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to the same live roaring hum of music in the ears.“Teach me to listen, teach me to sing, teach me toplay, teach me how to learn” comes the gathering cry.And music says: “I can do that.”Here are some interesting snippets of all this fromthe writings you will find in this issue:Hans de Groot in Art of Song: “Last summer mydaughter Saskia turned twelve [and] chose ... tomove to the Downtown Vocal Music Academy onDenison Avenue, ... the brainchild of Mark Bell, aman known in musical circles for his leadership ofCanada Sings, a community Sing-along that meetsevery second Tuesday of the month somewhere inEast Toronto.”Jack MacQuarrie, our Bandstand columnist,digging into studies supporting the benefits of musicand quoting the lead scientist on one such study:“Everyone can benefit from music training. A wealthof empirical, neuroscientific evidence supports thepositive influence of music training on numerousnon-musical brain functions, such as language,reading and attention ... across the lifespan into olderadulthood.”Richard Herriott, interviewed by Rebecca Chua,talking movingly about the music series he andWinona Zelenka will launch at St Stephen in-the-Fields Anglican Church this month, not only to raiseawareness of and funds for autism spectrum research,but just as importantly to create a context for peoplewith autism spectrum disorders to attend live musicand have the particularities of their individualismembraced as part of the concert experience.Ben Stein, in Choral Scene, describing a concertby the Orpheus Choir of Toronto which will featureBenjamin Britten’s 1938 cantata World of the Spirit:“Britten was a life-long pacifist who lived brieflyin America during the beginning of WWII, in partbecause his pacifist leanings were not well receivedin pre-war Britain.” A concert like this requires morethan passive spectatorship — it combines “choralmusic and visual imagery, in the kind of multimediapresentation that has become an OrpheusChoir specialty.” and demands engagement of headand heart.And here’s Allan Pulker in Seeing Orange ourongoing commitment to the cause of music education,usually nestled deep in the magazine butbrought by occasions such as this from the backto the front.“In March this year we published ourfirst Orange Pages directory” he writes, “a collectionof profiles written by private music teachers,community music schools and summer musicprograms of various kinds. Their goals and ourswere, and remain the same — to put music teacherswith something to offer in touch with prospectivestudents wanting to learn.” Namely with you, “thereader who is looking for opportunities to deepenthe place of music in your life or the life of someoneclose to you.”As the nights lengthen may the gathering dark findyou, vibrantly, among the friends you find throughmusic. That’s what we’re here for.—publisher@thewholenote.comINDEX OF ADVERTISERSAcademy Concert Series 35Adam Sherkin 38Adelphi Vocal Ensemble 41Amadeus Choir 22, 35Amici Chamber Ensemble 47Annex Singers 50Aradia 20, 38Arts & Letters Club 57Associates of the TSO 15ATMA 5Attila Glatz ConcertProductions 18, 44Bach Children’s Chorus 49Barbara Fris/DeannaHendricks 44Canadian Opera Company 27Cantemus Singers 42Cathedral Bluffs SymphonyOrchestra 30, 35Cathedral Church ofSt. James 37Chamber Music Societyof Mississauga 35Christ Church Deer ParkJazz Vespers 29Church of the Ascension32, 37Civic Light-Opera Company 27Continuum ContemporaryMusic 48Cosmo Music 31Eglinton St. George’sUnited Church 50Elmer Iseler Singers 23, 49Esprit Orchestra 25, 39Etobicoke Centennial Choir49Exultate Chamber Singers 49Heliconian Hall 56International TouringProductions 31IRCPA/Lula Lounge 48James Campbell/AfiaraString Quartet 34Jubilate Singers 41Kawartha Concerts 52Kitchener WaterlooChamber Society 51Koffler Centre for the Arts 43Larkin Singers 42Lawrence Park CommunityChurch 47Liz Parker 59Long & McQuade 16, 65Markham Concert Band 46Mississauga Symphony 42Moeller Organs 58Music at Metropolian –Noon at Met 34, 37Music Mondays CBC Radio 2/NEXT! 39Music Toronto 9, 41, 44, 48Musicians in Ordinary 38Nagata Shachu 18, 41Nancy Sicsic 59Nathaniel Dett Chorale 21, 48New Music Concerts 32Nine Sparrows ArtsFoundation 34Norm Pulker 58Oakham House Choir 46Off Centre Music Salon 39Oleg Samokhin 31Ontario Philharmonic 12Opera York 35Oriana Women’s Choir 60Orpheus Choir 79Pasquale Bros 57Pax Christi Chorale 45Peter Mahon 21Promise Productions 40Remenyi House of Music 13Romulo Delgado 44Rose Theatre 80Roy Thomson Hall4, 15, 38, 45Royal Canadian College ofOrganists 44Royal Conservatory 11Sheila McCoy 58, 60Silverthorn Symphonic Winds37Sinfonia Toronto 50Soundstreams 36St. Michael’s Choir School 24St. Olave’s Church 47St. Philip’s Anglican Church29Steinway Piano Gallery 7Stephen Burnie 45Steve Jackson Pianos 26Syrinx Concerts Toronto 50Tafelmusik 2, 3, 33Tallis Choir 46The Sound Post 29Thin Edge New MusicCollective 41Toronto Classical Singers 47Toronto Concert Orchestra33Toronto Consort 19, 79Toronto Mendelssohn Choir22, 40Toronto Sinfonietta 57Toronto Symphony 34, 77TorQ Percussion Ensemble28, 40Trio Arkel 38U of T Faculty of Music 17Victoria Ballet Company 51Village Voices 46Voca Chorus 49Vocem Resurgentis 50Voicebox/Opera in Concert43Windermere String Quartet43Wychwood Clarinet Choir 38Yorkminster Park BaptistChurch 23, 49thewholenote.com November 1 – December 7, 2013 | 7