Volume 19 Issue 9 - June/July/August 2014

performances of spirituals. I fully realize that jazz and spirituals arenot the same thing but I think she will bring the same intensity to thejazz as she did to the spirituals many years ago. Another singer to hearat the Toronto Jazz Festival is the Spanish vocalist Maria ConcepciónBalboa Buika, better known by her stage name, Buika. That concert ison June 25; both concerts are at Koerner Hall.Beyond the GTA: July 5 and 6, with a preview on July 4, the WestbenArts Festival Theatre in Campbellford will present the TorontoMasque Theatre production of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with LaurenSegal, mezzo, as Dido and Alexander Dobson, baritone, as Aeneas;directed by Larry Beckwith. On July 10 Donna Bennett, soprano, andBrian Finley, piano, will perform works by Mozart, Robert and ClaraSchumann, Chopin and Rachmaninoff. From July 23 to 26 there willbe four concert performances of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom ofthe Opera with Mark DuBois and Donna Bennett singing the mainparts. On July 27, sopranos Virginia Hatfield and Joni Henson andmezzo Megan Latham will perform the trio from Richard Strauss’ DerRosenkavalier as well as music from The Tales of Hoffmann, MadamaButterfly and Carmen.If you cannot get to Campbellford for Dido and Aeneas, you willhave another chance to see it in Parry Sound at the Festival of theSound on July 30. Lauren Segal is again singing Dido and PeterMcGillivray is taking over the role of Aeneas. There will also be songsand instrumental music by Purcell. Also at the Festival of the Sound:Robert Pomakov, bass, will sing Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances ofDeath on July 22; Richard and Lauren Margison will give a joint recitalon July 27; Leslie Fagan, soprano, and Peter McGillivray, baritone, willsing a program of Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann and Brahms onAugust 1; on August 5 Tom Allen, Lori Gemmell, Kevin Fox, PatriciaO’Callaghan and Bryce Kulak will perform in the “Judgement of Paris”– a neat pun, since the performance will be about the rivalry betweentwo Parisian composers, Debussy and Ravel (August 5); the Festivalwill end on August 10 with a performance of Beethoven’s NinthSymphony, in which the soloists are Leslie Fagan, soprano, MarionNewman, mezzo, Michael Colvin, tenor, and Russell Braun, baritone.These performances are all at the Charles W. Stockey Centre. Also atthe Festival of the Sound: the Toronto Consort presents “Shakespeare’sSongbook” at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, July 25.Stratford Summer Music presents several concerts of music associatedwith Shakespeare, given by the Folger Shakespearean Consort (arecorder group) and the Consort Arcadia Viols. On July 23 “CourtingElizabeth: Music and Patronage in Shakespeare’s England” willpresent music by Dowland, lyra viol pieces by Tobias Hume as wellas consort songs and lute ayres of Shakespeare’s time. The singer isthe tenor James Taylor. On July 24 songs with texts by Shakespeare –or quoted by him – will be performed along with an operatic versionof The Tempest as well as broadside ballads and country dances. Thesinger is the countertenor Drew Minter; the lutenist is Mark Rimple.Both concerts are in St. Andrew’s Church. In addition you can hear adiscussion of “An Examination of Shakespeare in Song” on July 24 at2pm at the University of Waterloo, Stratford Campus with music byThomas Morley, Robert Johnson and John Wilson. Minter and Rimplewill again perform.The Elora Festival includes the “Da Vinci Codex” with the TorontoConsort on July 15 and “Canada, Fall In! The Great War Rememberedin Words, Images and Song” on July 19, both in St. John’s Church; the“Judgement of Paris,” July 18, Richard and Lauren Margison, July 19,“Songs from the Stage and Silver Screen,” July 23, and The Tenors,July 25; all at the Gambrel Barn.And one other event: “Summer Nights: Languor and Longing” isthe title of a recital to be given by soprano Melanie Conly and pianistKathryn Tremills. The program includes Samuel Barber’s Knoxville,Summer of 1915 and Les nuits d’été by Berlioz as well as music byPurcell, Weill and Gershwin at the Heliconian Hall, June 19.Hans de Groot is a concert-goer and active listenerwho also sings and plays the recorder. He can becontacted at artofsong@thewholenote.com.thewholenote.com June 4, 2014 – Sept 7, 2014 | 25