Volume 24 Issue 5 - February 2019
In this issue: A prize that brings lustre to its laureates (and a laureate who brings lustre to the prize); Edwin Huizinga on the journey of Opera Atelier's "The Angel Speaks" from Versailles to the ROM; Danny Driver on playing piano in the moment; Remembering Neil Crory (a different kind of genius)' Year of the Boar, Indigeneity and Opera; all this and more in Volume 24 #5. Online in flip through, HERE and on the stands commencing Thursday Jan 31.
In this issue: A prize that brings lustre to its laureates (and a laureate who brings lustre to the prize); Edwin Huizinga on the journey of Opera Atelier's "The Angel Speaks" from Versailles to the ROM; Danny Driver on playing piano in the moment; Remembering Neil Crory (a different kind of genius)' Year of the Boar, Indigeneity and Opera; all this and more in Volume 24 #5. Online in flip through, HERE and on the stands commencing Thursday Jan 31.
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Toronto Chinese Orchestra director Patty Chan.<br />
contemporary and urbane spin on ancient Chinese cultural customs.<br />
Chinese New Year Gala <strong>2019</strong> at the Sony Centre<br />
<strong>February</strong> 4, on the eve of the Year of the Pig, The 6th Chinese New<br />
Year Gala <strong>2019</strong> takes over the substantial stage of the Sony Centre,<br />
Toronto, produced by Canada National TV, a Chinese-Canadian television<br />
station.<br />
The Sony Centre event page describes the event as follows: “Chinese<br />
and Western artists will sing and dance, and we will drum the bell to<br />
welcome the arrival of <strong>2019</strong>. It will be Canada’s largest Chinese Spring<br />
Festival Evening by far! … The largest overseas Chinese New Year celebration,<br />
[the show] connects millions of viewers at home and abroad…<br />
through live television.”<br />
A portion of the ticket sales will benefit a local hospital and the Yee<br />
Hong Centre for Geriatric Care. It’s part of a long Chinese tradition of<br />
giving back to the community and taking careful care of elders.<br />
The CCO performs a set at the New Year Gala <strong>2019</strong> including Dance<br />
of the Golden Snake (1934), a fast-paced orchestral composition by<br />
Nie Er, popular during New Year celebrations, drawing on Shanghai<br />
region folk melodies and featuring lively percussion. the CCO plays an<br />
arrangement of this work by Hong Kong composer and conductor Ng<br />
Chiu Shing.<br />
“We’ll also be playing my Chinese orchestra arrangement of Billie<br />
Jean, Michael Jackson’s hit 1982 song…just for fun,” added Zhou (with<br />
smile emoticon attached).<br />
Why choose to cover a 1982 American pop song on Chinese<br />
instruments?<br />
“I wanted to challenge old misconceptions of traditional Chinese<br />
Cathedral Bluffs<br />
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA<br />
Norman Reintamm<br />
Artistic Director/Principal Conductor<br />
Saturday March 9, <strong>2019</strong> 8 pm<br />
THE RITE OF SPRING<br />
STRAVINSKY’S MASTERPIECE<br />
DEBUSSY Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun<br />
Estonian-Canadian composer<br />
ERIK KREEM Waltz (Premiere)<br />
music being sad and quiet.” And also, “because everyone [in China]<br />
knows Billie Jean … I made the arrangement for the CCO Youth<br />
Orchestra tour to China last summer and it was very well received,<br />
with audiences clapping and dancing. My drummer was particularly<br />
popular with the girls!”<br />
Toronto Chinese Orchestra<br />
City Hall, Pacific Mall<br />
The Toronto Chinese Orchestra (TCO) is the region’s oldest such<br />
orchestra. Under music director Patty Chan on the morning of<br />
<strong>February</strong> 4 – the eve of the Year of the Pig – it plays festive music<br />
at Toronto City Hall, our region’s civic hub and usually its political<br />
epicentre. Then at 10pm the same day the TCO reconvenes at the<br />
Pacific Mall playing a late-night set just before New Year. Located on<br />
the City of Markham side of Steeles Ave., the three-level Pacific Mall<br />
has reigned as the largest Chinese shopping mall in North America<br />
since opening its doors in 1997, a popular hub of an explicitly<br />
commercial kind. Both free concerts are open to the public.<br />
COC’s World Music Free Noon-Hour Series<br />
<strong>February</strong> 5 at 12 noon the TCO’s Chamber Players celebrate Chinese<br />
New Year in the Canadian Opera Company’s free World Music Series<br />
at the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, Four Seasons Centre for the<br />
Performing Arts. Led by its erhu player Patty Chan, the Chamber<br />
Players form the professional core of the TCO, including Kenny<br />
Kwan, percussion; Dora Wang, dizi and Wendy Zhou, pipa. Boosting<br />
the lower end of the sound spectrum is cellist Jaimie Chan who was<br />
TICKETS: from $35 ($30 student/senior; children under 12 are free)<br />
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P.C. Ho Theatre 5183 Sheppard Ave East<br />
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(1 block east of Markham Rd), Scarborough<br />
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concert 4<br />
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