Volume 21 Issue 1 - September 2015
Paul Ennis's annual TIFF TIPS (27 festival films of potential particular musical interest); Wu Man, Yo-Yo Ma and Jeffrey Beecher on the Silk Road; David Jaeger on CBC Radio Music in the days it was committed to commissioning; the LISTENING ROOM continues to grow on line; DISCoveries is back, bigger than ever; and Mary Lou Fallis says Trinity-St. Paul's is Just the Spot (especially this coming Sept 25!).
Paul Ennis's annual TIFF TIPS (27 festival films of potential particular musical interest); Wu Man, Yo-Yo Ma and Jeffrey Beecher on the Silk Road; David Jaeger on CBC Radio Music in the days it was committed to commissioning; the LISTENING ROOM continues to grow on line; DISCoveries is back, bigger than ever; and Mary Lou Fallis says Trinity-St. Paul's is Just the Spot (especially this coming Sept 25!).
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$20; $10(st/members); $15(adv). CD release.<br />
●●Sep 25 8:00: Musicians in Ordinary. Music<br />
from the Anne Boleyn Song Book. Franco-<br />
Flemish Latin motets and chansons by Josquin<br />
Des Prez and his contemporaries.<br />
Hallie Fishel, soprano; John Edwards, lute;<br />
other singers. Fr. Madden Hall, Carr Bldg.,<br />
St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto,<br />
100 St Joseph St. 416-535-9956. $30;<br />
$20(sr,st). Pre-concert talk, 7:30.<br />
Saturday <strong>September</strong> 26<br />
●●Sep 26 11:00am: Shoestring Opera. Mozart’s<br />
Magic Flute. A preschooler-friendly<br />
introduction to Mozart’s most famous opera.<br />
Kingsway-Lambton United Church, 85 The<br />
Kingsway, Etobicoke. 647-980-1729. $15;<br />
group rates available. Also 2pm. Wheelchair<br />
accessible. Proceeds benefit Kingsway-<br />
Lambton United Church Special Music Fund<br />
and Shoestring Opera.<br />
●●Sep 26 2:00: Shoestring Opera. Mozart’s<br />
Magic Flute. A preschooler-friendly introduction<br />
to Mozart’s most famous opera.<br />
Kingsway-Lambton United Church, 85 The<br />
Kingsway, Etobicoke. 647-980-1729. $15;<br />
group rates available. Also 11am. Wheelchair<br />
accessible. Proceeds benefit Kingsway-<br />
Lambton United Church Special Music Fund<br />
and Shoestring Opera.<br />
●●Sep 26 3:00: Royal Conservatory. ARC<br />
Ensemble. Weinberg: Sonata No.1 for Violin<br />
and Piano Op.12; Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A<br />
K581; Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in g Op.57.<br />
Artists of the Royal Conservatory (ARC).<br />
Koerner Hall, Telus Centre, 273 Bloor St. W.<br />
416-408-0208. Free (ticket required). Culture<br />
A. Concerts in the GTA<br />
Days event.<br />
●●Sep 26 4:00: Canadian Music Centre/The<br />
Music Gallery. Conversations with Post-<br />
World War II Pioneers of Electronic Music.<br />
Canadian Electronic Ensemble. Canadian<br />
Music Centre, 20 St. Joseph St. 416-961-6601<br />
x201. Free. Presented as part of Culture Days.<br />
Book launch interview with Norma Beecroft.<br />
●●Sep 26 7:30: Brampton Chamber Music<br />
Concert Series. Koichi Inoue, piano. St. Paul’s<br />
United Church (Brampton), 30 Main St. S.,<br />
Brampton. 905-450-9220. PWYC.<br />
●●Sep 26 8:00: Aga Khan Museum. Two Rivers<br />
Ensemble. Music exploring the juncture<br />
between jazz and Iraqi maqam. Works from<br />
album “Crisis”. Amir ElSaffar, trumpet, vocals,<br />
santur. Aga Khan Museum Auditorium,<br />
77 Wynford Dr. 416-646-4677. Starting at $45.<br />
●●Sep 26 8:00: Flato Markham Theatre.<br />
Michael Kaeshammer, vocals and piano.<br />
Music that blends jazz, soul, pop and R&B<br />
influences. 171 Town Centre Blvd., Markham.<br />
905-305-7469. $64-$69.<br />
●●Sep 26 8:00: Friends of Gravity. The Seven<br />
Deadly Sins. Music by Kurt Weill, text by Bertolt<br />
Brecht. Cabaret band and silent film<br />
projections. Stephanie Conn, vocals; Scott<br />
Gabriel, music director; Branko Džinović,<br />
accordion; Max Christie, clarinet; Scott<br />
Good, trombone. St. Bartholomew’s Anglican<br />
Church, 509 Dundas St. E. 416-700-5914.<br />
$25/$20(st). Also Sep 25. Tickets available in<br />
advance or at door.<br />
●●Sep 26 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.<br />
Beethoven Symphony 5. Bach (arr. Stokowski):<br />
Toccata and Fugue in d BWV565;<br />
Brahms: Double Concerto; Beethoven:<br />
Symphony No.5. Jonathan Crow, violin;<br />
Joseph Johnson, cello; Peter Oundjian, conductor.<br />
Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-<br />
598-3375. $33.75-$148. Also Sep 25(7:30);<br />
27(mat, George Weston Recital Hall).<br />
Sunday <strong>September</strong> 27<br />
●●Sep 27 10:15am: St. John’s United Church.<br />
World Music Sunday: The Music of Leonard<br />
Cohen. Julie Michels, vocals; Tony Quarrington,<br />
guitar; Malcolm Gould, drums. St. John’s<br />
United Church (Toronto), 2 Nobert Rd. 416-<br />
491-1224. Free.<br />
●●Sep 27 12:30: Canadian Music Centre/<br />
Ontario String Association. CMC-OSA String<br />
Reading Session. Canadian string ensemble<br />
compositions. Canadian Music Centre, 20 St.<br />
Joseph St. 416-961-6601 x201. $15; $10(OSA/<br />
CMC Members).<br />
●●Sep 27 3:00: Off Centre Music Salon. Russia<br />
Cast Adrift. Sviridov: Russia Cast Adrift;<br />
works by Rachmaninoff; Gavrilin; Scriabin.<br />
Emilia Boteva, soprano; Nathalie Paulin, soprano;<br />
Ernesto Ramirez, tenor; Geoffrey Sirett,<br />
baritone; Boris Zarankin and Inna Perkis,<br />
piano. Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre, Jeanne Lamon<br />
Hall, 427 Bloor St. W. 416-466-1870. $50;<br />
$40(sr/st); $15(young adult); $5(child).<br />
●●Sep 27 3:00: Oshawa Opera. Suor Angelica<br />
Sun. 27th Sept. at 4 p.m.<br />
Choral Evensong<br />
with St. Peter’s Choir, Erindale<br />
followed by Peach Tea and<br />
ENGLISH<br />
MUSIC<br />
AND THE<br />
PRAYER BOOK<br />
Clem Carelse directs the Choir<br />
and discusses music in today’s<br />
Evensong by Charles Wood,<br />
C.V. Stanford, S.S. Wesley<br />
and Herbert Howells.<br />
St. Olave’s Church<br />
Bloor and Windermere<br />
416-769-5686 stolaves.ca<br />
by Puccini. In-concert version. Natalya Gennadi<br />
Matyusheva, Catharin Carew, Kaili Kinnon,<br />
Rachelle Kelly, Christina Campsall, and<br />
other soloists; Oshawa Opera Chorus; Lenard<br />
Whiting, organ; Kristine Dandavino, music<br />
director/piano. Kingsview United Church,<br />
505 Adelaide Ave. E., Oshawa. 905-995-2847.<br />
$25; free(child).<br />
●●Sep 27 3:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.<br />
Beethoven Symphony 5. Bach (arr. Stokowski):<br />
Toccata and Fugue in d BWV565;<br />
Brahms: Double Concerto; Beethoven: Symphony<br />
No.5. Jonathan Crow, violin; Joseph<br />
Johnson, cello; Peter Oundjian, conductor.<br />
George Weston Recital Hall, 5040 Yonge St.<br />
416-598-3375. $78-$100.50. Also Sep 25 and<br />
26(eve, Roy Thomson Hall).<br />
●●Sep 27 3:15: Mooredale Concerts. Legendary<br />
Piano Variations: Stewart Goodyear,<br />
piano. Bach: Goldberg Variations in G,<br />
BWV988 (Aria and 30 Variations); Beethoven:<br />
33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in C,<br />
Op.120. Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building,<br />
University of Toronto, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-<br />
922-3714 x103. $40; $20(under 30).<br />
●●Sep 27 4:00: St. Olave’s Anglican Church.<br />
Choral Evensong. Choral works by Wood,<br />
Stanford, Wesley, and Howells. St. Peter’s<br />
Choir, Erindale; Clem Carelse, director.<br />
360 Windermere Ave. 416-769-5686. Free.<br />
Followed by Peach Tea and discussion.<br />
●●Sep 27 4:00: St. Philip’s Jazz Vespers.<br />
Roberto Occhipinti Quartet. Hilario Duran,<br />
piano; Luis Denis, saxophone; Mark Kelso,<br />
drums; Roberto Occhipinti, bass. St. Philip’s<br />
Anglican Church, 25 St. Phillips Rd., Etobicoke.<br />
416-247-5181. Freewill offering.<br />
●●Sep 27 7:00: Royal Conservatory/Small<br />
World Music. TD Jazz: Katrina 10 Years On.<br />
Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club “Adios<br />
Tour”. Omara Portuondo, vocals; Eliades<br />
Ochoa, vocals and guitar; Guajiro Mirabal,<br />
trumpet; Barbarito Torres, laud; Jesús<br />
“Aguaje” Ramos, trombone; Carlos Calunga,<br />
vocals; Rolando Luna, piano. Koerner Hall,<br />
Telus Centre, 273 Bloor St. W. 416-408-0208.<br />
starting at $55.<br />
●●Sep 27 7:30: Living Arts Centre. World<br />
Classics and Croatian Beauties. Ana Rucner,<br />
cello. Living Arts Centre, Hammerson Hall,<br />
4141 Living Arts Dr., Mississauga. 905-306-<br />
6000. $55-$75.<br />
●●Sep 27 7:30: University of Toronto Faculty<br />
of Music. Music and Poetry: Fall Baroque<br />
Academy Chamber Music Recital. Music students<br />
from all disciplines in recital. Toronto<br />
Fall Baroque Academy students; Kevin Komisaruk,<br />
Jeanne Lamon, Daniel Taylor, directors.<br />
Trinity College Chapel, U of T, 6 Hoskin Ave.<br />
416-408-0208. $20; $10(st).<br />
●●Sep 27 8:00: Somewhere There/Audiopollination.<br />
Audiopollination #34.2 ft. Ellwood<br />
Epps and Yves Charuest. Improvised/spontaneous<br />
compositions. Ellwood Epps, trumpet;<br />
Yves Charuest, saxophone; Karen Ng,<br />
saxophone; Paul Newman, saxophone; Germaine<br />
Liu, percussion; and others. Array<br />
Space, 155 Walnut Ave. 416-532-3019. $10.<br />
●●Sep 27 9:00: Small World Music/Koffler<br />
Centre for the Arts. Small World Music<br />
Festival: Ester Rada. Songs in English and<br />
Amharic. Revival Bar, 783 College St. 416-535-<br />
7888. $35; $25(adv). Doors open 8pm.<br />
Monday <strong>September</strong> 28<br />
●●Sep 28 12:30: Massey Hall. Lunchtime Live.<br />
Artist TBA. Yonge-Dundas Square, 1 Dundas<br />
St. E. 416-872-4255. Free.<br />
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