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Lydia Adams, Conductor<br />
26th Season<br />
<strong>2004</strong>-2005 Concert Series<br />
Concert Series presented by 1\% tQ Q<br />
HANDEL'S MESSIAH<br />
Friday, <strong>December</strong> 3, 8:00 pm<br />
Metropolitan United Church, 56 Queen St. E., Toronto<br />
Soloists: Meredith Hall, soprano; Anita Krause, alto; Michael Colvin, tenor<br />
Alexander Dobson, bass . t>aritone. Matthew Larkin, organ. With orchestra.<br />
SHARING THE VOICES Friday, March 18, 2005, 7:30 pm<br />
St. Basil's Church, 50 St. Joseph St. (at Bay) Toronto<br />
Guest Artists: The Bach Choir from the University ofToronto Faculty<br />
of Music, Doreen Rao, conductor.<br />
Bach, Jsuchzet dem Herran, alls Welt, Mendelssohn, Ssnctus<br />
('He/Ilg /st Gott")<br />
Brahms, Three Motets op 29 and 1<strong>10</strong>, Mozart, Mlsss Brevfs In F Major<br />
THE CELTIC SPIRIT Friday, M ay 6, 2005. 7:30 pm<br />
Glenn Gould Studio, King and John Streets, Toronto<br />
Guest artists: Mark Haines and Tom Leighton<br />
An evening of Down East music and superb entertainment that will<br />
make you tap your feet and leave with a song ln your heart.<br />
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Sunday <strong>December</strong> 5, <strong>2004</strong> 3:00 PM<br />
Humbercrest United Church 16 Baby Point Road<br />
CHORAL Scene<br />
by Larry Beckwith<br />
SMOKE'S BEGl ... NING TO CURL out of<br />
the 1op of my computer with the<br />
number of announcements. press<br />
releases. ''friendly reminder e<br />
mails", etc. concerning choral concerts<br />
in Toronto, 1his month. As<br />
usual, all of our major professional,<br />
semi-professional and communi1y<br />
choirs are active with Christmas<br />
concerts of one kind or anoth·<br />
er (including many performances<br />
of Handel's Messiah. as discussed<br />
in Allan Pulker's column elsewhere<br />
in 1hese pages). It's astounding and<br />
gra1ifying to imagine how many<br />
thousands of singers will be raising<br />
their voices this month in observance<br />
of a time-honoured sacred/secular<br />
1radition.<br />
Since this is a double-issue of<br />
WholeNote, I find my eyes being<br />
drawn past all the .carol sings and<br />
major seasonal works being performed,<br />
in venues great and small<br />
by choirs and choral groups of all<br />
shapes and sizes, to an announcement<br />
of a benefit concert taking<br />
place at the beginning of February.<br />
The<br />
performers include the Just<br />
Singers Chamber Choir and a<br />
church choir from Hamilton and 1he<br />
beneficiary is the University Settlement<br />
Music and Arts School in<br />
downtown Toronto. There's one<br />
work on 1he program, 1itled The<br />
Armed Man, by a Welsh composer<br />
called Karl Jenkins. II seems that<br />
Jenkins is an aging hippie who once<br />
played in a progressive rock band<br />
in England and has since made a<br />
comfortable living wriling jingles<br />
and other commercial musical wallpaper.<br />
Lately, he has ventured inco<br />
1he so-called "serious" world of<br />
composition and The Armed Man,<br />
wriuen in 1999, is his sincere response<br />
to the victims of I.he horri f<br />
ie contlict in Kosovo which took<br />
place through the latter part of the<br />
l 990s. Jenkins has used 1he late<br />
Medieval folk tune L'homme arme<br />
- as many Renaissance .. parody<br />
Mass" composers did - as a basis<br />
for this full-scale oratorio exploring<br />
the mindless futility of armed<br />
conflict.<br />
If one visits Mr. Jenkins' personal<br />
website, there is information<br />
about the dozens of performances<br />
of this piece. lt has apparently<br />
struck a sympathetic chord with<br />
audiences and perfonners in North<br />
America and Western Europe. The<br />
upcoming local performances (it's<br />
also being performed in Hamilton)<br />
will be only the second North<br />
American performance of the<br />
work, also scheduled to be performed<br />
at Carnegie Hall in June.<br />
It strikes me that there is a stark<br />
contrast between Karl Jenkins' musical<br />
response to the horrors of war<br />
and our own perennial musical celebration<br />
of the Christmas story.<br />
Consider the elements of this story:<br />
the mysterious conception of a<br />
Zimfira Poloz, Artistic Director I Conductor<br />
John E. Govedas, Accompanist<br />
Guest Artist: Julie Ranti, flute<br />
Tickets: at the door or by calling ( 416) 762-0657<br />
WIN 11:.H AUUI I IUN::S<br />
.: Training Choir<br />
1 stuc!ents in grades 1 - 3 J<br />
are being held in early January<br />
.':1 Senior Divisions<br />
(students 111 grades 7 · 12!<br />
:: Children's Choir ;. Boys Choir<br />
'students m grades 4 · 6) (boys 111 grades 7·12)<br />
To schedule an audition. please call our Choir Manager at<br />
( 416) 762·0657. For more information about The High Park<br />
Choirs. please visit our website at: www.highparkchoirs.org<br />
This year Queen Charlotte looks to the East & Beyond .....<br />
Sat., Jan. 15, 2005 • Noon to <strong>10</strong>:30 pm<br />
HISTORIC FORT YORK<br />
•Afternoon Workshops<br />
•Tea Tasting<br />
•Georgian Supper<br />
•Elegant Evening<br />
Ball<br />
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$85 before Dec 31<br />
$95 afterward<br />
Costumes Welcome!<br />
Live Music!<br />
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www.toronto.ca/culture 416-392-6907 ext. <strong>10</strong>0. Free Parl
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