Volume 5 Issue 2 - October 1999

Concert Notes ... continued
Symphony Orchestra. There are many more
very good and very interesting concerts at the
Faculty of Music in October - too many to
mention them all, but definitely worth
finding in our concert listings section.
GREAT ROMANTICS fESTIVAL
Hamilton's Great R'illmantics Festival,
October 7 to 10, an annual event organized
by Professor Alan Walker of McMaster
University, is a fascinating musical and
intellectual feast of concerts, lectures and
discussions, with well-placed moments of
relaxation in the form of receptions and
banquets. Performers from all over the .world
consider it a privilege to play at this gathering,
and the rest of us should consider
ourselves privileged that it occurs in our own
backyard so to speak. For further information,
the festival can be contscted at 905-529-7070
ext.23674. If you are not fortunate enough to
be able to spend four stimulating days in .
Hamilton, a taste of the Festival will be
available in Toronto on October 2 when
English pianist, Melanie Spanswick, will
give a recital in Toronto at Temple Baptist
Church.
fiRST CANADIAN
CHOPIN CoMPETITION
This year is the 150th anniversary of the
death of one of those great romantics,
Frederic Chopin, and so has been declared
"Chopin Year" by UNESCO. It is also the
year of Canada's first Chopin Competition,
which will take place at the John Paul II
Polish Cultural Centre in Mississauga with
a gala final concert on October 23 at the
Glenn Gould Studio. What a great opportunity
to hear the best young pianists from all
over Canada.
lANDSMAN, ORLOFF & TURINI
While every month is a good month for
. chamber music in Toronto, this October
lppears to be especially good, in part
because of a concert that brings together
three of the best musicians that three cities
have to offer: Montreal violinist, Vladimir
Landsman, London (Ontario) pianist,
Ronald Turini, and Toronto cellist, Vladimir
Orloff. They will perform three pillars of
the repertoire, the Tchaikovsky Trio Op. 50,
the Beethoven violin sonata, Op. 30 #33 and
the Brahms cello sonata, Qp. 38, at the
Glenn Gould Studio on October 16.
MUSIC IN THE SUBURBS.
Last month we mentioned Artword Theatre's
Rush Hour concerts, the second of
. which will be on October 27 at 6:00,
· designed for suburbanites who work
downtown. There is a growing number of
reaily excellent concerts in the suburbs,
which shows that there is considerable
interest in good music wherever you live. In
addition to Festival Etobicoke, there are
this month a recital by flautist Nora Shulman
and pianist Leslie Kinton, part of the
Performing Arts York Region series in
Thornhill on October 29, a recital by violinist
Marie Berard, part of the Lakeshore Arts
series, on October 30 and, the same evening,
a recital presented by the Mississauga Guitar
Society, by guitarist Stepan Rak.
And speaking of guitar, The New
Guitar, a new multi-disciplinary concert
series, featuring some of Canada's best
guitarists, presents its first concert on
October 22 at the Heliconian Hall, a concert
of music by Canadian composers performed
by William Beauvais and the Canadian
Guitar Quartet.
WoRLD Mus1c
Harbourfront, in collaboration with Small
World Music, has a very interesting series
called "Small World 99", which on October
17 will present drum and dance from Guinea.
On October 2 Tibetan monks will present
traditional Tibetan chanting and on October 3
the Volyn Ukrainian Song & Dance Company
will bring Ukrainian folk songs, dances,
music & theatrical tableaus to Hammerson
Hall in Mississauga. On October 15 Mehr
Ali & Sher Ali with a chorus and other
performers will be at Roy Thomson Hall and
on October 16 soprano Lilac Cai\a,
and pianist Raul Sunico, will perform songs
from the Phillipines at the Ettore Mazzoleni
Concert Hall.
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Colin Fox
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