Volume 21 Issue 2 - October 2015
Vol 21 No 2 is now available for your viewing pleasure, and it's a bumper crop, right at the harvest moon. First ever Canadian opera on the Four Seasons Centre main stage gets double coverage with Wende Bartley interviewing Pyramus and Thisbe composer Barbara Monk Feldman and Chris Hoile connecting with director Christopher Alden; Paul Ennis digs into the musical mind of pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, and pianist Eve Egoyan is "On the Record" in conversation with publisher David Perlman ahead of the Oct release concert for her tenth recording. And at the heart of it all the 16th edition of our annual BLUE PAGES directory of presenters profile the season now well and truly under way.
Vol 21 No 2 is now available for your viewing pleasure, and it's a bumper crop, right at the harvest moon. First ever Canadian opera on the Four Seasons Centre main stage gets double coverage with Wende Bartley interviewing Pyramus and Thisbe composer Barbara Monk Feldman and Chris Hoile connecting with director Christopher Alden; Paul Ennis digs into the musical mind of pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, and pianist Eve Egoyan is "On the Record" in conversation with publisher David Perlman ahead of the Oct release concert for her tenth recording. And at the heart of it all the 16th edition of our annual BLUE PAGES directory of presenters profile the season now well and truly under way.
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Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony. Toronto<br />
Mendelssohn Choir; Erin Wall, soprano; Russell<br />
Braun, baritone; Peter Oundjian, conductor.<br />
Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St.<br />
416-598-3375. $33.75–$148. Also Oct 24.<br />
Free pre-concert performance by The TSO<br />
Chamber Soloists (with your concert ticket).<br />
Intermission chat with Tom Allen. Post-concert<br />
chat with Kenneth Brummel and Peter<br />
Oundjian.<br />
Thursday <strong>October</strong> 22<br />
●●12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.<br />
Jazz Series: Cross-Cultural Synthesis.<br />
Jazz combined with traditional Indian classical<br />
music. Monsoon, Indo-Jazz collective.<br />
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, Four<br />
Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts,<br />
145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. Free.<br />
●●12:10: University of Toronto Faculty of<br />
Music. Opera Spotlight. Preview of the<br />
Opera Division’s production of Gian Carlo<br />
Menotti’s The Medium and The Telephone.<br />
Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building, University<br />
of Toronto, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-408-<br />
0208. Free.<br />
●●12:15: Metropolitan United Church. Noon<br />
at Met. Paul Jessen, organ; Joy Lee, violin.<br />
Metropolitan United Church (Toronto),<br />
56 Queen St. E. 416-363-0331 x26. Free; donations<br />
welcome.<br />
●●12:30: York University Department of<br />
Music. Poland’s Gospel Joy. Agnieszka<br />
Tomaszewska-Górska, director. Tribute Communities<br />
Recital Hall, Accolade East Building,<br />
YU, 4700 Keele St. 647-459-0701. Free.<br />
●●7:30: University of Toronto Faculty of<br />
Music. U of T Jazz Orchestra. Gordon Foote<br />
director. Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building,<br />
University of Toronto, 80 Queen’s Park.<br />
416-408-0208. $20; $10(st).<br />
●●8:00: Roy Thomson Hall/Massey Hall.<br />
Indigo Girls with the Toronto Symphony<br />
Orchestra. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St.<br />
416-872-4255. $59.50-$149.50.<br />
●●8:00: Roy Thomson Hall/Massey Hall. Alex<br />
Cuba. Winter Garden Theatre, 189 Yonge St.<br />
416-872-4255. $29.50-$49.50.<br />
●●8:00: York University Department<br />
of Music. Improv Soiree. Evening of<br />
A. Concerts in the GTA<br />
improvisation in a participatory open mike<br />
set-up. Hosts: Improv studios of Casey Sokol.<br />
Sterling Beckwith Studio, 235 Accolade East<br />
Building, 4700 Keele St. 647-459-0701. Free.<br />
Performers and observers welcome.<br />
●●8:00: Music Toronto. Cuarteto Casals. Mozart:<br />
Quartet in G, K387; Kurtág: 12 Microludes,<br />
Op.13, Hommage à Andras Mihály; Ravel:<br />
Quartet in F. Abel Tomàs, violin; Vera Martinez,<br />
violin; Jonathan Brown, viola; Arnau Tomàs,<br />
cello. Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre<br />
for the Arts, 27 Front St. E. 416-366-7723.<br />
$55, $50; $10(st); age 18 to 35: pay your age.<br />
Toronto Debut.<br />
Friday <strong>October</strong> 23<br />
●●12:10: Music at St Andrew’s. Noontime<br />
Recital. Melody Chan, piano and Esther Choi,<br />
flute. St. Andrew’s Church, 73 Simcoe St. 416-<br />
593-5600 x231. Free.<br />
●●1:10: Gordon Murray Presents. Piano Potpourri.<br />
Works from classics, opera, operetta,<br />
musicals, ragtime, pop, international and<br />
other genres. Gordon Murray, piano. Trinity-<br />
St. Paul’s United Church (Chapel), 427 Bloor<br />
St. W. 416-631-4300. PWYC. Lunch and snack<br />
friendly.<br />
●●7:30: Canadian Opera Company. Pyramus<br />
and Thisbe. See Oct 20 for details. Also runs<br />
Oct 25, 28, Nov 5, 7; start times vary.<br />
●●7:30: Cathedral Church of St. James.<br />
Gloucester Cathedral Church in Concert.<br />
Music by Britten, Howells, Finzi, Tippett.<br />
65 Church St. 416-364-7865. $30; $20(sr/st).<br />
●●7:30: Opera by Request. L’Italiana in Algieri.<br />
Rossini. Elizabeth McLeod, mezzo (Isabella);<br />
Asitha Tennekoon, tenor (Lindoro); Janaka<br />
Welihinda, bass-baritone (Mustapha); Jay<br />
Lambie, baritone (Taddeo); Jennifer Rasor,<br />
soprano (Elvira); and others; William Shookhoff,<br />
piano/conductor. College Street United<br />
Church, 452 College St. 416-455-2365. $20.<br />
William<br />
O’Meara<br />
and<br />
Bill<br />
Findlay<br />
(Cello)<br />
<strong>October</strong> 23<br />
organixconcerts.ca<br />
●●7:30: Organix Concerts. Finale Concert.<br />
William O’Meara, organ, and William Findlay,<br />
cello. Lawrence Park Community Church,<br />
<strong>21</strong>80 Bayview Ave. 416-769-3893 or 1-877-<br />
769-5224. $35; $30(sr); $25(st); Free(18 and<br />
under).<br />
●●7:30: St. Paul’s Bloor Street. Music for a<br />
King. Handel: Coronation Anthems, Water<br />
Music Suite and Let the Bright Seraphim.<br />
Choir and soloists. 227 Bloor St. E. 416-961<br />
8116. Freewill offering.<br />
●●7:30: University of Toronto Faculty of<br />
Music. Vocalis Masters/DMA Series: Contemporary<br />
English Song Repertoire. Walter<br />
Hall, Edward Johnson Building, University<br />
of Toronto, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-408-0208.<br />
Free.<br />
●●8:00: Amara Kanté/Kouraba Toronto. 3rd<br />
Annual Music Festival: Pre-Festival Launch<br />
Party. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas St.<br />
E. 416-802-2784. RSVP only. Limited Space.<br />
Oct 24: Concert of the Masters. Oct 26, 27:<br />
Kouraba Masterclass.<br />
Lorraine<br />
Klaasen<br />
Group<br />
Friday, Oct. 23,<br />
8 pm<br />
auroraculturalcentre.ca<br />
905 713-1818<br />
●●8:00: Aurora Cultural Centre. Lorraine<br />
Klaasen Group. 22 Church St., Aurora. 905-<br />
713-1818. $35/$30(adv). Cash bar.<br />
●●8:00: Bloordale United Church. Jazz with<br />
Richard Whiteman Quintet. Terra Hazelton,<br />
voice; Richard Whiteman, piano; Tim Hamel,<br />
trumpet; Shawn Nyquist, tenor saxophone;<br />
James Thomson, bass; Jeff Halischuk, drums.<br />
4258 Bloor St. W., Etobicoke. 416-620-5377.<br />
$25; $20(st). Bar and refreshments.<br />
●●8:00: Etobicoke Philharmonic Orchestra.<br />
The Raumantic Touch. Raum: “Banquet<br />
Hall” from Sir Gawain and the Green<br />
Knight; Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in e;<br />
42 | Oct 1 - Nov 7, <strong>2015</strong> thewholenote.com
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