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Volume 27 Issue 4 - February 2022

Gould's Wall -- Philip Akin's "breadcrumb trail; orchestras buying into hope; silver linings to the music theatre lockdown blues; Charlotte Siegel's watershed moments; Deep Wireless at 20; and guess who is Back in Focus. All this and more, now online for your reading pleasure.

Gould's Wall -- Philip Akin's "breadcrumb trail; orchestras buying into hope; silver linings to the music theatre lockdown blues; Charlotte Siegel's watershed moments; Deep Wireless at 20; and guess who is Back in Focus. All this and more, now online for your reading pleasure.

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Angela Hewitt<br />

Available now at<br />

bookdepository.com<br />

RICHARD TERMINE<br />

TSO<br />

Unlike the ill-fated fall reopening, when the TSO waited for the<br />

50percent capacity cap before resuming, this time they are in, boots<br />

and all even at the 500-capacity cap. They have announced a full<br />

slate of diverse live programming over the next six weeks, with music<br />

director Gustavo Gimeno leading the orchestra, <strong>February</strong> 2, 3 and 5,<br />

in Schumann’s FIrst Symphony, “Spring,” composed in January and<br />

<strong>February</strong> of 1841 in anticipation of better weather ahead. Also on the<br />

program is Scylla, Jordan Pal’s concerto for trombone and orchestra<br />

written as a showcase for TSO principal trombone, Gordon Wolfe.<br />

Even before the <strong>February</strong> feast begins, there will be an appetizer<br />

available: a performance of Gimeno conducting Beethoven’s jovial<br />

Symphony No.2 Op.36, to be streamed live on January 28 and available<br />

on demand until <strong>February</strong> 4. In that concert, Beethoven’s Second<br />

proves to be a fruitful muse for Odawa First Nation composer Barbara<br />

Assiginaak, whose Innenohr meditates on the German master’s<br />

storied love of nature. Missy Mazzoli’s evocative Dark with Excessive<br />

Bright also draws inspiration from the past, bringing Baroque-era<br />

techniques into the 21st century through the skillful bow of TSO principal<br />

double bass, Jeffrey Beecher.<br />

There’s something for everyone in the mix. On <strong>February</strong> 12, the TSO<br />

and conductor Lucas Waldin celebrate Valentine’s Day (well, close<br />

enough!) with a selection of romantic songs from musical theatre and<br />

the movies, including favourites from The Phantom of the Opera,<br />

West Side Story, La La Land and the iconic “Love Theme” from<br />

Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet.<br />

Then celebrated pianist Angela Hewitt takes charge on <strong>February</strong> 16,<br />

17 and 19, leading a varied program from the keyboard. Two wellknown<br />

concertos – Mozart’s No.12 K414 and Bach’s No.2 BWV1053 –<br />

anchor the concert. Two lesser-known works complete the program:<br />

Saint-Saëns’ charming Wedding Cake Op.76, a valse-caprice for piano<br />

and strings written as a nuptial tribute to pianist Caroline Montigny-<br />

Rémaury; and Finzi’s Eclogue for Piano and String Orchestra Op.10.<br />

Chinese-born Xian Zhang leads the TSO on <strong>February</strong> 26 and <strong>27</strong> in<br />

Beethoven’s energetic Symphony No.4; principal flute Kelly Zimba is<br />

the soloist in Nielsen’s masterful Flute Concerto. Then, on March 9, 10,<br />

12 and 13, 32-year-old American, Ryan Bancroft, the newly appointed<br />

chief conductor of the the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra,<br />

thewholenote.com <strong>February</strong> <strong>2022</strong> | 11

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