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THE NUTCRACKER<br />
The Messiah is not the only chestnut to<br />
draw crowds at this time of the year.<br />
Another is Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker<br />
Suite, of which, not including the<br />
·National Ballet's 11 performances, there<br />
are seven musical renditions on the go this<br />
holiday: Dec. 11 7:30: Oakville<br />
Symphony Orchestra. Dec. 11 8:15:<br />
Etobicoke Philharmonic Orchestra. Dec.<br />
12 2:00 & 7:30: Oakville Symphony<br />
Orchestra. Dec. 13 1:00 & 4:30:<br />
Oakville Symphony Orchestra. Dec. 19<br />
8:00: Orchestra Toronto. Get cracking!<br />
TOP BRASS<br />
The Canadian Brass are not the only top<br />
flight brass quintet in town. The True<br />
North Brass may have just recently got<br />
back from China where they at;:companied<br />
J~ Chretien (you didn't know that he<br />
sings?) and played a musically very<br />
9onservative program for the top brass<br />
there, but they _are definitely here to stay.<br />
You 9an hear· them <strong>December</strong> 5 at St.<br />
John's Anglican Church•.<br />
EARLY MUSIC<br />
Did you know that the modern flute was<br />
developed in the late 1830s by the<br />
German flautist and inventor, Theobald<br />
Boehm, which means that the instruments<br />
now generally used to play the music of<br />
Mozart, Beethoven and the many<br />
composers of the baroque who wrote for<br />
the flute ·are not what the composers had<br />
in mind?<br />
Flautist, Mylene Guay, is a virtuoso<br />
performer on the type of instrument for<br />
which composers like Handel, Leclair and<br />
Charpentier wrote music and you can hear<br />
her with her harpsichordist husband,<br />
David Sandall on <strong>December</strong> 4 at<br />
Kimbourne Park United Church, about a<br />
five minutes walk from the Coxwell<br />
subway station.<br />
Another husband/wife duo, soprano<br />
Hallie Fishel and .violinist, Christopher<br />
Verrette along with lutenist, John<br />
Edwards will perform music of the Italian<br />
·baroque on <strong>January</strong> 29. ·<br />
The Toronto Consort, one of Toronto's<br />
leading interpreters of Medieval and<br />
Renaissance music, will join forces with<br />
Puirt a Baroque on <strong>December</strong> 10 to reveal<br />
the continuity of the Celtic musical<br />
tradition from the middle ages to the<br />
present day.<br />
And Sine Nomine .(Dec 18) and Aradia<br />
Baroque Ensemble (Dec 19) both help to<br />
the early music flame burning bright,<br />
Concert Notes continues, next page<br />
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