Volume 8 Issue 7 - April 2003

performance of Benjamin Britten's cert will be soprano, Barbara Han- Academy of Music in Tel Aviv in 1980 to pursue a career in musinigan,
and pianist, Linda Ippolito. from 1951 until his death. Toronto cal theatre. By 1990, she was a
Serenade for Tenor, Horn and
Strings Op.31.
Later, the Vienna of Von Sup- violist Sharon Wei graduated from favourite-- playing Fantine inLes
pe, Lehar, Haydn, Brahms and Jo- the University of Western Ontario Miserables to critical acclaim in
Classic Meets Cabaret hann Strauss II will be the focus of under Lorand Fenyves, with dis- Montreal (bilingual production),
If the music of Weill, Barber, a concert by the North York Con- tinction. She is currently atthe Cur- Toronto, and Paris, and appearing
Piazzolla and other composers of cert Orchestra, April 30 at the tis Inst1tute of Music where.she re- on the Paris cast recording of the
art music . with populist roots ap- York Woods Public Library. cently premiered a new concerto long-running musical. In 1992 she
peals to you, there are several con- with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra. portrayed legendary French singcerts
to consider. On April 12 at Rarely heard orchestral works
er Editti Piaf in three different pro-
Victoria-Royce Church, soprano Ernest Ansermet said of Swiss Two major international artists will ductions of Piaf, and later earned
Genevieve Proulx and pianist Jen- composer, Frank Martin, that he. be performing with .the Toronto a Dora Mavor Moore Award for
ny Crober will present a program "... had the c0urage to tackle face Symphony Orchestra in concerts her feisty portrayal of Donna
entitled Voyage a Youkali, which on the problem[ ...] of musical Ian- listed in this issue of the magazine: Sheridan in Mamma Mia, the role
will include songs by Kurt Weill and guage possible in our time in all its German baritone, Matthias thaf, in October 2001 took her to
Samuel Barber.
generality and transcendence ... his Goerne, will perform songs from Broadway.
One of the best-known names in feat is of universal consequence." Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn
this genre, Ute Lemper, will per- University of Toronto Symphony in the orchestra's concerts on April
form at the Premiere Dance The- · Orchestra conductor, Raffi Arme-
23, 24 and 26; and English piaq.ist April 10 is the
atre on April 17. And Canadian nian, includes Martin's rarely Stephen Hough, will be playing Annual High School
singer Patricia O'Callaghan per- played Concerto for Seven Winds Saint-Saens' Piano Concerto #4 in Showcase at Massey Hall
forms three times, April 16 at the on his April 12 concert program. the May 1 and 3 concerts. Why not hear a few stars before
Markham Theatre, April 17 at the An even less well-known compos- · • they become famous - "nd support
Heritage Theatre in Brampton, and er is Oedoen Partos (1907-1977) Canada Pops w/ Louise Pitre the cause of music education in this
April 26 at the Living Arts Centre whose highly-charged composition, On April 24 the Canada Pops Or- province? Every spring the Toronin
Mississauga,
Yizkor (in Memoriam) for Viola & chestra will present The Pops on to school music teachers put togeth-
Strings, will be performed on April Broadway at Massey Hall with er a fine concert - also an organi­
Two very different Viem:ias 6 by Sinfonia Toronto with the win- guest artist, singer Louise. Pitre. zational tour de force - of their
OnAprif4 Amici bpngs usA1i!glit ner of the orchestra's Concerto An Ontario native, Pitre modestly school orchestras, bands and enin
Vienna, music by Alban Berg,, Competition, Sharon Wei as solo- describes herself as "an overnig)lt sembl.es.
Alexander Zemlinsky and Franz''-· ist. Partos was born in Budapest success after twenty-five years." Support the embattled teachers
Schubert plus the world premiere where he studied violin with Hu- A graduate of the music education responsible for this event by being
of James Rolfe's Dust for soprano bay and composition with Kodaly. program atthe University of West- there, to show you care about mu­
& cello. Guest artists at this con- He was Director of the Rubin em Ontario, she moved to Toronto sic's future.
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