May 2009 - The Wholenote Magazine

A WorldwideCelebration!Haydn TheCreationTAFELMUSIKBaroque Orchestra and Chamber ChoirJeanne Lamon, Music Directorat Massey HallORCHESTRA AND CHAMBER CHOIRGUEST DIRECTOR BRUNO WEILJoin us for Haydn’s joyful oratorio and be a part of Toronto’s contribution tothe World Creation Festival. May 31, 2009 marks the 200th anniversary ofHaydn’s death and, to honour the great composer, choirs and orchestrasall around the globe will perform The Creation on this day. Sung in German.May 29 at 8pm & May 31 at 2pmMassey Hall, 178 Victoria Street(Entrance on Shuter Street, east of Yonge Street)Nancy Argenta, sopranoJan Kobow, tenorLocky Chung, baritoneTickets: 416.872.4255masseyhall.comMay 31 is generously supported by:Richard J. Balfour andThomas Bogart & Kathryn TamakiSubscribe to Tafelmusik’s2009.2010 Season andguarantee your seats foranother year of excitingand innovative concerts.0910Announcing theCONCERT SEASONSubscribe Today!416.964.6337tafelmusik.orgAll subscription ordersreceive a FREE limited editionTafelmusik recording producedespecially for subscriberscompliments of Sun Life FinancialAffordable tickets for ages 30 & under!Visit our website for details.www.tafelmusik.orgwww.myspace.com/mytafelmusik30th Anniversary SeasonPresenting Sponsor

Vancouver Symphony OrchestraMay 2 at 8:00pm FIRST VISIT SINCE 1976!Bramwell Tovey, conductor & Avan Yu, pianoVancouver Symphony OrchestraDebussy: Prélude à l’aprés-midi d’un fauneJeffrey Ryan: The Linearity of LightRachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of PaganiniShostakovich: Symphony No. 5Mahler Symphony 6May 28 & 30 at 8:00pmGünther Herbig, conductor & Johannes Moser, pianoHaydn: Cello Concerto in C MajorMahler: Symphony No. 6 “Tragic”Brahms Symphony 1June 3 & 4 at 8:00pmLeonard Slatkin, conductor & Gil Shaham, violinBerlioz: Overture to Benvenuto CelliniWilliam Bolcom: Violin Concerto (Canadian Première)Brahms: Symphony No. 1Joshua BellJune 6 at 8:00pmONE NIGHT ONLY!Leonard Slatkin, conductor & Joshua Bell, violinBerlioz: Overture to Benvenuto CelliniLalo: Symphonie espagnolBrahms: Symphony No. 1416.593.4828 | tso.caConductors’ Podium SponsorTIPPET-RICHARDSONCONCERT SEASONJune 6 SponsorALSONOW ONSALE!June 20 & 21Steven Reineke, conductor & Rajaton, vocal groupToronto Symphony Orchestra

A Music Festival unlike any other9ORGANIX CONCERTSwww.organixconcerts.ca416-241-9785May 1 – May 30, 2009William O’Meara and Gordon D. Mansell – Artistic DirectorsORGANIX 09 is Toronto’s fourth annual festival featuring thethrilling sound of the pipe organ, “The King of Instruments.”Visit www.organixconcerts.ca for all the details!OPENING NIGHTGillian Weir – organFriday, May 1, 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $25/$20 (students,Church of the Holy Trinity seniors, RCCO)10 Trinity SquareSTUDENT MONDAY LUNCH-TIME SERIESMay 4, 11, 18 AND 25 12:15 - 1:00 p.m.Church of the Holy Trinity Tickets: Free (donations appreciated)10 Trinity SquarePOPS FAVOURITES David Peckham - theatre organMonday, May 4, 8:00 p.m. Tickets: $20 in advance, $21 at theCasa Loma - One Austin Terrace door (cash only)THE WEDNESDAY SERIESMay 6, 13, 20, and 27 6:00 - 6:45 p.m.Church of the Redeemer Tickets: $10Bloor and Avenue RoadRHYTHM & BLUES ON THE HAMMOND B3Saturday, May 99:00 p.m - 2:00 a.m.The Orbit RoomTickets: $10 at the door580A College St. (Upstairs)BRASS & PIPESAndrew Adair – organFriday May 15Robert DiVito – trumpetSt. Patrick’s R.C. Church 7:00 p.m.5633 Highway 7 Tickets: $10Markham, ONOPEN DOORS10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.Saturday, May 23Tickets: FreeChurch of the Holy Trinity10 Trinity SquareNORTHERN LANDSCAPES David Palmer – organWednesday, May 27 Gillian MacKay – trumpet6:00 - 6:45 p.m.Church of the RedeemerWallace Halladay –saxophone162 Bloor St. West (at Avenue Rd.) Tickets: $10FINALE CONCERT - THE QUEST FOR DISCOVERYSaturday, May 30Jan Overduin – organ9:00 p.m.Tickets: $25/20 (students & seniors)All Saints Kingsway Anglican Church2850 Bloor St. WestROYALCANADIANCOLLEGE OFORGANISTS100years ofmusıcalexcellenceSunday, June 288:15 pm: Organ recital by Matthew Coons followed by Songsof the Soul: Creation’s Rainbow of Hope! featuring Soul Influence:at Metropolitan United Church, Queen & Bond St. $10Monday, June 291:00 pm: Organ Recital by Craig Humber at St. Andrew’sPresbyterian Church, King & Simcoe St. $15/10*8:15 pm: Organ Recital by Rachel Laurin at St. Paul’s AnglicanChurch, 227 Bloor St. E. $20/15*Tuesday, June 3011:15 am: Organ Recital by James David Christie at Our Ladyof Sorrows Church, 3055 Bloor St. W. $15/10*2:00 pm: Organ Recital by Jonathan Oldengarm followedby Choral Concert by Tafelmusik Chamber Choir conductedby Ivars Taurins at St. Paul’s Basilica, Power and Queen St.$20/15*8:15 pm: Gala Concert for Organ & Orchestra featuringDame Gillian Weir with Raffi Armenian conducting atMetropolitan United Church, Queen & Bond St. $35/25*Wednesday, July 110:00 am: Family concert (all ages welcome) with RyanJackson and Giles Bryant at Convocation Hall, University ofToronto $5/children 12 and under, $10/adults and $20/family11:30 am: Choral Concert by Nathaniel Dett Chorale conductedby Brainerd Blyden-Taylor at Knox Presbyterian Church,630 Spadina Ave. at Harbord $20/15*Church of the Holy Trinityhttp://holytrinitytoronto.org/Glionna Mansell Corporationwww.glionnamansell.comThe Churchof The Redeemerwww.casavant.caMusicMondayshttp://www.classicorgan.comwww.rcco.cam beithPrint and Graphicsmbgraphics@rogers.comwww.torontoartscouncil.orgThursday, July 21:30 pm: Choral & Organ Concert with Thierry Escaich &Exultate Chamber Singers conducted by John Tuttle atSt. Paul’s Anglican Church, 227 Bloor St. East $20/15*8:15 pm: Organ Recital by Ken Cowan at All Saints’Kingsway Anglican Church, 2850 Bloor St. West $20/$15**The lower of the two prices is applicable to students and seniorsFor more information:www.rcco2009.ca or call 289.314.56004 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COMMAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009

Volume 14 #8: May 1 - June 7, 200906 FOR OPENERS: Less of this means more of what? David Perlman08 WORLD VIEW: Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan Karen Ages10 CHORAL SCENE: Choirs on Screen June 24 mJ buellBEAT BY BEAT (The Live Music Scene)13 Early Music Frank Nakashima14 In with the New Jason van Eyk17 Jazz Notes Jim Galloway18 Jazz in the Clubs Ori Dagan19 BandStand and Podium Jack MacQuarrie20 On Opera Chris HoileCALENDAR (Live Music Listings) 122-28 Section 1: Concerts: Toronto & GTA ...C1-C16 CANARY PAGES: 7th annual directory of choirsCALENDAR (Live Music Listings) 229-37 Section 1: Concerts: Toronto & GTA, ... continued38-39 Section 2: Concerts: Beyond the GTA40-41 Section 3: Jazz in the Clubs (listings)41-44 Section 4: Announcements, Lectures, Workshops, ... EtceteraMUSICAL LIFE45 CONTEST: We Are All Music’s Children mJ buell46 BookShelf Pamela MarglesDISCOVERIES - Recordings Reviewed48 Editor’s Corner David Olds49 Vocal49 Early Music50 Classical and Beyond51 Modern and Contemporary51 Jazz and Improvised Music - Extended Play52 Pot Pourri52 Old Wine in New Bottles Bruce SurteesACD2 2591HENRY PURCELLFantasiasLes Voix humainesA milestone CDwith viol ensembleLes Voix humainesin the firstprofessionalrecording featuringthe historicHart House violsOTHER ELEMENTS06 Contact Information and Deadlines21 Index of Advertisers44 Classified Ads46-48 WholeNote MarketPlaceIN THIS ISSUEATMACLASSIQUE.COMDEEP WIRELESSPAGE 14MUSIC’S CHILD: DOUBLEHEADER!PAGE 45,46Select ATMA titles now on saleMAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COM5

FOR OPENERSLess of this means more of ... what, I ask myself?How to survive the internet –tip number one:To avoid embarrassing the librarian, do nottype the phrase “heavenly body” into Googleor Yahoo if you are looking for an image ofan asteroid on line.I KNOW THIS because of what happened afterthe announcement, on April 9, that Victoriaastronomer David Balam had named “his”new-found asteroid tafelmusik in honour ofToronto’s most esteemed baroque ensemble.Great topic for an editorial, I said, andflailed around on the internet for a bit, tryingto find out what musical company tafelmusikwould be keeping in its lofty new orbit. Ifound chopin, wagner, mozartia, liszt,thebeatles, bach, … no Beethoven, though.Probably still too modern. And then Idecided to look for a photo. ....Well, anyway, enough of that.Good for Tafelmusik I say. The concertthat caught astronomer David Balam’simagination was called The Galileo Project:Music of the Spheres, taking their audienceflying back 400 years to the music beinginvented at the same time the telescope was.It’s typical of the storytelling panache thatToronto’s premiere baroque orchestraregularly brings to its work.Mind you, I can think of a few otherlocal musical entities I’d like to nominate forsimilar immortalization in the firmament,some for distinctly less flattering reasons.(They don’t name meteors, though, so“spectacular flameouts” is out as as anaward category.) “Black Holes” are morepromising – but even there you have to bevery careful. It’s not the black hole itselfthat you get to name. It’s the measurableemissions, or lack of, around it — its“luminati”, so to speak.There is a danger to politicizing thecelestial name game. Anyone can play.Rumours are that even as we speak Harperand Flaherty are hotfooting it to B.C. tooffer astronomer Balam a senate seat (whatbetter spot for stargazing?) in exchange forfinding them a black hole with emanationsthey can christen cbc and canadacouncilBetter stick to asteroids, Mr. Balam, ismy advice. You’ll make fewer enemies. Iknow a media genius in town who’d pay agood price for a celestial rolling stone calledthenewclassicalfmz.(I invite all readers to join me on thenewly launched WholeNote blog fordiscussion of this and other earth-shakingtopics.)Three little dots, red ,green and blue,signalling asteroid tafelmusik’sstately celestial progressIn that part of the media asteroid beltknown as The WholeNote, we’ve got a bitof naming and renaming going on ourselves,the upshot of which is that this will be mylast little essay as the editor of WholeNote.Weep not, though. I am merely migratingone cubicle over – to the Publisher’s perch.So you haven’t heard the last of me, just thelast of me in this particular capacity.I will leave it to my successor as editor,Colin Eatock, to introduce himself in thisspot next time. To my legions of devotedreaders, … bless you both!And as I turn the page on this fourteenyearchapter, there are definitely parts of itI’m looking forward to less of.Some of what I’m looking forward to less more of, page 12THE TORONTO CONCERT-GOER’S GUIDEVolume 14 #8, May 1 - June 7, 2009Copyright © 2009 WholeNote Media, Inc.720 Bathurst St, Suite 503, Toronto ON M5S 2R4Thanks to this month’s contributorsBeat by Beat:Books – Pamela Margles;Early – Frank NakashimaJazz – Jim Galloway, Ori DaganMusical Life – mJ buellNew Music – Jason van EykOrchestra and Band – Jack MacQuarrieOpera and Music Theatre – Christopher HoileFeature: Karen Ages, mJ buellCD Reviewers: Ori Dagan, Daniel Foley, JanosGardonyi, Richard Haskell, Pamela Margles, AlisonMelville, Cathy Riches, Terry Robbins, BruceSurtees, Ken Waxman, Dianne WellsCanary Pages: Karen Ages, Nick TortiPhoto and Editorial research: Nick TortiProofreading: Simone Desilets, Colin Eatock,Karen AgesListings: Colin Eatock, Richard Haskell,Felix Deak, Ori DaganLayout and design: Verity Graphics,Rocket Design (cover)Main Telephone: 416-323-2232Fax 416-603-4791Switchboard and General Inquiries: Ext. 21Publisher: David Perlman publisher@thewholenote.comManaging Editor: Colin Eatockeditorial@thewholenote.comEditorial assistant: Nick Torti –wmieditor@thewholenote.comCD Editor: David Olds –discoveries@thewholenote.comEvent advertising/membership:Karen Ages – members@thewholenote.comProduction liaison/retail &educational advertising:Jack Buell – adart@thewholenote.comClassified Advertising; Announcements, Etc:Simone Desilets – classad@thewholenote.comListings department:Colin Eatock – listings@thewholenote.comJazz Listings:Ori Dagan – jazz@thewholenote.comWebsite:Bryson Winchester – systems@thewholenote.comCirculation, Display Stands & Subscriptions:Chris Malcolm – circulation@thewholenote.comProduction Management:Peter Hobbs, production@thewholenote.comUPCOMING DATES AND DEADLINESNext issue is Volume 14 #9covering June 1 - July 7, 2009Free Event Listings Deadline:6pm Friday May 15Display Ad Reservations Deadline:6pm Friday May 15Advertising Materials Due:6pm Tuesday May 19Publication Date:Friday May 29WholeNote Media Inc. accepts no responsibility orliability for claims made for any product or servicereported on or advertised in this issue.Circulation Statement,April 2009: 30,000 printed and distributedPrinted in Canada byCouto Printing and Publishing ServicesCanadian Publication Product Sales Agreement1263846ISSN 14888-8785 WHOLENOTEPublications Mail Agreement #40026682Return undeliverable Canadianaddresses to:WholeNote Media Inc.503-720 Bathurst StreetToronto ON M5S 2R4www.thewholenote.com6 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COMMAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009

Photo: Henry GrossmanThe ‘other side’ OfRichard MargisonWith special guest: Jean StilwellConcert Date & Time:Also Featuring:Friday, June 12, 2009—7:30 p.m. Lauren Margison, Errol Gay,Crescent Boys SchoolPatti Loach, Erin Cooper-GayCentre for Creative LearningCCOC: Principal & Youth Choruses—2365 Bayview Ave., TorontoAnn Cooper Gay, Artistic DirectorTax receipt issued for the maximum allowable amount.• Opera• Musical Theatre• Folk MusicTickets: $100 Each - Concert /Post-Concert Reception/Silent AuctionBenefit concert for: Canadian Children’s Opera Company• Jazz• Cabaret• CountryTo Purchase Your Tickets, Contact:Canadian Children’s Opera Company, 227 Front St. E. Toronto416-366-0467 / info@canadianchildrensopera.comwww.canadianchildrensopera.comMa y 1 – Ju n e 7 2009 w w w .t h e w h o l e n o t e.c o m7

COVER STORY: WORLD VIEWEvergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan at twenty fiveby Karen AgesAnniversaries are a time to look back and reflect on time spenttogether, or on one’s accomplishments over the years, and theEvergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan is doing just that. Theycelebrate their 25th anniversary season this month, with threedifferent concerts: May 2 at the Open Ears Festival in Kitchener,and May 4 and 11 at the Music Gallery.I asked long-time member and suling player Andrew Timarto tell me a bit about the Ensemble and his role within it. Here’san abreviated version below. For a more in-depth “tell all”account, please visit www.thewholenote.com.Karen Ages: When was the Evergreen Club founded, and whowere its original members?Andrew Timar: Jon Siddall founded the group in 1983. Many ofthe first ECCG musicians were also composers who wrote musicfor our degung (type of gamelan). These included American composer/musicianMiguel Frasconi, percussionist/composer MarkDuggan, percussionist and now ethnomusicologist MichaelBakan, pianist/musical sculptor/composer Gordon Monahan, andclarinetist/composer Robert Stevenson (currently Artistic Director ofArraymusic). ECCG’s first suling (vertical bamboo flute) player wasAnn McKeighan (now a CBC music producer), but I took over thisduty from the second season onward. My learning curve was quitesteep, since we had several difficult commissions to premiere, suchas Trichy Sankaran’s Svara Laya.KA: Where do the instruments come from?AT: Our first set was made in West Java, the home of degung (atype of gamelan ensemble). Our present degung was made in 1998-9of the finest bronze by noted gamelan maker Tentrem Sarwanto ofSurakarta, Central Java. Several of us made the trip to his workshopto negotiate the instrumental range and tuning. In the case of bothsets, we made the “furniture” out of Canadian hard maple, onwhich the sounding parts of the instruments rest, here in SouthernOntario. This combination of the best of Javanese gong forgingresting on prime Canadian maple serves as a metaphor for thegroup’s multi-cultural approach.KA: Was the original objective of ECCG to commission contemporaryworks, or did it start out as a traditional ensemble playingtraditional works?AT: Right from the beginning our focus was on contemporary Westerncompositions, many of which we wrote ourselves. At that timethere were no other gamelans in the country, let alone gamelan teachersto study with. The group’s leader Jon Siddall’s entry into thegamelan world was via the American composer Lou Harrison (1917-2003), who himself had only recently studied the Sundanese musicalbasis of degung. Siddall did introduce a few traditional works, buteven these were in Harrison’s own “adapted” versions using Westernnotation. In 1993 we invited the Sundanese multi-instrumentalistBurhan Sukarma to teach us degung repertoire and performance practice.Several of us have gone on to study gamelan music performanceof various sorts, as well as other Indonesian music genres.KA: Can you tell me something about Evergreen’s repertoire, boththe contemporary compositions, and the traditional Sundanese pieces?AT: The core corpus of Sundanese lagu-lagu degung klasik (musicalcanon of the gamelan degung) is about 50 – 60 works. We’ve performedsome dozen of these over the years. Some have been releasedon our CDs: Solo, (Artifact, 2002), and Sunda Song (Naxos, 2004).As for the other 90% of our repertoire, they’re compositions we’vecommissioned from Canadian, American, South American and Europeancomposers. These include works by two of the most important20th-century composers, Lou Harrison (1917-2003) and John Cage(1912-1992). Canadian composers such as Gilles Tremblay, ChanKa-Nin, James Tenney and Walter Boudreau, to name just a few,ECCG: l - r: Paul Houle (peking), Romano DeNillo (slentem), Ryan Scott(jengglong), Mark Duggan (bonang), Bill Parsons (go’ong, kempuls),Andrew Timar (suling/flute), Blair Mackay (kendang/drums),Graham Hargrove (gambang), Rick Sacks (panerus).form the majority of our repertoire, however. We are particularlyproud of our active commissioning policy, which has generated morethan 150 compositions to date.KA: When did you first become interested in the Suling, and withwhom did you study?AT: Perhaps it was my woodwind-playing background (I was abassoonist and had also studied recorders and shawms at York University),which paved the way. Jon Siddall gave me my first sulingpointers in 1983, though I must say that I learned essentially “on thejob.” It was only in 1988 that I made my first trip to Indonesia,where I had two brief lessons on Sundanese suling. My first seriesof intensive suling lessons were with Burhan Sukarma, the foremostsuling player of his generation, in 1993 in Toronto, and then severaltimes later at his San Jose home. I also studied in Bandung, Indonesiawith one of the leading suling players, Endang Sukandar.KA: Tell me something about the instrument itself. I know you’vegot quite a collection: what determines which suling you will use forany given concert or piece?AT: The suling is a “ring flute” made of bamboo. Its ring is madeof a strip of split bamboo tied to the cut node at one end of thelength of bamboo. The ring and cut node form a channel to blowthrough. The sort of bamboo which the Sundanese call temianggrows straight and has the desired blond colour. Its long internodallength means its bore doesn’t have to be drilled or shaped. WhileI’ve taken lessons on the Balinese and Javanese sulings and havethose in my collection of roughly 200, it’s the Sundanese varietieswhich I play most often. There are primarily two types used in degung.One has six finger-holes (suling panjang, or suling tembang)and has a lower tonal range; the other has four holes (suling degung)and is shorter with a higher range. The choice of which sulingto use is sometimes given by the composer, or can be determined bythe range of the melody, the density of the other instrumental parts,the genre of the piece, and whether there is a vocalist or not.KA: What concerts does ECCG have coming up, in celebration ofits 25th anniversary?AT: On May 2, at 7:30 pm we’ll be in concert at the Open EarsFestival in Kitchener. “The Enduring Legacy of Lou Harrison,” willfeature several gamelan degung works by Harrison and John Cage,both of whom, as I mentioned, were key figures in ECCG’s firstdecades. Cage’s Haikai was composed for us, and is his only game-8 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COMMAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009PHOTO: IAN BROWN

lan work. A world première of a new work by Gordon Monahan forprepared piano and ECCG rounds out the program.On May 4, at 8 pm at the Music Gallery, our programme “Suitesfrom the Past” will feature percussion master Trichy Sankaran onmrdangam, for the world premiere of his Repercussions. Jon Siddallwill join us for the world premiere of his suite The GreenhouseRevisited. Our final Music Gallery concert is “Sunda Songs,” May11 at 8 pm. This features song repertoire inspired by the Sundanesemusic of West Java, with guest vocalists Jennifer Moore, SubaSankaran, and Maryem Tollar. There will also be songs by MarkDuggan, by Senegalese musician Youssou NDour, and a rousingPalestinian folk song. The concert is preceded by a hands-on workshopat 6:30, in which the audience is invited to participate.KA: And what’s in store for the future? Any tours on the horizon?AT: We’re completing our next CD, which we recorded with theHalifax-based Sanctuary trio. We’ll also be pursuing several educationaloutreach initiatives and will continue our Sora Priyangan communitygroup. As far as touring is concerned, we’ve played in Japan,Indonesia, Europe, and across Canada several times. We’veheadlined at World Expos in Lisbon and Hanover, at London’sSouthbank Centre, twice at the Radio France concert hall in Paris,and in 2002 we were featured at the Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival.Last month we gave a well-received concert near Montreal. In contrastto the halcyon days of past, when our federal government tookan interest in international touring, these seem dark days for any kind of touring. When the economic gloom lets up however, we’llresume plans for touring the west coast of the USA, up to BC. I’dlove to return to Europe and Indonesia too!Other world music events, in brief:Small World Music continues its 7th annual South Asian MusicSeries with four concerts this month: “Delhi 2 Dublin: – Bhangra,Celtic and Dub on May 3; “Sundar’s New Avataar” – Raag and taalfused with jazz and electronica on May 12; Anindo Chatterjee – tablamaster on May 23; and Azalea Ray – spiritual songs & vocal virtuosityon May 30. Visit www.smallworldmusic.com for details onthese and other concerts. The Echo Women’s Choir presents a Mothers Day concert on May10, with Cuban-Canadian musicians the Del Monte Escalante family.Among other works, the concert will feature songs of Chilean songwriterVioleta Parra, and South African songs.Described as “a Russian Streisand and a Jewish Piaf,” Russian singerSvetlana Portnyansky (presented by Show One Productions) performsat the Leah Posluns Theatre on May 20. Trained primarily asa cantor in the Jewish religious tradition, she’ll sing in Yiddish,Russian, Hebrew, Ladino and English.May 22, Samba Squad delivers its 10th anniversary concert at thePhoenix Concert Theatre. The Toronto Jewish Folk Choir presentsits 83rd Spring concert on May 31, payingtribute to singer/actorTheodore Bikel on his 85th birthday, and composer Srul IrvingGlick (1934-2002). Recently back from San Francisco’s JewishMusic Festival, and named 2008 “vocal group of the year” at theCanadian Folk Music Awards, Toronto’s klezmer/swing band Sistersof Sheynville performs at Hugh’s room on June 3. Check ourlistings for details on times and venues. MAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COM9

BEAT BY BEAT: CHORAL SCENEby mJ buellEMBRACING MUSICWould you like to swing on a star,carry moonbeams home in in a jar,and be be better off off than you are….“Embracing” is a word that can be be used two ways. Interesting how howeither way it it applies to to making music, and particularly to to choral singing.Choral music is is “embracing”: like a hug that is is big enough for as asmany as as many need one. Simple folk melodies and great majesticscores all invite us to to be “in the music” as as choristers or as as audience.This embrace can transcend all kinds potential barriers: age, gender,race, and other diverse but less visible socio-economic walls in in ourcomplicated lives.We are “embracing music”, when we sing with others. With ourbreathing unified, and often our hearts on our sleeves, we wrap acollective voice around a piece of of music and hold it it tight, and byextension, around one another. It’s an act of of love.Despite some obvious differences the little choristers from TimothyEaton Memorial Church Choir School in in the photo above remind meof of the ragamuffins who sing “Swingin’ on a Star” with Bing Crosbyin in the 1944 hit movie Going my Way (in which joining the choirprovides some underprivileged boys with a way to to stay out of of trouble).Certainly the current photo reflects the balance of of irrepressi-When I I first saw Going My Way at at about the age of of ten, I I wantedto to be one of of those rag-tag little boys so badly, singing with them.As it it happens that year our school started a choir. I I remember beingamazed that all sorts of of girls and boys who ordinarily avoided oneanother for various reasons, or treated each other badly, were somehowcharmed into leaving their differences at the door. I have subsequentlyI have seen subsequently and fallen in seen love and with fallen many in love other with music-related many other films. music-relatedare newer, films. less They sentimental, are newer, perhaps less sentimental, political, and perhaps musically political-Theymore ly and sophisticated, musically more but sophisticated, that one was part but of that a transformational one was part of a time transformationalchoral time singing when taught choral me singing about belonging.ble taught me about but belonging, engaged andwhenenergy the balance we want of irrepressible to see in children but engaged who sing. energy So we does want the to old see movie. inLook children a little who deeper sing. Look and you a little find deeper children into who the “belong”. old movie, Who and likely youalready find children understand who “belong”. that among Who those understand who are held that by among the shared those whomusic, are held there by the can shared be no music, “outsiders”. there can be no “outsiders”.There’s another more recent film, Les Choristes, (2004) set in inpost-wartime France that tackles a similar theme, with some beautifuloriginal music by Bruno Coulais.Belonging to to a choir can begin or resume at at any age.Feast your eyes and mind on the contents of of this year’s Canary Pages,and notice that there are choirs for every imaginable kind of person.For those “baby canaries” out there, like the cute blue ones in inour photo, there are auditioned and non-auditioned choirs, choirs forjust girls, just boys, choirs that combine music and drama, choirsthat sing sacred music, and choirs that do not. And for all the rest of ofus “grown up” canaries, from experienced professional singers withThe Timothy Eaton Memorial Church Choir School “Sing Out!” (May 8)solo careers through to people who have secretly always wanted tosing but never tried, there are choirs waiting to embrace newpeople.This is the best possible month to go and hear some of these choirsprovided you are not already too busy singing! A rough count ofour daily listings for May reveals that there are no fewer than 80concerts that include a choir (or choirs). There is one day in themonth upon which you will find no less than 12 choral performancesin our Toronto and our Beyond the GTA southern Ontariolistings.Some of these 80 are free. And virtually all of them offer discountsfor children, youth, and seniors. There are staged worksinvolving choirs. There are choirs performing with orchestras,choirs that sing unaccompanied. The music offered ranges from thesacred to the profane, and from the middle ages to the 21st century.Such a lot of singing!CIRCLE the Date! June 24, 2009Movies Embracing Music —A Choral Double FeatureTWO choral-themed movies, some fun live entertainment andaudience participation.WholeNote wants your suggestions!We’ll be choosing two suggestions which have a choral theme toshow at our first ever movie night. Send the name of your favouriteand a few details, to canary@thewholenote.com, or mail us.In June we’ll be announcing the titles, and we’ll be telling youhow to get tickets for yourself, or your group. Stay tuned!Here’s a little more about what we mean.A little while ago we began asking ourselves and other people abouttheir favourite “movies embracing music”. The idea was that somefilms actually address what music is, or does, in some way. 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Suggestions to date:Allan Pulker: The Singing Revolution. Thisfilm tells the story of how 20,000 Estonians’voices united in song to affirm their countryitsindependence and free it from five decadesof Soviet oppression. What a wonderfulstory and testimonial to the power of ordinarypeople and the power of music. Thisfilm has a very important message to Canadians,who feel so powerless in the face ofthe challenges of globalization and environmentaldegradation caused by forces muchgreater than any of us individually. Interestinglythe majority of us also see music as anactivity marginal to the demands of “reallife.” Perhaps it’s time we begin to reassessthe place of music in life and begin to lookfor ways to emulate the Estonian example.Peter and Verity Hobbs: Les Choristes.We saw “Les Choristes” at the 2004 TorontoInternational Film Festival and still look backon the film with pleasure. But, admittedly weare both “choral junkies”.This charming, funny and thoughtprovokingfilm takes place in post-warFrance. A new supervisor arrives at aboarding school for orphaned and difficultboys. He is full of enthusiasm and a love ofsinging. His participative and outreachingapproach immediately comes into conflictwith the stern disciplinary practices of thehead- master. The new teacher uses choralmusic to give the boys respect forthemselves and others, and the results areoutstanding and long-lasting. (Choraldiscipline wins again!)The film has many remarkable musicalmoments, especially when an outstandingyoung boy soprano is on screen. If you likechoral music, you’ll love this film.ALSO HIGH QUALITYUSED STEINWAYSAVAILABLEMAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COM11

The Opera Exchange:Antique Fables and Fairy ToysAn in-depthexplorationof Britten’smagicaladaptation ofA MidsummerNight’s DreamSaturday, May 9, 20099:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building,80 Queen’s Park (at Museum subway station)$15 (U of T Student and Faculty discounts available)416-363-8231coc.caOperatours2009/2010See the World with Opera!Join other opera enthusiasts on these thoughtfully plannedtours to world-famous opera houses. Accommodation at privateclubs, excursions and other cultural activities are included, aswell as ample time for sight-seeing at your own pace.Metropolitan Opera, New YorkDecember 6 – 10, 2009Offenbach Les Contes d’Hoffmann* | Mozart Le nozze di Figaro | Puccini Il TritticoMarch 21 – 25, 2010Verdi Attila* | Shostakovich The Nose* | Thomas Hamlet*Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Chicago SymphonyNovember 19 – 22, 2009Verdi Ernani* | Janáček Kát’a Kabanová | Chicago Symphony: Birtwhistle,Mozart & SchumannMarch 10 – 14, 2010Golijov La Pasión según San Marcos | Mozart Le nozze di Figaro |Berlioz La Damnation de Faust* | Bach St. John Passion* new productionEuropean tours will be announced in July.AVAILABILITY IS LIMITED, CALL NOW FOR MORE INFORMATION.1-800-265-1141 ext. 6209coc.caIn partnership with:The Jackman Humanities InstituteFOR OPENERS ... continued from page 6Some of what I’m looking forward to more ofSTILL ON THE TOPIC OF LESS rather than more, I’m looking forward toless of this particular kind of late night insanity — pounding away atthe keyboard well after midnight on the final production shift; all therest of the magazine safely to bed; and my dear friend the printertearing out what remains of his hair while I sit here waxing philosophical.)Less of this means more of what, I wonder?Mostly what I’m looking forward to more of in the monthsahead is being off the production treadmill and therefore able tobe out and about, processing more through my ears and lessthrough words on a page. AndMind you, I shouldn’t complain: as months go, this past one hashad more than its share of memorable moments.Paolo Gavanelli’s stunning Simon Boccanegra for the CBC wasone of them- his Verdi rolling round that lovely hall like the finest ofwine round the mouth — a giant performance made more so by itsattention to tiny detail. The gamba solo in Tafelmusik’s St. MatthewPassion was another standout; as was finding out first hand fromgambist Susie Napper about the newly restored Hart House Viols.What a story that will grow to be over the coming months (andrumours are that there are more in the dungeons of the ROM).And as a perfect foil to all that grandeur, I will long remembersitting close enough to the piano to reach out and touch it, in a littleart gallery at 345 Sorauren, off the beaten concert path, listening toSwiss composer/conductor/teacher Jurg Wyttenbach – yet another ofNew Music Concerts’ Robert Aitken’s extraordinary associates –create, and recreate, two of Beethoven’s late piano sonatas, in aminiature performance as operatic in its own way as all the pyrotechnicsof the COC’s Boccanegra, linking “old” and new in a way thatilluminated both.On the subject of Beethoven, May 30 sees a landmark performance– Counterpoint Community Orchestra’s 25th anniversaryconcert, and they’re taking on Beethoven’s Ninth for the occasion.Terry Kowalczuk, Music Director of the CCO forthe past 10 years describes it as “a great piececonceived on a magnitude few other works offer.Every note seems to have a purpose and everyoneneeds to know their part or else something willbe missing. ...I do not think that many amateurorchestras should attempt this piece. But thenagain, we are trying it. It is a huge undertakingrequiring many forces including 4 soloists and aTerry Kowalczukchoir. The music itself lasts for almost 70minutes. The CCO is unique and it is my hopethat the LGBTTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgender,and queer) community appreciates how the CCO adds anotherdimension to the community. ... the community can be proud of agroup that can create great music.”It strikes me as entirely fitting that Counterpoint CommunityOrchestra has chosen to celebrate this anniversary with a choralwork, during the month that WholeNote celebrates as choral month.In our community orchestras and choirs lies the best hope for thismusic to survive and thrive, because it is there that the distinctionsbetween performer and audience break down.I began by mentioning the individual who will replace me aseditor. I must end by mentioning the individual I am replacing aspublisher. Allan Pulker believed in the viability of WholeNote fromthe very beginning, because he sensed the vitality and cohesivenessof the local music community more strongly than anyone else I’veknown. He built our relationships with the music community oneconcert listing at a time, one conversation at a time.I look forward to the opportunity to do the same.David Perlman, publisher@thewholenote.com12 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COMMAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009

BEAT BY BEAT: EARLY MUSICby Frank NakashimaFamily Mahon2009-2010Glenn Gould Studio250 Front St. WestOct 23, 2009LARA ST. JOHN ViolinistHAYDN Quartet op 42VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS The Lark AscendingPIAZZOLA The Four SeasonsTCHAIKOVSKY SerenadeTallis Choir. Peter Mahon is front left.THE NAME Peter Mahon will be familiar to many concert-goers in Toronto,especially if, as I do, you have a love of both choral musicand early music. The affable Mahon has had a dual musical career:as a conductor over the last two decades he has worked with St.James Cathedral, Tafelmusik, the Hart House Singers, and GraceChurch on-the-Hill, as well as being the founder and director of theWilliam Byrd Singers. As a countertenor, over an even longer time,he has appeared with Tafelmusik, Toronto Consort, Aradia Ensemble,Montreal Chamber Music Festival, Pax Christi Chorale, ArborOak Concerts, The Bach-Elgar Choir, The Tallis Choir, The TorontoChamber Choir and The St. James Cathedral Choral Society... .Search the name Mahon in our listings these days, though, andinstead of “Peter” you’re increasingly likely to run across his childrenTeresa, Natalie, Christopher, Andrew, and Rachel. Musiciansall. I suggest to him that, to the casual observer, it might seem thathe and his children are trying to turn Toronto’s early music choralscene into a family affair. He laughs.“I guess we have worked witha fair number of groups ...”Most recently, Peter and baritone son, Andrew, sang shoulder toshoulder in the Toronto Masque Theatre’s production of Henry Purcell’sKing Arthur. This month, Peter will be singing in Tafelmusik’spresentation of Haydn’s Creation (May 29, 31), and conductingthe Tallis Choir in a program of Renaissance choral musicby Palestrina (May 9). Mahon is excited at the prospect of a newmusical experience. “Tallis Choir will be singing the famous MissaPapae Marcelli by Palestrina. Oddly, for a choir that specializes inearly music, it will be the first time that we have performed it.”I ask if being a countertenor led Peter to early music. “The soundof the countertenor is certainly associated with early music and it is asound that I was accustomed to hearing from a very early age. Evenbefore I joined the men and boys choir at St. Thomas’ Huron Street,my parents had played recordings of Alfred Deller for me and, ofcourse, I heard them singing in the choirs at St. Mary Magdalenewith Healey Willan every Sunday. I got a steady diet of Renaissancepolyphony and Gregorian chant.” (We reminisce and laugh about beingthe entire alto section at St. Thomas on Huron.)“I really enjoy rehearsals with my choirs. There is a great senseof working towards a common goal, but having a good time whilewe are doing it. I am enormously grateful to the singers who allowme to stand in front of them and allow me to tell them what to dofor hours at a time. Knowing that, I feel a great responsibility tomake sure that they’re not wasting their time. ... As for early music,it is a form of expression to which I have been exposed even beforeI could talk. I cannot imagine it not being a part of my life. Singingit has always been a fulfilling experience. Conducting a group is anextension of that experience and just takes it to another level.”Mahon has been influenced by many gifted musicians - HealeyWillan, Walter MacNutt, Giles Bryant, Derek Holman, Ivars Taurins,Bernard Labadie, David Fallis, and Christopher Jackson, toname a few.“They all have the ability to inspire those who work forthem and make the job of music-making an absolutely enjoyable andNov 13, 2009ANTONIO DI CRISTOFANO PianistCHAN KA NIN Poetry on IceMOZART Piano Concerto K 449SCHUBERT Death and the MaidenDec 11, 2009CATHERINE MANOUKIAN ViolinistFILIPPO LATTANZI MarimbaPUCCINI Three MinuetsHOVHANESS Violin ConcertoBISCIONE Marimba ConcertoSEJOURNE Vibraphone ConcertoSTRAUSS Die FledermausJan 22, 2010YUVAL FICHMAN PianistSOMERS North CountryCHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 2RAVEL Sinfonia in F MajorMar 12, 2010HYUK-JOO KWUN ViolinistSANGWOOK PARK PianistBURGE A Light Fantastic RoundMENDELSSOHN Double ConcertoDVORAK Sinfonia op 105 Apr 9, 2010HEATHER SCHMIDT PianistXIAOHAN GUO ViolinistMOZART Divertimento K 138SAINT-SAENS CapriceWAXMAN Carmen FantasySCHMIDT Piano Concerto No. 6PIAZZOLA Oblivion and Four for TangoSHOSTAKOVICH Prelude and ScherzoMay 14, 2010SHAUNA ROLSTONCellistPUCCINI CrisantemiCHAN KA NIN SoulmateSCHMIDT Cello ConcertoTCHAIKOVSKY NocturneTCHAIKOVSKY Valse SentimentaleBRAHMS Sextet in G Major op. 347 concerts for $179 adult, $159 senior, $89 student416 499 0403 $10 off at www.sinfoniatoronto.comCONTINUES NEXT PAGEMAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COM13

112 TH SEASONMUSIC0910IN THEAFTERNOONSTORIONI TRIOOCTOBER 22, 2009 • 1.30 PMBart van de Roer, pianoWouter Vossen, violinMarc Vossen, celloTRUE NORTH BRASSDECEMBER 3, 2009 • 1.30 PMJoan Watson, French horn; Scott Irvine, tuba;Alastair Kay, trombone; Richard Sandals, trumpet;Raymond Tizzard, trumpetISABEL BAYRAKDARIAN, sopranoSEROUJ KRADJIAN, pianoat Koerner Hall, The Royal Conservatory of MusicFEBRUARY 25, 2010 • 1.30 PMConcert sponsor: WMCT Centennial FoundationPENDERECKI STRING QUARTETMARCH 25, 2010 • 1.30 PMThe PSQ premières a new string quartet byCanadian composer Glenn Buhr,commissioned by the WMCTJANINA FIALKOWSKA, pianoAPRIL 29, 2010 • 1.30 PMArtist’s sponsor:Five concerts for $175Early-bird five concerts available May 1-31, 2009 – $150Avoid disappointment - subscribe nowTickets for Ms Bayrakdarian's concert in Koerner Hall,February 25, 2010, will be on sale from June 1, 2009For information and to subscribe call 416-923-7052Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building, Museum SubwayAll artists and programmes are subject to change without notice.“...THE FLAGSHIP OFDUTCH CULTURE...”NRC, 2006Support of the Ontario Arts Council and the City of Toronto through the Toronto ArtsCouncil is gratefully acknowledged.wmct@wmct.on.ca www.wmct.on.ca 416-923-7052thrilling experience. If there is anything that separates them from theother fine musicians that I have worked with, it is their attention tothe importance of the text. If you don’t convey the sense of the textyou are singing, you might as well be reading a shopping list.”In briefMonteverdi’s Coronation of Poppea continues (May 1, 2), tracingthe story of Poppea’s ascent from Nero’s mistress to Empress ofRome. A superb international cast of singers awaits you in this OperaAtelier production. www.operaatelier.comThe Musicians in Ordinary perform Music of the Courtesans of15th and 16th Century Italy (May 2). According to reports, Italiancourtesans were known to write poetry and philosophy, often actingas muses for poets and composers, singing their songs, accompanyingthemselves, and entertaining everyone within hearing distance.Soprano Hallie Fishel and lutenist John Edwards bring this musicalstory to you. www.musiciansinordinary.caTafelmusik’s performance of The Creation (May 29, 31), is partof the “World Creation Project” when choirs and orchestras allaround the world will perform this work in honour of the 200th anniversaryof Haydn’s death. Tafelmusik also reprises their JunoAward performance of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos (May 9, 10,12-15) which brought them international acclaim. Website:www.tafelmusik.orgBach’s Cantata BWV 150 is performed as part of Toronto ChamberChoir’s innovative Joan and Geoffrey Riggs Bach Cantata Series.Conductor Mark Vuorinen offers insight, analysis, background,as well as a full performance with orchestra and soloists. Website:www.torontochamberchoir.caWhat better way to celebrate Mothers’ Day than with Folia, andBaroque music about mothers (May 11), from the ideal, the VirginMary, to one of history’s least successful mothers, Medea. The music,by Biber, Merula, Caldara, Turini and more, features LauraPudwell, mezzo-soprano; Linda Melsted and Patricia Ahern, baroqueviolins; Laura Jones, viola da gamba; Borys Medicky, harpsichord;Lucas Harris, lutes, and the Toronto Continuo Collective.The Toronto Continuo Collective (lutes, theorbos, triple harp,harpsichord, and viola da gamba) performs music from 17th-centuryRome in their own concert (May 25, 26), including a staged performanceof Luigi Rossi’s cantata Noi siam tre donzellette. Website:www.continuo.caOne of Canada’s finest choral ensembles, The Exultate ChamberSingers, closes the season with a celebration of the 350th anniversaryof the birth of Henry Purcell, one of England’s most prolific andrenowned composers (May 22). Website: www.exultate.netA special fundraising concert for the Nota Bene Period Orchestraincludes some of their all-time favourites by Bach, Telemann,Handel, Purcell, and others - Telemann’s La Bizarre, excerpts fromPurcell’s Fairy Queen and Marais’ Alcione (May 16). Website:www.nbpo.netBEAT BY BEAT: IN WITH THE NEWBy the time May rolls around, we can be sure that warmer andsunnier days are here to stay. So, it’s no surprise that many ofToronto’s new music performers and presenters are pursuing naturethemes for this month’s concerts.Running throughout the month is New Adventure in SoundArt’s Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art, whichtakes as its theme “Ecology: Water, Air, Sound.” In this era ofclimate change and global warming, we’re all alerted to environmentalindicators of temperature, air and water quality, as well as light(UV index) and soil (waste disposal and brownfields). However,one environmental element to which we pay exceedingly little attentionis sound. Most people would be surprised to know that we areaffected by noise exposure more than any other environmental stressor.Yet, because the associated health effects of noise are not conbyJason van EykBack to Nature14 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COMMAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009

Feedback Fred (aka Benoît Maubrey) “feeds back” his own voice throughthe interaction of his wearable PA system. Marie-Josée Chartier,throughinteraction of movement with light sensors, produces an “audio ballet”.sidered as immediately life-threatening as those for other environmentalelements, it is regularly pushed to the bottom of the priority list.By highlighting sound as part of our ecology, through performances,installations, broadcasts, workshops, a Youth Radio residencyand the Radio Without Boundaries conference, Deep Wireless mayhelp change our appreciation of this subject. Performances start onMay 3 with the Dawn Chorus at the Lakefront Promenade Park inMississauga, where the audience will be led by Mark Cranford ofthe South Peel Naturalist Club and SOUNDwalkers Darren Copelandand Nadene Thériault-Copeland to the western headland to hear nature’ssymphony: sounds initiated by birds at sunrise. Performancesdriven by the ecological theme continue on May 7, 8, 10, 22-24 and26-30, including works by leaders in the field of sound like BrandonLabelle, Matt Rogalsky, Kristen Roos and many others. For fulldetails, including this year’s commissioned artists and guest speakers,visit www.naisa.ca/deepwireless.Environmental sounds take on a new shape at the Music Galleryon May 7 in a double-bill concert showcasing leading experimentalmusician Francisco López and local creator Joda Clément. López is ahighly prolific artist who to date has created 180 sound works, performedhundreds of concerts, and completed numerous projects,workshops and sound installations in 60 countries on five continents.He is particularly known for creating intense and immersivesonic experiences that draw on a myriad of original sources collectedfrom all over the world, from rainforests and deserts to factories andbuildings. These natural and industrial sound worlds are melded andmanipulated into unique environments through years of studio workand compositional development.Toronto-based Joda Clément is a relative newcomer, having composedand performed experimental music in Canada for just over 10years (he began his earliest experiments at age 14). Since then, hehas been developing unique methods and techniques for workingcreatively with sound. His work incorporates analog and acousticinstruments, the human voice, found objects and non-descript soundsrecorded from the natural and urban landscapes, blurring the distinctionbetween created sound and those found in the everyday environment.Clément integrates these elements into compositions, improvisations,installations and performances that have been presentedthroughout Canada and in the USA. Audiences should be warnedthat blindfolds may be required for some of the listening experiences.For more info visit www.musicgallery.org.The sounds of nature are taken in a somewhat more representationaldirection on May 12 at the Glenn Gould Studio when pianistChristina Petrowska Quilico performs a set of new and newlyrevisedworks by composer and long-time collaborator Ann Southam.The concert celebrates the launch of Southam’s latest double-CD, Pond Life, performed by Quilico for the Centrediscs label.Following on the public and critical success of her concert-lengthRivers series – written for and performed by Quilico and also availableas part of Centrediscs’ Composer Portraits Series – Pond Lifeincludes four new swift, virtuosic pieces inspired by rivers. In comparison,the two substantial Spatial View of Pond I and II, which areinspired by a painting of the same name by Japanese-Canadian artistAiko Suzuki, are much more quiet, open and reflective.CONTINUES NEXT PAGEWith three generations of experience and internationalreputation, we continually strive to fulfill the exactingrequirements of players, teachers and progressingstudents alike.Whether you are a student, professional artist or enthusiast,we can help you with all your musical requrements.Each of our instruments are carefully seclected to ensurethe finest quality, sound and performance at every level.REMENYI.COMSTRINGS PIANOS PRINT MUSIC GUITARSMAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COM15

MUSIC AT SHARONCONCERT SERIESEVERY SUNDAY FROM JUNE 7 TO JULY 5, 2009JUNE 7NIKOLAI DEMIDENKOJUNE 14ANTON KUERTIJUNE 21ELMER ISELER SINGERSJUNE 28KRISZTINA SZABÓJULY 5THE NATHANIEL DETTCHORALEFor tickets, call (416) 597-7840Monday to Friday 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.or online at sharontemple.ca$45, except $50 on July 55-concert subscription: $1953-concert package: $126All events start at 3:00 p.m.The Pond Life series, from which the album takes its name, wascomposed for dancer and choreographer Terrill Maguire, reflectingSoutham’s longstanding involvement with modern dance in Canada.The rest of the collection is comprised of the ten-part Soundstillseries, which was originally composed in 1979, but revised in 2007and 2008 and dedicated to Quilico. As with the Rivers series, manyof the collections are not performed in direct sequence. Rather, theyare intermixed to bring out the best qualities of each individual piece.The performance sequence for the Pond Life recording was selectedby Southam and Quilico together, and no doubt a new sequence willbe created for the live concert, which is dedicated to the memory ofAiko Suzuki and in recognition of the work of the David SuzukiFoundation. Tickets may be purchased through the GGS box officeat http://glenngouldstudio.cbc.ca/concerts/buytickets.html or byphone at (416) 872-4255.It’s been a very busy time for Southam, with the preparations tolaunch Pond Life, workshops with dance students at York University,and the recent Composer’s Chair podcast by the Canadian MusicCentre (see http://www.musiccentre.ca/pod.cfm.) If this wasn’tenough, another one of her favourite collaborators, pianist EveEgoyan, will close out the month with another CD release concert,this time with the world premiere of Simple Lines of Enquiry, anhour-long work for solo piano. The concert will take place at theEnwave Theatre at Harbourfront Centre on May 30. For more infobe sure to check in later at www.harbourfrontcentre.com.This line-up is but the tip of the iceberg for a very busy month ofnew music. Be sure to delve into the listings to find informationabout Arraymusic’s annual Young Composers’ Workshop concert(May 23), Tapestry’s premiere of Omar Daniel and Alex Poch-Goldin’s full-length opera The Shadow (May 21-30) and EvergreenClub’s 25th anniversary concert at the Music Gallery (May 11). Seeyou all in the concert hall!2009/2010SEASONJOHN BARNUM, MUSIC DIRECTOR/CONDUCTORClassics Renowned & Singular!The MSO in the Mendelssohn Scottish Symphony,Brahms Symphony #2, Khachaturian Piano ConcertoBeethoven Emperor Piano Concerto, Kodály Dances of GalantaProkofiev Violin Concerto #2, Shostakovich Symphony #1Lau Voyage to the East, Tan Dun Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragonand in a glorious season finale concertThe Band of The Royal Regiment of Canadajoin the Mississauga Symphony...with over 140 musicians on stage in Hammerson Hall,Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture will blow you away.Masterworks & Rarities!Featuring accordion, corno, bassoon, and cimbalomin works from Dvoak to PiazzolaSinfonia Mississauga chamber concertsat First United Church in Port CreditOrchestras Mississauga 2009/2010The World in Music!Full season 9 concert subscriptionsstart at just $212, a 30% discount!Special rates for seniors and students.For more information, or to subscribeCall 905.615.4405www5.mississauga.ca/symphonyCANADA’S STRING SHOPViolins, violas, cellos, and bowsComplete line of strings and accessoriesExpert repairs and rehairsCanada’s largest stock of string musicFast mail order servicewww.thesoundpost.cominfo@thesoundpost.com93 Grenville St., Toronto M5S 1B4tel 416.971.6990 fax 416.597.992316 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COMMAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009

BEAT BY BEAT: JAZZ NOTESby Jim GallowayWords and MusicThe human voice is the oldest form ofmusical expression, and in its earliest usewas untexted: think of throat-singing andCeltic mouth music, for example.Whenone considers some of the current popmusictrends, thinking of the voice as amusical instrument might be a challenge,but even the spoken word can be likemusic to one’s ears. Actor James EarlJones, for example, has a beautifulvoice, although he had to overcome asevere stuttering problem and into histeens he had to communicate withteachers and classmates by handwrittennotes! From an earlier generation RonaldColman had a wonderful, resonant voicethat made music just by speaking.This being the choral issue of The WholeNote, I thought I wouldgive voice to my thoughts on vocal jazz groups. The beginnings ofthe music go back to ceremonial chants, work songs, field hollersand chain gangs, giving us the origins of the blues, which, in turnbecame an integral part of jazz. In other words, the roots of jazzwere very much vocal, although early jazz bands used singers onlyintermittently.Of the early vocal groups two that stand out for me were theBoswell Sisters and the Mills Brothers. Connie, Martha, and HelvetiaBoswell were from New Orleans. As teenagers they made theirfirst recording in 1925, but their careers really took off after theymoved to New York. They really were superior singers and theirharmonies were very advanced for the time. Groups such as the AndrewSisters and the Clark Sisters were certainly influenced bythem, and readers who aren’t familiar with the Boswell Sistersshould definitely check them out.The other vocal group that emerged in the 30s was the MillsBrothers, out of Ohio. John, Herbert, Harry and Donald also begantheir career in the 20s singing in Vaudeville shows using onlyrhythm guitar. But they had an uncanny ability to imitate bass, trumpetand trombone. After the inevitable move to New York they hitthe big time. John’s sudden death in 1936 was a huge blow to thegroup, but father, John Sr., took over as bass singer, and BernardAddison became the group’s guitarist. After their hit in 1942 with“Paper Doll” they became much more mainstream at the expense ofCONTINUES NEXT PAGE MAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COM17

BEAT BY BEAT: BANDSTAND & PODIUMby Jack MacQuarrieDistractionsWith the myriad of spring concerts behind most community musicalgroups, it seemed like an opportune time to express some personalopinions which have been festering in my head for some time. Overthe past two weekends, during which I have attended three concertsand one play, and played in one performance, a few pet peeves haveboiled to the surface of my consciousness. This seemed like a goodtime to pontificate on my aversion to the many distractions to whichconcert goers and performers are subjected. Let’s just lump these allunder the heading of distractions.Before mounting my high horse about audience decorum, I feelcompelled to recall two incidents years apart that evoke laughter forme. The first happened many years ago when I attended my firstsymphony concert after my arrival in Toronto. It was at a time whenthere were regular “Prom Concerts” at Varsity Arena. These werepromoted as less formal than the winter concerts at Massey Hall.Unfortunately, the interpretation of the term informality by the twoelderly ladies seated directly behind me, went too far for my liking.Throughout the entire concert I was “treated” to the incessantrhythm of clicking knitting needles.The second incident occurred a couple of years ago, during a solopiano recital of a renowned pianist (Emmanuel Ax, I think it was) atRoy Thomson Hall. A cellular phone in the audience rang out loudand clear. With amazing will power, this artist continued playingwithout so much as a break in the continuity of the music. He turnedto face the audience and calmly stated “If it’s for me, tell them I’mbusy.”I’m tempted to say that I long for the days before cellular phones,I-Pods and digital cameras. I could then reminisce about the dayswhen the major annoyances at concerts were such simple distractionsas talking, contortions restricting one’s view, rustling of programmesand possibly the unwrapping of candy. By now most of usare well acquainted with the standard cautions prior to most performancesasking audience members to turn off their cell phones andrefrain from popping off the flashes of cameras. However, at themost recent Hannaford Band’s recent Festival of Brass I was subjectedto new “silent” distractions. As I savoured the solo performancesof the young competitors, there were within my field of view,half a dozen members of the audience, cell phones in hand, textmessaging. Whether they were exchanging views of the performancewith friends in the audience or staying in touch with others moreremote. I asked one simple question: Why?Two days later, at the concert featuring guest soloist Joe Alessi,the person sitting directly in front of me felt compelled to photographevery nuance of the soloist’s slide movements. Throughoutthe entire solo performance, held up directly in my field of view,was the LCD screen of his digital camera. With modern technology,a flash was not necessary: the rules about flashes were not violated,but I required considerable will power to refrain from taking thecamera from this man.CONTINUES NEXT PAGEPETER MAHONSales Representative416-322-8000pmahon@trebnet.comwww.petermahon.comtoronto all star big bandWithBennyJune 27 - 2 pm @ St. Lawrence CentreCall (416) 366-7723MAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COM19

After this last of the Hannaford concerts, a few of us, all involvedin music, adjourned to a local restaurant. There the conversationfound its way around to what might be termed the etiquette and decorumof the rehearsal. The number one pet peeve of all present wastalking during rehearsal. This was closely followed by foot tapping,especially when out of synch with the conductor, and chewing gum.Also scoring high marks for slowing the progress of a rehearsal isthe individual whose music is chronically out of order. The entiregroup must sit on their hands and wait.High on my personal list of unacceptable rehearsal conduct is thatof members answering questions directed to the conductor. Theseindividuals seem to presume that they are better qualified than theconductor to answer another member’s question. In one instance inmy experience, I had no fewer than five such responses to my questionwhich drowned out the answer of the conductor. Since sarcasmis one service I am wont to provide with little provocation, I respondedwith. “In case you hadn’t noticed, my question was directedto the director of music; I would like to be able to hear his response.”Needless to say that was not well received by my selfappointedbenefactors.So much for rehearsal conduct; what about the decorum of performerswhile on stage? One of my most vivid recollections is of aperformance at the old grandstand at the CNE. All of us were appropriatelyattired in our black “gig suits” and white shirts. Alas, onemember, clearly visible from the audience, had decided that brightorange socks would be just fine. Others in the group had a differentopinion.I am a firm believer that people listen with their eyes as well astheir ears. Visual distractions can colour one’s perceptions of a performancequite significantly. Whether it’s the facial expressions ofthe soprano, awaiting her entry, grimacing with every change inmood of the work, or of the tenor badly in need of a new vest, havingoutgrown the old one. At a recent Easter season performance ofa major choral work which I attended, all soloists were providedwith bottles of water which they consumed periodically during theperformance. In my mind, if they are going to so blatantly advertiseone particular brand of bottled water, perhaps they should ask thebottler to act as a sponsor in return for their strong testimonial. Onseeing one or more soloists tipping up bottles during more solemnmoments, I half expected a commercial announcement stating “thiscrucifixion is sponsored by the ABC water company.”Andrew Chung, ConductorSymphonicSketchesSunday, June 7, 20092:30 p.m.Church of St. Mary Magdalene477 Manning St., TorontoTickets: $15$10 Seniors/StudentsFree for Children 12 and underTickets available at the DoorFor me, the crowning distractionduring a concert performancetook place about a year ago. Inthe midst of a major number onthe programme, a member of thegroup sitting in front of mepicked up a cell phone and begantext-messaging while on stageduring a performance. It’s truethat he had a few bars rest, but itwasn’t easy for those of behindthe culprit to remain focused onthe music we were playing.Coming Events - Please see thelistings section for full detailsSunday, May 3, 10:45 am, theMetropolitan Silver Band 75thAnniversaryFriday, May 8, 8:00 pm, theEtobicoke Community ConcertBand, ConcertSaturday, May 9, 7:30 pm, theNorthdale Concert Band, ConcertPlease write to us:bandstand@thewholenote.comBEAT BY BEAT: ON OPERAby Christopher HoileBeyond the shadow of a doubtThe undoubted operatic highlight of May is the world premiere ofthe The Shadow by Omar Daniel to a libretto by Alex Poch-Goldin.The work is presented by Tapestry New Opera Works and featuresbaritone Theodore Baerg, counter-tenorScott Belluz, soprano Carla Huhtanen, tenorKeith Klassen and baritone PeterMcGillivray.The story concerns Raoul (McGillivray) asimple mailman who fantasizes aboutmarrying the beautiful Allegra (Huhtanen), thedaughter of a wealthy gentleman on his route.In his daydreams, he becomes “Hernando,” adashing figure of the night, who tells Allegrathat he is a wealthy merchant. With “help”from the local Don (Baerg), Raoul succeedsin his transformation and successfully woosthe beautiful Allegra. But when Raoul can’tpayback the Don, the mysterious Shadow(Belluz) begins to follow him. The theme ofliving beyond one’s means on borrowedmoney could hardly be more relevant.Via e-mail correspondence the composerand librettist helped shed light on thegenesis and nature of the project. Wellknownactor and playwright Poch-Goldinwrote the original story inspired by an articlehe read about the Mafia in turn-of-thecentury Barcelona.Alex Poch-Goldin (above)& Omar Daniel“For those who owed money to the Mafia,” explains Poch-Goldin,“instead of sending someone out to break your legs, theywould send out a ‘Shadow’ to find you. The Shadow wouldsuddenly appear, dressed handsomely in tails and a top hat, anddeclare to anyone in the street that you owed money, had welchedon your payment and were a worthless person because of it. TheShadow would declare you publicly untrustworthy and destroy yourreputation. He would follow you around, hounding you until youTORONTO’S PREMIERE MUSICAL THEATRE presentsA MUSICAL ABOUT MUSICALSand the backstage story of A CHORUS LINEFAIRVIEW LIBRARY THEATRE35 Fairview Mall Dr., Sheppard/Don Mills.May 27 to June 13 TICKETS $20 to $27.5020 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COMMAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009

epaid the debt. The humiliation would grow so intense that youwould do anything to pay it back. It sounded pretty horrific. Ithought throw in a little romance, some betrayal and a bit of greedand it would make great opera.”Poch-Goldin’s story is rich in implications. At work in Barcelonaat the time was fantastic Art Nouveau architect Antonio Gaudí(1852-1926), whose buildings both incorporate animal-like structureand seem to be caught in the midst of dissolving. Poch-Goldin saysthat this weirdness seems to reflect Raoul’s state of mind. The storyalso plays with duplicity both real and metaphorical. The “Shadow”as a concept has strong links to Jungian psychology, as the darkside of the self. He is “the person who we wish to be, that resideswithin us, slipping out and wreaking havoc, the dream destroyingthe waking life. And while the Shadow is an actual figure in the operato me, there is a case to be made that he is a figment of Raoul’simagination.”To capture these ideas, Daniel, Associate Professor of music theoryand composition at the University of Western Ontario, says thathe wanted to create an “expressionistic musical world,” one that depictsthe world as viewed or distorted by the mind of an individual.Daniel says that he took his favourite opera, Alban Berg’s Wozzeck(1925), as his model. He notes, “I wanted to avoid what I considera pitfall of modern opera: endless speech-like vocal lines. I was determinedto create real ‘songs’ for the performers, along with recitativesto advance the plot.”Daniel credits the idea for using a counter-tenor to play theShadow to conductor Wayne Strongman and director Tom Diamond.There is a “subliminal” influenceof Spanish music appropriate tothe setting, but, “overall there isan ornate, somewhat baroqueenergy, along with rich andcomplex harmonies that characterizethe musical language(reflective of Gaudianarchitecture).” At the same time,he “wanted to temper the dense,complex nature of Expressionismwith representations of the worldoutside the characters” withmusical forms (e.g., the bolero)more familiar to the listener.Though it is a chamber opera,Daniel wanted “as muchinstrumental colour and pitch rangeas possible.” The orchestra iscomposed of trumpet, violin, cello,clarinet, bass clarinet, piano, organand “lots of percussion notnecessarily for volume, but forcolour.” Performances take place atthe Berkeley Street TheatreDownstairs from May 21-30.Phone 416-368-3110 for tickets orvisit www.tapestrynewopera.com.Meanwhile, we should notethat from May 5 to 23 the COCis presenting its first mainstageproduction of Britten’s AMidsummer Night’s Dream(1960). Also, Opera by Request,www. operabyrequest.ca), theonly Toronto company where thesingers choose the repertoire, willpresent concert versions of tworarities: Mozart’s La Clemenza diTito (1791) on May 23 andBellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi(1830) on May 27, bothconducted by William Shookhoffat College Street United Church.ALL THE KING’S VOICES 17AMADEUS CHOIR 44AMICI 11,27AMOROSO 44ART OF TIME ENSEMBLE 32ASSOCIATES OF THE TSO 32ATMA 5BACH CHILDREN’S CHORUS 26BLOOR CINEMA 54BLUE BRIDGE FESTIVAL 37CANADIAN CHILDREN’S OPERA COMPANY 7,43CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 12CANCLONE SERVICES 47CATHEDRAL BLUFFS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 34CHRIST CHURCH DEER PARK JAZZ VESPERS 17CHRISTINA PETROWSKA QUILICO 28CHURCH OF ST. MARY MAGDALENE 35CHURCH OF ST. STEPHEN (DOWNSVIEW) 34CIVIC LIGHT OPERA 21CLASSICAL 96.3FM 55COSMO MUSIC 19COUNTERPOINT COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA 34DIANA MACINTOSH 29DUANE ANDREWS 24EARWITNESS PRODUCTIONS 34EAST YORK CHOIR 37ELMER ISELER SINGERS 24ENSEMBLE TRYPTYCH 33ETOBICOKE YOUTH CHOIR 45EXULTATE SINGERS 29FIRST UNITARIAN CONGREGATION 37GALLERY PLAYERS OF NIAGARA 51 INDEX OF ADVERTISERSGEORG HEINL 16HAMILTON CHILDREN’S CHOIR 42HARKNETT MUSICAL SERVICES 19HARMONY SINGERS 33HELICONIAN HALL 45HIGH PARK CHOIRS 31JUBILATE SINGERS 36,41KINDRED SPIRITS ORCHESTRA 43LONG & MCQUADE 19MASON AND HAMLIN 11MONTREAL BAROQUE FESTIVAL 10MUSIC AT SHARON 16MUSICA ST. JAMES 39MUSIC GALLERY 33MUSIC ON THE HILL 28MUSIC TORONTO 9NATHANIEL DETT CHORALE 7NATIONAL JAZZ AWARDS 18NEW ADVENTURES IN SOUND ART 22NORTH YORK CONCERT BAND 34NORTH YORK CONCERT ORCHESTRA 36OAKVILLE CHILDREN’S CHOIR 30OPERA BY REQUEST 20,30OPERA-IS 54ORCHESTRA TORONTO 32ORCHESTRAS MISSISSAUGA 16ORGANIX 4ORIANA WOMEN’S CHOIR 26ORPHEUS CHOIR 26OXFORD CHURCH MUSIC 17PASQUALE BROS. 47PAX CHRISTI CHORALE 17 TOM DIAMONDWAYNE STRONGMANCAMELLIA KOOROBERT THOMSONCARLA HUHTANENPETER MCGILLIVRAYSCOTT BELLUZKEITH KLASSENand THEODORE BAERG PETER MAHON 19PHILHARMONIC MUSIC LTD. 45RCCO 4RCM 42REMENYI 15SAINT BLAISE 30SILVERTHORN SYMPHONIC WINDS 20SINFONIA TORONTO 13,25SOUND POST 16SOUNDSTREAMS 56ST OLAVE’S CHURCH 37ST. JAMES CATHEDRAL 30ST. MARK’S PRESBYTERIAN 44TAFELMUSIK 2TALLIS CHOIR 27TAPESTRY NEW OPERA 21TORONTO ALL-STAR BIG BAND 19TORONTO CHILDREN’S CHORUS 37,41TORONTO CHORAL SOCIETY 31TORONTO CLASSICAL SINGERS 23TORONTO JEWISH FOLK CHOIR 35TORONTO OPERA REPERTOIRE 44TORONTO SINFONIETTA 43TORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 3VIA SALZBURG 36VICTORIA SCHOLARS 37VILLAGE VOICES 30VIVA! YOUTH SINGERS 31WALLY HAUPT TRAVEL MARKETING INC. 43WENDY LIMBERTIE 45WINDERMERE QUARTET 27WOMEN’S MUSICAL CLUB 14MAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COM21PHOTOS (L–R) CARLA HUHTANEN, PETER MCGILLIVRAY,SCOTT BELLUZ, KEITH KLASSEN AND THEODORE BAERGGRAPHIC DESIGN ROSSIGNOL & ASSOCIATES

WHOLENOTE LISTINGSSECTIONS 1-4: INTRODUCTIONSECTIONS 1-4: INTRODUCTIONWholeNote listings are arranged in four distinct sections:1) Concerts in Toronto & GTA (Greater Toronto Area)(page 22-37)2) Concerts Beyond the GTA (page 38-39)3) Jazz in Clubs (page 40-41)4) Announcements ... EtCetera (page 41-44)SECTION 1: Toronto & GTA covers all of the City of Torontoplus Halton, Peel, York and Durham regions.SECTION 2: Beyond the GTA covers many areas of SouthernOntario, outside Toronto and the GTA. (Zones 1, 2, 3, and 4on the map below.)There is a colour version of this map on our website atwww.thewholenote.com, showing the boundaries betweenzones. On the website, all listings can be searched by zoneas well as by musical genre.67325481City of TorontoLISTINGS: SECTION 1CONCERTS: Toronto and GTANote: Music theatre productions with extendedruns appear in the daily listings only ontheir first performance of the month. Subsequentperformance dates appear at the end ofthat primary listing. For show times, call thephone number given in the listings.Listings for the following extended runproductions may be found on the dates below:Anne of Green Gables: May 7Jersey Boys: May 1Riverdance: May 19Sunday in the Park with George: May 1(Beyond GTA)The Sound of Music: May 1We Will Rock You: May 1West Side Story: May 2 (Beyond GTA)Friday May 01— 10:00am to 8:30pm: York UniversityDepartment of Music. World Music Festival.Gareth and Lindy Burgess’ Caribbean Ensemble;Catherine Wilson’s African-AmericanPiano Players; Kim Chow-Morris’ ChineseOrchestra; Charles Hong’s Korean Drum Ensemble,Linda Caplan’s Japanese Ensemble;and others. Martin Family Lounge, Room 219and Room 235 Accolade East Building, YU,4700 Keele St. 416-736-2100 x22926.Free.— 7:00: Mirvish Productions. Dora theExplorer. Canon Theatre, 244 Victoria St.416-872-1212. $26-$55. Also May 2 and 3.— 7:00: Randolph Young Company.Schoolhouse Rock Live. Ahrens, Dorough,Frishberg, Mandry, Newall and Yohe. Basedon the educational cartoon series. BathurstStreet Theatre, 736 Bathurst St. 416-872-1111. $20. Also May 2, 3, 8, 9, 10.— 7:00: Studio Recital of Derrick Lewis& Meri Dolevski-Lewis. Stars and Planets.Oriole-York Mills United Church, 2609 BayviewAve. 647-238-2921. Free.— 7:30: Mirvish Productions. The Sound ofMusic. Rodgers & Hammerstein. Princess ofWales Theatre, 300 King St. W. 416-872-1212. $26-$100. Also May 2, 3, 6-10, 13-17, 19-24, 26-31, June 2-7 and beyond.— 7:30: Oakville Choral Society. Favouritesfrom Bach to Broadway. Corinne Lynch,Bernie Lynch and Laura Schatz, soloists; chamberorchestra; J. Bev Stainton, artistic director;Anne Marie Leonard, accompanist. GlenAbbey United Church, 1469 Nottinghill Gate,Oakville. 905-845-5359. $22; $10(child).— 7:30: Opera Atelier. The Coronation ofPoppea. Monteverdi. Peggy Kriha-Dye, soprano(Poppea); Michael Maniaci, male soprano(Nero); Kimberly Barber, mezzo (Ottavia); JoãoFernandes, bass (Ottone); Olivier Laquerre,bass-baritone (Seneca); Carla Huhtanen, soprano(Drusilla); and others; Tafelmusik BaroqueOrchestra; Marshall Pynkoski, director;David Fallis, conductor. Elgin Theatre, 189Yonge St. 416-872-5555. $30-$135;$20(st). Also May 2.— 7:30: Organix 09. Opening Festival Concert:Dame Gillian Weir, organ. Works byBach, Scarlatti, Brahms, Hindemith, Mulet,Slonimsky and Mushel. Church of the HolyTrinity, 10 Trinity Sq. 416-241-9785. $25;SECTION 3: Jazz in Clubs is organized alphabetically by club.SECTION 4: Announcements ... EtCetera is for lectures,symposia, master classes and other music-related events(except performances) that may be of interest to our readers.A general word of caution: a phone number is provided withevery WholeNote listing – in fact, we won’t publish a listingwithout one. Concerts are sometimes cancelled orpostponed; and artists or venues may change after listingsare published. Please check before you go out to a concert.How to ListListings in the WholeNote in the four sections above are afree service available, in our discretion, to eligible presenters.If you have an event, send us your information no laterthan the 15th of the month prior to the issue or issues inwhich your listing is eligible to appear. Please note, the nextissue covers the period from June 1-July 7, 2009, so listingsmust be received by May 15.Listings can be sent by e-mail to listings@thewholenote.comor by fax to 416-603-4791 or by regular mail to the address onpage 6. We do not receive listings by phone, but you can call416-323-2232 x27 for further information on listings.May Installations by John Gzowski/Camellia Koo @ the Loop Studio& Kevin T. Allen @ the Gladstone HotelMay 8 & 10 @ 8 PM Feedback Fred & Audio Ballerinaperformances @ the Loop StudioMay 22 - 28 i dont want to be an inside me anymoresolo theatre work @ the Loop StudioMay 28 - 30 Radio Without Boundaries Conferencefor radio & sound artists, producers & enthusiasts@ the LOOP Centre22 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COMMAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009

$20(sr/st). Inaugural concert of Casavant Opus3095.— 7:30: Oshawa Durham Symphony Orchestra.Around the World with Disney.Scores from Disney films, with screenings.Marco Parisotto, conductor. P.C.Ho Theatre,5183 Sheppard Ave. E., Scarborough. 905-579-6711. $40; $15(st).— 7:30: Upper Canada Choristers. Heartof Peace. Jenkins: The Armed Man – A Massfor Peace; Fraser: Heart of Peace; and Latin-American songs. With orchestra and videoprojections; guests: Allenby Junior PublicSchool Choir; Cantemos; Laurie Evan Fraser,conductor. Grace Church on-the-Hill, 300 LonsdaleRd. 416-256-0510. $25; $20(advance);free(under 12).— 8:00: All The King’s Voices. 15th AnniversaryGala Cabaret. Celtic, Canadian, G&S,musical theatre and jazz. David J. King, conductor;guests: St. Joseph’s Morrow ParkH.S. Senior Jazz Ensemble; Daniel Godin,conductor; Ian McIntosh, piper. Toronto BotanicalGardens, 777 Lawrence Ave. E. 416-225-2255. $30. Refreshments, prizes and silentauction. SOLD OUT.— 8:00: DanCap Productions. Jersey Boys.Gaudio & Crewe. Eric Bates (Tommy deVito),Joseph Leo Bwarie (Frankie Valli), AndrewRannells (Bob Gaudio), Steve Gouveia (NickMassi), and others; Des McAnuff, director;Sergio Trujillo, choreographer. Toronto Centrefor the Arts, 5040 Yonge St. 416-872-1111.$55-$125. Also May 2, 3, 5-10, 12-17, 19-24, 26-31, June 2-7 and beyond.— 8:00: DanceWorks. Harbourfront Next-Steps Series. Jenn Goodwin: Accidents forEvery Occasion; Susie Burpee: Mischance andFair Fortune. Enwave Theatre, 231 QueensQuay W. 416-973-4000. $28; $19(sr/st).Also May 2.— 8:00: Esprit Orchestra. Demon. Harman:Harp Concerto; Ishii: Saidoki; Corigliano: ThreeHallucinations; Schmidt: new music for choraleand orchestra. Erica Goodman, harp; RyanScott, percussion; Nathaniel Dett Chorale;Alex Pauk, Brainerd Blyden-Taylor, conductors.Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front St. E. 416-366-7723. $32; $24(sr); $15(st). 7:15: Preconcertchat.— 8:00: Massey Hall & Roy ThomsonHall. Diana Krall: Quiet Nights World Tour.Jazz vocalist/pianist with 45-piece orchestra.Massey Hall, 15 Shuter St. 416-872-4255.$77-$127.— 8:00: Massey Hall & Roy ThomsonHall. Michael Kaeshammer. Jazz pianist andvocalist. Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St. W.416-872-4255. $49.50 (price includes upcomingCD). Also May 2.— 8:00: Michel Berube. In Concert. Guests:Kathryn Rose, Marla Walters, vocals; JamieOakes, guitar; Orrin Isaacs, bass; Mark Lalama,piano; Davide Direnzo, drums. FleckDance Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, 209Queen’s Quay W. 416-973-4000. $27.50;$22.50(sr/st).— 8:00: Mirvish Productions. We WillRock You. Music of Queen. Panasonic Theatre,651 Yonge St. 416-872-1212. $25-$85. AlsoMay 2, 3, 5-10, 12-17, 19-24, 26-31, June 2-7 and beyond.— 8:00: Scarborough Music Theatre.Sondheim: Merrily We Roll Along. 3600 KingstonRd. 416-396-4049. $24; $20(sr/st).Also May 2, 3, 7-10 14-16.— 8:00: Sine Nomine Ensemble for MedievalMusic. The wounde of wilfulle longynge:Music for the medieval English mystics. SaintThomas’s Anglican Church, 383 Huron St.416-638-9445. $18; $12 (st/sr/unwaged).— 8:00: Spotlight Musical Productions.A Grand Night for Singing. Fairview LibraryTheatre, 35 Fairview Mall Dr. 416-221-3904. $20. Also May 2.— 8:30: Living Arts Centre Mississauga.Glen Woodcock Celebrates the Big Bands.Swing Shift Big Band. 4141 Living Arts Dr.,Mississauga. 905-306-6000. $25 and up.Saturday May 02— 11:00am, 2:00 & 5:00: Mirvish Productions.Dora the Explorer. See May 1.— 1:30 & 3:30: Toronto Symphony YouthOrchestra. Symphony and Dance. Stravinsky:Petrouchka (excerpts). Guests: Ballet Creole;Alain Trudel, conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60Simcoe St. 416-593-4828. $18-$28. 1:00 &3:00: pre-concert performances.— 2:00 & 7:00: Randolph Young Company.Schoolhouse Rock Live. See May 01.— 3:00: Wexford Heights United Church.Concert With A Cause. Wexford Heights ChancelChoir; Andre Rakus, director; William Turnbull,accompanist; Chancel Choir of TrinityUnited Church Peterborough; Robert Grandy,director. 2102 Lawrence Ave. E. 416-757-0676. $12; $10(sr/st); free(children 12 andunder).— 4:30: Beach United Church. Jazz Vespers.Joe Sealy, piano; Paul Novotny, bass.2000 Queen St. E. 416-691-8082. Freewilloffering.— 7:00: Etobicoke School of the Arts.Jazz Night at Assembly Hall. Guests: JAZZ-FM91 Youth Band. 1 Colonel Samuel SmithPark Dr. 416-394-6910 X5. $15; $12(sr/st).— 7:00: Jacob Lakirovich, Larisa &Vladimir Niurenberg. Spring in Bloom.Violin and piano music. Chinese Gospel Church,2610 Birchmount Rd. 416-735-7499. $20.— 7:30. Etobicoke Youth Choir. Enter withSinging. Westway United Church, 8 TemplarDr. 416-231-9120. $10; free(under 12).— 7:30: Amadeus Choir. Sing Sea to Sea.Works by Glick, Willcocks, Cable, Rutter,Schutz and Gabrieli. Lydia Adams, artisticdirector; guests: True North Brass; 100 highschool students. Yorkminster Park BaptistChurch, 1585 Yonge St. 416-446-0188. $35.— 7:30: Oakham House Choir of RyersonUniversity. The Creation. Haydn. Katie Murphy,soprano; Stuart Howe, tenor; AndrewTees, baritone; Matthew Jaskiewicz, musicdirector. Bloor Street United Church, 300Bloor St. W. 416-214-0183 x13. $25;$20(advance); $15(st).— 7:30: Oakville Choral Society. Favouritesfrom Bach to Broadway. See May 1.— 7:30: Opera Atelier. The Coronation ofPoppea. See May 1.— 7:30: Toronto Children’s Chorus. TheMagic of Music. Programme includes Luftspring:The Choristers; also Canadian andMaori music. Toronto Centre for the Arts,5040 Yonge St. 416-872-1111. $40; $32(sr/st).— 8:00: Bell’Arte Singers. The Three Ls:Love, Lust and Longing. Christ Church DeerPark, 1570 Yonge St. 416-699-5879. $20;$15.— 8:00: Brampton Symphony Orchestra.Mozart’s Greatest Hits. Mozart: Requiem andother works. Robert Raines, conductor. RoseTheatre, 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. 905-874-2800. $50; $40(sr/st); $20 (children under12).— 8:00: DanceWorks. See May 1.— 8:00: Massey Hall & Roy ThomsonHall. Michael Kaeshammer. See May 1.— 8:00: Michel Berube. In Concert. SeeMay 1.— 8:00: Mississauga Festival Choir.Sounds of Celebration. Programme includesnew work by Dolloff. RBC Theatre, Living ArtsCentre, 4141 Living Arts Dr., Mississauga.905-306-6000. $25; $23 (sr/st); $12 (child12 and under).— 8:00: Music Gallery. Gilliam: Poemsfrom a Love Triangle. Gregory Oh, piano; MarionNewman, mezzo; Declan Whelehan, actor.197 John St. 416-204-1080. $20; $15(sr/st).— 8:00: Musicians in Ordinary. The Infinityof Love: Music of the Courtesans of 15thand16th-Century Italy. Hallie Fishel, soprano/lira da braccio; John Edwards, lute. HeliconianHall, 35 Hazelton Ave. 416-535-9956. $15-$20.— 8:00: Newchoir. Liftin’ Ya Higher. Costelloto Radiohead with a choral twist. Ian Crowley,musical director; Newchoir and the NewchoirBand. Ryerson Theatre, 43 Gerrard St. E.416-939-7170. $20.— 8:00: Royal Conservatory of Music.Rising Stars Series: Academy Symphony Orchestra.Music by Schubert, Handel, Ryan,Beethoven, Vivaldi and Piazzolla. MazzoleniHall, 273 Bloor St. W. 416-408-2824 x321.Free.— 8:00: Scarborough Music Theatre.Merrily We Roll Along. See May 1.— 8:00: Spotlight Musical Productions.See May 1.— 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra/Massey Hall & Roy Thomson Hall. VancouverSymphony Orchestra. Debussy:Prélude à l’apres-midi d’un faune; Ryan: TheLinearity of Light; Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody ona Theme of Paganini; Shostakovich: SymphonyNo.5. Avan Yu, piano; Bramwell Tovey, conductor.Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St.416-593-4828. $37-$125.Sunday May 03— 4:30am: New Adventures in SoundArt. Deep Wireless: International Dawn ChorusDay Celebration. A chorus of sound initiatedby birds at sunrise. Lakefront PromenadePark, 800 Lakefront Promenade, Mississauga.416-652-5115. Free.— 11:00am, 2:00pm & 5:00pm: MirvishProductions. Dora the Explorer. See May 1.— 11:00am & 3:00pm: Randolph YoungCompany. Schoolhouse Rock Live. See May1.— 1:30: CAMMAC/McMichael Gallery.Taffanel Wind Ensemble. Classical trio offlute, clarinet and bassoon. 10365 IslingtonAve., Kleinburg. 905-893-1121. $15; $9(sr/st).— 2:00: Canadian Opera Company. SimonBoccanegra. Verdi. Paolo Gavanelli, baritone(Simon); Tamara Wilson, soprano (Amelia);Mikhail Agafanov, tenor (Gabrielle); PhillipEns, bass (Fiesco); Daniel Sutin , baritone (Paolo);and others; COC Orchestra and Chorus; IanJudge, director; Marco Guidarini, conductor.Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts,145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. $65-$315.Also May 7.— 2:00: Off Centre Music Salon. GermanSpanish Salon: The Nightingale’s Flight fromSouth to North. Music from Granados toBrahms. Monica Whicher, Lucia Cesaroni,sopranos; Russell Braun, baritone; CarolynMaule, Inna Perkis, Boris Zarankin, piano.Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St. W. 416-872-4255. $50; $40(sr/st).— 2:00: Royal York Road United Church.Jazz at Royal York: Tribute to Hoagy Carmichael.Joe Sealy Quartet. 851 Royal YorkRd. 416-231-9401. $20; $17(sr/st).— 2:00: Scarborough Music Theatre.Merrily We Roll Along. See May 1.— 2:00: Trio Bravo. Concert No.3. Schumann:Fairy-Tale Pictures; Mozart: Sonata ine; Selleck: Three Piano Preludes; Bruch: DoubleConcerto for Clarinet and Viola. All SaintsKingsway Anglican Church, 2850 Bloor St. W.416-242-2131. $20; $15(sr/st).— 2:30: Alicier Arts Chamber Music.Gypsy Airs. Bartok: Hungarian Folksongs forflute and piano; Haydn: “Gypsy” Trio; Fedrigo:new commissioned work. Mirobolus jazzstring trio; Phoebe Tsang, violin; AleksandarGajic, violin and viola; Stephanie Chua, piano;Kimberley Schemeit, flute; Bret Higgins, bass;and others. St. George’s on-the-Hill AnglicanChurch, 4600 Dundas St. W. 416-731-3599.$20; $18(sr/st); $15 (adv).— 3:00: Markham Concert Band. Heroesand Villains. Music from Lord of the Rings,also film music by Williams. Doug Manning,artistic director. Markham Theatre, 171Town Centre Blvd., Markham. 905-305-7469.$20.50; $15.50(sr/st).Toronto Classical SingersSunday May 3, 20094:00 P MBrahmsA German RequiemChrist Church Deer Park1570 Yonge St.(at Heath St. W)ConductorJurgen PetrenkoSoloistsMarion Samuel-StevensSopranoBruce KellyBaritoneAccompanied byThe Talisker Players OrchestraTicketsAdult: $25Student/Seniors: $20On Line: www.totix.caT: 416-433-1490www.torontoclassicalsingers.orgMAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COM23

... 1: CONCERTS: Toronto and GTA— 3:00: Mississauga Choral Society.Creation: A Jazz Oratorio. Mott. Also Winter:Missa Gaia. David Mott, baritone sax; MikeDownes, bass; Anthony Michelli, percussion;Andrew Craig piano; Kathryn Domoney, soprano;Adi Braun, mezzo; Martin Houtman,tenor; Giles Tomkins, baritone; Mervin Fick,conductor. Hammerson Hall, Living Arts Centre,4141 Living Arts Dr. 905-306-6000.$25; $20(sr); $15(st).— 3:00: Symphony Hamilton. Spring Spectacular.Fawcett: Shining Water (Macassa);Beethoven: Triple Concerto; Schumann: SymphonyNo.1 “Spring”. Guests: Corey Gemmell,violin; Tom Mueller, cello; Kathryn Tremills,piano; James McKay, conductor. Royal BotanicalGardens, 680 Plains Rd. W., Burlington.905-526-6690. $28; $25(advance); $15(sr/st); $12(sr/st advance); $5(child).— 3:00: Syrinx Sunday Salons. Piano,Violin and Cello. Beethoven: Sonata Op.27 No.2 “Moonlight”; Prévost: Violin Sonata;Brahms: Trio in B (Sextet Op. 18); Schumann:Fantasiestucke Op.73. Christian Prévost, violin;Alain Aubut, cello; Richard Raymond, piano.Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave. 416-654-0877. $20; $15(st).— 4:00: Etobicoke Music Festival. ChamberMusic by Wolfgang Bottenberg. Emily Sun,violin; Hanna Kim, viola; Mahsa Madahian,cello; Nadia Jacobchuk, piano. Kingsway BaptistChurch, 41 Birchview Blvd. 416-243-6340. $20.— 4:00: St. Anne’s Anglican Church. ChoralConcert. St. Anne’s Choir and Appleby CollegeChapel Choir. 270 Gladstone Ave. 416-922-4415. Freewill offering.— 4:00: Toronto Classical Singers. EinDeutsches Requiem. Brahms. Marion Samuel-Stevens, soprano; Bruce Kelly, baritone; TaliskerPlayers Orchestra; Jurgen Petrenko, conductor.Christ Church Deer Park, 1570 YongeSt. 416-443-1490. $25; $20(sr/st).— 7:00: Church of the Messiah. A Woman’sVoice. Niagara Vocal Ensemble; HarrisLoewen, conductor; guests: Church of theMessiah Choir; Church of the Redeemer Choir.240 Avenue Rd. 416-922-4371. $20; $15(sr/st).— 7:30: Ambiance Singers. No Bad News.Jazz standards, pop songs, gospel and Broadwaytunes. Danny McErlain, director; guest:Lenny Solomon, violin. Living Arts Centre,4141 Living Arts Dr., Mississauga. 905-306-6000. $12.50- $28. Net proceeds to PeelChildren’s Aid Society.— 7:30: Flying Cloud Folk Club. Ed Miller.Tranzac, 292 Brunswick Ave. 416-410-3655.$20; $18(sr/st).— 7:30: The Travellers. A Celebration ofthe Songs – The Life of Pete Seeger. LeahPosluns Theatre, 4588 Bathurst St. 905-731-1805. $40.— 9:00: Small World Music. Delhi 2 Dublin.Bhangra, Celtic and dub. Guests: Nawtiks.El Mocambo, 464 Spadina Ave. 416-588-0307. $15.Monday May 04— 10:30am: Toronto District SchoolBoard. Music Monday. Performances byelementary and secondary student ensembles.Dundas Square, 1 Dundas St. E. 416-394-7251.— 12:15: Organix 09. John Paul Farahat,organ. Works by Bach, Alain, Widor, Proulx,Daveluy. Church of the Holy Trinity, 10 TrinitySq. 416-241-9785. Free.— 7:00: Elmer Iseler Singers. Get Music!Songs of Springtime. Subscribers bonus concert.Participating choirs and conductors fromthe Get Music! Educational Outreach programme;Lydia Adams, conductor. MetropolitanUnited Church, 56 Queen St. E. 416-217-0537. $25(non-subscribers); $10(st); free tosubscribers.— 7:30: Canadian Opera Company. LaBohème. Puccini. Frédérique Vézina, soprano(Mimì); David Pomeroy, tenor (Rodolfo); AnnaLeese, soprano (Musetta); Peter Barrett, baritone(Marcello); Robert Gleadow, bass (Colline);and others; COC Orchestra and Chorus;Maer Gronsdal Powell, director; Julian Kovatchev/ Derek Bate, conductors. Four SeasonsCentre for the Performing Arts, 145Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. $65-$315.Also May 9, 12, 14, 17, 20, 22, 24.— 7:30: Peel District School Board. PeelMusic Showcase. Honour Ensembles fromGrades 3 to 12. Living Arts Centre, 4141Living Arts Dr. 905-306-6000.— 8:00: Music Gallery/Evergreen ClubContemporary Gamelan. Suites from thePast. Siddall: new suite (premiere); Sankaran:works (arr. Parsons). Guest: Trichy Sankaran,percussion.197 John St. 416-204-1080.$15; $10 (st/sr).— 8:00: Organix 09/Toronto Theatre OrganSociety. David Peckham, theatre organ.Pops and light classic favourites. Casa Loma,1 Austin Terrace. 416-499-6262. $21;$20(advance).Tuesday May 05— 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.Chamber Music Series: It Takes Two.Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op.12No.3; Schafer: duo for violin and piano. DuoConcertante. Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre,145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. Free.— 12:00 noon: Derek Macrae. ClassicalGuitarist. Spanish, flamenco, popular. RistoranteJulia, 312 Lakeshore Rd. E., Oakville.905-844-7401. Free.— 1:00: Cathedral Church of St . James.Music at Midday. Randy Mills, organ. 65Church St. 416-364-7865. Free.— 7:30: Canadian Opera Company. AMidsummer Night’s Dream. Britten. LawrenceZazzo, countertenor (Oberon); LauraClaycomb, soprano (Tytania); Wolfgang Holzmair,baritone (Demetrius ); Giselle Allan,soprano (Helena); Robert Gleadow, bass (Bottom);and others; Neil Armfield, director; AnneManson, conductor. Four Seasons Centre forthe Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. $65-$315. Also May 8, 10, 13,16, 19, 12, 23.— 7:30: Jubilee United Church. One HundredChoristers. 40 Underhill Dr. 416-447-6846. $10; $5(youth).— 7:30: York University Department ofMusic. Jazz Festival: Jazz Choirs. Mim Adamsand Bob Hamper, directors. Tribute CommunitiesRecital Hall, Accolade East, YU,4700 Keele St. 416-736-2100 x22926. Free.— 8:00: Irish Choral Society of Canada.Bringing it Home. Newman Centre, ThomasAquinas Chapel, 89 St. George St. 416-653-9102. $20; $15(sr/st); $10(child).— 8:00: Talisker Players ChamberMusic. Carmina Nova. Schafer: Minnelied- 24 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COMMAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009

er; Berio: Folk Songs; Rapoport:: The Ballad ofHenry Tyne (premiere). Guest: Norine Burgess,mezzo. Trinity St. Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St.W. 416-504-7529. $30; $20(sr); $10(st).— 8:15: York University Department ofMusic. Jazz Festival: Jazz Combos. FrankFalco, Mark Eisenman, Kevin Turcotte, directors.Martin Family Lounge, 219 AccoladeEast Building, YU, 4700 Keele St. 416-736-2100 x22926. Free.Wednesday May 06— 12:30: York University Department ofMusic. Jazz Festival: Vocal Ensemble. RichardWhiteman, director Martin Family Lounge ,219 Accolade East Building, YU, 4700 KeeleSt. 416-736-2100 x22926. Free.— 12:30: Yorkminster Park BaptistChurch. Noonhour Recital. Aaron James,organ. 1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167. Free.— 5:15: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. Vocal Recital. Works by Bach, Debussy,Massenet and Eatock. Justine Butkovich,soprano. Walter Hall, Edward JohnsonBuilding, 80 Queens’ Park. 416-978-3744.Free.— 5:30: Canadian Opera Company. ChamberMusic Series: Prokofiev String QuartetNo.2. Also Mozart: String Quartet K428. AyaMiyagawa, Bethany Bergman, violins; JoshuaGreenlaw, viola; Elspeth Poole, cello. RichardBradshaw Amphitheatre, 145 Queen St. W.416-363-8231. Free.— 6:00: Organix 09. Happy Birthday FelixMendelssohn! Sonatas by Mendelssohn. PeterBishop, Elisa Mangina, Mark Toews, organ.Church of the Redeemer, 162 Bloor St. W.416-241-9785. $10.— 7.30: Mozart Society. Milan Brunner,flute, and Marta Laurincova, piano. Works byBach, Mozart, Gluck. Unitarian Congregation175 St. Clair Ave. W. 416-201-3338. $20;free(members). Annual party to follow.— 7:30: Alexander Singers and Players.Yeomen of the Guard. Gilbert & Sullivan. YorkWoods Library Theatre, 1785 Finch Ave. W.416-324-1259. $25; $20(sr/st). Also May 7,8, 9 and 10.— 7:30: Living Arts Centre Mississauga.Bye Bye Birdie. Stewart & Strouse. 4141Living Arts Dr., Mississauga. 905-306-6000.$25 and up.— 7:30: York University Department ofMusic. Jazz Festival: Jazz Combos. ArtieRoth, Mike Malone and Kelly Jefferson, directors.Martin Family Lounge , 219 AccoladeEast Building, YU, 4700 Keele St. 416-736-2100 x22926. Free.— 8:00: NextSteps. CanAsian InternationalDance Festival. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207Queen’s Quay W. 416-973-4000. $25-$30.Also May 7-9.— 8:00: Talisker Players Chamber Music.Carmina Nova. See May 5.Thursday May 07— 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.World Music Series: Introduction to SouthIndian Violin. An exploration of the techniqueand culture of Carnatic violin. Subhadra Vijaykumar,violin. Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre,145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. Free.— 12:15: Metropolitan United Church.Noon at the Met. Sarah Svendsen organ. 56Queen St. E. 416-363-0331. Free.— 12:15: Sophie Millman. Lunchtime concert.Jazz vocalist. Waterfall Stage, First CanadianPlace, 100 King St. W. 905-278-8883x234. Free.— 12:30: York University Department ofMusic. Jazz Festival: Vocal Ensemble. FrankFalco, director. Martin Family Lounge , 219Accolade East Building, YU, 4700 Keele St.416-736-2100 x22926. Free.— 7:30: Alexander Singers and Players.Yeomen of the Guard. See May 6.— 7:30: Canadian Opera Company. SimonBoccanegra. See May 3.— 7:30: Dancap Productions. Anne ofGreen Gables. Campbell & Harron. Elgin Theatre,189 Yonge St. 416-872-1111. $25-$70.Also May 8-10, 13-17, 19-24.— 7:30: Nancy White & Bob Johnston.Flashlight Radio. Benefit concert in aid ofProject Harvest. The Church of the Holy Trinity,10Trinity Square. 416-487-5008. $20;$10(st/unwaged).— 7:30: York University Department ofMusic. Jazz Festival: Jazz Combos. MarkEisenman, Lorne Lofsky, Roy Patterson, KevinTurcotte, directors. Martin Family Lounge,219 Accolade East Building, YU, 4700 KeeleSt. 416-736-2100 x22926. Free.— 8:00: Music Gallery/Abient Editions.Experimental Electronic Music. FranciscoLopez and Joda Clément. 197 John St. 416-204-1080. $15; $10(st/sr).— 8:00: New Adventures in Sound Art.Deep Wireless: Quasimodo the Great Lover.Music by Lucier. NAISA Space, ArtscapeWychwood Barns, 601 Christie St. No.252.416-652-5115. $10; $5(st).— 8:00: NextSteps. CanAsian InternationalDance Festival. See May 6.— 8:00: Scarborough Music Theatre.Merrily We Roll Along. See May 1.— 8:00: Toronto Philharmonia. PucciniGala. Guests: Lucia Cesaroni, soprano;Michael Toby, tenor; Kerry Stratton, conductor.George Weston Recital Hall, Toronto Centrefor the Arts, 5040 Yonge St. 416-872-1111. $29-$59; $25-$59(st); $25-$49(sr).Friday May 08— 7:00: Randolph Young Company.Schoolhouse Rock Live. See May 01.— 7:00: Timothy Eaton MemorialChurch. Sing Out! Music from The Sound ofMusic, and Beauty and the Beast. TimothyEaton Memorial Church Choir School; MartySmyth, music director and pianist. 230 St.Clair Ave. W. 416-925-5977. $20; $15(sr/child). Light refreshments, cash bar and silentauction.— 7:30 York University Department ofMusic. Jazz Festival: Jazz Orchestra. AlHenderson, Mike Cadó, directors. TributeCommunities Recital Hall, Accolade East, YU,4700 Keele St. 416-736-2100 x22926. Free.— 7:30: Alexander Singers and Players.Yeomen of the Guard. See May 6.— 7:30: Canadian Opera Company. AMidsummer Night’s Dream. See May 5.— 7:30: Eglinton St. George’s UnitedChurch. For Peace and Remembrance. Duruflé:Requiem; Jenkins: The Armed Man – AMass for Peace. Eglinton St. George’s Choirwith Orchestra. 35 Lytton Blvd. 416-481-1141 x250. $20. 7:00: Pre- concert chatwith Rick Phillips.— 7:30: Sharon Hope United Church. Livein Recital. Kyle Merrithew, baritone. 18648Leslie St., Sharon. 905-895-8160. $15— 8:00: County Town Singers. Steppin’Outta the Box. 2009 Spring Show. Guest: DanClancy, vocalist; Barbara Ouellette, musicdirector; Natalia Kolecz, accompanist. LVIVHall, 38 LVIV Blvd., Oshawa. 905-668-5469.$15; $12(sr/st)— 8:00: Etobicoke Community ConcertBand. Swing Into Spring. Big band classics.Heather Bambrick, jazz vocalist. EtobicokeCollegiate Auditorium, 86 Montgomery Rd.416-410-1570. $18; $15(sr); $5(st);free(kids).— 8:00: New Adventures in Sound Art.Deep Wireless: Feedback Fred and Audio Ballerina.Benoît Maubrey and Marie-Josée Chartier,performers. The Loop Studio Centre forLively Arts, Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601Christie St. No.170. 416-652-5115. $15;$10(st).— 8:00: NextSteps. CanAsian InternationalDance Festival. See May 6.— 8:00: Rose Theatre. Arlo Guthrie in Concert.1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. 905-874-2800. $55-$70.— 8:00: Scarborough Music Theatre.Merrily We Roll Along. See May 1.— 8:00: Sinfonia Toronto. Nostalgia.Schmidt: Serenade; Kreisler: Tango; Syncopations;Spanish Dance; La Vida Breve; Le Gitane;Mozart: The Hunt, K 458 (arr. for stringorchestra); Dvorak: Slavonic Dances Nos. 10and 15. Alexandre Da Costa, violin; NurhanArman, conductor. Grace Church on-the-Hill,300 Lonsdale Rd. 416-499-0403. $40,$32(sr), $12(16-29/st).Saturday May 09— 1:30 & 7:30: The Entertainers. Generationsof Harmony. Barbershop chorus and quartets.Guests: Oakville Children’s Choir; Shaken,Not Stirred, Quartet. Glen Abbey UnitedChurch, 1469 Nottinghill Gate, Oakville. 905-847-8220. $20; $10(child under 12).— 2:00 & 7:30: Alexander Singers andPlayers. Yeomen of the Guard. See May 6.— 2:00 & 7:00: Randolph Young Company.Schoolhouse Rock Live. See May 1.— 2:00 & 8:00: Singing OUT! Gay andLesbian Chorus of Toronto. In Bloom. RiverdalePresbyterian Church, 662 Pape Ave.416-579-9012. $25; $20(advance); $15(sr/st).— 4:30: Canadian Opera Company. LaBohème. See May 4.— 7:00: African Relief Committee ofHoly Rosary Church. Music to Lift yourSpirit. Neema Bickersteth and George Fung.354 St. Clair W. 416 923-8471. $ 20.— 7:00: Mississauga Pops Concert Band.Symphonic Dances. Bernstein: selections fromWest Side Story; Khatchaturian: Sabre Dance;and other works. Meadowvale Theatre, 6315Montevideo Road, Mississauga. 905-338-5768. $20; $18(sr); $12(st).— 7:00: Toronto Swedish Singers. Skönamaj! Spring Concert. Works by Grieg Bellman,Sibelius, Taube, Wahlberg and Swedish folkmusic. Brigitte Bogar, Lindsay Isaac, soprano;Tak Kwan, violin; Juha Tikkanen, piano/organ.Agricola Finnish Lutheran Church, 25 Old YorkMills Rd. 416-445-2889. $23; $20(advance);free(children 12 and under. Refreshments followingconcert.— 7:30: Bach Children’s Chorus/BachChamber Youth Choir. Whistle While YouWork. An exploration of occupations throughsong. Linda Beaupré, conductor; Eleanor Daley,accompanist. George Weston Recital Hall,Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge St.416-870-8000. $24; $20(sr/st).— 7:30: Burlington Civic Chorale. Jewelsof the Renaissance. Josquin des Prez: MissaPange lingua; Monteverdi: Lagrime MAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COM25

... 1: CONCERTS: Toronto and GTAd’Amante al Sepolcro dell Amata. CardinalConsort of Toronto, consort of violas da gamba.St. Christopher’s Anglican Church, 662Guelph Line, Burlington. 905-549-5897.$15(advance); $18.— 7:30: Christ Church Deer Park. ChoralCountdown. 1570 Yonge St. 416-530-4428.$30; $25; $15.— 7:30: Northdale Concert Band. SpringConcert. St Jude’s Anglican Church, 10Howarth Ave. 416-486-3011. $15; $10(sr/st); free(children under 12).— 7:30: Reaching Out Through Music.Fundraising Concert. Jean Stilwell, mezzo;Joaquin Valdepeñas, clarinet; Alehandro Valdepeñas,violin; Patti Loach and Patricia Parr,piano; John Sheard, jazz piano; ROTM Children’sChoir; St. Simon’s Children’s Choir.Church of St. Simon-the-Apostle, 525 BloorSt. E. 416-923-8714 x201. $100 ($60 taxreceipt); $40; $30(sr); $10(st).— 7:30: Show One Productions. YoungStars of the Young Century. Luka Okrostsvoridze,piano; Narek Aryutunyan, clarinet;Yuri Revich, violin. Glenn Gould Studio, 250Front St. W. 416-872-4255. $35; $30(sr/st).— 7:30: Tallis Choir. Music for the Popes.Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli and Tu EsPetrus; also works by Victoria and Marenzio.Peter Mahon, director. St. Patrick’s Church,141 McCaul St. 416-286-9798. $25;$20(sr); $10(st).— 8:00: County Town Singers. Steppin’Outta the Box. See May 8.— 8:00: Durham Region Concert Association.Servantes, guitar. Oshawa Little Theatre,62 Russett Ave., Oshawa. 905-728-2403. $30; $10(st/child).— 8:00: Durham Youth Orchestra. 15thAnniversary Celebration. Bach: Jesu Joy ofMan’s Desiring (arr. for orchestra); Sibelius:Finlandia; Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D.Susanne Hou, violin. Hebron Christian ReformedChurch, 4240 Anderson St., Whitby.905-728-1407.— 8:00: NextSteps. CanAsian InternationalDance Festival. See May 6.— 8:00: Oakville Symphony Orchestra.Grand Finale. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto;and other works. Lindsay Deutsch, violin; RobertoDe Clara, conductor. Oakville Centre, 130Navy St., Oakville. 905-815-2021. $45;$40(sr); $20(st).— 8:00: Orchestras Mississauga. Tomorrow’sDivas Today. Arias from Carmen, LaTraviata, Rigoletto, and The Magic Flute. MarkDuBois and the Divas of Tomorrow; MississaugaSymphony, John Barnum, conductor.Hammerson Hall, Living Arts Centre, 4141Living Arts Dr., Mississauga. 905-306-6000.$35-$45; $31.50-$40.50(sr); $15(st).— 8:00: Oriana Women’s Choir. Our Kingdom:Music of the Commonwealth. Programmeincludes new work by Daley. WilliamBrown, artistic director; James Bourne, piano;guests: Toronto Welsh Male Voice Choir.Grace Church on-the-Hill. 300 Lonsdale Rd.416-236-0948. $25; $20(sr); $10(st).— 8:00: Orpheus Choir. Choral Countdown.Audience favourites. The Sidgewick Scholarsof the Orpheus Choir; Edward Moroney, conductor.Eglinton St. George’s United Church,35 Lytton Blvd. 416-530-4428. $30; $25(sr);$25(st).Expect something different...Robert Cooper, C.M.artistic directorEdward Moroneyaccompanistwilliam brown – james bourne – Special Guest Artists:OurKingdomMusic of theCommonwealthNew Commission By:ChoralCountdownOur audience has spoken. Join us as wecount down the top ten choral favourites.Will your choice be among them?Edward Moroney, piano/organThe Sidgwick Scholars of the Orpheus ChoirRobert Cooper, ConductorHosted byAlexa Petrenkofrom Classical96.3 FMSaturday May 9, 2009, 8.00 p.mEglinton St George’s United Church, 35 Lytton Blvd.Tickets: $30; $25 senior; $15 studentFor tickets or more information, please contact us at:416-530-4428; orpheuschoir@sympatico.caor visit our website: www.orpheuschoirtoronto.com26 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COMMAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009

— 8:00: Scarborough Music Theatre.Merrily We Roll Along. See May 1.— 8:00: Tafelmusik. Brandenburg Concertos.Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos.1, 3,4 and5. Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra. Trinity-St.Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St. W. 416-964-6337. $29-$72.— 8:00: Borderless Song. Reunited.Desmarais: Sonata for Flute and Piano; Fukushima:“Mei” for solo flute; Duruflé: Prélude,Récitatif et Variations; Takemitsu: Itinerantfor solo flute; Fauré: Sonata in A, op. 13. MihokoWatanabe, flute; Carol Gimbel, viola;Christopher Burton, piano. Forest Grove UnitedChurch, 43 Forest Grove Dr. 416-462-9601.$25; $15(sr/st); free(children 12 & under).— 8:00: Toronto Mendelssohn Choir.Passion Has a Voice. Mendelssohn: Elijah.Nathan Berg, bass-baritone; Joni Henson, soprano;Marcia Whitehead, mezzo; Colin Balzer,tenor; Toronto Mendelssohn Choir; TorontoMendelssohn Youth Choir; Festival Orchestra;Noel Edison, conductor. Massey Hall, 15 ShuterSt. 416-598-0422. $38-$78. 7:15 preconcertchat.— 9:00: Organix 09. Jazz at the Orbit Room.Lou Poumonti, Hammond B3 organ; and TheDexters. 580A College St. 416-241-9785.$10.Sunday May 10— 11:00am & 3:00pm: Randolph YoungCompany. Schoolhouse Rock Live. See May1.— 12:00 noon: Derek Macrae. ClassicalGuitarist. Spanish, flamenco, popular. RistoranteJulia, 312 Lakeshore Rd. E., Oakville.905-844-7401. Free.— 2:00: Alexander Singers and Players.Yeomen of the Guard. See May 6.— 2:00: Canadian Opera Company. AMidsummer Night’s Dream. See May 5.— 2:00: Oakville Symphony Orchestra.Grand Finale. See May 9.— 2:00: Scarborough Music Theatre.Merrily We Roll Along. See May 1.— 2:00: Shevchenko School of Ballet.Annual Spring Concert. Betty Oliphant Theatre,404 Jarvis St. 416-766-3481. $25;$22(sr/st); $18(child).— 3:00: Amici. Schubert + Tango. Schubert:Sonatensatz in B flat D.28; Notturno, PianoTrio in E flat D.897; Shepherd on the Rock;also tangos by Gardel, Piazzolla, Weill, Gade,Babadjanian and others. Isabel Bayrakdarian,soprano; Marie Bérard, violin; Serouj Kradjian,piano; Joaquin Valdepeñas, clarinet; DavidHetherington, cello; and others. Glenn GouldStudio, 250 Front St. W. 416-872-4255.$45; $40(sr); $35(st). 2:30: pre-concert chat.— 3:00: Echo Women’s Choir. The Cradleof our Land. Works by Malcolm Dalglish andothers. Cuban-Canadian Del Monte Escalantefamily: Glenda Del Monte Escalante, piano;Mireya Escalante, voice; Mario Del Monte,percussion. Church of the Holy Trinity, 10Trinity Sq. 416-588-9050. $12(advance);$15; $8(underwaged).— 3:00: Windermere String Quartet. AllHaydn. Haydn: Divertimento No. 10 in F forTwo Violins and Cello HobV:10; QuartetOp.20 No.3 in g; Quartet Op.76 No.4 in B flat“Sunrise”. St. Olave’s Anglican Church, 360Windermere Ave. 416-769-7054. $18;$12(sr/st).— 3:30: Tafelmusik. Brandenburg Concertos.See May 9.— 4:00: Cathedral Church of St . James.Twilight Recital Series. Andre Rakus, organ.65 Church St. 416-364-7865. Free.— 4:30: Christ Church Deer Park. JazzVespers. Chase Sanborn, trumpet; Mark Eisenman,piano. 1570 Yonge St. 416-920-5211.Free (donations welcomed).— 7:30: Flying Cloud Folk Club. ShaneCook. With Troy McGillivray, Ray Legere andSkip Holmes. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. 416-410-3655. $20; $18.— 8:00: New Adventures in Sound Art.Deep Wireless: Feedback Fred and Audio Ballerina.See May 8.Monday May 11— 12:15: Organix 09. Mark Edwards, organ.Church of the Holy Trinity, 10 TrinitySquare. 416-241-9785. Free.— 8:00: Music Gallery/Evergreen ClubContemporary Gamelan. Sunda Songs.Jennifer Moore, Suba Sankaran, and MaryemTollar, vocalists. 197 John St. 416-204-1080. $15; $10 (st/sr).Tuesday May 12— 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.Piano Virtuoso Series: Oriental Fantasy.Balakirev: Islamei, Fantaisie Orientale; alsoworks by Scarlatti, Beethoven and Ravel.Serhiy Salov, piano. Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre,Four Seasons Centre for the PerformingArts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231.Free.— 12:30: York University Department ofMusic. Rhythm & Blues Ensemble. MartinFamily Lounge, 219 Accolade East Building,YU, 4700 Keele St. 416-736-2100 x22926.Free.— 1:00: Cathedral Church of St . James.Music at Midday. Sharon Beckstead, organ.65 Church St. 416-364-7865. Free.— 1:30: Serenata Singers. Rhythm, Rainbowsand Romance. Audrey MacLeod, conductor.Chinese Cultural Centre, 5183 SheppardAve. E. 416-497-5952. $15. Also May13.— 7:30: ASI. Pond Life. Southam: Ponds,Creeks, Soundstill and Noisy River. ChristinaPetrowska Quilico, piano. Glenn Gould Studio,250 Front St. W. 416-872-4255. $20;$10(st). Reception to follow. Portion of proceedsto David Suzuki Foundation.— 7:30: Canadian Opera Company. LaBohème. See May 4.— 7:30: Renanim Youth Singers. YouthUnited In Rhythm. Susan Michaels, conductor.Guests: Youth Drum Squad; Muhtadi, director.York Woods Theatre, 1785 Finch Ave. W.416-398-0289. $15; $10(sr/st).on period instrumentswindermerestringquartet.comJoseph HaydnDivertimento No. 10“Sunrise” QuartetWilliam RowsonNew commissionin honour of HaydnSunday, May 10, 3:00MAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COM27

... 1: CONCERTS: Toronto and GTA— 8:00: Small World Music. Sundar’s NewAavataar. Raag and taal fused with jazz andelectronica. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas St. W.416-588-0307. $15.— 8:00: Tafelmusik. Brandenburg Concertos.See May 9. George Weston Recital Hall, TorontoCentre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge St.416-872-1111. $29-$69. Wednesday May 13— 12:30 York University Department ofMusic. Brass Ensemble. James MacDonald,director. Tribute Communities Recital Hall,Accolade East, YU, 4700 Keele St. 416-736-2100 x22926. Free.— 12:30: Yorkminster Park BaptistChurch. Noonhour Recital. Eric Robertson,organ. 1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167. Free.— 6:00: Organix 09. The King of Instruments.Matthew Coons, organ. Works byBach, Bruhns, Duruflé. Church of the Redeemer,162 Bloor St. W. 416-241-9785. $10.— 7:00: Tafelmusik. Brandenburg Concertos.See May 9.— 7:30: Canadian Opera Company. AMidsummer Night’s Dream. See May 5.— 7:30: Etobicoke School of the Arts.Collage. Ensembles, including Symphony Orchestra,Concert Winds, Musical Theatre,Stage Band. 675 Royal York Rd. 416-394-6910 X5. $15; $12(sr/st).— 7:30: Serenata Singers. See May 12.— 8:00: LuaSol. Lady Sings. Bossa-nova,acoustic world and soul/pop. Marinda and SarahShafey. Trane Studio, 964 Bathurst St.416-913-8197. $8.— 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.Rachmaninoff and Bernstein. Rachmaninoff:Piano Concerto No.2; Bernstein: Three DanceEpisodes from On the Town; Bernstein: SymphonicDances from West Side Story. NatashaParemski, piano; Xian Zhang, conductor. RoyThomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-593-4828.$37-$125.Thursday May 14— 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.Dance Series: City of Tribes. ContemporaryAfrican dance. Tavaziva Dance; Collective OfBlack Artists. Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre,Four Seasons Centre for the PerformingArts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. Free.— 12:15 Metropolitan United Church.Noon at the Met. Peter Bishop, organ. 56Queen St. E. 416-363-0331. Free.— 12:15: Music on the Hill. Free LunchtimeConcert – The Choirgirlz. Folk, bluegrass, jazz,and pop. St. John’s York Mills AnglicanChurch, 19 Don Ridge Dr. 416-225-6611.Free.— 2:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.Rachmaninoff and Bernstein. See May 13.$29-$78. 1:15: Pre-concert chat.— 7:30 York University Department ofMusic. Orchestra Concert. Works byBeethoven, Berlioz and Rossini. Jacques Israelievitch,director. Tribute Communities RecitalHall, Accolade East, YU, 4700 Keele St. 416-736-5888. $15; $5(st/sr).— 7:30. Classical Music Consort. DukeTrio. Haydn: Trio No. 39 in G “Gypsy”; Frühling:Trio Op.32; Babadjanian: Trio; Schoenfield:Cafe Music. Heliconian Hall, 35 HazeltonAve. 416-978-8849. $35; $25(sr/st).— 7:30: Canadian Opera Company. LaBohème. See May 4.— 7:30: Etobicoke School of the Arts.Collage. See May 13.— 8:00: CBC Galaxie. Eighth Annual NationalJazz Awards. The Real Divas; The JensenSisters; Chris Donnelly; Mario Allard Quintet;The Yamaha Allstars; National Jazz AwardsOrchestra. Fleck Theatre, Harbourfront Centre,235 Queen’s Quay W. 416-973-4000.$55.— 8:00: Scarborough Music Theatre.Merrily We Roll Along. See May 1.— 8:00: Tafelmusik. Brandenburg Concertos.See May 9.Friday May 15— 2:30 York University Department ofMusic. Opera Excerpts. Mozart: Marriage ofFigaro; Haydn: La Cantarina; Strauss: Die Fledermaus.Stephanie Bogel, director. TributeCommunities Recital Hall, Accolade East, YU,4700 Keele St. 416-736-2100 ext 22926.Free.— 6:30: Northern District Library. RickerChoi, pianist. Chopin: Ballade No.4; Scriabin:Sonata No.5; Beethoven: Bagatelle Op. 126No.3; Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No.1; Ravel: LaValse. 40 Orchard View Blvd. 416-393-7610.Free.— 7:00: Organix 09. Brass & Pipes. RobertDiVito, trumpet; Andrew Adair, organ. Worksby Handel, Telemann, Torelli, Bach, Vierne,Cable. St. Patrick R.C. Church, 5633 Highway7, Markham. 416-241-9785. $10; free(18and under).— 8:00: Scarborough Music Theatre.Merrily We Roll Along. See May 1.— 8:00: Small World Music. Persian Versions.Music from Toronto and Teheran. LulaLounge, 1585 Dundas St. W. 416-588-0307.$20.— 8:00: Tafelmusik. Brandenburg Concertos.See May 9.Saturday May 16— 2:00: Scarborough Music Theatre.Merrily We Roll Along. See May 1.— 4:30: Canadian Opera Company. AMidsummer Night’s Dream. See May 5.— 7:30: Toronto Chinese Orchestra. AnnualSpring Concert. Traditional and contemporaryChinese instrumental music. Karl Pang,music director; Xiao-Yun Miao and Kim Chow-Morris, featured artists. Markham Theatre forPerforming Arts, 171 Town Centre Blvd.,Markham. 416-568-8024. $25-$38. Proceedsto World Vision.— 8:00: I Furiosi. Decadence. Tenth anniversarycelebration. Special guest: Olivier Fortin,harpsichord. Calvin Presbyterian Church, 26Delisle Ave. 905-305-7469. $10-$20.Sunday May 17— 1:00: HarbourKIDS Music with Bite/Jeunesses Musicales Ontario. NagataShachu (formerly Kioyoshi Nagata Ensemble).Taiko drumming from traditional and contemporaryJapanese culture. Brigantine Room,Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queen’s Quay W.416-973-4000. Free.— 1:30: CAMMAC/McMichael Gallery.Ken Taylor. Jazz. 10365 Islington Ave., Kleinburg.905-893-1121. $15; $9(sr/st).— 2:00: Canadian Opera Company. LaBohème. See May 4.— 2:30: Toronto Early Music Centre.Borys Medicky, harpsichord. Works by Chambonnieres,Lebegue, Geoffroy, Marchand andothers. Church of the Holy Trinity, 10 TrinitySq. 416-920-5025. Admission by donation.— 4:00: Cathedral Church of St . James.Twilight Recital Series. John Jull, piano. 65Church St. 416-364-7865. Free.— 5:00: Nocturnes in the City. Milan Brunner,flute, Marta Laurincova, piano. Works byBach, Dvorak, Gluck. 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GTA LISTINGSCONTINUED FROM PAGE 28Monday May 18— 12:15: Organix 09. Jean-Willy Kunz,organ. Church of the Holy Trinity, 10 TrinitySquare. 416-241-9785. Free.— 6:00: Tartu College Cultural Arts Program.Viola Recital. Music by Weber, Vieuxtemps,Tubin, Pärt, Eller, Oja. Lembi Veskimets,viola; Hyunsoon Whang, piano. Tartu College,310 Bloor St. W. 416-485-7548. $15.Tuesday May 19— 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.World Music Series: Persian Love Songs.Maryam Toumrai, vocalist. Richard BradshawAmphitheatre, Four Seasons Centre for thePerforming Arts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. Free.— 12:30: York University Department ofMusic. Baroque Ensemble. Mark Chambers,director. Works by Tartini, Ricciotti, Graupnerand Bach. Tribute Communities Recital Hall,Accolade East, YU, 4700 Keele St. 416-736-2100 x22926. Free.— 1:00: Cathedral Church of St . James.Music at Midday. Andrew Ager, organ. 65Church St. 416-364-7865. Free.— 1:30 York University Department ofMusic. Medieval & Renaissance Ensembles.Works from 12th through 16th centuries.Judith Cohen, director. Tribute CommunitiesRecital Hall, Accolade East, YU, 4700 KeeleSt. 416-736-2100 x22926. Free.— 7:30: Canadian Opera Company. AMidsummer Night’s Dream. See May 5.— 7:30: Renanim Youth Singers. CelebrateIsrael. Israeli song and dance. Guests:Nirkoda Israeli Dancers. Pride of Israel Synagogue,59 Lissom Cresc. 416-226-0111 x10.$15; $10(sr/st). 6:30: Silent auction.— 8:00: Mirvish Productions. Riverdance.Canon Theatre, 244 Victoria St. 416-872-1212. Also May 20-24, 26-31, June 2-7.— 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.Last Night of the Proms. Toronto MendelssohnChoir; Bramwell Tovey, guest conductor.Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St.416-593-4828. $33-$99.Wednesday May 20— 12:30: York University Department ofMusic. Wind Concert. Patricia Wait, director.Tribute Communities Recital Hall, AccoladeEast, YU, 4700 Keele St. 416-736-2100x22926. Free.— 12:30: Yorkminster Park BaptistChurch. Noonhour Recital. Joanne VollendorfRickards Clarke, organ. 1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167. Free.— 2:00 & 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.Last Night of the Proms. See May19. $33-$99(evening); $28-69(matinee).— 6:00: Organix 09. Brass & Pipes. Worksby Handel, Telemann, Torelli, Stanford, Cable.Robert DiVito, trumpet; Andrew Adair, organ.Church of the Redeemer, 162 Bloor St. W.416-241-9785. $10; free(12 and under).— 7:30: Canadian Opera Company. LaBohème. See May 4.— 7:30: Earl Haig Music Department.Capriccio: Annual Symphony/Band Night. Mendelssohn:3rd Symphony (The Scottish); Haydn:Cello Concerto in D; Bernstein: CandideOverture; Rimsky-Korsakoff: Capriccio Espanol;music by Strauss, Chaminade and Jarre.Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St.W. 416-395-3210 x20141. $20; $5.— 8:00: Show One Productions. SvetlanaPortnyansky. Russian-born singer. Guests:Arkady Gips, violin; Ernst Shteinberg, piano.Leah Posluns Theatre, 4588 Bathurst St. 416-737-6785. $45-$55.Thursday May 21 4169595— 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.Vocal Series: Earth, Wind, Fire and Water.Works by Schubert, Sirett, Schafer, Hatfieldand Bell. Mississauga Children’s Choir, ThomasBell, conductor. Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre,Four Seasons Centre for the PerformingArts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. Free.— 12:15: Metropolitan United Church.Noon at the Met. Benjamin Stein, theorbo;Gisele Kulak, Ariel Harwood-Jones, sopranos.56 Queen St. E. 416-363-0331. Free.— 12:15: Music on the Hill. Free LunchtimeConcert – Janet Catherine Dea, soprano. KristinMoss Theriault, harp. St. John’s York MillAnglican Church, 19 Don Ridge Dr. 416-225-6611. Free.— 2:00: Northern District Library. Alchemy.Chamber music. 40 Orchard View Blvd.416-393-7610. Free.— 6:00: Church of Saint MaryMagdalene. Ascension: Procession and SolemnMass. Victoria: Missa Ascendens Christus;Philips: Ascendit Deus. 477 Manning Ave.416-531-7955. Free. Religious service.— 7:30 York University Department ofMusic. Chamber Strings. Peggy Hills, director.Tribute Communities Recital Hall, AccoladeEast, YU, 4700 Keele St. 416-736-2100x22926. Free.— 7:30: Canadian Opera Company. A MidsummerNight’s Dream. See May 5.— 8:00: Brampton Lyric Opera. Cinderella.Rossini. Jennifer Fina, mezzo (Angelina); EmilioFina, tenor (Don Ramiro); Douglas Tranquada,baritone (Dandini); Gerrit Thuele, baritone (DonMagnifico); William Shookoff, conductor. RoseTheatre, 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. 905-874-2800. $20-$60; free(child with adult).— 8:00: Music Gallery/Artist Bloc. ImprovisedMusic and Sound Poetry. Jordan Scottand Element Choir. 197 John St. 416-204-1080. $10; $5(st/sr).— 8:00: Tapestry New Opera Works. TheShadow. Daniel/Poch-Golden. Theodore Baerg,baritone; Scott Belluz, countertenor; Carla Huhtanen,soprano; Keith Klassen, tenor; PeterMcGillivray, baritone; Tom Diamond, director;Wayne Strongman, music director. BerkeleyStreet Theatre Downstairs, 26 Berkeley St.416-368-3110. $49; $20(st/arts worker).Also May 22-24, 27-30.Friday May 22— 9:00am: Toronto Symphony VolunteerCommittee. TSO National Piano Competition:First Round Solo Performances. MazzoleniHall, Royal Conservatory of Music, 273 BloorSt. W. 416-593-7769 x358. Admission bydonation (suggested $10 minimum).— 7:30: Canadian Opera Company. LaBohème. See May 4.— 7:30: Flying Cloud Folk Club. 18th AnnualChris Langan Weekend (Concert No. 1).Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave. 416-410-3655. $20; $18(sr/st).— 8:00: Diana McIntosh. The Rehearsal’sthe Thing. Music-theatre work by McIntosh.Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave. 416-239-5195. $20.— 8:00: Exultate Chamber Singers. APurcell Festival. Purcell: Rejoice in the LordAlways; odes and anthems; Sandström: HearMy Prayer; new work by winner of the 2009 MAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COM29

With special guestNatalie MahonSoprano-presents-Motetswww.saintblaise.ca23 May 2009 8 pmTrinity College Chapel U of T6 Hoskin Ave$25/$15 senior /$5 studentTickets at the door... 1: CONCERTS: Toronto and GTA...1: CONCERTS: Toronto and GTAExultate Choral Composition Competition. St.Thomas’s Anglican Church, 383 Huron St.416-971-9229. $25; $20(sr); $15(st).— 8:00: Tapestry. The Shadow. See May 21.— 10:00pm: Samba Squad. 10th AnniversaryConcert. Toronto-based percussion ensemble.Special guests: Sani-Abi, beat-boxer; AKASubliminal; Alberto Alberto, tap-dancer; DanceMigration, and others. Phoenix Concert Theatre,410 Sherbourne St. 416-593-9746. $20;$15(advance). Half of evening’s proceeds toSamba Kidz Outreach Program.Saturday May 23— 9:00am: Toronto Symphony VolunteerCommittee. TSO National Piano Competition:First Round Solo Performances. MazzoleniHall, Royal Conservatory of Music, 273 BloorSt. W. 416-593-7769 x358. Admission bydonation (suggested $10 minimum).— 1:00: Metropolitan United Church.Doors Open Celebration. Organ and carillondemonstration. 56 Queen St. E. 416-363-0331. Free.— 3:00: Viva! Youth Singers of Toronto.Canada – Our Home and Native Land. Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St. W. 416-788-8482.— 5:00: Jubilate Singers. Jazz n’ BBQ.Jazz standards and modern selections. IsabelBernaus, conductor; Sherry Squires, accompanist.Dennis United Church, 71 Guestville Ave.416-763-2893. $15. BBQ dinner, followed byconcert.— 7:00: Community Church. EncounterConcert. Contemporary Christian music. CommunityChurch, 45 Crosby Ave., RichmondHill. 905-884-3005. Free.— 7:00: Oakville Children’s Choir. Celebrating15 Years of Song. Clearview ChristianReformed Church, 2300 Sheridan Garden Dr.,Oakville. 905-337-7104. $30; $20(st 12-17years); $15(sr/child under 12).— 7:30: Brampton Folk Club. ChangingSeasons. St. Paul’s United Church, 30 MainSt. S., Brampton. 647-223-3655. $12;$10(sr/st).— 7:30: Canadian Opera Company. AMidsummer Night’s Dream. See May 5.— 7:30: Carolynne Godin Voice Studio.Affairs of the Heart: Songs of Love, Seductionand the Spring. Works by Mozart, Schubert,Lehar, and Rodgers & Hammerstein. BettyLuk, soprano; Stephen Cockle, bass-baritone;Carolynne Godin, accompanist. St. Patrick’sChurch, 1087 Lillian St. 905-884-9719. Donationsto Choirs Ontario.— 7:30: Cathedral Church of St . James.Organ and Soprano. Widor: Organ SymphonyNo.5; songs by Debussy, Poulenc and Fauré.Jennifer Griffith, soprano; Andrew Ager, organ.65 Church St. 416-364-7865. Admissionby donation.— 7:30: Flying Cloud Folk Club. 18th AnnualChris Langan Weekend (Concert No. 3).Celebrating15 Years of Song!Sat May 23 7:00 pm Auditionsfor 2009-2010season will beheld in Mayand Junewww.oakvillechildrenschoir.org(905) 337-7104 30 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COMMAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009

The Toronto Choral SocietypresentsTranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave. 416-410-3655. $20; $18(sr/st).— 7:30: Jonah Libster. Classical GuitarRecital. Sor: Grand Solo; Variations on aTheme by Mozart; Bach: Lute Suite in e; GoldbergVariations (partial); Villa-Lobos: Preludes.Bloor Street United Church, 300 Bloor St. W.416-898-7719. Free.— 7:30: Oakville Chamber Ensemble.Magnificat. Puccini: Credo in G; Vivaldi: Magnificat;Victoria: Regina Coeli. Stéphane Potvin,conductor. St. Simon’s Anglican Church, 1450Litchfield Rd., Oakville. 905-825-9740. $25;$15(sr/st); $5(child 15 and under).— 7:30: Toronto Choral Society. TCS atthe Proms. Elgar: The Music Makers; andworks by Handel, Parry and Sullivan. GeoffreyButler, conductor; William O’Meara, accompanist.Eastminster United Church, 310 DanforthAve. 416-410-3509. $25: $20(advance).— 7:30: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.Beethoven’s World. Beethoven: Egmont Overture;Leonore Overture No.3. Schubert:Entr’acte No. 3 from Rosamunde; Weber: Concertinofor Clarinet; Cherubini: Overture to AliBaba; Berlioz: Le Corsaire; Hummel: TrumpetConcerto. Joaquin Valdepeñas, clarinet; AndrewMcCandless, trumpet; Edwin Outwater,guest conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 SimcoeSt. 416-593-4828. $27-$73.— 7:30: Village Voices. A Sea of Memories.Selections from the choir’s repertoire.Joan Andrews, director; Barry Peters, organ.St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, 5633 Highway7 East, Markham. 905-294-8687. $20;$15(sr). free(children 12 and under). Receptionto follow.— 8:00: Acoustic Harvest. Alan Gerber.Jazz pianist/vocalist. St. Nicholas AnglicanChurch, 1512 Kingston Rd. 416-264-2235.$18.— 8:00: Cindy Koistinen, soprano andHeidi Saario, piano. Nordic Jewels. Songsby Sibelius, Grieg, Alfven and others. VictoriaCollege Chapel, 91 Charles St. 416-699-TCS AT THE PROMSCelebrate Queen Victoria’s BirthdaySaturday, May 23, 2009, 7:30 p.m.Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth Avenue(1 block west of Chester subway)Advance tickets ($20) available from the TCS websitewww.torontochoralsociety.org or call 416-410-3509 0547. $25; $20(sr/st).— 8:00: Linda Shumas. The Colour of Sound.Romantic, modern and original works for piano.Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St. W.416-872-4255. $20.— 8:00: NextSteps: Menaka ThakkarDance Company. Gita Govinda – A TimelessTale of Divine Love. Odissi style dancewith guest dancers from India. Fleck DanceTheatre, 207 Queen’s Quay W. 416-973-4000. $15-$25.— 8:00: Opera by Request. La Clemenza diTito. Mozart. Stewart Granger, tenor (Tito);Jillian Yemen, mezzo-soprano (Sesto); CarrieGray, soprano (Vitellia); Debra Richardson,soprano (Annio); Andrea Rebello, soprano (Servillia);Marc McNamara, baritone (Publio).Annex Singers; William Shookhoff, pianist/music director. College St. United Church, 452College St. 416-455-2365. $20.— 8:00: Saint Blaise. Motets. Richard Whittall,countertenor; James Tuttle, tenor; AndrewMahon, baritone; guest:: Natalie Mahon,soprano. Trinity College Chapel, 6 Hoskin Ave.416-356-6179. $25; $15(sr/st).— 8:00: Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra.Canadian East Coast: A Folk MusicGala. Howard Cable, conductor. BirchmountCollegiate, 3663 Danforth Ave. 416-429-0007. $30; $25(sr); $10(st).— 8:00: Small World Music/HarbourfrontCentre. Anindo Chatterjee. Tablamaster. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens QuayW. 416-973-4000. $30.— 8:00: Tapestry. The Shadow. See May 21.Sunday May 24— 12:00 noon: Toronto Symphony VolunteerCommittee. TSO National Piano Competition:Final Round Complete Piano ConcertPerformances. Mazzoleni Hall, Royal Conservatoryof Music, 273 Bloor St. W. 416-593-7769 x358. Admission by donation (suggested$10 minimum).— 1:00: Metropolitan United Church.Doors Open Celebration. Metropolitan SilverBand. 56 Queen St. E. 416-363-0331. Free.— 2:00: Canadian Opera Company. LaBohème. See May 4.— 2:00: Metropolitan United Church.Doors Open Celebration. Metropolitan Handbellsconcert. 56 Queen St. E. 416-363-0331.Free.— 2:00: Shevchenko Ensemble AnnualConcert Celebrating Mary Kuzyk. Folk andclassical song, music and dance. Choir; mandolinorchestra; Desna Ukr Dancers; instrumentaland vocal soloists. Leah Posluns Theatre,4588 Bathurst St. 416-533-2725. $30.— 2:30: St. Philip’s Lutheran Church.Sebastian Helmer, violin, and Paul Helmer,piano. Music by Ravel, Beethoven and Kreisler.61 West Deane Park Dr. 416-622-5577.$10. Proceeds to benefit Sanctuary MinistriesToronto.— 3:00: Hannaford Street Silver Band.Brass Dances. Music by Luedeke. DavidBriskin, guest conductor; guests: Motus Odance ensemble. Jane Mallett Theatre, St.Lawrence Centre for the Arts, 27 Front St. E.416-366-7723. $39; $33(sr); $25(st).— 3:00: High Park Choirs. 22nd AnnualSpring Concert. Margaret Stanfield and MarinaFilippova, conductors; Sheldon Rose, piano.St. Anne’s Anglican Church, 270 GladstoneAve. 416-762-0657. $20; $15.— 3:00: NextSteps: Menaka ThakkarDance Company. Gita Govinda – A Time-High Park Choirs of TorontoZimfira Poloz, Artistic Director22nd Annual22nd AnnualConcert ConcertSpring My Heart Wants to SingSunday May 24, 3:00 pmSt. Anne's Anglican Church270 Gladstone Avenue (near Dufferin & Dundas)The High Park Choirs:Five choir divisions - choristers ages 5 to 18Children’s Choir-in-residence at University of TorontoMargaret Stanfield & Marina Filippova, ConductorsSheldon Rose, PianoTickets available at the door$20 adults$15 children/students/seniorsCall: (416) 762-0657Email: info@highparkchoirs.orgVisit: www.highparkchoirs.orgMAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COM31

... 1: CONCERTS: Toronto and GTAless Tale of Divine Love. See May 23.— 3:00: Orchestra Toronto. In Concert.Mendelssohn: Symphony No.4 “Italian”; Elgar:Violin Concerto. Errol Gay, conductor; CatherineManoukian, violin. George Weston RecitalHall, Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 YongeSt. 416-872-1111. $35; $30(sr/st); $10(18& under). — 3:00: Toronto Chamber Choir. CantataBWV150 “Nicht dir, Herr, Verlanget mich.”Bach. Orchestra and soloists. Christ ChurchDeer Park, 1570 Yonge St. 416-763-1695.$20; $16(sr/st). Pre-concert chat by conductorMark Vuorinen.— 3:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.Beethoven’s World. See May 23.— 4:00: Cathedral Church of St . James.Twilight Recital Series. Rachel Mahon, organ.65 Church St. 416-364-7865. Free.— 4:00: St. Philip’s Anglican Church.Mariachi Vespers. Mexico Amigo mariachiband. 25 St. Phillips Rd. 416-247-5181.Pwyc.— 4:00: Tapestry. The Shadow. See May21.— 4:00: Toronto Singing Studio. ThreeChoirs in Concert. Folk music from LatinAmerica, the USA, Canada and Europe. CelebrationChoir, Vivace Vox and Vocal Mosaic.Linda Eyman, music director; Christine Kimand Juha Tikkanen, piano. Trinity-St. Paul’sUnited Church, 427 Bloor St. W. 416-455-9238. $15; $10(sr/st).— 7:30: Flying Cloud Folk Club. MariposaFolk Festival Preview. Tranzac Club, 292Brunswick Ave. 416-410-3655. $20; $18(sr/st).— 7:30: St. Paul’s Anglican Church.175th Anniversary Celebration. Hymns; alsoworks by Handel and Beethoven. Emanda Richards,conductor; guests: Amanda Jones,soprano; Manuele Mizzi, tenor; Phil Claxton,bass; mass choir. 227 Church St., Newmarket.905-853-7285. Free.Monday May 25— 12:15: Organix 09/Music Mondays.Brass & Pipes. Robert DiVito, trumpet, AndrewAdair, organ. Works by Handel, Telemann,Torelli, Bach, Cable. Church of the HolyTrinity, 10 Trinity Square. 416-241-9785.Pwyc.— 7:30: Associates of the TSO. Five SmallConcerts: Mosaic of Chamber Music. Schumann:Three Fantasy Pieces; Handel: Passacaglia;Milhaud: Sonata for Cello & Piano; R.Strauss: “Heifetz” Sonata; Arensky: Trio forViolin, Cello & Piano. Arkady Yanivker, violin;Winona Zelenka, cello; Gergely Szokolay, piano.Trinity-St.Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St. W. 416-485-2717. $18; $15(sr/st).— 7:30: Halton Youth Symphony. MusicalJourney. Handel: Concerto for Viola and Orchestra;also works by Bach, Dvorak, Webber,Prima, Holst, and Mendelssohn. Guest: JohannesLinstead, guitar. Oakville Centre for thePerforming Arts, 130 Navy St. 905-815-2021. $24; $18.Tuesday May 26— 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.Renaissance Festival: Palestrina’s Missa PapaeMarcelli. Also motets, anthems and Gregorianchant. Tallis Choir. Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre,Four Seasons Centre for the PerformingArts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. Free.— 1:00: Cathedral Church of St . James.Music at Midday. Rea Beaumont, organ. 65Church St. 416-364-7865. Free.— 2:30: Alchemy. An Hour of Chamber Music.Works by Bach/Busoni, Clementi, Shostakovich,Arensky. John Soloninka, violin; Jennifer32 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COMMAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009

Brunton, cello; Judy Lee, Marcia Beach, MeriGec, piano. New Horizons Tower, 1140 BloorSt. W. 416-536-6111. Free.— 7:30: Ensemble Tryptych. An Ol’ TimeRadio Show. Lenard Whiting, conductor. TrinityPresbyterian Church, 2737 Bayview Ave.An Ol’ TimeRadio ShowE N S E M B L ECHAMBER CHOIRLenard WhitingMusic DirectorTuesday, May 26, 20097.30 PMTrinity Presbyterian Church2737 Bayview AvenueAdults $25Student-Seniors $20416-763-5066 ext 3info@tryptych.org416-763-5066 x3. $25; $20(sr/st).— 8:00: Art of Time Ensemble. The Songbook3. Works by Cohen, Rogers and Waits.Rob Piltch, guitar; George Koller, bass; AndrewBurashko, piano; and others. EnwaveTheatre, 231 Queen’s Quay W. 416-973-4000. $25-$39.Wednesday May 27— 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.Piano Virtuoso Series: East-West Folk andFantasy. Scarlatti: sonatas; Schumann: Fantasiein C; Chinese folk tunes. Elaine Lau, piano.Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, Four SeasonsCentre for the Performing Arts, 145Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. Free.— 12:30: Yorkminster Park BaptistChurch. Noonhour Recital. Jordan De Souza,organ. 1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167. Free.— 6:00: Organix 09. Northern Landscapes -Ontario’s North in Music. Works by Dolin,Healey, Koehne. David Palmer, organ; WallaceHalladay, saxophone; Gillian MacKay, trumpet.Church of the Redeemer, 162 Bloor St. W.416-241-9785. $10; free(12 and under).— 7:00: Civic Light Opera. A Class Act.Kleban. Joe Cascone (Ed Kleban); David Haines(Marvin Hamlisch); Larry Gibbs (Michael Bennett);Paul Christman, musical director; LesleyAnsell, choreographer. Fairview Library Theatre,35 Fairview Mall Dr. 416-755-1717.$20-$27.50. Also May 28-31, Jun 3-7 andbeyond.— 7:30: Toronto Choristers. Let There BeMusic. Ralph Peters, conductor; MargaretDeeth, accompanist. Sir John A. MacDonaldCollegiate, 2300 Pharmacy Ave. 416-779-8286. $10.THURSDAY MAY 28THE MUSICGALLERY’S33 1 / 3 BIRTHDAYFUNDRAISERFeaturing performances byCCMC(PAST & PRESENT MEMBERS)Apostle of Hustle(ARTS & CRAFTS RECORDINGS)Plus a special contemporary music RECORD SALE & auction! Tickets $33.33 via www.ticketweb.caComing JUNE 19-28THE SUMMER COURTYARD SERIES— 8:00: Art of Time Ensemble. Songbook3. See May 26.— 8:00: Nathaniel Dett Chorale. And StillWe Sing: All O’ We Is One. Guests: MacomereFifi; Pan Fantasy; Wendy Jones, director;Brainerd Blyden-Taylor, conductor. GlennGould Studio, 250 Front St. W. 416-872-4255. $39.50; $35(sr/st).— 8:00: Opera by Request. I Capuleti e iMontecchi. Bellini. Barbara King, mezzo-soprano(Romeo); Gillian Grossman, soprano(Giulietta); Avery Krisman, tenor (Tebaldo);David English, bass (Lorenzo); Andrew Tees,baritone (Capello); William Shookhoff, pianist/music director. College St. United Church,452 College St. 416-455-2365. $20.— 8:00: Tapestry. The Shadow. See May21.— 8:30: New Adventures in Sound Art.Deep Wireless: RADiO iN AMBiENCE. AM-Bient PiNG. NAISA Space, Artscape WychwoodBarns, 601 Christie St. No.252. 416-652-5115. $15; $10(st).Thursday May 28— 12:15: Metropolitan United Church.Noon at the Met. Michael Bloss, organ. 56Queen St. E. 416-363-0331. Free.— 12:15: Music on the Hill. Free LunchtimeConcert – All’Amore Ensemble. Chambermusic.St. John’s York Mills Anglican Church,19 Don Ridge Dr. 416-225-6611. Free.— 2:00: Northern District Library. Orchardviewers.Vocal duets including classicalworks, folk songs and selections from musicaltheatre. Triolette. 40 Orchard View Blvd.416-393-7610. Free.— 7:00: Alchemy. An Hour of Chamber Music.Works by Bach/Busoni, Clementi, Shostakovich,Arensky. John Soloninka, violin; JenniferBrunton, cello; Judy Lee, Marcia Beach,Meri Gec, piano. Belmont House, 55 BelmontSt. 416-964-9231. Free.— 7:30: Royal Conservatory of Music.Rez Abbasi Trio with Kiran Ahluwalia. 273Bloor St. W. 416-408-2824 x321. $20;$10(st).— 8:00: Civic Light Opera Company. AClass Act. See May 27.— 8:00: DanceWorks. Tavaziva Dance/Collective of Black Artists (COBA) – City ofTribes and Selected Repertoire. North AmericanPremiere. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207Queen’s Quay W. 416-973-4000. $18-$28.Also May 29, 30.— 8:00: Music Gallery. 33 1/3 BirthdayFundraiser. Improvised music and avant-pop.CCMC; Apostle of Hustle. 197 John St. 416-204-1080. $33.33. Also contemporary musicrecord sale and auction.— 8:00: St. Lawrence Centre for theArts. An Evening with Hennie Bekker andFriends. 27 Front St. E. 416-366-7723. $45-$50.— 8:00: Tapestry. The Shadow. See May 21.— 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.Mahler Symphony 6. Haydn: Cello Concerto inC; Mahler: Symphony No.6. Johannes Moser,cello; Günther Herbig, guest conductor. RoyThomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-593-4828.$37-$125. 7:15: pre-concert chat.Friday May 29— 12:15: St. Andrew’s United ChurchMarkham. Noonhour Recital. Andrew Adair,organ. 32 Main St. N., Markham. 905-294-0351. Free.— 7:30: Canadian Children’s Opera Company.To Music. Ruby, Apprentice and IntermediateChoruses. First Unitarian Congregation,175 St. Clair Ave. W. 416-366-0467.$25; $15(sr/st); $5(children 5 and under).— 7:30: Cathedral Church of St . James.Proms at the Cathedral. Band of the Royal Regimentof Canada; Elmer Iseler Singers; St.James’ Cathedral Choir. 65 Church St. 416-364-7865. $25-$30.— 7:30: Music for Missions. Un CánticoNuevo. Caron Daley, Jennifer Griffith, soprano;Julie Loveless, piano; Patrick Twaddle, baritone;and others. Knox Presbyterian Church,630 Spadina Ave. 416-921-8993. Admissionby donation. Benefit concert in support of LatinAmerican Mission.— 7:30: Sora. CD Release: “Heartwood”.Contemporary Celtic singer/songwriter. FireEscape Studio, Suite 207- 258 Wallace Ave.416-533-3131. Free.— 8:00: Civic Light Opera Company. AClass Act. See May 27.— 8:00: DanceWorks. Tavaziva Dance/Collectiveof Black Artists (COBA) – City ofTribes and Selected Repertoire. See May 28.— 8:00: Harmony Singers of Etobicoke.Blue Skies. Music by Gershwin, Berlin, Buble.Guests: Amy Moodie, vocalist; Don L. Steele,entertainer. Martin Grove United Church. 75Pergola Rd. 416-239-5821. $18; $15(sr/st);free(children 10 and under). Refreshmentsfollowing.— 8:00: New Adventures in Sound Art.Deep Wireless Ensemble Performance No.1.Kristen Roos. The Loop Centre for Lively Artsand Learning, Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601Christie St. No.176. 416-652-5115. $15;$10(st).— 8:00: Tafelmusik. The Creation. Haydn.Nancy Argenta, soprano; Jan Kobow, tenor;Locky Chung, baritone; Tafelmusik Orchestraand Chamber Choir; Bruno Weil, guest conductor.Massey Hall, 15 Shuter St. 416-872-4255. $35-$89.— 8:00: Tapestry. The Shadow. See May 21.BECOME A MUSIC GALLERY MEMBER AND SAVEON TICKET PRICES! Email info@musicgallery.orgThe Music GalleryMAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COM33

North York Concert BandJohn Edward Liddle, ConductorSpringCelebrationSaturday, May 30, 2009 at 7:30 p.m.Al Green TheatreMiles Nadal Jewish Community Centre750 Spadina Ave.(corner of Bloor and Spadina)Tickets: $15Children under 12 admitted freeFor tickets and information call 905-470-0272www.northyorkconcertband.ca... 1: CONCERTS: Toronto and GTASaturday May 30— 10:00am: Church of Saint MaryMagdalene. Visitation of the Blessed Virgin:Procession and Solemn Mass. Willan: LadyMotets; Parsons: Ave Maria; Palestrina: MissaQuarta. 477 Manning Ave. 416-531-7955.Free. Religious service.— 1:30 & 7:30: Common Thread CommunityChorus. !0th Anniversary Concert:Choose Love. Special guests: Christina Smith,fiddler; Jean Hewson, balladeer. Church of theHoly Trinity, 10 Trinity Sq. 416-410-5022.$18, $15(advance); $15(sr/st); $12(sr/st advance);$8(children 6-12); $6(children 6-12advance).— 2:00/3:30/5:00/7:00: EtobicokeSuzuki School of Music. Annual Solo Recitals.Young violinists and cellists. St. Philip’sLutheran Church, 61 West Deane Park Dr.416-239-4637. Free.— 2:00: Royal Conservatory of Music.Motus O Dance Theatre: Petrouchka. 273Bloor St. W. 416-408-2824 x321. $20; $10(st);free(children 5 and under). Also May 31.— 2:00 & 7:30: Mississauga Children’sChoir. Earth, Wind, Fire & Water. Programmeincludes Kuzmenko: new work.Guests: Warren Nicholson Guitar Quartet;Thomas Bell, music director. Royal Bank Theatre,Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living ArtsDrive, Mississauga. 905-306-6000. $20.— 3:00: Vivid. In Recital. Works by Liszt,Sancan, Widor, Dohnanyi, Burton and Piazzolla.Izabella Budai, flute; Teresa Zaleski, piano.Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave. 416-315-9506. $15; $10(st).— 4:00: Canadian Children’s Opera Company.Hansel and Gretel/How the ChildrenSaved the Carnival. Intermediate Chorus andOPERAtion KIDS. First Unitarian Congregation,175 St. Clair Ave. W. 416-366-0467.$25; $15(sr/st); $5(children 5 and under).— 5:00: Church of St. Stephen, Downsview.Tenor at Twilight II. Colin Norville, tenor;Annette Norville, soprano; John Bryan,organ; Greg Carpenter and Les Cinq. St.James’ Cathedral, 65 Church St. 416-241-4639. $20.— 7:00: Annex Singers. Cabaret: Mad, Badand Dangerous to Know. Maria Case, director.Bloor Street United Church, 300 Bloor St. W.416-968-7747. $15; $12(sr/st); free(childrenunder 12).EVE EGOYANMay 2009 – World PremièrePerformance & CD Launch Concert— 7:00: North Toronto Community Band.Spring Rhythms. Music from Bach to BigBand. Danny Wilks, conductor; guest: StephenCrowe, trumpet. Crescent School, 2365 BayviewAve. 416-481-1978. $20; $15(advance);$10(sr/st).— 7:30: Brampton Festival Singers. InConcert. Faure: Requiem; Orff: Carmina Burana.Headwaters Choir; Great Lakes SymphonyOrchestra; Robert Hennig, conductor. RoseTheatre, 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. 905-874-2800. $35; $30(sr); $15(child 12 and under).— 7:30: Canadian Children’s Opera Company.Hansel and Gretel Go Into the Woods: AFairy Tale. Youth Chorus and Principal Chorus.First Unitarian Congregation, 175 St. ClairAve. W. 416-366-0467. $25; $15(sr/st);$5(children 5 and under).— 7:30: Elisabeth Pomes. What is thisThing Called Love? Staged performance of themusic of Cole Porter. Elisabeth Pomes, ChristopherSharp, Marie-Line Ross, performers.Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave. 416-769-8511. $15; $5(children 12 and under). AlsoMay 31.— 7:30: Etobicoke Centennial Choir. LoveSongs for Springtime. Brahms to Broadway.Henry Renglich, musical director; Adolfo De-Santis, piano. Royal York Road United Church,851 Royal York Rd. 416-769-9271. $20.— 7:30: Japanese Canadian CulturalCentre. Benny Goodman Centennial Orchestra.Jazz arrangements of The Sound of Music; otherfavourites. Guests: Gene DiNovi, JamesCampbell and Dave Young. 6 Garamond Court.416-441-2345. $35; $30 (JCCC members)— 7:30: North York Concert Band. SpringCelebration. Jazz, music from the movies andBroadway. John E. Liddle, conductor. Al GreenTheatre, Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre,720 Spadina Ave. 905-470-0272. $15;$10(sr/st); free(children 12 and under).— 8:00: All The King’s Voices. 15th AnniversaryGala Cabaret. See May 1. St.George’s Anglican Church, 5350 Yonge St.416-225-2255. $20.— 8:00: Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra.Subscription Concert No.5. Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Overture; Prokofiev:Romeo and Juliet Suite; Borodin: SymphonyNo.2. Norman Reintamm, conductor. P.C. HoTheatre, Chinese Cultural Centre, 5183 SheppardAve. E. 416-879-5566. $20-$25. 7:30:The Church of St. Stephen, DownsviewIn association withMarville Travel LimitedpresentsTenor at Twilight IIColin Norville (Tenor), Annette Norville (soprano),John Bryan (organ), The Rev’d Greg Carpenter & Les CinqSt. James Cathedral65 Church Street at King StreetSaturday, May 30, 2009 @ 5:00 p.m.Admission: $20(416) 241-4639saintstephensoffice@rogers.comSIMPLE LINES OF ENQUIRYANN SOUTHAM Composer EVE EGOYAN PianistSaturday, May 30, 2009 at 8pmEnwave Theatre, Harbourfront CentreQueen’s Quay West, TorontoBox Office (416) 973-4000 Tickets $15 /$12www.eveegoyan.com34 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COMMAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009CDLAUNCHconcert

Cathedral BluffsSymphony OrchestraNorman Reintamm, Principal ConductorBorodin Symphony No. 2and Russian favourites8:00 p.m. May 30P.C. Ho Theatre5183 Sheppard Ave. Eastpre-concert chat.— 8:00: Civic Light Opera. A Class Act.See May 27.— 8:00: Counterpoint Community Orchestra.25th Anniversary Gala. Beethoven:Symphony No. 9; CPE Bach: Flute Concerto ind. Jennifer Rasor, soprano; Martha Spence,mezzo; Patrick Huang, tenor; Stuart Graham,baritone; Bell’Arte Singers; Jennifer Langton,flute; Terry Kowalczuk, music director. EdwardJohnson Building, 80 Queen’s Park.416-902-7532. $20; $16(advance); $7(13and under).— 8:00: DanceWorks. Tavaziva Dance/Collective of Black Artists (COBA) – City ofTribes and Selected Repertoire. See May 28.— 8:00: Ear Witness Productions. SimpleLines of Enquiry. Music by Southam. EveEgoyan, piano. Enwave Theatre, 235 Queen’sQuay W. 416-973-4000. $15; $12.— 8:00: Harmony Singers of Etobicoke.Blue Skies. See May 29.— 8:00: Nathaniel Dett Chorale. And StillWe Sing: All O’ We Is One. See May 27.— 8:00: New Adventures in Sound Art.Deep Wireless Ensemble Performance No.2.Alessandro Bosetti. The Loop Centre for LivelyArts and Learning, Artscape WychwoodBarns, 601 Christie St. No.176. 416-652-5115. $15; $10(st).— 8:00: Small World Music/HarbourfrontCentre. Azalea Ray: SpiritualSongs and Vocal Virtuosity. Tabla master. EnwaveTheatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. $30.— 8:00: Tapestry. The Shadow. See May 21.— 8:00: The Toy Piano Composers andDigital Prowess. ...and then my brain exploded.New, semi-improvised works for piano,double bass, bass clarinet, percussionists.Works by Clorey, Thornborrow, Ryan, Tam,Correia, and others. Gallery 345, 345 SoraurenAve. 647-829-4213. $15; $10(advance).— 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.Mahler Symphony 6. See May 28 (no pre-concertchat).— 9:00: Organix 09. The Quest For Discovery.Concert performed in darkness with imagesfrom the Hubble Telescope. Works by Glass,Pärt, Bach, Franck, Fauré, Messiaen, Felciano,Cabena and improvisations by Overduin. JanOverduin, organ. All Saints Kingsway AnglicanChurch, 2850 Bloor St. W. 416-241-9785.$25; $20(sr/st); free(12 and under).Sunday May 31— 11:00am: Church of Saint MaryMagdalene. Pentecost: Procession and SolemnMass. Palestrina: Missa Brevis; Tallis:Loquebantur. 477 Manning Ave. 416-531-7955. Free. Religious service.— 2:00: Civic Light Opera Company. AClass Act. See May 27.— 2:00: Royal Conservatory of Music. MotusO Dance Theatre: Petrouchka. See May 30.— 2:00: Tafelmusik. The Creation. See May 29.— 2:30: Elisabeth Pomes. What is this ThingCalled Love? See May 30.— 3:00: Deborah Kirshner, violin; UriMayer, viola; Coenraad Bloemendal,cello. Goldbergs for Strings. Bach: GoldbergVariations (string trio version); Gallery 345,345 Sorauren Ave. 416-822-9781. $20;$15(sr/st).— 3:00: Music at Islington. Music thatStirred the Soul. Favourite anthems of the liturgicalyear requested by the congregation. Choirof Islington United; John Derksen, director.Islington United Church, 25 BurnhamthorpeRd. 416-321-3656. $10.— 3:00: Toronto Jewish Folk Choir. CelebratingBikel and Glick. Mitch Smolkin, tenor;Nina Shapilsky, Lina Zemelman, piano; MiriamEskin, soprano; Herman Rombouts, bass. LeahPosluns Theatre, 4588 Bathurst St. 416-636-0936. $20(advance); $25; free(age12 & under).— 3:00: Church of Saint MaryMagdalene. Schola Magdalena Recital, CDLaunch and Tea Party. Medieval music byHildegard and Dufay; also Gregorian chant.477 Manning Ave. 416-531-7955. $30 (includescopy of CD “October Gracious Light”).— 4:00: Cathedral Church of St . James.Twilight Recital Series. Andrew Ager, organ.65 Church St. 416-364-7865. Free.— 4:30: Christ Church Deer Park. JazzVespers. Russ Little Quartet. 1570 Yonge St.416-920-5211. Free (donations welcomed).— 5:30: La Petite Musicale of Toronto.Olivia – A Tribute to the Olive Walke. Caribbeanfolk music. Lindy Burgess, director;guest: Marvin “Trini” Ishmael. Imperial OilAuditorium, Ontario Science Centre, 770 DonMills Rd. 416-286-9435. $30; $25(children12 and under).Monday June 01— 12:15: Music Mondays. Michael Holt:Prelude in E, Back To Zero. Michael Holt, piano/voice:Drew Jurecka, violin; Greg Campbell,viola; Erika Nielson, cello; Julia Hambleton,Tara Kahan, clarinets; Hanna Janossy,harp; Gary Armstrong, oboe. Church of theHoly Trinity, 10 Trinity Sq. 416-598-4521x222. Pwyc ($5 suggested).— 8:00: Etobicoke Youth Strings. SpringFinale. Islington United Church, 25 BurnhamthorpeCres. 416-239-0523. Free (donationsaccepted).Tuesday June 02— 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.World Music Series: The Art of Spanish Guitar.Music from Spain and Latin America includingworks by Turina, Asencio, and Villa-The Toronto Jewish Folk ChoirCelebratesBikel and Glick!83rd Annual Spring ConcertAlexander Veprinsky, conductorLina Zemelman, pianistMiriam Eskin, sopranoHerman Rombouts, bassHighlights:Yiddish, Hebrew and other songspopularized by Theodore Bikel (85 in May)With Mitch Smolkin, tenor;Srul Irving Glick (1934-2002): Yiddish Suite No. 2commemorating Glick’s 75th anniversary.Sunday, May 31, at 3 p.m.Leah Posluns Theatre, 4588 Bathurst St.Advance tickets: $20; $25 at the door; children 12 and under free.Info & Reservations: (416) 636-0936 / tjfolkchoir@sympatico.caVisa orders: 416-398-3405www.winchevskycentre.org/institutions/choir.htmlLobos. Raffi Altounian, guitar. Richard BradshawAmphitheatre, Four Seasons Centre forthe Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. Free.Wednesday June 03— 12:30: Yorkminster Park BaptistChurch. Noonhour Recital. John Palmer, organ.1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167. Free.— 5:30: Canadian Opera Company. RenaissanceFestival: Caelum et Terra! Works byBritten and Fine; also Renaissance masters.Toronto Chamber Choir; Mark Vuorinen, conductor.Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, FourSeasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. Free.— 7:00: Civic Light Opera. A Class Act.See May 27.— 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.Brahms Symphony 1. Berlioz: Overture toBenvenuto Cellini; Bolcom: Violin Concerto(Canadian première); Brahms: Symphony No.1.Gil Shaham, violin; Leonard Slatkin, guest conductor.Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St.416-593-4828. $37-$125.Thursday June 04— 12:00: Canadian Opera Company. VocalSeries: Lo Speziale/Der Apotheker. Haydnoperas, reconstructed by Mahler. Aradia Ensemble,Kevin Mallon, artistic director. RichardBradshaw Amphitheatre, Four SeasonsCentre for the Performing Arts, 145 QueenSt. W. 416-363-8231. Free.— 12:15: Metropolitan United Church.Noon at the Met. Mark MacDonald, organ. 56Queen St. E. 416-363-0331. Free.— 12:15: Music on the Hill. Free LunchtimeConcert – Allison Lynn and Gerald Flemming.Classic gospel, country, jazz. St. John’s YorkMills Anglican Church, 19 Don Ridge Drive.416-225-6611. Free.— 8:00: Civic Light Opera Company. AClass Act. See May 27.— 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.Brahms Symphony 1. See Jun 3. 7:15: preconcertchat.— 8:00: Via Salzburg. Tranquil Energy. Mozart:”Dissonance Quartet” in C KV 465;Schafer: Quartet No. 6; Schubert: Quintet in CD 956. Seiler String Quartet; guest: RachelMercer, cello. Glenn Gould Studio, 250 FrontSt. W. 416-872-4255. $50; $45(sr); $20(st).See ad next page.Friday June 05— 7:30: Luminato Festival. Red Sky Performance– Tono. Dance presentation featuringindigenous cultures of Canada, Mongolia,and China. Roger Sinha, choreographer; SandraLaronde, artistic director. Fleck Dance Theatre,207 Queen’s Quay W. 416-973-4000.$35, $45. Also June 6, 7.— 7:30: Royal Conservatory of Music.Motus O Dance Theatre: East of the Sun,West of the Moon. 273 Bloor St. W. 416-408-2824 x321. $20; $10(st); free(children 5and under). Also Jun 6, 7.— 8:00: Blue Bridge Festival. Songs ofHope from Times of Despair. Ardeleana Trio;Andrea Cerswell, soprano; Linda Condy, mezzo;Jeanette Lynes and Patricia Keeney, poets;Blue Bridge Festival Choir. De La Salle Park,Sutton. 289-470-1099. $15.— 8:00: Civic Light Opera Company. AClass Act. See May 27.— 8:00: Heliconian Music Concert Series.A Time Capsule: 10 Decades of Music.Repertoire from 1909 to 2009. 35 HazeltonMAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COM35

... 1: CONCERTS: Toronto and GTAAve. 416-922-3618. $20.— 8:00: Performing Arts York Region.Fabulous Fridays: Young Artists’ Concert.Thornhill Presbyterian Church, 271 Centre St.,Thornhill. 905-881-1344. $25; $20(sr); $10(st).— 8:00: Soundstreams/Luminato. TheChildren’s Crusade. Schafer. Canadian Children’sOpera Company; Toronto Consort; TimAlbery, director. Heritage Court, CanadianNational Exhibition Grounds. 416-366-7723.$40. Also June 6 and beyond.— 8:00: Via Salzburg. Tranquil Energy. SeeJun 4.Saturday June 06— 2:00: Royal Conservatory of Music.Motus O Dance Theatre: East of the Sun,West of the Moon. See Jun 5.— 4:00 & 8:00: Luminato Festival. RedSky Performance – Tono. See June 5.— 7:30: East York Choir. Celtic Spirit. Choraland instrumental Celtic selections. LorettoReid, tin whistle and accordion; Sharlene Wallace,Celtic harp; October Browne, guitar andmandolin; Rose Bolton, fiddle; Ray Caldwell,uilleann pipes; Bill Kervin, bodhran; Jenny Crober,conductor; Liz Acker, accompanist. EastminsterUnited Church, 310 Danforth Ave.416-463-8225. $20; $15(sr); $10(st).— 8:00: Acoustic Harvest. Genticorum.Quebec folk-ensemble. St. Nicholas AnglicanChurch, 1512 Kingston Rd. 416-264-2235. $18.— 8:00: Blue Bridge Festival. Gala Concert.Works by Pierne, Delibes and Haydn.Blue Bridge Festival Orchestra and Choir; ArdeleanaTrio, Andrea Cerswell, soprano; LindaCondy, mezzo; Robert Owen, tenor; PeterMcGillivray, baritone; William Shookoff, conductor.St. Paul’s Anglican Church, 227Church St., Newmarket. 289-470-1099. $15.— 8:00: Civic Light Opera. A Class Act.See May 27.— 8:00: Jubilate Singers. Chamber Jazz.Isabel Bernaus, conductor; guests: Brian BarlowQuartet. St. Stephen-in-the-Fields Church,103 Bellevue Ave. 416-536-5750. $20;$15(sr); $10(st).— 8:00: North York Concert Orchestra.Final subscription series concert. Brahms:Academic Festival Overture; Mascagni: Intermezzofrom Cavalleria Rusticana; Beethoven:Romance No. 2 in F; Symphony No. 1; alsoconcerto movements by NYCO Music Festivalwinners. Julia McFarlane, violin; David Bowser,conductor. Grace Church on-the-Hill, 300Lonsdale Rd. 416-628-9195. $20; $15(sr/st).— 8:00: Soundstreams/Luminato. TheChildren’s Crusade. See June 5.— 8:00: St. Timothy Anglican Church. ImAbendrot. Music of Strauss, Wagner and Verdi.Patricia Haldane, soprano; Christopher Foley,accompanist. 100 Old Orchard Grove Rd.416-488-0079. $20.— 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.Joshua Bell. Berlioz: Overture to BenvenutoCellini; Lalo: Symphonie espagnole; Brahms:Symphony No.1. Joshua Bell, violin; LeonardSlatkin, guest conductor. Roy Thomson Hall,60 Simcoe St. 416-593-4828. $41-$130.7:15: pre-concert chat.Sunday June 07— 10:00am to 4:30pm: Blue Bridge Festival.Carnival of the Arts. Poetry, chambermusic, art classes, canoe ballet, mask-makingand pantomime. Toogood Troubadour Trail,Main St., Unionville. 289-470-1099. Free.3:00: Matinee concert, Varley Art Gallery,216 Main St., Unionville. $15.— 1:30: CAMMAC/McMichael Gallery.Veronique Mathieu, violin. 10365 Islington Ave.,Kleinburg. 905-893-1121. $15; $9(sr/st).— 2:00: Civic Light Opera Company. AClass Act. See May 27.— 2:00: First Unitarian Congregation ofToronto. June Concert Series: WindermereString Quartet. 175 St. Clair Ave. W. 416-924-9654. $18, $12(sr/st).Isabel Bernausconductorwith guestsBrian Barlow QuartetChamberJazzSaturday, June 6 8:00pmSt. Stephen-in-the-Fields Church103 Bellvue Avenue(on College St., west of Spadina Ave.)Tickets: ticketweb.ca, 416·536·5750, or at the door$20 adults, $15 seniors, $10 studentsjubilatesingers.caSherry SquiresaccompanistTranquil EnergySeiler Sisters Quartet and Cellist Rachel MercerMozartSchaferSchubertThursday, June 4 and Friday, June 5 at 8:00 pmTICKETS NOW ON SALE!36 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COMMAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009

— 2:00: Royal Conservatory of Music.Motus O Dance Theatre: East of the Sun,West of the Moon. See Jun 5.— 2:30: Silverthorn Symphonic Winds.Symphonic Sketches. Works by Berlioz, Mozart,Whiteacre, Bennett. Andrew Chung, conductor.Church of St. Mary Magdalene, 477Manning Ave. 416-652-2077. $15; $10(sr/st); free(children 12 and under).— 3:00: Music at Sharon. Nikolai Demidenko,piano. Schumann: Faschingsschwankaus Wien Op.26; Carnaval Op.9. Chopin: 24Preludes Op.28. Sharon Temple of the Childrenof Peace, 18974 Leslie St., Sharon. 416-597-7840. $45.THEEAST YORK CHOIRpresents— 3:00: Symphony Hamilton. ClassicalCombo. Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus K618;Beethoven: Septet; Haydn: Symphony No. 83“La Poule”. James R.McKay, music director.St. Matthew’s Anglican Church. 126 PlainsRd. E., Burlington. 905-526-6690. $28;$25(advance); $15(sr/st); $12(sr/st advance);$5(child).— 4:00: Luminato Festival. Red Sky Performance– Tono. See June 5.— 4:00: St. Olave’s Arts Guild. FestiveEvensong for Trinity Sunday. Words and musicto celebrate holidays and travel. St. Olave’sAnglican Church, 360 Windermere Ave. 416-769-5686. Contributions welcome. Strawberrytea follows performance.— 7:30: Victoria Scholars. Scholars’Choice. Works by Dusatko, MacMillan, Raminsh,Togni, and others. Jerzy Cichocki, musicdirector. Our Lady of Sorrows Church, 3055Bloor St. W. 416-761-7776. $25, $20(sr/st).CELTIC SPIRITCeltic choral and instrumentalselections from Ireland, Scotland,Wales, France & Canada.Artistic DirectorJenny CroberAccompanistElizabeth AckerFeaturing some of Canada’sfinest Celtic musicians:Loretto Reid: tin whistle,Irish flute, concertina, accordionOctober Browne: guitar,mandolin, cittern, vocalsSharlene Wallace: Celtic harpRay Caldwell: uilleann pipesBill Kervin: bodhranRose Bolton: fiddleAlso featuring narrators:Deborah Drakeford,Liam Crober-BestSATURDAY, JUNE 6, 20097:30 pmEastminster United Church310 Danforth Ave.(Chester subway)$20; $15 (Sr.); $10 (St.)416-463-8225www.eastyorkchoir.catoronto children’s chorusElise Bradley, Artistic DirectorBlue Bridge FestivalA River of Music, Poetry & Song in York RegionSutton Newmarket UnionvilleFriday, Saturday & Sunday 5, 6, 7 June 2009www.bluebridgefestival.com (289) 470–1099Presented by the Ardeleana Chamber Music Society a Registered Canadian Charity since 1988artistic director/brenda mullerMusical Magic Across the BordersNext Stop: Europe!Be the first to enjoy selections from the choir’supcoming European tour. Wish them well as theyprepare to perform at the World Choral Festival byinvitation of the Vienna Boys’ Choir.Fri June 12 th 2009 - 7:30 p.m.Calvin Presbyterian Church, 26 Delisle AvenueTickets: $35, includes post-concert receptionMAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COM37

LISTINGS: SECTION 2CONCERTS BEYOND THE GTAFor a list of section 2 communities see page 22.Friday May 01— 12:00 noon: Kitchener-Waterloo SymphonyOrchestra. Open Ears: Red Chamber. TraditionalChinese instruments, untraditional music.Church of the Good Shepherd, 116 Queen St. N.,Kitchener. 519-578-7570. Free.— 12:15: St. Jude’s Anglican Church. NoonOrgan Recital. Stephanie Burgoyne and WilliamVandertuin, organ. 81 Peel St., Brantford. 519-752-0965. Free.— 2:00: Shaw Festival. Sunday in the Parkwith George (preview). Sondheim. Royal GeorgeTheatre. 85 Queen St., Niagara-on-the-Lake.Also May 3, 5, 7- 9, 14-16, 21, 22(opening), 23,24, 27, 29, 31, June 2, 3, 5, 6 and beyond.— 7:30: Kitchener-Waterloo SymphonyOrchestra. Open Ears: Three world premieresof music and dance. Theatre of the Arts, Universityof Waterloo, 200 University Ave. W., Waterloo.519-578-7570. $28.— 7:30: Victorian Operetta Society. Camelot.Lerner & Loewe. Victoria Hall, 55 King St. W.Cobourg. 905-372-2210. $20; $15(child 12and under). Also May 2.— 8:00: Hamilton Theatre Inc. Hot Mikado.Bell & Bowman. Sharon Reynolds, director; PaulPenney, music director. Downtown Arts Centre,28 Rebecca St., Hamilton. 905-522-3032.$25; $22(sr); $16(st). Also May 2, 3.— 8:00: Orchestra London Canada. LastNight of the Proms. A rousing finale in the Englishtradition. Guest: Sarah Ryu, violin; Brian Jackson,conductor. Chatham Cultural Centre, 75 WilliamSt. North, Chatham. 519-354-8338/866-807-7770. $38.— 8:00: Theatre Ancaster. Come Together:The Music of the Beatles. Theatre Auditorium,Ancaster High School, 374 Jerseyville Rd W.Ancaster. 905-304-7469. $25; $20(sr);$10(st).— 10:30pm: Kitchener-Waterloo SymphonyOrchestra. Open Ears: Hard Rubber Orchestra.New music Big Band from Vancouver. VenueTBC, Kitchener-Waterloo. 519-578-1570.$22.Saturday May 02— 10:00am: Kitchener-Waterloo SymphonyOrchestra. Open Ears: Soundwalk withMurray Schafer. Begins at Victoria Park Pavilion,80 Schneider Ave., Kitchener. 519-578-1570.Free.— 2:00: Kitchener-Waterloo SymphonyOrchestra. Open Ears: DIVA and Eve Egoyan.Piano and technology. Registry Theatre, 122Frederick St., Kitchener. 519-578-1570. $22.— 2:00 & 7:30: Victorian Operetta Society.Camelot. See May 1.— 7:30: Chorus Niagara. The Sacred and theProfane. Orff: Carmina Burana; Durufle: Requiem.Virginia Hatfield, soprano; Stuart Howe, tenor;Benjamin Covey, bass; Robert Cooper, conductor.Calvary Church, 89 Scott St., St. Catharines.905-688-5550. $34; $32(sr); $15(st).— 7:30: Grand Philharmonic Children’sChoir. Butterflies and Rainstorms. Susan Watt,Robert Wilkie, conductors. Benton Street BaptistChurch, 90 Benton St. Kitchener. 519-578-6885. $20; $15(sr); $10(child).— 8:00: Barrie Concerts. Joyous and Compelling.Ensemble Vivant (Catherine Wilson, piano;Erica Beston, violin; Sharon Prater, cello). Hi-WayPentecostal Church, 50 Anne St. North, Barrie.705-726-1181. $160; $80(st). Subscriptionseries only.— 8:00: Folk Under the Clock. Alasdair Fraserand Natalie Haas in Concert. Scottish fiddleand cello. Market Hall Theatre, 336 George St.,Peterborough. 705-743-3372. $35; $30(adv);$15(students at door).— 8:00: Georgian Bay Symphony. GrandOrchestra Concert. Holst: Excerpts from thePlanets (Mars, Venus, Jupiter); Tchaikovsky:1812 Overture; Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2,3rd movement; Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5,2nd movement; Mascall: Manitoulin (premiere).Guest: Huronia Symphony Orchestra. OSCVIRegional Auditorium, 1550 8th St. E., OwenSound. 519-372-0212. $26; $24(sr); $5(st).— 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Orchestra.Romantic Rarities. Music by Boelmann,Magnard, Popper, Reznicek and Silcher. AlanStellings, cello; Graham Coles, music director.Maureen Forrester Recital Hall, Wilfrid LaurierUniversity, 75 University Ave. W., Waterloo.519-744-3828. $20; $15(sr/st); children free.— 8:00: London Music Club. Duane Andrews,guitar. Singer/songwriter. 470 Colborne St., London.619-640-6996. $10.— 8:00: Niagara Symphony Orchestra. APassage to India. Rimsky-Korsakov: Song of India;Rósza: The Jungle Book; and other works.Guests: narrators from Brock University DramaDepartment. Sean O’Sullivan Theatre, 500 GlenridgeAve., St. Catharines. 905-687-4993.$35-$40; $16(st). 7:15: pre-concert chat.— 8:00: Orchestra London Canada. LastNight of the Proms. See May 1. Centennial Hall,550 Wellington St. London. 519-679-8778.$37.73-$53.20.— 8:00: Stratford Festival. West Side Story(preview). Bernstein/Sondheim. Gary Griffin,director. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen St., Stratford.1-800-567-1600. $48.75-$98.75. AlsoMay 5-7, 13, 14, 16, 18, 22, 23, 27, 30, June 2,4, 5(opening) and beyond.— 8:00: Theatre Ancaster. Come Together:The Music of the Beatles. See May 1.— 9:00: Hamilton Theatre Inc. Hot Mikado.See May 1.Sunday May 03— 2:00: Hamilton Theatre Inc. Hot Mikado.See May 1.— 2:30: Niagara Symphony Orchestra. APassage to India. See May 2. 1:45: pre-concertchat.— 2:30: Orchestra London Canada. LastNight of the Proms. See May 1. Centennial Hall,550 Wellington St. London. 519-679-8778.$37.73-$53.20.— 3:00: La Jeunesse Youth Orchestra. SonicBloom. Programme includes newly commissionedworks. Port Hope United Church, 34 SouthSt., Port Hope. 1-866-460-5596. $15; $12(st).— 3:00: Wellington Winds. Players’ Choice.Michael Purves-Smith, conductor; Mike Bronson,percussion; Ted Follows, narrator. GrandviewBaptist Church, 250 Old Chicopee Dr., Kitchen-er. 519-579-3097. $20;$15(sr);$5(st).— 3:00 & 7:30: Hamilton Children’s Choir.Annual Spring Concert. Zimfira Poloz, artisticdirector. Ryerson United Church, 842 Main St. E.,Hamilton. 905-527-1618. $20; $15(sr);$10(st); $5(10 & under).— 4:00: Huronia Symphony Orchestra.Season Finale: A Grand Orchestra. Holst: ThePlanets; Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture. Guest: theGeorgian Bay Orchestra; John Barnum, conductor.Fisher Auditorium, Barrie Central SecondarySchool, 125 Dunlop St. W., Barrie. 1-888-222-6608. $25; $12(st); $2(under 12).— 7:30: Concordia Choirs. Music of theWorld. Alfred Kunz, conductor; Jeanette Bauman,piano; children’s choir; Claudia Niemenen, conductor;Ulrike Schmidt, piano. Concordia Club, 429Ottawa St. S. Kitchener. 519-745-5617. Free(donations welcome).— 8:00: Acoustic Muse Concerts. AlasdairFraser & Natalie Haas. Scottish fiddle and cello.Aeolian Performing Arts Centre, 795 Dundas St.,London. 519-473-2099. $25; $20(advance).Monday May 04— 7:30: McMaster University Choir/MohawkCollege Singers. Music For A ChangingWorld. Haydn: Lord Nelson Mass; VaughanWilliams: Donna Nobis Pacem. With orchestra;David Holler, conductor. Westdale United Church,99 North Oval, Hamilton. 905-526-7938. $25;$20(sr/st).Tuesday May 05— 7:30: Platinum Concerts International.Kyiv Chamber Choir. First United Church, 16William St. W., Waterloo. 877-266-2557.$40.Wednesday May 06— 12:00 noon: Midday Music With Shigeru.Stars of Tomorrow. Students from the YoungArtists Performance Academy, Royal Conservatoryof Music. Hi-Way Pentecostal Church, 50Anne St. N., Barrie. 705-726-1181. $5;free(students).— 12:15: St. Andrew’s PresbyterianChurch. Wednesday Noon-Hour Concert. SarahCardwell, oboe; Laurel Swinden, flute; Ann-MarieMacDairmid, piano. 54 Queen Street N, Kitchener.519-478-4430. Free.— 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber MusicSociety. Beethoven Sonatas 3. Nos. 5-7; No.29 “Hammerklavier”. Till Fellner, piano. KWCMSMusic Room, 57 Young St. W., Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $30; $25(sr); $20(st).Thursday May 07— 12:15: St. John the Evangelist AnglicanChurch. Thursday Noon-Hour Organ RecitalSeries. Marlin Nagtegaal, organ. 23 Water St. N.,Kitchener. 519-743-0228. Free.— 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber MusicSociety. Made in Canada Piano Quartet.Coulthard: Piano Quartet; Milhaud: Quatre Visages(viola/piano); Schulhoff: Duo for Violin and Cello;Brahms: Piano Quartet No.3 in c. KWCMSMusic Room, 57 Young St. W., Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $25; $20(sr); $15(st).Friday May 08— 12:15: St. Jude’s Anglican Church. NoonOrgan Recital. Christiaan Teeuwsen, organ. 81Peel St., Brantford. 519-752-0965. Free.— 5:30: Perimeter Institute. Black Hole CabaretPart III. Stravinsky: L’Histoire du Soldat. BlackHole Bistro, 31 Caroline St. N., Waterloo. 519-883-4480. $72 (includes dinner).— 8:00: Clearly Classic Concerts. Trio Lyra.Carnegie Gallery, 10 King St. W., Dundas. 905-627-4265/905-304-3767. $25; $22(sr/st).— 8:00: Crescendo Concerts. Bold as Brass –Jamie Sommerville and Friends. Jamie Sommerville,horn; guests: Julia Wedman, Brandon Chiu,violin; Elspeth Thomson, viola; Marsha Moffitt,cello; Aimee Tsuchiya, piano. Hillfield StrathallanCollege, 299 Fennell Ave. W . Hamilton. 905-389-1367 x201. $30; $25(sr); $20(st).Saturday May 09— 2:15: The Living Green Fair. Michael“Pepe” Francis and Richard Homme, guitars. PortHope Fairgrounds, 62 McCaul St., Port Hope.905-753-2196. $3.— 3:00: Primavera Concerts. Trio Lyra. Musicfor flute, harp and viola. St. Barnabas Church,33 Queenston St., St. Catharines. 905-684-4416. $25; $15(st).— 6:00: Malhar Group. Springfest 2009. UstadShahid Parvez, sitar; Subhankar Banerjee,tabla; Pandit Jayatheerth Mevundi, vocal. DowntownArts Centre, 28 Rebecca St. Hamilton.905-628-3168. $50; $30; $15.— 7:30: Grand Philharmonic Choir. Creation.Haydn. Bruce Kelly, baritone; Laura Whalen,soprano; Colin Ainsworth, tenor. Kitchener WaterlooSymphony; Howard Dyck, conductor. CentreIn The Square, 101 Queen St. N., Kitchener.519-578-1570/800-265-8977. $20-$60(adult);$18-$54(sr); $10(st/child).— 7:30: Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra.Prodigy. Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture Op.26;Prokofiev: Classical Symphony Op.25; Chopin:Grande polonaise brillante Op.22; Mozart: SymphonyNo.29 in A K201. James Sommerville,conductor; Jan Lisiecki, piano. Central PresbyterianChurch, 165 Charlton Ave. W. Hamilton.905-526-7756. $25.— 7:30: The Cellar Singers. AnniversaryGala. Amy Dodington, soprano; Charles Fowler,tenor; John Dodington, bass; David James, recitation.St. Paul’s United Church, Orillia. 705-326-8011. $25; $12(st).— 7:30: Waterloo Chamber Players. JourneysThrough Europe. Haydn: Trumpet Concerto;Mozart: Prague Symphony; Raminsh: Suite onFive Latvian Folk Songs. Larry Larson, trumpet.Waterloo North Mennonite Church, 100 BenjaminRd. Waterloo. 519-885-5697. $15; $10;$5(door).— 8.00: Guelph Chamber Choir. Love Songsfor Springtime: Passion, Poetry, and Song.Guests: John and Jane Watson, actors. HarcourtMemorial United Church, 87 Dean Ave., Guelph.1-877-520-2408/519-763-3000. $25; $10(st).— 8:00: Aurora Writers Group/MacDonald-Kramer Family. Words and Music. Live musicwith selections from Broadway shows, originalfolk and light classics. Readings from authors ofAurora Storyalis. Trinity Anglican Church, 79Victoria St. Aurora. 905-898-5484. $12. Receptionat 7:30.— 8:00: DaCapo Chamber Choir. Fire & Air.Works by Schafer and Enns. St. John the EvangelistAnglican Church, 23 Water St. N. Kitchener.519-725-7549. $20; $15(sr/st).— 8:00: Orchestra London Canada. OvationSeries – Fantastic Finale. Corigliano: Red ViolinSuite; Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique. Lara St.John, violin; Timothy Vernon, conductor. CentennialHall, 550 Wellington St., London. 519-679-8778. $36-$57.— 8:00: Performing Arts Bancroft. Mother’sDay Concert. Jennifer White, Celtic harp. BancroftVillage Playhouse, 5 Hastings St. South,Bancroft. 1-888-474-1556. $22.38 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COMMAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009

— 8:00: Renaissance Singers. Romance.Brahms: Liebeslieder Waltzes; other works. St.George’s Anglican Church, 321 Fischer HallmanRd., Kitchener. 519-745-0650. $20; $15(sr/st); $5(children under 12).Sunday May 10— 3:00: Mercredi Musique. In Concert. Worksby Boccherini, Fauré and Schubert. Gordon Cleland,cello; Barbara Budd, speaker; H. Paul vanDongen, conductor; St. Catharines United MennoniteChurch, 335 Linwell Rd., St. Catharines.905-935-8017. $15; $5(st, child).— 3:00: Renaissance Singers. Romance.Brahms: Liebeslieder Waltzes; other works. SeeMay 9. Trinity Anglican Church, 12 Blair Rd.,Cambridge. 519-745-0675. $20; $15(sr/st);$5(12 and under).— 4:00: St. James Anglican Church. JazzVespers. 137 Melville St. Dundas. 905-627-1424. Freewill offering.— 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber MusicSociety. Winston Choi, piano, MinghuangXu, violin. Sheng: The Stream Flows (solo violin);also sonatas by Debussy, Ravel and Franck. KWC-MS Music Room, 57 Young St. W., Waterloo.519-886-1673. $25; $20(sr); $15(st).Monday May 11— 8:00: Folia. To Mothers: Saints Every One(Plus a Psycho or Two). Music by Biber, Merula,Caldara, Turini and others. Laura Pudwell, mezzosoprano;Linda Melsted and Patricia Ahern, baroqueviolins; Laura Jones, viola da gamba; BorysMedicky, harpsichord; Lucas Harris, lutes; theToronto Continuo Collective. Registry Theatre,122 Frederick St., Kitchener. 519-578-1570.Wednesday May 13— 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo SymphonyOrchestra. Dial M for Music. Monteverdi: Sinfoniee Ritornelli from Orfeo; Marcello: ConcertoGrosso in D Op.1 No.1; Molter: Clarinet Concerto;Mozart: Divertimento in F K.138; Mendelssohn:Sinfonia No.7 in D. Stephen Sitarski,guest conductor; Ross Edwards, clarinet. FirstUnited Church, 16 William Street W., Waterloo.519-578-1570. $32; $20(st); $5(children).Thursday May 14— 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber MusicSociety. Monica Rodriguez, violin; OlenaKlyucharova, piano. Bach: Sonata BWV1001(parts); Prokofiev: Sonata No. 2 in D; Reveultas:violin sonata tba; piano solos tba. KWCMS MusicRoom, 57 Young St. W., Waterloo. 519-886-1673. By donation at door, min. $10 requested(charitable receipts given).Friday May 15— 12:15: St. Jude’s Anglican Church. NoonOrgan Recital. Andrew Keegan MacKriel, organ.81 Peel St., Brantford. 519-752-0965. Free.— 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo SymphonyOrchestra. Dial M for Music. Harcourt MemorialUnited Church, 87 Dean Ave., Guelph. SeeMay 13.Saturday May 16— 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo SymphonyOrchestra. Dial M for Music. Central PresbyterianChurch, 7 Queen’s Sq., Cambridge. SeeMay 13.— 8:00: Nota Bene Period Orchestra. InConcert. Works by Telemann, Handel, Marais,Purcell, Locke. Borys Medicky and Linda Melsted.Registry Theatre, 122 Frederick St., Kitchener.519-745-6565. $25.Sunday May 17— 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber MusicSociety. Robert Silverman, piano. Liszt:Prelude on Bach’s “Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen”;Brahms: Sonata in f Op.5; Schumann:Arabeske Op. 18; Symphonic Etudes Op. 13.KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young St. W., Waterloo.519-886-1673. $25; $20(sr); $15(st).Friday May 22— 12:15: St. Jude’s Anglican Church. NoonOrgan Recital. Angus Sinclair, organ. 81 Peel St.,Brantford. 519-752-0965. Free.— 8:00: Orchestra Kingston. Gone to theBirds. Works by Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Saint-Saëns, Copland and Vivaldi. John Palmer, conductor;Anne Palmer, piccolo. St. George’s AnglicanCathedral, 270 King St., Kingston. 613-531-1939. $15; $10(sr/st).Saturday May 23— 7:30: Guelph Youth Singers. Rhythm ofthe Rain. Besig: Reflections of a Lad at Sea; HurricaneGo Away!; and other works. Linda Beaupré,director; guests: Ken Gee, piano; members of theSuzuki String School of Guelph. River Run Centre,35 Woolwich St., Guelph. 519-763-3000. $22;$16(sr/st). Raffle and Silent Auction follow theconcert.— 7:30: Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra.Dynasties. Chinese and Western music. JamesSommerville, conductor; George Gao, erhu. HamiltonPlace, 1 Summers Lane, Hamilton. 905-526-7756. $36-$59; $32-$54(sr); $10(st);$5(child).— 7:30: Lyrica Chamber Choir. BetweenFriends. Works by Canadian and American composers.Steve Winfield, conductor. Burton AvenueUnited Church, 37 Burton Ave., Barrie. 705-722-0271. $15; $12(sr/st).— 8:00: Northumberland Orchestra andChoir. 30th Anniversary Gala Concert. ParkPlayhouse, 60 King St. E., Cobourg. 905-377-1477. $25; $23(sr); $10(st); free(child under 12with adult).Sunday May 24— 12:00 noon: Orchestra London Canada.Serenade Brunch Series – Opera Brunch. Selectionsfrom Mozart’s The Magic Flute. OperaChorus members; Mark Payne, piano. Best WesternLamplighter Inn, 591 Wellington Rd. London.519-679-8778. $45.— 4:00: St. James Anglican Church. ChoralEvensong and Organ Recital. Music by DeGrigny,Bedard, Howells, and Stanford. Choir of St.James Church; Eric Osborne, organist. 137Melville St. Dundas. 905-627-1424. Freewilloffering.— 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber MusicSociety/Wilfrid Laurier University.QuartetFest 2009 Concert No. 1. Haydn: Op.76No.4 “Sunrise”; Dubois: Quartet No.2; Dvorak:Quartet Op.106. Cecilia Quartet. Maureen ForresterRecital Hall, WLU, Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $25; $20(sr); $15(st).Thursday May 28— 8:00: Acoustic Muse Concerts. Sylvia Tyson.Country and folk music. Aeolian PerformingArts Centre, 795 Dundas St., London. 519-473-2099. $32.50(advance); $37.50.Friday May 29— 12:15: St. Jude’s Anglican Church. NoonOrgan Recital. Alison Clark, organ. 81 Peel St.,Brantford. 519-752-0965. Free.— 8:00: Bravado! Broadway, Bach and a LittleRock. Bach: Jesu Joy; Cantata 140; also musicby Queen; selections from The Sound of Musicand A Chorus Line. Guests: Moving Art Dancers;Bravado’s All-Star Band; Scott Boyer, music director.Georgian College Theatre, 1 Georgian Dr.,Barrie. 705-728-7828. $20.— 8:00: Harlequin Singers. Spring CabaretConcert – Broadway Showcase. Songs by Gershwin,Porter, Lerner. Drury Lane Theatre, 2269New St. Burlington. 905-637-3979. $20.— 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber MusicSociety/Wilfrid Laurier University.QuartetFest 2009 Concert No. 2. Haydn: Op.76No.5; Op.77 No.2; Shostakovich: Quartet No. 8.Penderecki String Quartet. Maureen ForresterRecital Hall, WLU, Waterloo. 519-886-1673.$25; $20(sr); $15(st).— 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo SymphonyOrchestra. Beethoven’s Ninth. Good: Betweenthe Rooms, Concerto for Trumpet; Beethoven:Symphony No.9 in d Op.125. Edwin Outwater,conductor; Larry Larson, trumpet; Laura Whalen,soprano; Lauren Siegel, mezzo; Kurt Lehmann,tenor; Gregory Dahl, bass; Grand PhilharmonicChoir and other choirs. Centre in the Square, 101Queen St. N., Kitchener. 519-578-1570. $20-$75; $20(st).— 8:00: St. James Anglican Church. MusicaSt. James: An Evening With Mozart. Ian andCatherine Sadler as Mr. and Mrs. Mozart. 137Melville St. Dundas. 905-627-1424. $20.Saturday May 30— 7:30: Orchestra London. The Magic Flute.Mozart. Joseph Schnurr, tenor (Tamino); ShannonMercer, soprano (Pamina); Aline Kutan, soprano(Queen of the Night); Uwe Dambruch, bass (Sarastro);Hugh Russell, baritone (Papageno); TimothyVernon, conductor; Glynis Leyshon, director.Grand Theatre, 471 Richmond St., London. 519-679-8778. $49-$129. Also June 2, 4, 6.— 8:00: Harlequin Singers. Spring CabaretConcert – Broadway Showcase. See May 29.— 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber MusicSociety. WindFest 2009 Concert No. 1.Beethoven: Quintet for Winds and Piano; otherworks tba. WindFest Players; Sandra Mogensen,piano. KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young St. W.Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $15; $10(sr);$8(st).— 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo SymphonyOrchestra. Beethoven’s Ninth. See May 29.—: 8:00: Bravado! Broadway, Bach and a LittleRock. See May 29.Sunday May 31— 2:00: Harlequin Singers. Spring CabaretConcert – Broadway Showcase. See May 29.— 2:30: Kitchener-Waterloo SymphonyOrchestra. Beethoven’s Ninth. See May 29.— 3:30: Elora Festival Singers. MayFair.Popular, folk and light classical music. Noel Edison,conductor. Elora Arena, David St., Elora.519-846-0331/800-747-7550. $35.— 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber MusicSociety/Wilfrid Laurier University.QuartetFest 2009 Concert No.3. Various works.Young Artists of QuartetFest. Maureen ForresterRecital Hall, WLU, Waterloo. 519-886-1673.$15; $10(sr); $8(st).Tuesday June 02— 7:30: Orchestra London. The Magic Flute.See May 30.— 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber MusicSociety. QuartetFest 2009 Concert No. 4.Haydn: Quartet in E flat Op.33 No.2 “Joke”;Ginastera: Quartet No. 1; Grieg: Quartet in g.Biava String Quartet. KWCMS Music Room, 57Young St. W., Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $25;$20 (sr); $15 (st).Wednesday June 03— 12:00 noon: Midday Music With Shigeru.Jazz classics. Elmvale District High School Seniorvocal class. Hi-Way Pentecostal Church, 50Anne St. N., Barrie. 705-726-1181. Adults $5,free(st).Thursday June 04— 7:30: Orchestra London. The Magic Flute.See May 30.— 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber MusicSociety. WindFest 2009 Concert No.2.Thille: Sextet for Piano and Winds. WindFestPlayers; Chi-Ming Shui, piano. KWCMS MusicRoom, 57 Young St. W., Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $15; $10(sr); $8(st).Friday June 05— 7:30: Arcady. Ruth. Beckett. Marion Samuel-Stevens, soprano (Ruth); Michael York, baritone(Boaz). Central Presbyterian Church, 97 WellingtonSt., Brantford. 519-428-3185. $10-$20.— 8:00: Acoustic Muse Concerts. HarryManx. Folk, world and blues music. Aeolian PerformingArts Centre, 795 Dundas St., London.519-473-2099. $30(advance); $35.— 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber MusicSociety/Wilfrid Laurier University.QuartetFest 2009 Concert No. 5. Schubert: Quintetin C; Slava: quartet tba. Penderecki Quartet;Denis Brott, cello: Maureen Forrester RecitalHall, WLU, Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $25;$20(sr); $15(st).— 8:00: May Court Club. Come Sail Away …With Marmalade. Edwina Douglas, director. CollierStreet United Church, 112 Collier St., Barrie.705-722-1770.Saturday June 06— 7:30: Orchestra London. The Magic Flute.See May 30.— 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber MusicSociety/Wilfrid Laurier University.QuartetFest 2009 Concert No. 6. Young Artistsof QuartetFest. KWCMS Music Room, 57 YoungSt. W., Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $15;$10(sr); $8(st).— 8:00: May Court Club. Come Sail Away …With Marmalade. See June 5.Musica St. James presentsAn evening withMozartIan and Catherine Sadler asMr. and Mrs. MozartFriday, May 29, 20098:00 p.m.St. James Church137 Melville Street, Dundas, ONTickets: $20 available in advanceand at the door905-627-1424MAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COM39

SECTION 3: jazz in the clubsHOUSE GIGScontinued from p.18Unconventional vocalist TovaKardonne is a brave composerand astute arranger. The ThingIs, her Balkan-Jazz-Funk Fusion8-piece band, is devoted to oddtime signatures and raised elevenths;it’s challenging, refreshingand highly rewarding in a reallistening room (www.myspace.com/thethingismusic). TheThing Is performs at the TraneStudio May 31 at 8pm. (Notethat The WholeNote’s very ownJim Galloway gigs at The Rex at9:30pm the same night.)NOTE: Due to space limitations, theselistings are abridged. For full dailylistings, please visitwww.thewholenote.com/listingsAlleycatz2409 Yonge St. 416-481-6865www.alleycatz.caEvery Mon Salsa Night with Frank BischunEvery Tue Whitney Smith’s “Swing House”with vocalist Jen SagarEvery Wed Jasmine Bailey & Co. Jazz & SoulMay 1 Soular. May 2 Soular. May 8 GrafittiPark. May 9 Grafitti Park. May 15 Lady Kane.May 16 Liquid. May 22 Lady Kane. May 23Lady Kane. May 29 Lady Kane. May 30 Liquid.Annex Live, The296 Brunswick Ave. 416-929-3999www.theannexlive.comEvery Thursday Julie McGregor & NormAmadio 7-10pmEvery Friday Whitney Smith & Jake Wilkinson7:30-10:30pmBlack Swan, The154 Danforth Ave. 416-469-0537Every Wed The Danforth Jam w/ Jon Long andFriends 9:30pmCastro’s Lounge2116 Queen Street East 416-699-8272 NOCOVEREvery Sun Jeremy Rouse Trio (Jazz/Roots) 6-9pmEvery Mon Smokey Folk (Bluegrass/Rockabilly)9:30pmChalkers Pub Billiards & Bistro247 Marlee Avenue, 416-789-2531www.chalkerspub.com (complete scheduleonline)Every Wed Girls Night Out Vocalist-FriendlyJazz Jam 8:30-12 with host Lisa Particelli(vocals/flute) Peter Hill (p) Ross MacIntyre (b)Norman Marshall Villeneuve (d)Every Thu International Latin Night: DanceLesson 7-9, Band 9pm-2amEvery Sat Dinner Jazz 6-9pmEvery Sun Norman Marshall Villeneuve JazzBrunch 12-3pm; Jazz Up Your Sundays 7-10pmMay 2 Nancy Walker Quartet. May 3 FrankBotos Quartet. *May 6 Neal Caine Quintet feat.Jason Marsalis 7-9pm. May 9 RosemaryGalloway Quartet. May 10 Dave RestivoQuartet. May 16 Bonnie Brett Quartet. May 17no music. May 23 Richard Underhill Quartet.May 24 David French “1301” Quartet. May 28Lady Son.Chick N’ Deli744 Mount Pleasant Rd. 416-489-3363www.chickndeli.com (music schedule online)Cobourg, The533 Parliament St. 416-913-7538Jazz Sundays 9PMNO COVERCommensal, Le655 Bay St. 416-596-9364www.commensal.caJazz Fridays and Saturdays 6:30pm - 9:30pmNO COVERCorktown, The175 Young St. Hamilton 905-572-9242Sets at 8pm and 10pm, $10 Coverwww.thecorktownpub.caEvery Wed Jazz @ The Corktown hosted byDarcy HepnerDominion on Queen500 Queen St. East 416-368-6893www.dominiononqueen.com (complete schedule)Every Tue French Gypsy Jazz Jam with hostWayne Nakamura. 8:30pm, pwyc.Every Wed Corktown Ukulele Jam, 8pmEvery Sat Bill Colgate with Special Guests, 4-7pm, pwycMay 1 Lennon Fogg Blues Band. May 2 ChaserBlues Band. May 3 Next Generation Jazz Jamwith host Robert Scott. May 8 Tim Turvey Jazz.May 9 Eric St. Laurent. May 10 Mother’s DayFundraiser. May 15 George Grosman’sBohemian Swing. May 16 Jim Clayton VibeQuartet. May 17 Next Generation Jazz Jamwith host Robert Scott. May 23 Paul Reddickand the Firemen. May 24 Sean Pinchin Blues.May 25 Big Smoke Big Band. May 29 East EndComedy Revue. May 30 Bradley & the Bouncers.May 31 Sean Pinchin Blues.Drake Hotel, The1150 Queen Street West 416-531-5042www.thedrakehotel.ca (full calendar)Every Sun 1-4pm Big Rude Jake Brunch.Forte Bistro and Lounge133 Richmond Street West 416-867-1909www.fortebistro.caEvery Wed Live Jazz 6:30-9:30pm with KiraCallahan.Gate 403403 Roncesvalles 416-588-2930www.gate403.comNO COVER, Pay What You CanLIVE JAZZ/BLUES EVERY NIGHT (completeschedule online)Every Tuesday Julian Fauth/James Thomson/Tim Hamel Blues 9-12Every Wednesday Patrick Tevlin’s NewOrleans Rhythm 9-12Every Saturday Bill Heffernan & Friends 5-8May 1 Mike Field Jazz Duo, Incline. May 2 BillHeffernan & Friends, Bartek Kozminski’s ElMosaico Flamenco-Jazz Fusion. May 3 MalcomnLevin Jazz Brunch, Starry Nights, Jerry QuintyneJazz Duo. May 8 Nadia Jazz Trio, Max SennittJazz Band. May 9 Bill Heffernan & Friends, TheCafé Ole. May 10 Steve-Paul Simms Blues Duo,Janelle Monique Jazz Trio, Dino Dominelli JazzTrio. May 15 Ventana 5 Jazz Band, Das Quintet.May 16 Bill Heffernan & Friends, Herb & RayJazz Trio. May 17 Tony Desmarteau Jazz &Blues, Joanna Morra & France St. Trio, CliffOjala Jazz Band. May 22 Fraser Melvin BluesBand, Mr. Rick & the Biscuits. May 23 BillHeffernan & Friends, Peter Hill Jazz Band. May24 Ori Dagan & Jordan O’Connor Bass & VoiceBrunch, Amy Noubarian Jazz Duo, Karen NgJazz Quintet. May 29 Donna Green Swing Band,Elizabeth Shepherd Jazz Band. May 30 BillHeffernan & Friends, Jake Chisholm Blues Band.May 31 The Tattooed Kids Bastmeyer, JoelHartt Jazz Duo, Zach Sutton Jazz Band.Grossman’s Tavern “Toronto’s Home of theBlues”379 Spadina Ave. 416-977-1210www.grossmanstavern.com (complete schedule)NO COVEREvery Sat Matinee The Happy Pals matinee 4-8pm.Every Sun Nicola Vaughan Acoustic Jam 4-9pm, The Nationals with Brian Cober: DoubleSlide Guitar Open Stage Jam 9:30pm-2am.Harlem Restaurant67 Richmond Street East 416-368-1920www.harlemrestaurant.comNO COVER Jazz Fridays & Saturdays 7:30-11:00pmHome Smith Bar see Old Mill, TheHugh’s Room “Toronto’s home of live Folk andRoots”2261 Dundas Street West 416-531-6604www.hughsroom.com (complete music schedule)Joe Mama’s317 King Street West 416-340-6469Live music every night, specializing in Motownand Rhythm & BluesEvery Sun Bernie Senensky Organ Trio withNathan Hiltz & Sly Juhas.Latinada1671 Bloor Street West 416-913-9716www.latinada.comLive Music Wednesday to SundayLula Lounge1585 Dundas West 416-588-0307www.lula.ca (complete schedule online)May 1 Tena Palmer & Reg Schwager, BrahmaFolia. May 2 Salsa Party with Moda Eterna.May 3 Edgardo Moreno & Friends feat. AyerkanEnsemble. May 8 Lulaworld ’09: Bomba! / MarioAllende, Lulanda Jones, Aline Morales Band.May 9 Lulaword ’09: Ricardo Lemvo andSalsAfrica. May 10 Lulaworld ’09: Mothers DayBrunch with Mistura Fina, Diva Night. May 15Lulaworld ’09: Persian Version, Batucada Carioca.May 16 Lulaworld ’09: Havana Norte with theRoberto Linares Brown Orchestra. May 17Lulaworld ’09: Kewsi Selassie CD Launch,Nightclub Safe Tricks and Dips Workshop. May23 Lady Son Y Articulo Veinte. May 24 JustAnother Sunday Afternoon. May 29 Viver Brazil:Dance, Music & Capoeira.Manhattan’s Music Club951 Gordon St., Guelph. 519-767-2440www.manhattans.caMezzetta Middle Eastern Restaurant681 St. Clair Ave. W. 416-658-5687www.mezzettarestaurant.comEvery Wed Jazz Series: sets at 9:00 and10:15. Cover $7-10Momo’s Bistro664 The Queensway, Etobicoke 416-252-5560www.momosbistro.comN’Awlins Jazz Bar and Dining299 King St. W. 416-595-1958www.nawlins.caEvery Mon Terry Logan.Every Tue Stacie McGregor.Every Wed Jim Heineman Trio.Every Thu Blues Night with Guest Vocalists.Every Fri/Sat All Star Bourbon St. Band.Every Sun Terry Logan.Old Mill, TheHome Smith Bar & Grill, 21 Old Mill Rd. 416-236-2641www.oldmilltoronto.comEvery Thursday Russ Little Trio 7-10pm, $20minimum per personRon Davis & Friends Fridays & Saturdays 8-11pm, Cover Charge $12.May 1 & 2 Ron Davis Trio. May 8 & 9 LeeWallace Trio. May 15 & 16 Heather BambrickTrio. May 22 & 23 Kieran Overs Duo. May 29& 30 Janelle Monique Trio.Pantages Martini Bar and Lounge200 Victoria St. 416-362-1777Every Fri Robert Scott.Every Sat Solo Piano: Various artists.Pilot Tavern, The22 Cumberland 416-923-5716www.thepilot.caJazz Saturdays 3:30 – 6:30NO COVERMay 2 Jake Wilkinson. May 9 Alex DeanQuartet. May 16 Kollage. May 23 Perry WhiteQuartet. May 30 Don Palmer Quartet.Press Club, The850 Dundas St. W. 416-364-7183www.thepressclub.caEvery Tue Open JamEvery Second Wed Jazz Jam hosted bytrombonist RJ Satchithananthan.Quotes220 King Street West 416-979-7697“Fridays at Five” with Don Vickery’s CanadianJazz Quartet and featured guest:May 1 Tom Szczesniak. May 8 Kevin Turcotte.May 15 John MacMurchy. May 22 TerryPromane. May 29 John MacLeod.Reservoir Lounge, The52 Wellington St. E. 416-955-0887www.reservoirlounge.comEvery Mon Sophia Perlman and the Vipers.Every Tue Tyler Yarema and his Rhythm.Every Wed Bradley and the Bouncers.Every Thu Janice Hagen.Every Fri Big Rude Jake’s Swingin’ Sextet.Every Sat Tory Cassis.Every Sun Luke Nicholson and the Sunday NightService.Rex Hotel Jazz and Blues Bar, The194 Queen St. W. 416-598-2475www.therex.caLIVE JAZZ/BLUES EVERY NIGHT (completeschedule online)Every Monday in May Peter Hill Quintet6:30pmEvery Tuesday in May Sly Juhas Trio6:30pmEvery Tuesday Classic Rex Jazz Jam 9:30pmEvery Wednesday in May Griffith-Hiltz Trio6:30pmEvery Friday Hogtown Syncopators 4-6pmMay 1 Hogtown Syncopators, Carey WestGroup, Benny Goodman Tribute. May 2 Abbey’sMeltdown, George Lake Big Band, Sara Dell, TaraDavidson Group. May 3 Humber CollegeCommunity Music School Recitals, The Maisies,Andrew Downing Group. May 8 HogtownSyncopators, Carey West Group, Matt StevensTrio. May 9 Abbey’s Meltdown, Blue Room, SaraDell, Mike Allen Group. May 10 ExcelsiorDixieland Jazz Band, Bohemian Swing, TheMaisies, Trevor Falls Collective. May 15Hogtown Syncopators, Carey West Group,McGill University Band. May 16 Abbey’sMeltdown, Jake Chilsholm Group, Sarah Dell,Bob Brough Quartet. May 17 Excelsior DixielandJazz Band, Dr. Nick & the Rollercoasters, The40 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COMMAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009

Maisies, Gord Sheard Latin Jazz. May 22Hogtown Syncopators, Artie Roth Trio, HendrikMeurkens Quintet. May 23 Abbey’s Meltdown,Laura Hubert Band, Sara Dell, Periphera Vision.May 24 Excelsior Dixieland Jazz Band, ClubDjango, The Maisies, Julia Cleveland Group.May 29 Hogtown Syncopators, Artie Roth Trio,Dave Neill Quartet. May 30 Abbey’sMeltdown, Swing Shift Big Band, TerraHazelton CD Release. May 31 ExcelsiorDixieland Jazz Band, Freeway Dixieland Band,The Maisies, Jim Galloway Band.Spice 11105 MacDonell Street, Guelph 519-821-3343www.spice11.comMay 10 Mother’s Day with Monica Chapman& Joshua GoodmanStatlers Piano Lounge487 Church Street 416-962-1209www.statlersonchurch.com (complete scheduleonline)MAIN FLOOR: NO COVEREvery Mon Curtains Down Cabaret Open Micwith Jenni Burke & Michael BarberEvery Thu Open Mic with Anne-MarieLeonard; Every Fri, Sat, Sun Live Music.May 9 Ori Dagan & Nancy Walker 5-8pm;May 16 Ori Dagan & Dave Restivo 5-8pm.Stone Grill, The51B Winchester 416-967-6565www.stonegrillonwinchester.comEvery Sun Jazz Brunch 12-3 with ArchieAlleyne, Robi Botos, Artie Roth and SpecialGuestsTen Feet Tall1381 Danforth Avenue, 416-778-7333www.tenfeettall.caFirst Saturday of each month Live R&B 9pmSunday Jazz Matinee 3:30-6:30NO COVERMay 3 The Lesters feat Tory Cassis. May 10Ross MacIntyre and the Sidemen. May 17 DaveHutchinson Trio. May 24 The Satin Dolls feat.Ilana Waldston. May 31 Andrew Downing Trio.Tequila Bookworm512 Queen Street West 416-603-7335http://tequilabookworm.blogspot.com (completeschedule online)Modern/Experimental Jazz Monday, Thursday,Saturday at 9pm, PWYCMay 2 Ghost Feticsh: Clara Engel. May 9 BoneMerrow feat, Jay Merrow & Steve Ward. May16 Indigone Trio, Arkana Music. May 23 KenMcDonald Quartet. May 30 Trio Dangereux.Trane Studio964 Bathurst St. 416-913-8197www.tranestudio.com (complete scheduleonline)May 2 Tiki Mercury-Clarke Quartet. May 3Duane Andrews. May 8 Lyne Tremblay. May 9Margot Roi. May 31 The Thing Is.Tranzac292 Brunswick Ave. 416-923-8137www.tranzac.org (complete listings, variousgenres)Every Sat Jamzac Open Acoustic Jam 3pmEvery Mon Open Mic Music Nights withGuest Hosts, 10pmEvery Tue St. Dirt Elementary School 7:30pmEvery Fri The Foolish Things, 5pmZemra Bar & Lounge778 St. Clair Ave. W 416-651-3123www.zemrabarlounge.comEvery Wed Open Mic and JamEvery Fri Live Music FridaysSECTION 4: announcements, masterclasses, etceteraANNOUNCEMENTS*May 1 1:00-5:00: New Adventures inSound Art. Deep Wireless Festival of Radio& Transmission Art: Media Launch & OpenHouse. Opportunity for the public and media toexperience radio and transmission first-hand aswell as to sample upcoming highlights of thefestival. NAISA space, Artscape WychwoodBarns, 601 Christie St. #252. 416-652-5115.Free.*May 2 6:00: Kingston Symphony. Galaand Wine Auction. Gourmet food, fine wine &entertainment with a Cuban flair. Donations offine wines from your private collectionaccepted. Italo-Canadian Club, 1174 ItaliaLane, Kingston. 613-530-2050. $150.*May 3 4:30am-7:00am: NewAdventures in Sound Art/City ofMississauga. Deep Wireless Festival ofRadio & Transmission Art: International DawnChorus Day Celebration. Worldwidecelebration of Nature’s daily Miracle, thechorus of sound initiated by birds at sunrise.Birders will be on-hand to help us identify thebirds. Lakefront Promenade Park, 800Lakefront Promenade. 416-652-5115. Free.*May 3 7:00-10:00: ContinuumContemporary Music. Ballroom Blitz – aContinuum Fundraiser. Music and talk, foodand drink; silent auction. Guests: James Rolfe,composer; Lewis DeSoto, author;performances by Continuum’s musicians.Gladstone Hotel Ballroom 1214 Queen St.West. 416-924-4945. $100 ($75 taxreceipt). Proceeds support Continuum’soperating funds and SHIFT.*May 6 6:15: Canadian Opera Company.Appetite for Opera: A Midsummer Night’sDream. Gourmet event designed to delight andintrigue opera novices and fans. 6:15: cocktailreception; 7:00: multi-course dinner; eachcourse accompanied by a specially chosenwine; insights on food, wine and opera by COCSpeakers Bureau representative RobertMorassutti and chef Kreg Graham. HiltonToronto’s Tundra Restaurant, 145 RichmondStreet West. 416-860-6800, www.coc.ca.$89.*May 6 7:00-9:00: New Adventures inSound Art. Deep Wireless Festival of Radio& Transmission Art: Opening of Two GalleryInstallations. Radio Art Salon curated byDarren Copeland; Phoning in the Answer byJohn Gzowski and Camellia Koo.Installations continue: May 7-23,Thursday, Friday, Sunday: 1:00-4:00;Saturday: 10am-2:00. The Loop StudioCentre for Lively Arts, Artscape WychwoodBarns, 601 Christie St. #170. 416-652-5115. Pwyc.*May 7 6:00-10:00: New Adventures inSound Art. Deep Wireless Festival of Radio& Transmission Art: Opening of Gowanus:Over/Under-Water by Kevin T. Allen. A studyof the endangered soundscape of the GowanusCanal in Brooklyn, NY, combining binauralunder-water and over-water sound recordingswith stereoscopic images. Installationcontinues: May 8-31, Saturday &Sunday noon-5:00. The Gladstone Hotel,second floor, 1214 Queen St. West. 416-652-5115. Free.*Orchestras Mississauga. 14th AnnualGiant Used Book Sale. Donations of books,records, CDs, DVDs, tapes, videos, puzzles,games, comics, sheet music are requested.(NOT accepted: magazines, encyclopedias,Readers Digest Condensed Books, NationalGeographic.) Drop off at the Sheridan Centre,Lower Level, Fowler Street Entrance,Mississauga, Tuesdays 1:00-4:00,Thursdays 9am-12 noon. Pick ups: 647-866-7253. Sale dates: September 17-20, 2009.LECTURES/SYMPOSIA*May 5 7:30: Soundstreams Canada.Salon 21: A Salon for a New Era. TheHonourable Adrienne Clarkson will host anevening with Tim Albery, director of Schafer’sopera The Children’s Crusade. Please remainafter the talk to mingle & enjoy a drink, andvisit the current Museum exhibit. JaimeKennedy Restaurant, The Gardiner Museum,111 Queens Park. Advance registrationrequested: www.salon21adrienneclarkson.eventbrite.com/*May 9 9:30am-1:00: Canadian OperaCompany/Jackman Humanities Institute/Munk Centre for International Studies/U of T Faculty of Music. The OperaExchange: Antique Fables and Fairy Toys:Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.Topics include: Shakespeare’s romanticcomedy and the adaptation’s libretto andmusical setting; the opera in the context ofBritten’s life and work; and, a performancebasedworkshop that explores the criticalapproaches to the music of Benjamin Britten.toronto children’s chorusElise Bradley, Artistic Director“Join the ChorusBring your child’s love of singing and theToronto Children’s Chorus will provide anexceptional musical education. Over 350children between the ages of 6 and 17 enjoythe life-enhancing experience of singing inone of the world’s finest treble choirs.Audition for the Chorus in May 2009!there is nothingabout myaveragedesire”MAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COM41

..... SECTION 4: ... etceteraLearn MOREthan justan instrument.REGISTER NOWat rcmusic.caSTARTSOMETHINGNEWTHIS SUMMER!QBeginner GuitarQSummer ChoirsQOpera Scene StudyQPiano Concerto ClassQMusic HistoryRenowned Hungarian composerand teacher Zoltán Kodály believedthat no education was complete without musicinstruction – it was a critical stage in the intellectual,social and emotional development of all individuals.Whether you share Professor Kodály’s passion formusic or wish to rekindle instruction you received asa child, you’ll find no better place to explore music –and a wide variety of dynamic teaching methods andclasses – than The Royal Conservatory.CLASSES START IN JULY. Find out more online or byvisiting our exciting new home, the TELUS Centre onBloor Street, just west of the ROM.Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-363-8231. $15; $10(U of T faculty); $5(st).*May 27 7:30: Soundstreams Canada.Salon 21: A Salon for a New Era – MedievalInstruments on Parade. Experienceextraordinary medieval instruments and musicand their role in Schafer’s The Children’sCrusade. Presentation by hurdy-gurdy playerBen Grossman. Bata Shoe Museum, 327Bloor St. West. 416-504-1282. Free.*May 28-30 all day: New Adventures inSound Art. Radio Without BoundariesConference. Exploring the many potentials,boundaries & artist perspectives of radio andtransmission art. Guests: Brandon LaBelle,Gregory Whitehead, Chris Brookes, AndreaDancer, Emmanuel Madan & others. The LoopStudio Centre for Lively Arts and Learning,Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St.#176. 416-652-5115. $150; $130(st).*May 29 7:00-8:00: Toronto PublicLibrary. On Stage. Soprano IsabelBayrakdarian talks about her life. Film clipfrom the film A Long Journey Home. Q&A.Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge St.416-393-7131. Free.*May 31 2:00: Toronto Opera Club.Potions, Poisons and Passions in Opera. Guestspeaker: Kazik Jedrzejczak. An audio/visualpresentation. CDs to be won. Room 330,Edward Johnson Bldg, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-924-3940. $10(non-members)MASTER CLASSES*May 2 9:00am-11:30am: RobertLowrey’s Piano Experts/RodgersCanada. Organ Workshop: Accompanying atthe Organ. Led by William Maddox. Focusing onmethods of adapting piano accompaniments tothe organ, & how to deal withaccompaniments which have been taken fromorchestral sources. 943 Eglinton Ave East.RSVP required: 416-423-0434, 1-888-569-7397. Free.*May 3 2:00-5:30: Singing Studio ofDeborah Staiman. Master class in musicaltheatre/audition preparation, using textualanalysis and other interpretative tools for the“sung monologue”. Yonge & Eglinton area -please call for exact location. 416-483-9532,www.singingstudio.ca*May 4 10:00am: York University Dept.of Music. Guitar master class with JeffHanlon. Tribute Communities Recital Hall,Accolade East, YU, 4700 Keele St. 416-736-2100 ext 22926. Free.*May 10, 17, 24 & 31, 2:00-5:30: SingingStudio of Deborah Staiman. Master classin musical theatre/audition preparation. SeeMay 3.WORKSHOPS*May 3 1:30-4:00: Toronto Early MusicPlayers Organization. PromotingImprovisation. Workshop with ElinSoderstrom, viola da gamba performer. Bringyour viols, recorders and stand; music available42 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COMMAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009

at the door. Lansing United Church, 49 BogertAve. 705-653-5480, 416-537-3733. $20.*May 8 7:15-10pm: Recorder Players’Society. Recorder and/or other earlyinstrument players are invited to participate insmall, informal groups (uncoached) to playRenaissance and Baroque music. Church of theTransfiguration, 111 Manor Rd. East. 416-694-9266. $10(members), $12(non-members).*May 9 2:00-4:00: Lindsay ConcertFoundation. Choral workshop with LydiaAdams, conductor of the Amadeus Choir.Cambridge Street United Church, 61Cambridge Street North, Lindsay. Forregistration forms or information: 705-878-5625, www.lindsayconcertfoundation.com*May 9 2:00: New Adventures in SoundArt. Deep Wireless Festival of Radio &Transmission Art: Workshop with BenoitMaubrey. Video presentation, hands-onsession, question & answer period aboutperformances with electroacoustic clothes,mobile & multi-acoustic sculptures in publicspaces. The NAISA Space, ArtscapeWychwood Barns, 601 Christie St. 416-652-5115. $15; $10(st).*May 20 7:30: Toronto ShapenoteSinging from Sacred Harp. Beginnerswelcome. Music Room, Bloor Street UnitedChurch, 300 Bloor St. W. (at Huron). 416-922-7997 or pleasancecrawford@rogers.com*May 25 7:30: Toronto Early MusicCentre. Vocal Circle. Recreational reading ofearly choral music. Ability to read music isdesirable but not essential. For moreinformation: 416-920-5025. $5(nonmembers),members free.*May 26 8:00: Toronto Folk Singers’Club. An informal group that meets for thepurpose of performance & exchange of songs.Audiences are welcome. Tranzac Club, 292Brunswick Ave. 416-532-0900.Audition for theCanadian Children’s Opera CompanyDo you love to sing and act? Would youlike to perform with some of Toronto’sbest performing arts companies?The Canadian Children’s OperaCompany may be the place for you.If you are between the ages of 5 and 19,we have a division that will be a perfect fit.Join Artistic Director Ann Cooper Gayand children and youth from all walksof life who love to sing and act!Auditions Saturday, May 23 rdTo book an audition,call the CCOC Office atTel: (416) 366-0467We look forward to having you join our musical family!Canadian Children’s Opera Company227 Front Street East, Toronto ON M5A 1E8www.canadianchildrensopera.comMAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COM43

AuditionsLYDIA ADAMS,Conductor & Artistic Director“a memorable performance”Tamara Bernstein,Globe and Mail, April '08WOULD YOU LIKE TO JOIN THIS DYNAMIC CHOIRWITH THE RAVISHING SOUND FOR THEIR2009/2010 SEASON?Lydia Adams and the Amadeus Choir will performHandel’s Messiah, and works by Daley, Duruflé,Howells, Mozart, Piazzola, Villa-Lobos.And the 35th Anniversary Concert featuring Mozart’sRequiem and Vespers is a concert you want to sing!Experienced choral singers who are goodreaders are invited to contactJoan Andrews: 905-642-8706,jandrews@primus.cato set up an audition in May/JuneInformation: 416-446-0188 oramachoir@idirect.com*May 29 7:15-10pm: Recorder Players’Society. See May 8 workshop.*May 31 2:00: CAMMAC. Singers &instrumentalists are invited to participate in areading of Haydn’s The Seasons, led byGeoffrey Butler. Please bring stands; musicprovided. Elliott Hall, Christ Church Deer Park,1570 Yonge St. 416-421-0779. $10 (nonmembers);students free.*June 7 1:30-4:00: Toronto Early MusicPlayers Organization. Explorations. Led byAvery Maclean, performer and teacher ofrecorder. Bring your early instruments andstand; music available at the door. LansingUnited Church, 49 Bogert Ave. 705-653-5480, 416-537-3733. $20.CLASSIFIED ADVERTISINGINSTRUCTIONFLUTE, PIANO, THEORY LESSONS.RCM exam preparation. Samantha Chang,Royal Academy of Music PGDip, LRAM,ARCT. 416-293-1302,samantha.studio@gmail.comwww.samanthaflute.comJAZZ PIANO LESSONS FORADULTS … working or retired. Playstandards without sheet music. Swing, blues,boogie, stride, gospel, classical. Feel and understandchord progressions. Private lessons.Royal York and Bloor. Enjoy a carefullyplanned, results-oriented program.Matt Pines 416-234-5500.PIANO LESSONS: All ages, styles – beginner,classical, jazz, pop, RCM exams. Feelthe joy of making music! Peter Ness, ARCT.416-767-9747.PRIVATE VOICE LESSONS – Allages, various styles. Beginner/intermediatelevels for classical, pop, country. Sing for funor prepare for an audition – Express yourselfthrough song! Melissa De Cloet MMus. 416-591-1695 or melissa_de_cloet@hotmail.comTHEORY, SIGHT-SINGING, EAR-TRAINING LESSONS: All grades, RCMexam prep (rudiments, harmony, history,counterpoint). Learning can be fun and easy!Peter Ness, ARCT. 416-767-9747.MISCELLANEOUSARE YOU PLANNING A CONCERT orrecital? Looking for a venue? Consider BloorStreet United Church. Phone: 416-924-7439x22 Email: tina@bloorstreetunited.orgGENERAL MANAGER REQUIRED.Part-time position with Viva! Youth Singers ofToronto; annual contract, start date July 12009. Arts management experience necessary.Please forward resume with names oftwo references to:wieler.toronto@sympatico.ca.For details about the choir seewww.vivayouthsingers.com.SIXTY-ISH WIDOW, lover of classicalmusic, seeking male companion for concertgoingand friendship. Please contact:Imusici2001@Yahoo.comMUSICIANS AVAILABLEBARD – EARLY MUSIC DUO playing recorderand virginal available to provide backgroundatmosphere for teas, receptions or otherfunctions – greater Toronto area. For rates andinfo call 905-722-5618 or email us atmhpape@interhop.netMUSICIANS WANTEDACCOMPANIST: The Scarborough BelCanto Choir (belcantochoir.com) requires anaccompanist beginning this September. Rehearsalsare Tuesday evenings from 7:30pmto 10:00pm near Warden and KingstonRoads. Interested parties please email briefresume to dsramsay@rogers.com or callDavid Ramsay at 416-703-5749.ACCOMPLISHED PIANIST required bycommunity based opera company. The successfulcandidate will be an excellent sightreader, have some familiarity with the standardoperatic repertoire and be capable of being“the orchestra” for full-length performances.You should have experience working with andcoaching singers. This position is paid partlythrough the Toronto District School Board. Foran audition contact Music Director Adolfo DeSantis at adesantis@rogers.com or 416-878-0573.MUSICIANS & VOCALISTS WANT-ED for charitable fundraising projects. Violins/ Saxophones / Trumpets / Trombones/ Guitar / Piano / Bass / Drumswww.sheratoncadwell.comPhone 416- 712-2555.SERVICESACCOUNTING AND INCOME TAXSERVICE for small business and individuals,to save you time and money, customizedto meet your needs. Norm Pulker, B. Math.CMA. 905-251-0309 or 905-830-2985.The PERFORMING EDGE Performanceenhancement training in tension management,concentration, goal setting, imagery.Individualized to meet your performance situation.Kate F. Hays, practising clinical andperforming arts psychology. 416-961-0487,www.theperformingedge.comAMOROSONew & UsedCDs Vinyl Records DVDsCLASSICAL OPERA JAZZWORLD BLUES R & B AUDIOPHILEROCK SOUNDTRACK COLLECTABLESWe pay top $$$ for yourCLASSICAL & JAZZ COLLECTIONS4 St.Patrick (at Queen near Osgoode station)www.amorosomusic.com 416-591-131344 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COMMAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009

MUSICAL LIFE:WE ARE ALL MUSIC’S CHILDRENby mJ BuellAPRIL’s CHILD …..Pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico haspremiered hundreds of new works. Her 22recordings include music of the 20th and21st centuries, Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, andfour with her late husband, MetropolitanOpera baritone Louis Quilico. In 2008 theCanadian Music Centre and CanadianLeague of Composers presented her with the2007 Friends of Canadian Music Award.She is a Full Professor of Piano Performanceand Musicology at York University.Born in Ottawa, Christina studied withBoris Berlin at the RCM in Toronto. Onscholarship at Juilliard (a student of RosinaLhévinne, Jeaneane Dowis and Irwin Freundlich),she made her New York debut at 14as a co-winner of the High School of thePerforming Arts Concerto Competition withfellow student Murray Perahia. She laterstudied at the Sorbonne, and in Darmstadtand Berlin with Stockhausen and Ligeti.Earliest musical memory?My mother singing “Silent Night” andUkrainian songs. Fortunately, she had alovely voice. She always wanted to be asinger and was extremely artistic.Other musicians in the family?Music comes from her mother’s family. Thede Lezcinska family (even I can’t spell it!)was related to the Count Potocki family withties to Chopin. My grandmother talked abouther past: I never believed her until I saw thenames in a Chopin biography. She had agreat ear for music and sang Polish songs.Music in your childhood?My brothers loved sports and thought musicwas torture but always had thelatest music on the radio so Ideveloped eclectic tastes.My mother played classicalrecordings and took me tomany concerts: chamber music,choir, symphony, and theballet. We never missed theMetropolitan Opera broadcasts!My father only went if Iplayed. A journalist for manyyears, he became a translatorfor the RCMP, involved inclassified information. Hehoped I’d become a writer andonly reluctantly allowed me tostudy at Juilliard because Ihad a scholarship and CanadaCouncil grants. He loved hisbooks and writing. My eldest daughter continuedthat tradition: majored in political science,American studies and is now a Professorof History. My younger daughter is aFrench translator for the Government.I made up for that - both my husbandswere musicians!First memories of making music?I started ballet and piano at 4 and 5. Mybrother was learning the piano. One day hewas banging randomly and my mother askedwhat he was doing. He answered: “I’mlooking for middle C”. I was so frustrated Ifound it and played his piece for him. Mymother decided I needed piano lessons.I played for an audience at 6 - I remembergetting dressed up, being on stage. I rememberperforming The Minute Waltz at 7,and duets with other students for festivalsand concerts at 8 or 9. Chamber music andaccompanying was a vital part of my earlytraining and happily remains just as importanttoday.“I played with orchestra for the first time at 10: fun, but I wasangry to miss volleyball and baseball. The piano teachers wereafraid I’d ruin my hands. I have since fractured my wrist,sprained a finger, slashed through my thumb while cooking andother assorted mishaps. It’s all part of life’s adventures andI’m still performing…”When you first thought of yourself as amusician? That’s easy: the moment I wasconscious of making music! More difficultis: when do you think of yourself as a professionalmusician? When you begin to bepaid is usually when you begin to believethat maybe you are worth listening to. Ahuge responsibility begins to weigh on you.Musicians have great respect for history: alwaystrying to live up to legends of the past.Ever think you would do anything else?Piano always won. I had to choose betweenpiano and ballet at 10, then between pianoand writing when I graduated from Juilliardand had a book of poetry published. I’ve had3 books published. I still take courses, attendseminars and colloquiums, and draw.If you could travel back through time to theyoung person in that childhood photo, isthere anything you would like to say?Don’t worry so much about the future, enjoyevery moment of life.MAY’S CONTEST AND APRIL’S WINNERS, NEXT PAGE80 Acadia Avenue, Unit 309, Markham ON L3R 9V1SalesViolin Viola Cello BowsRepair and RentalProfessional violin maker andString instrument rental servicePhilharmonic Music Ltd.SchoolPrivate lessons and examsViolin Viola Cello Bass905-784-2028 www.philharmoniccanada.comETOBICOKE YOUTH CHOIRLouise Jardine, Music DirectorEnter with Singing - 7:30 pm May 2(see Concert Listings – Toronto)NEW MEMBERS WELCOMEAges 7-17Etobicoke Youth Choir Enjoys Singing!416.231.9120 George eyc.secretary@sympatico.caAmateur or Student -all levels, Call all ages!CallMAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COM45

May’s Children are ...... the boys of summer!J and J will team up for an elegantJuly double-header launching thefourth year of a Toronto summerfestival.Left: circa 1985 in Brandon,Manitoba: From ash topernambuco: this young champtraded his bat for a bow, butremains a die-hard Red Sox fan.Right: circa 1966 in Vancouver,BC: “This is a very nice bowl, butwhere is the sushi? Beam me up,Scotty.”Think you know who MAY’s children are?Send your best guess to musicschildren@thewholenote.com(please provide your mailing address, just in case your name is drawn!)Winners will be selected by random draw among correct replies received by May 20, 2009.Congratulations to our APRIL winners!Shawn Kazubowski-Houston (Peterborough) and Laura Hartenberger (Toronto) eachwin a pair of tickets to hear Ponds, Creeks, Soundstill and Noisy River: ChristinaPetrowska Quilico plays the music of Ann Southam (May 12) at The Glenn Gould Studio,in memory of visual artist Aiko Suzuki and in recognition of the work of The David SuzukiFoundation. At a reception following the concert, the Canadian Music Centre launches theCD Pond Life , Petrowska Quilico’s 22nd CD, her sixth on the Centrediscs label.Rob Mosher (Astoria, NY) will receive the CD Pond Life (Centrediscs CMCCD 14109)Ann Southam’s Rivers, and additional new river-inspired pieces composed for pianistChristina Petrowska Quilico: this two-CD set is a world premiere recording supervised bythe composer.Neil Martinez (Etobicoke) will receive INGS (Welspringe 10009)A two CD collection of live performances recorded by the CBC. Christina PetrowskaQuilico plays works by Ann Southam, Gavin Bryars, Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez,David Jaeger, Alexina Louie, Toru Takemitsu, Lowell Liebermann, Henry Cowell, DavidDel Tredici, Frederick Rzewski, Masamitsu Takahashi, Bill Westcott, Art Tatum, and OmarDaniel.Music’s Children gratefully acknowledges Linda Litwack, Moira Johnson, the CanadianMusic Centre, Liz, Barbara, and Keiko.MarketPlace: EducationSinging LessonsSing with technical ease and vocal beautyOpera – Pops – Broadwaywww.JanetCatherineDea.comcall now: (416) 429-4502Book Shelfby Pamela MarglesSecret Agent: The Selected Journals andLetters of Harry Somersedited by William Scoular352 pages, photos; $30.00available from the Canadian Music CentreThree weeks before HarrySomers died, he wrote in hisjournal, “I list my occupationas secret agent. Whenever I’vebeen caught & it’s been frequently,I confess to anything& everything. ‘Yes, yes,’ Iconfess, escaping all torture.‘You are a traditional conservativecomposer?’ ‘YES.’ ‘You are an eclectic?’‘Oh YES.’ ‘You have been at times an avantgarde composer?’ ‘I’ll sign the paper!’ ‘You’reold hat?!’ ‘Yes. Yes. A beat up old hat.’”No-one except Somers himself could havecome up with this. That’s what makes thesejournals and letters so remarkable. Somers alwaysstood out for his elegance, wit, charm,forthrightness and passionate dedication. Wenow have a whole new dimension on him – histhoughts, his feelings, his worries, and evenwhat he read and listened to.Somers’ wife Barbara Chilcott and the editorWilliam Scoular have done a Herculean job ofassembling and editing the diaries and letters,written on scraps of paper over a period of 30years. Their importance makes it all the moredesirable that the next step be taken to havethem fully annotated and indexed.Certain situations need explaining, such aswhat happened in 1965 that would provokeSomers to curse ‘the commonwealth’, ‘theQueen’, ‘Ozawa’, ‘Walter Hamburger’ (sic),‘Bright’s champagne’, ‘the government’ and‘Irving Glick’, all in one breath? Important figureslike E. Robert Schmitz need to be identified.Names like ‘gord rainor’, ‘Milhoud’, and‘Crumm’, misspelled by Somers - whether inadvertentlyor on purpose - should have theirproper spelling noted. What annotations thereare, given in square brackets in the text, are notalways accurate. The published journal reads,“I remember Krenek [president of the USSR’scomposers’ union] referring to Copland as superficial.”But here Somers is surely referring tothe Austrian composer Ernst Krenek, not theSoviet composer Tikhon Khrennikov, who wasSomers’ dinner companion when he visited theUSSR in 1976.MarketPlace: Professional46 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COMMAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009

Somers’ speculations about writing an autobiographycome up constantly in these pages.“There are many sides of many things I’ve notspoken of,” he wrote in 1995. Fortunately heleft this candid, fascinating journal, and alongwith his letters, it makes an essential contributionto the cultural life of this country. A terrificcollection of photos and a DVD containingclips of TV and documentary interviews givereaders a sense of his physical presence.The People’s Artist: Prokofiev’s SovietYearsby Simon MorrisonOxford University Press504 pages, photos; $32.95If the secret agent who figuresin Harry Somers’ journal wasa romanticized fantasy, the secretagents in Prokofiev’s lifewere real, nasty, and dangerous– from the Russian émigrécellist in Hollywood whomade sure Prokofiev returnedto the Soviet Union, to the malicioushead of the Union of Soviet Composers,Tikhon Khrennikov, who Somers had foundto be “terribly kind” when he met him in Moscow.This brilliant chronicle of Prokofiev’s finalyears focuses on why he returned to what wasnow the Soviet Union, and how that irrevocablemove affected his life and music. “Hethought to influence Soviet cultural policy,”writes Morrison, “but instead it influencedhim.”Morrison explores how Prokofiev’s ambition,vanity, and naiveté led him to his fatefuldecision. It’s clear from his diaries (now beingpublished in English) that he missed his homeland.But he was lured by offers of performancesand money. Morrison considers the influenceof his fervent Christian Science spiritualism,which likely prevented him from seeingthe repression, incarcerations and murders ofartists that were occurring regularly in the SovietUnion under Stalin.Yet he shows thatProkofiev in fact had some sense of the personaland artistic freedom he would be sacrificing.In any case, as soon as he had moved hiswife Lina and their two sons from Paris toMoscow, he could only travel abroad withLina if he left his two sons behind. By 1938,neither he nor Lina was allowed to leave at all.But as difficult as things gradually becamefor Prokofiev, they were far worse for Lina,who was not even Russian. First, Prokofievleft her for a young admirer, and then, whenshe tried to leave the USSR, she ended upspending years in Soviet camps on fabricatedcharges of treason.Morrison is a Canadian scholar now teachingat Princeton. He has made full use of his unprecedentedaccess to unpublished documentsand scores now in the Russian State Archives.Morrison’s meticulous endnotes and indexmakes this detailed biography accessible, andhis elegant writing style makes it thoroughlyengrossing to read.Leonard Bernstein: American Originaledited by Burton Bernstein and Barbara B.HawsHarperCollins240 pages, photos; $31.95For years, Leonard Bernstein’sfather Sam pressuredhis musically precociouseldest son to go into thefamily beauty-supplies business.Later he defendedhimself by saying, “Howcould I know he would grow up to be a LeonardBernstein?” As his father had finally figuredout, Leonard Bernstein was an original.But no-one could live up to the title of thisbook and be a “modern renaissance man” who“transformed music and the world” – not evenMarketPlace: Home – Food – Recording ServicesPASQUALE BROS. “Quality since 1917”Cheeses from around the world,meats, groceries, dry goodsgift baskets...Everything you needfor reception planning.416-364-7397www.pasqualebros.com16 Goodrich Rd., Etobicoke(south of Bloor, west off Islington)Email: goodfood@pasqualebros.com 1 800 664-0430this charismatic conductor, composer, writerand educator. Fortunately the ten essays in thisbook are less starry-eyed and more incisivethan the title would suggest. Together, they offera well-balanced portrait of a complex figure.There’s an eloquent memoir by music criticAlan Rich, who admits to often being hard onBernstein, mostly for ignoring contemporarymusic. Historian Paul Boyer discusses howBernstein added a political dimension to hisrole as conductor of the New York Philharmonic.Like Prokofiev, he believed that art notonly reflects but influences social reality. Hisoutspoken support for issues such as civil liberties,environmental protection and worldpeace was considered so audacious at the timethat he ended up with an FBI file almost 700pages long.Unlike the Soviet composer, he did achievesome influence. But, as his younger brotherBurton Bernstein writes in one of his memorablechapter-by-chapter commentaries, he paid aprice – in the press at least – for what hisbrother considers his naiveté. American composerJohn Adams offers the perspective of ayoung man first discovering Bernstein. “Ithought I’d found the model for what the futureof classical music in America would be,”he writes.The splendid photos and documents enrichthe texts. My favorite photo, from 1970,shows Bernstein in leisure clothes coaching hisbaseball team, the Philharmonic Penguins. Besidehim, watching intently in his baseball uniformand cap, is his protégé Seiji Ozawa, whowould have just finished his stint as conductorof the Toronto Symphony.The Toronto Symphony performs two works byBernstein, Three Dance Episodes from On theTown, and Symphonic Dances from West SideStory, on May 13 at 8:00 and May 14 at 2:00.Bernstein’s West Side Story is on stage atthe Stratford Festival from June 5 until October31.MAY 1 – JUNE 7 2009 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COM47

ecordings reviewedEDITOR’S CORNERMy first encounter with minimalist musicwas a recording of Terry Riley’s In C – 53short motifs, each to be repeated an indefinitenumber of times, as desired, by any numberof performers until eventually everyone hasworked through all the motifs in order. WhenI brought it home and put it on the recordplayer it took my mother less than a minuteto call out from the kitchen “The record’sstuck”. My first live exposure to the conceptwas a couple of years later at an Arraymusicconcert in the late ’70s. There was a pieceby Marjan Mozetich and as its patterns kepton repeating I found myself wondering if theinstructions in the score were to keep hammeringout the same phrase until everyone inthe audience had given up and left the hall.Of course it soon became clear in both casesthat the patterns were subtly changing andthat there was indeed a musical progressionunder way. I grew enamoured of the form andalthough I seem to now have grown out of thatphase I still consider works like Steve Reich’sMusic for 18 Musicians, Philip Glass’ Einsteinon the Beach, and for that matter, LaurieAnderson’s O Superman to be important andrewarding works. Over the decades MarjanMozetich too has grown away from minimalism,at least in its more relentless forms, andhas developed a style that can best be describedas Lush. A new Centrediscs release,Lament in the Trampled Garden (CMCCD14009), presents a beautiful cross section ofchamber works spanning two decades. ThePenderecki StringQuartet is joinedby Erica Goodman,Nora Shulman andShalom Bard (harp,flute and clarinet)for Angels inFlight, a 1987 triptychinspired by anItalian RenaissanceAnnunciation scene by Fra Filippo Lippi, andby Christopher Dawes (harmonium) for thecontemplative Hymn of Ascension (1998).The title track was written as the mandatorypiece for the 1992 Banff International StringQuartet competition and as such entered therepertoire of 10 outstanding young ensembles,including that year’s grand prize winning St.Lawrence Quartet. In the intervening years Lamenthas enjoyed countless performances but Ibelieve this is the first commercially availablerecording. It is a brilliant work that 17 yearslater is still fresh and exhilarating, especiallyin the hands of the consummate musiciansof the PSQ. The final work dates from just 2years ago and was commissioned by the OttawaInternational Chamber Music Festival forthe Gryphon Trio. Scales of Joy and Sorrowis another triptych, with outer movements thatrespectively build from slow and expressive tofast and exhilarating and vice versa, surroundinga gentle and lilting Arabesque, making aneffective A-B-C-B-A arc. The Gryphon Trio isin fine form as always, working together like awell-oiled machine.While Mozetich’s music is generallypainted in pastel shades, that of Marc-AndréDalbavie, while still concerned with colour,uses a broader palate. Since first hearing themusic of this French “spectral” composer ata Continuum concert in 2005 I have encountereda number of his intriguing works, alwayswith great appreciation. The most recent tocome my way is a brilliant Piano Concertocommissioned and performed by Leif OveAndsnes on a new EMI recording (2 641822) with the Bavarian Radio Orchestra underFranz Welser-Möst. While itseems to be centralto the thesis of therecording, this discis not devoted tomusic of Dalbavie.It also includes thepowerful concertoof WitoldLutoslawski, whose music was in many waysa precursor to the spectral pioneers Grisey andDufourt. While I would not recommend thisperformance over the 1992 DG recording (431664-2) with dedicatee Krystian Zimerman assoloist and the composer conducting the BBCSymphony, I welcome this “second opinion”and am happy to be reminded what a strikingwork it is. These two entrées are book-endedby contemplative works for solo piano by BentSorensen and separated by selections fromGyörgy Kurtág’s playful Játékok (Games).All in all a very well balanced and thoroughlycontemporary disc.While quite familiar with the career of Québecpianist Alain Lefèvre, I was not aware ofWholeNote Marketplace: Recording Serviceshis brother, violinist David Lefèvre, who hasspent most of his career in Europe in the firstchair at the Orchestre national du Capitole deToulouse, and later the Orchestre Philharmoniquede Monte Carlo, and as Guest concertmasterwith the Lisbon Gulbenkian Orchestra.David returned to Montreal last summer,at least long enough to record a CD withbrother Alain. The Analekta disc (AN 2 9982)features the familiar(and always welcome)Sonata in A by CésarFranck, along with alesser-known G MajorSonata by Franck’sBelgian protégéGuillaume Lekeu(1870-1894) and theBallade-Fantaisie by André Mathieu. Lekeulived a tragically short life and composed hissonata at 22, just two years before his death.The work was commissioned by Eugene Ysaÿeand thanks to him it “traveled the world”and was picked up by some of the greatestviolinists of the first half of the 20th century.The dramatic, if somewhat melancholy, workhas not stayed in the repertoire however andso we come upon it here as something of ahidden treasure. I expect this fine performancewill bring some well-deserved attention to thenear-forgotten gem. Alain Lefèvre has beeninstrumental in reconstructing and promotingthe works of Québec child prodigy AndréMathieu (1929-1968) whose European careerwas cut short by the outbreak of the SecondWorld War. Written at the age of 13, the sameyear Mathieu won first prize in the New YorkPhilharmonic’s centenary young composers’competition, this charming, if somewhatanachronistic, lyric piece is a perfect Canadiancompanion for the sonatas of these earlierEuropean masters.The final disc this month is also one of violinand piano duos, but this time more eclecticand somewhat lighter fare. Violinist NancyDahn and pianist Timothy Steeves, hail fromNewfoundland where they are professors atMemorial University. They have shown a strongcommitment to Canadian composers during thetwelve years they have been playing together asDuo Concertante and a previous CD includedworks written for them by Chan Ka Nin, Kelly- Marie Murphy and Omar Daniel. In June they will record their fifth CD at Glenn Gould Stu- MarketPlace: Educationdio, another all-Canadian disc, featuring a workby R. Murray Schafer which they premieredlast year. 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Dowland - The Queen’s Galliard(Lute Music Vol. 4)Nigel NorthNaxos 8.570284The fourth and final CD of a series devotedto John Dowland’s lute music, this disc’sprogram of galliards, corants and Elizabethansong tunes offers an affectionate and intriguingglimpse into the musical development ofthis brilliant composer. Though Dowland’sfamiliar pensivespirit is rarelyout of sight, itsreflection throughthe prism of danceand song makes fordelightful listeningof a more livelykind, especially inthe expert musicalhands of Nigel North.This CD is replete with great tunes expertlyplayed. Several of the composer’s earlier andless familiar galliards can be heard here, ofwhich John Dowland’s Galliard is a particuofa crowd pleaser, an album of encoretypepieces. With repertoire ranging from amedley of Gershwintunes through DizzyGillespie’s A Nightin Tunisia and deAbreu’s Tico Tico toclassical show-stopperslike Rondo alla Turkaand Sabre Dance andmore melancholy faresuch as Solveig’s Song and Valse triste, thereis literally something for everybody. Whilethoroughly international in scope, even thisproject has a strong Canadian component. Allthe works were arranged for Duo Concertanteby Clifford Crawley, a British-born Canadianwho is Professor Emeritus at Queen’s Universityand now makes his home in St. John’s.In the words of the Duo, the title of this discmight more accurately be “It Takes Three”.Concert Note: Duo Concertante will performa free noon-hour concert in the Richard BradshawAmphitheatre at the Four Seasons Centreon May 5.We welcome your feedback and invitesubmissions. CDs and comments should besent to: The WholeNote, 503 – 720 BathurstSt. Toronto ON M5S 2R4. We also encourageyou to visit our website, www.thewholenote.com, where you can find added featuresincluding direct links to performers, composersand record labels and “buy buttons” foron-line shopping.David OldsDISCoveries Editordiscoveries@thewholenote.comVOCALBeethoven - FidelioKennedy; Sherratt; Coleman-Wright;Kampe; Milne; London PhilharmonicOrchestra; Mark ElderGlyndebourne GFOCD 004-06Debussy - Pelléas et MélisandeRoux; Duval; Reynolds; Hoekman;Wilbrink; Bredy; Shirley-Quirk;Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Vittoria GuiGlyndebourne GFOCD 003-63This year the Glyndebourne Festival in Sussex,England celebrates its 75th year. Thisis no mean achievement considering itssurvival depends entirely on private fundsand donations. For any artist it has alwaysbeen a great honour to be invited to be theguest of the Christie family, the foundersand owners of this event. There have beenmany improvements over the years notthe least of which is the magnificent newauditorium built in 1994. Glyndebourne hasalways been in the forefront of recordingopera. As early as the 1930’s they were doingMozart operas on EMI like the famousDon Giovanni with Fritz Busch. This yearthey have begun issuing recordings undertheir own label and this month we are presentedwith two of these: an inspired Fideliofrom 2006 and from the archives, a 1963performance of Pelléas et Mélisande.Beethoven’s only opera embodies his innermostphilosophy of life, the triumph of goodagainst evil and the journey from darkness tolight. This is what the Leonore Overture #3does by compressing the journey into perhapsthe most glorious 15 minutes of music everwritten. With an emphasis on the symphonicnature of theopera, Mark Elderand his LondonPhilharmonic, withexcellent pacingand throbbingenergy propel themusic forward andyet illuminate allthe nuances. Similarto the 9th Symphony the finale is truly anexplosion and a culmination of joy.The almost faultless cast deserves muchcredit. Soprano Anja Kampe as the heroinesings with heartfelt passion and tendernessand occasional outbursts of sincere indignation;Tornsten Kerl, the wrongfully convictedFlorestan, has a shorter but no less gruellingrole and his strong heroic tenor overcomes allthe difficulties. The Glyndebourne Choir alsomakes a tremendous contribution.At the end of the 19th century Frenchmusic was under the heavy influence ofWagner and Brahms. A fervent desire forchange was in the air and the young Debussywas the right man at the right timeto bring it about. With new harmonies andtranslucent textures he brought in a breath offresh air with a completely new approach,l’impressionisme. His sole opera Pelléas etMélisande is a sublime masterpiece and a pinnacleof French art. It is totally different fromanything writtenbefore yet, to behonest, still oweshomage to Tristanand Parsifal whichDebussy admired.Its long score isdelicate but of thehighest inspirationand every phraseis meaningful. It moves in the atmosphereof shadows, in and out of silence, generallyquiet, rarely reaching a fortissimo.This performance from 1963 is an inspiredone from the beautifully poetic impressionisticsets by Beni Montresor, throughthe incisive and sympathetic conducting ofVittorio Gui to the faultless, impressive cast.French soprano Denise Duval is exceptionalas the fragile, semi wild creature Mélisande.Dutch baritone Hans Wilbrink with his slowawareness to love and ardent declaration ismost memorable. A worthwhile listeningexperience.Last but not least, an A+ for presentationof these discs: elegantly designed hardcoverbooks, with complete quattro lingual libretto.They will be a treasure for any collector.Janos GardonyiWales - The Land of SongShannon Mercer; Skye ConsortAnalekta AN 2 9965In her fourth CD for Analekta, once againthe lovely soprano voice of Shannon Mercerrings clear and true, this time in a most warmand heartfelt performance of Welsh songs.As the daughter of a long-time member of theOttawa Welsh Society, Mercer well understandsmusic and language as the culturalglue that binds people of Welsh descent. Andwhat fond melodies they are. In fact, Mercerattributes her choice of career to the influenceWelsh song had inher young life. Theimagery inherent inthe poetic languagealong withthe sweet lyricalmelodies chosenfor this recordinghave quite an emotiveimpact on thelistener, despite the fact that no translationsare provided in the liner notes. Best-knownpieces on this album are the well-loved lullabySuo Gan, as well as the poignant Dafydda Gareg Wen (David of the White Rock) andthe unrequited Bugeillo’r Gwenith Gwyn.In arranging the accompaniments andinstrumental pieces, Sean Dagher has donea marvellous job of preserving traditionalelements while melding them to a more contemporaryaesthetic. The Skye Consort whichincludes flute, violins, cello, bass, cittern,accordion and percussion adds a 17th-centuryItalian harp similar to the Welsh triple-harp.Beautifully played, beautifully sung.Dianne WellsEARLY MUSIC ANDPERIOD PERFORMANCEMa y 1 – Ju n e 7 2009 w w w .t h e w h o l e n o t e.c o m49

lar gem; also included are some of his mostfamous, such as the Frog Galliard, whichreceives an elegantly spry performance. Alsooffered are various lute song and broadsideballad tunes set for lute alone, including Canshe excuse, Lord Willoughby’s welcomehome, Fortune my foe, Goe from my windowand other Shakespeare-era chart-toppers.North also performs his own particularlybeautiful version of Francis Cutting’s Awakesweet love.Besides his exemplary playing, North’sreadable notes provide much helpful andinteresting information. And the recordedsound on this disc is beautiful.Congrats to Naxos for their support ofDowland’s remarkable music, as played byone of his most excellent champions.Alison MelvilleTelemannTwelve Fantasies for Solo ViolinAugustin HadelichNaxos 8.570563Like a musical wolf in sheep’s clothing,the Telemann Fantasies lie in wait for thecompetent but unsuspecting amateur violinistsearching for solo Baroque works less challengingthan the Bach Sonatas and Partitas.I’ve been trying to play these things forover 35 years - which probably says moreabout my reluctance to practise and the relativebalance of “competent” and “amateur” inmy technique than anything else - and whileTelemann clearly intended them for amateursand students the deceptively straightforwardwriting is often quite angular and strewn withtechnical pitfalls.Composed in 1735, the Fantasies displayelements of the Baroque sonata, concertoand suite, with limited two-part writing andless multiple stopping than the Bach; the1968 Barenreiteredition, however- and with classicunderstatement -remarked that “thedouble stoppingand chordal workcan only be tackledby a competentplayer.”Augustin Hadelich’s playing goes farbeyond merely competent, making everythingsound easy and natural without ever beingtrivial. The short, slow chordal passagescould perhaps be embellished more - comparisonwith the solo Asseggai of Telemann'sSwedish contemporary Johan Helmich Romanwould certainly suggest this - but Hadelich'sornamentation is clean and unobtrusive.These are not the Bach solo works in anyrespect, leaning more towards Corelli than toTelemann's German contemporary, but theystill have much to recommend them.Recorded in Newmarket by the regularNaxos team of Norbert Kraft and BonnieSilver the sound quality is, as always, impeccable.Terry Robbins50Haydn – La Passione(Symphonies 41; 44; 49)Arion; Gary Cooperearly-music.com EMCCD-7769www.early-music.com)Montreal’s Arion orchestra is joined in thisrecent CD by the English harpsichordist GaryCooper in a program of three remarkablesymphonies from Haydn’s so-called “Stormand Stress” period. What makes this recordingunusual, aside from the highly contentiousinclusion of a harpsichord continuopart, is the modest size of the 17 memberorchestra, ostensiblymodelled afterthe forces availableto Haydn at theEsterhazy palacewhere these workswere first heard.This recordingclaims to be a premiereof sorts, inthat the performance of the Symphony No.41 is presented, as Cooper explains in thebooklet notes, “without the pomp and clatterof additional trumpets and timpani”. Anadmirable intent to be sure, but regrettablythere’s clatter galore from the over-mikedhorns and an often relentless harpsichord partwhich contributes a considerable din of acridovertones of its own. Though the virtuosityof the ensemble is quite evident, particularlyin the hell-for-leather tempos of the 44thand 49th symphonies, Anton Kwiatkowski’sover-the-top sound engineering (or to be fair,perhaps it’s a distorted pressing of the albumthat’s at fault) inflates the modest ensembleto gargantuan proportions, undermining thevery intimacy that was the stated intent ofthis small-scale performance. If heavy-metalHaydn is your thing you may enjoy thesebristly, bracing interpretations.Daniel FoleyCLASSICAL AND BEYONDBeethoven - Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2Mari Kodama; Deutsches Symphonie-Orchestre Berlin; Kent NaganoAnalekta AN 2 9955I looked forward to hearing these concertosafter Nagano’s Beethoven Fifth Symphonyrecorded with the Montreal Symphony (AN29942-3). That performance was a wave offresh air in dynamics, phrasing and tempi anda welcome addition to the catalogue, holdingone’s attention to the last bar.Mari Kodama is endowed with astonishingvirtuosity, selfassurance and control.This remindedme of Glenn Gouldwhen his limitlessability, boardingon arrogance,could stand in theway the music. Asthese performances unfold I was persuadedthat she is offering genuine musical insightswith a personal touch that is quite appealing.About eight minutes into the first movementof the first concerto, Beethoven’s geniusis manifested using simple means for theunfolding drama of the music. Descendingscales, played 3 times, remind me of similarscales in Mozart’s Don Giovanni whichportend the demise of the Don. How thesesimple passages are played is one of the criticalmeasures of artistic insight. No reservationshere nor with the inner world of theslow movement. The third movement, takenat a brisk pace, is exhilarating.Kodama’s style is perfectly akin to thesecond concerto. Her no nonsense, clearapproach suits this work perfectly. Sparklingthroughout and as stylistically satisfying asany I know of.The orchestra is just the right size for theseworks and Nagano, as expected, provides illuminatingsupport, fresh and pointed beyondmerely impeccable. The spacious recordingis clean and well projected with a pleasingambience.It will be quite interesting to hear the otherthree concertos as they may require less of thesparkling pianism and more heavyweight musicianship.Odds are she’ll make it brilliantly.Bruce SurteesChopinAndré LaplanteAnalekta AN 2 9964We can only wonder why it took AndreLaplante – a pianist long renowned for hisinterpretations of late-romantic repertoire –until now to record an all-Chopin disc. But inlight of the well-balanced program and superbplaying, it was well worth the wait! Includedon this Analekta recording are 2 majorworks, the Sonata in B flat minor, Op. 35 andthe Fantaisie Op.49, in addition to two earlyNocturnes, (Op. Post. in C sharp minor, andOp.15 No.1), and the three Mazurkas Op.63.The Sonata, the second of Chopin’s effortsin the form, raised more than a few eyebrowswhen first published in 1840. Schumann evenwent so far as to refer to it as a binding togetherof “four of his maddest children.” Nomatter, Laplanteapproaches themusic with aplomb– this is powerfuland noble playing,and my only quibble- and a minorone at that - wouldbe the overly briskpace he takes inthe opening movement. Yet the familiar thirdmovement “Funeral March” is treated withthe solemnity it deserves, and the finale,with those fleeting octaves once described as“wind over church-yard graves” embodies aspirit that surely would have pleased EdgarAllan Poe.The two nocturnes and three mazurkasw w w .t h e w h o l e n o t e.c o m Ma y 1 – Ju n e 7 2009

which follow are miniature jewels, but to mymind, Laplante saves his best for last withthe magnificent F minor Fantaisie, hailedby many as Chopin’s greatest work. I haveheard many versions over the years, but Ican honestly say this is among the finest Ihave encountered. His treatment is nothingless than sublime, from the ominous openingmarch, to the thrice-heard secondary theme,a veritable love-song. There is a world ofcontrasting moods in this piece, and Laplanteeffortlessly captures them all, thus bringingthis most satisfying disc to a close.Richard HaskellBrahms; Korngold - Violin ConcertosNikolaj Znaider; Wiener Philharmoniker;Valery GergievRCA Red Seal 88697103362The young Danish violinist Nikolaj Znaiderappears in the august company of the mightyVienna Philharmonic in this live recordingfrom December 2006. The notoriously volatileValery Gergiev provides an unusually restrainedinterpretation of the Brahms Concerto, well intune with the beautifully honeyed tone Znaiderdraws from the Guarneri “del Gesu” violin onceowned by Fritz Kreisler and now on loan toZnaider thanks to aDutch foundation.It is a performanceof striking intimacy,long on beautythough a bit short onthe drama that otherartists have foundin this celebratedwork. ThoughZnaider gives it his all, it seems Gergiev’s reticencein such familiar repertoire makes for justanother day at the office as far as the orchestra isconcerned. Gergiev and the Philharmonic seemmuch more engaged in Erich Korngold’s 1945Violin Concerto, a work which is derived inlarge part from the composer’s Hollywood filmscores composed during his decade of exile fromhis native Vienna. Attractively scored and directin expression, it was premiered by Jascha Heifetzin 1947 and though it found little favour inEuropean circles of the time it has never fallenout of the repertoire. All in all, a superb additionto Znaider’s discography.Daniel FoleyMichael Rabin Collection, Volume 2Live PerformancesMichael RabinDOREMI DHR 7951-3Not only violin fans but all music lovers willbe delighted with this set of performances bythe legendary Michael Rabin, a violin virtuosoand fine musician who, in his short life (1936-1972), generated explosive excitement andhad, and still has, one of the most evident cultfollowings in classical music.The three CDs, each of a little over 80minutes duration, are fully loaded with liveperformances, all previously un-issued in anyformat, of concertos, solos and real showpiecesfor violin and orchestra. These were takendown at various stages of Rabin’s meteoric ca-reer, from his precocious teen-age years whenhe was a frequent and popular guest on TheBell Telephone Hour broadcast nationally onthe NBC Network,to the fully mature,seasoned masterdelivering astoundingperformancesof the Brahms,Bruch’s 1st, andProkofiev’s 2ndviolin concertos.We hear also hisearliest known live performances of the Wieniawskifirst concerto, a work that to this dayonly Rabin plays with such finesse. He laterrecorded it for EMI, as authoritatively as ifhe owned it. Both Perlman and Shaham haverecorded the concerto but neither approachesRabin’s supremacy in this repertoire. Alsoincluded in this set are two ‘contemporary’concertos apparently played only by Rabin:those by Richard Mohaupt (German-American1904-1957) heard here with the Philharmonic-Symphony conducted by Mitropoulos (1954)and American Paul Creston’s Concerto no.2,commissioned by Rabin (1962).A 1952 collaboration between the youngRabin and the mature and celebrated ZinoFrancescatti is heard in a scintillating performanceof the first movement of Bach’sDouble Concerto BWV1042, Rabin playingprimo! Six of Paganini’s Solos Caprices(Berlin 1961) are wondrous.Most of the repertoire presented here doesnot exist in Rabin’s commercial discographyor in previously issued live performances. Theinformative and authoritative liner notes werewritten by Doctor Anthony Feinstein, author of“Michael Rabin: America’s Virtuoso Violinist”(Amadeus Press, 2005), the only biography ofthe late musician.It is known that Michael Rabin wished to recordthe Brahms Violin Concerto. This set honoursthat wish with a breathtaking performancefrom 1967 with Rafael Kubelik in Chicago. Thesound is of studio quality as are all the tracksexcept for the Mohaupt and Creston concertoswhich were rescued from contemporary acetates.The set helps to fill significant omissionsin the catalogue.Bruce SurteesNEWMa y 1 – Ju n e 7 2009 w w w .t h e w h o l e n o t e.c o m51CDRELEASEMODERN ANDCONTEMPORARYAnn Southam - Pond LifeChristina Petrowska QuilicoCentrediscs CMCCD 14109(www.musiccentre.ca)This disc features piano music by AnnSoutham, one of Canada’s most important -and most interesting - composers. The titlesof the works on this disc refer to naturalbodies of water, not just ponds but rivers andcreeks as well. So, while the ten movementsof Soundstill capture the calm surface of awindless pond, Noisy River, Fidget Creek,and Commotion Creek ripple and dancealong. But whether these exquisite compositionsare smooth or turbulent on the surface,underneath they teem with life.The distinctiveness of Southam’s soundworld lies in her ability to create a sense ofspace around the notes. A simple motif canemerge from the layers of sound, and, with arhythmic or harmonic twist change the courseof the music. It’s moving, and it encouragescontemplation of what lies beyond thesounds.Most of theseworks were writtenfor Canadianpianist ChristinaPetrowska Quilico,who in 2005 recordedSoutham’sRivers (also onCentrediscs). Hervirtuosic commandof the keyboard brings these works to life.With theatrical flair she balances the fine gradationsin pitch and rhythm to create subtleshifts in mood, from nostalgic contemplationto irrepressible joy.The cover art is lovely. But a reproductionof the painting by Aiko Suzuki which inspiredSoutham to write Spatial View of Pond I andII would also have been meaningful. Therecorded sound is clear yet resonant, helpingto make this disc such a delight.Pamela MarglesTheGallery Playersof NiagaraoboeCAnAdiAnQuARTETSABRAM | HATCH | OESTERLE | ROLFEAVAILABLE AT www.gallery players.ca • CD Baby • iTunes

Concert Note: Christina Petrowska Quilicowill launch this CD on Tuesday, May 12 inGlenn Gould Studio with performances of themusic of Ann Southam.Fazil Say - 1001 Nights in the HaremPatricia Kopatchinskaja; LuzernerSinfonieorchester; John AxelrodNaïve V5147 (www.naiveclassique.com)The Turkish pianist and composer Fazil Sayhas achieved great success in both classicaland jazz fields, with frequent concert hall andjazz festival appearances and a discographyranging from Bach to Stravinsky. As an accompanist,he toured with Maxim Vengerovin 2004, and in 2006 formed a duo partnershipwith the Moldovan violinist PatriciaKopatchinskaja.His violin concerto was written for Kopatchinskaja,and this CD is a live recordingof the world premiere performance in Lucernein February 2008. It is a very accessibleand extremely satisfying four-movementwork, the title ofwhich suggests thatin this particularmeeting of Eastand West the ‘East’is going to be thedominant partner,as indeed it is.Turkish percussioninstrumentsadd colour to a rich and warm orchestralscore full of sensuous oriental sonorities thatreaches its peak in a wonderfully lyrical thirdmovement.Kopatchinskaja interprets the music superbly,with great support from Axelrod andthe LSO. This is one concerto I’ll be playingover and over again.Three other works by Say complete thedisc. Patara, a quartet for soprano, ney flute,piano and percussion that was originally aballet, and Alla turca Jazz, for piano, areboth built on material from Mozart’s A majorPiano Sonata K331, while SummertimeVariations is Say’s third arrangement of theGershwin song, here conceived as a dazzlingsolo piece suitable for use in both his classicaland jazz appearances.Terry Robbins52JAZZ AND IMPROVISEDSarah Vaughan Live in Japan:The Complete EditionSarah VaughanJazz Lips JL758Sarah Lois Vaughan (1924-1990) branded asingular singing style that will never go outof style. Whether the song was traditional ormodern, dramatic or humorous, at the coreof each performance was an exquisitely controlled,astonishing voice that spanned overfour octaves. For her operatic instrumentshe was called “The Divine One” whereas“Sassy” was a moniker for her personalitybefore, during and especially after the gig.“Live in Japan” isa worthy re-issuewhich finds the DivineOne in heavenlyform, backedby her swingingtrio: Carl Schroederon piano, JohnGianelli on bassand Jimmy Cobb atthe drums. Pushing fifty, she was in supremevoice and apparently a jovial mood to boot.At the Sun Plaza Hall in Tokyo in Septemberof ’73, the audience ate it all up and cravedmore. The Nearness of You is a rare 7-minutetreat with Vaughan accompanying herselfon the piano, while Summertime is treatedlike a true aria and the last note of Over theRainbow inhabits 17 seconds. Similarly,the ballad renditions of ‘Round Midnight, IRemember You and My Funny Valentine showoff Sassy’s masterful approach to vibrato.Musically very savvy, Vaughan was a smartimproviser: There is No Greater Love beginswith three separate scat duets with drums,bass and piano; memorable wordless chorusesmake up I’ll Remember April, All of Me andThe Blues which showcase the rhythm section.The requested encore Bye Bye Blackbirdis a surprisingly joyous, swingin’ blast. In2006, the Library of Congress honoured thisalbum by adding it to the United States NationalRecording Registry. Formerly a costlyebay item, the complete edition retails for$40 including good liner notes, an interview,photographs and a bonus track. Alternately,one can find this concert on iTunes, issuedunder Mainstream Records.Ori DaganExtended PlaySampling Soundscapesby Ken WaxmanCreating musical sounds without instrumentshas become widespread ever sincethe availability of first the portable taperecorder and then the lap top computer.Melding oscillations created with softwareplus amplifications of so-called found sounds,often re-mixed, these soundscapes are notablefor their subtle mixture of foreground andbackground.Canadians – especially Québécois – havebeen particularly proficient in this sort ofcomposing, as these CDs demonstrate. Sohave Europeans, which is why Habitat (CreativeSources CS 105 CD), by the Germandis.playce duo provides an interesting contrastto the Canadians’ work. For comparison,both that CD and Victoriaville MatièreSonore (Victo cd 0113) created by eightsound designers – Francisco López, LouisDufort, Chantal Dumas, A_Dontigny, SteveHeimbecker, Mathieu Lévesque, Hélène Prévostand Tomas Phillips – are audio portraitsof specific places.Geographical reflection is also involvedin Bill Gilonis’ and Chantale Laplante’sZürich-Bamberg (AD HOC 22) and ÉricNormand’s Vente de Bagages - Volume Un(Tour de Bras TDB 3001), but these collaborationsexpose another electronic musicvariant. Montrealer Laplante and LondonerGilonis, then living in cities which give thedisc its title, collaborate on sound collagesby tweaking individual audio files sent to oneanother. Rimouski-based Normand followsthe collaborativepattern, althoughthe found soundshe alters originatedin different Europeancities and inMontreal.Hélène Prévost,one of Normand’saudio pen-pals,is the only person represented on two CDs;and that’s appropriate. One of the doyennesof auditory creation, her contributions fitindividual situations in which they are placed.Matière Sonore’s VSM for instance, suggesta story line with muffled male and femalevoices, a ticking clock and sirens interminglingwith rumbling hisses, blurry rustlesand reverberated intonation traceable backto computer programming. On Vente deBagages however (www.tourdebras.com),the bed track of static intonation and hissfrom her side is reconfigured with audioeffects and stutters created and equalized bythe noises produced with a microphone heldin Normand’s mouth. This overt physicalityand evident sonic building blocks is what distinguishesNormand’s sound postcards fromthe other discs. On another track, his circularcackles, cries and cock-a-doodle-doos expandthe quicksilver squeaks and tremolo fluttersproduced by the brass mouthpiece and valvesmanipulation of Toulouse-resident SébastienCirotteau.Organized by Spanish sound artist FranciscoLópez to create an audio portrait ofVictoriaville, Quebec, Matière Sonore’ssoundscape is more anonymous and selfless(www.victo.qc.ca). Sequentially panningacross the aural landscape of the city whichhosts an annual experimental music festival,private and public spaces are exposed andtransformed. Particular starting points aremixed electronically and are simultaneouslylinked and divorced from sources. LouisDufort’s materio _***, for example, featuressnatches of gull caws and dog yelps, followedby slithery organ-like riffs and otherworldlyshrills, and preceded by ring modulatorechoes, plus swellingblurry thumps.Meanwhile ChantalDumas tells herstory on s/t w/t2 with intonationfrom spectralrailway-crossingpeals, thunderw w w .t h e w h o l e n o t e.c o m Ma y 1 – Ju n e 7 2009

claps and people shouting, plus radio dialtwisting that locates and loses snatches ofrecorded music. She ends with door slammingsounds.Coincidentally Zürich-Bamberg (www.chantalelaplante.com) begins with the soundsof a door opening,follow by quiveringpiano strings.Completed by acouple of tracksof solo Laplantethat alternateprolonged silenceswith fortissimo,stop-time abrasionsand echoes, the CD’s key manipulatedcollages are These 12 Minutes and the titletrack. Undulating, intermittent oral gasps topan undercurrent of foot steps on the former.Eventually the textures are redirectedtogether as backwards-running beats. Sliversof English, French and German phrases studthe title track as these disembodied voicesphilosophize, hector and promote. Alsoaudible are intercut disconnected waves ofmelodic, hard-rock and Arab music thatoccasionally reveal simple guitar licks ordrum patterns. Surmounting this are furtherprocessed sounds which originate in fallingrain, whistling birds, draining sinks andidling engines. The result is both descriptiveand disconcerting.So too is Habitat (www.creativesourcresrec.com).Created by German electronicsmanipulators Maximilian Marcoll andHannes Galette Seidl to be site-specific, thetracks rely on recordings made in Frankfurtor Karlsruhe of the scratches, yowls,squeaks and criesthat reflect thosecities’ passingstreetscapes. Panningacross thesonic panorama,found sounds arecaptured at closerange or at a distance,sometimesdrawing away from the mikes as definition isestablished. As electronics distort the actualitieswith soothing watery squishes, flangedwoodpecker-like clatter or rumbling cheepsand buzzes, the process becomes nearly hypnoticin its regularity.Very much of its own place and style, thisEuropean CD confirms Canadians’ inventionand pre-eminence in this particular version ofsonic art.POT POURRILaterHeidi LangeIndependent (www.heidilange.ca)Singer-songwriter Heidi Lange has flownin under the radar to drop her debut CD,“Later”. While Lange has spent most of hermusical career teaching and directing musicals,her own solo performing career hasn’tbeen high on herlist of priorities.But as a songwritershe felt compelled– by personal loss,as is so often thecase with songwriters– to get thesesongs out. The dischas two handfulsof tunes, only a few of which are covers, andnary a done-to-death standard in sight. Thegenre is hard to pinpoint – cabaret and soulwith a touch of jazz - seem to be the biggestinfluences. The original tunes have a certaincomforting familiarity to them. Any TimeSoon is an old school R&B lament for a lostlove, with appropriately yearning sax workby Pat Carey, and My Own is a gospelinspiredanthem to female independence, withstately accompaniment by brilliant pianistRobi Botos.Lange has a warm and expressive voicethat is at its best on the quieter, more controlledpieces which are predominant here.So her cover of Stevie Wonder’s TuesdayHeartbreak, which calls for more freedomand funkiness, sounds strained and out ofthe comfort zone for her and some of theband – with the exception of Colin Barrett’srelaxed, solid bass work, which holdsit together. While the other covers, GloomySunday – complete with Hammond organ bykeyboardist Peter Kadar – and Snuggled onYour Shoulder fit like a glove.Cathy RichesSunplaceJaffa RoadIndependent JR0001(www.jaffaroadmusic.com)March 25 saw Toronto’s Lula Lounge atoverflow capacity, a lively party atmosphereon the occasion of the release of Jaffa Road'sfirst CD. While this band is relatively newon the world music scene, its musicians arenot. Jaffa Road, a Jewish-pop band rooted intradition, not only takes its place alongsidethe likes of Toronto’s other fusion groups,such as the Arabic–Greek ensemble MazaMezé, and Indian–Jazz ensembles Autorickshawand Tasa, it also shares some of theirmusicians. “Sunplace” opens with a tablariff delivered by Ravi Naimpally, and theCD features other well-known guest artistsor regulars, Dr. George Sawa (qanoon),Ernie Tollar (eastern flutes), Chris McKhool(violin), Chris Gartner (bass, guitar), SundarViswanathan (sax), Jeff Wilson (percussion,kalimba, etc.), and co-producer/composerAaron Lightstone(oud, guitars, saz,synthesizers).The star of thisrecording is howevervocalist AvivaChernick, whosings in Hebrew,English and Judeo-Spanish (Ladino).Also no stranger to Toronto's music scene,Chernick has previously released a CD withThe Huppah Project, as well as her solorecording, “In the Sea” (see www.avivachernick.com).“Sunplace” is a collection ofsongs, either newly composed to traditionaltexts, or arrangements of traditional songs,and a couple of entirely new ones. Theopening number is a call to peace, basedon the phrase from Isaiah “nation shall notlift up sword against nation, nor shall theylearn war any more”. The CD’s title trackMakom Shemesh (sun place) evokes a desertlandscape. Be’er Besade is a lively tune from1950’s Israel. Im Ninalu, a traditional Yemenitemelody, was first made popular (to myknowledge) by the late Yemenite-Israeli popsinger Ofra Haza; the version here opens withan introduction by Cantor Aaron Bensoussan.Love songs include the traditional LadinoUna Ora en la Ventana, and a new compositionbased on the Hebrew Song of Songs,(open the night for me) which closes this recording.Chernick and the band give polishedperformances throughout.Karen AgesOLD WINE INNEW BOTTLESFine Old Recordings Re-releasedBy Bruce SurteesLast December’s Gramophone magazinefeatured an evaluation of The World’s20 Greatest Orchestras according to theWorld’s Leading Critics. Third was TheVienna Philharmonic, second was The BerlinPhilharmonic and at the top of the list, TheRoyal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Theirchief conductoris Mariss Jansonswho succeededRicardo Chailly.That orchestra hasissued Volume5, 1980-1990, ofAnthology of theRoyal ConcertgebouwOrchestra,the penultimate set in their collection of asix decade’s worth of live performances(RCO 08005 14CDs and 84 page booklet).Conductors include Giulini, Kondrashin,Jochum, Haitink, Järvi, Sanderling, Chailly,Harnoncourt, Leinsdorf, de Waart, ColinDavis, Bernstein, Ivan Fischer, Dohnanyi,Dutoit, Albrecht, and others. One of themany highlights is Kirill Kondrashin withthe most persuasive performance of Rachmaninov’sSecond Symphony ever. I haveumpteen versions from Vladimir Sokoloff’s1928 Cleveland to the new Ashkenazy fromthe Sydney Symphony’s 2007 RachmaninovFestival, but Kondrashin surpasses themall in overall shaping and balance, with aluxuriously self-indulgent first movement.While there are several popular worksincluded; Tchaikovsky’s Sixth and The PoemMa y 1 – Ju n e 7 2009 w w w .t h e w h o l e n o t e.c o m53

of Ecstasy (Dorati), Mozart 24th (Brendel/Haitink), Song of the Nightingale (Chailly),Sibelius Sixth (Colin Davis), and SchubertFifth (Bernstein), there is also repertoire thatis rarely, if ever, heard live. Certain worksby Schreker, Escher, Webern, Schoenberg,Varèse, Keuris, and others may be new toone’s ears but well worth getting to know.There are 41 works in all and choosing fromthe wealth of repertoire and matching conductorsavailable could not have been easy. Whatis included is, presumably, the best of thebest. Other choices may have been differentbut not better. I am enjoying this set immensely.No complaints about the sound.Esoteric, the Japanese company thatmanufactures high quality CD players, amplifiersand speakers, is producing CDs derivedfrom existing analogue masters that are, fromthe two that I have heard, quite astonishing!Incidentally, these two discs are superior toany of the Japanese XRCD discs from JVCthat I have heard.Decca’s Dvorak Ninth Symphony withIstvan Kertesz and the Vienna Philharmonic(ESSD 90015, SACD hybrid) never had quitethis impact. The dynamics are true-to-lifeand the orchestra between the speakers hasbody, not just sound. This is what Decca’steam must have heard live in the Sofiensaalin 1961. Throughthe courtesy ofAmerican Soundin Richmond Hill,employing state-ofthe-artequipment,I compared thisSACD/CD to theoriginal SXL LPpressing and foundthat the sound was remarkably similar, theCD sounding more articulate in the bass andmore dynamic, with some finer details in thewinds. The bottom line is that the Esotericdisc sounds very analogue, dynamic anda must-have for those for whom analogueis their raison d’être. Kudos to Esotericcertainly but also to Decca, whose exquisitetechnology produced the original mastertapes that contained all this newly revealedinformation.Mozart’s Piano Concertos 20 and 27 playedby Clifford Curzon with Benjamin Brittenconducting the English Chamber Orchestra recordedby Decca in 1970 also enjoy an Esotericsonic renaissance. Because of the less expansivedynamic range there are no sonic fireworks butnevertheless the remastering reveals a subtlyheightened senseof reality (ESSD90014, SACDhybrid). There aretwo more discs inthis first releasefrom Esoteric, deFalla’s The ThreeCornered Hat withAnsermet andBeethoven Overtures with Colin Davis. I lookforward to hearing them. Beautifully packaged54like a hard cover book, these discs sell for,gulp! $74.99 each. However, it appears thataudiophiles who hear them are lapping them up.The DVD companies also have beenachieving remarkable results as they, too,re-master for Blu-ray HD discs. I am deeplyimpressed with the director’s cut of Milos Forman’s1984 masterpiece,Amadeus, based on PeterShaffer’s play. There are20 minutes of extra footageadded to the originalversion and a substantialdocumentary involvingall the principals, beforeand behind the cameras,on the making of thefilm. This two disc Blu-ray set from WarnerBrothers is a treasure both visually and intellectually.Wagner’s Mastersinger: Hitler’s Siegfriedis the intriguing if not provocative title ofThe Life and Times of Max Lorenz (MediciArts, EuroArts, 2056928 DVD+CD). Bornin 1901, Max Lorenz’s career is tracedfrom choir boy to super-star in Bayreuthand elsewhere during the 1930s and beyond.Intriguing films of his Siegfried give credenceto his reputation as the heldentenor of the era.Film and narration together with commentsby his contemporariesdescribe his social lifewith the in-crowd inBayreuth. His wife wasJewish and he stood withher, despite the Nazis.He was shielded byWinifred Wagner whoused her influence withHitler on his behalf. Butfame is fleeting. Lorenz sang his last Tristanin Dresden in 1960. Waldemar Kmenttrecalls that “After his final performance atThe Vienna Opera they just let him go homeas if nothing had happened. No one fromthe management came to give him a propersend-off. I felt deeply ashamed for the ViennaOpera.” There are trailers of scenes from fourLove Opera?Travel? Congenial people?Why not discover the fabulousopera houses of Europe?How? Just visit this website:www.opera-is.comWagner music-dramas on the DVD featuringlatter day heldentenors in leading roles that,perhaps unintentionally, confirm DietrichFischer-Dieskau’s summing-up, “Today youwon’t find anyone who could hold a candle tohim. No one. Hot air, that’s all.” The accompanyingCD contains a document of Lorenz athis best. Extensive excerpts from Siegfried areconducted by Erich Kleiber, recorded in theTeatro Colón in Buenos Aires on October 4,1938 with Max Lorenz, Erich Witte, HerbertJanssen and Emanuel List.Circle this date!Movies Embracing Music:A Choral Double Feature!June 24, 2009, 7:30pm atBLOOR CINEMACelebrate!WholeNote’s first-evermovie night is dedicatedto our vibrantchoral community:two superb films aboutpeople singing together.Participate!Live entertainment, doorprizes, audience participation.Investigate!See Choral Scene, page 10.w w w .t h e w h o l e n o t e.c o m Ma y 1 – Ju n e 7 2009

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