Volume 23 Issue 3 - November 2017
In this issue: conversations (of one kind or another) galore! Daniela Nardi on taking the reins at "best-kept secret" venue, 918 Bathurst; composer Jeff Ryan on his "Afghanistan" Requiem for a Generation" partnership with war poet, Susan Steele; lutenist Ben Stein on seventeenth century jazz; collaborative pianist Philip Chiu on going solo; Barbara Hannigan on her upcoming Viennese "Second School" recital at Koerner; Tina Pearson on Pauline Oliveros; and as always a whole lot more!
In this issue: conversations (of one kind or another) galore! Daniela Nardi on taking the reins at "best-kept secret" venue, 918 Bathurst; composer Jeff Ryan on his "Afghanistan" Requiem for a Generation" partnership with war poet, Susan Steele; lutenist Ben Stein on seventeenth century jazz; collaborative pianist Philip Chiu on going solo; Barbara Hannigan on her upcoming Viennese "Second School" recital at Koerner; Tina Pearson on Pauline Oliveros; and as always a whole lot more!
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A. Concerts in the GTA<br />
B. Concerts Beyond the GTA<br />
String: A Christmas Caravan. 22 Church St.,<br />
Aurora. 905-713-1818. $35/$30(adv).<br />
●●8:00: Burlington Performing Arts Centre.<br />
Canadian Brass: Christmas Concert. Burlington<br />
Performing Arts Centre, Main Theatre,<br />
440 Locust St., Burlington. 905-681-6000.<br />
$69.50. Series discount available.<br />
●●8:00: Music Gallery. Emergents I: Sounds<br />
of Silence Initiative. Four contemporary song<br />
cycles. 918 Bathurst Centre, 918 Bathurst St.<br />
416-961-9594. $12; $8(members).<br />
●●8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.<br />
Best of Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky: Romeo<br />
and Juliet Fantasy-Overture; Variations on a<br />
Rococo Theme Op.33 (original version), Symphony<br />
No.5 in e Op.64. Joseph Johnson, cello;<br />
Keri-Lynn Wilson, conductor. Roy Thomson<br />
Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-593-1285. $34.75-<br />
$148. Also Dec 5, 6.<br />
●●8:00: Music Toronto. Gryphon Trio.<br />
Haydn: Piano Trio in E-flat HobXV:29; Marjan<br />
Mozetich: Scales of Joy and Sorrow; Brahms:<br />
Piano Quartet in A Op.26 (with a player to be<br />
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IN THIS ISSUE: Ancaster, Barrie, Belleville, Cambridge,<br />
Campbellford, Cobourg, Dundas, Guelph, Hamilton, Kincardine,<br />
Kingston, Kitchener, London, Midland, Niagara Falls, Norwood,<br />
Orangeville, Peterborough, Port Hope, St. Catharines,<br />
St. Jacob's, Stratford, Wasaga Beach, Waterloo, Windsor.<br />
Wednesday <strong>November</strong> 1<br />
●●12:00 noon: Midday Music with Shigeru.<br />
Cheryl Graham, Piano. Hymns from the<br />
Heart. Hi-Way Pentecostal Church, 50 Anne<br />
St. N., Barrie. 705-726-1181. $5; free(st).<br />
●●12:15: St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church<br />
(Kitchener). Wednesday Noon-Hour Concerts.<br />
Jason White, piano; members of the<br />
Uptown School of Music. 54 Queen St. N.,<br />
Kitchener. Free. 11:30am: Optional low-cost<br />
lunch available in the foyer.<br />
●●12:30: University of Waterloo Department<br />
of Music. Noon Hour Concerts: Bach<br />
Suites and Chimera. Bach: Cello Suite No.2<br />
in d BWV1008; Suite No.4 in E-flat BWV1010;<br />
Ken Ueno: Chimera. Elinor Frey, cello. Great<br />
Hall, Conrad Grebel University College,<br />
140 Westmount Rd. N., Waterloo. 519-885-<br />
8220 x24226. Free.<br />
Thursday <strong>November</strong> 2<br />
●●12:00 noon: University of Guelph College<br />
of Arts. Thursday at Noon: Elinor Frey,<br />
Cello. Bach: Cello Suite No.2 in d BWV1008;<br />
Cello Suite No.4 in E-flat BWV1010; and other<br />
works. Goldschmidt Room, 107 MacKinnon<br />
Bldg., 50 Stone Rd. E., Guelph. 519-824-4120<br />
x52991. Free.<br />
●●7:30: Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing<br />
Arts. Lemon Bucket Orkestra.<br />
390 King St. W., Kingston. 613-533-2424. $39;<br />
$16(st).<br />
●●8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music<br />
Society. HMM Trio. Brahms: Trio No.1 in B<br />
Op.8; Shostakovich: Trio No. 2 Op.67; Haydn:<br />
Trio No.1 HobXV:37. Heidi Wall, piano; Marcus<br />
Scholtes, violin; Miriam Kroeker-Stewart,<br />
cello. KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young St. W.,<br />
Waterloo. 519-886-1673. $30; $20(st).<br />
Friday <strong>November</strong> 3<br />
●●8:00: Jeffery Concerts. Program 2:<br />
Ensemble Caprice. Works by Bach, Vivaldi,<br />
Purcell and others. Wolf Performance Hall,<br />
251 Dundas St., London. 519-672-8800. $40.<br />
●●Nov 03 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.<br />
Glorious Brahms. Schubert: Song of<br />
the Spirits over the Water; Pärt: Cantus in<br />
Memory of Benjamin Britten; Brahms: Alto<br />
Rhapsody for alto, male chorus and orchestra;<br />
Symphony No.2 in D. Krisztina Szabó, alto;<br />
Estonian National Male Choir; Andrei Feher,<br />
conductor. Centre in the Square, 101 Queen<br />
St. N., Kitchener. 519-745-4711 or 1-888-745-<br />
4717. $19-$82. Also Nov 4.<br />
Saturday <strong>November</strong> 4<br />
●●7:30: Chorus Niagara. Last Light Above The<br />
World: A War Litany (premiere). Bevan. Hailey<br />
Gillis and Colin Palangio, narrators. FirstOntario<br />
Performing Arts Centre, 250 St. Paul St.,<br />
St. Catharines. 1-855-515-0722 or 905-688-<br />
0722. $43; $41(sr); $28(under 30); $18(st);<br />
$15(child); $5(eyeGo).<br />
●●7:30: Festival of Arabic Music and Arts. In<br />
Concert. Golan; Hubert Dupont, leader. Lester<br />
B. Pearson Theatre, 150 Central Park Dr.,<br />
Brampton. 905-874-2800. From $31.<br />
●●7:30: Guelph Chamber Choir. Celebration<br />
150. Five choirs perform individually and<br />
together as a massed choir. Gordon: new<br />
works; other works (classical, folk, spirituals,<br />
hymns, oratorio). Guelph Chamber Choir;<br />
Gerald Neufeld, conductor, Alison MacNeill,<br />
piano; Guests: James Gordon, singer-songwriter;<br />
Guelph Community Singers; Guelph<br />
Youth Singers; Rainbow Chorus of Waterloo/Wellington;<br />
University of Guelph Symphonic<br />
Choir. River Run Centre, 35 Woolwich<br />
St., Guelph. 519-763-3000. $20; $15(group of<br />
4 or more); $10(30 and under); $5(under 15/<br />
eyeGO). 6:30pm: Pre-concert Podium Talk<br />
with Dr. Gil Stelter, including images of Guelph<br />
in 1867 through slides, history and stories.<br />
●●7:30: Kincardine Summer Music Festival.<br />
Beethoven with Marc. Marc Pierre Toth,<br />
piano. Kincardine United Church, 72 Princes<br />
St., Kincardine. 519-396-9716 or 1-866-453-<br />
9716. $25.<br />
●●7:30: Niagara Symphony Orchestra. Wish<br />
List. Vivaldi: The Four Seasons; Beethoven:<br />
Symphony No.7. Aisslinn Nosky, conductor<br />
and violin. FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre,<br />
250 St. Paul St., St. Catharines. 905-688-<br />
0722 or 1-855-515-0722. $67; $62(sr); $32(30<br />
and under); $12(st/arts/child); $5(eyeGO).<br />
Also Nov 5(2:30pm).<br />
●●7:30: Peterborough Symphony Orchestra.<br />
Step Into the Light. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto;<br />
Schumann: Symphony No.4. Jonathan<br />
Crow, violin. Showplace Performance Centre,<br />
290 George St. N., Peterborough. 705-742-<br />
7469. $20-$48.50; $10(st). 6:40pm: Pre-concert<br />
chat.<br />
●●8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.<br />
Glorious Brahms. Schubert: Song of the Spirits<br />
over the Water; Pärt: Cantus in Memory of<br />
Benjamin Britten; Brahms: Alto Rhapsody for<br />
alto, male chorus and orchestra; Symphony<br />
No.2 in D. Krisztina Szabó, alto; Estonian<br />
National Male Choir; Andrei Feher, conductor.<br />
Centre in the Square, 101 Queen St. N., Kitchener.<br />
519-745-4711 or 1-888-745-4717. $19-<br />
$82. Also Nov 3.<br />
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