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6. A Sunshine State of Mind | dAvid PerlMAn
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11. They Shoot, He Scores | PAul enniS
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A Sunshine State of Mind
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Africville Suite achieves
one of the highest artistic
pinnacles possible: it
brings into the light a story
that many Canadians
have been blind to
It’s a frigid afternoon
in Regent Park, but
spring is in my step
as I set foot in the
Paintbox Bistro at
555 Dundas Street East,
and not merely because
it’s a cool space. I’m here
to interview two genu-
inely gifted Canadian musical icons, both alike in dignity and warmth.
Jackie Richardson is on stage at the tail end of a rehearsal, infusing
Duke Ellington’s “Take Love Easy” with her trademark combination
of swing, soul and sincerity. She’s backed by pianist Stacie McGregor,
bassist Artie Roth and drummer Archie Alleyne; along with trumpeter
Alexander Brown, the five will be performing in celebration of Alleyne’s
80th birthday the following evening, which launches a new jazz series
at the promising Paintbox.
Pianist, composer, music director, recording artist and recently
appointed Member of the Order of Canada, Joe Sealy, who will play
here in late April, arrives right on time. He greets the musicians warmly
as they get off the bandstand, and before long Sealy, Richardon and I
are seated comfortably on the colourful couches in the adjacent room.
I’ve asked Sealy and Richardson here to discuss Africville Stories, a
reworking of Sealy’s JUNO-winning recording Africville Suite (1996),
which will be performed as part of the Jazz Performance and Education
Centre (JPEC) fourth annual gala at the Toronto Centre for the Arts on
the evening of Saturday, February 23.
But before we arrive at Africville — Canada’s oldest black community
until it was destroyed for the sake of “urban improvement” in the
1960s — I want to know a bit about how these musicians got to where
they are today. How did it all start?
“My parents decided to buy a piano because they thought I might
gravitate towards it,” reveals Sealy, a Montreal native whose paternal
grandmother was a descendant of two of the Africville community’s
founders. “So when I was about six or seven, this piano showed up at
BY ORI DAgAN
the house. And I looked at this curious piece and of course started fiddling
around with it. So eventually they said, ‘Well, if you’re gonna be
playing you may as well take lessons.’ Well, I hated the lessons, so I
quit (laughs). So then one of our neighbours came over and said, ‘Our
son is taking piano lessons, would you mind if he practised on your
piano?’ My mother said yes, reluctantly, but then she laid down the
law: ‘If I’m gonna have to listen to some other kid playing on this piano,
you’re gonna practise on it too!’ So that’s how I got back to lessons ... But
to be honest, it wasn’t until I was 20 or 21, that I really decided this is
what I was going to do. I quit university because I wasn’t doing well,
and I joined the navy. They sent me to the east coast, and while I was
out there I became secretary and treasurer of the jazz club, and one of
the guys from Halifax was going to Berklee. So we had some money,
and he brought up some people: Gary Burton and Butch Axsmith and
Steve Marcus ... so I said to Skip, ‘Does everyone in Berklee play like that
down there?’ And he said yes! So I applied to Berklee, got accepted, and
was given an honourable discharge to go to school. And that’s when I
decided to be a musician, when I was 21.”
Richardson, who moved to Toronto from Donora, Pennsylvania, with
her parents and six sibilings at the age of seven, began singing in church,
encouraged by her grandparents. “It was the First Baptist Church in
Donora and my grandfather was a deacon. My grandmother went every
day, twice on Wednesdays and three times a day on weekends. I was
very attached to my grandmother and went with her whenever I could.”
Inspired at first by the voices of the congregation, she made her professional
singing debut at the age of 16 with a Motown group called The
Tiaras. “I came in as a replacement, which was really funny because I
couldn’t really sing. I earned my place as a choreographer until I could
stay in tune after a year or so.” Anyone who has ever heard Jackie sing
might find it hard to believe that she had ever missed a pitch, but there
you have it.
She’s shared the stage with Celine Dion, Maureen Forrester, Anne
Murray, Oliver Jones, Martha Reeves, Mavis Staples and many others, but
Richardson’s impeccable delivery transcends song lyrics and extends
to characters just as much, if not more. Acting credits include Cookin’
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PHoTogrAPHS By Air’leTH AodHfin

at the Cookery: The Music and Times of Alberta Hunter, for which she
won a Dora Award, The Gospel According to the Blues, for which she
won a Gemini, and Ain’t Misbehavin’, her first collaboration with Joe
Sealy, who was the production’s music director.
“I think that was in 1980,” Richardson recalls. “We closed the Ports
Dinner Theatre, which was really unfortunate, ‘cause it was a real favourite
place of mine. We did nine months at the Ports and three months at
the Premier Dance Theatre.”
“Was it that long?” asks Sealy. “It seemed like a month!”
The Toronto jazz scene sure was different in those days, wasn’t it?
“Ah yes, I moved to Toronto in 1976,” says Sealy. “At that time we had
George’s Spaghetti House, Basin Street, Bourbon Street, the Colonial
Tavern. One of the jazz clubs that opened in the late 1970s was called
Yellow Fingers at Bay and Yorkville. And Meyer’s Deli in Yorkville had
jazz on the weekends. Oh, and the Chick ‘n’ Deli of course!”
“An institution, that place was,” says Richardson. She pauses, and
slowly adds, “But the norm being six days a week, I mean, I can’t believe
that that’s gone.”
Sealy agrees, with sadness. “It was a real great training ground, I mean
that’s how musicians learned to play, is doing it six nights a week. All
my gigs up to that time were like that, I was totally used to playing six
nights a week. Then it started to go down to weekends and then to nothing
at all. Now you have private gigs and that’s it really. Back then when
you got a gig it was a week or a month, but it was always six nights.”
“One of the really great gigs that we had back then was at the Bellair
Cafe,” Richardson says, adding with genuine enthusiasm, “It was two
years, six days a week. It was AWESOME! You’d have players coming
in from across the street — there was a club across the street that had
big bands, big orchestras sometimes, once in a while Gladys Knight or
people like that — but when they had the dance bands, it would be 20
minutes on, ten minutes off. So the guys would walk in the door, and
if we were playing, they’d start playing, walk up to the stage, do their
little thing and walk out. We were a trio and we never knew how many
people would be on the stage on any given night!”
“That’s why I applaud Colin and Joan,” says Sealy, referring to the
Hunters, who are set to open the Jazz Bistro, formerly the Top o’ The
Senator. “They are trying to bring that back and they have a great shot
of doing it because they are committed to the idea. I know I’ll get some
work there, I’m not expecting six nights a week of course. I’m just glad
that it will be there, so I’ll have some place to go. I mean, when the
Montreal Bistro was open, and I had nothing to do, that’s where I would
go. It was my second home. There’s no place like that now.”
Which bring us to JPEC — the Jazz Performance and Education
Centre — set to present Africville Stories as part of their fourth annual
gala. Inspired by New York City’s Jazz at Lincoln Center, JPEC is a nonprofit
charitable organization, the brainchild of Ray Koskie, a retired
lawyer and Rochelle Koskie, a retired teacher, jazz enthusiasts and partners
in crime together for over half a century.
“Some of the musicians who we’ve known for years came to us and
asked us if we could help them by trying to create some kind of a facility,
which we decided to do on a strictly volunteer basis,” says Ray Koskie.
“We put together a group — business people, musicians — and formulated
a committee which began to consider various options, one of which
included a trip to Jazz at Lincoln Center where we were given a tour,
an explanation. Because that was based on a not-for-profit charitable
organization, we thought that would be a better idea than opening a
for-profit private club. That was the beginning.”
“Our mandate includes reaching out to persons of all ages, especially
children, who are our future audiences,” says Rochelle Koskie.
“Our outreach program sends musicians to schools that have little or
no music programming. Response has been excellent, and from the
monies raised from the 2013 gala, we hope to broaden the number of
schools in the program.” Find out more about JPEC and how you can
get involved by visiting jazzcentre.ca.
Back to Africville: Shifting the focus back to Sealy’s Africville
Stories, in preparing for this story, I was able to locate a copy
of the Africville Suite album (thank you, L’Atelier Grigorian!).
Thelonious Monk said it best when he pointed out that “writing
about music is like dancing about architecture,” so all I can say is that
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the recording cannot be recommended
highly enough. Sealy’s compositions and
own pianistic talents aside, credit must
be given to the recording’s producer and
Sealy’s right-hand man, Paul Novotny,
as well as the stellar supporting talent,
from the Faith Chorale featuring Sharon
Lee Williams to saxophonist Phil Dwyer
to narrators Don Francks and Jackie
Richardson. Africville Suite achieves one
of the highest artistic pinnacles possible:
it brings into the light a story that many Canadians have been blind to; a
story that is at once heartbreaking and eye-opening, tragic yet inspiring.
A story that we as Canadians must reflect on, honour and learn from.
“That’s what I found so phenomenal about this particular project,”
agrees Richardson. “You know, all these years, it’s just been in the know
in eastern Canada. It wasn’t until Joe put out this CD that it came into
people’s consciousness. I remember this company of landscapers
approaching Joe and asking him to perform at their gala saying ‘We’ve
heard your story, we want you to share it.’ It just seemed to come from
unexpected places, and it still does! Without this project, the Africville
story wouldn’t be out there the same way.”
“I’m really happy to say I’ve been able to tour Canada with it, and a
little bit in the states, and even Europe,” says Sealy. “I remember we did
a concert in Denmark and there was this little choir who asked for the
choir parts for the pieces and, when we got there to perform, these volunteer
choir people came up there to sing with us! The last concert on
that tour was in another town called Fredericia, on our way back. And
to our surprise, they all came down from up north to sing with us on
the last night. And that’s in Denmark!”
Africville Suite began as a much shorter musical piece consisting
of three movements and dedicated to the memory of his father, who
passed away in 1992. Encouraged by concert presenters to expand the
work, Sealy put it off for months but finally faced the music upon the
insistence of his wife, who helped him prepare for the project.
“It was challenging,” he recalls. “It was when I did my research, that’s
when I really got into the story and the story that really needed to be
told. When I found out about what they did and when I found out how
they did it, the sneaky way that they conned people into getting off their
properties, and the injustice of it all. Right near the end, there was a
core of people in the community that just did not want to leave, were
not going to leave, that’s it. Well, they came in around midnight with a
bulldozer and they bulldozed the church. And in a community like that
when you kill the church, you kill the heart, and that was so demoralizing.
It’s still a touchy issue for me.”
There were musical challenges, too.
“It would have been easier to write a suite about a community in
Africa, because you’d have indigenous rhythms, cultural and everything
else, but this place was Halifax, it was a little section of Halifax,
you know, that most people didn’t go to. And you know, they listened
to the radio, they listened to Motown, they listened to Hank Jones, they
listened to Don Messer, they listened to everybody. So what I ended
The koskies, Ray and Rochelle, with sealy
and Richardson at the Paintbox Bistro.
up doing was basing the suite on events,
personalities and locations. So there are
movements about Joe Louis (“Brown
Bomber”) and Duke Ellington (“Duke’s in
Town”), who both visited Africville. And
about Reverend Deacon Jones planting a
green fence post and having it grow into
a tree (“Caterpillar Tree”) — and how this
tree survived — the caterpillars would eat
all of its leaves, and trees without leaves
can’t live, but this tree lived and what
killed it was the bulldozer coming in and knocking it down. To me that
tree became a symbol for the community — being resilient, surviving for
over 120 years on their own resources, with everything stacked against
them. They had a burning dump, they had a hospital for infectious diseases
during the First World War, a fertilization plant, a meat factory, a
slaughterhouse, anything they didn’t want anywhere else. And yet, it
was a close-knit family.”
Seventeen years later, Africville Stories is an update on the suite, featuring
additional lyrics and a brand new song; all this is to reflect that
the story continues to evolve, to this day. Certainly, since the recording’s
release there have been some triumphs to celebrate. As the community’s
demise became a symbol for the struggle against racism, the site
of Africville was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1996.
In May 2005, a bill was introduced into Nova Scotia’s provincial legislature
called the Africville Act, which included a call for a formal apology
from the government, funding for compensation and historic preservation
and a rebuilding of the Seaview African United Baptist Church,
demolished in 1969 and rebuilt in the summer of 2011.
“Yes, they finally rebuilt that church, in 2011,” says Sealy. “And that
was great news. But you know what? You still can’t use it, and you know
why? Because there’s supposed to be a museum right next to it, but the
museum’s not built yet so all the artifacts that are going in the museum
are now stuffed in the church. So it’s like a loggerhead.” He pulls out
his cellphone to show me a photo of the church. “See? There it is, sitting
there all by itself by the water, you can’t even go in ... you can’t even
have a concert in there. I’ve been wanting to make a DVD of Africville
Stories in that church, but I can’t get in there. I’m no crusader, but I
just may call Marty Williams, I want to find out who’s on this committee
and who’s supposed to be doing something about this museum.”
So there is definitely a “to be continued” to this story.
To close our interview, I ask Sealy and Richardson what they think
of the phrase “Black History Month.”
“It’s a good thing,” says Sealy. “I wish it would be Black History Year,
every year! We’re not just black in February, you know,” he quips. “But,
if a month is all black history’s gonna get, it’s better than nothing.”
Richardson says she agrees, and adds: “And with all cultures, because
we are so multicultural here, if we can go and celebrate and share these
things, that’s fine. As long as you understand that for us, it’s an every
day, every minute thing.”
Ori Dagan is a Toronto-based jazz musician, writer and educator.
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MUSIC AND THE MOVIES
Mychael Danna, Film Composer
They Shoot, He Scores
BY PAUL ENNIS
Moments after winning a Golden Globe for his score to Ang
Lee’s Life of Pi, Toronto-based Mychael Danna is answering questions
from journalists backstage in the Beverly Hilton Hotel. I’m
watching it all on YouTube. It’s been only three days since he was nominated
for two Oscars.
“Ang is the master of subtlety,” Danna is saying. “He wants emotion
to be built up and held and held and then at certain very key moments,
released. And that’s something that musically I’ve also worked on,
that sense of holding back emotion that becomes submerged and then
released at the right moment and effective that way.”
The 50-something Danna fell into his career as a film composer by
accident. While studying composition at U of T he got involved in theatre
where he met Atom Egoyan. Danna’s scored all of Egoyan’s films
beginning with 1987’s Family Viewing. He’s worked on dozens of movies
since, from Girl, Interrupted to Capote, from Little Miss Sunshine
to Moneyball, from Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm and Ride with the Devil
to Deepa Mehta’s Water and three films by Mira Nair.
He has an uncanny, but totally unforced, ability to combine Western
and non-Western music seamlessly in his scores. And he’s someone who
loves being part of the filmmaking process, who loves being a member
of the team serving its master, the film. He brought a scrupulous sense
of responsibility to Life of Pi.
“I read the book [by Canadian Yann Martel] years ago and loved it.
I felt very obligated to bring [its] essence to life,” he answers another
journalist. “I worked on this score for over a year because we had to
Danna with his
Golden Globe.
do the wrong thing many times before we could do the right thing.”
In fact, he told Movie City News’ David Poland recently that he
worked four months solid on the Twentieth Century Fox lot from morning
to night with two assistants. The process was so efficient that Ang
Lee was less than 100 yards away editing. They recorded the orchestra
right on the lot.
Back at the Beverly Hilton the press wants to know more, about his
relationship to India and about his musical background. “I’m very familiar
with India,” he says. “I’ve been there many times. I’m married to
an Indian. We have family there. It’s like a second home. It’s a place
where anything is possible except what you expect.”
continues on page 62
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Beat by Beat | Art of Song
Life After Singing
HANS DE gROOT
The swiss tenor Hugues Cuénod made his name in 1937 in the
pioneering recordings of the music of Monteverdi, directed by
Nadia Boulanger. Subsequently he became a noted performer of
French song. In 1987, in his 85th year, he made his debut at the Met
in New York in the role of the Emperor Altoun in Puccini’s Turandot.
He continued to perform in public until he was 90; he died in 2010, at
the age of 108. Cuénod’s career was unusual but he was not the only
singer who has gone on performing into old age. Placido Domingo
is now 72; he began as a baritone (like Jean
de Reszke, John Coates, Lauritz
Melchior and Ramon Vinay) and he
has now moved back to the baritone
repertoire (while still singing tenor
parts) and is performing some of the
great Verdi baritone roles.
On the other hand, many singers
have retired from public performances
in middle age. I remember the
sadness I felt when Elly Ameling and
Janet Baker retired but, looking back, I
am sure they made the right decision.
It would not have been a good thing if
some old codger were to say “She is good
but you should have heard her 12 years
ago.” Still, some singers retire very early.
Norma Burrowes began her career in
1970 (Glyndebourne, Royal Opera House Covent Garden). In 1971 she
joined the English National Opera and later in the 70s she performed
in Salzburg, Aix-en-Provence, the New York Met and the Paris Opéra. I
heard her several times in London and I treasure the recording of Acis
and Galatea in which she sings Galatea. She retired in 1982, when she
was in her 38th year. She became a vocal coach at the University of
Saskatchewan in 1992, moved to Toronto in 1994 and now teaches at
York University. My colleague Ori Dagan writes: “Norma was always
warm and encouraging to me, going out of her way to suggest repertoire
that might suit my voice. I remember in particular the way her
eyes lit up when talking about a particular song by Fauré — “It would
be so perfect for you, Ori” — Her passion for teaching this music was
undoubtedly infectious.”
Another singer who retired early is the versatile soprano Jennie
Such. She has sung opera, oratorio, song recitals and even musical
comedy. I have vivid memories of her superb Susanna in Mozart’s
Marriage of Figaro for Opera Ontario in Hamilton. She now has a
young child and finds combining motherhood with a full-time performing
career difficult. But she remains a teacher and an adjudicator
and is now exploring a new field: music therapy.
Kathy Domoney was a member of the COC Ensemble Studio and
the COC chorus, gave recitals and performed with groups such as
the Aldeburgh Connection and Opera in Concert, performed at Banff
and at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. She no longer performs
(although she is still active as an adjudicator) but has instead opened
an agency. It is a small agency (a boutique agency as she calls it) and
she wishes to keep it that way as that allows her to help the artists she
represents in a more effective way than would be the case in a bigger
firm. At present she has 17 artists on her list, ranging from the soprano
Charlotte Corwin to the recorder player-conductor-composer
Matthias Maute.
The soprano Adreana Braun has moved sideways, so to speak. Braun
trained as a classical singer and performed with Opera Atelier and
the Canadian Opera Company. Over the past 12 years, however, she
has established herself as a jazz singer and it is as Adi Braun that she
is now best known. You will be able to hear her on March 6 at 8pm,
when she will perform at Musideum.
SOME OThER EVENTS
The French soprano Sandrine Piau sang Vivaldi and Handel with
Tafelmusik on January 31; there will be further performances
on February 1 and 2 at 8pm and on February 3 at 3:30pm, all at
Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre.
On February 9 at 8pm at the Eastminster United Church, Nathalie
Paulin will be the soprano soloist in a concert of music by Bach, titled
“Bach’s Blessings.” According to the presenter, Academy Concert
Series: “In the Baroque era, G major was the key of Benediction or
‘blessing’ and is central to the theme of this concert.”
Also on February 9, Gillian Keith, soprano, and Keith Weber, piano,
will perform works by Schumann, Britten, Purcell, Lehár and others
at the Rosedale Presbyterian Church, 7:30pm.
Colin Ainsworth will be the
vocal soloist in the Toronto Masque
Erin walls as clémence
in the canadian Opera
company production of
Love from Afar, 2012.
Theatre production of “Les Roses
de la Vie” at the Enoch Turner
Schoolhouse, February 7 to 9, 8pm.
There will be two free vocal
recitals by the Canadian Opera
Company Ensemble Studio: “Vive
l’amour,” a musical celebration
of love, on February 14, and
a concert of arias and songs by
Richard Strauss on February 21,
both at noon in the Richard
Bradshaw Auditorium.
On February 16 soprano
Carla Huhtanen is the soloist
in “The Tapestry Songbook,” a
concert of Canadian music at 7:30pm
in the Ernest Balmer Studio drawn from Tapestry Opera’s
33-year history of new opera productions.
The Canadian Voices series at Glenn Gould Studio, February 24 at
2pm, returns with David Pomeroy, tenor and Sandra Horst, piano. The
program includes music by Handel, Beethoven, Duparc, Quilter and
de Curtis as well as three Newfoundland sea song arrangements with
clarinet obbligato. We last heard Pomeroy in the role of Alfred in Die
Fledermaus. That role is a parody of the operatic tenor: a randy male
with a high voice. But the part can only be performed properly by
someone who can sing the real thing, as Pomeroy did in his superb
performance as Offenbach’s Hoffmann for the COC last season.
On March 1 and 2 at 8pm, Against the Grain Theatre presents two
song cycles: Janáček’s Diary of One Who Disappeared and Kurtág’s
Kafka-Fragments. The performers: in the Janáček, Lesley Bouza and
Sarah Halmerson, sopranos, Eugenia Dermentzis and Lauren Segal,
mezzos, Colin Ainsworth, tenor, and Christopher Mokrzewski, piano;
in the Kurtág, Jacqueline Woodley, soprano, and Kerry DuWors.
Earlier this year soprano Erin Wall took three months off on maternity
leave but she returns to the stage in the TSO performance of
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, along with mezzo Allyson McHardy,
tenor Joseph Kaiser and bass-baritone Shenyang at Roy Thomson
Hall, February 13, 15 and 16 at 8pm. On March 7 at 8pm she will perform
with the pianist John Hess, in a program of works by Schubert,
Korngold, Strauss and Ricky Ian Gordon at the Jane Mallett Theatre.
Rather surprisingly, this is part of Music Toronto’s Discovery Series—
those who heard Wall’s fine performances in the COC productions
of Love from Afar and The Tales of Hoffmann must feel that she no
longer needs to be discovered.
A postscript: I was privileged to attend the competition for entry to
the COC Ensemble Studio on November 29. First prize as well as the
audience prize went to the bass-baritone Gordon Bintner, the second
prize was awarded to the tenor Andrew Haji and the mezzo Charlotte
Burrage won third prize. All three will be members of the Ensemble
Studio for 2013/14; they will be joined by soprano Aviva Fortunata,
mezzo Danielle MacMillan and baritone Clarence Frazer.
Hans de Groot is a concertgoer and active listener
who also sings and plays the recorder.
He can be contacted at artofsong@thewholenote.com.
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Beat by Beat | Choral Scene
The Not So Grand
Good Old Days
BENJAMIN STEIN
In december 2 0 1 2 a photo essay appeared in the New York Times
showing the destruction of a piano abandoned on a New York sidewalk.
A series of successive photos told a putatively moving story,
accompanied by music sombre and dramatic by turns, in which the
piano was stared at, played idly by passersby and ultimately destroyed
and carted away.
What was more illuminating than the photos themselves were the
comments posted online as the essay travelled over the internet. A
number could be paraphrased as “What a sad comment on the current
state of the arts, as the piano is trashed just like the culture.” The mixture
of ruefulness and self-satisfaction was galling.
In art and everywhere else, the good old days were never good,
folks. Culture is always in flux, and time alters our view of art that
is initially considered trashy or meretricious — like Shakespeare,
Delta blues or cable television — into something elevated and timeless.
Anyone nostalgic for an Elysian epoch in which classical culture
was ascendant throughout the West and there was a piano, a violin
and a Beethoven score in every humble home, simply hasn’t read
any history.
In 2009 American music historian Elijah Wald published How the
Beatles Destroyed Rock ‘n’ Roll: An Alternative History of American
Popular Music. Once you get past the misleadingly quarrel-picking
title (good for generating a bit of buzz, anyhow), this book has many
excellent insights about how we listen to music, and how our perception
of it evolves over time.
Wald makes the point that the ability to record music irrevocably
changed our experience of it. John Phillip Sousa coined the
term “canned music,” and felt that recorded music would degrade
people’s ability to create it themselves. In many ways he was correct.
Wald states: “virtually all dancing is now commonly done to recordings.”
Singing of lullabies at home and at religious services, two
areas in which live music still functions, can easily be replaced with
recorded music.
At the same time, Wald observes that we now have instant access
to “the finest artists, alive or dead, who have ever been recorded
anywhere in the world, and we can hear it whenever we want, wherever
we go, in whatever order and whatever volume we please.”
This has given modern musicians “a breadth of experience and created
a wealth of fusions that would have been unimaginable” in the
past. From the point of view of cross-cultural awareness and opportunity,
you could argue that the good old days are right now. Let us
look at the stylistic mixture of several concerts coming up in the next
few weeks.
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pianos, abandoned or otherwise, because I regard them as such a
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poor instrument on which to intro-
schola magdalena.
duce young children to music. When
asked by parents about the advisability
of beginner piano lessons, I usually
start ranting about the dangers of subjecting
children’s formative musical
experiences to the piano’s complicated
key mechanism and rigid tuning
system. If the parents are still listening
after an hour, I finish with
a diatribe about singing and movement’s
centrality to the development
of musical skill.
My apologies, piano teachers.
But what better support can I offer
for these heretical notions than the
excellent Toronto Children’s Chorus, which is helping raise the next
generation of singers and choral conductors. They combine music
and movement as they perform “Dance All Around the World” on
February 23.
sondheim vivace: American musical theatre icon Stephen
Sondheim’s brilliant scores are a resource that more choirs should
explore. Choral versions of musical theatre songs lean towards the
classic composers or the mid-20th century, or the juggernaut megamusicals
of the 1980s. Sondheim’s work is searching and complex,
witty and sardonic, and a good choral performance of it can be
rewarding for both audience and singers. Conductor and singer Linda
Eyman is responsible for a busy pocket of Toronto music making — she
conducts four separate choirs and maintains a private singing studio
as well. One of her ensembles, Vivace Vox performs “Sondheim!
Sondheim!” on February 24, including selections from Company, Into
the Woods, Follies and Sweeney Todd, among others.
Bell’Arte’s 25th: Toronto’s Bell’Arte Singers has drawn many
excellent Toronto singers into its ranks. They celebrate a quarter century
of work with their “25th Anniversary Concert: Memories and
Reflections” on March 2.
Gesualdo sinister: In an art form that does not lack for odd characters,
Italian Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo is one of the
oddest and most sinister figures in history. The title of the Tallis
Choir’s March 2 concert, “Gesualdo: Murderer & Musician,” states the
case straightforwardly. I won’t relate the shocking story here. Instead,
attend the concert to find out more, and don’t cheat by resorting to
an online check. Gesualdo’s music is always worth hearing live — its
anarchic harmonic shifts and haunting word painting are a high point
of Renaissance madrigal writing. Some of his work sounds uncannily
like some of the choral compositions of 20th century Austrian com-
poser Ernst Krenek, and many
modernist composers were drawn to
his madrigals .
Rossini solenelle (times two):
Toronto audiences have a rare opportunity
to hear Rossini’s Petite Messe
Solenelle not once, but twice. The
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir performs
the work on February 9, and
the Toronto Classical Singers sing it
on March 3. The work was written
in 1864, four years before the famed
opera composer’s death. It is an
engaging piece, first performed with a
quirky piano and harmonium accompaniment.
Rossini orchestrated it later
on. Fans of bel canto Italian vocal style will find much to love, especially
the tenor solo showstopper, “Domine Deus.”
magdalena goes modern: Schola Magdalena is a chamber ensemble
of women’s voices, conducted by choral multi-tasker Stephanie
Martin. Usually focused on early music , they make a foray into
modern works in a concert sponsored by NUMUS, a very good contemporary
music organization based out of Waterloo. This concert
takes place on February 7 in Waterloo and again at the Church of
St. Mary Magdalene in Toronto.
These are only a few of the excellent concert choices available in the
coming weeks — please check out the listings and find out about the
many other excellent choirs around.
Ben Stein is a Toronto tenor and theorbist.
He can be contacted at choralscene@thewholenote.com.
Visit his website at benjaminstein.ca.
Glionna Mansell
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May 6 to June 7, 2013
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Featuring Nine brilliant concerts including two Gala performances
from world renowned organist Jane Parker Smith as well as Chelsea
Chen in a duo performance with virtuoso violinist Lewis Wong.
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Beat by Beat | Classical & Beyond
My Sunny
Valentine
SHARNA SEARLE
As i sit here, on the coldest January day in Toronto on record
since 2009, it’s almost comforting to have to turn my thoughts
to the romantic, warmth-inducing, Valentine’s Day-inspired
concerts that February brings. And, indeed, there is much to tempt
us, an array of delightful performances to warm the “cockles of your
heart” — metaphorical or otherwise, whatever they are — and, hopefully,
the rest of your body, too.
chopin, obviously: Think fast. Most romantic composer? Answer:
Chopin. Yes, there are others, and he may not be your first choice (or
not your choice at all), but, let’s face it: it’s not really possible to get
through a column about concerts in the “season of romance” without
mentioning those featuring the works of Chopin. Besides, who
would want to? For so many, myself included, it’s gorgeous, seductive,
romantic music.
Chopin’s oeuvre consists mostly of solo piano works — nocturnes,
waltzes, préludes, études, ballades, impromptus, polonaises and
mazurkas, to name some of the most familiar and beloved. In addition,
he also wrote two piano concertos, some songs set to Polish texts
and a few chamber pieces. This month, we are treated to at least one
ballade, waltz and polonaise, two sets of études (12 in each), his set of
24 préludes, a sonata, two scherzos, a chamber work and a concerto.
So much Chopin, so little time ... or space.
So let’s get right to it; and don’t forget to check the Quick Picks
at the end.
chopin, not so obviously: Chopin is not the first composer to spring
to mind when considering repertoire for a chamber choir known for
its historically accurate performances of music from the Baroque and
Classical periods. Then again, the Georgetown Bach Chorale is not
your average chamber choir. In addition to its innovative choral programming,
as part of its season it also offers concerts of orchestral,
chamber and solo performances, often involving creative collaborations
with guest artists, in unique venues.
Its February 10 and March 3 concerts are a case in point: the first
is a 4pm house concert titled “Winter Moods,” and features guest
cellist Mary-Katherine Finch and the Chorale’s artistic director/conductor,
Ron Greidanus, at the piano, in chamber works by Debussy,
Chopin and Prokofiev. Regarding the Chopin “mystery music” (“works
by” is all we were told), it’s a safe bet to expect either — or possibly
both (there are only two Chopin works for cello and piano) — the
Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op.65 and/or the Grand Duo concertant
in E Major B70, (written, jointly, with Chopin’s friend, cellist
Auguste Franchomme). If that isn’t filling enough, for the $45 inadvance-only
ticket, you also get a choice of hot stews, cheeses and
homemade bread after the concert. If music — and stews — be the food
of love, indeed!
“Relics of the Romantic Era,” on March 3, 8pm, in the quaint Norval
United Church, will feature solo works by Chopin performed by guest
pianist Matthew Pope, in addition to choral works by Reger, Brahms
and Tavener. As stated in its brochure, it has always been a mission
of the Chorale “to expand the musical experiences of its listeners.”
Judging by these two concerts, clearly it’s “mission accomplished.”
And with that interesting detour out of the way, on to the solo
piano music!
Formidable Fialkowska: Celebrated Canadian pianist Janina
Fialkowska is a musical force to be reckoned with and a distinguished
interpreter of Chopin’s piano works. Along the way, she received some
excellent mentoring: after her prize-winning performance at the
Featuring André Caplet’s impressionistic Messe à trois voix, John Greer’s
delightful Chante, voyageur, chante!, Sir Ernest MacMillan’s marvelous
arrangement of Blanche comme la neige, and a piece written for the Scholars
by Ruth Watson Henderson. Works by Cable, Champagne, Debussy, Fauré,
Milhaud, Martin, Poulenc and Togni complete this fête of French choral music.
Sunday, March 3, 2013
7:30pm
Our Lady of Sorrows Church
3055 Bloor Street West
(1/2 block west of Royal York subway)
Admission $25
Seniors & Students $20
Tickets and info
416.761.7776
www.victoriascholars.ca
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inaugural Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition,
held in Tel Aviv in 1974. Rubinstein, himself, took her under his wing
and helped launch her international career. The rest, as they say ...
But it wasn’t all smooth sailing. In 2002, Fialkowska’s hugely successful
career was sidetracked by the discovery of a cancerous tumour
in her left arm. However, her heroic recovery
and successful “two-handed” return
to the stage in 2004 — for 18 months, prior,
she performed the “left hand” concertos
of Ravel and Prokofiev which she adapted
for the right hand — is, by now, the stuff of
legend and widely documented, so I won’t
go on. Besides, as she told the Financial
Times’ Andrew Clark in a January 11,
2013 interview, she “hates“ talking about
that hiatus in her career, though she rec-
ognizes that it “makes a good story” and
that it inspires others. Clark adds: “That
sense of life regained has transformed her
Hung-kuan chen.
music-making: her playing now has a spirit-of-the-moment freshness
and spontaneity that many musicians strive for but few attain.”
That freshness and spontaneity will be on display when Fialkowska
graces the stage at two concerts in February: one on Chopin’s birthday,
February 22 (yes, March 1 is also often cited), at London’s Aeolian Hall,
and the second a day later, on the 23rd, in Waterloo, for the Kitchener-
Waterloo Chamber Music Society. Both concerts offer works by
Chopin, Grieg and Schubert; the Aeolian concert, however, is another
“works by” situation; the “fleshed-out” repertoire provided by the
KWCMS suggests what Fialkowska might also play in London (but no
guarantees): Schubert’s Four Impromptus D935, Op.posth.142, four
Lyric Pieces by Grieg, and the following works by Chopin: Polonaise
in E-Flat Minor, Op.26 No.2, Scherzo No.4 in E Major Op.54, Scherzo
No.1 in B Minor Op.20, Waltz in A-Flat Major, Op.64 No.3, Mazurka in
C Major, Op.56 No.2 and Mazurka in C Minor, Op.56 No.3. If I had my
druthers, I’d go to both concerts!
chopin at noon: While Chopin’s sublime, sensuous music may be
tailor-made for late-night listening, who says you can’t enjoy it during
daylight hours? This month, as part of its popular free, noon
hour Piano Virtuoso Series, the Canadian Opera Company offers
two concerts featuring piano works by Chopin. For the first one,
“Reflections,” on February 26, pianist Connie Kim-Sheng, a 2010/11
Glenn Gould School Concerto Competition winner, performs Ballade
No.3 in A-Flat Major, Op.47; the program also includes the first movement
of Beethoven’s Sonata No.31 in A-Flat Major, Op.110, Miroirs
by Ravel and Rachmaninoff’s Études-Tableaux Op.39 No.5. “Shades
of Chopin,” the second concert on February 28, features a young
Saskatoon-born pianist, Justin Min, in an all-Chopin program, including
the Sonata No.3 in B Minor, Op.58, his final piano sonata. Perfect
lunchtime fare!
Études vs. Préludes: One might call it an embarrassment of
riches, when two extraordinary pianists are scheduled to perform
in recital, on the same day, at basically the same time, with Chopin
on both programs, no less. Here’s what’s happening on March 3: at
3pm, Jan Lisiecki, the prodigiously gifted, 17-year-old pianist is performing
Chopin’s two sets of 12 Études, Op. 10 and Op. 25, at the
Royal Conservatory’s Koerner Hall. And over at Walter Hall, at 3:15pm,
the brilliant (and clearly more seasoned) Hung-Kuan Chen is making
his Toronto debut in a performance of the 24 Préludes Op.28, for
Mooredale Concerts; Chen’s program also includes Mozart’s A Little
Gigue in G Major KV574, a fragment from his Suite in C Major KV399,
and Schubert’s Sonata in C Minor D958.
Jan Lisiecki is known to, and has dazzled, Toronto audiences; he’s
also been featured in the pages of The WholeNote and in video interview
at Conversations@TheWholeNote.com. Hung-Kuan Chen, on the other
hand, is new to The WholeNote, so a few more words are warranted.
Taipei-born and raised in Germany, Chen shares more than one
thing in common with Janina Fialkowska: both were prize winners
of the Rubinstein Piano Master Competition (he in 1983) and both,
curiously, experienced serious damage to the tools of their trade and
a remarkable recovery from the damage. Chen suffered an injury to
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his right hand in 1992,
that caused neurological
damage, resulting, eventually,
in focal dystonia, a
disorder consisting of confused
motor commands.
In an article Chen penned,
he describes the disorder:
“When the brain is sending
overly complex and
conflicting messages, the
commands are conflicting
and the fingers become
stiff in the process. A fitting
visual analogy would
be the old style telephone
switchboard with tangled-up
wires.” Read more
about Chen’s journey at
focaldystonia.co.uk/#/
piano/4563030880.
Like Fialkowska’s, Chen’s
return to the stage, in
1998, was met with rave
janina Fialkowska.
reviews and he has gone
on to a celebrated career.
A reviewer for the Boston Globe had this to say in 2006: “Hung-Kuan
Chen is back in prime technical form ... This man plays music with
uncommon understanding and the instrument with uncommon
imagination.”
And it is our uncommon good fortune to have the choice
between Lisiecki and Chen. Perhaps it will all come down to études
vs. préludes.
A LITTLE MORE LOVE AND ROMANCE:
SOME hEART-WARMING QUICk PICkS
! Feb 01 8:00: Aurora Culture Centre. Great Artist Piano Series:
Chu-Fang Huang, piano. Haydn, Chopin, Wanghua Chu and others.
! Feb 07 8:00: Toronto Masque Theatre. Les Roses de la Vie: A
Parisian Soirée. Music by Marais, Couperin, Chopin, Fauré, Debussy,
Poulenc, Aznavour and others. Also Feb 8 and 9.
! Feb 12 8:00: Music Toronto. Piano Series: Gabriela Montero, piano.
Brahms: Three Intermezzos Op.117; Schumann: Fantasie in C Op.17;
Montero: improvisations.
! Feb 14 8:00: Hart House Orchestra. Violins and Valentine’s Day:
A Perfect Match. Schumann: Second Symphony; Beethoven: King
Stephen Overture; Copland: Clarinet Concerto.
! Feb 14 8:00: LUSH Cello Quartet. An Evening with LUSH Cello
Quartet. Love-themed songs and classical works.
! Feb 14 8:00: Toronto Concert Orchestra. Love Notes. Tchaikovsky:
Violin Concerto; Saint Saëns: Suite in D; Gray: Introduction and
Autumn Prelude. Christoph Seybold, violin; Kerry Stratton, conductor.
! Feb 16 8:00: Kindred Spirits Orchestra. Beethoven, Schumann,
Mendelssohn. Beethoven: Overture to Fidelio Op.72c; Schumann:
Piano Concerto Op.54; Mendelssohn: Symphony No.3 Op.56 “Scottish.”
! Feb 16 8:00: York Symphony Orchestra. Romantic Legends.
Tchaikovsky: Polonaise from Eugene Onegin; Romeo and Juliet
Overture; Capriccio Italien; Chopin: Piano Concerto No.1; also Feb 17.
! Feb 19 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Love Will Keep Us
Together. Songs by Porter, Berlin, Mancini and others. Betsy Wolfe,
soprano; Mike Eldred, tenor; Steven Reineke, conductor. Also Feb 20
(mat and eve).
! Feb 24 5:00: Nocturnes in the City. Anna Betka, Piano. Works by
Beethoven, Bach, Schumann, Prokofiev and Smetana.
May your hearts be warmed and your senses seduced. Enjoy!
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 classicalbeyond@thewholenote.com.
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Beat by Beat | Early Music
Snowing
Composers
SIMONE DESILETS
Here we are just past the top of the year, and it seems to this
writer to be snowing composers — so many are represented in
this month’s concerts. Some are not generally well known, so
here’s a bit about five of them that I hope may whet your appetite to
hear their music.
Pérotin: A man whose life is almost totally obscured by time,
Pérotin is believed to have composed for the newly constructed Notre-
Dame Cathedral in the late 12th and early 13th centuries. He must
have been hugely affected by the spiritual power of this magnificent
edifice, for he wrote monumental works in three- and four-part
polyphony the likes of which had never been heard before. One of
these, the complex and luminous Sederunt principes, is on Schola
Magdalena’s upcoming program on February 8 at Toronto’s Church
of Saint Mary Magdalene, along with music by Hildegard, plainchant,
and newly-composed pieces. This six-voice women’s ensemble will
also be performing at Waterloo’s NUMUS Concerts on February 7.
cavalli: Think of a little boy with a good soprano voice, mentored by
a Venetian nobleman who took him to Venice to sing in the cappella
at St. Mark’s Basilica. His life was forever shaped by this early turn of
events. He worked under the direction of the great Monteverdi, eventually
became organist at St. Mark’s, composed sacred music and also
branched out to write for the stage — 41 operas in all — becoming the
most influential composer in the genre of opera in mid-17th century
Venice. This was Francesco Cavalli, and his music is featured in two
presentations this month: February 15 and 16, the Toronto Consort
performs as an opera in concert The Loves of Apollo and Daphne;
February 24, tenor Bud Roach and guests perform sacred motets by
Cavalli and others as part of TEMC’s Musically Speaking series.
Taverner: Scaramella’s “Hartes Ease” (February 9) and Cantemus
Singers’ “The Virgin Queen” (March 2 and 3) don’t appear at first
glance to have much similarity, but they do have common elements.
One of these is the 16th century composer John Taverner.
Lincolnshire-born-and -buried, not much else is known about his
life except that he held the position of organist and Master of the
Choristers at Christ Church, Oxford; also he is alleged to have been an
agent of Cromwell, assisting in Henry VIII’s suppression of the monasteries.
But he is forever revered as the one who brought English choral
polyphony of the period to its pinnacle. Viol players also regard him
as rather notorious, for a particular sequence of notes on the words
“In Nomine Domini” (excerpted from his mass Gloria Tibi Trinitas)
that has forever installed itself in viol consort repertoire. You can hear
one “In Nomine” by him in Scaramella’s showcasing of four antique
English viols, which brings together four marvellous musicians to
play them, in a diversity of music both early and modern. Taverner’s
Sanctus and Benedictus from the Missa “Westron Wynde” is featured
in the 16-voice Cantemus Singers’ performance, along with many
madrigals and church motets.
Vincenzo Galilei was the father of the astronomer Galileo. In his
own right he was an important musical figure of the late Renaissance,
a lutenist, theorist and composer. He seems to have displayed an interesting
mix of progressive thought and backward-looking sentiments:
On the one hand, he made substantial discoveries in acoustics, reportedly
involving his son in his experiments and encouraging him to
approach scientific research in a practical as well as a theoretical way
(who knows how the invention of the telescope would have played out
without the counsel of Galileo the father?). On the other hand though,
Vincenzo condemned modern music and championed the revival of
the monodic (single melody) singing style of ancient Greece. He is one
of several composers featured in the Musicians In Ordinary’s concert
“You Who Hear In These Scattered Rhymes.” Soprano Hallie Fishel and
lutenist John Edwards perform baroque settings of great Italian renaissance
poetry on March 2.
“The greatest composer you’ve never heard of” is the Windermere
String Quartet’s description of Georges Onslow, whose string quintet
they’ll be presenting. Onslow was a contemporary of Beethoven and
Schubert, coming from an aristocratic British family but actually born
in France. He “did not mean to become an artist, even less a composer”
states a website devoted to him — but obviously he was meant
to be one, writing operas, symphonies and much chamber music
and becoming a highly regarded composer in his time. His music
is extremely beautiful and full of inspiration but, alas, has virtually
disappeared from modern view. On March 3 you can hear a lovely
example of his work in the Windermere String Quartet’s “The Power
of Five.” Played on period instruments, with guest violist Emily Eng,
this is a concert of early 19th century viola quintets — a special, dark
sound that only two violas can bring.
OThERS
! February 7 to 9: Feeling lately that you’d like to forsake the
Canadian cold for a delightful evening in Paris? Well just around the
corner, there’s a cabaret happening with the gaity and sophistication
of Parisian life from medieval times right to the present day. Toronto
Masque Theatre presents “Les Roses de la Vie: A Parisian Soirée,” with
music by Marais, Couperin and more recent composers, also poetry,
movement and film. Among the featured performers is acclaimed corporeal
mime artist Giuseppe Condello.
! February 9: The Academy Concert Series presents “Bach’s
Blessings,” in the form of music for solo cello and solo harpsichord,
a violin sonata, cantata arias and the complete Wedding Cantata.
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Emily Eng, cellist Kerri
McGonigle and harpsichordist
Lysiane Boulva. musicians in Ordinary.
! February 9, 12 and
16: The Velvet Curtain
Ensemble with director
Douglas Rice, orchestra
and guest artists presents
Purcell’s opera
Dido and Aeneas.
Among the stated values
of this group is “to
believe in our potential
to shape the
future of our diverse
cultures and civilization
by bringing
strength and confidence
to future generations who
will endeavor to define humanity through the arts.”
! February 10: In Kitchener, a celebration of food — for the ear and
for the palate, as Nota Bene Baroque presents “If Music Be the Food of
Love...” with food-related music by Schmelzer, Legrenzi, Bernier and
others, and guest soprano Stephanie Kramer.
! February 12: The Musicians In Ordinary are busy people — not
only do they present their regular concert series at Heliconian Hall
(March 2, mentioned above) but they are also ensemble-in-residence
at U of T’s St. Michael’s College. In this capacity they present “Hail
Bishop Valentine!” performing love songs from the time of the wedding
of Princess Elizabeth, daughter of James I, to Frederick, Elector
Palatine. Guest reader is David Klausner.
! February 21 to 24: “Shrouded in mystery and speculation since
Mozart’s death, the Requiem is a masterpiece for all time ...”
begins Tafelmusik’s press release for their next concerts. Mozart’s
Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St. West
Requiem features four wonderful soloists: soprano Nathalie Paulin,
mezzo Laura Pudwell, tenor Lawrence Wiliford and baritone
Nathaniel Watson; the Tafelmusik
Orchestra and Chamber Choir
are directed by Ivars Taurins.
! February 22: Sine Nomine
Ensemble takes you to medieval
Iberia, whose musical culture
was greatly influenced by that
of both North Africa and neighbouring
Europe. In “Musica
Yspanica: Spanish music of pilgrimage
and praise” you’ll hear
how some of these colourful influences
manifested themselves, in
songs of courtly love, cantigas in
praise of Mary, sacred music from
the royal nunnery at Las Huelgas
and songs of popular devotion from
Spanish pilgrimage centres.
! March 3: “Out of the depths have
I called unto you, O Lord” begins
Psalm 130, a stunning poem of entreaty that has inspired composers
through the ages. In “Kaffeemusik,” a concert which seeks to inform
and enlighten as well as entertain, the Toronto Chamber Choir presents
several settings of this text by composers including Schein,
Sweelinck, Schütz and Bach.
Please consult The WholeNote’s daily listings for details of all these,
and others not mentioned.
Simone Desilets is a long-time contributor to The WholeNote
in several capacities who plays the viola da gamba.
She can be contacted at earlymusic@thewholenote.com.
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February 15 & 16 at 8 pm
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Francesco Cavalli was a brilliant composer whose
operatic masterpieces were the 17th-century
equivalents of Rossini and Verdi. The Consort
presents the Canadian premiere of Cavalli’s ironic
and erotic tale of Apollo’s unrequited love for
the nymph Daphne. Sung in Italian, this opera in
concert features Charles Daniels as Apollo,
Katherine Hill as Daphne, Laura Pudwell as
Venus and Michele DeBoer as Aurora.
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Beat by Beat | On Opera
Firsts Foremost
CHRISTOPHER HOILE
On january 2 3 Canadian Opera Company General Director
Alexander Neef announced his 2013/14 season. Neef has
assembled a particularly starry line-up of singers and directors,
but what is immediately striking about this season, the COC’s
64th, is that three of the seven operas have never been presented by
the COC before. This is only the fourth
time since 1990 (1991/92, 2008/09 and
2011/12 were the others) that this has happened.
Having their COC premieres, back
to back in spring 2014, will be Handel’s
Hercules, Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux
and Massenet’s Don Quichotte. Adding
spice to the season is that Hercules is also
one of three COC-commissioned new
productions.
The 2013/14 season opens, in fact, with
one of these new productions: Puccini’s
La Bohème. The opera was last seen
here in 2009 and this will be its 15th
appearance making it the COC’s most
often staged opera. The new production,
opening October 9, will be directed
by Canadian-born British director John
Caird, who directed Verdi’s Don Carlos
for the company in 2007, and is probably
most famous for the original production
of Les Misérables, which has been run-
Alice coote as Dejanira and
Eric Owens as Hercules
in the canadian Opera
company/Lyric Opera of
chicago co-production
of Hercules, 2011.
ning in London since 1985. Italian conductor Carlo Rizzi leads the
COC Orchestra and Chorus. Alternating in the role of Mimì are Italian
soprano Grazia Doronzio and Canadian soprano Joyce El-Khoury.
The role of Rodolfo, Mimì’s lover, is shared by young tenors, Mexican
David Lomelí (Rigoletto, 2011) and Romanian Teodor Ilincăi.
Alternating with La Bohème will be a production of Benjamin
Britten’s Peter Grimes, celebrating the centenary of the composer’s
birth, and starring Ben Heppner in the title role. Last at the COC
in 2003, this Grimes will be the company’s third. Australian director
Neil Armfield, who directed Ariadne auf Naxos here in 2011,
A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 2009 and Billy Budd in 2001, directs,
and COC Music Director Johannes Debus makes his Britten
debut. Three COC Ensemble Studio alumni appear — soprano Ileana
Montalbetti, tenor Roger Honeywell, and baritone Peter Barrett. Alan
Held, last year’s Gianni Schicchi, sings Captain Balstrode.
The winter season opens on January 18, 2014, with Mozart’s Così
fan tutte running in repertory with Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera.
Così will be a new COC production by Canadian film director
Atom Egoyan, his third production for the COC (Salome, 1996 and
Die Walküre, 2004). Debus conducts. Cast as the sisters are two
Canadians — soprano Layla Claire in her COC debut as Fiordiligi and
mezzo-soprano Wallis Giunta returning for a second season in a row,
this time as Dorabella. The sisters’ two suitors are American tenor Paul
Appleby (Ferrando) and COC Ensemble graduate bass-baritone Robert
Gleadow (Guglielmo). Beloved Canadian soprano Tracy Dahl returns
to the COC stage after a 19-year absence in the role of the wily servant
Despina. Famed baritone Thomas Allen makes his COC debut as
Don Alfonso.
For Un ballo in maschera Canadian soprano Adrianne Pieczonka
and Greek-American tenor Dimitri Pittas make their role debuts as
lovers Amelia and Riccardo. British baritone Roland Wood is Renato,
Amelia’s husband; acclaimed Canadian mezzo-soprano Marie-Nicole
Lemieux is the fortune teller Ulrica; and rising Ensemble Studio
graduate, soprano Simone Osborne, is Oscar the page.
A question that always arises with Ballo is where it will be set — in
18th-century Stockholm, as Verdi intended, where King Gustav III
was assassinated in 1792, or in Boston during the British colonial
period, where censors forced him to move the action because of its
incendiary plot. The directing duo Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito
stir the pot again, by locating this production from the Berlin
Staatsoper in the American South of the 1960s with its resonances of
Kennedy-era tensions and assassinations.
Spring 2014 brings the three premieres. First up on April 5 is
Handel’s Hercules (1745) in a new co-production with Lyric Opera of
Chicago directed by the renowned Peter Sellars. Sellars’ production
which moves the action from mythological Greece to the present day
won universal acclaim when it premiered in Chicago in 2011. The COC
presentation will use the Chicago cast, and what a cast. American
bass-baritone Eric Owens makes his
COC debut as Hercules; British mezzosoprano
Alice Coote is Hercules’s wife
Dejanira; American countertenor David
Daniels returns to the COC as Hercules’
trusted aide, Lichas; American tenor
Richard Croft returns as Hercules’ son,
Hyllus; and British soprano Lucy Crowe
makes her COC debut as Iole, a princess
Hercules has taken captive. Conducting
is Baroque specialist and COC favourite
Harry Bicket. In 2012 Tafelmusik
presented a staged concert version of
Hercules directed by Opera Atelier’s
Marshall Pynkoski. Anyone who saw it
will know that it is a powerful drama told
in glorious music.
Beginning April 25, 2014, is a real
rarity, Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux
(1837). This opera, along with Maria
Stuarda (1835) and Anna Bolena (1830),
comprises what is sometimes called
Donizetti’s “Three Queens” trilogy. It was first presented as a trilogy
in 1972, with Beverly Sills as the slighted British monarch in each production.
From 2007 to 2010 Dallas Opera mounted all three directed
by Stephen Lawless and using a set inspired by Shakespeare’s Globe
Theatre. The COC’s Maria Stuarda was part of the Dallas Opera
series and so is this Roberto Devereux. Is there an Anna Bolena in
the wings?
American soprano Sondra Radvanovsky, our Aida in 2010, makes
her role debut as the central character Elisabetta, in love with the
courtier Devereux. Making his COC and role debut as Devereux is
Italian lyric tenor Giuseppe Filianoti. Also making role debuts are
COC favourites, Canadian baritone Russell Braun and mezzo-soprano
Allyson McHardy as the Duke and Duchess of Nottingham. Italian
conductor Corrado Rovaris makes his COC debut.
The final presentation of the 2013/14 season is another rarity, Don
Quichotte (1910), one of the last operas by French composer Jules
Massenet (1842–1912). The last time the COC presented an opera
by Massenet was Werther in 1992. Don Quichotte has become a
showcase work for great basses with Samuel Ramey, José van Dam
and John Relyea recently essaying the role. Italian Ferruccio Furlanetto
makes his COC debut in the title role of the iconic idealistic dreamer.
Metropolitan Opera star, Russian mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova,
makes her COC debut as Quichotte’s beloved Dulcinée. American
baritone Quinn Kelsey, acclaimed here for his Rigoletto in 2011,
returns to makes his role debut as Don Quichotte’s realistic sidekick,
Sancho Panza. American Linda Brovsky, who helmed this production
at the Seattle Opera, makes her COC debut as director. Johannes
Debus conducts. Many see this opera not only as Massenet’s loving
study of Cervantes’ hero but as the composer’s farewell to the age of
romanticism that had inspired him throughout his life and that he
saw fading with the dawn of the 20th century. The opera runs May 9 to
24, 2014. Visit coc.ca to inquire about subscriptions.
Christopher Hoile is a Toronto-based writer on opera and
theatre. He can be contacted at opera@thewholenote.com.
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dAn reST

Beat by Beat | In With the New
Musical Futures
WENDALYN BARTLEY
For the adventurously minded, the act of music making can be
all about paving the way for the future of music to unfold. If you
were to think 50 years ahead or even 25, what would your prediction
be for how music will be created, experienced and listened to?
This year’s New Creations Festival presented by the Toronto
Symphony Orchestra from March 2 to 9 will be an opportunity to
catch a glimpse of what may be in store for the music lovers of 2050.
When the TSO invited American composer and technology wizard Tod
Machover to both curate the 2013 festival and compose a new work for
it, Machover began dreaming big.
He started with the question — what does the city of Toronto sound
like? He added to that question the vision of opening up the creative
process to anyone who wanted to participate. This new symphonic
work was to be a collaboration on a massive scale with the citizens of
Toronto, resulting in something that could not have been done by any
one individual. And with this mandate before him, Machover stepped
onto the road of future music making where he envisions collaboration
at the core of each piece, and professional musicians moving
beyond teaching and mentoring people to the act of “making things
with them.”
With such an expansive vision to live up to, the tools required for
creating A Toronto Symphony: Concerto for Composer and City
included both new ways of composing and the invention of new technologies.
And since Machover is renowned for his technological
prowess as a major player at the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology) Media Lab, designing new musical technologies is at the
heart of how he thinks and creates.
The collaborative activities began by inviting people to upload audio
recordings of what they considered to be distinctive Toronto sounds.
People responded to the call with a wide variety of sounds, harmonies
and melodies that represented their experience of the city. Originally
Machover thought that these exchanges would take place online, but
by early July of last year, he knew that something more was needed.
His answer was to get on a plane and fly north to engage directly with
people by recording sounds, trading music and trying out various
ideas. He met with musicians from the TSO, indie bands at Toronto
Island’s All Caps Festival, cyclists attending the Toronto Bicycle Music
Festival and a group called FYI Kids atop the CN Tower.
Now what to do with this array of sounds and music? For someone
like Machover, the answer was obvious — develop software tools for
collaborative composing. Three music apps were designed by his colleagues
at MIT: Constellation, Media Scores and City Soaring. These
gave people easy ways to create their own mixes and textures from the
bank of sound recordings, to paint the quality of a composed melody
and to contribute their own variations on music that Machover had
already written. No previous skill required, just an open mind, a sense
of play and inquisitive ears.
We’ll all get to hear the fruits of this groundbreaking process
on March 9 at Roy Thomson Hall in the third concert of the New
Creations Festival. For those of you who want to dive deeper into the
various components of this undertaking, the whole story — including
access to the music apps — is chronicled on Facebook: facebook.com/
ComposerAndCity.
The Toronto Symphony’s New Creations Festival begins on March 2,
just as this month’s WholeNote cycle ends. When looking at the
entirety of this year’s landmark festival curated by Machover, it is
striking to see the weaving together of visionary innovation amidst an
homage to the past. Symphony audiences will be introduced to composers
not that well known in this city — people such as Mason Bates,
composer-in-residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and
Steven Mackey. Both these American composers turn to music from
other sources for their inspiration. In Bates’s work Alternative Energy,
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having its Canadian premiere on March 2, the listener will experience
a ride through history with a montage of sounds and harmonies
from 1896 through to 2222, while in Mackey’s piece Four Iconoclastic
Episodes for electric guitar and orchestra, receiving its Canadian premiere
on March 9, the journey traverses a series of various styles
including jazz/rock fusion, African pop and Chicago blues. Another
work by Machover titled Sparkler joins this historical parade with its
Canadian premiere on March 7, interweaving themes from Beethoven
to the Beatles, while Canadian Owen Pallett’s Violin Concerto,
inspired by the solo violin music of Bach, receives its North American
premiere March 7.
And of course, the use of technology within the orchestral context
will be the other major player of the festival. In Montreal-based composer
Nicole Lizée’s work Arcadia, to be heard on March 2,
the instruments accompany vintage images from arcade
games of the 1970s and 80s, while Andrew Staniland has
chosen to “electrify” the orchestra in his new piece
commissioned by the TSO and given its world premiere
March 9. In Machover’s Jeux Deux, having
its Canadian premiere on March 2, we’ll experience
the combinations of hyperpiano (disklavier),
orchestra, interactive software and live graphics.
First, February: But before we arrive at this
festival in early March, there will be many other
opportunities to treat your ears to both technical wonders
and reflections on the past.
Continuum Contemporary Music ensemble will be experiencing
their own version of electrification when they team up with
New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) to present “Jump Start” on
February 10 at the Citadel on Parliament St. There will be newly
commissioned works by Rose Bolton, Scott Smallwood and Scott
Wilson, all written specifically for NAISA’s unique live spatialization
system designed to move sounds between loudspeakers. The space
will be wired up by NAISA’s artistic director Darren Copeland who
Tod machover with
fragment of the score for
A Toronto Symphony.
will surround the audience with
18 speakers and place a subwoofer
underneath the floor. We’ll also
be hearing another work from the
“technological ethers” by Andrew
Staniland.
Don’t let the name Cybernetic
Orchestra scare you away. It’s
McMaster University’s laptop orchestra,
an innovative electronic
music ensemble now
entering its
third year of activity. In the spirit of Machover’s vision of
collaboration, this orchestra is open to all members of the McMaster
community (students, alumni and employees) — the only requirement
is a laptop and an interest in performing and listening to new, electronic
forms of music. They’ll be releasing their latest album in a concert at
Gallery 345 on February 9, joined by Shawn Mativetsky on tabla.
Inspirations from the past continue to play out in other new music
events this month. The theme for the February 3 New Music Concerts
event is “Past, Present and Future: Canadian Music Then and Now.”
Compositions by the esteemed composers John Weinzweig, Murray
Schafer and Brian Cherney will be complemented by world premieres
commissioned by NMC from two younger and up and coming
Canadians — Adam Scime and Brian Harman. Works by Weinzweig
will also be featured in concerts by the Kingston Symphony on
February 3 and by U of T’s Faculty of Music Wind Symphony’s concert
on February 1.
Two final events to mention where the old and new co-exist
are NUMUS’ concert on February 7 in Waterloo featuring Schola
Magdalena, an ensemble dedicated to the performance of music for
women’s voices. They will perform new works by Canadians Meghan
Bunce, Emily Walker and ensemble director Stephanie Martin, combined
with the music from the 12th century abbess and mystic
Hildegard von Bingen, a courageous pioneer in her own time. On
February 2 at the Heliconian Hall, Toronto’s Toy Piano Composers will
perform several new premieres based on re-imaginings of a range of
Canadian art from the past and present, including local Toronto paintings,
animations and video game art.
To finish off: I want to leave you with one other future dream for
music as suggested by Tod Machover that really opens things up.
Based on what we’re learning about what happens when we listen
to music and how we each respond differently, it will become possible,
he imagines, to create a customized version for each piece of
music. This means that through some means — perhaps some sort of
technical interface? — the original music source will be transformed
so that we each receive the most powerful version based on who we
are, our preferences and perhaps even the environment we’re in at
any given time. “It’s personalized music instead of generalized music,”
he says.
Wendalyn Bartley is a Toronto-based composer and electro-vocal
sound artist. She can be contacted at sounddreaming@gmail.com.
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Beat by Beat | World View
Marking “BHM”
ANDREW TIMAR
February on toronto’s cultural and educational landscape
has been for years associated with Black History Month (BHM). I
don’t however recall commemorating it during my student years
at Clinton St. Public School — which by
the way is celebrating its 125th anniversary
this year — so what’s the scoop
here? I decided to snoop into the history
of BHM to score some answers.
The seed for what is now widely
known as BHM began in the USA in
1926 through the advocacy of the
African-American historian, author
and journalist Carter G. Woodson
(1875-1950), one of the first scholars to
study African-American history. It was
initially called “Negro History Week.”
Designated for the second week in
February, it was meant to coincide with
the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and
Frederick Douglass. Woodson aimed to
increase awareness and understanding
of the African experience in school curricula, as well as to foster
self-reliance and racial respect. By the 1960s communities, as well
as various school boards, in the USA began to formally observe BHM,
their primary goal being to present a more balanced and accurate history
of Africans throughout history.
Toronto, far from being a place exclusively populated by Europeans,
has had an African population from its earliest period as a settlement.
One early record shows that in July 1843 Toronto Council refused to
let a circus perform “without assurances that it would not sing songs
or perform acts that would be insulting to ‘the gentlemen of colour’ of
the city.” Toronto native William Hubbard (1842–1935), the city’s first
elected official of African descent, cut through the raw prejudice of his
day to fashion an admirable career of public service over 20 years. His
official portrait hangs in the mayor’s office, a tribute to his personal
courage and public achievement.
Through the efforts of many, including the Ontario Black History
Society, in 1979 Toronto became the first municipality in Canada to
proclaim BHM. The act recognized past and present contributions
African Canadians made and make to the life of Toronto in many areas
including education, medicine, human rights and business, politics,
public service and the arts.
Public and private institutions here participate in observing BHM.
The Toronto Public Library for example is programming ten such
events this year. These include “Drumming with Muhtadi” on Tuesday
February 5 at 10am at the York Woods branch where you can “hear the
rhythms and learn the history of traditional Caribbean and African
drums” in a live performance by the master drummer Muhtadi. The
next day at the same branch you can “dance to the beat of your own
drum! Make your ... drum to keep and participate in an interactive
story” at 4:30pm. Fittingly, the TPL’s logo for Black History Month is
a hand on a drum skin, illustrating just how closely the drum is associated
with African culture. Keeping with that theme, on February 9
“the king of kalimba,” Toronto’s Njacko Backo, performs at the TPL’s
Morningside Branch (no time posted).
The Gladstone Hotel is also marking Black History Month with
four concerts; the last on February 22 featuring a significant milestone,
the release of Njacko Backo’s tenth album. It includes Mohamad
Diaby’s djembe, two different banjos played by Ken Whiteley, Jane
Bunnett’s soprano sax, trumpet by Larry Cramer plus support from
Kalimba Kalimba.
Perhaps Toronto’s main BHM course is Harbourfront Centre’s
“Kuumba Festival.” Swahili for “creativity,” Kuumba has over the years
showcased leading local, national and international artists of African
heritage. This year for three days, February 1 to 3, the festival offers a
smorgasbord of hair fashion, storytelling, oware games, film, dance,
food, exhibitions, children’s activities, drum circles and, of course,
music concerts. Here are a few picks.
The “10th Anniversary Celebration of The Trane Studio,” the first
African-Canadian-owned jazz venue in Toronto for generations, takes
place February 2. Owned and managed by writer and programmer
Frank Francis, and named after legendary saxophonist John
Coltrane, the Bathurst Street jazz club would have turned ten years
in February. Sadly for musicians and live
joel Rubin, left, and Uri caine,
music Gallery march 2.
music fans it closed last summer; the
Harbourfront lineup of local and international
acts showcases performers who
have supported The Trane Studio including
the powerful spoken word artist
Ursula Rucker, trumpet player Alexander
Brown, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist
Waleed Abdulhamid and saxophonist
Ernest Dawkins.
February 3 at 4pm one of the treasures
of African-American music — gospel — will
be featured at the “Kuumba Gospel
Lounge.” Billed as “a gospel extravaganza,”
the Mount Zion Fellowship Choir,
a 30-voice choir with a four-piece band,
will share the stage with smaller vocal
ensembles and four soloists including
singer Karen Jewels and Jermaine Shakespeare, a “recognized worship
leader, songwriter and minister of the gospel.” At the same
time, unfortunately, Kuumba has scheduled the interesting “Hiplife
Showcase.” Kobè from Ghana and Canadian Radio Music Award winner
Stevano UGO put faces and voices to hiplife music, the latter a
West African fusion of highlife and hip-hop with touches of reggaeton,
dancehall and reggae.
One of last year’s Kuumba highlights was Dr. Jay De Soca Prince
DJing at Harbourfront’s ice skating rink, a novel Toronto combination
of Trini and “skate culture.” Judging from the dense crowd on the rink
last year, evidently I was not the only one who thought the idea fun,
so Harbourfront is holding it again, on February 2, promising it will
be “this winter’s hottest night on ice.” I won’t disagree.
And last on the BHM front, February 15 at the intimate Musideum,
Kobe Aquaa-Harrison presents “The Golden Tale of Jungle Bouti,” a
program of storytelling and music. Video evidence found on the internet
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(marimba) player; hopefully some of his tasty playing will be on the
Musideum menu. All that the slim but enticing online notes say is that
the seprewa, a Ghanaian guitar-harp, is featured. Clearly, venturing
into the unknown is at the heart of the enterprise, reminding me of
the apt subtitle of an 1980s world music cassette: “no risk no fun.”
Elsewhere on the cultural map: The Sony Centre for the Performing
Arts re-stakes its claim as the go-to house for national and transnational
culturally themed extravaganzas for yet another year.
February 9 and 10 “Bharati: The Wonder That Is India” returns for its
annual visit filling the hall with spectacle armed with its large cast of
acrobats, dancers, musicians and singers, all in glittering costumes.
The show has been touring since 2006 doing for the subcontinent
what “Riverdance” did for Ireland (and several other shows did
for their own nations), managing to reduce a richly varied and perhaps
unwieldy cultural landscape down to a manageable masala feast
for the ears and eyes. Affirming the mega concept, “Celtic Woman:
2013 North American Tour” graces the Sony Centre stage again on
February 23 and 24. This year’s headliners are Chloe Agnew, Lisa
Lambe, Susan McFadden and Máiréad Nesbitt. It’s an all-female
Irish musical ensemble show conceived and assembled by Sharon
Browne and David Downes, a former musical director of the successful
Riverdance franchise. “Celtic Woman” has proven very successful
itself since 2004 spinning off 13 themed CDs and seven DVDs as well
as continuous international touring. Their PBS HD television special
concert taped in 2009 included a 27-member orchestra, the Discovery
Gospel choir, 12-member Aontas Choir, ten-member Extreme Rhythm
Drummers plus an 11-piece bagpipe ensemble, intimating that sometimes
bigger may just be better.
On a much more modest scale Jorge Miguel Flamenco presents
“Una Vez, Cada Mes” on February 20 at the Lula Arts Centre. Toronto-
based, Spanish Canadian guitarist and composer Jorge Miguel stars
in a program of traditional and contemporary flamenco instrumental
and vocal music plus dance. Continuing the Latin theme, February 23
the Jubilate Singers choir collaborates with Proyecto Altiplano in a
concert called “Vida, Amor y Muerte” at the Grace Church on-the-Hill.
The repertoire from Latin America features Violeta Parra’s and Luis
Advis’ “Canto Para Una Semilla” made famous via the 1972 album of
that name by the renowned Chilean folk band Inti-Illimani, and other
songs. Isabel Bernaus and Claudio Saldivia conduct.
February 28 the York University Department of Music presents a
Korean program in their World at Noon series, with Jeng Yi, Korean
percussion and dance, and Joo Jyumg Kim on kayagum, at the Martin
Family Lounge, Accolade East Bldg.
Saturday March 2, the Music Gallery co-presents with the Ashkenaz
Foundation a concert by Joel Rubin and Uri Caine dubbed an exploration
of “Klezmer’s outer limits and inner space.” American clarinetist
Joel Rubin has long been recognized as a leader among North
American Jewish klezmorim, his playing hailed by klezmer great
Dave Tarras, avant garde composer John Zorn and Nobel Laureate
poet Roald Hoffmann. Pianist and composer Uri Caine has played jazz
with the older generation masters, as well as gigging with a younger
generation (Don Byron, John Zorn, Dave Douglas and Arto Lindsay),
recording 22 CDs as a leader along the way. Their joint album “Azoy
Tsu Tsveyt” (2011) evokes the sort of exciting fusion spirit that’s found
in the best of jazz, as they journey through a repertoire of Old and
New World sacred cantorial songs, nigunim and secular klezmer tunes.
Combining Jewish musical eclecticism, sheer instrumental virtuosity
and elements of improvised music, this concert is sure to appeal to
several audiences.
Finally, on February 24, London, Ontario world music producer
Sunfest presents Ladysmith Black Mambazo at the Aeolian Hall,
London. The group has recorded 40 albums and sold over six million
records since being internationally launched on Paul Simon’s
Graceland recording in the mid 80s. Mambazo’s album Shaka Zulu
(1987) won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album. They
continue to inspire international audiences with their core message of
peace and reconciliation through the power of song.
Andrew Timar is a Toronto musician and music writer.
He can be contacted at worldmusic@thewholenote.com.
Beat by Beat | Jazz Notes
Life After Death?
JIM gALLOWAY
I
know i’ve written on a number of occasions about the falling off
of the jazz scene in Toronto and I still feel that the glory days have
come and gone — but not all is lost.
Jazz has, of course, died several times over the course of its history,
but one way or another seems to survive. Writing this brought to mind
an occasion when I was in high school: we were in the change room
of the gymnasium and the teacher came to the door and announced
“The King is dead. Long live the King.” In this case the new “king” was
Queen Elizabeth, but the phrase means that the heir immediately succeeds
to the throne upon the death of the preceding monarch.
Similarly one might have pronounced on sundry occasions “Jazz is
dead, long live jazz.”
Since, with the exception of The Rex, jazz clubs operating six nights
per week are, it would seem, a thing of the past, the focus has moved
to concert halls and clubs presenting jazz one to three nights a week,
and to special “one-off” or annual events.
jPEc: One such event is coming up this month. Jazz Performance
and Education Centre (JPEC) will have their fourth annual Jazz Gala
on Saturday February 23 at the Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040
Yonge St. Joe Sealy will present “Africville Stories” — from his JUNO
award-winning Africville Suite which was composed in memory
of his father and is a homage to the history, people and activities of
Africville in Nova Scotia. Canadian treasure Jackie Richardson will
be featured along with bassist Paul Novotny, Mark Kelso, drums, and
Nova Scotian born Mike Murley on saxophone. The second part of
the concert will be “A Salute to Motown” with Roberto Occhipinti as
musical director.
Ellington society: It may seem a little early to mention an event
which doesn’t take place until late April, but this is an annual concert
presented by the Toronto Duke Ellington Society and it consistently
sells out, so I figured it wasn’t too soon to bring it to your attention.
The date is April 27 at Walter Hall in the Edward Johnson Building at U
of T and this year the music will be performed by JUNO winner John
MacLeod and The Rex Hotel Orchestra.
These concerts began on October 24, 1991, at Holy Trinity Church
and audiences have been entertained over the years by a cross-section
of Toronto’s leading jazz talents including Mark Eisenman, Barry
Elmes, Al Henderson, Mike Murley, Kevin Turcotte, Ron Collier, Don
Thompson, Jeff Healey’s Jazz Wizards, Brian Barlow’s Orchestra,
Martin Loomer’s Orange Devils and my own Wee Big Band.
Proceeds will go to the Society’s Scholarship Fund and ticket prices
are $35 if you purchase before March 1 after which they are $40.
Paintbox: One of the successes of downtown development, and
Lord knows, there aren’t many of them in condominium-dominated
Toronto, is the Regent Park Arts & Cultural Centre, a multi-tenant
arts hub located on Dundas St. E. between Sumach and Sackville
streets. Situated in this complex, but a separate entity, is the Paintbox
Bistro, the brain child of owner Chris Klugman. Trained as a chef, he
has recruited his kitchen staff from George Brown College where he
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teaches. A regular at the restaurant is Mitchell Cohen, president of the
Daniels Corporation, builders of this Regent Park complex. He and
bassist Henry Heillig are old friends and out of that friendship came
the idea of a jazz series at the Paintbox. Result? A series of six concerts
in a people-friendly space which can comfortably accommodate an
audience of 150 and deliver good food, good wine and good jazz.
The series begins on February 1 with the Heillig Manoeuvre CD
launch followed at intervals by the Elizabeth Shepherd Trio, Phil
Dwyer with Don Thompson, Thompson Egbo-Egbo Trio, Jane
Bunnett with Hilario Duran and the Joe Sealy
Trio with Paul Novotny
and Daniel Barnes.
Tickets are $15.
For more detailed
information
please call 647-
748-0555 or go to
paintboxbistro.ca.
Phoenix rising:
The legendary phoenix
bird obtains
new life by rising
from the ashes of its
predecessor. Seven
years ago the Toronto
jazz venue Top o’ The
Senator closed its
doors but this year in
phoenix-like fashion it
will reopen with a new
Del Dako at c’est what? with
owner — and a new name.
Norman marshall villeneuve on drums.
The new owner is Colin
Hunter, founder and chairman of Sunwing Airlines. Passionately fond
of music and in the business himself as a crooner, his efforts and a
considerable input of financial support mean that 251 Victoria St. will
once more be home to live music with the opening of the Jazz Bistro.
The general manager is Sybil Walker, carrying on the role she had at
Top o’ The Senator, booking artists and managing the operation.
The club will feature live performances Tuesday through Sunday
with Thursday through Saturday being jazz, Wednesday for Latin,
and “Take the Stage Tuesday” which will be a community out-
St. Philip’s Anglican Church
● Sunday, February 10, 4pm | Dixieland
Bob DeAngelis Band
● Sunday, February 24, 4pm | Jazz
Carol McCartney Quartet
● Sunday, March 10, 4pm | Jazz
George Koller Quartet
St. Philip’s Anglican Church | Etobicoke
25 St. Phillips Road (near Royal York + Dixon)
416-247-5181 www.stphilips.net
reach program with members of the jazz community, touring artists
and students programming their own evenings in conjunction with
Sybil’s input.
The jazz programming will be a mix of top local musicians and visiting
stars. In the works are an Oscar Peterson tribute and welcome
return bookings of Kenny Barron and Lew Tabackin.
I can’t resist saying it — “The Senator is dead. Long live the
Jazz Bistro.”
Final note: With deep regret I have to make mention
of the untimely death of Del Dako. He had
impressive playing credentials as a jazz saxophonist,
accomplished on both baritone and alto saxes,
before a serious accident while riding his mountain
bike in the autumn of 2001 rendered him unable to
play the saxophone. Undaunted, he set about learning
to play vibraphone on which instrument he was
able to continue expressing himself through music.
As a saxophone player he played with several name
players including Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson, Big
Nick Nicholas, Nick Brignola and Slim Gaillard,
and held the baritone sax chair in my Wee Big
Band for the years preceding his accident. He was
dogged by ill health after the biking accident and
more recently he was diagnosed with cancer. He
was with fellow musicians on Friday January 18
and found at his home by a friend the next day,
having taken his own life. But for those of us
who knew him, he too will live on in our memories.
As usual I ask you to keep listening to jazz and do your best to make
some of your listening live.
Jim Galloway is a saxophonist, band leader
and former artistic director of Toronto Downtown Jazz.
He can be contacted at jazznotes@thewholenote.com.
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Beat by Beat | Bandstand
Lots To Report
JACK MACQUARRIE
A
nother year has arrived, and with it many happenings
on the local musical scene. The information which has been
tumbling in at an amazing rate is so diverse that this time the
challenge of where to begin is more difficult than ever. Perhaps it’s
best to simply pick up where I left off two months ago on the topic of
programming. In the last issue I mentioned two out-of-town concerts
I was looking forward to from groups with a reputation for excellent
programming. I am happy to say they lived up to expectations.
The first was presented by London-based Plumbing Factory Brass
Band. Skillfully crafted by its director Henry Meredith, this program,
titled “Dance Music of Many Times and Places,” took us on a musical
journey through ten countries spanning over four and a half centuries.
We were even taken to outer space for a dance of “two heavenly bodies”
to commemorate last summer’s transit of Venus, with Sousa’s march
by that name. Polkas, waltzes, two steps, tarantellas and more were
enhanced with demonstrations by dance historian Cathy Stephens.
Even the printed program was a delight, containing a collection of
photos and drawings which shed a light on the works.
The concert in Waterloo four days later by the Wellington Winds
was equally imaginative, mixing traditional Christmas music, including
gems like Holst’s In the Bleak Midwinter, with transcriptions of
stellar orchestral works including a five-movement concerto grosso by
Arcangelo Corelli, a concerto for clarinet by Carl Maria von Weber and
a concerto for guitar by Antonio Vivaldi.
At intermission the Wellington Winds introduced their
“Appassionato” initiative with presentations by local dignitaries. The
centerpiece of this project is a two hour-DVD “illustrating the life of a
concert band.” I will have more to say about that extraordinary project
in a later column. However, since our last issue, news of local band
happenings has been pouring in, so it is time to move on to new topics.
markham: Of great personal interest to me is the completion of the
Cornell Community Centre and Library in Markham. A few years ago
I had the privilege of arranging visits by members of the Markham
Town Council and other interested parties to the band rehearsal facilities
in Cobourg and Oshawa in the hopes of persuading local officials
to incorporate musical rehearsal facilities into a community centre
under consideration. That dream of the Markham Concert Band has
now come to fruition. The band played their last rehearsal in their old
rehearsal hall just before Christmas. The first rehearsal in January was
in the spacious new hall with shadow-free lighting, storage rooms and
two small practice rooms. Included in this room is a bleacher-type
seating arrangement which folds out into the room to provide accommodation
for a modest-sized audience when required. The official
opening of the centre is tentatively scheduled for February 9.
While on the subject of the Markham Band, they will be presenting
their first concert of the year on Sunday afternoon, March 3, in the
Flato Markham Theatre. “Stories and Legends” will feature excerpts
from Disney’s Fantasia, Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf and Copland’s
Lincoln Portrait. One regular feature that the Markham Band includes
in every concert program is a profile of a band member. Over the years
these profiles have provided audience members with an insight into
the diversity of the people behind the instruments. They learn of the
occupations, hobbies and perhaps even eccentricities of the music
makers on stage. As was pointed out to me recently, they also serve
another very useful purpose. They help band members get to know
each other. Most rehearsals leave little time for socializing, and these
profiles help to shed a bit of light on the person behind that familiar
face in a section on the far side of the band.
Brampton: On Saturday, February 23 at 8pm, the Brampton Concert
Band under the direction of new music director, Vince Gassi, will be
presenting “A World of Music” in a special tribute to retiring music
The markham concert
Band rehearsing
at the new cornell
community centre.
director Darryl Eaton in the Rose Theatre. Darryl has been at the helm
since 1999.
cAmmAc: Would you like to improve your sight-reading and performance
skills? CAMMAC’s Wind Band Workshop might be for you.
The workshop will focus on key performance skills such as dynamics,
articulation, balance and blend in a hands-on learning experience.
This tips and tools session will be conducted by Fran Harvey, a music
educator and conductor who holds degrees in music and education.
Since 2003, Fran has been the conductor of the Metropolitan Silver
Band. The workshop will take place on February 23 at 2pm at the
Northern District Library, 40 Orchard View Blvd., Toronto. For more
information, contact Gerald Martindale, 416-551-5183, bellman@
rogers.com.
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York University: While on the subject of workshops,
York University has recently announced that
they will be conducting another band workshop
similar to the very successful inaugural one last year.
We don’t have many details yet. However, this isn’t
taking place until early May. As soon as more details
are received, they will be posted in this column.
cBA Award: We have just received word that
Matthew Donnelly, 26, of New Hamburg, Ontario,
has been named winner of the Canadian Band
Association’s 2013 annual award for the best original
score by a new Canadian composer. Donnelly, who
plays clarinet, as well as acoustic and electric bass
in the 60-member Kitchener Musical Society Band,
was inspired by the beauty and history of the local
Nith River when he started work more than a year
ago on a composition titled River Valley Sketches.
After trying out draft versions on fellow musicians
at KMSB rehearsals, he entered his score in the
competition. His composition topped a field of 27
submissions from musicians coast to coast. The first
place honours also come with a $1,000 cash prize.
Resa’s Pieces: A little news item from Resa’s
Pieces tells us that the band has added quite a few
new members this year and is getting close to the 60
mark. They are gearing up now for their 14th gala
on June 11 in the George Weston Recital Hall. More
details will follow in a later issue.
Honours: Just in, here’s an item of interest to
brass players. Former Tonight Show bandleader
Doc Severinsen was recently surprised with an
unexpected honour. Minutes before Severinsen’s
second-half appearance in a recent Koerner Hall
concert, Peter Simon, president of the Royal
Academy Concert Series
32
Associates of the TSo
38, 42
ATMA 5
Batuki 38
Canadian opera Company
10
Canadian Sinfonietta 34
Cantemus 40
Christ Church deer Park
jazz vespers 25
Civic light opera
Company 35
Classical 96.3fm 61
Continuum/nAiSA 32
Cosmo Music 25
exultate Chamber Singers
49
gallery 345 28, 30
Hannaford Street Silver
Band 26,32
Heliconian Hall 51
Hymn Society, Southern
ontario Chapter 50
john laing Singers 45
jubilate Singers 37
junction Trio/urban flute
29, 39
kindred Spirits orchestra
35, 52
lawrence Park Community
Church/fridays @ 8 40
leaside united Church 41
living Arts Centre 11
liz Parker 52
Markham Concert Band
41
Matthew kelly 51
Mississauga Symphony 32
Mooredale Concerts 41
Mr. Tuner 50
Music at Metropolitan
30, 43
Music gallery 22
Music Toronto
9, 33, 40, 43
Musicians in ordinary 33
nathaniel dett Chorale
14, 42
national Academy
orchestra 49
new Music Concerts
21, 30
INDEX OF ADVERTISERS
no Strings Theatre 50
norm Pulker 51
nyCo Symphony
orchestra 40
opera york 39
organix 14
Pasquale Bros 51
Pattie kelly 52
Peter Mahon 13
Conservatory, named the trumpet virtuoso an
Honourary Fellow of the Royal Conservatory.
While on the subject of honours, we have just
learned that Christopher Lee, principal flute of the
Toronto Philharmonia, has been invited to be the
guest of the Los Angeles Flute Guild for their Flute
Festival 2013. In addition to giving a masterclass, he
will participate in a recital with other luminaries of
the flute world. Congratulations Chris.
Roy schatz: Their final performance will have
passed by the time this issue is published and its not
even a band event, but I would be remiss if I failed
to mention the 50th anniversary season of the St.
Anne’s Music and Drama Society, at the forefront of
Gilbert and Sullivan productions in Toronto since
its inception. My parents met in a G & S production
where my mother sang the role of Buttercup in
HMS Pinafore. As a child I was brought up on G &
S. As an adult, I played in the St. Anne’s Orchestra
for many years and got to know its director, Roy
Schatz. In recent years Roy has turned the directing
reins over to daughter Laura, but he will be on
stage singing in his 50th consecutive year in this
year’s production of The Gondoliers in the role
of His Grace, The Duke of Plaza-Toro. How many
performers can match that? Performing in same
group’s annual presentation for 50 years without
a break must be a record for Guinness to consider.
Congratulations Roy.
Jack MacQuarrie plays several brass
instruments and has performed in many
community ensembles. He can be contacted
at bandstand@thewholenote.com.
reaching out Through
Music 31
remenyi House of Music
59
rose Theatre 39
roy Thomson Hall 4, 38
royal Canadian College of
organists 50
royal Conservatory 7, 18
royal york road united
Church 29
Schola Magdalena 31
Sheila McCoy 52
Sine nomine 36
Sinfonia Toronto 16
Sony Centre 37
Soul voice Toronto 50
Soundstreams Canada
13, 43
St. olave’s Church 35
St. Philip’s Anglican
Church 25
Steinway Piano gallery 27
Steve jackson Pianos 24
Sue Crowe Connolly 52
Summer opera lyric
Theatre 49
Syrinx Concerts 36
Tafelmusik 64
Tafelmusik Baroque
Summer institute 48
Talisker Players 43
Tallis Choir 41
The Sound Post 23
Toronto Chamber Choir 41
Toronto Classical Singers
42
Toronto Concert orchestra
34
Toronto Consort 19, 34
Toronto Mendelssohn
Choir 31
Toronto opera repertoire
33
Toronto Sinfonietta 37
Toronto Symphony
orchestra 2
TorQ Percussion Quartet
30
u of T faculty of Music
17, 50
via Salzburg 15, 36
victoria Scholars 15
visual and Performing Arts
newmarket 42
voices of Colour Music/
denise Williams 52
Windermere String Quartet
42
Women’s Musical Club of
Toronto 34
you and Media 51
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The WholeNote listings are arranged in four sections:
A.
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plus Halton, Peel, York and Durham regions.
B. there are listings for events in Aylmer, Barrie, Bradford,
BEYOND THE GTA covers many areas of Southern Ontario
outside Toronto and the GTA. In the current issue,
Brantford, Cambridge, Dundas, Guelph, Hamilton, Huntsville,
Kingston, Kitchener, London, Peterborough, Port Hope,
Southampton, St. Catharines and Waterloo. Starts on page 43.
C.
IN THE cLUBs (mOsTLY jAzz)
is organized alphabetically by club.
Starts on page 46.
D. workshops, singalongs and other music-related events
THE ETcETERAs is for galas, fundraisers, competitions,
screenings, lectures, symposia, masterclasses,
(except performances) which may be of interest to our readers.
Starts on page 48.
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with every listing in The WholeNote — in fact, we won’t publish a
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artists or venues may change after listings are published.
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Lake Ontario
Friday February 01
• 1:10: Gordon Murray Presents. Piano
Potpourri. Featuring classics, opera, operetta,
musicals, ragtime, pop, international and other
genres. Gordon Murray, piano. Trinity-St. Paul’s
United Church, 427 Bloor St. W. 416-631-
4300. PWYC, $5 suggested. Lunch and snack
friendly. Also Feb 8, 15 and 22.
• 7:30: Canadian Music Centre. Pianist
Rogers Admiral Performs the Music of Howard
Bashaw. 20 St. Joseph St. 416-961-6601
x201. $25; $15(st/arts worker). Post-concert
reception with pianist and composer. Proceeds
to Canadian Music Centre’s Grand Piano Fund.
• 7:30: St. Anne’s Music and Drama
Society. Gilbert & Sullivan: The Gondoliers.
Laura Schatz, director; Brian Farrow, conductor.
St. Anne’s Anglican Church, 651 Dufferin
St. 416-922-4415. $25; $20(sr/st). Also Feb
2(mat), 3(mat).
• 7:30: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Exposed: Beyond the Score – Tchaikovsky
Symphony 4. Beyond the Score presentation
includes visuals and narrations to illuminate
the music. Peter Duschenes, actor; Derek
Boyes, narrator; Robert Spano, conductor. Roy
Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-593-4828 or
416-593-0688(Chinese). $29–$79.
• 7:30: University of Toronto Faculty of
Music. Wind Symphony. Leemans: March of the
Belgian Parachutists; Healey: One Midsummer’s
Morning; Bennett: Suite of Old American
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newmarket, norval, oakville, oshawa, Port Perry and richmond Hill.
FEB/MAR 2013
FEBRUARY
02 SAT | 8pm
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TORQ PERCUSSION, “OFF THE
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08 FRI | 8pm
THE ART OF THE PIANO: RYAN
MCCULLOUGH, CONTEMP CLASSICAL
$20/$15/$10
09 SAT | 8pm
CYBERNETIC ORCHESTRA
SHAWN MATIVETSKY, tabla
EXTRAMUROS, ELECTRO/IMPROV
$20/$15/$10
10 SUN | 3pm
THIN EDGE NEW MUSIC COLLECTIVE
“KEYS, WINDS AND STRINGS”
CONTEMP $20/$15/$10
14 THU | 8pm
TRADITION and INNOVATION
DENISOVA, violin, KORNIENKO, piano
CLASSICAL $20/$15/$10 COUPLES
16 SAT | 8pm
IN THE CURRENT, 11 PIECE JAZZ
ENSEMBLE, MIKE DOWNES
JAZZ $20/$15/$10
Dances; Grainger: Shepherd’s Hey; The Merry
King; Faeroe Island Dances; Weinzweig: Round
Dance. Jeffrey Reynolds, conductor. MacMillan
Theatre, Edward Johnson Bldg., 80 Queen’s
Park. 416-408-0208. $20; $15(sr); $10(st).
• 8:00: Acting Up Stage Company/Factory
Theatre. Do You Want What I Have Got? A
Craigslist Cantata. Created by V. Hille and B.
Richardson. Actual Craigslist postings set to
music. With Dmitry Chepovetsky, Bree Greig,
Daren A. Herbert, Veda Hille, Selina Martin and
Barry Mirochnick; Veda Hille, music director.
Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst St. 416-504-
9971. $35–$47; $30–$42(st); $22(previews,
Jan 30-Feb 5). Feb 2-3, 5, 6-10, 12-17, 19-24,
26-28, Mar 1-3. Start times vary.
• 8:00: Aurora Culture Centre. Great Artist
Piano Series: Chu-Fang Huang, piano. Works
by Haydn, Chopin, Wanghua Chu and others.
22 Church St., Aurora. 905-713-1818. $30;
$25(sr/st).
• 8:00: Henry Heillig and Heillig Manoeuvre.
CD Launch: “Toons.” Stacie McGregor, piano;
Henry Heillig, bass; Charlie Cooley, drums;
Alison Young, saxophone. Paintbox Bistro, 555
Dundas St. E. 647-748-0555. $15; $40(dinner
and show).
• 8:00: Tafelmusik. Vivaldi, Handel & Sandrine
Piau. Vivaldi: In furore; Handel: arias from Giulio
Cesare. Sandrine Piau, soprano; Tafelmusik
Baroque Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon, director.
Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St. W.
22 FRI | 8pm
TON BEAU STRING QUARTET,
EMILY RHO, piano
CLASSICAL $20/$15/$10
24 SUN | 3pm
JACKSON-de MARGERIE DUO
FRASER JACKSON, bassoon
MONIQUE DE MARGERIE,
piano, CONTEMP CLASSICAL
$20/$15/$10
26 TUE | 8pm
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WALLACE HALLADAY, saxes
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$20/$15/$10
MARCH
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KATHLEEN LONG, cello
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03 SUN | 3pm
ART OF THE PIANO: GREG DE
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$20/$15/$10

416-964-6337. $39–$89; $35–$79; $20–
$79(35 and under). Also Feb 2, 3(mat).
• 8:30: Hugh’s Room. Garnet Rogers,
singer-songwriter. 2261 Dundas St. W. 416-
531-6604. $27.50/$25(adv).
Saturday February 02
• 2:00: Canadian Opera Company. Tristan
und Isolde. Wagner. Ben Heppner, tenor
(Tristan, Feb 2, 14, 17, 20); Burkhard Fritz,
tenor (Tristan, Feb 8, 23); Melanie Diener, soprano
(Isolde, Feb 2, 14, 17, 20); Margaret Jane
Wray, soprano (Isolde, Feb 8, 23); Daveda
Karanas, mezzo (Brangäne); Alan Held, baritone
(Kurwenal); Bill Viola, video artist; Jiři
Bělohlávek, conductor; Peter Sellars, stage director.
Four Seasons Centre for the Performing
Arts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. $12–
$390; $22(under 30). Also Feb 8, 14, 17, 20,
23. Start times vary.
• 2:00: St. Anne’s Music and Drama
Society. Gilbert & Sullivan: The Gondoliers.
See Feb 1.
• 7:30: Living Arts Centre/Mississauga
Chinese Art Organization. Gala Concert.
Celebration of the Chinese New Year with
music, acrobatics and comedy. Hammerson
Hall, Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living Arts Dr.,
Mississauga. 905-306-6000. $12–$20.
• 7:30: Royal Conservatory. Glenn Gould
School Vocal Showcase. GGS voice students
perform art songs and arias. Mazzoleni Concert
Hall, 273 Bloor St. W. 416-408-0208. $15.
• 7:30: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Tchaikovsky Symphony 4. Lieberson: Neruda
Songs (Canadian premiere); Tchaikovsky:
Symphony No.4. Kelley O’Connor, mezzo;
Robert Spano, conductor. Roy Thomson
Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-593-4828 or
416-593-0688(Chinese). $29–$145.
• 8:00: Acting Up Stage Company/Factory
Theatre. Do You Want What I Have Got? A
Craigslist Cantata. See Feb 1.
• 8:00: Aurora Culture Centre. SchoolHOUSE
Concert Series: Duffy & Ebata. Vocals and
piano. 22 Church St., Aurora. 905-713-1818.
$15.
• 8:00: Cathedral Bluffs Symphony
Orchestra. Subscription Series Concert No.3:
Beethoven. Beethoven: Coriolanus Overture;
Symphony No.6; Mozart: Piano Concerto No.23.
Ronald Greidanus, piano. P.C. Ho Theatre, 5183
Sheppard Ave. E., Scarborough. 416-879-5566.
$30; $25(st/sr) free(under 12).
• 8:00: Gallery 345. The Art of the Piano:
Mei Yi Foo. Works by Harmon, Schumann,
Lachenmann, Gubaidulina, G. Benjamin, Ligeti
and U. Chin. 345 Sorauren Ave. 416-822-9781.
$20; $15(sr/arts worker); $10(st).
• 8:00: Grace Church on-the-Hill. Erion
Tulina, piano. Bach: Goldberg Variations;
Brahms: Cello Sonata in e; Beethoven: Sonata
in A-flat Op.110. Guest: Eriona Jaupi, cello. 300
Lonsdale Rd. 416-488-7884. Free.
• 8:00: Harbourfront Centre. Kuumba
Festival: 10th Anniversary Celebration of the
Trane Studio. With Alexander Brown, Waleed
Abdulhamid, Ernest Dawkins and Ursula Rucker;
Garvia Bailey, host. 235 Queens Quay W. 416-
973-4000. $15.
• 8:00: Mississauga Festival Choir. Festival
of Friends. Annual massed choir concert in support
of local charities. Eden United Church,
3051 Battleford Rd., Meadowvale. 905-826-
2831. $20. Proceeds to Eden Community Food
Bank and The Compass.
• 8:00: Music Gallery. Emergents III: Maylee
Todd & Jesse Futerman. Singer-songwriter and
electric jazz artist. 197 John St. 416-204-1080.
$10.
• 8:00: Oakville Symphony Orchestra.
Mozart and Dvořák. Mozart: Piano Concerto
No.21; Dvořák: American Suite Op.98. Robert
De Clara, conductor; guest: Angela Park, piano.
Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts, 130
Navy St., Oakville. 905-815-2021 or 1-888-
489-7784. $51; $46(sr); $26(st). Also Feb
3(mat).
• 8:00: Royal Conservatory. Meow Meow.
Performance art and cabaret. Koerner Hall, 273
Bloor St. W. 416-408-0208. $28-$67.50.
• 8:00: Tafelmusik. Vivaldi, Handel & Sandrine
Piau. See Feb 1.
• 8:00: Toy Piano Composers. Artistic
Differences. New works (world premieres
inspired by Canadian art) by C. Floisand, G.
James, M. Pearce, F. Ryan, C. Thornborrow
and P. Murray. Sharon Lee, violin; Katherine
Watson, flute; Anthony Thompson, clarinet;
Adam Scime, double bass; Daniel Morphy,
percussion; Wesley Shen, piano/toy piano.
Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave. 647-829-
4213. $15/$10(adv).
• 8:30: Hugh’s Room. Fathead. 2261 Dundas
St. W. 416-531-6604. $20/$18(adv).
Sunday February 03
• 1:15: Mooredale Concerts. Music &
Truffles: Dali String Quartet. Featuring El
Sistema graduates in a one-hour interactive program
for young people ages 6 to 15. Walter
Hall, Edward Johnson Bldg., 80 Queen’s Park.
416-922-3714 x103. $13. Includes chocolate
truffle.
• 2:00: Canadian Opera Company. La clemenza
di Tito. Mozart. Michael Schade, tenor
(Tito); Isabel Leonard, mezzo (Sesto); Keri
Alkema, soprano (Vitellia); Mireille Asselin, soprano
(Servilia); Wallis Giunta, mezzo (Annio);
Robert Gleadow, bass (Publio); Johannes Debus,
music director; Christopher Alden, stage director.
Four Seasons Centre for the Performing
Arts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. $12–
$325; $22(under 30). Also Feb 7, 9, 11, 13,
16(mat), 19, 22. Start times vary.
• 2:00: Oakville Symphony Orchestra.
Mozart and Dvořák. See Feb 2.
• 2:00: Shevchenko Musical Ensemble.
Annual Choral Concert. Contemporary and classical
arias, Ukrainian and Serbian folk songs.
Shevchenko Choir, Alexander Veprinsky, conductor;
guests: Kir Stefan and the Serb Choir,
Jasmina Vucurovic, conductor; Angelica Tubis,
piano; Veronika Anissimova, soprano. Columbus
Centre, 901 Lawrence Ave. W. 416-533-2725.
$25; $15(st/child).
• 2:00: St. Anne’s Music and Drama
Society. Gilbert & Sullivan: The Gondoliers.
See Feb 1.
• 2:00: Visual and Performing Arts
Newmarket. Young Artists Showcase. Jacob
Mannion, percussion; Stephanie Wilson,
vocals; Anthony Vandikas, piano; Cyprys Trio.
Newmarket Theatre, 505 Pickering Cres.,
Newmarket. 905-953-5122. $15; $10(st);
$40(family).
• 2:30: University of Toronto Faculty
of Music. University of Toronto Symphony
Orchestra & Choirs. Schubert: Symphony No.8
in b “Unfinished”; Brahms: Nänie; Beethoven:
Mass in C Op.86. MacMillan Singers; Women’s
Chamber Choir and Men’s Chorus; Cawthra
Park Secondary School Vocal Ensemble; Hilary
Apfelstadt, David Bowser and Ana Alvarez, conductors.
MacMillan Theatre, Edward Johnson
Bldg., 80 Queen’s Park. 416-408-0208. $20;
$15(sr); $10(st).
• 2:30: Voicebox – Opera in Concert.
Orlando. Opera by Handel. David Trudgen,
countertenor (Orlando); Virginia Hatfield, soprano
(Angelica); Scott Belluz, countertenor
(Medoro); Aradia Ensemble; Kevin Mallon, conductor.
Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence
Centre for the Arts, 27 Front St. E. 416-366-
7723. $52–$73.
• 3:00: Amici Chamber Ensemble. Silent Film
and Music. Live music to accompany Keaton’s
The Playhouse, Man Ray’s Emak-Bakia and
Maddin’s The Heart of the World; with works
by Milhaud, Poulenc, Stravinsky, Saint-
Saëns, Kradjian (also arr.) and others. David
Hetherington, cello; Joaquin Valdepeñas, clarinet;
Serouj Kradjian, piano; and others. TIFF Bell
LightBox, 350 King St. W. 416-901-6279. $45;
$40(sr); $10(st).
• 3:00: Music on Canvas. Zachary Ebin, violin;
Maria Dolnycky, piano. Works by Bach, Mozart,
Beethoven, C. Schumann and Kreisler. KUMF
Art Gallery, 2118-A Bloor St. W. 416-621-
9287. $20; $15(sr/st).
• 3:00: Royal York Road United Church.
Valerie Tryon, piano. Recital and dedication of
new concert grand piano. 851 Royal York Rd.
416-231-9401. Free.
• 3:00: Syrinx Concerts Toronto. Kai
Gleusteen, violin, and Catherine Ordronneau,
piano. Palej: Sonatina for violin and piano;
Beethoven: Sonata No.10 for violin and piano;
Shostakovich: Four Preludes Op.34; Prokofiev:
Sonata No.1 in f Op.80. Heliconian Hall, 35
Hazelton Ave. 416-654-0877. $25; $20(st).
• 3:15: Mooredale Concerts. Dali String
Quartet. Amaya: Angelica (mix of Latin
rhythms); Mendelssohn: String Quartet in E
Op.44 No.1; Villa-Lobos: String Quartet No.1;
Turina: La Oración del Torero Op.34; Gardel:
El dia que me quieras (The Day You Love Me
– tango); Almarán: La historia de un amor
(The Story of a Love – bolero); Valdes: Danzon
Almendra (Dance). Walter Hall, Edward Johnson
Bldg., 80 Queen’s Park. 416-922-3714 x103.
$30; $20(under 30).
• 3:30: Tafelmusik. Vivaldi, Handel & Sandrine
Piau. See Feb 1.
• 4:00: Cathedral Church of St. James.
Twilight Recital. David Briggs, organ. 65 Church
St. 416-364-7865 x231. Freewill offering.
• 4:00: Harbourfront Centre. Kuumba
Festival: Kuumba Gospel Lounge. Gospel choir,
choral groups and soloists. 235 Queens Quay
W. 416-973-4000. Free.
• 4:30: Saint Simon-the-Apostle. Pipe Organ
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Willan. Robin Davis, Maurice White and Johan
van’t Hof, organ. 525 Bloor St. E. 416-923-
8714. Free, with collection. 4:15 Pre-concert
instrument demonstration.
• 7:00: Acting Up Stage Company/Factory
Theatre. Do You Want What I Have Got? A
Craigslist Cantata. See Feb 1.
• 8:00: Corporation of Massey Hall and
Roy Thomson Hall/Attila Glatz Concert
Productions. The Black Watch and the Band
of the Scots Guards. Roy Thomson Hall, 60
Simcoe St. 416-872-4255. $49.50–$79.50.
• 8:00: New Music Concerts. Past, Present
and Future: Canadian Music Then and Now.
Centennial tribute to John Weinzweig.
Weinzweig: Interplay for piccolo tuba and piano
(1998); Schafer: Trio for Flute, Viola and Harp
(2011); Scime: In The Earth And Air for soprano
and mixed ensemble (2013, world premiere);
Cherney: Die klingende Zeit for mixed ensemble
(1993-94); Harman: En Masse for mixed ensemble
(2013, world premiere). Carla Huhtanen,
soprano; New Music Concerts Ensemble; Robert
Aitken, flute. Betty Oliphant Theatre, 404
Jarvis St. 416-961-9594. $35; $25(sr/arts
worker); $10(st).
• 8:00: Royal Conservatory/Alliance
Française de Toronto/Bureau du Québec.
Louis Lortie and Hélène Mercier, piano. Mozart:
Andante and Variations in G; Schubert: Fantasy
in f; Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole; Rachmaninoff:
Symphonic Dances; Liszt: Réminiscences de Don
Juan. Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor St. W. 416-408-
0208. $45-$90.
• 8:30: Hugh’s Room. Banjo Special. With
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Monday February 04
• 7:00: University of Toronto Faculty of
Music. Monday Evening Concerts: Berlin
Philharmonic Wind Quintet. Mozart: Three
Fantasies for mechanical organ (arr. Hasel);
Haas: Quintet Op.10; Ibert: Trois pieces brèves;
Milhaud: La Cheminée du roi René; Françaix:
Quintet No.1. Walter Hall, Edward Johnson
Bldg., 80 Queen’s Park. 416-408-0208. $35;
$25(sr); $10(st).
• 8:00: Musideum. Adrean Farrugia, piano,
and Jim Gelcer, drums and vocals. Jazz concert.
Suite 133 (main floor), 401 Richmond St. W.
416-599-7323. $20; $10(sr/st).
Tuesday February 05
• 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.
Piano Virtuoso Series: Variations on 1930.
Copland: Piano Variations; Britten: Three
Character Pieces; Kodály: Dances of
Marrosszék; Youmans: Tea for Two (Art Tatum
transcription); Cowell: Sinister Resonance.
Stephen B. Hargreaves, piano. 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. Simon Morley, organ. 65
Church St. 416-364-7865 x231. Freewill
offering.
• 7:30: University of Toronto Faculty of
Music. Small Jazz Ensembles. Upper Jazz
Studio, 90 Wellesley St. W. 416-408-0208.
Free.
• 7:30: University of Toronto Faculty of
Music. Student Composers Concert. Walter
Hall, Edward Johnson Bldg., 80 Queen’s Park.
416-408-0208. Free.
• 8:00: Acting Up Stage Company/Factory
Theatre. Do You Want What I Have Got? A
Craigslist Cantata. See Feb 1.
• 8:30: Hugh’s Room. Jane Harbury’s
Discoveries. Four emerging artists perform.
Renée Yoxon; The Schotts; others to be
announced. 2261 Dundas St. W. 416-531-
6604. $17; $15.
Wednesday February 06
• 12:30: Yorkminster Park Baptist Church.
Noonday Organ Recitals. Simon Walker, organ.
1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167. Free.
• 7:30: Canadian Opera Company. La
clemenza di Tito: COC Ensemble Studio
Performance. Christopher Enns, tenor (Tito);
Owen McCausland, tenor (Tito); Ambur Braid,
soprano (Vitellia); Rihab Chaieb, mezzo (Sesto);
Sasha Djihanian, soprano (Annio); Claire de
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Sévigné, soprano (Servillia); Neil Craighead,
bass-baritone (Publio); Johannes Debus, music
director; Christopher Alden, stage director. Four
Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145
Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. $25–$55.
• 8:00: Acting Up Stage Company/Factory
Theatre. Do You Want What I Have Got? A
Craigslist Cantata. See Feb 1. SOLD OUT.
• 8:30: Richard Flohil Presents. The 24th
Street Wailers. Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas St.
W. 416-531-6604. $18.50/$16(adv).
Thursday February 07
• 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.
Piano Virtuoso Series: Painting with Sound.
Liszt: Harmonies du soir; Nuages gris; En Rêve;
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition. Rudin
Lengo, piano. 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 Series. Shannon Graham, saxophone;
Jeanie Chung, piano. Christ Church Deer Park,
1570 Yonge St. 416-241-1298. Free, donations
welcome
• 12:10: University of Toronto Faculty of
Music. Thursdays at Noon: Music for Violin and
Piano. Janáček: Violin Sonata; Bartók: Second
Rhapsody; Daniel: Metsa Maasikad. Erika
Raum, violin; Lydia Wong, piano. Walter Hall,
Edward Johnson Bldg., 80 Queen’s Park. 416-
408-0208. Free.
• 12:15: Music at Metropolitan. Noon at
Met. John Paul Farahat, organ. Metropolitan
United Church, 56 Queen St. E. 416-363-0331
x26. Free.
• 3:00: York University Department of
Music. CageSpace. Multi-disciplinary celebration
of John Cage’s 100th birthday. Casey
Sokol, director. Various rooms at the Accolade
East Bldg., 4700 Keele St. 416-736-2100
x22926. Free.
• 7:30: Canadian Opera Company. La clemenza
di Tito. See Feb 3.
• 8:00: Acting Up Stage Company/Factory
Theatre. Do You Want What I Have Got? A
Craigslist Cantata. See Feb 1. SOLD OUT.
• 8:00: Musideum. Vincent Bertucci, vocals,
and Robi Botos, piano. Suite 133 (main floor),
401 Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323. $20.
• 8:00: Scarborough Music Theatre.
Sweeney Todd. Music and lyrics by Sondheim;
book by Wheeler. Scarborough Village Theatre,
3600 Kingston Rd., Scarborough. 416-267-
9292. $25; $21(sr/st, Thurs and mat). Also
Feb 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23. Start
times vary.
• 8:00: Toronto Masque Theatre. Les Roses
de la Vie: A Parisian Soirée. Music by Marais,
Couperin, Chopin, Fauré, Debussy, Poulenc,
Aznavour and others. Colin Ainsworth, tenor;
Terri Dunn and Agnes Zsigovics, sopranos; Larry
Beckwith, violin and leader; guest: Giuseppe
Condello, corporeal mime. Enoch Turner
Schoolhouse, 106 Trinity St. 416-410-4561.
$40; $35(sr); $20(under 20). 7:15: Pre-concert
chat. Also Feb 8 and 9.
• 8:00: TorQ Percussion Quartet. Off the
Page. An evening of improvisation and spontaneous
music making. Gallery 345, 345 Sorauren
Ave. 416-788-8272. $20; $15(arts worker);
$10(st).
Friday February 08
• 1:10: Gordon Murray Presents. Piano
Potpourri. See Feb 1.
• 6:30: Canadian Opera Company. Tristan
und Isolde. See Feb 2.
• 7:30: Heliconian Choir and Orchestra. In
the Mood for Love. Gilbert and Sullivan: Three
Little Maids from School from the Mikado;
Bach: selected arias; Humperdinck: When at
Night I go to Sleep from Hansel and Gretel;
McHugh: I’m in the Mood for Love. Heliconian
Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave. 416-400-7844. $15.
• 7:30: Toronto Children’s Chorus/Canadian
Chamber Choir. United in Song! All-Canadian
program. Works by Enns, Hatfield, Lang,
Patriquin and Togni. Elise Bradley and Julia
Davids, conductors. Church of the Redeemer,
162 Bloor St. W. 416-932-8666 x231. $35;
$30(sr/st).
• 7:30: University of Toronto Faculty of
Music. Wind Ensemble. Marshall: L’homme
armé Variations; Mackey: Concerto for
Soprano Saxophone; and music by Grainger.
Evan Mounce, sax; Gillian MacKay, conductor.
MacMillan Theatre, Edward Johnson Bldg., 80
Queen’s Park. 416-408-0208. $20; $15(sr);
$10(st).
• 8:00: Acting Up Stage Company/Factory
Theatre. Do You Want What I Have Got? A
Craigslist Cantata. See Feb 1.
• 8:00: Caledon Chamber Concerts. The Da
Vinci Codex. Dances, fantasias and vocal works
from the time of Leonardo da Vinci. Toronto
Consort. St. James’ Anglican Church, 6029 Old
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Church Rd., Caledon East. 905-880-2445.
$30; $15(under 16). Reception to follow.
• 8:00: Church of St. Mary Magdalene.
Schola Magdalena Sings Medieval and Modern.
Works for women’s voices by von Bingen,
Pérotin and Duruflé; new works by M. Bunce,
E. Walker and S. Martin. Guest: Ben Grossman,
hurdy gurdy. 477 Manning Ave. 416-531-7955.
PWYC. Also Feb 7 (Waterloo).
• 8:00: Gallery 345. The Art of the Piano:
Ryan McCullough. Works by G. Benjamin, Vivier,
De Silva, Liberatore, J. Becka and Hétu. 345
Sorauren Ave. 416-822-9781. $20; $15(sr/arts
worker); $10(st).
• 8:00: Scarborough Music Theatre.
Sweeney Todd. See Feb 7.
• 8:00: Toronto Masque Theatre. Les Roses
de la Vie: A Parisian Soirée. See Feb 7.
• 8:00: Vic Chorus. Winter Concert. Taylor
Sullivan, director; guest: Michael Bridge, accordion.
Victoria College Chapel, 91 Charles St. W.
416-585-4521. Free.
• 8:00: Windmill Theatre. Celtic Harmony: A
Blend of Traditional Scottish and Irish Music.
Poor Angus, Vanessa Meli, Kim Sartor, Heather
Brissenden, Justin Bacchus, and others. The
Great Hall, Unitarian Congregation, 84 South
Service Rd., Mississauga. 905-338-5702.
$30. Also Feb 9.
Saturday February 09
• 2:00: Acting Up Stage Company/Factory
Theatre. Do You Want What I Have Got? A
Craigslist Cantata. Also 8:00. See Feb 1.
• 2:00: Sony Centre for the Performing
Arts. Bharati: The Wonder That Is India. Dance,
music, fashion and folk traditions of India. 1
Front St. E. 855-872-7669. $39-$99. Also 8:00
and Feb 10.
• 3:00: City of Toronto Historic Museums/
Neapolitan Connection. Solfeggio Series: Mi
– Agelos Trio. Briarly Room, Montgomery’s Inn,
4709 Dundas St. W. 1-877-700-3130 or 647-
955-2108. $22; $12.50(sr/st). 2:00: Free tour
of museum; refreshments included.
• 3:00: Toronto Mendelssohn Choir.
Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle. Lesley
Bouza, soprano; Jennifer Enns Modolo, mezzo;
Charles Davidson, tenor; Michael York, baritone;
Noel Edison, conductor; James Bourne,
piano; Stephen Fraser, organ. Yorkminster Park
Baptist Church, 1585 Yonge St. 416-598-0422.
$42-$65; $37-$60(sr); $20(under 30).
• 7:00: Acting Up Stage Company/Factory
Theatre. Do You Want What I Have Got? A
Craigslist Cantata. Also 2:30. See Feb 1.
• 7:30: Burlington Civic Chorale. Valentine
Cabaret of Song, Silent Auction & Desserts. St.
Christopher’s Anglican Church, 662 Guelph Line,
Burlington. 289-337-6777. $25/$20(adv).
• 7:30: Canadian Opera Company. La clemenza
di Tito. See Feb 3.
• 7:30: Life & Times at St. Andrew’s.
Mardi Gras Gospel Sing. Gospel hymns and
swing spirituals. Jordan Klapman All-Star
Swing Band; Ken Whiteley, guitar and vocals;
Alana Bridgewater and Ciceal Levy, vocals.
St. Andrew’s Church, 73 Simcoe St. 416-593-
5600 x231. $20; $10(st).
• 7:30: Music On The Donway. Hamilton All
Star Vocal Jazz in Concert. Chris McLaughlin,
conductor. Donway Covenant United Church,
230 The Donway W. 416-444-8444. $20;
$12(st/under 12).
• 7:30: Reaching Out Through Music/St.
Clement’s Outreach Committee. Benefit
Concert in Support of Children’s Music
Programs. Mary Lou Fallis, soprano; Peter
Tiefenbach, piano; Thomas Fitches, organ; Teng
Li, viola; Patricia Parr, piano; Jean Stilwell,
mezzo. St. Clement’s Church, 70 St. Clement’s
Ave. 416-923-8714 x205. $40; $30(sr);
$10(st); $100(patron). 6:45: Silent auction.
• 7:30: Rosedale Presbyterian Church.
Rosedale Song and Music Series: A Circle of
Song – Mirth, Magic and Moonlight. Works by
Schumann, Britten, Purcell, Lehár and others.
Gillian Keith, soprano; Keith Weber, piano. 129
Mount Pleasant Rd. 416-921-1931. $20.
• 7:30: Toronto Welsh Male Voice Choir.
Benefit Concert in Support of Prostate Cancer
Canada. Trinity-St. Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor St.
W. 416-922-8437. $25.
• 7:30: Velvet Curtain. Dido and Aeneas.
Lawrence Park Community Church, 2180
Bayview Ave. 647-774-6552. $25/$20(adv).
Also Feb 12 and 16.
• 8:00: Academy Concert Series. Bach’s
Blessings. Bach: selection of cantata arias and
chamber works. Cantatas; and other works.
Nathalie Paulin, soprano; Emily Eng, violin; Kerri
McGonigle, cello; Lysiane Boulva, harpsichord.
Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth Ave.
416-629-3716. $20; $14(sr/st).
• 8:00: Acting Up Stage Company/Factory
Theatre. Do You Want What I Have Got? A
Craigslist Cantata. Also 2:00. See Feb 1.
• 8:00: Gallery 345. Cybernetic Orchestra
Album Release. Music created by computer laptops,
electronics and tabla. Shawn Mativetsky,
tabla; Trio Extramuros. 345 Sorauren Ave.
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416-822-9781. $20; $15(sr/arts worker);
$10(st).
• 8:00: group of twenty-seven/Larkin
Singers. Testimony & Reason. Haydn:
Theresienmesse; Oesterle: Unreasonable World;
Schubert: Mass in G. Etsuko Kimura, violin;
Jennifer Taverner, soprano; Anita Krause,
mezzo; Jean-Philippe Fortier-Lazure, tenor;
Justin Welsh, baritone; Paula Aciniega, artist;
Eric Paetkau and Matthew Larkin, conductors.
A. Concerts in the gTA
Church of the Holy Trinity, 10 Trinity Sq. 1-800-
838-3006. $30; $25(sr); $15(youth/30 and
under).
• 8:00: Mississauga Symphony Orchestra.
The Profound Logic. Mozart: Overture to Cosi
fan tutte; Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.4 in G;
Sibelius: Symphony No.5 in E-flat. Kati Gleiser,
piano; guest: Denis Mastromonaco, conductor.
Hammerson Hall, Living Arts Centre, 4141
Living Arts Dr., Mississauga. 905-306-6000.
$48–62; $43.20–$55.80(sr); $30(ages 16-26);
$20(ages 15 and under); $80(family pass).
7:15: Pre-concert chat.
• 8:00: Scaramella. Hartes Ease. Elizabethan
and Stuart viol consort repertoire. Marie Dalby
Szuts, Elin Söderström, Liam Byrne, Joëlle
Morton, violas da gamba. Victoria College
Chapel, 91 Charles St. W. 416-760-8610. $30;
$25(sr); $20(st).
• 8:00: Scarborough Music Theatre.
Sweeney Todd. See Feb 7.
• 8:00: Sony Centre for the Performing
Arts. Bharati: The Wonder That Is India. Music
and songs of Indian Cinema. 1 Front St. E.
1-855-872-7669. $39–$99. Also Feb 10(mat).
• 8:00: Sony Centre for the Performing
Arts. Bharati: The Wonder That Is India. See
2:00.
• 8:00: Toronto Masque Theatre. Les Roses
de la Vie: A Parisian Soirée. See Feb 7.
• 8:00: Windmill Theatre. Celtic Harmony: A
Blend of Traditional Scottish and Irish Music.
See Feb 8.
Sunday February 10
• 1:00: Musideum. A Winter Recital. Students
from the studio of jazz vocalist Lara Solnicki.
Suite 133 (main floor), 401 Richmond St. W.
416-599-7323. $10.
• 2:00: Scarborough Music Theatre.
Sweeney Todd. See Feb 7.
• 2:00: Sony Centre for the Performing Arts.
Bharati: The Wonder That Is India. See Feb 9.
• 2:00: Sony Centre for the Performing
Arts. Bharati: The Wonder That Is India. See
Feb 9.
• 2:00: Trio Bravo. In Concert. Fauré: Dolly
Suite (arr. Selleck, world premiere); Jacob:
Trio; Debussy: Golliwog’s Cakewalk; and other
works. Terry Storr, clarinet; Baird Knetchtel,
viola; John Selleck, piano. All Saints Kingsway
Anglican Church, 2850 Bloor St. W. 416-242-
2131. $20; $15(sr/st).
• 2:30: Acting Up Stage Company/Factory
Theatre. Do You Want What I Have Got? A
Craigslist Cantata. Also 7:00. See Feb 1.
• 3:00: Gallery 345. The Thin Edge New
Music Collective: Keys, Winds and Strings.
Works by Pidgorna, Katzer, de dios Magdaleno,
Rojko, Hosokawa and Moroz. 345 Sorauren
Ave. 416-822-9781. $20; $15(sr/arts worker);
$10(st)
Sunday
February 10, 2013
8 pm
Jump Start
The Citadel
304 Parliament Street
($30/20/10)
• 3:00: Hannaford Street Silver Band.
Tongues of Fire. Hatzis: Tongues of Fire;
Teehan: Wildfire; Ellerby: Canticle of the Sun;
Graham: Windows of the World. Guests: James
Gourlay, conductor; Beverley Johnston, percussion.
Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence
Centre for the Arts, 27 Front St. E. 416-366-
7723 or 1-800-708-6754. $44.25; $39.82(sr);
$14.16(st).
• 3:00: Musideum. Poli’s Salon. Paul Hoffert,
piano; guest to be announced. Suite 133 (main
floor), 401 Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323.
$20.
• 3:00: University of Toronto Faculty
of Music. Choirs in Concert: In High Voice.
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater; and other international
works. U of T Women’s Chorus, Ana Alvarez,
conductor; High Park Choirs, Zimfira Poloz, conductor.
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church,
73 Simcoe St. 416-408-0208. Admission by
donation.
• 4:00: Cathedral Church of St. James.
Twilight Recital. Simon Morley, organ. 65
Church St. 416-364-7865 x231. Freewill
offering.
• 4:00: Georgetown Bach Chorale. Winter
Moods. Chamber works by Debussy, Chopin
Composers: Rose Bolton (CA)
Daniel Mayer (AT)
Scott Smallwood (US/CA)
Andrew Staniland (CA)
Scott Wilson (CA)
In collaboration with NAISA
(New Adventures in Sound Art)
416 924 4945 continuummusic.org
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and Prokofiev. Mary-Katherine Finch, cello; Ron
Greidanus, piano. House concert, 157 Main St.
S., Georgetown. 905-877-6569 or 905-873-
0352. $45(in advance only).
• 4:00: St. Jude’s Celebration of the Arts/
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra. Baroque
London. Program explores the music of King’s
Royal Haymarket Orchestra; conceived and
narrated by R.H. Thomson. Works by Handel,
Galliard, Quantz, Sammartini, Bononcini and
Pepusch. St. Jude’s Church, 160 William St.,
Oakville. 905-844-3973. $30.
• 4:00: St. Philip’s Anglican Church.
Dixieland Vespers. Bob DeAngelis Band. 25 St.
Phillips Rd., Etobicoke. 416-247-5181. Freewill
offering.
• 4:30: Christ Church Deer Park. Jazz
Vespers: Remembering George Shearing. Don
Thompson, piano; Neil Swainson, bass. 1570
Yonge St. 416-920-5211 x22. Free, donations
welcome.
• 7:00: Toronto Downtown Jazz Special
Projects. Jaron Freeman-Fox & the Opposite
of Everything CD Release. Jaron-Freeman Fox,
violin and compositions; guests: Frank Evans,
banjo; Kevin Breit, guitar; David Travers-Smith,
trumpet; Christine Duncan, vocals. Lula Lounge,
1585 Dundas St. W. 416-588-0307. $15;
$10(st).
• 7:30: University of Toronto Faculty of
Music. Opera Tea: Von Flotow’s Martha.
Russell Braun, conductor. MacMillan Theatre,
Edward Johnson Bldg., 80 Queen’s Park. 416-
408-0208. $30.
• 8:00: Continuum Contemporary Music/
New Adventures in Sound Art. Jump Start.
Bolton:Transported; Mayer: Lokale Orbits Trio
No.1; Smallwood: Four Toilers; Staniland:
Talking Down the Tiger; Wilson: Ember.
Continuum Ensemble; guest: Andrew Staniland,
electronics. Citadel, 304 Parliament St. 416-
924-4945. $30; $20(sr/arts worker); $10(st).
• 8:00: Flato Markam Theatre. Amjad Ali
Khan: Master of the Sarod. 171 Town Centre
Blvd., Markham. 905-305-7469. $49-$54.
Monday February 11
• 7:30: Canadian Opera Company. La clemenza
di Tito. See Feb 3.
Tuesday February 12
• 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.
Vocal Series: Love’s Dark Horse. Lieder by
Schubert and Strauss. Franz-Josef Selig, bass.
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, Four Seasons
Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St.
W. 416-363-8231. Free.
• 12:30: York University Department of
Music. Music at Midday: Student Showcase.
Young musicians perform original compositions.
Martin Family Lounge, 219 Accolade East Bldg.,
4700 Keele St., 416-736-2100 x22926. Free.
• 1:00: Cathedral Church of St. James.
Music at Midday. Simon Morley, organ. 65
Church St. 416-364-7865 x231. Freewill
offering.
• 6:00: Voicebox - Opera in Concert.
Alumni Bash. Isabel Bayrakdarian, soprano;
Ben Heppner, tenor; Richard Margison, tenor;
Jean Stilwell, mezzo; Stuart Hamilton, piano.
Champagne Ballroom, St. Lawrence Centre
for the Arts, 27 Front St. E. 416-366-7723 or
1-800-708-6754. $145.
• 7:30: Musicians in Ordinary. Hail Bishop
Valentine. Medieval love songs to celebrate the
400th anniversary of the wedding of Princess
Elizabeth of Great Britain to Frederick, Elector
Palatine; also a reading of John Donne’s
great Epithamalion. Hallie Fishel, soprano;
John Edwards, lute; David Klausner, reader.
Charbonnel Lounge, University of St. Michael’s
College, 81 St. Mary St. 416-535-9956. $25;
$20(sr/st).
• 7:30: University of Toronto Faculty of
Music. Small Jazz Ensembles. Upper Jazz
Studio, 90 Wellesley St. W. 416-408-0208.
Free.
• 7:30: Velvet Curtain. Dido and Aeneas.
See Feb 9.
• 8:00: Acting Up Stage Company/Factory
Theatre. Do You Want What I Have Got? A
Craigslist Cantata. See Feb 1.
• 8:00: Music Toronto. Piano Series: Gabriela
Montero, piano. Brahms: Three Intermezzos
Op.117; Schumann: Fantasie in C Op.17;
Montero: improvisations. Jane Mallett Theatre,
St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, 27 Front St.
E. 416-366-7723 or 1-800-708-6754. $50-
$55; $10(st, accompanying adult half price);
pay-your-age(ages 18-35, plus $6 facility and
handling charges and HST).
• 8:00: MOLE Productions. Heart Strings: The
Musical. Written by R. Nathaniel; music by C.
Pike and H. Dean. Comedy-drama. Annex Live,
296 Brunswick Ave. 416-668-5329. $25–$39;
20(rush); $15(sr/st). Also Feb 13–16.
Wednesday February 13
• 12:30: Yorkminster Park Baptist Church.
Noonday Organ Recitals. Conrad Gold, organ.
1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167. Free.
• 7:30: Canadian Opera Company. La clemenza
di Tito. See Feb 3.
• 7:30: Toronto Opera Repertoire. Tales
of Hoffman. Offenbach. Bickford Centre, 777
Bloor St. W. 416-978-8849. $28; $20(sr);
$15(st). Also Feb 16, 22, 24(mat), 27, Mar 2.
• 8:00: Acting Up Stage Company/Factory
Theatre. Do You Want What I Have Got? A
Craigslist Cantata. See Feb 1.
• 8:00: Corporation of Massey Hall and
Roy Thomson Hall. Canadian Songbook: Mo
Kenney. Rivoli, 334 Queen St. W. 416-872-
4255. $19.50.
The Musicians In Ordinary for the Lutes and Voices
7:30PM, February 12th 2013 | Charbonnel Lounge, St. Michael's College, 81 St. Mary St.
~ Hail Bishop Valentine! ~
Jacobean Love Songs for the Wedding of Princess Elizabeth Stuart
Hallie Fishel, soprano, John Edwards, lute with David Klausner reading John Donne
8PM, March 2nd 2013 | Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Avenue
~ You Who Hear in these Scattered Rhymes ~
Settings of the great Italian poets:
Petrarch, Tasso, Marino, Guarini by Monteverdi, Caccini and others
Hallie Fishel, soprano, John Edwards, lute and theorbo
Single tickets $25 / $20 Students & Seniors
• 8:00: MOLE Productions. Heart Strings: The
Musical. See Feb 12.
• 8:00: Spectrum Music/Al Green Theatre.
Love, Loneliness, and the Spaces Between.
Prose and poetry set to music by Spectrum
composers. Spectrum house band; Jessica
Stuart, vocals. 750 Spadina Ave. 416-924-
6211 x133. $15; $10(sr/st).
• 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Beethoven Symphony 9. Morawetz: Sinfonietta
for Strings; Beethoven: Symphony No.9
“Choral”. Erin Wall, soprano; Allyson McHardy,
mezzo; Joseph Kaiser, tenor; Shenyang, bassbaritone;
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir; Matthew
Halls, conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe
St. 416-593-4828 or 416-593-0688(Chinese).
$29-$145. Also Feb 15, 16.
Thursday February 14
• 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.
Vocal Series: Vive l’amour. Romantic arias
and ensembles. Singers from the young artist
programs of the Canadian Opera Company
and Opéra de Montréal. Richard Bradshaw
Amphitheatre, Four Seasons Centre for the
Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-363-
8231. Free.
• 12:00 noon: Jubilee United Church. Music
at Midday. Guest: Thomas Schadl, organ. 40
Underhill Dr. 416-447-6846. Free.
• 12:15: Music at Metropolitan. Noon at
Met. Patricia Wright, organ. Metropolitan United
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Church, 56 Queen St. E. 416-363-0331 x26.
Free.
• 12:30: Nine Sparrows/Christ Church
Deer Park. Lunchtime Chamber Music Series:
San Agustin Duo. Emma Banfield, violin; Diana
Dumlavwalla, piano. Christ Church Deer Park,
1570 Yonge St. 416-241-1298. Free, donations
welcome.
• 12:30: York University Department of
Music. Jazz at Noon. Rita di Ghent Quartet.
Martin Family Lounge, 219 Accolade East Bldg.,
4700 Keele St., 416-736-2100 x22926. Free.
Women’s Musical Club of Toronto
Music in the Afternoon
Thursday
February 14, 1.30 p.m.
Kerry
Stratton
Kerry
Stratton
THE DUKE
PIANO TRIO
www.wmct.on.ca
• 1:30: Women’s Musical Club of Toronto.
The Duke Piano Trio. Works by Haydn,
Babajanian, Schoenfield and Mendelssohn. Mark
Fewer, violin; Thomas Wiebe, cello; and Peter
Longworth, piano. Walter Hall, Edward Johnson
Bldg., 80 Queen’s Park. 416-923-7052. $45.
• 6:30: Canadian Opera Company. Tristan
und Isolde. See Feb 2.
• 8:00: Acting Up Stage Company/Factory
Theatre. Do You Want What I Have Got? A
Craigslist Cantata. See Feb 1.
• 8:00: Gallery 345. Tradition and Innovation.
Focus on composers of the Austrian New
Traditionalist School. Works by Carasthatis,
Hertel, Kreuz, Naether, Rapoport, Track
and Zemlinsky. Elena Denisova, violin;
Alexei Kornienko, piano. 345 Sorauren Ave.
416-822-9781. $12; $10(sr/arts worker/
st/underemployed); $15(couples of all
descriptions).
• 8:00: Hart House Orchestra. Violins and
Valentine’s Day: A Perfect Match. Schumann:
Second Symphony; Beethoven: King Stephen
Overture; Copland: Clarinet Concerto. Phil Lam,
A. Concerts in the gTA
conductor Kerry Stratton
LOVE NOTES
clarinet; Henry Janzen, conductor. Great Hall,
Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-
2452. Free. Also Feb 16 (Kingston).
• 8:00: LUSH Cello Quartet. An Evening with
LUSH Cello Quartet. Love-themed songs and
classical works. Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton
Ave. 416-469-5077. $20.
• 8:00: MOLE Productions. Heart Strings: The
Musical. See Feb 12.
• 8:00: Musideum. Sojay. Funk and neosoul
singer-songwriter. Suite 133 (main floor),
401 Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323. $20;
$20/$15(adv).
• 8:00: Scarborough Music Theatre.
Sweeney Todd. See Feb 7.
• 8:00: Toronto Concert Orchestra. Love
Notes. Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto; Saint
Saëns: Suite in D; Gray: Introduction and
Autumn Prelude. Christoph Seybold, violin; Kerry
Stratton, conductor. Glenn Gould Studio, 250
Front St. W. 416-872-4255. $40; $20(sr/st).
Friday February 15
• 1:10: Gordon Murray Presents. Piano
Potpourri. See Feb 1.
• 7:00 to 1:00 am: Association of Artists for
a Better World. Winterfolk XI Blues & Roots
Festival. An all-ages, free urban roots and blues
festival, featuring over 200 artists; also includes
workshops. Delta Chelsea Hotel (Monarchs
Pub, Market Garden Stage, Mount Batten
Room, Listening Room), 33 Gerrard St., W. 416-
595-1975. Free; some ticketed events in the
Listening Room. Festival runs Feb 15-17.
• 7:30: Brampton Folk Club. Friday Folk
Night: The Guitar Special. Jason Fowler, Donne
Roberts and Christine Bougie, guitars. St. Paul’s
United Church, 30 Main St. S., Brampton. 647-
233-3655. $12; $10(sr/st).
• 7:30: Janusz Bosak Presents. Magical
Evening. Works by Wieniawski, Karlowicz,
Mozart, Verdi, R. Strauss, Kreisler and Puccini.
Janusz Bosak, piano; Joanna Makowicz, violin;
Marta Greda-Kicek, soprano; Alyssa Curto, soprano;
Joshua Oliver, baritone; Michal Kozlowski,
narrator. The Great Hall, 84 South Service
Rd., Missisauga. 905-629-2347 or 905-277-
5171. $25.
• 7:30: Toronto Opera Repertoire. The
Barber of Seville. Rossini. Bickford Centre,
777 Bloor St. W. 416-978-8849. $28; $20(sr);
$15(st). Also Feb 17(mat), 20, 23, Mar 1,
3(mat).
• 8:00: Acting Up Stage Company/Factory
Theatre. Do You Want What I Have Got? A
Craigslist Cantata. See Feb 1.
• 8:00: Arraymusic. Three New Sides to a
Square. Jan-Bas Bollen: Square Time; and new
works by Butterfield, Foley and Storring. New
Array Space, 155 Walnut Ave. 416-532-3019.
$25. 7:15: Pre-concert talk.
a Valentine’s Day Concert Christoph Seybold, Violin
Tschaikovsky Violin Concerto, Works by Saint Saens and John Gray
February 14, 2013 8:00 pm at Glenn Gould Studio
First 100 tickets’ buyers get free Beethoven CD
BUY TICKETS NOW – AmazingConcert.com – (416)872-4255
• 8:00: DanceWorks. HomoBLABLAtus.
Music by C. Plante and J. Sanchez. Performed
by La Otra Orilla: Myrian Allard and Aurelie
Brunelle, dancers; Hedi “El Moro” Graja, vocals;
Miguel Medina, percussion. Enwave Theatre,
Harbourfront Centre, 207 Queen’s Quay W.
416-973-4000. $19.50-$34. Also Feb 16.
• 8:00: MOLE Productions. Heart Strings: The
Musical. See Feb 12.
• 8:00: Musideum. Kobe Aquaa-Harrison: The
Golden Tale of Jungle Bouti. Concert of African
music. Suite 133 (main floor), 401 Richmond St.
W. 416-599-7323. $20.
• 8:00: Royal Conservatory. Royal
Conservatory Orchestra with Johannes
Debus. Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks
HWV351; Mahler: Symphony No.1 in D. Koerner
Hall, 273 Bloor St. W. 416-408-0208. $25
and up.
• 8:00: Scarborough Music Theatre.
Sweeney Todd. See Feb 7.
• 8:00: Toronto Consort. The Loves of Apollo
and Daphne. Opera-in-concert performance of
Cavalli’s second opera. Katherine Hill, soprano
(Daphne); Michele DeBoer, soprano (Aurora);
Laura Pudwell, mezzo (Venus); Charles Daniels,
tenor (Apollo). Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre, 427
Aster’s Music House Peterson Family Charitable Foundation
Bloor St. W. 416-964-6337. $25-59; $20-
$52(sr). Also Feb 16.
• 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Beethoven Symphony 9. See Feb 13.
• 8:30: Palais Royale/Glenn Chipkar. The
Valentine’s Big Band Dance. Classics by Frank
Sinatra, Bobby Darrin, Peggy Lee, Glenn Miller,
Nelson Riddle and others. Swing Shift Big
Band Orchestra; Theresa and Ralph Yuan, DJs;
guests: Larisa Renee and Dave Statham, vocals.
1601 Lake Shore Blvd. W. 1-888-222-6608
and 416-533-3553 x22. $50; $100(VIP). 6:30:
VIP dinner.
Saturday February 16
• 1:00 pm to 1:30 am: Association of Artists
for a Better World. Winterfolk XI Blues &
Roots Festival. An all-ages, free urban roots
and blues festival, featuring over 200 artists;
also includes workshops. Delta Chelsea Hotel
(Monarchs Pub, Market Garden Stage, Mount
Batten Room, Listening Room), 33 Gerrard St.,
W. 416-595-1975. Free; some ticketed events
in the Listening Room. Festival runs Feb 15-17.
• 4:30: Canadian Opera Company. La clemenza
di Tito. See Feb 3.
• 7:30: Tapestry Opera. The Tapestry
Songbook. Selection of contemporary vocal
music. Carla Huhtanen, soprano. Ernest Balmer
Studio, 9 Trinity St., Studio 315. 416-537-
6066 x243. $29.
• 7:30: Toronto Opera Repertoire. Tales of
Hoffman. See Feb 13.
• 7:30: Velvet Curtain. Dido and Aeneas.
See Feb 9.
• 8:00: Acoustic Harvest. Aengus Finnan.
Canadian folk music. St. Nicholas Anglican
Church, 1512 Kingston Rd. 416-264-2235.
$22; $20(sr).
• 8:00: Acting Up Stage Company/Factory
Theatre. Do You Want What I Have Got? A
Craigslist Cantata. See Feb 1.
• 8:00: Canadian Sinfonietta. Chinese
New Year Concert. E. Ross: Northern Lights,
Eastern Fire (one act chamber opera; P. Tsang,
libretto; world premiere); and traditional Chinese
selections. Xin Wang and Charlene Santoni, sopranos;
Anna Guo, yang qin, with the Dunhuang
Chinese Instrument Ensemble. Glenn Gould
Studio, 250 Front St. W. 416-872-4255. $35;
$30(sr); $20(st).
• 8:00: DanceWorks. HomoBLABLAtus. See
Saturday February 16, 8pm
CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION
A Chamber Opera (World Premiere)
Music by Erik Ross/Libretto by Phoebe Tsang
Xin Wang & Charlene Santoni, Sopranos
Eric Ross, Music Director and Repetiteur
D. Jeremy Smith, Director and Designer
Additional Chinese pieces
performed by Anna Guo
& the Dunhuang Chamber Ensemble
Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St. W.
Tickets: $35, $30, $20 416-872-4255
roythomson.com/eventdetail/1209
canadiansinfonietta.com
Costume design: D. Jeremy Smith
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Feb 15.
• 8:00: Gallery 345. In the Current: Mike
Downes’ 11-piece jazz orchestra. Kelly
Jefferson, saxes; Colleen Allen and Shirantha
Beddage, saxes and woodwinds; Jon Challoner,
trumpet; James MacDonald, French horn;
Jay Burr, tuba; Mike Downes, bass and compositions;
and others. 345 Sorauren Ave.
416-822-9781. $20; $15(sr); $10(st).
• 8:00: Kindred Spirits Orchestra.
Beethoven, Schumann, Mendelssohn.
Beethoven: Overture to Fidelio Op.72c;
Schumann: Piano Concerto Op.54;
Mendelssohn: Symphony No.3 Op.56
“Scottish.” Maxim Bernard, piano; Kristian
Alexander, conductor; Alexa Petrenko, host.
Flato Markham Theatre, 171 Town Centre
Blvd., Markham. 905-305-7469. $32; $22(sr/
st/child). 7:15: Pre-concert chat.
• 8:00: MOLE Productions. Heart Strings: The
Musical. See Feb 12.
• 8:00: Music Gallery. Post-Classical Series:
West of 123: NuBC Collective. Zupko: Fallen for
cello and piano; D. Chang: five for solo piano;
Cherney: 22 Arguments for the Suspension of
Disbelief; Mellits: 11 pieces for flute and piano;
Radford: Le Tissu des suspendus. 197 John St.
416-204-1080. $25/$20(adv).
• 8:00: Musideum. naw. Electronic music concert.
Suite 133 (main floor), 401 Richmond St.
W. 416-599-7323. $10.
• 8:00: Scarborough Music Theatre.
Sweeney Todd. See Feb 7.
• 8:00: Toronto Consort. The Loves of Apollo
and Daphne. See Feb 15.
• 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Beethoven Symphony 9. See Feb 13.
• 8:00: York Symphony Orchestra. Romantic
Legends. Tchaikovsky: Polonaise from Eugene
Onegin; Romeo and Juliet Overture; Capriccio
Italien; Chopin: Piano Concerto No.1. Su Jeon,
piano; guest: Janez Govednik, conductor. Trinity
Anglican Church, 79 Victoria St., Aurora. 416-
410-0860. $28; $23(sr); $15(st). Also Feb 17
(Richmond Hill).
Sunday February 17
• 1:00 pm to 11:00 pm: Association of
Artists for a Better World. Winterfolk XI
Blues & Roots Festival. An all-ages, free urban
roots and blues festival, featuring over 200 artists;
also includes workshops. Delta Chelsea
Hotel (Monarchs Pub, Market Garden Stage,
Mount Batten Room, Listening Room), 33
Gerrard St., W. 416-595-1975. Free; some
ticketed events in the Listening Room. Festival
runs Feb 15-17.
• 2:00: Canadian Opera Company. Tristan
und Isolde. See Feb 2.
• 2:00: Scarborough Music Theatre.
Sweeney Todd. See Feb 7.
• 2:00: Toronto Opera Repertoire. The
Barber of Seville. See Feb 15.
• 2:30: Acting Up Stage Company/Factory
Theatre. Do You Want What I Have Got? A
Craigslist Cantata. Also 7:00. See Feb 1.
• 3:00: Musideum. Poli’s Salon. Paul Hoffert,
piano; guest to be announced. Suite 133 (main
floor), 401 Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323.
$20.
• 4:00: Cathedral Church of St. James.
Twilight Recital. Simon Morley, organ. 65
Church St. 416-364-7865 x231. Freewill
offering.
• 4:00: St. Olave’s Church. City Flutes in
Winter. Choral Evensong for First Sunday in
Lent followed by refreshments and concert of
classical, contemporary works for flute by J.
Hook and de Boismortier. St. Olave’s Choir; Tim
Showalter, organ; City Flutes, Lana Chou Hoyt,
Sun. 17th Feb. at 4 p.m.
Choral Evensong
for First Sunday in Lent
followed by refreshments…and at 5:
city flutes
Add a touch of shimmer
to your winter afternoon
with glorious works for flute by
English composer and organist
James Hook (1746-1827);
and French baroque composer
(of instrumental music, cantatas,
opera-ballets and vocal music)
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
(1689-1755), all directed by
Lana Chou Hoyt
St. Olave’s Church
Bloor and Windermere
416-769-5686
stolaves.ca
conductor. 360 Windermere Ave. 416-769-
5686. Contributions appreciated.
• 5:00: Claire Riley and Jazz-Tonic Trio.
Jazz Vespers. Valentine’s concert. Claire Riley,
voice; Boris Treivus, piano; David Thiessen,
bass; Augusto Santana, drums. St. Luke’s
United Church, 353 Sherbourne St. 416-879-
8126 or 416-924-9619. PWYC. Proceeds to St.
Luke’s United Church ministry.
• 7:00: Acting Up Stage Company/Factory
Theatre. Do You Want What I Have Got? A
Craigslist Cantata. Also 2:30. See Feb 1.
• 7:30: York Symphony Orchestra. Romantic
Legends. Tchaikovsky: Polonaise from Eugene
Onegin; Romeo and Juliet Overture; Capriccio
Italien; Chopin: Piano Concerto No.1. Su Jeon,
piano; guest: Janez Govednik, conductor.
Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts,
10268 Yonge St., Richmond Hill. 905-787-
8811. $30; $25(sr); $15(st). Also Feb 16
(Aurora).
• 8:00: Musideum. Ros Kindler. Ros Kindler,
jazz vocals; Mark Kieswetter, piano; Ross
MacIntyre, bass. Suite 133 (main floor), 401
Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323. $15.
Monday February 18
• 1:00: Harbourfront Centre. Music with Bite:
Fiestango. Children’s concert. Brigantine Room,
235 Queen’s Quay W. 416-973-4000. Free.
French show at 3:00.
• 3:00: Harbourfront Centre. Music with Bite:
Fiestango. Children’s concert. Brigantine Room,
235 Queen’s Quay W. 416-973-4000. Free.
English show at 1:00.
Tuesday February 19
• 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.
Dance Series: MotionMusic. Works by Scriabin,
Cage and Barker. John Kameel Farah, piano;
dancers of the Peggy Baker Dance Projects;
Peggy Baker, choreographer. 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. Simon Morley, organ. 65
Church St. 416-364-7865 x231. Freewill
offering.
• 7:30: Canadian Opera Company. La clemenza
di Tito. See Feb 3.
• 8:00: Acting Up Stage Company/Factory
Theatre. Do You Want What I Have Got? A
Craigslist Cantata. See Feb 1.
• 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Love
Will Keep Us Together. Songs by Porter, Berlin,
Mancini and others. Betsy Wolfe, soprano; Mike
Eldred, tenor; Steven Reineke, conductor. Roy
Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-593-4828 or
416-593-0688(Chinese). $29-$110. Also Feb
20(mat and eve).
Wednesday February 20
• 12:30: Yorkminster Park Baptist Church.
Noonday Organ Recitals. John Paul Farahat,
organ. 1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167. Free.
• 2:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Love
Will Keep Us Together. Also 8:00. See Feb 19.
• 6:30: Canadian Opera Company. Tristan
und Isolde. See Feb 2.
• 7:00: Civic Light Opera Company. A Day in
Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine – The MGM
Revue. Music from Hollywood’s Golden Era.
Joe Cascone; David Haines; Carol Kugler; Peter
Loucas; Elizabeth Rose Morriss; Susan Sanders.
York Woods Library Theatre, 1785 Finch Ave.
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W. 416-755-1717. $28. Also Feb 21-24, 27,
28, Mar 1, 2; start times vary. SOLD OUT.
• 7:30: Toronto Opera Repertoire. The
Barber of Seville. See Feb 15.
• 8:00: Acting Up Stage Company/Factory
Theatre. Do You Want What I Have Got? A
Craigslist Cantata. See Feb 1.
• 8:00: Jorge Miguel Flamenco/Lula Arts
Centre. Una Vez, Cada Mes. Original, traditional
and contemporary flamenco music and
dance. Jorge Miguel, flamenco guitar. Lula
Lounge, 1585 Dundas St. W. 416-588-0307.
$10; free(child).
• 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Love
Will Keep Us Together. Also 2:00. See Feb 19.
Thursday February 21
• 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.
Vocal Music Series: Of Love and Longing: Songs
of Richard Strauss. COC Ensemble Studio artists
perform Strauss arias and songs.
• 12:15: Music at Metropolitan. Noon at
Met. Andrew Adair, organ. Metropolitan United
Church, 56 Queen St. E. 416-363-0331 x26.
Free.
• 12:30: Nine Sparrows/Christ Church Deer
Park. Lunchtime Chamber Music Series: Rising
Stars Concert. Performance students from the
University of Toronto Faculty of Music. Christ
Church Deer Park, 1570 Yonge St. 416-241-
1298. Free, donations welcome.
• 7:00: Syrinx Concerts Toronto. Fundraising
Gala: Dave Young Trio & the Music of Oscar
Peterson. Robi Botos, piano; Dave Young,
bass; Terry Clarke, drums. Heliconian Hall, 35
Hazelton Ave. 416-654-0877. $60. Includes
silent auction, reception and wine bar.
• 8:00: Acting Up Stage Company/Factory
Theatre. Do You Want What I Have Got? A
Craigslist Cantata. See Feb 1.
• 8:00: Civic Light Opera Company. A Day in
Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine – The MGM
Revue. See Feb 20.
• 8:00: Corporation of Massey Hall and Roy
Thomson Hall. Diana Krall: Glad Rag Doll Tour.
Massey Hall, 178 Victoria St. 416-872-4255.
$75–$130. Also Feb 22.
• 8:00: Joe Nadurata and Linda Shumas
Present. Duo: Mechant. Works by Bach,
Beethoven, Rachmaninoff and Coulthard. Joe
A. Concerts in the gTA
Nadurata, viola; Linda Shumas, piano. St.
Patrick’s Church, 131 McCaul St. 416-465-
4455. $15.
• 8:00: Music Gallery/Barbara Lindenberg.
Another Thousand Mountains. Music and dance
collaboration, performed by Jennifer Helland,
• 8:00: Scarborough Music Theatre.
Sweeney Todd. See Feb 7.
• 8:00: Tafelmusik. Mozart Requiem. Mozart:
Requiem; Ave verum corpus; and selection of
17th and 18th century motets. Nathalie Paulin,
soprano; Laura Pudwell, mezzo; Lawrence
Wiliford, tenor; Nathaniel Watson, baritone;
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Choir, Ivars
Taurins, conductor. Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor St.
W. 416-408-0208. $45-$99; $35-$89(sr); $25-
$89(35 and under). Also Feb 22, 23, 24(mat).
Friday February 22
• 1:10: Gordon Murray Presents. Piano
Potpourri. See Feb 1.
• 7:30: Alliance Française de Toronto.
Jazzmen sans frontiers. Eric St. Laurent, guitars;
Michel DeQuevedo, percussion. 24 Spadina
Rd. 416-922-2014 x35. $15; $10(sr/st/child).
• 7:30: Canadian Opera Company. La clemenza
di Tito. See Feb 3.
• 7:30: Toronto Opera Repertoire. Tales of
Hoffman. See Feb 13.
• 8:00: Acting Up Stage Company/Factory
Theatre. Do You Want What I Have Got? A
Craigslist Cantata. See Feb 1.
• 8:00: Art of Time Ensemble. Gabriel
Prokofiev: From Chamber to Electronica. Works
by G. Prokofiev, Bryars and J. Goldsmith.
Andrew Burashko, piano; Benjamin Bowman,
violin; Robert Carli, saxophone and clarinet;
Steven Dann, viola; Gabriel Prokofiev, DJ/turntable;
and others. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens
Quay W. 416-973-4000. $25-$59. Also Feb 23.
• 8:00: Civic Light Opera Company. A Day in
Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine – The MGM
Revue. See Feb 20.
• 8:00: Corporation of Massey Hall and Roy
Thomson Hall. Diana Krall: Glad Rag Doll Tour.
See Feb 21.
• 8:00: Corporation of Massey Hall and
Roy Thomson Hall. Gabriela Martinez, piano.
Works by Beethoven, Liszt, Rachmaninoff and
Szymanowski. Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front
St. W. 416-872-4255. $29.50-$39.50.
• 8:00: Corporation of Massey Hall and Roy
Thomson Hall. Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Roy
Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-872-4255.
$39.50-$69.50.
• 8:00: Etobicoke Philharmonic Orchestra.
Oscar Winners: Music from the Movies.
Selections from The King’s Speech, The
Magnificent Seven, Pirates of the Caribbean,
The Mission and others. Sabatino Vacca, conductor.
Martingrove Collegiate, 50 Winterton
Dr., Etobicoke. 416-239-5665. $25; $20(sr);
$10(st). 7:40: Pre-concert chat.
• 8:00: Gallery 345. Ton Beau String
Quartet. Mendelssohn: String Quartet Op.13
in a; Janáček: String Quartet No.1 “Kreutzer
Sonata”; Dvořák: Piano Quintet in A. Emily Rho,
piano. 345 Sorauren Ave. 416-822-9781. $20;
$15(sr); $10(st).
• 8:00: Heliconian Club. Devotion and
Seduction. Music that speaks of love. Janet
Catherine Dea, soprano; Joyce Lai, violin;
Jacqueline Leung, piano; Andrew Ogilvie, violin;
Ian Clarke, viola; Helena Likwornik, cello. 35
Hazelton Ave. 416-922-3618. $25; $20(sr/st).
• 8:00: Living Arts Centre. Liberty Silver. RBC
Theatre, Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living Arts
Dr., Mississauga. 905-306-6000. $28-$45.
• 8:00: Milton Concert Presentations. An
Esteemed Friend Returns. Brott Music Festival
Orchestra; Valerie Tyron, piano; Boris Brott,
conductor. Milton Centre for the Arts, 1010
Main St. E., Milton. 905-878-6000. $40;
$35(sr).
• 8:00: Music Gallery/Barbara Lindenberg.
See Feb 21.
• 8:00: Musideum. Don Naduriak. Solo jazz
piano. Suite 133 (main floor), 401 Richmond St.
W. 416-599-7323. $20.
• 8:00: Scarborough Music Theatre.
Sweeney Todd. See Feb 7.
• 8:00: Sine Nomine. Musica Yspanica:
Spanish music of pilgrimage and praise. A selection
from the vocal and instumental repertoire of
medieval Spain. St. Thomas’ Anglican Church,
383 Huron St. 416-638-9445. $20; $14(sr/st).
• 8:00: Tafelmusik. Mozart Requiem. See
Feb 21.
• 8:00: Via Salzburg. The Breath of Live.
Mozart: String Quintet in g K516; Ho: Fair
Maiden from a Distant Land; Vaughan
Williams: Phantasy Quintet. Mayumi Seiler, violin
and leader. Rosedale United Church, 159
Roxborough Dr. 416-972-9193. $40; $25(under
30); $10(st).
Saturday February 23
• 1:30: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Family Concert: Pictures at an Exhibition.
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (arr.
Ravel). Matthew Romain, puppeteer; Shalom
Bard, conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe
St. 416-593-4828 or 416-593-0688(Chinese).
$20-$32. Also at 3:30.
• 2:00: Acting Up Stage Company/Factory
Theatre. Do You Want What I Have Got? A
Craigslist Cantata. Also 8:00. See Feb 1.
• 2:00: Scarborough Music Theatre.
Sweeney Todd. See Feb 7.
• 3:30: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Family Concert: Pictures at an Exhibition. See
1:30.
• 4:00: Toronto Children’s Chorus. Dance
All Around the World. Songs and dances
from around the world. Judith Bean, Carole
Anderson, Elise Bradley, Matthew Otto
and Xavier Brossard-Ménard, conductors.
Yorkminster Park Baptist Church, 1585 Yonge
St. 416-932-8666 x231. $25; $20(sr/st)
$10(under 12).
• 6:30: Canadian Opera Company. Tristan
und Isolde. See Feb 2.
• 7:00: Toronto Sinfonietta. Salute to the
Rising Stars. Gala concert of winners and finalists
of TS Concerto Competition for Young
Musicians. Matthew Jaskiewicz, conductor.
Centre for the Arts, St. Michael’s College
School, 1515 Bathurst St. 416-488-8057. $28;
$18(st).
• 7:30: ArtHouse. Festival Series: Pianist
Annie Zhou and Cellist Daniel Hass in Concert.
Queen Elizabeth Park Cultural Centre, 2302
Bridge Rd., Oakville. 905-467-8551. $25.
• 7:30: Jubilate Singers/Proyecto Altiplano.
Vida, amor y muerte. Music from Latin America,
featuring the poetry of Violeta Parra. Advis:
Canto para una semilla; and other works. Isabel
Bernaus and Claudio Saldivia, conductors. Grace
Church on-the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale Rd. 416-485-
1988. $20; $15(sr); $10(st).
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• 7:30: Mariposa In The Schools/Echo
Women’s Choir. Songs and Stories to Lift your
Spirit and warm your Heart: Benefit Concert.
Songs, stories and music from India, Jamaica,
Canada and elsewhere. See listings section D,
“The ETCeteras,” under Galas & Fundraisers.
• 7:30: Mississauga Choral Society Chorus/
Mississauga Children’s Choir. Wish Upon a
Star. Popular and inspirational music and dance.
Guest: Paula Griffith, voice. Living Arts Centre,
4141 Living Arts Dr., Mississauga. 905-306-
6000. $22-$35; $10(under 18).
• 7:30: Music at Islington. Oscar Goes to
Church: Hymns on the Red Carpet. Celebrating
hymns that have appeared in Oscar-winning
films, with video clips and commentary. John
Derksen, organ; Ted Wilson, commentator.
25 Burnhamthorpe Rd. 416-239-1131. $20;
$10(st); free(under 12). Food bank donations
welcome.
• 7:30: Scarborough Bluffs United Church.
Stars of Tomorrow. Voice, piano and violin students
from the Royal Conservatory’s Young
Artists Performance Academy. 3739 Kingston
Rd., Scarborough. 416-267-8265. $15;
free(under 12). Proceeds to Scarborough Bluffs
Music, a community music school for kids.
• 7:30: Toronto Opera Repertoire. The
Barber of Seville. See Feb 15.
• 8:00: Acting Up Stage Company/Factory
Theatre. Do You Want What I Have Got? A
Craigslist Cantata. Also 2:00. See Feb 1.
• 8:00: Art of Time Ensemble. Gabriel
Prokofiev: From Chamber to Electronica. See
Feb 22.
• 8:00: City of Brampton Concert Band. A
World of Music. Musical journey of distinctive
styles from around the globe in celebration
of retiring music director Darryl Eaton and new
music director Vince Gassi. Guests: Brampton
Youth Concert Band; Con Brio Singers; Will
Snodgrass Percussion Ensemble. Rose Theatre,
1 Theatre Ln., Brampton. 905-874-2800. $25;
$20(sr/st); $15(under 12).
• 8:00: Civic Light Opera Company. A Day
in Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine – The
MGM Revue.
• 8:00: Jazz Performance and Education
Centre (JPEC). Fourth Annual Jazz Gala:
Celebrating Black History Month. Joe Sealy’s
Africville Stories: Joe Sealy, piano; Jackie
Richardson, vocals and narration; Paul Novotny,
bass; Mike Murley, sax; also a salute to
Motown with Soul Stew: Roberto Occhipinti,
bass, Michael Dunston and Alana Bridgewater,
vocals, John Johnson, sax, and others. George
Weston Recital Hall, Toronto Centre for the
Arts, 5040 Yonge St. 1-855-985-2787.
$100(includes pre-concert reception); $250(VIP
with pre and post-concert reception); $20(st
with ID).
• 8:00: Music Gallery. Emergents IV: Shannon
Graham and the Storytellers + Wesley Shen &
Michael Macaulay. Fusco: Sonata for Bassoon;
Southam: Glass Houses; Françaix: Deux Pièces;
S. Graham: original compositions. 197 John St.
416-204-1080. $10/$5(adv).
• 8:00: Musideum. Lagoon Music: Seprewa
African Guitar-Harp Musical Instrument
Launch. Fundraiser. Suite 133 (main floor), 401
Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323. By donation.
• 8:00: Royal Conservatory. Bluebird North.
Pop and folk. Blair Packham, host. Conservatory
Theatre, 273 Bloor St. W. 416-408-0208. $25.
• 8:00: Scarborough Philharmonic
Orchestra. Warm Sounds for a Winter’s Eve.
Works for wind ensemble. Rossini: Overture to
L’Italiana in Algeri; Gounod: Petite Symphonie;
Mozart: Serenade in E-flat K375; Grey: new
work. David McCartney, piano; St. Paul’s
L’Amoreaux Wind Ensemble; Ronald Royer, conductor.
St. Paul’s L’Amoreaux Anglican Church,
3333 Finch Ave. E. 416-429-0007. $30;
$25(sr); $15(st). 7:15: Pre-concert chat.
• 8:00: Sony Centre for the Performing
Arts. Celtic Woman: 2013 North American
Tour. Chloe Agnew, Lisa Lambe, Susan
McFadden, and Máiréad Nesbitt. 1 Front St.
E. 1-855-872-7669. $52.35-$138.10. Also
Feb 24.
• 8:00: Tafelmusik. Mozart Requiem. See
Feb 21.
• 8:30: Cameron House Records/Regent
Park School of Music. Deeply Rooted Concert
Series. Whitney Rose, singer-songwriter; Kayla
Howran, vocals. Back room, Cameron House,
408 Queen St. W. 416-703-0811. Free, donations
to RPSM welcome. All proceeds to RPSM.
• 9:00: Batuki Music Society. Tribute to
Miriam Makeba Featuring Lorraine Klaasen.
Celebration of Black History Month. Lorraine
Klaasen, voice; Assane Seck, guitar; Sebastian
Andrew Whiteman, bass; Moise Yawo, percussion.
Ada Slaight Hall, Daniels Spectrum: a
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cultural hub in Regent Park, 585 Dundas St. E.
416-948-4132. $25/$20(adv).
Sunday February 24
• 2:00: Civic Light Opera Company. A Day in
Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine – The MGM
Revue. See Feb 20. SOLD OUT.
• 2:00: Corporation of Massey Hall and
Roy Thomson Hall. Canadian Voices. David
Pomeroy, tenor. Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front
St. W. 416-872-4255. $29.50-$49.50.
• 2:00: Royal Conservatory. Mazzoleni
Masters: An Afternoon of Brass. Recital including
sonatas, trios and brass ensemble pieces.
Christopher Gongos, horn; Andrew McCandless,
trumpet; Gordon Wolfe, trombone; and Glenn
Gould School students; guest: Vanessa Lee,
piano. Mazzoleni Concert Hall, 273 Bloor St. W.
416-408-0208. $32.
• 2:00: Toronto Opera Repertoire. Tales of
Hoffman. See Feb 13.
• 2:30: Acting Up Stage Company/Factory
Theatre. Do You Want What I Have Got? A
Craigslist Cantata. Also 7:00. See Feb 1.
• 2:30: Toronto Early Music Centre.
Musically Speaking Series. Sacred motets by
Grandi, Cavalli, Sances and others. Bud Roach,
A. Concerts in the gTA
tenor; guests: Sara-Anne Churchill, organ, Justin
Haynes, viola da gamba. St. David’s Anglican
Church, 49 Donlands Ave. 416-464-7610.
PWYC.
• 3:00: Gallery 345. Jackson-de Margerie
Duo. Works by Mendelssohn, Handel, Piazzolla,
Stravinsky, Douglas and others. Fraser Jackson,
bassoon, Monique de Margerie, piano; guest:
Yao Guang Zhai, clarinet. 345 Sorauren Ave.
416-822-9781. $20; $15(sr); $10(st).
• 3:00: Mooredale Youth Orchestras.
Mooredale Youth Orchestras Play Mozart
and Handel. Mozart: Symphony No.36 in C
K425 ”Linz”; Kontretanz in G; Handel: Gavotte
from Il Pastor Fido; Masque Suite for Strings.
Senior Orchestra and Junior Orchestra, William
Rowson, conductor; Intermediate Orchestra,
Clare Carberry, conductor. Laidlaw Auditorium,
Upper Canada College, 200 Lonsdale Rd. 416-
922-3714 x103. $15; $10(sr/st).
• 3:00: Musideum. Alain Klingler. Chanson.
Suite 133 (main floor), 401 Richmond St. W.
416-599-7323. $25. Also 8:00.
• 3:00: Orchestra Toronto. Pathos and
Power. Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No.1; Burge: The
Canadian Shield; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.4.
Danielle Lisboa, conductor. Toronto Centre for
the Arts, 5040 Yonge S. 416-467-7142. $39;
$34(sr); $14(under 18). 2:15: Pre-concert talk.
• 3:00: Sony Centre for the Performing
Arts. Celtic Woman: 2013 North American
Tour. See Feb 23.
• 3:30: Tafelmusik. Mozart Requiem. See
Feb 21.
• 4:00: Cathedral Church of St. James.
Twilight Recital. Simon Morley, organ. 65
Church St. 416-364-7865 x231. Freewill
offering.
• 4:00: St. Philip’s Anglican Church. Jazz
Vespers. Carol McCartney Quartet. 25 St.
Phillips Rd., Etobicoke. 416-247-5181. Freewill
offering.
• 4:00: Vivace Vox/Toronto Singing
Studio. Sondheim! Sondheim! Selections from
Company, Into the Woods, Follies, Sweeney
Todd and more. Linda Eyman, conductor. Trinity
St. Paul’s United Church, 427 Bloor St. W. 416-
455-9238. $15; $10(sr/st).
• 4:30: Christ Church Deer Park. Jazz
Vespers: Barry Elmes Quartet. Perry White,
saxophone; Reg Schwager, guitar; Steve
Wallace, bass; Barry Elmes, drums. 1570
Yonge St. 416-920-5211 x22. Free, donations
welcome.
• 5:00: Nocturnes in the City. Anna Betka,
Piano. Works by Beethoven, Bach, Schumann,
Prokofiev and Smetana. St. Wenceslaus Church,
496 Gladstone Ave. 416-789-5677. $25;
$15(st).
• 7:00: Acting Up Stage Company/Factory
Theatre. Do You Want What I Have Got? A
Craigslist Cantata. Also 2:30. See Feb 1.
• 8:00: Musideum. Alain Klingler. Chanson.
Suite 133 (main floor), 401 Richmond St. W.
416-599-7323. $25. Also 3:00.
Monday February 25
• 12:30: York University Department of
Music. Music at Midday: Classical Instrumental
Recital. Featuring student soloists. Tribute
Communities Recital Hall, 112 Accolade East
Bldg., 4700 Keele St., 416-736-2100 x22926.
Free.
• 7:00: University of Toronto Faculty
of Music. Monday Evening Concerts: Fête
Galante. French songs and short piano works
by Debussy, Fauré, Poulenc and Satie. Lorna
MacDonald, soprano; Henri-Paul Sicsic, piano.
Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Bldg., 80 Queen’s
Park. 416-408-0208. $35; $25(sr); $10(st).
• 7:30: Associates of the Toronto
Symphony Orchestra. Five Small Concerts:
Splendid Moldists Through the Ages. Mozart:
Flute Quartet No.1 in D K285; Britten: Phantasy
Quartet in F for Oboe and String Trio Op.2;
Puccini: Crisantemi Elegy for String Quartet;
Holst: Fugal Concerto for Flute Oboe and Strings
Op.40 No.2 H152; Borodin: String Quartet No.2
in D. Hyung-Sun Paik and Sarah Boyer, violin;
Kent Teeple, viola; William Findlay, cello; Julie
Ranti, flute; Keith Atkinson, oboe. Trinity-St.
Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St. W. 416-282-6636.
$20; $17(sr/st).
• 8:00: Music Gallery/the artists. An Evening
with Veda Hille: CD launch of “Peter Panties.”
Veda Hille, singer-songwriter; Barry Mirochnik,
drums; and others. Music Gallery, 197 John St.
416-204-1080. $20.
Tuesday February 26
• 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.
Piano Virtuoso Series: Reflections. Beethoven:
Sonata No.31 in A-flat Op.110 (first movement);
Chopin: Ballade No.3 in A-flat Op.47;
Ravel: Miroirs; Rachmaninoff: Études-Tableaux
Op.39 No. 5. Connie Kim-Sheng, piano. Richard
Bradshaw Amphitheatre, Four Seasons Centre
for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-
363-8231. Free.
• 12:30: York University Department of
Music. Music at Midday: New Music by Young
Composers. Original compositions by students
from the studios of Mike Cadó. Tribute
Communities Recital Hall, 112 Accolade East
Bldg., 4700 Keele St., 416-736-2100 x22926.
Free.
• 1:00: Cathedral Church of St. James.
Music at Midday. Simon Morley, organ. 65
Church St. 416-364-7865 x231. Freewill
offering.
• 8:00: Acting Up Stage Company/Factory
Theatre. Do You Want What I Have Got? A
Craigslist Cantata. See Feb 1.
• 8:00: Flato Markam Theatre. Amazing
Grace: Nathaniel Dett Chorale and Elmer Iseler
Singers. Celebration of North American spirituals.
171 Town Centre Blvd., Markham.
905-305-7469. $49-$54.
• 8:00: Gallery 345. Canadian Contemporary
Music Workshop. Premieres for saxophone and
electronics by Canadian composers; also works
by Staniland and Leblanc. Wallace Halladay,
saxophones. 345 Sorauren Ave. 416-822-9781.
$20; $15(sr); $10(st).
Wednesday February 27
• 12:30: Yorkminster Park Baptist Church.
Noonday Organ Recitals. Andrew Adair, organ.
1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167. Free.
• 2:00: Civic Light Opera Company. A Day in
Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine – The MGM
Revue. Also at 8:00. See Feb 20.
• 5:30: Canadian Opera Company. Jazz
Series: Contemporary Conversations. Original
compositions and jazz standards. Nancy Walker,
piano; Kirk MacDonald, saxophone. Richard
Bradshaw Amphitheatre, Four Seasons Centre
for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-
363-8231. Free.
• 7:30: Junction Trio. Post-Industrial
Wednesdays: Post-Industrial Dvořák! St. Anne’s
Church, 270 Gladstone Ave. 416-993-5883.
By donation.
• 7:30: Toronto Opera Repertoire. Tales of
Hoffman. See Feb 13.
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• 8:00: Acting Up Stage Company/Factory
Theatre. Do You Want What I Have Got? A
Craigslist Cantata. See Feb 1.
• 8:00: Civic Light Opera Company. A Day in
Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine – The MGM
Revue. Also at 2:00. See Feb 20.
• 8:00: Corporation of Massey Hall and Roy
Thomson Hall. Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
Schubert: Symphony No.6; Widmann: Lied; R.
Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel. Roy Thomson Hall, 60
Simcoe St. 416-872-4255. $39.50-$189.50.
• 8:00: Koffler Centre of the Arts/Ashkenaz
Post-Industrial Dvořák!
The
Junction
Trio
Foundation. Simja Dujov & Friends. Fusion of
Latin rhythms with electro-Klezmer, Balkan,
Gypsy-punk and other genres. Simja Dujov,
vocals/multi instruments/compositions; Chris
Weatherstone, saxophone; Jessica Hana
Deutsch, violin; Demetri Petsalakis, guitar/
strings; Max Senitt, drums; Sam McLellan, bass.
Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas St. W. 416-588-
0307. $15/$12(adv).
• 8:00: Rose Theatre Brampton. Ladysmith
Black Mambazo. South African gospel music.
1 Theatre Ln., Brampton. 905-874-2800.
Wednesday, February 27
730pm
St. Anne's Anglican Church
270 Gladstone Avenue
By Donation / Free Parking / All-ages Event
More Info: thejunctiontrio.webs.com
$54-$64.
Thursday February 28
• 9:00 am to 4:30: MusicFest Canada.
Ontario Christian MusicFest. Performances, educational
clinics and workshops held throughout
the day. Featuring concert bands, jazz ensembles,
vocal groups, praise teams and others.
Durham Christian Academy, 2038 Nash Rd.,
Courtice. 905-718-8123. Free. Also Mar 1.
• 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.
Piano Virtuoso Series: Shades of Chopin.
Chopin: Sonata No.3 in b Op.58; and other
works. Justin Min, piano. Richard Bradshaw
Amphitheatre, Four Seasons Centre for the
Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-363-
8231. Free.
• 12:10: University of Toronto Faculty
of Music. Thursdays at Noon: Spotlight on
Opera. Preview of Opera Division’s production
of Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, with
excerpts performed by the cast. Walter Hall,
Edward Johnson Bldg., 80 Queen’s Park. 416-
408-0208. Free.
• 12:15: Music at Metropolitan. Noon at
Met. Taylor Sullivan, organ. Metropolitan United
Church, 56 Queen St. E. 416-363-0331 x26.
Free.
• 12:30: Nine Sparrows/Christ Church Deer
Park. Lunchtime Chamber Music Series. Sophie
Baird-Daniel, harp; Rebecca MacLeod, violin.
Christ Church Deer Park, 1570 Yonge St. 416-
241-1298. Free, donations welcome.
• 12:30: York University Department of
Music. World at Noon. Jeng Yi, Korean percussion
and dance; guest: Joo Jyumg Kim,
kayagum . Martin Family Lounge, 219 Accolade
East Bldg., 4700 Keele St., 416-736-2100
e
Opera Merry
Franz Lehár’s
York
Widow
presents
With orchestra, chorus and supertitles
Geo rey Butler, Artistic Director
x22926. Free.
• 7:00: MusicFest Canada. Ontario Christian
MusicFest: Evening Concert/Drum Clinic.
Eastview (Dave Espeut, vocals/keyboard/
sax; Sam Campbell, guitar/synth/vocals; John
Wakaluk, bass/vocals; Dennis Ullman, drums/
percussion); guest: Chester Thompson, drums.
Durham Christian Academy, 2038 Nash Rd.,
Courtice. 905-718-8123. Free.
• 7:30: York University Department of
Music. Faculty Concert Series: Barry Elmes.
Barry Elmes, drums; Kevin Turcotte, trumpet
and flugelhorn; Mike Murley, sax; Reg
Schwager, guitar; Steve Wallace, bass. Tribute
Communities Recital Hall, 112 Accolade East
Bldg., 4700 Keele St., 416-736-2100 x22926.
$15; $5(st).
• 8:00: Acting Up Stage Company/Factory
Theatre. Do You Want What I Have Got? A
Craigslist Cantata. See Feb 1.
• 8:00: Civic Light Opera Company. A Day in
Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine – The MGM
Revue. See Feb 20.
• 8:00: Music Toronto. Quartet Series: Fauré
Piano Quartett. R. Strauss: Piano Quartet in c
Op.13; Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
(arr. for piano quartet). Dirk Mommertz, piano;
Erika Geldsetzer, violin; Sascha Froembling,
viola; Konstantin Heidrich, cello. Jane Mallett
Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, 27
Front St. E. 416-366-7723 or 1-800-708-6754.
$50-$55; $10(st, accompanying adult half
price); pay-your-age(ages 18-35, plus $6 facility
and handling charges and HST). See ad page 40.
• 8:00: Musideum. Sandra Taylor. Jazz and
new age music. Suite 133 (main floor), 401
Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323. $20.
• 8:00: Opera York. The Merry Widow.
ursday, February 28, 2013, 8:00 pm
Saturday, March 2, 2013, 8:00 pm
Tickets: $40 - $50 ~ Students: $25
Call 905.787. 8811 or visit http://rhcentre.ca
Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts
10268 Yonge Street, Richmond Hill, ON L4C 3B7
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Lehár. Main Stage, Richmond Centre for the
Performing Arts, 10268 Yonge St., Richmond
Hill. 905-787-8811. $40-$50; $25(st). Also
Mar 2.
• 8:00: Rose Theatre Brampton. Voca People.
A capella vocal group performing music from
Mozart to pop. 1 Theatre Ln., Brampton. 905-
874-2800. $59-$69. Also Mar 1.
Friday March 01
• 9:00 am to 3:30: MusicFest Canada.
A. Concerts in the gTA
Ontario Christian MusicFest. See Feb 28.
• 12:30: York University Department of
Music. Music at Midday: York University Brass
Ensemble. Tribute Communities Recital Hall,
112 Accolade East Bldg., 4700 Keele St., 416-
736-2100 x22926. Free.
• 2:00: Civic Light Opera Company. A Day in
Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine – The MGM
Revue. Also at 8:00. See Feb 20.
• 7:30: Toronto Opera Repertoire. The
Barber of Seville. See Feb 15.
• 8:00: Acting Up Stage Company/Factory
Theatre. Do You Want What I Have Got? A
Craigslist Cantata. See Feb 1.
• 8:00: Civic Light Opera Company. A Day in
Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine – The MGM
Revue. Also at 2:00. See Feb 20.
• 8:00: Flato Markam Theatre. Amazing
Grace: Nathaniel Dett Chorale and Elmer Iseler
Singers. Celebration of North American spirituals.
171 Town Centre Blvd., Markham.
905-305-7469. $49-$54.
• 8:00: Gallery 345. Pas de Deux. Music
exploring dance, rhythm and movement. Works
by Bartók, Kapustin, Piazzolla, Poulenc and
Stravinsky. Kathleen Long, cello; H.W. Cecilia
Lee, piano. 345 Sorauren Ave. 416-822-9781.
$20; $15(sr); $10(st).
• 8:00: Fridays @ 8/Greater Toronto
Philharmonic Orchestra. Spring Pops. Palmer:
Sketches for Spring; Bédard: Organ Concerto;
Baker: Harp Concerto. Mark Toews, organ;
Andrew Chan, harp; John Palmer, conductor.
Lawrence Park Community Church, 2180
Bayview Ave. 647-478-6122. $25; $20(sr/st).
• 8:00: Musideum. A Tribute to Don Ho.
Laurence Tan, tenor; Ray Hanson, tenor;
Michael Berkovsky, piano; Anjelica Scannura,
dancer. Suite 133 (main floor), 401 Richmond
St. W. 416-599-7323. $20(includes champagne
and mai-tais).
• 8:00: Rose Theatre Brampton. Voca People.
See Feb 28.
• 8:00: Royal Conservatory. Amici Chamber
Ensemble with Isabel Bayrakdarian. Beethoven:
Septet for Strings and Woodwinds in E-flat
Op.20; Chausson: Chanson Perpétuelle Op.37;
Poulenc: Le bal masqué; Montsalvatge:
Cinco canciones negras (arr. Kradjian). Serouj
Kradjian, piano; David Hetherington, cello;
Joaquin Valdepeñas, clarinet; guests: Isabel
Bayrakdarian, soprano; Jonathan Crow, violin;
Beverly Johnston, percussion; and members of
the Glenn Gould School faculty. Koerner Hall,
273 Bloor St. W. 416-408-0208. $40 and up.
Saturday March 02
• 2:00: Flato Markam Theatre. Voca People.
A capella vocal group performing music from
Mozart to pop. 171 Town Centre Blvd.,
Markham. 905-305-7469. $49-$54. Also at
7:00.
• 7:00: Flato Markam Theatre. Voca People.
See 2:00.
• 7:30: Cantemus Singers. The Virgin Queen.
Works by Tallis, Byrd, Mundy and Tomkins.
Church of the Holy Trinity, 10 Trinity Sq. 416-
578-6602. $20; $15(sr/st). Also Mar 3(mat, St.
Aidan’s Anglican Church).
• 7:30: Glebe Road United Church. The Three
Sopranos 2. Art songs and arias by Mozart,
Puccini, Fauré and Strauss. Alison Campbell,
Maria Case and Ann Sublett, sopranos. 20
Glebe Rd. E. 416-944-9260. PWYC. Fundraiser
for Glebe Road United Church.
• 7:30: Oakville Ensemble. Bach & Byrd.
Bach: Jesu, meine Freude BWV227; Byrd: Mass
for five voices. Grace Lutheran Church, 304
Spruce St., Oakville. 905-825-9740. $30;
$25(sr); $15(st). Also Mar 3(mat, Mary Mother
of God Church, Oakville).
• 7:30: Ron Klusmeier/Canadian Foodgrains
Bank. Tour of a Lifetime. Ron Klusmeier, piano,
plays and leads his own music, shares his stories
and performs folk songs of the 60s. Leaside
United Church, 822 Millwood Rd. 416-425-
1253. $20; $5(16 and under). 25% of proceeds
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to Canadian Foodgrains Bank.
• 7:30: Tallis Choir. Gesualdo: Murderer &
Musician. Gesualdo: Responses for Tenebrae;
Marenzio: Magnificat; Palestrina: Lamentations;
Gabrieli: O Quam Suavis; Dering: Factum Est
Silentium. Peter Mahon, conductor. St. Patrick’s
Church, 141 McCaul St. 416-286-9798. $30;
$25(sr); $10(st).
• 7:30: Toronto Opera Repertoire. Tales of
Hoffman. See Feb 13.
• 7:30: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
New Creations Festival: Arcadiac. Lizée:
Arcadian; Machover: Jeux Deux for HyperPiano
and Orchestra (Canadian premiere); Bates:
Alternative Energy (Canadian premiere).
Michael Chertock, hyperpiano; Mason Bates,
electronica; Carolyn Kuan, conductor; Peter
Oundjian, conductor and host. Roy Thomson
Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-593-4828 or
416-593-0688(Chinese). $29-$99.
• 7:30: York Chamber Ensemble. Fireworks.
Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks; Purcell:
Trumpet Sonata in D; Mozart: Symphony No.36
in C “Linz.” Robert Venables, trumpet; Tony
Browning, conductor. Trinity Anglican Church,
79 Victoria St., Aurora. 905-727-6101. $20;
$15(sr/st).
• 8:00: Acting Up Stage Company/Factory
Theatre. Do You Want What I Have Got? A
Craigslist Cantata. See Feb 1.
• 8:00: Bell’Arte Singers. 25th Anniversary
Concert: Memories and Reflections. Brenda
Uchimaru, conductor; guests: Lee Willingham,
founding artistic director; Gerard Yun, past artistic
director; Ben Bolden, alumnus Victor Mio,
alumnus; Ian Sadler, organ; massed choir with
alumni. St. Simon the Apostle Church, 525
Bloor St. E. 416-923-8714. $25; $20(st/st).
• 8:00: Counterpoint Community Orchestra.
Kiev to St. Petersburg. Rachmaninoff:
Symphony No.2; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5;
Violin Concerto in D. Erica Williamson, violin;
Terry Kowalczuk, conductor. Saint Luke’s
United Church, 353 Sherbourne St. 416-762-
9257. $20; $15(st).
• 8:00: Music Gallery. Joel Rubin: Uri Caine:
Klezmer’s Outer Limits and Inner Space. 197
John St. 416-204-1080. $30/$25(adv).
• 8:00: Musicians in Ordinary. You Who Hear
in These Scattered Rhymes. Italian baroque settings
of Italian renaissance poetry. Works by
Monteverdi, Caccini, d’India, Galilei and others.
Hallie Fishel, soprano; John Edwards, lute and
theorbo. Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave. 416-
535-9956. $25; $20(sr/st).
• 8:00: NYCO Symphony Orchestra. An
Evening of Mozart. Mozart: Overture to La
clemenza di Tito; Allegro from Divertimento
in D K136; Allegro from Serenade in c D388;
Symphony No.31 in D K297 “Paris”; and arias
and other vocal selections with winners of
2012 NYCO Mozart Vocal Competition. Kristin
Hoff, mezzo; Karianne Pasma, soprano; Geofrey
Sirett, baritone; David Bowser, conductor.
Centre for the Arts, St. Michael’s College
School, 1515 Bathurst St. 416-628-9195. $25;
$20(sr); $10(st).
• 8:00: Ontario Philharmonic. Masters
Series 2: Barber’s Adagio - Greatest Hits from
the 20th Century. Jenkins: Palladio; Barber:
Adagio for Strings; Copland: Hoe Down from
Rodeo; Clarinet Concerto; Prévost: Scherzo for
Orchestra; and other works. Guests: Kornel
Wolak, clarinet; Alessandro Crudele, conductor.
Regent Theatre, 50 King St. E., Oshawa. 905-
987-3083. $45-$56; $34-$45(st). Also Mar 3
(Port Perry).
• 8:00: Opera York. The Merry Widow. See
Mar 2.
• 8:00: Oriana Women’s Choir. Canada Sings:
A Celebration of Our Heritage. Folk music originating
from the founding cultures and languages
of Canada. Mitchell Pady, conductor. Grace
Church on-the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale Rd. 416-978-
8849. $25; $20(sr/under 30); $10(st).
• 8:00: Royal Conservatory. World Music
Series: Milton Nascimento. Koerner Hall, 273
Bloor St. W. 416-408-0208. $49 and up.
Sunday March 03
• 1:15: Mooredale Concerts. Music &
Truffles: Hung-Kuan Chen, piano. Interactive
concert for young people, ages 6 to 15. Walter
Hall, Edward Johnson Bldg., 80 Queen’s Park.
416-922-3714 x103. $13. Includes chocolate
truffle at end of concert.
• 2:00: Markham Concert Band. Stories
and Legends. Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf;
Copland: Lincoln Portrait; music from Disney’s
Fantasia. Doug Manning, conductor. Flato
Markham Theatre, 171 Town Centre Blvd.,
Markham. 905-305-7469. $22; $17(sr/st).
• 2:00: Toronto Opera Repertoire. The
Barber of Seville. See Feb 15.
• 2:00: Visual and Performing Arts
Newmarket. Bernadene Blaha and Kevin
MARKHAM CONCERT BAND
presents
featuring Disney’s Fantasia,
Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf,
Copland’s Lincoln Portrait
Sunday, March 3, 2pm
www.mcband.ca
Fitz-Gerald, piano duo. Works by Brahms,
Lutoslawski, Ravel and Grainger. Newmarket
Theatre, 505 Pickering Cres., Newmarket.
905-953-5122. $26; $20(sr); $10(st).
• 2:30: Acting Up Stage Company/Factory
Theatre. Do You Want What I Have Got? A
Craigslist Cantata. Also 7:00. See Feb 1.
• 2:30: Ontario Philharmonic. Masters
Series 2: Barber’s Adagio - Greatest Hits from
the 20th Century. Jenkins: Palladio; Barber:
Adagio for Strings; Copland: Hoe Down from
Rodeo; Clarinet Concerto; Prévost: Scherzo for
Orchestra; and other works. Guests: Kornel
Wolak, clarinet; Alessandro Crudele, conductor.
Town Hall 1873 Centre for the Performing Arts,
302 Queen St., Port Perry. 905-987-3083.
$39; $29(st). Also Mar 2 (Oshawa).
• 3:00: Cantemus Singers. The Virgin Queen.
Works by Tallis, Byrd, Mundy and Tomkins.
St. Aidan’s Anglican Church, 70 Silver Birch
Ave. 416-578-6602. $20; $15(sr/st). Also Mar
2(eve, Church of the Holy Trinity).
• 3:00: Gallery 345. The Art of the Piano:
Greg de Denus. Jazz piano works by Corea,
Ellington, Monk and original compositions. 345
Sorauren Ave. 416-822-9781. $20; $15(sr);
$10(st).
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• 3:00: Musideum. Poli’s Salon. Paul Hoffert,
piano; guest to be announced. Suite 133 (main
floor), 401 Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323.
$20.
A. Concerts in the gTA
• 3:00: Oakville Ensemble. Bach & Byrd.
Bach: Jesu, meine Freude BWV227; Byrd:
Mass for five voices. Mary Mother of God
Church, 2745 North Ridge Trail, Oakville.
905-825-9740. $30; $25(sr); $15(st). Also Mar
2(eve, Grace Lutheran Church, Oakville).
• 3:00: Royal Conservatory. Invesco Piano
Series: Jan Lisiecki, piano. Chopin: 12 Études
Op.10; 12 Études Op.25. Koerner Hall, 273
Bloor St. W. 416-408-0208. $25 and up.
• 3:00: Toronto Chamber Choir. Kaffeemusik:
Out of the Depths. Mark Vuorinen, conductor.
Church of the Redeemer, 162 Bloor St. W. 416-
763-1695. $30; $25(sr); $12.50(under 30).
Reception to follow.
• 3:00: Windermere String Quartet. The
Power of Five. Boccherini: Quintet Op.62
No.1; Onslow: Quintet Op.19; Mozart: Quintet
K593. Rona Goldensher and Elizabeth Loewen
Andrews, violin; Anthony Rapoport, viola; Laura
Jones, cello; guest: Emily Eng, viola. St. Olave’s
Anglican Church, 360 Windermere Ave. 416-
769-0952. $20; $14(sr/st).
• 3:15: Mooredale Concerts. Hung-Kuan
Chen, piano. Mozart: Suite in C KV399 (fragment);
A Little Gigue in G KV574; Schubert:
Sonata in c D958; Chopin: 24 Preludes Op.28.
Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Bldg., 80 Queen’s
Park. 416-922-3714 x103. $30; $20(under
30).
• 4:00: Cathedral Church of St. James.
Twilight Recital. David Briggs, organ. 65 Church
St. 416-364-7865 x231. Freewill offering.
• 4:00: Toronto Classical Singers. Rossini’s
Petite Messe Solenelle. Sheila Dietrich, soprano;
Leigh-Anne Martin, mezzo; Stephen McClare,
tenor; Peter McGillivray, baritone; Linda Roedl,
piano; Ian Grundy, organ; Jurgen Petrenko, conductor.
Christ Church Deer Park, 1570 Yonge
St. 416-443-1490. $30; $25(sr/st).
• 7:00: Acting Up Stage Company/Factory
Theatre. Do You Want What I Have Got? A
Craigslist Cantata. Also 2:30. See Feb 1.
• 7:30: Victoria Scholars Men’s Choral
Ensemble. The French Connection. French and
Canadian works. Caplet: Messe à trio voix;
Greer: Chante, voyageur, chante!; and works by
Debussy, Fauré, Poulenc and others. Our Lady
of Sorrows Church, 3055 Bloor St. W. 416-
231-6016. $25; $20(sr/st).
• 8:00: Georgetown Bach Chorale. Relics
of the Romantic Era. Works by Reger, Brahms,
Taverner and Chopin. Ron Greidanus, conductor;
guest: Matthew Pope, piano. Norval United
Church, 484 Guelph St., Norval. 905-877-
6569 or 905-873-0352. $30; $10(st).
• 8:00: Musideum. Conrad Gayle, piano. Jazz
and gospel concert. Suite 133 (main floor), 401
Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323. $20.
Monday March 04
• 12:30: York University Department of
Music. Music at Midday: Classical Instrumental
Recital. Featuring student soloists. Tribute
Communities Recital Hall, 112 Accolade East
Bldg., 4700 Keele St., 416-736-2100 x22926.
Free.
• 7:30: Associates of the Toronto
Symphony Orchestra. Five Small Concerts:
Ensembles from the Toronto Symphony Youth
Orchestra. Featuring works for string quartet,
string quintet, percussion ensemble and brass
ensemble. TSYO String Quartet; TSYO Clarinet
Quintet; TSYO percussion ensemble; and a brass
ensemble.Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor
St. W. 416-282-6636. $20; $17(sr/st).
• 8:00: Musideum. Reg Schwager, guitar, and
Jim Gelcer, drums and vocals. Jazz concert.
Suite 133 (main floor), 401 Richmond St. W.
416-599-7323. $20.
Tuesday March 05
• 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.
Dance Series: Tounkande. Ballet Creole. 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. Thomas van der Luit, organ.
65 Church St. 416-364-7865 x231. Freewill
offering.
• 7:30: Royal Conservatory. Mazzoleni
Masters: ARC Ensemble. Weinberg: Clarinet
Sonata Op.28; Laks: Piano Quintet on Popular
Polish Themes; Mendelssohn: Sonata movement
in d (arr. D. Louie); Ben-Haim: Piano Quartet in c.
Mazzoleni Concert Hall, 273 Bloor St. W. 416-
408-0208. $32.
• 8:00: Nathaniel Dett Chorale. Voices of
the Diaspora … I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes. Grace
Church on-the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale Rd. 416-340-
0550. $25.
• 8:00: Soundstreams. Fujii Percussion and
Voices. Ishii: Hiten Seido II; Sueyoshi: Mirage;
Miyoshi: Letters to God; Yamagara Diary;
Takemitsu: Seasons; Vivier: Pulau Dewata;
Oesterle: new work (world premiere). Fujii
Trio; Gregory Oh, piano; Ryan Scott, percussion;
Toronto Children’s Chorus. Koerner
Hall, 273 Bloor St. W. 416-408-0208. $20-
$65. 7:00: Pre-concert chat with Michael
Oesterle.
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• 8:00: Talisker Players. Time & Tide.
Buczynski: Three Songs for soprano and string
quartet (text by D. Glick); Finzi: By Footpath and
Stile for baritone and string quartet (text by T.
Hardy); S. Good: Deuil Engoisseux for soprano
and string quartet (text by C. de Pizan); Toch:
Poems for Martha Op.66 for baritone and string
quartet (text by Haft); also spoken word selections
from memoirs by E.B. White, P. Lively,
W. Maxwell and M.F.K. Fisher. Guests: Carla
Huhtanen, soprano; Peter McGillivray, baritone;
Stewart Arnott, actor/reader. Trinity-St.
Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St. W. 416-978-8849.
$35; $25(sr); $15(st). 7:15: Pre-concert talk.
Also Mar 6.
where
words
& music
meet
mar. 5&6, 2013
8 pm
Time
& Tide
Wednesday March 06
• 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.
Piano Virtuoso Series: In Praise of Women.
Christina Petrowska Quilico, piano. Richard
Bradshaw Amphitheatre, Four Seasons Centre
for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-
363-8231. Free.
• 12:30: Yorkminster Park Baptist Church.
Noonday Organ Recitals. Imre Olah, organ.
1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167. Free.
• 7:30: York University Department of
Music. York University Chamber Choir. John
Holland, conductor; Mélisande Sinsoulier,
accompanist. Tribute Communities Recital Hall,
112 Accolade East Bldg., 4700 Keele St., 416-
736-2100 x22926. Free.
• 8:00: Musideum. Adi Braun, vocals. Jazz
concert. Suite 133 (main floor), 401 Richmond
St. W. 416-599-7323. $20.
• 8:00: Talisker Players. Time & Tide. See
Mar 5.
Thursday March 07
• 12:00 noon: Jubilee United Church. Music
at Midday: A Bach Concert. Arthur Wenk,
organ. 40 Underhill Dr. 416-447-6846. Free.
• 12:10: University of Toronto Faculty of
Music. Thursdays at Noon: Student Chamber
Ensembles. Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Bldg.,
80 Queen’s Park. 416-408-0208. Free.
• 12:15: Music at Metropolitan. Noon at
Met. John Paul Farahat, organ. Metropolitan
United Church, 56 Queen St. E. 416-363-0331
x26. Free.
• 12:30: Nine Sparrows/Christ Church
Deer Park. Lunchtime Chamber Music Series.
Graham Thibert, trumpet; Cecilia Lee, piano.
Christ Church Deer Park, 1570 Yonge St. 416-
241-1298. Free, donations welcome.
• 12:30: York University Department
of Music. Music at Midday: Classical
Piano Showcase. Students from the studio
of Christina Petrowska Quilico. Tribute
Communities Recital Hall, 112 Accolade East
Bldg., 4700 Keele St., 416-736-2100 x22926.
Free.
• 7:30: University of Toronto Faculty of
Music. Henrique Cazes in Concert. An evening
of Brazilian music. Walter Hall, Edward Johnson
Bldg., 80 Queen’s Park. 416-408-0208. Free.
• 7:30: York University Department of
Music. York University Jazz Orchestra. Mike
Cadó, conductor; guest: Jazz.FM91 Youth Big
Band. Tribute Communities Recital Hall, 112
Accolade East Bldg., 4700 Keele St., 416-736-
2100 x22926. $5.
• 8:00: Music Toronto. Discovery Series: Erin
Wall, soprano, and John Hess, piano. Works
by Schubert, Korngold, Strauss, Poulenc and
Gordon. Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence
Centre for the Arts, 27 Front St. E. 416-366-
7723 or 1-800-708-6754. $21.50; $10(st).
• 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
New Creations Festival: Sparkler. Machover:
Sparkler (Canadian premiere); Pallett:
Violin Concerto (North American premiere);
Maratka: Vábení (North American premiere).
Pekka Kuusisto, violin; Amadeus Choir and
Elmer Iseler Singers, Lydia Adams, conductor;
Carolyn Kuan, conductor; Peter
Oundjian, conductor and host. Roy Thomson
Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-593-4828 or
416-593-0688(Chinese). $29-$145.
B. Concerts Beyond the gTA
IN THIs IssUE: Aylmer, Barrie, Bradford, Brantford, Cambridge,
dundas, guelph, Hamilton, Huntsville, kingston, kitchener, london,
Peterborough, Port Hope, Southampton, St. Catharines and Waterloo.
Friday February 01
• 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music
Society. Annual CIA Program: Composer and
Improvisers. Students of WLU Faculty of Music
play original compositions. KWCMS Music
Room, 57 Young St. W., Waterloo. 519-886-
1673. $15; $10(sr); $8(st).
• 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.
Dance Party. Mozart: contradances and
minuets; Vivaldi: Concerto for Strings in C;
Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No.3;
Mondonville: Sonata No.4; Sibelius: Valse
Triste from Kuolema; Handel: Selections from
Ariodante. Lucas Waldin, conductor/host.
Harcourt Memorial Church, 87 Dean Ave.,
Guelph. 519-745-4711 or 1-888-745-4717.
$32. Also Feb 2 (Cambridge).
Saturday February 02
• 10:30 am: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony
Brass Quintet. Kinderconcert Series: Buzzing
Brass. Children’s concert featuring brass instruments.
Waterloo Region Museum, 10 Huron Rd.,
Waterloo. 519-745-4711 or 1-888-745-4717.
$13; $11(under 12). 9:30: Free pre-concert
activities. Also Feb 9 (Kitchener, 10:00am and
11:00am).
• 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.
Dance Party. Mozart: contradances and
minuets; Vivaldi: Concerto for Strings in C;
Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite
No.3; Mondonville: Sonata No.4; Sibelius:
Valse Triste from Kuolema; Handel: Selections
from Ariodante. Lucas Waldin, conductor/
host. Central Presbyterian, 7 Queens Sq.,
Cambridge. 519-745-4711 or 1-888-745-
4717. $32. Also Feb 1 (Guelph).
• 8:00: Peterborough Symphony. Russian
Fire. Works by Khachaturian, Glazunov and
others. Alexander Sevastian, accordion; Michael
Newnham, conductor. Showplace Performance
Centre, 290 George St. N., Peterborough.
705-742-7469. $28.50-$39.50; $15(st/rush);
$5(eyeGO). 7:10 Pre-concert chat.
• 8:00: Port Hope Friends of Music. Toronto
Consort. Cameco Capitol Arts Centre, 20
Queen St., Port Hope. 905-797-2295. $35;
$10(under 20).
Sunday February 03
• 2:30: Kingston Symphony. Traditional and
Contemporary. Weinzweig: Violin Concerto;
works by Mozart and Schumann. Katherine
Unrau, violin; Pierre Simard, conductor. Grand
Theatre, 218 Princess St., Kingston. 613-530-
2050. $20-$49.
• 3:00: Wellington Winds. Great Cities.
Works by Husa, Wagner, Strauss, Dello Jojo,
Tchaikovsky, Vaughan Williams and Kander
and Ebb. Daniel Warren, conductor; guest:
Daniel Lichti, bass-baritone. Grandview Baptist
Church, 250 Old Chicopee Dr., Kitchener. 519-
579-3097. $20; $15(sr); free(st). Also Feb 10
(Waterloo).
• 3:30: Huronia Symphony Orchestra.
Children’s Concert: Adventures with the
Symphony. Monroe: The Amazing Symphony
Orchestra; Barnes: The Children’s Suite. Oliver
Balaburski, conductor. Collier Street United
Church, 112 Collier St., Barrie. 705-721-4752.
$20; $10(st); $5(child).
Monday February 04
• 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music
Society. Dali Quartet. Haydn: Quartet Op.76
No.1; Mozart: Quartet K575; and quartets by
Amaya, Villa-Lobos, Gardel, Almarán and Valdes.
Simón Gollo and Carlos Rubio, violin; Adriana
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Linares, viola; Jesús Morales, cello. KWCMS
Music Room, 57 Young St. W., Waterloo. 519-
886-1673. $30; $25(sr); $20(st).
Tuesday February 05
• 12:00 noon: Brock University Department
of Music. Music@Noon: Faculty Recital. Tim
White, trumpet; Karin Di Bella, piano. Concordia
Seminary Chapel, 500 Glenridge Ave., St.
Catharines. 905-688-5550 x3817. Free.
Wednesday February 06
• 12:00 noon: Midday Music with Shigeru.
Music for Valentine. Margo Levae, soprano;
Michael Robert-Broder, baritone; William
Shookoff, piano. Hi-way Pentecostal Church,
50 Anne St. N., Barrie. 705-726-1181. $5;
free(st).
• 7:30: Aeolian Hall. Share the Man:
Honouring Jack Richardson. Featuring
Fanshawe College music industry arts students.
795 Dundas St. E., London. 519-672-7950.
$15; $10(st).
Thursday February 07
• 12:00 noon: University of Guelph College
of Arts. Thursday at Noon Concert Series.
Chris Coole, clawhammer banjo; Max Heineman,
string bass; John Showman, fiddle. Goldschmidt
Room, 107 MacKinnon Bldg., 50 Stone Rd. E.,
Guelph. 519-824-4120 x52991. Free.
• 7:30: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.
Bollywood and Beyond: Master and Icons of
Indian Musical. Trichy Sankaran, mridangam;
Suba Sankaran, voice; Edwin Outwater, conductor.
Conrad Centre for the Performing Arts,
36 King St. W., Kitchener. 519-745-4711 or
1-888-745-4717. $34. Also Feb 8.
• 7:30: Performing Arts Aylmer. Alex Cuba:
“Ruida en el Sistema” Album Launch Tour. Alex
Cuba, guitar. Old Town Hall, 38 John St. S.,
Aylmer. 519-765-1616. $25.
• 8:00: NUMUS Concerts. Schola Magdalena
Sings Medieval and Modern. Works for
women’s voices by von Bingen, Pérotin and
Duruflé; new works by M. Bunce, E. Walker and
S. Martin. Guest: Ben Grossman, hurdy gurdy.
The Jazz Room, 59 King St. N., Waterloo. 519-
896-3662. $30; $26(sr); $10(st rush). Also Feb
8 (Toronto).
Friday February 08
• 7:30: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.
Bollywood and Beyond: Master and Icons of
Indian Musical. See Feb 7.
• 8:00: Aeolian Hall. A Prime Time Valentine.
Prime Time Big Band; Gina Farrugia, vocals.
795 Dundas St. E., London. 519-672-7950.
$35/$30(adv).
Saturday February 09
• 10:00 am: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony
Brass Quintet. Kinderconcert Series: Buzzing
Brass. Children’s concert featuring brass instruments.
Conrad Centre for the Performing Arts,
36 King St. W., Kitchener. 519-745-4711 or
1-888-745-4717. $13; $11(under 12). 9:00:
Free pre-concert activities. Also at 11:00am and
Feb 2 (Waterloo, at 10:30am).
• 11:00 am: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony
Brass Quintet. Kinderconcert Series: Buzzing
Brass. See 10:00am.
• 7:30: Barrie Concerts. The Glory Of
Baroque London. Tafelmusik; guest narrator:
R.H. Thompson. Hi-way Pentecostal Church,
50 Anne St. N., Barrie. 705-726-1181. By
subscription.
B. Concerts Beyond the gTA
• 7:30: Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra.
Pops Series: Diana Panton. Diana Panton, jazz
vocals; Don Thompson, bass and piano; Reg
Schwager, guitar; Guido Basso, trumpet and
flugelhorn; James Sommerville, conductor
and host. Hamilton Place, 1 Summers Ln.,
Hamilton. 905-526-7756. $22-$65; $20-
$62(sr); $12(under 35).
• 7:30: Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and
Performing Arts, Brock University. Avanti
Chamber Singers: Bach and Schubert. St.
Barnabas Anglican Church, 31 Queenston St.,
St. Catharines. 905-688-5550 x3817. $20;
$15(sr/st); $5(under 13/eyeGo).
• 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music
Society. Cecilia String Quartet with David
Samuel, Viola. Mozart: Quintet in D K593;
Brahms: Quintet Op.111 in G; Beethoven:
Quartet Op.59 No.2 in e. KWCMS Music Room,
57 Young St. W., Waterloo. 519-886-1673.
$40; $35(sr); $25(st).
Sunday February 10
• 2:00: Concert Association of Huntsville.
Fung-Chiu Duo. Works for one piano, four
hands. Trinity United Church, 33 Main St. E.,
Huntsville. 705-781918. $25; free(18 and
under).
• 3:00: Guelph Concert Band. Symphonic
Dances. Collaborative performance featuring
a wide variety of dance styles. Saint-Saëns:
Bacchanale from Samson and Delilah; Bernstein:
selections from West Side Story; and other
works. Guests: Flying Dance Company;
Invoketress Dance Company; Royal City
Academy of Irish Dance; Royal City School of
Ballet; Strictly Rhythm. Main Stage, River Run
Centre, 35 Woolwich St., Guelph. 519-824-
4120 x73660. $25; $15(sr/st); $5(eyeGO/
under 12).
• 3:00: Nota Bene Baroque. If Music be the
Food of Love. Works by Schmelzer, Legrenzi,
Buonamente, Fux and Bernier. Stephanie
Kramer, soprano; Nota Bene Baroque Orchestra,
Borys Medicky, director. Registry Theatre, 122
Frederick St., Kitchener. 519-578-1570. $28;
$25(sr); $5(under 18).
• 3:00: Wellington Winds. Great Cities.
Works by Husa, Wagner, Strauss, Dello Joio,
Tchaikovsky, Vaughan-Williams and Kander and
Ebb. Daniel Warren, conductor; guest: Daniel
Lichti, bass-baritone. Knox Presbyterian Church,
50 Erb St. W., Waterloo. 519-579-3097. $20;
$15(sr); free(st). Also Feb 3 (Kitchener).
Tuesday February 12
• 12:00 noon: Brock University Department
of Music. Music@Noon: Piano, voice and
instrumental students. Concordia Seminary
Chapel, 500 Glenridge Ave., St. Catharines.
905-688-5550 x3817. Free.
Wednesday February 13
• 2:30: Seniors Serenade. Marty Smyth Trio.
Central United Church, 54 Ross St., Barrie.
705-726-1181. Free.
• 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber
Music Society. Aviv String Quartet. Schubert:
Quartet No.12 “Quartettsatz”; Quartet No.13
“Rosamunde”; Quartet No.14 “Death and the
Maiden.” KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young St.
W., Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $35; $30(sr);
$20(st).
Thursday February 14
• 12:00 noon: University of Guelph College
of Arts. Thursday at Noon Concert Series:
Romance on the Road. Benjamin Covey, baritone;
Anna Ronai, piano. Goldschmidt Room,
107 MacKinnon Bldg., 50 Stone Rd. E., Guelph.
519-824-4120 x52991. Free.
• 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music
Society. Aviv String Quartet with Rachel
Mercer, Cello. Schubert: Quartet No.15 in G;
Quintet in C. KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young
St. W., Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $40;
$35(sr); $25(st).
Friday February 15
• 8:00: Aeolian Hall. Life is a Cabaret.
Fundraiser featuring cabaret songs from France,
Germany, Spain, Russia, England and America.
Students of the voice studio of Christiane Riel.
795 Dundas St. E., London. 519-672-7950. By
donation; proceeds to Aeolian Hall.
Saturday February 16
• 2:00: Hart House Orchestra. A benefit
concert for St. George’s Cathedral &
Canadian Diabetes Association sponsored
by Conservatory Pond. Schumann: Second
Symphony; Beethoven: King Stephen Overture;
Copland: Clarinet Concerto. Phil Lam, clarinet;
Henry Janzen, conductor. St. George’s
Cathedral, 270 King St. E., Kingston. 613-384-
9374. $15; $10 (st/sr). Also Feb 14 (Toronto)
• 2:00: Peterborough Singers. Beatles 2.
Barry Haggarty and Bob Bulger, guitar; Andrew
Affleck, bass guitar; Curtis Cronkwright,
drums; Paul Grecco, keyboard; Sydney Birrell,
conductor; guest: Mike Melnik, emcee.
Calvary Church, 1421 Lansdowne St. W.,
Peterborough. 705-745-1820. $30; $10(st).
• 7:30: Gallery Players of Niagara/Niagara
Artists Company. Movie Night. Screening of
F. W. Murnau’s silent film Sunrise (1927) with
accompanying improvised music. Douglas Miller,
flute; Eric Mahar, guitar; Penner MacKay, percussion.
Niagara Artists Centre, 354 St. Paul’s
St., St. Catharines. 905-468-1525. $28-$33.
• 7:30: Grand Philharmonic Choir. The
Passion of Joan of Arc. 1928 silent film set
to new work by R. Einhorn: Voices of Light.
TACTUS vocal ensemble, Kitchener-Waterloo
Symphony, Mark Vuorinen, conductor. Centre in
the Square, 101 Queen St. N., Kitchener. 519-
578-1570. $20; $10(under 20).
• 7:30: Orillia Wind Ensemble. Winter
Concert: Celebrating talented OWE soloists.
Shaw: concerto for Clarinet; and other works.
St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park St. W.,
Dundas. 705-326-8011. $20; $17(sr); $5(st).
• 8:00: Aeolian Hall. Sarah Slean with Strings.
795 Dundas St. E., London. 519-672-7950.
$35/$30(adv).
Sunday February 17
• 1:00: Aeolian Hall. Bobs & LoLo: Nature
Rocks! Children’s concert. 795 Dundas St. E.,
London. 519-672-7950. $15.
• 3:00: Grand River Chorus. Happy
Valentine’s Day. Songs of love and longing.
Guest: Avery Kadish, vocals. St. Andrew’s
United Church, 95 Darling St., Brantford. 519-
753-3405. $25; $20(sr/st); $5(high school st/
child).
• 7:30: Aeolian Hall. Ben Caplan, singersongwriter.
Guests: Olenka Krakus and JP
Hoe, singer-songwriters. Folk/indie-folk music.
795 Dundas St. E., London. 519-672-7950.
$18/$15(adv); $12(st).
• 7:30: Cuckoo’s Nest Folk Club. Nuala
Kennedy CD Release Concert: “Noble Stranger.”
Nuala Kennedy, voice and flute/penny whistle.
Chaucher’s Pub, 122 Carling St., London. 519-
473-2099. $18/$15(adv).
Wednesday February 20
• 12:00 noon: Music at St. Andrews. Jessika
Monea, soprano; Matthew Whitfield, organist.
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 47 Owen
St., Barrie. 705-726-1181. $5; free(st).
Thursday February 21
• 7:30: Centre for the Arts, Brock
University. Nathaniel Dett Chorale and Elmer
Iseler Singers: Amazing Grace. Selection of
North American spirituals. Sean O’Sullivan
Theatre, 500 Glenridge Ave., St. Catharines.
905-688-5550 x3257 and 1-866-617-3257.
$52; $20(st); $5(eyeGO).
Friday February 22
• 8:00: Aeolian Hall. Janina Fialkowska,
piano. Works by Grieg, Schubert and Chopin.
795 Dundas St. E., London. 519-672-7950.
$35/$30(adv); $20(sr); $15(st).
• 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.
Tchaikovsky Festival Part 1: Epic Tchaikovsky.
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.2 in G;
Symphony No.5 in e. Yakov Kasman, piano;
Edwin Outwater, conductor. Centre in the
Square, 101 Queen St. N., Kitchener. 519-
745-4711 or 1-888-745-4717. $19-$80. Also
Feb 23.
Saturday February 23
• 4:30: Christ Church Cathedral. Twilight
Organ Recital: The Power and the Poetry of the
King of Instruments. Works by Bach, Reger,
Pepping and Willan. Michael Bloss, organ. 252
James St., Hamilton. 905-527-1316 x220.
Free.
• 7:00: Bach Elgar Choir. Coronation
Anthems. Music to mark the diamond anniversary
of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s
coronation. Alex Cann, conductor; Angus
Sinclair, organ. Central Presbyterian Church,
165 Charlton Ave. W., Hamilton. 905-527-
5995. $35.
• 7:30: London Pro Music. Strings & Voices.
Aeolian Hall, 795 Dundas St. E., London. 519-
672-7950. $24/$20(adv); $22(sr)/$18(adv);
$10(st).
• 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music
Society. Janina Fialkowska, Piano. Schubert:
Four Impromptus D935, Op.posth.142; Grieg:
Lyric Pieces (four); Chopin: Polonaise in e-flat
Op.26 No.2; Scherzos nos.4 and 1; Waltz
in A-flat Op.64 No.3; Mazurkas in C and c
Op.56 Nos.2 and 3. KWCMS Music Room, 57
Young St. W., Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $40;
$35(sr); $25(st).
• 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.
Tchaikovsky Festival Part 1: Epic Tchaikovsky.
See Feb 22.
• 8:00: Renaissance Singers. Tango Encore.
An evening inspired by the dance music of
Latin America. Rotunda of Kitchener City Hall,
200 King St. E., Kitchener. 519-745-0675.
$25(adv only).
Sunday February 24
• 2:30: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.
Tchaikovsky Festival Part 2: Intimate
Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.1 in
g; Rococo Variations. Denise Djokic, cello; Edwin
Outwater, conductor. Centre in the Square, 101
Queen St. N., Kitchener. 519-745-4711 or
1-888-745-4717. $19-$80.
• 3:00: Guelph Symphony Orchestra.
American Rhapsody. Bernstein: Overture to
Candide; selections from Symphonic Dances
from West Side Story. Gershwin: Rhapsody in
Blue; Copland: Appalachian Spring; Hoe-down
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from Rodeo. Amy Di Nino, piano; Judith Yan,
conductor; guest: Guelph Youth Symphony
Orchestra, Chris Cigolea, conductor. River Run
Centre, 35 Woolwich St., Guelph. 519-763-
3000. $35; $17(under 30); $10(under 12);
$5(high school).
• 3:00: John Laing Singers. Celebrate the
Passion! 30th Anniversary Concert and Gala.
Pärt: Te deum; Bergs: 30 Short Pieces for
Chamber Choir; and works by Mozart, Handel,
Fauré. Guest: John Laing. Scottish Rite Club of
Hamilton, 4 Queen St. S., Hamilton. 905-628-
5238. $30; $15(st).
• 3:00: La Jeunesse Youth Orchestra. In The
Spotlight. LJYO soloists and sections perform
works for violin, cello, flute and full orchestra.
Port Hope United Church, 34 South St.,
Port Hope. 1-866-460-5596. $20; $15(st);
$50(family).
• 7:30: Cuckoo’s Nest Folk Club. Brother
Sun. Folk, blues, rock, jazz and a cappella songs.
Pat Wiktor, Joe Jencks and Greg Greenway.
Chaucher’s Pub, 122 Carling St., London. 519-
473-2099. $18; $15(adv).
• 7:30: Sunfest. Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
Aeolian Hall, 795 Dundas St. E., London. 519-
672-7950. $60/$55(adv). SOLD OUT.
• 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music
Society. Lafayette Quartet and Molinari
Quartet 1. Schoenberg: Quartet in D (1897);
Quartet No.4 (1937); Webern: Langsamer
Satz; Quartet in D Op.28; Berg: Quartet
Op.3. KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young St.
W., Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $25; $20(sr);
$15(st).
Monday February 25
• 8:00: Aeolian Hall. Jason Marsalis Vibes
Quartet. 795 Dundas St. E., London. 519-672-
7950. $44/$39(adv).
• 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber
Music Society. Lafayette Quartet and
Molinari Quartet 2. Schoenberg: Quartet No.1
in d; Quartet No.2; Webern: Five Movements;
6 Bagatelles. Guest: Susan Young, soprano.
KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young St.
W., Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $25; $20(sr);
$15(st).
Tuesday February 26
• 8:00: Aeolian Hall. What is So Great
About Beethoven? Marc Pierre Toth, piano.
795 Dundas St. E., London. 519-672-7950.
$25/$20(adv); $15(st).
• 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music
Society. Lafayette Quartet and Molinari
Quartet 3. Schoenberg: Quartet No.3; Webern:
Quartet; Rondo; Berg: Lyric Suite. KWCMS
Music Room, 57 Young St. W., Waterloo. 519-
886-1673. $25; $20(sr); $15(st).
Wednesday February 27
• 8:00: Aeolian Hall. Whitehorse: Melissa
McLelland and Luke Doucet. 795 Dundas St. E.,
London. 519-672-7950. $30/$25(adv).
Thursday February 28
• 12:00 noon: University of Guelph College
of Arts. Thursday at Noon Concert Series:
Continental Winds. Laurel Swinden, flute;
Stephanie Mara, piano. Goldschmidt Room, 107
MacKinnon Bldg., 50 Stone Rd. E., Guelph.
519-824-4120 x52991. Free.
• 7:30: Centre for the Arts, Brock
University. Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Sean
O’Sullivan Theatre, 500 Glenridge Ave., St.
Catharines. 905-688-5550 x3257 and 1-866-
617-3257. $49; $20(st); $5(eyeGO).
Friday March 01
• 8:00: Aeolian Hall. Scott Szeryk. Guest:
Robbie Antone. 795 Dundas St. E., London.
519-672-7950. $25/$20(adv); $15(sr/st).
• 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.
Disney in Concert: Magical Music from the
Movies. Multimedia presentation featuring
Disney classics. Evan Mitchell, conductor.
Centre in the Square, 101 Queen St. N.,
Kitchener. 519-745-4711 or 1-888-745-4717.
$19-$86. Also Mar 2(mat and eve).
Saturday March 02
• 2:30: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.
Disney in Concert: Magical Music from the
Movies. Also at 8:00. See Mar 1.
• 7:00: Guelph Youth Singers. Shine on Me.
Works by Szymko, Daley and spirituals including
Shine on Me (arr. Dilworth). Calvary Pentecostal
Assembly Church, 127 Hespeler Rd.,
Cambridge. 519-821-8574. $15; $10(child).
• 7:00: Ontario Gleaners. The Blazing Fiddles:
A Musical Feast for the Ears. Springdale
Christian Reformed Church, 1466 Side Rd. 5,
Bradford. 519-624-8245. $10; $30(family).
• 7:30: Chorus Niagara. A Might Cry. Jenkins:
The Armed Man – A Mass for Peace; Kositsky:
A Mighty Cry. Program accompanied by visuals.
Cathedral of St. Catherine of Alexandria,
3 Lyman St., St. Catharines. 1-866-617-3257
or 905-688-5550 x3257. $35; $33(sr); $15(st).
6:45: Pre-concert chat.
• 7:30: Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra.
Masterworks Series: Dvořák and Liszt. Dvořák:
Symphony No.8; Liszt: Les Préludes; Smetana:
Overture from The Bartered Bride. Hamilton
Place, 1 Summers Ln., Hamilton. 905-526-
7756. $22-$65; $20-$62(sr); $12(under 35).
• 7:30: Huronia Symphony Orchestra.
Classical Favourites. Bach: Overture No.1 in C;
Haydn: Symphony No.45; Mozart: Symphony
No.40; Stamitz: Viola concerto in D. Janice
LaMarre, viola; Oliver Balaburski, conductor.
Collier Street United Church, 112 Collier St.,
Barrie. 705-721-4752. $20; $10(st); $5(child).
• 8:00: Da Capo Chamber Choir. Path of
Miracles. St. John the Evangelist, 23 Water St.
N., Kitchener. 519-725-7549. $20; $15(sr/
st); $5(eyeGo/12 and under). Also Mar 3(mat,
Waterloo ).
• 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.
Disney in Concert: Magical Music from the
Movies. Also at 2:00. See Mar 1.
Sunday March 03
• 2:00: Gallery Players of Niagara. Let’s
Tango. Works by Villa-Lobos, Piazzolla and
Jobim. Douglas Miller, flute; Timothy Phelan,
guitar; Margaret Gay, cello. St. Barnabas
Church, 33 Queenston St., St. Catharines.
905-468-1525. $28-$31.
• 2:30: Georgian Music. Germany’s Atos
Piano Trio. Works by Haydn, Cassado and
Schubert. Central United Church, 54 Ross St.,
Barrie. 705-726-1181. By subscription.
• 3:00: Da Capo Chamber Choir. Path of
Miracles. Knox Presbyterian, 50 Erb St. W.,
Waterloo. 519-725-7549. $20; $15(sr/st);
$5(eyeGo/12 and under). Also Mar 2(eve,
Kitchener).
• 3:00: Elora Festival Singers. Gloria Deo.
F. Martin: Mass for Double Choir; and works
by Byrd, Sanders and Willian. Noel Edison, conductor.
Church of Our Lady, 28 Norfolk St.,
Guelph. 519-846-0331. $35.
• 3:00: Georgian Bay Symphony. Dance
Forms. Byrd: Fantasias; Moulinié: Fantasias;
and works by Haydn and Piazzolla. Paul
Earle, George Willms and Brandon Chui, violin;
Mateusz Swoboda, cello. Bruce County
Museum, 33 Victoria St. N., Southampton.
416-372-0212. $18.50; $16(sr); $5(under 25).
• 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music
Society. Great Russian String Sextets. Rimsky-
Korsakov: String Sextet in A; Rubinstein:
String Sextet in D Op.97; Webern: Langsamer
Satz; Quartet in D Op.28; Berg: Quartet
Op.3. KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young St.
W., Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $35; $30(sr);
$20(st).
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LAING
SINGERS with Artistic Director Roger Bergs
Celebrate the Passion!
30 th Anniversary Concert
and Gala
Pärt’s Te Deum, and works by Mozart, Handel,
Fauré and Bergs
with special guest John Laing
Sunday, February 24 3pm
Scottish Rite Club of Hamilton
4 Queen Street South, Hamilton
Tickets $30 Adults, $15 students
Purchase online at johnlaingsingers.com
or call 905-628-5238
The JLS gratefully acknowledges
the support of
Hamilton’s Community Partnership
Program for Culture
Wednesday March 06
• 6:00: Aeolian Hall. El Sistema Aeolian. 795
Dundas St. E., London. 519-672-7950. By
donation.
• 7:30: Centre for the Arts, Brock
University. ScrapArtsMusic. Sean O’Sullivan
Theatre, 500 Glenridge Ave,. St. Catharines.
905-688-5550 x3257 and 1-866-617-3257.
$41; $20(st); $16(child); $5(eyeGO).
• 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music
Society. Marc Toth, piano. Beethoven: Sonatas
Nos. 30, 31 and 32. KWCMS Music Room, 57
Young St. W., Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $25;
$20(sr); $15(st).
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Beat by Beat | In the Clubs
Harbury At Hugh’s Turns Nine
ORI DAgAN
Born in the United Kingdom’s county of
Sussex, Jane Harbury came to Canada in
1966, thinking it would be for just a year.
“I had no goal or clear path when I came
here, it just seemed like a good idea at the
time,” she recalls. “Actually, my debating partner
in the Young Conservatives in the UK,
Janice Hunt, had been living and working in
San Diego and said, “you should go, there’s ten
men for each girl!” So I said okay, but it was
easier to get to Canada in those days, so I just
arrived, knew no one, stayed at the YWCA for
Renée Yoxon
at Hugh’s.
a couple weeks and then found a room and began my life in Canada.”
In the late 1960s, Harbury started working as a dishwasher at the
famous Riverboat coffee house in Yorkville. As fate would have it,
within a few years she ended up being the club’s manager, becoming
known affectionately as “Riverboat Jane.” Harbury’s next chapter
was as personal assistant to record producer Brian Ahern (Anne
Murray, Emmylou Harris, Johnny Cash, to name a few) and in 1988
she founded her own publicity company, passionately promoting
numerous Canadian artists across a wide spectrum of musical
genres. Her clients have included artists such as Lhasa, Ian Tyson
and Ben Heppner, and she has also publicized many events, from
the North By Northeast festival to the JUNO Awards. Nine years ago,
Harbury began presenting a successful series at Hugh’s Room called
Jane Harbury’s Discoveries, a showcase of emerging artists. How did
the idea come about?
“This series began as me repeatedly asking Hugh’s Room’s booker,
Holmes Hooke, for opening spots for some of my ‘baby band’ artists
— not necessarily bands, but those not yet known,” says Harbury.
“He repeatedly replied that he didn’t have many opening act spots.
Finally, probably out of sheer frustration, Holmes said “Why don’t
you do your own night? We’ll give you the room!” and so I put
together five artists — at 25 minutes each. It turned out to be one artist
too many, so fairly quickly I adapted and refined it to four per
show with 30 minutes each. Each artist is expected to bring at least
twenty people, but the more the merrier, of course.”
Discoveries has been presented three times annually, and as one
can imagine, there have been a lot of highlights over the years.
“We’ve had some amazing nights,” she recalls. “Bora Kim on violin
at 14 playing Paganini. Eric Tan amazing the audience with his talent,
playing classical on the old electric keyboard! Jazz vocalists Barbra
Lica and Jordana Talsky, both shone.”
What has Jane Harbury discovered by presenting Discoveries?
“So much, but perhaps one of the most wonderful aspects is that
you bring four diverse types of music into one show, the audience
members are wonderfully open to appreciating this and are so supportive
of all four. It is nerve-wracking for the artists, most of whom
have always wanted to play a venue like Hugh’s Room where they are
treated with so much respect ... it might sound as though it’s a kind of
Ed Sullivan variety show, but it’s SO much more. Most of the artists
are those who find me and not usually clients of mine. Something
magical seems to happen at every Discoveries. I want to stress that
it’s nothing like an open stage event. The artists support each other.
I love it!”
The next edition of Discoveries takes place on Tuesday, February 5,
featuring country/bluegrass/folk duo The Schotts, recent Etobicoke
School of the Arts graduate Jessica Chase, Vancouver-based singersongwriter
Tom Taylor and Ottawa-based jazz vocalist Renée Yoxon.
Being already familiar with the gorgeous voice of Yoxon, I am
looking forward to discovering the other three acts. Hope to see
you there!
Ori Dagan is a Toronto-based jazz musician, writer and
educator who can be reached at oridagan.com.
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. Feb 1, 2 Graffiti Park. Feb 7 Riff Raff.
Feb 8 Graffiti Park. Feb 9 Soular. Feb 14, 15,
16 Lady Kane. Feb 21, 22 Ascencion. Feb 23
Soular. Feb 28 91 Night w/ Firesound.
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.
Chalkers Pub, Billiards & Bistro
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. Every
Sat. 6-9pm Dinner Jazz Series: Feb 2 Bernie
Senensky Trio. Feb 9 Fern Lindzon Trio. Feb 16
Mike Murley Trio. Feb 23 Lorne Lofsky Trio.
Cherry Street Restaurant, The
275 Cherry St. 416-461-5111 cherryst.ca
All shows: 7:30-9:30pm, $10 cover.
Feb 7 Terra Hazelton & Her Easy Answers.
Feb 14 Alex Pangman & Her Alleycats. Feb
21 Sarah Jerrom Quartet. Feb 28 Will Fisher
Quartet.
Classico Pizza & Pasta
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. Every Tue 8:30pm Hot Club
of Corktown Django Jam w/ host Wayne
Nakamura. PWYC. Every Wed 8pm Corktown
Ukelele Jam $5. Feb 1 9pm Havana to Toronto
C. In the Clubs (Mostly Jazz)
$10. Feb 2 4pm Ronnie Hayward; 9pm Moo’d
Swing. Feb 3 11-3pm Rockabilly Brunch;
3:30pm Nancy Dutra, Kristen Jones & David
Newland $20. Feb 5 7:30-10:30pm Good
Neighbours: Open Mic Night. PWYC. Feb 7 7pm
Wee Folk Club. Feb 8 9pm Feed Your Head $8.
Feb 15 8pm Big City Big Band $5. Feb 21 7pm
Wee Folk Club. Feb 23 4pm Ronnie Hayward;
9pm Sonic Blues: Jerome Godboo $10.
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 dance
lessons. Dance $13; $15 with one class, $18
with both. Saturday Bands: Feb 2 Isaac Ezer
& The Far East Swingtet. Feb 9 Bertie & the
Gents. Feb 14 Valentine’s Day Blues Dance
w/ Mike Daley Blues Band. Feb 16 Up Jumped
Swing. Feb 23 TBA.
Emmet Ray, The
924 College St. 416-792-4497
theemmetray.com (full schedule)
All shows: PWYC.
Feb 3 9pm Graham Playford. Feb 4 7pm Jon
Foster Group; 9pm Phill Albert Group. Feb
6 9pm Alistair Christl and the Lonely. Feb 7
9pm John Wayne Swingtet. Feb 11 7pm Ian
Sinclair: A Series of Tubes; 9pm Michael Herring
Quartet. Feb 13 9pm Peter Boyd & the Mutant
Duo. Feb 14 9pm Box Full of Cash. Feb 16 7pm
Kevin Butler. Feb 18 7pm Norbert Botos Group;
9pm Trevor Fall Colective. Feb 20 9pm Alistair
Christl and the Lonely. Feb 21 9pm Vokurka’s
Vicarious Virtuoso Violin. Feb 22 7-9pm Croque
Monsieur Gypsy Jazz. Feb 23 9pm Bryn Robert.
Feb 24 9pm Tropical Punch. Feb 25 7pm Bryan
Qu Quartet; 9pm Vaughn Misener Quartet. Feb
27 9pm Alistair Christ and the Lonely.
Epic Lounge, The
1355 St. Clair Ave. W. 647-989-8891
Feb 14 7:30pm Claire Riley & The Jazz Tonic
Trio: Claire Riley (vocals); Boris Trevius (piano);
David Thiessen (bass); Augusto Santana
(drums). $15.
Flying Beaver Pubaret, The
488 Parliament St. 647-347-6567
pubaret.com (full schedule)
Feb 1 7pm Laurence Tan. No Cover. Feb 2 7pm
Suzanne Nutall and Evalyn Parry $15/$10(adv).
Feb 3 7pm Sing Along w/ Kendall Partington.
No Cover. Feb 8 7pm Liz Tanzey w/ Kevin
Quinlan $20/$15(adv); 9pm Dudettes: Ryan
Kelly and Dale Miller $25/$20(adv). Feb 13
7:30pm Gavin Crawford’s Bits and Pieces
$20/$15(adv). Feb 15 7pm Ryan G. Hinds $10.
Feb 15 9pm All Strung Up. Feb 16 9pm Janet
Whiteway & Elana Harte. Feb 20 7:30pm
Mandy Lagan. Feb 21, 22, 23, 24 7pm Dina
Martina: Ample Wattage $25/$20(adv). Feb 28
7:30pm Vexed: Julie Michels, Terra Hazelton,
Sophia Perlman $20/$15(adv).
Gate 403
403 Roncesvalles Ave. 416-588-2930
gate403.com All shows: PWYC unless otherwise
noted.
Feb 1 5pm Roberta Hunt; 9pm Jason Raso. Feb
2 Bill Heffernan & Friends; 9pm Donné Roberts.
Feb 3 5pm Maxine Willan; 9pm Carol Oya. Feb
4 5pm Yuko Hase; 9pm Richard Whiteman. Feb
5 5pm Bruce Chapman; 9pm Julian Fauth. Feb
6 5pm Aimie Page; 9pm Danny B & Brian Gauci.
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Feb 7 5pm Sarah Calbert; 9pm Mélanie Brûlée.
Feb 8 5pm Felix Wong; 9pm John Deehan w/
Zoe Chilco. Feb 9 5pm Bill Heffernan & Friends;
9pm Mr. Rick’s Tin Pan Jazz Band. Feb 10 5pm
Whitney Ross Barris; 9pm Jordana Talsky. Feb
11 5pm Denis Schingh; 9pm Richard Whiteman.
Feb 12 5pm Bartosz Hadala; 9pm Julian Fauth.
Feb 13 5pm Lowell Whitty; 9pm String Theory
Collective. Feb 14 5pm Alex Samaras; 9pm
Kevin Laliberté. Feb 15 5pm Elizabeth Martins;
9pm Fraser Melvin Blues Band. Feb 16 5pm Bill
Heffernan & His Friends; 9pm Patrick Tevlin’s
New Orleans Rhythm. Feb 17 5pm Patrick
O’Reilly; 9pm Zimzum. Feb 18 5pm Tom McGill;
9pm Richard Whiteman. Feb 19 5pm Darryl Orr;
9pm Julian Fauth. Feb 20 5pm Ventana 5; 9pm
Michelle Rumball & Kevin Quain. Feb 21 5pm
Miss Caroline M~R; 9pm Denielle Bassels. Feb
22 5pm Donna Greenberg; 9pm Sweet Derrick.
Feb 23 5pm Bill Heffernan & Friends; 9pm Six
Points Jazz Orchestra. Feb 24 5pm Jeff Taylor
and the SLT; 9pm Oolong 7. Feb 25 5pm Leigh
Graham; 9pm Richard Whiteman. Feb 26 5pm
Andy Malette Piano Solo; 9pm Julian Fauth.
Feb 27 5pm Doughwan Moon; 9pm Aimee
Butcher. Feb 28 5pm G Street; 9pm Annie
Bonsignore & Dunstan Morey.
Gladstone Hotel
1214 Queen St. W. 416-531-4635
gladstonehotel.com (full schedule)
Every First Thu 9-11:30pm Toronto Blues
Society’s Blues Series. Free.
Grossman’s Tavern
379 Spadina Ave. 416-977-1210
grossmanstavern.com (full schedule)
All shows: No Cover/PWYC.
Feb 1 Sandi Marie; Combo Royale. Feb 2 The
Happy Pals. Feb 5 Miz Debbie & the Don Valley
Stompers. Feb 6 Bruce Domoney. Feb 8 Red
Hot Ramble. Feb 9 The Happy Pals; Chloe
Watkinson and the Crossroad. Feb 10 Silver
Leafs Jazz Band; New Orleans Connection
All-Stars. Feb 12 Chloe Watkinson and the
Crossroad. Feb 13 Bruce Domoney. Feb 15
Don River Blues Band. Feb 16 The Happy Pals;
Blue Nash. Feb 20 Bruce Domoney. Feb 22
Frankie Foo. Feb 23 The Happy Pals; Caution
Jam. Feb 24 New Orleans Connection All-Stars;
The Nationals. Feb 27 Bruce Domoney.
Harlem Restaurant
67 Richmond St. E. 416-368-1920
harlemrestaurant.com (full schedule)
All shows: No Cover/PWYC.
Harlem Underground Restaurant/Bar
745 Queen St. W. 416-366-4743
harlemrestaurant.com/underground
Every Mon Daniel Gagnon. Every Tue John
Campbell. Every Thu Carl Bray Trio. Every Fri
Jake Wilkinson. Every Sat Carl Bray.
Hirut Restaurant
2050 Danforth Ave. 416-551-7560
Every Wed 8pm Open Mic with Gary 17.
Every Sun 2:30pm Open Jam.
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).
Feb 1 Garnet Rogers $27.50/$25(adv). Feb 2
Fathead $22.50/$20(adv). Feb 3 13th Annual
Banjo Special $22.50/$20(adv). Feb 5 Jane
Harbury’s Discoveries $17/$15(adv). Feb 6
The 24th Street Wailers $18.50/$16(adv).
Feb 8 A Tribute to the Queen of Blues,
Etta James $30/$25(adv). Feb 9 Jackie
Richardson & Micah Barnes: A Jazz Valentine
$32/$28(adv). Feb 13 Valentine’s with the
Singer’s Jazz Series. Feb 14 Valentine’s w/
the Good Brothers $30/$27.50(adv). Feb
15 Alfie Zappacosta $39/$34(adv). Feb 16
Anthony Gomes $22.50/$20(adv). Feb 17
Teresa Doyle & Jaron Freeman-Fox CD Release
$20/$18(adv). Feb 20, 21, 22, 23 Folk Alliance
$27.50/$25(adv). Feb 24 2pm: Ken Whiteley’s
Sunday Gospel Matinee $22.50/$20(adv). Feb
28 Helmut Lipsky $40/$35(adv).
Inter Steer
357 Roncesvalles Ave. 416-588-8054
All shows: No Cover/PWYC
Every Wed 8-11pm Fraser Daley. Every Thu
8-11pm Ronnie Hayward Trio. Feb 2, 16 4-7pm
Laura Hubert.
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+
Feb 1 Shafton Thomas Group $12. Feb 2
Steve McDade Quartet $18. Feb 8 Barb Fulton
Quintet $15. Feb 9 Jamie Reynolds Trio $16.
Feb 15 Paul Mitchel Quintet $15. Feb 16 Rob
Gellner $20. Feb 22 Derek Hines $15. Feb 23
Geoff Young Quartet $18.
Joe Mama’s
317 King St. W. 416-340-6469
Live music every night; All shows: No Cover.
Every Sun 6-10pm Organic Quartet. Every
Mon 7:30-11:30pm Soul Mondays. Every
Tue 7-11pm Blue Angels. Every Wed 8pm-
12am Blackburn. Every Thu 8:30pm-12:30am
Blackburn. Every Fri 10pm-2am The Grind.
Every Sat 10pm-2am Shugga.
Lula Lounge
1585 Dundas St. W. 416-588-0307
lula.ca (full schedule)
Feb 1 8pm Jay Danley: Ethio-Jazz Project $15.
Feb 8 Quique Escamilla Trio $15. Feb 10 7pm
TD Jazz Special Project: Jaron Freeman-Fox
& the Opposite of Everything $15; $10(st).
Feb 15 8pm Valentine’s Weekend w/ Yiselle
Sanchez $15. Feb 19 8pm Jump Babylon and
Jaffa Road $TBA. Feb 21 8pm Locarno w/
Café Con Pan $TBA. Feb 27 8pm Simja Dujov
$12/$10(adv). Feb 28 8pm The Brothas $20.
Mascot, The
1267 Queen St. E. 416-533-2888
All shows 2-5pm, PWYC ($5-$10 suggested)
Feb 3 Annabelle Chvostek & Culture Reject.
Feb 10 Nancy Dutra & Sienna Dahlen. Feb 17
Carlie Howell and the Deharms.
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.
Monarchs Pub
At the Delta Chelsea Hotel
33 Gerrard St. W. 416-585-4352
monarchspub.ca
Every Wed Live Jazz. Every Thu Live Blues.
Feb 15-17 Winterfolk XI Blues & Roots
Festival. All-ages urban, roots and blues festival,
featuring over 200 artists includes workshops;
visit winterfolk.com for details.
Nawlins Jazz Bar & Dining
Rex Hotel Jazz & Blues Bar, The
299 King St. W. 416-595-1958
194 Queen St. W. 416-598-2475
nawlins.ca
therex.ca (call for cover charge info)
Every Tue Stacie McGregor; Every Wed Jim Feb 1 4pm Hogtown Syncopators; 6:30pm
Heineman Trio. Every Thu Blues Night w Guest Sara Dell; 9:45pm Vaughan Misener Quartet.
Vocalists. Every Fri/Sat All Star Bourbon St. Feb 2 12pm Danny Marks & Friends;
Band; Every Sun Brooke Blackburn.
3:30pm Michael Blake; 7pm Lester McLean;
Nice Bistro, The
9:45pm Duncan Hopkins Quintet. Feb 3
12pm Excelsior Dixieland Jazz; 3:30pm Club
117 Brock St. N., Whitby. 905-668-8839 Django; 7pm Harley Card Trio; 9:30pm Our Old
nicebistro.com
School. Feb 4 6:30pm U of T Student Jazz
Feb 13 Barry Sears $39.99 (includes dinner). Ensembles; 9:30pm Humber College Student
Old Mill, The
Jazz Ensembles. Feb 5 6:30pm Mikko Hilden
Quartet; 9:30pm Christian Overton. Feb 6
21 Old Mill Rd. 416-236-2641
6:30pm Worst Pop Band Ever; 9:30pm Aimee
oldmilltoronto.com
Butcher. Feb 7 6:30pm Ross Wooldridge Trio;
The Home Smith Bar: No Reservations. No 9:30pm The Heavyweights Brass Band. Feb
Cover. $20 food/drink minimum. All shows: 8 4pm Hogtown Syncopators; 6:30pm Sara
7:30-10:30pm. Every Thu Thursday Night Dell; 9:45pm Jamie Reynolds Trio. Feb 9
Jazz Party. Every Fri Something to Sing About 12pm Danny Marks & Friends; 3:30pm Chris
Series. Every Sat Jazz Masters Series. Feb 1 Hunt Tentet + 2; 7pm Lester McLean Trio;
Yvette Tollar Trio. Feb 2 Barry Elmes Quartet. 9:45pm Humber Faculty Ensemble. Feb 10
Feb 7 Jazz Party w/ host Richard Underhill 12pm Excelsior Dixieland Jazz; 3:30pm Red
and guest Heather Bambrick. Feb 8 Melissa Hot Ramble; 7pm Harley Card Trio; 9:30pm
Lauren Trio. Feb 9 Steve Koven Trio. Feb 14 One Big Song: CD Release. Feb 11 6:30pm U
Valentine’s Jazz Party w/ hosts Sophia Perlman of T Student Jazz Ensembles; 9:30pm Humber
and Adrean Farrugia and guest Kevin Turcotte. College Students Jazz Ensembles. Feb 12
Feb 15 Lara Solnicki Trio. Feb 16 Sean Bray’s 6:30pm Mikko Hilden Quartet; 9:30pm Dave
Peach Trio. Feb 21 Jazz Party w/ host Luis Young. Feb 13 6:30pm Worst Pop Band Ever;
Mario Ochoa and guest Luis Orbegoso. Feb 9:30pm Morgan Childs. Feb 14 6:30pm Ross
22 Sam Broverman Trio. Feb 23 Alexis Baro Wooldridge Trio; 9:30pm Shafton Thomas
Quartet. Feb 28 Jazz Party w/ host Ori Dagan Quartet. Feb 15 4pm Hogtown Syncopators;
and guest Marie Goudy.
6:30pm Sara Dell; 9:45pm Tribute to Lee Konitz
Pantages Martini Bar & Lounge
and Wayne Marsh. Feb 16 12pm Danny Marks
& Friends; 3:30pm Swing Shift Big Band; 7pm
200 Victoria St. 416-362-1777
Mississauga Big Band; 9:45pm Frank Botos’
Every Fri, Every Sat 9:30pm-12:30am Solo Hungarian Project. Feb 17 12pm Excelsior
Piano. No Cover/PWYC.
Dixieland Jazz; 3:30pm Dr. Nick Blues; 7pm
Paintbox Bistro
Harley Card Trio; 9:30pm Pram Trio. Feb
18 6:30pm U of T Student Jazz Ensembles;
555 Dundas St. E. 647-748-0555
9:30pm John Cheesman Jazz Orchestra. Feb
Feb 1 8pm Heillig Manoeuvre CD Launch $15. 19 6:30pm Mikko Hilden Quartet; 9:45pm
Feb 15 9:30pm Elizabeth Shepherd $15 or Jeremy Pelt Electric Band. Feb 20 6:30pm
$40(dinner and show).
Worst Pop Band Ever; 9:45pm Jeremy Pelt
Pauper’s Pub
Electric Band. Feb 21 6:30pm Ross Wooldridge
Trio; 9:45pm Mark Eisenman Quintet. Feb 22
539 Bloor St. W. 416-530-1331
4pm Hogtown Syncopators; 6:30pm Sara Dell;
Feb 10 4:30pm Afternoon Jazz w/ The Singer’s 9:45pm Mark Eisenman Quintet. Feb 23 12pm
Jazz Series: Michele Mele (vocals); Reiner Danny Marks & Friends; 3:30pm Laura Hubert;
W. Schwarz (spoken word); Norman Amadio 7pm Lester McLean Trio; 9:45pm Howard
(piano); Duncan Hopkins (bass); Cam Jobson Moore & the Vipers; 12:30am Rich Brown’s
(drums). $15/$12(adv).
Rinse the Algorithm. Feb 24 12pm Excelsior
Pilot Tavern, The
Dixieland Jazz; 3:30pm Freeway Dixieland;
7pm Harley Card Trio; 9:30pm David French’s
22 Cumberland Ave. 416-923-5716
Bloomsday. Feb 25 6:30pm U of T Student
thepilot.ca All shows: No Cover
Jazz Ensembles; 9:45pm John MacLeod’s Rex
Saturday Jazz 3:30-6:30pm
Hotel Orchestra. Feb 26 6:30pm Mikko Hilden
Feb 2 Pat LaBarbera Quartet. Feb 9 Shuffle Quartet; 9:45pm Jason Marsalis Vibes Quartet.
Demons. Feb 16 Norman Marshall Villeneuve’s Feb 27 6:30pm Worst Pop Band Ever; 9:45pm
Jazz Message. Feb 23 Sugar Daddies. Jason Marsalis Vibes Quartet. Feb 28 6:30pm
Reposado Bar & Lounge
Ross Wooldridge Trio; 9:30pm Tribute to Clare
Fischer & Cal Tjader.
136 Ossington Ave. 416-532-6474
reposadobar.com All shows: PWYC.
Seven44
Every Wed 9:30pm Spy vs Sly vs Spy. Every (Formerly Chick n’ Deli/The People’s Chicken)
Thu, Fri 10pm The Reposadists Quartet. 744 Mount Pleasant Rd. 416-489-7931
Reservoir Lounge, The
seven44.com All shows: No Cover.
Every Sat 4-7pm Climax Jazz Band. Every
52 Wellington St. E. 416-955-0887
Mon Big Band Night.
reservoirlounge.com (full schedule).
Every Tue 7-9pm Apres Work Series; 9:45pm
Statlers Lounge
Tyler Yarema and his Rhythm. Every Wed 487 Church St. 416-922-0487
7-9pm Apres Work Series; 9:45pm Big Rude All Shows: No Cover/PWYC
Jake. Every Thu 7-9pm Apres Work Series Every Mon 9:30pm-1am SINGular Sensation:
(Alex Pangman, first Thursday of every month); Musical Theatre Open Mic w/ Jennifer Walls,
9:45pm Sophia Perlman. Every Fri 9:45pm Dee Donovan LeNabat & Jamie Bird. Every Tue
Dee and the Dirty Martinis. Every Sat 9:45pm 10pm Top Star Tuesday: Talent Night. Every
Tyler Yarema and his Rhythm.
Wed 6-10pm Kendall Partington. Every Thu
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9:30pm Open Mic w/ Donovan LeNabat &
Jamie Bird. Every Sat 10pm-1:30am Kendall
Partington. Feb 8 9:30pm Ori Dagan.
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. Feb 2 7pm Nick
Fraser CD Release. Feb 3 5pm Monk’s
Music; 10:30pm The Woodchoppers. Feb 5
10pm Peripheral Vision w/ the Tara Davidson
Group. Feb 6 10pm Jeff LaRochelle’s Origins
Ensemble. Feb 7 10pm Herrington w/ Leah
Hunter Band & Chris Warren. Feb 10 10pm
Lina Allemano Four. Feb 12 7:30 Aurochs;
10pm Hobson’s Choice. Feb 14 10:30pm
Little Sun w/ Jaron Freeman-Fox and the
Opposite of Everything. Feb 15 10pm Jay
Aymar Cd Release. Feb 17 5pm Monk’s
Music. Feb 19 10pm Ken McDonald Quartet.
Feb 22 10pm Ryan Driver Quartet. Feb 24
10:30pm Steve Ward Presents. Feb 26 10pm
Nick Fraser Presents. Feb 28 10pm Lowell
Whitty.
Victory Café, The
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.
Windsor Arms Hotel, The
18 St. Thomas St. 416-971-6666
Every Sun 11am-2pm Jazz Brunch. $50;
$35(12 and under). Includes brunch.
Zemra Bar & Lounge
778 St. Clair Ave. W. 416-651-3123
zemrabarlounge.com
Every Wed Open Mic and Jam w/ All Nighters
& Irene Torres. Every Thu 8pm Brownman
Akoustic Trio $10.
Zipperz
72 Carlton St. 416-921-0066
Every Mon 10pm-12am & Every Fri 7-9pm
Roxxie Terraine w/ Adam Weinmann. No Cover/
PWYC.
Jeanne Lamon | Music Director
Ivars Taurins | Director, Chamber Choir
Baroque
Summer Institute
Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute Sponsor
June 3-16, 2013
At the Faculty of Music
University of Toronto
A 14-day residency in
instrumental and vocal
period performance.
GALAS & FUNDRAISERS
• Feb 05 6:00: Soundstreams. Annual
Fundraising Gala. Dinner, silent auction and a
performance featuring the theme of musical
variations. First Canadian Place, 100 King St.
W. 68th floor. 416-504-1282. $300 or $2100
for table of 8. christinan@soundstreams.ca
• Feb 08 9:00: Motionball/Air Miles. Winter
Wonderland Gala. In support of the Special
For advanced students,
pre-professional, and
professional musicians.
Application Deadline:
March 21, 2013
tafelmusik.org/tbsi
D. The ETCeteras
music director of the canadian Opera company and conductor of
Tristan und Isolde, johannes Debus, pictured above, will discuss the
musicological aspects of the opera on February 11. Priority will be
given to Toronto wagner society members. Reservations are required
for non-members. see Lectures & symposia.
Olympics Canada Foundation. Muzik, 15
Saskatchewan Rd. 416-927-9050 x4303.
$150; $350(VIP). Ticket available online at
www.motionball.com
• Feb 09 11:30am: La Jeunesse Youth
Orchestra. Soup & Symphony Fundraiser.
Rehearsal, soup and silent auction. Calvary
Pentecostal Church, 401 Croft St., Port Hope.
1-866-460-5956. $20.
• Feb 21 7:00: Syrinx Concerts Toronto.
Fundraising Gala: Celebrating the Music of
Oscar Peterson. Featuring the Dave Young Trio;
also silent auction, reception and wine bar. 416-
654-0877. $60.
• Feb 23 5:00: Grand River Chorus. Grand
Fête du Vin. Guided wine tastings, live and
silent auctions, buffet dinner and live jazz. Best
Western Inn, 19 Holiday Dr. Brantford. 519-
753-6758. $75. info@grandriverchorus.com
• Feb 23 7:30-9:30: Mariposa in the
Schools/Echo Women’s Choir. Songs and
Stories to Lift Your Spirit and Warm Your Heart.
Third annual benefit, with live performances by
various artists including singer-songwriter Chris
Rawlings and dub poet Michael St. George; also
door prizes, silent auction and refreshments.
Church of the Holy Trinity, 10 Trinity Sq. 416-
462-9400. $25; $100(reserved seating). info@
mariposaintheschools.ca
COMPETITIONS
• Deadline to Apply: Feb 04 Orchestra
Toronto. The 2013 Marta Hidy Prize for Piano
Concerto Competition. For Canadian virtuosos
aged 23 and younger. Online applications due
Feb 4; by Feb 25 candidates must upload an
audition video of themselves playing a Chopin
Étude (Op.10 or 25), a Prelude and Fugue from
Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier and a piece of his/
her choice. More details: orchestratoronto1@
gmail.com. Online application at
www.orchestratoronto.ca
• Deadline to Apply: Feb 18 North York Music
Festival. Piano, strings, voice, guitar, winds
and brass instruments. For amateur musicians
of all ages and skill levels. 416-788-8553.
Register at www.northyorkmusicfestival.com
LECTURES & SYMPOSIA
• Feb 01 9:00am–5:45pm: University
of Toronto Faculty of Music/Jackman
Humanities Institute. Wagner and Adaptation
Symposium. Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Bldg.,
80 Queen’s Park. 416-408-0208. Free.
• Feb 02 9:00am–12pm: Canadian Opera
Company/University of Toronto Faculty
of Music/Jackman Humanities Institute.
The Opera Exchange: Wagner and Adaptation
Symposium. Performance and panel discussion
about Tristan und Isolte. Walter Hall, Edward
Johnson Bldg., 80 Queen’s Park. 416-408-
0208. Free.
• Feb 10 2:00: Toronto Opera Club. The
Great 19th Century Opera Composer, Giacomo
Meyerbeer. Lecture by Stephen R. Clarke. Rm.
330, Edward Johnson Bldg., 80 Queen’s Park,
416-924-3940. $10.
• Feb 10 2:00: London Opera Guild. Meeting
and Lecture. Howard Dyck lectures on Tristan
und Isolde. Aeolian Hall, 795 Dundas St.,
London. 519-673-5189. $TBA.
• Feb 11 8:00: Toronto Wagner Society.
Conducting the Music of Tristan und Isolde.
Discussion by Johannes Debus. Arts and
Letters Club, 14 Elm St. $25. Reservations
required: torontowagner@yahoo.com
• Feb 14 7:00: North York Public Library.
Duke & Monk: Beyond Category: The Music
of Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk.
Pianist Mboya Nicholson demonstrates how
stride and ragtime influenced the styles of jazz
greats Ellington and Monk. 5120 Yonge St.
416-395-5639. Free, limited seating.
• Feb 19 8:00: Toronto Wagner Society.
Tristan und Isolde: Singers Roundtable.
Featuring singers from the COC production.
Arts and Letters Club, 14 Elm St. $25.
Reservations required: torontowagner@yahoo.
com
• Feb 21 7:00: North York Public Library.
Always Modern: The Music of New Orleans.
Recital and demonstration by pianist Mboya
Nicholson of New Orleans pianists and composers.
5120 Yonge St. 416-395-5639. Free,
limited seating.
MASTERCLASSES
• Feb 04 11:00am: University of Toronto
Faculty of Music. Master Class with the Berlin
Philharmonic Wind Quartet. Walter Hall, Edward
Johnson Bldg., 80 Queen’s Park. Auditors welcome.
416-408-0208. Free.
• Feb 05 11:30am: York University
Department of Music. Vocal Masterclass on
melodies and oratorio with Rosemarie Landry,
soprano. Featuring students from the studios
of Catherine Robbin, Stephanie Bogle, Norma
Burrowes, Michael Donovan, Janet Obermeyer
and Karen Rymal. Observers welcome. Tribute
Communities Recital Hall, Rm.112, Accolade
East Bldg., 4700 Keele St. 416-736-5888. Free.
• Feb 10 and Feb 24 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 & Eglinton area, call
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for exact location. 416-483-9532.
www.singingstudio.ca
WORKSHOPS
• Feb 02 10:30am to 1:00: Toronto
Mendelssohn Choir. TMC Singsation
Saturday. Reading for singers. Britten: St.
Nicolas Cantata. Mark Vuorinen, conductor.
Cameron Hall, Yorkminster Park Baptist Church,
1585 Yonge St. 416-598-0422. $10 includes
refreshments. www.tmchoir.org
• Feb 03 1:30–4:00: Toronto Early Music
Players Organization. Instrumental Workshop.
Elin Söderström, 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.
• Feb 15 Early Bird Registration Deadline: Soul
Voice. 2-Day Workshop with Master Sound
Healer Karina Schelde. Workshop takes place
March 16 and 17, 9:30am-6:00pm in Toronto.
647-938-3994. Early bird price: $330 before
Feb 15. sounddreaming@gmail.com
awakeningyourvoice.com/soulvoicetoronto
• Feb 15 7:30: CAMMAC Recorder Players’
Society. Renaissance and Baroque Workshop.
For recorders and other early instruments. Colin
Savage, coach. Church of the Transfiguration,
111 Manor Rd. E. 416-480-1853. $20;
$5(members). Refreshments included.
• Feb 17 2:00: CAMMAC. Reading for Singers
and Instrumentalists. Haydn: Lord Nelson Mass.
David Weaver, conductor. Christ Church Deer
Park, 1570 Yonge St. 416-551-5183. $10;
$6(members).
• Feb 22 and 23: Southern Ontario Chapter
of the Hymn Society. Psalms Galore: a
Workshop Introducing Psalms for all Seasons.
Emmanuel College, 75 Queen’s Park. 416-342-
6034. www.sochs.org
• Feb 23 12:00 – 3:00: Royal Canadian
College of Organists. Organ Skills Workshop.
Location in Markham, to be announced. 416-
929-6400. Free. To register:
gdmansell@sympatico.ca
• Feb 23 2:00: CAMMAC. Band Workshop.
Led by Fran Harvey. Toronto Public Library,
Northern District, 40 Orchard View Blvd. 416-
551-5183. $25; $20(members).
• Mar 02 3:00–5:00: Leaside United Church.
Technology and Worship. Led by Christina
Bogucki, covering visual presentations, building
a tech team, copyright, hardware and software.
822 Millwood Rd. 416-425-1253. $30.
• Mar 02 3:00–5:00: Leaside United Church.
New Church Music Workshop. Led by Ron
Klusmeier, as part of the Tour of a Lifetime.
822 Millwood Rd. 416-425-1253. Free, registration
required.
• Mar 03 1:30–4:00: Toronto Early Music
Players Organization. Instrumental Workshop.
Joëlle Morton, 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.
SCREENINGS
• Feb 08 7:00: Tafelmusik Baroque
Orchestra. Screening of Amadeus (director’s
cut) for Tafelscene Members. Must be 35 or
under to attend. Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre, 427
Bloor St. W. 416-964-9562 x227. $2.
• Feb 10 8:00: Robert Bruce Presents.
1927 Silent Film “IT” with Live Piano Score.
Composer/pianist performs an original live score
set to the classic film. Trinity-St. Paul’s United
Church, 427 Bloor St. W. 905-777-9196. $15.
• Feb 16 7:30: Gallery Players of Niagara
Artists Company. Movie Night. Music set to
F. W. Murnau’s Sunrise (1927). Douglas Miller,
flute; Eric Mahar, guitar; Penner MacKay, percussion.
Niagara Artists Centre, 354 St. Paul
St., St. Catharines. 905-468-1525. $28–$33.
• Feb 24 2:00: Living Arts Centre. Opera
Film Series: Verdi’s La Traviata. High definition
screening of opera captured at the Opera
Festival in St. Margarethen, Austria. 137 minutes.
Hammerson Hall, Living Arts Centre,
4141 Living Arts Dr., Mississauga. 905-306-
6000. $15.
OPEN HOUSES
• Mar 03 2:00 – 5:30: No Strings Theatre.
Open House and Triple Threat Workshop.
Putting together dance, acting and singing.
First Unitarian Congregation, 175 St. Clair
Ave. W. 416-588-5845. Free. www.nostringstheatre.com
SINGALONGS
• Feb 12 7:00–8:00: Canada Sings/
Chantons Canada! Toronto-Riverdale.
Neighbourhood Singalong. Canadian folk songs,
rock, Broadway, ballads. Mark Bell, songleader;
Choral Conductor Search
Exultate Chamber Singers, an auditioned, 24voice
choir in Toronto, is now seeking an
experienced conductor/artistic director
for the 2013/14 season.
Application guidelines are available by emailing
exultate@exultate.net or visiting
www.exultate.net
click on Conductor Search under the Contact tab
Applications due: February 28, 2013
exultate@exultate.net | www.exultate.net
National Academy
Orchestra of Canada
Boris Brott O.C. Artistic Director
2013 Brott Music Festival | Hamilton, Ontario CANADA
2013 SEASON: CALL FOR AUDITIONS
Strings | Woodwinds | Brass | Percussion | Conductors
Spring & Summer: May 6–August 18, 2013 15 Weeks
An extraordinary opportunity for emerging young Canadian
professional musicians to work alongside established
professionals, aged 18–30, from Canada’s finest orchestras.
Masterclasses | Seminars | Chamber Music | Mock Auditions
International Soloists | Guest Conductors | Concertmasters
Mentors
Live audition application deadline: Friday, February 15, 2013
for auditions in Toronto, Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa,
Waterloo, Hamilton, Winnipeg, Calgary and Vancouver
(please see website for dates)
Recorded Auditions due March 22, 2013
CD or DVD only (DVD preferred)
details at nationalacademyorchestra.com
orchestramanager@brottmusic.com
905.525.7664 | 1.888.475.937
Canada’s only professional training orchestra
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Audience favourites from past concerts.
Cherryhill Mall, 301 Oxford St. W., London.
519-455-8895. Free.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
• Registration open: York University
Faculty of Fine Arts/Society of Dance
History Scholars. Sacre Celebration:
Revisiting, Reflecting, Revisioning. Special
topics conference (April 18-20) featuring
panels, papers and workshops to mark the
centennial celebration of Le Sacre du printemps
(The Rite of Spring). York University,
4700 Keele St. 416-736-2100 x22122.
$150; $75(st/retired) includes one ticket to a
performance of Rite Redux, April 19 at York U.
ETCETERA: MISCELLANEOUS
• Feb 07 3:00: York University Department
of Music. CAGESPACE. Multi-disciplinary celebration
of the 100th birthday of John Cage,
directed by Casey Sokol at various locations at
the Accolade East Building. 4700 Keele St. 416-
736-2100 x22926. Free.
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AUDITIONS/OPPORTUNITIES
COUNTERPOINT COMMUNITY
ORCHESTRA (www.ccorchestra.org)
welcomes volunteer musicians: Monday
evening rehearsals, downtown Toronto.
All sections especially violins. Email info@
ccorchestra.org
EAST YORK CONCERT BAND OPENINGS:
We are looking for talented amateur musicians
to join our band. We need bassoon, french horn,
euphonium, clarinet, oboe, tuba, percussion
and trumpets. Practices are Monday evenings
September to June. If you play one of these
instruments and are interested in joining a great
group please call us at 416-251-4957 or visit us
at www.eastyorkconcertband.ca or
www.facebook.com/eastyorkconcertband
MUSIC DIRECTOR POSITION: The
Church of the Holy Trinity, an Anglican
Parish in downtown Toronto, seeks a new
music director to head the development of
its Music Ministry. Details about the Parish
and the position, including a job description
can be found at www.holytrinitytoronto.org.
Applications may be sent to:
hr@holytrinitytoronto.org. The deadline for
applications is February 28th, 2013
ORGAN INTERN DESIRED at St Matthew’s
Independent Anglican Cathedral (Queen
and Logan). Inquiries 416-465-2880. Email
stmatthews1934@gmail.com
SPRING OPERA WORKSHOP for young
singers, aged 14-24, exploring the Da Ponte
Operas: Cosi fan tutte (in English) Le Nozze di
Figaro (in English) Don Giovanni (in English and
Italian) set to music by W. A. Mozart. Scene
study, recitals and performances, from May 15
depth therapy
with Matthew Kelly
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Sponsored by Maestro Enterprises International
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To audition please call 647-701-5033
INSTRUCTION
DICTION COACHING / TUTORING for singers
and actors: Dutch, English, French, German,
Italian, Spanish, and Latin - across from High
Park subway station. 416-769-0812
EARLY CHILDHOOD MUSIC CLASSES for
ages 0-6years, Saturdays beginning March
2. Come to our OPEN HOUSE and free music
class Sunday February 10th, 3-4pm. St Clair
and Avenue Rd. For more information or to
reserve, please call 416-588-5845 Ext 2, email
voicesofcolourmusic@gmail.com or visit
www.voicesofcolourmusic.com
FREE MUSIC THEATRE WORKSHOP and
OPEN HOUSE: Sunday March 3 – ages 12-21.
Sing! Act! Dance! Featuring choruses from
No Strings Theatre’s upcoming summer show.
For more information, email
directors@nostringstheatre.com or visit
www.nostringstheatre.com.
FLUTE, PIANO, THEORY LESSONS: RCM
exam preparation. Samantha Chang, Royal
Academy of Music PGDip, LRAM, ARCT.
416-293-1302, samantha.studio@gmail.com
www.samanthaflute.com
MAKING MUSIC WITH THE RECORDER
After 30 years at The Royal Conservatory,
Scott Paterson has opened his own studio: all
ages; private lessons and ensembles. Central
location. Mus. Bac. Perf. (U of T), ARCT,
member ORMTA. 416-759-6342 (cell 416-268-
1474) wspaterson@gmail.com
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.
eve.egoyan@bell.net or 416- 603-4640
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
VOCAL TECHNIQUE: Develop your most
beautiful, healthy voice! Classical, Jazz, Pop,
theory, sight-singing/ear training, RCM exams,
auditions. BM Perf. (Glenn Gould School),
ORMTA. Lara (416) 544-8148
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FOR SALE
FRENCH HORN: double horn in excellent
condition, one owner since 1978. Suitable for
working musician or serious student. Asking
$3300. mjbuell@gmail.com
HARPSICHORD FOR SALE Italian single:
cedar/cherry with rose, brass strings
throughout, built professionally in 1988.
5 octaves + D. Tool kit. Mooradian case,
stair climbing dolly. asking $13,750.
Erica 416-445-3370
YAMAHA BABY GRAND: apartment size.
Perfect (mint) condition. Model GHIBPE.
Serial #5251425. Appraised - Yamaha
Professional Certificate. Price negotiable,
asking $10,000. One professional owner.
Contact Mila. 416-514-1234.
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SERVICES
ACCOUNTING AND INCOME TAX
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VENUES
ARE YOU PLANNING A CONCERT OR
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REHEARSAL / PERFORMANCE SPACE
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cONGRATULATIONs TO
OUR 2012/2013 GRAND PRIzE
wINNER!
joan sayer identified all ten photos
in our year-end quiz and matched
them to the clues.
She wins a two-person three-course
dinner and show package to hear
jane Bunnett and Hilario durán at the
brand new Paintbox Bistro (April 13),
tickets for Aradia’s “Handel’s grand
Concerti” (April 5) and also for
i furioSi’s “The down-low”
(March 30).
The answers: 1) Aisslinn nosky,
2) Alex Pauk, 3) jane Bunnett, 4)
Peter Appleyard, 5) Shannon Mercer,
6) josh grossman, 7) lydia Adams,
8) Colin Ainsworth, 9) kevin Mallon,
and 10) jonathan Crow.
WE ARE ALL MUSIC’S CHILDREN
Who Is March’s Child?
Forever young and comfortably just one of the guys, his quintet plays at The Rex
(Feb 12), where he just launched an octet debut CD. His trio honours Oscar
Peterson at the Heliconian Hall (Feb 21).
Winnipeg Boys’ Choir circa 1952: already an upstanding musician but not yet an
upright bass.
Know our Mystery Child’s name?
Send your best guess to musicschildren@thewholenote.com by February 21. Win
concert tickets and recordings!
Music’s Children gratefully acknowledges Dorothy and William, Lesley, Barbara,
Felix, kevin and Chris.
A NEW STATE-OF-THE-ART RECITAL HALL WELCOMES
THE KINDRED SPIRITS ORCHESTRA
The Kindred Spirits Orchestra has performed
for 2 seasons at Toronto’s renowned Glenn
Gould Studio to great acclaim, sold-out
audiences, and standing ovations. Since 2011
their season has included a 6-concert
subscription series at Flato Markham Theatre
for the Performing Arts, 3 community outreach
concerts and 2 educational concerts. Led by
the charismatic Maestro Kristian Alexander the
KSO enjoys enormous popularity and
continues to attract avid audiences across the Greater Toronto Area.
The KSO has recently moved their rehearsals to the Cornell Community Centre
Rehearsal Hall in east Markham. This 5,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art facility with superb
acoustics will allow the KSO to continue growing. "We simply fell in love with the new hall, "
said Jobert Sevilleno, General Manager of the Kindred Spirits Orchestra. "There is a lot of
excitement and we can't wait to start the rehearsals for one of the most beautiful pieces in
the orchestral repertoire, Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde.”
Because this piece requires a larger orchestra the KSO is inviting musicians who
play the following instruments to join the orchestra: flute, oboe,
clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, contrabassoon, horn, trumpet,
trombone, mandolin, violin, viola, cello, contrabass, and percussion.
Rehearsals are every Tuesday from 7:15 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
For more information please e-mail info@KSOrchestra.ca or visit
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Venue Rental
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DISCOVERIES | RECORDINgS REVIEWED
The National Youth Orchestra of Canada
has released a 2-CD set documenting
its 2012 adventure under the baton of
Alain Trudel. Russian Masters – Canadian
Creations (nyoc.ca) includes sterling performances
of selections from Prokofiev’s Romeo
and Juliet, Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture
and Shostakovich’s Symphony No.10 in E
Minor alongside new works from young(ish)
Canadian composers Nicolas Gilbert and
Adam Sherkin. If the playing on this disc is
any indication, the future of orchestral music
in this country is in good hands. The playing
is dynamic and nuanced with strong attention
to detail and line. Trudel is to be commended
for his work bringing these young musicians
from across the country into a cohesive and
convincing whole. My only complaint is with
the lack of musicological information. There
is a booklet with extensive details about the
organization — mission statement, audition
process, training and touring programs — and
a biography of Trudel, a complete list of the
musicians and even the recording personnel,
but not a word about the composers or the
music. Perhaps the “Russian Masters” need
no introduction, but this is a real disservice
to the Canadians. I assumed that they were
commissioned to write these works specifically
for the NYOC and a visit to the website
confirms this was the case for Gilbert’s
Résistance but that is the only information
I can find there. Sherkin’s Terra Incognita
remains “unknown” with no mention of its
origin or context. (A Google search turned up
the information that this work was developed
at an orchestral workshop of the Buffalo
Philharmonic and a revised version was performed
in 2005 at the Royal Conservatory in
Toronto under Trudel’s direction.) Both works
make full use of the orchestra’s resources
skilfully although neither breaks any particularly
new ground.
Montreal’s Nicolas Gilbert’s chamber
music has been heard in Toronto in several
contexts, performed by the Ensemble
contemporain de Montréal, New Music
Concerts and Continuum, and in recent
years he has served as host on the ECM’s
cross-country “Generation” tours. Sherkin
is a Toronto-based composer and pianist
with a burgeoning international career
whose new Centrediscs release of solo piano
compositions is reviewed by Nic Gotham further
on in these pages. It is great to have the
opportunity to hear large scale orchestral
compositions by these two; I only wish we
were given some background information.
There is no shortage of information on the
CD Sharp Edges featuring music of Toronto
composer Robert A. Baker (robertabaker.net)
who completed his doctorate at McGill
DAVID OLDS
University in 2009 and now makes his home
in Maryland. The notes start with an Artistic
Statement which states in part “At the heart
of my musical imagination is a fundamental
contradiction. On the one hand I
want to hear music of the distant
past, maintain a sense of connection
to my musical heritage, and
in this way feel a part of humankind.
On the other hand, I feel
an irresistible curiosity; a need
to consider sound in as objective
a manner possible, embrace
any sonic option that is relevant
and practical, no matter how
unconventional, and attempt to
hear what I have not yet heard,
and say what I have not yet said.”
In addition to his activities as
a composer, pianist, conductor
and teacher, Baker is an active
researcher on contemporary music
analysis and philosophies on the
perception of musical time. These
concerns are exemplified in the
seven compositions showcased on
this excellent recording. A series of
four works titled Valence, ranging
from solo piano to an ensemble of
six instruments, are interspersed
with independent pieces including
the title track for four strings
and percussion, another piano
solo and a string quartet. This
last which “evokes an array of
references ranging from the distant
to the recent past in Western
musical history” was premiered at
the Canadian Contemporary Music
Workshop in Toronto in 2004. This
recording of the two part ethereal
then angular piece features Toronto’s Elgin
Quartet. The Valence series was composed
between 2008 and 2011 and is presented
here in reverse chronology. The disc begins
with the final instalment, scored for clarinet,
trumpet, piano, percussion, violin and
cello, and ends with the solo piano precursor.
It is intriguing to hear how the treatment
of the material changes from incarnation to
incarnation. Sharp Edges is not only the title
of a 2009 composition for violin, viola, cello,
double bass and percussion, but also an apt
description of Baker’s uncompromising music
which encompasses the past while embracing
the future.
In March 2012 the Toronto Symphony
Orchestra’s New Creations Festival was curated
by Hungarian conductor and composer
Peter Eötvös. During the week Toronto audiences
had the opportunity to hear a number
of his works thanks to both the TSO and New
Music Concerts. One of the highlights was
the Canadian premiere of the Eötvös’ violin
concerto Seven, a memorial to the astronauts
of the Space Shuttle Columbia. The
number seven provides the shape of not only
the musical materials of the piece, but also
the layout of the orchestra into seven mixed
instrumental groups and the placement of the
six tutti violins (seven violins counting the
soloist) throughout the hall, distant from the
stage, “in space” as it were.
A new recording of this stunning work
appears on Bartók/Eötvös/
Ligeti featuring violinist Patricia
Kopatchinskaja, the Frankfurt
Radio Symphony Orchestra and
Ensemble Modern under Eötvös’
direction (Naïve V 2585). The 2-CD
set also includes Bartók’s Violin
Concerto No.2 dating from 1939
and the five-movement version of
Ligeti’s Violin Concerto from 1992,
the premiere of which was conducted
by Peter Eötvös in Cologne.
Spanning roughly 70 years, this
recording effectively brings
together works by the most
important Hungarian composers
of the 20th century in
sparkling performances by the young
Moldovan violinist.
The Bartók concerto has of
course become a classic of the
repertoire and this recording
reminds us why. The Ligeti,
scored for a chamber orchestra
of 23 players including natural
horns and four winds doubling
on ocarinas, is an extremely challenging
work first heard in Toronto
with Fujiko Imajishi as the soloist
with New Music Concerts in
1999. (She later reprised the
work with Esprit Orchestra.)
Described in the notes as “a
characteristic example of
Ligeti’s late work ... Elements
of music from the Middle Ages to the
Baroque, Bulgarian and Hungarian folksong,
polyrhythmic superimpositions as in
the piano rolls of Conlon Nancarrow and an
exorbitantly difficult solo part are forcibly
yoked into complex constructs that liberate
undreamt-of sonic energies and make listening
into an adventure.” It is all that and more.
My final selection for the month also has
a (perhaps tenuous) Toronto connection.
Chinese born American composer Tan Dun
was selected by Glenn Gould Prize laureate
Toru Takemitsu for the City of Toronto Protégé
Prize in 1996. A recent Naxos release, Tan
Dun – Concerto for Orchestra (8.570608)
includes two compositions from 2012,
the title work and the Symphonic Poem
on Three Notes, juxtaposed with 1990’s
Orchestral Theatre performed by the Hong
Kong Philharmonic Orchestra under the
composer’s direction. This disc provides a
welcome entrée into the concert music of the
composer who came to international atten-
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tion with the score to the film Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The Concerto, which
employs material from Dun’s opera Marco
Polo, is especially effective in its extended
percussion cadenzas and its blending of
vocalization with instrumental accents. With
nods to Stravinsky, Bartók and Lutosławski
while referencing his Asian heritage, this
work is very effective.
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VOCAL
Handel – Giulio cesare in Egitto
marie-Nicole Lemieux; karina Gauvin;
Romina Basso; Emoke Barath;
Il complesso Barocco; Alan curtis
Naïve OP30536
! Still remembering
the brilliant pairing
of soprano Karina
Gauvin and contralto
Marie-Nicole Lemieux
with “Il Complesso
Barocco” on the CD of
Handel duets Streams
of Pleasure, one is
overjoyed at the prospect of hearing them
together as the main characters of a full (over
three hours) Handel opera. This is one of
Handel’s best and the performance is nothing
short of glorious! Lemieux is superb at
portraying Julius Caesar’s commanding presence
as is Gauvin with Cleopatra’s seductive
wit and bravado. The two handle the characters’
romantic moments equally well. For
example, Lemieux is a veritable cyclone
spewing Caesar’s fierce vengeance in “Quel
torrente,” but demonstrates such playful tenderness
in “Se in fiorito,” where the composer
provides a delightful interplay between the
singer and the violin (as a little bird). Gauvin
captures Cleopatra’s sensual nature beautifully
in “Tutto puo donna” and “Venere bella”
while her controlled and softly sustained
tones characterize a sense of resignation in
“Piangerò.”
There is some marvellous casting of the
second leads, notably contralto Romina
Basso who evokes the depth and regal bearing
perfect for a noblewoman in mourning
who is, nonetheless, pursued by no fewer
than three suitors in her time of grief.
Countertenor Filippo Mineccia displays an
impishly evil tone in his portrayal of the murderous
Ptolemy. The orchestra has some great
moments, with sinfonias enhancing the sensuality
of Cleopatra’s staged appearance in
Act II as well as the triumphal entrance during
the finale.
—Dianne Wells
Haydn – The creation
Amanda Forsythe; keith jameson; kevin
Deas; Boston Baroque; martin Pearlman
Linn Records ckD 401
! Although The
Creation was a great
success when it was
first performed, it
was almost forgotten
by the end of the
19th century, outside
Vienna at least. The
first recording dates
from 1949; now there are about 70 recordings
available. They divide into two groups:
those with modern instruments and symphony
orchestras and, on the other hand,
performances with period instruments that
are attentive to late 18th-century performance
style such as this CD. Tafelmusik recorded
the work in 1993. I like the soloists on that
recording (especially the soprano, Ann
Monoyios) but the conducting by Bruno Weil
is unimaginative.
By contrast, Martin Pearlman’s conducting
has the right momentum. The soloists are
very good. The tenor, Keith Jameson, has
the right lyricism. The soprano, Amanda
Forsythe, sings with lightness; yet her voice
is full and warm. The bass-baritone, Kevin
Deas, sings with a great deal of vibrato in a
manner that might seem more appropriate
for Porgy and Bess or the Brahms Requiem,
both of which are in his repertoire, but that is
less important than the power and the sonority
that he brings to the part. Just listen to his
account of the dangerous creeping worm in
Part II, a premonition of what will destroy the
bliss achieved at the end of the work. If you
are looking for a historically informed performance
with period instruments which also
shows passion and drama, I would recommend
this version.
—Hans de Groot
Find Hans de Groot’s
take on Leonardo Vinci’s
Artaserse with a five
countertenor cast at
thewholenote.com.
In Dreams
Philippe sly; michael mcmahon
Analekta AN 2 9836
! This is bass-baritone
Philippe Sly’s
first recording for
Analekta. It’s a wellchosen
program and
presents him with
several stylistic challenges
that he handles
impressively.
Every young singer needs to conquer the
repertoire standards, so it’s no surprise to
find Sly singing the Schumann Dichterliebe,
Op.48. Here Sly captures the essence of
Heine’s poems so well that we understand
why they inspired Schumann and others
to song writing. Wonderfully supported by
accompanist Michael McMahon, Sly is free to
engage his vocal line with the piano to create
the kind of partnership the composer
intended. The happy product of this is what
every lieder performing duo seeks — those
moments of indescribable oneness where separate
parts cease to exist. Sly and McMahon
achieve this many times throughout this
16-song cycle, but no more convincingly than
in “Allnächtlich in Traume.”
The Guy Ropartz settings of six Heine
poems call for a very different approach
reflecting almost a century of art song evolution.
Sly is very comfortable moving from
Schumann into the more modern French
style and honours the same poet’s muse with
a new musical and textual language. Never
demanding much of the chesty operatic voice,
the Ropartz songs show the lighter, truly
lovely mid and upper range of Sly’s voice.
The disc’s most interesting tracks are the
Three Tennyson Songs by British composer
Jonathan Dove. Written for Sly after their first
meeting in Banff in 2009, Dove’s songs seem
perfectly suited for Sly’s voice, which sounds
more at home in these contemporary works
than anywhere else on the disc. They are,
among other things, a reminder of how wonderfully
suitable the English language can be
for art song.
—Alex Baran
strauss – Arabella
Emily magee; Genia kuhmeier;
Tomasz konieczny; michael schade;
vienna state Opera; Franz welser-most
Electric Picture EPc03DvD
! The creative spark
between a composer
and a librettist
can result in masterpieces
and lasting
and memorable collaborations.
Da Ponte
and Mozart, Piave
and Verdi, Gilbert
and Sullivan; and, of
course, Hofmannsthal
and Strauss. The two
hit it off after Strauss
saw Hofmannsthal’s Electra in 1906. “Your
style is so very similar to mine!” enthused the
composer. “We were born for each other.”
There were magical projects for the two
men, who corresponded frequently until
Hofmannsthal’s death. The obvious one is Der
Rosenkavalier, easily the duo’s best opera
and their most lasting legacy. In Arabella, the
somewhat familiar device of a young, beautiful
aristocrat trying to marry the right man
to prop up the family’s sagging fortunes gets
complicated by a bit of “Shakespearean”
cross-dressing and lover-swapping. This par-
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ticular staging is worth seeing not just for the
fine singing, but also superb acting by the
principals. Tomasz Konieczny as Mandryka is
every director’s dream of a singing actor and
Emily Magee as Arabella successfully defies
stereotypes of youth and beauty — no suspension
of disbelief is needed. Genia Kuehmeier
is particularly touching as the younger sister
Zdenka, forced to appear dressed as a
man. For the writing duo, with Arabella the
Viennese magic was back. As Strauss wrote
in his condolences to Hofmannsthal’s widow,
“No one will ever replace him for me or for
the world of music!”
—Robert Tomas
“Shivers of pleasure” says Janos Gardonyi
of a DVD of the young Verdi’s fourth opera,
I Lombardi. And “An early contender for
best of 2013” says Robert Tomas of this
Teatro Real Madrid Tchaikovsky – Iolanta/
Stravinsky – Persephone DVD. Both reviews
are at thewholenote.com.
EARLY & PERIOD PERFORMANCE
All in a Garden Green –
A Renaissance collection
Toronto consort; David Fallis
marquis mAR 81515
! This CD comprises
a double re-release.
Mariners and
Milkmaids is a tribute
to some of the stock
characters of 17th century
English ballads
and dances. Its breakdown
of 11 anonymous
pieces and eight from the seminal English
Dancing Master by John and Henry Playford
bears this out.
Toronto Consort is highly imaginative
in its selection and very few of the tracks
are those old favourites often encountered
in early music compilations. Come Ashore
Jolly Tar is a spirited interpretation which
would grace any Celtic celebration with its
exuberant violin playing and percussion,
as would The Sailor Laddie. More thoughtful
but no less intense is Gilderoy: one singles
out Laura Pudwell’s solo mezzo-soprano.
One also notes the confident way in which
Toronto Consort’s artistic director David Fallis
defeats the Spanish Armada in In Eighty
Eight — and Queen Anne’s enemies in the
Recruiting Officer!
The Toronto Consort finds time to showcase
its soloists. Katherine Hill (soprano)
sings of being The Countrey Lasse, accom-
panied only by Terry McKenna’s lute. Alison
Melville’s recorder and flute playing excel in
An Italian Rant and Waltham Abbey, which
reminds us of the complex techniques she
draws on for the virtuosic English Nightingale
by Jacob van Eyck.
The latter is found on the second CD, O
Lusty May. This is more a celebration of renaissance
music as a whole, dipping into the
continental European repertoire, and less
dependent on anonymous popular pieces.
There is a real sophistication to Allons
au Vert Boccage by Guillaume Costeley,
each of the four singers enjoying their own
prominent part. The pure exuberance of
Thoinot Arbeau’s Jouissance immediately
follows — could there have been a more appropriate
title for this tune? The continental
pieces make their mark — Laura Pudwell in
La terre n’agueres glacée, Giovanni Bassano’s
Frais et Gaillard with Alison Melville rising
to the challenge of some intricate baroque
recorder fingering, and Meredith Hall’s solo
Quand ce beau printemps je voy.
William Byrd’s All in a Garden Green is the
most courtly English piece, its divisions bearing
little resemblance to the plaintive tune set
to words for lovers and, later, English Civil
War activists. Meredith Hall breathes (bird)
life into This Merry, Pleasant Spring, while
an animated quintet urges us to See, see the
shepherds’ queen.
Buy these CDs for anyone new to early
music — and for your own sheer delight!
—Michael Schwartz
concert note: Toronto Consort presents
the Canadian premiere of Francesco Cavalli’s
1640 Italian opera The Loves of Apollo &
Daphne February 15 and 16 at Trinity-
St. Paul’s Centre.
Grounds for pleasure?
Michael Schwartz also
reviews Division-Musick —
English duos for viol and
lute at thewholenote.com.
CLASSICAL & BEYOND
medtner; mussorgsky; Prokofiev
Georgy Tchaidze
Honens
honens.com
! Laureates of the
Honens International
Piano Competition are
fascinating to follow
as they begin to make
their way in the world.
The competition is
a prestigious career
launcher and offers
wide public exposure as well as the promise
of a performance recording on which to build
a growing discography.
It’s easy to understand why Russian Georgy
Tchaidze emerged victorious from the 2009
crop of gifted competitors. On this, his
first major recording, he plays with articulate
clarity and an enormously expressive
technique, and considering his youth, his
interpretive maturity is truly surprising.
Recorded at the Banff Centre in May 2012,
Tchaidze plays Prokofiev, Mussorgsky and
the somewhat lesser known Nicolai Medtner.
The four Medtner Fairy Tales, Op.34 are a
diverse and well-crafted collection of programmatic
works. They demand much of
their performer, especially the final one of
the set where Tchaidze succeeds in making
Medtner sound more of a modernist than
even he may have realized.
Moving from the poetry of Medtner to
the intellectual discipline of his contemporary
Prokofiev, Tchaidze is fully at ease in the
Sonata No.4 in C Minor, Op.29. He seems,
in some way, to understand the music better
than the composer himself and to convey
this youthful confidence quite convincingly,
never pushing this understated composition
beyond credibility — even in the brief but
highly charged final movement.
Mussorgsky’s Pictures are so well known
and frequently recorded that including them
on a first CD is a courageous choice. Tchaidze
truly makes “Pictures” an exhibition.
For a closer look at this amazing young
pianist, watch his several YouTube interviews
and performances.
—Alex Baran
More to discover! Daniel Foley reviews
an Invencia Piano Duo recording of Florent
Schmitt’s Complete Original Works for
Piano Duet and Duo 1; Roger Knox looks
at two Naxos world premiere releases of
the music of Alfredo Casella; and Bruce
Surtees has high praise for Schumann at
Pier 2 – The Symphonies for “finally and
decisively disproving the myth that he
was an inept orchestrator.” All online at
thewholenote.com.
MODERN & CONTEMPORARY
American mavericks
san Francisco symphony;
michael Tilson Thomas
sFsmedia sFs 0056
! The lion’s share of
this captivating disc
of American music is
devoted to two major
works by the innovative
Henry Cowell
(1897–1965), an early
proponent of what
came to be known as
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Canada’s Jasper Wood has long
been one of my favourite violinists,
ever since he used to come into
the music store where I was working
some ten years ago to promote
his terrific CDs of the Eckhardt-Gramatté
and Gary Kulesha solo Caprices and Saint-
Saëns’ Music for Violin and Piano.
Since then he has built a wideranging
discography, including
CDs of music by Ives, Stravinsky,
Bartók and Morawetz. His latest
CD on the American Max Frank
Music label (MFM 003) is titled
Chartreuse, and features Wood
and his long-time accompanist
David Riley in beautifully judged performances
of sonatas by Mozart,
Debussy and Richard Strauss.
The Mozart is the Sonata
in B-Flat Major K454, and the
playing here — as it is throughout
the CD — is Wood at his usual
best: clean; accurate; tasteful;
sweet-toned; stylish; intelligent and
thoughtful. The Debussy sonata
is given an impassioned reading;
and in the Strauss Sonata in E-Flat
Major, Op.18 Wood and Riley handle
the virtuosic demands with
sensitive subtlety, invoking Brahms
rather than providing a mere display
of fireworks. The sound
throughout is resonant and warm,
and the instrumental balance just right. The
CD digipak comes without booklet notes, but
none are really necessary; listening to this CD
is like being at a memorable live recital.
Cellist Simon Fryer teams up with pianist
Leslie De’Ath on a fascinating CD of Victorian
Cello Sonatas on the independent American
label Centaur Records (CRC 3216). The composers
Algernon Ashton and Samuel Liddle
are probably new to you — they certainly were
to me — but they are representative of that
generation of late 19th century English composers
whose style went out of fashion in the
years before the Great War, and whose works
virtually disappeared from the repertoire.
Not surprisingly, their works here — Ashton’s
Sonata No.2 in G Major from 1882 and
Liddle’s Sonata in E-Flat Major and his Elegy
from 1889 and 1900 respectively — are world
premiere recordings; the Sonata No.2 in D
Minor, Op.39 by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford
completes the recital.
The previously unknown Liddle sonata
was discovered by De’Ath in the course of
his hobby of collecting musical documents
and ephemera. The predominant influence
seems to be German, especially the music of
Mendelssohn and Brahms, but that’s hardly
surprising, given the musical connections
between the two countries in Victorian times.
TERRY ROBBINS
Ashton’s music, although scarcely acknowledged
at home, was widely published in
Germany, where he had studied at the Leipzig
Conservatory; Liddle and Stanford also studied
in Leipzig during the late 1870s, as had
Arthur Sullivan some 20 years earlier.
While the Stanford sonata may be the
stronger work, there is a great deal
of worthwhile and highly attractive
music here, clearly the work of
competent and imaginative craftsmen.
Fryer and De’Ath certainly
present a persuasive case for the
pieces, surmounting the often
formidable technical challenges
with expansive playing that never
resorts to overly Romantic indulgence.
Fryer’s tone in the lower
register is particularly lovely.
Sometimes, admittedly, works
do remain buried or neglected for
good reasons, but CDs like this
one remind us just how rewarding
it can be to take the path
less trodden.
Fans of violinist Christian
Tetzlaff will be delighted with his
new CD of three Mozart Sonatas
for Piano and Violin, with Lars
Vogt at the keyboard (Ondine
ODE 1204-2). The sonatas are
those in B Flat Major K454, G
Major K379 and A Major K526
and Tetzlaff more than lives up to
his usual world-class standard in works that
require not only virtuosity but also a great
deal of sensitivity. His playing seems effortless,
with a smooth legato and a lovely range
of dynamics.
The booklet notes tell us that Vogt and
Tetzlaff are both very conscious of the ambiguity
created in these sonatas by Mozart’s
customary emotional range, and their performances
quite beautifully reflect this.
Tetzlaff apparently came to Mozart’s music
fairly late — well, at 15; late for a prodigy — but
clearly understands that growing older is crucial
to understanding the music.
The sound is spacious without being overly
resonant, with the two instruments clearly
separated but nicely balanced, reminding
us — as does the CD’s title — that these were
not originally written as sonatas for solo violin
with piano accompaniment.
Strings Attached continues at
thewholenote.com with new releases by
the Amar and New Zealand string quartets
(music by Hindemith and Asian composers
respectively), violin music by the Polish
composer Ignaz Waghalter performed
by Irmina Trynkos and American
Serenade featuring Swiss violinist Rachel
Kolly D’Alba.
MODERN & CONTEMPORARY continued from previous page
“World Music” and a pioneer of new sounds
from his own instrument, the piano. His fascinating
1930 Synchrony for orchestra was
originally titled Synchrony of Dance, Music,
Light and was intended as a vehicle for the
American dance pioneer Martha Graham,
who unfortunately lost interest in this multimedia
project. There is undoubtedly a
scenario behind this work which might help
explain its episodic character. Unfortunately
the very meagre program notes leave us in
the dark. Cowell’s rather more conventional
three-movement Piano Concerto was also
composed in that year, with the composer
himself the pianist for the premiere performances.
Both scores make prominent use of
Cowell’s trademark “chord clusters” — aggressive
conglomerations of notes played by
closed fists or open palms — which caused
quite a sensation at the time. Pianist Jeremy
Denk is the soloist in a rousing rendition of
this very propulsive work.
Lou Harrison (1917–2003), a student of
Cowell’s, carried on his mentor’s interest
in Asian musical traditions with a particular
emphasis on Balinese music. His Concerto
for Organ with Percussion Orchestra, completed
in 1973 though incorporating elements
from as far back as 1951, features an excellent
performance from Paul Jacobs. The five movements
of the concerto form a convincing and
satisfying synthesis of Eastern and Western
elements seasoned with a strong French
influence reminiscent of Messiaen. The
percussion section of the orchestra is in particularly
fine form in this invigorating score.
A superlative performance ofthe landmark
1927 version of Amériques by Edgard Varèse
(1883–1965) brings the album to a close on a
spectacular note. Tilson Thomas has always
had an uncanny knack for voicing the most
dissonant of chords into a harmonious blend
and here he outdoes himself. These splendid
live performances from 2010 and 2012 are
indispensable fodder for devotees of any of
these unbranded composers.
—Daniel Foley
Barbara Pentland – Toccata
Barbara Pritchard
centrediscs cmccD 18312
! I am very happy
that Centrediscs, a
label on which I also
record, has released
this CD of the solo
piano music of
Barbara Pentland. She
was one of Canada’s
leading composers
who also had a place in the international
avant-garde. Although she favoured serial
techniques she did not let the rules restrict
her. Her music sings and flows with imagination
and colour. These are not the dry ascetic
pieces you might expect from a serialist.
The first piece on the CD, Toccata (1958),
is modelled on the toccatas of Frescobaldi
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and reflects the baroque virtuosic style of fast
trills, arpeggios and hand crossings. Barbara
Pritchard played this piece for the composer
and gives an exemplary performance.
Ephemera (1974–78) is made up of several
short pieces named Angelus, Spectre, Whales,
Coral Reef and Persiflage.This is an extraordinary
set of works and Pritchard’s sensitive
tone and attention to detail make this impressionistic-sounding
music a mesmerizing
experience. The humour that Pentland injects
into two of these pieces is charming. A hint of
Reveille in Persiflage is quirky and fun.
Tenebrae (1976) is full of brooding shadows
lovingly played by Pritchard. Dirge from
1948 and From Long Agofrom 1946 illustrate
Pentland’s early style and you can hear the
influence of Copland, Stravinsky and Bartók
on her work. Vita Brevis (1973) and Horizons
(1985) complete this excellent CD which
should encourage pianists of all levels and
musicians of any taste to discover the marvellous,
musical world of Barbara Pentland.
—Christina Petrowska Quilico
Adam sherkin – As At First
Adam sherkin
centrediscs cmccD 18212
! This new recording
finds Adam Sherkin
at a fascinating early
point in his career as
a composer. Sherkin
trained first as a pianist,
and the works on
this CD of his solo
piano compositions
show him processing this experience. Having
engaged the piano repertoire as broadly and
comprehensively as one could ask of an artist
of 29 years, classical piano music remains
his central point of reference. Clearly evident
are the influences of an entire gallery of
European piano keyboard composers from
the Baroque through the late 18th, 19th and
20th centuries. Mozart and Haydn are overtly
acknowledged in this recording (in the pieces
called Amadeus A.D. and Daycurrents,
respectively), but the presence of Bach, Liszt
and Shostakovich are no less clearly felt at
various points in the proceedings.
Influences aside, what do we perceive
of Sherkin himself? It’s a fair question in
this case, because his compositions must
accommodate the performer’s own fulsome
expressivity: the dynamic range of his playing
is wide, tending to the forte; his articulation is
crisp with a fondness for jabbing accents; his
phrasing often features a late-Romantic emotionalism
in its rubato, but can also — albeit
less frequently — settle into a calmer metric
momentum. And here is what is interesting
about this portrait: as a composer, he is
dealing with the conflicting attractions of
self-expression on one hand, as in the solo
piano music of Schoenberg or Scriabin for
example, and a less subjective, more outward
and “American” approach on the other, as in
the music of John Adams, with whose solo
piano music Sherkin is well acquainted. It is a
typically 21st century creative quandary, and
Adam Sherkin has taken up the struggle with
energy and panache.
—Nic Gotham
Levant
Amici chamber Ensemble
ATmA classique AcD2 2655
! Clarinettist Joaquin
Valdepeñas, cellist
David Hetherington
and pianist Serouj
Kradjian are joined
by first-rate guests
(Benjamin Bowman
and Stephen Sitarski,
violins, Steven Dann,
viola) to perform a wide range of pieces
which make up the passionately played program
of this superb recording. The music
of familiar composers such as Glazunov
and Prokofiev sits alongside that of littleknown
Gayané Chebotaryan, Solhi Al-Wadi,
Marko Tajčević and other artists inspired
by the “sounds and colours of the Middle
East,” as explained in Kradjian’s informative
liner notes.
Highlights include Prokofiev’s Overture on
Hebrew Themes, involving all the musicians
and featuring Valdepeñas’ gorgeous clarinet
sound, and the Seven Balkan Dances by
Tajčević, a 20th century Yugoslav composer.
The performance of these dances is highly
spirited and showcases the artistry and virtuosity
of the core ensemble.
The program is punctuated by chants
by the spiritual teacher George Gurdjieff,
arranged for solo piano by Thomas de
Hartmann. These contemplative pieces, sensitively
played by Kradjian, act as a welcome
foil to the larger, longer and more intense
ensemble pieces.
The disc ends with a sensational solo piano
work — Levante, by Osvaldo Golijov — brilliantly
rendered by Kradjian.
The string playing by Hetherington and
guests is rhapsodic and committed and
the whole disc exudes polish and thoughtful
musicianship. Special mention should be
made of Carlos Prieto’s engineering.
—Larry Beckwith
concert notes: Amici provides live music to
accompany classic silent (and neo-silent)
films by Buster Keaton, Man Ray and Guy
Maddin at the Bell Lightbox on February 3 at
3:00. They will be joined by soprano Isabel
Bayrakdarian and other guests in music of
Beethoven, Chausson, Poulenc and Montsalvatge
at Koerner Hall on March 1 at 8:00.
JAZZ & IMPROVISED
stealing Genius
Amy mcconnell; william sperandei
Femme cache Productions FcP0001
mcconnellsperandei.com
! The debut record
from singer
Amy McConnell and
trumpeter William
Sperandei, with producer
Feisal Patel, is a
stylish romp through
20th century music
originating from a
range of genres and eras. The title, Stealing
Genius, is a reference to Oscar Wilde’s quip
“talent borrows; genius steals.” But since covering
other songwriters’ work is standard
practice in the world of jazz, the quip could
be reworked as “talent borrows; jazz artists
assume ownership.” In this case, the victims
of the thefts are varied and sometimes
unexpected such as Elvis Presley (Suspicious
Minds), Led Zeppelin (Thank You) and James
Bond (From Russia With Love).
McConnell’s background in theatre shows
in her vocal phrasing and approach — she
has a big sound and emotions are expressed
in broad strokes that play to the back of
the house. Her accent is beautiful and
convincing on the few French offerings
including, of course, Piaf’s La Vie en Rose.
Sperandei’s nice, bright sound blends well
with McConnell’s and his soloing is confident
and concise. Singer/stride pianist
Michael Kaeshammer’s guest turn on the Ink
Spots’ I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire
is inspired. But the real genius is in having
Larnell Lewis and Rob Piltch play drums and
guitar on this record. Lewis’ exuberant precision
and Piltch’s subtle musicality elevate
many of the songs from stylish to artful.
—Cathy Riches
The speakeasy Quartet –
vintage style Hot jazz, swing and Pop
speakeasy Quartet
Independent wjs004
hughleal.com
! Hugh Leal may
not be well known
in Toronto but he has
been a significant
force for jazz in the
Windsor area since the
late 70s. He has been
a real catalyst for the
music as a guitarist/
promoter/record producer; between 1983 and
2000 his Parkwood Records label recorded
such veteran musicians as Doc Cheatham,
J.C. Heard, Art Hodes, Franz Jackson and
Sammy Price.
On this latest CD he features the Speakeasy
Quartet in a program of jazz standards from
the 20s and 30s including a couple of Bechet
compositions, Egyptian Fantasy and the
rarely heard Premier Bal, East St. Louis
Toodle-oo and The Mooche by Ellington,
Jubilee, Willie The Weeper, two trio numbers
where the cello lays out, Wrap Your
Troubles In Dreams and Indian Summer
plus three originals by saxophonist Ray
Manzerolle whose impressive playing is fea-
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tured throughout the album. There are also
fine solos from cellist Mike Karoub and pianist
Mike Karloff.
All in all an enjoyable album from four
musicians who respect and understand the
traditions of the music. As the back of the
jewel case accurately says: “Classic jazz with
a unique fresh sonority.” Thank you Hugh
for your seemingly tireless dedication to the
jazz of an earlier era. To buy the CD contact
lealjazz@gmail.com. $15 and it’s yours.
—Jim Galloway
POT POURRI
when I Arrived You were Already There
Aviva chernick
Independent AvGc-002
avivachernick.bandcamp.com
! This is the solo
CD debut for Aviva
Chernick, who also
performs as lead
singer of the JUNOnominated
group Jaffa
Road. Jaffa Road, like
many of the other
groups she performs
with, explores a wide variety of world music.
This recording reflects her work leading
devotional music in the Jewish community,
including at a number of Toronto’s temples
and synagogues.
Her melodies on English and Hebrew texts
are presented in a lovely, simple and accessible
chant-like style. They transport the
listener with a meditative and transcendent
character, while the accompanying musicians
on a number of exotic instruments provide
more intricate and varied textures elegantly
lending elements of rock, jazz and world
fusion. One of the songs, Chadesh yameinu,
borrows its melody with a tip of the hat to the
Indian-Persian duo Ghazal.
Aviva maintains a forthright manner and
purity of tone in her vocal style, as do her
many notable guest singers. The relationships
of breath/spirit, creativity/divinity,
nature/renewal, family and community are
explored on many levels in this deeply heartfelt
and personal offering. The title When I
Arrived You Were Already There is an invitation
to the listener to look deeply within and
return to peace.
—Dianne Wells
Andrew Timar looks at
Life Death Tears Dream,
the latest from Vancouverbased
world music trio,
Orchid Ensemble. Online at
thewholenote.com.
Always find more reviews online
at thewholenote.com
Few cds will garner the immediate
interest of Test of Time
(Cornerstone Records CRST
CD 140, cornerstonerecordsinc.com),
previously unreleased
material recorded in 1999 by the
trio of saxophonist Mike Murley,
guitarist Ed Bickert and bassist Steve
Wallace. The trio’s only previous CD
won the 2002 Juno Award for best
mainstream jazz album, shortly
after Bickert’s 2001 decision to
retire from playing. Bickert may
be Canada’s most distinguished
jazz guitarist (his tenure with
Paul Desmond might be enough
to establish that) but all his
gifts are in evidence here, the
gentle propulsion of his chording,
the perfect voicings when he’s
comping and the brilliant linear
flow of his improvised lines.
There’s likely no better forum to
showcase his gifts than this trio
without drums, his every nuance
clearly audible and Murley and
Wallace ideal associates to bring
out his best as both soloist and
accompanist. East of the Sun stands out.
Myriad 3 is a group of young Toronto musicians
in the traditional jazz piano trio format,
with Chris Donnelly on piano, Dan Fortin on
bass and Ernesto Cervini on drums.
Tell (ALMA ACD13112, almarecords.com),
however, doesn’t
strongly suggest any traditional
trio approaches. Instead the
group’s affinities are with more
recent paradigms, like Sweden’s
EST or the American trio Bad Plus.
Myriad 3’s style is distinctly spare
and strongly rhythmic, with elements
of classical and pop music frequently
appearing. The opening Myriad
may suggest Satie in its modal grace,
while Drifters emphasizes forceful,
broken rhythms and dramatically
unexpected piano chords. There’s
a sense here of an equality of parts,
each member playing in a sparse,
assertively gestural style. When older
jazz elements appear, they’re
equally lean and specific,
whether it’s Duke Ellington’s
almost monotone C Jam Blues or
the bluesy Horace Silver-style bop
of Donnell’s Mr. Awkward.
The Lina Allemano Four has
achieved remarkably consistent
form, maintaining the same personnel
for their fourth consecutive CD (beginning
with Pinkeye in 2006). Trumpeter Allemano
is joined by Brodie West on alto saxophone,
STUART BROOMER
Andrew Downing on bass and
Nick Fraser on drums on Live at
the Tranzac (Lumo Records, linaallemano.com),
the Toronto
bar providing a comfortable setting
for these close-knit, highly
conversational dialogues on
the leader’s compositions.
The style is free jazz, the band
reminiscent of Ornette Coleman’s
original quartet, but the music
couldn’t be more disciplined,
the band working hand-in-glove
to realize the most from each of
Allemano’s tunes.
Tenor saxophonist Michael
Blake has long been established in
New York, where he’s best known
for his decade-long membership in
John Lurie’s high-profile Lounge
Lizards. He still maintains strong
ties to Vancouver, however, and
he has just released In the Grand
Scheme of Things (Songlines
SGL159-2, songlines.com) featuring
a quartet with Vancouver
musicians. It’s a heady musical
blend that delights in contrasting
sounds, from Blake’s own, often straightahead
tenor in lyrical ballad or forceful
up-tempo mode to passages of eerie, electronically
altered trumpet from JP
Carter, techno and ambient electronic
sound from Chris Gestrin
on Fender Rhodes electric piano
and a Moog Micromoog synthesizer
and percussion that ranges
from traditional trap drumming
to the metallic grit of scraped
cymbals from Dylan van der
Schyff. It’s evocative work, but it’s
Blake’s warm, keening tenor on
the soulful Treat Her Right that
leaves the strongest impression.
The American composer and
bandleader Sun Ra died in 1993,
but his influence persists in
new recordings from Montreal
and Toronto. Bassist Nick Caloia
has been building the Ratchet
Orchestra since the early 90s. At
times it’s been as small as a quartet,
but the current personnel numbers
around 30. While the band has
performed and recorded Sun Ra
compositions in the past, here the
influence is apparent in Caloia’s
own writing. It’s a mad explosion
of sound that layers Caloia’s ceremonial
melodies over processional rhythms and a
thick undergrowth of improvising percussion.
As heard on Hemlock (Drip Audio DA00820,
dripaudio.com), the band has also assembled
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the strongest core of soloists you’re ever likely
to hear in a Canadian free-jazz band, including
the reeds of Jean Derome, Lori Freedman,
Christopher Cauley and Damian Nisensen,
trombonists Tom Walsh and Scott Thomson
and guitarist Sam Shalabi. The vitality and
high spirits are palpable and they sometimes
explode, as in the eruption of Beat poet Brion
Gysin’s permutational Kick that Habit Man.
Toronto guitarist Ken Aldcroft’s
Convergence Ensemble has released a 2-CD
set of the leader’s compositions called Sneaky
Pete/Slugs’ (Trio Records try 015, kenaldcroft.com).
Disc one is a collection of pieces
that emphasizes sub-groups and solo improvisations;
Disc two, by the full sextet, presents
Slugs’: Suite for Sun Ra, named for the New
York club where Sun Ra once played regularly.
It’s animated at once by Aldcroft’s melodies
and swaying rhythms, but it’s elevated by
the focused improvisations of the ensemble,
from Aldcroft’s own divergent approaches
(sometimes a lyrical minimalism, at other
times tumbling, rapid flurries of notes) to
the extended techniques of trumpeter Nicole
Rampersaud, playing multiple tones at once,
and trombonist Scott Thomson (yes, he manages
to appear in both these bands) who
explores seemingly contradictory low-pitched
whistles. The final piece, combining themes
from both Sneaky Pete and Slugs’, goes
through numerous textures, highlighted by
the intensity of saxophonist Evan Shaw.
More Aldcroft? Tiina Kiik’s review of two
new Ken Aldcroft “free improv” releases, one
with Joel Le Blanc and one with Andy Haas,
can be found at thewholenote.com.
Something in the Air
Peter Brötzmann’s Triumphant Seventh Decade
Although the witticism
that “free jazz keeps
you young” has been
repeated so often that
it’s taken on cliché
status, there’s enough evidence
to give the statement veracity.
Many improvisers in their eighties
and seventies are still playing
with the fire of performers in their twenties.
Take German saxophonist Peter Brötzmann,
who celebrated his 70th birthday and nearly
50 years of recording a couple of years ago.
Case in point is Solo +Trio Roma (Victo CD
122/123, victo.qc.ca), recorded at 2011’s
Festival International de Musique Actuelle
de Victoriaville (FIMAV) in Quebec. Not only
does Brötzmann play with unabated intensity
for almost 75 minutes, while fronting a
bassist and a drummer about half his age on
one CD; but on the other inventively plays
unaccompanied, without a break, for another
hour or so. The multi-reedist still blows with
the same caterwauling intensity that characterized
Machine Gun, 1968’s free jazz classic,
but now a balladic sensitivity spells his gofor-broke
expositions.On Solo, his overview
is relentlessly linear mixing extended staccato
cadenzas with passages of sweet romance that
momentarily slow the narrative. Climactically
the nearly 25-minute Frames of Motion is
a pitch-sliding explosion of irregular textures
and harsh glissandi that seems thick
as stone, yet is malleable enough to squeeze
the slightest nuance out of every tune. Slyly,
Brötzmann concludes the piece with gargling
split tones that gradually amalgamate
into I Surrender Dear. Backed by Norwegian
percussion Paal Nilssen-Love and Italian electric
bassist Massimo Pupillo, Brötzmann
adds lip-curling intensity and multiphonic
glissandi to the other program. Centrepiece
is Music Marries Room to Room that con-
KEN WAXMAN
tinues for more than 69 minutes.
Besides wounded bull-like cries
tempered with spitting glissandi
from the saxophonist, the piece
includes jet-engine-like drones
from Pupillo as well as shattering
ruffs and pounding shuffles from
the drummer. Several times, just
as it seems the playing can’t get
any more ardent, it kicks up another notch.
Indefatigable, the saxophonist spins out staccato
screams and emphatic abdominal snorts
in equal measures, with his stentorian output
encompassing tongue slaps, tongue stops and
flutter tonguing. Brief solos showcase Pupillo
crunching shards of electronic friction with
buzz-saw intensity, while Nilssen-Love
exposes drags, paradiddles, rebounds and
smacks, without slowing the beat. There
are even lyrical interludes among the overblowing
as Brötzmann occasionally brings
the proceedings to a halt for a capella sequences,
which suggest everything from Taps to
Better Git It in Your Soul. Finally the brokenoctave
narrative reaches a point of no return
to wrap up in a circular fashion with yelping
reed cries, blunt percussion smacks and
dense electronic buzzes. Rapturous applause
from the audience spurs the three to go at it
again at the same elevated concentration for
an additional five minutes.
For reviews of other discs by Brötzmann,
with trumpeter Toshinori Kondo; pianist
Masakiko Satoh and drummer Takeo
Moriyama plus two younger saxophonists,
Ken Vandermark and Mats Gustafsson,
see the continuation of this column at
thewholenote.com.
Berlioz reimagined by French free music
ensemble La Marmite Infernale? Ken
Waxman’s review of Le Cauchemar d’Hector
is also on our website.
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Old Wine, New Bottles | Fine Old Recordings Re-Released
Many of us have attended or heard
performances of the Brahms First
Symphony that for the most part
have slipped from memory. As
important as it is, this symphony has fallen
into the war-horse, crowd-pleaser category
and a performance whether heard live or via
recordings can appear to be just another work
on the program, or a revelation! Granted any
first hearing will be a unique experience but
one would need to be quite familiar with a
few different versions to recognize that a particular
new performance is exceptional. Case
in point is a new release of a concert performance
by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Sergiu Celibidache (Vienna
Symphony CD, WS002 mono).
Celibidache refused to make commercial
recordings, stating that
such documents would only
reveal how he conducted the
work at that time of day, on that
date, in that venue ... etc., etc. On
the evening of October 30, 1952, in
the Konzerthaus, this is how they
played! It remains a truly memorable
event. The playing is articulate, no
slurring, clean winds and brass
and no pregnant pauses. The music
seems to drive itself. This is a passionate
performance directed by a
young firebrand and is no way akin
to his later settled-in and comfortable
versions — from the 1976
Stuttgart RSO (DG) and the 1987
Munich Philharmonic (EMI). This
performance remains not a monument
to Brahms but a celebration.
The mono sound is full bodied
and dynamic, typical of the best engineering
of the day.
Although there were others, for the second
half of the 20th century and beyond, when
one considered performances of Schubert
lieder, the late Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
enjoyed his well-deserved prime reputation.
Of course, he was also known for his Mozart,
Beethoven, Schumann, Hugo Wolf, Mahler
and Richard Strauss and others from Bach
to Berg and Britten. And he loved to make
recordings.
He recorded the three Schubert cycles
many times, because, unlike instrumentalists
and some conductors, he wanted a wide
audience to know how he sang it that day
BRUCE SURTEES
with that accompanist. He talks about this
in a charming interview/conversation dating
from the 1985 Schubertiade, part of a
DVD release from Arthaus Musik of Schubert
(Arthaus 107523, 2 DVDs). Die Schöne
Müllerin was recorded live in 1991 at the
Montforthaus in Feldkirch with Andres Schiff
including, as a bonus, the conversation
with Franz Zoglauer.
Winterreise was filmed a dozen
years earlier in Siemens Villa,
Berlin in 1979 and includes
almost an hour of rehearsal for
the recital with Alfred Brendel.
So why would this singer require
a rehearsal of what was his basic
repertoire? As he says
on the other disc, different
accompanists
can elicit different
variations in his
interpretation and
together they work it
out. Together, the two
DVDs provide a most
satisfying evening.
I must remind readers
of what I consider
to be the most satisfying
recording ever of
Das Lied von der Erde:
Fischer-Dieskau conducting
the Stuttgart
Radio Symphony
Orchestra with alto,
Yve Janicke and tenor
Christian Elsner (Orfeo
C494001 B). Not surprisingly,
the orchestral
playing is unusually expressive and much
more sublimely lyrical than other versions
particularly, but not only in the winds. The
overwhelming loneliness and resignation of
Der Abschied is heart-breaking. Recorded in
concert on June 22 at the 1996 Schubertiade
in the medieval town of Feldkirch, this would
be one of my ten Desert Island discs.
Alfred Cortot was one of the most respected
musicians and pianists of the early 1900s
and into the 1950s. His recordings were once
the cornerstones in the libraries of Chopin
and Schumann aficionados around the
world. Cortot was born in 1877 in the Suisse
Romande and studied and was awarded in
Paris. He was choral conductor in Bayreuth
in 1901 and was responsible for the mounting
of Götterdämmerung in Paris in 1902
which he also conducted. The Cortot, Casals
and Jacques Thibaud Trio had a well-deserved
reputation and was in part responsible for
elevation of the trio form from the salon
to the concert stage. Cortot was a sensitive
accompanist for singers and string
players alike. He also conducted
notable recordings.
Today, perfect technique has
become the norm and the prime
concern of audiences who, to
paraphrase Professor Higgins,
don’t care about what instrumentalists
play as long as they play all
the right notes. Cortot was one of
the last musicians from the times
when personal and intuitive interpretations
overrode minor concern
for technical perfection.
The motherlode of his
recordings, Alfred Cortot An
Anniversary Edition, contains
every EMI recording
from 1919 to 1959 including unreleased
items (EMI 5099970490725 40
CDS). As of this writing, a complete
list of the some 275 works
can only be seen at Arkivmusic:
arkivmusic.com/classical/album.
jsp?album_id=817326.
Chatting about this totally new,
all newly remastered set recently,
I was asked “Did they leave in all
the wrong notes?” Yes, they did.
ICA Classics continues to
release DVDs of concert performances
featuring Benjamin Britten
conducting the English Chamber Orchestra
in The Maltings Concert Hall in Aldeburgh as
they were recorded for broadcast by the BBC.
From June 16, 1968 (ICAD 5025) Mstislav
Rostropovich is the soloist in Tchaikovsky’s
Rococo Variations Op 33 and the Pezzo
capriccioso Op.62. The orchestra plays the
Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture. Also
on this DVD, the orchestra is joined by the
Aldeburgh Festival Singers on June 5, 1970,
from a performance of a suite from Britten’s
Gloriana: The Tournament, The Lute Song
(with Peter Pears) and Apotheosis. As this is
the only recording of Britten conducting anything
from Gloriana it will be of particular
interest to collectors.
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MUSIC AND ThE MOVIES: ThE WELL-COMPOSED LIFE OF PI continued from page 11
In the 25 years Danna has
been doing this highly specialized
work, did he ever
dream he would be nominated
for two Academy
Awards? That question
isn’t asked at the Beverly
Hilton. His music for Life
of Pi is nominated for Best
Original Score and “Pi’s
Lullaby” which he wrote
with Bombay Jayashri (she
penned the lyrics in Tamil
and sings it on the movie’s
soundtrack) is nominated
for Best Original Song.
Jayashri wrote recently on
her website that Ang Lee’s
words — “A child sleeps not
because he is sleepy, but
because he feels safe” — were
the catalysts for her lyrics.
Danna’s mini-press conference
concludes with
some personal history: “My
biggest musical influences
were not so much filmic. I
“The music had to
address emotions
but be simple”
grew up with progressive rock and classical training, in choirs and leading
choirs but also with a huge interest in non-western music from all
different countries of the world.”
It’s now mid-January and Life of Pi has grossed almost $100 million
in North America and more than $350 million in the rest of the
world. Anything is possible except what you expect. What accounts for
the surprising appeal of this spiritual adventure about a teenage boy
who survives for more than 200 days on a lifeboat in the Pacific with a
Bengal tiger as his companion? In his Hot Button interview with David
Poland, Danna spoke about the film in terms of tragedy and loss, crisis
of faith, God vs. gods and universal ideas. “If the music portrayed those
big ideas too directly it was difficult to watch,” he said. “The music had
to address emotions but be simple.”
Balinese gamelan, all kinds of Indian instruments, choirboys and a
Tibetan men’s choir were all components of the score. “The challenge
was to make it effortless and simple sounding.”
He certainly succeeded in conveying its effortlessness. To me, the
score’s overriding effect was one of serenity, of a calm centre at the core
of what is essentially a harrowing experience. Right from the beginning
of the film, the tranquility of “Pi’s Lullaby” sets the tone for what follows
without overstating the scope of it. It’s a perfect example of Danna’s
expressed aim to serve the film, and despite the song’s high melodic
quotient, it does just that. As the music unfurls, it’s clearly in support
of the action of the screen rather than a comment on it.
When the scene moves to Paris an accordion subtly underlines the
change even as an Indian flute reminds us of Pi’s origin. As the film
progresses the Indian flute takes on a substantial role, the leader as it
were of the eastern musical forces Danna employs (orchestral strings
represent the western tradition). Whether it’s the innocent appeal of
a children’s choir or the insistent push of Indian drums, it’s the nonintrusiveness
of the score that is as much the key to its success as is the
music’s intrinsic beauty.
One of the few times the music swells occurs when the ship passes
through the Mariana Trench, while the massive storm that sinks the
vessel is accompanied by sound effects only. A later storm when Pi is
on the lifeboat is set to music but its swells don’t mimic nature but
instead match Pi’s sense of the storm’s majesty. Similarly, Pi’s walking
through the meerkats on the mysterious island is unexpectedly set to
an electronic tune, while the magical night that follows is supported
by an equally wondrous celestial track. Even when Pi finally reaches
the Mexican shore, Danna’s score makes no overt comment but only
serves as a floor beneath the images.
The remaining Oscar nominees for Best Original score this year are a mix
of veterans and relative newcomers, all representing the pinnacle of
their profession. The music they’ve written for the four other nominated
films falls broadly into the category of that which makes an overtly
emotional statement on the action on the screen.
Skyfall is Thomas Newman’s 11th Oscar nomination; he has never
won. A signpost for music that comments on the action, it’s a big oldstyle
score in keeping with the 50th anniversary of the James Bond
franchise. Right from its Istanbul opening it screams action, moves on
to a blousy theme for the latest “Bond girl” and continues to ramp up
the energy level in concert with what’s on the screen, even managing a
slight reference to the original Bond theme before the finale in Scotland.
Lincoln is the 48th nomination for John Williams, whose 80th birthday
last summer sparked rumours of retirement. He’s won five Oscars,
the last for Schindler’s List 20 years ago, also a Steven Spielberg film
that, like Lincoln, coincidentally had 12 nominations overall. Williams’
scores invariably comment on the action, pumping it up and emoting
right along with it, many times with memorable results. Lincoln finds
him relatively restrained; the allusions to Aaron Copland sit comfortably
beside Spielberg’s subtle, understated but powerful direction,
something the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s sensitive playing and
gorgeous sound reinforces.
Alexandre Desplat might be the most prolific film composer working
today. Seven films he scored were released in 2012, from the delightful
Moonrise Kingdom to Zero Dark Thirty’s taut suspense. But it is his
resourceful work for movie industry darling Argo that the 232 members
of the music branch of the Academy chose to nominate. His fifth
nomination, he’s yet to win.
For Anna Karenina, Dario Marianelli builds on a snippet of the
fourth movement of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.4 as well as Russian
folk songs and dance (the waltz and mazurka). His sui generis faux-
19th century theatre music supports screenwriter Tom Stoppard’s and
director Joe Wright’s brilliant conception of Tolstoy’s massive novel as
a piece of stagecraft. This is Marianelli’s third nomination; he won for
Atonement, which Wright also directed.
The 85th Academy Awards ceremony takes place on Sunday,
February 24, at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. The race for original
score appears to be between Lincoln and Life of Pi. Lovely as “Pi’s
Lullaby” may be, Adele’s “Skyfall” has the heft to win best song despite
hardcore support for “Suddenly” from Les Misérables. Will Mychael
Danna be facing another gaggle of journalists that night? Anything is
possible except what you expect.
Paul Ennis is a Toronto-based, classically trained musician who
has spent many years programming and writing about movies.
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Friday April 5, 2013 at 8:00 pm
Church of the Holy Trinity
19 Trinity Square
on Bay Street opposite City Hall,
on the west side of Eaton Centre
The Tokyo Quartet will
retire from the concert
stage in June, 2013. This
concert is their farewell
performance in Toronto.
In support of
Tokyo Quartet
Farewell Performance
Tickets: $75 no vouchers or exchanges
416-366-7723
Mozart Quartet in D Major, KV 499, Hoffmeister
Zoltan Kodaly Quartet No. 2, Op. 10
Brahms Quartet in C Minor, Op. 51, No. 1
PHOTO: MARCO BORGGREVE