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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Twilight Recital. Ian Sadler, organ. 65 Church<br />
St. 416-365-7865. Free. Donations welcome.<br />
●●4:00: Church of St. Peter and St. Simonthe-Apostle.<br />
Charles Dickens, A Christmas<br />
Carol. Dramatic reading with carols led by<br />
the choir. 525 Bloor St. E. 416-923-8714. $15;<br />
$10(sr/st).<br />
●●4:00: Toronto Classical Singers. Jubilation<br />
and Joy. Bach: Christmas Oratorio. Talisker<br />
Players; Sheila Dietrich, soprano; Christina<br />
Campsell; Asitha Tennekoon, tenor; Michael<br />
Nyby, baritone; Jurgen Petrenko, conductor.<br />
Christ Church Deer Park, 1570 Yonge St. 416-<br />
444-7863. $30.<br />
●●4:30: Church of the Holy Trinity. The<br />
Christmas Story. See Dec 7. Also Dec 14(7:30);<br />
15(4:30); 16(4:30); 21(7:30); 22(4:30); 23(4:30<br />
& 7:30).<br />
●●4:30: Oakville Symphony. A Family Christmas.<br />
Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts,<br />
130 Navy St., Oakville. 905-815-2021. $27;<br />
$23(sr); $14(child/st). Also 1:30.<br />
●●5:30: National Ballet of Canada. The Nutcracker.<br />
See Dec 8. Also Dec 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,<br />
18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29, 30. Times vary.<br />
●●6:30: Soundstreams. Holiday Encounters:<br />
Yuletide Remix. Bring your treasured yuletide<br />
vinyl and hear it spun into exciting new<br />
sounds right before your ears. SlowPitch-<br />
Sound, turntablist and resident DJ. Gladstone<br />
Hotel, 1214 Queen St. W. 416-504-1282. Free.<br />
●●7:00: Durham Girls’ Choir. Winter Wonderland.<br />
St. George’s Anglican Church (Oshawa),<br />
51 Centre St. S., Oshawa. 905-723-7875.<br />
$15; $10(sr/st).<br />
●●7:30: Cor Unum Ensemble. Merry & Bright.<br />
A. Concerts in the GTA<br />
Works by Bach, Telemann, Corrette and<br />
others. Elisa Jane Cassey & Ruth Denton,<br />
conductors. Trinity College Chapel, U of T,<br />
6 Hoskin Ave. 416-371-6999. $20; $10(st/arts<br />
workers). Also Dec 8.<br />
●●7:30: Echo Women’s Choir. Hope Lingers<br />
On. Malvina Reynolds: No Closing Chord; God<br />
Bless the Grass; Mrs. Clara Sullivan’s Letter;<br />
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Up Where We Belong; and<br />
other songs of hope and love. Maryem Tollar,<br />
Arabic singer; Alan Gasser, conductor;<br />
Becca Whitla, piano/conductor. Church of the<br />
Holy Trinity, 19 Trinity Sq. 416-779-5554. $25;<br />
$15(sr/child/underwaged).<br />
Monday <strong>December</strong> 10<br />
●●3:00: Durham Girls’ Choir / Durham<br />
Chamber Orchestra. The Sounds of Christmas.<br />
Forest Brook Community Church,<br />
60 Kearney Dr., Ajax. 905-427-3442. $20.<br />
●●7:00: St. Michael’s Choir School. Annual<br />
Christmas Concert. Britten: A Ceremony of<br />
Carols. True North; Lori Gemmell, harp; Maria<br />
Conkey, Teri Dunn, S. Bryan Priddy, conductors;<br />
Joshua Tamyo, accompanist; Vincent<br />
Cheng, conductor. Roy Thomson Hall,<br />
60 Simcoe St. 416-872-4255. $25-$60. Also<br />
Dec 9(3pm).<br />
●●7:30: Royal Conservatory of Music. Joaquin<br />
Valdepeñas Conducts. Mazzoleni Concert<br />
Hall, Royal Conservatory, 273 Bloor St. W.<br />
416-408-0208. $20.<br />
●●8:00: Oakville Centre for the Performing<br />
Arts. The Celtic Tenors. 130 Navy St., Oakville.<br />
905-815-2021 or 1-888-489-7784.<br />
$49-$60.<br />
Tuesday <strong>December</strong> 11<br />
●●12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.<br />
Vocal Series: AtG Retro. Against the Grain<br />
Theatre. Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre,<br />
Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts,<br />
145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231. Free. First<br />
come, first served. No late seating.<br />
●●12:10: Nine Sparrows Arts Foundation/<br />
Yorkminster Park Baptist Church. Lunchtime<br />
Chamber Music. Rising Stars Recital,<br />
students from the Glenn Gould School. Yorkminster<br />
Park Baptist Church, 1585 Yonge St.<br />
416-<strong>24</strong>1-1298. Free. Donations welcome.<br />
●●1:00: Cathedral Church of St. James.<br />
Music at Midday. Gerald Loo, organ.<br />
65 Church St. 416-365-7865. Free. Donations<br />
welcome.<br />
●●7:30: City Choir. Cakes & Ale. Swing Down,<br />
Sweet Chariot; I Gave Her Cakes and I Gave<br />
Her Ale; Darfur Traditional Song; Domini Fili<br />
Unigenite. Greg Oh, John Millard, Patricia<br />
O’Callaghan, directors. Dixon Hall, 188 Carlton<br />
St. 416-963-9374. By donation.<br />
●●7:30: Gallery 345. PAPER: New Compositions<br />
and Improvisations by Nahre Sol.<br />
Nahre Sol, piano; Brad Cherwin, clarinet.<br />
345 Sorauren Ave. 416-822-9781. Free.<br />
●●7:30: Hannaford Street Silver Band.<br />
Christmas Cheer. Ben Heppner, host and<br />
tenor soloist; Elmer Iseler Singers; Lydia<br />
Adams, conductor (Elmer Iseler Singers).<br />
Metropolitan United Church (Toronto),<br />
56 Queen St. E. 416-366-7723 or 1-800-708-<br />
6754 or hssb.ca. $45.<br />
●●7:30: Silverthorn Symphonic Winds.<br />
Christmas Soirée. Wilmar Heights Centre,<br />
963 Pharmacy Ave., Scarborough. 416-<br />
742-4237. PWYC. Free parking, wheelchair<br />
accessible, free refreshments post concert.<br />
●●7:30: Toronto Community Orchestra. Celebrate<br />
the Music That Moves You! Strauss:<br />
Blue Danube Waltz; Dvořák: Slavonic Dances<br />
Op. 42, No. 4, 6, 7; Handel: The Trumpet<br />
Shall Sound; Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite;<br />
Bernstein: Danzon. Oliver Laquerre, baritone;<br />
Darrin Hicks, trumpet; Leonidis Varahidis,<br />
conductor. Eastminster United Church,<br />
310 Danforth Ave. 416-358-0783. Free. Wheelchair<br />
accessible.<br />
B-Xalted!<br />
DEC. 11, 8 PM<br />
Handel’s<br />
Messiah<br />
TORONTO CLASSICAL SINGERS<br />
H A N N A F O R D S T R E E T S I LV E R B A N D P R E S E N T S<br />
Christmas Cheer<br />
JUBILATION AND JOY<br />
BACH CHRISTMAS ORATORIO<br />
THE MOST INTELLECTUAL COMPOSER TELLS THE MOST JOYFUL STORY<br />
JURGEN PETRENKO, CONDUCTOR<br />
THE TALISKER PLAYERS<br />
SHEILA DIETRICH, SOPRANO<br />
CHRISTINA CAMPSALL, MEZZO-SOPRANO<br />
ASITHA TENNEKOON, TENOR<br />
MICHAEL NYBY , BARITONE<br />
SUNDAY DECEMBER 9, <strong>2018</strong> 4PM<br />
CHRIST CHURCH DEER PARK 1570 YONGE STREET AT HEATH<br />
TICKETS $30.00 CALL 416 444 7863 torontoclassicalsingers.ca<br />
Tickets available online at www.hssb.ca<br />
By Phone: 416.366.7723 or 1.800.708.6754<br />
transcending tradition<br />
52 | <strong>December</strong> 1, <strong>2018</strong> – February 7, <strong>2019</strong> thewholenote.com
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