Volume 27 Issue 1 - September / October 2021

Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Returns
with Exciting 2021–22 Season!
1. Saturday Oct. 2, 2021 8 pm guest conductor Pratik Gandhi
Beethoven Symphony No. 6 (“Pastorale”) Schumann Cello Concerto
with guest soloist Samantha Yang
2. Saturday Nov. 6, 2021 8 pm guest conductor Christine Fong
Brahms Symphony No. 3 Dvorák In Nature’s Realm
3. Saturday Dec. 11, 2021 8 pm guest conductor Martin MacDonald
Abigail Richardson-Schulte The Hockey Sweater
Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Suite Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
with guest soloist Eva Lesage
4. Saturday Feb. 12, 2022 8 pm
Schumann Symphony No. 1 (“Spring”) Mahler Songs of a Wayfarer
with guest soloist Danielle MacMillan
(winner of the 2019 CBSO Clifford Poole Vocal Competition)
5. Saturday April 9, 2022 8 pm
Holst The Planets Barbara Croall Nimkii N’gamwin (Thunderbird Song)
with Odawa First Nations composer and soloist Barbara Croall
Sibelius Finlandia
6. Saturday May 28, 2022 8 pm
Dvorák Symphony No. 8 Glenn Buhr Akasha
Robert Rival Northwest Passage Variations
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What alchemy
produced the
wonderful piano
concerts? I’m
especially pleased
that you will be
bringing Benjamin
Grosvenor back for a
fourth time.
We are pleased
and proud to present
both Stephen Hough
and Marc-André
Hamelin, giants of
the Hyperion label, in
one season – thanks
in Stephen’s case to
Vanessa Benellli Mosell COVID re-dating.
And we have liked
Benjamin Grosvenor since we first heard him in 2014; we are delighted
he is sharing his rise into the stratosphere with us. David Jalbert is an
established Canadian virtuoso whom we have enjoyed hearing, and
Vanessa Benellli Mosell is a rising star especially in Europe as recitalist,
chamber musician, orchestral soloist and conductor. We like variety in
repertoire and interpretation.
How will the current COVID protocols affect your recitals? Will
all attendees need to be double vaccinated? Will mask wearing
be required?
We have just been informed that we are allowed 50% capacity of
the Jane Mallett Theatre, so seating is not as limited as we feared. The
St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts is owned by the city and managed by
TO Live; we will be following all the public health advice and regulations.
Proof of full vaccination will be required (or a valid medical
exemption); masking and social distancing will be required; there will
be no concession service – and no intermission cookies!
Will there still be an intermission?
Yes (the call of nature…).
How many seats are you permitted to sell?
Absolute max 250, but probably fewer because of seating patterns
and distancing.
The Parker Quartet’s program includes works by Schubert, Di Castri
and Schumann. As well as the Kelly-Marie Murphy world premiere,
David Jalbert will perform a selection of Debussy, Ligeti and Prokofiev.
RCM Presents
The first time
violinist Gidon
Kremer heard Astor
Piazzolla play, he
was deeply moved.
He was watching
a videotape with
Manfred Gräter of
the West German
Radio and Television
Network. Gräter
was a good friend
and the person who
introduced Kremer
to Piazzolla’s music.
Whenever Kremer
Gidon Kremer
was on tour in
Europe, he never missed an opportunity to stop off in Cologne and
dig around in Gräter’s videotheque, “a treasure trove stored in a dark
room.” Gräter offered to arrange a meeting with Piazzolla once he
realized the excitement Piazzolla’s music generated in Kremer but
died before the meeting could take place. Kremer wrote the booklet
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