Volume 27 Issue 3 - December 2021 / January 2022

Speaking
of happy
returns ...
THE
BLUE
PAGES
It is with a growing sense of optimism that we continue to
welcome new and returning presenters to our Blue Pages
directory, as their plans firm up for the calendar year ahead.
Take a look at the index to our BLUE PAGES DIRECTORY OF
MUSIC MAKERS on page 33, which keeps growing issue by
issue. Full profiles can be found at thewholenote.com/blue.
All in all, there’s a growing sense of hope and new beginnings, coupled
with a pragmatism in regard to maintaining a safe approach to
performing. Here’s just a taste, from profiles recently added:
“After ‘going to ground’ for most of 2019/20,” writes Nine Sparrows
Arts Foundation, “in cooperation with Yorkminster Park Baptist
Church, we return this December with a virtual presentation of City
Carol Sing 2021, and a plan to resume our Tuesday Lunchtime Chamber
Music series in January 2022.”
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra will “continue to offer a range of
performance options, from a much anticipated return to in-person
concerts at Roy Thomson Hall and the George Weston Recital Hall to a
continuation of virtual concerts streamed throughout the season.”
“After a year of virtual rehearsals,” Etobicoke Centennial Choir
announces, “our dedicated choristers have returned to safely and
joyfully harmonizing together in person ... We are planning a virtual
streamed concert in December, including Saint-Saëns’ Christmas
Oratorio, with a return to live performances in 2022.”
Some are concentrating for now on consolidating the online gains
forced on them by pandemic necessity. “In November 2020, The
Toronto Consort launched Early Music TV – an all-new video-ondemand
service dedicated to music from 1100-1700 AD. Early Music TV
offers feature-length productions, behind-the-scenes documentaries,
and extensive video and audio libraries.”
And if you’re looking for something to do on New Year’s Day,
Attila Glatz Concert Productions’ “energetic, lighthearted, and
full-of-romance Salute to Vienna New Year’s Concert … celebrates
the limitless possibilities each New Year brings.”
And so say all of us.
If you’re a music presenter or arts services organization, there’s still
time to join our Blue Pages directory. To celebrate a new year that
is a new beginning in more ways than one, in our next print edition
(January 21 2022) we’ll publish a consolidated directory of all profiles
received by January 6, 2022. For details on how to join contact
Karen Ages at members@thewholenote.com
Thursday January 13 at 8 pm
Juilliard Quartet
Tuesday January 25 at 8 pm
Vanessa
Benelli Mosell
Tickets: 416-366-7723
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27 Front Street East, Toronto
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