Volume 23 Issue 9 - June / July / August 2018
PLANTING NOT PAVING! In this JUNE / JULY /AUGUST combined issue: Farewell interviews with TSO's Peter Oundjian and Stratford Summer Music's John Miller, along with "going places" chats with Luminato's Josephine Ridge, TD Jazz's Josh Grossman and Charm of Finches' Terry Lim. ) Plus a summer's worth of fruitful festival inquiry, in the city and on the road, in a feast of stories and our annual GREEN PAGES summer Directory.
PLANTING NOT PAVING! In this JUNE / JULY /AUGUST combined issue: Farewell interviews with TSO's Peter Oundjian and Stratford Summer Music's John Miller, along with "going places" chats with Luminato's Josephine Ridge, TD Jazz's Josh Grossman and Charm of Finches' Terry Lim. ) Plus a summer's worth of fruitful festival inquiry, in the city and on the road, in a feast of stories and our annual GREEN PAGES summer Directory.
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Angela Hewitt<br />
KEITH SAUNDERS<br />
<strong>August</strong><br />
Stratford Summer Music: Although <strong>August</strong> marks the beginning of<br />
the end of summer (and back-to-school ads appear earlier and earlier<br />
each year), the music continues – notably in the Stratford Summer<br />
Music series. Angela Hewitt returns to Stratford on <strong>August</strong> 11 and 12<br />
to present Books One and Two of Bach’s inspiring keyboard work The<br />
Well-Tempered Clavier. Through two performances, Hewitt will play<br />
the complete 48 preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys.<br />
Seldom heard live in its entirety, The Well-Tempered Clavier is an<br />
astonishing masterpiece and this will be a rare and memorable opportunity<br />
to experience one of the world’s most profound works of creativity<br />
performed by one of today’s leading Bach interpreters.<br />
Music Garden:Tucked away in Toronto’s waterfront, the Toronto<br />
Music Garden was conceived by internationally renowned cellist Yo-Yo<br />
Ma and landscape designer Julie Moir Messervy in partnership with<br />
the City of Toronto’s Parks and Recreation department. Through its<br />
labyrinthine landscape, the garden interprets Bach’s Suite No.1 in G<br />
Major, BWV 1007 for unaccompanied cello. Each summer the Toronto<br />
Music Garden is home to Summer Music in the Garden, presenting<br />
a tremendous range of chamber and world music. On <strong>August</strong> 19,<br />
“Sunday Afternoon at the Opera” offers scenes and arias from Mozart<br />
operas; late medieval love songs, including works by Guillaume de<br />
Machaut and Johannes Ciconia, are the focus of the <strong>August</strong> <strong>23</strong> concert<br />
“Elas mon cuer”; and on <strong>August</strong> 26, a program of chamber music and<br />
dance from the French Baroque is presented in “Confluence: Baroque<br />
Dance in the Garden.”<br />
Navigating the Summer<br />
As anyone who has travelled to an unfamiliar place knows well,<br />
navigating is often the trickiest part of going somewhere new. This<br />
issue of The WholeNote serves as your musical road map, helping you<br />
traverse the winding roads of summer music in all its forms without<br />
a GPS shouting “Recalculating!” With so many opportunities to hear<br />
splendid music, it is impossible to make a wrong turn and I encourage<br />
you to delve into some of these magnificent concerts and festivals.<br />
If you have any questions or want to hear my two cents on anything<br />
early music this summer, send me a note at<br />
earlymusic@thewholenote.com. See you in September!<br />
Matthew Whitfield is a Toronto-based harpsichordist and organist.<br />
38 | <strong>June</strong> | <strong>July</strong> | <strong>August</strong> <strong>2018</strong> thewholenote.com
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