Volume 19 Issue 4 - December 2013

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Volume 19 No 4 | December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014FOR OPENERS6. The Street Where I Live | DAVID PERLMANFEATURES8. Lawrence Cherney – Inter-Nationalist | WILLIAM LITTLER9. Lutoslawski’s Legacy | ROBERT AITKEN12. Salute to Glatz – Music Theatre | DAVID PERLMANBEAT BY BEAT16. Art of Song | HANS DE GROOT18. Classical & Beyond | PAUL ENNIS21. In the Clubs | ORI DAGAN22. Jazz Notes | JIM GALLOWAY24. Bandstand | JACK MacQUARRIE26. Early Music | DAVID PODGORSKI28. Choral Scene | BENJAMIN STEIN31. World View | ANDREW TIMAR33. In With the New | WENDALYN BARTLEYLISTINGS36. A | Concerts in the GTA58. B | Concerts Beyond the GTA61. C | In the Clubs (Mostly Jazz)63. D | The ETCeterasMUSICAL LIFE67. Seeing Orange | ALLAN PULKER68. We Are All Music’s Children | MJ BUELLDISCOVERIES: RECORDINGS REVIEWED69. Editor’s Corner | DAVID OLDS70. Vocal72. Early Music & Period Performance73. Classical & Beyond74. Strings Attached | TERRY ROBBINS74. Modern & Contemporary75. Jazz, Eh? | STUART BROOMER76. Something in the Air | KEN WAXMAN77. Old Wine, New Bottles | BRUCE SURTEESMORE6. Contact Information & Deadlines7. Index of Advertisers66. Classified AdsACD2 2404BACHCANTATAS FORTHE EPIPHANYThe fifth volume of the recordingof the sacred cantatas ofJ.S. Bach.“If only God had made ourworld as perfect as Bachmade his world divine.— CIORANPerformed by Montréal Baroquewithsoprano Monika Mauchmezzo-soprano Franziska Gottwaldtenor Charles Danielsand bass Harry van der KampConducted by Eric Milnes“Cover Photograph SOUNDSTREAMSIN THIS ISSUEAVAILABLE IN HD ATATMACLASSIQUE.COMMP3STUDIOQUALITYCDQUALITYSelect ATMA titles now on saleLOUIS LORTIECLASSICAL & BEYOND 18GABRIEL PROKOFIEVIN WITH THE NEW 33FATOUMATA DIAMWARAWORLD VIEW 31

PRICELESS!As regular readers know, thisis the spot where we ask you totake the time to count yourselfin, one way or another.Well, we have two asksthis issue!1. Give Sistema Toronto apriceless push.Sistema Toronto is one of severalcharities and/or communitygroups across Canadacompeting in the Aviva CommunityFund, an annual competitionfor $1 million in prizes.Late in the game, SistemaToronto is still in the runningfor $150,000, which would bea huge boost for an astonishinglittle engine for musical change.All you have to do is vote online(ten times between December 2and 11). Details, and more aboutSistema Toronto in SeeingOrange, page 67.2. If you are a music teacher,help us help you!Early in the new year we’llbe rolling out a new questionnaire-basedonline version ofour Orange Pages Music EducationDirectory. Dead simple, andfree. Just answer the questionsthat students will be asking andyou’ll be there for them to find!Details are on page 66.The Street Where I Live …Contains probably only five or sixdozen buildings in total. They includea firehall, daycare (soon to become alittle Montessori School), communitycentre/settlement house, heritagenursing home converted to assistedhousing, and a mix of houses from the 1880s to the1960s, in various states of decay and ambitious renovation,accommodating a wide range of “householdtypes” from empty nesters to multi-generationalimmigrant families, to rooming houses, to studenthousing, to double-income-no-kid (yet) trendiesyoung and old, waiting patiently or impatiently forthe neighbourhood to also mobilize upward.It also contains a park the size of a small city block,a “Green P” parking lot (three quarters the size ofthe park) and far and away the downtown’s finestwillow tree, its branches stretching skyward, itspuzzled roots wondering where Russell Creek, longburied, went.On the street where I live there are probably onlyfive or six dozen buildings, but they include two thatare steeped in history: the Kiever Synagogue (furthestsouth) and St. Stephen in-the-Fields AnglicanChurch (furthest north).FOR OPENERS | DAVID PERLMANMy personal musical November started at theKiever during Holocaust Education Week, andwill draw to a close November 29 at St. Stephen inthe-Fieldswith a concert titled “Music for Autism,”organized by pianist Richard Herriott, and writtenabout in a story by Rebecca Chua in the previousissue of The WholeNote.It’s just a few short blocks and a few short weeksbetween the one event and the other, but in betweenI have already had a chance to observe how far theripples from one concert can spread. The concert atthe Kiever was titled “Letters from Bozena” whichwas the name of the major work, by musicologist/composer Charles Heller, on the second half of theprogram. Bozena was his grandmother’s name andthe work, for soprano soloist (Stacie Carmona) andchamber ensemble, was built on letters Bozena hadwritten from Czechoslovakia to her son (Heller’sfather) who had taken refuge in England in the late1930s as the storm clouds gathered.It was “not your typical concert audience.” Membersof the congregation rubbed shoulders with outsidersdrawn by the event’s musical pedigree. 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2014 DATES TOREMEMBERviolinist Barry Shiffman and pianist Bram Goldhammer,in repertoire ranging from Dvořák to Golijovhung beautifully in the air above the bimah. Andthe context, historical, personal and memorial, ofthe concert gave the music that edge that relevancebrings; when the form and function of a work arereunited, as when a requiem is sung at an actualfuneral, or one can take communion while one ofthe world’s great choirs sings.As interesting to me has been observing how ripplescan spread from one concert to another. A case inpoint: entering the Kiever that day I noticed insertedinto the program a postcard for a November 23event — Toronto Consort’s presentation of EnsembleLucidarium, a Milan-based consort specializingin Jewish music of 15th century Italy. It was acanny bit of product placement, I thought at the time,but a bit of a long shot. I was wrong; the SaturdayNovember 23 performance of Ensemble Lucidariumat Trinity-St. Paul’s had at least a dozen members ofthe audience from the Kiever two weeks previous, formusic that leapt effortlessly across the centuries intoan enthusiastic audience’s receptive ears.Concert making will find its way back into theKiever I found myself thinking; and Toronto ConsortAll Saints Kingsway AnglicanChurch 46Amadeus Choir 44Annex Singers 44Aradia Ensemble 27, 49Associates of the TSO 19, 53ATMA 5Attila Glatz ConcertProductions 3, 50Aurora Cultural Centre 54Bach Children’s Chorus 39Canadian Children’s OperaCompany 64Canadian Opera Company12Cathedral Bluffs SymphonyOrchestra 45Christ Church Deer Park 23City of St. Catharines 59Civic Light-Opera Company14Cosmo Music 25Domoney Artists’Management 55Eglinton St George’s UnitedChurch 42Elmer Iseler Singers 38Esprit Orchestra 35, 55Etobicoke Centennial Choir39INDEX OF ADVERTISERSFlute Street 16Heliconian Hall 63Humbercrest United Church41I Furiosi 52Kawartha Concerts 61Kindred Spirits Orchestra 45Kitchener-WaterlooChamber Music Society 60Li Delun Music Foundation 51LittleVoices Dancing Feet 65Liz Parker 65Long & McQuade 17, 24Lute Legends 53Metropolitan CommunityChurch 49Mike Fields Jazz Inc. 25Miles Nadel JCC 65Mississauga SymphonyOrchestra 58Moeller Organs 65Music at Metropolitan 38, 56Music Gallery 48Music Toronto9, 38, 47, 51, 53, 56Musicians in Ordinary26, 37, 54Naria 39Nathaniel Dett Chorale28, 37will have found new listeners as well.Similarly it will be interesting to see what kindof ripple effect “Music for Autism” at St. Stephen’swill have had by the next time I’m back writing thiscolumn. Will there be people who find their wayfrom that event to Walter Buczynski’s 80th anniversaryconcert at Walter Hall January 26, havingnoticed that Herriott will be one of the pianistsassembling, along with Buczynski himself, for thatevent? Or will there be people there (with children,for example) who take heart from being at a concertwhere funeral-like decorum is not imposed, and whobegin to realize that concert norms, like the musicitself, are always evolving and changing? Or thattheir own assumptions about their children’s capacityfor attention and appreciation are greater thanthey thought they might be?I have no grand peroration to this littleopener — just to say that it’s a season of change withglorious opportunities to revel in the familiar and tostep just a little bit outside our usual comfort zones.Enjoy. Dare. And we’ll see you on the other side ofthe saelig season.New Music AlliancePassport 37, 54New Music Concerts33, 45, 53Norm Pulker 65NYCO 41, 55Oleg Samokhin 49Orchestra Toronto 41Orpheus Choir/HannafordStreet Silver Band 11, 47Pasquale Bros 65Peter Mahon 28Remenyi House of Music 19Royal Conservatory 13School of Philosophy 65Sheila McCoy 65Sine Nomine 48Sinfonia Toronto 18, 40, 54Southern Ontario Chapter ofthe Hymn Society 64Soundstreams 31St. Anne’s Music and DramaSociety 56St. James’ Cathedral 52St. Michael’s Choir School 40St. Olaves’ Church 57St. Philip’s Anglican Church23St. Thomas’ Church 44Steinway Piano Gallery 21—publisher@thewholenote.comSteve Jackson Pianos 32Syrinx 18, 19, 20, 42, 51, 57Tafelmusik 2, 38, 47, 56Talisker Players 52The Sound Post 34Toronto All-Star Big Band 40Toronto Chamber Choir 46Toronto Choral Society 47Toronto City Opera 14Toronto Consort 27, 44Toronto Masque Theatre 54Toronto Mass Choir 32Toronto Mendelssohn Choir43Toronto Operetta Theatre 50Toronto Symphony47, 52, 54, 58, 79, 80Trintity College Chapel 42U of T Faculty of Music 17Univox Choir 45Victoria Ballet Company 48Victoria Scholars 48Voca Chorus 40Vocem Resurgentis 40VOICEBOX/Opera in Concert57York University Fine Arts15, 55Yorkminster Park BaptistChurch 29, 30, 39, 46MagazinePublicationDates• Vol 19 No 5 covers Feb 1 toMar 7, 2014Ad bookings: January 15Street: Thursday January 30• Vol 19 No 6 covers Mar 1 toApr 7, 2014Ad bookings: February 15Street: Thursday February 27• Vol 19 No 7 covers Apr 1 toMay 7, 2014Ad bookings: March 15Street: Monday March 31(INCLUDES ORANGE PAGESDIRECTORY 2)• Vol 19 No 8 covers May 1 toJun 7, 2014Ad bookings: April 15Street: Tuesday April 29(INCLUDES CANARYPAGES DIRECTORY)• Vol 19 No 9 covers Jun 1 toSept 7, 2014Ad bookings: May 15Street: Thursday May 29(INCLUDES GREENPAGES DIRECTORY)• Vol 20 No 1 covers Sept 1to Oct 7, 2014Ad bookings: August 15Street: WednesdaySeptember 3• Vol 20 No 2 covers Oct 1 toNov 7, 2014Ad bookings: September 15Street: TuesdaySeptember 30(INCLUDES BLUEPAGES DIRECTORY)• Vol 20 No 3 covers Nov 1 toDec 7, 2014Ad bookings: October 15Street: Friday October 31• Vol 20 No 4 covers Dec 12014 to Feb 7, 2015Ad bookings: November 15Street: Friday November 28HALFTONESPublicationDatesFor inquires contacthalftones@thewholenote.com• Vol. 1 #4Tuesday December 17 2013• Vol. 1 #5Monday January 6 2014• Vol. 1 #6Tuesday February 18 2014• Vol. 1 #7Tuesday March 18 2014• Vol. 1 #8Tuesday April 15 2014• Vol. 1 #9Thursday May 15 2014• Vol. 1 #10Tuesday June 17 16 2014• Vol. 1 #11Monday July 7 2014• Vol. 1 #12:Tuesday August 12 2014• Vol. 2 #1Tuesday September 16 2014• Vol. 2 #2Tuesday October 14 2014• Vol. 2 #3Thursday November 13 2014• Vol. 3 #4Tuesday December 16 2014thewholenote.com December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 | 7

flow of those surroundings.”Although very much a product of his own provincial Ontarioculture — if that doesn’t sound too pejorative — the future impresariobegan to acquire a taste for internationalism in his student years inToronto (he studied music at the University of Toronto) where, at theinvitation of his sometime oboe teacher, Perry Bauman, he sat in as anextra player with the CBC Symphony Orchestra.“It was a big step for me,” he recalls. “I had to join the union and itdidn’t even occur to me to ask who was conducting. When I looked upfrom my music stand it was Igor Stravinsky.”Years later the tyro orchestral player was able to return the favour bylaunching Soundstreams (initially as Chamber Concerts Canada) witha three-concert 1982 festival honouring Stravinsky’s 100th birthday.But more of that anon.As a talented new professional, young Mr. Cherney soon found himselfin the pit of the O’Keefe (now Sony) Centre as principal oboe of theNational Ballet Orchestra, a position he left after two years to become afounding member of Ottawa’s National Arts Centre Orchestra in 1969.Offered tenure in Ottawa after the traditional three seasons, he facedanother critical decision — whether to continue pursuing a secureorchestral career or gamble on a riskier life in solo and chamber music(the third option of purchasing a cobra in a basket seemed somehowless practical for someone living so far from India).Joining Canada’s foremost wind ensemble, the Toronto-based YorkWinds, in 1972 settled thatquestion, developing in himan appetite for travel furtherwhetted by a 1976 Europeantour with Robert Aitken’s NewMusic Concerts.Through both experienceshe became simultaneously aninternationalist and a nationalisteager to showcase contemporaryCanadian music ina world context. Additionaltouring with harpist Erica Goodman and percussionist Russell Hartenberger(of Nexus fame) further contributed to cultivating this twosidedidentity.On the home front he augmented these activities by establishingMusic at Sharon in 1981, pointing out that “if I had just tried to be anoboe soloist I would have starved to death.”As the years passed and his entrepreneurial skills expanded, hisdouble-reed instruments spent more and more time in their cases. Aftera decade with York Winds, he decided finally to tip the balance in favourof presenting music more than playing it. If his instrument cases are notyet locked, neither are they frequently opened nowadays.Veteran Toronto concertgoers may remember the early years ofChamber Concerts Canada in the late 1980s. Monday was a dark nightat Young People’s Theatre so Cherney and company were offered theopportunity to launch a series called Musical Mondays. The name evencarried over to the other days of the week when the series moved to theSt. Lawrence Centre.By 1993 the series morphed yet again into Encounters, presentedmostly at the CBC’s Glenn Gould Studio in association with DavidJaeger’s landmark FM radio program, Two New Hours (hosted for muchof its on-air life by the late Larry Lake). An institutionalized formatBack in 1941, before Lawrence Cherney was even born, in the pages of a book titled One World,a failed candidate for the presidency of the United States gave the artistic director of Soundstreamsa guiding theme for much of his career.In fact, Wendell Willkie might almost have written the very words of the Peterborough-bornoboist and English horn player’s welcome to his audience for November’s “Reimagining Flamenco”presentation in the newly refurbished Jeanne Lamon Hall at Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre:“... Never have the world’s cultural heritages been so accessible to all, so available to beexplored, appreciated and transformed,” Cherney wrote in the Soundstreams program. “No culture or heritagecan survive in a vacuum, preserved in a museum in splendid isolation. Cultures interact, resonate withtheir surroundings. They’re in a constant state of evolution and revolution in direct relation to the ebb andinvolved pairing a Canadian composer with | continued on page 78Lawrence CherneyInter ~ NationalistWILLIAM LITTLER8 | December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 thewholenote.com

Lutoslawski’sLegacyA PersonalReminiscenceROBERT AITKEN{ The following is excerpted and adapted from a text deliveredby Robert Aitken at the Symposium “Lutoslawski – Musicand Legacy” held on October 26, 2013 at the Schulich Schoolof Music of McGill University in collaboration with The PolishAcademy of Arts and Sciences in Krakow and The PolishInstitute of Arts and Sciences in Canada, to commemorate thecentennial of composer Witold Lutoslawski’s birth. }There are many things in life which come to be obvious. As theyears go by you forget when you learned them and think that youalways knew them. They become truisms that you expect everyoneto know — a kind of self-evident knowledge. Was there actually a timein my life when I did not understand that Poland was truly a leader incontemporary music? I just knew it and continued to believe so formany years up to the present. So when I was invited to give this reminiscenceon Witold Lutoslawski I was pleased to rethink this importantpart of my past to ascertain just when and what it was that broughtabout my great interest in Polish music and led ultimately to invitingLutoslawski to Toronto.As best as I can remember it was on my first trip to Iceland in 1966,one of 26 visits there, that I met musicians who had studied in Polandand a number of (very) established composers who had worked at theelectronic studio in Warsaw. They regaled me with stories of vodkaand the antics of Józef Patkovski and other patriotic artists who hadconfronted the regime and gone on in their pioneering experimentswith music, electronic and otherwise. And it was about this time thatPenderecki and Lutoslawski composed their astounding, groundbreakingstring quartets which opened the door for many composersto a whole new musical world.Then two years later, again in Iceland at the 1968 ISCM Festival, I meta number of Polish musicians including Włodzimierz Kotoński who, ashead of the music department of the Polish Radio, invited me to playon Polish television ... Of course a visa was required and was supposedlywaiting for me at the Polish embassy in Copenhagen. After three daysof waiting, I gave up on that particular visit.Still, I was anxious to see Poland so one year later, with a visa fromToronto in hand, I entered the world of Eastern Europe and was pickedup by Kotoński at the airport in Warsaw ... I had asked several times,even the year before, what dress they would like for television but noanswer was forthcoming. Now it was to be tails, which no musician likesthewholenote.com December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 | 9

Previous page: Danuta and Witold Lutoslawskiwith Robert Aitken, Toronto. This page:Lutoslawski conducts at NMC, Toronto 1993.travelling with, especially the hard-fronted shirt. “Nevermind” they said, “We have a costume department.” Well,they had a costume department, but nothing my size, andthe suit I was eventually able to squeeze into harboured afew moths, but the holes were not too noticeable.Once I was suitably attired we went straight into thestudio and started taping. The first piece was recordedbefore I knew it and I was amazed; even more amazedwhen they asked if I would like to hear it and if there wereany passages I wanted to record again. Never in my life had a televisionproducer asked me if for musical reasons I would like to record somethingagain. And never in my lifetime had I stood in a television studiowith the first take being recorded. By the end of the afternoon, in asimilar fashion, the entire recital was filmed. In Toronto it would haverequired an entire day and in Germany perhaps three. Every shot wouldhave been carefully planned and no one would ever ask if I was contentwith my performance. A later film, from Katowice with Klaus Huberintroduced by John Cage ... was the same story, fabulous improvisationwith outstanding artistic results. Several of my best publicity photoscame from that production.Well on this first trip to Poland I did not meet Lutoslawski, but Iwrote him a letter in March 1977 inviting him to Canada. He had notime during the 1977/78 season but knew I was coming to the WarsawAutumn Festival, my first visit there, and said that we could discuss theToronto program at that time. Then because his Novelette for Rostropovichand the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington was notfinished, he delayed that concert again, from the 78/79 season to thefollowing one, so as to also include a conducting engagement in the USA.(This is often the way with important composers as the composing is farmore important to them than hearing the work performed.)First meeting: But even delays come to an end. In 1980 Mr. andMrs. Lutoslawski attended a performance of his work with the MontrealSymphony, then came to Toronto in time for a reception at thePolish Consulate on April 12, 1980 and stayed in town until the NewMusic Concert on April 19, giving his attention in between to interestedcomposition students and a major lecture in Walter Hall on April 18(plus of course rehearsals for the concert). What little time was left, hespent composing in the hotel room and proofreading the manuscriptwhich his wife Danuta copied each day. (Witold was very proud to talkabout his wife, the fabulous life they had together and what a wonderfulmusic copyist she was because of her training as a draftsman. There isno question that his scores are immaculate because of her talent and ofcourse her devoted love and appreciation for her husband.)Naturally we rehearsed in advance of his arrival, which may not havebeen necessary because after reading through the Preludes and Fugue atthe first rehearsal, Lutoslawski said “Bob, what do you expect me to do?Everything is perfect.” Needless to say he did find more to do, especiallywith Paroles tissées for tenor and ensemble. But then he went on to saythat in North America the orchestras were always well prepared andfar less rehearsal was requiredthan for his concerts in Europe.In Germany, for example, hesaid most players see the musicfor the first time when they findit on their music stand at thefirst rehearsal. Whereas he hadrecently conducted in Clevelandand several players came to himwith questions about their partseven before the rehearsal began,so he knew they had looked atthe music in advance.It is impossible to tell storiesof this nature without hearingin your mind’s ear Lutoslawski’swonderful, inimitable upper classEnglish accent, extremely politeand correct with one subjunctiveclause after another. Herarely told you what he wantedbut usually asked in a very politemanner. Such as, “Would it betoo much trouble? ...” or “Doyou suppose we could? ...” Whenvisiting, he always broughtpresents for my wife and me suchas the tie I am wearing today. Itbecame my lucky concert tieuntil the colour disappeared fromover-wearing. I wore it at almost every performance for many years asa good luck charm.During the ensuing years, I was frequently in Poland, three times forthe Warsaw Autumn Festival, a recital for the Warsaw Philharmonic,twice teaching and performing in Kazimierz Dolny (including the periodof Solidarity when airplanes flew overhead and tanks went through thestreets), various other concerts and the aforementioned film in Katowice.We met from time to time but mostly in passing except for a weektogether in Kazimierz and an invitation to their Polish home which Iwas pleased to see was very modest, much like our own.Outside Oslo: As I was also frequently in Norway at the time, I alsohad the occasion to visit the Lutoslawskis in their Oslo home. It wasmore like a cottage just outside the city not far from the family home ofMarcin Boguslawski, Danuta’s son. That visit turned out to be an eveningwhich anyone who knew Lutoslawski finds hard to believe. I do havea feeling it was some kind of noted holiday somewhere in the worldas the afternoon began very relaxed with an aperitif or two or three. Ithink it was something harmless like Cinzano or Campari, not vodka,but then came the question in that unforgettable slightly whiney aristocraticaccent, “How would you feel about some wine?” and followingmy affirmative response, “Do you suppose white would be appropriate?”Of course some excellent food from Danuta came next and when we,the two of us that is, had finished the bottle of Puligny-Montrachet therewas another question: “What do you think about some red wine? Doyou suppose this bottle of Château Lafite Rothschild would do?” But youknow, one bottle of red was not enough. We followed it with anothersuperior wine. At this point Danuta was beginning to get nervous buther concerns were gently pushed aside by Witold as he asked me if Ihad perhaps some interest in a Cognac? ... Well it would be unfair ofyou to ask what we discussed that evening, but I do know that at onepoint I asked Lutoslawski how he felt about all the parody pieces whichcomposers like George Crumb and Rochberg etc were writing at thattime. He said “Oh, I don’t mind composers using borrowed material,providing they can improve on it. Debussy for example.”Banff: Our next meeting was in 1986 at the Banff Centre where I wasin charge of contemporary music and of woodwind teaching for nineyears, and at that time director of the winter program. The Lutoslawskiswere very pleased to be there and very generous with their time andenergy. But the first thing Danuta did when she saw their lovely apartmentwith a fabulous view of the mountains | continued on page 35“I don’t mind composersusing borrowedmaterial, providing theycan improve on it”10 | December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 thewholenote.comANDRÉ LEDUC

HANNAFORD STREETSILVER BANDWELCOMECHRISTMASRobert CooperArtistic DirectorEdward MoroneyAccompanist7:30 p.m. Tuesday, December 17, 2013Yorkminster Park Baptist Church1585 Yonge StreetCollaborating for the first time in more than15 years, Robert Cooper and the Orpheus Choir jointhe renowned Hannaford Street Silver Band, alongwith YOUR uplifted voices, for an entertaining andinspirational evening of seasonal music in the warmsplendour of Yorkminster Park Baptist Church.A sparkling seasonal gift of big brass and song!Tickets: $40; $30 senior; $15 studentorpheuschoirtoronto.com/buy-ticketshssb.ca/eventsBMOFinancial GroupFinancial GroupOrpheus Choir’s season sponsorBMO Financial GroupThe Jackman Foundation The Vern and Frieda Heinrichs Foundation The Michael and Sonja Koerner Charitable Foundation The Mary-Margaret Webb Foundation

Beat by Beat | On Opera & Music TheatreSalute to Glatz’sSalute to ViennaDAVID PERLMANIf you want to find out the first time Attila and Marion Glatz soldout their annual New Year’s Day “Salute to Vienna” live concertgala all you have to do is go back to the first time they presentedit — New Year’s Day 1995 at theGeorge Weston Recital Hall inNorth York. So what do you dowhen you hit a home run your firsttime up at the plate? Simple, youswitch to a venue double the size,double the prices, and do it allover again ... and again ... and again.Charlie Cutts, CEO of Roy ThomsonHall was at that first ever eventand had no hesitation offering theGlatzes the opportunity to movethe event to Roy Thomson Hall, thebig glass bonnet at Simcoe andKing. “We like working with peoplewho are good at what they do,”he says, simply. And the Glatzescertainly are that.Truth be told, this magazinedid not have a listing for that firstconcert at the George Weston, for one simple reason: we didn’t comeinto existence until September of the following year. But from thentill now you can find them in every December/January double issue ofThe WholeNote, (most often as the “only show in town” in their midafternoonJanuary 1 slot).The formula has remained remarkably unchanged. Here for exampleis the listing for Thursday January 1 1998: 2.30: Roy Thomson Hall &Attila Glatz Concert Productions. Salute to Vienna. Strauss waltzes;excerpts from famous operettas; light arias and duets by Mozart;polkas and marches. Angela Kronberger, soprano; Andrea Martin,baritone; dancers from Desrosier Dance Theatre; Symphony Canada;Gregorz Nowak, conductor. $45 to $115.And in that same issue an editorial writeup in The WholeNoteproclaimed “Last year he produced the show in five North Americancities, and this year it will take place in 15, including New York andLos Angeles. Asked why the show has been so successful, Glatzsays simply that everyone wants to start the New Year on an optimisticnote.”Marion Glatz put it pretty much the same way at a screening Iattended recently. Asked about the enduring success of the Glatz“Salute to Vienna” phenomenon she replied: “It’s music that makespeople feel happy. And everybody wants to feel happy.” The screeningin question was for yet another extraordinary Glatz initiative — thefilming by PBS of a Glatz-produced glittering “Salute to Vienna”concert in a packed Wiener Konzerthaus on April 25 2013 (withMaximilian Schell and Frederica von Stade as the hosts). With PBS SanDiego doing the filming, and the full PBS network picking up the film(many of the the stations as a “feel good” show for their fundraisingdrives) prospects for the Glatzes to maintain New Year’s Day concerthegemony North America-wide are brighter than ever. There are 12U.S. and 9 Canadian cities on board for live concert versions of “Saluteto Vienna” between December 29 2013 and January 5 2014, with sevenon New Year’s Day afternoon alone.Wallis Giunta (right) withPeggy Kriha Dye in OperaAtelier’s 2010 production ofThe Marriage of Figaro.Glatz’s connection to the Torontoconcert scene goes back a long way.Classically trained as a pianist, hehad arrived here from Hungaryby the early 70s, supportinghimself as a jazz pianist upstairsat the Hungarian Village restaurant,and later as the HammondOrgan Concert organist. He hashad a home here pretty much eversince, barring three years between1979 and 1982, when he returnedto Europe and met and marriedMarion. Attila Glatz Productionsstarted in the mid-80s as a bookingagency for musicians, but thehankering for concert productionwas there from the get-go. In 1987Glatz produced a sold-out twopianistconcert at the Jane Mallett Theatre; in 1989 he not only soldout Roy Thomson Hall for a concert by the North York SymphonyOrchestra, but sold 500 post-concert reception tickets as well!New Year’s Day happiness notwithstanding, there’s also nodoubt that a bit of New Year’s Eve sturm and drang also pushes alot of people’s holiday buttons. And for them Glatz has introduced“Bravissimo” at RTH on New Year’s Eve, now as firmly ensconced onthe RTH New Year’s Eve calendar as its elder sibling is on New Year’sDay. The formula is slightly different — with the evening’s repertoireweighted much more to arias, duets and choruses from bestlovedoperatic repertoire, and bringing together top choirs, visitingEuropean soloists and some of the best young homegrown talent onthe operatic scene.Wallis Giunta: One such rising star to grace the Bravissimo stagetwo Decembers ago, and coming back again this year, was Ottawabornmezzo Wallis Giunta. I caught up with her over the phone atone of Toronto’s two airports — I didn’t ask which one — heading backto New York City where she is in the current Metropolitan OperaBRUCE ZINGERMOZART'Scoc.ca416-363-8231Jan. 18 – Feb. 21, 2014Sung in Italian with English SURTITLESGIFTCERTIFICATESAVAILABLEBMO Financial Group Pre-PerformanceOpera Chats & BMO Financial GroupStudent Dress RehearsalsCosì fan tutte Production UnderwriterPresenting Sponsorof SURTITLESOfficial AutomotiveSponsorPreliminary costume sketch by designer Debra Hanson12 | December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 thewholenote.com

2013-14 Concert SeasonKOERNER HALL’SFIFTH ANNIVERSARYKirill GersteinSUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2013 3PMKOERNER HALL“Brilliant, perceptive and stunninglyfresh” (The New York Times) pianistKirill Gerstein performs worksby Haydn, Mussorgsky, Ligetiand Gershwin.Natalie Dessay andMichel Legrand withLes Violons du RoySUNDAY, DECEMBER 15 &MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2013 7PMKOERNER HALLSinger Natalie Dessayperforms music by legendarycomposer Michel Legrand withLegrand himself, accompaniedby Les Violons du Roy.Presented in association withAttila Glatz Concert Productions.Barry Shiffman & FriendsSUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 2014 AT 2PMMAZZOLENI CONCERT HALLCo-founder of the St. Lawrence String Quartet,Associate Dean of The Glenn Gould School,and Director of the Phil and Eli TaylorPerformance Academy for Young Artists,renowned violinist and violist Barry Shiffmanwill lead a program featuring Brahms’sZwei Gesänge and Schumann’s PianoQuartet. He is joined by Desmond Hoebig(cello), Benjamin Bowman (violin),Julie Nesrallah (mezzo-soprano),and Peter Longworth (piano).Joaquin ValdepeñasConductsTUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2014 7:30PMMAZZOLENI CONCERT HALLToronto Symphony OrchestraPrincipal Clarinet Joaquin Valdepeñasconducts The Glenn Gould SchoolChamber Ensemble.Isabelle Faust withAlexander MelnikovFRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 2014 8PMKOERNER HALLAn all-Beethoven program. “Faustand Melnikov make this music liveand breathe.. thrillingly.”(The Times, London)Luca Pisaroniwith Wolfram RiegerWEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2014 8PMKOERNER HALL“Exciting young bass-baritone”(The New York Times) Luca Pisaroni isjoined by pianist Wolfram Rieger toperform works by Beethoven, Shubert,Liszt, Bellini, Donaudy, and Tosti.TICKETS START AT ONLY $25! 416.408.0208 www.performance.rcmusic.ca273 BLOOR STREET WEST (BLOOR ST. & AVENUE RD.) TORONTO

production of Rigoletto. She had just completed a day’s photo shoothere (for Flare magazine, she said) along with director Atom Egoyan,in whose new COC production of Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte she willappear starting in January. “It was just a photo shoot,” she said, “butit was a chance to connect as well; to get a bit of asense of where he’s heading overall with theproduction and his senseof what he will want of mycharacter and of me.”She plays Dorabella inthe opera; New BrunswickbornLaila Claire is Fiordiligi,her sister. For two Canadianredheads constantlymistaken for each otherwhile both were enrolledin the Met’s LindemannEnsemble program thesepast two years, it’s a greatopportunity to work together,especially in a show wheretheir characters can’t keeptheir own boyfriends straight.(In fact Giunta has worked orstudied with with almost allher Cosi castmates — ThomasDanielSerafin.Allen, Tracy Dahl, Robert Gleadow — at one time or another, so itpromises to be a crackling ensemble production. )As for getting Giunta to divulge the particulars of Egoyan’s take onthe opera, she was somewhat circumspect, other than to say that itseems the subtitle of the opera, “The School for Lovers” is probablymore central to Egoyan’s thinking than the title itself. Sounds likeEgoyan to me; we might well be in for a treat (with some controllingcharacters getting their comeuppance via a reversal or twoalong the way.)As for Giunta, circle March 2 as a date to watch. That’s when she’llbe doing a recital for Visual and Performing Arts Newmarket on thatdate, with repertoire ranging from Vaughan Williams to Fauré to JoniMitchell (the latter with her singer-songwriter sister Marley on guitar).For two Ottawa-born sisters with the Rideau Canal in their imagerepertoire “I Wish I had a River I Could Skate Away On” promises to bea rare treat.Michael Patrick Albano: Albano is stage director at the Universityof Toronto Opera School and as such his handiwork is not oftenin the public eye, but “handy work” it is. It was his pen that inkedthe libretto for last year’s runaway success Rob Ford opera at U of T.It’s his direction that will be on view, if you’re quick, for the lastperformance, December 1, of the U of T Opera School production ofDonizetti’s Don Pasquale. And it will be his penmanship under scrutinyagain January 30 (at 5pm) when, as part of the Faculty’s “NewMusic Festival: Encounters,” five miniature operas, written by studentcomposers and all based upon librettos by Albano, will be presented.As resident stage director of the Opera School’s training program atU of T, Albano has staged over 25 operas. Perhaps less well known, hewas for several years Wayne Strongman’s right-hand man in TapestryNew Opera’s groundbreaking composer/librettist “lib/lab” incubatorwhich led to the formation of some of the country’s most interestingcomposer/librettist pairings. It will be interesting to see how manyof these early inspired collaborations feature in “Tapestry Songbook”February 1, when Tapestry (sans Strongman and Albano) puts “thenext generation of opera stars on display” at their Ernest BalmerStudio, in the Distillery Historic District.Toronto Operetta Theatre: Before proceeding to the “Quick Picks”that are an inevitable part of at least giving some kind of a nod to thevast array of interresting subject matter in the opera/music theatrelistings, I want to to give a bit more attention than that to TorontoOperetta Theatre. While I have indicated the extent to which othercompanies have tended to tiptoe around New Year’s Day, the samecannot be said for the whole holiday season. In fact for as long as Ican remember, Toronto Operetta Theatre, under the indefatigabledirection of Guillermo Silva-Marin, has made the last week inDecember and first week in January their own, staging the best of thelight opera repertoire at the Jane Mallet Theatre.This year’s offering is Lehár’s Land of Smiles, commencingDecember 27 and running Dec 28, 29, 31(eve); and Jan 2, 3, 4, 5. In factcalling Silva-Martin “indefatigable” is to sell him short. He is a directorwith an extraordinary sense of the art of the possible, managing notonly to elicit the most from the minimal set decoration possible atthe Jane Mallett, but also bringing an ensemble unity to casts withactors ranging from the luminously professional to the company’sMichael Patrick Albano’s Cosi fan tutte.ChandaVandenhart andRebecca Nelsen.most stalwart part-timers. Derek Bate conducts, drawing astonishingresults from what is usuaslly a pit band (sans pit) with far more alacrityand heft than one would expect, based on numbers. I have yet tocome away from one of their year-end shows without my expectationsbeing exceeded.QUICK PICKS!!Dec 1, 2:30: Recitals at Rosedale. A New Vocal Series: Opera NellaChiesa. Handel: Theodora; Massenet: Manon; Menotti: Amahl and theNight Visitors. Laura Albino, soprano; Laura Tucker, mezzo; AdamLuther, tenor; Timothy Wong, countertenor; Anthony Clevertonand Jason Howard, baritones; and others. Not opera per se, but withperformers who know what opera is!RICHARD LU14 | December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 thewholenote.com

!!Dec 1, 5:00: Latvian National Opera Fund. Twentieth AnniversaryConcert. Vilma Indra Vitols, mezzo-soprano; Armands Silins, baritone;Elizabeth Sirante, piano.!!Dec 2, 7:30: VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert. Concert and Fundraiserfor Ariaworks. First live performance of the new Canadian opera “Isisand Osiris.” Toronto poet Sharon Singer is the original creator of thiswork which is imbued with her love for the majesty of ancient Egyptand inspired award-winning composer Peter-Anthony Togni to writethe music.!!Dec 7 and 10 at 8pm: Ontario Philharmonic presents NessunDorma, great songs of Italy with Richard Margison, tenor; MarcoParisotto, conductor. December 7, Regent Theatre (Oshawa);December 10, Koerner Hall.!!Dec 14 and 15 at 8:00: A bit of a sleeper, perhaps; Against the GrainTheatre presents AtG’s Messiah. It’s Handel’s Messiah, with impeccablemusical credentials, but in a less-than-usual venue, and by acompany with profoundly interesting operatic chops. One to watch.!!Dec 20, 8:00: Sine Nomine Ensemble for Medieval Music. Nativitas:Liturgical Dramas for the Christmas Season. Medieval French andItalian musical dramas.!!Jan 23, 12:10: University of Toronto Faculty of Music. Thursdays atNoon: Stephanie Blythe Master Class: Opera Arias.!!Jan 24, 7:30: Opera by Request. Carmen. Bizet. Sarah Hicks, mezzosoprano(Carmen); Stanislas Vitort, tenor (Don Jose); Andrew Tees,baritone (Escamillo); and others; William Shookhoff, music directorand piano.!!Jan 28, 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company. Vocal Series:The School for Lovers. Highlights from Così fan tutte. Artists ofEnsemble Studio.!!Jan 28, 7:30: York University Faculty of Fine Arts. Beggar’s Opera.Students from music, theatre, dance and digital media collaborateon this immersive adaptation by Gwen Dobie. Wish I’d had time tosay more about this; bil;led as a “modern adaptation” the productiontakes us to “a Toronto jail in 2014, inmates crack open this satirical taleof corruption, social inequality — and some very messy love triangles.Thieves, gangsters, politicians, lawyers ... who can tell them apart?!!!Come visit us in jail, and see how much things have changed — ornot — since the 18th century.”!!Jan 31, 7:30: Opera by Request. Le Nozze di Figaro. Mozart. MichaelRobert-Broder, baritone (Figaro); Jocelyn Halleck, soprano (Susanna);David Diston, baritone (Count Almaviva); Deena Nicklefork, soprano(Countess); Jennifer Routhier, mezzo (Cherubino); and others; WilliamShookhoff, music director and piano.!!Feb 2, 2:00: Canadian Opera Company. Un ballo in maschera.Verdi. Adrianne Pieczonka, soprano (Amelia); Dimitri Pittas, tenor(Riccardo); Elena Manistina, mezzo (Ulrica); Simone Osborne,soprano (Oscar); Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito, stage directors;Stephen Lord, conductor.!!Feb 2, 2:30: VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert. Rameau: Hippolyteet Aricie. Allyson McHardy (Phèdre), Meredith Hall (Aricie), ColinAinsworth (Hippolyte), Alain Coulombe (Thésée). JTracy Dahl sings inCOC’s Cosi fan tutte production as Despina.!!Feb 6, 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company. Richard BradshawAmphitheatre Dance Series: A Soldier’s Tale. Michael Greyeyes, choreographer/director;Tara Beagan, lyrics; John Gzowski, music.!!Feb 7, 7:30: Canadian Opera Company. Così fan tutte: EnsembleStudio Performance. The fact that several of the stars gracing themainstage production of Cosi were also not too long ago members ofthe opera studio ensemble, emphasises the extent to which this studioensemble performance has become one of COC general director Neef’sbest innovations; putting ensemble members on stage with the fullresources of the company, from chorus to orchestra, at their disposal.Expect to hear more about this particular performance in the nextissue of HalfTones, The WholeNote’s midmonth e-letter. It’s quitesimply not an opportunity to miss.David Perlman, publisher of The WholeNote, steps in thismonth for regular opera columnist Christopher Hoile.thewholenote.com December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 | 15

Beat by Beat | Art of SongAddis and Hamperat Music TorontoHANS DE GROOTAnumber of well-known singers will perform in Toronto inDecember: on December 13 the tenor Marcello Giordani willsing arias and songs by Tosti, Bizet, Cilea and Puccini; onDecember 15 and 16 soprano Natalie Dessay will sing items from theMichel Legrand songbook; Richard Margison will perform “The GreatSongs of Italy” on December 10(all at Koerner Hall; therePhillip Addis.will be another performanceof the Margison recitalon December 7 in the RegentTheatre, Oshawa); on NewYear’s Eve at Roy ThomsonHall “Bravissimo” will presenta number of singers, includingtwo Canadians (Wallis Giunta,mezzo, and James Westman,baritone). But the recital whichI am most looking forwardto is the one to be given byPhillip Addis, baritone, andEmily Hamper, piano, onDecember 19 at the JaneMallett Theatre, St. LawrenceCentre. The main works on theprogram are Britten’s Songsand Proverbs of William Blakeand Poulenc’s La fraîcheur etle feu. The program will alsoinclude Abendbilder by Wolf,two songs by Korngold andthree new songs by Erik Ross.Addis spent his high schoolyears in Toronto. At that timehe played the tuba and theeuphonium. At one pointhe intended to become anengineer but at the last moment he decided that he would studymusic instead, a choice that we can all be grateful for. So he went toQueen’s, still intending to be a tuba player. But singing took over: afterQueen’s, Addis studied for a diploma in operatic performance fromthe University of Toronto, which was followed by an apprenticeshipat the Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal. Since then he has sungmany parts in many opera houses: he sang the high baritone role ofPelléas in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande (at the London Proms lastsummer; under John Eliot Gardiner, no less); yet he has the lowersonorities which have allowed him to sing the title role in Mozart’sDon Giovanni. He is no stranger to lieder, having sung Schubert’sWinterreise and Schwanengesang, Schumann’s Dichterliebe andMahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen.Last summer, after his performance as Pelléas, a reviewer wrote thathe sounded “like a young Thomas Allen.” I asked Addis about that andhis reply was both diplomatic and sensible. It was not, he said, a claimhe would himself wish to make but, if others thought of him that way,then it was a compliment that he would try to live up to. I heard Allena number of times when I was young (and Allen was even younger);the performance that I especially cherish is one that I saw and heardon a video, that of the title role in Britten’s Billy Budd. That is a rolethat Addis has not yet sung. It is a part that, for both dramatic andmusical reasons, needs a young singer. I certainly hope that sometimein the near future Addis will be given the chance to sing it.We saw Addis most recently in the COC production of Puccini’sLa bohème, where he sang in all performances, some of the time asMarcello, in other performances as Schaunard. After that it was off tosouthern California, where he sang in Britten’s War Requiem and asthe Sprecher in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and where on December 6he will perform in Britten’s The Prodigal Son. After the Torontorecital he will travel to Paris, where he and Hamper will repeat theToronto program and go on to sing Pelléas at the Opéra Comique. Butwhat Addis is especially excited about is the production next Julyof Kevin Puts’ opera Silent Night, a work that dramatizes the briefChristmas truce during the first year of the First World War. The opera(first performed in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 2011) is based on the filmJoyeux Nöel and Addis will be singing the role of the French lieutenantAudebert.In the Toronto recital, Addis will be accompanied by Emily Hamper(we have in recent years trained ourselves to use theterm “collaborative pianist,” but Hamper assures methat “accompanist” is good enough for her). She isalso Addis’ wife and the mother of their young sonSebastian. As a vocal coach she is much in demand;she has worked with distinguished Canadiansingers such as Gregory Dahl, Thomas Goerz, RogerHoneywell, Michael Schade, John Tessier — and, ofcourse, Phillip Addis.The return of Jennie Such: In an earlier column Iwrote about singers who have retired and who havegone on to do other things. Among them was thesoprano Jennie Such. Well, she is back. She is singingthe first soprano part in a performance of Bach’sMagnificat along with the VOCA chorus of Toronto,conducted by Jenny Crober. The other soloists areClaire de Sévigné, soprano, Marion Newman, mezzo,Andrew Haji, tenor, and Alexander Dobson, baritone,at the Eastminster United Church, December 7.Other events: John Pizzarelli and Daniela Nardiwill sing songs by Paolo Conte and Frank Sinatra atKoerner Hall, December 7.At the Kingston Road United Church, December 8,Eve Rachel McLeod, soprano, and Jason Nedecky,baritone, are the soloists in a concert by the TorontoBeach Chorale, which will include music by Finzi,Holst and Vaughan WilliamsThere will be a chance to hear the winnersof the Jim and Charlotte Norcop Prize in Songand the Gwendolyn Williams Koldofsky Prize inAccompanying on January 7 at Walter Hall.Introducing . . .Flute StreetA dazzling professional ensemble of flutes,alto flutes, bass flutes, piccolo flutes,treble flutes and a contrabass flute!The Wonderful FluteMusic of ChristmasWorks by Tchaikovsky,Manfredini, Delius, Nourse,Via and othersSunday, December 8, 4pmAll Saints’ Kingsway Anglican Church2850 Bloor Street West, Toronto416-485-8262 Free – donation requestedKRISTIN HOEBERMANN16 | December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 thewholenote.com

Jennifer Enns Modolo, mezzo, and Bud Roach, tenor, will singselections from the Cole Porter songbook, with the Talisker Players atTrinity-St. Paul’s Centre, January 12 and 14.The Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Amadeus Choir areperforming Mozart’s Coronation Mass with Leslie Ann Bradley,soprano, Lauren Segal, mezzo, Lawrence Wiliford, tenor, and GordonBintner, bass-baritone, at Roy Thomson Hall, January 15 and 16.Last June Domoney Artists Management presented “The Star ofRobbie Burns” consisting of songs by Burns as well as selections fromthe musical Brigadoon. There will be a repeat of this concert in theChurch of the Redeemer on January 25. Benjamin Covey, baritone,will sing again but there is a different soprano (Charlotte Corwin),a different pianist (Christopher Bagan) and a different narrator(Andrew Gillies).Tracy Dahl, soprano, and Liz Upchurch, piano, will perform artsongs and arias in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, February 4.Stephanie Blythe is the John R. Stratton Visitor in Music at theFaculty of Music, University of Toronto. She will give an art songmasterclass on January 21, a masterclass on opera arias on January 23and will perform, along with voice and collaborative piano students,in “An Evening of English Song” on January 24. Also at WalterHall there will be free performances featuring voice studies andcollaborative piano students on December 3 and January 14. OnFebruary 3, Walter Hall is the venue for the distinguished baritoneSir Thomas Allen to give the Geiger-Torel lecture. Tracy Dahl will givethe Ricky Turofsky masterclass in voice on February 7 in the Geiger-Torel Room.And in Oshawa: At the College Park Church on December 8, AllysonMcHardy, mezzo, will be the soloist in a concert of works by Bach,Handel and Vivaldi given by the Durham Philharmonic Choir.Hans de Groot is a concert-goer and active listener,who also sings and plays the recorder. He canbe contacted at artofsong@thewholenote.com.JAN 25-Feb 2Gabriel ProkofievU OF T NEW MUSIC FESTIVALComposer, DJ and founder/producer of theNONCLASSICAL record label and night club in theU.K., Gabriel Prokofiev headlines the 18-eventNew Music Festival. Other participants includecomposer Paul Chihara, the Louis ApplebaumDistinguished Visitor in Composition, guest pianistRoberto Turrin and Walter Buczynski.www.music.utoronto.ca/events/nmfDEC 4Jazz ConcertJim Lewis and Christine Duncandirect the 11 O’Clock JazzOrchestra and Vocal JazzEnsemble in a free concert inWalter Hall at 7:30 pm.JAN 21-24StephanieBlytheThe renowned mezzo sopranogives two voice masterclassesand performs An Evening ofEnglish Song with pianist StevenPhilcox and student artists. FreeJAN 17-19Dido & AeneasDaniel Taylor leads the U of TSchola Cantorum & Theatre ofEarly Music in 4 performancesof Purcell’s baroque opera atTrinity College Chapel.Sir ThomasAllenAn established star of the greatopera houses of the world,baritone Sir Thomas Allen givesthe Geiger-Torel Lecture inWalter Hall at 7:30 pm. FreeJAN 20Shauna Rolston& FriendsThe acclaimed cellist invites anall-star cast for Tchaikovsky’sSouvenir de Florence and theMendelssohn Octet. 7:00 pm.FEB 3 FEB 7Tracy DahlCanada’s premier coloraturasoprano Tracy Dahl hasperformed at the major operahouses in the world. She willhost the Riki Turofsky MasterClass in Voice at 2:00 pm inGeiger-Torel Room. FreeCall 416.408.0208www.music.utoronto.ca1314 .SEASON OF EVENTSthewholenote.com December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 | 17WN-U of Toronto DecJan half page.indd 113-11-19 2:48 PM

Beat by Beat | Classsical & BeyondKeying on the PianoPAUL ENNISThree pianists, Quebec-born and internationally celebrated, willall find themselves on stages in Toronto and vicinity over thecourse of six days in January 2014. The last time such a confluenceof singular dexterity occurred was during the Glenn Gould 75thanniversary celebrations in late September and early October of2007. Then, in homage to Gould’s love of the genre, Louis Lortie’sentire recital consisted of piano transcriptions by Bach, Grieg, Gouldand Lortie; André LaPlante saluted the 50th anniversary of Gould’sHamelin.Russian debut with music by Prokofiev and Shostakovich that curiouslyalso included Mozart’s Piano Sonata K282; Marc-AndréHamelin’s program comprised works championed and recordedby Gould, including Jacques Hétu’s Variations for Piano Op.8 andsurprisingly Mozart’s Sonata in C, K545.I happened to be in the audience at the Glenn Gould Studio whenHamelin began the second half of his concert by introducing theMozart, saying that it was his least favourite of any Gould recording heheard growing up.18 | December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 thewholenote.com

SIM CANETTY-CLARKEHamelin began playing the piano at five. His pharmacist fatherwas an amateur pianist enamoured of the pianists of the GoldenAge — Vladimir de Pachmann, Benno Moiseiwitsch, LeopoldGodowsky — and sufficiently proficient at the instrument to be ableto play difficult pieces like César Franck’s Symphonic Variations andsome of the Chopin Études. In a recent interview with Colin Eatockfor the summer 2013 issue of Queen’s Quarterly Hamelin spokecandidly about his father’s early influence:“Listening to these pianists [in his father’s record collection] taughtme to view music with a great sense of freedom. Perhaps this wasn’ttoo healthy, from the perspective of today’s musicological advances,because I grew up with a disregard for the letter of the score. This issomething I acquired later on. I believe it’s the combination of thesetwo elements that make me who I am today, and make me do what Ido the way I do it.”From the age of 11 to 17 hestudied with Yvonne Hubertat L’école de musique Vincentd’Indy.Hubert taught LaPlanteand Lortie among manyothers — Janina Fialkowskatells a wonderful story on CBCRadio 2’s This Is My Musicabout hearing LaPlante practicingLiszt when they wereboth students at the school inMontreal, she nine, and he twoyears older.Hamelin has literally broughtto light many works by 19thand 20th century composerswhose compositions wererarely played in the last severaldecades. There’s an especiallyrevealing response to Eatock’squestion about Hamelin’srecorded music and whether hehas followed “certain definabletendencies”:“If you look at my discography,I don’t think you’ll findanything like it anywhere else.I’ve always had a taste for theunfamiliar, and a desire tobring it to the forefront — in thehope of enlarging awareness ofthe repertoire, and helping other pianists by offering them a greaterdiversity of things to choose from. And I’ve pretty much always beenable to do what I wanted.”Responding to a question about whether it’s his virtuosity thatappeals to his fans, Hamelin answered:“For many people, difficulty has an attraction all its own. But I don’tenjoy playing difficult music for its own sake — and I wish peopleunderstood this. If I do it, it’s because I believe in the music, and I’ll dowhatever it takes to play it. But I want people to transcend virtuosity,For me, musicis everything!One can do without most things,but not without the pleasure ofan exceptional piano.FAZIOLI creates grand pianosand concert pianos, destined formusicians who seek a musicalpalette of endless colour.FAZIOLI pianos: born forGreat Music.2013-2014SeasonFeb. 2, Ilya Poletaev pianoHeliconian Hall 35 Hazelton Avewww.syrinxconcerts.ca 416.654.0877Each concert highlights a Canadian compositiontogether with familiar classical repertoire.Home of the world’s greatperformance pianos210 BLOOR STREET WEST – TORONTOwww.remenyi.comthewholenote.com December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 | 19

and I’m a little less into that sort of thing now. I’ve found joy insimpler repertoire.“And there’s a lot of the standard repertoire that I still haven’t done.For next year, I’ve programmed Schubert’s Sonata in A Major D.959and his Impromptus — and I’ll be playing the Impromptus for the firsttime. But I’ll also revisit Nikolai Medtner’s Night Wind Sonata, which Ithink is an unsung masterpiece. It would benefit any young composerto study it very closely.”Hamelin’s international career has maintained its lofty status. He’scurrently artist-in-residence at London’s prestigious Wigmore Hall(where he made a memorable live recording slmost 20 years ago). Herecently gave the first of five recitals there; the program’s first half wasidentical to the one he will be performing in Toronto January 21 andrepeating in Lindsay the next evening. London blogger Frances Wilsonsummed it up: “The program traced a darkly lit narrative from thebrooding opening bars of Hamelin’s atmospheric Barcarolle, throughthe sprawling musical landscapes of Medtner’s Night Wind pianosonata.” Here, he’ll be playing the last four Schubert Impromptus afterintermission.Hamelin is a pianist whose mastery of the mechanical aspectsof music making has always been in support of his artistic vision, ameans of fulfilling the music’s emotional content. Mark the date.LaPlante and Lortie: LaPlante’s recital at the Narvesons’ Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music Series, in Waterloo January 18, harks backto that autumn week in 2007. Included in a program of the kind ofvirtuosic romantic music for which the pianist is known — Chopin,Liszt and a Busoni arrangement of the Bach Toccata, Adagio andFugue in C — is the Mozart Sonata in E-flat K282 he played six yearsago. Coincidentally he’s also performing the Jacques Hétu VariationsHamelin played during that same anniversary celebration.Lortie will be leading the TSO from the keyboard in a performanceJanuary 22 and 23 of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.22, K482 with itshaunting middle “Andante” and elegant cantabile slow menuet thathijacks its “Allegro” third movement. “The important thing about asoloist being able to conduct,” Lortie says on his website, “is that he isa master of time in all senses.” He believes that it’s the time involvedin rehearsal (“which ideally is as much time as needed”) that is essential.Since he believes that the Mozart concertos are true chambermusic and that every player brings his own input to the playing ofthem, “you must have time to discuss phrasings with people.” Peoplewho play a Mozart trio or quartet will take hours to discuss theirapproach; he wants to bring those same values to the concertos.Bezuidenhout: On the subject of Mozart, fortepiano specialistKristian Bezuidenhout conducts the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestrafrom the keyboard December 5 to 8 in Mozart’s Concertos Nos. 9 &11, K271 and K413. Like Hamelin’s, Bezuidenhout’s boyhood homehad a massive record collection and by the age of 9 or 10 he wasintimately familiar with Mozart’s music. He discovered his fascinationwith historic keyboards as student at the Eastman School ofMusic. “The scale of the piano went just far enough that one couldrecapture the sense of sturm and drang and tempestuousness that ispresent in Mozart’s music,” he observes in a video available on theTafelmusik website.Finally, a third pianist-conductor, Ignat Solzhenitsyn (son of theiconic Soviet writer and dissident), will, like Lortie, bring his talentsto Roy Thomson Hall as part of the TSO “Mozart @258 Festival.” OnJanuary 11 he will perform the Concerto No.18, K456 with its secondmovement “Andante” exhibiting a pathos rare for the composer.QUICK PICKS!!Two in Waterloo: Highly touted American pianist Andrew VonOeyen’s December 2 concert ranges from Bach’s Partita No.1 toRavel’s La Valse; the gifted French pianist Jean-Philippe Collard’seye-opening program January 15 consists of Debussy’s Preludes,Book I and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Both at thePerimeter Institute.!!Koerner Hall Debut: Russian-born pianist Kirill Gerstein whodivides his time between America and Germany is that rare classicalpianist with a jazz degree from the Berklee College of Music. HisDecember 8 program includes two Ligeti Etudes, two Virtuoso Etudesby Earl Wild from songs by Gershwin and Pictures at an Exhibition.!!COC Piano Virtuoso Series: RCM Rebanks Fellowship-winnerStefan Chaplikov takes on Beethoven’s massive masterpiece,the Hammerklavier Sonata December 10; fellow RCM RebanksFellowship-winner (and one of the few Arabs performing Westernclassical music), Algerian-born Mehdi Ghazi looks to reveal thepassion in works by Rachmaninov, de Falla, Prokofiev and MessiaenJanuary 7; young American Christopher Goodpasture plays Fantasiesby Schumann and Hétu and Etudes by Chopin and DebussyJanuary 16. All concerts are free and at noon in the Richard BradshawAuditorium.)Paul Ennis is The WholeNote’s managing editor.20 | December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 thewholenote.com

Beat by Beat | In the ClubsPlenty to Sing AboutAcclaimed actress andsinger Jenni Burke is happyto be leading “SaturdaySwing-Along” brunches at JazzBistro, taking place December 7,14, and 21 at 12:30pm. Burke’scharming voice and warm stagepresence, along with special guestsand sing-alongs will offer folksfrom one to ninety-two a chance toget into the spirit of the season.“I love this time of the year whenI remember to take a moment toremember what it’s all about,”says Burke. “For all the materialhoopla associated with the holidayseason, its meaning doesn’t lie inthe perfect gift, the obligations, therunning around, all the glitter and bows, but in the birth of somethinglovely and new inside our hearts ... we are reminded at this timeof year that we can be more than we are.That we can and should be the force oflove in this world. A time to count ourblessings and be grateful and experiencethe joy of giving.” Jazz Bistro will beaccepting food donations at the door insupport of Daily Bread Food Bank andCBC’s Sounds of the Season; those whoDenielle Bassels.Diana Panton.ORI DAGANJenni Burke.bring a non-perishable donation will beadmitted free of charge.Anyone looking for a bargain onNew Year’s Eve should hurry up andmake reservations at Gate 403. Cover isonly $10 for the evening, with entertainmentprovided by the Denielle BasselsJazz Band. A recent graduate of HumberCollege, Bassels is a brilliant talentwith more than just a gorgeous voice.Reminiscent of the late Amy Winehouse,the singer-songwriter’s music is allat once classic, contemporary andappealing. Gate 403 is an unpretentious venue, and one of the onlyclubs in Toronto that features live jazz and blues seven days a week.It’s certainly deserving of your continued support, and there is hardlyever a cover charge. That being said, most of the money the musicianstake home for their hard work comes from the Pay-What-You-Canjar, so be sure to contribute, especially if you enjoy their performance.Generous tips make for excellent karma!A few months back I had the honour of playing a gig with Canadianjazz legend Don Thompson. Afterwards we chatted about some ofour favourite singers. He asked me whether or not I had heard DianaPanton, a vocalist he has been working with for years, with whom herecently toured Asia.“Oh, they just love her over there ... people revere her singing overthere,” he said. “They come to meet her after the show and they arein tears. She is so honest and beautiful and they really get it.” Askedwhether she would be playing here anytime soon, he said no, Ibetter just listen to her records, and so I checked out some of herwork. Panton’s sensuous voice and her pared-down approach translatebeautifully on recording, often sounding like she is whisperingin your ear. Thankfully, some gigs have been booked since then, andwe can all see and hear the Diana Panton Trio live on a few occasionsin the near future. With the exquisite backing of Don Thompsonthewholenote.com December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 | 21

and Reg Schwager, Diana Panton will perform Christmas material onDecember 12 and 13 at Brampton’s Rose Theatre, and on January 25the three are at the Paintbox Bistro as part of an exciting series bookedby the Jazz Performance and Education Centre, JPEC. As part of thesame series, piano master Randy Weston will appear at the Paintboxon Friday, January 11; tickets for the series can be purchased at paintboxbistro.comIf you’ve never been to Hugh’s Room, there are some great reasonsto check it out in the coming months. On Friday and Saturday,December 6 and 7, singing guitarist Leon Redbone makes a rareappearance. As reclusive as he is spellbinding, the enigmatic performerhas amassed a sizable following thanks to his signature style; checkout his YouTube channel for a taste of his tasteful talents. Meshing oldschooljazz, folk, blues and ragtime withself-effacing comedy, the singular troubadourwill be accompanied by pianistPaul Asaro and bluesman Colin Linden.Speaking of troubadours, Toronto’svery own Rik Emmett will also beperforming at Hugh’s Room, on FridayDecember 20, with Dave Dunlop onLeon Redbone.Gene Bertoncini.Rik Emmett.guitar. One of the founding members offamed 1970s/80s Canadian power rockoutfit Triumph, Emmett struck out onhis own as a singer-songwriter 25 yearsago and has never stopped rocking. I hadthe pleasure of studying songwritingwith Emmett at Humber College, wherehe performed new songs for the classweek after week; his gift for melody,enchanting voice and performancestyle make this performer one Torontoshould treasure.The music of Chet Baker appears tobe inspiring plenty of singers thesedays, including Shannon Butcher, whohas just released an EP of seven songsmade famous by the icon. Butcher hasalways been fascinated by Baker’s “Darkand aloof personal life, burdened byaddictions, contrasted by his evocativeperformances that deeply connected himto his audience.” The resulting ButcherSings Baker ranges from the melancholic“Almost Blue” to the effervescent “Happy Little Sunbeam,” andfeatures Rebecca Hennessy on trumpet, a lovely choice for this project.The album can be found on iTunes or in hard copy, autographed livein person. Butcher performs at the Dovercourt House for the SaturdayNight Swing Dance on December 21, and in duo with bassist RossMacIntyre at Musideum on January 30.Guitarists and lovers of jazz guitar should take note of an excitingfew days at Chalkers Pub with Gene Bertoncini. Born and raised inNew York City, the 76-year-old master guitarist has been playing thismusic for nearly seven decades, fusing together jazz, classical, popand bossa nova styles on both acoustic and electric guitar. He hasworked with Benny Goodman, Tony Bennett, Lena Horne, Buddy Rich,Wayne Shorter and Michel LeGrand, to name a few. On January 25 atChalkers Pub, Bertoncini will appear in duo format with Dave Young;the following afternoon, January 26, he will be teaching a guitar clinic,and performing solo that evening. Anyone interested in hearing theguitar sing should not miss it!Thank you all for reading and for your continued support ofthis vibrant scene, made all the more bright by your attendanceand applause. Wishing you all a wonderful holiday and plenty oflive music in 2014! (Our jam-packed In the Clubs listings start onpage 61.)Ori Dagan is a Toronto-based jazz vocalist,voice actor and entertainment journalist. He canbe contacted at jazz@thewholenote.com.Beat by Beat | Jazz NotesAin’t NoSanity ClauseJIM GALLOWAYI’m writing this in November and already I’m getting tired ofChristmas songs being pumped out at me in shops and restaurants.It can be said however that despite all the blatant commercialismthe season does promote a spirit of goodwill, at least for a dayor two. And that’s more than can be said for the origins of the celebrationwhich are to be found in Roman bacchanalia steeped in drunkenrevelry and, unfortunately, racism, the dates of which were borrowedby the Roman Catholic Church and sanitized more than just a little.If you want clarification on this subject I invite you to check out theorigins of Christmas.In the spirit of the season I offer this abridged version of a parody on“The Night Before Christmas”:’Twas the month before Christmas, and all through the store,Each department was dripping with Yuletide decor.The Muzak was blaring an out-of-tune carol,And the fake snow was falling on “Ladies’ Apparel.”It was all too much for my soul to condone,And I let out a most unprofessional moan.The crowd turned around, and I’ll say for their sake,That they knew in an instant I wasn’t a fake.“I’ve had it,” I told them, “with fast-buck promoting,With gimmicks and come-ons and businessmen gloating.This garish display of commercialized greed,Is so very UN-Christmas, it makes my heart bleed!And that’s my rant for today.Elementary – what’s on: Starting with the concert halls there is infact quite a lot of activity over the next couple of months. The listingssection of the magazine has a complete rundown but I have singledout a few events giving an overview of the forthcoming events.Regarded by many as the best big band in the business, Jazz AtLincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, will offer a programcalled “Big Band Holidays” at Massey Hall on December 9. Formed in1987 they have since taken their music around the world garneringenthusiastic devotees wherever they play. I’m pretty certain that one ofthe numbers they will play will be their version of “Oh Tannenbaum”and if you go on their website you’ll find the entire version, not just aclip. Worth checking out.If you’re looking for something a little more contemporary andvigorous, December 14 at the Winter Garden Theatre will find TheBad Plus belting out their very personal brand of music. Drummer inthe group, Dave King, has this to say, “This band contains some of themost punk energy I’ve ever seen or felt as a musician ...”On the other hand If you’re looking for some nostalgia you’ll findit on December 19 at Roy Thomson Hall when the Preservation HallJazz Band presents “Creole Christmas.” The group was formed in1961 — before some of the current members were born and while theband is no longer the original genuine article the evening will bringback memories of days and music gone by.Not quite downtown but it’s worth the drive on December 5 tothe Flato Markham Theatre where The Manhattan Transfer “SwingsChristmas.” The group has been performing since 1974 although ithardly seems that long since I first became aware of them. They wentfrom strength to strength and in 1981 won their first Grammy fortheir recording of “Until I Met You,” also known as the jazz standard“Corner Pocket,” composed by Freddie Green, longtime guitarist withCount Basie. Their Markham appearance comes hot on the heels of anextensive European tour and if you like vocal jazz, and in particular22 | December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 thewholenote.com

Brian Barlow.four-part harmony, Markham Theatre will be your destination.Two nights later on December 7 John Pizzarelli and DanielaNardi, vocals, will be “Celebrating Frank Sinatra and Paolo Conte”atKoerner Hall; and at the same venue on December 14, Regina Carterand Nnenna Freelon will present an evening of Jazz, funk, Motown,African and soul music.So you can see that if you choose to, the festive concert season couldput quite a strain on your wallet, but heh, better for your soul than anew smartphone.At your service: I have commented on the number of jazz vesperswhich have become part of the fabric that makes up the musicalcoat of many colours to be found in our city. They first saw the lightof day, or rather evening, 14 years ago atChrist Church Deer Park. At that time theminister was Tim Elliott and the musicianwho convinced him that jazz vesperswas a fitting addition to the musical lifeJohn Tank.of a church was Toronto musician BrianBarlow. Over the years there have been fiveministers at Christ Church Deer Park, but Brian is still in charge of thejazz policy. Other churches have followed suit and something that 20years ago would have been unheard of, literally, and still consideredby a narrow-minded few to be the devil’s music, is now an acceptedway of expressing joy and communicating with people through groupimprovisation.Brian’s programming over the next couple of months includesChristmas Vespers with “Barlow Brass and Drums” on December 15and on January 12, Jazz Vespers “Tribute to Louis Armstrong” withChase Sanborn, trumpet, and a tribute talk by Barlow. Then onJanuary 26, Jazz Vespers will feature the Russ Little Quintet with RussLittle, trombone, Michael Stuart, saxophone, Brian Barlow, drums,Tom Szczesniak, piano, and Scott Alexander, bass. 4:30pm is the starttime and attendance is free, donations welcome.Time for a little religious humour? Try this one. A rabbi, a priest anda minister walk into a bar. The bartender looks up and says, “What isthis, a joke?”Clubbing around: In addition to the concert schedule there is theusual club scene which is well documented in the listings section,but I would like to make mention of some of the bookings at the JazzBistro on Victoria Street which is going some way to picking up theslack which has existed since we lost the Montreal Bistro and Topo’ The Senator. The Jazz Bistro is in fact at the same address as theTop o’ The Senator but there the resemblance ends. It is an elegantroom with decent sight lines, reasonably priced food and a reallyfine piano. There is also an interesting booking policy thanks tothe creative efforts of Sybil Walker who brings years of experiencecoupled with a keen knowledge of the music. Some of the artistswho will be appearing over the next few weeks include a quinteton December 6 and 7 led by drummer Mark McLean featuring KellyJefferson, saxophone, Robi Botos, piano, Ted Quinlan, guitar, and MarcRogers, bass. On December 19 to 21 Duncan Hopkins will share thebandstand with Mike Murley and Rob Piltch while the New Year getsoff to a swinging start with Bernie Senensky on January 2 to 4, NeilSwainson and Don Thompson, January 9 to 11 and Dave Young, whowill be there with his Tribute to Horace Silver Band for three nights,January 16 to 18. With Dave will be Kevin Turcotte, Perry WhIte, GaryWilliamson and Terry Clarke. A week later, January 23 to 25, BernieSenensky will take the bandstand with sax player Grant Stewart, hisbrother Phil Stewart on drums and Neil Swainson, bass. A strongline-up of home grown talent and if you haven’t yet visited thisrelatively new space then I would strongly recommend that you put iton your things-to-do, places-to-see list.Meanwhile over at the Rex, one of the highlights has to be theappearance of John Tank on December 3. With him will be BernieSenensky on B3 Hammond organ and Ted Warren, drums. Kitchenerborn,John Tank moved to Toronto in 1970 but has made New York hishome base since 1974, He has built a strong presence both there andinternationally and this is a rare Toronto appearance.All in all if you are a jazz fan “Yule” be able to have a good time.Just a closing reference to the Christmas commercialmadness —I leave you with this thought:As Chico Marx said in A Night At The Opera, “There ain’t noSanity Clause!”I wish you merry listening and a jazzy new year.Jim Galloway is a saxophonist, band leader and former artisticdirector of Toronto Downtown Jazz.He can be contacted at jazznotes@thewholenote.com.• St. Philip’s Anglican ChurchA ● casual, Sunday, relaxing December hour of 1, prayer 4pm + great musicPeter with Togni the city’s Trio finest with special musicians guestMike Murley● Sunday, December 15, 4pm | ChristmasDiana Panton, Reg Schwager,Don Thompson● Sunday, January 12, 4pmJoe Sealy, Paul Novotny, Barbra Lica● Sunday, January 26, 4pmRobi Botos Quartet● Sunday, February 9, 4pmJoy Lapps Lewis Quartet withLarnell Lewis• St. Philip’s Anglican Church | Etobicoke25 St. Phillips Road (near Royal York + Dixon)416-247-5181 • www.stphilips.netthewholenote.com December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 | 23

Beat by Beat | BandstandDiversity is theSeasonal KeyJ A C K M a c Q U A R R I ESince this issue of The WholeNote is a double issue covering theperiods before and after the Christmas holiday season, I expectedto be flooded with information on concerts devoted to traditionalChristmas music. I also expected a small smattering of information onwhat might be in store in the community band world in the new year.I was mistaken. In my ad hoc unscientific survey of band activities,the clear pattern was that there is no pattern. The key wordis diversity. Where to start? How are they diverse? How dothey differ from the traditional activities we think of whenwe use the phrase “Town Band”?Traditionally most town bands performed regularly inparades. Now, most community bands restrict their activitiesto concerts. In the more extreme cases, the wordparade is akin to blasphemy. In other words, to play in aparade would be beneath their artistic dignity. A specialbouquet then goes to the Newmarket Citizens Band. In athree-week period before Christmas the members of thattown band are scheduled to perform in no fewer than fiveSanta Claus Parades interspersed with some free concertsat retirement residences. That is community service. Atthe other end of the diversity spectrum, many communitybands perform one concert of Christmas or seasonal music.As for concert programming, that too has diversified greatly. Fewof the groups that we have heard from restrict their programmingto band music only. Most have guest soloists, choirs or both.For the Milton Concert Band their special guests are the KingswayConservatory of Music Children’s Choir under music director KarenSexton and a very special secret guest vocalist. They’ll cover the spectrumfrom Leroy Anderson’s Sleigh Ride to Morten Lauridsen’s OMagnum Mysterium. The Brampton Concert Band takes diversityfurther with both the Brampton Youth Concert Band and the MayfieldSingers from Mayfield Secondary School as guests. As an additionalattraction, this year’s “Christmas at the Rose” will intertwine themusic with story-telling presented by local Brampton actor Joe Rose.On the eastern front, out in Pickering, the Pickering CommunityConcert Band’s Christmas Concert will include theme music fromHarry Potter films performed with synchronized video. To completethe mix, in addition to an audience carol sing-along they will bejoined by the Pickering High School Jazz Band.Plumbing the repertoire: Although their concerts will be pasthistory by the time this issue is off the presses, I would be remiss if Ididn’t recognize the creative efforts of professor Henry Meredith andhis Plumbing Factory Brass Band in London. In their late Novemberconcerts they included a tasteful variety of Christmas melodies inoriginal arrangements for brass band by band members. On the religiousside, these included the Ukrainian folk chant Carol of theBells, the 17th century French Canadian Huron Carol also known asTwas in the Moon of Wintertime and the premiere performance of AChristmas Carol Medley arranged by band member Ronald Morgan.On the lighter side there was The Parade of the Tin Soldiers (1897) byLeon Jessel and the March of the Toys (from Babes in Toyland) (1903)by Victor Herbert. Then, as frequently happens in their programs,there was the unknown Canadian gem most of us had never heard of.This time such a gem was The Mistletoe Galop (c. 1867–75, publishedby P. Grossman, Hamilton, ON)Horizons past: From time to time I report on the happenings of theNew Horizons bands. Now in their fourth season in Toronto, thereare now five concert bands and one jazz class with another newgroup starting in February on Wednesday afternoons. A familiarizationevening will be held for anyone interested in learning more aboutthe New Horizons movement on Friday, January 31 from 7pm to 9pmat the Long and McQuade Bloor Street store in Toronto. The originalintent of this movement, when it was started about 15 years ago, was24 | December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 thewholenote.com

to encourage older absolute beginners or those who hadn’t touchedan instrument since school days to get into playing in a group. Havingdecided to look at diversity this month, I inquired about the musicalbackgrounds, if any, of the local New Horizons members. What Ilearned was surprising. Many had considerable experience in music,but on other instruments. Here again, an unscientific, informal surveywas in order.One of the dedicated members of the senior group, Alizon, whoplays the oboe in the band, came to New Horizons with piano experienceand as a singer. Maureen, new to the group this year, who pickedup the French horn on her own, just happens to teach harp at theRoyal Conservatory. Gail, on alto saxophone, with no previous musicalexperience, is one of the sort that I expected. Russell, a professionalbassist, is now performing on tenor saxophone. Ken, a professionalbassoonist and bass clarinetist, now embraces a tuba. He doesadmit though that carrying a tuba on public transit presents a challenge.Carol, with no prior experience, originally took up the fluteand now plays that in the level two band. However, she had a longsuppressedurge to try drums. She now also plays drums in the levelone band. One of the most interesting members is Randy. Havingnever played any instrument in his life, Randy, a seasoned member onflute in the level three band, is now trying his hand at composition.The members of the group hope to give his first effort a read throughin the coming weeks.Within that group there are two individuals who warrant specialmention for their musical dealings with adversity. Lawrence, once anaccomplished organist and choir director, was forced to relinquishhis post when the arthritis in his hands reached the stage where hecould no longer cope with a keyboard instrument. While the organis no longer within his grasp, his musical talent is now expressedthrough the xylophone. Then there is Randall. Totally blind since birth,Randall is seen regularly carrying his euphonium at various bandevents around Toronto. He even performs frequently on euphoniumat York University. I have grown accustomed to observing Randall’sproficiency on a valved instrument. To put it mildly, I was blown awaywhen I spotted him holding forth on a large bass trombone during arecent visit to a New Horizons rehearsal. My exploration into diversityin the band world took me to places that I could not have imagined.Readers write: Although there is a regular request in this columnfor readers to write, it rarely happens. What a joy this time to have twonew responses to report, The first from reader John Ryerson offers acorrection to my referral in the last issue to “a decision by the TorontoDistrict School Board to cut the funding of some music programs inToronto schools.” He states: “For the record, it was the Ministry ofEducation that wanted the ‘flex’ funding program removed but theTDSB wore it. Regards.”Another reader response, with a twist of humour, came from“Suzanne.” Last month’s lesser known musical term was “bassocontinuo: when musicians are still fishing long after the legal seasonhas ended.” Suzanne’s rejoinder requires careful pronunciation tofully comprehend.“One of the more unsavory types out on the waters after the endof the legal season is the solitary and elusive bass angling for bass. Ihope that this will change the tenor of the common belief that bassocontinuo is just a little harmless illegal fishy fun. One must also questionLiona Boyd’s intentions. As you will note from her picture, (page31, right next to your column), she appears to be just enjoying a littleharmless R&R in a canoe. Or has she succumbed to this derelict bassocontinuo craze. After all let’s not forget that the guitar which she just‘happens’ to have with her in the canoe is a popular choice for bassocontinuo illegal fishing types. I hope this clarifies things.”DEFINITION DEPARTMENTThis month’s lesser known musical term is ben sostenuto: First cousinof the second trombonist.We invite submissions from readers. Let’s hear your daffynitions.Jack MacQuarrie plays several brass instruments andhas performed in many community ensembles. He canbe contacted at bandstand@thewholenote.com.thewholenote.com December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 | 25

Beat by Beat | Early MusicEarly EarwormGets the Bird?DAVID PODGORSKIIswear i’m not a Grinch. Really. Although I find getting readyfor Christmas to be the most stressful experience of the year, I domy best to get into the Christmas spirit and enjoy the holidays. Ibuy presents for family and friends. I help stuff and baste the turkey.I dutifully go to church every Christmas Day even though I’d probablyrather stay home and open presents. I buy egg nog at thegrocery store, even though I have no idea what it is. Ieven have the sweater, five sizes too big, that mygrandmother knit me for Christmas in 1995, andI will happily wear it again this Christmas, eventhough it hangs down well below my knees.I am prepared to make sacrifices inthe spirit of the holidays. This does not,however, extend far enough to makeme feel inclined to go see the Messiahagain. No Nutcracker either. I think I satthrough enough amateur productions ofthe Nutcracker to sing the whole scorefrom memory, and I could probably dothe same for the better part of the Messiahas well. I don’t mean to detract from thosewho enjoy these holiday traditions, but Ifind surviving the holidays stressful enoughwithout an incurable case of earworm accompanyingme everywhere I go, thank you very much.However, if you are so inclined to take in a Messiahthis holiday season, you can do no better than Tafelmusik’sTafelmusik’s ChristopherVerrette, seen here at U ofCalgary, joins Musiciansin Ordinary Jan 24.“Sing-Along Messiah” December 22 at 2pm in Massey Hall. Tafelmusikhas been doing this for 25 years. They know what they’re doing. IvarsTaurins will dress up as Handel. It will be fun. Bring your own score.Or, if you’d rather let someone else do the singing, catch their otherperformances and hear soloists Emma Kirkby, Laura Pudwell, ColinBalzer, and Tyler Duncan sing it for you in Koerner Hall December 18to 21. If you prefer a more authentic version, you can also head downto the Glenn Gould Studio at 8pm on December 21 to check out theAradia Ensemble’s Dublin Messiah, based on Handel’s original versioncomposed for (ahem) Easter in 1742. Both of these productions arevery good. I highly recommend them, although I won’t be there.Delayed onset: Alternately, if you are trying to delay the onset ofChristmas for as long as possible, you might want to check out acouple of concerts in December that are in no way Christmas-themed.The Rezonance Baroque Ensemble will be presenting chamber worksby Telemann and Erlebach as well as solo works by J.S. Bach in anafternoon concert at the Tranzac on December 8 at 3pm. If you’re thesort of person who is more inclined to look for a pub on a Sundayafternoon than a concert hall, you’ll find the cozy and welcomingatmosphere of the Tranzac very appealing. (Also in the interest offull disclosure I will mention that I will be playing harpsichord inthis concert. Please do not heckle unless I’ve given you a bad reviewrecently.) The La Mode Quartet will also be giving a concert worthinvestigating that weekend on December 6 in Bloor Street UnitedChurch at 8pm with chamber works by Rameau and Guillemain aswell as one of the Telemann Paris Quartets, which are some of themost beautiful (and difficult) chamber works of the 18th century. Andanyone observing Advent and wanting to take in a concert mightwant to check out the Musicians in Ordinary’s concert for the Adventseason, featuring Magnificats by Vivaldi and Telemann at St. Basil’sChurch December 3 at 7:30.Involuntary vac: If you feel like seeing a concert in the New Year, bewarned — January is an extended (and largely involuntary) vacation forbaroque musicians on the Toronto scene. Thankfully, the Musiciansin Ordinary have put together a program for New Year’s Day thatwill round out the holidays quite enjoyably. This concert features theFrench Baroque composer Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre, achild prodigy and well-known composer of cantatas and solo instrumentalworks during her lifetime, and the Musicians in Ordinary willbe performing her cantata Le Sommeil d’Ulisse (The Sleep of Ulysses).You can catch them at 2pm at Heliconian Hall.Two Toronto-based baroque musicians who won’t be taking a vacationthis winter are Daniel Taylor and Jeanne Lamon. Both Lamonand Taylor have teamed up to put together a performance of HenryPurcell’s Dido and Aeneas, which ranks as Purcell’s best-known work,a 17th century English classic, and the only major English-languageopera composed before 1900 that is still performed today. (There isperhaps one other — John Blow’s Venus and Adonis, which I’m stillwaiting to see performed in town.) Taylor and Lamon aredirecting the Schola Cantorum and the Theatre of EarlyMusic for three performances of Dido and Aeneasat the Trinity College Chapel January 17 to19.(If you miss this program, you can still catchanother Theatre of Early Music concert aweek later, as they will perform works byGibbons, Purcell, Tallis and Handel in thesame hall on January 26.Late Jan: The concert season will pickup later in the month of January as theMusicians in Ordinary (who, I have tosay, are really starting to emerge as thehardest-working musicians in Torontoin the next couple of months) have yetanother performance, this time featuringviolinist Chris Verrette playing five of theBiber Rosary Sonatas. Verrette, in betweenregular concerts with Tafelmusik, has beenworking his way through all 15 of these sacredinstrumental works this season, and he plays themwith remarkable sensitivity and grace. Definitely try to hearhim if you can — this concert is at Madden Hall on January 24.Finally, Tafelmusik returns with a program that features someexceptional chamber and orchestral music by J.S. Bach. “IntimatelyBach” will be a great chance to hear Bach’s Triple Concerto forflute, violin, and harpsichord BWV1044. It’s scored the same asthe Brandenburg Concerto No.5 and is not as famous, but is easilyas great a piece of music as the more famous Brandenburg. SoloistGrégoire Jeay will join Tafelmusik to play flute, and the orchestra willalso play Bach’s Violin Concerto in G BWV1056 and his Trio Sonatain C BWV529. Tafelmusik will be back at Trinity-St Paul’s Centrefor this concert January 29 to February 1 at 7 pm, with a matinee onFebruary 2.David Podgorski is a Toronto-based harpsichordist, musicteacher and a founding member of Rezonance.He can be contacted at earlymusic@thewholenote.com.26 | December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 thewholenote.com

NªVIDªD:Christmas Music from LatinAmerica and SpainThis is the liveliest Christmas concert in town,a fiesta of early music from the Spanish-speakingnations on both sides of the Atlantic.Friday, dec. 13 & Saturday, dec. 14, 8pmSunday, dec. 15, 3:30pmTrinity-St. Paul’s Centre,Jeanne Lamon Hall, 427 Bloor St. WestticketS $21 - $61 • caLL 416-964-6337OnLine at tOrOntOcOnSOrt.OrgKEVIN MALLON ConductsTHIRTEEN STRINGS Christmas CandlelightDEC 3, OTTAWAORCHESTRA TORONTO DebutDEC 8, TORONTOARADIA Handel's Dublin MessiahDEC 21, TORONTOTHUNDER BAY SYMPHONYWho Killed Mozart?JAN 23, THUNDER BAYARADIA/VOICEBOXOPERA IN CONCERTRameau’sHippolyte et AriceFEB 3, TORONTOHANDELʼSDUBLINMESSIAHARADIA ENSEMBLEKevin Mallon, Director8PM SATURDAY DECEMBER 21GLENN GOULD STUDIOLeslie Fagan, Soprano | Marion Newman, Mezzo SopranoNils Brown, Tenor | David Pike, BassTickets: $35 | $20 Seniors/Students at www.ARADIA.cathewholenote.com December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 | 27

Beat by Beat | Choral ScenePleasure? Guiltyas Charged!BENJAMIN STEINThe concept of the musical “guilty pleasure” is a dumb notionthat needs to be permanently retired. Guilty pleasures, of course,are things you enjoy that aren’t especially healthy for you. Theholiday season gives you an opportunity to indulge in, oh, one or twoof them. So a (not especially convincing) case can be made for feelingguilt about taking pleasure in things that, in excess, can lead to illhealth — food and drink certainly fall into this category.But the idea of guilty pleasure is also commonly and perniciouslyassociated with music, though as of this writing science has yet toestablish the link between listening choice and terminal disease.The idea is a powerful one. If your self-image is somehow shapedby your musical preferences — for many people, it is — then anythingthat apparently contradicts that image must be listened to on the sly,becoming a “guilty pleasure”: the Bach expert who likes to kick backwith Italian pop ballads by Bocelli (while her unsuspecting husbandsnoozes upstairs); or the thrash metal enthusiast whose eyes mist uplistening to a heartbreak ballad on his daughter’s Taylor Swift album.During this holiday season, in which pretty much every choiraround presents a program with the intent to delight and enchant,perhaps we can agree that guilt should have no place in our musicalchoices — no matter what the time of year.I’ll write more about this curious but widespread phenomenonin the next column — it’s entirely relevant to our ongoing discussionof new music. In the meantime, having focused almost exclusivelyon the Britten centenary last month, I will turn the column over toDecember concerts.Toronto has a wealth of excellent children’s choirs, and two of themost accomplished present seasonal programs in December. TheBach Children’s Chorus and Bach Chamber Youth Choir present “ThisFrosty Tide” on December 7; and the Toronto Children’s Choruspresents “A Chorus Christmas: Fanciful Fantasies” on December 21.A newly formed children’s choir, the ASLAN Boys Choir of Toronto,presents their debut performance “Now is the Time!” on December 15.The Nathaniel Dett Chorale, a choir devoted to music of the Africandiaspora, performs “An Indigo Christmas” on December 3. Inspired bythe famous “Nigra Sum” text from the Song of Songs (“I am black butcomely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem”), the concert is a collection of“Songs to the Black Virgin” — music inspired by Madonna figures fromaround the world.Messiah concerts: you’re on your own. Do I really need to talk upthis piece at this stage in human history? Go and support the manyexcellent choirs who have made it a central part of their concertseason. Here’s my suggestion — throw a dart at a page of the listings,PETER MAHONSales Representative416-322-8000pmahon@trebnet.comwww.petermahon.com28 | December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 thewholenote.com

chosen at random; then go see the Messiah performance that you hit.(Or if you prefer, there’s a handy Messiah Quick Picks at the end ofthis column!)Handelian alternatives: For those who want to hear works bycomposers from the classical canon (other than Handel), there areseveral other good choices.On December 7 the Cantores Celestes Women’s Choir performsVivaldi’s Gloria as well as other seasonal favourites. This concert celebratesthe ensemble’s 25th anniversary.The day before, December 6, the Upper Canada Choristers alsoperform the Vivaldi work, as well as music by Praetorius and Handel.Canadian Men’s Chorus presents “En Hiver” Dec 14.Poulenc’s Gloria is the highlight of the Oakville Choral Society’s “AChristmas Celebration of English and French Music” on December 13.J.S. Bach’s setting of the Magnificat text, jubilant and haunting byturns, is also a good seasonal choice for choirs and audiences. TheVOCA Chorus of Toronto performs this work on December 7.For another Bach choice, also on December 7, the EtobicokeCentennial Choir performs Cantata BWV140 “Sleepers Awake”(Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme), as well as Jewish-Canadiancomposer Srul Irving Glick’s tuneful Kedusha.More Bach: On December 14 the Toronto Chamber Choir presents“Christmas with J.S. Bach,” a concert that combines works for Adventand Christmas.On December 8 the Toronto Beach Chorale performs a Christmasconcert that features some tasty and unusual early 20th centuryBritish works: Finzi’s In Terra Pax, Holst’s Christmas Day andVaughan Williams’ moving Fantasia on Christmas Carols.One of the great virtues of Christmas music is its multiculturaldepth. On December 14 the Canadian Men’s Chorus presents “EnHiver,” a concert that includes the premiere of Toronto composer/conductor Norman Reintamm’s Three Estonian Carols. In thesame spirit, on December 7, Chorus Niagara performs “A CanadianChristmas Carol,” a concert combining Canadian carols, poetry, proseand images.For those who want to balance their carol intake with musicfrom another world festival, the Toronto Jewish Folk Choir presentsChanukah concerts on December 9 and 11.Looking ahead to January: A special choral event is taking place inHamilton on January 19. Our city’s best choral gospel ensemble, theToronto Mass Choir is performing a joint concert with the McMasterUniversity Choir. Karen Burke, the TMC’s conductor, is actually agraduate of McMaster University, and the concert will be a culminationof a series of workshops in which the two choirs will collaborateand develop repertoire. This is a rare opportunity for people in theHamilton region to enjoy a visit from this terrific ensemble.One final thought: The print run of this December/January issueof The WholeNote will likely have disappeared well before the beginningof February, but I wanted to make note of a Soundstreams choralconcert celebrating 60 years of professional choral singing in Canada.Three of Canada’s top professional chamber ensembles, Elmer IselerSingers, Pro Coro Canada and the Vancouver Chamber Choir willperform individually in three concerts February 1 and then combineon February 2, conducted by Kaspars Putniņš, the leader of therenowned Latvian Radio Choir.thewholenote.com December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 | 29

Soundstreams will also sponsor an intriguing sounding lecture onJanuary 17, ”New Directions in Choral Music.” The event will exploreinnovations in the use of the voice in modern choral writing andperformance.In the meantime, check out the rest of the listings, enjoy the season,and remember that when it comes to music, no pleasure should bea guilty one. Still, I could be wrong. I’ll ponder it over some whiskeyand chocolate.Benjamin Stein is a Toronto tenor and lutenist.He can be contacted at choralscene@thewholenote.com.Visit his website at benjaminstein.ca.HANDEL’S MESSIAH QUICK PICKSNOTE: For details consult the concert listingscommencing page 36. Towns/cities in boldtype are in listings Section B: Beyond the GTA.!!Dec 1, 4:00: Toronto Classical Singers. Highlights.!!Dec 3, 7:30: Cathedral Church of St. James.Handel’s Messiah. Vicki St. Pierre, conductor;Cathedral Choir; Lesley Bouza, soprano; ChristinaStelmacovich, mezzo; Aaron Ferguson, tenor; andJames Westman, baritone; Talisker Players.!!Dec 6–7, 7:30: Bach Elgar Choir. Messiah. ByHandel. Full chorus and orchestra; JenniferTaverner, soprano; Michele Bogdanowicz, mezzo;Chris Fischer, tenor; Andrew Tees, bass; AlexCann, conductor. Hamilton.!!Dec 6, 8:00: Elmer Iseler Singers. Handel’sMessiah. Lydia Adams, conductor; AllisonAhrends, soprano; Laura Pudwell, mezzo; IsaiahBell, tenor; Doug MacNaughton, bass; PatriciaWright, organ; guests: Amadeus Choir.!!Dec 7, 7:30: Grand Philharmonic Choir ChamberSingers. Handel’s Messiah. Carla Huhtanen,soprano; Krisztina Szabo, mezzo-soprano; ZachFinkelstein, tenor; Tyler Duncan, baritone;Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony; Mark Vuorinen,conductor. Kitchener.!!Dec 7, 7:30: Arcady. A Baroque Messiah. RonaldBeckett, conductor. Vineland.!!Dec 8, 2:00: St. Anne’s Anglican Church.Selections.!!Dec 8, 2:30: Orchestra Kingston. Sing-AlongMessiah. Kingston.!!Dec 9, 7:30: Arcady/National Academy Orchestraof Canada. Handel’s Messiah. Boris Brott,conductor. Hamilton.!!Dec 10, 7:30: Arcady/National AcademyOrchestra of Canada. Handel’s Messiah. BorisBrott, conductor. Burlington.!!Dec 14, 4:00: Pax Christi Chorale. The Children’sMessiah. Selected arias and choruses!!Dec 14, 7:30: Kindred Spirits Orchestra. Handel’sGlorious Messiah (orchestrated by W. A. Mozart).Kristian Alexander, conductor; Jennifer Taverner,soprano; Laura McAlpine, mezzo; StephenHarland, tenor; Andrew Tees, bass-baritone;Village Voices (Joan Andrews, director).!!Dec 14–15, 8:00: Against the Grain Theatre. AtG’sMessiah. Jacqueline Woodley, soprano; KrisztinaSzabó, mezzo; Isaiah Bell, tenor; Geoffrey Sirett,baritone; Christopher Mokrzewski conductor;orchestra and choir.!!Dec 15, 3:00: Blessed Trinity Church. Selections!!Dec 15–16, 3:00: Peterborough Singers. Handel’sMessiah. Melody Thomas, soprano; EmmaMansell, mezzo-soprano; Chris Mayell, tenor;Tyler Fitzgerald, bass. Peterborough.!!Dec 15, 7:30: Arcady. A Baroque Messiah. RonaldBeckett, conductor. Brantford.!!Dec 17, 18, 20, 21; 8:00: Toronto SymphonyOrchestra. Handel’s Messiah. ChristopherWarren-Green, conductor and conductor; KlaraEk, soprano; Lawrence Zazzo, countertenor; JohnTessier, tenor; John Relyea, bass-baritone.Also Dec 1.!!Dec 18 ,19, 20, 21; 7:30, and Dec 22 (Massey Hall,sing-along mat): Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestraand Chamber Choir. Handel’s Messiah. EmmaKirkby, soprano; Laura Pudwell, mezzo; ColinBalzer, tenor; Tyler Duncan, baritone.!!Dec 18, 7:30: Toronto Choral Society/EastminsterUnited Church. Handel’s Messiah. TaliskerPlayers; William O’Meara, organist; GeoffreyButler, conductor.!!Dec 20, 7:00: Grand River Chorus. SingalongMessiah. Handel: Messiah. Richard Cunningham,artistic director; Taylor Webb, guest conductor(Hallelujah); Lesley Bouza, soprano; Sarah Hicks,mezzo; Joshua Wales, tenor; Jordan Stumpf,baritone. Brantford.!!Dec 21, 8:00: Aradia Ensemble. The DublinMessiah. Handel’s Dublin Messiah. KevinMallon, conductor; Leslie Fagan, soprano; MarionNewman, mezzo; Nils Brown, tenor; David Pike,bass.!!Dec 22, 8:00: Guelph Chamber Choir. Handel’sMessiah. Handel: Messiah. Gerald Neufeld,conductor; Agnes Zsigovics, soprano; DanielCabena, countertenor; Bud Roach, tenor; DanielLichti, bass; Musica Viva Orchestra on periodinstruments. Guelph.CAROLS BY CANDLELIGHTSUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 4:30PMA traditional candlelight choral presentation featuring choirs and musiciansof Yorkminster Park Baptist Church.NINE LESSONS & CAROLSSUNDAY, DECEMBER 22, 4:30PMFollowing the historic tradition of King’s College in Cambridge.FREE ADMISSIONDoors open at 3:30pm. Child care for children 5 years and under.Yorkminster Park Baptist Church1585 Yonge St., (1 block north of St. Clair Ave. | (416) 922-1167 | yorkminsterpark.com30 | December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 thewholenote.com

Beat by Beat | World ViewA Holly JollyLiminal HaikuYes,’tis the season, though it’s sometimes a cold one forworld music lovers. I’ll put my cards on the table for you, dearreader. It doesn’t take much 6/8 time early music to put meinto the Christmas spirit, and just a few bars of a polished SalvationArmy brass band to warm my chilledNoël heart. I’m a sucker for Yuletidecarols, period instrument performancesof baroque staples by Bach, etal, grand chorales and church organmusic. I may join the tenor section ofa sing-along Messiah yet once morethis year, the one with Ivars Taurinsconducting, re-enacting moody “HerrHandel” warts, waistcoat and all. It’san interactive event which combinesseveral of those seasonal pleasuresI don’t feel obliged to feel guiltyabout at all.I wish I could say that about theTimar family holiday tradition. Fordecades we’ve feasted and thendecorated the dessert table withsuper-rich confections. Make noANDREW TIMARFatoumata Diamwara.mistake though; these are serious symbols of conspicuous abundance.Other kids had Christmas lights twinkling publicly on frostyfront porches; we had tortes, truffles, candies and pastries shared inthe warmth of family. Imagine homemade all-nut tortes garnishedwith spiked whipped cream and flavoured buttercream in thick layers.And heaping plates of all-butter shortbreads, artisanal boozy mascarponetruffles and raspberry Linzer squares, all toasted with Tokay andbubbly — but I digress from my main musical point...My problem: none of the music performance sites I mentioned aregenerally considered or marketed as “world music,” my beat at TheWholeNote. Thus I can’t discuss that sort of musicking here. What I dofeel free to discuss however is the wealth of music originating fromthe second, third and hybrid worlds being performed in our midst,some of it even tied thematically to the season.World cultures for millennia have marked the frighteningly longdarkest night and looked forward to any sign of the return of the light.Lux Aeterna is a theme not only in the Latin liturgy and its musicbut in rituals around the world. As I write this, late fall’s first whiteflakes swirl from above in shifting clouds, magically dusting our worldwith lacy crystals of water. It puts me in the mood to engage in haiku,another season-specific activity. This Japanese poetic form, like worldmusic itself is an imported notion, an admirable platform from whichto succinctly reflect on this liminal season:Longest night, coldestday; Solstice sings fa-la-la —winter pine boughs cheer.Picks: December 3 the Nathaniel Dett Chorale presents a concertdeftly merging European, African American and Caribbean hybridmusical worlds thematically evoking the season. “An IndigoChristmas: Songs to the Black Virgin” at St. Timothy’s AnglicanChurch, promises Christmas music with a “distinct Afrocentric vibe.”The Chorale has presented this program before and released a stirringCD titled An Indigo Christmas – Live! in 2004. The notes admirablysum up the music as an “age-old story of expectation,hope, redemption and freedom wrapped up in the promise ofAmanda Martinez.Bassekou Kouyate.a newborn child.” The concertoffers arrangements of spiritualsand carols, “some with anAfrican shout, a Caribbean twist,a jazz treatment, or a gospelblast of hope and joy.”Two days earlier, onDecember 1 at Koerner Hall,the 2012 Canadian FolkMusic Award-winning Sultansof String release their new CD,Symphony! in a concert presentedby Royal Conservatory and SmallWorld Music. The album was recordedwith the Cathedral Bluffs SymphonyOrchestra conducted by NormanReintamm. Toronto’s Sultans of String wasco-founded in 2004 by the well-knownsix-string violinist Chris McKhool and flamencoguitarist Kevin Laliberté. They arejoined by Eddie Paton, guitar, bassist Drew Birston, Roger Travassoson percussion and the Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra. Expecta fast-paced instrumental concert mashing up elements of Arabic folk,Spanish flamenco, French Manouche Gypsy jazz, Cuban rhythms, allsupported by lush pops orchestral arrangements.In the last issue of The WholeNote my colleague Wendalyn Bartleywrote about the December 4 and 5 Continuum ContemporaryMusic production of Nuyamł-ił Kulhulmx/Singing the Earth at theWychwood Theatre. Is this world music? My excuse for revisitingit here is that the composer of the work, Bella Coola-native AnnaHöstman (winner of the 2013 Toronto Emerging Composer Award),incorporates multi-ethnic human texts and musical materials as wellas the natural soundscape of the B.C. geography into this fascinatingCANADIAN CHORAL CELEBRATIONA celebration of 60 years of choral singing in Canada, featuring theElmer Iseler Singers, Vancouver Chamber Choir and Pro Coro Canadaand a world premiere from R. Murray Schafer.February 2, 2014 at 3:00 pmKoerner Hall,TELUS Centrefor the Performing ArtsFor tickets call 416-408-0208or visit soundstreams.caBlackthewholenote.com December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 | 31

interdisciplinary performance. It weaves into the score not onlyhuman stories — a mixture of the indigenous Nuxalk Nation, descendantsof Norwegian and Japanese settlers — but also the ever-presentsonic backdrop of the place: the river and the forest. The ContinuumEnsemble’s skilled septet, conducted by Gregory Oh, is joined bymezzo Marion Newman.December 5 the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, presentsits regular bi-annual “World Music Ensembles Concert” at 7:30pmin Walter Hall. This particular concert includes the (Balinese SemarPegulingan) Gamelan Ensemble directed by Annette Sanger. They’rejoined by Brian Katz’s Klezmer Ensemble; the Japanese TaikoEnsemble directed by Kiyoshi Nagata rounds out the early evening.Women take stage centre: Rounding out the first week of themonth on December 7 the Batuki Music Society showcases “Songsof My Mother: A Celebration of African Women” at the Ada SlaightHall, Daniels Spectrum. The Batuku Music press release notes that intraditional African music male voices are often privileged while thefemale voice “is not given [the] prominent role that it deserves” eventhough it is ever present. Moreover “women are often ... discouragedfrom assuming leading roles especially as bandleaders. Toronto has agood number of African female singers: some of them lead their ownbands and others are vocalists in various groups.” This concert seeksto redress an evident gender inequality and to shine “a light on therich talent and the diversity of music that these women possess.” Thefeatured singers are: Tapa Diarra, Evelyn Mukwedeya, Memory Makuri,Blandine Mbiya and Ruth Mathiang. They are supported by five (male)musicians and the choreographer/dancer Mabinty Sylla.December 7 and 8 another concert examines the female diasporicexperience, this time from an Asian perspective. The Raging AsianWomen Taiko Drummers, aka RAW performs “From Rage Comes” onthe spacious stage of the Betty Oliphant Theatre. RAW promises thisconcert “will not be your typical percussion event.” Toronto’s selfdescribed“well-loved ensemble of Asian women activist drummers”has collectively created an evening-length work which aims to telltheir stories as diasporic Asian-Canadian women in the 21st centurythrough music, movement and storytelling. They mine personalexperiences which “explore the theme of rage ... and what comes fromit. When it is unleashed ... when it is muted ... when it must be swallowed... and when it empowers women to transcend.” The core taikodrumming practice of RAW, as it has evolved in North America, is ajumping off point “for an artistic journey to explore racial, sexual andcultural identities ... with a special focus on social activism, educationand community building.” They’re well worth seeing.The same night, December 8, the Echo Women’s Choir raises its 80strong voices at the Church of the Holy Trinity with a social activist,community and world music focus in a program titled “Rise.” TheEcho performs Appalachian, Croatian klapa — a form of traditional acappella singing from Dalmatia, gospel, South African songs, as wellas compositions by several composers. The choir is joined by guestguitarist and fiddler Annabelle Chvostek. Becca Whitla and AlanGasser conduct.More picks: December 14 the African Catholic Community Choirpresents songs from a variety of African traditions, plus works inEnglish and French. Conducted by Serge Tshiunza, the concert is atthe Holy Name Catholic Church.We skip more than a month, and into a new year, to January 18,2014. “Send me a Rose” is the concert by the Lute Legends Ensembleat the Glenn Gould Studio. Bassam Bishara, oud (‘ud), Lucas Harris,lute, and Wen Zhao, pipa, present music for three prominent instrumentsof the venerable and widespread lute family. Some scholarstrace the lineages of the modern Near-Eastern ‘ud and Chinese pipa toa common ancestor about 1,100 years ago. The European lute and the‘ud are also related. Both appear to have descended from a commonforbear via diverging evolutionary paths. The Lute Legends trio aimsto bend the direction of these divergent geographic paths back towardthe unified goal of making music together on the cozy stage of theGlenn Gould Studio. Their program includes music from Turkey, Italy,Iraq, China and Scotland. Sweetening the Can-con, the Canadiancomposer Andrew Donaldson has written a work for them too.January 18 Amanda Martinez, no stranger to our column, bringsher signature eclectic Latin-centred music to our 905 neighbours inMarkham. Martinez and her band will offer a generous mix of Afro-Cuban beats, bossa nova, flamenco and Mexican folk music at theFlato Markham Theatre.Already into the second month of the New Year, on February 1,Fatoumata Diawara and Bassekou Kouyate perform the excitinghybrid music of Malian blues at Koerner Hall. Co-presented by theRoyal Conservatory, Small World Music and Batuki Music, Maliansinger Diawara was singled out by Time magazine in 2012 as a singerto watch. “Her well-crafted songs are often light and breezy, buther soulful voice brings a bluesy depth and potency ...” Sharing thestage is Mali’s Kouyate, the jeli ngoni virtuoso, whose music hasbeen compared to the “electric desert blues” of Tinariwen and AliFarka Touré.I look forward to continuing my personal observations of theGTA world music scene in these pages next year. May you have abanner 2014.Andrew Timar is a Toronto musician and music writer.He can be contacted at worldmusic@thewholenote.com.32 | December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 thewholenote.com

Beat by Beat | In With the New(Re)Generationsof the NewWENDALYN BARTLEYAs the waves of the new and the experimental in soundcontinue to unfold in the life of Toronto’s music scene, it’sworth taking a look back at the institutions that brought usto this point. Certainly one of the most influential in the creation ofthis legacy has been the Music Gallery, which first opened its doorson St. Patrick Street in 1976. I know I’m notalone in having fond memories of all thatwent on within those walls. It was an experimentalhub, an incubator and laboratory forthe most cutting-edge musical developments.It also had an educational focus, servingthe community by providing an accessiblerecording studio, launching Musicworksmagazine, and starting its own recordinglabel: Music Gallery Editions. And all thathistory over the years has been recorded.Just thinking of all the gems housed in theirarchives would be enough to make anyaficionado salivate.Monica Pearce: The latest news at thegallery is that they have just hired a newexecutive director — Monica Pearce. Monicacomes with a background as a composer inMonica Pearcewith Tim Crouch.the contemporary classical tradition, a concert presenter (Toy PianoComposers Collective) and an administrator (The Canadian Leagueof Composers). She joins the Gallery’s current artistic director DavidDacks; their combined distinctive musical backgrounds promise toprovide inspiring leadership for the next generation of innovation.When I spoke to Monica about the Music Gallery’s current vision, sheaffirmed their ongoing commitment to building community andcollaboration among artists of diverse genres and artforms. She seesthe Music Gallery playing an important role in fostering this dialogueand sees that the time is ripe for camaraderie and mutual supportamongst the eclectic range of new music presenters and artists in thecity. She pointed to the creation of the New Music Passport as onesign of this collaboration. For a small fee, passport-holders are offeredone discounted ticket to one concert by each of the 11 participatingorganizations. (This would make a great holiday gift by the way. Seenewmusicpassport.ca for details.) The New Music 101 series of talksat the Toronto Reference Library is another example of this growingsolidarity.The gallery also involves the artistic community by engagingdifferent curators for the various concert series. This is evident in theircurrent Emergent series, which is curated by all the featured artists oflast season’s Emergent concerts. The December 12 Emergent concert“Strange Strings” explores diverse string theories for new music mixedwith DIY electronics and progressive rock while the January 17 eventbrings together Toronto-based sound artist Christopher Willes and theEnsemble Paramirabo from Montreal.And just as Monica begins her new position, the current curator ofthe Post-Classical series, pianist Gregory Oh, presents his last concerton December 20, a production of the PulitzerPrize-winning Little Match Girl Passion byAmerican composer David Lang. Performedby a vocal quartet accompanying themselveson percussion, the piece is based onHans Christian Andersen’s classic Christmasstory that illuminates the dichotomy betweena young girl’s suffering and hope. It drawsmuch of its musical inspiration from Bach’sSt. Matthew Passion. The Washington Post’sTim Page said of the piece that it is “unlike anymusic I know.”As I mentioned above, part of the MusicGallery’s vision is to collaborate with othernew music presenters. On December 8they will co-present a concert with ContactContemporary Music titled “The MostRelaxing of All Instruments” in whichlisteners will experience an otherworldly program of solo andchamber works featuring guitarist Rob MacDonald and guests StephenTam (flute) and David Schotzko (percussion). And of course, the MusicGallery is often the preferred concert venue for many of the city’s newmusic groups. On January 19, New Music Concerts will present “FromAtlantic Shores” featuring the New Brunswick-based Motion Ensembleperforming an eclectic mix of works by Maritime composers. Theprogram includes a newly commissioned piece by Lucas Oickle, arecent graduate of Acadia University, along with two works connectedto the historical Acadian area of Grand-Pre.James Tenney: Another aspect of the Music Gallery’s legacy fromits early days in the 70s was the close relationship that was fosteredwww.NewMusicConcerts.com2014 eventsIntroductions @ 7:15pmConcerts @ 8:00pmSunday January 19, 2014 • 8 pmMotion Ensemble:From Atlantic ShoresThe Music Gallery | 197 John St.A cornucopia of Canadian musicfrom the East coast by Blais,Steffler, Morse, Oickle, Charke,Moore, Genge and AltmannSunday March 2, 2014 • 8 pmA Percussive Eveningwith Jean-Pierre DrouetThe Music Gallery | 197 John St.Legendary percussive theatrics byVinko Globokar, Georges Aperghis,Frederic Rzewski, Giorgio Battistelliand Mauricio Kagel[rescheduled from Dec.14, 2013]Thursday March 20, 2014 • 8 pmAn Evening with theArditti String QuartetJane Mallett Theatre27 Front St. E. | 416.366.7723co-production with Music TorontoPioneering quartets by Elliott Carter,Hilda Paredes, Brian Ferneyhoughand Helmut LachenmannFriday April 18, 2014 • 8 pmA Portrait ofJörg WidmannBetty Oliphant Theatre | 404 JarvisNew Music Concerts EnsembleJörg Widmann, clarinet/directionJörg Widmann returns to Toronto topresent the Canadian premieres ofsix recent ensemble worksIndividual Tickets $35 regular | $25 seniors / arts workers | $10 students[Call Box Office numbers above for March 20 and May 21 co-production single ticket prices]Pick 3 (or more) each $28 reg | $18 senior/arts | $8 students | Call NMC @ 416.961.9594Wednesday May 21, 2014 • 8 pmBeijing Composerswith Wei-wei LanMazzoleni Hall,Royal Conservatory273 Bloor St. W. | 416.408.0208music byFuhong Shi❂ Alexina LouieGuoping Jia❂ Xiaoyong Chen❂featuring Pipa virtuoso Wei-Wei Lan.NMC’s contribution to the inauguralRoyal Conservatory 21C Music Festival❂ World Premieresthewholenote.com December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 | 33

with the music department at York University.Gabriel Prokofiev.Visiting artists at the gallery would often visit Yorkand student ensembles would often perform at thegallery. James Tenney was one such York professor,composer and music theorist who fostered this relationship.On December 6, Arraymusic will celebrateTenney’s music with a concert of several of his works,including two pieces he write for the ensemble. Inthe words of former Arraymusic artistic directorRobert Stevenson “Tenney shook up this city’s musiccommunity, making us more aware of such experimentalAmerican composers as Conlon Nancarrowand Alvin Lucier. Through his devoted commitmentto the music of our time, Jim provided us withthe courage and determination to give our lives overto the music we believe in.” This concert will be achance to listen to Jim’s brilliant visionary music,including works for different tuning systems andintriguing composition processes.Gabriel Prokofiev: Over at the University ofToronto’s Faculty of Music, this year’s edition of theirNew Music Festival gets underway on January 25 witha concert of symphonic works by two generations ofProkofievs: the famous one — Sergei — and his grandson Gabriel, who isthis year’s invited visitor in composition. Gabriel Prokofiev’s distinctivesound is informed by his background as a producer of hip-hop,grime, and electro records as well as his training as a composer inthe classical and electroacoustic traditions. His critically acclaimedConcerto for Turntables and Orchestra, to be performed in theopening concert, is one example of how he mixes these two worlds.The fact of his being the featured composer of the festival meansthat there will be multiple opportunities to hear the full range of thedynamic composer’s music. Two concerts of his chamber works willbe performed on January 29 and 30, along with a concert of his choralmusic on February 2. Included in the programming will be a recentlyreleased work Cello Multitracks, originally conceived as a multitrackwork to be recorded by one performer, but also playable live for cellononet. This is yet another example of how he combines influencesfrom both dance music and more traditional classical forms.On January 31 during a noon-hour concert of electroacoustic music,listeners will be treated to more of his works in this genre alongsiderecent pieces by graduate students. Later that evening, the KarenKieser Prize Concert will present the 2013-winning piece Walking byChris Thornborrow, as well as works by G. Prokofiev and others. EspritOrchestra is also getting into the spirit of the festival action, and theirJanuary 26 concert will feature a movement from G. Prokofiev’s CelloViolins, violas, cellos & bowsComplete line of strings & accessoriesExpert repairs & rehairsCanada’s largest stock of string musicA treasure trove of gifts for string playersthesoundpost.cominfo@the soundpost.com93 Grenville St, Toronto M5S 1B4416.971.6990 • fax 416.597.9923• SALON CONCERT •Jonathan Crow, violin • Dec 1, 2pmConcerto. This concert will also feature guest conductor Samy Moussaconducting the premiere of his own new work as well as a piece byGerman conductor Peter Ruzicka. Compositions by Canadian ZoshaDi Castri and Berlin-based Unsuk Chin round out this concert titled“Strange Matter.”Walter Buczynski: Returning to the U of Toronto’s New MusicFestival, there will be an 80th birthday celebration afternoon concertin honour of professor Walter Buczynski on January 26 followed thenext day by a guest piano recital by Roberto Turrin. A work by DavidLang (composer of Little Match Girl Passion) will also be presentedin an unusual concert pairing of bassoon and percussion musicon January 29. Student composers will be presenting works onJanuary 30 (miniature operas), February 2 (jazz) and February 4.In brief: The theme “(Re)Generations of the New” shows up in yetanother configuration over these next two months with nine differentconcerts that mix classical and contemporary music together:December 3, works by Colin Eatock and Jean Papineau-Coutureappear in a unique Canadian Day Revisited event at the LulaLounge. Syrinx Concerts Toronto celebrates Canadian composersHarry Somers at their December 8 concert and Kelly Marie Murphyat their January 12 event, both at the Heliconian Hall. The AmiciChamber Ensemble includes a work by Tōru Takemitsu in theirDecember 1 concert while the Annex Singers perform a piece byArvo Pärt on December 14. And the Kitchener-Waterloo ChamberMusic Society mixes in pieces by John Zorn (January 10) and MarjanMozetich (January 12) while the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony playsStravinsky’s Jeu de cartes on January 18.To close out, we cannot forget the invaluable contribution theCanadian Music Centre has made in facilitating the growth of newmusic. Events such as their piano series keep Canadian music alive.Check out the January 13 event when Chris Donnelly will performhis Metamorphosis: Ten Improvisations for Solo Piano and their“Nonclassical Night” with Gabriel Prokofiev January 28.QUICK PICKS!!Canadian Opera Company, lobby concerts: “Power Chords” featuresa new work by Scott Good on December 3; A Soldier’s Tale by JohnGzowski is February 6.!!Soundstreams: Canadian Choral Celebration on February 2 pairsGorecki’s Miserere with the world premiere of R. Murray Schafer’sHear the Sounds go Round.Wendalyn Bartley is a Toronto based composer and electro-vocalsound artist. Her own concert, “A Winter Solstice CelebrationCD launch,” December 21, features selections from her recentlyreleased Sound Dreaming: Oracle Songs from Ancient RitualSpaces. She can be reached at sounddreaming@gmail.com.34 | December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 thewholenote.com

LUTOSLAWSKI’S LEGACY: A Personal Reminiscence | continued from page 10was take a pan of water from the kitchen and throw it all over the floor.I was shocked until I took a moment to remember that she did sufferfrom a respiratory ailment and this would bring badly needed moistureto the dry mountain air. I’m sure she noticed that it was industrialcarpeting and no harm would be done.Always the gentleman, Lutoslawski coached and conducted frommorning to night. Like John Cage, he was always prompt. If there wasa rehearsal at 9am and I said he could come late, he always said “No.I’ll be there.” The library at the Banff Centre was excellent at that timeand he spent a lot of time there. The New Grove Dictionary had justbeen issued and was being collected one volume at a time. Witold wasparticularly interested in it and was pleased to point out to me the fictitiouspersonality Dag Henrik Esrum-Hellerup who had been inventedand was listed in the edition.Two Polish violists both coincidentally named Darius were in residenceat the time and the Lutoslawskis were very concerned aboutthem as Banff could only pay 85 per cent of their costs. Witold gave mespending money for them if they became destitute but their performancesin music theatre and a concert for the Polish Cultural Society inCalgary brought them enough spending money and their housing overthe Christmas break so I sent the money back to him. But this was thekind of man he was and I am sure accounts for much of the love Polandbestows upon him.Toronto 1993: We next invited Lutoslawski to Toronto in 1991; wewould have done so sooner but most of his new repertoire in that periodwas orchestral which NMC could not afford to perform. That concert alsotook two years to come to fruition and again it was thanks to an invitationfrom Montreal, to receive an honourary doctorate from McGillUniversity on October 30. Our concert was on October 24, the weekbefore ... The first rehearsal was again, he claimed, almost perfect. Thistime the concert was recorded by the CBC with the plan to release it asa live recording. Little did we know that there would be a little old ladycoughing in the first row ... and that this would be Witold Lutoslawski’slast conducted concert.Considerable effort went into editing out the wheezing and otherextraneous noises and New Music Concerts released the recording atits own expense in 1994. For this purpose our NMC photographer AndréLeduc took a large number of photographs and in the sport of the occasionWitold was pleased to pose in a number of (very) amusing ways.The last several hundred copies of this original edition were purchasedby the Lutoslawski Society and then, in 2010, it was taken on by Naxoswhich, with the largest distribution in the world, has given it a fargreater exposure. It was reissued again in 2013 as the final disc in theNaxos 10CD Lutoslawski Centennial Collection.Well, the end of his life is well known to all of you. It is a terribledisease but in this case mercifully short. (Morton Feldman and myfather also succumbed to pancreatic cancer and passed away withinthree months of diagnosis.)Lutoslawski was a wonderful man whom we all miss. He left amagnificent legacy of music, fine performances and memories of aperfect gentleman with a sense of humour, profound thought, a monumentalartist full of humility.I am thankful for the wonderful music he wrote but wish he hadcomposed one more piece. I and other flutists continuously asked himto write something for flute. “Well,” he told me “even if you commissionit I, unlike some other composers, always write my pieces in the orderthat they are commissioned. I have accepted more orchestral commissionsthan I can complete in a lifetime. I write very slowly, only onepiece a year. But,” he said, “if I choose to write a piece not commissionedbetween the other works no one can complain. But first I need an idea.”His last two letters to me said (January 17, 1992) “Of course my dream isto bring a flute piece. But it must be born ...” and (March 28, 1992) “Flutepiece? I would love to write it and it is now more probable for me to beable to think about it than ever before. But first I must get some goodideas for it.” Then I spoke to him on the telephone and he said he had anidea for flute and piano and had begun some sketches ...Robert Aitken has been artistic director of New Music Concertssince its founding in 1971.thewholenote.com December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 | 35

The WholeNote listings are arranged in four sections:A.GTA (Greater Toronto Area) covers all of Torontoplus Halton, Peel, York and Durham regions.B.Beyond the GTA covers many areas of SouthernOntario outside Toronto and the GTA. In the current issue,there are listings for events in Alliston, Ancaster, Barrie,Brantford, Cambridge, Cobourg, Collingwood, Dundas, Guelph,Hamilton, Kingston, Kitchener, Lindsay, London, Owen Sound,Peterborough, Picton, Port Colborne, St. Catharines, Vineland,Waterloo. Starts on page 58.C.In the Clubs (Mostly Jazz)is organized alphabetically by club.Starts on page 61.D.The EtCeteras is for galas, fundraisers, competitions,screenings, lectures, symposia, masterclasses, workshops,singalongs and other music-related events (exceptperformances) which may be of interest to our readers.Starts on page 63.A general word of caution. A phone number is providedwith every listing in The WholeNote — in fact, we won’t publisha listing without one. 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Visit our website to see a detailed versionof this map: thewholenote.com.LakeHuron6GeorgianBay75Lake Erie3 42 1City of TorontoLISTINGS8Lake OntarioSunday December 1●●10:30am: Church of the Ascension.Advent Lessons & Carols. Bach: Cantata 140;“Wachet auf”. 33 Overland Dr. 416-444-8881.Free. Religious service.● ● 1:30: Kingston Road United Church.L’Histoire du Soldat. Stravinsky. Membersof the Toronto Symphony Orchestra; PeterDuschenes and Sebastian Sage, actors.975 Kingston Rd. 416-699-6091. $20.● ● 2:00: Flato Markham Theatre. MarkhamConcert Band: A Seasonal Celebration.Christmas and Chanukah classics. Guests:Unionville Theatre Company. 171 Town CentreBlvd., Markham. 905-305-7469 or 1-866-768-8801. $22; $17(sr/st).● ● 2:00: Neighbourhood Unitarian UniversalistCongregation. NUUC Concert Series:Thomas Alexander, piano. Works byLiszt, Rachmaninoff, Chopin and others;improvisations on tunes from the audience.79 Hiawatha Rd. 416-686-6809. $15/$13(adv).● ● 2:00: Ross Petty Productions. The LittleMermaid: Ontario’s O-FISH-AL FamilyMusical! Reid Janisse, script; Chilina Kennedy(Little Mermaid); Dan Chameroy (DamePlumbum/Little Mermaid’s Aunt); MarcDevigne (Handsome Prince); Ross Petty (Ogopogothe Evil Sea Wizard); and others. ElginTheatre, 189 Yonge St. 1-855-599-9090. $27-$85; $59(under12); $235(family 4-pack).Nov 22 to Jan 4; no performance Mondays orDec 25 and Jan 1; start times vary.● ● 2:00: The Sound Post. Fall Salon Concert.Jonathan Crow, violin. 93 Grenville St. 416-971-6990 x244. Free. Limited seating, pleasecall to reserve. Reception to follow.● ● 2:00: Toronto Mandolin Orchestra. InConcert. Fantasy for Flute and Harp; Concertofor Domra and Mandolin Orchestra;classical and popular pieces by the TorontoMandolin Orchestra. Alexander Veprinsky,conductor; Andrew Chan, harp; Ira Erokhina,domra. Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St. W.416-533-2725. $35.● ● 2:30: Bel Canto Choir. The Most WonderfulTime of Year. Watkins: Sweet Harmony(world premiere); and other Christmasmusic. Linda Meyer, conductor; JacquelineMokrzewski, piano. St. Dunstan of Canterbury,56 Lawson Road, Scarborough. 416-286-8260 or 416-284-3975. $15. Also 7:30.● ● 2:30: Lawrence Park Community Church.Christmas at Lawrence Park with MegaCityChorus. Seasonal favourites for men’s chorus.Dan Rutzen, conductor. 2180 Bayview Ave.416-489-1551. $20; Free (children under 12).● ● 2:30: Recitals at Rosedale. A New VocalSeries: Opera Nella Chiesa. Handel: Theodora;Massenet: Manon; Menotti: Amahl andthe Night Visitors. Laura Albino, soprano;Laura Tucker, mezzo; Adam Luther, tenor;Timothy Wong, countertenor; Anthony Clevertonand Jason Howard, baritones; andothers. Rosedale Presbyterian Church,129 Mt. Pleasant Rd. 416-921-1931. $35.● ● 2:30: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. Opera: Don Pasquale. Donizetti.U of T Opera Department; Sandra Horst, conductor;Michael Patrick Albano, director.MacMillan Theatre, Edward Johnson Building,80 Queen’s Park. 416-408-0208. $40;A. Concerts in the GTAIN THIS ISSUE: Ajax, Aurora, Brampton, Brantford, Burlington,Leaskdale, Markham, Mississauga, Oakville, Oshawa, Richmond Hill,Thornhill, Whitby.$25(sr); $10(st). Also Nov 28, 29, 30 (eve).● ● 3:00: Amici Chamber Ensemble. Lara andthe Lyre . Bach: Sonata No. 3 in E, BWV 1016;Takemitsu: And then I knew ‘twas wind; Marquez:Zarabandeo; Turina: Piano Quartet in AMajor, Op. 67; Ravel: Introduction & Allegro.Lara St. John, violin; Heidi Van Hoesen Gorton,harp. Mazzoleni Concert Hall, Royal Conservatory,273 Bloor St. W. 416-408-0208.$45; $40(sr); $15(under 30); $10(st).● ● 3:00: Hart House Singers. PAX. Choralworks on peace by Vivaldi, Mendelssohn, Chilcott,A.R. Rahman and others. Ravi Naimpally,tabla drums; Jeff Vidov, piano; David Arnot-Johnston, conductor. Great Hall, Hart House,7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-2452. Free. Fooddonations to UofT Foodbank welcome.● ● 3:00: Healey Willan Singers. Follow theStar. A Christmas musical journey with musicfor women’s choir. John Stephenson, piano;Ron Ka Ming Cheung, conductor. St. Martinin-the-FieldsAnglican Church, 151 GlenlakeAve. 416-519-0528. $20, $15 (sr/st).● ● 3:00: Musikay. Silent Night. Carols, hymns,and the original versions of Silent Night andJingle Bells. Stéphane Potvin, conductor.Mary Mother of God Church, 2745 NorthRidge Tr., Oakville. 905-825-9740. $35;$30(sr); $15(st); $70(family). Early bird tickets:$30; $25(sr); $15(st); $60(family). In supportof Grace Lutheran Church. Please bringnon-perishable food items.●●3:00: Pax Christi Chorale. A Frosty ChristmasEve. Finzi: In Terra Pax; Willan: The Mysteryof Bethlehem; Stephanie Martin: TheLegend of the Bird. Pax Christi Chorale; ShannonMercer, soprano; Trevor Bowes, baritone;vocal students from Fr. John RedmondSecondary School. Grace Church-on-the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale Rd. 416-491-8542. $35; $30(sr), $25 (st), $6(child).●●3:00: VIVA! Youth Singers of Toronto.Brother Heinrich’s Christmas. A seasonalconcert and CD launch featuring VIVA!’s fivechoirs. Steve Ratzlaff, narrator; Dan Brielmaier,oboe; Jill Solomon, bassoon. Trinity-St.Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St. W. 416-788-8482.$20; $12 (sr/st).● ● 3:00: York University Department ofMusic. York U Wind Symphony. WilliamThomas, conductor. Tribute CommunitiesHall, Accolade East Building, 4700 Keele St.416-736-5888. $15; $5(sr/st).● ● 4:00: St. Olave’s Anglican Church. Clarinetat Christmas. Choral Evensong forAdvent; other light classical works. AndrewBlack, baritone; Shannon Halliwell, mezzo;Helen Russell, clarinet; Karen Quinton, piano;St. Olave’s Choir. 360 Windermere Ave. 416-769-5686. Free, contributions appreciated.Religious service.● ● 4:00: St. Philip’s Anglican Church. JazzVespers. Peter Togni Trio. Guest: Mike Murley,saxophone. St. Philip’s Anglican Church,25 St. Phillips Rd., Etobicoke. 416-247-5181.➘ Search the listingsby genre online atthewholenote.com36 | December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 thewholenote.com

Free will offering.● ● 4:00: Toronto Classical Singers. Highlightsfrom Handel’s Messiah. Heather Kozak,soprano; Leigh-Anne Martin, mezzo; GrahamThomson, tenor; Bruce Kelly, baritone; TaliskerPlayers Orchestra; Jurgen Petrenko,conductor. Christ Church Deer Park,1570 Yonge St. 416-443-1490. $30; $25(sr/st).● ● 5:00: Latvian National Opera Fund. TwentiethAnniversary Concert. Vilma IndraVitols, mezzo-soprano; Armands Silins, baritone;Elizabeth Sirante, piano. Heliconian Hall,35 Hazelton Ave. 416-654-3789. $30.● ● 5:00: Nocturnes in the City. Drew JureckaJazz Quartet. Prague Restaurant , Masaryktown,450 Scarborough Golf Club Rd. 416-481-7294. $25.● ● 7:00: Royal Conservatory/Small WorldMusic. Sultans of String with the CathedralBluffs Symphony Orchestra. Sultansof String release their new CD, Symphony!Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor St. W. 416-408-0208.$25 and up.● ● 7:30: Bel Canto Choir. The Most WonderfulTime of Year. See 2:30.● ● 7:30: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. Percussion Ensemble Concert. WalterHall, Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen’sPark. 416-978-3750. Free.● ● 8:00: Musideum. Martin Porter. Jazz.Suite 133 (main floor), 401 Richmond St. W.416-599-7323. $20.Monday December 2● ● 12:15: Next!/Music Mondays. Luri Lee, violinist.with Jeanie Chung, piano. Church of theHoly Trinity, 10 Trinity Sq. 416-598-4521 x304.PWYC (suggested donation $5).● ● 12:30: York University Departmentof Music. Music at Midday: InstrumentalMasterclass Concert. Tribute CommunitiesHall, Accolade East Building, 4700 Keele St.416-736-2100 x22926. Free.● ● 7:00: Musideum. Bill Bridges & Lew Mele(with Kelli Trottier). Celtic. Suite 133 (mainfloor), 401 Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323.$20.● ● 7:30: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. Brass Chamber Ensemble Concert.Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building,80 Queen’s Park. 416-978-3750. Free.● ● 7:30: VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert. Concertand Fundraiser for Ariaworks. First liveperformance of the new Canadian opera “Isisand Osiris” and jazz performance. Love Scenefrom the opera. Peter–Anthony Togni, composer.Sharon Singer, librettist. Jazz performancesby the Togni Trio. Andrea Ludwig,mezzo soprano; Togni Trio: Peter-AnthonyTogni, piano; Malcolm Gould, drums; GeorgeKoller, bass. Heliconian Hall, 35 HazeltonAve. 416.461.0750. $35(advance); $40(door).Refreshments included in ticket price. Cashbar.● ● 7:30: York University Department ofMusic. York U Concert Choir. Rossini: PetiteMesse solennelle. Lisette Canton, conductor.Tribute Communities Hall, Accolade EastBuilding, 4700 Keele St. 416-736-5888. $15;$5(st).Tuesday December 3● ● 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.Power Chords: Inventions for ChamberOrchestra. New work by Scott Good, trombone(world premiere). Glenn Gould SchoolNew Music Ensemble; Brian Current, conductor.Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre,Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts,145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. Free.● ● 12:10: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. Voice Performance Class. Walter Hall,Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen’s Park.416-978-3750. Free.● ● 1:00: Cathedral Church of St. James.Weekly Organ Recital: Andrew Ager.65 Church St. 416-364-7865 x224. Free.● ● 7:00: Downtown Vocal Music Academy ofToronto. The Four Elements: Earth, Air, Fireand Water in Song. A wide range of choralmusic. Students of the Downtown VocalMusic Academy of Toronto; Ori Carmona,Sarah Parker, Abby Pierce, Meghan Stock,conductors. Ryerson Community SchoolAuditorium, 96 Denison Ave. 416-393-1340.Free; donations accepted.● ● 7:00: Ross Petty Productions. The LittleMermaid: Ontario’s O-FISH-AL FamilyMusical! See Dec 1.● ● 7:30: Cathedral Church of St. James. Handel’sMessiah. Vicki St. Pierre, conductor;Cathedral Choir; Lesley Bouza, soprano;Christina Stelmacovich, mezzo; Aaron Ferguson,tenor; and James Westman, baritone;Talisker Players. 65 Church St. 416-364-7865x245. $35-$40.● ● 7:30: University of St Michael’s College.Musicians In Ordinary: Concert forAdvent. Vivaldi: Magnificat; Telemann: Cantata“Meine Seele erhebt den Herren”; andother baroque works. Christopher Verrette,violin; Hallie Fishel, soprano; choir and soloistsof St. Michael’s Schola Cantorum; Dr.Michael O’Connor, director. St. Basil’s Church,50 St. Joseph St. 416-926-7131. Free; donationswelcome.● ● 7:30: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. Guitar Ensemble Concert. JeffreyMcFadden, director. Walter Hall, EdwardJohnson Building, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-978-3750. Free.● ● 8:00: Lula Lounge. Canadian DayRevisited. Featuring artists from2013 Canadian Day concert in Rome. Papineau-Couture:Aria; Poulenc: Intermezzo in Aflat; Eatock: Ashes of Soldiers; Schubert: TheShepherd on the Rock; and other works; jazzand world music by Dominic Mancuso Group.Jana Miller, soprano; Kornel Wolak, clarinet;Guillaume Tardif, violin; Younggun Kim, piano;Dominic Mancuso Group. 1585 Dundas St. W.416-588-0307. By donation; dinner by reservation.Proceeds to benefit the InternationalResource Centre for Performing Artists.● ● 8:00: Musideum. Monique Barry.Singer-songwriter. Suite 133 (main floor),401 Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323. $15;$10(st).● ● 8:00: Starvox Entertainment. Evil Dead–The Musical. Book and lyrics by Reinblatt.Music by Cipolla and Bond. Ryan Ward, KentonBlythe, Evan Dowling, Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll,Brianna Love, and others. RandolphTheatre, 736 Bathurst St. 1-855-985-5000.$19.99–$79.99. Also Dec 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12,13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22.● ● 8:00: The Nathaniel Dett Chorale. AnIndigo Christmas. Songs to the Black Virgin.St. Timothy’s Anglican Church, 100 OldOrchard Grove Rd. 416-340-0550. $35,$30(sr), $20 (st).Wednesday December 4● ● 11:30am: Ross Petty Productions. The LittleMermaid: Ontario’s O-FISH-AL FamilyMusical! See Dec 1.●●12:00 noon: Hart House. Midday Mosaics:Ali Berkok, Piano. Hart House, East CommonRoom, 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-7585.Free. Complimentary light refreshments.● ● 12:30: York University Department ofMusic. York University Men’s Choir. Worksby Mendelssohn, Poulenc, Schubert, Sullivanand others. Lisette Canton, conductor. TributeCommunities Hall, Accolade East Building,4700 Keele St. 416-736-2100 x22926. Free.● ● 12:30: Yorkminster Park Baptist Church.Noonday Organ Recitals: Giles Bryant, organ.1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167. Free.● ● 5:30: Canadian Opera Company. Jazz Series:Rewind. Selections. Elizabeth Shepherd,vocals/piano; Scott Kemp, bass; Colin Kingsmore,drums. Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre,Four Seasons Centre for the PerformingArts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. Free.● ● 7:00: Arts and Events Programming atthe University of Toronto Scarborough.Materials of Music Recital. Arts and AdministrationBuilding, University of Scarborough,1265 Military Trail, Scarborough.416-208-2931. Free.● ● 7:30: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. Vocal Jazz Ensemble and 11 O’ClockJazz Orchestra. Jim Lewis and Christine Duncan,directors. Walter Hall, Edward JohnsonBuilding, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-408-0208.Free.NEW MUSICPASSPORTTTORONTO NEW MUSIC ALLIANCEORONTO NEW MUSIC ALLIANCETORONTONEW MUSICPurchase a passportfor $35 and seeSinging the Earthon Dec 5 for only $5!ALLIANCEnewmusicpassport.ca● ● 8:00: Continuum Contemporary Music.Nuyamł-ił Kulhulmx/Singing the Earth. Aninterdisciplinary work that explores the interconnectednessof the people of Bella Coola.Music by Anna Höstman. Continuum ensemble;Marion Newman, mezzo; Wallace Halladay,saxophone; Joseph Macerollo, accordion;Kristen Bruya, bass; Gregory Oh, conductor.Wychwood Theatre, 76 Wychwood Ave.416-924-4945. $30; $20(sr/arts workers);$10(st). Also Dec 5.● ● 8:00: Musideum. Mike Gennaro. Experimental.Suite 133 (main floor), 401 RichmondSt. W. 416-599-7323. $10.● ● 8:00: Starvox Entertainment. Evil Dead–The Musical. See Dec 3● ● 8:00: Torontovka. Outstanding Musiciansof Contemporary Musical Culture. Dimov:Tango Forever; A. Shor: Schubertango; LastGloomy Sunday; N. Rota: Trio; Piazzolla: Seasonsof Buenos Aires; Oblivion; Soledad. JulianMilkis, clarinet; Roman Mekinulov, cello;Ellen Annor-Adjei, piano. Christ Church DeerPark, 1570 Yonge St. 416-721-4662 or 416-226-9151. $30-$50.● ● 8:00: ToyBox Productions. How I Lost OnePound, the Musical. Musical comedy writtenand performed by Lesley Carlberg. ElennaMosoff, director; Tony Smith and Stephen Targett,composition; Janet d’Eon Ebos, musicalconsultant; Sarina Condello, choreography.Tarragon Theatre Extra Space, 30 BridgmanAve. 416-531-1827 . $30; $25(sr); $20(st). AlsoDec 5, 6, 7(mat and eve), 8(mat and eve).● ● 9:00 and 10:15: Mezzetta Restaurant. Jazzat Mezzetta. Rebecca Enkin, vocals; Rob Thaller,piano; Mark Enkin, electric bass. 681 St.Clair Ave. W. 416-658-5687. $10. Also at 10:15.Thursday December 5● ● 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.Chamber Music Series: French Impressions,piano quartet. Debussy: Violin Sonatain g; Fauré: Piano Quartet in c. Made in Canada.Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, FourSeasons Centre for the Performing Arts,thewholenote.com December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 | 37

145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. Free.● ● 12:00 noon: Encore Symphonic ConcertBand. Lunchtime Concert. Selectionof concert band music including classical,musicals and other genres, usually with onevocal selection. John Edward Liddle, conductor.Encore Hall, Wilmar Heights Centre,963 Pharmacy Ave., Scarborough. 416-346-3910. $10. Lunch friendly.● ● 12:00 noon: Jubilee United Church. Musicat Midday: A French Baroque Christmas.Arthur Wenk, organ. 40 Underhill Dr. 416-447-6846. Free.● ● 12:10: Nine Sparrows Arts Foundation/Christ Church of Deer Park. LunchtimeChamber Music: University of Toronto DoubleReed Band. Nadina Mackie Jackson, conductor.Christ Church Deer Park, 1570 YongeSt. 416-241-1298. Free. Donations welcome.● ● 12:15: Music at Metropolitan. Noon at Met.Arnold Tirzits and Matthew Coons, piano.Metropolitan United Church, 56 Queen St. E.416-363-0331 x26. Free.● ● 12:30: York University Department ofMusic. Music@Midday: Classical Piano Showcase.Tribute Communities Hall, AccoladeEast Building, 4700 Keele St. 416-736-2100x22926. Free.● ● 2:00: Orchardviewers. Journey into aMedieval Christmas. Piae Cantiones; worksby Hildegard von Bingen; Las Huelgas; LlibreVermell. Vocem Resurgentis (Linda Falvy andMary Enid Haines, soprano; Catherine McCormack,alto). Toronto Public Library, NorthernDistrict, 40 Orchard View Blvd. 416-393-7610.Free. Room 224.● ● 7:00: Ross Petty Productions. The LittleMermaid: Ontario’s O-FISH-AL FamilyMusical! See Dec 1.● ● 7:30: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. World Music Ensembles Concert.Gamelan Ensemble; Annette Sanger, director;Klezmer Enesemble; Brian Katz, director;Japanese Taiko Ensemble; Kiyoshi Nagata,A. Concerts in the GTAdirector. Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building,80 Queen’s Park. 416-408-0208. Free.● ● 7:30: York University Department ofMusic. York U Symphony Orchestra. Worksby Delius, Elgar, Holst and Mendelssohn. MarkChambers, conductor. Tribute CommunitiesHall, Accolade East Building, 4700 Keele St.416-736-5888. $15; $5(sr/st).● ● 8:00: Array Ensemble. Array Session #20.Branko Dzinovic, accordion; Dimitar Pentchev,piano; Rick Sacks, percussion. ArrayMusic Space, 155 Walnut Avenue. 416-532-3019. Free/PWYC.● ● 8:00: Continuum Contemporary Music.Nuyamł-ił Kulhulmx/Singing the Earth. Aninterdisciplinary work that explores the interconnectednessof the people of Bella Coola.Music by Anna Höstman. Continuum ensemble;Marion Newman, mezzo; Wallace Halladay,saxophone; Joseph Macerollo, accordion;Kristen Bruya, bass; Gregory Oh, conductor.Wychwood Theatre, 76 Wychwood Ave.416-924-4945. $30; $20(sr/arts workers);$10(st). Also Dec 4.● ● 8:00: Flato Markham Theatre. Cool Yule -The Manhattan Transfer Swings Christmas.171 Town Centre Blvd., Markham. 905-305-7469 or 1-866-768-8801. $79-$84.● ● 8:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. LittleShop of Horrors. Book and lyrics by Ashman.Music by Menken. Seanna Kennedy, director.100A Ossington Ave. 416-915-6747. $59. AlsoDec 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, Jan 3, 4, 5, 9, 10,11, 12; start times vary.MOZART’SPIANODEC 5–8TRINITY-ST. PAUL’S CENTRE,JEANNE LAMON HALLtafelmusik.orgBaroque OrchestraJeanne Lamon, Music Director$37-$87; $29-$78(sr); $15-$78(35 and under).Also Dec 6, 7, and 8(mat).● ● 8:00: ToyBox Productions. How I Lost OnePound, the Musical. See Dec 4; Also Dec 6,7(mat and eve), 8(mat and eve).Friday December 6● ● 1:10: Gordon Murray Presents. Piano Potpourri.Featuring classics, opera, operetta,musicals, ragtime, pop, international andChristmas music. Gordon Murray, piano. Trinity-St.Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St. W. 416-631-4300. Pwyc. Lunch and snack friendly.● ● 7:00: Ross Petty Productions. TheLittle Mermaid: Ontario’s O-FISH-AL FamilyMusical! See Dec 1.● ● 7:00: Starvox Entertainment. Evil Dead–The Musical. See Dec 3● ● 7:30: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.Masterworks: All Tchaikovsky. Suite fromThe Sleeping Beauty, variations on a RococoTheme, Symphony No.5. Marcelo Lehninger,conductor; Narek Hakhnazaryan, cello. RoyThomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-593-4828.$33-$145. Pre-concert talk at 6:45pm.● ● 7:30: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. Wind Symphony Concert. Bernstein:Slava; Bohme: Concerto for Trumpet;Revueltas: Sensemayá; Mahr: Imagine, If YouWill; Lo Presti: Elegy for a Young American;Vaughan Williams: Variations for Wind Band.Lisa Hartl, trumpet; Jeffrey Reynolds, conductor.MacMillan Theatre, Edward JohnsonBuilding, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-408-0208.$30; $20(sr); $10(st).● ● 8:00: Array Ensemble. James Tenney -The Signal Itself. A celebration of the workof Jim Tenney. Tenney: Prelude and Toccata -piano solo; Spectrum 1 - written for the ArrayEnsemble; Three New Seeds - written for theArray Ensemble; Swell Piece No.2 - A TenneyPostcard Piece; Ergodos I - percussionduo with tape; Maxi Music A Tenney PostcardPiece for percussion solo; Harmonium No.1.Array Space, 155 Walnut Ave. 416-532-3019.$20. 7:15: preconcert talk.● ● 8:00: Church of St. Mary Magdalene.Le monde dans l’attente du Sauveur, Dupré.Andrew Adair, organ. 477 Manning Ave. 416-531-7955. Free.● ● 8:00: Elmer Iseler Singers. Handel’sMessiah. Lydia Adams, conductor; AllisonAhrends, soprano; Laura Pudwell, mezzo;● ● 8:00: Music Toronto. Gryphon Trio.Beethoven: Trio in D Op.70 No.1, “Ghost”;Schafer: 20th anniversary commission forGryphon Trio (World premiere); Mendelssohn:Trio No.2 in c Op.66; works from thestudent composers’ programme at Earl HaigCollegiate. Jane Mallett Theatre, St. LawrenceCentre for the Arts, 27 Front St. E. 416-366-7723 or 1-800-708-6754. $55/$22.50(withaccompanying student); $50(sr);$10(st); PayYour Age(18–25).● ● 8:00: Starvox Entertainment. Evil Dead–The Musical. See Dec 3● ● 8:00: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra.Mozart’s Piano. Mozart: Piano ConcertosK413 and K271, “Jenamy”; and other works.Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano. Trinity-St.Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St. W. 416-964-6337.38 | December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 thewholenote.com

Isaiah Bell, tenor; Doug MacNaughton, bass;Patricia Wright, organ; guests: AmadeusChoir. Metropolitan United Church, 56 QueenSt. E. 416-217-0537. $55; $50(sr); $15(st).● ● 8:00: Exultate Chamber Singers. A CanadianNoël. Henderson: Magnificat; Song ofMary; works by Willan, Daley, Sirett, Patriquinand others. Eunseong Cho, organ; HilaryApfelstadt, conductor. St. Thomas’s AnglicanChurch, 383 Huron St. 416-917-5987. $25;$20(sr); $10(st).● ● 8:00: La Mode. La Mode 2. Music fromBaroque France. Guillemain, Rameau, andTelemann. Kathleen Kajioka, baroque violin;Alison Melville, baroque flute; JustinHaynes, viola da gamba; Christopher Bagan,harpsichord. Bloor Street United Church,300 Bloor St. W. 416-835-9969. $20; $15(sr/st); $10(children).● ● 8:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. LittleShop of Horrors. See Dec 5.● ● 8:00: Musideum. Coleman Tinsley. ABirthday Tribute to Dave Brubeck. Suite 133(main floor), 401 Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323. $20.● ● 8:00: Rant Maggie Rant. Annual Frost &Fire: A Celtic Christmas Celebration Tour.Celtic world beat. Sanderson Hall, St. Paul’sUnited Church, 30 Main St. S, Brampton.905-451-1405. $20/$15(adv).● ● 8:00: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra.Mozart’s Piano. See Dec 5; Also Dec 7 and8(mat).● ● 8:00: ToyBox Productions. How I Lost OnePound, the Musical. See Dec 4; Also Dec 7(matand eve), 8(mat and eve).● ● 8:00: Upper Canada Choristers/CantemosLatin Ensemble. Laudamus Te.Vivaldi: Gloria; works by Praetorius andHandel; Fernandes: Xicochi; and other villancicosde navidad. Laurie Evan Fraser,conductor; Blair Salter, piano. Guest: ChristopherDawes, organ. Grace Church-onthe-Hill,300 Lonsdale Rd. . $25/$20(adv);free(children and high school students).● ● 8:00: Windmill Theatre. All is Calm–All isBright. The First Noël (arr. Forrest); CoventryCarol (arr. Rouse); Rutter: Christmas Lullaby;and other works. Windmill Chorus and StringQuartet; Victor Chen, violin; Joshua Tamayo,conductor. Great Hall, Unitarian Congregationof Mississauga, 84 South Service Rd.,Mississauga. 905-483-5702. $30. Also Dec 7.● ● 10:30: Starvox Entertainment. Evil Dead–The Musical. See Dec 3Saturday December 7● ● 12:00 noon: University Settlement Musicand Arts School. End of Term Student Concert.St. George the Martyr Church, 197 JohnSt. 416-598-3444 x243. Free. Also 2:00● ● 2:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. LittleShop of Horrors. See Dec 5.● ● 2:00: Mississauga Festival Choir. Gloria!Rutter: Gloria; other seasonal works. RBCTheatre, Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living ArtsDr., Mississauga. 905-306-6000. $30;$28(sr/st); $25(child). Also 8:00.● ● 2:00: Paskke String Quartet. ClassicalChamber Works for Oboe, Bassoon andString Quartet. Works by Mozart, Reicha,Seyfert, Schubert and others. Guests: HazelBoyle, oboe; Rachel Stewart, bassoon. AuroraCultural Centre, 22 Church St., Aurora. 416-720-9041. $15; $10(sr/st); free(under 5). AlsoNov 9 (College Street United Church, eve).BACH CHILDREN’S CHORUSBACH CHAMBER YOUTH CHOIRLinda Beaupré, ConductorEleanor Daley, Pianist● ● 2:00: Ross Petty Productions. The LittleMermaid: Ontario’s O-FISH-AL FamilyMusical! See Dec 1.● ● 2:00: University Settlement Music andArts School. End of Term Student Concert.St. George the Martyr Church, 197 John St.416-598-3444 x243. Free.• THE 5TH ANNUAL •CityCarol SingIn collaboration withCitytv In support ofFood Banks across CanadaSATURDAY, DEC. 7TH2:00 PMYORKMINSTER PARK BAPTIST CHURCHWITH SPECIAL GUESTSCYNTHIA DALER.H. THOMPSONGORD MARTINEAUand The True North BrassFREE ADMISSION● ● 2:00: Yorkminster Park Baptist Church.The 5th Annual City Carol Sing. Larkin Singers;Viva Youth Singers; Yorkminster ParkChoir; Christ Church Deer Park Choir.1585 Yonge St. (416) 922-1167. Free. A collectionwill be taken for the Churches-on-the-Hill Food Bank.● ● 2:30: ToyBox Productions. How I LostOne Pound, the Musical. See Dec 4; Also Dec7(eve), 8(mat and eve).● ● 3:00: Flato Markham Theatre/OnstageProductions. Sounds of Christmas. Musicalcelebration of the Christmas season. FlatoMarkham Theatre, 171 Town Centre Blvd.,Markham. 905-305-7469 or 1-866-768-8801.$28; $25(sr/st). Also Dec 7(eve), 8(mat).● ● 4:00: Timothy Eaton Memorial Church.Christmas Spectacular. Timothy EatonMemorial Church Choir; Salvation Army’sNorth York Temple Band. 230 St. Clair Ave. W.416-925-5977. $45(family); $15.● ● 6:30: NARIA. Christmas with NARIA.Traditional Christmas and popular classicalmusic, sing along carols. Lanor Choristers;Oleksandra Fedyshyn, violin; Sunny Kim,piano; vocalists: Katya Tchoubar, Anna Bateman,Michelle Danese and Annaliese Jelilian.Armour Heights Presbyterian Church,105 Wilson Ave. 416-727-2143. $25. Doorsopen at 6. Also Dec 21 (St. James CatholicChurch).● ● 7:00: Cummer Avenue United Church. InThe Christmas Spirit. Christmas stories andmusic. Cummer Avenue Choirs, East YorkConcert Band and others. 53 Cummer Ave.416-222-5417. $10.● ● 7:00: Oakville Children’s Choir. Celebratethe Season! Jennifer Ann Sullivan, soprano;Oakville Children’s Choirs. St. John’s UnitedChurch (Oakville), 262 Randall St, Oakville.905-337-7104. $25; $15(sr/ch).● ● 7:00: Ross Petty Productions. The LittleMermaid: Ontario’s O-FISH-AL FamilyMusical! See Dec 1.● ● 7:00: Royal Conservatory. CelebratingFrank Sinatra and Paolo Conte with John Pizzarelliand Daniela Nardi. John Pizzarelli andDaniela Nardi, vocals. Koerner Hall, 273 BloorSt. W. 416-408-0208. $45 and up.● ● 7:00: Starvox Entertainment. Evil Dead–The Musical. See Dec 3● ● 7:30: Bach Children’s Chorus/Bach ChamberYouth Choir. This Frosty Tide. LindaBeaupré, conductor; Eleanor Daley, pianist.Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge St.1-855-985-2787. $30-$35.● ● 7:30: Cantores Celestes Women’s Choir.Vivaldi’s Gloria. Celebrating 25 years! Vivaldi:Gloria; other seasonal favourites. KellyGalbraith, director; Ellen Meyer, piano; PaulOtway, trumpet; Matthew Coons, organ; TheEmperor String Quartet. Runnymede UnitedChurch, 432 Runnymede Rd. 416-236-1522.$20. General Admission. No reserved seating.Saturday,December 7, 2013 at 7:30pmToronto Centre for the Arts 5040 Yonge St. (north of Sheppard)Tickets: $30 and $35 at the Toronto Centre box officeor TicketMaster at 1-855-985-2787bachchildrenschorus.caPhoto by Flickr user Jeremy Wheaton. Used under Creative Commons licence.ChristmaswithNARIADec 7, Armour HeightsPresbyterian ChurchDec 21, St. JamesCatholic Churchwww.nariagroup.com● ● 7:30: Etobicoke Centennial Choir. SacredTraditions 2013. Bach: Cantata BWV140“Sleepers Awake”; Glick: Kedusha; and otherworks. Natalie Donnelly, soprano; JustinWelsh, baritone; Henry Renglich, conductor;Carl Steinhauser, piano. Humber ValleyUnited Church, 76 Anglesey Blvd., Etobicoke.416-769-9271 or 416-622-6923. $20.● ● 7:30: Etobicoke Youth Choir. AdesteFideles. Marg Parsons, piano; Louise Jardine,conductor. Assembly Hall, 1 Colonel SamuelSmith Park Dr., Etobicoke. 416-231-9120. $20;thewholenote.com December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 | 39

free(under 12). Includes refreshements.● ● 7:30: Royal Conservatory. AcademyChamber Orchestra. String students fromthe Phil and Eli Taylor Performance Academyfor Young Artists. Mazzoleni Concert Hall,Royal Conservatory, 273 Bloor St. W. 416-408-0208. Free; ticket required.● ● 7:30: St. Michael’s Choir School. Christmasat Massey Hall. Charissa Bagan, JerzyCichocki and Teri Dunn, conductors; WilliamO’ Meara, accompanist; St. Michael’s Choir.Massey Hall, 178 Victoria St. 416-872-4255.$20-$40. Also Dec 8, 3:00pm.● ● 7:30: Toronto All-Star Big Band. ASwingin’ Christmas. A holiday revue fashionedin the tradition of a classic “ChristmasShow” of yesteryear. Heart Lake UnitedChurch, 85 Sandalwood Pkwy E, Brampton.905-846-7314. $25.● ● 7:30: Toronto Northern Lights Chorus.Gold Trimmed Christmas. Christmas musicin pop, Broadway, vocal jazz and Doo-Wopstyles. Guests: Brassroots Ensemble. MetropolitanUnited Church, 56 Queen St. E. 1-866-744-SING. $26; $16(st); free(under 3).● ● 7:30: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. Wind Ensemble Concert. Adams:Short Ride on a Fast Machine; Benson: TheA. Concerts in the GTALeaves are Falling; Good: Sun-Moon TromboneConcerto (premiere); Maslanka: SymphonyNo.4. Dale Sorensen, trombone.MacMillan Theatre, Edward Johnson Building,80 Queen’s Park. 416-408-0208. $30;$20(sr); $10(st).● ● 7:30: VOCA Chorus of Toronto. Songs ofJoy & Peace. Bach: Magnificat; also medieval,jazz, contemporary and gospel selections.Jennie Such and Claire de Sévigné, sopranos;Marion Newman, mezzo; Andrew Haji, tenor;Alexander Dobson, baritone; Talisker PlayersOrchestra; Jenny Crober, conductor; ElizabethAcker, accompanist. Eastminster UnitedChurch, 310 Danforth Ave. 416-947-8487. $25;$20(sr); $10(st).● ● 8:00: Flato Markham Theatre/OnstageProductions. Sounds of Christmas. See 3:00;Also Dec 8(mat).● ● 8:00: Greater Toronto PhilharmonicOrchestra. Joy to the World. 3 ChristmasCarols (arr. Cozens); Joy to the World; TheHuron Carol; God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen;Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite; and otherworks. TrypTych Ensemble; U of T ScarboroughChoir; Caroline Dery, soprano; AlexanderAsher, mezzo; Jennifer Routhier, alto; andothers; Lenard Whiting, conductor. CalvinPresbyterian Church, 26 Delisle Ave. 647-478-6122. $20-$25.● ● 8:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. LittleShop of Horrors. See Dec 5.● ● 8:00: Mississauga Festival Choir. Gloria!Rutter: Gloria; other seasonal works. RBCTheatre, Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living ArtsDr., Mississauga. 905-306-6000. $30;$28(sr/st); $25(child). Also 2:00.● ● 8:00: Ontario Philharmonic. NessunDorma. Great songs of Italy. Puccini: NessunDorma; Verdi: La Forza del Destino Overture;Ponchielli: Dance of the Hours; Capua: Osole mio; Rossini: La Danza; and other works.Richard Margison, tenor; Marco Parisotto,conductor. Regent Theatre (Oshawa), 50 KingSt., Oshawa. 905-579-6711. $40-$60. AlsoDec 10(Toronto).● ● 8:00: Raging Asian Women TaikoDrummers. From Rage Comes. JapaneseTaiko Drumming. Betty Oliphant Theatre,404 Jarvis St. 416-671-7256. $25; $15(sr/st/under-waged). Also Dec 8(mat).● ● 8:00: Sinfonia Toronto. French Bon Bons.Ravel: Tzigane, for violin and string orchestra;Saint-Saëns: Introduction and Rondo Capricciosoin a Op.28; Hyman: Ragtime Concerto,for clarinet, strings and percussion (NorthAmerican premiere); Debussy: String Quartet(arr. Nurhan Arman). Nune Melikian, violin;Julian Milkis, clarinet; Nurhan Arman, conductor.Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St. W.1-866-943-8849. $39; $32(sr); $12(st).● ● 8:00: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra.Mozart’s Piano. Mozart: Piano ConcertosK413 and K271, “Jenamy”; and other works.Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano. Trinity-St.Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St. W. 416-964-6337.$37-$87; $29-$78(sr); $15-$78(35 and under).See Dec 5; Also Dec 8(mat).● ● 8:00: ToyBox Productions. How I LostOne Pound, the Musical. See Dec 4; AlsoDec 8(mat and eve).● ● 8:00: Voices Chamber Choir. The GreatMystery. Victoria: Settings of O Magnum Mysterium;Buxtehude: Magnificat; Works by Palestrina,Lauridsen, Gjeilo and others. JohnStephenson, piano; Ron Ka Ming Cheung,conductor. St. Martin-in-the-Fields AnglicanChurch, 151 Glenlake Ave. 416-519-0528. $20,$15 (sr/st).●●8:00: Vocem Resurgentis. Journey intoa Medieval Christmas. Piae Cantiones, LasHuelgas, music of von Bingen and more. LindaFalvy, soprano; Mary Enid Haines, soprano;Catherine McCormack, alto. Church of St. ornoCRisMSradiinST. MICHAEL’S CHOIR SCHOOLAT MASSEY HALLwww.christmasconcert.caMASSEY HALL 416.872.4255Saturday, December 7 at 7:30 p.m.Sunday, December 8 at 3:00 p.m–– Tickets $ 20 to $ 40 ––Conductors: Charissa Bagan, Jerzy Cichocki and Teri DunnAccompanist: William O’ Meara40 | December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 thewholenote.com

Mary Magdalene, 477 Manning Ave. 416-890-1710. By donation.● ● 8:00: Windmill Theatre. All is Calm–All isBright. The First Noël (arr. Forrest); CoventryCarol (arr. Rouse); Rutter: Christmas Lullaby;and other works. Windmill Chorus and StringQuartet; Victor Chen, violin; Joshua Tamayo,conductor. Great Hall, Unitarian Congregationof Mississauga, 84 South Service Rd.,Mississauga. 905-483-5702. $30. Also Dec 6.● ● 9:00: Batuki Music Society. Songs of MyMother: A Celebration of African Women.Tapa Diarra, Blandine Mbiya, Ruth Mathiang,Evelyn Mukwedeya, Memory Makuriand others. Ada Slaight Hall, DanielsSpectrum, 585 Dundas St. E. 416-948-4132.$20/$15(adv). 8:00: doors open.● ● 10:30: Starvox Entertainment. Evil Dead–The Musical. See Dec 3Sunday December 8● ● 10:30am: Church of the Ascension.Ascension’s Christmas Pageant. Retelling ofthe Nativity and celebration of the Eucharist.33 Overland Dr. 416-444-8881. Free. Religiousservice; followed by potluck lunch.● ● 1:30: Music at Metropolitan. CarolsUnited. Sing-along carols. Metropolitan SilverBand; Patricia Wright, organ. MetropolitanUnited Church, 56 Queen St. E. 416-363-0331ext.26. Freewill offering.● ● 2:00: NYCO Symphony Orchestra. Carnivalof the Dinosaurs. Tchaikovsky: Marchfrom The Nutcracker; Haydn: Cello ConcertoNo.1 (1st mvt); Dean Burry: Carnival of theDinosaurs (narrated by the composer). MatthewChristakos, cello. St. Michael’s CollegeSchool, 1515 Bathurst St. 416-628-9195. $30;$25(sr); $10(st).● ● 2:00: Pickering Community ConcertBand. Christmas Concert. Theme music fromHarry Potter films performed with synchronizedvideo; carols and sing-along. PickeringHigh School Jazz Band; David Kosurko, conductor.Forest Brook Community Church,60 Kearney Dr., Ajax. 905-427-5443. $15.00;$10.00(sr/youth).● ● 2:00: Raging Asian Women Taiko Drummers.From Rage Comes. See Dec 7(eve).● ● 2:00: Ross Petty Productions. The LittleMermaid: Ontario’s O-FISH-AL FamilyMusical! See Dec 1.● ● 2:00: St. Anne’s Anglican Church. Cantate:A Neighbourhood Christmas Concert.Selections from Handel’s Messiah and otherfestive favourites. St. Anne’s Choir; JunctionTrio & friends; Matthew Otto, conductor.270 Gladstone Ave. 416-536-3160. $10. Concertproceeds will support the CommunityPolice Liason Committee of Toronto PoliceDivision 14.● ● 2:30: Flato Markham Theatre/OnstageProductions. Sounds of Christmas. See Dec 7.● ● 2:30: ToyBox Productions. How I LostOne Pound, the Musical. See Dec 4; AlsoDec 8(eve).● ● 2:30: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. Choirs in Concert: Wolcum, Yole!Britten: Ceremony of Carols; Henderson:new work; and other seasonal works. Facultyof Music choral ensembles (Men’sChorus, Women’s Chorus, Women’s ChamberChoir and MacMillan Singers); YoungVoices Toronto, Zimfira Poloz, conductor.MacMillan Theatre, Edward Johnson Building,80 Queen’s Park. 416-408-0208. $30;$20(sr); $10(st).● ● 3:00: Durham Philharmonic Choir. SingNowell. Works by Bach, Handel and Vivaldi.Guest: Allyson McHardy, mezzo; RobertPhillips, conductor. College Park Church,1164 King St. E., Oshawa. 905-728-1739. $30;$15(st); $5(child).● ● 3:00: Harmony Singers. ChristmasDreams. Holiday songs by Liona Boyd, DonMcLean, José Feliciano and others. Guest:Julia Vescio, scholarship winner; Harvey Patterson,conductor; Bruce Harvey, piano. HumberValley United Church, 76 Anglesey Blvd.,Etobicoke. 416-239-5821. $20; $15(sr/st).● ● 3:00: Humbercrest United Church. MySpirit Rejoices. Saint-Saëns: The ChristmasOratorio. Humbercrest Chancel Choir; WindermereString Quartet; David Miller andCheri DiNovo, narrators. 16 Baby Point Road.416-767-6122. $20. Proceeds to The Red DoorFamily Shelter.● ● 3:00: Orchestra Toronto. Holiday Jewels.Mangiardi: Songs of the Rainforest(world premiere); Tchaikovsky: The NutcrackerSuite; Anderson: Christmas Festival;Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves;Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1. KevinMallon, conductor. Guest: Sijing Ye, piano.George Weston Recital Hall, Toronto Centrefor the Arts, 5040 Yonge St. 416-467-7142or 1-855-985-2787. $43; $37(sr); $19(OTopus16-29); $15(child). 2:15: pre-concert chat.● ● 3:00: Rezonance Baroque Ensemble.Allemanda: A German Baroque Pub Afternoon!Works by Telemann, Bach, Erlebach.Rezan Onen-Lapointe, baroque violin; DavidPodgorski, harpsichord; Justin Haynes,viola da gamba. Tranzac Club Main Hall,292 Brunswick Ave. 647-779-5696. PWYC($20 suggeted).● ● 3:00: Riverdale Share Community Association.The 21st Annual Riverdale Share Concert.Tim Bovaconti, Lorraine Segato, SuzieWilde, Teresa Tova, David Gale, Sharon andLois, the Frankland School Choir and EastviewDancers, Abdominal and the Obliques, andSanta. Danforth Music Hall, 147 Danforth Ave.416-465-1944. $20 plus a non-perishable fooddonation. Proceeds benefit families in needand other community charities.● ● 3:00: Royal Conservatory. Kirill Gerstein.Works for piano by Haydn, Mussorgsky, Ligetiand Gershwin. Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor St. W.416-408-0208. $35 and up.● ● 3:00: St. Michael’s Choir School. Chistmasat Massey Hall. Charissa Bagan, JerzyCichocki and Teri Dunn, conductors; WilliamMy SpiritRejoicesSaint-SaensThe Christmas OratorioHumbercrest Chancel ChoirWindermere String Quartetharp and organNarratorsDavid Miller, former Mayor ofToronto, and Cheri DiNovo, MPP,Sun Dec 8, 3pmHumbercrest United Church,TorontoTickets $20, with proceeds toThe Red Door Family ShelterH oliday JewelsSunday, December 8, 2013 | 3 p.m.Call the box office at 416-733-0545to subscribe to our60th AnniversaryDiamond Season ConcertsDebuting Music Director Kevin MallonGeorge Weston Recital Hall | 5040 Yonge Street, TorontoTicketmaster: 1-855-985-2787 | ticketmaster.caTicket Pricing: AD – $43, SR – $37www.orchestratoronto.cathewholenote.com December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 | 41

O’ Meara, Accompanist; St. Michael’s Choir.Massey Hall, 178 Victoria St. 416 872 4255.$20-$40.● ● 3:00: Starvox Entertainment. Evil Dead–The Musical. See Dec 3● ● 3:00: Symphony on the Bay. Opera in Concert.Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel (inEnglish). Burlington Performing Arts Centre,440 Locust St., Burlington. 905-681-6000.$18-$31.● ● 3:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.Young People’s Concerts: A Christmas Carol.Children’s choir and dancers. Vivaldi/Traditional:A Winter Miracle (Winter/HanukkahO Hanukkah); Prokofiev: “Troika” fromSuite from Poruchnik Kizhe [Lieutenant Kijé];Anderson: Sleigh Ride; Silvestri: Suite fromThe Polar Express; Bizet: Farandole fromL’Arlésienne Suite No.2; Runyan: A ChristmasCarol; Various: Christmas Singalong.John Morris Russell, conductor; CanadianChildren’s Opera Company; Scott Coopwood,narrator; Vivienne Elborne, stage director;Alan Anderson; The Holiday Dancers. RoyThomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-593-4828.$20-$65(adults); $16.50-$33(children).● ● 3:00: Tudor Consort. O Magnum Mysterium.Works by Sweelinck, Josquin, Praetorius,Lobo, Victoria and Lauridsen. LeaskdaleChurch, 11909 Durham Regional Rd. 1, Leaskdale.705-357-2459. By donation. Benefit forLucy Maud Montgomery Society of Ontario.● ● 3:30: Eglinton St. George’s UnitedChurch. Community Carols - Silent Night/Shining Night. Multi-choir benefit concert for“Out of the Cold”. Voices of the Choirs of St.Clement’s Anglican, Glenview Presbyterian,and Eglinton St. George’s United Churches,and The North York Temple Brass Ensemble.35 Lytton Blvd. 416-481-1141 ext. 250. Freewill offfering.●●3:00: Syrinx Concerts Toronto. A Celebrationof Canadian Composers. Somers: SonataA. Concerts in the GTANo.1; Beethoven: Bagatelles Op.119 & Op.126,Sonata No.28 in A Op.101, Sonata No.30 in EOp.109. Ishay Shaer, piano. Heliconian Hall,35 Hazelton Ave. 416-654-0877. $25; $20(st).● ● 3:30: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra.Mozart’s Piano. Mozart: Piano ConcertosK413 and K271, “Jenamy”; and other works.Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano. Trinity-St.Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St. W. 416-964-6337.$37-$87; $29-$78(sr); $15-$78(35 and under).See Dec 5.● ● 4:00: Flute Street. The Wonderful FluteMusic of Christmas. Works by Tchaikovsky,Manfredini, Delius, Nourse, Via and others. AllSaints Kingsway Anglican Church, 2850 BloorSt. W. 416-485-8262. Free with donation.● ● 4:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. LittleShop of Horrors. See Dec 5.● ● 4:00: Toronto Beaches Children’s Chorus.Winter Melodies. Bronwen Low, conductor.St. John the Baptist Norway Anglican Church,470 Woodbine Ave. 416-698-9864. $15;$10(sr/st); $5(under 12).● ● 4:00: Trinity College. Advent Lessons andCarols. Music by Palestrina, Ledger, Shephard,Praetorius, Poston, Carter. John Tuttle,music director; David Simon, organ; TrinityCollege Choir. Trinity College Chapel, 6 HoskinAve. 416-978-3288. Free; a collection will betaken to support outreach.● ● 7:00: Eastminster Choir. ChristmasAround the World. Gaudette, Riu Riu Chiu, InDolce Jubilo, African Noel and other selections.Daniel Rubinoff, saxophone; Ray Dillard,percussion; Jenny Crober, keyboards. EastminsterUnited Church, 310 Danforth Ave. 416463-2179. By donation.● ● 7:00: Mississauga Big Band Jazz Ensemble.Annual Christmas Concert. CooksvilleUnited Church, 2500 Mimosa Row, Mississauga.905-270-4757. $20; $10(sr/child).● ● 7:00: St. John’s Anglican Church. JunctionJam: Christmas Vespers with RobiBotos and Friends. Christmas favourites.Robi Botos, piano; Brian Barlow, drums;Scott Alexander, bass; Barbra Lica, vocals.288 Humberside Ave. 416-763-2393. Free willoffering. Refreshments to follow.● ● 7:30: Echo Women’s Choir. Rise. Chvostek:End of the Road; selections from Dalglishand Guthrie; Appalachian, gospel, CroationKlapa music, South African songs andoriginal works of Sarah John. Guest: AnnabelleChvostek, guitar/fiddle/mandolin; BeccaWhitla and Alan Gasser, conductors. Churchof the Holy Trinity, 10 Trinity Sq. 416-779-5554.$20/$15(adv); $10(sr/child/underwaged).● ● 7:30: Jubilee United Church. CarolsBy Candlelight. Guest choir and soloists.40 Underhill Dr. 416-447-6846. Free.● ● 7:30: Leaside United Church. Lessonsand Carols. Carols and readings for Christmas.Rutter: Nativity Carol; Britten: A Boywas Born; M. Sirett: Thou Shalt Know Him; D.Schelat: The Angel Gabriel; and other selections.Chancel choirs from Leaside UnitedChurch, and C Flats Jazz Band. 822 MillwoodRd. 416-425-1253. Free will offering to the“Out of the Cold” program.● ● 7:30: Toronto Beach Chorale. ChristmasConcert. Finzi: In Terra Pax; Holst:Christmas Day; Vaughan Williams: Fantasiaon Christmas Carols; and other seasonalworks. Guests: Eve Rachel McLeod, soprano;Jason Nedecky, baritone. KingstonRoad United Church, 975 Kingston Rd. 416-699-6634. $25/$20(adv); $12/$10(adv)(7-18);free(under 7).● ● 8:00: Contact Contemporary Music/Music Gallery. The Most Relaxing of AllInstruments. Leblanc: Scratche (world premiere);Staniland: Dreaded Sea Voyage(world premiere); Schoorl: For My Therapists(world premiere); Kampela: DancasPercussivas 1 and 2; Oehring: Foxfire Eins–Natriumpentothal and other works. Rob Mac-Donald, guitar; Stephen Tam, flute; DavidSchotzko, percussion. Music Gallery, 197 JohnSt. 416-204-1080. $20.● ● 8:00: Musideum. Steve Koven. Solo pianojazz and improvised music. Suite 133 (mainfloor), 401 Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323.$20.● ● 8:00: ToyBox Productions. How I Lost OnePound, the Musical. See Dec 4.Monday December 9● ● 12:15: CBC Radio 2 In Concert/MusicMondays. Next!: Emma Meinrenken, Violin.Church of the Holy Trinity, 10 Trinity Sq. 416-598-4521 x304. PWYC ($5 suggested).● ● 3:00: Toronto Jewish Folk Choir & theBernard Betel Centre. A Chanukah concert.Songs for Chanukah and an assortment offavourites from its current repertoire. AlexanderVeprinsky, conductor; Lina Zemelman,piano. Bernard Betel Centre, , 1003 SteelesAve W., North York. . 416-225-2112 ext103. $10;$5 (members).● ● 7:30: Cantabile Chorale of York Region.The Joy of Christmas. Seasonal selections.Cantabile Chorale and The MetropolitanSilver Band. Thornhill United Church,25 Elgin St., Thornhill. 905-731-8318. Free willdonation.● ● 7:30: Columbus Performing Arts Council.A Christmas Celebration. The Prayer,Nella Fantasia, What A Wonderful World,Con Te Partiro and other Christmas favorites.Columbus Community Choir; BeatriceCarpino, conductor; Adolfo De Santis, piano.Guest: Pablo Benitez, tenor. Columbus Centre,901 Lawrence Ave. W. 416-789-7011.PWYC. Benefit for Pediatric Oncology Groupof Ontario (POGO).● ● 7:30: Flato Markham Theatre. MarkvilleSecondary School: Festive Sounds 2013. MarkvilleSecondary School’s music departmentwill perform musical arrangements of holidayfavourites. 171 Town Centre Blvd., Markham.905-940-8840 x131. $12; $10(sr/st).● ● 7:30: River Connected Duo & Ken ShorleyTrio. Music from Away. Percussion doubleheader. Original works by Shorley and others.Ken Shorley, Dan Morphy, Adam Campbell,and Ed Squires. Array Music Space,155 Walnut Avenue. 647-828-2093. $15;$10(arts worker); $5(st).● ● 7:30: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. PianoFest. Walter Hall, Edward JohnsonBuilding, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-978-3750.Free. Also Dec 11, 13.● ● 8:00: Corporation of Roy Thomson Halland Massey Hall. Jazz at Lincoln CenterOrchestra: Big Band Holidays. Massey Hall,178 Victoria St. 416-872-4255. $59.50-$99.50.● ● 8:00: Musideum. Andréa Tyniec. Classicalviolin. Suite 133 (main floor), 401 RichmondSt. W. 416-599-7323. $20.Tuesday December 10● ● 11:30am: Ross Petty Productions. The LittleMermaid: Ontario’s O-FISH-AL FamilyMusical! See Dec 1.Silent Night ̃Shining NightCommunity Carol Singing!Sunday December 8,3:30 pmNarrator: Lloyd RobertsonFeaturing the choirs ofSt. Clement’s Anglican,Glenview Presbyterian,Eglinton St. George’sUnited Churchesand The North YorkTemple Brass Ensemble.ESG United Church, 35 Lytton Blvd at DuplexFreewill Offering to benefit “Out of the Cold”Details at www.esgunited.org or 416-481.1141 ext. 25042 | December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 thewholenote.com

● ● 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.Piano Virtuoso Series: Hammerklavier.Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.29 in B-flatOp.106. Stefan Chaplikov, piano. RichardBradshaw Amphitheatre, Four Seasons Centrefor the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W.416-363-8231. Free.● ● 1:00: Cathedral Church of St. James.Weekly Organ Recital: David Briggs.65 Church St. 416-364-7865 x224. Free.● ● 7:30: Arcady/National Academy Orchestraof Canada. Handel’s Messiah. Boris Brott,conductor. Burlington Performing Arts Centre,440 Locust St., Burlington. 1-888-475-9377. $10-$27. Also Dec 9 (Hamilton).● ● 8:00: Musideum. The Jukebox Café XMASEdition. Vintage Xmas Pop. Suite 133 (mainfloor), 401 Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323.$20.● ● 8:00: Ontario Philharmonic. NessunDorma. Great songs of Italy. Puccini: NessunDorma; Verdi: La Forza del Destino Overture;Ponchielli: Dance of the Hours; Capua: Osole mio; Rossini: La Danza; and other works.Richard Margison, tenor; Marco Parisotto,conductor. Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor St. W. 416-408-0428. $40-$60. Also Dec 7(Oshawa).● ● 8:00: Starvox Entertainment. Evil Dead–The Musical. See Dec 3● ● 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.Pops Christmas. Deck the Halls, It’s the MostWonderful Time of the Year, Jingle Bell Rock,I’ll Be Home For Christmas, O Holy Nightand other selections. Etobicoke School ofthe Arts Chorus; Ashley Brown, soprano;Steven Reineke, conductor. Roy ThomsonHall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-598-3375 or Chinesehotline: 416-593-0688. $33–$110. AlsooURseasonDec. 11, 2013 | 7:30 pmYorkminster Park Baptist Church1585 Yonge StreetDec 11(mat and eve).Wednesday December 11● ● 12:30: Yorkminster Park Baptist Church.Noonday Organ Recitals: Edward Moroney,organ. 1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167. Free.● ● 2:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. PopsChristmas. See Dec 10; Also 8:00.● ● 5:30: Canadian Opera Company. JazzSeries: Espejo. Selections. Eliana Cuevas,vocals; George Koller, bass; George Koller,piano; Mark Kelso and Daniel Stone, percussion.Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, FourSeasons Centre for the Performing Arts,145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. Free.● ● 7:00: Civic Light-Opera Company. Oliver!Also Dec 12, 13, 14(mat and eve), 15(mat),18, 19, 20, 21(mat and eve), 22(mat); starttimes vary.● ● 7:00: Ross Petty Productions. The LittleMermaid: Ontario’s O-FISH-AL FamilyMusical! See Dec 1.● ● 7:00: Toronto Public Library. TorontoJewish Folk Choir: A Chanukah Concert.Songs in Yiddish, Hebrew, English andmore. Alexander Veprinsky, conductor; LinaZemelman, piano. Barbara Frum Library,20 Covington Road. 416-395-5440. Free.● ● 7:30: Group of 27. Recital Cocert. Works byPaganini, Lussier, Southam, Willes, Bach andWolfgang. Nadina Mackie Jackson, bassoon;David Rose, viola. Heliconian Hall, 35 HazeltonAve. 416-735-3662. $25; $20 (sr/st/artsworkers);$10(under 18).● ● 7:30: Toronto Mendelssohn Choir. Festivalof Carols. Music and stories for the Christmasseason. Toronto Mendelssohn Choir (JamesBourne, piano, Michael Bloss, organ, NoelGet the Christmas seasonoff to a great start. Enjoythe TMC’s annual concertof festive music and stories—this year with specialguest Ben Heppner.Noel Edison conductorBen Heppner tenorJames Bourne pianoMichael Bloss organFestival BrassEdison, conductor); Festival Brass. Guest: BenHeppner, tenor. Yorkminster Park BaptistChurch, 1585 Yonge St. 416-598-0422, ext 221.$35-$76; $120(VIP); $35-$70(sr); $25(Vox-Tix). VIP includes seating & reception.● ● 7:30: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. PianoFest. See Dec 9; Also Dec 13.● ● 8:00: Starvox Entertainment. Evil Dead–The Musical. See Dec 3● ● 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. PopsChristmas. See Dec 10.Thursday December 12● ● 10:00am: Royal Conservatory. GlennGould School Concerto Competition Finals.Students of the Glenn Gould School competefor the opportunity to perform a concertowith the Royal Conservatory Orchestra nextseason. Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor St. W. 416-408-0208. Free (ticket required).● ● 12:15: Music at Metropolitan. Noon atMet. Thomas Godner, organ. MetropolitanUnited Church, 56 Queen St. E. 416-363-0331ext. 26. .● ● 7:00: Ross Petty Productions. The LittleMermaid: Ontario’s O-FISH-AL FamilyMusical! See Dec 1.● ● 7:30: Countermeasure A Cappella.“14 Characters” Countermeasure A CappellaCD Release. Eclectic arrangements ofjazz, pop, and original compositions. Guests:The Watch. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst St,.416-827-7275. $30(with CD)$20/$25(withCD)$15(adv).● ● 8:00: Civic Light-Opera Company. Oliver!See Dec 11, Also Dec 13, 14(mat and eve),15(mat), 18, 19, 20, 21(mat and eve), 22(mat);start times vary.● ● 8:00: Corporation of Roy Thomson Halland Massey Hall. A Barra MacNeils Christmas.Guests: Bette MacDonald; MaynardMorrison; Jenn Grant. Roy Thomson Hall,60 Simcoe St. 416-872-4255. $29.50 - $69.50.● ● 8:00: Flato Markham Theatre. Colm Wilkinson:Broadway, Christmas and Beyond.171 Town Centre Blvd., Markham. 905-305-7469. $69-$74.● ● 8:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. LittleShop of Horrors. See Dec 5.● ● 8:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. AvenueQ. Book and lyrics by Lopez and Marx. SeannaKennedy, director. 100A Ossington Ave.416-915-6747. $49–$59. Also Dec 13, 14, 19, 20,21, Jan 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 19, 23, 25, 26, 30,31, Feb 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23.● ● 8:00: Music Gallery. Emergents I:Strange Strings. M. Ashburner: Violin Duo;M. Smith: Quintet; Famous Wildlife MoviesI; A.Wallace: Resin Percussion String Quartet.Ilana Waniuk, violin; Suhashini Arulanandam,violin; Amanda Penner, viola; BryanHolt, cello. 197 John St. 416-204-1080. $12;$8(members).● ● 8:00: Rose Theatre Brampton. DianaPanton. Selections from Christmas Kiss andother seasonal songs. Guests: Don Thompson,piano, bass and vibes; Reg Schwager,guitar. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln., Brampton.905-874-2800. $30.● ● 8:00: Spectrum Music. The WorldThrough Frames Without Lenses. Chamberjazz; satirical look at all things plaid. AnnexTheatre, 730 Bathurst Street. 416-937-6180.$15; $10 (sr,st,arts workers).● ● 8:00: Starvox Entertainment. Evil Dead–The Musical. See Dec 3● ● 10:00: Ozere. Ozere plays the Tranzac.Chamber and folk music mixed. JessicaDeutsch, violin; Adrian Gross, mandolin; LydiaMunchinsky, cello; Sam McLellan, bass; EmilyRockarts, vocals. Tranzac Club Front Room,292 Brunswick Ave. 416-923-8137. PWYC.Friday December 13● ● 1:10: Gordon Murray Presents. Piano Potpourri.See Dec 6.● ● 6:30: Canadian Music Centre. Piano Series:CANUCKS À LA CARTE II. Christmas atthe Canadian Music Centre. Daniel Crozier:Winter Aubade (2009); other works. AdamSherkin, piano; other performers. 20 St.Joseph St. 416-961-6601. $20; $15(adv). Winetasting to follow.● ● 7:00: Life & Music at St. Andrew’s.41st Annual Rugby Christmas Carole Service.Members of the Rugby Leagues ofOntario; Katherine Wheatley; David Leask.St. Andrew’s Church, 73 Simcoe St. 416-593-5600 x231. Freewill offering in support ofthe Out of the Cold program at St Andrew’sChurch.● ● 7:00: Ross Petty Productions. The LittleMermaid: Ontario’s O-FISH-AL FamilyMusical! See Dec 1.FESTIVALOF CAROLSBOx OFFICE416-598-0422 ext. 221tmchoir.org/carolstickets seniors Vox tix$35– $ 76 $ 35– $ 70 $ 25 for 30 & under$ 120 VIP seatIng & post-concert reception with Ben heppnerthewholenote.com December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 | 43

● ● 7:00: Starvox Entertainment. Evil Dead–The Musical. See Dec 3● ● 7:00: University Settlement Music andArts School. End of Term Student Concert.St. George the Martyr Church, 197 John St.416-598-3444 x243. Free.● ● 7:30: Oakville Choral Society. A ChristmasCelebration of English and French Music.Poulenc: Gloria; and other seasonal works.Erica Warder, solo soprano; David Bowser,conductor; Anne Marie Leonard, piano.Clearview Christian Reformed Church,2300 Sheridan Garden Dr., Oakville. 905-302-9017. $30/$25(adv); $15(st); free(12 andunder). Also Dec 14.● ● 7:30: St. Thomas’s Anglican Church andPoculi Ludique Societas. A Medieval Christmas:Such Splendid Sight Was Never Seen.Selections from the medieval Towneley Plays.Director, Kim Radmacher; music director,Bryan Martin; actors and choristers fromPLS and St. Thomas’s. St. Thomas’s AnglicanChurch, 383 Huron St. 416-978-5096. $20,$15, $10. Also Dec 14.● ● 7:30: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. PianoFest. See Dec 9.● ● 7:30: Whitby Brass Band. Christmas Concert.Guest: O’Neil Chamber Choir. HebronChristian Reformed Church, 4240 AndersonSt,, Whitby. 905-655-5020. $10; $8(sr/st).● ● 8:00: Civic Light-Opera Company. Oliver!See Dec 11; Also Dec 12, 14(mat and eve),15(mat), 18, 19, 20, 21(mat and eve), 22(mat);start times vary.● ● 8:00: Etobicoke Community ConcertBand. A Christmas Fantasy. A selection ofChristmas Classics. John Edward Liddle,Music Director. Etobicoke Collegiate Auditorium,86 Montgomery Rd., Etobicoke. 416-410-1570. $20; $18(sr); $5(st); Free(child).● ● 8:00: Etobicoke Philharmonic Orchestra.Gloria In Excelsis. Humperdinck: Overtureto Hänsel and Gretel; Hely-Hutchinson:A Carol Symphony; Vivaldi: Concerto for TwoTrumpets in C RV537. James Westman, baritone;Andy Bearcroft, and Steven Woomert,trumpets; Sabatino Vacca, conductor.Humber Valley United Church, 76 AngleseyBlvd., Etobicoke. 416-239-5665. $25; $20(sr);$10(st).● ● 8:00: Toronto Consort. Navidad: ChristmasMusic from Latin America and Spain.~E TO|oNTOCºNSO|tNªVIDªD:Christmas Musicfrom Latin Americaand SpainDec 13, 14 & 15Trinity-St. Paul’s CentreCall 416-964-6337torontoconsort.orgA. Concerts in the GTAEarly music from the Spanish-speakingnations on both sides of the Atlantic featuringharp, guitars, percussion, winds, keyboardsand voice. Works by Guerrero and others.Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St. W. 416-964-6337. $26–$61; $21–$54(sr); $10(30 andunder). Also Dec 14, 15(mat).●●8:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. LittleShop of Horrors. See Dec 5.● ● 8:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. AvenueQ. See Dec 12.● ● 8:00: Musideum. Adi Braun & DonnaGreenberg. Cabaret jazz. Suite 133 (mainfloor), 401 Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323.$TBC.● ● 10:30: Starvox Entertainment. Evil Dead–The Musical. See Dec 3Saturday December 14● ● 2:00: Civic Light-Opera Company. Oliver!See Dec 11; Also 8:00pm, Dec 15(mat), 18, 19,20, 21(mat and eve), 22(mat); start times vary.● ● 2:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. LittleShop of Horrors. See Dec 5.● ● 2:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. AvenueQ. See Dec 12.● ● 2:00: Ross Petty Productions. The LittleMermaid: Ontario’s O-FISH-AL FamilyMusical! See Dec 1.● ● 2:00: St. Thomas’s Anglican Church andPoculi Ludique Societas. A Medieval Christmas:Such Splendid Sight Was Never Seen.Selections from the medieval Towneley Plays.Director, Kim Radmacher; music director,Bryan Martin; actors and choristers fromPLS and St. Thomas’s. St. Thomas’s AnglicanChurch, 383 Huron St. 416-978-5096. $20,$15, $10.● ● 2:00: York Region Community Choir. Canadain December! Trinity Anglican Church,79 Victoria St., Aurora. 905-775-7390. $10.● ● 3:00: Neapolitan Connection. MusicalMatinées at Montgomery’s Inn. Luiza Zhuleva,soprano. Montgomery’s Inn, 4709 Dundas St.W. 647 955 2108. $12.50-$30. Tea, historicaltour, cookies included. 2:00: tour starts.● ● 3:00: Oakville Chamber Orchestra.Extrordinary Talent! Mendelssohn: ViolinConcerto (1st mvt); Saint-Saens: Piano ConcertoNo.2 (1st mvt); Mendelssohn: CapriccioBrilliante; Mozart: Overture to Cosi fantutte; Anderson: Christmas Festival. LeslieAshworth, violin; Christopher Yeung, piano;Tiffany Tse, piano. Queen Elizabeth Park CommunityCultural Centre, 1150 Bridge Rd., Oakville.905-483-6787. Free.● ● 3:00: Oakville Children’s Choir. CommunityCarol Concert. Sandy Ludwig, director;Access Music Therapy Xtreme Glee Club;OCC Parent Chorus; Simon Walker, organ. St.Paul’s Church (Oakville), 454 Rebecca St, Oakville.905-337-7104. $25; $15(sr/ch).● ● 4:00: Mississauga Symphony Orchestra.Holiday Spectacular. Leroy Anderson:Christmas Festival; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky:The Nutcracker Suite; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Dance of the Buffoons; JohannStrauss: Radetzky March; sing-along carolfavourites; Leroy Anderson: Sleigh Ride. DenisMastromonaco, music director; guests: MississaugaYouth Orchestra. Hammerson Hall,Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living Arts Dr., Mississauga.905-306-6000. $30-$60.● ● 4:00: Pax Christi Chorale. The Children’sMessiah. Selected arias and choruses fromHandel’s Messiah. Pax Christi Chorale Alumni;Gallery Choir of Saint Mary Magdalene;Agnes Zsigovics, soprano; Catharin Carew,mezzo; Marcel d’Entremont, tenor; MichaelYork, baritone; and others. Church of St.Mary Magdalene, 477 Manning Ave. 416-491-8542. Free. Donations welcome. Proceeds toReaching Out Through Music.● ● 7:00: Encore Symphonic Concert Band.Christmas Concert. Child friendly withvisit by Santa. John Edward Liddle, conductor.Encore Hall, Wilmar Heights Centre,963 Pharmacy Ave., Scarborough. 416-346-3910. $10. Refreshments following.● ● 7:00: Holy Name Catholic Church. AfricanCatholic Community Choir. Choral worksfrom a variety of African traditions, and otherworks in English and French. Serge Tshiunza,conductor. 71 Gough Ave. 416-732-5296. $20suggested donation.● ● 7:00: Ross Petty Productions. The LittleMermaid: Ontario’s O-FISH-AL FamilyMusical! See Dec 1.● ● 7:00: Starvox Entertainment. Evil Dead–The Musical. See Dec 3● ● 7:30: Amadeus Choir. Sing With TheAngels. Works for Christmas, Chanukahand Winter Solstice; winning compositionsfrom the 27th Annual Amadeus Choir SeasonalSong-Writing Competition. Lydia Adamsand Linda Beaupré, conductors; Erica Goodman,harp; Eleanor Daley and Shawn Grenke,piano and organ; Amadeus Choir of GreaterToronto; Bach Children’s Chorus. YorkminsterPark Baptist Church, 1585 Yonge St. 416-446-0188. $40; $30(sr); $25(under 30); $15(st).● ● 7:30: Annex Singers. The M Files: MagnumMysterium, Magnificat, Maria. Also works byJosquin, Rachmaninoff, Raminsh and Pärt.Maria Case, director. Guest: Sarah ChristinaSteinert, mezzo. Bloor Street United Church,300 Bloor St. W. 416-968-7747. $20; $15(sr/st);free(12 & under).● ● 7:30: Espressivo Singers. Chantez Noël.Evening of Christmas Music. John-CharlesCoolen, conductor. Westminster UnitedChurch, 1850 Rossland Rd. E., Whitby. 905-435-3439. $20; $14(under12).● ● 7:30: Kindred Spirits Orchestra. Handel’sGlorious Messiah. Handel: Messiah (orchestratedby W.A. Mozart). Kristian Alexander,conductor; Jennifer Taverner, soprano; LauraMcAlpine, mezzo; Stephen Harland, tenor;LYDIA ADAMSCONDUCTOR and ARTISTIC DIRECTORSING WITH THE ANGELS!Sat. Dec. 14, 2013 • 7:30 pmYorkminster Park Baptist Church, 1585 Yonge Street, Toronto(at NE corner of Yonge and Heath, just North of St. Clair)A Special Tribute to the Ontario Arts Council on its 50th AnniversaryTickets!$15.– 40.Benjamin Britten's "Ceremony of Carols," works by J. Rutter, E. Daley, D. Willcocks,M. Wilberg and the winning compositions from the 27th Annual Amadeus SeasonalSong-Writing Competition.Featuring: Amadeus Choir of Greater Toronto • Lydia Adams, ConductorBach Children’s Chorus • Linda Beaupré, ConductorErica Goodman, harp • Eleanor Daley and Shawn Grenke, piano and organ416-446-0188 www.amadeuschoir.comMEDIA PARTNER44 | December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 thewholenote.com

Andrew Tees, bass-baritone; Village Voices(Joan Andrews, director). Flato MarkhamTheatre, 171 Town Centre Blvd., Markham.905-305-7469. $15-$40.● ● 7:30: Oakville Choral Society. A ChristmasCelebration of English and French Music.See Dec 13.● ● 7:30: St. Thomas’s Anglican Church andPoculi Ludique Societas. A Medieval Christmas:Such Splendid Sight Was Never Seen.Selections from the medieval Towneley Plays.Director, Kim Radmacher; music director,Bryan Martin; actors and choristers fromPLS and St. Thomas’s. St. Thomas’s AnglicanChurch, 383 Huron St. 416-978-5096. $20,$15, $10.● ● 8:00: Against the Grain Theatre. AtG’sMessiah. Handel: Messiah. Jacqueline Woodley,soprano; Krisztina Szabó, mezzo; IsaiahBell, tenor; Geoffrey Sirett, baritone; ChristopherMokrzewski, conductor; orchestra andchoir. Opera House, 735 Queen St. E. 416-522-6515. $40 and up. Also December 15.● ● 8:00: Canadian Men’s Chorus. En Hiver.Reintamm: Three Estonian Carols (premiere);Randall: “Stopping By Woods on a SnowyEvening”; “Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind”;“The Huron Carol”; “Susani” and others.Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St. W. 416-573-5993. $35/$30(adv). Post-concert reception.● ● 8:00: Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra.Subscription Concert #2. Tchaikovsky:The Nutcracker (Act 1) with special videopresentation; Symphony No.1 in g “WinterDreams”; and other seasonal works. P.C. HoTheatre, Chinese Cultural Centre of GreaterToronto, 5183 Sheppard Ave. E., Scarborough.416-879-5566. $32; $27(sr/st); free(under 12).● ● 8:00: Chris Tsujiuchi. A Very Chris-tericalChristmas Cabaret. Anthony Rinaldi, saxophone;La-Nai Gabriel, keyboard; MackenzieLongpre, drums; Mark Godfrey, bass;Matt Marcoccia, guitar. Buddies In Bad TimesTheatre, 12 Alexander St. 416-975-8555.$20/$15(adv).● ● 8:00: Civic Light-Opera Company. Oliver!See Dec 11, Also Dec 15(mat), 18, 19, 20, 21(matand eve), 22(mat); start times vary.● ● 8:00: Corporation of Roy Thomson Halland Massey Hall. The Bad Plus. Jazz Trio.Ethan Iverson, piano; Reid Anderson, bass;Dave King, drums. Winter Garden Theatre,189 Yonge St. 416-872-4255. $29.50 - $49.50.● ● 8:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. LittleShop of Horrors. See Dec 5.● ● 8:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. AvenueQ. See Dec 12.● ● 8:00: Musideum. Meghan Morrison.Singer-songwriter. Suite 133 (main floor),401 Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323. $20.● ● 8:00: New Music Concerts. A PercussiveEvening with Jean-Pierre Drouet. Kagel: Exotica(selections); Globokar: Toucher; Aperghis:Le corps à corps; Rzewski: To the Earth; Gattistelli:Il Libro Celibe; and other works. Jean-Pierre Drouet, solo percussion. Betty OliphantTheatre, 404 Jarvis St. 416-961-9594. $35;$25(sr/arts worker); $10(st). POSTPONED TOMARCH 2, 2014 AT THE MUSIC GALLERY.● ● 8:00: Royal Conservatory. Regina Carterand Nnenna Freelon. Jazz, funk, Motown,African and soul music. Koerner Hall,273 Bloor St. W. 416-408-0208. $40 and up.● ● 8:00: Toronto Chamber Choir. Christmaswith J.S. Bach. Bach: Cantatas No.140(Wachet Auf), No.61 (Num komm, der HeidenHeiland), No.133 (Ich freue mich in dir);➘ Search the listingsby zone online atthewholenote.coma percussive evening withrescheduled to march 2, 2014the music gallery, 197 john st.saturday december 14, 2013betty oliphant theatrewww.NewMusicConcerts.comthewholenote.com December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 | 45

Christmas Oratorio; settings by various composersof the Christmas hymn Lo, How a Rosee’er Blooming. Brad Ratzlaff, guest conductor;early music orchestra. Grace Church-onthe-Hill,300 Lonsdale Rd. 416-763-1695. $30;$25 (sr); $12.50 (under 30). 7:15pm: openingnotes.● ● 8:00: Toronto Consort. Navidad: ChristmasMusic from Latin America and Spain.See Dec 13; Also Dec 15(mat).● ● 8:00: Univox Choir. Caritas et Amor.Ramirez: Misa Criolla (with Maderaz LatinA. Concerts in the GTAmusic, setting by Murray); motets by Raminsh,Gjeilo, Górecki; contemporary arrangementsof secular carols; and other works.Lucas Marchand, tenor; Graham Robinson,baritone; Dallas Bergen, conductor. ChristChurch Deer Park, 1570 Yonge St. 416-697-9561. $25/$20(adv/sr/st); free(under 18). Aportion of proceeds will go to local charitypartner, Fred Victor.● ● 10:30: Starvox Entertainment. Evil Dead–The Musical. See Dec 3Sunday December 15● ● 12:00 noon: Musideum. A CavanaughFamily Christmas. Folk. Suite 133 (main floor),401 Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323. $20.● ● 1:30: Oakville Symphony Orchestra.Family Christmas Concert. One-hour familyconcert; seasonal repertoire. Roberto DeClara, conductor; guests: Oakville Children’sChoir. Oakville Centre for the PerformingArts, 130 Navy St., Oakville. 905-815-2021.$26; $21(sr); $13(st).● ● 2:00: Civic Light-Opera Company. Oliver!See Dec 11, Also Dec 18, 19, 20, 21(mat andeve), 22(mat); start times vary.● ● 2:00: Flato Markham Theatre. A SwinginChristmas Tribute with the Toronto All-StarBig Band. 171 Town Centre Blvd., Markham.905-305-7469. $39.● ● 2:00: Ross Petty Productions. The LittleMermaid: Ontario’s O-FISH-AL FamilyMusical! See Dec 1.● ● 3:00: Array Ensemble. The Array Songbook;A Fundraiser. Cole: Selections frommusicals; Also works by Sacks, Catlin Smith,Spence and more. Array Music Space,All Bells in ParadiseAn All SAintS’ChriStmAS CelebrAtion withthe trillium brASSSundAy, deCember 15 th – 4:30 p.m.with workS bybACh, lAuridSen,rutter, And GjeiloShAwn Grenke,ConduCtor;mArtine Fornoville,piAno;ChriS dAweS,orGAniSt.tiCketS $252850 bloor St. w., torontoroyAl york SubwAy StAtionprinCe edwArd/bloor interSeCtion)416-233-1125www.allsaintskingsway.ca155 Walnut Avenue. 416-532-3019. $20.● ● 3:00: Blessed Trinity Church. O Nata Lux(Born Light of Light). By Lauridsen. Handel:Messiah; works by Willcocks and Rutter. CleaSoare-Min, soprano; Blessed Trinity FestivalOrchestra; Choirs of Blessed Trinity; MargaretThibideau, conductor. 3220 BayviewAve. 647-291-3572. $15; $10(sr/st). Also 8:00.● ● 3:00: Islington United Church. Christmasin Islington. Community celebration withmusic for choirs, brass, organ and handbells.John Derksen, conductor. 25 BurnhamthorpeRd. 416-239-1131. Freewill offering.● ● 3:30: Toronto Consort. Navidad: ChristmasMusic from Latin America and Spain.See Dec 13.● ● 4:00: ASLAN Boys Choir of Toronto. Nowis the Time! Debut performance of the AslanBoys Choir. Seasonal music by Bach, Rutter,Willcocks and others. Thomas Bell, director;Jialiang Zhu, piano; Thomas Gonder, organ.Church of the Transfiguration, 111 Manor Rd.E. 416-859-7464. $12.● ● 4:00: Cathedral Church of St. James.Weekly Organ Recital: Andrew Ager.65 Church St. 416-364-7865 x224. Free.● ● 4:00: Church of St. Mary Magdalene.Organ music for Christmas. Andrew Adair,organ. 477 Manning Ave. 416-531-7955. Free.● ● 4:00: Oakville Symphony Orchestra.Family Christmas Concert. One-hour familyconcert; seasonal repertoire. Roberto DeClara, conductor; guests: Oakville Children’sChoir. Oakville Centre for the PerformingArts, 130 Navy St., Oakville. 905-815-2021.$26; $21(sr); $13(st).● ● 4:00: St. Philip’s Anglican Church. JazzVespers. Christmas Jazz Vespers. Diana Panton,Reg Schwager, & Don Thompson. 25 St.Phillips Rd., Etobicoke. 416-247-5181. Free willoffering.● ● 4:00: Wychwood Clarinet Choir/YouthChoir. Lessons and Carols. Michele Jacot,conductor. Church of St. Michael and AllAngels, 611 St. Clair W. 647-668-8943. Free.● ● 4:30: Yorkminster Park Baptist Church.Carols by Candlelight. Traditional candlelightchoral presentation featuring the choirs andmusicians of Yorkminster Park. 1585 YongeSt. 416-922-1167. Free.● ● 4:30: All Saints Kingsway AnglicanChurch. All Bells in Paradise. Works by Bach,Lauridsen, Rutter and Gjeilo. Shawn Grenke,conductor; Martine Fornoville, piano; ChrisDawes, organist; Trillium Brass; All Saints’Choir. 2850 Bloor St. W. 416-233-1125. $25.● ● 4:30: Christ Church Deer Park. ChristmasVespers. Barlow Brass & Drums.1570 Yonge St. 416-920-5211 x22. Free, donationswelcome.● ● 4:30: Cummer Avenue United Church.Twilight Christmas Carol Service. Saint-Saëns: Christmas Oratorio and other works.Chancel Choir and others. 53 Cummer Ave.416-222-5417. Freewill offering.● ● 7:00: Royal Conservatory/Attila GlatzConcert Productions. Natalie Dessay andMichel Legrand with Les Violons du Roy.Vocal works by Legrand and Bergman.Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor St. W. 416-408-0208.$50 and up. Also Dec 16.● ● 7:00: The Toronto Swedish Singers. IJuletid: Christmas Concert. Swedish choralmusic. Brigitte Bogar, conductor. AgricolaLutheran Church, 25 Old York Mills Rd. 416-445-2889. $20/$16(adv); free(under 12).● ● 7:00: Trinity-St. Paul’s United Churchand VIVA! Youth Singers of Toronto. Carolsby Candlelight. A seasonal service of musicand candlelight. Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre,427 Bloor St. W. 416-788-8482. Free.● ● 7:30: BrassAckwards. BrassAckwards:Rises Again. Christmas favourites, folksongs and jazz. Brad Harrison, James Ervin,Ewan Divitt and Erasmus Hilland, trumpet;Dan Douglas, trombone; and others. 3030,3030 Dundas St. W. 416-535-4193. $20;$10(sr/st).● ● 8:00: Against the Grain Theatre. AtG’sMessiah. Handel: Messiah. Jacqueline Woodley,soprano; Krisztina Szabó, mezzo; IsaiahBell, tenor; Geoffrey Sirett, baritone; ChristopherMokrzewski conductor; orchestra andchoir. Opera House, 735 Queen St. E. 416-522-6515. $40 and up.● ● 8:00: Music Gallery. Kith & Kin. HolidayWassail. Seasonal music from Appalachia,the British Isles and the shape-note tradition.197 John St. 416-204-1080. $17; $10(members);Free(under 12).● ● 8:00: That Choir. That Choir Carols withDeborah Hay. Gjeilo: O Magnum Mysterium;The First Nowell; Biebl: Ave Maria; MortenLauridsen: Sure, On this Shining Night;Thomas: A Child’s Christmas in Wales (reading).Craig Pike, conductor; guest: guest:Deborah Hay, actress. Metropolitan UnitedChurch, 56 Queen St. E. 416-419-1756. $25,$15(sr/arts worker), $5 (st).Monday December 16● ● 12:15: CBC Radio 2 In Concert/MusicMondays. Next!: Aaron Schwebel, violin.Church of the Holy Trinity, 10 Trinity Sq. 416-598-4521 x304. PWYC ($5 suggested).● ● 7:00: Musideum. Bill Bridges & Lew Mele(with Lenny Solomon). Jazz violin. Suite 133(main floor), 401 Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323. $20.● ● 7:00: Royal Conservatory/Attila GlatzConcert Productions. Natalie Dessay andMichel Legrand with Les Violons du Roy.Vocal works by Legrand and Bergman.Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor St. W. 416-408-0208.$50 and up. Also Dec 15.Tuesday December 17● ● 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.Jazz Series: Cool Yule. Seasonal songs andother selections. Cadence. Richard Bradshaw46 | December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 thewholenote.com

Amphitheatre, Four Seasons Centre for thePerforming Arts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. Free.● ● 1:00: Cathedral Church of St. James.Weekly Organ Recital: David Briggs.65 Church St. 416-364-7865 x224. Free.● ● 7:00: Ross Petty Productions. The LittleMermaid: Ontario’s O-FISH-AL FamilyMusical! See Dec 1.● ● 7:30: Calvin Presbyterian Church. Ariadneauf Naxos In Concert. R. Strauss. ColleenSkull (Prima Donna/Ariadne); SuzanneRigden (Zerbinetta); Laura McAlpine (DerKomponist); Roger Honeywell (Der Tenor/Bacchus); Gene Wu (Ein Musiklehrer); andothers. 26 Delisle Ave. 416-323-3139. $20;$10(sr/st).WELCOMECHRISTMASTuesday, December 17, 7:30 p.m.Yorkminster Park Baptist Church1585 Yonge Streetorpheuschoirtoronto.com hssb.caHANNAFORD STREETSILVER BAND● ● 7:30: Orpheus Choir of Toronto. WelcomeChristmas. Orpheus Choir and the HannafordStreet Silver Band. Yorkminster Park BaptistChurch, 1585 Yonge St. 416-420-9660. $40;$30(sr); $15(st); $95(family).● ● 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Handel’sMessiah. Christopher Warren-Green,conductor and conductor; Klara Ek, soprano;Lawrence Zazzo, countertenor; John Tessier,tenor; John Relyea, bass-baritone. RoyThomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-593-4828.$33-$105.●●8:00: Corporation of Roy Thomson Halland Massey Hall. From Newfoundland ... TheOnce. Old and new Christmas music. Guests:Robert Chafe, raconteur; Emila Bartellas andAaron Collis, traditional musicians. EnwaveTheatre, Harbourfront Centre, 231 QueensQuay W. 416-872-4255. $29.50.● ● 8:00: Musideum. AIMToronto. Experimental.Suite 133 (main floor), 401 RichmondSt. W. 416-599-7323. $10.● ● 8:00: Starvox Entertainment. Evil Dead–The Musical. See Dec 3Wednesday December 18● ● 12:00 noon: Corporation of Roy ThomsonHall and Massey Hall. Free Noon-HourConcert: Toronto Mass Choir. Gospel music.Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-872-4255. Free.● ● 12:30: Yorkminster Park Baptist Church.Noonday Organ Recitals: Karen Rymal, organ.1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167. Free.● ● 7:00: Civic Light-Opera Company. Oliver!See Dec 11, Also Dec 19, 20, 21(mat and eve),22(mat); start times vary.● ● 7:00: Ross Petty Productions. The LittleMermaid: Ontario’s O-FISH-AL FamilyMusical! See Dec 1.● ● 7:30: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra andChamber Choir. Handel’s Messiah. EmmaKirkby, soprano; Laura Pudwell, mezzo; ColinBalzer, tenor; Tyler Duncan, baritone. KoernerHall, 273 Bloor St. W. 416-872-4255. $49–$117;$39–$99(sr); $29–$99(35 and under). AlsoDec 19, 20, 21, and 22(Massey Hall, mat).● ● 7:30: Flato Markham Theatre. Sounds ofthe Season presented by Huron Heights SecondarySchool. Students of Huron HeightsSecondary School perform dozens of holidayfavourites. 171 Town Centre Blvd., Markham.905-895-2384 x198. $18.●●7:30: Toronto Choral Society/EastminsterUnited Churc. Handel’s Messiah. TaliskerPlayers; William O’Meara, organist; GeoffreyButler, conductor. Eastminster UnitedChurch, 310 Danforth Ave. 416-410-3509.$25/$20(adv).● ● 7:30: Village Voices. Comfort and Joy.Christmas Sing-Along. Markham Band BrassQuintet. Rehearsal Hall, Cornell CommunityCentre, 3201 Bur Oak Avenue, Markham.905-294-8687. Free will donation. Donationsto the Markham Food Bank.● ● 8:00: Musideum. XMAS on the STEEL PAN.Suite 133 (main floor), 401 Richmond St. W.416-599-7323. $20.● ● 8:00: Starvox Entertainment. Evil Dead–The Musical. See Dec 3● ● 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Handel’sMessiah. See Dec 17; Also Dec 20, 21, and22(mat).Thursday December 19● ● 12:15: Music at Metropolitan. Noon atMet. Andrew Rakus, organ. MetropolitanUnited Church, 56 Queen St. E. 416-363-0331ext. 26. .● ● 7:00: Ross Petty Productions. The LittleMermaid: Ontario’s O-FISH-AL FamilyMusical! See Dec 1.● ● 7:30: Flato Markham Theatre. The Nutcrackerpresented by the School of TorontoCity Ballet. 171 Town Centre Blvd., Markham.905-305-7569. $23-$28.● ● 7:30: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestraand Chamber Choir. Handel’s Messiah. SeeDec 18; Also Dec 20 and 21● ● 8:00: Civic Light-Opera Company. Oliver!See Dec 11, Also Dec 20, 21(mat and eve),22(mat); start times vary.● ● 8:00: Corporation of Roy Thomson Halland Massey Hall. Preservation Hall JazzBand: Creole Christmas. Roy Thomson Hall,60 Simcoe St. 416-872-4255. $39.50 - $69.50.● ● 8:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. LittleShop of Horrors. See Dec 5.● ● 8:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. AvenueQ. See Dec 12.● ● 8:00: Music Toronto. Discovery: PhillipAddis, Baritone. Wolf: Abendbilder; Britten:Songs and Proverbs of William Blake; Ross:Waypoints; Poulenc: La Fraîcheur et le Feu;Korngold: Two songs from Sechs EinfacheLieder. Emily Hamper, piano. Jane MallettTheatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts,27 Front St. E. 416-366-7723 or 1-800-708-6754. $21.50; $10(st).● ● 8:00: Musideum. Sunny Choi. Contemporarypiano. Suite 133 (main floor),401 Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323. $20.● ● 8:00: Starvox Entertainment. Evil Dead–The Musical. See Dec 3Friday December 20● ● 1:10: Gordon Murray Presents. Piano Potpourri.See Dec 6.HANDELMESSIAHThe Toronto Choral Society presentsHandel’s MessiahTHE POWERTHE PASSIONTHEMESSIAHDEC 18–21KOERNER HALLtafelmusik.orgBaroque Orchestra and Chamber ChoirJeanne Lamon, Music DirectorIvars Taurins, Director, Chamber ChoirGeoffrey Butler, ConductorWilliam O’Meara, OrganistWednesday, December 18, 2013, 7:30 pmEastminster United Church310 Danforth AvenueTickets $20 in advancewww.torontochoralsociety.orgor phone 416-410-3509thewholenote.com December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 | 47

● ● 7:00: Grand River Chorus. Singalong Messiah.Handel: Messiah. Richard Cunningham,artistic director; Taylor Webb, guest conductor(Hallelujah); Lesley Bouza, soprano;Sarah Hicks, mezzo; Joshua Wales, tenor;Jordan Stumpf, baritone. Heritage UnitedChurch, 360 Colborne St., Brantford. 519-841-9708. $20. Scores available for purchase.● ● 7:00: Ross Petty Productions. The LittleMermaid: Ontario’s O-FISH-AL FamilyMusical! See Dec 1.● ● 7:00: Starvox Entertainment. Evil Dead–The Musical. See Dec 3VictoriaBalletCompanywith guestsAnton Korsakov &Anastasia LoskutovDec 20-22, 7pm, Dec 21, 2pmRichmond Hill Center for the Performing Arts905-787-8811 rhcentre.cavictoriaballet.comA. Concerts in the GTA● ● 8:00: Civic Light-Opera Company. Oliver!See Dec 11, Also Dec 21(mat and eve), 22(mat);start times vary.● ● 8:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. LittleShop of Horrors. See Dec 5.● ● 8:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. AvenueQ. See Dec 12.● ● 8:00: Music Gallery. Little Match Girl Passionand GREX. David Lang, adapted fromHans Christian Andersen. Katherine Hill, soprano;Patricia O’Callaghan, mezzo; LucasMarchand, tenor; Dallas Bergen, bass; GREXvocal octet. 197 John St. 416-204-1080.$25/$20(adv); $15(members). 7:00: doorsopen.● ● 8:00: Musideum. Sharron McLeod. Jazz.Suite 133 (main floor), 401 Richmond St. W.416-599-7323. $20.● ● 8:00: Palais Royale. Holiday Swing Time.A night of live swing music, seasonal songs,traditional jazz and other music. Alex Pangman,Terra Hazelton, Roger Clown and DrewJurecka, vocals; Chris Banks, bass; andothers; Peter Hill, conductor; Jaymz Bee,emcee and DJ. 1601 Lake Shore Blvd. W.416-533-3553 x22. $50/$40(adv). Dancing,cash bar and light food; 19 and over event.● ● 8:00: Sine Nomine Ensemble for MedievalMusic. Nativitas: Liturgical Dramas forthe Christmas Season. Medieval French andItalian musical dramas. St. Thomas’s AnglicanChurch, 383 Huron St. 416-638-9445. $20;$14(sr/st/unwaged).● ● 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Handel’sMessiah. See Dec 17; Also Dec 21, and22(mat).● ● 10:30: Starvox Entertainment. Evil Dead–The Musical. See Dec 3.Saturday December 21● ● 2:00: Civic Light-Opera Company. Oliver!See Dec 11, Also 8:00pm, Dec 22(mat); starttimes vary.● ● 2:00: Flato Markham Theatre. LeahyFamily Christmas 2013. Celtic fiddling and folkmusic. 171 Town Centre Blvd., Markham. 905-305-7569. $59-$64. Also Dec 21(eve).● ● 2:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. AvenueQ. See Dec 12.● ● 2:00: Ross Petty Productions. The LittleMermaid: Ontario’s O-FISH-AL FamilyMusical! See Dec 1.● ● 2:00: Toronto Children’s Chorus. AChorus Christmas: Fanciful Fantasies.Guests: Judy Loman, harp; Andy Morris, percussion;Christopher Dawes, organ; TorontoChildren’s Chorus Alumni and Youth choirsand others; Elise Bradley, conductor. RoyThomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-872-4255.$34.50–$44.50.● ● 7:00: Victoria Ballet Company. The Nutcracker.Danced by Anton Korsakov (MariinskyTheater), Anastasia Loskutov and others.Richmond Hill Centre for the PerformingArts, 10268 Yonge St., Richmond Hill. 905-787-8811. $35-$69; 10% discount(sr/child).Also Dec 21 (mat and eve), 22.● ● 7:30: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestraand Chamber Choir. Handel’s Messiah. SeeDec 18, Also Dec 21.● ● 7:30: Victoria Scholars. O Night Divine.Carols by composers from Canada andaround the world, featuring works fromO Night Divine, Victoria Scholars’ mostrecent Christmas recording. Jerzy Cichocki,music director. Blessed Sacrament Church,24 Cheritan Ave. 416-761-7776. $30; $25(sr/st). Also Dec 22 (Our Lady of SorrowsChurch).48 | December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 thewholenote.com

● ● 2:00: Victoria Ballet Company. The Nutcracker.See Dec 20 Also 7:00; Dec 22.● ● 3:30: York Symphony Orchestra. YSOHoliday Spectacular. Guest: York HighlandsChorus; Denis Mastromonaco, conductor.Trinity Anglican Church, 79 Victoria St.,Aurora. 416-410-0860. $28; $23(sr); $15(st).Also 8:00.● ● 7:00: Ross Petty Productions. The LittleMermaid: Ontario’s O-FISH-AL FamilyMusical! See Dec 1.● ● 7:00: St. John’s Latvian Lutheran ChurchVocal Ensemble. Herald Christmas. 35thAnniversary Concert. Works by Fauré, Mendelssohn,Haydn, Esenvalds, and Kenins. BrigitaAlks, conductor; Anita Gaide, organist;String Ensemble. St. John’s Latvian LutheranChurch, 200 Balmoral Avenue. 416-602-7176. $25; $15(st); $10(youth under 15 yrs);$20(advance).● ● 7:00: Starvox Entertainment. Evil Dead–The Musical. See Dec 3● ● 7:00: Victoria Ballet Company. The Nutcracker.See Dec 20 Also Dec 22.● ● 7:30: NARIA. Christmas with NARIA. TraditionalChristmas and popular classical music,sing along carols. Lanor Choristers; OleksandraFedyshyn, violin; Sunny Kim, piano; vocalists:Katya Tchoubar, Anna Bateman, MichelleDanese, and Annaliese Jelilian. St. JamesCatholic Church, 728 Annette Street. 416-727-2143. $25. Also Dec 7 (Armour Heights PresbyterianChurch).● ● 7:30: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra andChamber Choir. Handel’s Messiah. EmmaKirkby, soprano; Laura Pudwell, mezzo; ColinBalzer, tenor; Tyler Duncan, baritone. KoernerHall, 273 Bloor St. W. 416-872-4255. $49–$117; $39–$99(sr); $29–$99(35 and under).See Dec 18.● ● 7:30: Wendalyn Bartley. A Winter SolsticeCelebration:CD and DVD-Audio Album launch.Wendalyn Bartley: Sounddreaming - OracleSongs from Ancient Ritual Spaces (selections);surround sound, live performance,dance. Dovercourt House, 805 DovercourtRd. 647-938-3994. $15/$25(with CD).● ● 8:00: Aradia Ensemble. The Dublin Messiah.Handel’s Dublin Messiah. Kevin Mallon,conductor; Leslie Fagan, soprano; MarionNewman, mezzo; Nils Brown, tenor; DavidHANDELʼSDUBLINMESSIAHPike, bass. Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St.W. 647-960-6650. $40; $30(sr/under 30).● ● 8:00: Civic Light-Opera Company. Oliver!See Dec 11, Also 22(mat); start times vary.● ● 8:00: Flato Markham Theatre. LeahyFamily Christmas 2013. See 2:00.● ● 8:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. LittleShop of Horrors. See Dec 5.● ● 8:00: Musideum. Sacred Solstice Soundbath.New age. Jesse & The Field Wizards.Suite 133 (main floor), 401 Richmond St. W.416-599-7323. $20.● ● 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Handel’sMessiah. See Dec 17; Also Dec 22(mat).● ● 8:00: York Symphony Orchestra. YSOHoliday Spectacular. Guest: York HighlandsChorus; Denis Mastromonaco, conductor.Trinity Anglican Church, 79 VictoriaSt., Aurora. 416-410-0860. $28; $23(sr); $15(st). Also 3:30.● ● 10:30: Starvox Entertainment. Evil Dead–The Musical. See Dec 3Sunday December 22● ● 10:30am: Lawrence Park CommunityChurch. A Service of Lessons and Carols.Choir of Lawrence Park Community Church;Mark Toews, director of music. 2180 BayviewAve. 416-489-1551.Religious service.● ● 1:00: Ross Petty Productions. The LittleMermaid: Ontario’s O-FISH-AL FamilyMusical! See Dec 1.● ● 2:00: Civic Light-Opera Company. Oliver!See Dec 11.● ● 2:00: Outsmart Promotion Services.Magic in Music: Gems of Classical PianoMusic from All Times. Works from Chopin,Liszt, Ravel and Prokofiev. Oleg Samokhin,piano. Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St. W.866-943-8849. $35-$41.● ● 2:00: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra andChamber Choir. Sing-Along Messiah. By Handel.Emma Kirkby, soprano; Laura Pudwell,mezzo; Colin Balzer, tenor; Tyler Duncan, baritone;Ivars Taurins, conductor. Massey Hall,178 Victoria St. 416-872-4255. $49–$117; $39–$99(sr); $29–$99(35 and under). Also Dec 18,19, 20, 21(Koerner Hall, eve).● ● 3:00: Starvox Entertainment. Evil Dead–The Musical. See Dec 3● ● 3:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Handel’sMessiah. See Dec 17.24 th AnnualAuditorium doors open at 10:00 pmATMedia Sponsor:Metropolitan Community Church of Torontoinvites you to their annual Christmas Eve Servicefeaturing traditional Christmas music,The Choir of MCC Toronto with Special Guest ArtistsHeather Bambrick, Jeigh Madjus,Elana Harte & Dale Miller,and a Christmas message offered by Rev. Dr. Brent Hawkes.thewholenote.com December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 | 49

● ● 4:00: Church of the Ascension. TraditionalChristmas Lessons and Carols. Familiarand non-traditional choral pieces andsongs. 33 Overland Dr. 416-444-8881. Free.Yuletide reception.● ● 4:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. AvenueQ See Dec 12.● ● 4:30: Yorkminster Park Baptist Church.Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. Festivalfollowing the historic tradition of King’s Collegein Cambridge. 1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167. Free.● ● 6:00: Ross Petty Productions. The LittleMermaid: Ontario’s O-FISH-AL FamilyMusical! See Dec 1.● ● 7:00: Flato Markham Theatre. KarpovBallet Academy: An Evening of Classical Ballet.Students from Karpov Ballet Academyand the Canadian Dance Company will performpieces from classical ballets and balletminiatures. 171 Town Centre Blvd., Markham.905-305-7569. $34. Also Dec 23.● ● 7:00: Metropolitan United Church.Candlelight Lessons and Carols. MetropolitanChoirs; Patricia Wright & Angus Fung, organ.56 Queen St. E. 416-363-0331 ext.26. Freewilloffering. Religious Service.● ● 7:00: Victoria Ballet Company. The Nutcracker.See Dec 20● ● 7:30: Jubilee United Church. A ChristmasConcert. Arthur Wenk, organ. 40 UnderhillDr. 416-447-6846. Free.● ● 7:30: Victoria Scholars. O Night Divine.Carols by composers from Canada andaround the world, featuring works from ONight Divine, Victoria Scholars’ most recentChristmas recording. Jerzy Cichocki. OurLady Of Sorrows, 3055 Bloor St. W. 416-761-7776. $30; $25(sr/st). Also Dec 20 (BlessedSacrament Church).● ● 8:00: Musideum. Brownman 1: XMASParty and Show. New age. Suite 133 (mainfloor), 401 Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323.$20.Monday December 23● ● 2:00: Ross Petty Productions. The LittleMermaid: Ontario’s O-FISH-AL FamilyMusical! See Dec 1.● ● 7:00: Flato Markham Theatre. Karpov BalletAcademy: An Evening of Classical Ballet.See Dec 22.Tuesday December 24● ● 2:00: Ross Petty Productions. The LittleMermaid: Ontario’s O-FISH-AL FamilyA. Concerts in the GTAMusical! See Dec 1.● ● 7:00: Church of the Ascension. Singalong.Traditional carols before ChristmasEve service. 33 Overland Dr. 416-444-8881.Free.● ● 10:30: Metropolitan Community Church.24th Annual Christmas Eve Service and Celebration.Traditional Christmas Music. DianeLeah, Musical Director; Heather Bambrick,Elana Harte, Jeigh Madjus and Dale Miller,vocalists. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St.416-872-4255. $25. Religious Service. See ad,previous page.Thursday December 26● ● 2:00: Ross Petty Productions. The LittleMermaid: Ontario’s O-FISH-AL FamilyMusical! See Dec 1.Friday December 27● ● 2:00: Ross Petty Productions. The LittleMermaid: Ontario’s O-FISH-AL FamilyMusical! See Dec 1.● ● 4:00: Cathedral Church of St. James.Weekly Organ Recital: David Briggs.65 Church St. 416-364-7865 x224. Free.● ● 7:00: Ross Petty Productions. The LittleMermaid: Ontario’s O-FISH-AL FamilyMusical! See Dec 1.● ● 8:00: Toronto Operetta Theatre. Landof Smiles. Lehár. Lara Ciekiewicz, soprano(Countess Lisa); Ernesto Ramirez, tenor(Prince Sou Chong); Vania Chan and CindyZhang, sopranos (Mi); Adam Fisher, tenor(Gustl); Derek Bate, conductor; GuillermoSilva-Marin, director. Jane Mallett Theatre,St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, 27 Front St.E. 416-366-7723 or 1-800-708-7654. $72-$95.Also Dec 28, 29, 31(eve); Jan 2, 3, 4, 5.Saturday December 28● ● 2:00 and 7:00: Ross Petty Productions.The Little Mermaid: Ontario’s O-FISH-ALFamily Musical! See Dec 1.● ● 8:00: Toronto Operetta Theatre. Landof Smiles. See Dec 27; Also Dec 29, 31(eve);Jan 2, 3, 4, 5.Sunday December 29● ● 2:00: Ross Petty Productions. The LittleMermaid: Ontario’s O-FISH-AL FamilyMusical! See Dec 1.● ● 2:00: Toronto Operetta Theatre. Land ofSmiles. See Dec 27; Also Dec 31(eve); Jan 2,3, 4, 5.● ● 4:00: Cathedral Church of St. James.Weekly Organ Recital: Andrew Ager.65 Church St. 416-364-7865 x224. Free.Monday December 30● ● 2:00: Flato Markham Theatre. BalletJorgen Canada presents The Nutcracker.171 Town Centre Blvd., Markham. 905-305-7569. $29-$34. Also Dec 30(eve).● ● 2:00: Ross Petty Productions. The LittleMermaid: Ontario’s O-FISH-AL FamilyMusical! See Dec 1.● ● 7:00: Flato Markham Theatre. BalletJorgen Canada presents The Nutcracker.See 2:00.Tuesday December 31● ● 2:00: Ross Petty Productions. The LittleMermaid: Ontario’s O-FISH-AL FamilyMusical! See Dec 1.● ● 7:00: Attila Glatz Concert Productions.Bravissimo. Opera’s Greatest Hits. Verdi:excerpts from La Traviata, Rigoletto andAida; works by Puccini, Rossini, Offenbachand more. Opera Canada Symphony; ChorusNiagara; Orpheus Choir of Toronto; Erika Sunnegårdh,soprano; Rebecca Nelsen, soprano;Wallis Giunta, mezzo; Emanuele D’Aguanno,tenor; James Westman, baritone; RobertoPaternostro, conductor. Roy Thomson Hall,60 Simcoe St. 416-872-4255. $55-$145.● ● 8:00: Toronto Operetta Theatre. Land ofSmiles. See Dec 27; Also Jan 2, 3, 4, 5.Wednesday January 1● ● 2:00: Musicians in Ordinary. A New Year’sDay Concert – French Baroque Cantatas andSonatas. Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre:Le Sommeil d’Ulisse (The Sleep of Ulysses);other 18th century French salon works. HallieFishel, soprano; John Edwards,lutes; guests:Christopher Verrette, violin; Emma Zoe Elkinson,Baroque flute; Philip Fournier, keyboards.Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave. 416-535-9956. $25, $20 (sr/st).● ● 2:30: Attila Glatz Concert Productions/RoyThomson Hall. Salute to Vienna.19th annual recreation of Vienna’s “Neujahrskonzert”!waltzes and operettas ofJohann Strauss Jr. and his contemporaries.Strauss Symphony of Canada; BernhardSchneider, conductor; Rebecca Nelsen, soprano;Daniel Serafin, baritone; dancers fromthe Kiev-Aniko Ballet of Ukraine; ballroomDancers. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St.416-872-4255. $60-$145.Thursday January 2● ● 2:00 and 7:00: Ross Petty Productions.The Little Mermaid: Ontario’s O-FISH-ALFamily Musical! See Dec 1.● ● 8:00: Array Ensemble. Array Session #21.Array Music Space, 155 Walnut Avenue. 416-532-3019. Free/PWYC.www.torontooperetta.comGuillermo Silva-MarinFounder and General DirectorIn the best Viennese tradition … music and theatre that evokes the exoticglamour of Beijing and Vienna in Lehár’s most accomplished score.THELand of Smiles(Das Land des Lächelns)Franz LehárDerek Bate, Conductor | Guillermo Silva-Marin, Stage DirectorLara Ciekiewicz, Vania Chan, Cindy Zhang, Ernesto Ramírez,Adam Fisher and Curtis SullivanDec. 27, 28 & 31* and Jan. 2, 3 & 4 at 8pmDec. 29 & Jan. 5 at 2pm* New Year’s Eveparty at HotHouse.416-366-7723 | 1-800-708-6754 | www.stlc.com50 | December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 thewholenote.com

● ● 8:00: Musicians in Ordinary. A New Year’sDay Concert – French Baroque Cantatas andSonatas. Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre:Le Sommeil d’Ulisse (The Sleep of Ulysses);other 18th century French salon works. HallieFishel, soprano; John Edwards,lutes; guests:Christopher Verrette, violin; Emma Zoe Elkinson,Baroque flute; Philip Fournier, keyboards.Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave. 416-535-9956. $25, $20 (sr/st).● ● 8:00: Toronto Operetta Theatre. Land ofSmiles. See Dec 27; Also Jan 3, 4, 5.Friday January 3● ● 1:10: Gordon Murray Presents. Piano Potpourri.See Dec 6.● ● 2:00 and 7:00: Ross Petty Productions.The Little Mermaid: Ontario’s O-FISH-ALFamily Musical! See Dec 1.● ● 8:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. LittleShop of Horrors. See Dec 5.● ● 8:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. AvenueQ See Dec 12.● ● 8:00: Toronto Operetta Theatre. Land ofSmiles. See Dec 27; Also Jan 4, 5.Saturday January 4● ● 2:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. LittleShop of Horrors. See Dec 5.● ● 2:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. AvenueQ See Dec 12.● ● 2:00: Ross Petty Productions. The LittleMermaid: Ontario’s O-FISH-AL FamilyMusical! See Dec 1● ● 8:00: Li Delun Music Foundation. NewYear’s Concert 2014. An East meets WestConcert of Favourite Classics. J. Strauss II:Overture to Die Fledermaus; Gershwin: Rhapsodyin Blue; Anlun Huang: Viola Concerto III;and other works. Dong Xiao Xu, conductor;Yun Fei Wang, er hu; Sheng Cai, piano; TengLi, viola. George Weston Recital Hall, TorontoCentre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge St. 416-490-7962. $88(VIP), $68,$48 $39, $33, $28.● ● 8:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. LittleShop of Horrors. See Dec 5.● ● 8:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. AvenueQ See Dec 12.● ● 8:00: Toronto Operetta Theatre. Land ofSmiles. See Dec 27; Also Jan 5.Sunday January 5● ● 2:00: Toronto Operetta Theatre. Land ofSmiles. See Dec 27.● ● 4:00: Church of St. Mary Magdalene.Organ music for Epiphany. Andrew Adair,organ. 477 Manning Ave. 416-531-7955. Free.● ● 4:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. LittleShop of Horrors. See Dec 5.Tuesday January 7● ● 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.Piano Virtuoso Series: The Colours of Passion.Works by Rachmaninov, de Falla, Prokofievand Messiaen. Mehdi Ghazi, piano.Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, FourSeasons Centre for the Performing Arts,145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. Free.● ● 12:10: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. In Concert. Winners Recital Jim andCharlotte Norcop Prize in Song and GwendolynWilliams Koldofsky Prize in Accompanying.Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building,80 Queen’s Park. 416-408-0208. Free.Wednesday January 8● ● 12:30: Yorkminster Park Baptist Church.Noonday organ recitals. Aaron James, organ.1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167. Free.● ● 5:30: Canadian Opera Company. Jazz Series:Winter Reflections. Standards and originalcompositions. Joe Sealy, piano. RichardBradshaw Amphitheatre, Four Seasons Centrefor the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W.416-363-8231. Free.Thursday January 9● ● 12:10: Nine Sparrows Arts Foundation/Christ Church Deer Park. Lunchtime ChamberMusic. Hannah Teminsky, horn. ChristChurch Deer Park, 1570 Yonge St. 416-241-1298. Free. Donations welcome.● ● 12:10: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. Thursdays at Noon. Works by Bloch,Hindemith and R. Clarke. Eric Nowlin, viola;James Parker, piano. Walter Hall, EdwardJohnson Building, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-408-0208. Free.● ● 12:15: Music at Metropolitan. Noon atMet. Joey Jang, tenor. Metropolitan UnitedChurch, 56 Queen St. E. 416-363-0331 ext. 26.● ● 8:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. LittleShop of Horrors. See Dec 5.● ● 8:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. AvenueQ See Dec 12.Ager in honour of Ruth Kort. Vicki St. Pierre,David Roth, James McLean, Vicki Hathawayand Andrew Ager. Cathedral Church ofSt. James, Snell Hall, 65 Church St. 416-364-7865. Free will offering.● ● 2:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. AvenueQ. See Dec 12.● ● 7:30: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Mozart@258Festival: Symphony 39. Overture toLa Clemenza di Tito, Piano Concerto No.18,K456, Symphony No.39, K543. Ignat Solzhenitsyn,conductor & piano. Roy Thomson Hall,60 Simcoe St. 416-593-4828. $33-$105. Postconcertparty to follow in the lobby.● ● 8:00: Guitar Society of Toronto. In Concert.Works by Bach, Prince, Elvis, andVerdery. Benjamin Verdery, classical guitar.Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave. 416-964-8298. $30; $25(sr/st).● ● 8:00: I FURIOSI. Turn, Turn, Turn. JamesJohnstone, harpsichord. Windermere UnitedChurch, 356 Windermere Ave. 416-910-8740.$20; $10(st/sr/underemployed). See ad, nextpage.● ● 8:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. LittleShop of Horrors. See Dec 5.● ● 8:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. AvenueQ. See Dec 12.Sunday January 12● ● 8:00: Music Toronto. Quartets: St. LawrenceString Quartet. Haydn: Quartet in E-flatOp.20 No.1; Martinů: Quartet No.5; Dvořák:Quartet in C Op.6. Lesley Robertson, viola;Chris Costanza, cello; Geoff Nuttall and ScottSt. John, violin. Jane Mallett Theatre, St. LawrenceCentre for the Arts, 27 Front St. E.416-366-7723 or 1-800-708-6754. $50-$55;$10(st/accompanying adult ½ price); payyour age(18-25).Friday January 10● ● 1:10: Gordon Murray Presents. Piano Potpourri.See Dec 6.● ● 8:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. LittleShop of Horrors. See Dec 5.● ● 8:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. AvenueQ See Dec 12.Saturday January 11● ● 12:30: Cathedral Church of St. James.Naomi Skerrett Recital Series: Schubert and● ● 3:00: Syrinx Concerts Toronto. A Celebrationof Canadian Composers. PaminaQuartet with Patricia Parr. Beethoven: StringQuartet Op.18, No.5; Kelly Marie Murphy:“This is my voice”; Dvořák: Piano Quintet.Csaba Koczó & Marie Bérard, violin; TheresaRudolph, viola; Roberta Janzen, cello; PatriciaParr, piano. Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave.416-654-0877. $25; $20(st). Reception followingto meet the artists.● ● 3:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Mozart@258Festival: Symphony 39. See Jan 11.● ● 3:00: Vesnivka Choir/Toronto UkrainianMale Chamber Choir. Christmas Concert.Ukrainian carols and New Year’s songs.Guests: Lemon Bucket Orkestra and CanadianBandurist Capella. Islington UnitedChurch, 25 Burnhamthorpe Rd. 416-763-2197or 416-246-9880. $20-$25.● ● 3:30: Talisker Players. Anything Goes.Selections from the Cole Porter songbook.Jennifer Enns Modolo, mezzo; Bud Roach,tenor. Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre, 427 BloorSt. W. 416-466-1800 or 416-978-8849. $35;thewholenote.com December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 | 51

$25(sr); $15 (st/un(der)employed). Pre-concerttalk at 3:00. Also Jan 14(eve).● ● 4:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. LittleShop of Horrors. See Dec 5.● ● 4:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. AvenueQ. See Dec 12.● ● 4:00: St. Philip’s Anglican Church. JazzVespers. Joe Sealy, Paul Novotny, Barbra Lica.25 St. Phillips Rd., Etobicoke. 416-247-5181.Free will offering.● ● 4:30: Christ Church Deer Park. Jazz Vespers.Tribute to Louis Armstrong. ChaseA. Concerts in the GTASanborn, trumpet. 1570 Yonge St. 416-920-5211 x22. Free, donations welcome. Tributetalk by Brian Barlow.● ● 7:30: Royal York Road United Church.Music for Epiphany. Celebration of Epiphanywith the choirs and soloists of Royal YorkRoad and Islington United Churches, strings,piano and organ. Douglas Brownlee and JohnDerksen, conductor. 851 Royal York Rd. 416-231-9401. Freewill offering.● ● 8:00: Musideum. Rose Stella. Jazz. Suite133 (main floor), 401 Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323. $20.Monday January 13● ● 6:30: Canadian Music Centre. Piano Series:Metamorphosis. Chris Donnelly: Metamorphosis,Ten Improvisations for SoloPiano. Chris Donnelly, piano. 20 St. JosephSt. 416-961-6601. $20; $15(adv). Wine tastingto follow.● ● 8:00: Sony Centre For the PerformingArts/Show One Productions. Lara FabianLive In Concert. Sony Centre For the PerformingArts, 1 Front St. E. 1-855-872-7669.$55-$125.Tuesday January 14● ● 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.Jazz Series: Road to Rio. Humber BrazilianJazz Ensemble; Gordon Sheard, piano.Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, FourSeasons Centre for the Performing Arts,145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. Free.● ● 12:10: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. Voice Performance Class. Walter Hall,Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen’s Park.416-408-0208. Free.● ● 8:00: Talisker Players. Anything Goes. SeeJan 12(mat).Wednesday January 15● ● 12:30: Yorkminster Park Baptist Church.Noonday organ recitals. Edward Moroney,organ. 1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167. Free.● ● 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Mozart@258Festival: Coronation Mass. ViolinConcerto No.5, K219 “Turkish”; “LaudateDominum” from Vesperae solennes de confessore,K339, Missa in C, K317 “Coronation”.Peter Oundjian, conductor; Hilary Hahn, violin;Leslie Ann Bradley, soprano; Lauren Segal,mezzo; Lawrence Wiliford, tenor; GordonBintner, bass-baritone; Amadeus Choir. RoyThomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-593-4828.$33-$145. Intermission chat in North Lobby.Thursday January 16● ● 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.Piano Virtuoso Series: Etudes and Fantasies.Schumann: Fantasy in C Op.17; Chopin: Etudein c Op.10 No.1); Debussy: Etudes from Book II(selection) and Hétu: Fantasie Op.59. ChristopherGoodpasture, piano. Richard BradshawAmphitheatre, Four Seasons Centre for thePerforming Arts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. Free.● ● 12:10: Nine Sparrows Arts Foundation/Christ Church Deer Park. Lunchtime ChamberMusic. Brooke Dufton, soprano. ChristChurch Deer Park, 1570 Yonge St. 416-241-1298. Free. Donations welcome.● ● 12:10: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. Thursdays at Noon. Guitar faculty RobMacDonald explores unusual methods of performance.Works by H. Oehring, J. Leblanc, A.Kampela and M. Pisati. Walter Hall, EdwardJohnson Building, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-408-0208. Free.● ● 12:15: Music at Metropolitan. Noon atMet. John Paul Farahat, organist. MetropolitanUnited Church, 56 Queen St. E. 416-363-0331 ext. 26. .● ● 4:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. AvenueQ. See Dec 12.● ● 7:30: York University Department ofMusic. Faculty Concert Series: Ron Westray,trombone. Tribute Communities Hall, AccoladeEast Building, 4700 Keele St. 416-736-5888. $15; $5(sr/st).● ● 8:00: Grandmothers PartneringWith Africa. Jazz in January. Africanand International Jazz. Sophia Perlman,vocals; Bruce Cassidy and others. Hugh’sRoom, 2261 Dundas St. W. 416-531-6604.$45/$40(adv). Benefit concert for the StephenLewis Foundation Grandmothers Campaign;silent auction.● ● 8:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. AvenueQ. See Dec 12.I FURIOSIBaroque EnsembleTurn, Turn, Turnwith guest: James Johnstone, harpsichordSaturday, January 11 th , 2014, 8pmWindermere United Church356 Windermere Ave, Torontoifuriosi.com● ● 8:00: Musideum. Eliana Cuevas. Latin.Suite 133 (main floor), 401 Richmond St. W.416-599-7323. $20.MozartCoronation MassMozartCoronation MassJAN 11 & 12JAN 15 & 16 TSO.CATSO.CA● ● 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.Masterworks: Mozart@258 Festival: CorontationMass. Violin Concerto No.5, K219“Turkish”; “Laudate Dominum” from Vesperaesolennes de confessore, K339, Missa in C,K317 “Coronation”. Peter Oundjian, conductor;Hilary Hahn, violin; Leslie Ann Bradley, soprano;Lauren Segal, mezzo; Lawrence Wiliford,tenor; Gordon Bintner, bass-baritone;Amadeus Choir. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 SimcoeSt. 416-593-4828. $33-$145. Intermissionchat in North Lobby.● ● 9:00: Toronto Downtown Jazz Society.Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue. Musicfrom Say That To Say This. Phoenix ConcertTheatre, 410 Sherbourne St. 1-855-985-5000. $40.Friday January 17● ● 1:10: Gordon Murray Presents. Piano Potpourri.See Dec 6.● ● 1:30: York University Department ofMusic. Music @ Midday: Aria with Me. Singersfrom the studios of Catherine Robbin,Stephanie Bogle, Norma Burrowes, MichaelDonovan, Janet Obermeyer and Karen Rymal.Tribute Communities Hall, Accolade EastBuilding, 4700 Keele St. 416-736-5888. Free.● ● 7:30: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. Dido and Aeneas. Purcell. Schola Cantorum;Choristers from the Theatre of EarlyMusic; Jeanne Lamon and Daniel Taylor, codirectors.Trinity College Chapel, 6 HoskinAve. 416-408-0208. $30; $20(sr); $10(st).Also Jan 18(mat/eve); 19.52 | December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 thewholenote.com

● ● 8:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. AvenueQ. See Dec 12.● ● 8:00: Music Gallery. Emergents II.Bussad; Frenkel; Hansler; Zappa; Henry;Willes. Ensemble Paramirabo; ChristopherWilles. 197 John St. 416-204-1080. $12;$8(members).● ● 8:00: Musideum. Conrad Gayle. Christianjazz. Suite 133 (main floor), 401 Richmond St.W. 416-599-7323. $10.Saturday January 18● ● 1:30 and 3:30: Toronto Symphony Orchestra- Young People’s Concerts. Once Upona Time. Prokofiev: Cinderella; Ravel: MotherGoose Suite; Copland: “Hoe Down” fromRodeo; Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite; Mendelssohn:A Midsummer Night’s Dream. RobKapilow, conductor; PickleShoes Dance Company.Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-593-4828. $20-$36.● ● 2:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. AvenueQ. See Dec 12.● ● 4:00: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. Dido and Aeneas. See Jan 17, Also7:30; Jan 19(eve).● ● 7:30: Canadian Opera Company. Cosìfan tutte. Mozart. Layla Claire, soprano(Fiordiligi); Wallis Giunta, mezzo (Dorabella);Paul Appleby, tenor (Ferrando); RobertGleadow, bass-baritone (Guglielmo); TracyDahl, soprano (Despina); and others; AtomEgoyan, stage director; Johannes Debus, conductor.Four Seasons Centre for the PerformingArts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231.$12–$332; $22(under 30). Also Jan 24, 29,Feb 1(mat), 6, 9(mat), 15, 18, 21.● ● 7:30: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. Dido and Aeneas. See Jan 17, AlsoJan 19(eve).● ● 8:00: Acoustic Harvest. David Bradstreet.With opening act Mira Miekle. St. NicholasAnglican Church, 1512 Kingston Rd. 416-264-2235. $25/$22(adv).● ● 8:00: Flato Markham Theatre. AmandaMartinez. Flamenco rhythms, Afro-Cubanbeats, bossa nova and Mexican folk music.171 Town Centre Blvd., Markham. 905-305-7569. $49-$54.● ● 8:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. AvenueQ. See Dec 12.● ● 8:00: Lute Legends Ensemble. Send me aRose. Plucked-string music from Turkey, Italy,Iraq, China, and Scotland, as well as by Canadiancomposer Andrew Donaldson. BassamBishara, oud; Lucas Harris, lute; Wen Zhao,pipa;. Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St. W.905-209-8968. $31.50; $20.50.● ● 8:00: Musideum. Elana Harte & Kim Jarrett.Acoustic blues rock. Suite 133 (mainfloor), 401 Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323.$10.Sunday January 19● ● 1:00: P.O.I.N.T./Yorkminister Park BaptistChurch Choir. Stuff. A bunch of stuff.John Millard, banjo. Academic ResourceCentre, University of Toronto Scarborough,1265 Military Trail, Scarborough.4165801460. Free.● ● 2:00: Flato Markham Theatre. Double Bill:Sheng Cai, Piano and The Jazz.FM91 YouthBig Band. Classical piano followed by big bandmusic. 171 Town Centre Blvd., Markham. 905-305-7569. $49-$54.● ● 2:00: Royal Conservatory. Barry Shiffmanand Friends. Brahms: Zwei Gesänge; Schumann:Piano Quartet. Barry Schiffman, viola;Desmond Hoebig, cello; Benjamin Bowman,violin; Julie Nesrallah, mezzo; Peter Longworth,piano. Mazzoleni Concert Hall, RoyalConservatory, 273 Bloor St. W. 416-408-0208. $32.● ● 4:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. AvenueQ. See Dec 12.● ● 5:00: Nocturnes in the City. GrossmanJazz Quintet. Prague Restaurant , Masaryktown,450 Scarborough Golf Club Rd. 416-481-7294. $25.● ● 6:00: Andrea Centre for Ayurveda.ONENESS (a night of Rumi). Persian classicalmusic and healing art of India. MehdiRezania, santur; Bamdad Fotouhi, tombak.1081 Bathurst St. 416-417-0342. $25.● ● 7:30: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. Dido and Aeneas. See Jan 17● ● 8:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. AvenueQ. See Dec 12.● ● 8:00: Musideum. Eva Green. Jazz. Suite133 (main floor), 401 Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323. $20.● ● 8:00: New Music Concerts. From AtlanticShores. Blais: Le miroir d’argent; Steffler:Book of Manners; Morse: The Unnamed Lake;MOTION ENSEMBLEFromAtlanticShoresSUNDAY JANUARY 19THE MUSIC GALLERYwww.NewMusicConcerts.comOickle: new work (world premiere); Charkeand Moore: The Grand-Pre Project (selections);and other works. Motion Ensemble.Music Gallery, 197 John St. 416-961-9594. $35;$25(sr/arts worker); $10(st). 7:15: Illuminatingintroduction.Monday January 20● ● 7:00: Royal Conservatory/Toronto BluesSociety. Maple Blues Awards. 17th annualcelebration of Canada’s blues music. KoernerHall, 273 Bloor St. W. 416-408-0208. $28and up.● ● 7:00: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. Monday Evening Concert. Tchaikovsky:Souvenir de Florence; Mendelssohn:Octet. Jonathan Crow, violin; Barry Shiffman,violin; Scott St. John, violin; Teng Li, viola;Shauna Rolston, cello; and others. Walter Hall,Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen’s Park.416-408-0208. $40; $25(sr); $10(st).violin; Theresa Rudolph, viola; Joseph Johnson,cello; Yao Guang Zhai, clarinet. Trinity-St.Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St. W. 416-282-6636.$20; $17(sr/st).● ● 8:00: Musideum. Nathalie with GeorgeKoller and friends. Jazz, alt rock, pop. Suite133 (main floor), 401 Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323. $20.● ● 8:00: Rose Theatre Brampton. Towerof Power. Rose Studio Theatre, Rose Theatre,1 Theatre Ln., Brampton. 905-874-2800.$74-$64.Tuesday January 21● ● 12:30: York University Department ofMusic. Music @ Midday: Student Showcase.Wide range of works including original compositions.Martin Family Lounge, 219 AccoladeEast Building, 4700 Keele St. 416-736-2100x22926. Free.● ● 7:30: Royal Conservatory. JoaquinValdepeñas Conducts. TSO principal clarinettistJoaquin Valdepeñas conducts the GlennGould School Chamber Ensemble. MazzoleniConcert Hall, Royal Conservatory, 273 BloorSt. W. 416-408-0208. $15.● ● 8:00: Music Toronto. Piano: Marc-AndréHamelin. Hamelin: Barcarolle (2012); Medtner:Sonata in e Op.25 No.2, Night Wind; Schubert:4 Impromptus D935 Op.posth.142. JaneMallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for theArts, 27 Front St. E. 416-366-7723 or 1-800-708-6754. $50-$55; $10(st/accompanyingadult ½ price); pay your age(18-25).Wednesday January 22● ● 7:30: Associates of the Toronto SymphonyOrchestra. Five Small Concerts. Voiceof Modernism meet the Weber Clarinet Quintet.Stravinsky: 3 pieces for String Quartet;Carl Maria von Weber: Clarinet Quintetin B-flat Op.34; Britten: String Quartet No.2in C Op.36. Eri Kosaka, violin; Shane Kim,● ● 12:00 noon: York University Departmentof Music. Music @ Midday: New MusicEnsemble. Matt Brubeck, conductor. MartinFamily Lounge, 219 Accolade East Building,4700 Keele St. 416-736-2100 x22926. Free.● ● 12:30: Yorkminster Park Baptist Church.Noonday organ recitals. Angus Sinclair,organ. 1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167. Free.● ● 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.Masterworks: Mozart@258 Festival: LortiePlays and Conducts. Serenade No.10 in B-flat,K370a/361 “Gran Partita”, Violin Sonata in G,K301/293, Piano Concerto No.22, K482. LouisLortie, conductor & piano; Jonathan Crow,violin. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-593-4828. $33-$145. Intermission chat inNorth Lobby.thewholenote.com December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 | 53

MozartCoronation MassLouis LortieJAN 11 & 12JAN 22 & 23 TSO.CAThursday January 23● ● 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.Jazz Series: Contemporary Currents. Originalcompositions. Humber ContemporaryJazz Ensemble; Kirk MacDonald, saxophone.Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, FourSeasons Centre for the Performing Arts,145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. Free.● ● 12:10: Nine Sparrows Arts Foundation/Christ Church Deer Park. Lunchtime ChamberMusic. “Ragtime!”. Angus Sinclair. ChristChurch Deer Park, 1570 Yonge St. 416-241-1298. Free. Donations welcome.● ● 12:15: Music at Metropolitan. Noon at Met.Joy Lee, violin; Paul Jessen, violin & organ.Metropolitan United Church, 56 Queen St. E.416-363-0331 ext. 26. Free.● ● 8:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. AvenueQ. See Dec 12.● ● 8:00: Musideum. Mia Zabelka. Contemporaryviolin. Suite 133 (main floor),401 Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323. $TBC.● ● 8:00: Toronto Masque Theatre. ArlecchinoAllegro. Comedy and renaissancemusic. Interpretations of Mahler, Mozart,Debussy, Leoncavallo, Schubert, and others.Performers include: Laura Pudwell, mezzo;members of the Gorgonetrevich Corps deBallet Nationale. Enoch Turner Schoolhouse,106 Trinity St. 416-410-4561. $45; $40(sr);$20(under 30). Also Jan 24, 25● ● 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.Masterworks: Mozart @258 Festival: SeeJan 22A. Concerts in the GTATSO.CAFriday January 24● ● 1:10: Gordon Murray Presents. Piano Potpourri.See Dec 6.● ● 7:30: Canadian Opera Company. Cosìfan tutte. See Jan 18. Also 29, Feb 1(mat), 6,9(mat), 15, 18, 21.● ● 7:30: Opera by Request. Carmen. Bizet.Sarah Hicks, mezzo (Carmen); StanislasVitort, tenor (Don Jose); Andrew Tees, baritone(Escamillo); and others; William Shookhoff,music director and piano; University ofToronto Scarborough Concert Choir (LenardWhiting, conductor). Trinity PresbyterianChurch York Mills, 2737 Bayview Ave. 416 455-2365. $20.● ● 7:30: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. An Evening of English Song withStephanie Blythe. Steven Philcox, piano; voiceand piano students. Walter Hall, EdwardJohnson Building, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-408-0208. Free.John SheardpresentsThe Great Reunionwith Wendell FergusonFriday, January 248pmauroraculturalcentre.ca● ● 8:00: Aurora Cultural Centre. A Sheard/Wendellful Delight. John Sheard, piano; WendellFerguson, guitar. 22 Church St., Aurora.905-713-1818. $30/$25(adv).● ● 8:00: Flato Markham Theatre. Tower ofPower. Funk and soul. 171 Town Centre Blvd.,Markham. 905-305-7569. $74-$79. AlsoJan 25.● ● 8:00: Musicians in Ordinary. The JoyfulMysteries. Biber: Rosary Sonatas; Monteverdi:17th C motets: and pieces by Grandi,Merula, and Cazzati. Hallie Fishel, soprano;Christopher Verrette, violins; Philip Fournier,organ; John Edwards, theorbo. MaddenHall at Carr Hall, St. Michael’s College, UofT,100 St. Joseph St. 416-535-9956. $25; $20(sr/st). Pre-concert talk at 7:30.● ● 8:00: Musideum. Kathleen Gorman &Samantha Clayton. Jazz. Suite 133 (mainfloor), 401 Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323.$20.● ● 8:00: Royal Conservatory. Isabelle Faustwith Alexander Melnikov. Beethoven: ViolinSonatas No.3, No.4, No.9 and No.10. IsabelleFaust, violin; Alexander Melnikov, piano.Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor St. W. 416-408-0208.$30 and up.● ● 8:00: Sinfonia Toronto. Mozart and theCanadians. J. Burge: Piano Concerto No.2;K. Lau: Joy for Violin and Orchestra; Mozart:Rondo in B flat for Violin and Orchestra; Mozart:String Quartet in C “Dissonance” (orchestralversion). Conrad Chow, violin; AngelaPark, piano; Nurhan Arman, conductor. GlennGould Studio, 250 Front St. W. 1-866-943-8849. $39; $32(sr); $12(st).● ● 8:00: Toronto Masque Theatre. ArlecchinoAllegro. See Jan 24; Also Jan 25NEW MUSICPASSPORTTTORONTO NEW MUSIC ALLIANCEORONTO NEW MUSIC ALLIANCETORONTONEW MUSICPurchase a passportfor $35 and seeAtlas of Imaginary Placeson Jan 24 for only $5!ALLIANCEnewmusicpassport.ca● ● 8:30: Spectrum Music. Atlas of ImaginaryPlaces. Aline Homzy; Andrew Kesler Duo;Felicity Williams and Alex Samaras, vocalists.Annex Theatre, 730 Bathurst Street. 416-988-3127. $15; $10(st/sr/music workers).Saturday January 25● ● 2:00: Domoney Artists Management. TheStar of Robbie Burns. Burns: poems & songs;highlights from Brigadoon. Charlotte Corwin,soprano; Benjamin Covey, baritone. Church ofthe Redeemer, 162 Bloor St. W. 416-693-7146.$30(includes tea and shortbread).● ● 2:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. AvenueQ. See Dec 12.● ● 3:00: Toronto Beaches Children’sChorus. For the Love of Music. Benefit concertfor a US tour. Mary Lou Fallis, soprano;Michael Bloss, organ; and others. KingstonRoad United Church, 975 Kingston Rd. 416-698-9864. $20; $15(sr/st); $10(children 12& under).● ● 4:00: The Larkin Singers. Magnificat. Parsons;Praetorius; Grieg; Howells. Church ofthe Holy Trinity, 10 Trinity Sq. 416 895 0651.$30; $25(sr); $20(st).● ● 7:00: Celebrity Symphony Orchestra.Anna German Viva Carnival. VladyslavaVdovychenko, soprano; Justyna Reczeniedi,soprano, violin; Michael Nasato and StanislavVitort, tenor; Andrzej Rozbicki, conductor.Christian Performing Arts Centre, Church onQueensway, 1536 The Queensway. 1-800-965-9324. $45–$55.● ● 7:30: Toronto Symphony Orchestra -Light Classics. The French Connection.Debussy: Clair de lune; Ravel: Piano Concertoin G; Berlioz: Le corsaire; Satie: Gymnopédies;Saint-Saëns: Bacchanale from Samson andDelilah. Fabien Gabel, conductor; Ryan MacEvoyMcCullough, piano. Roy Thomson Hall,60 Simcoe St. 416-593-4828. $33–$96.● ● 7:30: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. New Music Festival Opening Concert:U of T Symphony Orchestra. G. Prokofiev:Spheres for Violin and String Orchestra;Concerto for Turntables and Orchestra; S.Prokofiev: Symphonic Suite from The Lovefor Three Oranges; Suite from Romeo andJuliet (arr. D. Briskin). David Briskin, conductor.MacMillan Theatre, Edward JohnsonBuilding, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-408-0208.The Performing Arts in FusionPhoto: Al UehreArlecchino AllegroA glittering musical fête gone awryFeaturing Laura PudwellJanuary 23-25, 2014torontomasquetheatre.com416-410-456154 | December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 thewholenote.com

$30; $20(sr); $10(st). Remix party will followin the lobby.● ● 8:00: Flato Markham Theatre. Tower ofPower. Funk and soul. See Jan 24.● ● 8:00: Gordon Murray Presents. PianoSoirée. Works arranged for piano by G. Murray.Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee;Saint-Saëns: The Swan (from TheCarnival of the Animals); Kálmán: DreamOnce Again (from The Gypsy Princess); Sarasate:Zigeunerweisen (Gypsy Airs); and otherworks. Gordon Murray, piano. Trinity-St.Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St. W. 416-631-4300.$10; $5(st).● ● 8:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. AvenueQ. See Dec 12.● ● 8:00: Musideum. Jeremy Ledbetter &Mark Mosca. Piano and steel pan duo. Suite133 (main floor), 401 Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323. $20.● ● 8:00: Toronto Masque Theatre. ArlecchinoAllegro. See Jan 23Sunday January 26● ● 2:00: NYCO String Quintet. An Afternoonof Strings. Fundraising concert for the NYCOSymphony Orchestra. Piazzolla: 5 Tangos;Beethoven: Serenade in D Op.8; Traditional:Scottish Reel; Dvořák: String Quintet No.2in G Op.77. Julia McFarlane & Carolina Rouleau,violins; Jill Clarke, viola; Sybil Shanahan,cello; Anthony Damtsis, double-bass. HeliconianHall, 35 Hazelton Ave. 416-628-9195.$20; $10(st).● ● 2:00: Trio Bravo. In Concert. Brahms: TwoSongs Op.91; Mozart: Parto, Parto (Clemenzodi Tito); Lane: Trio No.1 (1963); Glinka: TrioPathetique. Terry Storr, clarinet; Baird Knechtel,viola; John Selleck, piano. Guest: LindaCondy, mezzo. All Saints Kingsway AnglicanChurch, 2850 Bloor St. W. 416-242-2131. $20;$15(sr/st).● ● 2:30: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. New Music Festival: Walter BuczynskiBirthday Concert. 80th birthday celebration.Buczynski: Violin Sonata; Suite 1, 2,3; Piano Sonata No.8 & 9 (premiere); vocalworks. Melanie Conly, soprano; Mark Fewer,violin; Joseph Macerollo, accordion; WilliamAide, piano; Walter Buczynski, piano; TaliskerQuartet; and others. Walter Hall, EdwardJohnson Building, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-408-0208. Free.● ● 3:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra -Light Classics. The French Connection. SeeJan 25● ● 4:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. AvenueQ. See Dec 12.● ● 4:00: St. Philip’s Anglican Church. JazzVespers. Robi Botos Quartet. 25 St. PhillipsRd., Etobicoke. 416-247-5181. Free willoffering.● ● 4:00: Vocal Mosaic and CelebrationChoir. Dancing Voices. Light classical choralworks. Linda Eyman, conductor. Trinity-St.Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St. W. 416-455-9238.$15; $10(sr/st); $35(family).● ● 4:30: Christ Church Deer Park. Jazz Vespers:Russ Little Quintet. Russ Little, trombone;Michael Stuart, saxophone; BrianBarlow, drums; Tom Szczesniak, piano; ScottAlexander, bass. 1570 Yonge St. 416-920-5211x22. Free, donations welcome.● ● 7:30: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. Schola Cantorum and the Theatre ofEarly Music. The Coronation of King GeorgeII. Works by Gibbons, Purcell, Tallis and Handel.Daniel Taylor, conductor. Trinity CollegeChapel, 6 Hoskin Ave. 416-408-0208. $30;$20(sr); $10(st).● ● 8:00: Esprit Orchestra. Strange Matter.Moussa: New Work (premiere); Ruzicka:Satyagraha; Di Castri: Strange Matterfor ensemble; G. Prokofiev: Movement fromCello Concerto; U. Chin: Graffiti. Alex Pauk,conductor; Bryan Cheng, cello; Guests: GabrielProkofiev, composer; Samy Moussa, conductor.Koerner Hall, Royal Conservatory,273 Bloor St. W. 416-408-0208. $55; $50(sr);$20(under 30). 7:15: Pre-concert chat.● ● 8:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. AvenueQ. See Dec 12.● ● 8:00: Musideum. Steve Koven and PedroOrrego. Improvised music. Suite 133 (mainfloor), 401 Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323.$20.Monday January 27● ● 12:30: York University Department ofMusic. Music @ Midday: Classical InstrumentalRecital. Featuring student soloists. TributeCommunities Hall, Accolade East Building,4700 Keele St. 416-736-2100 x22926. Free.● ● 7:30: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. New Music Festival: Guest Recital:Roberto Turrin, piano. Walter Hall, EdwardJohnson Building, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-408-0208. Free.Tuesday January 28● ● 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.Vocal Series: The School for Lovers. Highlightsfrom Così fan tutte. Artists of EnsembleStudio. Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre,Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts,145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. Free.● ● 7:30: York University Faculty of Fine Arts.Beggar’s Opera. Students from music, theatre,dance and digital media collaborate onthis immersive adaptation by Gwen Dobie.Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre, AccoladeEast Building, 4700 Keele St. 416-736-5888. $17; $12(sr/st). Also Jan 29, 30, 31(mat/eve), Feb 1(mat).● ● 8:00: Flato Markham Theatre. Jim Brickman- The Love Tour. Romantic piano. Withguest Luke McMaster. 171 Town Centre Blvd.,Markham. 905-305-7569. $54-$59.● ● 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.Sounds of Simon and Garfunkel. Songsinclude: S&G/arr. Wills: The 59th StreetBridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy); PAUL SIMON:The Sounds of Silence; S. Michael Krajewski,conductor; AJ Swearingen, vocalist; JonathanBeedle, vocalist. Roy Thomson Hall,60 Simcoe St. 416-593-4828. $33-$110.● ● 9:00: Canadian Music Centre. NonclassicalNight with Gabriel Prokofiev. Poweredby Audio Blood. 20 St. Joseph St. 416-408-0208. Free.Wednesday January 29● ● 12:10: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. New Music Festival: New Music forBassoon and Percussion. Works by T. Burkall,A. Ouzounoff, D. Lang and others. NadinaMackie Jackson, bassoon; Beverley Johnston,percussion. Walter Hall, Edward JohnsonBuilding, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-408-0208.Free.● ● 12:30: Yorkminster Park Baptist Church.Noonday organ recitals. William Maddox,Organ. 1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167. Free.● ● 2:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.Sounds of Simon and Garfunkel. See Jan 28;Also Jan 29(eve)Domoney Artists ManagementpresentsTheStar ofRobbieBurnsA celebration ofScotland's poet ofthe people throughword and songplus a tribute toBroadway's BrigadoonwithAndrew Gillies | ActorCharlotte Corwin | SopranoBenjamin Covey | BaritoneSATURDAYJANUARY 25 | 2pmCHURCH OFTHE REDEEMER(BLOOR ST & AVENUE RD)TICKETS $30(INCLUDES TEA &SHORTBREAD)available at the dooror online atdomoneyartists.com/burnsthewholenote.com December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 | 55

INTIMATELYBACHJAN 29-FEB 2TRINITY-ST. PAUL’S CENTRE,JEANNE LAMON HALLtafelmusik.orgA. Concerts in the GTABaroque OrchestraJeanne Lamon, Music Director● ● 7:00: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra.Intimately Bach. Violin Concerto in gBWV1056; Trio Sonata in C BWV529; TripleConcerto for harpsichord, flute and violinBWV1044; Jeay: Aiga-Faros. Grégoire Jeay,flute; Jeanne Lamon, conductor. Trinity-St.Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St. W. 416-964-6337.$37–$87; $29–$78(sr); $15–$78(st). Post-concertchat. Also Jan 30, 31, Feb 1, and 2(mat).● ● 7:30: Canadian Opera Company. Così fantutte. See Jan 18. Also Feb 1(mat), 6, 9(mat),15, 18, 21.● ● 7:30: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. New Music Festival: Chamber Musicof Gabriel Prokofiev I. Winning work of theUniversity of Toronto String Quartet CompositionCompetition. Cecilia String Quartet. WalterHall, Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen’sPark. 416-408-0208. Free.● ● 7:30: York University Faculty of Fine Arts.Beggar’s Opera. See Jan 28; Also Jan 30,31(mat/eve), Feb 1(mat).● ● 8:00: Royal Conservatory. Luca Pisaroniwith Wolfram Rieger. Luca Pisaroni, baritone;Wolfram Rieger, piano. Koerner Hall,273 Bloor St. W. 416-408-0208. $25 and up.● ● 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra -Pops. Sounds of Simon and Garfunkel. SeeJan 28.Thursday January 30● ● 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.Chamber Music Series: Tour de France.Inghelbrecht: Sonatine; Cras: Trio; Damase:Quintet. Trio Arkel: Marie Bérard, violin; TengLi, viola; Winona Zelenka, cello; and friends:Les Allt, flute; Erica Goodman, harp. RichardBradshaw Amphitheatre, Four Seasons Centrefor the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W.416-363-8231. Free.● ● 12:10: Nine Sparrows Arts Foundation/Christ Church Deer Park. Lunchtime ChamberMusic. Kate Clark and Friends, woodwinds.Christ Church Deer Park, 1570 YongeSt. 416-241-1298. Free. Donations welcome.● ● 12:10: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. New Music Festival: Chamber Musicof Gabriel Prokofiev II. Faculty and guest artists.Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building,80 Queen’s Park. 416-408-0208. Free.● ● 12:15: Music at Metropolitan. Noon at Met.Benjamin Stein, theorbo. Metropolitan UnitedChurch, 56 Queen St. E. 416-363-0331 ext. 26.Freewill donation.● ● 12:30: York University Department ofMusic. Jazz at Noon. Barry Elmes Ensemble.Martin Family Lounge, 219 AccoladeEast Building, 4700 Keele St. 416-736-2100x22926. Free.● ● 1:10: Gordon Murray Presents. Piano Potpourri.See Dec 6.● ● 5:00: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. New Music Festival: Encounters. Fiveminiature operas written by student composers,based upon librettos by Michael PatrickAlbano. MacMillan Theatre, EdwardJohnson Building, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-408-0208. Free.● ● 7:30: York University Faculty of Fine Arts.Beggar’s Opera. See Jan 28; Also Jan 31(mat/eve), Feb 1(mat).● ● 8:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. AvenueQ. See Dec 12.● ● 8:00: Music Toronto. Quartets: AlcanQuartet. Haydn: Quartet in A Op.55 No.1;Annunziata: Quartet No.1, Griko (2012);Beethoven: Quartet in e Op.59 No.2(Razumovsky). Laura Andriani and NathalieCamus, violin; Luc Beauchemin, viola; DavidEllis, cello. Jane Mallett Theatre, St. LawrenceCentre for the Arts, 27 Front St. E. 416-366-7723 or 1-800-708-6754. $50-$55; $10(st/accompanying adult ½ price); pay yourage(18-25).● ● 8:00: Musideum. Shannon Butcher &Ross MacIntyre. Jazz. Suite 133 (main floor),401 Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323. $20.● ● 8:00: Rose Theatre. Rosanne Cash.1 Theatre Ln., Brampton. 905-874-2800.$72-$82.● ● 8:00: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra.Intimately Bach. Violin Concerto in gBWV1056; Trio Sonata in C BWV529; TripleConcerto for harpsichord, flute and violinBWV1044; Jeay: Aiga-Faros. GrégoireJeay, flute; Jeanne Lamon, conductor. Trinity-St.Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St. W. 416-964-6337. $37–$87; $29–$78(sr); $15–$78(st). SeeJan 29; Also Jan 31, Feb 1, and 2(mat).Friday January 31● ● 12:10: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. New Music Festival: ElectroacousticMusic. Multimedia works by graduatestudents and guest composer Gabriel Prokofiev.Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building,80 Queen’s Park. 416-408-0208. Free.● ● 1:00: York University Faculty of FineArts. Beggar’s Opera. See Jan 28; Also 7:30,Feb 1(mat).● ● 7:30: Bobcaygeon Music Council. Divas.Well known opera and musical theatrepieces. Cicela Månsson, soprano; LeslieBickle, soprano; Catherin Carew, mezzo. TrinityUnited Church (Bobcaygeon), 42 WilliamSt., Bobcaygeon. 705-731-9661. $25; free(st/child).● ● 7:30: Opera by Request. Le Nozze diFigaro. Mozart. Michael Robert-Broder, baritone(Figaro); Jocelyn Halleck, soprano(Susanna); David Diston, baritone (CountAlmaviva); Deena Nicklefork, soprano (Countess);Jennifer Routhier, mezzo (Cherubino);and others; William Shookhoff, music directorand piano. College Street United Church,452 College St. 416 455-2365. $20.● ● 7:30: St. Anne’s Music & Drama Society.Princess Ida. Gilbert & Sullivan. Laura Schatz,BACH CHILDREN’S CHORUS Linda Beaupré, conductorMETROPOLITAN CHURCH CHOIR Patricia Wright, conductorNORTHERN LIGHTS Steve Armstrong and Jordan Travis, conductorsEleanor Daley and Patricia Wright, piano and organTrue ColoursA BENEFIT FOR CANADA'S LARGEST PIPE ORGANSaturday, February 1, 2014 at 7:30pmMetropolitan United Church 56 Queen Street (east of Yonge)Adults: $20 Age 18 and under: $10 Reserve at 416-363-0331 x26director; Daniel Norman, musical director;Jennie Garde, choreographer. St. Anne’s ParishHall, 651 Dufferin St. 416-922-4415. $25;$20(sr/st). Also Feb 1, 2, 6-9. Start times vary.● ● 7:30: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. New Music Festival: Karen KieserPrize Concert. C. Thornborrow: Walking(2013 winner); Works by K. Curcin, K. Lau, C.Livingston, G. Prokofiev. Walter Hall, EdwardJohnson Building, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-408-0208. Free.● ● 7:30: York University Faculty of Fine Arts.Beggar’s Opera. See Jan 28; Also Feb 1(mat).● ● 8:00: Lower Ossington Theatre. AvenueQ. See Dec 12.● ● 8:00: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra.Intimately Bach. See Jan 29; Also Feb 1, and2(mat).Saturday February 1● ● 1:00: York University Faculty of Fine Arts.Beggar’s Opera. See Jan 28.● ● 2:00: Oakville Symphony Orchestra.Rome & Vienna. Brahms: Academic FestivalOverture; J.N.Hummel: Trumpet Concerto56 | December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 thewholenote.com

in Eb; Respighi: The Fountains of Rome; Berlioz:Roman Carnival Overture. Adam Zinatelli,trumpetRoberto De Clara, conductor. OakvilleCentre for the Performing Arts, 130 Navy St.,Oakville. 905-815-2021. $51; $46(sr); $26(st).● ● 2:00: St. Anne’s Music & Drama Society.Princess Ida. See Jan 31; Also 7:30; Jan 31,Feb 2, 6-9. Start times vary.● ● 3:00: Soundstreams. Elmer Iseler Singers.Part of a weekend celebrating 60 yearsof professional choral singing in Canada.Estacio: Raymond’s Disappearance; LeonardEnns: Nocturne; and others. St. Thomas’sAnglican Church, 383 Huron St. 416-504-1282. $25; $60 for all 3 weekend recitals.● ● 4:30: Canadian Opera Company. Così fantutte See Jan 18. Also Feb 6, 9(mat), 15, 18, 21.●●5:00: Soundstreams. Vancouver ChamberChoir. Willan Healey: Behold, the tabernacleof God; Harry Somers: God the masterof this scene; and others. Vancouver ChamberChoir. St. Thomas’s Anglican Church, 383Huron St. 416-504-1282. $25.● ● 7:30: Metropolitan United Church. TrueColours. Bach Children’s Chorus, Linda Beaupré,conductor; Metropolitan Church Choir,Patricia Wright, conductor and organ; NorthernLights, Steve Armstrong and Jordan Travis,conductors; and others. 56 Queen St. E.316-363-0331 x26. $20; $10(18 and under).● ● 7:30: Royal Conservatory. Glenn GouldSchool Vocal Showcase. GGS vocal studentsperform an evening of art songs and operaarias. Mazzoleni Concert Hall, Royal Conservatory,273 Bloor St. W. 416-408-0208. $15.● ● 7:30: Soundstreams. Pro Coro Canada.Part of a weekend celebrating 60 yearsof professional choral singing in Canada.Frank Martin: excerpts from the Mass fordouble choir; Veljo Tormis: Curse upon Iron;and others. St. Thomas’s Anglican Church,383 Huron St. 416-504-1282. $25; $60 for all 3weekend recitals.● ● 7:30: St. Anne’s Music & Drama Society.Princess Ida. See Jan 31; Also 2:00; Feb 2, 6-9.Start times vary.● ● 7:30: Tapestry Opera. Tapestry Songbook.Evening of new opera excerpts. KristinaSzabo, soprano; emerging artists from Tapestry101 workshop; Christopher Foley, piano.Ernest Balmer Studio (315), Distillery District,9 Trinity St. 416-537-6066 x225. $25.● ● 7:30: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. New Music Festival: U of T WindEnsemble. New music for winds. GillianMacKay, conductor. MacMillan Theatre,Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen’s Park.416-408-0208. $30; $20(sr); $10 (st).● ● 8:00: Acoustic Harvest. Dave Gunning. St.Nicholas Anglican Church, 1512 Kingston Rd.416-264-2235. $25/$22(adv).● ● 8:00: Flato Markham Theatre. RoseanneCash. 171 Town Centre Blvd., Markham. 905-305-7569. $74-$79.● ● 8:00: Mississauga Festival Choir. Festivalof Friends. The choir’s annual massedchoir festival featuring numerous local choirsin solo and massed repertoire. Eden UnitedChurch, 3051 Battleford, Mississauga. 905-306-6000. $25. All proceeds go towards alocal Mississauga charity.● ● 8:00: Royal Conservatory/Small WorldMusic/Batuki Music. Fatoumata Diawarawith Bassekou Kouyate. Music of Mali andblues. Fatoumata Diawara, voice; BassekouKouyate, jeli ngoni. Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor St.W. 416-408-0208. $30 and up.● ● 8:00: Scaramella. Musikalischer Spaß.Chamber music of the Viennese classical period.Derek Conrod and Christine Passmore,natural horns; Mylène Guay, classical flute;Kathleen Kajioka; viola; Joëlle Morton, Viennesedouble bass. Victoria College Chapel,91 Charles St. W. 416-760-8610. $30; $25(sr);$20(st).● ● 8:00: Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra.Canadian Portraits. Cable: variousworks; Calvert: Canadian Folk Song Suite;McIntyre Ranch Country. Winds of the SPO;The Canadian Staff Band of the SalvationArmy; Howard Cable, conductor; John Lam,guest conductor. Salvation Army ScarboroughCitadel, 2021 Lawrence Ave. E. 416-429-0007. $30; $25(sr); $15(st); $10(child).● ● 8:00: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra.Intimately Bach. See Jan 29; Also Feb 2(mat).Sunday February 2● ● 2:00: Canadian Opera Company. Un balloin maschera. Verdi. Adrianne Pieczonka,soprano (Amelia); Dimitri Pittas, tenor (Riccardo);Elena Manistina, mezzo (Ulrica);Simone Osborne, soprano (Oscar); JossiWieler and Sergio Morabito, stage directors;Stephen Lord, conductor. Four Seasons Centrefor the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W.416-363-8231. $12–$332; $22(under 30). AlsoFeb 5, 8, 11, 14, 16(mat), 20, 22(mat).● ● 2:00: St. Anne’s Music & Drama Society.Princess Ida See Jan 31, Also Feb 6-9. Starttimes vary.● ● 2:00: Visual and Performing Arts Newmarket.14th Annual Young Artists’ Showcase.Christopher Dallo, singer; Laura Ensig,clarinet; Wesley Bells, violin; Chantal’s DanceAcademy competitive dancers. NewmarketTheatre, 505 Pickering Cres., Newmarket.905-953-5122. $15; $10(st).● ● 2:30: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. New Music Festival: Choral Concert.Works by G. Prokofiev and faculty. MacMillanSingers; Women’s Chamber Choir; HilaryApfelstadt, conductor. Church of theRedeemer, 162 Bloor St. W. 416-408-0208.By donation.● ● 2:30: VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert.Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie. Allyson McHardy(Phèdre), Meredith Hall (Aricie), Colin Ainsworth(Hippolyte), Alain Coulombe (Thésée).Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centrefor the Arts, 27 Front St. E. 416-366-7723.$40,$52. Pre-concert chat with Iain Scott 45minutes before each show.● ● 3:00: Soundstreams. Canadian ChoralCelebration. Ensembles from three provincespresent a concert celebrating 60 yearsof professional choral singing in Canada.Schafer: Hear the Sounds Go Round (premiere);Górecki: Miserere; Nystedt: ImmortalBach; Beckwith: Sharon Fragments. Pro CoroCanada; Vancouver Chamber Choir; ElmerIseler Singers; Kaspars Putniņš, conductor.Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor St. W. 416-408-0208.$20-$65. 2pm: pre-concert chat.● ● 3:00: Syrinx Concerts Toronto. A Celebrationof Canadian Composers. Bach: Preludes& Fugues from WTK II; Grieg: BalladeOp.22; Schumann: Humoreske Op.20; Buczynski:Sonata No.10. Ilya Poletaev, piano. HeliconianHall, 35 Hazelton Ave. 416-654-0877.$25; $20(st).● ● 3:30: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra.Intimately Bach. See Jan 29.● ● 4:00: Church of St. Mary Magdalene.Organ music for Candlemas. Andrew Adair,organ. 477 Manning Ave. 416-531-7955. Free.● ● 4:00: St. Olave’s Anglican Church.Mediaeval England. Choral Evensong.360 Windermere Ave. 416-769-5686. Free,contributions appreciated. Religious service.● ● 6:00: Musideum. Pedro Dias with guestNancy White. Cuban and latin Americansongs. Suite 133 (main floor), 401 RichmondSt. W. 416-599-7323. $20.● ● 7:30: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. New Music Festival: U of T Jazz Studies.Featuring original works. Walter Hall,Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen’s Park.416-408-0208. Free.VOICEBOXOPERA IN CONCERTGuillermo Silva-MarinGeneral Directorin Frenchwith English surtitlesJEAN PHILIPPERAMEAUMeredith Hall, Colin Ainsworth,Allyson McHardy, Alain CoulombeARADIA ENSEMBLE,Kevin Mallon, ConductorSun. Feb. 2 - 2:30 pm● ● 8:00: Kindred Spirits Orchestra. JacquesIsraelievitch Plays Brahms. Tchaikovsky:Romeo and Juliet - Fantasy Overture; Brahms:Concerto for violin and orchestra in D, Op.77;Schumann: Symphony No.2 in C, Op.61. KristianAlexander, conductor; Jacques Israelievitch,violin. Flato Markham Theatre,171 Town Centre Blvd., Markham. 905-305-7469. $15-$40.Monday February 3● ● 3:00: Toronto Mendelssohn Choir. ChoralConductors’ Symposium Concert. Elora FestivalSingers; Noel Edison, conductor; and416-366-7723 | 1-800-708-6754 | www.stlc.comthewholenote.com December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 | 57

others. Yorkminster Park Baptist Church,1585 Yonge St. 416-598-0422x221. Free.MozartCoronation MassChineseNew YearFEB 3A. Concerts in the GTAJAN 11 & 12TSO.CATSO.CA● ● 7:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. ChineseNew Year with Yuja Wang. Huanzhi:Spring Festival Overture; Tchaikovsky: Variationson a Rococo Theme, Op. 33; Mozart:Violin Concerto No.2, K211; Rachmaninoff:Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; Dun: TheTriple Resurrection. Long Yu, conductor;Yuja Wang, piano; Cho-Liang Lin, violin; JianWang, cello; Dashan, host. Roy Thomson Hall,60 Simcoe St. 416-593-4828. $39-$179.Tuesday February 4● ● 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre Vocal Series:Songs from the Heart. Selection of artsongs and arias. Tracy Dahl, soprano; LizUpchurch, piano. Four Seasons Centre for thePerforming Arts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. Free.● ● 7:30: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. Student Composers Concert. WalterHall, Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen’sPark. 416-408-0208. Free.● ● 8:00: Musideum. Anita Kattakar & RattanBamrah. Indian classical. Suite 133 (mainfloor), 401 Richmond St. W. 416-599-7323.$20.Wednesday February 5● ● 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.Jazz Series: These Things. Selections. MarkKieswetter, piano; Ross MacIntyre, bass.Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, FourSeasons Centre for the Performing Arts,145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. Free.● ● 12:30: Yorkminster Park Baptist Church.Noonday organ recitals. John Paul Farahat,organ. 1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167. Free.● ● 7:30: Canadian Opera Company. Un balloin maschera. Verdi. Adrianne Pieczonka,soprano (Amelia); Dimitri Pittas, tenor (Riccardo);Elena Manistina, mezzo (Ulrica);Simone Osborne, soprano (Oscar); JossiWieler and Sergio Morabito, stage directors;Stephen Lord, conductor. Four Seasons Centrefor the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W.416-363-8231. $12–$332; $22(under 30). AlsoFeb 2(mat), 8, 11, 14, 16(mat), 20, 22(mat).Thursday February 6● ● 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre Dance Series:A Soldier’s Tale. Michael Greyeyes, choreographer/director;Tara Beagan, lyrics; JohnGzowski, music. Four Seasons Centre for thePerforming Arts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. Free.● ● 12:10: Nine Sparrows Arts Foundation/Christ Church Deer Park. Lunchtime ChamberMusic. David Boutin-Bourque, clarinet.Christ Church Deer Park, 1570 Yonge St. 416-241-1298. Free. Donations welcome.● ● 12:10: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. Thursdays at Noon: Adam Zukiewicz,piano. Haydn: Sonata in D; Albeniz: Iberia(Book 1); Liszt: Mephisto Waltz. Walter Hall,Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen’s Park.416-408-0208. Free.● ● 12:15: Music at Metropolitan. Noon at Met.Federico Andreoni, organist. MetropolitanUnited Church, 56 Queen St. E. 416-363-0331ext. 26. Freewill donation.● ● 7:30: Canadian Opera Company. Così fantutte. See Jan 18. Also Feb 9(mat), 15, 18, 21.● ● 7:30: St. Anne’s Music & Drama Society.Princess Ida. See Jan 31, Also Feb 7-9. Starttimes vary.● ● 7:30: York University Department ofMusic. Improv Soiree. An evening of improvisationin a participatory “open mike” set-up,hosted by the improv studios of Matt Brubeck.Sterling Beckwith Studio, 235 AccoladeEast Building, 4700 Keele St. 416-736-2100x22926. Free.● ● 8:00: Array Ensemble. Array Session #22.Array Music Space, 155 Walnut Avenue. 416-532-3019. Free/PWYC.● ● 8:00: Musideum. AIMToronto. Experimental.Suite 133 (main floor), 401 RichmondSt. W. 416-599-7323. $10.Friday February 7● ● 7:30: Canadian Opera Company. Così fantutte: Ensemble Studio Performance. Mozart.Aviva Fortunata and Sasha Djihanian,soprano (Fiordiligi); Charlotte Burrage andDanielle MacMillan, mezzo (Dorabella); ClarenceFrazer and Cameron McPhail, baritone(Guglielmo); and others; Atom Egoyan,stage director, Johannes Debus, conductor.Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts,145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. $25 and $55.● ● 7:30: Cathedral Church of St. James.Organ and Trumpet: Old and New, in honourof Dr. Wolfgang Kort. Andrew Ager, MichaelBloss and Paul Sanvidotti. 65 Church St. 416-364-7865. $35-$40.● ● 7:30: St. Anne’s Music & Drama Society.Princess Ida. See Jan 31.● ● 7:30: University of Toronto Faculty ofMusic. Wind Symphony Concert. S. Prokofiev:March Op.99; M. Colgrass: Bali; L. Zaninelli:Roma Sacra; D. Sampson: Moving Parts;F.Ticheli: Postcard; and other works. JeffreyReynolds, conductor. MacMillan Theatre,Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen’s Park.416-408-0208. $30; $20(sr); $10(st).● ● 8:00: Group of 27. I’m Austrian-Canadian.Works by Gervais, Badian, Morlock, Haydnand Mozart. Gregory Oh, piano; Ed Reifel,timpani; Mike Fedyshyn, trumpet. Trinity-St.Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St. W. 416-735-3662.$30; $20(st/sr); $5(under 18).● ● 8:00: Royal Conservatory. Mavis Staples.Soul and gospel. Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor St.W. 416-408-0208. $40 and up.B. Concerts Beyond the GTAIN THIS ISSUE: Alliston, Ancaster, Barrie, Brantford, Cambridge,Cobourg, Collingwood, Dundas, Guelph, Hamilton, Kingston, Kitchener,Lindsay, London, Owen Sound, Peterborough, Picton, Port Colborne,St. Catharines, Vineland, Waterloo.Sunday December 1● ● 2:00: Garden City Productions. The FullMonty. Written by McNally; music and lyricsby Yazbek. Wendy Leard, stage director/choreographer;John Valleau, musical director.Mandeville Theatre, 2 Ridley Rd., St. Catharines.905-682-1353. $28; $23(st/under 13);$5(13–18 with student ID). Also Nov 15–17,22–24, 29, 30(start times vary).● ● 2:00: Toronto All-Star Big Band. ASwingin’ Christmas. A holiday revue fashionedin the tradition of a classic “ChristmasShow” of yesteryear. Roselawn Centre,296 Fielden Ave, Port Colborne. 905-834-7572. $30.● ● 2:00: University of Waterloo Departmentof Music. Stage Band Concert. ConradGrebel University College, 140 WestmountRd. N., Waterloo. 519-885-0220 x24226. $10;$5(sr/st). Great Hall (Rm 1111).● ● 2:30: Niagara Symphony Orchestra.Masterworks 2: Reminiscing. Estacio: Variationson a Memory; Mahler: Songs of aWayfarer; Schubert: Symphony No.9 in C,“The Great”. Lauren Segal, mezzo; BradleyThachuk, conductor. Sean O’Sullivan Theatre,Centre for the Arts, Brock University,500 Glenridge Ave., St. Catharines. 905-688-5550 x3257 or 1-866-617-3257. $10–$53;$5(eyeGO); $12(PSSTnso).FEBRUARY 8, 2014YOUNG AT HEART8:00PM● ● 3:00: Grand River Chorus. A ChristmasGarland. Yuletide songs and carols. GrandRiver Chorus; Richard Cunningham, artisticdirector; Anne-Marie MacDairmid, piano;guest: Catherine Paynter, comedienne. AlexandraPresbyterian Church, 410 Colborne St,Brantford. 519-841-9708. $25, $20 (sr/st); $5(high school and younger).● ● 3:00: New Tecumseth Singers. FavouriteChristmas Music. Guest: John Wervers,conductor. Knox Presbyterian Church (Alliston),160 King St. S., Alliston. 705-435-5497.$18; $15(sr.st).● ● 5:00: St. George’s Cathedral. AdventCandlelight Procession with Carols. Congregationalsinging; works by Sirett, Brooks, Diemer,Biebl, Gibbons and others. St. George’sCathedral Adult and Children’s Choirs.270 King St. E., Kingston. 613-548-4617. Free.Religious service.● ● 7:30: University of Waterloo Departmentof Music. Instrumental Chamber EnsembleConcert. Conrad Grebel University College,140 Westmount Rd. N., Waterloo. 519-885-0220 x24226. Free. Chapel.Monday December 2● ● 7:30: Perimeter Institute. Classical WorldArtists Series. Andrew Von Oeyen, piano.Mike Lazaridis Theatre of Ideas, 31 CarolineSt. N., Waterloo. 519-883-4480. $78; $50(st).OFFENBACHOVERTURE TO ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLDPROKOFIEVPETER & THE WOLFRIDOUTFALL FAIRSTRAUSSAN DER SCHONEN BLAUEN DONAUHAYDN/MOZARTTOY SYMPHONYWITH: MAESTRO DENIS MASTROMONACO&WINNER OF THE 1ST ANNUALYOUTH CONCERTO COMPETITIONJoin us for a night of wonderful orchestral music experienced in the world class acoustics ofHamemrson Hall - Living Arts CentreTickets on sale NOW - 905.306.6000 - mississaugasymphony.camississaugasymphony.ca58 | December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 thewholenote.com

Tuesday December 3● ● 12:00 noon: Brock University Departmentof Music RBC Foundation. Music@Noon: StudentPiano Recital. Sean O’Sullivan Theatre,Centre for the Arts, 500 Glenridge Ave., St.Catharines. 905-688-5550 x3817. Free.● ● 7:30: Brock University Department ofMusic. University Wind Ensemble in Concert.Zoltan Kalman, conductor. Sean O’SullivanTheatre, Centre for the Arts, 500 GlenridgeAve., St. Catharines. 905-688-5550 x3257.$8.85.● ● 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo ChamberMusic Society. Made in Canada Piano Quartet.Fauré: Piano Quartet No.1 in c Op.15;Debussy: Sonata for violin and piano; Milhaud:Quatre Visages for viola and piano. Elissa Lee,violin; Angela Park, piano; Sharon Wei, viola;Rachel Mercer, cello. KWCMS Music Room,57 Young St. W., Waterloo. 519-886-1673.$35; $30(sr); $20(st). First of two concerts,see Dec 6.Wednesday December 4● ● 7:30: Arcady. Welcome Yule!–Christmasmusic of Ronald Beckett, conductor. GreenbrierPresbyterian Church, 11 White OaksAve., Brantford. $20; $10(st). 519-428-3185.Thursday December 5● ● 12:15: St. George’s Cathedral. Advent ConcertSeries. Valery Lloyd-Watts and ClareGordon, pianos. St. George’s Cathedral,270 King St. E., Kingston. 613-548-4617. Freewilloffering.Friday December 6● ● 7:30: Bach Elgar Choir. Messiah. By Handel.Full chorus and orchestra; Jennifer Taverner,soprano; Michele Bogdanowicz, mezzo;Chris Fischer, tenor; Andrew Tees, bass; AlexCann, conductor. Melrose United Church,86 Homewood Ave., Hamilton. $35. 905-527-5995. Also Dec 7.● ● 8:00: Jeffery Concerts. The Afiara StringQuartet. Haydn: String Quartet in C major, Op.33, No. 3 “The Bird”, Nielsen: String QuartetNo. 1 in G minor, Op. 13, Dvóřak: String Quartetin E-flat major, Op. 51. Wolf PerformanceHall, 251 Dundas St., London. 519-672-8800.$30; $25(sr); $15(st).● ● 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo ChamberMusic Society. Made in Canada Piano Quartet.Fauré: Piano Quartet No.2 in g, Op.45;Debussy: Sonata for cello and piano; Ravel:Duo for violin and cello. Elissa Lee, violin;Angela Park, piano; Sharon Wei, viola; RachelMercer, cello. KWCMS Music Room, 57 YoungSt. W., Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $35; $30(sr);$20(st). Second of two concerts, see Dec 3.Saturday December 7● ● 2:30: Sound Investment CommunityChoir. Christmas Joy! Traditonal choralChristmas music. Keiko Yoden-Kuepfer,piano/organ; Albert Greer, guest conductor;guest: Peter Voisey, oboe. Trinity UnitedChurch, Collingwood, 140 Maple St., Collingwood.705-293-2936. $20; free(under 12).Also at 7:30pm.● ● 7:30: Arcady. A Baroque Messiah. RonaldBeckett, conductor. Vineland Free ReformedChurch, 3685 King St., Vineland. $25.905-892-9160.● ● 7:30: Bach Elgar Choir. Messiah. See Dec 6.● ● 7:30: Chorus Niagara. A Canadian ChristmasCarol. Canadian carols, poetry, proseand images. Benedict Campbell, narrator;Lynne Honsberger, piano; Robert Cooper,conductor. Calvary Church, 89 Scott St., St.Catharines. 1-866-617-3257 or 905-688-5550 x3257. $35; $33(sr); $15 (st); $25(under30).● ● 7:30: Grand Philharmonic Choir ChamberSingers. Handel’s Messiah. Carla Huhtanen,soprano; Krisztina Szabo, mezzo-soprano;Zach Finkelstein, tenor; Tyler Duncan, baritone;Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony; MarkVuorinen, conductor. Centre in the Square,101 Queen St. N., Kitchener. 519-578-6885.$20–$70.● ● 7:30: Lyrica Chamber Choir of Barrie.Messe di Minuit de Noel. Charpentier:Messe di Minuit de Noel; Vivaldi: Gloria. DavidMcFadden, conductor. Burton Avenue UnitedChurch, 37 Burton Ave., Barrie. 705-722-0271.$17; $14(sr/st).● ● 7:30: Mohawk College Community Choir.Christmas at St. Paul’s: A Christmas Tradition.Schubert: Mass in B-flat; and other seasonalfavourites. David Holler, conductor. Guest:Mercredi Musique Chamber Orchestra ofNiagara. St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park St.W., Dundas. 905-526-7938. $25; $20(sr/st).Christmas cheer in the parlour following theperformance.● ● 7:30: Sound Investment CommunityChoir. Christmas Joy! See 2:30pm.● ● 8:00: Peterborough Symphony Orchestra.Home for the Holidays. Rutter: 12 Days ofChristmas; Waldteufel: Skater’s Waltz; otherworks; carols. Peterborough Pop Ensemble;Kawartha Youth Orchestra; PeterboroughChildren’s Chorus. George Street UnitedChurch, 534 George St. N., Peterborough.705-742-7469. $30; $15(youth).Sunday December 8● ● 2:00: Toronto All-Star Big Band. ASwingin’ Christmas. A holiday revue fashionedin the tradition of a classic “ChristmasShow” of yesteryear. Roxy Theatre, 251 9 St E,The Corporation of the City of St. Catharines presents the23 rd AnnualCivic Christmas Carol ConcertSt Thomas’ Anglican Church, St. CatharinesDecember 10th, 12 noonGuest Speaker Mary Ann Edwards - Director, Rankin Cancer RunPeter M. Partridge - Conductor Massed ChoirsRoss R. Stretton - Producer & OrganistProceeds to Community CareOwen Sound. 888-446-7699. $28.50; $15(st).● ● 2:30: Georgian Music. Christmas withErnesto Cervini. Ernesto Cervini, drums andclarinet; Amy Cervini & Alex Samaras, vocals;Chris Donnelly, piano; Kelly Jefferson, saxophone;Dan Fortin, bass. Central UnitedChurch, 54 Ross St., Barrie. 705-726-1181.$65; $85(subscription); $25(st subscription).● ● 2:30: Orchestra Kingston. Sing-Along Messiah. Salvation Army Citadel,816 Centennial Dr., Kingston. 613-634-9312.$12-$15. Rehearsals at 5:30 on Nov 26, Dec 3.● ● 3:00: Guelph Symphony Orchestra. HolidayClassics. Works by Handel, Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky;Audience carol sing-along. Guests:Kilmarnock Singers and the Guelph YouthSymphony Orchestra; Judith Yan, conductor.River Run Centre, 35 Woolwich St., Guelph.519-763-3000. $35; $17(under 30); $10(child);$5(eyeGO).● ● 4:00: Ozere. An Afternoon of ChamberFolk. Jessica Deutsch, violin; AdrianGross, mandolin; Lydia Munchinsky, cello;Sam McLellan, bass; Emily Rockarts, voice.Impresario Gallery, 37 King Street W.Cobourg .416-837-8027. $20.Monday December 9● ● 7:30: Arcady/National Academy Orchestraof Canada. Handel’s Messiah. BorisBrott, conductor. St. Patrick’s Roman CatholicChurch (Hamilton), 440 King St. E., Hamilton.1-888-475-9377. $10-$27. Also Dec 10(Burlington).Tuesday December 10● ● 12:00 noon: City of St. Catharines. CivicCarol Concert. Yuletide carol sing-along.Laura Secord Secondary School ConcertChoir, Denis Morris High School Choir, TheCivic Brass Ensemble; Ross Stretton, organ;Peter Partridge, conductor. St. Thomas AnglicanChurch, 99 Ontario St., St. Catharines.905-688-5601x2160. Freewill offering. Proceedsto Christmas Community Care.Wednesday December 11● ● 2:30: Seniors Serenade. ‘Twas the NightBefore Christmas. Samuel Bisson, cello;Simon Capet, piano. Central United Church,54 Ross St., Barrie. 705-726-1181. Free.● ● 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo ChamberMusic Society. In Concert. Ysaÿe: TheSonatas for Unaccompanied Violin. AndraTyniec, violin [solo]. KWCMS Music Room,57 Young St. W., Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $25;$20(sr); $15(st).Friday December 13● ● 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.Yuletide Spectacular. Holiday favourites withover 200 performers. Eleanor McCain, soprano;Grand Philharmonic Choir; Grand PhilharmonicChildren’s Chorus; Classical DanceConservatory; Evan Mitchell, conductor; BrighamPhillips, piano. Centre in the Square,101 Queen St. N., Kitchener. 519-745-4711 or888-745-4717. $19-$88. Also Dec 14(mat/eve).Saturday December 14● ● 2:30: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.Yuletide Spectacular. See Dec 13(eve); Also8:00pm.● ● 2:30: Niagara Symphony Orchestra.Family 1: The Snowman. Classic by RaymondBriggs. Laura Thomas, conductor.Sean O’Sullivan Theatre, Centre for theArts, 500 Glenridge Ave., St. Catharines.905-688-5550 x3257. $11.50-$26.50. 1:45:Pre-concert talk.● ● 7:30: Dublin Street United Church. ChristmasTreasures at Dublin. Carols and storytelling.Dublin Street United Church ChancelChoir, The Trillium Brass, The Watson Family,and storytellers. 68 Suffolk St. W., Guelph.519-827-9124. Free will donation.● ● 7:30: Niagara Symphony Orchestra. Pops2: A “Radio City” Christmas. Holiday classicsfrom the golden days of radio and stories toldby popular radio personalities. Chorus NiagaraChildren’s Choir; Bradley Thachuk, conductor.Sean O’Sullivan Theatre, Centre forthe Arts, 500 Glenridge Ave., St. Catharines.905-688-5550 x3257. $13.50-$55.00. 6:45:Pre-concert talk. Also Dec 15 (mat).● ● 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.Yuletide Spectacular. See Dec 13.● ● 8:00: Kokoro Singers. A Kokoro Christmas.Brenda Uchimaru, conductor. RyersonUnited Church, 265 Wilson St. E., Ancaster.289-439-9447. $20; $15(sr/st). AlsoDec 15(mat) (Guelph).thewholenote.com December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 | 59

● ● 8:00: Renaissance Singers. Sing Noel.Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Messe de Minuitpour Noel; Christmas music from the timeof the pioneers; contemporary offerings.St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church, ,23 Water St. N, Kitchener. 519-745-0675. $20;$15 (sr); $10 (st); Children 12 and under ($5).●●8:00: Toronto All-Star Big Band. ASwingin’ Christmas. A holiday revue fashionedin the tradition of a classic “ChristmasShow” of yesteryear. Regent Theatre,224 Main St., Picton. 877-411-4761. $29.Sunday December 15● ● 2:30: Niagara Symphony Orchestra. Pops2: A “Radio City” Christmas. Holiday classicsfrom the golden days of radio and stories toldby popular radio personalities. Chorus NiagaraChildren’s Choir; Bradley Thachuk, conductor.Sean O’Sullivan Theatre, Centre forthe Arts, 500 Glenridge Ave., St. Catharines.905-688-5550 x3257. $13.50-$55.00. 1:45:Pre-concert talk. Also Dec 14 (eve).● ● 3:00: Kokoro Singers. A Kokoro Christmas.Brenda Uchimaru, conductor. Duff’sPresbyterian Church, 319 Brock Rd. S.,Guelph. 289-439-9447. $20; $15(sr/st). AlsoDec 14(eve) (Ancaster).● ● 3:00: Peterborough Singers. Handel’sMessiah. Melody Thomas, soprano; EmmaMansell, mezzo-soprano; Chris Mayell, tenor;Tyler Fitzgerald, bass. George Street UnitedChurch, 534 George St. N., Peterborough.705-745-1820. $30; $10(st).● ● 3:00: Renaissance Singers. Sing Noel.Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Messe de Minuitpour Noel; Christmas music from the time ofthe pioneers; contemporary offerings. TrinityAnglican (Cambridge), 12 Blair Road, Cambridge.519-745-0675. $20; $15 (sr); $10 (st);Children 12 and under ($5).● ● 3:00: Wellington Winds. Joyeux Noël.Adoration of the Magi, In the Bleak Midwinter,Carol of the Bells, Wassail and other seasonalmusic. Daniel Warren, conductor. Guests:Grand Philharmonic Youth Choir, AmandaBrunk, conductor. Knox Presbyterian Church,50 Erb St. W., Waterloo. 519-579-3097. $15-$20; free(st).● ● 7:30: Arcady. A Baroque Messiah. RonaldBeckett, conductor. St. Andrew’s UnitedChurch (Brantford), 95 Darling St, Brantford.519-752-5823. $25.Monday December 16● ● 7:30: Peterborough Singers. Handel’sMessiah. See 3:00pm● ● 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo ChamberMusic Society. Penderecki String Quartet.Beethoven’s Birthday Concert. Quartet No.1,Op.18, No.1 in F; Quartet No.14, Op.131 in c#.KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young St. W., Waterloo.519-886-1673. $35; $30(sr); $20(st).Wednesday December 18● ● 12:00 noon: Music at St. Andrews. Christmaswith Keiko Kuepfer. Keiko Kuepfer,organ; Jennifer Potter, soprano. St. Andrew’sPresbyterian Church, 47 Owen St., Barrie.705-726-1181. $5; free(st).Friday December 20● ● 8:00: Georgetown Bach Chorale. A ManhattanChristmas. House Concert, 458 HighSt., London. 905-873-6081. SOLD OUT. AlsoDec 21 and 22 (all sold out).B. Concerts Beyond the GTASaturday December 21● ● 8:00: Georgetown Bach Chorale. A ManhattanChristmas. House Concert, 458 HighSt., London. 905-873-6081. SOLD OUT. AlsoDec 20 and 22 (all sold out).Sunday December 22● ● 2:00: Toronto All-Star Big Band. ASwingin’ Christmas. A holiday revue fashionedin the tradition of a classic “ChristmasShow” of yesteryear. Molson Canadian Studioat Hamilton Place, 1 Summers Lane, Hamilton.855-872-5000. $38.● ● 5:00: St. George’s Cathedral. A Serviceof Christmas Lessons and Carols. Christmascarols; works by Sirett, Holst, Berlioz, Victoria,Willcocks, and others. Cathedral ChristmasChoir and Children’s Choir. 270 King St.E., Kingston. 613-548-4617. Free.● ● 8:00: Georgetown Bach Chorale. A ManhattanChristmas. House Concert, 458 HighSt., London. 905-873-6081. SOLD OUT. AlsoDec 20 and 21 (all sold out).● ● 8:00: Guelph Chamber Choir. Handel’sMessiah. Handel: Messiah. Gerald Neufeld,conductor; Agnes Zsigovics, soprano; DanielCabena, countertenor; Bud Roach, tenor;Daniel Lichti, bass; Musica Viva Orchestraon period instruments. River Run Centre,35 Woolwich St., Guelph. 519-763-3000. $35(4 for $120); $10(st); $5 (youth with eyeGO).7:00 Pre-Concert Podiumtalk! Handel’s andchild welfare.Wednesday January 1● ● 3:00: Guelph Symphony Orchestra.Vienna, City of My Dreams. Strauss II: Viennesewaltzes, polkas, arias and duets. BettyAllison, soprano; Neil Craighead, bass-baritone;Judith Yan, conductor. River Run Centre,35 Woolwich St., Guelph. 519-763-3000. $45;$23(under 30); $10(child); $5(eyeGO).Sunday January 5● ● 2:30: Attila Glatz Concert Productions.Salute to Vienna. 19th annual recreation ofVienna’s “Neujahrskonzert”! waltzes andoperettas of Johann Strauss Jr. and his contemporaries.Strauss Symphony of Canada;Bernhard Schneider, conductor; RebeccaNelsen, soprano; Daniel Serafin, baritone;dancers from the Kiev-Aniko Ballet ofUkraine; ballroom dancers. Hamilton Place,10 Macnab St. S., Hamilton. 1-855-872-5000.$51.50-$106.50.Wednesday January 8● ● 2:30: Seniors Serenade. Musical Stylingswith Mike Lewis, Piano. Central UnitedChurch, 54 Ross St., Barrie. 705-726-1181.Free.Friday January 10● ● 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo ChamberMusic Society. Quartet Atlantick. HaydnQuartet Op.55 No.2 in f minor “Razor”; JohnZorn, Cat o Nine Tails; Dvorak, Quartet No.14in Ab, Op.105. Yehonatan Berick and AkemiMercer, violins; Dirk Niwoehner, viola; RachelMercer, cello. KWCMS Music Room, 57 YoungSt. W., Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $35; $30(sr);$20(st).Saturday January 11● ● 10:00am and 11:00am: Kitchener-WaterlooSymphony. Carnival of Arctic Animals.Music by Elgar, Saint-Saëns, Bartók and Mozart.KWS String Trio. Conrad Centre for thePerforming Arts, 36 King St. W., Kitchener.519-745-4711 or 888-745-4717. $11-$13. Also11:00 am; Feb 1(Waterloo Region Museum).● ● 7:30: Opera Hamilton. Popera. Featuringopera’s greatest hits and forgotten gems.Laura Whalen, soprano; Rihab Chaieb, mezzo;Antoine Belanger, tenor. Dofasco Centrefor the Arts, 190 King William St., Hamilton.905-527-7627 x236. $65-$127; $60(sr); $40-$85(30ish and under). Also Jan 16(8:00),18(mat).Tuesday January 14● ● 12:30: McMaster School of the Arts.Free Lunchtime Concert Series: Elaine Lau(Piano). Convocation Hall (UH213). McMasterUniversity, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton. 905-525-9140 Ext. 27038. Free.● ● 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo ChamberMusic Society. Trio Aquadulci. Beethoven:Op.1 no. 1 in Eb; Brahms: op. 101 in c; MarjanMozetich: “Scales of Joy and Sorrow”. Pierre-Andre Pashley, violin; Sarah Jane Gibbs, cello;Renee Kruisselbrink, piano. KWCMS MusicRoom, 57 Young St. W., Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $20; $15(sr); $10(st).Wednesday January 15● ● 12:00 noon: Music at St. Andrews. ChristopherDawes, Organ. St. Andrew’s PresbyterianChurch, 47 Owen St., Barrie.705-726-1181. $5; free(st).● ● 7:30: Perimeter Institute. Classical WorldArtists Series. Jean-Philippe Collard, piano.Mike Lazaridis Theatre of Ideas, 31 CarolineSt. N., Waterloo. 519-883-4480. $78; $50(st).Thursday January 16● ● 8:00: Opera Hamilton. Popera. SeeJan 11(7:30); Also Jan 18(mat).Friday January 17● ● 7:30: Brock University Department ofMusic. ENCORE! Concert Series: NiagaraWinds. Sean O’Sullivan Theatre, Centre forthe Arts, 500 Glenridge Ave., St. Catharines.905-688-5550 x3257. $28.50; $22.50(sr/st);$5(eyeGo high school program).● ● 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.Zhang Plays Rachmaninoff. Stravinsky: Jeu decartes; Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Themeof Paganini; M. Oesterle: Short Symphony;Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Overture.Haochen Zhang, piano; Courtney Lewis, conductor.Centre in the Square, 101 Queen St. N.,Kitchener. 519-745-4711 or 888-745-4717. $19-$82. Also Jan 18.Saturday January 18● ● 2:00: Opera Hamilton. Popera. See Jan 11.●● 2:30: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.Peter and the Wolf. Prokofiev: Peter and theWolf. Evan Mitchell, conductor. Centre in theSquare, 101 Queen St. N., Kitchener. 519-745-4711 or 888-745-4717. $11-$18.● ● 7:30: Barrie Concerts. Montreal’s AppassionataChamber Orchestra with SebastienLepine. Works by Haydn and Dvořák. SebastienLepine, cello. Hi-Way Pentecostal Church,50 Anne St. N., Barrie. 705-726-1181. $85.● ● 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo ChamberMusic Society. André LaPlante, piano. Bach/Busoni: Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue in C; Mozart:Sonata in Eb K282; Schubert: MomentMusical No.2 in Ab; Chopin: Fantasy in f,Op.49; Jacques Hétu: Variations (1964); Liszt:Nuages gris, En rêve (nocturne), and BalladeNo.2 in b. KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young St.W., Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $40; $35(sr);$25(st).● ● 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.Zhang Plays Rachmaninoff. Stravinsky: Jeu decartes; Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Themeof Paganini; M. Oesterle: Short Symphony;Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Overture.Haochen Zhang, piano; Courtney Lewis, conductor.Centre in the Square, 101 Queen St. N.,Kitchener. 519-745-4711 or 888-745-4717. $19-$82. Also Jan 17.Sunday January 19● ● 2:00: Kitchener-Waterloo ChamberMusic Society. Trio Fammus. Works by JaniPapadhimitri, Eric Satie, Pablo de Sarasate,Shostakovich, Piazzolla, Brahms, and more.Jani Papadhimitri and Livia Papadhimitri, violin;Sofia Papadhimitri, piano. KWCMS MusicRoom, 57 Young St. W., Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $20; $15(sr); $10(st).● ● 7:00: McMaster School of the Arts.Celebrity Concert Series. Toronto Mass Choir& McMaster University Choir (Gospel Choir).Westdale United Church, 99 N Oval, Hamilton.905-525-9140 Ext. 24246. $20; $15(sr); $5(st).Tuesday January 21● ● 12:00 noon: Brock University Departmentof Music RBC Foundation. Music@Noon: Faculty Recital. Zoltan Kalman, clarinet;Erika Reiman, piano. Sean O’Sullivan Theatre,Centre for the Arts, 500 Glenridge Ave., St.Catharines. 905-688-5550 x3817. Free.Wednesday January 22Marc-André Hamelin – pianoWorks by Hamelin,Medtner & SchubertWednesday, Jan. 22, 8pmCambridge Street United Church,Lindsay, OntarioGreat Music Comes To Lifewww.kawarthaconcerts.ca● ● 8:00: Kawartha Concerts. Ovation Series.Hamelin: Barcarolle; Medtner: Sonatain e, Op.25, No.2 “Night Wind”; Schubert:4 Impromptus, D935. Marc-André Hamelin,piano. Cambridge Street United Church,61 Cambridge St. N., Lindsay. 1-866-563-4078. $35; $5(st).Thursday January 23● ● 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo ChamberMusic Society. Ana Vidovic, classical guitar.Turina: Sonata for Guitar Op.61; Agustin BarriosMangore: Una Limosna por el Amor deDios; Albeniz: Granada; Asturias; Bach: Prelude,Fugue and Allegro, BWV998; and other60 | December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 thewholenote.com

works. KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young St.W., Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $30; $25(sr);$20(st).Friday January 24● ● 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.Quartetto Gelato: Italianissimo. Music of Italyfrom Neapolitan songs to opera, gypsy, tangoand more. Evan Mitchell, conductor. Centrein the Square, 101 Queen St. N., Kitchener.519-745-4711 or 888-745-4717. $19-$88.Also Jan 25.Saturday January 25● ● 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.Quartetto Gelato: Italianissimo. See Jan 24.Sunday January 26● ● 2:30: Niagara Symphony Orchestra.Masterworks 3: Fairy Tales. Goodyear: CountUp; Suk: Fairy Tale; Mendelssohn: completeincidental music to A MidsummerNight’s Dream. Chorus Niagara Children’sChoir; Bradley Thachuk, conductor; ChristopherNewton, narrator. Sean O’Sullivan Theatre,Centre for the Arts, 500 GlenridgeAve., St. Catharines. 905-688-5550 x3257.$13.50-$55.00.Monday January 27● ● 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo ChamberMusic Society. The Alcan String Quartet.Mozart’s Birthday Concert. Laura Andrianiand Nathalie Camus, violin; Luc Beauchemin,viola; David Ellis, cello. KWCMS Music Room,57 Young St. W., Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $35;$30(sr); $20(st).Tuesday January 28● ● 12:00 noon: Brock University Departmentof Music RBC Foundation. Music@Noon: Faculty Recital. Karin Di Bella, piano.Sean O’Sullivan Theatre, Centre for the Arts,500 Glenridge Ave., St. Catharines. 905-688-5550 x3817. Free.Wednesday January 29● ● 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo ChamberMusic Society. Symphony Winds. Mozart:Quintet in Eb for Piano and Winds, K452;Beethoven: Quintet in Eb for Piano and Winds,Op.16; Poulenc: Trio for Oboe, Bassoon, andPiano. James Mason, oboe; Ross Edwards,clarinet; Derek Conrod, horn; Ian Hopkin,bassoon; Shoshana Telner, piano. KWCMSMusic Room, 57 Young St. W., Waterloo. 519-886-167. $30; $25(sr); $20(st).Saturday February 1● ● 10:30am: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.Carnival of Arctic Animals. Music by Elgar,Saint-Saëns, Bartók and Mozart. KWS StringTrio. Waterloo Region Museum, 10 Huron Rd.,Kitchener. 519-745-4711 or 888-745-4717. $11-$13. Also Jan 11(Conrad Centre for the PerformingArts).● ● 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo ChamberMusic Society. The CIA (Composers andImprovisers Association of WLU’s Faculty ofMusic. Brass quintet and clarinet trio (clarinet,cello, piano). Music by many studentcomposers at the Faculty of Music. KWCMSMusic Room, 57 Young St. W., Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $15; $10(sr); $8(st).Sunday February 2● ● 2:30: Georgian Music. Ashu, Saxophoneand Kuang-Hao Huang, Piano. Central UnitedChurch, 54 Ross St., Barrie. 705-726-1181.$65.● ● 3:00: Wellington Winds. Shall We Dance.Cowell: Concerto for Trumpet and Winds; andworks by Bennett, Press, Zdechlik, Debussyand others. Daniel Warren, conductor. Guest:Larry Larson, trumpet. Knox PresbyterianChurch, 50 Erb St. W., Waterloo. 519-579-3097. $15-$20; free(st).Wednesday February 5● ● 12:00 noon: Midday Music with Shigeru.Thomas Torok, Piano. Bach, Beethoven, Chopinand Rachmaninoff. Hi-Way PentecostalChurch, 50 Anne St. N., Barrie. 705-726-1181.$5; free(st).Friday February 7● ● 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo ChamberMusic Society. The Attacca String Quartet.Haydn Quartets. Op.9 No.2 in Eb; Op.50 No.5in F (“The Dream”); Op.64 No.5 (“The “Lark”).(Concert 5 of a projected 23 of all the Haydnquartets.). Amy Schroeder & Keiko Tokunaga,violin; Luke Fleming, viola; AndrewYee, cello. KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young St.Alleycatz2409 Yonge St. 416-481-6865 alleycatz.caEvery Mon 8pm Salsa Night w/ Frank Bischunand free lessons. Every Tue 8:30pmCarlo Berardinucci Band. No Cover. EveryWed 8:30pm City Soul Swinging Blues & VintageR&B. No Cover. Every Thu 9pm Souland R&B (bands alternate weekly). EveryFri/Sat 9:30pm Funk, Soul, R&B, Top 40.$10 after 8:30pm. Dec 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 19,20, 21, 26, 27, 28 Lady Kane. Jan 2 DaniellaWalters. Jan 3, 4 Ascension. Jan 9 TonicSoul. Jan 10, 11 Lady Kane. Jan 16 Jee Jee &James. Jan 17, 18 Lady Kane. Jan 19 ElectricSoul Circus. Jan 23 Community Soul Project.Jan 24 Ascension. Jan 25 Soular.Jan 30 Blues & Trouble. Jan 31 Lady Kane.Annette Studios566 Annette St. 647-880-8378annettestudios.comEvery Mon 9:30pm Jazz Jam w/ Nick MorganQuartet. Suggested donation $12/$9(st).Artword Artbar15 Colbourne St., Hamilton. 905-543-8512artword.net (full schedule)Bloom2315 Bloor St. W. 416-767-1315bloomrestaurant.comDinner & Show: 7-9pm Prix Fix Menu, $35, reservationsrequired.Dec 12 Hilario Duran Trio. Dec 26 Luis MarioOchoa’s Cuba Tradicional. Jan 9 LuandaJones Trio. Jan 30 Luis Mario Ochoa’s CubaTradicional.Castro’s Lounge2116 Queen St. E. 416-699-8272castroslounge.com No Cover/PWYC.Every Sun 4pm Live jazz. Every Mon 9pmRockabilly Night w/ the Cosmotones. EveryTue 8pm rotating bluegrass bands; 10:30pmblueVenus. Every Wed 8pm MediterraneanW., Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $35; $30(sr);$20(st); cheaper for two, cheaper yet forall four.C. In the Clubs (Mostly Jazz)TAFELMUSIKBAROQUEORCHESTRAwith the VESUVIUSENSEMBLEBella NapoliSaturday February 8, 8pmCambridge Street United Church,Lindsay, Ontariowww.kawarthaconcerts.caStars. Every Thu 9pm Jerry Leger & the Situation.Every Fri 5pm Ronnie Hayward. EverySat 4:30pm Big Rude Jake.C’est What67 Front St. E. 416-867-9499cestwhat.comDec 14, 28, Jan 11, 25 2-5pm Hot Five Jazzmakers$5.Chalkers Pub, Billiards & Bistro247 Marlee Ave. 416-789-2531chalkerspub.comAll weekend events: $10 cover; free (under16).Every Wed 8pm-midnight Girls Night OutJazz Jam w/ host Lisa Particelli. PWYC.Dec 1 Michael Brooker Group. Dec 7 6-9pmDave Young Quartet. Dec 14 6-9pm Mike MurleyTrio: Murley (tenor sax); Reg Schwager(guitar); Steve Wallace (bass). Jan 4 6-9pmBrian Chahley Quartet: Chahley (trumpet);Dave Restivo (piano); Neil Swainson (bass);Terry Clarke (drums). Jan 5 7-10pm HarryVetro Quartet: Vetro (drums); Max Foster(trumpet);Victor Xu (piano); Nick Arseneau(bass). Jan 11 6-9pm Fern LindzonTrio: Lindzon (piano/vocals); Ross MacIntyre(bass); Terry Clarke (drums). Jan 186-9pm “Boom for Rent” Chris Gale (tenorsax); Reg Schwager (guitar); Brendan Davis(bass); Ted Warren (drums). Jan 25 6-9pmGene Bertoncini (guitar); Dave Young (bass)$25/$20(adv). Jan 26 3:30-5:30pm GeneBertoncini Guitar Clinic $25/$20(adv). Jan 267-10pm Gene Bertoncini (solo guitar).Classico Pizza & Pasta2457 Bloor St. W. 416-763-1313Every Thu 7pm Nate Renner. No Cover.Communist’s Daughter, The1149 Dundas St. W. 647-435-0103Every Sat 4-7pm Gypsy Jazz w Michael Johnson& Red Rhythm. PWYC.DeSotos1079 St. Clair Ave. W. 416-651-2109Every Thu 8pm-midnight Open Mic Jazz Jam,hosted by Double A Jazz.Dominion on Queen500 Queen St. E. 416-368-6893dominiononqueen.com (full schedule)Every Sat 4-7:30pm Ronnie Hayward. EverySun 11am-3pm Rockabilly Brunch w/ AlistairChristl and the Cosmotones. No Cover. EveryTue 8:30pm Hot Club of Corktown DjangoJam w/ host Wayne Nakamura. PWYC.Every Wed 8pm Corktown Ukelele Jam $5.Every Sat 4-7:30pm Ronnie Hayward. EverySun 11am-3pm Rockabilly Brunch w/ AlistairChristl and the Cosmotones. No Cover. EveryTue 8:30pm Hot Club of Corktown DjangoJam w/ host Wayne Nakamura. PWYC. EveryWed 8pm Corktown Ukelele Jam $5. Dec 69pm Havana to Toronto: Live AfrocubanJazz feat Joaquin Nunez Hidalgo (percussion).Dec 8 4:30pm Wintergarten Orchestra$10. Dec 9 8pm Good Neighbours OpenMic. Dec 27 9:30pm Paul James $10. Dec 289:30pm Daniel Buxton $10.Dovercourt House805 Dovercourt Rd. 416-537-3337odd-socks.org (full schedule)Every Sat 9pm-1am Saturday Night Swing:Dance featuring Live Swing Bands and twopre-party dance classes. Dance $13; $15 withone class, $18 with both.Emmet Ray, The924 College St. 416-792-4497theemmetray.com (full schedule)All shows: No Cover/PWYC.Fionn MacCool’s181 University Ave. 416-363-1944fionnmaccools.comEvery Sun 8-11pm Classical Social, hosted bySimon Capet. No Cover.Flying Beaver Pubaret, The488 Parliament St. 647-347-6567pubaret.com (full schedule)Dec 1 8pm Kevin Morris $15/$10(adv). Dec 87pm Scott Pietrangelo $15/$10(adv). Dec 13,14 7pm Broadsway $25/$20(adv). Dec 187pm John Alcorn: Happy Holidays Songbook$20/$15(adv).Gate 403403 Roncesvalles Ave. 416-588-2930gate403.com All shows: PWYC.Dec 1 5pm Yoko Hase Jazz Band; 8pm TiffanyHanus / Sean Bellaviti Jazz Band. Dec 25pm Mike Daley Trio; 9pm Richard WhitemanBand feat. Terra Hazelton . Dec 3 5pm BruceChapman Blues Duo; 9pm James ThomsonBlues Night. Dec 4 5pm Hojin Jang Jazz Quartet;9pm Sarah Calvert Jazz Duo. Dec 5 5pmDanny B & Brian Gauci Blues Duo; 9pm MelanieBrulee Band. Dec 6 5pm Roberta HuntJazz & Blues Band; 9pm Donne Roberts Band.Dec 7 5pm Bill Heffernan & Friends; 9pmJason Raso Jazz Quartet. Dec 8 5pm WhitneyRoss Barris Jazz Band; 9pm Toronto Jazz Collective.Dec 9 5pm Denis Schigh; 9pm RichardWhiteman Band feat. Terra Hazelton. Dec 105pm Howard Willett Blues Duo; 9pm JamesThomson Blues Night. Dec 11 5pm Ken SkinnerJazz Trio; 9pm String Theory Collective.thewholenote.com December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 | 61

Dec 12 5pm Felix Wong Jazz Trio; 9pm KevinLaliberte Jazz & Flamenco Trio. Dec 13 5pmBobby Hsu Jazz Band; 9pm Kathleen GormanGroup. Dec 14 5pm Bill Heffernan & Friends;9pm Jim Gelcer Group. Dec 15 5pm Rob Thaller& Joanna Reynolds; 9pm BrownmanAkoustic Trio. Dec 16 5pm Tom McGill; 9pmRichard Whiteman Band feat. Terra Hazelton.Dec 17 5pm Andy Malette; 9pm James ThomsonBlues Night. Dec 18 5pm Michael BrookerJazz Quartet; 9pm Leigh Graham Jazz Duo.Dec 19 5pm Sam Broverman Jazz Duo; 9pmAnnie Bonsignore & Dunstan Morey. Dec 205pm G Street Jazz Trio; 9pm Fraser MelvinBlues Band. Dec 21 5pm Bill Heffernan &Friends; 9pm Tevlin Swing Band. Dec 22 5pmJeff Taylor and the SLT; 9pm Dwight GrantSolo. Dec 23 1pm Nathan Hiltz Adults Ensemble.Dec 24, 25 closed. Dec 26 5pm Jazzforiafeat. Claire Riley. Dec 27 5pm MikeyDaley Jazz Trio; 9pm Brown-Talsky Jazz Quintet.Dec 28 9pm Sweet Derrick blues Band.Dec 29 5pm Jay Danley: Ethiojazz Project;9pm Root Down Trio. Dec 30 TBA. Dec 315pm Jonny Chapman Jazz Band; 9pm NewYear’s Eve w/ Denielle Bassels $10.Gladstone Hotel1214 Queen St. W. 416-531-4635gladstonehotel.com (full schedule)Dec 5 9pm Jake Chisholm. No Cover. Dec 84pm Christmas Cabaret w/ Jennifer Potter$15. Dec 27 9pm Arlene Paculan. No Cover.Dec 28 9pm We Walk the Line. No Cover.Grossman’s Tavern379 Spadina Ave. 416-977-1210grossmanstavern.com (full schedule)No Cover/PWYC.Every Sat 4:30pmThe Happy Pals; 10pm featuredband. Every Sun 4:30pm New OrleanConnection Allstars; 10pm The Nationals.Every Mon 10pm No Band Required. EveryWed 10pm Bruce Domoney. Every Thu 10pmThe Responsibles. Every Fri 10pm featuredband.Habits Gastropub928 College St. 416-533-7272habitsgastropub.comNo Cover, $20 food or drink minimum.Dec 7 9pm Kohen Hammond Quartet.Harlem Restaurant67 Richmond St. E. 416-368-1920harlemrestaurant.com (full schedule)All shows: 7:30-11pm. No Cover/PWYC.Dec 6 Mike Field. Dec 7 Zim Zum.Dec 13 Kristin Fung. Dec 14, Dec 20 Wade O.Brown. Dec 21 Gyles feat. James King Trio.Dec 27 Natasha Waterman. Dec 28 JazzLovers Society.Hirut Restaurant2050 Danforth Ave. 416-551-7560All events: PWYC.Home Smith Bar – See Old Mill, TheC. In the Clubs (Mostly Jazz)Hugh’s Room2261 Dundas St. W. 416-531-6604hughsroom.com (full schedule)All shows: 8:30pm (unless otherwise noted).Dec 1 Jully Black $27.50/$25(adv).Dec 2 Kruger Brothers $30/$27.50(adv).Dec 3 Blackie and the Rodeo Kings: CDPreview $52.50/$50(adv). Dec 4, 5 CraigCardiff $25/$22.50(adv). Dec 6, 7 LeonRedbone w/ Paul Asaro and Colin Linden$55/$47.50(adv). Dec 8 LeE HARVeYOsMOND and Harlan Pepper $32/$30(adv).Dec 9 Tribute to Sam Larkin w/ Ron Sexsmith,Kurt Swinghammer, Michael Johnston,Laura Hubert, Noah Zacharin andothers $17.50/$15. Dec 10 Tribute to DavidBowie feat. STARDUST $23/$18.50(adv).Dec 11 Rucksack Willies CD Release feat. TheO’Pear $20/$18(adv). Dec 12 Dan WhiteleyCD Release $22/$20(adv). Dec 13 ArrogantWorms $30/$27.50(adv). Dec 14 Diane Lee-Clemons $25/$22.50(adv). Dec 15 2pm TheAult Sisters: Celebrate the Season Concert$22.50/$20(adv); $12(child)/$10(adv);8:30pm Darrelle London’s Ho Ho HolidayJam. Dec 16, 17 Have a Bluesy Christmas:Tribute to Etta James w/ Danny Marks,Jesse Whiteley and others $25/$22.50(adv).Dec 18 Quartette Christmas Show$47/$42(adv). Dec 19 Wendell Feguson$25/$22.50(adv). Dec 20 Rik Emmett$37.50/$35(adv). Dec 21 Christmas at Hugh’sRoom: Diana Braithwaite, Chris Whiteley, KenWhiteley and Ali Matthews $25/$22.50(adv).Dec 23 John McDermott & Friends ChristmasShow $45/$40(adv). Dec 27 Don Ross$32.50/$30(adv). Dec 28 Suzie Vinnick$25/$22.50(adv). Dec 29 Laughter for theArts $35/$30(adv). Dec 30 It’s New Year’sEve Somewhere: Andria Simone & Band$12/$10(adv). Dec 31 New Year’s Eve w/ JaneBunnett & the Spirits of Havana w/ HilarioDuran $50/$45(adv). Jan 4 Connie Kaldor$30/$27.50(adv). Jan 10 Tribute to JamesTaylor $30/$25(adv). Jan 11 Joanna Chapman-Smith$20/$18(adv). Jan 16 AfricanJazz in January: Benefit for Stephen LewisFoundation’s Grandmothers Campaign feat.Bruce Cassidy, Sophia Perlman and others$45/$40(adv). Jan 17, 18, 19 Tribute to GordonLightfoot w/ Lori Cullen, Kevin Fox,Jacob Moon, Layah Jane and Ollie Johnson,and others $38.50/$36(adv). Jan 24 TheDoneFors CD Release $20/$15(adv)/$10(stwith ID). Jan 25 Gregg Lawless CD Release$30/$25(adv). Jan 26 Candyrat Guitar NightCD Release $25/$22.50(adv). Jan 28 GarlandJeffreys $25/$22.50(adv). Jan 31 Garnet Rogers$27.50/$25(adv).Inter Steer Tavern357 Roncesvalles Ave. 416-588-8054All events: PWYC.Every Wed 8-11pm Fraser Daley. EveryWed 8-11pm Ronnie Hayward. Dec 7, 21 4-7pmLaura Hubert Trio.Jazz Bistro, The251 Victoria St. 416-363-5299jazzbistro.caDec 1 12:30pm Micah Barnes Trio: Holiday inNew York $15; 7pm Judith Lander and “TheWatch” $20. Dec 2 8pm Bob Dorough feat.Barbra Lica $40. Dec 3 Unison BenevolentFund Evening w/ Florence K and Alex Pangman.PWYC (suggested $20). Dec 6 9pmMark McLean (drums); Robi Botos (piano);Marc Rogers (bass); Ted Quinlan (guitar);Kelly Jefferson (sax) $15. Dec 7 12:30pm SingSing Sing: Swing-Along Saturday Brunch w/Jenni Burke. No Cover with non-perishablefood donation; 9pm Mark McLean (drums);Robi Botos (piano); Marc Rogers (bass); TedQuinlan (guitar); Kelly Jefferson (sax) $20.Dec 10 8pm Diane Lee-Clemons $20. Dec 13,14 Hilario Duran Trio $15. Dec 17 9pm MantiniSisters Christmas $20. Dec 20, 21 DuncanHopkins Trio. Dec 27, 28 Dave Restivo Quintet:Restivo (piano); Luke Sellick (bass); MaxwellRoach (drums); Kelly Jefferson (sax); AlexanderBrown (trumpet). Dec 31 New Year’s Evew/ the Soul Nannies $TBA. Jan 2, 3, 4 BernieSenensky. Jan 9, 10, 11 Neil Swainson & DonThompson. Jan 16, 17, 18 Dave Young Quartet.Jan 23, 24, 25 Grant Stewart Quartet.Jan 30, 31 Mike Francis.Jazz Room, TheLocated in the Huether Hotel, 59 King St. N.,Waterloo. 226-476-1565kwjazzroom.com (full schedule)Attendees must be 19+Dec 6 8:30pm Francois Jalbert $15. Dec 78:30pm Eliana Cuevas $20. Dec 13 8:30pmRebecca Binnendyk Quintet $18. Dec 14 4pmWorkshop w/ Ted Quinlan $5; 8:30pm TedQuinlan Trio $15. Dec 20 8:30pm Tom Nagy’sSeasonal Quintet $15. Dec 27 8:30pm AlyshaBrilla Sextet $15. Dec 28 8:30pm ConnorGains Band $15. Dec 31 7pm New Year’s Evew/ Big Rude Jake $50.Joe Mama’s317 King St. W. 416-340-6469Live music every night; All shows: No Cover.Every Mon 7:30-11:30pm Soul Mondays.Every Tue 7-11pm Blue Angels.Every Wed 8pm-12am Blackburn. EveryThu 8:30pm-12:30am Blackburn. EveryFri 10pm-2am The Grind. Every Sat 10pm-2am Shugga. Every Sun 6-10pm Organic:Nathan Hiltz (guitar); Bernie Senensky(organ); Ryan Oliver (saxophone); MorganChilds (drums).KAMA214 King St. W. 416-599-5262All shows: 5-8pm. No Cover, $20 food/beverageminimum.Every Thu Thursday at Five: Canadian JazzQuartet: Gary Benson (guitar); Frank Wright(vibraphone); Duncan Hopkins (bass);Don Vickery (drums) and special guest:Dec 5 Vern Dorge (sax). Dec 12 Alastair Kay(trombone). Dec 19 Mike Murley (sax).Lula Lounge1585 Dundas St. W. 416-588-0307lula.ca (full schedule)Dec 6 8pm David Buchbinder Trio $15. Dec 138pm Sean Meredith-Jones $15. Dec 16 8pmEuphonia $15. Dec 18 8:30pm ChristianBridges: A Holiday Music Special feat. GeorgeNozuka and JP Saxe $10. Dec 20 8pm JimHeineman Trio $15. Dec 27 8pm Yoser RodriguezTrio $15. Dec 29 8pm Gary Morgan &PanAmerica Latin Jazz Orchestra $20. Jan 38pm Eliana Cuevas $15. Jan 10 8pm The AultSisters $15. Jan 17 8pm Roland Hunter Group$15. Jan 19 7pm Jazz By 3: Lara Solnicki, FernLindzon, Luanda Jones w/ Sinal Aberto $15.Jan 24 8pm Laura Fernandez Trio.Manhattans Pizza Bistro & Music Club951 Gordon St., Guelph 519-767-2440manhattans.caAll shows: PWYCDec 1 Stan Chang. Dec 3 Brad Halls.Dec 4 John Zadro. Dec 5 Roarshaq.Dec 6 Daniela Nardi’s Espresso Manifesto.Dec 8 The Chocolate Hot Pockets.Dec 10 Carmen Spada. Dec 11 Jokela &Vogan: Wintersday CD Release. Dec 12 20kmJazz Diet. Dec 13 Rob Cardy Trio. Dec 14 DanMcKinnon Blues Trio. Dec 15 Dave O’Neill& Meredith Nelson. Dec 17 Brad Halls.Dec 18 John Zadro. Dec 19 20km Jazz Diet.Dec 20 Carmen Spada Trio. Dec 22 StanChang. Dec 27 Conor Gains. Dec 28 MelissaLauren Trio. Dec 29 Hammerton/Wagler/I’Neill.Mezzetta Restaurant681 St. Clair Ave. W. 416-658-5687mezzettarestaurant.comSets at 9pm and 10:15pm. Jazz Series: Cover$8-$10.Dec 4 Rebecca Enkin Trio. Dec 11 Brian Katz.Monarchs PubAt the Delta Chelsea Hotel33 Gerrard St. W. 416-585-4352monarchspub.ca (full schedule)All shows: No Cover.Morgans on the Danforth1282 Danforth Ave. 416-461-3020morgansonthedanforth.comSunday Brunch, 2-5pm, No CoverDec 1 Allyson Morris w/ Robi Botos.Dec 8 Laura Marks w/ Reg Schwager.Musideum401 Richmond St. W., Main Floor416-599-7323musideum.comDec 1 2pm CoCo ‘Cognac; Brown $20; 8pmMartin Porter $20. Dec 2 7pm Bill Bridges& Lew Mele $20. Dec 3 8pm Monique Barry$15/$10(st). Dec 4 8pm Mike Gennaro $10.Dec 6 8pm Coleman Tinsley: Tribute to DaveBrubeck $20. Dec 8 8pm Steve Koven $20.Dec 9 8pm Andrea Tyniec $20. Dec 10 8pmJudy Marshak, Donald Quan & Bob Cohen$20. Dec 12 8pm Ardene Shapiro $20.Dec 14 8pm Meghan Morrison $20. Dec 1512pm A Cavanaugh Family Christmas $20.Dec 16 7pm Bill Bridges & Lew Mele: CanadianIcons $20. Dec 17 8pm AIM Toronto:Mike Smith & Matt Miller; See-Through Trio$10. Dec 18 8pm Christmas on the Steel Pan$20. Dec 19 Sunny Choi $20. Dec 20 SharronMcLeod $20. Dec 21 8pm Jesse and the FieldWizards $20. Dec 22 8pm Brownman + 1 $20.Jan 12 Rose Stella. Jan 16 8pm Eliana Cuevas$20. Jan 17 Conrad Gayle $10. Jan 188pm Elana Harte & Kim Jarrett $20. Jan 198pm Eva Green $20. Jan 20 8pm Nathalie: CDRelease $20. Jan 23 8pm Mia Zabelka $TBA.Jan 24 8pm Kathleen Gorman & SamanthaClayton $20. Jan 25 8pm Jeremy Ledbetterand Mark Mosca $20. Jan 26 8pm SteveKoven & Pedro Orrego $20. Jan 30 8pmShannon Butcher & Ross MacIntyre $20.Nawlins Jazz Bar & Dining299 King St. W. 416-595-1958nawlins.caEvery Tue Stacie McGregor; Every Wed JimHeineman Trio. Every Thu Nothin’ But theBlues w/ guest vocalists. Every Fri/Sat AllStar Bourbon St. Band; Every Sun BrookeBlackburn.Nice Bistro, The117 Brock St. N., Whitby. 905-668-8839nicebistro.comDec 18 7-9pm Laura Gauthier & Paul Grecco$39.99 (includes dinner).62 | December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 thewholenote.com

Old Mill, The21 Old Mill Rd. 416-236-2641oldmilltoronto.comThe Home Smith Bar: No Reservations.No Cover. $20 food/drink minimum. Allshows: 7:30-10:30pm unless noted otherwise.Dec 5 Jazz Party w/ Lenny Solomon(violin/host); Alexandra Tait (vocals); BernieSenensky (piano); Lew Mele (drums).Dec 6 Julie Michels (vocals); Mark Kieswetter(piano); Jordan O’Connor (bass). Dec 7 JakeWilkinson (trumpet); Lee Wallace (guitar); JonMeyer (bass). Dec 12 Jazz Party w/ BarbaraGordon (vocals/host); Mark Eisenman (piano);Jordan O’Connor (bass). Dec 13 Lisa Martinelli(vocals); Kevin Turcotte (trumpet); RobiBotos (piano); Pat Collins (bass). Dec 14 HeilligManoeuvre: Henry Heillig (bass); AlisonYoung (sax); Stacie McGregor (piano); CharlieCooley (drums). Dec 19 Jazz Party w/ HazelWalker (vocals/host); Graham Howes (piano/host); Perry White (sax); Pat Collins (bass).Dec 20 Dave Statham (vocals); Joe Sealy(piano); Paul Novotny (bass). Dec 21 FrankWright (vibraphone); Don Thompson (piano);Neil Swainson (bass). Dec 31 8:30pm-12:30amNew Year’s Eve w/ Heather Bambrick (vocals);Mark Kieswetter (piano); Chase Sanborn(trumpet/flugelhorn); Michael McLennan(bass) $125 includes dinner. Jan 3 Joe Sealy.Jan 4 John Sherwood. Jan 10 Mark Eisenman.Jan 11 Brigham Phillips. Jan 17 Richard Whiteman.Jan 18 Bruce Harvey. Jan 24 AdreanFarrugia. Jan 25 Joe Sealy. Jan 31 JohnSherwood.Paintbox Bistro555 Dundas St. E. 647-748-0555paintboxbistro.caDec 14 10am Junior Jazz Jam w/ RichardMarsella. Jan 11 8pm Randy Weston $30.Jan 18 8pm Kelly Jefferson – Kelsley GrantQuintet: Jefferson (sax); Grant (trombone);Dave Restivo (piano); Michael Davidson(vibes); Rich Brown (bass); Larnell Lewis(drums) $20. Jan 25 8pm Diana Panton(vocals); Don Thompson (bass/piano); RegSchwager (guitar) $20.Pilot Tavern, The22 Cumberland Ave. 416-923-5716thepilot.ca All shows: 3:30pm. No Cover.Dec 7 Kollage. Dec 14 Sugar Daddies.Dec 21 Dave Young Quartet. Dec 28 Alex BaroQuintet.Poetry Jazz Café224 Augusta Ave. 416-599-5299poetryjazzcafe.com (full schedule)Reposado Bar & Lounge136 Ossington Ave. 416-532-6474reposadobar.com All shows: PWYC.Every Wed 9:30pm Spy vs Sly vs Spy. EveryThu, Fri 10pm The Reposadists Quartet.Reservoir Lounge, The52 Wellington St. E. 416-955-0887reservoirlounge.com (full schedule).Every Tue 7-9pm Apres Work Series;9:45pm Tyler Yarema and his Rhythm. EveryWed 7-9pm Apres Work Series; 9:45pmBradley and the Bouncers. Every Thu 7-9pmApres Work Series 9:45pm Mary McKay.Every Fri 9:45pm Dee Dee and the Dirty Martinis.Every Sat 9:45pm Tyler Yarema and hisRhythm.Rex Hotel Jazz & Blues Bar, The194 Queen St. W. 416-598-2475therex.ca (call for cover charge info)Dec 1 12pm Hart House / Jazz.FM Youth;3:30pm Dr. Nicke Blues; 7pm Tim Posgate& Friends; 9:30pm Jay Danley’s Ethio-JazzProject. Dec 2 6:30pm U of T Student JazzEnsembles; 9:30pm Mike Malone & the WritersJazz Orchestra. Dec 3 6:30pm Brian deLima Quartet; 9:30pm Classic Rex Jazz Jam.Dec 4 6:30pm private event; 9:30pm BuddyAquilina. Dec 5 6:30pm Amanda Tosoff Trio;9:30pm Don Byron w/ Michael Occhipinti.Dec 6 4pm Hogtown Syncopators; 6:30pmAimee Butcher; 9:45pm Hansford Rowe &HR3. Dec 7 12pm Danny Marks & Friends;3:30pm Chris Hunt Tentet + 2; 7:30pm UglyBeauties; 9:45pm Raoul & the Bigger Time.Dec 8 12pm Excelsior Dixieland Jazz; 3:30pmRed Hot Ramble; 7pm Tim Posgate & Friends;9:30pm Francois Jalbert Quartet. Dec 96:30pm Jim Gelcer Groups; 9:30pm ChocolateHot Pockets. Dec 10 6:30pm Brian deLima Quartet. Dec 11 6:30pm Junik; 9:30pmRicardo Grilli Quintet. Dec 12 6:30pm AmandaTosoff Trio; 9:45pm Alex Dean Quintet. Dec 134pm Hogtown Syncopators; 6pm Sara Dell;9:45pm Alex Dean Quintet. Dec 14 12pmDanny Marks & Friends; 3:30pm Swing ShiftBig Band; 7:30pm Parker/Abbott Duo; 9:45pmBob Brough Quartet. Dec 15 12pm ExcelsiorDixieland Jazz; 3:30pm The Satin Dolls;7pm Tim Posgate & Friends; 9:30pm AaronShragge. Dec 16 6:30pm Jim Gelcer Groups;9:30pm Ewan Divitt & His Orchestra. Dec 176:30pm Brian de Lima Quartet; 9:30pm ClassicRex Jazz Jam. Dec 18 6:30pm Junik;9:30pm Matt Stevens Quartet. Dec 19 6:30pmAmanda Tosoff Quartet; 9:30pm Matt StevensQuartet. Dec 20 4pm Hogtown Syncopators;6:30pm Sara Dell; 945pm Jake Wilkinson’sChristmas. Dec 21 12pm Danny Marks &Friends; 3:30pm Jerome Godboo; 7:30pmParker/Abbott Duo; 9:45pm Jeff King’s Catalyst.Dec 22 12pm Excelsior Dixieland Jazz;3:30pm Club Django; 7pm Tim Posgate &Friends; 9:30pm Bossa Tres. Dec 23 6:30pmJim Gelcer Groups; 9:00pm Peter Hill Quintet.Dec 26 6:30pm Amanda Tosoff Trio; 9:30pmTeehan, Ernewein & Juhas. Dec 27 4pm HogtownSyncopators; 6:30pm Sara Dell; 9:45pmLeyland Gordon. Dec 28 12pm Danny Marks& Friends; 3:30pm Laura Hubert Band;7:30pm Teri Parker Quartet; 9:45pm SoulStew. Dec 29 12pm Excelsior Dixieland Jazz;3:30pm Freeway Dixieland; 7pm Tim Posgate& Friends; 9:30pm Strictly From Prehistoric.Dec 30 6pm Jim Gelcer Groups; 9:30pm HilarioDuran Trio. Dec 31 8:30pm New Year’sEve w/ Grooveyard.Salty Dog Bar & Grill, The1980 Queen St. E. 416-849-5064saltydogbarandgrill.caAll shows 7-10pm, No Cover.Dec 3, 17 Greg Pilo Quartet.Seven44(Formerly Chick n’ Deli/The People’s Chicken)744 Mount Pleasant Rd. 416-489-7931seven44.com (full schedule)Every Sat 4-7pm Climax Jazz Band $5. EveryMon 7:30pm Big Band Night. No Cover.Statlers487 Church St. 416-922-0487All Shows: No Cover/PWYCEvery Mon 9:30pm-1am SINGular Sensation:Musical Theatre Open Mic w/ JenniferWalls, Donovan LeNabat & Jamie Bird. EveryTue 10pm Top Star Tuesday: Talent Night.Every Wed 6-10pm Kendall Partington. EveryThu 9:30pm Open Mic w/ Donovan LeNabat& Jamie Bird. Every Sat 10pm-1:30am KendallPartington.Tranzac292 Brunswick Ave. 416-923-8137tranzac.org (full schedule)3-4 shows daily, various styles. Mostly PWYC.Every Mon 7pm This is Awesome; 10pm OpenMic. Every Fri 5pm The Foolish Things. EverySat 3pm Jamzac. This month’s shows include:Dec 2 10pm Peripheral Vision. Dec 4 7:30pmKatie DuTemple. Dec 7 10pm Anna Webber &Evan Tighe. Dec 8 10pm Lina Allemano Four.Dec 10 7:30pm Aurochs; 10pm Stop Time.Dec 13 7:30pm Ken Aldcroft; 10pm HeavyCOMPETITIONS●●Deadline to Apply: Dec 31: Penthelia Singers.A Tribute to Canadian Folk: Student CompositionContest. For students under 30enrolled in post-secondary education, to submitan original arrangement of a Canadianfolk song for women’s choir, about 2-5 minutesin length, in 2- to 4-part harmony. Prizeis $500 and the performance of the winningwork in a June Penthelia Singers concert. Fordetails: pentheliasingers@yahoo.ca; penthelia.com.●●Deadline to Apply: Feb 13, 2014: OrchestraToronto. Concerto Competition: 2014 MartaHildy Prize for Brass. Applicants to submitaudition video of three pieces, includingone movement of a concerto, by Feb 24. Finalround will be held at the Toronto Centre forthe Arts on March 23. The winner will receivea $1000 scholarship and perform withOrchestra Toronto. 416-467-7142. For details:info@orchestratoronto.ca.LECTURES & SYMPOSIA●●Dec 1, 2:00: Toronto Opera Club. ShakespeareInvented Opera? Suppositionalinquiry by John Rutherford into Shakespeare’sinfluence on opera. Room 330,Edward Johnson Bldg, 80 Queens Park.• in the heart of Yorkville• historical heritage building• Steinway Grand Piano• recital and special events• lighting and sound systems• accomodates caterers• reasonable ratesD. The ETCeterasThis month...Ethics. Dec 15 10pm Julian Anderson-BowesSextet. Dec 17 10pm Ken McDonald Quartet.Dec 20 10pm Jonathan Lindhorst & Friends.Dec 29 10pm Steve Ward Presents. Dec 3110pm Nick Fraser Presents.Victory Café, The581 Markham St. 416-516-5787Every Wed 9:30pm-12am Hot Jazz StringQuartet: Drew Jurecka (violin); Jesse Barksdale(guitar); Chris Bezant (guitar); ChrisBanks (bass). Every Sun 9pm Open Mic.Zipperz72 Carlton St. 416-921-0066All shows: No Cover/PWYC.Every Mon 10pm-12am Roxxie Terrain w/Adam Weinmann. Every Tue 10-12am Effervescencew/ Donavon LeNabat & NatashaBuckeridge. Every Fri 7-9pm Roxxie Terrainw/ Adam Weinmann.Competitions, Lectures & Symposia, Masterclasses, Workshops,Open Rehearsals/Singalongs, Announcements, Screenings, & more!Venue Rental416-924-3940. $10.●●Dec 03, 10 and 17, 7:00: Toronto PublicLibrary. The Unknown Vivaldi, with Rick Phillips,Sound Advice. Talk examining Vivaldi’svast output and great genius, with a focuson rarely heard works. Palmerston Branch,560 PalmerstonAve. 416-393-7680. Free.●●Dec 12, 6:30: North York Central Library.20th Century Classical Music. Lecture byclassical music expert Rick Phillips on theworld of 20th century classical music, includingPhillip Glass, John Cage and others.Auditorium, North York Central Library,5120 Yonge St. 416-395-5639. Free; call toregister.●●Jan 17, 7:00: Soundstreams Salon 21.New Directions in Choral Music. Threechoral directors, each with their own distinctapproach, in a discussion on thepresent and future of choral music, alongsideshort performances from three Torontochoirs. Gardiner Museum, 111 Queen’s Park.416-504-1282. Free; pwyc reserved seatingavailable.●●Jan 26, 2:00: Toronto Opera Club. TheGenius of Mozart and His Personal Fascinationfor His Music. Johannes Debus, guestspeaker. Room 330, Edward Johnson Bldg,80 Queens Park. 416-924-3940. $10.35 Hazelton Avenue, Heliconian Hall416-922-3618 rentals@heliconianclub.orgthewholenote.com December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 | 63

●●Jan 27 12:10: University of Toronto Facultyof Music. New Music Festival: Lecture:Humour in 20th century music by guestItalian pianist Roberto Turrin. Walter Hall,Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen’s Park.416-408-0208. Free.●●Feb 3, 7:30: University of Toronto Facultyof Music. Geiger-Torel Lecture: Sir ThomasAllen. Lecture by world-renowned baritone.Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Bldg, 80 QueensPark. 416-408-0208. Free.MASTERCLASSES●●Dec 15, 2:00-5:00: Singing Studio of DeborahStaiman. Masterclass. Musical theatre/auditionpreparation, using textualanalysis and other interpretive tools for thesung monologue. Yonge Eglinton area; callfor exact location. 416-483-9532. singingstudio.ca.●●Jan 21, 7:00: University of Toronto Facultyof Music. Stephanie Blythe Masterclass:Art Song. Students in voice and collaborativepiano are coached in French, English and Germanart songs. Walter Hall, Edward JohnsonBldg, 80 Queens Park. 416-408-0208. Free.●●Jan 23, 12:10: University of Toronto Facultyof Music. Stephanie Blythe Masterclass:Opera Arias. Walter Hall, Edward JohnsonBldg, 80 Queens Park. 416-408-0208. Free.●●Feb 7, 2:00: University of Toronto Facultyof Music. Riki Turofsky Masterclass in Voice:Coloratura Tracy Dahl. Geiger-Torel Room,Edward Johnson Bldg, 80 Queens Park. 416-408-0208. Free.WORKSHOPS●●Dec 1, 10am–5pm. New Adevntures inSound Art. Ardiuno for Beginners. Workshopby Ian Jarvis on the basics of buildingyour own DIY Digital Instrument using anArduino micro controller. NAISA Space, Suite252, 601 Christie St. 416-652-5115. $100. Fordetails: www.naisa.ca.●●Dec 1, 1:30: Toronto Early Music PlayersOrganization. Early music workshopfor woodwinds and strings. Femke Bergsma,conductor. Bring your recorders, earlyinstruments and music stand; scores will beprovided. Armour Heights Community Centre,2140 Avenue Rd. 416-537-3733. $20;free(members).●●Dec 5, 5:30: Sight-singing withSheila. Group sight-singing workshop: CarolsI. All levels welcome. 96 Barker Ave (nearWoodbine subway). 416-574-5250. $10.●●Dec 6, 7:30: CAMMAC Recorder Players’Society. Renaissance and BaroqueChristmas Workshop. For recorders andother early instruments. János Ungváry,coach. Mount Pleasant Road Baptist Church,D. The ETCeteras ●●Feb 2, 4:00: Southern Ontario Chapter, Ave. 416-778-0796. Free; donations accepted.●527 Mount Pleasant Rd. 416-480-1853. $20;$5 (members). Refreshments included.●●Dec 12, 5:30: Sight-singing withSheila. Group sight-singing workshop: CarolsII. All levels welcome. 96 Barker Ave (nearWoodbine subway). 416-574-5250. $10.●●Dec 19, 5:30: Sight-singing withSheila. Group sight-singing workshop: CarolsIII. All levels welcome. 96 Barker Ave (nearWoodbine subway). 416-574-5250. $10.●●Jan 5, 1:30: Toronto Early Music PlayersOrganization. Early music workshop forwoodwinds and strings. Matthias Maute, conductor.Bring your recorders, early instrumentsand music stand; scores will beprovided. Armour Heights Community Centre,2140 Avenue Rd. 416-537-3733. $20.●●Jan 10, 7:30: CAMMAC Recorder Players’Society. Renaissance and Baroque Workshop.For recorders and other early instruments.Mount Pleasant Road Baptist Church,527 Mount Pleasant Rd. 416-480-1853. $20;$5 (members). Refreshments included.●●Jan 18 10:30am–1:00pm: Toronto MendelssohnChoir. Singsation Saturday ChoralWorkshop. Sing with the choir. Duruflé:Requiem. Mitchell Pady, guest conductor.Cameron Hall, Yorkminster Park BaptistChurch, 1585 Yonge St. 416-598-0422 x221.$10. Refreshments included. tmchoir.org.●●Jan 19, 2:00: CAMMAC Toronto. Readingfor Singers and Instrumentalists. Macmillan:Celtic Mass for the Sea. Jenny Crober, conductor.Christ Church Deer Park, 1570 YongeSt. 905-877-0671. $10; $6(members).●●Jan 21, 4:30: ASLAN Boys Choir. Workshopand Open Rehearsal. Guest: Lawrence Wiliford,tenor. Church of the Transfiguration,111 Manor Rd. E. 416-859-7464. Free.●●Jan 24, 7:30: CAMMAC Recorder Players’Society. Renaissance and Baroque Workshop.For recorders and other early instruments.Mount Pleasant Road Baptist Church,527 Mount Pleasant Rd. 416-480-1853. $20;$5 (members). Refreshments included.●●Jan 28–31, various times: Toronto MendelssohnChoir. TMC Choral Conductor’s Symposium.Noel Edison works with five emergingconductors in sessions with the Elora FestivalSingers and Toronto Mendelssohn Choir.Observers welcome. Yorkminster Park BaptistChurch, 1585 Yonge St. 416-598-0422x221. $20 per session; $50 per day. tmchoir.org.●●Feb 2, 1:30: Toronto Early Music PlayersOrganization. Early music workshop forwoodwinds and strings. Marie-Laurence Primeau,conductor. Bring your recorders, earlyinstruments and music stand; scores will beprovided. Armour Heights Community Centre,2140 Avenue Rd. 416-537-3733. $20.Hymn Society. Woven of Vibrant Strands: AHymn Festival of Emerging Song. Exploringnew horizons and new directions emerging inthe ecumenical world of congregational song.Hilary Seraph Donaldson, Director. Royal YorkRoad United Church, 851 Royal York Rd. 416-342-6034. Refreshments at 3:30●●Dec 8, 7:00: Shelter Valley Shape-noteSingers. Monthly Singing. All voices welcome,no experience required. Music fromthe Sacred Harp tradition. Grafton CommunityCentre, 718 Station Rd., Grafton. 905-349-2042. Freewill offering.●●Dec 8, 2:30: Peterborough CommunityCarol Sing. Carol Sing 2013. Hannah Abrahamse;Andrew Burditt; Tyler Calver; CarolSing Choir; Salvation Army Band; and others.St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church, 120 MurraySt., Peterborough.705-745-1411. Donations togo to the Salvation Army Christmas HamperFund. communitycarolsing.com.●●Dec 10, 7:00: Canada Sings!/Chatons Canada!Toronto-Riverdale. NeighbourhoodSingalong. Canadian folk songs, rock, Broadwayand ballads. Mark Bell, song leader; MarjorieWiens, piano. St. Matthew’s AnglicanChurch, 135 First Ave. 416-778-0796. Free;donations accepted.●●Dec 15, 2:00: Canada Sings!/Chatons Canada!Toronto-Riverdale. Annual ChristmasCarol Singalong with Brass and Organ. Canadianfolk songs, rock, Broadway and ballads.Mark Bell, song leader; Claire Bresee, piano;Philip Jones, organ; Splendor Tubis BrassQuintet; guests: St. Ann’s Roman CatholicChurch Choir; R. Vengie Fabre, director; EricFahn, violin. St. Ann’s Parish Church, 120 First● Jan 12, 7:00: Shelter Valley Shape-noteSingers. Monthly Singing. All voices welcome,no experience required. Music fromthe Sacred Harp tradition. Grafton CommunityCentre, 718 Station Rd., Grafton. 905-349-2042. Freewill offering.INSTALLATIONS/EXHIBITIONS●●Nov 21–Jan 1, various times: New Adventuresin Sound Art. Tracings. Nataliya Petkova.Includes the works [x]Tensions andGeophonies. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesdayand Friday from 10am–5pm; Thursday10:00am–8:00pm; Saturday and Sunday12:00pm–4:00pm. XIT Gallery, Art Galleryof Mississauga, 300 City Centre Dr., Mississauga.905-896-5088. Free.●●Jan 26–Feb 9, various times: Theatre Centre.Carbon 14: Climate is Culture PerformanceSeries. Cultural engagement addressingvarious aspects of climate change. Music,spoken word, poetry and performance artby Tanya Tagaq, Post-Normal, Alanna Mitchell,Sabrina Mahfouz, Cynthia Hopkins andothers. 1087 Queen St. W. 416-538-0988.For full performance schedule: thetheatrecentre.org.ANNOUNCEMENTS●●Canadian Brass announces the releaseof its new CD Christmas Time is Here, featuringholiday favourites and arrangementsof music from the Charlie Brown Christmassoundtrack. Download atcanadianbrassstore.com●●Stephen Beneking announces the onlinerelease of Zita in Wonderland, 24 piano64 | December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 thewholenote.com

miniatures for piano for children and beginners.Available for download free frombeneking.com, or in printed version fromAmazon. Recordings available on YouTube.●●Miles Nadal JCC announces the start of itsKlezmer Music Ensemble’s second term onJan 14, running until May 13, on Tuesday eveningsfrom 7:30–9:30. Eric Stein, conductor.750 Spadina Ave. 416-924-6211 x0. $330;$300(members).●●Deadline to Apply: Dec 6: Toronto DowntownJazz. Special Projects 2014. For specialjazz projects in need of support. Successfulapplicants provided with marketing and publicrelations support, and a bursary. Eligibleproject must take place between Feb 1 andApr 30, 2014. 416-928-2033 x31. For details:publicity@tojazz.com; torontojazz.com.●●Deadline to Apply: Mar 1, 2014: Arraymusic.Young Composers’ Workshop. Fourapplicants to be selected to work with ArrayEnsemble over a four-week period in Mayto create works for small chamber ensembles,which will be performed at the endof the session. Application to include a letterof introduction, curriculum vitae, 2 to 3scores of previous compositions and accompanyingrecordings when possible, and $25application fee. 416-532-3019. For details:admin@arraymusic.ca; arraymusic.com.SCREENINGS●●Dec 8, 4:00 & 7:30: Toronto Jewish FilmSociety with Koffler Centre of the Arts.Tango, A Story with Jews SCREENED WITHRio Klezmer. Eric Stein; Guest Speaker, . AlGreen Theatre Miles Nadal JCC, 750 SpadinaAve. 416-924-6211 x606. $15; $10(ages 18 -35). Tickets at the door 15 minutes beforescreen times.●●Dec 5, 7:00. Revue Cinema with Jane Bunnett.Embracing Voices: The Woman Behindthe Music of Jane Bunnett. Elisa Paloschi,filmmaker. With live performances byJane Bunnett, Cuban-Canadian pianist HilarioDuran and friends. 416-531-9950. $20,includes food.ETCETERA: MISCELLANEOUS●●Dec 1 and 8, 10:30am: Canadian OperaCompany. Tour the Four Seasons Centre forthe Performing Arts. 90-minute tours includingbackstage access to wig rooms, dressingrooms, orchestra pit and more! Four SeasonsCentre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St.W. 416-306-2329. $20; $15(sr/st).●●Dec 6 and 7, 8:00; Dec 8, 3:00: JanakKhendry Dance Company. Paradise Lost.Premiere of new dance production choreographedby Janak Khendry, based on thework by John Milton. Original music by EricCadesky, Ashit Desai and Alap Desai. ZhenyaCerneacov, Austin Fagan, Tyler Gledhill, AllenKaeja, Eddie Kastrau and others. Fleck DanceTheatre, Harbourfront Centre, 207 Queen’sQuay W. 416-973-4000. $28-$36.●●Dec 6–8; 13–15; 20–22, various times:Church of the Holy Trinity. The ChristmasStory. Nativity performance including livemusic, costumes and over 100 performers.19 Trinity Sq. 416-598-8979. Suggested donation:$20; $5(under 17). Seethechristmasstory.ca for performance times.●●Dec 7, 7:00: Poetry Salon. Harry Posnerand Drew McIvor. Harry Posner, poet; DrewMcIvor, guitar/vocals. 211 Elgin St. N., Durham.519-369-1129. Free.●●Jan 12, 12:30–4:30: School of Philosophy.Open House. Plato discussion and wisdomtexts, course overview and coffee.29 Madison Ave. 416-960-4833. Free.●●Jan 25–Feb 2, various time. University ofToronto Faculty of Music. U of T New MusicFestival. 18 events, including lectures andconcerts, headlined by composer and DJGabriel Prokofiev. Walter Buczynski and PaulChihara, composers; Roberto Turrin, pianist;and others. Edward Johnson Bldg, 80 QueensPark. 416-408-0208. Free. For schedule ofevents: music.utoronto.ca.ChildrenʼsPiano LessonsFriendly, approachable– and strict!Liz Parker416.544.1803liz.parker@rogers.comQueen/BathurstMoellerPipe Organs Inc.New Instruments and AdditionsTunings and MaintenanceRestorations and RepairsMetal Pipes2393 Gareth Rd., Mississauga, L5B 1Z4www.moellerorgans.comTel/Fax(905) 277-2631NEED HELP WITH YOUR TAXES?Specializing in personal andbusiness tax returns including prioryears and adjustmentsHORIZON TAX SERVICES INC.1 -866-268-1319 • npulker@rogers.comwww.horizontax.ca• free consultation • accurate work • pickup & deliverySight-Singing with Sheilalittlevoices.ca“ LITTLE VOICES,DANCING FEET”with Jodie FriesenMusic &Movementfor Newbornto 8 YearsSheila McCoy416 574 5250smccoy@rogers.comwww.sightsingingwithsheila.com(near Woodbine subway)Age specific, Interactive, Educational & FUN!Sharing the joy of discovering music for over 20 years.REGISTER NOW(3 Beach/Leslieville Locations)littlevoices@sympatico.ca416-461-9989Find us on facebook.com/littlevoices.dancingfeetThe WholeNote Marketplace!A MarketPlace ad is like handingout your business card to over30,000 music lovers.marketing@thewholenote.comthewholenote.com December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 | 65

Classified Advertising | classad@thewholenote.comAUDITIONS & OPPORTUNITIESAVAILABLE PRO BONO POSITIONS FORMUSICIANS AT THE KINDRED SPIRITSORCHESTRA: Principal Oboist, PrincipalBassoonist, Associate (or 2nd) Trumpeter,Associate (or 2nd) Trombonist, 3rdTrombonist, as well as sectional Violinists,Violists, Cellists and Contrabassists. TheKSO is an auditioned-based communityorchestra that rehearses once a week(Tuesday evenings) at the state-of-the-artCornell Recital Hall in Markham (407ETR and 9th Ln). Led by the charismaticMaestro Kristian Alexander, the Orchestrais enjoying an enormous popularity amongYork Region’s residents and continuesto attract avid audiences across theGTA. 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SEEING ORANGE | EDUCATION WATCHWho Needs Music?ALLAN PULKERThere is mounting scientific evidenceto substantiate what just about everyonewho has studied music knows to betrue, that making music makes a differenceto the quality of one’s life. Studies nowabound indicating that playing an instrumentcauses the cerebellum to develop in ways thatit just doesn’t in the absence of music, thatmusic makes us more intelligent, preventsthe deterioration of mental functions in theelderly and that it makes a difference in theway we relate to one another.“If you put an instrument in the hands of achild, he will never pick up a gun,” said Dr.José Antonio Abreu, founder, El Sistema.an intensive social program ... to inspire childrenat risk to realize their full potential asstudents, musicians and citizens.” In Abreu’swords, “The huge spiritual world that musicproduces in itself overcomes material poverty.From the minute a child is taught how to playan instrument, he or she is no longer poor.”El Sistema sees itself not primarily as a musicprogram but as a social development programthat uses music as a way of transforming childrenby teaching them the habits, attitudesand practices of people who leadfulfilling and successful lives.Abreu was awarded the Glenn GouldPrize in 2009. A little less than two yearsbands at three different levels, ranging fromabsolute beginners to advanced players, theaverage age is about 60, with members asyoung as 36 and as old as 90. What motivatesthem to participate, according to Kapp, is“their love of playing music in a band,” goingback decades to their “fond memories of bandin high school, the excitement of performing,travelling, close friends and the sense ofaccomplishment when you get a hard passageunder your fingers.”“Playing a musical instrument is one ofthe very few things you can do that engagesthe whole mind at one time. It involves anddevelops memory, problem-solving, physicalco-ordination, gross and fine motor skills,muscle use, lung capacity, mental focus/attention span and self-discipline. It alsoI am reminded of one Valent Lesso, amulti-talented Toronto musician who tradedhis violin in for a handgun at a pawn shop,changed his name to Steve Suchan andjoined the notorious Boyd gang around 1950.He subsequently shot and killed a Torontopoliceman. It seems Suchan’s need to belongto a gang outweighed his love of music.This need to belong is central to thethinking behind El Sistema, the ensemblebasedmusic instruction method developedin Venezuela by Abreu. It is significant thatEl Sistema rejects the “traditional” methodof one-on-one instruction and daily solitarypractice, in favour of group instruction fivedays a week for three hours. Co-operation,collaboration and mutual support are frontand centre in the method.El Sistema’s most tangible goal is to trainmusicians. To say that it has been successfulin this endeavour is an understatement:Gustavo Dudamel, a graduate of the programand now the conductor of the Los AngelesPhilharmonic Orchestra, is only one of manyexamples of this success. Its mission, however,goes well beyond this goal. Sistema Toronto’smission, for example, is “to build and sustainlater, in September 2011, the fledgling ElSistema Toronto began its first classes.New Horizons: Although music educationin Ontario public elementary and secondaryschools has generally lacked the intensityof El Sistema’s three hours a day it used tohave a profound effect on many who experiencedit. Out of this past success a new andequally remarkable musical enterprise hascome into existence,the New Horizons Bandprogram, under thedirection of retiredmusic teacher, DanKapp, now in its fourthyear at Long andMcQuade’s Bloor Streetcomplex. The concept,Kapp told me, is “a safegroup environmentwhere mature/retiredadults can come tolearn to play a musicalinstrument for the firsttime or reconnect withone they haven’t playedin decades.” Withaddresses the need to care for our emotionalwell-being, self-esteem, self-worth, andsocial interactions with friends who genuinelycare for you.” Many of the mature adultsin Dan’s bands acquired skills and habits inhigh school band classes that have helpedthem throughout their lives. They are participatingin his programs in order to continue todevelop those skills and habits. It’s too late forSteve Suchan, but if you’re reading this, it’snot too late for you!So the New Horizons program grows and!!SISTEMA TORONTO IS COMPETING in the Aviva CommunityFund, an annual competition in which several charities and communitygroups across Canada share in a $1 million prize. Sistema is in therunning for $150,000, which would be a major boost in its effortsto sustain its two current “Playing to Potential” programs, and toexpand them to other GTA neighbourhoods. Winning the award isdetermined by popular support from voting online from December 2to 11. Anyone can vote by going to the main Aviva Community Fundwebpage. You’ll need Sistema’s contest code which is ACF16874. Eachvoter gets ten votes – one for each day of the campaign – so votingevery day is essential. Voting ends at 12:00 midnight on December 11.thewholenote.com December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 | 67

SEEING ORANGE continued from previous pagethrives: “In the short term we are makingsure the program is addressing the needsand expectations of our members, so thatthe NHB remains an exciting and welcomingplace to make music. In the mid-term we areplanning a big trip to Europe for the summerof 2015 and the long-term goal is to stabilizethe program at seven bands. Perhaps,somehow, a fourth goal could be to make thepublic aware of the value of music as a part ofevery child’s education.Because while the evidence grows thatmusic has an important role to play in thedevelopment of the mind, music programsin our schools continue to be cut, with thesupport of an administration and populacewoefully out of touch with the facts. It looksas if you can either have music or “specialeducation,” and if you don’t have the formerthen you will need the latter.What, I asked, can be done to “stop the rot”in public school music education? The attitudethat needs to be changed, Dan observed,held both by parents and educational administrators,is that “it’s just music,” and it’s notimportant. He was once told that his weeklytime with his grade 7 and 8 music classes wasbeing rolled back because “they were gettingtoo much music.”Dan thinks the only thing that can stop theerosion of school music programs is parents.Only when they see that the lack of music inthe school system is hurting their kids in thelong term and only if they demand its restoration,will anything happen.The truth of Dan’s observation has alreadybeen noted in September’s “EducationWatch” when a June groundswell of communitymurmuring stopped the Toronto DistrictSchool Board from cutting funding for itinerantmusic teachers. One powerful voicewas that of the Coalition for Music Education.The article quotes from the Coalition’s publicstatement opposing the proposed cuts. (Readit online at thewholenote.com, or on page 57of the September issue).But there is much each of us can do tomake a difference to the state of music education.The coalition’s website (musicmakesus.ca) offers resources to support the cause.There’s an advocacy video, a message whichcan be printed in concert programs (or inmusic magazines), an order form for programinserts, a page where you can sign up as asupporter, an invitation to apply to serve onthe board of directors of the organization, andmuch more.So please, don’t just read this. Go to theCoalition’s website and get yourself up tospeed on the state of music in the publiceducation system.And while you’re at your computer votefor El Sistema Toronto’s bid for the AvivaCommunity Fund. And then vote every day,for 10 days. It takes minutes. Together we canmake a difference.Allan Pulker is chairman of theboard of The Wholenote.WE ARE ALL MUSIC’S CHILDRENNovember’s Child was Benjamin BrittenMJ BUELL[1913 – 1976} Britten with Pears, 1975.Benjamin Britten composed some of the most compelling, andwidely satisfying music of the 20th century. From huge works for big public occasions,operas, ballets, orchestral and choral works through to intimate chamber music bestsuited for almost private consumption, Britten’s music is variously (and sometimes simultaneously)for virtuosi, for amateurs, for sophisticates and school children, for reasons meritingmore ink than can be afforded here.On the heels of the Canadian Opera Company’s October production of Britten’s PeterGrimes (arguably the best opera of the 20th century) Britten was named 25 times in TheWholeNote’s November concert listings. International centenary celebrations of his life andwork are ongoing including November 22 which would have been his 100th birthday, at least200 concerts in 44 countries. Upwards of 100,000 children performed his song cycle FridayAfternoons in a live-streamed relay which started in Auckland and ended in Los Angeles.On May 26 2013 in Toronto the closing concert of Stephan Ralls and Bruce Ubukata’s“Britten Festival of Song” concluded The Aldeburgh Connection’s final season (of 31). Itincluded Friday Afternoons performed by young singers from The Canadian Children’s OperaCompany. Ralls and Ubukata’s musical and personal partnership began in 1977 when they metas musicians at Britten’s and Pears’ Aldeburgh Festival.Links to interesting online resources about the life and music of Benjamin Britten can befound with this article at thewholenote.com.CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR WINNERS!Megan Piercy and Frances Giles: each win a pair of MusicToronto tickets (Dec 19) to hear baritone Phillip Addis sing aprogram which will include Britten’s Songs and Proverbs of William Blake.Burton Patkau and Phyllis Russell each win a pairof Associates of the TSO tickets for “Voices of Modernismmeet the Weber Clarinet Quintet” (Jan 20), which will includeBritten’s String Quartet No.2 in C major Op 36 reviewed thisyear in The WholeNote. Tiiu Klein wins Britten – LesIlluminations; Variatons; Serenade; Now Sleeps the CrimsonPetal — featuring Barbara Hannigan, James Gilchrist, Jasperde Wall and the Amsterdam Sinfonietta led by Candida Thompson (CHANNELCLASSICS CCS SA 32213). Mary-Ann Madarash wins Britten; Shostakovich – ViolinConcertos featuring James Ehnes with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra,and Kirill Karabits, conductor (ONYX 4113) Maga Primavera wins Britten – StringQuartets 1–3 played by the Takács Quartet (HYPERION CDA68004) — reviewed in this issue.We Are ALL Music’s Children would like to thank the family members and publicists who searchedfor childhood photos this year, and the artists who shared their personal stories.We’ll resume with a new contest in February.Meanwhile: please, please take a young person to hear or make music in these next few darkest weeks.CDs, headphones, iTunes cards and handsome retro-styled record players are nice holiday gifts, but thematchless feeling we get from being part of live music is the spark that ignites musical futures.68 | December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 thewholenote.comVICTOR PARKER, BRITTEN IMAGES COURTESY OF BRITTEN100.ORG

was a milestone year in many2013 ways, one being the 100thanniversary of the riotous premiere ofStravinsky’s Rite of Spring. Further on inthese pages you will find reviews of threenew recordings which take very differentapproaches to this seminal work. But the yearalso marked the centenaries of a number ofimportant composers, from Canadian pioneersJohn Weinzweig, Violet Archer andHenry Brant to iconic international figuresincluding Benjamin Britten and WitoldLutosławski. I wish I could tell you thatthere were new recordings of works by theCanadians, but I am not aware of any. BothBritten and Lutosławski however have beenvery well served over the past year.On the local scene this year Britten hasbeen a recurring presence on TSO programs,the COC recently completed a successfulrun of Peter Grimes and as you will knowfrom WholeNote reviews there has been awealth of recordings of his concertante worksand operas.With a vast output in larger forms — morethan a dozen operas and a plethora of orchestral,vocal and choral works — it is all too easyto overlook Britten as a composer of chambermusic. There is however a substantial body ofwork encompassing innumerable combinationsof solo instruments. Of particular noteare the works for solo cello (three suites anda sonata with piano) written for Rostropovichand the nine for two violins, viola and celloincluding three numbered String Quartets.Hyperion has just released a new recording(CDA68004) of the latter featuring the celebratedTakács Quartet. String Quartet No.1was written on commission from ElizabethSprague Coolidge while Britten was living inthe United States in the early years of WorldWar Two. It is less conventional and somewhatharsher than his earlier works, showingthe influence of Stravinsky and Copland.String Quartet No.2 was composed after hisreturn to England and premiered just monthsafter the triumphal staging of Peter Grimesat Saddler’s Wells, the work that broughtBritten international stardom. Most notable inthis quartet is the extended third movement,a “Chacony” in homage to Henry Purcellwhose work he would further celebrate thefollowing year in The Young Person’s Guide tothe Orchestra.Britten did not return to the string quartetform until 30 years later, in 1975, just oneyear before his death. String Quartet No.3 isrelated to his final opera Death in Venice, andwas in fact partially composed in the Italiancity. Following a spiky “Burleske” reminiscentof Shostakovich (who had died that year) thefinal movement’s “Recitative” incorporatesDISCOVERIES | RECORDINGS REVIEWEDDAVID OLDSa barcarole reminding us of the gondolas ofVenice and its concluding “Passacaglia” is setin the key of E major so closely associatedwith Gustav von Auschenbach, the protagonistof the opera.Bookending Britten’s early mature offeringsand his final output, these quartets, insightfullyand exquisitely played by the Takács,offer quiet commentary on thelarger-than-life works throughwhich we have come to best knowthis composer.Concert note: Associatesof the Toronto Symphony willperform Britten’s String QuartetNo.2 at Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre onJanuary 20.Witold Lutosławski has alsobeen honoured through recordingsthis past year, thoughmore in the form of re-issuesthan new releases. The Polishnational label Polskie Nagraniareleased Witold Lutosławski –Centenary Edition an 8-CDset earlier this year (reviewedin the online version of Editor’sCorner in June) which featuredhistoric recordings, many of whichwere conducted by Lutosławskihimself. Now Naxos has collectedits existing recordings and issueda 10-CD box Lutosławski –Symphonies; Concertos; Choraland Vocal Works (8.501066)featuring the Polish National RadioSymphony Orchestra (and others) under thedirection of Antoni Wit. Containing virtuallyall of the larger works it is a comprehensiveset of thrilling performances in glorioussound. Originally issued as individual discsthe collection gives the opportunity to listento the complete oeuvre in any number ofways. As I write this I am enjoying exploringthe symphonic works in chronological order:Symphony No.1 (1941–47); Concerto forOrchestra (1950-54); Symphony No.2 (1965–67); Symphony No.3 (1981–83); SymphonyNo.4 (1988–92), works which span theentirety of Lutosławski’s creative output. Itis most interesting to hear not only the stylisticbut also the formal developments fromthe mostly traditional first symphony (in fourmovements) through the Bartókian concerto(three movements) to the second symphony(two movements) and the final matureworks both in a single movement. Anotherhighlight is the Cello Concerto, written forRostropovich but performed here by ARDandPrague Spring Competition-winningPolish cellist Andrzej Bauer who, amongother studies, worked with William Pleeth fortwo years in London on a scholarship fundedby Lutosławski and who has obviously madethis concerto a signature piece.While the first nine discs are reissuesof Wit’s definitive Naxos recordings, thefinal disc comprises the last concert thatLutosławski conducted in his lifetime. Thattook place at the Premiere Dance Theatreat Harbourfront in Toronto on October 24,1993 and featured violinist Fujiko Imajishi,soprano Valdine Anderson and the NewMusic Concerts Ensemble. You can read NMCartistic director Robert Aitken’s reminiscencesof the great Polish composer elsewherein these pages.Although Lutosławski wrotealmost exclusively for largeensembles there is one veryimportant transitional workthat it is a shame not to haveincluded here, the StringQuartet from 1964 in which thecomposer takes his aleatoricapproach to composition tonew levels. The Polskie Nagrania setmentioned above includes a performanceby the LaSalle Quartet whopremiered the work, recorded atthe Warsaw Autumn Festival in1965. A 2013 Hyperion recordingby the Royal Quartet (reviewedin this column last May) is alsohighly recommended.I’m often taken by the frequenciesof coincidence in my life. Onesuch occurrence relates to discsreceived in the past two months.Trobairitz, the feminine form oftroubadour, was not a word inmy vocabulary until the releaseof an ATMA CD by that namereviewed by Hans de Groot in lastmonth’s WholeNote. De Grootmentioned that the only trobairitz song tohave survived in both melody and words isA Chantar by the Contessa de Día and that itis not included in the recording by ShannonMercer and La Nef. I have just received a newdisc featuring Isabel Bayrakdarian entitledTroubadour & the Nightingale with theManitoba Chamber Orchestra under AnneManson’s direction (MCO 013001 themco.ca). Lo and behold this recording of arrangementsand original compositions by SeroujKradjian includes the suite TrobairitzYsabella in which the ancient song AChantar is featured ...In Kradjian’s illuminating introductoryessay he explains the project originatedin a discussion with conductor Mansonabout the book The Ornament of the World:How Muslims, Jews and Christians Createda Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spainby Maria Rosa Menocal, which explores thegolden age when the arts, literature andscience flourished for 500 years in an atmosphereof tolerance. This eventually led him tothe lives, poetry and music of the trobairitzof Occitania in the south of France borderingSpain, who were active for a brief 60 yearsthewholenote.com December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 | 69

in the 12th and 13th centuries during theCrusades. Evidently when the men returnedfrom the wars social values once againregressed to the point where women were nolonger allowed creative expression. Kradjianwas inspired by his readings to composethe song cycle about Ysabella for his wifeBayrakdarian and the Manitoba ChamberOrchestra. For this attractive and evocativework the basic strings of the MCOare complemented by clarinet,oud, guitar and percussion.In keeping with the theme,Kradjian arranged and orchestratedfour songs by latter-dayArmenian troubadour Sayat-Nova, born Haroutiun Sayatianin 1712, who served for a time atthe court of Heracle II, King ofGeorgia, until his attraction forthe king’s daughter led toexpulsion. To complete theset Kradjian also arrangedthe beautiful Greek songs ofMaurice Ravel and that composer’ssetting of Kaddish, a Jewishprayer in Aramaic magnifyingand glorifying God. Throughoutthe disc Bayrakdarian is in fineform and full voice, often sendingshivers down the listener’s spine.In brief: Rachel Mercer is acellist whose career I’ve beenfollowing since her universitydays when as a broadcaster atCJRT I had the opportunity torecord the brilliant young Metro Quartet.Mercer went on to an international chambercareer with Israel’s Aviv Quartet (2002-10)and since returning to Toronto has been amember of the Mayumi Seiler Trio (withpianist Angela Park), the Mercer-Park Duoand Ensemble Made In Canada. This latteris a piano quartet in which Mercer and Parkare joined by other local young lionessesElissa Lee (violin) and Sharon Wei (viola). TheEMIC’s debut CD (ensemblemadeincanada.com) features the second piano quartet ofMozart and the third of Brahms in dramatic,nuanced and, where appropriate, playfulperformances. Produced by Scott St. John andEMIC and recorded at Glenn Gould Studioin August 2012, the sound is everything youwould hope for (and expect). Incidentally,as the winner of the 2009 Canada CouncilMusical Instrument Bank Competition,Mercer was awarded the use of the 1696Bonjour Stradivarius cello from 2009 to 2012and it can be heard on this fine recording.Concert note: Ensemble Made In Canadaperforms at the Kitchener-Waterloo ChamberMusic Society on December 3.Analekta recently released a disc whichI must confess I was sceptical about when Ifirst came across it. I was afraid that Adagio(AN 2 9848) featuring Ensemble Capriceunder Matthias Maute would turn out to beanother compilation of “the world’s mostbeautiful melodies” or some such saccharinefare. I’m glad that I gave it a chance though; itturned out to be a thoughtful collection withsome surprising inclusions. Although overalla baroque offering — Zelenka, Albinoni,Carissimi, Allegri and Bach areall present — Maute explainsthe premise of the project inhis program note as havingbeen inspired by Charles Ives’The Unanswered Questionand its subtitle AConsideration ofa Serious Matter.He says “This wonderfultitle soon became the programmaticidea behind our recording ofadagios throughout the centuries.[...] all meditations on the fundamentalquestions of life and death[expressing] something impossibleto communicate through words.” It isan interesting concept and one whichworks very well for the most partwith its balance of instrumentaland choral works and ShannonMercer’s wonderful renderingof Bach’s Ich habe genug. Mautehas contributed an original prelude,used as a bridge to his arrangementof Satie’s lovely GymnopédieNo.1 and also an arrangement ofChopin’s Prélude Op.28, No.4. Ionly have two reservations aboutthe disc: I would rather have heardthe string version of Barber’sfamous Adagio rather than thelater choral setting of Agnus Deiusing the same melody; I found the inclusionof Allegri’s Miserere, lovely as it is, to be toomuch in the context — too long in relation tothe other selections, and simply too liturgical.Two excellent and quite different acousticguitar discs came my way this month. Thefirst is by local stalwart of the jazz andindependent music scenes, Brian Katz andthe second features Newfoundland Djangostylejazz guitarist Duane Andrews joinedby country picker Craig Young. Leaves WillSpeak (briankatz.com) is the result of twoyears in the studio although more accuratelyit has been more than three decadesin the making since that day in 1980 whenBrian Katz decided that the nylon-stringguitar would be his instrument of choice.Listening to this disc I was not surprised tofind that Katz studied with Ralph Townerwhose recordings with Oregon and the PaulWinter Consort were an integral part of thesoundtrack to my formative years. But hisinfluences and inspirations extend to manyforms including jazz standards, free improvisation,klezmer, world, classical and newmusic. The 18 solo tracks on the albumshowcase the full range of Katz’ diversemusical world. With only one exception,an arrangement of an anonymous ItalianRenaissance Danza, the tracks are original,most through-composed but some improvisedin the recording studio. The sound iscrisp and warm with a minimum of fingernoise and the booklet is comprehensive withan informative essay about Katz’ backgroundand approaches, and descriptive notes foreach piece.Charlie’s Boogie (charliesboogie.com) brings together a number ofstyles of steel-string guitar picking,with Duane Andrews and CraigYoung each bringing their owndistinctive influences to the mix.From traditional North Americancountry music and fiddle tunes, ragsand reels through the blues (via BillMonroe) and of course “Hot Club ofFrance” style jazz, there’s even one singersongwritertype offering, Jerry Faires’ homageto his guitar, “The D-18 Song.” Andrews hascreated a unique blend of Newfoundlandtraditional music and jazz guitar (he graduatedwith honours from jazz studies at St.Francis-Xavier University in Nova Scotiaand went on to composition studies in Parisand Marseilles). Young, also a native ofNewfoundland, left home for Alberta in 1993and later relocated to Nashville, Tennessee asa member of the Terri Clark band, playing atthe Grand Ole Opry and the like. Some fourCanadian Country Music Awards later he’sback home in Newfoundland teaching andpickin’ up a storm with Andrews. Althoughboth are composers in their own right, thealbum features only one track by each withthe rest devoted to cover versions of the stuffthey enjoy most. Man, these guys are hot!We welcome your feedback and invitesubmissions. CDs and comments should besent to: The WholeNote, Centre for SocialInnovation, 503–720 Bathurst St., TorontoON, M5S 2R4. We also encourage you to visitour website thewholenote.com where youcan find added features including direct linksto performers, composers, record labels andadditional, expanded and archival reviews.VOCAL—David Olds, DISCoveries Editordiscoveries@thewholenote.comBach – Matthäus-PassionIm; Fink; Gura; Lehtipuu; Weisser; Wolff;RIAS Kammerchor; Akademie für AlteMusik Berlin; René JacobsHarmonia Mundi HMC 802156.58! ! Half a centuryago there were twokinds of performancesof Bach’s Passions:those that used largeforces and modernsymphony orchestrasand those thatused smaller forcesas well as period instruments and baroqueperformance practices. Now the former kindhave all but disappeared. There is, however, agreat deal of variety in historically informedperformances. In 1981 Joshua Rifkin proposedthat there was no chorus in the modern sense70 | December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 thewholenote.com

in Bach’s sacred music and that choruses andchorales were sung by the soloists, one to apart. Initially that proposal was greeted withderision but over the years it has gained agreat deal of acceptance.A 2008 recording of the Matthew Passionthat comes close to what Rifkin proposedis that of the Dunedin Consort and Players,conducted by John Butt (Linn Records CKD313). In that performance the Evangelist isthe tenor of the first Choir and the Christusis the bass. The singers of the arias also singin the choral sections. Butt needed a fewextra singers for the smaller parts and for thesopranos who sing the cantus firmus in theopening chorus. That gives us 12 as the totalnumber of singers.By contrast, Jacobs proposes that the largerof the two choirs sing at the west end and thesmaller choir at the other end of the church.He divides the larger choir into two groupsand also adds a boys’ choir. Those who singthe smaller parts also sing in the chorus butnot the major soloists or (with one exception)the singers of the arias. That brings thetotal number of singers to 61. Instrumentalforces are also larger: 37 as against 25 in theDunedin Players. Jacobs also has a muchheavier bass line because he has added twobassoons as well as a lute to the continuo.It is clear that the new recording is onaltogether a different scale than that of theDunedin Consort. While I like the lightness ofthe latter performance, I would concede that(whatever the historical validity) Jacobs’ interpretationhas one great advantage and that isthat he can scale down his large forces whenneeded. The performance is very dramaticand is none the worse for that. He has verygood soloists. Werner Güra (the Evangelist),Johannes Weisser (Christus) and BernardaFink (the alto arias) are especially fine. Thisis Jacobs’ first recording of the work, thoughhe has sung the alto solos many times. Buthis love for the work goes back further, tothe time when he sang it as a boy choristerin St. Bavo Cathedral in Ghent. It is fittingthat the illustration on the box of the CDsis that of Jan van Eyck’s Adoration of theLamb, the central portion of the altarpiece inthat church.—Hans de GrootMozart – Don GiovanniSkovhus; Ketelsen; Petersen; Opolais;English Voices; FreiburgerBarockorchester; Louis LangréeBelAir BAC080!!It is to the credit of Mozart’s greatest operato be able to endure many different viewpoints,from traditional to the wildest moderninterpretations. I’ve even seen one that tookplace in the South Bronx with an all-blackcast and it was marvellous. Here the Don Juanlegend, or “morality tale” is from the handof a young, very talented Russian directorDmitri Tcherniakov with a well-thoughtoutand imaginative concept that infusesthe action, setting and characters to the lastdetail. That conceptputs the drama ina modern setting:a drawing room ofa luxurious residenceof a dysfunctionalfamily is quiteimmaterial. It really isall about a man tryingto live above the rulesof society; althoughhe is successful fora while, he is ultimatelydoomed.To achieve this, the director, who knowsthe score and libretto by heart and thereforeis no bumbling dilettante, selected hissinging actors with utmost care, mostlyyoung with fine voices and remarkably fit tolive up to his strenuous physical, emotionaldemands. The dissolute Don, Danish baritoneBo Skovhus is a larger-than-life presence,alternatively charming, elegant, seductive,insolent, despondent or manic, you name it,although the superhuman demands do taketheir toll and his powerful voice is sometimesoff pitch. The three women representingthree social classes and of different ages, areall memorable, each with their own issues,but common in one respect: their uncontrollable,conscious or subliminal attractionto the Don. I was most impressed by theingenue, exceptional Swedish soprano KerstinAvemo, giving a simply unforgettable, manylayeredemotional, heartbreakingly empatheticportrayal of Zerlina.Under the enthusiastic, firm musicalleadership of French conductor LouisLangrée driving his virtuoso period instrumentorchestra with verve and brisk tempi,the show moves along seamlessly and it’srefreshing like the Provence air.—Janos GardonyiFrancis Poulenc – Intégrales des mélodiespour voix et pianoPascale Beaudin; Julie Fuchs;Hélène Guilmette; Julie Boulianne;Marc Boucher; François Le Roux;Olivier GodinATMA ADC2 2688 (5 CDs)!!In his booklet notesfor this collection ofPoulenc’s mélodiesand chansons, baritoneFrançois Le Rouxdescribes Poulenc’smusic as “a mixture ofmelancholy and joiede vivre, of solemnityand fun.” As the Canadian Opera Company’sstunning production of Dialogues of theCarmelites last season made clear, Poulenc’smusic is not to be taken lightly. Underlyingeven his most playful works — and there areplenty of those here–is a deeply felt reflectiveness.That’s precisely what the musiciansinvolved in this recording convey so well, andwhat makes this collection so enjoyable.Poulenc always claimed that it was thepoets whose words he was setting thatdirectly shaped his music. With so manypoets involved, it’s no wonder there is suchvariety in these 170 songs. There are threesongs which have never been recorded, somerarities, including a few songs that Poulencdropped from Le bestiare, and a song cyclefor chamber orchestra accompaniment,Quatre poèmes de Max Jacob, that pianistOlivier Godin has transcribed for piano. Butwhat sets this recording apart is that it isthe first complete collection of the songs forvoice and piano to feature francophone musicians,four from Canada and two from France.This turns out to be revelatory. It’s not justbecause they all sound so natural and idiomatic.The enunciation of each singer is so clearand unmannered that you can make outevery word.Poulenc loved the music of MauriceChevalier, and with Les chemins de l’amourhe steps into Chevalier’s music hall. Heconjures up a delectable waltz for Anouilh’sbittersweet ode to paths not taken. SopranoPascale Beaudin uses a wonderfully nuancedpalette of colours to create a jaunty mood and,at the same time, bring out the undercurrentsof longing and regret.Soprano Julie Fuchs balances the shiftingmoods of a robust ballad with the touchinginnocence of a prayer in “La Petite Servante,”one of the Cinq poèmes de Max Jacob.Vocalise shows how expressive Poulenc canbe without any text at all, especially withsoprano Hélène Guilmette imaginativelyfashioning a tragicomic scenario of operaticproportions. Mezzo Julie Bouliannedeftly contrasts the despair of Montparnasse,Poulenc’s wartime ode to Paris’ oncevibrantartists’ quarter, with the wryness ofHyde Park in Deux mélodies de GuillaumeApollinaire. Baritone Marc Boucher bringsmoving lyricism to the nine songs of Tel jourtelle nuit (Such a Day Such a Night). His voiceseems to grow darker and more urgent as dayturns into night in Éluard’s cycle of poems.In his prime, François Le Roux was a peerlessinterpreter of art songs from his nativeFrance. Here he is no longer in his prime. Hisvoice is brittle, underpowered and weatheredaround the edges. But that doesn’t affectmy pleasure in his singing on this set. He’salways interesting, never bland. There’s a lifetime’sexperience in the way he embraces thenostalgic mood of “Hôtel” from Apollinaire’sBanalités, his top notes resonating withtenderness. You can smell the Gauloises(unfiltered, of course) as he sings, “I don’twant to work, I want to smoke.”Poulenc was himself a marvellous pianist,and he demands a lot from a pianist in hissongs. Olivier Godin makes an especiallyresponsive partner. His finely calibrated senseof momentum and evocative textures animatepassages like the exquisite pulsing coda thatends Tel Jour Telle Nuit. Booklet notes andbios are in French and English, but the Frenchsong-texts are not, unfortunately, translated.—Pamela Marglesthewholenote.com December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 | 71

Jake Heggie – Moby-DickMorris; Costello; Smith; Lemalu; Trevigne;San Francisco Opera; Patrick SummersEuroArts 2059658!!The only lingeringquestion about Moby-Dick as an opera is:why did it take solong to happen? Theepic tale, charactersand intensity ofemotions — they all areperfectly operatic inscope. Deconstructingthe linearity of thestory was the rightapproach to the sprawling novel, suggestedby Heggie’s collaborator Terrence McNally.(McNally, who was the librettist for Heggie’sDead Man Walking began this project but hadto back out and the libretto was completedby Gene Scheer). Paraphrasing the immortalfirst line of the novel as, “You may call meIshmael ...” for the closing line was anotherstroke of genius. The rest relies on Heggie’sbrilliant, neo-romantic score, with its delightfullyunanticipated musical quotations fromPoulenc and Debussy and all-male vocal score(save for the “in-trousers” role of Pip). Inthis production, the demonic Captain Ahab(Jay Hunter Morris) demonstrates considerablehubris early on —“I’d strike at the sunif it’d burned me.” His relentless pursuitof the whale, leading to a loss of humanityand almost complete annihilation, is set instark relief by Starbuck (Morgan Smith), themoral centre of the opera. Joseph Costello asGreenhorn (Ishmael) imbues the music witha sense of foreboding and fear. The productionvalues are truly spectacular — inventiveuse of digital projections (with a tip of thehat to our own Robert Lepage), beautiful setsand creative lighting make for an immenselywatchable 140 minutes. Finally, the directionfor video by Frank Zamacona is of a calibrerarely seen on operatic DVDs. All in all,Moby-Dick is a solid new entry in the standardrepertoire and this production is a musthavefor watching at home.—Robert TomasEARLY MUSIC & PERIOD PERFORMANCEIo Vidi In TerraJosé Lemos; Jory Vinikour; Deborah FoxSono Luminus DSL-92172sonoluminus.com!!SeventeenthcenturyItaly presentsus with images oflove, debauchery,power games, murdersand ruthless ambition— but at leastthere were some greatItalian composersaround to set the romantic elements to music!Brazilian José Lemos displays his in-depthlove for Italian vocal music by selecting notonly giants of the period but also lesserknowncomposers. It is, indeed, a less-wellknowncomposer, Tarquinio Merula, withwhom José Lemos opens his recital. Hisrendition of “Su la cetra amorosa” draws ona very wide range of skills as it combines analmost rushed score with a sometimes highlyexhilarating one.“Io Vidi in Terra” sets lines by Petrarch,and it is a tribute to both Marco da Gaglianoand José Lemos that poetry and song of suchbeauty and sensitivity are to be found onthis CD. Just as anguished by love’s pains is“Ardo” by Benedetto Ferrari, bringing outthe best in Lemos’ longer notes and drawingon Vinikour’s harpsichord and DeborahFox’s theorbo.Instrumental solos feature. Spagnoletta wasone of the most popular and longest-livedpieces of the entire Renaissance. Vinikourgives a spirited interpretation of Storace’scomplex score — the most demanding thisreviewer has heard. And for good measurethere is the exuberant Balletto by thesame composer.Lemos starts and finishes his recital withsongs by Merula, who deserves to be betterknown. Listening to this choice of songs, it iseasy to see why — this is a wonderful collectionof early Italian baroque music.—Michael SchwartzSplendore a Venezia – Music in Venicefrom the Renaissance to the BaroqueVarious ArtistsATMA ACD2 3013!!This compilationdisc was created toaccompany the exhibitionpresented at theMontreal Museum ofFine Arts this seasonfrom October toJanuary focusing onthe interrelationshipbetween the visual arts and music during the16th, 17th and 18th centuries, In addition topaintings, the show features historical instruments,musical texts and manuscripts. Forthe recording, the ATMA label draws from itscatalogue works by composers who figurein the exhibition, including Monteverdi,Gabrieli, Rossi, Vivaldi and Albinoni,performed by local Montreal artists and theirguests. There is a cornucopia of instrumentaland vocal works offered, bringing to life therich, festive tapestry of Venetian society. TheAcadémie baroque de Montréal offers a stunningperformance of a Vivaldi concerto withthe late Washington McClain as oboe soloist.Perhaps in honour of the string instrumentson display at the gallery, such as theKoch archlute, a lovely Ballo secondo byKapsberger features chitarrone and harp.Vocal ensemble Les Voix Baroques andTragicomedia perform Gabrieli’s madrigalDue rose fresche and Monterverdi’s Laetatussum. Charles Daniels and Colin Balzer delightin Monterverdi’s whimsical Zefiro tornaand the superb voice of Karina Gauvin soarsthrough the lovely Vivaldi aria “Addio Caro.”A delightful surprise is Benedetto Marcello’ssetting of Psalm 15 gorgeously sung by Israelimezzo Rinat Shaham. For those lookingfor a reason to brave the cold in Montrealthis winter, the exhibit is a must-see; forall others, vicarious enjoyment through themusic, complete with a full-colour bookletillustrated with several of the works presentedin the MMFA exhibition.—Dianne WellsHandel; Boieldieu;Mozart – Harp ConcertosValérie Milot; Les Violins du Roi;Bernard LabadieAnalekta AN 29990! ! The three concertoson this recordingremain a major partof the harp repertoiretoday even thoughthey were written atthe time when theharp was not consideredmuch morethan a salon instrument, due to the defectsof the single pedal mechanism. Interestinglyenough, it was Sébastien Érard, a roommateof Boieldieu, who invented the double-actionpedal mechanism that greatly improved thesound and the ability of the harp. All threeconcertos, featuring Valérie Milot as soloist,were recorded on the modern harp thusadding an array of colours and textures thatwould have been impossible to achieve at thetime they were composed.Handel’s Concerto in B flat Major is mypersonal favourite on this recording. It waspremiered in 1736 at Covent Garden inLondon, at a concert dedicated exclusivelyto Handel’s compositions. This concerto hasa wonderfully intimate sound throughout.Elegant baroque phrasing of Les Violons DuRoy complements the crispy, sparkling harpsound — creating an atmosphere that is notoverly dramatic yet containing a wide rangeof emotions.François-Adrien Boieldieu (1775–1834) maynot be a familiar name but he was a popularopera composer and piano teacher at theConservatoire de Paris. His love for opera isevident in his concerto for harp — dramaticorchestra opening of both the first and secondmovements and many ornaments in delicatelyvirtuosic harp lines. The last movement has avery enjoyable swaying momentum, evokingthe spirit of the times.Mozart wrote the Concerto for Flute andHarp in C, K299 while he was visiting Parisand happened to become a compositionteacher for the Duc de Guines’ daughter, who,in turn, occasionally played the harp accompaniedby her father on the transverse flute.This concerto is signature Mozart, bursting72 | December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 thewholenote.com

with melodies and brightness. The flutesoloist, Claire Marchand, plays with sensitivityand clarity, and the two instrumentsblend very well. Milot has composed cadenzasfor both Handel’s and Mozart’s concertos,in keeping with the practices of the timesand contributing more authenticity to thisrecording.—Ivana PopovicCLASSICAL & BEYONDBrahms – The SymphoniesGewandhausorchester; Riccardo ChaillyDecca 4785344!!The FourSymphonies includingsome revised andoriginal material:Tragic Overture,Haydn Variations,Academic FestivalOverture; Intermezzi,Liebeslieder Waltzes,Hungarian Dances (3 CDs in a hard-boundbook). Here are some notes to myself as Imade them listening to this set in preparationto write a review:Hits the ground running ... Not traditionalweighted-down performance ... Keepsmoving ... The music flows ... Thrilling ... Couldbe the Beethoven Tenth ... Hearing with newears ... Perfect balances ... Translucent ... Clearlyhear the pluck in the plucked basses.Vivid recording, you can see theorchestra ... Outstanding string section thatdoesn’t swamp the woodwinds ... Instrumentsclear without spotlighting ... Clearly hear theinner instrumentation in true perspective.Feels like hearing the works for the firsttime ... Outstanding dynamics ... Texture inthe horns reminiscent of Szell ... Tempos fluidand forward-looking ... Well-rehearsed but nosense of hearing a routine performance ... Notrudging through well-worn paths ... Notdutiful or obligatory.Gorgeous singing winds ... Excitinglyfresh ... Spectacular ... Confident ... Brahmsrestored ... Chailly, the orchestra a perfectmatch ... Brings to mind Toscanini’s 1951recording of the First ... Unique interpretations... Enthusiastic, firm, clear, articulate,translucent ... This is how Brahms was heard atthe first performances before there were anycoats of traditions to wear.I guess what I’m saying is “Highlyrecommended!”—Bruce SurteesRachmaninoff – Symphonic Dances;Stravinsky – The Rite of SpringToronto Symphony Orchestra;Peter OundjianTSO Livetso.ca/tsolive!!TSO Live is a self-produced label of liveconcert recordings, established in 2008 by theToronto SymphonyOrchestra and itsmusic director PeterOundjian. Theirnewest release featuresRachmaninov’sSymphonic Dancesand Stravinsky’s TheRite of Spring, twoworks that share a common thread of experimentalharmonies and prominent rhythms.Rachmaninov composed this orchestralsuite in three movements in 1940,shortly after escaping the war in Europe andmoving to the United States. It was originallyconceived as a ballet; its final versionretained complex rhythms but also becamevery symphonic in nature. The first movementstarts with a marching fast section, withbeautifully rendered dynamic contrasts in theorchestra. Shifting harmonies and elementsof sarcasm continue in the second movement,combining folksy melodies with waltzlikelilts. The last movement is inspired bythe chants of the Russian Orthodox Churchand the Gregorian chant of the dead. In away, it was as if Rachmaninov had a premonition— Symphonic Dances was to be his lastoriginal composition. The TSO maintainsa cohesive expression with many beautifultextures throughout this piece.The star of this recording, in my opinion,is The Rite of Spring. It is dark, it is pagan, itis mystically powerful. It contains complexrhythms and metres, experiments in tonalityand dissonance. Stravinsky wrote it 100years ago, in 1913, for a Paris season of SergeiDiaghilev’s Ballets Russes company. Thepremiere caused a riot in the audience — manywere escorted outside and the reaction barelysubsided by the end of this 35-minute ballet.It was said that Nijinsky, who choreographedthis piece, had to keep shouting the numberof steps to the dancers as they could nothear the orchestra at times. It was a pleasurehearing the TSO playing with such gustoand precision. The avant-garde elements thatcaused a disturbance 100 years ago are almostcertainly the same elements that appeal to thecontemporary audience. It is not a surprisethat The Rite of Spring remains one of themost recorded works of the classical repertoire.This recording has a freshness thatcaptivates the listener.—Ivana PopovicStravinsky – Rite of Spring;Moussorgski – Pictures at an ExhibitionPentaèdreATMA ACD2 2687!!Canadian quintetPentaèdre tackles therhythmic complexitiesand melodic nuancesin wind transcriptionsof two works byRussian composers,Igor Stravinsky andModest Mussorgsky.Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring is surprisinglymusically successful in this wind transcriptionby Michael Byerly. Shorter in lengthhere than the original composition, the flute,clarinet, oboe, bassoon and horn parts areremarkable in their loyalty to the originalscore. The driving rhythmic patterns andtwirling melodies that shocked audienceswhen first performed continue to shockand amaze here. The quintet is a tightly knitensemble which works to its advantage in thiscolourful and virtuosic performance.In contrast, the Mussorgsky Pictures atan Exhibition is, though performed exquisitely,not as successful. The transcription byStéphane Mooser is perhaps too much of agood thing here as his goal was to expand thewind instruments’ tonal palate in contrastto his liner notes comment that “the otherexisting versions for wind quintet are toolimited in colour range.” These occasionaldense sections take away from the overallbeautiful phrasing and melodies of bothperformance and individual parts.The high production quality allows for eachwind instrument to sound “live.” Pentaèdreneeds to be congratulated for expandingthe woodwind repertoire with these transcriptionsof audience-loved works. Theensemble’s fresh musical approach and technicalacumen brings new life to establishedrepertoire.—Tiina KiikQuartetski Does StravinskyQuartetskiAmbiances Magnétiques AM 213actuellecd.com! ! Jazz andmodernism botherupted in the early20th century, andthe lines of concordanceare many,including the polyrhythmsof jazz inIgor Stravinsky’smasterpiece of primordial impulses, LeSacre du printemps. Its opening melodyhas been referenced by jazz musicians suchas Carla Bley, Rahsaan Roland Kirk andOrnette Coleman. Celebrating the work’s100th anniversary, Montreal’s transformativeQuartetski Does Stravinsky, followsa loose and reduced score while interpolatingand overlaying improvisations eitheranarchic or folk-inspired. The instrumentationis constructed for maximum chronologicalassociation, leaping from the sound ofa medieval consort with founder Pierre-YvesMartel’s viola de gamba, Phillippe Lauzier’sbass clarinet, Isaiah Ceccarelli’s percussionand Josh Zubot’s violin to guitarist BernardFalaise’s very electronic approach. Alternatelyhomage and deconstruction, it’s a fearlesswork, casting Stravinsky’s masterwork in anew light — at once more intimate, flexibleand playful.—Stuart Broomerthewholenote.com December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 | 73

Two Russian violin concertoswritten within four yearsof each other by composerswho had both left theirnative country for politicalreasons are featured on the newCD Prokofiev and Stravinsky,with Patricia Kopatchinskajaand the London PhilharmonicOrchestra under Vladimir Jurowski(naïve V 5352).Stravinsky’s Concertoin D was written in 1931; ittakes more than just its individualmovement titles from theBaroque era, and is in the composer’sneoclassical style. It’s probablyheard less frequently than theProkofiev, and with its pricklynature seems to be slightly lessapproachable. Kopatchinskaja,though, is a wonderful interpreter,capturing the strident nature ofthe music while fully illustratingthat this is not a work lacking incolour and warmth.The concerto is followed on theCD by a short uncredited cadenza in whichKopatchinskaja is joined by the LPO’s leaderPieter Schoeman.Prokofiev’s Concerto No.2 in G minordates from 1935, when Prokofiev haddecided — unlike Stravinsky — to return tothe Soviet Union. It’s a beautifully lyricalwork, albeit with typical Prokofiev momentsof spiky percussiveness, and Kopatchinskajaalways finds the perfect balance. The openingof the slow middle movement is particularlystriking, with the solo line held back in aquite mysterious way, but with beautiful tonalcolour and shading. The orchestral support isexcellent on a truly outstanding disc.Another excellent concerto CD is DvořákCello Concertos, the latest issue from StevenIsserlis and the Mahler Chamber Orchestraunder Daniel Harding (Hyperion CDA67917).“Concertos,” you say? —“Surely there is onlyone?” Well, yes and no. Some 30 years beforehis celebrated B minor concerto, the youngDvořák had written an A major concertofor the cellist Ludevit Peer, an orchestralcolleague of the composer’s in Prague. Itwas never orchestrated, and the piano scoremanuscript stayed with Peer when he movedto Germany; Dvořák presumably considered itlost. It is now in the British Library.There have been two attempts at orchestratingit, the latest in 1975 closely followingthe manuscript; Isserlis, however, has chosena 1920s reworking of the concerto’s materialTERRY ROBBINSby the German composer GünterRaphael, who clearly envisionedthe mature Dvořák returning tothe work with a critical eye. It’sunderstandably not in the sameclass as the B minor concerto, butit does have some lovely momentsand a particularly beautiful slowmovement. However, given thatDvořák’s original work was virtuallyrewritten by Raphael, whoalso provided all of the orchestration,it’s a bit difficult to regard itas anything other than an interestinghybrid. Isserlis plays itbeautifully, though, as he doesthe real concerto on the disc.There are two interesting additions tothe CD. On learning of the deathof his sister-in-law and first love,Dvořák rewrote the ending ofthe concerto to incorporate herfavourite of his songs, “Lasst michallein”; an orchestral version of thesong is included here, along withthe original ending of the concerto.Midori performs Violin Sonatasby Bloch, Janáček and Shostakovich on herlatest CD, accompanied by Özgür Aydin(Onyx 4084). During the early years of the20th century — and especially after the GreatWar — many composers strove to find a newexpressive language, and each of the threerepresented here developed a highly individualvoice. Midori says that the sonatasdrew her in, “as they represent a new era intheir genre.”Ernest Bloch’s Sonata No.2 “Poèmemystique” is a lovely, rhapsodic single-movementwork from 1924, written as a counterpartto his war-influenced first sonatafrom 1920. Leoš Janáček’s lone violin sonataspanned the years of the Great War and thecomposer’s sixth decade, the period in whichhis unrequited love for a young woman ledto an outburst of highly personal and idiomaticcompositions; started in 1914, it wascompleted in 1922.The Shostakovich sonata, written in 1968,is everything you would expect from thismost tortured of composers: an ominousslow first movement; an explosively percussive“Allegretto”; and a devastatingly personalclosing movement which seems to endin bitterness and resignation, and devoidof any hope.Midori and Aydin are superb throughout arecital recorded by the German radio stationWDR in Cologne, and first broadcast therein 2012.Strings Attached continues at thewholenote.com with anotherinstallment of Sarasate’s music for violin with Tianwa Yang, chamberworks for strings by Kaija Saariaho, a new Haydn release by the LondonHaydn Quartet, Dreamtime with violistDavid Aaron Carpenter, a portrait ofbaroque violinist Amandine Beyer andthe latest Naxos release of music byKenneth Fuchs.MODERN & CONTEMPORARYAmerican Piano ConcertosXiayin Wang; Royal Scottish NationalOrchestra; Peter OundjianChandos CHAN 5128!!Over the years,American composershave contributed tothe piano concertogenre as significantlyas theirEuropean counterparts;this Chandosrecording withconcertos by Barber, Copland and Gershwinfeaturing pianist Xiayin Wang with the RoyalScottish National Orchestra conducted byPeter Oundjian is a fine cross-section ofAmerican music spanning a 35-year period.Wang studied at the Shanghai Conservatoryand later at the Manhattan School of Music,where she earned her bachelor’s, master’s,and professional studies degrees. A winner ofnumerous prizes, she’s since earned an internationalreputation as a recitalist, chambermusician and orchestral soloist.Samuel Barber has long been regardedas one of the most romantic of Americancomposers. His Pulitzer Prize-winningconcerto from 1962 is a true study incontrasts, with more than a stylistic nodto Bartók and Prokofiev. Wang’s formidabletechnique is clearly evident in thefrenetic first and third movements, but thelyrical “Canzone” demonstrates a particularsensitivity with just the right degree oftempo rubato.While Barber’s work is music by a veterancomposer, the piano concerto by AaronCopland was the creation of a youthful26-year-old, and is very much a product ofthe jazz age with its bluesy themes and jazzyrhythms. As in the other two works, Oundjianand the RSNO produce a lush and confidentsound, very much at home with this 20thcentury repertoire.If Copland’s concerto was somewhatinfluenced by the music of the 1920s,Gershwin’s was even more so. This concertois clearly stamped “Broadway, 1925.” Wanghas a particular affinity for this music,already having recorded Earl Wild’s Gershwintranscriptions, and here she embraces thesyncopated rhythms and lyrical melodies74 | December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 thewholenote.com

with great panache.An Asian soloist with a Scottish orchestraled by a Canadian-born conductorperforming American music may seem anunlikely combination, but the result is somewonderful music making. Samuel, Aaron andGeorge would all be proud!—Richard HaskellHindemith – Complete Piano ConcertosIdil Biret; Yale Symphony Orchestra;Toshiyuki ShimadaNaxos 8.573201-02!!In celebration ofthe 50th anniversaryof the deathof Paul Hindemith(1895–1963) Naxoshas released a doublediscanthology ofhis works for pianoand orchestra inperformances by the Turkish-born pianistand frequent Naxos collaborator Idil Biretand the student ensembles of Yale Universityunder the direction of Professor ToshiyukiShimada. It is a logical pairing as Hindemithtaught from 1940 to 1953 at the prestigiousIvy League school and had previously servedin the 1930s as a consultant to the Turkishgovernment, helping to establish the nationalstandards and infrastructure for classicalmusic education.The earliest work represented here (from1923), Piano Music with Orchestra (forPiano Left Hand), was commissioned bythe affluent Viennese one-armed pianistPaul Wittgenstein. Unfortunately the pianistgreatly disliked it and refused to perform it,though by contract he retained the exclusiverights to do so (the same impasseoccurred with a work he commissioned fromProkofiev). The score was considered lostuntil the year 2001, when a copy was discoveredin the Wittgenstein family archives.The ever-prolific Hindemith was likely nonetoo concerned, for the lavish $1,000 fee inUS dollars he received at the height of theGerman hyperinflation crisis (equivalent to30 million marks at the time) enabled him torenovate and move into his dream home, afour-story 14th-century tower in Frankfurt.The Kammermusik No.2 for piano, stringquartet and brass (1924) is a much strongerwork, brimming with the saucy inventivenessand powerful brass writing typical of thebrilliant Kammermusik series of concertanteworks for diverse instruments. The same canbe said of the innovative instrumentation ofthe intriguing Concert Music for Piano, Op.49for two harps and brass (1930). The Yale brasssection takes to this music like ducks to water,though all three performances suffer fromsloppy co-ordination between the instrumentalgroups. Whether this is the fault ofpoor communication between the conductorand pianist or some quirk of the acoustics ofthe cramped Woolsey Hall stage I cannot say.The Four Temperaments for piano andstrings (1940) began life as a ballet score andis the most often performed of all the workshere. Here again an underpowered stringorchestra (6.5.4.3.2 in instrumental shorthand,as observed in a YouTube video postedby Ms. Biret) playing in a 3,000 seat convocationhall fails to provide the sonic weightHindemith routinely demands, though theperformers themselves are quite capable. Thealbum closes with the mechanistic Concertofor Piano and Orchestra (1945), the finestmoment of which occurs in the surprisingfinal pages with an arrangement of the livelyold medieval melody “Tre Fontane.” Perhapswe could consider this retreat into the past asa coded reference to his gothic ivory tower inFrankfurt, now bombed and incinerated.While the dispirited Bartók and embitteredSchoenberg struggled to survive in America,Hindemith’s influence in the United Stateswas profound and his music was widelyperformed there. By the time of his deathhowever the larger world of composition hadturned its back on him. Perhaps it is time toonce again grant this grand old lion his dueand acknowledge the power, nobility andimpeccable craftsmanship of his music; thisanthology would be a good place to start.—Daniel FoleySound Dreaming – Oracle Songsfrom Ancient Ritual SpacesWendalynCD and 5.1 DVD audio format discswendalyn.ca!!Toronto-based Wendalyn is a composer,vocal performer and sound energy practitioner.In this thought-provoking release, herDrumheller is a Torontobasedquintet, but it turnsout visionary, genre-bendingmusic with wit and skill worthyof Amsterdam origins. That opennessto play and variety is evidentthroughout Sometimes Machine(Barnyard Records BR0333 barnyardrecords.com),includingguitarist Eric Chenaux’s opening “AlabamaUK,” suspended between Latin and NewOrleans rhythms; the Ellingtonian richnessachieved in drummer Nick Fraser’s“Sketch #8”; and alto saxophonist BrodieWest’s “Untitlement,“ which begins witha melody that might have fallen out of thehistory of minstrelsy. The musicians bring acreative joy and spontaneity to each other’stunes, constantly finding new dimensions inthe dialogue. Chenaux’s weirdly arrhythmicsolo on bassist Rob Clutton’s “Parc Lineaire”suggests folklore from another world, whileSTUART BROOMERimprovised vocalizationsrecorded inancient temples inMalta and Crete providethe initial soundscapesto which she haslater added environmental,instrumentaland vocal layers.Wendalyn provides clear and succinct linernotes which describe her personal emotionaland subsequent musical responses to hertemple journeys. These greatly aid in understandingthe composer/performer’s estheticand provide the listener a welcome tool tolistening and appreciating the six tracks.Chant-like in nature, her music has anextremely calming effect. Her voice is clear,her pitch is exact and production qualityis high. The initial track “Stone Mysteries”features long syllabic tones (such as ooohs)and subtle static changes of pitch and quiveringvibrations. There is a welcome additionof water-like sounds of the EgyptianRebaba (played by Randy Raine-Reusch) andmelody- driven changes in the second track“Sirens of the Deep.” “Serpentine Dance” hasthe opening vocal breath rhythms juxtaposedagainst tambourines and a cicada chorus. Thissets up the most interesting track of the set,in both its spontaneous response to the Cretetemple, and compositional expertise.At times the chants and musical ideas dragon for too long, and her inspirational musingsseem too farfetched to be believed. But this isan interesting aural foray into the world of aninquisitive and honest artist searching for andfinding her own inner sound.—Tiina Kiiktrombonist Doug Tielli combinesa bending, quavering line withcircular breathing on Fraser’sotherwise sprightly “Sketch #16”in a similarly original way.Montreal-born, Toronto-residentpianist Marilyn Lerner has a longestablishedreputation in jazz,improvised music and klezmer,and a growing international profile thatincludes a co-operative trio with New Yorkbasedbassist Ken Filiano and drummer LouGrassi. Their latest release is Live in Madrid(Cadence Jazz Records CJR 1247 cadencejazzrecords.com).It’s entirely improvised,with the drive of great free jazz, as alive withlight and shadow as Lerner’s jacket photo ofMadrid, with its mysterious depths, narrow,curving streets and bristling antennae. Theconcert brims with passion and energy: thedense counterpoint of “Intentions Woven”;the rich shifting textures of the 34-minutethewholenote.com December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 | 75

“Elegia por A.J.C.;” from its opening chordsstrummed on the piano strings to the finalunaccompanied keyboard tremolos; andthe spare luminous tones that open “Ode toOrujo.” Each musician is wholly engaged inthis complex, ongoing dialogue, whether it’sFiliano’s pulsing bass lines and upper registerarco explorations or Grassi’s thunderous polyrhythmsand sometimes playful sound effects.While Lerner and company work happilywithout predetermined materials, it’scomposition that distinguishes anotherpiano trio led by bassist/composer MikeDownes. On Ripple Effect (Addo RecordsAJR017 addorecords.com), Downes presentssubtle, compellingpieces that developconcentrated, evocativemoods throughslightly evasivemelodies and moodyharmonies, andhis partners here,pianist Robi Botosand drummer EthanArdelli, seem inspiredto bring every nuanceto life. The sole standardincluded, “IHear a Rhapsody,”gains a contrastingostinato thatseems to enhance theperformance’s freeflowingswing, whileDownes’ emotionallydirect, profoundlylyrical bass workcomes to the foreon “So Maki Sum SeRodila,” a traditionalMacedonian song,and on “Campfire Waltz,” an unaccompaniedsolo. Guitarist Ted Quinlan’s guest appearanceon the title track is a highlight, while the trioachieves a welling luminosity on “Two Sidesof a Coin.”Composer and saxophonist ChristineJensen presents her works in a far largerforum: her Jazz Orchestra sometimesstretches to over 20 players on Habitat (JustinTime JTR-8583-2 justin-time.com), taking inmany of Montreal’s finest musicians. Theseare ambitious works, in theme and durationas well as scale: “Tumbledown,” inspired bythe 2010 Port-au-Prince earthquake, takesits reflective tone from happier early visits,while the extended “Nishiyuu” commemoratesthe 1500-kilometre trek of six Creeyouths to protest living conditions for FirstNations people. Whether it’s the movement ofhistory, the earth, wind, traffic or a Peruvianrhythm that inspires her, there’s grandeurand nobility in Jensen’s writing, enhancedhere by the lustre of up to a dozen brass andoutstanding soloists in trumpeter IngridJensen, trombonist Jean-Nicolas Trottier andsaxophonists Joel Miller, Chet Doxas andSamuel Blais.The flute and the Hammond B-3 organentered jazz around the same time,back in the 1950s, but they enteredfrom different directions — theflute from West coast cool andLatin music, the organ fromsoul and funk. The instrumentsare heard together throughoutflute player Bill McBirnie’s FindYour Place (Extreme Flute EF06extremeflute.com), with Bernie Senenskyat the Hammond keyboard and drummerAnthony Michelli completing the trio. Whilemost jazz flute players have been doublingsaxophonists, McBirnie is a rarity, a musicianEXCEPTIONAL CDS YOU MAYNOT KNOW ABOUTAs mass media continues topromote music as anotherinstantly consumed product,the likelihood of newsounds — or even older ones — beingignored because they don’t fit thestyle of the moment intensifies.This is especially true when itcomes to improvised music. Butwith the holiday season looming,more committed listeners maybe seeking gifts for those whoappreciate challenge ratherthan comfort in their music.Here are some CDs from 2013that fit the bill. They include onesby established players, youngerstylists plus important reissues.Anyone who claims that experimentalmusic lacks emotionmust hear Evan Parker/BarryGuy/Paul Lytton Live at MayaRecordings Festival (NoBusinessNBCD 55 nobusinessrecords.com). A working trio since 1980,tenor saxophonist Parker, bassist Guy anddrummer Lytton invigorate this live set withthe combination of precision and passionreminiscent of the most accomplished stringquartet performance. Even when he isn’tdisplaying his characteristic circular-breathedmultiphonics, Parker is able to prod showpieceslike “Obsidian” and “Gabbro” to slowboilingintensity. Furthermore his instantlyidentifiable sound can be relaxed withoutsacrificing emotion. The bassist’s supplefinger movements transcend timekeepingwith guitar-like facility below the bridge andother extremities, while Lytton’s shuffles andtimed rimshots oppose or connect with eitheror both of the others’ timbres for maximumsatisfying cohesion.A decade younger than Parker, JohnButcher has refined extended saxophonewhose dedication to the flutehas shaped his musical voice. It’sapparent throughout the CD, withMcBirnie demonstrating the fluentlines, subtle rhythmic inflectionsand timbral shifts that you’remore apt to hear on a saxophone.The repertoire mixes hard bop,bossa nova, Latin rhythms andgospel, even going as far afield as the earlyjazz classic “Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good to You”and the Beatles’ “Oh! Darling.” It’s all deliveredwith infectious swing and a cheerfuleffervescence.Something in the AirLucky Seven Plus OneKEN WAXMANtechniques further. Paired withdrummer Tony Buck and eitherguitarist Burkhard Stangl orpianist Magda Mayas, Plume(Unsounds 35 Uunsounds.com)demonstrates that even whenstripped of beat and melodyunmatched vibrancy remains.Although guitar strums and drumresonance satisfactorily complementButcher’s narratives which replicatebird chirps and pinched reedsucking, it’s “Vellum,” the piano/drum/sax interface, that’s thestunner. As Buck roughly strokesdrum tops to equate cicada-liketextures or subtle accents with belltreeshakes, Mayas’ stopped pianokeys and internal string plucksprovide a sinewy challenge toButcher’s klaxon-like tones. Whenthe piano soundboard shakesand string vibrations intensifyexcitement, the saxophonistresponds with amplified growlsand snorts and the drummer withheartbeat-like thumps. Movingforward chromatically, the mood is intensifiedwith an undercurrent of restrained power.Finally as Mayas’ rummaging in the piano’sinnards gives way to pummelling strokes andButcher’s tongue slaps are replaced by violentstaccato trills, parallel release is achieved.Then same age as Butcher, French sopranosaxophonist Michel Doneda has also refinedand extended Parker’s tonal experiments.Linge (Umlaut Records umfrcd 07 umlautrecords.com)was recorded in an old barnin Eastern France to organically maximizethe spatial properties during his duetwith clarinetist Joris Rühl (b.1982). As theywork their way through seven sequences,what’s produced are distinctive improvisationsthat are as frequently created fromparallel blowing as intermingled timbres.Concentrated in the highest register of the76 | December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 thewholenote.com

sound spectrum an amazing multiplicity oftones is still heard. Manipulating air currentsas much as reed and key properties, the twoattain such a harmonic level that there arepoints where the sounds are identical tothose of a boys’ choir. Other times masticatingreed- and tongue-popping extrusionsproduce a cubist-like perspective. Staccatochirps, flatline blowing and gravelly motionsare all present. Only on the penultimate trackare individual traits identifiable as DonedaFor information about other impressiveCDs, featuring Michel Doneda/Joris Rühl, LoriFreedman/John Heward, Matt Mitchell, KiddJordan/Hamid Drake, Paul Bley and ChrisMcGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath see thecontinuation of this column at thewholenote.com.concentrates on split-tone buzzing and Rühlon lyrical and communicative textures.OLD WINE, NEW BOTTLES | Fine Old Recordings Re-ReleasedRUCE SURTEESThe Berliner PhilharmonikerBattraction, conducted his last concert onCentenary Edition (DG 4791049, April 4, 1954, it was necessary for RCA Victor50 CDs) celebrates “100 years of to fill the void. They had recorded ReinerGreat Recordings.” The first disc, of conducting pick-up groups in New York andinterest only to archivists, contains the Reiner/Chicago Symphony marriage wasthe usual orchestral excerpts from garnering some critical acclaim where RCAParsifal conducted by Alfred Hertz (12 to 16 had already recorded an extraordinary AlsoSeptember 1913) and ArthurSprach Zarathustra in Chicago inNikisch conducting Beethoven’sMarch. So there it was ... RCA’s newFifth Symphony (1913) and Lestar attraction in the quality ofcarnaval romain (1920). Discsound never accorded “The Maestro.”two contains a Beethoven FifthBy April RCA had assigned Richardfrom Furtwangler (Oct 1926),Mohr as producer andFingal’s Cave conducted bythe now legendaryBruno Walter (1924) and intoLewis Laytonthe electric era, short worksas recordingand overtures conducted by Richardengineer andStrauss and Hans Knappertsbusch,there followed aboth from 1928. On disc three Jaschastream of superla-Horenstein conducts the Brucknertive recordingsSeventh from that same year. Onof distinguisheddisc four Karajan’s first Pathetiqueperformances of reper-Symphony (1939) is well played andtoire from Richard Strauss,recorded as is a very affectionate MoldauBrahms, Prokofiev, Beethoven, de(1940). Discs 5/6/7/9 feature Furtwangler Falla, Tchaikovsky, et al. to Rolfin the Beethoven Fifth (27 March 1947), Liebermann’s Concerto for JazzMozart 39th (1942/43), the SchubertBand and Symphony Orchestra.Ninth, the Haydn 88th and his own Second When RCA issued their LivingSymphony (all 1951) plus the Brahms First Stereo Series many of these(1952) and the Schumann Fourth (1953). recordings were the backboneThere are 42 more discs of notable performancesby eminent artists who played with this issues. Mohr and Layton, who would eventu-of that program as they were of the SACDgreat orchestra in good times and bad. See the ally be deified by audiophiles, also producedcomplete details at arkivmusic.com.equally fine-sounding recordings elsewhere,When Fritz Reiner came to the Chicago particularly in Boston with Munch andSymphony Orchestra in 1953 it presaged an Fiedler, which discs are still available on RCAexceptional, albeit short-lived era during Living Stereo.which they produced recordings that half Fritz Reiner Chicago Symphonya century later are still lauded and sought Orchestra – The Complete RCA Albumout for their spectacular performances and Collection (RCA 888837019828, 63CDs )exceptional sonic excellence. The Hungarian has all 130+ recordings newly re-masteredconductor arrived in the United States to from the original analogue tapes, each sturdilysleeved in reproductions of their originaltake the post as conductor of the CincinnatiSymphony where he remained until 1931. LP covers. A 150-page, full-colour hardcoverReiner had found it very difficult to get an book gives biographical material and detailsengagement in the 1930s. He was disregarded of each recording. Soloists include Maureenby orchestras across the country until 1938 Forrester, Arthur Rubinstein, Byron Janis,when he began his ten-year engagement as Jascha Heifetz, Inge Borkh, Emil Gilels, Lisamusic director of The Pittsburgh Symphony Della Casa, Antonio Janigro, Rosalind Elias,Orchestra where he recorded extensively Van Cliburn, Leontyne Price and many more.for Columbia. Thence he became a familiar This set is a trove for both discerningconductor at the Met.music lovers and devoted audiophilesAfter Arturo Toscanini, RCA’s staralike. Those who worship analogue soundwill be very happy here. You can find fulldetails at arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=1014187.In the November issue of BBC MusicMagazine David Oistrakh was votedby today’s leading players to be thegreatest violinist of the 20th century.Coincidently, Doremi issued David Oistrakh,Volume 14 (DHR-8020-21, 2 CDs) containingfive concertos, in excellent stereo sound,derived from Swedish Radio archives of1970 to 1974. These performances appearfor the very first time with three itemsthat are new to his discography; the HaydnSinfonia Concertante Op.84 and two worksby Swedish composers. The collabora-tion between soloist and the Swedishmusicians is of the highest qualityimaginable, treating us to a stir-ring Brahms Double Concerto, acrisp Bach Concerto for violin andoboe, a refreshing Mozart Thirdand an involving Prokofiev First.The romantic StenhammarSonata and a Berceuse by TorAulin bring this collection to a pleasingconclusion. These were played byOistrakh in the last years of his lifeyet his proficiency and artistry areundiminished.Footnote: Oistrakh’s universallyacclaimed first concerto recordingsin the West (June 1954, Beethovenand Sibelius) were made inSweden as were, ironically, theseswan song performances.Finally, two historic concertos fromthe Lucerne Festival. From September 8,1959, Clara Haskil, Otto Klemperer andthe Philharmonia Orchestra play Mozart’sPiano Concerto No.20 K466 and fromSeptember 1, 1957, Robert Casadesus, DimitriMitropoulos and the Vienna Philharmonicplay Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto. “Shewas sent to earth to play Mozart” wrote acritic quoted in the accompanying booklet.Never were truer words written. Haskil andKlemperer are hand in glove in this exceptionalperformance which she declared“unforgettable.” French pianist, RobertCasadesus, too, was a highly respected Mozartinterpreter as his recorded legacy attests.Also Beethoven, and the sense of occasionin this grand performance is unmistakable.The perfectly balanced sound on this disc(Audite 65.623) was transferred directly fromthe original analogue master tapes and not offthe air.thewholenote.com December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 | 77

LAWRENCE CHERNEY: Inter-Nationalist | continued from page 8an international composer, the resultingtaped performances of Canadian musicsubsequently finding their way to the farcorners of the globe through the EuropeanBroadcasting Union. The exposure provedinvaluable.Invaluable yet temporary. With a gradualdiminishing of CBC participation, Soundstreams(as Cherney’s enterprise was bythen known) began using larger venues,such as Metropolitan United Church, andmounting larger projects.Its largest project to date took placein 1997, the festival known as NorthernEncounters. As its architect recalls:“I happened to be in Copenhagen in 1995in the offices of the Nordic Council of Ministersand unknown to me the council hadjust decided to make North America, andespecially Canada, a priority. I wound upwalking out of the offices with $500,000.The individual countries each added moreand we managed to mount a $2.4 milllionfestival with $1.6 million of it coming fromthe Nordic Council.”An acknowledged success, NorthernEnounters led to a whole series of internationalinitiatives over the next severalyears, from a festival of music theatre foryoung people to a showcase of aboriginalarts to a celebration of brass music, withliterally thousands of foreign artists comingto Toronto to take part.Not that he used so crass a term as“payback time” but through the largenumber of contacts established throughthese activities, Cherney began a few yearsago to envision projects mounted in Canadathat could be taken abroad.“There are only six of us on staff in theoffice,” he admits, “And although we canexpand on a project basis there is an obvious limit to what we can do.”Bringing Chris Lorway, former artistic director of Toronto’s LuminatoFestival, on board as executive director has obviously made a difference.Like his oboe-playing colleague, Lorway owns a rolodex full ofinternational contacts. The two worked in tandem on this year’s tourto Taipei and Beijing.The tour involved taking an instrumental ensemble and music by ahalf dozen Canadian composers (Dorothy Chang, Brian Current, AlexinaLouie, Michael Oesterle, R. Murray Schafer and Gilles Tremblay) to twoof Asia’s major music centres and represented, according to Cherney,the largest concentrated exposure ever given Canadian music on thatsprawling continent.The invitation to Taipei’s National Concert Hall came about throughthe good offices of Taiwan’s Chai Found Music Workshop, an ensembleplaying contemporary music on traditional instruments, previouslybrought to Toronto by Soundstreams and recruited for the tour to helpperform Distances, a specially commissioned new work by the Chinesecomposer Fuhong Shi.The invitation to Beijing’s Modern Music Festival came from its artisticdirector, Xiaogang Ye, vice president of the city’s prestigious CentralConservatory, who has been reciprocally invited to Toronto this coming“If I had just tried to bean oboe soloist I wouldhave starved to death”spring to work with six young composers aspart of Soundstreams’ Emerging ComposersWorkshop.Reciprocity of this kind is now the Soundstreamsgame, taking Canadian music andmusicians abroad as well as bringing foreignmusic and musicians to Canada. Havingcommissioned, premiered and touredthrough Ontario a Cree language chamberopera, Pimooteewin, by composer MelissaHui and librettist Tomson Highway, Cherneyand his colleagues are now looking forwardto its export in a couple of years to Scandinavia,to be paired with a work for thesame performing forces under developmentthere, drawing on Suomi culture.“This is a good example of our work asan ambassador,” Cherney suggests. “We arealways looking for links into other communities,in this case through aboriginalculture. It is the inspiration of a Canadianwork that has led directly to the creation ofa new Scandinavian work.”Soundstreams has commissioned morethan 150 works over the course of its30-year history and excerpts of 80 of themare available online, through its new Sound-Makers program, to be sampled and used byanyone as material for composition.Its Toronto concerts are now beingstreamed live as well. Thousands moreheard the season’s opening concert celebrationof the music of Arvo Pärt than could besqueezed into Koerner Hall, these listeners comingfrom as far away as Europe and Japan.The Toronto series continues to espouse connections.November’s “Reimagining Flamenco” programincorporated new arrangements by Serouj Kradjianinfluenced by jazz and even klezmer, reflectinghow, in this “one world” of ours, cultures inevitablyinteract.The next concert in the series, February 2 at Koerner Hall, followssuit. Although billed as a “Canadian Choral Celebration” — Ontario’sElmer Iseler Singers, British Columbia’s Vancouver Chamber Choir andAlberta’s Pro Coro Canada are the performers — the actual program pairsMiserere by Poland’s Henryk Górecki with the premiere of a new work,Hear the Sounds go Round, by Canada’s R. Murray Schafer.“I’m increasingly drawn to what contemporary composers are doing,”Cherney explains. “We are trying to show living traditions. On oneprogram we did a new setting by Paul Frehner of the Seven Last Words(of Christ), another setting by Sofia Gubaidulina, and combined themwith two Bach motets to show the universality of the theme.”Nor is this activity going unnoticed elsewhere. This past summerSoundstreams received a visit by a delegation from the Shanghai ConcertHall. Looking toward opening up their programming to contemporarymusic, the Chinese are seeking Canadian advice to help showthem the way.“We think internationalism is a priority for the growth of Canadianmusic,” Lawrence Cherney argues. The rest of the world mayyet agree.William Littler is a Toronto-based writer focusing on music.Subscribe to HALFTONESThe WholeNote mid-month e-letterBreaking news, just-in listings, “mystery tracks” CD contest, ticket give-aways,discount window, member offers, and more.Scan this, or visit thewholenote.com/halftones to register.78 | December 1, 2013 – February 7, 2014 thewholenote.com

SEASON PRESENTING SPONSORMozart@258 FestivalThe TSO celebrates the 258th birthday of Mozartwith three sublime concerts in his honourLOUIS LORTIEHILARY HAHNMOZARTSymphony 39SAT, JANUARY 11 AT 7:30pmSUN, JANUARY 12 AT 3:00pm*Ignat Solzhenitsyn, conductor & pianoMozart: Overture to La clemenza di TitoMozart: Piano Concerto No. 18, K. 456Mozart: Symphony No. 39, K. 543* Jan 12 at George Weston Recital Hall,Toronto Centre for the Arts. For tickets, visit TSO.CAor call Ticketmaster at 1.855.985.2787Coronation MassWED, JANUARY 15 AT 8:00pmTHU, JANUARY 16 AT 8:00pmPeter Oundjian, conductorHilary Hahn, violinLeslie Ann Bradley, sopranoLauren Segal, mezzo-sopranoLawrence Wiliford, tenorGordon Bintner, bass-baritoneAmadeus ChoirMozart: Violin Concerto No. 5, K. 219 “Turkish”Mozart: “Laudate Dominum” from Vesperaesolennes de confessore, K. 339Mozart: Missa in C major, K. 317 “Coronation”Lortie Plays and ConductsWED, JANUARY 22 AT 8:00pmTHU, JANUARY 23 AT 8:00pmLouis Lortie, conductor & pianoJonathan Crow, violinMozart: Serenade No. 10, K. 370a/361“Gran Partita”Mozart: Violin Sonata No. 18, K. 301/293aMozart: Piano Concerto No. 22, K. 482LOUIS LORTIEPost-concert party in the lobby on Jan 11.Informative intermission chats in the lobby on Jan 15 – 23.CONCERTS AT ROY THOMSON HALL | Tickets start at $33 | 416.593.4828 | TSO.CAMOZART SERIES SPONSORBOB & ANN CORCORANOFFICIAL AIRLINE & JANUARY 11 SPONSORSEASON PATRONS

SEASON PRESENTING SPONSORTHE POWER160 MUSICIANS ON STAGE. FIVE PERFORMANCES.THE PASSIONTORONTO’S MOST UPLIFTING HOLIDAY SPECTACLE.THE MESSIAHDECEMBER 17, 18, 20, 21, 22ROY THOMSON HALLHandel: MessiahChristopher Warren-Green, CONDUCTORKlara Ek, SOPRANOLawrence Zazzo, COUNTERTENORJohn Tessier, TENORJohn Relyea, BASS-BARITONEToronto Mendelssohn ChoirEnd the year on a high note!“This is a Messiah the wholecity can embrace with pride.”TORONTO STARTickets start at $33 | 416.593.4828 | TSO.CA/MessiahOFFICIAL AIRLINE