Volume 25 Issue 2 - October 2019
Long promised, Vivian Fellegi takes a look at Relaxed Performance practice and how it is bringing concert-going barriers down across the spectrum; Andrew Timar looks at curatorial changes afoot at the Music Gallery; David Jaeger investigates the trumpets of October; the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution (and the 20th Anniversary of our October Blue Pages Presenter profiles) in our Editor's Opener; the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir at 125; Tapestry at 40 and Against the Grain at 10; ringing in the changing season across our features and columns; all this and more, now available in Flip Through format here, and on the stands commencing this coming Friday September 27, 2019. Enjoy.
Long promised, Vivian Fellegi takes a look at Relaxed Performance practice and how it is bringing concert-going barriers down across the spectrum; Andrew Timar looks at curatorial changes afoot at the Music Gallery; David Jaeger investigates the trumpets of October; the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution (and the 20th Anniversary of our October Blue Pages Presenter profiles) in our Editor's Opener; the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir at 125; Tapestry at 40 and Against the Grain at 10; ringing in the changing season across our features and columns; all this and more, now available in Flip Through format here, and on the stands commencing this coming Friday September 27, 2019. Enjoy.
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BLUE PAGES <strong>2019</strong>/20<br />
SECTION I: PRESENTERS & PERFORMERS<br />
20th ANNUAL DIRECTORY OF MUSIC MAKERS<br />
We are pleased to present our 20th<br />
annual Blue Pages, a directory of<br />
music presenters and arts services<br />
published every year in our <strong>October</strong><br />
magazine, and maintained yearround<br />
online, under the “Who’s<br />
Who” tab at thewholenote.com.<br />
This year’s 152-profile portrait of<br />
musical life in the Greater Toronto<br />
area and Southern Ontario has two<br />
segments: section 1 (pages B2-26<br />
reflects the wealth and diversity of<br />
music presenters and performers in<br />
our region – orchestras, choirs, opera<br />
companies, chamber ensembles,<br />
etcetera; section 2 (pages B27-28 is<br />
for individuals and organisations<br />
providing services to artists in the<br />
communities we cover, predominantly<br />
artist managers and publicists.<br />
We’d like to thank all who have<br />
chosen to participate in this<br />
year’s Blue Pages; individuals and<br />
organisations whose support and<br />
dedication helps sustain not only<br />
The WholeNote but the music<br />
community in general. If your<br />
organisation missed being part of<br />
the <strong>October</strong> Blue Pages, we’ll be<br />
publishing a “latecomers” supplement<br />
in the November issue. And the online<br />
directory accepts new members<br />
year round.<br />
For information on the benefits of a<br />
WholeNote membership (of which<br />
this Blue Pages profile is a feature),<br />
please contact Karen Ages at<br />
karen@thewholenote.com or<br />
416-323-2232 x26.<br />
BLUE PAGES TEAM <strong>2019</strong>/20<br />
PROJECT MANAGER: Karen Ages<br />
PROJECT EDITOR: Danial Jazaeri<br />
LAYOUT AND DESIGN: Susan Sinclair<br />
WEBSITE: Kevin King<br />
On the cover: Chorus Niagara<br />
(at FirstOntario Performing Arts<br />
Centre, St. Catharines)<br />
●●<br />
Academy Concert Series<br />
Celebrating its 28th season, Academy Concert<br />
Series offers innovative and intimate chamber<br />
music concerts on period instruments. The threeconcert<br />
series brings to audiences the musical<br />
riches and spirit of improvisation of the 17th and<br />
18th centuries, and the passion and sonorous colour<br />
palate of the 19th and early 20th centuries,<br />
all with historical performance practices. The<br />
programs are thematic and deliberately crafted.<br />
<strong>October</strong> 5: “Family Has Your Bach” explores the<br />
transition from the High Baroque in Leipzig with<br />
Telemann and J.S. Bach, to the Rococo style emerging<br />
in Sanssouci, with the music of Bach’s sons,<br />
including Telemann’s godson C.P.E. Bach. Alison<br />
Melville takes the journey from the alto and bass<br />
recorder to the transverse flute in this enticing<br />
family odyssey through the mid-18th century.<br />
January 18: “Tooting Mozart’s Horn, Naturally!”<br />
The Hunt is on for Mozart and Hoffmeister, played<br />
on natural horn. March 28: “Goin’ Fishing! ACS<br />
Casts Its Line.” Schubert’s Trout, Ka Nin Chan’s<br />
Salmon and the sublime Vaughan Williams<br />
quintet. This is a concert that serves it up raw!<br />
Concerts on Saturdays at 7:30pm, Eastminster<br />
United Church, 310 Danforth Avenue. Pay What<br />
You Decide.<br />
Kerri McGonigle<br />
416-629-3716<br />
kerrifm@gmail.com<br />
www.academyconcertseries.com<br />
●●<br />
Aga Khan Museum<br />
The Aga Khan Museum explores and celebrates<br />
cross-cultural dialogue through the arts. A centre<br />
for innovation and creativity, the Museum<br />
offers unique insights and new perspectives into<br />
the potential of art and culture to act as a catalyst<br />
for intercultural dialogue, engaged global citizenship,<br />
and social change.<br />
Sahar Bhaloo<br />
416-646-4677<br />
sahar.bhaloo@akdn.org<br />
www.agakhanmuseum.org<br />
●●Alliance Française Toronto<br />
Alliance Française Toronto provides a culturally<br />
immersive experience through over 100 events<br />
every year, including concerts (classical, jazz,<br />
world music, pop, folk), theatre plays, art exhibitions,<br />
lectures, book launches, kids events, movie<br />
screenings, French classes for all ages and many<br />
other social events. Events take place in our 150-<br />
seat theatre and our art galleries.<br />
Laetitia Delemarre<br />
416-922-2014<br />
cultural@alliance-francaise.ca<br />
www.alliance-francaise.ca<br />
●●All Saints Kingsway<br />
Anglican Church<br />
All Saints Kingsway Anglican Church is a vibrant<br />
hub for music in Toronto’s west end. The All Saints<br />
Kingsway choir, in addition to providing musical<br />
leadership for worship services, sings a range of<br />
concerts, requiems and oratorios throughout the<br />
year. Recent performances have included: Fauré’s<br />
Requiem, Duruflé’s Requiem, Samuel Coleridge-<br />
Taylor’s The Atonement and Benjamin Britten’s<br />
A Ceremony of Carols. The choir is made up of<br />
paid section leads and volunteers, and invites<br />
new singers throughout the year. November 2<br />
and 3 will see the launch of the Posterski Lecture<br />
Series on Theology and the Arts. The inaugural<br />
lecture will be given by Dr. Stephen Newby<br />
and will feature a performance of his oratorio<br />
Hosea, and the premiere of his Mass for All<br />
Saints, commemorating our 75th Anniversary.<br />
We partner with Organix Concerts to host the<br />
“Kingsway Organ Recital Series,” which takes<br />
place at lunchtime every other Wednesday from<br />
September through July. All Saints Kingsway<br />
also acts regularly as a concert venue for other<br />
musical ensembles, such as the Nathaniel Dett<br />
Chorale and the Kingsway Conservatory of Music.<br />
Our space is available for rental as a concert or<br />
workshop venue.<br />
D. Brainerd Blyden-Taylor<br />
416-233-11<strong>25</strong> x23<br />
music@allsaintskingsway.ca<br />
www.allsaintskingsway.ca<br />
●●Amadeus Choir<br />
The Amadeus Choir, following 35 years under<br />
the leadership of Lydia Adams, welcomes Kathleen<br />
Allan as artistic director and conductor<br />
in the <strong>2019</strong>/20 season. The choir performs<br />
diverse programs, featuring Canadian and international<br />
composers through a self-produced<br />
concert series, guest performances and special<br />
B2 | theWholeNote <strong>2019</strong>/20 PRESENTER PROFILES
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