Volume 20 Issue 1 - September 2014

WE ARE ALL MUSIC’S CHILDRENA DECADE ofSEPTEMBERSAnd what they’re doing next.MJ BUELLCURTIS METCALF (euphonium)“For the month of September I’llbe in Nunavut teaching guitar tostudents whose first language isInuktitut. It is marvellous to knowthat music is truly the universallanguage.”’S CHILDRENRAY TIZZARD (trumpet) - heading forNew York (as The National Ballet’ musicadministrator). “We’re performing Alice’sAdventures in Wonderland (Sept 9-14) atLincoln Center. Then London, ON, wherethe Faculty of Music at my alma materWestern University is bestowing uponme a music alumni award. Ever-present– grant deadlines and planning for theHannaford Street Silver Band’s 2014/15season. Our first concert is awesomeBramwell Tovey on the podium featuringtrumpet soloist Andrew McCandless.”ROBERT AITKEN (flute) - at home inToronto on the occasion of his 75th birthday.“This September I’m off to New Zealand whereI will give a recital, play a concert with a fluteorchestra, present my lecture “Music as aLanguage” to the music faculty at AucklandUniversity and give some masterclasses. I hopeto find time to play a little golf and do somefishing while I’m there.”GUIDO BASSO (flugelhorn, trumpet)- practising and recovering from kneesurgery. “I can’t wait for the pain tocease. I should be back performingon October 18th at Koerner Hall withThe Boss Brass paying tribute to thelegendary late Rob McConnell and hiswonderful music. I am a great fan ofyour magazine I would like to congratulateall the members of your crew forletting all of us, readers and performers,know where we can hear great music.”NEW CONTEST! SEPTEMBER 2014 | MYSTERY CHILDPlay early, plays often.Plays well with (many) other not-soordinary musicians, on violins, viola,rebec, vielle and viola d’amore.Plays most often á table.Has a violinist daughter.Have bow(s), will travel …Concord, New Hampshire, 1975Know our Mystery Child’s name? Send your best guess tomusicschildren@thewholenote.com by September 25.WIN FABULOUS PRIZES!JANE BUNNETT (flute, soprano sax) “Iwill be having a wonderful Septemberfinishing off my 3 and a half month tourwith my amazing group – Maqueque!Dates in Boston at Schullers, Side Door inConnecticut, Lake George Jazz Festival, NY,Wichita, Denver, the Bluenote, New YorkCity, and ending it all with a final concertand goodbye party for the girls this seasonon Sept 27 at Hugh’s Room”JAMES PARKER (piano) “I always lovedschool as a kid, because that’s whereI’d see all my friends that I didn’t see inthe summer. I still enjoy the rhythm ofSeptember, where my own kids go backto school and I see my friends, studentsby mJ buelland colleagues at University of Toronto.”JEANNETTE LAJEUNESSE ZINGG (dancer,choreographer, co-artistic-director) “MySeptember includes: choreographic workshopsfor Opera Atelier’s Alcina, openingOctober 23; leading sessions at Making of anOpera, our educational workshops for highschool students; and working on our productionof Lucio Silla for La Scala.”RUFUS WAINWRIGHT (singer,composer) Sept 11-13: London,UK; Sept 16 Stavanger, Norway;Sept 18: Moscow, Russia; Oct 4:Coventry, UK. First Canadianstop is Vancouver, Dec 7, butLoudon Wainwright III, RufusWainwright’s dad, will be inToronto to perform at Hugh’sRoom Sept 7.ild was...little fool lies herehom I held dear—starling in the primef his brief timehose doom it was to draineath’s bitter pain…(etc)ther event in the same week,eath of Mozart’s fathercal productions, portraits and“conversation pieces”.In 1772 Zoffany enjoyed a seven-yearstay in Italy with the patronageof King George III andspent several years painting portraitsin India. Returning to Eng-portrait of Mozart at the age ofCONGRATULATIONSTO OUR WINNERS! Artin Shafa and a Mozartlovingfriend will have the pleasureof the Toronto MendelssohnChoir’s season premiere concertof Mozart’s Requiem on Friday,November 3, at 8:00 PM and dinnerfor two at Il Fornello! Guestconductor Ivars Taurins of Tafelmusikleads the choir with guestsoloists Sookhyung Park (soprano),Anita Krause (mezzo-soprano),Eric Shaw (tenor), ThomasGoerz (bass-baritone) and theFestival Orchestra. Robert Lesco and a friend,guests of Music Toronto, willhear the Emerson Quartet(Thursday September 28th,8pm)play Mozart’s Divertimento forstring trio in E-flat, K.563 andWE ARE ALL MUSIC’S CHILDRENSEPTEMBER’S Child ….SUSIE NAPPER (viola da gamba) -ANGELA HEWITT (piano)land he became a founder-memberis pretty of the relaxed! Royal A couple Academy ofOp.25. Guest: Wu Han,ACROBAT MUSICBrahms’ Piano Quartet in g,59writing from Brittany. “September’sSept 7, Art of the Fugue, inchildNothingThun, piano.ill-temperedALIVE MUSICSwitzerland; Sept 15 Bach, 51about this prelude to aMontreal (1768): concerts generally with Les reputed Voix for his Carol Ditner-Wilson Beethoven, remarkable and her career Scarlatti and AlbenizAMADEUS CHOIR 25Humaines and Ensemble Capricein Wels, Austria; Sept 17 Art AMICIbrilliant technical skills and forof 13guest will hear the Exultateand then a week of preparation for athe Think Fugue you might in Amsterdam, know theyear-longintroducingseries of lecture-concertsgreater liveliness and Chamber Singers MozartNetherlands.who September’s 250, Child ATMA CLASSIQUE 5in Copenhagen personal anecdote at the Royal into Academy English (Saturday October 20th is? 8 Send pm) your includingAlma Dei Creatoris, @thewholenote.com. Avebest guessmusicschildrenduring conversation which the students pieces. will But…. create 6New Brandenburgs with recycled Bach!In two portraits of Mozart attributeddo worse!” to Zoffany (the one Exsultate Jubilate, Solemn by random Ves-draw amongVerum Corpus, Salve (Anecdotes Regina, are welcome!)Off to Copenhagen followed by a weekWinners will be selectedof traveling in Umbria, Italy ... couldshown here and a lesser-knownthewholenote.com pers, and choruses from correct Die entries Za-received by1, 2014 – October 7, 2014 | 65September15th, 2007.uberflöte and Idomeneo. GuestINDESuppowho keep100 VOICE WELSH MALE CHALDEBURGH CONNECTION 11ALL THE KING’S VOICES 26ANNEX SINGERS OF TORONTOAVENUE ROAD ARTS SCHOOLCANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 3CANCLONE SERVICES 54CANTORES FABULARUM 38CATHEDRAL BLUFFS SYMPHONORCHESTRA 40CHRIST CHURCH DEER PARKJAZZ VESPERS 29CHURCH OF ST. MARY MAGDCHURCH OF ST. SIMON THE ACITY OF TORONTO HISTORIC M