Volume 8 Issue 7 - April 2003

WholeNote's Special Editorial Focus
and Publication Schedule to March 2004
MAY 1TOJUNE7, 2003
Editorial Focus: Choral Celebration
Published: Tuesday, April 29, 2003
Count Your Choir In! WholeNote Magazine invites all choirs in
Southern and Southwestern Ontario to participate in Choral
Celebration, a special.feature which will appear in May 2003.
Wh61eNote's Choral Celebration will include a free directory entry for
every participating choir, telling readers who you are, how oft~n you
rehearse and perform, how to gf)t in touch, ahd where and when to
audition or apply. Deadline for directory entries is Friday, April 4. To
couht your choir in, e-mail choralscene@thewholenote.com or call
416-603-3786.
JUNE 1 TO JULY 7
Editorial focus: Overview of Summer Music Festivals
Published: Thursday, May 29, 2003
Festivals that were in The WholeNote (ast June will be contacted. If
your festival is new or was not in the magazine last year, please
contact us to be added to the summer festival list.
JULY 1 TO SEPTEMBER 'f
Editorial focus: Detailed Listings of Summer Music Festivals
Published: Friday, June 27, 2003
SEPTEMBER 1 TO OCTOBER 7
Editorial Focus: Gommunity Bands
Published: Thurs., Aug. 28, 2003
OCTOBER 1 TO NOVEMBER 7
Editorial Focus: WholeNote Members, 2003-04
Published: Fri., Sept. 26, 2003
NOVEMBER 1 TO DECEMBER 7
Editorial Focus: New Music
Published: Thurs., Oct. 30, 2003
DECEMBER 1, 2003 TO °FERUARY 7, 2004
Editorial Focus: TBA
Published: Thurs., Nov. 27, 2003
FEBRUARY 1 TO MARCH 7, 2004
Editorial Focus: Music and Health
Published: Thurs ., Jan. 29, 2004
MARCH 1 APRIL 7, 2004
Editorial Focus: Summer Music Education
Published: Thurs., Feb. 26, 2004
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With a monthly circulation of 31,500 copies, WholeNote provides
reliable monthly live concert listings to an enthusiastic circle of
readers in Southern Ontario, many of whom are also active
participants in choirs, ensembles and orchestras.
DISCoveries is a CD review section .
d~signed to complement and enhance
our pre-eminent coverage of
Toronto's live classical, jazz and new
music concert scene, featuring
reviews by WholeNote columnists .
and independent contributors. CDs
are considered for review in the following
categories:
1. "Concert prep" - CDs, new
or otherwise, which tie in with events Kirkby" , is quite different. Kirkby
being featured in the current issue of actually started out as a classical
the magazine: Many discs in the other scholar, and this program was origcategories
also relate to upcoming inally presented in lieu of an inauguevents
as noted;
ral lecture when she was invited to
2. New and Recent Releases - be honorary president of an associanewly
released CDs relevant to our . tion of classical scholars. It features
magazine's coverage of the music · 17th and early 18th century English
scene; ' lute songs with texts either by ancient
3. "Worth repeating" - CDs authors, or based on ancient themes.
newly re-issued, or previously Kirkby sings two Odes of Horace
released but still generally available, by John Wilson in their original
deemed particularly noteworthy by Latin. Two unique songs by Henry
a member of our editorial panel; Lawes are sung in the original an-
4. "lndie list" - Small label and cient Greek of Anacreon, then preindependent
release CDs, often sented in alternative settings by the
featuring individuals or groups active same composer in their "English' d"
on the local music scene. versions. Thomas Campion's When
S. "Disc(s) of the month" - Discs to her Lute Corinna sings brings out
of special interest, often with a Kirkby's wit, while in Nicholas
particular connection to the month's Lanier' s tragic Hero and Leander she
concert activities or editorial focus. creates a highly dramatic narrative.
(This month we complete our round- This features colourful interplay with
up of the JUNO nominees in the 4 the theorbo-lute ofKirkby's long-time
Classical categories. See page 60.)
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David Olds
Editor, DISCoveries
CONCERT PREP
Classical Kirkby (Orpheus and
Corinna) .•
Emma Kirkby, soprano
Anthony Rooley, theorbo-lute
BISCD-1435
British soprano Emma Kirkby possesses
the ideal voice for early music
- flexible, clear and radiant.
Among her numerous honours, she
was chosen to make the first recording
of a recently discovered
Gloria by Handel, a work she will
perform with Tafelmusik in mid­
April.
But her latest recording, "Classical
partner Anthony Rooley, although,
unfortunately, he has been recorded
too recessively.
The music of Handel's under-appreciated
rival Maurice Green has
long been championed by Kirkby, and
his setting of Shill,cesps:are' s famous
Orpheus with his Lute is ·irresistible
. in its depiction of the billowing sea.
John Weldon's Stop, o ye waves continues
the nautical theme with a
catchy dotted-note figure, stylishly
supported, as throughout this delightful
recording, by Rooley.
Pamela Margles
Concert Note: Emma Kirkby performs
with Tajelmusik Orchestra and
Choir on Wednesday, April 9, at 7:00
pm, April 10-12 at 8:00 pm, and
Sunday April 13 at 2:00 pm.
George Crumb Complete Edition
Volumes 1-6
Various artists
Bridge Records
(www.bridgerecords.com)
An imposing self-assigned responsibility
informs every note of George
·Crumb's music: a composer should ·
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