Volume 19 Issue 4 - December 2013

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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