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· TORONTO'S CLASSICAL & POST-CLASSICAL MUSIC SCENE ~<br />
COMPREHENSIVE CONCERT & MUSIC THEATRE LISTINGS
Under the distinguished patronage of<br />
Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson c.c., c.M.M., c.o., Governor General of Canada<br />
TORONTO INTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL presents<br />
Tuesday <strong>June</strong> 11 8:00 pm<br />
St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church<br />
Huelgas Ensemble<br />
Leuven, Belgium<br />
Music of the Flemish<br />
Renaissance<br />
Paul Van Nevel conductor<br />
Friday <strong>June</strong> 14 8:00 pm<br />
Massey Hall<br />
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Sweden<br />
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Carl Orff Carmina Burana<br />
Cecilia Rydinger Alin conductor<br />
Aline Kutan soprano<br />
Benoit Boutet tenor<br />
Bruce Kelly baritone<br />
Sunday <strong>June</strong> 16 4:00 pm<br />
George Weston Recital Hall,<br />
Toronto Centre for the Arts<br />
Pro Coro Canada<br />
Edmonton, Alberta<br />
World Premiere<br />
Allan Gilliland Blessed<br />
Richard Sparks conductor<br />
Commission Patron Allan Gilliland<br />
world premiere: The Alberta<br />
Foundation for the Arts<br />
Sunday <strong>June</strong> 16 8:00 pm<br />
Metropolitan United Church<br />
Victoria Scholars<br />
Toronto, Ontario<br />
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MAY 31- JUNE 22 I <strong>2002</strong><br />
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Jerzy Cichocki conductor<br />
David Hetherington cello
OVER 30 CONCERTS INCLUDING:<br />
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Monday <strong>June</strong> 17 8:00 pm<br />
Massey Hall<br />
Exaudi<br />
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Program of Cuban &<br />
Latin-American music<br />
Maria Felicia Perez conductor<br />
Thursday <strong>June</strong> 20 8:00 pm<br />
George Weston Recital Hall,<br />
Toronto Centre for the Arts<br />
Tafelmusik Chamber<br />
Choir and Orchestra<br />
Toronto, Ontario<br />
J.S. Bach Six Motets<br />
lvars Taurins conductor<br />
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Friday <strong>June</strong> 21 8:00 pm<br />
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Arnold Schonberg<br />
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Vienna, Austria<br />
Erwin Ortner conductor<br />
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Imagining Incense - World Premiere<br />
R. Murray Schafer Vax Naturae<br />
Music by Japanese composers<br />
Chifuru Matsubara conductor<br />
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Sunday, July 7 at 2pm<br />
BROADWAY AN1J ALL 'I'llAT JAZZ<br />
The Windjammer Swing Band<br />
with Dinah Christie<br />
Conductor, Harry Currie<br />
Tickets $20.00<br />
Saturday July 13 at 8pm<br />
CHAMBER CONCERT<br />
Partitas for Solo Violin -J.S. Bach<br />
Emmanuel Vukovich,Violin<br />
Tickets $20.00<br />
Saturday, Aug 3 at 2pm<br />
CllAMJJEll CONCERT<br />
Student ensemble<br />
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Tickets $20.00<br />
Friday, July 19 at 8pm &<br />
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THE ART OF MOfEMEN'l'<br />
Works by Chopin, Rachmaninov, Ravel,<br />
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TORONTO'S CLASSICAL AND POST-CLASSICAL MUSIC SCENE<br />
<strong>Volume</strong> 7 #9 <strong>June</strong> 1 to July 7, <strong>2002</strong><br />
Copyright© <strong>2002</strong> PerPul Proze, 60 Bellevue Avenue, Toronto ON MST 2N4<br />
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Starting from Stratford<br />
·MY SUMMER OF MUSIC<br />
by Allan Pulker<br />
IN TIIB SUMMER I like to get ouJ of the city for a holiday which includes some<br />
music. Last summer I spent two or three days at the Ottawa International<br />
Chamber Music Festival, a musical cornucopia in a summertime atmosphere<br />
so utterly reloxed that I recommend it to anyone for whotn chamber<br />
music in a city that feels as if it is on some other, gentler, kinder, planet<br />
sounds appealing. Perhaps next summer I will drive east again, stopping<br />
fora concert in Alexandria en rouJe to the marvellous Festival de Lanmuliire<br />
in the town, of Joliette, north of Montreal. This summer, however, I plan<br />
to stay closer to home, roaming from festival to festival in souJh-westem<br />
Ontario, starting from StraJjord.<br />
ONE OF TIIB NEWER Ontario summer<br />
festivals, Stratford Summer Music<br />
will use a natural amenity of its<br />
location, the riverside park system,<br />
to good advantage; the opening perfonnance<br />
on July 24 will be on a<br />
barge on the river. (This is the concert<br />
with which I intend to.begin my<br />
"tour" ~)<br />
Festival director, former Canadian<br />
Music Centre director, John Miller,<br />
has been determined to make the festival<br />
extremely affordable: some concerts<br />
are free and for the others ticket<br />
' prices are no more than $15. He is<br />
also committed to commissioning<br />
new works by Canadian composers.<br />
This year ~rt Carriere's work,<br />
Midsummer Night's Fantasy, wiil be<br />
performed at the opening concert and<br />
another work, by Carriere, based on<br />
his Stratford Theatre music, will be<br />
premiered by the Canadian Brass.<br />
Yet another part of Miller's mandate<br />
is to support the development<br />
of young · musicians: the festival's<br />
"Maureen Forrester Series" will feature<br />
"the best young artists" he can<br />
find: this year, pianist David Jalbert<br />
and violinist Sarah Pratt, while the<br />
"Organ Series" will feature not only<br />
perfonnances but also masterclasses<br />
by Jean-Pierre LeGuay, organist at<br />
Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.<br />
I could comfortably stick around<br />
Stratford for the whole Festival (and<br />
the duration of this article) but there's<br />
so little time and so many festivals.<br />
So, I will stay long enough to hear a<br />
recital by LeGuay at 9:30 Thursday<br />
morning, July 25, and the premiere<br />
of Mary Lou Fallis and Peter<br />
Tiefenbach's "The Primadonna does<br />
. \<br />
Shakespeare" before heading off to<br />
the Collingwood Summer Festival<br />
to hear Anton Kuerti, Kristine B6gyo<br />
(WholeNote cover story, March<br />
<strong>2002</strong>) with flautist and festival di- '<br />
rector Douglas Nadler that evening<br />
at 8:00. Then on Friday I will head<br />
off to Elora where the Elora Festival<br />
Singers and the Exultate Chamber<br />
Singers will be joining forces at<br />
8:00 in the evening. On Saturday<br />
morning a leisurely brunch and ex<br />
_ploration of historic Elora will segue<br />
. into one of two concerts at 2:00:<br />
Music for Strings or the American<br />
male voice choir, Measure for<br />
Measure (which, incidentally, will<br />
also be performing in Stratford).<br />
That should leave plenty of time<br />
to make the 70 kilometre trip up<br />
Highway 6 to Durham, where the<br />
Symphony in the Barn ~ill be presenting<br />
a fully staged perfonnance<br />
of one of my favourite operas,<br />
Gluck's Qrfeo ed Euridice, con-<br />
"After a brief twenty year absence" as she puts it, Mary Lou F al/is, who<br />
peifonned at the first Stratford Summer Music in 1982, returns, with long-time<br />
collaborato: Peter Tiefenbach,for four peifonnances of two shows<br />
ducted by the resourceful and versatile,<br />
Michael Schmidt. On Sunday<br />
morning I will drive back to T.O.,<br />
where our cat~ Abelard, whq will<br />
undoubtedly have become progressively<br />
less philosophical about our<br />
absence with each passing day, will<br />
be overjoyed to have us back!<br />
Day Trips<br />
There are several festivals that just<br />
won't fit into the "tour", but, being<br />
close to Toronto, wm make ideal day<br />
trips. On July 10 the Brott Festival<br />
is presenting an "organ crawl" with<br />
organist, Felix Hell, who will play<br />
Taj e mUSl!i BAROQUE SUMMER INSTITUTE<br />
in three of the big downtown Hamilton<br />
churches, at the last of which,<br />
festival diiector and conductor, Boris<br />
Brott, will be waiting with the National<br />
Academy Orchestra to collaborate<br />
with Mr. Hell in a performance<br />
of Felix Alexandre Guillmant's<br />
Organ Symphony #1.<br />
Also, it is now the Westben Festival's<br />
third season and about time I<br />
made the short trip to Campbellford<br />
to check it out, congratulate the team<br />
of Donna Bennett and Brian Finley<br />
in person on their venture, and attend<br />
a concert with mezzo-soprano<br />
Kimberley Barber and pianist, Brian<br />
~£/ .,_ '''I<br />
. j. S. BACH MOTETS<br />
=o~<br />
BAROQUE MUSIC fer ruJlhJlher ",I \ ,<br />
Please join us for our summer concerts, presented in conjunction<br />
wfth our first-ever Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute:<br />
THURSDAY, JUNE 20 AT 8:00 PM<br />
GEORGE WESTON RECITAL HALL<br />
T he Tafelmusik Chamber Choir performs as part<br />
of the Toronto International Choral Festival.<br />
FOR TICKETS: 416·872·1111 $26.40/$36.40/ $45.40.<br />
Student discounts available.<br />
B~OQUE CELEBRATION<br />
FRIDAY, JUNE 21AT8:00PM<br />
ETTORE MAZZOLENI CONCERT HALL, ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF Music<br />
The Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra.directed by Jeanne Lamon,<br />
presents a prograr:nme of baroque orchestral music.<br />
FOR TICKETS: 416·964·6337 $25/$10<br />
FACULTY CHAMBER CONCERT<br />
MONDAY, JUNE 24 AT 12:30PM<br />
ETTORE MAZZOLENI CONCERT HALL, ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC<br />
C hamber Music by]. S. Bach: A FREE casual lunchtime<br />
concert performed by members of the Tafelmusik orchestra.<br />
FOR TICKETS: 416·964-6337 FREE (Seating limited; please call for tickets.)<br />
STUDENT CONCERT<br />
FRIDAY, JUNE 28 AT 12:30PM<br />
ETTORE MAZZOLENI CONCERT HALL,<br />
ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF Music<br />
A FR EE casual lunchtime concert performed by the<br />
participants in the Tafelmusik Daroqul" Summer Institute.<br />
FOR TICKETS: 416-964·6337 FREE (Seating limited;<br />
please call for tickets.)<br />
THE GRAND FINALE<br />
SATURDAY, JUNE 29 AT 8:00PM<br />
GRACE CHURCH ON-THE-HILL<br />
The Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and C hamber Choir<br />
join forces with the student orchestra and choir<br />
(some 90. performers in all!)<br />
FOR TICKETS: 416·964·6337 $15/$10<br />
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<strong>June</strong> 30<br />
. July 5<br />
July 6<br />
July 7<br />
July 12<br />
· July 13<br />
W' July 14<br />
July 19<br />
July 20<br />
Opening Concert - Mahler's<br />
Symphony of a Thousand<br />
"Historical Concerts" -<br />
A Tribute to Mahler<br />
Mes A'ieux - Fol.k Pop<br />
Anton Kuerti and Friends<br />
Play Schumann<br />
Orchestre symphonique ~e<br />
Montreal - Jennifer Larmore Sings<br />
Rossini, Mozart & Bizet<br />
Tangopera with Quartango<br />
Mozart's 40th and Beethoven's 9th ..<br />
Orchestre symphonique de<br />
Montreal - Dvorak & Zemlinsky<br />
Saoroma - The Soul<br />
of Gypsy Music<br />
Marie-Nicole Lemieux &<br />
Karina Gauvin Sing Gluck<br />
Orchestre symphonique de<br />
Montreal - Elena MO$UC ~ings arias<br />
of French romantic opera.<br />
Great Swing with the<br />
M~~tr~a1 ~.~u: ~ig §~<br />
T(h~ikovsky ~&e,qi<br />
Symphony No.2, 1<br />
Orchestre symphoni<br />
>Montreal - Karita Ma<br />
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Add Music to your: Stratford Experience!<br />
JULY 24-: AUGUST 4, <strong>2002</strong><br />
Jane BUirnett & Friends<br />
Caliban 'Bassoon Quartet<br />
· Canadian Brass<br />
Berthold Carriere,<br />
featured composer<br />
Mary Lou' Fallis,<br />
with Peter Tiefenbach<br />
David Jalbert, pianist<br />
Jean-Pierre Leguay, organist,<br />
Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris<br />
Matapat Folk Ensemble<br />
National Youth Orchestra of Canada<br />
Phil Nimmons Quartet<br />
with Ranee Lee<br />
Paragon Harp Duo<br />
Ian Parker, pianist<br />
Sarah Pratt, violinist<br />
Royal City Saxophone Quartet<br />
St. Marys Children's Choir,<br />
Eileen Baldwin, conductor'<br />
Summer Music Organ Academy<br />
Kaori Yamagami, cellist<br />
Yamaha Canada's<br />
Young People's Programming<br />
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Finley at 7:00.<br />
Parry Sound in time for IMPACT,<br />
My third day-trip: Kitchener mu- clarinetist and festival director, James<br />
sicians, violinist Julie Baumgartel, Campbell, with percussionist<br />
and oboist James Mason, are launch- Beverley Johnston playing a lot of<br />
ing a brand new .festival, the Grand contemporary Canadian. music<br />
River Baroque Festival the week- am0µg other things. Then the<br />
end of July 5, 6 & 7. Saturday, July Gryphon Trio performs an all<br />
6, is the really big day, with four Mozart program at noon with violist<br />
concerts of Italian Baroque music David Harding and flautist Suzanne<br />
which they describe as "crazy, pas- Shulman, and the day concludes with<br />
sionate, wild and wonderful. .. !" plus a concert at 8:00 ~at will include<br />
a pre-conceit talk, beginning at 1 : 15 the world premiere of "Alice in the<br />
and e.nding with a violin recital at Orchestra" "... a sophisticated mull<br />
:00 p.m. What a great way to sical entertainment fororchestra and<br />
spend the first Saturday in July! actor/singers" by Gene DiNovi and<br />
For years the people behind the Garry Michael Dault.<br />
Festival of the Sound have been I hope the following FESTIVAL PROinviting<br />
me to come, but I've never . FiLES will be as helpful to you in planmade<br />
it. That will all change on ning your summer of music as they<br />
August _1st. I'll have to leave at were to me. Perhaps we'll cross paths<br />
around 7:00 a.m. in order to get to in search of music this summer!<br />
Banff Arts July 12-Aug 4<br />
FESTIVAL PROFILES<br />
Brott Summer Music Jun 16-Aug 15<br />
Calgary International Organ Aug 7-17<br />
Collingwood Music July12-Aug 3<br />
Domaine Forget Festival<br />
International <strong>June</strong> 22-Aug 25<br />
Elora Festival July 12-Aug 4<br />
Festival of the Sound July 19-Aug11<br />
It's a Grand Summer <strong>June</strong>13-Sep21<br />
· Lameque International<br />
Baroque Mu.sic Festival July 26-28<br />
,Glimmerglas~ Opera July 5-Aug 27<br />
Grand River Baroque July 5-7<br />
Guelph Jazz F~stival Sept 4-8<br />
Huntsville Festival<br />
· of the Arts July 4-21<br />
Kinca!dine Summer Music Aug 4-18<br />
Lanaudiere Festival <strong>June</strong> 28-Aug 1<br />
Markham Jazz Festival Aug 15-18<br />
Niagara International Chamber'<br />
Music Festival July 30-Aug 21<br />
Ottawa International Chamber<br />
. Music Festiva1July27-Aug 10<br />
Southern Ontario<br />
Banff<br />
Arts Festival<br />
July 12 · August 4, <strong>2002</strong><br />
Venue: The Banff Centre. Alberta<br />
Contact: Enza Apa<br />
Box Office 1 ·800·413·8368 or 403·<br />
762·6301<br />
E·mail: box office@banffcentre.ca<br />
Website: www.banffcentre.ca<br />
FRoM SHAKFSPEARE in the Park to music<br />
in the mountains; from Aboriginal<br />
Dance to lectures by some of the brightest<br />
minds in contemporary culture, The<br />
Banff Centre presents more than (J()<br />
engaging arts events during this summer's<br />
Banff Arts Festival. Also during<br />
the summer season, listen to over<br />
40 summer music concerts featuring<br />
more than 250 musicians from around<br />
the world. Wepresentjazz, chamber,<br />
baroque, and contemporary music,<br />
music• for voice and music for key- /<br />
board. And, stay tuned August 6 to ·<br />
August 10 as we present special cham<br />
.ber orchestra concerts featuring some<br />
of the best double reed players from<br />
around the world, as The Banff Centre<br />
hosts the 31st Annual International<br />
Double Reed Society Conference.<br />
There is something for everyone to<br />
enjoy at The Banff Centre! .<br />
Chamber Music Institute Aug 17-25<br />
StratfordSummerMusicJu1y24-Aug4 Brott Summer<br />
symphony in the Barn July 6-Aug 3 Music Festival <strong>2002</strong><br />
Toronto Downtown Jazz <strong>June</strong> 21-30<br />
Uptown Waterloo Jazz July 11-13<br />
We'stben Arts<br />
Festival Theatre <strong>June</strong> 29-July 28.<br />
Jun.e 16 to Aug. 15<br />
Venues: Hamilton Place, Theatre<br />
Aquarius, Dundurn Castle, Ancaster Old<br />
Mill, Royal Botanical Gardens (Hamilton);<br />
FESTIVAL PROFILES CONTINUE PAGE 40<br />
www.thewholenote.com <strong>June</strong> 1 - July 7 <strong>2002</strong>
July 5th -July 7th<br />
Including an Italian Feast of Music & Food July-6th<br />
with performances by:<br />
Grand River Baroque Ensemble,<br />
. Vox ex Corde Choir<br />
Daniel Lichti, Carolyn<br />
Sinclair, Dennis Giesbrecht<br />
and more ...<br />
Festival orthe Sound<br />
James Campbell, Artistic Director<br />
. July 19 - August 11, <strong>2002</strong><br />
Over 60 musical events including:<br />
Gala Opening- Festival Baroque- July 19<br />
Shores of Newfoundland cruise - July 21<br />
For the Love of the Piano- July 27<br />
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f. 0. MtisICAL V!AR'r'<br />
by Colin Eatock<br />
High hopes at the TSO<br />
May 9: To find out what's new at the Toronto<br />
Symphony Orchestra, I phone Michael Forrester,<br />
the TSO's Director of Marketing and Communications.<br />
As befits his position, he comes across<br />
as an optimistic fellow, and he fairly overflows<br />
with good news. "This week we surpassed our<br />
subscription sales from last year," he proudly<br />
announces, "and it's now only the middle of<br />
May. We'll be up 10 to 15 percent on the year."<br />
He goes on to tell me about the success of<br />
the orchestra's "TsouNDCHECK" - a promotion<br />
designed to attract young people that now has<br />
3,000 members. He has high hopes for a fall<br />
advertising campaign aimed at this city's Chinese<br />
community, and he says the orchestra's<br />
$1 million fundraising campaign (with a matching<br />
grant from Ottawa if the · target is reached<br />
by <strong>June</strong> 30) is going well. It all sounds very<br />
impressive for an orchestra that came dangerously<br />
close to insolvency last fall.<br />
May 11: At the Toronto Reference Library, I<br />
pick up a copy of the TSO's <strong>2002</strong>/03 season<br />
br:ochure. Printed in just a few colours on nonglossy<br />
paper (a prudent approach for an organization<br />
that wishes to make a display of austerity),<br />
it begins with a statement pitching the TSO<br />
as "new," "improved" and "all yours." The<br />
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blurb is conspicuously unsigned - but as the<br />
orchestra currently has no music director, there<br />
isn't any appropriate person to sign it.<br />
So what does the TSO have to offer next year?<br />
The concert to re-open Roy Thomson Hall should<br />
be a blast, culminating in Walton's Belshav.ar's<br />
Feast with the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir. Yo<br />
Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble, combining the<br />
music of East and West, certainly looks intriguing.<br />
And a program featuring pianist Martha<br />
Argerich (famous both for electrifying performarices<br />
and frequent cancellation8) adds an exciting<br />
element of risk to the season.<br />
As well, there are quite a few excellent Canadian<br />
soloists scheduled: baritone Russell<br />
Braun, sopranos Barbara Hannigan and Me;sha<br />
Bruggergosman, violinists James Ehnes and<br />
Leifa Josefowicz, pianists Louis Lortie, Oscar<br />
Peterson, Stewart Goodyear and Naida Cole,<br />
among others. Could this be because Canadian<br />
soloists are cheaper than big-name foreign stars?<br />
If so, it's temptil)g to think that the TSO should<br />
almost go bankrupt more often.<br />
Guest conductors pepper the brochure, including<br />
some who are probably in the running<br />
for the position of Music Director. While it's<br />
nice to fantasize about a Jiri Belohlavek or Eiji<br />
Oue taking the job, given the state of the TSO's<br />
finances it's probably more realistic to watch<br />
such relatively unknown young talents as Jun<br />
Marki or Asher Fisch. Also appearing as guests<br />
on the TSO's season will be the Orchestre<br />
Symphonique de Quebec and Ottawa's National<br />
Arts Centre Orchestra.<br />
For those iJ!terested in Canadian music, there<br />
are a number of home-grown works: by<br />
MacMillan, Cherney, Evangelista, Estacio,<br />
Morin, Applebaum arid Kulesha, plus a collaborative<br />
effort by Oscar Peterson and Michet<br />
LeGrand. As usual, most of the Canadian pieces<br />
played will be Toronto premieres (and probably<br />
Toronto demieres, as well - but that's<br />
another story). Rarer are compositions by living<br />
non-Canadians: I see only a clarinet concerto<br />
by Einojuhani Rautavaara and some songs<br />
by Oliver Knussen.<br />
Dominating the season, however, is a slew<br />
of concerts that follow an all-too-familiar model<br />
of orchestral programming: a short overture or<br />
introductory piece, a concerto and then a symphony.<br />
Wouldn't it be a breath of fresh air to<br />
see more alternatives to this hackneyed formula?<br />
May 15: During intermission at a TSO concert<br />
in Massey Hall I wander downstairs, where<br />
there's a small line-up at the subscription table.<br />
One customer is very anxious to book aisle seats<br />
for next season, as a box-office staffer tries to<br />
tell her that this may not be possible. So perhaps<br />
the much-beleaguered Toronto Symphony Orchestra<br />
really is on an upswing. Let's hope so. At<br />
this point it has nowhere to go but up - or out.<br />
Colin Eatock, eatock@thewholenote.com, is a<br />
Toronto-based composer and journalist who<br />
frequently writes for The Globe and Mail.<br />
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QUODLIBET<br />
Future perfect<br />
For most of us <strong>June</strong> is the end of<br />
one music season, and a bit of respite<br />
before the next. But for many of<br />
the presenters responsible for bringing<br />
us live music, it is the <strong>2002</strong>-<br />
2003 season that is already "over" -<br />
- at least in terms of planning. Their<br />
labours are evident in the brochures<br />
and sea8on announcements for <strong>2002</strong>-<br />
03 already appearing in WholeNo~<br />
and elsewhere.<br />
Music Toronto; for example, announced<br />
its <strong>2002</strong>-03 season late in<br />
February. Once again they're offering<br />
a dexterous mix of best known<br />
names (the Tokyo Quartet, the<br />
Emerson QUartet and the St. Lawrence<br />
Quartet) and "Discoveries"<br />
(mezzo soprano Kristina Sz.ab6, violist<br />
Laura Wilcox and pianist Ian<br />
Parker), to name only a few highlights.<br />
And Tafelmusik, I see, is not only<br />
offering an impressive 54 separate<br />
Toronto performances, some with international<br />
"superstar" artists such as<br />
soprano Emma Kirkby and conductor<br />
Bruno Weil, but must also weave<br />
, in a numberof international commitments<br />
- the Klang und Raum Festival<br />
in Germany in late August and<br />
early September, a European tour<br />
from January 24 to February 7, and<br />
performances at New York's famous<br />
92nd Street Y in February and at the<br />
Mozart Society of America conference<br />
at Cornell University in March.<br />
I chatted recently with Nurhan<br />
Arman, music director of Sinfonia<br />
by Allan Pulker<br />
Ci \SSll \I.<br />
Imant Raminsh, and of<br />
Sonata #1 by Russian<br />
composer, Alfred<br />
Schnittke. And while<br />
Toronto chamber orchestra, about the A r m e n i a n -<br />
challenges and considerations that A m e r i c a n A I a n<br />
must be balanced and. reconciled in -Hovhannes is "not exactly<br />
contemporary" his<br />
_planning a new season. The orchestra's<br />
artistic development; the audi- Armenian Rhapsody<br />
ence's interests; availability of solo-. #3, on the orchestra's<br />
ists; costs; and a significant contem- February 1 program, is<br />
porary music component were high likely to be new to most<br />
on his list.<br />
of us and is "absolutely<br />
Arman likes single cqmposer pro- beautiful" according to<br />
grams because they give tremendous Arman.<br />
perspective on the life and develop- Cost factors into<br />
mentofthecomposer.Healsolikes things in ways I<br />
to draw on key relationships as a fac-<br />
wouldn'thave realiz.ed. Take orchestor<br />
in building a satisfying program. tral parts, especially for works still<br />
"Works in different but related keys protectef;l by copyright; they must be<br />
can complement each other: exam- rented, sometimes at considerable<br />
ple, a work in A major can be a tre- cost. Rachmaninoffs Variafions on<br />
mendous relief after one inf# mi- a Theme of Pagani.ni, for example,<br />
nor."<br />
' recently cost Symphony New Bruns-<br />
" And I tty to find works that speak wick $1500 U .S to rent. And Arman<br />
to as many different individuals as once rep!aced George Gershwin's<br />
possible" he says noting that classi- Summertime because the rental of<br />
cal German r~rtoire _ primarily music for~ five-minute long chestc<br />
Haydn and Mozart _ is a "must" for nut was gomg to cost $500 U: .S. !<br />
any chamber orchestra and fortu- After we talked, I found myself<br />
nately, is also an audience fa~ourite. !eafing.thr~ugh the pages of listings<br />
Sinfonia Toronto's first concert of ma typical issue ofWholeNote rather<br />
the new season sets this tone: fea- differently - thinking about how<br />
turing violin soloist, Judy Kang, play- ~~every pii:ce of m~i~ in every<br />
ing Mozart's Violin Con:erto #4 along<br />
1 IIStmg w~ a weighed ~ec1s10n, made<br />
with music by Haydn and Nielsen. months, if not years m advance.<br />
Arman also feels strongly that today's<br />
music should be played by his<br />
Back to the Present!<br />
orchestra. The new season will include<br />
one world premiere (a work by<br />
Not only is there an exciting season<br />
to look forward to but also an exciting<br />
month of music in <strong>June</strong>. While<br />
Ottawa composer Kevork AOOonian),<br />
the Canadian premiere of a work by<br />
the Choral Festival and two Jazz festivals<br />
may appear to dominate the<br />
Armenian composer, Edvard<br />
Mirzoyan, and the Toronto premiere<br />
immediate horizon, they are very far<br />
of works by Canadian composer,<br />
from being the only shows in town.<br />
Soprano, Merete Meyer a.nd piani.st, Maria<br />
Ydreborg in front of the Stockholm<br />
st
.<br />
brings together dancers from India's<br />
two main dance traditions, Barata<br />
Natyam and Kathak, two modem<br />
dancers, a drummer and a dancer, to<br />
produce what he calls "an evening of<br />
high energy risk-taking and the pure<br />
· joy of inovement and music."<br />
Riverdance move over!<br />
If you are interested. in Indian music,<br />
there are at least three more concerts<br />
listed in this issue: a sitar recital<br />
· on <strong>June</strong> 8, an ensemble with a singer,<br />
a flautist, two tabla players and various<br />
other musicians on <strong>June</strong> 9 and on<br />
<strong>June</strong> 16, the Sankaran Trio at the<br />
Music Gallery.<br />
Judy Loman<br />
Judy Loman, principal harpist of the<br />
TSO since 1960, is calling it quits at<br />
the end of this season. "I am really<br />
ready for a change .... I love the Orchestra,<br />
but after 43 years of doing<br />
the same thing, I think it's time .... more<br />
teaching, arranging, editing and publishing<br />
- those are the things I am<br />
interested in right now,.,, she says in<br />
the release announcing her retirement.<br />
Once a student of the legendary Carlos<br />
Salzedo at the Curtis Ins!itute, she is<br />
now a Faculty Member at Curtis and<br />
also at the Faculty of Music, U. of<br />
T., and the Royal Conservatory of<br />
Music. Ms. Loman's retirement will<br />
be recognized at the TSO's <strong>June</strong> 12<br />
and 13, at which she will perform the<br />
world premiere of a CBCffSO joint<br />
commission of 'And then at nigllJ I<br />
pqi.nt the stars .... ' for harp and orchestra<br />
by Kelly-Marie Mwphy.<br />
And there will be another excellent<br />
opportunity to hear Judy Loman <strong>June</strong><br />
1 7 when she will perform Claude<br />
Debussy's Sonata for Flu!e, Viola and<br />
Harp and Dances for Harp and String<br />
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Quartet with flautist, Susan Hoeppner<br />
and the Amato String Quartet at<br />
E?stminster United Church, the last<br />
of this season's "Random Acts of<br />
Music" ..<br />
Choral Festival seeds<br />
Music Garden season<br />
Five choral ensembles perform afternoon<br />
concerts at the Toronto Music<br />
Garden during the choral festival,<br />
after which The Music Garden's free<br />
outdoor concert series continues with<br />
two concerts a week on average<br />
throughout the summer. The <strong>June</strong><br />
23 concert, to give one example, features<br />
an ensemble of seven student<br />
cellists, led by TSO cellist, Simon<br />
Fryer, performing music by Bach,<br />
Villa-Lobos, andMetallica! ·<br />
Tpe series' artistic director,<br />
Tamara Bernstein is .aiming for "informal<br />
fun without compromising<br />
quality"; she seems to have no trouble<br />
getting fabulous musicians to<br />
perform,' even outside. "The audience"<br />
she says !'is wonderful - attentive,<br />
loyal and appreciative of the<br />
quality of the performances - they<br />
know what's going on!" Performers<br />
and audiences alike have been· a<br />
game lot in the f?ce of less than ideal<br />
weather. Last summer, violinist<br />
Annalee Patipatanakoon and cellist<br />
Roman Borys, in weather that was<br />
too wet for their Strads, performed<br />
instead in the back of a truck with<br />
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EARLY<br />
MUSIC<br />
by Frank Nakashima<br />
It's impossible to cover the "early"<br />
beat this month without reference<br />
to choral events. (Sorry to intrude<br />
on your territory, Larry). The Toronto<br />
International Choral Festival,<br />
May 3'1 to <strong>June</strong> 22, introduces<br />
this city to amazing vocal talent<br />
from around the world.<br />
The Vancouver Chamber<br />
Choir 1 one of the best and most<br />
travelled pFofessional choirs in<br />
Canada, will perform a program,<br />
<strong>June</strong> 2, featuring the sonorous Requiem<br />
for Six Voices by Spanish<br />
composer, Tomas Luis de Victoria<br />
(1548-1611), and works by Weelkes,<br />
Janequin, Monteverdi and Morley.<br />
From Scotland comes the Dunedin<br />
Consort performing music of the<br />
Church of England (<strong>June</strong> 6) - by<br />
William Byrd (1543-1623), John<br />
Dowland (1562-1626) and others.<br />
The world-renowned Huelgas<br />
Ensemble, from Belgium, makes<br />
its Toronto debut under the direction<br />
of Paul Van Nevel (<strong>June</strong> 11)<br />
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in a fantastic program entitled "Mu- Bouchard, harpsichord. .<br />
sic of the Flemish Renaissance." Soprano Jenni Hayman, ac-<br />
Toronto' s own Tafelmusik companied by lutenist John<br />
Chamber Choir will perform all Edwards, performs a concert of<br />
six of Bach's glorious choral motets lute song entitled "Here the Dei-<br />
.(<strong>June</strong> 20) with members of the ties Approve" (<strong>June</strong> 8). Equally<br />
Ta~elmusik Baroque Orchestra, comfortable with oratorio or chamwh1le<br />
in the ambient quarters of the ber mu5ic, Ms. Hayman here sings<br />
Royal Ontario Museum, Les 17th-century works by Campion,<br />
Chanteurs St-Coeur-de-Marie Dowland, Guedron, Moulinie,<br />
will sing some Gregorian chant, Purcell, Blow, Cesti and<br />
works by Palestrina and others Carissimi. John Edwards earns<br />
under the guidance of conducto; part of his living as an instructor ·<br />
Claude Gosselin (<strong>June</strong> 16). at the Faculty of Music, u of T,<br />
Outside the Festival there is and has frequently appeared as the<br />
much on offer too!. The talented guestofbothhistorical-instrument<br />
Geoffrey Butler directs the Toronto and modern ensembles -<br />
Choral Society's performance of Tafelmusik, Opera Atelier, Tothe<br />
not-often-heard Alexander's ronto Consort, Music Toronto<br />
Feast by George Frideric Handel National Arts Centre Orchestra'.<br />
(<strong>June</strong> 5) with wonderful soloists _ Canadian Opera Company Orches<br />
Laura Whalen, soprano; Elaine tra. Both of these performers also<br />
Robertson, alto; Glyn Evans, tenor; have websites. Jenni Hayman's is<br />
RobertPomakov, baritone; accom- www.esoprano.ca and John<br />
paniedbytheableWilliamO'Meara. Edwards can be found at<br />
Baroque Music Beside the www.musiciansinordinary.ca<br />
Grange offers "A German Tafel- The Toronto Early Music<br />
Confekt," - music by Handel, Centre's continuing "Musically<br />
Bach, Schaffrath and others (<strong>June</strong> Speaking" series, a one-hour en-<br />
2), with Linda Melsted, violin; lightening program of historical<br />
Wash McClain, oboe; Michael performance at the Church of the<br />
McCraw, bassoon; and Marie . Holy Trinity, introduc~s Alexa<br />
Jenni Hayman<br />
Wing (soprano), Susan Kieren (bar?que<br />
oboe), and Anna Chan (harpsichord)<br />
performing Bach, Telemann<br />
and Handel - "Text and Music ... word<br />
painting with voice and oboe obbligato"<br />
(<strong>June</strong> 9).<br />
Meanwhile; another series, Critical<br />
Mass, presents Palestrina's Missa<br />
ad fugam (<strong>June</strong> 25). Admission is by<br />
freewill offering with proceeds, as<br />
always, going to "Out of the Cold."<br />
Watch for the Tafelmusik Baroque<br />
Summer Institute, an intens~ve<br />
10-day baroque res.idency in penod<br />
performance with a focus on orchestral<br />
and choral performance, for<br />
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senior students, pre-professional<br />
and professional musicians. It is<br />
taking place at The Glenn Gould<br />
Professional School of The Royal<br />
Conservatory of Music (<strong>June</strong> 20-<br />
29). Auditors can attend, but not<br />
participate in individual classes, for<br />
a nominal charge of $15, purchase<br />
daily passes for $25, or an open<br />
pass at $150 by contacting the<br />
Tafelmusik office at (416) 964-<br />
9562, ext. 224. More details on<br />
their website: www.tafelmusik.org<br />
Also as part of this, summer institute,<br />
the 1,'afelmusik Baroque Orchestra,<br />
directed by Jeanne Lamon,<br />
will perform works of Handel,<br />
·Vivaldi, and Bach, a "Baroque Celebration"<br />
(<strong>June</strong> 21). A few days<br />
later, members of the Tafelmusik<br />
Baroque Orchestra (Elissa Poole,<br />
flute; Linda Melsted, violin; Allen<br />
Whear, cello; Christina Mahler, vio- .<br />
loncello piccolo; Charlotte Nediger,<br />
harpsichord) will perform chamber<br />
music by Bach (<strong>June</strong> 24). Students<br />
participating in the TBSI have a<br />
chance to show off what. they've<br />
learned <strong>June</strong> 28, and "The Grand<br />
Finale" (<strong>June</strong> 29) sees the Orchestra<br />
and Chamber Choir joining forces<br />
with the student orchestra and choir<br />
in a spectacular final concert which<br />
will include works by Corelli, Handel<br />
and Charpentier.<br />
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<strong>2002</strong>-2003<br />
Concert Series<br />
*<br />
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WATSON HENDERSON<br />
, A 70th Birthday Celebration<br />
Saturday, Nov. 30, <strong>2002</strong><br />
Veronica Tennant, narrator<br />
Albert Greer, tenor<br />
Earl Haig Chamber Cnoir<br />
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CHO!\l\1<br />
SCENt<br />
by Larry Beckwith<br />
A feast awaits the choral music<br />
lover this month! All year I've<br />
been highlighting the events in the<br />
upcoming Joy of Singing Choral<br />
Festival and now it is upon us.<br />
There is also a huge number of non<br />
Festival events happening in the<br />
month of <strong>June</strong>, to which I want to<br />
draw your attention.<br />
CLASSICAL<br />
Massed choir "ringmaster"<br />
First, the Festival. There are brochures<br />
with festival events available<br />
Lee Willingham, <strong>June</strong> I<br />
all over town and, indeed, there's Children's Chorus (<strong>June</strong> 9), St.<br />
a two-page spread at the front of Michael's Cathedral Choirs (<strong>June</strong><br />
this magazine, spelling out the de- 10), Toronto Jewish Folk Choir<br />
tails of the many exciting choral (Jooe 12), Victoria Scholars (Jwx: 16),<br />
events. Full details are also avail- Toronto .Mendelssohn Choir (<strong>June</strong><br />
able at the Festival website at 18) and the Tafelmusik Chamber<br />
www.joyofsinging.ca. Choir (<strong>June</strong> 20).<br />
Much has been made of the high- On the afternoon of <strong>June</strong> 1, the<br />
profile visiting choirs from other Festival presents a massed choir<br />
provinces and countries. In this event on Nathan Phillips Square and<br />
column, I want to make mention of· over 2000 school children will be<br />
the local component to the Festival involv,ed. The ringmaster is Dr. Lee<br />
and some of the community events· Willingham, the director .of the Festaking<br />
place at Harbourfront. ti val' s Education Outreach Program<br />
TI!erearemanyToronto-areachoifs and the choirs will be accompanied<br />
involved in the Festival, including sev- by the Markham District High<br />
eral who wilf be featured in theii: own School Band. The music includes<br />
concerts: Ebner lseler Singers (<strong>June</strong> works by Canadians Paul Halley,<br />
3), Northern Lights (<strong>June</strong> 8), Stephen Hatfield and Oscar<br />
Bell' Arte Singers (<strong>June</strong> 8), Toronto Peterson. ·<br />
The Music Garden at<br />
Harbourfront is the setting<br />
for five community concerts<br />
throughout the Festival.<br />
These involve performances<br />
by locals, including<br />
the. Mayfield Magnetics<br />
Jazz Choir from Mayfield<br />
Secondary in Brampton<br />
(<strong>June</strong> 2), Vesnivka (<strong>June</strong><br />
8), Tor'onto Estonian<br />
Male Choir (<strong>June</strong> 15) and<br />
Darbazi (<strong>June</strong> 22). Another<br />
Music
E~.~!J~.q.te<br />
Saint Thomas"s<br />
Anglican Chureh<br />
AUDITIONS· .<br />
The Exultate Chamber Singers, a professional-level amateur<br />
chamber choir, has tenor and bass positions open for Fall <strong>2002</strong>.<br />
Rehearsals are ,on Tuesday evenings, 5:30 - 7:00: Strong sightreaders<br />
committed to excellence in choral music are invited to<br />
contact artistic director John Tuttle at 416-971-9229.<br />
www.exultate.on.ca<br />
exu/tate@on.aibn.com<br />
Volunteer positions are also available in the tenor and bass<br />
sections at Saint Thomas's Anglican Church. Rehearsals are on<br />
Thursday. evenings. To arrange an audition, call 416-979-2323.<br />
" . 1 Let's Make Beautiful ·<br />
. mgs Music Together<br />
ces s· . . . d. d ..<br />
DavidJ. King<br />
""'""<br />
mgers mvrte to au 1t1on<br />
in all sections SATB.<br />
Call David King 416-225-2255<br />
<strong>2002</strong> · 2003 Season<br />
December · Holiday Tapestry<br />
February · Songs of the Heart<br />
May · Alexander's Feast<br />
www.allthekingsvoices.ca<br />
44°<br />
An auditioned vocal ensemble is seeking new members<br />
for September, <strong>2002</strong><br />
Mixed repertoire with exciting performance<br />
opportunities<br />
Rehearsals located in downtown core<br />
I ,<br />
Director: Geoffrey Butler<br />
Accompanist: Jenny Crober<br />
=llCAME·N ·:rA.11=<br />
. Chamber Chol~-/<br />
· Invites auditions<br />
for volunteer and lead singers with .good sightsinging<br />
skills. Camerata rehearses and performs at<br />
Grace Church on the Hill, 300 Lonsdale Rd.<br />
Weekly rehearsals Wednesdays at 7:15pm<br />
.<br />
416-534-2493 or email<br />
Please call Melva T reffinger Graham<br />
mtgraham47@rogers.com to arrange an audition<br />
J.J)lj )).J 1ut~ :<br />
The most beautiful music was written for the human voke -<br />
it's the only instrument we play.<br />
www.torontocamerata.org ~ info@torontocamerata.org<br />
For an audition, please call<br />
905 764-5140<br />
8 LIKE T~ SING?<br />
The Toronto Mendelssohn Cho.ir<br />
is holding auditi9ns for the<br />
<strong>2002</strong>/2003 season for both<br />
the TMC and .the TMYC<br />
For information, call<br />
(416) 598-0422<br />
www.tmchoir.org
ebrating spring and Canada's diverse<br />
musical culture".<br />
Concerts by prominent church<br />
choirs ~e abundant this month, as<br />
well. The choirs 1 of St. James Cathedral<br />
perform Haydn's Lord Nelson<br />
Mass on <strong>June</strong> 7 and <strong>June</strong> 9 features<br />
two concerts near St. Clair and<br />
. YoJ:?.ge. You 'can hear the Calvin<br />
Presbyterian Church Choir, under<br />
Stephanie Martin's direction, try<br />
out their Scottish Tour repertoire, or<br />
you can head qown the road to<br />
Timothy Eaton Church, where the<br />
choir there premieres a work entitled<br />
"Windows" by Andrew Ager. Both<br />
concerts beginat2 pm. On <strong>June</strong> 19,<br />
the choirs of Grace Church on-the-<br />
Hill welcome the Boys Choir of St.<br />
Peter's from Charlotte, North Carolina.<br />
Finally, another Festival hits the<br />
city near the end of the month. Festival<br />
<strong>2002</strong> features 20 Gay and<br />
Lesbian choirs from across Canada<br />
CLASSICAL<br />
The Orpheus Choir of Toronto ' , ,<br />
invites applications for the<br />
IJrnJ,;11'fi:1,pjr<br />
position of Artistic Director. Y.'f: :;t:,"[fT'if~<br />
Orpheus is a SO-voice auditioned choir with a 4-concert season,<br />
plus outside engagements, and a wide-ranging repertoire.<br />
Interested parties should send a resume to The Orpheus Choir<br />
ofToronto, P.O. Box 662, Sen. F, Toronto, ON M4Y 2N6, no<br />
later than <strong>June</strong>-30th, <strong>2002</strong>. An information package will be sent<br />
out. For further information, please call Helen Coxon at ( 416)<br />
586-5897(W) or (416) 251-3803 (H).<br />
in performance from <strong>June</strong> 21-24. mation, visit the festival website at<br />
It's the second time these choirs have · www .canadiangala.ca or call 416-<br />
gotten together; the first time being 924-6859.<br />
in Edmonton in 1998. The· Festi- Happy concert-going!<br />
val is hosted by four Toronto choirs: Larry Beckwith can be reached at<br />
Singing Out; Forte, Iris and the dunnbeckwith@sympatico.ca<br />
Rainbow Choir. For more infor-<br />
The Choirs of<br />
Grace Church<br />
on-the-Hill:<br />
Auditions<br />
Invited<br />
Boys ..<br />
Youth Singers of Toronto<br />
(Choral organization for<br />
young people 5-19)<br />
carol Woodward Ratzlaff<br />
Music Director<br />
AUDITIONS<br />
continuing in May<br />
Information:<br />
416·788·8482<br />
vivayst@rogers.com<br />
Unique singing opportunities<br />
for <strong>2002</strong>-2003 season include:<br />
* Regular contract with<br />
National Ballet of Canada<br />
*Fully-staged opera: Noye's<br />
Fludde by Benjamin Britten<br />
* Our own resident composer<br />
*Private vocal coaching for all<br />
choristers<br />
* Comprehensive theory<br />
program<br />
High Park Choirs of Toronto<br />
~-"7<br />
www.highparkchoirs.oro<br />
invite applications for the posts of<br />
Conductor/Co-Conductor<br />
Established in 1986, High Park Choirs is a<br />
dynamic S·choir organizatiOn comprised of<br />
150 young choristers ages 9·18 who love<br />
to sing. The choirs were recenHy featured<br />
on A Classical Kids Christmas, winner of a<br />
Juno for Best Children's Album <strong>2002</strong>.<br />
18<br />
Deadline is <strong>June</strong> 30, <strong>2002</strong><br />
Please call for details: 416· 762-0657<br />
www .thewholenote.com<br />
Choir of Gentlemen<br />
and Boys:<br />
boys aged 8-14<br />
Girls<br />
St. Cecilia Choir<br />
girls aged 8 -18<br />
This is an excellent<br />
opportunity for a child<br />
to gain self-confidence,<br />
self-discipline, poise and<br />
musical knowledge<br />
in a nurturing environment.<br />
The program is run by caring<br />
professi'onal music staff.<br />
No previous music experience<br />
is necessary.<br />
Bass<br />
We also have a position<br />
open for a bass lead to join<br />
the Choir of<br />
Gentleman and Boys.<br />
For further information,<br />
please contact:<br />
Melva Treffinger Graham,<br />
M. Mus., Music Director,<br />
Grace Church oncthe-Hill<br />
300 Lonsdale Road, Toronto,<br />
Ontario M4V 1X4<br />
416-534-2493<br />
gracemusic2@rogers.com<br />
<strong>June</strong> 1 - July 7 <strong>2002</strong>
HEAR<br />
&'NOW<br />
(New Music)<br />
by Paul Steenhuisen<br />
That scrawny cry-it was a chorister<br />
whose C preceded the choir.<br />
"It was part of the colossal sun,<br />
surrounded by its choral rings,<br />
still far away.<br />
Wallace Stevens, Not Ideas about<br />
.the 'J.hing but the Thing Itself<br />
This month's sonic potpourri is<br />
replete with concerts from the Third<br />
Toronto International Choral Festival<br />
(www.joyofsinging.ca/), and<br />
vastly differing aesthetics from local<br />
and visiting composers/performers.<br />
Recent music is represented on<br />
many of the events, beginning with<br />
Voices in Celebration, featuring premieres<br />
by Derek Holman (Four Liturgical<br />
Motets for Unaccompanied<br />
Choirs) and Raymond Luedeke<br />
(P_rayers, Poems and Incantations<br />
for the Earth), (<strong>June</strong> 3, St. James'<br />
Cathedral, 65 Church St.).<br />
Newmarket Ontario native John<br />
Estacio will hear his piece Eulogies<br />
sung on <strong>June</strong> 9 by the Timothy<br />
Eaton Chamber Choir, on a concert<br />
also featuring the premiere of<br />
Andrew Ager's Windows. Currently<br />
Resident Composer with the Calgary<br />
Philharmonic Orchestra and Calgary<br />
Opera, Estacio is well known in the<br />
prairie region for his symphonic and<br />
choral music and is also hard at<br />
work on a new opera, in collaboration<br />
with playwn"'ght John Murrell.<br />
Other of the many premieres include<br />
the late Srul Irving Glick's 5.<br />
Tableaux from the Song of Songs,<br />
and Tomas Dusatko's Distant Voices<br />
(<strong>June</strong> 16, Victoria Schoiars). Tl)e<br />
same concert includes Harry<br />
Somers' A Thousand Ages alongside<br />
music by guest composer<br />
Krzysztof Penderecki.<br />
<strong>June</strong> 19, Tokyo's Philharmonic<br />
Chorus sings music by Japanese<br />
composers, with Incense and Vox<br />
Naturae by Canadian choral master<br />
R. Murray Schafer.<br />
The new works at the Festival<br />
work well within their slogan "The<br />
joy of singing within the noise of the<br />
worl.d. " But I, for one, would be<br />
grateful if the noise of the world were<br />
a greater part of these choral pieces.<br />
Why I wonder is it that so many<br />
composers write more conservatively<br />
when composing for voice?<br />
<strong>June</strong> 1 - July 7 <strong>2002</strong><br />
Here today, hear tomorrow.<br />
Arraymusic arid more<br />
In among the choral concerts, several<br />
other concerts will appeal to<br />
audiences seeking the new and<br />
unfiltered. On <strong>June</strong> 2 (Music Gallery),<br />
Arraymusic plays the results<br />
of its most recent FUTURE LAB,<br />
in the final concert presentation of<br />
their annual month-long Young<br />
Composers' Workshop. With the<br />
guidance of workshop leader Henry<br />
K\lcharzyk and Artistic Director,<br />
Allison Cameron, emergent composers<br />
Dave Chokroun, Emily<br />
Hall, Josh Penman and Carl Winter<br />
will hear their newest works,<br />
alongside those of recent participants<br />
Marci Rabe and·eldritch priest.<br />
Shortly thereafter (<strong>June</strong> 12),<br />
Massey Hall will ring with the sound<br />
of Kelly-Marie Murphy's TSO-com~<br />
missioned concerto for harp and orchestra,<br />
performed by Judy Loman<br />
under the baton of Gunther Herbig.<br />
Murphy has been variously described<br />
as "an alien of extraordinary<br />
ability" (US Immigration and Naturalization<br />
Department) and "the composer<br />
of attractive and intriguing<br />
SOUI\ds, an endless array of colours,<br />
... a sense of progress and resolution"<br />
(The Ottawa Citizen). See the<br />
composer's homepage for more serious<br />
and light-hearted information<br />
OI).. her work (members.aol.com/<br />
NEwMus1c<br />
...-----------------------~<br />
VanUrphy/kmm.html).<br />
And Michael Colgrass' 12-minute<br />
Hammer and Bow will be heard <strong>June</strong><br />
27m at the RCM, on a free concert<br />
by the Rudolph Fam,ily Players .<br />
Though not a narrative work, in it<br />
Colgrass strives to represent two<br />
people "relating closely on an emotional<br />
level-at times harmonious,<br />
at . others discordant, occasionally<br />
playful, but always communicating<br />
on some other-than-conscious level<br />
... a simple descending chromatic<br />
theme, which reflects the mysterious<br />
and unpredictable mood<br />
changes of two people in close<br />
relatiornhip" .(www.~.can)<br />
The Glass Orchestra<br />
(www.vex.net/ - rixax/GlassO/) is<br />
the only ensemble in the world<br />
whose musicians create and perform<br />
contemporary compositions entirely<br />
with glass instruments. 14th century<br />
Persia is when 'Music Glasses' first<br />
appear to have become generally<br />
known, but the popular modem his<br />
_tory of musical glass begins with<br />
Benjamin Franklin's invention of the<br />
'Glass Harmonica' in 1761 -- a set<br />
of tuned glass bowls arranged horizontally<br />
with each bowl nestled inside<br />
the larger one next to it on a<br />
revolving spindle. Virtuoso glass<br />
performer-dude Rick Sacks notes that<br />
Glass Mu~ic's reputed penetrating<br />
Glass Orchestra '.s Tuned Bowls<br />
ability to bring on dementia and force<br />
early retirement in performers is<br />
now ascribed to slow poisoning<br />
from lead in the paint that circled<br />
the rims of the glasses to mark the<br />
sharp and flat notes.<br />
The use of glass instrumentation<br />
outside the traditional framework<br />
begins with the visionary American<br />
composer Harry Partch, who developed<br />
sets of cloud-chamber bowls<br />
(1950), tuned liquor bottles, and light<br />
bulbs struck with light mallets. The<br />
Glass Orchestra carries on this exploratory<br />
tradition. Their contribution<br />
rests· in an intuitive understanding<br />
of the fragile and complex material<br />
out of which they sculpt sound<br />
pure and clear. Want to hear it?<br />
<strong>June</strong> 22, 8 pm, at the Music Gallery.<br />
NGtionol Guilor<br />
.Workshop<br />
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Composer to composer<br />
PART ONE OF<br />
AN INTERVIEW WITH<br />
John Weinzweig<br />
by Paul _Steenhuisen<br />
NEw Mus1c/ CoMPOSER TO COMPOSER<br />
Born "in Toronto in 1913, John<br />
Weinzweig has often been called the<br />
Dean of Canadian composers. The<br />
most recent event in his rich career<br />
is the release of a 3-CD set on the<br />
CMC's Centrediscs label, as part<br />
of the Canadian Composers Portraits<br />
series, which also includes<br />
disks of music by Jacques Hetu, Jean<br />
Coulthard, Harry Freedmiln, and<br />
Murray Adaski.n. Listening to the excellent CBC-produced documentary<br />
that is CD 1 of the set, and the subsequent 2 CD's of music, one has a<br />
new appreciation of his work, groundbreaki.ng career, dedication to teaching,<br />
and strongly-held beliefs on the status of composers in society. Divided<br />
into 2 parts, our interview covers many of the important musical and<br />
political issues that have occupied him throughout the 8 decades of his<br />
career. While 1 usually take for granted the opportunities 1 have to discuss<br />
music and ideas with my friends and colleagues, in this case I<br />
couldn't help but recognize and respect that I was talki.ng with a composer<br />
who was in part responsible for the fertile creative landscape we currently<br />
. . .<br />
inhabit.<br />
sic. I told them a story of-my expe-<br />
STEENHUISEN: What is the sig- rience: .1970 was the zoom anniver-·<br />
nificance of this recording? sary of Beethoven, and a number of<br />
WEINZWEIG Th . . _ Canadian composers and perform-<br />
• e portrait se . B 1 b . C<br />
nes<br />
·<br />
came<br />
-<br />
a<br />
bo<br />
ut w<br />
h<br />
en<br />
I<br />
wrote a<br />
b<br />
out<br />
ers<br />
.<br />
were m onn, ce e .ratmg ana-<br />
deli sedth bl fth I k d1an culture. We were sent over<br />
an scus e pro em o e ac ks rfi ed<br />
f C d . . CBC d. there to have some wor pe orm<br />
0 ana 1an music on ra 10. b th h · Beeth Hall<br />
To put it in perspective, think .about Y e syrnp ony m oven e.<br />
There was a press conference when<br />
the fact that each year CBC celebrates<br />
we arrived and I was spokesperson<br />
the anniversary of, a European com- for the composers. I was asked how<br />
poser - not for one broadcast, not come we were bringing Canadian<br />
for one week, but for twelve months.<br />
music to Germany and I said that<br />
The year, let's say, of Tchaikovsky' the reason is because in my country<br />
·. causes CBC to encourage perform- they're celebrating the anniversary of<br />
ers to include a piece of Tchaikovsky Beethoven. They. were quite asin<br />
their program if they want to get a<br />
tounded, because there they have no<br />
broadcast. Conversely, when a Ca- problem eelebrating their composers.<br />
nadian composer passed away' he I implied that we had a problem in<br />
' or she received aI\ obituary of a half- Canada. I told this story at the meethour<br />
program and that was all. ing with CBC, and I think they un-<br />
After waging guerilla activity on derstood my point. Not only Eurothe<br />
CBC for about eight months, 1 pean composers have a ·stofy to tell,<br />
had a meeting with the area head and but Canadian composers also.<br />
vice-president of CBC Radio Mu- They latched onto the idea of a<br />
i<br />
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David T~mblyn<br />
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documentary, and began work on it<br />
right away, which helpea· to tum the<br />
whole thing around. Another important<br />
event was that Elisabeth Bihl,<br />
the Executive Director of the Canadian<br />
Music Centre, was also present<br />
at the.meeting. I felt that the CBC<br />
had been ignoring the Canadian<br />
Music Centre, and the CBC would<br />
not give enough airplay to recordings<br />
of Canadian music on the<br />
Centrediscs label. '.This brought the<br />
CMC and the CBC into collaboration<br />
on the portrait series CD's. ·<br />
STEENHUISEN: What do you<br />
think was the reason for the relative<br />
absence of Cana.di.an music on radio?<br />
WEINZWEIG: The CBC felt they<br />
were doing their· J?it for' Canadian<br />
composers because they spent<br />
$90,000 a year on commissions. I<br />
wasn't satisfied, because those<br />
works were dumped on the Sunday<br />
night program Two New Hours. I<br />
felt their attitude was that Canadian<br />
music was unfit for daytime broadcast.<br />
They wouldn't admit that, but<br />
it was obvious that Canadian music<br />
had no presence in daytime. The<br />
only presence of importance was on<br />
Two New Hours, which runs on<br />
Sundays from 10 p.m. until midnight.<br />
They thought that they were<br />
doing their part to encourage Canadian<br />
composers, but I told them that<br />
they don't have to encourage a composer.<br />
A composer is going to be a<br />
composer. It's incorrect to think<br />
you're doing something for Canadian<br />
music because you're giving a<br />
premiere. The premiere is useful<br />
for the composer, but not for the<br />
listener. The second performance<br />
is useful for the listener. And the<br />
third performance, and so on. You<br />
will not have a Canadian culture unless<br />
you create the conditions for a<br />
repertoire, and you only get that with<br />
multiple broadcasts and performances<br />
- familiarity and knowledge. Imagine<br />
what would happen to Beethoven<br />
if he was a Canadian composer and<br />
you commissioned him to write the<br />
5th Symphony, gave the premiere and<br />
that was it - he would be forgotten.<br />
That's what is done with our composers.<br />
STEENHUISEN: Do you think<br />
this approach some'1ow reflects ·a.<br />
more general societal attitude?<br />
WEINZWEIG: Canadian music<br />
had a fairly strong presence in radio<br />
from the forties into the late seventies.<br />
The downturn stemmed from<br />
a 1983 CBC committee report that<br />
claimed CBC radio was not showing<br />
enough -respect for popular music<br />
- that was the beginning of a<br />
putdown of our classical compose<br />
ers. By exploiting the weaknes.s of<br />
the Canadian content regulations,<br />
many Canadian pieces were eliminated<br />
in favour of European music<br />
and Canadian performers. As a result,<br />
Mozart became the standard of<br />
radio sound. It was very obvious.<br />
Almost every program that you heard<br />
first had a piece by Mozart, to pacify<br />
the listeners. Canadian music, by<br />
Canadian composers, had ceased to<br />
be a threat, and· we became strangers.<br />
STEJ
clarinets and symphony -. who the<br />
hell is going to write a piece for two<br />
clarinets and symphony? Obviously<br />
this was going to be an obstacle. I<br />
thought about it for a while and I<br />
wrote Dutoit and said "Thank you<br />
for the commission but in lieu of the<br />
fact that the Montreal Symphony has<br />
virtually ignored my repertoire during<br />
my lifetime, I see no reason why<br />
I should spend 8 or 9 .months writing<br />
a work for one single performance".<br />
But I wished him well. It<br />
wasri't personal.<br />
STEENHUISEN: Don't you think<br />
that by aicepting the commission and<br />
tailoring it to your interests that you 're<br />
making a step towards counteracting<br />
the ignorance of your music?<br />
WEINZWEIG: No. My name<br />
came up from a committee that was<br />
adVising the Montreal Symphony. The<br />
selection wasn't made by Dutoit, it was<br />
made for him. Don't forget that I was<br />
not a young composer anymore. I<br />
had no reason to grab this commission.<br />
I didn't need them. It couldn't<br />
further my career-I either had a career<br />
ordidn't. Itreirundsmeofsomeyears<br />
ago when the Victoria Symphony had<br />
a grant to put on some concerts of contemporary<br />
music. They weren't doing<br />
very \\fell at bringing in the audience.<br />
The next thing I see is a photo<br />
of a pair of singing dogs in the newspaper,<br />
hired for a contemporary music<br />
coocert presented by the Victoria Symphony.<br />
Two singing dogs, auditioned<br />
and hired from New York to put on<br />
their concert of contemporary music!<br />
I was very angry about this. I wrote a<br />
letter to the Canada Council and suggested<br />
"Next time you get a request<br />
for funds from the Victoria Symphony<br />
I suggest you send them a box of dog<br />
food". That message was transmitted<br />
to the Victoria Symphony. As a result,<br />
I have not been performed by the·<br />
Victoria Symphony.<br />
lf you speak your mind, then<br />
there's the risk that you're going to<br />
be left out in the cold, and I could<br />
accept that. I would speak my mind,<br />
and I would lose a performance here<br />
or there, but so what? That wasn't<br />
going to change my life. I could<br />
still write music and hope and dream<br />
that someday somebody will play it.<br />
If you're·a composer you hope and<br />
dream anyway. That's a big part of<br />
writing music.<br />
Part II of t~ interview will<br />
appear in the July/August<br />
issue of WholeNote<br />
lJy Jim Galloway<br />
.ft '\I· IS .J\zz<br />
<strong>June</strong> is Jazz<br />
Bustin' Out All Over! Los Hombres Ca/ientes<br />
FE'SllVAL SFM)N rets into full swing A Midsi.unmer Night's<br />
second half of this month with JVC Dream Come True<br />
and Toronto Downtown Jazz events Every year in France at the summer<br />
.and their slew ofheadlirers. NC, with solstice, amateur and professional mua<br />
somewhat lower profile this year, has sicians take to streets, parks and pub<br />
Medeski, Martin and Wood as their lie squares for Fete de l1l Musique, a<br />
big money act, along with appearaoces free, public celebration of music in all<br />
by Jackie McLean with Cedar Walton, its forms, traditional, classical, jazz,<br />
KennyGarretandTheHerbaliser. The techno, salsa and world. Launched in<br />
action is pretty well concentrated at 1982, the Fete began to be "exported"<br />
Harbourfront Centre, Top O' The in 1985 (the European Year ofM\l<br />
Senator and The Rex.<br />
sic). It is now celebrated in over one<br />
Toronto Downtown Jazz has a Jin}. hunlred countries worldwide.<br />
up that in:ludes Maynard Ferguson, In France it is a great popular dem<br />
The Dave Brubeck Quartet, The Coont onstration, a symbolic manifestation of<br />
Basie Orchestra, Dave Holland, Pat the solid link between the arts and poli<br />
Martino and Arturo Sandoval. There tics. The Freix:h people, as a matter of<br />
is an increased level of free program- cpurse, expect the state to provide and<br />
ming this year. The last two days of fund culture, in the same way as they<br />
the event will use an additional stage at · expect the state to provide and fund<br />
City Hall instead of moving to Uiti.ver- adequate health care.<br />
sity Avemre as in the past two years. HeretootherewillbeasttungFreoch<br />
These concerts will still be free, and preseoce.h.ln!21. AtHarboorfrontCen- ,<br />
the headlirers will be John Scofield and tre, as part of the NC festival the Erik<br />
Los Hombres Calientes. Both were Truffilz Ladyland Quartet will give an<br />
billed but disappointed last year. The evening concert; earlier in the day<br />
difference - Scofield is free this year, (5pm) drummer Fraix:ois Huchard and<br />
which will be a treat for the army of his Quintet will be at Nathan Phillips<br />
fans he has won in this town. Aro Square as part of Toronto Downtown<br />
Los Hombres will definitely not be Jazz. lnthespiritofFetedelaMusique,<br />
raiml off as they were last <strong>June</strong>. No, both events are free.<br />
Ihavenotbecvmeanaccurateweather The Freix:h presence does not end<br />
forecaster (livestheresuchacrearure?). there, however. Throughout the fol<br />
The marquee used for mainstage con- lowing week Freix:h musicians Alain<br />
certs during the first eight days will Brunet, Llorca, ooJazz and the Baptiste<br />
become a fallback venue. Come rain Trotigoon Trio will hoist the tricolour.<br />
or shine, the bmls will play, albeit to. I shall hoist a Pernod!<br />
smaller crowds if UIXler canvas.<br />
IN THE CUJBS THE STAKES get raised a bit<br />
FESTIVALHYffilSLWAlLYcemredamnxl during festival fever. SeanrusB~ and<br />
the big names coming into town, but Ira Sullivan will be at Top O' The<br />
one of the potential strengths of a fes- Senator, RobMcCoIUJell TentetatThe<br />
tival is the opportunityit gives to lesser- Rex and Marian McPartland, Dick<br />
known artists to be heard by a larger HymanandD.D. Jackson confirm The<br />
audience. I suspect that a large IllJlllber Montreal Bistro as the best piano room<br />
of the thousands of people who lllm in town. For complete festival inforout<br />
at festival time never see the in- mation check out the websites where<br />
side of a jazz club and a considerable you will find full listings. For NC go<br />
numberdon'tevenhearlivejazzfrom to www.festivalproductions.net and<br />
one festival until the next. It is some- for Toronto Downtown Jazz visit<br />
thing I have never quite uOOerstood, www.torontojazz.com.<br />
but I do krowthatl seeagoodlymnber Remember too that the month does<br />
of faces at festival time and at oo other. mt begin <strong>June</strong> 14. There are two weeks<br />
So check out the amazing array of of gOOd ~ic leading up to the festivenues<br />
in our Jazz Listh¥ on page val marathon. Maybe you should get<br />
37, and get into the habit! into training by catching some of it.<br />
Hear<br />
the<br />
colour<br />
of<br />
•<br />
<strong>June</strong> 1 ,.. Ju y 7 <strong>2002</strong><br />
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We're number two, we're number two<br />
When Second Cities<br />
steal the scene<br />
by Phi1 Ehrensaft<br />
Make no mistake, the limelight from fielders etc. to assemb~e a first-class<br />
New York, Lorxlon, Paris and the like team to back any number of touring<br />
is very bright. So when Second Cities superstars. What interests me more is<br />
like Chicago, San Francisco, Boston howToronto'sonceVIbrantexperirnefr<br />
and Toronto take a prominent chunk, tal scene which wound down after the<br />
it's not by reputation but for accom- 1970s is rising from the ashes.<br />
plishments that are mambiguously bril- Granted, there is a way to go from<br />
liant. Toronto's jazz scene, I predict, aninformalnetworkofavant-gardeim-<br />
. is poised to take a rightful bow. provisers, iocluding both jazz and other<br />
Between this past April's Opera streams, organizing perfonnances in<br />
America conference here and the In- varying venues and lofts. But I fully<br />
ternational Association of Jazz Edu- expect the phoenix to rise. The frecators'<br />
meeting scheduled for Toronto quent talk about Toronto's purported<br />
in January 2003, eight months will musical conservatism flies in the face<br />
have~ - eight months that could of fuels. TO is one of the North Amerimark<br />
a turning point in terms of continental<br />
awareness of Toronto's musical<br />
excellence.<br />
Most of the opera comt>ciny directors<br />
and staff who flowed into To-<br />
can nodes for composed new music.<br />
On the jazz side of things, Glen Hall,<br />
David Mott, Marilyn Lerner, and VictorBatemanareseniormoversandshak<br />
ers continentally, and I documented the<br />
ronto had heard the buzz that the coc ' up and coming younger cohorts ofToranked<br />
right up there with Chicago's ronto,improvisers in the <strong>June</strong> 2001 is~<br />
Lyric Opera and the SanFran:isco Op- sue of WholeNote.<br />
era. They not only saw the COC in There is already sufficient depth in<br />
action, but also went away impressed this network to allow for the mounting<br />
with the network of smaller compa- oflastmonth's first "Jazz Fringe" fespies<br />
and the new operas being turned tival, as well the upcoming 416 Festiout<br />
by Toronto's comp0sers and Ii- val which runs <strong>June</strong> 26-30 with fifbreuists.<br />
OperaAmerica'sdelegatesleft teendifferentgroupsperformingatthe<br />
our city with the sense that opera (not Oasis, 294 College St.<br />
just one opera company) is alive and Gooo OL I DEMOGRAPHY<br />
well in our town.<br />
What fuels my personaloptimismaboUt<br />
PARALLEWNG o~'s RISE, Toronto thecity'sjazzfuture, is whatlseein<br />
has quietly beoome one of the centres thedemographicsofjazzaudieoceshere.<br />
of North American jazz. Nex,t Janu~ Jazz was already changed from its<br />
ary's IAJE delegates will experience Storyville, South Side, and Harlem<br />
Toronto as ajazz city, not just a festi- shady past by the time Goodman and<br />
val town, a phenomen that Jim Gallo- Ellington performed in Carnegie Hall<br />
way and I documented in last Novem- during the 1930s and 40s. The shift<br />
ber's WholeNote. They will fly out was all but complete when Parker,<br />
of Pearson with a sense that Toronto Gille)pieandcomµmyeamx:lforbebop<br />
has joined Chicago and San Francisco and jazz the sobriquet of "America's<br />
as the happening places for jal.z out- classical music." A misnomer?<br />
side the Big Apple.<br />
Maybe, but it makes the point: bebop<br />
Toronto now hosts one of the con- -complex sophisticated (and thankfully<br />
tinent's mos~ important concentrations swinging) was every bit as demanding<br />
ofprofessionaljazzmusicians. Onany as classical music. In some ways, it<br />
given night· of the year, and not just was. closer to the spirit of Beethoven<br />
during festival season, you can hear than how his music is played today.<br />
more jazz in TO than you are likely to Point is, the demographics of the<br />
hear in the similarly sired cities of core audierx:e for jazz have become not<br />
Washington, Boston, Dallas, Philadel- terribly different than that for cla8sical<br />
phia or Detroit.<br />
music,: on the average, higher age, in-<br />
Toronto's jazz accomplishments, to come, and education. (This holds<br />
date, have been baSed ona mainstream equally for African-American and Afhome<br />
team with an exceptionally deep rican--Canadian audiences as it does for<br />
bench. There are jazz equivalents of the white majority.)<br />
moretha1tseveralgoodshortstops, left But there's a distinction, I think, be-<br />
JAZZ & BAND<br />
Marilyn Lerner<br />
BAND<br />
.STAND<br />
PY Merlin Williams<br />
Musicfest Calgary<br />
Trip Diary ,<br />
Thursday, May 16- It's 3am Calgary<br />
time, and ~·m finally turning in for the<br />
the nite. It's been quite an operation<br />
tween lifelong jazz boomers and their getting 60 members of the Brampton<br />
classical counterparts. If you came to Concert Band and instruments here.<br />
jazz let's say in the first half of the Those of us lucky enough to play<br />
seventies, it was when the jazz greats smaller instruments were able to carry<br />
were treading paths never before trod" them onto the plane - at the other exden<br />
- when Miles and Omette were treme, our tuba players had to open<br />
going electric. Youmadethetransition - their cases in the airport and play for<br />
to adulthood with a jazz great blowing · security before they could get on. And<br />
your mind.<br />
once boarded, we sat on the ground<br />
Developing a p~ion for that kind for two hours because ofa storm. Minor<br />
of jazz at that time was likely tied into hassles! Everyone is psyched for the<br />
how you defined yourself in relation competition.<br />
to the .w~rld. E~en if the jazz audi- Friday, May 17.- We left at 8am for<br />
ence, like Its class1cal counterpart, now Lord Beaverbrook High School in Calconstitutes<br />
only 3 ~ 4 percent of the gary. Played a concert for the students,<br />
purc~rsofrecordingsand~:£0nn- then were coached by Capt. David<br />
ance.uckets, that~upt_Omillmnsof Jone8. Bowled over by the school's<br />
p:iss1onate fans. If Jazz IS your pas- excellent facilities and equipment; an<br />
s10n, a commute from Osha.wa, enjoyable and instructive morning.<br />
Guelph, or Hamilton to hear Sonny Back on the bus and off to Lake<br />
Rollins is no J?ig deal. My guesstimate Louise, we find the lake still frozen,<br />
would be that Toronto's potential jazz and the weather dismal, but the band<br />
audience has roughly tripled during the gets their uniforms on to pose for phopast<br />
three ~ecades.<br />
, , tos in front ofone of the great views in<br />
. Isthe~gheraveragea~eof~y s Canada. Next stop is Banff, where it<br />
Jazz audien~ a ~roblem; Only ifthe . seems you're completely surrounded<br />
art form dies with them. Down the by the Rockies. Every time I turned<br />
road, ~e fact that 500 s~dents are en- around there was another magnificrnt<br />
r~lled m on~ of Toronto s three post- vista. We; head back to Calgary after<br />
highschoolJazzprogramsaugurswe.ll dinner, and have (for this band<br />
for ~e future. TJ_ie real ~ope ~or me IS anyways!) a light night of partying.<br />
the nse here of mnovauou: 1t means<br />
jazz is ready as always to catch, for a Saturday, May 18-Competitionday!<br />
lifetinie, the ears, minds and hearts of We didn't perform until 6:30pm, so<br />
young adults in the process of defining<br />
who they are and will be. or'shopping and<br />
m,ost of the band headed off for a day<br />
sightseeing.<br />
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JAZZ & BAND<br />
by Ralph Vaughan Williams. It's regarded<br />
as one of the cornerstones of<br />
band repertoire, and is a study in polyphony<br />
to the nth degree. Finally came<br />
the piece the band has been waiting<br />
for: "Horizons" by Fred Stride, commissioned<br />
by the Brampton Concert<br />
Band. It's an impressive new work<br />
for band. The full resources of tonal<br />
Brampton Concert Band colour and rhythmic excitement avail-<br />
I arrive at the Telus Convention able in the modem band are utilized in<br />
Centre at 9am to find that one of the this piece. At the conclusion of the<br />
other Brampton groups, Beatty piece, we saw something I've never<br />
Fleming P.S. had already played and witnessed before: members of the adwon<br />
a gold standard for their efforts. I judicators and clinicians panel giving<br />
was delighted to see th\! Mayor of the band a standing ovation.<br />
Brampton, Susan Fennell there to con- · We left the stage for the clinic room<br />
gratulate the band and pose with them where we were treated to an infonnafor<br />
photos. The third Brampton group, rive and entertaining clinic by Keith<br />
Notre Dame S.S .. played later in the . Kinder ofMcMaster University. Had<br />
day. Interesting to note that most of agoodchuck!eoverthefactwe'dtravthe<br />
Ontario bands attending were from elled half way across the country to<br />
the 905 area.<br />
have a next door neighbour critique us.<br />
Atabout5pmourbandheadedover After the clinic, we did the<br />
to the convention centre en masse. sightreading fest. The band clearly im<br />
Milling about in the lobby, waiting for pressed the adjudicator OIJ. this one - he<br />
our warmup room, some of us chatted said we were the only band to play the·<br />
with members of the St. Albert Com- piece we selected correctly. All told,<br />
munity Band from E.dmonton. I think we received gold staOOard from all four<br />
our two groups were the only adult adjudicators. We had a great celebrabands<br />
at Musicfest this year. tion at dinner, and Mayor Fennell<br />
After our warmup, we're led intri boughrdinner for the entire band!<br />
the performing room. It's an odd venue This was such a great event for the<br />
for a band. It's a convention centre band. The performance level, morale<br />
ballroom. For some reason that I can- and spirit have never been higher. I'd<br />
not fathom, the floor is covered in car- personally like to thank our conductor,<br />
pet. Yuck! It's beyond me why they Darryl futon for his musical leadercouldn't<br />
have rolled back the carpets ship. Moving sixty people and their<br />
and let the bands play on the wood horns is a massive undertaking, and<br />
floor. The band tunes up and launches my hat is off to Cathy and Dave<br />
into "Valdres", a concert march by Harmsworth and all the members of<br />
1 Loras Schissel. This is one of the most the boord of the Brampton Con:ertBani<br />
difficult marches I've ever played ' I . who put it all together.<br />
doubtthatmostpeoplecouldeverper- It's my fervent wish that we'll see<br />
form this piece while actually march- more GT A bands in the Musicfest<br />
ing. Nextupwas<br />
¥1.<br />
"ToccattaMarziale"_ Nationals next year.<br />
Christ Church Deer Park presents<br />
Featuring some of Toronto's best jazz musicians<br />
with a· brief reflection by Reverend Tim Elliott.<br />
Sunday, <strong>June</strong> 2 - 4:30 pm<br />
DAVE YOUNG, bass<br />
JOEL QUARRINGTON, bass<br />
BERNIE SENENSKY, piano<br />
Sunday, <strong>June</strong> 16 - 4:30 pm<br />
ALEX DEAN, saxophone<br />
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MARIAN McPARTLANO TRIO<br />
Friday, <strong>June</strong> 21 to Sunday, <strong>June</strong> 23 • ·9 P.M.<br />
DICK HYMAN Solo Piano<br />
Monday, <strong>June</strong> 24 • 9 P.M.<br />
DICK HYMAN &<br />
PETER APPLEYARD<br />
Tuesday, <strong>June</strong> 25 • 9 P.M.<br />
DICK HYMAN/<br />
PETER APPLEYARD QUARTET<br />
Wednesday, <strong>June</strong> 26 • 9 P.M.<br />
GIANLUIGI TROVES! &<br />
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Thursday, <strong>June</strong> 27 • Noon<br />
IOHN ALLRED &<br />
AL KAY QUINTET<br />
Thursday, <strong>June</strong> 27 • 9 P.M.<br />
D.D. JACKSON TRIO<br />
Friday, <strong>June</strong> 28 & Saturday, <strong>June</strong> 29 • 9 P.M.<br />
Toronto Colony Hotel<br />
Dewey's lounge - 89 Chestnut St. - 9:30 P.M.. • ••••<br />
SPANKY DAVIS<br />
with The fan Bargh Trio<br />
Friday, <strong>June</strong> 21 & Saturday, <strong>June</strong> 22<br />
ROBIN NOLAN TRIO<br />
Sunday, <strong>June</strong> 23 & Monday, <strong>June</strong> 24<br />
HILARIO DURAN TRIO<br />
Tuesday, <strong>June</strong> 25 & Wednesday, <strong>June</strong> 26<br />
BARRY ELMES QUINTET<br />
Thursday, <strong>June</strong> 27<br />
MARGIE EVANS<br />
Friday, <strong>June</strong> 28 to Sunday, <strong>June</strong> 30<br />
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<strong>June</strong> 1 - July 7 <strong>2002</strong><br />
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y Sarah B. Hood<br />
0PER \ & M1rs1c T11EATRE<br />
Summer musicals take the stage across southern Ontario<br />
FOUR BY ONE .<br />
The time of the opening of the cottages<br />
is upon us, and that means that<br />
while city stages are coming to the<br />
end of their runs, -the summer theatre<br />
festivals are opening their doors<br />
to a new season wherein musicals<br />
abound.<br />
In Toronto, things theatrical are<br />
not yet quite finished, however.<br />
Writer Vincent de Tourdonnet is taking<br />
advantage of the shoulder season<br />
to launch his Snappy Tales, an<br />
evening of four music theatre works<br />
ranging from 4 to 45 minutes in<br />
length~ In each case, de Tourdonnet<br />
has worked with a different composer.<br />
Stephen Eddins has composed<br />
The Doll's Hou!ie, a four-minute(!)<br />
mini-opera inspired by a Katherine<br />
Mansfield story. J. Douglas Dodd<br />
wrote the music for The Good Person,<br />
inspired by Brecht's Good Person<br />
of Szechuan. Kurt Vonnegut has<br />
officially approved the treatment of<br />
his story The Barnlwuse Effect, with<br />
mU&ic by Jim Kass, while the longest<br />
piece of the evening, Strange<br />
Medicine, is a collaboration with<br />
Allen Cole, and was previously produced<br />
at B. C. 's Caravan Farm Theatre.<br />
Apart from the fact that de<br />
Tourdonnet wrote the book and lyrics<br />
for all four "what unites them all<br />
is they're all social satire" he says.<br />
"They all come from the social justice<br />
tradition, which is what I'm interested<br />
in as a writer." Thus The<br />
Good Person is about a Toronto<br />
,prostitute; The Barnhouse Effect<br />
relates the story of a professor<br />
whose discovery of a new form of<br />
· energy dr~ws the interest of the Pentagon,<br />
and Strange Medicine satirizes<br />
the drug-dominated approach to heal~<br />
ing in contemporary society. Snappy<br />
Tales runs from <strong>June</strong> 7 to 23 at the<br />
Factory Theatre Lab Studio.<br />
IF Tiffi TITLE HAS AN<br />
EXCLAMATION MARK<br />
TIIEN IT'S A MUSICAL!<br />
Meanwhile Artword Theatre<br />
presents Ronald Weihs' Toronto the<br />
Good!, a musical evocation of the<br />
life of this city in the 1890s, when<br />
institutionalized Victorian morality<br />
clashed with the growing public ap-<br />
. petite for pleasures of all kinds, including<br />
alcohol, tobacco, sex,<br />
FIORELLO: From left to right, Trish Vergata<br />
(Marie), Pat Elia (Fiorello), Lisa Drago (Thea) Evocative: Toronto the Good! at Artword ·<br />
drugs ... and bicycling. Toronto the www.lighthousetheatre.com).<br />
Good! runs from <strong>June</strong> 14 to July<br />
Collingwood (705-445-2200 or<br />
www.theatrecollingwood.com)<br />
28. POPULAR CANADIANS<br />
On <strong>June</strong> 29 The Georgian Theatre<br />
Festival in Meaford welcomes perennial<br />
diva Mary Lou Fallis with her<br />
comic Primadonna on a Moose.<br />
(www.thedramaworkshop.com, or<br />
phone 888-541-4444).<br />
Composer Leslie Arden and Canada's<br />
most-produced playwright Norm<br />
Foster collaborated on the comic musical<br />
whodunnit The l.LJSt Resort, which<br />
But this summer's most popular<br />
original Canadian musical is 2 Pianos,<br />
4 Hands, originally created by<br />
Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt.<br />
The acclaimed and successful tale of<br />
growing up with music lessons runs<br />
from <strong>June</strong> 18 to July 6 at the Port<br />
Hope Festival Theatre (s00434-5W2<br />
or www.capitoltheatre.corri); from<br />
August 6 to 18 at The Opera House<br />
in Gravenhurst (888-495-8888 or<br />
Also on the topic of municipal affairs,<br />
if you think that Giuliani was<br />
the first or only notable Italian mayor<br />
of New York City, then you've<br />
overlooked Fiorello La Guardia.<br />
Namesake of both the airport and<br />
New York's high school for the<br />
performing arts (of Fame fame), La<br />
Guardia was in office from 1934 to<br />
1945, 'and was known for introducing<br />
major welfare programs and reducing<br />
civic corruption. The Tony<br />
Award-winning Fiorello!, by Jerry<br />
Bock and Sheldon Barnick, will be<br />
performed by the Toronto Catholic<br />
District School Board Staff Arts organization,<br />
featuring administrators,<br />
caretakers and teachers from local<br />
schools. It runs from <strong>June</strong> 7 to 15 at<br />
Cardinal Carter Academy for the<br />
Arts, and a portion of proceeds goes<br />
towards a 9-11 Relief Fund.<br />
AND THEN THERE'S THE<br />
BEDKNOBS AND BROOM<br />
STICKS SCHOOL OF TITLING ...<br />
LAST YEAR the Nipissing Stage<br />
Company opened in North Bay<br />
with an ambitious and interesting<br />
playbill. This year's season includes<br />
the premiere of a musical by Patty<br />
Fedeli and. Lloyd MacMillan, called<br />
Shadjlies and Shotguns. Its subject<br />
is the progress of a charismatic killer<br />
loose in Northern Ontario. It runs<br />
from July 30 to August 24. (705-<br />
472-2782 or www.nipstage.com).<br />
Then from Augtist 14 to 31 another<br />
original musical, Wooden Boats<br />
and Iron Men by Bruce Milner and<br />
Robert More, tells tales of the power<br />
of the lake and the courage of its<br />
people at Port Dover's Lighthouse .<br />
Festival Theatre (519-583-2221 or<br />
runs from August 13 to 24 at Theatre CONTINUES ON PAGE 36<br />
Vivace<br />
William Shookhoff; Music Director<br />
Erika Varga, Stage Director<br />
featuring 1<br />
Caroline Kuehn, Penelope Cookson,<br />
Cheryl Campbell, Alexander Wiebe,<br />
Erika Varga, Jane Waugh,<br />
Melanie Conly, Jay Lambie,<br />
Geoff Keating and Jon-Paul Decosse<br />
<strong>June</strong> 13 & 14, <strong>2002</strong> 7:30 PM<br />
New Horizons Chapel, 1140 Bloor West (at Dufferin)<br />
<strong>June</strong> 17 & 19, <strong>2002</strong> 7:30 PM<br />
The Stone Church, 45 Davenport Road, (at Bay)<br />
Tickets $.15<br />
416-518-8506 I varga@sympatico.ca<br />
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Comprehensive Concert Listings<br />
Readers please note: presenters' plans change; & we make mistakes! Please<br />
always use the phone numbers provided to call ahead. For Jazz club listings,<br />
see page 3 7. For full music theatre and opera listings, see page 36. And for<br />
events "further afield" (just outside the GT A) see pages 35-36.<br />
Saturday <strong>June</strong> 01<br />
- 2:00 & 7:30: Mississauga Children's<br />
Choir. 20th Anniversary Gala. Kucharzyk:<br />
Super Cool Rainbow Special; Hatfield: Who Why<br />
and Where. Royal Bank Theatre, 4141 Living<br />
Arts Drive. 905-306-6000. $15,$10.<br />
- 2:00: Toronto International Choral<br />
Festival. Celebrating the Joy of Singing. Music<br />
featuring the themes of freedom, unity & peace.<br />
Massed youth choir of over 2000 voices;<br />
Markham District Hiah School Band; Dr. Lee<br />
Father John Palmer,<br />
C.S.V.- Organ (Benedictine<br />
University) Organ Music of<br />
Francis Jackson<br />
Christopher Dawes and<br />
P. John H. Stephenson,<br />
(Organists of St. James')<br />
Annual Request Organ<br />
Recital<br />
Sharon L. Beckstead,<br />
Organ (Leaside United<br />
Church)<br />
The Fredericton Schoolgirl<br />
Choir:<br />
"Celebrating the Voice" ·<br />
Willingham, conductor. Nathan Phillips Square,<br />
100 Queen St. West. 416·8724255. Free.<br />
- 7:00: Viva! Youth Singerso!Toronto.<br />
Choral Music from Around the World. Music of<br />
Serbia, Israel, Argentina, Canada & Austria.<br />
Rodrigo Chavez, percussion; Carol Woodward<br />
Ratzlaff, conductor; Brad Ratzlaff, accof11Janist.<br />
T rinity·St. Paul's Church, 427 Bloor St. West.<br />
416· 788-8482. $15, $10.<br />
- 7:30: Music at Metropolitan. Metropolitan<br />
Festival of Arts:.A Golden Opera-tunity. Evening<br />
of opera excerpts. Jay Lambie and friends.<br />
Metropolitan United Church, 56 Queen St. East.<br />
416-363-0331. $15.<br />
- 8:00: Acoustic Harvest Folk Club. Bill<br />
Hilly Band. Birch Cliff United Church, 33 East Rd.<br />
416· 264-2235. $12, sliding scale available.<br />
- 8:00: Etobicoke Centennial Choir. Water<br />
Music· Songs of Oceans, lakes and Rivers.<br />
Harris J. Loewen, music director. Humbercrest<br />
United Church, 16 Baby Point Road. 416-239:<br />
1131ext.49.$15.<br />
- 8:00: Jubilate Singers. Mediterranean<br />
Sunshine. M'usic by Monteverdi, di Lassus, del<br />
Encina, Halffter, Durufle, Ravel, Mompou, Oltra<br />
& T altabull. Isabel Bemaus, director; Sherry<br />
Squires, accof11Janist. St. Leonard's Church, 25<br />
Wanless Ave. 416-223-3629. $15,$12,<br />
$ l O(children 12 & under).<br />
- 8:00: NortliYork Singers.Music for an<br />
Abbey. Program of sacred music. Gary Heard,<br />
director. Loretto Abbey, 101 Mason Blvd. 905·<br />
893-9626. $15,$12.<br />
.- 8:00: Singing OUT! For love Must Have a<br />
Voice. CD release concert. John Bassett Theatre,<br />
Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front St. West.<br />
416-924-6859. $16.<br />
- 8:00: Small World Music Society.<br />
Masters oflndian Rhythm. Solos & duets<br />
bringing together North & South Indian traditions.<br />
Aniido Chatterjee, tabla; T richy Sankaran,<br />
nYdangam. du Maurier Theatre Centre, 231<br />
·Queens Quay West. 416-9734000. $25,$20.<br />
- 8:00: Toronto International Choral<br />
Festival. St. Petersburg Chamber Choir.<br />
CONCERT LISTINGS - GT A<br />
Rachmaninoff: All Night Vigil (Vespers). Nikolai<br />
Komiev, conductor. Massey Hall, 15 Shuter St.<br />
416·8724255. $25-$60, student discount.<br />
- 8:30: Dave Restivo, jazz pianist. Paintings<br />
by Ben Woolfitt. 1153 Queen St. West. Suite<br />
211. 416-533-9711. Suggested donation of $ 25.<br />
Proceeds after direct costs to Willow-Breast<br />
Cancer Support & Resource Servi~es.<br />
Sunday <strong>June</strong> 02<br />
- 12:30: Spadina Historic House and<br />
Gardens. Music in the Orchard.· Families Makin'<br />
Music. For children 5 & under. 285 Spadina Rd.<br />
416-392 ·691 0 ext.311. Free.<br />
- 1 :30: CAMMAC/McMichael Gallery.<br />
Sunday Concert: Fridge Magnets. Folk duo. 10365<br />
Islington, Kleinburg. 905·893-1121. $12,$9,<br />
·family rates.<br />
•- 1 :30: Spadina Historic House and<br />
Gardens. Music in the Orchard.· Ursa Major.<br />
Celtic and Jewish music for harp and viola. 285<br />
Spadina Rd. 416·392 ·6910 ext.311. Free.<br />
- 2:00: Calvin Presbyterian Church.<br />
Entr'acte Ensemble. Chamber music of lbert,<br />
Vespers. Dave Young & Joel Ouarrington, bass;<br />
Bernie Senensky, piano. 1570 Yonge St. 416·<br />
920-5211. Free (offering}.<br />
· - 5:00: Toronto International Choral<br />
Festival/Harbourfront Centre. Mayfield<br />
Magnetics. Jazz choir. Toronto Music Garden,<br />
475 Queens Quay West.416·8724255. Free.<br />
- 7:30: Zion.Wexford United Church.<br />
Kanata Native Dance Theatre. Drum songs &<br />
dances ofthe Plains &Woodlands tribes. 2102<br />
Lawrence Ave. East. 416· 288-0373. $12.<br />
-8:00: Arraymusic. Future lab: Young<br />
Composers' Workshop. Four world prenieres by<br />
emerging composers: Chokroun, Hall, Penman &<br />
Winter. Stephen Clarke, Blair Mackay, Rick<br />
· Sacks, Robert W. Stevenson, Rebecca van der<br />
Post, performers. Music Gallery, St. George-the·<br />
Martyr Church, 197 John St. 416-204-1080 ..<br />
~10.$8.<br />
- 8:00: Toronto International Choral<br />
Festival.Newfoundland Symphony Youth Choir.<br />
Susan Knight, conductor. George Weston Recital<br />
Hall, 5040YoogeSt.416·872-1111. $18-$28,<br />
student discount.<br />
Fleming, Poulenc, Ravel & T eleriiann. Beverly<br />
Monday <strong>June</strong> 03<br />
Lewis, piano; Donald Boere, oboe. 26 Delisle Ave.<br />
416-923-9030. Free.<br />
- 12:15: Music Mondays Lunchtime<br />
- 2:00: Toronto International Choral Concert·Series. Classical Piano Trio.<br />
Festival. Vancouver Chamber Choir. Victoria: Ractrnaninoff: Vocalise; Massenet: Meditation; ,<br />
Requiem for Six Voices; works by Weelkes, Elgar: Salut d'amour; Mascagni: Intermezzo<br />
Janequin, Monteverdi & Morley. Jon Washburn, sinfonico; Levkovich: Piano Trio. Nata Belkin,<br />
conductor. George Weston Recital Hall, 5040 , cello; Al.exander Levkovich, piano/con1ioser;<br />
Yonge St. 416-872-1111. $ 25-$47, student Sergei Nikonov, violin. Church of the Holy Trinity,<br />
discount.<br />
10 Trinity Square. 416-5984521. Suggested<br />
- 3:00: Appleby College Cantus. Julia donation $5.<br />
Davids; director. Church of St. Luke, Elgin Street, - 2:00: Toronto Senior Stri.ngs. String<br />
Burlington. 905-639· 7643. $ 7, $5.<br />
Ouartet Concert. St. Andrew's Presbyterian<br />
- 3:00: Baroque Music Beside ttie Grange. Church, 73 Simcoe. 416-221-6090. $12.<br />
A German Tafel-Confekt. Music by Handel, Bach, - 7:15: Riverdale Youth Singers.<br />
Schaffrath & others. Linda Melsted, violin; Wash Earthsongs. Aboriginal drunming and dancing;<br />
McClain, oboe; Michael McCraw, bassoon; Marie mysic to celebrate oneness with the Earth; In<br />
Bouchard, harpsichord. St. George· the-Martyr Memoriam, John Ford. Eagleheart Singers,<br />
Church, 197 John St. 416-5884301. $18, $14. JinYny Dick, leader; Donald Boere, oboe; Tilman<br />
- 3:00: Hart House Music Committee. Lewis, cello; Bobby Fielding, guitar; Mark Bell,<br />
· Seventh AnfNlal Rupert Schieffer Concert. Janet conductor; John Govedas, accompanist. Riverdale<br />
Harach, soprano; Julien Le Blanc, piano. Great Collegiate Institute, 1094 Gerrard St. East. Free.<br />
Hall, 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-5362. Free. - 8:00: Toronto International Choral<br />
- 4:00: St. Dlave's Church. Royal Festive Festival. Voices in Celebration. Works by<br />
Evensong. Music for royal occasions by Handel, Holman, Daley, Luedeke & Dvorak. Elmer lseler<br />
Purcell, Walton & Britten. 360 Windermere. 416· Singers; Amabile Youth Singers; Lydia Adams,<br />
769-5686. Contributions appreciated. conductor. St. James' Cathedral, 65 Clxlrch St.<br />
- 4:30: Christ Church Deer Park. Jazz 416-8724255. $30,$25, student discount.<br />
<strong>June</strong> 3<br />
<strong>June</strong> 10<br />
<strong>2002</strong>Season<br />
Mondays 12:15 p.m.<br />
Church of the Holy Trinity<br />
(beside the Eaton Centre)<br />
Nata Belkin, cello<br />
Alexander Levkovich, piano/composer<br />
Sergei Nikonov, violin<br />
Jim Dolmage, "old time" style fiddler<br />
<strong>June</strong> 17 The Choir of Christ Church Deer Park<br />
<strong>June</strong> 24<br />
Riverdale Ensemble<br />
<strong>June</strong> ;2<br />
<strong>June</strong> 9<br />
<strong>June</strong> 16<br />
<strong>June</strong> 30<br />
Ursa Major (harp and viola) explore Celtic and Jewish<br />
musical traditions.<br />
PLUS!: from 12:30 pm-1:15 pm: join in Families<br />
Makin' Music (5 years & under) , ·<br />
Taffanel Wind Ensemble (oboe, bassoon and flute)'<br />
_play classical music.<br />
Come Dance with Us - Spadina staff lead an English<br />
Country Dancing session<br />
Song and Dance from the Music Hall with George<br />
and Peg Linton<br />
At 285 Spadina Rd. 416·392·6910 ~TORONIO Culture<br />
26". www.t hewholenote.com <strong>June</strong> 1 - July 7 <strong>2002</strong>
- 8:00: Toronto Organ Club. Stan King,<br />
Hammond X66 Organ. Christ Church, 329 Royal<br />
York Road. 905·824-4667. $10.<br />
Tuesday <strong>June</strong> 04<br />
- 1 :00: St James' Cathedral. Lunch Hour at<br />
St. James'.· Father John Palmer, organ. Jackson:<br />
Toccata, Chorale and Fugue; Guilrnant: Grand<br />
choeur alla ~andel; Jones: Pe~al Etude. 65<br />
Church St. 416-364· 7865 ext.224. Free.<br />
- 8:00: Hummingbird Centre for the<br />
Performing Arts/David & Ed Mirvish/<br />
House of Blues Concerts. Blast! Blend of<br />
marching band, drum corps, dance & colour<br />
guard.1 FrontSt.East.416-872-2262. $48.39·<br />
$68.39. For complete run see music theatre<br />
listings. •<br />
- 8:00: Toronto International Choral<br />
Festival. Severapek. Music by Czech<br />
composers. Liberec;·Silvie and Petr Palka,<br />
conductors. George Weston Recital Hall, 5040<br />
YongeSt.416·872-1111. $20,$38,student<br />
discount.<br />
Wednesday <strong>June</strong> 05<br />
- 9:45am & 11 :30am: Mississauga<br />
International Children's Festival. The Boy<br />
and TfJe Bamboo Flute. Vietnamese folktale<br />
combining traditional music, costumes, mime &<br />
martial arts. Royal Bank Theatre, 4141 Living<br />
Arts Drive. 905-306·6000. For complete run see<br />
toosic theatre listings.<br />
- 12:30: Yorkminster Park Church.<br />
Noonday Recital: John Palmer, organ. 1585<br />
Yonge St. 416·922· 1167. Free.<br />
- 8:00: Theatre Non Nobis. Snappy Tales,<br />
Short Satirical Musicals. Four mini·musicals with<br />
a social satire bent. Written by Vincent de<br />
T ourdonnet; music by Allen Cole, J. Douglas<br />
Dodd, Stephen Eddins & Jim Kass; Barbara<br />
Barsky, Alex Fallis & other performers. Factory<br />
Siudio Theatre, 125 Bathurst St. 416·504·<br />
9971. $18-$25(preview). For complete run see<br />
music theatre listings.<br />
- 8:00: Toronto Choral Society. Handel:<br />
Alexander's Feast. Laura Whalen, soprano; Elaine<br />
Robertson, alto; Glyn Evans, tenor; Robert<br />
Pomakov, baritone; Geoffrey Butler, director;<br />
William O'Meara, accompanist. Eastminster<br />
United Church, 310 Danforth Ave. 416410·<br />
3509. $20.<br />
- 8:00: Toronto Symphony ltrchestra/<br />
Toronto International· Choral Festival.<br />
Brahms: A Gennan Requiem; Strauss.: Four last<br />
SoniJs. AdrianMI! Pieczonka, soprano; Nathan ·<br />
Berg, baritone; Toronto Mendelssohn Choir;<br />
Gunther Herbig, conductor. Massey Hall, 15<br />
Shuter St. 416-598-3375. $26·$90.<br />
Thursday <strong>June</strong> 06<br />
-12:10: St. Paul's Anglican Church.Eric<br />
Robertson, organ. 227 Bloor St. East. 416·961 ·<br />
8116.Free.<br />
-4:30: St. Anne's Church. Great Music at<br />
Saint Anne's: Choral Evensong. Festival of<br />
hymns. 270 Gladstone Ave. 416·536·3160.<br />
Donation.<br />
- 8:00: Music Gallery. Piano Series: Anya<br />
Alexeyev. Music by Gubaidulina, Shostakovich,<br />
Firsova, Smimov, Hovhaness & Manevski. St.<br />
George·the·Martyr Church, 197 John St. 416·<br />
CONCERT LISTINGS - GT A<br />
204-1080. $10.<br />
- 8:00: Toronto International Choral<br />
Festlval.OunedinConsort. Works by Byrd,<br />
Dowland & others. Ben Parry, conductor. St.<br />
Andrew's Presbyterian Church, 73 Simcoe. 416·<br />
8724255. $22, student discount.<br />
- 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra/'<br />
Toronto International Choral Festival.<br />
Massey Hall. See <strong>June</strong> 5.<br />
- 8:30: Hugh's Room. The Bill Hilly Band.<br />
2261 Dundas St. West.416-531-6604.<br />
Friday <strong>June</strong> 07<br />
- 7:30: Random Acts of Music Ensemble.<br />
Works by Debussy, Mozart & Brahms. Judy<br />
Loman, harp; Amaro String Quartet; Toronto<br />
Symphony Youth Orchestra Ensemble.<br />
Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth Ave.<br />
416· 260-0329. $20, $10, family rate. In<br />
partnership with HAADD.<br />
- 7:30: lCDSB Staff Arts. Fiorello! Music by<br />
Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Hamik. Cardinal<br />
Carter Academy for the Arts, 36 Greenfield Ave.<br />
416-222-8282 ext.2787. $17.50,$15, $10(st).<br />
For co~ete run see music theatre listings.<br />
- 8:00: St. James' Cathedral. Haydn: Lord<br />
Nelson Mass. Kathryn Domoney, soprano; Peter<br />
Mahon, alto; Lenard Whiting. tenor; David<br />
C31l1lbell, bass; Cathedral Choirs; Christopher<br />
Dawes, director. 65 Church St. 416-364-7865<br />
ext.231. $20,$15.<br />
- 8:00: Toronto International Choral<br />
Festival. St. Louis African Chorus. Music in<br />
African languages. St. Paul's Anglican Church,<br />
227 Bloor St. East. 41 &8724i55. $25. .<br />
- 8:00: Toronto Tabla Ensemble. In<br />
Celebration of Dance. Guests: Allen & Karen<br />
Kaeja, Joanna Dunbar, Hari Krishnan, T111a Park,<br />
Maryern T oUa'r and Friends. du Maurier Theatre<br />
Centre, 231 Queen's Quay West. 416-973·<br />
4000. $25,$22.<br />
- 8:00: Via Salzburg. Season Finale. Corelli:<br />
Concerto Grosso Op.6 #4 in G; T elll(llllnn: Viola<br />
Concerto 20; Somers: Scherzo; Schubert: Death<br />
and the Maiden arr. Mahler. Max Mandel, viola;<br />
Seiler Strings; Mayumi Seiler, leader. Glenn<br />
Gould Studio, 250 Front St. West. 416-205.'<br />
5555. $35, $28,$22(sr/st).<br />
- 8:30: Hugh's Room. Ray Montford Group.<br />
2261 Dundas St. West.416·531-6604.<br />
Saturday <strong>June</strong> 08<br />
- 12:45: Thornhill Community Band.<br />
Broadway, classical. popular, traditional &<br />
commissioned works. Bobby Herriot, music<br />
director. Richmond Hill Village Heritage Day,<br />
Yonge & Major Mackenzie. 416·223· 7152.<br />
Free.<br />
- 2:00: Toronto International Choral<br />
Festival. Barbei'shop: Northem lights; Greater<br />
Kingston Chorus. 4-part a cappella harmony.<br />
Steve Armstrong & Elaine Gain, conductors.<br />
Massey Hall. 15 Shuter. 416·8724255. $25·<br />
$45, student discount.<br />
- 2:00: Victoria-Royce Church. Second<br />
Saturday Concert: Spirit of the Crossroads. Duma<br />
Dunlop, folksinger & friends. 190 Medland St.<br />
416-769·6176. Free.<br />
- 4:00: Jenni Hayman, soprano & John<br />
Edwards, renaissance lute & arch·lute.<br />
Here the Deities Approve. Works by C811'11ion.<br />
Dowland, Guedron, Moulinie, PurceD, Blow, Cesti<br />
& Oarissimi. Church of St. Martin·ifl.the-Fields,<br />
151 GlenlakeAve.416·769·2847. $15,$10.<br />
- 5:00: Toronto International Choral<br />
Festival/Harbourfront Centre. Vesnivka<br />
Ukrainian Choir. Toronto Music Garden, 4 75<br />
Queens Quay West. 416-8724255. Free.<br />
- 7:00: Jonah Libster, guitar.AnEveningof<br />
Classical Guitar. Music of Bach, Villa-Lobos,<br />
Barrios & Sor. Bloor Street United Church, 300<br />
Bloor St West. 416-920·3310. $5.<br />
- 7:00: Sitar Recital. Ustad Shahid Parvez,<br />
sitar; Pandit Anindo Chatterjee, tabla. Medical<br />
Sciences Auditorium, 1 King's College Circle.<br />
416·922·9925. $15·$50.<br />
- 8:00: Counterpoint Community<br />
Orchestra. Sibefius: Finlandia; Weber: Concerto<br />
Works by Debussy, Mozart and Brahms<br />
Friday, <strong>June</strong> 7, <strong>2002</strong> at 7:30 pm<br />
Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth Ave. (at Jackman)<br />
Tickets: $20/S&S $10/Family(up to 5) $50 416-260-0329
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· in Germany for many years. We are thrilled to finaqy brip<br />
The Seasons to Massey Hall for,two spectacular perform<br />
featuring the Tafelmusik O~chestra and Chaniber Ch'.oi~,<br />
the baton of Bruno Weil. This will be the event of the<br />
season - don't miss it!<br />
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discovered Gloria; French harpsichordist Pierre Hanta'i performing Bach's<br />
Goldberg variations; a rising Canadian star - contralto Marie-Nicole. Lemieux;<br />
and the dazzling English violinist Andrew Manze as guest director<br />
and soloist in Vivaldi's L' Estro Armonico.<br />
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"'··.Op. era Atelier; and The Four Seasons: A Cycle of the Sun - a unique collaboration<br />
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#1 inf; Mozart: Magic Flute Overture; Wagner:<br />
Prelude to Die Meistersinger; Berg: Die<br />
NachtigaU; Strauss: Zueignung; Beethoven: Aria<br />
from Fidelio. James Petry, clarinet; Lilac Cana,<br />
soprano; Terry Kowalczuk, conductor. Church of<br />
the Redeemer, 162 Bloor St. West. 416-925-<br />
9872. $14(advance), $17(door).<br />
- 8:00: EMPressions Show Choir. Hooray<br />
for Hollywood!Some of Hollywood's memorable<br />
roosic. Bumhamthorpe Collegiate Auditorium,<br />
500The East Mall.416-248-0410. $15,<br />
$1 O(st), group rates.<br />
-8:00:Jau.FM91.StnmYOfJazz. Ri:klazlr&<br />
Mll1llm Pti:e. lslinl Cli, Watefal Stage. Ontlril<br />
lke.416-599-5299ext229. Free.<br />
- 8:00: Juan Tomas. Variety Show. Selection<br />
of oldies, jazz. soft rock, classical & Spanish<br />
guitar llllsic. Juan Tomas, guitar; Carolyn<br />
Vadum, jazz singer; Rea Paulite, pop/soft rock<br />
singer; Racelle Salamena, singer; Juan Tomas<br />
Orchestra. Armour Heights Church, 105 Wilson<br />
Ave.4164854000. $15.<br />
- 8:00: Roma Cultural Community/Stella<br />
Walker. Roma (Gypsy) Musical Experience.<br />
Jazz, classical & traditional variations on Roma<br />
melodic themes. Stella Walker, mezzo; Brahm<br />
Goldhamer, piano; Robert Botos, piano; Frank<br />
Botos, drums; Attila Darvas, basS & other<br />
performers. Arts and Letters Club, 14 Elm St.<br />
416-534-9958. $18.<br />
- 8:00: Toronto International Choral<br />
Festival. Budapest Central Choir; Bell'Arte<br />
Singers. Bernstein: Chichester Psalms; Kodaly:<br />
Missa Brevis. Gabor Olah & Lee Wmingham,<br />
conductors. Metropolitan United Church, 56<br />
Queen St. East.416-8724255. $25, student<br />
cfiscount.<br />
- 8:00: Toronto Tabla Ensemble. In<br />
Celebration of Dance. du Maurier Theatre Centre.<br />
See <strong>June</strong> 7.<br />
'<br />
Sunday <strong>June</strong> 09<br />
- 2:00: Calvin Presbyterian Church. Calvin<br />
Church Choir. Recital to launch tour to Scotland.<br />
Stephanie Martin, conductor. 26 Delisle Ave. 1<br />
416-923-9030. Free.<br />
- 2:00 ~ Chamber Music Society of<br />
Mississauga. Youth Talent Showcase. Royal<br />
Bank Theatre, Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living<br />
Arts Drivp, Mississauga. 905-306-6000.<br />
$24,$18.<br />
- 2:00: Choralairs of North York. Annual<br />
Closing Concert. Program of Broadway, pop &<br />
folk songs. Earl Bales Park Community Centre<br />
Social Hall, Bathurst south of Sheppard. 416-<br />
221-3161. Free.<br />
- 2:00: EMPressions Show Choir. Hooray<br />
RUDOLPH .FAMILY PLAYERS<br />
flute, viola, percussion<br />
with guests<br />
Sany a Eng, harp and<br />
Peter Longworth, piano<br />
Sunday <strong>June</strong> 9, 3:00 p.m. Free<br />
Recital Hall , Royal Conservatory of Music<br />
273 Bloor Street West 416-322-9914<br />
A Choral Cone<br />
A Cappella Ma<br />
By Parry, Brah<br />
Plus John Es<br />
And Andrew<br />
The Timothy Eaton Chamber Choir<br />
Edward Connell, conductor ·<br />
Sunday, <strong>June</strong> 9, <strong>2002</strong>, 2 pm<br />
Timothy Eaton Memorial Church<br />
230 St. Clair Avenue· West, Toronto<br />
Tickets $12 at the door<br />
Lunch & Concert tickets $20,<br />
re_serve by <strong>June</strong> 2 by calling 416-925-<br />
Q The North Toronto<br />
W!iJ Women's Chamber Choir<br />
Directed by Anne Yardley<br />
Accompanied by Beverly Lewis<br />
presents<br />
SP~ING f11X<br />
A concert for the whole family<br />
Sunday <strong>June</strong> 9, <strong>2002</strong><br />
at 7:30 p.m.<br />
The Church of the 'Iransfiguration<br />
111 Manor Rd. East, Toronto<br />
Tickets $10.00, $5.00, under 12 free<br />
For infonnation call 416- 425-7562<br />
30
for Hol/Ywood! Bumhamthorpe Collegiate<br />
Auditorium. See <strong>June</strong> 8.<br />
- 2:00: Timothy Eaton Chamber Choir.<br />
Heaven's High Paratfise. Estacio: Eulogies; Ager:<br />
Wlldows (world premiere); a cappella works by<br />
Bralms, Pany, Barber & Bruckner. Edward<br />
Connel, conductor. T mothy Eaton Memorial<br />
Church, 230 St. Clair West. 416·925·5977. $12.<br />
- 2:30: Toronto Early Music Centre.<br />
MusicaHy Speaking. Alexa Wing, soprano; Susan<br />
Kieren, baroque oboe; Anna Chan, harpsichord.<br />
Church of the Holy T rinitY, 10 Trinity Square.<br />
416-966-1409. Free; donations gratefully<br />
accepted.<br />
- 3:00: Miko Kominami, piano. Rameau: La<br />
Poole; Les Sauvages; L'Egyptienne; Beethoven:<br />
Sonata Op.57 Appassionata; Liszt: Sonata in b.<br />
Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St. West. 416·<br />
205-5555. $10, $8.<br />
- 3:00: Mooredale Youth Orchestra.<br />
Kristine Bogyo, Clare Carbeny & Etsuko Kimura,<br />
conductors. Rosedale Heights School. 711 Bloor<br />
St. East.416·922·3714. $20,$15.<br />
- 3:00: Toronto International Choral<br />
. Festival. The Winnipeg Singers. Music by<br />
Britten, Taverner, Part, Enns, MacMillan &<br />
Chapman. Rudolph Schellenberg. conductor.<br />
Church of St. Mary Magdalene, 477 Manning<br />
Ave. 416-8724255. $25, student discount.<br />
- 4:00: St Olave's Church. Les Trois Amis de<br />
fOrgue. Music by Widor, Saint-Saens & Franck.<br />
Gary Gray, organ. 360 Windermere. 416· 769·<br />
5686. Contributions appreciated.<br />
- 6:30: Raag·Mala Music Society of<br />
Toronto. Classical Music Recital Prosenjit<br />
Oeoghoria, vocal; Catherine Potter, flute; Prem<br />
T iwari & Ravi Naimpally, tabla; Raya Bidaye,<br />
harmonium & other performers. Medical<br />
Sciences Auditorium, 1 King's College Circle ...<br />
416-492· 7665. $16,$10 (members & st/sr<br />
liscounts).<br />
- 7:30: North Toronto Women's Chamber<br />
Choir. Spring Mix. Concert for the whole family.<br />
Anne Yardley, director; Beverly Lewis,<br />
aCCOl!1lanist. Church of the Transfiguration, 111<br />
Manor Rd. East. 416-425· 7562. $10,$5,.under<br />
12free.<br />
- 7:30: Toronto lnternational,Choral<br />
Festival. Toronto Children's Chorus. Repertoire<br />
from around the world. Jean Ashworth Bartle,<br />
conductor. St. James' Cathedral, 65 Church St.<br />
416-872-4255. $22, student discount.<br />
Monday <strong>June</strong> 10<br />
-12:15:MusicMondayslunchtime<br />
Concert Series. Jim Oolmage, fiddler.<br />
Selection of tunes with roots in the British Isles;<br />
original Canadian compositions. Church of the<br />
Holy Trinity, 10 Trinity Square. 416-598-4521.<br />
Suggested donation $5.<br />
- 7:30: Cantabile Chorale of York Region.<br />
28th Anmml Strawbenies and Song. Robert<br />
Richardson, director. Thornliill Presbyterian<br />
Church, 271 Centre St. West. 905-731-8318.<br />
$15, $12(sr/patrons), $6(chidren under 12).<br />
- 7:30: Swedish Women's Educational<br />
Association/Embassy of Sweden/Citizens<br />
for the Old Town. M'lleJenny Lind's Brand<br />
Concert. Merete Meyer, soprano; Maria<br />
Ydreborg. piano. St. Lawrence Han, 159 King St.<br />
East. 416-861-1793. $25 (includes reception).<br />
- 8:00: Toronto International Choral<br />
Festival. St. Michael's Choir School Mixed<br />
program sung by massed choir of 150 voices. St.<br />
Michael's Cathedral, 200 Church. 416-397·<br />
5727. $20.<br />
<strong>June</strong> 1 - July 7 <strong>2002</strong><br />
Tuesday <strong>June</strong> 11<br />
- 1 :00: St. James' Cathedral. lunch Hour at<br />
St James~ Annual Request Recital Christopher '<br />
Dawes & P. John H. Stephenson, organists. 65<br />
Church St. 416·364-7865 ext.224. Free.<br />
- 7:00: BJCC-Suzuki, Koffler School of<br />
Music. 15th Anniversary Celebration. Leah<br />
Posluns Theatre, 4588 Bathurst St. 416·920·<br />
3833.$5 . .<br />
- 7:30: Cantabile Chorale of York Region.<br />
28th Annual Strawberries and Song. Thornhill<br />
Presbyterian Church. See <strong>June</strong> 10.<br />
- 8:00: Festival Wind Orchestra. Summer<br />
Serenade. Music of Gershwin; Folk Song Suite;<br />
Hanover Festival; Montego Bay & more. Tracey<br />
Wilkins, jazz vocals; Gennady Getter, conductor.<br />
Fairview Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall<br />
Drive.416-491· 1683. $10,$7.<br />
- 8:00: Toronto International Choral<br />
Festival. Hue/gas Ensemble. Music of the<br />
Flemish Renais5ance. Paul Van Nevel, conductor.<br />
St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, 73 Simcoe<br />
St. 416-872-4255. $25, student di~count.<br />
Wednesday <strong>June</strong> 12<br />
- 12:30: Yorkminster Pafk Church.<br />
Noonday Recital· Michael Bloss, organ. 1585<br />
Yonge St. 416-922-1167. Free.<br />
- 1 :00: Canadian Music Competitions.<br />
Featuring <strong>2002</strong> CMC Ontario finalists. Arts &<br />
Letters Club, 14 Elm St. 416-441-1335. Free.<br />
- 2:00: Ontario Place. Grease. The musical.<br />
Atlantis Theatre, 955 lakesqore Blvd. West.<br />
416·872-1212. $25-$42. For complete run see<br />
music theatre listings.<br />
CONCERT LISTINGS - GT A<br />
- 8:00: The Urge Collective. Trousseau·<br />
True Nature. Interdisciplinary theatrical evening<br />
with music, sound & dance. Factory Theatre<br />
Mainspace, 125 Bathurst St. 416-504-9971.<br />
$ 20. For complete run see music theatre<br />
listings.<br />
- 8:00: Toronto International Choral<br />
Festival. Toronto Jewish Folk Choir. Jewish<br />
music from the 11th to the 2Dth century. Esther<br />
Ghan Firestone, conductor; Ben Steinberg. host.<br />
Walter Hall, 80 Queen's Park. 416-872-4255.<br />
$18, student discount.<br />
- 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.<br />
Weber: Overture to Oberon; Murphy: CBCfTSO<br />
commission fqr harp & orchestra; Mussorgsky<br />
(orch. Ravel): Pictures at an Exhibition; Innocent<br />
Ear work. Judy Loman, harp; Gunther Herbig,<br />
conductor. Massey Hall, 15 Shuter. 416-593·<br />
4828. $26·$9Q. .<br />
Thursday <strong>June</strong> 13<br />
-12:10: St. Paul's Anglican Church.Doug<br />
Schalin, organ. 227 Bloor St. East. 416-961 ·<br />
8116."Free.<br />
- 7:00: Brampton Folk Festival. Kick-off<br />
Concert. Perfonnances by members of the<br />
Brampton Folk Club. Gage Park, Brall1lton. 905·<br />
796-9357. Free.<br />
- 7:30: Opera Studio Vivace. Mozart: Cosi<br />
fan T utte. Cheryl Campbell, Melanie Conly,<br />
Penelope Cookson, Jon-Paul Decoss, Geoff<br />
Keating & other performers; William Shookhoff,<br />
music director. New Horizon Chapel, 1140 Bloor<br />
St. West. 416-538-8506. $15. For complete run<br />
see music theatre listings.<br />
. - 8:00: Janet Catherine Dea, soprano/<br />
Stuart Graham, baritone/ Brahm<br />
Goldhamer, piano. Eros & Psyche. Famous<br />
duets & arias from Haydn: The Creation;<br />
Massenet: Thais; Donizetti: Lucia di<br />
Lammennoor; Leoncavallo: Pagliacci & other<br />
composers. The Stone Church, 45 Davenport Rd.<br />
416-646-2121. $20.<br />
...:. 8:00: Toronto International Choral<br />
Festival. Esprit Orchestra/ Elmf!f lseler Singers.<br />
Pauk: Poems of Ecstasy. Alex Pauk, conductor.<br />
MacMillan Theatre, 80 Queen's Park. 416-872-<br />
4255. *POSTPONED*<br />
- 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.<br />
Massey Hall. See <strong>June</strong> 12. ·<br />
Friday <strong>June</strong> 14<br />
- 7:00: Kekeli/Woodshed/Rodney<br />
Pentland. African drumming & dancing; rhythm<br />
& blues·& more. Herbie Kuhn, M.C. Mel Lastman<br />
Square, 5100 Yonge St. 416:395· 7350. Free. In<br />
support of brain injury awareness.<br />
- 7:30: Collaborations: A Chamber Arts<br />
Experience. CabarEH! Evening of jazz, story·<br />
telling, cabaret songs & dance. Jean Stilwell,<br />
mezzo; Andy Creeggan, piano/cDl!1loser; Robert<br />
Glumbek, dancer; Tom Allen, story-teller; Jim<br />
Vivian, bass & other performers; Valerie Kuinka,<br />
artistic·director. du Maurier Theatre Centre, 231<br />
Queen's Quay West. 416-484-9338.<br />
- 8:00: JVC Jazz Festival. Heillig Manoeuvre<br />
& Cedar Wahon Trio with guest Jackie Mclean.<br />
Harbourfront Centre Concert ·stage, 235 Queens<br />
Quay West. 416-973-3000. '<br />
- 8:00: Toronto International Choral<br />
Festival. AUmiinna SangeritNexus/T oronto<br />
Children's Chorus. Orff: Cannina Burana; music<br />
collaborations a Chamber arts experience<br />
Valerie Kuinka, artistic director<br />
presents<br />
CABAREH.<br />
"Kuinko's COLLABORATIONS is a series that well understands how to<br />
thread the multidisciplinary loom" Paula CHron, The Globe and Mall<br />
<strong>June</strong> 14th, <strong>2002</strong><br />
7:30pm<br />
duMaurier Theatre Centre<br />
231 Queen's Quay West ,<br />
Join CBC radio broadcaster Tom Allen.<br />
mezzo soprano Jean Stilwell.<br />
pianist Andy Creeggon. and dancer Robert Glumbek<br />
in an evening of jazz and storytelling<br />
Featuring the music of Andy Creeggan.<br />
Kurt Weill. and Geoges Bizet<br />
For furthe r information and to purchase tickets<br />
please call 416-484-9338 or call the<br />
duMaurier Theatre Centre box office ay<br />
' 416-973-4000<br />
please visit our website at www.collabarts.com<br />
toro~tdartsbounci I
y Swedish COfl1lOSl!l'S. Aline Kutan, soprano;<br />
Benoit Boutet, tenor; Bruce Kelly, baritone; Cecilia<br />
Rydinger Alin, conductor. Massey Hall, 15<br />
Shuter.416·8724255. $25·$75, student<br />
liscturt.<br />
- 8:30: Artword Theatre. Toronto The Good!<br />
fa musical about life in the 1890s/. Written &<br />
directed by Ronald Weihs. Songs of the period in •<br />
original arrangements with 4-part choruses. 75<br />
Portland St. 416-366· 7723. $15(preview). For<br />
complete run see music theatre listings.<br />
Saturday <strong>June</strong> 15<br />
- 3:00: Toronto International Choral<br />
Festival. Chamber Singers of Algoma •. Music by<br />
Togni, Daley, Raninsh, Glick, Telfer & Willan.<br />
Patty Gartshore, conductor. Christ Church Deer<br />
Park. 1570YongeSt.416-8724255. $18,<br />
student discomt.<br />
- 5:00: Toronto International Choral<br />
Festival/Harbourfront Centre. Toronto<br />
Estonian Male Choir. Toronto Music Garden, 4 75<br />
Queens Quay West. 416·8724255. Free.<br />
- 6:00: Brampton Folk Festival. Evening<br />
Showcase Concert. Featured performers. Gage<br />
Park, Brampton. 905· 796-9357.<br />
- 7:30: Beverly Glenn-Copeland, vocalist.<br />
Selections from her CD Songs of Hope, Victory<br />
and Peace; Negro spirituals; love songs. Guests:<br />
Elizabeth Paddon & Maggie Hollis, vocals. Church<br />
of the Redeemer, 162 Bloor St. West. 705-788- .<br />
2440. $20.<br />
- 8:00: Anno Domini Chamber Singers.<br />
Favourite Anthems: Songs of Praise throughout<br />
the Ages. Holy Name Church, 71 Gough. 416-<br />
696-0D93. $.15, $10.<br />
-8:00: Jazz.FM91.Summer0fJazz. Bill<br />
King's Saturday Night Fish Fry. Island Club,<br />
Waterfall Stage, Ontario PJace. 416-599-5299<br />
ext.22!!. Free.<br />
- B:OD: JVC Jazz Festival. Medeski Martin &<br />
Wood with BuHfrog. Harbourfront Centre Concert.<br />
Stage, 235 Queens Quay West. 416-973-30DD.<br />
- 8:00: Toronto International Choral<br />
Festival. Kaggik <strong>2002</strong> Massed youth choir from<br />
Commonwealth countries; Robert Cooper, artistic<br />
director; Bob Chilcott, conductor. Massey Hall, 15<br />
Voices in Motion<br />
Saturday,<br />
<strong>June</strong> 15, <strong>2002</strong><br />
8:00 p.m.<br />
Pre-concert talk: 7:30 p.m.<br />
St. Thomas<br />
Anglican Church<br />
383 Huron Street<br />
(south of Bloor, east of Spadina)<br />
Tickets $15 ($10 S/S)<br />
Available at the door.<br />
VOICES<br />
50 Glebemount Avenue<br />
Toronto, Ontario M4.C 3R6<br />
. Tel: (416) 429-7740<br />
32<br />
http:/Noiceschoir.tripod.com<br />
CONCERT L tSTINr.S - GT A<br />
Shuter St. 416-8724255. $20-$40, student<br />
discount. *CANCELLED*<br />
- 8:0D: Voices. Voices in Motion. Works by<br />
Britten, Byrd, Casals, Tallis, Vaughan Williams •<br />
and Canadian composers. Saint Thomas' s<br />
Church, 383 Huron St. 416-429-77 40.<br />
$15,$10.<br />
Sunday <strong>June</strong> 16<br />
- 1 :30: CAMMAC/McMichael Gallery.<br />
Sunday Concert: Jim Galloway. Jazz ensemble.<br />
10365 Islington, Kleinburg. 905-893· 1121.<br />
$12,$9, family rates.<br />
..:. 1 :30; Mei-zhi Bi. Student Piano Concert.<br />
Works by Handel, Mozart, Beethbven, Weber,<br />
Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Debussy, Prokofiev,<br />
Ginastera & Huang. Alisa Tse, Judy Qiang,<br />
Patricia Li, Ken Yang, Sunny Luo & other<br />
performers. Gl~nn Gould Studio, 250 Front St.<br />
West. 416-205·5555. $30(honoured guests),<br />
$15,<br />
- 2:0D: Toronto International Choral<br />
Festival. £es Chanteurs St-Coeur-de-Marie.<br />
Program to include Gregorian chant, works by<br />
Palestrina & others. Claude Gosselin, conductor.<br />
Royal Ontario Museum, 1 DD Queen's Park. 416-<br />
8724255. Free with rruseum admission: $15,<br />
$ lO(sr/st), $8(ages 5· 14), children 4 & under<br />
free.<br />
- 2:3D: Young Virtuosos of Classical<br />
Music. Noel Ryan Auditorium, 3D1<br />
Bumhamthorpe Rd. West. 9D5·569-96.18.<br />
-$15, $10, under 12 free.<br />
- 3:DD: Heliconian Hall. Chamber Music<br />
Concert. Schubert: The Shepherd on the Rock;<br />
Poulenc: Elegy; Bartok: Roumanian Dances;<br />
Sinigaglia: Lied; Brahms: Trio in a Op.114. Karen<br />
Aitken, cello; Jane Blackstone, piano; Emily<br />
Hong, soprano; Diane James, horn; Greg James,<br />
clarinet. 35 Hazelton Ave. 416-781-2DD9.<br />
$15,$10. '<br />
- 4:DD: Toronto International Choral<br />
Festival. Pro Coro Canada. Gilliland: Blessed;<br />
Bach: Komm, Jesu Komm; motet by Brahms;<br />
flllJSiC by Howells, Harris & Canadian·<br />
composers. Richard Sparks, conductor. George<br />
Weston Recital Hall. 5040 Yonge St. 416-872-<br />
1111. $2D-$38, student discount.<br />
- 4:3D: Christ Church Deer Park. Jazz<br />
Vespers. Alex Dean, saxophone: 157D Yonge St.<br />
416-92D-5211. Free (offering).<br />
- 7:DD: Music Gallery. Master.Musicians:<br />
Sankaran Trio. Traditional South Indian &<br />
contemporary music. T richy Sankaran, master<br />
drummer; Ernie T ollar, winds; Suba Sankaran,<br />
vocals, piano & percussion. St. George-the<br />
Martyr Church, 197 John St. 416-204-1 D8D.<br />
$15.<br />
- 8:0D: Toronto International Choral<br />
Festival. Victoria Scholars. Dusatko: Distant<br />
Voices (premiere); Glick: How beautiful you are,<br />
my love: 5 Tableaux from the Song of Songs<br />
(premiere) for Male Chorus and Solo Cello;<br />
Somers: A Thousand Ages; works by Durufh! &<br />
Penderecki. David Hetherington, cello; Jerzy<br />
Cichocki, music director; William D'Meara,<br />
accollllanist. Metropolitan United Church, 56<br />
Queen St. East. 416· 761-7776. $25, $ 2D.<br />
Monday <strong>June</strong> 17<br />
- 12: 15: Music Mondays Lunchtime<br />
Concert Series. Choir of Christ Church Oeer<br />
Park. Music by Stanford, Harris, Rutter &<br />
Monteverdi. Bruce Kirkpatrick Hill, director.<br />
Church ill the Holy Trinity, 1 D Trinity Square.<br />
416-5984521. Suggested donation $5.<br />
- 8:DD: Art of Time Ensemble. All<br />
That .. ~azz? Jazz influenced 20th century<br />
classical music. Phil Dwyer, jazz sa~ophone;<br />
Mark Fewer, viorm; Andrew Burashko, piano.<br />
Glenn Gould Studio, 25D Front St. West. 416·<br />
2D5-5555. $25,$18.<br />
- 8:0D: JVC Jau Festival. Kenny Barrett<br />
Quartet. du Maurier Theatre Centre, 231 Queens<br />
Quay West. 416-97340DD. $25.<br />
- 8:DD: Toronto International Choral<br />
Festival. Exbudi Program of Cuban & Latin·<br />
American music. Maria Felicia Perez, conductor.<br />
Massey Hall, 15 Shuter St. 416-872 4255.<br />
$25·$45, student discount. .
Tuesday <strong>June</strong> 18<br />
- 7:30: Thornhill Community Band.<br />
Broadway, classical, popular, traditional &<br />
conmissioned works. Bobby Herriot, music<br />
director. Barry Zukennan Amphitheatre, Earl<br />
Bales Park, Bathurst & Sheppard. 416-223·<br />
7152.Free.<br />
- 8:00: Toronto International Choral<br />
·Festival. Toronto Mendelssohn Choir & Elora<br />
Festival Silflers. Schubert: Deutsche Messa;<br />
Martinu: Field Mass; Bruckner: Mass in e. '<br />
Russell Braun, baritone; Noel Edison, conductor.<br />
Cathedral of the Transfiguration, 3975 Elgin<br />
Mills Rd., Markham. 416-8724255. $35,<br />
student discount.<br />
- 8:00: Weston Silver Band. Little Avenue<br />
Memorial Park Bandshell, Weston Rd. north of<br />
Lawrence. 416-253-9422. Free.<br />
Wednesday <strong>June</strong> 19<br />
- 12:30: Yorkminster Park Church.<br />
Noonday Recital: Kola Owolabi, organ. 1585<br />
XongeSt.416-922-1167. Free.<br />
- 7:30: Boys' Choir of Grace Church on·<br />
the-Hill/Boys Choir at St. Peter's,<br />
Charlotte, N.C. J. Willcocks: Pied Piper of<br />
Hamelin; sacred selections. 300 Lonsdale Rd.<br />
416-488· 7884 ext.19. Freewill offering.<br />
- 8:00: Toronto International Choral<br />
Festival. Tokyo Philhannonic Chorus. Schafer:<br />
l!lcerJSe; Vox Naturae; music by Japanese<br />
CllllpOS8IS. Chifuru Matsubara, conductor.<br />
George Weston Recital Hall, 5040 Yonge St.<br />
416-872-1111. $25-$47, student discount.<br />
- 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.<br />
Mozart: Vioin Concerto #5; Mahler: Syinphony<br />
#4. Pamela Frank. violin; Inger Dam-Jensen,<br />
soprano; Thomas Dausgaard, conductor. Massey<br />
HaD, 15 Shuter.416-5934828. $26-$90.<br />
Thursday <strong>June</strong> 20<br />
- 12:10: St Paul's Anglican Church. Al(qus<br />
Sinclair, organ. 227 Bloor St. East. 416-961 ·<br />
8116.Free.<br />
- 2:00: Josef Peleg & Judith Kenedi·<br />
Peleg, violin & piano. Brahms: sonata; ·<br />
selection of other pieces for violin & piano.<br />
Northern District Library, 40 Orchard View Blvd.<br />
416-393· 7610. Free.<br />
- 5:00: Toronto International Choral<br />
Festival/Harbourfront Centre.Madison Boy<br />
Choir. Toronto Music Garden, 4 75 Queens Quay<br />
West.416-8724255. Free.<br />
..;.. 8:00 & 10:00: Rebecca Enkin & Marc<br />
Enkin Double CD Launch. Vocal &<br />
instnmental jazz. Hugh's Room, 2261 Dundas<br />
St. West.416-531·6604. $5, $20(includesCD).<br />
- 8:00: Toronto International Choral<br />
Festival. Tafelmusik Chamber Choir and<br />
Orchestra. Bach: Six Motets. lvars T aurins,<br />
conductor. George Weston Recital Hall, 5040<br />
Yonge St. 416-872-1111. $25-$47, student<br />
ciscwtt.<br />
-8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.<br />
Massey Haft. See <strong>June</strong> 19.<br />
Friday <strong>June</strong> 21<br />
- 8:00: Festival <strong>2002</strong>. Openilfl Concert: Host<br />
Choirs in Performance. Forte fT oronto Men's<br />
<strong>June</strong> 1 - July 7 <strong>2002</strong><br />
Chorus); Iris fT oronto Women's Chorus); Rainbow<br />
Voices of Toronto; Singing Out! John Bassett<br />
Theatre, Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front St.<br />
West. 416-924-6859. $20.<br />
- 8:00?: Music Gallery. What Next:<br />
OowntownJazz. Perfonners TBA. St. George·<br />
the-Martyr Church, 197 John St. 416-204·<br />
1080.<br />
- 8:00: Nathaniel Dett Chorale. And Still<br />
We Sil(q ... Make Me a World. Watson Henderson:<br />
Toronto premiere; other works. Brainerd Blyden·<br />
Taylor, conductor. St. James' Cathedral, 65<br />
Church St. 416-872-1212. $35,$25.<br />
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- 8:00: Tafelmusik. Baroque Celebration.<br />
Music by Corelli, Vivaldi, Telemann & Bach.<br />
Ettore Mazzoleni Concert Hall, 273 Bloor St.<br />
West. 416-964-6337. $25,$10.<br />
- 8:00: Toronto International Choral<br />
Festival. Arnold ScMnberg Choir. Music by<br />
Schubert, Reger, Bruckner, A.Strauss, Cerha &<br />
SchOnberg. Erwin Ortner, conductor. George<br />
Weston Recital Hall, 5040 Yonge St. 416-872-<br />
1111. $20-$35, student discount.<br />
- 8:00:TrypTych Productions.Heart&<br />
Soulstice. Songs of Love, Songs of Summer.<br />
Heliconian Hall. 35 Hazelton Ave. 416-7fl3.<br />
Canadian Festival of Lesbian & Gay Choruses<br />
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Men's Chorus; Oasis Vocal Jazz; Vox Femina.<br />
John Bassett Theatre, Metro Convention Centre,<br />
255 Front St. West. 416-924-6859. $30.<br />
- 8:00: Jazz.FM91. Summer Of Jazz. Swing<br />
The Komitas Musical Association Arts Committee Presents<br />
An evening of songs,.<br />
opera arias<br />
and duets I ea tu ring<br />
renowned baritone<br />
David Varjabed,<br />
• Sunday, <strong>June</strong> 23, <strong>2002</strong> - 7:30 p.m.<br />
at Armenian fvangelical Church of Toronto. 2600 14th Avenue.<br />
Markham, ON • Tickets $20.00 • for tickets call<br />
905-889-3657, 416-229-9001 or 905-889-2094<br />
CONCERT LISTINGS - GT A<br />
TrypTych Productions<br />
presents<br />
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~-f¥8~<br />
Shift Big Band. Island Club, Waterfall Stage,<br />
Ontario Place. 416-599-5299 ext.229. Free.<br />
- 8:00: JVC Jazz Festival. Mayra Caridad<br />
Valdes. Harbourfront Centre Concert Stage, 235<br />
Queens Quay West. 416·973-3000.<br />
- 8:00: Music Gallery. Glass Orchestra.<br />
Concert on glass instruments. St. George-the·<br />
Martyr Church, 197 John St. 416-204-1080.<br />
$15.<br />
- 8:00: Toronto International Choral<br />
Festival. Closing Night Gala Concert. Schmidt:<br />
The Book With Seven Seals. Kitchener-Waterloo<br />
Sy"1Jhony; Kitchener-Waterloo Philharmonic •<br />
Choir, Ben Heppner, Measha Briiggergosman &<br />
other perfonners; Howard Dyck, conductor.<br />
Massey Hall, 15 Shuter St. 416-8724255.<br />
$25-$75, student discount.<br />
!iunday <strong>June</strong> 23<br />
- 2:00: Festival <strong>2002</strong>. Le Choeur Ouvert;<br />
Prairie Pride Chorus; Rainy City Gay Men's<br />
Chorus; Rainbow.Harmony Project; Vancouver<br />
Men's Chorus. John Bassett Theatre, Metro<br />
Convention Centre, 255 Front St. West. 416·<br />
924-6859. $30.<br />
- 7:00: Toronto Music Garden. Cello<br />
Extravaganza. Villa-Lobo5: Bachianas Brasileiras<br />
#5; music from Bach to Metallica. Jane<br />
Archibald, soprano; cello ensemble; Simon Fryer,<br />
leader. 475 Queens Quay West. 416-973-7790.<br />
Free.<br />
- 7:30: Komitas Musical Association Arts<br />
Committee.For Your Heart's Delight. Evening<br />
of songs, opera arias & duets. David Varjabed,<br />
. baritone; Yana lvanilova, soprano; Antonia De<br />
Wolle, piano. Annenian Evangelical Church of<br />
Toronto, 260014th Ave., Markham. 905-889-<br />
3657. $20. Proceeds to benefit the Nersesian<br />
Gifted Children's School in Armenia.<br />
-8:00?: Music Gallery. What Next:<br />
OowntownJazz. Performers TBA. St. George-<br />
the-Martyr Church, 197 JohnSt.416-204·<br />
1080.<br />
- 8:30: du Maurier Downtown Jazz.<br />
Maynard Ferguson and his Big Bop Nouveau Band.<br />
Toronto Star Stage, Nathan Phillips Square, 100<br />
Queen St. West. 416-870-8000. $30.<br />
Monday <strong>June</strong> 24<br />
- 1 O:OOam: Festival <strong>2002</strong>. Closing Ceremony<br />
Concert. Concert of 3 choirs created out of<br />
Festival participants. Brainerd Blyden-Taylor,<br />
Leslie Uyeda & Jonathon Welch, conductors.<br />
Toronto Colony Hotel, 89 Chestnut St. 416-924·<br />
6859. $30.<br />
- 12:15: Music Mondays Lunchtime<br />
Concert Series. Riverdale Ensemble. Trios for<br />
violin/viola, clarinet & piano. Church of the Holy<br />
Trinity, 10 Trinity Square. 416-5984521.<br />
Suggested donation $5.<br />
- 12:30: Tafelmusik. Baroque Summer<br />
Institute facuhy Chamber Concert. Clmlber<br />
music by Bach. Elissa Poole, flute; Linda Melsted,<br />
violin; Allen Whear, cello; Christina Mahler,<br />
violoncello piccolo; Charlotte Nediger,<br />
harpsichord. Ettore Mazzoleni.Concert Hall, 273<br />
Bloor St. West. 416-964-6337. Free.<br />
- 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. last<br />
Night of the Proms. Programme.includes Glinka:<br />
Overture to Ruslan and Lyudmila; Sumvan (arr.<br />
Mackerras): Excerpts from Pineapple Poll; Elgar:<br />
Imperial March; Arne: Rule Britannia. Joanne<br />
Kolomyjec, soprano; Toronto Mendelssohn Choir;<br />
Michael Lankester, conductor. Massey Hall, 15 •<br />
Shuter. 416-5934828. $25-$75 .<br />
Tuesday <strong>June</strong> 25<br />
- 12:10: Critical Mass. Palestrina: Missa ad<br />
fugam. St. Paul's Power Street, 83 Power. 416-<br />
7784923. Freewill offering. Proceeds to Out of<br />
the Cold.<br />
- 7:30: Thornhill Community Band.<br />
Broadway, classical, popular, traditional &<br />
commissioned works. Bobby Herriot, music<br />
director. Mel Lastman Square, 5100 Yonge St.<br />
416-223-7152. Free.<br />
- 8:00?: Music Gallery. Downtown Jazz:<br />
Aros. Rob Arrnus, performer. St. George-the·<br />
Martyr Church, 197 John St. 416-2041080.<br />
- 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. last<br />
Night of the Proms. Massey Hall. See <strong>June</strong> 24.<br />
- 8:30: du Maurier Downtown Jau. Count<br />
Basie Orchestra. Grover Mitchell, director.<br />
Toronto Star Stage, Nathan Phillips Square, 100<br />
Queen St. West. 416-870-8000. $27.50.<br />
Songs of Love<br />
Songs of Summer<br />
Sat u rd a· y, <strong>June</strong> 21 , 2 0 02, 8<br />
With<br />
Amber Bishop, Karen Olinyk, Edward Franko and Douglas Tranquada<br />
The TrypTych Trib<br />
William Shookhoff, Piano<br />
Edward Franko, Electric Bass<br />
Lenard Whiting, Keyboards<br />
He I<br />
conian Ha I I<br />
Hazelton Avenue<br />
$20/15<br />
(416) 763-5066 or info@tryptych.org<br />
www.tryptych.o~g<br />
PM<br />
Wednesday <strong>June</strong> 26<br />
- 2:00 & 8:00: Toronto Symphony<br />
Orchestra. last Night of the Proms. Massey<br />
Hall. See <strong>June</strong>.24. Matinee $25-$52.<br />
- 7:00: Etobicoke Community Concert<br />
Band. Twilight Concert-on-the-Green. John<br />
Edward Liddle, music director. Applewood<br />
Homestead grounds, 450 The West Mall. 416·<br />
410-1570. Free.<br />
- 8:00: George Lake Big Band. Summer<br />
Swing. Jazz tunes from the Swing Era & beyond.<br />
Steve Pettafor, leader. FitzRichard's, 575<br />
Thorton Rd. North. 905438-1888. Free.<br />
Thursday <strong>June</strong> 27<br />
-12:10: St. Paul's Anglican Church. Chris<br />
Dawes, organ. 227 Bloor St. East. 416-961-<br />
8116. Free.<br />
34<br />
www.thewholenote.com<br />
<strong>June</strong> 1 - July 7 <strong>2002</strong>
- 2:00: Royal Conservatory of Music.<br />
Piano Recital Various works perfonned by<br />
students from the studios of Rodica Eugen, Karen<br />
Quinton & Alla Zacarelli. Northern District<br />
Library, 40 Orchard View Blvd. 416·393· 7610.<br />
Free.<br />
- 3:00: Rudolph Family Players. Works by<br />
Brahms, Colgrass & Debussy. John Rudolph,<br />
percussion; Kathleen Rudolph, flute; Theresa<br />
Rudolph, viola; guests: Sanya Eng, harp; Peter<br />
Longworth, piano. Recital Hall, Royal<br />
Conservatory of Music, 273 Bloor St. West.<br />
416·322 ·9914. Free.<br />
- 3:00: Toronto Music Garden. Cello<br />
Extravaganza. See <strong>June</strong> 23.<br />
- 8:00?: Music Gallery. Downtown Jazz:<br />
Winsch/ Hemingway/Oester. St, George· the·<br />
Martyr Church, 197 John St. 416·204· 1080.<br />
Friday <strong>June</strong> 28<br />
- 12:30: Tafelmusik. Baroque Summer<br />
Institute Student Concert. Baroque orchestral,<br />
choral & chamber music. Ettore Mazzoleni<br />
Concert Hall, 273 Bloor St. West. 416·964·<br />
6337.Free.<br />
- 8:00?: Music Gallery. Downtown Jazz: Ab<br />
Baars Trio. St. George·the·Martyr Church, 197<br />
John St. 416· 204· 1080 ..<br />
Saturday <strong>June</strong> 29<br />
- 7:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.<br />
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn;<br />
Mozart: Piano Concerto #23; Berlioz: Roman<br />
Carnival Overture; Debussy: Prelude a I' apres·<br />
midi d'un faune; Stravinsky: Suite from Firebird<br />
(1919 version). Tamas Erdi, piano; Barry<br />
Wordsworth,.conductor. Massey Hall, 15 Shuter.<br />
416·5934828. $27-$55.<br />
- 8:00: Jazz.FM91. Summer Of Jazz. Kirk<br />
MacDonald Ouiniet. Island Club, Waterfall Stage,<br />
Ontario Place. 416·599·5299 ext.229. Free.<br />
- 8:00: Music Gallery. Glass Orchestra.<br />
Concert on glass instruments. St. George-the·<br />
Martyr Church, 197 John St. 416-204·1080.<br />
- 8:00: Tafelmusik. Baroque Summer Institute<br />
Grand Finale. Works by Corelli, Handel &<br />
Charpentier. Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra &<br />
Chamber Choir; student orchestra & choir. Grace<br />
Church on-the·HiR, 300 Lonsdale Rd. 416·964·<br />
6337. $15,$10.<br />
Sunday <strong>June</strong> 30<br />
- 3:00: Toronto Music Garden. Re·<br />
Discovering Canada. Musical journey through<br />
Canada's history with audience participation.<br />
Julia Wedman, violin; Peter Pavlovsky, double<br />
bass. 475 Queens Quay West. 416·973· 7790.<br />
Free.<br />
- 3:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.<br />
Massey Hall. See <strong>June</strong> 29.<br />
- 7:00: Mississauga Big Band Jazz<br />
Ensemble. Summertime Swing. Living Arts<br />
Centre, 4141 Living Arts Drive, Mississauga.<br />
905-270-4757. $15.<br />
Monday July 01<br />
- 12: 15: Music Mondays Lunchtime<br />
Concert Series. Mark Rogers Ouintet. Church<br />
of the Holy Trinity, 10 Trinity Square. 416-598·<br />
4521. Suggested donation $5.<br />
- 1 :00: Thornhill Community Band.<br />
Broadway, classical, ROpular, traditional &<br />
commissioned works. Bobby Herriot, music<br />
director. Vaughan Canada Day Celebration,<br />
Vaughan Maple Community Centre, 10, 190<br />
Keele St., Maple. 416· 223-7152. Free.<br />
Tuesday July 02<br />
- 8:00: Weston Silver Band. Little Avenue<br />
Memorial Park Bandshell, Weston Rd. north pf<br />
Lawrence. 416-253-9422. Free.<br />
Wednesday July 03<br />
- 7:30: Committee for Yiddish of UJA/<br />
Federation, Toronto': Annual Summer Yiddish<br />
Concert. Beyond the Pale Klezmer Band, Eric<br />
Stein, leader; Bronna Levi, Stella Walker & Dave<br />
Wall, vocals; David Abramowitz, Master of<br />
Ceremonies. Mel Lastman Square, 5100 Yonge<br />
St. 416-635· 2883 ext.155.<br />
Thursday July 04<br />
- 7:00: Toronto Music Garden. An Evening<br />
with Joseph Petric. Works for accordion by<br />
Bentzon, Scarlatti, Soler & others. 4 75 Queens<br />
Quay West. 416·973· 7790. Free. .<br />
" Saturday July 06<br />
- 8:00: Jazz.FM91. Summer Of Jazz. Shirley<br />
Eikhard. Island Club, Waterfall Stage, Ontario<br />
Place. 416-599-5299 ext.229. Free.<br />
Southern Ontario Chamber Music Institute<br />
<strong>2002</strong> Summer Concert S~ries<br />
PENDERECKI STRING QUARTET<br />
Saturday, August 17, <strong>2002</strong>, 8pm<br />
DAEDALUS QUARTET<br />
Friday, August 23, <strong>2002</strong>, 8pm<br />
Willis Hall, Appleby College, Oakville, ON<br />
$25 .00/acjults, $15 .00/senior/student;<br />
or both @ $40/adults; $25/senior/student<br />
SOCMI Student Showcase<br />
Saturday, August 24, <strong>2002</strong>, 2pm<br />
Calvary Baptist Church, Oakville, ON<br />
$15.00/adult; $10.00/senior/student<br />
Students can register.for SO-CMI at www.socmi.on.ca<br />
For tickets, call 905-842-5865<br />
GTA/FlJRTllER AFIELD<br />
FURTHER AFIELD<br />
(but within easy travelling<br />
distance of the GTA):<br />
Saturday <strong>June</strong> 01<br />
- 7:00: St. Jacobs Theatres. Ouartetfest <strong>2002</strong>.<br />
Young artists. Church Theatre, 1376 King St. North,<br />
St.Jacobs. 519·664· 1134. $10,$5.<br />
- 7:30: Hamilton Children's Choir. Annual<br />
Spring Concert: From Darkness to light. Concert,<br />
Preparatory & Chamber Choirs; Chamber Ensem·<br />
ble. CIYist's Cluch Cathedral, 2q2 James St. North,<br />
Hamilton. 905·527· 1618. $12,$10, family rate.<br />
Sunday <strong>June</strong> 02<br />
- 7:00: Amis Du Jau. latin Flute! Boss a, samba.<br />
Bill McBimie, flute;Don Naduriak, piano; Artie Roth,<br />
bass. The Church '1 Sonya, 13 km north of Port Perry.<br />
705·357·2468. $10. .<br />
- 8:00: St. Jacobs Theatres. Ouartetfest <strong>2002</strong>.<br />
Colorado String Ouart~t. Church Theatre, 1376 King<br />
St.North, St.Jacobs. 519-664· 1134. $10,$5.<br />
Friday <strong>June</strong> 07<br />
- 7:00: Oriana Singers (Northumberland).<br />
Gala Fundraiser <strong>2002</strong>. Music from great literature.<br />
Richard Scrimger, Master of Ceremonies; Marie<br />
Anderson, conductor. Battervvood Estate, Canton.<br />
905·372-2210. $20.<br />
- 7:00: St. Jacobs Theatres. Ouartetfest <strong>2002</strong>.<br />
Young artists. Church Theatre, 1376 King St. North,<br />
St.Jacobs. 519-664-1134. $10,$5.<br />
- 8:00: Lynn McDonald Presents. Classical<br />
Romantic Gems. CIYistina Petrowska·Ouilico, piano.<br />
Port Perry U~ited Church, 294 Queen St. 705·357·<br />
2468. $15.<br />
Saturday <strong>June</strong> 08<br />
- 7:00: St. Jacobs Theatres. Ouartetfest <strong>2002</strong>.<br />
Young artists. Church Theatre, 1376 King St. North,<br />
St.Jacobs. 519-664-1134. $10,$5.<br />
- 7:30: Hamilton International Tattoo. March·<br />
ing bands, dancers, pipes & druns. Copps Coliseum,<br />
101 York Blvd, Hamilton. 905·546-4040.<br />
$ 25, $ 20, $13(children under 13), group rates.<br />
-8:00: The Millpond Centre. The Bill Hilly Band.<br />
Folk, celtic, bluegrass, fiddliig. 106 Victoria St. West,<br />
Alliston. 705435·3092. $16(door), $14(advance).<br />
Sunday <strong>June</strong> 09<br />
• - 2:00: Sharon Temple. Irene Ilic, voice. Peters:<br />
wortd Jl'BTiere songs; songs by Ptrcell, Rorem. Head,<br />
Hundley & others. Barry Peters, accompanist.<br />
18974 Leslie St., Sharon. 905-478-2389. $12.<br />
- 2:30: Hamilton International Tattoo. Copps<br />
Coliseum. See <strong>June</strong> 8.<br />
- 3:00: River Run Centre, Guelph. Afternoon<br />
at the Proms. Music by Elgar, Parry, Walton, Wood,<br />
Grainger & others. Mary DuQuesnay, soprano;<br />
Bobby Herriott, Master of Ceremonies; massed choi'.<br />
35 Woolwich St., Guelph. 519·837 ·0276.<br />
$15,$12, $5(child).<br />
- 5:00: SAAi String Quartet. Dvorak: String<br />
Quartet #6 American; selections by Gershwin &<br />
others. Music Room, Bramalea Civic Centre, 150<br />
Central Park Dr., Brampton. 905-451-0800. $10.<br />
- 7:00: Amis Du Jau. rJfike Lewis, piano & vocals;<br />
Gord Carley, drums; Artie Roth, bass. The Church in<br />
Sonya, 13kmn. of Port Perry. 705-357-2468. $10.<br />
'<br />
Sunday <strong>June</strong> 16<br />
.:... 7:00: Amis Du Jau.Father'sOay Specia!T reat!<br />
Don Thompson, vibraphone; Reg Schwager, guitar.<br />
treet Silver<br />
Band<br />
Date: <strong>June</strong> 23rd<br />
Time: 2 p.m.<br />
* Order a picnic lunch when you<br />
book your tickets. ONLY $8 each.<br />
* Stay for a "strawberry social"<br />
followingthe performance<br />
INCLUDED IN THE PRICE OF<br />
YOUR TICKET!<br />
Ticket price $20.00<br />
Children (16 and under) $15.00<br />
llectudlilSalfcl, 131amD1hof PotPmy. ~7-<br />
2468.$10.<br />
Saturday <strong>June</strong> 22<br />
- 8:00: Allcell Schoolhouse.Arke/ &istice Piano<br />
fas1Mi llDltKotgied&PlllB' T l!!!rlai\JDD.843<br />
WatsmRd.SwthArkd.519-763-7528.$20.<br />
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Sunday <strong>June</strong> 23<br />
-2:00:Slaun T ...... HamfarJS/JeetSleBad.<br />
189741..edeSt.,Slam.!15478-2389.$12.<br />
Saturday <strong>June</strong> 29<br />
-2:00: W8Slben Ar1s FestivalTheatre. Cux:wt at<br />
t/rJBarr TlefbyoiMaat Dam BllTett. sqnm;<br />
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Sunday <strong>June</strong> 30<br />
- 11 :OOarc Wesdlert Ar1s Festival Theatre.Ct»<br />
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Saturday July 06<br />
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SteiteJ Sitarski &Soitie Dnlli1. vidlis; Davit Rose,<br />
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Hwy:llm11\ ~877-883-5m. $111-$25,<br />
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JAZZ LISTINGS<br />
CONCERT QUICK-PICKS AND CLUBS<br />
CONCERT QUICK PICKS- GTA<br />
(for detais see concert i.5tiigs pages 26-36).<br />
<strong>June</strong> 1 8:30: Dave Restivo, jazz pianist.<br />
<strong>June</strong> 2 4:30: Cllist Crurch.Deer Park. Jaz.z Vesper.;.<br />
JLDl 2 5:00: Toronto International Ctual FestivaU<br />
HartJourfront Centre. Mayfield Ma~.<br />
Jl.110 8 8:00: Jazz.FM91. SumB' Of Jazz. Rick Lazar<br />
Jtre8 8:00:RanaClfualCoomrity/StelaWalker<br />
JLDl 14 8:00:JVCJazzfestival. Heiig Mimeuvre&<br />
Cedar Walton Too with guest Jackie Mclean.<br />
JlJ1e 15 8:00:Jazz.FM91.SumB'Of Jazz. BiKilg's<br />
Satmlay Ngrr FSi Fry.<br />
Jl¥11! 15 8:00: JVC Jazz festival. Medeski Martin<br />
& Wood with Bulfrog:<br />
<strong>June</strong> 161 :30: CAMMAC/McMichael Gallery.<br />
Stllday Coiicert:JiTI Galloway.<br />
Jlile 164:30: CITist Cluch Deer Park.Jazz Vesper.;.<br />
<strong>June</strong> 17 8:00: Art of T me Ensentle. AD That..:Jazz?<br />
<strong>June</strong> 17 8:00: JVC Jazz Festival. Kenny Garrett<br />
<strong>June</strong> 21 8:00 Cluch at Beri
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CLASSICAL MUSIC LOVER? Hobby pianist/<br />
You're nuts if you don't join us July 30-August<br />
8 in lovely, historic Kromeriz, Czech Republic. Orchestral<br />
concerts, daily music appreciation dams,<br />
keyboard lessons, cultural excunions, great beer.<br />
Very affordable! Our third season. Information:<br />
www.symphonicworkshops.com or call me. Peter<br />
Kristian Mose, 416-923-3060.<br />
EAR TRAINING, MUSICIANSHIP,<br />
SIGHT-SINGING, dictation. rhythmic training,<br />
keyboard skills, theory (all Conservatory-type<br />
subjects. solfa. jazz). All levels, professional/serious<br />
beginnm. Detailed study available - ].I.Bach, Renaissance,<br />
Jazz. Art Levine, MA, ARCT; Host of<br />
"This is Art" on CBC; RCM . Professional School Faculty;<br />
Instructor, Univmity of Toronto, etL 416-924-<br />
8613. Visit website: www.artlevine.com<br />
FESTIVAL WIND ORCHESTRA. We're<br />
looking for neW" membm of all ages to join us in<br />
the fall. Check us out in conc~rt on <strong>June</strong> 11 at<br />
8pm, Fairview Library Theatre - then come out and<br />
play with us! Percussion, lower brass, clarinets,<br />
oboe. bassoon especially welcome. For details, call<br />
Shelley at (416)491-1683.<br />
FOR RENT/DOWNTOWN: Practice rooms<br />
(pianos included), and large rehemal space with<br />
.soundboard. Rates on a sliding scale. Call 416-925-<br />
(UN)CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING<br />
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FULL SIZE CELLO FOR SALE. 1991 Johann , PROFESSIONAL PIANO ACCOMPA·<br />
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GUITARS: unique handmade instruments includ- PIANIST WILL PLAY Jazz-flavoured backing<br />
acoustic archtops, at good prices, for sale or ground music free of charge at charitable and noncommission<br />
by Michael Sankey. Luthier (613)733-8441 profit events. Can bring own piano. Call Neville at<br />
sankeymichael@hotmail.com (905)877-8471.<br />
HAVE YOU EVER WANTED TO SING,<br />
thought you wouldn't or couldn\ or do you just want<br />
a place to play with the possibilities of your voice.<br />
Small groups. 6 - $75. Johanne, 416-461-8425.<br />
LOOKING FOR experienced Suzuki-trained violin,<br />
cello or piano teachm. Please contact Julian Fisher at<br />
416-968-0303. .<br />
MERLIN WILLIAMS is available to do digital<br />
recordings of your orchestra. band, choir or chamber<br />
group on location. Reasonable rates for archival and<br />
demo recordings. For more info, call (416)489-0275<br />
or email: merlinw@netcom.ca<br />
MUSIC F.OR ALL OCCASIONS! Duets. Trios,<br />
Dance Band, Big Band. Background, Centre-stage.<br />
Classical, Contemporary, Dixieland, Jazz! ]SL Enterprises<br />
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ORGANIST AND CHOIR DIRECTOR<br />
for An~ican Church. Small choir ill 4 parts. 3 year<br />
new 2 manual organ Ahlborn-Galanti. One Sunday<br />
service, one reheanal with choir per week. T raditional/contemporary<br />
music. Required I Sept <strong>2002</strong>.<br />
St. Cyprians Anglican Church, I 080 Finch Ave. E.<br />
North York. For information, F. Baker (905)889-<br />
0536. E-mail .fredsan@sympatico.ca<br />
NORTH TORONTO PLAYERS a Gilbert &<br />
Sullivan Community Theatre Group would welcome<br />
rroronto Schoo{ !for Strings<br />
Julian Fisher, violin and viola<br />
Kleis Swan, violin<br />
Mary Fisher, cello<br />
Private Lessons Group Classes<br />
Qualified/Ecperienced Suzuki Instructors<br />
RCM Exam Preparation<br />
Junior Reading Orchestra, Chamber music<br />
Adult String Orchestra<br />
All Ages Wel_come 3+<br />
416-968-0303<br />
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCED Russian<br />
piano accompanist for vocal and instrumental. Recitals,<br />
exams, choirs, coaching, opera. Call Evgenia.<br />
(416)226-3002, (416)399-6579.<br />
STRING TEACHERS NEEDED. The Perfo0rmance<br />
School of Music in Burlington is seeking<br />
teachm for the following instruments: violin, cello<br />
and viola. Suzuki method preferred. Please call 1-<br />
905-319~8025 or email info@psmusic.ca<br />
SUMMER THEO~Y RUDIMENTS CAMP<br />
- Prepare for· August RCM exam with Maxine Willan,<br />
piano/theory teacher and examiner. Info. call 416-466- .<br />
7195.<br />
SINGING LESSONS Experien
FESTIVAL PROFILES<br />
BROlT SUMMER<br />
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Toronto Centre For The Arts (North York);<br />
Windennere House (Muskoka)<br />
Ph: 905·525·SONG or 1 ·888-475·9377<br />
E·Mail festival@brottmusic.com<br />
Website www.brottmusic.com<br />
BROrr SuMMERMuoc Festival celebrates<br />
its 15111 anniversary as Ontario's prec<br />
mier orchestral music festival in <strong>2002</strong>.<br />
It features Classical, Oiamber, Jazz,<br />
Pops, and Family conceits. Founded<br />
in 1988 by conductor Boris Brott as a<br />
two-week event, BMF has grown to<br />
encompass an Autumn Festival in addition<br />
to the Summer, which continues<br />
to be the centrepiece of Hamilton's vibrant<br />
arts scene in July and August.<br />
.<br />
Guest soloists over the years have included:<br />
Valerie Tryon, Pinchas<br />
Zukerman, Anton Kuerti, Oliver Jones,<br />
· Martin Beaver, James Ehnes, Lara St.<br />
John, Michael Burgess to name a few.<br />
The Orchestra-in~residence is the renowned<br />
National Academy Orches•<br />
tra, comprising top graduating music<br />
students from across Canada and players<br />
from the country's finest orchestras<br />
who act as "ment6r musicians" in<br />
the stands.<br />
SuMl\IER OF M 11s1c: FEsT1v AL PROFILES<br />
Calgary International<br />
Organ Festival<br />
and Competition<br />
August 7 - 17, <strong>2002</strong><br />
Venues: within downtown Calgary, Alberta<br />
Phone: (403) 543'·!i 115<br />
or 1 ·800·213·9750<br />
E·Mail: info@triumphent.com<br />
Website: www.triumphent.com<br />
CALGARY IS READY tq take centre stage<br />
onre again and host some of the finest<br />
musicians in the world August 7 to<br />
17, for the 4th Royal Bank Calgary<br />
International Organ Festival and Competition.<br />
The <strong>2002</strong> Festival and Competition<br />
promises to be 11 days of<br />
world-class entertainment, with something<br />
for everyone to enjoy.<br />
· Collingwood<br />
M-usic Festival<br />
July 12 - August 3<br />
(Concerts at 8pm)<br />
Trinity United Church 140 Maple<br />
Street Collingwood, ON<br />
Contact: Douglas Nadler<br />
Phone: (519) 599·5461<br />
E·Mail: music@lynx.org<br />
Website: www.lynx.org/music<br />
THE CoWNGWOOD Music Festival's<br />
third summer season brings the finest<br />
, musicians from across Canada to<br />
Collingwood's acoustically magnificent<br />
Trinity United Church! Order tickets<br />
through our website and find out about<br />
the great dinner menus being prepared<br />
for the Festival by the fabulous<br />
Terracotta Restaurant. The Terracotta<br />
is a 5 minute walk from · the concert<br />
venue. Fri, July 12 - McComb String<br />
Quartet; Fri, July 19, - Gainet Rogers<br />
folk singer; Wed, July 24, - Erika<br />
Raum, violin & Anton Kuerti, piano;<br />
Thurs, July 25, - Anton Kuerti, piano,<br />
Kristine Bogyo, cello & Douglas<br />
Nadler, flute; Thurs, August 1, -Robert<br />
Michaels Group; Sat, Aug. 3, -<br />
Quartetto Gelato<br />
Domaine Forget's<br />
Festival International<br />
<strong>June</strong> 22 - August 25<br />
Phones: 888·DFORGET (336·7438)<br />
418-452·3535<br />
E·mail: info@domaineforget.com •<br />
Website: www.domaineforget.com<br />
Tuts YFAR IBE Fran9oys-Beml.er Concert<br />
Hall celebrates the acquisition of a ·<br />
rew German Steinway piano with three<br />
remarkable Canadian pianists: Marc<br />
Andre Hamelin, Naida Cole am Andre<br />
Laplante with Les Violons du Roy.<br />
We welcome .for the first time such<br />
artists as violinist Pinchas Zukerman,<br />
jazzman Didier Lockwood, cellist<br />
Anner Bylsma, and soprano Agnes<br />
Er 'Adufr<br />
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Mellonanlmeetaga4iour frien:ls Pierre<br />
Amoyal, Emmanuel Pahud, Leo<br />
Brouwer, Regis Pasquier, among many<br />
others. In addition, the Orchestre<br />
symphonique de Quebec gives a concert<br />
that marks the kick-off of its 1001'<br />
anniversary celebrations. Please consult<br />
olir website or brochure for concert<br />
details.<br />
Elora Festival<br />
July 12 - August 4<br />
Ga1,11brel Barn, St. John's Anglican<br />
Church, St. Mary's Catholic Church.<br />
All chosen for their exceptional<br />
acoustical properties<br />
Contact information:<br />
JoAnn Martin, General Manager<br />
Phone: 519·846·0331<br />
E·mail: joann@elorafestival.com<br />
"Website: www.elorafestival.com<br />
THIS IS THE 23RD season for the<br />
Elora Festival, one of the only<br />
Choral Festivals in Ontario.<br />
Opening Night features soloists<br />
Daniel Taylor, Ben Butterfield,<br />
Suzie LeB!anc and Daniel Lichti<br />
performing Handel's newly<br />
discovered Gloria and Dixit<br />
Dominus, and Bach's Magnificat;<br />
a new production written by<br />
SUMMER OF Music: FEsnv AL PROFILES<br />
Richard Ouzounian especially for<br />
the Festival - "A Tribute to<br />
Richard Rodgers" starring<br />
Michael Burgess, <strong>June</strong> Crowley,<br />
Dan Chameroy and Melissa<br />
Thomson; over 200 Choristers,<br />
The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir,<br />
The Elora Festival Singers, anc!<br />
the .Elora Festival Orchestra<br />
perform Mozart's Requiem and<br />
the Lux Aetema; The Gryplion<br />
Trio and many more. See our<br />
website for more details.<br />
Festival<br />
of the Sound<br />
July. 19 · August 11<br />
Venues: Festival Hall, St. Peter's and<br />
St. James Churches, Island Queen,<br />
M.V. Chippewa, Inn and Tennis Club at<br />
Manitou<br />
Phone 705·746·2410<br />
E·Mail info@festivalofthesound.on.ca<br />
Website www.festivalofthesound.on.ca<br />
CANADA'S MOSr CREATIVE swnmermusic<br />
festival takes place in Parry Sound, a<br />
small town in a spectacular location on<br />
the shores of Georgian Bay. Concerts<br />
range all the way from free Discovery<br />
Concerts introducing young Canadian<br />
composers to Bach's St. John Passion.<br />
Musical cruises and special events on<br />
Georgian Bay combine the music of<br />
the Festival of the Sound with the area's<br />
natural beauty. On August 6 and 7,<br />
hear four Octets for Winds that may<br />
be undiscovered works by Mozart.<br />
David Bourque worked with source<br />
materials riddled with inconsistencies<br />
and mistakes to publish the first<br />
performing edition of these works. Are<br />
they really Mozart? You be tl).e judge.<br />
Visit the Parry Sound waterfront to see<br />
work taking place· on the new<br />
performance hall, Canada's next<br />
"acoustical gem".<br />
It's a<br />
Grand Summer<br />
<strong>June</strong>· 13 · September 21<br />
Venue: The Grand Theatre, 218<br />
Princess Street, Kingston ON K7L 1 B2<br />
Phone Box Office (613)530-2050<br />
E·Mail grandtheatre@city.kingston.on.ca<br />
Websites: www.whatsonkingston.com<br />
www.grandtheatre·kingston.com<br />
JmN us FOR an outstanding<br />
summer of comedy, drama and<br />
music in the true Grand tradition.<br />
Lameque<br />
International Baroque<br />
Music Festival (New Brunswick)<br />
July 26, 27 and 28<br />
Lameque guest conductor, Labadi.e<br />
Venues: various, but evening concerts<br />
at the Ste·Cecile Church at Petite<br />
Riviere de l'lle, on Lameque Island, NB<br />
Contact: Hejean Poirier, General Mam1ger<br />
Phone: 1 ·800·320·2276<br />
E·Mail: fesbaroq@nbnet.nb.ca<br />
Website: http://<br />
festivalbaroque.acadie.net<br />
THE LAMP.QUE International Baroque<br />
Music Festival devotes its entire program<br />
to the baroque music period<br />
(1600-1750). Allconcertsaregivenon<br />
period instruments. For the last 27<br />
McCOMB STRING QUARTET<br />
Friday, July 12, <strong>2002</strong> at 8:00 pm<br />
~NErROGERs--<br />
folk singer<br />
Friday, July 19, <strong>2002</strong> at 8:00 pm<br />
ERIKA RAUM, violin<br />
ANTON KUERTI, piano<br />
Wednesday, July 24, <strong>2002</strong> at 8:00 pm<br />
ANTON KUERTI, piano<br />
KRISTINE BOGYO, cello<br />
· DOUGLAS NADLER, flute .<br />
Thursday, July 25, <strong>2002</strong> at 8:00 pm<br />
ROBERT MICHAELS<br />
Jazz/ Flamenco Group<br />
Thursday, August 1, <strong>2002</strong> at 8:00 pm<br />
QUARTETTO GELATO<br />
Saturday, August 3, <strong>2002</strong> at 8!00 pm<br />
All concerts will be held at Trinify United Church<br />
140 Maple Street, Collingwood
years, the church of Ste-Cecile, with<br />
its brilliant naive decor, is the host of<br />
memorable corx:erts. Its wooden snucture<br />
offers unique acoustics. This year<br />
will feature Bernard Labadie as guest<br />
conductor of the Festival Choir and<br />
Orchestra, violinist Monica Huggett,<br />
soprano Karina Gauvin, tenor Michael<br />
Slattery, Trio Sonnerie from England,<br />
a Tea with harpsichordist Hank Knox,<br />
and a musical brunch with Ensemble<br />
Ferintosh, featuring violinist David<br />
Greenberg. Works by Handel<br />
(L' Allegro, il Pensoroso ed il<br />
Moderato), Vivaldi (Four Seasons),<br />
Frescobaldi~ Rameau, Byrd, Jenkins,<br />
etc.<br />
Glimmerglass,<br />
Opera <strong>2002</strong><br />
·Festival Season<br />
July 5 - August 27<br />
Venue: The Alice Busch Opera<br />
Theater, Cooperstown NY<br />
Phone: 607-547-2255<br />
' E-Mail: tickets@glimmerglass.org<br />
Website: www.glimmerglass.org<br />
This internationally acclaimed swiuner<br />
festival's repertory productions include<br />
Mascagni/Leoncavallo's CavaOeria<br />
Rusticana/Pagliacci, Adamo's Littk<br />
Women, Haydn's Orlando Paladino,<br />
and Poulenc's Dialogues of the<br />
Cµnneliles. Visit our website for more<br />
infonnation.<br />
Grand River<br />
Baroque Festival<br />
July 5-7, <strong>2002</strong><br />
Venue: Buehlow· Barn, near Ayr, Ontario<br />
Contact: Cheryl Ewing, 519 579-8564<br />
Phone: 519.745-5853 · ·<br />
E-Mail: jmason@kw.igs.net<br />
or grbf@golden.net<br />
Website: www.grbf.ca<br />
THE GRAND RlvFR Baroque Festival<br />
<strong>2002</strong> focuses on music of J.S. Bach<br />
and Italian baroque composerS. The<br />
Festival opens Friday with a concert<br />
featuring Daniel Lichti, Dennis<br />
St ~!MEI( OF Mt 1 SIC: FESTIVAL PROFILES<br />
Giesbrecht, Gabrielle McLaughlin and present workshops on improvisational<br />
theVoxExCordechoirinBach'scan- techniques to students in several of<br />
tatas 1 and 82, the Brandenburg Con" Guelph's local schools.<br />
certo No. 1 performed by the Grand<br />
River Baroque Ensemble, and the c<br />
minor coocerto for oboe and violin performed<br />
by the FeStival's artistic direc-<br />
Hu ntsvi I le<br />
tors, James Mason and Julie<br />
Baumgartel. Saturday is a full day, Festival of the Arts<br />
three-concert Italian extravaganza, beginning<br />
with a concert of early baroque<br />
music on period instruments and ending<br />
with an 11 pm solo violin performance<br />
by·Farran·Janfes. The festival<br />
coQCludes Sunday afternoon with<br />
more J.S: Bach featuring Carolyn<br />
Sinclair, soprano.<br />
Guelph ·<br />
Jazz Festival<br />
September 4 · September 8<br />
Various venues: Macdonald Stewart Art<br />
Centre, River Run Centre, St. George's<br />
Anglican Church, Guelph Youth Music<br />
Centre, and Carden Street Jazz Tent<br />
Phone: 519· 763-4952<br />
Fax: (519)763-3155<br />
E-Mail: info@guelphjazzfestival.com<br />
Website:www.guelphjazzfestival.com<br />
FESTIVAL ALEXANDRIA<br />
Chamber music in an idyllic rural setting<br />
half-way between Ottawa and Montreal<br />
SUNDAYS AT 3 PM<br />
<strong>June</strong> 30th to August 4th<br />
TICKETS : . $12 AND $9<br />
, Call us at:' (514) 484-9076 or (613) 525-4141<br />
July 4 to 21, <strong>2002</strong><br />
Venues: Delta Grandview Resort,<br />
Deerhurst Resort, Town Hall Theatre,<br />
Trinity Church and others<br />
Phone: 1-705-788-2787;<br />
1-800-663-2787<br />
E·Mail: info@huntsvillefestival.on.ca<br />
Website: www.huntsvilletestival.on.ca<br />
THE GUELPH Jazz Festival annually<br />
presents a world-
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varied and interesting. With concerts<br />
outdoors along the Avon River<br />
parklands and in three downtown historic<br />
building
DISCO\' ERIES<br />
ID!S?lll<br />
DISCOVERIES is a CD review section designed<br />
to complement and enhance our pre-eminent<br />
coverage of Toronto's live classical and new<br />
music concert scene, featuring reviews by<br />
WholeNote columnists and independent<br />
contributors. CDs are considered for review in<br />
the following four categories:<br />
'<br />
1. "Concert prep" - CDs, new or otherwise,<br />
which tie in with events being featured in the<br />
,current issue of the magazine. Note that many<br />
discs in the other categories also relate to<br />
upcoming events as noted;<br />
2. New and Recent Releases - newly released<br />
CDs relevant to our magazine's coverage of the<br />
music scene;<br />
3. 1'Worth 1 repeating" - CDs newly re-is~ued,<br />
or previously released but still generally<br />
available, deemed particularly noteworthy by q<br />
member of our editorial panel;<br />
4. "lndie list" - Small label and independent<br />
release CDs, often featuring individuals or<br />
groups active on the local music scene.<br />
5. "Disc(s) of the month" - Disc's of special<br />
interest, often with a particular connection to<br />
the month's r:oncert activities.<br />
We think DJ ~ COVERIES is a logical and<br />
exciting ext ens •. 1n of The WholeNote 's coverage<br />
of the Toronto music scene. We welcome your<br />
feedback and invite submissions. Catalogues,<br />
review copies of CDs and comments should be<br />
sent to: The WholeNote, 60 Bellevue Avenue,<br />
Toronto ON M5T 2N4. We also welcome your<br />
input via our website, www.thewholenote.com<br />
David Olds<br />
Editor, DISCOVERIES<br />
IN DISCOVERIES THIS ISSUE<br />
CONCERT PREP<br />
page 45:47<br />
• Le Chant de Virgile: Classical Poetry iR Renaissance<br />
Music -Huelgas Ensemble I Paul Van Nevel<br />
~ Ralph Vaughan Williams: Mass in G minor -The Elora<br />
Festival Singers I Noel Edison<br />
-J.S, Bach: Motets -Tafelmusik Chamber Choir/ lvars<br />
Taurins I tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra<br />
-Toutakoosticks - Stephane Huchard<br />
-Not for Nothing (2001 ); Prime Directive (1999); Points of<br />
View (1998) - Dave Holland Quintet<br />
NEW AND RECENT RELEASES<br />
page47-50<br />
1- Liszt: Works for Piano and Orchestra, VoL 3- ~ouis Lortie<br />
Residentie Orchestra The Hague I George Pehlivanian<br />
-Anton Webern: Passacaglia; Symphony; Five Pieces<br />
Ulster Orchestra I Takuo Yuasa<br />
- Alban Berg: Wozzeck -Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal<br />
Opera, Stockholm I Leif Segerstam<br />
· Lamento ·Daniel Taylo~/Theatre of Early Music<br />
- Sacred Spaces I Lieux sacres - Studio de musique<br />
ancienne de Montreal I Christopher Jackson<br />
- Wagner: Scenes from The Ring<br />
Royal Opera House Orchestra I Antonio Pappano<br />
• Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Music· Angela Hewitt<br />
WORTH REPEATING<br />
page 51-53 ·<br />
· Brubeck & Desmond 1975: The Duets - Dave Brubeck<br />
and Paul Desmond ,<br />
·Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata; Boccherini: Cello Sonata<br />
No. 6; Sammartini: Cello Sonata in G major· Leonard<br />
·Rose I Leonid Ham bro<br />
INDIELIST<br />
page 53<br />
• Srul Irving Glick: Toward the Sun - Valerie Siren I Cecilia<br />
lgnatieff ·<br />
• Srul Irving Glick: Shirei TShuva: Songs of Joy and<br />
Repentance - Cantor Efraim Sapir I Beth Tikvah Choir I<br />
Penderecki String Quartet<br />
DISCS OF THE MONTH<br />
page 53-54<br />
• Bruckner: The Complete Symphonies -Royal Scottish<br />
National Orchestra I National Symphony Orchestra of<br />
Ireland I New Zealand Symphony Orchestra I Georg<br />
Tintner<br />
- Schoenberg: Gurrelieder -Karita Mattila, Anne Sofie von<br />
Otter I Philip Langridge I Thomas Moser I Thomas<br />
Quasthoff I Berlin Philharmonic I Sir Simon Rattle<br />
CONCERT PREP<br />
Le Chant de Virgile:<br />
Classical Poetry in Renaissance Music<br />
Huelgas Ensemble; Paul Vari Nevel<br />
Harmonia Mondi HMC 901739<br />
In his wonderful<br />
recordings of ,.<br />
medieval and<br />
renaissance<br />
vocal music,<br />
Belgian conductor<br />
Paul Van<br />
Nevel explores<br />
·fascinating<br />
historical<br />
themes and contexts - a renaissance royal<br />
wedding in La Pellegrina (Sony Vivarte S2K<br />
63362), many-voiced polyphony in Utopia<br />
Triumphans (Sony Vivarte SK66261), and, in<br />
Le Chant de Virgile, renaissance settings of<br />
classical poetry. But it's not his brilliant<br />
scholarship that makes these recordings so<br />
beautiful. In performance he grasps the<br />
personality of each composer and reveals the<br />
expressive centre of each work. The singers and<br />
instrumentalists in his superb Huelgas Ensemble<br />
achiev~ a personal, warm and idiomatic sound.<br />
They blend magnificently, and shine in the solo<br />
work.<br />
This disc features six settings of Dido's final<br />
lament from Virgil's Aeneid, Dulces exuviae,<br />
familiar in later operatic settings by Purcell and<br />
Berlioz. The earliest is by the great Josquin<br />
Desprez, whose revolutionary use of music to<br />
express the meaning of the texts represents the<br />
breakthrough of renaissance humanism. Roland<br />
de Lassus combines counterpoint with chords,<br />
creating rhythmic variety and dramatic contrast.<br />
The setting by the obscure Theodoricus Gerarde<br />
offers delightfully dissonant, highly emotional<br />
melodies.<br />
Not all is serious. In Donec gratus by Cipriano<br />
de Rore, two lovers in an ironic dialogue by<br />
Horace spar with caustic wit worthy of Noel<br />
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. This exquisite disc is not just for those who<br />
love renaissance polyphony. Complimented by<br />
Van Nevel 's impassioned and erudite liner notes,<br />
it makes an ideal introduction to renaissance<br />
music for those yet to be captivated. '<br />
Pamela Margles<br />
Concert Note: Conductor Paul Van Nevel<br />
brings the Huelgas Ensemble to the Toronto<br />
International Choral Festival on Tuesday,<br />
<strong>June</strong> 11 at 8:00, when they perform at St.<br />
Andrew's Presbyterian Church.<br />
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Ralph Vaughan Williams·<br />
Mass in G mipor<br />
The Elora Festival Singers;<br />
Noel Edison<br />
'Naxos 8.554826<br />
DISCOVERIES<br />
Concert Note: Noel Edison conducts the<br />
Elora Festival Singers and the Toronto<br />
Mendelssohn Choir in a program o_f"Schubert,<br />
Martinu and Bruckner on <strong>June</strong> 18 at the<br />
Cathedral of the Transfiguration in Markham<br />
as part of the Toronto International Choral<br />
Festival.<br />
J.S. Bach - Motets<br />
Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, I vars Taurins,<br />
conductor<br />
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra<br />
CBC Records MVCD 1136<br />
Through the six of Bach's surviving motets, we<br />
·are able to experience a broad range of sty Jes,<br />
from the traditional German chorale, to the<br />
relatively modern Italian concerto·form. These<br />
There's a variety of choral works on this issue, pieces also present such a varied representati_on<br />
both a cappella and accompanied by organ: a of the composer's almost mystical ability to<br />
mass, 5 motets, imbue the text with such strong emotive power<br />
ananthemanda that it cuts straight to the heart of the listene.r.<br />
hymn setting. And what a range of emotions - from the most<br />
Upon seeing the devastating suffering ·imaginable to the most<br />
disc I thought exuberant joy, to the most deep and reverent<br />
the Mass in G gratitude. Asaresult,Bach'smotetsareagreat<br />
minor was the challenge to sing with the required sensitivitymain<br />
fare and an ever-changing landscape from declamation<br />
the motets sim- to the lightness of dance-like rhythms to fugal<br />
ply chosen as passages that demand a vocal agility not always<br />
L_ ___ ~ ______, complementary easy to coordinate in a choir. Distinguished<br />
works to increase the playing time of the disc. conductor Philippe Herreweghe has written that<br />
As it turns out, they are the real gems here with these motets are "fearsomely difficult to perform".<br />
VW truly in his element, bringing his experience I vars Taurins and the Tafelmusik Chamber<br />
with folk songs to the fore. These are very inviting Choir certainly stand up to the test in this CD<br />
works, uncomplicated, direct yet dignified. recorded at Humbercrest United Church in<br />
Written as an uncommissioned labour oflove, Toronto. With a mixture oflightness, clarity and<br />
the Mass in G minor was inspired by the revival intensity, and superb vocal technique they<br />
of Catholic polyphony in England initiated by manage to convey the varied moods that Bach<br />
Richard Terry. The choir's sensitive reading so skillfully achieved in his compositions. And,<br />
conveys a tremendous Sense of spirituality. The as always, the. members of the Tafelmusik<br />
dynamics range widely and impressively but are Baroque Orchestra provide the most sensitive<br />
never bombastic or theatrical.<br />
accompaniment, with strings and winds often<br />
With the exception of the Mass, which is in · accompanying vpcal lines ...<br />
Latin, all the works are sung in English with the<br />
Dianne Wells (excerpted<br />
words clearly decipherable thanks to the group's<br />
from October 2001 DISCoveries)<br />
fine diction. Excellent intonation is evident<br />
throughout and noticeable is the expert blendi_ng Concert Note: Tafelmusik Chamber Choir<br />
of voices thanks to Noel Edison who manages and Orchestra perform Bach's Motets on <strong>June</strong><br />
to make solos prominent but not at the expense 20 at the George Weston Recital Hall as part<br />
of the other parts.<br />
of the Toronto International Choral Festival.<br />
Naxos has captured the group's natural sound<br />
in churches in Toronto and Elora without the ·<br />
overpowering reverberation sometimes<br />
associated with such venues. As attested to in<br />
this recording, the Elora Festival Singers is<br />
definitely a choral group to be reckoned with.<br />
Antonio Casciano<br />
Toutakoosticks<br />
Stephane Huchard<br />
Blue Note<br />
Stephane Huchard, drums; Remy Vignola,<br />
acoustic bass; Pierre de Bethmann, piano;<br />
Stephane Guillaume, sax/flute/clarinet; Nicolas<br />
Folmer, trumpet/flugelhorn.<br />
This is a<br />
brand new re- .<br />
lease featuring<br />
a group from<br />
France perhaps<br />
unfamiliar<br />
to most readers,<br />
but well<br />
worth investigating.<br />
Led<br />
by drummer<br />
Huchard the band is very together with tight<br />
ensemble work and lots of excitement in the solo<br />
department. The albµm has, not surprisingly,<br />
already been released and well reviewed in<br />
France, where H uchard is one of the current<br />
crop of "name" drummers. Bebop influences -<br />
fusion overtones, some extremely musical<br />
drumming from leader Huchard and very strong<br />
soloists make up the ingredients. Right from the<br />
start with the moody, atmospheric feel of ?.arbi<br />
Street, the music grabs attention and sustains it<br />
throughout the CD.<br />
At times the band sounds like an extension of<br />
the classic Horace Silver school of jazz with its<br />
classic two·horns and rhythm section format.<br />
·Stand out tracks? The aforementioned Zarbi<br />
Street and Mrs. Cartoon. This latter is something<br />
of a tour de force for the leader and<br />
Stephane Guillaume on flute who plays a<br />
blistering solo followed by pianist Pierre de<br />
Bethmann lulling1the listener briefly into a mood<br />
change before picking up the challenge and the<br />
tempo, taking the album to a flying finish.<br />
This is a hot band, well rehearsed and full of<br />
challengin,g listening<br />
Jim Galloway<br />
Concert Note:' You can check the band out<br />
on <strong>June</strong> 21st 5:00 p.m. at Natharz ~hillips<br />
Square where they celebrate the annual<br />
French celebration, Fete de la Musique, as<br />
part of Toronto Downtown Jazz. The CD will<br />
be there too!<br />
Not for Nothing (2001); Prime Directive<br />
(1999); Points of View (1998)<br />
Dave Holland Quintet<br />
ECM 1758; ECM 1698; ECM 1663<br />
The Jazz Journalists Association voted the Dave<br />
Holland Quintet<br />
as the best small<br />
ensemble _in<br />
jazz, and Holland<br />
the best<br />
acoustic bassist,<br />
for the year<br />
2001. Those<br />
were also the<br />
choices on my<br />
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allot. The Downbeat Critics Poll concurred in<br />
naming the Quintet the best ensemble in jazz,<br />
and Holland the best bassist for the third year in<br />
a row. We will have the privilege and excitement<br />
of hearing them at this year's Downtown Jazz<br />
Festival.<br />
Formed in 1997, with Robin Eubanks on<br />
trombone, Steve.Nelson on vibraphone and<br />
marimba, Billy Kilson on drums, and Steve<br />
Wilson on alto and soprano saxes, the group's<br />
composition has stayed constant except for the<br />
brilliant young Chris Potter on soprano, alto and<br />
tenor saxes replacing Wilson.<br />
Holland's quintet is on the road all the time,<br />
performing in clubs and concert halls on every<br />
continent, and getting tighter and tighter in the<br />
process: The three CDs under review form a<br />
set that documents the process and the impressive<br />
DISCOVERIES<br />
results. Points of View, the earliest disc, is<br />
wonderful, and the next two even more so.<br />
· The driving force, literally, is Holland's highly<br />
rhythmic mastery of the whole spectrum of<br />
contemporary jazz styles: from big band to bop<br />
to free jazz and "free funk and m-base," which<br />
involve tonally free improvisation over funky<br />
beats. At the age of 56, he's quite literally done<br />
it all. Holland's philosophy is "use everything."<br />
Eubanks and Potter are similarly versatile. They<br />
are b.alanced by Nelson's mainstream bop<br />
comping on the vibes. Kilson is so endlessly<br />
innovative and individualistic that his drumming<br />
style should just be called 'Kilson."<br />
I'd call their playing "stretched bop." They like<br />
playing swinging, accessible mu·sic that<br />
incorporates innovations from the "out" side of<br />
the jazz divide. My favourite moments are when<br />
the trombonist and saxophonist improvise against<br />
each other within a swirling rhythmic and tonal<br />
framework created by the three others. The jazz<br />
excitement meter is right at the end of the dial.<br />
Phil Ehrensaft<br />
NEWAND<br />
RECENT RELEASES<br />
Liszt: Works for Piano and Orchestra,<br />
Vol. 3<br />
Louis Lortie<br />
Residentie Orchestra The Hague; George<br />
Pehlivanian<br />
Chandos CHAN 9918
Lortie has emerged as one of the top pianists of<br />
his day and the Liszt project with Pehlivanian<br />
coulcl_prove to be one of his greatest accomplishments.<br />
TheConceno<br />
No. 1 in E flat<br />
Major is one of r<br />
the most famous<br />
concertos in the<br />
piano literature.<br />
It maintains<br />
in,terest through<br />
Liszt's use of<br />
transforming<br />
themes: a sort of state of constant development<br />
in which the basic thematic material acts as a<br />
seed and is worked in such a way as to transform<br />
into something completely different. Lortie<br />
executes with 'Perfection. His trademark sound,<br />
subtle use of colour, strong rhythmic drive and<br />
clever use of dynamics come through brilliantly.<br />
There is ease to his playing that is inspiring. The<br />
orchestra supports him without overpowering<br />
and the two blend seamlessly.<br />
The second work is the Concerto No. 3 in E<br />
flat Major. This beautiful one movement work,<br />
with simplicity not usually associated with the<br />
music of Liszt, was never published during the<br />
composer's lifetime. Lortie's sound is big and<br />
DISCO\' ERIES<br />
powerful. The orchestra executes virtuosic , distinction, never overloading the six works<br />
passages cleanly and with a tight articulation recorded here with relentless "expressionist"<br />
adding clarity to the thick textures. The horror. In fact, the inventive variety of Webern's<br />
Concerto in A Major and the Concert orchestration becomes increasingly apparent as<br />
Pathetique complete the disc.<br />
the disc plays out. The most startling shift comes<br />
Thereare only a handful of pianists worki~g between the disc's centerpiece, the glowering<br />
today that can honestly demonstrate a complete Six Pieces, Op. 6, and Webern's Five Pieces,<br />
understanding of the scores of Liszt as well as Op. JO, which with its celesta, violins, and flute,<br />
the solo parts and how they interact. Lortie shows sounds almost frivolous in comparison.<br />
this quality throughout the recording. The overall Through the<br />
sound is very well balanced and extremely clear. movements of iU<br />
Thisisadefinitemustforanycollection. Op. 6 Yuasa """"·~~:!::!'.:~::,1'.1.."'P"""'<br />
Troy Milleker achieves a dramatic<br />
continuity<br />
that, at twelve<br />
Anton Webern: Passacaglia; Symphony;<br />
Five Pieces<br />
Ulster Orchestra; Takuo Yuasa<br />
Naxos 8.554841<br />
minutes, seems<br />
epic. The work<br />
coils up to its<br />
celebrated<br />
funeral march -<br />
The severe economy of Anton Webern's music itself an inexorable build-up of tension from its<br />
is often equated with a bleak, enigmatic listening shuddering tam-tams to the fortissimo climax -<br />
experience. A new Naxos release of the beforeitdissipates.Asimilarem'otionallogic<br />
composer's collected orchestral works, only fifty- · shapes the opening Passacaglia, Op. 1, but is<br />
three minutes long, fights that prejudice with an strangely lacking in Yuasa's performance of the<br />
onslaught of symphonic colour.<br />
two longer late.works, Symphony, Op. 21, and<br />
Glenn Gould once wrote that the music of Variations, Op. 30.<br />
Webern is not emotional but sensual. The Ulster Overall, however, the dueling concerns of form<br />
Orchestra under Takuo Yuasa respects that and emotion are well balanced. Yuasa certainly<br />
The first of a sertes of box sets/ :<br />
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espects the score, but he demonstrates the<br />
power of Webern's music through sensual means<br />
as well. From this foundation he inspires the<br />
Ulster musicians to a committed, compelling<br />
performance.<br />
Brian McMillan<br />
Alban Berg: Wozzeck - Opera in Three Acts<br />
Op.7<br />
Orche~tra and Chorus of the Royal<br />
Opera, Stockholm; Leif Segerstam<br />
NAXOS 8.660076-77 [2 discs]<br />
Cast:<br />
Carl Johan Falkman: Wozzeck<br />
Katarina Dalayman:,Marie<br />
Ultik Qvale: Captain<br />
Sten Wahlund: Doctor<br />
Lennart Stregard: Drum Major<br />
Klas Hedlund: Andres<br />
Marianne Eklof: Margret<br />
Recorded live at Kungliga Teatem, Stockholm,<br />
February 2000<br />
DtSCOVERIES<br />
Berg calls forto sound as if only half that number<br />
are present. As this is a live performance there<br />
are a few stage noises that intrude from time to<br />
time. Though there is no translation of the libretto<br />
supplied in the multilingual program booklet,<br />
detailed synopses are offered to explain each<br />
scene ~ s significance.<br />
Lamento<br />
Daniel Taylor, Theatre of Early Music<br />
AT.l\1A Classique ACD2 2261<br />
This new recording by Canada's prominent<br />
counter-tenor Daniel Taylor and his newly formed<br />
ensemble the<br />
Theatre of Early<br />
Music features<br />
many extraordinary<br />
sacred<br />
arias and instrumental<br />
sel~ctions<br />
by 17th<br />
century German<br />
Wozzeck is a<br />
cornerstone of composers. .<br />
the20thcentury HERG As the title<br />
repertoire, 1vi1uYch suggests, the greater portion of this disc consists<br />
operatic or ~:::.:,:~ ·;,;,:~'.::;" of sad, mournful, dignified music, in fact, almost<br />
other w i s e . ~~:,:•;:... enough minor key to cause~one to lapse into deep<br />
Naxos' offering ~ ~: ·;~:~rw.i depression had not the richly expressive<br />
\b:
most reliable<br />
tenor, Do~<br />
mingowas60<br />
years old when<br />
he recorded<br />
this disc last<br />
July. Also a<br />
consummate<br />
musician, his<br />
voice remains<br />
secure, clear,<br />
and powerful as those of us who heard his<br />
Sigmund in the last Ring cycle at the Met will<br />
attest.<br />
Chosen are excerpts, vocal anq orchestral,<br />
from Siegfried and Gotterdamlnerung. For<br />
Siegfried I would have wished for a vital and<br />
determined Nothung! Nothung! This \\'.Ould<br />
reflect the pent-up energy of the forging scene of<br />
and the significance of the restored weapon.<br />
Also, 'Siegfried's' attempts to emulate the Forest<br />
Bird are just too secure and not at all amusing.<br />
Except for these two niggardly complaints,<br />
Siegfried is rather impressive and satisfying.<br />
I do not know in what order the excerpts were<br />
recorded but the Gotterdammerung duets with<br />
Brunnhilde are very exciting as are the several<br />
orchestral selections: Dawn, Siegfried's Rhine<br />
Journey and Funeral Music. Clearly, in this<br />
DISCOVERIES<br />
repertoire Domingo is happier bouncing offa·<br />
colleague than in the solo passages. The sound<br />
is thrillingly wide-range and large scale with<br />
convincing 'opera house' perspectives.<br />
A desirable disc for ·all those who respond to<br />
this repertoire.<br />
Bruce Surtees<br />
Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Musk<br />
Angela Hewitt, piano<br />
Hyperion CDA67341/2<br />
In this highly<br />
recommended<br />
two-CD set of<br />
the complete<br />
solo piano music<br />
Maurice<br />
Ravel, Canadian<br />
Angela Hewitt<br />
displays the<br />
qualities that<br />
make her one of<br />
the most acclaimed Bach pianists of our day. Her<br />
textures are marvelously clear and sparkling;<br />
since she eschews lushly pedaled romantic<br />
washes of sound. But she nonetheless splendidly<br />
captures the evocative, sensuous, nostalgic poetry<br />
of these e.arl y 20'" ceT)tury French masterworks,<br />
many of which are familiar in Ravel's later<br />
orchestrations.<br />
J'.h~ most popular work here is probably<br />
Pavane pour une inf ante defante, which made<br />
an ·in:iforgettable encore at her recent recital at<br />
the .Glenn Gould Studio. On this recording<br />
Hewitt's luminous touch and meticulous sense<br />
of rhythm again create compelling magic.<br />
The most virtuosic work is undoubtedly<br />
Gaspard de la Nuit. Here Hewitt's imaginative<br />
powers of expression are at their strongest. In<br />
the thrilling first movement, named after the water<br />
sprite Ondine, the melody emerges from different<br />
registers of the piano while layers of sound<br />
shimmer. There is exceptional beauty in the way<br />
she tolls the ominous B-flat octaves throughout<br />
the rhilcabre second movement, Le Gibet (The<br />
Gallows), evoking what Hewitt, in her perceptive<br />
linernotes, calls "the odourof death". In the final<br />
movement, Scarbo, she dramatically colours the<br />
wickedly difficult figurations to create an<br />
enthralling scenario.<br />
There are many fine recordings of these<br />
·seminal works available, historic and<br />
contemporary, but this is a top choice - one I<br />
will return to over and over.<br />
Pamela Margles<br />
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Dave Brubeck; Paul Desmond<br />
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This album is a total delight. The<br />
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The feeling of ESP between the two he demonstrates a less percussive<br />
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true. In the entire history of the music other recordings, replacing it with<br />
itisdifficulttothinkoftwomusicians a sensitivity which complements<br />
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Throughout the CD these two musicians feed<br />
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Jini Galloway<br />
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collector in the past, where one had to be<br />
satisfied with some haphazard choices in order<br />
to get the complete set. Until receiving this Naxos<br />
boxed set I hadn't experienced the first 3<br />
symphonies, and neither the alternate Adagio to<br />
the 3rd nor the 1878 finale to the 4th. These<br />
"lost" movements are included in the boxed set.<br />
Tintner's reading of Bruckner is all you could<br />
wish for. He holds his own alongside the Jascha<br />
Horenstein and Gunther Wand interpretations in<br />
the massive symphonies 8 and 9. The Royal<br />
Scottish National Orchestra can proudly allow<br />
themselves to be held up to comparison against<br />
any of more than a dozen recordings of the 1880<br />
Haas edition of the 4th, popularly named the<br />
"Romantic". As a musical experience, you<br />
couldn't ask for better.<br />
The 48-page booklet has annotations written<br />
by Georg Tinter, ably edited by his partner Tanya.<br />
The conductor's life-long study of the Bruckner<br />
catalogue allows him. to give quite a scholarly<br />
dissertation of the themes and recapitulations,<br />
which is enlightening considering the vast scale<br />
of the works. Tintner's descriptions are at the<br />
same time easy to read, and you needn't feel<br />
that you require a music degree to understand<br />
what is being said.<br />
Unfortunately the fact ofTintner's authorship<br />
of the notes isn't acknow !edged anywhere in this<br />
booklet. The original Naxos individual Bruckner<br />
releases had these same notes verbatim, and they<br />
DISCOVERIES<br />
were properly accredited there. The other<br />
oversight is in a complete lack of photographs<br />
within the pages of the booklet.<br />
The other aspects of the booklet are commendable:<br />
the typeface is legible and not too tiny,<br />
and sensibly molded into a two-columns-perpage<br />
layout. There is an interesting three-page<br />
chronology of Bruckner's life and associations<br />
in the back pages, following the orchestra and<br />
conductor biographies.<br />
I heartily recommend this set of CDs for anyone<br />
with an interest in Bruckner's work. And as<br />
usual, Naxos gives us first-rate sound on a<br />
budget-priced CD.<br />
John S. Gray<br />
Schoenberg: Gurrelieder<br />
Karita Mattila, Anne Sofie von Otter,<br />
Philip Langridge, Thomas Moser,<br />
Thomas Quasthoff<br />
Various choirs, Berlin Philharmonic; Sir<br />
Simon Rattle<br />
EMI 72435 5730329<br />
for five soloists, a speaker, three male choirs, a<br />
mixed choir, and a greatly augmented orchestra<br />
including 10 horns, 8 flutes, 4 Wagner tubas, 6<br />
timpani, and the usual iron chains.<br />
Gurrelieder, the Songs of Gurre, is a Tristanesque<br />
drama, a narrative song cycle of massive<br />
proportions. It is the ultimate Romantic<br />
expression, opulent, entirely tonal and loaded<br />
with good tunes.<br />
In Part One, Rattle's view of the score may<br />
have some heads shaking because he seems to<br />
be restraining the decibels. In parts Two and<br />
Three, as the drama unfolds, the intensity builds,<br />
climaxing with Sunrise when all is resolved.<br />
Rattle realizes the arch of the work and its poetry,<br />
with exquisite gradations of sound from thoughtful<br />
pauses that seize the listener, from hushed<br />
passages to stunning tuttis.<br />
EMI has conquered the impossible acoustic<br />
of the Berlin's Philharmonie, the orchestra's<br />
home, to produce a stunning recording of<br />
enormous depth and power. Not just volume but<br />
power that you must hear to believe it. The<br />
balances are natural with no spotlighting. I have<br />
heard this orchestra many times in concert and<br />
fewer than a handful of recordings have come<br />
close to their live sound. This is the closest I have<br />
Gurrelieder was the final work Jukka-Pekka<br />
Saraste conducted as music director of The<br />
Toronto Symphony, his Swan Song. The piece heard. Rattle is not simply conducting Gurrehad<br />
been scheduled for an earlier season but was lieder, he is giving us the inside story.<br />
unwisely canceled because management believed<br />
Bruce Surtees<br />
it was too risky for Toronto audiences. It calls<br />
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Music Meets Canvas - October 24th and 25th, <strong>2002</strong><br />
Renowned artist Joseph Drape// paints a canvas live on stage while the Kaddish Symphony by<br />
Leonard Bernstein is performed. Also: excerpts from West Side Story and Chichester Psalms.<br />
A Festival of Carols - December 8th, <strong>2002</strong><br />
Favourite Christmas carols and sing-along with the Choir, organ, brass and narrator Richard Ouzounian.<br />
The Messiah - December 18th, <strong>2002</strong><br />
Handel's ever-popular oratorio, with The Toronto Symphony Orchestra.<br />
Mozart, Desrosiers and Raminsh - March 21st, 2003<br />
Enjoy the power of Mozart's Requiem with dance choreographed by Robert Desrosiers - paired with<br />
the world premiere of A Shining Peace by eminent Canadian composer lmant Raminsh.<br />
Bach B Minor Mass - April 18th, 2003<br />
A Good Friday special. Bach's B Minor Mass launches the brand new Go-voice Mendelssohn Singers,<br />
performing with soloists Suzie LeB/anc and Daniel Taylor.<br />
Coronation Gala Celebration -<strong>June</strong> 6th, 2003<br />
A celebration of the Golden Jubilee of the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth //,featuring pipers,<br />
military band, orchestra blockbuster and more. Audience participation, with lots of flag waving.<br />
For concert details, visit our website: www.tmchoir.org · For ticket information: (416) 598-0422, extension 24<br />
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