Volume 25 Issue 4 - December 2019 / January 2020

The WholeNote listings are arranged in five sections:
A.
GTA (GREATER TORONTO AREA) covers all of Toronto
plus Halton, Peel, York and Durham regions.
B.
BEYOND THE GTA covers many areas of Southern
Ontario outside Toronto and the GTA. Starts on page 64.
C.
MUSIC THEATRE covers a wide range of music types:
from opera, operetta and musicals, to non-traditional
performance types where words and music are in some
fashion equal partners in the drama. Starts on page 69.
D.
IN THE CLUBS (MOSTLY JAZZ)
is organized alphabetically by club.
Starts on page 71.
E.
THE ETCETERAS is for galas, fundraisers, competitions,
screenings, lectures, symposia, masterclasses, workshops,
singalongs and other music-related events (except
performances) which may be of interest to our readers.
Starts on page 73.
A GENERAL WORD OF CAUTION. A phone number is provided
with every listing in The WholeNote — in fact, we won’t publish
a listing without one. Concerts are sometimes cancelled or postponed;
artists or venues may change after listings are published.
Please check before you go out to a concert.
HOW TO LIST. Listings in The WholeNote in the four sections above
are a free service available, at our discretion, to eligible presenters.
If you have an event, send us your information no later than the
8th of the month prior to the issue or issues in which your listing is
eligible to appear.
LISTINGS DEADLINE. The next issue covers the period from
February 1 to March 7, 2020. All listings must be received by
11:59pm, Wednesday January 8.
LISTINGS can be sent by email to listings@thewholenote.com
or by using the online form on our website. We do not receive
listings by phone, but you can call 416-323-2232 x27 for further
information.
LISTINGS ZONE MAP. Visit our website to search for concerts
by the zones on this map: thewholenote.com.
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LISTINGS
Lake Ontario
Sunday December 1
●●12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.
Vocal Series: Fairytales and Lullabies. Artists
of the COC Ensemble Studio. Richard Bradshaw
Amphitheatre, Four Seasons Centre for
the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-
363-8231. Free. First come, first served. No
late seating.
●●1:00: Royal Conservatory of Music. Sunday
Interludes Series: Jinjoo Cho, violin. Mazzoleni
Concert Hall, TELUS Centre, 273 Bloor
St. W. 416-408-0208. Free(ticket required).
Tickets available a week prior to concert
date.
●●2:00: Canzona. The Music Speaks. Schubert:
Arpeggione Sonata; Mendelssohn:
Sonata No.1 Op.45; Debussy: Sonata; Chopin:
Polonaise Op.26/1; Fauré: Elégie Op.24 and
others. Peter Cosbey, cello; Mariko Kamachi-Cosbey,
piano. St. Andrew by-the-Lake
Anglican Church, Cibola Ave., Toronto Island.
416-822-0613. $30. Brunch ($20) at 12:30pm.
Reservations required. Also Dec 2(7:30pm,
St. George by the Grange - concert only).
●●2:00: Gallery 345. The Art of the Piano:
Shoshana Telner. Chopin: Four Ballades;
Debussy: Twelve Etudes. 345 Sorauren Ave.
416-822-9781 or info@gallery345.com or
eventbrite.ca. $25; $15(st). Cash only at the
door.
●●2:00: Gallery 345. The Art of the Piano:
Shoshana Telner. Alexina Louie: Memories
in an Ancient Garden; Bach: Italian Concerto;
Liszt: Sonetto 104 del Petrac; Liszt:
Vallée d’Obermann; Chopin: Four Ballades.
345 Sorauren Ave. 416-822-9781 or info@gallery345.com
or eventbrite.ca. $25; $15(st).
Cash only at the door.
●●2:00: National Ballet of Canada. Etudes
& Piano Concerto #1 & Petite Mort. Music
by Carl Czerny, Dmitri Shostakovich, and
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Harald Lander,
choreographer. Alexei Ratmansky, choreographer.
Jiří Kylián, choreographer. Four
Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts,
145 Queen St. W. 416-345-9595. $41 and up.
Opens Nov 27, 7:30pm. Runs to Dec 1. Wed-
Sat(7:30pm), Sat/Sun(2pm).
●●2:00: The Sound Post. Fall Salon Concert.
Duos for violin and viola. Elizabeth Chang, violin;
Nardo Poy, viola. 93 Grenville St. events@
thesoundpost.com. Free with the purchase of
CD. Limited seating. Reception post concert.
●●2:30: University of Toronto Faculty of
Music. Choirs in Concert: To Hold Off Winter’s
Chill. Works by Sirett, Schubert, Daley and
Vivancos. Women’s Chorus; Women’s Chamber
Choir; Men’s Chorus; Elaine Choi and Lori-
Anne Dolloff, conductors. MacMillan Theatre,
Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen’s Park.
416-408-0208. $30; $20(sr); $10(st). U of T
students admitted free with a valid TCard,
space permitting.
Erratum: We accidentally omitted
this listing from the November issue
of the magazine. Our apologies!
Concert details below:
●●Nov 30 2pm: Peter Margolian and
Friends. Chamber Music Concert. Music
for voice, winds, strings, percussion and
piano. Works by Franz Schubert, Stephen
Foster, Halsey Stevens, Henry Cowell and
Darius Milhaud. Victoria College Chapel,
91 Charles St. W.. 647-980-5475. Free.
A. Concerts in the GTA
●●2:30: VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert. Kátya
Kabanová. Music by Leoš Janáček. Sung in
English. Lynn Isnar, soprano (Kátya); Emilia
Boteva, mezzo (Kabanicha); Michael Barrett,
tenor (Tichon); Cian Horrobin, tenor (Boris);
Jo Greenaway, music director/piano; Robert
Cooper, chorus director. Jane Mallett
Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts,
27 Front St. E. 416-366-7723 or 1-800-708-
6754. $20-$50.
●●3:00: Chorus York. Celebrate the Season.
A program of Christmas favorites, with
some audience participation. Stéphane Potvin,
director; Andrea Van Pelt, piano; guests:
The Bells of St. Matthew’s handbell choir;
Joan Plume, director. Thornhill Presbyterian
Church, 271 Centre St., Thornhill. 905-
884-7922. $30/$20(adv); $15(st/under 36);
free(under 12). Also Nov 30(8pm, Richmond
Hill).
●●3:00: Encore! Chorus. Sing Gloria! Britt-
Lynn Winch, harp; Dee Lawrence, conductor;
George Vandikas, piano;. Bethel Community
Christian Reformed Church, 333 Davis Dr.,
Newmarket. 905-722-6535. $18; $15(sr/st).
encoreyr.wixsite.com/choir.
●●3:00: Italian Canadian Symphony Orchestra.
A Winter Wonderland. Gesù Bambino;
Silent Night; Twelve Days of Christmas; Hallelujah
Chorus. Sara Papini, soprano; Rocco
Rupolo, tenor; Paolo Busato, conductor. Villa
Colombo, Sala Caboto, 40 Playfair Ave. 416-
789-2113. $35; $20(youth 13-16); free(12 and
under). Fundraiser for the purchase of new
beds.
●●3:00: Off Centre Music Salon. Runaway
Waltz. Works of Strauss, Debussy, Poulenc,
Glinka, Tchaikovsky and others. Allison
Angelo, soprano; Ernesto Ramirez, tenor;
Ilana Zarankin, soprano; Helen Becque, piano;
Inna Perkis, piano; Boris Zarankin, piano.
Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St. W. 416-
466-6323. $50; $40(sr); $15(13-25); $5(12
and under).
●●3:00: Syrinx Concerts Toronto. Chamber
Music Concert. Haydn: Gypsy Trio; Mendelssohn:
Piano Trio No.2; Schumann: Piano Trio;
Ka Nin: “Among Friends”. Jean-Luc Therrien,
piano; Mai Tategami, violin; Zlatomir Fung,
cello. Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave. 416-
654-0877 or syrinxconcerts.ca/tickets. $30;
$20(st). Cash or cheque only at the door.
●●3:00: Thomas Bell. Organ Concert. John
Paul Farahat, organ. St. Paul’s Bloor Street,
227 Bloor St. E. 416-961-8116. Free.
●●3:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. All
Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.1 in
g Op.13 “Winter Dreams”; Violin Concerto in
D Op.35; 1812 Overture. Daniel Lozakovich,
violin; Simon Rivard, TSO RBC Resident Conductor.
Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-
598-3375. From $32. Also Nov 27, 28, 30.
●●3:00: York Symphony Orchestra. Romantic
Premieres. Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1;
Sibelius: Symphony No.1. Jarred Dunn, piano.
Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts,
10268 Yonge St., Richmond Hill. 905-787-
8811. $32; $27(sr); $15(st). Also Nov 30(8pm,
Trinity Anglican, Aurora).
●●3:00: York University Department of
Music. York University Wind Symphony.
Bill Thomas, director. Tribute Communities
Recital Hall, Accolade East, YU, 4700 Keele St.
416-736-5888. $15; $10(sr/st).
●●4:00: Andrew Adair. Seven Allegorical
Pictures by Sverre Eftestøl. Andrew
Adair, organ. Church of St. Mary Magdalene
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