ssm magazine 03.07.07 - Stratford Summer Music
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ssm magazine 03.07.07 - Stratford Summer Music
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STRATFORD SUMMER MUSIC<br />
t h e s u n l i f e f i n a n c i a l g u i d e t o<br />
July 25 to August 19, 2007 | Tickets 519.273.1600 | stratfordsummermusic.ca
“<br />
the purpose of<br />
art<br />
is not the<br />
release of a<br />
momentary<br />
ejection of<br />
adrenaline<br />
but is, rather,<br />
the gradual,<br />
lifelong<br />
construction<br />
of a<br />
state of<br />
wonder<br />
and<br />
”<br />
serenity.<br />
glenn gould<br />
(1932-1982)<br />
from the<br />
artistic producer<br />
Marking 25th, 50th and<br />
75th anniversaries for<br />
Glenn Gould and Duke<br />
Ellington brings together<br />
history and the arts,<br />
my two favourite interests<br />
and even career<br />
choices. In that combi-<br />
welcome<br />
nation lies one of the<br />
reasons why I’m in such<br />
high spirits this season.<br />
More than 600 Canadian, American and British musicians will take part in <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>Music</strong><br />
concerts and events and the festival itself will grow to four weeks of programming in our<br />
seventh year.<br />
We open and close with outstanding musicians from British Columbia: the youthful<br />
Langley Ukulele Ensemble who personify what a community’s music education program<br />
can accomplish, and then the spirited men’s choir from Vancouver, Chor Leoni, who win us<br />
over with their obvious joy of simply singing together.<br />
We turn to the skies for the matchless soundscape experience of The Sky Orchestra. To our<br />
City Hall Square we welcome the renowned Regimental Band of the U.S. Merchant Marine<br />
Academy. The National Youth Orchestra of Canada returns to Knox Church and the finest<br />
cadets and musicians in our country’s Navy, Army and Air Force units come together on the<br />
Avon Flats for their Young Canada on Parade Tattoo.<br />
From the <strong>Music</strong>Barge on the Avon to all our other performance sites, I know you will also<br />
enjoy the piano, organ, choral, world and cabaret performances. This certainly can be our<br />
Magnificent Seven season. How lucky for all of us!<br />
John<br />
John A. Miller<br />
Artistic Producer<br />
contents<br />
acknowledgements 4-5 | opening night 7 | gould exhibitions 8 | gould<br />
in re-performance 9 | gould in stratford 9 | triple forte piano trio 11<br />
after-theatre cabarets 13 | bargemusic 14-15 | tattoo 17 | national youth<br />
orchestra of canada 18 | regimental band of the us merchant marine<br />
academy 18 | six string nation guitar 19 | young people’s programs 19<br />
season schedule 20-21 | harry somers lecture 22 | organ recitals 23 | sky<br />
orchestra 24-25 | young canadian artists in recital 27 | duke ellington<br />
orchestra 28 | mercedes ellington 29 | david jalbert and naida cole in<br />
recital 32 | glenn’s pets 33 | donation information 35 | civic citation for<br />
glenn gould 36 | sounds of canada finale 37 | map 38 | christmas special 39<br />
guide by über design<br />
our 2007 cover image scott mckowen’s gould in stratford was<br />
commissioned by stratford summer music through the generous support of<br />
eleanor & john waldie. the music in mr. gould’s mind as he walks the banks of<br />
the avon river is j.s.bach’s sinfonia in a major, bwv 798.<br />
photo by scott wishart
Our sincere thanks! You’ve<br />
stratford summer music is<br />
presented by the stratford<br />
arts foundation.<br />
The <strong>Stratford</strong> Arts Foundation:<br />
Lloyd Robertson O.C., Honorary<br />
President<br />
board of directors<br />
Dr. Robert Martin, President;<br />
Paul West, Secretary; Jon Prober<br />
Jr., Treasurer; Marc Armstrong;<br />
Jennifer Birmingham; Dr. Susan<br />
Hiscock; Dave Hunt; Colleen<br />
Moorehead; Tom Parisi<br />
summer music staff<br />
John A. Miller, Artistic Producer;<br />
Jennifer Lamb, General<br />
Manager; Craig Putt,<br />
Production Manager; Stephen<br />
Runge, Artists’ Services<br />
Coordinator; Deb Kingsley,<br />
Donor Outreach Coordinator;<br />
Jane Czarny, Special Events<br />
Coordinator; Serge Plourde,<br />
Brad Rowe & Tyler Pigeon,<br />
Production Assistants.<br />
original logo design<br />
Ted Glaszewski<br />
season image<br />
Glenn Gould in <strong>Stratford</strong> by<br />
Scott McKowen, © 2007<br />
graphic design & website<br />
Sharon Morrice, überdesign.ca<br />
media relations<br />
Vince J. Ciarlo, Publicity &<br />
Public Relations, Toronto<br />
front of house<br />
Sandra Graff and volunteers<br />
opening night<br />
coordination<br />
Don & Janice Munro<br />
and volunteers<br />
yamaha is the official<br />
piano of stratford<br />
summer music<br />
Thanks to Rob Barg, Vice-<br />
President, <strong>Music</strong>al Instrument<br />
Group, Heather Harvey & Jun<br />
Fujimoto, Keyboard Division,<br />
Yamaha <strong>Music</strong> Canada.<br />
we acknowledge the<br />
enthusiasm, encouragement<br />
and assistance of<br />
Eleanor & John Waldie; Richard<br />
Monette C.M., Antoni Cimolino,<br />
Andrey Tarasiuk, Peter Roberts,<br />
Berthold Carrière C.M., Anita<br />
Gaffney, Simon Marsden,<br />
Marilyn Dallman, Laura Burton,<br />
Melody McShane, Stephen<br />
Barber, Andy Foster, Anne<br />
Swerdfager, Madonna Decker,<br />
Jane Edmonds, Ellen Charendoff,<br />
Lesley Spencer-Cooper & The<br />
<strong>Stratford</strong> Festival of Canada;<br />
Elaine Genyn, Ellen Fuhr, John<br />
Johnson & the staff of<br />
Scotiabank, main branch<br />
<strong>Stratford</strong>; Mayor Dan Mathieson,<br />
councillors & staff of City of<br />
<strong>Stratford</strong>, including Ron Shaw,<br />
Joan Thompson, Linda Edwards,<br />
Larry Appel, Pat Shantz, Christa<br />
Robinson, and the Community<br />
Services Department; Eugene<br />
Zakreski, Cathy Rehberg &<br />
staff of the <strong>Stratford</strong> Tourism<br />
Alliance; <strong>Stratford</strong> Police<br />
Services; <strong>Stratford</strong> Fire<br />
Department; Janet Taylor,<br />
Dennis Watson & CTV<br />
Southwestern Ontario; Steve<br />
Rae, Eddie Mathews & staff of<br />
CJCS-1240 and 107.7 MIX FM;<br />
Mark Craft & staff of The<br />
Church Restaurant; James<br />
Morris & staff of Rundles<br />
Restaurant; Susie Palach &<br />
staff of York Street Kitchen;<br />
Madelyn Cardy & staff of<br />
Madelyn’s Diner; Acting Dean<br />
David Visentin & The Glenn<br />
Gould School of The Royal<br />
Conservatory of <strong>Music</strong>; Brian<br />
Levine, Managing Director, &<br />
Colleen Ostoforoff, The Glenn<br />
Gould Foundation; St. John<br />
Ambulance Association;<br />
Elizabeth Gaffney, Perth<br />
Concrete; Kevin Bazzana;<br />
Paul Gorbould, CBC Digital<br />
Archives; Gary Beechey, BDS<br />
Studios Toronto; Scott Wishart;<br />
Irene Miller; Sue Orr, Ruth<br />
Reath, & Knox Presbyterian<br />
Church; Rick Rathwell, Karin<br />
Schroecker, Katia Maxwell &<br />
staff at Rogers Television;<br />
<strong>Stratford</strong> Motor Products;<br />
Elizabeth Lorimer; Frank Herr<br />
& the Boathouse; Harmik<br />
Grigorian & staffs of L’Atelier<br />
Grigorian, Toronto & London;<br />
Cathy Anstett & staff of<br />
Catherine Wright Designs;<br />
Long & McQuade, <strong>Stratford</strong>;<br />
Dan Paul; John Pennoyer;<br />
Gregor, Susannah & Allison<br />
Read; Lieutenant Colonel<br />
Morley B. Armstrong, Regional<br />
Cadet Officer, Regional Cadet<br />
Support Unit (Central),<br />
Lieutenant (N) Chris R. Abram,<br />
Regional Cadet <strong>Music</strong> Training<br />
Officer, Capt. John S. Harris,<br />
Regional Cadet Public Affairs<br />
Officer, and the officers & staffs<br />
of HMCS Ontario, Blackdown<br />
ACSTC, Trenton ACSTC;<br />
Skyhawks Canadian Forces<br />
Parachute Team; the <strong>Stratford</strong><br />
and area restaurants and chefs<br />
creating picnics for the park<br />
auctions; and especially all the<br />
many volunteers & accommodation<br />
providers who support<br />
our programs and assist with<br />
hospitality for our artists and<br />
guests.<br />
stratford summer music<br />
joins the langley ukulele<br />
ensemble in thanking<br />
their generous supporters<br />
in british columbia who<br />
have enabled the musicians<br />
to be in stratford:<br />
TSI Terminal Systems<br />
Incorporated; Coast Capital<br />
Savings; City of Langley;<br />
The Langley Times News.<br />
special thanks to these<br />
friends of stratford<br />
summer music whose<br />
donations have been<br />
received from july 15,<br />
2006 to july 7, 2007.<br />
fortississimo sponsors<br />
CTV Inc.<br />
Yamaha <strong>Music</strong> Canada<br />
Ontario Ministry of Tourism –<br />
Celebrate Ontario<br />
Ontario Arts Council<br />
Ontario Cultural<br />
Attractions Fund<br />
Scotiabank<br />
City of <strong>Stratford</strong><br />
RBC<br />
Sun Life Financial<br />
molto fortissimo<br />
($5,000 to $19,999)<br />
Gary Stockie Chevrolet<br />
Cadillac Ltd.<br />
Julie-Jiggs Foundation<br />
John McKellar<br />
Charitable Foundation<br />
McDonald’s Restaurants<br />
Ontario Trillium Foundation<br />
TSX Group<br />
fortissimo<br />
($1,500 to $4,999)<br />
M. Joan Chalmers C.C., O. Ont.<br />
Jo & Jules Harris<br />
Jane Fryman Laird<br />
Colleen Moorehead<br />
John Miller & Andrey Tarasiuk<br />
Rundles Restaurant<br />
<strong>Stratford</strong> Motor Products<br />
<strong>Stratford</strong> Tourism Alliance<br />
TD Canada Trust<br />
John & Eleanor Waldie<br />
W.G. Young Funeral Home<br />
forte ($1,000 to $1,499)<br />
Artcast Inc.<br />
Berthold & Nancy Carrière<br />
Coca-Cola Ltd.<br />
The Church Restaurant<br />
Festival City Rotary<br />
Wilfrid Gregory<br />
Margaret King<br />
Dr. Robert & Joan Martin<br />
Don & Betty Paxson<br />
Susannah, Gregor<br />
& Allison Read<br />
Ontario Arts Foundation<br />
Anne Walsh<br />
York Street Kitchen<br />
mezzo forte ($500 to $999)<br />
Terence R. Aitken<br />
The Bruce Birmingham Family<br />
Dr. Christine Bloch<br />
Earl Clark<br />
David & Ellen Fangrad<br />
Dr. Ann Griffin<br />
Dr. Susan Hiscock<br />
Jonny Kalisch<br />
Kiwanis Club of <strong>Stratford</strong><br />
Paul West & Kim Wagner<br />
Tom & Bonnie Melanson<br />
Dr. M.L. Meyers &<br />
Dr. W. P. Hayman<br />
Elizabeth Mignotte<br />
& Jeff Tuling<br />
Kenneth & Evelyn Moorehead<br />
Tom & Connie Orr<br />
Joan Peggs<br />
Perth Pre-Cast &<br />
Supply Limited<br />
Olive & Dr. John Pyper<br />
The Shoe Box<br />
John & Marjorie Sinclair<br />
Dr. J. R & Suzanne Walker<br />
mezzo piano ($250 to $499)<br />
David & Helga Barenberg<br />
Bentley’s Inn, Bar & Restaurant<br />
Bijou Restaurant<br />
Robert & Claire Cameron<br />
Cavalier Equestrian Inc.<br />
Keith & Frances Culliton<br />
Elizabeth & Stanford Dingman<br />
Gene’s Restaurant<br />
Alan & Sandra Graff<br />
The Green Room<br />
A.J. & Shirley Jackson<br />
John B. Lawson Q.C.<br />
Marklevitz Architects<br />
Denton & Elizabeth Miller<br />
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Doug & Debbie Mountain<br />
Lutzen & Carolyn Riedstra<br />
Rheo Thompson Candies Ltd.<br />
Skinner, Dunphy & Bantle<br />
<strong>Stratford</strong> Memorials Ltd.<br />
Campbell Trowsdale<br />
John Wilkinson MPP<br />
& Loretta Shannon<br />
Stanley & Rosalind Witkin<br />
piano ($100 to $249)<br />
Joan Anderson<br />
A Place Somewhere B&B<br />
Joan Anderson<br />
Marc Armstrong & Lynn Logie<br />
Susan Benson &<br />
Michael Whitefield<br />
Bessie Blair<br />
Blowes Stationery<br />
Ted & Michele Boniface<br />
John & Emma Carruthers<br />
Barbara Chilcott Somers<br />
Ellen T. Cole<br />
John Conroy<br />
James & Jane Corkery<br />
Kathleen Diehl<br />
Ron Deichert<br />
Mary A. Dingman<br />
Don & Audrey Durst<br />
Brian Emery<br />
M. Elisabeth Gilmore<br />
Gordons Men’s Fashions<br />
Jane Graham<br />
Paul & Mary Harding<br />
Tom & Diane Kydd<br />
In Memory of Andrew (Andy)<br />
Robertson Lamb<br />
Betty Larkworthy<br />
Robert & Lottie Lederman<br />
Robert F. & Pat Lightfoot<br />
Dr. Ian R. & Cheryl MacLean<br />
Janet McCarthy<br />
Alan McNaughton<br />
Lois Mountain<br />
Geoff & Marion Neigh<br />
The Oriental Carpet Gallery<br />
Jane Proudlove<br />
Dr. Vincent & Catherine<br />
Quinlan<br />
Loa Reuber<br />
Anne Reuber<br />
Lutzen Riedstra &<br />
Carolyn Bart-Riedstra<br />
Crerar & Margaret Robertson<br />
Margaret C. Ryerson<br />
Jack & Mary Scoffield
helped make it happen!<br />
Robert & Heather Seip<br />
Allan Shaw<br />
Bruce & Ruth Shivas<br />
Kevin Silver & Jane Homan<br />
Dr. Alida Smisek &<br />
Dr. Stephen Barlow<br />
Alex & Nancy Smith<br />
Gloria Staines<br />
Drs. David & Susan Tamblyn<br />
The Shoe Box<br />
Sinclair Pharmacy<br />
Mary Tolton<br />
George & Thelma Trethewey<br />
Tony & Jane Urquhart<br />
Dr. Paul & Martha Weir<br />
Gordon Zurbrigg<br />
pianissimo ($50 to $99)<br />
Kathlyn Bell<br />
Jeannie Baird<br />
John Banks<br />
Rose Billo<br />
Margaret Bryan<br />
Dianna Buck<br />
Bert & Tobi Burbach<br />
Virgil Burnett<br />
Michael & Marguerite Dack<br />
Shirley Davis<br />
Judith Donaldson<br />
Festoso Brothers Auto Body Inc.<br />
Raymond Gloor<br />
Marilyn Gropp<br />
Jack Hillier & Margaret Wilmer<br />
Leslie Jost<br />
Jane Kirkpatrick<br />
Robert P. Leyser<br />
Cynthia MacLennan<br />
Jeanne & Angus MacMillan<br />
Ernie & Janeen McAdam<br />
Ellen Metcalfe<br />
Anetta Munro<br />
Harry & Mabel Nesbitt<br />
Esther Noe<br />
John & Nancy Patterson<br />
David Prosser<br />
Evelyn Robson<br />
James & Elizabeth Scott<br />
Dr. Norvel Scratch<br />
Diana Shelestynsky<br />
Don Sweete<br />
special project supporters<br />
Sal Di Bella & Catherine Adams<br />
Eric & Gilliam Adams<br />
Marc Armstrong & Lynn Logie<br />
Audrey Ashley<br />
Cass Atkinson<br />
Jane Armstrong<br />
David & Helga Barenberg<br />
Dr. Linda Bathe<br />
Larry Beare<br />
Roland Beauregard<br />
Jennifer Birmingham<br />
Colin Black<br />
Dr. Christine Bloch<br />
Ted & Michele Boniface<br />
Walter Borden<br />
Doug Bors & Eva Szekely<br />
Gayle Brooks<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Bukala<br />
Laura Burton<br />
Nancy Carr<br />
Bert & Nancy Carrière<br />
CBC Records<br />
Vera Catania<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Guy Chadsey<br />
Robert Chrichton<br />
Ivy & Dr. Sing Chung<br />
Gregory Connor<br />
Gary Cooper<br />
Jane & Gary Cowan<br />
Paul & Barbara Craig<br />
Frances & Keith Culliton<br />
Janet Dalicandro<br />
& Doug Thompson<br />
Marilyn Dallman<br />
Charles Dawson<br />
Margo Dean<br />
William & Marlene Defehr<br />
Peter Donaldson<br />
& Sheila McCarthy<br />
John Douglas<br />
Sheila Dow<br />
Donald & Patricia Evans<br />
Terry & Ian Fielding<br />
Richard & Elspeth Fleming<br />
Roderick Flaherty<br />
Anne & Fabrizio Fontana<br />
Brenda Ford<br />
Barbara Fulton & Paul Shilton<br />
Anita Gaffney<br />
Elaine & Kevin Genyn<br />
Mary Elizabeth Gilmore<br />
Robert Gould<br />
Sandra & Al Graff<br />
Wilfrid Gregory<br />
Dr. Ann Griffin<br />
Genevieve Griffith<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Gulliford<br />
Pauline Hall<br />
Sylvia Helperin<br />
Mary Anne Hamacher<br />
Monique & Dr. Gregg Hancock<br />
Raymond Harsant<br />
Jennifer Hedges<br />
Robin Hewitt & Mat Cooper<br />
Norma & Dr. James Hiscock<br />
Dr. Susan Hiscock<br />
Mr. & Mrs. E. Tom G. Hodgins<br />
Judith Horner &<br />
Hammond Bentall<br />
Douglas Hunter<br />
Marion Isherwood<br />
James Israel<br />
D.L. Byrne Jones<br />
Steve & Catharina Jutting<br />
Eleanor Kane<br />
Marion Kane<br />
Margaret King<br />
Anne-Marie LaFrance<br />
Norman & Sandra Lang<br />
David Latham & Jason Miller<br />
Mr. & Mrs. James Lawrence<br />
Rev. John & Mrs. Miriam Lekx<br />
Chantal Lemieux<br />
Fred Lewis<br />
E. Cameron Lipsit<br />
Barb & Alan Lowe<br />
Douglas MacDougald<br />
James & Connie MacDougall<br />
Dr. Ian & Cheryl MacLean<br />
Audrey Marriott<br />
Simon Marsden<br />
Johanne Marshall<br />
& Tim Adlington<br />
Joan & Dr. Robert Martin<br />
Dr. James & Joanne McArthur<br />
Margie McCarthy<br />
Hugh & Jane McDonald<br />
Nora & Vern McDonald<br />
Pamela McIntyre & Brad Lotz<br />
Brian & Sherry McKay<br />
Emily McLean<br />
John Meinen<br />
Libby & Denton Miller<br />
Velma I. Mode<br />
Richard Monette C.M.<br />
Gerald & Ermythe Moorehead<br />
Dr. Jorge Antonio Rocha Mota<br />
Dr. M.L. Meyers &<br />
Dr. Philip Hayman<br />
New Orleans Pizza<br />
James & Judith Nichol<br />
Janet Niezen<br />
Connie & Tom Orr<br />
Paula Ortelli<br />
Mary & Clare Pace<br />
Susie Palach & Cindy Collins<br />
Ella J. Parratt<br />
D.A. Pecor<br />
Leanne & Richard Perreault<br />
Laura Pogson<br />
Nora Polley<br />
Art & Ingrid Puetz<br />
David & Kathryn Rae<br />
Carol Rankmore<br />
Susannah & Gregor Read<br />
Paul & Karen Rempel<br />
Peter Roberts & Wendy Reid<br />
Derwyn & Nora<br />
Rokeby-Thomas<br />
Judith & David Rose<br />
Sheldon & Patty Russell<br />
Norman & Joanne Russell<br />
Pet Santini<br />
Gary & Judy Schellenberger<br />
George & Louise Schroeder<br />
Jack & Mary Scoffield<br />
David Scott<br />
Jacob & Vicki Sheepers<br />
Anna & Gordon Sherwin<br />
John Sipos<br />
Kevin & Judy Smith<br />
Barbara Smith<br />
Rachael Smith-Spencer<br />
Jean Somerville<br />
Tim St. Louis<br />
Denise St. Pierre<br />
Ross & Sue Starkweather<br />
Gordon & Elaine Steed<br />
Kristene Steed<br />
& Mark Johnstone<br />
Liora Steele<br />
Neil Steenberg<br />
Bill & Jane Swerdon<br />
Jim Stone<br />
Dr. Susan Tamblyn<br />
Andrey Tarasiuk<br />
Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson<br />
Rheo & Sally Thompson<br />
Valerie & Dr. Doug Thompson<br />
Tamar Tsafnat<br />
Margaret Tuer<br />
Chip & Barbara Vallis<br />
Marcel & Edith Van Hulle<br />
Annette & John Vyge<br />
John & Eleanor Waldie<br />
Anne Walsh<br />
Lori & Peter West<br />
Paul West & Kim Wagner<br />
Reginald & Gloria White<br />
John Whyte<br />
Wild Swan Boutique & Spa<br />
Anne Wishart<br />
Robert Woodley<br />
Bill & Sharon Wreford<br />
Barbara L. Young<br />
Cindy Young<br />
Rita Zekas<br />
The <strong>Stratford</strong> Arts Foundation<br />
o/a <strong>Stratford</strong> <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>Music</strong><br />
is a registered Canadian notfor-profit<br />
organization; federal<br />
charitable registration no.<br />
RR001-87819-7417.<br />
mail P.O. Box 1013, <strong>Stratford</strong>,<br />
Ontario, Canada n5a 6w4<br />
offices 2nd Floor, 25 Ontario<br />
Street, <strong>Stratford</strong><br />
tel 519 271-2101, 1-866-288-4313<br />
fax 519 271-1459<br />
website<br />
www.stratfordsummermusic.ca<br />
contact us at<br />
info@stratfordsummermusic.ca<br />
Privacy policies available upon<br />
request.<br />
Join us on Sat.<br />
August 11 for<br />
the ride of your<br />
life in the Sky<br />
Orchestra! Call<br />
519-271-2101 to<br />
reserve a space.<br />
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photo by irene miller, 2006<br />
opening night<br />
fireworks<br />
wed. july 25 | dusk | avon flats | free<br />
<strong>Stratford</strong> <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>Music</strong>’s 2007 season<br />
bursts onto the scene with sound and light<br />
on Wednesday, July 25.<br />
To enjoy what has quickly become an annual<br />
tradition for both locals and visitors,<br />
everyone is invited to line the banks of the<br />
Avon River at 9:15 pm for the Stockie Stars in<br />
the Sky fireworks, an awesome aerial display<br />
with its own soundtrack, <strong>Music</strong> for a<br />
Midsummer’s Night, composed by Berthold<br />
Carrière to honour the late <strong>Stratford</strong> community<br />
leader, BJ ‘Bo’ Sibold, and played only<br />
once a year for this Opening Night show.<br />
2007 Season Sponsor<br />
<strong>Music</strong> for a Midsummer’s Night is amplified<br />
across the waters for everyone on the shores<br />
and broadcast on 107.7 mix fm for anyone<br />
watching from home or in the car.<br />
Join us on July 25 to marvel at the colour and<br />
the drama of fireworks reflected in the Avon<br />
waters when <strong>Stratford</strong> <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>Music</strong><br />
launches its seventh season!<br />
Stockie Stars in<br />
the Sky generously<br />
supported by<br />
Opening Night<br />
Programming<br />
generously<br />
supported by<br />
<strong>Stratford</strong> <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>Music</strong> acknowledges<br />
the support and permission of<br />
the Estate of Glenn Gould towards<br />
our Gould programming this season.<br />
www.glenngould.ca<br />
<strong>Stratford</strong> <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>Music</strong><br />
acknowledges with thanks<br />
these public donors:<br />
city of<br />
stratford<br />
The official piano of<br />
<strong>Stratford</strong> <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>Music</strong>:<br />
Local radio sponsors:<br />
Tattoo Media Sponsor:<br />
Special Appreciation to:<br />
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photographic exhibition<br />
ruth abernethy’s<br />
glenn gould<br />
sculpture<br />
opens mon. july 23 | york street kitchen | 2 pm | free<br />
runs throughout the festival<br />
Photographer Ellen Hadley captured the full creative process as her<br />
sister, sculptor Ruth Abernethy, worked from Don Hunstein’s original<br />
photo of Glenn Gould on an isolated park bench in the Caledon<br />
Hills north of Toronto. Working with styrofoam blocks and pieces of<br />
the pianist’s own clothing, the artist is revealed as she creates what<br />
has become one of Canada’s most appreciated public sculptures set<br />
now outside the Canadian Broadcasting Centre on Front Street<br />
West, Toronto.<br />
Jointly presented by<br />
<strong>Stratford</strong> <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>Music</strong><br />
and Glenn Gould Studio,<br />
Canadian Broadcasting<br />
Centre, Toronto with the<br />
support of<br />
the sculpture<br />
casting company<br />
In September, this exhibition<br />
will transfer to Glenn<br />
Gould Studio, Toronto.<br />
Special thanks to<br />
York Street Kitchen.<br />
oscar schumsky, glenn gould and leonard rose in concert, stratford<br />
festival theatre, 1961. this is one of the very rare photos in which<br />
gould is seen to be playing from a score, as opposed to his usual practice<br />
of performing everything from memory.<br />
photo stratford festival archives.<br />
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cellist yo-yo ma, laureate of the glenn gould prize, and pipa virtuoso,<br />
wu man, mr. ma’s choice as laureate of the city of toronto glenn gould<br />
protégé prize, enjoy the gould sculpture by ruth abernethy. september<br />
26, 1999 at the canadian broadcasting centre, front street west, toronto.<br />
photo by gary beechey, bds studios, toronto.<br />
week 1 to week 4<br />
f o u r s p e c i a l<br />
archival exhibition<br />
glenn gould<br />
& the stratford<br />
festival<br />
opens thu. july 26 | city hall auditorium | 10:30 am<br />
free | runs throughout the festival<br />
Out of the archives of the <strong>Stratford</strong> Festival comes a collection of<br />
documents from the two decades when Glenn Gould was a featured<br />
performer and music director in the Festival’s original music<br />
series. Also displayed are items from the 1999 performances of<br />
Glenn (David Young, author; Richard Rose, director; Graeme S.<br />
Thomson, landscape & lighting designer; Charlotte Dean, costume<br />
designer) at the Tom Patterson Theatre.<br />
Organised by <strong>Stratford</strong> Festival<br />
archivists Jane Edmonds and<br />
Ellen Charendoff.<br />
week 1 to week 4
j.s. bach’s goldberg variations<br />
week 3<br />
glenn gould in re-performance<br />
sun. august 12 | city hall auditorium | 2 pm | $27<br />
Experience the genius of Glenn Gould at his keyboard. A unique<br />
encounter!<br />
Gould’s 1955 Columbia recording of the Goldberg Variations, which<br />
still sits among the best-selling classical discs of all-time, is re-presented<br />
here, live, with the pianist’s own articulations, pedaling and<br />
original interpretation on a Yamaha Disklavier Pro grand piano.<br />
Thanks to the patience, research and skills of John Q. Walker and his<br />
team of scientists and audio engineers at Zenph Corporation in<br />
North Carolina, the audience will explore this fusion of 21st century<br />
technology and sheer creative brilliance – what the New York<br />
Times Magazine called one of the best ideas of 2006. This presentation<br />
is an early opportunity to experience where music and science<br />
may be headed.<br />
g o u l d e v e n t s<br />
“That summer of ‘53… several of us local<br />
glenn gould in rehearsal in stratford, 1961.<br />
Prior to Mr. Gould’s re-performance of the complete Bach score,<br />
Shelagh Rogers, host of CBC Radio One’s Sounds Like Canada and<br />
herself a radio colleague of Mr. Gould, will discuss the technology<br />
with Dr. Walker to explore its potential future applications – and<br />
implications – for music and other creative<br />
expressions.<br />
Following the presentation, the audience<br />
will have a special opportunity to purchase<br />
a compact disc from Sony-BMG<br />
with today’s distinctive program by Mr.<br />
Gould through the Zenph technology.<br />
The disc is particularly thrilling when<br />
heard through headphones: the chance<br />
to hear what Gould may have heard as he<br />
sat at the keyboard.<br />
Generously supported<br />
by Jane Fryman Laird<br />
“The timings and variations in the keystrokes<br />
are so subtle it’s easy to imagine<br />
the pianist is in the room, his fingers<br />
pushing the keys down.” insider audio <strong>magazine</strong><br />
a panel & audience exchange<br />
week 3<br />
remembering glenn gould<br />
in stratford<br />
types gave no less than fifteen concerts wed. august 8 | city hall auditorium | 4 pm | free<br />
in the flapping tent which Skip Manley<br />
bravely raised over Tanya Moiseiwitsch’s<br />
superb stage and we attempted to<br />
entertain a handful of Shakespearestuffed<br />
celebrants each afternoon at<br />
four. The years that followed saw many<br />
fine things take the stage at <strong>Stratford</strong><br />
Generously supported by Jane Fryman Laird.<br />
(no longer the Festival Theatre stage<br />
however – by now we had been packed off to the casino some yards downstream) and<br />
many of the greatest artists of our day came to make music here – Schwarzkopf, Stern,<br />
Serkin, Benjamin Britten.” – glenn gould, 1962<br />
What really happened behind the scenes in those early <strong>Stratford</strong><br />
days? How easy was Glenn to work with? Here’s a unique opportunity<br />
to uncover answers as we hear the personal recollections of<br />
some who worked closely with Glenn in the 1950’s and 1960’s.<br />
Panelists will include his original manager, Walter Homburger C.M.,<br />
the <strong>Stratford</strong> Festival’s first administrator of music, Gordon Jocelyn,<br />
and Jocelyn’s successor, Ezra Schabas, who managed the Gould-<br />
Schumsky-Rose first season in 1961.<br />
Audience members are encouraged to recount their own Glenn<br />
Gould stories for this session which will be videotaped as an historical<br />
record.<br />
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shelagh rogers
triple<br />
glenn gould’s original stratford performances<br />
forte<br />
Over the past five years all three musicians in Triple Forte have performed individually<br />
in <strong>Stratford</strong> but this engagement marks their first visit in their new musical relationship<br />
which, by happy co-incidence, was one of Glenn Gould’s preferred groupings for his<br />
own <strong>Stratford</strong> concerts with violinists Albert Pratz and Oscar Shumsky and with cellists<br />
Isaac Mamott and Leonard Rose.<br />
Triple Forte recreates four programs originally performed<br />
by Gould and these colleagues during the early years of the<br />
<strong>Stratford</strong> Festival. For the fourth concert, tenor Joseph<br />
Schnurr returns from Germany to join David Jalbert in a<br />
selection of Mendelssohn songs which were sung by<br />
Léopold Simoneau, one of Canada’s most acclaimed opera<br />
singers, with Glenn Gould at the piano.<br />
Visit CBC archives to see Glenn Gould, with Oscar<br />
Schumsky and Louis Applebaum, practicing on the<br />
Festival stage. Broadcast date: July 26, 1960.<br />
Courtesy CBC Digital Archives.<br />
www.cbc.ca/archives/gouldatstratford<br />
joseph schnurr<br />
This series generously supported by<br />
M. Joan Chalmers C.C., O.Ont.<br />
ticket from 1960 concert with glenn<br />
week 1<br />
“This trio’s<br />
playing had<br />
Bravo written<br />
all over it!”<br />
halifax chronicle herald<br />
gould at the festival theatre, courtesy<br />
stratford festival archives.<br />
< yegor dyachkov, cello, david jalbert,<br />
piano and jasper wood, violin.<br />
all programs 11:15 am<br />
city hall auditorium | $32<br />
thu. july 26<br />
Originally presented on July 31, 1953<br />
Beethoven Trio in D major, Op. 70,<br />
No. 1 – “Ghost”<br />
Brahms Trio in C minor, Op. 101<br />
fri. july 27<br />
Originally presented on August 7, 1960<br />
Beethoven Violin Sonata in C minor,<br />
Op. 30, No. 2<br />
Beethoven Cello Sonata in A major,<br />
Op. 69<br />
sat. july 28<br />
Originally presented on July 16, 1961<br />
Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 in<br />
G major, Op. 78<br />
Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 in<br />
E minor, Op. 38<br />
sun. july 29<br />
Originally presented on August 5, 1962<br />
Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor,<br />
Op. 49<br />
Mendelssohn Selected Lieder<br />
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a f t e r - t h e a t r e<br />
week 1 to week 4<br />
CABARETS<br />
“Who wants to go to bed after the theatre? I love the<br />
cabarets. Seeing the actors out of costume and make-up,<br />
hearing their wonderful singing voices and meeting them<br />
personally afterwards – that’s what makes the cabarets<br />
such a great way to end the night!” 2006 patron, akron, ohio<br />
bruce dow<br />
jonathan ellul<br />
phillip hughes<br />
brian mckay<br />
brad rudy<br />
All-Stars Finales<br />
generously supported<br />
by Wayne Young<br />
& Family.<br />
all cabarets 11:30 pm | the church restaurant | $35 each<br />
manhattan<br />
after dark<br />
with bruce dow<br />
thu. july 26, sat. august 4, fri. august 10<br />
The clubs of Manhattan have always been a<br />
birthplace for great songs. Young songwriters<br />
ply their craft while they play for new<br />
singers searching for original material or<br />
rescuing great melodies and lyrics from forgotten<br />
Broadway shows. When you venture<br />
into Manhattan After Dark you enjoy songs<br />
by Duke Ellington, Rogers & Hart and Cole<br />
Porter, plus others associated with Barbara<br />
Cook, Mabel Mercer and Bobby Short. Join<br />
Bruce Dow at his new show with songs born<br />
in New York’s tiny after-hours nightspots.<br />
<strong>Music</strong> Director: Marilyn Dallman<br />
feel alright!<br />
A Beatles Songbook<br />
with jonathan ellul, phillip hughes,<br />
brian mckay & brad rudy<br />
sat. july 28, fri. august 3, thu. august 9<br />
Four <strong>Stratford</strong> guys salute four Liverpool<br />
guys! From the Festival casts of Oklahoma,<br />
King Lear, An Ideal Husband, My One and<br />
Only, Othello, Of Mice and Men and<br />
Pentecost come Jonathan Ellul, Philip<br />
Hughes, Brian McKay and Brad Rudy with<br />
the sort of tribute only true fans can bestow<br />
on the world’s most popular quartet. When<br />
you leave, you’ll more than Feel Alright!<br />
<strong>Music</strong> Director: Melody McShane<br />
Cabarets supported by Special thanks to<br />
marvelous<br />
party:<br />
A Noel Coward Soirée<br />
with sean arbuckle<br />
fri. july 27, thu. august 2, sat. august 11<br />
Sean Arbuckle presents his personal tribute<br />
to a 20th century theatrical legend: the<br />
charming unconventional chap who<br />
penned and performed such classics as<br />
Tonight at 8:30, Bitter Sweet, Cavalcade<br />
and Private Lives. Enjoy the wit, wisdom,<br />
words and music associated with Coward’s<br />
stylish characters, not to mention the<br />
shrewd observations from his own prose.<br />
Special guest appearance by Laura Condlln.<br />
<strong>Music</strong> Director: Laura Burton<br />
all-stars<br />
cabaret<br />
finales<br />
fri. august 17, sat. august 18<br />
photo by irene miller, 2006<br />
Always hot tickets at our festival, these final<br />
two concerts bring together all the performers<br />
from the season’s three cabarets.<br />
master of<br />
ceremonies for<br />
the cabarets is<br />
festival actor<br />
jacob james<br />
the three-for ticket<br />
New this year! $85. Buy any 3 cabarets and save $20!<br />
All-Stars Cabarets not included.<br />
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sean arbuckle<br />
laura condlln
BARGE<br />
wednesdays to sundays throughout the festival<br />
all programs 12:30 pm | avon river | free august 1 to august 5 swamperella<br />
Cajun comes north. With old fashioned waltzes and haunting<br />
vocal harmonies in pulsating rhythms, these five raucous<br />
Perhaps you’re walking along the<br />
musicians are among this continent’s finest exponents of the<br />
waterfront. Perhaps you’re enjoying<br />
authentic Louisiana sound. We give you full permission to<br />
your lunch. Then join us at the CTV<br />
dance, clap, even holler when the infectious tunes move you.<br />
<strong>Music</strong>Barge (our floating stage<br />
But be warned: stand back from the shore and watch the<br />
moored near the Tourist Information<br />
waves because <strong>Stratford</strong> will rock with Swamperella.<br />
Booth and the boathouse) for a variety<br />
of noontime concerts featuring<br />
five different ensembles, each with<br />
its own musical style. A pleasant way<br />
to pass an hour!<br />
In the event of inclement weather, Barge<strong>Music</strong> stops. Listen for<br />
weather and concert updates on cjcs 1240 and 107.7 mix fm,<br />
<strong>Stratford</strong> <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>Music</strong>’s local radio partners.<br />
july 26 to july 29<br />
the langley ukulele ensemble Peter Luongo, Director.<br />
<strong>Summer</strong> Strummin’. These student performers arrive in <strong>Stratford</strong><br />
having just completed their 14th annual engagement at the<br />
Sheraton Hawaiian Waikiki and participated at this year’s Royal<br />
Nova Scotia International Tattoo in Halifax. These 23 young ambassadors<br />
from Langley, British Columbia are considered the most<br />
skilled ukulele ensemble in the world. Their highly entertaining<br />
performances feature outstanding vocal and instrumental arrangements.<br />
Prepare to be amazed and inspired!<br />
On Thursday, July 26 the Ensemble is joined by its alumnus, James<br />
Hill, who is now celebrated as a world virtuoso on this instrument.<br />
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photo by irene miller, 2005<br />
august 8 to august 12 ><br />
the trillium brass quintet<br />
james hill<br />
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Here’s an ensemble with energy and exuberance, and let’s not<br />
forget their eclecticism. One horn, one tuba, two trumpets<br />
and a trombone make up the classic family of brass instruments.<br />
For their first <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>Music</strong> appearances we welcome<br />
Karin, Scott, Christine, Philip and Cathy to perform a<br />
wide variety of melodies and musical styles from Renaissance<br />
madrigals, to classic pops, to fresh contemporary repertoire.<br />
This series<br />
generously<br />
supported by
MUSIC<br />
week 1 to week 4<br />
We’re taking bids on a variety<br />
of picnic luncheons every Saturday<br />
prior to the Barge<strong>Music</strong><br />
concerts. Prepared by some of<br />
<strong>Stratford</strong>’s outstanding chefs<br />
and restaurants. Offered by<br />
our Celebrity Auctioneers. Proceeds<br />
benefit <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>Music</strong>’s<br />
free public concerts.<br />
august 19 the fergus pipe band ><br />
In honour of its long and proud history in Ontario,<br />
we welcome one of our province’s finest pipe<br />
bands as it celebrates its own 80th anniversary in<br />
2007. And thus, with pipes and drums in full force<br />
and the <strong>Stratford</strong> Belle sailing into the distance, we<br />
close another <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>Music</strong> season and say to all,<br />
“Will you no’ come back again?” …which means,<br />
please join us here next year for Barge<strong>Music</strong> concerts<br />
beginning July 24, 2008.<br />
sat. july 28 Picnics by The Church<br />
Restaurant & Belfry, Devon’s Desserts and<br />
Deli, Foster’s Inn, The Sun Room and<br />
Westover Inn<br />
sat. august 4 Picnics by Anne Hathaway<br />
Dining Room at The Festival Inn, Demetre’s<br />
Family Eatery, Down the Street Bar & Café,<br />
The Old Prune and Sirkel Foods.<br />
< august 15 to august 18<br />
the mcdades<br />
Alberta’s pride and the winners of Canadian<br />
Folk Awards (2006) as Best World Artists<br />
Group and Best Instrumental Group, The<br />
McDade Family and Friends arrive to shake<br />
up Shakespeare. Their performances are<br />
rooted in Celtic traditions and fused with<br />
the spontaneity of jazz improvisation and<br />
global rhythms, leading to fiery performances,<br />
contagious music and an appeal that<br />
is simply irresistible. Listen for a distinctly<br />
Canadian sound, finely crafted by five of<br />
Western Canada’s best musicians.<br />
saturday picnics<br />
in the park 12 noon | saturdays | at the musicbarge<br />
sat. august 11 Picnics by Henry’s at The<br />
Queen’s Inn,Keystone Alley Café, Olde English<br />
Parlour Historic Inn & Suites, Pass da Pasta<br />
and York Street Kitchen<br />
sat. august 18 Picnics by Bijou Restaurant,<br />
The Green Room at the <strong>Stratford</strong> Festival, Let<br />
Them Eat Cake, Pazzo Ristorante Bar &<br />
Pizzeria and Tango Café & Grill.<br />
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mon. july 30 | avon flats | 7:15pm | free<br />
By Popular Demand! Our 2007 Tattoo brings<br />
together 300 young Canadians in true symbolism<br />
of our national motto, A Mari usque<br />
ad Mare – From Sea to Sea.<br />
Thrill to the bands, drill squads, gun units,<br />
flag parties and marching corps from HMCS<br />
Ontario Sea Cadet <strong>Summer</strong> Training Centre,<br />
Kingston; from Blackdown Army Cadet<br />
<strong>Summer</strong> Training Centre, CFB Borden; and<br />
from Trenton Air Cadet <strong>Summer</strong> Training<br />
Centre, CFB Trenton.<br />
The Tattoo opens with the spectacular<br />
descent of the famous Canadian Forces<br />
Skyhawks Parachute Team, continues with<br />
military and pipe & drum music as well as<br />
precision skills which include the impressive<br />
Ceremony of the Flags, and concludes in a<br />
dramatic finale with all the participants.<br />
Spectators bring their own seating and<br />
blankets to ring the parade square and fill<br />
the hillside below the Festival Theatre.<br />
In the event of inclement weather, the<br />
Tattoo may not go on. Listen for weather<br />
and concert updates on 1240 CJCS and 107.7<br />
mix fm, <strong>Stratford</strong>.<br />
Special thanks to Rogers TV for capturing<br />
the excitement of Young Canada on Parade<br />
for its viewers. Watch the event again locally<br />
on Rogers Cable 20 on these dates and<br />
times: Friday, August 3, 8 pm; Saturday,<br />
August 4, 9 am; and Friday, August 10, 7 pm.<br />
week 2<br />
7:15pm<br />
start<br />
time<br />
tattoo<br />
young canada on parade<br />
Tattoo Media<br />
Sponsor<br />
special guests: canadian forces<br />
skyhawks parachute team<br />
hmcs ontario<br />
blackdown acstc<br />
trenton acstc<br />
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“This is an orchestra whose raw energy is thrilling. If these are the future musicians<br />
of Canada’s classical scene, we have something to look forward to.” the montreal gazette<br />
youth orchestra<br />
national<br />
sun. july 29 | knox church | 7:30pm | entry by donation<br />
From across Canada, the National Youth Orchestra brings together<br />
one hundred of the brightest and most promising young orchestral<br />
musicians in this country. Led by their exciting new Principal<br />
Conductor, Yoav Talmi, the NYO returns for its third visit to <strong>Stratford</strong><br />
<strong>Summer</strong> <strong>Music</strong>. This performance marks the beginning of the<br />
Orchestra’s eight-city tour of Ontario and Quebec.<br />
Maestro Talmi, who is making his own first visit to <strong>Stratford</strong>, is currently<br />
the Artistic Director and Conductor of the Quebec Symphony<br />
Orchestra in Canada. He has also served as Principal Conductor of<br />
major orchestras in Germany, USA, Netherlands and Israel.<br />
program<br />
Beethoven Egmont Overture<br />
Bell Ablaze (2007 premiere performance)<br />
Blacher Orchestral Variations on a Theme of Paganini<br />
Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition<br />
regimental band of the united<br />
states merchant marine academy<br />
ceremony of beating the retreat<br />
“George M. Cohan’s own band…<br />
for now and in the future”<br />
citation from the cohan family<br />
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yoav talmi<br />
of canada<br />
week 1<br />
members of the national youth orchestra<br />
Capt. K. R. Force, Director<br />
thu. august 16 | city centre | 7 pm | free<br />
week 4<br />
Featured in countless American and international events – all<br />
Presidential Inauguration Parades, Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade,<br />
the Cotton Bowl Halftime Show on New Year’s Day, the 40th anniversary<br />
celebration of D-Day in Normandy – this is a singularly great<br />
marching band!<br />
The Band’s membership changes twice each year as the Merchant<br />
Marine Academy’s sea splits change so every fall and every spring a<br />
new band is effectively born. With such a unique rotation, the band<br />
is never the same twice, yet what remains consistent are its incredibly<br />
high standards of musicianship through the men and women it<br />
attracts to Kings Point to study and play under its renowned Director<br />
since 1971, Capt. Kenneth Force.<br />
An outstanding musician, teacher, composer and author who began<br />
his life-long devotion to banding as a member of the Ringling Bros.<br />
and Barnum & Bailey Circus Band, Capt. Force is now<br />
one of only eight people, world-wide, to hold<br />
honorary membership in the prestigious<br />
American Bandmasters Association which<br />
was founded by John Philip Sousa and Edwin<br />
Franko Goldman.
illustration from the story of babar by jean de brunhoff (random house children’s books, 1933)<br />
“The Six String Nation is<br />
a movement to connect<br />
people from all regions<br />
of Canada through music<br />
and by sharing our icons,<br />
images and stories. The<br />
Six String Nation guitar<br />
is at the heart of the<br />
movement.” – jowi taylor<br />
guitar<br />
fri. august 17 and sat. august 18<br />
canada’s<br />
six string<br />
nation<br />
Who says Canadian history isn’t interesting<br />
– or musical?<br />
60 artifacts from great events, people and<br />
locations in Canadian history were all combined<br />
to create one guitar. Each of the artifacts<br />
has its own compelling story. This is a<br />
musical instrument which quite literally<br />
embodies Canadian history.<br />
Included in the instrument are parts of<br />
Rocket Richard’s Stanley Cup hockey ring,<br />
Pierre Trudeau’s canoe paddle, wood from<br />
Lucy Maude Montgomery’s house and Louis<br />
Riel’s schoolroom, Paul Henderson’s hockey<br />
stick, the legendary Golden Spruce of<br />
Haida-Gwaii in British Columbia and Nancy<br />
Greene’s ski.<br />
This summer, before it arrives in <strong>Stratford</strong><br />
the guitar will have traveled to meet<br />
young people’s<br />
all events 2 pm | city hall auditorium<br />
children free | $7 for adults PROGRAMS<br />
tickets sold only at the door<br />
fri. august 3 luba meets<br />
babar and paddington<br />
week 2<br />
fri. august 10 carnival<br />
of the instruments<br />
week 3<br />
Luba Goy, Canada’s reigning queen of com- <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>Music</strong> begins an annual series to<br />
edy, narrates two stories set to music by introduce young audiences to the various<br />
friendly composers: Babar the Elephant instruments in the orchestra. Led by pianist<br />
(Jean de Brunhoff, author; Francis Poulenc, Stephen Runge, musicians share the secrets<br />
composer) and Paddington Bear’s First and stories behind their instruments. Join<br />
Concert (Michael Bond, author; Herbert flutist Raquel Murillo, French hornist Iris<br />
Chappell, composer). Piano<br />
Krizmanic, and cellist Peter<br />
accompaniment by Stephen<br />
Cosbey for this afternoon of<br />
Runge. A program for<br />
Children of All Ages!<br />
music and discovery.<br />
paddington bear © paddington<br />
and co. ltd. 2007<br />
week 4<br />
Canadians elsewhere in Ontario, Saskatchewan,<br />
Quebec and Newfoundland.<br />
When you come down to see it, if you<br />
donate a toonie we’ll snap your picture with<br />
the Guitar and send it to you electronically<br />
as your personal moment with Canadian<br />
history. Thousands of Canadians from coast<br />
to coast have had their pictures taken since<br />
this unique instrument was introduced to<br />
the nation at the Canada Day festivities on<br />
Parliament Hill one year ago.<br />
The Six String Nation Guitar tent will be set<br />
up at two Royal Bank branches: downtown<br />
at Downie/Albert Streets and in the east end<br />
of town at 966 Ontario Street/C.H. Meier<br />
Blvd. Watch the newspapers and listen to<br />
the radio for specific locations and times.<br />
Generously<br />
supported by<br />
through the<br />
RBC Foundation<br />
sat. august 18<br />
week 4<br />
the story & music of canada’s<br />
six string nation guitar<br />
Jowi Taylor, the man who came up with the<br />
fascinating idea of a guitar made of wood,<br />
bone, metal, shell and stone from every<br />
Canadian province and territory, reveals<br />
how each fragment tells us something<br />
interesting about Canada. You’ll hear the<br />
guitar played and then Jowi will invite<br />
everybody to have a picture taken holding<br />
the instrument.<br />
This series generously<br />
supported by<br />
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week one<br />
monday, july 23<br />
2 pm Opening | Photo Exhibition ysk free<br />
Ruth Abernethy’s Glenn Gould Sculpture<br />
wednesday, july 25<br />
9pm Opening Night | Stockie Stars in the Sky af free<br />
Fireworks & <strong>Music</strong> for a Midsummer’s Night<br />
thursday, july 26<br />
10:30 am Opening | Archival Exhibition ch free<br />
Glenn Gould and the <strong>Stratford</strong> Festival<br />
11:15 am Glenn Gould’s <strong>Stratford</strong> Performances ch $32<br />
Triple Forte Piano Trio (Beethoven, Brahms)<br />
12:30 pm Barge<strong>Music</strong> | Langley Ukulele Ensemble ar free<br />
with James Hill, Virtuoso<br />
11:30 pm Cabaret 1 | Manhattan After Dark cr ✽ $35<br />
with Bruce Dow<br />
friday, july 27<br />
11:15 am Glenn Gould’s <strong>Stratford</strong> Performances ch $32<br />
Triple Forte Piano Trio (Beethoven)<br />
12:30 pm Barge<strong>Music</strong> | Langley Ukulele Ensemble ar free<br />
11:30 pm Cabaret 2 | Marvelous Party: cr ✽ $35<br />
A Noel Coward Soirée with Sean Arbuckle<br />
saturday, july 28<br />
11:15 am Glenn Gould’s <strong>Stratford</strong> Performances ch $32<br />
Triple Forte Piano Trio (Brahms)<br />
12:30 pm Barge<strong>Music</strong> | Langley Ukulele Ensemble ar free<br />
11:30 pm Cabaret 3 | Feel Alright! A Beatles Songbook cr ✽ $35<br />
sunday, july 29<br />
11:15 am Glenn Gould’s <strong>Stratford</strong> Performances ch $32<br />
Triple Forte Piano Trio (Mendelssohn)<br />
with Joseph Schnurr, tenor<br />
12:30 pm Barge<strong>Music</strong> | Langley Ukulele Ensemble ar free<br />
7:30pm National Youth Orchestra of Canada kc<br />
donation<br />
see map for locations, page 38.<br />
week two<br />
monday, july 30<br />
7:15pm Young Canada on Parade Tattoo with af free<br />
Canadian Forces Skyhawks Parachute Team<br />
wednesday, august 1<br />
12:30 pm Barge<strong>Music</strong> | Swamperella ar free<br />
thursday, august 2<br />
11:15 am Organ | Gould and Bach: The Art of Fugue kc $32<br />
Luc Beauséjour, Montreal<br />
12:30 pm Barge<strong>Music</strong> | Swamperella ar free<br />
4 pm Harry Somers Lecture | Glenn Gould: ch free<br />
The Last Romantic Video-Lecture by Eric Freisen<br />
Piano performance by Stephen Runge<br />
11:30 pm Cabaret 2 | Marvelous Party: cr ✽ $35<br />
A Noel Coward Soirée with Sean Arbuckle<br />
friday, august 3<br />
11:15 am Organ | Gould’s Ideal Performance kc $32<br />
with Maxine Thevenot, Albuquerque, New Mexico<br />
12:30 pm Barge<strong>Music</strong> | Swamperella ar free<br />
2 pm Young People’s Program | Babar the Elephant ch<br />
Luba Goy, narrator; Stephen Runge, pianist youth free<br />
✽✽$7 adult<br />
11:30 pm Cabaret 3 | Feel Alright! A Beatles Songbook cr ✽ $35<br />
saturday, august 4<br />
11:15 am Organ | Glenn Gould’s Youthful Performances kc $32<br />
Christopher Dawes, Toronto with<br />
Choristers of St. Michael’s Choir School<br />
12:30 pm Barge<strong>Music</strong> | Swamperella ar free<br />
11:30 pm Cabaret 1 | Manhattan After Dark cr ✽ $35<br />
with Bruce Dow<br />
sunday, august 5<br />
11:15 am Maureen Forrester Young Canadian Artists ch $27<br />
Min-Jeong Koh, violin & Bo-Yon Koh, piano<br />
12:30 pm Barge<strong>Music</strong> | Swamperella ar free<br />
2pm Grandfather Duke Ellington and Such Sweet ch free<br />
Thunder Guest Lecture by Mercedes Ellington<br />
✽ The Three-for ticket: $85. Save $20 when you buy any three<br />
different After-theatre Cabarets. All-Stars Cabarets not included.<br />
✽✽Tickets for sale at the door only.<br />
Ticket prices include handling charges and 6% GST.<br />
Programming subject to change without notice.<br />
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week three<br />
monday, august 6<br />
3pm The Duke Ellington Orchestra ft $54|$49<br />
Special Guest: Barbara Fulton<br />
wednesday, august 8<br />
11:15 am Maureen Forrester Young Canadian Artists ch $27<br />
Daniel Cabena, countertenor; Stephen Runge, piano<br />
12:30 pm Barge<strong>Music</strong> | The Trillium Brass Quintet ar free<br />
4pm Remembering Glenn in <strong>Stratford</strong> | Panel ch free<br />
thursday, august 9<br />
11:15 am David Jalbert, piano recital ch $32<br />
12:30 pm Barge<strong>Music</strong> | The Trillium Brass Quintet ar free<br />
11:30 pm Cabaret 3 | Feel Alright! A Beatles Songbook cr ✽ $35<br />
friday, august 10<br />
11:15 am Naida Cole, piano recital ch $32<br />
12:30 pm Barge<strong>Music</strong> | The Trillium Brass Quintet ar free<br />
2 pm Young People’s Program | ch<br />
Carnival of the Instruments youth free | ✽✽$7 adult<br />
4 pm Meet the Artists | Sky Orchestra ch free<br />
Luke Jerram & Dan Jones<br />
11:30 pm Cabaret 1 | Manhattan After Dark cr ✽ $35<br />
with Bruce Dow<br />
saturday, august 11<br />
7am Sky Orchestra balloon flotilla in the skies over <strong>Stratford</strong> free<br />
11:15 am David Jalbert, piano recital ch $32<br />
12:30 pm Barge<strong>Music</strong> | The Trillium Brass Quintet ar free<br />
11:30 pm Cabaret 2 | Marvelous Party: cr ✽ $35<br />
A Noel Coward Soirée with Sean Arbuckle<br />
sunday, august 12<br />
7am Sky Orchestra balloon flotilla in the skies over <strong>Stratford</strong> free<br />
(Rain Date)<br />
11:15 am Naida Cole, piano recital ch $32<br />
12:30 pm Barge<strong>Music</strong> | The Trillium Brass Quintet ar free<br />
2pm Glenn Gould in Re-Performance: Goldberg ch $27<br />
Variations (1955) Hosted by Shelagh Rogers, with<br />
Dr. John Q. Walker. Re-performed by Glenn Gould<br />
event venues<br />
af Avon Flats, below the Festival Theatre near the corner of<br />
Queen Street & Lakeside Drive<br />
ar Avon River, near the intersection of York Street & Lakeside Drive<br />
cc City Centre, downtown <strong>Stratford</strong>, behind City Hall<br />
ch City Hall, 1 Wellington Street (at Downie Street)<br />
see map for locations, page 38.<br />
week four<br />
wednesday, august 15<br />
11:15 am Maureen Forrester Young Canadian Artists ch $27<br />
Nadia Kyne, flute; Stephen Runge, piano<br />
12:30 pm Barge<strong>Music</strong> | The McDades ar free<br />
thursday, august 16<br />
11:15 am Glenn’s Pets (part 1) ch $32<br />
with Lally Cadeau and Kyle Blair<br />
12:30 pm Barge<strong>Music</strong> | The McDades ar free<br />
7pm The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Band cc free<br />
Marchpast & Beating the Retreat Ceremony<br />
friday, august 17<br />
tba Canada’s Six String Nation Guitar on display cc free<br />
11:15 am Glenn’s Pets (part 2) ch $32<br />
with Chick Reid and Tom McCamus<br />
12:30 pm Barge<strong>Music</strong> | The McDades ar free<br />
2 pm Young People’s Program | Canada’s Six String ch<br />
Nation Guitar | Story & <strong>Music</strong> youth free | ✽✽$7 adult<br />
11:30 pm Cabaret | All-Stars Finale cr $35<br />
saturday, august 18<br />
tba Canada’s Six String Nation Guitar on display cc free<br />
11:15 am Glenn’s Pets (part 1) ch $32<br />
with Lally Cadeau and Kyle Blair<br />
12:30 pm Barge<strong>Music</strong> | The McDades ar free<br />
11:30 pm Cabaret | All-Stars Finale cr $35<br />
sunday, august 19<br />
11:15 am Glenn’s Pets (part 2) ch $32<br />
with Chick Reid and Tom McCamus<br />
12:30 pm Barge<strong>Music</strong> | Fergus Pipe Band ar free<br />
7:30pm Sounds of Canada Chorale Finale kc<br />
Chor Leoni Men’s Choir, Vancouver $32 reserved<br />
Special Guests: The McDades or donation<br />
Hosted by Bill Richardson<br />
cr Church Restaurant, 70 Brunswick Street (at Waterloo Street)<br />
ft Festival Theatre, 55 Queen Street<br />
kc Knox Church, 142 Ontario Street (at Waterloo Street)<br />
ysk York Street Kitchen, 41 York Street<br />
tickets 519.273.1600 or 1.800.567.1600
the harry somers<br />
lecture music<br />
with<br />
thu. august 2 | 4 pm | city hall auditorium | free<br />
<strong>Summer</strong> <strong>Music</strong> honours the legacy of the distinguished Canadian composer<br />
Harry Somers with an annual lecture series on an aspect of arts and culture<br />
in the 21st century. This year, Eric Friesen, host of CBC Radio Two’s Studio<br />
Sparks, takes to the stage of the City Hall Auditorium. In his address, Glenn<br />
Gould: The Last Romantic, Mr. Friesen will present an overview of the life of<br />
Glenn Gould, illustrated by historic video footage, some of which is provided<br />
by the CBC television archives and is unavailable elsewhere.<br />
Eric Friesen, one of Canada’s most distinguished broadcasters, has worked<br />
for more than three decades in public radio, both for the CBC and American Public Radio<br />
in St. Paul, Minnesota. For seven years, he hosted In Performance, CBC’s Radio Two’s flagship<br />
evening concert program. Over the course of his career, Mr. Friesen worked with<br />
both Harry Somers and Glenn Gould. This, combined with his role as a<br />
senior observer on music in society, gives Mr. Friesen a unique position<br />
from which to share his personal and professional perspectives on two<br />
of Canada’s greatest musical figures.<br />
As a prelude to the lecture, pianist Stephen Runge will perform Dr.<br />
Somers’ Three Sonnets for Piano.<br />
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glenn gould:<br />
the last romantic<br />
harry somers c.c. (1925-<br />
1999), was born in Toronto and<br />
showed an interest in music<br />
only in his early teens. He<br />
engaged in intensive piano<br />
studies at The Royal Conservatory<br />
of <strong>Music</strong> before beginning<br />
studies in composition.<br />
Somers was known for his<br />
great versatility and tremendous<br />
productivity. His music includes works<br />
for orchestra, choir, voice, instrumental<br />
ensemble and piano, as well as for stage,<br />
film and television. His best-known work is<br />
the opera Louis Riel, commissioned by Floyd<br />
S. Chalmers C.C., for performance during<br />
Canada’s Centennial Year, 1967. In 1971,<br />
Somers, who had become one of Canada’s<br />
most internationally-known composers,<br />
was named a Companion of the Order of<br />
Canada. He received honorary doctorates<br />
from the University of Ottawa (1975), the<br />
University of Toronto (1976), and York<br />
University (1975).<br />
photo by andré leduc<br />
Life. Money. Balance both.
in tribute to glenn gould Although most people associate Glenn Gould with the piano, as a youth he also studied the<br />
organ at The Royal Conservatory and performed organ concerts in many Toronto churches.<br />
As an adult he often mused on what he would someday do with the King of Instruments, if<br />
organ<br />
the<br />
only he had time. In tribute to Mr. Gould, <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>Music</strong> presents three distinct concerts to<br />
reflect the organ repertoire he did perform, record and plan to play.<br />
For the first time, too, we present our Organ Programming with three<br />
different soloists, all of whom are distinguished Canadian organists<br />
with international reputations.<br />
all programs knox church | 11:15 am | $32<br />
week 2<br />
thu. august 2 luc beauséjour<br />
gould and bach: the art of fugue | works by j.s. bach<br />
In 1962 Glenn Gould recorded the first nine movements of The Art of Fugue on the<br />
organ; though he said he intended to finish the work, he never did. In<br />
this recital, Luc Beauséjour will play the same nine Contrapuncti which<br />
Gould recorded as well as Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV<br />
874 (Well-Tempered Clavier, Vol II).<br />
Master organist and harpsichordist Luc Beauséjour is known for the elegance,<br />
virtuosity and expressiveness of his playing. He is acclaimed for<br />
his twenty outstanding compact discs of specialized repertoire, for his<br />
performances at international and Canadian festivals and for his leadership<br />
of Clavecin en concert, a Montreal concert society whose mission is<br />
to promote harpsichord repertoire.<br />
“Luc Beauséjour plays with impeccable technique,<br />
tasteful embellishments, a wide range of emotion<br />
and a deep sensitivity.” bbc music <strong>magazine</strong>, uk<br />
sat. august 4 christopher dawes, organ, with choristers from st.<br />
michael’s choir school, toronto, stephen hegedus, conductor<br />
the teenage gould, with choristers | works by j.s. bach, dupuis, mozart, rowley<br />
On June 8, 1947, Glenn Gould was 14 years old and ready to perform an organ concert<br />
with choristers of Toronto’s Grace Church-on-the-Hill after the evening church service in<br />
Rosedale. We take great pride in recreating that complete program, complementing it<br />
with some additional repertoire which has long been associated<br />
with our guest choristers.<br />
Since 2001 Christopher Dawes has been the Director of the<br />
<strong>Stratford</strong> <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>Music</strong> Organ Academy and in 2003 he wrote<br />
and performed in the music drama, Glenn Gould Meets Bach,a<br />
highlight of <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>Music</strong>’s third season. One of Canada’s leading<br />
church musicians, concert organists and choral accompanists,<br />
Mr. Dawes is also an active freelance theatre musician,<br />
publisher, writer, broadcaster and consultant. He is the founder<br />
and publisher of Organ Alternatives, a production and communications<br />
company dedicated to the future of the organ as a performing instrument.<br />
St. Michael’s Choir School (Fr. John Mark Missio, Director) is a Catholic all-boys school<br />
founded in 1937 by Monsignor John E. Ronan. The School’s mandate is to provide superior<br />
academic education to its students while fostering<br />
an excellent musical environment to service the musical<br />
liturgical requirements of St. Michael’s Cathedral in<br />
Toronto. In 1955, the School was accorded an affiliation<br />
to the Pontifical Institute of Sacred <strong>Music</strong> in Rome, one<br />
of only seven choir schools in the world to have this<br />
distinction.<br />
photo by edward gajdel<br />
fri. august 3 maxine thévenot<br />
gould’s ideal performance<br />
works by byrd, sweelinck, mendelssohn,<br />
brahms, schönberg, hindemith, krenek<br />
From Gould’s own performances, correspondence<br />
and other writings, Maxine Thévenot<br />
has compiled an eclectic program of works<br />
which he thought he’d someday present as<br />
his ideal organ program.<br />
Maxine Thévenot, who was born in Zenon<br />
Park, Saskatchewan, has a distinguished<br />
international career performing throughout<br />
Europe, Great Britain<br />
and North America,<br />
with a wide-ranging<br />
repertoire that includes<br />
contemporary<br />
works written especially<br />
for her. She is<br />
an engaging performer<br />
with a flair<br />
for exciting programming.<br />
Currently she<br />
is Associate Organist and Choir Director at<br />
The Cathedral Church of St. John in<br />
Albuquerque and for the American Guild of<br />
Organists.<br />
photo by christopher floyd.<br />
“Maxine Thévenot displays<br />
exceptional technique and<br />
consummate musicianship.<br />
Her persuasive musicianship<br />
and clean technique<br />
are a perfect match for<br />
american<br />
organist<br />
this repertoire.” <strong>magazine</strong><br />
full repertoire available on our website<br />
Generously supported<br />
by the John McKellar<br />
Charitable Foundation<br />
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skyORCHESTRA week 3<br />
“Is it a bard? Is it a plane? No, it’s Shakespeare’s flying Symphony!”<br />
sat. august 11 | 7 am | above our<br />
city as morning dawns | free<br />
(rain date sun. august 12)<br />
photo by danielle smith, 2007 sydney festival.<br />
To experience music one generally goes<br />
to a concert site, but not always. This<br />
time, there’s absolutely no need to travel.<br />
This performance comes to you!<br />
<strong>Summer</strong> <strong>Music</strong> looks skyward to welcome<br />
Britain’s Sky Orchestra in its North<br />
American premiere performance. Only in<br />
<strong>Stratford</strong> as the sun rises will one walk<br />
into the garden or onto the balcony in<br />
pyjamas and dressing gowns, with coffee<br />
in hand, to experience a great floating<br />
soundscape.<br />
Sky Orchestra is a flotilla of hot air balloons<br />
drifting overhead at dawn to<br />
serenade sleepers, joggers and morning<br />
sightseers alike with ambient sounddream<br />
music and readings from A Midsummer<br />
Night’s Dream by actors Patrick<br />
Stewart and Janet Suzman to underscore<br />
the music’s dreamlike qualities.<br />
How did this all begin? In 2002, while in<br />
Douz, a Tunisian town on the edge of the<br />
Sahara Desert, the project’s creator, Luke<br />
Jerram, heard an imam calling the faithful<br />
to prayer in the middle of the night<br />
from the tower of a minaret. One chant<br />
followed another, creating a layering of<br />
sound that drifted on the early morning air.<br />
Jerram says he was on the edge of sleep<br />
but he knew he had to recreate this<br />
unique atmosphere with music that<br />
would affect dreams and the subconscious.<br />
The results of his collaboration with composer Dan Jones, who wrote 14 separate tracks of music for a<br />
corps of fine British musicians to record, have captured the world’s imagination.<br />
The pilots of the balloons have alerted <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>Music</strong> that it will be the winds and air temperatures on flightday<br />
that will determine just which direction their flotilla will take to drift over the city. Even its starting point<br />
won’t be determined until earlier that morning after forecasters have predicted the day’s temperament.<br />
It’s suggested that <strong>Stratford</strong> tunes its radios to 107.7 mix fm for up-to-the-minute details about just where the<br />
Sky Orchestra is heading on its extraordinary dawn voyage.<br />
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be part of the sky<br />
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A limited number of places are being offered by <strong>Stratford</strong><br />
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young honouring maureen forrester<br />
week 2 to week 4<br />
canadian artists<br />
in recital<br />
all programs 11:15 am | city hall auditorium | $27<br />
For seven straight years <strong>Stratford</strong> <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>Music</strong> has been presenting<br />
an annual series named to honour Canada’s great mezzo-soprano,<br />
Maureen Forrester. Many of the promising young musicians whom we have invited to perform are now celebrated around the world.<br />
min-jeong koh<br />
sun. august 5<br />
min-jeong koh, violin<br />
bo yon koh, piano<br />
works by tartini, prokofiev, schulz-evler<br />
While a student at The Glenn Gould School,<br />
violinist Min-Jeong Koh originally came to<br />
<strong>Stratford</strong> for an exciting <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>Music</strong><br />
Spring Soirée performance with her sister,<br />
Bo Yon Koh. Currently a graduate student at<br />
the New England Conservatory of <strong>Music</strong> in<br />
Boston, Min-Jeong won the prize for Best<br />
Performance of the commissioned work at<br />
the 2006 Eckhardt-Gramatté National<br />
<strong>Music</strong> Competition in Brandon, Manitoba.<br />
wed. august 8<br />
daniel cabena, countertenor<br />
stephen runge, piano<br />
works by dowland, quilter, finzi,<br />
vaughan williams and york bowen<br />
Originally from Elora, Ontario, and a music<br />
graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University,<br />
bo yon koh<br />
daniel cabena<br />
Daniel Cabena was the 2002 lau-reate of<br />
the Guelph Spring Festival Vocal<br />
Competition. He has already sung at scores<br />
of Ontario and Quebec summer festivals<br />
and in the regular seasons of organizations<br />
such as The Toronto Consort, La Nef, Studio<br />
de Musique Ancienne, Viva Voce and La<br />
Chapelle de Québec.<br />
Pianist Stephen Runge has been heard<br />
across North America in solo recitals, as<br />
chamber musician, and as soloist with<br />
orchestra. Stephen came to national attention<br />
in 1999 when he was awarded first<br />
prize in the piano category of the National<br />
<strong>Music</strong> Festival. Born and raised in Regina,<br />
Sask., Stephen recently completed his<br />
Doctorate of <strong>Music</strong> at l’Université de<br />
Montréal. This fall, Dr. Runge will join the<br />
faculty of Mount Allison University in<br />
Sackville, New Brunswick.<br />
wed. august 15<br />
nadia kyne, flute<br />
stephen runge, piano<br />
works by gluck, taffanel, prokofiev,<br />
desmarais<br />
A graduate of the Curtis Institute of <strong>Music</strong>,<br />
21-year old flutist Nadia Kyne has performed<br />
across North America as a soloist,<br />
chamber musician and orchestral player. As<br />
well as recent appearances with the<br />
Vancouver Recital Society’s <strong>Summer</strong><br />
Combustion Chamber <strong>Music</strong> Festival,<br />
Colorado College <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>Music</strong> Festival,<br />
and Tanglewood <strong>Music</strong> Festival, Nadia has<br />
performed as soloist with the Vancouver<br />
and Edmonton Symphonies. A native of<br />
South Surrey, BC, Nadia has received numerous<br />
awards, including the 2006 Galaxie/<br />
CBC Rising Stars Award and the Grand<br />
Award at the 2001 National <strong>Music</strong> Festival.<br />
Nadia will be beginning a Master’s degree<br />
at the Juilliard School this fall.<br />
some previous performers from this series: where are they now?<br />
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (2001) who opened our first festival with this his own in Vancouver for the introduction of young artists.<br />
very series in Ms. Forrester’s presence, recently won the Georg Solti<br />
Prize from L’Académie du disque lyrique (France) and sang as a featured<br />
soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.<br />
Bass Robert Gleadow (2003) sings on the stages of the Royal Opera<br />
House, London as a member of its Jette Parker Young Artists<br />
Programme.<br />
This summer, pianist Ian Parker (2002) will be a featured performer<br />
at another summer music festival in Hamburg, Germany; along<br />
with his other international engagements, Ian<br />
currently hosts a new recital series of<br />
Since his <strong>Stratford</strong> concert, violinist James Ehnes (2004) has<br />
appeared in both solo recitals and as orchestral soloist in Bermuda,<br />
the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hong Kong,<br />
Japan, Malaysia, the US plus, of course, in Canada from coast to coast.<br />
This series generously<br />
supported by<br />
full repertoire available on our website<br />
the sun life financial guide to stratford summer music | 27<br />
stephen runge<br />
nadia kyne
a 50th anniversary tribute to<br />
week 3<br />
DUKE ELLINGTON<br />
mon. august 6 | festival theatre<br />
3 pm | $54, $49<br />
and his ORCHESTRA<br />
The Duke Ellington Orchestra celebrates the<br />
50th anniversary of its 1957 performance<br />
in <strong>Stratford</strong>. The program will present<br />
excerpts from Such Sweet Thunder, a multimovement<br />
jazz work by the Duke and his<br />
writing colleague, Billy Strayhorn, as well as<br />
many of the greatest jazz and popular standards<br />
for which this Orchestra is famous.<br />
Special guest chanteuse,<br />
Barbara Fulton.<br />
In New York on May 15, 1957, Duke<br />
Ellington recorded an interview for the<br />
CBC Radio program, Assignment. Here is<br />
part of what he said in his chat with the<br />
interviewer, Harry Rasky. Thanks to CBC<br />
Digital Archives from which these excerpts<br />
are taken. For the full interview go to<br />
www.cbc.ca/archives/duke .<br />
cbc There’s nothing Elizabethan about<br />
the sound of your music. Did you choose<br />
to leave out entirely any suggestion of<br />
anything Elizabethan?<br />
duke We think that Shakespeare is a little<br />
beyond chronology. We feel Shakespeare<br />
was not only sage and that he has a<br />
tremendous appeal right now to the intellectual<br />
but as we jive boys say,<br />
“Shakespeare was down!”, which means<br />
that he is dug by the craziest of cats.<br />
barbara fulton<br />
“Shakespeare is dug by the<br />
edward kennedy “duke” ellington<br />
( 1899-1974)<br />
cbc How do you think Shakespeare<br />
purists or even jazz purists will take to this<br />
curious mixture of the Bard and jazz?<br />
duke We sometimes lean a little bit<br />
towards caricature. Other people have actually<br />
changed Shakespeare, which I think is a<br />
much more hazardous thing than what<br />
we’ve done. All we did is little thumbnail<br />
sketches of very short periods, never at any<br />
time trying to parallel an entire play or an<br />
entire act or an entire character throughout.<br />
Just some short space of time during<br />
the character’s performance.<br />
cbc For instance, you have the sonnet<br />
entitled Lady Mac. If people didn’t hear<br />
the title, would they conjure up visions of<br />
her walking with the candle?<br />
duke I think so. We portrayed some of her<br />
by using a jazz type waltz and in so doing<br />
we say that she was a lady of noble birth<br />
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craziest of cats.”<br />
but we suspect she had a little ragtime in<br />
her soul.<br />
cbc Will you play these at <strong>Stratford</strong> in<br />
Canada?<br />
duke If they’ll have us, we’ll be real happy<br />
to come. I’ve already informed Mr. Patterson<br />
that there’s one hazard in allowing us to do<br />
the Shakespearean suite, which is called<br />
Such Sweet Thunder, and that is that we’re<br />
liable to get publicity on it which will throw<br />
them in the position of having to be more<br />
or less graceful in inviting us back this year.<br />
~<br />
Duke Ellington and his Orchestra originally<br />
performed Such Sweet Thunder in<br />
<strong>Stratford</strong> on September 5, 1957.<br />
Generously supported by Celebrate<br />
Ontario, a program of the Ontario<br />
Ministry of Tourism.<br />
Accommodations generously supplied<br />
by the Arden Park Hotel.<br />
t h e e l e g a n t
grandfather duke ellington and Such Sweet Thunder<br />
MERCEDES ELLINGTON<br />
photo by sean kahlil.<br />
e l l i n g t o n w e e k e n d<br />
“I never heard so<br />
musical a discord,<br />
such sweet thunder.”<br />
puck in a midsummer night’s dream<br />
sun. august 5 | city hall auditorium | 2 pm | free lecture<br />
Mercedes Ellington can’t wait to visit<br />
because it was in <strong>Stratford</strong> where her<br />
grandfather, the late Duke Ellington, performed<br />
several times. And she’s looking forward<br />
to being here.<br />
“He never forgot the graciousness of the<br />
Canadian audiences and really appreciated<br />
it,” Mercedes Ellington says. “He realized<br />
that there was an audience up there for his<br />
type of music. He made a lot of personal<br />
friends up there, he certainly made a lot of<br />
musical friends up there, and he liked it<br />
enough to continue to return.”<br />
Her visit is part of <strong>Stratford</strong> <strong>Summer</strong><br />
<strong>Music</strong>’s Elegant Ellington Weekend, commemorating<br />
the 50th anniversary of Duke<br />
Ellington’s performance of Such Sweet<br />
Thunder, a suite commissioned by the<br />
<strong>Stratford</strong> Festival following a performance<br />
there in July, 1956 by Ellington and his<br />
orchestra.<br />
Although its official premiere took place in<br />
New York the following April, Such Sweet<br />
Thunder was performed in <strong>Stratford</strong> during<br />
the summer of 1957.<br />
The Duke’s musical interpretation of<br />
Shakespeare’s words remains close to<br />
Mercedes Ellington’s heart. On May 20 this<br />
year, she choreographed a tribute performance<br />
with the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks<br />
Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in<br />
Washington and hopes to turn the suite<br />
into a Broadway musical. <strong>Stratford</strong>, she says,<br />
is the ideal place to develop the project.<br />
“I feel that we should go home again,” she<br />
says. “We should go back to where it all<br />
started and sit there for a while and develop<br />
it. It had its beginnings, it origins, at<br />
<strong>Stratford</strong> and I think we’d feel right at home<br />
by going and developing it for the stage.”<br />
To her, Duke Ellington was Uncle Edward.<br />
“He didn’t want to appear older, especially<br />
to the ladies, so to have someone come up<br />
and call him Grandpa was totally out of the<br />
week 2<br />
question,” she recalls. “I knew he wasn’t<br />
really the grandfatherly type.”<br />
Ellington says she remains inspired by her<br />
grandfather’s work ethic. “Wherever he<br />
went, he constantly worked,” she remembers.<br />
So slowing down is not an option.<br />
From a very early age, Ellington aspired to<br />
be a ballerina. She was enrolled in a weekly<br />
ballet class at Our Lady of Lourdes school in<br />
Harlem, which led to further training at<br />
Saint Walburga’s Academy, where she won<br />
a scholarship to the now-defunct Metropolitan<br />
Opera School of Ballet. In 1963,<br />
Ellington became the first black member of<br />
the June Taylor Dancers, a precision dance<br />
group featured on the Jackie Gleason Show.<br />
As a dancer and choreographer, Ellington<br />
appeared in Broadway productions of No,<br />
No Nanette, Hellzapoppin’, Oh, Kay!, Happy<br />
New Year, The Grand Tour, and The Night<br />
That Made America Famous. In 1981, she<br />
was a featured dancer in Sophisticated<br />
Ladies, a production based on the music of<br />
her famous grandfather. Ellington then<br />
focused on directing and choreographing a<br />
string of productions and TV specials.<br />
Ellington says she was surprised to learn<br />
just how much time her grandfather spent<br />
in Canada. Many years ago, while attending<br />
a dance festival in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan,<br />
she was approached by someone<br />
with a photo of a local jazz club where Duke<br />
had played.<br />
She recalls that her grandfather never<br />
turned down an opportunity to perform.<br />
“He said if anybody is gracious enough to<br />
ask the band to play he felt a responsibility<br />
to his audience to go play.”<br />
Excerpts from articles by John Kennedy, May 31, 2007.<br />
Reprinted with permission from CanWest News Service.<br />
~<br />
Presented through the generosity of<br />
Jo and Jules Harris.<br />
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David Jalbert c a m e t o <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>Music</strong>’s attention when, in 2001, he<br />
played in a local residence during the festival’s first round of spring fund-raising<br />
soirées; since that stunning student performance he has launched into a<br />
successful professional career with the same gusto he applies to the keyboard.<br />
Now, as a graduate of the Juilliard School in New York and The Glenn Gould<br />
School in Toronto, he performs in Canada, the USA, Mexico and Europe with a<br />
vast repertoire stretching from Bach to Ligeti in solo as well as chamber music<br />
and orchestral appearances. His personal interests in literature, cinema, rock-<br />
’n’roll and blues shine through his eclectic musical selections, many of which<br />
can regularly be heard on CBC Radio and Radio-Canada broadcasts.<br />
“The piano seems to be an extension of his<br />
body. Jalbert is certainly an artist to watch.”<br />
&<br />
“Pianist Naida Cole stole the show…<br />
david jalbert<br />
naida<br />
focus on piano: solos<br />
cole<br />
and duets<br />
In her first local appearance, the<br />
Toronto native displayed a key-<br />
board touch of remarkable delicacy<br />
and resilience, as well as an exten-<br />
sive range of dynamics and tonal<br />
color. Add to that a subtly insin-<br />
uating gift for phrasing, and<br />
the result was magical.”<br />
all programs 11:15 am | city hall auditorium | $32<br />
thu. august 9 David Jalbert in solo recital<br />
works by shostakovich<br />
fri. august 10 Naida Cole in solo recital<br />
works by liszt, ravel<br />
san francisco chronicle<br />
winnipeg free press<br />
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Critics use superlatives like “a dazzling star”,<br />
“a stunning recording debut” and “exceptionally<br />
accomplished” to describe Naida<br />
Cole. At The Royal Conservatory in Toronto<br />
she graduated with an ARCT at age 13, second<br />
youngest after Glenn Gould in the<br />
entire history of that institution. An exclusive<br />
Decca recording artist and an honoured<br />
Yamaha Piano Artist, Ms. Cole has performed<br />
frequently in solo recitals, with symphony<br />
orchestras and in chamber music<br />
worldwide: Austria, Canada, Denmark,<br />
Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan and USA.<br />
sat. august 11 David Jalbert with Naida Cole<br />
works by schubert<br />
sun. august 12 Naida Cole with David Jalbert<br />
works by mussorgsky, ravel<br />
full repertoire available on our website<br />
This series generously<br />
supported by<br />
week 3
ill richardson<br />
glenn with his dog, sir nicholas, at home, southwood drive, toronto, 1943.<br />
The witty writing of Bill Richardson<br />
will again be featured at <strong>Stratford</strong><br />
<strong>Summer</strong> <strong>Music</strong> this year.<br />
Following 2005’s high-spirited<br />
journey On the Orient Express<br />
with Quartetto Gelato, and last<br />
season’s poignant Translation of<br />
Emily featuring the Vancouver<br />
Chamber Choir and actress Lally<br />
Cadeau as the dying Irish spinster who translated Mozart’s<br />
letters into English, Mr. Richardson’s latest collaboration of<br />
words and music is in keeping with this season’s focus on<br />
Glenn Gould.<br />
Bill Richardson is one of Canada’s most beloved broadcasters,<br />
familiar to CBC listeners on both Radio One and Two.<br />
For the last five years, Bill has hosted CBC’s lively literary<br />
debate, Canada Reads. Previously, he was Vicki Gabereau’s<br />
on-air sidekick, after which he hosted the classical music<br />
request show As You Like It and later, the unique afternoon<br />
radio romp known as Richardson’s Roundup.<br />
Richardson is also a columnist, writer and humourist. With<br />
more than a dozen books to his name for both adults and<br />
children, he was awarded the 1994 Stephen Leacock Medal<br />
for Humour for his novel, The Bachelor Brothers’ Bed and<br />
Breakfast, which is now a genuine Canadian classic.<br />
This season, <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>Music</strong> audiences will enjoy another<br />
new work which draws on Bill’s great interest in the personality<br />
and art of Glenn Gould. On August 16 and 17 (and<br />
repeated on August 18 and 19), Glenn’s Pets will receive its<br />
world premiere performances as old-fashioned radio<br />
scripts read by the actors before a “live” audience with<br />
appropriate musical selections to illustrate the story lines.<br />
This two-part radio-performance explores two aspects of<br />
the Glenn Gould legend: his fans and his childhood.<br />
world premiere performances<br />
music dramas about glenn gould<br />
week 4<br />
glenn’s<br />
pets<br />
part one<br />
thu. august 16 | sat. august 18 | 11:15 am<br />
city hall auditorium | $32<br />
In Part One, actor Lally Cadeau plays a fervent<br />
Gould fan who visits her idol’s gravesite in<br />
Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto. Settling<br />
herself for a peaceful picnic in communion with<br />
the great pianist, she is interrupted by a fan of<br />
an entirely different sort. Kyle Blair plays a boom<br />
box-carrying Petula Clark fanatic, who knows<br />
nothing about Gould save the fact that he once<br />
wrote an appreciative essay about the famous<br />
singer. Worlds collide as the two fans exchange<br />
stories, trivia, and, of course, music which is provided<br />
by pianist Stephen Runge.<br />
part two chick<br />
fri. august 17 | sun. august 19 | 11:15 am<br />
city hall auditorium | $32<br />
Part Two brings together the husband-and-wife<br />
team of actors Tom McCamus and Chick Reid. Set<br />
in the Gould Family living room, they portray<br />
young Glenn’s favourite childhood pets: Mozart<br />
the budgie and Sir Nicholas the dog. During the<br />
course of this clever verse play, the two pets discuss<br />
the trials and tribulations of living with a<br />
genuine child genius.<br />
Whether one enjoys these musical stories singly<br />
or together as a pair over two days, the plays are<br />
bound to provide clever and amusing insights<br />
into the life and times of Mr. Gould. A unique<br />
tribute, one might say, which only a wit like Mr.<br />
Richardson would dare to devise!<br />
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stephen runge tom mccamus<br />
kyle blair<br />
lally cadeau<br />
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special edition poster<br />
A limited number of<br />
Scott McKowen’s Gould<br />
in <strong>Stratford</strong> have been<br />
printed with framing<br />
borders and on quality<br />
paper. Each of the 75<br />
copies, signed by the<br />
artist and individually<br />
numbered to mark the<br />
75th anniversary year<br />
of Gould’s birth, is available<br />
for $50 plus tax<br />
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On the Occasion of the Unveiling of<br />
a Civic Star Honouring Glenn Gould<br />
Annually, on Canada Day, the City of <strong>Stratford</strong>, in association with the<br />
<strong>Stratford</strong> Festival, salutes prominent individuals who, at some point in<br />
their careers, have added greatly to the city’s cultural milieu. This year,<br />
in addition to creating stars for three other 2007 laureates – the late<br />
actress Kate Reid, Festival Artistic Director Richard Monette and hockey<br />
player Tim Taylor, <strong>Stratford</strong> similarly honoured Glenn Gould. Here is the<br />
official civic citation from the Gould presentation. A bronze star for Mr.<br />
Gould will be embedded in the pavement of a downtown street.<br />
city of stratford’s citation<br />
In 1953, when the <strong>Stratford</strong> Festival was beginning to set its roots<br />
in theatre renown, the 20-year old Glenn Gould was similarly<br />
about to burst upon the world’s music scene.<br />
Louis Applebaum, the Festival’s first Director of <strong>Music</strong>, saw this<br />
young man’s distinct potential and invited Gould to perform<br />
under the tent on July 31 in the very first season of the fledgling<br />
enterprise. The rest of their stories – for both Mr. Gould and the<br />
<strong>Stratford</strong> Festival – have become Canadian and international legends.<br />
Glenn Gould loved being in <strong>Stratford</strong>, even to the point where it<br />
seems there is no place in the world where he performed so<br />
many times in public, where he delighted in personally organizing<br />
and presenting concerts, and where he welcomed his famous<br />
international musical colleagues to join him in concerts which,<br />
today, are legendary.<br />
With all his individual characteristics in full bloom, Gould did<br />
indeed walk the shores of the Avon River, just as Scott McKowen<br />
depicts him in this season’s <strong>Stratford</strong> <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>Music</strong> poster.<br />
On July 29, 1955, in <strong>Stratford</strong> Mr. Gould played the very work<br />
which would become synonymous with his career; just months<br />
later, his recording of those Goldberg Variations rocketed him to<br />
the world’s attention, to a prominence which enfolds him to this<br />
very day.<br />
Such is the uniqueness of this musician that in 1977 his music<br />
was sent by NASA as part of its sounds-of-earth recording, placed<br />
on twin Voyager spacecraft destined to last for a billion years<br />
and, perhaps someday as a goodwill mission, to tell other species<br />
in the universe just what life was like on the planet Earth.<br />
<strong>Stratford</strong> honours Glenn Gould: the visionary Canadian musician<br />
to the world who wrote about the “miracles” of performance<br />
possibilities here and who once said that our Festival stage was<br />
“…the most exciting place I’ve ever played!”<br />
Mayor Dan Mathieson July 1, 2007
sounds of canada finale<br />
week 4<br />
chor leoni men’s choir<br />
special guests: the mcdades | hosted by bill richardson<br />
sun. august 19 | knox church | 7:30pm | $32 reserved seating balcony, front main floor | general seating by donation at door<br />
chor leoni men’s choir<br />
Like the choir of lions that they are,<br />
Vancouver’s Chor Leoni claims pride of<br />
place among all Canadian male voice<br />
choirs. They present their exuberant Sounds<br />
of Canada show and welcome Alberta’s<br />
Juno award-winning musical family, The<br />
McDades, as their special musical guests.<br />
Generously<br />
supported by<br />
repertoire includes:<br />
Tom Connors The Hockey Song<br />
Leon Dubinsky Rise Again<br />
Gordon Lightfoot In the Early<br />
Mornin’ Rain<br />
James Gordon Frobisher Bay<br />
Allister MacGillivray Away from the<br />
Roll of the Sea<br />
Stan Rogers Barrett’s Privateers<br />
Ian Tyson Springtime in<br />
Alberta<br />
< The McDades, who hail from Edmonton, seem always to be<br />
collecting accolades and awards for their innovative world<br />
and celtic-rooted sounds. Junos, Canadian Folk <strong>Music</strong> and<br />
Independent <strong>Music</strong> Awards – all these attest to vocal harmonies<br />
that can only come from a family ensemble which<br />
continues to stretch the boundaries of modern traditions.<br />
Hosted by one of CBC Radio’s favourite personalities, Bill<br />
Richardson (Canada Reads), Sounds of Canada brings<br />
<strong>Stratford</strong> <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>Music</strong>’s 2007 season to a rousing finale.<br />
“Chor Leoni has a polish, a<br />
sound, a spontaneity and<br />
a style unequalled by any<br />
male choir I have ever<br />
heard – and that includes<br />
the best in Wales.”<br />
maestro bramwell tovey<br />
music director, vancouver symphony orchestra<br />
Diane Loomer C.M., the choir’s founder and<br />
conductor, is one of Canada’s foremost<br />
choral conductors, composers, clinicians<br />
and music publishers. Her choirs, including<br />
the Elektra Women’s Choir which she also<br />
co-founded, have consistently won national<br />
and international honours. In 1999, in<br />
recognition of her accomplishments at<br />
home and abroad, Ms. Loomer was named a<br />
Member of the Order of Canada.<br />
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diane loomer<br />
bill richardson
2007 event & performance locations<br />
Introducing Jazz over<br />
Dinner and Drinks in<br />
next year’s programming!<br />
mark these dates in<br />
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a summer music<br />
Christmas Special<br />
fri. december 7, 2007 | knox church | 7:30pm<br />
photo by edward gajdel<br />
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