A Sunshine State of Mind Way back when, The WholeNote was an occasional column called “Classical Heaven on $100 a Month” in a homegrown community newspaper called the Kensington Market Drum. “Everything within a 15 minute bike ride of College and Spadina is our turf” the Drum declared, thereby, by fiat, turning everything from City Hall to Walter Hall to Dixon Hall to Barbara Hall to RTH into legitimate Kensington Market news, including all the goings on at what was then generally referred to as “The Clarke,” namely the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, just east of us on College Street. We’re talking the late 1980s here, folks, when a facebook was what you draped strategically over your sleeping nose to keep the summer sun off, and the good doctors at the Clarke delighted as much as all the rest of us in the simple art of coming up with clever acronyms for things. I remember, at the time, receiving one punch-drunk press release from the aforementioned Clarke Institute which managed in three paragraphs to make reference in capital letters to Seasonal Affective Disorder, Mood and Affective Disorders, and Bipolar Affective Disorder, thereby proclaiming themselves in one breath to be the answer for all that ails society’s SAD, MAD and BAD. To their credit, it didn’t take them long to realize the error of their ways; to understand that in their line of work patients, as much as doctors, can recognize an acronym when they see it. So MAD and BAD disppeared from their PR lexicon, before too much of a fuss could be made. But Seasonal Affective Disorder has shown a remarkable tenacity. A quick Google search, right now, January 28, 2013, yields no The WholeNote The Toronto Concert-goer’s guide voluMe 18 no 5 | feB 1 – MAr 7, 2013 720 Bathurst St., Suite 503 Toronto on M5S 2r4 PHone 416-323-2232 | fAx 416-603-4791 Publisher/Editor In Chief | David Perlman publisher@thewholenote.com Associate Editor | Paul Ennis editorial@thewholenote.com CD Editor | David Olds discoveries@thewholenote.com Listings Department Sharna Searle | listings editor listings@thewholenote.com ori dagan | jazz listings editor jazz@thewholenote.com Event Advertising/Membership karen Ages | members@thewholenote.com Director of Marketing garry Page | marketing@thewholenote.com Advertising/Production Support/Operations jack Buell | adart@thewholenote.com Classified Ads jack Buell | classad@thewholenote.com Website Bryson Winchester | systems@thewholenote.com Circulation, Display Stands & Subscriptions Chris Malcolm | circulation@thewholenote.com Patrick Slimmon | patrick@thewholenote.com Chairman of the Board | Allan Pulker directors@thewholenote.com oMdC And THe onTArio ArTS CounCil Are AgenCieS of THe governMenT of onTArio FOR OPENERS | DAVID PERLMAN THAnkS To THiS MonTH’S ConTriBuTorS Beat Columnists ArT of Song | Hans de groot BAndSTAnd | jack MacQuarrie CHorAl SCene | Benjamin Stein ClASSiCAl & Beyond | Sharna Searle diSCoverieS | david olds eArly MuSiC | Simone desilets in THe CluBS | ori dagan in WiTH THe neW | Wendalyn Bartley jAzz noTeS | jim galloway MuSiC THeATre | robert Wallace MuSiCAl life | mj buell on oPerA | Christopher Hoile World vieW | Andrew Timar Features ori dagan, Paul ennis CD Reviewers Alex Baran, larry Beckwith, Stuart Broomer, Hans de groot, daniel foley, jim galloway, janos gardonyi, nic gotham, Tiina kiik, roger knox, Christina Petrowska Quilico, Cathy riches, Terry robbins, Michael Schwartz, Bruce Surtees, Andrew Timar, robert Tomas, ken Waxman, dianne Wells Proofreading Sharna Searle, Paul ennis Listings Sharna Searle, ori dagan, Adam Weinmann, ondrej golias, jennielea Mcleish, ruth Atwood Layout & Design uno ramat SuBSCriPTionS $35 per year + HST (10 issues) fewer than 2,900,000 results for the phrase. Not too shabby, as preinternet coinage goes. Part of why SAD has stuck, here in Canada at least, is because of how completely it dovetails with the February Blues, that state of mind that dogs us all as we crawl past the turn of the year towards the spring and summer light that feel right now as if they will never return. Well, abandon despair, all ye who enter here! In these pages are all the little signs of hope, musical candles in the dark, that you need to begin your journey back to the light: from Lunar New Year, to a Valentine-themed outbreak of Chopinesque passion, to almost weekly announcements, by various presenters, of musical seasons to come, well into 2014. And it’s no coincidence that February and March are the months when we at The WholeNote crank up our efforts to pull together as much information as we can about what the summer offers in the way of music education. See our little house ad on page 50. This year we are going a step beyond: putting together for March not just the summer’s musical offerings, but a directory of as much as we can gather about the individual teachers and community musical schools that offer, year round, musical solace against all the manifold despairs of the dark. We’re calling it our “Orange Pages.” Partly it’s because we’ve already assigned Green, Blue and Canary to other uses. And partly because it suggests that an active musical life can be a reliable shortcut to a sunshine state of mind. —David Perlman, publisher@thewholenote.com Upcoming Dates & Deadlines Free Event Listings Deadline 6pm friday february 15 Display Ad Reservations Deadline 6pm friday february 15 Advertising Materials Due 6pm Monday february 18 Publication Date friday March 1 Next issue, Volume 18 No 6 covers March 1 to April 7, 2013 Wholenote Media inc. accepts no responsibility or liability for claims made for any product or service reported on or advertised in this issue. 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