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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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or infogallery345.com or eventbrite.ca. $30;<br />

$10(st). Cash only at the door.<br />

●●7:30: Heliconian Hall. Around the World<br />

in 80 Minutes. Raminsh: Earth Chants; Hindemith:<br />

Sonata for Flute and Piano; Schafer:<br />

Gamelan; Sheeran: Thinking Out Loud and<br />

others. Cantala Women’s Choir; HulaLA<br />

Aloha Dance Company; Jane Blackstone;<br />

piano; Elaine McLeod; cello; Velma Ko, violin.<br />

35 Hazelton Ave. 416-922-3618 or heliconianclub.org.<br />

$<strong>25</strong>.<br />

●●8:00: Against the Grain Theatre. La<br />

Bohème. See Oct 11.<br />

●●8:00: Amici Chamber Ensemble. Komitas:<br />

A Canadian Tribute. Komitas: Divine Liturgy,<br />

Folk Songs, Dances and Children’s<br />

Songs (arr. Serouj Kradjian); Tigran Mansurian:<br />

Agnus Dei for clarinet, violin, cello, and<br />

piano; Debussy: Noël des enfants qui n’ont<br />

plus de maison. Joaquin Valdepeñas, clarinet;<br />

David Hetherington, cello; Serouj Kradjian,<br />

piano. Guests: Russell Braun, baritone; Elmer<br />

Iseler Singers. Koerner Hall, TELUS Centre,<br />

273 Bloor St. W. 416-408-0208. $50; $45(sr);<br />

$30(under 30); $15(st).<br />

Friday<br />

<strong>October</strong> <strong>25</strong><br />

Joseph Johnson<br />

Tchaikovsky<br />

Rococo Variations<br />

www.eporchestra.ca<br />

A. Concerts in the GTA<br />

●●8:00: Etobicoke Philharmonic Orchestra.<br />

Nature’s Power in Music. Tchaikovsky: Rococo<br />

Variations; Stravinsky: Firebird; Grieg: In<br />

Autumn; Borodin: In the Steppes of Central<br />

Asia; Hatch: Long Beach. Joseph Johnson,<br />

cello. Martingrove Collegiate Institute,<br />

50 Winterton Dr., Etobicoke. 416-239-5665.<br />

$30; $<strong>25</strong>/$22(adv sr); $15(st).<br />

●●8:00: Royal Canadian College of Organists<br />

- Toronto Centre. Phantoms of the Organ<br />

Concert. A Hallowe’en spectacular featuring<br />

spooky organ music and more. UofT organ<br />

majors and others. Church of the Holy Trinity,<br />

19 Trinity Sq. 416-929-6400. Freewill<br />

donation.<br />

COUNTRYSIDE<br />

and COURT<br />

OCT. <strong>25</strong> & 26 at 8pm<br />

TorontoConsort.org<br />

●●8:00: Toronto Consort. Countryside and<br />

Court. Works by Claude Le Jeune and others.<br />

Emilyn Stam, fiddler & dancer; Katherine<br />

Hill, artistic director. Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre,<br />

427 Bloor St. W. 416-964-6337. $20-$72.<br />

Also Oct 26.<br />

Saturday <strong>October</strong> 26<br />

●●3:00: The Neapolitan Connection: Musical<br />

Matinées at Montgomery’s Inn. Russian<br />

Rebels & Romantics! Leonid Nediak, piano.<br />

Montgomery’s Inn, 4709 Dundas St. W. 416-<br />

231-0006. $15-$30. Tea, historical tour, cookies<br />

included. Tour at 2:15pm.<br />

●●3:00: Toronto Children’s Chorus. Voices<br />

on the Wind. Shane Cook, fiddler; TCC’s<br />

Choral Scholars, Cantare and Training Choir.<br />

St. Anne’s Anglican Church, 270 Gladstone<br />

Ave. 416-932-8666 x231 or torontochildrenschorus.com/performances.<br />

$30; $15(under<br />

30); $10(child).<br />

●●4:30: Canadian Opera Company. Rusalka.<br />

See Oct 12.<br />

●●7:00: York University Department of<br />

Music. G.I.V.E: Gospel Inter-Varsity Explosion.<br />

York U Gospel Choir; Gospel Choirs from the<br />

University of Toronto, McMaster University<br />

and Humber College; Corey Butler, music director.<br />

Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre,<br />

Accolade East, YU, 4700 Keele St. 416-736-<br />

5888. $15; $10(sr/st).<br />

●●7:30: Canadian Arabic Orchestra. Festival<br />

of Arabic Music and Arts: Hamza Namira - “I<br />

Dream”. Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence<br />

Centre for the Arts, 27 Front St. E. canadianarabicorchestra.ca.<br />

$35-$65.<br />

●●7:30: Opera by Request. Brittany Stewart<br />

& Astrid Atherley, sopranos. Opera, musical<br />

theatre and art song. College Street United<br />

Church, 452 College St. 416-455-2365. $20.<br />

●●8:00: Richmond Hill Philharmonic Orchestra.<br />

In Autumn. Grieg: Im Herbst; Paganini:<br />

Violin Concerto No.1 (Mvmt 1); Bruch:<br />

Romanze for Viola and Orchestra; Raff: Symphony<br />

No.10. Ian Ye, violin; Mathew Chan,<br />

viola; Jessica Kun, conductor. Richmond Hill<br />

Centre for the Performing Arts, 10268 Yonge<br />

St., Richmond Hill. 905-787-8811. $34; $29(sr/<br />

st); $9(child).<br />

●●8:00: Royal Conservatory of Music.<br />

Invesco Piano Concerts Series: Sir András<br />

Schiff. Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.12 in A<br />

flat Op.26; Schumann: Piano Sonata No.1 in<br />

f-sharp Op.11, Fantasy in C Op.17; Beethoven:<br />

Piano Sonata No.21 in C Op.53 “Waldstein”.<br />

Koerner Hall, TELUS Centre, 273 Bloor St. W.<br />

416-408-0208. $55-$120.<br />

●●8:00: Jazz Performance and Education<br />

Centre (JPEC). 80 Years of Jazz: The Best<br />

of Blue Note Records. A tribute concert for<br />

presents<br />

The Best of<br />

Blue Note Records,<br />

80 Years of Jazz<br />

Sat Oct 26, 8pm<br />

Aga Khan Museum<br />

jazzcentre.ca<br />

JPEC Co-Founder Rochelle Koskie. Bernie<br />

Senensky, piano; Pat Labarbera, sax/multireeds;<br />

Alex Brown, trumpet; Jake Koffman,<br />

sax/multi-reeds; Kieran Overs, guitar/bass;<br />

Morgan Childs, drums. Aga Khan Museum,<br />

77 Wynford Dr. 416-839-3<strong>25</strong>2 or jazzcentre.<br />

ca. $40; $20(st). Introduced by Brad Barker<br />

in conversation with Bernie Senensky and<br />

other band members.<br />

●●8:00: Toronto Consort. Countryside and<br />

Court. Works by Claude Le Jeune and others.<br />

Emilyn Stam, fiddler and dancer; Katherine<br />

Hill, artistic director. Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre,<br />

427 Bloor St. W. 416-964-6337. $20-$72.<br />

Also Oct <strong>25</strong>.<br />

Sunday <strong>October</strong> 27<br />

●●2:00: Canadian Opera Company. Turandot.<br />

See Oct 4.<br />

●●2:00: Rezonance Baroque Ensemble.<br />

Bach’s Extraordinary Oboe. Ruth Denton,<br />

oboe; Rezan Onen-Lapointe, Kailey Richards,<br />

violins; Erika Nielsen, cello; David Podgorski,<br />

harpsichord. St. Barnabas Anglican<br />

Church, 361 Danforth Ave. 647-7795-5695.<br />

$<strong>25</strong>; $20(st).<br />

●●2:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Young<br />

People’s Concert: Symphony Spooktacular.<br />

Phantoms<br />

of the Organ!<br />

A Halowe’en howl of<br />

unearthly delights!<br />

Earth, Sea and Sky<br />

19/20 Season<br />

VOICES ON THE WIND WHETHER THE WEATHER<br />

Sat., Oct. 26 | 3 PM<br />

Sat., Nov. 9 | 4 PM<br />

St. Anne’s Anglican Church Church of the Redeemer<br />

Performed by<br />

Performed by<br />

choristers aged 6-16<br />

choristers aged 11-30<br />

Tickets: torontochildrenschorus.com/performances<br />

48 | <strong>October</strong> <strong>2019</strong> thewholenote.com

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