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56 concerts indoors and out | july 27 to august 14, 2005
5 th
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“STRATFORD’S FIFTH * ”
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stratford is a little gem of a city.
Where else could you find such beautiful parkland, a
vibrant downtown core with unique shopping, excellent
restaurants and an atmosphere that celebrates the arts?
Into this mix we are pleased to offer the fifth anniversary
season of Stratford Summer Music.
Wander down by the Avon River one day this summer
for BargeMusic on the CTV Stage. After the theatre, enjoy
our Cabarets at The Church Restaurant. Or experience the
thrill of hearing the rising and established stars performing
at our City Hall Auditorium concerts. You’d have to
travel the world to hear our international performers,
but in one city, ours is the ticket that gives you musicians
from six Canadian provinces and world sites as diverse
as Denmark and Vatican City.
We’re proud of the musicians who are coming to perform
on the streets, stages and streams of our city. Now, as you
read about them in this publication and as you note the
donors and sponsors whose generosity has made this
festival possible, I hope this will encourage you to come
out to enjoy the riches of our programming set in the
downtown of this wonderful community.
John
john a. miller
artistic producer
summer 2005
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contents
2 Acknowledgements
5 Canadian Brass
6 The Tivoli Boys
Guard Band
8 Laura Vinson
& Free Spirit
10 James Edward
Goettsche
12 Masques
14 Cabarets
16 5th Anniversary Tattoo
19 Anne-Julie Caron &
Joelle Saint-Pierre
20 the nancy ray-guns
22 Calendar of
Concerts & Events
24 Quartetto Gelato
& Bill Richardson
27 Robert Munsch
28 The Harry Somers
Lecture with music
30 Alexandre Da Costa
& Matt Herskowitz
32 Measha
Brueggergosman
36 Kokopelli Youth Choir
38 The Importance of
Being Earnest
42 The Brazeal Dennard
Chorale

Our sincere thanks! You’ve
helped make it happen!
STRATFORD SUMMER MUSIC
is presented by The Stratford
Arts Foundation
The Stratford Arts Foundation:
Lloyd Robertson O.C., Honorary
President.
Board of Directors: Dr. Robert
Martin, President; Mark Craft,
Secretary-Treasurer; Catherine
Adams; Larry T. Beare; Anne
Fontana; Dave Hunt; Simon
Marsden; Colleen Moorehead;
Jon Prober; Susannah Read;
Janis Riven; Pat Simons; Andrey
Tarasiuk; Paul West.
Summer Music Staff:
John A. Miller, Artistic Producer;
Ted Boniface, General Manager;
Rachael Goddard, Marketing
Manager; Craig Putt, Production
Manager; Christopher Dawes,
F.R.C.C.O., Director, The Organ
Academy; Barbara L. Young,
Cabaret Producer; Keith Wace,
Artists’ Services Coordinator;
Matthew Orchard, Office
Assistant; Ashlee Cowan,
Brad Rowe and Julie Wilhelm,
Production Coordinators.
Logo Design: Ted Glaszewski.
Graphic Design:
Sharon Morrice, über design.
Tattoo & Stage Design:
John Pennoyer.
Front of House:
Sandra Graff and volunteers.
CD Sales: Music For All Ears,
100 Downie St., Stratford,
Ontario N5A 1W9.
(519) 273-5818
Book Sales: Callan Books,
15 York St., Stratford, Ontario
N5A 1A1. (519) 273-5767
Opening Night Co-ordination:
Don & Janice Munro and
volunteers.
Gala Dinner Committee:
Paul West, chair, Jennifer
Birmingham, Mark Craft,
Dr. Susan Hiscock, John Miller,
Rachael Goddard.
Tivoli Boys Hospitality
Committee: Kevin Smith,
Bev Wilhelm, Don Munro,
Janice Munro, Sue Read,
Matt Orchard, Julie Wilhelm,
Keith Wace.
Anniversary Tattoo: Simon
Marsden, Tattoo Director;
Major (Ret) Gino Falconi, SBStJ,
CD,Sr. Director of Music; Larry
Fullerton, Sr. Drum Major; John
Pennoyer, Designer; Craig Putt,
Production Manager; Eddie
Matthews & Rob Wreford,
Tattoo Announcers, CJCS
1240/107.7 MIXFM, Stratford.
2005 Programme Articles:
Sharon Malvern.
Yamaha is the official piano
of Stratford Summer Music.
Thanks to Rob Barg, Vice
President, Musical Instrument
Group, and Heather Harvey,
Keyboard Division, Yamaha
Music Canada for their many
considerations.
Website: Sharon Morrice,
uberdesign.ca
We acknowledge the enthusiasm,
encouragement and
assistance of: Vic, JoAnn and
Greg Hayter; Richard Monette,
Antoni Cimolino, Andrey
Tarasiuk, Berthold Carrière,
Anita Gaffney, Marilyn
Dallman, Cindy Toushan,
Andy Foster, Jo-anne Hood
Tidman, Joanne Jordan, Sean
Malvern; Ruth Stevens; Shelley
Assayag and the Stratford
Festival of Canada; Mark Craft
and the staff of The Church
Restaurant; the many volunteers
who are assisting with
our programs; Elaine Genyn,
Ellen Fuhr, John Johnson, Dave
Wick and the staff of
Scotiabank, Stratford; CBC
Radio Music; Ron Shaw, Linda
Edwards, Ed Martin, Christa
Robinson, Dan Sykes and the
staff of Stratford City Hall;
Steve Rae, Eddie Mathews
and the staff of CJCS-1240
and 107.7FM; Kevin McCann,
Tony Carter and staff of The
Stratford City Gazette; James
Morris, Chef Neil Baxter and
Rundles Restaurant; John
Callan & Callan Books; Howard
Cable & Northdale Music Press
Ltd.; Scott Wishart and Robin
Wilhelm, photographic staff,
Beacon Herald; Larry Appel,
Cathy Rehberg and Tourism
Stratford; David Vissentin &
the Glenn Gould School Staff;
Ambassador Poul E. D.
Kristensen, Wenche Ainer
Sharp & the staff of the Royal
Danish Embassy, Ottawa;
Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen
and especially Sven Hansen,
Director of the Guard, Svend
Kragelund, Director of the
Guard Band and Vibeke
Herzberg, Secretary to the
Band; City of Stratford
Community Services
Department; Linda Stitt
and the St. John Ambulance
Association; Ruth Reath, Pat
Scott and Knox Church; John
Waldie and Stratford Motor
Products; Jim Stone and all
our Soirée hosts, volunteers
and donors; Ralph Pike and
Petro Canada; Bruce Woolley
and CBC News Express; Melissa
Schenk; William Somerville;
Dr. Campbell Trowsdale; Tim
Gilbert; Perth Concrete; Frank
Herr and the Boathouse;
Julie Docker-Johnson and
The Westover Inn; Derwyn
and Nora Rokeby-Thomas;
Terry Finlay; Loretta Van Beek;
Matthew Clemente; Gregor
and Susannah Read; Colleen
Moorehead and Daniel
McCarthy; John Cossey and
New Orleans Pizza; Anne
Walsh; Terri Hart; Randy
Barnard and CBC Records;
Neil Crory; Stratford Police
Service and Stratford Fire
Department; Claude’s
Appliance Centre; Kimberly
Barber; Glen Dias & Rob Wittig;
John & Verla Killer; Ron Laurie;
Madelyn Carty; Lorna Mac
Donald; Maxine Noel; Alan
McNaughton; Alvin Reimier;
Donna Sherman; Alan Watts;
Julia Shaw; Art Boon; Cozyn
Nurseries; Libby Miller; Nancy
West; Gerry Moorehead and
Senior Kiwanis drivers; Dan
Brandon and custodial staff
at Stratford Central.
We acknowledge with
thanks these Friends
of Stratford Summer
Music, whose donations
have been received
since July 9, 2004 up
to July 14, 2005.
grand fortissimo
($5 000+)
The J.P.Bickell
Foundation
Bruce & Betty
Birmingham
City of Stratford
CTV Inc.
The Julie-Jiggs
Foundation
Jane Laird
The John McKellar
Charitable Foundation
Ontario Arts Council
Ontario Trillium
Foundation
RBC Foundation
RBC Insurance
Royal Danish Embassy
Scotiabank
Gary Stockie Chevrolet
Cadillac Ltd.
Sun Life Assurance Co.
TSX Group
John & Eleanor Waldie
Yamaha Music Canada
fortissimo
( $1500-$4999)
Bremormac
Management Ltd.
Culliton Brothers Ltd.
Edwards Charitable
Foundation
Festival City Rotary Club
Victor & JoAnn Hayter
Human Resources and
Skills Development
Canada
Dr. Charles Prober
Jay Prober
John & Jennifer Prober
Jusmeg Investments Inc.
Schneider Foods Inc.
Universal Music
Anne Walsh
The Woodlawn Arts
Foundation
Wayne, Joanne and
Greg Young
forte
( $1000-$1499)
Berthold & Nancy
Carrière
Mark Craft & Kate
Ashby-Craft
DianneD'Aquila
Dr. Robert & Joan
Martin
Ontario Arts Council
Foundation
Michael Therriault
mezzo forte
( $500-$999)
Anonymous Member
of 19th Squadron Air
Cadets
Ann Griffin
Hammond Aviation
The Kiwanis Club
of Stratford
John Miller &
Andrey Tarasiuk
Tom & Connie Orr
Joan Peggs
RBC Royal Bank
Fred Schneider
Gene Scissons
mezzo piano
( $250-$499):
Blowes Travel Ltd.
Cavalier Equestrian
Gaffney Data Centre
Gene's Restaurant
Stirling & Clare Kenny
MacLeods Scottish
Shops
Madelyn’s Diner
Elizabeth Mignotte
Colleen Moorehead
& Daniel McCarthy
Douglas & Debbie
Mountain
Skinner, Dunphy
& Bantle LLP
Stratco Investments Ltd.
Stratford Memorials Ltd.
piano ($100-$249):
Catherine Adams &
Sal Di Bella
Joan Anderson
Larry Beare
Bentley’s Inn, Bar
& Restaurant
Virgil Burnett
Callan Books
Barbara Chilcott
Dr. Sing & Ivy Chung
John Conroy
Sandon Cox
Kathleen Diehl
Mary Dingman
Stanford & Elisabeth
Dingman
Catherine Fallis
Firefly Books
Fabrizio & Anne
Fontana
Dr. Ralph & Bernice
Goren
Mary Anne Hamacher
Perry & MaryHill
Hudson's Department
Store
Dr. Alnoor Kara
Tom & Diane Kydd
John & Ruth Lawson
Robert & Pat Lightfoot
Dr. Ian & Cheryl
MacLean
Kenneth & Ruth
Moorehead
David Prosser & Barbara
Dunn-Prosser
Neighbours & Friends
of Greg & Sue Read
Dr. Vincent &
Catherine Quinlan
Janis Riven
Crerar & Peggy
Robertson
JoanneRuediger
Margaret C. Ryerson
Gary & Judy
Schellenberger
Allan Shaw
The Shoe Box
Pat Simons
Alex & Nancy Smith
Gloria Staines
Dr. Shamim Tejpar
George & Thelma
Trethewey
Cam Trowsdale
Tony Urquhart
Stanley Witkin
pianissimo
( $50-$99)
Jeannie Baird
Dr. Stephen Barlow
Barbara Baxter
Ted &Michelle Boniface
Randy & Liz Brown
Margaret Bryan
DiannaBuck
ShirleyDavis
David & Ellen Fangrad
Dr. Ted & Dawn Flowers
Marilyn Gropp
Jack Hillier
Cynthia MacLennan
Dr. Andrew & Sharon
McKenzie
John Palmer
Betty Paxson
Dr. Norvel & Ruth
Scratch
Diana Shelestensky
Don Sweete
Mary Tolton
Margaret Willmer
special project
supporters
Catherine Adams &
Salvatore Di Bella
Susan Allen
Marc Armstrong &
Lynn Logie
David & Helga
Barenberg
Dr. Linda Bathe & David
Furhman
Larry Beare
Donna Beheydt
Jennifer Birmingham
Gloria Bishop
Dr. Christine Bloch
Ted &Michelle Boniface
Erla Boyer
Roland & Dorothy
Brophy
John Bullen
Laura Burton
Nancy Carr
Donald Carrier
Berthold & Nancy
Carrière
Phillip Guy & Mary
Valerie Chadsey
Molly Christie
Dr. Sing & Heidi Chung
AntoniCimolino &
Bridgit Wilson
Jane Corkery
Roger Cotton & Marcia
Matsui
Dorothy Courtnage
Gerry & Janet Culliton
Michael & Marguerite
Dack
Jane Dalton
Diane D'Aquila
Glen Davies
Margo Dean
Valerie Dippel
Carol Anne Doughty
Dorothy Douglas
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Canadian
Brass
the fabulous five
The Canadian Brass,
celebrated as the world’s
leading brass ensemble,
have become famous for
their virtuosity, spontaneity,
humour, theatrical effects
and rapport with audiences.
Stratford Summer Music
audiences delighted in their
superb musicianship and
entertaining performances
in 2002. The “fabulous five”
return in 2005 to open the
fifth anniversary of the festival
with a Grand Recital.
Now in their 35th year,
the quintet got started in
Toronto in 1970. Founding
members Gene Watts
(trombone) and Chuck
Daellenbach (tuba) are
again teamed with Stuart
Laughton (trumpet) and
new members, Charles
Lazarus (trumpet) and
Bernard Scully (horn).
Internationally famous,
the Canadian Brass tours
all over the world, performing
with major symphony
orchestras in the U.S.,
Canada, Europe and Japan.
Next year the ensemble will
make four trips to Europe
and one to Asia. Recently
they have played in Denver
Colorado, at the Virginia
Arts Festival and in several
cities in Western Canada.
“We seem to have jet lag
a lot!” said Gene Watts.
Millions of television viewers
have seen the Canadian
Brass on such shows as
The Tonight Show, Entertainment
Tonight, numerous
PBS specials, and as
guest artists with John
Williams and the Boston
Pops and Beverly Sills’
Music Around the World.
They have created eight
videos and just released a
DVD entitled Three Nights
with Canadian Brass.
This brass quintet plays
mostly classical repertoire,
with a special affinity for
the Baroque period and
J.S. Bach. Their recordings –
which number more than
60 to date – include works
by Purcell, Vivaldi, Pachelbel,
Beethoven and Wagner.
However, the breadth of
their musical interests also
includes jazz, contemporary
concert music and popular
songs.
When they started there
was a limited base of traditional
works for brass. So
Canadian Brass created
their own repertoire by
transcribing, arranging
and commissioning more
than 200 works. They have
become widely known for
innovative repertoire as
they collaborated with
various composers.
“We’re in touch with people
all over the world,” said Mr.
Watts. “There’s a lot of brass
in England, for instance. We
pick musical masterpieces
not originally written for
brass but still with good
musical content.”
During their travels, playing
on gold-plated Yamaha
instruments, they often
give master classes. In
fact, they will be meeting
with the musicians of the
Tivoli Boys Guard Band
for a special instructional
session while the young
Danes are in Stratford.
The famous five are
the chamber quintet-inresidence
at the Music
Academy of the West in
Santa Barbara, California,
and they have created an
innovative brass summer
music course at the famous
Eastman School of Music.
Selections from their latest
CD, Magic Horn, will be
featured at the Stratford
concert including a new
work by Bramwell Tovey,
conductor of the Vancouver
Symphony Orchestra. Also
on the program are their
favourite works by Vivaldi
and Mozart.
“John Gzowski is writing us
a theatre piece to premiere
at Stratford,” said Gene
Watts, “and his wife, Julia
Aplin, who is a dancer and
choreographer, has choreographed
the movements
for the production.”
The Canadian Brass looks
forward to returning to
Stratford. “We wish we
could move there!” And
Stratfordites who have
attended their phenomenal
concerts wish they
could, too!
Canadian Brass Opening
Recital on Wednesday July
27 at 11:15 am at the City
Hall Auditorium. $25
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The Tivoli Boys Guard
Band may be the youngest
performers at Stratford
Summer Music this season
but their musical group is
by far the oldest and the
most internationally celebrated
of all the performers
here this year.
In 1844, a group of boys
were gathered to protect
the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen
at the entrance to
the famous park. Primarily
young soldiers at first, they
soon had drums and then
flutes. As compensation,
the 30 members of this
“Lilliputian Military” each
received one mark, four
sandwiches and half a pint
of beer for each performance,
but for most of
them the sheer pleasure
of participating made it
worth their while. By 1870,
they were taught to drill
with guns made out of
wood. By 1909, they had
brass, woodwind and
percussion instruments.
Today, over 100 boys are
enrolled in the Tivoli Boys
Guard, divided into the
Band, a Drum and Fife
Corps, a Colour Guard
and a Marine Artillery.
The military ensemble
consists of boys aged 9-
16, of whom 46 members
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theTivoli
the boys from copenhagen
Boys Guard
will be performing at various
events during Stratford
Summer Music.
“The boys are selected
through an examination,”
said Sven Hansen, Director
of the Guard. “They are
tested individually on their
musical skills, rhythm,
listening abilities, marching,
and in an interview.”
On-going education is
an important part of the
experience, he explained.
“The boys have lessons
at the Tivoli Park once or
twice per week, and in
the summer up to five
times per week. The band
members have classes
and rehearsals as a group
as well as individual music
lessons with specialist
teachers drawn from our
symphony orchestras in
the Copenhagen area.”
Tivoli Gardens provides
the uniforms, musical
instruments and transportation
costs, but not
salaries, for the boys.
“The boys wear a version
of a military uniform in
the colours of our Danish
flag – red and white. It’s
very traditional and colourful
and with it the boys
wear marching boots,
black bearskin hats, and
little swords,” he said.
The Tivoli Boys Guard
travels extensively, often
in the nearby Scandinavian
countries and in several
European countries where
they promote Denmark
and the Tivoli Gardens.
They have also toured in
England, the United States,
Japan, China and Egypt.
On this trip their exclusive
destination is Stratford
Summer Music.
In letters the boys sent
to Summer Music to introduce
themselves, their
interests and personalities
are evident. They can all
speak English – though with
differing degrees of fluency
depending on how long
they have studied it – and
several speak other languages
besides English
and Danish. English lessons
at school seem to begin
around age 9 or 10. Their
interests seem very similar
to Canadian boys of the
same age; they mention
playing computer games,
soccer and other sports.
Many describe parents,
siblings and friends. Several
comment on their pets.
All of them talk about
the instruments they play.
Several of these boys are
the third generation in their
families to be members of
the Tivoli Boys Guard.
The music training provided
has encouraged some of
them to consider music in
their future lives, as they
mention plans for a professional
career as a bassoon
player, oboist, trumpet
player and so on.
“The education given the
boys by Tivoli Park is of
a very high standard,”
said Mr. Hansen. “It gives
them the professional
training they need to
become musicians. They
go on from here to music
academies in Denmark,
and from there to orchestras
as professional
musicians.” About onethird
of the boys make a
career of music.
“Not everyone will become
a musician,” he said. “But
our demands are high. The
boys learn to communicate
and negotiate with each
other; they learn social skills
and team-work, discipline,
precision, preparedness and
taking care of their instruments.
All those skills are
useful in whatever they do
with their lives.”
The Tivoli Boys Guard Band
is unique. “There aren’t
many bands like this in the
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world. There are a few
bands like this in some
parks in Norway but none
is as large and none offers
the same education. We are
really a music school with a
lot of tradition and history
behind us.”
“They are excited about
coming to Canada,” said
Guard Director Hansen,
“training every second day,
rehearsing and practicing
the drills. It’s our first trip
to Canada – a very special
event.”
During their ten days here,
the boys will visit Toronto,
Niagara Falls and other
local attractions, meet
young Canadians of similar
ages and interests, and perform
in Stratford Summer
Music events on several
days.
The Tivoli Boys Guard Band
will present concerts on
the grounds of the Festival
Theatre at 1 pm on Thursday
July 28, Saturday July
30 and Sunday July 31.
Free.
They will also participate
in the street parade on
Monday August 1 at 11 am
and join the Anniversary
Tattoo at 6:30 pm the
same day.
generously
supported by
Band
royal
danish
embassy
photo by svend kragelund
“
We are really
a music school
with a lot of
tradition and
history behind
us.
”
bikuben fonden | augustinus fonden | oticon
fonden | skandinavisk | tobakskompagni´s
gavefond | tivoligarderforeningen | tivoli a/s

Laura
Free
Vinson
Spirit
&
canadian country music from a native perspective
Laura Vinson and Free Spirit offer audiences a unique mix
of authentic First Nations music and contemporary presentation.
Their’s is a musical journey that takes people back
in time, evoking the history, rituals and spirituality of
Canada’s native people by a combination of songs, stories,
dances and costumes.
Laura Vinson, who does lead vocals and plays acoustic
guitar, says that the sources of the music are some of
her aboriginal friends, her own life experiences and her
contacts with aboriginal people through her position as
a social worker for the Ben Calf Robe Society, where she
is executive director.
Their appearances on the MusicBarge form part of
Stratford Summer Music’s salute to the Centennials
of Alberta and Saskatchewan in 2005.
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Born and raised near Jasper
National Park in Alberta, singer
and songwriter Laura Vinson
goes back to her roots – Cree,
Cherokee, English and French –
for inspiration. Her songs depict
the life and traditions of North
American Indians; for example,
Louisiana Purchase which tells
the true story of her Cherokee
great-grandmother who was
purchased by her American
husband for “a good horse
and some blankets.”
The four musicians of Free Spirit use genuine traditional
instruments to produce authentic native sounds. Aside
from vocals, Dave Martineau plays acoustic/electric guitar,
mandolin and Dobro – an instrument like a guitar with
a bluegrass sound. Paul Martineau does back-up vocals
as well as drums and percussion, while Maria Dunn plays
violin, accordion and the Irish whistle. John Towill uses
electric and acoustic basses and the Chapman stick.
Christina Auger and Rocky Dumais add traditional drumming
and First Nations dancing to the performances. “They
make all their own costumes, including the beadwork, in
the Plains Cree tradition,” Laura said. “And one costume is
a “jingle” dress from the Ojibwa tradition.” The elaborate
outfits and head-dresses provide a dazzling complement
to the ancient rhythms of the show.
Laura and the band work together as co-writers of the
material. So far, they have recorded four CDs: Point of
the Arrow, Voices on the Wind, Rise Like a Phoenix,
and It Reminds Me, all with artwork by Nona Fisher,
the Indian Paintbrush. An aboriginal album for children
is in the works.
Laura Vinson & Free Spirit have received more than 20
Canadian recording industry awards. She and her band
have numerous ARIA awards for Best Band, Single, Song,
Vocalist and Album. Laura has been nominated many
times in the National Juno and Canadian Country Music
Awards from 1986 on – a testament to long-standing
artistic excellence.
Laura has also won a Lifetime Achievement Award from
the Women of Country Music Association in Alberta, the
Queen’s Jubilee Award, and the Esquao Award from the
Institute for Advancement of Aboriginal Women.
Laura is well known to Canadian audiences through her
radio show Native Voices and several television specials
on both CBC and CTV. International concerts in the
Netherlands, Denmark, Australia, Lithuania, Korea,
Scandinavia and Denmark have garnered her acclaim.
The repertoire for Stratford Summer Music’s BargeMusic
can be described as “contemporary aboriginal,” a unique
sound influenced by folk and country music, she explains.
Laura Vinson & Free Spirit will perform daily at 12:30 pm
on the CTV MusicBarge from Thursday July 28 through
Sunday July 31. Free
generously supported by
rotary club
of festival
city stratford
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from the vatican to stratford
oettsche
If you watched the recent
funeral of Pope John Paul
II and the inauguration of
Pope Benedict XVI at the
Vatican in Rome, then you
have already heard James
Edward Goettsche playing
the organ.
“That was probably the
largest group of ceremonies
I have known in my 16
years at the Vatican,”
he said recently. “It was
overwhelming.”
As “Modulator Organorum”
or official organist of the
Vatican Basilica of Saint
Peter in Rome since 1989,
Mr. Goettsche is responsible
for accompanying
all principal liturgical
celebrations in the Basilica,
including those of the Holy
Father and the Vatican
chapter. Mr. Goettsche
plays at most Sunday
Masses, feast days and
holy days as well as when
the Pope celebrates Mass.
A native of Los Angeles,
California, James Edward
Goettsche is a descendant
of a German family that
immigrated to the United
States. While still a student
in 1961, he met the Italian
keyboard virtuoso, Fernando
Germani, who was then the
principal organist of the
Basilica in Rome under Pope
Pius XII. Impressed with the
young student, Mr. Germani
invited him to continue his
musical education at the
Conservatory of Rome.
“All my life I had dreamed
of Rome and its history,”
Mr. Goettsche said recently.
“I had even been studying
Italian just because I hoped
to go to Italy some day. And
to study the instrument I
loved! I was quick to accept
the invitation.” He still marvels
at the coincidence that
brought him to Rome so
long ago. “I never dreamed
that I would be his successor,”
he said of his famous
teacher.
Mr. Goettsche graduated
from that Conservatory
in 1968 with a degree in
Organ and Organ Composition
and remained in
Rome to become the
organist of the Basilica
of Santa Francesca Romana
in the Roman Forum where
he gave regular Sunday
afternoon concerts.
His passion for the organ
dates back to the days
when, as a teenager, he
crept out of bed in the
middle of the night and
sneaked into the seminary
chapel to play the organ.
“The organ is the only
instrument that can
substitute for an entire
symphony orchestra,” he
said. “By playing hands
and feet you can make
more notes than any other
musician. The splendour
of organ music in a great
room with good acoustics
has a tremendous effect
on human psychology.”
During the 44 years he
has spent in Rome, Mr.
Goettsche has extended
his passion for the organ
in many directions. His
appearances on prime
time Italian (RAI) television
broadcasts and on Vatican
Radio have made him one
of Italy’s best known musicians.
He is particularly
celebrated for his interpretations
of the complete
works of J.S. Bach and Cesar
Franck; his book on Bach’s
organ works has been twice
printed in Italy.
He is a full Professor at
the State Conservatory
of Music, Fosinone and
he continues to present
concerts around the world,
to make recordings and
to teach master classes.
His concert tours this year
will include trips to Russia,
Germany, the United States
and Canada, where he will
G
James Edward
appear in Stratford for the
first time in his career.
In reviewing a concert by
James Goettsche, L’Osservatore
Romano in Vatican
City remarked: “Mr.
Goettsche is more than
an organist. He brings
forth from the manuals
and pedals a poetry that
transcends the pipes
themselves. In every measure
he finds the soul and
spirit which make the music
always fresh and new. His
performances overflow
with emotions and colour,
yet always with due respect
for the historical content.”
At Stratford Summer Music,
Mr. Goettsche will perform
three concerts, featuring
the compositions of his
favourite composers. He
will also conduct Master
Classes for the Summer
Music Organ Academy
with five promising young
Canadian organists who
are coming to this city for
the rare opportunity to
work with such a renowned
master organist.
generously supported by
the edwards
charitable
foundation
“
He finds
the soul
and spirit
which make
the music
always fresh
and new. ”
James Goettsche will
present three organ
recitals at Knox
Presbyterian Church
on Thursday July 28
(J.S. Bach), Friday July 29
(Cesar Franck) and
Saturday July 30 (Felix
Mendelssohn, J.S. Bach
and Louis Vierne), each
commencing at 9:30 am.
$25
The Organ Academy
Master Classes will be
held at 2 pm on July 27,
28, 29, and 30 with the
Closing Recital by all the
Participants on Sunday
July 31 at 2 pm. Free
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Masques
montreal’s
play the music of shakespeare
The music of Shakespeare’s time will create a noteworthy
complement to the Stratford Festival’s productions this
season, thanks to the Masques Early Music Ensemble.
Step back into Elizabethan England with Masques, a
young Montreal ensemble inspired by the theatrical
masques performed in the 16th and 17th centuries. A
fusion of music, poetry, dance and spectacle, the masques
were popular performances, often at the Royal Court.
Shakespeare incorporated elements of the masque in
several of his plays, notably The Tempest, as one can see
during Richard Monette’s vivid production currently on
stage at the Festival Theatre.
Formed in 1998, Masques is an ensemble dedicated
to performing 16th and 17th century music on period
instruments. The goal of the members is to communicate
the vitality and passion of this unique music. Through
CBC/Radio Canada broadcasts, appearances at such
events as the Lameque Baroque Music Festival, The
Victoria Summer Music Festival and the Early Music
Vancouver society, as well as their international tours,
the ensemble have established a stellar reputation,
winning the Early Music America Award (2000) for
what one critic called “sumptuous tonal splendour.”
“We play the music that was probably played in Shakespeare’s
day. We don’t really have much of the actual music of the
time, some vocal but not instrumental,” says Olivier Fortin,
Artistic Director of Masques.
In the first of their two presentations, Masques will
perform The Music in Shakespeare’s Plays with a Venus
and Adonis theme, including music by Locke, Hume and
Thomas Campion. That program will also include a presentation
on Esther Santlow, a famous actress and dancer who
performed in Shakespeare’s plays in the 18th century, and
a passacaglia by Henri Desmarais. Songs, dances and the
Bard’s texts will create an authentic feel for the music of
the famous plays.
A complementary second presentation, The Music of
Shakespeare’s Time, will be “a concert of instrumental
and vocal music” featuring
renaissance and
baroque English composers
John Jenkins,
John Dowland, Thomas
Campion and Henry
Purcell who wrote at a
later date, but represents
the “English Style,” Mr.
Fortin explained. “We do
lots of the English music
that we love,” he said.
Their repertoire also
includes J.S. Bach, Johann
Pachelbel, Arcangelo
Corelli and Francois
Couperin.
Their CD, English Fancy (2004), showcases those composers
with selections from Purcell, Campion and Jenkins. The
musicians are planning to record a Christmas CD later
this year with soprano Catherine Webster from California,
who is also a specialist in Early Music and a member of an
all-female baroque ensemble. Ms. Webster will join the
group for their performances at Stratford Summer Music.
The ensemble play original instruments from the 17th
century or excellent copies with a sound very close to
the original. Genevieve Gilardeau and Aislinn Nosky play
original baroque violins, Elin Soderstrom a bass viol,
Melisande Corriveau a viola da gamba and recorders,
and Olivier Fortin, a harpsichord and organ.
All of these young musicians have impressive records of
education, achievement and performance at home and
abroad. Each is a member of several musical ensembles
besides Masques, and participates on numerous recordings.
M. Fortin, for example, tours and records throughout
Canada, the United States and Europe with Masques,
Tafelmusic, Capriccio Stravagante, and Les Musicians du
Louvre. He also teaches harpsichord and Basso Continuo
at the Conservatoire de Musique de Quebec.
Marie-Nathalie Lacoursiere,
a choreographer and specialist
in historical dance,
who has worked as an
actor, dancer, and stage
director with many groups
in Canada, and the United
States. Mme Lacoursiere
will choreograph and dance
in the Masques programs.
She teaches gesture and
baroque dance at L’Universite
de Montreal, stages
operas for McGill University,
and is Artistic Director of
Theatre Lavalliere et Jabot.
Masques performs The
Music in Shakespeare’s
Plays on Thursday July 28
and Saturday July 30 at
11:15 am in the City Hall
Auditorium. $25.
Masques performs The
Music of Shakespeare’s
Time on Friday July 29
and Sunday July 31 at
11:15 am in the City Hall
Auditorium. $25.
generously supported by
the j.p. bickell
foundation
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come to the
Cabarets,
Come to the Stratford
Summer Music Cabarets
this summer to see what
Stratford Festival actors
can do when they aren’t
on script.
One of Summer Music’s
biggest hits each season
has been the popular After-
Theatre Cabaret series,
when stars of the Stratford
Festival demonstrate their
talents in the relaxed
ambiance of the Church
Restaurant.
In the 2005 Cabaret series,
Thom Allison, Dan Chameroy,
Bruce Dow and Jonathan
Goad will take to the stage
with performances they’ve
devised themselves, singing
their favourite songs with
some unique twists. Host
for all the evenings of merriment
will again be actor,
Jacob James, whose Stratford
Festival roles this year
include Ariel in The Tempest
and a Forest Lord in As You
Like It.
Bruce Dow, who sang the
show-stopping Sit Down
You’re Rocking the Boat
in the Stratford Festival’s
2004 production of Guys
and Dolls, has put together
some of his best-loved
show tunes in an evening
of entertainment he calls
Bruce Dow Goes Bananas.
“It started with the idea
of ‘second bananas’ those
actors who play supporting
roles,” he said. “As a second
banana myself, I was interested
in looking at what
they sing and how they
add to the story.”
“I’ll be singing Sit Down,
You’re Rocking the Boat,
Broadway Baby, the
intensely personal Mr.
Cellophane from Chicago,
a number from A Funny
Thing Happened on the
Way to the Forum, and
a medley of songs from
Oliver and other shows.”
Although he has a busy
schedule of performances
in the Stratford Festival’s
two musicals, Hello Dolly
and Into the Woods,Mr.
Dow agreed to make his
debut in the 2005 Summer
Music Cabaret series
because “the cabaret is a
great art form,” and “I’ve
had an idea for a show
I’ve wanted to do.” And he
likes “the intimate relationship
between audience
and performer of the
cabaret – it’s unique.”
Stratford Festival actor
Thom Allison is presenting
a set of shows entitled
Ladies’ Night, where he’ll
invite a different female
guest from the singers in
this year’s company to join
him on stage. “We have the
cream of the crop here in
the musicals,” he said, “as
well as other actors who are
have incredible musicality.
It’s tough to choose.” But
choose he must and so Mr.
Allison will be joined by
Lucy Peacock (July 30),
Susan Gilmour (August 5)
and Robin Hutton (August
11) for three wonderful
shows.
The concept for the show
is to use the songs that
are written by or sung by
women, and those written
to and about women.
“Men’s songs are limited,
they’re about getting or
losing or saving the woman.
But women have a broader
spectrum of possibilities.”
His repertoire will consist
of several songs from his
CD, A Whole Lot of Sunlight,
including the title song, But
Alive and Gorgeous. “There
are so many great songs, it’s
hard to pare down the list,”
he said. “But I’m also looking
for variations in tempo
and mood.”
“I’ve been wanting to do a
cabaret. There’s not much
chance to do this kind of
material as most of the
cabarets in Toronto have
gone by the wayside. A
my fri end
bruce dow
jonathan goad
cabaret is invigorating. A
cabaret needs a different
kind of energy. It’s a world
I create and I want the feeling
of the show to be a kind
of relaxed informality. I love
making people feel comfortable.”
The concept for Buddies:
Dan Chameroy and
Jonathan Goad is based
on friendship and relationships,
said Mr. Goad. “That
title gives us so much freedom
it’s hard to choose.
The framework is huge!
We’re selecting numbers
from classical musicals to
crooners to love songs, and
we’ll dip into modern writers
like Leonard Cohen too.
We like Joni Mitchell and
Jacques Brell it’s really an
open palette.”
Dan Chameroy and
Jonathan Goad will probably
sing four or five duets,
plus four to five solos each.
There’s talk of bringing in
special guests as well.
And of course, there will
be banter and a bit of
improvisation, he said.
Jonathan Goad, a past participant
in the Birmingham
Conservatory of Classical
Training at the Stratford
Festival, is now in his seventh
season, playing major
roles in The Brothers
Karamazov, Orpheus
Descending and Measure
for Measure.
Though he hadn’t sung in
a Stratford Festival production
until this season, he
did musicals in high school
and university. “My first
professional gig was a
cabaret with my teacher
when I was 24 years old,”
he said. “I like the direct
and intimate contact you
get with an audience in a
cabaret. We’ll have a great
time in the spirit of the Rat
Pack.”
Dan Chameroy, also a graduate
of the Conservatory,
is in his fifth season at
Stratford. This season he
appears in As You Like It
(where he sings the songs
written by the Bare Naked
Ladies) The Tempest and
The Lark. He has performed
in numerous theatres, on
film and television, and has
a CD of Broadway songs
entitled Me.He must be
doing something wonderful
for the after-theatre
audiences, for this is the
third year John Miller,
Artistic Producer of
Stratford Summer Music,
has invited Dan to the
Church Restaurant stage.
“We all love Dan,” said Mr.
Miller. “In fact, he holds the
dan chameroy
record for most performances
by an actor in
Summer Music’s history.
Do you think that will get
him into the Guiness Book
of Musical Records?”
All Cabarets will be
performed at The Church
Restaurant at 11:30 pm.
Bruce Dow Goes Bananas
on Thursday July 28,
Wednesday August 3
and Saturday August 6.
Buddies: Dan Chameroy
and Jonathan Goad on
Friday July 29, Thursday
August 4 and Wednesday
August 10.
Ladies’ Night:
Saturday July 30, Thom
Allison with Lucy Peacock
Friday August 5, Thom
Allison with Susan Gilmour
Thursday August 11, Thom
Allison with Robin Hutton
generously supported by
wayne, joanne
& greg young
susan gilmour
jacob james
robin hutton
lucy peacock
thom allison
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tattoo
16
painting by
john pennoyer
©2005
“ I can’t remember ever having a military tattoo in
Stratford on this scale,” says Chief Warrant Officer Art
Boon, who will lead the Royal Canadian Legion, Army,
Navy and Air Force Colour Party and Veterans at the Stratford
Summer Music Anniversary Tattoo. He hopes to have a Colour
Party of 30 – and about 50 veterans on parade – from World War
II,Korea and peacekeeping missions. “This is a salute to veterans
of all campaigns!”
The Tattoo will honour Canada’s Year of the Veteran, the 60th
Anniversary of the end of World War II and the fifth anniversary
of Stratford Summer Music. “It’s a great way to celebrate these
occasions,” says Artistic Producer John Miller.
This unique presentation will be filled with colour, spectacle and
stirring martial music.
The Canadian Harvard Air Association will do a Fly-Past to open
the Tattoo, says Charles Fox, DFC and Bar. A pilot during World
War II and with the peacetime RCAF, he continues his love of
flying as ground control with the Harvard Formation Flypasts.
“We’ll have four planes flying out of the base at Tillsonburg,
Ontario. We’ll make four passes in four different formations,
ending with the Missing Man formation. It will take about 12
minutes.”
Besides the Colour Party and Veterans, seven bands will make
a dramatic entrance through a structure bedecked with flags
designed by John Pennoyer whose work is most often seen on
the stages of the Stratford Festival. “I’ve dressed many stages,” said
the famous artist whose work is seen on the main Festival stage in
Measure for Measure this season, “but I’ve never before dressed a
field!”
Led by the Perth County Pipe Band, the Colour Party will march onto
the flats along the Avon River below the Festival Theatre. They’ll be
s tratford summer music’s
5th
Anniversary
martial music to honour our veterans
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followed by the other Tattoo participants: the Band of the
Royal Regiment of Canada; Canada’s National Band of the
Naval Reserve; the 48th Highlanders of Canada, Pipes,
Drums and Dancers; the Ontario Massed Legion Pipes and
Drums; the Perth County Pipe Band; the Tivoli Boys Guard
Band from Copenhagen, Denmark; the Sea Cadets, Gunners
and Band of HMCS Ontario at Kingston; and troops of the
4th Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment.
Major (ret.) Gino Falconi, the evening’s Senior Director of
Music and one of Canada’s most experienced leaders of
military band pageants, explained: “This will be a dramatic
show of the highest order, involving about 350 people from
across Canada and even from Europe, to celebrate Canada’s
Year of the Veteran. There will be colourful uniforms not
often seen in Ontario and 130 pipers on the field for the
grand finale. It will be a celebration that moves the soul.”
Pipe Major Ross Baxter of the Ontario Massed Legion Pipes
and Drums will be leading 70 pipers and drummers from
all over this province. “My players come from as far away
as North Bay, Leamington, Brockville, Haileybury and everywhere
in-between,” he said. “We rehearse once a month in
Orillia and perform at numerous events. Next New Year’s
Day we’ll again be in the Rose Bowl Parade in Pasadena,
California and we’ve appeared at all the big festivals in
Ontario and at the Labour Day Parade in Toronto. We’ve
also played for Queen Elizabeth, for the late Queen Mother
and for Princess Margaret.”
The National Band of the Naval Reserve, formed in 1976, is
made up of 45 musicians, professionals and students from
Naval Reserve Divisions in Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba and
Alberta. A versatile ensemble capable of playing anything
from a woodwind duo to a jazz combo to a parade band,
this group gives special emphasis to tunes from the naval
and military traditions of Canada. These musicians travel
across our country each summer, helping Canadian citizens
The
Tattoo
generously supported by
become more aware of the Canadian Navy and its Naval
Reserve. On Sunday, July 31, the day before their Stratford
appearances, Summer Music has even arranged for this
band to present a free afternoon concert at the Gazebo in
Kin Park in neighbouring St. Marys.
Pipe Major Ed Neigh, winner of the Dunvegan Gold Medal
in Piping at the Skye Highland Games in Scotland, who is
also a native of Stratford, will have a special role in the
Tattoo. “As the lone piper, I’ll play the Lament at the end of
the Tattoo,” he said. “I think the outdoor idea is great and
this is much more of a spectacle than previous shows.”
One of Canada’s most respected composers/conductors,
Howard Cable, is also lending his talents to the evening.
Mr. Cable has been commissioned by Stratford Summer
Music to compose a special trumpet fanfare which will
open and close the Tattoo and, at the finale, lead into a
suite where the national anthems of the participating
nations will be musically woven together.
“Including the reputation and composing flair of Howard
Cable, one of Canada’s greatest musical figures and a man
who entertained the troops in World War Two, is another
way we proudly salute our veterans and the sacrifices they
have made,” said John Miller.
Having recently returned from Holland to celebrate VE Day,
Art Boon is similarly happy that the Tattoo will celebrate all
Canadian veterans. “This Tattoo will remind the public that
freedom isn’t a given. We paid a high price for it. We owe
so much to those who put their lives on the line.”
That’s precisely the debt which Summer Music hopes its
musical salute will bring to the hearts of the audience on
August 1.
Stratford Summer
Music Anniversary Tattoo
will be held on the Avon
Flats (Lower Queen’s Park)
at 6:30pm on Monday
August 1. Free, with a
voluntary collection to be
gathered by designated
Summer Music volunteers.
Bring lawn chairs and
blankets to the field.
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Celebrate London's
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Stay for lunch at 4 and
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2CANADA– One of
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an array of music to
take your breath away.
From Bach to rock,
Orchestra London has
something for everyone.
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LABATT BREWERY –
4Enjoy a 2 hour tour
and the opportunity to
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the Forks of
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Museum London is a
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Featuring an impressive
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Celebrating its second
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The Grand Theatre
makes live stage productions
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community, providing
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every Friday night
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or visit www.londontourism.ca
Anne-Julie Caron and Jöelle
Saint-Pierre will make their
debut at Stratford Summer
Music in the Maureen
Forrester Young Artists
Recital with a duo concert
on the marimba.
“A percussion instrument,
the marimba is a cousin of
the xylophone,” Mme Caron
explained, “but it’s nine feet
long and four feet wide,
with five octaves. It’s a very
powerful instrument. The
sound of the marimba is
warm, with a very low bass,
richer than that of the xylophone.”
Brass pipes under
the instrument resonate
and extend the sound.
The marimba is played
with mallets made of wool
rather than the rubber mallets
used on the xylophone.
The hard mallets are used
for the high registers and
the soft mallets for the low.
Mme Caron began her
musical studies at the age
of four on piano, studied
that instrument for seven
years and then developed
her talent in the percussion
class at the Conservatoire
de musique de Quebec in
the 1990’s. In 2003 she
graduated with Grand Distinction
at the top of her
class with a score of 99%
Music
of the
Marimbists
on her final recital, the
highest mark ever given to
a percussionist in the history
of Quebec conservatories.
She received several grants
and scholarships from the
Conseil des arts et des letters
du Quebec and the
Wilfrid-Pelletier Foundation
for being the most outstanding
student in the
conservatories of Quebec
in her graduation year.
Among the many awards
she has received as a solo
marimbist, Mme Caron
includes the Radio Canada
Concours Jeunes Artistes
in 2001, the Conservatoire
de musique de Quebec
Concerto competition in
2002 and first place at the
Trois Rivieres Symphony
competition in 2003. Most
recently she won the Prix
D’Europe, one of Canada’s
top performance awards.
She was also chosen as
“Laureate de Quebec” by
Le Soleil (newspaper) and
by Radio-Canada.
“The duet performance on
the marimba is new,” she
said, “though I have known
Jöelle for a long time. It
should be very different and
powerful with two women
playing two huge marimbas,
each with four mallets.”
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Jöelle Saint-Pierre began
studying piano at the age
of six and added percussion
instruments when she was
twelve. She graduated from
the Conservatoire de
musique de Saguenay this
year after eight years of
study. She has twice participated
in the Zeltsman
Marimba Festival and has
appeared with the
Orchestre des jeunes du
Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean
and a string ensemble in
Toronto under the direction
of Maestro Peter Oundijian.
Mme Saint-Pierre was
recently selected as a
finalist for the Radio-
Canada/CBC Young
Performers’ Competition,
and she will perform a
solo recital on national
radio later this summer.
The repertoire for the
Stratford Summer Music
concert includes works
by J.S. Bach and K. Abe,
as well as arrangements
by Nancy Zeltsman,
Emmanuel Sejourne
and Charleston Capers,
arranged by Mme Caron
herself.
anne-julie caron
jöelle saint-pierre
Anne-Julie Caron and Jöelle
Saint-Pierre will present
the first Maureen Forrester
Canadian Artists Recital of
the season, a marimba duo
concert, on Wednesday
August 3 at 11:15am in the
City Hall Auditorium. $25.
generously supported by
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purveyors of saskatchewan agri-funk
the nancy
ray-guns
The nancy ray-guns, a sixpiece
“agrarian funk” group
from Regina, Saskatchewan
joke on their website that
“If Nancy Reagan ever
asked us to change our
name, we’d Just Say No!”
That’s indicative of the
band’s unique, somewhat
irreverent, take on music –
and life.
They’ve been described
as “prairie funk” or “popgroove”
or “groove-folk”.
“We don’t sound like any
other band,” says Matt Kaip,
spokesman for the group.
“We play agrarian funk… a
sound from the 70’s musical
influence mixed with a
heavy jazz influence. We all
bring something different
to it.”
They like the music of Joni
Mitchell, Stevie Wonder,
Miles Davis and Dave
Matthews – all of which has
influenced their own music.
“We like whatever is good
from each decade…anything
timeless and authentic. We
like people who care about
what they’re doing.”
The group got its start in
2000 when “Tom (Thomas
Roussin) was doing a solo
gig and phoned Natt Bowen
to help out on drums,” says
Matt. “Tom was at Canada’s
First Nations College but
some of us were at the
University of Regina. We
first played at the Crow
Hop Café.”
Now, Matt Kaip (bass),
Thomas Roussin ( vocals,
12-string acoustic guitar),
Mark Wilson (percussion),
Natt Bowan ( Drums),
Doogie Taylor( trumpet,
keyboard) and Nigel Taylor
(trumpet) fuse horns, handdrums
and a funky rhythm
section to create a sound
all their own. They’re proud
of their unique instrumentation.
Their energy, well-crafted
arrangements and artistic
integrity are other factors
in their success.
The nancy ray-guns have
been the house band
for CBC Saskatchewan’s
The Extra Hour and have
played for a few independent
films as well
as commercial documentaries,
including Fiddler’s
Map on Global TV. Their
full-length album, Homestead,
came out in August
2004 and they’re working
on a collection for a CD
tentatively titled Purveyors
of Agrarian Funk.
The ray-guns, self-confessed
“news-junkies”, are known
for their politically-minded
lyrics focusing on issues like
aboriginal rights, depleting
fisheries, local politics, the
environment and family
farms.
“People living on farms are
important to us. Three of
us are from families of exfarmers,”
they point out.
“We all work on writing
the songs, but usually Tom
writes the lyrics,” they note.
One song called Forty Below
brought attention to the
issue of Saskatoon police
taking aboriginal people
on “starlight tours” out of
town in the cold, without
shoes or jackets.
“We’re very improvisational,”
Matt emphasized. “Each
time we play is a different
experience. At Stratford,
on the MusicBarge, we’ll
do a different show every
day…an element to keep
people coming back!”
Their performances are
part of Stratford Summer
Music’s salute to the
Centennials of Alberta and
Saskatchewan in 2005.
The nancy ray-guns will
perform on the CTV
MusicBarge at 12:30 pm
on Wednesday August 3
through Sunday August 7.
Free.
generously supported by
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sunday monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday
concerts
& events
tivoli boys guard band
july 27
11:15 am Festival Opening Grand Recital:
Canadian Brass
$25 | City Hall
2:00 pm Organ Academy Masterclass
free | Knox Church
8:15 pm Opening Gala & Fireworks
free | along Avon River
july 28
9:30 am Organ Recital: James Goettsche
Program A | $25 | Knox Church
11:15 am The Music in Shakespeare’s
Plays: Masques | $25 | City Hall
12:30 pm BargeMusic: Laura Vinson &
Free Spirit | free | Avon River
1:00 pm Tivoli Boys Guard Band concert
free | Stratford Festival Gardens
2:00 pm Organ Academy Masterclass
free | Knox Church
11:30 pm After-Theatre Cabaret:
Bruce Dow Goes Bananas
$25 | Church Restaurant
july 29
9:30 am Organ Recital: James Goettsche
Program B | $25 | Knox Church
11:15 am The Music of Shakespeare’s Time
Masques | $25 | City Hall
12:30 pm BargeMusic: Laura Vinson &
Free Spirit | free | Avon River
2:00 pm Organ Academy Masterclass
free | Knox Church
11:30pm After-Theatre Cabaret: Buddies:
Dan Chameroy & Jonathan
Goad | $25 | Church Restaurant
july 30
9:30 am Organ Recital: James Goettsche
Program C | $25 | Knox Church
11:15 am The Music in Shakespeare’s
Plays: Masques | $25 | City Hall
12:30 pm BargeMusic: Laura Vinson &
Free Spirit | free | Avon River
1:00 pm Tivoli Boys Guard Band concert
free | Stratford Festival Gardens
2:00 pm Organ Academy Masterclass
free | Knox Church
11:30pm After-Theatre Cabaret: Thom
Allison Ladies Night | $25
Church Restaurant
july 31
11:15 am The Music of Shakespeare’s Time
Masques | $25 | City Hall
12:30 pm BargeMusic: Laura Vinson &
Free Spirit | free | Avon River
1:00 pm Tivoli Boys Guard Band concert
free | Stratford Festival Gardens
2:00 pm Organ Academy Closing Recital
free | Knox Church
2:00 pm The National Band of the
Naval Reserve Concert
free Kin Park, St. Marys
august 1
11:00 am Street Parade with bands and
units of the Anniversary Tattoo
free | downtown
6:30 pm Stratford Summer Music
Anniversary Tattoo saluting
Canada’s Year of the Veteran
free | Avon Flats
andrew craig
august 3
11:15 am Maureen Forrester Canadian
Artists Recital featuring Anne
Julie Caron & Joëlle Saint-Pierre,
percussionists | $25 | City Hall
12:30 pm BargeMusic: the nancy ray-guns
free | Avon River
11:30 pm After-Theatre Cabaret:
Bruce Dow Goes Bananas
$25 | Church Restaurant
august 4
11:15 am Quartetto Gelato with Bill
Richardson…On the Orient
Express | $25 | City Hall
12:30 pm BargeMusic: the nancy ray-guns
free | Avon River
4:00 pm Harry Somers Lecture, with
music: The Life & Legacy of Wm
Freeland in Stratford – Campbell
Trowsdale | free | City Hall
11:30 pm After-Theatre Cabaret Buddies:
Dan Chameroy & Jonathan
Goad | $25 | Church Restaurant
august 5
11:15 am Quartetto Gelato with Robert
Munsch…Love you forever
$25 | City Hall
12:30 pm BargeMusic: the nancy ray-guns
free | Avon River
11:30 pm After-Theatre Cabaret:
Thom Allison: Ladies Night
$25 | Church Restaurant
august 6
patrons appreciation day
co-sponsored by the Stratford Festival
& Stratford Summer Music
11:15 am Quartetto Gelato with Bill
Richardson…On the Orient
Express | $25 | City Hall
12:30 pm BargeMusic: the nancy ray-guns
free | Avon River
11:30 pm After-Theatre Cabaret:
Bruce Dow Goes Bananas
$25 | Church Restaurant
august 7
11:15 am Quartetto Gelato with Robert
Munsch…Love you forever
$25 | City Hall
12:30 pm BargeMusic: the nancy ray-guns
free | Avon River
quartetto gelato
august 10
11:15 am Maureen Forrester Canadian
Artists Recital: Alexandre
Da Costa, violin, with Matt
Herskowitz, piano
$25 | City Hall
12:30 pm BargeMusic: Kokopelli Youth
Choir | free | Avon River
11:30 pm After-Theatre Cabaret: Buddies:
Dan Chameroy & Jonathan
Goad | $25 | Church Restaurant
august 11
11:15 am Measha Brueggergosman in
Recital: Great Operatic Arias
$25 | City Hall
12:30 pm BargeMusic: Kokopelli Youth
Choir | free | Avon River
11:30 pm After-Theatre Cabaret:
Thom Allison: Ladies Night
$25 | Church Restaurant
august 12
11:15 am Measha Brueggergosman in
Recital: Great Broadway Show
Tunes | $25 | City Hall
12:30 pm BargeMusic: Kokopelli Youth
Choir | free | Avon River
11:30 pm After-Theatre Cabaret: All Stars
Finale | $30 | Church Restaurant
august 13
11:15 am Measha Brueggergosman in
Recital: Personal Favourites in
Words and Music | $25 | City Hall
12:30 pm BargeMusic: Kokopelli Youth
Choir | free | Avon River
2:00 pm Opera Workshop: The
Importance of Being Earnest
free | City Hall
11:30 pm After-Theatre Cabaret:
All Stars Finale
$30 | Church Restaurant
august 14
11:15 am Measha Brueggergosman in
Recital: Great Jazz,with guest
organist, Doug Riley
$25 | City Hall
12:30 pm BargeMusic: Perth County Pipe
Band | free | Avon River
7:30 pm Closing Choral Celebration:
From Motown to Heaven:
Detroit’s Brazeal Dennard
Chorale and guests, Measha
Brueggergosman, soprano,
Doug Riley, organ, with host
Andrew Craig (CBC Radio
Two’s In Performance)
Pay-what-you-can | Knox Church
measha brueggergosman
masques
brazeal dennard chorale
perth county pipe band
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G Quartetto
elato
all aboard!
a musical journey
Quartetto Gelato will take
its audiences for an unforgettable
ride on the famous
Orient Express with Leacock
– award winning author
and CBC host, Bill Richardson,
as conductor.
“It will be so much fun!”
says Cynthia Steljes, cofounder
and oboist of the
group. “When I asked Bill
to do this, he was very
enthusiastic.” At each
musical stop – London,
Paris, Munich, Vienna,
Budapest, Bucharest and
Istanbul – Bill will add his
own humorous commentary
as he plays tour guide.
A popular broadcaster on
CBC Radio, the versatile Bill
bill richardson
Richardson has hosted
Crosswords on Radio
One, the classical music
request show RSVP on
Radio Two and its successor,
As You Like It. In
1997 he became host of
Richardson’s Roundup
on Radio One’s weekly
afternoon timeslot. His
latest venture for CBC Radio
is Bunny Watson, which
takes its name from a character
played by Katherine
Hepburn in the movie Desk
Set. This character takes
the world as his library,
sifting through a variety
of media and interviews
as he is “associating many
things with many things.”
Mr. Richardson is also a
well-known humorist,
author of a dozen books
including The Bachelor
Brothers Bed and Breakfast
which won the Leacock
prize in 1994.
Quartetto Gelato members
Cynthia Steljes, Peter
DeSotto, Kristina Reiko
Cooper and Alexander
Sevastian are excited about
their latest CD, Quartetto
Gelato Travels the Orient
Express, which was the bestselling
Canadian Classical
Album of 2004. In this
collection of nostalgic
favourites, each musical
selection evokes the spirit
of a great European capital;
for instance, Paris is represented
by Ravel’s Tombeau
de Couperin, and Edith Piaf’s
La Vie En Rose.
For over a decade, Quartetto
Gelato have thrilled audiences
with their musical
virtuosity, imaginative
repertoire and unmistakable
charisma. Their
“cross-over” appeal and
recognizable “sunny sound”
have given them both
critical and public acclaim,
based on performances
and their several CDs.
“What we hear most often
after a concert is ‘you look
like you’re having so much
fun up there!’” she said.
“Classical music gets a bad
rap,”says Ms. Steljes. “What
sets us apart is our approach.
It’s relaxed, inviting and
casual, and we speak with
our audiences.”
Another unique feature
of this quartet is Peter
DeSotto who, besides playing
the violin and mandolin,
also has an amazing tenor
voice. A classical violinist
with the Toronto Symphony
for 10 years and an Italianate
tenor who sings gypsy
folk songs and the great
operatic arias with equal
ease, Mr. DeSotto wins
rave reviews.
Cynthia Steljes performs
on the oboe as both soloist
and chamber musician
in concerts and on radio
throughout North America,
Europe and the Middle East;
she also teaches at the
Glenn Gould Professional
Quartetto Gelato with Bill
Richardson On The Orient
Express on Thursday
August 4 and Saturday
August 6 at the City Hall
Auditorium at 11:15 am. $25.
School in Toronto. Critics
praise her “breathtaking
virtuosity” and her
“tremendous expression
and grace.”
Kristina Reiko Cooper, now
in her third year as cellist,
has been described as
“sensational.” She has her
Doctoral of Musical Arts
degree from Juilliard; is a
founding member of the
Whitman School Quartet
which won first prize in a
chamber music competition;
and has traveled
throughout the Americas,
Europe and Asia.
Alexander Sevastian,
newest member of the
group, is a three-time
first prize-winner of the
International Accordion
Competition. Born in
Minsk, Belarus, he studied
accordion and piano in
Moscow where he received
a Masters in Performance
degree. He performed
throughout Russia, Europe
and Japan as recitalist and
soloist with orchestra. After
his family moved to Canada
in 2001, he studied at the
University of Toronto with
Quartetto Gelato’s previous
accordionist, Joseph
Marcerollo.
donors, from page 3
Howard & Donna Famme
Dr. David Fitzgerald
Fabrizio & Anne Fontana
Cheryl Froud & Dr. Ian MacLean
Susan Fullerton
Anita Gaffney
M. Elizabeth Gilmore
Darina Griffin
Bruce & Elizabeth Halliday
Dr. Gregg &
Monique Hancock
Jim & Maureen Hayes
Jim & Anne-Marie Heckman
Jennifer Hedges
Dr. James & Norma Hiscock
Dr. Susan Hiscock
Bernard Hopkins
Judith Horner & Michael
Bentall
Dr. Andrew A.
& Karlene Hussey
Linda Hutton
Jacquelynne Iarocci
Alan & Lynn Johnson
Marion Kane
Dr. James & Suzanne Kelly
Stirling & Clare Kenny
Paul King
Margaret King
James Kyles
Norm & Sandra Lang
David Latham
Robert & Lottie Lederman
Etienne Leushuis & Margie
McCarthy
David Lint
Cameron Lipsit
Nancy Loft
Brad Lotz & Pamela McIntyre
Alan & Barbara Low
Annette H. V. &
Brian Macdonald
Constance MacDougall
Dr. James MacDougall
Simon Marsden
& Jennifer Lamb
Mayor Dan Mathieson
Dr. James & Joanne McArthur
Dr. Phillip McCabe
& Martine Becu
Hugh & Janet McDonald
Nora & Vernon McDonald
Michael & Ernestine McKenna
Katheryn McKerlie
& Peter Klassen
Emily McLean
John & Arlene Meinen
Tom & Bonnie Melanson
Denton & Elizabeth Miller
Irene Miller
Velma Mode
Richard Monette
David & Laurel Moore
Lois Mountain
William & Janice Mustard
James & Judith Nichol
Daniel & Linda O'Hara
Stephen Ouimette
Stephen G. Parkhill
& Charlene Zitsma
Ella Parratt
Joan Peggs
Leanne Perreault
Laura Pogson
Nora Polley
David Prosser &
Barbara Dunn-Prosser
GregorRead & Susannah Read
Allison Read
Wendy Reid & Peter Roberts
Robert Ritz
Evelyn Robson
Derwyn & Norah
Rokeby-Thomas
Frank & Sharon Santini
Pet Santini & David Tsicos
Margaret Schneider
& Garreth Jones
George & Louise Schroeder
Joseph Shaw
Gordon & Anna Sherwin
Daniel Shoag
Paul Siberry
Kevin & Jane Silver
Alida Smisek & Dr. Stephen
Barlow
Rod Smith
Kevin & Judy Smith
RachelSmith-Spencer
Robert& Roberta Sokol
Luella Spenceley
Tim St. Louis
Jim Stone
Drs. David & Susan Tamblyn
Tango Coffee Bistro
Andrey Tarasiuk & John Miller
Kelley Teahen
SharonTegart
Lynn Ternosky
Dr. Doug & Valerie Thompson
Rheo & Sally Thompson
Anne-Marie Tymec
John & Annette Vyge
Tony Wagner
John & Eleanor Waldie
Anne Walsh
The Wardrobe
Paul West & Kim Wagner
LucilleWest
David & Sherry White
Lt.Col. & Mrs. John Whyte
John Wilkinson & Loretta
Shannon
Ann Wishart
John & Lori Wolfe
Barbara Woolnough
Cathy Wyse
Leslie Yeates & John
Fairbrother
Barbara Young
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We love you forever, this Munsch,
from Ronald McDonald House Charities ®
This is our thanks for coming out to play,
and giving us “Love you forever” today.
By adding your voice to help children in need,
they’ll always have a home away from home to succeed.
A place where they’ll find support and compassion,
making children feel better has long been our passion.
So for bringing smiles to so many faces,
of children from near and far away places.
We’d like to say thanks and till next time, adieu –
Robert, we couldn’t have done it without wonderful you.
Best-selling children’s
author Robert Munsch
will join Quartetto Gelato
to narrate his book Love
you forever, set to music
by Canadian composer
Marjan Mozetich.
Robert Munsch writes that
Love you forever, published
in Canada in 1986, originally
started out as a song, written
as a memorial for two
stillborn babies the family
had in 1979 and 1980. It
soon became the best-selling
book in both Canada
and the United States and
to date has sold more than
25,000,000 copies around
the world.
“It’s an incredibly poignant
book,” said Cynthia Steljes
of Quartetto Gelato. “It’s
sad but it makes kids laugh
too. And Marjan has really
been able to capture the
simplicity of the book as
well as the underlying
emotions.”
“I’d never really done
anything for children
before,” said Mr. Mozetich.
The picture book describes
the love of a mother for her
child at each stage in his
life. The theme is about the
enduring nature of parents’
love and how it crosses generations.
Each episode ends
with the refrain: “I’ll love
you forever/ I’ll like you for
always/ As long as I’m living
my baby you’ll be.”
Love you forever is a book
for both children and
adults. It has a very special
meaning for the sponsor
of the concerts, John Prober,
owner/operator of the
Macdonald Restaurants
in Stratford.
“At our late mother’s funeral
thirteen years ago, my
brother read Love you
forever,” he said. “So I
didn’t hesitate to support
this project along with
my brothers and friends. I
didn’t know Robert Munsch
was Canadian and from
Guelph. What a talent! He
said to me that he feels
lucky that kids can laugh
and parents can cry when
they read this book.”
Robert
Ma unique pairing
Mr. Prober is so impressed
with the book and the
music written for it that
he’d like the package to
become world-famous.
He would like every one
of the 252 Ronald McDonald
Houses in the world to have
a copy of the book and the
song. And beyond that, he’s
trying to work out an
arrangement whereby
some of the proceeds
from the project would go
to the Ronald McDonald
Houses around the world.
Quartetto Gelato with
Robert Munsch narrating
Love you forever on Friday
August 5 and Sunday
August 7 at the City Hall
Auditorium at 11:15 am. $25.
Munsch
joins quartetto gelato
generously
supported by
Please visit rmhc.ca for more details
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William Freeland
the life and legacy of
the 2005 harry somers lecture
presented by dr. campbell trowsdale
in stratford
It’s a homecoming with
a special purpose for Dr.
Campbell Trowsdale, who
grew up in Stratford before
pursuing a notable career
in music in Canada.
His talk on The Life and
Legacy of William Freeland will chronicle the life of an
educator and musician who had a profound effect on
Stratford over a century ago.
In just eight years, 1886-1894, William J. Freeland brought
a revolution in music education to the children and community
of Stratford through his instruction in singing and
reading of music. He changed the attitude to the arts
through his extraordinary talents and energy.
Before his arrival, there had been sporadic attempts by itinerant
music teachers to teach music in the schools but low
pay, lack of qualifications and huge classes (115 students in
2 senior elementary classes) hampered the efforts.
When Freeland arrived in Stratford, he was already working
in music full-time in the London area, successfully advocating
the teaching of music reading through singing. He
convinced the School Board in Stratford to hire him and
was soon teaching in all of Stratford’s public schools. His
first concert, organized to commemorate Queen Victoria’s
Golden Jubilee Celebration in 1887, drew 1500 people to
Stratford’s newly-opened covered skating rink, the largest
in Ontario, to hear 1200 children sing with a fifteen-piece
orchestra and an adult choir of 125.
“Two things came together to create his success,” noted Dr.
Trowsdale, “the venue and the occasion.”
After that huge first step, the Board endorsed Freeland’s
Tonic Sol-fa system and hired him at the second highest
salary of all teachers in the system to teach in Stratford’s
six public schools. During his time in Stratford, he presented
huge annual public choral festivals, certified hundreds
of children in Tonic Sol-fa, became choirmaster at Knox
Presbyterian Church and made music an important part
of the educational experience of hundreds of children.
“The stories that I tell in the lecture on Freeland are particular
to the Stratford community, but they have implications
far beyond Stratford,” said Dr. Trowsdale.
“There are really two stories: the first describes one man’s
impact on a small English-speaking community of 10,000,
not known for anything musical except for a small band
formed by some Grand Trunk Railway workers. His most
outstanding success was involving the whole community
in music. Stratford had never seen anything like it.”
“The Freeland story is also the story of the Stratford community
and some unusual things they undertook, like the
Freeland Fountain. In Canada, until 20-25 years ago, there
was no memorial to any music teacher in the country. But
in Stratford, children bought pennies, nickels and dimes for
the Freeland Fountain in 1897.Their parents must have also
been supportive.”
The Goddess of Liberty statue , which holds a pan rather
than the globe of the original, will be unveiled in a ceremony
immediately following the Freeland lecture on Thursday,
August 4, 2005.
Campbell Trowsdale attended Falstaff Public School
and Stratford Collegiate. He started violin studies in 1939,
attended the University of Toronto, taught in Kitchener-
Waterloo for several years and played with the K-W
Symphony before moving to British Columbia in 1960.
He wrote his thesis on the history of music education
in Ontario.
His illustrious career included the positions of Concertmaster
for the CBC Vancouver Orchestra from 1967-1991
and Concertmaster for the Vancouver Opera Association
Orchestra from 1977-1988. Presently he is Concertmaster
Emeritus for both these symphonies.
Dr. Trowsdale has been a consultant to such organizations
as the Canada Council, Royal Conservatory of Music
(Toronto), the Federal Department of Canadian Heritage
and The Banff Centre for the Arts. He has also conducted
institutional program assessments for the National Youth
Orchestra, the Glenn Gould School in Toronto, the National
Academy Orchestra (Hamilton) and the Victoria Conservatory
of Music.
One of his current projects is the writing of an historical
treatise entitled Musical Energy in Stratford, William J.
Freeland: The Man and his Memorial, a project which he
says “ties a bow around a lot of my activities.”
Dr. Campbell Trowsdale will present the annual Harry
Somers Lecture on The Life and Legacy of William
Freeland in Stratford, atthe City Hall Auditorium
at 4 pm on Thursday August 4. Free.
generously supported by
the julie-jiggs foundation
special thanks
to fred lewis and estate wine
cellars, suppliers of sacred hill
premiere hand-crafted wines of
new zealand, featured this year
at the stratford summer music
gala dinner.
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Alexandre
a rare talent plays a rare instrument
Da Costav iolinist
A fast rising star on
the international scene,
Alexandre Da Costa will
play in the second of the
Maureen Forrester Young
Artists Recitals on the
magnificent violin, the
Baumgartner Stradivarius
of 1689, loaned to him
by the Canada Council for
a three year period for
his concerts and recitals.
At first, he treated the
$3,000,000 instrument
with extreme care, leaving
it at home, until he realized
that it was a working instrument
which he needed to
have with him at all times.
Born in Montreal in 1979,
Alexandre Da Costa was
recognized as a musical
prodigy at the age of nine
when he performed his
concerts on both piano and
violin with equal virtuosity.
At 18, he received a Masters
degree in violin from the
Quebec Conservatory of
Music and, concurrently, a
Bachelor’s Degree in Piano
Interpretation from the
Faculty of music at the
University of Montreal.
Among his numerous
awards are several first
prizes in the Canadian
Music Competitions and,
in 2002, the Sylva Gelber
Foundation Award given
annually by the Canada
Council to the most talented
candidate under the age
of 30.
Over the past ten years, Mr.
Da Costa has appeared as
soloist in over 500 recitals
and concerts throughout
Canada, the United States,
Mexico, France, Spain,
Portugal, Austria, Czech
Republic, Poland, Romania,
Japan and Taiwan.
He began 2005 as a guest
soloist with the Berlin
Symphonic at their famous
New Year’s Gala and then
at a special concert with
the same orchestra the next
day in Spain. Such experiences
seem typical for his
developing career as one of
Canada’s finest young violinists.
His repertoire for the
Stratford Summer Music
recital will include works
by Mozart, Prokofieff,
Brahms, Paganini, Kreisler,
Sarasate and Monti.
His accompanist, Matt
Herskowitz, is also a multitalented
young musician:
a brilliant jazz pianist, composer
and prize-winning
classical pianist. A graduate
of the Curtis Institute of
Music in Philadelphia and
the Julliard School of Music
in New York, he adds a
unique new voice to the
current music scene.
Recently, Matt was a
recording musician on the
soundtrack of the Oscarnominated
film, Les
Triplettes de Belleville,
performing a jazz-style
improvisation on a Bach
prelude. He also recently
recorded an extensive
piano improvisation for
the film, La Face Cachee
de la Lune, which received
several nominations for
Quebec’s Jutra awards.
Inevitablement,a song
written with Laura Fabain,
was released on the debut
album of French singer,
Nolwenn Leroym, a recording
which was No. 1 in
France for several weeks.
And in 2004 the Canadian
cable channel Bravo aired
a Matt Herskowitz videotaped
solo recital of jazz,
original compositions, pop
song arrangements and
classical music. His new
solo CD, Last Impressions,
is available all over Canada.
These two extraordinary
talents will bring a fresh,
young approach to classical
music when they make
their Stratford debut this
summer.
Alexandre Da Costa, violinist,
accompanied by Matt
Herskowitz, in the second
of the Maureen Forrester
Young Canadian Artist
Recitals on Wednesday
August 10th at 11:15 am at
the City Hall Auditorium.
$25.
generously supported by
alexandre da costa
matt herskowitz
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Measha
bright new star in the musical galaxy
Young Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman has
made the critics search for superlatives as they describe
her voice and performances on the stages of the world.
Comments on her “rich, radiant voice,”“exemplary legato,”
“vast tonal range” and “rock-solid technique” are just a
sample of the rave reviews she has been getting across
Canada and abroad.
She will demonstrate her versatility at Stratford Summer
Music in four different programs: Great Operatic Arias,
Great Broadway Show Tunes, Great Jazz and Personal
Favourites in Words and Music, as well as starring as guest
artist with the Brazeal Dennard Chorale in the Festival’s
finale, From Motown to Heaven.
“It’s important to stay fresh and sing a variety of things,
though classical music is the bulk of my repertoire,” she
said in a recent interview. “I like to stretch and challenge
my own comfort zone.”
She said she’ll be singing some of Cole Porter and George
Gershwin, along with some “edgier stuff”. Her operatic
arias will come mainly from Verdi, Puccini and Wagner.
And she likes the Cabaret genres, especially selections by
William Bolcom.
Her musical influences include Ella Fitzgerald, Leontyne
Price, Jessye Norman and a singer she recently heard in
Barcelona –Violetta Ermana. “I want to be honest and
selfless like them on stage. The audience can always
smell a fake.”
As for the numerous descriptions of her voice, she said,
“I aspire to a round full-bodied sound, like a nice strong
red wine.”
American pianist Cameron Stowe will accompany Ms.
Brueggergosman. Winner of numerous honours for his
study and performance of song recital repertoire, he is the
only pianist to hold a Doctorate from the Julliard School
with a major in song and vocal chamber music. He maintains
an active performance schedule at concert halls in
North America and abroad, including The John F. Kennedy
Centre for the Performing Arts, Festival Radio France and
the Ravinia Music Festival. He is also a member of the
Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto where he
is developing a Master’s program in collaborative piano
and teaching courses in song interpretation and ensemble
performance.
Born in New Brunswick in 1977, Ms. Brueggergosman was
raised in a devout Baptist family in Fredericton, where her
musical talents soon surfaced. She began piano and voice
lessons at age 7, won numerous prizes at music festivals,
starred in high-school musicals and sang at weddings,
funerals and other events in her hometown.
She got a scholarship to the University of Toronto and later
took graduate studies in Germany with Canadian soprano
Edith Wiens, funded by a Canada Council grant.
Toronto has been her home base since then, though she
spends a lot of time travelling. She has already appeared
at Carnegie Hall in New York, Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto,
the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, the International
Beethoven Festival in Germany and on CBC/Radio Canada
in both official languages.
In 2002 she won the Grand Prize, the People’s Choice
Award, the Award for Best interpretation of an imposed
work as well as the Award for Best Canadian Artist at the
Jeunesses Musicales Montreal International Competition.
She is also the recipient of international prizes at the
Wigmore Hall Song Competition in London, England, the
Robert Schumann Competition in Germany and the George
London Foundation’s Kristen Flagstad Award in New York,
as well as prestigious grants from the Canada Council and
the Chalmers Performing Arts Awards (Ontario).
Her CD, So Much to Tell, with the Manitoba Chamber
Orchestra, was nominated for a 2005 Juno award in the
“best classical vocal category.” The ghost track on that
recording, a rendition of the African-American spiritual,
Were You There?, has become a favourite of her fans.
Her travels in 2005 will take her to the Toronto Symphony
Orchestra, the Bergen Festival in Norway, the Verbier
Brueggergosman
Festival in Switzerland, the Canada pavilion at Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan and Parliament
Hill on Canada Day.
And of course, Stratford, Ontario. “I’m thrilled to be coming to Stratford,” she says.
“There’s nothing like it in New Brunswick. Stratford is famous the world over for high
standards of performance and I’m honoured to be part of it.”
Measha Brueggergosman will be the first Anne Walsh Artist-in-Residence at Stratford
Summer Music. As such, her recitals here are particularly made possible by this local
citizen whose earlier gift led to the commissioning of Fantasy for a Midsummer’s
Night; this work, composed by Berthold Carriere C.M., honours the late B.J. ‘Bo’ Sibold
and has become a unique tradition in our community when its playing officially marks
the commencement of another Summer Music season.
Ms. Brueggergosman’s appearances at Stratford have another significance for her
too – her future. “Stratford Summer Music offers artists opportunities to stretch their
horizons. For me, it’s a testing ground for branching out into other areas. I want to be
master of one thing but to dabble in others. It’s important for me to be part of the
musical landscape, to support new composers, for instance. But it’s important to stay
focused too.”
Stratford music-lovers are eagerly anticipating her gorgeous voice, varied repertoire,
charisma and unique stage presence. Her “big hair”, bare feet (“shoes are too constricting”)
and colourful dress are now legendary among opera-goers.
Soprano Measha
Brueggergosman
will appear in solo
recitals at the City
Hall Auditorium at
11:15 am on each day.
For the first three
performances she will
be accompanied by
pianist Cameron Stowe.
Thursday August 11
Great Operatic Arias
Friday August 12
Great Broadway Shows
Saturday August 13
Personal Favourites in
Words & Music
Sunday August 14
Great Jazz, with
Doug Riley, organist
The cost for each
recital is $25.
Ms. Brueggergosman will
be guest artist on Sunday
August 14 at Knox Church
at 7:30 pm with The
Brazeal Dennard Chorale,
organist Doug Riley, and
program host Andrew
Craig in the Festival’s
closing gala, From Motown
to Heaven. Pay-what-youcan
admission.
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Kokopelli
the pride of albertachoir
The Kokopelli Youth Choir
will perform on the CTV
MusicBarge as part of
Stratford Summer Music’s
salute to Alberta’s
Centennial in 2005.
“We loved the symbol of
Kokopelli, the legendary
Western flute-player who
traveled the Rocky
Mountain corridor communicating
with the various
tribes through
music,” explained Scott
Leithead, director of the
Kokopelli Youth Choir from
Edmonton, Alberta. “It
seemed appropriate as a
name for this group
because, true to the legend,
our choir members enjoy
the gifts of sharing music
with others and learning
from them.”
The image of the archbacked
flautist has been
found throughout the West
in petroglphs and pottery
dating back 3000 years.
Native Hopi legends suggest
he was an ancient
trader who played his flute
to announce his arrival to
villagers.
Founded in 1996, this innovative
youth ensemble of
39 members pushes the
boundaries of choral music
with a repertoire that
ranges from the classical
to the avant garde.
“We sing in diverse styles,
with a super-bright edgy
sound. You’ll notice a vast
variety in tonal colours,”
said Mr. Leithead. Their
eclectic repertoire ranges
from the sacred to the
secular, ancient to modern,
embracing many different
cultures and sounds.
Known for their unique
presentation style, the
choristers often double as
instrumentalists, adding
movement to their songs
and even going right into
the audience at times.
The Kokopelli Youth Choir
have already recorded eight
of their own CDs: Evolve
(1997), Freedom (1998), Time
(1999), Colour (2000),
Believe (2001), Perspective
(2002), Spirit (2003), and
Africa (2004) as well as a
commercial release with
Rita MacNeil and the
Vancouver Symphony
Orchestra.
Their awards include the
1997 Edmonton Salute to
Excellence Award for outstanding
accomplishment
in the arts, and the 2000
National Children’s Rights
Award for excellence in the
arts.
The Kokopelli Youth Choir
have been showcased at the
Rocky Mountain National
Music Festival for the past
seven years, toured the
Scandinavian countries in
2002 and played at several
national music festivals in
Canada. They performed
at Toronto’s Circumpolar
Festival in May 2005.
Their tour of South Africa,
Namibia, and Malaysia in
the summer of 2004
produced some special
spin-offs. They are now
twinned with the Mascato
Youth Choir from Swakopmund,
Namibia, exchanging
visits and music. In
2006 the African choir
will visit them in Alberta
and they’ll tour Western
Canada together.
“We’re really excited to be
part of Stratford Summer
Music,” said the director.
Their repertoire on the CTV
MusicBarge is being
designed for the outdoors.
“We try to create a picture
with each piece we sing.”
Their BargeMusic will
include a composition from
Finland, gospel music, some
Celtic selections, music they
learned in Africa last summer
and a new set of four
Alberta folk songs to commemorate
their province’s
Centennial in 2005.
The Kokopelli Youth Choir
performs daily at 12:30 pm
on the CTV MusicBarge
from Wednesday August 10
through Saturday August
13th. Free.
generously supported by
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The
ofbeing
Importance
Earnest
the importance of collaboration in
It’s not often that the audience has a chance to
offer ideas and criticism to the singers and composers
of an opera. But that’s exactly what will
happen at the Opera Workshop for The
Importance of Being Earnest.
Following five days of rehearsal, the sixth day of the workshop
will be a reading or informal presentation of the
operetta, after which the public will have a rare opportunity
to question the composer, librettist and singers and to
comment on the performance in an open discussion. The
audience will thus have a unique role in the development
of a new work of musical theatre.
“Collaborative art is the way to go,” said Dr. Eugene
Benson, the librettist. “If you put on a workshop culminating
in a public performance, the point is to get as much
input as possible from the ‘try-out’ audience. We want to
gauge the audience’s reaction during the performance:
did they laugh at the comic parts, for example. And their
questions will tell us what they think of it. It’s part of the
collaborative process for both performers and audience.”
Eugene Benson wrote the libretto based on the famous
play by Oscar Wilde. “I’ve shortened the play, reduced the
number of characters from nine to five, and added lyrics.
It’s now in operatic form. And although it won’t be a fullscale
production with costumes and sets, the audience
will get a sense of the dramatic work.”
The Importance of Being Earnest tells the story of upperclass
characters in British society, at the beginning of
the twentieth century, who take on false identities in a
spirit of fun. Friends Algernon and Jack are courting Cecily
(Jack’s ward) and Gwendolyn, but Lady Bracknell,
Gwendolyn’s mother, has some serious questions about
Jack’s family background. The true identity of Earnest
provides for some bewilderment, and lots of humorous
moments. The dialogue is light and witty, the characters
charming, and the comedy has been making audiences
chortle for over a century.
The roles of the four young people were awarded after a
series of auditions. “We auditioned over 50 singers at the
University of Western Ontario, Wilfrid Laurier University,
the University of Toronto and the Glenn Gould School in
order to select four. Many had wonderful qualifications
but we also had to look for people who suited these
specific characters,” said Mr. Benson.
Leading the cast will be Canadian mezzo-soprano Laura
Pudwell who has recently been nominated for a 2005
Dora Mavor Moore Award by the Toronto Theatre Alliance.
A member of the Toronto Consort ensemble and an artist
much in demand for her vocal and dramatic strengths,
Ms. Pudwell will assume the role of Lady Bracknell, one
of the most delightful parts for any actress.
Soprano Rachael Harwood-Jones, who has degrees in music
and opera from the University of Manitoba and the Opera
School at the University of Toronto, will play the part of
Cecily.
Mezzo-soprano Erin Lawson, a graduate of Wilfrid Laurier
University, who has had opera experience with Opera
Laurier and Opera NUOVA will play Gwendolyn.
Richard Szuba, a lyric tenor, has experience playing roles in
opera at the University of Toronto, Banff, Victoria, Dawson
Creek and the Royal Conservatory in Toronto.
Kingston baritone Matthew Zadow will sing the role of
Jack for this workshop. With several important opera,
operetta and musical theatre roles to his credit already,
this young graduate from Queen’s University is also becoming
appreciated for his solo work in oratorio, solo
song cycles and sacred presentations.
Eugene Benson, the librettist, is a former Professor of
English at the University of Guelph, and the author of
novels, plays, and academic books as well as libretti
for opera.
Victor Davies, the composer, is a musician who is hard to
categorize. He is a renowned pianist, conductor and composer
whose work has been commissioned and performed
world-wide. He has written children’s musicals for stage
and television, numerous scores for theatre and film, and
spent two years as musical director of CBC-TV’s Ninety
Minutes Live. He has released several CDs including The
Music of Victor Davies. In 1999, he was musical director,
composer and producer of the Opening and Closing
Ceremonies Music for the XIII Pan American Games. His
best-known composition, The Mennonite Piano Concerto,
recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra, has been
performed all over North America, Europe and China. He
composes and performs all types of music- classical, jazz,
county, rock, pop, folk and opera.
“This music is in the style and period of Oscar Wilde,” he
said, “with romantic ballads for Jack and Gwendolyn, and
some big crowd-pleasing numbers, too.”
“As I composed the music, I wanted it to be sparkling and
brilliant and full of tuneful numbers to support this dazzling
comedy. Eugene has written some fantastic lyrics for
various moments in the play that are expanded into songs.”
Mr. Davies’ daughter, Heather, who has an impressive
career as a singer, dancer and director in England, including
two years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, will be
both director and dramaturge for this workshop process.
“We hope this opera will be professionally performed in
the future,” said Mr. Benson. “Producers and directors are
always looking for new work.”
Opera Workshop, The Importance of Being Earnest, on
Saturday August 13 at 2 pm in the City Hall Auditorium.
Free.
generously supported by
the john mckellar
charitable foundation
Foundation
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November 29I2005
Turtle Island String
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February 17I2006
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theBrazeal
a celebration
Dennard
of black heritage
and culture
Chorale
Stratford Summer Music
2005 will wrap up with
a grand finale featuring
Detroit’s Brazeal Dennard
Chorale with guest artists
soprano Measha
Brueggergosman and
organist Doug Riley, in
a musical celebration of
black heritage and culture
in North America.
Entitled From Motown to
Heaven,the program will
feature the Music of the
60’s and 70’s that has
become known as the
“Motown Sound” as well as
traditional spirituals first
sung by American slaves.
These artists from both
Canada and the United
States will be joined by
Andrew Craig, host of CBC
Radio Two’s In Performance.Mr.
Craig will be
master of ceremonies for
this special night of music.
“Forty highly trained singers
– some of whom have been
singing with the group for
33 years, and many of them
for 20-25 years – will be
coming to Stratford,” said
Brazeal Dennard, conductor
and founder of the musical
group that bears his name.
From its beginning in 1972,
the goal of the ensemble
has been to rediscover and
perform significant choral
works by black composers.
“We want to remember,
discover and preserve the
rich spirituals born out of
our ancestors’ struggles
for freedom,” said Maestro
Dennard.
“We sing African-American
music, with an emphasis
on spirituals. I do arrangements
of them as the mood
strikes me. I read a lot of
history and that feeds the
creative juices. I’m strictly
a traditionalist.”
As an educator, conductor
and proponent of African
American choral music,
Brazeal Dennard has devoted
his life to music and to
people. He also founded
the Brazeal Dennard
Community Chorus and
the Brazeal Youth Chorus.
He taught for many years
at Northwestern High
School in Detroit and served
as Supervisor of Music for
the Detroit Public Schools.
He is on the Board of
Directors of the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra and
serves as adjunct faculty
at Wayne State University.
The Chorale’s four CDs – In
Silent Night; Remembering,
Discovering, Preserving;
Remembering II, Significant
Spirituals; and Hush! – will
be for sale the night of the
concert. Each recording
presents a collection of traditional
spirituals, the
American folk songs that
evolved from the cries of
the slaves who were, collectively,
the first African-
American composers.
Spirituals probably proliferated
near the end of the
18th century and lasted
for a few decades leading
up to the end of legalized
slavery in the 1860’s. These
songs expressed deeplyheld
religious convictions,
unshakeable faith, optimism
for a better world to
come and the longing for
freedom, often masked in
the form of secret codes or
messages embedded in the
lyrics of the songs. To this
day they continue to convey
deep emotion, intensity and
strength in the face of
adversity.
These songs lend themselves
to communal
singing with many based
on a “call-and-response”
structure with exchanges
between the leader and
the group. The harmonic
influence of the African-
American spiritual can be
heard in music of all genres
– blues, gospel, jazz,
rock and contemporary
music. Spirituals have
inspired composers and
arrangers to formalize
the music into anthems,
motets, operas, oratorios
and symphonies.
The repertoire for From
Motown to Heaven will
include Listen to the Land
by Nathaniel Dett, Ride the
Chariot by William H. Smith,
Duke Ellington’s Choral
Caravan CHK and other
works that lend themselves
to soprano roles by Canada’s
rising soprano star, Measha
Brueggergosman.
Canada’s celebrated Jazz
Organist of the Year, Doug
Riley, is also well-known
globally as a composer and
arranger, collaborating with
such artists as Placido
Domingo and the National
Ballet. He has performed
on recordings with Ray
Charles, Ringo Starr, Gordon
Lightfoot, Anne Murray and
many more. Mr. Riley
arranged, played and
co-produced Moe Koffman’s
CD, The Moe Koffman
Project, and also the Blood
Sweat and Tears Reunion CD.
The Brazeal Dennard
Chorale presents From
Motown to Heaven with
guest artists soprano,
Measha Brueggergosman,
and jazz organist, Doug
Riley. This program will be
hosted by CBC broadcaster,
Andrew Craig, who is
featured on CBC-Radio
Two’s In Performance.
On Sunday August 14 at
8 pm at Knox Presbyterian
Church. Pay-what-you-can
admission.
generously supported by
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we
need
you
With ticket revenues generating
less than a quarter of
the true cost of producing
concerts, your support is vital
to continued artistic excellence
and financial stability.
Individual and corporate donations
enable Stratford
Summer Music to continue
to present wonderful performers
each year and to
grow in a sustainable fashion.
Official receipts suitable for
charitable donations are
issued (Charitable reg. no.
rr0001-87819-7417), and a
donation of $50 or more
means that you become a
Friend of Summer Music,
enabling you to buy a season
pass to all daytime concerts.
For more information, please
call the office at 519-271-2101,
or write to us at Box 1013,
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TOUR TO AUSTRIA 2006
next year, the world will celebrate mozart’s 250th birthday.
Next autumn, enjoy 12 days in Europe’s music capital, Vienna, in The Danube Valley,
in Mozart’s birth city of Salzburg, through the beautiful Lake District and into such
traditional Austrian villages as St. Wolfgang and St. Gilgen.
Artistic Producer John
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at the Musikverein, home to the Vienna Philharmonic, and the Wiener Staatsoper,
where Mozart’s most famous works will be highlights of the anniversary year.
Deluxe hotels. Special Mozart recitals and events in each
city. Luxury motorcoaches. Danube River cruise to the famed
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Innercity shopping along the Ringstrasse.
Complete tour of Schönbrunn Palace and grounds.
Dining
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activities and private time.
A330 Airbuses.
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