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PETER B
0uNo]IAN
rowsing the 04/05 season
listings at the February '04
season launch, something
had jumped out at me: an April
2005 concert featuring Beeth-
May. Very important piece for "The Dance of the world it-
me. Beethoven apparently once self. Defiance, wild joy, the wail
stated, when asked, that it was of pain, love's transport, utmost
oven's Opus 131 String Quartet,
arranged for string orchestra by
the greatest of all his works. bliss, grief, frenzy, riot, suffer-
Certainly it is a remarkable and ing; then lightning flickers, thun-
innovative creation, one that will ders growl." He laughs.
Oundjian himself.
TSO
Possibly a nice starting point
for a conversation, I thought,
because of his career as first
violinist with the Tokyo Quartet,
a connection with Toronto also
BY DAVID PERLMAN
1 spoke with Peter Oundjian in dating back to 1981, when he
early August by phone. He was joined them. (They had been
home in Weston, Connecticut, "a corning to the city, courtesy
bit fried" after a trip from As- Music Toronto, since 1974.)
pen, Colorado. "The flight from "There was a big fuss made
Denver was fine, but they fly when he joined," recalls Jennifer
these ten seaters out of Aspen Taylor, Music Toronto general
and prefer to run them full. So manager. "He was fifteen years
they cancel on one excuse or younger than the others, and not
another till there's a crowd. And Japanese. But they loved him.
you wait."
He was a very exciting musician,
capable of the perfect unison for
Wi e'd met previously,
which they were renowned, but
briefly, at the TSO's
also witty enough to set the cat
00415 season launch in
among the pigeons, so to speak.
February. With much fanfare
They were, along with the Jui!-
(literal and metaphoric) he had
liard, the best; and I'd say in his
gone from being "Music Director
years with them they were at
Designate" to the full-blown,
their best. Just this past spring
unhedged version of the thing.
when the A very Fisher A ward
Standing in the wings that day
went to the Emerson String
was Walter Homburger, who had
Quartet, the first time it has gone
given Oundjian his first major
to an ensemble, the Emerson
solo violin appearance, with the
said, in accepting, that they
TSO in 1981. "I was not inwished
it had gone, before them,
volved in the selection process
to the Tokyo or the Juilliard."
for music director," Mr. Hom-
Digging a bit deeper after the
burger said, "but I'm happy
launch, I found the Op.131 again:
about it. Peter is not only a gifton
the program of his farewell
ed musician, but he also is a
appearance with the Tokyo String
great communicator. I look for-
Quartet in Houston Dec 6 1996.
ward to many great concerts. "
Worth asking about, indeed!
G
'' ood idea to discuss so, finally, we're talking,
131" he wrote back. and he's quoting, with
"It was also on my relish and apparently from
last program as Music Director memory, Wagner on the suhject of
of Amsterdam Sinfonietta last the final movement of Op. 131.
always fascinate us all. Mahler
Your comment about the tradewas
the one who first suggested
off is interesting; gaining enorthat
the late quartets of Beethoven
mous power by risking intimacy
were too powerful for just a
and clarity. You learned the
string quartet to play; he stated in
latter as a chamber musician.
1899, when he took over the
Can you salvage it?
Vienna Opera, that these pieces
would become a part of their In the case of this work, loss of
repertoire. He did perform Op. clarity in sound picture can be
95 (not really a late quartet) and balanced by the occasional solo
Schubert's Death and the Maiden recitative line. But, face it, clarity
but seems never to have tran- in general has not been the
scribed or performed the others." strong point of the symphony
"I feel strongly that certain quar- orchestra since the late 19th centets
work this way and others do tury. You have only to think of
not. Many aspects of 131 are overpoweringly huge Mozart
strengthened and broadened in the symphonic interpretations as an
full string orchestra version, others example. These are generally
are perhaps less personal in terms large orchestras with a heavy
of sound picture, but that depends style pushing to overpower huge
very much on the performance and halls.
the choices of the transcriber. I try
The way the TSO had to push in
to retain the intimacy as much as
the old RTH?
possible by occasionally using solo
voices; and to retain the clarity by Exactly. Right back to my first
rehearsing in great detail; and mean- time hearing them in the new
while to take full advantage of the hall, I found myself saying to the
extraordinary power in moments or strings, you don't have to push.
movements that require it, especial- Just play the sound you want.
ly in the final movement which
Wagner described as "the Dance
of the world itself..." There's a
longer quote I can give you when
we actually talk."
Can you say more about the
path from chamber violinist to
conducting? How do you get
from Houston December 6 1996
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to TSO 2004? Or to put it anoth- being known for certain reperer
way, how far ahead of that to ire? How does it work?
last performance with the Tokyo
in Houston were you already on
You work hard to build your
this other path?
·
repertoire at the right pace. I'd
have to say I'm a medium to
When I first stopped playing,
which was May '95 actually (you
more slowly than quickly actualwere
right about the Houston
concert being my last 'with the
Tokyo, but it was a special reun-
ion, I had slopped well over a
year before that), ... in May '95
if you'd asked me, I'd have said
that the two pahs had nothing to
slow learner. I prefer to learn
ly, Lo really come to know the
sweep' and detail of gesture. You
owe it to an orchestra to offer
them a full interpretation. I don't
think there's a·shortcut. So in the
case of guest conducting if they
can't accept something in my
I have to admit I'm having
do with each other. But the more
I conduct lhe more I see them as
nearly identical: discovering and
uncovering the music, conceptualizing
and interpreting are still
an appallingly good time
the core of the process.
I had warning signs [of the
focal dystonia in his left hand
that ended his career as a violinist}.
I knew by the late eighties
that something was wrong. By
1993 I knew it was not reversible
and was re-engaging with
conducting. I'd had a taste of it
in my teens, choral conducting
mostly, and it was my second
study after violin at Juilliard.
Von Karajan made me conduct
the slow movement of the
Brahms 1 in a master class he
gave there, Ozawa and Eschenbach
were both in the class. It
was quite a momem, with him
just off my left shoulder.
I can say now that it's always
been in the back of my mind, a
quiet passion, all the way back to
my sense of wonderment at age
10,11,12 being conducted by
Benjamin Britten. He picked the
choir at my school, Downside
Prep, for the Decca recordings
he was making: Midsummernight's
Dream, and the Songs
from "Friday Afternoons". We
thought we knew the Friday
Afternoons, but he utterly transformed
them. There were two
things about him when he came
into the room. One was the aura
he had, the other was the confidence
he engendered.
The list of orchestras you have
guested with as a conductor is
substantial - Berlin, Houston,
Colorado, LA, NDR Hanover,
Philadelphia, etc. Do you have
much of a say in determining
repertoire in those situations?
Or are you invited because of
repertoire then I will graciously
decline the invitation. The fortunate
thing is that a lot of people
in the orchestral business really
do understand the business.
They know that their musicians
love someone coming in with
conviction. I work ahead about
two years in my preparation.
Right now I am finishing repertoire
for the 2005/2006 season.
The other side of the same coin:
what does guest-conducting not
prepare you for in terms of an
assignment like this one?
What it doesn't prepare you for
is all of the other things. But
then, all of the things you do as
a person prepare you as a person
for the things you do. It doesn't
matter where you learn the lessons.
It could be personal, it
could be sport. For me it was
immeasurably important to be
music director and first violinist
of the Amsterdam Sinfonietta,
also to be artistic director at Caramoor
[Summer Music Festival
in New York]. But ultimately it's
instinctive, knowing when you're
ready. For some people it's at
forty, for others not. You have
to accept that you're ready for
the tough decisions.
Like?
Like influencing selection of
player personnel. You have to
take strong positions. As the
music director grows into the
role, the orch

that they themselves would have
chosen above all. It's a great
group here in terms of getting on
well, and buying into the idea
that it's all for the good.
And the other side of it, being
"on call" for things like this
interview for instance?
You need to be available. That's
all there is to it. I'm a people .
person ... especially if they share
a passion for music. I have lots
of help with the artis.tic planning.
Loie Fallis {ISO Director of
Artistic Planning] is an extraordinary
human being, arguably the
most experienced in North America.
I have to say, I'm having an
appallingly good time.
At a concert of yours with Yo-Yo
Ma last December 6 I remember
you mnde a joke as you took the
podium, reassuring rhe audience
that there would be nothing disturbingly
modern on the program
that evening - those
weren't your exact words but it
was something like that. [The
works were 1he Schumnnn Cello
Concerto, Tchaikovsky Rococo
Variations, and Mussorgsky's
Piclures al an .Exhibition.]
I remember the moment but not
the exact words either. My point
was that the evening, the spirit of
it, was clearly a pop fun celebration
of great entertainers. I was ·
turning to encompass the audience
... something I believe
strongly in ... and saying 'We all
recognize this evening for what it
is. There are other, perhaps
grander, things that this symphonic
ritual is for as well, but
this evening is not one of those.
Let's all just enjoy.'
Mind you, I have nothing
against concerts like that one. I
remember once Kurt Mazur doing
an all Brahms and Schumann
concert with the New York Phil
and being ripped apart, just for
the fact of doing so, not for the
way it was done. Well why
shouldn't he, of all people. I
mean he practically knew the
. blokes (if you see what I mean).
The way I see it, we're on
that stage a hundred times a year.
That's ample opportunity to provide
concerts to everyone's
tastes. Face it, no one's coming
to more than twenty concerts.
Most people buy one subscription,
or three or four concerts.
We are offering a menu not ·a
curriculum. I have a good friend
who writes and broadcasts about
10
music in New York. I really
appreciated one day him saying
in the context of a discussion
about this very thing "I admit, if
you programmed just for me
you'd be ciut of business in a
season."
Getting back to thai off-the-cuff
comment at 1he Yo-Yo Ma concert,
I assumed rhat in some way
you were responding lo perennial
sore-point issues like choice of
repertoire being too adventurous
or not adventurous enough,
alienaring hard core music lovers
by "dumbing 1hings down",
alienming devoted symphony
goers by playing "difficulr" music.
VVhat is your take on these
things?
Well, that's really what we've
just been talking about. It's a fun
subject. We will always have
criticism.
Can one make accurale assumprions
about your own musical
"likes" by looking at the Tokyo
Quarrel's preferred repertoire
over the years?
Tokyc was an accumulation of
four ideas none with leadership
power. I'd say my own tastes
are much more adventurous than
the Tokyo. But on the other
hand being privileged to do
Shostakovitch, Beethoven, Bartek
cycles all over the world; has
been formative. I'm not a fringe
repertoire type of person. My
background is centred in the
great traditions, Mahler, Brahms,
Beethoven.
VVhen your appointment to the
TSO was announced, .your Toronto
connections were menrioned.
I know you were born
here, but I'm wondering if it
goes deeper than that. Will you
still be based in Connecticut? Do
you have family here?
I have an older sister here, a
middle brother who has been
here almost as much as not. You
could say it is our second family
city, one with which I have close
close connections, and which is
one of my favourites. We will
stay based in Weston. It's a very
good place. And I can maintain
my teaching at Yale. I have five
students. I absolutely love oneon-one
violin teaching. But the
Toronto connection is much
more than hype or even the fact
of being born there. My first
violin concerto as a soloist with a
major orchestra was when Walter
Hamburger invited me in 1981.
And repeatedly after that. I
watched what was going on with
the orchestra in the late nineties
and early '"oughts" and it saddened
me to witness. I have an
opportunity to make a difference.
****
Assuming you've had a chance
to glance at VVholeNote from
time to time over the past few
months, I'm curious as lo what
it tells you about the exrent of
musical involvement in the city:
close ro three hundred concert
presenters, 3500 concerts a
season, close to a hundred
choirs, a dozen community orchestras,
the list goes on. Is it
more than you would have
rhought?
I knew that it was cultured but
have to say I have been astonished.
And if there are audiences
for all, nothing is too much. It's
a good balance for the city, as is
having a really strong opera
company. It explains why we
can offer twenty five subscription
weeks, as many as any orchestra
on the continent.
A !Ot of people involved in this
wider concert scene have over
the years gravitated away from
the symphony orchestra and
symphonic music in general
(perhaps out of hunger for the
intimncy and clarity you alluded
to earlier). VVhat can you say
and do to draw them back?
I think of one thing, right away.
·I touched on it, before. Coming
out and welcoming the audience,
" making them feel part of every
§ encounter with us. Michael Tiln
son Thomas in San Francisco is
a great practitioner of this.
> Walking out, turning your back
Z on the audience immediately for
§ that first downstroke doesn't
work.
VVhat about rhe "never turning
your back" trend as mamfested
by the video screen rhing lhat
some orcheslras are adopting?
That's not for me either. I believe
even though the conductor's
back is to the audience, the aura
and expression is reflected back
through the players and the music.
Video replay diminishes
intensity. In live sport, if you
know there will be no replay,
your concentration is elevated.
There is an incredible level of
concentration in our audiences,
here. Why dissipate it?
So, based on your experiences
conducting around the world, is
rhe symphony orchestra the endangered
species 1ha1 so many
articles tend to view it as?
I think prophecy can be selffulfilling.
Put it this way. It's a
privilege to play this extraordinary
music. So we take as our
mandate trying to get as many
people to come and hear it as we
can. What if writing about it
were viewed as the same privilege,
with the same mandate?
How would things be different?
The announcement of a special
new music series in the coming
season drew, broadly speaking,
three reactions: won't catch me
there; good for the TSO for a
step in the righl direction; it's
just an excuse lo exclude new
music even more from mainstream
programming.
If true then it scares me, but I
think as a simplification it's a bit
cynical. I commented before that
I believe in the idea of festivals,
celebrations. The whole point of
this is to package new creation in
an inviting way. It's savvy, it's
practical and it's going to be fun.
Each piece will be introduced.
Each concert in the series is also
part of one other series.
As I said earlier, it's all for
the good, really.
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EDITOR'S CORNER
This month we're back to a full
complement of CD reviews after
the quiet days of summer. Did it
ever really arrive, I wonder? As I
write this in mid-August we are
still experiencing unseasonably cool
days and positively chilly nights. But
the weather aside, things are more
or less back to normal with our
reviews running the gamut from
Vivaldi arias to 2lst century haiku
settings, classic jazz and blues reissues
to new recordings by saxophonists
Scott Hamilton and Harry
Allen and trombonists Tom Walsh
and Steve Swell. Added to this are
several local world music offerings,
including Maza Meze's "Secrets
Moon Magic" and Maria
Antonakos' "Siren Songs of the
Mediterranean". ·we top this off
with our picks of the month, a new
'period performance' recording of
Mozart's Le Nou.e di Figaro and
Nadina Mackie Jackson's "Notes
from Abroad", a disc you may have
seen advertised in the pages of this
magazine over the past few
months, but which after delays in
the manufacturing process is only
now (finally) in hand.
I almost kept that last one for
this column, but I'm glad I did not
because I seem to have made Merlin
Williams' day by passing it on
to him for review (see Discs of
the Month, page 68). The discs I
did keep to myself are predominantly
from the world of new
music, but I must say that the diversity
of these offerings underlines
the fact that there are actually
many worlds involved on the contemporary
music scene.
From the 'minimalist' school I
bring to your attention an important
label that focuses on the music
of Philip Glass. Orange Mountain
Music is a fairly new company
that grew out of a project to
archive all of the master recordings
that Philip Glass has made
over the past three decades. There
are now more than a dozen CDs
of previously unavailable material
documenting the extraordinarily
prolific career of this former New
York cab driver. The disc I chose
to begin my exploration with is A
Descent into the Maels trom
(OMM 0005), a music-theatre
work commissioned by the Australian
Dace Theatre dating from
1986 based on a story by Edgar
Allan Poe. Written shortly after the
film Koyaanisqatsi, the mixed-media
work The Photographer and
the opera Akhnaten, this is classic
high-octane Glass - a 'maelstrom'
indeed - performed by the Philip
Glass Ensemble (keyboards, reeds
and the voice of Dora Ohrenstein).
•
From the ATMA Classique label
we have the latest release by one
of Canada's most important contemporary
music groups, Montreal's
Nouvel Ensemble Moderne
(ACD2 2242). NEM is a 15-piece
chamber orchestra in residence at
l'Universite de Montreal and as
such is this country's only fulltime
orchestra devoted to contemporary
repertoire. Founded in 1989
by conductor Lorraine Vaillancourt,
over its 15 year history NEM
has commissioned many Canadian
and international works. This disc
presents 4 of the Canadian offerings:
Lo que vend ra by young
composer Inouk Demers; Travaux
et jeux de gravite and Vanitas by
mid-career artists Isabelle Panneton
and Jean Lesage; and Alap &
Gat, a work inspired by the music
of northern India by senior composer
Jose Evangelista. Panneton
"evokes the dynamic of bodies
submitting to the force of gravity:
gestures of rising and falling, or
of attempts to preserve a precarious
equilibrium." This is perhaps
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August is the time when Toronto's concert presenters gear up for the
corning year, with press-release announcements about the corning
season. Having scanned the communiques, brochures and web-sites,
I offer a few suggetions - based entirely on my personal druthers.
August 10, 2004: Now here's a bit of welcome news in my e-mail:
the Moscow Virtuosi will be appearing in Toronto on October 30 at
the George Weston Recital Hall. This performance will bring to a
close the foreign-orchestra drought that parched Toronto's concert
season last year.
And, as it turns out, the Virtuosi aren't the only orchestra
corning to town. After a year's hiatus, Roy Thomson Hall is back in
the orchestra business, presenting St. Petersburg's Kirov Orchestra
in two different programmes at RTH on April 21 and 22. Even the
Toronto Symphony Orchestra is getting in on the act, presenting the
China Philharmonic on March 16 - although the main attraction on
that concert will be the sensational young pianist Lang Lang. As
well, Quebec City's Les Violons du Roy will grace the stage of
RTH on October 26, and the TSO will host Ottawa's National Arts
Centre Orchestra on November 20. If not exactly "foreign"
orchestras, these ensembles are a welcome addition to the season.
August 12, 2004: Speaking of the TSO, I picked up one of their
brochures today. They're obviously out to make a big splash this
fall, with back-to-back concerts featuring Yo-Yo Ma and Renee
Fleming on October 1 and 2, respectively. Wagner fans will also
want to mark Jane Eaglen's December 2 and 4 TSO engagements on
their calendars. But this year the orchestra has more to offer than the
usual parade of guest artists: this is Peter Oundjian's inaugural
season as the TSO's new music director - and his every move, on
stage and off, will be scrutinized by the press and public.
The Canadian Opera Company's brochure also offers some
enticing fare this season. The Handmaid's Tale, composed by Pou]
Ruders and based on a novel by Margaret Atwood, has finally made
its way to Toronto (September 23 - October 9). In Denmark, the
UK and the USA it's received enthusiastic reviews, so it should be
worth looking into. The COC's Ring. cycle; which got off to a
promising start last year, continues with Siegfried (January 27 -
February 11). And tucked away at the end of the sason (April 1 -
16) Tancredi, an early Rossini masterpiece, in its Toronto premiere.
August 17: A little internet surfing reveals a few more gems ill
Toronto's concert calendar. Tafelmusik will end its season with a
rarity, Handel's oratorio Deborah, (May 5 - 8); and the Toronto
Mendelssohn Choir will wrap up with The Dream of Gerontius
(April 26). As for vocal recitals, rm looking forward to Isabel
Bayrakdarian at Roy Thomson Hall (May 8). As well,'the
Aldeburgh Connection will present two of Canada's top .singers:
Gerald Finley (April 14) and Michael Schade (May 25).
In the realm of chamber music, Music Toronto opens its
season in fine style with the Emerson Quartet (October 7) - and the
Anton Kuerti Beethoven recital (November 16) should be a safe bet.
But the most intriguing Music Toronto offering this year looks to be
Toronto composer Christos Hatzis' Constantinople (November 10 -
13). This ambitious multi-media work has been performed in bits
and pieces over the ·last few years, and I, for one, want to see how
it finally turns out.
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QUODLIBET
Eli at 80
by Allan Pulker
Toronto Philharmonic
Sept. 23, 2004 - Spanish Fiesta
Oct. 21 , 2004 - Keyboard Classics
Nov. l l , 2004 - Voices of Victory
Dec. 16, 2004 - Sounds of the Season
Feb. l 2, 2005 - Beethoven's Seventh
Apr. 28, 2005 - Prague Opera Gala
May l 9, 2005 - Spring Classics
Orchestra Toronto
Oct. 24, 2004 - Russian Storytellers
Dec. l 2, 2004 - Viennese Holiday
Feb. 20, 2005 - Le Jazz Hot for a
Winter's Afternoon
April l 0, 2005 - A Ukr,ainian Celebration
. May 29, 2005 - The Three B's; .. Really!
Royal Opera Canada
Oct. 14-23, 2004 - La Traviata
Nov. 25 - Dec. 4, 2004
Eugene Onegin
Mar. 3-12, 2005
Cavalleria Rus,ticana & I Pagliacci
May 5-14, 2005 - Madama Butterfly
As long as most of us
can remember, the
classical guitar has been popular.
Stores have a large selection,
private teachers
abound, guitar is taught in
every private music school and
even some public high and
senior elementary schools.
Those wishing to pursue it
professionally, can do so.in
most post-secondary institutions.
Classical guitar recordings
abound and actually get
airtime! Most issues of
WholeNote feature at least
one guitar recital or concert.
It was not. always so. In 1951 ·of LPs on the first floor, carefully
when Eli Kassner, whose 80th birth- organized sheet music in his second
day will be celebrated at Walter Hall floor studio, and everywhere on the
Sept 18, arrived in Toronto, the gui- walls his paintings, reveal a proditar
was looked down upon, not only gious and energetic talent tirelessly
in Canada but also in the United engaged in the arts. Some of the
States and Europe, as a "cowboy" paintings were recent, some go back
instrument, good enough only for to the late 1940s, living in Israel. A
the likes of Roy Rogers, Gene Au- large painting of a village caught my
try and Hank Wi!liams. Julian Bream eye, the Mediterranean sun glowing
tells the story of being reprimanded
from it, .making that moment about
for playing the guitar in a stairwell 55 years ago as alive now as it was
while a student of piano and corn- then. "I did that on drafting paper,"
position at the Royal College.
I went to Eli Kassner' s quiet downtown
Toronto home to talk to him
about his influential career. Shelves
he told me, "that's all there was, but
it didn't absorb so now the paint still
looks as if it is wet!"
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Co-presented with The Music Gallery
Hammerhead
Guest Ensemble: Hammerhead Consort, Edmonron
Corey Hamm and Haley Simons, pianos
Trevor Brandenburg and Darren Salyn, percussion
music by +Bashaw, +Forsyth, +Godin, +Hamel* & Helweg*
Monday February 28, 2005
Glenn Gould Studio
New Music Concerts'
Greatest Hits
Patricia Green, mezzo-soprano
NMC Ensemble directed by Robert Aitken
landmark scores by +Tremblay, +Mather, and more
Sunday November 21 , 2004
Co-presented with The Music Gallery
Generation 2004
J.:Ensemble contemporain de Montreal
Veronique Lacroix, artistic director
Featuring young composers from across Canada:
+Edwards, +Gilbert, +Gagnon, +Stewart & Oroszco
Friday April 1 • 2005
Glenn Gould Studio
An Evening with Heinz Holliger
In conjuction with the Faculty of Music, NMC presents the Michael and
Sonja Koerner Distinguished Visitor in Composition at the University of
Toronto. Works by Holliger* and Carter featuring Patricia Green,
the NMC Ensemble, & U of T Contemporary Music Ensemble
Sunday January 9, 2005
Glenn Gould Studio
Japanese Sh6 virtuoso
Mayumi Miyata
with Robert Aitken, flute, Joseph Macerollo, accordion,
and the Accordes string quartet • Gagaku selections
and music by Hosokawa*, Suzuki* & Cage*
Sat I Sun January 22 I 23, 2005
The Music Gallery
Three Cities in the Life of
Dr. Norman Bethune
a chamber opera by Tim Brady featuring
Bradyworks with Michael Donovan, baritone, plus solo
electric guitar works by +Brady, +Schafer & +Lussier
Sunday May 1 • 2005
Glenn Gould Studio
Co-presented with Goethe lnstitut Toronto
The Music of Jorg Widmann
The rising young German clarinetist and composer performs his music
with the NMC Ensemble and Accordes (4 Canadian premieres)
Friday May 27, .2005
Co-presented with The Music Gallery
Wild, Wired West
Keith Hamel curates a concert of chamber music with computers
NMC Ensemble directed by Robert Aitken with soloists
Joseph Petric, accordion & Max Christie, clarinet
music by +Hamel, +Steenhuisen*, +Pritchard, & +Radford
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continued.from page 14
Born in 1924 in Vienna into a devout
Jewish family, he was able to
leave Austria for Palestine in 1939.
In Palestine he was first trained as a
cobbler, then as a soldier by the
British, all the while playing the guitar
on a very casual basis and also
painting. When he came to Canada
he had the visual arts in mind. Before
he had even learned English,
however, fate intervened in the form
of a job sorting music for $5 a week
for Whaley Royce Music on Yonge
Street. Here he discovered an abundance
of sheet music for guitar -
much of it written or arranged by
Segovia. Promoted to a sales position
once he learned English, when
there were no customers around he
was able to practise the guitar.
A customer asked for lessons and
his career as guitar teacher was
launched! Through another customer
he was introduced to RCM pianist
and teacher, Boris Berlin, through
whom he got the opportunity to audition
for Boyd Neel, the Dean of
the Faculty of Music at U of T and
Ettore Mazzoleni, the principal of the
RCM. The latter offered him a position
teaching guitar at the Conservatory.
He declined because he could
not afford to give up the percentage
of his earnings the deal required!
Before that, however, he and his
students founded the Guitar Society
of Toronto in 1957. This led to a
master class with Segovia, the Society's
honorary president, who invited
him to attend a month of classes
in Spain in 1959. He went, thanks
to the newly fonred Canada Council.
Upon returning to Toronto he accepted
guitar instructor positions, the
first ever, at both the RCM and the
Faculty of Music. "It took quite a
few years to gain acceptance," Kassner
told me, but before long some
good students entered the program.
One of the first was Liana Boyd.
Once she became well-known many
people came to study with Kassner.
His next major accomplishment
was the founding of the Eli Kassner
Guitar Academy in 1967, his response
to the need for instruction in
jazz and flamenco. The U ofT brass
wisely did not require that Eli give
up his position to do this, seeing the
dent brings something quite different
to the instrument. One of the
keys, therefore, was to keep the.
hands relaxed and flowing - that was
the foundation on which each student's
development was built.
Eli Kassner's other major contribution
was the five international guitar
festivals and comptitions that he
launched, with participation of the
Guitar Society of course, in 1975,
'78,'81,'84 and'87. A measure of
the impact of these events: the winners
of the 1975 competition are now
Four Festivals
new academy's potential as a "feed- THE SUMMER MUSIC festival
er school". They were not to be dis- scene continues, after a short
appointed; students flocked to Eli pause in late August, into Sepfrom
all over the world, and the bet- tember with four festivals: the
ler ones went through the program Colours of Music Festival in
at the university. Some of his stu- Barrie, the Westben Festival
dents who have gone on to have an near Campbellford, the Sweetimpact
in the guitar world are Liona Water Music Weekend in
Boyd, Aaron Brock, Robert Feuer- Owen Sound and the Prince
stein, Lynne Gangbar, Rachel Gauk, 'Edward County Music Festi­
among the leading guitarists of their
generation - Sharon lsbin, Manuel
Barrueco and Elliott Fisk.
The line-up for the September 18
"Eli at 80" concert also speaks volumes.
Guitar luminaries David Russell,
Carlos Barbosa-Lima ; Vincea
McC!elland and Celso Machado will
perform, introduci:d by Liona Boyd.
Among the compositions: one by
Sergio Assad written for this event,
and also one by Leo Brouwer, his
health permitting. This is a celebration
not to be missed.
Drew Henderson, Danielle Kassner val in Picton. Britain's Onyx Brass come to Barrie
(his daughter, for many years now Colours of Music
living, performing, recording and Lawyer, politician and now impreteaching
in Spain), Dale Kavanagh, sario, Bruce Owen, building on last
Norbert Kraft, Vincea McC!elland, autumn's highly successful festival,
Gordon O'Brien and Laura Young. has been nothing short of amazing
What made him such a successful .in organizing this festival of 44 conteacher?
"I always tried to preserve certs. in Barrie from September 24 to
the individuality of each student, to October 3. Not only are some of
inspire and to provide them with the Canada's best musicians performing
tools to do what they want to do. I at the Festival such as James Campier
my students express themselves. bell, Alain Trudel, the Penderecki
All rri.y students are individuals." He String Quartet, the Duke Trio and
went on to explain that every stu- the Elmer Iseler Singers, to name
dent has different hands and 'since it only a few, but also wonderful muis
through the hands that the music sicians from other countries will play
is transmitted from the intellect and - Britain's Onyx Brass Quintet and
temperament to the guitar, every stu- orgahist, Carol Williams, woodwind
quintet Vento Chiaro, the Adaskin
String Trio from the United States
and the New Zealand String Quartet.
Westben
The Westben Festival offers two fine
pianists, Jane Coop and Charles
Foreman on Saturday, September 18
and Sunday, September 19 at 2:00
in the afternoon, Both will play
music by Chopin and Beethoven.
Ms. Coop's program will also include
Pagarrini' s Variations on a
Theme by Brahms. Mr. Foreman
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JUBILATE SINGERS AUDITIONS
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multilingual repertoire (Cuban, Argentinian, Italian, Finnish,
Canadian, Catalan, Spanish; classical, traditional, contemporary),
with a 3-concert series and occasional community performances.
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TALLIS CHOIR
2004-05 Season Peter Mahon, Director
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Mass for Five Voices
Ave Verum Corpus
Saturday, October 16
St. Patrick's Church
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Advent to Epiphany
Palestrina Advent Responsory
Tuvener: God is with us
Saturday, November 27
St. Patrick's Church
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A Celebration of llealey Willa
An Apostrophe to the Heavenly Hosts
Missa Brevis No. 11
with the Gallery Choir of the
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Saturday, February 19
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Dvorak: Mass in D
and works by Brahms and Bruckner
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Saturday, May 14
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by Larry Beckwith
I'm always slightly vexed at this hear The Lachan Jewish Chamtime
of year with the question "How her Choir. September 6th at 4pm
was your summer?". After all, there's on the Lakeside Terrace you could
almost a whole month left after Sep- see a performance of the Yiddish
tember 1! But it's understandable,
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though, since many of us return to the Toronto Jewish Folk Choir
routines after Labour Day with with Klezmer ensemble Beyond the
school back in session and Pale.
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tember to regroup and start tackling
award-winning North Metro Cho­
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September 24 at 8pm, and 25th
new repertoire for the season ahead.
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formances and concerts here in town
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afternoon: a little further afield in
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Queens Quay West) offers us two
choral concerts. September 5th at 5pm
Ashkenaz: A Festival of New Yidtival,
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25, 2:30pm). There are also two
evening concerts at this festival that
you might want to consider. The
Elmer lseler Singers perform October
lst at 8pm. On October 2nd
there's The Sacred Music Society's
Gala with Andrew Burashko, piano;
Uwe Lieflander, conductor; and a
200-voice choir & orchestra!
Speaking of Festivals, there's
Westben, in Campbellford where
you could hear the MacMillan Singers,
conducted by Doreen Rao, in a
programme called Autumn Feast for
the Ears, Autumn Chorus on September
26 at 2pm.
Back in town we have an upbeat
start to the season October I at 8pm
when Fridays @ Eight presents
Shout for Joy! The Nathaniel Dett
Chorale with Brainerd Blyden-Taylor
in a concert of Spirituals, Cuban
folk songs and classical selections.
LOOKING AHEAD, there are many exciting
choral projects in the works
for this season, including the return
of University Voices in November,
presented by Soundstreams, a stellar
line-up of repertoire planned for
both the Amadeus and Mendelssohn
choirs, the fourth annual
Christmas Oratorio presentation by
the Bach Consort and a rare St.
Matthew Passion performance presented
by the Toronto Symphony.
In addition, there are intriguing
seasons promised from the Exultate
Chambers Singers,
Orpheus
Choir, Bell'Arte Singers, Vocal­
Point, Pax Christi and several other
of our well-established, stellar
chamber choirs.
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potemial singers to pick a choir
and get involved, and remind everyone
to pick their choral subscription
series and send it (or them) in!
And enjoy the last few beautiful
weeks of (September) summer!
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by Frank Nakashima
Unlike the choral scene, where it
takes presenters n while to get going,
early music presenters are off
to a fast start.
OFFERING AN aurally aromatic (but
low-fat, no cholesterol) blend of trio
and quartet sonatas by Telemann,
Vivaldi and Fasch, is the gang from
Baroque Music Beside the Grange
- Alison Melville (recorder & traverso),
Linda Melsted (violin), Dominic
Teresi (bassoon) and Borys Medicky
(harpsichord) - in a prograrmne fashioned
after the coffee house concerts
of the l 8th century (September 12)
A FEW DAYS IA TER, the dazzling Dutch
recorder virtuoso Marion Verbruggen
joins the Tafelmusik Baroque
Orchestra - more Telemann and
Vivaldi, but on a larger scale, so to
speak - in a program titled "The
Enchanting Recorder: Baroque Delights"
(September 16- 19) A longtime
friend of Tafelmusik, Ms. Verbruggen
has inspired several recorder
players of this generation.
WHEN JoHN Dow1AND published his
First Book of Songs in 1597, not
only was it his first book, but probably
the first book of solo song ever
published in England. When the
Musicians in Ordinary (soprano
Hallie Fishel and lutenist John Edwards)
present a concert featuring
the songs from this marvellous publication
(September 25), it will be to
acknowledge the historical significance
of this collection which contains
some of the best known songs
in the English language to this day.
Its contents have been praised and
"poached" in more recent times by
such musical dignitaries as Benjamin
Britten and Peter Warlock. Visit
www .musiciansinordinary .ea
Nar A MOMENT'S REST for Tafehnusik
as they present yet another program
this month (Sept 28-30, Oct 1,2,3)
"A/ Musical Offering: Bach and
More" featuring can0ns from Bach's
celebrated Musical Offering, and
exploring the genius behind these
compositions. The program also includes
a colourful Rameau suite.
Their recently released recording of
Rameau Suites has garnered international
acclaim and you won't want
to miss the chance to hear this elegant
and spirited music live. See the
website: www.tafelmusik.org
THERE WILL ALSO BE A RARE and special
opportunity to hear the distinguished
soprano Meredith Hall in
recital with Quebec lutenist Sylvain
Bergeron and harpist Robin Grenon
(October 3). Her program will feature
a selection of French and Italian
repertoire, some of the greatest solo
vocal music of Henry Purcell and ·
Claudio Monteverdi, and cherished
Scottish melodies from the pen of
the bard himself, Robbie Bums. This
concert is being recorded for broadcast
on CBC Radio Two, so come
and contribute your applause to the
soundtrack! This is music sure to
inspire and touch you, perforrred by
three of Canada's finest interpreters
of early music!
Finally, I realize that this notice is
far in advance of what my column
usually encompasses, but here's an
early "heads up" for Montreal-based
ensemble, Les Voix Baroques (making
their Toronto debut in the On­
Stage series at the Glenn Gould Studio
(October 12). More about them
next month!
Frank T. Nakashima
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President of the Toronto Early
Music Centre, a non-profit charitable
organization which promotes
the appreciation of historically-informed
performances of early music
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Learning .With Your.Feet
"At rhe height of the baroque period, everybody who was anybody
danced well. fr was simply part of a decent educmion, along with
music ... in those days .... " (Daniel Gariepy, ltl Belle Danse)
BY MASl·IA BUELL
1'rrEY CAME INfO the classroom
dressed for the festive summer
barbeque which was to follow the
workshop, but helpfully began setting
chairs into a couple of neat
rows. The wiry energetic man
setting music cues on a cd player,
turned and said "you should probably
stack those at the back -
we're going to need all this space
to move in .... " There was a flutter
of puzzlement.
"We will be on our feet dancing,"
he explained benignly. "So
arrange yourselves in three rows
so that you can see me; we'! be
looking at two fonnal court dances
- one in duple time, one in triple
time - the bourree and the minuet."
A ripple of recognition at the
terms relieved some of the uncertainty
evident in this group of music
educators, mostly women with
little or no dance training, attending
a three day summer event at the
RCM called Art of Teaching
2004: Active Learning. This elective
workshop was called "The
Arte of Dancing".
"In baroque dance, each component
of the dance is tied to the music."
Daniel explains. "Listen, and
you will know when to move."
To give them credit, they all
gave it their best shot. Only one
eventually sat down - her legs
could not handle the non-stop stepping,
hopping rising and bending
that the rest survived. What kept
them going was the baroque music
itself - a musical language which
required no explanation for most.
Their appreciation of the music
made up for their lack of dance expertise.
Handel, Purcell, Lully and
Rameau combined with Daniel
Gariepy's lively commentary,
which ran like a thread through the
instructions, kept things sweeping
along graciously.
"Obviously there are dance
suites which were written as concert
music, but all of those fom1S
- Allemande, Courante, Sarabande,
Gigue, Gavotte, Minuet
these are all dances .... A musician
who has actually danced a minuet
has an infonned sense of what the
music asl

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The National Youth Orchestra
of Canada ended their
cross-Canada tour in Toronto on
August 17th, a well-honed ensemble
under the baton of veteran
conductor Kazuyoshi Akiyama.
I was in attendance hopingto
hear the work of this year's
composers in residence, BC
based Stephen Chatman and Rodney
Graham. As expected, the
NYOC rotated through a wide
range of repertoire on this threeweek
tour.
On this evening we heard one
of the set programmes, which
included only one Canadian
work, Chatman's Tara's
Dream. The piece had some of
what I expected from Chatman,
mixing in references from popular
genres like jazz, big band, rags and
waltzes, but also some 18th Cen-
, tury classical (moments sounded
like a Mozart piano concerto), and
contemporary practices. Despite the
nagging familiarity of the mixed up
music, all the material was original,
which makes me commend
Chatman's compositional versatility.
I was really impressed with
how he melded together so many
musical fragments, taking us on a
wild journey through this Tara's
dream. The opening had a particularly
beautiful sequence where two
harps and what sounded like glock-
. enspiel created a dream-like environment,
veiled and occasionally
obscured by lush. and romantic
Strings playing in a completely different
key and tempo. What was
even more remarkable, in hindsight,
was how Tara's Dream created
a logical link between the Berlioz
Overture that opened the concert
and the rousing rendition of
Ravel's Ln Valse, which brought
us to intermission. It was intriguing
to hear how new Canadian work
can make its links back to great
works of the 19th and 20th Century
and hold its place among them.
Sitting beside me in the concert
hall was Soundstreams Canada's
Artistic Director Lawrence Cherney.
Before the lights went down
for the second half, we had the
chance to discuss what is coming
up at Soundstrearns for 2004-2005,
including the trials and travails of
putting together that pesky season
brochure. Soundstrearns is one of
J.he first new music presenters out
of the gale in the upcoming season.
Their first concert, entitled Kaleidoscope,
continues the artistic direction
of Soundstream's Encounters
Series. These concerts match
up one international composer with
a Canadian equivalent. Sept 27 at
the Glenn Gould Studio, Danish
composer Paul Ruders will be
paired with pioneering Canadian
composer Harry Freedman.
Freedman is truly one of this
country's artistic pioneers: he is a
founding member of the Canadian
League of Composers and of the
Guild of Canadian Film Composers,
not to mention an Officer of
the Order of Canada since 1984.
Although Freedman is one of Canada's
most frequently performed
composers, bridging the jazz and
classical worlds, we don't often get
to hear concerts devoted to large
amounts of his work. This alone
makes this concert a treat. Freedman's
"encounter" counterpart,
Pou! Ruders, might be best known
to Canadians for his operatic adaptation
of Margaret Atwood's
popular novel The Handmaid's
Tale. And as luck would have it,
the Canadian Opera Company will
present the Canadian premiere .of
Ruder's The Handmaid's Tale
starting on September 23rd at the
Hummingbird Centre.
Both Soundstreams and COC
concerts are also part of the much
larger, multi-disciplinary and extremely
ambitious SUPERDAN­
ISH: Newfangled Danish Culture
festival, which launches at Harbourfront
Centre Sept 28.
FOLLOWING THROUGH ON the thread
of Canadian inspired opera, Tap-
Left: Harry Freedman
estry New Opera Works will
present the results of their Composer-Librettist
Laboratory (or
Lib-Lab for short) at its Opera
Briefs event Sept 28 & 29. You
can find them at the Tapestry/Night-
. wood New Works Space in the
Cannery building of the trendy
Distillery District. In their own
words, Tapestry describes the
event as "Astonishing, entertainjng,
irreverent, provocative, moving
... the diversity is dazzling and
the creative energy palpable during
this marvellous annual event." If you
can't make it to this one, you may
want to get a sneak peek as Tapestry
stages a selection of Opera
Briefs at the Word on the Street
Festival's Stage & Screen tent in
Queen's Park on September 26th.
AND AS AN ODDLY FORTUITOUS closing
of the loop, New Music Concerts
brings together the Western
Canadian and Danish connections
for the opening of its 2004-2005
season. On October 2nd, Edmonton's
Hammerhead Consort, an
unusual combination of two pianos
and two percussionists, visits
. Toronto to perform the work of
Alberta composer Howard Bashaw
(who was profiled in last issue's
Composer to Composer column)
and to deliver two world premieres,
one from BC composer Keith
Hamel and the other from Danish
composer Kirn Helweg. They do so
at the Music Gallery, Toronto's
home for new and unusual music.
Just as the summer season comes
to a close, it certainly seems like
this year's new music season is
already off to a dynamic start. I
truly look forward to hearing how
it will unfold.
(Jason van Eyk is the CMC's Ontario
Regional Director. He can
be reached at 416-961-6601 x. 207
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Round up
COAUTlON OF NEW MUSIC PRESENTERS
BY KEITH DENNING
The summer is winding down and a new season of great concerts is
gearing up. While September is not usually a busy time for new
music, more than a few members of the Coalition are getting their
seasons underway. H
re is a brief Jineup of upcomin
events.
On September 12th at 7:00 (note the early start), the Music Gallery
presents the ensemble Ex Tempore as a part of their Fresh Ears
family series, which is a series of new music concerts designed with
younger ears in mind (an excellent idea, in my opinion!)
Earshot Concerts kicks off its concert season with a gala fundraiser
at the rooftop garden at the Da!housie, 155 Da!housie Street on
Thursday, September 23rd at 7:30. There is a great concert lined up,
as well as an auction, balloon bust, door prizes and more.
Monday, September 27th has Soundstreams Canada presenting a
concert of music by Pou! Ruders and Harry -Freedman featuring the
Gryphon Trio and Gary Kulesha at the Glenn Gould Studio at 8:00.
As an added bonus, at 7:00 there is a pre-concert concert called
"Young Artist Overture" which features works. by student composers
performed by young players, another excellent and worthy project.
The Toronto music community was saddened by the death, earlier
this year, of composer and professor Lothar Klein. I have fond
memories of having studied composition under him at the University
of Toronto and am pleased to report that a free concert of his music
will be held at Walter Hall in the Faculty of Music, on October 3rd at
2:30.
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On Saturday October 2nd at the Music Gallery, New Music Concerts
presents The Harrunerhead Consort, a terrific and unusual
ensemble from Edmonton, presenting works by Canadians Howard
Bashaw and Keith Hamel, as well as a new work by Danish composer
Kim Helwig. The Harrunerhead Consort is aptly named,
comprising two pianists and rwo percussionists.
Monday, October 4th at 8:00 at the Music Gallery, WholeNote
Magazine kicks off a series of nine Monday salons at the Music
Gallery, counting down to the magazine's tenth anniversary next
September. These concerts. taking place on the first Monday of every
month, will explore the talents of staff, writers, and other associates
of WholeNote Magazine, many of whom are musicians in their own
right, spanning the entire range of music, from baroque to jazz, from
world music to; of course, new music.
Finally, on October 7th, Earshot Concerts' first "real" concert of
the year takes place at the Music Gallery at 8:00. Called Gold of
Hours, this concert features a major new work by Toronto composer
and performer Charlie Ringas. Influenced by ancient mysticism, jazz,
minimalist traditions and progressive rock, this music for twelve-piece
chamber and four-part choir is hypnotic, energetic and accessible.
.Charlie's music has been enjoyed by fans of new music, jazz, and
more for many years.
All in all, it looks like a promising start to another great season of
new music in Toronto.
compiled by David Olds
NN = some serious contemporary repertoire ·
NNN = thoroughly contemporary NI = new/improvised music
Friday September 03
NI - 8:00 & 1 O:OOpm: Rough Idea/Root
MeanSquare. SOIJOre.
Sunday September lZ
NI,-- 7:00: Music Gallery. Fresh Ears Family
Senes: Ex Tempore.
NN - 7:30: Collaborations: A Chamber
Arts Experience. Eqwlibnilm.
Sunday September 19
NN - 2:00: Fiona Strachan, soprano and
'Yline monauy
Salons
at the
St. George the Martyr Church
197 John St. 416-204-1080
Tickets $12, $8 seniors/students
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Georgi Brough, piano. Women and Song
Thursday September ZJ
NNN - 7:30: Canadian Opera Company.
Ruders: The H;mdmaid's Tale.
NN - 7:30: Earshot Concerts. Gala Fundraiser.
Monday S1ptember Z7
NNN - 8:00: Soundstraams Canada/CBC
Radio Two. Kaleidoscope
QUICK PICKS CONTINUES
ON PAGE 51
for full line-up
and schedule, go to
worldsofmusic.ca
info@worldsofmusic.ca
. 416.588.8813
S ince WholeNote's editorial
focus this month is Music Education,
I wanted to bring to your
awareness some of the opportunities
for musical development outside
the Western c.lassical realm.
As I mentioned in a previous article,
we are increasingly living in a
true "Global Village," and as Torontonians
we are privileged to have
an1ong us many fine musicians and
teachers representing musical traditions
from around the world.
WORLD VIEW
Below is a listing, by no means
complete, of some of the institutions
or venues in the city offering
instruction to the general public in
a variety of traditions, as well as a
few community ensembles that may
have openings for new members.
Now IN ITS second year, the Royal
Conservatory of Music's World
Music Centre offers a wide variety
of courses beginning in September
or January. Most are for adults,
though some accept teens. Courses
'offered: Gamelan, Steel Pan,
Taiko Drumming, Ghanaian Drumming,
Flamenco Guitar, Brazilian
Samba, World Music Chorus, Pan
Flute, Canadian Fiddling, Tinwhistle,
Tabla, Latin Jazz, Celtic
Harp. For more information, call
416-408-2825 or visit the website
www.rcmusic.ca and click on
RCM Communit School.
Worlds of Music Toronto
presents its lOth anniversary season
of Global Music Workshops
beginning in late September or
October (depending on the class).
These run for 6 to 12 weeks at
Hart House, U of T's Faculty of
Music and other locations. Classes
offered: Ghanaian Drumming,
Pan-African Drumming, Latin
Rhythms & Percussion, Bellydance
& Arabic Rhythm, Balkan
Song, Canadian Fiddle, Klezmer
Ensemble, Latin Ensemble, .Global
Music for Toddlers & Preschoolers,
Global Music for Educators.
For details, 416-588-8813
or www.worldsofmusic.ca.
IN ADDITION TO ns extensive array
of bellyance classes, Arabesque
Academy also offers classes in
Arabic drumming, singing and
rriusic. Upcoming, Dr. George
Sawa will instruct two workshops,
Arabic Singing and Arabic Drumming,
September 25-0ctober 30 at
20 College St. Call 416-920-5593
or visit www.arabesquedance.ca.
by Karen Ages
Dr. George Sawa
M-DO Centre for World Music
& Dance (50 Spadina Ave.). home
of the Toronto Tabla Ensemble,
offers classes in North Indian percussion
and North Indian classical
dance starting in September. Information
is being updated, so visit
www.tablaensemble.com (for tabla
classes/events); or v1slt
www.mdo-tte.org (for dance classes/events).
NEw IN TOWN, the Raga Music
School (414 Dupont) under the
direction of Neeraj Prem, offers
classes in Indian classical music,
including Sitar, Tabla and Voice,
from beginner to advanced levels.
Classes are also available in Han1-
ilton and Brampton. Call 416-895-
3624 or 905-529-7865 or visit
www.ragamusicschool.com.
Clapping Land, a kids music ed
series run by Sophia Grigoriadis
(of Maza Meze fame) presents
World Music on the Danforth, featuring
two new music programs for
toddlers and pre-schoolers using
songs, activities and instruments
from around the world. Sound
Adventures is for 11/z to 3112 yearolds,
and Sound Explorers is for
3112 to 5 year olds. Call Sophia at
416-406-5944.
ONE CHILDREN'S and two adult Javanese
Gamelan ensembles rehearse
weekly at the Indonesian Consulate
on Jarvis at Richmond and may
still have openings for new members.
Gamelan Toronto rehearses
Friday evenings (call Andrew
Timar a't 416-653-8747) and
Gamelan Gong Sabrang rehearses
Thursday evenings (call Annette
Sanger at 416-461-3756 or e-mail
sabrang@s ympatico. ea). Both
groups give public perfoffi1al1ces.
The kids gamelan, Sekar Sunu
Laras, rehearses Mondays from
4:30-6pm; contact Nur Intan Murtadza
at 416-656-3060 or
nurintan@yorku.ca.
WORLD VIEW CONTINUES ON PAGE 54
SEPTEMBER 1 - OCTOBER 7 2004

A T I T • Q I 0 .R G I T H I M A R T Y R
Welcome to our new season! 2004/05 launches this month ...
After a stressful last season involving
deficits, funding cuts, staff layoffs and concert
cancellations, we here at The Music
. Gallery (Toronto's Centre for New and
Unusual Music) are happy to announce
that we are back in full force for the new
2004/05 season, our fourth year at our current
home, St. George the Martyr Church.
We return invigorated and excited to
announce new additions to our concert
programming. First off, we are launching
a new concert series called Pop Avant,
which features artists arising from the
independent pop and rock communities
who incorporate experimental ideas and
practices into their music. The Pop Avant
series launches with five concerts this
year -- confirmed acts so far include The
Microphones with Guitarkestra (Sept. 6)
and Devendra Banhart (Nov. 12).
Other innovations this year include
two special projects. the Italian Intensive
(focusing on Italian new music after 1950)
and an artists' residency with the
Madawaska String Quartet, beginning in
2005. Our long-running Composer Now
· series will be split iilto two components:
the V.l.P. (Virtuoso lntrumental
Performances) concerts and the ON
TOUR series, featuring new music artists
from across Canada .
We will continue our Collaborations
with other presenters, such as
Arraymusic, New Music Concerts, Ergo
Projects and NUMUS. And starting Oct.
4th, we present Nine Mondays, a salon
night held on the first Monday of every
month, hosted by and featuring
WholeNote Magazine's writers, editors
and associates.
In Music Gallery Institute news, the
Fresh Ears family series launches Sept. 12
with Ursel Schlicht's Ex Tempore (see
below). Fall sessions of the MGI instructional
programs for adults and families, in computer
-assisted music and creative world
percussion, start the week of Sept. 27. For
more info, or to register, contact Barry
Prophet at bprophet@idirect.com or 416-
588-2514. And the MGI and St. George the
Martyr's Wednesday afternoon Free Lunch
Music series returns Oct. 6, with the added
support of the Canadian Music Centre.
music gallery concert schedule: core programming, sept. '04
music gallery: rental information
THE MUSIC GALLERY IS AVAILABLE FOR
RENTALS TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE
COMMUNITY. THE VISUALLY STUNNING,
SPECIALIZED ACOUSTIC CHAMBER OF ST.
GEORGE THE MARTYR CAN ACCOMMODATE
UP TO 150 PEOPLE. FOR MORE INFORMA·
mon 09/06 the microphones (wash.)+ guitarkestra (t.o.)
POP AVANT SERIES @ 8PM, $10 ADV/$12 DOOR
Anacortes, Washington native and singer/songwriter Phil Elvrum records under the name The
Microphones, releasing masterful psychedelic indie-pop albums like Mount Eerie (2003) and The
Glow, Pt. 2 (2001) on K Records. As a solo performer, he has played two sold-out shows at The
Music Gallery two years in a row. Now, he returns to launch our new Pop Avant series, with a
full-band set featuring backing from Toronto independent band the Sea Snakes. The evening will
be opened by Guitarkestra, a.k.a. Craig Dunsmuir, who melds minimalist composition with
African-inspired melodies, all held together with just an electric guitar and a looping pedal.
TION, GO TO WWW.MUSICGALLERY.ORG OR
CONTACT CLARISSA DEYOUNG AT 416·
204-1080.
coming up in october
10/01 mandolini + poulin (italy/mtl.)
10/04 nine mondays
THE COMPOSER NOW: V.1.P.
SALON SERIES HOSTED BY WHOLENOTE
10/05 corona guitar kvartet (dk)
THE COMPOSER NOW: V. l.P.
10/17 motion ensemble (n.b.)
THE COMPOSER NOW: ON TOUR
10/28 madawaska string quartet (t.o.)
RESIDENCY
LAUNCH + FUNDRAISER
sun 09/12 ursel schlicht's extempore·· feat. ravish momim (nyc)
FRESH EARS FAMILY SERIES @ 7PM, $15/$10/$5
The Ex Tempore ensemble was formed by New York resident Ursel Schlicht in response to the
events of Sept 11, 2001. The German-born pianist-composer plays improvised music, jazz, new
and world music, and fostering intercultural exchange and collaborations has become an important
focus of her work. In September 2002, during the Documenta 11, she produced and performed
in "Ex Tempore 2", a week-long international collaboration featuring artists from
Germany, the US, India, Eritrea and Afghanistan. The Ex Tempore ensemble includes Gabriele
Hasler (vocals), Jamie Baum (flute), Ravish Momim (percussion), Brandon Terzic
(guitar/oud/saz/cumbus) and Thomson Kneeland (bass).
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box office: 416-204-1080
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JAZZ NOTES
by Jim Galloway
A s I was beginning this
J-\: month's anicle I received
the dreadful news about the death
of Brian Ogilvie. Originally from
Vancouver, Brian was a rare talent,
both on clarinet and saxophone,
with a great love of the:: early
forms of jazz. He made his home
in Toronto for a number of years
where he quickly established hill)self.
The Ogilvie Brothers band with
Don on guitar and Kenny on bass,
became a fixture on the scene before
Brian's move to San Antonio
in 1992 and a place in the Jim Cullum
Band. In 1995 he moved to
New Orleans where he immediately
became one of the "in demand"
players. He appear.ed in festivals
here as well as in the States and
Europe and was playing at the
Nairn Festival in Scotland on August
12th. when he collapsed. Brian
died on the 14th of August without
regaining consciousness.
He was a member of my Wee
Big Band until his move to the States
and in that time he played his way
into the hearts of everybody in the
band and all who heard his music.
Brian's big, warm tone and his
concept of the traditions of the
music were only two of the ingredients
that made him special. He
was also a good guy.
His death, at age 50, is a profound
Joss - Brian was the real thing and
we all will miss him, but never
forget him.
(PORT)HOPE SPRJNGS ETERNAL
Just when you thought it was all
over for the jazz festival season,
here comes another - this time it
is the 3rd annual All-Canadian
Jazz Festival in Port Hope, September
24 to 26. Necessity may
well have been the mother of invention
and the decision to make
the Port Hope Festival 100% Canadian
a mixture of budgetary concerns
along with a sense of patriotism,
but whatever, the event has
a stellar Maple Leaf line-up of artists
such as Ranee Lee, Francois
Bourassa, Alain Caron, Christine
Jensen, Renee Rosnes, Michael
Kaeshammer, Alex Pangman and
Pat LaBarbera - just some of the
artists helping to turn the town into
jazz city for a week-end.
DowN Bv THE OLD MtLL. ••
The Old Mill, built on the site ,of,
the original 200-year-old King's
2-a
Mill,is something of an institution
in this town and not just as a hotel
and spa. It has been a home for
music for a long time. In 1921 it
began to feature dancing to live
music, albeit with a pretty small
group,
violinist Cec Ryder and
pianist Nelson Hatch.
When a
new dance floor was added in 1929,
the duo expanded to a nine piece
orchestra. In more recent years it
has been one of the few, if not the
only place to go dinner-dancing,
although the band became a small
combo.
Well, on the 24th of September
it will be big band night again at
the Old Mill when the last Friday
in the month is turned over to the
is a "Jazz Studies Benefit Concert
" - PJ Perry and an all-star faculty
ba nd with Alex Dean, Terry
Clarke, Kirk MacDonald, Terry
Promane, Paul Read, Chase Sanborn
& Dave Young. Tickets for
this special one-nighter are $50.00.
The Rex continues its admirable
support of local musicians,
(with the occasional visiting firemen),
in another jazz-filled month
featuring literally dozens of bands
over the 30 days which hath September.
FRANK FALCO IS ONE of the best
piano teachers in town. He is also
a really good player, but one who
has chosen over the years to "hide
his light under a bushel''. To say
that he has kept a low profile over
the years is an understatement, but
he has been coaxed out of his
house and you can catch him on
Sunday September 12th at Christ
Church Deer Park, 1570 Yonge
Street, at 4:30. With Frank you can
hear Rick Wilkins on sax, Scott
Alexander, bass and drummer Brian
Barlow.
Two weeks later at
the same altar of jazz you can hear
the solo piano of Marilyn Lerner.
As you can see, lots going on, so
please get out there and listen to
some live jazz. You'll feel better
for it. Happy listening!
swing sounds of a big band. The.-----.
series will kick off with my Wee
Big Band and you are cordially
invited.
WELCOME To THE CLUB
Summer is now lodged in the memory
bank and we are into the fall
season which. means that the club
scene starts
to heat up for the
colder weather with visiting artists
such as singer/songwriter Anne
Hampton Calloway at the Top 0'
The Senator late in the month, followed
by one of our adopted favourites
originally from Quebec,
Renee Rosnes, who brings her
quintet to the club t.o take us ·from
September into October.
Over at The Montreal Bistro,
there are a couple of special events
during the month. On Monday,
September 20, a tribute to Duke
Ellington will feature David Warrack
and Friends - with Shakura
S' Aida, Thom Allison, Bill Bridges,
Duncan Hopkins, Michael Stuart
& Don Vickery and a week later
on Monday, September 27 there
In the Jazz Listings
Dave Buchbinder: catch Shu rum Bunun Sep 4, 11; and Oct 6
by Sophia Perlman
While September is gearing up
to be an exciting month for. jazz
in the clubs, it is also going to
be an equally exciting month in
the concert halls - with a range
of jazz performances happening
in the Greater Toronto Area.
The Toronto Progressive
Jazz Concert Series presents
eight concerts featuring world
renowned jazz artists at various
concert halls and clubs across
Toronto, beginning September
11, with the Addison Groove
Project at The 360. The series
continues with performances by
Soulive, and the Dave Holland
Quintet performing in
September, with performances by
many others in October and
November. (See our Co11cert
Quick Picks for more details).
Just when you thought you'd
seen the end of the festival
season, there two great
opportunities to get out of the
city and hear some great music
this fall. The Guelph Jazz
Festival (September 8-11) and
the All-Canadian Jazz
Festival in Port Hope·
(September 24-26) offer a
great opportunity to hear both
some great established
musicians as well as some
incredible rising talent.
Speaking ofrising talent, this
month students are returning to
classes at not one, but two
renowned jazz programs in
Toronto. On September 27•h,
the UofT jazz studies program
is holding a benefit concert at
the Montreal Bistro featuring
some of its faculty - including
Alex Dean, Terry Clarke, Kirk
MacDonald, Terry Promane,
Paul Read, Chase Sanborn and
Dave Young (Tickets $50
through the University: 416-
946-3580).
And of course, as always,
the clubs are full of great
Toronto jazz. For more
information, please see the
listings on page 52.
SEPTEMBER 1 - OCTOBER 7 2004

Go Guelph: I Ith Jazz Festival Outdoes Itself
BY PHIL EHRENSAFT
I
f your musical interests encom-
pass avant-garde jazz and im-
provised New Music, you most def-
ticket prices to boot. A dream quarinitely
want to savour year 11 of
the Guelph Jazz Festival, Sept 10-
·Now to the superb music.
There's a generous presence of
avant-garde pioneers with modest
tet with saxophonist Archie Shepp,
trombonist Roswell Rudd on trom-
12. If your schedule permits, take bone, bassist Reggie Workman,
three vacation days at the lead-in
and drummer Andrew Cyrille headcolloquium
where scholars and mu-
sicians trade thoughts on the art
leads a percussion quartet that inthat
is the centre of their lives, in-
eludes fellow jazz pioneer Famouterspersed
with a generous dollop
of concerts and musicians' work-
shops. This celebration begins the
afternoon of the 8th and runs
through Friday, including Thurs-
day evening where eminent saxo-
phonist and composer Oliver Lake
joins forces with Native American
lines Saturday night. Cyrille also
dou Don Moye and two master
Ghanaian drummers.
William Parker is both a top
bassist and key organizer of the
Down town scene. The seminal
Chicago percussionist Hamid
Drake and the remarkable Tuva
vocalist Sainkho Namtchylak round
vocalist Mary Redhouse. out the group. Free jazz bass pio- ·
Guelph 's an important player in
fostering Canada's New Music.
The artistic director Ajay I-Jehle and
festival manager Julie Hastings
Leandre in a duo with San Franwork
hard to expose musicians
from New York's Downtown
neer Barre Phillips leads a trio.
The bass cornucopia includes
France's multidimensional Joelle
cisco violinist India Cooke.
Younger generations are not nescene,
the nerve centre of avant- glected. Percussionist Suzie lbargarde
jazz, and their European
counterparts to this country's ex-
ceptional talent. The festival's of-
ficial launching of a new interna-
ra, a very bright new light in the
New York jazz scene, leads a trio.
Drummer John Hollenbeck and
Downtown vocalist Theo Bleck-
. tional journal on improvised mu- man are full of surprises. The 4insic
will provide parallel exposure
for Canadian researchers.
Within Canada, Guelph bridges
derfully in Quebecite, the jazz opour
musical solitudes. This year's
Objects jazz collective features
Yoon Sun Choi, who sang won-
era premiered at last year's festileading
lights from Montreal 's vi- val. Toronto's Barnyard .Drama,
brant improv scene include Jean
Derome, Joanne Hetu,
Walsh, Michel Lambert and Thorn
Gossage. The broad network of
sponsors that Heble and Hastings
recruited bodes well. The lead
sponsor of this Ontario festival is
none other than Quebec's premier
featuring vocalist extraordinaire
Tom Christine Duncan and drummer/
turntablist Jean Martin is quite ca­
pable of holding its own in the
company of this distinguished
Downtown New York talent.
The above is just a sample. For a
full schedule, call 519-763-3155, or
financial institution, Desjardins! go to www.guelphjazzfestival.com .
•
Featuring some of Toronto's best jazz musicians
with a brief reflection by Jazz Vespers Clergy
Sunday, September 12 • 4:30
RICK WILKINS, saxophone; FRANK FALCO, piano;
SCOTT ALEXANDER, bass; BRIAN BARLOW, drums
Sunday, September 26 - 4:30
MARILYN LERNER, solo piano
Christ Church Deer Park, 1570 Yonge Street
(north of St. Clair at Heath St.) 416·920-5211
Admission is free.
An offering is received to support the work of the church, including Jazz Vespers.
• all-canadian
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FESTIVAL oort hope
September 4. 25 & 26. 1004
Mapf !.eeV.r.oove
Salute to Canadian Composers
Montreal Smokes
Alain Caron
Franois Bourassa
Michel Donato's Hot Club Trio
The Canadian Premiere of
RNQ
Daytime Concerts
Memorial Park 12.00 noon -6.00p.m.
Sat u r d·a y
Blow Your Own Horn Jazz Parade
Kevin Clark • Pat LaBarbera Quintet
Alex Fangman • Roberto Occhipinti Sextet
Daniel Barnes Trio ·Moe Koffman Tribute Band
Young Jazz Showcase ·
Sunday
Peter Dent Quartet •Brian Barlow Brass Quintet
Karin Plato Quartet• Michael Kaeshammer
Christine Jensen Quartet• Young Jazz Showcase
www.allcanadianjazz.ca
Great Jazz' all Weekend in Port Hope
Canada's National Jazz Festival
Tickets
Headliner Concerts $30. Night Club Cover $10
Memorial Park: Daypass $15 Weekend $25, under 12's free.
Tickets 1-866-565-5009
Online at www.capitoltheatre.com
and at the gate for Daytime Passes
Port Hope is' one hour east of Toronto on the 401, exit 461
SEPTEMBER 1 - OCTOBER 7 2004 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COM 29

Here it is. To the best of my knowledge, this is the most complete list of bands in
Southern Ontario you'll find in one place. The list is divided into four sections:
Community Bands, Brass Bands, Youth Bands and "Etcetera". Within each section
bands are listed in order of rehearsal day, starting with Monday. It's wise to
make contact by phone or e1T1ail before heading out to a rehearsal, just in case
the group you're interested in has an upcoming event or has changed its schedule.
If you find a band listing is incorrect, forward the info to me at
merlinwilliams@sympatico.ca and I'll do an update in an ypcoming issue.
COMMUNITY BANDS
Cambridge Concert Band
Conductor: Gerald Stepheson
Contact: Liz Reed 519 653· 1055
info([icambridgeconcertband.com
Website: www.cambridgeconcertband.com
Rehearsals: Mondays, 7:45pm at the
Preston Legion, Br. 126, Westminster &
Margaret Sts. in Cambridge
Instruments needed: oboe, trombones and
clarinets
East York Concert Band
Conductor: Ernie Walker
Contact: Ernie Walker: 416-266 -1958
c onduc tor@east yo rk concert band. ea
Website: www.eastyorkconcertband.ca
Rehearsals: Mondays, 8pm starting Sept. 13
McGregor P.S.
Coxwell & Mortimer, East York
Instruments needed: horns, bassoon, alto/
tenor/bari sax, percussion, clarinets, flutes
Kitchener Musical Society Band
Conductor: Paul Schalm
Contact: Paul Schalm: 519-742· 1137
schalmp@golden.net
Website: www.kmsb.org
Rehearsals: Mondays at 7:30pm
Victoria Park Pavilion, Kitchener
Instruments needed: all
The Koffler Concert Band
Conductor: Resa Kochberg
Contact: Resa Kochberg 905-731·4845 or
Adrienne Cohen 416-636· 1880 ext.228
Rehearsals: Mondays, 8pm
8BJC 4588 Bathurst St., Toronto
lnstnments needed: brass, but all are welcoo1!
Markham Concert Band
Conductor: Ooug Manning
Contact: John Brooker 416-332·4639 or
jbrooker@netstar .ea
Website: www.mcb.on.ca
Rehearsals: Mondays, 7:30 pm at
Markham Community Centre
Hwys. 48 & 7, Markham
Instruments needed: all
Niagara Falls Concert Band
Conductor: Brenda Green
Contact: Bob Ourst 905·935-3276
Rehearsals: Mondays, 7:30 pm
Legion on Spring St., Niagara Falls
North Toronto Community Band
Conductor: Denis Mastromonaco
Contact: Gale Bassett 416-481· 1978
gale.bassett@sympatico.ca
Rehearsals: Mondays, 7:15 pm starting
Sept. 13 at Lawrence Paik C.I. Auditorium,
125 Chatsworth Dr. Toronto
Instruments needed: trombone, euphonium.
horn, alto sax. flute
The Regimental Band of The Lorne
Scots (Peel, Duffarin and Halton Regiment)
Conductor: Henry Verschuren CD
Contact: Henry Verschuren 416-564·3126
henryver([isympatico.ca
Rehearsals: Monday evenings · call for
time and location
Instruments needed: all, some supplied
Scarborough Community Concert Band
Conductor: Tom Dowling
Contact: Tom Dowling 416·282·7973
band([isccb.org
Website: www.sccb.org
Rehearsals: Mondays, 7pni at Samuel
Hearne P.S., near Danforth and Pharmacy
Instruments needed: all
South Simcoe Concert Band
Conductor: Major Don Embree
Contact: Ron McKay 705-424·0312
Rehearsals: Mondays
Oetiker Ltd., 203 Dullerin St. S., Alliston
Instruments needed: all
Waterloo Concert Band
Conductor: Martin Lacoste
abouttheband@waterlooband.com
Website: www.waterlooband.com
Rehearsals: Mondays at 8pm in the Adult
Recreation Cen.tre, King St., Waterloo
Instruments needed: all (esp. saxes, horn,
tuba, double reeds)
Barrie Concert Band
Conductor: Daniel Johnston
Contact: Earl Winter 705-721-6863 or
Henry Bergsma 705· 721-4168
Rehearsals: Tuesdays, 8pm to 1 Om
Allendale Recreational Centre, corner of
Bayview and Little Ave., Barrie
Instruments needed: all
Brampton Concert Band
Conductor: Darryl Eaton
Contact: David Harmsworth
905·451-6389 (h), 905-451-0174 (b)
cbcband@aztec-net.com
Web: www.bramptonconcertband.com
Rehearsals: Tuesdays, 7:30pm
55a Oueen St. E., Brampton
(beside the library)
Instruments needed: clarinets, auxiliary
percussion.
Dundas Concert Band
Conductor: Bill Rolfe
Contact: Kurt Schipper 905-628-8512
Rehearsals: Tuesdays, 8pm
Dundas Town Hall,
Main St. W., Dundas
Instruments needed: euphonium, flute,
clarinet, trombone, oboe, bassoon,
percussion
Festival Wind Orchestra
Conductor: Gennady Getter
Contact: Shelley Goodman 416-491· 1683.
fwotickets@rogers.com
Website: www.festivalwindorchestra.com
Rehearsals: Tuesdays, 7:30pm
Earl Haig S.S., room 163,
100 Princess Ave. North York
Instruments needed: all, and principal
clarinet
Galt Kiltie Band
Conductor: David Davidson
Contact: Bob Fox 519-621-8707
Website: www.galtkiltieband.com
Rehearsals: Tuesdays, 8pm
please contact for location
Instruments needed: clarinets, bass
clarinet, flutes, oboe, tuba
Hart House Symphonic Band
Conductor: Keith Reid
Contact: Linda Oiiman 416-978-5363
Ii nda. off man([i ut o ronto. c a
Website: http://hhsb.sa.utoronto.ca
Rehearsals: Tuesdays, 6:30pm
Great Hall at Hart House
(open rehearsals on Sept. 14 & 21)
All welcome to audition. Hart House
membership/student status required
Newmarket Citizens' Band
Conductor: Leslie Saville
Contact: Carol Bracken 905-478-2530
gay lambert@hotmail.com
Website: members.rogers.com/ncband
Rehearsals: Tuesdays, 8pm,
Newmarket Lions Club,
375 D'Arcy St., Newmarket
Instruments needed: all welcome, esp.
bassoon, tuba, all bass instruments
Oakville Wind Orchestra
Conductor: Chris Arthurs
Contact: Jacquie Holmborg 905-338·8114
jacquie.s.holmberg@can.dupont.com
Rehearsals: Tuesdays, 8pm
Iroquois Ridge S. S., Glenashton Rd.,
Oakville
lnstrul"(lents needed: tuba, clarinets,
bassoon, euphonium, percussion
Pickering Community Concert Band
Conductor: Andrew Locker
Contact: Brian Rose 905-683-9867
brianrose@sympatico.ca
Website: www.concertband.ca
Rehearsals: Tuesdays, 7:30pm
East Shore Community Centre
910 Ljverpool Rd., Pickering
Instruments needed: all
Thornhill Community Band
Conductor: Denny Ringler
Contact: Joan or Lawry Sax
416·223·7152 or tcband@rogers.com
Website: www.tcband.ca
Rehearsals: Tuesdays, 7:30pm
Westmount C.I., Bathurst & New
Westminster, Vaughan
Instruments needed: all welcome, esp.
bassoon, tuba, bass, percussion, flute,
clarinet, horn
Caledon Concert Band
Conductor: Rob Kinnear
Contact: Zandra Alexander
zandra@caledonconcertband.com
Website: www.caledonconcertband.com
Rehearsals: W1dn11days, 7:30pm
Caledon East Community Complex,
behind OPP station on Old Church Rd.
Caledon East
Instruments needed: clarinets, trumpets,
horns and percussion. All players ·
welcome, even rusty.
Etobicoke Community Concert Band
Conductor: John Edward Liddle
Contact: Bob Dobson 416-621 ·4231
Rehearsals: Wednesdays, 7:30pm
Etobicoke C.I.,
86 Montgomery Rd. Etobicoke
Instruments needed: bass clarinet,
bassoon
Frontenac Community Concert Band
Conductor: Rick Cory
Contact: Rick Cory 613-549-7436,
rick.cory@sympatico.ca
http://post.queensu.ca/ - ab25/FCCB
Rehearsals: Wednesdays, 7:30pm
Loyalist Collegiate, Kingston
Instruments needed: all
Hamilton Concert Band
Conductor: Gerald Stephenson
Contact: Dave Pearson 905· 772-5205
paul([itheromanows.com
Website: www.hamiltonband.org
Rehearsals: Wednesdays, 7:30pm
Emmanuel United Church
Upper Ottawa & Mohawk., Hamilton
Instruments needed: horns, percussion,
euphonium, bassoon
Mississauga Pops Concert Band
Conductor: Denny Ringler
Contact Allan Harris 905-681·2047
info@mississaugapops.com '
Website: www.mississaugapops.com
Rehearsals: Wednesdays, 7:30 pm
Eden United Church, NW corner of Winston
Churchill & Battleford, Mississauga
Peel Police Chief's Ceremonial Band
Conductor: Lino Varano
Contact: Band Manager, Leona Beck
905· 790·0171
Rehearsals: Wednesdays, 8pm
Peel Police Headquarters,
7750 Hurontario St. . Brampton
Instruments needed: all (minimum agel 71
Thorold Reed Band
Conductor: Brian Williams
Contact person: Brian Williams
905-227-0150
Rehearsals: Wednesdays, 7:30pm
St. John's Anglican Church
Ormond St., Thorold
Instruments needed: all
Clarington Concert Band
Conductor: Barrie Hodgins
Contact: Colin Rowe, President
905-697-8956
claringtonconcertband@yahoo.ca
Web: www.geocities.com/clarington
concertband
Rehearsals: Thursdays, 7:30pm
Bowmanville Sr. P. S.,
105 Oueen St., Bowmanville
Instruments needed: all
Fort Erie Legion Concert Band
Conductor: Brian Williams
Contact: Brian Williams 905-227-0150
Rehearsals: Thursdays, 7:30 pm,
Fort Erie Legion, Garrison Rd., Fort Erie
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Instruments needed: all
Lydian Wind Ensemble ,
Conductor: Mike Onyschuk
Contact: William Patton 905-666-3169 .
wpatt on@sympat i co. ea
Website: http://durham.metrolandhub.com/
main.wsi?group id-100
Rehearsals: Thursdays· at 7:30 pm, call
for location in Whitby
instruments needed: all, esp. horns,
trombones, saxes; auditions within
rehearsals
North York Concert Band
Conductor: John Edward Liddle
Contact: Sidney Gangbar
416-781-6728
sydneygangbar@rogers. corn
Website: www.northyorkconcertband.ca
Rehearsals: Thursdays, 8pm.
Instruments needed: all
Swansea Community Concert Band
Conductor: Frank Evans
Contact: Michelle Springer, 416-286-1045
michellespring68@hotmail.com
Rehearsals: Thursdays, 7-9 pm
Western Technical and Commercial School,
123 Evelyn Cres. Toronto (starting Sept. 16)
All are welcome
Bayfield Winds Concert Band
Conductor: Hug McGregor
Contact: Paul Oearlove 519-565-5611
Rehearsals: every 2nd Sunday, 1:30pm
Goderich D.C.I.
Instruments needed: low reeds, horns, oboe
Guelph Concert Band
Conductor: Colin Clarke
Contact: Leslie MacDonald 519-837-0276
info@guelphconcertband.org
Website: www.guelphconcertband.org
Rehearsals: Sundays, 7pm at the Guelph
Youth Music Centre, 75 Cardigan St. Guelph
Instruments needed: all
Northdale Concert Band
Conductor: Stephen Chenette
Contact: Laura Rosenfield 905-886-0858
laura rosenfield@yahoo.com
Rehearsals: Sundays, 7:30 pm at Victoria
Park. & Lawrence Ave., Scarborough
Instruments needed: mallet percussion
BRASS BANDS
Fergus Brass Band
Conductor: Bill French
Contact: Peter Harris 519-843-5609
Website: www.icomm.ca/fergusbb
Rehearsals: Tuesdays at 8pm
Blair St., across from the Fergus Legion
Instruments needed: all brass band
instruments, reeds, woodwinds, sax
Metropolitan Silver Band
onductor: Fran Harvey
Contact: Ken Allen 416-757-8697 or
metband@hotmail.com
Website: www.metunited.org
Rehearsals: Tuesday evenings, 7:45pm
Metropolitan United Church
Oueen St. and Church St. Toronto
Instruments needed: all brass band
instruments
Weston Silver Band
Conductor: Larry Shields
Contact: Dave Pearson·905-772-5205
Website: www.westonsilverband.org
Rehearsals: Tuesdays, 8 pm, Central
United Church, Weston Rd. N. of Lawrence
Instruments needed: cornets
YOUTH BANDS
Burlington Teen Tour Band
Conductor: Bill Hughes
Contact: Rob Bennett, Music Programs
co-ordinator, 905-335· 7807
Website: www.teentourband.org
Rehearsals: Music Centre in Burlington's
Central Park · call for times
Instruments needed: all
Etobicoke Youth Band
Conductors: Les Dobbin and Ken Hazlett
Contact: Michael Samotowka
416-239-9724
Website: www.eyb.com
Rehearsals: call
All welcome to audition.
Hannaford Street Youth Band
Conductor: Larry Shields
Contact: Larry Shields 416-503-8673
hannafordyouth@aol.com
Rehearsals: Saturdays
Instruments needed: all brass & percussion · ·
membership is by audition
Toronto Youth Wind 0 rchestra &
Concert Winds
Conductors: Colin Clarke & David Lum
Contact: Adrienne Pluim 519-835-0492
tywomanager@yahoo.ca
Rehearsals: Sundays, 1 :00 pm
St. Michael's College
1515 Bathurst St. at St. Clair
All players welcome to audition; call for info
ETCETERA
Argonotes, the Toronto Argonauts Band
are always on the lookout for players to
fill out their ranks for the remainder of the
CFL season. If you subscribe to their
philosophy "faster + louder - better",
'then contact the Musical Dictator !not a
typo!) Steve Hayman at 416-769-2847.
steve@argonotes.com, website:
www.argonotes.coni. The band is
currently looking for some sousaphones,
as well as all other instruments.
The Hamilton Tiger Cats are looking for
musicians to join the Tiger Cat Band.
You must be at least 18 years of age and
own your own instrument (except drums.)
The band will play at homes.games,
parades and local events around the
Hamilton area.
Contact Rick Allen
905-388-8236 press #2 or
905-547-2418 x 552 or leave a short
bio-resume at htcband@yahoo.com.
Woodwind doubler Merlin Williams is an
Artist/C linician fo r Jupiter Music
Canada. If you would like an upcoming
band event to be featured in the
Bandstand column, feel free to contact
Merlin by phone at 416-803-0275 or by
e-mail at merlinwilliams@sympatico.ca
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PERA
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ON OPERA
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
. GIUSEPPE MACINA
WILL PRESENT FOR OUR
38THSEASON
IN2005
A scene from the Royal Danish Opera p;oduction of The
Handmaid's Tale, 2003.
OPERA
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Courses & Tours
2004-2005
with
Iain Scott
Sept. Opera 101 - An introduction to Italian Opera.
Oct.
Nov.
Jan.
Jan. 15-16
Feb.
April
June
Myths and Legends in Opera
Ten Top Tenors
Upcoming Operas
Weekend Seminar on "Siegfried"
The Art of Bel Canto
Virgil & Verdi
7 Opera Tour of Northern Italy
www.opera-is .com 416-486-8408
Opera-lovers looking for excitement tinople starring Patricia O'Callaghan
beyond Opera's Top Ten will find and Maryem Tollar. It is described
2004--05 full of riches. The season as "a moving musical, theatrical, and
opens with the Canadian premiere visual exploration of the mythical and
of Danish composer's Poul Ruder's the human, the temporal and the tilre­
The Handmaid's Tale playing Sep- less". At about the same time (Notember
23-0ctober 9. Based on the vember 11-14) the University of
novel by Margaret Atwood, the high- Toronto Opera Division presents
ly-acclaimed opera from 2000 is set an unusual double bill on the theme
in a fundamentalist United States of of death. Paired with Puccini's Githe
future where fertile women are anni Schicchi is a rare outing of
enlisted to have children for the child- Gustav Holst's chamber opera Savitri
less elite. Part of the city-wide "Su- (1908) based on a Hindu story. Also
per-Danish" festival, it stars a in November Royal Opera Cananumber
of former COC Ensemble da makes its first foray into the
members and uses the sets and cos- Russian repertoire with a production
tumes of the original Danish pro- of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin
duction.
playing November 13-20 at the Liv­
On October 30 and 31 Opera in • ing Arts Centre in Mississauga and
Concert presents the 1916 zarzuela
November 25-December 4 at the
"El Gato montes" by Manuel Perr ella
Toronto Centre for the Arts.
about a tragic love triangle. Novem- In December the COC continues its
ber 10" 13 Tapestry New Opera exploration ofBenjamin Britten with
Works presents the Toronto pre- a production of his comic opera Almiere
of Christos Hatzis's Constan- bert Herring showcasing the COC
PROFESSIONAL CLASSICAL SINGERS
are invited to participate in
an operatic recital. Maestro
Vaguif Kerimov (tenor), a
soloist from La Scala,
Covent Garden, Metropoli-
. tan Opera, announces a
concert honouring his teacher, Maestro
Guiseppe di Stefano, which will take place at
the Glenn Gould Studio on January 28, 2005.
To schedule an audition, please call 416-425-
8812, or e-mail vaguifkerimov@hotmail.com.
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Ensemble (November 30-December
5). For one performance only on
December 5. Opera in Concert
presents an all-Canadian double bill
of Timothy Sullivan's Dream Play
(1988) and Charles Wilson's The
Sumnwning of Everyman (1972), a
rare opportunity. to acquaint oneself
with Canadian works from the recent
past. While Hungarian composer
Emmerich Kalman's Countess Mari1za
(1924) is standard repertoire in
Central European countries, it is seldom
heard in North America. From
December 26 to January 8 Toronto
Operetta Theatre gives audiences
a chance to enjoy one of the best
Silver Age operettas ever written.
The operatic event of the new year
is undoubtedly the continuation of
the COC's Ring Cycle with Wagner's
Siegfried playing January 27-
February 11, 2005. This time Francois
Girard, responsible for the
COC's Oedipus Rex, is the stage
director. Frances Ginzer and Peteris
Eglitis reprise their roles as Brunnhilde
and Wotan and bass-baritone
Pavlo Hunka, Hunding in "Die
Walkure", returns as the evil Alberich.
Christian Franz makes his
COC debut in the title role.
Mozart's Die Entfuhrung aus dem
Semi! should not really count as a
rarity, but in fact it hasn't been seen
in the area since a COC production
in 1980. Opera Ontario fills that
lacuna with its production beginning
in Kitchener on February 5 and imving
to Harnilton for February 12 _ 19.
Toronto audiences to the Spanish
Guards that might have come from
Gilbert and Sullivan.
March will see many works based
on myth and fairy-tale for the citywide
"Metamorphosis" festival.
·March 4-12, the University Opera
Division tackles its second opera by
Handel with Semele (1744), directed
by Tom Diamond and conducted
by Tafelmusik's Jeanne Lamon. On
March 9 and 10 the Toronto Symphony
Orchestra presents a concert
version of Stravinsky's opera Le
Rossignol (1914) based on the tale
by Hans Christian Andersen featuring
soloists from St. Petersburg's
Mariinsky Theatre. Reaching back
to the 17th century, Toronto Consort
presents a concert version of
Luigi Rossi's Orfeo (1647) on
March 11 and 12.
Jn April the COC ventures into new
territory with Tancredi, its first ever
production of one of Rossini's serious
operas. From April 1-16 audiences
can thrill to vocal fireworks ·
from beloved Polish mezzo Ewa
Podles in the title role and American
soprano Laura Claycomb, who was·
such an outstanding Gilda, as Tancredi
's beloved Amenaide. From
April 22-30 Opera Atelier brings
back its classic double bill of Henry
Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Marc-
Antoine Charpentier's Acleon starring
Colin Ainsworth, Na!halie Paulin,
Laura Pudwell, Curtis Sullivan
and Krisztina Szabo.
The season ends with Tapery's
February 18-20 the Toronto Oper-
etta Theatre continues to introduce
world premiere of The Shadow, an
opera by Omar Daniel to a libretto
by Alex Poch-Goldin in which a
zarzuela with El Barberillo de Lava - pos 1Il1a!1 assumes a complex identi-
. ty to win the love of a wealthy womp1es
(1874) by Francisco Asenjo
1 d th rf fi · h
Barbieri, a work both roma nt i c and
an. t soun
.
s e pe ect !Ills to an
. unusually vibrant season.
satiric with a chorus of Walloon
the Joy of Opera
York Region's Professional Opera Company
Bizet's Thursday November 25 1"
Car-men With Andrew Tees and David Pomeroy
Puccini's
I a lifJhrne
Under the Artistic Direction of Penelope Cookson
April 2nd & 3rd, 2005
Full Pmdurtinn
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171 Town Centre Blvd., Markham (at Warden and Hwy 7)
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AUDITIONS
FOR THE RENOWNED
Opera in Concert Chorus
with
Robert Cooper, Conductor·
Marriage of Figaro by w. A. Mozart
A fully-staged version.of this classic opera
September 8, 10 & 11 at 7 pm
September 12, 2 pm
Walmer Centre Theatre, 188 Lowther Avenue
(within Walmer Rd. Baptist Church)
North of Bloor, west of Spadina; near Spadina TTC.
Tickets: $18 - $20
Tel: 416-604-1557
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September 8, 2004 from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m.
Join our elite choral ensemble for the 2004-2005 Season
EL GATO MONTES
by Manuel Penella
THE LOVE FOR THREE ORANGES
by Sergei Prokofiev
MARIA STUARDA
by Gaetano Donizetti
Please call OICC Chorus Manager
Catherine Erickson 416-932-3157 or
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OPERA AT HOME
by Phil Ehrensaft
In, Out, and In Favour Again
Three Generations of Lucia's Renaissance
Poor Lucia di Lammermoor had a UNTIL RECENTLY, the debate over the
doubly sad fate. On stage, the her- gold standard for historical Lucia reoine's
lldeserved torments produced cordings involved three EM! recordthe
mother of all opera.',; mad scenes. ings by Maria Callas: is it the mono
Off stage, Lucia counted among '53 or stereo '59 studio recording,
Donizetti's works that were iconic both conducted by Seraf)Il? or the
during the half-century following the live mono 1955 recording with von
composer's death in 1848, then Karajan at the Berlin State Opera?
dwindled in status during the first Now Naxos Historical offers us
decades of the twentieth century. a masterfully restored 1939 Italian
Donizetti was a hyperkinetic mass Broadcasting Authority recording
producer of superficial vocal excess- featuring one of the very great soes;
ergo Lucia must be pulp. pranos of that era, the ltalian-Amerln
fact, Donizetti was the Charles ican Lina Pagliughi. World War II
Dickens of early romantic opera·. prevented this recording from being
Both could fire off great works at issued before the late 1940s as mono
dizzying paces. Both were masters LPs. Naxos' restoration wizard
of dramatic structure. Nobody bats Wade Marston worked from four
1000, but Donizetti's and Dickens' relatively clean pressings that were
lifetime averages exceeded most art- nevertheless plagued by surface
ists' dreams. Donizetti 's climb back ·noise. The restored voices are refrom
the minor leagues began in the markable clear. Orchestral so llds
1930s. Thanks to high tech, we are richer than expected for this era.
can chart the rise on historical re- Above all, Pagliughi's sweet voice
cordings and contemporary DVD's. gives us a supremely suitable Lucia.
Sir Walter Scott's novel, The
Bride of Lammermoor has a core of
brutal truth. Dynastic pre-industrial
Europe often forced people to wed
contrary to their sentiments. Many
were miserable, some driven mad.
Pagliu-ghi's precisely controlled coloratura
gives us just that. She's not
a neurotic. She's a perfectly normal
yollllg woman driven mad.
Moving ahead, we have a 1971
Italian Lucia film reissued in DVD
by V Al.
It starred another Italian­
American diva, the exquisite Anna
Moffo opposite the statuesque Lajos
Kozma's Edgardo.
This Lucia is prototypical of one
school of opera .on film, circa the
'60s and '70s -- the.seventeenth century
castle is a perfect location but at
a price: voice-0vers. At least this film
uses the studio singers as actors (not
always the case in this genre) so the
lip sync is not too bad. However, if
I tried to define mannered opera acting,
I'd show clips from this Lucia.
More than countering all this
schmaltz is Anna Moffo. Offered
Hollywood roles, she turned them
down because she wanted to become
a n ll. To music lovers' good fortune,
she decided to study opera at
the Curtis Institute. Here we have
one of the finest sopranos of her
generation, totally at ease, in prime
form, and in a signature role.
The Opera National de Lyon's
new DVD of Lucie de Larnmermoor,
on the TDK label distributed
by Naxos, is entirely different. It's
a live 2002 production of the French
version of Lucia, uncut, running
145 minutes. This French version
heightens Lucie's psychological isolation
by eliminating the role of Alisa,
the heroine's old nurse.
The big hitter here is Roberto
Alagna as Edgardo. The main spotlight
is usually on Lucia (Patrizia
Ciofi's Lucie is distraught and inward
looking, and justly attracts multiple
curtain calls from the Lyon audience).
But Alagna is Edgardo.
On the technology side, this Lucie
is a thoroughly modem Millie.
We can choose between 5 .1 surro lld
sound and impeccable stereo. Colour
balance is impeccable. The camera
work can be tiring. Gloomy'old
Scotland gets so much backlighting
that the singers' features are half
obscured. And close-ups are emphasized
in a way that will be attractive
only to people who make love to
their opera glasses. That being said,
starting a Lucia collection with
TDK's Lucie and the m:xlestly priced
Naxos Lucia are smart moves. •
Prepar your Voice for the World Stag
For the past 20 years Daniel Eby, Artistic Director of
The New School of Classical Vocal Studies (NSCVS),
has taught vocal technique in dqwntown Toronto.
Over the years, some amazing voices have been developed in
his vocal studio, and many of them have gone on to fulfilling
careers in the operatic world.
In 1993, Daniel Eby produced Mozart's Don Giovanni, with the
youngest adult cast in its history; and in December of 200 I, he produced
a SO'h anniversary production ofMenotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors
at the DuMaurier Theatre, with sets, costumes and orchestra.
One of his former students, Othalie Graham, who, at age 19, sang
Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, was recently described by the music
critic of the Philadelphia Inquirer as havihg a voice like a
'force of nature" in her title role portrayal of Strauss' Elektra.
This season, NSCVS is auditioning singers for the revival of
The Magical Journey from Mozart to Musicals, in a new
Operatic Cabaret Review, opening in October.
Prepare your voice to reach World Class potential!
Please contact Daniel Eby at
416-92/-9800 or, E-mail NSCVS@yahoo.com
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NEWS FROM THE TORONTO ,MUSICIANS' ASSOCIATION
by Brian Blain
Jane Bunnett, O.C.: Her
Excellency the Right Honourable
Adrienne Clarkson, Governor
General of Canada, recently
announced 79 new appointments
to the Order of Canada, including
Toronto Musicians' Association
member, Jane Bunnett. Jane is
known for her creative integrity,
improvisational daring and
courageous artistry. Her
exploration of Afro-Cuban
melodies expresses the universality
of music and her ability to embrace
and showcase the rhythms and
culture of Cuba has been
groundbreaking. She has toured the
world bringing her own special
sound to numerous jazz festivals,
displaying her versatility as a
flutist, saxophone player and
pianist. As an educator,
spokesperson and social activist,
she remains unafraid to explore
uncharted territory in her quest for
excellence. Congratulations Janel
More Congratulations!
Nathaniel Anderson-Frank is
this year's winner of the Music
Performance Fund Scholarship for
Local 149. Nathaniel has studied
with Erica Davidson of the Royal
Conservatory of Music, Zoya
Leybin of the San Francisco
Symphony and Leo Wigdorchik
of the University of Toronto. He
will be continuing his studies this
fall at the Cleveland Institute of
Music. TMA Vice-President, Neil
Spaulding presented a cheque for
$750.00. to Nathaniel on July 25,
2004 at Mel Lastman Square
during an excellent MPF
performance by TMA member and
internationally acclaimed jazz
musician Peter Appleyard and his
big band, who had the enthusiastic
audience dancing in the aisles. A
representative from the City of
Toronto was also on hand and she
expressed enthusiasm for making
this public presentation an annual
event.
Focus on Music Education: As
we mentioned in our summer (first)
column, the Toronto Musicians'
Association has begun a Music
Education program, due to launch
in late September, and an
Instrument Bank. We are very
excited about the first series in the resources. We need you, dear
Music Ed program, which focuses reader, who may also be a teacher,
on three ways of understanding parent, or friend, to get in touch
rhythm for grades 6,7 and 8. This with us about a student who could
is a fun and interactive program use our help. Our committee will
developed by experienced try to match students who need
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using unusual ideas to stimulate make efforts at any level of study
students and teachers. We expect to find an instrument that is
it to be a learning experience for suitable, and only ask that you be
everyone, and to generate new in touch with us with a request.
thinking about learning concepts of Please contact Corkie Davis at
rhythm.
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The TMA will be hosting a
a request.
lecture on the music business for
students at Humber College and at In his regular column in the
the University of Toronto Faculty International Musician, Bobby
of Music in the coming year and Herriott, Vice President from
hope to provide similar services to Canada quoted Canadian producer
many more Toronto-area post Bob Ezrin on the importance of
secondary institutions. In addition, Music Education. Ezrin said, "...
the TMA board is proposing a while the three R's provide kids
special student membership rate for with the basic tools they need, it is
new members in college/university. the arts that give them the
imagination to do something with
The Instrument Bank needs
those tools ... The cost to society of
your help· Our committee is
a. generation of kids who grow up
publicizing the need for instruments
without inspiration, discipline, and
to be loaned, through the TMA,
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y fame/a Margles
When Testimony': The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich as related
to and edl/ed by Solomon Volkov
aprieared in 1979, it
caused a sensation. The Soviet Union's most prestigious and patriotic
composer, who had written works like the stirring Fifth Symphony,
was . revealed t be a di illusioned, deeply bitter and rather nasty covert
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Inevitably his works started to be reinterpreted. But in Testimony
friends and colleagues missed the gentle voice of the deeply
humane, odest and _
reserved man they knew. Soon the authenticity of
the
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memoirs was bemg challenged. Volkov was called a 'pretentious,
half-educated bedbug' and accused of plagiarism and fraud.
After the recent release of these two books from the opposing
camps, Shostakovich and Stalin, and A Shostakovich Casebook, Volkov
wrote a letter to the New York Times predicting that the controversy
will probably last for a long time. 'My advice would be: read all the
books, listen to the music, and then decide for yourself.'
Both books illuminate Shostakovich's situation in the Soviet Union.
Given the complexity of Soviet politics, and the multi-faceted intricacies
of Russian culture, there is certainly plenty of room for both
mterpretallons of the composer who anti-Volkovian Richard Taruskin
predicts will emerge as the most consequential of the twentieth century.
unexpectedly vicious attack of
'a fraud', and accuses the author
of 'a crude betrayal of its subject's
principles and ideals'.
The Russians are even less diplomatic.
Six former students, in a letter
written in 1979, see the memoirs
as a sinister plot to distance Shostakovich
from revolutionary Soviet
music. They call Volkov a 'malicious
renegrade', and the book a
'pitiful fake'. Shostakovich's assistant
Boris Tishchenko calls Volkov
a 'music hanger-on', and Testimony
a 'book by Volkov about Volkov'.
Shostakovich's widow Irina points
out that Volkov didn't spend enough
time with Shostakovich to produce
more than a few pages.
ophone Rag, animal imitations, and
comedy routines about an abandoned
bride or King Tut emerging from his
tomb.
Vermazen, has produced a compelling
view of the early history of
American popular music. His academic
training pays off in the depth
of his explorations of racism in minstrel
shows, the decline of vaudvifle,
the influence of circus music, and
the
role of improvisation. He has
unearthed
previously unexplored
materials, which provide the historical
photos, along with thorough references
and discography.
The Other Side of Nowhere
There is also a great deal of psy- Edited by Daniel Fischlin and Ajay
chologically revealing material
here. 'That he actually was loyal
and instrumental to the system he
despised and h;ited made him hate
Tms coLLECand
despise himself,' writes Hen-
ry Orlov, underlining the poign-
Heble
Wesleyan University Press
460 pages $29.95 US
TION OF papers
presented at
ancy of Shostakovich's unfathom- the Guelph
ably complex situation. J azz F est1va · I
ov's compelling narrative. , ber 7 at the St. Lawrence Centre
ting his critics as demonstrating tra performs Shostakovich's Fifth
just to tradihow
Shostakovich's music needs Symphony at Roy Thomson Hall
tional musical structures, but to trato
be placed in its social, psycho- on October 21 and 23 at 8.00
logical and political context. What
tween the 1
Great Composer and viet cultural life. In the process.he
are actively involved in performthe
Brutal Dictator
By Solomon Volkov
reveals how Stalin was especially
Translated by Antonina W. Bouis derstood the power of art _ not
Knopf
330 pages $45.00 just spiritually but politically.
THE SHOSTAKOVICH of Shostakovi-
eh and Stalin is a secret dissident.
For Volkov, the symphonies are
coded with anti-Stalinist and anti-
Soviet messages. The ending of the
phant celebration of Soviet ideolo-
gy it is considered to be, but a
subversive narrative of Stalin's
Great Terror.
1948. How Shostakovich managed TheEmersonQuanet performsShoslooks
at how
to survive is at the heart of Volk- takovich 's Quanet No. 2 on Octoimprovisatory
jazz provides
Volkov is not so much rebut- The Toronto Symphony Orchesalternatives
not
ditional social structures as well.
The authors form a diverse group
Shostakovich and Stalin: The he offers is a deeply knowledgeaof
usicians, artists, writers, po-
. Extraordinary Relationship Be- ble and fascinating history of Soets,
and scholars. But almost all
ing experimental music, and this
dangerous because he actually unmakes
even the most theoretical of
these essays delightfully enthusi-
astic about the music.
Pauline Oliveros relates her own
collaborative experiences as a wom-
an composer and improviser. Dana
That Moaning Saxophone: The Reason emphasizes the integral
Six Brown Brothers and the role of the aud1"ence J o St
Volkov leaves no doubt how 'in- A Shostakovich Casebook from Lindsay, Ontario, were the
conceivably and inexpressibly un-
predictable and dangerous' living
under Stalin was . 'Probably no-
one suffered more for his music'
vich, like most artists who man-
ful and murderous terror, did live
constantly on the edge of destruc- f
tion and despair.
ing, especially after the two crises k
that Yolkov considers pivotal,
Edited by Malcolm Hamrick Brown
Indiana University Press
424 pages $63 . 50
Tms FASCINATING and important col-
lection of essays, documents and
a ft er th ey h a d practice · d asst "d uousmemoirs
presents the case against
Testimony. Paul Mitchinson gives
a surprisingly even-handed account
o the issues. Damning evidence
is offered by Leslie Fay, who de-
nal manuscript of Testimony. She
ular music with their act featuring the artistic direction of Ajay Hebeth
of Mtsensk in 1936, and the rogat
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d
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Fifth Symphony is not the trium-
Dawning of a Mus1'cal Craze yek d1"scusses the 1"nfl u en ce o f a
By Bruce Vermazen
pan-African sensibility, Julie Dawn
Oxford University Press
Smith questions why there are so
303 pages $56.00 few gay jazz musicians, and Sherrie
Tucker explodes the myth of
IN 1921, The Six Brown Brothers
the solitary genius with no com-
highest paid act in vaudeville. But
by 1933 they were finished, wiped
ing movies, and changing fashions
claims Yolkov. Indeed, Shostakoin
musical theatre.
phasizes that while the Brothers
weren't the first to use the saxophone
in popular music, and they weren't
He took huge risks to keep writeven
the best players around, they·
larity of the saxophone. For him they
munity or context. Michael Jarrett
interviews a number of legendary
out by the Great Depression, talkjazz
record producers, and gets
wonderful comments like John
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Snyd er ' s a b out S un R a s group,
Bruce Vermazen, a retired philos-
aged to survive under Stalin's willophy
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blackface, hit songs, including their ble, takes place 1·n Guelph firom
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MUSICAL LIFE
Dr. Peggie Sampson, 1912 - 2004
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life, to invade a life so deeply that one becomes beautiful because of
music. Peggie Sampson was such a person. It is impossible to think
of her without thinking of the music she lived, taught, played and
rejoiced in.
Peggie was born in Edinburgh and spent her early life in
Scotland, England and Europe. Her gift for music brought her into
contact with towering musical figures: Suggia, Alexanian,
Feuermann, Casals, Donald Francis Tovey and Nadia Boulanger
were among her teachers, and no doubt they all contributed to the
formation of-her wide cultural outlook, striking imagination and
generosity of spirit. These qualities she brought with her when she
emigrated to Canada in 1951, lo teach and perform. She played and
taught cello in Winnipeg, and brought enthusiasm and energy tq her
classes in various musical disciplines at the U of Manitoba, as well
as her experimental classes for unusually gifted children. Many
musicians blossomed as a result of her teaching.
Most people will remember her primarily in the second phase
of her musical life; her involvement in the early music world as viola
da gambist and teacher. Her romance with viols began in Winnipeg;
she was a founding member of the Manitoba University Consort, a
group which specialized in performance of early music (1100 and
on), and which toured Canada, Britain and Europe. Moving to
Toronto in 1970, she taught at York and Wilfrid Laurier Universities
and continued lo be a shining light in the performance world as well
for many years. More can be found about her life in The
Encyclopedia of Music in Canada and its online version at
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com
Those who knew her will remember much more: her
charming humour, her delight in nature, hiking, camping and
growing things, her steadfast commitment to her friends, and her
uncanny influence on anyone trying to make music - music radiated
from the walls in her presence, and it was impossible not to play
musically.
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June's Musical Life article
"Tools of the Trade", on the
topic of finding an instrument,
represented hours of conversation
with interesting and "instruirental"
people. There were.
many more this month: learners
of all ages, parents, teachers,
working musicians - many
whose lives include almost all
these roles. What we can publish
here is only a sampling of
the passionate collective wisdom
generously offered. We're not
promoting any school or studio,
but you may recognize the
thoughts or voices of esteemed
members of our community as
we explore ...
WE ARE ALL MUSIC'S CIDLDREN
An early taste for his instrument?
Guess the name of this member of our
music community (photo circa 1942)
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When should someone
start "music lessons"?
What's the best way to start my
"Starting a child on an instrument
child learning music'!
simply because it was what you
Gmndmn picked up the flyer flt the
library and called. "It's called Music
With Your Baby - as young as
six months. It says parents, grandparents
or caregivers. Wednesdays.
Since he's going to be with me tluzt
afternoon anyway when you go back
to work, I could take him ... "
By the time this baby is a toddler,
he will have already experienced
music as something playful, vigorous,
expressive and relaxing. And
grandma will have re-learned the fingerplay,
bouncing rhymes, and lullabies
she thought she'd forgotten.
"Once I mnde the mistake of accepting
a piano student, a little girl,
who was only three. I would spend
at least fifteen minutes coaxing her
not to try to play with her toes ...
They have to be able to sit still for
more than jive minures ... maybe they
have to be at least jive. It depends
on the child ... ''. (Mary)
Preparatory music is really important.
A ,good preparatory class has
preschool aged children moving,
using their bodies, and most importantly
singing. They learn about
pulse, rhythm and pitch by dancing
and singing, maybe playing some
very basic instrurrents. Students with
this background come to music lessons
much more ready.
did flt the same age isn 't reason
enough! Children know their
minds about this more often tluzn
you might think" (Alison)
How did YOU meet your teacher?
How should a person pick a
teacher?
It's a late winter Sunday afternoon.
The concert by a popu[(lr baroque
ensemble has ended. Performers,
audience members rru'ngle, relaxed
and unhurried. A smnll boy, about
eight walks up to the cellist, and
waits for a pause.
"Hello, my name is .... " he introduces
himself and plunges on.
"Could you please tell my mother
someone who could teach me 'cello?"
A couple of onlookers smile,
but nobody wughs. With equal gravitas
the musician replies "Well ...
would I do, or do you need someone
better?" The boy's eyes grow
very large. "Ohhhh - you mean
YOU could teach me? That would
be GREAT!"
Sometimes it starts just like that. And
can work out. A brilliant performer
is not necessarily a good teacher. If
you are fortunate enough to find
someone who is both you will need
to be extremely flexible about scheduling
lessons around rehearsal and
performance connnitments.
SEPTEMBER 1 - OCTOBER 7 2004

There are lots of fine teachers who
do not perform in public on a regular
basis. Taking young people to
all kinds of live music shows them
the possibilities and helps them form
opinions about what they'd like to
try. Many concert presenters offer
discounted tickets for young people
and seniors! (And if they don't, they
should. So ask!)
"My mother was my firs/ 1eacher.
All five children played piano and
we grew up in the midst of her very
active studio. I'm sure we thought music
1111s something the entire world did,
and thm all households had practice
schedules like ours. " (Alison)
"My gmndmo1her played the piano
and I was fascinated. I was 3 and
would sit and listen and pick things
up, exploring the instrument . . . . . .. !
enjoyed that. My mother acquired
my first teacher. At thm lime, in
Europe all good middle class children
were wught ... the teachers had
to be properly certified. " (Mary)
Usually it's adults who set about"
finding a teacher for a child (or for
themselves). It can be hard to know
where to start. Talk to parents,
school music teachers, working musicians.
Young professional musicians
and "returning" adults looking
for a teacher or coaching often
decide based on what they know
first-hand or hear from others in the
music conununity. Teachers at this
level acquire their reputations not just
by their student's reconunendations,
but by how their teaching is reflected
in their student's successes.
Here are the basics about looking
for a music teacher. The first four
are pretty much mandatory. The
rest depend on your priorities.
Musical education: An ARCT does
not necessarily make someone a good
teacher. Nor does 25 years as first
oboe in a fine orchestra. But asking
about certification is one way of
breaking the ice.
Experience: Find out if they have
other students the same age as your
child (or yourself). Ask them to describe
their approach to teaching, and
whether it matches the learning style
of the prospective student. There is
a vast range in approaches.
Challenge your own assumptions
about learning. What worked (or
not) for you as a child
·
might not
work for another, or even for you
as an adult. Different approaches
offer opportunities for visual, kinesthelic
or auditory learners.
"/! has been my privilege to come
upon an idea that has made it possible
to learn music in a whole new
way. The key is colour. Colour is a
language of the heart, not the mind.
It is universal, just as music is, understood
by all. I have been leaching
music wilh colour for over 20
years. (Heidemarie)
Find out how a teacher feels about
a parent being present (or not) during
the lesson. Find out, for example,
if what you will get is a "piano
lesson" or a "music lesson which
includes the piano". Passionately
good music teachers empower students
of any age to become musically
literate, to have a grasp of history
and style, to be an appreciative audience,
and to find emotional and creative
outlets through music.
Personality: The teacher should
meet with you before trying a lesson,
and be interested in the student
themselves if it's going to be a good
fit. A teacher who talks to you as if
your child is not in the room may,
not really know how to talk to your
child. An empathetic teacher is patient,
and able to be playful with a
young child, conunands respect but
also gives respect. For an adult learn,
er, chemistry is equally important.
Time will tell. Ten weeks will generally
give you an idea of how things
are working.
Fees: Find out: how long a lesson
is (a half hour is plenty for a younger
child or any beginner); how much
a longer 1esson would be; how many
lessons you will pay for up front;
what provisions can be made for lessons
unavoidably missed by either
party. If dealing with an individual
rather than a school be aware that
some musicians have to be encouraged
to talk about money. And don't
be fooled into picking an inexpensive
teacher "until you' re sure". That
way you may never be.
Studio atmosphere: This is more
important to some people than others.
Make sure that you or your child
feel comfortable and able to concentrate.
Make sure the location is manageable,
even in bad weather. A
teacher who comes to your home -
this has its ups and downs too.
Type of programme: Does the
teacher offer both practical and
theoretical?. How about opportu.­
nities for ensemble playing?
"Keep in mind !hat the leami1Jg curve
is steep in the beginning and young
students can easily become frustrated.
ft is particularly important then
to baltznce out privme lessons with
some type of music activity that is
group based. Children need to experience
the joy of making music with
others, something that solitary practice
can't provide . . . " (Alison)
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Welcome to WholeNote's
LIVE LISTINGS
READERS PLEASE NOTE:
Presenters' plans change; and we occasionall)' make mistakes!
Please always use the phone numhcrs prm·idcd to call ahead.
For Concerts Further Afield (outside the GTA) sec pages -17-:m.
For Music Theatre and Opera Listings sec page 51 .
GTA
Wednesday September 01
-7:30: Artists' Garden Cooperative.
Plein Air Salon Concerts: Abeena Samm.
Reggae to gospel vocals. 345 Balliol St. 416-
487-0705. $10.
-8:00: Canadian Opera Company/
Altamira. A/tamira Summer Opera Con·
certs. Guest soloists; performan.ce by children
from the CDC Summer Opera Camp; members
of the CDC Ensemble Studio;·COC Orchestra;
Richard Bradshaw, conductor. CIBC Stage,
235 Queens Quay West. 416·363·6671.
Free.
Thursday September 02
-7:00: Toronto Music Garden. Summer
Music in the Garden: Esmeralda Enrique
Spanish Dance Company. Flamenco dance &
music. Guests: Jose Luis Perez, vocals;
Dominique Soulard, guitar. 6:00: Pre-concert
tour. 475 Queens Quay West. 416-973-4000.
Free.
-7:30: The Variety Players. Hey There
Good Times/ -A Tn'bute to Broadway &
Hollywood. 11" annual Jerry-at-Trick Revue.
Larry Westlake, director. Kevin Ralph Nelson,
musical director. Fairview Library Theatre, 35
Fairview Mall Drive. 905-882-4523. $18,
group rate. For complete run see music theatre
listings.
-8:00: Ashkenaz: A Festival of New
Yiddis.h Culture. K/ezmer en Buenos Aires.
Cesar Lerner & Marcelo Moguilevsky, clarinet
& accordion. Miles Nadal Jewish Community
Centre, 750 Spadina Ave. 416·973-4000.
$36 ..
-8:00: Canadian Opera Company/
Altamira. Altamira Summer Opera Concerts.
CIBC Stage. See Sep 1.
Friday September 03
-1 ;DO: Smile Theatre. Has Anybody Here
Seen Willy? Musical tribute to the life of Will
James. By Kneebone & Christie; directed by
Dinah Christie; featuring Dwayne Evens &
Steve Lendt. Holy Rosary Church, 400 Walm·
er Rd. #310. 416-961-1735, 416·599-8440.
For complete run see music theatre listings.
-6:30: Toronto City Raots Festival
Association.Song Celebration. Michelle
Rumball, Greg Hobbs, Suzie Vinnick, perform·
ers. Gibsone·Jessop Song Gallery Side Stage,
55 Mill St. 416·870·8000. $15, $60(week·
end pass).
-7:00: Inspirational Music in the Park.
Grand Finale. Gage Park, Wellington St. West.
& Main St. South, Brampton. 905·793·6976.
Free.
-7:00: Toronto City Roots festival
Association.Song Celebration. Dan Kershaw,
For Ja1.z Listings sec pages 52.
Justin Rutledge & Junction Forty, Kiran
Ahluwalia, Sylvia Tyson, performers. Stone
Distillery Main Stage, 55 Mill St. 416-870·
8000. $25, $60(weekend pass).
-7:30: Hummingbird Centre for the
Performing Arts. Harry Connick Jr.: Only
You Tour. 1 Front Street East. 416·870·
8000. $39.50-$85.50.
-8:00 & 1 O:OOpm: Rough Idea/Root·
MeanSquare. Sonore. Improvised solos,
duos & trios built from various reed combina·
lions. Goethe·lnstitut, 163 King St. West.
416·516·0606. $20.
Saturday September 04
-6:30: Toronto City Roots Festival
Association.Song Celebration. Lynn Harri·
son, Rob Lamothe, Michelle Rasky, Blair
Packham, performers. Gibsone·Jessop Song
Gallery.Side Stage, 55 Mill St. 416-870·
8000. $15, $60(weekend pass).
-7:00: Toronto City Roots Fstival
Association. Song Celebration. Scott B.
Sympathy, Oh Susanna, Lynn Miles, Fred
Eaglesmith, performers. Stone Distillery Main
Stage, 55 Mill St. 416·870-8000. $25,
$ 60(weekend pass).
-8:00: Ashkenaz: A Festival of New
Yiddish Culture. Ot Azoj. Blend of old-time
Klezmer, contemporary Eastern European folk
& Klezmer revival. CIBC Stage, 235 Queens
Quay West. 416-973-4000.
-9:00: Thoth. The Music of Ancient Gods.
By Stephen Kaufman. Opera in the language of
a Tolkien style world. The Opera House, 735
Queen St. East. 416·870·8000. $25.
-9:30: Ashkenaz: A Festival of New
Yiddish Culture. The Klezmatics. Jewish
roots music. CIBC Stage, 235 Queens Quay
West. 416·973-4000.
Sunday September 05
-3:00: University of Toronto/The
Soldiers' Tower Committee. Cafl11on
Recital Series: John Widmann, cafl11onneur.
The lawn, Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle.
416-978·2452. Free.
-3:30; Ashkenaz: A festival of New
Yiddish Culture. Beyond the Pale. Guest:
Josh Dolgin. Main Stage, Harbourfront Centre,
235 Queens Quay West. 416·973-4000.
-4:00: St. James' Cathedral. David
Phillips, organ. 65 Church St. 416-364·7865.
Free.
-4:00: Thornhill Community Band.
Denny.Ringler, music director. Unionville
Bandstand, Main St. & Fred Varley Dr.,
Unionville. 416-223·7152. Free.
-4:30: St. James' Cathedral. Choral
Evensong. Men of the Cathedral Choir of Men
& Boys. 65 Church St. 416-364· 7865. Free.
-5:00: Ashkenaz: A festival of New
Yiddish Culture. lachan Jewish Chamber
Choir. Jewish songs by Glick & Steinberg.
Sharon Smith, soloist; Cantor Beny Maissner,
director. Toronto Star Stage, 235 Queens
Quay West. 416-973-4000.
-5:30: Ashkenaz: A festival of New
Yiddish Culture. Manouche. Contemporary
renditions of old Yiddish standards. Toronto
Star Stage, 235 Queens Quay West. 416·
973-4000.
-6:30: Toronto City Roots Festival
Association.Song Celebration. Ian North,
Nancy White, Wendell Ferguson, Adam
Mitchell, perfomiers. Gibsone-Jessop Song
Gallery Side Stage, 55 Mill St. 416-870·
8000. $15, $60(weekend pass).
-7:00: Ashkenaz: A festival of New
Yiddish Culture. K/ezmer en Buenos Aires.
Cesar Lerner & Marcelo Moguilevsky, clarinet
& accordion & other performers. Brigantine
Room, 235 Queens Quay West. 416-973·
4000. $36.
- 7:00: Toronto City Roots Festival
Association. Song Celebration. Bob Wise·
man, Priya Thomas, Serena Ryder, Ashley
Macisaac, performers. Stone Distillery Main
Stage, 55 Mill St. 416-870-8000. $25,
$60(weekend pass).
-9:30: Ashkenaz: A festival of New
Yiddish Culture. Khupe. Christian Dawid
and Sanne Miiricke, performers. CIBC Stage,
235 Queens Quay West. 416-973-4000.
Monday September 06
-12:15: Music Mondays. Canadian Works.
Zelda Turner, soprano and Morning Star River.
Church of the Holy Trinity, 10 Trinity Square.
416-598-4521 x222. $5 suggested donation.
-2:15: Ashkenaz: A Festival of New
Yiddish Culture. Khupe. CIBC Stage. See
Sep 5.
-4:00: Ashkenaz: A Festival of New
Yiddish Culture. Beyond the Pale/Toronto
Jewish Folk Choir. Performance of Benyomen
derDriter. Lakeside Terrace, Harbourfront
Centre, 235 Queens Quay West. 416·973·
4000.
-8:00: Music Gallery. The Microphones &
Guitarkestra. Phil Elvrum, singer/songwriter;
I.he Sea Snakes; Craig Dunsmuir, guitar/
composer. St. George the Martyr Church, 197
John. 416·204· 1080. $1 O(advance).
$12(door).
Wednesday September 08
-7:00: New Opera and Concerts Can·
tre. Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro. Walmer
Centre Theatre, Walmer Road Church, 188
Lowther Ave. 416-604-1557. $18-$20. For·
complete run see music theatre listings.
Friday September 10
-7:00: Toronto All·Star Big Band.
Southside Shuffle. Street Festival perform·
ance. St. Lawrence Square, corner of Hurontario
St. & Lakeshore Rd. 905·278-2811.
Free.
-8:00: Bands on a Canadian Tour.
Tenors, Sopranos and the Sounds of Big Bands
on a Canadian Tour. Mel Lastman Square,
5100 Yonge St. 416-631 ·4208. Free.
-8:00: Royal Conservatory of Music.
Open House at the New RCM & Inauguration
Show. Performers from Escola de Samba.
7:00: film We Are Samba. 90 Croatia St. 416·
408-2824 x474. *TENTATIVE- PLEASE
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Saturday September 11
-2:00: Victoria-Royce Church. Friends of
Victoria-Royce in Concert: Celebrating 120
Years in the Junction. 190 Medland St. 416·
769·6176. Free-will offering.
-2:45: Adam Osinski. Piano Recital. ,
Works by Chopin and Alkan. Noel Ryan
Auditorium, Central Library, Mississauga, 301
Burnhamthorpe Rd. W. 905-891 ·2239. $20,
$15(sl).
-7:30: Raag·Mala Music Society of
Toronto. A tu/ Desai, singer & Ramesh
Bapodra, tabla. Medical Sciences Auditorium,
1 King's College Circle. 416-492-7665. $1 O·
$28.
Sunday September 12
-3:00: Baroque Music Beside the
Grange. TheCoffeehouseBand. Trio and
quartet sonatas by Telemann, Vivaldi, Fasch &
others. Alison Melville, recorder & traverse;
Linda Melsted, violin; Dominic Teresi, bas·
soon; Borys Medicky, harpsichord. Church of
St. George the Martyr, 197 John. 416·588·
4301. $22,$15.
-3:00: University of Toronto/The
Soldiers' Tower Committee. Cafl11on
Recital Series: Claire Poirier, caf/1/onneur. The
lawn, Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle. 416·
978-2452. Free.
-4:00: Toronto Music Garden. Summer
Music in the Garden: Season Finale. Robinson/
Bach: The Transparent Recital & other works.
Peggy Baker, dancer/choreographer. Shauna
Rolson, cello. 475 Queens Quay West. 416·
973-4000. Free.
-4:30: Christ Church Deer Park. Jazz
Vespers: Rick Wilkins, saxophone; Frank Falco,
piano; Scott Alexander, bass; Brian Barlow,
drums. 1570 Yonge St. 416-920-5211.
Donation.
-7:00: Music Gallery. Fresh Ears Family
Series: Ex Temp ore. Improvised music, jazz,
new & world music. Ursel Schlicht, pianistcomposer;
Gabriele Hasler, vocals; Jamie
Baum, flute; Ravish Momim, percussion;
Brandon Teriic, guitar/oud/saz/cumbus; Balla
Kouyate, ballafon. St. George the Martyr
Church, 197 John. 416·204· 1080. $15, ·
$1 O(member/sr/adult with children), $5(st).
-7:30: Collaborations: A Chamber Arts
Experience. Equi/1'bri11m. Music by Ellington,
Berio, Bolling. Starring Rex Harrington, dancer/
actor/singer; Peter Blanchet, tenor; Susan
Hoeppner, flute; Beverley Johnston, percus·
sion; David Matheson, keyboard & other
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416-872-1111. $50. For complete run see
music theatre listings.
Monday September 13
- 12:00 noon: Metropolitan United
Church. Claire Poirier, organ and caflllon. 56
Queen St. East. 416·363-0331 x26. Free.
Tuesday September 14
- 12:10: University of Toronto Faculty
of Music. Voice Studies Showcase & We/.
come. Walter Hall, 80 Queen's Park. 416-
978-3744. Free.
- 1 :00: St. James' Cathedral. Michael
Bloss, organ. 65 Church St. 416-364-7865.
Free.
- 8:00: Columbus Centre. Evening of
Italian Songs & Opera: AQtonella Cavallaro,
soprano. 901 Lawrence Ave. West. 416-789-
7011.
Wednesday September 15
- 12:30: Yorkminster Park Church.
Noonday Recital.· William Maddox, organ.
1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167. Free.
- 7:30: Smile Theatre. Has Anybody Here
Seen Willy? Musical tribute to the life of Will
James. By Kneebone & Christie; directed by
Dinah Christie; featuring Dwayne Evens &
Steve Lendt. Franklin Horner Community
Centre, 432 Horner Ave. 416-252-6822,
416-599-8440. For complete run see music
theatre listings.
Thursday September 16
- 12: 10: University of Toronto Faculty
of Music. Thursdays at Noon: Dean's We/.
come. Performances by student and faculty
artist. . Walter Hall, 80 Queen's Park. 416-
978-3744. Free.
- 8:00: Rebecca Hass. Wanna sing a
showtune. Autobiographical journey using
opera, jazz, broadway & torch songs. Devised
by Rebecca Hass & Michael P. Albano;
starring Rebecca Hass, mezzo. Heliconian
Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave. 416-604-0764.
$25,$20.
- 8:00: Tafelmusik. The Enchanting Recorder:
Baroque Delights with Maflon Verbruggen.
Music for recorder & strings by Telemann &
Vivaldi. Trinity-St. Paul's Centre, 427 Bloor St.
W. 416-964-6337. $26-$62, $20-$56 lsrfst).
Friday September 17
- 8:00: Bands on a Canadian Tour.
Tenors, Sopranos and the Sounds of Big Bands
on a Canadian Tour. Mel Lastman Square,
5100 Yonge St. 416-631-4208. Free.
- 8:00: Tafelmusik. The Enchanting Recorder:
Baroque Delights with Marion Verbruggen.
Trinity-St. Paul's Centre. See Sep 16.
Saturday September 18
- 7:30: Guitar Society of Toronto/
University of Toronto. A Celebration of the
Guitar- Honouring Professor Eli Kassner's
BIJ' Birthday. Performers include Carlos
Barbosa Lima, Liana Boyd, Celso Machado,
Vincea Mclelland, David Russell, U of T
Guitar Ensemble & others. Walter Hall, 80
Queen's Park. 416-922-8002, 416·964-
2525. $100. Proceeds will be used to estab·
lish scholarships at U of T.
- 7:30: Six and Twelve. Acoustic Guitar
Concert. Performers include Cedar and Spruce;
Rik Emmett. Royal Bank Theatre, 4141 Living
Arts Drive, Mississauga. 905-306-6000.
$26.50.
- 8:00: London Symphony Orchestra.
www.MooredaleConcerts.com
Anton Kuerti &
Olivier Thouin
in Recital
Award winning violinist
joins celebrated pianist
Anton Kuerti in a program
of Beethoven, Franck & Schubert.
Saturday, September 18 at 8 pm - Willowdale United
Sunday, September 19 at 3 pm -Walter Hall, U of T
at 1 pm for children - Music and Truffles - $1 O
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The Music of Hollywood. Selections from film
scores including Gladiator, Titanic, Star Wars,
Indiana Jones & Harry Potter; multimedia
effects & film excerpts. Dirk Brosse, conduc·
tor. Air Canada Centre, 40 Bay Street. 416·
Bl 5·57B3. $49.50·$250.
- B:OO: Mooredale Concerts. Beethoven,
Franck, Schubert. Olivier Thouin, violin; Anton
Kuerti, piano. Willowdale United Church, 349
Kenneth Ave. 416·922·3714 x103. $25,$20.
- B:OO: Stefan Milenkovich. Violin Recital.
Bach: Sonata 114 in c; Dvorak: Romance;
Wieniawsky: Polonaise Brilliant in A Op.21;
works by Stravinsky, Brahms & Szyman·
owski. Eri Kang, pianist. Glenn Gould Studio,
250 Front St. West. 416·205·5555.
-B:OO: Tafelmusik. The Enchanting Record·
er: Baroque Delights with Marion Verbruggen.
Trinity·St. Paul's Centre. See Sep 16.
Sunday September 19
- 1 :DO: Harbourfront C1ntr1. Music with
Bite: Apnl Verch, fiddler. Traditional & con·
tempo(ary tunes from the Ottawa Valley to
the Appalachians to Eastern Europe to Brazil.
York Quay Centre, 235 Queens Quay West.
416·973-4000. SB, family rate.
-1 :00: Mooredale Concerts. Music &
Truffles. Kids concert. Walter Hall, BO
Queen's Park. 416·922-3714 x103 . $1 D.
-1 :30: McMichael Gallery. Richard
Whiteman Jazz Duo. 10365 Islington Ave.,
Kleinburg. 905·893· 1121. Gallery admission:
$15,$9, $25(family rate).
- 2:00: Fiona Strachan, soprano and
George Brough, piano. Women and Song -
A Celebration of female Composers of the
TEI' and 2(!' Centunes. Manor Road United
Church, 240 Manor Rd. East. 416·4B3·0695.
Freewill offering.
- 2:30: Alchemy.AnHour ofChamber
Music. Sanvnartini: Cello Sonata in G; Schu·
Recital Series: Gordon Slater, canllonneur. The
lawn, Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle. 416-
97B·2452. Free.
- 3:30: Taf1lmusik. The Enchanting Record·
er.· Baroque Delights with Marion Verbruggen.
Trinity-St. Paul's Centre. See Sep 16.
-4:00: St. James' Cathedral. Michael
Bloss, organ. 65 Church St. 416·364·7B65.
Free.
-4:30: St. Jam11' Cathedral. Choral
Evensong. Cathedral Choir of Men & Boys. 65
Church St. 416·364· 7B65. Free.
Monday September ZO
-12:00 noon: M1tropolitan United
Church. Gordon Slater, canllonneur. 56
Queen St. East. 416·363·0331 x26. Free.
Tuesday September Z 1
-12:10: Uainrsity of Toronto Faculty
of Music. Third Year Voice Performance
Class. Walter Hall, BO Queen's Park. 416·
97B-3744. Free.
-12:30: York Univ111ity D1pt. of Music.
Michael Cado, jazz guttar & his Trio; Sherie
Marshall, vocals. Mclaughlin Perfonnance·
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Thursday September ZJ
-12: 10: U of T Faculty of Music. Thurs·
days at Noon: John Rudolph & Co. Music by
Bach, Faure, Ravel, lbert & Barring. John
Rudolph, percussion; Kathleen.Rudolph, flute;
Peter Barring, piano; Don Thompson, bass;
Terry Clarke, drums. Walter Hall; BO Queen's
Park. 416·97B·3744. Free.
- 12:30: York University Dept. of Music.
Gord Ross, guitar. Mclaughlin Perfonnance
Hall, 4700 Keele St. 416·736·51 B6. Free.
-2:00: Toronto Senior Strings. Music by
Gounod, Debussy, Glazounov, Liadov, Rmsky·
Korsakov & Rachmaninov. Marina Dancheva
& Alexandar Gajic, violins; Anna Barycz, viola;
Gregory Goldberg, cello; Ko Ni Choi, harp. St.
Andrew's Presbyterian Church, 73 Simcoe.
416·221·6090. $12.
-7:30: Canadian Opera Company.
Ruders: The Handmaid's Tale. By Ruders &
Bentley. Stephanie Marshall, Jean Stilwell,
Helen Todd, William Webster, Krisztina Szabo
& other perfonners; Richard Bradshaw,
conductor..6:45: Opera Chat. Hummingbird
bert: String Trio in B flat; Brahms: Piano
Quartet in c. John Soloninka, violin; Charles
Hall, 4700 Keele St. 416-736·51 B6. Free.
- 1 :00: St. James' Cathedral. Katharine
Small, viola; Tricia Balmer, cello; Meri Gee,
Hall·Phillips, soprano & David Phillips, piano.
piano. Belmont House, 55 Belmont St. 416·
English song. 65 Church St. 416·364·7B65.
736·4694. Free.
- 3:00: Mooredale Concerts. Beethoven,
Franck, Schubert. See Sep 1 B. Walter Hall, BO
Queen's Park.
-3:00: University of Toronto/The
Soldiers' Tower Committee. Carillon
Free.
Wednesday September ZZ
-12:30: York Univ1rsity Dept. of Music.
lorne lofsky, jazz guitar. Mclaughlin Perfonn·
ance Hall, 4700 Keele St. 416-736-51 B6. Free.
-12:30: Yorkminster Park Church.
Noonday Recital· James Calkin, organ. 15B5
Yonge St. 416·922-1167. Free.
-2:30: Alchemy. An Hour of Chamber
Music. See Sep 19. New Horizons Tower,
1140 Bloor St. West.
-B:OO: TSO.Symphonic Celebration.
Beethoven: Symphony 117; Raclmaninoff:
Symphonic Dances. Peter Oundjian, conductor.
Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416·593·
4B2B. $37-$115.
··oncerts ::Thursdays, t 2: t 5 pm
Sept. 23
Sept. 30
Oct. 7
Oct. 14
Oct. 21
Oct. 28
Mood Indigo- Monica Burany, vocals
Brent Setterington, piano
Danny Bakan - Americana folk, roots fusion
on clawhammer, barijo and guitar
Toronto Starlight Orchestra with vocalists
'Leigh Graham and Allison Lynn
Nathalie Nadon, cabaret singer
Michael Barber, piano
Collected Stories- Brian Katz, guitar
Martin van de Ven, clarinet
Robin Davis, organ; Elizabeth Lambert,
English horn; Carey Dolan, contralto
St. John's York Mills, 19 Don Ridge Dr.
Near York Mills subway. Close to Yonge and the 401.
416-225-6611
Free parking. Beautiful venue. Great music.
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$175. For complete run see music theatre
listings.
-7:30: Earshot Concerts. Gala Fundraiser.
Rooftop Gardens, The Dalhousie Lofts, 155
Dalhousie Street. 416·538·2006. $10·$40.
- 8:00: Brampton Music Theatre. Peter
Pan. Meadowvale Theatre, 6315 Montevideo
Dr .. Mississauga. 905·615-4720. $21, $19,
$161child 10 & under), group rates. For
complete run see music theatre listings.
-8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Symphonic Celebration. Roy Thomson Hall.
See Sep 22.
- 8:00: Toronto Philharmonia. Spanish
Fiesta. Debussy: Iberia; Chabrier: Habanera;
Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez; Massenet: Le
Cid Ballet. Daniel Bolshoy, guitar; Kerry
Stratton, conductor. George Weston Recital
Hall, 5040 Yonge St. 416·870·8000.
$59,$531adult). $47,$42.50(sr). $25(st).
- 9:00: The Opera House. Toronto Progres·
sive Jazz Series: Soulive. 735 Queen St. E.
416·870·8000. $20.
Frida Se tember Z4
-12:30: York University Dept. of Music.
Roy Patterson, guitarist & composer. Brasilian
music. Mclaughlin Performance Hall, 4700
Keele St. 416·736·5186. Free.
-8:00: Bands on a Canadian Tour. The
Sounds of Big Band with the Governor Gener·
a/'s Horse Guards. Mel Lastman Square,
5100 Yonge St. 416·631 ·4208. Free.
ers; Terry McKenna, lute. Trinity College, 6
Hoskin Ave. 416·410·4561. $20. For corn·
plete run see music theatre listings.
-8:00: University of Toronto Faculty of
Music. Faculty Artist Series: Woman in love.
Schumann: Frauenliebe und Leben; songs &
arias by Mozart & Strauss. Lorna MacDonald,
soprano; William Aide, piano. Walter Hall, 80
Queen's Park. 416·978·37 44. $21,$11.
Saturday September Z5
-2:00 & 8:00: North Metro Chorus.
Hammerson Hall. See Sep 24.
-7:30: Canadian Opera Company.
Donizetti· Lucia di Lammermoor. Marina
Mescheriakova, Yasuhara Nakajuma, Russell
Braun, Burak Bilgili, Luc Robert & other
performers; Maurizio Barbacini, conductor.
6:45: Opera Chat. Hummingbird Centre, 1
Front St. East. 416·872-2262. $18·$175.
For complete run see music theatre listings.
-7:30: Music at St. Luke's. Songs of the
Ukraine. Victor Mishalow, director. 1382
Ontario St .. Burlington. 905·639·7643.
$15.
- 8:00: Acoustic Harvest Folk Club.
Evalyn Parry, singer/songwrtler. Birchcliff
Bluffs United Church, 33 East Rd. 416·264·
2235. $15.
-8:00: Heritage Theatre. Ronnie Coburn:
A Breath of Scotla11d. Music & variety. 86
Main St. North, Brampton. 905·87 4·2800.
$32,$30.
- 8:00: Musicians in Ordinary. John
Dowland's First Book of Songs. Hallie Fishel,
soprano; John Edwards, lute. Church of the
Redeemer, 162 Bloor West. 416·603·4950.
$20,$15.
-8:30: Rachel Page, singer/songwriter
& Thomas Handy, guitar. Evening of
original acoustic music. Renaissance Cale,
1938 Danforth Ave. 416·422· 1441. $5.
Sunday September Z&
- 1:00: Metropolitan United Church.
Metropolitan Celebrates Toronto Arts Week!
- Cartllon Recitvl and tour given by Gerald
Martindale. 56 Queen St. East. 416·363·
0331 x26. Free.
- 1 :00: On Stage at Glenn Gould Studio.
Naida Cole & David Jalbert, piano. Pro·
gramme of French music for 1 and 2 pianos;
1975 telecast of Ravel'sla Valse played by
Glenn Gould. 250 Front St. West. 416·205·
5555. $25.
-2:00: North Toronto Institute of Music.
Lea side Co11cert Series: A ftemoon of Chamber
Music. Schubert: Trout Quintet; Kodaly: Cello
The Musicians In Ordinary
for the Lutes and Voices present -
John Dowland' s
First Book of Songs
Saturday September 25/04 @ 8pm
Church of the Redeemer
Bloor Street and Avenue Road
416-603-4950 www.musiciansinordinary.ca
Theatre
Sonata. Briton House Retirement Centre, 720
Mount Pleasant Rd. 416-488·2588. $15,$10.
-2:00: Roy Thomson Hall. Matthias
Goerne, baritone i11 Rec1£al. Schubert: Die
Winterreise. Eric Schneider, piano. 60 Simcoe.
416·872-4255. $30·$85.
- 2:30: Metropolitan United Church.
Metropo!tlan Celebrates Toronto Arts Week!
- Organ Recital and demonstration given by
Ryan Jackson. 56 Queen St. East. 416·363·
0331 x26. Free.
-3:00: University of Toronto/The
Soldiers' Tower Committee. Cartllon
Recital Series: Michael Hart, cartllonneur. The
lawn. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle. 416·
978-2452. Free.
-4:00: St. James' Cathedral. Angus
Sinclair, organ. 65 Church St. 416·364·7865.
Free.
- 4:30: Christ Church Deer Park. Jazz
Vespers:Martlynlerner, solo piano. 1570
Yonge St. 416·920·5211. Donation.
-4:30: St. James' Cathedral. Choral
Evensong. St. James' Singers. 65 Church St.
416·364· 7865. Free.
Monday September Z7
- 8:00: Soundstreams Canada/CBC
Radio Two. Kaleidoscope: The Mu::ic of Pou!
Ruders and Harry Freedman. Ruders: Abysm;
De Profundis; Free'dman: Graphic Eight; A Gift
for King Freddie; new work (commission).
Gryphon Trio; Lawrence Cherney, oboe; Robert
Cram, flute; Simon Docking, piano & other
performers; Gary Kulesha, conductor. 7:00:
Young Artist Overture featuring student
composers and young musicians (free with
ticket purchase to 8pm concert). Glenn Gould
Studio, 250 Front St. West. 416·205-5555.
$25, $20lsr). $5(st).
- 8:00: Toronto Organ Club. Cole Holland,
organ. St. James United Church, 400 Burn·
hamthorpe Rd. West. 905·845·4539, 905·
824-4667. $10.
-9:00: University of Toronto Faculty of
Music. Jau Studies Beneft( Concert. P J
Perry, saxophone; Chase Sanborn, trumpet;
Alex Dean, alto sax; Kirk MacDonald, tenor
sax; Terry Promane, trombone & other
performers. Montreal Bistro & Jazz Club, 65
Sherbourne. 416·978·3744. $50.
-8:00: I Furiosi Baroque Ensemble.
Paved With Good Intentions. Guest: James
Sommerville, natural horn; Julia Wedman &
Aisslinn Nosky, violins; Gabrielle Mclaughlin,
soprano; Felix Deak, cello. Calvin Church, 26
Delisle Ave. 416·652·5483. $15, $10.
- 8:00: North Metro Chorus. Music from
Les Miserables. Guests: Metropolis; Neil
Aitchison. host. Hammerson Hall, 4141 Living
Arts Drive, Mississauga. 905·306·6000.
$35.
-8:00: Toronto Masque Theatre. Tears
of a Clown. Comedy, music & theatre in an
unfolding drama with music from Medieval to
Mahler to Motown. Diana Kolpak, clown/
actor/director; David Tomlinson, clown; Laura
Pudwell, mezzo; Larry Beckwith, violin;
Michael Franklin & Avery Maclean, record·
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Septem1ber 24- to 26, 2004- at 8 p.m.
Trinity CoHege, 6 Hoskin Ave. ,
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laid plans quickly go awry. As chaos ensues, the music
morphs from Medieval to Mahler to Motown!"
Starring celebrated clo wns Diana Kolpak and
David Tomlinson and mezzo-soprano Laura Pudwell
Larry Beckwith, Artistic Dire ctor
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Tuesday September ZB
-12:10: University o!Toronto Faculty
of Music. Voice Student Performances.
Walter Hall, 80 Queen's Park. 416·978·
3744. Free.
-12:30: York University Dept. of Music.
Richard Whtfeman, jazz pianist & his Trio.
Mclaughlin Performance Hall. 4700 Keele St.
416· 736·5186. Free.
-1 :00: St. James' Cathedral. Elaine
Robertson, alto & Michael Bloss, piano.
Chansons & lieder. 65 Church St. 416·364·
7865. Free.
-8:00: Smile Theatre. Has Anybody Here
Seen Wtlly? Musical tribute to the life of Will
James. By Kneebone & Christie; directed by
Dinah Christie; featuring Dwayne Evens &
Steve Lendt. Al Green Theatre, Miles Nadal
JCC, 750 Spadina Ave. 416·599·8440. For
complete run see music theatre listings.
-8:00: Tafelmusik. A Musical Offering:
Bach and More. Music of Bach & Rameau.
George Weston Recital Hall, 5040 Yonge St.
416·872-1111. $28·$59.
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-8:00: Tapestry New Opera Works.
Opera Briefs 4. Selection of 10 brief works
from 9 years of Composer·Librettist Laborato·
ries. Tapestry/Nightwood New Work Studio,
The Cannery, Studio 315, 55 Mill St. 416·
537-6066. $20. For complete run see music
theatre listings.
Wednesday September 29
-12:30: York University Dept. of Music.
Middle Eastern and African Music. Rob
Simms. multi-instrumentalist. Mclaughlin
Performance Hall, 4700 Keele St. 416-736·
5186. Free.
-12:30: Yorkminster Park Church.
Noonday Recital: Corinne Outton, organ. 1585
Yonge St. 416·922· 1167. Free.
- 7:00: Tafelmusik. A Musical Offering:
Bach and More. Music by Bach & Rameau.
Trinity-St. Paul's Centre, 427 Bloor St. West.
416·964·6337. $26·$62, $20·$56 (sr/st)
-7: 15: Smile Theatre. Has Anybody Here
Seen Wi11y?Musical tribute to the life of Will
James. By Kneebone & Christie; directed by
Dinah Christie; featuring Dwayne Evens &
Steve Lendt. King Garden, 85 King St. East,
Mississauga. 905-566-4545, 416-599-8440.
For complete run see music theatre listings.
-8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Ax,
Chopin & Mahler. Chopin: Piano Concerto 112;
Mahler. Symphony 111 Titan. Emanuel Ax, piano;
Peter Oundjian, conductor. Roy Thcrnson Hall, 60
Smcoe St. 416-593-4828. $37-$115.
Thursday September 30
-12:10: University of Toronto Faculty
wa.mYHIUif!HiEE
of Music. Thursdays at Noon: Sonata Highhghts.
Performances by students in the piano/
instrumental class. Walter Hall, 80 Queen's
Park. 416·978-3744. Free.
-12:30: York University Dept. of Music.
Michael Davidson, vibist & his Jazz Ensem·
ble. Mclaughlin Performance Hall, 4700 Keele
St. 416-736-5186. Free.
- 2:00: Northern District Library . Piano
Recital. Works by classical composers per·
formed by students from the studio of Law·
rence Pitchko. 40 Orchard View Blvd. 416·
393-7610. Free.
-2:00: Smile Theatre. Has Anybody Here
Seen W1lly?Musical tribute to the life of Will
'James. By Kneebone & Christie; directed by
Dinah Christie; featuring Dwayne Evens &
Steve Lendt. Yorkminster Park Church,
1585 Yong St. 416-922· 1167. 416-599·
8440. For complete run see music theatre
listings.
-8:00: Tafelmusik.A Musical Offering:
Bach and More. Trinity-St. Paul's Centre. See
Sep 29.
-8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Ax, Chopin & Mahler. Roy Thomson Hall. See
Sep 29.
Friday October 01
- 12:30: York University Dept. of Music.
Al Henderson, jazz bass & his Ensemble.
Mclaughlin Performance Hall, 4700 Keele St.
416· 736-5186. Free.
-4:00: Opara in Concert. Puccini: la
Rondine. Cast of young performers; Jean
Stilwell, host. Edward Jackman Centre, 947
Queen St. E, 2"' floor. 416-922·2147. $15.
FRIDAYS@ EIGHT
presents
SHOUT FOR JOYI
with the
Nathaniel Dett Chorale
Brainerd Blyden-Taylor
Founder & Artistic Director
Spirituals, Cuban Folk Songs,
Classical selections
Friday, October 1, 2004 at 8:00 pm
Tickets: $20.00
(416) 489-1551Ext.21
Lawrence Park Community Church
2180 Bayview Avenue, Toronto
plenty of parking available
DEER PARK CONCERTS
129 St. Clair Avenue West Uust east of Avenue Rd.)
Saturday-Night Organ Recital Series
on the magnificent Rathgeb Memorial Organ
35th season
Mon., September 27, 2004, 8:00 pm
Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St. West
Freedman's Graphic B, Graphic 10 (World
Premiere), A Gift For King Freddie and
Poul Ruders' De Profundis, Abysm
Enjoy exciting contemporary music for chamber
orchestra and ensemble, featuring Gary Kulesha
(conductor), members of the Gryphon Trio, Robert
cram (flute), Simon Docking (piano) and more.
Ticket holders may join us for our pre-concert
Young Artist Overture at 7 pm, featuring Toronto's
best and brightest young musicians performing works
by Ruders, Freedman and student composers.
YAO \ponsOl'ed by lii1 ._k P..._W C,....
Tickets $25 adults/$20 seniors/$5 students
available from the Glenn Gould Studio Box Office,
250 Front St. W. Mon·Fri 11 am-6 pm (except statutory holidays)
CALL 416.205.5555
David Palmer
Saturday, October 2, 2004, 7:30 pm
A Program of Sonatas and Toccatas
Professor David Palmer is the Director of the School
of Music at the University of Windsor, Ontario.
Ludger Lohmann
. Saturday, November 13, 2004, 7:30 pm ,
Professor of Organ at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart i
and. Titular Organist at the Stuttgart Catholic Cathedral.
Douglas Cleveland
Saturday, Feb. 5, 2005, 7:30 pm
Douglas Cleveland is Head of the Organ Department
at Northwestern University, U .S.A.
William Wright
Saturday, May 7, 2005, 7:30 pm
Romantic Rarities - Music from the 19th Century
Resident Organist of Deer Park United Church
Each concert is $20 or $60 for all four concerts.
Information: 416-481-2979
(Parking behind the Imperial Oil Building)
www.deerparkunitedchurch.ca, click on "Concerts"
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- 8:00: Bands on ii Canildian Tour.
Tenors, Sopranos and the Sounds of Big Bands
on a Canadian Tour. Mel Lastman Square,
5100 Yonge St. 416·631 ·4208. Free.
- 8:00: Fridilys@ Eight. Shout for Joy!
Spirituals, Cuban folk songs; classical selec·
tions. Nathaniel Dett Chorale; Brainerd Blyden·
Taylor, artistic director. Lawrence Park
Community Church, 21 BO Bayview Ave. 416·
489-1551 x21. $20.
- 8:00: George Weston Recital Hall.
Toronto Progressive Jazz Series: Dave
Holland Ouintet with special guest, Jason
Moran. 5040 Yonge St. 416·870·8000.
$36.75, $47.75.
- 8:00: Milton Concert Series. Serenade
of Strings wtih Maestro Kerry Stratton.
Music by Mozart, Ravel, Elgar & others.
Christopher Lee, flute; Peter Stoll, clarinet;
Kerry Stratton, conductor. St. Paul's United
Church, 123 Main St., Milton. 905·878·
4732. $30,$24.
- 8:00: Music Gallery/CBC Radio Two.
Mandolini& Poulin. New works by Cherney &
Marriner. Silvia Mandolini, violin; Brigitte
Poulin. piano. St. George the Martyr Church,
197 John. 416·204-1080. $20, $15(mem·
ber/sr), $5(sl).
- 8:00: Tafelmusik. A Musical Offering:
Bachand More. Trinity-St. Paul's Centre. See
Sep.29.
- 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Yo-Yo Ma, cello. Dvorak: Cello Concerto;
Symphony 119 from the New World. Peter
Oundjian, conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60
Simcoe St. 416·593-4828. $55-$130.
Saturday October 02.
- 7:00: Opera in Concert. Puccinda
Rondine. Edward Jackman Centre. See Oct 1.
- 7:30: Deer Park Concerts. David Palm·
er, organ in Recital. Works by Arnatt, Bach,
Frescobaldi, Hindemith, Lidon & Mendelssohn.
129 St. Clair West. 416-481-2979. $20.
- 7:30: Royal Opera Canada. Verdi:· La
Traviata. Dwight Bennett, artistic director.
Hammerson Hall, Living Arts Centre, 4141
Living Arts Drive, Mississauga. 905-306-
6000. $50-$125, $45-$120(sr/st). For
complete run see music theatre listings.
- 7:30: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Renee Fleming, soprano - Gala Performance.
R. Strauss: Serenade for Winds; Four Last
Songs; Rossini: Overture to William Tell;
Puccini: I Crisantemi; arias. Peter Dundjian,
conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St.
• 416-593·4828. $60-$150.
- 8:00: Mi1111y Hilll.Afro·Cuban Al/Stars.
Jan De Marcos Gonzalez, leader. 15 Shuter.
416-872-4255. $39.50-$79.50.
- 8:00: New Music Concerts/Music
Gallery. Hammerhead. Music by Bashaw,
Hamel & Helweg. Guests: Hammerhead
Consort; Corey Hamm & Haley Simons,
pianos; Trevor Brandenburg & Darren Salyn,
percussion. 7:15: Illuminating Introduction.
Music Gallery at St. George the Martyr
Church, 197 John. 416-204-1080. $25,
$15(sr), $5(st).
- 8:00: St.Jude's Church.An Evening at
the Palm Court: Benefit Concert til aid of an
AIDS Mission in Africa. Marian Sjolander,
soprano; Robert Miskey & John Laing, violins;
Joan Browne, flute; Oakville Christian Youth
String Ensemble. William Street, Oakville.
905-844-3975. $20.
- 8:00: Talelmusik.A MusicalOffertilg:
Bach and More. T rinity·St. Paul's Centre. See
Sep 29.
Sunday October 03
- 1 :00: Hubourlront Centre. Music with
Bite: Latin Colours. Catherine Meunier, percus·
sion; Marie-Helene Breault, flute. York Quay
Centre, 235 Queens Quay West. 416-973·
4000. $8, family rate.
- 1 :30: McMichatl Gallery. Mary Kenedi.
Classical ensemble. 10365 Islington Ave.,
Kleinburg. 905-893-1121. Gallery admission:
$15,$9, $25(family rate).
- 2:00: Cathedral Bluffs Symphony
Orchestra. Young Artists/Celebrating Arts
Week. Willan: Overture to an Unwritten
Comedy; Ridout: Fall Fair; concerto move·
ments. Perfonners include 6 young artists;
Robert Raines, conductor. Rotunda, Scarbor·
ough Civic Centre, 150 Borough Drive. 416·
879-5566. Free.
- 2:30: University of Toronto FilCulty of
Music. Music of lothar Klein. Concert to
honour his memory. Walter Hall, 80 Queen's
Park. 416-978-3744. Free.
- 3:00: Meredith Hall, soprano; Sylvain
Bergeron, lute; Rabin Grenon, hup.
Sweeter than Roses. Music by Purcell,
Monteverdi & Burns. St. George the Martyr
Church, 197 John. 416-977-2045. $20,$15.
- 3:30: Tilfelmusik.A Musical Dffering:
Bach and More. Trinity-St. Paul's Centre. See
Sep 29.
- 4:00: St. Jam11' Cilthedral. Marty
Smyth, organ. 65 Church St. 416-364-7865.
Free.
- 4:30: St. Ann1's Church. Evensong.
Music by Holman, Clucas, Brahms & Men·
delssohn. Choir of St. Anne's; Peter J. Onne,
organ; P. John H. Stephenson, Director of
Music. 270 Gladstone Ave. 416-767-7290.
Freewill offering.
- 4:30: St. Ji1m11' Cathedral. Choral
Evensong. Cathedral Choir of Men & Boys. 65
Church St. 416-364-7865. Free.
Monday October 04
- 7:00: University al Taranto Faculty of
Music. Chamber Music Series: Brentano
Ouartet. Gesualdo (arr. Adolphe): Madrigals;
Wuorinen: Divertimento; Davidovsky: Quartet
115; Schubert: Quartet in d Death and the
Maiden. Waller Hall, 80 Queen's Park. 416-
978-3744. $21,$11.
- 8:00: WholeNate Magazine. Nine
Mondays: Music by Threes. Chamber Jazz by
Galloway Plus Two; otherWholeNote staff
and associate threesomes, early to modern.
Details TBA. Music Gallery at St. George the
Martyr Church, 197 John. 416-204-1080.
$12, $8(sr/sl).
Tuesday October 05
- 1 :00: St. Jiimes' Cilthedral. Michael
Bloss, organ. 65 Church St. 416-364-7865.
Free.
- 8:00: Mirvish Productions. The Rat
Pack. Musical recalling the 1960 concerts by
Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis & Dean Martin
at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas. 15-piece "Rat
Pack" Big Band; full company of singers &
dancers. Canon Theatre, 244 Victoria. 416-
872-1212. For complete run see music
theatre listings . •
- 8:00: Music Giillery/Hubaurlrant
Centre. Corona Guitar Kvartet. Brady: new
work & other music. St. George the Martyr
Church, 197 John. 416-204-1080. $20,
$15(member/sr), $5(sl).
Wednesday October 06
Music.Small Jazz Ensembles. Walter Hall,
80 Queen's Park. 416-978-3744. Free.
Thursday October 07
- 12: 10: University al Toronto filculty
of Music. Thursdays at Noon: Music &
Poetry. Hawkins: Light to Dark; Schubert:
Shepherd on the Rock. Lorna MacDonald,
soprano; Peter Stoll, clarinet; John Hawkins,
piano. Walter Hall, 80 Queen's Park. 416-
978-3744. Free.
- 2:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Beethoven & Tchaikovsky. Roy Thomson Hall.
See Oct 6.
• - 7:30: University of Taranto Faculty of
Music. Dpera Division Benefti Rectial Joni
Henson, soprano; Andrea Grant, piano. Walter
Hall, 80 Queen's Park. 416-978-3744. $50.
earshot! concerts
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Thurs. Oct 7 @ 8:00
Music Gallery ( 197 John St)
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The newest cycle of works by
composer Charlie lngas.
jazz and prog rock-influenced
cosmic minimalist music for
chamber orchestra and chorus.
Mezmerizing!Tickets: $10 - $30
- 8:00: Earshot Concerts. Earshot 1113:
Gold of Hours - the Music of Charlie Ringas.
Music Gallery at St. George the Martyr
Church, 197 John. 416-204· 1080. $10-$30.
eeter than
Roses
IT2eredith nall, soprano and
Syloain Bergeron, lute
present a charming afternoon of music by
Purcell IDonteoerdi and Robert Bums
Sunday October 3 at 3 p.m.
St. George the Martyr Church (197 John Street)
Tickets: $20 & $15 available at the door or by calling 416-977-2045
- 12:30: Yorkminster Puk Church.
Noonday Rectial· P. John H. Stephenson,
organ. 1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167. Free.
- 8:00: David Buchbinder. Shurum Burum
Jazz Circus. Multimedia presentation of
original orchestral jazz with circus perfonnance
& contemporary dance, featuring 11
musicians, 3 circus perlonners, 2 movement
artists. Stone Distillery, Distillery Historic
District, 55 Mill St. 416-872-1212. $32. For
complete run see music theatre listings.
- 8:00: Glenn Gauld Studio: Toronto
Progressive Jazz Series: Andrew Hill 250
Front W. 416-870-8000. $32.50.
- 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Beethoven & Tchaikovsky. Beethoven: Violin
Concerto; Tchaikovsky: Symphony /16Pathlf.
tique. James Ehnes, violin; Gunther Herbig,
conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St.
416-593-4828. $32-$110.
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- 8:00: University of Toronto filculty of
- 8:00: Music Toronto. Emerson Stong
Ouartet. Beethoven: String Quartet in D Op.18
113; Tower: Incandescent; Shostakovich: String
Quartet 112. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front
St. East. 416-366-7723. $43,$39.
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Music Society. Sean Bennesch, violin;
Sydney Bulman·fleming, piano. KWCMS
Music Rooni, 57 Young St. West, Water·
loo. 519·886· 1673.
Friday September 03
- 8:00: Novalis Hall. Esmeralda Enrique
Spanish Dance Company. 7841 4'" line,
Angus. 705·722·5408. $25.
The Sharon Temple National
Historic Site
presents
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1897 4 Leslie Street
Sharon, ON
Tickets: 905-478-2389
www.sharontemple.ca
- 2:00: Drayton Festival Theatre. fiddler
on the Roof. By Stein, Bock & Harnick. 33
Wellington St. South, Drayton. 888·449·
4463. $271preview), $20118 & under), group
rates. For complete run see music theatre
listings.
Wednesday September 08
- 2:00 & 8:00: Red Barn Theatre. Broad·
way Heroes. Salute to Broadway. Starring
David Rogers. 991 Lake Dr., Jackson's Point
Performers and visitors from around the world praise the combination of the
historic Temple's extraordinary architecture and sublime acoustics. We
welcome you to come to a concert and make your visit to our site an entire
day! Take a tour of the historic buildings and bring a picnic lunch to enjoy on
our museum grounds. Fabulous acoustics in an idyllic setting!
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Sun., Sept. 19, 2PM
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Aurora soprano
Jessica Muirhead is
the vocal winner of
the 2003 National
Music Festival and the Elora festival.
Jessica has also been acclaimed in per·
formance of opera, oratorio and recital.
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CONCERT LISTINGS: FlJRTHER AFIELD
1 ·888-733-2276. $26. For complete run see
music theatre listings.
-8:00: Guelph Jazz Festival. Anne Bourne,
Justin Haynes, RaviNaimpally. Macdonald
Stewart Art Centre, 358 Gordon St., Guelph.
519· 763-3000, 877 ·520·2408. $18, $14.
-2:30: Guelph Jazz Festival. Susie Ibarra
Trio with Angelica Sanchez and Jennifer Choi:
Gossage: Other Voices. Guelph Youth Music
Centre, 75 Cardigan St. 519· 763-3000, 877 ·
520-2408. $22,$18.
-8:00: Guelph Jazz Festival. Urse/
Sch/icht's Ex Tempore Project. Archie Shepp/'
Thursday September 09
Roswell Rudd Quartet with Reggie Workman,
Andrew Cyrille: Chalmers United Church, 50
-8:00: Guelph Jazz Festival. Michel
Lambert, Barre Phillips, Lionel Garcin. St.
George's Church, 99 Woolwich St., Guelph.
519-763-3000, 877-520-2408. $23,$19.
-11:30pm: Guelph Jazz Festival. NOMA.
St. George's Church, 99 Woolwich St.,
Guelph. 519-763-3000, 877-520-2408.
$18,$14.
Quebec St., Guelph. 519-763-3000, 877-
520-2408. $30,$25.
- 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber
Music Society. Javier Gonzales, piano.
KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young St. West,
Waterloo. 519·886-1673.
- 11 :30pm: Guelph Jazz Festival. Do
Make Say Think. Old Quebec Street, 55
Wyndham St. North, Guelph. 519-763·
Friday September 10
-8:00: Guelph Jazz Festival. Sainkho
3000, 877-520·2408. $18,$14.
Sunday September 1Z
Namtchylak, William Parker, Hamid Drake.
Cyrille: Pieces of Time featuring Don Moye, -10:30am & 7:00: Guelph Jazz Festival .
Oba Addy & Okyerema Asante. Chalmers ' In Place of Wishes: A fairy tale for all ages.
United Church, 50 Quebec St., Guelph. 519·
763-3000, 877-520-2408. $28,$23.
-11:30pm: Guelph Jazz Festival. Bob
Ostertag, Pierre Hebert, Theo B/eckmann. St.
George's Church, 99 Woolwich St., Guelph.
519-763-3000, 877-520·2408. $18, $14.
By Robert Pennee; directed by Kim Renders.
Improvised music by Peggy Lee, Cameron
McKittrick, Ellen Waterman, Richard Windey·
er & Leslie Wyber. Guelph Youth Music
Centre, 75 Cardigan St. 519· 763·3000, 877 ·
520-2408. $18,$14, $6(under 12).
-3:00: Jackalyn Short, soprano &
Saturday Se tember 11
Joshua Grunmann, piano. An Afternoon
of Songs in French. Britten: Les Illuminations;
- 10:30am: Guelph Jazz Festival. Joelle
Ltiandre & India Cooke. Guelph Youth Music
Centre, 75 Cardigan St. 519· 763-3000, 877 ·
520-2408. $18,$14.
songs by Faure, Debussy & Poulenc. Wolf
Performance Hall, 251 Dundas St., London.
519-438-3474. $20,$15.
- 3:00: Marsh Street Centre. A Little
Opera ... A Little Show. Music by Puccini, J.
Strauss, Offenbach & others. Antonella
Cavallaro & Wendy Dobson, sopranos; Lenard
Whiting, tenor; Marek Kornakowski, baritone;
William Shookhoff, piano. 187 Marsh Street,
Clarksburg. 519-599-3344.
-7:00: Amis du Jazz. Dennis Ke/die,
Hammond organ; Tony Ouarrington, guitar;
Howard Gaul, drums. The church in Sonya,
13 k north of Port Perry. 705-357-2468.
$15.
Tuesday September 14
-2:00: Sunshine Festival Theatre
Company. 01' Blue Eyes ... A Tnbute to Frank
Sinatra. Musical revue. Opera House, 20
Mississaga St. West, Orillia. 1-800-683·
8747. $26(preview). For complete run see
music theatre listings.
Friday September 17
• -2:00: Sharon Temple Historic Site.
MelissaStylianou,jazz vocals. 18974 Leslie
St. , Sharon. 905-478-2389. $18,$15.
Saturday September 18
- 2:00: Westben Arts Festival Theatre.
Autumn Feast for the Ears: A Carnival of
Chopin 1. Chopin: 24 Preludes; music by
Haydn, Beethoven & Brahms. Jane Coop,
piano. 11 am: Pre-concert chat on Chopin by
Charles Foreman. The Barn, 3 km northwest
of Campbellford on County Road 30. 705·
653-5508, 877-883-5777. $30,$25,
$15(st).
-8:00: Hamilton Philharmonic Orches·
tra. Music Italia. Music by Puccini, Verdi,
Tosti & others. Tamara Hummel, soprano;
Giuliano di Filippo, tenor; Leo Della Rocca,
baritone; Michael Reason, conductor. Great
Hall, Hamilton Place, 1 Summers Lane. 905·
526-6556. 0 $26-$53, $24-$49(sr), $1 O(st),
$5(high school & younger).
- 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber
Music Society. David Gillham, violin &
Chiharu linuma, piano. KWCMS Music Room,
57 Young St. West, Waterloo. 519-886-
1673.
Sunday September 19
- 2:00: Sharon Temple Historic Site.
Jessica Muirhead, soprano. 18974 Leslie St.,
Sharon. 905-478-2389. $18,$15.
- 2:00: Westban Arts Festival Theatre.
Autumn Feast for the Ears: A Carnival of
Chopin 2. Chopin: Fantasies; music by Mozart
& Beethoven. Charles Foreman, piano. Pre·
concert chat by Jane Coop. The Barn, 3 km
northwest of Campbellford on County Road
30. 705-653-5508, 877-883-5777.
$30,$25, $15(st).
- 7:00: Amis du Jazz.Po/CousseeBand.
Classics of Chet Baker & Gerry Mulligan. Pol
Coussee, baritone sax; Brian O'Kane, trumpet;
Joel Haynes, drums; George Kozub, bass. The
church in Sonya, 13 k north of Port Perry.
705-357-2468. $15.
Wednesday September ZZ
- 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber
Music Society. Schulte-B/oemenda/. Turini
Trio. KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young St.
West, Waterloo. 519-886-1673.
Thursday September 23
- 2:00: Westben Arts Fatival Theatre.
Autumn Feast for the Ears: Operetta Opulence.
Vocal music from the world of operetta
by Mozart, Gilbert & Sullivan, Gershwin.
Nancy Henmiston, soprano; Brian Finley, piano.
The Barn, 3 km northwest of Canipbellford
on County Road 30. 705-653-5508, 877 -883·
5777. $30,$25, $15(st).
- 7:30: Prince dward County Music
Festival. Schubert: Introduction and Varia·
tions on Trockne Blumen for flute & piano;
Hetu: Serenade for flute and string quartet;
Four Pieces forilute and piano; Ravel: Quartet
in F. Stephane Lemelin, piano; Robert Cram,
flute; Arthur Leblanc Quartet. Church of St.
Mary Magdalene, Picton. 613-476-7792.
$20,$10(st), Festival Pass $50,$25(s1).
-7:30: Smile Theatre. Has Anybody Here
Seen Willy? Musical tribute to the life of Will
James. By Kneebone & Christie; directed by
Dinah Christie; featuring Dwayne Evens &
Steve Lendt. Rockway Gardens Senior Citi·
zens Centre, 1405 King St. East, Kitchener.
519-741-2510, 416-599-8440. For complete
run see music theatre listings.
Friday September 24
- 6:30-9:30pm: All-Canadian Jazz Festi·
val. Perfonmers include: Northumberland High
School All-Star Jazz Band, Ranee Lee &
others. Capitol Theatre, 20 Queen St., Port
Hope. 1-866-565-5009, 905-885-1938.
$30.
-7:30: Prince Edward County Music
Festival. Hetu: Aria for flute and piano; 2"'
String Quartet; Prokofiev: Sonata in D for flute
and piano; Beethoven: Quartet in B flat.
Stephane Lemelin, piano; Robert Cram, flute;
Arthur Leblanc Quartet. Church of St. Mary
Magdalene, Picton. 613-476-7792.
$20,$1 O(st), Festival Pass $50,$25(st).
- 8:00: Colours of Music Festival.
Johannes Unger, organ in Recital. Burton Ave.
United Church, 37 Burton Ave., Barrie. 705·
726-4980. Festival passport $45 ($55 after
Sep 12), festival passport student $20 ($25
after Sep 12).
-8:00: Colours of Music Festival. Onyx
Brass Ouintet. First Christian Refonmed
Church, 33 Shirley Ave., Barrie. 705-726·
4980. Festival passport $45 ($55 after Sep
12), festival passport student $20 ($25 after
Sep 12), Pass Plus $15.
- 8:00: Sw11tWater Music WHkand.
Concert Featuring Instruments Made by Grey­
Bruce Luthiers. Works by Bach, Britten,
Hindemith, Mozart. Scott St. John, violin &
viola; Mark Fewer, violin; Douglas McNabney,
viola; David Hetherington, cello. Leith Church,
north of Owen Sound. 519-376-3517. $20.
Saturday September 25
- 12:45-6:00: All-Canadian Jazz Festi·
val. Perfonmers include: Kevin Clark Quintet,
Pat LaBarbera Quintet, Alex Pangman, Rober·
to Occhipinti Septet, Daniel Barnes Trio &
others. Memorial Park, Port Hope. 1-866·
565-5009, 905-885-1938. $15, 2-day pass
$25.
- 2:30: Colours of Music Festival. Kaori
Yamagam1; cello & Jean-Franfois Latour,
piano. Central United Church, 54 Ross St.,
SEPTEMBER 1 - OCTOBER 7 2004

Barrie. ·705-726-4980. Festival passport
$45 ($55 after Sep 12), festival passport
student $20 ($25 after Sep 12).
- 2:30: Colours of Music Festival.St.
John'sChoirElora. Works by Parry, Howell &
Willan. Jurgen Petrenko, organ; Noel Edison,
conductor. St. Andrew's Church, 47 Owen
Street, Barrie. 705-726-4980. Festival
passport $45 ($55 after Sep 12), festival
passport student $20 ($25 after Sep 12),
Pass Plus $15.
- 7:00: Smile Theatre. Has Anybody Here
Seen Willy? Musical tribute ' to the life of Will
James. By Kneebone & Christie; directed by
Dinah Christie; featuring Dwayne Evens &
Steve Lendt. Coronation 50 Plus Recreation
Centre, 5925 Summer St., Niagara Falls.
905-356-6493, 416-599-8440. For complete
run see music theatre listings.
- 7:30: Prince Edward County Music
Festival. Haydn: Quartet in B flat Sunrise;
Hetu: Sonata for violin and piano; Schumann:
Quintet for piano and strings in E flat.
Stephane Lemelin, piano; Robert Cram, flute;
Arthur Leblanc Quartet. Church of St. Mary
Magdalene, Picton. 613-476-7792.
$20,$1 O(st), Festival Pass $50,$25(st).
- 8:00: All-Canadian Jazz Festival.
Perfonmers include Franois Bourassa & A lain
Caron. Capitol Theatre, 20 Queen St., Port
Hope. 1-866-565-5009, 905-885-1938.
$30.
- 8:00: Colours of Music Festival.
Moscow Nights. Old Russia through music,
song & dance. First Christian Refonmed
Church, 33 Shirley Ave.,·Barrie. 705-726-
4980. Festival passport $45 ($55 after Sep
12), festival passport student $20 ($25 after
Sep 12), Pass Plus $15.
- 8:00: Colours of Music Festival.North
America in Pictures-Poetry and Piano. Gloria
Saarinen, piano; Lister Sinclair, narrator, art of
Ted Harrison. Burton Ave. United Church, 37
Burton Ave., Barrie. 705-726-4980. Festival
passport $45 ($55 after Sep 12), festival
passport student $20 ($25 after Sep 12).
- 8:00: SweetWater Music Weekend.
Works by Beethoven, Martinu, Rea, Rossini.
Scott St. John, violin & viola; Mark Fewer,
violin; Douglas McNabney, viola; David
Hetherington, cello. Knox United Church, 4"
Avenue & 9" Street, Owen Sound. 519·
376-3517. $15.
Sunday September 26
- 12:00 noon-5:00: All-Canadian Jazz
Festival. Perfonmers include: Peter Dent
Quartet, Brian Barlow Brass Quintet, Karen
Plato Quartet, Michael Kaeshammer Trio,
Chri°stine Jensen Quartet, Young Jazz Showcase
& others. Memorial Park, Port Hope. 1 ·
866-565-5009, 905-885-1938. $15, 2-day
pass $25.
- 2:00: SweetWater Music Weekend.
Music by Ager, Beethoven, Haydn. Leith
Church, north of Owen Sound. 519-376-3517.
$20.
- 2:00: Westben Arts Festival Theatre.
Autumn Feast for the filrs: Autumn Chorus.
MacMillan Singers; Doreen Rao, conductor.
The Barn, 3 km northwest of Campbellford
on County Road 30. 705-653-5508, 877 ·883·
5777. $30,$25, $15(st).
- 2:30: Colours of Music Festival.
Daedalus Trio. Music by Glick, Khatchaturian,
Brahms. Philip Chiu, piano; Zsolt Eder, violin;
Dominic Desaultels, clarinet. First Christian
Reformed Church, 33 Shirley Ave., Barrie.
705-726-4980. Festival passport $45 ($55
after Sep 12), festival passport student $20
($25 after Sep 12).
- 2:30: Colours of Music Fntival.Jean­
Frano1s Latour, piano. Music by Ravel &
Schumann. Central United Church, 54 Ross
St., Barrie. 705· 726-4980. Festival passport
$45 ($55 after Sep 12), festival passport
student $20 ($25 after Sep 12).
- 6:30: All-Canadian Jazz festival.
Performers include San Murata, Renee
Rosnes: Strings Attached & others. Capitol
Theatre, 20 Queen St., Port Hope. 1-866-
565-5009, 905-885-1938. $30.
- 7:00: Amis du Jazz.David French Band.
David French, sax; Justin Hanes, guitar &
others. The church in Sonya, 13 k north of
Port Perry. 705-357-2468. $15.
- 8:00: Colours of Music Festival.
England's Carol Williams. Music for organ.
Collier Street United Church, 112 Collier St.,
Barrie. 705-726-4980. Festival passport
$45 ($55 after Sep 12), festival passport
student $20 ($25 after Sep 12).
- 8:00: Colours of Music Festival. Vento
Chiaro Woodwind Ouintet. Central United
Church, 54 Ross St., Barrie. 705-726-4980.
Festival passport $45 ($55 after Sep 12),
festival passport student $20 ($25 after Sep
12), Pass Plus $15.
Monday September 27
- 12:00 noon: Colours of Music festival.
fun In Song. Melinda Delonme, mezzo; Giles
Tomkins, baritone; Andrea Grant, piano. First
Christian Refonmed Church, 33 Shirley Ave.,
Barrie. 705-726-4980. Festival passport
$45 ($55 after Sep 12), festival passport
student $20 ($25 after Sep 12).
- 12:00 noon: Colours of Music Festival.
George Greer, double bass & Guy Few, piano.
Music by Schubert, Bach, Gliere & Bottesini.
Burton Ave. United Church, 37 Burton Ave.,
Barrie. 705-726-4980. Festival passport
$45 ($55 after Sep 12), festival passport
student $20 ($25 after Sep 12).
- 2:30: Colours of Music Festival.
Romancing the Tone. Schubert: Shepherd on
the Rock. Mark Thompson, clarinet; Carolyn
Sinclair, soprano; Susan Lee, piano. Burton
Ave. United Church, 37 Burton Ave., Barrie.
705-726-4980. Festival passport $45 ($55
after Sep 12), fe"stival passport student $20
($25 after Sep 12).
- 2:30: Colours of Music Festival.
Veritas Piano Ouartet. Music by Mozart,
Schumann & Brahms. Central United Church,
54 Ross St., Barrie. 705-726·4980. Festival
passport $45 ($55 after Sep 12), festival
passport student $20 ($25 after Sep 12).
- 8:00: Colours of Music Festival.
PendereckiStnilg Quartet. Schubert: Trout
Quintet; music by Saint -Saens. Guy Few,
trumpet/piano; Stephanie Mara, piano; George
Greer, double bass. First Christian Reformed
Church, 33 Shirley Ave., Barrie. 705-726·
4980. Festival passport $45 ($55 after Sep
12), festival passport student $20 ($25 after
Sep 12), Pass Plus $15.
-8:00: Colours of Music Festival.
Sanctuary. Peter Togni, organ; Christoph Both,
cello; Jeff Reilly, clarinet. Burton Ave. United
Church, 37 Burton Ave., Barrie. 705-726·
4980. Festival passport $45 ($55 after Sep
12). festival passport student $20 ($25 after
Sep 12).
- 8:00: kitchener·Waterloo Chamber
Music Society. New Zealand String Ouartet.
KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young St. West,
'
Waterloo. 519-886-1673.
Tuesday September 2B
- 12:00 noon: Colours of Music Festival.
PendereckiStflilg Quartet. Music by Haydn &
Dvorak. Burton Ave. United Church, 37 Burton
Ave., Barrie. 705-726·4980. Festival
passport $45 ($55 after Sep 12), festival
passport student $20 ($25 after Sep 12).
- 12:00 noon: Colours of Music Festival.
Virtuoso Russian Music: Music by Rimsky·
Korsakov & Rachmaninoff. Guy Few, trumpet;
Stephanie Mara, piano. First Christian Re·
formed Church, 33 Shirley Ave., Barrie.
705-726·4980. Festival passport $45 ($55
after Sep 12), festival passport student $20
($25 after Sep 12).
- 2:30: Colours of Music Festival.
Braslavsky-F1ildlay Duo. Music for piano &
cello by Brahms, Dvorak, Schumann & Saint·
Saens. Burton Ave. United Church, 37 Burton
Ave., Barrie. 705-726-4980. Festival
passport $45 ($55 after Sep 12), festival
passport student $20 ($25 after Sep 12).
- 2:30: Colours of Music Festival. Jean·
PhihppeSylvestre, piano. Music by Chopin,
Beethoven & Balakirev. Central United Church,
54 Ross St., Barrie. 705-726-4980. Festival
passport $45 ($55 after Sep 12), festival
passport student $20 ($25 after Sep 12).
- 8:00: Colours of Music Festival. 1900
- The Golden Age of Concert Bands iii the
Park. Kiosque & Alain Trudel, trombone. Hi·
Way Pentecostal Church, 50 Anne Street
North, Barrie. 705-726'4980. Festival
passport $45 ($55 after Sep 12), festival
passport student $20 ($25 after Sep 12),
Pass Plus $15.
-8:00: Colours of Music Festival. Art
and life of Emily Carr. Linda Maguire, mezzo.
Burton Ave. United Church, 37 Burton Ave.,
Barrie. 705· 726-4980. Festival passport
$45 ($55 after Sep 12), festival passport
student $20 ($25 after Sep 12).
Wednesday September 29
- 12:00 noon: Colours of Music festival.
Piamsts of Tomorrow. Angel Zhao, Bora Kim
& Cissy Zhow, piano. First Christian Refonmed
Church, 33 Shirley Ave., Barrie. 705-726-
4980. Festival passport $45 ($55 after Sep
12), festival passport student $20 ($25 after
Sep 12).
- 12:00 noon: Colours of Music Festival.
lsolt Eder, violin & Philip Chiu, piano. Music
by Beethoven & Bartek. Burton A.ve. United
Church, 37 Burton Ave., Barrie. 705-726·
4980. Festival passport $45 ($55 after Sep
12), festival passport student $20 ($25 after
Sep 12).
- 2:30: Colours of Music Festival.
Adask1il Stflilg Trio & Joseph Petric, accordi
an. Music by Beethoven, Mozetich, Sokolovic
& Luedeke. First Christian Refonmed Church,
33 Shirley Ave., Barrie. 705-726-4980.
Festival passport $45 ($55 after Sep 12),
festival passport student $20 ($25 after Sep
12).
- 2:30: Colours of Music Festival.
Winston Ch0t; piano iii Recital Music by Bach,
Ives, Debussy & Ravel. Central United Church,
54 Ross St., Barrie. 705-726-4980. Festival
passport. $45 ($55 after Sep 12), festival
passport student $20 ($25 after Sep 12).
- 8:00: Colours of Music Festival.
Hampton Avenue 4. A cappella jazz vocal
quartet. First Christian Refonmed Church, 33
Shirley Ave., Barrie. 705-726-4980.
Festival passport $45 ($55 after Sep 12),
festival passport student $20 ($25 after Sep
12).
- 8:00: Colours of Music Festival.James
Campbell, claf!ilet & New Zealand Stflilg
Quartet. Music by Mozart & Weber. Central
United Church, 54 Ross St:, Barrie. 705·
726-4980. Festival passport $45 ($55 after
Sep 12), festival passport student $20 ($25
after Sep 12). Pass Plus $15.
- 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber
Music Society. CCE 1. KWCMS Music
Room, 57 Young St. West, Waterloo. 519·
886-1673.
Thursday September 30
- 12:00 noon: Colours of Music Festival.
Adask1il String Trio. Music by Mozart,
Adaskin & Klein. Burton Ave. United Church,
37 Burton Ave., Barrie. 705-726-4980.
Festival passport $45 ($55 after Sep 12),
festival passport student $20 ($25 after Sep
12).
-12:00 noon: Colours of Music Festival.James
Campbel, diimet& WlflS(mChri,piilno. Music by
Pouklnc, Brallns & Weiiar. Central Urited Cluch,
54 Ross St .. Barrie. 705· 726-4980. Festival
passport $45 ($55 alterSep12), festival passport
stucEnt $20 ($25 after Sep 12).
SEPTEMBER 1 - OCTOBER 7 2004

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CONCERT LISTINGS: FURTHER AFIELD
- 2:30: Colours of Music Festival.
after Sep 12), festival passport student $20
Abysse String Guartet & Arturo Nieto·
($25 after Sep 12).
Dorantes, piano. Music by Franck & Dvorak.
- 2:30: Colours of Music fe&tival. A
Central United Church, 54 Ross St., Barrie.
Celebra'fion of Song. Opera & operetta solos & .
705-726-4980. Festival passport $45 ($55
duets. Deanna Hendricks & Miriam Khalil,
after Sep 12), festival passport student $20
sopranos; Chantelle Grant, mezzo, Jan Vaca·
($25 after Sep 12).
lik, bass; Andrew Aarons, piano; Stuart
- 2:30: Colours of Music Festival. New
Hamilton, narrator. Burton Ave. United
Zealand String Guartet. Music by Beethoven,
Church, 37 Burton Ave., Barrie. 705-726·
Ligeti & Schubert. Burton Ave. United Church,
4980. Festival passport $451$55 after Sep
37 Burton Ave., Barrie. 705-726-4980.
12), festival passport student $20 ($25 after
Festival passport $45 ($55 after Sep 12),
Sep 12).
festival passport student $20 ($25 after Sep
- 2:30: Colours of Music Festival. Duke
12).
Piano Trio. Music . by Smetana & Dvorak.
- 8:00: Colours of Music Festival. T 11'
Steven Sitarski, violin; Thomas Wiebe, cello;
Century Concert Orchestra. Music, costumes.
Peter Longworth, piano. Central United
wigs & instruments of Handel. First Christian
Church, 54 Ross St., Barrie. 705· 726-4980.
Reformed Church, 33 Shirley Ave., Barrie.
Festival passport $45 ($55 after Sep 12),
705-726-4980. Festival passport $45 ($55
festival passport student $20 1$25 after Sep
after Sep 12). festival passport student $20
12)
($25 after Sep 12). Pass Plus $15.
- 8:00: Centenary Concert Series. Diane
Bish, organ in Recital. Centenary United
Friday October 01
Church, 24 Main St. West, Hamilton. 905-
526-1147, 866-526-1147. $30.
- 12:00 noon: Colours of Music Festival.
- 8:00: Colours of Music Festival.Elmer
AbysseString Guartet. Music by Falla,
lselerSingers. St. Andrew's Church, 47 Owen
Piazzolla, Barber & Dvorak. Burton Ave.
Street, Barrie. 705-726-4980. Festival
United Church, 37 Burton Ave., Barrie. 705·
passport $45 ($55 after Sep 12), festival
726-4980. Festival passport $45 ($55 after
passport student $20 ($25 after Sep 12),
Sep 12). festival passport student $20 ($25
Pass Plus $15.
after Sep 12).
- 8:00: Colours of Music Festival.
- 12:00 noon: Colours of Music Festival.
KiyoshiNagata Taiko Drums. Traditional
Arturo Nieto-Dorantes, piano. Music by
Japanese drumming. First Christian Reformed
Debussy, Villa-Lobos, Guarnieri, Marquez.
Church, 33 Shirley Ave., Barrie. 705-726-4980.
Central United Church, 54 Ross St., Barrie.
Festival passport $45 ($55 afterSep 12), festival
705-726-4980. Festival passport $45 ($55
passport stucilnt $20 ($25afterSep12).
Saturday October OZ
- 12:00 noon: Shaw Festival. Musical
Reading: Bloomer Girl. By Arlen & Harburg;
directed by Jackie Maxwell. Royal George
Theatre, 85 Queen St., Niagara·on·the·
Lake. 1-800-511-7429. $18.
- 2:30: Colours of Music Festival. Mirian
Conti; piano. Music by Liszt; Spanish & South
American classics. First·Christian Reformed
Church, 33 Shirley Ave., Barrie. 705-726·
4980. Festival passport $45 ($55 after Sep
12), festival passport student $20 1$25 after
Sep 12).
- 2:30: Colours of Music Festival.Saini
Cecilia Piano Guartet. Music by Beethoven,
Mendelssohn & A.Strauss. Central United
Church, 54 Ross St., Barrie. 705-726-4980.
Festival passport $45 ($55 after Sep 12),
festival passport student $20 ($25 after Sep
12).
- 8:00: Colours of Music Festival. Sacred
Music Society Gala. Beethoven: Fantasia;
music by Mozart. Andrew Burashko, piano;
Uwe Lieflander, conductor; 200-voice choir &
orchestra. First Christian Reformed Church,
33 Shirley Ave., Barrie. 705-726-4980.
Festival passport $45 ($55 after Sep 12),
festival passport student $20 ($25 after Sep
12), Gala $20.
Sunday October 03
- 2:00: Shuon Temple Historic Site.
Alex Crowther, tenor and Adam Miceli,
baritone. 18974 Leslie St., Sharon. 905·
478-2389. $18,$15.
- 2:30: Colours of Music Festival.
Ensemble Vivant with Catherine Wilson, piano.
Central United Church, 54 Ross St., Barrie.
705-726-4980. Festival passport $45 ($55
after Sep 12), festival passpor) student $20
($25 after Sep 12).
- 2:30: Colours of Music Festival.
Mooredale Concerto Players. Music by Bach,
Vivaldi & Telemann. Kristine Bogyo, conduc
tor. First Christian Reformed Church, 33
Shirley Ave., Barrie. 705-726-4980.
Festival passport $45 ($55 afte Sep 12),
festival passport student $20 ($25 after Sep
12).
- 7:00: Amis du Jazz. Charlie Gray, trumpet
& Gary Williamson, piano. The church in
Sonya, 13 k north of Port Perry. 705-357·
2468. $15.
- 8:00: Kitchener·Waterloo Chamber
Music Society. PendereckiGuartet. KWC­
MS Music Room, 57 Young St. West, Water·
loo. 519·886· 1673.
Thursday October 07
- 11 :OOam: City of Hamilton/American·
Liszt SocietylMcMaster University
School of the Arts. Great Romantics
Festival: Dut of Russia. Works by Balakirev,
Rachmaninov & Prokofiev. Alexander Serendenko,
piano. Convocation Hall, McMaster
University, Hamilton. 905·525-9140
x23674. $25.
- 2:30: City of HamiltonlAmerican Liszt
SocietylMcMaster University School of
the Arts. Great Romantics Festival: Organ
Recital. Works by Bach & Brahms. Robert
Morrow, organ. Christ's Church Cathedral,
252 James St. North, Hamilton. 905-525·
9140 x23674. $25.
- 3:15: City of Hamilton/American Liszt
SocietylMcMaster University School of
the Arts. Great Romantics Festival.· Duatuor
Arthur-LeBlanc. Beethoven: Quartet in f
Op.95; Schumann: Piano Quintet in E flat
Op.44. Christ's Church Cathedral, 252 James
St. North, Hamilton. 905-'525-9140
x23674. $25.
- 8:00: City of Hamilton/American Liszt
SocietylMcMaster University School of
the Arts. Great Romantics Festival.· Hamilton
Philharmonic Orchestra. Weber: Overture to
Der Freischutz; Sibelius: Violin Concerto in d;
Tchaikovsky: Symphony 115 in e. Jonathan
Carney, violin; Robert Trory, conductor. Great
Hall, Hamilton Place. 905-525-9140
x23674. $25.
- 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber
Music Society. Piano Guartet: Nancy Dahn,
Rennie Regehr, Vernon Regehr & Timothy
Steeves. KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young St.
West, Waterloo. 519-886-1673.
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SEPTEMBER 1 - OCTOBER 7 2004

OPERA AND MUSIC THEATRE LISTINGS
Bluewater Summer Playhouse. DADS! The
Musical. By Robert More; music by Tom Doyle.
To Sep 4. Tues-Fri 8:00; Wed 2:00 & 8:00; Sat
2:00 & 9:00. 707 Queen Street, Kincardine.
877-396-5722. $22(eve). $20(mat).
Brampton Music Theatre. Peter Pan. Sep 23-
25,30, Oct 1,2: 8:00; Sep 26 & Oct 2: 2:00.
Meadowvale Theatre, 6315 Montevideo Dr.,
Mississauga. 905-615-4720. $21,$19,
$16(child 10 & under), group rates.
Canadian Opara Company. Donizetti: Lucia
dilammennoor. Marina Mescheriakova, Yasu·
hara Nakajirna,tRussell Braun, Burak Bilgili, Luc
Robert & other performers; Maurizio Barbacini,
conductor. Sep 25,28,30, Oct 6,8: 7:30; Oct 3:
2:00. Opera Chat: 45 minutes before each
perfonnance. Hirnrningbird Centre, 1 Front St.
East. 416-872-2262. $18-$175.
Canadian Opara Company. Ruders: The
Handmaid's Tale. Stephanie Marshall, Jean
Stilwell, Helen Todd, William Webster. Krisztina
Szabo & other performers; Richard Bradshaw,
conductor. Sep 23,29, 0 et 1,5,9: 7:30; Sep 26:
2:00. Opera Chat: 45 minutes before each
perfonnance. Hirnrningbird Centre, 1 Frnnt St.
East. 416-872-2262. $18-$175.
Canadian Opara Company/Altamira.
AhamiraSummerOpera Concerts. Guest
•
soloists; perfonnance by children from the CDC
Simmer Opera Camp; members of the CDC
Ensemble Studio; CDC Orchestra; Richard
Bradshaw, conductor. Sep 1 & 2: 8:00. CJBC
Stage, 235 Queens Quay West. 416-363-6671.
Free.
Can Stage. Urinetown. Musical comedy. Music
& lyrics by Hollmann; musical staging by John
Carrafa. To Sep 4. BlllTia Appel Theatre, 27 Front
St. East. 416-368-3110. $45-$85.
Collaborations: A Chamber Arts Expari·
anca. Eqwltbrium. Music by Ellington, Berio,
Bolling. Starring Rex Harrington, dancer/actor/
singer. Peter Blanchet, tenor. Susan Hoeppner,
flute; Beverley Johnston, percussion; David
Matheson, keyboard & other performers; created
& directed by Valerie Kuinka. Sep 12 & 13: 7:30.
Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina Ave. 416-872-
1111.$50.
David Buchbinder.Shurum Burum Jazz
Circus. Multinedia presentation of original
orchestral jazz with circus perfonnance &
contemporary dance, featuring 11 musicians, 3
circus performers, 2 movement artists. Oct 6·
17. Wed-Sun: 8:00, Oct 10 & 17: 2:30. Stone
Distillery, Distillery Historic District, 55 Mill St.
416-872-1212. $32.
Drayton Festival Theatre.Fiddler on the
Roof. By Stein, Bock & Harnick. Sep 7-0ct 16,
various tmes. 33 Wellington St. South, Drayton.
888-449-4463. $27(previewl. $20(18 & under),
group rates.
Firefly Theatre/Theatre Hybrid/Shrimp
Magnet Theatre. The Emperor's New Clothes.
By Keenan & Halferty. Show for kids of all ages
with song, dance & pantomme. To Sep 6:
10:30am, 11 :30am, 12:30 & 1 :30. Lagoon
Theatre, Centre Island to the left of the Ferry
Docks, Toronto Island. 416-322-9619. $4.
Georgian Theatre Festival. Cowgirls. By
Howie & Murfitt; directed by Lezlie Faith Wade.
Musical that combines country and classical
music in Broadway style. To Sep 4. Evenings:
8:00; Sep 4: 2:00. Meaford Hall Opera House,
12 Nelson St. East. 888-541-4444. $25(eve).
$18(preview & Fridays for sr/youth), $20(Sat
matinee).
Hart House Thliltre. A Clockwork Orange -A
New Urban Musical. Mix of Beethoven, rap, hip
hop, gospel & rock. Directed by Robert Ginty;
musical directors: Philip Cannichael & Andrew
Moore; starring Bishop. Sep 15-Sep 25. Wed-Sat:
8:00; Sep 25: 2:00. 7 Hart House Circle.. 416-
978-8668. $15,$12.
Huron Country Playhouse. Man of la
Mancha. By Dale Wasserman; music by Mitch
Leigh; lyrics by Joe Darion. To Sep 4, various
tmes. Mainstage, Grand Bend. 888-449-4463.
$33, $20(18 & under), group rates.
King's Wharf Theatre. leader of the Pack: The
Ellie Greenwich Musical. Hit parade of 60s
classics. Book by Anne Beatts; music & lyrics by
Ellie Greenwich & friends. To Sep 4, various
tmes. Discovery Harbour, Penetanguishene. 888·
449-4463. $33, $27(preview), $20(18 &
under), group rates.
Lighthouse Festival ThHtre. Summer of
love. By McHarge & Stewart; music of Baez,
Dylan, Joni Mitchell & others. To Sep 11. Tues­
Sat: 8:00, Wed, Thurs & Sat: 2:00. 247 Main
St., Port Dover. 519-583-2221. $25, $22(sr),
$12(youth); Sat matinee: $18, $12(youth).
Mirvish Productions. Hairspray. Broadway
musical. Vanessa Olivarez, Jay Brazeau, Tom
Rooney, Michael Torontow, Susan Henley &
other performers.To Oct 17. Tues-Sat: 8:00;
Wed, Sat & Sun: 2:00. Princess of Wales
Theatre, 300 King St. West. 416-872-1212, 1-
800-461-3333. $26-$84.
Mirvish Productions. Mamma Mia! Musical
based on the songs of ABBA. Music & lyrics by
Benny Andersson & Bjiirn Ulvaeus; book by Cathe·
rine Johnson; directed by Phylicia Lloyd. To Sep 26.
Tues-Sat 8:00; Wed, Sat & Sun 2:00. Royal Alex·
andra Tooatre, 260 King St. West. 416-872-1212.
$26 to $94.
Mirvish Productions. The last Empress.
Broadway-style musical about the life of Queen
Min, 19th century ruler of Korea. To Sep 1: 2:00
& 8:00. Hirnrningbird Centre, 1 Front St. East.
416-872-2262. $35-$85.
Mirvish Productions. The Rat Pack. Musical
recalling the 1960 concerts by Frank Sinatra,
Scmny Davis & Dean Martin at the Sands
Hotel Las Vegas. 15-piece "Rat Pack" Big Band;
full company of singers & dancers. Oct 5-Nov 14.
Canon Theatre, 244 Victoria 416-872-1212.
New Opara and Concerts Centre. Mozart:
The Marriage of Figaro. Sep 8, 10, 11: 7:00; Sep
12: 2:00. Warner Centre Theatre, Warner Road
Church, 188 Lowther Ave. 416-604-1557. $18-
$20.
Opara in Concert. Puccini· La Rondine. Cast of
young performers; Jean Stilwell, host. Oct 1:.
4:00; Oct 2: 7:00. Edward Jackman Centre, 847
Queen St. East, 2nd floor. 416-922-2147. $15.
Rad Barn Theatre. Broadway Heroes. Salute
to Broadway. Starring David Rogers. Sep 8to 11.
991 Lake Dr., Jackson's Point. 1-888-733-
2276. $26.
Red Barn Theatre.Jasper Station. By Norm
Foster&Steve Thomas. To Sep 4. 991 Lake Dr.,
Jackson's Point. 1-888-733-2276. $26, $22(srl
st), $15(child 12 & under).
Royal Opera C;inada. Verdi· La Traviata.
Dwight Bennett, artistic director. Oct 2,5,7,9:
7:30, Oct 3: 3:00, at H111Yl18rson Hall, Living
Arts Centre, 4141 Living Arts Drive, Mississau·
ga. 905-306-6000. Oct 14, 16,21,23: 7:30 at
Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge St.
416-872-1111. $50-$125, $45-$120(srlst).
Shaw hstival. Floyd Colons. By Guettel;
musical direction by Paul Sportelli; Jay Turvey,
Glynis Ranney, Jeff Madden & Sharry Flett,
performers. To Oct 9. Court House Theatre,
Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1 ·800-511-7429. $42-$77.
Shaw Festival. Pa/Joey. By Rodgers & Hart;
musical direction by Paul Sportelli; Laurie Paton,
Adam Brazier & other performers. To Oct 30.
Royal George Theatre, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1 ·
800·511-7429. $42-$77.
Smile Thliltre. Has Anybody Here Seen Willy?
Musical tribute to the life of Will James. By
Kneebone & Christie; directed by Dinah Christie;
featuring Dwayne Evens & Steve Lendt. Sep 3
1 :DO at Holy Rosary Church, 400 Wai"ner Rd.
/1310. 416-961-1735. Sep 15 7:30 at Franklin
Horner Community Centre, 432 Horner Ave.
416-252-6822. Sep 23 7:30 at Rockway
Gardens Senior Citizens Centre, 1405 King St.
East, Kitchener. 519-741-2510. Sep 25 7:00 at
Coronation 50 Plus Recreation Centre, 5925
SlJTY118r St., Niagara Falls. 905-356-6493. Sep
28 8:00 at Al Green Theatre, Miles Nadal JCC,
750 Spadina Ave. 416-599-8440. Sep 29 7:15
at King Garden, 85 King St. East, Mississauga.
905-566-4545. Sep 30 2:00 at Yorkminster
Park Church, 1585 Yonge St. 416-9.22-1167.
Stirling Festival Theatre. Anne of Green
Gables. By Harron & Campbell. To Sep 4. Tues­
Sat: 7:30; Wed & Sat: 2:00. Stirling ON. 877-
312-1162. $22.50(eve), $20(mat), $7.50(18 &
under), group rates.
Stradord Festival. Anything Goes. Music &
lyrics by Cole Porter. Douglas Chamberlain,
Patricia Collins, Cynthia Dale, David Hogan,
Sheila McCarthy & other performers; Berthold
Carrere, musical director. To Oct 31. Avon
Theatre, 100Downie St., Stratford. 1-800-567-
1600.
Stradord Festival. Guys and Dolls. Music &
lyrics by Laesser. Douglas Chinlberlain, Cynthia
Dale, Patricia Collins, Bruce Dow, Geordie
Johnson & other performers; Berthold Carriere,
musical director. To Nov 7. Festival Theatre, 55
Qlllen St., Stratford. 1-800-567-1600.
Sunshine Festival Theatre Company. 01'.
Blue Eyes ... A Tnbute to Frank Sinatra. Musical
revue. Sep 14-0ct 15. Tues-Sat, various tines.
Orillia Opera House, 20 Mississaga St. West. 1 ·
800-683-8747. $26 & up.
Tapestry New Opera Works. Opera Bnefs 4.
Selection of 10 brief works from 9 years of
Composer-librettist Laboratories. Sep 28,29:
8:00. T apestry/Nightwood New Work Studio,
The CaMery, Studio 315, 55 Mill St. 416-537·
6066. $20.
The Variety Players. Hey There Good Times!
-A Tribute to Broadway & Ho8ywood. 11 th
arv\uaJ Jerry-at· Trick Revue. Larry Westlake,
director. Kevin Ralph Nelson, musical director.
Sep 2,4,9, 11: 7:30, Sep 5,8, 12: 2:00. Fairview
Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall Drive. 905-
882-4523. $18, group rate.
Thor College/Theatre by the Bay. Children's
Show:RobinHood(The MusicaQ. By Clark Harris;
directed by Larissa Mair. To Sep 4. Monday to
Sunday. Weekdays 1 :00 & 5:00; Sundays only
7:00. Heritage Park, Barrie. 705-735-9243. $7.
Thoth. The Music of Ancient Gods. By Stephen
Kaufman. Opera in the language of a Tolkien style
world. Sep 4 9:00. The Opera House, 735 Queen
St. East. 416-466-0313. $25.
Toronto Masque Theatre. Tears of a Clown.
Cannedy, music & theatre in an unfolding drama
with music from Medieval to Mahler to Motown.
Diana Kolpak, clown/actor/director. David
Tomlinson, clown; Laura Pudwell, mezzo; Larry
Beckwith, violin; Michael Franklin & Avery
Maclean, recorders; Terry McKenna, lute. Sep
24-26: 8:00. Trinity College, 6 Hoskin Ave. 416-
4104561. $20.
Victoria Playhouse Petralia./ Do! I Doi
Book & lyrics by Tom Jones; music by Harvey
Sctrnidt; Alan Moon, music director. Starring
Brian McKay & Karen Wood. To Sep 11. Tues­
Sat various tines. 411 Greenfield Street,
Petralia 1-800-717-7694. $26, $25(st),
$16(under 141. $22(previewl. group rates.
NEW MUSIC
QUICK PICKS
continued from page 26
Tuesday September 28
NNN - 8:00: Tapestry New Opera Works.
Opera Briefs 4.
Friday October 01
NNN - 8:00: Music Gallery/CBC Radio
Two. Mandolini & Poulin.
Saturday October 02
NNN - 8:00: New Music Concerts/Music
Gallery. Hammerhead.
Sunday October 03
NNN - 2:30: U of T Faculty of Music.
Music of Lothar Klein.
Monday October 04
NN -7:00: U of T Faculty of Music.
Chilmber Music Series: Brentano Ouartet.
Tuesday October 05
NNN - 8:00: Music Gallery/Harbourfront
Centre. Corona Guitar Kvartet.
Thursday October 07
NN -12:10: U of T Faculty of Music.
Thursdays at Noon: Music & Poetry.
NNN - 8:00: Earshot Cone1rts.Earshot 1113
FURTHER AFIELD (Barrie, Guelph, Picton)
Thursday September 09
NI -11 :30irn: Guelph Jazz Festival NOMA.
Saturday September 11
NI - 8:00: Guelph Jazz Festival.
Urse/ Schhi:ht's Ex Temp ore Pro1ect.
Thur, Fri, Sat. September 23,24,25
NN - 7:30: Prince Edward County
Music Festival. Hetu
Sunday September 26
NN -2:30: Colours of Music Festival.
Daedalus Trio.
Wednesday September 29
NN - 2:30: Colours of Music Festival.
AdasktnString Trio & Joseph Petni:, accordian.
Thursday September 30
NN - 12 noon: Colours of Music Festival.
Adasktn Stn"ng Trio.
VISIT WWW. TORONTOHEARANDNOW.COM
for a more extensive version of these QuickPicks,
including detailed listings and other categories:
N - Sonne contemporary repertoire
N?- insufficient info. probably sonne new music
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JAZZ CONCERT QUICK PICKS
JAZZ CLUB LISTINGS
Friday September 10
7:00: Toronto All·Star Big Band.
Southside Shuffle.
8:00: Bands on a Canadian Tour. Tenors,
Sopranos and the Sounds of Big Baqds on a
Canadian Tour.
Sunday September 1 Z
4:30: Christ Church Daer Park. Jazz
Vespers: Rick Wilkins, saxophone; Frank
Falco, piano; Scott Alexander, bass; Brian
Barlow, drums.
7:00: Music Gallery. Fresh Ears Family
Series: Ex Tempore.
Thursday September 16
8:00: Rebecca Hass. Wanna sing a showtune
Friday September 17
8:00: Bands on a Canadian Tour. Tenors,
Sopranos and the Sounds of Big Bands on a
Canadian Tour.
Sunday September 19
1 :30: McMichael Gallery. Richard
Whiteman Jazz Duo.
Tuesday September Z 1
12:30: York University Dept. of Music.
Michael Cada, jazz guitar & his Trio; Sherie
Marshall, vocals.
Wednesday September ZZ
12:30: York University Dept. of Music.
Lame lofsky, jazz guitar.
Thursday September ZJ
9:00 The Opara House Toronto
Progressive Jazz Series: Soulive.
Friday September Z4
8:00: Bands on a Canadian Tour. The
Sounds of Big Band with the Governor
General's Horse Guards.
Sunday September Z6
4:30: Christ Church Daer Park. Jazz
Vespers: Manlyn Lerner, solo piano.
Monday September Z7
9:00: University of Toronto Faculty of
Music. Jazz Studies Benefit Concert
Tuesday September ZS
12:30: York University Dept. of Music.
Richa;d Whiteman, jazz pianist & his Trio.
Thursday September JO
12:30: York University Dept. of Music.
Michael Davidson, vibist & his Jazz
Ensemble.
Friday October 01
12:30: York University Dept. of-Music.A/
Henderson, jazz bass & his Ensemble.
8:00: Bands on a Canadian Tour. Tenors,
Sopranos ant/ the Sounds of Big Bands on a
Canadian Tour.
8:00: George Waston Recital Hall.
Toronto Progressive Jazz Series: Dave
Holland Duintet with special guest, Jason
Moran.
Satilrda·y October OZ
8:00: Massay Hall. Afro-Cuban All Stars.
Monday October 04
8:00: WholeNota Magazine. Nine
Mondays: Music by Threes.
Tuesday October 05
8:00: Mirvish Productions. The Rat Pack.
Wednesday October 06
8:00: David Buchbindar.Shurum Burum
Jazz Circus.
8:00: Glenn Gould Studio. Toronto
Progressive Jazz Series: Andrew Hill.
8:00: University of Toronto Faculty of
Music. Small Jazz Ensembles.
FURTHER AFIELD
lin this issue:, Barria,
Gualph, Port Hope,
Sharon, Sonya)
Wednesday September 08
8:00: Guelph Jazz Festival. Anne Bourne,
Justin Haynes, RaviNaimpally.
Thursday September 09
8:00: Gualph Jazz Festival. Michel
Lambert, Barre Phillips, Lionel GafC/n
11 :30pm: Guelph Jazz Festival. NDMA.
Friday September 10
8:00: Gualph Jazz Festival.Sa1nkho
Namtchylak, Wilham Parker, Hamid Drake
11 :30pm: Guelph Jazz Festival. Bob
Ostertag, Pierre Hebert, Theo Bleckmann.
Saturday September 11
10:30am: Gualph Jazz Festival. Joelle
LEiandre & India Cooke.
2:30: Gualph Jazz Festival. Susie Ibarra
Trio with Angelica Sanchez and Jennifer Choi.
8:00: Gualph Jazz Festival. Urse/
Schlicht's Ex Tempore Project
11 :30pm: Guelph Festival. Do Make Say
Think.
Sunday September. 1 Z
10:30am & 7:00: Guelph Jazz Festival. in
Place of Wishes: A fairy tale for all ages.
7:00: Amis du Jazz. Dennis Ke/die,
Hammond organ; Tony Duamngton, gwtar,·
Howard Gaul, drums. Sonya.
Friday September 17
2:00: Sharon Temple Historic Site.
Melissa Sty/Janou, ;azz vocals.
Sunday September 19
7:00: Amis du Jazz. Pol Coussee Band.
Sonya.
Friday September Z4
6:30-9:30pm: All-Canadian Jazz Festival.
Port Hope Performers include:
Northumberland High School AIJ.Star Jazz
Band, Ranee lee & others.
Saturday September Z5
12:45-6:00: All·Canadian Jazz Festival.
Port Hope Performers include: Kevin Clark
Dwntet, Pat laBarbera Duintet, Alex·
Pangman, Roberto Occhipinti Septet, Daniel
Barnes Trio & others.
8:00: All-Canadian Jazz Festival. Port
Hope Performers include FranfOIS Bourassa
& Alain Caron.
Sunday September Z6
12:00 noon-5:00: All-Canadian Jazz
Festival Port Hope. Performers include:
Peter Dent Duarte!, Boan Barlow Brass
Dwntet, Karen Plato Duarte!, Michael
Kaeshammer Trio, Chnsttne Jensen Duarte!,
Young Jazz Showcase & others.
6:30: All-Canadian Jazz Festival. Port
Hope Performers include San Murata, Renee
Rosnes: Stnngs Attached & others.
7:00: Amis .du Jazz. David French Band.
Sonya
Wednesday September Z9
8:00: Colours of Music Festival. Hampton
Avenue 4. Barria.
Sunday October OJ
7:00: Amis du Jazz. Charlie Gray, trumpet &
Gary Williamson, piano. Sonya.
Alleycatz, 2409 Yonge St. 416-481-6865
Every Mon Saisa Night w/ DJ Frank B1schu11.
Every Tue Chnstopher Plock Swing Extravagan·
za. Every Wed The Outlaws. Every Thu Mike
Ferfriia Band.
Ben Wicks
424 Parliament 416-961-9425
www. benwickspub. corn
All shows start at 8 or 8:30. No cover
Sep 25 Jamne Blanchard
Cameron House
408 Queen St. 416-703-0811
Gate 40J, 403 Roncesvalles 416-588-2930
Grasshopper Jazz & Blues Bar
460 Parliament St. 416-323-1210
Grossman's Tavern,
379 Spadina Ave, 416·977 · 7000.
www.grossmanstavemcorn
Led by Kid Ba.stien until his death in early 2003,
the Happy Pals: Sat 4:00 to 8:00 i:rn. or later.
Sep 1 Mike MacDonald Open Stage Jam. Sep
2 Kirk Broadbddge. Sep J Gary Kendall. Sep 4
level Coldsweat. Sep 5 lmat) Nicola Vaughan
Acoustic Jam, level The Nationals. Sap 10 The
Nationals - Benefit for Holly. Sep 11 Cindy
Booth Blues Band. Sep 2J Blues Driver. Sep 24
Frankie Foo. Sep 25 Rust· Chris Chown.
Hot House Cali
Market Square 416-366-7800
Jazz brunch every Sunday, alternating weeks:
Ken Churchill Quartet, Sspot
Hugh's Room
2261 Dundas West 416-531-6604
www.hughsroorn.corn
Sep 11 Scarlett, Washington and Whiteley.
Sep 18 John Renboum & Jacqui McShee.
Llsa's Cali
245 Carlaw Ave. 416-406-6470
Sep 10 Theron lee White and AdreanFarrugia.
Sep 12 Kevin Laliberte and Chns McKhool. Sep
17 l!Sa Particelli. Sep 19 Dusty Bohdan. Sep
24 /n the Vinyl. Sep Z6 Guiomar Campbell.
Lula Lounge
1585 Dundas West. www.lula.ca
Every Sat. Cuban Percussion School. Sep 4
Salsa Saturday w/ Ruben Vazquez. Sep 10
Tropico Friday w/ Los Select as. Sap 11 Salsa
Saturday w/ Cache. Sep 17 Valentin Y Los
Canbe. Sep 18 Salsa Saturday w/ Proyecto
Charanguero. Sep 24 Tropico Friday w/ Cimarron.
Sep 25 Salsa Saturday w/ Cache.
Manetta
681 St. Clair Ave. W. 416·658-5687
'Wech!sday Concerts ii a Cale" Sets at 9:00 and
10: 15 rrn. Reseivations reccmrerred for frst set.
Mazzrows
1546 Queen St. W. 416-5354906
Jazz and blues on Saturday afternoons, Sunday
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Quool..JBET: FOUR FESTIVALS, continued from pa.ge 16
will give a pre-concert talk on Chopin
and his music at 11 :00 on Saturday.
On Thursday afternoon, September
23 soprano, Nancy Hem1iston
with pianist, Brian Finley will perform
music from the operetta repertoire;
pianist, Bill O'Meara will provide
music for the 1925 Phantom of
the Opera; and on Sunday, September
26 the University of Toronto's
MacMillan Singers will perform a
variety of music including a composition
by Westben co-artistic director,
Brian Finley.
SweetWater Music Weekend
In the July/August issue I focused
on the fine local instrument makers
whose work will be featured in this
will be performed on Sunday, September
26 in Leith Church north of
Owen Sound.
Prince F.clward County
Music Feruval
The Church of St. Mary Magdalene
in Picton, venue for many of' the
summer's Music at Port Milford
concerts, will be the venue for the
three concerts in this festival which
begins Thursday, September 23. The
performers in all three concerts will
be the Quatuor Arthur Leblanc, pianist
Stephane Lemelin and Ottawa
flute-player Robert Cram. Several
works on the programs are by
Quebec composer, Jacques Hetu.
festival in Owen Sound. Another· BACK IN TORONTO
local artist whose work will be fea-
tured at this event is Toronto Com-
poser, Andrew Ager, who is also
the composer-in-residence of the
Georgian Bay Symphony Orchestra.
Ager is described in an August arti-
cle in Mosaic by SweetWater organ-
"Collaborations"
Valerie Kuinka's "Collaborations"
series gets off to an early start this
season with two performances at a
new venue, the Al Green Theatre in
the newly renovated Miles Nadal
Jewish Community Centre, on Sepizer
Keith Medley, as "a modem tember 12 & 13. Built around the
composer unafraid to embrace the
theme of equilibrium, the event repast,
a reluctant national figure whose
love of the Canadian north reaches
only so far as the 'armchair,' a Ro-
reach for deeper meaning" and strivmantic
but not too much so, an in-
strumentalist who makes no claim
to being honoured as a performing
fleets Kuinka' s approach of going
"beyond simple concert format to
ing "to represent and reflect issues
that are part of being human .... " At
least one performer, dancer Rex
. artist, a composer who is flattered Harrington, will go beyond what he
when others compliment his unique
voice but is nonetheless wary of
being categorized as a result." Ager
has written a string quartet entitled
Susan Hoeppner will perform Lusirnply
Sereruua. Violinist Mark
Fewer says that Ager's is "a corn-
positional voice that is 'free of ex-
cess and clutter,'" and that he finds
"the length of Ager's phrases de-
also including music by Claude Bolceiving
as they are often short - but
packed with information." Serenata
usually does and will sing and act as
well as dance in this performance.
And, as Harrington dances, flutist
ciano Berio's Sequenza by memory
as she relates to Harrington's every
movement. The repertoire for the
concert will cross genre boundaries,
ling and Duke Ellington.
•
Avenue Road Arts School
Owen Sound
Ontario
Douglas McNabney
viola
David Hetherington
cello
September 24, 25, 26, 2004
l\fark Fewer
violin
FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY
Historic Leith Church, Knox United Church Historic Leith Church,
8pm 8pm 2pm
Bach, Britten, Beethoven, Martinu, Ager, Beethoven,
Hindemith, Mozart Rea, Rossini Haydn
Ticket $20 Ticket $15 Tickets $20 1·
For more information and tickets
.
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continued from page 26
Darbazi, the 12 member choir that
sings traditional Georgian folk and
liturgical music may have a few
openings. Contact Ray Kinoshita
at 416-917-8571 and visit
www .darbazi.com.
Two BRAZILIAN Samba groups may
still have· room for new members
(earplugs recommended!). Samba
Squad, led by Rick Shadrach Lazar,
can be reached by email at
slamdog@syrnpatico.ca; or visit
www.sambasquad.com. Escola de
Samba is led by Alan Hetherington;
please visit their website
www.sambawronto.ca or call Alan
at 416-532-7923. An excellent
documentary film was made on the
latter group and features interviews
with many of its members. We Are
Samba will be shown at the inauguration
of the new temporary location
of the Royal Conservatory
at 90 Croatia St., September 10 at
7:00 pm followed by a show with
dancers at 8:00. (Date tentative at
time of writing)
ONE !AST NOTE, don't forget to check
out Ashkenaz: A Festival of New
Yiddish Culture, at Harbourfront
Centre, August 31-September 6.
For details on the festival which
includes music, dance, theatre,
film, visual arts, literature, lectures
and storytelling, please visit
www.ashkenazfestival.com and
www.harbourfrontcentre.com, or
call 416-973-4000.
Karen Ages is a freelance oboist
who has also been a member of
several world music ensembles.
She can be reached at 41.6-323-
2232 or by email at
worldmusic@thewholenote. corn.
World Music
and Kindermusik
on the Danforth
for young children
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. l '12-3
• 3-5.·
Register Now for Sept. classes
Sophia Grigoriadis ·
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ANNOUNCEMENTS, LECTURES/SYMPOSIA, MASTER CLASSES, WORKSHOPS, ETCETERA
*Mississauga Symphony. Annual Used
Book Sale. Sale of used books, CDs, tapes,
records, videos, magatines & jigsaw puzzles.
Sap 16: 7pm·9pm; Sap 17: 10am·9pm;
Sap 18: 10am·6pm; Sap 19: 12 noon·Spm.
Sheridan Centre, 2225 Erin Mills Parkway,
Mississauga. 905·615·4405. Proceeds to the
Mississauga Symphony's Concert Series &
Educational and 0 utreach programs.
LECTURES/SYMPOSIA
*September 12 2:00: Toronto Opara
Club. Guest speaker Eric Domville talks
about The Handmaid's Tale. CDs to be won.
Room 330, Edward Johnson Bldg, 80 Queen's
Park. 416-924-3940. $12.
*October 2 9:30am·4:00: Canadian
Opara Company/Munk Cantre for
International Studies. The Opera
Exchange. In-depth symposium on The
Handmaid's Tale. Presenters include
Rosemary Sullivan, Robin Elliott, Eric
Domville, Wayne Sumner, Rick Phillips &
others. Panel discussion with members of the
CDC's creative team. Isabel Bader Theatre, 93
Charles St. West. 416-363-8231. $25,
$15(UofT faculty), stdents free.
*October 2 8:00: Arcady/Hamilton
Association for the Advancement of
Literature, Science and Art. Early Music
and the Modern Composer. Ronald Beckett,
lecturer with Carolvn Stronks-Zeyl, flute.
Ewart Angus Theatre, McMaster University
Medical Centre, Hamilton. 905-527·0415.
*October 7 10:00am: Great Romantics
Festival. New Found Liszt. William Wright,
· speaker. Uncatalogued autograph
transcriptions from works of Herold, Pezzini
& Schubert. Convocation Hall, McMaster
University, Hamilton. 905-525-9140
x23674. $25.
*Return to Learn. Overture to Opera. 6
lectures including excerpts & live
performance. David Ambrose, lecturer. Sep
2B·Nov. 2. North York Central Library, 2nd
floor, 5120 Yong St. 905-764-7168. $120.
MASTER CLASSES
*September 11 & 12: Ukrainian
Canadian Choral federation/Canadian
Ukrainian Opera Association. The Art of
Singing. Choral master class with opera singer
Pavlo Hunka, with special involvement by:
Halyna Kvitka Kondracki (conductor, Vesnivka
Choir & Toronto Ukrainian Male Chamber
Chorus); Myron Maksymiw (conductor,
Musicus Bortnianskii, Boyan Choir & St.
Demetrius Choir); William Woloschuk
(conductor, Counterpoint Chorale & St.
Vladimir Cathedral Choir); Roman Hurko (stage
director, conductor & sacred music
composer). St. Vladimir Institute, 620 Spadina
Ave. 416·236-8278 or Lkomoro9@aol.com
$120.
WORKSHOPS
*September 10· 12: Brampton festival
Singers. Weekend Rehearsal/Workshop
Retreat. Members and non members who love
to sing and are interested in enhancing their
skills are welcome to attend. Stephane Potvin,
director. Erin Country Inn, Erin Ontario. 905-
450-5659, 905-457 -2310. $100.
*September 12 1:30: Toronto Early
Music Players' Organization. Workshop
with David Klausner, director of Institute for
Medieval Studies, UofT. Bring your early
instruments and stand;. music available at the
door. Lansing United Church, 49 Bogert Ave.
416-778-7777. $20.
*September 15 7:30: Toran.to
Shapenote Singing from Sacred Harp.
Third Wednesday of every month. Beginners
welcome. St. Stephen-in-the-fields, 365
College St. 416-922·7997.
*September 17 7:30: Recorder Players
Society (Toronto). For players of C and f
instruments. Church of the Transfiguration,
111 Manor Rd. East. 416-536-5750.
$4(CAMMAC members), $6(non-members).
*September 18 lpm·Spm: Spirit of
Wellness. The Power of Music in Your life!
Workshop with Sharon Howarth-Russell, for
both the layperson & the therapist, that
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not so different from Demers, who
felt he "had to testify in music" to
an obsession with the tango, a
dance ·where balance is always in
question. Lesage evokes a different
sort of gravity as he takes as
his inspiration a more sombre
theme, the memory of one of the
masters of 20th century composition,
lannis Xenakis, and uses the
l 7th century French tombeau as his
model. All of the works are effective,
and are played with conviction
by this fine ensemble.
We also received two discs by
Ukrainian composers recently, and
although the two were born in the
same time (1937) and place, their
music could not be more different.
Nikolai Kapustin's Piano Music
(Hyperion CDA67433) features
jazz-inspired works spanning a
quarter of a century performed by
Marc-Andre Hamelin. I say jazzinspired,
but I thipk that most listeners,
even those schooled in jazz,
would be hard. pressed on first
hearing to realize that this is something
other than spontaneous improvised
music. But as the composer
is quoted as saying, "You
can't improvise a sonata". Trained
as a classical pianist and composer,
Kapustin has worked as a jazz
pianist throughout his career. His
compositions however are couched
in classical forms in spite of their
predominantly jazz idioms. Noticeable
influences range from Scott
Joplin to Oscar Peterson, Keith
Jarrett and beyond, but Kapustin's
music also has a manic edge to it,
at tirries reminiscent of Conlon
Nancarrow's humanly impossible
studies for player piano. Hamelin
proves himself to be up to the challenges
however, and "who would
have thunk it?", this man can real-·
ly swing! ·
The other Ukrainian work, Valentin
Silvestrov's Requiem for Larissa
(ECM New Series 1778) was
written in memory of the corn-
58
VE RIES
poser's wife who died in 1996. As
with all of Silvestrov's later works,
the Requiem evokes the music of
the past, but always as if in a dream.
We hear echoes of Webern,
Bruckner, and, especially, Mozart,
not as quotations however, but
rather as evocations. There are
more recent memories too as we
also hear moments reminiscent of
Penderecki's early choral writing
and Henryk Go·recki's haunting
Symphony of Sorrowfu.l Songs. The
National Choir of Ukraine (which
includes a spine-tingling basso profundo
section) is supplemented
with soprano, contralto and tenor
soloists and the Beethoven-sized
orchestra under Volodymyr Sirenko's
direction is brought into
the 21lst century with the addition
of a synthesizer. The work is_ profoundly
moving and is, in th
words of Larry Lake, host of Two
New Hours on CBC Radio Two,
Silvestrov's "best yet". We can
only regret the unfortunate occasion
of its composition.
In closing, in case you begin to think
that my only interest is in the 'muc
sic of our time', I would bring your
attention to a wonderful budgetpriced
re-issue ·of the Piano Trios
of Mozart's pupil and Haydn's collaborator
Johann N epomuk
Hummel (Eloquence 4761477).
This 1997 Philips recording features
the Beaux Arts Trio at a time
when founding pianist Menahem
Pressler was joined by violinist Ida
Kavafian and cellist Peter Wiley.
The playing is superb, as is the
recording. Unfortunately the discs
of the extensive Eloquence line, a
no-frills product of Universal
Music that includes reissues from liner notes. We lament a missed
the Philips, Deutsche Grammo- opportunity to educate while enterphon
and Decca labels, contain no taining, but nonetheless recominformation
whatsoever about the mend this marvellous recording.
composer, compositions or musicians
involved. This mars what
would otherwise be an excellent
introduction to some of the world's
greatest music for those uninitiated
who might be drawn by a familiar
name or the attractive prices.
It is difficult to understand this
omission as the original recordings
that form the basis of the series
did, in many cases, have thorough
Sempre Libera
VOCAL
Anna Netrebko, soprano
Coro Sinfonico di
Giuseppe Verdi
CD REVIEWS
Milano
Mahler Chamber Orchestra;
Claudio Abbado
DGG 00289 474 8002
Soprano Arias
Marina Mescheriakova, soprano
Slovak Philharmonic Choir
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra;
Michel Halasz
Naxos 8.557109
For her enthusiastically received
first solo disc last year, Russian
soprano Anna Netrebko offered
mostly lyric arias. Here she moves
into heavier dramatic roles, with
two mad scenes and a sleepwalking
scene from the bel canto repertoire,
some Verdi and Puccini.
It's good 'to have other soloists
and a choir here to present extended
scenes - even with the inevitable
excisions. The assisting singers
and choir are vibrant and the
orchestra under Claudio Abbado is
superbly coloured ..
Netrebko produces radiant
sounds, but thrills are surprisingly
few. There is just so much more
that can - and should - be done to
make this repertoire dramatically
convincing. Because Netrebko's
voice--sits comfortably in the extremely
high tessitura where most
of this music lies, the phrases flow
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David Olds
Editor, DISCoveries
easily. But, with a limited dynamic
range, and tone colour that varies
little from mood to mood, she
missi;:s the layers of irony when
Lucia sings "Oh, how happy I
am!" in the mad scene from
Donizetti 's Lucia di Lammermoor.
Netrebko's ·unidiomatic Italian does
not help the lack of clarity and precision
in her coloratura. But it's a
delight to h,ear the rarely used glass
harmonica originally scored by
Donizetti.
The notes in my press kit contain
no information about the music,
their main focus being the
dress Netrebko wears in the cover
photo. Worse still is the absence
of texts and translations.
SOPllVi(l At.\.
l).'\o.fOJl:""'•lilflh·l'Uto

cabaletta Ernani, involami from
Verdi's Ernani she uses the huge
leaps and intricate ornamentation as
a means of expressing conflicting
emotions.
Michel Halasz directs the lively
and responsive Slovak Radio Symphony
Orchestra and Slovak Philharmonic
Choir. The intelligent
notes are accompanied, as they
should be, by texts and translations.
PamMargles
Concert note: Marina Mescheriakova
returns to The Canadian Opera
Company in Donizetti's Lucia
di Lammermoor at the Hummingbird
Centre on September 25, 28,
30, Oct. 3, 6 and 8.
written for a convention of telegraphists,
the virtuosic winds and brass
of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano
under Riccardo Chailly form
an enthralling concert band.
The liner notes are interesting and
critically astute, but Decca has done
this fascinating disc a disservice by
omitting the texts for the vocal
works.
PamMargles
Concert note: A cast of young performers
from Opera in Concert
presents Puccini's La Rondine with
Jean Stilwell as host at the Edward
Jackman Centre on October I and 2.
Ld
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Christmas choral music by
Canada's finest composers,
based on the Piae Cantiones
plainsong
Puccini: Discoveries
Eva Urbanova, Dario Volunte,
Chiara Taigi, Joseph Calleja,
Alberto Mastromarino
Coro and Orchestra Sinfonica di
Milano Giuseppe Verdi;
Riccardo Chailly
Decca 475 320-2
The big draw on this disc is the first
recording of the new ending for
Puccini's Turandot. Puccini died
before he was able to finish his final
opera, so his friend Franco Alfano
completed it. Just qefore his
own death last year, the versatile
Italian composer Luciano Berio
wrote a new ending based on a close
re-examination of Puccini's sketches.
In both versions the vocal lines
are much the same, but in his orchestration
Berio uses a wider palette
of colours and textures, and a
much richer harmonic language.
Alfano ends with the chorus joyfully
reprising Nessun dorma. Berio
drops the final chorus for the orchestra
to fade out after Turandot and
Calaf proclaim their love. What Berio's
more ambiguous ending gains
in both cogency and musical interest,
it loses in dramatic impact. Eva
Urbanova makes a powerful Turandot,
as she did with the Canadian
Opera Company last year, as does
her Calaf, Dario.Yolonte.
The rest of the disc features some
obscure gems, from the early Motetto
for San Paolino, to the sublime Salve
Regina for soprano and brgan, tenderly
sung here by Chiara Taigi. In
Scossa elettrica (Electric Shock)
SEPTEMBER 1 ·OCTOBER 7 2004
Vivaldi Opera Arias
from the Vivaldi Edition
Various Artists
OPUSlll OPS30401
How is it possible that over 260 'years
after the death of the 'Red Priest',
as the contemporaries called Antonio
Vivaldi, over 20 of his operas are
nowhere near to being well known?
This recording, a result of the efforts
oflstituto per I Beni Musicali in Piemonte,
holder of some 400 manuscripts
of Vivaldi's work, provides
an answer: we simply don't have the
right instruments. I don't mean period
violins and cellos, oboes and harpsichords
- we have those and three
Italian period ensembles perform on
this recording. What makes Vivaldi's
operas so rare on stage and
record is lack of voices capable of
handling this extraordinary music.
For the Red Priest, human voice was
yet another instrument - to be tuned,
tweaked and pushed to the limits.
Aft.er all, in Vivaldi's times scores
of boys were mutilated just to
achieve certain sound. We don't
have castrati anymore, but we also
don't have too many singers with a
purity of pitch, breathing technique
and attention to nuances that allows
them to render Vivaldi's music. Fortunately,
there are some and when
Magdalena Kozena or Philippe
Yaroussky sing, it is a sound of an
angel. In those instances, Vivaldi's
vocal music shines with incomparable
beauty, forcing even the most
cynical listener to be awe-struck.
Because the demands are so high, I
doubt operas such as Juditha Trium-
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a mainstay of the opera houses.
This recording, however, should
become a 'must have' for all the
vocal music lovers.
Robert Tomas
Editor's note: You can read
Pamela Margles' review of the
Opus 111 release of Vivaldi's La
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CHANDOS Opera in English
CHAN3106
How do you deal with a growing
trend that is meant to help the operatic
genre and instead is hurting
it? Carefully, that's how. 'Opera
in English' - is an admirable
sentiment, meant to help audiences
better understand the treasures
of vocal music. The reasoning
being that if people understand
what's going on without having to
read the libretto, they will find
themselves more involved. Maybe,
but let's look at what is being
lost: you can, quite easily, translate
Bellini's 'Casta Diva' into
'Chaste Goddess', but the singer
will have to end the musical
phrase on an extended consonant,
not a vowel. Try singing
'Aaaaaaaaaa' and then 'Ssssssss'
and tell me which one sounds better.
Each language has its own
rhythms and sounds and the music
was written specifically for that
language. One size does not fit all.
Probably the only opera that does
not suffer in translation is Don Carlos
by Verdi - originally composed
to a French libretto and later recomposed
by Verdi into Italian. A
Czech opera sung in English is another
story. The singing and playing
are beautiful, all the principals
acquit themselves well and the recording
is a tribute to a young, tragically
short-lived Jenufa, Susan
Chilcott. Yet, given the overall
damage to the opera done through
the' translation, it is not a recording
I can recommend.
Robert Tomas
CLASSICAL
AND BEYOND
available individually)
After 1945 the ever enterprising
producer Walter Legge had signed
up most of Europe's great conductors
and soloists for EMI to be issued
on their HMV, Columbia, and
Parlophone labels and hence in
North America on RCA and Columbia.
As a result there was, as
might be expected, a paucity of
superior, high profile conductors
and soloists available to other labels.
Certainly, there was the
emerging Ferenc Fricsay, also Eugen
Jochum, Wolfgang Schneiderhan,
and various orchestras such
as those in Munich and the newly
formed RIAS (Radio In the American
Sector), but the biggies were
not at large.
By 1953 DOG had perfected
their recording expertise and were
recording regularly in the Jesus­
Christus-Kirche in Berlin-Dahlem,
the Vienna Konzerthaus, and elsewhere.
Their LPs from that era did
not enjoy the widespread distribution
they deserved but, of necessity,
they contracted, licensing agreements
with existing companies such
as American Decca. However, the
superior German DOG pressings
were much sought after by the cognoscenti.
At one time, or maybe
all the time, the DOG pressing
plant in Hanover would not employ
natural red-heads because (I have
box,are characterized by the same
extremely high standards of performance
due to the indulgence of
the company in allowing whatever
time it took to perfect the conductor's
realization of the score.
These were not idle claims but are
manifest in each and every performance,
carefully chosen for inclusion
in this first selection of
"Music -
The Universal Language''.
· It would be impractical to analyze
each disc so here is a brief
overview. As a pre-amble be assured
that these are neither original
instrument performances nor
could they be taking advantage of
the latest musicological scholarship.
These are all examples, the
best examples in fact, of the finest
music making of a past generation
in some of the basic repertoire of
the day.
· Fricsay's way with the three
Haydn symphonies (44, 95 & 98)
places the composer just outside
the sentimental Viennese tradition
(after all, Fricsay was Hungarian)
into a tauter, less sentimental precurser
to Beethoven. The two Jochum
discs, made when he was in
his early fifties reveal, as if we
didn't already know, that he was a
master in his chosen repertoire, be
it Mozart (3, 36, 39) or Bruckner
(9). Any Jochum recording is worth
hearing.
Somehow Karl Bohm often
sounded like the proverbial Kapellmeister.
Not here. The Beethoven
Fifth held this listener to the very
end with its intense, focused playing.
Brilliant balances and a crystal-clear
recording make this a winner
along with a powerfully driven
to be careful here) they were in­ Seventh in perfect stereo. Bohm's
Musik - Sprache der Welt (Mu- clined to perspire excessively and Brahms Second is equally decisive
sic - The Universal Language) might mar those pristine LP sur- and the delightfully catching Reger
Selected Orchestral
faces. Today those LPs are very Variations calls for repeated hearings.
Recordings I (1953-1956)
collectable and rare because they
Various Artists ' were not produced in any larger A favourite conductor, Igor
Deutsche Grammophon 474980-2 quantities than the demand war- Markevitch, is well represented
10 CDs boxed with booklet (also ranted. All the recordings in this ,here with ideally balanced and
rhythmically precise readings of
Schubert (3 & 4) sounding very
much in line with the latest performing
practices. Berlioz' Fantastique,
the earliest and arguably
the best of his recorded versions,
took 22 hours over six days to complete
the 48-minute work to his entire
satisfaction. Such perfection
would be an intolerable if not unbearable
expense for today's companies
that are bottom-line obsessed.
Well, it was worth the six
days because listening now one has
the impression of spontaneous perfection.
The Sanderling and Lehmann
items are new to me but obviously
I had mi.ssed some impressive performances.
The stereo Beethoven
Third piano concerto with Sanderling
finds Richter at the pinnacle
of his legendary brilliance. Fritz
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Lehmann was an early music specialist
and his tempos and orchestral
balances reveal an unexpected
lightness of touch agreeably suitable
to Schubert.
The well-known Furtwangler
items are well known and self-recommending.
All the recordings are mono, except
as noted and the exemplary
processing from analogue tapes to
CD by the Emil Berliner Studios
reflects exactly the same care and
pride that those LPs boasted some
50 years ago. Owning these performances
is what knowledgeable
record collecting is all about.
Bruce Surtees
Bruckner - Symphony No. 3
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester
Berlin; Kent Nagano
Harmonia Mondi HMC 901817
Bruckner - Symphony No. 3;
Wagner - Siegfried Idyll
Wiener Pliilharmoniker; Hans
Knappertsbusch
Testament SBT 1339
Anton Bruckner's Third Symphony
exists in three versions, the most
familiar of which is the 1877 revision
that formed the basis for the
tumultuous premiere of the work.
Sadly, there were only 25 patrons
left in the hall by the end of that
first performance, though among
these chosen few was the young
Gustav Mahler, who would ·become
a leading advocate of Bruckner's
works.
Known to Brucknerites as the
'Wagner Symphonie', the original
1872 version of the work included
several thematic lifts from Richard
Wagner's operas. The Wizard
of Bayreuth accepted Bruckner;s
heartfelt dedication of the score to
him on the condition that tl;lese references
be withdrawn and consequently
the original version has
gone unrecorded until now.
Kent Nagano has conducted the
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester
Berlin since 2000 but has recently
left his post there to accept the directorship
of the Montreal Symphony.
He is best known for his
proficiency in contemporary music
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and hence would seem an unlikely
proponent of Bruckner. Though the
Berlin ensemble remains one of
Germany's most distinguished ensembles,
this important, gorgeously
recorded addition to the Bruckner
discography falls considerably
short of a great performance.
A clouq of suspicion still hangs
over the head of Hans Knappertsbusch
(1888-1965) for his role in
promoting German culture
throughout the occupied territories
while on tour with the Berlin Philharmonic>from·
1940 to 1944; nonetheless,
his interpretations of
Bruckner and Wagner remain unassailable.
'Kna', as he was affectionately
known, led this recording
session at the Vienna Musikverein
in 1954 for the Decca company; it
has been re-issued over the years
on various boutique labels.
Despite the limitations of Decca'
s monaural sound, the recording
is extremely lucid; the articulation
of the crashing tutti entrances
that follow Bruckner's idiosyncratic
caesuras are astonishingly
precise. 'Kna' uses the abbreviated
1890 edition of the score in a
performance that never loses its
sense of forward momentum.
Moreover, there is an uncanny psychic
communication between conductor
and orchestra that allows for
subtle tempo modifications (particularly
noticeable in the Scherzo
movement) that simply can't be
matched by Nagano's performance.
Da11iel Foley
Beethoven - Triple Concerto;
Schumann - Piano Concerto
Martha Argerich, piano
Renaud Caprn;on, violin
Mischa Maisky, cello
Orchestra della Svizzera italiana
Alexandre Rabinovitch­
Barakovsky
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In Schumann's brilliant A Minor
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is so expertly integrated into the
texture of the piece that one hardly
differentiates between it and the
other instruments of the orchestra.
After the initial explosion of descending
piano octaves, the lst oboe
emerges to play the first movement's
exquisite main theme, with
its aching octave leap. There are
several similar solo turns by other
instruments over the course of this
remarkable work, making the challenge
of the pianist not only to negotiate
technically difficult sections,
but to accompany and react
to the orchestra in an intricate and
intimate way.
'In this recording of a live performance
from June of 2002, the
formidably talented Martha Argerich
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sensationally. Though the remastering
at Abbey Road studios may
have something to do with it, the
balance between piano and orchestra
is perfect and Argerich pushes
and pulls the tempos and offers her
accompanying figures in a beautifully
conspiratorial spirit. Howeve,r,
when she assumes the spotlight she
is capable of getting into the keys and
playing with grand and awesome
power. She takes control of the last
movement from its opening measures
and sets a tone of wild abandonment
with which the orchestra
takes up and runs.
The disc also features Beethoven's
Triple Concerto in a lively
performance, also from Argerich
's Lugano Festival, but the
Schumann is the highlight and more
than worth the price of the CD.
Larry Beckwith
City Night - Haiku for the 21st
century
Janice Jackson; Simon Docking
Inependent
Janice Jackson is a soprano who
seeks contemporary repertoire
with a passion. We remember her
inspired Array Music performance
in 2001, and Les franais witnessed
her recent IRCAM performance.
By coincidence, she arrived in
Halifax around the same time as
Simon Docking. Of course Dockir:ig
has been the new music pianist
to keep your eye on for several
years now, since his breathtaking
performances with Toca Loca and
his solo rendition of Sculthorpe's
Dijile at Glenn Gould Studio.
So it was a natural pairing of
these two, which gave rise to a
CD of haiku settings. A host of
composers contributed to the
project, from across Canada. Earlier
works in the genre came from
Ton De Leeuw, Julian Yu, Colin
Matthews and John Cage.
The settings are fiendishly difficult
for both singer and pianist.
Jackson and Docking navigate these
tortuous twists and turns with an
apparent ease nonetheless. Special
mention goes to Rose Bolton for
her Urban Haiku: the pianist recites
along with the singer, playing all
the while. There are several in-
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stances of inside-the-piano effects,
particularly in Alice Ho's City
Night.
The recording is very immediate,
with no appreciable ambience,
as if you have your ear under the
piano lid, and Jackson is singing to
you from 4 feet away. The notes
tell us that they used a Steinway,
but the jacket photographs show the
pair with a Yamaha.
A tour de force.
John S. Gray
Concert Note: Janice Jackson and
Simon Docking will celebrate the
Ontario launch of the CD with a
performance at the Music Gallery
on November 25. This month Jackson
will perform with the Canadian
Electronic Ensemble at the
Music Gallery on September 18.
She will also perform a solo program
entitled Angst at the Canadia
dell'arte Theatre here in Toronto
November 17 through 20. Simon
Docking is among the featured performers
in Sound streams' presentation
of the music of Pou! Ruders
and Harry Freedman on September
27 at Glenn Gould Studio.
Des Passages de Charniere
Michelle Boudreau
Musiques Itenerantes mi Ltee.
(Independent)
Composer Michelle Boudreau's
charniere is the musical element
of the artwork 'sculpture/ object'
of the same name by Luc Bourbonnais.
Comprised 9f five pieces (four
of which appear on this release),
the aural element of this music-theatre
work succeeds independently.
The bilingual liner notes
support the listener's ability to navigate
this fascinating work. Though
it may require 'repeated listenings
to fully understand the musical nuances,
this effort is certainly time
not wasted. Having never seen this
work live, I can only assume that
with the accompanying visuals, this
would not be the case.
Boudreau's work utilizes both
electroacoustic elements with live
performance; her work is especially
moving when she employs the
human voice. The first track,
charniere: langage oublie, is mesmerizing.
Over 17 minutes in
length, the work opens with a
sound reminiscent of a squeaky
wooden door at a remote
cottage. Referred to as "a piece
with its own complete universe",
the accompanying vocal chants,
performed superlatively by soprano
Daniele Forget, create an hypnotic
'universal' ambiance and the
strongest example of Boudreau's
'charniere' recordings on this
release. Of the two other works,
berte litice, la suite (introduction),
for four cellos, is a compelling
piece that shows another side of
Boudreau's musical vision.
Michelle Boudreau's work here
remains an enigma for me. My
initial difficulty in listening quickly
changed to fascination. charniere
is a learning and mind opening
experience worth every effort.
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Tiina Kiik
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JAZZ and BLUES
Heavy Juice
Scott Hamilton & Harry Allen
Concord Jazz CCD-2258-2
The two-tenor sax group has long
been a tradition.in jazz, and now
you can add Scott Hamilton and
Harry Allen to the distinguished
list. There's no new ground broken
on "Heavy Juice" (nor need
there be), but the enjoyment level
is high with a tidy mix of.blues,
ballads and jazz standards. A compatible
rhythm section features the
elegant pianist John Bunch, with
Dennis Irwin and Chuck Riggs on
bass and drums.
The material at hand comes stylistically
from the border-time of
swing to bop, when new ideas were
in the air. There was no rejection
of older ways, just evolutionary
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The disc gets right to the business
at hand .(swinging!) with the
title track, a Tiny Bradshaw blues
from 1953. From the same era,
Blues Up And Down (from predecessors
Ammons and Stitt) romps
from its call-to-order opening
through stop-time tradeoffs. Uptempo
items include If Dreams
Come True and a bright version of
If I Should Lose You. From the bop
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source of the only previously-unavailable
selection, a '55 Miles Davis
reading of 'Rowul About Midnight
with Thelonious Monk at the piano.
Wein notes "Miles came off and
whispered 'Tell Monk he played the
wrong changes.' I said 'Tell him
yourself. He wrote the song.'"
While this is the only new item,
some tracks have not been on CD
before, including a lovely Ben
Webster/Billy Strayhorn version of
Chelsea Bridge.
Of course, every major jazz
star has played Newport, and
they're represented here, at vary­
·ing lengths: Louis Armstrong,
Duke Ellington, John Coltrane (My
Favorite Things runs 17'24"),
Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie,
Muddy Waters, Dave Brubeck
(who has appeared at NJF more
than any other artist), Buck Clayton,
Coleman Hawkins, Herbie
Hancock and on and on. Singers
include Billie Holiday Uust 2'05"),
Ella, Sarah, Dinah Washington apd
Mahalia Jackson.
Happy Birthday Newport! is a
celebration of the Festival primarily,
but as you'd expect, and Wein
would no doubt want, it's the musical
talent that ends up demanding
your attention. This release should
be on your stereo ...
Ted O'Reilly
Highlights from the Blue
Classic Line
Various Artists
Blue Classic Line
(Brilliant Classics)
This series of budget-priced recordings
comes from the EEC,
where copyright laws allow release
of 50-year-old material as
public domain. Each CD is simply
titled "Portrait", with the artist's
name. While discographical info is
included, source labels are not. As
a general rule the sound transfers
- are very good, if a little 'boxy'
sounding, and on some CDs the endings
sound a little clipped, with no
ring-off. We'll look at eight of the
forty or so available.
Dizzy Gillespie (BCL 7257) has
the bop trumpeter's important 1946
to 1948 big band recordings done
for the Musicraft and RCA Victor
labels. Titles include Cubano Be and
Cubano Bop, Manteca, Ool Ya Cool,
Good Bait and others, together with
my favourite, Lover Come Back To
Me, which shows just how great a
trumpet player Dizzy was. His sidemen
in this.period include rhythm
men John Lewis, Ray Brown,
Chano Pozo (this was the beginning
of Afro-Cuban jazz), Sonny Stitt,
Milt Jackson and James Moody.
The first modern jazz piano player
was Earl 'Fatha' Hines
(BCL 7263) and his Portrait release·
includes his very first solo recordings
for the QRS company in 1928
when he laid down classics like
Caution Blues and A Monday Date,
as well as later solos for. Okeh and
Victor. There's a trio with Sidney
Bechet and Baby Dodds (Blues In
Thirds) and seven selections with
Hines' Chicago big band from the
'30s into the '40s. Given his importance
in jazz, it's a shame he has
been so overlooked lately. Perhaps
this 23-track release will put him
into a few more homes.
Little need be said, especially in
Canada, about the masterful pianist
Oscar Peterson (BCL7264). All
but one track of this material is
home-grown: Montreal transcriptions
by the pianist for CBC radio,
with bassist Auston (the label has it
as Austin) Roberts. From two 1951
sessions come 20 short versions of
standards like Tea For Two, I've
Got Rhythm, Yesterdays and Rose
Room. From Clef comes a single
1950 track with Ray Brown, Oscar's
Blues. Peterson is at his
youthful best here, all exuberant and
joyful and full of chops.
Coleman Hawkins (BCL 7265) is
one of the most important figures
in jazz. I've always thought that the
tenor sax is [fil'.jazz instrument, and
as Jon Hendricks said, "Coleman
Hawkins is the man for whom
Adolph Sax invented the instrument".
Hawkins certainly created
the way to use it in jazz and popular
music, and that's not hyperbole.
With a career that lasted 50 years,
there were remarkably few less
productive periods. Sessions on this
release come from the late '40s and
early '50s with orchestral accompaniments,
and small swinging
groups, from Paris and New York.
His mastery of ballads shows on
cinema themes like Ruby and Where
ls Your Heart (theme from Moulin
Rouge). Five tracks with drummer/
leader Cozy Cole from 1950 are
most welcome, with players like
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Rex Stewart, Tyree Glenn and
Claude Hopkins featured. Kudos to
Blue Classic Line for digging out
these less-often heard sessions,
rather than another release of
'greatest hit' material.
Fats offered a welcome' remedy to
the economic depression of the
1930s. Wailer's talent extended in
all directions: pianist, composer,
vocalist, leader and salesman of
Miles Davis (BCL 7266) had a sonality that leapt off the disc and
hard time of it in the first half of out of the radio, but was too rarely
ance in a feature, "Stormy Weathlems
and general lack of a distinctive
musical direction. He was still
, finding his original voice, and these
1951 and 1953 Prestige sessions
the 1950s, what with his drug probseen
on screen. His last appear­
er" (1943) featured a 4 minute all
star version of one of his hit tunes
Ain't Misbehavin which is includ-
show his sometimes-faltering be- · ed here along with '20s and '30s
bop sound with little of the mystique group gems like 'Honeysuckle
that was to be merchandized by Co- Rose, The Minor Drag, Dinah and
lumbia. This is not "Kind Of Blue" Sweet Sue and the solo masterpiece
stuff but more ebullient, if a bit
generic, late bop material. His si-
demen are first rank, including
Zoot Sims and Al Cohn together, a
young Sonny Rollins, John Lewis
and Art Blakey. This is an interesting
release, as it helps put Davis'
later success in perspective.
Charlie Parker (BCL 7268) is
the man who gave Miles Davis his
start, and the trumpeter is heard
on the earliest four of the sixteen
Savoy tracks here, a complee session
dating from 1948 with John
Lewis and Max Roach. A later
quintet with Kenny Dorham turns
up from the next year, as does the
Metronome All Star band with
Overtime and Victory Ball. Dizzy
and Bird, along with Monk, are ori
all 6 tunes from a 1950 Clef session
with Buddy Rich on drums.
This CD is a good cross section of
fine work by Parker, with the oth-
. er artists as a bonus.
He may not have been one of the
finest people around, but Stan Getz
(BCL 7269) was one of the great
stylists of the tenor sax. This Portrait
finds him in his early twenties
with his fully-developed 'cool' style
on show with fine pianists such as
Al Haig, Horace Silver and drummers
Roy Haynes (still active) and
Walter Bolden. Getz had the best
sound of any of his contemporaries,
and it was to be better heard
later, when recording techniques
·were to improve, but it is still easy
to appreciate on these 17 standards
originally on 78s for Prestige/New
Jazz or Roost in 1949 and 1950. The
three-minute barrier is deeply felt
on many tracks, when Getz seems
to be just getting started as the track
ends.
Fats Waller (BCL7270) on the
other hand was the master of the
78: complete little packages with
vocals, piano and horn solos that
swung from beginning to end. Irreverent,
joyful and always musical,
Handful of Keys. Too bad he wasn't
around for television ...
Ted O'Reilly
Generations
Gary Burton; Julian Lage
Concord Jazz CCD-2217-2
small group swing. He had a pershared
by the three main instrumentalists.
There is a certain gentle
quality to much of the music on
this CD, partly brought about by the
instrumentation, but by no means
is there any lack of colour and intensity.
Jim Galloway
Black Christ of the Andes
Mary Lou Williams
Smithsonian Folkways
Recordings SFWCD 40816
This one, as the Brits would say, is
a bit of a curate's egg - good in
parts. The set takes its title from
music inspired by the 1962 eanonization
of St. Martin de Porres, a
sixteenth century Peruvian of partly
African descent. I don't think
anyone would question Ms. Williams'
sincerity, but the results fail
to stir this listener. Part of the
problem I think lies with the c'hoirs
she's had to use. They make the
There must be something of a born music sound so terribly white.
educator in vibraphonist Gary Bur- But the CD is still worthy of your
ton. Over the years he has intro- attention. The remaining selections
duced such guitar talents as Larry show off Mary Lou Williams in all
Coryell, Pat Metheny and John
her glory. Never one to rest on her
Scofield - and he has come up with swing era laurels, the pianist demanother
in the form of Julian Lage, onstrates her mastery of a wide vaa
teenager who pl_ays with an as- riety of modernist tendencies. This
tonishing level of maturity. His con- shouldn't be the least bit surpristributions
to this CD, including ing. After all, even sch inasters
three original compositions already as Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonius
begin to point to a place among the Monk never hesitated to seek out
significant guitarists in jazz. In ad- Mary Lou for advice and guidance
dition, Burton has assembled the back in the forties when they were
talents of pianist Makoto Ozone, designing the new architecture of
who adds a couple of compositions jazz.
of his own to the mix, James Ge-
Among the set's highlights are an
nus on bass and drummer Clarence extremely sly reading of It Ain't
Penn. The music sustains the level Necessarily So, a rocking workout
of creativity that we have come to on Billy Taylor's A· Grand Night
expect from Gary Burton and it is
For Swinging, and a dazzling solo
a varled programme including Os- performance of Mary Lou's own
car Peterson's Wheatland and a bi-tonal composition, A Fungus A
standout version of Carla Bley's Mungus. On these and the remain­
Syndrome. First Impression, one of
ing six trio selections -
one by
the three Lage contributions sounds drummer Denzil Best, the rest by
as if it might well have been writ- Mary Lou - one hears the.full range
ten for Gary Burton. Test Of Time
of modern jazz piano. The one-ofis
a moody excursion into the blues a-kind Mary Lou Williams was trupenned
by Ozone. James Genus ·
ly beyond category.
gets chance to stretch out a little
on The Title Will Follow as does
drummer Clarence Penn on Steve
Swallow's Ladies In Mercedes, but
for the most part, the solo space is
Don Brown
Travelling Lights
Frani;:ois Carrier; Paul Bley;
Michel Lambert; Gary Peacock
Justin Time JUST 203-2
High ambitions, and a corresponding
'mission achieved', distinguish
reedman
Frani;:ois Carrier's
"Traveling Lights". Two icons,
Paul Bley and Gary Peacock were
invited to join the younger Carrier
and his frequent musical partner,
drummer.Michel Lambert, in a recording
session of freely improvised
music. Starting out as a supremely
lyrical bop pianist in Montreal,
Bley created an avant-garde
pianism that is a polar contrast to
Cecil Taylor's percussive keyboard.
Bley's spare, contemplative
playing is simultaneously radical
and outright gorgeous. The same
statement applies to Peacock's
bass. Both musicians are supremely
versatile across the spectrum of
jazz styles, and have played with a
corresponding spectrum of top international
talent.
Phil Woods' distinctively clean
and clear alto sax first attracted a
teenaged Carrier in to jazz. He set
a trajectory from outlying Chicoutimi
to the Conservatoire de Quebec,
the Vancouverjazz scene and then
testing his mettle by playing alongside
top New York and European
talent. Carrier has done Woods
proud by taking this spare and beautiful
reed style into the avant-garde.
Bley and Peacock are logical partners.
The eight tracks are relatively
short for free improvisation, especially
for a .collaboration of two
dynamic duos that have not played
together before. The fact that the
musicians find each other so efficiently
is testament both to their
skills and the shared international
language of jazz. The music proceeds
mostly at a stately but intense
pace, with periodic rapid
clips that remind us that the tiger
is there but voluntarily restrained
at this time and place.
Highly,
highly recommended.
Phil Ehrensaft
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Tom Walsh/N.O.M.A.;
Steve Swell
OMBU OMBU1004
This new release features Canadian
trombonist Tom Walsh in concert
with two different bands recorded
live in 2003 at the Festival
International de Jazz de Montreal
and at the Hermes Ear Festival in
Nitra, Slovakia.
Six of the eight tracks are from
the Montreal concert, with Walsh
joined by Miles Perkin on bass,
Thom Gossage on drums/percussion
and guest Steve Swell on
trombone. The duets between
Walsh and Swell are so connected
that were there no liner notes indicating
who was on 'left' and 'right'
trombone, it would have been close
to impossible to distinguish the players.
Dave Holland's Back woods
Song and Benny Carter's A Walking
Thing have this strong band playing
jazz really well. The Walsh/
Cram composition 1958 begins with
Walsh's sampling of a small child's
vocalizations which lead to a smooth
slow melody that suddenly opens up
to a faster paced and more open improvisation
section. This fluctuating
type of composition allows all performers
to excel. Walsh' Waltz
Leger is on three tracks and moves
from sampled sounds through more
free and dissonant sections to the
Main Theme, a joyous and playful
waltz.
The other two tracks from the
Slovakian concert have Walsh
joined by Szandai Matyas on bass
and Balazs Elemer on drums in
more free improvisational works
which feature Walsh's versatile
playing.
Tom Walsh's music makes me
laugh. His musical statements are
well thought through and serious,
yet there is this underlying humour
which sets his music apart. His
work here with trombonist Steve
Swell is superlative.
Tiina Kiik
Concert note: Tom Walsh's
NOMA will perform at the Guelph
Jazz Festival in a late night concert
at St. George's Anglican Church on
September 9.
Wild for You
Karrin Allyson
Concord Jazz CCD-2220-2
Karrin Allyson has presented us with
a CD whose theme is long overdue,
in my estimation. Namely, a collection
of tunes that draws on (relatively)
modern songwriting talent as opposed
to the music of the 30's and
40's, which is the fallback for most
jazz singers. Although some singers
have ventured into the modern pop
songbook - Ella Fitzgerald covering
the Theme from the Loveboat springs
horrifically to mind - no one, to my
knowledge, has produced a whole
collection from the 70's and 80's.
The Grammy award-nominated
Ms. Allyson and the band have successfully
balanced the addition of jazz
harmonies and rhythms with a respect
for the material, to bring interest
and complexity to the songs
without obscuring the qualities that
made us love these songs in the fust
place. "Wild for You" is a personal
collection that resonated with me, but
whether all listeners will find the
same connection as I did will depend
very much on personal taste and experience.
In any event, Ms. Allyson
demonstrates considerable skill,
good taste and affection on covers of
Joni Mitchell's All I Want and Help
Me, James Taylor's Don't Let Me
Be Lonely Tonight and Roberta
Flack's Feel Like Makin' Love & The
First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,
making "Wild for You" an essential
for boomer-jazzers.
Cathy Riches
Shave 'Em Dry
The Best of Lucille Bogan
Columbia Legacy CK 6705
Crazy Blues
The Best of Mamie Smith
Columbia Legacy CK 65712
Whiskey is My Habit,
Good Women is all I Crave
The Best of Leroy Carr
Columbia Legacy CK 86989
Following a lengthy hiatus, Sony
has revived its excellent Roots N'
Blues series. Martin Scorsese's
PBS series, The Blues, seems to have
inspired a rash of blues reissues. It
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should be noted though that these latest
from Sony - all on the Columbia/
Legacy label - are not complete editions
but 'best of compilations. That
caveat aside, the music is present .
ed
in beautifully remastered form with
authoritative notes and excellent production.
Lucille Bogan's Shave 'Em Dry is
probably the first CD carryin a parental
adviser sticker to be reviewed
in this magazine. The music - aside
from its 'explicit content' - sounds a
little old-fashioned for the 1933-1935
period. But, although Bogan and pianist/accompanist
Walter Roland
work in an earlier style, they are
convincing performers whose recordings
continue to entertain. Three
of the set's performances were never
commercially issued - and it's not
difficult to see why. They are very
explicit. Not for the easily offended.
Mamie Smith is principally famous
being the first African-Americ n
woman to sing on a commercial
American record. The title tune, recorded
in 1920, marked the beginning
of the classic blues era. Its huge
success paved the way for artists
such as Ida Cox, Bessie Smith and
Alberta Hunter. Although Mamie
Smith was not in the same league as
those singers, her recordings still
merit a listen. Her style owed as
much to vaudeville as it did to the
blues but she certainly knew how to
sell a song. Her back-up players include
such soon-to-be famous jazzmen
as Johnny Dunn, Buster Bailey,
Coleman Hawkins, and Bubber Miley.
The jewel in the crow among .
these
Columbia/Legacy reissues 1s the
two-CD set by pianist/vocalist/composer
Leroy Carr. During his sh ? rt
life - he was only thirty when he died
- Carr wrote and recorded many
deathless blues classics. On all forty
of this set's selections he accompanies
himself on piano with either
Scrapper Blackwell or Josh White
backing him on guitar. From the
opening title, Carr's very first recording
(and biggest hit), How Long
- How Long Blues, to the closing Six
Cold Feet in the Ground, there's not
a weak performance to be heard. His
plaintive voice and understaed ':" ay
with a lyric are utterly captlvatmg.
And Scrapper Blackwell's contributions
are priceless. This one's a must.
Don Brown
POT POURRI
One True Thing
Daniela Nardi Trio
Minerva Road MIN002
Daniela Nardi is a cool, smart,
straight-talkin' Toronto-bred woman
with a soft, rich, smoky and soulful
voice. As a songwriter, she produces
the kind of intelligent, honest,
wordy, free-association reminiscent
of Joni Mitchell in jazz mode. Songs
of Jove and independence, unresolved
feelings, and human potential
not yet realized with a solid sense of
the spirit beyond. In other words, the
richness of life experienced with
many questions left unanswered.
Although songs like Mr. God (a passionate
rant on injustice) and Hands
(on the theme of healing) seem ? n
the surface to stem from contradictory
viewpoints, they both de Je
the concept that the divine 1s within
us, and fully realizes itself throug
human action. Joining Ms. Nardi
who handles vocals and piano
(acoustic & Rhodes) are the re lar
members of her trio: Steve Bnght,
bass and Larry Crowe on drums &
percussion. Special guests roundg
out the arrangements are Tort01se
Blue, blues harp and organ, Neil
Donnel, background vocals, John
Johnson, soprano sax, George
Koller, acoustic bass, Chase Sanborn
trumpet and flugelhom, and
Jim Tate, guitar. Daniela studied at
York, specializing in the areas of
composition, electronic music d
performance, 20th century music
and improvisation. She has done her
Alma Mater proud.
Dianne Wells
Concert note: Trumpeter Chase
Sanborn is among the luminaries who
will perform a benefit concert for e
University of Toronto's Jazz Studies
Program on September 27 at the
Montreal Bistro.
Bebel Gilberto
Behel Gilberto
Six Degrees Records
(www .sixdegreesrecords.com)
Brazilian-American singer/songwriter
Bebe! Gilberto's eponymous second
CD is well produced (by Marius
De Vries who has also produced
Madonna, Annie Lennox and Bjork),
the musicianship is first-rate and
Gilberto is, with a few exceptions,
in fine voice. Unfortunately the songs
just aren't as strong as on her excellent
first CD "Tanto Tempo". This
may be due, in part, to the fa t at
many more of the lyrics on this disc
are written in English, as opposed to
Gilberto's native Portuguese. As a
result we don't have the benefit of
the oblivion that comes from listening
to tunes in a language we don't
understand. Perhaps the Portuguese
lyrics are as trite as some of the E g­
lish ones ("you must try the new ice
cream flavour, do me a favour"??),
but with a number of these tunes ignorance
would have been preferable.
There are some lovely touches on
this disc: the use of G flutes on Cada
Beijo, The London Session Orchestra
Strings on Simplesmente, and lots
of typical Brazilian percussion :-v ork
throughout. Drawbacks are: G1lberto's
tendency to push her voice lower
than it wants to go on a few of the
tracks, I suppose in an attempt to
sound sultry, but which only results
in a weak sound, and the aforementioned
strings which add saccharine
to an already syrupy Next To You. In
the main, however, "Bebe! Gilberto"
is a charming, laid-back record,
just right for an easy summery listen.
Cathy Riches
Mystras - Siren Songs of the
Mediterranean
Maria Antonakos
Marquis 81313
Musing on the cover of this CD, and
noticing the subtitle "Siren Songs of
the Mediterranean" one might expect
a pretty fiery performance fro .
m the
artist. However, the general trrnbre
of this recording seems instead to
match the misty azure photograph on
the cover. But then again, seduction
is a subtle art. This is a soft, fragile
voice that may lack a certain fire,
but possesses sweet and subtle nuances
perfect for the tenderness of
some of these lyrics.
On this recording Torontonian
Maria Antonakos performs Greek,
Spanish and Italian songs .
that ofer
romantic images of love, village life,
the sea and a rugged landscape. Her
voice is particularly suited to the lullaby-like
Tiny Paper Moon, the sweetness
of the playful Arietta di Posillipo
in which a kiss is stolen from a
reluctant rosebud of a mouth, and the
quiet agony of Garcia Lorca' s lyrics
for Song of the Barren Orange .
Tree.
And her voice soars to the highest
heights while still maintainin that
softness in Sofia's Wisdom, with the
inspiration to follow the path of peace,
hope, truth and beauty. The famous
Lascia Ch 'io Piangia gets a new
treatment in an interesting modem
setting, and there's a nice surprise
at the end of the disc with the Italian
song we know in North America
as More than the Greatest Love.
Her ensemble is superb: tender
guitar accompaniments from Rob
Piltch and Philip Stanger (who also
created superb arrangements),
Ron Allen recalling the swirling
mists with bansuri and bass flute,
George Koller with evocative bass
playing, Ben Grossman on a large
variety of percussion instruments
and Bethany Bergman, violin and
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Carina Reeves, cello lovingly executing
the arrangements for strings.
Dianne Wells
Secrets Moon Magic
Maza Meze w/John Wyre; Trichy
Sankaran;SubaSankaran
CBC Records TRCD 3009
Maza Meze literally refers to an
assortment of Arabic and Greek
appetizers, an apt gastronomic metaphor
for the array of musical samples
served up by this talented Toronto-based
group specializing in
music from Greece and the Middle
East.
One striking feature of this CD
is the variety: each new song is
completely different from the last,
which is very refreshing. More traditional-style
pieces are based on
Arabic Sufi chant, a Greek song
of unrequited love, a powerful choral
song from northwestem Greece
with typical Balkan tight harmonies,
and two pieces combining
South Indian and Arabic melodies
and rhythms. The latter feature special
guests, the well-known South
Indian musicians Suba and Trichy
Sankaran (vocals and mridangam).
The other works are harder to
categorize - four eclectic compositions
by various members of
Maza Meze. Of these, I particularly
liked the words and music of
Debashis Sinha's cool and relaxed
piece Fall Down, with guest percussionist
John Wyre on djembeck
(a hybrid djembe/doumbek drum).
As well, mention must be made of
Maryem and Ernie Tollar (vocals
and flutes), who are indispensable
to the Maza Meze sound.
Notwithstanding their success,
forays into world fusion are commonplace
now among musical
groups. What really distinguishes
Maza Meze, and makes them
unique, is their mastery of Arabic
and Greek music. I would have preferred
a little more substantial classical
Arabic/Greek fare amid this
assortment of musical appetizers.
Annette Sanger
Discs of the Month on page 68
Nadina Mackie Jackson
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Canada's international independent label
SUZ.IE
LEf'.:>L,\NC
La Nef
First recording on
the ATMA label
featuring soprano
Meredith Hall
Suzie LeBlanc
Acadian songs
with Chris Norman
and
David Greenberg
Introducing
Countertenor
David DQ Lee
"An appealing and
musicianly singer. "
- NEW YORK TIMES
Music by Bitsch, Tansman, Duclos & Schreck
with exciting new works by Mathieu Lussier,
aleks schurmer & John B. Hedges
: ... incredible capacity for both virtuosity
and poignancy . . . a brilliant mix of dazzling
technique and gentle lyricism."
Ron Klimko
Double Reed. June, 2003
"·I· .
t can't imagine a better performance.'
Steven Ritter
American Record Guide. 2003
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Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
Gens, Ciofi, Kirchschlager, Regazzo,
Keenlyside
Collegium Vocale Gent
Concerto Koln; Rene Jacobs
Harmonia Mundi 801818.20
The spirited overture sets the tone for
Rene Jacobs' imaginative new recording
of Mozart's The Marriage
of Figaro. As ever, Jacobs pays full
attention to the hallmarks of the
period performance style he helped
develop. What he calls a 'neo-Classical'
sty le in his fascinating booklet
essay, "A Subversive Composer",
here involves a lively fortepiano continua,
lots of ornamentation, vivid
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winds, and lean, edgy period strings.
Textures are clear, not blended,
tempos are brisk, and attacks are
emphatic. But it's the infectious exuberance
of this production that
makes this recording hard to tum off.
If this international cast weren't
so strong, Patrizia Ciofi's Susanna
would steal the show. Lorenzo
Regazzo's Figaro is full of charm,
while Angelika Kirchschlager's
Cherubino is convincingly ardent.
As the countess,Veronique Gens
effectively balances the hurt, vulnerable
wife with the regal
chatelaine. Simon Keenlyside's
superb Count is an unrepentant,
rather menacing heel. The secondary
roles are equally well sung, in
particular Marie McLaughlin's
nuanced Marcellina.
The ensembles sizzle with sophisticated
irony. In the third act
sextet, one of the funniest in all opera,
the way Jacobs has the voices
overlap in the recitatives heightens
the realism of this farce. That
Jacobs was a singer himself shows
in his close attention to the words.
Concerto Koln and the Collegium
Vocale Gent contribute to making
this one of the finest recordings available
of this - or any - Mozart opera.
Production values are stellar,
with clear natural recorded sound,
and an informative booklet with Da
Ponte's brilliant libretto in four languages.
Pam Margles
Notes from Abroad - Worldly
Music for bassoon and piano
Nadina Mackie Jackson;
David Swan
Independent
I can honestly say I've been waiting
years for this recording. I saw
Toronto-based Nadina Mackie
Jackson and David Swan play a
recital at Heliconian Hall several
years ago and heard them perform
two of the selections on this CD,
the Concertina by Marcel Bitsch
and the Sonatine by Alexandre Tansman.
I was awed by the gorgeous
sound Nadina produces on bassoon.
I knew at that point I'd have to seek
out a recording when it became
available.
In addition to the works by
Tansman and Bitsch, "Worldly
Music" includes three new works
by aleks schiirmer, and two by
Mathieu Lussier. The other major
work is the Sonata in E flat Major,
Opus 9, by Gustave Schreck.
It's hard to single any particular
piece out as a favourite on this
disc, though the Bitsch Concertina
does seem to have a strange
fascination for me.
I have to consider this my favourite
bassoon recording of all time.
And yes, I do have quite a few to
sample from! It's also one of the
finest independently produced CDs
I've ever seen. The performance,
recording quality, packaging and
notes are absolutely excellent. The
best way to get a copy of this CD is
to check out Nadina's website:
www.nadina.ca and follow the
links to purchase it online.
Merlin Williams

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