Volume 21 Issue 3 - November 2015

Oakville Children's Choir at the World Choir Olympics in Latvia (2014)
worked for him. For a person untrained in music, who cannot usually
tell the difference in sound between a trombone or a horn, or what
a cadence is, he understood because he felt it. And this is where the
great power of instrumental music lies, in common experience. His
vocabulary didn’t need to be RCM certified to convey the commonality
of experience. So the languages
trained musicians use to
communicate widely should not
exclude others. The languages
of what we could describe as
music in the widest sense are as
varied and many, as diverse as
the living things that make up
this planet. One doesn’t need to
analyze the pitch and program of
toads in the Caledon Hills during
mating season to appreciate that
something grand and exceptional
is happening. Similarly, one
can listen to A Sea Symphony
and interpret a military sound
without knowing that trumpets
and snare drums are creating
that sound.
It is also worth considering
the information we get as to the
state of choral music making in
our communities not by what
the established choirs are doing,
but by what is happening on the
fringes, and anywhere children
and young voices are concerned.
Where are younger people
engaging with music? EDM, DJ
Skratch Bastid, Choir!Choir!Choir, Pentatonix, music theatre and film
soundtracks are just some of the sources of music I find my friends
going to that aren’t mega-scale, heavily produced pop concerts. And
for this, and an even younger crowd, Disney movies continue to be a
source of deep and powerful musical tradition (That Choir recently
Festival
of Carols
WED, DEC 9, 2015 | 7:30 PM
YORKMINSTER PARK BAPTIST CHURCH
The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and the Canadian Staff Band
welcome the season with traditional and contemporary
carols and music for Christmas.
Noel Edison conductor
Jennifer Min-Young Lee
associate conductor
David Briggs organ
Canadian Staff Band
John Lam bandmaster
Concert photo by Brian Summers
BACH CHILDREN’S CHORUS
BACH CHAMBER YOUTH CHOIR
Linda Beaupré, Conductor
Eleanor Daley, Pianist
TICKETS
$35 – $ 76
VOX TIX
$20 FOR 30 AND UNDER
TMC BOX OFFICE
416-598-0422 ext 221
www.tmchoir.org
SATURDAY DECEMBER 12, 2015 AT 7:30PM
$40 and $35 at the Toronto Centre box office
or TicketMaster at 1-855-985-2787 (ARTS)
Toronto Centre for the Arts 5040 Yonge Street
Photo by Flickr user Daniel S
Used under Creative Commons licence
Design by David Kopulos www.davidkopulos.com
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