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NIA GARA INTERNATIONAL<br />
CHAMBER MUSICFESilVAL<br />
l give this festival top marks for<br />
the way it celebrates its<br />
connection with the two main<br />
attractions of the area in which<br />
it is located - grape growing/<br />
wine making and the Shaw<br />
Festival. Four of the festival's<br />
venues are wineries and several<br />
concerts are built around the<br />
theme of wine and music. The<br />
connection with the Shaw<br />
Festival is made by three<br />
concerts at which some of<br />
George Bernard Shaw's music<br />
reviews are read aloud and the<br />
music reviewed in them is<br />
performed- a brilliant piece of<br />
programming in my opinion.<br />
STRATFORD SUMMER<br />
MUSIC<br />
The other summer music festival<br />
"in the shadow of' a much<br />
larger theatre festival is<br />
Stratford Summer Music, which<br />
is celebrating Glenn Gould's<br />
first performance 50 years ago ·<br />
at the Stratford Festival with a<br />
music drama "Glenn Gould<br />
Meets Bach" starring Chris<br />
Dawes and Peter Tiefenbach.<br />
This production, originally<br />
commissioned by the Glenn<br />
Gould Foundation for its<br />
Symposium in 2000 revolves publicly, the first performance<br />
around a fictional encounter having been only for delegates<br />
between Gould and Johann · to the Gould Symposium.<br />
Sebastian Bach himself.<br />
Exploring not only Gould's MlLL RACE FESTIVAL<br />
prodigious musical abilities This Friday evening and all day<br />
and his relationship to the Saturday festival (August 1-2)<br />
organ but also his highly in Cambridge, Ontario, presents<br />
developed sense of humour, a spectacular selection of<br />
these elements come together, traditional folk music from<br />
according to Christopher around the world. Folk music is<br />
Dawes, in an organ fugue, evidently alive and well and<br />
written by Tiefenbach, based · thriving, despite the challenges<br />
on the song, "Downtown" by of mass "culture" and pop<br />
Petula Clark, popularized when music.<br />
Gould was still a young man .<br />
This will be the first time this<br />
dr;m1a has been presented<br />
Buehlow Barn<br />
Ayr, On<br />
July 4-6<br />
Great music, delicious food and a pastoral setting make the<br />
Grand River Baroque Festival the place to be on July 4-6. Six<br />
concerts, a dinner and a brunch will be held in the rustic barn<br />
on the Buehlow farm near Ayr, Ontario. Friday night's opening<br />
concert, an all-Bach program, continues the cantata odyssey<br />
begun last summer with performances of BWV 199 and 187,<br />
featuring soloists Daniel Lichti, Laura Pudwell and Carolyn<br />
Sinclair. Also on the program are Harpsichord Concerto #2<br />
and Brandenburg Concerto #4. Saturday, focusing on the<br />
aesthetic struggle between France and Italy, will offer preconcert<br />
talks and feature works by Monteverdi on up to<br />
Pergolesi, performed on period instruments. Soloists are<br />
Kimberly Barber and Karen Baumgartel. The Muses' Respite,<br />
an elegant five:.course dinner, will be served in the barn between<br />
the afternoon and evening concerts. At IOpm guests will be<br />
invited up to the hayloft to delight in hand made cream puffs<br />
and succulent nipples of Venus. The day will end with an 11 ·<br />
pm "moonlight" performance of the Bach Goldberg<br />
Variations, performed on harpsichord by David Louie. On<br />
Sunday at I lam, "Brunch with Bach" features German bar6que<br />
chamber music, and the Festival will conclude with Bach's<br />
Mass in B minor with soloists Donna Ellen Trifunovich, Laura<br />
Pudwell, Benjamin Butterfield and Daniel Lichti. Adult ticket<br />
_prices for concerts .range from $15 - $25/ students from $10 -<br />
$25. Saturday Dinner-$35<br />
Check out our website at www.grbf.ca<br />
Phone: 519-273-2908<br />
e-mai I: grbf@golden.netGrandRi verBaroqueFesti val<br />
Come and celebrate 200<br />
years of brass and<br />
woodwind bands in<br />
Canada in the village of<br />
Orono on the weekend of<br />
<strong>June</strong> 13, 14, & 15.<br />
Enjoy a Spectacular<br />
MilitarY Tattoo on Friday<br />
evening <strong>June</strong> 13 1 h<br />
featuring the Central Band<br />
of the Canadian Armed<br />
Fprces. Queens York<br />
Rangers, Toronto Sc.ottish<br />
Regiment, and Band of the Royal Marines<br />
Association, Cobourg. ·<br />
On Saturday <strong>June</strong> 14'h start the day with a pancake<br />
breakfast in the park with a concert by the Thornhill<br />
Swing Band. This is followed by a parade and 12<br />
hours of continuous concerts that include the Central<br />
Band of the Canadian Armed Forces, The True North<br />
Brass Quintet, Musique a Kiosque from Montreal<br />
with Alain Trudel. Finish the evening dancing under ·<br />
the stars with the Ragweed Jazz Band and the<br />
Megacity Swing Band.<br />
Sunday begins with an outdoor Church service<br />
featuring the Peterborough Temple Salvation Army<br />
Band followed by afternoon concerts featuring the<br />
Central Band of the Canadian Armed Forces and the<br />
Hannaford Youth Band.<br />
Ticket prices or festival pass:<br />
$20 Friday, $15 Saturday, $10 Sunday<br />
The Village of Orono is in Clarington, just east of<br />
Oshawa.<br />
For info visit our website: www.townbandfestival.com<br />
Phone# 1·800·294·55.18 E-mail climenha@oix.com<br />
40 www.thewholenote.com <strong>June</strong> 1 - July 7 <strong>2003</strong>
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