts to consider this month.
This year’s celebrations of Ruth Watson Henderson’s 80th birthday
continue with a concert of her works by the Oriana Women’s Choir
on May 25. Read my appreciation of Watson Henderson’s work in my
October 2012 column which you can find on The Wholenote’s website.
On May 4 and 5, Waterloo’s DaCapo Chamber Choir performs
“Leonardo Dreams,” a concert featuring works by the ensemble’s
conductor Leonard Enns, fellow Canadian Glenn Buhr and American
Eric Whitacre, all of whom write very well for choir and whose works
have enjoyed repeated success with audiences.
Enns’ and Watson Henderson’s works are also featured in a concert
by Barrie’s Lyrica Chamber Choir on May 25, along with works by
Healy, Estacio and Mozetich.
On May 24 and 25, another woman’s chorus, Etobicoke’s Harmony
Singers, performs an all-Canadian program of popular works, with
songs by k.d.lang, Joni Mitchell, Barenaked Ladies and Michael Bublé.
On June 2 the VIVA! Youth Singers perform Dean Burry’s A Medieval
Bestiary, which is a cantata specially written for children’s voices.
Burry’s work is both well wrought and appealing, and ought to be a
very good introduction to classically styled music theatre for children.
On the subject of youth choirs, I recently had the pleasure of doing
some vocal coaching for the Bach Children’s Chorus. It was an education to watch conductor Linda Beaupré — as experienced a choral
musician as we have in Toronto — work with the next generation of
choral singers. Her Bach Chamber Youth Choir, performing on May 11
with the Bach Children’s Chorus, is a rare youth ensemble catering to
mid- and older teens interested in choral singing.
Finally, a free concert: the Caribbean Chorale of Toronto performs at
the Church of St. Stephen on May 5. But in writing music that outstripped the capabilities of the musicians of the time, Beethoven founded the idea of the composition as
artistic and spiritual summit, to which musicians must aspire and
strive. Wagner and Stravinsky would continue this tradition, forcing
musicians to develop new technical prowess, matching their abilities to new sounds that the world had never experienced. The Italian
verismo vocal training of the late 19th and early 20th centuries
founded a tradition of vocal heft that could deliver the heaviness of
sound required by late Beethoven composition and the music that
followed in its wake.
The Missa Solemnis is infused with the same spirit as the Ninth
Symphony and other late period Beethoven — a musical expression
of faith locked
in combat with
doubt. Extremes
of mood convey
an almost
desperate sense of
Beethoven’s desire
to connect to the
world around him.
The Toronto
Mendelssohn
Choir is perhaps
the only group
in the region that
can marshal the
forces for such
a mammoth
work. A largescale choir in
the 19th century
mode, the TMC
is well equipped
to be able to
handle the technical elements
of the work and to have a fighting chance to avoid being swamped by
the orchestra. This is a massive undertaking for any ensemble and a
chance to hear it live is not to be missed.
The Missa Solemnis is a kind of apotheosis of the European mass
tradition, but innumerable other mass settings exist to cater to all
tastes. A homegrown Canadian example that draws on one important
strain in our history is the Celtic Mass for the Sea written by Scott
MacMillan, a legendary folk musician from the East Coast. For their
“Celtic Tide” concert on June 1 the VOCA Chorus has assembled a kind
of Canadian Celtic supergroup, experienced and renowned players
who bring their deep knowledge of Irish folk tradition to the music.
The VOCA Chorus, led by veteran conductor and pianist Jenny
Crober, has made a specialty of combining classical works with
folk and popular elements. Their Celtic-themed concerts have been
increasing in popularity each year, and tickets for this current concert
are reportedly in high demand.
Celtic Mass for the Sea was commissioned by the CBC in 1988 and
has garnered many performances since then. The work blends the
exuberant nature of Celtic rhythms with the resonance of the ancient
mass text. Macmillan is planning to travel to Toronto to attend the
performance and will give a pre-concert lecture on the work. Read
more about this concert at vocachorus.ca.
Further on the subject of modern Canadian works: I took part in
a concert recently where the hapless ticket seller was quizzed about
the nature of the music involved. The potential concert-goer wanted
to make certain that whatever works were on the program would not
be too “modern.” Assurances that the most modern composer of the
evening died in 1986 were barely sufficient.
Yes, this happened. It’s common enough, really, so there’s no point
in being all snobby about it. Many people actively fear contemporary
music, and I’ll address that in depth in future columns. But folks, your
friends, neighbours and colleagues are exploring new works in their
various choirs every week. All of them, or at least most of them, make
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one titled “Vesnianky — Songs of Spring” taught Ukrainian spring
ritual songs, as well as the hailky, a group activity which includes
songs (haivky)performed while dancing and playing traditional games
at (Orthodox) Easter.
You can take part along with the Kosa Kolektiv in the St. Nicholas
Church community hailky on Easter Sunday May 5 at 4pm in Trinity
Bellwoods Park. They will be joined by the members of the Lemon
Bucket Orkestra, collectively leading village-style singing and
community dancing. Not to worry if your Ukrainian is rusty, the
dances will also be called in English. And one more thing: you’re
invited to bring a blanket, your Easter baskets and nibbles to liven
up the communal picnic. How fitting that the town where Marshall
McLuhan coined the phrase is host to an exemplar of the global village.
Musideum around the
world: Elsewhere downKosa Kolektiv.
town, the cozy venue
Musideum continues
its multi-genre music
programming. This month
alone I count at least seven
concerts with world and/
or folk music credentials.
Here are just a few:
May 6 Toronto’s
Debbie Danbrook
performs on shakuhachi with Ottawa’s
sound shaman Mark
Daniel on crystal bowls
in a program titled “Healing
Music Mediation.” This concert reminds us of music’s
other side: its calming gifts. Danbrook, the first professional female
shakuhachi (Japanese end-blown bamboo flute) player to specialize
in the healing- and meditation-aiding abilities of her instrument, has
recorded 14 CDs specifically for that purpose. Her music, embraced
by healers and spiritual practitioners, aims to bring its audience into
a calming, peaceful and meditative state. Many of us could benefit
from a deep relaxation of the body and mind allowing us, even for the
duration of a concert, to let go.
The sitarist Partha Bose performs twice at Musideum, May 26 and
June 2, the second time with Indranil Mallick on tabla, a leading
student of the renowned Swapan Chaudhuri. Bose represents the
newest generation of concert sitar players of the Maihar gharana
(school or lineage) of Hindustani music which was propelled onto the
international stage and record market by two musical giants, the late
Ravi Shankar and his brother-in-law, Ali Akbar Khan.
May 30 local folk fiddle stalwart Anne Lederman leads a fiddle trio
with Emilyn Stam and James Stephens called “Eh?!” Acknowledged at
the 2011 Canadian Folk Music Awards, Eh?! mashes established fiddle
traditions with composed and improvised music. They perform not
only with three five-string violins, but also with piano, mandolins,
accordion, guitars, kalimba and their voices. As their name suggests,
Canadian fiddle music from Newfoundland, Quebec and Manitoba
forms the group’s musical backbone–but with a twist: frequent
detours to incorporate European and African models too.
Asian Heritage Month picks: In 2002 the Canadian government
designated May as Asian Heritage Month and Small World Music
was quick out of the blocks to mark the occasion. Its 11th Annual
Asian Music Series continues May 4 with a concert featuring Rajeev
Taranath on sarod (also spelled sarode, an Indian fretless lute) at
the Maja Prentice Theatre in Mississauga. Taranath displays a brilliant technique, a wide emotional range and a disciplined strategy in
developing a series of raags, the melodic types at the core of classical
Hindustani music.
May 12 is Mother’s Day and Small World is commemorating
it with Ramneek Singh’s vocal performances of Indian classical
vocals in various genres, khayal, thumri, shabad-kirtan, sufiana
and folk, also at the Maja Prentice Theatre. It’s a rare treat to have a
concert with five such genres represented by a single vocalist who is
among the GTA’s most accomplished Hindustani classical singers, a
Urban Folk
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he high park sakura trees are finally in full bud — soon to be in
glorious bloom–and spring is in the Toronto air. For Orthodox
Christians this time marks Easter Sunday celebrated this year
on May 5. And there is a springtide connection here with a new folk
music scene with a distinctive pan-Slavic flavour that has been emerging among local young adults in the last few years. It’s attracting
those of Eastern European, especially Ukrainian, descent but also
folks from other ethnicities.
Whether called third wave folk revival,
urban folk, or post-folk music, such descriptions are eventually bound to fail, relying as
they do on older, shaky, stereotypes. A secure
definition eludes even the wiliest ethnomusicologist. One thing is certain though,
trained and amateur musicians and OCADU
artist grads alike are gathering in private
and public spaces in groups such as the Kosa
Kolektiv, Lemon Bucket Orkestra and the
Fedora Upside-Down, the latter“an urban folk
movement, with 11 bands, four art collectives
and two performance collectives.” As that selfrepresentation illustrates, this scene includes
the plastic movement and the often-neglected
communal arts, as well as the purely sonic.
The women’s Kosa Kolektiv, barely three years old, expands that
scope even further, aiming to revitalize and reinterpret the entire
web of peasant folklore in an urban context. “We do this by singing
songs, sewing, cooking, planting, crafting, putting on workshops and
sharing ideas over tea and good food. There’s something to be said
for the simpler pleasures in life, and Kosa Kolektiv embraces them.”
Kosa means braid in Ukrainian. Young women traditionally wore long
braids, or kosy, before marriage and this group uses it as an effective
central image of cultural fusion, the braiding of old and new. “We seek
to re-learn forgotten songs, rituals and stories, and to bring them to
life in a relevant way within our urban communities,” they write on
their website.
For the past two years the Kosa Kolektiv has hosted a string of
choral folk song workshops focused on Slavic village music.The latest
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representative of the Indore Gharana.
Palmerston Library Community Asian Arts Fusion Festival:
To celebrate Asian Heritage Month, the Toronto Public Library is
offering a wealth of live programs at various branches of which the
Palmerston Community Asian Arts Fusion Festival on Saturday May 11
at the Palmerston branch just north of Bloor St. is perhaps the largest.
It all starts at 11am with a street procession led by SamulNori Canada
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performing traditional Korean drumming in and in front of the
library, animating the Koreatown neighbourhood. Tsugaru shamisen
ong - time readers of The WholeNote might have noticed that
music follows played by Gerry McGoldrick a Canadian expert of this
I am usually in Vienna at least once every year. Well this year is
Japanese folk tradition. Choral music from the Republic of Georgia
no exception — here I am, but seeing this lovely city from a quite
takes the stage at 1:30pm sung by the Darbazi choir representing
different perspective — from that of a hospital bed! To make a long
music from the crossroads of Europe and Asia. They’re directed by the story short, if this were the précis for a horror movie a working title
tenor Shalva Makharashvili who passes on a deep understanding and
might be “The Return Of The Dreaded Cellulitis,” or “Lost Limbo.” It’s
passion for the music of his Georgian motherland.
the return of a condition for which I was first treated over three years
One of the centerpieces of the festival is the 11:40am performance of ago and if not cured can result in the loss of a limb or even limbs,
the 15-member Toronto group Gamelan Kayonan performing Balinese which would leave me legless and I don’t mean drunk!
dance accompanied by live gamelan music co-led by the dancer Keiko
The loss of limb thought opens up possibilities for dark humour.
Ninomiya and John Carnes. It’s followed by Javanese masked dancer
Please don’t be offended by my making jokes about something which
Wiryawan Padmonojati, while his young son Rafifkana Dhafathi
is really no laughing matter, but keeping a sense of humour goes a
Padmonojati reinterprets the ancient art of Central Javanese shadow
long way in helping to cope with problems.
puppet theatre for Canadians. The Global Trio follows, serving up
I decided to follow the advice of an Eric Idle song title and “look
world music Toronto style, with a fusion of Persian, North Indian and
on the bright side of life,” so that if worst came to worst and I was
Indonesian instrumental styles. And to cap off this Asian fusion afterminus a lower extremity, I could, for example, learn to play bass drum,
noon Isshin Daiko (One Heart) of the Toronto Buddhist Temple sounds cymbals, harmonica attached to some sort of neck-piece and become
its thundering drums at 3pm to dispel all malevolent thoughts. Visit
a one-man group called “Stump The Band” and go out not on onethe Toronto Public Library’s website for more details on this and other night stands but one-leg stands performing such songs as “Knee Up
Asian Heritage Month concerts, activities and reading suggestions.
Mother Brown,” “Peg Of My Heart,” “I Only Have Thighs For You.”
Other picks: Those wishing to extend their May 11 world music
A suitable condition, too, if you want to be a “legend” in
immersion should visit the “World Music Collaborations Concert”
your own time.
at 3pm, presented at SING! The Toronto Vocal Arts Festival at
I played a number of times with Benny Waters who, in his later
Harbourfront Centre. Suba Sankaran, who among several other roles
years, lost the sight of one eye. He then included in his standard reperis the singer with Autorickshaw, is acting as music director for the
toire “Please Don’t Talk About Me One Eye’s Gone.”
concert. She’s teaching a selection of South Indian-focused vocal
Pianists Eddie Thompson, George Shearing and Joel Shulman all
music to be interpreted by an eclectic group of participants including
coped successfully with blindness and were known for their highly
the Georgian trio Zari, Judeo-Spanish soloist Aviva Chernick, Tuvan
developed senses of humour. Art Tatum did have some light passing
throat singer Scott Peterson and Lizzy Mahashe, a South African singer into his eyes but such minimal vision as to be considered blind.
and gumboot dancer. For the finale Sankaran is preparing an arrangeI used to have musical competitions with Eddie to see who could
ment that draws on the strengths of each of these diverse singers. An
play the most quotes during a song. I remember that on a few occainsider informs me the new work’s provisional title is WorldsKaleid.
sions there was actually a scorekeeper in the audience! But some of
On a personal note I am excited to be performing in concerts with
them were much too subtle for the average listener. If one of us played
one of Toronto’s senior world music groups, the Evergreen Club
a really obscure quote the other would call out “Yellow Card!”
Contemporary Gamelan (ECCG), at Arraymusic’s bright new studio on
Shearing had a really funny version of The Lord’s Prayer. I can’t
Walnut Street. The concerts on May 18 and 19 are titled “In the Cage,”
remember it word for word but it went something like this:
celebrating the group’s 26-year-old connection with American iconoOur Farnham, who art in Hendon
clast composer John Cage secured by the group’s commission of his
Harrow be Thy name
Haikai (1986). The concerts also feature Cage student James Tenney’s
Thy Kingston come; thy Wimbledon,
Road to Ubud (1986) for prepared piano and gamelan degung, as
In Erith as it is in Hendon,
well as Gamelan Klavier (2009) for the same instrumentation by
Give us this day our daily Brent
this year’s Governor General’s Award recipient Gordon Monahan.
And forgive us our Westminster
Emerging Toronto composer Elisha Denburg’s new work scored
As we forgive those who Westminster against us.
for the percussion ensemble TorQ and the ECCG receives its world
And lead us not into Thames Ditton
premiere on May 19. But deliver us from Ewell
For Thine is the Kingston, the Purley and the Crawley,
For Esher and Esher.
Andrew Timar is a Toronto musician and music writer.
Crouch End.
He can be contacted at [email protected].
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St. Philip’s Anglican Church
● Sunday, May 12, 4pm | Jazz Vespers
Lara Solnicki Trio
with Ted Quinlan + George Koller
● Sunday, May 26, 4pm | Polka Vespers
Walter Ostanek the Polka King
● Sunday, June 9, 4pm | Jazz Vespers
Joe Sealy + Paul Novotny
with special guest Barbra Lica
St. Philip’s Anglican Church | Etobicoke
25 St. Phillips Road (near Royal York + Dixon)
416-247-5181 • www.stphilips.net
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Trumpeter “Wingy” Manone, so called because he lost an arm in an
accident, played using one hand. Joe Venuti, the legendary violinist
and prankster used to send Manone one cuff link every Christmas!
Red Norvo the renowned vibes player went almost totally deaf but
was able to continue playing not hearing the notes but picking up the
vibes — no pun intended.
Then there was Arnett Cobb. The big-toned tenor player from Texas
was 30 years old when he had to have an operation on his spine. He
recovered and resumed touring but eight years later in 1956 his legs
were crushed in a car accident and for the rest of his life he had to use
crutches when playing.
One of the world’s greatest violinists, Itzhak Perlman, contracted
polio at the age of four but learned to walk using crutches and he
plays violin while seated.
Django Reinhardt was one of the greatest guitar players of all time
and after surviving an accident in a fire could only use the index
and middle fingers of his left hand on solos. Ludwig van Beethoven
A Happy Accident
I
with a very nasty accident but with an outcome
that, as I witnessed, was anything but accidental, namely a wellcrafted concert by a rarely heard form of musical ensemble. As for
the accident, it happened a few months ago. After one of their regular
rehearsals, members of the Wychwood Clarinet Choir saw a woman
riding her bicycle getting tangled with the streetcar tracks and being
thrown to the pavement. Immediately, those choir members sprang
into action like a well-practised team. They rendered first aid and took
the victim back to her home at the nearby Christie Gardens retirement
residence.
Over the ensuing weeks, those choir members and the victim,
Bruna Nota, remained in touch and developed a strong bond of friendship. As her recovery progressed, Nota suggested that it might be
appropriate for the choir to perform a concert for the residents of
Christie Gardens. I had the pleasure of being a guest at that concert,
my introduction to the work of the Wychwood Clarinet Choir, their
director, Michele Jacot and several excellent arrangements for the
ensemble, several by choir members.
Jacot grew up in Toronto in a house where there was constant
good music. I asked her one of my usual questions: “Did you choose
the clarinet or did the clarinet choose you?” Apparently the clarinet
chose her, when she began music studies at Oakwood Collegiate.
After undergraduate studies in music performance at the University
of Toronto and a master’s degree from Northwestern, she returned to
Toronto and embarked on a career of performing and private teaching.
Now in its fourth season, the Wychwood Clarinet Choir was the brainchild of Jacot and a few of her adult clarinet students. It now numbers
20 regular members including her former teacher at Oakwood.
To acquaint audience members with the many diverse voices of the
six members of the clarinet family, a sextet consisting of one of each
instrument performed a very clever arrangement of What Shall We
Do With a Drunken Sailor by choir member and former teacher, Roy
Greaves. This was followed by one movement of a transcription of a
Mozart serenade for wind octet also arranged by Greaves.
In the planning for this performance and their spring concert, the
hunt for suitable arrangements led to another “happy accident.” It
turned out that choir member Katherine Carleton knew renowned
Canadian composer Howard Cable. Might he have written or arranged
works for such a group? Yes he had. He hadn’t seen them for quite
some time, but with a bit of digging, he provided two works. The
first was an original 1964 composition, Wind Song, which he wrote
for members of the Band of the North American Aerospace Defense
Command (NORAD) in Colorado Springs. The other was an arrangement of “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered” from the 1940 Rodgers
and Hart Broadway musical Pal Joey. So Cable was there to guest
conduct these two works, mentioning that he had not heard either
work in 50 years.
As a surprise for Cable, two former choir members, Harry Musicar
and Sydney Gangbar, were invited to this performance. They were
both schoolmates of his at Toronto’s Parkdale Collegiate and played
with him in the school orchestra under Leslie Bell (who later achieved
prominence as conductor of the Leslie Bell singers). In so many ways
this concert really clicked for all concerned.
If you have never heard a clarinet choir with its many voices, it’s
time to do so. Wychwood will be performing their spring concert
at 3:30pm, May 12 at the Church of St. Michael-and-all-Angels in
Toronto. While Cable has a prior commitment which will preclude his
attendance at that spring concert, a bond has been formed with the
choir. Rumour has it that he has already written a new work which
will feature Jacot as soloist. We’ll be looking for him and that work at
their fall concert.
Hannaford: April also saw the great Hannaford Street Silver Band’s
annual three-day festival. The winner of this year’s Hannaford
Arnett Cobb.
remains one of the best-known and greatest composers of all time
even though in his mid-20s he lost his hearing, while Evelyn Glennie,
an amazing Scottish percussionist despite the fact that she is deaf,
performs barefoot, which enables her to “hear” her music by feeling
the vibrations.
Completing the circle back to Austria, the No Problem Orchestra,
an Austrian band comprised of musicians with physical and mental
disabilities (mostly Down syndrome) was formed in 1985. It has since
given more than 5,000 concerts around the world.
Anyway, what I’m getting at in this article is that one can overcome
all kinds of adversities with the power of music — and it helps to maintain a sense of humour.
So here I am in station 3A of the Dermatological Unit, Rudolfstiftung Hospital, Vienna, and the staff have been quite wonderful in the
way they have looked after me, but also telling me in no uncertain
terms that they won’t discharge me until they are good and ready.
Happy listening and stay out of hospital beds. Jim Galloway is a saxophonist, band leader and former
artistic director of Toronto Downtown Jazz.
He can be contacted at [email protected].
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Youth Rising Stars Solo Competition was Jonathan Elliotson from
Orangeville who has just finished second year in the performance
program at U of T’s Faculty of Music. He played Jubliance by William
Himes on cornet from memory. Elliotson has been the end-chair solo
cornet in the Hannaford Youth Band this past season. The Hannaford
Youth final concert of the season will be May 11 at 2pm at the Church
of the Redeemer in Toronto. It will feature Andrew McCandless, principal trumpet of the TSO as guest soloist.
Speaking of Hannaford, at last year’s Hannaford Rising Stars
competition, Jacob Plachta, now in third year trombone performance
at U of T, won performing his own composition Sonata for Trombone
and Brass. At this year’s HSSB festival, the Youth Band premiered
Plachta’s new work for brass band titled Celebration. Another Youth
Band member, Adrian Ling, has written a three-movement work
titled Progressions for Brass Band, with one movement for each band
of the Youth Program: Junior, Community and Youth. These three
movements will be performed at their spring concert with the three
bands set up in different locations in the church. Ling is a first-year
composition student at U of T and started with the Hannaford Youth
Program seven years ago. At the Junior Band’s Christmas concert,
they performed a piece called Elf Factory composed by nine-year-old
percussionist James Muir, about the elves complaining about working
for “the man” who is of course Santa. It even has lyrics that are sung in
the middle by the band members. At the Community Band’s February
concert, they performed a piece written by grade nine tuba player
Blaise Gratton called The Perfect Storm. This has lots of rhythm and
percussion with lots of notes for the tubas. Who thought that composition was only for the old fogeys?
Ensemble time: It was gratifying this month to learn of a number of
concerts by small ensembles. There is nothing like playing in a small
group to hone one’s timing, tuning, phrasing and sense of cohesion
with fellow musicians. This month, Western University professor
Henry Meredith told me about a student concert set up to do just that,
with pieces featuring students with like instruments, in ensembles
with such clever titles as the “Majestic Trumpets,” the “Trom-Bonus”
and the “Horn-Utopia.” Meanwhile, members of the four Toronto
New Horizons bands organized an afternoon of “Chamber Sweets”
where at least 17 small groups performed while audience members
indulged their sweet tooths on the assortment of goodies provided.
On May 25 the Milton Concert Band will present “Maytoberfest.”
That’s their version of Octoberfest in May, complete with a fullcourse German dinner and a special musical treat: the guest small
ensemble will be the Alphorn Choir of the Ein Prosit German Band of
Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Kudos: Our hats are off to the Newmarket Citizens Band for their
performance at the recent Music Alive festival. This is a non-competitive adjudicated festival, and they were awarded the highest possible
Platinum rating for their efforts. It takes lots of confidence to start off
an adjudicated performance with a number like Amparito Roca to
establish your credentials. CANADA’S PREMIER
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The singers include Vania Chan, Charlotte Corwin, Benjamin Covey,
Alexander Dobson, Derek Kwan, Marion Newman, Xin Wang and
Timothy Wong; the dancers are Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière and traditional Peking Opera dancer William Lau. Derek Boyes directs and
Larry Beckwith conducts the TMT ensemble. Ho’s composition blends
period baroque instruments (recorders, violins, viola da gamba, lute
and harpsichord) and Chinese instruments (guqin, pipa, guzheng,
erhu, gongs and drums).
On May 14 and 15, the COSI Connection will present the world
premiere of The Wings of the Dove by Canadian composer Andrew
Ager based on the 1902 novel by Henry James. The story concerns Kate
Croy and Merton Densher who are engaged but too poor to marry. The
entrance of the rich but terminally ill Milly Theale complicates and
completely alters the couple’s relationship.
Toronto audiences will remember Ager as the composer of the
opera Frankenstein, first performed by TrypTych
Productions in January 2010. When Ottawa’s
Thirteeen Strings premiered the Interlude from the
opera in 2011, the Ottawa Citizen declared, “It’s
gorgeous, if intensely wistful. Ager’s writing is subtly
layered, its emotions being persistent and powerful
without ever venturing into a hint of melodrama.”
“COSI” stands for the Centre for Opera Studies in
Italy that commissioned the work. Ager’s opera will
launch the COSI Connection (co-si.com) which
intends to bring back to Canada the fruit of the
labour and training Canadians have received at the
centre in Sulmona, Italy.
The staged production at the Heliconian Hall in Yorkville will
feature soprano Leigh-Ann Allen, baritone Bradley Christensen,
soprano Clodagh Earls, mezzo Stephanie Kallay and baritone Dimitri
Katotakis. Michael Patrick Albano is the stage director and the
composer will provide the piano accompaniment. After the production in Toronto, the opera will be produced in July at COSI in Italy,
with full orchestra, choir and soloists.
Opera by Request (operabyrequest.ca) has several operas-in-concert
on offer in May. There is Janáček’s Jenůfa on May 5, Mozart’s Così fan
tutte on May 24 and Puccini’s La Bohème on May 27. The rarest of the
offerings, however, is Douglas Moore’s 1956 opera The Ballad of Baby
Doe on May 11. The plot is based on the true story of the “Silver King”
Horace Tabor (1830–1899), who built the opera house in Central City,
Colorado, his wife, Augusta, and the woman, Elizabeth “Baby Doe”
McCourt, with whom Tabor had an affair before divorcing his wife.
Lisa Faieta sings the title role, Keith O’Brien is Horace Tabor, Eugenia
Dermentzis is Augusta and Tracy Reynolds is Baby Doe’s mother. All the
Opera by Request performances this month take place at the College
Street United Church and are accompanied by William Shookhoff at
the piano. OBR takes a new step withBaby Doein that the performance
will not be in concert but semi-staged, with Lisa Faieta as the director.
Those seeking out 20th-century operas from Spain need look no
further than the double bill byOpera Five (operafive.com) of Goyescas
(1915) by Enrique Granados and El retablo de maese Pedro (1923) by
Manuel de Falla. The singers include mezzo Catharin Carew, soprano
Emily Ding, soprano Rachel Krehm, baritone Giovanni Spanu and
tenor Conrad Siebert. Maika’i Nash is the music director and pianist.
Aria Umezawa directs. Performances on May 1 and 2 take place at
Gallery 345 (gallery345.com).
From May 2 to May 5, Toronto Operetta Theatre (torontooperetta.
com) presents Offenbach’sLa Vie Parisienne(1866) as its season finale.
Last staged in 1992, the new production stars Elizabeth DeGrazia as
the Swedish baroness with Stuart Graham as her wayward husband.
Adam Fisher and Stefan Fehr play Parisian rogues ready to show the
two foreigners a good time and Lauren Segal is the glamorous comedienne, Métella, ready to gamble for love. Christopher Mayell sings the
role of the billionaire Brazilian whose masked ball concludes the
madcap proceedings. Larry Beckwith conducts TOT Orchestra and
Guillermo Silva-Marin directs. Opera Buffet
C H RIS T O P H ER H OI L E
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pril has become a month so replete with opera that May,
which used to be rather quiet, is beginning to fill up with
opera as well. The Canadian Opera Company’s production of Salome continues to May 22 and its production of Lucia di
Lammermoor to May 24. They are joined on May 8 by the final opera
of the 2012/13 season, Dialogues des Carmélites. What is usual among
the other offerings this month is the high concentration of 20th- and
21st-century operas.
Dialogues des Carmélites
Dialogues des Carmélites.
(1957) by Francis Poulenc has
not been seen at the COC since
1997. The opera is based on the
true story of the 16 Carmelite
nuns of Compiègne who were
martyred during the Reign
of Terror on July 17, 1794. The
upcoming production is notable
for its high concentration of
Canadian talent. The cast unites
such stars as Isabel Bayrakdarian
as Blanche de la Force, Judith Forst as Madame de Croissy, Adrianne
Pieczonka as Madame Lidoine, Hélène Guilmette as Soeur Constance,
Frédéric Antoun as the Chevalier de la Force and Jean-François
Lapointe as the Marquis de la Force. Except for the role of Mère Marie
sung by Russian mezzo Irina Mishura, all the remaining roles are sung
by such well-known Canadian singers as Doug MacNaughton, Megan
Latham, Rihab Chaieb, Michael Colvin and Peter Barrett.
The production is directed by Canadian Robert Carsen who created
it for De Nederlandse Opera in 1997 and is designed by Canadian
Michael Levine, who designed the COC’s Ring cycle. The physical
staging is minimalist, relying on a few significant props and the use
of light to set the many different scenes. Carsen’s staging, however,
uses more than 100 supernumeraries to evoke the constant threat of
the French Revolution that Blanche does not escape by taking the veil.
The opera runs May 8 to 25 with Johannes Debus conducting the COC
Orchestra. For more information see coc.ca.
Among the new operas is the welcome return of Laura’s Cow:
The Legend of Laura Secord composed by Errol Gay to a libretto by
Michael Patrick Albano. The 75-minute opera written for the Canadian
Children’s Opera Company (canadianshildrensopera.com), premiered
in 2012 during Luminato as part of the commemoration of the War of
1812. It was specifically written to include all levels of the 200-voice
CCOC from oldest to youngest, with the addition of three professional
adult singers. Emily Brown Gibson and Mary Christidis alternate
in the role of Laura Secord, Andrew Love sings the roles of Caller,
Balladeer and Lt. FitzGibbon as he did last year; and Tessa Laengert
sings the delightful role of the Cow. Having reviewed the opera last
year for The WholeNote blog, I can testify that it is an ideal opera
for the whole family. Laura’s Cow runs from May 3 to May 5 at the
Enwave Theatre. Michael Patrick Albano directs and Ann Cooper Gay
conducts the 14-member orchestra.
From May 10 to 12, Toronto Masque Theatre (torontomasquetheatre.
com) presents the world premiere of The Lesson of Da Ji by Alice Ping
Yee Ho to a libretto by Marjorie Chan. The one-act opera plays on a
doublebill called “The Lessons of Love” with John Blow’s 1683 opera
Venus and Adonis and thus provides a view of the masque from past
and present, West and East.
The story is inspired by real events in the Shang dynasty (c. 1600–
1046 bc). In the version by Ho and Chan, Da Ji, the king’s concubine,
takes music lessons from the young nobleman Bo Yi to play the
guqin, a type of zither. The king becomes jealous and exacts a grisly
revenge on Bo Yi.
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Christopher Hoile is a Toronto-based writer on opera and
theatre. He can be contacted at [email protected].
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multi-media projects: “The Galileo Project;” ‘The Four Seasons;”
“The House of Dreams.” Her next project is for the Toronto Consort:
“A Woman’s Life” on May 24 and 25 at 8pm and May 26 at 3:30pm at
Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre. The program will explore the lives of women
composers and singers from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the
early Baroque. It will feature vocal music by von Bingen, Francesca
Caccini and Barbara Strozzi.
H ANS DE G ROO T
Other events: Tafelmusik presents arias and choruses from
Handel’s oratorios with Sophie Daneman, soprano, and Rufus Müller,
n virginia woolf ’ s novel, To the Lighthouse, the painter Lily
tenor, at Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre, May 1
Briscoe is much troubled when she recalls a young ambitious male
academic saying: “Women can’t write; women can’t paint.” Nobody to May 4 at 8pm and May 5 at 3:30pm,
and at the George Weston Recital Hall,
has ever doubted that there have been great women performers. Just
May 7 at 8pm.
think of the concerto delle donne in late 16th-century Ferrara or the
The Aldeburgh Connection continues
girls who were trained at the Ospedale della Pietà in 18th-century
its Britten Festival of Song with “The Song
Venice, of actresses like Sarah Siddons, Sarah Bernhardt and Eleanora
Cycles,” with Shannon Mercer, soprano,
Duse or dancers like Anna Pavlova. But the ability of women to
and Susan Platts, mezzo at the Glenn
become creative artists has in the past been questioned. It was sometimes asserted that women could never become great poets since they Gould Studio, May 7 at 8pm and “A Time
There Was,” with Virginia Hatfield,
lacked creative power. I suspect that this attitude goes back to a long
soprano, Scott Belluz, counterdiscredited physiological theory that held that only men could create,
tenor, Colin Ainsworth, tenor,
since the homunculus was already present in the sperm and that a
and Geoffrey Sirett, bariwoman simply provided a space where the embryo could develop.
Alison
tone, at Walter Hall May 26
Of course, there have been a number of important women
Mackay.
at 2:30pm.
composers from Hildegard von Bingen in the 12th century to
On May 7 and 8 the
Germaine Tailleferre and Lili Boulanger in the early 20th and Kaija
Talisker Players presents
Saariaho, Sofia Gubaidulina and Ana Sokolović in our time. I also
suspect that there would have been others had the intellectual climate a program of works that
evoke birds. It includes
been more sympathetic to the female composer. Several women
music by Telemann
composers have been close relatives of more famous men: Francesca
and Arvo Pärt. The
Caccini was the daughter of Giulio Caccini; Clara Schumann was the
singers are Erin
wife of Robert Schumann; Fanny Mendelssohn was the sister of Felix
Bardua, soprano,
Mendelssohn; Pauline Viardot was the daughter of Manuel García. As
a consequence they are sometimes seen as pale reflections of the male and Vicki St.
Pierre, mezzo, at
figures to whom they were related.
Sometimes too, a woman may have been content to be a “helpmeet.” Trinity St. Paul’s
Centre at 8pm.
There are two extant manuscripts of Claudio Monteverdi’s last opera,
I met R.H.
L’incoronazione di Poppea; one of these shows that Francesco Cavalli,
Thomson more
Monteverdi’s pupil and successor, had made a number of revisions.
But two-thirds of the manuscript is in the hand of Cavalli’s wife Maria. than 40 years
ago when we
We know little about her: she was a widow when Francesco married
were both in a
her in 1630; she began copying in 1650 (her hand has been detected
not only in the Monteverdi but also in several of Cavalli’s own operas); production of
the crucifixion
she died in 1652. She must have been musically literate to be able to
scene from the
do this work. Could she have become a composer herself? We shall
York Mystery
never know. When Gustav Mahler courted Alma Schindler (who had
plays. Thomson
studied composition with Alexander von Zemlinsky), he insisted that
played Pilate and
she could not be a composer, as it would be wrong to have more than
I was one of the
one composer in the family. Like Maria Cavalli, she became a copyist
of her husband’s music. (Mahler was to change his mind about Alma’s malefactors who
torment Christ.
compositions later.)
This may have
Alison Mackay has played violone and double bass for Tafelmusik
been the high
since 1979. For Tafelmusik she has created several highly successful
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point of my theatrical career but Thomson’s had barely taken off. Over
the years he has become one of our most distinguished actors. Earlier
this season he performed (for Tafelmusik) the fictional memoirs of
an early 18th-century oboist. On May 10, Thomson appears in an
Eybler Quartet performance titled “An Evening with Michael Kelly” at
the Heliconian Hall; repeated at St. Barnabas Church, St. Catharines,
May 12 at 2pm. Although the works played are instrumental, the
program will be of interest in relation to the history of vocal music.
Kelly was an Irish tenor, who created the roles of Don Curzio and Don
Basilio in The Marriage of Figaro and Thomson’s performance will be
based on Kelly’s Reminiscences. Thomson will also perform in “The
Star of Robbie Burns” (Church of the Redeemer, June 7) with Virginia
Hatfield, soprano, and Benjamin Covey, baritone.
The Toronto Masque Theatre will give its final concert of the season
on May 10 and 11 (at 8pm) and May 12 (at 3pm; all at the Al Green
Theatre). The program consists of John Blow’s masque, Venus and
Adonis, and a newly commissioned opera by Alice Ping Yee Ho, The
Lesson of Da Ji. The singers are Vania Chan, Charlotte Corwin and Xin
Wang, soprano, Marion Newman, mezzo, Timothy Wong, countertenor,
Benjamin Covey and Alexander Dobson, baritone.
Klara Ek, soprano, and Gerald Finley, bass-baritone, will be the
soloists in Brahms’ German Requiem, with the Toronto Symphony
(Roy Thomson Hall, May 22, 23 and 25). The first two of these concerts
will also include Lieberson’s settings of poems by Neruda.
Recitals at Rosedale kicks off its 2013/14 season with a special
launch concert on June 1 (Rosedale Presbyterian Church at 7:30pm).
This month in its free Vocal Series the COC presents: Anna Christy,
soprano, the star of the current production of Lucia di Lammermoor,
in recital on May 21; a concert by the graduating artists of the COC
Ensemble Studio on May 23; and a sneak preview of this year’s
Toronto Summer Music Festival on May 30. All three concerts are in
the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre in the Four Seasons Centre from
12 noon to 1pm and are free.
And beyond the GTA: Leslie Fagan, soprano, Laura Pudwell, mezzo,
Adam Bishop, tenor, and Peter McGillivray, baritone, will be the soloists in a performance of Bach’s B Minor Mass (George Street United
Church, Peterborough, May 11 at 7:30pm).
A postscript: I enjoyed the lively performance of Mozart’s Don
Giovanni by students of the Glenn Gould School (although I have
always seen the opera more as an account of frustrated desire than
as an indulgence in bunga bunga). The Don (Diego Catala) sang a
beautiful “Serenade” and Don Ottavio (Justin Stolz) was terrific in
Artistic Directors: Stephen Ralls
and Bruce Ubukata
A Britten Festival of Song
Friday, April 26, 8 pm
sunday, May 26, 2:30 pm
The CAnTiCles
A TiMe There WAs
Daniel Taylor countertenor
Benjamin Butterfield tenor
Alexander Dobson baritone
The Choir of St. Thomas’s Church
My Beloved is Mine / Abraham
and Isaac / Journey of the Magi /
Purcell realisations
Virginia Hatfield soprano
Scott Belluz countertenor
Colin Ainsworth tenor
Geoffrey Sirett baritone
The Canadian Children’s
Opera Company
A vocal tapestry to end our
final season
Tuesday, May 7, 8 pm
The song CyCles
Shannon Mercer soprano
Susan Platts mezzo
On This Island / A Charm of Lullabies /
The Poet’s Echo / folksongs
Glenn Gould Studio
Canadian Broadcasting Centre
250 Front Street West
Walter Hall
Edward Johnson Building
80 Queen’s Park
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Connection, 416.735.7982 or
www.aldeburghconnection.org
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“Il mio tesoro.” The finest performance came from Beste Kalender
as Zerlina. She sang with warmth and had just the right mixture of
naiveté, spontaneity and artfulness. Hans de Groot is a concertgoer and active listener.
He also sings and plays the recorder.
I N D E X O F adver t i s er s
Aldeburgh Connection 28
Amadeus Choir 21, 45, 54
Artists International Music and Dance
Association 54
Associates of the TSO 37
ATMA 5
Aurora Cultural Centre 44
Bach Children’s Chorus 35
Canadian Children’s Opera Company 31
Canadian Council of Churches 38
Canadian Opera Company 27
Canadian Sinfonietta 32, 42
Cantabile Chamber Singers 47
Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra 14, 42
Christ Church Deer Park Jazz Vespers 23
Civic Light Opera 39
Classical 96.3fm 65
Cosmo Music 25
Elmer Iseler Singers 32
Etobicoke Philharmonic Orchestra 40
Etobicoke Youth Choir 56
Exultate Chamber Singers 42
Gallery 345 30, 41
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Grace Church on-the-Hill 45
Grand Salon Orchestra 44
Guitar Society of Toronto 40
HAADD/ Toronto Chapter American
Harp Society 36
Harlequin Singers 47
Harmony Singers 41
Heliconian Hall 52
Hymn Society, Southern Ont Chapter 54
I Furiosi Baroque Ensemble 41
Jubilate Singers 45, 55
Letter from the Publisher 4
Liz Parker 57
Lula Lounge/Jorge Miguel 40
Lula Lounge/Lulaworld 2013 22
Luminato 10
Matthew Kelly 57
Mississauga Festival Choir 32
Mississauga Symphony 36, 56
Music at Metropolitan 31
Music Mondays 47
Music Toronto 9
Newchoir 36
Norm Pulker 57
North Toronto Institute of Music 56
Ontario Philharmonic 13
Open Ears Festival 18
Opera By Request 33
Orchestra Toronto 43
ORGANIX 33
Orpheus Choir 34, 55
Pasquale Bros. 53
Pax Christi 56
Peter Mahon 20
Port Hope Friends of Music 49
Random Walks 20
Remenyi House of Music 11
Renanim Youth Singers 43
Sheila McCoy 57
Sinfonia Toronto 14, 35
Sing! The Toronto Vocal Arts Festival
11, 25, 37, 35, 55,
Sony Centre/Show One Productions 67
Soulpepper 12
Soundstreams Canada 19, 38
St. Olave’s 47
St. Philip’s Anglican Church 23
St. Thomas’s 39
Steinway Piano Gallery 7
Steve Jackson Pianos 16
Tafelmusik 2, 3, 32, 44
Talisker Players 34
The Sound Post 16
Thin Edge New Music Collective 19
Toronto Consort 17, 29, 41
Toronto Downtown Jazz 51
Toronto Jewish Folk Choir 46
Toronto Masque Theatre 34, 35
Toronto Mendelssohn 38, 53, 54
Toronto Opera Repertoire 55
Toronto Summer Music Festival 29
Toronto Symphony 68
TorQ Percussion Quartet 32
Universal Records 7
Via Salzburg 15, 41
Victoria Scholars 46
VIVA! Youth Singers 46
VOCA Chorus 45
Women’s Musical Club 15, 31
Wychwood Clarinet Choir 37
York University Faculty of Fine Arts 56
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LISTINGS
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M U S I C A L T H E AT R E
The following long-run musicals appear only once in our daily concert listings on
the date of the first performance falling within the date rage covered in this issue.
Check websites for details. First performance dates and times are as follows:
●●May 1, 1:30: Mirvish Productions. The Wizard of Oz. Runs to August 18. (GTA)
●●May 1, 2:00: Shaw Festival. Guys and Dolls. Runs to October 12. (Beyond GTA)
●●May 4, 2:00: Stratford Festival. Fiddler on the Roof. Runs to October 20. (Beyond GTA)
●●May 28, 7:30: Nu Musical Theatricals/Classical Theatre Project/Starvox Entertainment. Cats. Runs to July 28. (GTA)
Beyond the GTA covers many areas of Southern
Ontario outside Toronto and the GTA. In the current
issue, there are listings for events in Barrie, Brantford,
Collingwood, Dundas, Guelph, Hamilton, Kingston, Kitchener,
London, Midland, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Peterborough, Port Hope,
St. Catharines, Stratford and Waterloo. Starts on page 48.
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In the Clubs (Mostly Jazz)
is organized alphabetically by club.
Starts on page 50.
Wednesday May 1
●●12:30: Yorkminster Park Baptist Church.
Noonday Organ Recitals. Thomas Fitches
organ. 1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167. Free.
●●1:30: Mirvish Productions. The Wizard of
Oz. Music by Arlen; lyrics by Harburg; with
additional new songs by A. L. Webber (music)
and T. Rice (lyrics). Danielle Wade (Dorothy);
Cedric Smith (Professor Marvel/Wizard);
Lisa Horner (Miss Gulch/Wicked Witch of the
West); Mike Jackson (Hickory/Tin Man); Lee
MacDougall (Zeke/Lion); Jamie McKnight
(Hunk/Scarecrow); and others; Franklin
Brasz, music director; Jeremy Sams, stage
director. Ed Mirvish Theatre, 244 Victoria St.
416-872-1212 or 1-800-461-3333. $35-$175.
Tue-Sat at 7:30; also matinees Wed, Sat and
Sun at 1:30. Runs to Aug 18. LISTING NOT
REPEATED.
The EtCeteras is for galas, fundraisers, competitions,
screenings, lectures, symposia, masterclasses, workshops, singalongs and other music-related events (except
performances) which may be of interest to our readers.
Starts on page 53.
A general word of caution. A phone number is provided
with every listing in The WholeNote — in fact, we won’t publish
a listing without one. Concerts are sometimes cancelled or postponed; artists or venues may change after listings are published.
Please check before you go out to a concert.
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Odes, serenades and oratorio choruses.
Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Ivars Taurins, conductor; guests: Sophie Daneman, soprano;
Rufus Müller, tenor. Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre,
427 Bloor St. W. 416-964-6337. $36-$85; $29$77(65 and over); $15-$77(35 and under).
Also May 2-5, 7(George Weston Recital Hall).
Start times vary.
●●7:30: Brampton Folk Club. Friday Folk
Night: Brampton Folk Club Annual Showcase
Concert. Sanderson Hall, St. Paul’s United
Church, 30 Main St. S, Brampton. 647-2333655 or 905-874-2800. $12; $10(sr/st).
●●7:30: Canadian Opera Company. Salome.
Strauss. Erika Sunnegårdh, soprano
(Salome); Richard Margison, tenor (Herod);
Martin Gantner, baritone (John the BaptistMay 1, 4); Alan Held, bass (John the Baptist
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09 THU | 8pm
THE ART OF THE PIANO:
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- May 7, 10, 16, 22); Hanna Schwarz, mezzo
(Herodias); Johannes Debus, conductor;
Atom Egoyan, director. Four Seasons Centre
for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W. 416363-8231. $12-$325. Also May 4, 7, 10, 16, 22.
●●8:00: Acting Up Stage Company. Falsettos.
Music and lyrics by Finn; book by Lapine.
Darrin Baker, Sarah Gibbons, Sara-Jeanne
Hosie, Michael Levinson, Eric Morin and
others; Reza Jacobs, music director; Robert
McQueen stage director; Tim French, choreographer. Daniels Spectrum: a cultural hub
in Regent Park, 585 Dundas St. E. 1-800-8383006. $39-$55; $28-$44(st/arts worker).
Also May 2-4, 5(mat and eve), 7-11, 12(mat and
eve). Start times vary.
●●8:00: Gallery 345. Opera Five: Goyescas;
El Retablo de Maese Pedro. Granados:
Goyescas; De Falla: El Retablo de Maese
Pedro. Catharin Carew, mezzo; Emily Ding,
soprano; Rachel Krehm, soprano; Giovanni
Spanu; baritone; Graham Thompson, tenor;
Maika’i Nash, music director and piano; Aria
Umezawa, stage director. 345 Sorauren
Ave. 416-822-9781. $20; $15(sr/arts worker);
$10(st). Also May 2.
●●8:00: Musideum. Simeon Abbott and Mike
Gennaro with CCMC. Mike Gennaro, drums;
Simeon Abbott, piano. Suite 133 (main floor),
401 Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323. $10.
●●8:00: Rose Theatre Brampton. Bravura.
Opera, musical theatre, pop, jazz, Italian folk
music. Lawrence Cotton, baritone; George
Masswohl, bari-tenor; Curtis Sullivan, bassbaritone . Main Stage, Rose Theatre Brampton, 1 Theatre Ln., Brampton. 905-874-2800.
$30.
●●8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Berlioz Symphonie fantastique. Debussy: Prélude
à l’après-midi d’un faune; Poulenc: Concerto
in d for Two Pianos and Orchestra; Berlioz:
Symphonie fantastique. Frank Braley, piano;
Eric Le Sage, piano; Stéphane Denève, conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St.
416-593-4828 or 416-593-0688(Chinese).
$29-$145. Also May 2, 4(7:15: Pre-concert
chat).
Thursday May 2
●●12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.
Vocal Series: Sérénade Française. Artists of
the COC Ensemble Studio present a program
of French arias and art songs. Four Seasons
Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St.
W. 416-363-8231. Free.
●●12:00 noon: Corporation of Massey Hall
and Roy Thomson Hall. Choir & Organ Concerts: Agincourt Madrigal Singers and Northlea Junior Choir – Youthful Treasures. Roy
Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-872-4255.
Free.
●●12:00 noon: Encore Symphonic Concert
Band. Lunchtime Concert. Encore selection of concert band music including classical, musicals and other genres, usually with
one vocal selection. John Edward Liddle, conductor. Encore Hall, Wilmar Heights Centre,
963 Pharmacy Ave., Scarborough. 416-3463910. $10. Lunch friendly; coffee available.
Concerts take place first Thursday of the
month.
●●12:15: Music at Metropolitan. Noon at Met.
Organized Crime Duo. Metropolitan United
Church, 56 Queen St. E. 416-363-0331 x26.
Free. 1:30: Women’s Musical Club of Toronto.
Music in the Afternoon: 115th Anniversary Concert – James Ehnes, violin; Russell
Braun, baritone; Carolyn Maule, piano. Bach:
Hier, in meines Vaters Stätte (from Cantata
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Stage, Rose Theatre Brampton, 1 Theatre Ln.,
Brampton. 905-874-2800. $55-$65.
●●8:00: Scarborough Music Theatre. South
Pacific. Rodgers and Hammerstein. Mark
Tingle (Emile de Becque); Jill McMillan (Nellie
Forbush); Rob Murphy (Lt. Joe Cable); Catherine Uy Huculak (Liat); Regina Simon (Bloody
Mary); Jason Silzer (Luther Billis); Dot Routledge, director; Alan Reid, music director.
Scarborough Village Theatre, 3600 Kingston
Rd. 416-267-9292. $25; $21(sr/st Thurs and
mat); $10(st rush w/ID). Also May 3, 4, 9-11, 16
and 17 at 8pm; May 5, 11, 12 and 18 at 2pm.
●●8:00: Tafelmusik. A Handel Celebration.
See May 1.
●●8:00: Toronto Operetta Theatre. La Vie
Parisienne. Offenbach. Elizabeth DeGrazia,
soprano; Lauren Segal, mezzo; Christopher
Mayell, tenor; Larry Beckwith, conductor;
Guillermo Silva-Marin, director. Jane Mallett
Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, 27
Front St. E. 416-366-7723 or 1-800-708-6754.
$68-$95. Also May 3, 4, 5.
●●8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Berlioz Symphonie fantastique. See May 1.
Women’s Musical Club of Toronto
Music in the Afternoon
James Ehnes, violin
Russell Braun, baritone
Carolyn Maule, piano
Thursday
May 2, 1.30 p.m.
at Koerner Hall
TELUS Centre for
Performance and Learning
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No.32) BWV32; Wenn Trost und Hülf ermangeln muss (from Canata No. 117) BWV117; Chaconne for solo violin (from Partita No.2 in d)
BWV1004; Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte
(song cycle) Op.98; Paganini: Caprices Nos. 9,
16, 24; A Shropshire Lad: English songs based
on poetry of A.E. Housman, with settings by
Vaughan Williams, Butterworth and Barber;
Estacio: Away and Awake in the Night, song
cycle for baritone, violin and piano (world
premiere). Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor St. W. 416408-0208. $20-$55.
●●7:30: Steinway Hall. Wolak & Donnelly CD
Release Concert. Brahms: Sonata Op.120 No.1
(Allegro Appassionato, Vivace); Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight Of The Bumblebee; Peterson:
Hymn To Freedom; and works by Gershwin.
Kornel Wolak, clarinet; Chris Donnelly, piano.
2651 John St., Markham. 416-972-9424x25.
Free with reservation. Also May 4(mat, Paul
Hahn and Co.).
●●8:00: Acting Up Stage Company. Falsettos.
See May 1.
●●8:00: Gallery 345. Opera Five: Goyescas; El
Retablo de Maese Pedro. See May 1.
●●8:00: Musideum. Andrew Chan, harp. Suite
133 (main floor), 401 Richmond St. W. 416599-7323. $20.
●●8:00: Rose Theatre Brampton. Pavlo: “Six
Friday May 3
●● 12:10: Canadian Music Centre. Mary
Kenedi Lunch Time Concert: Solo Piano.
Works by Mozetich, Kenins, Weinzweig, Behrens and Baker. 20 St. Joseph St. 416-961-6601
x201. $10.
●● 12:10: Life & Music at St. Andrew’s. Noontime Recital. Lyndsay Promane, mezzo. St.
Andrew’s Church, 73 Simcoe St. 416-5935600 x231. Free.
●● 1:10: Gordon Murray Presents. Piano Pot-
pourri. Featuring classics, opera, operetta,
musicals, ragtime, pop, international and
other genres. Gordon Murray, piano. TrinitySt. Paul’s United Church, 427 Bloor St. W. 416631-4300. PWYC. Lunch and snack friendly.
Also May 10, 17, 24, 31.
●● 7:30: Canadian Children’s Opera Company.
Laura’s Cow: the Legend of Laura Secord. By
E. Gay and M.P. Albano. Emily Brown Gibson/
Mary Christidis (Laura Secord); Andrew Love
(Caller/Balladeer/Lt. FitzGibbon); Tessa Laengert (The Cow); Ann Cooper Gay, music director; Michael Patrick Albano, stage director.
Enwave Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, 231
Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000 or 416-3660467. $35; $20(sr); $15(st/child). Also May 4
and 5(mat and eve).
●● 7:30: Cathedral Church of St. James. Last
Night of the Proms at St. James Cathedral.
Band of the Royal Regiment of Canada; Cathedral Choir of St. James; St. James Parish
Choir. 65 Church St. 416-364-7865. $35;
$30(sr/st).
●● 7:30: Green Door. Cabaret Series: What
Exactly is the Great American Songbook?
Scott Walker, vocals. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington Ave. 416-915-6747.
$25/$30(reserved); $20(arts worker, rush).
●● 8:00: Acting Up Stage Company. Falsettos.
See May 1.
●● 8:00: Aradia Ensemble. Baroque Idol 2!
New works. Kevin Mallon, conductor. Music
Gallery, 197 John St. 647-960-6650. $20-$35.
●● 8:00: Corporation of Massey Hall and Roy
Thomson Hall. In Concert. Jill Barber. jazz
vocals. Winter Garden Theatre, 189 Yonge St.
416-872-4255. $29.50-$39.50.
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●● 8:00: Gallery 345. Ton Beau String Quar-
tet with Rory McLeod, viola. Haydn: Quartet
Op.20 No.3; Lau: Quartet No.2; Mozart: Viola
Quintet in E-flat. 345 Sorauren Ave. 416-8229781. $20; $15(sr/arts worker); $10(st).
●● 8:00: Lawrence Park Community Church.
Fridays @ 8: A Spring Evening Jazz Concert.
Brian Barlow Quartet; Choir of Lawrence
Park Community Church; Kimberley Briggs,
soprano; Michèle Bogdanowicz, mezzo; Glyn
Evans, tenor; Michael Robert-Broder, baritone. Lawrence Park Church, 2180 Bayview
Ave. 416-489-1551. $25; $20(sr/st).
●● 8:00: Musideum. Ann-Marie Boudreau.
World music. Suite 133 (main floor), 401 Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323. $20.
●● 8:00: Rose Theatre Brampton. Diana
Panton, jazz vocals. With Reg Schwager,
guitar; Don Thompson, bass and piano. Rose
Studio Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln., Brampton.
905-874-2800 . $30.
●● 8:00: Royal Conservatory. Dianne Reeves,
jazz vocals, and Raul Midón, vocals and guitar.
Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor St. W. 416-408-0208.
$40 and up.
●● 8:00: Scarborough Music Theatre. South
Pacific. See May 2.
the Arts, 5040 Yonge St. 416-250-3708.
$34.50-$44.50.
●● 4:30: Beach United Church. Beach Jazz &
Reflection: Cuban Jazz. Jane Bunnett, saxophone; Hilario Durán, piano. St. Aidan’s Anglican Church (The Beach), 70 Silverbirch Ave.
416-691-8082. Freewill offering. Children
welcome.
●● 7:00: Eglinton St. George’s United Church.
Jazzin’ It Up! Showcase & Auction. Selections from the golden age of jazz. ESG Singers, soloists and local jazz musicians. 35
Lytton Blvd. 416-481-1141 x250. $35. Fundraiser for ESG.
●● 7:30: Canadian Children’s Opera Company. Laura’s Cow: the Legend of Laura
Secord. See May 3.
●● 7:30: Canadian Opera Company. Salome.
See May 1.
●● 7:30: Cantemus Singers. Love Songs.
Works by Josquin, Byrd, Janequin and Schütz.
Church of the Holy Trinity, 10 Trinity Sq. 416578-6602. $20; $15(sr/st). Also May 5(mat, St.
Aidan’s Anglican Church).
●● 7:30: Markham Jazz Festival. Mays at the
Movies. Bill Mays Trio. Varley Art Gallery, 216
Main St., Unionville. 905-471-5299. $20.
●● 7:30: Oakville Chamber Orchestra. Farewell Symphony. Haydn: Symphony No.45
“Farewell”; Bach: Violin Concerto No.2 in E;
Orchestral Suite No.3. Leslie Ashworth, violin;
Charles Demuynck, conductor. Central Baptist Church, 340 Rebecca St., Oakville. 905483-6787. $30; $25(sr); $20(st); $15(child).
Also May 5(3:00, St. Simon’s Anglican Church,
Oakville).
●● 7:30: Rose Orchestra. Broadway Spectacular. Selections from musical theatre
including music by A. L. Webber, Rodgers and
Hammerstein and others. Garden Banquet
and Convention Centre, 8 Clipper Ct., Brampton. 905-874-2800 . $50; $40(sr/st); $20(12
and under).
●● 7:30: Royal Conservatory. Discovery
Series: Academy Chamber Orchestra. String
students from RCM’s Young Artists Academy.
Mazzoleni Concert Hall, 273 Bloor St. W. 416408-0208. Free.
●● 7:30: University of Toronto Gospel Choir.
Gospelfest 2013. Wellspring Worship Centre,
89 Centre Ave. 416-614-4872. $20/$10(adv).
●● 7:30: Village Voices. Celtic Traditions.
Celtic folk music with fiddlers, flute, pipes,
bodhran and highland dancing. Joan
●● 8:00: Tafelmusik. A Handel Celebration.
See May 1.
●● 8:00: Toronto Operetta Theatre. La Vie
Parisienne. See May 2.
●● 8:00: Toronto Organ Club. Classic
Concert. St. James United Church, 400
Burnhamthorpe Rd. 905-890-8648 or 905824-4667. $20.
●● 8:00: TorQ Percussion Quartet. New Man-
A HANDEL
CELEBRATION
May 1-7
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Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir
Jeanne Lamon, Music Director | Ivars Taurins, Director, Chamber Choir
May 4, 2013 · 2 & 8 pm
Living Arts Centre, Mississauga
oeuvers – music for percussion and dance.
Rolfe: new work (world premiere); Morphy;
new work (world premiere); Cage: Third Construction; Reich: Mallet Quartet; and other
works. Richard Burrows, Adam Campbell,
Jamie Drake and Daniel Morphy, percussion;
Linda Garneau and others, choreography.
Dancemakers Studio 313, Distillery District,
9 Trinity St. 416-788-8272. $30; $20(artists);
$10(st). Also May 4(mat and eve).
●● 8:00: Windmill Theatre. I’ll Follow The Sun
- Songs of Summer. Cabaret show featuring
pop, jazz, bossa nova and blues. Heidi Cyfko,
Heather Brissenden, Michelle Giacometti,
Luke Matijczyk and Lindsay Rolland-Mills,
vocals; and others; Joshua Tamayo, piano;
Dave Barns, guitar; Mike Meusel, bass; and
others. Great Hall, Unitarian Congregation
of Mississauga, 84 South Service Rd., Mississauga. 905-338-5702. $30. Also May 4.
Saturday May 4
●● 2:00: Mississauga Festival Choir. The
THE WORLD
BELOVED
Mississauga Festival Choir presents a unique
program of North American folk music including
the bluegrass mass The World Beloved.
Tickets available from www.livingartscentre.ca
www.mississaugafestivalchoir.com
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World Beloved: a bluegrass mass. A program
of North American folk music. RBC Theatre,
Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living Arts Dr., Mississauga. 905-306-6000. $28; $25(sr/st);
$20(under 12). Also at 8:00.
●● 2:00: Paul Hahn and Co. Wolak & Donnelly
CD Release Concert. Brahms: Sonata Op.120
No.1 (Allegro Appassionato, Vivace); RimskyKorsakov: Flight Of The Bumblebee; Peterson:
Hymn To Freedom; and works by Gershwin.
Kornel Wolak, clarinet; Chris Donnelly, piano.
1058 Yonge St. 416-972-9424x25. Free. Also
May 2 (eve, Steinway Hall).
●● 2:00: TorQ Percussion Quartet. New Manoeuvers – music for percussion and dance..
Also 8:00. See May 3.
●● 3:00: Toronto Children’s Chorus. Dance
Your Song: annual spring festival of song.
Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb; and other
works. All TCC choirs. Toronto Centre for
Andrews, conductor. St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church (Markham), 143 Main St. N.,
Markham. 905-294-8687. $20; $15(sr/st);
free(under 12).
●● 8:00: Acoustic Harvest. The Bills. Folk
and roots. St. Nicholas Anglican Church, 1512
Kingston Rd. 416-264-2235. $22.
See May 1.
PRESENTS
ALL BEETHOVEN
Peter Longworth piano
Tak Ng Lai conductor
May 4, 8 PM
●● 8:00: Canadian Sinfonietta. All-Beethoven:
Peter Longworth, piano. Coriolan Overture
Op.62; Piano Concerto No.4 in G Op.58; Symphony No.4 in B-flat Op.60. Tak-Ng Lai, conductor. Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St. W.
416-872-4255. $35; $30(sr); $20(st).
●● 8:00: Elmer Iseler Singers. Joby Talbot’s
Path of Miracles. Text by R. Dickinson. For
a cappella choir. Church of St. Mary Magdalene, 477 Manning Ave. 416-217-0537. $40;
$33(sr); $15(st).
●● 8:00: Gallery 345. Lightening Fields. Poetry
and improvised music. Music by Gilliam and
Ringas, with texts by Hafiz, Shakespeare,
bpNichol, Szymborska, Cavafy, e. e. cummings
and others. Bill Gilliam, piano; Charlie Ringas,
percussion; guest: Anne Anglin, actor. 345
Sorauren Ave. 416-822-9781. $20; $15(sr/arts
worker); $10(st).
●● 8:00: Mississauga Festival Choir. The
World Beloved: a bluegrass mass. See 2:00.
●● 8:00: Musideum. Kathleen Gillis, percussion. World music. Suite 133 (main floor), 401
Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323. $20.
●● 8:00: Royal Conservatory. The TD Jazz
Series: Devoted to Dizzy. Pérez: Piano Quintet “Camino de Cruces” (world premiere).
Danilo Pérez Trio (Danilo Pérez, piano; John
Patitucci, bass; Brian Blade, drums); Cecilia
String Quartet . Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor St. W.
416-408-0208. $40 and up.
Pacific. See May 2.
●● 8:00: Small World Music. 11th Annual
Asian Music Series: Rajeev Taranath, sarod .
Maja Prentice Theatre, 3650 Dixie Rd., Mississauga. 416-536-5439. $35/$25(adv).
●● 8:00: St. Jude’s Celebration of the Arts.
An Evening with Norine and Andrei. Opera
and light opera. Norine Burgess, mezzo; Adrei
Strelaiev, piano. St. Jude’s Church, 160 William St., Oakville. 905-844-3972. $30.
See May 1.
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●● 9:30am: Vesnivka Choir. Easter Liturgy.
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Pattison, Murray Ritchie, Jeff Byrd. Suite 133
(main floor), 401 Richmond St. W. 416-5997323. $20.
●● 3:00: Oakville Chamber Orchestra. Farewell Symphony. Haydn: Symphony No.45
“Farewell”; Bach: Violin Concerto No.2 in E;
Orchestral Suite No.3. Leslie Ashworth, violin;
Charles Demuynck, conductor. St. Simon’s
Anglican Church, 1450 Litchfield Rd., Oakville. 905-483-6787. $30; $25(sn); $20(st);
$15(child). Also May 4(7:30, Central Baptist
Church, Oakville).
●● 3:00: Rosedale Presbyterian Church.
Recitals at Rosedale: Springtime in Paris.
Works by Couperin, Rameau and others.
Rezonance Baroque Ensemble. 129 Mt. Pleasant Rd. 416-921-1931. $20; $10(sr/st).
See May 1.
●● 4:00: Toronto Classical Singers. In Concert. Schubert: Mass in E-flat D950; Mendelssohn: Psalm 42 Op.42 “As The Hart Pants.”
Sheila Dietrich, soprano; Leigh-Ann Martin,
mezzo; Zachary Finkelstein, tenor; Christopher Mayell, tenor; Bruce Kelly, baritone; Talisker Players; Jurgen Petrenko, conductor.
Christ Church Deer Park, 1570 Yonge St. 416443-1490. $30; $25(sr/st).
●● 5:00: Caribbean Chorale of Toronto.
Spring Concert. Amy Lee, conductor. Church
of St. Stephen, 2259 Jane St., Downsview.
416-241-4639. Freewill offering.
●● 7:00: St. John’s Anglican Church. Junction Jam 5. Dixie Demons. 288 Humberside
Ave. 416-763-2393. Freewill offering. Refreshments to follow.
●● 7:30: Bel Canto Singers. 20th Anniversary
Celebration: Memorable Melodies. See 2:30.
Secord. Also 2:00. See May 3.
●● 7:30: Etobicoke Youth Choir. Spring Concert: Like a Rainbow. Louise Jardine, conductor; Margaret Parsons, accompanist.
Assembly Hall, 1 Colonel Samuel Smith Park
Dr., Etobicoke. 416 231-9120. $20; free(under
12). Refreshments included.
●● 7:30: Leaside 100 Celebration Committee.
Hymn Festival: From the Past will come the
Future. Choirs and musicians from Leaside
Bible Chapel, Leaside Presbyterian, Leaside
United, Northlea United, St. Anselm’s and
other churches; Jane Pitfield, commentator.
Leaside United Church, 822 Millwood Rd. 416425-125. Freewill offering.
●● 8:15: Yorkminster Park Baptist Church.
William Maddox, organ. Works by Vierne,
Duruflé and Widor. 1585 Yonge St. 416-9221167. Free. 7:00: Religious service.
Monday May 6
●● 7:00: Toronto New Music Alliance. New
Music 101: Part 4 - Toy Piano Composers and
’junctQín Keyboard Collective. Part four of
a four-part lecture/demonstration series
that highlights new directions in music creation and performance. John Terauds, host.
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Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church, 4 Bellwoods Ave. 416-246-9880. Free. Religious
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Secord. Also 7:30. See May 3.
●● 2:00: Kindred Spirits Orchestra. Markham Contemporary Music Festival: Sibelius’ Violin Concerto. Lutosławski: Symphonic
Variations; Sibelius: Concerto for violin and
orchestra Op.47; Stravinsky: Symphony Op.1
No.1. Mark Djokic, violin; Kristian Alexandra;
Alexa Petrenko, host. Flato Markham Theatre,
171 Town Centre Blvd., Markham. 905-3057469 or 1-866-768-8801. $31.96; $21.96(sr/
st). 1:15: Pre-concert talk.
●● 2:00: Opera by Request. Jenůfa. Janáček.
Michèle Cusson, soprano (Jenůfa); Monica
Zerbe, mezzo (Kostelnica); Paul Williamson, tenor (Laca); Lenard Whiting, tenor
(Steva); Karen Bojti, mezzo (Grandmother);
and others; William Shookhoff, piano. College
Street United Church, 452 College St. 416455-2365. $20.
Pacific. See May 2.
●● 2:00: Trio Bravo. In Concert. Stamitz:
Clarinet Quartet; Mozart: Divertimento; Schumann: Piano Quartet in E-flat. Terry Storr,
clarinet; Baird Knechtel, viola; John Selleck, piano; guests: Velma Ko, violin; Alan Stellings, cello. All Saints Kingsway Anglican
Church, 2850 Bloor St. W. 416-242-2131. $20;
$15(sr/st).
●● 2:30: Bel Canto Singers. 20th Anniversary Celebration: Memorable Melodies. Many
choir favourites including songs from the
20s. Linda Meyer, conductor. St. Dunstan of
Canterbury, 56 Lawson Road, Scarborough.
416-286-8260. $15. Also 7:30.
●● 3:00: Amici Chamber Ensemble. Sound
and Light. Berio: Sequenza XIV; Hatzis: Parlor
Music; Louie: Three Cadenzas for clarinet and percussion; Bartók: Sonata for two
pianos and percussion; Babadjanian/Arutunian: Armenian Rhapsody. Guests: Beverly
Johnston and Ryan Scott, percussion; Jamie
Parker, piano. Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front
St. W. 19-267-0636. $45; $40(sr); $15(30 and
under); $10(st).
●● 3:00: Cantemus Singers. Love Songs.
Works by Josquin, Byrd, Janequin and Schütz.
St. Aidan’s Anglican Church (The Beach), 70
Silverbirch Ave. 416-578-6602. $20; $15(sr/
st). Also May 4(eve, Church of the Holy
Trinity).
●● 3:00: Echo Women’s Choir. Mouth Music.
Dalglish: Handlebar of Wings; The Road to
Canterbury (set to words from Chaucer’s
Prologue to The Canterbury Tales); Westcott: In the Almost Evening (set to words by
Joy Kogawa); dance songs from Bulgaria,
Macedonia and Georgia. Becca Whitla, piano
and conductor; Echo Band; Alan Gasser, conductor; guest: Maria Dunn, vocals. Church of
the Holy Trinity, 10 Trinity Sq. 416-779-5554.
$15/$12(adv); $8(underwaged).
●● 3:00: Green Door. Cabaret Series: A Little
Bit of Everything. Deborah Overes, vocals.
Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington Ave. 416-915-6747. $25/$30(reserved);
$20(arts worker, rush).
●● 3:00: John Laing Singers. Morning and
Evening. Tavener: Svyati; Bach: music from
Cello Suite No.1 (new choral adaptation by R.
Bergs); and works by Rutter, Byrd, Vasks and
Dvořák. Mercer-Park Duo (Rachel Mercer,
cello; Angela Park, piano); Guest: Yehonatan
Berick, violin. St. Matthew On The Plains, 126
Plains Rd. E., Burlington. 905-628-5238. $21;
$16(st). Also May 4 (eve, Dundas).
●● 3:00: Monday Morning Singers. Airs and
Arias, Duos and Divas. Dorothy Jovkovic,
piano; guests: Jonathan Liebich, baritone;
Sasha Liebich Tait, soprano. St. Paul’s Anglican Church, 227 Church St., Newmarket.
905-852-3693. $15; free(12 and under).
●● 3:00: Musideum. HoofBeats. Folk and
world music. Brad Forwell, Lewis Melville, Ian
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●● 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Berlioz Symphonie fantastique. 7:15: Pre-concert
chat. See May 1.
●● 8:00: TorQ Percussion Quartet. New Manoeuvers – music for percussion and dance.
●● 8:00: Windmill Theatre. I’ll Follow The Sun
– Songs of Summer. See May 3.
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Chamber Music Series: A Strauss Serenade. Strauss: Serenade in E-flat Op.7; Suite in
B-flat Major Op.4. COC Orchestra’s wind section. Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, Four
Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145
Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. Free.
●● 1:00: Cathedral Church of St. James.
Music at Midday. Liszt: Fantasy and Fugue
on the chorale Ad nos ad salutarem undam
S259. Andrew Ager, organ. 65 Church St.
416-364-7865 x231. Freewill offering.
●● 1:30: Serenata Singers. Timeless Classics – Part 1. Joshua Tamayo and Victor
Cheng, piano. P.C. Ho Theatre, Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto, 5183 Sheppard Ave. E., Scarborough. 416-699-5798.
$20/$15(adv). Proceeds help support Canadian Music Therapy Fund; War Child; Eva’s
Initiatives.
See May 1.
See May 1.
●● 8:00: Aldeburgh Connection. Britten Festival of Song, Concert II: The Song Cycles. On
This Island; A Charm of Lullabies; The Poet’s
Echo; and folksong arrangements. Shannon Mercer, soprano; Susan Platts, mezzo;
Stephen Ralls and Bruce Ubukata, piano.
Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St. W. 416-8724255. $50; $12(st).
Odes, serenades and oratorio choruses.
Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Ivars Taurins, conductor; guests: Sophie Daneman, soprano;
Rufus Müller, tenor. George Weston Recital
Hall, Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge
St. 1-855-985-2787. $36-$77; $29-$69(65 and
over); $20-$69(35 and under). Also May 1-5
at Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre. Start times vary.
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Elizabeth Beeton Auditorium, Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge St. 416-9616601 x207. Free. See listings section D, “The
ETCeteras,” under Lectures & Symposia.
●● 7:30: Elmer Iseler Singers. GET MUSIC!
Gala Concert. Performance of Canadian
and international composers. Participating secondary school conductors and choirs
of GET MUSIC! Educational Outreach Initiative; Elmer Iseler Singers; Lydia Adams,
conductor. Metropolitan United Church,
56 Queen St. E. 416-217-0537. $25; free to
subscribers.
●● 7:30: Toronto Youth Wind Orchestra. Celebrations. Wind Orchestra, Colin Clarke, conductor; TYWO Symphonic Winds, Dan Horner,
conductor. Centre for the Arts, St. Michael’s
College School, 1515 Bathurst St. 416-3218996. $25; $15(st/child). Concert marks
Music Monday as designated by the Coalition
for Music Education.
●● 8:00: Musideum. Debbie Danbrook. World
music. Debbie Danbrook, shakuhachi; Mark
Daniel, crystal bowls. Suite 133 (main floor),
401 Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323. $20.
●● 8:00: ORGANIX 13/Toronto Theatre
Organ Society. Mark Herman in Concert.
Favourites on the Casa Loma Wurlitzer. Casa
Loma, 1 Austin Terrace. 416-769-3893. $20.
mezzo (Madame de Croissy); Adrianne Pieczonka, soprano (Madame Lidoine); Hélène
Guilmette, soprano (Soeur Constance); Irina
Mishura, mezzo (Mère Marie); Frédéric
Antoun, tenor (Chevalier de la Force); and
others; Johannes Debus, conductor; Robert
Carsen, director. Four Seasons Centre for the
Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-3638231. $12-$325; $22(under 30). Also May 11,
14, 17, 19(mat), 21, 23, 25(mat).
●● 7:30: ORGANIX 13. Opening Gala: Jane
Parker Smith, organ. Works by Saint-Martin,
Frank, Liszt and Jongen. Metropolitan United
Church, 56 Queen St. E. 416-769-3893. $55;
free(under 18).
See May 1.
●● 8:00: Gallery 345. Sarah MacDougall,
singer-songwriter. 345 Sorauren Ave. 416822-9781. $20; $15(sr/arts workers); $10(st).
On THE
Wing
may 7 & 8, 2013, 8 pm
●● 8:00: Talisker Players. On the Wing: the
many musical evocations of birds. Burritt:
Moth Poem; Copland: As It Fell Upon a Day;
Gideon: Creature to Creature; Hoiby: The Life
of the Bee; Plant: Sandpiper; Pärt: The Nightingale; Telemann: The Canary Cantata. Erin
Bardua, soprano; Vicki St. Pierre, mezzo;
Graham Abbey, actor and reader; Talisker
Players. Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St.
W. 416-466-1800. $35; $25(sr); $15(st). 7:15
Pre-concert chat. Also May 8.
●● 8:00: Vocal Minority. Love. Music ranging
from 500 years ago to today. Lula Lounge,
1585 Dundas St. W. 416-588-0307. $10.
●● 8:00: Orpheus Choir of Toronto. Orpheus
Cinema: The Passion of Joan of Arc. Live
choral soundtrack to 1928 silent movie classic. Guest: Edward Moroney, organ. St. Clement’s Anglican Church, 59 Briar Hill Ave.
416-530-4428. $30; $25(sr); $15(st).
●● 8:00: Talisker Players. On the Wing: the
many musical evocations of birds. See May 7.
●● 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Beethoven and Brahms. Humperdinck: Prelude to Hansel and Gretel; Beethoven: Piano
Concerto No. 4; Brahms: Symphony No.1.
Ingrid Fliter, piano; Christoph König, conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St.
416-593-4828 or 416-593-0688(Chinese).
$29-$145. 7:15: Pre-concert chat with Rick
Phillips. Also May 9(no pre-concert chat).
Wednesday May 8
Noonday Organ Recitals. Sharon L. Beckstead, organ. 1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167
x236. Free.
●● 7:30: Canadian Opera Company. Dialogues
des Carmélites. Poulenc. Isabel Bayrakdarian,
soprano (Blanche de la Force); Judith Forst,
Thursday May 9
●● 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.
Piano Virtuoso Series: Romantic Rhapsodies.
Brahms: Sonata No.1 in C; Intermezzo Op.118
No.1; Schumann; Toccata in C Op.7; Granados: Allegro de concierto; Liszt: Hungarian
Rhapsody No.6. Mauro Bertoli, piano. Richard
Bradshaw Amphitheatre, Four Seasons
W. 416-363-8231. Free.
●● 12:00 noon: Jubilee United Church. Music
at Midday: Organ Music from France. Arthur
Wenk, organ. 40 Underhill Dr. 416-447-6846.
Free.
●● 12:10: Nine Sparrows Arts Foundation/Christ Church Deer Park. Lunchtime
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Chamber Music. Duo Sol: Alheli Pimienta,
flute; Heather Macdonald, oboe. Christ
Church Deer Park, 1570 Yonge St. 416-2411298. Free, donations welcome.
●● 12:15: Music at Metropolitan. Noon at
Met. Angus Fung, organ. Metropolitan United
Free.
●● 2:00: Northern District Public Library.
Orchardviewers. Alchemy Trio plays Mozart.
Edwin Huizinga, violin; Emily Eng, viola; Kerri
McGonigle, cello. Room 224, 40 Orchard View
Blvd. 416-393-7610. Free.
●● 3:00: Musideum. Drumhand. Jazz. Suite
●● 7:00: SING! The Toronto Vocal Arts Festival. Opening Ceremonies. SING! artists
launch the 2013 festival with a musical celebration. Lakeside Terrace, Harbourfront
Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.
Free. SING! runs May 9 to 12 with concerts and workshops at various Harbourfront Centre venues. See also section D, “The
ETCeteras,” under Workshops.
●● 7:30: Canadian Opera Company. Lucia
di Lammermoor. Donizetti. Anna Christy,
soprano (Lucia); Stephen Costello, tenor
(Edgardo); Brian Mulligan, bass (Enrico);
David Alden, director; Stephen Lord, conductor. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231.
$12-$325. Also May 12(mat), 15, 18(mat), 24.
Start times vary.
●● 7:30: Heliconian Club. Sixth Annual Interval House Benefit Concert. Honouring those
who seek sanctuary from domestic violence.
Also celebrating the women who founded the
Heliconian Club for women in the arts almost
100 years ago. Peggy Mahon Quartet: Peggy
Mahon, jazz vocals; Danny McErlain, piano;
Dave Field, bass; Don Vickery, drums. Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave. 416-698-2163. $30.
See May 1.
●● 8:00: Gallery 345. The Art of the Piano:
Ryan McCullough, piano. Benjamin: Piano Figures; Vivier: Pianoforte; De Silva: Drive-Thru
Études, bk.1 “Upland, CA”; Liberatore: Nemo
Sleeps; Beck: Stand Still Here; Hétu: Variations, Op.8. 345 Sorauren Ave. 416-822-9781.
$20; $15(sr/arts worker); $10(st).
Pacific. See May 2.
●● 8:00: Soulpepper. The Barber of Seville.
See May 9.
Beethoven and Brahms. No pre-concert chat.
See May 8.
Friday May 10
●●12:10: Life & Music at St. Andrew’s. Noon-
time Recital. Triceratonin Trio (oboe, bassoon, piano). St. Andrew’s Church, 73 Simcoe
St. 416-593-5600 x231. Free.
●●1:10: Gordon Murray Presents. Piano Potpourri. Featuring classics, opera, operetta,
Also May 3, 17, 24, 31.
●● 5:00: SING! The Toronto Vocal Arts
Festival. Free Performances At Harbourfront Centre. 5:00: Miles Nadal JCC Choir
(Stan Rogers to pop, tango, Jewish music,
world and spirituals); 5:30: Resonance Vocal
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Friday May 10, continued
Ensemble; 6:00: Snowday; 6:30: Serendipity;
7:00: Pipes A Cappella (jazz, opera, musical
theatre, rock). Performances at Lakeside
Terrace and Studio Theatre. Harbourfront
●● 7:00: SING! The Toronto Vocal Arts Festival. The Real Group. Featuring hop, vocalese,
pop and originals. Opening act: Countermeasure. Fleck Dance Theatre, Harbourfront
$40. SING! runs May 9 to 12 with concerts and workshops at various Harbourfront Centre venues. See also section D, “The
See May 1.
●● 7:30: County Town Singers. Rhythms of
One World. Songs from United Nations concert in New York City; and other works. Hope
Fellowship Church, 1685 Bloor St., Courtice.
905-239-9000. $20; $25(sr); $5(child). Also
May 11(mat).
●● 7:30: Music at Trinity. The Four Men.
Songs of love and hope and inspiration. Trinity United Church, Newmarket, 461 Park Ave.,
Newmarket. 905-895-4851. $20; $10(youth).
Benefit Concert for the Mission & Service
Fund and GranAurora (Stephen Lewis Foundation). Refreshments.
●● 7:30: ORGANIX 13. Thomas Fitches, organ,
and Mariette Stephenson, guitar. Works by
Langlais, Badings, DeBlasio, Ravel and Cholley. St. Clement’s Anglican Church, 59 Briar
Hill Ave. 416-769-3893. $40; $35(sr); $30(st);
free(under 18).
●● 7:30: University Settlement Music and
Arts School. Faculty Favourites. Featuring music for piano, voice, oboe, clarinet,
guitar, violin and percussion. Works by Spohr,
Strauss, Lailliet and others. St. George the
Martyr Church, 197 John St. 416-598-3444
x243. PWYC.
See May 1.
●● 8:00: Eybler Quartet. An Evening with
Michael Kelly. A lively words-and-music
recreation of an evening’s entertainment
from 1784 Vienna. Aisslinn Nosky and Julia
Wedman, violins; Patrick G. Jordan, viola,
Margaret Gay, cello; guest: R.H. Thomson,
actor. Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave. 416463-2154. $25; $15(sr/st/arts worker).
●● 8:00: Musideum. Andrew Timar. World
music. Suite 133 (main floor), 401 Richmond
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Guests: Senior Choir of Montrose Public
School. Grace Church on-the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale Rd. 416-256-0510. $25/$20(adv); free(17
and under).
St. W. 416-599-7323. $20.
●● 8:00: Scarborough Concert Band. Spring
Time: A Musical Journey. St. Dunstan’s of
Canterbury Church, 56 Lawson Rd., Scarborough. 416-287-8899. $10.
Pacific. See May 2.
Saturday May 11
●● 9:30am: University of Toronto Faculty of
Music/Munk School of Global Affairs. The
Opera Exchange: Singing from the Scaffold.
Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites (excerpts
for discussion). Sasha Djihanian, soprano;
Liz Upchurch, piano; Steven Huebner, Dominique Deslandres, Michael Hutcheon, Linda
Hutcheon, discussion. Walter Hall, Edward
Johnson Building, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-3638231. $TBA; free(U of T st). See section D,
“The ETCeteras,” under Lectures & Symposia.
●● 1:30: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Emily
Saves the Orchestra. Excerpts from Tchaikovsky: Danse russe Trepak from The Nutcracker; Beethoven/arr. Duschenes: Ode to
Joy from Symphony No.9; Duschenes: Organized Chaos; Kabalevsky: Comedians Gallop;
Khatchaturian/Duschenes: Sabre Dance; and
other works. Platypus Theatre; Evan Mitchell, conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe
St. 416-593-4828 or 416-593-0688(Chinese).
$20-$32. Also 3:30.
●● 2:00: County Town Singers. Rhythms of
One World. See May 10.
●● 2:00: Hannaford Street Silver Band.
Trumpet Shall Sound. Hannaford Youth Band;
guest: Andrew McCandless, trumpet. Church
of the Redeemer, 162 Bloor St. W. 416-4252874. $15; $10(sr); $5(st).
Pacific. Also 8:00. See May 2.
●● 8:00: Sinfonia Toronto. Beethoven.
Chan Ka Nin: Salt and Pepper (premiere);
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.3; Dvořák:
Serenade for Strings. Dmitri Levkovich, piano;
Nurhan Arman, conductor. Glenn Gould
Studio, 250 Front St. W. 416-872-4255. $39;
$32(sr); $12(st).
See May 9.
●● 8:00: Toronto Masque Theatre. Lessons
of Love: A Double Bill of Passion. Blow: Venus
and Adonis (1683); Ho: The Lesson of Da Ji
(2013). Vania Chan, Charotte Corwin and Xin
Wang, soprano; Marion Newman, mezzo; Timothy Wong, counter-tenor; Benjamin Covey
and Alex Dobson, baritone; baroque and traditional Chinese instrument ensemble; Larry
Beckwith, conductor. Al Green Theatre, 750
Spadina Ave. 416-924-6211 x0. $40; $35(sr);
$20(under 30). Also May 11, 12(mat).
●● 8:00: Upper Canada Choristers/Cantemos Latin Ensemble. Spring Concert:
Music of the Americas. Lauridsen and
Barber: Sure on This Shining Night (poem
by James Agee); Piazzolla: Fuga y misterio;
Whitacre: Lux Aurumque (Light of Gold); Carrillo: Sanctus from the Missa sine nomine;
Chatman: Voices of Earth; and other works.
Festival. Free Performances At Harbourfront Centre. 2:00: Snowday; 2:30: The Watch
(bebop, R&B, choral originals, classic pop;
3:00: The Satin Dolls; 3:30: Rezonance; 4:00:
Wibi; 4:30: Cantala Women’s Choir; 5:00: kith
& kin; 5:30 UNIVOX; 6:00: JerJosh and the
SteveCams; 6:30: Toronto Jewish Chorus;
7:00: That Choir. Performances at Lakeside
Terrace and Studio Theatre. Harbourfront
May 11, 3pm
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Mahashe, Alexander Glenfield, Aviva Chernick, Suba Sankaran and Zari. Fleck Dance
Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens
Quay W. 416-973-4000. $25. SING! runs May 9
to 12 with concerts and workshops at various
Harbourfront Centre venues. See also section D, “The ETCeteras,” under Workshops.
●● 3:00: Thom McKercher Presents. A
Bridge Across An Ocean. Music by Albéniz,
Scarlatti, Pärt and Guastavino. Michael Kolk,
guitar. Westminster Presbyterian Church, 154
Floyd Ave. 416-424-1376. $20.
●● 3:30: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Emily
Saves the Orchestra. See 1:30.
●● 7:00: Oakville Children’s Choir. Singing Our Stories: Myths and Legends through
Song. World premiere of Halton Poetry Competition winner set to music by composer
Janet Stachow. Clearview Church, 2300
Sheridan Garden Dr., Oakville. 905-337-7140.
$30/$25(adv); $15(sr/under 12).
●● 7:00: Toronto Swedish Singers. Annual
Spring Concert. Swedish and Nordic music.
Brigitte Bogar, conductor. Agricola Lutheran
Church, 25 Old York Mills Rd. 416-445-2889.
$25/$20(adv); free(under 12). Reception to
follow.
●● 7:30: Bach Children’s Chorus/Bach Chamber Youth Choir. ... And The Earth Sang.
Linda Beaupré, conductor; Eleanor Daley,
piano. George Weston Recital Hall, Toronto
Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge St. 416 431
0790. $26-$28.
●● 7:30: Burlington Civic Chorale. Canadian
Odyssey. Selections of Canadian and Acadian
folk music by Howard Cable, Paul Halley, Kenneth Leslie, Stan Rogers, Connie Kaldor, Ian
Tyson and others. Jill Wiwcharuk, fiddle; Gary
Fisher, conductor; Jennifer Goodine, acoompanist. St. Christopher’s Anglican Church,
662 Guelph Line, Burlington. 905-639-1508.
$25/$20(adv).
des Carmélites. See May 8.
●● 7:30: Green Door. Cabaret Series. Louise
St. Cyr, vocals; Mark Camilleri, piano. Lower
Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington Ave.
416-915-6747. $25/$30(reserved); $20(arts
worker, rush).
●● 7:30: HAADD/Toronto Chapter American
Harp Society. A Night of Art, Music & Storytelling. Judy Loman and Lori Gemmell, harp;
Patricia O’Callaghan, soprano; Nora Shulman, flute; Tom Allen, host. Armour Heights
Presbyterian Church, 105 Wilson Ave. 416533-7579 or 416-781-8206. $25; $20(sr/st).
Also featuring an exhibition by artists on the
autism spectrum. Concert proceeds to benefit Toronto Harp Society Scholarship Fund
and HAADD Joseph Umbrico Bursary and
Project Grant Funds.
●● 7:30: Opera by Request. Ballad of Baby
Doe. D. Moore. Lisa Faieta, director and soprano (Baby Doe); Keith O’Brien, baritone
(Horace Tabor); Eugenia Dermentzis, mezzo
(Augusta Tabor); Tracy Reynolds, mezzo
(Mama McCourt); Steven Henrikson, baritone (William Jennings Bryan); and others;
Annex Singers, Maria Case, conductor; William Shookhoff, conductor and piano. College
●● 7:30: Toronto Welsh Male Voice Choir.
Annual Spring Gala Concert. Guest: Rebecca
Collett, soprano. Eglinton St. George’s United
Nora
Shulman
An exciting presentation with Harpists Judy Loman & Lori Gemmell,
Soprano Patricia O’Callaghan, Flutist Nora Shulman and hosted by CBC’s Shift’s
Tom Allen. Also featured, an exhibition by artists on the Autism Spectrum.
Saturday, May 11th, 2013
7:30pm - Tickets $25 - Students and Seniors $20
tickets by phone at 416-533-7579 or 416-781-8206,
pay pal, at haadd.ca or at the door.
Armour Heights Presbyterian Church,
105 Wilson Ave. (between Yonge St. and Avenue Rd.)
Proceeds will benefit The Toronto Harp
Society’s Scholarship Fund and Haadd’s Joseph
Umbrico Bursary and Project Grant Funds
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Church, 35 Lytton Blvd. 416-410-2254 or 877410-2254. $25.
●● 7:30: York Chamber Ensemble. In Concert.
Goodall: Requiem; Handel: Chandos Anthems.
Trinity Festival Chorus. Trinity Anglican
Church, 79 Victoria St, Aurora. 905-727-6101.
$20; $15(sr/st).
See May 1.
●● 8:00: Canadian Men’s Chorus. Music: The
Food of Love. A journey through the many
facets of love with music. Martin: When You
Are Old; works by Lauridsen, Whitacre, Finzi
and others. Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St.
W. 416-573-5993. $35; $30(adv). ticket price
includes post-concert reception.
●● 8:00: Greater Toronto Philharmonic
Orchestra. Finale. Mendelssohn: Hebrides
overture; Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.1;
Mendelssohn: Concert Piece No.2 Op.114 in
d; Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia;
Bruch: Canzone; Brahms: Variations of a
Theme of Haydn. Art Gale and Nina Hollington, clarinet; Alexander Smith, cello; Kathleen Chang, piano; Pratik Gandhi, conductor.
Calvin Presbyterian Church, 26 Delisle Ave.
647-478-6122. $25; $20(sr/st).
●● 8:00: Mississauga Symphony Orchestra.
Songs from the Auvergne. Albeniz: Navarra;
Canteloube: Chants d’Auvergne (Songs
from the Auvergne); Falla: El sombrero de
tres picos (The Three-cornered Hat). John
Barnum, conductor; guest: Lesley Bouza, soprano. Hammerson Hall, Living Arts Centre,
4141 Living Arts Dr., Mississauga. 905-3066000. $48-$62; $43.20-$55.80(sr); $30(1626); $20(under 16). 7:15: Pre-concert chat.
●● 8:00: Music Gallery. Weird Canada Showcase. Zachary Fairbrother Guitar Orchestra; Soul Sisters Supreme Redux Version 2.0;
Wyrd Vision; Jennifer Castle. 197 John St. 416204-1080. $17/$13(adv).
●● 8:00: Musideum. Jessica Lloyd. Fado
(music originating from Portugal). Jessica
Lloyd, vocals; Louis Simao, guitar. Suite 133
●● 8:00: newchoir. Time of Your Life. Scott
Pietrangelo, conductor. Ryerson Theatre, 43
Gerrard St. E. 416-923-9005. $20.
●● 8:00: Oakville Symphony Orchestra. Viva
Verdi: Happy 200th Guiseppe! Verdi: selected
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overtures, arias and duets. Guest: Laurie
Reviol, soprano. Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts, 130 Navy St., Oakville. 905-8152021 or 1-888-489-7784. $51; $46(sr); $26(st/
child). Also May 12(mat).
●● 8:00: Old Mill Inn. Jeanine Mackie Band.
Vintage R&B including renditions of works
made famous by Aretha Franklin, Stevie
Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Chaka Khan, Dionne
Warwick and others. 21 Old Mill Rd. 416-2362641. $15.
Pacific. Also 2:00. See May 2.
●● 8:00: Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. The Romantic Masters. Respighi: Pines
of Rome; Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol; Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No.2;
Saint-Saëns: Havanaise for violin and orchestra. Leo Jarmain, violin; Cissy Zhou, piano;
Ronald Royer, conductor. Salvation Army
Scarborough Citadel, 2021 Lawrence Ave. E.
416-429-0007. $30; $25(sr); $15(st). 7:15pm:
pre-concert chat.
●● 8:00: SING! The Toronto Vocal Arts Festival. Moments to Remember: A Tribute to Harmony Groups of the 50s and 60s. Honouring
Frank Busseri of the Four Lads. With Denzal
Sinclaire, cast members from the musical
Forever Plaid, FreePlay Duo, Eh440, Countermeasure and others. Fleck Dance Theatre,
Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W.
416-973-4000. $35. SING! runs May 9 to 12
with concerts and workshops at various
Harbourfront Centre venues. See also section D, “The ETCeteras,” under Workshops.
See May 9.
●● 8:00: Toronto Masque Theatre. Lessons of
Love: A Double Bill of Passion. See May 10.
Sunday May 12
●● 12:00 noon: University of Toronto. Moth-
er’s Day Carillon Recital. Selection of classical, traditional and contemporary songs.
Roy Lee, carillon. Soldiers’ Tower, 7 Hart
House Circle. 416-978-3485. Free. Outdoor
event, chairs provided. Call in adv to confirm time.
●● 12:30: SING! The Toronto Vocal Arts Festival. Free Performances At Harbourfront
Centre. 12:30: GREX; 1:00: Onoscatopoeia;
1:30: Vocal Minority; 2:00: After Hours; 2:30:
Lachan Jewish Chamber Choir; 3:00: Darbazi; 3:30: O YA Chorus; 4:00: Betamax; 4:30:
Toronto Accolades (four-part barbershopstyle women’s choir); 5:00: Hampton Avenue.
Performances at Lakeside Terrace and Studio
Theatre. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens
Quay W. 416-973-4000. Free. SING! runs
May 9 to 12 with concerts and workshops
at various Harbourfront Centre venues.
See also section D, “The ETCeteras,” under
Workshops.
●● 2:00: Canadian Opera Company. Lucia di
Lammermoor. See May 9.
●● 2:00: Mississauga Pops Concert Band.
Shades of Us. Variety and a special Mother’s Day tribute featuring small ensembles
and soloists. Amy McLennan, conductor.
Meadowvale Theatre, 6315 Montevideo Rd,
Mississauga. 905-615-4720. $15; $10(st/
child).
●● 2:00: Oakville Symphony Orchestra. Viva
Verdi: Happy 200th Guiseppe! See May 11.
Pacific. See May 2.
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Festival. From Sea to Sea: New Canadian
Choral Works. World premiere of 13-piece
song-cycle set to poems by Canadian poets,
one per province/territory, by Aaron Jensen.
Featuring Elora Festival Singers, That Choir,
Countermeasure and the SING! Singers.
Fleck Dance Theatre, Harbourfront Centre,
235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. $30.
SING! runs May 9 to 12 with concerts and
workshops at various Harbourfront Centre
venues. See also section D, “The ETCeteras,”
under Workshops.
●● 3:30: Wychwood Clarinet Choir. Spring
Concert: Clarinet on the Town. Church of St.
Michael and All Angels, 611 St. Clair W. 416923-2161. $15; $10(sr); $5(st/child).
●● 4:00: Church of St. Mary Magdalene.
Andrew Adair, organ. Franck: organ works.
477 Manning Ave. 416-531-7955. Free.
●● 4:00: Hamilton Children’s Choir. Annual
Spring Concert: One Voice. Compass Point
Bible Church, 1500 Kerns Rd., Burlington.
905-527-1618. $25; $20(sr); $15(st); $10(10
and under).
●● 4:00: Mississauga Youth Orchestra.
Mother’s Day Concert. Handel: Water Music;
Beethoven: Egmont Overture; Dvořák: First
Slavonic Dance; Bizet: Carmen. Ben Bolt-Martin and Brandon Chui, conductors. Living Arts
Centre, 4141 Living Arts Dr., Mississauga.
905-306-6000. $25; $12(child 4-17).
●● 4:00: Small World Music. Mother’s Day
Celebration: Ramneek Singh, classical Indian
vocals. Khayal, thumri, shabad-kirtan, sufiana
and folk music styles. Maja Prentice Theatre,
3650 Dixie Rd., Mississauga. 647-866-7432.
$30/$20(adv).
●● 4:00: St. Philip’s Anglican Church. Jazz
Vespers. Lara Solnicki Trio: Lara Solnicki,
vocals; Ted Quinlan, guitar; George Koller,
bass. 25 St. Phillips Rd., Etobicoke. 416-2475181. Freewill offering. Religious service.
●● 4:00: Toronto Singing Studio. Songs From
The Movies. Favourites from the movies
including Singin’ In The Rain, Moon River,
Over The Rainbow, Unchained Melody and
others. Celebration Choir, Vivace Vox and
Vocal Mosaic; Linda Eyman, conductor. Trinity-St. Paul’s United Church, 427 Bloor St. W.
416-455-9238. $15; $10(sr/st); $35(family).
FROM SEA TO SEA
new Canadian choral works
featuring
Elora Festival Singers
May 12, 2:30 | Fleck Dance Theatre
www.singtoronto.com
co-produced
with:
●● 3:00: Arraymusic. Mother’s Day Fund-
raiser: CD release of John Cage’s Sonatas
and Interludes. L.C. Smith: In Black Ink; Cage:
She Is Asleep, for four percussionists; and
other works. Fides Krucker, mezzo; Stephen
Clarke, piano; Peggy Baker, choreography to
a Cage sonata; TorQ Percussion Quartet. Gallery 345, 345 Sorauren Ave. 416-532-3019.
$25; $35(with CD). Buffet included; silent auction; refreshments served (cash bar); raffle
for iPad.
●● 3:00: Green Door. Cabaret Series. Lauren
Margison, vocals. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington Ave. 416-915-6747.
●● 3:00: Toronto Masque Theatre. Lessons of
Love: A Double Bill of Passion. See May 10.
●● 4:30: Christ Church Deer Park. Jazz Ves-
pers. Lenny Solomon Trio. 1570 Yonge St.
416-920-5211 x22. Free, donations welcome.
Religious service.
●● 7:00: SING! The Toronto Vocal Arts Festival. Swingle Singers: 50th Anniversary Concert. Opening act: Retrocity. Fleck Dance
Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens
Quay W. 416-973-4000. $45. SING! runs
May 9 to 12 with concerts and workshops
at various Harbourfront Centre venues.
See also section D, “The ETCeteras,” under
Workshops.
Monday May 13
●● 5:30: Canadian Music Centre. 13th Street
Winery Piano Series: Flung Loose Into The
Stars. Canadian solo piano music inspired
by the cosmos. Works by Gougeon, Harley,
Murphy, Nobles and Sherkin. Adam Sherkin,
piano. 20 St. Joseph St. 416-961-6601 x205.
$20/$15(adv).
●● 5:30: Canadian Opera Company. The
Christina and Louis Quilico Awards. The artists of the COC Ensemble Studio compete in
the fifth edition of the Christina and Louis
Quilico Awards. Opera arias of the artists’
choice. Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre,
Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts,
145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. Free.
●● 7:30: Associates of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Five Small Concerts: The
Joy of Music Comes from a Pure Heart.
Mozart: String Quartet No.17 in B-flat K458
“The Hunt”; Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in b
Op.115 . Etsuko Kimura and Eri Kosaka, violin;
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Christopher Redfield, viola; Igor Gefter, cello;
Kornel Wolak, clarinet. Trinity-St. Paul’s
Centre, 427 Bloor St. W. 416-282-6636. $20;
$17(sr/st).
●● 8:00: Gallery 345. Winona Zelenka, cello,
and Mauro Bertoli, piano. Beethoven: Cello
Sonata No.3 in A Op.69; Rachmaninoff:
Sonata in g. 345 Sorauren Ave. 416-822-9781.
See May 9.
Tuesday May 14
Noonday Organ Recitals. Paul Grimwood,
organ. 1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167 x236.
Free.
Afterworks Series: Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto 1. Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture; Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto
No.1 in b-flat. Kirill Gerstein, piano; Giancarlo
Guerrero, conductor; Tom Allen, host. Roy
Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-593-4828
or 416-593-0688(Chinese). $29-$82. Complimentary pre-concert hors d’oeuvres.
●● 7:30: Canadian Council of Churches.
The Rhythm of the Rock. St. Michael’s Choir
School; Salvation Army Canadian Staff Band;
Holy Trinity Armenian Apostolic Church
Choir; Metropolitan United Church Organ
and Carillon. Metropolitan United Church, 56
Queen St. E. $50. 416-972-9494 x25.
●● 7:30: COSI Connection. The Wings of the
Dove. See May 14.
●● 7:30: Toronto Choral Society. In Concert.
Mozart: Requiem. Anne-Marie Ramos, soprano; Adriana Albu, mezzo; Ryan Harper,
tenor; Dion Mazerolle, baritone; members
of the Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra; Geoffrey Butler, conductor. Eastminster
United Church, 310 Danforth Ave. 416-4103509. $25.
●● 7:30: Toronto Mendelssohn Choir.
Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis. Shannon
Mercer, soprano; Krisztina Szabó, mezzo;
Michael Colvin, tenor; Michael Adair, baritone;
Festival Orchestra; Noel Edison, conductor.
Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor St. W. 416-408-0208.
$53-87; $47-81(sr); $25(VoxTix 30 and under).
●● 8:00: Angelwalk Theatre/KooGle Theatre
Company. I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now
Change. See May 14.
●● 8:00: Buddies In Bad Times Theatre. Of A
Monstrous Child. See May 14.
(Lady Gaga); Gavin Crawford (Cher, Camille
Paglia, Marina Abramovic, Andy Warhol and
Quentin Crisp); Tyson James (The Little Monster); Chy Ryan Spain (Grace Jones, Madonna
and Yoko Ono); and others; Dan Rutzen, music
director; Alistair Newton, stage director. 12
Alexander St. 416-975-8555. $31-$37; $26$31(under 30/arts workers); $20(preview).
Preview. Also May 15(pre), 16, 17, 18, 19(mat),
21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26(mat).
See May 9.
World Music Series: Ragas and Revelations.
Traditional ragas. Classical India 3: Samidha
Joglekar, vocals; Ravi Naimpally, tabla; George
Koller, dilruba. Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, Four Seasons Centre for the Performing
Arts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. Free.
Music at Midday. Andrew Ager, organ. 65
Church St. 416-364-7865 x231. Freewill
offering.
●● 7:30: COSI Connection. The Wings of
the Dove. World premiere of new opera.
Music by A. Ager; libretto by J. Lewis; based
on the novella by Henry James. Leigh-Ann
Allen, soprano; Bradley Christensen, baritone; Clodagh Earls, soprano; Stephanie
Kallay, mezzo; Dimitri Katotakis, baritone; and
others; Michael Patrick Albano, stage director; Andrew Ager, piano. Heliconian Hall, 35
Hazelton Ave. 416-504-2070. $35. Post-performance reception. Also May 15.
Change. Music by J. Roberts; lyrics by DiPietro. With Dean Hollin, Alison O’Neill, Christopher Alan Gray and Leslie Kay; Evan Tsitsias,
director. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040
Yonge St. 1-855-985-2787. $25-$45. Preview. Also May 15(pre), 16-18, 19(mat), 21,
22, 23(mat and eve), 24, 25, 26(mat), 28, 29,
30(mat and eve), 31, Jun 1, 2(mat).
●● 8:00: Buddies In Bad Times Theatre. Of
A Monstrous Child. Written by A. Newton.
Bruce Dow (Leigh Bowery); Kimberly Persona
MUSIC FOR CHINA
Canadian and Chinese music
for chamber orchestra
MAY 14, 2013 At 8:00 pM
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●● 8:00: Soundstreams. Music for China.
Chang: Small and Curious Places (world premiere); Louie; Cadenzas II for Harp and Percussion (world premiere); Shi: Distance
(world premiere); Schafer: Theseus; Saariaho: Terrestre. Chai Found Music Workshop;
Sanya Eng, harp; Carol Fujino, violin; David
Hetherington, cello; Leslie Newman, flute; and
others. Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor St. W. 416408-0208. $20-$65.
Thursday May 16
12/13 SEASON
Wednesday May 15
Friday May 17
Missa
Solemnis
BY BEETHOVEN
TMC with full orchestra
and guest soloists.
MAY 15, 2013 7:30 PM
Koerner Hall
TELUS Centre for
Peformance and Learning
www.rcmusic.ca
416-408-0208
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Vocal Series: Figaro’s Wedding. Contemporary re-imagining of Mozart’s work by Against
the Grain Theatre. Joel Ivany, conductor.
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145
Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. Free.
●● 12:10: Nine Sparrows Arts Foundation/
Christ Church Deer Park. Lunchtime Chamber Music. Stephen Fox, clarinet; Ellen Meyer,
piano. Christ Church Deer Park, 1570 Yonge
St. 416-241-1298. Free, donations welcome.
●● 12:15: Music at Metropolitan. Noon at Met.
Michael Fitzgerald, baritone. Metropolitan
United Church, 56 Queen St. E. 416-363-0331
x26. Free.
●● 7:30: Arthouse Festival Series. Liona
Boyd and Friends. Liona Boyd, guitar; Michael
Savona, guitar; Eleanor McCain, vocals; Ron
Korb, flute; Oakville Children’s Choir; Siona
Jackson Dance Ensemble. St. John’s United
Church of Oakville, 262 Randall St., Oakville.
905-467-8551. $35.
See May 1.
Change. See May 14.
●● 8:00: Gallery 345. Rhrr: French Improv
Trio. Xavier Charles, clarinet; Frédéric Blondy,
piano; Guylaine Cosseron, vocals. 345 Sorauren Ave. 416-822-9781. $20.
●● 8:00: Musideum. Sarah Calvert, voice and
guitar. Folk. Suite 133 (main floor), 401 Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323. $20.
Pacific. See May 2.
See May 9.
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto 1. Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture; Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1 in b-flat; Bartók:
Concerto for Orchestra. Kirill Gerstein, piano;
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-593-4828 or
416-593-0688(Chinese). $29-$145. 7:15: Preconcert chat with Rick Phillips. Also May
18(no pre-concert chat).
time Recital. Asher Armstrong, piano. St.
●●1:10: Gordon Murray Presents. Piano Potpourri. Featuring classics, opera, operetta,
Also May 3, 10, 24, 31.
●● 3:00: Green Door. Cabaret Series: Songs
I Wish I’d Written. Nathan Carroll, vocals.
Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington Ave. 416-915-6747. $25/$30(reserved);
$20(arts worker, rush).
●● 7:00: Soundstreams Salon 21. SoundMaker! Rose Bolton and Nick Storring, live
electronics; Craig Dunsmuir, DJ. Gardiner
Museum, 111 Queen’s Park. 416-504-1282.
Free.
●● 7:30: Marywood University Chamber Singers of Pennsylvania. Lamentations & Exultations. Works by Lassus,
Weelkes, Monteverdi and Whitacre; plus jazz
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arrangements. Rick Hoffenberg, conductor.
St. Thomas’s Anglican Church, 383 Huron St.
416-979-2323. $20, $15(sr/st).
●● 7:30: ORGANIX 13. Wayne Carroll and
Guests. Works by Mendelssohn, Enns, Widor
and Rheinberger. Wayne Carroll, organ;
Samuel Bisson, cello; Alexa Wilks, violin; Laura
Bolt, flute. Lawrence Park Church, 2180
Bayview Ave. 416-769-3893. $40; $35(sr);
$30(st); free(under 18).
Change. See May 14.
●● 8:00: Musideum. Michael Reinhart, guitar.
Suite 133 (main floor), 401 Richmond St. W.
416-599-7323. $20.
Pacific. See May 2.
See May 9.
●● 10:00: Small World Music. Namgar: Mongolian Rock. Traditional Buryat and Mongolian music. El Mocambo, 464 Spadina Ave.
CHORAL CONCERTS
St Thomas’s Church
383 Huron Street
LAMENTATIONS &
EXULTATIONS
Friday, May 17, 7:30
Marywood University
Chamber Singers of
Pennsylvania on Tour
Rick Hoffenberg, director
Music of Lassus,
Weelkes, Monteverdi,
Whitacre & more, plus
jazz arrangements
vvv
THE CHOIRS OF
ST. THOMAS’S
CHURCH IN CONCERT
Friday, May 24, 7:30
John Tuttle, organist
and choirmaster
Fundraiser for summer
tour to Canterbury
Cathedral, St. George’s
Chapel, Windsor, and
Westminster Abbey
For each concert, tickets
are available at the door
$20; $15 student, senior
www.stthomas.on.ca
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●● 3:00: Green Door. Cabaret Series: David
416-536-5439. $20/$15(adv).
Warrack’s Poised for Takeoff. With young
musical theatre stars of the future. David
Warrack, piano. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington Ave. 416-915-6747.
●● 3:00: Musideum. Mellifluence Trio. Contemporary jazz. Paul Pacanowski, piano/
reeds; Mark Dunn, bass; Mike McClelland,
drums. Suite 133 (main floor), 401 Richmond
St. W. 416-599-7323. $20 (PWYC optional).
●● 7:00: Jewish Music Week in Toronto.
Opening Night: The Swinging Sounds of Moe
Koffman. Bernie Senensky, piano; Moe Koffman Sextet (Moe Koffman tribute band). The
Rex Hotel, 194 Queen St. W. 416-598-2475 or
416-638-4492. $25/$20(adv). Jewish Music
Week in Toronto runs May 19-26 at a variety of
venues throughout the GTA.
●● 7:00: St. John’s Anglican Church. Junction
Jam 6. Robi Botos, piano; Scott Alexander,
bass; and Brian Barlow, drums. 288 Humberside Ave. 416-763-2393. Freewill offering.
Refreshments to follow.
●● 7:30: Jubilee United Church. JOSEPH:
Jubilee Organ Sunday Evening Program
Hour. Includes opening march, music by Bach
and 19th century masters, organ transcriptions and other works. 40 Underhill Dr. 416447-6846. Free.
●● 8:00: Musideum. Brownman + 1. Jazz.
Brownman Ali, trumpet. Suite 133 (main
floor), 401 Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323.
$20.
Saturday May 18
Pacific. See May 2.
●● 2:00: Sony Centre For The Performing
Arts. Bugs Bunny at the Symphony. Screening of Bugs Bunny cartoons with live orchestral accompaniment based on the music of
Rossini, Wagner, Offenbach, Liszt, Tchaikovsky
and others. What’s Opera, Doc?; The Rabbit of
Seville; and other cartoons. Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony; George Daugherty, conductor.
1 Front St. E. 647-438-5559 or 1-855-8727669. $39-$69. Also 7:00.
●● 5:30: Canadian Music Centre. The KWG
New Music Collective. Works by Harley,
Hudson, Manzon, Reimer-Watts and Riedstra. 20 St. Joseph St. 416-961-6601 x201.
$20/$15(adv).
●● 7:00: Sony Centre For The Performing
Arts. Bugs Bunny at the Symphony. See 2:00.
Change. See May 14.
●● 8:00: Gallery 345. Bill Smith’s 75th Birthday Celebration: an evening of music and
reading. Smith will read from his recent
book(s); former members of the Bill Smith
Ensemble will perform. Arthur Bull, guitar;
John Heward, drums; members of the Bill
Smith Ensemble: David Prentice, violin; David
Lee, bass. 345 Sorauren Ave. 416-822-9781.
Free. Musician, poet and dancer friends are
invited to particpate.
●● 8:00: Musideum. naw. Experimental
music. Neil Wiernik, laptops. Suite 133 (main
$10.
●● 8:00: Philip Fournier Presents. J.S. Bach
at the Toronto Oratory. Bach: Sonatas for
Violin and Harpsichord; Partita in d for violin;
Partita in D for Harpsichord. Philip Fournier,
harpsicord; Edwin Huizinga, violin. The Oratory, Holy Family Church, 1372 King St. W. 416532-2879. By donation.
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto 1. No pre-concert chat. See May 16.
Monday May 20
●●1:00: University of Toronto. Victoria
Day Carillon Recital. Selection of classical,
traditional and contemporary songs. Michael
Hart, carillon. Soldiers’ Tower, 7 Hart House
Circle. 416-978-3485. Free. Outdoor event,
chairs provided.
●● 7:30: Jewish Music Week in Toronto.
Rocky Mountain Jewgrass: High Octane
Jewish Bluegrass! Bluegrass band combing authentic bluegrass playing with Jewish
music. Saul Rosenthal, guitar and vocals;
Ben Cohen, banjo and mandolin; Gail deVore,
fiddle and washboard; Eric Roberts, bass and
guitars. P
ride of Israel Synagogue, 59 Lissom
Cres. 416-226-0111 x0. $36-$72; $20(youth).
See May 9.
Tuesday May 21
Vocal Series: Bel Canto Bliss. Anna Christy,
soprano. Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre,
145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. Free.
●●1:00: Cathedral Church of St. James.
Music at Midday. Andrew Ager, organ. 65
Church St. 416-364-7865 x231. Freewill
offering.
Change. See May 14.
See May 9.
Wednesday May 22
Sunday May 19
Change. See May 14.
●● 2:00: Shevchenko Musical Ensemble. In
Concert. Ensemble of choir, mandolin orchestra and folk dancers. Folk, classical music and
popular songs. Toronto Mandolin Orchestra, Alexander Veprinsky, conductor; Ira
Erokhina, domra; choir and soloists; folk dancers. St. Michael’s College School, 1515 Bathurst St. 416-533-2725. $35; $15(st).
●● 2:30: St. Paul’s Church. Arkady Yanivker, violin; Elina Kelebeev, piano. Works by
Beethoven, Mozart, Ravel, Kreisler, Tchaikovsky and others. 404 Willard Ave. 416-767-8347.
$20; $10(st).
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Chamber Music Series: Happy Birthday,
Wagner! Cellists of the COC Orchestra perform arrangements of Wagner’s opera overtures in honour of his 200th birthday. Richard
W. 416-363-8231. Free.
Noonday Organ Recitals. Gregg Redner,
organ. 1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167 x236.
Free.
●● 6:30: Canadian Music Centre. An Evening with Udo Steingraeber. Lecture by
Steingraeber & Sohne owner; concert to
follow. 20 St. Joseph St. 416-961-6601 x201.
$20. See section D, “The ETCeteras,” under
Lectures & Symposia for details.
●● 7:00: Civic Light-Opera Company. Mame.
Herman. York Woods Library Theatre, 1785
Finch Ave. W. 416-755-1717. $28. Also May 23,
24, 25, 26(mat, sold out), 29, 30, 31, Jun 1(mat
and eve). Start times vary. SOLD OUT.
See May 1.
●● 7:30: Church of St. Andrew, Scarborough.
The Three Cantors in Concert. 2333 Victoria
Park Ave., Scarborough. 416-447-1481 and
416-491-3761. $25; $15(st/child). Proceeds to
Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund
and other projects.
●● 7:30: Toronto Choristers. Annual Spring
Concert. Sir John A. MacDonald Collegiate
Institute, 2300 Pharmacy Ave., Scarborough.
647-693-4671. $15.
Change. See May 14.
●● 8:00: Holy Blossom Temple. Divahn: An
Eastern Serenade. All-woman ensemble performing traditional and original Jewish music
with contemporary harmonies, improvisations and arrangements. Indian, Middle
Eastern and Latin percussion; Hebrew,
Judeo-Spanish, Persian, Arabic and Aramaic
vocals. 1950 Bathurst St. 416-789-3291 x224.
$36; $18(18 and under). Part of Jewish Music
Thursday May 23
Week in Toronto (May 19-26).
●● 8:00: Jorge Miguel Flamenco/Lula Arts
Centre. Jorge Miguel: “Guitarra Flamenco
/ Flamenco Guitar” CD Launch Residency
at the Lula Lounge. Original, traditional and
contemporary flamenco music, dance and
song. Jorge Miguel, flamenco guitar. Lula
Lounge, 1585 Dundas St. W. 416-588-0307.
$10; free(child).
Vocal Series: Les Adieux. Farewell concert
by the graduating artists of the COC Ensemble Studio. Mireille Asselin and Ambur Braid,
sopranos; Rihab Chaieb, mezzo; Christopher
Enns, tenor; Neil Craighead, baritone; Timothy
Cheung and Jenna Douglas, piano. Richard
W. 416-363-8231. Free.
Christ Church Deer Park. Lunchtime Chamber Music. Madawaska Ensemble: Sarah
Fraser Raff, violin; Anna Redekop, viola;
Amber Ghent, cello. Christ Church Deer Park,
1570 Yonge St. 416-241-1298. Free, donations
welcome.
Met. Federico Andreoni, organ. Metropolitan United Church, 56 Queen St. E. 416-3630331 x26. Free.
Change. Also 8:00. See May 14.
●● 2:00: Northern District Public Library.
Orchardviewers. Tost String Quartet. Program of chamber music tba. Room 224, 40
Orchard View Blvd. 416-393-7610. Free.
●● 7:30: Zebrina/Jon Feldman. Zebrina featuring Ben Goldberg, clarinet, with guest
David Buchbinder, trumpet. Works recorded
on upcoming CD “The Desert Speaks” for
Tzadik records. Jon Feldman, keyboards;
Joel Schwartz, electric guitar; Bret Higgins,
●● 8:00: Musideum. Jeff Alan Greenway,
singer-songwriter. Suite 133 (main floor), 401
Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323. $20; $10(st/
artist).
Brahms German Requiem. Lieberson: Songs
of Love and Sorrow (Canadian premiere);
Brahms: A German Requiem. Toronto Mendelssohn Choir; Klara Ek, soprano; Gerald
Finley, bass-baritone; Peter Oundjian, conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St.
416-593-4828 or 416-593-0688(Chinese).
$29-$145. 6:45 Pre-concert chat with Rick
Phillips. Also May 23.
electric bass; Max Senitt, drums and percussion. Music Gallery, 197 John St. 416-2041080. $18/$15(adv).
See .
●● 8:00: Musideum. Bridges. Barry Livingston, piano/compositions; Colleen Allen,
reeds; George Koller, bass; Suba Sankaran,
voice; and guests. Suite 133 (main floor), 401
Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323. $20, or by
donation.
See May 9.
Brahms German Requiem. See .
Friday May 24
●● 12:00 noon: Fields Institute for Research
in Mathematical Sciences (U of T). Random
Walks: Music of Xenakis and Beyond. Xenakis: Okho For Three Djembes; Tetora for
string quartet; ST-4/1,080262 for string quartet. Diego Espinosa, Aiyun Huang and David
Schotzko, djembe; JACK Quartet. Walter Hall,
Edward Johnson Building, U of T Faculty of
Music, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-348-9710. $20;
$10(st).
●● 12:10: Life & Music at St. Andrew’s. Noontime Recital. Mike Janzen, jazz piano. St.
●● 1:10: Gordon Murray Presents. Piano Potpourri. Featuring classics, opera, operetta,
The Guitar Society of Toronto presents
President’s Bursary
Fund Concert
featuring Brazilian-Canadian
guitarist Celso Machado
Friday, May 24 at 8pm
Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Avenue
Tickets: $100.00
(a tax receipt of $50 will be issued per ticket)
The fee will include a catered reception following the concert, door prizes,
and the opportunity to meet the artist himself.
All proceeds from the concert will go towards the President’s Bursary
Fund, a crucial program that the Guitar Society’s founder, Eli Kassner,
established to help young Toronto classical guitarists further their musical
development. This date will also mark Eli’s 89th birthday - he will be in
attendance, so please join us and help celebrate!
For more details
www.guitarsocietyoftoronto.com
Sponsors:
Harold Levy . Long and McQuade . Karen Agro . ORMTA
D’Addario Canada . Altamira . Château des Charmes
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Also May 3, 10, 17, 31.
●● 7:00: St. Michael’s Choir School. Canadian
Sacred Music. Teri Dunn, conductor. Venue to
be confirmed, Address to be confirmed. 416397-6367. Free.
●●7:30: Choirs of St. Thomas’s Anglican
Church. A Choral Celebration for Victoria
Day. Works by Byrd, Palestrina, Vaughan Williams, Stanford and Howells. John Tuttle,
organ and conductor. St. Thomas’s Anglican
Church, 383 Huron St. 416-979-2323. $20,
$15(sr/st).
●● 7:30: Green Door. Cabaret Series. Artist(s)
to be announced. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington Ave. 416-915-6747.
●● 7:30: Opera by Request. Così fan tutte.
Mozart. Stephanie Ferracone, soprano
(Fiordiligi); Brigitte Bogar, mezzo (Dorabella);
Amanda Bartella, soprano (Despina); Zach
Finkelstein, tenor (Ferrando); Gregory Finney,
baritone (Guglielmo); George Ossipov, bass
(Don Alfonso); William Shookoff, piano.
College Street United Church, 452 College St.
416-455-2365. $20.
●● 7:30: ORGANIX 13. Karen Christianson in
Concert. Works by Langlais, Vierne, Cooman,
Wammes, Franck and Widor. Metropolitan
United Church, 56 Queen St. E. 416-769-3893.
$40; $35(sr); $30(sr); free(under 18).
Change. See May 14.
See May 22.
●● 8:00: Etobicoke Philharmonic Orchestra. Viva Verdi. Opera highlights to celebrate
Verdi’s 200th birthday. Triumphal March,
Ballet Music from Aida, Va Pensiero and
other selections. Sabatino Vacca, conductor;
guests: Jeffrey Carl, baritone; Rachel Cleland,
soprano; Richard Margison, tenor. Martingrove Collegiate, 50 Winterton Dr., Etobicoke.
416-239-5665. $25; $20(sr); $10(st). 7:40:
Pre-concert chat.
●● 8:00: Fields Institute for Research in
Mathematical Sciences (U of T). Random
Walks: Music of Xenakis and Beyond. Xenakis: Psappha for percussion solo; Rebonds
for solo percussion; Pleiades for percussion
sextet; Ergma for string quartet; Tetras for
string quartet. Alessandro Valiante, Noam
Bierstone and Greg Samek, percussion; U of
T Percussion Ensemble; McGill Percussion
Ensemble; JACK Quartet. Walter Hall, Edward
Johnson Building, U of T Faculty of Music, 80
Queen’s Park. 416-348-9710. $35; $20(st).
Etobicoke. 416-239-5821. $20; $15(sr/st);
free(under 10). Also May 25.
●● 8:00: Near East. In Concert. Original
pieces based on the traditions of India and
the Middle East, as well as traditional songs
from India and poetry. Ernie Tollar, bansuri/
sax; Demetri Petsalakis, oud/guitar; Ravi
Naimpally, tabla; guests: Waleed Abdulhamid, bass/percussion; Samidha Joglekar,
voice; Sheniz Janmohammad, spoken word.
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham St. 726-9500. $15/
$10(st).
See May 9.
●● 8:00: Toronto Consort. A Woman’s Life. By
A. Mackay. Works by Hildegard von Bingen,
Strozzi and Caccini. Maggie Huculak and
Karen Woolridge, spoken word. Trinity-St.
Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St. W. 416-964-6337.
$22-$52; $18-$45(65 and over); $10(30 and
under). Also May 25, May 26(mat).
●● 8:00: Gallery 345. Mivos Quartet. Diaz de
Leon: Moonblood; Bach: Contrapunctus XIX
(arr. Higgins, 2013); Fisher-Lochhead: Dig,
Absolutely; Lowrie: new work; Mincek: String
Quartet No.3. Olivia De Prato and Joshua
Mondey, violin; Victor Lowrie, viola; Mariel
Roberts, cello. 345 Sorauren Ave. 416-8229781. $25; $20(sr/arts worker); $15(st).
●● 8:00: Guitar Society of Toronto. President’s Bursary Fund Benefit Concert featuring Celso Machado, guitar. Heliconian Hall, 35
Hazelton Ave. 416-964-8298. $100. Reception,
door prizes and meet the artist.
●● 8:00: Harmony Singers. Song of the
Land. Songs by k.d. Lang, Leonard Cohen,
Johnny Cowell and others. Harvey Patterson, conductor; guest: Jamie Groote, vocals.
Martin Grove United Church, 75 Pergola Rd.,
●● 8:00: Via Salzburg Chamber Ensemble. A
Little Viennese Tango? Mozart: Piano Trio in G
K496; Piazzolla: tango selections; Schubert:
Piano Trio No.2 in E-flat D929. Seiler Piano
Trio: Mayumi Seiler, violin; Rachel Mercer,
cello; Angela Park, piano. Rosedale United
Church, 159 Roxborough Dr. 416-972-9193.
$40; $25(under 30); $10(st).
Leaskdale Church, 11909 Durham Regional
Rd. 1, Leaskdale. 705-357-2459. Contributions
welcome. In support of L. M. Montgomery
Society of Ontario.
●● 7:30: Alliance Française de Toronto. Echos
from Acadie. Traditional Acadian music.
Aurélie Cormier and Bruno Cormier, vocals;
Marty Smyth, piano. 24 Spadina Rd. 416-9222014 x35. $15; $10(sr/st); free(under 12/st).
●● 7:30: Annex Singers. Spring Cabaret: The
Food of Love. Broadway tunes, standards,
popular classics and contemporary hits.
Bloor Street United Church, 300 Bloor St. W.
416-968-7747. $25; $20(sr/st).
●● 7:30: Exultate Chamber Singers. Fire of
the Spirit. Raminsh and Von Bingen: O Ignis
Spiritus. John Tuttle, organ; guest: Stephanie Martin, conductor. St. Thomas’s Anglican Church, 383 Huron St. 416-971-9229. $30;
$25(sr); $15(st); $5(child).
●● 7:30: Green Door. Cabaret Series: How
to Clean Your Fridge and Other Life Lessons. Laura Caswell, vocals. Lower Ossington
Theatre, 100A Ossington Ave. 416-915-6747.
●● 7:30: Korean Canadian Symphony Orchestra. Spring Concert #45. Haydn: Symphony
No.102; Purcell: When I am laid in earth
(Dido); Gounod: Que fais-tu, blanche tourterelle (Roméo et Juliette). Beethoven: Symphony No.6 “The Pastoral.” Bridget Mina Kim,
mezzo; Richard Lee, conductor. St. Andrew
Kim Catholic Church, 849 Don Mills Rd., North
York. 416-737-0521. $25; $15(st).
●● 7:30: Opera by Request. La Bohème.
Puccini. Carrie Gray, soprano (Mimi);
Pablo Benitez, tenor (Rodolfo); Yevgeny
Yablonovsky, baritone (Marcello); Tammy
Short, soprano (Musetta); Bradley Hoover,
baritone (Schaunard); Raymond Accolas,
bass (Colline); Larry Tozer, bass (Benoit/
Alcindoro); William Shookoff, piano. College
i Furiosi
presents
Saturday May 25
●●11:00am: University of Toronto. Soldiers’
Tower Carillon Recital. Selection of classical
and traditional songs. Michael Hart, carillon.
Soldiers’ Tower, 7 Hart House Circle. 416-9783485. Free. Outdoor event, chairs provided.
1:30: North York Music Festival. Gala Concert and Award Ceremony. 2013 NYMF award
winners in piano, violin, cello, vocals, guitar,
winds and brass. Yorkminster Park Baptist
Church, 1585 Yonge St. 416-788-8553. $20;
$15(sr/st).
●● 3:00: Arraymusic. Young Composers’
Workshop Concert. Four world premieres
by emerging composers. Works by Dupuis,
Manzon, Mestre and Sit. Linda Munchinsky, cello; Adam Scime, double bass; Stephen
Clarke, piano; Rick Sacks, conductor. Gallery
345, 345 Sorauren Ave. 416-532-3019. PWYC.
●● 3:00: Tudor Consort. Early Music Benefit
Concert. Palestrina, Missa Brevis, Italian and
English madrigals and instrumental music.
A WOMAN’S LIFE
Conceived by Alison Mackay
May 24 & 25 at 8 pm
May 26 at 3:30 pm
Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre
427 Bloor St. West
416-964-6337
www.torontoconsort.org
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Saturday
may 25, 2013
8:00pmSpecial
guest:
Lucas Harris
lutes &
theorbo
Church of
St Mary Magdalene
477 Manning Avenue
$20/$10 Tickets available
only at the door
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●● 7:30: ORGANIX 13. Organized Crime Duo.
Grand organ repertoire and movie music
for organ four-hands. Rachel Mahon and
Sarah Svendsen, organ. Metropolitan United
Church, 56 Queen St. E. 416-769-3893. $40;
$35(sr); $30(sr); free(under 18).
Casual Concerts: Brahms German Requiem.
Brahms: A German Requiem. Toronto Mendelssohn Choir; Klara Ek, soprano; Gerald
Finley, bass-baritone; Peter Oundjian, conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St.
416-593-4828 or 416-593-0688(Chinese).
$29-$99. Performed without intermission
and followed by a party in the lobby with
Boxcar Boys.
Change. See May 14.
●● 8:00: Bell’Arte Singers. Celtic Faire.
Brenda Uchimaru, conductor. St. Simon-theApostle Anglican Church, 525 Bloor St. E. 416923-8714. $25; $20(sr/st).
●● 8:00: Canadian Sinfonietta. Wine and
Cheese Concert #4. Machaut: Kyrie, Gloria
and Agnus Dei from Messe de Nostre Dame;
Prato: Mura; Lara: Corde Vocale; Perich: Salt
for string quartet and electronics; Balter:
Bem-te-vi; Glass: String Quartet No.5. Mivos
String Quartet. Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave. 647-223-2286. $40; $30(sr); $20(st).
Includes wine and food.
●● 8:00: Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra. Subscription Concert No.5: Mussorgsky
31, Jun 1(mat and eve). Start times vary.
●● 8:00: Corporation of Massey Hall and
Roy Thomson Hall. Michael Kaeshammer,
piano. Guest: Kellylee Evans, jazz vocals.
Massey Hall, 178 Victoria St. 416-872-4255.
$19.50-$59.50.
●● 8:00: Harmony Singers. Song of the Land.
See May 24.
●● 8:00: I FURIOSI. High. Guest: Lucas Harris,
lutes and theorbo. Church of St. Mary Magdalene, 477 Manning Ave. 416-910-8740. $20;
$10(sr/st/underemployed). See ad previous page.
●● 8:00: Magenta String Quartet. Fresh From
The Pen: Music by Contemporary Toronto
Artists. Eatock: Quartet of Dances for String
Quartet; Gfroerer: Sonata for Violin and Piano
(premiere; String Quartet No.2 “Song of the
Lake”; Vachon: Three Simple String Quartets; Canadian Folk Songs for Voice, Guitar
and Violin (arr McBride). Michael Gfroerer,
piano; Dwight McBride, vocals and guitar;
Emma Vachon-Tweney, violin. Eastminster
United Church, 310 Danforth Ave. 647-7013919. PWYC.
●●May 25 8:00: Music Gallery. Emergents V:
ΔTent and (insert TITLE). Works by Tsurumoto; Glover: Ascending scale with piano
accompaniment for flute and piano, Descending scale with piano accompaniment for
flute and piano; Serrano: Espantajo de resaca
for flute, clarinet, and piano; Svensson: Going
in Circles for piccolo and piano; and other
works. Fiona Jane Wood, piano; Emma Elkinson, flute; Ben Duinker and Greg Samek,
marimba. St. George the Martyr Church, 197
John St. 416-204-1080. $10.
●● 8:00: Musideum. Max Layton and Robert
Priest, poets and singer-songwriters. Suite
●● 8:00: ORIANA Women’s Choir. Sing a New
Song: A Celebration of Ruth Watson Henderson. Watson Henderson: Cantate Domino;
I Am A Cloud; Landscape; Maimets: Laudate Dominum (world premiere); Anikienko:
Dreams of a Child (world premiere); and
other works. Mitchell Pady, conductor. Grace
Church on-the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale Rd. 416978-8849. $25; $20(sr); $10(st/under 30).
Honouring 80th birthday of Ruth Watson
& Reinecke. Reinecke: Harp Concerto; Mussorgsky: Introduction and Polonaise from
Boris Godunov; Pictures at an Exhibition.
Andrew Chan, harp; Norman Reintamm, conductor. P.C. Ho Theatre, Chinese Cultural
Centre of Greater Toronto, 5183 Sheppard
Ave. E., Scarborough. 416-879-5566. $30$50; $25-$40(sr/st); free(under 12).
●●May 25 8:00: Civic Light-Opera Company.
Mame. Herman. York Woods Library Theatre,
1785 Finch Ave. W. 416-755-1717. $28. Also May
22(sold out), 23, 24, 26(mat, sold out), 29, 30,
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CONCERT
Mivos String Quartet
Heliconian Hall
May 25, 8 PM
Henderson.
●● 8:00: Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. Chamber Series: Rising Stars – Celebrating Young Artists. Franck: Sonata for
violin and piano in A; Bach: Chaconne in D
for violin; Gershwin: various songs. St. Paul’s
L’Amoreaux Youth String Ensemble; David
Lakirovich, violin; Paulina Swierczek, soprano;
Marc Widner, piano. St. Paul’s L’Amoreaux
Anglican Church, 3333 Finch Ave. E., Scarborough. 416-429-0007. $30; $25(sr); $15(st).
7:15: Pre-concert chat.
●● 8:00: Toronto Consort. A Woman’s Life.
See May 24.
●● 8:00: York Symphony Orchestra. French
Impressions. Debussy: Prélude à l’après-midi
d’un faune; Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No.1;
Ravel: Bolero; Franck: Symphony in d. Andrew
Ascenzo, cello; guest: Rafael Luz, conductor.
Trinity Anglican Church, 79 Victoria St.,
Aurora. 416-410-0860. $28; $23(sr); $15(st).
Also May 26 (Richmond Hill).
Sunday May 26
●● 12:00 noon: University of Toronto. Sol-
diers’ Tower Carillon Recital. Selection of
classical, traditional and contemporary
songs. Roy Lee, carillon. Soldiers’ Tower, 7
Hart House Circle. 416-978-3485. Free. Outdoor event, chairs provided.
Change. See May 14.
See May 22.
●● 2:00: Oasis Vocal Jazz. Simply Oasis. Jazz
selections. Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas St. W.
416-531-6604. $22.50; $20(adv).
●● 2:30: Aldeburgh Connection. Britten Festival of Song, Concert III: A Time There Was.
Featuring a panorama of the vocal music of
Benjamin Britten. Virginia Hatfield, soprano;
Scott Belluz, counter-tenor; Colin Ainsworth,
tenor; Geoffrey Sirett, baritone; Stephen Ralls
and Bruce Ubukata, piano; Canadian Children’s Opera Company, Ann Cooper Gay, conductor. Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building,
80 Queen’s Park. 416-735-7982. $50; $12(st).
Cathedral
Bluffs
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Norman Reintamm
Artistic Director/Principal Conductor
MUSSORGSKY PICTURES
Saturday May 25 at 8 pm
with harpist ANDREW
CHAN
REINECKE Harp Concerto
MUSSORGSKY Introduction and
Polonaise from Boris Godunov
P.C. Ho Theatre
5183 Sheppard Avenue East, Scarborough
Regular $30 adult, $25 st/sr (under 12 free) | Premium $50 adult, $40 st/sr (under 12 free)
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●● 2:30: Toronto Early Music Centre. Musically Speaking. Colin de Blamont: La Toilette
de Venus; and other works. Dawn Bailey, soprano; Elixir Baroque Ensemble: Elyssa Lefurgey Smith, baroque violin; Justin Haynes, viola
da gamba; Sara-Anne Churchill, harpsichord.
St. David’s Anglican Church, 49 Donlands Ave.
416-464-7610. Admission by donation.
●● 2:30: University Settlement Music and
Arts School. Chamber Program Concert.
Chamber music favourites. St. George the
Martyr Church, 197 John St. 416-598-3444
x243. Free.
●● 3:00: Green Door. Cabaret Series: The
Barb and Laurie Show. Laurie Hurst and
Barb Scheffler, vocals. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington Ave. 416-915-6747.
●● 3:00: Orchestra Toronto. Heroic Verve.
Beethoven: Coriolan overture; Symphony
No.4 in B-flat; Sibelius: Violin Concerto in d.
Adrian Anantawan, violin; Danielle Lisboa,
conductor. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040
Yonge St. 416-467-7142 or 1-855-985-2787.
$39; $34(sr); $14(under 18). 2:15: Pre-concert talk.
●● 3:30: Toronto Consort. A Woman’s Life.
See May 24.
●● 4:00: St. Philip’s Anglican Church. Polka
Vespers. Walter Ostanek, accordian. 25 St.
Phillips Rd., Etobicoke. 416-247-5181. Freewill
offering. Religious service.
●● 4:30: Christ Church Deer Park. Jazz Vespers: The Music of Miles Davis. Steve McDade,
trumpet. 1570 Yonge St. 416-920-5211 x22.
Free, donations welcome. Religious service.
●●May 26 7:00: North Toronto Community
Band. Spring Rhythms. Classical selections,
marches, klezmer, musical theatre, big band
and others. Jonno Lightstone, clarinet; Danny
Wilks, conductor. Centre for Creative Learning Theatre, Crescent School, 2365 Bayview
Ave. 416-481-1978. $20; $15(sr/st).
●● 7:30: Renanim Youth Singers. Renanim
Shirim: A Celebration in Song. Jewish medleys, klezmer, pop and jazz. Guest: Jackie
Richardson, vocals. Ada Slaight Hall, Daniels
Spectrum: a cultural hub in Regent Park, 585
Dundas St. E. 416-720-0352. $20.
●● 7:30: York Symphony Orchestra. French
Impressions. Debussy: Prélude à l’aprèsmidi d’un faune; Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto
No.1; Ravel: Bolero; Franck: Symphony in d.
Andrew Ascenzo, cello; guest: Rafael Luz,
conductor. Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts, 10268 Yonge St., Richmond Hill.
905-787-8811. $30; $25(sr); $15(st). Also May
25 (Aurora).
●● 8:00: Musideum. Sri Partho Bose, sitar.
World music. Suite 133 (main floor), 401 Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323. $20; $15(sr/st).
Monday May 27
●● 8:00: Gallery 345. junctQín keyboard col-
lective: Firsts. Kagel: Der Eid des Hippokrates
(premiere); Cage: Music for Amplified Toy
Pianos (junctQín premiere); and new works
(all premieres) by Eddington, Pearce and
Tsurumoto. 345 Sorauren Ave. 416-822-9781.
See May 9.
●● 8:00: Toronto Continuo Collective. The
Immortal Soul of Psyche. Music by Locke and
Lully. Dawn Bailey, Ariel Harwood-Jones and
Emily Klassen, soprano; Luke Arnason, alto;
Bud Roach, tenor; Jonathon Adams, baritone; and guest instrumentalists. Church of
the Redeemer, 162 Bloor St. W. 416-921-9203.
PWYC.
Tuesday May 28
Chamber Music Series: 2013 Festival Preview. Emerging artists and music from the
Toronto Summer Music Festival. Richard
W. 416-363-8231. Free.
Music at Midday: Baroque Splendour. Works
by Bach, Mendelssohn and Briggs. David
Briggs, organ. 65 Church St. 416-364-7865
x231. Freewill offering.
●● 7:30: Nu Musical Theatricals/Classical
Theatre Project/Starvox Entertainment.
Cats. Webber. Eric Abel (Alozo/Caricopat);
Charles Azulay (Old Deuteronomy); Susan
Cuthbert (Jennyanydots/Griddlebone/
Susan Michaels
Artistic Director
Renanim Shirim:
A Celebration in Song
featuring
Jackie Richardson
Sunday, May 26, 2013 at 7:30 p.m.
Daniels Spectrum, Ada Slaight Hall
585 Dundas Street East, Toronto (underground parking available)
Celebrate Renanim’s Bar Mitzvah Year with
Jewish medleys, klezmer, pop, jazz,
and special guest star Jackie Richardson!
Tickets: $20 each; Buy 4 tickets, get the 5th one free!
416-720-0352 or [email protected]
www.renanimyouthsingers.org
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Jellylorum); Ma-Anne Dionisio (Grizabella);
and others; Dave Campbell, stage director;
Lona Davis, music director. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge St. 416-872-1212 or 1-800461-3333. $40-$110. Tue-Sat at 7:30; Wed, Sat
and Sun at 1:30. Runs to July 28. LISTING NOT
REPEATED.
West Side Story with Orchestra. Bernstein. Steven Reineke, conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-593-4828 or
416-593-0688(Chinese). $40-$110(eve); $49$82(mat). Also May 29(mat and eve).
Change. See May 14.
See May 9.
Wednesday May 29
Noonday Organ Recitals. Eric Robertson,
organ. 1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167 x236.
Free.
●● 1:30: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. West
Side Story with Orchestra. Also 7:30. See May
28. 2:00: Soulpepper. The Barber of Seville.
See May 22.
●● 7:30: Against the Grain Theatre. Figaro’s
Wedding. Mozart. With new libretto by J.
Ivany. Stephen Hegedus, baritone (Figaro);
Miriam Khalil, soprano (Susanna); Alexander
Dobson, baritone (The Count); Lisa DiMaria,
soprano (The Countess); Teiya Kasahara,
soprano (Cherubino); and others; Music in
the Barns Chamber Ensemble; Joel Ivany,
stage director; Christopher Mokrzewski,
music director. The Burroughes Building, 6th
Floor, 639 Queen St. W. 416-360-5757. $35;
$60(front row reserved seating). Also May
30, 31, June 2.
●● 7:30: Junction Trio and Friends. PostIndustrial Ravel. Ravel: Introduction and
Allegro for Harp, Flute Clarinet and String
Quartet. St. Anne’s Anglican Church, 270
Gladstone Ave. 416-993-5883. By donation.
●● 7:30: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. West
Side Story with Orchestra. Also 1:30. See .
Change. See May 14.
●● 8:00: Gallery 345. Tria Fidelis. Beethoven:
Piano trio in E-flat Op.1 No.1; Arensky: Piano
trio in d Op.32; Piazzolla: Oblivion; Muerte
del Angel; Autumn from the Four Seasons
of Buenos Aries. Tori Lindsay, violin; Nadia
Klein, cello; Lisa Tahara, piano. 345 Sorauren
$10(st).
Thursday May 30
Piano Virtuoso Series: Lunch with Punch.
Commedia dell’arte-based piano music.
Works by Rachmaninoff, Granados, Bridge,
Scott, Dubois, Mayerl and others. Richard
W. 416-363-8231. Free.
Christ Church Deer Park. Lunchtime Chamber Music. Billy Shawn, piano. Christ Church
Deer Park, 1570 Yonge St. 416-241-1298. Free,
donations welcome.
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Met. Sarah Svendsen, organ. Metropolitan
United Church, 56 Queen St. E. 416-363-0331
x26. Free.
Wedding. See May.
See May 22.
●● 8:00: Musideum. Eh?! Folk music. Anne
Lederman, fiddle; Emilyn Stam, fiddle; James
Stephens, fiddle. Suite 133 (main floor), 401
Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323. $20.
●● 8:00: Small World Music. Music for Red
Snow. Benefit concert for Red Snow Theatre Collective. Alice Ping Yee Ho, piano; Patty
Chan, erhu; Miriam Sue, guzheng; and others.
Canadian Music Centre, 20 St. Joseph St. 416536-5439. $30.
See May 9.
CHOPIN &
works. Andrew Adair, organ; Peter Bishop,
conductor. Church of St. Vincent de Paul, 263
Roncesvalles Ave. 416-535-5119. $20 suggested donation.
Change. See May 14.
●● 8:00: Art of Time Ensemble. Songbook 7:
Madeleine Peyroux. Songs arranged for Art
of Time by Canadian composers. Madeleine
Peyroux, vocals; Andrew Burashko, piano;
Benjamin Bowman, violin; Rachel Mercer,
cello; Joseph Phillips, bass; and others.
Enwave Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, 231
saxophone. Etobicoke Collegiate Auditorium,
86 Montgomery Rd., Etobicoke. 416-4101570. $20; $18(sr); $5(st); free(child).
●● 7:00: Waterfront Blues. 9th Annual Blues
Festival. Jon Knight & Soulstack (7:00); Chuck
Jackson’s Big Bad Blue Band (9:00). Woodbine Park (Coxwell Ave. and Lake Shore Blvd.
E.), 1681 Lake Shore Blvd. E. 416-996-8713.
Free. Festival runs May 31 (6pm to 10pm),
June 1 (noon to 10pm) and June 2 (noon to
8pm).
Wedding. See May.
●● 7:30: Alliance Française de Toronto. Au
bord de l’absence (cabaret-chanson). French
music. Maryem Tollar and David Wall, vocals.
24 Spadina Rd. 416-922-2014 x35. $15; $10(sr/
st); free(under 12/st).
●● 7:30: Green Door. Cabaret Series: a cappella doo wop. Retro Ramblers. Lower
416-915-6747. $25/$30(reserved); $20(arts
worker, rush).
●● 7:30: ORGANIX 13/Royal Canadian College
of Organists. Ryan Jackson, organ. Bruhns:
Praeludium in e; Bridge: Adagio in E; Robertson: Voices; Bach: Prelude and Fugue in
e BWV548; Schumann; Six Canonic Studies
Op.56 (No.1 in C; No.4 in A-flat; No.5 in b; No.6
in B); and work by Willan. Metropolitan United
Church, 56 Queen St. E. 416-929-6400. $40;
$35(sr); $30(st); free(under 18).
●● 8:00: Adelphi. Music for the Visitation. Palestrina: Salve Regina; Howells: Salve Regina;
Mendelssohn: Ave Maria; Biebl: Ave Maria;
Victoria: Magnificat Primi Toni; and other
Great
Artist
Piano
Series
presents
WilliamWolfram
piano
Saturday June 1
Friday, May 31
8pm
auroraculturalcentre.ca
905 713-1818
BEETHOVEN
with
Janina Fialkowska
May 30–June 2
tafelmusik.org
Baroque Orchestra
●● 8:00: Tafelmusik. Chopin & Beethoven.
Chopin: Piano Concerto No.2; Beethoven:
Coriolan Overture; Egmont Overture; Symphony No.4. Janina Fialkowska, period piano;
guest: Bruno Weil, conductor. Koerner Hall,
273 Bloor St. W. 416-408-0208. $45-$99;
$35-$89(65 and over); $25-$89(35 and
under). Also May 31, Jun 1, 2(mat).
Friday May 31
time Recital. Younggun Kim, piano. St.
●● 1:10: Gordon Murray Presents. Piano Potpourri. Featuring classics, opera, operetta,
Also May 3, 10, 17, 24.
●● 2:00: Etobicoke Community Concert
Band. Around the World in 80 Minutes. Farewell to Nova Scotia; Scottish Rhapsody; Skyfall; March of the Belgian Paratroopers; A
Tribute to Artie Shaw; St Louis Blues; and
other works. Guest: Bob DeAngelis, clarinet/
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Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. $25-$59.
Also June 1.
●●8:00: Civic Light-Opera Company. Mame.
Herman. York Woods Library Theatre, 1785
Finch Ave. W. 416-755-1717. $28. Also May
22(sold out), 23, 24, 26(mat, sold out), 29, 30,
Jun 1(mat and eve). Start times vary.
●● 8:00: Aurora Cultural Centre. Great Artist
Piano Series: William Wolfram. Works by
Liszt, Schubert, Chopin and Ligeti. 22 Church
St., Aurora. 905-713-1818. $30; $25(sr/st).
●● 8:00: Grand Salon Orchestra. A Gatsby
Affair: The Music That Made the 20s Roar.
Music by Porter, Gershwin, Kern, Berlin and
others. Kerry Stratton, conductor; guest:
Barbra Lica, vocals. St. Lawrence Hall, 157
King St. E. 647-853-0057 or 1-888-222-6608.
$42.50.
●● 8:00: Musideum. Margot Roi, jazz vocals.
Suite 133 (main floor), 401 Richmond St. W.
416-599-7323. $20.
●● 8:00: Patrizia, soprano. In Concert. Works
by Orff, Bizet, Mozart, Beethoven and Webber.
Mod Club, 22 College St. 416-219-4653.
$15/$10(adv).
See May 9.
See May 30.
●●1:00: Waterfront Blues. 9th Annual Blues
Festival. 24th Street Wailers (1:00); Scott
McCord & the Bonafide Truth (3:00); Alexis
P. Suter Band (5:00); Fathead (7:00); Eugene
Hideaway Bridges (9:00). Woodbine Park
(Coxwell Ave. and Lake Shore Blvd. E.), 1681
Lake Shore Blvd. E. 416-996-8713. Free. Festival runs May 31 (6pm to 10pm), June 1 (noon
to 10pm) and June 2 (noon to 8pm).
See May 22.
●● 2:00: Oriole-York Mills United Church.
Spring Studio Recital: Heart and Soul. Students of Derrick Lewis, Meri Dolevski-Lewis,
Mark McKie and Karen Quinton. 2609 Bayview Ave. 647-520-8802. PWYC.
●● 2:30: University of Toronto. Soldiers’
Tower Carillon Recital. Selection of classical,
traditional and contemporary songs. Roy Lee,
carillon. Soldiers’ Tower, 7 Hart House Circle.
416-978-3485. Free. Outdoor event, chairs
provided.
●● 3:00: Singing Out. The Gay Outdoors.
Songs inspired by nature. Glenn Gould Studio,
250 Front St. W. 416-948-8162. $25. Also 7:30.
●● 3:30: Mississauga Children’s Choir. Voices
From Home and Away. Chatman: new work
(world premiere); and other works. Thomas
Bell, conductor. Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living
Arts Dr., Mississauga. 905-306-6000. $25;
$10(12 and under).
●● 7:00: Durham Girls’ Choir. O Canada: A
Musical Journey. Variety of Canadian choral
music . Michelle Azavedo, conductor; guests:
local artists on violin, flute and piano. Faith
United Church, 1778 Nash Rd., Courtice. 905425-2596. $12; $8(sr/st).
●● 7:30: Amadeus Choir. Voices of Earth.
Orff: Carmina Burana(excerpts); and works
by Henderson and Daley. Lydia Adams, conductor; Bach Children’s Chorus, Linda Beaupré, conductor; Shawn Grenke and Eleanor
Daley, piano and organ . Yorkminster Park
Baptist Church, 1585 Yonge St. 416-446-0188.
$40; $30(sr); $25(under 30); $15(st).
●● 7:30: Green Door. Cabaret Series: Gabi’s
thewholenote.com
Minivan Mixtape. Gabi Epstein, vocals. Lower
416-915-6747. $25/$30(reserved); $20(arts
worker, rush).
●● 7:30: Jazz in the Kitchen. The Picture of
Happiness. Cabaret show. Brad Hampton,
singer-actor; Patti Loach, piano; Rae Ellen
Bodie, director. 52 Pine Cres. 416-699-8353.
$35; $30(sr/st/arts worker).
●● 7:30: Jubilate Singers. Rivers. Works by
Le Jeune, Haydn, Verdi, Glick, Góreki and Galbraith. Isabel Bernaus, conductor; Sherry
Squires, piano. St. Simon-the-Apostle
Anglican Church, 525 Bloor St. E. 416-4851988. $20; $15(sr); $10(st).
●● 7:30: Rosedale Presbyterian Church. A
New Vocal Series: Special Launch Concert An Enchanted Summer Evening of Song and
Opera. 129 Mt. Pleasant Rd. 416-921-1931. $20.
●● 7:30: Singing Out. The Gay Outdoors.
Songs inspired by nature. Glenn Gould Studio,
250 Front St. W. 416-948-8162. $25. See 3:00.
Rhapsody in Blue. Gershwin: Rhapsody
in Blue; Elgar: Enigma Variations. Bramwell Tovey, piano and conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-593-4828 or
416-593-0688(Chinese). $29-$120. Also June
2(mat, George Weston Recital Hall).
●● 7:30: VOCA Chorus of Toronto. Celtic Tide.
S. Macmillan: Celtic Mass for the Sea (libretto
by J. Brickenden); and other Celtic choral
and instrumental works including arrangements by J. Crober. Guests: Scott Macmillan,
guitar; Loretto Reid, tin whistle/Irish flute/
concertina; Sharlene Wallace, Celtic harp;
Kelly Hood, uilleann pipes; Jennyfer Brickenden, narration; Jenny Crober; conductor;
Elizabeth Acker, piano. Eastminster United
Church, 310 Danforth Ave. 416-947-8487. $25;
$20(sr); $15(st).
Change. See May 14.
●● 8:00: Arraymusic. Mbira Plus - Special
Array Session #17. Interactive Zimbabwe
style evening concert/party. Array Space, 218
- 60 Atlantic Ave. 416-532-3019. PWYC. See
section D, “The ETCeteras,” under Workshops
for details.
●● 8:00: Art of Time Ensemble. Songbook 7:
presents
CeltiC tide
Featuring Scott Macmillan & Jennyfer Brickenden’s
Celtic Mass for the Sea
Jenny Crober: Artistic Director
Elizabeth Acker: Accompanist

Featuring our special guests from Halifax:
Scott Macmillan: guitar
Jennyfer Brickenden: narration
And some of Canada’s finest Celtic musicians:
Loretto Reid: tin whistle, Irish flute, accordian
Leon Taheny: bodhrán, percussion
Sharlene Wallace: Celtic Harp
Kelly Hood: uilleann pipes
Rose Bolton: fiddle / violin
Wendy Solomon: cello
SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 2013

7:30 PM
Eastminster United Church
310 Danforth Ave. (Chester subway)
$25 (Reg.); $20 (Sr.); $15 (St.)
Info., tickets online: www.vocachorus.ca
416-947-8487
Grace Church on-the-Hill
Jubilate
singers
presents
Liona Boyd in Concert
with Michael Savona
Isabel Bernaus
conductor
Rivers
Sherry Squires
accompanist
jubilatesingers.ca
River songs by
Le Jeune, Haydn, Verdi,
Glick, Góreki , Galbraith
and many more
June 1, 8pm
Grace Church on-the-Hill
300 Lonsdale Rd.
Sat. June 1, 7:30 pm
416-488-7884
Tickets:
416-485-1988,
at the door, or
Tickets online at www.gracechurchonthehill.ca
In support of Faithworks and
The Primate’s World Relief
and Development Fund
thewholenote.com
St. Simon-the-Apostle
Church
525 Bloor St. East
We gratefully acknowledge the support of
WORKS
www.ticketweb.ca
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Madeleine Peyroux. See May 31.
Herman. See May 22.
●● 8:00: Counterpoint Community Orchestra. In Concert. Khachaturian: Violin Concerto in d; Beethoven: Symphony No.8. Robert
Aitken, flute. St. Luke’s United Church, 353
Sherbourne St. 416-902-7532. $20/$18(adv);
$15(st); $10(child).
●●8:00: Gordon Murray Presents. Piano
Soirée. Arndt: Nola; Gershwin: I Got Rhythm;
Kern: Just The Way You Look Tonight; Novello:
Waltz Of My Heart; Abreu: Tico-Tico no Fubá;
and other selections. Gordon Murray, piano.
Trinity-St. Paul’s United Church, 427 Bloor St.
W. 416-631-4300. $10; $5(st).
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Bowser, conductor. Isabel Bader Theatre, 93
Charles St. W. 416-628-9195. $25; $20(sr);
$10(st). 7:30: Pre-concert chat .
See May 30.
●● 8:00: Voices Chamber Choir. Bach to
Basics. Bach: Singet dem Herrn BWV225;
Brahms: Canonic Mass; Beethoven: selections from Mass in C; and other works. John
Stephenson, organ; Ron Ka Ming Cheung,
conductor. Church of St. Martin in-theFields, 151 Glenlake Ave. 416-519-0528. $25;
$15(sr/st).
●● 8:00: Grace Church on-the-Hill. Liona
Boyd in Concert with Michael Savona. Liona
Boyd and Michael Savona, guitars. 300 Lonsdale Rd. 416-488-7884. $60. Admission
in support of Faithworks and the Primate’s
World Relief and Development Fund.
●● 8:00: Musideum. Louis Simão Trio . World
jazz. Louis Simao, vocals and guitar. Suite 133
●● 8:00: NYCO Symphony Orchestra. Concert 4. Massenet: Overture from Phèdre;
Mahler: Adagietto from Symphony No.5;
Debussy: Rhapsody for Clarinet and Orchestra; Bill Krangle, clarinet; Tchaikovsky: Swan
Lake Suite. Bill Krangle, clarinet; David
Sunday June 2
●● 12:00 noon: University of Toronto. Sol-
diers’ Tower Carillon Recital. Selection of
classical, traditional and contemporary
songs. Roy Lee, carillon. Soldiers’ Tower, 7
Hart House Circle. 416-978-3485. Free. Outdoor event, chairs provided.
Change. See May 14.
●● 2:00: Oratory of St. Philip Neri. Master
Works of J.S. Bach. Prelude and Fugue in
G; Art of Fugue: cp 1, 5-9, 11, 13, 14; Passacaglia. Philip Fournier, organ. The Oratory,
Holy Family Church, 1372 King St. W. 416-5322879. Free.
●● 2:00: Parks and Recreation. In Concert:
The Juan Tomas Show Band. Works by Paganini and Albeniz. Other music by Whitney
Houston, Nat King Cole, Hoagy Carmichael,
Jim Croce, Gloria Gaynor and Debbie Boone.
Arabel Castillo, vocals; Juan Tomas, guitar.
Guests: Jeanette Ricasio, vocals; Tisa Sparks,
guitar. Scarborough Civic Centre, 150 Borough Dr., Scarborough. 416 485 2056. Free.
●● 2:00: Waterfront Blues. 9th Annual Blues
Festival. Morgan Davis (2:00); Paul Reddick
(4:00); Deanna Bogart (6:00). Woodbine Park
(Coxwell Ave. and Lake Shore Blvd. E.), 1681
Lake Shore Blvd. E. 416-996-8713. Free. Festival runs May 31 (6pm to 10pm), June 1 (noon
to 10pm) and June 2 (noon to 8pm).
●● 3:00: Christ Church Deer Park. A Coronation Celebration. Mass Choir and Band; Claire
Bresee, organ/piano; Band of Her Majesty’s
Royal Marines Association. 1570 Yonge St.
416-282-0427. $20; $10 (under 12).
●● 3:00: Green Door. Cabaret Series. Sophia
Perlman and Alex Samaras, vocals. Lower
416-915-6747. $25/$30(reserved); $20(arts
worker, rush).
●● 3:00: Toronto Jewish Folk Choir. Raisins
and Almonds. Celebrating Goldfaden, Weinzweig, and Israel at 65. Goldfaden: selections from Rozhinkes mit Mandlen (Raisins
and Almonds) song collection including Der
Milechl (The Mill); Rozhinkes mit Mandlen;
Gekuman is di Tzait (The Time Has Come);
Weinzweig: Am Yisroel Chai (Israel Lives!);
Mendelssohn: He Watching Over Israel (from
Elijah); and other songs in Hebrew and Yiddish celebrating Israel’s 65th anniversary.
Martin Houtman, tenor; Alexander Veprinsky, conductor; Lina Zemelman, piano; guest:
Kyra Folk-Farber, soprano. Temple Sinai, 210
Wilson Ave. 905-669-5906. $25/$20(adv);
$15(sr); $10(st); free(12 and under ).
●● 3:00: VIVA! Youth Singers. A Medieval
Bestiary Concert. Burry: A Medieval Bestiary,
a Cantata for Young Voices. VIVA’s five choirs;
Carol Woodward Ratzlaff, Janessa LaFleur,
Laura Menard and Susan Suchard, conductors; guests: Toronto Consort. Church of the
Holy Trinity, 10 Trinity Sq. 416-788-8482.
$12–$20.
See May 30.
B
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W. 416-761-7776. $25; $20(st/sr).
●● 8:00: Musideum. Indranil Mallick, tabla,
and Partha Bose, sitar. World music. Suite
Thursday June 6
●● 12:00 noon: Encore Symphonic Concert
Band. Lunchtime Concert. Encore selection of concert band music including classical, musicals and other genres, usually with
one vocal selection. John Edward Liddle, conductor. Encore Hall, Wilmar Heights Centre,
963 Pharmacy Ave., Scarborough. 416-3463910. $10. Lunch friendly; coffee available.
Concerts take place first Thursday of the
month.
Christ Church Deer Park. Lunchtime Chamber Music. Christopher James, flute; Aaron
James, piano. Christ Church Deer Park,
1570 Yonge St. 416-241-1298. Free, donations
welcome.
●● 12:15: Music at Metropolitan. Noon at Met.
Rachel Mahon, organ. Metropolitan United
Free.
●● 7:00: Toronto Summer Opera Workshop.
Mozart’s Don Giovanni. See June 4.
●● 8:00: Gallery 345. Coenraad Bloemendal
and Sybil Shanahan, cello, with Mauro Bertoli,
piano. Franchomme: selection of Caprices
and Études for two cellos; Beethoven: Sonata
in A; Brahms: Sonata in e. 345 Sorauren
$10(st).
●● 8:00: Musideum. Tod Paul Dorozio, classical guitar. Suite 133 (main floor), 401 Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323. $20.
See May 9.
Joshua Bell, violin, and Edgar Meyer, bass.
See June 5.
Monday June 3
●● 12:15: Music Mondays. The Power of the
Music Mondays
The Power of the Organ
WITH
Mélanie Barney
Noon on Monday, June 3
The Church of the Holy Trinity
(right behind Eaton Centre)
Rhapsody in Blue. Bernstein: Overture to
Candide; Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue; Elgar:
Enigma Variations. Bramwell Tovey, piano
and conductor. George Weston Recital Hall,
Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge St.
1-855-985-2787. $43.50-$98.50. Also June
1(eve, Roy Thomson Hall, no Bernstein).
●● 4:00: St. Olave’s Anglican Church. The
Golden Age of English Music. Royal Festive Evensong followed by Strawberry Tea
and performance of works by Dowland and
his contemporaries. Musicians in Ordinary
(Hallie Fishel, soprano; John Edwards, lute).
360 Windermere Ave. 416-769-5686. Contributions appreciated. Religious service.
Wedding. See May.
●● 7:30: Penthelia Singers. On Broadway.
Broadway classics from the early 20th century to present. Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton
Ave. 416-921-1549. $20; $25(sr/st).
●● 7:30: Victoria Scholars Men’s Choral
Ensemble. Bach, Beethoven, Brahms … and
the Boys. Brahms: Alto Rhapsody; Britten:
The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard; and works by Bédard, Burge, Bárdos,
Bernstein and Bruckner. Jerzy Cichocki, conductor. Our Lady Of Sorrows, 3055 Bloor St.
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Organ. Bach: Toccata and Fugue in d; Wagner:
Prelude to Tristan and Isolde; Saint-Saëns:
Danse Macabre; Elgar: Nimrod; Vierne: 1ère
Symphonie. Mélanie Barney, organ. Church
of the Holy Trinity, 10 Trinity Sq. 416-598-4521
x304. Free, $5 suggested donation.
See May 9.
Tuesday June 4
Chamber Music Series: Wordless Dreams.
Schubert: Nacht und Träume (Canadian premiere); Berg: Die Nachtigall; Traumgekrönt;
works by Prokofiev and Milhaud. Keir GoGwilt, violin. Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre,
145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. Free.
●●1:00: Cathedral Church of St. James.
Music at Midday. Works by Bach, Franck,
Duruflé and Briggs. David Briggs, organ.
65 Church St. 416-364-7865 x231. Freewill
offering.
Mozart’s Don Giovanni. In Italian with English subtitles and piano accompaniment. St.
Simon-the-Apostle Anglican Church, 525
Bloor St. E. 416-923-8714. $15; $10(sr/st). Also
Jun 5, 6.
●● 8:00: Soulpepper. The Barber of Seville
See May 9.
baritone (Bretigny); Avery Krisman, tenor
(Guillot); Henry Irwin, baritone (Count des
Greiux); and others; William Shookoff, piano.
College Street United Church, 452 College St.
416-455-2365. $20.
●● 7:30: ORGANIX 13. Closing Gala: Chelsea
Chen, organ, and Lewis Wong, violin. Works
by Bach, Cooman, Hakim, Poulenc, Chen,
Reger and Prokofiev. St. Clement’s Anglican
Church, 59 Briar Hill Ave. 416-769-3893. $55;
free(under 18).
●● 7:30: TCDSB Staff Arts. Hairspray. Music
by Shaiman; lyrics by Wittman and Shaiman; book by O’Donnell and Meehan. Michael
Saver, director. Cardinal Carter Academy for
the Arts, 36 Greenfield Ave. 416-222-8282
x2787. $22. Also June 8, 9(mat), 13-15.
●● 8:00: Gallery 345. Trio Laurier: Storytelling
Music. Works by Bizet, Taffanel, Thornborrow,
Borne, Crouch and others. Jeff Stonehouse
and Diana Lam, flute; Matty Walton, piano. 345
Sorauren Ave. 416-822-9781. $20; $15(sr/arts
worker); $10(st).
●● 8:00: Harlequin Singers. A Tribute to the
Heroes and Villains of Broadway. Burlington
Music Centre, 2311 New St., Burlington. 905385-1624. $25; $20(under 12). Also June 8.
●● 8:00: Musideum. naw. Experimental
music. Neil Wiernik, laptops. Suite 133 (main
Friday June 7
Wednesday June 5
●● 7:30: Domoney Artists Management/
Bobolink Entertainment. The Star of Robbie
Burns. Burns: My Love is like a red, red rose;
Comin’ thru the Rye”; plus tribute to Brigadoon including Almost like being in Love; The
Heather on the Hill; Go home to Bonnie Jean.
Virginia Hatfield, soprano; Benjamin Covey,
baritone; Melody McShane, piano; R.H. Thomson, narrator/host. Church of the Redeemer,
162 Bloor St. W. 416-755-7158. $30(tea and
shortbread included).
●● 7:30: Green Door. Cabaret Series: Three
Little Maids. Debora Joy, Barbara Dunn
Prosser and Janet Martin, vocals. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington Ave. 416-9156747. $25/$30(reserved); $20(arts worker,
rush).
●● 7:30: Opera by Request. Manon. Massenet.
Caroline Dery, soprano (Manon); Lenard
Whiting, tenor (Des Grieux); Michael Robert-Broder, baritone (Lescaut); Andrew Tam,
World Music Series: Strings Without Borders.
Dance repertoire from China, Spain and the
Middle East. Wen Zhao, pipa; Roman Smirnov,
guitar. Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, Four
Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145
Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. Free.
Noonday Organ Recitals. John Palmer, organ.
1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167 x236. Free.
●● 12:35: St. Stephens in-the-Fields Anglican Church. Concerts at Midday: Richard
Herriott in Concert. 103 Bellevue Ave. 647523-3550. By donation. In support of music
program.
Mozart’s Don Giovanni. See June 4.
●● 7:30: ORGANIX 13. Mélanie Barney, organ,
and Tina Cayouette, viola. Works by Bach,
Vitali, Vierne, Fauré, Britten, Murrill and
Vaughan Williams. Church of the Holy Trinity, 10 Trinity Sq. 416-769-3893. $40; $35(sr);
$30(sr); free(under 18).
See May 9.
Joshua Bell, violin, and Edgar Meyer, bass.
Copland: Appalachian Spring; Meyer: Concerto for Violin and Double Bass (Canadian premiere); Ravel: Tzigane for Violin
and Orchestra; Respighi: Pines of Rome.
Peter Oundjian, conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-593-4828 or
416-593-0688(Chinese). $29-$145. Post-concert chat onstage with Peter Oundjian. Also
Jun 6, 8.
“A Tribute to the Heroes and
Villains of Broadway”
June 7 & June 8 at 8:00pm
Burlington Music Centre 2311 New St., Burlington
Tickets $25 ($20 for children under 12)
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$10.
●● 8:00: Show One Productions/Starvox
Entertainment. The Giacomo Variations.
Sturminger. Fusion of theatre and opera
based on the life of Giacomo Casanova. Featuring arias by Mozart. John Malkovich, actor;
Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, actor; Florian Boesch,
A selection of sacred and secular music. Gary
Heard, conductor. St. Paul’s United Church,
308 King St., Midland. 705-526-4724. $20;
$15(st).
●● 8:00: DaCapo Chamber Choir. Leonardo Dreams. Enns: Ten Thousand Rivers
of Oil; Whitacre: Leonardo Dreams of his
Flying Machine; Buhr: Richot Mass. St. John
the Evangelist Church, 23 Water St. N.,
Kitchener. 519-725-7549. $20; $15(sr/st);
$5(eyeGO, child). Also May 5(mat, Waterloo).
●● 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.
Viennese Delights. See May 3.
baritone; Sophie Klußmann, soprano; Orchester Wiener Akademie, Martin Haselböck,
conductor. Elgin Theatre, 189 Yonge St. 1-855622-2787. $55-$175. Also Jun 8(mat and eve),
9(7:00).
●●Jun07 8:00: Soulpepper. The Barber of
Seville. See May 9.
B. Concerts Beyond the GTA
Sunday May 5
IN THIS ISSUE: Barrie, Brantford, Collingwood, Dundas, Guelph,
●● 2:30: Georgian Music. Bourbon Street to
Hamilton, Kingston, Kitchener, London, Midland, Niagara-on-the-Lake,
Peterborough, Port Hope, St. Catharines, Stratford and Waterloo.
Wednesday May 1
●● 12:00 noon: Midday Music with Shigeru.
Outstanding Participants of the Barrie
Kiwanis Music Festival. Hi-Way Pentecostal
Church, 50 Anne St. N., Barrie. 705-726-1181.
$5; free(st).
●● 12:15: Wednesday Noon Concerts. Colours of Spring. Varied announced works,
mainly classical. Elizabeth Lepock, soprano;
Jason White, piano. St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 54 Queen St. N., Kitchener. 519576-2129. Free.
●● 2:00: Shaw Festival. Guys and Dolls. Music
and lyrics by Loesser; book by Swerling and
Burrows. Elodie Gillett (Sarah Brown); Kyle
Blair (Sky Masterson); Jenny L. Wright (Miss
Adelaide); Shawn Wright, (Nathan Detroit);
Thom Allison, (Nicely-Nicely Johnson); and
others; Tadeusz Bradecki, stage director; Paul
Sportelli, music director. Shaw Festival Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on-theLake. 905-468-21721 or 1-800-511-7429. $50
and up; $45 and up(sr); $24-$29(st). Runs to
October 12. Start times vary. LISTING NOT
REPEATED.
●● 8:00: Sanderson Centre for the Performing Arts. Buddy Wasisname and the
Other Fellers. Comedy presented with a
diverse repertoire of music and instruments
including improvised percussion. Kevin Blackmore, mandolin/fiddle/guitar/vocals; Ray
Johnson, accordian/fiddle/vocals; Wayne
Chaulk, bass/guitar/vocals; Byron Pardy,
bass. 88 Dalhousie St., Brantford. 519-7588090 or 1-800-265-0710. $33. Also May
2(mat).
Thursday May 2
●● 2:00: Sanderson Centre for the Per-
forming Arts. Buddy Wasisname and the
Other Fellers. See May 1.
Friday May 3
●● 12:15: St. Jude’s Anglican Church. Noon
Recital. Stephanie Burgoyne, organ. 81
Peel St., Brantford. 519-752-0965. Freewill
offering.
●● 8:00: Aeolian Hall. Pavlo. Mediterranean
guitar. 795 Dundas St. E., London. 519-6727950. $42/$39(adv).
Viennese Delights. Strauss: Overture to
Die Fledermaus; Webern: Symphony Op.21;
Mozart: Violin Concerto No.3 in G; Weber:
Concertino for Clarinet in E-flat; Haydn: Symphony No.94 in G “Surprise”; Strauss: Blue
Danube Waltz. Anita Walsh, violin; Ross
Edwards, clarinet; James Judd, conductor.
Centre in the Square, 101 Queen St. N.,
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Broadway. Showtunes, swing and others.
Foothills Brass. Central United Church, 54
Ross St., Barrie. 705-726-1181. $65; free with
purchase of next season’s series.
Viennese Delights. See May 3.
●● 2:30: Mohawk College Community Choir.
A Little “Light” Music. Selections from Sound
of Music, Guys & Dolls, Phantom of the Opera
and Les Misérables. David Holler and Lucy
Bledig, vocals. St. Paul’s United Church, 29
Park St. W., Dundas. 905-526-7938. $20;
$15(sr/st). Reception follows.
●● 2:30: Orchestra Kingston. In Concert.
Palmer: Northern Light Overture; Haydn:
Trumpet Concerto; Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite
No.2 Op.55; Strauss Jr.: Wine, Women and
Song Waltz Op.333; Verdi: Triumphal March
from Aida. John Palmer, conductor. Salvation
Army Citadel, 816 Centennial Dr., Kingston.
613-968-3737. $15; $10(sr/st).
●● 3:00: DaCapo Chamber Choir. Leonardo
Dreams. Enns: Ten Thousand Rivers of Oil;
Whitacre: Leonardo Dreams of his Flying
Machine; Buhr: Richot Mass. Knox Presbyterian Church, 50 Erb St. W., Waterloo. 519-7257549. $20; $15(sr/st); $5(eyeGO, child). Also
May 4(eve, Kitchener).
●● 3:00: Kawartha Youth Orchestra. Sounds
of Spring. Vivaldi: Spring (from The Four Seasons); and other works. Market Hall Theatre,
140 Charlotte St., Peterborough. 705-7491146. $20/$15(adv); $5(youth).
●● 3:30: Huronia Symphony Orchestra.
Grand Finale. MacMillan: Fantasy on Scottish Melodies; Bruch: Violin Concerto No.1;
Brahms: Symphony No. 3. Oliver Balaburski,
conductor. Collier Street United Church, 112
Collier St., Barrie. 705-721-4752. $20; $10(st);
$5(child).
●● 3:30: Melos Choir and Chamber Orchestra. The Tudors. Byrd: Mass for Four Voices;
Gibbons: This is the record of John; and other
works. David Cameron, conductor; guests:
Dylan Hayden, tenor; consort of viols, harpsichord and organ. St. George’s Cathedral
Great Hall, 129 Wellington St., Kingston. 613549-7125. $20.
Kitchener. 519-745-4711 or 888-745-4717. $19$80. Also May 4, 5(mat).
Saturday May 4
●● 2:00: Stratford Festival. Fiddler on the
Roof. Book by J. Stein; music by J. Bock; lyrics
by S. Harnick. Based on Sholem Aleichem
stories. Kate Hennig (Golde); Scott Wentworth (Tevye); Jennifer Stewart (Tzeitel);
Jacquelyn French (Hodel); Keely Hutton
(Chava); Gabrielle Jones (Yente); and others;
Donna Feore, director and choreographer;
Shelley Hanson, music director. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen St., Stratford. 519-273-1600
or 1-800-567-1600. $49-$95; $36(18 and
under). Runs to October 20. Check website
for performance dates and times. LISTING
NOT REPEATED.
Family Series: The Harmony Factory. Evan
Mitchell, conductor. Centre in the Square, 101
Queen St. N., Kitchener. 519-745-4711 or 888745-4717. $17; $11(child). 1:15: Pre-concert art
activities and musical demonstrations.
●● 3:00: Metropolitan United Church. Music
@ Met. Daniel Roth, organ. 468 Wellington St.,
London. 519-432-7189 x27. Free.
●● 7:00: Grand Philharmonic Children’s
Choir. We Will Find An Answer. Works
by Papoulis. Guests: St. Mary’s Children’s
Choir, Andrea de Boer-Jones, conductor.
First United Church, 16 William St. N., Waterloo. 519-578-6885. $20; $10(under 30);
$5(eyeGo).
●● 7:30: Chorus Niagara. Verdi Requiem.
Marking 200th anniversary of Verdi’s birth
with over 200 choristers and instrumentalists, and four soloists. Lake Street Armoury,
81 Lake St., St. Catherines. 905-688-5550
x3257 or 1-866-617-3257. $35; $33(sr);
$15(st). Post-concert reception, candle lighting ceremony and cake, in celebration of
Chorus Niagara’s 50th year.
●● 7:30: John Laing Singers. Morning and
Evening. Tavener: Svyati; Bach: music from
Cello Suite No.1 (new choral adaptation by R.
Bergs); and works by Rutter, Byrd, Vasks and
Dvořák. Mercer-Park Duo (Rachel Mercer,
cello; Angela Park, piano); Guest: Yehonatan
Berick, violin. St. Paul’s United Church, 29
Park St. W., Dundas. 905-628-5238. $21;
$16(st). Also May 5(mat, Burlington, see GTA
listings).
●● 7:30: King Edward Choir. Spring Awakening. Orff: Carmina Burana; Sifuba: South African Choral Suite; and others. Collier Street
United Church, 112 Collier St., Barrie. 705734-0116. $22/$20(adv); $10(17 and under).
●● 7:30: Serenata Community Choir. Our
Favourite Things: 25th Anniversary Concert.
Tuesday May 7
●● 7:30: Perimeter Institute. Classical World
Artists: Concert No. 4. Works by Bach,
Debussy, Gubaidulina, Saint-Saëns and Sarasate. Karen Gomyo, violin; Dina Vainshtein,
piano. Mike Lazaridis Theatre of Ideas, 31
Caroline St. N., Waterloo. 519-833-4480. $75;
$50(st, w/ID).
●● 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber
Music Society. Dmitris Kotronakis, classical
guitar. Bach: Chaconne (arr. Kotronakis);
Paganini: Caprices Nos. 1, 20, 16 and 24;
Moraitis: 9 Sketches (Dedicated to DK); Rak:
Russian Waltzes; Piazzolla: Suite Troileana;
Roland Dyens: Hommage á Villa-Lobo.
KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young St. W., Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $30; $25(sr); $20(st).
Wednesday May 8
●● 12:15: Wednesday Noon Concerts. Colours
of Spring. Varied announced works, mainly
classical. Ginny Scarfino, clarinet; Peter Bald,
piano. St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 54
Queen St. N., Kitchener. 519-576-2129. Free.
11:45: Light lunches available at modest cost.
●● 2:30: Seniors Serenade. Music of the
Palm Court. Amity Piano Trio. Central United
Church, 54 Ross St., Barrie. 705-726-1181.
Free. Refreshments afterwards for $5.
Thursday May 9
●● 8:00: Aeolian Hall. Alex Pangman, vocals:
Album Release Concert. Swing. 795 Dundas
St. E., London. 519-672-7950. $25/$20(adv);
$15(sr/st).
Friday May 10
●● 8:00: Aeolian Hall. Aeolian Discovery
Series. Folk music. Aidan Knight; Folly and
the Hunter; Spencer Burton. 795 Dundas
St. E., London. 519-672-7950. $18/$15(adv);
$12(sr/st).
Saturday May 11
●● 7:00: Grand Philharmonic Chamber Choir.
Media Vita: In the Midst of Life. Sheppard:
Media Vita; Tallis: Spem in Alium; Duruflé:
Requiem. Guests: Toronto Chamber Choir;
Mark Vuorinen, conductor. St. Andrew’s
Presbyterian Church, 54 Queen St. N., Kitchener. 519-578-6885. $18-$25; $10(under 30);
$5(eyeGo).
●● 7:30: Peterborough Singers. Bach’s B
Minor Mass. Leslie Fagan, soprano; Laura
Pudwell, mezzo; Adam Bishop, tenor; Peter
McGillivray, baritone; Talisker Players; Sydney
Birrell, conductor; Ian Sadler, organ. George
Street United Church, 534 George St. N.,
Peterborough. 705-745-1820. $30; $10(st).
Music Society. Ensembles of Wellington
Winds. Duos, trios, quartets, and others.
●● 8:00: Speak Music. Echo: CD Release Concert. Michael Reinhart, guitar/voice. Magnolia
Café, 88 Yarmouth St., Guelph. 519-766-4663.
$12; $25(with CD).
Sunday May 12
●● 2:00: Gallery Players of Niagara. An Even-
ing with Michael Kelly. Words-and-music recreation of an evening’s entertainment from
1784 Vienna. Eybler Quartet: Aisslinn Nosky
and Julia Wedman, violin; Patrick G. Jordan,
viola; Margaret Gay, cello; guest: R.H. Thomson, actor. St. Barnabas Anglican Church, 31
Queenston St., St. Catharines. 905-468-1525.
$31; $28(sr); $11(st/child).
●● 3:00: Dundas Valley Orchestra. Spring
Concert: Student Days. Works written by composers when they were students. Brahms: Academic Festival Overture;
Thomas: Overture to McMaster Suite;
Barletta; Relative Flutes; Romberg: Music
from the The Student Prince; Bizet: Symphony No.1; Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance
March No.1. St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park
St. W., Dundas. 905-387-4773. Free (PWYC).
●● 3:00: La Jeunesse Youth Orchestra. Sonic
Bloom. Works by Martin, Williams, Wilson,
Shore and others. Port Hope United Church,
34 South St., Port Hope. 1-866-460-5596.
thewholenote.com
$20; $15(st); $50(family).
●● 5:00: St. George’s Cathedral. Mother’s Day
Concert. St. George’s Cathedral Children’s
Choir; Michael Capon, director. Great Hall, St.
George’s Cathedral, 129 Wellington St., Kingston. 613-548-4617. Free; voluntary offering
collected in support of the Children’s Choir
program. 4:00: High Tea.
Wednesday May 15
●● 12:00 noon: Music at St. Andrew’s. Chris-
topher Dawes, Organ. St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 47 Owen St., Barrie.
705-726-1181. $5; free(st).
classical. Mauro Bertoli, piano. St. Andrew’s
Presbyterian Church, 54 Queen St. N., Kitchener. 519-576-2129. Free. 11:45: Light lunches
available at modest cost.
Music Society. Mauro Bertoli, piano. Clementi: Sonata Op.47 No.2; Debussy: Deux
Arabesques; Casella: 11 Children’s Pieces
(selections); Poulenc: 3 Novelettes; Satie:
Gnossienne Nos. 3 and 4; and other works.
Thursday May 16
●●7:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.
Bugs Bunny at the Symphony. Screening
of Bugs Bunny cartoons with live orchestral accompaniment based on the music
of Rossini, Wagner, Offenbach, Liszt, Tchaikovsky and others. What’s Opera, Doc?; The
Rabbit of Seville; and other cartoons. George
Daugherty, conductor. Centre in the Square,
101 Queen St. N., Kitchener. 519-745-4711 or
1-888-745-4717. $30-$85; $15-$42.50(child).
●● 8:00: Sunfest. Chico Pinheiro Quintet.
Jazz. Aeolian Hall, 795 Dundas St. E., London.
519-672-7950. $30/$25(adv).
Friday May 17
Organ Recital: Joel Vanderzee. 81 Peel St.,
Brantford. 519-752-0965. Free.
Sunday May 19
●● 2:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Cham-
ber Music Society. Laments and Exultations. di Lasso: Lamentations of Jeremiah
(excerpts); Ginastera: Lamentations of Jeremiah (excerpts); Whitacre: Alleluia; Heppener: Canti Carnascialeschi (movements
1 and 2); Weelkes: When David Heard; and
other works. Marywood University Chamber
Singers. Knox Presbyterian Church, 50 Erb
St. W., Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $20; $15(sr);
$10(st).
Wednesday May 22
classical. Renee Kruisselbrink, piano; and
guests. St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 54
Queen St. N., Kitchener. 519-576-2129. Free.
11:45: Light lunches available at modest cost.
●● 7:30: Remigio Pereira/Sun Media Niagara/Centre for the Arts, Brock University.
Benefit Concert: Niagara Youth Take Action.
Includes opera, pop and hip-hop. Neverest;
Remigio Pereira; Niagara Symphony Orchestra; Young Stitch; Sese; and others. Sean
O’Sullivan Theatre, 500 Glenridge Ave., St.
Catharines. 905-688-5550 x3257 or 1-866617-3257. $59; $25(st); $100(VIP). 6:30: VIP
refreshments; meet and greet. Concert in
thewholenote.com
Orchestra. Triumphant Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5 in e. Colin Clarke,
conductor. McIntyre Performing Arts
Centre, Mohawk College, 135 Fennell Ave. W.,
Hamilton. 905-869-4796. $20; $15(sr/st);
$10(child).
●● 7:30: Lyrica Chamber Choir. New Canadian Choral Gems. Healey: Syracusan
Motets (premiere); Enns: Te Deum Brevis;
Henderson: God is our Song; Estacio: Mrs.
Deegan from Eulogies; Mozetich: Sanctus.
Burton Avenue United Church, 37 Burton Ave.,
Barrie. 705-722-0271. $17; $14(sr/st).
Mathematical Sciences (U of T)/Perimeter
Institute. Random Walks: Music of Xenakis
and Beyond. Works by Cage, Abrahamsen,
Wannamaker and Lachenmann. JACK Quartet: Christopher Otto, violin; Ari Streisfeld,
violin; John Pickford Richards, violin; Kevin
McFarland, cello. Mike Lazaridis Theatre of
Ideas, 31 Caroline St. N., Waterloo. 519-8334480. $35; $20(st, w/ID).
●● 8:00: Ontario Guild of English Handbell
Ringers Festival. Tribute: Back to the Future –
OGEHR Festival Final Concert. Over 400 festival handbell ringers; David Harris, conductor.
Alumni Hall, Western University, 1151 Richmond St., London. 519-455-8895. $15.
●● 8:00: Port Hope Friends of Music. Canadian Brass. Port Hope United Church, 34
South St., Port Hope. 905-797-2295. $45;
$10(under 30).
support of Free the Children.
Thursday May 23
Music Society. Seiler-Mercer-Park Trio.
Mozart: Trio in G K496; Piazzolla: Oblivion;
Schubert: Trio No.2 in E-flat D929. Mayumi
Seiler, violin; Rachel Mercer, cello; Angela
Park, piano. KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young
St. W., Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $30; $25(sr);
$20(st).
●● 8:00: Ontario Guild of English Handbell
Ringers Festival. Tribute: Back to the Future
– Raleigh Ringers in Concert. Raleigh Ringers
Handbell Ensemble; David Harris, conductor.
Metropolitan United Church, 468 Wellington
St., London. 519-432-5651. $20.
Friday May 24
Organ Recital: Colin Cousins. 81 Peel St.,
Brantford. 519-752-0965. Free.
●● 7:30: Sound Investment Community
Choir. Celebrate the Music! From Mozart to
Les Miserables. Keiko Kuepfer, piano; Brian
Rae, conductor. Trinity United Church (Collingwood), 140 Maple St., Collingwood. 705293-0573. $20; Free(12 and under). Also May
25(mat).
●● 8:00: Sunfest. Kelly Lee Evans. Jazz vocals.
Aeolian Hall, 795 Dundas St. E., London. 519672-7950. $25/$20(adv).
Saturday May 25
Sunday May 26
●● 7:30: Aeolian Hall. Aeolian Trio. Mary-
Mathematical Sciences (U of T)/Institute
for Quantum Computing (U of Waterloo).
Random Walks: Music of Xenakis and Beyond
– Grains of Sound: A Concert of Electroacoustics, Video and Robotic Performers. Xenakis:
Concret PH; Varese: Poème électronique;
Harley: Night-flowering … not even sand;
Roads: Sculptor, Pictor Alpha, Epicurus; Arne
Eigenfeldt: Roboterstück; Coming Together:
NotomotoN; Piché: Océanes. Richard Burrows and Karmetik NotomotoN robotic
performers. Mike and Ophelia Lazaridis
Quantem-Nano Centre, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave. W., Waterloo. 519888-4908. $20; $10(st).
●● 4:00: Sound Investment Community
Choir. Celebrate the Music! See May 24.
Mathematical Sciences (U of T)/Perimeter
Institute/Institute for Quantum Computing (U of Waterloo). Random Walks: Music of
Xenakis and Beyond: Persephassa. Xenakis:
Persephassa. TorQ Percussion Quartet; Aiyun
Huang and Morris Palter, percussion. Waterloo Park Cricket Pitch, 50 Young St. W., Waterloo. 519-579-8564. Free.
●● 7:00: Guelph Youth Singers. It Takes A Village. Selections from Peter Pan, Oliver and
Anne of Green Gables; and other works in a
variety of styles. River Run Centre, 35 Woolwich St., Guelph. 519-763-3000. $25; $20(sr/
st).
●● 7:30: Aeolian Hall. Canadian Celtic Choir.
Guests: Michael Kelly Cavan; Butler Fearon
O’Connor School of Irish Dance. 795 Dundas
St. E., London. 519-672-7950. $20.
●● 7:30: Bach Elgar Choir. Magnificat and
Psalm: Works by Bach and Glick. Jessica
Muirhead, soprano; Marion Samuel-Stevens,
soprano; Margaret Bardos, alto; Bud Roach,
tenor; Alex Cann, conductor. Melrose United
Church, 86 Homewood Ave., Hamilton. 905527-5995. $35.
●● 7:30: Hamilton Philharmonic Youth
Elizabeth Brown, violin; Marion Miller, piano;
Adrian Wright, cello. 795 Dundas St. E.,
London. 519-672-7950. $25/$20(adv); $15(sr/
st).
Wednesday May 29
classical. Debra Lacoste, trumpet; Ann-Marie
MacDairmid, piano and organ. St. Andrew’s
Thursday May 30
Kretschmar: Where the Dragonflies Swoon
Op.92. Guest: Louie Madrid Calleja, conductor. St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park
St. W., Dundas. 705-326-8011. $20; $17(sr);
$5(st).
●● 8:00: Karen Schuessler Singers. Tribute
to Carousel & Classic Broadway. Featuring
selections from Carousel and other Broadway shows. Guests: Amber Cunningham,
Paul Grambo, Gillian Laidlaw and Kevin Bice,
vocals. Wesley-Knox United Church, 91 Askin
St., London. 519-455-8895. $22/$20(adv);
$20(sr)/$18(adv) $10(st); free(ages 6-12).
Children under age 5 cannot be admitted.
●● 8:00: Open Ears/CAFKA. Between the
Ears Festival: Open Ears @ the Registry. Featuring members of the Canadian Creative
Music Collective. La chamber des machines.
Messier/Bernier (CCMC founding members).
Registry Theatre, 122 Frederick St., Kitchener. 519-579-8564. $25; $20(sr); $15(st).
●● 10:00pm: Open Ears/CAFKA. Between
the Ears Festival: Open Ears Late Night @ the
Barrister’s Lounge. Quirky and haunting melodies on ukulele and a suitcase from Martin
and Haynes’ “Freedman” CD. Jean Martin,
suitcase; Justin Haynes, ukulele. Barrister’s
Lounge, Walper Hotel, 1 King St, W., Kitchener. 519-579-8564. Pay as you leave; $10
suggested.
Sunday June 2
●● 3:00: Grand River Chorus and Cambridge
Symphony Orchestra. A Coronation for Our
Generations. Choral music from Coronation
Day, June 2, 1953. Brant Community Church,
69 Superior St., Brantford. 519-753-3405.
$25; $20(sr/st); $5(child/high school st).
6:00: Post-concert cocktails followed by Coronation Dinner. 519-759-7885. $65.
Music Society. Agnes Wan, piano. Bach:
French Suite No.6 in E; Beethoven: Sonata
No.31 Op.110; Chu: Moon Reflections on Lake
Erquan; Schumann: Kreisleriana. KWCMS
Music Room, 57 Young St. W., Waterloo.
PORT HOPE
●● 8:00: Aeolian Hall. André Laplante, piano.
795 Dundas St. E., London. 519-672-7950.
$35/$30(adv); $20(sr); $15(st).
Friday May 31
●● 5:00: Open Ears/CAFKA. Between the
Ears Festival. Erik Griswold: Spill; Strings
Attached; Tenney: Having Never Written
a Note for Percussion. Ryan Scott, Morris
Palter, Greg Samek, Rich Burrows, Adam
Cambell and Dan Morphy, percussion. Kitchener Civic Square, 200 King St. W., Kitchener. 519-579-8564. Free.
●● 8:00: Aeolian Hall. Connie Kaldor, singersongwriter. Folk music. 795 Dundas St. E.,
London. 519-672-7950. $30/$25(adv).
Saturday June 1
●● 7:30: Guelph Concert Band. The Wonder-
ful World of Disney. Old and new Disney classics. Selections from Mary Poppins, The Lion
King, The Incredibles, Pirates of the Caribbean and others. Colin Clarke, conductor.
Harcourt Memorial United Church, 87 Dean
St., Guleph. 1-877-520-2408. $15; $10(sr/st);
$5(eyeGO and child).
●● 7:30: Orillia Wind Ensemble. Sounds
of Summer. Calleja: selected works;
38th SEASON 2012-2013
May 25th
8:00 PM
Port Hope United Church
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B. Concerts Beyond the GTA
519-886-1673. $25; $20(sr); $15(st).
Tuesday June 4
Music Society. Laurier Trio. Bizet: Entr’Acte
from Carmen; Taffanel: Fantaisie on Weber’s
Der Freischutz; Clarke: Hypnosis; Borne: Fantaisie Brillante sur Carmen; Crouch: The Disgruntled Pied Piper; and other works. Diana
Lam and Jeffrey Stonehouse, flute; Matty
Walton, piano. KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young
St. W., Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $15; $10(sr);
$8(st).
Tosoff Quintet. May 22 9pm Peter Boyd. May
23 9pm Tropical Punch. May 27 9pm What
Ryan Wants I’ve Never Wanted. May 29 9pm
Peter Boyd.
Wednesday June 5
●● 12:00 noon: Midday Music with Shigeru.
Flying Beaver Pubaret, The
Trio Laurier. Matty Walton, piano; Diana Lam
and Jeff Stonehouse, flute. Hi-Way Pentecostal Church, 50 Anne St. N., Barrie. 705726-1181. $5; free(st).
classical, for piano duet. Peter Bald and AnnMarie MacDairmid, pianos. St. Andrew’s
488 Parliament St. 647-347-6567
pubaret.com (full schedule)
May 2 7:30pm Gillian Margot & Kevin Barrett
$25/$10(adv). May 3 9pm Janet Whiteway
& Carrie Chesnutt $25/$20(adv). May 4
7pm Shane Harvey $15/$10(adv). May 5
7pm Donna Greenberg $20/$15(adv). May 9
7:30pm Ergo Sum. PWYC. May 10 7pm Peter
Lebuis $20/$15(adv); 9pm Scott Thompson
$25/$20(adv). May 11 7pm Anna Gutmanis &
Kevin Wong $15/$10(adv). May 16 7:30pm The
Cliks: Listening Party & Acoustic Performnce
by Lucas Silveira $15/$10(adv).
C. In the Clubs (Mostly Jazz)
80 Gladstone
80 Gladstone Ave. 416-516-7199
80gladstone.com
May 4 7:30pm Trevor Giancola Trio $10. May
18 9pm Kevin Breit: Guitar Circles $TBA. May
25 8pm DoVira $TBA.
Alleycatz
2409 Yonge St. 416-481-6865 alleycatz.ca
Every Mon 8pm Salsa Night w/ Frank Bischun and free lessons. Every Tue 8:30pm
Carlo Berardinucci Band. No Cover. Every
Wed 8:30pm City Soul Swinging Blues & Vintage R&B. No Cover. Every Thu 9pm Soul and
R&B (bands alternate weekly). Every Fri/Sat
9:30pm Funk, Soul, R&B, Top 40. $10 after
8:30pm. Apr 4 The Munrows. May 2 Exhale.
May 3 Ascension. May 4 Soular. May 9 Blues
on a Wire. May 10 Lady Kane. May 11 Soular.
May 16 The Soul Project. May 17 Lady Kane.
May 18 Lady Kane. May 23 Replay. May 24
Lady Kane. May 25 Lady Kane. May 30 Impak.
May 31 Ascencion.
Artword Artbar
15 Colbourne St., Hamilton. 905-543-8512
artword.net (full schedule)
Bon Vivant Restaurant
1924 Avenue Rd. 416-630-5153
bonvivantdining.com
Every Thu 6-9pm Bill Naphan Solo Guitar.
Every Fri 6-9pm Margaret Stowe Solo Guitar.
Castro’s Lounge
2116 Queen St. E. 416-699-8272
castroslounge.com No Cover/PWYC.
Every Sun 4pm Live jazz. Every Mon 9pm
Rockabilly Night w/ the Cosmotones. Every
Tue 8pm Smokey Folk; 10:30pm blueVenus.
Every Wed 8pm Mediterranean Stars. Every
Thu 9pm Jerry Legere & the Situation. Every
Fri 5pm Ronnie Hayward. Every Sat 4:30pm
Big Rude Jake.
Classico Pizza & Pasta
403 Roncesvalles Ave. 416-588-2930
gate403.com All shows: PWYC.
May 1 5pm Tim Shia; 9pm Kurt Nielsen &
Richard Whiteman. May 2 5pm Dave Rubel;
9pm Mr. Rick’s Tin Pan Jazz. May 3 5pm
Mike Field Jazz; 9pm The Pearl Motel. May 4
5pm Bill Heffernan & Friends; 9pm Melissa
Boyce. May 5 5pm Jazz Forge; 9pm June
Harris: Time Out 4 Jazz. May 6 5pm Mike
Daley Trio; 9pm Richard Whiteman. May 7
5pm Alex Fournier Trio; 9pm Julian Fauth
Blues Night. May 8 5pm Oscar Tang Trio;
9pm Brian Cober: Boogie Bros. May 9 5pm
Alex Samaras; 9pm Kevin Laliberté Trio.
May 10 5pm Doc Barrister. May 11 9pm
Sabor Latin Jazz. May 11 5pm Bill Heffernan
& Friends; 9pm Max Senitt Y Sus Amigos.
May 12 5pm Joel Hartt Quartet; 9pm Laura
Robinson Duo. May 13 5pm Denis Schigh;
9pm Richard Whiteman. May 14 5pm Tyson
Kerr Trio; 9pm Julian Fauth Blues Night. May
15 5pm Brickhouse Trio; 9pm Rich Maltese &
Maria Kuze Jazz Trio. May 16 5pm G Street
Jazz Trio; 9pm Annie Bonsignore & Dunstan
Morey. May 17 5pm Sam Broverman Duo;
9pm Fraser Melvin Blues. May 18 5pm Bill
Heffernan & Friends; 9pm Patrick Tevlin’s
New Orleans Rhythm. May 19 5pm Joanne
Morra & the France St. Trio; 9pm Mikko
Hilden Standards Jazz Quartet. May 20 5pm
Tom cGill; 9pm Richard Whiteman. May 21
5pm Eliza Pope; 9pm Julian Fauth Blues Night.
May 22 5pm Leigh Graham Duo; 9pm Josh
Lane’s Toronto Jazz Collective. May 23 5pm
Miss Caroline; 9pm Cyndi Carleton. May 24
5pm Shae & Lorne Jazz Duo; 9pm Andy De
Campos Quartet. May 25 5pm Bill Heffernan
& Friends; 9pm Sweet Derrick Blues. May
26 5pm Maxine Willan Duo; 9pm Linda
Carone. May 27 5pm Chris Reid; 9pm Richard
Whiteman. May 28 5pm Peter Eastmure; 9pm
Julian Fauth Blues Night. May 29 5pm Mighty
Tusk; 9pm Larry Bond Duo. May 30 5pm
Andre Brewster Quartet; 9pm Brownman
Akoustic Trio. May 31 5pm Ken McDonald;
9pm Denielle Bassels.
2457 Bloor St. W. 416-763-1313
Every Thu 7pm Nate Renner. No Cover.
Communist’s Daughter, The
1149 Dundas St. W. 647-435-0103
Every Sat 4-7pm Gypsy Jazz w Michael Johnson & Red Rhythm. PWYC.
DeSotos
1079 St. Clair Ave. W. 416-651-2109
Every Thu 8pm-midnight Open Mic Jazz Jam,
hosted by Double A Jazz.
Dominion on Queen
500 Queen St. E. 416-368-6893
dominiononqueen.com (full schedule)
Every Sat 4-7:30pm Ronnie Hayward. Every
Sun 11am-3pm Rockabilly Brunch w/ Alistair
Christl and the Cosmotones. No Cover. Every
Tue 8:30pm Hot Club of Corktown Django
Jam w/ host Wayne Nakamura. PWYC. Every
Wed 8pm Corktown Ukelele Jam $5. May 2
7pm The Wee Folk Club $10; 8:30pm Brandon Isaak & Keith Picot Duo $10. May 3 9pm
Havana to Toronto Live: Afro Cuban Jazz
$10. May 4 9pm Lost Anglers. PWYC. May 5
4:30pm Wintergarten Orchestra $10. May
6 7:30pm Good Neighbours Open Mic Night.
May 10 9:30pm Swamperella $10. May 11
9pm The Don River Blues Band $7. May 16
7pm The Wee Folk Club $10. May 17 9pm Jazz
Forge. PWYC. May 18 9pm Sonic Blues Series:
Paul Reddick $10. May 24 9pm The Swingin’
Black Jacks $7. May 25 9:30pm The nudie
Blues. May 31 9pm Cat Bernardi Quartet.
Dovercourt House
805 Dovercourt Rd. 416-537-3337
odd-socks.org (full schedule)
Every Sat 9pm-1am Saturday Night Swing:
Dance featuring Live Swing Bands and two
pre-party dance classes. Dance $13; $15 with
one class, $18 with both.
Chalkers Pub, Billiards & Bistro
Emmet Ray, The
247 Marlee Ave. 416-789-2531
chalkerspub.com
All weekend events: $10 cover;
free(under 16).
Every Wed 8pm-midnight Girls Night Out
Jazz Jam w/ host Lisa Particelli. PWYC. May
4 6-9pm Mike Murley Trio. May 5 7-10pm Ben
D’Cunha’s Hillcrest Village Choir: Tribute to
Cole Porter. May 11 6-9pm Beverly Taft Quartet. May 18 6-9pm Robi Botos Trio. May 25
6-9pm Don Thompson Trio.
924 College St. 416-792-4497
theemmetray.com
All shows: No Cover/PWYC.
May 1 9pm Kevin Butler & Friends. May 2 9pm
John Wayne Swingtet. May 5 9pm Graham
Playford. May 6 7pm Jake Koffman Quartet; 9pm Harley Card Quartet. May 8 9pm
Peter Boyd. May 13 7pm Tyson Kerr; 9pm
Ryan Butler Quintet. May 15 9pm Kevin Butler
& Friends. May 16 9pm Vokurka’s Vicarious Virtuoso Violin. May 19 9pm Union Duke.
May 20 7pm Josh Cole Trio; 9pm Amanda
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Gate 403
Gladstone Hotel
1214 Queen St. W. 416-531-4635
gladstonehotel.com (full schedule)
May 1 8-11pm Brandon Isaak & Keith Picot
Duo. May 2 9pm-12am Chris Antonik CD
Release. May 3 9-11pm Jeanine Mackie Band.
May 4 9-11pm Al Lerman. May 5 7-11pm Tania
Joy EP Release. May 16 9pm-12am Swing
Night w/ Combo Royale. May 30 8-11pm Jazz
Forge.
Grossman’s Tavern
379 Spadina Ave. 416-977-1210
grossmanstavern.com (full schedule)
May 1 Bruce Domoney. May 3 Sandi Marie;
Combo Royale. May 4 The Happy Pals. May
5 New Orlean Connection All-Stars; The
Nationals. May 8 Bruce Domoney. May 9
The Responsibles. May 10 Swinging Black
Jacks. May 11 The Happy Pals; Chloe Watkinson & the Crossroad. May 12 New Orlean
Connection All-Stars; The Nationals. May 15
Bruce Domoney. May 24 The Fullerton with
Neil Chapman. May 25 The Happy Pals; Caution Jam. May 26 New Orlean Connection AllStars; The Nationals. May 29 Bruce Domoney.
May 30 Robin Hawkin. May 31 Frankie Foo.
Habits Gastropub
928 College St. 416-533-7272
habitsgastropub.com
All shows: 9pm. No Cover.
May 2 Nancy Silverman & Her Sexy Men.
May 3 Jeffrey Hewer Quartet. May 4 Box Full
of Cash. May 9 Caution Jam. May 10 Cody
McMillan. May 11 ZimZum. May 16 Ben Payne.
May 17 The Pearl Motel. May 23 Caution Jam.
May 24 Dave Espeut & the Hammer Funk.
May 25 Cameron Kennedy. May 30 Art &
Woodhouse. May 31 ZimZum.
Harlem Restaurant
67 Richmond St. E. 416-368-1920
harlemrestaurant.com (full schedule)
All shows: 7:30-11pm. No Cover/PWYC.
May 3 Allyson Morris. May 4 Reece. May 10
ZimZum. May 11 Mike Field. May 17 Sharon
Musgrave. May 18 Kay Hums. May 24 Shyann.
May 25 Joanna Moammed. May 31 Birds n
the Bea.
Hirut Restaurant
2050 Danforth Ave. 416-551-7560
Every Wed 8pm Open Mic with Gary 17. Every
Sun 12pm Open Jam.
May 9, 23 8pm Daniel Barnes Groove Trio.
PWYC.
Home Smith Bar – See Old Mill, The
Hugh’s Room
2261 Dundas St. W. 416-531-6604
hughsroom.com (full schedule)
All shows: 8:30pm (unless otherwise noted).
May 1 Carl Dixon $22.50/$20(adv). May
2 Graydon James & the Young Novelists
$20/$15(adv). May 3, 4 Borrowed Tunes:
Tribute to Neil Young w/ Liam Titcomb, Corin
Raymond, Zoe Sky-Jordan, Treasa Levasseur and others $32.50/$30(adv). May 5
John Gorka $25/$22.50(adv). May 6 Gia &
the Unpredictable Update: Going to Shanghai Party $20/$18(adv)/$15(st). May 7
Unseen Strangers: Follow the Sound CD
Release $18/$15(adv). May 8 Tony McManus
CD Release $22.50/$20(adv). May 10 Tom
Rush $50/$45(adv). May 11 Quartette
$42.50/$37.50(adv). May 12 Amy Sky: Alive
& Awake $34/$30(adv). May 14, 15 Alan
Doyle of Great Big Sea $32.50/$30(adv).
May 16 Marc Jordan: From the Page to
the Stage. $42.50/$40(adv). May 18 The
Distillery $12. May 22 Justin Hines CD
Release $25/$22(adv). May 24 On a Night
Like This: Bob Dylan Birthday Celebration
with Robert Morgan & Wendell Ferguson
$25/$22.50. May 25 Tin Pan North with
Michelle Wright, Marc Beeson and others
thewholenote.com
$22.50/$20(adv). May 26 2pm Oasis Vocal
Jazz $22.50/$20(adv); 8:30pm Ray Wylie
Hubbard $30/$27.50(adv). May 28 Jane Harbury Presents Discoveries: Melanie Bruleé,
Augusta Campoli, Brad Fillatre & Zoe Sky
Jordan $17/$15(adv). May 29 Thom Swift &
Steve Marriner. May 30 Regeneration Community Services Benefit Concert with The
Toronto All-Star Big Band $30/$25(adv).
May 31 Diana Braithwaite & Chris Whiteley
$25/$22.50(adv).
Inter Steer
357 Roncesvalles Ave. 416-588-8054
Every Wed 8-11pm Fraser Daley. Every Thu
8-11pm Ronnie Hayward Trio. Every Sat 4-7pm
Jazz Divas including May 11 Laura Hubert.
Jazz Bistro, The
251 Victoria St. 416-363-5299
jazzbistro.ca
May 1 9pm Luis Mario Ochoa Quartet $12.
May 2, 3, 4 9pm Steve Koven Trio: Koven
(piano); Rob Clutton (bass); Anthony Michelli
(drums) $15. May 5 12-3pm Jazz Brunch w/
Ori Dagan & Friends, guest vocalist Gabi
Epstein $15; 7pm An Evening with Billy Mays:
Mays (piano); Pat Collins (bass); Terry Clarke
(drums). May 7, 8 9pm Amanda Martinez:
An Evening of Music and Film $20. May 9, 10,
11 Mark McLean’s Playground $TBA. May 12
12-3pm Jazz Brunch w/ Ori Dagan & Friends,
guest vocalist Michael Danso $15. May 14
9pm Lucien Gray’s Jazz Jam $6. May 15 9pm
Aline Morales Brazilian Jazz Quartet $TBA.
May 16 9pm Peter Togni Trio w/ guest Mike
Murley $TBA. May 17, 18 9pm Brian Dickinson
(piano); George Mraz (bass); Ethan Ardelli
(drums) $TBA. May 19 12-3pm Jazz Brunch
w/ Ori Dagan & Friends, guest vocalist Alex
Samaras $15. May 22 9pm Cat Bernardi
Quartet $TBA. May 23, 24, 25 9pm Marc
Copeland (piano); Adrian Vedady (bass); John
Fraboni (drums) $TBA. May 26 12-3pm Jazz
Brunch w/ Ori Dagan & Friends, guest vocalist Dorothy Stone $15. May 30, 31 9pm Mike
Murley Quintet w/ Guido Basso $TBA.
Jazz Room, The
Located in the Huether Hotel, 59 King St. N.,
Waterloo. 226-476-1565
kwjazzroom.com (full schedule)
All shows: 8:30pm; attendees must be 19+
May 3 Jason White Trio $15. May 4 Roberto
Occhipinti Quartet $18. May 10 Cajax Latin
Ensemble $20. May 11 Assaf Kehati Trio $18.
May 17 Ray Podhornik Sextet $15. May 18
Bernie Senensky Quartet $18. May 24 Ted
Gibbons Quintet $15. May 25 Amanda Tosoff
Trio $16. May 31 Brent Rowan Quartet $15.
Joe Mama’s
317 King St. W. 416-340-6469
Live music every night; All shows: No Cover.
Every Mon 7:30-11:30pm Soul Mondays.
Every Tue 7-11pm Blue Angels. Every Wed
8pm-12am Blackburn. Every Thu 8:30pm12:30am Blackburn. Every Fri 10pm-2am The
Grind. Every Sat 10pm-2am Shugga. Every
Sun 6-10pm Organic: Nathan Hiltz (guitar);
Bernie Senensky (organ); Ryan Oliver (saxophone); Morgan Childs (drums).
La Revolución
2848 Dundas St. W. 416-766-0746
larev.webs.com
Every Sat 9pm-12am Jay Linden & Guests
$10.
thewholenote.com
Beat by Beat | In the Clubs
Gia,Gia!
ORI DAGAn
H
ighly eccentric and strangely fascinating — much like the
man himself — the music of Gia Ionesco is anything but background music. To describe his unconventional artistry in
words seems like an exercise in futility, but it’s worth a try. Classically
trained from a young age, Romanian-born Ionesco is a formidable
pianist who plays with fiery passion, sometimes playing multiple
keyboards at once (!) but his unique writing style makes him a
composer first. Considering the arrangements, instrumentation
and influences associated with his writing, there is a lot to digest
here, perhaps even too much for certain listeners. While on the one
hand Ionesco’s rollercoaster-like blending
Gia Ionesco.
of jazz, world, fusion
and progressive rock
might be dizzying for
some, on the other, his
growing fan base ranges
in age from 6 to 92, a
compliment that speaks
volumes. Actually,
judging by the smiles
on their faces alone,
some of his biggest fans
include guitarist Reg
Schwager, percussionist
Alan Hetherington and
saxophonist Johnny Johnson, all members of Ionesco’s band, Gia &
The Unpredictable Update.
Around this time last year, I saw the band in action at The Rex
Hotel, and will not forget the contagious joy that emanated from
the stage that night. It was a sight to behold, as if a gifted group of
middle-aged men were rocking out like teenagers in their parents’
basement! In particular, Johnny Johnson — one of the most soughtafter horn players in the country, frequently seen and heard around
the globe with Molly Johnson and Holly Cole — seemed like he was
having the time of his life, so I asked him a few questions, starting
with his first impression of Ionesco’s music:
“It was like hearing the past, present and future of music, all at
once,” he said. “So of course, the first time I heard Gia’s music I
was speechless. My mind needed some time to process it all ... What
makes this music unique is its compositional versatility. Because Gia
incorporates so many styles in his writing there are any number of
directions the band can take during a performance ... Honestly you
never really know what’s in store at the end of the song but we do
know it will be fun getting there. And there are a lot of songs. I’m
guessing Gia has written over 250 songs and I’m sure there are at
least that many more in that crazy creative brain of his.”
Big news: on Monday, May 6, 8:30pm at Hugh’s Room, the band
will perform a concert to celebrate their upcoming tour of China,
which will culminate in an appearance at the prestigious Shanghai
Spring International Music Festival. This is the first time that a
Canadian act has been invited! The Unpredictable Update at Hugh’s
Room will be: Gia Ionesco, keyboards; Bruce Cassidy, trumpet;
Johnny Johnson and Clifford Ojala, saxophones; Reg Schwager,
guitar; Alex St. Kitts, bass; Alan Hetherington, percussion and
Wilson Laurencin, drums. Come to Hugh’s Room to wish this group
well as they tour the other side of the world later this month!
Lula Lula! Living in this vast country of a city, one sometimes
takes for granted the little things. This is one of the most multicultural cities in the world, where just about any kind of cuisine can be
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Ladies in Waiting CD Release $15. May 31 8pm
Lulaworld: Faces of Samba by Dance Migration $30/$25(adv); $15 after 9:30pm.
found, and the same goes for music.
On that note, the Lula Lounge Music and Arts Centre presents its
annual multicultural music festival, Lulaworld 2013. Opening this
festival, Friday May 10, is a unique collaboration: t he Jay Danley
Ethio Jazz Project featuring special guest, master Ethiopian musician Fantahun Shewankochew on vocals and Krar, and Toronto’s
own Danley on guitar, Chris Gale and Elena Kapeleris on saxophones, Sam Petite on bass, Jeff Halischuck on drums and Richard
Whiteman on piano.
Danley, himself a versatile guitarist who has spent the past two
decades playing traditional Cuban music and traditional jazz, was
inspired to play Ethiojazz by listening to Les Ethiopiques, a series of
recordings by the inventor of this style, Mulatu Astatke. In the late
1960s and early 1970s, Berklee-trained, Ethiopia-born Astatke was
the first to combine modern jazz with Ethiopian scales.
“The very difficult musical challenge of composing, arranging and
improvising using these scales is very rewarding to me,” says Danley.
“I have also added some of my own personal tastes and influences to
my compositions that make them unique.”
The collaboration with Danley’s group and Shewankochew has an
interesting back story; they played a gig at Lula back in February, ten
days before the Batuki Music Society presented a concert at the Glenn
Gould Studio called Abyssinian Roots. The special concert brought to
Toronto some of the hottest Ethiopian musicians from the nightclub
scene of Addis Ababa, including Henok Abebe, Martha Ashagari, and
Fantahun Shewankochew himself. Danley was in the audience that
night and was absolutely amazed; meeting Shewankochew afterwards, it turned out that the Ethiopian master had attended their gig
at Lula and wanted to work together. The organizers of Lulaworld
were approached and decided that this collaboration would be a great
way to open the 2013 festival.
Meanwhile, one of the few Toronto players on the aforementioned
Batuki Music Society concert was drummer Daniel Barnes, who has
recently put together “DB3” — the Daniel Barnes Groove Trio, another
new world/jazz music band with an Ethiopian connection, playing
every second and fourth Thursday of the month at Hirut Restaurant,
2050 Danforth Ave. “We’ve taken root at Hirut because audiences
enjoy the place, the cuisine and our show,” adds Barnes. “It’s exciting
cultural times with global interconnectedness and Toronto itself
being a cultural force of diverse backgrounds for generations now.”
But that will have to be a story for another day. Mezzetta Restaurant
681 St. Clair Ave. W. 416-658-5687
mezzettarestaurant.com
Every Wed Sets at 9pm and 10:15pm. Jazz
Series. Cover $7-$10.
May 1 Mike Murley (sax); Jim Vivian (bass).
May 8 Traditional Egyptian Music: George
Sawa (qanun); Suzanna Meyers Sawa (darbukka and tambourine). May 15 David Mott
(sax); Justin Gray (bass). May 29 Strictly
Gershwin & Ellington: Ori Dagan (vocals);
Andrew Scott (guitar).
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200 Victoria St. 416-362-1777
All shows: solo piano 9:30pm-12:30am. No
Cover.
Paintbox Btro
555 Dundas St. E. 647-748-0555
paintboxbistro.ca
May 4 Jazz.FM91 Youth Big Band. May 11 The
Heillig Manouevre $15 or $45 (dinner and
show).
Pilot Tavern, The
At the Delta Chelsea Hotel
33 Gerrard St. W. 416-585-4352
monarchspub.ca
Every Wed Live Jazz. Every Thu Live Blues.
Morgan’s
1282 Danforth Ave. 416-461-3020
Every Sun 2-5pm Allyson Morris with guests.
Nawlins Jazz Bar & Dining
299 King St. W. 416-595-1958
nawlins.ca
Every Tue Stacie McGregor; Every Wed Jim
Heineman Trio. Every Thu Blues Night w/
guest vocalists. Every Fri/Sat All Star Bourbon St. Band; Every Sun Brooke Blackburn.
Nice Bistro, The
117 Brock St. N., Whitby. 905-668-8839
nicebistro.com
May 22 Larry Bond Duo $39.99 (includes
dinner).
Old Mill, The
21 Old Mill Rd. 416-236-2641
oldmilltoronto.com
The Home Smith Bar: No Reservations. No
Cover. $20 food/drink minimum. All shows:
7:30-10:30pm. Every Thu Thursday Night
Jazz Party. Every Fri Something to Sing
About Series. Every Sat Jazz Masters Series.
May 2 Jazz Party w/ Broadsway ( Heather
Bambrick; Julie Michels; Diane Leah). May 3
Maureen Kennedy Trio. May 4 Lorne Lofsky
Trio. May 9 Jazz Party w/ Colleen Allen. May
10 Arlene Smith Trio. May 11 Bill McBirnie
Trio. May 16 Jazz Party w/ Ilana Waldson.
May 17 Alex Pangman (vocals); Peter Hill
(piano); Ross Wooldridge (saxes and clarinet). May 18 Don Vickery Trio. May 23 Jazz
Party w/ Zoe Chilco (host, vocals). May 24
Melissa Stylianou (vocals); Mike Murley (sax);
Reg Schwager (guitar); Jim Vivian (bass).
May 25 Shirantha Beddage (baritone sax
C. In the Clubs (Mostly Jazz)
1585 Dundas St. W. 416-588-0307
lula.ca (full schedule)
May 1 8pm Kobo Town CD Release $15. May
3 8pm Brownman & Cruzao Latin Jazz Trio
$15; 10:30pm Salsa Friday with Café Cubano
$15. May 4 10:30pm Salsa Saturday with
Tipica Toronto $15. May 5 11am Sunday
Family Cuban Brunch $15; $7(child). Includes
buffet and salsa lesson. May 10 8pm Lulaworld: Jay Danley EthioJazz Project with
Fantahun Shewankochew $15; 10:30pm
Changui Havana $15. May 11 10:30pm Lulaworld: Conjunto Lacalua with Jimmy Bosch
$20/$15(adv). May 12 11am Mother’s Day
Family Cuban Brunch with Jorge Maza Quartet $19; $9(child). Includes buffet and salsa
lesson. May 13 8pm Lulaworld: Euphonia:
Classical Composers of Mexico, Argentina
and Cuba, conducted by Simon Capet $10.
May 15 8pm Lulaworld: Eliana Cuevas CD
Release $15. May 16 8pm Lulaworld: Everton ‘Pablo’ Paul & La Academia CD Release:
Pantages Martini Bar & Lounge
Monarchs Pub
Ori Dagan is a Toronto-based jazz musician, writer and
educator who can be reached at oridagan.com.
Lula Lounge
and piano); Mike Downes (bass); Mark Kelso
(drums). May 30 Jazz Party w/ Laura Fernandez (vocals); Ricardo Lewis (violin); Don
Naduriak (piano). May 31 Bonnie Brett Trio.
Remembrance $20. May 17 8pm Lulaworld:
Ahmed Mitchel (drums) CD Release with Pat
LaBarbera (sax) and Alexander Brown (trumpet); 10:30pm Yani Borrel CD Release $15.
May 18 10:30pm Lulaworld: The Lula All Stars
with Lady Son, Roberto Linares Brown, Luisito Orbegoso and Ricky Franco $15. May
19 11am Sunday Family Cuban Brunch $15;
$7(child). Includes buffet and salsa lesson.
May 22 8pm Flamenco Una Vez Cada Mes w/
Jorge Miguel $10. May 23 8pm Lulaworld:
Sacha Williamson w/ Josh Milan + Groove
Institute + Dave Campbell + Kwame Younge
$25. May 24 8pm Kervin Barreto w/ Jane
Bunnett $15; 10:30pm Telmary + Ogguere $15.
May 25 10:30pm Lulaworld: Adonis Puentes
Sabor a Café CD Release $20/$15(adv). May
26 11am Sunday Family Cuban Brunch $15;
$7(child). Includes buffet and salsa lesson;
8pm Lulaworld: Jaffa Road + David Buchbinder’s Odessa/Havana $25/$20(adv). May 27
8pm Dream for Uganda Choirs $10. May 28
8pm Lulaworld: Telnyuk Sisters with Ihor Polishchuk & Dovira $25/$20(adv). May 29 8pm
22 Cumberland Ave. 416-923-5716
thepilot.ca All shows: 3:30pm. No Cover.
May 4 Kollage. May 11 George Koller Quartet.
May 18 Tenor Madness. May 25 Norman Marshall Villeneuve’s 75th Birthday.
Rakia Bar
1402 Queen St. E. 416-778-8800
rakiabar.com
May 6, 20 8-11pm Bohemian Mondays: Laura
Marks Trio w/ guests. Jam welcomes instrumentalists and vocalists; jazz and other
genres welcome. No Cover/PWYC.
Reposado Bar & Lounge
136 Ossington Ave. 416-532-6474
reposadobar.com All shows: PWYC.
Every Wed 9:30pm Spy vs Sly vs Spy. Every
Thu, Fri 10pm The Reposadists Quartet.
Reservoir Lounge, The
52 Wellington St. E. 416-955-0887
reservoirlounge.com (full schedule).
Every Tue 7-9pm Apres Work Series; 9:45pm
Tyler Yarema and his Rhythm. Every Wed
7-9pm Apres Work Series (including May 8
Joel Hartt); 9:45pm TBA. Every Thu 7-9pm
Apres Work Series (Alex Pangman, first
Thursday of every month); 9:45pm Sophia
Perlman. Every Fri 9:45pm Dee Dee and
the Dirty Martinis. Every Sat 9:45pm Tyler
Yarema and his Rhythm.
Rex Hotel Jazz & Blues Bar, The
194 Queen St. W. 416-598-2475
therex.ca (call for cover charge info)
May 1 6:30pm Jim Gelcer Group; 9:30pm Crusader Rabbit. May 2 6:30pm Kevin Quain;
9:30pm Andrew Boniwell & Uncertainty Principle. May 3 4pm Hogtown Syncopators;
6:30pm Amanda Tosoff; 9:45pm Oz Noy Trio.
May 4 12pm Danny Marks & Friends; 3:30pm
Laura Hubert Band; 7pm Justin Bacchus;
9:45pm Oz Noy Trio. May 5 12pm Humber
Venue Rental
• in the heart of Yorkville
• historical heritage building
• Steinway Grand Piano
• recital and special events
• lighting and sound systems
• accomodates caterers
• reasonable rates
35 Hazelton Avenue, Heliconian Hall
416-922-3618 [email protected]
thewholenote.com
Community Music Annual Student Recitals;
3:30pm Club Django; 7pm Richard Whiteman; 9:30pm Brian Chahley. May 6 6:30pm
Jake Wilkinson; 9:30pm John Cheesman Jazz
Orchestra. May 7 6:30pm Dan Fortin Quartet; 9:30pm R.R. Jammin’ Fundraiser. May
8 6:30pm Jim Gelcer Group; 9:30pm Buddy
Aquilina. May 9 6:30pm Kevin Quain; 9:45pm
Assaf Kehati Trio. May 10 4pm Hogtown
Syncopators; 6:30pm Amanda Tosoff; 9:45pm
Assaf Kehati Trio. May 11 12pm Danny Marks
& Friends; 3:30pm Toronto Jazz Orchestra;
7pm Marika Galea; 9:45pm Kelsley Grant. May
12 12pm Excelsior Dixieland Jazz; 3:30pm Red
Hot Ramble; 7pm Richard Whiteman; 9:30pm
Melissa Lauren. May 13 12-8:30pm Musicfest
Canada; 9:30 Matt Newton Trio. May 14,
15 12-8:30pm Musicfest Canada; 9:45pm
Split Cycle CD Release. May 16 12-8:30pm
Musicfest Canada; 9:45pm The Thing. May 17
12-6pm Musicfest Canada; 6:30pm Amanda
Tosoff; 9:45pm Atilla Fias Trio. May 18 12pm
Danny Marks & Friends; 3:30pm Bob Cary
Orchestra; 7pm Justin Bacchus; 9:45pm Alex
Dean Quintet. May 19 12pm Excelsior Dixieland Jazz; 3:30pm Dr. Nick Blues; 7pm Jewish
Music Week: Swingin’ Sounds of Moe Koffman; 9:30pm Scott Marshall. May 20 6:30pm
Jake Wilkinson; 9:30pm Mike Malone Jazz
Orchestra. May 21 6:30pm Dan Fortin Quartet; 9:30pm Steve Cole Group. May 22 6:30pm
Jim Gelcer Group; 9:30pm Paul Rushka Quintet. May 23 6:30pm Kevin Quain; 9:45 Paul
Rushka Quintet. May 24 4pm Hogtown Syncopators; 6:30pm Amanda Tosoff; 9:45pm
Chuck Jackson. May 25 12pm Danny Marks
& Friends; 3:30pm Swing Shift Big Band; 7pm
Justin Bacchus; 9:45pm Bonnie Brett. May
26 12pm Exclesior Dixieland Jazz; 3:30 pm
Freeway Dixieland; 7pm Richard Whiteman;
9:30pm Random Access. May 27 6:30pm
Jake Wilkinson; 8:30pm John Macleod’s Rex
Hotel Orchestra: CD Release. May 28 6:30pm
Dan Fortin Quartet; 9:30pm Norman Marshall Villeneuve’s 75 Birthday: Fundraiser for
Humber College Scholarship. May 29 6:30pm
Jim Gelcer Group; 9:30pm Jeff Johnston Trio.
May 30 6:30pm Kevin Quain; 9:45pm Organic.
May 31 4pm Hogtown Syncopators; 6:30pm
Amanda Tosoff; 9:45pm Organic.
Salty Dog Bar & Grill, The
1980 Queen St. E. 416-849-5064
saltydogbarandgrill.ca
All shows 7-10pm. No Cover.
May 7 Ted Quinlan (guitar); Bob Brough (sax);
George Koller (bass). May 21 Robi Botos
(keys); Pat LaBarbera (sax); Dave Young
(bass).
Seven44
(Formerly Chick n’ Deli/The People’s Chicken)
D. The ETCeteras
744 Mount Pleasant Rd. 416-489-7931
seven44.com All shows: No Cover.
Every Sat 4-7pm Climax Jazz Band. Every
Mon Big Band Night.
GALAS & FUNDRAISERS
●●May 5 7:00: Guild Festival Theatre. Spring-
Statlers Lounge
time Cabaret for Guild Festival Theatre’s The
Misanthrope. Excerpts from South Pacific,
The Secret Garden and Dracula. Scarborough Music Theatre, Brant Theatre Workshops, Oshawa Little Theatre and others.
Food, prizes and silent auction. Scarborough
Village Theatre, 3600 Kingston Rd. 416-9156570. $25/$20(adv). Proceeds to Guild Festival Theatre production of The Misanthrope.
●●May 6 6:00: Mississauga Arts Council.
The Rebel Talent Show. Youth showcase of
spoken word, dance and song in support of
mental health. Noel Ryan Auditorium, Mississauga Central Library, 301 Burnhamthorpe
Rd., Mississauga. 905-615-4212. Price TBA.
●●May 8 6:15: Toronto Mahler Society. 10th
Anniversary Celebration. Cocktail reception, talk by composer Kevin Lau, mini-recital
by mezzo Susan Platts, dessert and prizes.
Mahler: Ruckert Lieder. Canadian Music
Centre, 20 St. Joseph St. 416-993-9298. $55.
●●May 22 7:30: Centre for the Arts, Brock
University. Niagara Youth Taking Action:
Benefit Concert in Support of Free the Children. Remigio Pereira, Neverest, Niagara
Symphony Orchestra, Young Stitch, Sese and
others. Free the Children co-founder Marc
Kielburger, keynote speaker. Sean O’Sullivan
Theatre, Brock University, 500 Glenridge
Ave., St. Catharines. 905-688-5550 x3257.
$59; $25(st); $100(VIP).
●●May 26 6:00: Sinfonia Toronto. Spring Sinfonia Party. Dinner, mini-concert by Sinfonia
Toronto musicians and musical chat with
conductor Nurhan Arman. Donalda Club, 12
Bushbury Dr. 416-499-0403. $80. By reservation; limited to 75 guests.
487 Church St. 416-922-0487
All Shows: No Cover/PWYC
Every Mon 9:30pm-1am SINGular Sensation:
Musical Theatre Open Mic w/ Jennifer Walls,
Donovan LeNabat & Jamie Bird. Every Tue
10pm Top Star Tuesday: Talent Night. Every
Wed 6-10pm Kendall Partington. Every Thu
9:30pm Open Mic w/ Donovan LeNabat &
Jamie Bird. Every Sat 10pm-1:30am Kendall
Partington.
Tranzac
292 Brunswick Ave. 416-923-8137
tranzac.org (full schedule)
3-4 shows daily, various styles. Mostly PWYC.
Every Mon 7pm This is Awesome; 10pm
Open Mic. Every Fri 5pm The Foolish
Things. Every Sat 3pm Jamzac. This
month’s shows include: May 1 7:30pm Anna
Atkinson & David Occhipinti. May 2 10pm
The Roofhoppers. May 5 5pm Monk’s Music;
10:30pm Woodchoppers Association. May
7 10pm Peripheral Vision. May 10 7:30pm
Jeff Scarott Trio. May 12 7:30pm Three
Metre Day; 10pm Lina Allemano Four. May
14 7:30pm Aurochs; 10pm Stop Time. May
15 7:30pm Tyson Kerr. May 19 5pm Monk’s
Music; 10pm Makeshift Island. May 21 10pm
Ken McDonald Quartet. May 22 6:30pm
Trevor Giancola; 10pm Michelle Willis. May
23 10pm The Roofhoppers. May 24 7:30pm
Reconnect. May 25 10pm Don Scott. May 26
10:30pm Steve Ward Presents. May 28 10pm
Nick Fraser Presents. May 29 10pm Avesta
Nakhaei’s Collective Musical Improv.
Victory Café, The
COMPETITIONS
581 Markham St. 416-516-5787
Every Wed 9:30pm-12am Hot Jazz String
Quartet: Drew Jurecka (violin); Jesse
Barksdale (guitar); Chris Bezant (guitar);
Chris Banks (bass). Every Sun 9pm Open Mic.
●●Deadline to Apply: May 24 Canadian Folk
Music Awards. 2013 Call for Submissions.
Canadian artists and groups whose albums
were released between June 15, 2012, and
June 15, 2013. Early bird deadline May 24;
Final deadline June 28. For details:
folkawards.ca
●●Deadline to Apply: May 25 Rotaract
Zemra Bar & Lounge
778 St. Clair Ave. W. 416-651-3123
zemrabarlounge.com
All shows: 9pm; (call for cover charge info).
Every Wed Open Mic and Jam w/ All Nighters
& Irene Torres.
Mississauga/Mississauga Arts Council.
SingFest Vocal Competition. For up-and-coming vocalists ages 14 to 24. Video submission.
Prize includes studio recording time, performance opportunity at the 2013 Mayor’s
Gala, press coverage and more. Final round
July 20. For details: [email protected]; mississaugaartscouncil.com;
singfest.ca.
●●Deadline to Apply: Jun 1 Pax Christi Chorale. Great Canadian Hymns Competition.
Composers to submit original compositions
set to a hymn text. Winning entries will be
performed by the choir. For details: jennifer.
[email protected]. paxchristichorale.org.
LECTURES & SYMPOSIA
●●May 4 and 5 (no times provided): Metropol-
itan United Church of London. 8th Annual
Metropolitan Alumni Musicians’ Association Gathering. Guest speaker: Daniel Roth,
organist of the Church of St. Suplice, Paris,
France. 468 Wellington St., London. 510-4327189 x27. Free.
●●May 5 7:00: Ken Fisher/Tri-City Gospel
Quartet. 75th Anniversary of the Barbershop Harmony Society. Lecture examining the barbershop style. St. Anne’s Anglican
Church, 270 Gladstone Ave. 905-792-7626.
Freewill offering.
●●May 6 7:00: Toronto New Music Alliance.
New Music 101: Part 4 – Toy Piano Composers and junctQín Keyboard Collective. The
Toy Piano Composers collective discuss their
approach to concert music with performances by members and junctQín Keyboard
Collective presents “Inside the Composer’s
Studio, a musical chat with composers Alex
Eddington, Monica Pearce and Hiroki Tsurumoto. John Terauds, host. Elizabeth Beeton
Auditorium, Toronto Reference Library, 789
Yonge St. 416-961-6601 x207. Free.
●●May 11 9:30am: University of Toronto
Faculty of Music/Munk School of Global
Affairs. The Opera Exchange: Singing from
the Scaffold. Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites (excerpts for discussion). Sasha Djihanian, soprano; Liz Upchurch, piano; Steven
Huebner, Dominique Deslandres, Michael
Zipperz
72 Carlton St. 416-921-0066
Every Mon 10pm-12am & Every Fri 7-9pm
Roxxie Terrain w/ Adam Weinmann. No
Cover/PWYC.
CALL FOR
AUDITIONS
13/14 SEASON
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
NOEL EDISON
The TMC is looking for
experienced singers in all
sections to join Canada’s
premier symphonic choir.
Good sight-reading skills
necessary, and ability to
commit to an exciting
schedule of rehearsals
and performances.
Auditions will be held
May 20 & 21, 2013.
Audition package available
at www.tmchoir.org
For more info, call Kimber
at 416-598-0422, x221
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D. The ETCeteras
Hutcheon and Linda Hutcheon, discussion
participants. Walter Hall, Edward Johnson
Building, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-363-8231.
$TBA; free(U of T st).
●●May 17 7:00: Soundstreams. Salon 21:
Introducing SoundMaker! Lecture about
SoundMakers, a new website and app
allowing users to listen, learn and create with
music commissioned by Soundstreams. Performances to follow. Rose Bolton and Nick
Storring, live electronics; Craig Dunsmuir, DJ.
Gardiner Museum, 111 Queen’s Park. 416-5041282. Free.
●●May 21 7:00: North York Central Library/
Toronto Symphony Orchestra. TSO Chat #2:
Elgar’s Enigma Variations. Lecture by Rick
Phillips. 5120 Yonge St. 416-395-5639. Free.
Register in advance.
●●May 22 6:30: Canadian Music Centre. An
Evening with Udo Steingraeber. Lecture on
the history of Steingraeber and Sohne pianos
and anecdotes about the composers who
influenced Steingraeber pianos, followed by a
mini-concert. 20 St. Joseph St. 416-961-6601
x201. $20. Buy in advance to ensure a seat.
●●May 24 9:15am: Fields Institute/Perimeter
Insitute/Institute for Quantum Computing.
Random Walks Festival –Music of Xenakis and
Beyond: Morning Lectures: John Mighton;
Sharon Kanach; Curtis Roads. Fields Institute
222, College St. 416-348-8710. Free.
●●May 24 3:00: Fields Institute/Perimeter
Insitute/Institute for Quantum Computing.
Random Walks Festival –Music of Xenakis and
Beyond: Afternoon Lectures. James Harley;
Daniel Hambleton. Fields Insitute 222, College
St. 416-348-8710. Free.
●●May 25 3:00: Fields Institute/Perimeter
Insitute/Institute for Quantum Computing. Random Walks Festival –Music of Xenakis and Beyond: Panel Session: Music and
Algorhythms. Panelists: John Mighton, Raymond Laflamme, Laurent Friedel, Arne Eigenfeldt, Rob Wannamaker, Curtis Roads. Mike
and Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum Nano Centre,
200 University Ave., Waterloo. 416-3488710. Free.
MASTERCLASSES
●●May 5 and May 26 2:00–5:00: Singing
Studio of Deborah Staiman. Masterclass.
Musical theatre/audition preparation usual
textual analysis and other interpretative tools
for the sung monologue. Yonge and Eglinton
area; call for exact location. 416-483-9532.
singingstudio.ca.
●●May 10 and 11 Various times: Conservatory Canada. Masterclass Youth Series. Ten
voice students will be selected to perform in
two-day workshops and receive mentorship
from one composer and one professional
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performer. Students must be recommended
by a private teacher or school teacher. Aris
Carastathis, composer; Todd Wieczorek,
voice clinician. Lakehead University Music
Building, 955 Oliver Rd., Thunder Bay. 1-800461-5367. conservatorycanada.com. Also in
Aurora (May 10, 11) and Kanata (17, 18).
●●May 10 and 11 Various times: Conservatory
Canada. Masterclass Youth Series. Dean
Burry, composer; Catherine Gardner, voice
clinician. Aurora United Church, 15186 Yonge
St., Aurora. 1-800-461-5367. conservatorycanada.com.
●●May 17 and 18 Various times: Conservatory Canada. Masterclass Youth Series.
Fellowship Baptist Church 1078 Klondike Rd.,
Kanata. 1-800-461-5367. conservatorycanada.com.
WORKSHOPS
●●May 4 10:30am–1:00pm: Toronto Men-
delssohn Choir. Singsation Saturday Choral
Workshop. Saturday choral workshop:
reading for singers. Bach: St John Passion.
Patricia Wright, conductor. Cameron Hall,
Yorkminster Park Baptist Church, 1585 Yonge
St. 416-598-0422. $10.
Singsation Saturday
Choral Workshop
MAY 4, 2013 10:30 AM - 1 PM
Yorkminster Park
Baptist Church
Come out and sing
Bach’s St. John Passion
with guest
conductor
Patricia Wright.
$10, includes
refreshments
www.tmchoir.org
●●May 5 1:30–4:00: Toronto Early Music Play-
ers Organization. Instrumental Workshop.
Recorder player Shannon Purves-Smith,
coach. Bring your recorders, early instruments and music stand; scores available at
the door. Armour Heights Community Centre,
2140 Avenue Rd. 416-245-3413. $20.
●●May 10 7:30: CAMMAC Recorder Players’ Society. Renaissance and Baroque
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Workshop. For recorders and other early
instruments. Church of the Transfiguration, 111 Manor Rd. E. 416-480-1853. $15;
free(members). Refreshments included.
●●May 11 11:00: SING! Festival. Singin with
the Real Group. Swedish group covers
vocal warm-ups, technique, performance
and rhythm and groove. Brigatine Room,
416-973-4000. $25.
●●May 11 12:30: SING! Festival. Introduction to Overtone Singing with Scott Peterson.
Singing in styles from Tuva, Mongolia, Tibet
and North India. Studio Theatre, 235 Queens
Quay W. 416-973-4000. $25.
●●May 11 4:30: SING! Festival. Freeing the
Voice with Aviva Chernick. Vocal play, improvisational song circles and breathing exercises. Miss Lou’s Room, Harbourfront Centre,
235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. $25.
●●May 11 6:15: SING! Festival. The Singer as
Musician: Raising the Bar for Jazz Singers
with Sundar Viswanathan. Improvisation, ear
training and other exercises in rhythm and
form. Miss Lou’s Room, Harbourfront Centre,
Swingle Singers workshop
Singing without a Safety Net
Sunday,May 12 at noon
www.singtoronto.com
co-produced
with:
235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. $25.
●●May 12 12:00: SING! Festival. Singing with-
out a Safety Net with the Swingle Singers.
Improvisation games combining rhythm,
harmony and movement. Brigantine Room,
416-973-4000. $25.
●●May 12 1:15: SING! Festival. Arranging for
A Cappella with Dylan Bell. Form, bass lines,
reharmonizations and alterations. Brigantine Room, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens
Quay W. 416-973-4000. $25.
●●May 12 4:00: SING! Festival/Songwriters
Association of Canada. Songwriting: Keys
to Effective and Memorable Songs. Brigantine Room, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens
Quay W. 416-973-4000. $25.
●●May 12 4:00: SING! Festival. This Business of Music with Pat Silver, Paul Sanderson,
Heather Reppen, Bob Missen and FACTOR.
Miss Lou’s Room, Harbourfront Centre, 235
Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. $25.
●●May 12 5:00: SING! Festival. Effortless
Performance with Eugene Watts. Discussion and exercises conquering stage fright
and becoming empowered in performance.
Miss Lou’s Room, Harbourfront Centre, 235
Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. $25.
●●May 26 2:00: CAMMAC. Reading for
Singers and Instrumentalists. Beethoven:
Mass in C. Hilary Apfelstadt, conductor. Christ
Church Deer Park, 1570 Yonge St. 905-7515519. $10; $6(members).
●●May 31 7:30: CAMMAC Recorder Players’ Society. Renaissance and Baroque
Workshop. For recorders and other early
instruments. Church of the Transfiguration, 111 Manor Rd. E. 416-480-1853. $15;
free(members). Refreshments included.
●●Jun 1 3:00: Arraymusic. Jim Pugliese in
a World Music Song and Mbira Workshop.
Workshop on Zimbabwe Shona culture; audience participation learning an eight-part
polyrhythmic mbira song. Open to everyone.
Array Space, 155 Walnut St. 416-532-3019.
$10. Followed by an interactive Zimbabwe
style concert at 8pm.
Singing with
The Real Group Workshop
SCREENINGS
Saturday, May 11 at 11am
●●May 09 8:00: Robert Bruce. “Safety Last!”
(1923). Silent comedy classic with original
live music by Robert Bruce. St. Paul’s United
Church, 427 Bloor St. W. 905-777-9196. $15.
●●May 09 8:30: SING! Festival. NFB Sings!
National Film Board short films set to music
by SING! artists, followed by a singalong. Redpath Stage, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-9734000. Free.
www.singtoronto.com
OPEN HOUSES
co-produced
with:
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●●May 25 10:00am–5:00pm: Canadian
Jubilate
singers
MUSIC DIREC TOR : ISABEL BERNAUS
AUDITIONS THIS JUNE!
Seven reasons to sing with us:
• spicy World Music repertoire
• smaller SATB auditioned
chamber choir of 35 singers
• opportunity to sing in many
languages, including English
• excellent ensemble training
• solo opportunities
• member fees waived for students
REHEARSALS Tues. 7:30-9:45,
Yonge/Lawrence area
Call 416-459-8927, David Reddin
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D. The ETCeteras
Music Centre. Doors Open. Visit the CMC’s
new performance space; various piano
performances throughout the day. 20 Joseph
St. 416-961-6601 x201. Free.
THE MISSISSAUGA SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA IS THRILLED TO APPOINT
DENIS MASTROMONACO AS ITS NEW
MUSIC DIRECTOR
SINGALONGS
●●May 14 7:00–8:00: Canada Sings/Chantons
Canada! Toronto-Riverdale. Neighbourhood
Singalong. Brazilian and Cuban music with
Rodrigo Chavez from Cassava Latin Music.
Neighbourhood Unitarian Universalist
Church, 79 Hiawatha Rd. 416-778-0796. Free;
donations accepted. canadasings.ca.
Denis Mastromonaco will take
over as Music Director in June
2013 from Music Director of 34
years, John Barnum.
Mastromonaco brings with him
over 20 years of experience in
conducting and teaching. He
has worked with orchestras
nationally and internationally,
including New York’s Orchard
Park Orchestra, Czech
Republic’s West Bohemian
National Orchestra, and the
National Academy Orchestra of Canada, among many others.
He is a strong advocate for music within the community.
ETCETERA: MISCELLANEOUS
●●May 1 –May 31 all hours: Toronto New
Music Alliance. New Music 101: Part 5 –
Cellphonia. New Adventures in Sound Art
present an interactive installation by Steve
Join us in welcoming Denis Mastromonaco to the MSO at our
final concert of the 2012–2013 season
on May 11 when Maestro John Barnum
will hand the baton over to Maestro
Denis Mastromonaco.
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Bull and Scot Gresham-Lancaster. Elizabeth
Beeton Auditorium, Toronto Reference
Library, 789 Yonge St. 416-961-6601 x207.
Free. naisa.ca
●●May 4 3:00–10:00: Art Fushion Collectives.
Art Fushion Festival. A free open stage for all
forms of performance and art. Mel Lastman
Square, 5100 Yonge St. 647-286-9557. Free.
●●May 4 8:00: Harbourfront Centre.
HATCH Festival: Winterreise Projekt. Crossdisciplinary exploration of Schubert’s song
cycle by diverse Canadian artists. 235 Queens
Quay W. 416-973-400. $15; $12(sr/st/arts
worker).
●●May 6 1:00: Music Monday. ISS – Is
Somebody Singing. Collaboration between
astronaut Chris Hadfield and Barenaked
Ladies frontman Ed Robertson, co-writing the
official song for Music Monday. Performed
by Hadfield, joined by Robertson and the
Wexford Gleeks. Free. See musicmonday.ca.
●●May 12 6:00: SING! Festival. SING! Public
Singalong and Legacy Award Ceremony,
Honouring Frank Busseri of the Four Lads.
Public singalong as part of the award
ceremony. Brigantine Room, Harbourfront
Free.
●●May 25 7:00: Milton Concert Band.
Maytoberfest. German style buffet, cash bar
and party. Alphorn Choir of the Ein Prosit
German Band of Kalamazoo, Milton Concert
Band and Halton Hills Concert Band. Grand
Chalet, 324 Steeles Ave. E., Milton. 905-8787934. $40.
●●Jun 1 3:00–6:00: Open Ears/CAFKA.
Between the Ears Festival: Guide Within
These Walls at the Walper. Open exploration
and hour-long guided tours through a series
of micro-performances featuring the space
of the Walper Hotel. Walper Hotel, 1 King St.
W., Kitchener. 519-579-8564. Free; donations
accepted.
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ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR POSITION:
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir seeks a new
Associate Conductor to work under the
leadership of Noel Edison. This position is
suitable for a talented choral conductor
in the early stages of an emerging
career. Details about the position and the
application process can be found at www.
tmchoir.org. Application deadline is May
13, 2013
ENTHUSIASTIC MUSICAL DIRECTOR
AND SINGERS WANTED: Pizazz Musical
Presentations is a newly forming amateur
Cabaret group in north Toronto, seeking
a Musical Director and singers with
experience. Tel: Ian 905-852-5417
OASIS VOCAL JAZZ, Toronto’s longest
running close harmony group is looking for
a new director and a new bass. Director
should have several years’ vocal jazz directing
experience, wide scope of musical contacts,
be able to bring new ideas/directions, and
offer further refinement of our sound
and be available Wednesday evenings for
rehearsals. Requesting a minimum two-year
commitment. Bass should have strong
background in choral singing with some
exposure to singing vocal jazz. A minimum
one year commitment requested. For more
info, visit http://www.oasisvocaljazz.com.
Contact: [email protected]
May’s Child
PIANO LESSONS: personalized
instruction by experienced teacher,
concert pianist EVE EGOYAN (M. Mus.,
L.R.A.M., F.R.S.C.). All ages and levels.
Downtown location. [email protected]
or 416- 603-4640
Richard Margison
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STUDY SAXOPHONE with Bruce Redstone.
M.M. in Performance, B.A. in Education,
25+ years’ experience, 6 years university
instructor, reasonable rates, convenient
location, all levels and styles. bredstone@
rogers.com or 416-706-8161
MUSICIANS AVAILABLE
BARD – EARLY MUSIC DUO playing recorder
and virginal available to provide background
atmosphere for teas, receptions or other
functions – greater Toronto area. For rates
and info call 905-722-5618 or email us at
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Richard Margison and daughter Lauren — co-creators of
a new show, “Back-to-Back,” featuring “classical arias,
Neapolitan love songs, jazz and a little Gordon Lightfoot.”
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enor Richard Margison’s career takes him to the world’s opera
houses — the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, the Royal Opera House,
Covent Garden, the San Francisco Opera, the Théâtre Royale de la
Monnaie, the Sydney Opera and the Gran Teatro del Liceu. Currently
he’s singing the role of Herod in the Canadian Opera Company
production of Salome (to May 22).
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Born and raised in Victoria BC, Margison performed in lounges as
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a teenager, singing and playing guitar in duos and bands. He began
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family stuff. 78’s-cassettes-reels-35mm
in 1976. Early experiences included summer at The Banff Centre and
slides-etc. ArtsMediaProjects will restore
Canada Opera Piccola at the Victoria International Festival.
THE OAKVILLE ENSEMBLE is holding
them on CD’s or DVD’s. Call George @
auditions to form a new paid core of eight
In 2007 Margison and his wife, violist Valerie Kuinka, launched an
416-910-1091
singers. Auditions are by appointment.
advanced month-long training program in Haliburton for emerging
905-825-9740 www.oakville-ensemble.ca
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operatic performers. Believing that artists at this level should not pay
for a summer program, their Highland Opera Studio offers full scholINSTRUCTION
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Bloor
Street
United
Church.
Phone:
416-924and actors: Dutch, English, French, German,
7439 x22. Email: [email protected]
with my dad!
Italian, Spanish, and Latin – across from High
Anything to say to that little fellow? Keep on practising.
Park subway station. 416-769-0812
REHEARSAL/PERFORMANCE SPACE
Or ask him? Ask what lure he caught that fish on!
AVAILABLE.
Yonge/Wellesley.
Weekday
FLUTE, PIANO, THEORY LESSONS, RCM
Earliest musical memories? My dad singing The Green Eyed
rates: $10/hr, Evening (events) $100/night.
EXAM PREPARATION: Samantha Chang,
Seats 40–60 people. Contact bookings@
Dragon, and my mom playing the piano: music at home, at church,
Royal Academy of Music PGDip, LRAM, ARCT.
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birthday celebrations for the “Dean of Canadian
Composers” at Walter Hall last month, I
had the pleasure of hearing the Cecilia String
Quartet performing John Weinzweig’s String
Quartet No.3, a rare treat indeed. I hope
now that they have taken that wonderful,
but sorely neglected, work into their repertoire we will have other occasions to hear
it in the future. In the interim we
can content ourselves with the
second release in their 4-CD
contract with Analekta. The
Cecilia, named after the patron
saint of music, is quartet-in-residence at the University of Toronto
where they were founded in 2004.
They have not spent the last decade
on campus however and their
world travels and accomplishments have included winning
international string quartet
competitions in Osaka in 2008,
Bordeaux in 2010 and, perhaps
most famously, First Prize at
the Banff International String
Quartet Competition that same
year. Winners of a Galaxie Rising
Stars Award in Canada, the CSQ
have held residencies at the Austin
Chamber Music Festival, San Diego
State University, McGill University,
QuartetFest at Wilfrid Laurier
University, the Summer String
Academy at Indiana University and
were Quartet Fellows at the Glenn
Gould School of the Royal Conservatory.
In addition they have presented
educational programs for
elementary and high schools
across Canada, the USA, Italy
and France.
But back to the matter at hand.
Amoroso (AN 2 9984) includes
classic European works from the
first quarter of the 20th century:
Leoš Janáček’s String Quartet No.1 (“The
Kreutzer Sonata”), Alban Berg’s Lyric Suite
and Anton Webern’s Langsamer Satz. The
premise of the recording is that all of the
works included reflect love stories in one
way or another. Janáček based his quartet on
the tragic novella by Leo Tolstoy which gives
the work its subtitle. Berg, whose Lyric Suite
was incidentally one of the seminal works
that affected Weinzweig while studying at
the Eastman School and led to his interest
in serialism, which in turn would influence
several generations of Canadian composers
through his teaching, was evidently inspired
by a long-lasting illicit love affair. An autograph copy of the score which came to light in
uring the 1 0 0 th
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1977 includes many personal annotations to
Berg’s beloved. Webern, primarily known for
a small output of miniature gems that distill
musical ideas to their crystalline essence, was
actually quite prolific in his student days. The
Langsamer Satz (slow movement), is one of
about a hundred finished and sketched works
from the time of his studies with Arnold
Schoenberg which remained
unpublished during his lifetime.
The lushly romantic score, reminiscent of his teacher’s Verklärte
Nacht, was written at a time
when Webern was “head over
heels” in love with his cousin
Wilhelmine. This and the other
love stories are well explained
in Keith Horner’s very readable
and detailed liner notes.
The Cecilia String Quartet
shine in these nuanced and
moving performances which were
recorded at the Banff Centre last
December. Their first Analekta
recording (AN 2 9892) featured
works of 19th century giant Antonin
Dvořák and this, their second, works
of the early 20th century. Dare
I hope that they will continue
their march toward the present
day and that a future disc may
include the Weinzweig and
perhaps the required works by
Gilbert Amy and Ana Sokolović
that were integral parts of their
successes in Bordeaux and Banff?
Icicles of Fire (Centrediscs CMCCD
18813) is one of the latest slew of
releases from the Canadian Music
Centre (discs of music by Ann
Southam and T. Patrick Carrabré
will be reviewed in next month’s
WholeNote). It features music
written for cellist Shauna
Rolston by Heather Schmidt with the
composer at the piano. There are numerous
Banff connections with this disc as well.
Rolston literally grew up at the Banff Centre
where her parents Tom and Isobel were the
teachers and directors from the mid-1960s.
Calgary-born Schmidt, who is now based
in Los Angeles, enjoyed numerous residencies at the Banff Centre over her developing
years and composed the required work for
the 1995 Banff International String Quartet
Competition.
There are three works included here,
presented in reverse chronological order.
Synchronicity (2007) begins with a meditative chant-like introduction which is followed
by a dramatic movement that begins with
dense chords and tremolos and builds to a
fiery conclusion replete with eerie animallike squeals and glissandi from the cello. It
was written for a documentary film by Paul
Kimball about the collaboration between
Rolston and Schmidt. Fantasy (2006) again
begins in calm, this time in a minor tonality.
After an extended meditation there is a lyrical
interlude with tintinnabulations in the piano
line overlaid by a gentle flowing cello melody
that gradually gains momentum and intensity before returning to the darkly placid
waters of the opening. Icicles of Fire (2003)
is the most extended work presented here; at
21 minutes it is more than the length of the
other two pieces combined. It was inspired by
the composer’s participation in the governor
general’s state visit to Finland and Iceland
and the latter’s glacial landscapes and fiery
volcanoes are reflected in the name. The
first movement is quiet and delicate in its
depiction of icicles while the second mixes
soaring lyrical lines with the fiery molto
perpetuo passages so well suited to Rolston’s
style and temperament. There is obviously a
strong bond between these two fine artists
and Schmidt’s music is tailor-made to illustrate this.
Although just being released now, these
performances were recorded at the Banff
Centre in 2007 by the late Tom Rolston who
died in 2010.
There is also a nominal connection to
Banff with the next disc as Poland’s Royal
String Quartet placed third in the 2004
quartet competition there. But it is in the
United Kingdom that the group has had most
success with a nomination for the Royal
Philharmonic Society chamber music award
and an invitation to participate in the BBC’s
New Generation Artists program. Founded
in 1998 at the Fryderyk Chopin University of
Music in Warsaw, they are currently quartetin-residence at Queen’s University in Belfast.
Although well versed in and well respected
for their interpretations of the standard repertoire, the Royal Quartet specialize in music
of their native Poland as attested by their
three recordings on the Hyperion label.
Following on the success of their Górecki and
Szymanowski discs the latest CD (CDA67943)
features the quartets of Penderecki and
Lutosławski. The three quartets of Penderecki
span nearly half a century and the changes
in style are substantial. The first, dating from
1960, is from the same period as his seminal
Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima and
bears the hallmarks of that experimental
time, full of extended and “non-musical”
techniques — bows are nowhere in evidence
in the first two minutes of the piece, with
the body of the instruments providing as
much fodder as the strings. The second, from
1968, is still in the realm of the avant-garde,
with abrasive passages alternating with eerie
sounds of glissandi complemented by whistling from the musicians and extremely quiet,
almost sub-audible sections.
There is a gap of 40 years before
Penderecki’s next full foray into the quartet
idiom. String Quartet No.3 bears the subtitle
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“Leaves of an unwritten diary” and reflects
the post-romantic language that has permeated the composer’s work since the Polish
Requiem completed in 1984. The opening
passage is reminiscent of the Lacrimosa
movement from that large-scale work, a
motif which I have heard time and again in
Penderecki’s later years. This is followed by
a rhythmic section with close harmonies
perhaps harkening back to the earlier quartets, but this is quickly replaced by a more
lyrical sensibility that permeates most
of the work. All three of the quartets are
performed effortlessly and with conviction.
This is obviously music close to the hearts
of these fine young musicians. One omission that I find curious: in 1988 Penderecki
wrote another brief piece for string quartet,
Der Unterbrochene Gedanke (The Broken
Thought), a miniature in homage to
Schoenberg and the New Viennese School,
which I am aware of from a 1994 recording
by the Penderecki String Quartet. I think
this would have provided a welcome bridge
between the two early experimental works
and the lyricism of the mature Penderecki.
The disc concludes with a masterful
performance of one of the most important
pieces of 20th century chamber music, Witold
Lutosławski’s String Quartet from 1964. I
look forward to hearing much more from the
Royal String Quartet.
The final disc I will mention is something
completely different. Canadian actor David
Calderisi has developed a wonderful entertainment based on The Rubaiyat of Omar
Khayyam (okdac.net). The CD is in two parts.
The first is Calderisi’s introduction to the
work, the author (an 11th-century Persian
mathematician) and the 19th-century “translator” Edward Fitzgerald who produced
what went on to become the most widely
published poem in the English language.
The second is a stunning performance of 93
of the four-line poems (rubaiy’i) selected by
Calderisi from the five collections authorized
by Fitzgerald. Calderisi’s mellifluous voice and
nuanced interpretation bring a wonderful life
to these paeans to the author’s beloved and
praises to his preferred libation: “Wine! Wine!
Wine! — Red Wine!” The reading is interspersed with short and evocative musical
interludes composed and performed on the
kamancheh, a traditional Persian stringed
instrument, by Kousha Nakhaei.
In his introduction Calderisi states that he
has found people react in one of three ways
when asked if they know The Rubaiyat of
Omar Khayyam: the first take offence at the
very suggestion that they might not be well
versed in the subject; the second admit to
some knowledge if not an intimate acquaintance; and the third say “what?” I firmly
fell into the second category before coming
across this disc, but am pleased to say I feel
I’ve moved a notch closer to knowledge now.
Whatever your relationship to this 1000-yearold treasure, I think you will delight in
Calderisi’s scholarship and presentation of
one of the great works of “English” literature.
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VOCAL
Psalms and Motets for Reflection
Choir of St. John’s Elora; Michael Bloss;
Noel Edison
Naxos 8.572540
!!Canadian church
choirs usually consist
of amateur singers. If
a church can afford it,
it will try to get four
professional section
leaders. The Choir
of St John’s, Elora,
however, is a fully
professional 22-voice choir. The disc under
review is its fifth CD.
This new CD contains eight settings of
psalms and ten items that are described,
somewhat loosely, as motets. Some of the
psalms I would describe as serviceable but a
few are rather more than that and I was especially taken with Thomas Handforth’s setting
of Psalm 145 (I will magnify thee, O God my
King). Only one of the motets is something of
a chestnut: God so loved the World by John
Stainer. I have sung that a number of times
and I would be content to live without it.
The oldest work on the disc is a fine
Renaissance motet in the Lutheran tradition
(When to the Temple Mary went), sung here
to a 19th-century English text. Otherwise
the most interesting motets are the modern
and contemporary works: those by Poulenc,
Tavener, Paulus, MacMillan, Harvey and
Halley. The last-named is of special interest
as it was commissioned by the Choir of St
John’s. Its melodic source is a 16th-century
Lutheran hymn by Johann Walter.
This is clearly a very fine choir. I have not
yet heard it live, but the choir performs every
week as part of the 11am Sunday service.
Elora is easy to get to from Toronto and I hope
to make the trip soon.
—Hans de Groot
EARLY MUSIC & PERIOD PERFORMANCE
Handel – Concerti Grossi Op.6
Aradia Ensemble; Kevin Mallon
Naxos 8.557358-60
!!Toronto’s early music Aradia Ensemble,
under the energetic direction of conductor/
violinist Kevin Mallon, performs with grace
and momentum in
this three-disc collection of George Frideric
Handel’s 12 Concerti
Grossi, Op.6.
Composed over the
period of a few weeks,
the first seven Concerti
are scored for the
concertino solo group of two violins and cello,
and ripieno orchestra of strings and continuo.
Mallon’s first violin solos are impeccable, with
Genevieve Gillardeau and Cristina Zacharias
taking turns in the second chair. The rich
cello concertino solos are well performed by
Allen Whear and Katie Rietman. As the liner
notes explain, Handel began composing oboe
parts later, possibly for the theatre, but never
completed them. Aradia oboists Stephen Bard,
Chris Palemeta and Kathryn Montoya play
these wind parts in Nos.8 to 12. The richness
of the winds adds a welcome extra layer of
texture. In the compositional style of the day,
there are numerous references to Handel’s
other works, as well as a nod to composers
such as Domenico Scarlatti, and folk music
idioms including the Sicilian dance and
English hornpipe.
This is music to listen to intently in order
to marvel at Aradia’s phrasing, ornamentation and stylistic interpretation. And as
background music, the drive and spirit of the
performances will brighten even the most
drab of days. The strings shine, especially in
the cohesive descending lines of No.2 and
the triumphant trumpet-like opening of the
Overture of No.5, while the resonating double
bass of J. Tracy Mortimore adds depth and
support, especially in the Musette of No.6.
The sound quality is clear, with each
instrumental line carefully balanced. The liner
notes are informative and concise. Mallon
has brought out the very best in his Aradia
ensemble as their passionate performances
radiate Handel’s inquisitive artistry.
—Tiina Kiik
CLASSICAL & BEYOND
Beethoven – Symphony No.9
Erin Wall; Kendall Gladen; William Burden;
Nathan Berg; San Francisco Symphony;
Michael Tilson Thomas
SFS Media 821936-0055-2
!!Beethoven
symphonies hold a
special place in my
heart, having been
my point of entry into
the world of classical
music, starting with
the Sixth Symphony
at the tender age of
seven or eight. The very sweep of the master’s
compositions sent shivers down my spine.
But it was the Ninth that truly shocked and
disturbed me, providing enough nervous
tension and pent-up force-under-the-surface
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to forever etch itself onto my mind. Later on,
in high school, during my mercifully short
career as a chorister, I remember the difficulty
of singing the last movement at breakneck
speed, as the music hurled towards a climax.
Granted, the Ninth does not sound much
like the rest of Beethoven’s symphonies, but
who knew that Louis Spohr described the
first three movements as “inferior to all eight
previous symphonies” and the Fourth as
“so monstrous and tasteless ... that I cannot
understand how a genius like Beethoven
could have written it.” As I always say,
consider the source: Louis who?
All joking aside, there was enough experimentation in the Ninth to disturb Beethoven’s
contemporaries. Nowadays, what makes
it great still is that raw, exposed nerve; the
passion and relentless thrust forward that
still break convention. In keeping with its
nature, the Ninth is best experienced as a live
performance or recording thereof, here with
Michael Tilson Thomas steering the orchestra
with a steady hand and with passion to spare.
When the murmur of the “Ode to Joy” theme
grows into a vocal and choral crescendo, the
old shivers down my spine are back again.
—Robert Tomas
Brahms – Klavierstucke, Op.76;
Fantasien, Op.116; Drei Intermezzi, Op.117
Peter Longworth
Azica ACD-71279
!!I really enjoyed
the warm tone and
elegant interpretation of these Brahms
works as recorded by
Toronto pianist Peter
Longworth. This was
a mature and introspective performance.
There was a real sense of intimacy between
the music and the performer. This came
across in fluid music making and exquisite
attention to detail. Longworth plays this
music with a sense of integrity and delicacy that speaks to the nature of this music.
You sense that these Brahms pieces are like
Longworth’s treasured old friends and it
shows in the care he takes in shaping the
musical lines and phrases. The music is
personal and tells an intimate emotional
story. This is not the virtuosic, flashy Brahms
of the sonatas or concerti, but there is enough
difficult technical detail to keep the pianist
working hard. Longworth makes it sound
easy and I never once thought about technique while I listened. I was too enthralled
and mesmerized by the music.
I also appreciated hearing these works
on one CD, almost like one large piece. The
three sets of Klavierstucke, Op.76, Fantasien,
Op.116 and Drei Intermezzi, Op.117 are
comprised of capriccios and intermezzi
and it is revealing to hear Brahms’ own
spiritual journey revealed in these tender
gems of music. Longworth has long championed chamber music and you can hear
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this influencing his texture and mastery of
tonal colour. He wrote in the program notes
that “this music remains relevant, and grows
increasingly rich as we savour more of life.
I look forward to playing these pieces 40
years from now.” I will definitely be looking
forward to hearing him play them again.
—Christina Petrowska Quilico
Pavel Kolesnikov – Live at Honens 2012
Pavel Kolesnikov; Calgary Philharmonic
Orchestra; Roberto Minkus
Honens 201203-4CD
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!!Like a particle
accelerator, the
annual Honens Piano
Competition is a
highly charged event
probing the secrets of
the stars. Ten semifinalists compete for
five coveted spots
in a final round. These rarities are all in
their 20s, unimaginably gifted and ready to
explode from their orbits. Meanwhile, audiences sit breathlessly on the edge of their
seats in Calgary’s Jack Singer Concert Hall
to witness flashes of genius and streaks of
energy that rival the deepest mysteries of
subatomic physics.
Is there a Honens particle? It seems so.
Every year the competition’s laureate receives
$100,000 cash and a half million dollar career
launch with recording and support. Now
that’s a career accelerator.
2012 Honens laureate Pavel Kolesnikov
emerged from his field with a blazing technique and a moving interpretive ability. His
winning performances, captured in live
concert recordings, demonstrate why. With a
program of Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin,
Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn, Kolesnikov
proves how note-perfect technique can
coexist with the most bombastic and the most
tender keyboard expressions. His Schumann
Kinderszenen Op.15 is utterly convincing in
portraying the composer’s impish, nostalgic
and heartfelt vignettes. These may, despite
their lack of musical heft, be the most beautifully interpreted pieces on the two CDs.
Tchaikovsky’s Concerto No.1 is innovatively
light and playfully energized and contrasts
markedly with the darker, heavier performances that have become historical standards.
Similarly, Chopin’s Sonata in B Minor, Op.58
is reborn in an astonishing new lightness.
Kolesnikov has conquered the Romantics.
He is still very young. His next conquests
should be equally surprising.
—Alex Baran
Bruckner – Symphony No.6
Orchestre Metropolitain du Grand
Montréal; Yannick Nézet-Séguin
ATMA ACD2 2639
!!Ludwig Spiedel, the 19th-century German
writer on music and theatre, once referred
to the music of Anton
Bruckner saying:
“It is no common
mortal who speaks
to us in this music.”
This was high praise
indeed, particularly
as the Austrianborn composer
who lived from 1824 to 1896 has sometimes been unfairly compared to his more
renowned contemporary Johannes Brahms.
Yet Bruckner now seems to have come into
his own, and among his many admirers is the
Quebec conductor extraordinaire Yannick
Nézet-Séguin who has already recorded
Symphonies Nos. 4, 7, 8 and 9 on the Atma
Classisque label, and has now turned his
attentions to the Sixth, again with the
Orchestre Métropolitain.
Written between 1879 and 1881, this
symphony is the music of a composer at midlife, confident in his abilities and looking
to the future with optimism. The large
four-movement work reflects this forwardlooking attitude, and is treated here with
great aplomb. From the bold and passionate
opening movement through the languorous
Adagio, a lively Scherzo and the exuberant
Finale with its prolific use of brass, the
orchestra demonstrates a deep engagement
with the music, displaying rich tonal colours
and a full dynamic range. This is indeed
music making with a true sense of grandeur.
It seems that everything Nézet-Séguin and the
OM choose to play turns to gold, and this disc
is no exception. It’s a must-have for devotees
of Bruckner’s music, and it may even sway
those who up to now have stayed away. Highly
recommended.
—Richard Haskell
Hidden Treasure – Viola Masterpieces
Rivka Golani; Michael Hampton
Hungaroton HCD 32721-22
!!I well remember
riveting Toronto
performances by now
London-based violist
Rivka Golani, and
cherish this disc. York
Bowen’s Phantasy is
flamboyant English
post-romanticism,
with a rich harmonic palette and ecstatic
climaxes. Golani’s trademark fiery style and
Michael Hampton’s mastery of the florid
piano part mark this performance. George
Enescu’s Concert Piece is also a knockout;
Golani’s virtuosity shows in both expressive double-stopped passages and rapid
filigree work. In the masterly In Memoriam
(1949) by her teacher Ödön Pártos (1907–
1977), dedicated to victims of the Holocaust,
the duo captures evocatively the sense of an
anguished funeral procession.
Golani is noble in the opening and fleet
of finger in the ensuing Allegro of Henri
Vieuxtemps’ Sonata in B-Flat Major. The duo
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projects a remarkable Barcarolla as though
from a distance, and paces it extremely
well. This is a very fine performance of
an undeservedly neglected work. Anton
Rubinstein’s Sonata in F Minor is a weaker
piece, with uninspired melodies and tedious
sequences in the first two movements. Things
improve with Rubinstein’s third movement, a Scherzo, with Hampton producing
delicious double-thirds in its Turkish-style
trio section.
Mendelssohn’s precocious Sonata in C
Minor composed at age 15 is notable as the
earliest sonata for viola and piano, and a
delightful rendition of Efrem Zimbalist’s
Sarasateana suite of Spanish dances rounds
out the recording.
—Roger Knox
T E R R Y R O BB I N S
T
here ’ s a lovely
new 3-CD set of
the Beethoven Complete Sonatas for
Violin and Piano from Canada’s own
Duo Concertante, violinist Nancy Dahn
and pianist Timothy Steeves (Marquis MAR
81517). The two have been playing
together since 1997 — Beethoven’s
“Kreutzer Sonata” was the first
thing they played together, and
they took their duo name from
the composer’s inscription above
the title — and the Beethoven
sonatas have apparently always
been a part not just of their repertoire, but of their daily lives. My first
impressions were that for all
the clean playing and fine
ensemble work these were still
fairly low-key performances, but
they quickly won me over. By the
second CD, with lovely readings of
the “Spring” and “Kreutzer” sonatas
placed around the Sonata in A major
Op.12, No.2, I was more than
convinced.
There are certainly more
high-powered versions available — the Ibragimova/Tiberghien
Wigmore Hall set I reviewed in
December 2011, for example — but
the sensitivity and musical intelligence of these performances
more than compensate for any lack of sheer
technical fireworks. Dahn and Steeves
play these wonderful sonatas as if they are
visiting old friends, and the sense of intimacy
and emotional involvement is palpable
throughout the three discs.
I’ve received several CDs of the Bach
Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin BWV 10011006 over the past few months, all of which
feature some quite stunning playing. There
are two complete 2-CD sets and one half-set.
Cecylia Arzewski, whose performances
are available on Bridge Records (9358A/B),
enjoyed a stellar orchestral career with the
Boston Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra
and the Atlanta Symphony for almost 40
years. Her playing here is of the highest
quality — warm, sensitive, intelligent, and
with a great feel for phrasing and tempo;
even in the fastest movements there is always
a clear sense of pulse, and room to breathe
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at the beginnings and endings of phrases.
Rhythmic articulation is crisp and clear,
the multiple stopping handled with clarity
and apparent ease, and the sense of line
always secure.
Exactly the same can
said for the complete
recording by the French
Baroque specialist
Amandine Beyer
(Zig-Zag Territoires
ZZT110902), although
there is a somewhat
lighter tone and an
added rhythmic snap and
vitality to her playing that
makes it an even more
rewarding listen; even the
Sonata movements have
a dance feel to them.
The one major difference — not immediately
apparent unless you have
perfect pitch or play the
two versions back-to-back — is that
Beyer apparently tunes to Baroque
pitch, so her performances are a
semi-tone lower than Arzewski’s.
Beyer’s set also includes a Solo
Sonata by Johann Georg Pisendel,
a German virtuoso and exact
contemporary of Bach’s; the two
met in 1709, and Pisendel may (depending
on which set of booklet notes you choose to
believe) have owned a copy of Bach’s Sonatas
& Partitas, and may even have influenced
their composition.
The half-set is the second volume of the
complete recording by Isabelle Faust, now
available on harmonia mundi HMC 902124;
the three works, however, are the first half
of the set of six. Again, there is wonderful
playing here, with some terrific presto movements, relaxed and almost meditative slower
movements, and clean, beautifully controlled
playing in the fugues.
Perhaps surprisingly — or maybe not, given
the huge advances in the understanding
of period performance techniques — all
three performers take essentially the same
approach to the choices of ornamentation and the interpretation of some of the
chordal configurations, although obviously
there are some differences in tempo, bowing
and phrasing.
If you are interested in these wonderful
works you probably already own one or more
versions; if you do, you can add any one of
these to your collection without reservation. In an interesting aside on the issue of
modern or period instrument, Arzewski says
that her goal was to be as true as possible,
using a modern (my italics) violin and bow, to
Bach’s style, although her instrument is the
1714 Petrus Guarneri of Mantua, which in its
original condition pre-dates the Sonatas &
Partitas themselves. Beyer, meanwhile, plays
a Baroque violin, but one made by Pierre
Jaquier in 1996, with an Eduardo Gorr bow
from 2000; both were made over 275 years
after the works were written.
There is more outstanding Bach playing
from the ever-reliable Jennifer Koh on Bach
& Beyond Part 1, her latest CD from Cedille
Records (CDR 90000 134). I’ve commented
before on Koh’s imaginative programming as
well as her marvellous playing, and
this CD is more than up to her
own high standards. It records
the first of a three-part series of
recital programs that Koh initiated in 2009 to explore the history
of solo violin works from Bach
to the present day. Each recital
features two of the Bach Sonatas
& Partitas paired with solo
compositions from the subsequent centuries.
I really can’t say enough
about Koh’s playing or her
programming; it’s a perfect
marriage of ability and intellect
that puts her on a different level
than most performers, and this
CD is a classic example of that. It opens with
Bach’s E Major Partita No.3, which is followed
by Ysaÿe’s Sonata No.2, a work which quotes
both the preceding Bach Partita and the Dies
Irae chant. Kaija Saariaho’s short Nocturne, a
tribute and memorial to the composer Witold
Lutosławski, also quotes the E Major Partita
and the Dies Irae, while Missy Mazzoli’s
Dissolve, O My Heart (the title is taken from
Bach’s St. John Passion) takes its material cue
from the Chaconne from Bach’s Partita No.2
in D Minor. The complete D Minor Partita
fittingly closes a marvellous CD that Koh
describes as a journey from light through
darkness, and back to light.
The playing throughout is exemplary, with
a wonderful purity in the Bach and a clear
empathy in the contemporary works. The
remaining two volumes of this fascinating
project should be well worth waiting for. Continues at thewholenote.com with
music for cello and piano by Lera Auerbach
featuring cellist Ani Aznavoorian and the
composer at the piano, Dvořák and Smetana
works in what may be the Tokyo Quartet’s
final release, and another new recording of
the Brahms Piano Quintet with Sharon Kam
and the Jerusalem Quartet.
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MODERN & CONTEMPORARY
with strategies ranging from inner piano
string plucks to keyboard jabs and cohesive
chording to maintain the integrity of her
compositional vision.
—Ken Waxman
JAZZ & IMPROVISED MUSIC
On the Nature of Electricity & Acoustics
Electro-Acoustic Music from Ireland
Curated by Daniel Figgis
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Kris Davis
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!!Imagine the sound
program that moves
from experimentation to straight-ahead
swing and lush inventions — often on the
same track — pianist
Kris Davis outlines a
series of moods on this
program of her own compositions. Calgaryborn Davis has made a reputation for herself
as an arranger as well as a soloist and each of
her compositions displays her sidefolk — some
of New York’s most accomplished players — to
their collective best advantage.
Take for instance Pass the Magic Hat, which
starts off as a swirling and spiralling exposition
for her piano plus the bass of Trevor Dunn and
the drums of Tom Rainey, but soon evolves to
a contrapuntal duel between her metronomic
comping and Ingrid Laubrock’s pulsating
tenor saxophone. A spikier secondary theme
developed by violist Mat Maneri arrives, eventually to be harmonized with piano and reed
slurs. On the other hand, Bottom of a Well is a
cohesive recital-styled track with low-pitched
piano clunks underscoring the chromatic
string sets. Before a legato finale, Dunn vibrates
a solo in the cello range while the violist
harshly rubs his strings. With Davis’ narrative
literally more low-key and impressionistic, Pi
is Irrational balances Maneri’s tremolo stridency with Rainey’s rugged ruffs and taps,
until Laubrock’s gentle arpeggios presage a
brief, rhythmically sophisticated bass solo.
Davis who studied at Banff and Toronto
defines her program enough to give her soloists the freedom to interpolate everything
from strident reed bites and fiddle scratches
to extended cymbal vibrations into the
nine tracks. But she reins them in enough
of a traditional Irish
jig or reel in the hands
of someone who loves
playing with electronic instruments
and recording devices.
Think of all the possible
combinations that
could arise. That’s exactly what you will hear
on the CD On the Nature of Electricity &
Acoustics. Curated by Daniel Figgis, this album
is a compilation and sampling of 23 pieces, each
created by a different Irish composer or musician. And to add to the mix, these musicians
come from a wide range of backgrounds and
influences: contemporary classical composers,
rock musicians, sound experimentalists, traditional music virtuosi and visual artists. The
fascinating images in the accompanying
booklet offer glimpses into early instruments — both acoustic and electric in nature.
Over the last three or four decades, traditional Irish music influences have swept
across the globe, bringing their unique identity to the pop, rock and world music genres.
With this album we are treated to the inimitable Irish sound under the influence of
experimentation and boundary pushing. It
opens with a very early electroacoustic work,
created in 1978 using classic tape techniques,
by one of the country’s leading composers,
Roger Doyle. We immediately land in the
familiar soundworld of the piano presented
with a driving rhythmic force so characteristic of the Irish essence. These strong
rhythmic qualities, along with looping and
repetitive melodic or harmonic patterns,
textural layering and the presence of a recognizable instrument are present in almost
every work on the album. The distinctive
instrumental sounds heard include the fiddle,
bagpipes, bodhrán, accordion, electric guitar,
cello, as well as a few flashes of a Celtic vocal
presence. Electronic sounds include the presence of lush synthesizer textures, wild electric
guitar riffs, static and noise articulations and
gliding filter sweeps.
The final track by the curator Daniel Figgis
really sums up the spirit of the whole album.
If I were to lift a pint of beer to my mouth
and close my eyes, I could easily imagine I
was sitting in a traditional Irish pub, tapping
my toes in time with the music. Yet my ears
would be overjoyed to hear the unusual and
mind-bending twists and turns that unfolded
before me. There would be no denying that
I was in the presence of an ancient musical
tradition whose indelible spirit penetrates
through time, technologies and trends.
—Wendalyn Bartley
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!!Creating a cohesive
Upstairs
Matt Herskowitz
Justin Time JUST 249-2
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!!This CD was
recorded before
an audience at
the Upstairs Jazz
Bar & Grill in
Montreal where Matt
Herskowitz has made
his home since 2000
and the first thing that
struck me was the phenomenal technique
possessed by this Albany-born pianist.
The varied program begins with a
long — over 13 minutes — interpretation of
the Dave Brubeck composition, Dziekuje
which means “thank you” in Polish, and was
modelled on Chopin’s Prelude in E Minor. He
also includes Cantabile by Michel Petrucciani,
Traumerei by Robert Schumann, music by
J.S. Bach, two originals, Waltz In Moscow and
Bella’s Lament plus a couple of Gershwin
songs for good measure — But Not For Me and
I’ve Got Rhythm.
Herskowitz’ classical training permeates
the music, sometimes at the expense of “jazz
feeling” but then there are also passages of
delicate beauty as shown in Bella’s Lament
and Traumerei.
To make a comparison between visual
art and music, Herskowitz is like, say, a Dali
rather than a Mondrian.
I have a non-musical complaint on behalf
of all of us with less than perfect eyesight. The
liner notes are in deep blue against a black
background, making them all but impossible to read. I, and a few others I have spoken
with, find it extremely frustrating. Designers
of CD sleeves please take note.
—Jim Galloway
S t u art Broo m e r
G
uitarist Reg Schwager has
worked with some of the
most famous performers in
jazz, including Diana Krall, George
Shearing and Peter Appleyard. In
addition to being a distinguished
sideman, though, he’s also genuinely adventurous. Schwager has
just released two contrasting
CDs that testify to the range and
quality of his work.
His duet with pianist
David Restivo, Arctic Passage
(Rant 1346), presents two musicians gifted in the myriad
permutations of melody and
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harmony, etching work of glittering lyricism.
Most of the compositions are Schwager’s
own, themes worthy of further exploration,
but there are also distinctive accounts of Poor
Butterfly and Alexander’s Ragtime Band,
each enlivened by thoughtful chordal extensions that are bound to surprise. The dialogue
is inevitably reminiscent of the perfect duos
recorded by Bill Evans and Jim Hall
in the 1960s.
Schwager and drummer Michel
Lambert, one of Quebec’s finest
free improvisers, make Schwager’s
outer limits more apparent on Trio
Improvisations (Rant 1245). It’s a
special trio, with three different
musicians occupying the third
spot. The recordings come from
sessions during a six-month period
between 2001 and 2002 and
include the powerful Coltraneinfluenced Toronto saxophonist
Michael Stuart, Amsterdam’s
anarchic and brilliant pianist
Misha Mengelberg (an early influence on the Dutch-born Schwager)
and trumpeter Kenny Wheeler,
perhaps Canada’s greatest contribution to international jazz. The
music is all free improvisation,
though in this case that means
harmonic and rhythmic structures arise and dissolve with
frequency and ease. What makes
the set most remarkable is that
it’s anything but pastiche. While
many CDs from different sessions sound like
patchwork quilts, this one sounds like a suite,
with a consistent approach that
expands outward from Schwager
and Lambert and embraces their
various guests.
Cellist Kye Marshall has a
broad musical background
ranging from extensive
studies in jazz composition
and positions as principal
cellist with Toronto’s New Chamber
Orchestra and assistant principal cellist with the National
Ballet Orchestra. She’s worked
extensively both in jazz and improvised music, and she brings all
of those skills and inclinations to
her Jazz Quartet’s Pencil Blues
(Zephyr/Westwind Productions
kyemarshall.com). It’s lively,
infectious work and Marshall has thoughtfully constructed a string band around her
still rather unusual jazz cello, with Don
Thompson on bass, Andrew Scott on guitar
and Ethan Ardelli on drums. When the group
expands for textural reasons, she adds violist
Kent Teeple and percussionist Mark Duggan
to the ensembles. The feeling’s not unlike
the Hot Club of France, and the clear star is
Thompson, whose bass playing should be
declared a national treasure.
Pianist Steve Koven is a crisp modern
stylist, an ebullient musician who can move
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handily from infectious Latin jazz to probing
ballads and complex three-way dialogues
with the members of his long-standing trio.
In fact that’s what has given Koven’s work
its greatest dimension, something celebrated
on SK3 20 (Bungalow Records SK 009 3),
commemorating the 20th anniversary of
the group with bassist Rob Clutton and
drummer Anthony Michelli. It
would be remarkable enough
if Koven had held together a
band that long with anybody,
but he’s done so with two of the
most creative musicians that the
Toronto scene could provide,
evident in the playful funk groove
of Lolaland. The CD also comes
with a bonus DVD of the group in
performance.
Curtis Nowosad is a 24-year-old
drummer who recently graduated from the University of
Manitoba’s Jazz Studies Program.
Clearly Nowosad enjoys many
kinds of music, and there’s
plenty of pop repertoire to
go with the hard bop on his
debut, The Skeptic & the Cynic
(Know-a-sad Music KSM-001
curtisnowosad.com), with
songs made famous by Michael
Jackson, Bob Marley, Pink Floyd,
Joni Mitchell and 2Pac Shakur.
Nowosad’s band is made up
largely of University of Manitoba
faculty, with trumpeter Derrick
Gardner, saxophonist Jimmy Greene, bassist
Steve Kirby and Will Bonness on keyboards
(covering piano, Fender Rhodes and
Hammond B3) lending tremendous
lustre to the proceedings. Clearly
Nowosad has been an outstanding
student, sounding right at home
in this band of veterans, who for
their part seem to be enjoying
playing signature hard bop on tunes
as unlikely as The Way You Make Me
Feel and Three Little Birds.
Another musician employing
distinguished talent is saxophonist
Cameron Wallis. Calling Dexter
(cameronwallismusic.com)
features pianist André White,
bassist Alec Walkington and
drummer Dave Laing, who have
functioned as the André White
Trio for the past 25 years. Wallis is
a skilful traditionalist, smoothly negotiating
chord changes and swinging with aplomb.
If anything, he’s a little too respectful, from
the title dedication to Dexter Gordon to liner
note invocations of Don Byas and “my two
favourite Sonnys.” One of them is definitely Stitt, but Rollins seems too aggressively
modern even in his 1950 form to qualify as
the other. Wallis demonstrates more flexibility
than identity by playing soprano, alto, tenor,
baritone and even C melody saxophone,
making it hard for a listener to get a sense of a
distinctive voice. Something in the Air
Liberation of the
Unaccompanied
Bass Solo
O
K EN W A X M A N
f all the instruments that needed the
advances of free music in the 20th
century to show off its true character, it
has been the double bass which benefitted
most from this situation. Relegated to decorative, scene setting or mere rhythmic functions
in conventional classical and jazz performances, it was only when bassists were able to
express themselves without restraint that
their role grew. By the 21st century in fact,
solo bass recitals became as commonplace as
those by other instrumentalists. The reason,
as these CDs demonstrate, is the arrival of
performers who can extract a multiplicity of
novel tones, timbres and textures from four
tautly wound strings.
Take Paris-based
Joëlle Léandre for
instance. Early in her
career she played
pieces composed
specifically for her
by the likes of John
Cage and Giacinto
Scelsi; now she’s fully
committed to free expression. Wols circus:
12 compositions pour contrebasse d’après 12
gravures de Wols (Galerie Hus HUS 112 joelleleandre.com) is particularly fascinating. Using
only a bow, the strings, her instrument’s
body and her own vocal inflections, Léandre
interprets musically engravings by Surrealist
artist Otto Wols (1913–1951). Created from
1942–1945, when the Berlin-born Wols was
interned as an “enemy foreigner” in France,
where he lived from 1932 until his death, the
images are as abstract as they are affecting.
Making no attempt to literally replicate the
drawings in music, Léandre’s sound interpretations move from stentorian to muted,
with indistinct, spiccato scrubs as common as
Jew’s harp-like twangs. Especially noteworthy
is the build-up and release reflected on the
successive Topographie, Drei Vingnetten
auf einem Blatt and Keiner Fleck. With
each sequence three minutes, first abrasive then mellow string sawing fades into
occasional arco slides and sul tasto pops
with the air vibrated by the bow audible
as well. The climax occurs as unison basso
string strokes and Léandre’s vocal growls
give way to a contrapuntal duet between
sharp instrumental lines. Throughout, the
bull fiddler provides personalized a view of
Wols’ sketches with additional string inventions ranging from squeeze-toy peeps to
tremolo bass slaps. Nonetheless the defining
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performance occurs with Dunkle Stadt, when
with intensifying torque she moves from
miniscule below-the-bridge plucks to staccato string chirps contrapuntally layered with
vocalized faux lyric soprano accents. For view of how Canadian Alexandre
St-Onge, Israeli JC Jones and Norwegian
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten express their ideas in
a solo bass context see the continuation of
this column at thewholenote.com.
POT POURRI
Espejo
Eliana Cuevas
Independent EC003
elianacuevas.com
!!In continuing
her stellar trajectory
as an awardwinning songwriter
and vocalist
(2007 — Toronto
Independent Music
Award for World
Music Artist of the
Year, 2008 — nominated Canadian Folk
Music Awards for Best World Music Solo,
2009 — National Jazz Award for Latin Jazz
Artist of the Year), Eliana Cuevas spent the
past three years creating this dynamic and
soulful fourth CD release. Her partnership
with producer/pianist Jeremy Ledbetter,
along with a great line-up of Latin and jazz
musicians including George Koller and Mark
Kelso, makes for an eclectic mix of styles
performed with artistry and heart.
The vocals are rich with new experience,
the musical arrangements sophisticated
and savvy. From the sultry blues/torch
song Lamento to the quirky, playful and
humourous El Tucusito with its traditional
Venezuelan joropo rhythm performed at
lightning speed, she and her collaborators
move deftly through a great variety of moods
and tempi. The first track Estrellita is most
danceable — full of joy and exuberance — and
the penultimate track, Melancolía, is the
jewel in the crown, evoking a wistful yet
deeply powerful longing in its portrayal of the
hardships of immigration. All in all, a collection of songs fairly bursting with life and
energy. I can’t wait for the live show.
—Dianne Wells
Concert Note: Eliana Cuevas will launch
Espejo at Lula Lounge on May 15.
Old Wine, New Bottles | Fine Old Recordings Re-Released
B R U C E S U R T EE S
I
n its june 1935 issue, the opinionated periodical Etude ranked
Myra Hess among the twelve
greatest pianists of all time and
more recently she was included in
the Philips omnibus edition, Great
Pianists of the 20th Century. Julia
Myra Hess was born in London
in June 1890. At the age of seven
she was the youngest person ever to receive
a certificate from Trinity College. She next
studied at the Guildhall School where she was
awarded the coveted Gold Medal and then
went on to the Royal Academy of Music where
she studied with Tobias Matthay, with whom
she had been awarded a three-year scholarship, and where she befriended fellow pupil
Irene Scharrer. Hess made her debut, aged 17,
playing the Beethoven Fourth Piano Concerto
with the 29-year-old, newly knighted Thomas
Beecham conducting. She concertized extensively and in 1922 made her debut in the
United States, instantly becoming a concertgoers’ favourite as she was in Europe.
Myra Hess – The complete solo and
concerto studio recordings (Appian APR
7504, 5 CDs) presents her once-prized recordings to a new audience. Disc 1, the American
Columbia recordings from 1928 to 1931, has
21 selections beginning with her celebrated
transcription, Jesu, joy of man’s desiring,
that became her signature piece. It was the
first and also the last (in 1957) piece she
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recorded. These early performances are immediately captivating
as the music appears to simply
emerge, drawing the listener into
a private, one-on-one appreciation of the composer. Lots of
Bach, Schubert, Schumann and
Debussy concluding with, surprisingly, Falla’s Ritual Fire Dance!
Here are only some of the highlights of the
four other discs: Disc 2 has the four English
Columbias from 1933 and the HMVs from
1937–1949 including the 21st Mozart concerto
conducted by Leslie Heward (1942). The
HMVs from 1937–1949 continue on disc 3
with Schumann’s Carnaval (1938) and the
Concerto in A Minor under Walter Goehr
(1937), Franck’s Symphonic Variations under
Basil Cameron (1941) and Howard Ferguson’s
F Minor Sonata (1942). The HMVs from 1952
to 1957 on the last two discs include the
Beethoven Sonatas Opp. 109 & 110 (1953),
another Schumann A Minor Concerto with
Rudolf Schwarz (1952) and his Symphonic
Etudes Op.13 (1953). A final session took place
on October 12, 1957 that included an inspired
performance of Granados’ Maiden and the
Nightingale, concluding as mentioned with
her Jesu, joy of man’s desiring.
The generous liner notes are typical of
Appian, being very readable with ample
biographical material, recording dates
and original matrix numbers, etc. The
transcriptions are exemplary. This set is issued
as a commemoration of the artistry of Myra
Hess and while not every performance herein
is equally praiseworthy, complete means
complete; all 397 minutes! Those who revel
in and look for the latest, fastest and loudest
fingers around must look elsewhere.
Footnotes: by definition, not included is the
1927 Columbia recording of the Schubert Trio
D898 with Jelly d’ Arányi and Felix Salmond
or the 1935 d’ Arányi and Gaspar Cassadó
Brahms Trio, Op.87 that Appian issued on
APR7012. At the 1960 Edinburgh Festival she
and Isaac Stern played sonatas by Brahms,
Schubert, Ferguson and Beethoven that were
recorded by the BBC and issued by Testament
(SBT1458, 1 CD). There are a few other live
performances to be found on Sony, BBC and
Music and Arts CDs. Myra Hess died in
London in 1965.
In audiophile
circles, the reference recording of the
Sibelius Symphony
No.2 is usually the Sir
John Barbirolli 1962
version for Readers
Digest now on
Testament. A new
Barbirolli performance that sweeps the field
has appeared on an ICA Classics release
of a concert from February 7, 1969 with
the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra
(ICAC5096, 2 CDs). The program opens with
an elegant reading of Schubert’s Fourth
Symphony followed by Britten’s Serenade for
Tenor, Horn and Strings. The tenor for the
Britten is Gerald English whose voice has a
texture and timbre different from Peter Pears’
for whom the work was written. Although
Decca recorded the definitive version of the
work in 1944 with Britten conducting the
Boyd Neel Orchestra with Pears and, who
else but Dennis Brain as the horn soloist, this
version from Cologne is absolutely gorgeous,
beautifully nuanced and abetted by the
virtuoso horn soloist, Hermann Baumann.
Barbirolli’s reading of the Sibelius is exceptional even by his own high standards. He
may have thought, “I’m not holding back any
longer ... it’s now or never.” Perhaps not, but it
certainly sounds like it. From the confidently
measured opening to the closing measures
this is a mighty performance from one of the
very best orchestras around. In the coda of
the Finale Barbirolli unexpectedly broadens
the tempo as if to hold back the inevitable.
The effect is stunning, a real lump-in-thethroat experience. The recording of all three
works is state of the art, crystal clear and
dynamic with wide open tuttis. Old Wine in New
Bottles continues with
a stunning performance of Shostakovich’s
Eighth Symphony
conducted by Gennady
Rozhdestvensky at
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WAGNER AT 200: A Tribute continued from page 9
Fischer-Dieskau, Christa Ludwig, Gottlob Frick, Vienna Philharmonic;
Rudolf Kempe; EMI 7 49017 8, 3 CDs
Unexpected events now interfered. When the
revolutions breaking out all over Europe reached
Dresden, Wagner, very much a revolutionary
himself, took an active part on the losing side.
In 1849 cruel repression by the Saxon state forced
him to escape in the night in disguise and seek
asylum in Switzerland. Totally deprived of the
means of existence, despondent, living on
borrowed money from Franz Liszt who became his friend
and supporter, he fell under the spell of Schopenhauer’s
philosophy, Buddhism and later Nietzsche, and buried
himself in the study of ancient German history,
namely the Niebelungen Lied, an anonymous epic
dating back to the time of Attila the Hun, and its
hero Siegfried. Spurred into action again he wrote
the text Siegfrieds Tod (Siegfried’s Death) and
working backwards in time, more and more into
mythology, he wrote the texts for the three
preceding dramas. Much encouraged by Liszt
he began composing his magnum opus, Der
Ring des Nibelungen, now in proper sequence,
and by 1856 he finished the score of Das RheinRichard Wagner,
gold, Die Walküre and first two acts of Siegfried.
Vienna, 1862.
At this instant however the score was laid to rest,
the result of new life changing events. >>Der Ring
des Nibelungen: Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen,
Hans Hotter, Gustav Neidlinger, George London et al;
Vienna Philharmonic; Sir Georg Solti, Decca 455-555, 14 CDs
In 1857 Wagner and Minna were guests of a
wealthy Zurich industrialist Otto Wesendonk whose
wife Mathilde was a beautiful, talented and musical
woman with whom Wagner fell in love. This
passionate and ultimately doomed love affair
inspired Tristan und Isolde, a music drama that
transcended everything he’d done before. Its new
chromatic world broke through conventional
tonality and changed the course of Western music with far reaching
effects on Liszt, Berlioz and even Debussy and Scriabin. No atonal music
could possibly have happened without Tristan. Unresolved, unconsummated passion is the underlying essence and torment of Tristan and
only death (“Liebestod”) can finally resolve the misery into the harmony
of long-awaited tonality. All these events took their toll on his already
teetering marriage. By the time he was pardoned and able to return to
Germany in 1862 Minna left him, but Wagner never abandoned the
responsibility of her welfare until her death. >>Tristan und Isolde:
Nina Stemme; Placido Domingo; Mihoko Fujimora; René Pape; Royal
Opera House, Covent Garden; Antonio Pappano EMI 5 58006-2, 3 CDs
Upon his return to Germany, and almost as a
catharsis from Tristan, his mind turned again to
the Middle Ages, but this time to a much happier
subject, a comedy based on the archaic guild
system and a new kind of artist, a poet/composer
trying to establish himself by entering a singing
contest. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg is
centred on a romantic love story and the music is
in a major key, a glorious C major, the complete opposite to Tristan. Interestingly enough the real hero is Hans Sachs, an elderly master of great
talent, intellect, wisdom and a widower also attracted to the heroine, but
being too old for her, has to give her up. It is obvious that Wagner himself
is Hans Sachs at this point longing for a kindred
spirit, a younger woman who will shortly appear
on the scene. >>Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg;
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; Caterina Ligendza;
Christa Ludwig; Placido Domingo; Berlin State
Opera; Eugen Jochum; DG 415 278-2 4 CDs
Success and financial remuneration were slow
in coming. Tannhäuser in Paris in 1861 was a
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dismal failure, riots disrupted the performance and the show had to be
shut down almost at once. >>Tannhäuser, Paris version: René Kollo,
Helga Dernesch, Hans Sotin, Christa Ludwig, Vienna State Opera
Chorus and Orchestra; Sir Georg Solti; LONDON 414 581-2 3CDs
But all of a sudden in 1864, as if by divine
intervention, an emissary appeared at Wagner’s
doorstep from Ludwig II, King of Bavaria, who
became so enamoured of his work that he offered
to give him unlimited financial support and bring
him to his Court in Munich. This “miracle”
enabled Wagner to complete the Ring
(the final act of Siegfried and the
entire Götterdämmerung) and
bring his longtime dream of
building a festival theatre
performing his works only,
under his creative control and by his specifications, to fruition. Court intrigues, however,
interfered mainly because of the king’s extravagance in nearly bankrupting the state and
Wagner’s new liaison with Cosima von Bülow,
25 years his junior and Liszt’s daughter, married
to Hans von Bülow, a noted conductor. Wagner
had to retreat again to Switzerland, to Lucerne in a
rented villa called Triebschen where he continued
to work, live with and marry Cosima (1870) who bore
him a number of children, until he was able to move
to Bayreuth where his Festspielhaus was built. In 1876
it opened with the complete Ring to an invited audience of
notables from all over Europe, including royalty and even the
Kaiser of the newly united Germany.
The real message of the Ring goes far beyond mythology. It encompasses the whole of society at the rise of capitalism. The ruthless
acquisition of wealth creates plutocracy that renounces love (Alberich)
and enslaves the working class (Nibelungs). The decadent aristocracy
(Gods) eventually self-destructs and mankind can only be redeemed by
a new kind of human who is free (Siegfried), embraces and even dies
for love (Brunnhilde’s self-immolation). To illustrate this real meaning,
French director Patrice Chereau created a revolutionary new vision in
1976 for the first time in 100 years, the Centennial Bayreuth Ring. >>Der
Ring des Nibelungen: Gwyneth Jones, Donald McIntyre, Peter Hoffmann, Jeannine Altmeyer, Manfred Jung et al; Bayreuther
Festspiele 1976; Pierre Boulez; Philips 475 7960 12 CDs, also on DVD
Wagner’s remaining years were bathed in glory
with his family, Liszt, and friends such as Herrmann Levy who conducted Parsifal, Wagner’s last
utterance in music drama. Here Wagner returned to
his favourite theme of the Holy Grail, a monument
to Christianity that no one has equalled before or
since. The main ideas behind Parsifal are temptation by evil, original sin and its punishment,
redemption by an innocent, fearless youth, a “holy fool” (Parsifal) who
can conquer the evil (Klingsor) and redeem the sinners (King Amfortas
and Kundry) upon whom he purifies the Order and becomes the new
king of the Knights of the Holy Grail. Wagner’s Parsifal was indeed a
crowning achievement, a “revelation in music drama,” to quote Liszt,
his father-in-law who survived him by three years. Wagner died on
February 13, 1883, in Venice where he and his family moved for health
reasons, not quite 70. Cosima wouldn’t leave his side, refusing to eat for
two days; however she survived her husband by many years, took over
the Bayreuth festival and died in 1931, at age 93. >>Parsifal: Placido
Domingo, Falk Struckmann, Waltraud Meier, Franz-Josef Selig et al;
Vienna State Opera; Christian Thielemann, DG 477 6006 4 CDs
In spite of the many controversies surrounding Wagner during his
lifetime and ever since, his immeasurable achievement in music and
theatre and his enormous influence on the future of his art ensure him
a place in Parnassus. Janos Gardonyi is a frequent contributor to DISCoveries.
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