Volume 24 Issue 4 - December 2018 / January 2019
When is a trumpet like a motorcycle in a dressage event? How many Brunhilde's does it take to change an Elektra? Just two of the many questions you've been dying to ask, to which you will find answers in a 24th annual combined December/January issue – in which our 11 beat columnists sift through what's on offer in the upcoming holiday month, and what they're already circling in their calendars for 2019. Oh, and features too: a klezmer violinist breathing new life into a very old film; two New Music festivals in January, 200 metres apart; a Music & Health story on the restorative powers of a grassroots exercise in collective music-making; even a good reason to go to Winnipeg in the dead of winter. All this and more in Vol 24 No 4, now available in flipthrough format here.
When is a trumpet like a motorcycle in a dressage event? How many Brunhilde's does it take to change an Elektra? Just two of the many questions you've been dying to ask, to which you will find answers in a 24th annual combined December/January issue – in which our 11 beat columnists sift through what's on offer in the upcoming holiday month, and what they're already circling in their calendars for 2019. Oh, and features too: a klezmer violinist breathing new life into a very old film; two New Music festivals in January, 200 metres apart; a Music & Health story on the restorative powers of a grassroots exercise in collective music-making; even a good reason to go to Winnipeg in the dead of winter. All this and more in Vol 24 No 4, now available in flipthrough format here.
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Arts Guild and Pan4Christ Steel-Pan Band.<br />
St. Olave’s Anglican Church, 360 Windermere<br />
Ave. 416-769-5686. Contributions appreciated.<br />
Also 4pm Choral Evensong.<br />
●●7:00: Burlington Performing Arts Centre.<br />
John McDermott Christmas. Guests:<br />
Dala. Burlington Performing Arts Centre,<br />
Community Studio Theatre, 440 Locust<br />
St., Burlington. 905-681-6000. $69.50;<br />
$64.50(members).<br />
●●7:00: Echo Chamber Toronto. Transfigured<br />
Night; An Evening of Chamber Music<br />
and Contemporary Ballet. Beethoven: String<br />
Quartet Op.18 No.1; Schoenberg: Second<br />
String Quartet “Entrückung”; Verklärte Nacht<br />
(Transfigured Night); Hindemith: Gottes Tod.<br />
Lauren Eberwein, soprano; Aaron Schwebel<br />
and Sheila Jaffe: violin; Theresa Rudolph and<br />
Keith Hamm, viola; and others. Artscape<br />
Sandbox, 301 Adelaide St. W. 647-780-9040.<br />
$25-$40. Also Dec 1.<br />
●●7:00: Runnymede United Church. A Reading<br />
of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.<br />
Choirs of Royal York Road and Runnymede<br />
United; Jeff Douglas, Robin Duke, Mary<br />
Lou Fallis, Barbara Gordon, Anwar Knight,<br />
Nancy Palk and William Webster, readers.<br />
432 Runnymede Rd. 416-767-6729. $30. All<br />
proceeds in support of The Stop Community<br />
Food Centre. Refreshments for everyone in<br />
Memorial Hall will follow.<br />
●●7:00: St. Thomas’s Anglican Church.<br />
Advent Carols. Matthew Larkin, music director.<br />
St. Thomas’s Anglican Church (Toronto),<br />
383 Huron St. 416-979-2323. Free.<br />
●●7:30: Gallery 345. Payadora. Tango and<br />
Argentine folk music. Rebekah Wolkstein, violin;<br />
Drew Jurecka, bandoneon; Robert Horvath,<br />
piano; Joe Philips, bass; Elbio Fernandez,<br />
vocals. 345 Sorauren Ave. 416-822-9781 or<br />
info@gallery345.com. $25; $15(st). Cash only.<br />
Tickets available online at Eventbrite.ca.<br />
●●7:30: Toronto Beach Chorale. Great Joy.<br />
J.S.Bach Cantata 147, Herz und Mund und<br />
Tat und Leben; Buxtehude Magnificat, music<br />
by Hassler, Bruckner, Reger and Rachmaninov,<br />
and carols. Virginia Hatfield, soprano;<br />
Lillian Brooks, mezzo-soprano; Charles<br />
Davidson, tenor; Ryan Moilliet, bass; Mervin<br />
Fick conductor. Kingston Road United<br />
Church, 975 Kingston Rd. 416-699-6634.<br />
$12.50-$25.00.<br />
●●8:00: Music Gallery. Emergents I: Grace<br />
Scheele + Xuan Ye. The Music Gallery,<br />
918 Bathurst St. 416-204-1080. $8-$12.<br />
●●8:00: New Music Concerts. Celebrating<br />
Michael Koerner: Michael Koerner’s Choice.<br />
A. Concerts in the GTA<br />
Celebrating Michael Koerner @ 90<br />
KOERNER’S CHOICE<br />
Sunday <strong>December</strong> 2<br />
BETTY OLIPHANT THEATRE<br />
www.NewMusicConcerts.com<br />
Carter: Rigmarole; Stravinsky: Octet; Ives:<br />
selection of songs; Schafer: String Quartet<br />
No.6 “Parting Wild Horse’s Mane”; Milhaud:<br />
La création du monde. Ben Heppner, tenor;<br />
John Hess, piano; David Hetherington, cello;<br />
Max Christie, bass clarinet; Accordes String<br />
Quartet; Jonathan Krehm and Evonne Tan, tai<br />
chi chuan performers; New Music Concerts<br />
Ensemble; Robert Aitken, director. Betty Oliphant<br />
Theatre, 404 Jarvis St. 416-961-9594.<br />
$35; $25(sr/arts workers); $10(st). 7:15pm:<br />
pre-concert talk.<br />
Monday <strong>December</strong> 3<br />
●●12:30: York University Department of<br />
Music. Music@Midday: Instrumental Masterclass<br />
in Concert. Tribute Communities Recital<br />
Hall, Accolade East Building, YU, 4700 Keele<br />
St. 416-736-5888. Free.<br />
●●7:30: Chorisma. Joy of Christmas. Susan<br />
Ryman, soprano; Alexa Ball, flute; Damon<br />
Richard, percussion; Robert Richardson, conductor;<br />
Lona Richardson, accompaniment.<br />
Thornhill United Church, 25 Elgin St., Thornhill.<br />
905-731-8318. Food donation and freewill<br />
offering. In aid of Thornhill Christmas Assistance<br />
Program.<br />
●●7:30: University of Toronto Faculty of<br />
Music. Guitar Orchestra. Jeffrey McFadden,<br />
director. Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building,<br />
University of Toronto, 80 Queen’s Park.<br />
416-408-0208. Free.<br />
Tuesday <strong>December</strong> 4<br />
●●12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.<br />
Vocal Series: Wirth Vocal Prize In Recital.<br />
Anna-Sophie Neher, soprano; Magdalena von<br />
Eccher, piano. Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre,<br />
Four Seasons Centre for the Performing<br />
Arts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. Free.<br />
First come, first served. No late seating.<br />
●●12:10: Nine Sparrows Arts Foundation/<br />
Yorkminster Park Baptist Church. Lunchtime<br />
Chamber Music. Gillian Chreptyk, trumpet.<br />
Yorkminster Park Baptist Church,<br />
1585 Yonge St. 416-<strong>24</strong>1-1298. Free. Donations<br />
welcome.<br />
●●1:00: Cathedral Church of St. James.<br />
Music at Midday. Nick Veltmeyer, organ.<br />
65 Church St. 416-365-7865. Free. Donations<br />
welcome.<br />
Toronto<br />
Mendelssohn Choir<br />
FESTIVAL OF CAROLS<br />
Guest Conductor<br />
Howard Dyck<br />
<strong>December</strong> 4 & 5<br />
tmchoir.org<br />
●●7:30: Toronto Mendelssohn Choir. Festival<br />
of Carols. Stephanie Martin: An Earthly Tree;<br />
Alban Berg: Es ist ein Reis enstsprungen;<br />
Mendelssohn: Ave Maria; Maria durch ein<br />
Dornwald ging (arr. Stefan Claas); and audience<br />
sing-along of popular Christmas carols.<br />
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir; Canadian Staff<br />
Band of the Salvation Army; Toronto Youth<br />
Choir; Howard Dyck, guest conductor. Yorkminster<br />
Park Baptist Church, 1585 Yonge<br />
St. 416-408-0208. $35-$78; $20(Voxtix for<br />
patrons 30 and under). Also Dec 5.<br />
●●7:30: University of Toronto Faculty of<br />
Music. Contemporary Music Ensembles.<br />
Wallace Hallady, director. Walter Hall, Edward<br />
Johnson Building, University of Toronto,<br />
80 Queen’s Park. 416-408-0208. Free.<br />
●●8:00: Civic Theatres Toronto. Jazz at the<br />
George: Dianne Reeves - Christmas Time Is<br />
Here. Holiday music. Toronto Centre for the<br />
Arts, 5040 Yonge St., North York. 1-855-985-<br />
2787. $47-$90.<br />
●●8:00: Corporation of Massey Hall and<br />
Roy Thomson Hall. Chris Botti, Trumpet. Roy<br />
Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-872-4255.<br />
$69.75-$139.75.<br />
EL EC T R IC<br />
MESSI A H IV<br />
DECEMBER 4–6<br />
THE DRAKE HOTEL<br />
UNDERGROUND<br />
WWW.SOUNDSTREAMS.CA<br />
●●8:00: Soundstreams. Electric Messiah<br />
IV. Handel’s great masterpiece with inspir-<br />
EM Wholenote ad.indd 1<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-11-19 5:10 PM<br />
ations from jazz, gospel, blues, hip hop and<br />
of course, classical. Jonathan MacArthur,<br />
tenor; Aviva Chernick, vocals; Alex Samaras,<br />
baritone, jazz-singer; Adam Scime,<br />
music director; Christopher Bagan, analog<br />
and electric harpsichord; Jeff McLeod,<br />
electric organ; Joel Schwartz, electric guitar;<br />
SlowPitchSound, turntablist and resident<br />
DJ; Lybido, dancer. The Drake Underground,<br />
1150 Queen’s St. W. 416-504-1282.<br />
$25/$20(adv). Also Dec 5, 6.<br />
Wednesday <strong>December</strong> 5<br />
● ● 12:30: Organix Concerts/All Saints Kingsway.<br />
Kingsway Organ Concert Series. Aaron<br />
James, organ. All Saints Kingsway Anglican<br />
Church, 2850 Bloor St. W. 416-571-3680.<br />
Freewill offering. 45-minute concert.<br />
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