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COVER STORY: NowSyour chance to join 

by Merlin Williams 

photos: Karen Steyi: 

I prefer to think of September 

as the real start of the new year - 

the month when people get back 

to "real life". Vacations end, 

school starts, there is a general 

feeling that once again the most 

enjoyable part of the year has 

passed away all too quickly. 

All these factors make September 

a much better time than 

· January to make and keep 

resolutions .. Like the one about 

dusting off the instrument you 

played in high school or university, 

and returning to performing 

music. 

Well, it's an excellent idea. 

You can look forward to working 

on your playing skills, encountering 

interesting music, and making 

new friends. And best of all, 

thanks to our annual list of the 

community band scene, you 

won't have to wait until 2003 to 

find a place to play! 

Bobby Herriott conducts the Thornhill 

Community Band at the C.N.E. 

This year's list includes 38 

community, brass and youth 

bands throughout Southern 

Ontario. The groups are organized 

according to the day of the 

week they rehearse. It's a good 

idea to get in touch with a band 

via phone or email before you 

show up, even though I}lany 

groups will welcome you with , 

open arms even if you choose to 

drop in unannounced (espeCially 

if you play oboe or bassoon!) 

Please note that sorhe bands do 

have auditions for prospective 

members. The youth bands 

generally have an upper age limit 

of 16-18. Brass bands and silver 

bands utilise only comets, 

flugelhom, alto horns, baritone 

hOrns, euphoniums, trombones 

tuba and percussion. 

Keep in mind that even if 

you're not a musician, but are a 

prospective audience mem~r, 

you can use the contact information 

to find out where and when 

your local band is playing. Go 

out and support the members of 

your community w~o make 

music. 

Community Bands 

CAMBRIDGE CONCERT BAND 

Conductor: Bobby Herriot 

Contact: Liz Reed (519) 653-1055 

Rehearsals: Mondays, 8:00 p.m. at the Preston 

Legion, Br. 126, Westminster & Margaret 

Sts. in Cambridge 

Instruments needed: bass clarinet, oboe, 

bassoon, saxophones and clarinets 

EAST YORK CONCERT BAND 

Conductor: Ernie Walker 

Contact: Ernie Walker (416) 266-1958 

Rehearsals: Mondays, 8:00 p.m. at McGregor 

P.S., Coxwell & Mortimer, East York 

Instruments needed: euphoniu[ll, but all are 

welcome 

MARKHAM CONCERT BAND 

Conductor: TBA 

Contact: John Brooker (416) 332 -4639 

Website/e-mail address: http:l/www.mcb.on.ca 

Rehearsals: Mondays, 7:30 p.m. at Markham 

Community Centre, Hwys. 48 /l< 7, Markham 

' Instruments needed: all 

NORTH TORONTO 

COMMUNITY BAND 

Conductor: Denis Mastromonaco 

Contact: Gale(416)481-1978 

Rehearsals: Mondays, 7:30 p.m. at Lawrence 

His classic hits 

Canadian Railroad 

Don Quixote, Sundown, 

Could Read My Mind, Carefre 

The Wreck of The Edmund Fitz 

autiful and Alberta Bound: 

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a community band 

Park C.L Auditorium, 125 Chatsworth Dr. 

Toronto 

Instruments needed: all 

SCARBOROUGH 

COMMUN,TY CONCERT BAND 

Conductor: Tom Dowling 

Contact: Tom Dowling (416) 282· 7973 

Website: http://www.sccb.org . 

Rehearsals:Mondays, 7:00 p.m. at Samuel 

Hearne P.S., near Danforth and Pharmacy 

fnstruments needed: all 

SOUTH SIMCOE CONCERT BAND 

Conductor: Lise Buelow 

Contact: Ron McKay (705) 424-0312 

Rehearsals: Mondays, Oetiker Ltd., , 

203 Dufferin St. S., Alliston 


WATERLOO CONCERT BAND ' 

Conductor: n/a 

Website: http://www.waterlooband.com 

Rehearsals: Mondays at 8:00 p.m. in the Adult 

Recreation Centre, King St., Waterloo . 


BRAMPTON CONCERT BAND 

Conductor: Darryl Eaton 

Contact: David Harmswort~ (905) 451-6389 

(h) or(905) 451-0174 (b) 

Website: http:// ' · 

Northdale Concert Band 

www.bramptonconcertband.com 

Rehearsals: Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m. at 55a Queen 

St. E., Brampton (beside the library) 

Instruments needed: trombones, clarinets, 

tenor sax, horns, mallet perc., low reeds · 

DUNDAS CONCERT.BAND 

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' cal unive~se; just that it is a hotbed ANN IVE RSA RY 

of musical activity, about which Composer Nick Peros responded 

most people living here would be . to the World Trade Center carnage 

ignor,ant without us, and it's a full- by composing a new choral work, 

time job to cover it adequately. So Prayer of Consolation, which will 

it is only occasionally that we look be performed by The Palestrina 

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Montrectl, asking to book a full-page events of September 11, 2001, but 

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Entitled "Aimez-vous Brahms?" it United States. 

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by a blue-chip (so to speak) roster of Violence" at St. Thomas's 

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Church on September 11. This will 

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be an actual mass, the music for 

which will be Gabriel Faure's Requiem. 

For some years now the SH or- · 

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as building schools, providing safe 

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Kosovo and even New York City 

after September 11 . It will present 

two fundraising concerts, one on 

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I Lolo will peiform at the Small is already bursting at the seams - 

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EARLY MUSIC 

by Frank Nakashima 

As the concert season gets slowly 

under way, you will notice. tJ;ie reappearance 

of the T.E.M.P.O. (Toronto 

Early Music Players Organi- . 

zatlon) workshops (see WholeNote 's 

Announcements,. .. Etcetera, page 

41 for nwre activities of this type.) 

September 8,T.E.M.P.0. 1 will be 

taking a closer look at The Genevan 

Psalter, an earl)'. 16th-century work 

by Louis Bourgeois. There is also 

the Toronto Early Music Centre's 

vocal circle at which y0u can join 

other singers in the recreational reading 

of early choral music in a relaxed 

environment. 

· In order to get a good look at 

what's going on in terms of early 

music here in Toronto, you should 

. definitely plan to attend the TEMC's 

18th annual Early Music Fair (September 

21) at the historical Montgomery's 

Inn, now restored as a living 

museum to the i847~50 period. 

This event enables aficionados and 

newcomers to gain both an overview 

and an update of the early music scene 

in Toronto through performances, 

displays, and information on the art 

dfhistorical performance. 

It's also a: chaiice to meet musicians, 

concert presenters, instrument 

mak;ers, and music retailers and exchange 

ideas! Listen to the beautiful 

·sounds,ofrecorders and viols played 

by meiµbers of the Recorder Players' 

Society and the Toronto Early 

Music Players' Organization. See 

and hear a variety of keyboard, 

woodwind and other period instruments 

played by some of our finest 

, musicians. Discover the latest CD 

recordings by our local artists and 

browse through early music books. 

"Du Bon Gout et du Mauvais 

Gout", a Sept 14 concert presented 

by The Musicians in Ordinary - 

soprano Hallie Fishel and lutenist 

John Edwards - with guests playing 

harpsichord, viola da gamba and violins, 

is dedicated to good taste and 

bad taste in the Fre~ch Baroque period. 

There.are songs about the usual 

(shepherds, nyn:iphs, and sheep~· but 

also the unusual (a gall7bladder operation 

and a cantata about a whale). 

Many of these songs were discovered 

in the U of T's rare bOok collection 

and will be performed from 

copies of the original prints. Also 

on the progra'.m is music by Elisabeth 

Jacquet de la Guerre, Marin Marais, 

and Michel Lambert, father-in-law 

of the great Jean-Baptiste Lully. 

There's more on the The Musicians 

in Ordinary at their website: 

www.rp.usiciansinordinary.ca 

Who was it who said Handel was 

half German, half Italian, and half 

English? All the composers ill the 

first series of Tafelmusik concerts 

this season (starting September 25) 

fit the concert theme of "Cross-Border 

Baroque." Handel is one,,along 

with Locatelli (an Italian in Amsterdam), 

Lully (an Italian in Versailles), 

Zelenka (a ·Bohemian in Dresden), 

and Scarlatti (an Italian in Madrid) 

The result is a fascinating, mix of 

musical culture and styles. 

Visitwww.tafelmusik.org 

Also featured. in this Tafelmusik 

production is "Steps to Ecstasy" by 

Marjan Mozetich, a contemporary 

Canadian composer born in Italy to 

Slovenian parents. It is interesting to 

speculate as to why more and more 

early music ensembles are adding 

contemporary art music to their repc 

ertoire, commissioning new works 

to be played on historical instruments. 

Is it the natural desire of any 1 

musician to explore the expressive 

range of their instrument, their own 

technique, and their repertoire? Is it 

the need to create novel programs 

for their subscribers? An attempt to 

establish a better profile with grantgiving 

arts councils by performing 

new Canadian repertoire? A natural 

affinity for contemporary music 

among performers of early rp.usic? 

Whatever the case, the combination 

of old and new is creating something 

fresh and exciting for today's 

listeners. - 

The opening concert of the Toronto 

Consort 30th ·Anniversary Season 

takes us into the medieval world of 

romance and chivalry with a 'rendition 

of the fantastic Arthurian legend, 

"Sir Gawain and the Green 

Knight" (October4, 5). This story, 

written by an unknown contemporary 

of Chaucer, tells of a wild green 

warrior who taunts the knights of 

the Round Table at Camelot; Sir 

Gawain takes up the challenge, only 

to find his courage and virtue more 

tested by a beguiling woman than 

by the wild man. It is a masterpieee 

of alliterative poetry describing an 

enchanting legendary world. 

Frank T. Nakashima (franknak@interlog.com) is the President of the Toronto 

Early Music Centre, a non-profit charitable organization which promotes the 

appreciation of historically-informed performances of early music. • 

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Cl-loRAL·SCENE 

by Larry Beckwith 

After the summer break, 

rehearsals begin again just 

after Labour Day for most 

choirs and, looking at the 

season ahead, there are 

many special choral events 

to anticipate in t!ie coming 

months. September is, as 

usual, a little lean, but with 

a few notable exceptions. 

On September 11, the 

choir of St. Thomas's 

. Church· marks the first 

anniversary of the attacks 

on New York and Washington with 

a performance of the Requiem by 

Gabriel Faure. The service commences 

at 6: 15 pm and a freewill 

offering will be collected. 

David King's choir All The 

King's Voices presents An Ameri~ 

can 'faibute Sept 13 at the Weall and 

Cullen on Sheppard A venue and Sept 

29 at Parkway Mall. Phone 416- 

225-2~55 for details. 

The choir of Robinson College 

from Cambridge, England makes a 

tour stop at St. James' on Sept 10, 

and at the Church of St.. Martin-in- 

.John Tuttle, organist and choirmaster at 

St. Thomas 's Church 

the-Fields on Sept 14. These English 

church choirtour programs are 

always well-polished and, if you're 

a fan of the music of the Church of 

England,_ from the Tudor Age to 

the present - well worth attending. 

Every music lover in the city must 

be at least a little curious about the 

new, improved Roy Thomson Hall. 

The grand re-opening takes place 

.on September 21 with a suitably 

bombastic program featuring . the 

Toronto Mendelssohn Choir_ in a 

CONTINUED, NEXT PA(!;E 

The Choirs of the Church of St .Marr ;Magdalene 

present Sundavs at 3:00pm. 

3 concerts celebrating the church vear. 

;t Virtuous :Xose: a f'ourteenth Centurv 'Pilgrimage 

1• fearurlnq music of rhe l!lbre Verme/I 

wtrh rhe :Xecordare Ensemble on htsrorlc lnsrruments· 

(recorders. shawm. bladder pipe. hurdy-gurdy. harp and percussion!. 

Sund av Ocrober 20. 2002 

;Music for Candlefnass 

wtrh Jacqueline Gorlnq. harp. }onarhan lnqham. cello. 

and Vtcrorla Jfarhawav & Gt// Ian }foward. oboe. 

Ceremony of Carols, Britten - Benedictus, Victoria 

Willkommen, Sii.\"ser Briiutigam, LtibeC,?k 

Sundav Tebruarv 2. 2003 

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Music for lent 

wtrh rhe Choirs ofrhe Church of Sr .Marv .Maqdalene 

and rhe Trlntrv Col/eqe Chapel Choir. - 

Stabar Mater, Palest1ina - The Reproaches, Sanders 

Hymns and Anthems of the Nineteenth century Canada 

Sunday .March 30. 2003 

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The Church of St. Marv Maqda!ene 

477 Manning Ave. Toronto, Ontario 

Tickets $18/$12 available ~t the door 

Phone: (416) 531 -7955 - http:ffwww.stmarymagdalene.ca/ 

i 

.-ELMER 

I SINGERS 

2180 Bayview Avenue~ Toronto, Ontario rv"14N 3K7 

2002-2003 SUBSCRIPTION SERIES 

NEW MUSIC SINGS 

Friday, November 1, 2002, 7:30 p.m. 

St. James' Cathedral, King & Church Streets 

Guest Artists: Robert Aitken, flute; Lawrence Cherney, 

English· Hom - World Premiere Spanish Reflections and 

Toronto Premiere of Songs of Love, Melisa Hui; Canadian 

Premiere A Circle -in the Sand by the brilliant French 

composer Thierry Pec~n; The Flute Player, John Burge and 

Monodie Fragments, Robert Aitken. · 

BYZANTINE FESTN AL . 

Tuesday, November 19, 2002, 8:00 p.m. 

St. Michael's Cathedral, 65 Bond Street (at Shuter St.) 

Guest Artists: Amadeus Choir; Amadeus· Chamber 

Singers and orchestra, British Soprano, Patricia · 

Rosario; Counter Tenor, Daniel Taylor; Tenor, . Colin 

Ainsworth. Featured Works: Kyrie - Christos Hatzis and 

"Total Eclipse" (Canadian Premiere) ,- John Tavener. 

HANDEL'S MESSIAH 

Friday, De·cember 6, 2002, 7:30 p.m. 


Soloists: Jennie Such, Soprano; Daniel Taylor, Counter 

Tenor; Colin Ainsworth, Tenor; Ru·ssell Braun, Baritone. 

With Orchestra. 

SOUNDS OF THE SEASON 

Wednesday, December 18, 2002, 7:30 p.m. 


A Christmas Celebration ·based on the development ·of 

arrangements by ten Canadian composers using the 

Gregorian Theme Piae Cantiones. 

CATHEDRAL GRANDEUR 

Sunday, March 2, 2003, 7:30 p.m. 


Music for Double Choir. Guest · Artists: Vancouver 

Chamber Choir, Jon Washburn, Conductor. 

CELEBRATION - Ruth Watson Henderson 

Sunday, May 4, 2003, 7:30 p.m. 


A 70'" Birthday Tribute: Choir, Organ and Piano selections 

include Magnificat, Make Me A World, In Memoriam Elmer 

Iseler, Shades of Love, Song My Paddle Sings, Five Ontario 

Folk Songs, Psalm 150. 

FOR BROCHURE & TICKETS 

Call 416-217-0537 Monday to Friday 9-5 pm 

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This is my invitation to you to join us for a 

dynamic series of concert~ highlighting the 

brilliant Canadian composers Srul Irvi:ng Glick, 

Christos Hatzis, and Ruth Watson Henders~m. 

We'll celebrate ,the 50th Anniversary of the 

Coronation in regal style, and we'll conclude our 

sea.son,· with. Orff's popular Ca.nnina, Bura.na.. 

.:Join us· for another great year of chonJ music! 

' 

LyJia AJam

in B Minor by the new 

Mendelssohn Singers (the elite 

core of the Mendelssohn Choir) in 

April~ Rest assured, WholeNote 

will be there as it all unfolds. 

Larry Beckwith can be reached at 

dunnbeckwith@sympatico.ca 

the 

ruriana 

tJgers 

WILLIAM BROWN 

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR 

NEW MEMBERS WELCOME 

AUDITIONS BY APPOINTMENT 

Call 416-491-6254 for information 

2002-2003 

Concert Series 

* 

CHRISTMAS WITH RUTH 

WATSON HENDERSON 

A 70th Birthday Celebration 

Saturday, Nov. 30, 2002 

Veronica Tennant, narrator 

Albert Greer, tenor 

Earl Haig Chamber Choir 

* 

SONGS -SAYINGS-SONNETS 

Saturday, Mar. 1, 2003 

Bach - Telfer - Glick 

Gardner- Maclean 

* 

Nat ~ing COLE Porter . 

A tribute through Song 

Tyvo of the Greatest 

Saturday, May 10, 2003 

The Oriana Stage Band 

THE ORIANA SINGERS 

2106 - 1055 Bay St. 

Toronto, Ont. M5S 3A3 

416-923-3123 

william.brown4@sympatico.ca 

www.orianasingers.on.ca 

Auditions, eteetera 

My colleague Merlin Williams, in 

this month's cover story, page 6, 

comments on how this is a good 

time to get involved in community 

bands. Ditto for choirs, as shown 

by the ads on this pag~, continued 

on page 42. LB 

Burlington Civic Chorale 

Dr. Gary Fisher, Director . 

Audition Call for 

Experienced Singers 

A 30-voice SATB Choral 

ensemble performing a 

variety of classical, 

baroque, operatic 

and contemporary 

music. 

For 2002-2003: 

Vivaldi, Telemann, 

Britten, Brahms 

and Monteverdi. 

¥ 

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Callfor 

/ 

Audition 

Appointment: 

905-634-1809 

Immediate opening for 

Bass/Baritone 

Section Lead 

Royal York Road United 

Church 

(Bloor and Royal York Rd) 

Thursday rehearsals, 

7:30-9:30 PM 

I Sunday service I 0:30 AM 

·Contact Director 

Lydia Pedersen 

416-231-2359 / 

COME JOIN US IN A SONG 

- and have the time of your life! 

Scarborough s own 

DUKES OF HARMONY CHORUS 

is looking for male·singers. 

The Scarborough Chapter is all about: friendship, 

fellowship, and sweeping away the cares of the day with 

that thrilling barbership sound. 

It's cheaper than bowling, less stressful than golf and 

more fun than you can imagine! Come and give it a try! 

Practice: Every Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. 

Place: West Rouge Community Centre 

Phone: Len Kennington at 905-771-0841 

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~r :llcAME.NATA I: ~ 

Chamber Cnoir 

Invites auiitions 

for vofo.nteer singers witfi g~oc{ sight-singing skiffs. 'We a{so 

fiave an opening for a tenor section [em{. Camerata refj.earses 

ant! peiforms at (jrace Cfiurcfi on tfz.e J{i[[, 300 Lonstfa[e 'RJ{. 

WeeK{y refi.earsafs Wednesaays at 7:15pm 

Pfease ca{{ Afe[va 'Treffinger (jraliam 

416-488-7884 e;r,,t. 17 or emai[ 

mtgrafi.a~47@rogers.com to arrange an auaition 

'Ifie most 6eautifu[ music was written for tfie fiuman voice : 

it's tfie on[y instrument we pfay. 

·- -· 

~a 

Jubilate Singers Auditions 

I~ .www.torontocamerata.org -~ info@torontocamerata.org 

Isabel Bemaus, Director. Chamber choir with wideranging, 

challenging, multilingual repertoire_(Bartok, 

Britten, Dvorak) and 3 concerts a year has openings in 

all sections. Email dragonsloth@sympatico.ca or call 

41()-322-6517 evenings until 10 to arrange audition. 

Rehearsals: Tuesdays at 7.30 pm, St. Leonard's Church, 

25 Wanless .(near Yonge & Lawrence). 

Auditions Sept. 3 & 10: 5:45 pm to 7:15 pm. 

The Orpheus Choir of Toronto has vacancies for choral 

singers in all voice parts for the coming season. The Choir 

rehearses on Monday evenings at Y orkminster Park Baptist 

Church and performs four concerts per season, usually" at St 

James' Cathedral. To book an audition, please call Janet 

Fisher at 416 588-2391. 

The choir also seeks singers to fill its-Soprano, Alto, Tenoqmd 

Bass Sidgwick Scholarship positions for the 2002:2003 

season. Scholars rec~ive a stipend and the opportunity to 

perform as soloists in ~ne or more of the season's concerts. The 

scholarships are normally awarded to young singers aiming for 

a professional career. 

For further information on the Choir and the 

scholarships, please call Helen Coxon at (416) 586- 

5897 (days) or (416) 251-3803 (eve. & wkend.) 

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HEAR Be 

Now 

(NEW MUSIC) 

by Paul Steenhuisen Well worth a fide down the 401, 

the Guelph Jazz Festival will fea 

Here I am, still wondering exactly ture a September 7 (10:30 A.M.) rehow 

I could have Il)issed the Nihilist tum concert by esteemed trombonist 

Spasm . Band's performance with George Lewis with his "dream team," . 

Sonic Youth at the Koolhaus in mid- an all-star quartet featuring piano great 

August, and already the blitz of a Marilyn Crispell, kic ensemble the Maryem 

more weight each year, though with Tollar Group on Friday Sept 13 at 

each group humming along indepen- Emmanuel United Church in Waterdently, 

the benefit of curatorial unifi- loo. That same night, in the serene 

cation eludes.local large-scale new beauty of the Wolverton Hills (same 

music presentation. Not that I want · location as last year's Qnnabar f'hoegroups 

to overlap or homogenize their nix), Patria Music/Theatre Projects 

programming with any regularity, but opens a run of R. Murray Schafer's 

this year, without the NUMUfost/ The Enchanted Forest, an environfyfassey 

Hall Festival, it's apparent mental music drama (call 705-741- 

that we have moved ever further from 4488 for more information). 

the type of event that Toronto's wealth The Music Gallery PIANO SERIES: 

~ of talent and sophisticated audiences Vibrations of Melqart is Thursday 

could support- something along the Sept 19 at the MG with John Farah 

lines of the film festival. · in what is described as "a winding 

1 river of bizarre piano improvisations, 

; Improvisation is too good to leave to fueled by laptop electronics and beats, a 

chance - Paul Simon 

soundworld in which free jazz, contem 

These are days when no one slwuld porary art music, electronica/techno, 

rely unduly on his "competence." ambient minimalism and Middle-East 

Strength lies in improvisatWn - Walter em textures breathe together". 

Benjamin , ' Ongoing between Aug 20 - Sept 

In honour of John Cage's 90th 13, Barry Prophet will be exhibitbirthday 

(Sept 5), the Music Gallery ing his sound sculptures at the Canapresents 

a new composition bY, Udo dian Sculpture Centre, Exchange 

Kasemets performed by Stephen Tower 130 King St. W. (Tues-Fri, 

Clarke, Sanya Eng, Udo Kasemets, 12-6pm, www.cansculpt.org). And 

Rebecca vander Post, Richard Sacks, Sept 28 brings WHAT NExT: Willem 

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John Cage 

Music Toronto's Oct. 1 concert 

includes the Gryphon Trio performing 

the world premiere of a new work 

by Patrick Carrabre a5 part of a series 

of 4 nights throughout the year 

called Contemporary Classics. And 

on Oct 2, get out your boxers to check 

out Tapestry's 2nd annual Opera 

Briefs -- results of this summer's 

composer-librettist workshops. 

ARRA YMUSIC begins its season 

with what I anticipate will be a 

very interesting two days centering 

on composer.Walter Zimmermann 

After a Sept 21 concert at the Glenn 

Gould Studio, Zimmermaiin's work 

will be heard in an afternoon workshop 

at The Goethe Institute, with 

guest artist Simon Fryer. Australian 

musicologist Richard Toop called 

Zimmermann "a resolute outsider 

within a culture based on common 

currents and.continuities. Though his 

musical thinking is, in many respects, . 

very evidently Germanic, his attraction 

to American culture·was clear 

even in early pieces such as the piano 

duet As a Wife Has a Cow, a 'seismography' 

of a text by Gertrude 

Stein, ... From the start, Zimmermann 

drew inspiration from unusual 

sources, such as Noam Chomsky's 

generative grammar. His works dis~ 

play an extreme reduction of means, 

and a cool, unemotional objectivity 

which is, at one level, a symbolic 

purging Qf European thinking ~d 

tradition. Nevertheless, a characteristically 

European introspection is never 

far below the surface of Zimmermann's 

music, for all its·outward (and 

entirely sincere) allegiances to .. .. composers 

such -~ Cage and Feldman". 

Finally, even without the ad-hoc concerts 

and underground gigs that will 

emerge in large numbers over the 

course of the year, the collection and 

diversity of new f!1USic groups active 

in the region is truly impressive. I 

encourage interested readers.to bookmark 

the following dedicated web links 

(listed in reverse alphabetical order) 

to check out their new seasons. (We 

will pass on other web calendars as 

they become available.) Many of 

these ensembles offer reduced-price 

subscriptions, and full-time students 

should look into the Canadian Music 

Centre"s Cheapseats'program. It can 

be found at Www.musiccentre.ca/ 

CMC/Ontario/OntarioSet.html). 

Tapestry· New Opera 

www.tapestrynewopera.com 

Soundstreams 

www.soundstreams.ca 

Riverdale Ensemble 

www.riverdaleensemble.com 

NUMUS 

WWVI( .on.numus.ca 

New Music Concerts 

www.newmusicconcerts.com 

Music Toronto 

www.music-toronto.com 

Music Gallery · 

' www.musicgallery.org 

Esprit Orchestra - 

www.espritorchestra.com 

Ergo Projects 

www.ergoprojects.org 

' Continuum 

www.interlog.com{- jwaring/continuum 

Amici Chamber Ensemble 

www.amiciensemble.com 

Arraymusic 

http://www.arraymusic.com 

And www.torontohearandnow:com, the 

evolving online counterpart of this section of 

WholeNote magazine. 

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Udo Kasemets 

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interviewed by Paul Steenludsen 

On September '5•h, composer Udo 

Kasemets and friends will present a 

free concert entitled CAGE 90: 

MEMORYECHOESOFJOHN 

CAGE, featuring Kasemets' new 

90-minute Cage-inspired piece. Recordings 

of Cage reading from his 

diaries will also be heard, and the 

following night (also at the Music 

Gallery), Cage's film One 11 will be 

shown. Additionally, late October 

brings a Music Gallery-hosted Cage 

mini-festival, with James' Tenney 

playing the Sonatas and Interludes 

(Oct 24), Stephen Clarke playing , 

Cage and Tenney (Oct 26), and Udo 

Kasemets and Malcolm Goldstein 

playing and discussing Cage on Oct 

27. Given the current focus on 

Cage's work, it was necessary to 

learn more. 

KASEMETS: When Cage died 

(August 12, 1992) it was a real blow 

for me and many others. I made a 

·promise that every year I would do 

something where I zero in on his , 

music, perform it and talk about it. 

In the 50's, when things came together 

in Cage's mind with 4'33" . 

and the Music of Changes, and his 

work with chance procedtires and the 

I-Ching came to fruition, it began to 

resonate with people quite a bit. In 

the 60s there was an opening in 

peoples thinking - scientifically and 

socially. The Beatles came around, 

drugs, the pill, feminism, everything · 

came into being, and' this was a 

wonderful, wonderful time for theatre, 

poetry, visual arts, dance, and art 

and' technology. Even in academic 

circles, there was interest in all of 

these things. People were keen, and 

there was tremendous hope. 

The sad thing about it all is that in 

the '80' s came a counter-movement 

which eliminated many of these 

dynamics, settling back into a very 

traditional way of doing and think- 

happens only in the listener's ear and 

mind. The listener is always the . 

actual mlli!ic maker. 

STEENHUISEN: How does 

ing. ·Society was moving in a mar- , someone who has never touched a 

ketplace direction, which affected 

piano .. 

· 

.? 

everything. The whole marketplace 

andglobalizationsituationsllffocated KASEMETS: That's exactly the 

the cultural situation, and creativity. point. 

What developed from the 60's and STEENHUISEN: It has to be 

70's was cut off. There were artifi- heard tQ eXist? If a tree falls in the 

cial links with the past, but nqt or - forest? 

' ganic connections. 

KASEMETS: If there is no !is- ' 

STEENHUISEN: So with these tener, there is no sound. Sound 

· eoncerts you're trying to establish happens only as a collaboration 

organic links? 

between action/energy (natural or 

KASEMETS: Yes. September 51h mechanical) and the ear. When I am 

is the birth date of Cage, so that talking, I'm setting vibrations of air 

would be his 'X)lh birthday. We'll molecules into action. There is no 

perform a piece using exclusively sound in my vocal chords, there are 

Cage's music as source material, and only vibrations started here, 'which 

using different kinds of organiza~ move through the air. There is no 

tional systems, including the I-ching sound in the air, only vibrations of 

and other statistical systems to draw all kinds. Our ear responds to a 

the material for a 90-minute long certain amount of these vibrations. 

piece. The backbone of the musical. The ear does a clear analysis of , 

organization is that famous span of sound, the frequencies and characteriStics 

- it's a wonderful, (;Ornplex 

time 4'33", which has. been from the 

beginning a very misunderstood system. The brain then takes stock 

work. People thought it was a hoax, of all of this, and differentiates, and 

but it really was a profound statement recognizes sounds it likes, and decides 

what is music. Cage felt that 

that introduces what always has been 

the basis of all.music - that music 

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Udo Kasemets, continued 

music is something undefinable. 

The response is always very personal 

and individual, as is the decision 

of what is and isn't music. 

STEENHUISEN: Do you find the 

word music to be confining? 

KASEMETS: Unfortunately it has 

become a compartment. For peciple 

today, music is reeordings, it's 

something to have and own - that's 

what they listen to and that is music. 

Art milsic isn't even mentioned in 

today's context, whereas one hundred 

years ago, that was the music. 

The definition of music shifts in the 

culture, yet ultimately there is no 

fixed definition for it. In this world, 

where there is so much information 

coming in, we have tO make our 

own decisions, and become more 

concentrated on what is really what 

... on questioning. 

At the beginning of the 2()

Above: Ajay Heble 

Below: Marilyn Crispell 

garde music club that runs an impressive 

jazz festival each June. 

Three days of seminars and muskal 

workshops are part and parcel of the 

Guelph experience. This alone 

would be worth the trip to .Guelph. 

The symposium joins musicologists, 

cultural studies scholars and musicians. 

Heble is an important thinker 

in the field, via his oook .for 

Routledge, Landing ori the Wrong 

Note: Ji:zv., ·Dissonance, and Critical 

Practice. An anthology of presentations 

at successive symposia, The . 

Other Side of Nowhere: Jazz., .Improvisation, 

and Communities in 

Dialogue, will be published by 

Wesleyan University Press. 

AU this flurry of creative activity 

is rendered even more impressive 

because it is the product of community 

volunteering. Heble's labour 

of love is made possible by takirig 

part-time, unpaid leave from his job 

as professor of literature at Guelph 

and other faculty members also contribute 

time. Most of the festival's 

· board and staff of volunteers come 

from outside the campus. The ma" 

jority could not have imagined themselves 

listening to this kind of music 

'ten years ago, much Jess volunteerr 

ing time and energy to support it. 

· The Guelph Festival is witness that 

the ears of the wider community can 

be opened, with appropriately wise 

approaches, to the weird and wonderful. 

· 

Getting down to specifics: the 

"extended c\owntown musicians" 

include household names (for folks 

with my kind of ears) such as: Fred 

Anderson, Marilyn Crispell, Hamid 

Drake, Fred Frisk, Hasidic New 

Wave, Kidd Jorctan, George Lewis, 

Rob Mazurek, Jason Moran, Larry 

Ochs, William Parker, Dewey 

Redman and CuongVu. Wow!! 

Among the "mix and match" . 

events, there's Lotte Anker (Denmark) 

·and Crispell; TO's Jane 

Bunnett with Redman; Montreal's 

JAZZ 

NOTES 

by Jim Galloway 

Fran

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·FESTIVAL port hope 

· Sept~rnber 20, 21 ~ 22 2002 

Young Jazz Showcase •Jazz Boutique • Latin, Jazz Coffee Bar 

Gourmet Food Tent• Wine & Beer Tent 

"Blow Your Own Horn" Jazz Parade 

Free e ·a:ndshell Concerts 

Saturday • Kevin Clark Quintet • Kollage • Eric Harding Quintet • Lesterdays 

Sunday • Peter Dent Ql:Jintet • Rhythm & Truth Brass Band 

Capitol .Theatre .~oncerts 

·Friday • JOE SEALY with RANEE LEE .& RICHA~D RING 

Saturday • ROB McCONNELL · 

Bosom Buddies (Bonnie Brett& Melissa Stylianou) 

Sunday • SHIRLEY EIKHARD 

. - Duo Provost/Lachapelle 

Tickets: $30 

Knight Club on the Park 

. ARLENE SMITH • GEORGE EVANS 

LATE NIGHT JAM SESSIONS 

with San Murata Trio, featuring Bob George, Piano 

(obourg Venue: Oasis Bar & Grill . 

· Georgette Fry Trio, • Mike Graham Trio • Climax Jazz Band 

Visit Port Hope for All Day and Into t·he Night Jazz. 

· Just 1 Hr. East of Toronto along the 401. 

ww.,.al~canadianjazz.ca . Tel: 905-885-1938 . 

• 

The All-Canadian Jazz Festival Port Hope gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the 

.. Ontario Trillium Foundation, an agency of the Ministry of Culture. 

The Foundation receives annually $100 million in government funding 

generated through Ontario's charity casino initiative. 

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www.thewholenote.com September 1 - Octoiier -7"2002

end, however, for most of us marks 

the unofficial end of Summer and is 

certainly the start of the Fall season _ 

in jazz clubs. ' · 

The Top 0' The Senator, 

MUSIC THEATRE SPOTLIGHT 

Top ten music theatre events for the fall 

(w'ww.jazzintoronto.com) keeps the 

by Sarah B. Hood ', 

emphasis on local talent ranging from 

singer Pat Lacroix to Time Warp. 

1. "I've been rich and I've' b((en :beyond the split-second changes. 

Over a( the Montreal B'istro, poor. Rich is better. " So spoke After all, "If it's only that, in 20 

(montrealbistro.com), the month has , 

Vaudeville legend Sophie Tucker, minutes the show is finished," 

a mix oflocals and visiting firemen. 

who created herself as an unlikely points out Brachetti himself. His 

The.Al Henderson Quintet kicks off Moe Koffman star: the strong-willed, funny, fat, self-titled show runs from Septema 

month which also sees Australian bawdy Jewish girl .who gave thou- ber 10 to October 20 at the Canon 

cornet player Bob Barnard with wrote these words for "September sands of dollars to charitable causes. Theatre. 

master bassist Keter Betts, (who Song"' featured in the Kurt Weill · A child of Russian immigrants, she 3. Soulpepper Theatre is windspent 

24 years with Ella Fitzgerald), musical "Knickerbocker Holiday" - left Hartford, .Connecticut for the ing up its season, but Artistic Diand 

drummer Jackie Williams. Locals "Oh, it's a long, long while from New York of the Follies era, and rector Albert Schultz and guests are 

Reg Schwager and yours truly May to December But the days grow rose-to phenomenal success. Valerie inviting audiences to attend a musiround 

out this band.1 

short when you reach September·" Boyle portrays Sophie Tucker, Last cal change of pace at the du Maurier 

Another date to note is Monday, (Anderson also wrote the following: of the Red Hot Mamas in the final Theatre Centre on Oct0ber 5 at 2 

Septel)lber 23 at the Bistro, when Ifyoupracticeanart, beproudofit offeringoftheseasonfromtheRed and 8 p.m. Young at Heart is a 

the second annual Moe Koffman and make it proud of you··· It may Barn Theatre in Jackson's Point. fundraiser featuring songs Schultz 

memorial jazz scholarship benefit will break your heart, but it will fill your "I loved the fact that she was a has loved since childhood, includtake 

place. The performers for this heart before it breaks it; it will make larger-than-life woman, a femini~t ing material from movie, TV and 

You a person in your own right.) . . 

year's all-star band include Emilie- _before there were feminists, mde- stage musicals. Proceeds go to the 

Claire Barlow, Guido Basso, Peter September's not a bad month for pendent, strong, a survivor," says Soulpepper Youth Outreach Initia-· 

Appleyard, Scott Alexander, Brian · song titles, actually. There's also Boyle. The show runs from Au- tive and UNICEF. For information 

Barlow, Johh Johnson, Russ Little, "September In The Rain" by Harty gust 30 to Septem&er 14. ' and tickets can · 416-973-4000 or 

Steve McDade, Rob Piltch and Tom Warren (music) and Al Dubin '2. Forget Pistachio Disguise. visit www.soulpepper.ca. 

Szezesniak. Tickets are $65 each ancj (words), featured in the 1937 picture Arturo Brachetti is the real Master 4. Weird.Al Yankovic has a spiral! 

the proceeds go towards The Moe Melody for Two. The definitivejazz of Disguise. An Italian theatre star . itual father - or should we say 

Koffman Memorial Jazz Scholarship recording was by the George known for his accomplishments in "faddah" - in the per~on of the 

· at the University of Toronto. For Shearing Quintet and it was one of the ancient art of metamorphosis, late Allen Sherman. Back in the 

tickets call: University of Toronto thosemagicalcreativethingsthatcan Brachetti first learned his quick- '60s, when Weird. Al was but a 

416-946-3580. only happen by chance. As Mr. change craft from a talented magi- tot, Sherman scored a hit with his 

Shearing once described it' - "The 

The Rex continues on its merry · 

cian/priest while he was attending albums of comic song parodies. His 

way with an array of'foronto jazzers five ofus-John Levy' Denzil Best, a seminary in his youth. Brachetti version of "Battle Hymn of the 

and a "business as usual" smile. Marjie Hyams, Cbuck Wayne and can change costumes in seconds, Republic" runs along these lines: 

These are, it is generally accepted, myself-sat down at an accidental and portrays Some 80 characters "Oh Harry Lewis perished/In the 

the big three clubs in town; but there rehearsal and accidentally played over the course of h,is show. But service Of his Lord/He was tramis 

a comprehensive list of jazz venues September in the Rain and there's more: the production, in- plingthrougllthewarehouse/Where. 

in this month's issue, (see page 40) accidentally sold 9oo,ooo copies!" formea by a Felliniesque aesthetic the drapes of Roth are stored/He 

along with contact numbers. Mayweallhavethatkindofaccident! andfeaturingawiderangeofwhat had the finest funeral/The union 

Programming details are not always Before signing off, may I remind were once called "variety acts" - could afford/ And his cloth goes 

easy to come by before print you of the request I made in June - like Chinese shadow play - draws shining on:" A musical review 

deac)lines, but a phone call will get - to go to ajazz club and experience the audience into a narrative of based on the Sherman legacy, named 

. the music live at least once before 

you the programming information Brachetti's own life that goes well CONTINUEDNEXTPAGE 

· the end of September. You have one · · 1 

· you need. month to go. If you should refi,ise 

Writing this in one of the dog days this mission your tv will self destruct · 

of this oh so hot summer, it is almost on October 1st. 

with a slight feeling of relief that I · Parting thought - If we we~e born 

look forward to fall, but it is with three legs would marches be 

counteracted by the feeling so waltzes? Or vice versa?Happy 

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Hello Muddah, Hello FadLluh! af- 7. Red-hot Broadway choreograter 

his most famous song, has al- pheriinddirectorSusanStromanhas . 

ready won acclaim in Chicago and strong Toronto connections. A fre 

New York. It runs at the New quent associate of director Harold 

Yorker Theatre from October 9 Prince and lyricist/composer team Season 

to November 17. 

Kandor and Ebb (Cabaret, Chi- 

5. Preview 

Billed as a "water-opera", the cago), she teamed up with them to , 

latest offerillg from the always-cha!- choreograph the Liv Ent-developed 'by C}Jristopher Holle 

lenging Autumn: Leaf Opera and Kiss of the Spider Woman. She won Opera-lovers tired of 

Performance is Kafka in Love. Di- Tonys for l;ler choreography of the the usual warhorses have 

' rector/producer· Thom Sokoloski Gershwin pastiche Crazy for You . cause for celebration. 

has crafted an intriguing work that and for the Toronto-lx>m Showboat. For the 2002-03' seasomehow 

unites Kafka's writing And since directing and choreo- son a high quantity of 

with synchronized swimming and graphing The Producers, she's rarities are on offer from 

water puppetry. It's set for a six- reached a pinnacle that few Broad- all of the opera compa- 

The Queen ofSpades, 'welsh National 

, week run beginning in October/ way directors will ever know. nies in the region. 

Opera production 

November at "an elegant post-art- Perhaps enthusiasm for that pro- 

,. deco pool". duction has. somewhat overshad- The Canadian Opera Company Bradshaw has seen to it that Janacek's 

6. Tapestry New . Opera Works owed her 2000 Tony-winning show opens its season with operas seldom operas are no strangers to Toronto. 

celebrates its 23rd anniversary with CONTACT. Judge for yourself or never staged by other companies The winter season w.ill see a revival 

·a gala fundraiser featuring Louise , when this musical without dialogue of eqwvalent size. Firstis Tchaikov of the COC's 1995 production of 

Pitre (Mamma Mial) with Rebecca comes to t):le Canon Theatre from sky's second most performed work, Jenufa starring Helen Field along 

Hass and _TamaraHummel, plus the November 5 to December 15. The Queen of Spades (Pikovaya with Verdi's Un Balla in maschera. 

edible creations of chef Jamie 8. There'll be buckling of swashes Dama), not seen here for 14 years. Springs brings the COC's venerable 

Kennedy. Tickets are $150. and and chewing of scenery galore when · It will be presented in the p.ighly acbenefit 

but marvellous Madmna Butteifly in 

Tapestry's animal Com- Ross Petty Productions moves its claimed production from the Welsh tandem with (strange but true) the 

poser-Librettist Laboratory. The annual holiday Panto _to Sherwood National Opera. Second· is. the COC's first-ever production of 

fun takes place at 7pm on October Forest. From December 3 to Janu- COC' s own production of Rossini's L 'Italiana inAlgeri. The 

27 at the Royal Ontario Museum. ary 5 kids and their attenc!ant grown- , Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex with Sym COC Ensemble continues its exploration 

For information and tickets call ups can boo the evil Sheriff and phony of Psalms fresh from perfonn 

of Benjamin Britten· with The 

Amy at 416-537-6066, extension cheer the exploits ofRopih and his ances at.this year's Edinburgh Fes~ Tum of the Screw in D.ecember. · 

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OPERA, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 22 For those who don't require the and fl Trovatore), OM will present its season with La Boheme, in Janu. 

In November; Opera Atelier fol- trappings of sets and costumes, there the North American premiere of the · ary they present Leo Delibes' rarelylows 

up its triumphant production are several notable concert perform- most popular Croatian opera Nikola performed Lakme starring Jane 

in 2000 of Lully's Persee with all- ances coming .up. The Toronto Subic Zrinjsld by Ivan Zajc (1832- Archibald, followed in March by 

other masterpiece of the French Ba- Consort continues its Monteverdi 1914) (Oct 5 to 12) sung in Croatian Donizetti'sLaFil!e'du regimeru starroque, 

Marc-Antoine's Charpentier's series with Oifeo ill February. Op- with English surtitles . . The princi- ring Tracy Dahl. With three per 

Medee. In May the OA revives its era in Concert has a fine IiiJ.e-up ·pals will come from the Croatian formanceseachinHamiltonand,one 

popular Marriage of Figaro. with Rossini's Semiramide in De- NatioHal Opera in Zagreb. in Kitchener, ,these two will be cer- 

Although Franz Lehar's The Land cemtJer, Rameau' s Castor et Pollux And while Opera Ontario be ins tainly worth the journey. 

of Smiles (Das Land des Llichelns) in February and Bellini's Beatrice di 

is standard repertoire in Central Euc Tenda in April. 

rope, it is seldom encountered in Autumn Leaf, Tapestry New Op 

North America. In December the .eraWorksandQueenofPuddings 

Toronto Operetta Theatre gives· us 

the first chances.ince'l 989 to see the' all have new operas on tap. In October 

for Autumn Leaf Thom 

work so identified with Richard Sokolowski will produce Hungarian 

Tauber. The TOT's spring show 

is its first-ever Mikado, but in Feb- composer Gyorgy $urtag's songcycle 

"Kafka in Love" as an opera. 

ruary it presents a real rarity in con- The venue will be an indoor &wimcert, 

the Cuban operetta Cecilia ming pool with a cast including a 

. Valdez by Gonzalo Roig. soprano, two synchronized swim- 

The University of Toronto Op- mers and two puppeteers. In April 

era Division presents its first-ever Tapestry brings us Facing South by 

full-length Baroque opera with Linda Catlin Smith starring Jean 

Handel's Alcina in November. In Stilwell and in June Queen of Pudfylarch 

it presents the Toronto 

Premiere of John Beckwith's 1lapto6! . dings presents Charlotte by James. 

Rolfe, the composer of the highly ' 

that received its world premiere by successfu~ Beatrice Chancey. 

Opera McGill in 1999. · . / 

Let's not forget that in May Should one-venture outside the 

Soundstreams will celebrate opera bounds of Toronto, there are still 

. for young people as part of North- more rarities. to enjoy. Opera 

em Encounters 2003. Included will Mississauga has so far been con- · 

be Harry Somers' A Midwinter tent to showcase Italian opera's great 

Night's Dream from 1988 along with est hits presented by singers from 

Caribou Song by Barbara Croali and provincial Italian opera houses. This 

works from Finland and Iceland. 

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. sumptuous Elgin Theatre. Expect 

the lamest of puns, the wisest of 

cracks, pretty chorus girls (and 

boys) in tights, and a sing-along. 

9. In the year 2000 Brookstone 

Performing Arts decided to take a 

pensive look ;tt two millennia of 

Christianity. The resulting production, 

2000 Candles, is a playwithin-a-concert, 

incorporating 

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readings and music of all kinds. 

Lest you shy away from "Christian" 

theatre, know that NOW 

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be difficult to fmd a more entertaining 

or thoughtful ~oliday ,offering 

than 2000 Candles." It runs December 

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Brookstone's newly renovated 

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10. Finally, Shakespeare thought that · 

"summer's lease hath all too short a 

date," ·SQ the Shaw and Stratford 

Festivals have extended the season. 

You ha~e until October 26 to see incoming 

Artistic Director Jackie , 

Maxwell's production of Merrily We 

Roll Awng at Shaw. At Stratford,. the 

Weill/Brecht classic The Threepenny 

Oper.a continues to November 2, and 

My Fair Lady runs to November 10. 

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BEHIND THE SCENES 

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by Dawn Lyons 

I tell the little brown box on the post at the parking !of behind Roy 

Thomson Hall that I'm doing'an interview. The box responds, "We 

have a show on, there's no parking here." Oh well. It's the first day 

of the Royal Bank Seniors' Jubilee, there are buses for blocks along · 

Wellington Street and there are seniors everywhere at Roy Thomson 

Hall. When I talked to Glenda Richards of Richburn Productions, the 

Jubilee's producer last spring (see May 2001 WholeNote) she had told 

me there were 1,300 performers. This should be quite the shakedown 

show for the newly re-opened Roy Thomson Hall: Den offers to stow 

the van while I start the interview. I wait at the security desk for my 

contact, Jack Kado. He's RTH's publicity manager and he's arranged 

for me to talk to the project manager for the hall's acoustic makeover. I 

can hear the. strains of Stars and Stripes Foreyer corniug from the Hall. 

I imagine a nonagenarian baton twirler. 

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The Wolf Trio 

Phoebe Tsang, Ma-an Currie-Roberts, 

. Gregory Millar , 

Works by Beethoven, Schubert, Kuzmenko 

Concert 2 

Sunday, December 8 4:00 pm 

Ein Kindelein -An Advent! Christmas Celebration 

The Amarilli Singers, St. George's 

on-the-Hill Chancel Choir, Strings 

Karen Rymal - Director 

Seasonal readings and carols with music by 

Sweelinck,Wbeck, Mozart and Corelli. 

Sherry and shortbread reception follows. 

Concert 3 

Sunday, April 6 4:00 pm 

A Medieval Lenten Meditation 

Sine Nomine Ensemble for Medieval Music 

Medieval readings and music for Lent. 

Concert 4 

Sopranos and Altos Times Two 

Sunday, May 4 4:00 pm 

The Amarilli Singers (women) - Karen Rymal - Director 

Penthelia Singers - Mary Legge- Director 

Jacqueline Goring - harp 

A spring program for female voices and harp. 

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BEHIND THE SCENES, CONTINUED . 

A dark, distracted-looking man 

approaches from the direction of · 

the admin offices, hand extended. 

"Hi, I'm Jack, and that's 

Steven ... ". A tall red-haired man 

enters from the parking lot, shakes 

my hand real fast, says something 

about a banner, and keeps on 

going. Jack, trouper that he is, 

plies me with construction statistics 

and budget figures until Steven 

reappears. We try again. "This is 

Stevep. Metcalf of Ellis Don, he is 

. the projeet manager . . His office is 

in the trailer out in the parking lot. 

Did you want to talk to,hirn there 

or in the auditorium?" 

Me: Would the .trailer be OK? I . 

see you have seniors in the 

auditoriwn. 

Jack looks at me, wide-eyed, 

"They' re everywhere! " · 

The trailer is wonderful. Woodgrain 

panelling, plywood pigeonholes 

with curled-up plans, a fourdrawer 

metal file cabinet, wall 

calendar complete with calendar 

girl. Steven gestures at a folding 

table with a telephone, a can of . · 

Pepsi and a laptop computer on it. 

"That's my desk." 

Me: Now, as I wuterstand it, the . 

acoustic consultants - that would 

be R1,JSsell Johnson and Dami.an 

Doria of Artec Consultants Inc. of 

New York - decide what needs to 

'be done, then the architect - in 

this case Tom Payne of 

Kuwahara Payne McKenna 

Blumberg Archite,cts, Toronto. - 

decide how it is to be done, and 

your job is to actually get ft done, 

have I got that right? 

Steven: That's about right. There 

was a design and development 

phase, a lot of consulting. Ellis 

Don bas been involved for years, 

. there's budget stuff and proposals 

(he indicates a high shelf with 

eight or 'ten strip-bowut books 

piled on) from way before I 

started. ' 

Me: I remember Jack telling me 

that planning started in.1995. 

When did you start? 

Steven; April 2001. 

Me: So, how do theplans get 

trans/.ated into reality?· 

Steven: (offers me a strip-bound 

book abo/4 1112" thick) That's 

the project specifications, they go · 

with the architectural drawings. 

He flips it open to show me a 

table of contents. Everything is 

broken into 16 categories, that's 

standard for the,'construction 

industry. 

(He shows me a page, there are 

maybe a dozen categories with 

numbers, like Carpentry 5800, 

each with several sub- categories, 

also numbered, list(!d below it.) 

Everything is in here. From· 

this I prepare the tender packages. 

Me: (confused) Tender · 

packages? Haven't you 

already got the contract? 

Oh ... (I blush), for the 

contractors to tender. 

Steven nods: I make up 

one for every trade or 

contractor. It has in it 

what we want each 

contractor to do, and each 

one also gets a general 

package, with general 

things like hours of 

work, time schedule, site 

set-up, bond requirements, 

everyone is 

responsible for their own 

overtime, if you hold 

someone .else up you 

have to pay their overtfme 

- things like that, and a 

set of the plans. The 

time schedule is the most 

important thrng here, 

everyone has to keep tG 

the schedule. 

(He opens a fold-out 

· page, a colour-coded 

plan of the hall under 

construction.) 

Here is the scaffolding, there's 

the garbage, here are the washrooms, 

the mobile crane .... 

Me: So you just break down the 

packages by the trades? 

Steven: I change them around, if 

it makes better sense. For 

instance, structural' steel and 

PHOTO: ROY THOMSON HALL 

miscellaneous metals are usually 

two separate things, but there are 

some places here where the· 

structural" steel.is attached to other 

metals - the canopy and where 

'the stairs meet - so I put that ~in 

the stnictural steel package,, 

because it's so integrated. 

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Me: So the structural steel guy 

would do the miscellaneous metal? 

Steven: No, he'd still sub to a 

misc;ellaneous metals guy for that 

part, but he'd be responsible for 

the whole package. And I'd have 

a miscellaneous metals package as 

well, for the rest of the metal stuff. 

Another place like that is the 

gll!Zing, I put that in the package 

with the window framing . He'd 

sub it to a glazier, but when it's in 

the window package I know that 

the installation will be done right 

for those particular frames. 

Me: So all these things are let out 

for bids? · 

-~teven: Well, some are, but for a 

lot of the work we have preferred 

contractors we know and we like 

to use them. Where we hadn't 

worked with someone before we 

checked them out - we· visited the 

guy who is refurbishing the seats, 

we went out to the shop in 

London that did the bulkheads. 

As the project managers Ellis Don 

is responsible for everything and 

with the tight schc;:dule we didn't 

want to take any chances, we 

couldn't afford the tinle to fix any 

mistakes. 

Me: How tight was your time 

schedule? · 

· Steven: The-hall was dark for 

· 22 weeks, originally 20 but they 

increased it to 22; March 10 to 

August 13. During thi!.t time we 

worked 24 hours a day, steel guys 

had the crane from 7am to 3pm, 

wood guys had it from 3 to 11, 

and the demolition removal guys 

had it from midnight to 1am. We 

had several milestones, which 

were somewhat flexible, but the 

last day - that never changed. 

August 9. 

Me: With this big a job and this 

small a· wind.ow, I guess you did a 

lot in advance? 

Steven: Oh yes, everything we 

could. We built models. The 

tenders,' as. much as possible, the 

materials. The meetings, the site 

visits. We had a big warehouse in 

Mississauga, we used that to 

assemble two of the bulkheads, 

for th~ architect to approve the 

finishes. That would normally be 

dorie on the construction site but 

we did it there because we didn't 

have time in case he didn't 

approve it, and it also gave us a 

chance for our people to work out 

the procedure for installing them. 

·(He meditates.) We were really 

lucky with that warehouse, we 

needed 40' overhead clearance for 

the bulkheads. We assembled the 

canopy there, too, to make sure 

everything worked. We made. a 

couple of changes, _we added some 

braces to the hoists to deal with the 

rotation and changed the light 

troughs. 

We did some of the on-site 

work in advance, too, before the 

22-week dark phase. We had a 

"pre-dark", that was October 13 to 

March 9. We did preliminary work 

between midnight and 7am during 

that period. We worked in the 

attic putting in three layers of 

structural steel to support the new 

canopy, it weighs about 50,000 

pounds, and a washroom for the 

workers, way up there. 

(Clicks on his laptop.) 

' Here's a picture. And before that 

there was pre-pre-dark. 

Me: Pre-pre-dark? 

Steven: Some of the work was 

done by RTH before we officially 

became a construction site, we 

have some union issues. So they. 

built the counterweight shaft, that 

was an enlargement and extension 

of a stairwell that wep.t into the 

parking garage under the hall, to 

house the 100,000 pound counterweight 

for the canopy. 

(Steven smiles with pride) 

We started on Wednesday March 

13 at midnight. That first night 

we took out the stage, started on 

the seats and rigged the sling for 

theoculus. 

I hazard a guess: 'That was the 

thingy on the ceiling with all the 

discs sticking out of it? 

Steven nods. The next night we 

finished the seats and dropped the 

occulus using 12 electronic hoists, 

all co-ordinated: It hit the stage at 

3:30am. 

(Another photo on his laptop, · 

it's the oculus on the stage, 

looking like a downed,UFO.) 

By 7:00am it was cut up and 

'removed. 

Me: Cut up? 

\ 

Steven: Yes, everything that went 

into or out of the hal,I went 

through this door. 

(He flashes a photo of a very 

ordinary double door onto the 

screen. "It's six-foot seven 

inches," he says with quiet 

satisfaction.) 

I boggle. You have a 38 tonne 

canopy in there. You have 23 

huge wooden bulkheads. You had 

a mobile crane in there. · 

Steven flashes another picture on 

the screen. The same doorway is 

absollltely filled with I don't 

know, yes I do, It's the body of a 

crane, on its side, with no wheels. 

Steven: Right, we had to dismantle 

everything, in and out. 

Me: How do you keep track of 

everything? I don't see a lot of 

paper, so must be the laptop? 

Steven: Right. We use 

EDgeBuilder7, it's Ellis Don's 

own, the programming is done by 

our hiformation manager, Bruce 

Fleming - he's a Waterloo 

graduate, too. 

(Steven clicks up a screen with 

squares and boxes and tabs 

across the top.) 

It's similar to Micrqsoft Project, 

based on Lotus Notes; but 

especially designed to manage 

construct\on projects. It's webbased 

and includes a webcam. 

The camera was installed at the top 

of the hall and had electronic 

telemetry, any of the authorized , 

users. could aim the camera 

wherever they wanted to see any 

angle of the work, live. All the 

plans and specifications are 

available to them, too. (Steven 

clicks on tabs.) Here, minutes of , 

meetings, supervisors' daily field 

reports, schedule, specifications, 

change orders, RFI's, photographs 

of various aspects of the work, · 

and I can track anything, too. 

Me: RF/? 

Steven: Request for information. 

Here's one. He hasn't gotten back 

to me on that one, I can follow 

up. (Click, a reminder e-mail goes 

out.) It's instant and the informa~ 

tion is available to everyone 

involved .... 

Me: So, ifthe hall's done, why 

are you still here? 

Steven grins: We moved so fast 

that sometimes the work got done 

before the paperwork. There are 

some deficiencies and extras - · 

Cesaroni the drywall contractor, 

there is a ceiling that wasn't in the 

original package, that sort of thing. 

I' II be here until September, my 

next project is in Oshawa, I'll like 

that~ ... closer to home. • 

Women's Musical Club of Toronto 

presents its 1 osth season of 

~intk~ . 

Daedalus String Quartet 

Thurs. Oct. 24, 2002 ' 

Gallois-Jackson-Swan Trio Thurs. Nov. 14, 2002 

sponsor: WMCT Centennial Foundation 

Katherine Chi, piano 

Mezzo-Soprano 

Catherine Robbin 

Celebrating a great career 

Amsterdam Loeki 

Stardust Quartet 

·Thurs. Dec. 12, _2002 

Thurs. Jan. 23, 2003 

Thurs. Mar . . 20 1 ·2003 

All concerts are held at 1.30 p.m. in Walter Hall, 

Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen's Park, 

(Museum Subway Station). ~ 

Free lectures for members precede the concerts at 12. 1,5 p.m. 

All Five Concerts: · $ 1 2 5 

For tickets and 

information call: 

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Handel Gloria with soprano Emma Kirkby 

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· A SEASON OF · 

DISCOVERY 

new ideas I new sounds I new talents I new experiences 

What's New in 2002-2003 

3 new series - Wednesday Discovery, 

Celebrations!, Sundays at the Bader 

"My Package" option - .create your own 

subscription series of 3 or more concerts 

from a select list of 15. 

Over 120 events, from small jazz 

ensembles to orchestras and choirs to 

fully-staged opera. 

Guest Artists 

Marilyn Horne voice 

John R. Stratton Visiting Artist 

Claude and Pamela Frank piano and violin 

Wilma and Clifford Smith Visitors in Music 

Dame Gillian Weirorgan 

. Rupert Edwards Organ Visitor 

Mario Davidovsky compo,sition 

Roger D. Moore Visitor in Composition 

Frea Hersch jazz piano 

Student Ensembles 

U of T Symphony Orchestra 

U of T Chamber Ensemble 

MacMillan Singers 

University Women's Chorus 

Master Chorale 

Wind Ensemble and Concert Band 

10 O'Clock & 11 O'Clock Jazz 

Orchestras 

' Vocal Jazz Ensemble 

Contemporary Music Ensemble 

Early Music Ensemble 

Guitar Orchestra 

Percussion Ensemble 

World Music Ensembles 

To receive a copy of our season brochure call 

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Comprehensive Concert Listings 

Readers please note: presenters' plans change; strikes happen; & we make 

mistakes! Please always use the phone numbers provided to call ahead. For 

Jazz club listings, see pages 40. For full music theatre and opera listings, see 

page 40. For events "further afield" (just outside the GTA) see page 38. 

Sunday September 01 

,- 3:00: Toronto Music Garden/Ashkenaz: A 

festival of New Yiddish Culture. Soles on 

Fire: Khevrisa. Klelmer music & dance. Michael 

Alpert, dance master; Steven Greenman, violin; W. 

Zev Feldman, cirrbal; Stuart Brotman, bass. 4 75 

Queens Quay West. 416-973-3000. Free. 

- 4:30: Ashkenaz: A Festival ot' New 

Yiddish Culture. Cracow Klezmer Band. 

Performance of live score to Jewish Luck on violin, 

accordion, clarinet, percussion & double bass. 

Studio Theatre, York Quay Centre, 235 Queens 

Quay West. 4·16-9734000. $10. 

- 6:00: Ashkenaz: A Festival of New 

Yiddish Culture. Di Naye Kapelye. Music from 

Hungary & Romania. Bob Cohen, violin} mandolin} 

flute/vocals; Antal Fekete, kontra fiddle; Yankl Falk, 

clarinet/vocals; Ferenc Pribojszki, cinbalom; Gyula 

Kozma, bass/koboz. Ann Tindal Stage, 235 Yark 

Quay Centre, 235 Queens Quay West. 416-973- 

3000. 


Yiddi~h Culture. Under the Canopy of Heaven: A 

Traditiqna/Jewish Weddir!]. Khevrisa: Steven 

Greenman, violin; Walter Zev Feldman, cimbal; 

Michael Alpert, sekund violin/vocals; Stuart 

Brotman, bass. Brigantine Room, Yark Quay 

Centre, 235 Queens Quay West. 416-973-3000. 


Yiddish Culture. Flying Bu/gar Klezmer Band. 

Original music based on traditional Y'Jddish sourds. 

Oavid Buchbinder, trtJ111l9t; Daniel Barnes, drums; 

Victor Bateman, bass; Marilyn Lerner, piano; Bob 

Steven5on, clarinets; Dave Wall, vocals/percussion. 

Harbourfront Centre Concert Stage, York Quay 

Centre, 235 Queens Quay Wes!. 416-973-3000. 

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Yiddish Culture. Cracow Klezrner Band. 

· Jaroslaw Bester, acconf1011/arranger; Jaroslaw 

T yrala, vioin; Oleg Dyyak, accordion/clarinet/ 

percussion; Wojciech Front, double bass. 

Harbourfront Centre Concert Stage, 235 Queens 

Quay West. 416-973-3000. 


Yiddish i:ulture/T oronto Jewish Folk 

Choir. Gebirtig:Der zinger fun noit (The Singer of 

Misfortune). Dramatized musical montage with 

narrators on the life, music & lyrics of Mordecai 

Gebirtig. Lakeside Terrace, York-DUay Centre, 235 

Queens Quay West. 416-973-3000. 


Yiddish Culture. Anthony Coleman, piano. 

Perfonnance of 6ve score to Jewish Luck. Studio 

'Theatre, York Quay Centre, 235 Queens Quay 

West. 416-9734000. $10. 


Yiddish Culture. Klezmer en Buenos Aires. 

Elements from Argentinean folk, jazz. 

conte1T110farv music & tango. Cesar Lerner, piano/ 

accordion; Marcelo Moguilevsky, clarinet/flute. 

Lakeside Terrace, York Quay Centre, 235 Queens 

Quay West. 416-9,734000. $10. 


Yiddish Culture. Shurum Burum. Buchbinder: 

Piece derived from Shostakovich: Violin Concerto 

#1 Op.77; diverse compositions performed by 8 

musicians, circus perfonners/clowns & audience. 

Brigantine Room, York Quay Centre, 235 Queens 

Quay West. 416-973-3000. 


Yiddish Culture/Toronto Jewish folk 

Choir. Bames:'oos Naye lid (A New Song) (world 

~). Klezmerdance suite for chorus & 

instnmental ensemble of clarinet, trumpet, viofui, 

ceDo, piano & drums. Zahm Mlotek, conductor. 

Harbourfront Centre Concert Stage. 235 Oneeis 

Quay West. 416-973-3000. 


Yiddish Culture. Klezperanto. Ilene Stahl, 

clarinet; Evan Harlan, accordion; Mark Hamiton, 

trombone; Grant Snith. drums; Brandon Seabrook, 

banjo/guitar; Mik~ Bullock;bass. Harbourfront 

Centre Concert Stage, 235 Queens Quay West. 

416-973-3000. 

Thursday September 05 

-8:DO: Music Gallery. Cage BO: 

Memotyeehoes of John Cage. Kasemets: new 

cllfl1l0Silion. Stephen Clarke, Sanya Eng. Udo 

Kasemets, Rebecca van derPost, Richard Sacks & 

other performers. 197 John St. 416-204-1080. 

free. . 

Saturday September 07 

- 3:00: Music Gallery. Rebecca van der Post, 

violin & Maria Antonia Garcia, piano. Enescu: 

Impressions d'Enfance; Ives: Sonata #4 Childrens' 

Day at the Camp Meeting; Sclvlittke: Quasi Una 

Sonata; other repertoire TBA. 197 JohnSt.4.16- 

204-1080. $15. 

- 6:00: Toronto All-Star Big Band. SouthsA:te 

Shuffle. Sounds of the great Big Bands. Hwy 10 & 

Lakeshore Rd, Mississauga. 416-231-5695. Free. 

www.thewholenote.com Septem er 1 - October 7 2002

·TUESDAY, OCTO.BER 15/02 - 8 PM 

On'stage/Canadian Opera 

Company Gala Concert 

Measha Briiggergossman, soprano 

Robert Pomakov, bass 

Canadian Opera Company Orchestra 

Richard Bradshaw, conductor ' 

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11/03 - 8 PM 

Berlioz Bicentennial Concert 

Susan Platts, mezzo-soprano 

Robert Kortgaard, piano 

. Members of the Cdn. Opera Co. Orch. 

·Richard Bradshaw, conductor 

MONDAY, MAY 12/03 - 8 PM 

Catherine Robbin Farewell Concert 

Catherii:ie Robbin, mezzo-soprano 

Members of Tafelmusik 

Jeanne Lamon, leader 

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26/02 - 8 PM 

Music on the Orient Express 

Quartetto Gelato 

T~.URSDAY, DECEMBER 12/02 - 8 PM 

Violin Festival 

Mark Fewer, violin 

Judy Kang, violin 

Annalee Patipatanakoon, violin 

'Erika Raum, violin 

Scott St. John, violin 

Jasper Wood, violin 

TUESDAY, JANUARY 21/03 - 8 PM · 

Early & Traditional Music from 

Sc.otland and Canada 

Baltimore Consort 

David Greenberg, violin 

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15/03 - 8 PM 

The Christine Jensen Ensemble 

Christine 'Jensen, alto saxophone 

Ingrid Jenson, trumpet & flugelhorn 

Brad Turner, tr!Jmpet & piano ' 

Dave Restivo, piano 

Karl Jannuska, drums ' 

Fraser Hollins, bass 

SATURDAY, MARCH 15/03 - 8 PM 

Blake/Stetch Duo 

Seamus Blake, tenor saxophone 

, ~ohn Stetch, piano 1 

FRIDAY, MARCH .21/03 - 8 PM 

Guido Basso with Strings 

Guido Basso, trumpet & flugelhorn 

String Orchestra conducted by Phil Dwyer 

Lorraine Demarais, piano 

Michel Donato, bass 

Paul Brochu, drums 

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Sunday September 08 - 6: 15: St Thomas's Church. Requiem for All other pertormers. The Stone Church, 45 

- 1 :30: Toronto All-Star Big Band. Southside 

Victims of Violence. Faure: Requiem. Choir of St. 

ThOITlaS's Church. 383 Huron St. 416-979-2323~ 

Davenport Rd. 416-691-9832. $20,$15. 

...:. 7:30: Church of St. Martin·in·the·Fields. 

Shuffle. See Sep termer 7. Offering. . Robinson CoUege Chapel Clioir. Sar:Jed & secular 

- 3:00: University ofT oronto & The 

Soldier's Tower Committee. Carillon Recital 

music. 151 Glenlake Ave. 416-767-7491. 

$12. $8, 

Michael Hart, carillonneur. The lawn, Hart House -12:10: St Paul's Church.Noon Hour Recital:. · - 7:30: SH Music for Peace Concert Series ' 

Circ.le. 416-978-2452. free. Bizabeth Anderson; organ. 227 Bloor St. East. 416· 2002. Benefit Concert. Pandit Swapan Chaudruri, 

- 4:30: Christ Church Deer P·ark. Jazz 961-8116. Free.. · · tabla; Miroslav Tadic & Vlatsko Stefanovoski, 

Vesper$. Lenny Solomon, viofin & Bernie Senensky, 

guitars; Aashish Khan, sarod; Randy Gloss, 

piano. 1570 Yonge St. 416-920-5211 . Donation . ' 

percussion. Convocation HaU, 31 King's Colklge 

aweciated. - 11 :30am: All The King's Voices. An Ciicle. 905-785-2583. $20-$50. To fund 

- tiine TBA: Music Gallery. Anne Bourne, cello; Amelican Tribute. Musical history tour of Jazz and ·humanitarian projects in countries around the 

Fred Frith, guitar &plT!flared guitar; John Oswald, Broadway. Wean & Culien, Sheppard & Leslie. 416- world. 

saxophones. 197 John St.416-204-1080. 225-2255. Free. . • - 8:00: lillusii:ians In Ordinary.Ou Bon Gout 

Tuesday September 10 

- 1 :OD: St. James' Cathedral. Lunch Hour at 

St James'.· Choir of Robinson Col/egiJ, Cambridge. 

Sar:Jed music of Gibbons, Byrd, Purcell, Howells, 

Stanford & Wood. 65 Church St. 41_6-364-7865. 

Free. 

Wednesday September 11 

- 12:30: York University Dept. of Music. 

Opening Concert., Jazz to klezmer to worldbeat & 

beyond pertonned by students & faculty. 

Mclaughlin Perfonnance Hall, 05b Mclaughfin 

College, 4700 Keele St. 416-736-5186. Free. 


et du Mauva!S Gout. Music from the French 

Baroque. Hallie Fishel, soprano; John Edwards, 

- 2:00: T ryptych Productions/Junction Arts theorbo & baroque guitar, other artists. Church of 

Festival. Heart & Soulstice II· The Equinox the Redeemer, 162 Bloor St. WflSI. 416-603- · 

Edt1ion. Songs of love & summer from the 20s, 4950. $15, $1 O. · 

30s, 40s. Amber Bishop, Vanessa Grant, Edward _ 8:30: Toronto Symphony Orchestra/ 

Franko, Henry Irwin, Lenard Whiting & William · Toronto International Film Festival. Charlie 

Shookhoff, performers. Victoria'.Royce Church, 190 Chaplin movies: Easy Street, ihe Adventurer, T7Te 

Medland St. 416-763-5066. Admission by Cure, shown with live music. Members of TSO; 

dooatm. 

Carl Davis, conductor. Elgin Theatre, 189 Yonge 

- 7:30: Canadian Concert & Recital Artists. St. 416-872'5555. $15-$60. 

Benefit Concert for Doctors Without Borders. Paul 

Bartlett, Thomas Doherty, David McCartney, 


Gwyneth Hughes-Penman, Denise Williams & 

- 1 :30: CAMMAC/McMii:hael Gallery. 

Sunday Concert: iJnda Gambell, jazz vocaist 

10365 Islington, Kleinburg. 905-893-1121. 

·$12,$9, fanllyrates. 

- 2:00: Manor Road United Church. Fi0na 

Strachan, mezzo & J.C. Coo/en, piafl() in Recital. 

Wagner: Wesendonk-Lieder, music by PurceA & 

Chausson; folk songs. 240 Manor Rd. East. 416· 

483-0695. Voluntary offering. 

- 3:00: St Luke's United Church. Benefit for 

St. Luke's Church. Music by Handel, Gluck, 

F~ure, Strauss, Verdi & others. Cara Adams & 

Erin Berg, sopranos; Sarah Hallyburton, mezzo; 

Karen Kamphof, piano. 353· Sherboume St. 416- 

924-9619. $15,$10. 

- 3:00: University of Toronto & The 

Soldier's Tower Committee. Canllon Recital 

Gordon Slater, carillonneur. The lawn, Hart House 

Circle. 416-978-2452. Free. 

-4:00: Ensemble Tryptych/JunctionArts 

Festival. Programme of choral works from 

· Renaissance tirms to present day. A cappeUa 

chaililer choir. Victoria:Royce Church, 190 

Medland. 416-533-1301. Free-vvill offering. 

-4:00: St Olave's Church. Ufe and Music of 

Ira Sankey. Evensong & Peach Tea. 380 

Windennere. 416-769-5686. Donations 

aweciated. 

The Musicians in 0{'.dinary 

for the L1,1tes and Voices present - · 

Du Bon Gout et Du Mauvais Gout 

Mu~ic from the French Baroque 

·Saturday September 14 at 8 pm 

Church of the Redeemer 

Bloor Street and Avenue Road 

416-603-4950 www.musiciansinordinary.ca 

, BAROQUE MUSIC BESIDE THE GRANGE 

An Afternoon in the Garden 

Silent Audionwith·many excellent treasures. 

Delectable refreshments. · 

and music by . 

·KIRK E[LIOIT, ALISON MELVILLE, . 

COLIN SAVAGE, STEPHANIE ARCHER, · 

PAUL)ENKINS, ALICIA BISHA & ELEANOR VERRETTE 

Saturday-S~pt~-iij;~~ ~-5,pm 

St. George the Martyr Church, Stephanie & Mccaul 

CALL416-588-4301 FOR INFO ADMISSION $10 

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A FUSION OF BALKAN & INDIAN RHYTHMS · . 

SEPTEMBER 14TH 2002, 7:30P 

CONVOCATION HALL 

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO 

31 KING'S COLLEGE CIRCLE 

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September 1. - October 7 2002 

featuring · 

PT. SWAPAN CHAUDHURI 

VLATKO STEFANOVSKI 

MIROSLAVTADIC · 

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AASHISH KHAN 

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ORION HOUSE CONCERTS presents 

.9l.n. evening witft. 

(Monaco) 

Her Highness will accompany Canadian artists: 

£eifaClia1Joun (~oprano) 

£enara 'Wliiting (tenor)' 


-12:10: University ofToronto Faculty of 

Music.GreatCanadianSirwers. Voice · 

perfonnance class. Stephen R. Clarke, presenter. 

Walter Hall, 80 Queen's Park.416-978-3744. 

Free. 

- 1 :OD: St. James' Cathedral. lunch Hour at 

St. James'.· John T uttie, organ. Vieme: Symphonie 

#3 Op.28. 65 Churc~91. 416-364-7865. Free. 


- 12:30: Yorkminster Park Church. Noonday 

Recital:EricN.Robertson,'organ. 1585YongeSt. 

416-925-7312. Free. · 

- 8:00: Orion House Concerts. Heure 

Exquise. Leila Chalfoun, soprano; Lenard Whiting, 

tenor; Lucy-Ana Gaston, violin; S.A. Princesse 

Caroline Murat, accompanist. Jane Mallett 

Theatre, 27 Front St. East. 416-366-7723. 

- 8:00: Theatre Sheridan. Style 2002 ·Round 

the Clock. Song and dance revue. Sheridan College, 

1430 Trafalgar Rd. 905-815'4049. $25. For 

complete run sae music theatre ristings. 

and introducing the se-nsational 11- year old Thursday September 19 

LU;Cy-Yma(jaston (violin) 

Wednesday, 'September 18, 2002, at 8:00 p.m. 

Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Frorit St. East, Toronto 

Box Office: 416 · 366-7723 

- 12:10: St. Paul's Church. Noon Hour Recital: 

imre Olah, organ. 227 Bloor St. East. 416-961- 

8116. Free. 

- .12_:10: University of Toronto Faculty of 

Music. Thursdays at Noon: Beethoven Violin 

Sonatas l Beethoven: Sonata in D Op.12 #1; 

Sonata in A Op.12 #2. Scott St. John, violin; Lydia 

Wong, piano. Walter Hall, 80 Queen's Park. 416- 

978·3744. Free. - 

·- 8:00: Massey Hall.A Night to Remember. 

. Sorws such as Paper Doll, Cab Driver, Glow Worm, 

My Prayer; Java Jive and more. The Mills 

Brothers; The Four Lads; The Ink Spots. 15 Shuter 

St. 416-870-8000. $62-$67. 

- 8:00: Music Gallery.John Farah -Vibrations 

of Melqart. Free jau, contemporary art music, 

electronica/techno, ambient rrinimalism & Middle 

Eastem textures. John Farah, piano, keyboards & 

electronics. 197 John St. 416· 204-1080. $10. 


- 11 :OOam: Thornhill Community Band. 

Bobby Herriot, music director. Thornhill Village 

Festival, Yonge & Centre Sts, Thornhill. 416-223- 

7152. Free. 

.· .- 1 :00: Cantabil~ Chorale. Thornhill Vfflage 

Festival Performance. Robert Richardson, 

conductor. Holy Trinity Church, Brooke Street, 

Thornhill. 905-731-8318. Free. 

-3:00: Music Gallery. Sherri Jones, piano. 

Works by Schulhoff, Krenek, Gershwin, Wein, 

Wolpe, Schonberg & others. 197 John St. 416· · 

204-1080. $1 0. 

- 8:00: Arraymusic/Goethe lnstitut_e. 

Music by Zimmermann. Arraymusic Ensemble: · 

Robert W. Stevenson, clarinets; Michael White, 

trumpet; Richard Sacks & Blair Mackay, . 

percussion; Stephen Clarke, piano; Rebecca van 

der Post, violin & other performers. Glenn Gould 

Studio, 250 Front St. West. 416-205-5555. 

$20,$12. 

- 8:00: Oarbazi. The Big Sound of Darbazi. 

Georgian choral music. Fundraising concert. 

Eas,trrinster United Church, 310 Danforth Ave. 

416·537-2526ext.2. $20,$10. 

- 8:00: Roy Thomson Hall.Gala Reopenirw 

Concert. Wagner: Prelude to Die Meistersinger von 

Niimberg; Dich teure Halle from T annhiiuser; 

Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe Suite #2; MacMiDan: 

Cortege Academique; Walton: Belshazzar's Feast; 

PRESENTER: BARBARA BUDD . 

Music without frontiers 

and smiles guaranteed. 

OCTOBER 6, 1 P.M. 

A Journey to 

Dixieland 

LE DIXIEBAND 

Le Dixieband hcis got 

style and swing! 

· NOVEMBER 10, 1 P.M. 

Musical Theatre. 

LES BOREADES DE 

MONTREAL 

Les Boreades ,bring 

centuries-old music to 

life in all its original 

freshness and vitality. 

CHRIS MCKHOOL, VIOLIN 

RON DAVIS, PIANO 

ADAM DAVID, DRUMS 

PRESENTER: BARBARA BUDD 

One ofthe most 

electrifying children's 

show in 'Toronto! 

FEBRUARY 2, 1 P:M. 

Creole Drummatics 

, PRESENTER: BARBARA BUDD 

- A lesson' in cultural 

· geography and a 

rousing good time 

all at once! 

FEBRUARY 16, 1 P.M. 

The Princess and 

the Handmaiden 

LESLIE ARDEN 

CHILDREN'S TRIO 

Be a part of that 

sensitive exploration 

of values and identity. 

· MARCH 16, 1 P.M. 

Anna Bel Canto 

LYSIANNE TREMBLAY, 

MEZZO-SOPRANO - PIANIST . 

TO BE ANNOUNCED 

Can you imagine a 

young opera singer 

losing her voice 

·the morning of an 

important audition? 

EL FUEGO 

PRESENTER: BARBARA BUDD 

El Fuego's blend of 

driving Latin rhythms, 

catchy melodies and 

jazz-type solos wi.11 

just enchant you ... 

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Sarasate: Cannen Fantasie on Therres of Bizet. 

Toronto Symphony Orchestra; Toronto Chidren' s 

Chorus; Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Measha 

BriiggergQSman. soprano; Nathan Berg, baritone & 

other performers. 60 Simcoe St. 416·B724255. 

$29·$147. ' 


- l:OO: Harbourfront Cushion Concwt: La 

Bande Magnlftik. From madrigals to Vignatilt to the 

Beatles. A cappella quintet. Brigantine Room, 235 

Queens Quay West, 416·9734000. $B. 

- 1 :30: Toronto All-Star Big Band. Getting 

'1n the Mood. "Music of the swing era. Grenadier 

Cafe and Tea House, High Park, 200 Parkside Dr. 

416· 231-5695. Free. 

- 2:00: Toronto Sinfonietta. Bassoon for Tea. 

Works by Bach. Vivaldi & Telemann. Predrag 

Stojkovic, bassoon; Eleria Krakopolskaya, piano. 

One Eleven Avenue Road, 111 Avenue Rd. 416· 

4104379. PWYC. 

- 3:00: Mooredale Concerts. Czerny: 

Variations on a Theme by Krumpholz Op.1; Sonata 

for Violin & Piano; Beethoven: Piano Trio inc. Erika 

Raum. violin; Anton Kuerti, piano; Kristine Bogyo, 

. cello. Walter Hall, BO Queen's Park. 416-922· 

3714. $25,$20. . 

- 3:00i University of Toronto & The · 

Soldier's Tower Committee. Carillon Recital 

Andrew Comar, carillonneur. The lawn, Hart 

House Circle. 416-97B-2452. Free. 

- 4:30: Christ Church' Deer Park. Jazz 

Vespers: A Celebration of Gqorge Gershwin. 

Emilie-Claire.Barlow, vocals; David Restivo, piano; . 

Scott Alexander, bass; Brian Bartow, drums. 1570 

Yonge St. 416·920·5211. Donation appreciated. 


- B:OO: University of Toronto Facuity lif 

Music. Moe Koffman Memorial Jazz Scholarship 

Benefit Concert. Emilie-Claire Bartow, Guido 

Basso. Peter Appleyard, Ed Bickert, Scott 

Alexander Brian Bartow, John Johnson, Russ 

· Little, Ste~e McDade, Rob Piltcti, Tom Szezesniak, 

perfonners. Montreal Bistro and Jazz Club, 65 

Sherboume St. 416·946-35BO. $65. 


- 1 :00: St James' Cathedral. Lunch Hour at 

St. James'.· Andrew Teague, organ. 65 Church St. 

416-364-7B65. Free. 


- 12:10: University ofT oronto Faculty of 

Music. Bassoon Fantasies. Telemann: Twelve 

FantaSias. Nadina Mackie Jackson. bassoon. 

Walter Hall, BO Queen's Park. 416-97B-3744. 

Free. 

- 12:30: York University Dept.Of Music. Al 

Henderson Jazz Ouintet. Mclaughlin Performance 

Hall, 050 Mclaughlin College, 4 700 Keele St. 

416-736-5186. Free. 


Rec#al· Paul $anvidotti trumpet; William Maddox, 

organ. 15B5 Yonge St. 416-925-7312. Free. 

- 7:00: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra. 

Cross-Border Baroque. Works by Handel, Locatelli, 

Lully, Zelenka, Scarlatti and Mozetich. Trinity-St. 

Paul's Church. 427 Bloor St. West. 416-964- 

6337. $20-$59. 

- B:OO: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. 

Nielsen: Overture to Maskarade; Sibelius: Violin 

Concerto; Mahler: Symphony #1, Titan. Er1Sabeth 

Batiashvili, violin; Jukka Pekka Saraste, conductor. 

www.MooredaleConcerts.com 

Carl Czern9 

Beethoven s student, teacher of Liszt 

Discover his unt;xplored genius 

Anton Kuerti 

. "... one of the truly great 

pianists of this. century." 

CD Review, London 

Also Beethoven Piano Trio 

in C minor 

Erika Raum 

" ... brilliant mastery of the 

instrument" . 

Nepsza~~dsag, Budapest 

The music and life of '--· 

Czerny, this fabulous 

composer whose 

masterpieces have been · 

buried under his etudes. 

sun. Sept. 22 at 3 pm - Walter Hall, U of T · 

affordable tickets! $25, ($20 St./Sr.) 416-922-371 4 

Se pte mbe r 1 - O~ to be r 7 2002 www.thewholenote.com 

Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-5934B2B. 

$2B-$95.50. 

' 

Thursday September 26 

- 12:10: St Paul's Church. Noon Hour Rec#al· 

Jonathan Oldelflarm, organ. 227 Bloor St. East. 

416-961-B 116. Free. 

- 12:1 O: University'ofToronto Faculty of 

Music. Thursdays at Noori: Darryl Edwards, tenor; 

Nancy Dahn. viola; Tll7/(}thySteeves,piafl(). Vaughan 

· Williams: Four Hymns for Tenor, Viola & Piano; arr. 

Vaughan Wimams: Two Folk Songs for Tenor & 

Violin; Liszt: Tre Sonetti di Petrarcha. Walter Hall, 

BO Queen's Park. 416-97B-3744. Free. 

- B:OO: Canadian Opera Company. 

Tchaikovsky: The Oueen of Spades. Hasmik Papian, 

Judith Forst, Viktoria Vizin, Vadim Zaplechny, Igor 

Morosov, John Fanning. performers; Richard . 

Bradshaw, conductor. 7:15: Pre-performance chat 

Hunmingbird Centre for the Perfonning Arts, 1 

Front St. East. 416-B72-2262. $3B-$140, $15· 

$501young person). For complete run see music' 

theatre listings. · , · 

- B:OO: Tafelmusik Baroqu_e Orchestra. 

Cross-Border Baroque. Trinity-St. Paul's Church. See 

Sep25. . . - 

-B:OO: The Galaxy Orchestra. Ki!fls of Swing. 

Music of Goodman, Miller, Dorsey, Shaw, Count 

Basie & others. Matt Dusk; The Moong!ows; 

Stardust Dancers. OakVllle Centre for the 

Perfon'ning Arts, 130 Navy St., Oakville. 905-B 15- 

2021. $36.99. . 

- B:OO: Toronto Philhannonia. Beethovem 

Syrrphony No. 9. Beethoven: Overture to Fidelio; 

Brott: ParaJhase i1 Polyphony.Toronto 

Mendelssohn Choir, Noel Edison, director, Jennifer 

C~ndy, soprano; Deborah Overes, rneL!O· · 

soprano; Geoff Butler, tenor, Steven Horst, baritone; 

Kerry Stratton, conductor. George Weston Recital 

Hall, 5040 Yonge St.416-B70-BOOO. $20-$47. 

- B:OO: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Roy 

Thomson Hall. See Sep 25. 

Friday September 27 

- 8:00: Arts Toronto. Arts week: Fresh Haggis· 

' ..... TORONTO PHILHARMONIA 

1~ · 

Beethoven's 

Ninth 

Toronto Philharmonia 

Toronto Mendelssohn 

Choir 

· September 26, 20Q2 

8:00p.m. . 

George Weston Recital 

Hall 

Toronto Centre for the Arts 

Kerry Stratton 

Conductor 

416-499-2204 for details 

416-870-8000 Ticketmaster 

www.torontophil.on.ca 

A New Scotian Cabaret. Traditional Highland 

Gaelic music & dance. Taren Yelle &J. Marshall 

Freeman, vocals; bagpipes. Winchester Street 

Theatre, BO Winchester. 416-204-1 OB2. 

- B:OO: Canadian Opera Company. 

StravinSky: Oedipus Rex; Symphony of Psalms. 

Michael Schade, Ewa Podles, Peteris Eglitis, 

Robert Pomakov, Michael Colvin, performers; 

Berrihard Kontarsky, conductor. 7: 15: Preperforinance 

chat. HllTlllingb~d Centre forth.e 

Performing Arts, 1 Front St. East. 416-B72-2262. 

$3B-$140, $15-$50(young person). For complete 

run see music theatre ristings. 

- B:OO: Royal Conservatory of M.usic 

· Glenn Gould School. Royal Conservatory 

Orchestra;.Liszt: Orpheus; Beethoven: Piano 

Concerto #4; Tchaikovsky: Symphony #4. Chad 

Heltzel, piano; David Lloyd-Jones, conductor. 

Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St. West. 416-. 

205-5555. $15,$12. 

- B:OO: Roy Th~mson Hall. Solflbook. Bruce 

Cockburn, Rufus Wainwright, Cowboy Junkies & 

Chantal Kreviazuk, performers. 60 Simcoe St,. · 

416-B724255. $ 2B.50-$ 75.50. 

-B:OO: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra. 

Cross-Border Baroque. T rility-St. Paul's Church. 

SeeSep25. 

- B:OO: University of Toronto Faculty of 

Music. Faculty Artist Series: Nexus. T akerritsu 

arr. Becker, Chan & Engelman: SOng arrangements; 

Cahn: ChinQ; Hartenberger. Sky Ghost and new . 

work; Becker: Away Without Leave; Nexus: Kichan 

& Tongues. Walter Hall, BO Queen's Park. 416- 

97B-3744. $20,$10; 


- 12:00 noon: Etobicoke Jau Band. Horns of 

Plenty. Music in the Market. Eclectic mix of jazzy 

tunes. Farmers' Market, Etobicoke City Hall, 399 

The West Mall. 416-231-5695. Free. 

- 1 :00: Arts Toronto. Artsweek: Gerald 

Martindale, carilonneui. Recital & tour of the 

carillon. Metropofitan United Church, 56 Oueen St.· 

East. 416-363-0331. Free. 

· • 

- 1 :DO&3:00: Roy Thomson Hall TheBf;Bithfay 

P;ny. Artlu, Bira;Baaiasil Pyjmm. Lit!Ellea', 

pcj(;roo & otlu p!Jfooms; Eli: Nagkr, host. 00 

Si11:oe St 416-8724255. $25-$29. 

- 2:00: Arts Toronto.Artsweek: RyanJackson, 

organ. Recital & organ demonstration. 

·Metropolitan United Church; 56 Oueen St. East. 

416-363-0331. Free. 

- 7:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Roy 

Thonison Han. See Sep 25. 

- B:OO: Acoustic Harvest Folk Club. Cathy 

' Fink & Marcy Marx er. Birch Cliff United Church, 

33East Rd.416-264-2235. $12. 

- 8:00: An Evening with Peter Tiefenbach 

land frie_nds). First Unitarian Congregation of 

Toronto, 175 St. Clair West. 416,924-9654. $15. 

- B:OO: Arts Toronto.Artsweek: Fresh Haggis· 

4 New Scotian Cabaret. Winchester Street 

Jlieatre. See Sep 27. 

-B:OO: Ontario Youth Choir. Works by 

Natson Henderso~. C~als, Stravilsky, Dett, 

Vlozart, Willan and Daley. Grace Church on-the-Hill, 

300 Lonsdale Rd. 416-923-1144 x.22. 

- 8':00: Royal Conservatory of Music 

' :ilenn Gould School. Robert Pomakov; bass 

~ Yulia Levin, piano in Recital Music by 

3eethoven, Schubert, Faure, Duparc & lbert. 

'.ttore Mazzoleni Concert Hall, 273 Bloor St. 

liest.416:40B-2B24x321. $15,$12. 

- B:OO: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra. 

'Joss-Border Baroque. Trinity-St. Paul's Chlrch. 

ieeSep25. 

- time TBA: Music Gallery. Willem Breuker 

(o/lektief. Hybrid of rrusic which cuts across 

35

Moira. Nelson ruUf Efrna ]ubinvi[[e 

at tfie PapermilC Tfieatre,. Toamonfen Mifls 

Swufa.y, September 29 a.t Zpm 

traditional ~sical lines. Willem Breuker, 

saxophone/clarinet!~ & other rrusicians. 

197JohnSt.416-204:1080. $20 (advance)., 

$25(door). 


- 1 ·00 & 3:30: Oakville Centre for the 

Performing Arts. llff/e Bear: live In f;oncert. 

Musical production with singing. dancing & , 

audience participation. 130 Navy St., OakviHe. 

905-815-2021. $28.99. 

- 1 :30: All The King's Vofoes.AnAmerican 

Tribute. See Sep 13. Parkway Mall, 85 EDesmere 

Rd. 416-225·2255. 

-2:00: Arts Toronto/Cathedral Bluffs 

Symphony Orchestra. Arts week: Young 

Artists Concert. 6 young pertonners chosen from 

applicants to the Annual Young Artists 

CCllJ1le!ition. Robert Raines, fTIJSic cf~ector. 

Scarborough Civic Centre, 150 Borough Drive. 

416·879·5566. Free. · 

- 2:00: WillowMyst Music. Through the · 

looking Glass. Original, traditional, Celtic & 

'classicalSelections. Moira Nelson, harp, voice, 

classical guitar & piano; Elena JubinviUe, cello, 

voice, oboe & electric bass. Paper Mill Theatre, 

T ocrnorden Mills Museum, Pottery Road between 

Broadview & Bayview Extension. 416-396·281.9- 

$10. 

- 2:30: Oshawa-Durham Symphony 

Orchestra. Tchaikovsky: V'IOfin Concerto in D; 

Syr1llhony #5. Lara St. John, viof111; Marco 

Parisotto, conductor. G~rge Weston Reciial Hall, 

5040 Yonge St. 416·870·8000. $30. 

"-3:00: Trio Bravo. Brahms: Clarinet Quintet; 

Khachaturian: Trio; Millaud: Trio.Terry Storr, 

clarinet; David Smith, piano; Ron Laurie, cello; 

Joyce Lai, violin.Trinity College Chapel, 6 Hoskin 

Ave. 416-966-1687. Free (donations gratefully 

accepted). ' 

-3:30: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra. 

Cross-BorrlerBaroque. Trinity-St. Paul's Church. 

SeeSep25. 

- 8:00: Arts Toronto. Artsweek: Fresh Haggis· 

A New Scotian Cabaret. W111chester Street 

Theatre. See Sep 27. 

- 8:00: Toronto Chinese Dance Company. 

Yellow River. Classical Chinese &modem dance 

accDnlJ8flied by Clinese clasSical rriisic. Dun 

Huang Chamber Enserrble; Yan Lam, chon;ogra· 

~~- ;;;. 

·:~; . 

'f/l»&,.ck.w-t1- '· 

·Oshawa-Durham Symphony Orchestra 

presents: . 

Lara St. John 

In concert with ODSO, performing 

Tchaikovsky's Violin Conc~rto in D. Major 

pher/director. leah Posluns Theatre, 4588 

Bathurst. 9054 70-9914. $18. 


- 8:00: Oakville Centre for the Performing 

Arts.Men of the Deeps. Choral music from Cape 

Breton Island. 130 Navy St., Oakville. 905·815· · 

2021. $44.99. 

- 8:00: Toronto Organ Club. Festival Variety 

Concert. Ctvist Church, 329 Royal York Rd. 905· 

631-1864. $10, children under 10 free. 

Tuesday October01 

- 1 :OD: St, James' Cathedral. lunch Hour at 

St. James'.· Matthew Larkin, organ. 65 Church_ St. 

416-3647865. Free .. 

-8;00:MusicToronto. TheGryphon Trio. 

Carrabre: new work; Ravel: Trio in a; Brahms: Trio 

in B, Op.8. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front St. East. 

416-366· 7723. $43,$39. . 

- 8:00: OnStage at Glenn Gould Studio. 

Maza Meztf. Traditional tunes from the Middle 

East, Greece· & Asia Minor. 250 Front St. West. 

416-205-5555: $30. 

- 8:00: Roy Thomson Hall. Cecilia Bartoli, 

mezzo soprano & The Orchestra of the Age of 

Enlightenment. Works by Vivaldi, Bononcini, 

Broschi & Gluck. 60 Simcoe St. 416-8724255. 

$65-$135. 

- 8:00: University of Toronto Faculty of 

Music.Dame Gillian Weir Organ Recital Music 

by Valente, D.Scarlatti, Muffat Bach, Buxtehude, 

· Francaix & others. Knox College Chapel, 59 St. 

George St. 416-978-3744. $20,$10. 

Wednesday October 02 

- 12:00 noon: Princess· Margaret 

Hospital. Music in the Atrium Concert Series: 

Surinder Mundra, piano in Recital 610 .c 

University Ave. 416·9464610. Free. 

- 12:10: University ofT oronto Faculty of 

Music.A look at lbve in Song. Kimberly Barber, 

mezzo & Che Arnie Loewen, piano. Walter Hall, 80 

Queen's Park. 416-978-3744. Free. 

- 12:30: York University Dept. of Music. Bill 

Westcott: Ragtime Master. Mclaughlin 

Pertonnance Hall, 050 Mclaughlin College, 4700 

Keele St. 416-736-5186. Free. • 


Recital: Andrew Ager. organ. 1585 YongeSt.416- 

925· 7312. Free. 

' 

And 

Marco, Pa risotto, 

condu.ctor and music director 

With Oshawa-Durham Symphony 

In Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony 

LARA ST. JOHN 

Sunday, September 29 at 2:30. p.m. 

I . ' 

at George Weston 'Recital Ha,11, 

5040 Yonge St., Toronto Tickets $30 at the theatre or call TicketMaster at 416-870-8000 

Saturday, September 28 at 7:30 p.m. 

MARCO 

PARISOTTO 

at Calvary Baptist C~urch, 300 _Rossland Road 1=. Oshawa. Oshawa tickets $25 call 90()-579-6711. 

36 www.thewholenclte.com September 1 - October l 2002

-8:00: Tapestry New Opera Works. Opera . 

Briefs! Selection of excerpts from the annual 

Composer-Librettist Laboratory. Venue TBA. 

416-537-6066. $20. . 

- 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. 

T akernitsu: From Me Flows What You Call T 1111e; 

961-8116. Free. 

-12:10: University ofToronto Faculty of 

Musfo. Thursdays at Noon: Jeffrey McFadden 

Guitar Recital Charlton: Valses melodiques; de 

Falla: Four Pieces; MolJlXlu: Preludio, Cuna & 

Muniera from Suite Compostelana; Mertz: 

Celebration. Perfonners from the community. 130 

Navy St., Oakville. 905-815-2021 . $20. 

- 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Roy 

Thomson Hall. See Oct 2. 

Friday October 04 

Debussy: Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune; Sibelius: Bardenklange. Walter Hall, 80 Queen's Park. 416- - 7:30; Hart House Theatre. Get Staged@ 

· Symphony #5. Nexus percussion ensemble; Jukka 978-3744. Free. Hart House Theatre. Student gala of lllJSic, drama, 

_Pekka Saraste, conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 - 8:00: Arraymusic/Music Gallery. A film & dance. 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978- 

Simcde St. 416-5934828. $28-$95.50 Special Double Concert: Wiek Hijmans; Jean 8668. $10, students free. For complete run see 

Thursday October 03 

OeromeetlesOangereuxZhoms. 197 John St. lllJSictheatreiistings. 

416-204-1080. $15. - 8:00: Toronto Consort. Sir Gawain ami the 

- 12: 10: St Paul's Church. Noon Hour Recital· - 8:00: Oakville Centre for the Performing Green Knght. Artoorian legend in words and lllJSic. 

Eric Robertson, organ. 227 Bloor St. East. 416- . A~ .OakviUe On Stage: 25th Anniversary Trinity-St. Paul's Church;427 Bloor St. West. 416- 

SIR GAWAIN AND 

HE GME·N !(NIGHT 

October 4 & 5, 2002 at Bpm 

This concert takes you into the 

medieval world of romance and 

chivalry with a telling of a fabulous 

and enticing Arthurian legend. A 

·wild green warrior taunts the knights 

o(the Round Table at Camelot; Sir 

Ga.wain takes up the challenge, only 

to find his courage and resolve mor.~ 

tested by a beguiling woman than by 

the wild man. With storytelling_and 

music, the Toronto Consort weaves a 

tapestry of an enchanting legendary 

world. 

Zrinjski. Traditional Croatian national opera. Dwight 

Bennett, conductor. Hammerson Hall, 4141 Living 

Arts Centre Dr., Mississauga. 905-306-6000. 

$15-$99, $11-$90(stlsr). For complete run see 

music th8atre listings. 

- 8:00: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra. 

Cross-Border Baroque. See Sep 25: George Weston 

Recital Hall, 5040 Yonge St. 416-872-1111, $26- 

$59. ' 

- 8:00: Toronto Consort Sir Gawain and the 

GreeoKnght. Trinity-St. Paul's-Coorch. See Oct 4. 


Music. Choral Music on Campus: Ontario Silfjs!U 

of T Choirs; Ontario School & Youth Choirs . 

..--------------------....• 964-6337.$18-$40,$14-$34(stlsr). Mat Millan Theatre, 80 Queen's Park. 416-978- 

The Toronto Consort presents 

- 8:00:. University of Toronto Faculty of 

3744. $12,$6. ' 

Music.Fred Hersch Jazz Piano Concert. Walter 

Hall, 80 Queen's Park. 416-978-3744. $20, $10. 

Sunday October 06 

Saturday October 05 

- 4:00: Salvation Army Yorkminster 

Citadel. Symphony of Thanksgivitfl Concert. Lloyd 

Knight, vocal soloist; Yorkninster Band & 

Songsters. 1 Lord Seaton Rd. 416-222 -9110. 

$10,$5. . 

- 8:00: Calyx Concerts. Viva Flamenco. 

Dances, art song & duets by Rodrigo, Liszt, 

Piazzolla & Granados. Narelle Martinez, soprano; 

Claudia Carolina, dancer; Mariana Humetska, piano; 

Javier Portera, viola & other performers. 

Hunilercrest United Church, 16 Baby Point Rd. 

416-531-3668. $20,$18. 

-8:00: Opera Mississauga.Zajc:NikolaSubic 

:- 1 :DO: Harbourfront Cushion Concert: A 

Journey to Dixieland. Le Dixieband. Brigantine 

Room, 235 Queens Quay West. 416-9734000. 

$8. . 

- 1 :30: CAMMAC/McMichael Gallery: 

Sunday Concert: Mooredale Youth Guartet. 

Classical string quartet. 10365 lsr111gton, Kleinburg. 

905-893-1121. $12,$9, family rates. 


Music. Opera Tea: Rossini Comes to Tea. 

MacMillan Theatre, 80 Queen's Park. 416-978· 

. 3744.$25. 

- 3:00: Music Gallery. Fresh Ears Family 

Concert Series: Madawaska Stritfl Guartet. 

FestiVal 

and readings 

For Tickets call 416~964-6337 

Trinity-St. Paul's Church, 42 7 Bloor St. We·st 

Grace Chu_rch on-the-Hill 

300 Lonsdale Road 

Sun. October 6th - 3pm 

~> 

r,,0 11. .... ' ·"' 

Vivi it~~enc"l . 

Saturday, October 5, 2002 at 8:00 p.m. 

," m~ ·ww~ 

JM•"' . " 

Marianna Humetska, piano 

Javier Portaro, viola 

Claire Hoeffler, piano 

Afsane Fanian, guitar 

Narelle Martinez, soprano Claudia Carolina, dancer 

Step out of the cold Toronto autumn and into an unforgettable concert featuring 

the heat, passion and fervour of flamenco! 

Humbercrest United Church, 16 Baby Point Road, Toronto 

Tickets $201$18 to order call 416-531-3668 

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Music by modern composers. St. George·the 

,Martyr Church, 197 John. 416·204· 1080. 

$15,$5. 

__: 3:00: Pax Christi Chorale. Harvest Festival 

of Hymns and Readif'(Js. Hyrms by Canadians; 

farpiliar favourites. Stephanie Martin, conductor. 

Grace Church on·the·Hill, 300 Lonsdale Rd. 416· 

494 7889. $1 0, $ 5 lchild under 12). 

- 4:30: Christ Church Deer Park. Jazz 

Vespers. Joe Sealy, piano & Paul Novotny, bas5. 

1570 Yonge St. 416-920·5211. Donation· 

aweciated. 

- 7 :30: Amadeus Choir. A Celebration of Life· 

Srullrvif'(J Glick. Glick: Triumph of the Spirit; In 

Memoriam Leonard Bernstein; The Hour Has 

Come. Guests: Lachan Toronto Jewish Charrber 

Choir; Holy Blossom T 8f11Jle Singers; Beth Tikvah 

Choir; Cantor Ben Maissner, Marilyn Cohen & 

Lydia Adams, conductors. Holy Blossom T ernple, 

1950 Bathurst. 416446·0188. $30, $25. 

- 8:00: Acous!ic Harvest Folk Club. Sarah 

Grey. Flying Cloud Folk Club, 292 Brunswick Ave. 

416·264·2235. $12. 

- 8:00: Esprit Orchestra. Croall: The Four 

Directionsl1997) concerto for violin & string 

orchestra with harpsichord; Louie: Shattered Night; 

Lydia Adams and th.~ Amadei1s Choir pay loving . 

homage to a Canadian musical icon; Srul Irving · 

Glick . . His music

' 

"FOr the love 

Of Br~hms" ~ 

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OPERA AND MUSIC THEATRE 

Ashkenaz: A Festival of New Yiddish 

Culture. Shumm Bumm. Buchbinder: Piece 

derived frrim Shostakovich: Violin Concerto# 1 

Op.77; diverse compositions performed by 8 

roosicians, circus performers/clowns & audience. 

Sept 2 5:30. Brigantine Room. York Quay Centre, 

235 Queens Quay West. 416-973-3000. 

Ashkimaz: A Festival ilf New Yiddish 

Culture[Toronto Jewish Folk Choir: Gebirtig: 

Der zinger fun noit (The Singer of Misfortune): 

Dramatized roosical montage with nan:ators on the 

ite, music & lyrics of Mordecai Gebirtig. sept 2 

3:30. Lakeside Terrace, Y prk Quay Centre, 235 

Queens Quay West. 416-9.73-3000. 

Canadian Opera Company. Stravinsky: 

' Oedipus Rex; Symphony of Psalms. Michael 

Schade, Ewa Podles, Peteris Eglitis, Robert 

Pomakov, Michael Colvin, performers; Bernhard 

Kontarsky, comfuctor. Sep 27, Oct 3,9, 12: 8:00; 

Oct 1: 7:00; Oct 6: 2ill. f'ri!.perfonn

ANNOUNCEMENTS, 

WORKSHOPS, LECTURES, ETCETERA 

ANNOUNCEMENTS 

*September4, 11, 18,2511:00am: Toronto 

Music Garden. 45-minute walking tours led by 

Civic Garden Centre volunteer guides. Visitors 

learn about the design & history of the garden 

inspired by Bach's Suites for Unaccompanied 

Cello. Self-guided 70-minute audio tours hosted by 

Yo· Yo Ma and Julie Moir Messervy are also 

available. 475 Queens Quay West. 416-973- 

3000. Volunteer-guided tours free; self -guided 

tours $5 (rented atthe Marina Quay West office, 

539 Queens Quay West). 

*September 12 6:00: JAZZ91.1. Ritmo_Azul 

CO Release Party. Arrangements & composi· 

tions of leader Rob Thaller. Latin jazz ensemble: 

horns, piano, b"ass & 3 pe1cussionists. Sax On 

Yonge, 545 Yonge St. 416-968· 7665. 

Reservations recommended. 

*September 12: Oakville Museum at 

Erchless Estate. Jazz on the 16. Evening of 

jazz & outdoor dining with The Joe Sealy 

Quartet/ Paradiso Restaurant. Historic grounds & 

gardens of Erchless Estate, 8 Navy Street, 

Oakville. 905-3384400. 

*To September 13: Sculpture. Society of 

Canada. Sound Sculpture Show. Sound sculpture 

by Barry Prophet, Invitational Guest Artist. 

Performances September 6 & 13, 12:30 & 

1 :30. Exchange Tower, 130 King St. West. 416· 

214-0389. . 

*September 14 2-5pm: Baroque Music 

Beside the Grange. An Afternoon in the 

Garden. Informal musical performances . 

throughout the afternoon; refreshments; silent 

auction. Performers include Kirk Elliott, fiddle/ 

guitar; Catherine Keenan, hurdy gurdy; Alicia 

Bisha & Eleanor Verrette, violins; Alison Melville, 

recorder/traversal Norwegian willow flute & 

others. Garden &-Fellowship Room, St. George· 

the-Martyr Church, 197 John. 416-5884301. 

$10. Proceeds to the 2002-03 concert season. 

*September 20,21,22: Port Hope All 

Canadian Jazz Festival. Devoted exclusively 

to showcasing Canadian jazz musicians. Young 

Jazz Showcase & Vocalist Series; buskers; free 

concerts at Memorial Park band shell, on 

streets, ·& in restaurants; master classes 

conducted in shops and pubs. Memorial Park & 

Walton Street, Port Hope. 905-342-1107, 

www.allcanadianjazz.ca 

*September 21 9am-6pm: Artsweek/St. 

Lawrence Market. Global Roots festival Non· 

stop international musical entertainment & 

dancing on stage, from communities such as 

Armenian, Barbadian, Bolivian, Chilean, Chinese & 

many others. 92 Front St. East. 41-6-368-8743. 

•September 211 Oam-4:00: Artsweek/Roy 

Thomson Hall. Open House. Dozens of 

classical, jazz & world music mini-concerts in the 

lobbies, outdoor patio stage & newly renovated 

auditorium; sonic playground; instrumental petting 

zoo. 60 Simcoe. 416-5934822. Free. 

•September 21 11 am: Artsweek/Elgin and 

Winter Garden Theatre' Centre. free Guided 

Tours of the last Operating Double Decker 

Theatre in the World Includes new and restored· 

lobby spaces, samples of original vaudeville 

scenery, theatre museum exhibit. 189 Yonge St. 

416·31.4·2871.Free. 

•September 2112:00 noon-5:00: 

Artsweek/T oronto Early Music Centre. 

Toronto Early Music fair. Performances, 

ANNOUNCEMENTS ••• ETC CONTINUES 

CALLING ALL COMPOSERS! 

The Exultate Chamber Singers are excited to announce 

their Canadian choral compositfon competition! 

Th~ winning work will be performed May 9, 2003, ' 

with the Rachmaninoff Vespers. 

Deadline: 

- February 14, 2003. 

Prize: 

- $1,000 Cdn. 

Requirements: 

- Sacred, a cappella 

- 3-6 minutes in length 

- For mixed adult voices 

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND ENTRY FORMS, 

CALL 416-971-9229 OR VISIT WWW.EXULTATE.ON.CA. 

m:oronto, Qfarlp :ffiu~ic

Youth Singers of Toronto 

(Children and Youth ages 5 -19 

3 graded choirs) 

Carol Woodward Ratzlaff 

Music Director 

AUDITIONS 

Call Laura@ 416-788-8482 

vivayst@rogers.com 

Unique singing opportunities 

for 2002-2003 season include: 

*Performances with National 

Ballet of Canada's Nutcracker 

*Professionally staged opera, 

Noye's.Fludde, by Britten 

*Our own resident composer, 

Andrew Ager 

*Private vocal coaching 

* TheofY instruction 

*Dramatic arts coaching 

*Convenient Annex location 

(Bloor & Spadina) 

*Reasonable annual fee 

($300-$350) 

TENORS! 

ANNO DOMINI 

CHAMBER SINGERS 

requires tenors to~ the 

2002-2003 season. 

We are a mixed voice 

choir performing sacred 

and liturgical music. You 

possess good sight reading 

skills and are eager 

to join a dynamic group 

of 23 singers. Please can 

for more information and 

to arrange and audition 

. (416), 696-0093. 

ANNOUNCEMENTS ... ETC CONTINUED 

St.41&961·6601 x307. 

demonstrations, CDs, books, exhibits. . *September 25 1 Dam: Artsw'eek/Toronto 

Montgomery's Inn, ~ 709 Dundas West 416· Symphony Orchestra. Open Rehearsal 

994·B 113. $3, 12 & under free. 

Elisabeth Batiashvili, violin; Jukka,Pekka Saraste, 

*September 22 9am-6pm: Artsweek/St. conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe. 416· 

Lawrence Market. Global Roots Festival See 593· 7769 x444. Free. 

September 21: ' 

*September 2511am: Artsweek/ 

*September 23-27 1 Oam-4pm: Artsweek. Tafelmusik. Open Dress Rehearsal Music will 

W. Mark Sutherland· Scratch. Exploring the include selections by baroque masters such as 

boundaries of different disciplines: language, Handel and Lully. T rinity·St. Paul's Church, 427 · 

sound, images & objects, with two interactive Bloor West. 416·964.·9562 x22B. 

sound installations: Scratch (199B) and CodeX *September 25 7:30: Etobicoke Community 

(2001 ). Koffler Gallery, 45BB Bathurst. 416·. Concert Band Open Rehearsal tor New Musicians. 

636· 1 BBQ x26B. Free. _ 

4Q.1!111TblrwiJd ~.Jcm Edward Liddle, 

*September 241:00: David Warrack & the rrusic cirector. Etillicoke Collegiate Auditmilm. 86 

Canada Pops Orchestra. 2002Maestro's MontgoouyRd.416-410.1570. 

Classic· 1st Annual Celebrity Bolf Tournament. · *September 26·0ctober1i: Small World 

Book a 3-some & we'll provide a celebrity to Music Society. Small World Festival 

complete your team; book an individual spot & Celebration of traditional music & performance 

. we'll put you on-a team. Glen Eagle Golf & from many cultures. Artists include Radio T arifa, 

Country Club. 416· 733-0626. 

Ensemble Al Kindi, Kemani Cerna!, Maharja, LoJo 

*September 24 7:30: Artsweek/All The & Ma mar Kassey. Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 

King's Voices. Open Rehearsal 35·member Charles West. 416·J370-8000, 

mixed voice chorus. David J. King, conductor. www.smallworldmusic.com 

Willowdale United Church, 349 Kenneth Ave. *September 28 11am: Artsweek/Elgin and 

416·225-2255. 

Winter Garden Theatre Centre. Free Guided 

*September 25-27 9am: Artsweek/Canadian Tours of the Last Operating Double Decker 

Music Centre. Open HOllSe. Visit the rruisc library; Theatre in the World See September 21. 

isten to various works, view rrusic scores & find *September 281 :30: Artsweek/St:James 

ilfoimation on Canacm CIJITllOSlllS. 20 St.JosePi Cathedral. Cathedl7i Boy Chaisters. Spend an hour 

Counterpoint 

Chorale 

... dedicated to the community & 

· the performing arts 

Invitation to 

Audition 

Soprano and Alto 

positions· 

Rehearsals: St. Vladimir Institute - 

Auditorium 

620 Spadina Avenue 

Toronto, ON 

Time: 

Tuesdays, 7:15 to 9:30 p.m. 

Beginning Sept. 3, 2002 

For more info~ation, contact: 

William W0loschuk, Director 

Telephone: (416) 253-4674 

Website: www.ccorchestrl!,.org 

Christopher Dawes 

organise & director of music 

with oow1y awoiited Director Matthew Lart

LECTURES 

*September 47:00: lecture/discussion on 

Demystifying Music lessons. lnfonnative 

session, co·sponsored by the Toronto Public • 

library, for all who want tips/ideas about pursuing 

musical instruction. For all ages. Speaker is Susan 

Spier of Creative Strings. Annette Street Branch 

library, 145 Annette St. 416· 763-6310. Free. 

*September 15 2:00: Toronto Opera Club. 

Guest speakers Susan Benson, designer & 

Michael Whitfield, lighting designer, share their 

experience of designing costumes, sets & lighting 

especially for opera productions. Room 330, . 

Edward Johnson Bldg., 80 Queens Park. 416· 

924-3940. $1 O(non·members). 

*September 16 8:00: Toronto Wagner 

Society. Wagner's Das liebesverbot. _ 

Discussion by Professor Eric Domville illustrated 

with musical excerpts. Arts and letters Club, 14 

Erm St. 416·593.8557. Suggested donation $5· 

$1 0 for non·niembers. 

MASTER CLASSES 

*September 7 1 Oam·6pm & September 8 

2pm·6pm: Sensible Vocal Training· A Master 

Class with Pattie Kelly. Kinestheti~ and organic 

vocal experience with focus on influencing and 

improving the co·ordinative process of the vocal 

rruscles.CtlJl'choftheHolyTrility, 10Trinity 

Square. 416429-7658. Participants: lesson $45; 

iessa\ & repertoi'e coaching $65. Auditors: $1 O(ha~ 

day), $15(alday SallJ'day), $2oibothdays). 

*October 112:10: University ofToronto 

Faculty of Music. Voice Performance Class· 

The University Settlement 

MUSIC AND ARTS SCHOOL 

Anne Yardley, Director 

- -~--=.s.:::;-- 

Quality , affordable music lessons and group 

classes' for over 80 years in downtown Toronto. / 

Individual lessons in piano, violin, viola, cello, guitar, 

1 flute, recorder, trumpet"jazz trumpet, French horn, clarinet, 

percussion, saxophone, voice, jazz voice, accordion, theory 

and more... · 

Group classes include: Pre-school music and dance (ages 3-5), 

Community Choir (adults); Solfege (adults), Chamber Music . 

(adults), and Dance classes for ages 4 to adult (jazz, tap, 

ballet), Music Theatre for ages 10 to 18, AND; .. 

Concerts and Workshops.by students, faculty and 

guests -Informative newsletter each term 

Instruments for rent- Subsidies available for 

low income students- Practice studios free for 

registered students*. 

.-ALL AGES WELCOME- 

For information and registration, please contact the School at: 

.. 23 Grange Rd. (south of.Dulildas off Mccaul) 

416-598-3444 ext. 243/244 

Anne or Tamara 

*DO YOU NEED A PLACE TO PRACTICE? PRACTICE STUDIOS 

ARE AVAILABLE TO NON-STUDENTS FOR $5 PER HOUR. 

CALL THE SCHOOL FOR MORE INFORMATION 

Audition Techniques for Singers. Walter Hall, 80 

Queen's Park.416·978·3744. Free. 

•October 410:30am: U ofT Faculty of , 

Music. Master class with Martin lsepp featuring 

opera students. Walter Hall, 80 Queen's Park. 

416·978·3744. Free. · 

•October 5 2:00: U of T Faculty of Music. 

Master Class with jazz pianist Fred Hersch. Walter 

Hal, 80 Queen's Pan

ANNOUNCEMENTS ... ETC CONTINUED 

Workshop. Goethe Institute, 163 King St. West. 

· GenevanPsalter. Workshopf9rrecorders, viols, 416-532-3019. 

reeds, percussion & other instruments, conducted. *Septeinber 23 7:30: Arnm~k.Anlntnxfuction 

by Stephanie Martin. Lansing United Church, 49 to Scat Sir(/irYJ. Experieo::e vocal ir!rovisation; isten 

Bogert Ave.416487-9261. $20. · 

toesta!HalscatsiJ,jers;leanbreat!Tgtec/ricµls; 

*September ~ 12:00: Arnmeek!Canadian devekJp yru JlllSOllalvocalraYJe. Horey Novd, 

!Jpera Co11'4J8ny: CaingAHBathroomOivas(and Eader. locatioo TBA.416-782-7944. 

Oivtls/JBITT,JyourbeStaria;jiaristprovDrlCOC *September 25 & October 27:15: All The. 

ArtisticActiilistratorwilirovideconstructive . King's Voices. Sight-Singing Workshop Part 

feedJack on lllwto arltion and ijveiisiler's Two. Opportunity for amateur singers & others 

ilformatioo on what OPEJil COf1lJCllills are 1ookiYJ for. to review & strengthen their vocal technique and 

Aulitors also webm!. Joey & Toby T cnriJalrn sight -reading. David J. King, workshop conductor. 

Ope-a Centre, 227 Front St. East. 416-363-6671. Willowdale United Church, 349 Kenneth Ave. 

*September 21 -29, time TBA: Artsweek. 416-225-2255. $95 for 5 sessions. 

WtJr!d Drumming. Adultprogram that 

*September 25 7:30: Toronto Early Music 

1 experiments with South American, West African · Centre. Vocal Circle. Recreational reading of 

& Caribbean drumming techniques & rhythms. early choral music. Ability to read music desirable 

Art Start$ Neighbourhood Cultural Centre, 324 but not essential. 166 Crescent Rd. 416-920- 

0akwood Ave. 416-656-9994 x3. PWYC. 5025. $5(non-members). 

*September 22 2:00: Arraymusic/The *September 26 7:30: Artsilveek. learn to 

Goethe Institute. Walter Zimmermann Sing and Harmonize. All ladies welcome for an 

wWare Academy of M~si_~·,·-~WI•'' 

Achievino Musical Excellence! *ffjl~J 1 1 7K' r;/i;rc 

b (905) 479-0591 

Transforming Bright Minds into Great Achievers 

Composer Peter Ware, M.M. Yale. University 

Classical Guitarist Lynn Harting-Ware, M.M. Kent State University 

Music Classes in Preparation for RCM Examinations 

Rudiments, Harmony, History, Analysis, Counterpoint 

Class Sessions Begin: May, July, September and January 

·1th . @ 

For Course Listings & Free MP3s: www.Acoma-co.com 

4350 Steeles Ave. E. (Market Village) 1•'104A, Markham, ON 

Music Appreciation 

with Rick Phillips 

Host of CBC Radio's Sound Advice 

Would you 'like to enh'ance your enjoyment 

of classical music? 

Join Rick Phillips for two informative and 

' ' I 

entertaining Music Appreciation courses. 

Jl C~ntrally locatedat the Royal Conservatory of 

Music, 273 Bloor St. West 

' 

Jl . Two twelve-week evening courses, 

Wednesdays - .7:30-9:30 PM 

Jl 

Jl 

No pr~requisites - just an enjoyment and interest 

in classical music 

Engaging, educational, and enlightening 

For more information or to enroll call the RCM 

(416) 408-2825 

evening of four-part hannony with the Toronto 

Accolades' of Hannony. ~arl Bales Community 

Centre, 4169 Bathurst. 416-281·7925. Free. 

*September 29 1 :30: Alliance for 

Canadian New Music Projects/Royal 

Conservatory of Music/Association of 

Canadian Women Composers. Canadian 

Contemporary Music Workshop. Lecture & 

workshop by composer David Gordon Duke with 

participa\ion of composers Ann Southam & Mary 

Gardiner; )lerfonnance of compositions by 

student & other composers. Ettore Mazzoleni 

Concert Hall, 273 Bloor St. West. 416-963- 

5937. $35, $.10(partial day). 

*September 29 2:00: CAMMAC: Music reading 

forsiYJers and orchestra of Beetroven's 9th 

Syrrctooy (4thrmvermt). Coil Clarke, concix:tor. 

lnslnJTBltiiists please bri1g music stand.5. Chist 

CtuchDee-Park. 1570YO!YJE!St.416-978-7665. 

$5(non-rrerbe's), $3(rrerbers). 

*October 5 & 6 2:00-4:30: CANINlAC. The A 

Cappel/a Evolution. Workshop conducted by Suba 

Sankaran. Day 1: History of vocal jazz 

ensembles, from barbershop to doo-wop, gospel 

to contemporary a cappella. Day 2: Introduction to 

blues, scat singing, vocal percussion & group 

improvisation (circle songs). 166 Crescent Rd. 

416-928-6991.. Non-members $35 or $20 for 1 

day; members $ 29 or $1 ff for 1 day. 

*October 6 1:30: Alliance for Canadian 

New Music Projects/RCM/Association ~f 

Canadian Women Composers. Canadian 

Contemporary Music Workshop. See September 

29. Noel Ryan Auditorium, Mississauga Central 

Library, 301 Bumhamthorpe Rd. West. 

*Peter Smith Jazz Workshops. Topics 

include blowing, repertoire; compositions & 

ensemble skills in a jazz combo setting. Anyone 

welcome. September 4,9, 18,23: 7:30. 

Japanese United Church, Dovercourt south of 

Bloor. 416-785-8609, www.potesmote.ca. $10. 

Please confinn attendanc~ beforehand. 

'Toronto Scfwo[![or Strings 

~ Located nea~ 5 Y ~~~~e~t~:nd Bloor St. 

Private Lessons Group Classes 

Qualified/Experiericed Suzuki Instructors 

RCM Exam Preparation 

Junior Reading Orchestra, Chamber music 

Adult ~tring Orchestra , 

All Ages 3+ 

Adults Welcome 

Contact Julian Fisher 

416-968-0303 

w;ww. torontoschoolforstrings.com 

The Piano music of 

Beethoven 

The R·ussian Symphony 

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begins Sept. 18, 2002 begins Jan. 22, 2003 

I

PIANO LESSONS AND ACCOMPANI 

MENT for vocal and instruments. Experienced, · 

qualified Master of Music. Festivals, R.C.M. prep .. all 

levels. Mississauga East. Larissa 90S·238-7150. 

ACCOUNTING AND INCOME TAX MUSIC FOR ALL OCCASIONS! Duets, Trios, 

SERVICE for small business and individuals, to Dance Band, Big Band. Background, 1Centre-stage. 

save you time and money, customized to meet your Classical, Contemporary, ,Dixieland, jazz! JSL Enterneeds. 

Norm Pulker, B. Math. CMA. 905-717-5421 or prises 905-276-3373. 

905-830-2985. NEW MEMBERS NEEDED! The North To 

BALDWIN FOR SALE. Hamilton model, 45" ronto Singers are a well-established choral group 

high with bench. Walnut. Very .stable. F,ull music under the direction of Gary Heard. Three concerts are 

rail. Excellent condition. (416)922-2125. 

planned for the coming season, two of which will be 

EAR TRAINING, MUSICIANSHIP, held at the spectacular Loretto Abbey, one of these 

SIGHT-SINGING, dictation, rhythmic train- being a two-choir presentation of works by Handel. 

ing, keyboard skills, theory (all Conservatory-type All parts welcome. Rehearsals Tuesday evenings, Church 

subjects, solfa, jazz). All level.s. professional/serious of t.he Transfiguration. 905-893-9626. 

beginners. Detailed study available - j.S.Bach, Ren- NORTH TORONTO PLAYERS a Gilbert & 

aissance, jazz. Art Levine, MA, ARCT; Host of _Sullivan Community Theatre Group would welcome 

"This is Art" on CBC; RCM Professional School Fae- · Tenors & Basses. For information call 416-421-9710 

ulty; Instructor, University of Toronto, etc. 416-9.24- www.northtorontoplayers.com 

8613. Visit website: www.artlevin.e.com PIANIST WILL' PLAY jazz.flavoured back 

EXPERIENCED LADY REQUIRED for ground music free of charge at charitable and nonprofessional 

cleaning service/with car. Call Julia: 416• profit events. Can bring own piano. Call Neville at 

Voice Clarinet T ru~pei Flute 

265-5420. (905)877-8471. 

FESTIVAL WIND ORCHESTRA. Community 

orchestra of aboveaverage calibre seeks 

new members._ Rehearsals on Tuesdays, 7:30-9:30, 

Yonge & Sheppard area, starting September I 0. All 

instruments, ages w·elcome. Professional conductor. 

For more info, call Shelley at (416)491-1683. 

FLUTE LESSONS: Individualized instruction for 

children and adults, tailored to skill level and goals. 

Classical, jazz and Royal Conservatory training. Upper 

Beaches (416)693-8778. 

JiAVE YOU EVER WANTED TO SING, 

thought you wouldn't or couldn't, or do you just 

want a place to play with the possibilities of your 

voice. Small groups. 6 • $7 5. Johanne, 416-461- 

8425 . . 

LE COMMENSAL, 'a fine vegetarian re~taurant 

in the heart of downtown Toronto, invitei 

amateur musicians trained in classical, 1.ight chamber, 

jazz or voice to enquire about performing 

short pieces, songs and compositions that suit 

our environment. For more information, contact 

Susanna Yeung at 416-596-9364 or email 

ssky@-rogers.com. 

*LOOKING TO. PLAY in an excellent community 

symphony orchestra? The York Symphony is 

a friendly group in its 41 st season. There are 

openings in all string sections. Call Ken at (416)225- 

0788. . ' 

TLC 

. 

for 

. 

musicians 

by a 

.. 

musician 

.. Endurance • Breath 

Posture • Muscle Release 

Dr. Katarina Bulat, 

Chiropractor 

Clinic: Back in Motion 

1370 Danforth Ave. 

Tel: 416-461-2225 

Private Practice: 

18 Vernadale Cres. · 

Tel : 416-752-8673 

PIANO TEACHER & VOCAL COACH/ 

ACCOMPANIST needed for downtown singing · 

school. Please call 416-968-0984. 

PIANO TUNING & REPAIR Vintage Piano 

Reconditioning, Restringing, Key Recovering. 

Extensive work experience • Refe{enm. Honours 

Diploma • European Master Classes. 416:803-6150. 

SINGING LESSONS Experienced, qualified Bae. 

Music, Classical, Semi-popular. R.C.M. prep .. all levels. 

Central location. Interest in disabilities. 416- 

1 

924-3877. 

THE BEACH ARTS CENTRE 416-690-4552. 

Music Lessons all ages and levels! Music for babies 

and toddlers! Exams, performances. Piano Violin 

THE CHOIR OF GENTLEMEN, BOYS 

AND GIRLS of St. Sim~n-the-Apostle welcomes 

young singers aged 7 to 14 to apply for the choir. 

Children shouJd possess a pleasant singing · voice. 

This vibrant choir offers young choristers an excellent 

musical training within .a secure environment, 

opportunities for friendship and a small monthly 

honorarium. St. Simon's is located at 525 Bloor East 

(Bloor and Sherbourne), Toronto. For further details' 

please contact Thomas Bell, Director of Music. 

(416)923-8714 x208. 

THE PERFORMING EDGE Performance enhancement 

training inension managemenL concentration, 

goal setting, imagery. Individualized to meet 

your performance situation. ~ate F. Hays, Ph.D .. 

C.Psych .. practising clinical and performing arts psychology. 

416-961-0487. 

THE SOCIETY ·of SINGERS, a 4-part 

choir performing a varied programme at Seniori'. 

Residences, welcomes new members. Rehearsals, 

.beginning September 9, are Mondays 

I :00 to 3:00 p.m. at Blythwood Baptist Chu(ch, 

on Blythwood Road just east of Yonge Street. 

Ample parking. just come, or phone 4 lo-467- 

2932 or 416-421-9277. · 

The 7th··arinua1 

Arts Richmond

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DUNDAS CONCERT BAND 

Conductor: Bill Rolfe 

Contact: Kurt Schipper (905) 628-851 t 

Rehearsals: Tuesdays, 8:00 p.m. at Dundas 

Town Hall, Main St. W., Dundas · 

Instruments needed: euphonium, flute, clarinet, 

trombone, oboe, bassoon · 

FESTIVAL WIND ORCHESTRA 

Conductor: Gennady Getter 

Contact: Shelley Goodman (416) 491-1683 

Website: http:// 

www.festivalwindorchestra.lovesmusic.com 

Rehearsals: Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m. at Earl Haig 

S.S., room 163, 100 Princess Ave. North York 

Instruments needed: percussion, oboe, low 

brass, low reeds, trumpets, clarinets 

. GALT KILTIE BAND 

Conductor: David Davidson 

Contact: (519) 624-9934 (recorded message) 

Website: http://www.kilties.cambridge.on.ca/ 

Rehearsals: Tuesdays, 8:00 p.m. ·please 

contact for location 

Instruments needed: clarinets, bass clarinet, 

flutes, oboe, tuba 

HART HOUSE SYMPHONIC BAND 

Conductor: Keith Reid 

Contact: (416) 978-2452 

Rehearsals: Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m. in the 

Great Hall at Hart House ~ 

Instruments needed: all, but audition and Hart 

House membership are required 

NEWMARKET CITZENS BAND 

Conductor: Leslie Saville 

Contact: Nancy Bracken (905)478-2530 • 

Website: http://members.rogers.com/ 

dbl-bass/ncb/ 

Rehearsals: Tuesdays, 8:00 p.m. at 

Lions Hall, Newmarket 

Instruments needed: bassoon, bass clarinet, 

percussion (all welcome) 

OAKVILLE WIND ORCHESTRA 

Conductor: Chris Arthurs 

Contact: Jacquie Holmberg (905) 338-8114 

e-mail address: · · 

jacguie.s.holmberg@can.dupont.com 

Rehearsals: Tuesdays, 8:00 p.m. at Iroquois 

Ridge S.S., Glenashton Rd., Oakville 

Instruments needed: tuba, clarinets, bassoon, 

·euphonium, percussion 

PICKERING CONCERT BAND 

Conductor: Andrew Locker 

Contact: Marie Narini (905) 571-1785 

Website: www.coricertband.ca 

Rehearsals: Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m. at East Shore 

. Community Ce~tre, Liverpool Rd., Pickering 

Instruments needed: _all 

THORNHILL COMMUNITY BAND 


Contact: Joan or Lawry Sax (416) 223-7152 

Website: http://members.rogers.com/tcband 

Rehearsals: Tuesdays; 7:30 p.m. at 

Westmount CJ., Bathurst & New 

Westminster, Vaughan .• 

Instruments needed: clarinets, bassoon, horns, 

percussion 

TRILLIUM WIND ENSEMBLE 

Conductor: John Guerriere 

Contact: John Guerriere (416) 465-8131 

Rehearsals: Tuesdays, 7:'30 p.m. at St. 

46 

· Michaels College School (corner of 'st. Clair & 

Bathurst) 

Instruments needed: clarinets, flutes, low brass 

' 

' 

CALEDON CONCERT BAND 

Conductor: Rob Kinnear 

Contact: Andrew Dunn (905) 857 · 7629 

Website: http://caledon.bandmusic.ca 

Rehearsals: Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m. at Christ 

Anglican Church, 22 Nancy St., Bolton 

Instruments needed: clarinets, trumpets, horns 

ETOBICOKE 

COMMUNITY CONCERT BAND 

Conductor: John Edward Liddle 

Contact: Dennis Locke (416) 622-8389 

Rehearsals: Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m. at 

Etobicoke C.I., 86 Montgomery Rd. Etobicoke 

. Instruments needed: bass clarinet, bassoon 

HAMILTON CONCERT BAND 


Contact: Dave Pearson (905) 772-5205 

Website: ,http://www.haflliltonband.com 

Rehearsals: Wednesdays, 7:30 at Emmanuel 

United Ch_urch, Upper Ottawa & Mohawk., ' 

Hamilton 

Instruments needed: horiis, pe~cussion, 

euphoniumrbassoon 

MISSISSAUGA PliPS 

CoNCERTBAND 

Conductor: Oenny Ringler 

Contact Allan Harris (905) 681:2047 

Rehearsals: Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m. at Eden 

United Church, NW cornerof Winston 

Churc.hill & Battleford, Mississauga 

Instruments needed: n/a · 

THOROLD REED BAND 

Conductor: Brian Williams 

Contact Brian Williams (905) 227-0150 

Rehearsals: Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., St. John's 

Anglican Church, Ormond St., Thorold 


CLARINGTON CONCERT BAND 

Conductor: Barrie Hodgins 

Contact: Janet Cringle (905) 987-1569 

Website: http://www.geocities.com/ ·· 

claringtonc9ncertband 

Rehearsals: Thursdays, 7:30 p.m. at 

Bowmanville Sr. P. S., 105 Queen St., 

Bowmanville · · 


FORT ERIE LEGION 

CONCERT BAND 

Conductor: Brian Williams 

Contac1: Brian Williams (905) 227-0150 

Rehearsals: Thursdays, 7:30 p.m., Fort Erie 

Legion, Military Rd., Fort Erie 


LYDIAN WIND ENSEMBLE 

Conductor: Calvin Friedri~h 

Contact: William Patton (905) 666-3169 

email: wpatton@sympatico.ca 

Rehearsals: Thursdays at 7:30 p.m., 

call for location in Ajax 

Instruments needed: all, auditions within 

rehearsals 

NORTH YORK CONCERT BAND 

Conductor: John Edward Liddle 

Contact: Sidney Gangbar (416) 781.-6728 

Rehearsals: Thursdays, 8000 p.m. 


SWANSEA 

COMMUNITY CONCERT BAND 

·Conductor: Frank Evans 

Co~tact: Michelle Springer (416) 286-1045 

e-mail address: michellespring68@hotmail.com 

Rehearsals: Thursdays, 7-9 p.m. at Western 

Technical and Commercial Schqol, 123 Evelyn 

Cres. Toronto (starting Sept. 19) 

Instruments needed: low reeds, low brass 

BAYFIELD WINDS CONCERT BAND 

Conductor: Hugh McGregor 

Contact: Paul Dearlove (519) 565-5611 

Rehearsals: every 2nd Sunday, 1' :30 p.m. 

at Goderich D.C.I. 

Instruments needed: low reeds, horns, oboe 

GUELPH CONCERT BAND 

Conductor: Colin Clarke 

Contact: Leslie MacDonald (519) 837 -0276 

Website: http://www.concert·band.guelph.on.ca/ 

Rehearsals: Sundays, 7:00. p.m. at the Guelph 

Youth Music Centre, 75 Cardigan St. Guelph 


NoRTHDALE CONCERT BAND 

Conductor: Stephen Chenette 

Contact: Karen Bower (416) 283-4963 

Rehea·rsals: Sundays, 7:30 p.m. at Willowdale 

United Church, 349 Kenneth Ave., North York 

Instruments needed: string bass, oboe, bassoon 

Brass Bands 

FERGUS BRASS BAND 

Conductor: Bill French · 

Contact: Biil French (519) 877-9453 

Website: http://www.icomm.ca/fergusbb/ 

index2.html 

Rehearsals: Tuesdays at 8:00 p.m. on Blair St., 

across from the Fergus Legion 


WESTON SILVER BAND 

Conductor: Robin Mccubbin 

· Contact: Dave Pearson (9Q5) 772-5205 

Website: http://wwv-i.westonsilverband.org 

Rehearsals: Tuesdays, 8 p.m., Central United 

Church, Weston Rd. N. of Lawrence 

Instruments nee.de& cornets, Eb or B~ tuba, 

2nd baritone 

YOUTH BANDS 

BURLINGTON TEEN TOUR BAND 

Conductor: Bili Hughes. 

Contact: Rob Bennett, Musi~ Programs coordinator, 

(905)335-7807 · 

Website: http://www.teentourband.org 

Rehearsals: Music Centre in Burlington's 

Central Park· call for times 


ETOBICOKE Yriurn BAND 

Conductors: Les Dobbin and Ken Hazlett 

Contact: Michael Samotowka (416)-239-9724 · 

Website: http://www.eyb.com 

Rehearsals: call 

Instruments needed: all, but audition is required 

HANNAFORD STREET YOUTH BAND . 

·Conductor: Larry Shields 

Contact: Larry Shields (416) 503-8673 

Rehearsals: Saturdays 

Instruments needed: all brass & percussion· 

membership is by audition, pis. call for info 

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MISSISSAUGA YOUTH ORCHESTRA 

SYMPHONIC WINDS 

Conductor: John McGuigan 

Contact: Kathy Grell (905) 815·8125 

-Website: http://www.myomusic.ca 

Rehearsals: TBA 

Instruments needed: all, audition is required 

TORONTO YOUTH WIND 

ORCHESTRA & CONCERT WINDS 

Conductors: Colin Clarke & David _Lum 

Contact: Adrienne Pluim 1519) 835-0492 or 

tywomanager@yahoo.ca 

Rehearsals: Sundays, 1 :00 p.m. at St. Michael's 

College, 1515 Bathurst St. at St. Clair 

Instruments needed: all, call for audition info 

And a final note: 

. Argonotes, the Toronto Argonauts Band 

are always on the lookout for players to fill out 

their ranks for· the remainder of the CFL season. 

II you subscribe to their philosophy "faster + 

louder - better", then give Musical Dictator 

(not a typo!) Steve Hayman a call at 416-769- 

284 7, or go to their website, http:// 

www .argonotes.corn. 

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monthly column "BandStand." If you have 

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· at www.attcanada.ca/- merlinw or by e-ma1Z· 

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September 1 - Octobe r 7 2002

DISCOVERIES is a CD review 

section designed to, complement and 

enhance our pre-eminent coverage of 

Toronto's live classical and new 

music concert scene, featuring 

reviews 'f;y WholeNote columnists 

and independent contributors. CDs 

are considered for review in the 

following categories: 

J; "Conceit prep"-- CDs, new or 

otherwise, which tie iwwitb events 

beingjeatured in the current issu~ of 

the magazine. Note that many discs 

in the other categories also relate to 

upcoming events as noted; 

2. New and Recent Releases - 

newly released CDs rel(!vant to o~r 

magazine's coverage of the music 

scene; 

IN DISCOVERIES THIS ISSUE 

CONCERT PREP 

pages47-48 

-Of Heart and Homeland: Duo Concertante 

-Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame: Kirov 

Orchestra I Valery Gergiev 

. Tchaikovsky, arr. Thibaudeau: La Dame 

de Pique: Orch. des Grands Ballets 

Can. de Montreal I Jacques Lacombe 

-Judy Loman: Favourites 

-Jazzstory 

NEW AND RECENT RELEASES 

_ · . pages 48 -50 

-Earth Chants: Music of lmant Raminsh 

Vancouver. Chamber Choir /Jon Washburn 

-A & D Scarlatti: Concerti & Sinfonie 

Europa Galante I Fabio Biondi 

- In Tavolatura: Rachelle Taylor, harpsichord 

-Mahler Symphony No. 10 (reconstructed) 

Polish Nat'I. RSO I Rob~rtOlson 

-Gavin Bryars -Three String Quartets 

3. "Wolth repeating" - CDs newly The Lyric Quartet 

re-issued, or previously released ~ut 

still generally available, de,emed 

. Kevin Volans- Hunting: Gathering/The 

Duke Quartet 

panicutarly ~otewon~y by a me~er 

of our eduonal panel, _ , · 

WORTH REPEATING 

pages 5 o . 52 

4. ·"lndie list" _ ,Small label and · -Smoke Rings: Glen Gray I Casa Loma 

independent release CDs, often ~r.che~tra , , . . . 

fi . .nd. 'd ls or groups active Dun s1ecte a I autre. Vanous artists 

eatunng i ivi u:1 - . The Best of the Rosenberg T no 

on the local music scene. 

_Richard Strauss:Also Sprach 

S. "Disc(s) of the month" -Discs of Zarathustra; Don Juan; Till Eulenspiegel; 

special interest, often with .__a Ein Heldenleben; Tod und Verklarung · 

panicular connection t~ th~ month 's Berlin Phil.I Herbert von Karajan 

concen activities or edltonal focus. 

INDIE LIST 

I 

We think DISCoveries is a logical 

pages 52 · 53 · 

and ·exciting extension of The 

'. Canot-camping: expedition 4 ·Jean 

Derome and ensemble 

Wh6leNote 's coverage of the Toronto 

-TheMarmots-TreacleWall 

music scene. We welcome your feedback 

and invite submissions. Cata 

UBC Choir and Symp. I Bruce P.ullan 

-Edward Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius - 

logues, reView copies of CDs and 

comments should be sent to: The DISCS OF THE MONTH 

WholeNote, 60 Bellevue Avenue, 

page54 

Toronto ON M5T 2N4. We also welcome 

.your input via our website, Violin · Erika Raum/ Anton Kuert1 

. Czerny: Graod Sonata for Pianof?rte & 

www.thewholenote.com. 

. S0chumann: Concerto in A minor; 

Introduction and Allegro appassionato; 

David Olds, Editor, DISCoveries Konzertstuck. Anton Kuerti, CBC Radio 

Orchestra'/ Mario Bernardi 

CONCERT PREP 

Of Heart and Homeland 

Duo Concertante 

ATMA Classique ALCD 2 1025 

Conce'rt Note: Duo Concenante will 

be perform_ing on Thursday, 

September 26'h with tenor Darryl 

Edwards in Walter Hall (U of T) at _ 

12:10 as pan of the Thursdays at 

Noon series. 

This disc from Duo Concertante Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame - 

(Nancy Dahn, violin and Ti~othy Kirov Orchestra, Chorus and 

Steeves, piano) announces itself ·Soloists; Valery Gergiev 

with strength, right from the .Philips 438141-2 

opening of Sonata for Violi~z and 

Piano by Janacek. Seventy mmutes Tchaikovsky, arr. Thibaudeau: 

of music flow from the La Dame de Pique 

Newfoundland-based duo, covering Orchestre des Grands Ballets 

pieces· by de Falla, Shostakovich, Canadiens de Montreal; 

Smetana, Dvorak, Piazzolla and Jacques Lacombe 

Canadian composer Michael Analekta AN 2 8816 

, - 

Parker. 

' 

Conductor Valery Gergiev and his 

The Fantastic Dances, Op. 5 by 

Kirov Opera Orchestra and Chorus 

Shostakovich are presented in a 

have produced an ideal recording of 

violin/pianq _arrangement that 

Tchaikovsky's magnificent opera. 

shows the three dance movements 

With compelling conviction, 

in a new light. Unfortunately the 

.Gergiev creates musical. drama .on 

arranger is not credited. De Falla's 

a magisterial scale. Usmg a n~h 

Suite Populaire Espagnole is given 

palette of colours, the orchestra 1s 

a particularly spirited pe.rforn;iance. 

unsurpassed in its expressiveness. 

Of special interest 1s Michael 

The stellar cast of Russian singers 

Parker's In Memoriam, Op. 43, 

captures every nuance of characterization 

in Tchaikovsky's score. 

'from 1991. The Newfoundland 

composer has created a work that 

Maria Gulegina is riveting in her 

chromatically twists in several 

portrayal of the passionately determined 

yet tragically vulnerable 

directions in the process of a 

climactic bulldup, ending as it begins 

Lisa, and Olga Borodina is a.ravishing 

Pauline. Their Moz~rtea~ 

with a violin solo. 

Astor Piazzolla's Grand Tango 

pastoral duet "Moi m1len~1 

closes the collection, played here in 

druzhok", where they b,lend exq~1- 

a violin adaptation; the original was 

sitely, provides one 'of many 

for cello and piano. The haunting 

highlights. . 

dreamlike quality of the Argentine 

As the old Countess, Irma 

composer is present here in full 

Arkhipo;a is formidable. Vladimir · 

measure . . 

Chernov sings Y eletsky with ·such . 

·Dahn and Steeves are superb 

depth that he makes his declaration 

musicians. Music on this disc is a 

of love to Lisa, "Ya vas lyublyu", 

worthy follow-up 'to their A Deux 

which is one of the most gorgeous 

of 2000, ·flowing with deft 

arias in the baritone repertoire, 

assurance, without showy overconfidence. 

The balance between 

heartrending in ·its futility. Gegam 

the, violin and the piano is pleasing 

to the ear. The cover photograph 

shows the pair dressed somewhat 

casually, as if to emphasize their 

youthfulness, and _sets them apart 

from that older talented, if straightlaced, 

violin/piano duo ofAtlantiG 

Canada, Phillipe Djokic and Lynn _ 

Stodola. 

JohnS. Gray

Grigorian produces an incisively 

sculpted portrait of the pathologically 

obsessive Herman, mana~ 

ging to cre'ate sympathy even in his 

destructive madness. , 

Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de 

Montreal scored a great success 

D/S CO VE RIES 

the singers' parts. An accordion : renowned as a soloist in orchestral of the Senator should not be missed. 

added by Thibaudeau provides a .and chamber music and has The next five confirm the 

wistful commentary on this tale of contributed mightily to· the case. Guitarist Tim Postgate is a 

greed, obsession and betrayal. development of new works for her key player among 30-somethingjazz 

Pamela Margles instrument. 

musicians who hold out a bright 

. Loman"s teacher Carlos Salzedo future for jazz in Toronto. This is 

Concert Note: The Canadian Opera was responsible for greatly the .take-off stage for · many 

with its ballet version of Tchai- ''Company is performing Tchaikov- extt:nding the range of tonal effects musicians: conservatory or univerkovsky 

's. opera, and now has sky ':s opera The Queen of Spades for the harp. Salzedo's mellifluous sity training is followed by a decade 

produced an enjoyable recording of ' (Pique Dame) at the Hummingbird Variations sur un them{! dans le style of professional experience and selfthe 

music prepared for that centre from September 26 to ancien artd three smaller, more definition. Postgate. and frequent 

productio~ l:>y Canadian composer October 11. Valery Gergiev is. challenging pieces quite rightfully collaborator, bassist Rob Clutton: 

Gabriel Thibaudeau. 

conducting the Kirov Orchestra at take pride of place in this collection. are impressive'!y mu.ltivalent 

Tchaikovsky' has composed Roy Thomson Hall on Monday, In spite of the stereotypes, it is musicians: Besides catching' them 

wonderful ballet music himself, of March 24 at 8:00. 

not necessary to employ even a in a spectrum of jazz styles ranging 

course, so it is hardly surprising that single·glissando to write 'idiomati- from bebop to the outer edges, you 

his opera works so w,ell as a ballet 

cally for the harp. paul Hindemith's might also hear them having fun in 

score. Thibaudeau has condensed · 

elegant Sonata, a product of this a bluegrass or dance band, or join 

the almost three hours ofopera into 

increasingly neglected composer's !hem when they listen to Ligeti. 

less than eighty minutes. He retains 

maturity,. is a splendid example of What they like to do best, one senses 

Tchaikovsky's· structure, building this.Canadian patriarch John Wein- from this CD, are jazz experiments 

.the ballet around seven scenes. But 

'zweig went so far as to arrange that move the 'music to the next 

he reclaims elements of Pushkin's 

some formal lessons. with Ms stage, a route that differs from both 

original story, focusing on 

Loman before composing a .the bop and freejaiz traditions. 

Herman's sinister obsession with concerto for her in 1967. His Ja:tzstory's music· progresses 

the Countess's secret rather than his 

continuing interest in the instrument mostly at a moderate tempo and 

love for Lisa. 

· is represented here by 4 alternately sound level, but it swings: these are 

Without singers to deliver the 

reflective and spirited selections jazz . musicians, not Euroimprovocal 

lines, Tchaikovsky's brilliant Judy Loman 

from his outstanding suite of 15 visors. Jean Martin's continuously 

orchestrations emerge vividiy. Favourites 

pieces from 1983. The Quick variegated drumming brings· him 

Thibaudeau has added effective Marquis Classics 7 747181289 28 March from this set, barely a into the front line rather than the 

connecting music, Cleverly , · minute long, is a particularly background. Lina Allemano's 

rearranging motifs from different Jn.honour of her retirement after 43 infectious model pf brevity as wit. trumpet has a soft but biting flugelscenes 

to form a dramatic scenario. years as the.principal harpist of the . R. Murray Schafer'. s sensational horn sound. In contrast to standard 

UndeF conductor Jacques Lacombe Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Crown of Ariadne exploits every patterns of theme/solo improvithe 

orchestra provides momentum Marquis Records has issued a possible innovation. of harp sations/restatement of theme, 

and tension, creating a dramatically substantial and fascinating album of technique and then some. Schafer Jazzstory progresses along a stream 

chargedatmosphereofforeboding. excerpts from the discography· of attaches bells to Miss Loman's of successively improvised or 

Thewindsandbrassareparticufarly oneofCanada'sleadingmusiclans. ankles and calls ·upon .her to composed sections. There· is an 

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, thicket of percussion instruments. in their music from bop' s rapid flurry .. 

this exceptionally coloµrfur work. The result is a delight. · 

Filling out the album are excerpts 

Phil Ehrensaft 

·_ from compositions by Benjamin 

Britten (the Sonata op. 83) and 

Glenn Buhr (Tanzmusik). 

Daniel Foley 

Editor's note: Marquis · Classics 

plans to release another Loman disc 

later this year, with works composed 

for her by R. Murray 

·Schafer, Kelly Marie Murphy, Srul 

Irving Glick, Raymond Luedeke and 

Glenn Buhr. 

Con,:ert Note: Judy Loman is soloist 

with the TSO in the world premiere 

of Brian .Cherney 's La Princesse 

lointaine at Roy Thompson Hall on 

Npvember 27, 28 and 30. 

' 

Jazzstory 

Guildwood Records GR004 

(www .guildwoodrecords.com) 

· The first track, of this fine CD is 

convincing evidence that Jazzstory' s 

upcoming performances at the Top 

Concert note: Tim Postgate 's 

Jazzstory quartet plays-on September 

10~15 at the Top of the Senator, 

253 Victoria St. 

NEW RELEASES 

Earth Chants: Music of 

Imant Raminsh 

Vancouver Chamber Choir; 

CBC Radio Orchestra; Jon 

Washburn 

CBC Records SMCD 5Z19 

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DISCOVERIES 

This Latvian-born British Columbia contrast in tonal colour, style and 

residentconveysadeepappreciation tempo, unexpected harmonic 

of nature and spirituality inspired, modulations, and dramatic shifts of 

no doubt, by the proliferation of mood: Th\s, of course, amounts to 

forestland around him. In these many surprising ear-opening 

days of environmental. concern, it moments on this recording. 

is timely to release this recording Nowhere is this more evident than 

of music that glorifies the beauty of in the opening harmonic turns in' the 

our earth.' And what better way to Largo of Alessandro's Sinfonia 

remind us that some of the deepest avanti la Serenata 'Clori, Dorino e 

spiritual experiences strike when Amore, ' followed by the non-stopnature 

is viewed in all its glory than flight Presto, the delicate pluckedto 

combine earth texts and sacred string Minuet, andfinally the simple 

music on the same disc. · moody afterthought Grave. 

Sacred pieces included are the Domenico follows with even more 

Missa Brevis in C minor,' with a strikingly contrasted movements, 

Gloria that is particularly moving also supported by the clarity of this 

turning to jubilation at the end of the ensemble's playing, of his Sinfonia 

movement, Ubi Caritas, the Latin in C major and Sinfonia a 3 in G 

hymn to charity and love in a major. 

gorgeous and sensitive a cappella Alessandro's Sei Concerti in sette 

· setting, and the peaceful Alleluia; parti composed around the same 

Amen. ' 

time as Handel's "Twelve Grand 

The texts on nature are English Concertos in seven parts (opus 6)," 

translations from native s0urces for has a remarkable stylistic resem 

Earth Chants and from the diaries blance, particularly in the fugal 

of Emily Carr for What Voices in passages of several Allegro 

an Unknown. Tongue. The music for movements, and especially. in the 

both conveys the stark, dramatic Concerto grosso No.4 in G minor. 

beauty of landscapes, often employ- • The bold, energetic performances 

ing intervals of seconds to create of Europa Galante under the 

ringing tones that add a mystical direction of Fabio Biondi are 

element. For the Emily Carr texts, beautifully captured on this CD. 

solo viola is employed evoking the · · Frank f. Nakashima 

painter's awareness in solitude. 

"Touching the·Earth lightly" and 

providing gorgeous realizations of 

this music are The Vancouver 

Chamber Choir and CBC Radio 

Orchestra conducted by Jon 

Washburn. 

Dianne Wells 

A & D Scarlatti: Concerti & 

Sinfonie 

·. Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi 

Virgin Veritas 7243 5 45495 2 6 

Having studied with Carissimi in 

Rome, Ales~andro Scarlatti (1660- 

1725) had a flair for musical drama. 

Both he and his son, Domenico 

(1'685-1757), were prolific composers. 

In their writing for chamber 

strings, the Scarlatti family's 

musical traits include strong 


In Tavolattira 

Rachelle Taylor,'Harpsichord 

ATMA ACD2 2267 

This album of period arrangements 

of 16m and 17m century popular songs 

and dances for solo harpsichord 

("intabulations" or, in Italian, "in 

tavolatura"') is a delight. Some of 

the composers are familiar to us 

from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book. 

Others are less well known, but 

were quite famous in their day and 

deserve our attention now. 

I love this period of composition, 

before anyone had set down "The 

Rules" (see Rameau, Traite de 

l 'liarmonie, 1722, for that). The 

music is modal, polyphonic, and 

harmonically adventurous, the 

dances are wild and percussive and 

those tunes still tug at our 

heartstrings. 

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The best known is Lachrimae 

Pavan by Dowland (on the charts 

for a full ce11tury), as set by 

Sweelinck. Crequillon's Languissans, 

je deplore · mes jours (arr. 

Merulo) is ano'ther hurtin' song, 

whereas Lass us' Bonjour mon 

coeur, set by exiled Peter Philips, 

is a well ~known love song. " ... my 

gentle little dove, my sparrow, my 

turtledove! Hail, my .sweet rebel". 

Some selections are theme and 

variation, seime are dance suite 

pieq:s, some are just arrangements, 

but all are varied and 

wonderful. We get a great deal of 

"noodlin~" (long, fancy threads of 

ornaments and jazzy playing around 

the notes of the themes), 

particularly in the Merulo pieces: 

Rachelle Taylor, performing on an 

18th century Italian-style 

harpsichord by Yves Beaupre, does 

a fine job of holding these long and 

complex· lines together, and the 

music floats. There are tantalizing 

suspensions and subtle hesitations, . 

keeping a feeling of improvisation 

in the interpretation. 

\!AHLER 

Mahler - Symphony No.10 

(reconstructed by Joe Wheeler) 

Polish Nat'! RSO; Robert Olson 

· NaX;OS 8.554811 

Since 1965 when Columbia issued 

Ormandy's recording of Deryck 

Cooke's first performing versi~n 

DISCOVERIES 

some have wondered,, or questioned, 

how well Cooke had second 

guessed Mahler's final thoughts. 

Subsequently there have been four 

CDs of Cooke's third version, one 

recording each of two Retno 

Mazzelli versions, a Clinton 

Carpenter yersion (with a second 

imminent from Delos in their Mahler · 

cycle with Andrew Litton) and a 

Wheeler version from Robert Olson 

conducting Boulder's Mahlerfest 

Orchestra (which I've yet to hear). 

I haven't 1been convinced by any 

of the existing recordings, charitably 

hearing little more than ersatz 

Mahler. I seem to have been almost 

alone in being unmoved by the 

Concertgebouw's Cboke version in 

Thomson Hall last year. Could the 

audience have been applauding only 

the excellent performance? Nah! 

Curiously, Joseph Wheeler was 

working on his version while fellow 

Londoner Cooke was working on his, 

each unaware of the other. The need 

for time consuming scholarship and 

the people involved with Olson in the 

preparation of the Wheeler score 

Den Ciul used for this new recording are 

outlined in the comprehensive liner 

notes. 

Wheeler's orchestration, allocation 

of instruments, tempi, and 

hence the emotions, are often' 

significantly different from the other 

interpretations, particularly in the 

unsettling fifth movement. There can 

never be a definitive version but this 

one is very close. Ultimately, quite 

believable. All things considered, 

including Mahler's evolving 

perspectives, it is very possible that 

' ' this score clbsely coincides with what 

Mahler wm,Ild have written. 

Bruce Surtees 

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Montaigne .. NM Classics New Albion · 

New World Tall Poppies 

Gavin' Bryars - Three String 

Q'uartets 

The Lyric Quartet 

Black Box BBM1079 

KevinVolans - Hunting': Gathering 

The Duke Quartet · 

Black Box BBM1069 · 

What are we to make of these brave 

postmodernists, England's Gavin 

Bryars and South Africa's Kevin 

Volans? To be stfre, they are 

fighting the Good Fight - tearing 

down the dogmas and strictures that 

left the ultra-modernist Boulezes 

and Stockhausens painted into a 

corner, writing nasty, alienated 

works the. world has little use for. 

The stri'ng quartets of these two 

composers 'reveal that they have 

much in common. Both write in a 

pleasant, euphonious style - 

although they clearly reserve the 

right to write "wrong notes" when 

they want to. And both favour simple, 

understated textures, together 

with a subtle, gradual approach to 

such things as texture, dynamics and 

phrasing. 

Much the same can be said of 

Bryars - although the English composer's 

sound palette seems a little 

, bland when placed next to Volans' 

African exoticisms. When he's 

being unabashedly lyrical - 

especially in his String Quartet No. 

2 - Bryars succeeds admirably. But 

the extended tremolos, arpeggios 

and scalar passages that pervade all 

three of his quartets often lose their 

way and become static. · 

A,s for the two performing ensembles, 

both the' Duke Quartet (playing 

the Volans) and the Lyric Quartet 

(playing the Bryars) offer 

technically impressive .performances 

that show a thorough 

understanding of this 'music. They 

and the Blac.k Box label, which 

released these well-produced discs, 

deserve congratulations. 

Colin Eatock 

WORTH REPEATING 

Smoke Rings (23 original mono 

recordings 1930-1943) 

Glen (;ray and the Casa Loma 

Orchestra 

ASV Living Era CD AJA 5382 

Pretty well everybody knows about 

Toronto's "castle", CasaLoma, but 

less ·familiar is the un.successful 

attempt to convert it into a luxury 

hotel/night club. A band named the 

"Orange Blossoms" was booked in 

,to the Casa Loma Hotel on Labour ' 

Day 1927, but the club never· 

opened. The orchestra decided to 

What they don't always favour, · form a CO'operative group and 

however, is a clear sense of musical 

rename themselves the Casa Loma 

direction, In some ofVolans' works 

Orchestra in memorial. Regarded 

- such as his String Quartet No. 2, 

or the livelier movements of his as one of the first "swing" bands, 

String Quartet No. l, "White Man as early as 1929 (even though the 

term "swing" wasn't in general use 

Sleeps" - this approach can have an until 1935) they began playihg the 

engaging effect, rather like a carmixture 

of hot jazz and swee.t 

trip to nowhere in particular through ballads that would dominate the 

a delightfully changing landscape. 

But in others, such as his distended music industry in the late thirties. 

String Quartet No. 6,it can lead to Alto saxophonist Glen "Spike" 

Gray eventually fronted the band. 

an inert music that manages to be In 1933 and l 934, the group perboring 

and annoying at the same. formed on the "Camel .Caravan"' 

time. 

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DISCOVERIES 

making them the first swing band she is not same league as Xenakis, 

to be featured on a radio pro- Ligeti, Berio, Boulez, Stockhausen, 

gramme. Their theme song Smoke Kagel, or even Dusapin, in whose 

Rings, which opens this CD, was a company she is found here. Why not 

/natural for the show! 

Sofia Gubaidulina or Kaija Saariaho? 

Casa Loma Stomp has long been It is also curious to me that 

one of my favourite recordings. It Leandre' s tape composition 

is a true 'tour de force' and for hpmmage a j... and Jonathan 

precision playing-perhaps only the Harvey's Bhakti for orchestra and 

Jimmie Lunceford saxophone · tape· are the only. examples of 

section could top this one. Among electroacoustic music included. 

other up-tempo numbers, you might Where, for instance, are Pierre 

just find it hard to keep your feet Henry, the Group de recherches 

still as you listen to No Name Jive, musicales and the computer 

plus Black Jau, Blue Jau and White explorations of the IR CAM school; 

Jav.. The band's ballad strengths to mention some French 

are showcased in Blue Moon, When · achievements alone? 

I Grow Too Old To Dream and These reservations aside, from 

' Heaven Can Wait. Some of the one century to_ the next. is a very 

leading vocalists of the day satisfying package. While most 

recorded with the Casa Loma tracks are selections from larger 

Orchestra and the contributions of works, the excerpts are thoughtfully 

Louis Armstrong, Mildred Bailey, done and carefully arranged to 

Connee Bos}Vell, Hoagy Car- provide more than three and a half 

michael, Lee Wiley et al add greatly hours of interesting, and at times 

to the enjoyment of this set of enlightening, listening. Drawing on 

superior recordings. An immensely the archives of Edel Records we hear 

popular band, with great musician- admirable, sometimes stunning, 

ship that helped pave the way for performances by such conductors as 

the swing era. Neumann (Mahler), Munch 

Jim Galloway (Debussy and Dutilleux), Masur 

(Shostakovich), Herbig (Schoenberg), 

Kegel (Webern and Berg), 

Boulez (Varese) and de Leeuw 

(Messiaen). From Montaigne's own 

catalogue we hear the Arditti 

· Quartet (who have recorded 38 discs 

for this label), the Ensemble 

Intercoµtemporain, the Schoenberg 

Ensemble and Montreal's Nouvel 

Ensemble Moderne. 

All in all this set provides not only 

an admirable introduction to the 

music of the 20"' century, but also to 

an enterprising label which has 

D'un siecle a l'autre (from one 

dozens .of contemporary titles in its 

century to the next) 

catalogue that are otherwise 

Various artists 

unavailable. Well worth the modest 

Montaigne naive MO 782096 (3 

investment. 

CDs) 

David Olds 

With this collection of reissued 

recordings the Montaigne "naive" 

label sets out to paint a portrait of 

the 20"' century through music. It is 

a Euro centric vision of the century, 

The Best of The Rosenberg Trio 

Polydor 2 CDs 589-332-2 

and more particularly a F,rench one, In the world of Gypsy Jazz, many a 

, which may explain the absence of· child prodigy has followed in the 

American minimalism. There are footsteps of Django Reinhardt: 

works by Charles Ives and Elliott Boulou Ferre, Bireli Lagrene, Fapy 

Carter, but where is John Cage? Lafertin and Stochelo Rosenbergare 

And where are the women? Everi a all bear witness to his amazing 

cursory survey of Canadian music influence, and there are surely 

of the past hundred years would more to come. Most of these 

include at least half a dozen women guitarists subsequently moved away 

composers. It's hard to imagine that from Hot Club music and tried their 

in the entire 20'h century there was hands at other styles, but not so The 

only one WO!llan worthy of note to Rosenberg Trio. Here are the 

this label, and more surprisingly, , Gypsy Kings of swing! 

that one is Joelle Leandre. Frarikly, Stochelo Rosenberg was born in 

career was spent playing in 

churches and gypsy camps all over 

Europe, becoming very famous but 

only within the gypsYcommunity. 

Their first CD, Seresta, was the 

breakthrough and they were soon 

.asked to play at jazz festivals all 

over the wor!O. 

This double CD package with 

material from 6 albums is a very 

good cross section of their music, 

with compositions by Reinhardt, 

a Gypsy camp in 1968 and when he Cole Porter, Sonny Roilins, George 

was about 10 years ·old started to Gershwin, Fats Waller and even 

play the guitar together with his Impression by John Coltrane. 

cousin Nous'che who is now Stephane Grappelli, who invited 

considered one of the best rhythm- them to play with him at Carnegie 

players in the world. Rounding out Hall to celebrate his 85th birthday, 

the trio is Nous''che's brother showsupon4numbers. Theplaying 

Nannie. The early part of their is nothing short of amazing·and it is 

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His pure and clear tone is here pet1ectly suit 

the instrumentalists are in total communion. 

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Draperies L'histoire du chapeau 

(sic), The silt's Red Whistle, and The 

Guayaveras), Treacle Wall is a 

collection of pieces by the Marmots' 

fulcrum, Martin Arnold. Recorded 

live at Toronto's Mercer Union, 

Treacle Wall displays an Arte 

Povera approach to instrumentation 

and recording while evoking the 

disparate worlds of the Shags, 

Robert Johnson, composers Morton 

Feldman and Jose Evangelista, 

painter Agnes Martin, and potter 

George Ohr. Exuding joy in 

apparent juniper-soaked sloppiness, 

they revel in the languid and austere 

melodies that slide about in a 

bendable, crust-laden heterophony. 

With titles and associated terms 

recalling knives and extended lingo 

- sheath and knife, shank, shank's 

pony (slang for "we will have to 

walk", and shank-also a cut of 

beef), a marmot being a rabbit-sized 

rodent-like animal, treacle (sap-like 

substances), and loose warp (a 

term from tapestry for the ends of 

long threads on a loom), Arnold 

reveals himself as not just a lover 

of words, but ideas based in the 

fragile origins and workings of life's 

small, crucial goings-on. Through 

this, despite its necessarily 

cosmopolitan creative and 

performance context, Treacle Wall 

maintains a rustic nature that is rare 

at this point in time. While in its 

weakest moments displaying a slight 

self-consciousness, as with each of 

the Rat-drifting CDs, I admire 

Treacle Wall; but only given a 

temporary cessation of the 

Heisenberg principle - while we look 

at and listen to these recordings, we 

don't want their having been heard 

to change them, or to compromise 

their independent and unbridled 

qualities. 

Paul Steenhuisen 

Edward Elgar: 

The Dream of Gerontius 

UBC Choral Union and 

Symphony Orchestra; 

Bruce Pullan 

Orpheum Masters KSP 840 

What an annoyance, that a CD can 

hold but a mere 79 minutes of music. 

So many masterworks of the late 

19'h Century clock just a little over 

that figure, and must reach today's 

market as a two-disc set. Elgar's 

/J/SCOVERIES 

huge 1899-1900 oratorio falls into 

that category. 

This lavish Canadian production 

of the work, recorded at a live 

performance in late 2001, is well 

worth the extra disc. Orpheum has 

packaged it in a slim-line two-CD 

case, which takes up no more space 

than a standard single CD case. 

The University of British 

Columbia gathered huge forces on 

the stage of the Chan Centre for the 

Performing Arts on 30 November 

2001, including the UBC Symphony 

Orchestra, the UBC Choral Union, 

tenor Philippe Castagner, mezzosoprano 

Sandra Stringer and bassbaritone 

Justin Welsh. All were 

under the expert direction of Bruce 

Pullan. 

The engineering, thanks in part 

to Karen Wilson's CBC Radio 

experience, is nothing short of 

spectacular. Clear bass tones in the 

orchestral climaxes almost knock 

you out of your chair. The wellbalanced 

choral passages seem to 

spread beyond the speakers. (This 

in contrast to virtually every 

recording of the Mahler #8 out 

there, where the voices seem 

squashed into too small a box.) 

The soloists all give us their 

utmost, but Phillipe Castagner in 

particular gives the performance of 

his young career. 

Highly recommended. 

John S. Gray 

Editor's note: The inventor of the 

compact disc format used 

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony as his 

measure for duration. Perhaps if he 

had been a fan of Elgar he would 

have chosen 90 minutes instead of 

75. On the other hand, if old Ludwig 

could "say it all" in an hour and a 

quaner ... 

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DISCS OF THE MONTH 

0 

Czerny: Grand Sonata for 

Pianoforte and Violin; 20 

Concert Variations 

Erika Raum, violin; Anton 

Kuerti, piano 

CBC MVCD 1150 

Schumann: Concerto in A 

minor; Introduction and Allegro 

appassionato; 

Konzertstiick in F for 4 Horns 

and Orchestra (arr. Schumann) 

Anton Kuerti, piano; CBC 

Radio Orchestra; 

Mario Bernardi 

CBC SMCD 5218 

Bach 

Violin Concertos 

Itzhak Perlman 

Pinchas Zukerman 

E. ~ gl h-h t ~amm..i:r Otth~:s-tr.a 

Although Carl Czerny composed a 

prodigious amount of instrumental 

chamber, choral and orchestrai 

music, only his piano exercises are 

much played today. His oncepopular 

compositions are largely 

absent from concert stages, 

recordings and even history books. 

Canadian pianist Anton Kuerti is 

determined to restore his reputation 

with performances, recordings and 

festivals of his music. This delightful 

recording will certainly help his 

cause. 

In this world premiere recording, 

Kuerti and Canadian violinist 

Erika Raum capture the imaginative 

harmonies and intricate textures of 

the young Czerny, who was still 

under the influence of his former 

teacher Beethoven. Raum brings an 

elegant virtuosity to the music, 

particularly in the complex 

pass

This season the TSO 

wil I be accompanied 

by brand 

new acoustics. 

September/October 2002 Selected concerts 

Three Short Films 

by Charlie Chaplin 

Carl Davis, conductor/arranger 

Members of the Toronto Symphony 

Orchestra 

Programme features Easy Street, The 

Adventurer and The Cure. 

September 14 at 8:30 pm 

VISA screening room at the Elgin Theatre 

Guaranteed seating for this show! . 

For tickets to this concert cal I 

416.872.5555 or visit www.ticketmaster.ca 

Groups call 416.597.0965. 

I!ftllU!fl[M ~i~~~': :.,:i 

Saraste Conducts Mahler 

Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor 

Elisabeth Batiashvili, violin 

Nielsen: Overture to Maskarade 

Sibelius: Violin Concerto 

Mahler: Symphony No. 1, "Titan" 

September 25 & 26 at 8 pm 

September 28 at 7 pm 

NEXUS 

Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor 

NEXUS, percussion ensemble 

Takemitsu: From Me Flows What You Call 

Time 

Debussy: Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune 

Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 

October 2 & 3 at 8 pm 

Mozart & Brahms 

Jun Marki, conductor 

Louis Lortie, piano 

Eric Morin: new work 

Music Meets Canvas - October 24th and 2sth, 2002 

Renowned artist Joseph Drape/I paints a canvas live on stage while the Kaddish Symphony by 

Leonard Bernstein is petformed. Also: excerpts from West Side Story and Chichester Psalms. 

A Festival of Carols - December 8th, 2002 

Favourite Christmas carols and sing-along with the Choir, organ, brass and narrator Richard Ouzounian. 

The Messiah - December 18th, 2002 

Handel's ever-popular oratorio, with The Toronto Symphony Orchestra. 

Mozart, Desrosiers and Raminsh - March 21st, 2003 

Enjoy the power of Mozart's Requiem with dance choreographed by Robert Desrosiers - paired with 

the world premiere of A Shining Peace by eminent Canadian composer lmant Raminsh. 

Bach B Minor Mass -April 18th, 2003 

A Good Friday special. Bach's B Minor Mass launches the brand new 60-voice Mendelssohn Singers, 

petforming with soloists Suzie LeBlanc and Daniel Taylor. 

Coronation Gala Celebration -June 6th, 2003 

A celebration of the Golden jubilee of the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth //,featuring pipers, 

military band, orchestra blockbuster and more. Audience participation, with lots of flag waving. 

For concert details, visit our website: www.tmchoir.org • For ticket information: (416) 598-0422, extension 24 

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