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8 FEATURE | Voices in the
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12 PLANTING NOT PAVING |
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15 PROFILE | Cris Derksen –
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17 MUSIC AND DANCE |
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FEATURE
VOICES IN THE
WILDERNESS
Thinking about
Murray Schafer
in 2019
DAVID JAEGER
The Horned Enemy from The Princess of the Stars, (Wildcat
Lake, 1997) designed by Jerrard and Diana Smith.
SEAN HAGERMAN
On a particularly sunny and warm May day in
Belfast – one might even have called it summery –
my thoughts turned to the coming season, and
to the phenomenon of music performed in the great
outdoors, or even deep in the wilderness, if the friends
and followers of Murray Schafer are to be emulated. My
reverie gradually took me back to a much earlier time
when such thinking was a fresh idea.
I recalled that in the summer of 1979 my CBC Radio colleague, John
Reeves, approached me with an unusual proposal for a broadcast. He
asked if I would consider funding an episode he wanted to produce for
my recently established contemporary music series, Two New Hours
(1978–2007) on what was then known as the CBC FM Network. The
notable aspect of his proposal was that it would feature a composition
by Murray Schafer, to be recorded on a wilderness lake. The title of
the episode was simply, Music for Wilderness Lake. The performance
of the work would be by an ensemble of 12 trombonists, ringing the
lake, and the recording would be made from the perspective of microphones
positioned in a canoe in the middle of the lake.
I thought about Reeves’ proposal, reflecting on other Schafer
compositions I had already broadcast on the series, such as his now
iconic Third String Quartet, which I had commissioned. The quartet
had been a highly unconventional piece, one which begins with only
the cellist on stage and in which the other three string players gradually
join after slowly progressing, one by one, from the back of
the hall to centre stage. In the middle movement, the string players
perform all manner of un-string-like sounds. They shout, growl,
stomp their feet, and generally carry on in an unhinged and bellicose
manner. Needless to say, this kind of innovative writing worked
beautifully both on stage and on the radio! The idea, therefore, of a
new Schafer composition to be recorded from a canoe in the centre
of a wilderness lake was only momentarily surprising. I responded by
authorizing the necessary budget to Reeves to produce the segment.
I subsequently discovered that the audio recording was only part of
the project. A film crew would accompany Reeves and his recording
engineer into the wilderness. The filmmakers eventually contracted
for the rights to synchronize and mix our CBC recording as a part of
the soundtrack of their film were Barbara Willis Sweete, Niv Fichman
and Larry Weinstein; it was released as the first ever film by their
new company, Fichman-Sweete Productions, which later evolved into
Rhombus Media.
Schafer mentioned in his 2012 autobiography, My Life on Earth
& Elsewhere, that Music for Wilderness Lake was his first environmental
piece. “I had been canoeing around one of the many unpeopled
lakes in the Madawaska area and had noticed how the sounds changed
throughout the day and evening. I decided to write a work for the lake
and take advantage of those changes,” he wrote. “Just at this time I
was approached by a group of 12 trombone players who wanted me to
write a piece for them. I suggested my idea and they liked it.” The book,
published by The Porcupine’s Quill in Erin, Ontario, is not the focus of
this article, but bears mentioning; it is a remarkable read, divided into
two parts. Part one is subtitled Student, Sailor, Wanderer and part two
is The Music of the Environment. It’s furthermore am increasingly valuable
document, since Schafer has become afflicted with Alzheimer’s
disease, and unable to further share his remarkable story.
Brooke Dufton, a soprano and scholar who has devoted much of
her career to studying and performing the works of Schafer told me:
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“I had been canoeing around
one of the many unpeopled
lakes in the Madawaska area
and had noticed how the
sounds changed throughout
the day and evening.
I decided to write a work for
the lake and take advantage
of those changes”
“Given the many obstacles to presenting this
music publicly – gathering a dozen adventurous
trombonists at once, to play at dawn, and getting
performers and audience to that location, and
at those times – it is remarkable how frequently
Music for Wilderness Lake is professionally
performed. In the last three years alone, almost
40 years after its creation, it has been featured in
at least seven events. These are ones I know about:
Stratford Summer Music, Stratford ON; Make
Music New York, New York Central Park Lake;
Nuit Blanche, Huntsville ON; The contemporary
Austin Sound Series, Austin, Texas; Kalvfestivalen,
Gothenburg, Sweden; and Living with Lakes, in
Sudbury ON.” Dufton herself is often included in
such performances, positioned in the front of a
distant canoe, singing Ariadne’s Aria by Schafer.
Music for Wilderness Lake proved to be pivotal
for Schafer’s subsequent works for performance
in the natural environment. Schafer wrote:
“Following the success of Music for Wilderness
Lake, I began to think of a larger, more theatrical
work in which the action would take place
on a lake with the musicians situated around the
shores.” The resulting piece, Princess of the Stars,
composed in 1981 is an environmental opera,
which also serves as the prologue for the 12-part
Patria Cycle, which revolves around the journeys
of three central characters: the Princess of the
Stars, the Wolf and the Minotaur.
In 1997 our Two New Hours production team
was able to record and broadcast a production
of Princess of the Stars, staged on and
around Wildcat Lake in the Haliburton Forest
and Wildlife Reserve by Patria Music/Theatre
Projects. This was a large- scale undertaking,
requiring advance research of the lake itself in
order to determine ideal locations for microphone
placement. Once the locations were
set, our team constructed simple floats, which
were anchored at those precise locations with
microphone mounts. For each performance, we
paddled out to these positions with the mics
themselves, installed them, together with the
portable recording devices, and then ditched
our canoes behind large boulders on the nearest
shore, becoming invisible. This was all accomplished
before the pre-dawn glow and the
arrival of the audience. After the performances,
we collected the recording gear and headed to
the mixing station. Listeners to Two New Hours
Scanned scores courtesy Neil Dallhoff.
across the nation were thus transported to the
lake to experience the opera.
Prior to that, in 1995, as a sort of warm-up to
the Princess of the Stars opera broadcast, Schafer
prepared several pieces from the final movement
of Patria, the Epilogue, titled, And Wolf Shall
Inherit the Moon. Several musicians travelled
with us to Wildcat Lake, where recordings were
made using those same methods that we would
subsequently employ for the later production of
Princess of the Stars. The resulting broadcast,
titled Wolf Music, was heard on Two New Hours
in 1996 and subsequently leased to Centrediscs,
the record label of the Canadian Music Centre.
This recording is still available through the CMC
and Centrediscs. Wolf Music was also entered
by CBC Radio as a submission to the 1996 Prix
Italia, an international competition for public
broadcasters, where it earned a special mention
from the jury.
Two New Hours was also involved in the
commissioning, recording and broadcasts of two
more parts of the Patria Cycle: Patria 5 – The
Crown of Ariadne and Patria 8 – The Palace of
the Cinabar Phoenix.
And Wolf Shall Inherit the Moon lives on,
continues each summer in the Haliburton
forest as a cohort of up to 64 participants who
spend a week and a day in the forest, organized
in packs, to live in the wild creating music
and performing together. Poet and essayist Rae
Crossman describes it as, “an annual pageant
involving musicians, actors, dancers, artists and
storytellers who create musical drama in the
Haliburton Forest and Wildlife Reserve, on the
edge of Ontario’s Algonquin Park.” Crossman
explains: “This is music theatre like no other:
the stage is a moose meadow, a rock-strewn
gorge patterned with moss, a raft assembled
from rugged cedar driftwood, or a quiet forest
pool, fringed with cardinal flowers. The lighting:
dawn through filigree of pine, intense noonday
sun on a burnished lake, flickering campfire
flames, or a million stars. Flute music accompanies
birdsong. A trombone echoes across the
bay. Is that wind in the tamarack or an ethereal
voice singing sibilant notes of sorrow? “
Double bassist Neal Evans says: “One of my
chief impressions from participating in several
Murray Schafer works is that everything he
does creates community.” Evans, together with
his wife Peg and their two sons, have been
long-term participants in The Wolf Project,
as it’s also known. They told me that over the
space of eight days it “creates a community
of people who feel a close bond, much closer
that would be achieved by a regular weeklong
camping experience.” The reason, they
explain, is because participants’ days together
are purposeful. “There is the immediate need to
create short ‘pieces’ (Encounters) to perform for
the rest of the group, and the overarching need
to create the large-scale composed piece (Great
Wheel Day) for the final day. What makes this
experience so different, is that at the end of our
‘creative’ work periods, we continue working
together to prepare meals, set up a campfire,
dig a latrine, hang a tarp or paddle in some
supplies. There is no audience, only members of
the group, which means that our guards do not/
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cannot effectively go up on the final day. There is a heightened sense
of ‘performance,’ of course, tempered by the awareness and understanding
of our shared humanity.”
Given the current fragile state of his health, Schafer no longer
participates in this ongoing Epilogue to the Patria Cycle. But his story
continues to be told. There are two large-scale projects in process that
aim to put his life and career into perspective. One of these is a documentary
by filmmaker Neil Dallhoff with the working title, R. Murray
Schafer: Into the Mouth of the Wolf. Dallhoff told me he has spent
countless hours with Schafer and his wife, mezzo-soprano and doctor
of divinity, Eleanor James, talking, planning and filming at their rural
home in Indian River. Dallhoff says: “The film is going to strongly
represent Murray’s outdoor works, mostly through archival drawings,
participant accounts and Murray’s writings. As we continue filming,
the theme of the Patria Cycle is emerging in parallel with the story of
his life and work.”
And filmmaker Barbara Willis Sweete, our cinematic partner
in crime for the CBC Wilderness Lake recording, 40 years ago, is
creating Schafer’s Labyrinth for the 2020 edition of Luminato. It will
be a multimedia work in which, according to the project proposal,
the Molinari String Quartet will perform live on stage in front of
a giant movie screen showing motion picture images that include
choreographed dance, shots of nature, archival and present-day
images from Schafer’s life, visual effects, graphics and animation.
“More than 50 years ago,” the proposal goes on to point out, “Schafer
envisioned a Theatre of Confluence that would combine elements
of opera, theatre, dance, music and projected images – and which
would immerse its audience in a totally unified multi-sensory and
multi-disciplinary experience.”
Schafer’s Labyrinth will include all 13 of Schafer’s string quartets,
performed over two consecutive days in four distinct programs, each
lasting between 60 and 85 minutes. “Schafer’s quartets embody his
entire philosophy and symbology and are filled with visual allusions
Murray Schafer
and extra-musical references,” the proposal continues. “Images
invoked in his quartets include the behaviour of water (Quartet No.2),
the sounds of birds and the howling of wolves (Quartet No.10) and
the movements of Tai Chi (Quartet No.6). The quartets also reflect
Murray’s preoccupation with mythology. Traces of the Greek myth
of Theseus, Ariadne and the Minotaur are threaded through all his
quartets, taking the form of musical leitmotifs that interact with each
other in fascinating ways. The archetypes within this myth form the
primary thematic underpinning of Schafer’s Labyrinth.”
As I open my autographed copy of his book, My Life on Earth
and Elsewhere, which I acquired on the occasion of Schafer’s 80th
birthday, I see his inscription: “For David: New sounds every day of
your life! Listen!”
David Jaeger is a composer, producer and broadcaster
based in Toronto.
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PLANTING NOT PAVING
THE BEAT GOES ON!
Brazilian Drum Groups in TO
CATHY RICHES
Maracatu Mar Aberto
MARCELA BOECHAT
You’ve seen them. Actually, you probably heard
them long before you saw them, when the sound
of funky, rhythmic pounding drifted past your
ears as you made your way to a street festival in Toronto.
I’m talking about those big Brazilian-style drum groups
that pop up whenever there’s a festival in the summer.
Loud, exuberant and infectious, baterias have become
mainstays in multicultural Toronto. Sometimes there will
be dancers – usually women – all decked out in feathers
and sequins, shimmying along in high heels, deftly
navigating the streetcar tracks. (How do they do that?!)
Mostly though, it’s simply a group of drummers and percussionists
emulating the massive Brazilian samba clubs, albeit on a much
smaller scale. With their matching T-shirts, jaunty hats and big smiles,
they bring a little taste of Carnaval, the huge celebration that happens
every year before Lent in Rio de Janeiro, to the streets of Toronto.
Samba as a way of life
Samba is a cultural icon of Brazil, with its roots in Africa, and an integral
part of life for the majority of Brazilians. Throughout the country,
samba is played, danced and sung in various styles and settings.
Samba de roda (samba circle) and samba de raiz (roots samba) involve
smaller groups with guitar, cavaquinho (a small ukulele-type instrument)
and percussionists getting together at parties and taverns to
sing and dance. Ballroom samba dance (samba de gafieira), similar to
Argentine tango, became popular in the 1940s and is still danced today.
Toronto musician, music professor and ethnomusicologist, Gordon
Sheard sees samba as a central part of life in Brazil. “Starting in
the early 20th century, it played a key role in the formation of the
Brazilian national identity,” explained Sheard. “It’s both a unifying
element and an instrument of diversity, as its outgrowths evolve to
serve the needs of specific communities – from the bossa nova of Rio’s
middle classes to the samba reggae of the Afro-Brazilians of Bahia.”
The massive drum groups (known as samba schools, although they
aren’t schools in the traditional structured sense) formed to take part
in the pre-Lenten Carnaval. Samba schools became fixtures in the
community throughout the country and especially in Rio de Janeiro in
the poorer neighbourhoods (favelas). They provide a social life as well
as musical training and are a part of life for many in Rio.
“We need to have a beach; We need to have futbol; We need to have
samba. It’s all linked and part of the culture. We grow up knowing
that,” says Maninho Costa, a Rio de Janeiro native.
For the samba schools, Carnival parading has become a major
competition, with different levels of schools – similar to professional
sports leagues – competing against each other every year over
a four-day period. The biggest Carnival is, of course, in Rio de Janeiro,
where some legendary schools, like Mangueira, have been playing
and competing since the 1930s. Samba squads often have hundreds
of members and each of the main schools spends many months each
year designing their theme, holding a competition for their song,
building the floats and rehearsing. Each school’s parade may consist
of 3,000 participants, including celebrities, dancers, singers, veteran
performers and elaborate floats.
The preparations, especially producing the many different costumes,
provide work for thousands of the poorest in Brazilian society. The
resulting competition is a major tourist draw and media event, with
tens of thousands attending in the Sambadrome and the event televised
to millions across South America.
Baterias in Toronto
The Brazilian percussion groups here are about more than drumming
and often become like little communities or families for the
participants. And samba can get under your skin, whether you’re
Brazilian or not.
Torontonian Gloria Blizzard started playing with a drum group 15
years ago until a hand injury forced her to back off the practising. So
she switched to dance so she could continue to “stay deeply connected
to the music in a different way. Samba is something that you catch.
Once you’re in, that’s it.”
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The first samba school to appear on the scene in Toronto in 1994
was Escola de Samba de Toronto, led by Alan Hetherington. Although
born and raised in Canada, Hetherington is an expert in Brazilian
music through his frequent travels to Brazil, playing with some of the
famous samba schools in Rio and Sāo Paulo and studying with several
of the master sambistas of Brazil. Finding suitable rehearsal space was
a challenge for drum groups then and Escola de Samba started out in
Christie Pits park, until noise complaints chased them out. When Lula
Lounge opened it was a fitting home for the group for many years,
being a hub of Latino culture in Toronto’s west end.
In 2003, Hetherington moved the Escola de Samba Toronto to the
Royal Conservatory of Music on Bloor Street. Today he teaches beginner
and intermediate classes there every Sunday from September to May
with opportunities for students to perform at the school and local street
festivals. Hetherington also draws from the class to populate his professional
samba groups, A Fantástica Bateria and Batucatronica, the latter
of which is a mashup of samba drums and electronic dance music.
Samba Squad was the second bateria-style band to form in Toronto
and is led by percussionist Rick Shadrach Lazar, who founded the
group in 1999. Samba Squad has played virtually every festival in the
Toronto area and beyond over the years and is one of the most recognizable
groups. Lazar describes the style of music as inspired by the
Escolas de Samba of Rio, the Afro Blocos of Salvador, Bahia and the
Maracatu nations of Recife, Pernambuco. “I see it as following the
path of the drum along the African Diaspora,” said Lazar. “Our repertoire
also includes gahu from Ghana, sabar and donba from Senegal,
comparsa and salsa/mambo from Cuba, soca from Trinidad, funk
from the USA and baladi from Egypt.”
In 2005, Lazar continued the tradition from Rio of support for the
community, especially at-risk youth, by holding workshops, along with
partners Janet McClelland and Gili Zemer, at Rose Avenue Public School
where McClelland taught. That grew into a full-fledged Samba Kidz
program with workshops for at-risk youth. Kids who came through the
Rose Avenue and Jane-Finch programs grew up in Samba Squad and
went onto post-secondary programs at Ryerson and York Universities.
“The program developed student leaders and the student leaders, in
turn, became the teachers of our summer camps and workshops,” said
Lazar. “We’re proud of the program and the progress the kids made.”
Two natives of Brazil have become prominent band leaders and
teachers in Toronto – Maninho Costa and Aline Morales. Costa’s
group, Batucada Carioca is in the traditional style of the bands from
his native Rio de Janeiro. Costa brings his experience playing in elite
“We need to have a beach; We need to have
futbol; We need to have samba. It’s all linked and
part of the culture. We grow up knowing that.”
— Maninho Costa, Rio de Janeiro native
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L to R: Alan Hetherington; Maracatu Mar Aberto; Aline Morales
groups in Rio from a young age – including the renowned Uniao da
Ilha do Gobernador run by his uncle – to the tight, swinging shows
of Batucada Carioca. Costa regularly holds Women’s Samba Bateria
workshops for women wanting to learn the basics of Brazilian drumming
with a chance to try out all the instruments.
Morales hails from Belo Horizonte and her group, Baque de Bamba
focuses on a style of folk music from the northeast region of Brazil
called maracatu de baque virado. The group is largely made up of
women but all genders are welcome. Their performances include some
dancing and singing of traditional maracatu songs and the joy is infectious.
“Some people say that you don’t choose maracatu, that maracatu
chooses you. And I’m starting to believe that,” said Morales. “I
wasn’t born in Recife where this tradition came from, but since the day
I started to play, I couldn’t respect more what maracatu represents.”
Morales holds evening workshops that have often been taught by
veteran members of the group such as Mari Palhares, who has gone
on to form her own groups, and Ana Maria Higuera, who started
playing with Baque de Bamba when she was just 12 years old. Morales
explains that “Big groups like ours need this kind of support from the
members. It’s vital for the growth of the community.”
Maracatu Mar Aberto, led by Alex Bordokas, also performs maracatu
de baque virado and plays regularly at festivals around town, such
as Pedestrian Sundays in Kensington Market. “We have a collective
approach where the sound and impact of the group is greater than the
sum of our parts,” said Borodakas. “Our focus is on the creativity of
Mar Aberto and not any one artist in the group.”
Among the newer bands on the scene is Tdot Batu. Led by Patricio
Martinez, the group focuses on the samba reggae rhythms from
Martinez’s home of Salvador, Bahia, in Brazil’s northeastern region.
Performances are high energy and the infectious rhythms get their
audiences partying and dancing.
Started just three years ago by Adam Kafal, a member of Batucada
Carioca, Blokoloko is the latest group to emerge on the scene. Their
rhythmic style is inspired by the samba carioca of Rio and they are
also mainstays of Kensington’s Pedestrian Sundays and a few other
festivals. But performing isn’t everything for them. “I think the
process of creating and sustaining a rhythm is more of a joy than
performing,” said Kafal. “Blokoloko started because I wanted to play
samba with an emphasis on more complex breaks and arrangements.”
At the end of the summer of 2018, a Brazilian supergroup
comprising about 70 members from Batucada Carioca, Blokoloko,
Samba Squad and Escola de Samba – and led by Maninho Costa –
rocked Kensington Market with an afternoon of exuberant percussion.
A similar event is being planned for the summer of 2019.
Joining a bateria
Almost all of the groups in Toronto hold beginner workshops for
people interested in trying their hand at Brazilian percussion. All
that’s needed is a good sense of rhythm. From these workshops
members for the performing group are often chosen.
The groups in Toronto follow the aural teaching tradition of Brazil
for learning songs. The use of written notation is rare. New members
learn through attending workshops and rehearsals and listening, as
well as studying audio clips or videos. “Samba is hard,” explained
Adam Kafal. “It’s not something you can pick up by coming to a single
two-hour rehearsal per week. My goal is to make people care a little
more about the music and show them the way.”
The seasoned players are encouraged to help the novices. Emphasis
is on watching and listening and, often, singing the parts and keeping
time with your feet before an instrument is ever picked up and played.
It can be a long process for people who don’t have a background in
drumming and students need to have patience and openness in order
to gradually learn enough to contribute to the group. It’s a lesson that
can be applied to life as well as music.
“Learning to listen and absorb and digest before jumping in, is a tool
I try to equip my students with,” said Hetherington. “And it can serve
us well in many other aspects of our lives, too.”
Cathy Riches is a self-described Toronto-based recovering singer
and ink slinger.
BRAZILIAN MUSIC 101
Percussion groups are just the tip of the iceberg
that is Brazil’s vast, varied musical culture. Toronto
is lucky to benefit from an influx of Brazilian
immigrants who have brought their skills to our city.
Plus we have plenty of local musicians who are adept
in these musical styles.
Here is just a handful of the other styles of Brazilian
music and bands you can enjoy:
Choro, which means “cry” in Portuguese, is anything
but sad. It’s a happy, upbeat music and is often
compared to ragtime or New Orleans-style music. It’s
primarily instrumental and is covered authentically by
Tio Chorinho. Led by mandolin player, Eric Stein, the
band plays festivals and does the occasional club gig.
Samba de roda (samba circle) is a mix of guitars/
cavaquinho, percussion and singing. Musicians get
together to jam and go through popular samba tunes.
In Toronto, Roda de Samba plays every other Saturday
at Yauca’s, where expat Brazilians and Brazilophiles
gather to dance and sing along. Good times.
Although the source of the name is unclear – it may be
derived from the term “for all” – forro is a lively folk music
from the Northeast region of Brazil. Trio PernamBahia,
led by Carlos Cardozo, plays at Lula and other bars and
Forrobodo is a monthly event, produced by percussionist
Mari Palhares, that delivers a full cultural experience of
traditional food, dance lessons and music.
Of course, bossa nova is one of the most famous
Brazilian musical imports, with Stan Getz bringing it
to North America in the 60s. A crop of young expat
Brazilian performers are keeping classic bossa nova,
MPB and samba alive – Aquarela Brasil, singers Babi
Mendes and Giovanna Correia and guitarist-singer
João Leão, who channels João Gilberto in clubs
around Toronto.
A couple of songwriters producing beautiful
Brazilian-esque music are guitarist André Valério
and multi-instrumentalist Louis Simao. Catch them in
concert if you can (or buy their CDs).
AND A FINAL NOTE!
Don’t miss Festa Brasileira – Um Grande Encontro as
part of the TD Toronto Jazz Festival, Saturday, June 22,
2019, 3pm to 6pm, Bloor Street at Avenue Road
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CONVERSATIONS
Cris Derksen’s
Maada’ookii
Songlines
GIFTS IN TIME
DAVID PERLMAN
Cris Derksen
RED WORKS PHOTOGRAPHY
Let’s do a little bit of time travelling to set the scene:
On June 14, 2017, Tributaries, the show that opened the Luminato
Festival in Toronto, was billed as “paying tribute to the immeasurable
power, passion, beauty, and resilience of Indigenous women … in
a large-scale celebratory experience.” It was divided into four parts,
titled Roots, Resurgence, Reclamation, and Emancipation.
On February 19, 2019, at the Banff Centre, ten musicians met in
Banff for an event titled Call to Witness: The Future of Indigenous
Classical Music. “It was one of the first gatherings of its kind,”
according to the CBC, “and included musicians from Alberta, the
west coast, and northern Ontario. Along with creating music, participants
also drafted a statement to the music industry about the importance
of including Indigenous musicians in any music project involving
Indigenous culture.”
On May 8, 2019, Soundstreams mounted a show titled Fauxstalgia
at the Drake Underground, on Queen St. W. in Toronto. Lawrence
Cherney, Soundstreams’ artistic director elaborated: “Fauxstalgia
speaks eloquently to our priorities, first of all, because it presents
deserving younger Indigenous and queer artists making their debuts
on our stage,” he said. “Equally important, these artists are passionately
engaged in reflecting the past, including ‘classical’ repertoire,
through a 21st century lens.”
On Saturday May 18, 2019, the Toronto-based Eybler Quartet held
a CD-launch concert at The Burdock Music Hall, tucked away in a
trendy brew pub/restaurant on Bloor St. W. The CD in question is the
Eyblers’ second showcasing their groundbreaking take on Beethoven’s
Opus 18 String Quartets. Some of the music played on the evening’s
program was by Beethoven. But the piece that got played twice, once
at the beginning and once at the end, was not.
June 12-16, 2019, Kiinalik, a Buddies in Bad Times/Luminato
co-production comes to the Berkeley St Theatre. In the Inuktitut
language, when a knife is dull, it is said to “have no face,” the
Luminato website explains. The word Kiinalik, in contrast, means that
it does! As we are told, Inuk artist Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory
and queer theatre-maker Evalyn Parry met on an Arctic expedition
from Iqaluit to Greenland. Kiinalik: These Sharp Tools is their concert,
dialogue, and symbolic convergence between North and South,
mapping new territory. “How,” it asks, “do we reckon with these
sharp tools.”
Finally, towards sunset on June 23, 2019, at Harbourfront Centre,
Lakeside, Maada’ookii Songlines, a free performance with a cast
of hundreds including at least eight choirs will ring the proverbial
curtain down on the 2019 edition of Luminato. “Maada’ookii is a
genderless Ojibway word describing what happens when one distributes
or gifts, or shares something with others. And songlines, or
dreaming tracks as they are also called, is a term, drawn from
Australian aboriginal teachings but present across Indigenous traditions,
for songs that help us find the way, both over short but perilous
journeys, and over hundreds or even thousands of miles, traversing
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many languages and cultures
along the path.
Look more closely into these
six disparate acts of musical
gifting and sharing, and you
will come across one individual,
Cris Derksen, at the heart of
each of them.
“My name is Cris Derksen, and
I am a half-Cree, half- Mennonite
electronic cellist and composer”
KATHY CAMPBELL
says Derksen, in the introduction
to a five-minute video in
the Banff Centre Spotlight series,
designed to “explore the stories
behind the artists who come to Banff Centre.” (Also appearing in the
Derksen spotlight video is Eybler Quartet violist Patrick Jordan, but
we’ll get back to that.)
“I go back quite a long way in my association with Luminato,”
Derksen tells me. “I moved to Toronto five and and a half years ago
and started doing stuff in Derek Andrews’ world music concerts.
And I played in Iftar that year at the Hearn [a 2016 Luminato show
welcoming Syrian newcomers to the city]. But 2017, the first year
that Josephine Ridge was involved, was when I started to work with
them more intentionally.” “Did she reach out to you?” I ask. “Yes she
saw me in a show I did with A Tribe Called Red and called me in for a
meeting. And that year I did an hour as one part of Tributaries where I
invited a bunch of my Indigenous female friends to each do a song and
I arranged that and got the band together.”
One of those singers in Tributaries was Tanya Tagaq; it’s a friendship
going back in time to Derksen’s graduation (with a Bachelor of Music in
Cello Performance degree) from University of British Columbia. “I was
in Tanya’s band from 2007 to 2011,” Derksen says. “It was a great way to
cut my teeth. I was so fortunate graduating with a gig like Tanya.” It was
the start of a ride, performing and touring, that has taken Derksen across
the globe, as well as coast to coast to coast in Canada, in the company
of an extraordinary range of musicians and other collaborators.
The sesquicentennial year, 2017, saw a significant spike in awareness
of Indigenous performers and performance practice within the
arts community, but, as I expressed it to Derksen, my own fear was
that there would be a drop off when the special sesqui funding dried
up. “But you’re not seeing that, are you?” Derksen responds. “There
are too many strong people doing strong interesting work and there’s
so much work to be done. We’re living in such an interesting timeline
where we seem to be going backwards instead of forwards as far
as racialized issues go, and as far as inequality goes. For me, reconciliation
is between people, not working on the big level.”
The February 19 Banff gathering arose at least in part from the
dynamics of the sesquicentennial year. “Put it this way,” Derksen
says, “Classical music is pretty good at having an Indigenous idea
without the Indigenous performer. So there’s some steps to be made.”
Convening the gathering came directly out of Derksen’s Banff residency,
bringing together ten Indigenous classically trained musicians,
among them composers Andrew Balfour and Ian Cusson, violist
Melody McKiver and her mom, pianist-educator Beverly McKiver,
and Jeremy Dutcher, with Derksen cheerfully but insistently moving
the action along. Perhaps its most enduring outcome will be the joint
manifesto created by the attendees and passed around among the
attendees to be read out to the audience at the gathering. Its bottom
line? Nothing about us without us.
Soundstreams’ Fauxstalgia at the Drake Underground saw Derksen
on familiar turf, performing a solo set for cello and looper, before
laying down the groundwork for an evening-ending improvisation
with the evening’s other performers, pianist, Darren Creech,
performing artist/soprano Teiya Kasahara and contemporary harpist/
improviser, Grace Scheele. Cello and electronic looping as core
performance practice started for Derksen “probably 18 years ago. My
room-mate had a looping station and I borrowed it and then I kept it.
It opened up my eyes to being able to create music on my own without
hiring a band and it was also my first real foray into composing stuff.”
Cris Derksen Trio, with dancer Nimkii Osawamick (left)
and drummerJesse Baird (right)
I observe to Derksen that the
looper work that night seemed
rhythmically effortless, making
the technology almost invisible.
“It’s clear that the thing is your
friend,” I observe. “Yeah we’ve
been hanging out for a while, so I
don’t have to think about that as
much anymore. I can just focus
on the notes. The first loops are
nailed down, I know what they
will be; the melody is in my head
and I can choose how to use it,
to expand it, so it’s loose but
formed. It’s all 100 percent in the
moment though. I don’t have anything saved in the station, so everything
is fully live.”
Cello, sans looper, is also the heartbeat of the Cris Derksen-composed
work, White Man’s Cattle, which opened and closed the Eybler
Quartet’s Burdock Beethoven CD-release concert this past May 19; but
Derksen was sitting in the audience, not playing it. The work premiered
at Banff, where the Eyblers and Derksen put in the heavy lifting on
its creation. It evokes the collision of cultures in Alberta’s history, via
an interpolated, scratchy soundclip of an early 20th-century Alberta
farmer, master of all he surveys, speaking about “his land.” It’s a
layered, driving work, demanding of every ounce of the Eyblers’ astonishing
bowmanship. “The hoofprints of cattle and bison in the dust are
not so different,” Derksen says laconically to the audience when asked
by Patrick Jordan to say a few words before the piece is repeated.
As for Kiinilik in its upcoming June Berkeley Street Luminato
remount, Derksen, who created the music for the piece, with be in
the middle of things again. “I get the lovely musical job of underscoring.
It’s one of the few theatre pieces I actually am happy to be in.
Usually if I get a theatre contract I compose the music and pass it on.
But this is a really beautiful story, and again truthful. We have taken it
many places from its start at Buddies – Montreal, Iqaluit, Vancouver,
Luminato. And we go to the Edinburgh International Festival next!”
Maada’ookii Songlines, June 23, was only vaguely in the works when
Josephine Ridge left Luminato, but the transition under new Luminato
artistic director, Naomi Campbell, has been a smooth one. “It took a
moment for us to find each other and talk and sort out what they wanted
to do and what I could do with what they wanted to do,” Derksen says.
“A bit different than looping so you don’t have to hire a band,” I
remark. “With a cast of hundreds it’s definitely a different style,”
Derksen says. “More notes on the page and throughlines, that kind of
stuff. But we do have some interesting soloists and for the solo parts I
am giving them a lot of free rein; they get the fun part improvising on
top of moments.”
Part of the description of the show on the Luminato website talks
about “a noisy fury blaring out a cacophony of frustrations and
dreams?” So I ask Derksen if it’s an angry work. The response is
unhesitating: “No its not angry at all ... maada’ookii is an Ojibway
word, I’m Cree but I chose to use an Ojibway word because we are on
Anishinaabe territory … When Indigenous people meet there’s a feast,
there’s gifting involved, so this word and this work’s meaning is she/
he shares, gifts. Angry it is not. Truthful it is.”
As mentioned earlier, the gift of songlines is the ability to navigate
hundreds or even thousands of miles, traversing many languages
along the way. The choirs involved seem to epitomize this idea:
Canadian Arabic Choir; Darbazi; Vesnivka; Coro San Marco; YIP’s
Children’s Choir; the Bruised Years Choir (part of Workman Arts);
Faith Chorale; and an Indigenous Hand Drum Choir.
“Will it get crazy?” I ask. “There’s an underscore,” Derksen says. “They
all have their parts but I expect there will be moments of chaotic!”
“And you? Are you going to be sitting inside or outside it?
“Oh I’m going to cello along.” With a laugh.
You can find the entire proceedings of the Feb 19 Banff gathering at
https://vimeo.com/317295761.
David Perlman can be reached at publisher@thewholenote.com
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MUSIC AND DANCE
Near to the
Wild Heart:
Impossibly
Happy
STUART BROOMER
For over a decade, Susanna Hood has been
developing projects that explore and develop her
identity as dancer and singer, choreographer and
composer, often incorporating other arts as well.
There’s the edgy, Dora Award-winning solo dance She’s Gone Away
and Shudder, her visceral interpretation of Francis Bacon paintings.
In 2014 she combined singing and choreography in The Muted Note,
settings of poems by P.K Page with her partner, composer and trombonist
Scott Thomson. Her latest work, Impossibly Happy, is more
ambitious still: she’s debuting as songwriter and bandleader in addition
to roles as singer-dancer-choreographer with her Montreal-based
company of dancers and musicians, Near to the Wild Heart. Setting
poems by the 15th-century Zen master Ikkyū, Impossibly Happy
combines art forms with a singular physical and emotional intensity.
Ikkyū was no ordinary Zen master, but a monk whose poems
explore and celebrate drunkenness and carnal adventures. For Hood,
“Initially, it was the poetry itself that drew me; its simplicity and
openness of form and the possibilities that leant to discovering my
own musicality within. But once I started choosing and working
with poems, it was the raw, unpretentious truths that I found in the
words, unfiltered by conformity for appearances’ sake, that compelled
me. That’s the aspect that made me curious to know more about this
extraordinary person and particularly the paradoxes he seemed to
live without apology. For example, how he/we contain the frictions
between wisdom, grumpiness, sacredness and lust.”
Hood’s conception of Ikkyū takes in dance, song and poetry,
exploring him as spirit presence, paradox and contradiction. The
stage, containing both dancers and musicians, is alive with movement,
sometimes resembling a battle, sometimes a kind of hypnotic
anarchy, with dancers moving rapidly amongst the musicians or
suddenly freezing into muscle-tensed, almost calligraphic forms. It’s
made more precarious by Hood’s simultaneous embrace of choreography,
composition and improvisation: “In all cases, I was looking for
people who could balance working with both set forms and formmaking
through improvisation. Along the way I’ve realized that how
different people approach each of those demands is highly specific
and subjective.”
Hood’s dancers combine interests in improvisation and contemporary
vernaculars: “Sovann Prom-Tep comes initially from breakdancing
culture, and Lucy M. May has been dedicating a good part
of her practice to Krump in the last three years. Both of these dance
forms demand that one is always reinventing and developing one’s
own dance within the form.”
Assembling the musicians to realize her sometimes spiky melodies,
Hood managed to achieve a distinctive sonic palette via the skilled
improvising of drummer D. Alex Meeks with tubist Julie Houle and
violist Jennifer Thiessen. Adding to the special skill set required, every
member of the company is also called on to sing.
Impossibly Happy is risk-taking, interdisciplinary work that seems
to demand all the individual and collective resources that its performers
might bring to it. As Hood remarks: “It was a huge learning curve for all
of us.” As such, it’s a worthy embodiment of Ikkyū’s special vision.
Near to the Wild Heart presents Impossibly Happy, June 20 at 8pm
at Array Space, 155 Walnut Ave.
Stuart Broomer writes frequently on music (mostly improvised)
and is the author of Time and Anthony Braxton. His column
“Ezz-thetics” appears regularly at pointofdeparture.org.
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FEATURE
THE TD TORONTO
JAZZ FESTIVAL
The Revisioning
Continues
COLIN STORY
Asiko Afrobeat Ensemble
DOMINIC ALI
marks an interesting anniversary for the
2019 TD Toronto Jazz Festival. A mere three years
ago, in 2016, the TJF looked much different than it will
this year, or even than it did in 2017, when it first made
the move from Nathan Phillips Square to Yorkville.
Of the many changes that took place between 2016 and 2017, there
are three that seem most significant. The first: instead of anchoring
the outdoor festivities around large, ticketed tent shows, the TJF’s
outdoor shows would be free, and would, for the most part, feature
local or up-and-coming acts. The second: by moving from Nathan
Phillips Square to Yorkville, the TJF sought to integrate itself within a
pre-existing commercial (and residential) area that is largely pedestrian,
automatically expanding the potential attendance pool of the
free outdoor shows to people who just happen to find themselves in
the area, and making it easy for festival veterans to “make a day of
it.” (One could, of course, wander around Nathan Phillips Square,
but it was hard to find a passable beer, a cup of coffee, or even, say, a
salad on the premises. Even the most ardent jazz fan found it tough
to do a whole day at the festival as it existed at NPS.) And the third:
the TJF would discontinue the longstanding practice of automatically
including all of Toronto’s jazz (and jazz-adjacent) clubs in TJF
materials, with no input as to those clubs’ programming and no real
control over attendee experience, reducing the breadth of the festival’s
offerings in order to focus on depth.
Personally speaking, while I was out of town touring for most of the
TJF’s inaugural Yorkville run in 2017, last year I had the opportunity to
both play in the festival (on an outdoor stage on Cumberland, as well
as indoors at The Pilot) and to attend a variety of shows, including
Dan Weiss’ Starebaby group, a ticketed event at The Rex, Savion Glover
and Marcus Gilmore’s duo show at Koerner Hall, also ticketed, and
a healthy number of free shows that took place at (mostly) outdoor
stages. (For those with an interest in last year’s TJF, please visit The
WholeNote website to check out the pieces I wrote.) As a performer
and as a spectator, I genuinely enjoyed myself; though it lacked the
large open space of NPS, the area’s village-esque qualities ended
up lending themselves well to a multi-stage set-up with staggered
set times. It felt, as I wrote last year, festive, for the first time in my
experience of a jazz festival in Toronto.
In mid-May, I had the opportunity to have a conversation with Josh
Grossman, the Artistic Director of Toronto Downtown Jazz (the organization
that administers and runs the TD Toronto Jazz Festival) to talk
about these relatively recent large-scale changes to the TJF’s format,
the unique aspects of this year’s festival, and the TJF’s future in its
new home.
In order for a festival to feel immersive, a sense of momentum must
be cultivated within the grounds, Grossman says. Audiences should be
able to move naturally from one event to the next, without ever feeling
as though they’re waiting around with nothing to see. When Grossman
looked at other jazz festivals, such as Ottawa or Montreal, or even other
festivals within the city, including those that occur at Harbourfront
Centre, he took note of the way in which there were events “happening
all the time on multiple stages,” which he felt the TJF “couldn’t ever
get at Nathan Phillips Square.” One of the biggest problems? The “relatively
strict sound restrictions in place” at NPS, owing to its proximity to
City Hall and to the courts, which, as Grossman told me, also made the
development of any serious sense of momentum difficult.
Mounting frustrations with the festival’s old location coincided with
the appointment of Howard Kerbel as Downtown Toronto Jazz’s new
CEO in 2016. Kerbel – who was previously a member of the Toronto
International Film Festival’s leadership team, and had, according to
Grossman, “fond memories of how TIFF ran in Yorkville,” before its
move to King Street and the TIFF Bell Lightbox facility – helped to
initiate the move away from NPS at a time when there was a dearth of
multi-day festival activity in Yorkville. Finding the business community
and local leadership amenable to the idea of the TJF in Yorkville, the
timing was right for Toronto Downtown Jazz to make the move.
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One of the best parts of the TJF, in its current iteration, is the proliferation
of free outdoor stages. Beyond helping to fulfil a vision of
a festival with porous borders, the free stages have tended to skew
local and young-ish in their programming. This is, of course, helpful
for musicians at an early or intermediate stage in their own career
development, but it is also helpful for the TJF, which is still focused
on its own long-term growth. A combination of sponsorship and
operational funding from municipal, provincial, and federal levels of
government allow the TJF to pay for its approximately 170 free shows;
making these shows as accessible as possible to the general public.
It also helps with fundraising and development, Grossman says,
“making it easy for potential sponsors and donors to come down, get a
feel for the place, and say ‘this is something we’d like to support’.’”
The drastic reduction in the number of clubs included in TJF
programming has not been without its detractors. In the wake of the
2017 festival, club owners to whom I spoke mentioned that being
excluded from the festival’s promotional materials had resulted in
a definite dip in attendance during the period, as compared to the
previous years. In the research process for this article, I spoke to (and
emailed) a number of musicians who had played at the TJF in the last
two years – i.e. in the festival’s current format – and asked them about
their experiences, both as performers and attendees. The responses
were fairly consistent: while musicians like the idea of integrating a
greater number of clubs into the festival, it doesn’t necessarily follow
that having more clubs participating will automatically make the TJF
experience better; there is something to be said for the communitybuilding
power of geographical proximity, and the possibility that a
festival may cease to feel like a festival if the majority of its offerings
take place at discrete locations at various points throughout a city.
When I asked Grossman about the club situation, he touched on
the same points, as well as what for him was the primary issue: that
Toronto Downtown Jazz wasn’t actually programming the clubs, had
no overview over their operational standards, and had no control
over attendee experience at events that were explicitly being advertised
as TJF events. Moreover, the festival was doing this promotion for
free, and, in some cases, club shows “would be up against events that
the festival had “programmed
directly,” creating odd conflicts
of interest. Another major issue
that Grossman touched on: musician
pay. The TJF works to pay “at
the very minimum, the Toronto
Musician Association’s recommended
rates.” Again, stressing
that all clubs operate differently,
Grossman pointed out that “when
a musician would go in to play” a
venue that had a “pass-the-hat”
payment arrangement, it would
get very tricky to say “this is an
official festival show.”
Josh Grossman
This is not to say, of course,
that there are no clubs involved
in the TJF; there are a handful,
including a number of venues adjacent to the Yorkville festival
grounds, such as Sassafraz, the Gatsby bar at the Windsor Arms Hotel,
and Proof Bar at the Intercontinental Hotel, the latter of which will
host the nightly jam. As it did last year, the Home Smith Bar at The
Old Mill will represent the TJF’s furthest-flung outpost, with four
nights of vocal jazz performances hosted by Heather Bambrick. In the
downtown core, The Rex will again function as a major festival hub,
and will feature major artists such as David Binney, Donny McCaslin
and Chris Potter. Grossman tells me that the TJF and The Rex have a
“co-curatorial relationship;” throughout the booking process they go
back and forth, working through any questions about which artists
will work best in which setting. “What we end up with,” he says, “is
a lineup on our stage that [The Rex] is cool with, and a lineup on The
Rex stage that we’re cool with.” Issues concerning pay, marketing
and promotion are all covered in “a very strict venue agreement,”
resulting in all parties being comfortable and mutually invested in a
positive outcome. And, as Grossman puts it, if it’s possible to develop
similar relationships with other clubs that can provide complementary
programming to the TJF’s other venues, it’s probably “the
way forward.”
Five years from now? Grossman returns to the move from NPS to
Yorkville. “The goal with moving to Yorkville,” he says, “was to refresh
the festival, change things up, a little bit, but also to create an environment
in which people” – attendees, sponsors, artists – “can come and
get excited about what we’re doing, see that we’re trying to build this
thing, and get on board.” Fundamentally, he says, all of the Yorkville
activity will remain more or less the same, because “that’s the vibe”
they’re looking for. When asked about what’s missing, he let on
that he’d been in preliminary talks with the University of Toronto
about space to accommodate a large stage, a marquee venue at which
10,000 or so people could watch major artists perform. I asked if he
maybe had a place like King’s College Circle in mind, but I was wrong.
“Varsity Stadium,” he answered. “But,” he added wryly, “I think that’s
very challenging, for any number of reasons.”
And so, on its third anniversary in Yorkville, the TD Toronto Jazz
Festival seems confident, self-assured, but also duly concerned with the
necessity for future growth. Beyond the improved attendee experience,
it is this potential for growth that seems most exciting about the festival,
and which illustrates one of the less obvious outcomes of its exit from
its old location in Nathan Phillips Square: by narrowing its scope and
reinventing itself as a leaner, more focused festival, the TJF has given
itself the space to better manage its own development. Through this
process, it has quickly (re-)established itself as part of Toronto’s cultural
landscape. As to the future, we’ll have to wait and see.
This year’s TD Toronto Jazz Festival runs from June 21 to 30.
For details visit torontojazz.com.
Colin Story is a jazz guitarist, writer and teacher based in Toronto. He
can be reached at www.colinstory.com, on Instagram and on Twitter.
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MARK RASH
SUMMER SPOTLIGHT 1
James Campbell,
artistic director
Festival of the
Sound
DAVID PERLMAN
The first-ever concert of the
Festival of the Sound was
held on August 5, 1979
in a Parry Sound school
gymnasium under the direction
of pianist Anton Kuerti.
The summer of 1980 marked the
first full-fledged festival under
the FTOS name, with Kuerti as
artistic director. In 1985, James
Campbell began his tenure as the
Festival’s second artistic director,
a position he still holds today.
I caught up with Campbell
in mid-May, via an exchange
of emails.
WN: To jog your memory, last time we spoke (briefly) was
Feb 4 last year after a New Music Concerts’ Land’s End Ensemble
concert at Gallery 345 in Toronto where you played the Schoenberg
Kammersymphonie Op.9 (Quintet version), with Lands End and
Bob Aitken, flute. I said something about getting in touch with you
about the 2018 Festival of the Sound, and you replied along the lines
of “Great, but why don’t we wait for next year’s 40th anniversary
version.” So here we are!
You said in your previous email that you were at Munich airport
en route to Prague for a week of recording. Can you say more about
that?
JC: We’ve just finished. It’s a recording with the Prague
Philharmonic of Allan Gilliland’s Dreaming of the Masters, a work
commissioned by the Edmonton Symphony for the orchestra and me
in 2005. It has had quite a run; I even performed it twice with the
Boston Pops in Symphony Hall, Boston. It is a cross-over work in the
style of three great jazz clarinetists: Benny Goodman, Acker Bilk and
Buddy de Franco. The CD will be released next April.
I notice you are using your indiana.edu email address, but I don’t
know whether you are still mainly at the Jacobs School. I seem to
have noticed your name cropping up at University of Toronto more
frequently this past year or so (masterclasses, etc) but maybe it’s just
that I have noticed more?
I have just left IU after 31 wonderful years, but please don’t say
“retiring,” because I will still be very active playing, giving masterclasses
worldwide, and being artistic director at Festival of the Sound.
Carol and I are looking forward to spending a lot more time in
Canada. And yes, you have seen my name at U of T more frequently;
I have been a visiting artist there two to four times a year for the last
few years, something I enjoy.
Everything else notwithstanding, I’d say that your 35-year role at
Festival of the Sound is the one that most WholeNote readers associate
you with. How big of a piece of the pie is it?
It is one of the three “jobs” I have had for the last three decades:
professor, performer and artistic director. FOTS takes a lot of energy
and time, but has been a passion of mine.
“Recurring cast of characters” is a phrase that comes to mind when
I look at the artists you’ve attracted to FOTS over the years, albeit
always with interesting “first timers.” There must be something in
the formula that works, for your audiences, and maybe more importantly
for the musicians themselves.
This might be better explained in a conversation, but I’ll see what
I can do here. I believe there is difference between a music festival
and a music series. A series, by definition and necessity, hires preformed
groups or packages. Although some festivals run this way
and it works for them, the FOTS is what I like to think of as a creative
festival. Musicians come together to share the stage with friends and
colleagues they may not interact with during the winter months. I
make up the programs in consultation with the musicians and the
concerts are prepared on site. Musicians get to play works they may
not get to tackle in a busy concert season and the audience hears
programs that can be done only once, at FOTS. Most artists stay in
Parry Sound for three to six days and during this time a sense of
camaraderie develops, adding to the spontaneous music making and
fun that is central (I think) to a summer festival.
The core artists (of which there are now many) are those who love
this kind of interaction and risk-taking, and because many return
on a regular basis (as you have noticed) feel a sense of belonging and
ownership. This adds to the comfortable, relaxed atmosphere FOTS is
proud to foster.
The cross-genre aspect of the festival is one of the things that
stands out. How much of that comes from the fact that you yourself
love crossing those lines as a musician? How much of the curating
at this point comes from artists knowing what pushes your buttons,
and how much is you doing the matchmaking?
I do almost all the matchmaking but do consider every pitch
thrown my way by artists. I also get a lot of ideas sent to me by agents
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and organizations worldwide. I enjoy gently pushing some artists
out of their comfort zones, sometimes successfully, sometimes not.
Our audience understands this to be part of what we do and enjoys
hearing musicians trying something new, which makes our stage a
safe place for musicians to stretch a bit. I certainly appreciate it as a
musician. Being allowed to make mistakes has helped me grow in so
many different ways.
This is great, thank you! Last word to you?
If I may wax philosophical for a moment, then: I am sometimes
asked why I have remained with FOTS for so long and have indeed
had other informal “offers.” I could have climbed various administrative
ladders in Canada but there has always been something very
special about the relationship of classical chamber music and Parry
Sound that I have never experienced in all my travels.
I am very grateful to Anton Kuerti for asking me to take over from
him 35 years ago. He, and a wonderfully tenacious group of volunteers,
did most of the heavy lifting. That tenacity remains strong to
this day, making my job simply to keep an artistic focus that is worthy
of the energy and passion of the local community.
When all is said and done, everything we do comes down to
that moment when artist and listener are joined in a moment of
communal focus on a timeless masterpiece and life is made better. As
artistic director, feeling I may have helped that moment happen gives
me a wonderful sense of accomplishment and satisfaction.
It is all about building relationships: artist to artist, artist to board
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SUMMER SPOTLIGHT 2
Janet Lopinski
Fifth Canadian
Chopin Piano
Competition and
Festival
PAUL ENNIS
The clock is ticking down to the 18th International Fryderyk
Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in October 2020, and
the Fifth Canadian Chopin Piano Competition and Festival
– August 23 to 29, 2019 at the Royal Conservatory of Music –
offers an interesting stepping stone on one path to the Warsaw event.
Presented by the Canadian Chopin Society, the Festival part of the
event celebrates Chopin’s legacy with a series of concerts, workshops
and performance classes, highlighted by a solo recital by Polish-
Canadian pianist Krzysztof Jablonski, third-place laureate at the 11th
Chopin Piano Competition in 1985.
But the cornerstone of the week is the Competition, divided into
Junior and Senior sections. The top three Senior finishers will travel
to Warsaw in the fall of 2020, guaranteed a spot in the 18th Chopin
Piano Competition. Second-prize winner Tony Yike Yang, in the
Fourth Canadian Competition (2014), became the youngest laureate
(at age 16) in the history of the International Chopin Competition
in 2015, winning the Fifth Prize. (By coincidence, Yang’s teacher,
Vietnamese-Canadian DangThai Son, had finished first in the 1980
International Competition.) Now pursuing a dual degree in economics
and piano performance through the Harvard University-New England
Conservatory of Music Joint-Degree Program, Yang’s recent accolades
include being awarded the Jury Discretionary Award at the 15th Van
Cliburn International Competition in 2017, where (at 18) he was the
youngest competitor.
To learn more about the Chopin Competition and Festival I corresponded
with Janet Lopinski, senior director of academic programs
at The Royal Conservatory, and founder and artistic director of the
Canadian Chopin Society. She was appointed artistic director of the
Canadian Chopin Competition in 2008. By 2010, the 200th anniversary
of Chopin’s birth, a year that saw the presentation of the
Competition Winners Concert in Koerner Hall, it was clear that there
was an appetite for a permanent Chopin Society. With strong support
of the Polish Canadian community, particularly the Maximilian Kolbe
Foundation, the Canadian Chopin Society (CCS) was incorporated
as a not-for-profit entity in 2012. Its mission: “to celebrate the legacy
of Fryderyk Chopin by promoting his music while nurturing the
development of young artists.”
A full-blown Festival and Competition such as this one is presented
every five years, in preparation for the prestigious International
Fryderyk Chopin Competition, Lopinski informed me. In the years
between, the Society presents concerts, workshops, lectures and
masterclasses, and provides performance and scholarship opportunities
for young Canadian pianists. Lopinski herself has performed as
soloist and collaborative pianist, and has presented lectures, workshops
and masterclasses across North America.
The relationship between the CCS and the Fryderyk Chopin Institute
in Poland has evolved over the past decade, Lopinski said. Since 2000,
the cost for the top prize winners’ travel to Poland has been covered.
“We have also made it a point to include Polish pianists on our jury,”
she added. As well, Lopinski was invited to participate in the first
Chopin Competitions Conference, organized by the Fryderyk Chopin
Institute. “The success of Tony Yike Yang certainly brought great visibility
for the CCS,” she said.
At that 2015 conference there were 15 Chopin Competitions
from around the world represented. Lopinski credits the Chopin
Foundation of the USA with being both an inspiration and a model
for the Canadian event. Other competitions whose winners may be
accepted directly to the Warsaw Preliminary Round include those
based in Darmstadt, Moscow, Beijing and Tokyo.
The Chopin Piano Competition is open to talented Canadian pianists
up to age 29 who wish to further their performance skills and in
particular, their playing of the works of Fryderyk Chopin. Application
deadline was May 31, several days after our summer issue went to
press. More information on the event and its participants can be found
at canadianchopinsociety.com. The Senior competitors will participate
in Preliminary, Semi Final, and Final rounds, performing selected
works by Chopin, and will be adjudicated by a panel of respected
Chopin experts. All competition stages are open to the public.
Preliminary rounds will be held in Mazzoleni Hall; the finals will take
place in Koerner Hall with the finalists performing Chopin Concertos
with the Tokai String Quartet.
Krzysztof Jablonski chairs the jury comprised of U of T piano pedagogue
Midori Koga, South African native Anton Nel (a familiar face
at Glenn Gould School masterclasses), Irish pianist John O’Conor
(another GGS faculty member and masterclass participant), and
Juilliard faculty member Golda Vainberg-Tatz.
Mazzoleni Hall will also be the site of three special events: “Insights”
– an evening with Alan Walker, author of the acclaimed biography,
Fryderyk Chopin: Life and Times; “Conversations” – an evening
with the competition jury, providing the opportunity to hear their
thoughts on music-making, competitions, and careers in music; and
“Portraits” – a glimpse into three stages of Chopin’s life through letters
and music.
“Once the applications for the competition have been received, and
the schedule finalized we will also be announcing additional masterclasses
and performance showcases, to provide opportunities for
pianists not entered in the competition to be a part of the Festival,”
Lopinski said. “Please check our website (canadianchopinsociety.com)
after June 10 for these updates,” she added.
I asked what she considered her proudest achievement as artistic
director and she told me that founding the CCS and providing leadership
for its development has “brought the opportunity to combine
several things that are very important to me: my Polish heritage,
my love for music, and my commitment to music education. . .
Certainly witnessing the success of Tony Yike Yang at the International
Competition in 2015, and observing his transition from student to
young artist has been incredibly gratifying and inspiring.”
Paul Ennis is the managing editor of The WholeNote.
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Inna Perkis and Boris Zarankin
Founders & Artistic Directors
th
ANNIVERSARY
SEASON
2019 | 2020
October 6, 2019
Schubertiad:
“A day with Schubert”
December 1, 2019
“Runaway Waltz”
April 19, 2020
“ Beethoven after all”
June 14, 2020
“ Intersections”
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SUMMER SPOTLIGHT 3
HPO’s
Gemma New
Das Lied von
der Erde
LYDIA PEROVIĆ
ANTHONY CHANG
One of the best things to come out of this wretched humanity
of ours, Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde is always worth
highlighting when spotted in concert announcements. A very
good edition of Toronto Summer Music Festival is in the offing
this year – check out our website for concert reports during summer
– and will, on August 1, present the chamberized Das Lied at Koerner
Hall in the Schoenberg/Riehn arrangement. Mezzo Rihab Chaieb
and tenor Mario Bahg will sing. Conducting: the young, and already
highly in demand across North America, Gemma New, the Hamilton
Philharmonic Orchestra’s music director.
I took an express bus to Hamilton recently to catch the last HPO
mainstage concert of the season, a program of Vivier’s Orion and
Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. New and HPO’s executive director Diana
Weir took a substantial bit of time to address the audience in the
FirstOntario Concert Hall and talk of all the civic partnerships
developed around that particular concert. There was a small crowd of
students on the balcony thanks to the HPO’s Adopt-a-School program,
and representatives from mental health and the healthcare sector
marking Canadian Mental Health Week. The HPO seemed extremely
proud of its multiple connections to its city and the province, and
eager to deepen and multiply them. What New tells me when I phone
her the week after for an interview confirms this.
“Our audience is almost always full capacity,” she says on the phone
from San Diego, where she was conducting that week. “What we’re
doing in Hamilton seems to bring more and more for our budget
every year, so we are actually growing as an organization. I think
that we found a way to connect with the community and that’s one
of the things that have helped the HPO grow.” Programming is of
course crucial, she says, and also how that programming is delivered.
“Being able to program concerts that can relate to those who know a
ton about music and to those who are coming first time. Making sure
that programs are well paced. Making sure the experience is great for
musicians too and with enough rehearsal time. Planning a season and
having a look at partnerships and community collaborations. Being
able to talk about music! This is a skill that conductors are increasingly
in need of, so we can advocate not only for our orchestra and
musicians but also the program itself. And finally being very involved
in education – especially with the schools not having so much funding
these days for music education. It’s the orchestra’s job to bring young
people to this art form and get them to feel welcome in the concert
hall.”
New is also experimenting with the concert format at the HPO.
Away from the main stage, Intimate & Immersive is a chamber
music concert series with HPO musicians that takes the audience
to less typical concert spaces and seats them next to and around the
orchestra. “There’s always a part of the audience that wants something
a little bit more relaxed and intimate and maybe even more involved
than the traditional concert. They want to be able to move around
and mingle and get to know the music in a more casual environment.
That’s what we’ve been doing with the I & I. We wanted to
create an ambience that’s more like a place you go to for a good drink
and meet new people and a have good night out.” The audience also
has a chance to talk to the musicians before, during and after, in time
segments reserved for that. “Everyone sits very close together. The
orchestra is in the middle, and the seats are all the way around the
orchestra. We encourage everyone to move seats for the second half.”
A visual artist is engaged every time to create the lights or video that
fit the program. “Next to last time we also had smells and things that
you can touch of different substances that evoked for the audience the
idea of paradise,” says New. The last one this season, on May 23 at the
Cotton Factory in Hamilton, was programmed around the beat and
pulse, with an all-contemporary composer lineup.
I ask her about the stamina needed to conduct Mahler symphonies.
“I run quite a lot. I find that helps. If I can run 40 minutes straight,
that usually means I won’t lose my breath during a Mahler
symphony,” she says.” And just rehearsing it as well. The amount of
emotional drama that the piece provides and the excitement of it,
the powerful sound that everyone is giving – it’s all very motivating,
and I feel energized by it.” The Lied von der Erde at TSM will be the
chamber version. Does her approach to conducting differ depending
on whether she is before a chamber orchestra versus a big symphonic
crowd? “Yes, I approach an orchestra in a way that will make most
sense to them. For a small orchestra, like the one I conducted
recently in Santa Fe, New Mexico, we were doing Beethoven’s Second
Symphony and that’s a much smaller environment. You don’t need to
give a big gesture, you can be more subtle. It really depends on what
I’m hearing and what message I want to give. For the Mahler Fifth, it
is a massive orchestra and the sound is so powerful and loud at places,
but also other times it’s incredibly soft and close-knit and subtle. You
have to show that gamut in your physical expression as a conductor.”
Of Das Lied von der Erde itself, which New covered during her
tenure as an assistant conductor of the New Jersey Symphony
Orchestra, she says: “I fell in love with it. It was such a personal work
for Mahler. It’s sad to think that he didn’t hear it in his lifetime.”
Are there any composers that she’d like to advocate for in her
programming? “Claude Vivier,” she says. “He is a favourite. His music
is so intense and clear. It’s really got something that moves many of
us. I’d like to do more of his music in the future.” She’s also enjoyed
playing pieces by Abigail Richardson-Schulte, the HPO’s resident
composer: “Her compositions are positive energy!”
What about the standard rep? I have the impression, I tell her, that
my home symphony, the TSO, never plays enough French music.
“There could be practical reasons for that,” says New. “Ravel often
needs six or eight percussionists. I find, especially with the regional
orchestras when we plan our seasons, that that’s often a challenge.
And the works are shorter. But Ravel is one of my favourite composers
of all time. We’re doing Daphnis et Chloé in September, and just
did Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and Nocturnes in
March. Every time I plan the season I look at what HPO’s done since
2002 – I have that much information going back – and think that
French music is something that we want to do more. Many orchestras
do La mer, that one is probably the most popular, but what about
Alborada del gracioso or La valse? I’d love to do La valse.”
We too would love to hear that, and we’ll be there when she does.
Whether it’s with the TSO or the HPO, just a Presto tap away.
Lydia Perović is an arts journalist in Toronto.
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SUMMER SPOTLIGHT 4
Pianist Charles
Richard-Hamelin
On Mentoring
and More
PAUL ENNIS
WN:
In
Why is mentoring so crucial?
addition to your concert on July 19 at this year’s
Toronto Summer Music Festival, you have the
honour of mentoring Fellows of the TSM Academy.
CR-H: In my student years, I attended many summer programs
which I now realize were as important to my education as my
university studies. Especially the chamber music programs, since
they feel very close to the professional world: you have to very
quickly get along with other players and be ready to give up some
of your preconceived notions and be open to learn from others.
Experience is something that demands to be shared and passed
on, and I’m very lucky to have the opportunity to do that at the
TSM Academy.
What is the most important thing a mentor can do? Please tell us
about a memorable experience you had as a student with a mentor.
Inspiration. A great mentor, over a very brief period of time, can
make you love the music you’re playing to a point where you don’t
want to stop working until you’ve done justice to it. I’ve had many
encounters like this, but most notably was getting working with Máté
Szűcs in Denmark (at the Thy Chamber Music Festival) who was the
Berlin Philharmonic principal viola for many years. He was extremely
inspiring in his musicianship and in how he was able to communicate
that love for the music.
What is the first piece of music you fell in love with? What musicians
inspired you in your student days?
It’s hard to find a single piece, but I remember being obsessed with
Chopin’s Four Ballades as a teenager, especially Krystian Zimerman’s
recording of them. I remember not having a single clue in how he
was able to make the piano sound like this and in how music can
be so emotional and powerful. Later, I became obsessed with Radu
Lupu’s recordings, all of them. To this day, his interpretations are the
golden standard for me: everything he does is considered, impeccably
balanced, yet completely in the moment and free as a bird. I also
heard him live a few times and I always left the hall transformed. A
truly magical artist.
I’m looking forward to hearing the Brahms First Piano Quartet
with you and members of the Dover Quartet. Have you played with
them before?
I have not, but I’ve heard them live a couple years ago with André
Laplante in the Schumann Piano Quintet in Montréal. I was very
moved and impressed by them and I really look forward to working
with them.
How has your approach to Chopin’s Andante spianato et grande
polonaise brillante evolved over the years?
It is actually a relatively new addition to my repertoire! However,
the musical language of the young Chopin, which I’m used to playing
quite a lot (the two Concertos, the Rondo Op.16, etc) is very much
there in this piece too. It is especially inspired music, with very
memorable themes and melodies everywhere, even in all the transitions.
Paul Ennis is the managing editor of The WholeNote.
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CARLIN MA
Beat by Beat | Classical & Beyond
Sumptuous
Servings of
Midsummer Music
PAUL ENNIS
This summer’s many festivals promise music to engage the most
discerning listener across the GTA and the vast country beyond.
What follows is meant to augment our Green Pages supplement,
with special emphasis on the Toronto Summer Music Festival but
touching on other noteworthy festivities elsewhere.
Toronto Summer Music
With more than 200 ethnic groups speaking 140 languages, Toronto
is one of the world’s most diverse cities – slightly more than half the
population is foreign-born – setting the stage for
Toronto Summer Music Festival’s 2019 edition.
“Beyond Borders” will explore and celebrate the
“cross-cultural influences that have pervaded
classical music from the times of Mozart and
Mahler, right up to the composers of today.” With
such a timely theme opening up our ears to listen
afresh to the richness of a packed three weeks of
concerts, TSM’s 14th festival has become the go-to
musical event of the summer.
A look at the content of the opening night
Koerner Hall concert on July 11 gives us an insight
into how these cross-cultural influences work
in practice. Soprano Adrianne Pieczonka’s part
in the evening includes Ravel’s Cinq mélodies
populaires grecques directly inspired by Greek
folk songs. Violinist Kerson Leong contributes
Sarasate’s electrifying Zigeunerweisen, an homage
to Gypsy fiddling prowess. Pianist Jon Kimura
Parker will perform Mozart’s Piano Sonata No.11
in A Major, K331 with its famed “Turkish March”
final movement; as well as Chopin’s Ballade No.4 in F Minor, Op.52,
written in France, far away from his native Poland.
An unusual connection to the Beyond Borders leitmotif is Madeleine
Thien’s pre-concert conversation with Eric Friesen preceding Angela
Hewitt’s Koerner Hall performance of Bach’s Goldberg Variations
on July 30. Thien’s novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing is filled with
musical references from Bach to Beethoven and Shostakovich. The
Malaysian-born, Chinese-Canadian began writing the novel in a
Berlin cafe, spending five hours a day listening on headphones to
Glenn Gould’s 1955 recording of the Goldbergs on repeat to block out
the cafe’s noise as she wrote. She told the literary journal Brick that
she was experimenting with musical time in her novel (which won
the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor-General’s Literary
Award for Fiction) and that the Goldberg Variations “is both a structure
for the novel and a way of trying to make space for the vast
inner lives of the characters.” She said: “Bach always seems to me to
be creating time. He makes space where there seems to be none and
makes something feel eternal in a finite space.”
Other examples of border crossing? On July 12, the world premiere
of Greek-born Canadian composer Christos Hatzis’ String Quartet No.5
“The Transmuting” is part of the New Orford String Quartet’s tenth
anniversary celebration which also includes one of Beethoven’s finest
achievements, his String Quartet No.9 in C Major, Op.59, No.3, the
last of the three string quartets that Count Razumovsky, the Russian
Dover Quartet
ambassador in Vienna commissioned. Then, on July 15, the fruits of
a five-year collaboration between the musicians of Montreal’s Middle
Eastern/early music group, Constantinople, and Ablaye Cissoko, a West
African griot, will be on display in Walter Hall. And the remarkable
Dover Quartet’s concert on July 17 at Koerner Hall features three works
with strong links to the USA: England’s Benjamin Britten composed
his String Quartet No.1 in California in 1941; Hungarian composer Bela
Bartók’s String Quartet No.3 was dedicated to the Musical Society Fund
of Philadelphia; and Antonin Dvořák spent three years in America
away from his Czech homeland – he wrote his immensely popular
“American” Quartet in Spillville, Iowa, a town of 300 Czech immigrants
where he was surrounded by his home culture.
Charles Richard-Hamelin’s July 19 recital in Walter Hall includes
Chopin’s Andante spianato et grande polonaise brillante Op.22, a piece
he began composing soon after he left Warsaw for Paris in 1830. Also
on the program (with members of the Dover Quartet) is Brahms’ Piano
Quartet No.1 in G Minor, Op.25, with its Hungarian-rhapsody finale.
A July 26 Walter Hall concert titled “Souvenir of Florence,” headed by
violinists Jonathan Crow and Jennifer Koh, and pianist Philip Chiu,
features Tchaikovsky’s sumptuous Sextet in D Minor, Op.70 (written
while the composer was visiting Florence, Italy), Debussy’s Piano Trio
in G Major (also while living in Italy), and Prokofiev’s Five Melodies for
violin and piano, written in 1920 while touring California.
Crow and Chiu, incidentally, give a recital
on July 29 that reaches beyond TSM’s thematic
borders but one that, based on its recent COC
noon-hour preview, should not be missed: their
performance of César Franck’s Sonata for Violin
and Piano in A Major was truly transformative,
dramatic, delicate and dynamic, from its magical
hushed opening onwards.
World-class performers like Pieczonka,
Parker, Hewitt, countertenor Daniel Taylor, tenor
Anthony Dean Griffey, and the New Orford,
Dover and Rolston String Quartets, are only part
of what TSM offers: 32 emerging professionals are
given the opportunity to be mentored by a faculty
of established musicians. These fellows, as they
are called, from TSM’s Art of Song and Chamber
Music Institute come together to perform at the
Festival’s reGENERATION Saturday concerts,
alongside their mentors. In addition, Chamber
Music fellows also perform in ensembles that
receive coaching from mentors at free noon-hour
concerts in Heliconian Hall.
From July 11 to August 3, TSM provides a sumptuous serving of
midsummer music. I will be there.
Stratford Summer Music
After 18 years as founding artistic director, John Miller has ceded
leadership of Stratford Summer Music to violinist Mark Fewer,
and Fewer’s interest in jazz and improvisation shows in this year’s
program. Stephen Prutsman, Duane Andrews, Phil Dwyer, Jodi
Proznick (with Heather Bambrick), John Novacek and Fewer himself
will participate in a Friday night series at Revival House. There will
be tributes to Nat “King” Cole and Dave Brubeck, and appearances by
John McLeod’s Rex Hotel Orchestra, Laila Biali and The Two Bass Hit
(Joel Quarrington and Dave Young) with Novacek.
That being said, Stratford Summer Music’s longstanding focus
on chamber music as “a vital aspect of music-making … fostering
listening, awareness, flexibility and collaborating with others, while
offering the audience exposure to different styles, genres, and forms
of music” still remains. Highlights include Isabel Bayrakdarian with
pianist Robert Kortgaard and violinist Fewer in recital August 9; “Party
Like It’s 1689” with Suzie LeBlanc, Matthias Maute (recorder) and
Fewer on August 22; cellist (and SSM favourite) Stéphane Tétreault,
Prutsman and Fewer on July 21; the Dann Family in separate chamber
and jazz programs on August 8; clarinetist James Campbell, Stephen
Prutsman and friends on August 22. Pianist Janina Fialkowska
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Mark Fewer
presents an intriguing recital of Mozart, Debussy, Ravel, Chopin and
more on August 3.
Of special note, in a nod to the 1960s when Glenn Gould was part
of a triumvirate (with violinist Oscar Shumsky and cellist Leonard
Rose) directing music programs as part of the Stratford Festival, Art of
Time Ensemble is reviving “Hosted by Glenn Gould” where the iconic
pianist introduces performances of chamber music by Shostakovich
and Beethoven via clips from the CBC’s Glenn Gould on Television.
Fewer’s first Stratford Summer Music promises to enhance this music
festival’s reputation as something more than a sidebar to Stratford’s
theatrical main event.
Ottawa Chamberfest
There is a plethora of musical pleasure to be found July 25 to August 8
at this year’s Ottawa Chamberfest – beginning with the collaboration
between the St. Lawrence String Quartet and versatile pianist Stephen
Prutsman in Franck’s masterful Piano Quintet and then, later that
evening, providing the soundtrack for Buster Keaton’s classic comedy,
College. On July 26, Finland’s KallaKvartetti (flute, violin, viola and
cello) harkens back to its Nordic ancestors; on July 27, pianist David
Jalbert performs an ambitious program of Shostakovich, Rzewski and
Wijeratne; and on July 28, Janina Fialkowska offers a strong lineup of
piano works by Mozart, Debussy, Ravel and a considerable selection
of Chopin.
And there’s more. The Netherlands’ all-female saxophone quartet,
Syrène Saxofoonkwartet, returns to the festival on July 29 with
arrangements of Handel’s Water Music, Vivaldi, Barber’s Serenade
for Strings and excerpts from Bernstein’s West Side Story. Honens
laureate, German pianist Hinrich Alpes plays 15 of Beethoven’s
first 20 piano sonatas in two concerts, July 30 and August 1. French
string quartet Quatuor Danel plays Russian repertoire (Prokofiev,
Shostakovich and Weinberg) on July 30. And James Ehnes and
Andrew Armstrong play all of Beethoven’s Sonatas for Violin and
Piano broken into two concerts on July 31 and August 2.
Other highlights: Ottawa’s own Angela Hewitt joins violinist Yosuke
and the Cheng2 Duo for a tribute to Clara Schumann, August 3; then,
August 5, Hewitt plays Bach, focusing on the first three English Suites
and the Rolston String Quartet performs Schafer’s String Quartet No.2
and Beethoven’s “Razumovsky” Quartet No.7, Op.59 No.1. Various
combinations of the Manhattan Chamber Players perform diverse
Mozart and Dvořák on August 6; and the next day they team up with
the celebrated Dover Quartet for Shostakovich’s String Octet.
Two Mini-Tours
National Youth Orchestra Canada’s 59th year has been an auspicious
one so far with the spring release of the NFB documentary That
Higher Level, the result of two months spent with the 100 musicians
between the ages of 16 and 28 who comprised the orchestra
as they prepared for last year’s Canadian tour. A trip to Spain will
follow this summer’s Odyssey Tour to five cities: July 21 during Ottawa
Chamberfest; July 22 at the Maison symphonique de Montréal; July 25
in Parry Sound at the Festival of the Sound; Stratford on July 27 at
SSM; and, finally, Toronto, July 29 at Koerner Hall, as part of TSM.
The summer tour concert program includes Prokofiev’s Romeo
and Juliet, Op.64; Suites Nos.1 and 2 from Manuel de Falla’s The
Three Cornered Hat; Mahler’s Symphony No. 5; and Sinfonia Sacra
(Symphony No.3) by Polish composer Andrzej Panufnik. The tour
will also feature Brahms’ Double Concerto for Violin and Cello
Op.102, with the winners of the Canada Council for the Arts’ Michael
Stéphane
Tétreault
July 21st and 22nd
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Measures Prize as soloists (to be announced in July).
Simone Dinnerstein, the soloist in Philip Glass’ Piano Concerto No.3
when it had its Canadian premiere at last year’s 21C Music Festival
in Koerner Hall, is on something of a mini-tour of her own, with the
Manitoba Chamber Orchestra: this summer she performs the work in
Ottawa (at Music and Beyond July 15, 16), Stratford (July 17), Festival
de Lanaudière (July 19), and Westben Concerts at the Barn (July 20). A
treat to savour.
Two 40th Anniversaries
The Festival of the Sound begins its 40th anniversary year on July 19
with a celebratory Gala Opening Concert comprised of highlights
from past seasons. From Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus to Leonard
Cohen’s Hallelujah; excerpts from Bach’s B-Minor Mass and Orff’s
Carmina Burana; Beethoven’s Ode to Joy and favourite bits from
Gilbert and Sullivan, the specialness of the occasion is underlined.
Other highlights include two concerts by the Rolston String Quartet
playing pillars of the classical repertoire: Beethoven’s String Quartet
Op.59, No.1 “Razumovsky” and Piano Concerto No.5 “Emperor” (with
Janina Fialkowska), July 24; and Mozart’s “Dissonance” String Quartet
and Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden”, July 25. Larry Beckwith’s
production of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons is enhanced through narration
by Indigenous elder John Rice (who participated with Beckwith
in last year’s FOTS opening event), an art song, the sonnet on which
the concerto is based, and projected images. With Mark Fewer, violin;
John Rice, narrator; Julie Nesrallah, soprano; Robert Kortgaard, piano;
and the Festival Ensemble, July 30.
The first concert of the FOTS was held at 2pm on August 5, 1979 in
the Parry Sound High School Gymnasium under the direction of Anton
Kuerti. That same all-Beethoven program will be replicated at 2pm on
August 5, 2019 at the Stockey Centre, headed by artistic director James
Campbell and the Cheng2 Duo. There will be an all-day celebration of 40
works from 40 years of the festival’s history on August 9, beginning with
a musical morning cruise, followed by several events running concurrently
from noon to 4pm, an afternoon tea and an evening concert.
Not to be outdone, the Elora Festival’s 40th Anniversary Opening
Night brings together many world-class artists for a celebration in song
on July 12 in the Gambrel Barn. Carmina Burana heads a varied program
featuring the Elora Singers, the State Choir LATVIJA, members of the
Grand Philharmonic Children’s & Youth Choirs, singers Jane Archibald,
James Westman and Daniel Taylor, TorQ Percussion, two members of
Piano Six, and conductors Maris Sirmais and Mark Vuorinen.
Some of the festival’s many highlights include the entire lineup of
Piano Six on July 13; André Laplante (piano), Mayumi Seiler (violin)
and Colin Carr (cello) performing Beethoven’s “Archduke” Trio and
Ravel’s Piano Trio on July 14; the Cheng2 Duo on July 20; countertenor
Daniel Taylor and tenor Charles Daniels, on July 21; and Measha
Brueggergosman on July 27.
My Magic Carpet Wish
If I had a magic carpet, I’d ride to the Festival de Lanaudière northeast
of Montreal on July 12 to hear Charles Richard-Hamelin and Les
Violons du Roy perform Mozart’s Piano Concertos Nos.22 and 24.
And I’d return on July 28 for Marc-André Hamelin, Yannick Nézet-
Seguin and Orchestre Métropolitaine for Brahms’ Piano Concertos
Nos.1 and 2.
Safe travels and happy listening.
Circle the Dates
June 28, 29, 7:30pm; June 30, 3pm: Anticipation for these concerts
has been building since last September when Spanish-born
conductor, Gustavo Gimeno, was announced as the TSO’s 11th music
director. Having guest-conducted the orchestra in February 2018,
this will be his second appearance on the Roy Thomson Hall podium.
The appealing program opens with Sibelius’ richly melodic Violin
Concerto, with concertmaster Jonathan Crow as soloist. Prokofiev’s
exuberant Symphony No.1 “Classical” and Stravinsky’s ever-popular
Suite from the Firebird follow. Gimeno’s term as music director begins
with the 2020/21 season.
Paul Ennis is the managing editor of The WholeNote.
Beat by Beat | World View
Transcultural Music
Communities:
Summer Global
Music in Our
Midst
ANDREW TIMAR
“I
decided to noise-cancel life,” begins Olga Khazan in a
provocative recent article What Happens When You Always
Wear Headphones in The Atlantic’s Health section. “The buck
stops at my cochlea. Just like we choose everything else, I choose
exactly what to put in my ears.” she concludes.
Early in May of this year, the Global Musics and Musical
Communities conference at California’s UCLA posed a question:
“How and why [do] specific musical genres travel outside their countries
of origin and lead to the formation of new musical communities?”
Presenters examined genres such as hip-hop, gamelan and
taiko as musics that have “become global in the past century.”
Ethnomusicologist Henry Spiller’s talk sported the cheeky yet
insightful title The Hereness of the There: Making Sense of Gamelan
in the United States.
So what do Khazan’s noise-cancelling earbud manifesto and the
Global Musics and Musical Communities conference have to do with
my summer column?
The UCLA conference reminded me that the examination of musical
nation-hopping performed every day in Canadian locales has been
one of my main subjects here over the years, arguing strenuously that
cross-cultural musical interaction is the norm rather than the exception.
The widespread, speedy transmission of these genres to musical
communities around the world, beginning in the second half of 20th
century, and their adoption and incorporation, is a significant and
remarkable development.
As for living a “noise-cancelling life” – I’m not sure that, even if
attainable, it is a healthy goal. I’m all for choice and for protecting the
health of one’s ears in an increasingly noise-polluted environment,
but for me the joy of music includes the excitement of exploration, the
pleasure of surprise, chance, or even surreptitious discovery.
What does that sound like?
It’s the feeling of walking through the lush shrub- and tree-filled
lakeside Toronto Music Garden on a hot summer afternoon – the
garden that was co-designed by cellist Yo Yo Ma to reflect in landscape
Bach’s Suite No. 1 in G Major for cello. The music of a small
group you’ve only read about slowly emerges out of the city’s din
as you come to the brow of a knoll in the garden. They’re playing at
the bottom of a modest grassy amphitheatre sheltered by a mature
weeping willow.
There’s no front of house, program, no ushers or bar to contend
with. You’re in a T-shirt, shorts and sandals, wearing a protective hat.
If you’ve ridden your bike down, as I have on occasion, you search for
a safe place to park it. Pleasure boats are moored at Marina Quay West
to the left, Billy Bishop Airport’s prop planes within earshot. On the
right, the Lakeshore Blvd. and Gardiner Expressway traffic sings with
an eternal buzz, like the drone of thousands of urban cicadas.
That urban Toronto scene for me is one of the great and unique joys
of music in the summer. It can’t be experienced with earbuds on,
noise-cancelling or otherwise. So, with transcultural music in mind,
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and minds and ears open rather than closed, let’s explore just a few of
the summer global music treats in store in the urban jungle, the GTA
and beyond.
Labyrinth Musical Workshop Ontario:
Have Yourself a Modal Summer
Let’s begin by following up on two of the stories from my column
last month.
Labyrinth Musical Workshop Ontario (LO) recently announced
several concerts in addition to its June modal music workshops (check
its website to register) and its June 8 concert, “Modal Music Summit:
Ross Daly with This Tale of Ours plus Tzvetanka Varimezova,” at
Eastminster United Church. On the July 1 weekend it is programming
three separate performances as part of the Aga Khan Museum’s
Rhythms of Canada program (more on this further on). Then on
consecutive Saturday afternoons – August 3, 10, 17 and 24 – LO offers
afternoon concerts in Flemingdon Park (at Don Mills and Eglinton),
supported by the Toronto Arts Council’s Arts in the Parks program.
The concerts are billed as “family-friendly” and will include a chance
to meet the musicians and instruments. Start time is around 3pm.
Best confirm both the Aga Khan Museum and Flemingdon Park events
in the listings or on the LO website.
Didgori Ensemble: Georgian Polyphony Tours Ontario and Quebec
My other lead story last issue was on the six-member Didgori
Ensemble, the award-winning choir from the Republic of Georgia,
and its June Canadian tour. As I mentioned, such a rare moment for
Canadian Georgian-music lovers only happens once a lifetime.
We pick up the choir’s tour on June 7 when a consortium of Toronto
presenters showcase the Didgori Ensemble at Trinity-St. Paul’s
Centre’s Jeanne Lamon Hall. Audiences can expect brilliant performances
of Georgian polyphony, with ensemble members accompanying
themselves on traditional Georgian instruments. June 8, Didgori gives
a public Georgian choral workshop from 5 to7pm at the St. Vladimir
Institute, 620 Spadina Ave., and the next day they hold a five-hour
Georgian choral workshop at the MusiCamp Studio, 11 Cobourg
Ave., starting at 11am. Check MusiCamp’s website for registration
information.
June 10, Didgori travels east to Kingston Ontario’s St. George’s
Cathedral where they sing liturgical music at 12:15pm, presented by
MusiCamp, the Melos Choir and Period Instruments. They continue
east to Quebec, where on Wednesday June 12, Gabrielle Boutillier
presents “Didgori en concert à Québec” at the Voûtes de la Maison
Chevalier. The next day, they perform and conduct a workshop at the
Auberge La Caravane, in North Hatley, QC. The tour then concludes
on Saturday June 15 at 8pm in Montreal where the Harira Ensemble
and MusiCamp present Didgori: Live in Concert at the Chapelle Notre-
Dame-de-Lourdes. For those eager to experience this extraordinary
music first-hand, Didgori offers an all-ages Workshop for Singers of
All Levels June 15 and 16 at the Centre des Musiciens du Monde, 5043
St Dominique St, Montreal. You can reserve a spot at hariraensemble@
gmail.com.
Small World Music: Free Summer Lunch
Small World Music presents its free Summer Lunch concert series
in partnership with Union Station on the latter’s TD Stage, 65 Front
St. W. on nine consecutive Wednesdays from 12 noon to 1pm. SWM’s
Summer Lunch lineup launches June 5 with Mimi O’Bonsawin who
recently won the Best Pop Album at the 2019 Indigenous Music
Awards. It continues June 12 with Moskitto Bar, the Toronto quartet
musically covering territory from Brittany to Bagdad, through Ukraine
and the Balkans. June 19 the Polky Village Band, an energetic Polish-
Canadian folk music group takes audiences on a musical journey
to Poland, “the melting pot of Eastern and Central Europe with
Carpathian, Jewish, Gypsy, Ukrainian, Slovak and Hungarian influences.”
June 26 the Tich Maredza Band, fronted by Toronto-based
Zimbabwean singer, guitarist, mbira-ist and composer Tichaona
Maredza takes the stage.
Of the five additional acts appearing on the Summer Lunch series,
Fränder, a Swedish and Estonian folk quartet, is the only non-Ontario
Polky Village Band
group, appearing on July 17. Representing the latest generation of
talented musicians to take their rich heritage of indigenous songs to
the world stage; it’s worth taking your soup, sandwich or sushi to
their set.
SWM’s Summer Lunch series, incidentally, is part of Union
Summer: Presented by TD, a sprawling 50 consecutive days of summer
programming on the Front St. TD Stage, promising to “showcase …
Toronto’s talent, culture and spirit right at the gateway to the city.”
Summer Music at the Museum: Aga Khan Museum
Earlier I mentioned Labyrinth Ontario’s three Canada Day weekend
performances at the Aga Khan Museum. The AKM is producing three
festivals this summer celebrating “Canada’s contemporary fabric,
a dynamic mix of world views, cultures, stories, and rhythms. Our
festivities honour the Indigenous people of this land … much of it
planned to happen outdoors.”
Some other selections from its “Rhythms of Canada” festival,
running Sunday June 30 and Monday July 1:
Sunday opens with the 13-member Asiko Afrobeat Ensemble led
by Nigerian-born bandleader Foly Kolade, and includes Torontobased
singer and composer Hussein Janmohamed, plus two-time
world-champion hoop dancer Lisa Odjig from the Odawa/Ojibwe/
United in song.
connected by dance.
July 4 to 7, 2019
A celebration of Latvian culture
AT KOERNER HALL
Concert of Latvian
Orchestral AND
Chamber Music
July 5, 2019 - 4:00 PM
MĀRIS SIRMAIS, CONDUCTOR
LAURA ZARIŅA, VIOLIN
ARTHUR OZOLINS, PIANO
MEMBERS OF THE CANADIAN
OPERA COMPANY ORCHESTRA
The State
Choir LATVIJA
July 5, 2019 - 7:30 PM
Contact Koerner Hall box
office for tickets:
(416) 408-0208
MĀRIS SIRMAIS
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
AND CONDUCTOR
Join us for the launch
of a new Centrediscs
recording of music
by Janis Kalnins,
Talivaldis Kenins
and Imant Raminsh.
This concert will
mark the State Choir
LATVIJA’s debut in
Canada , featuring
works by Baltic and
international composers.
Receive $10 off by purchasing tickets to both events.
Full festival program at:
www.Latviansongfest.com
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Pottawatomi Nations from Wikwemikong, Manitoulin Island, Ontario.
Headlining the event is the Cris Derksen Trio, led by rising star musician
and composer Derksen, who describes herself as a “half-Cree,
half- Mennonite classically trained cellist.” Also on the bill is the
Waleed Kush Ensemble offering percussion-driven African jazz, led by
Sudanese multi-instrumentalist Waleed Abdulhamid. The next day on
July 1 Toronto’s Maracatu Mar Aberto perform the rhythms, songs and
dances derived from the traditions of Northeastern Brazil, while other
world music and dance events fill out the Canadian Day afternoon.
The AKM’s “Moon Landing Festival” (July 20 and July 21) plus its
“First Five Fest” celebrating five years of programming (August 31
and September 1) both have plenty for global music explorers. Please
check the listings and the Museum website for details.
Harbourfront Centre: Summer Music in the Garden
My introduction to this month’s column makes it pretty clear how I
feel about Harbourfront Centre’s delightful annual series of al fresco
concerts. Summer Music in the Garden ranks among our city’s essential
music-in-the-park experiences. Now entering its third decade,
artistic director Tamara Bernstein always makes room for top-rank
global music in her astutely curated series. The concerts are scheduled
for Thursdays at 7pm and Sundays at 4pm, so it pays to check the listings.
Pro tip: unless it’s sunny, best call the info desk at 416-973-4000
for the up-to-the-minute rain call.
Sunfest: “Canada’s Premier Celebration of World Cultures”
Every summer for a quarter of a century the southwestern Ontario
city of London has hosted what has become “one of the best overseas
[world] music festivals,” according to the UK’s prestigious Songlines
Magazine, transforming London’s central Victoria Park into “a culturally
diverse jewel, where 40 top world music and jazz groups from all
corners of the planet entertain.”
This year from July 4 to 7
the admission-free festival jams
the park chock-a-block with
five stages and more than 225
exhibitors, including vendors
of global cuisine, crafts and
visual art.
I spoke directly with
co-artistic director Mercedes
Caxaj. “This is the 25th edition
of Sunfest,” Caxaj explained,
“which my father Alfredo
Caxaj founded.” Mercedes has
literally grown up with the
festival. “You could consider
it a family operation since my
mother and brother are also
involved in running Sunfest,” she added.
On the fact that Sunfest’s website the festival’s lineup is divided
into International and National performers, so I asked her about that.
“It’s one way visitors can get a feel for the world music scene today,”
she replied. “Also, by separating Canadian acts from those we’ve
invited from abroad, we can highlight homegrown talent. Our main
aim is to represent as many cultures as possible, and to ensure that
Sunfest 2019 in the centre of London, Ontario, is an inclusive space.”
Indeed, the geographic scope of the festival is vast, covering music
from five continents. Caxaj listed groups from Cape Verde, Spain,
England, Scotland, Netherlands, Norway, Czech Republic, Russia,
Chile, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Niger, Cameroon, Uganda, Palestine
and Canada. It would be impossible to list them all. I don’t think it
would be fair to highlight just a few either, so I invite you to visit the
Sunfest 2019 website for details. Perhaps I’ll see you there.
There is one more thing to note: Sunfest’s community-level arts
engagement, a key reason why it’s thriving and moving into its second
generation. “Sunfest has accomplished in 25 years what has eluded
municipal planners, politicians and corporations alone,” states its
media release. “From the beginning, the Sunfest Committee recognized
the inestimable power of the performing arts to effect cultural
Mercedes and Alfredo Caxaj, Sunfest co-artistic directors
and social change in this community and, despite the incredible challenges,
organizers, patrons and sponsors were willing to take a chance
on what’s arguably one of London’s most inspired utopian projects of
the past quarter century. At its heart, TD Sunfest is about vision and
hope: along with providing exemplary representation and accessibility
… [it] offers inclusiveness to our visitors through the common
denominator of their shared humanity.”
Is Sunfest’s inspirational model one that other festivals and
presenters could emulate?
Stratford Summer Music
One of Ontario’s most venerable annual summer music festivals takes
place in Stratford. Last year the award-winning Canadian violinist
Mark Fewer was appointed Stratford Summer Music’s new artistic
director, taking over the reins from John Miller who ran the extensive
multi-week festival for 18 years.
This year, 100 events featuring more than 350 musicians in both
indoor and outdoor venues will be heard throughout downtown
Stratford – a great opportunity for what I described earlier as surreptitious
musical discovery . As an example, two concerts with global
themes, both presented at Factory 163 in Stratford: July 25, the
Tehran-born Canadian musician Amir Amiri takes the stage. Amiri, a
soloist on the santur (72-string Persian hammer dulcimer), composer
and music director, strives to “explore the limits of music, stretching
beyond the constraints of classical thought.” July 29, Toronto’s brilliant
Payadora Tango performs a selection from their large repertoire
of original compositions and arrangements of Argentinean tango and
folk music.
Westben Concerts at The Barn
Also located in Southern Ontario, Westben Concerts at The Barn celebrates
its 20th anniversary this summer. This rural
music festival with a wide range of programs holds
most of its concerts at The Barn, 6698 County Road 30
in Campbellford.
July 28, it presents Toronto’s Kuné – Canada’s
Global Orchestra. Dubbing itself “a celebration of
Canada’s cultural diversity” Kuné’s eclectic ensemble
of Canadian musicians “hail from all corners of the
globe, play over 20 instruments,” representing the
musics of their home cultures. August 2, the 2018
Polaris Prize-winning Jeremy Dutcher, a classically
trained tenor and composer plays The Barn. Dutcher’s
music creatively blends his Wolastoq First Nation
linguistic and music roots with Euro-Canadian classical
and vernacular music. Come early for the 5pm
feast featuring Anishinaabe BBQ; reservations are
required two days in advance.
WORLD VIEW QUICK PICKS
!!
JUN 7, 8PM: Small World Music Society presents Arnab Chakrabarty Sarod Recital
featuring Arnab Chakrabarty (sarod), Zaheer-Abbas Janmohamed (tabla) in a concert
of Hindustani classical music at the Small World Music Centre, Artscape Youngplace.
!!
JUN 8, 8PM: Toronto’s most seasoned and celebrated taiko group Nagata Shachu
presents Nagata Shachu and American Rogues at the Harbourfront Centre Theatre.
Nagata Shachu directed by Kiyoshi Nagata performs with The American Rogues Celtic
Band.
!!
JUN 9, 7:30PM: The Toronto Chinese Orchestra presents The Butterfly Lovers,
featuring The Butterfly Lovers Concerto at the Markham People’s Community Church,
22 Esna Park Dr., Markham.
!!
JUL 21, 7:30PM: The Elora Festival presents Kuné, Canada’s Global Orchestra at the
Gambrel Barn, at the corner of Country Rd. 7 and 21 in Elora, ON.
!!
AUG 2 and 3, 7PM: The Collingwood Summer Music Festival presents Nhapitapi
from Zimbabwe at the New Life Church, Collingwood ON August 2, followed by the
Payadora Tango Ensemble at the same venue the following evening.
Andrew Timar is a Toronto musician and music writer. He
can be contacted at worldmusic@thewholenote.com.
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Beat by Beat | Music Theatre
Into the Summer
JENNIFER PARR
Luminato: Two years ago, in one of my first columns for The
WholeNote, I interviewed the creative team of Theaturtle’s
Charlotte: A Tri-Coloured Play with Music, Canadian librettist
Alon Nashman, acclaimed Czech composer Aleš Březina, and
legendary British director/scenographer Pamela Howard,
as they were presenting a series of work-in progress
performances at the Luminato Festival before touring to
Europe. The play is inspired by the real life and artwork of
Berlin-born Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon who was sent
to Auschwitz at age 26 in 1942, and who in the last two
years of her life created a sequence of nearly 800 paintings
accompanied by text and musical references to which she
gave the title “Life? Or Theatre?” – works which, against
all odds, survived. At the time I was bowled over by the
wild theatricality of their vision and the bright central
message of hope in the arc of Charlotte’s story.
This summer, they are about to go on another tour, this
time to Israel, Ukraine, and the Czech Republic, with first,
a one-performance-only send-off at Toronto’s Hart House
Theatre on June 1. Always curious about what happens
over time to things I first encountered as “works in progress,”
I plan to attend and to reach out to the creative team
again to catch up on what has been happening with this
exciting show between world tours. Stay tuned!
This year is, again, a Luminato hotbed of creation
including a number of exciting music theatre productions
from both home and abroad. Stories shaped by political
extremes, and the need to find a personal path through societies characterized
by prejudice and oppression, again are highlighted particularly
in two Canadian productions that caught my eye: Nicole Brooks’
large scale a cappella Obeah Opera and Tim Albery’s one-man (with
one-piano accompaniment) Hell’s Fury; or The Hollywood Songbook
starring Canadian opera superstar Russell Braun.
Obeah Opera has been in the works for ten years, a project of
personal passion for creator, librettist, and composer Nicole Brooks.
Inspired by a desire to tell the untold story of the female Caribbean
slaves who were as much a part of the Salem witch trials as the
white women and men whose stories have been recorded, Obeah
Opera uses Caribbean-inspired music and dance to tell that story.
Drawing on transcriptions of the actual trials in Salem, combined
with in-person consultation with African spiritual practitioners,
Brooks has created a libretto and score focused on the experience
of Tituba (the Caribbean slave whom we know from Arthur Miller’s
play The Crucible), and her fellow practitioners of “obeah” (witchcraft).
A necessary story for our times, it is a reminder of the dangers
of societal paranoia and also of histories lost that should be recovered
and shared. The cast is 20 strong, all female, all singing and dancing.
The dances, showcased last October as part of the Fall for Dance North
Festival at the Sony Centre, won rave reviews for their superb theatricality
and energy.
Hell’s Fury; or The Hollywood Songbook, on the other hand, is a
one-man musical journey through the life of Austrian Jewish Marxist
composer Hanns Eisler. Based on a concept from well-known opera
director Tim Albery, it was originally developed with Soundstreams
and Soundstreams’ artistic director Lawrence Cherney and given a
work-in-progress showcase during Luminato last year. Eisler fled Nazi
Germany in 1933 and landed in Hollywood where he worked successfully,
composing many film scores including the Academy Awardnominated
Hangmen Also Die (Fritz Lang) and None But The Lonely
Heart (Clifford Odets). Privately, at the same time he was writing
Hollywood Songbook, an evocative song cycle full of both wit and
melancholy, often using for words, poems by his frequent collaborator
Bertolt Brecht, weaving a tale of the horrors of Nazi Germany, the
seductions of Hollywood, and a longing to return home. In real life,
the seduction of Hollywood was interrupted in 1948 when the House
Committee on Un-American Activities banished Eisler from the US,
labelling him an “unperson.” The storyline is woven through the songs
of Eisler’s own Hollywood Songbook, and is performed by acclaimed
Canadian baritone Russell Braun accompanied by JUNO Awardwinning
pianist Serouj Kradjian.
In contrast to these two overtly political story lines, and yet
with a central theme illustrating the hidden masked cynical
truths of society, is Masquerade, a lavish spectacle presented by
The cast of Masquerade
DMITRIY DUBINSKY
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the Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre of Russia, based on the
verse drama of Russian poet and playwright Mikhail Lermontov.
This production promises to be a tremendously theatrical event
employing a clown-influenced physical theatre style of staging
supported by and interwoven with a musical score by Faustas
Latenas that incorporates the famous Waltz by Aram Khachaturian
which was itself commissioned for a production of this play by the
Vahtankgov Theatre in 1941. It also promises us “heaps of snow.”
Judging by last year’s production of Uncle Vanya, this should be
another theatrical feast.
Luminato runs from June 7 to 23 at various venues around Toronto;
luminatofestival.com.
Stratford and Shaw
Once again we are entering the season of big musicals at the
Stratford and Shaw Festivals. There is already great word of mouth
about Stratford’s production of Billy Elliot, the 2005 Tony Awardwinning
musical inspired by the 2000 film set during the British
miners’ strikes of 1984/85. Here again is a political setting, and a
score that even includes a song, “Merry Christmas, Maggie,” mercilessly
mocking then-British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher. At
the same time as depicting the destruction of a community, however,
Billy Elliot is also a wonderful story of hope, of a young boy in a
mining town who discovers an inborn talent for dance and finds
a way to follow his dreams in spite of all the obstacles in front of
him. Director and choreographer Donna Feore has reimagined the
staging to work on the Stratford Festival thrust stage and talks in
the show program about the inspiration of Elton John’s brilliantly
contemporary score. Billy Elliot plays at the Festival Theatre through
November 3.
The Shaw Festival reaches further back into the traditional musical
theatre canon to bring us a much more escapist romance than the
musicals discussed above: Lerner and Loewe’s 1947 classic Brigadoon,
perhaps best known from the 1954 MGM movie starring Gene Kelly
and Cyd Charisse. A brash young New Yorker, Tommy Albright, on
holiday in the Scottish Highlands, falls in love with a girl from a
magical village, Brigadoon, that only exists for one day every 100
years. After leaving Scotland Tommy finds himself torn between his
increasingly empty life in the modern city and the love he left behind.
Naturally there is a happy ending, though one could imagine a dystopian
millennial sequel set 10 or 15 years later with Tommy now feeling
trapped in the magical but tiny village. One of the great draws of the
Shaw Festival’s production will be seeing former Stratford musical
star Alexis Gordon as Fiona. Brigadoon plays at the Shaw Festival until
October 13.
MUSIC THEATRE QUICK PICKS
Around Ontario over the summer, there are many more musicals to be seen, with
something for almost every taste. Consult our music theatre listings for details.
!!
JUN 5 TO 22: Drayton Entertainment. Thoroughly Modern Millie. Huron Country
Playhouse. The fun 1920s-set musical probably best known from the slightly goofy
movie version starring Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore and Carol Channing. And
also from Drayton, Peter Colley’s You’ll Get Used to It!: The War Show, a nostalgic and
fun Canadian look back at WWII with period songs, starting at St. Jacobs Country
Playhouse, June 5 to 22, then continuing June 27 to July 13.
!!
JUN 27, 8PM: Silly Stages. Chasing Rainbows. Songs of Judy Garland. Regent
Theatre, Oshawa. The brilliant Canadian musical theatre star Louise Pitre sings Judy
Garland.
!!
JUL 24 TO AUG 16: Gravenhurst Opera House. Dean & Jerry: What Might Have
Been. Created by Jesse Collins this two man show about Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
and their long partnership, has been gaining a growing loyal audience at summer
stock theatres around Ontario.
Jennifer Parr is a Toronto-based director, dramaturge, fight
director, and acting coach, brought up from a young age on a
rich mix of musicals, Shakespeare, and new Canadian plays.
Beat by Beat | In with the New
New Sounds for
the Summer
WENDALYN BARTLEY
The summer season is always full of a remarkable array of
opportunities to hear cutting-edge music in a variety of settings,
and the Luminato Festival that takes place in June in Toronto is
no exception. For this year’s edition, I decided to take a look at The
Cave, a new work created by composer John Millard, lyricist Tomson
Highway and dramaturge Martha Ross, which runs from June 18 to
23 at Soulpepper’s Tank House Theatre. An additional exciting feature
of this performance will be the opportunity to experience it across
the country through webcasting. Through partnerships with about
25 different institutions in places like Inuvik, Rumble Theatre in
Vancouver, the Banff Centre, Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie,
and the Gander Institute for the Arts in Newfoundland, people will
be able to gather together in theatres to watch a simultaneous live
webcast. Home live streaming will also be possible.
John Millard
I spoke with the composer of the project, John Millard, to get an
inside look at what to expect from this project. He began by emphasizing
that the piece is not based on any particular story, but is
rather created from a premise. A group of animals find themselves
trapped together in an unnatural environment – a bear’s cave – with
a forest fire raging outside. What are their individual stories and what
brought them to this place? What do they think about the human
beings responsible for this fire? In the end Millard says, “we are
trying to figure out something about ourselves by using the voices of
animals,” with a particular focus on addressing the growing environmental
crisis we are facing. Millard also emphasized that traditional
Indigenous stories and legends are not used, but the lyrics come from
Highway’s imaginative crafting of the dilemmas and issues that arose
during the collaborative creative phase. One interesting example is
the use of the Garden of Eden story, what Millard calls “an expulsion
myth,” a type of myth that doesn’t exist in Indigenous mythologies.
In one of the songs of The Cave, the snake character speaks about
the tragic outcome that this myth has had culturally, a myth that has
demonized women and led to a separation and banishment of the
concept of paradise.
The piece is structured in the form of a cabaret with approximately
20 songs sung by both soloists and a quintet ensemble. The singers
are from diverse backgrounds and include Neema Bickersteth (classical),
Derek Kwan (opera), Andrea Koziol (cabaret/folk) and Alex
Samaras (popular/jazz), as well as Millard whose musical influences
include bluegrass, cabaret and classical. Each singer performs about
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two or three solos and they also come together to form a quintet at
times. Instrumentation includes bass, percussion, reeds, accordion,
keyboard and banjo, and Millard has composed various instrumental
sections for this unusual ensemble. Since much of Millard’s work has
been composing for theatre and its requirements, he told me that this
piece is the first time he has written a through-composed piece that
is primarily music-focused. Although there is some text in the role
of the narrator who introduces the animals, this piece “is all about
the songs”, Millard said. Working with musical director Gregory Oh
and dramaturge Martha Ross, an emotional arc becomes the structure
for the piece, rather than a plot arc, with the goal of discovering
who these animals are, what’s important to them, and what the
critical issues are for these creatures. The set
design will be constructed as both a cave and a
cabaret environment with the audience experiencing
what it’s like to be inside this environment
with fires raging outside. Sound designer
Christopher Ross-Ewart will play an important
role in creating this sonic world, and various
elements of haute fashion will be incorporated
into the costume design.
The Something Else Festival is Hamilton’s
four-day festival of jazz and experimental music
that runs from June 20 to 23 presented by Zula
Music & Arts Collective Hamilton. It features an
eclectic lineup of performers and improvisers
including Czech virtuoso violinist/vocalist Iva
Bittová who will be performing solo in a free/
by donation concert on June 21 in the afternoon,
before teaming up in the evening with drummer
Hamid Drake. On Saturday June 22, the afternoon
begins with a performance by bassoonist
Sara Schoenbeck from Brooklyn, followed in the
Iva Bittová
evening with another solo performance by Bittová, followed by a set
featuring clarinet master Don Byron collaborating with Indigenous
Mind (Joshua Abrams, Hamid Drake and Jason Adasiewicz). Many
more cutting edge performances will occur, so do check out the
schedule both in our listings and at zulapresents.org.
Summer Music Residencies
The Toronto Creative Music Lab once again takes up residence for a
week in June at the Music Gallery. The TCML is an artistic and professional
development workshop for early-career musicians, ensembles
and composers committed to risk taking. This year they will engage
with members of Montreal’s Quatuor Bozzini to present the Toronto
premiere of legendary French electronic composer Eliane Radigue’s
Occam Delta XV on June 14. Other pieces on the
program include new works from Cléo Palacio-
Quintin and Andrea Young, along with Jason Doell’s
…amid the cannon’s roar.
The Westben Performer-Composer Residency
occurs in southeastern Ontario’s Northumberland
County near Campbellford and is an important
milestone in Westben’s ongoing evolution from
a summer festival to a multifaceted year-round
centre. Their mandate for the residency is to
encourage 11 young composers and performers
from diverse countries and backgrounds to take
creative risks by participating in a process of intergenerational
exchange. Participants are expected
to offer workshops to their peers featuring their
own specialized approaches, with some of these
workshops open to the public. This year’s residency
features participants from Canada, the US,
Chile, Argentina and Cuba, and the workshops
will include explorations in four-handed piano,
experimental luthiery, strings, dance, voice and
Dover Quartet
reGENERATION
CONCERTS
Join us on Saturday’s in Walter Hall as TSM Academy Fellows,
some of the most talented musicians of their generation, perform
compelling chamber music and art song with their mentors.
July 13 - 1:00pm, 4:00pm, 7:30pm
New Orford String Quartet
July 20 - 1:00pm, 4:00pm, 7:30pm
Dover Quartet and Charles Richard-Hamelin
July 27 - 1:00pm
Source and Inspiration – featuring the Rolston String Quartet,
Sarah Slean, John Southworth, and the Art of Time Ensemble
July 27 - 4:00pm, 7:30pm
Jennifer Koh, Beth Guterman Chu, Julie Albers,
Yegor Dyachkov, Philip Chiu
August 3 - 7:30pm
Barry Shiffman, Desmond Hoebig, Jennifer Frautschi,
Hsin-Yun Huang, and more!
TORONTOSUMMERMUSIC.COM
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custom-built electronics. The entire process will culminate with
a performance on June 15 that will feature the collaborations and
experiments that have taken place throughout the week.
Toronto Summer Music Festival
This year’s Toronto Summer Music Festival celebrates the various
cultural influences on classical music from as far back as Mozart’s day
up to today’s living composers. Two established Toronto composers
will have world premieres at Walter Hall during the festival: Christos
Hatzis’ String Quartet No.5 (The Transforming) will be premiered by
the New Orford String Quartet on July 12; and Alexina Louie’s new (as
yet untitled) work will be performed on August 2. I asked each of the
composers to write a short description of their pieces for this column.
Hatzis writes that his String Quartet No.5 is “the closing statement
of a cycle depicting a psychic development spanning 25
years (1994-2019) which is best described by the subtitles of each
quartet: Awakening, Gathering, Questioning, Suffering and finally
Transforming.” This final work of the cycle is written in three
movements and is intended “as a psychological hermeneutic (or
explanation) of the story of Christ’s Passion and Resurrection.”
Psychologically there is a “strong resonance that radiates from these
well-known events,” he says, which have left their spiritually transformative
imprint upon humanity.
The inspiration for Louie’s new work began during a conversation
with Jonathan Crow in his capacity as TSO concertmaster, while
they were discussing her new piece, Triple Concerto For Three Violins
And Orchestra, which premiered in 2017. Crow, as artistic director
of Toronto Summer Music, suggested that she write a new piece for
the same instrumentation as Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire – flute,
clarinet, violin, cello, piano. Louie was inspired and got to work on
it immediately. She describes the new work in this way: “The two
outside movements are virtuosic and effervescent. In the middle
movement, in order to evoke the mysteries of the night, I instruct the
pianist to play on the inside of the piano, strumming and stopping the
strings. The movement unfolds with quiet twitterings and undulating
sounds played by the remaining musicians.”
Summer Music in the Garden
Celebrating its 20th season, this well-loved series, curated by Tamara
Bernstein, is held along the waterfront at Harbourfront Centre’s
Toronto Music Garden and offers several opportunities to hear new
music. The dynamic TorQ Percussion Quartet will perform four works
on July 21 by contemporary composers: Adam Campbell’s El Mosquito
Marron; Steve Reich’s Drumming, Part 1; ensemble members Richard
Burrows’ and Daniel Morphy’s Elements Suite; and Dinuk Wijeratne’s
Ersilia from Invisible Cities. On August 22, the cello duo VC2
combines works from 18th-century Europe with contemporary works,
including a commissioned world premiere by Kelly-Marie Murphy
and two pieces based on Beethoven cello sonatas: Five Little Pieces
by Andrew Downing and Entsprechung by Matt Brubeck. Towards
the end of the summer on September 8, percussionist Aiyun Huang
and violinist Mark Fewer join forces to present world premieres by
Michael Oesterle and John Hollenbeck, with Huang performing Javier
Alvarez’s Temazcal for two maracas and pre-recorded tape.
IN WITH THE NEW QUICK PICKS
!!
JUN 5, 8PM: Canadian Music Centre. The Canadian Piano Left Hand Commissioning
Project features new works for piano left hand by Christopher Butterfield, Taylor
Brook, Anna Hostman, Emilie LeBel, Adam Sherkin and others.
!!
AUG 7, 6PM: Festival of the Sound’s Discovery Concert. Continuum Contemporary
Music’s artistic director, Ryan Scott, invites three young composers to participate in a
residency under the mentorship of composer Gary Kulesha. This concert will feature
their works.
Wendalyn Bartley is a Toronto-based composer and electrovocal
sound artist. sounddreaming@gmail.com.
Beat by Beat | Art of Song
Amanda Hale on
Pomegranate at
Buddies
LYDIA PEROVIĆ
Antiquity is a foreign country: they love and desire differently
there. Or do they really, asks Amanda Hale in her libretto for
the lesbian-themed opera composed by Kye Marshall which is
about to have its premiere, June 5, onstage at Buddies in Bad Times
Theatre. Pomegranate is structured as a tale of two couples in two
different time periods, though the text is open to interpretation – it
could be the tale of one couple imagining their historical antecedents,
or the story of obstacles to same-sex love which never disappear
entirely even in liberal societies. The first couple is in Pompeii in
79 AD, before the Vesuvius eruption. In the second act, we are in a
downtown lesbian bar in 1980s Toronto.
“I had been to Pompeii in the early 2000s and my inspiration for
Pomegranate was the frescoes that I saw in the Villa of Mysteries
there,” says Hale. To this day archaeologists are not sure what the frescoes
depict, but it’s presumed to be some kind of a Dionysian ritual
that involved women. “The images stayed with me so I formed a story
for myself about two young girls falling in love. They’re teenage girls,
they’re innocent, and the setting is sort of a Roman girls boarding
school.” Worship of Isis was one of the unofficial religious traditions
practised in Rome of the time, so Hale introduced a temple of Isis, as a
refuge for the girls, and a temple priestess to the story.
Hale, a novelist and a poet, initially wrote a poem cycle about
two young Pompeii women. Cellist and composer, Kye Marshall,
set the poems to music, and the tale was told as a song cycle, at the
Heliconian Club in 2014. “The audience responded so strongly to it
that we decided to make an opera,” says Hale. It would take six years
of work, grant writing, collaborator hunting, creating contacts in the
opera world, two workshops, producer changes and cast changes
until Pomegranate the opera was ready to premiere. “I first contacted
Michael Mori from Tapestry who was always very supportive (and who
is directing the June 5 to 9 run). He put me in touch with Marjorie
Chan, who became my dramaturge. She helped me enormously. She
coached me in the arts of the libretto.”
Mount Vesuvius has an eerie presence in the first act and its own
changing soundscape. The catastrophic event brewing in the background,
says Hale, is another parallel with our time. “We all have
our little plans and machinations and arguments but we are facing
climate-related disasters all over the world.”
In the libretto, which Hale shared with me, there are hints of a
female-only utopia in the temple scenes and perhaps in the lesbian
bar in the second act, but the idea is complicated. Would an allwomen
religion or a political party or a living setup be, in her view, a
functioning social utopia of the Call the Midwife type, or a dystopia
where women merge too much and ignore interpersonal boundaries,
in the vein of Grey Gardens? “In my ardent feminist days in the 1980s
when I was much younger, feminism was a real vehicle for my political
education. I was quite a lesbian separatist and I had a lot of those
utopian ideas but I have aged and mellowed,” says Hale. “I didn’t see
it in those terms but there is a lot of conflict in the libretto. Another
character, Julia, is almost in love with the priestess but she becomes
jealous of Cassia, one of the principals. That, and the fear of being
crucified as an escaped slave, leads her to betray everybody. In the
second act there’s a big fight between the two women on whether one
of them should finally come out to her conservative family who’ve
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come from a war-torn part of the
world. Her mother is the one who
betrays her and it’s often the women
who betray their daughters, unfortunately.
If you, for example, look at
the clitoridectomy and infibulation
today, it’s the mothers who take the
daughters to have it done.” As well,
the priestess of the women-centred
temple is, it turns out, the sister of the
Roman soldier pursuing one of the
women. “I think it’s a fairly realistic
view of how it might have been.”
The parallels between the past and
today do not end there. Pompeii was
a multicultural port city with people
of all backgrounds living there and
passing through; half the population
of Toronto is foreign-born. Politics on
the small and large scale was presumably
as present in Pompeii’s citizens’
lives as it is for Torontonians today.
Hale herself is foreign-born – British
– and moved to Canada in 1968.
She lived in Montreal through the
1970s and the War Measures Act and
Rebecca Gray (left) and Camille
Bill 101, but describes herself now as
Rogers in Pomegranate
“quite politically naïve at that time.”
Her politically active life started in Toronto, where she moved in the
1980s and got involved with Nightwood Theatre, wrote for the feminist
paper Broadside and founded Red Tree, a visual arts company, with
Lynn Hutchinson. Today she divides her time between Hornby Island,
BC and Toronto. Before returning to writing in the late 1990s, with her
first novel published by Raincoast Books, Hale earned her living as a
painter and sculptor in BC.
She still travels to England to visit family. “It was a good thing,
leaving England, because when you leave a place, you can see it.”
Her family’s story has been far from ordinary: Hale’s father was a
supporter of Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists during the
Second World War, and died by suicide some years after the war.
“That legacy has hung over me all my life,” says Hale, who has written
about it in her latest novel, Mad Hatter (Guernica, Toronto), to be
launched in September. “I feel absolutely liberated for having told that
story. It’s been a great shame and humiliation so it was good for me to
leave England and be able to see all that. But it’s taken my lifetime to
process it.”
Hale’s own politics are at the opposite end of the spectrum to her
father’s. She often travels to Cuba and has developed a lot of connections,
personal and professional, over the last 15 years. “I went there
first to paint a mural with Lynn Hutchinson in solidarity with the
revolution and we made a connection with a gallery in Havana and
did an installation there on colonialism and sugar, then another one
about surveillance, which Cubans really understand.” Latin America
was always of great interest. “I’ve had a lot of connections with
Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chile. A big change I saw here
in Toronto in the 1980s was the refugees coming from those countries
who’d experienced American interference, people who enriched
Toronto tremendously during the 1970s and 1980s. There were Greeks
coming here after the Junta and people emigrating to Canada after the
Iranian Revolution. On Hornby Island we have an Iranian man who’s
taken refuge there, who is a wonderful potter.”
While she would define herself as bisexual today (and is no fan of
labels), Hale’s view on the importance of lesbian presence in culture
hasn’t changed. “It’s still fairly new to see it – and women’s experience
in general–- and some of the terrible things that happen to us and
some of the great things that should be celebrated. I think it enriches
the culture generally, and for men as well. It’s not being against men:
it’s filling out a picture that has been half blank a long time.”
ART OF SONG QUICK PICKS
!!
JUN 4, 7PM: Icelandic Canadian Club of Toronto presents Hanna
Dóra Sturludóttir, mezzo & Snorri Sigfús Birgisson, piano; atTimothy
Eaton Memorial Church, Toronto.
!!
JUN 8, 4PM: Lisa Di Maria, soprano, and Adolfo De Santis, piano; at
St. Thomas’s Anglican Church, Toronto. Barber, Fauré, Puccini.
!!
JUN 10, 12:15PM: Music Mondays presents Heine’s Buch der Lieder.
James McLean, tenor, and William Aide, piano; at the Church of the
Holy Trinity, Toronto .
!!
Jun 19 TO 22, 7PM AND JUN 23, 2PM: Soundstreams, Luminato, &
Pinkhouse Productions present Hell’s Fury, The Hollywood Songbook.
Music by Hanns Eisler, staging and concept by Tim Albery with design
by Michael Levine. Russell Braun, baritone, and Serouj Kradjian, piano.
Harbourfront Centre Theatre, Toronto.
!!
JUN 27, 8PM: Muse 9 Productions/Village Opera present “Bon
Appétit! A Musical Tasting Menu.” Lee Hoiby: Bon Appétit!; Danika
Lorèn: The Secret Lives of Vegetables; Peter Tiefenbach: Chansons de
mon placard. Katy Clark, soprano, Victoria Borg, mezzo. Hyejin Kwon is
the music director, staging by Anna Theodosakis. Merchants of Green
Coffee, Toronto..
!!
JUL 11, 7:30PM: Toronto Summer Music opening night: “Beyond
Borders.” R. Strauss: Vier letze Lieder; Ravel: Cinq mélodies populaires
grecques; Sarasate, Mozart, Chopin and more. Adrianne Pieczonka,
soprano, Jon Kimura Parker, piano, Kerson Leong, violin, and Steven
Philcox, piano, with the New Orford String Quartet and Tom Allen
hosting. Koerner Hall.
!!
JUL 16, 7:30PM: Toronto Summer Music presents “Griffey & Jones
in Recital.” Anthony Dean Griffey, tenor, and Warren Jones, piano. Music by Bridge,
Griffes, Barber, Finzi, Laitman, Niles and Ives. Walter Hall, U of T.
Lydia Perović is an arts journalist in Toronto. Send her your
art-of-song news to artofsong@thewholenote.com.
GREG WONG
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Beat by Beat | On Opera
Seek and You
Shall Find!
CHRISTOPHER HOILE
Opera performances in Southern Ontario are not quite as
abundant this summer as they were last summer, but there
is certainly enough activity to keep any opera-lover busy,
especially those who have an interest in new opera.
June
Outside Toronto, the young opera company Vera Causa Opera is
presenting its second annual Canadian Opera Fest in Cambridge,
Guelph and Waterloo. A contest was held for local high school and
middle students in the region to create the plot of an opera. Once
selected, the students collaborated with VCO to turn these initial ideas
into full stories with music, i.e. short operas.
Five winners were chosen. The first is The Village Girl, with a
concept by Chloe Bissada and words and music by Dylan Langan.
The story involves a young girl who wants to purchase a cow for
her family’s farm to help boost the town’s economy, but the meat
marketer refuses, putting the town on the brink of starvation. The
opera explores family and responsibility.
The second is Refracted, with a libretto by Charlotte Lilley and
music by Emma Verdonk. The work is a semi-abstract exploration of
the influence of media and technology on one’s self-perception. A
young girl debates with her reflection on how her culture is affecting
her, and whether it is a welcome influence or not.
Third is La jugement, with a libretto by Emma Lemieux and music
by Dylan Langan. This is an emotional musical soliloquy, relaying the
story of a young woman battling an eating disorder. La jugement is
performed in French.
Fourth is The Shoemaker’s Orphans, with a libretto by Rivi and
Kyri Friedman and music by Emma Verdonk. The action takes place
in France in the year 1600, during the outbreak of the Black Plague.
After losing their father to the terrible disease, two sisters embark on
a mission to prevent the spread of the disease, with the help of their
kindly aunt.
The last of the five is L’étrange et belle, with a libretto by Lexie
McCorkindale and Vanessa Kerr and music by Dylan Langan. The
opera tells the story of an unstable young woman and her tempestuous
relationships with her friends when she invites them to stay at
her house for a Christmas celebration. This is the second opera of the
five to be performed in French.
Performances will be held in Cambridge on June 14 at the
Cambridge Centre for the Arts, in Waterloo on June 15 at Knox
Presbyterian Church and in Guelph on June 16 at Harcourt
Memorial United Church. The operas will feature performances by
soprano Autumn Wascher, soprano Michaela Chiste and baritone
Jorge Trabanco.
General Director Dylan Langan says: “It is great to see everyone
coming together to make brand new opera, regardless of their
previous experience. These are truly original and Canadian stories
that need to be told.” VCO provides paid professional opportunities
for youth, aimed at improving their health and well-being, while
presenting affordable entertainment to the community with free
admission for students and kids.
Closer to Toronto, Opera by Request has three presentations in
June. On June 1 in Mississauga OBR presents Verdi’s Nabucco (1842)
in concert with piano accompaniment at Christ Church UCC. Gene
Wu sings the title role, Cristina Pisani is Abigaille, Dylan Wright is
Zaccaria, Cian Horrobin is Ismaele and Meghan Symon is Fenena.
In Toronto on June 7, OBR presents a triple bill under the title “A
Shiata Lewis in Obeah Opera
Summer Feast,” at College St. United Church. The works include
Henry Purcell’s If Music Be the Food of Love (1692), Lee Hoiby’s Bon
Appétit!(1989) in which an television episode of Julia Child making
a chocolate cake is set to music, and Lennox Berkeley’s A Dinner
Engagement (1954) about impoverished aristocrats having dinner
for a wealthy prince they hope their daughter will marry. Performers
include mezzo-soprano Meghan Symon, baritone Lawrence Shirkie,
soprano Gwendolynn Yearwood, tenor Josh Clemenger and tenor
Francis Domingue.
On June 15 in Toronto, OBR presents Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda
(1835) at St. Andrews United Church. Antonina Ermolenko sings
Maria, Cristina Pisani is Elizabeth I, Paul Wiliamson is Leicester, Dylan
Wright is Talbot, Henry Irwin is Cecil and Anna Belikova is Anna. For
all three OBR operas in concert, William Shookhoff is the pianist and
music director.
This year the Luminato Festival has two operas on its schedule.
The first is a remount of Obeah Opera by Nicole Brooks first seen in
Toronto in 2012. The work, which runs from June 13 to 22, is an allfemale
a cappella opera that retells the story of the Salem witch trials
from the perspective of the first woman accused, the young Caribbean
slave Tituba.
The second opera, running June 19 to 23, is Hell’s Fury, The
Hollywood Songbook. Last year Luminato presented it as a work in
progress. Now it presents the finished piece. The story follows the life
of composer Hanns Eisler (1898-1962), who escaped Nazi Germany for
the US in 1938, only to be rejected for his adherence to Communism
in 1948 and forced to return to Europe, finally settling in the new East
Germany. The opera, conceived and directed by Tim Albery, constructs
a song cycle of Eisler’s many Lieder to tell the story. Baritone Russell
Braun is the soloist, Serouj Kradjian is the pianist and Michael Levine
the designer.
July
This year the Brott Music Festival (June 27 to August 15) will again
present a fully staged opera as part of its overall schedule. This
summer’s opera will be Puccini’s La Bohème presented for one night
only in Italian with English surtitles on July 18 at the FirstOntario
Concert Hall. Natalya Gennadi sings Mimi, Andrew Derynck is
Rodolfo, Chelsea Rus is Musetta, Kyle Lehmann is Marcello, Cesar
Bello is Schaunard, Simon Chalifoux is Colline and John Fanning sings
both Alcindoro and Benoît. The production changes the location from
late 19th-century Paris to Hamilton in the 1930s. Boris Brott conducts
the Brott Festival Orchestra.
Those who missed the Canadian Children’s Opera Company’s
mainstage show earlier this year will have another chance to catch
The Snow Queen (1993) by John Greer to a libretto by Jeremy James
Taylor in Campbellford. On July 7 the CCOC will present the hourlong
opera based on the 1844 Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale at
Westben Concerts at The Barn. Rob Kempson is the stage director and
Teri Dunn is the conductor.
On July 20 the Elora Festival hosts Shoestring Opera’s Schoolyard
Carmen at the Heritage Barn in Fergus. In this adaptation for children
in Grades 1 to 8, Carmen is a feisty little girl and newcomer to Canada
OSATO EREBOR
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who has a dark past. When Tory Adair, the
“coolest kid in school” tries to bully her, she
stands up to him. Shoestring Opera uses
Carmen’s story to look at the immigrant in
Canadian society, the child who is different,
schoolyard bullying, personal independence
and the saving properties of art.
Straddling July and August is Guillermo
Silva-Marin’s venerable Summer Lyric
Opera Theatre in Toronto. Founded in 1986,
the training program culminates in staged
concert performances. This year the operas
are Verdi’s La Traviata (1853) on July 26,
28, 31 and August 3; Victor Davies’ Earnest,
The Importance of Being (2008), an operetta
based on Oscar Wilde’s well-known
comedy, on July 27 and 30, August 1 and 4;
and a double bill of Ralph Vaughan Williams’
Riders to the Sea (1937) and Puccini’s
Gianni Schicchi (1918) on July 27 and 31,
August 2 and 3. All performances take place
at the Robert Gill Theatre on the downtown
campus of the University of Toronto.
August
Last year Stratford Summer Music presented a staged version of J.S.
Bach so-called Coffee Cantata of 1733 and followed this up with a
more contemporary version called The Cappuccino Cantata. This year
the festival keeps up with the times with a new work, the Cannabis
Cantata, A Musical ‘Pot’ Pourri, commissioned by Stratford Summer
Music and Ottawa Chamberfest from Peter Tiefenbach. Soprano
Mireille Asselin, tenor Matthew Dalen and baritone Adam Harris
explore the new landscape of legal weed in Canada through music
by J.S. Bach with a libretto reimagined by Tiefenbach, on August 1 at
Katy Clark is Shoestring Opera’s Schoolyard Carmen
Factory 163 in Stratford.
The Highlands Opera Studio is presenting
two programs of opera. On August 15 in
Haliburton and on August 17 in Orillia, it
presents a fascinating triple bill under the
title “Women in Opera: Then and Now.” First
on the bill is Puccini’s Suor Angelica (1918)
with Valerie Kuinka as stage director, Louise-
Andrée Baril as music director and Lauren
Margison in the title role. Next are two
short operas from 2019.The Chair, by Maria
Atallah to a libretto by Alice Abracen, focuses
on a teenaged girl who tries to cope with
the death of her best friend in an accident.
Book of Faces, by Kendra Harder to a libretto
by Michelle Telford, takes an irreverent
look at the many faces of social media. Both
short works were winners of the inaugural
Musique 3 Femmes prize for emerging
female opera creators. Jessica Derventzis is
the stage director for both and Jennifer Szeto
the pianist and music director.
In Haliburton on August 22, 24, 25 and 26,
HOS presents Richard Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos (1912) in German
with English surtitles with one cast on August 22 and 25 and another
on August 24 and 26. Valerie Kuinka directs the Prologue and Richard
Margison the main opera, while Philip Morehead is the music director
for both parts.
All of this operatic activity should be more than enough to occupy
any Southern Ontarian operagoer until the fall season.
Christopher Hoile is a Toronto-based writer on opera and
theatre. He can be contacted at opera@thewholenote.com.
JIAYIN LIU
JULY 25 – AUGUST 26
Celebrating Women in Opera
SPECIAL THANKS TO
OPERAS
MASTERCLASSES
WOMEN IN OPERA : THEN & NOW
Puccini’s Suor Angelica, followed by The Chair
and Book of Faces, two newly created short works
from winners of a new prize created by Musique
3 Femmes, honouring emerging Canadian women
composers and librettists
Suor Angelica (Puccini/Forzano) Tragedy, death and
redemption on the landscape of Puccini’s lush score
The Chair (Atallah/Abracen) Exploring friendship, loss,
and grief through the eyes of a teenager
Book of Faces (Harder/Telford) An irreverent, tonguein-cheek
operatic take on the many faces of social media
AUGUST 15 | 8pm
Northern Lights Performing Arts Pavillion, Haliburton
AUGUST 17 | 7pm
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ARIADNE AUF NAXOS
Join us for Strauss’ hilarious sitcom of an opera!
Sung in German with English Surtitles
AUGUST 22 & 26 | 7:30pm
AUGUST 24 & 25 | 2pm
Northern Lights Performing Arts Pavillion, Haliburton
RICHARD MARGISON MASTERCLASSES
Meet the 2019 HOS participants and hear what
makes a good young professional singer even better
JULY 25 | 7pm St George’s Anglican Church, Haliburton
JULY 26 | 7pm Abbey North, Haliburton
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Best loved works from opera & musicals
JULY 31 | 8pm
St George’s Anglican Church, Haliburton
POP GOES THE OPERA!
A mix of opera & musical theatre favorites
AUGUST 3 | 8pm
Highlands Hills United Church, Minden
CELEBRATIONS!
Celebrating Offencach, Leoncavallo & others
AUGUST 7 | 8pm
St George’s Anglican Church, Haliburton
ART OF SONG
Poetry brought to life through voice & piano
AUGUST 10 | 8pm
St George’s Anglican Church, Haliburton
ALUMNI CONCERT
Soprano Mikayla Sager, Mezzo Danielle
MacMillan & Baritone Samuel Chan
AUGUST 10 | 8pm
St George’s Anglican Church, Haliburton
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Beat by Beat | Choral Scene
Elevating the
Profane
BRIAN CHANG
On June 22 at 8pm, Luminato presents Triptych (Eyes of One on
Another), a new multidisciplinary work composed by Bryce
Dessner with libretto by Korde Arrington Tuttle, inspired by
the controversial and revolutionary work of Robert Mapplethorpe; at
the Sony Centre (soon to be Meridian Hall), Toronto.
A consistent throughline at Luminato has been introducing local
audiences to the international array of interesting, challenging collisions
of storytelling and performance. In this year’s festival we have
this multidisciplinary work inspired by Robert Mapplethorpe’s art.
His stark black and
white photography,
often focused upon
unapologetic queerness
in a striking visual
way, here collides with
an equally striking
vocal ensemble called
Roomful of Teeth. Handpicked
by Triptych
composer Bryce Dessner
to bring his score to life,
Roomful of Teeth is not
quite a choir, not quite
a band, not quite what
you’d think of for an
eight-voice ensemble. Their number includes bass-baritone Dashon
Burton, founder Brad Wells, and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer
Caroline Shaw.
Triptych’s subject is Robert Mapplethorpe himself. His photography
of provocative people was challenged in American courts under
obscenity laws in 1990. To this day, Mapplethorpe’s work is controversial,
but his unique approach has left an indelible impact in the intersection
of photography and viewer. The composer, Bryce Dessner is
an accomplished orchestral writer but is mostly known for his work
as guitarist in the American band, The National. Interestingly, he is a
native of Cincinnati, the city where Mapplethorpe’s exhibit was shut
down under obscenity laws. At the world premiere in Ann Arbor,
Michigan, in March of 2019, Dessner and librettist Korde Arrington
Tuttle participated in an hour-long talk with NPR’s Neda Ulaby. Their
interview, available on Youtube, is a fascinating look into the creative
process of collaboration and informed this month’s column.
“The images were always core to the work,” shares Dessner to
Ulaby. “There are so many images that stand out … there are the
images you can find which have been in exhibitions or on books or
on their website and then there’s 1000 times that; his archives [in
the Getty Institute] are extensive … [But] if he didn’t himself publish a
photo, we’re technically not allowed to show it.” So for Dessner and
Arrington Tuttle, they were able to see so much more than the public
has, and this personal look has shaped Triptych.
“Mapplethorpe’s work gets deep into the heart of all kinds of issues
around our identity and how we see one another,” continues Dessner.
“The images are so powerful; and his art is so powerful in that way.
The conflict within it is always unfolding.” Thirty years after the death
of Mapplethorpe, there are still discussions around what art is, the
lines of art and obscenity, and how to respond to it all. Many still call
the work obscene and profane, but there is a persistent draw in the
work that continues to make Mapplethorpe popular.
“I came to Mapplethorpe’s life and work in college... For me, it
Roomful of Teeth in Triptych (Eyes of One on Another)
had something to do with how he saw,” shares Arrington Tuttle. “It
had something to do with precision, it had something to do with
an attempt at how to grasp at what he describes as perfection. But
also a kind of transcendent beauty and a kind of love that might not
look like love. It might not look like how I’m used to perceiving love
or tenderness. There’s something about coming to terms with and
spending time intimately with discomfort and placing myself in that
discomfort … It was provocation that asked me and required my presence
…the way Mapplethorpe is mixing the sacred and the profane and
elevating images that some people might call pornographic but are
actually great works of art.”
“There’s been intense discomfort and reckoning,” says Dessner.
“Almost every day we’ll have a discussion or confront something new
in terms of the bigger work of what this is. I think for me the piece
has become the process of making the piece.” That process included
working with Roomful and writing the music knowing it was going
to be them performing it. In fact he can’t think of anyone other than
Roomful performing the work. As it travels, so too does the ensemble.
“They’re really like a band, Roomful, they bring a kind of intent.
They can’t just sing
something, they have
to know why they’re
singing something.”
Roomful of Teeth
as an ensemble name
sounds crass and
jarring., and their
music can sound like
that as well. There is a
lot of sound and a lot
of different techniques
all being thrown at
listeners at once. There
is something dynamic
about listening to a
female voice sing in the
style of Bulgarian women. It’s another feeling altogether to hear Tuvan
throat singing droning away. Sometimes it is just plain weird to listen
to –an example of “spending time intimately with discomfort” that
Arrington Tuttle referred to. Roomful constantly seeks to find all the
various ways that voices can make sound and confront you with them.
The seductive sound of Sardinian cantu, for example, provides a fullness
and constant envelope of sound much like a bagpipe. Higher
tones can then play around on top of the solid bass provided by the
style. Many of the singers in Roomful are composers; they understand
the interplay that art has between presenting, listening, invoking, and
creating. “They’ve been quite involved in shaping the work … it’s made
the piece much stronger,” says Dessner.
Roomful’s intersection with Dressner and Mapplethorpe in Triptych
(Eyes of One on Another) is just that – an intersection. It’s worth
checking out, and it will also be interesting to see what lies next on
their own path.
The 15th Latvian Song and Dance Festival
Latvian culture has a strong choral tradition of massive ensembles in
summer festivals. Here in Canada, many Latvians have made indelible
marks in the Canadian choral landscape. As part of the 15th Latvian
Song and Dance Festival, the State Choir LATVIJA comes to Canada for
the first time.
The Latvian Song and Dance Festival occurs every five years in
Latvia. A distinguishing feature of the festival is the massed power of
thousands of voices. These huge summer gatherings devoted to music
are cultural gems in Latvia. The Toronto version of the festival includes
choral, instrumental, and dance performances all centred around the
significant contributions of Latvians to choral art.
In their concert of Latvian sacred music on July 4 at Trinity St. Paul’s
Centre, State Choir LATVIJA performs a host of beautiful works
written by Latvian composers including Canadians Imant Ramnish,
George Juris Ķeniņš, Tālivaldis Ķeniņš, Arvīds Purvs and Ērika Yost.
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The State Choir LATVIJA in Moscow, 2015
Raminsh’s stirring Ave Verum Corpus is a well-loved standard of
Canadian choral programming. Ķeniņš’ work, Miss Brevis Latviensis
was commissioned by the Choir and had its premiere in 2017 to celebrate
the 500th anniversary of the Reformation.
On July 5, the State Choir LATVIJA – now in its 77th season – comes
to Koerner Hall, the grandest of spaces for this fine choir. Featuring
music from Latvian-Canadian composers Jānis Kalniņš, Tālivaldis
Ķeniņš and Imant Raminsh, the choir is joined by violinist Laura
Zariņa, pianist Arthur Ozolins and members of the Canadian Opera
Company Orchestra.
Finally, in keeping with the Latvian large choir tradition, on July 6
at 3pm, State Choir LATVIJA conductor Māris Sirmais will lead a Mass
Choir Concert – an expected 800 choristers – in a program of all-
Latvian composers at Mattamy Athletic Centre.
CHORAL SCENE QUICK PICKS
!!
JUN 13 TO 22: Asah Productions and Luminato present Obeah Opera. An a cappella,
all-female cast explore the Salem witch trials in a work conceived, written and
composed by Nicole Brooks. Tituba, a young Caribbean slave was the first woman
accused in the trials. This is her story amidst the paranoia that gripped colonial
FREE FRIDAY CONCERTS
KEEP
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AND
CARILLON
Enjoy noon hour recitals from Met’s
historic 54-bell carillon, on the lawn
of 56 Queen St. E.
JUNE 7 Jonathan Lehrer (Vancouver)
JUNE 21 Mateusz Olechnowicz/Naoko Tsujita
JUNE 28 Andrée-Anne Doane (Montreal)
Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693: at the Fleck Dance Theatre,
Toronto.
!!
JUN 19, 20, 22, 8PM AND JUN-23, 3PM: The Toronto Symphony Orchestra
presents Carmina Burana conducted by Donald Runnicles. James Ehnes performs
Korngold’s Violin Concerto to open the concert. For the signature work of the
evening, Nichole Haslett, Sunnyboy Dladla and Norman Garrett anchor the solos. The
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir will be joined by the Toronto Youth Choir and the Toronto
Children’s Chorus in performing one of the greatest pieces in the choral canon. It may
well be the biggest presentation of Carmina Burana Toronto has ever seen at Roy
Thomson Hall.
!!
JUN 23, 8PM: The closing event of Luminato 2019, Maada’ookii Songlines,
composed by Cris Derksen, will bring together the power of over 200 performers,
including almost a dozen choirs, plus soloists and instrumentalists, in a free performance
meant to bridge the time between evening and night; at Harbourfront Centre.
!!
JUL 19, 7:30PM: The Festival of the Sound’s Opening Gala features the Elmer Iseler
Singers. With a host of guests including soprano Mary Lou Fallis; narrator Colin Fox;
the Penderecki String Quartet; and instrumentalists Guy Few, Suzanne Shulman,
James Campbell, Beverley Johnston, and Bob Mills. A huge assortment of choral
excerpts mark and evoke performances from the 40-year history of the Festival.
Excerpts include Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s Mass in B Minor, Carmina Burana, Mozart’s
Requiem, and the world premiere of The Sound: A Musical Evocation of Georgian Bay
by Eric Robertson and Gary Michael Dault. Lots of other musical experiences can be
found throughout the festival. Stockey Centre, Parry Sound.
!!
AUG 17 TO 25: Wellington Water Week is a celebration of the water in the idyllic
Price Edward County community of Wellington. Husband-and-wife duo Johannes
Debus, COC music director, and Elissa Lee, violinist, curate the musical offerings for
the celebration, including August 17, at 5:30pm, Opus 8 presenting an a cappella
program of folk songs titled “How Can I Keep from Singin’?” at Wellington United
Church, and, on August 23 at 6pm, Debus and singer/songwriter Sarah Slean
presenting SING!, a crowd-sourced mass choir event. The two will co-direct songs for
everyone to participate in; also at Wellington United Church.
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Beat by Beat | Early Music
No Jacket
Required: Finding
Your Summer
Playlist
Angela Hewitt
KEITH SAUNDERS
MATTHEW WHITFIELD
Summer is a time when everything seems to move a little slower,
the days are longer, and there is more fun to be had than at any
other time of year. For musicians, however, the ending of the
formal concert season in May or June doesn’t necessarily signal a
slowdown, as festivals and special events, frequently featuring exciting
masterworks, begin to fill the calendar. Whether you’re looking for a
concert in downtown Toronto, scenic Collingwood, or further east in
Montreal, this year’s “second season” has something for everyone.
June
June is a transitional month, offerin season-ending performances by
organizations across the city, grand finales showcasing great ensembles
and equally great musical works. And as these seasons end,
others begin.
The Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute (TBSI), a worldrenowned
training program for advanced students, pre-professional
musicians and professionals, in instrumental and vocal Baroque
performance practice, is led by some of the world’s finest musicians
in the field. This year’s TBSI runs from June 10 to 23 and features five
separate performances by faculty and students at venues across the
Bloor-Annex corridor, including Jeanne Lamon Hall and Walter Hall,
with the grand finale slightly further north at Grace Church on-the-
Hill. As a former participant in this superb training program, I cannot
speak highly enough of the quality of repertoire and tutelage each
participant receives, and strongly encourage lovers of early music
to attend at least one of these performances. Keep the program,
too – you’ll be amazed at how many names return as fully formed
performers in following years.
If you are planning a trip to Montreal in June, make sure to explore
the Montreal Chamber Music Festival, taking place from June 7 to
16. This season marks the beginning of a three-year project by MCMF
to celebrate the life of the great Ludwig van Beethoven – Beethoven
Chez Nous – featuring cycles of complete works by Beethoven over
the course of the 2019, 2020, and 2021 Chamber Music Festival
seasons. Highlights this year are the Beethoven Violin Sonatas
performed by James Ehnes and pianist Andrew Armstrong, and the
Beethoven Symphonies as transcribed for piano by Franz Liszt, with
six outstanding pianists from across the world. Although the “early
music” classifier is often used for music written from the medieval era
until approximately 1750, as time progresses and musical art forms
develop in new ways, the works of classical composers such as Haydn,
Mozart and Beethoven grow older and, by relation, “earlier” within
the scope of music history. Fortunately for lovers of this wonderful
repertoire, events such as the Montreal Chamber Music Festival
provide opportunities to hear superb performers interpreting works
from this pantheon of musical history and ensure that, while this
music may be from ages past, the sounds it makes are as revitalizing
and sublime as ever.
July
Angela Hewitt is an Ottawa-born Canadian favourite and one of the
top pianists on the scene, especially for fans of Johann Sebastian
Bach’s music. Hewitt comes to Toronto this July as part of the 2019
Toronto Summer Music Festival in a performance of Bach’s mindand
finger-bending Goldberg Variations. Being a Canadian pianist
makes taking on the Goldbergs an even more daunting task, the
legacy of Glenn Gould looming large over this particular conglomeration
of notes and rhythms. Audiences are, of course, able to
understand that different performers bring necessarily different interpretations
to musical works, a combination of nature and nurture
that is almost impossible to define, yet readily perceptible to the ear,
especially in the case of Gould! And that individual performers’ take
on particular works evolves over time. Hewitt has lived with the
Goldberg Variations for a musical lifetime, including recordings in
1999 and 2015, and we look forward to hearing her current approach
to the work, as a continuation of her exploration of Bach’s keyboard
works and follow-up to last year’s performance of the complete Well-
Tempered Clavier. Both the Well-Tempered Clavier and the Goldbergs
are astonishing masterpieces and this will be a rare and memorable
opportunity to experience one the world’s most profound works of
creativity performed by one of today’s leading Bach interpreters.
Nestled in cottage country north of Toronto, Collingwood is perhaps
best known as the gateway to Blue Mountain ski resort. This year,
however, Collingwood becomes a hub for summer music through the
inaugural Collingwood Summer Music Festival, filling a gap in the
community that has been there since 2011 when Douglas Nadler’s
Collingwood Music Festival ended its 11-year run. Featuring the Elmer
Iseler singers performing Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, the Gryphon
Trio and the Rolston String Quartet, the classical music component of
this multifaceted festival will be a delightful escape for those already
fleeing the hectic city for a more serene locale.
August
This July and August, Ottawa Chamberfest presents an all-star lineup
of Canadian performers, including James Ehnes, pianists Janina
Fialkowska and Angela Hewitt, as well as a noteworthy celebration
of Baroque composer Barbara Strozzi’s 400th birthday. Strozzi
(1619-1677) was an Italian singer and composer who studied with
famed composer Francesco Cavalli. Renowned for her poetic ability
as well as her compositional talent, Strozzi was said to be the most
prolific composer – man or woman – of printed secular vocal music in
Venice in the middle of the 17th century, a time when the publishing
of original material was in itself a remarkable accomplishment for a
female composer.
Although August marks the beginning of the end of summer and
back-to-school ads appear earlier and earlier each year, the music
continues by Toronto’s waterfront. Tucked away in Toronto’s waterfront,
the Toronto Music Garden was conceived by internationally
renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma and landscape designer Julie Moir Messervy
in partnership with the City of Toronto’s Parks and Recreation department.
Through its labyrinthine landscape, the garden interprets
Bach’s Suite No.1 in G Major, BWV 1007 for unaccompanied cello.
Each summer the Toronto Music Garden is home to Summer Music
in the Garden, presenting a tremendous range of chamber and world
music at 7pm most Thursdays and 4pm most Sundays throughout the
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summer. On August 25, Baroque cellists Elinor Frey and Phoebe Carrai
present “Duetto Violoncello,” with works by Bach, Cirri, Thomas and
Dall’Abaco. These free concerts provide a fine opportunity to take
in music that may be new or unfamiliar, or to explore the sounds
of instruments that one does
not hear frequently, such as the
Baroque cello.
Other Performances
In addition to the larger multievent
festivals taking place,
there are also a number of interesting
early-music concerts this
summer occurring outside the
festal realm:
On June 9, fans of Bach’s
choral music will be delighted
to hear the Ascension Oratorio,
a dramatic work structured in 11
movements in two parts: approximately
the same size, layout,
and duration as Bach’s two-part
church cantatas. (Parts 1–6 were
performed before the sermon and
7–11 after the sermon.) Presented
by contralto Jacqueline Gélineau
in Heliconian Hall, and featuring
a solo vocal quartet and harpsichordist Brahm Goldhamer, this
chamber-sized, keyboard-and-voice performance will be of interest
both to those familiar with the master’s works and those wanting to
dig a little deeper and explore Bach’s music on a smaller scale.
On June 16, the Tudor Consort presents “The Song of Songs and
Songs of Love” at Historic Leaskdale Church in Leaskdale. Featuring
works by Schütz, Monteverdi, Marenzio, Palestrina, and Verdelot,
Toronto Music Garden
this concert provides a window into the Italianate stylings of the Late
Renaissance and Early Baroque eras.
On June 30, Westben presents “Viva Vivaldi! The Four Seasons and
Gloria,” featuring two of Vivaldi’s masterworks. The Four Seasons, a
captivating and expressive set of
four concerti is interpreted by
violinist Amy Hillis, while the
Westben Festival Orchestra &
Chorus tackle the Gloria. Make
sure to check it out – not only do
you get to hear one of the masters
of the Italian Baroque, but you get
to do so in a barn!
As anyone who has travelled
to an unfamiliar place knows
well, navigating is often the trickiest
part of going somewhere
new. This issue of The WholeNote
serves as your musical road map,
helping you traverse the winding
roads of summer music in all its
forms without a GPS shouting
“Recalculating!” With so many
opportunities to hear splendid
music, it is impossible to make a
wrong turn and I encourage you
to delve into some of these magnificent concerts and festivals.
If you have any questions or want to hear my two cents on anything
early music this summer, send me a note at earlymusic@thewholenote.com.
See you in September!
Matthew Whitfield is a Toronto-based harpsichordist and organist.
A WORLD CLASS
MUSIC FESTIVAL
AN ENCHANTING
SETTING
JUST TICKETS
AWAY!
The Elora Singers
Natalie MacMaster
State Choir Latvija
Lemon Bucket Orkestra
Unforgettable: Nat King Cole
Measha Bruegergossman
Kuné Global Orchestra
Voices Of Light
Daniel Taylor
Piano Six
. . .and much more!
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Beat by Beat | Jazz Notes
In the Bad Old
Summertime
STEVE WALLACE
The weather in April and May was so cool, grey and damp it
barely felt like spring, yet here I am pondering a column for this
summer issue of WholeNote, which covers not only June, but
July and August as well. I’ve always found this tricky, as it involves a
time warp of looking three months into the future – something I’m
ill-suited to at the best of times – and the weather this year has only
made it worse. It’s like hugging thin air – what to write about? A
preview of the many upcoming festivals, perhaps? Well, yes, but they
haven’t happened yet and besides, they’re often covered elsewhere in
the issue.
For jazz musicians, summer means not only jazz festival season
but often playing in hot and muggy conditions, indoors or out. So,
after some head-scratching I’ve decided to write about what it’s like
to play in the sticky cauldron of summer. Lest the following litany of
complaints seems too petulant or kvetchy, remember they’re mostly
meant to be humorous, real though they are.
For starters, there’s what happens to instruments as the weather
grows more hot and humid, in particular my instrument, the double
bass, which vehemently protests the onset of each summer by
becoming almost impossible to play for two or three weeks in late
June to early July. It tightens up and the body swells, forcing the action
– i.e. the distance of the strings above the fingerboard – to get uncomfortably
high. Now, I generally like a high action, but what happens
right when the festivals are starting and you’re hoping to be at your
best, is just ridiculous. The bass feels like concrete and its sound gets
choked, not exactly what you need while having to deal with the enervation
of the heat yourself!
Then there’s the stickiness. The fingerboard and neck get all gummy
from sweat and the humidity, as do the strings, so you’re constantly
wiping them down, which works for about five seconds. All the stickiness
leads to greater friction, which leads to – you guessed it – blisters.
No matter how much I’ve been playing or how tough my calluses
are, I always end up with blisters playing in the summer as the skin
gets softer from the humidity. There’s usually one on my right thumb,
one or two on the plucking fingers and a couple of small ones on the
tips of my left fingers. All this while the action is so stiff it feels like
the strings are steel cables. But best of all – pinch me, I’m dreamin’ –
is when these blisters break, and sweat, never in short supply on a jazz
bandstand, gets into them. It feels roughly like squeezing lemon juice
onto a paper cut and brings a whole new meaning to “burning it up.”
The best part about jazz sweat though, is the sting when it runs
down into your eyes, rendering them useless for sight-reading
purposes. (Luckily, I don’t read music well enough to ruin my
playing.) Bassists and drummers often play continuously throughout
a piece, so they rarely have a chance to wipe their eyes, making the
rivulets of acid off the forehead a constant torture. I’ve had many
experiences with this, but the one that stands out came during a
performance of Two Bass Hit with Rob McConnell’s Tentet during the
Toronto festival years ago. It was late June at The Rex, always a steambath
in the summer, but especially so when packed.
Two Bass Hit eventually becomes a very fast blues in D-flat – not
a bassist’s favourite key – and our version devolved into a marathon
joust between the three saxophonists, P.J. Perry, Alex Dean and Mike
Murley, each having their way with the changes and giving the others
no quarter. This saxophone combat usually lasted 15 to 20 minutes,
with drummer Terry Clarke and me flailing away underneath, playing
time at this breakneck tempo. After about a minute there was so
much sweat running into my eyes all I could do was shut them tight to
keep it out. Eventually there was a break when the band stopped and
left all three saxophonists alone in a kind of Coltrane-meets-Dixieland
polyphonic wankfest. Terry and I couldn’t wipe ourselves down fast
enough but as soon as we resumed playing it was sweat blindness all
over again and I remember playing the head out by memory because
I couldn’t see my music. There’s a blown-up photograph on the wall
at The Rex showing Murley, Dean and me in the middle of this soggy
battle, hair soaked and faces beet-red, a testament to a jazz ordeal I
won’t ever forget.
Just to show that the trial-by-fire of tropical jazz conditions extends
beyond musicians to their audience, on that same night at The Rex, a
lady – and a youngish one at that – fainted from the heat, flopping out
of her seat onto the floor right in the middle of a tune. I remember the
band playing on as the paramedics arrived and carried her out on a
stretcher. As they say, the show must go on.
The conditions don’t improve much, if at all, when jazz moves
from sweatshop clubs to the other common summer venue – the
outdoor stage. It’s a general principle that often what’s good for the
paying customer – in this case, enjoying live jazz in the open air with
some shade and maybe a beer – is not so good for the performers.
And outdoor stages, even when adequately covered, present difficulties.
First of all there’s the sound, which dissipates into the open air
with nothing to hold it, or bounces back off tall buildings, creating a
weird echo-chamber effect. This causes musicians to play harder than
they should without getting much back and is often exacerbated by
soundmen of the louder-is-better school, who decide to “help you
out” by boosting things in the monitors to Thor-like levels. Great, my
prayers have been answered, now it sounds thin and deafening.
Beyond sound, there’s odour. As in the venerable jazz tent, which,
after a few days of use not only resembles a giant sneaker, but smells
like one too – a piquant mixture of sweat, stale beer, mildew, melted
plastic and barfed-up popcorn with just a hint of salami underneath.
Heavenly.
And for bands using written music, wind is always a useful ally,
tossing charts to and fro, or blowing cymbal stands to the ground –
“Wow, that drummer is really bringing it today!” There are solutions
like clothes pegs or see-through plexi-glass covers to hold sheet music
in place, but they never quite do the trick even if you can get them in
place. As for turning pages with these gizmos, forget it. And in some
jazz version of Murphy’s Law, it’s never a chart you hate that blows
away, but one that you actually were looking forward to playing.
But the best part of playing jazz al fresco is the wildlife, as in
insects. There’s nothing quite like being in the middle of a ballad and
watching several mosquitoes land on your forearm, all damp and
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juicy, knowing they’re going to bite you and there’s nothing you can
do about it. Or flying into your eye and buzzing about your ears while
you’re in the middle of a solo. It’s also fun when a fly lands in the
middle of a complex passage of 16th notes on your music, lending a
whole new meaning to “reading fly shit.” Bees up the ante and have
been known to swarm bandstands; being bitten by mosquitoes is
one thing but being stung by a bee while playing is the frozen limit,
though all in a day’s work in the great jazz outdoors.
Sometimes the wildlife comes in human form, particularly in sweltering
tents where beer has been served all day long. I once played in a
tent at the Barrie Jazz Festival where the audience had been imbibing
for hours and were in something of a Belfast mood. The leader did
a little too much talking out front and someone bellowed out “Play
some *$#&ing music already!!” So we made with the sounds, but they
did not soothe the savage breast. The bird was definitely in the air
and I had the distinct feeling that if live produce had been on hand it
would have been hurtling toward us with a vengeance. Jazz is not an
open-air sport and when I approach playing an outdoor venue I often
feel like W.C. Fields – “On the whole, I’d rather be in Philadelphia” –
or at least indoors, with a frosty martini and a ballgame on.
So, outdoors or in a sweatbox, the next time you hear some live jazz
in the summer and notice the musicians seem a little bedraggled and
moist, perhaps a little red in the face or less focused than usual, you’ll
understand why and extend them some empathy. Or at least refrain
from throwing vegetables at them. After all, they’re not getting danger
pay – that’s if they’re getting paid at all. No pun intended, it’s hard to
play hot music while you’re melting.
I’d like to leave off by wishing everyone a happy summer of
listening to music, and with a favourite joke about the season: How
many singers does it take to sing Summertime?
All of them, apparently.
JAZZ NOTES QUICK PICKS
!!
AUG 3, 7:30PM: Festival of the
Sound. “Jazz Canada: That Latin
Flavour.” Guido Basso, trumpet;
Rémi Bolduc
Dave Young, bass; Terry Clarke,
drums; Reg Schwager, guitar; David
Restivo, piano. Charles W. Stockey
Centre, 2 Bay St, Parry Sound. What
amounts to a Canadian jazz allstar
band performing Latin jazz
in concert.
!!
AUG 4, 2PM: Westben.
“Sophisticated Ladies.” Music of
Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Nancy
Wilson, Dinah Washington, Etta
James, Blossom Dearie, Sarah
Vaughan. Barbra Lica and Sophia
Perlman, jazz vocals; Brian Barlow
Big Band. The Barn, 6698 County
Road 30, Campbellford. A fine big
band accompanying two good
singers paying tribute to some
of the jazz divas of the past, in a
wonderful setting.
!!
AUG 18, 7PM: Stratford Summer Music. John MacLeod’s Rex Hotel Orchestra. The
Avondale, 194 Avondale Ave, Stratford. A chance to hear Toronto’s premier big band
away from their natural habitat.
!!
AUG 25, 3PM: Stratford Summer Music. “Rémi Bolduc Jazz Ensemble: Tribute to
Dave Brubeck.” The Avondale, 194 Avondale Ave, Stratford. One of Canada’s best alto
saxophonists puts his own stamp on Brubeck’s music.
Toronto bassist Steve Wallace writes a blog called “Steve
Wallace jazz, baseball, life and other ephemera” which
can be accessed at wallacebass.com. Aside from the topics
mentioned, he sometimes writes about movies and food.
Beat by Beat | Bandstand
A Summery
Summary
JACK MACQUARRIE
Since we haven’t seen any snowflakes for two weeks, it is
probably safe to assume that spring is here, and that summer
won’t be far behind. But that being said, it is also true that
this will be the last issue of The WholeNote until the September
issue by which time fall will be looming. So there is a lot to cover
here, and a lot that will likely fall through the cracks. While we
frequently hear talk of the “paperless society,” it isn’t here yet,
and probably never will be. For The WholeNote, as with any other
paper publication, that means that there must always be a gap
between the time when all of the final copy is written and the day
when the first paper publication is available for our readers. A
number of events will take place during that gap. I hope to attend
several of them, but they will already be past history by the time
you read this, and long gone by the time I report next. I will take
notes as I go, though.
Innovations
In recent years there has been much talk about the demise of the
“town band” insofar as the traditional concert in the park and/or
parade of the town band. Yes! Developments in technology have
certainly changed much of community music. On the other hand,
some bands have embraced these developments to further their bands’
connection with their communities. Two such situations have come to
my attention recently.
The first of these, by the Uxbridge Community Concert Band
(UCCB), was an unusual way for a band to connect with their
community. This band, a summertime-only group, had a unique way
to contact citizens of Uxbridge. On the seasonal opening day of the
town’s Summer Farmers’ Market, the band had a display stand with a
dual purpose. One: Invite any potential members to consider joining
the band. Two: Invite anyone passing by to attend UCCB summer
events. One feature of their display was a laptop computer with a large
screen and loudspeakers showing the band in one of its concerts.
The photograph here shows the band’s membership chair, Terry
Christiansen with her French horn and conductor Steffan Brunette
with his computer.
Speaking of the UCCB’s Steffan Brunette, a couple of years ago,
he took a year off from teaching and studied composition and this
summer’s repertoire will include the premiere performance of a
new composition of his with a very unusual inspiration. Brunette is
recovering from major surgery and has appointed two assistants to
conduct rehearsals at times when he may not be able to do so. Well,
while recovering in the cardiology ward of St. Michael’s Hospital
in Toronto, he conceived this work. In his words: “The beeping of a
specific heart monitor (on an F-sharp, in 5/4 time) throughout the
day and night became the inspiration for the basis of a new piece.”
This summer, audiences will be treated to the world premiere of
Tachycardia.
The other town band innovation I want to mention here is by the
Newmarket Citizens Band. The band has had a YouTube channel for
about three years now, and have just announced that they currently
have 43 videos posted on the channel – audio recordings of their
performances from several of their various concerts that have taken
place during that period. One, in particular, jumps out as having
received exceptional numbers over a short period of time. Since
being posted last August, The Lord of the Rings by Richard Saucedo,
recorded at the Orillia Opera House, has had over 1200 views. That’s
the most for any of their posted videos!
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JACK MACQUARRIE
The Uxbridge Community Concert Band connecting with their community
New Horizons
I heard recently from Heather Engli about a big move on the horizon
for her. I first met Heather many years ago when she was a music
student and trumpet player at university. Years later, when we moved
to Goodwood in Uxbridge Township, there was Heather, and she had
stopped playing trumpet. A few years later, she was back playing and
teaching trumpet. For some time now she has been my principal
contact with The Silverthorn Symphonic Winds. Very soon Heather
will be moving to Wolfville, Nova Scotia where she may even study
more music at Acadia University, and she has already made contact
with Dan and Lisa Kapp who moved there a couple of years ago, she
informed me.
Dan Kapp, as regular readers of this column will know, was the
driving force behind the first New Horizons Band of Toronto in 2010,
when they started with one band made up of 19 adults, who had
either never played music before, or who wanted to return to music
after having played in high school. The qualifications for becoming a
member were simple: you had to love music and be willing to do your
best. “I will never forget my first practice” said Randy Kligerman, who
is now president of NHBT. I too remember it well: a call from Dan
Kapp, telling me that the first NH band did not have any trombones
for their very first concert, I took action. I dug out, not one, but two
trombones. One was for myself. The other I handed over to Joan, “the
lady of the house,” and stated that “we are the trombone section.” I
thought that Dan was being more than ridiculous to schedule that
very first concert for a new beginner band to take place in the CBC’s
Glenn Gould Studio. I was wrong. The concert was appreciated and
applauded by a full-house audience.
NHBT has since grown to approximately 260 members, with eight
concert bands and two jazz bands, and offers a variety of mini-enrichment
programs throughout the year. Initially they rehearsed in a
studio space at Long & McQuade in Toronto. When they outgrew that,
they were able to rehearse at the Salvation Army location at Bloor and
Dovercourt. Again they have faced an enviable problem, many more
people wanted to join NHBT and enrich their lives with music, but the
bands had outgrown the space availability at their current Bloor and
Dovercourt location. “We are a difficult tenant” said Kligerman, “ We
have day and evening classes, require a band room with good acoustics
and lighting, and many of our members prefer not to drive, so
access from the Bloor Subway line is a priority. Not an easy thing to
find in Toronto, especially at a rent we could afford.” After looking at
numerous buildings and churches, Kligerman visited the Seicho-No-le
Centre, at Danforth and Victoria Park. He knew this would be their
new home as soon as he walked in. “The
building is beautiful and has all the amenities
we need, and our new landlords are
welcoming and supportive of what we do
with the community. Everyone is excited
about what the future holds for NHBT,
and most importantly, we can continue to
grow as an organization,” said Kligerman.
NHBT now offers summer classes in
beginner/advanced theory, beginner
concert, sight reading and jazz, starting
June 3. Their regular concert/jazz program
starts up again in September. Read more
about this on their website: newhorizonsbandtoronto.ca.
The Markham New Horizons Band is
one that I had not heard of before, but
met them for the first time recently. As a
member of New Horizons International
Music Association, the band serves as an
entry access point to music making for
adults, with or without musical background,
and for those who have missed
playing. They practise at Long & McQuade,
Markham (9833 Markham Road) every
Tuesday from 1pm to 3pm. During my
brief visit, it became apparent that they would love to welcome some
“low brass” members. For information contact their conductor Soah
Lu at markhamnewhorizonsband@gmail.com.
CBA
The Canadian Band Association (Ontario) just announced their next
Band Weekend. It will take place from June 14 to 16 in Barrie and be
hosted by the Barrie Concert Band. For those not familiar with these
events, the CBA Weekend brings together musicians from community
bands across the province to join together for a challenging, but fun
couple of days of music making. Under a number of different guest
conductors, attendees will rehearse all day Saturday. That evening is a
time for people to socialize. Then on Sunday afternoon, all will come
together as a massed band to perform in a public concert. If you or
your band have CBA membership, you will receive all information
needed to register.
Outdoor venues
Over the years we have usually received information on concerts at a
number of outdoor venues in Southern Ontario. So far we only have
information on the Orillia Sunday evening Concert Band Series. These
all take place on the Orillia Aqua Theatre in a park on the shore of
Lake Couchiching. If the weather is bad, the concerts are automatically
moved to the Orillia Opera House. This year’s lineup: June 23 -
Orillia Concert Band; June 30 - Baytowne Big Band; July 7 - Weston
Silver Band; July 14 - Orillia Silver Band; July 21 - Newmarket Citizens
Band; July 28 - Barrie Skyliners Big Band; August 4 - Muskoka Concert
Band; August 11 - Mississauga Pops Concert Band; August 18 - Simcoe
County Band; and August 25 - Markham Concert Band. So far we have
not heard anything from The Millennial Bandstand in Unionville or
the Civic Bandstand in Oshawa.
Humour
A community choir was plagued with attendance problems. Several
singers were absent at each rehearsal! As a matter of fact, every singer
in the choir had missed several rehearsals, except for one very faithful
alto! Finally at the dress rehearsal for their big concert, the conductor
took a moment to single out and thank the faithful alto. She, of
course, humbly responded, “Well it’s the least I could do, since I won’t
be able to make the performance!”
Jack MacQuarrie plays several brass instruments and
has performed in many community ensembles. He can
be contacted at bandstand@thewholenote.com
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2019
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15th Annual Summer Music Guide

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GREEN PAGES COVER PHOTO: SUMMER MUSIC IN THE GARDEN, TORONTO, ON
SUMMER MUSIC GUIDE
Welcome to WholeNote’s 15th annual
Green Pages guide to summer music!
Though the regular concert season
is drawing to a close, there’s a lot
happening in the coming months, with
festivals from June to September, in
Toronto, other parts of Ontario, and
beyond. We hope you’ll enjoy perusing
these pages, with profiles provided
by the festivals themselves. There’s
something for everyone, whether
you love classical music, opera,
jazz, folk and more. Visit us online at
thewholenote.com/green for links
to the festivals’ websites and other
media links, photos and more.
2019 GREEN PAGES TEAM
PROJECT MANAGER: Karen Ages
PROJECT EDITOR: Kevin King
PROOFREADING: Danial Jazaeri
LAYOUT & DESIGN: Susan Sinclair
WEBSITE: Kevin King
For more information about
our Green Pages, contact
karen@thewholenote.com or
call Karen at 416-323-2232 x.26
THE 21ST CENTURY GUITAR
➤ August 22 to 25
Ottawa, ON
The 21st Century Guitar is an international interdisciplinary conference examining
contemporary guitar composition, performance and pedagogy. Open to the
public, the conference will bring together researchers, academics, composers and
practitioners from different fields who are interested in guitar performance, pedagogy,
and contemporary composition for guitar and technology. Concerts featuring
new works for guitar duo, guitar orchestra and technology (surround projection,
8-channel sound) will be highlighted in special performances in Freiman Hall
and Dominion-Chalmers Church. Featured performers and composers include
JUNO-award winning guitarist Gordon Grdina, the Cowan-Chiccillitti Duo, and
jazz guitarist Miles Okazaki. Registration at the conference is $42 and provides
entry to all concerts and lectures.
902-986-5299
www.21cguitar.com
BEACHES INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL
➤ July 5 to 28
Toronto, ON
Toronto’s beloved music festival and summer mainstay, the Beaches International
Jazz Festival, returns from July 5 to 28 to celebrate its 31st year of unparalleled
music from both established and emerging artists. Featuring multiple stages and
venues, the return of festival favourites and leading musical talent, the 31st annual
Beaches International Jazz Festival is one that can’t be missed.
416-698-2152
www.beachesjazz.com
BIG ON BLOOR FESTIVAL
➤ July 20
Toronto, ON
“Sonic Future Bloor” at BIG on Bloor Festival focuses on local emerging talent
with programming highlighting the incredible range of music production in
Toronto. Part of Bloordale’s interdisciplinary Festival now in its 12th year; enjoy
free live music from noon until midnight on car-free Dufferin to Lansdowne.
Headliner: up-and-coming artist Keynes Woods.
647-887-6739
www.bigonbloorfestival.com
Big on Bloor Festival, Toronto, ON
BROOKSIDE MUSIC “FESTIVAL OF THE BAY”
➤ July 21 to August 16
Midland Alliance Church, Midland, ON
Brookside Music hosts “Festival of the Bay” at the Midland Alliance Church.
On July 21, Syrène Saxophone Quartet kicks off the festival in a lively fashion,
followed by The Swiss Trio on July 26, with guests James Campbell, Ken
MacDonald and Douglas Perry. Some of Canada’s foremost instrumentalists
combine July 29 to present Festival Baroque, including Bach’s “Brandenburg
Concerto” No.5. On Wednesday August 7 hear one of the finest guitar ensembles
in the world: Canadian Guitar Quartet, then dance and dine under the stars
to the sounds of the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s with this vivacious cast of young talent:
The Toronto All Star Big Band with a gourmet dinner at the Midland Golf and
Country Club Friday, August 16.
705-527-4420
www.brooksidemusic.com
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BROTT MUSIC FESTIVAL
➤ June 27 to August 15
Hamilton, ON
Now entering its 32nd season, the Brott Music Festival (est. 1988) is the largest
non-profit orchestral music festival in Canada, and, the only festival with a fulltime,
professional orchestra-in-residence. The Brott Music Festival is renowned
for its extremely high artistic standard, world class soloists, its exuberant young
orchestra and its eclectic mix of orchestral, opera, chamber, jazz, pop and education
concerts at various venues across Southern Ontario. We have attracted world
class soloists and other artists/personalities to Hamilton, including James Ehnes,
Anton Kuerti, Pinchas Zukerman, Marc Garneau, Karen Kain, Valerie Tryon,
former Prime Minister Kim Campbell, Mordecai Richler, Roberta Bondar and
Michael Ondaatje, to name only a few.
905-525-7664
www.brottmusic.com
CLASSICAL UNBOUND FESTIVAL
➤ July 26 to 28
Prince Edward County, ON
Unbinding classical chamber music from its formal attire, and binding it more
closely to our hearts and souls. Join us for 3 concerts performed by the new artistic
directors, the Ironwood Quartet: Jessica Linnebach, Carissa Klopoushak, Julia
MacLaine, David Marks.
Friday, July 26: “Shoulders of Giants” – The Grange Winery, 7pm. Music by
Debussy, Nicole Lizée, Beethoven. Saturday, July 27: “Ironwood Unbound” –
Old Church Theatre, 7:30pm. Music by Pärt, Dessner, J.S. Bach, original songs,
and arrangements of folk music. Sunday, July 28: Summer Nocturne – Hillier
Creek Estates Winery, 7pm. Music by Mendelssohn, Puccini, Beethoven. Admission
(each concert) $30; weekend pass (all 3 concerts) $75. For tickets and more
information: www.classicalunbound.com
514-713-1082
www.classicalunbound.com
CLEAR LAKE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
➤ July 24 to 28
Lorne Watson Recital Hall, Brandon University, Brandon, MB
Erickson Lutheran Church, Erickson, MB
Riding Mountain National Park, MB
The 14th Clear Lake Chamber Music Festival, under the artistic direction of
Canadian pianists Daniel Tselyakov and Alexander Tselyakov, has become an
important part of Canada’s cultural calendar. The most exciting and first of its kind
that Manitoba has to offer, this festival is a celebration of summer with classical
music, jazz and outstanding musicians in the natural beauty of Riding Mountain
National Park, Manitoba. This year’s festival is comprised of six concerts: jazz
and five chamber concerts. This year’s ambitious schedule is sure to please and
promises to inspire new lovers of classical music as well as satisfy the appetites
of seasoned enthusiasts. The large scale roster of talented guest artists includes
Alexander Tselyakov and Daniel Tselyakov, pianists; Kerry DuWors, violin;
Simon Fryer, cello; Michael Cain, jazz piano.
204-571-6547
www.clearlakefestival.ca
Clear Lake Chamber Music Festival Manitoba
COLLINGWOOD SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL
➤ July 17 - August 11
Collingwood, ON
The Collingwood Summer Music Festival celebrates its first season in 2019 by
presenting over 100 world-class artists in Collingwood, Ontario. The inaugural
concert on July 18 features the Elmer Iseler Singers together with ChoralWorks,
the Collingwood Festival Orchestra and guest soloists Mayumi Seiler and Daniel
Wnukowski. From traditional classical to cool jazz, you are sure to find events that
cater to your tastes - including two concerts geared specifically towards families
with children. For 2019, we’ve also invited award-winning ensembles and celebrated
personalities such as the Gryphon Trio, Quartetto Gelato, Rolston String
Quartet, Diana Braithwaite and Chris Whiteley Duo, R.H. Thomson, Trevor
Copp among others. Visit our website for more information.
705-445-2200
www.collingwoodfestival.com
ELORA FESTIVAL
➤ July 12 to 28
Elora, ON
Experience a world of music at the Elora Festival! We present 3 weeks of vocal/
choral/chamber music delights in one of the prettiest towns in Ontario. Welcome
to our 40th season! Join us for The Elora Singers, State Choir LATVIJA, Natalie
MacMaster, Lemon Bucket Orkestra, Measha Breuggergosman, Piano Six,
“Unforgettable: Nat King Cole,’’ Laplante/Seilor/Carr Trio, Voices of Light film,
Jane Archibald, “KUNÉ, a Family Series” and “Elora Festival Kids Camp” -
and so much more. The Elora Festival has encompassed all forms of classical
music, jazz, international music, popular and folk since 1979. All concerts take
place in gorgeous Elora, Ontario, with its natural beauty, vibrant cultural scene,
shopping, restaurants and lodgings.
519-846-0331
www.elorafestival.ca
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FESTIVAL CLASSICA
➤ May 24 to June 16
Saint-Lambert, Montréal, QC
The 9th Festival Classica will be held in Saint-Lambert, along with satellite
concerts presented in 8 cities in the Montérégie region, on the island of Montréal
and on the North Shore. From Berlioz to the Bee Gees: more than 65 indoor
and outdoor concerts, featuring Natalie Choquette, Stéphane Tétreault, Jean-
Philippe Sylvestre, Valérie Milot, Alexandre Da Costa and many more artists!
In 2019, we mark the 150th anniversary of the death of the famous composer
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), the 200th anniversary of the birth of composer and
cellist Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), as well as the 150th anniversary of the
birth of composer Albert Roussel (1869-1937).
888-801-9906
www.festivalclassica.com
FESTIVAL OF THE SOUND
➤ July 19 to August 10
Parry Sound, ON
Concerts - cruises - films - talks: Canada’s finest jazz and classical summer music
festival is back for it’s 40th great season! Experience world-class chamber, jazz
and folk music combined with the beautiful landscape of Georgian Bay! In its
illustrious history, the Festival of the Sound has become a go-to destination for
musicians and music lovers alike. The festival is recognized as a top summer
offering by organizations such as the CBC and Festivals & Events Ontario and
consistently attracts musicians of international acclaim. Cruise the bay with the
Hannaford Brass, Scantilly Plaid and Dave Young, or party on land with Janina
Fialkowska, Moshe Hammer, Leslie Fagan, New Zealand String Quartet and
many, many more! With a summer featuring tango, celtic, roots and latin jazz
concerts, make this your year to attend!
1-866-364-0061
www.festivalofthesound.ca
THE FIFTH CANADIAN CHOPIN PIANO
COMPETITION AND FESTIVAL
➤ August 23 to 29
Royal Conservatory of Music, 273 Bloor St W., Toronto, ON
The Canadian Chopin Society presents a festival and competition celebrating
the legacy of Chopin and artistry of young Canadian pianists. The week-long
event is an opportunity to follow the pianists who will compete for the chance
to represent Canada in the prestigious “International Chopin Piano Competition”
in Poland. Plan to be a part of this excitement, and deepen your connection
with Chopin! Highlights include an evening with musicologist Alan Walker,
author of recently released biography of Chopin; a recital by Polish-Canadian
pianist Krzysztof Jablonski in Koerner Hall; and dazzling competition performances.
Full listing of events, schedules, festival passes are available on our website.
416-242-8601
www.canadianchopinsociety.com
GUELPH JAZZ FESTIVAL
➤ September 11 to 15
Guelph, ON
The 2019 Guelph Jazz Festival features world-class creative, improvised music
in ticketed and free concerts in a lively community setting. Highlights of this
year’s program include Jen Shyu, Nine Doors; Tomas Fujiwara’s 7 Poets Trio;
Ingrid Laubrock, Tom Rainey and Hank Roberts; Brodie West Quintet; Erwan
Keravec solo and duo with Hamid Drake; NAIL: Lori Freedman, Nicolas Caloia,
Ab Baars and Ig Henneman; Karuna: Hamid Drake and Adam Rudolph Duet;
Paula Shocron, Guillermo Gregorio and Pablo Díaz; Susan Alcorn; John Kameel
Farah; Chik White; The Titillators; Malcolm Goldstein and Rainer Wiens; Atlas
Revolt; Way North. Additionally, the festival’s free colloquium features artist talks,
keynotes, panel discussions, interviews, and other complementary programming.
Tickets and passes on sale July 2.
519-763-4952
www.guelphjazzfestival.com
HERITAGE MUSIC FESTIVAL
➤ August 7 to 11
Shelburne, ON
The Heritage Music Festival, featuring the 69th Canadian “Open Old Time Fiddle
Championship”, will take place August 7 to 11 in Shelburne, Ontario. Sponsored by
the Rotary Club of Shelburne, the event features a variety of entertainers, including
The Washboard Union, Country Superstars “Live in Concert”, and Scott Woods,
as well as Canada’s top fiddlers in competition for thousands of dollars in prizes.
Community events include camping, “Bands and Brews” at the Fiddle Park, a giant
fiddle parade, a pork BBQ, and non-denominational church service. Proceeds of
the Heritage Music Festival support Shelburne Rotary’s many charitable projects.
519-278-0016
www.heritagemusicfestival.ca
HIGHLANDS OPERA STUDIO
➤ July 22 to August 26
Haliburton, ON
Our 2019 season celebrates “Women in Opera”! Hear the best young opera
stars of today and tomorrow in the beauty of the Haliburton Highlands, only
2.5 hours northeast of the GTA. Established in 2007 by internationally-acclaimed
Canadian tenor Richard Margison and Canadian stage director/violist Valerie
Kuinka, Highlands Opera Studio is an advanced, intensive professional training
and networking program for emerging opera professionals. Chosen from 150+
applicants from across Canada and internationally, hear the 2019 participants
in public masterclasses, multiple concerts, community events, and fully-staged
operas; Ariadne auf Naxos, Suor Angelica, and 2 new prize-winning Canadian
operas: The Chair and Book of Faces. Love to sing? Get involved in the Highlands
Opera Community School!
1-855-455-5533
www.highlandsoperastudio.com
HONENS FESTIVAL
➤ September 5 to 8
Calgary, AB
Highlight performances for the 2019 Honens Festival include the Miró Quartet
(with Calgary native William Fedkenheuer), award-winning Polish piano /
accordion Duo 19:21, and pianists Jon Kimura Parker, Nicolas Namoradze
(2018 Honens Prize Laureate), Pedja Mužijević, Susanne Ruberg-Gordon, and
Katherine Chi (2000 Honens Prize Laureate). Honens Family Day at the Taylor
Centre for the Performing Arts takes place on Saturday, September 7 and includes
masterclasses (piano and violin), storytellers, and a 70th birthday tribute to revered
Canadian composer Alexina Louie (who will make a special cameo appearance).
The festival wraps up at Central Memorial Park with the ever-popular Open Air.
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And headlining this year’s Bison Noir is rising star singer / songwriter Gabriel
Kahane performing his 2018 release, “Book of Travelers”.
403-975-7438
www.honens.com
KINCARDINE SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL
➤ August 12 to 17
Kincardine, ON
Celebrating its 28th anniversary, KSMF is well-known for excellent programming
and presentations. This year, August 12 to 17, the Evening Concert Series
has a wonderfully eclectic, top-quality smorgasbord of music for you, from trailblazing
artists such as Ensemble Made In Canada – “Mosaïque” to relaxing
entertainment with Dan Needles and Ian Bell in “True Confessions from the
Ninth Concession,” to a classical extravaganza Saturday 17: Vivaldi’s Gloria and
excerpts from Mendelssohn’s Elijah with full chorus and symphony orchestra.
Don’t miss the free “4 O’Clock in the Park” concerts in downtown Victoria Park.
Music classes run August 12 to 16 for everyone from beginners to experienced
players. Guitar, strings, bands and vocals on Lake Huron - Music and the Beach!
519-396-9716
www.ksmf.ca
XV LATVIAN FESTIVAL OF SONG AND DANCE IN CANADA
➤ July 3 to 7
Toronto, ON
The Latvian Song Festival Association in Canada has presented a festival every
five years since 1953. We present choral, instrumental and dance performances,
featuring Latvian composers and choreographers from Canada and abroad. This
summer, over 2000 Latvian singers and folk dancers from around the world will
perform at venues in downtown Toronto. Guest artists include the State Choir
LATVIJA (Maris Sirmais), folk-dance ensemble LIGO (Janis Purvins) and folk
ensemble RAXTU RAXTI. We will celebrate Latvia’s centenary and the contributions
of Latvian-Canadian artists to Canadian culture. Each of our concerts
will include music by Imant Raminsh, Talivaldis Kenins and Janis Kalnins. In
addition, we will launch a new Centrediscs recording of orchestral and chamber
music by these composers.
416-948-0634
www.latviansongfest.com
LEITH SUMMER FESTIVAL
➤ June 29 to August 24
419134 Tom Thomson Lane, Leith, ON
Leith Summer Festival presents five concerts in the Historic Leith Church during
the summer. This acoustically wonderful venue offers an intimate encounter
between musicians and audience. The season opens on June 29 with Krisztina
Szabó, mezzo-soprano and Robert Kortgaard, piano. Next is Angela Park, piano;
and Andrea Tyniec, violin with a captivating program on July 13. The Payadora
Tango Ensemble performs on Sunday, July 28 in a matinee performance
of tango, drawing from the traditional to the contemporary. On August 10, Peter
Tiefenbach, piano; Mireille Asselin, soprano; Matthew Dalen, tenor; and Adam
Harris, baritone, present “The Cannabis Cantata”. The season wraps up with the
Rolston String Quartet performing Haydn, Ligeti and Schubert on August 24.
Tickets at the Roxy Box Office at 519-371-2833 or www.roxytheatre.ca.
519-664-2092
www.leithchurch.ca
Elora Festival Elora, ON
LUMINATO
➤ June 7 to 23
Toronto, ON
Each June, Luminato, Toronto’s international festival of arts and ideas,
takes over the city with a flurry of cultural activities and events designed to
provoke, delight and inspire audiences of all ages. Over the festival’s 12-year
history, more than 9.1 million people have experienced over 3,600 productions
featuring 15,000+ artists from more than 40 countries around the world.
Luminato 2019 takes place June 7 to 23 at various venues across the city, jampacked
with the most exciting theatre, music, visual art, opera, dance, film and
more from Canada and around the world. Spanning 17 days, the festival lineup
features both paid and free indoor and outdoor events, including a larger-thanlife
mirrored maze and massive choral event.
416-368-4849
www.luminatofestival.com
MARKHAM VILLAGE MUSIC FESTIVAL
➤ June 14 to 15
Main Street Markham Rd., Markham, ON
Markham Village Music Festival closes Markham Road from Hwy 7 to Bullock
on Friday evening and Saturday. The festival features 4 stages of entertainment
with a variety of music and dance. Special this year - a salsa stage on
Friday and Saturday night, “Exodus: Bob Marley” tribute. Throughout the
festival, there will be many performances from our diverse communities, lots
of craft and food vendors (including food trucks) and a Farmers’ Market.
The Kids Zone will be in Morgan Park, one block from Main Street. There will
be carnival rides, a youth entertainment stage, petting zoo, arts, crafts and much
more. Fun for the whole family!
647-983-9054
www.markhamfestival.com
MONTREAL CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
➤ June 7: Salle Pollack, McGill University, 555 Sherbrooke Street West,
Montreal, QC
June 11 to 16: Salle Bourgie, Montreal Museum of Fine
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Arts, 1339 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC
This season marks the beginning of a three-year project by the Montreal Chamber
Music Festival to celebrate the life of the great Ludwig van Beethoven, entitled
“Beethoven Chez Nous!” In 2019, 2020 and 2021, the festival will feature cycles
of complete works by Beethoven, some with a very special twist! Highlights this
year are the Beethoven Violin Sonatas performed by 2019 Grammy winner James
Ehnes and pianist Andrew Armstrong; and the Beethoven Symphonies as transcribed
for piano by Franz Liszt, with six outstanding pianists from across the
world. The festival opens with a new show by Quebec’s star entertainer Gregory
Charles, an exuberant survey of the past 250 years in music. This year we also
showcase star tenor Joseph Kaiser and the best young talent in “BMO Hottest
Classical Artists Under 30!”
514-489-7444
www.festivalmontreal.org
MUSIC AND BEYOND
➤ July 4 to 18
Ottawa, ON
Music and Beyond is a classical music and multidisciplinary arts festival that
takes place July 4 to 18 in Ottawa. It presents classical music in all formations and
pursues links between other art forms, cultural disciplines and music, including
visual art, drama, poetry, dance, architecture, circus, magic, science, comedy,
law, food and wine, and even yoga! Music and Beyond is virtually unique in the
international field of music festivals by making this a core part of its mandate.
By tying together a wide range of cultural disciplines, the festival creates a more
“festive” atmosphere, helping to attract an even broader audience to music.
613-241-0777
www.musicandbeyond.ca
MUSIC MONDAYS
➤ May 6 to Sept 2
Church of the Holy Trinity, Toronto, ON
A lunchtime concert series at the Church of the Holy Trinity - welcome to our
28th season! Music Mondays has served as a launching pad for emerging talent
since its inception in 1992. Our concerts take place in the warm acoustics of
Holy Trinity Church, just steps away from the Eaton Centre. We feature an
eclectic mix of everything from classical solo and chamber music to jazz, fusion
and world music. Our goal is to provide the highest possible musical experience
to a pay-what-you-can downtown Toronto audience. Suggested donation $10.
Please join us and bring your lunch - and a friend - every Monday at 12:15pm
from May to Labour Day.
416-598-4521 x223
www.musicmondays.ca
MUSIQUE ROYALE
➤ June to September
Across Nova Scotia
Since 1985, Musique Royale presents a province-wide summer festival, touring
incredible musicians to some of the provinces most far off and precious venues.
In store for 2019, the summer festival includes emerging artists Aureas Voces
with romantic Nova Scotian folk arrangements, Bach and Vivaldi Sonatas with
violinist Mark Fewer and harpsichordist Hank Knox, The Best of Boxwood’s
annual salute to the Canadian Maritimes dance music, heartfelt “And So It
Goes” with baritone Brett Polegato and Robert Kortgaard, flashy artistry on the
violin with “Two Davids,” and “Pres du Soleil” exploring Medieval and Oriental
Music with Montreal’s Ensemble Caprice and Constantinople. Concerts are
across Nova Scotia in over 25 beautiful and historic venues. Stay tuned at www.
musiqueroyale.com!
902-692-8081
www.musiqueroyale.com
NYO CANADA - ODYSSEY TOUR
➤ July 21 Ottawa, ON – presented by Chamberfest
July 22 Montreal, QC – Maison symphonique de Montréal
July 25 Parry Sound, ON – presented by Festival of the Sound
July 27 Stratford, ON – Presented by Stratford Summer Music
July 29 Toronto, ON – Koerner Hall
The National Youth Orchestra of Canada (NYO Canada) celebrates its 59th
season with a 5-city Canadian tour, preceding the orchestra’s first trip to Spain.
The country’s preeminent training orchestra, NYO Canada is comprised of
100 gifted musicians between the ages of 16 and 28, who come together each
summer to attend an 8-week intensive training institute, followed by a national
and international tour. This year’s orchestra includes musicians from nine provinces.
British conductor Michael Francis leads the summer tour, which features
Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet; Manuel de Falla’s The Three Cornered Hat; Mahler’s
Symphony No. 5; Sinfonia Sacra by Andrzej Panufnik; and a new work by Canadian
composer Jared Miller.
416-532-4470
www.nyoc.org
OPERAMUSKOKA FESTIVAL
➤ August 20 to 23
Bracebridge and Windermere, ON
The OperaMuskoka Festival celebrates its 10th Anniversary this year. We are
pleased to welcome Toronto City Opera’s production of Verdi’s La Traviata to
the Rene M. Caisse Memorial Theatre in Bracebridge on August 20, 2019. On
August 21, we have scheduled our annual “Stars of Tomorrow” Concert which
will feature very talented young performers from around Ontario. The third
day, August 22, will be an instrumental masterclass and concert with the Mississauga
Youth Orchestra. For our closing day, August 23, we have scheduled a
piano and vocal masterclass, followed by an evening concert featuring the very
talented Jennifer Tung.
705-765-1048
www.muskokachautauqua.com
ORCHESTRA BREVA - EROICA: A SESQUICENTENNIAL
TRIBUTE TO LAURA SECORD
➤ May 25, 26 and June 20, 21, 23
Windsor, Tecumseh, Ingersoll, Brantford, Niagara, ON
Laura Ingersoll Secord’s remarkable and significant contributions to
our country’s history are recognized in this concert celebration highlighting
her heroic acts and life’s journey, illustrated through music significant
to her time and circumstance. All who have served humanity in times
of war and peace, through acts of bravery and sacrifice, will be honoured.
Featuring classical musicians, Indigenous artists, local historians, new works
and Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony, conducted by Melanie Paul Tanovich.
May 25, 8pm: Assumption Hall, Windsor; May 26, 8pm: Paroisse Ste Anne
Parish, Tecumseh; June 20, 8pm: Ingersoll Cheese Museum, Ingersoll;
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June 21, 8pm: Sanderson Centre, Brantford; June 23, 2pm: Queenston Heights,
Niagara-on-the-Lake.
519-980-1113
www.orchestrabreva.com
OTTAWA CHAMBERFEST
➤ July 25 to August 8
Ottawa, ON
This year presenting violinist James Ehnes, Canadian Brass, pianists Janina Fialkowska,
Hinrich Alpers, and Angela Hewitt, a celebration of baroque composer
Barbara Strozzi’s 400th birthday, Art of Time Ensemble performing the Beatles’
Abbey Road, the Netherlands’ Syrène Saxophone Quartet, Dover Quartet, and
many more! Celebrating 25 years, Ottawa Chamberfest brings together the boldest
names in ensemble and solo performance for musical celebration in the nation’s
capital throughout the year with a Concert Series and Community Engagement
and Education programming, culminating in the Chamberfest summer festival.
The world’s largest festival of its kind, the Ottawa Chamberfest summer festival
is a 2019 Festivals and Events (FEO) Ontario “Top 100” and winner of seven
consecutive Lieutenant-Governor’s Awards for the Arts.
613-234-6306
www.chamberfest.com
PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
➤ September 13 to 22
Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Picton, ON
The 16th annual PEC Chamber Music Festival will warm up with a free familyfriendly
outdoor concert on Saturday September 7 at 2pm, featuring The True
North Brass at Macaulay Heritage Park. The Festival takes place over 2 weekends,
September 13-22, and will celebrate the piano in Chamber Music. First
weekend features the New Orford String Quartet with violist Alosysia Friedman,
esteemed pianists Jon Kimura Parker and Jamie Parker (in a rare 2-piano concert)
and the famed Gryphon Trio. Second weekend features soloists from the highlyregarded
Quebec ensemble Les Violins du Roy, mezzo-soprano and CBC broadcaster
Julie Nesrallah, and Charles Richard-Hamelin, silver medallist in the 2015
“Chopin Competition”. Tickets available at the door or online on our website.
613-393-3798
www.pecmusicfestival.com
PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY JAZZ FESTIVAL
➤ August 13 to 18
Picton, Prince Edward County, ON
The Prince Edward County Jazz Festival is proud to present a fresh and wideranging
mix of performances encompassing Newport and Cuba, big bands and
small, new faces, recent Juno winners and nominees, and a pivotal year when
transcendent albums shook jazz to its foundations. The all-star cast of performers
are simply Canada’s best. Wednesday: “Jazz Overture” dinner with the John
Sherwood Trio. Thursday matinee: Commodores Big Band featuring Hanna
Barstow. Thursday: “1959 Jazz Transformed” - featuring Colleen Allen Quintet.
Friday, Jane Bunnett and Maqueque. Saturday matinee: Robi Botos and Jodi
Proznick. Saturday evening: Jodi Proznick’s Sun Songs and the Mike Murley
Trio. Sunday: Brian Barlow Big Band spotlighting Oscar Peterson’s Canadiana
Suite. Free performances throughout several venues in the county.
1-877-411-4761
www.pecjazz.org
Ottawa Chamberfest Ottawa, ON
SOMETHING ELSE! FESTIVAL
➤ June 20 to 23
The Rock on Locke, Church of St. John the Evangelist, 320 Charlton
Ave. W., Hamilton, ON (+ Free event Friday noon to 4pm only:
Whitehern House & Garden, 41 Jackson St. W., Hamilton, ON)
Zula Presents: Something Else! Tickets: ($20-25 adv.) Passes: ($100/125).
Info: www.zulapresents.org
Something Else! has established itself as one of North America’s most vital
exploratory music festivals. Each day offers an adventure in sound, embracing
beloved visionaries alongside emerging voices; longtime partnerships alongside
spontaneous collaboration. Its sixth year is headlined by virtuoso vocalist/
violinist Iva Bittová, clarinet innovator Don Byron, and percussionist Hamid
Drake (alongside his trio Indigenous Mind featuring Joshua Abrams & Jason
Adasiewicz). The festival’s international cast also includes William Hooker, Sara
Schoenbeck, Harris Eisenstadt, Sam Newsome, Joanna Duda, Eucalyptus, Yves
Charuest, EAR-CAM (Glen Hall, Tomasz Krakowiak, Christine Duncan, John
Oswald), Géraldine Eguiluz Trio & more.
289-993-1993
www.zulapresents.org
SOUTH COAST JAZZ
➤ August 17 to 18
Port Dover Community Centre, 801 St. George St., Port Dover, ON
6th annual South Coast Jazz & Blues – Norfolk County. Beachside Port Dover,
rural Lake Erie. Tickets and information at www.southcoastjazz.com. Live music,
catered farm fresh food and fun! Saturday August 17 – Main Stage: Port Dover
Community Centre, 801 St George Street, 5-11pm – Powder Blues Band, Dave
Restivo, Alison Young, Eric St. Laurent, Juliann Kuchocki & more! Sunday
August 18 – Brant Hill Inn, 30 John Street, Port Dover, dinner show and river
cruise, 5:30-8pm. Email info@southcoastjazz.com or call 519-774-2787 (ARTS).
Indoor and outdoor venues. Norfolk County’s official premier event. Past headliners
include Holly Cole, David Sanborn, Jane Bunnett, Gene DiNovi and
hundreds more! Come stay and play, and make a memory that will last a lifetime!
519-774-2787
www.southcoastjazz.com
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STONEBRIDGE WASAGA BEACH BLUES
➤ September 13 to 15
Wasaga Beach, ON
Since the first wave of legendary Blues performers crashed ashore in Wasaga Beach
in 2010, Stonebridge Wasaga Beach Blues has exploded to become a world class
destination embraced by both new and die-hard blues fans. Keep an eye on the
Wasaga Beach Blues website for the updated schedule as performers are confirmed.
Until then, expect nothing less than an insanely talented lineup of musicians to be
burning up the two main stages. Stonebridge Wasaga Beach Blues 2019 is undoubtedly
gearing up to outdo itself - once again. For the time being, perhaps it can be
best described as a “hidden gem that features world class Blues, with an intimate
venue with a casual and relaxed atmosphere.” It does not get better than that.
705-607-7744
www.wasagabeachblues.com
STRATFORD SUMMER MUSIC
➤ July 15 to August 25
Stratford, ON
A world of music for everyone. Canadian and international musicians of excellence
return to Stratford Summer Music for our 19th season of concerts and
events with new artistic director, Mark Fewer. Featured artists include Amir
Amiri, Tom Allen, Laila Biali, Isabel Bayrakdarian, Rémi Bolduc, James Campbell,
Steven Dann, Simone Dinnerstein, Janina Fialkowska, Ben Heppner, Jodi
Proznick, Stéphane Tétreault and Dave Young. Returning this year will be the
newly branded “Friday Night Live at Revival” (formally the “Cabaret Series”),
“Illustrated Musical Lectures” by Robert Harris, “Music for an Avon Morning”,
“BargeMusic” and “Musical Brunches” at The Prune. Also, new series added this
year include “Music and Health”, “Stratford Originals” and “Musical Families.”
Visit our website or call our box-office for more information.
1-866-288-4313
www.stratfordsummermusic.ca
SUMMER MUSIC IN THE GARDEN
➤ June 27 to September 15
479 Queens Quay West, Toronto, ON
The popular “Summer Music in the Garden” concert series returns for its 20th
season by the shores of Lake Ontario. Treat yourself to 18 free concerts this
summer, featuring outstanding artists and a wide range of musical styles. Concerts
take place in the Toronto Music Garden on most Thursdays at 7pm and Sundays
at 4pm, and are approximately one hour in length. Bench seating is limited, so
feel free to bring a blanket or lawn chair - and don’t forget your hat or umbrella
and sunscreen as shade is also limited. Concerts proceed weather permitting.
Please call our info desk for up-to-the-minute rain call.
416-973-4000
www.harbourfrontcentre.com/summermusic
SUMMER OPERA LYRIC THEATRE
➤ July 26 to August
Robert Gill Theatre, Toronto, ON
Summer Opera Lyric Theatre (SOLT) continues its tradition of bringing the
summer opera mini-festival to the city. This summer, SOLT concentrates on
diversity and inclusion, comedy and tragedy, found in the great works for the
lyric stage and the lessons we can learn about ourselves and those who we love.
The festival includes 3 operas: Verdi’s La Traviata, Canadian Team Davies
and Benson’s Earnest, the Importance of Being, and the double bill of Puccini’s
Gianni Schicchi and Vaughn Williams’ Riders to the Sea, performed by aspiring
young artists. Music directors: Michael Rose, Suzy Smith and Jo Greenaway.
Tickets are available through the box office of St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts;
single tickets are $28.
416-366-7723
www.solt.ca
SUN LIFE FINANCIAL UPTOWN
WATERLOO JAZZ FESTIVAL
➤ July 19 to 21
Waterloo City Centre, 100 Regina St. S, Waterloo, ON
This annual music Festival in downtown Waterloo is free and features world class
international, national and local jazz performers. Over the 3 days, we will feature
a wide variety of music that will appeal to music lovers of all ages and tastes
– from intimate solo performers to the high energy of rock/fusion; from traditional
small ensembles to dynamic big bands and even electro-funk-rap. There
will be something for everyone. After the performance, you can meet the artist
and purchase their latest CD. Between sets, there are many interesting food and
beverage options available onsite – enjoy a craft beer or your favourite wine with a
variety of food from different vendors. Since we are downtown, you can also head
to a local restaurant. Come and join us – it promises to be our best Festival yet!
519-394-0093
www.waterloojazzfest.com
SWEETWATER MUSIC FESTIVAL
➤ September 20 to 22
Owen Sound and Meaford, ON
SweetWater is all about ‘evolution’ for its 16th festival of world-class music.
The 2019 festival will be artistic director Mark Fewer’s final one at the helm.
He’s got a few musical treats left on his bucket list. The stellar line-up includes
the SweetWater debut of world-famous countertenor Daniel Taylor, Adrian
Butterfield, David Braid, Kenneth Slowik, and Rachel Brown. SweetWater’s next
artistic director, violinist Edwin Huizinga, will also be a featured performer. Free,
interactive activities include the family fav “Mozart for Munchkins”, community
play-along “Classical Jam”, and string instrument showcase “Luthier Exhibit”,
and “Luthier Performance” - moderated by Robert Harris. Friday night opening
gala ($55) Saturday early evening concert and Sunday matinee ($40), late night
jazz ($30). Festival pass (4 Concerts) $150.
519-371-2833
www.sweetwatermusicfestival.ca
TAFELMUSIK BAROQUE SUMMER FESTIVAL
➤ June 3 to 15
Toronto, ON
Musicians from around the world gather in Toronto for the annual Tafelmusik Baroque
Summer Festival, featuring the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir,
and presented in conjunction with the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute. Join
us for a series of five free concerts in Jeanne Lamon Hall, Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre;
Walter Hall, University of Toronto; and Grace Church on-the-Hill. All concerts
are open to the public. Tickets required for “Opening Night” on June 3 and “The
Grand Finale” on June 15. For tickets and more information, visit our website.
416-964-6337
www.tafelmusik.org/TBSF
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TD MARKHAM JAZZ FESTIVAL
➤ August 14, 16 to 18
Markham, ON
The TD Markham Jazz Festival is an exciting and vibrant 3 1/2 day musical
delight featuring well known professional jazz, blues and crossover musicians
performing on three stages on beautiful Main Street Unionville, in Markham.
The festival starts on Wednesday, August 14 with a ticketed opening night kickoff
party at the Markham Museum! From August 16-18, Main Street comes
alive with 30+ free performances all day and evening on outdoor stages, on the
street, and in bars and restaurants. Come and enjoy over 150 acclaimed professional
jazz musicians performing all styles of jazz and blues. While here, visit
art galleries, socialize in pubs and restaurants, dance up a storm at our beer and
wine garden stage, and enjoy one-of-a-kind shopping - all in a magical environment
that will create memories to last!
905-471-5299
www.markhamjazzfestival.com
TD NIAGARA JAZZ FESTIVAL
➤ July 19 to 21 – St. Catharines, ON
July 26 to 28 – Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON
Recently voted “Best New Festival in Ontario,” the 6th annual TD Niagara Jazz
Festival is an exciting not-for-profit jazz festival dedicated to celebrating the art
form of jazz in the Niagara Region. The festival inspires, educates and develops
future jazz audiences while combining live jazz with a Niagara experience –
food, wine, culture and natural wonders. The summer festival (July 19 to 21 and
July 26 to 28) includes free family events: World Music on the Beach and Jazz
in the Park, as well as the all-new Niagara’s Summer Mardi Gras and Soul Jazz
in the Vineyard, a Dixieland Jazz Lunch, a Nat King Cole tribute and more…
Featuring: Shuffle Demons, Allison Young, Heavyweights Brass Band, Kellylee
Evans, Ori Dagan and more…. Info, tickets, & passes: www.niagarajazzfestival.
com; 1-844-LIV-JAZZ (548-5299); TW/INST/FB: @jazzniagara; #LiveLoveJazz
1-844-LIV-JAZZ (548-5299)
www.niagarajazzfestival.com
TD Niagara Jazz Festival Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON
TORONTO SUMMER MUSIC
➤ July 11 to August 3
Toronto, ON
TSM’s 2019 festival, “Beyond Borders”, explores and celebrates the cross-cultural
influences that have pervaded classical music from the times of Mozart and
Mahler, right up to the composers of today. We attract music lovers of all ages,
and families across the GTA, to enjoy classical music in a relaxed, engaging,
and fun environment. Don’t miss performances by Adrianne Pieczonka, Jon
Kimura Parker, Daniel Taylor, Angela Hewitt performing Bach’s beloved Goldberg
Variations, the Dover Quartet, The Art of Time Ensemble with Canadian
singer-songwriter Sarah Slean, the Rolston String Quartet, conductor Gemma
New, and world premieres by celebrated Canadian composers Alexina Louie and
Christos Hatzis. In addition, we have a variety of free events and family events,
chats, educational activities and much more!
647-430-5699
www.torontosummermusic.com
TD SUNFEST: CANADA’S PREMIER
WESTBEN CONCERTS AT THE BARN
CELEBRATION OF WORLD CULTURES
➤ June 2 to August 4
➤ July 4 to 7
6698 County Road 30, Campbellford, ON
Victoria Park, London, ON
Welcome to Westben’s 20th anniversary season with 25 performances and events
Find your summer vibe - hot dancing shoes and cool Sunfest cerveza beer are of classical, broadway, jazz, folk, comedy, fiddle and Indigenous music. See James
a must during the special 25th edition of “Canada’s Premier Celebration of Ehnes, Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Jeremy Dutcher, Basia Bulat, Brent Butt,
World Cultures”! Voted one of the best overseas music festivals by the UK’s Joyce El Koury, Jason Howard, Rose Cousins, Kuné, André Laplante, Mayumi
prestigious Songlines Magazine, TD Sunfest transfigures London’s Victoria Park Seiler, The Fitzgerald Family, Matt Dusk and more. Ask about our “Dare to
into a culturally diverse jewel, where 40 top world music and jazz groups from Pair” series of wine tasting, local foods and storytelling, as well as the new
all corners of the planet entertain on five stages. Our 2019 international headliners
range from Middle Eastern sensation 47Soul to Spain’s Grammy-winning the peaceful hills of Northumberland County two hours east of Toronto, near
“Secret Concert” and “VIP Chocolate Voices Experience”. Nestled amongst
Marinah and Chile’s 12-piece Newen Afrobeat orchestra. Canadian acts include Campbellford, Westben’s primary performance venue is a custom-built, timberframe
barn located on a 50-acre farm. Enjoy a glass of wine on the meadow or
Quebec’s AfrotroniX and Le Vent du Nord, and with more than 225 exhibitors,
this beloved free-admission event will whet festival goers’ appetites for scrumptious
global cuisine and unique crafts and visual arts.
877-883-5777
take a stroll by the pond. Westben - always a new experience!
519-672-1522
www.westben.ca
www.sunfest.on.ca
Thank you for taking a look at this year’s Green Pages! If you are looking for a specific
form of summer festivities, visit us online at thewholenote.com/green, where you can
do more browsing or conduct a more focused search.
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Summer Festivals
Summer Festival Listings
Welcome to The WholeNote’s Summer Festival listings.
The following pages contain basic listings for these festivals,
where available at time of publication:
21st Century Guitar......................................................Aug 22 to 25
Beaches International Jazz Festival....................................Jul 5 to 28
BIG on Bloor Festival.............................................................Jul 20
Brookside Music “Festival of the Bay”..........................Jul 21 to Aug 16
Brott Music Festival.................................................Jun 27 to Aug 15
Celebration of Nations.....................................................Sep 6 to 8
Classical Unbound Festival............................................Jul 26 to 28
Clear Lake Chamber Music Festival..................................Jul 24 to 28
Collingwood Summer Music Festival..........................Jul 17 to Aug 11
Elora Festival.................................................................Jul 12 to 28
Festival Classica.....................................................May 24 to Jun 16
Festival of the Sound.................................................Jul 19 to Aug 10
The Fifth Canadian Chopin
Piano Competition & Festival........................................Aug 23 to 29
Guelph Jazz Festival.......................................................Sep 11 to 15
Heritage Music Festival...................................................Aug 7 to 11
Highlands Opera Studio..........................................Jul 22 to Aug 26
Honens Festival...............................................................Sep 5 to 8
Kincardine Summer Music Festival................................Aug 12 to 17
XV Latvian Festival of Song & Dance in Canada........................Jul 3 to 7
Leith Summer Festival............................................Jun 29 to Aug 24
Luminato......................................................................Jun 7 to 23
Markham Village Music Festival.....................................Jun 14 to 15
Montreal Chamber Music Festival................................Jun 7, 11 to 16
Music and Beyond............................................................Jul 4 to 18
Music Mondays.........................................................May 6 to Sep 2
Musique Royale.............................................................Jun to Sep
National Youth Orchestra of Canada: Odyssey Tour......................Jul
OperaMuskoka Festival...............................................Aug 20 to 23
Orchestra Breva – Eroica:
A Sesquicentennial Tribute to Laura Secord..May 25, 26, Jun 20, 21, 23
Ottawa Chamberfest.................................................Jul 25 to Aug 8
Prince Edward County Chamber Music Festival...............Sep 13 to 22
Prince Edward County Jazz Festival................................Aug 13 to 18
Something Else! Festival...............................................Jun 20 to 23
South Coast Jazz...........................................................Aug 17 to 18
Stonebridge Wasaga Beach Blues....................................Sep 13 to 15
Stratford Summer Music..........................................Jul 15 to Aug 25
Summer Music in the Garden....................................Jun 27 to Sep 16
Summer Opera Lyric Theatre.....................................Jul 26 to Aug 4
Sun Life Financial
Uptown Waterloo Jazz Festival.........................................Jul 19 to 21
Sweetwater Music Festival............................................Sep 20 to 22
Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Festival..............................Jun 3 to 15
TD Markham Jazz Festival...........................................Aug 14, 16, 18
TD Niagara Jazz Festival..................................................Jul 19 to 28
TD Sunfest:
Canada’s Premier Celebration of World Cultures..................Jul 4 to 7
Toronto Summer Music..............................................Jul 11 to Aug 3
Westben Concerts at The Barn......................................Jun 2 to Aug 4
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21st Century Guitar
Aug 22 to 25
Ottawa, ON
902-986-5299
www.21cguitar.com
Listings not available at time of publication.
For general description, see Green Pages.
Beaches International Jazz Festival
Jul 5 to 28
Toronto, ON
416-698-2152
www.beachesjazz.com
All events are free admission.
●●Jul 5–7: Sounds of Leslieville & Riverside
Main Stage & Block Party, Jimmie Simpson
Park, Queen St. E.
●●Jul 12–14: Beaches Jazz Latin Carnival,
Woodbine
●●Jul 19–21: Beaches Jazz TD Woodbine Park
Series, Woodbine
●●Jul 26–28: Beaches Jazz OLG Woodbine
Park Series, Woodbine
●●Jul 25–27: Beaches Jazz StreetFest, Queen
St. E. (between Woodbine and Beech Ave.)
BIG on Bloor Festival
Jul 20
Toronto, ON
647-887-6739
www.bigonbloorfestival.com
●●Jul 20 12:00 noon: Sonic Future Bloor.
Keynes Woods, Selené, Jeff Burke, and
others. Bloor Collegiate Institute, 1141 Bloor
St. W. 416-801-5910. Free.
Brookside Music “Festival of the Bay”
Jul 21 to Aug 16
Midland Alliance Church
829 Yonge St.
Midland, ON
705-527-4420
www.brooksidemusic.com
Concerts are at 7:00pm. Ticket price: $30.
●●Jul 21 7:00: Syrène Saxophone Quartet.
●●Jul 26 7:00: The Swiss Trio. Guests: James
Campbell, clarinet; Ken McDonald, horn;
Douglas Perry, viola; Lydia Adams, conductor.
●●Jul 29 7:00: Festival Baroque. Guests:
Sebastien Singer, cello; Andre Fischer, guitar.
●●Aug 07 7:00: Canadian Guitar Quartet.
Guests: Sebastien Singer, cello; Andre
Fischer, guitar.
Brott Music Festival
Jun 27 to Aug 15
Hamilton, ON
905-525-7664
www.brottmusic.com
Performances take place in Burlington
and Hamilton. Visit our website for further
information.
●●Jun 27 7:30: Fascinating Rhythm. Chelsea
Rus, soprano; David Curry, tenor; Raymond
Huang, pianist; Boris Brott, conductor.
●●Jul 04 7:30: PopOpera. National Academy
Orchestra; BrottOpera Singers; Boris Brott,
conductor.
●●Jul 11 7:30: Connoisseur Classics 1. National
Academy Orchestra; Rachel Mercer, cello;
Boris Brott, conductor.
●●Jul 18 7:30: La bohème. National Academy
Orchestra; BrottOpera Cast; John Fanning,
baritone; Boris Brott, conductor. 6:30pm:
pre-concert chat (free).
●●Jul 25 7:30: Fly Me to the Moon. National
Academy Orchestra; Chris Jason, Sinatra
Impersonator; Boris Brott, conductor.
●●Jul 28 3:00: Connoisseur Classics 2.
National Academy Orchestra; Adrian Anantawan,
violin; Boris Brott, conductor.
●●Aug 08 7:30: For Your Eyes Only. National
Academy Orchestra; Jeans N Classics; Boris
Brott, conductor.
●●Aug 15 7:30: My Fair Lady.
Celebration of Nations
Sep 6 to 8
FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre
250 St Paul St.
St. Catharines, ON
905-688-0722
A gathering featuring music, theatre, dance,
film, interactive workshops and teachings
to honour and celebrate Indigenous culture.
Details TBA.
Classical Unbound Festival
Jul 26 to 28
Prince Edward County, ON
514-713-1082
www.classicalunbound.com
Performances take place in various venues in
Hillier and Trenton. Visit our website for further
information.
●●Jul 26 7:00: Shoulders of Giants. Ironwood
Quartet.
●●Jul 27 7:30: Ironwood Unbound. Ironwood
Quartet.
●●Jul 28 7:00: Summer Nocturne. Ironwood
Quartet. Cocktail reception 6pm.
Clear Lake Chamber Music Festival
Jul 24 to 28
204-571-6547
www.clearlakefestival.ca
Performances take place in Erickson, Brandon,
and Riding Mountain National Park. Visit
our website for further information.
●●Jul 24 7:30: Opening Night. Sabina Rzazade,
piano; Kerry Duwors and Katie Gannon,
violins; and others; Alla Turbanova and Paul
Shore, hosts; Alexander Tselyakov and Daniel
DANIEL
TSELYAKOV,
piano, artistic director
JULY 25-28
clearlakefestival.ca
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Tselyakov, artistic directors and pianos. Wine
and cheese reception follows.
●●Jul 25 7:30: Concert 2: Chamber Masterworks
I. Kerry Duwors and Katie Gannon, violins;
and others.
●●Jul 26 7:30: Concert 3: Chamber Masterworks
II. Alla Turbanova and Sabina Rzazade
pianos; and others.
●●Jul 27 11:00am: Coffee Concert: Serious
Fun! Nancy Hennen, flute; Cris Byman, clarinet;
Alla Turbanova, piano. Coffee and pastries;
7:30: Jazz Concert. Michael Cain, jazz
piano; Eric Platz, drums; Diogo Peixoto, guitar;
Julian Bradford, bass.
●●Jul 28 3:00: Festival Grand Finale. Nancy
Hennen, flute, Cris Byman, clarinet; Alla Turbanova,
piano.
Collingwood Summer Music Festival
Jul 17 to Aug 11
Collingwood, ON
705-445-2200
www.collingwoodfestival.com
Inaugural Concert
A Choral
Extravaganza
Individual ticket price:
$50 + HST
Thursday, July 18th,
6:30pm
●●Jul 18 6:30: A Choral Extravaganza! Inaugural
Concert. Elmer Iseler Singers; Choral-
Works Choir; Collingwood Festival Orchestra;
Mayumi Seiler, violin; Daniel Wnukowski,
piano and others.
●●Jul 19 7:00: Gryphon Trio.
●●Jul 20 7:00: Quartetto Gelato.
●●Aug 01 12:00 noon: Underground Railway
Story for the Family - Diana Braithwaite &
Chris Whiteley Duo; 7:00: Sugar and Gold -
Diana Braithwaite & Chris Whiteley Quintet.
●●Aug 02 7:00: Nhapitapi (Zimbabwe).
●●Aug 03 7:00: Payadora Tango Ensemble.
●●Aug 09 7:00: Rolston String Quartet. Guest:
Daniel Wnukowski, piano.
●●Aug 11 3:00: Family Fun - Carnival of the Animals
/ The Hockey Sweater - World Premiere.
RH Thomson, actor; Trevor Copp, mime;
Michael Schulte, violin.
Elora Festival
Jul 12 to 28
519-846-0331
www.elorafestival.com
Performances take place at Elora and Fergus.
Visit our website for further information.
● ● Jul 12 7:30: Opening Night 40th Anniversary
Gala. Elora Singers; State Choir Latvija;
Members of the Grand Philharmonic Children’s
and Youth Choirs; Jane Archibald,
James Westman and Daniel Taylor, soloists;
and others; Maris Sirmais and Mark Vuorinen,
conductors.
●●Jul 13 1:00: State Choir Latvija in Recital;
3:15 Pre-concert chat for Piano Six; 4:00:
Piano Six. Daniel Wnukowski, Marika Bournaki,
David Jalbert, Angela Park, Ian Parker
and Anastasia Rizikov; 7:30: Natalie Mac-
Master with The Elora Singers. Natalie Mac-
Master, fiddle.
●●Jul 14 1:30: Jane Archibald, Soprano in
Recital; 4:00: The Laplante/Seilor/Carr Trio
in Recital. André Laplante, piano; Mayumi
Seiler, violin; Colin Carr, cello; 6:00: Singers
Unplugged 3.0. Michael Cressman, baritone
and director. Also 8pm.
●●Jul 18 5:00: Evensong. Elora Singers; Matthew
Larkin, organ; Mark Vuorinen, conductor;
7:30: Elora Singers: Path of Miracles.
Mark Vuorinen, conductor.
●●Jul 19 7:30: Lemon Bucket Orkestra.
●●Jul 20 10:00 Pre-concert activities for
Shoestring Opera; 11:00am: Shoestring
Opera: Schoolyard Carmen. Katy Clark, soprano.
Free post-concert Museum tour; 1:00:
Gloria: French Choral Music for the Soul.
Elora Singers; Matthew Larkin, organ; Mark
Vuorinen, conductor; 4:00: Cheng2 Duo.
Bryan Cheng, cello; Silvie Cheng, piano; 7:30:
Unforgettable: The Nat King Cole Story. Thom
Allison, performer; big band; Elora Singers.
●●Jul 21 2:00: Daniel Taylor with Charles Daniels
and Ellen McAteer in Recital. Daniel Taylor,
countertenor; Charles Daniels, tenor;
Ellen McAteer, soprano; Steven Philcox, piano;
4:30: Hymn to St. Cecilia: Music from the English
Tradition. Elora Singers; Matthew Larkin,
organ; Mark Vuorinen, conductor; 7:30: Kuné,
Canada’s Global Orchestra.
●●Jul 25 5:00: Evensong. Elora Singers; Matthew
Larkin, organ; Mark Vuorinen, conductor;
7:30: COC Competition Winner:
Matthew Cairns, Tenor; 9:00: Elora Singers at
Twilight: From Darkness to Light.
●●Jul 27 10:00am: Pre-concert art activities
for From Winkle to Stardom; 11:00am:
Family Series (all ages): From Twinkle to
Stardom. Music Comedy Duo Millan & Faye.
Free post-concert Museum tour; 1:00: Penderecki
Quartet with Daniel Lichti, Baritone;
4:00: Festival of the Sound Ensemble
with Elora Singers. Swiss Piano Trio; James
Campbell; Ken MacDonald; Doug Perry;
James Mason; 7:30: An Evening With Measha
Brueggergosman.
●●Jul 28 3:00: 40th Anniversary Finale: Magnificat!
Elora Singers; Festival Orchestra with
sitar and tabla.
Festival Classica
May 24 to June 16
Saint-Lambert, Montréal, QC
888-801-9906
www.fesivalclassica.com
Performances take place at various venues
throughout the Saint-Lambert area. Visit our
website for further information.
●●Jun 01 10:00am: Natalie Choquette - Sorcière
Malbouffa; 10:00am: Cordes Suzuki violins
and cellos; 11:30am: The World of Julien
Brody; 12:00 noon: Cégep de Saint-Laurent
presents: Pianomania 2019. Asparuh Ivanov,
Anaïs Lemay, Salomé Marcotte-Hurtubise,
Émile Rose, Ada Vuong and others;
1:00: The Jealous Lover. Valérie Milot, harp;
Mathieu Lussier, bassoon; Marianne Lambert,
soprano; 1:15: Voces de España. Les
Rugissants; Jonathan Barriault, guitar; Xavier
Brossard-Ménard, director; Myriam Allard,
flamenco dancer; 2:00: Pascal Amoyel - The
Day I Met Franz Liszt; 2:30: Concert by the
Conservatoire de musique de la Montérégie’s
emerging talent; 3:00: Romances for Voice
and Guitar. Magali Simard-Galdès, soprano;
Antonio Figueroa, tenor; David Jacques, guitar;
4:00: Collège Durocher Saint-Lambert’s
Pop’N’Jazz Band. Pierre Richard, director;
5:30: Cégep Marie-Victorin students
in concert; 7:00: Trio Con moto - French
Impressions; 7:00: Radiotango; 7:00: Poetry
Jam! Bertrand Laverdure, Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay,
poets; Marianne Trudel,
piano; Sophie Lemaire, singer; 7:30: Joannie
Labelle - Bea Box Invites the Pascale Croft
String Quartet; 8:00: The French Art of the
Trio. Stéphane Tétreault, cello; Mark Djokic,
violin; Jean-Philippe Sylvestre, piano; 9:00:
Saturday Night Fever. Orchestre symphonique
du Conservatoire de la Montérégie;
Classica Choir; Simon Fournier, conductor;
Élizabeth Blouin-Brathwaite, soloist.
●●Jun 02 9:00am: Yoga and Gregorian Chant.
Ensemble Scholastica; 10:00am: The Drum
Garden. Marise Demers, percussion; Karine
Cloutier, dancer. In French; 10:00am: Principessa
Emma Cloutier; 11:00am: Children Sing
in the Rhythm of Life; 11:00am: Poetry Jam!;
1:00: Block 15 or Music as a Form of Resistance.
Pascal Amoyel, piano; Emmanuelle
Bertrand, cello. In French; 1:00: Symphonie
Fantastique by Berlioz. Orchestre Philharmonique
de Montréal; 2:45: In Concert. École de
musique Vincent-d’Indy Jazz Combo; 3:30: I
Giardini - Piano Quartets; 4:00: An Afternoon
with Friends with Marc Hervieux; 8:00: Clair
de lune. Guests: Laetitia Grimaldi, soprano;
Marc Boucher, baritone; Marc David, director.
●●Jun 03 7:00: David Jacques - Guitar Stories.
In French.
●●Jun 04 7:00: La Petite Bande de Montréal.
Orchestre de chambre de la Montérégie;
Martin Dagenais, director; Caroline Gélinas,
mezzo; Dominique Côté, baritone.
●●Jun 05 7:30: Bach Reimagined. Matt Herskowitz,
piano; Charles Papsoff, saxophone/
flute.
●●Jun 06 7:00: Songs of Twilight. Kateryna
Bragina, Stéphane Tétreault, cello; 7:00: François
Dompierre - Dompierre in cinémascope.
François Dompierre; McGill Chamber Orchestra;
Mark Djokic, violin; Elisabeth Pon, piano.
In French.
●●Jun 07 8:00: Mômes de Paris. Clémentine
Decouture, soprano; Paul Colomb, cello; David
Bros, accordian, Cédric Barbier, percussion.
●●Jun 08 9:00: Tribute to the Rolling Stones.
Orchestre symphonique du Conservatoire de
la Montérégie; Classica Choir; Marc Ouellette,
conductor. Rain date: June 9(2pm).
●●Jun 11 7:00: Les larmes de Jacqueline.
Orchestre Métropolitain; Alain Trudel,
conductor; Jean-Philippe Sylvestre, piano;
Stéphane Tétreault, cello.
●●Jun 14 7:00: 3rd International Recital Competition
of French Art Songs - Semifinals.
●●Jun 15 5:00: Symphonic Picnic; 7:00: Keyboard
Frenzy! Luc Beauséjour, Jean-Philippe
Sylvestre, harpsichord/piano; 9:00: Francophonique
- Big Concert Under the Stars.
Orchestre symphonique de Longueuil; Marc
David, conductor.
●●Jun 16 4:00: 3rd International Recital Competition
of French Art Songs - Finals.
Festival of the Sound
Jul 19 to Aug 10
Parry Sound, ON
1-866-364-0061
www.festivalofthesound.ca
Performances take place at various venues in
Parry Sound and Elora. Visit our website for
further information.
●●Jul 19 7:30: Gala Opening Concert. Elmer
Iseler Singers; Mary Lou Fallis, soprano; Colin
Fox, narrator; Penderecki String Quartet; Guy
Few, piano and others.
●●Jul 21 2:30: Up Close & Personal. Gene
DiNovi, piano; 7:30: Viennese Opera Party.
Leslie Fagan, Kristina Szabó, sopranos; Colin
Ainsworth, tenor; Sam Chan, baritone; Guy
Few, trumpet and others.
●●Jul 22 10:30am: Office Hour: Accordion
Postcards. Joseph Petric, Guy Few, accordion;
2:00: Music for Trumpet & Organ. William
McArton, organ; Guy Few, trumpet; 6:30:
Brass on the Bay Cruise. Ten members of
Hannaford Street Silver Band.
●●Jul 23 1:30: Anagnoson & Kinton in Recital.
Anagnoson and Kinton, piano duo; Alan
Stein, visual art.; 3:30: Fantasy & Romance.
Gryphon Trio; James Campbell, clarinet;
Douglas McNabney, viola; Joel Quarrington,
bass; 6:00: Bands on the Bay; 8:00: Strike Up
the Band. Hannaford Street Silver Band; Russell
Braun, baritone.
●●Jul 24 1:30: Carolyn & Russell in Concert.
Russell Braun, baritone; Carolyn Maule,
piano; 3:30: Swiss Trio & Friends. Swiss
Piano Trio; Douglas McNabney, viola; James
Campbell,clarinet; Ken MacDonald, horn;
7:30: Beethoven I. Janina Fialkowski, piano;
Rolston String Quartet.
●●Jul 25 1:30: Rolston String Quartet; 7:30:
National Youth Orchestra of Canada: A Look
Into The Future. Michael Francis, conductor.
●●Jul 26 10:30am: Office Hour: Swiss Piano
Trio - Musical Life in Switzerland; 2:00: Janina
Fialkowska Plays Chopin; 7:30: Payadora
Tango Ensemble.
●●Jul 27 11:00am: Strings Across the Sky;
4:00: Festival of the Sound Ensemble with
Elora Singers. Swiss Piano Trio; James Campbell;
Ken MacDonald; Doug Perry; James
Mason; 7:30: Jayme Stone’s Folklife. Jayme
Stone, banjo/voice; Moira Smiley, voice/
accordion; Sumaia Jackson, fiddle/voice; Joe
Phillips, bass/voice.
●●Jul 28 6:30: Celtic Magic Cruise. Scantily
Plaid.
●●Jul 30 1:30: Beethoven II. Leopoldo Erice,
piano; Yegor Dyachkov, cello; 3:30: Sonatas
for Strings & Piano. Duo Concertante; Yegor
Dyachkov, cello; Martin Roscoe, piano; 7:30:
The Four Seasons. Mark Fewer, violin; John
Rice, narrator; Julie Nesrallah, soprano; Robert
Kortgaard, piano; Festival Ensemble and
others.
●●Jul 31 1:30: Festival Baroque. James Mason,
oboe; Julie Baumgartel, violin; Borys Medicky,
harpsichord; Suzanne Shulman, flute; Karl
Stobbe and others; 3:30: Blue Ocean. Andrea
Ratuski, host; Paul Marleyn, cello; Karl Stobbe,
violin; Martin Roscoe, piano; James Campbell,
clarinet and others; 7:30: Three Centuries of
Choral Music. Elora Festival Singers; Mark
Vuorinen, conductor; Festival Ensemble.
●●Aug 01 1:30: Mozart & Beethoven. Atis
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Bankas, violin; Victoria Korchinskaya-Kogan,
Martin Roscoe, piano; James Campbell, clarinet;
Paul Marleyn, cello; 3:30: Mendelssohn
& Brahms. Julie Nesrallah, mezzo; Douglas
McNabney, viola; Robert Kortgaard, piano;
Min-Jeong Koh, violin; Adrian Fung, cello and
others; 7:30: Just Friends. Julie Nesrallah,
mezzo; Martin Roscoe, piano; Robert Kortgaard,
piano; Karl Stobbe, Min-Jeong Koh,
violin and others.
●●Aug 02 7:30: The Joni Book. Mandy Lagan,
vocals with ORIGINS.
●●Aug 03 7:30: Jazz Canada: That Latin Flavour.
Guido Basso, trumpet; Dave Young,
bass; Terry Clarke,drums; Reg Schwager, guitar;
David Restivo, piano.
●●Aug 04 2:00: Craig Harley & Friends.
John Southworth and the South Seas; 7:30:
Toronto All-Star Big Band: Party Like It’s
1940.
●●Aug 05 2:00: “And So We Began”. Bryan
Cheng, cello; Sylvie Cheng, piano; Yolanda
Bruno, violin; Moshe Hammer, violin; Glen
Montgomery, piano and others; 6:30: Jazz
Canada Cruise. Dave Young, Terry Clarke,
David Restivo; Heather Bambrick, vocals.
●●Aug 06 5:30: Elegance at Seguin Valley.
New Zealand String Quartet; Canadian Guitar
Quartet; Moshe Hammer, violin. Fundraising
dinner.
●●Aug 07 1:30: Gillian’s Viola. Gillian Ansell,
viola; Joel Quarrington, double bass; Yolanda
Bruno, violin; Alexander Tselyakov, piano;
3:30: Fables & Folk Tales. Cheng² Duo: Bryan
Cheng, cello; Silvie Cheng, piano; 6:00: Discovery
Concert. Continuum Contemporary
Music; 7:30: Good Friends. New Zealand
Summer Festivals
String Quartet; James Campbell, clarinet.
●●Aug 08 1:30: A Family Affair. Alexander
Tselyakov, Daniel Tselyakov, piano; Graham
Campbell, guitar; James Campbell, clarinet;
New Zealand String Quartet; 3:30: Canadian
Guitar Quartet & Swiss Friends; 7:30: Haydn,
Ravel & Mozart. New Zealand String Quartet;
Yolanda Bruno, violin; Joel Quarrington,
double bass;Alexander Tselyakov, piano; Canadian
Guitar Quartet.
●●Aug 09 10:00am: Celebration Daytime Concerts;
10:30am: Celebration Musical Cruise;
7:30: Celebration Concert: Into the Future.
●●Aug 10 7:30: National Academy Orchestra.
Boris Brott, conductor; Alexander Tselyakov,
piano.
The Fifth Canadian Chopin Piano
Competition & Festival
Aug 23 to 29
416-242-8601
www.canadianchopinsociety.com
For full festival details, see Green Pages and
ETCeteras section.
Guelph Jazz Festival
Sep 11 to 15
Guelph, ON
519-763-4952
www.guelphjazzfestival.com
Listings not available at time of publication.
For general description, see Green Pages.
Heritage Music Festival
Aug 7 to 11
Shelburne, ON
519-278-0016
www.heritagemusicfestival.ca
All concerts at Centre Dufferin Recreation
Complex, 200 Fiddle Park Lane, Shelburne
except where noted.
●●Aug 07 7:00: Country Jamboree with Greg
Holmes.
●●Aug 08 7:30: Country Superstars Live in
Concert.
●●Aug 09 7:30: The Washboard Union. with
Sweet Fire.
●●Aug 10 10:00am: 69th Canadian Open Old
Time Fiddle Championships – Playdowns;
2:30: Bands and Brews in the Fiddle Park;
6:30: 69th Canadian Open Old Time Fiddle
Championships - Finals.
●●Aug 11 10:00am: Non-denominational
Church Service. Religious service.
Highlands Opera Studio
Jul 22 to Aug 26
Haliburton, ON
1-855-455-5533
www.highlandsoperastudio.com
Performances take place at various venues in
Minden, Haliburton, and Orillia. Visit our website
for further information.
●●Jul 31 8:00: From Opera to Broadway.
●●Aug 03 8:00: Pop Goes the Opera.
●●Aug 07 8:00: Celebrations!
●●Aug 10 8:00: Art of Song.
●
● Aug 15 8:00: Women in Opera: Then and
Now. Suor Angelica: Lauren Margison, soprano
(Suor Angelica); Sara Schabas, soprano
(Suor Genovieffa); Megan Quick, mezzo
(La Principessa); Louise-Andrée Baril, music
director; Valerie Kunka, stage director; The
Chair: Rebecca Cuddy, mezzo (Melanie); Sara
Schabas, soprano (Vanessa); Jennifer Szeto,
music director; Jessica Derventzis, stage
director; Book of Faces: Carol Anne Roussel,
soprano (Rachel); Megan Quick, mezzo
(Stephanie); Jennifer Szeto, music director;
Jessica Derventzis, stage director. Northern
Lights Performing Arts Pavilion, 5358 County
Rd. 21, Haliburton. Also Aug 17 (Orillia).
●●Aug 17 7:00: Women in Opera: Then and
Now. See Aug 15. St. Paul’s Centre, 62 Peter
St. N., Orillia. Also Aug 15(Haliburton).
●●Aug 20 8:00: Alumni Concert. Singers from
previous years of the Highland Opera Studio
in opera and musical theatre favourites
including Mikayla Singer, soprano; Danielle
MacMillan, mezzo; and Samuel Chan,
baritone.
●●Aug 22 7:30: Ariadne auf Naxos. Casts vary.
See website or daily listings for details. Opens
Aug 22, 7:30pm. Also Aug 24(2pm), 25(2pm),
26(7pm).
Honens Festival
Sep 5 to 8
Calgary, AB
403-975-7438
www.honens.com
Concerts take place in various venues
in Calgary. Visit our website for further
information.
●●Sep 05 4:30: Duo 19:21. Iwo Jedynecki,
accordion; Aleksander Kryzanowski, piano;
7:30: Nicolas Namoradze: A Study in Etudes.
Nicolas Namoradze, piano.
●●Sep 06 12:30: 176 Keys. Aleksander Kryzanowski,
The State
Choir LATVIJA
CANADIAN DEBUT TOUR
MĀRIS SIRMAIS
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AND CONDUCTOR
JULY 3 – 5, 2019
XV LATVIAN FESTIVAL OF SONG
AND DANCE IN CANADA
TORONTO
WWW.LATVIANSONGFEST.COM
JULY 8 – 9, 2019
MUSIC AND BEYOND /
MUSIQUE ET AUTRES MONDES
OTTAWA
WWW.MUSICANDBEYOND.CA
JULY 12 – 13, 2019
ELORA FESTIVAL
ELORA
WWW.ELORAFESTIVAL.CA
The New York Times has characterized the State Choir LATVIJA’s
sound as “exquisite, beautiful and magnificent”. Celebrating its
77th season in 2019, the choir is internationally recognized as
one of the best in the world, presenting the unique Latvian choral
sound to audiences everywhere. Tour repertoire will include
Baltic, Latvian-Canadian and international composers. They will
present a seminar on Latvian choral traditions and a solo concert
at each festival. Book your tickets now!
Tour Producer: Laura Adlers
The Adlers Agency
laura@lauraadlers.com
(416) 948-0634
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piano; Pedja Muzijevic, piano; Nicolas Namoradze,
piano; Jon Kimura Parker, piano; 7:30: Pedja Muzijevic:
Bach Dialogues. Pedja Muzijevic, piano; 9:30:
Bison Noir - Gabriel Kahane: Book of Travelers.
Gabriele Kahane, composer/piano/singer; special
Hohens Festival guest artists.
●●Sep 07 1:00: Storytellers: Same, Only Different.
Susanne Ruberg-Gordon, piano; Jonathan
Love, narrator; Iwo Jedynecki, accordion; William
Fedkenheuer, violin; 3:00: Alexina Louie @
70. Alexina Louie, composer; Katherine Duncan,
host; Katherine Chi, piano; Nicolas Namoradze,
piano; Jon Kimura Parker, piano; Select
piano students from Calgary; 7:30: Miró Quartet
with Jon Kimura Parker: Love Triangle.
Kincardine Summer Music Festival
Aug 12 to 17
Kincardine, ON
519-396-9716
www.ksmf.ca
Detailed listings not available at time of publication.
For general description, see Green
Pages.
XV Latvian Festival of Song & Dance in
Canada
Jul 4 to 7
Toronto, ON
416-948-0634
www.latviansongfest.com
Performances take place at various venues
in Toronto. Visit our website for further
information.
●●Jul 04 3:30: Concert of Latvian Sacred
Music. Latvija State Choir; and others; Lauma
Akmene, organ; Ilze Paegle, soprano; Maris
Sirmais and Brigita Alks, conductors.
●●Jul 05 4:00: Concert of Latvian Orchestral
and Chamber Music. Laura Zarina, violin; Arthur
Ozolins, piano; Janis Laurs, cello; and others;
members of COC orchestra; Maris Sirmais, conductor;
7:30: State Choir Latvija Canadian Concert
Debut. Maris Sirmais, conductor.
●●Jul 06 3:00: Mass Choir Concert.
●●Jul 07 4:00: Folk Dance Spectacle. Raxtu
Raxti folk ensemble; 300-voice festival choir;
over 1000 Latvian folk dancers.
Leith Summer Festival
Jun 29 to Aug 24
419134 Tom Thomson Lane
Leith, ON
519-664-2092
www.leithchurch.ca
All concerts at Historic Leith Church,
419134 Tom Thomson Lane, Leith.
●●Jun 29 7:30: Amor. Krisztina Szabó, mezzo;
Robert Kortgaard, piano.
For further details please see Green Pages
and the festival’s website.
Luminato
Jun 7 to 23
Toronto, ON
416-368-4849
www.luminatofestival.com
Performances take place at various venues
in Toronto. Visit our website for further
information.
●●Jun 06 8:00: Kira: the Path/La Voie (premiere).
Lua Shayenne Dance Company. Also
Jun 7(8pm), 8(8pm), 9(3pm).
●●Jun 13 8:00: Obeah Opera. Also Jun 14, 15,
16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22(all at 8pm).
●●Jun 18 8:00: The Cave. Also Jun 19(8pm),
20(8pm), 21(8pm), 22(8pm), 23(2pm).
●●Jun 19 7:00: Hell’s Fury, The Hollywood
Songbook. Russell Braun, baritone; Serouj
Kradjian, piano. Also June 20(7pm), 21(7pm),
22(7pm), 23(2pm).
Markham Village Music Festival
Jun 14 to 15
Main Street Markham Rd.
Markham, ON
647-983-9054
www.markhamfestival.com
Detailed listings not available at time of publication.
For general description, see Green
Pages.
Montreal Chamber Music Festival
Jun 7, 11 to 16
Montreal, QC
514-489-7444
www.festivalmontreal.org
Performances take place at various venues
in Montreal. Visit our website for further
information.
●●Jun 07 8:00: Gregory Charles: L’Air du
Temps. Gregory Charles, piano and entertainer.
festivalmontreal.org.
●●Jun 11 12:00 noon: BMO Hottest Classical
Artists Under 30! Bruno Tobon, Denis
Brott, cello. Includes free snack; 5:00: The
Beethoven Symphonies Transcribed for Piano
by Franz Liszt. Alexander Ullman, piano.
Complete listings not available at time of publication.
For general description, see Green
Pages.
Music and Beyond
Jul 4 to 18
Ottawa, ON
613-241-0777
www.musicandbeyond.ca
Detailed listings not available at time of publication.
For general description, see Green
Pages.
Music Mondays
May 6 to Sep 2
Church of the Holy Trinity
Toronto, ON
416-598-4521 x223
www.musicmondays.ca
All concerts at the Church of the Holy Trinity,
19 Trinity Sq. Admission is PWYC (suggested
donation of $10).
●●Jun 03 12:15: Acquired Taste Choir. Proceeds
donated to a local charity.
●●Jun 10 12:15: Heine’s Buch der Lieder.
James McLean, tenor; William Aide, piano.
●●Jun 17 12:15: In Concert. Andrew Sords, violin;
Cherul Duvall, piano.
●●Jun 24 12:15: If I Only Had A Brain: The
Songs of Harold Arlen. Ilana Waldston, singer.
●●Jul 01 12:15: Jason Wilson’s Sumach Roots.
Jason Wilson Band.
●●Jul 08 12:15: Unspoken Poetry. Interro
String Quartet.
●●Jul 15 12:15: Chamber Music Concert.
Marco Verza, clarinet; Odin String Quartet.
●●Jul 22 12:15: A Musical Journey Through
China & Iran. Wendy Zhou, Chinese pipa;
Padideh Ahrarnejad, Persian tar; Ali
Massoudi, percusssion.
●●Jul 29 12:15: Journey to Klezmer. Jonno
Lightstone; Brian Katz Klezmer Duo.
●●Aug 05 12:15: War of the Foxes. Stanford
Cheung.
●●Aug 12 12:15: The Ageless Beauty of Maturity.
Albert Seo, cello; Tristan Savella, piano.
●●Aug 19 12:15: Michael Arnowitt’s ImproVisions
Jazz Quartet.
●●Aug 26 12:15: Of Foreign Lands and Peoples.
Kevin Ahfat, piano.
●●Sep 02 12:15: Penrose Trio.
Musique Royale
Jun 1 to Sep 1
Across Nova Scotia
902-692-8081
www.musiqueroyale.com
Detailed listings available on festival website.
For general description, see Green Pages.
National Youth Orchestra of Canada
Jul 21, 22, 25, 27, 29
416-532-4470
www.nyoc.org
See festival or venue websites for details.
●●Jul 21 5:30: Ottawa Chamberfest.
●●Jul 22 7:30: Maison Symphonique de
Montréal.
●●Jul 25 7:30: Festival of the Sound.
●●Jul 28 4:00: Stratford Summer Music.
●●Jul 29 7:30: Koerner Hall, Telus Centre.
OperaMuskoka Festival
Aug 20 to 23
Bracebridge and Windermere, ON
2 weekends in Picton
705-765-1048
www.muskokachautauqua.com
Detailed listings not available at time of publication.
For general description, see Green
Pages.
Orchestra Breva – Eroica: A
Sesquicentennial Tribute to Laura
Secord
May 25, 26, Jun 20, 21, 23
Windsor, Tecumseh, Ingersoll, Brantford,
and Niagara, ON
519-980-1113
www.orchestrabreva.com
●●Jun 20 8:00: Ingersoll Cheese and Agricultural
Museum. 290 Harris St., Ingersoll.
●●Jun 21 8:00: Sanderson Centre for the Performing
Arts, 88 Dalhousie St., Brantford.
●●Jun 23 2:00: Queenston Heights Park
Bandshell, 14184 Niagara Parkway,
Niagara-on-the-Lake.
Ottawa Chamberfest
Jul 25 to Aug 8
Ottawa, ON
613-234-6306
www.chamberfest.com
Detailed listings not available at time of publication.
For general description, see Green
Pages.
Prince Edward County Chamber Music
Festival
Sep 13 to 22
Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Picton, ON
613-393-3798
6 INSPIRED CONCERTS!
Gryphon Trio
Jamie Parker
Julie Nesrallah
Robert Kortgaard
True North Brass
Aloysia Friedman
Les Violons Du Roy
Charles Richard-Hamelin
Jon Kimura Parker
New Orford String Quartet
SEPTEMBER 13-22
pecmusicfestival.com
16
YEARS
Artistic Directors ~ New Orford String Quartet
Jamie Parker
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www.pecmusicfestival.com
Detailed listings not available at time of publication.
For general description, see Green
Pages.
Prince Edward County Jazz Festival
Aug 13 to 18
Picton, Prince Edward County, ON
1-877-411-4761
www.pecjazz.org
Detailed listings not available at time of publication.
For general description, see Green
Pages.
Something Else! Festival
Jun 20 to 23
Various venues
289-993-1993
www.zulapresents.org
Performances take place at various venues
in Hamilton. Visit our website for further
information.
●●Jun 20 7:00: Earth Wind & Choir (Sarah
Good, conductress); Yves Charuest, alto sax;
Indigenous Mind (Hamid Drake, drums/percussion;
Joshua Abrams, double bass/guimbri;
Jason Adasiewicz, vibraphone); William
Hooker, drums/percussion/poetry.
●●Jun 21 12:00 noon: The Archives of Eternity
(Mike Hundevad, vibes/comp; Mike
Gennaro, drums; Patrick Smith, tenor
sax; Andrew Furlong, double bass); Jason
Adasiewcz, vibraphone; Brodie West, alto
sax; Hamid Drake, drums/percussion; Iva
Bittová, violin/vocals; 7:00: Picastro (Liz
Hysen, guitar/piano/vocals); Gilliam/Milmine/Pottie
(Bill Gilliam, piano; Kayla Milmine,
soprano sax; Ambrose Pottie, drums);
Hooker/Charuest/Newsome/Eguiluz (William
Hooker, drums/percussion; Yves
Charuest, alto sax; Sam Newsome, soprano
sax; Géraldine Eguiluz, voice, various
instruments); Iva Bittová, violin/vocals;
Hamid Drake, drums/percussion.
●●Jun 22 1:00: Sara Schoenbeck, bassoon;
Harris Eisenstadt’s Poschiavo
50 Ensembles (Harris Eisenstaedt, drums/
conductor/composition; Sara Schoenbeck,
bassoon; Yves Charues, alto sax; Sam
Newsome, soprano sax; Don Byron, reeds,
Géraldine Eguiluz, voice/guitar/trumpet;
David Lee, double bass; Connor Bennett,
sax; Chris Palmer, guitar; Nick Fraser,
drums); Joshua Abrams, double bass/guimbri;
No Silenz (Susanna Hood, voice; Jason
Sharp, bass sax; Fredéric B Briet, double
bass; Christophe Rocher, clarinets); 7:00:
Tidal Pool (Connor Bennett, sax/electronics);
Eguiluz Trio (Géraldine Eguiluz, voice/
guitar/pocket trumpet/Bulgarian flute/
kalimba; Jean René, viola/voice; Stéphane
Diamantakiou, double bass/voice); Iva Bittová,
violin/vocals; Indigenous Mind (Hamid
Drake, drums/percussion; Joshua Abrams,
double bass/guimbri; Jason Adasiewicz,
vibraphone; Don Byron, reeds).
●●Jun 23 1:00: Joanna Duda, piano/electronics;
Eucalyptus (Brodie West, alto sax;
Ryan Driver, clavinet; Rebecca Hennessy,
trumpet; Kurt Newman, guitar; Mike Smith,
bass; Blake Howard, percussion; Nick Fraser,
drums; Evan Cartwright, drums);
Sam Newsome, soprano sax; 5:00: Sourpussy
(Victoria Alstein, Becky Katz, Jessica
Summer Festivals
Somers, Heather South, various instruments/vocals);
Ear-Cam (Christine Duncan,
voice; John Oswald, alto sax; Tomasz
Krakowiak, percussion; Glen Hall, woodwinds/percussion/electronics);
Don Byron,
clarinets.
South Coast Jazz
Aug 17 to 18
Port Dover Community Centre
801 St. George St., Port Dover ON
519-774-2787 (ARTS)
www.southcoastjazz.com
Performances take place at various venues
in Port Dover. Visit our website for further
information.
●●Aug 17 5:00: Powder Blues Band, Dave Restivo,
Alison Young, Eric St Laurent, Juliann
Kuchocki and others.
●●Aug 18 5:30: Dinner Show and River Cruise.
Stonebridge Wasaga Beach Blues
Sep 13 to 15
Wasaga Beach, ON
705-607-7744
www.wasagabeachblues.com
Detailed listings not available at time of publication.
For general description, see Green
Pages.
Stratford Summer Music
Jul 15 to Aug 25
Stratford, ON
1-866-288-4313
www.stratfordsummermusic.ca
Performances take place at various venues
in Stratford. Visit our website for further
information.
●●Jul 17 7:00: Manitoba Chamber Orchestra.
Guest: Simone Dinnerstein; Anne Manson,
music director.
●●Jul 18 7:00: Leslie Ting Speculation.
●●Jul 19 9:00: Stephen Prutsman.
●●Jul 21 3:00: Chamber Music Concert. Stephen
Prutsman, piano; Stéphane Tétreault,
cello; Mark Fewer, violin.
●●Jul 24 7:00: The Brothers Creeggan.
Guests: Tom Allen, Robert Carli, Mark Fewer.
●●Jul 25 7:00: Amir Amiri.
●●Jul 26 9:00: Duane Andrews and Friends.
●●Jul 27 11:00am: Musical Brunches with Graham
Hargrove; 3:00: Oh Happy Day! Ben
Heppner with the Toronto Mass Choir.
●●Jul 28 4:00: National Youth Orchestra of
Canada. Michael Francis, conductor.
●●Jul 29 7:00: Payadora.
●●Jul 31 3:00: Joe Trio; 7:00: Laila Biali.
●●Aug 01 11:00am: Guy Few, trumpet & Stephen
Mara, piano & Mark Fewer, interviewer;
7:00: The Cannabis Cantata. Mireille Asselin,
soprano; Matthew Dalen, tenor; Adam Harris,
baritone. Restricted to 19+. Photo ID
required.
●●Aug 02 3:00: Hatch – Continuum; 9:00: Phil
Dwyer Trio.
●●Aug 03 11:00am: Musical Brunches with
Joseph Phillips; 7:00: Janina Fialkowska.
●●Aug 05 7:00: Nat Cole: A King’s Centennial.
Paul Marinaro, vocals; Ben Paterson, piano;
Jim Doxas, drums; Mike Downess, bass.
●●Aug 07 7:00: Harmen Fraanje & Lucas
Dann; 7:00: Bernice. Robin Dann, Felicity Williams,
vocals; Philippe Melanson, e-drums;
Thom Gill, synths; Dan Fortin, bass.
A WORLD OF
MUSIC FOR
EVERYONE
●●Aug 08 3:00: Steven Dann & Friends. Steven
Dann, viola; Clark Schaufele, piano; Drew
Comstock, cello; Mark Fewer, violin; 7:00:
Nico Dann Trio.
●●Aug 09 3:00: Isabel Bayrakdarian. Robert
Kortgaard, piano; Mark Fewer, violin; 9:00:
Jodi Proznick Trio. Heather Bambrick, vocals.
●●Aug 10 11:00am: Musical Brunches with
Clark Schaufele; 11:00am: Sing For Health!
Rachel Shubert.
●●Aug 15 3:00: Nevermore, Inspired by Edgar
Allen Poe. Tom Allen; Lori Gemmell; The Rosebud
Quartet.
●●Aug 16 9:00: Tom Allen & Co.: Bohemians
in Brooklyn. Tom Allen, voice/trombone; Lori
Gemmell, harp/guitar/voice; Bryce Kulak,
piano/voice; Patricia O’Callaghan, voice/
percussion.
●●Aug 17 11:00am: Musical Brunches with
Andrew Downing.
●●Aug 18 7:00: John MacLeod’s Rex Hotel
Orchestra.
●●Aug 19 1:00: Vocal Academy Performance.
●●Aug 21 3:00: Vocal Academy Finale Concert;
7:00: Art of Time Ensemble.
●●Aug 22 3:00: Party Like It’s 1689! Suzie
LeBlanc, soprano; Mark Fewer, violin; Matthias
Maute, recorder; 7:00: John Novacek.
James Campbell, clarinet; Mark Fewer, violin.
●●Aug 23 9:00: Rhapsody in Blue. The Campbells;
Mark Fewer; INNERchamber.
●●Aug 24 11:00am: Musical Brunches with
Thomas Wiebe; 7:00: Two Bass Hit with Dave
Young and Joel Quarrington. Dave Young,
Joel Quarrington, bass; John Novacek, piano.
●●Aug 25 3:00: Rémi Bolduc Jazz Ensemble:
Tribute to Dave Brubeck.
Summer Music in the Garden
Jun 27 to Sep 15
Toronto Music Garden
470 Queens Quay W., Toronto, ON
416-793-4000
www.harbourfrontcentre.com/
summermusic
All concerts are free.
●●Jun 27 7:00: War and Peace. Madawaska
Quartet.
●●Jun 30 4:00: Four Seasons, Four Viols: Vivaldi’s
Quattro Stagioni Revisited. Les Voix
Humaines, viol quartet.
●●Jul 04 7:00: Tastes of Home: New Music for
Traditional Chinese & Korean Instruments.
Amely Zhou, erhu; Lipeng Wu, dizi; Roa Lee,
gayageum, Evan Lamberton, cello.
●●Jul 07 4:00: Tea for Three. Cénacle.
●●Jul 11 7:00: Mistrāl: Songs from around
the Mediterranean. Tamar Ilana; Ventanas
Ensemble.
●●Jul 18 7:00: Passion and Solace: Early 20th
Century Duos for Violin and Cello. Andréa
Tyniec, violin; Stéphane Tétreault, cello.
●●Jul 21 4:00: Global Inspirations. TorQ Percussion
Quartet.
●●Jul 25 7:00: Inner Journey V. Rumi Canada.
●●Jul 28 4:00: Choro! Trio Chorinho; Guest:
Flavia Nascimento.
●●Aug 01 7:00: New and Special Ways. New
Zealand String Quartet.
●●Aug 08 7:00: From Greece to Granados.
Maria Soulis, mezzo; William Eauvais, guitar;
Tanya Charles Iveniuk, violin.
●●Aug 11 4:00: Raags of Love and Devotion.
Ramneek Singh, voice; Ravi Naimpally, tabla;
Hardeep Chana, harmonium.
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●●Aug 15 7:00: Voices from Eastern Europe.
BLISK Quartet.
●●Aug 18 4:00: Laüsa: Spark of Gascony.
●●Aug 22 7:00: Something Old, Something
New. VC2 Cello Duo.
●●Aug 25 4:00: Duetto Violoncello. Elinor Frey
and Phoebe Carrai, baroque cellos.
Summer Opera Lyric Theatre
Jul 26 to Aug 4
Robert Gill Theatre, Toronto, ON
214 College St.
416-363-7723
www.solt.ca
All tickets are $28.
●●Jul 26 8:00: La traviata. Also Jul 28(2pm);
31(2pm); Aug 3(8pm).
●●Jul 27 2:00: Earnest, The Importance of
Being. Also Jul 30(8pm); Aug 1(8pm); 4(2pm).
●●Jul 27 8:00: Riders to the Sea and Gianni
Schicchi. Also Jul 31(8pm); Aug 2(8pm);
3(2pm).
Sun Life Financial Uptown Waterloo
Jazz Festival
Jul 19 to 21
Waterloo City Center, 100 Regina St. S.,
Waterloo, ON
519-394-0093
www.waterloojazzfest.com
Detailed listings not available at time of publication.
For general description, see Green
Pages.
Sweetwater Music Festival
Sep 20 to 22
Owsen Sound and Meaford, ON
519-371-2833
www.sweetwatermusicfestival.ca
Detailed listings not available at time of publication.
For general description, see Green
Pages.
Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Festival
Jun 3 to 15
Toronto, ON
416-964-6337
www.tafelmusik.org/TBSF
Performances take place at various venues
in Toronto. Visit our website for further information.
Jun 03 8:00: Opening Night. Tafelmusik
Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir;
Ivars Taurins, choir director; Elisa Citterio;
director.
●●Jun 08 12:30: Baroque Portraits. Members
of the Faculty of Tafelmusik Baroque Summer
Institute.
●●Jun 09 12:30: Many Strings Attached.
Participants of the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer
Institute Viola d’Amore Workshop;
Thomas Georgi, leader.
●●Jun 12 1:00: Afternoon Concert. Tafelmusik
Baroque Summer Institute Orchestras and
Choirs; Elisa Citterio, Jeanne Lamon and Ivars
Taurins, directors.
●●Jun 15 7:30: The Grand Finale. Tafelmusik
Baroque Summer Institute Orchestra and
Choir; Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and
Chamber Choir; Jeanne Lamon and Ivars
Taurins, directors.
TD Markham Jazz Festival
Aug 14, 16, 18
Markham, ON
905-471-5299
www.markhamjazzfestival.com
Detailed listings not available at time of publication.
For general description, see Green
Pages.
TD Niagara Jazz Festival
Jul 19 to 21 – St. Catharines, ON
Jul 26 to 28 – Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON
1-844-LIV-JAZZ (548-5289)
Detailed listings available on festival website.
For general description, see Green Pages.
TD Sunfest: Canada’s Premier
Celebration of World Cultures
Jul 4 to 7
Victoria Park, London, ON
519-672-1522
www.sunfest.on.ca
Detailed listings not available at time of publication.
For general description, see Green
Pages.
Toronto Summer Music
Jul 11 to Aug 3
Toronto, ON
647-430-5699
www.torontosummermusic.com
Performances take place at various venues
in Toronto. Visit our website for further
information.
●●Jul 11 7:30: Opening Night: Beyond Borders.
Adrianne Pieczonka, soprano; Jon Kimura
Parker, piano; Kerson Leong, violin; Steven
Philcox, piano; New Orford String Quartet;
Tom Allen, host.
●●Jul 12 7:30: Celebrating 10 Years. New
Orford String Quartet.
●●Jul 13 1:00: reGENERATION: Art Song
& Chamber Music. Singers, pianists and
chamber musicians from the Toronto
Summer Music Academy’s Art of Song
program and Chamber Music Institute;
New Orford String Quartet. Also
Jul 13(4pm, 7:30pm), 20(1pm, 4pm,
7:30pm).
●●Jul 15 7:30: Crossings: In the Footsteps of
the Griot. Ablaye Cissoko, griot storyteller;
Constantinople.
●●Jul 16 7:30: Griffey & Jones in Recital.
Anthony Dean Griffey, tenor; Warren Jones,
piano.
●●Jul 17 7:30: Dover Quartet.
●●Jul 18 7:30: Voices Across the Atlantic.
Toronto Summer Music Academy Vocal Fellows;
Steven Philcox, harpsichord; Daniel Taylor,
countertenor/conductor. Post-concert
reception.
●●Jul 19 7:30: Charles Richard-Hamelin.
Charles Richard-Hamelin, piano; Members of
the Dover Quartet.
●●Jul 20 1:00: reGENERATION: Art Song
& Chamber Music. Singers, pianists and
chamber musicians from the Toronto Summer
Music Academy’s Art of Song program
and Chamber Music Institute; Dover
Quartet; Charles Richard-Hamelin, piano.
Also Jul 13(4pm, 7:30pm), 20(1pm, 4pm,
7:30pm).
●●Jul 22 7:30: Kleztory.
●●Jul 23 7:30: Rolston String Quartet.
●●Jul 24 7:30: Collectìf.
●●Jul 25 7:30: From Franz Schubert to Freddie
Mercury. Sarah Slean, vocalist; John
Southworth, singer/songwriter; Art of Time
Ensemble; 10:30: TSM Late Night. Jonathan
Crow, violin; Toronto Summer Music Academy
Fellows.
●●Jul 26 7:30: Souvenir de Florence. Jonathan
Crow, violin; Jennifer Koh, violin; Beth Guterman,
viola; Julie Albers, cello; Yegor Dyachkov,
cello, Philip Chiu, piano.
●●Jul 27 1:00: reGENERATION: Source and
Inspiration. Rolston String Quartet; Sarah
Slean and John Southworth, singers/
songwriters; Art of Time Ensemble; 4:00:
reGENERATION: Chamber Music. Chamber
musicians from the Toronto Summer
Music Academy’s Chamber Music Institute;
Jennifer Koh, Beth Guterman Chu,
FREE
ADMISSION
Julie Albers, Yegor Dyachkov, Philip Chiu.
Also 7:30pm.
●●Jul 29 7:30: Europe and the New World.
Jonathan Crow, violin; Philip Chiu, piano.
●●Jul 30 7:30: Angela Hewitt Plays the Bach
Goldberg Variations. Angela Hewitt, piano.
Pre-concert chat with author and storyteller
Madeleine Thien.
●●Jul 31 7:30: Ensemble Made in Canada.
●●Aug 01 7:30: Song of the Earth. Mario Bahg,
tenor; Rihab Chaleb, mezzo; Jonathan Crow,
violin; Gemma New, conductor.
●●Aug 02 7:30: Mendelssohn Octet. Jennifer
Frautschi, violin; Elissa Lee, violin; Aaron
Schwebel, violin; Barry Shiffman, violin; Hsin-
Yu Huang, viola; and others.
●●Aug 03 4:00: reGENERATION: Chamber
Music. Chamber musicians from the Toronto
Summer Music Academy’s Chamber Music
Institute; Barry Shiffman, Desmond Hoebig,
Jennifer Frautschi, Hsin-Yun Huang, and
others.
●●Aug 03 7:30: Toronto Summer Music Finale.
Westben Concerts at The Barn
Jun 2 to Aug 4
6698 County Road 30, Campbellford, ON
877-883-5777
www.westben.ca
All concerts at The Barn, 6698 County Road
30, Campbellford, except where noted.
●●Jun 01 2:00: From the Top! Donna Bennett,
soprano; Virginia Hatfield, soprano; Kim
Dafoe, mezzo; Gabrielle Prata, mezzo; Mark
DuBois, tenor; and others; Westben Choruses
& Alumni. Also Jun 2.
●●Jun 09 2:00: Sounds of a Better World.
Westben Youth, Teen, B Natural, Cookie Choruses;
(Donna Bennett & Brian Finley, directors);
Westben Community Bands (Nancy
Elmhirst, director).
●●Jun 30 2:00: Viva Vivaldi! The Four Seasons
& Gloria. Amy Hillis, violin; Westben Festival
Orchestra & Chorus. 1:15: Pre-Concert Chat.
●●Aug 02 9:00: Westben Jazz Fringe. Also
Aug 3 & 4. Various venues.
July 4- 7, 2019
Victoria Park, London, Ontario
Canada’s Premier
Celebration of
World Cultures
5 Stages ~ 225 Food, Craft & Visual Art Exhibitors
40 International & Canadian World Music & Jazz Groups
For a complete list of performers and more information visit sunfest.on.ca
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MUSIC THEATRE covers a wide range of music types:
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singalongs and other music-related events (except
performances) which may be of interest to our readers.
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LISTINGS
Lake Ontario
Saturday June 1
●●2:00: The Parahumans. Triad. Scotiabank
Studio Theatre, 6 Noble St. theparahumans.
com. $20; $15(sr/st/dance artists). Also 8pm.
●●3:00: Singing Out. Changing Currents.
Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for
the Arts, 27 Front St. E. singingout.com. $27.
Also 7:30. A fundraiser for Rainbow Camp.
●●7:00: Claire de Sévigné/Aviva Fortunata.
Two Sopranos, One Friendship. Works by
Mozart, Strauss, Donizetti and others. Claire
de Sévigné and Aviva Fortunata, sopranos;
Jenna Simeonov, piano. St. John’s United
Church (Oakville), 262 Randall St., Oakville.
n/a. $40.
●●7:30: Annex Singers. Underneath the
Stars. Cabaret concert of jazz standards
and popular songs. Works by Gershwin, Porter,
Berlin and other Songbook composers.
Maria Case, artistic director. Parish Hall,
Grace Church on-the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale Rd.
416-458-4434. $30; $25(sr/st). Light fare;
cash bar.
●●7:30: Cantemus Singers. Tanzen und
Springen/Dancing and Leaping. Franck: Bierlied;
Lasso: Un jeune moine; Pange Lingua;
Schütz: Tornate cari baci; Buxtehude: Missa
Brevis for 5 voices. Michael Erdman, conductor.
Church of the Holy Trinity, 19 Trinity
Sq. 416-578-6602. $20; free(under 12). Also
June 2(3pm).
●●7:30: Etobicoke Centennial Choir. After
the Rain. Apostolov: After the Rain, Barefoot
Dance, Guardian Angel, and Mystic Mountain;
Lauridsen: Les chansons des roses; and
works by Byrd, Delibes, Fauré and others.
Anton Apostolov, guitar; Jacek Karlowski,
tamboura (Bulgarian lute); Nikola Gaidarov,
kaval (Bulgarian wooden flute); Sunjung Park,
keyboard; Hasheel Lodhia, bansuri (Indian
flute); Rosendo Chendy Leon, percussion; Carl
Steinhauser, piano. Humber Valley United
Church, 76 Anglesey Blvd., Etobicoke. 416-
779-2258. $30. Venue is accessible.
●●7:30: National Ballet of Canada. Physical
Thinking. Music by Franz Schubert and Thom
Willems. William Forsythe, choreographer
and designer. Four Seasons Centre for the
Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-345-
9595. $39 and up. Opens Jun 1, 7:30pm. Runs
to Jun 8. Sat/Sun(2pm), Wed-Fri(7:30pm).
●●7:30: Opera by Request. Nabucco. Music
by Verdi; libretto by Solera. Gene Wu, baritone
(Nabucco); Cristina Pisani, soprano (Abigaille);
Dylan Wright, bass (Zaccaria); Cian
Horrobin, tenor (Ismaele); and others; William
Shookhoff, piano and conductor. Christ
Church UCC, 1700 Mazo Crescent, Mississauga.
416-455-2365. $20.
●●7:30: Resonance. Resonance in Performance:
Spring Concert. Part of Mississauga
Festival Choir family. First United Church
(Port Credit), 151 Lakeshore Rd W., Mississauga.
416-986-5537. $35; $30(sr/st).
●●7:30: Singing Out. Changing Currents. Jane
Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the
Arts, 27 Front St. E. singingout.com. $27. Also
7:30. A fundraiser for Rainbow Camp.
●●7:30: Toronto Messiaen Ensemble. Portrait
of a Friendship. Gideon Gee-Bum Kim: Riddle,
Two Poems and Epilogue, Impromptu on the
Korean Folk tune “Doraji”; Ofer Ben-Amots:
Montage Music, Bulgar Genevois; and other
works. Esther Choi, flute; Peter Pinteric, clarinet;
Steve Koh; violin; Yoon Woo Kim, viola;
A. Concerts in the GTA
Evan Lamberton, cello; Amy Seulky Lee,
piano; Gideon Gee-Bum Kim, artistic director/conductor.
Guest: Daniel Ramjattan, guitar.
Canadian Music Centre, 20 St. Joseph St.
torontomessiaen@hotmail.com. Donation.
●●8:00: Acoustic Harvest/Live Music East.
Angelique Francis. St. Paul’s United Church
(Scarborough), 200 McIntosh St., Scarborough.
lillian.wauthier@gmail.com.
$25/$22(adv).
●●8:00: Canadian Sinfonietta. Wine and
Cheese Concert. R. Strauss: Sonata in E-flat
for Violin and Piano; Taneyev: Piano Quintet
in g Op.30. Erika Crino, piano; Joyce Lai and
Alain Bouvier, violins; Ian Clarke, viola; Andras
Weber, cello. Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton
Ave. canadiansinfonietta.yapsody.com. $35;
$30(sr); $25(st).
●●8:00: Confluence. At the River. Larry Beckwith,
Dylan Bell, James Mead, Marion Newman,
Patricia O’Callaghan, and others. St. Thomas’s
Anglican Church (Toronto), 383 Huron St. 416-
410-4561. $30; $25(sr); $20(st). 7:15pm: preconcert
chat and season announcement with
Larry Beckwith and special guests.
●●8:00: Greater Toronto Philharmonic
Orchestra. A Night at the Movies. Music
from blockbuster movies: Lord of the Rings,
Superman, 007, Harry Potter, Doctor Zhivago,
and Mission Impossible. John Palmer conductor.
Calvin Presbyterian Church, 26 Delisle
Ave. 647-238-0015 or gtpo.ca. $30; $25(sr);
$15(st).
●●8:00: Kir Stefan The Serb Choir. Music
Knows No Borders. Works by Manojlović;
sacred and secular 19th- and 20th-century
works. Jasmina Vucurović, conductor. Trinity-
St. Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St. W. universe.com.
$40; $30(sr/st). Dedicated to 70th anniversary
of the death of Kosta P. Manojlović.
●●8:00: North York Concert Orchestra/
Jubilate Singers/Hart House Chorus. Ode to
Joy. Beethoven: Symphony No.9. Andrea Lett,
soprano; Danielle MacMillan, mezzo; Michael
Barrett, tenor; Bradley Christensen, baritone;
Jubilate Singers; Hart House Chorus; Rafael
Luz, conductor. Yorkminster Citadel, 1 Lord
Seaton Rd., North York. 416-628-9195. $30;
$25(sr); $10(st). Pre-concert chat at 7:30pm.
Also June 2(7:30pm, Church of St. Peter and
St. Simon-the-Apostle).
●●8:00: SING! The Toronto Vocal Arts Festival.
Soundcrowd: Dance Party. Opera House,
735 Queen St. E. 416-694-6900. $30.
●●8:00: The Parahumans. Triad. Scotiabank
Studio Theatre, 6 Noble St. theparahumans.
com. $20; $15(sr/st/dance artists). Also 2pm.
●●8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Denk
Plays Mozart. Mozart: Overture to Don Giovanni
K527; Piano Concerto No.14 in E-flat
K449; Rondo in a K511 (for solo piano); Piano
Concerto No.25 in C K503. Jeremy Denk,
leader and piano; Simon Rivard, RBC Resident
Conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St.
416-598-3375. $34.75-$148.
●●10:15: Jewish Music Week in Toronto. After
Dark: Community Melaveh Makla. Shir Harmony;
Toronto Jewish Chorus; Toronto Jewish
Male Choir; Jonno Lightstone, clarinet.
Beth David B’nai Israel Beth Am, 55 Yeomans
Rd. 416-638-4492. Free.
Sunday June 2
● ● 10:30am: Jewish Music Week in Toronto.
Cool Kids’ Concert: Sonshine & Broccoli!
Lisa Sonshine; Brock Burford. Beth Sholom
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Synagogue, 1445 Eglinton Ave. W. 416-633-
4492. Free.
●●11:30am: Mississauga Big Band Jazz
Ensemble. Bread & Honey Festival. Memorial
Park Streetsville, 355 Church St., Mississauga.
905-270-4757 or
rboniface@rogers.com. Free.
●●2:00: Choralairs Choir. Annual Public Concert.
Beatles in Revue (medley), Hallelujah,
Blue Skies and Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat medley. SATB Choir. B’nai
Torah Synagogue, 465 Patricia Ave. 416-787-
8307. $10; free(under 10); $8(10 or more
group rate). Accessible.
●●2:00: National Ballet of Canada. Physical
Thinking. Music by Franz Schubert and Thom
Willems. William Forsythe, choreographer
and designer. Four Seasons Centre for the
Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-345-
9595. $39 and up. Opens Jun 1, 7:30pm. Runs
to Jun 8. Sat/Sun(2pm), Wed-Fri(7:30pm).
●●2:00: Spectrum Music. Voyages Extraordinaires.
Jazz Ensemble; Florian Francois,
Genevieve Fontaine, actors. Alliance Française
de Toronto, 24 Spadina Rd. 416-576-
8890. $20; $10(child).
●●3:00: Cantemus Singers. Tanzen und
Springen/Dancing and Leaping. Franck: Bierlied;
Lasso: Un jeune moine; Pange Lingua;
Schütz: Tornate cari baci; Buxtehude: Missa
Brevis for 5 voices. Michael Erdman, conductor.
Church of the Holy Trinity, 19 Trinity Sq. 416-578-
6602. $20; free(under 12). Also June 1(7:30pm).
●●3:00: Jewish Music Week in Toronto.
Sing Together with Sawuti African Children’s
Choir. St. Andrew’s Church (Toronto),
73 Simcoe St. 416-638-4492. Free.
●●3:00: St. Paul’s Bloor Street Anglican
Church. Organ Concert. Gerald Loo, organ.
227 Bloor St. E. 416-961-8116. Free.
●●3:30: North Toronto Community Band.
Spring Rhythms. Marches, classics, show
tunes, big band and more. Danny Wilks, conductor;
Phil Coonce, violin; Sharon Smith,
vocalist. Tribute Communities Recital Hall,
June 3 - Acquired
Taste Choir
June 10 - James
McLean & William
Aide
June 17 - Andrew
Sords
June 24 - Ilana
Waldston
www.musicmondays.ca
Accolade East Building, YU, 4700 Keele St.
416-736-5888. $20; $10(children 12 and
under). Silent auction.
●●4:00: Church of St. Mary Magdalene.
Organ Fireworks. Andrew Adair, organ.
Church of St. Mary Magdalene (Toronto),
477 Manning Ave. 416-531-7955. Free.
●●4:00: St. Philip’s Anglican Church. Jazz
Vespers. Felix Pastorius, bass; Tom Reynolds,
piano; Michael Occhipinti, guitar. 31 St. Phillips
Rd., Etobicoke. 416-247-5181. PWYC.
●●7:00: Strings Attached Orchestra. Family
& Friends Annual Year End Concert. Isabel
Bader Theatre, 93 Charles St. W.
info@stringsattachedorchestra.com. $20.
●●7:00: Strings Attached Orchestra. Family
& Friends Gala Concert. Isabel Bader Theatre,
93 Charles St. W. 416-219-2862 or
stringsattachedorchestra.com/tickets. $20.
●●7:30: Jewish Music Week in Toronto. Jerusalem
Swings! The Manhattan Transfer;
Simon Spiro; Wendy Lands, singer; Canadian
All-Star Swing Orchestra. Winter Garden
Theatre, 189 Yonge St. 416-872-1212 or mirvish.com/ticketing.
$60-$150.
●●7:30: North York Concert Orchestra/Jubilate
Singers/Hart House Chorus. Ode to Joy.
Beethoven: Symphony No.9. Andrea Lett, soprano;
Danielle MacMillan, mezzo; Michael Barrett,
tenor; Bradley Christensen, baritone;
Jubilate Singers; Hart House Chorus; Rafael
Luz, conductor. Church of St. Peter and St.
Simon-the-Apostle, 525 Bloor St. E. 416-485-
1988 or brownpapertickets.com or nyco.ca.
$30; $25(sr); $10(st). Also June 1(8pm, Yorkminster
Citadel).
●●7:30: SING! The Toronto Vocal Arts Festival.
SING! Cuban Fantasies with Vocal Sampling
and Freeplay. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas
St. W. 416-694-6900. $25.
●●7:30: The Bronze Foundation. America
the Beautiful. Handbell Ensemble. Wexford
Heights United Church, 2102 Lawrence
Ave. E., Scarborough. 905-764-6903. $20;
$10(st).
Monday June 3
●●12:15: Music Mondays. Acquired Taste
Choir. Stephen Chatman: Remember; and
other works. Church of the Holy Trinity,
19 Trinity Sq. 416-598-4521x223. PWYC($10
suggested). Proceeds donated to a local
charity.
●●7:30: Soundstreams. Encounters Series:
Encounters in Exile. Excerpts by Feliz and Eisler.
Juro Kim Feliz, spacialized recording.
Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St. W. 416-504-
1282. Free; PWYC(reserved seating).
●●8:00: Blythwood Winds. Return of the Jedi.
Williams: Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (arr.).
Tim Crouch, flute; Elizabeth Eccleston, oboe;
Anthony Thompson, clarinet; Kevin Harris,
bassoon; Curtis Vander Hyden, horn. Burdock
Music Hall, 1184 Bloor St. W. 416-546-
4033. $20/$15(adv). Seating is limited; doors
open 7:30.
●●8:00: Tafelmusik. Tafelmusik Baroque Summer
Festival: Opening Night. Tafelmusik Baroque
Orchestra and Chamber Choir; Ivars
Taurins, choir director; Elisa Citterio; director.
Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St. W.
416-964-6337. Free. Advanced general admission
tickets will be available online for priority
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●●12:10: Nine Sparrows Arts Foundation/
Yorkminster Park Baptist Church. Lunchtime
Chamber Music. Jacqueline Leung,
piano. Yorkminster Park Baptist Church,
1585 Yonge St. 416-241-1298. Free, donations
welcome.
●●4:45: Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre.
MNjcc Suzuki End of Season Ensemble
Concert. Al Green Theatre, Miles Nadal JCC,
750 Spadina Ave. 416-924-6211 x0 or
gretchena@mnjcc.org. Free.
●●7:00: Icelandic Canadian Club of Toronto.
Vocal Recital. Hanna Dóra Sturludóttir,
mezzo; Snorri Sigfús Birgisson, piano. Timothy
Eaton Memorial Church, 230 St. Clair
Ave. W. 416-762-8627. Freewill offering at the
door; reserve tickets at icct.info/hanna. Postconcert
reception.
●●7:30: City Choir. In Concert. An evening
of unique choral music, including original
compositions and arrangements. Gregory
Oh, John Millard, Patricia O’Callaghan,
Suba Sankaran and Waleed Abdulhamid, directors.
Dixon Hall, 188 Carlton St. 416-963-
9374. PWYC.
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June 5-9, 2019
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Libretto by Amanda Hale
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Wednesday June 5
●●12:00 noon: Small World - Summer Lunch.
Mimi O’Bansawin. Union Summer Stage,
65 Front St. W. 416-536-5439. Free.
●●12:30: Yorkminster Park Baptist
Church. Organ Recital. John Palmer, organ.
1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167. Free.
●●7:30: National Ballet of Canada. Physical
Thinking. See Jun 2. Also Jun 6(7:30pm),
7(7:30pm), 8(2pm).
●●7:30: Pomegranate Opera Productions/
Pride Toronto. Pomegranate. Music by Kye
Marshall, libretto by Amanda Hale. Buddies
in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander St. pomegranateopera.com.
$30-$50. Opens Jun 5,
7:30pm. Runs to Jun 9. Wed-Sat(7:30pm),
Sat/Sun(2pm).
●●8:00: Canadian Music Centre. The Canadian
Piano Left-Hand Commissioning Project.
New works for piano left-hand by
Christopher Butterfield, Taylor Brook, Anna
Hostman, Emilie LeBel, Adam Sherkin and
others. Adam Scime, piano left-hand; Adam
Sherkin, piano two-hands. 20 St. Joseph St.
416-961-6601. PWYC. Volumes of the commissioned
pieces will be on sale. Reception
to follow.
●●8:00: Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre.
MNjcc Community Choir Concerts. Popular
hits by Sting and The Lumineers; The Wiz
(selections); Avenue Q (selections); choral
works by Bevan and Jenkins; Gjeilo: Across
the Vast Eternal Sky. MNjcc Suzuki string program
members; Mark Ramsay, choir director;
Briony Glassco, assistant director; Asher Farber,
piano. Al Green Theatre, Miles Nadal JCC,
750 Spadina Ave. 416-924-6211 x0 or
Mnjcc.org/choirconcert. $15. Also Jun 6.
●●8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Brahms Symphony 4. Schumann: Overture to
Manfred; Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No.1;
Brahms: Symphony No.4. Jan Lisiecki, piano;
Karl-Heinz Steffens, conductor. Roy Thomson
Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-598-3375. $34.75-
$148. Also Jun 6, 8.
Thursday June 6
●●12:00 noon: Roy Thomson Hall. Noon-
Hour Concert Series: Here’s to Song! Oakville
Choir for Children and Youth. 60 Simcoe St.
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416-872-4255. Free.
●●7:30: Helga Schmidt/Attila Glatz Concert
Productions/Elev8 Global Entertainment.
Jonathan Antoine: Live In Concert, Beyond
the Curtain. Crossover tenor and star of
Britain’s Got Talent. Disney anthems; popular
songs; Puccini: Nessun Dorma; and other
arias. Jonathan Antoine, tenor; Tina Guo,
cello; DCappella, a cappella group. Winter
Garden Theatre, 189 Yonge St. 416-872-1212.
$45-$150. Also June 8.
●●7:30: National Ballet of Canada. Physical Thinking.
See Jun 2. Also Jun 7(7:30pm), 8(2pm).
●●7:30: Pomegranate Opera Productions/
Pride Toronto. Pomegranate. See Jun 5. Also
Jun 7(7:30pm), 8(2pm & 7:30pm), 9(2pm).
●●7:30: Syrinx Concerts Toronto. Ishay
Shaer in Concert. Beethoven: Piano Sonata
Op.111; Debussy: 2 Etudes; Chopin: Piano
Sonata No.3 in b Op.58; Coulthard: Image
Astrale. Peter Harvey, baritone. Mazzoleni
Concert Hall, Royal Conservatory, 273 Bloor
St. W. 416-654-0877. $30; $20(st).
●●8:00: Luminato Festival/Lua Shayenne
(Shayenne Productions). Kira: the Path/La
Voie (premiere). Tolno. Lua Shayenne Dance
Company. Fleck Dance Theatre, Harbourfront
Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-368-4849.
$35-$50. Runs June 6-9 as part of Luminato
Festival 2019.
●●8:00: Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre.
MNjcc Community Choir Concerts. Popular
hits by Sting and The Lumineers; The Wiz
(selections); Avenue Q (selections); choral
works by Bevan and Jenkins; Gjeilo: Across
the Vast Eternal Sky. MNjcc Suzuki string program
members; Mark Ramsay, choir director;
Briony Glassco, assistant director; Asher Farber,
piano. Al Green Theatre, Miles Nadal JCC,
750 Spadina Ave. 416-924-6211 x0 or
Mnjcc.org/choirconcert. $15. Also Jun 5.
●●8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Brahms Symphony 4. Schumann: Overture to
Manfred; Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No.1;
Brahms: Symphony No.4. Jan Lisiecki, piano;
Karl-Heinz Steffens, conductor. Roy Thomson
Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-598-3375. $34.75-
$148. Also Jun 5, 8.
●●8:30: Music Gallery. Dwarfs of East
Agouza + Fresh Snow + Omar Bongo. Tranzac
A. Concerts in the GTA
Club, 292 Brunswick Ave. 416-204-1080.
$18/$15(adv); $10(members).
Friday June 7
●●12:00 noon: Music at Metropolitan. Keep
Calm and Carillon. Jonathan Lehrer, carillonist.
Metropolitan United Church (Toronto),
56 Queen St. E. 416-363-0331 x26. Freewill
offering. On the front lawn. Also Jun 21, 28.
Music, She Wrote
William O’Meara | Organ
Etsuko Kimura | Violin
Friday, June 7
7:00 PM
St. Michael’s
Cathedral Basilica
●●7:00: St. Michael’s Concerts. Music, She
Wrote. Henderson: Suite for Organ & Violin;
Higdon: Ceremonies Suite; Tabakova: Diptych;
Tailleferre: Nocturne; Archer: Improvisation
on Veni Creator. William O’Meara, organ;
Etsuko Kimura, violin. St. Michael’s Cathedral,
65 Bond St. 416-397-6367. By donation($25
suggested).
●●7:30: National Ballet of Canada. Physical
Thinking. See Jun 2. Also Jun 8(2pm).
●●7:30: Opera by Request. A Summer Feast.
Purcell: If Music Be the Food of Love; Hoiby:
Bon Appetit (complete with real chocolate
cake); Berkeley: A Dinner Engagement.
Meghan Symon, mezzo; Lawrence Shirkie,
baritone; Gwendolynn Yearwood, soprano;
Josh Clemenger and Francis Domingue,
tenors; William Shookhoff, piano and conductor.
College Street United Church,
452 College St. 416-455-2365. $20.
●●7:30: Pomegranate Opera Productions/
Pride Toronto. Pomegranate. See Jun 5. Also
Jun 8(2pm & 7:30pm), 9(2pm).
●●8:00: Didgori/MusiCamp/Clay and Paper
Theatre/Folk Camp Canada. Didgori Ensemble
in Toronto. Georgian polyphony. 6 members
of Didgori ensemble from Georgia singing and
accompanying themselves on traditional instruments.
Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre, Jeanne Lamon
Hall, 427 Bloor St. W. 647-836-4852 or musicampto.com.
$30; $15(st/underemployed).
●●8:00: Luminato Festival/Lua Shayenne
(Shayenne Productions). Kira: the Path/La
Voie (premiere). Tolno. Lua Shayenne Dance
Company. Fleck Dance Theatre, Harbourfront
Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-368-4849.
$35-$50. Runs June 6-9 as part of Luminato
Festival 2019.
●●8:00: Small World Music Society. Arnab
Chakrabarty Sarod Recital. Arnab Chakrabarty,
sarod; Zaheer-Abbas Janmohamed,
tabla. Small World Music Centre, Artscape
Youngplace, 180 Shaw St. 416-536-5439.
$30/$20(adv).
Saturday June 8
●●12:30: Tafelmusik. Tafelmusik Baroque
Summer Festival: Baroque Portraits. Members
of the Faculty of Tafelmusik Baroque
Summer Institute. Walter Hall, Edward
Johnson Building, University of Toronto,
80 Queen’s Park. 416-964-6337. Free.
Assigned on a first-come, first-served basis.
No tickets required.
●●2:00: National Ballet of Canada. Physical
Thinking. See Jun 2.
●●2:00: Pomegranate Opera Productions/
Pride Toronto. Pomegranate. See Jun 5. Also
Jun 8(7:30pm), 9(2pm).
●●4:00: Lisa Di Maria. In Recital. Barber:
Knoxville Summer of 1915; works by Fauré,
Puccini and others. Lisa Di Maria, soprano;
Adolfo De Santis, piano. St. Thomas’s Anglican
Church (Toronto), 383 Huron St. 647-201-
5762. $25; $19(st under 18).
●●7:00: North Wind Concerts. Alternate Takes.
Works by Schumann, Brahms, Bruch and
KINDRED SPIRITS ORCHESTRA
10 th anniversary concert season
Kodály. Colin Savage, clarinet; Mary-Katherine
Finch, cello; Laurence Schaufele, viola; Stephanie
Chua, piano. Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton
Ave. 416-588-4301 or bemusednetwork.com.
$32; $25(sr); $18(st/arts); $12(12 and under).
●●7:00: St. Elizabeth Scola Cantorum Hungarian
Choir. Spring Choir Concert. Vivaldi:
Gloria and other works. Christa Lazar, soprano;
Ágnes Kurfis, alto; Orsolya Szalados,
Renee Anton violin; Imre Olah, conductor, and
others. St. Elizabeth of Hungary Roman Catholic
Church, 432 Sheppard Ave. E. 416-300-
9305 or scola.cantorum@gmail.com. $20;
$10(st). Post-concert reception.
●●7:30: Counterpoint Community Orchestra.
In Concert. Andrew Chung, conductor.
Church of St. Peter and St. Simon-the-Apostle,
525 Bloor St. E. 647-970-8057. $25;
$15(st).
●●7:30: Helga Schmidt/Attila Glatz Concert
Productions/Elev8 Global Entertainment.
Jonathan Antoine: Live In Concert, Beyond
the Curtain. Crossover tenor and star of
Britain’s Got Talent. Disney anthems; popular
songs; Puccini: Nessun Dorma; and other
arias. Jonathan Antoine, tenor; Tina Guo,
cello; DCappella, a cappella group. Winter
Garden Theatre, 189 Yonge St. 416-872-1212.
$45-$150. Also June 6.
●●7:30: Pomegranate Opera Productions/
Pride Toronto. Pomegranate. See Jun 5. Also
Jun 9(2pm).
●●7:30: TO Live. Ghostbusters in Concert.
Movie screening accompanied by live orchestra.
Peter Bernstein, conductor. Sony Centre
for the Performing Arts, 1 Front St. E. 1-855-
872-7669. $55-$111.
●●7:30: Toronto Cantata Chorus. A Concert
for Hope. Fauré: Requiem. North York
Temple Band. Toronto Christian Community
Church, 100 Acadia Ave., Markham. 647-
869-6035. $20.
●●8:00: Alliance Française de Toronto. Ariko
- Concert Folk. 24 Spadina Rd. 416-922-2014.
$25; $20(sr/st); $12(members).
●●8:00: Kindred Spirits Orchestra. Schnittke
and Schoenberg. Schnittke: Concerto for
piano and strings; Schoenberg: Kammersymphonie
Op.9. Featuring films about Schnittke
and Schoenberg. Antonia de Wolfe, piano;
Kristian Alexander, conductor. Cornell Recital
Hall, 3201 Bur Oak Ave., Markham. 905-604-
8339. $30-$40; $25(sr); $15(under 30).
●●8:00: Labyrinth Ontario. Modal Music
Summit: Ross Daly with This Tale of Ours plus
Tzvetanka Varimezova. Transcultural instrumental
and vocal modal music from Greece,
Bulgaria, Iran. Ross Daly; This Tale of Ours;
Tzvetanka Varimezova. Eastminster United
Church, 310 Danforth Ave. labyrinthontario.
com. $25; $20(st/arts).
●●8:00: Luminato Festival/Lua Shayenne
(Shayenne Productions). Kira: the Path/La
Voie (premiere). Tolno. Lua Shayenne Dance
Company. Fleck Dance Theatre, Harbourfront
Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-368-4849.
$35-$50. Runs June 6-9 as part of Luminato
Festival 2019.
●●8:00: Nagata Shachu and American
Rogues. Taiko x Celtic. Nagata Shachu (Aki
Takahashi, taiko, shamisen, vocals; Tony
Nguyen, taiko, woodwinds; and others;
Kiyoshi Nagata, director, taiko, shinobue/
flute); American Rogues Celtic Band (Nelson
Stewart, leader). Harbourfront Centre Theatre,
235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000 x1.
$27-$37; $20(sr/st).
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●●8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Brahms Symphony 4. Schumann: Overture to
Manfred; Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No.1;
Brahms: Symphony No.4. Jan Lisiecki, piano;
Karl-Heinz Steffens, conductor. Roy Thomson
Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-598-3375. $34.75-
$148. Also Jun 5, 6.
Sunday June 9
●●12:30: Tafelmusik. Tafelmusik Baroque
Summer Festival: Many Strings Attached.
Participants of the Tafelmusik Baroque
Summer Institute Viola d’Amore Workshop;
Thomas Georgi, leader. Walter Hall,
Edward Johnson Building, University of
Toronto, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-964-6337. Free.
Assigned on a first-come, first-served basis.
Tickets are not required.
●●2:00: Pomegranate Opera Productions/
Pride Toronto. Pomegranate. See Jun 5.
●●2:30: Venuti String Quartet. In Concert.
Borodin: String Quartet No.2; Puccini: Crisantemi;
Jurecka: New Jazz String Quartet. West
Toronto Baptist Church, 3049 Dundas St. W.
647-391-4645. $20; $10(st); $5(child 12 and
under). Childcare provided (included in child
ticket price). Refreshments will be served.
●●3:00: Faustina Chamber Music. Composers
from A to Z: Music of the Baroque Era.
Handel: Gloria; Works by Bach, Vivaldi, Abinoni,
Corelli and others. Iris Krizmanic, soprano;
Dora Krizmanic, organ/harpsichord;
Axeff Janos Ungvary, flute. St. Paul’s Anglican
Church (Uxbridge), 59 Toronto St. S.,
Uxbridge. 905-852-7016. By donation.
●●3:00: Jacqueline Gélineau presents. Bach
Ascension Oratorios. Himmelfahrts-Oratorium
BWV11; Gott fähret auf mit Jauchzen BWV43.
Darlene Shura, soprano; Jacqueline Gelineau,
contralto; William Ford, tenor; Noah Grove,
baritone; Brahm Goldhamer, conductor and
harpsichord. Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave.
416-922-3618. Free; donations welcomed.
●●3:00: Luminato Festival/Lua Shayenne
(Shayenne Productions). Kira: the Path/La
Voie (premiere). Tolno. Lua Shayenne Dance
Company. Fleck Dance Theatre, Harbourfront
Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-368-4849.
$35-$50. Runs June 6-9 as part of Luminato
Festival 2019.
●●3:00: Off Centre Music Salon. Russian Salon:
Ages & Stages. Works by Mussorgsky, Shostakovich
and Tchaikovsky. Ilana Zarankin, soprano;
Tyler Duncan, baritone; Ernesto Ramirez,
Russian
Salon:
Ages & Stages
JUNE 9, 2019
3:00 pm
tenor; Julie Hereish, cello; Sheila Jaffe, violin;
and others. Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor
St. W. 416-466-6323. $50; $40(sr); $15(young
adult). offcentremusic.com.
●●3:00: Voices Chamber Choir. Handel and
Haydn. Handel: Coronation Anthems and
choral works by Michael and Joseph Haydn.
Ron Ka Ming Cheung, conductor; John Stephenson,
organ. St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Anglican Church, 151 Glenlake Ave. 416-519-
0528. $20; $15(sr/st).
●●4:00: Leaside United Church. A Festival
of Hymns. Chancel Choir; Brass Ensemble.
822 Millwood Rd. 416-425-1253. Donations
accepted. Dinner follows festival. Donations
are towards purchase of grand piano.
●●4:00: Penthelia Singers. Shirei Penthelia
(Songs of Penthelia). Whitacre Five Hebrew
Love Songs (arr. Leck/Ellis): Mir Zeinen
Alle (Ale Brider); Youngest Daughter’s Wedding
(Di Mezinke Oysgegebn); Gershon: Kumi
Lach. Scott Metcalf, piano; Alex Toskov, violin;
Kinneret Sagee, clarinet; Max Senitt, drums.
Rosedale Presbyterian Church, 129 Mt. Pleasant
Rd. 416-579-7464. $20; pay age(under 13).
●●4:30: Christ Church Deer Park. Jazz Vespers.
1570 Yonge St. 416-920-5211. Freewill
offering. Religious service.
●●7:30: LARK Ensemble. Quaternity. Works by
Ries, Van Delden and McGrath. Corkin Gallery,
LARK
ENSEMBLE
QUATERNITY
JUNE 9, 7:30pm
CORKIN GALLERY,
DISTILLERY DISTRICT
7 Tank House Ln. 647-869-2559. $35; $20(st).
●●7:30: Toronto Chinese Orchestra. The Butterfly
Lovers. Jon Lin Chua: Princess Miao Shan
(premiere); Gang Chen: The Butterfly Lovers
Concerto; Jianmin Wang: Night Mooring by
Maple Bridge; Cecilia Heejeong Kim: Madam
Su-Ro. Lina Cao, guzheng; Vivian Yang Li, erhu/
gaohu; wHOOL, jango/superjango; Chih-Sheng
Chen, conductor. Markham People’s Community
Church, 22 Esna Park Dr., Markham. 647-299-
9209. $25; $20(st). 7pm: Pre-concert talk.
Monday June 10
●●12:15: Music Mondays. Heine’s Buch der
Lieder. James McLean, tenor; William Aide,
piano. Church of the Holy Trinity, 19 Trinity Sq.
416-598-4521 x223. PWYC(suggested donation
$10).
●●8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Modern
Broadway. Selections from Broadway
hits including The Book of Mormon, Once,
The Baker’s Wife, The Last Five Years, The
Civil War, and other works. Betsy Wolfe, soprano;
Jeremy Jordan, tenor; Steven Reineke,
conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe
St. 416-598-3375. $35.75-$107. Also Jun 11,
Jun 12(mat), Jun 12(eve).
Tuesday June 11
●●12:00 noon: Montreal Chamber Music Festival.
BMO Hottest Classical Artists Under
30! Barriere: 6 Cello Sonatas; Bach: Suite
No.4 BWV 1010 arr. Varga; Kummer: Cello
duets No.2 Opus 22; Gliere: Cello duets Op.53.
Bruno Tobon, Denis Brott, cello. Salle Bourgie,
1339 Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal. 514-489-
7444. Free. Includes free snack.
●●12:10: Nine Sparrows Arts Foundation/
Yorkminster Park Baptist Church. Lunchtime
Chamber Music. Allan Pulker, flute. Yorkminster
Park Baptist Church, 1585 Yonge St.
416-241-1298. Free, donations welcome.
●●4:45: Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre.
Suzuki End of Season Group Repertoire
Concert. Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor
St. W. gretchena@mnjcc.org. Free.
●●5:00: Montreal Chamber Music Festival.
The Beethoven Symphonies Transcribed for
Piano by Franz Liszt. Beethoven: Symphony
1 & 3. Alexander Ullman, piano. Salle Bourgie,
1339 Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal. 514-
489-7444. $25.
●●8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Modern
Broadway. Selections from Broadway
hits including The Book of Mormon, Once,
The Baker’s Wife, The Last Five Years, The
Civil War, and other works. Betsy Wolfe, soprano;
Jeremy Jordan, tenor; Steven Reineke,
conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe
St. 416-598-3375. $35.75-$107. Also Jun 10,
Jun 12(mat), Jun 12(eve).
Wednesday June 12
●●12:00 noon: Small World - Summer Lunch.
Moskitto Bar. Union Summer Stage, 65 Front
St. W. 416-536-5439. Free.
●●12:30: Organix Concerts/All Saints Kingsway.
Kingsway Organ Concert Series. Eric
Hanbury and Ian Sadler, organ duo. All Saints
Kingsway Anglican Church, 2850 Bloor St. W.
416-571-3680 or organixconcerts.ca. Freewill
offering. 45-minute concert.
●●12:30: Yorkminster Park Baptist Church.
Organ Recital. Eric Robertson, organ.
1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167. Free.
●●1:00: Tafelmusik. Tafelmusik Baroque Summer
Festival: Afternoon Concert. Tafelmusik
Baroque Summer Institute Orchestras
and Choirs; Elisa Citterio, Jeanne Lamon
and Ivars Taurins, directors. Walter Hall,
Edward Johnson Building, University of
Toronto, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-964-6337. Free.
Assigned on a first-come, first-served basis.
Tickets are not required.
●●2:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Modern
Broadway. Selections from Broadway
hits including The Book of Mormon, Once, The
Baker’s Wife, The Last Five Years, The Civil War,
and other works. Betsy Wolfe, soprano; Jeremy
Jordan, tenor; Steven Reineke, conductor.
Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-598-
3375. $35.75-$107. Also Jun 10, 11, Jun 12(eve).
●●8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Modern
Broadway. See 2pm. Also Jun 10, 11.
Thursday June 13
●●1:30: Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre.
Woodstock 50th Anniversary Concert.
Sebastian Agnello, Michael Bar, Stephen
Court, Keith McKie, Judith Orban and others.
Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina Ave. 416-924-
6211 x0 or mnjcc.org. $5 (includes refreshments).
Refreshments at 1pm.
●●7:30: Ann Cooper and Errol Gay. Let’s
Make a Fuss! A benefit concert for focused
ultrasound research at Sunnybrook Health
Sciences Centre. Jean Stilwell, mezzo; Jonathan
Crow, violin; Russell Braun, baritone;
Peter Barcza, baritone; Adi Braun, piano;
and performers from the TSO, COC, CCOC
and friends. St. Andrew’s Church (Toronto),
73 Simcoe St. $20(suggested donation).
●●8:00: Solomiya Moroz. Docu_Presence.
Brook: Stagger; Manulyak: Transgressions;
Moroz: artefacts of presence. Solomiya Moroz,
flute/electronics; Ilana Waniuk, violon; Julian
Kytasty, bandura. Array Space, 155 Walnut Ave.
416-532-3019. $15-$20. Also Jun 17 (7pm, La
Vitrola, 4602 St-Laurent, Montreal).
Friday June 14
●●8:00: Music Gallery. Quatuor Bozzini. Eliane
Radigue: Occam Delta XV. Music Gallery
at 918 Bathurst, 918 Bathurst St. 416-204-
1080. $20/$15(adv); $10(members/st).
●●9:00: Batuki Music Society. Okavango African
Orchestra. Alliance Française de Toronto,
24 Spadina Rd. okay2019.eventbrite.ca or 416-
922-2014. $25/$20(adv).
Saturday June 15
Tour Send-off Concert
Up Top
to Down Under
Saturday, June 15 | 5PM
Church of the Redeemer
Tickets:
torontochildrenschorus.com
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●●5:00: Toronto Children’s Chorus. Tour
Send-off Concert: Up Top to Down Under.
Works by Bach, Brahms and Debussy. Toronto
Children’s Chorus’s Chamber Choir. Church of
the Redeemer, 162 Bloor St. W. 416-932-8666
x231. $35; $30(st/sr); $20(child).
●●7:30: Opera by Request. Maria Stuarda.
Donizetti. Antonina Ermolenko, soprano
(Maria Stuarda); Cristina Pisani, soprano
(Elizabeth I); Paul Wiliamson, tenor (Leicester);
Dylan Wright, bass-baritone (Talbot);
Henry Irwin, baritone (Cecil); William Shookhoff,
piano/music director; and others. St.
Andrew’s United Church (Bloor St.), 117 Bloor
St E. 416-455-2365. $20.
●●7:30: Tafelmusik. Tafelmusik Baroque Summer
Festival: The Grand Finale. Tafelmusik
Baroque Summer Institute Orchestra and
Choir; Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and
Chamber Choir; Jeanne Lamon and Ivars
Taurins, directors. Grace Church on-the-Hill,
300 Lonsdale Rd. 416-964-6337. Free. Limited
tickets available beginning Jun 11. Tickets
must be obtained in advance at Tafelmusik
Box Office. Maximum 2 tickets per person.
Sunday June 16
●●2:00: Canzona Chamber Players. The Music
Speaks. Original works for flute and marimba
by Canadian and American contemporary
composers. Tangera (Amelia Lyon, flute; Evan
Mitchell, marimba). St. Andrew by-the-Lake
Anglican Church, Cibola Ave., Toronto Island.
416-822-0613 or reservations@canzona.org.
$30. Brunch at 12:30pm $20 (reservations
required). Also Jun 17 (7:30pm, St. George the
Martyr Church).
●●2:00: Trio 103. Bloom’s Day in Vienna.
J. Haydn: Divertimento in G; Beethoven:
Romance in F; Schubert: Trio in B-flat D471;
Brahms: Sonata in A (1st mvnt); Weiner:
String Trio No.1 in g. John Jull, piano; Baird
Knechtel, viola; Daniel Kushner, violin; John
Trembath, cello. St. Barnabas Anglican
Church, 361 Danforth Ave. 416-465-7443.
Free; donations welcomed.
●●3:00: Tudor Consort. The Song of Songs &
Songs of Love. Works by Schütz, Monteverdi,
Marenzio, Palestrina, Verdelot and others.
Historic Leaskdale Church, 11850 Regional
A. Concerts in the GTA
Road 1, Leaskdale. 705-357-2459. By donation.
In support of Lucy Maud Montgomery Society
of Ontario.
●●4:00: St. Olave’s Church. Choral Evensong
for Trinity Sunday. St. Olave’s Anglican
Church, 360 Windermere Ave. 416-769-5686.
Contributions appreciated. Religious service.
Followed by Strawberry Tea and Music from
18th-Century Italy at 5pm.
●●5:00: Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre.
Klez-mish Concert. Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre,
427 Bloor St. W. gretchena@mnjcc.org.
Free.
SUN 16 JUNE AT 4
Choral Evensong
for Trinity Sunday
plus Strawberry Tea and at 5:
IMPROVISATION AND
THE ITALIAN
BAROQUE
with Emily Klassen, soprano
and Ben Stein, lute, tenor
●●5:00: St. Olave’s Church. Improvisation
and the Italian Baroque. Music from 18thcentury
Italy. Emily Klassen, soprano; Ben
Stein, tenor and lute. St. Olave’s Anglican
Church, 360 Windermere Ave. 416-769-5686.
Contributions appreciated.
●●6:30: Karim Khakimov. Karim & Friends.
Works by Bach, Fauré, Poulenc, Amirov and
others. Prater Ensemble. Helconian Hall,
35 Hazelton Ave. 416-875-3131. PWYC($10
suggested).
Monday June 17
●●12:15: Music Mondays. In Concert. Andrew
Sords, violin; Cherul Duvall, piano. Church of
the Holy Trinity, 19 Trinity Sq. 416-598-4521
x223. PWYC(suggested donation $10).
●●7:30: Canzona Chamber Players. The Music
Speaks. Original works for flute and marimba
by Canadian and American contemporary composers.
Tangera (Amelia Lyon, flute; Evan Mitchell,
marimba). St. George the Martyr Church,
30 Stephanie St. 416-822-0613 or reservations@canzona.org.
$30. Also June 16 (2pm, St.
Andrew-by-the-Lake Church, Toronto Island).
Tuesday June 18
●●12:10: Nine Sparrows Arts Foundation/
Yorkminster Park Baptist Church. Lunchtime
Chamber Music. Naoko Sakata, piano.
Yorkminster Park Baptist Church, 1585 Yonge
St. 416-241-1298. Free, donations welcome.
Wednesday June 19
●●12:00 noon: Small World - Summer Lunch.
Polky Village Band. Union Summer Stage,
65 Front St. W. 416-536-5439. Free.
●●12:30: Yorkminster Park Baptist Church.
Organ Recital. Nicholas Schmelter, organ;
Tyler Kivel, piano. 1585 Yonge St. 416-922-
1167. Free.
●●7:00: Soundstreams, Luminato, & Pinkhouse
Productions. Hell’s Fury, The Hollywood
Songbook. Music by Eisler. Russell
Braun, baritone; Serouj Kradjian, piano.
Harbourfront Centre Theatre, 235 Queens
Quay W. 416-504-1282. $45-$95; $30-
$71.25(st/youth/arts worker/under 30). Also
June 20, 21, 22, 23(2pm).
●●7:30: Church of St. Mary Magdalene.
Music of Healey Willan. The Gallery Choir.
Church of St. Mary Magdalene (Toronto),
477 Manning Ave. 416-531-7955. PWYC.
●●7:30: Etobicoke Community Concert Band.
Summer Concerts in the Park. Applewood/
The Shaver House, 450 The West Mall, Etobicoke.
416-410-1570. Free. Also Jul 3, 17.
●●7:30: National Ballet of Canada. The Merry
Widow. Music by Franz Lehár. Ronald Hynd,
choreographerJohn Meehan and Steven
Woodgate, stage directors. Four Seasons
Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St.
W. 416-345-9595. $40 and up. Opens Jun 19,
7:30pm. Runs to Jun 23. Wed-Sat(7:30pm),
Thurs/Sat/Sun(2pm).
InSpirations
Ensemble
With Organist
Jean-Willy Kunz
June 19
7:30 p.m.
organixconcerts.ca
●●7:30: Organix Concerts/All Saints Kingsway.
Special Presentation Concert.
Jean-Willy Kunz, organ; InSpirations Jazz
Ensemble. All Saints Kingsway Anglican
Church, 2850 Bloor St. W. 416-571-3680
or organixconcerts.ca. $35; $25(RCCO
members).
●●7:30: Oshawa Civic Band. Brass-issimo!
Ball: Petit Suite; Mussorgsky: Night on Bare
Mountain; Schifrin: Mission Impossible;
Unger: Ashoken Farewell; and other works.
Guests: Whitby Brass Band. R.S. McLaughlin
Bandshell, 110 Simcoe St. S., Oshawa.
oshawacivicband.ca. Free.
TS
Toronto
Symphony
Orchestra
●●8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Carmina
Burana. Korngold: Violin Concerto; Orff:
Carmina Burana. James Ehnes, violin; Nicole
Haslett, soprano; Sunnyboy Dladla, tenor;
Norman Garrett, baritone; Toronto Mendelssohn
Choir; Toronto Youth Choir; Toronto
Children’s Chorus; Donald Runnicles, conductor.
Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-
598-3375. $34.75-$148. Also Jun 20, 22, 23.
Thursday June 20
●●2:00: National Ballet of Canada. The Merry
Widow. See Jun 19. Also June 20(7:30pm),
21(7:30pm), 22(2pm & 7:30pm), 23(2pm).
●●7:00: Soundstreams, Luminato, & Pinkhouse
Productions. Hell’s Fury, The
Hollywood Songbook. See Jun 19. Also
Jun 21(7pm), 22(7pm), 23(2pm).
●●7:30: National Ballet of Canada. The Merry
Widow. See Jun 19. Also June 21(7:30pm),
22(2pm & 7:30pm), 23(2pm).
●●8:00: Canadian Chinese Orchestra.
Music Passion Destiny. Fragrance of Jasmine
Flower; Legend of Joel Young; Hanging
the Red Lantern; Loess Plateau; Night of
the Torch Festival. Lina Cao, guzheng; Roa
Lee, gayageum; Huiming Li, suona; Lilian
Yang, pipa; Lipeng Wu, dizi. Chinese Cultural
Centre of Greater Toronto, 5183 Sheppard
Ave. E., Scarborough. 647-889-8042. $38;
$25(sr/st).
●●8:00: Near to the Wild Heart. Impossibly
Happy. Susanna Hood, dancer, singer, choreographer.
Array Space, 155 Walnut Ave. 416-
532-3019. $20 or PWYC.
●●8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Carmina
Burana. Korngold: Violin Concerto; Orff:
Carmina Burana. James Ehnes, violin; Nicole
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Norman Garrett, baritone; Toronto Mendelssohn
Choir; Toronto Youth Choir; Toronto
Children’s Chorus; Donald Runnicles, conductor.
Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-
598-3375. $34.75-$148. Also Jun 19, 22, 23.
Friday June 21
●●12:00 noon: Music at Metropolitan. Keep
Calm and Carillon. Mateusz Olechnowicz
and Naoko Tsujita, carillonists. Metropolitan
United Church (Toronto), 56 Queen St. E. 416-
363-0331 x26. Freewill offering. On the front
lawn. Also Jun 7, 28.
●●7:00: Soundstreams, Luminato, & Pinkhouse
Productions. Hell’s Fury, The
Hollywood Songbook. See Jun 19. Also
Jun 22(7pm), 23(2pm).
●●7:00: University Settlement Music & Arts
School. End of Term Student Concert. St.
George the Martyr Church, 30 Stephanie St.
416-598-3444 x244. Free. Also June 22(10am
& 12pm).
●●7:30: Caliban Arts Theatre and Trane
Live Events. In the Spirit - Kahil El’zabar &
David Murray. Remix Lounge, 1305 Dundas
St. W. remixlounge.ca or 647-722-4635.
$40/$35(adv)/$25(early bird until 5pm
June 9).
●●7:30: Global News Radio 650. Rocky Mountain
High: An Evening of John Denver. Annie’s
Song; Country Roads; Back Home Again;
Calypso; Sunshine on My Shoulders. Hamilton
Philharmonic Orchestra; Rick and Steve
Worrall; Miriam Khalil, soprano; David Curry,
tenor; Canadian Allstar Band. Roy Thomson
Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-872-4255. $59-$99.
●●7:30: National Ballet of Canada. The Merry
Widow. See Jun 19. Also June 22(2pm &
7:30pm), 23(2pm).
Saturday June 22
●●10:00am: University Settlement Music &
Arts School. End of Term Student Concert.
St. George the Martyr Church, 30 Stephanie
St. 416-598-3444 x244. Free. Also June
21(7pm), 22(12 noon).
●●12:00 noon: University Settlement Music
& Arts School. End of Term Student Concert.
St. George the Martyr Church, 30 Stephanie
St. 416-598-3444 x244. Free. Also June
21(7pm), 22 (10 am).
●●2:00: National Ballet of Canada. The Merry
Widow. See Jun 19. Also June 22(7:30pm),
23(2pm).
●●7:00: Soundstreams, Luminato, & Pinkhouse
Productions. Hell’s Fury, The
Hollywood Songbook. See Jun 19. Also
Jun 23(2pm).
●●7:30: Borealis BIg Band. Spring Can Really
Hang You Up the Most. Well You Needn’t, Too
Close for Comfort (vocal), Spring Can Really
Hang You Up the Most (arr. Kris Berg), Granada
Smoothie, Swingin’ Shepherd Blues
and other songs. Newmarket Old Town Hall,
460 Botsford St., Newmarket. 905-717-3319.
$20; $10(under 17). Cash Bar with Dinner
Theatre seating.
●●7:30: National Ballet of Canada. The Merry
Widow. See Jun 19. Also June 23(2pm).
●●8:00: Kindred Spirits Orchestra. Voices
of the World. Copland: Fanfare for the Common
Man; Chan Wing-wah: Symphony No.9;
Scriabin: Symphony No.1 Op.26. Stephanie
DeCiantis, mezzo; Ryan Downey, tenor;
Hong Kong Oratorio Society; Vancouver Oratorio
Society; Chan Wing-wah, conductor;
Kristian Alexander, music director; Michael
Berec, host. Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing
Arts, 10268 Yonge St., Richmond Hill.
905-787-8811. $68; $58(sr/under 30). 7:15pm
pre-concert recital; 7:30pm pre-concert talk;
intermission discussion with Chan Wing-wah.
●●8:00: Mixx Musik. Live in Concert: Gloria
Gomez and King Cosmos. Emiy Wood, accompanist.
Freedom Factory, 22 Dovercourt Rd.,
Unit 8. 416-266-2156. $15.
●●8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Carmina
Burana. Korngold: Violin Concerto; Orff:
Carmina Burana. James Ehnes, violin; Nicole
Haslett, soprano; Sunnyboy Dladla, tenor;
Norman Garrett, baritone; Toronto Mendelssohn
Choir; Toronto Children’s Chorus; Donald
Runnicles, conductor. Roy Thomson Hall,
60 Simcoe St. 416-598-3375. $34.75-$148.
Also Jun 19, 20, 23.
Sunday June 23
●●1:00: Opticianado. Chris Bartos & Danny
Simmons. Chris Bartos, fiddle; Danny Simmons,
banjo. 2919 Dundas St. W. 416-604-
2020. Free.
●●2:00: National Ballet of Canada. The Merry
Widow. See Jun 19.
●●2:00: Soundstreams, Luminato, & Pinkhouse
Productions. Hell’s Fury, The Hollywood
Songbook. See Jun 19.
●●3:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Carmina
Burana. Korngold: Violin Concerto; Orff:
Carmina Burana. James Ehnes, violin; Nicole
Haslett, soprano; Sunnyboy Dladla, tenor;
Norman Garrett, baritone; Toronto Mendelssohn
Choir; Toronto Children’s Chorus; Donald
Runnicles, conductor. Roy Thomson Hall,
60 Simcoe St. 416-598-3375. $34.75-$148.
Also Jun 19, 20, 22.
●●4:30: Christ Church Deer Park. Jazz Vespers:
The Sacred Music of Duke Ellington.
Brian Barlow Big Band. 1570 Yonge St. 416-
920-5211. Freewill offering. Religious service.
●●8:00: Trio Hyperion. From Schubert to
Piazzolla. Brahms: Trio Op.114; Piazzolla:
The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires; Schubert:
4 Impromptus Op.90. Helconian Hall,
35 Hazelton Ave. 647-332-3352 or
eventbrite.com. $25.
Monday June 24
●●12:15: Music Mondays. If I Only Had A Brain:
The Songs of Harold Arlen. Ilana Waldston,
singer. Church of the Holy Trinity, 19 Trinity
Sq. 416-598-4521 x223. PWYC(suggested
donation $10).
●●8:00: TD Toronto Jazz Festival. Diana Ross.
Opening Set: Rhonda Ross. Sony Centre for
the Performing Arts, 1 Front St. E. 1-855-872-
7669. $75-$200.
Tuesday June 25
●●12:10: Nine Sparrows Arts Foundation/
Yorkminster Park Baptist Church. Lunchtime
Chamber Music. Jenny Cheong, cello.
Yorkminster Park Baptist Church, 1585 Yonge
St. 416-241-1298. Free, donations welcome.
●●8:00: TD Toronto Jazz Festival. Emilie-
Claire Barlow. Koerner Hall, Telus Centre,
273 Bloor St. W. 416-408-0208. $40-$70.
●●8:00: TD Toronto Jazz Festival. Tower of
Power. Danforth Music Hall, 147 Danforth Ave.
ticketmaster.ca. $55-$65.
Wednesday June 26
●●12:00 noon: Small World - Summer Lunch.
Tich Maredza Band. Union Summer Stage,
65 Front St. W. 416-536-5439. Free.
●●12:30: Organix Concerts/All Saints Kingsway.
Kingsway Organ Concert Series.
Stefani Bedin, organ. All Saints Kingsway
Anglican Church, 2850 Bloor St. W. 416-571-
3680 or organixconcerts.ca. Free-will offering
appreciated.
●●7:30: Long Reach Opera Workshop. Le
nozze di Figaro. Music by Mozart, libretto by
Da Ponte. GenerWu, baritone (Figaro); Jeffrey
Smith, bass (Basilio); and undergraduate and
Masters students from UofT, Western, Dalhousie,
McGill, Mount Allison, and other institutions.
Trinity-St. Paul's Centre, 427 Bloor
St. W. ticketscene.ca/series/716. $20; $10(sr/
st/culture works); free(LROW alumni). Also
Jun 27, 28, 29.
●●8:00: Stephen Tam/Teresa Suen-Campbell.
From Debussy to Shankar: Flute and
Harp Music of Diverse Cultures. Miyagi:
Haru No Umi; Ravi Shankar: L’ Aube Enchantée;
Piazzola: History of Tango; Debussy:
Trio Sonata for Flute, Harp and Viola. Stephen
Tam, flute; Teresa Suen-Campbell, harp;
Chau Luk, viola. Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton
Ave. 647-222-3349. $25; $20(sr/st). Cash at
the door.
●●8:00: TD Toronto Jazz Festival. Norah
Jones. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts,
1 Front St. E. 1-855-872-7669. $60-$120.
●●8:00: TD Toronto Jazz Festival. From the
Buena Vista Social Club Omara Portuondo:
One Last Kiss Tour. Koerner Hall, Telus Centre,
273 Bloor St. W. 416-408-0208. $60-$80.
●●9:00: Roy Thomson Hall on Stage. Alexandra
Stréliski. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe
St. 416-872-4255. $25.40.
●●9:00: TD Toronto Jazz Festival. Rinsethealgorithm
/ Ghost-Note. Horseshoe Tavern,
370 Queen St. W. 1-888-655-9090. $30.
Thursday June 27
●●7:00: Summer Music in the Garden. War
and Peace. Haydn: Quartet in f Op.20 No.5;
Shostakovich: String Quartet No.3 in F. Madawaska
Quartet. Toronto Music Garden,
479 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.
com/summermusic. Free.
●●7:30: Brott Music Festival. Fascinating
Rhythm. S’wonderful, Summertime, Someone
to Watch Over Me, An American, Rhapsody in
Blue in Paris and other songs. Chelsea Rus,
soprano; David Curry, tenor; Raymond Huang,
pianist; Boris Brott, conductor. Burlington
Performing Arts Centre, 440 Locust St., Burlington.
905-525-7664. $44; $39(sr); $20(st);
$33(Brott35). Festival runs Jun 27 to Aug 8.
●●7:30: Long Reach Opera Workshop. Le
nozze di Figaro. Music by Mozart, libretto by
Da Ponte. GenerWu, baritone (Figaro); Jeffrey
Smith, bass (Basilio); and undergraduate and
Masters students from UofT, Western, Dalhousie,
McGill, Mount Allison, and other institutions.
Trinity-St. Paul's Centre, 427 Bloor
St. W. ticketscene.ca/series/716. $20; $10(sr/
st/culture works); free(LROW alumni). Also
Jun 26, 28, 29.
●●8:00: Muse 9 Productions/Village Opera.
Bon Appétit! A Musical Tasting Menu. Lee
Hoiby: Bon Appétit!; Danika Lorèn: The Secret
Lives of Vegetables; Peter Tiefenbach: Chansons
de mon placard. Katy Clark, soprano;
Victoria Borg, mezzo; Hyejin Kwon, music
director; Anna Theodosakis, stage director.
Merchants of Green Coffee, 2 Matilda St.
muse9food.bpt.me. $30; $25(st/artists).
●●8:00: TD Toronto Jazz Festival. Cécile
McLorin Salvant and Sullivan Fortner.
Koerner Hall, Telus Centre, 273 Bloor St. W.
416-408-0208. $50-$75.
Friday June 28
●●12:00 noon: Music at Metropolitan. Keep
Calm and Carillon. Andrée-Anne Doane,
carillonist. Metropolitan United Church
(Toronto), 56 Queen St. E. 416-363-0331 x26.
Freewill offering. On the front lawn. Also
Jun 7, 21.
●●7:30: Long Reach Opera Workshop. Le
nozze di Figaro. Music by Mozart, libretto by
Da Ponte. GenerWu, baritone (Figaro); Jeffrey
Smith, bass (Basilio); and undergraduate and
Masters students from UofT, Western, Dalhousie,
McGill, Mount Allison, and other institutions.
Trinity-St. Paul's Centre, 427 Bloor
St. W. ticketscene.ca/series/716. $20; $10(sr/
st/culture works); free(LROW alumni). Also
Jun 26, 27, 29.
●●7:30: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Gustavo
Gimeno Conducts The Firebird. Sibelius:
Violin Concerto; Prokofiev: Symphony
No.1 “Classical”; Stravinsky: Suite from The
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Firebird (1945 revision). Jonathan Crow, violin;
Gustavo Gimeno, conductor. Roy Thomson
Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-598-3375.
$34.75-$148. Also Jun 29, 30(3pm). Postconcert
chat with Gustavo Gimeno and Matthew
Loden.
Saturday June 29
●●6:00: Terry Cade. Terry Cade Quartet. Burdock
Music Hall, 1184 Bloor St. W. 416-546-
4033. TBD.
●●7:30: Long Reach Opera Workshop. Le
nozze di Figaro. Music by Mozart, libretto by
Da Ponte. GenerWu, baritone (Figaro); Jeffrey
Smith, bass (Basilio); and undergraduate and
Masters students from UofT, Western, Dalhousie,
McGill, Mount Allison, and other institutions.
Trinity-St. Paul's Centre, 427 Bloor
St. W. ticketscene.ca/series/716. $20; $10(sr/
A. Concerts in the GTA
Toronto
Symphony
Orchestra
July 1 - Jason Wilson
Band
July 8 - Interro
Quartet
July 15 - Odin
Quartet
July 22 - Journey from
China to Iran
July 29 - Lightstone
Katz Duo
www.musicmondays.ca
st/culture works); free(LROW alumni). Also
Jun 26, 27, 28.
●●7:30: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Gustavo
Gimeno Conducts The Firebird. Sibelius:
Violin Concerto; Prokofiev: Symphony
No.1 “Classical”; Stravinsky: Suite from The
Firebird (1945 revision). Jonathan Crow, violin;
Gustavo Gimeno, conductor. Roy Thomson
Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-598-3375. $34.75-
$148. Also Jun 30(3pm). Post-concert chat
with Gustavo Gimeno and Matthew Loden.
●●8:00: Kindred Spirits Orchestra. Iron and
Steel. Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis
of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber; André
Mathieu: Piano Concerto No.4; Prokofiev:
Symphony No.2 Op.40. Christina Petrowska
Quilico, piano; Jiří Petrdlík, conductor. Glenn
Gould Studio, 250 Front St. W. 905-604-8339.
$15-$40. 7:15pm pre-concert recital; 7:30pm
pre-concert talk; intermission discussion
with Christina Petrowska Quilico.
●●8:00: TO Live. Youn Sun Nah. Toronto Centre
for the Arts, 5040 Yonge St., North York.
1-855-985-2787. $47-$71.
Sunday June 30
●●2:00: Mississauga Big Band Jazz Ensemble.
Jazz at the Legion. Port Credit Legion,
35 Front St. N., Port Credit. 905-270-4757.
PWYC.
●●3:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Gustavo
Gimeno Conducts The Firebird. Sibelius:
Violin Concerto; Prokofiev: Symphony
No.1 “Classical”; Stravinsky: Suite from The
Firebird (1945 revision). Jonathan Crow, violin;
Gustavo Gimeno, conductor. Roy Thomson
Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-598-3375. $34.75-
$148. Also Jun 28 & 29(both at 7:30pm).
Post-concert chat with Gustavo Gimeno and
Matthew Loden.
●●4:00: Summer Music in the Garden. Four
Seasons, Four Viols: Vivaldi’s Quattro Stagioni
Revisited. Les Voix Humaines, viol quartet.
Toronto Music Garden, 479 Queens Quay
W. harbourfrontcentre.com/summermusic.
Free.
Monday July 1
●●12:15: Music Mondays. Jason Wilson’s
Sumach Roots. Jason Wilson Band. Church
of the Holy Trinity, 19 Trinity Sq. 416-598-4521
x223. PWYC. Suggested donation $10.
●●8:00: Kindred Spirits Orchestra. Unionville
Canada Day Celebration. Beethoven:
Overture to King Stephen Op.117; J. Strauss:
Radetzky March; Ravel: Boléro; Brahms:
Hungarian Dance No.1; Saint-Saëns: Danse
macabre; Tchaikovsky: The Year 1812, solemn
overture, Op.49. Alexander Gangurean, violin;
Michael Berec, conductor. Unionville Millennium
Bandstand, 143 Main St., Unionville.
905-604-8339. Free.
Wednesday July 3
●●12:00 noon: Small World - Summer Lunch.
Anwar Khurshid. Union Summer Stage,
65 Front St. W. 416-536-5439. Free.
●●7:30: Etobicoke Community Concert Band.
Summer Concerts in the Park. Applewood/
The Shaver House, 450 The West Mall, Etobicoke.
416-410-1570. Free. Also Jun 19, Jul 17.
Thursday July 4
●●3:30: XV Latvian Festival of Song and
Dance in Canada. Concert of Latvian Sacred
Music. Works by Raminsh, Kenins, Ešenvalds,
SACRED MUSIC
JULY 4, 3:30PM
TRINITY-ST. PAUL’S
UNITED CHURCH
Purvs, Juris Kenins and others. Latvija State
Choir; and others; Lauma Akmene, organ;
Ilze Paegle, soprano; Maris Sirmais and Brigita
Alks, conductors. Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre,
427 Bloor St. W. songfesttickets.com.
$30/$40. Festival runs Jul 4-7.
●●7:00: Summer Music in the Garden. Tastes
of Home: New Music for Traditional Chinese
& Korean Instruments. Amely Zhou, erhu;
Lipeng Wu, dizi; Roa Lee, gayageum, Evan
Lamberton, cello. Toronto Music Garden,
479 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.
com/summermusic. Free.
Friday July 5
CONCERT OF LATVIAN
ORCHESTRAL &
CHAMBER MUSIC
JULY 5, 4:00PM
KOERNER HALL
●●4:00: XV Latvian Festival of Song and
Dance in Canada. Concert of Latvian
Orchestral and Chamber Music. Kenins:
Scherzo concertante; Kalnins: Violin Concerto
in f-sharp; Raminsh: Aria for violin and
piano; Ritmanis: Overture to Light; and other
works. Laura Zarina, violin; Arthur Ozolins,
piano; Janis Laurs, cello; and others; members
of COC orchestra; Maris Sirmais, conductor.
Koerner Hall, Telus Centre, 273 Bloor
St. W. 416-408-0208. $45/$55. Festival runs
Jul 4-7.
●●7:30: XV Latvian Festival of Song and
Dance in Canada. State Choir Latvija
STATE CHOIR
LATVIJA
JULY 5, 7:30PM
KOERNER HALL
Canadian Concert Debut. Works by Raminsh,
Kenins, Ešenvalds, Vasks, Tormiss and others.
Maris Sirmais, conductor. Koerner Hall,
Telus Centre, 273 Bloor St. W. 416-408-0208.
$45/$55. Festival runs Jul 4-7.
Saturday July 6
●●3:00: MRG Concerts. The Strumbellas.
Guests: Dan Mangan; Donovan Woods; Dizzy.
Royal Botanical Gardens, 680 Plains Rd. W., Burlington.
905-926-6440 or eventbrite.ca. $65;
free(child under 10 accompanied by adult);
$149.50(VIP package).
MASS CHOIR
CONCERT
JULY 6, 3:00PM
MATTAMY
ATHLETIC CENTRE
●●3:00: XV Latvian Festival of Song and
Dance in Canada. Mass Choir Concert. Works
by Beloglazovs, G.J. Kenins, Pinsonneault,
Purvs, T. Kenins and others. Mattamy Athletic
Centre, 50 Carleton St. 416-408-0208
or songfesttickets.com. $50-$60. Festival
runs Jul 4-7.
Sunday July 7
●●1:00: Opticianado. Sarah & Filthy Rich.
Sarah Dishart and Filthy Rich serve sweet
covers live at Opticianado until 4pm.
2919 Dundas St. W. 416-604-2020. Free.
●●4:00: Summer Music in the Garden. Tea
for Three. Cénacle. Toronto Music Garden,
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479 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.
com/summermusic. Free.
●●4:00: XV Latvian Festival of Song and
Dance in Canada. Folk Dance Spectacle.
Works by Beloglazovs, G.J. Kenins, Pinsonneault,
Purvs, T. Kenins, and others. Raxtu
Raxti folk ensemble; 300-voice festival choir;
over 1000 Latvian folk dancers. Mattamy Athletic
Centre, 50 Carleton St. 416-408-0208
or songfesttickets.com. $50-$60. Festival
runs Jul 4-7.
Monday July 8
●●12:15: Music Mondays. Unspoken Poetry.
Haydn: Quartet in C Op.74; works written
by female composers. Interro String Quartet.
Church of the Holy Trinity, 19 Trinity Sq.
416-598-4521 x223. PWYC. Suggested donation
$10.
Wednesday July 10
●●12:00 noon: Small World - Summer Lunch.
Baobá. Union Summer Stage, 65 Front St. W.
416-536-5439. Free.
●●12:30: Organix Concerts/All Saints Kingsway.
Kingsway Organ Concert Series. Zoe
Kai Wai Lei, organ. All Saints Kingsway Anglican
Church, 2850 Bloor St. W. 416-571-3680
or organixconcerts.ca. Free-will offering
appreciated.
●●7:30: Nocturnes in the City. Clarinet Factory.
Jazz group from Prague. Prague Restaurant
at Masaryktown, 450 Scarborough
Golf Club Rd. 416-481-7294. $20 at the door.
Thursday July 11
●●7:00: Summer Music in the Garden.
Mistrāl: Songs from around the Mediterranean.
Tamar Ilana; Ventanas Ensemble.
Toronto Music Garden, 479 Queens Quay W.
harbourfrontcentre.com/summermusic.
Free.
●●7:30: Toronto Summer Music. Opening
Night: Beyond Borders. R. Strauss: Vier
letze Lieder; Ravel: Cinq mélodies populaires
grecques; Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen Op.20;
Mozart: Piano Sonata No.11 in A K331; Chopin:
Ballade No.4 in f Op.52; works by Kreisler
and others. Adrianne Pieczonka, soprano;
Jon Kimura Parker, piano; Kerson Leong, violin;
Steven Philcox, piano; New Orford String
Quartet; Tom Allen, host. Koerner Hall, Telus
Centre, 273 Bloor St. W. 416-408-0208.
$20-$82.
Friday July 12
●●7:30: Toronto Summer Music. Celebrating
10 Years. Haydn: String Quartet No.34
in D Op.20; Christos Hatzis: String Quartet
No.5 “The Transforming” (world premiere);
Beethoven: String Quartet No.9 in
C Op.59 No.3. New Orford String Quartet.
Koerner Hall, Telus Centre, 273 Bloor St. W.
416-408-0208. $20-$56.
Saturday July 13
●●1:00: Toronto Summer Music. reGENER-
ATION: Art Song & Chamber Music. Singers,
pianists and chamber musicians from
the Toronto Summer Music Academy’s Art
of Song program and Chamber Music Institute;
New Orford String Quartet. Walter
Hall, Edward Johnson Building, University
of Toronto, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-408-0208.
$10-$20. Also Jul 13(4pm, 7:30pm), 20(1pm,
4pm, 7:30pm).
●●4:00: Toronto Summer Music. reGENER-
ATION: Art Song & Chamber Music. Singers,
pianists and chamber musicians from
the Toronto Summer Music Academy’s Art
of Song program and Chamber Music Institute;
New Orford String Quartet. Walter
Hall, Edward Johnson Building, University
of Toronto, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-408-0208.
$10-$20. Also Jul 13(1pm, 7:30pm), 20(1pm,
4pm, 7:30pm).
●●7:30: Toronto Summer Music. reGENER-
ATION: Art Song & Chamber Music. Singers,
pianists and chamber musicians from
the Toronto Summer Music Academy’s Art
of Song program and Chamber Music Institute;
New Orford String Quartet. Walter
Hall, Edward Johnson Building, University
of Toronto, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-408-0208.
$10-$20. Also Jul 13(1pm, 4pm), 20(1pm, 4pm,
7:30pm).
Monday July 15
●●12:15: Music Mondays. Chamber Music
Concert. Works by Weber and Ravel. Marco
Verza, clarinet; Odin String Quartet. Church
of the Holy Trinity, 19 Trinity Sq. 416-598-4521
KINDRED SPIRITS ORCHESTRA
10 th anniversary concert season
Saturday, June 29, 2019, 8 pm
CBC Glenn Gould Studio
HINDEMITH
Symphonic Metamorphosis
MATHIEU
Piano concerto No. 4
PROKOFIEV
Symphony No. 2 Jiri Petrdlik Christina Petrowska Quilico
conductor
416.645.9090 250 Front St. W
Ticke tPro.ca Toronto Gleoa Go,ld Swdio
pianist
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x223. PWYC. Suggested donation $10.
●●7:30: Toronto Summer Music. Crossings:
In the Footsteps of the Griot. Ablaye Cissoko,
griot storyteller; Constantinople. Walter
Hall, Edward Johnson Building, University
of Toronto, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-408-0208.
$20-$56.
Tuesday July 16
●●7:30: Toronto Summer Music. Griffey &
Jones in Recital. Works by Dowland, Ives and
Beach. Anthony Dean Griffey, tenor; Warren
Jones, piano. Walter Hall, Edward Johnson
Building, University of Toronto, 80 Queen’s
Park. 416-408-0208. $20-$56.
Wednesday July 17
●●12:00 noon: Small World - Summer Lunch.
Fränder. Union Summer Stage, 65 Front St.
W. 416-536-5439. Free.
●●7:30: Etobicoke Community Concert Band.
Summer Concerts in the Park. Applewood/
The Shaver House, 450 The West Mall, Etobicoke.
416-410-1570. Free. Also Jun 19, Jul 3.
●●7:30: Oshawa Civic Band. Stage & Screen.
Mile: Music; Lloyd Webber: Phantom of the
Opera; R. and R. Sherman: Mary Poppins; and
other works. Guests: Whitby Brass Band. R.S.
McLaughlin Bandshell, 110 Simcoe St. S., Oshawa.
info@oshawacivicband.ca. Free.
●●7:30: Toronto Summer Music. Dover Quartet.
Britten: String Quartet No.1 in D Op.25;
Bartók: String Quartet No.3; Dvořák: String
Quartet in F Op.96 “American”. Koerner Hall,
Telus Centre, 273 Bloor St. W. 416-408-0208.
$20-$82.
Thursday July 18
●●7:00: Summer Music in the Garden. Passion
and Solace: Early 20th Century Duos
for Violin and Cello. Works by Kodály, Ravel,
Glière. Andréa Tyniec, violin; Stéphane
Tétreault, cello. Toronto Music Garden,
479 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.
com/summermusic. Free.
●●7:30: Toronto Summer Music. Voices
Across the Atlantic. Monteverdi: Madrigals;
Brahms: Vocal Quartets; Britten: “Still falls the
rain” and “The Journey of the Magi”; Barber:
Dover Beach. Toronto Summer Music Academy
Vocal Fellows; Steven Philcox, harpsichord;
Daniel Taylor, countertenor/conductor.
Church of the Redeemer, 162 Bloor St. W. 416-
408-0208. $90. Post-concert reception.
VOICES
ACROSS THE
ATLANTIC
July 18 at
Church of the Redeemer
Friday July 19
●●7:30: Toronto Summer Music. Charles
Richard-Hamelin. Rachmaninoff: Morceaux
de fantaisie Op.3; Chopin: Andante spianato
et grande polonaise brillante in E-flat
Op.22; Brahms: Piano Quartet No.1 in g Op.25.
Charles Richard-Hamelin, piano; Members
of the Dover Quartet. Walter Hall, Edward
Johnson Building, University of Toronto,
80 Queen’s Park. 416-408-0208. $20-$56.
Saturday July 20
●●12:00 noon: BIG on Bloor Festival. Sonic
Future Bloor. Keynes Woods, Selené, Jeff
Burke, and others. Bloor Collegiate Institute,
1141 Bloor St. W. 416-801-5910. Free.
●●1:00: Toronto Summer Music. reGENER-
ATION: Art Song & Chamber Music. Singers,
pianists and chamber musicians from
the Toronto Summer Music Academy’s Art of
Song program and Chamber Music Institute;
Dover Quartet; Charles Richard-Hamelin,
piano. Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building,
University of Toronto, 80 Queen’s Park.
416-408-0208. $10-$20. Also Jul 13(4pm,
7:30pm), 20(1pm, 4pm, 7:30pm).
●●1:30: Oshawa Civic Band. Music in the Gardens.
Bratton: Teddy Bear’s Picnic; Saint-
Saëns: The Swan; Williams: Jurassic Park;
and other works. Oshawa Museum, Henry
House lawn, 1450 Simcoe St. S., Lakeview
Park, Oshawa. info@oshawacivicband.ca.
Free.
●●4:00: Toronto Summer Music. reGENER-
ATION: Art Song & Chamber Music. Singers,
pianists and chamber musicians from
the Toronto Summer Music Academy’s Art of
Song program and Chamber Music Institute;
Dover Quartet; Charles Richard-Hamelin,
piano. Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building,
University of Toronto, 80 Queen’s Park.
416-408-0208. $10-$20. Also Jul 13(1pm,
7:30pm), 20(1pm, 4pm, 7:30pm).
●●7:30: Toronto Summer Music. reGENER-
ATION: Art Song & Chamber Music. Singers,
pianists and chamber musicians from
the Toronto Summer Music Academy’s Art of
Song program and Chamber Music Institute;
Dover Quartet; Charles Richard-Hamelin,
piano. Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building,
University of Toronto, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-
408-0208. $10-$20. Also Jul 13(1pm, 4pm),
20(1pm, 4pm, 7:30pm).
Sunday July 21
●●4:00: Summer Music in the Garden.
Global Inspirations. Works by Reich, Wijeratne,
and members of TorQ. TorQ Percussion
Quartet. Toronto Music Garden,
479 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.
com/summermusic. Free.
Monday July 22
●●12:15: Music Mondays. A Musical Journey
Through China & Iran. Wendy Zhou, Chinese
pipa; Padideh Ahrarnejad, Persian tar;
Ali Massoudi, percusssion. Church of the
Holy Trinity, 19 Trinity Sq. 416-598-4521 x223.
PWYC(suggested donation $10).
●●7:30: National Youth Orchestra of Canada.
In Concert. Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet
Op.63; Panufnik: Sinfonia Sacra; Mahler:
Symphony No.5; Brahms: Concerto for Violin
and Cello Op.102. Michael Francis, conductor.
Maison Symphonique de Montreal,
1600 Saint-Urbain, Montreal. 514-842-2112.
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$29.95.
●●7:30: Toronto Summer Music. Kleztory.
Klezmer music from the late 19th century to
the klezmer revival of the 1970s to the 21st
century return to klezmer’s pre-jazz traditions.
Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building,
University of Toronto, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-
408-0208. $20-$56.
Tuesday July 23
Organized
Crime Duo
in concert
July 23
7:30 p.m.
organixconcerts.ca
●●7:30: Organix Concerts/Timothy Eaton
Memorial Church. Organized Crime Duo.
Rachel Mahon and Sarah Svendsen, organ.
Timothy Eaton Memorial Church, 230 St. Clair
Ave. W. 416-571-3680 or organixconcerts.ca.
$35/$25(RCCO members).
●●7:30: Toronto Summer Music. Rolston
String Quartet. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas St.
W. 416-408-0208. $20.
Wednesday July 24
●●12:00 noon: Small World - Summer Lunch.
Waleed Kush. Union Summer Stage, 65 Front
St. W. 416-536-5439. Free.
●●12:30: Organix Concerts/All Saints Kingsway.
Kingsway Organ Concert Series. Christopher
Reynolds, organ. All Saints Kingsway
Anglican Church, 2850 Bloor St. W. 416-571-
3680 or organixconcerts.ca. Free-will offering
appreciated.
●●7:30: 14th Clear Lake Chamber Music
Festival. Opening Night. Mozart: Piano
Concerto No.23 in A, K488; Tchaikovsky:
Piano Concerto in B-flat. Sabina Rzazade,
piano; Kerry Duwors and Katie Gannon, violins;
and others; Alla Turbanova and Paul
Shore, hosts; Alexander Tselyakov and Daniel
Tselyakov, artistic directors and pianos.
Lorne Watson Recital Hall, Brandon University,
School of Music, 270-18th St., Brandon.
204-571-6547. $15-$25/$90(fest. pass);
$70(sr fest. pass); $35(st fest. pass). Wine
and cheese reception follows. Festival runs
Jul 24-28.
●●7:30: Toronto Summer Music. Collectìf.
Mahler: Kindertotenlieder (selections); Canadian
folk song arrangements; and other
works. Collectìf. Walter Hall, Edward Johnson
Building, University of Toronto, 80 Queen’s
Park. 416-408-0208. $20-$56.
A. Concerts in the GTA
Thursday July 25
●●7:00: Summer Music in the Garden. Inner
Journey V. Rumi Canada. Toronto Music Garden,
479 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com/summermusic.
Free.
●●7:30: 14th Clear Lake Chamber Music
Festival. Concert 2: Chamber Masterworks
I. Liszt: Piano Concerto No.2 in
A; Shostakovich: Piano Quintet Op.57.
Kerry Duwors and Katie Gannon, violins;
and others; Alla Turbanova and
Paul Shore, hosts; Alexander Tselyakov
and Daniel Tselyakov, artistic directors
and pianos. Lorne Watson Recital
Hall, Brandon University, School of Music,
270-18th St., Brandon. 204-571-6547. $15-
$25/$90(fest. pass); $70(sr fest. pass);
$35(st fest. pass). Festival runs Jul 24-28.
FROM FRANZ
SCHUBERT TO
FREDDIE MERCURY
July 25 at Koerner Hall
●●7:30: Toronto Summer Music. From Franz
Schubert to Freddie Mercury. Sarah Slean,
vocalist; John Southworth, singer/songwriter;
Art of Time Ensemble. Koerner Hall,
Telus Centre, 273 Bloor St. W. 416-408-0208.
$20-$82.
●●10:30: Toronto Summer Music. TSM Late
Night. Beethoven: String Quartet No.13 in
B-flat Op.130; Grosse Fuge Op.133. Jonathan
Crow, violin; Toronto Summer Music Academy
Fellows. Koerner Hall, Telus Centre, 273 Bloor
St. W. 416-408-0208. $16-$38.
Friday July 26
●●7:30: 14th Clear Lake Chamber Music Festival.
Concert 3: Chamber Masterworks II.
Mendelssohn: Piano Sextet Op.110; Shostakovich:
Concertino for 2 pianos; Saint-Saëns:
Carnival of the Animals. Alla Turbanova and
Sabina Rzazade pianos; and others; Paul
Shore, host; Alexander Tselyakov and Daniel
Tselyakov, artistic directors and pianos.
Lorne Watson Recital Hall, Brandon University,
School of Music, 270-18th St., Brandon.
204-571-6547. $15-$25/$90(fest. pass);
$70(sr fest. pass); $35(st fest. pass). Festival
runs Jul 24-28.
●●7:30: Toronto Summer Music. Souvenir
de Florence. Tchaikovsky: Pezzo Capriccioso
Op.62; String Sextet in d Op.70 “Souvenir de
Florence”; Prokofiev: Five Melodies for Violin
and Piano Op.35-bis; Debussy: Piano Trio
in G. Jonathan Crow, violin; Jennifer Koh, violin;
Beth Guterman, viola; Julie Albers, cello;
Yegor Dyachkov, cello, Philip Chiu, piano. Walter
Hall, Edward Johnson Building, University
of Toronto, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-408-0208.
$20-$56.
●●8:00: Summer Opera Lyric Theatre. La
traviata. Music by Verdi. Robert Gill Theatre,
University of Toronto, 214 College St. 416-
366-7723. $28. Also Jul 28(2pm); 31(2pm);
Aug 3(8pm).
Saturday July 27
●●11:00am: 14th Clear Lake Chamber Music
Festival. Coffee Concert: Serious Fun!
Works by Shchedrin, Gershwin, Shaw, Piazzolla,
Heisler and others. Nancy Hennen,
flute; Cris Byman, clarinet; Alla Turbanova,
piano; Paul Shore, host; Alexander Tselyakov
and Daniel Tselyakov, artistic directors
and pianos. Erickson Lutheran Church,
30 Third St. SW, Erickson. 204-571-6547.
$15-$25/$90(fest. pass); $70(sr fest. pass);
$35(st fest. pass). Coffee and pastries. Festival
runs Jul 24-28.
●●1:00: Toronto Summer Music. reGENERA-
TION: Source and Inspiration. Where the 19th
century meets the 21st - The Dvořák Piano
Quintet and the contemporary pop songs it
inspired. Rolston String Quartet; Sarah Slean
and John Southworth, singers/songwriters;
Art of Time Ensemble. Walter Hall, Edward
Johnson Building, University of Toronto,
80 Queen’s Park. 416-408-0208. $10-$20.
●●2:00: Summer Opera Lyric Theatre.
Earnest, The Importance of Being. By Victor
Davies and Eugene Benson. Robert Gill
Theatre, University of Toronto, 214 College
St. 416-366-7723. $28. Also Jul 30(8pm);
Aug 1(8pm); 4(2pm).
●●4:00: Toronto Summer Music. reGENER-
ATION: Chamber Music. Chamber musicians
from the Toronto Summer Music Academy’s
Chamber Music Institute; Jennifer Koh, Beth
Guterman Chu, Julie Albers, Yegor Dyachkov,
Philip Chiu. Walter Hall, Edward Johnson
Building, University of Toronto, 80 Queen’s
Park. 416-408-0208. $10-$20. Also 7:30pm.
●●7:30: 14th Clear Lake Chamber Music Festival.
Jazz Concert. Michael Cain, jazz piano;
Eric Platz, drums; Diogo Peixoto, guitar; Julian
Bradford, bass; Alexander Tselyakov and Daniel
Tselyakov, artistic directors. Wasagaming
Community Arts Gallery, 110 Wasagaming
Dr., Wasagaming (Clear Lake), Riding Mountain
National Park. 204-571 6547; 204-727
9631; 204-573 2423. $15-$25/$90(fest. pass);
$70(sr fest. pass); $35(st fest. pass). Festival
runs July 24-28.
●●7:30: Toronto Summer Music. reGENERA-
TION: Chamber Music. Chamber musicians
from the Toronto Summer Music Academy’s
Chamber Music Institute; Jennifer Koh, Beth
Guterman Chu, Julie Albers, Yegor Dyachkov,
Philip Chiu. Walter Hall, Edward Johnson
Building, University of Toronto, 80 Queen’s
Park. 416-408-0208. $10-$20. Also 4pm.
●●8:00: Summer Opera Lyric Theatre. Riders
to the Sea and Gianni Schicchi. Music by
Vaughan Williams and Puccini. Robert Gill
Theatre, University of Toronto, 214 College
St. 416-366-7723. $28. Also Jul 31(8pm);
Aug 2(8pm); 3(2pm).
Sunday July 28
●●2:00: Summer Opera Lyric Theatre. La
traviata. Music by Verdi. Robert Gill Theatre,
University of Toronto, 214 College St. 416-
366-7723. $28. Also Jul 26(2pm); 31(2pm);
Aug 3(8pm).
●●3:00: 14th Clear Lake Chamber Music Festival.
Festival Grand Finale. Saint-Saëns:
Romance Op.36 for flute and piano; Sonata
for clarinet and piano Op.167; Tarantella:
Op.6 for flute, clarinet and piano; Gershwin:
Rhapsody in Blue; Tchaikovsky: Scherzo
from 6th Symphony for two pianos 4 hands.
Nancy Hennen, flute, Cris Byman, clarinet;
Alla Turbanova, piano; Paul Shore host; Daniel
Tselyakov and Alexander Tselyakov, artistic
directors and pianos. Erickson Lutheran
Church, 30 Third St. SW, Erickson. 204-
571-6547. $15-$25/$90(fest. pass); $70(sr
fest. pass); $35(st fest. pass). Festival runs
Jul 24-28.
●●4:00: St. Olave’s Church. Patronal Festival.
Festal Evensong for St. Olave’s Eve. St. Olave’s
Anglican Church, 360 Windermere Ave. 416-
769-5686. Contributions appreciated. Followed
by barbecue.
●●4:00: Summer Music in the Garden.
Choro! Trio Chorinho; Guest: Flavia Nascimento.
Toronto Music Garden, 479 Queens
Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com/summermusic.
Free.
Monday July 29
●●12:15: Music Mondays. Journey to Klezmer.
Jonno Lightstone; Brian Katz Klezmer
Duo. Church of the Holy Trinity, 19 Trinity Sq.
416-598-4521 x223. PWYC. Suggested donation
$10.
●●7:30: National Youth Orchestra of Canada.
In Concert. Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet;
Panufnik: Sinfonia Sacra; Mahler: Symphony
No.5; Brahms: Concerto for Violin & Cello
Op.102. Michael Francis, conductor. Koerner
Hall, Telus Centre, 273 Bloor St. W. 416-408-
0208. $23-$33.
●●7:30: Toronto Summer Music. Europe and
the New World. Franck: Sonata for Violin and
Piano in A; Corigliano: Sonata for Violin and
Piano; Brahms: Sonatensatz; Gershwin: Porgy
and Bess Suite (arr. Heifetz). Jonathan Crow,
violin; Philip Chiu, piano. Walter Hall, Edward
Johnson Building, University of Toronto,
80 Queen’s Park. 416-408-0208. $20-$56.
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Tuesday July 30
●●7:30: Toronto Summer Music. Angela
Hewitt. Bach: Goldberg Variations. Angela
Hewitt, piano. Walter Hall, Edward Johnson
Building, University of Toronto, 80 Queen’s
Park. 416-408-0208. $20-$82. Pre-concert
chat with author and storyteller Madeleine
Thien.
●●8:00: Summer Opera Lyric Theatre.
Earnest, The Importance of Being. By Victor
Davies and Eugene Benson. Robert Gill
Theatre, University of Toronto, 214 College
St. 416-366-7723. $28. Also Jul 27(2pm);
Aug 1(8pm); 4(2pm).
Wednesday July 31
●●12:00 noon: Small World - Summer Lunch.
Amadou Kienou. Union Summer Stage,
65 Front St. W. 416-536-5439. Free.
●●2:00: Summer Opera Lyric Theatre. La
traviata. Music by Verdi. Robert Gill Theatre,
University of Toronto, 214 College St. 416-
366-7723. $28. Also Jul 26(8pm); 28(2pm);
Aug 3(8pm).
●●7:30: Toronto Summer Music. Ensemble
Made in Canada. Mozart: Piano Quartet No.2
in E-flat K493; Fauré: Piano Quartet No.1 in c
Op.15; and other works. Ensemble Made in
Canada. Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building,
University of Toronto, 80 Queen’s Park.
416-408-0208. $20-$56.
●●8:00: Summer Opera Lyric Theatre. Riders
to the Sea and Gianni Schicchi. Music by
Vaughan Williams and Puccini. Robert Gill
Theatre, University of Toronto, 214 College
St. 416-366-7723. $28. Also Jul 27(8pm);
Aug 2(8pm); 3(2pm).
Thursday August 1
●●12:00 noon: Collingwood Summer Music
Festival. Underground Railway Story for the
Family - Diana Braithwaite & Chris Whiteley
Duo. Venue TBA. 705-445-2200 or 1-866-382-
2200. Free.
●●7:00: Summer Music in the Garden.
New and Special Ways. Haydn: Quartet in G
Op.33 No.5; Janáček: Quartet No.1 “Kreutzer
Sonata; Puccini: Crisantemi; Campbell:
Fiddle Tunes. New Zealand String Quartet.
Toronto Music Garden, 479 Queens
Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com/summermusic.
Free.
SONG OF
THE EARTH
August 1 at Koerner Hall
●●7:30: Toronto Summer Music. Song of
the Earth. Mozart: Violin Concerto No.5 in
A K219; Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (arr.
Schoenberg/Riehn). Mario Bahg, tenor;
Rihab Chaleb, mezzo; Jonathan Crow, violin;
Gemma New, conductor. Koerner Hall,
Telus Centre, 273 Bloor St. W. 416-408-0208.
$20-$82.
●●8:00: Summer Opera Lyric Theatre.
Earnest, The Importance of Being. By Victor
Davies and Eugene Benson. Robert Gill
Theatre, University of Toronto, 214 College
St. 416-366-7723. $28. Also Jul 27(2pm);
30(8pm); Aug 4(2pm).
Friday August 2
●●7:30: Toronto Summer Music. Mendelssohn
Octet. Mendelssohn: Octet for Strings
in E-flat Op.20; Cowell: Homage to Iran; Sarasate:
Introduction et Tarantelle Op.43; Alexina
Louie: New Work (world premiere).
Jennifer Frautschi, violin; Elissa Lee, violin;
Aaron Schwebel, violin; Barry Shiffman, violin;
Hsin-Yu Huang, viola; and others. Walter
Hall, Edward Johnson Building, University
of Toronto, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-408-0208.
$20-$56.
●●8:00: Summer Opera Lyric Theatre. Riders
to the Sea and Gianni Schicchi. Music by
Vaughan Williams and Puccini. Robert Gill
Theatre, University of Toronto, 214 College
St. 416-366-7723. $28. Also Jul 27(8pm);
31(8pm); Aug 3(2pm).
Saturday August 3
●●2:00: Summer Opera Lyric Theatre. Riders
to the Sea and Gianni Schicchi. Music by
Vaughan Williams and Puccini. Robert Gill
Theatre, University of Toronto, 214 College
St. 416-366-7723. $28. Also Jul 27(8pm);
31(8pm); Aug 2(8pm).
●●3:00: Labyrinth Musical Workshop
Ontario. Labyrinth Flemingdon Concerts.
Flemingdon Park, 747 Don Mills Rd., North
Aug 5 - Stanford
Cheung
Aug 12 - Albert Seo
& Tristan Savella
Aug 19 - Michael
Arnowitt
Aug 26 - Kevin Ahfat
Sept 2 - Penrose Trio
www.musicmondays.ca
York. 647-702-8680. Free.
●●7:30: Toronto Summer Music. Toronto
Summer Music Finale. Performances by
TSM Artists, Academy Fellows, and Community
Academy participants. Walter Hall,
Edward Johnson Building, University of
Toronto, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-408-0208.
$20-$56.
●●8:00: Summer Opera Lyric Theatre. La
traviata. Music by Verdi. Robert Gill Theatre,
University of Toronto, 214 College St. 416-
366-7723. $28. Also Jul 26(8pm); 28(2pm);
31(8pm).
Sunday August 4
●●2:00: Summer Opera Lyric Theatre.
Earnest, The Importance of Being. By Victor
Davies and Eugene Benson. Robert Gill
Theatre, University of Toronto, 214 College
St. 416-366-7723. $28. Also Jul 27(2pm);
30(8pm); Aug 1(8pm).
Monday August 5
●●12:15: Music Mondays. War of the Foxes.
Stanford Cheung. Church of the Holy Trinity,
19 Trinity Sq. 416-598-4521 x223. PWYC. Suggested
donation $10.
Thursday August 8
●●7:00: Summer Music in the Garden. From
Greece to Granados. Works by Theodorakis,
Lorca, and Falla. Maria Soulis, mezzo;
William Eauvais, guitar; Tanya Charles Iveniuk,
violin. Toronto Music Garden, 479 Queens
Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com/summermusic.
Free.
Saturday August 10
●●3:00: Labyrinth Musical Workshop
Ontario. Labyrinth Flemingdon Concerts.
Flemingdon Park, 747 Don Mills Rd., North
York. 647-702-8680. Free.
Sunday August 11
●●4:00: Summer Music in the Garden. Raags
of Love and Devotion. Ramneek Singh, voice;
Ravi Naimpally, tabla; Hardeep Chana, harmonium.
Toronto Music Garden, 479 Queens
Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com/summermusic.
Free.
Monday August 12
●●12:15: Music Mondays. The Ageless Beauty
of Maturity. Korndorf: Triptych for Cello and
Piano; Brahms: Cello Sonata No.2 in F Op.99;
Beethoven: Sonata for Cello and Piano No.4
in C Op.102. Albert Seo, cello; Tristan Savella,
piano. Church of the Holy Trinity, 19 Trinity Sq.
416-598-4521 x223. PWYC. Suggested donation
$10.
Thursday August 15
●●7:00: Summer Music in the Garden.
Voices from Eastern Europe. BLISK Quartet.
Toronto Music Garden, 479 Queens
Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com/summermusic.
Free.
Saturday August 17
●●3:00: Labyrinth Musical Workshop
Ontario. Labyrinth Flemingdon Concerts.
Flemingdon Park, 747 Don Mills Rd., North
York. 647-702-8680. Free.
Sunday August 18
●●3:00: Ukrainian Art Song Project. Artists
in Performance. Vocal participants of
the 2019 Ukrainian Art Song Summer Institute;
Robert Kortgaard, piano; Albert Krywolt,
piano; Pavlo Hunka, artistic director,
commentary. Temerty Theatre, Telus Centre,
273 Bloor St. W. 416-346-8283 or ukrainianartsong.ca.
$37; $18(st).
●●4:00: Summer Music in the Garden. Laüsa:
Spark of Gascony. Toronto Music Garden,
479 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.
com/summermusic. Free.
Monday August 19
●●12:15: Music Mondays. Michael Arnowitt’s
ImproVisions Jazz Quartet. Church of the
Holy Trinity, 19 Trinity Sq. 416-598-4521 x223.
PWYC. Suggested donation $10.
Thursday August 22
●●7:00: Summer Music in the Garden. Something
Old, Something New. Works by Mozart,
Romberg, Downing, Brubek and Murphy.
VC2 Cello Duo. Toronto Music Garden,
479 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.
com/summermusic. Free.
Friday August 23
●●7:00: The Fifth Canadian Chopin Piano
Competition and Festival. Opening Concert.
Previous Canadian Chopin Piano
Competition winners. John Paul II Polish
Cultural Centre, 4300 Cawthra Rd., Mississauga.
canadianchopinsociety.com.
$25; $15(st). For full festival details, see
ETCeteras pages.
●●7:30: Japan Foundation, Toronto. AGA-
SHIO: Japanese-Originated Contemporary
Music Concert. Kobayashi Hall. AGA-SHIO
(Hiromitsu Agatsuma, tsugaru shamisen;
Satoru Shionoya, piano). Japanese Canadian
Cultural Centre, 6 Garamond Ct.
416-441-2345 or jftor.org. $25; $22(JCCC
members).
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AGA-SHIO
Tsugaru Shamisen
& Piano Duo
August 23 7:30PM
Kobayashi Hall @JCCC
www.jftor.org
Saturday August 24
●●10:00am: The Fifth Canadian Chopin Piano
Competition and Festival. Senior Division
Preliminary Round. Mazzoleni Concert Hall,
Royal Conservatory, 273 Bloor St. W. canadianchopinsociety.com.
Free. For full festival
details see ETCeteras section.
●●3:00: Labyrinth Musical Workshop
Ontario. Labyrinth Flemingdon Concerts.
Flemingdon Park, 747 Don Mills Rd., North
York. 647-702-8680. Free.
A. Concerts in the GTA
CANADIAN
CHOPIN
SOCIETY
●●7:00: The Fifth Canadian Chopin Piano
Competition and Festival. Insights: An Evening
with Alan Walker. Mazzoleni Concert Hall,
Royal Conservatory, 273 Bloor St. W. canadianchopinsociety.com.
$25; $15(st). For full
festival details see ETCeteras section.
Sunday August 25
●●10:00am: The Fifth Canadian Chopin Piano
Competition and Festival. Senior Division
Preliminary Round. Mazzoleni Concert Hall,
Royal Conservatory, 273 Bloor St. W. canadianchopinsociety.com.
Free. For full festival
details see ETCeteras section.
●●4:00: Summer Music in the Garden. Duetto
Violoncello. Works by Bach, Cirri, Thomas
and Dall’Abaco. Elinor Frey and Phoebe Carrai,
baroque cellos. Toronto Music Garden,
479 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.
com/summermusic. Free.
●●7:00: The Fifth Canadian Chopin Piano
Competition and Festival. Conversations:
An Evening with the Jury. Mazzoleni Concert
Hall, Royal Conservatory, 273 Bloor St. W. canadianchopinsociety.com.
$25; $15(st). For full
festival details see ETCeteras section.
Monday August 26
●●10:00am: The Fifth Canadian Chopin Piano
Competition and Festival. Senior Division
Semi-Finals. Mazzoleni Concert Hall, Royal
Conservatory, 273 Bloor St. W. canadianchopinsociety.com.
Free. For full festival details
see ETCeteras section.
●●12:15: Music Mondays. Of Foreign Lands
and Peoples. Kevin Ahfat, piano. Church of the
Holy Trinity, 19 Trinity Sq. 416-598-4521 x223.
The Fifth
Canadian Chopin
Piano Competition
and Festival
August 23 - 29, 2019
The Royal Conservatory
Toronto, Ontario
Highlights include:
An evening with Alan Walker
Solo Recital by Krzysztof Jablonski
Competition Finals in Koerner Hall
For more information please visit:
www.canadianchopinsociety.com
PWYC. Suggested donation $10.
●●7:00: The Fifth Canadian Chopin Piano
Competition and Festival. Portraits: Words
and Music. Mazzoleni Concert Hall, Royal
Conservatory, 273 Bloor St. W. canadianchopinsociety.com.
$25; $15(st). For full festival
details see ETCeteras section.
Tuesday August 27
●●10:00am: The Fifth Canadian Chopin Piano
Competition and Festival. Junior Division
Preliminary Round. Mazzoleni Concert Hall,
Royal Conservatory, 273 Bloor St. W. canadianchopinsociety.com.
Free. For full festival
details see ETCeteras section.
Wednesday August 28
●●7:00: The Fifth Canadian Chopin Piano
Competition and Festival. Piano Recital.
Krzysztof Jablonski, piano. Koerner Hall, Telus
Centre, 273 Bloor St. W. canadianchopinsociety.com.
$40-$60. For full festival details see
ETCeteras section.
B. Concerts Beyond the GTA
Thursday August 29
●●2:00: The Fifth Canadian Chopin Piano
Competition and Festival. Junior Division
& Senior Division Finals. Koerner Hall, Telus
Centre, 273 Bloor St. W. canadianchopinsociety.com.
$30-$50. Note: Ticket price includes
all events on Aug 29. For full festival details
see ETCeteras section.
●●7:00: Fifth Canadian Chopin Piano Competition
and Festival. Senior Division Finals &
Awards Ceremony. Koerner Hall, Telus Centre,
273 Bloor St. W. canadianchopinsociety.
com. $30-$50. Note ticket price includes all
events on Aug 29. For full festival details see
ETCeteras section.
Monday September 2
●●12:15: Music Mondays. Penrose Trio.
Brahms: Piano Trio in B Op.8; and other
works. Church of the Holy Trinity, 19 Trinity
Sq. 416-598-4521 x223. PWYC. Suggested
donation $10
IN THIS ISSUE: Barrie, Bracebridge, Brantford, Campbellford,
Collingwood, Corbyville, Elora, Fergus, Gravenhurst,
Haliburton, Hamilton, Hastings, Hillier, Ingersoll, Kingston,
Kitchener, Leith, London, Midland, Minden, Niagara-on-the-
Lake, Orillia, Parry Sound, Picton, Port Hope, Shelburne,
Stratford, Trenton, Warkworth, Waterloo, Wellington
Saturday June 1
●●2:00: Westben. From the Top! 20th Anniversary
Celebration. Excerpts from The
Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof, The
Selfish Giant, Joseph and the Technicolour
Dreamcoat, and other works. Donna Bennett,
soprano; Virginia Hatfield, soprano; Kim
Dafoe, mezzo; Gabrielle Prata, mezzo; Mark
DuBois, tenor; and others; Westben Choruses
& Alumni. The Barn, 6698 County Road 30,
Campbellford. 877-883-5777. $20; $15(under
30); $5(under 19). Also Jun 2.
●●7:30: Barrie Concert Band. 150 Years -
Let’s Celebrate! Pauze: New work; and other
works. Mark Tetrault, tuba; Peter Volsey,
music director; and former conductors of the
Barrie Concert Band. Collier Street United
Church, 112 Collier St., Barrie. 705-252-3484.
$20; $10(st); free(5 and under).
●●7:30: Cellar Singers. The Road Less Travelled.
Works by R. Murray Schafer, Derek
Heleay and Harry Somers. St. James Anglican
Church (Orillia), 58 Peter St. N., Orillia. thecellarsingers.com.
$25; $10(under 30).
●●7:30: Kokoro Singers. Eclectic - Ah! Scarlatti:
Exsultate Deo; K. A. Arnesen: Flight Song;
A. Edenroth: Bumble Bee. Brenda Uchimaru,
conductor. Rockway Mennonite Church,
47 Onward Ave., Kitchener. 905-630-0748.
$20; $15(sr/st); free(under 13). Tickets at the
door, cash only. Also May 26(mat, Ancaster).
Sunday June 2
●●12:15: St. George’s Cathedral. Summer
Concerts. Works by Turina, Rodrigo, Albéniz,
Tarrega, Scarlatti and others. Adam Cicchillitti,
guitar. St. George’s Cathedral (Kingston),
270 King St. E., Kingston. 613-548-4617. Freewill
donations.
●●2:00: SweetWater Music Festival. Next
Wave Showcase. Olivia Adams, piano; Adrian
Little, piano; Anne Perone, piano; Adams and
Busch, piano duo; Vanessa Bosman, vocals;
Cydney Morris, vocals; Jeffrey Palk, cello; Emily
Weaver, clarinet; Suwan Yu, flute. Historic Leith
Church, 419134 Tom Thomson Lane, Leith. 519-
477-1403. By donation ($10 suggested).
●●2:00: Westben. From the Top! See Jun 1.
●●3:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Community
Orchestra. Youth Concerto Concert. Mendelssohn:
Wedding March; Ravel: Menuet
from Le tombeau de Couperin; Bizet: Farandole
from L’Arlésienne Suite No.2; Sibelius:
Valse triste; Mussorgsky: Night on Bald
Mountain. Knox Presbyterian Church (Waterloo),
50 Erb St. W., Waterloo. kwcommunityorchestra@gmail.com.
$18; $15(univ or
college st); free(high school st or younger).
●●3:00: Rosewood Consort. Love, Loss, and
Passion: A Musical Tour of Renaissance Europe.
Works by des Prez, Willaert, Susato,
Palestrina and others. David Federman, conductor.
Grace Lutheran Church (Hamilton),
1107 Main St. W., Hamilton. 905-648-5607. By
donation at the door.
Wednesday June 5
●●12:00 noon: Midday Music with Shigeru. Vocal
Recital. Works by Mozart, Korngold, Schubert,
Wagner, Liszt, and Choi. Clarence Frazer, baritone;
Julie Choi, piano. Hiway Pentecostal Church,
50 Anne St. N., Barrie. 705-726-1181. $10; free(st).
Thursday June 6
●●12:15: St. George’s Cathedral. Summer
Concerts. Works by Bach, Bertino and Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
SHHH!! Ensemble (Zac
Pulak, percussion; Edana Higham, piano). St.
George’s Cathedral (Kingston), 270 King St. E.,
Kingston. 613-548-4617. Freewill donations.
Friday June 7
●●8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music
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Society. QuartetFest I. Schubert: Winterreise
(arr. for string quartet and voice); and other
works. Daniel Lichti, baritone. Maureen Forrester
Recital Hall, 75 University Ave., Waterloo.
519-886-1673. $40; $25(st).
●●8:00: St. George’s Cathedral. June Choirs
Festival: Opening Choral Concert. Libertas
Male Choir; Groot Mannenkoor Nederland.
St. George’s Cathedral (Kingston), 270 King
St. E., Kingston. 613-548-4617 or
stgeorgescathedral.ca. $20.
Saturday June 8
●●7:30: À La Mode Choir. Phoenix: Rising From
the Ashes of Adversity. Works by Whitacre,
Runestad, Tin and Sirett. À La Mode Choir;
Kanto Vocal Ensemble; EmBoddiement Gospel
Trio; Erika Reiman, piano. Church of the Ascension
(Hamilton), 64 Forest Ave., Hamilton. 289-
689-8056. $20; free(under 12). Refreshments.
Parking available. Wheelchair accessible.
●●7:30: Arcady. Voices of Summer. New
music by Ronald Beckett. 2019 Arcady Emerging
Artists; Arcady Singers, Arcady Youth
Chorus. Central Presbyterian Church (Brantford),
97 Wellington St., Brantford. 519-428-
3185. $25; $10(st); free(under 12).
●●8:00: Gravenhurst Opera House. The Jive
Bombers. Johnny Max, vocalist. 295 Muskoka
Rd. S., Gravenhurst. 705-687-5550. $40;
$20(st); $30(groups of 10+).
Peace by Piece
Ontario Handbell
Festival 2019
June 6 - June 8
Fanshawe College
London, ON
ogehr.ca/festival2019
●●8:00: Ontario Guild of English Handbell
Ringers. Festival 2019: Peace by Piece. Featuring
300 handbell ringers from across
Ontario with piano, flute and violin accompaniment.
Peace in Our Time; Serenity, Joyance;
Make Me an Instrument of Thy Peace;
The Lord’s My Shepherd; and other works.
Stuart Sladden and Lisa Kyriakides, directors.
Fanshawe College, 1001 Fanshawe College
Blvd., London. 905-891-1650. $20; $10(st).
Free parking (Lots 4 & 6).
Sunday June 9
●●2:00: Westben. Sounds of a Better World.
Music from Mary Poppins, The Greatest
Showman, Prayer from Hansel & Gretel, Lavender’s
Blue, Try Everything and many more.
Westben Youth, Teen, B Natural, Cookie Choruses;
(Donna Bennett & Brian Finley, directors);
Westben Community Bands (Nancy
B. Concerts Beyond the GTA
Elmhirst, director). The Barn, 6698 County
Road 30, Campbellford. 877-883-5777. $10;
$5(under 19).
Monday June 10
●●12:15: St. George’s Cathedral. June Choirs
Festival: Didgori Ensemble. Traditional Georgian
folk and chant music. St. George’s Cathedral
(Kingston), 270 King St. E., Kingston. 613-548-
4617 or stgeorgescathedral.ca. Freewill offering.
June Choirs Festival runs Jun 7-22.
Wednesday June 12
●●2:30: Seniors Serenade. Top Students of
Cheryl Graham. Bethel Community Church,
128 St. Vincent Street, Barrie. 705-726-1181. Free.
●●7:30: St. George’s Cathedral. June Choirs
Festival: St. Martin’s Boy’s Choir. St. George’s
Cathedral (Kingston), 270 King St. E., Kingston.
613-548-4617 or stgeorgescathedral.ca.
$25/$20(adv). Also June 13. June Choirs Festival
runs June 7-22.
Thursday June 13
●●12:15: St. George’s Cathedral. Summer
Concerts. Works by Rachmaninoff, Grieg,
and John Beckwith. Peletsis-Dardykina
Piano Duo. St. George’s Cathedral (Kingston),
270 King St. E., Kingston. 613-548-4617. Freewill
donations.
●●7:30: St. George’s Cathedral. June Choirs
Festival: St. Martin’s Boy’s Choir. St. George’s
Cathedral (Kingston), 270 King St. E., Kingston.
613-548-4617 or stgeorgescathedral.ca.
$25/$20(adv). Also June 12. June Choirs Festival
runs June 7 to June 22.
Friday June 14
●●7:00: Vera Causa Opera. Canadian Opera
Fest 2019. The Village Girl (concept by Chloe
Bissada, words and music by Dylan Langan);
Refracted (words by Charlotte Lilley and music
by Emma Verdonk); La jugement (words by
Emma Lemieux and music by Dylan Langan);
The Shoemaker’s Orphans (words by Rivi and
Kyri Friedman and music by Emma Verdonk);
L’étrange et belle (words by Leslie McCorkindale
and Vanessa Parr with music by Dylan
Langan). Cambridge Centre for the Arts,
60 Dickson St., Cambridge. vcopera.ca or 519-
277-9277. $15; free(st/child). Also Jun 15(7pm,
Waterloo), 16(2pm, Guelph).
Saturday June 15
●●3:00: 5 at the First Chamber Players.
Beethoven Blowout I. Beethoven: Complete
Sonatas for piano and cello; selections from
Downing: Five Little Pieces; Weinroth-Browne:
Triumvirate; Evans: Evans Ridge & Furrow; Brubeck:
Entsprechung; and others. Mercer-Park
Duo; VC2 Cello Duo. First Unitarian Church,
Hamilton, 170 Dundurn St. S., Hamilton. 905-
399-5125. $20; $15(sr); $5(st). Also at 7pm.
●●7:00: 5 at the First Chamber Players.
Beethoven Blowout II. Beethoven: Complete
Sonatas for piano and cello; selections from
Downing: Five Little Pieces; Weinroth-Browne:
Triumvirate; Evans: Evans Ridge & Furrow; Brubeck:
Entsprechung; and others. Mercer-Park
Duo; VC2 Cello Duo. First Unitarian Church,
Hamilton, 170 Dundurn St. S., Hamilton. 905-
399-5125. $20; $15(sr); $5(st). Also at 3pm.
●●7:00: Vera Causa Opera. Canadian Opera Fest
2019. See Jun 14. Knox Presbyterian Church
(Waterloo), 50 Erb St. W., Waterloo. vcopera.
ca or 519-277-9277. $15; free(st/child). Also
5 at the First
Mercer-Park
Duo
Hamilton
VC2 Cello
Duo
SAT, JUNE 15
Beethoven Blowout I, 3pm
Beethoven Blowout II, 7pm
WWW.5ATTHEFIRST.COM
Jun 14(7pm, Cambridge), 16(2pm, Guelph).
●●7:00: Westben. CDHS Music Night. Campbellford
District High School Music Ensembles;
Dave Noble, director. The Barn,
6698 County Road 30, Campbellford. 877-
883-5777. $10; $5(under 19).
Sunday June 16
●●2:00: Vera Causa Opera. Canadian Opera
Fest 2019. See Jun 14. Harcourt Memorial
United Church, 87 Dean Ave., Guelph. vcopera.
ca or 519-277-9277. $15; free(st/child). Also
Jun 14(7pm, Cambridge), 15(7pm, Waterloo).
Wednesday June 19
●●12:00 noon: Music at St. Andrew’s. Organ
Recital. Andrew Adair, organ. St. Andrew’s
Presbyterian Church (Barrie), 47 Owen St.,
Barrie. 705-726-1181. $10; free(st).
Thursday June 20
●●12:15: St. George’s Cathedral. Summer
Concerts. Works by Buxtehude, Ravel, Houbart,
David McIntyre, and Pierre Cholley. Tom
Fitches, organ. St. George’s Cathedral (Kingston),
270 King St. E., Kingston. 613-548-4617.
Freewill donations.
●●7:00: Zula. Something Else! Festival. Earth
Wind & Choir; Yves Charuest, alto sax; Indigenous
Mind; William Hooker, drums/percussion/poetry.
Church of St. John the Evangelist,
320 Charlton Ave. W., Hamilton. zulapresents.
org. $30-$35/$25(adv). Festival runs Jun 20-23.
●●8:00: Orchestra Breva. Eroica: A Sesquicentennial
Tribute to Laura Secord. Beethoven:
Eroica Symphony; Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide
Overture; Newly commissioned works. Melanie
Paul Tanovich, conductor. Ingersoll
Cheese and Agricultural Museum, 290 Harris
St., Ingersoll. 519-980-1113. $40/$35(adv);
$30(sr)/$25(adv); $20(st)/$15(adv);
$10(child)/$5(adv). Also June 21(Sanderson
Centre, Brantford), 23(2pm, Queenston
Heights Park, Niagara-on-the-Lake).
Friday June 21
●●12:00 noon: Zula. Something Else! Festival.
The Archives of Eternity; Jason Adasiewcz,
vibraphone; Brodie West, alto sax; Hamid Drake,
drums/percussion; Iva Bittová, violin/vocals.
Whitehern House and Garden, 41 Jackson St.
W., Hamilton. zulapresents.org. Free. Donations
accepted. Festival runs Jun 20-23.
●●7:00: Zula. Something Else! Festival.
Picastro; Gilliam/Milmine/Pottie; Hooker/
Charuest/Newsome/Eguiluz; Iva Bittová, violin/vocals;
Hamid Drake, drums/percussion.
Church of St. John the Evangelist, 320 Charlton
Ave. W., Hamilton. zulapresents.org. $30-
$35/$25(adv). Festival runs Jun 20-23.
●●8:00: Orchestra Breva. Eroica: A Sesquicentennial
Tribute to Laura Secord. Beethoven:
Eroica Symphony; Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide
Overture; Newly commissioned works. Melanie
Paul Tanovich, conductor. Sanderson Centre for
the Performing Arts, 88 Dalhousie St., Brantford.
519-758-8090. $40; $30(sr); $20(st);
$10(child); free(veterans). Advance discounts
available. Also June 20(Ingersoll Cheese & Agricultural
Museum, Ingersoll), 23(2pm, Queenston
Heights Park, Niagara-on-the-Lake).
Saturday June 22
●●1:00: Zula. Something Else! Festival. Sara
Schoenbeck, bassoon; Harris Eisenstadt’s
Poschiavo 50 Ensembles; Joshua Abrams,
double bass/guimbri; No Silenz. Church
of St. John the Evangelist, 320 Charlton
Ave. W., Hamilton. zulapresents.org. $30-
$35/$25(adv). Festival runs Jun 20-23.
●●7:00: Zula. Something Else! Festival. Tidal Pool;
Eguiluz Trio; Iva Bittová, violin/vocals; Indigenous
Mind. Church of St. John the Evangelist,
320 Charlton Ave. W., Hamilton. zulapresents.
org. $30-$35/$25(adv). Festival runs Jun 20-23.
●●7:30: St. George’s Cathedral. June Choirs
Festival: Stratford Concert Choir. St. George’s
Cathedral (Kingston), 270 King St. E., Kingston.
613-548-4617 or stgeorgescathedral.ca.
$25/$20(adv). Also Jun 12. June Choirs Festival
runs Jun 7-22.
●●8:00: Night Kitchen Too. In Concert.
Invited musicians, poets and spoken word
artists. Henry’s Place, 79 River Rd., Corbyville.
613-849-1976. $10.
Sunday June 23
●●1:00: Westben. Annual Garden Gala
Fundraiser. Blend of musical styles fusing
orchestra breva
EROICA
A Sesquicentennial Tribute to
Laura Secord
Windsor | May 25
Tecumseh | May 26
Ingersoll | June 20
Brantford | June 21
Niagara-on-the-Lake | June 23
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traditional Québécois music with jazz and
electronica. Marc Maziade, electric guitar,
banjo, vocals; Rémi Pagé, violin, foot percussion;
Roxane Beaulieu, keyboards, vocals;
Hugo Blouin, double bass. Garden, near
Campbellford, Campbellford. 877-883-5777.
$125 + tax. Includes luncheon by Chef Ravi
Anandappa and wine; silent auction.
●●1:00: Zula. Something Else! Festival. Joanna
Duda, piano/electronics; Eucalyptus; Sam
Newsome, soprano sax. Church of St. John
the Evangelist, 320 Charlton Ave. W., Hamilton.zulapresents.org.
$25$20(adv). Festival
runs Jun 20-23.
●●2:00: Orchestra Breva. Eroica: A Sesquicentennial
Tribute to Laura Secord. Beethoven:
Eroica Symphony; Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide
Overture; Newly commissioned works. Melanie
Paul Tanovich, conductor. Queenston
Heights Park Bandshell, 14184 Niagara Parkway,
Niagara-on-the-Lake. 905-357-7808.
Free. Also June 20(8pm, Ingersoll Cheese
& Agricultural Museum, Ingersoll), 21(8pm,
Sanderson Centre, Brantford).
THE AMERICAN
SOUND
Sunday, June 23rd,
2pm
Art Gallery of Hamilton
CHAMBER
MUSIC
HAMILTON.CA
●●2:00: Chamber Music Hamilton. The
American Sound. Works by MacDowell,
Copland, Gershwin, Barber, Porter and
others. Caitlin Boyle, viola; Cameron Crozman,
cello; Michael Schulte, violin; Aaron
Schwebel, conductor. Art Gallery of Hamilton,
123 King St. W., Hamilton. 905-719-6457.
$35; $30(sr); $15(st).
●●5:00: Zula. Something Else! Festival. Sourpussy;
Ear-Cam; Don Byron, clarinets. Church
of St. John the Evangelist, 320 Charlton Ave.
W., Hamilton. zulapresents.org. $25$20(adv).
Festival runs Jun 20-23.
Saturday June 29
●●11:00am: Northumberland County. Multicultural
Festival. Music and dances from
around the world. Jerry Rivera. Memorial
Park, 56 Queen St., Port Hope. 905-372-
3329x6256. Free. Also 9pm.
●●7:30: Leith Summer Festival. Amor. Songs
from opera and the classical repertoire.
Krisztina Szabó, mezzo; Robert Kortgaard,
piano. Leith Church, 419134 Tom Thomson Ln.,
Leith. 519-371-2833. $35.
●●9:00: Northumberland County. Multicultural
Festival. Music and dances from
B. Concerts Beyond the GTA
around the world. Jerry Rivera. Memorial
Park, 56 Queen St., Port Hope. 905-372-
3329x6256. Free. Also 11am.
Sunday June 30
●●2:00: Westben. Viva Vivaldi! The Four
Seasons & Gloria. Amy Hillis, violin; Westben
Festival Orchestra & Chorus. The Barn,
6698 County Road 30, Campbellford. 877-
883-5777. $65; $63(sr); $15(under 30);
$5(under 19). 1:15pm: Pre-Concert Chat.
Wednesday July 3
●●12:00 noon: Midday Music with Shigeru.
Chamber Music Concert. Works by Fauré
and Saint-Saëns. Emma Meinrenken, violin;
Benjamin Smith, smith. Hiway Pentecostal
Church, 50 Anne St. N., Barrie. 705-726-1181.
$10; free(st).
Thursday July 4
●●12:15: St. George’s Cathedral Summer Concerts.
Chris Alfano Jazz Quartet. Tribute to
Benny Goodman. Avalon, Moonglow, Memories
of You and others. St. George’s Cathedral
(Kingston), 270 King St. E., Kingston.
613-548-4617 or stgeorgescathedral.ca. Free.
Freewill offering collected.
●●7:30: Brott Music Festival. PopOpera. Rossini:
Il barbiere di Siviglia (Sinfonia); Leoncavallo:
I pagliacci (Prologo); Strauss: Die Fledermaus
(Mein Herr Marquis); Mozart: Die Entführung
aus dem Serail (O wie will ich triumphieren);
Donizetti: L’elisir d’amore (Caro elisir, sei mio).
National Academy Orchestra; BrottOpera
Singers; Boris Brott, conductor. FirstOntario
Concert Hall, 1 Summers Ln., Hamilton. 905-
525-7664. $55; $50(sr); $20(st); $33(Brott35).
Festival runs Jun 27 to Aug 8.
Friday July 5
●●7:00: Westben. Basia Bulat. Folk singersongwriter.
Basia Bulat, autoharp, charango,
vocals. The Barn, 6698 County Road 30,
Campbellford. 877-883-5777. $48; $46(sr);
$15(under 30); $5(under 19). 5pm: BBQ (reservations
required 48 hrs. prior).
Saturday July 6
●●2:00: Westben. Tony McManus. Celtic
guitarist. The Barn, 6698 County Road 30,
Campbellford. 877-883-5777. $48; $46(sr);
$15(under 30); $5(under 19).
Sunday July 7
●●2:00: Westben. The Snow Queen. Sung in
English with piano and percussion accompaniment.
Jeremy Taylor & John Greer: musical
adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen fable.
Canadian Children’s Opera Company. The Barn,
6698 County Road 30, Campbellford. 877-883-
5777. $39; $37(sr); $15(under 30); $5(under
19). 1pm: Pre-Concert Chat.
Wednesday July 10
●●2:30: Seniors Serenade. Popular Jazz.
Mark Hathaway, piano; Bruce Rumble, bass.
Bethel Community Church, 128 St. Vincent
Street, Barrie. 705-726-1181. Free.
Thursday July 11
●●12:15: St. George’s Cathedral Summer Concerts.
John Burge, piano. Burge: Prelude and
Fugue No. 2 in c, Mata Hari Suite. St. George’s
Cathedral (Kingston), 270 King St. E., Kingston.
613-548-4617 or stgeorgescathedral.ca.
Free. Freewill offering collected.
●●7:30: Brott Music Festival. Connoisseur
Classics 1. Dvořák: Cello Concerto; Shostakovich:
Symphony No.5; Dénommé-Welch/
Magowen: Bottlenecked. National Academy
Orchestra; Rachel Mercer, cello; Boris Brott,
conductor. L.R. Wilson Concert Hall, McMaster
University, 1280 Main St. W. , Hamilton. 905-
525-7664. $60. Festival runs Jun 27 to Aug 8.
Friday July 12
●●7:00: Westben. TGIFun! Brent Butt. Creator
and star of Canadian sitcom Corner Gas. The
Barn, 6698 County Road 30, Campbellford.
877-883-5777. $65; $63(sr); $15(under 30);
$5(under 19). 5pm: BBQ (reservations not
required); 9:30pm: After Party with Brent;
Capers Tap House; $45+tax (limited seating).
●●7:30: Elora Festival. Opening Night 40th Anniversary
Gala. Elora Singers; State Choir Latvija;
Members of the Grand Philharmonic Children’s
and Youth Choirs; Jane Archibald, James Westman
and Daniel Taylor, soloists; and others;
Maris Sirmais and Mark Vuorinen, conductors.
See Summer Festival Listings for details.
Saturday July 13
●●1:00: Elora Festival. State Choir Latvija in
Recital; 3:15 Pre-concert chat for Piano Six;
4:00: Piano Six. Daniel Wnukowski, Marika
Bournaki, David Jalbert, Angela Park, Ian Parker
and Anastasia Rizikov; 7:30: Natalie MacMaster
with The Elora Singers. Natalie MacMaster, fiddle.
See Summer Festival Listings for details.
●●2:00: Westben. Beethoven & Ravel Piano
Trios. Beethoven: Trio in B-flat Op.97 “Archduke”;
Ravel: Piano Trio in a. Mayumi Seiler,
violin; Colin Carr, cello; André Laplante, piano.
The Barn, 6698 County Road 30, Campbellford.
877-883-5777. $55; $53(sr); $15(under
30); $5(under 19).
●●7:00: Westben. Performer-Composer
Showcase. Performance of never-beforeheard
music by diverse collection of international
performing composers. Participants
of the performer-composers’ week-long
residency. The Barn, 6698 County Road 30,
Campbellford. 877-883-5777. $30; $28(sr);
$15(under 30); $5(under 19).
Sunday July 14
●●1:30: Elora Festival. Jane Archibald, Soprano
in Recital; 4:00: The Laplante/Seilor/
Carr Trio in Recital. André Laplante, piano;
Mayumi Seiler, violin; Colin Carr, cello; 6:00:
Singers Unplugged 3.0. Michael Cressman,
baritone and director. Also 8:00. See Summer
Festival Listings for details.
●●2:00: Westben. The Fitzgerald Family.
Canadian Celtic music, Ottawa-Valley step
dancing, and Old Time vocal and fiddle
arrangements. Chair Dance; Dance Off; A
Capella. The Barn, 6698 County Road 30,
Campbellford. 877-883-5777. $49; $47(sr);
$15(under 30); $5(under 19).
Wednesday July 17
●●12:00 noon: Music at St. Andrew’s. Organ
Recital. Simon Walker, organ. St. Andrew’s
Presbyterian Church (Barrie), 47 Owen St.,
Barrie. 705-726-1181. $10; free(st).
●●2:00: Westben. ABBA Mia! Performance in
concert style featuring music of ABBA from the
Broadway musical and movies. Mamma Mia;
Here We Go Again; and other ABBA hits. Caitlin
Wood, soprano; Adrianna Longo, soprano; Kim
Dafoe, mezzo; Adam Fisher, tenor; Jeff Soucy,
baritone; Andy Thompson & Friends. The Barn,
6698 County Road 30, Campbellford. 877-883-
5777. $50; $48(sr); $15(under 30); $5(under 19).
Also Jul 18, 23, 24, 25, 27(7pm).
●●7:00: Stratford Summer Music. Manitoba
Chamber Orchestra. Guest: Simone Dinnerstein;
Anne Manson, music director. See Summer
Festival Listings for details.
Thursday July 18
●●12:15: St. George’s Cathedral Summer Concerts.
Matthew Larkin, organ. Willan: Introduction,
Passacaglia, and Fugue; Works by
Ager and Messiaen. St. George’s Cathedral
(Kingston), 270 King St. E., Kingston. 613-548-
4617 or stgeorgescathedral.ca. Free. Freewill
offering collected.
●●2:00: Westben. ABBA Mia! See Jul 17.
●●5:00: Elora Festival. Evensong. Elora Singers;
Matthew Larkin, organ; Mark Vuorinen,
conductor; 7:30: Elora Singers: Path of Miracles.
Mark Vuorinen, conductor. See Summer
Festival Listings for details.
●●6:30: Collingwood Summer Music Festival.
A Choral Extravaganza! Inaugural Concert.
Mozart: Divertimento in F; Hermann:
Capriccio; Beethoven: Choral Fantasy. Elmer
Iseler Singers; ChoralWorks Choir; Collingwood
Festival Orchestra; Mayumi Seiler, violin;
Daniel Wnukowski, piano and others. New
Life Church, 28 Tracey Ln., Collingwood. 705-
445-2200 or 1-866-382-2200 or collingwoodfestival.com/buy-tickets.
$50.
●●7:00: Stratford Summer Music. Leslie Ting
Speculation. See Summer Festival Listings
for details.
●●7:30: Brott Music Festival. La bohème.
Music by Giacomo Puccini, libretto by Luigi
Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. National Academy
Orchestra; BrottOpera Cast; John Fanning,
baritone; Boris Brott, conductor.
FirstOntario Concert Hall, 1 Summers Ln.,
Hamilton. 905-525-7664. $68; $62(sr);
$25(st); $33(Brott35). 6:30pm: pre-concert
chat (free). Festival runs Jun 27 to Aug 8.
Friday July 19
●●7:00: Collingwood Summer Music Festival.
Gryphon Trio. New Life Church, 28 Tracey
Ln., Collingwood. 705-445-2200 or 1-866-
382-2200 or collingwoodfestival.com/buytickets.
$35.
●●7:00: Westben. Abbey Road to Woodstock.
Celebration of the 50th anniversary of Abbey
Road with a chaser of Woodstock. Hits from
the Beatles’ 1969 album and other Woodstock
favourites; music of the Kinks, Dave
Clark Five, Animals, Hollies, Stones, The Who,
and more. Andy Forgie & Big Black Smoke.
The Barn, 6698 County Road 30, Campbellford.
877-883-5777. $40; $38(sr); $15(under
30); $5(under 19). 5:00: BBQ with British fare
(reservations required 48 hrs. prior).
●●7:30: Elora Festival. Lemon Bucket Orkestra.
See Summer Festival Listings for details.
●●7:30: Festival of the Sound. Gala Opening
Concert. Elmer Iseler Singers; Mary Lou Fallis,
soprano; Colin Fox, narrator; Penderecki
String Quartet; Guy Few, piano and others.
See Summer Festival Listings for details.
●●7:30: University of Waterloo Department
of Music. Conrad Grebel Concerts:
orchestra@uwaterloo -- German & Austrian
Masterpieces. Brahms: Piano Concerto
No.2 in b-flat; Von Suppé: Poet and Peasant
Overture; Bruckner: Overture in g; and other
works. Eric Liang, piano; Daniel Warren,
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conductor. First United Church (Waterloo),
16 William St. W., Waterloo. 519-885-0220
x24226. Free.
●●9:00: Stratford Summer Music. Stephen
Prutsman. See Summer Festival Listings for
details.
Saturday July 20
●●10:00am Elora Festival. Pre-concert activities
for Shoestring Opera; 11:00am: Shoestring
Opera: Schoolyard Carmen. Katy Clark,
soprano. Free post-concert Museum tour;
1:00: Gloria: French Choral Music for the Soul.
Elora Singers; Matthew Larkin, organ; Mark
Vuorinen, conductor; 4:00: Cheng2 Duo.
Bryan Cheng, cello; Silvie Cheng, piano; 7:30:
Unforgettable: The Nat King Cole Story. Thom
Allison, performer; big band; Elora Singers.
See Summer Festival Listings for details.
●●2:00: Westben. Manitoba Chamber
Orchestra. Glass: Piano Concert No.3; Fung:
Double Concerto for Violins; Dvořák: American
String Quartet (arr. for string orchestra).
Simone Dinnerstein, piano; Anne
Manson, conductor. The Barn, 6698 County
Road 30, Campbellford. 877-883-5777. $65;
$63(sr); $15(under 30); $5(under 19). 1pm:
Pre-Concert Chat.
●●7:00: Collingwood Summer Music Festival.
Quartetto Gelato. La Vie en Rose, Meditango,
Besame Mucho, C’era Una Volta and O Sole
Mio. New Life Church, 28 Tracey Ln., Collingwood.
705-445-2200 or 1-866-382-2200 or
collingwoodfestival.com/buy-tickets. $35.
●●7:30: University of Waterloo Department
of Music. Conrad Grebel Concerts: University
of Waterloo Choir - Voicescapes. Works by
Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, Stephen Hatfield, Morten
Lauridsen and Sarah Hopkins. Liska Jetchick,
director. The Cedars, 543 Beechwood
Dr., Waterloo. 519-885-0220 x24226. $10;
$5(sr/st).
●●10:00: Westben. Moonlight. Commemoration
of the 50th anniversary of the first
lunar landing. Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata;
Schubert: Impromptus Op.90 in a. Brian Finley,
piano. The Barn, 6698 County Road 30,
Campbellford. 877-883-5777. $48; $46(sr);
$15(under 30); $5(under 19).
Sunday July 21
●●10:00am: Westben. Secret Concert. Can’t
say what, can’t say where – but curiosity and
a bit of walking will get you there! Meet at The
Barn to catch a ride to the Secret Concert
adventure. The Barn, 6698 County Road 30,
Campbellford. 877-883-5777. $65 + tax. Picnic
lunch included (reservation required; limited
space).
●●2:00: Elora Festival. Daniel Taylor with
Charles Daniels and Ellen McAteer in Recital.
Daniel Taylor, countertenor; Charles Daniels,
tenor; Ellen McAteer, soprano; Steven Philcox,
piano; 4:30: Hymn to St. Cecilia: Music from
the English Tradition. Elora Singers; Matthew
Larkin, organ; Mark Vuorinen, conductor;
7:30: Kuné, Canada’s Global Orchestra. See
Summer Festival Listings for details.
●●2:00: Westben. John McDermott, tenor.
Scottish and Irish music. Mark Lalama, multiinstrumentalist;
Dala, folk music duo. The
Barn, 6698 County Road 30, Campbellford.
877-883-5777. $60; $58(sr); $15(under 30);
$5(under 19).
●●2:30: Festival of the Sound. Up Close &
Personal. Gene DiNovi, piano; 7:30: Viennese
Opera Party. Leslie Fagan, Kristina Szabó,
sopranos; Colin Ainsworth, tenor; Sam Chan,
baritone; Guy Few, trumpet and others. See
Summer Festival Listings for details.
●●3:00: Stratford Summer Music. Chamber
Music Concert. See Summer Festival Listings
for details.
●●5:30: Ottawa Chamberfest. National Youth
Orchestra of Canada. Prokofiev: Romeo and
Juliet Op.63; Panufnik: Sinfonia Sacra; Mahler:
Symphony No.5; Brahms: Concerto for
Violin and Cello Op.102. Michael Francis, conductor.
Dominion-Chalmers United Church,
355 Cooper St., Ottawa. 613-234-6306. $20.
●●7:00: Brookside Music Association. Syrène
Saxophone Quartet. Midland Alliance Church,
829 Yonge St., Midland. 705-528-0521. $30.
●●7:30: Festival of the Sound. Viennese
Opera Party. Strauss: Chacun à son goût
from Die Fledermaus; Lerner & Loewe: If Ever
I Would Leave You from Camelot; Bizet: Je dis
que rien ne m’épouvante from Carmen; Puccini:
Nessun dorma from Turandot; Verdi:
Sempre libera from La Traviata and others.
Leslie Fagan, Kristina Szabó, sopranos; Colin
Ainsworth, tenor; Sam Chan, baritone; Guy
Few, trumpet and others. Charles W. Stockey
Centre, 2 Bay St, Parry Sound. 705-746-2410
or 1-866-364-0061. $48-$53; $43-$48(sr).
Monday July 22
●●10:30am: Festival of the Sound. Office
Hour: Accordion Postcards. Joseph Petric,
Guy Few, accordion; 2:00: Music for Trumpet
& Organ. William McArton, organ; Guy Few,
trumpet; 6:30: Brass on the Bay Cruise. Ten
members of Hannaford Street Silver Band.
See Summer Festival Listings for details.
Tuesday July 23
●●1:30: Festival of the SoundAnagnoson &
Kinton in Recital. Anagnoson and Kinton,
piano duo; Alan Stein, visual art.; 3:30: Fantasy
& Romance. Gryphon Trio; James Campbell,
clarinet; Douglas McNabney, viola; Joel
Quarrington, bass; 6:00: Bands on the Bay;
8:00: Strike Up the Band. Hannaford Street
Silver Band; Russell Braun, baritone. See
Summer Festival Listings for details.
●●2:00: Westben. ABBA Mia! See Jul 17.
Wednesday July 24
●●1:30: Festival of the Sound.Carolyn & Russell
in Concert. Russell Braun, baritone; Carolyn
Maule, piano; 3:30: Swiss Trio & Friends.
Swiss Piano Trio; Douglas McNabney, viola;
James Campbell,clarinet; Ken MacDonald,
horn; 7:30: Beethoven I. Janina Fialkowski,
piano; Rolston String Quartet. See Summer
Festival Listings for details.
●●2:00: Westben. ABBA Mia! See Jul 17.
●●7:00: Stratford Summer Music. The Brothers
Creeggan. See Summer Festival Listings
for details.
Thursday July 25
●●12:15: St. George’s Cathedral Summer
Concerts. Cranberry Dixie Band. High Society;
Sleepy Time Down South; Memories of
You; What a Wonderful World; The Saints.
St. George’s Cathedral (Kingston), 270 King
St. E., Kingston. 613-548-4617 or stgeorgescathedral.ca.
Free. Freewill offering collected.
●●1:30: Festival of the Sound. Rolston String
Quartet; 7:30: National Youth Orchestra of
Canada: A Look Into The Future. Michael
Francis, conductor. See Summer Festival Listings
for details.
●●2:00: Westben. ABBA Mia! See Jul 17.
●
● 5:00: Elora Festival. Evensong. Elora Singers;
Matthew Larkin, organ; Mark Vuorinen,
conductor; 7:30: COC Competition Winner:
Matthew Cairns, Tenor; 9:00: Elora Singers
at Twilight: From Darkness to Light. See Summer
Festivals Listings for details.
●●7:00: Stratford Summer Music. Amir
Amiri. See Summer Festival Listings.
●●7:30: Brott Music Festival. Fly Me to the
Moon. Music of Frank Sinatra. National
Academy Orchestra; Chris Jason, Sinatra
Impersonator; Boris Brott, conductor. Liuna
Station, 360 James St. N., Hamilton. 905-525-
7664. $54; $49(sr); $20(st); $33(Brott35).
Festival runs Jun 27 to Aug 8.
●●7:30: University of Waterloo Department
of Music. Conrad Grebel Concerts: Fairy
Tales and Legends - orchestra@uwaterloo.
Works by Massenet, Gounod, Dvořák, Mozart
and Offenbach. Natasha Campbell and
Autumn Wascher, sopranos; Daniel Warren,
music director. Knox Presbyterian Church
(Waterloo), 50 Erb St. W., Waterloo. 519-885-
0220 x24226. Free.
Friday July 26
●●10:30am: Festival of the Sound. Office
Hour: Swiss Piano Trio - Musical Life in Switzerland;
2:00: Janina Fialkowska Plays Chopin;
7:30: Payadora Tango Ensemble. See Summer
Festival Listings for details.
●●7:00: Brookside Music Association. The
Swiss Trio. Guests: James Campbell, clarinet;
Ken McDonald, horn; Douglas Perry,
viola; Lydia Adams, conductor. Midland Alliance
Church, 829 Yonge St., Midland. 705-
528-0521. $30.
●●7:00: Classical Unbound Festival. Shoulders
of Giants. Debussy: Quartet in g; Lizée:
Isabella Blow at Somerset House; Beethoven:
Quartet in e Op.59 No.2. Ironwood Quartet.
Grange of Prince Edward Vineyards and
Estate Winery, 990 Closson Rd, Hillier. 514-
713-1082. $30.
●●7:00: Westben. TGIFolk! Rose Cousins.
Prince Edward Island folk singer-songwriter.
The Barn, 6698 County Road 30, Campbellford.
877-883-5777. $48; $46(sr); $15(under
30); $5(under 19). 5pm: BBQ (reservations
not required).
●●9:00: Stratford Summer Music. Duane
Andrews and Friends. See Summer Festival
Listings.
Saturday July 27
●●10:00am: Elora Festival. Pre-concert
art activities for From Winkle to Stardom;
11:00am: Family Series (all ages): From Twinkle
to Stardom. Music Comedy Duo Millan &
Faye. Free post-concert Museum tour; 1:00:
Penderecki Quartet with Daniel Lichti, Baritone;
4:00: Festival of the Sound Ensemble
with Elora Singers. Swiss Piano Trio; James
Campbell; Ken MacDonald; Doug Perry;
James Mason; 7:30: An Evening With Measha
Brueggergosman. See Summer Festival Listings
for details.
●●11:00am: Festival of the Sound. Strings
Across the Sky; 4:00: Festival of the Sound
Ensemble with Elora Singers. Swiss Piano
Trio; James Campbell; Ken MacDonald; Doug
Perry; James Mason; 7:30: Jayme Stone’s
Folklife. Jayme Stone, banjo/voice; Moira
Smiley, voice/accordion; Sumaia Jackson, fiddle/voice;
Joe Phillips, bass/voice. See Summer
Festival Listings for details.
●●11:00am: Stratford Summer Music.
Musical Brunches with Graham Hargrove;
3:00: Oh Happy Day! Ben Heppner with the
Toronto Mass Choir. See Summer Festival
Listings for details.
●●2:00: Westben. Saturday at the Opera.
Vissi d’Arte from Tosca; Credo from Otello;
other arias and duets from Don Giovanni, La
traviata, Eugene Onegin, The Merry Widow,
and other works. Joyce El-Khoury, soprano;
Jason Howard, baritone; Brian Finley, piano.
The Barn, 6698 County Road 30, Campbellford.
877-883-5777. $60; $58(sr); $15(under
30); $5(under 19). 1:15pm: Pre-Concert Chat.
●●7:00: Westben. ABBA Mia! See Jul 17.
●●7:30: Classical Unbound Festival. Ironwood
Unbound. Pärt: Fratres; Dessner:
Aheym; Bach: Chaconne; Marks: Original
Songs. Ironwood Quartet. Old Church Theatre,
940 Bonisteel Rd., Trenton. 514-713-
1082. $30.
●●7:30: Music at Port Milford. En songs je
t’ai vu. Works by Mendelssohn, Dompierre,
Dvořák and Landry. Quatuor Saguenay; Allison
Gagnon, piano; Becca Kenneally, soprano.
St. Mary Magdalene, 355 Main St., Picton.
914-439-5039. $30; $10(st); $5(youth 12 and
under).
Sunday July 28
●●2:00: Westben. Kuné -- Canada’s Global
Orchestra. A celebration of Canada’s cultural
diversity. Music using over 20 traditional
instruments. An eclectic ensemble of Canadian
musicians that hail from all corners of
the globe. The Barn, 6698 County Road 30,
Campbellford. 877-883-5777. $58; $56(sr);
$15(under 30); $5(under 19).
●●3:00: Brott Music Festival. Connoisseur
Classics 2. Lalo: Symphonie espagnole Op.21;
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique; Croall: Nimkii
N’gamwin (Thunder Song). National Academy
Orchestra; Adrian Anantawan, violin;
Boris Brott, conductor. L.R. Wilson Concert
Hall, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. W. ,
Hamilton. 905-525-7664. $60. Festival runs
Jun 27 to Aug 8.
●●3:00: Elora Festival. 40th Anniversary
Finale: Magnificat! Elora Singers; Festival
Orchestra with sitar and tabla. See Summer
Festival Listings for details.
●●4:00: Stratford Summer Music. National
Youth Orchestra of Canada. See Summer
Festival Listings for details.
●●6:30: Festival of the Sound. Celtic Magic
Cruise. Scantily Plaid. See Summer Festival
Listings for details.
●●7:00: Classical Unbound Festival. Summer
Nocturne. Mendelssohn: String Quartet
Op.44 No.1; Puccini: Crisantemi; Beethoven:
String Quartet Op.18 No.6. Ironwood Quartet.
Hillier Creek Estates Winery, 46 Stapleton Rd.,
Hillier. 514-713-1082. $30. Cocktail reception
6pm.
●●7:30: University of Waterloo Department of
Music. Conrad Grebel Concerts: Instrumental
Chamber Ensembles. Works by Mozart and
Peterson. Conrad Grebel University College,
140 Westmount Rd. N., Waterloo. 519-885-
0220 x24226. Free. Post-concert reception.
Monday July 29
● ● 7:00: Brookside Music Association. Festival
Baroque. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto
No.5 and works by Vivaldi and Telemann.
Guests: Sebastien Singer, cello; Andre
Fischer, guitar. Midland Alliance Church,
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B. Concerts Beyond the GTA
829 Yonge St., Midland. 705-528-0521. $30.
●●7:00: Stratford Summer Music. Payadora.
See Summer Festival Listings for details.
Wednesday July 31
●●1:30: Festival of the Sound. Festival Baroque.
James Mason, oboe; Julie Baumgartel, violin;
Borys Medicky, harpsichord; Suzanne Shulman,
flute; Karl Stobbe and others; 3:30: Blue Ocean.
Andrea Ratuski, host; Paul Marleyn, cello; Karl
Stobbe, violin; Martin Roscoe, piano; James
Campbell, clarinet and others; 7:30: Three Centuries
of Choral Music. Elora Festival Singers;
Mark Vuorinen, conductor; Festival Ensemble.
See Summer Festival Listings for details.
●●3:00: Stratford Summer Music. Joe Trio;
7:00: Laila Biali. See Summer Festival Listings
for details.
●●8:00: Highlands Opera Studio. From Opera
to Broadway. St. George’s Anglican Church
(Haliburton), 617 Mountain St., Haliburton.
1-855-455-5533. $32.50.
Thursday August 1
●●11:00am: Stratford Summer Music. Guy
Few, trumpet & Stephen Mara, piano & Mark
Fewer, interviewer; 7:00: The Canabis Cantata.
See Summer Festival Listings for details.
●●12:00 noon: Collingwood Summer Music Festival.
Underground Railway Story for the Family
- Diana Braithwaite & Chris Whiteley Duo. Venue
TBA. 705-445-2200 or 1-866-382-2200. Free.
●●12:15: St. George’s Cathedral Summer Concerts.
Jan LeClair, accordian. St. George’s Cathedral
(Kingston), 270 King St. E., Kingston.
613-548-4617 or stgeorgescathedral.ca. Free.
Freewill offering collected.
●●1:30: Festival of the Sound. Mozart &
Beethoven. Atis Bankas, violin; Victoria Korchinskaya-Kogan,
Martin Roscoe, piano; James
Campbell, clarinet; Paul Marleyn, cello; 3:30:
Mendelssohn & Brahms. Julie Nesrallah, mezzo;
Douglas McNabney, viola; Robert Kortgaard,
piano; Min-Jeong Koh, violin; Adrian Fung, cello
and others; 7:30: Just Friends. Julie Nesrallah,
mezzo; Martin Roscoe, piano; Robert Kortgaard,
piano; Karl Stobbe, Min-Jeong Koh, violin and
others. See Summer Festival Listings for details.
●●7:00: Collingwood Summer Music Festival.
Sugar and Gold - Diana Braithwaite & Chris
Whiteley Quintet. New Life Church, 28 Tracey
Ln., Collingwood. 705-445-2200 or 1-866-
382-2200 or collingwoodfestival.com/buytickets.
$35.
Friday August 2
●●2:00: Westben. James Ehnes, violin.
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos.3, 6, 9 “Kreutzer”.
Andrew Armstrong, piano. The Barn,
6698 County Road 30, Campbellford. 877-
883-5777. $65; $63(sr); $15(under 30);
$5(under 19). 1pm: Pre-Concert Chat.
●●3:00: Stratford Summer Music. Hatch –
Continuum; 9:00 Phil Dwyer Trio. See Summer
Festival Listings for details.
●●7:00: Collingwood Summer Music Festival.
Nhapitapi (Zimbabwe). New Life Church,
28 Tracey Ln., Collingwood. 705-445-2200 or
1-866-382-2200 or collingwoodfestival.com/
buy-tickets. $35.
●●7:00: Westben. Jeremy Dutcher. Classically
trained tenor/composer who blends his Wolastoq
First Nation roots into his music. Works
from his debut recording Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa,
consisting of rearrangements
of early 1900’s wax cylinder field recordings
from his community, which he sings in his own
Wolastoqey language. The Barn, 6698 County
Road 30, Campbellford. 877-883-5777. $48;
$46(sr); $15(under 30); $5(under 19). 5pm:
BBQ featuring traditional Anishinaabe food
(reservations required 48 hrs. prior).
●●7:30: The Joni Book. Mandy Lagan, vocals
with ORIGINS. See Summer Festival Listings
for details.
●●8:00: Gravenhurst Opera House. Sawdust
City Music Festival. 295 Muskoka Rd. S.,
Gravenhurst. 705-687-5550. $40 show only;
$145(weekend pass); $299(VIP). Weekendlong
festival from Aug 2-4.
●●9:00: Westben. Westben Jazz Fringe: Late
Night Jazz. The Natural, 18 Main St., Warkworth.
705-304-2270. No tickets. Call for
reservations.
●●9:00: Westben. Westben Jazz Fringe: Late
Night Jazz. Capers Tap House, 28 Bridge St.,
Campbellford. 705-653-5262. No tickets. Call
for reservations.
Saturday August 3
●●11:00am: Stratford Summer Music.
Musical Brunches with Joseph Phillips; 7:00:
Janina Fialkowska. See Summer Festival Listings
for details.
●●2:00: Westben. Matt Dusk -- Sextet. Frank
Sinatra favourites. 1966: A Night at The
Sands. The Barn, 6698 County Road 30,
Campbellford. 877-883-5777. $65; $63(sr);
$15(under 30); $5(under 19).
●●5:00: Westben. Westben Jazz Fringe: Jazz
Mains. SOS Lounge, 101 Old Hastings Rd,
Warkworth. 705-924-3333. No tickets. Call
for reservations.
●●5:00: Westben. Westben Jazz Fringe:
Jazz Mains. McGillicafey’s Pub and Eatery,
13 Bridge St. S, Hastings. 705-696-3600. No
tickets. Call for reservations.
●●5:00: Westben. Westben Jazz Fringe: Jazz
Mains. Capers Tap House, 28 Bridge St.,
Campbellford. 705-653-5262. No tickets. Call
for reservations.
●●5:00: Westben. Westben Jazz Fringe: Jazz
Mains. Antonia’s Bistro, 28 Doxsee Ave. S.,
Campbellford. 705-632-0505. No tickets. Call
for reservations.
●●5:00: Westben. Westben Jazz Fringe: Jazz
Mains. Trent Valley Lanes, 63 Front St. N.,
Campbellford. 705-653-2881. No tickets. Call
for reservations.
●●7:00: Collingwood Summer Music Festival.
Payadora Tango Ensemble. Works by De Caro,
Pugliese, Troilo, Salgan, Piazzolla and others.
New Life Church, 28 Tracey Ln., Collingwood.
705-445-2200 or 1-866-382-2200 or collingwoodfestival.com/buy-tickets.
$35.
●●7:30: Festival of the Sound. Jazz Canada:
That Latin Flavour. Guido Basso, trumpet;
Dave Young, bass; Terry Clarke,drums; Reg
Schwager, guitar; David Restivo, piano. See
Summer Festival Listings for details.
●●7:30: Music at Port Milford. Freedom
and Faith. Works by Washington, Schumann,
Fitzgerald, and Meyer. PUBLIQuartet;
Andrea Botticelli, piano. St. Mary Magdalene,
355 Main St., Picton. 914-439-5039. $30;
$10(st); $5(youth 12 and under).
●●8:00: Highlands Opera Studio. Pop Goes
the Opera. Highland Hills United Church (formerly
Minden UC), 21 Newcastle St., Minden.
1-855-455-5533. $32.50.
●●9:00: Westben. Westben Jazz Fringe: Jazz
Jam at The Clock. Bring your own instrument
and sit in with the band! Clock Tower Cultural
Centre, 36 Front St. S., Campbellford. 705-
653-5508. No tickets. Call for reservations.
Sunday August 4
●●11:00am: Westben. Westben Jazz Fringe:
Jazz Brunch. Village Pantry Collective,
27 Main St., Warkworth. 613-921-2604. No
tickets. Call for reservations.
●●11:00am: Westben. Westben Jazz Fringe:
Jazz Brunch. Bridgewater Coffee and Pizza,
16 Bridge St. N., Hastings. 705-696-2920. No
tickets. Call for reservations.
●●11:00am: Westben. Westben Jazz Fringe:
Jazz Brunch. Capers Tap House, 28 Bridge
St., Campbellford. 705-653-5262. No tickets.
Call for reservations.
●●11:00am: Westben. Westben Jazz Fringe:
Jazz Brunch. I Am Coffee Cafe, 49 Front St.
N., Campbellford. 705-947-2262. No tickets.
Call for reservations.
●●2:00: Festival of the Sound. Craig Harley
& Friends. John Southworth and the South
Seas; 7:30: Toronto All-Star Big Band: Party
Like It’s 1940. See Summer Festival Listings
for details.
●●2:00: Westben. Sophisticated Ladies. Music
of Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Nancy Wilson,
Dinah Washington, Etta James, Blossom
Dearie, Sarah Vaughan. Barbra Lica and
Sophia Perlman, jazz vocals; Brian Barlow
Big Band. The Barn, 6698 County Road 30,
Campbellford. 877-883-5777. $65; $63(sr);
$15(under 30); $5(under 19).
Monday August 5
●●2:00: Festival of the Sound. “And So We
Began”. Bryan Cheng, cello; Sylvie Cheng, piano;
Yolanda Bruno, violin; Moshe Hammer, violin;
Glen Montgomery, piano and others; 6:30: Jazz
Canada Cruise. Dave Young, Terry Clarke, David
Restivo; Heather Bambrick, vocals. See Summer
Festival Listings for details.
●●7:00: Stratford Summer Music. Nat Cole: A
King’s Centennial. See Summer Festival Listings
for details.
Tuesday August 6
●●5:30: Festival of the Sound. Elegance at
Seguin Valley. New Zealand String Quartet;
Canadian Guitar Quartet; Moshe Hammer,
violin. Fundraising dinner. See Summer Festival
Listings for details.
Wednesday August 7
●●12:00 noon: Midday Music with Shigeru.
Piano Recital. Rachmaninoff: Sonata No.2 and
works by Beethoven. Benjamin Smith, piano.
Hiway Pentecostal Church, 50 Anne St. N.,
Barrie. 705-726-1181. $10; free(st).
●●1:30: Festival of the Sound. Gillian’s Viola.
Gillian Ansell, viola; Joel Quarrington, double
bass; Yolanda Bruno, violin; Alexander Tselyakov,
piano; 3:30: Fables & Folk Tales. Cheng²
Duo: Bryan Cheng, cello; Silvie Cheng, piano;
6:00: Discovery Concert. Continuum Contemporary
Music; 7:30: Good Friends. New Zealand
String Quartet; James Campbell, clarinet. See
Summer Festival Listings for details.
●●7:00: Brookside Music Association. Canadian
Guitar Quartet. Guests: Sebastien
Singer, cello; Andre Fischer, guitar. Midland
Alliance Church, 829 Yonge St., Midland. 705-
528-0521. $30.
●●7:00: Heritage Music Festival. Country
Jamboree with Greg Holmes. Centre Dufferin
Recreation Complex, 200 Fiddle Park Lane,
Shelburne. 519-925-3037. $7 at door.
●●7:00: Stratford Summer Music. Harmen
Fraanje & Lucas Dann; 7:00: Bernice. See
Summer Festival Listings for details.
●●8:00: Highlands Opera Studio. Celebrations!
Marking the anniversaries of Offenbach,
Leoncavallo and others with selections
from operetta, opera and musical theatre.
St. George’s Anglican Church (Haliburton),
617 Mountain St., Haliburton. 1-855-455-
5533. $32.50.
Thursday August 8
●●12:15: St. George’s Cathedral Summer Concerts.
Cloister Voices. St. George’s Cathedral
(Kingston), 270 King St. E., Kingston. 613-548-
4617 or stgeorgescathedral.ca. Free. Freewill
offering collected.
●●1:30: Festival of the Sound. A Family Affair.
Alexander Tselyakov, Daniel Tselyakov, piano;
Graham Campbell, guitar; James Campbell,
clarinet; New Zealand String Quartet; 3:30:
Canadian Guitar Quartet & Swiss Friends;
7:30: Haydn, Ravel & Mozart. New Zealand
String Quartet; Yolanda Bruno, violin; Joel
Quarrington, double bass;Alexander Tselyakov,
piano; Canadian Guitar Quartet. See
Summer Festival Listings for details.
●●3:00: Stratford Summer Music. Steven
Dann & Friends; 7:00: Nico Dann Trio. See
Summer Festival Listings for details.
●●7:30: Brott Music Festival. For Your Eyes
Only. Music from James Bond. National Academy
Orchestra; Jeans N Classics; Boris Brott,
conductor. Liuna Station, 360 James St.
N., Hamilton. 905-525-7664. $54; $49(sr);
$20(st); $33(Brott53). Festival runs Jun 27
to Aug 8.
●●7:30: Heritage Music Festival. Country
Superstars Live in Concert. Centre Dufferin
Recreation Complex, 200 Fiddle Park
Lane, Shelburne. 519-925-3037. $25; $10(12
and under).
Friday August 9
●●10:00am: Festival of the Sound. Celebration
Daytime Concerts; 10:30am: Celebration
Musical Cruise; 7:30: Celebration Concert:
Into the Future. See Summer Festival Listings
for details.
●●3:00: Stratford Summer Music. Isabel
Bayrakdarian with Robert Kortgaard piano;
9:00: Jodi Proznick Trio. Heather Bambrick,
vocals. See Summer Festival Listings
for details.
●●7:00: Collingwood Summer Music Festival.
Rolston String Quartet. Works by Haydn,
Debussy, Franck and others. Guest: Daniel
Wnukowski, piano. New Life Church,
28 Tracey Ln., Collingwood. 705-445-2200 or
1-866-382-2200 or collingwoodfestival.com/
buy-tickets. $35.
●●7:30: Heritage Music Festival. The Washboard
Union. with Sweet Fire. Centre Dufferin
Recreation Complex, 200 Fiddle Park Lane,
Shelburne. 519-925-3037. $45.
Saturday August 10
●●10:00am: Heritage Music Festival. 69th
Canadian Open Old Time Fiddle Championships
- Playdowns. Centre Dufferin
Recreation Complex, 200 Fiddle Park Lane,
Shelburne. 519-925-3037. Free.
●●11:00am: Stratford Summer Music.
Musical Brunches with Clark Schaufele;
11:00am: Sing for Health! Rachel Shubert. See
Summer Festival Listings for details.
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●●2:30: Heritage Music Festival. Bands and
Brews in the Fiddle Park. After the parade.
Fiddle Park, 515677 County Rd. 11, Shelburne.
519-925-3037. Entrance by donation.
●●6:30: Heritage Music Festival. 69th Canadian
Open Old Time Fiddle Championships
- Finals. Entertainment by The Scott Woods
Band. Centre Dufferin Recreation Complex,
200 Fiddle Park Lane, Shelburne. 519-925-
3037. $25; $10(12 and under).
●●7:30: Festival of the Sound. National Academy
Orchestra. Boris Brott, conductor; Alexander
Tselyakov, piano. See Summer Festival
Listings for details.
●●7:30: Music at Port Milford. For Earle.
Works by Haydn, Mahler, Brahms and Röntgen.
Marie Berard, violin; Min-Jeong Koh,
violin; Angela Rudden, viola; Adrian Fung,
cello; Paul Widner, cello. St. Mary Magdalene,
355 Main St., Picton. 914-439-5039. $30;
$10(st); $5(youth 12 and under).
●●8:00: Highlands Opera Studio. Art of Song.
St. George’s Anglican Church (Haliburton),
617 Mountain St., Haliburton. 1-855-455-
5533. $32.50.
Sunday August 11
●●10:00am: Heritage Music Festival. Nondenominational
Church Service. Centre Dufferin
Recreation Complex, 200 Fiddle Park
Lane, Shelburne. 519-925-3037. Free. Religious
service.
●●3:00: Collingwood Summer Music Festival.
Family Fun - Carnival of the Animals /
The Hockey Sweater - World Premiere. RH
Thomson, actor; Trevor Copp, mime; Michael
Schulte, violin. New Life Church, 28 Tracey Ln.,
Collingwood. 705-445-2200 or 1-866-382-
2200 or collingwoodfestival.com/buy-tickets.
$30.
Wednesday August 14
●●2:30: Seniors Serenade. Pianist Abigail
Johnson Gray. Works by Debussy, Bach, and
Rachmaninoff. Bethel Community Church,
128 St. Vincent Street, Barrie. 705-726-1181.
Free.
Thursday August 15
●●11:00am: Stratford Summer Music. Sing
For Health! Rachel Shubert. University of Waterloo,
Stratford Campus, 125 St. Patrick St.,
Stratford. stratfordsummermusic.ca. PWYC.
●●12:15: St. George’s Cathedral Summer Concerts.
Warren Nicholson, guitar. Works by
Bach, Dowland and Domoniconi. St. George’s
Cathedral (Kingston), 270 King St. E., Kingston.
613-548-4617 or stgeorgescathedral.ca.
Free. Freewill offering collected.
●●3:00: Stratford Summer Music. Nevermore,
Inspired by Edgar Allen Poe. Tom Allen;
Lori Gemmell; The Rosebud Quartet. See
Summer Festival Listings for details.
●●8:00: Highlands Opera Studio. Women in
Opera: Then and Now. Suor Angelica. Music
by Giacomo Puccini, libretto by Giovacchino
Forzano; The Chair. Music by Maria Atallah,
libretto by Alice Abracen; Book of Faces.
Music by Kendra Harder, libretto by Michelle
Telford. Suor Angelica: Lauren Margison, soprano
(Suor Angelica); Sara Schabas, soprano
(Suor Genovieffa); Megan Quick, mezzo
(La Principessa); Louise-Andrée Baril, music
director; Valerie Kunka, stage director; The
Chair: Rebecca Cuddy, mezzo (Melanie); Sara
Schabas, soprano (Vanessa); Jennifer Szeto,
music director; Jessica Derventzis, stage
director; Book of Faces: Carol Anne Roussel,
soprano (Rachel); Megan Quick, mezzo
(Stephanie); Jennifer Szeto, music director;
Jessica Derventzis, stage director. Northern
Lights Performing Arts Pavilion, 5358 County
Rd. 21, Haliburton. 1-855-455-5533. $37.50.
Also Aug 17 (Orillia).
Friday August 16
●●9:00: Stratford Summer Music. Tom Allen
& Co.: Bohemians in Brooklyn. Tom Allen,
voice/trombone; Lori Gemmell, harp/guitar/voice;
Bryce Kulak, piano/voice; Patricia
O’Callaghan, voice/percussion. See Summer
Festival Listings for details.
Saturday August 17
●●11:00am: Stratford Summer Music.
Musical Brunches with Andrew Downing. See
Summer Festival Listings for details.
●●5:30: Wellington Water Week. How Can
I Keep from Singin’? A cappella folksongs.
Works by Gombert, Marenzio, and others.
Opus 8; Robert Busiakiewicz, conductor.
Wellilngton United Church, 243 Main St., Wellington.
festivalplayers.ca or 613-476-1991 or
boxoffice@festivalplayers.ca. $35.
●●7:00: Highlands Opera Studio. Women in
Opera: Then and Now. See Aug 15. St. Paul’s
Centre, 62 Peter St. N., Orillia. 1-855-455-
5533. $45/$40(adv). Also Aug 15(Haliburton).
●●7:30: Gravenhurst Opera House. Jack Hutton
& Friends: The Farewell Tour. Jack Hutton,
piano; Bob Livingston, trombone; Will Willson,
banjo; Ric Giorgi, string bass. 295 Muskoka Rd.
S., Gravenhurst. 705-687-5550. $25.
●●7:30: Music at Port Milford. Music for the
Joy of It. Works by Byrd, Walton, Martinu, and
Mendelssohn. Tokai String Quartet; Catherine
Cosby, violin; Andréa Tyniec, violin. St. Mary
Magdalene, 355 Main St., Picton. 914-439-
5039. $30; $10(st); $5(youth 12 and under).
Sunday August 18
●●7:00: Stratford Summer Music. John Mac-
Leod’s Rex Hotel Orchestra. See Summer Festival
Listings for details.
●●9:00: Wellington Water Week. Collectìf:
Cabaret “A Watering Hole”. Jennifer Drabbe,
Danike Lorén, Whitney O’Hearn, singers; Tom
King, piano. Stache on Main, 287 Main St.,
Wellington. festivalplayers.ca or 613-476-1991
or boxoffice@festivalplayers.ca. $35.
Monday August 19
●●1:00: Stratford Summer Music. Vocal
Academy Performance. See Summer Festival
Listings for details.
Tuesday August 20
●●5:30: Wellington Water Week. Concert &
Dinner Series: The Parcival Project. Mozart:
Clarinet Quintet, K581; Messiaen: Quatuor
pour la fin du temps. The Parcival Project;
Recipients of the Music Instrument Bank of
the Canada Council for the Arts. Wellington
United Church, 243 Main St., Wellington. festivalplayers.ca
or 613-476-1991 or boxoffice@
festivalplayers.ca. $35.
●●7:30: OperaMuskoka/Toronto City Opera.
La Traviata. Music by Giuseppe Verdi, libretto
by Francesco Maria Piave. Rene M. Caisse
Memorial Theatre, 100 Clearbrook Trail,
Bracebridge. 705-765-1048. $35.
●●8:00: Highlands Opera Studio. Alumni
Concert. Singers from previous years of the
Highland Opera Studio in opera and musical
theatre favourites including Mikayla Singer,
soprano; Danielle MacMillan, mezzo; and
Samuel Chan, baritone. St. George’s Anglican
Church (Haliburton), 617 Mountain St., Haliburton.
1-855-455-5533. $32.50.
Wednesday August 21
●●12:00 noon: Music at St. Andrew’s. Organist
Stefani Bedin. Works by Bach, Buxtehude,
and Brahms. St. Andrew’s Presbyterian
Church (Barrie), 47 Owen St., Barrie. 705-
726-1181. $10; free(st).
●●3:00: Stratford Summer Music. Vocal
Academy Finale Concert. See Summer Festival
Listings for details.
●●8:00: Wellington Water Week. Around
the World in Eighty Minutes with Two Cups
of Jo. Works by Dowland, Schubert, Fauré,
Tchaikovsky, Bartók, and others. Joe Phillips,
double bass; Jozsef Botos, guitar. Festival
Players Studio Theatre, 310 Main St., Wellington.
festivalplayers.ca or 613-476-1991 or
boxoffice@festivalplayers.ca. $35.
Thursday August 22
●●12:15: St. George’s Cathedral Summer
Concerts. Mikayla Jensen-Large, soprano
& Jonathan Stuchbery, lute - Restless Love.
Works by Kapsberger, Steffani, Frescobaldi,
and Dowland. St. George’s Cathedral (Kingston),
270 King St. E., Kingston. 613-548-4617
or stgeorgescathedral.ca. Free. Freewill
offering collected.
●●3:00: Stratford Summer Music. Party Like
It’s 1689!; 7:00: John Novacek. See Summer
Festival Listings for details.
●●5:30: Wellington Water Week. Concert &
Dinner Series: Fairy Tales by the Cheng² Duo.
Ravel: Paval pour une infante défunte; and other
works. Cheng² Duo. Wellington United Church,
243 Main St., Wellington. festivalplayers.ca or
613-476-1991 or boxoffice@festivalplayers.ca.
$35-$50.
●●7:30: Highlands Opera Studio. Ariadne auf
Naxos. Music by Richard Strauss, libretto
by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Shantelle Pryzbylo,
soprano (Ariadne); Maeve Palmer, soprano
(Zerbinetta); Michelle Siemens, mezzo
(Composer); Scott Rumble, tenor (Bacchus);
David Diston, baritone (Musiklehrer); Geoffrey
Schellenberg, baritone (Harlekin); Guest
artist: Brigitte Gall (Haushofmeister); Janelle
Fung, piano; Philip Morehead, music
director; Valerie Kuinka & Richard Margison,
stage directors. Northern Lights Performing
Arts Pavilion, 5358 County Rd. 21, Haliburton.
1-855-455-5533. $37.50. Opens Aug 22,
7:30pm. Runs to Aug 26. Thurs/Mon(7:30pm),
Sat/Sun(2pm).
Friday August 23
●●6:00: Wellington Water Week. SING!
Sarah Slean and Johannes Debus, directors.
Wellington United Church, 243 Main St., Wellington.
festivalplayers.ca or 613-476-1991 or
boxoffice@festivalplayers.ca. $5.
●●8:00: Wellington Water Week. In Concert.
Sarah Slean, vocalist; Kamareli String Quartet.
Wellington United Church, 243 Main St.,
Wellington. festivalplayers.ca or 613-476-1991
or boxoffice@festivalplayers.ca. $50.
●●9:00: Stratford Summer Music. Rhapsody
in Blue. See Summer Festival Listings
for details.
Saturday August 24
●●11:00am: Stratford Summer Music.
Musical Brunches with Thomas Wiebe; 7:00:
Two Bass Hit with Dave Young and Joel Quarrington.
See Summer Festival Listings for
details.
●●2:00: Highlands Opera Studio. Ariadne auf
Naxos. See Aug 22. Runs to Aug 26. Thurs/
Mon(7:30pm), Sat/Sun(2pm).
●●8:00: Gravenhurst Opera House. Woodstock:
A 50th Anniversary Celebration! Harrison
Kennedy, Tony Springer, Matt Weidinger,
Cheryl Lescom and others. 295 Muskoka Rd.
S., Gravenhurst. 705-687-5550. $40; $20(st);
$30(group of 10+).
●●8:00: Wellington Water Week. Baroque
Salon “Duetto Violoncello”. Works by Cirri,
Thomas, and Dall’Abaco. Elinor Frey and Carrai,
cellos. Festival Players Studio Theatre,
310 Main St., Wellington. festivalplayers.ca
or 613-476-1991 or boxoffice@festivalplayers.
ca. $40.
Sunday August 25
●●2:00: Highlands Opera Studio. Ariadne
auf Naxos. Music by Richard Strauss, libretto
by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Shantelle Pryzbylo,
soprano (Ariadne); Maeve Palmer, soprano
(Zerbinetta); Michelle Siemens, mezzo
(Composer); Scott Rumble, tenor (Bacchus);
David Diston, baritone (Musiklehrer); Geoffrey
Schellenberg, baritone (Harlekin); Guest
artist: Brigitte Gall (Haushofmeister); Janelle
Fung, piano; Philip Morehead, music director;
Valerie Kuinka & Richard Margison,
stage directors. Northern Lights Performing
Arts Pavilion, 5358 County Rd. 21, Haliburton.
1-855-455-5533. $37.50. Opens Aug 22,
7:30pm. Runs to Aug 26. Thurs/Mon(7:30pm),
Sat/Sun(2pm).
●●3:00: Stratford Summer Music. Rémi
Bolduc Jazz Ensemble: Tribute to Dave Brubeck.
See Summer Festival Listings for
details.
●●3:00: Wellington Water Week. Exubérance
et Nostalgie: Prix Opus Programme. Created
by James Darling. Schumann: Piano Quintet
in E-flat Op.44; and other works. Wellington
United Church, 243 Main St., Wellington. festivalplayers.ca
or 613-476-1991 or boxoffice@
festivalplayers.ca. $35.
Monday August 26
● ● 7:30: Highlands Opera Studio. Ariadne auf
Naxos. See Aug 22.
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B. Concerts Beyond the GTA
C. Music Theatre
Thursday August 29
●●12:15: St. George’s Cathedral Summer Concerts.
Colioris Ensemble: Be Free! Works by
Haydn, Bloch, and Shostakovich. St. George’s
Cathedral (Kingston), 270 King St. E., Kingston.
613-548-4617 or stgeorgescathedral.ca.
C. Music Theatre
Free. Freewill offering collected.
Wednesday September 4
●●12:00 noon: Midday Music with Shigeru.
Hymns of the Heart. Cheryl Graham, piano.
Hiway Pentecostal Church, 50 Anne St. N.,
Barrie. 705-726-1181. $10; free(st).
These music theatre listings contain a wide range of music theatre types including
opera, operetta, musicals and other performance genres where music and
drama combine. Listings in this section are sorted alphabetically by presenter.
●●Belleville Theatre Guild. The Last Five
Years. Music and lyrics by Jason Robert
Brown. Pinnacle Playhouse Theatre,
256 Pinnacle St., Belleville. 613-967-1442. $25;
$22(sr); $10(st). Opens May 30, 8pm. Runs to
Jun 16. Wed-Sat(8pm), Sun(2pm).
●●Brott Music Festival. PopOpera. Arias,
duets and ensembles from favourite operas.
FirstOntario Concert Hall, 1 Summers Ln.,
Hamilton. 905-525-7664. $55; $50(sr);
$33(Brott35); $20(st). Jul 4, 7:30pm.
●●Brott Music Festival. La Bohème. Music by
Giacomo Puccini, libretto by Luigi Illica and
Giuseppe Giacosa. FirstOntario Concert Hall,
1 Summers Ln., Hamilton. 905-525-7664.
$68; $62(sr); $33(Brott35); $25(st). Jul 18,
7:30pm.
●●Brott Music Festival. My Fair Lady. Music
by Frederick Loewe, lyrics and book by
Alan Jay Lerner. FirstOntario Concert Hall,
1 Summers Ln., Hamilton. 905-525-7664.
$68; $62(sr); $33(Brott35); $25(st). Aug 15,
7:30pm.
●●Bruce County Playhouse. Nunsense. Music,
lyrics and book by Dan Goggin. Southampton
Town Hall, 201 High St, Southampton. 519-
483-6339. $30. Opens Jul 25, 8pm. Runs to
Aug 10. Tues-Sat(8pm), Thurs/Sun(2pm).
●●Bryant Productions. The Secret Garden
in Concert. Music by Lucy Simon, lyrics and
book by Marsha Norman, based on the novel.
Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst St. 416-504-
4473. $35; $25(st). Opens Jun 14, 8pm. Also
Jun 15(2pm, 8pm).
●●Capitol Theatre. Million Dollar Quartet.
Features music of Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee
Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley. Cameco
Capitol Arts Centre, 20 Queen St, Port Hope.
1-888-732-1680. $38-$41; $30-32(ch). Opens
Aug 6, 2pm. Runs to Sep 1. Tues-Thurs/Sat-
Sun(2pm), Thurs-Sat(8pm).
●●Civic Light Opera Company. Man of La
Mancha. Music by Mitch Leigh, lyrics by Joe
Darion, book by Dale Wasserman. Zion Cultural
Centre, 1650 Finch Ave. E. 416-755-
1717. $28. Opens Jun 5, 7pm. Runs to Jun 16.
Wed(7pm), Thurs-Sat(8pm), Sun(2pm).
●●Drayton Entertainment. Jack and the
Beanstalk: The Panto. King’s Wharf Theatre,
97 Jury Dr., Penetanguishene. 1-855-372-
9866. $29-$48. Opens Jun 5, 10:30am. Runs
to Jun 22. Days and times vary. Visit draytonentertainment.com
for details.
●●Drayton Entertainment. Annie. Music by
Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin,
book by Thomas Meehan. Drayton Festival
Theatre, 33 Wellington St. S., Drayton. 1-855-
372-9866. $29-$48. Opens Jun 5, 2pm. Runs
to Jun 30. Days and times vary. Visit draytonentertainment.com
for details.
●●Drayton Entertainment. Thoroughly Modern
Millie. Music by Jeanine Tesori, lyrics by
Dick Scanlan, book by Richard Morris and
Dick Scanlan, based on the film. Huron County
Playhouse, RR1, 70689 B Line, South Huron.
1-855-372-9866. $29-$48. Opens Jun 5,
7:30pm. Runs to Jun 22. Tues-Sat(2pm),
Thurs/Sat(7:30pm). Note: extra show Jun 9,
2pm.
●●Drayton Entertainment. You’ll Get Used to
It: The War Show. By Peter Colley. St. Jacobs
Country Playhouse, 40 Benjamin Rd. E., Waterloo.
1-855-372-9866. $29-$48. Opens
Jun 5, 2pm. Runs to Jun 22. Tues-Sat(2pm),
Thurs/Sat(7:30pm). Note: extra show Jun 9,
2pm.
●●Drayton Entertainment. Disney’s Newsies.
Music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Jack Feldman,
book by Harvey Fierstein. Huron County
Playhouse, RR1, 70689 B Line, South Huron.
1-855-372-9866. $29-$48. Opens Jun 27,
2pm. Runs to Jul 13. Tues-Sun(2pm), Thurs-
Sat(7:30pm). Note: extra show Jul 9, 7:30pm.
●●Drayton Entertainment. You’ll Get Used
to It… The War Show. By Peter Colley. Huron
Country Playhouse II, RR1, 70689 B Line,
South Huron. 1-855-372-9866. $29-$48.
Opens Jun 27, 2pm. Runs to Jul 13. Tues-
Sun(2pm), Thurs-Sat(7:30pm).
●●Drayton Entertainment. Grease. Music, lyrics
and book by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey.
Hamilton Family Theatre Cambridge. 46 Grand
Ave. S., Cambridge. 1-855-372-9866. $29-$48.
Opens Jul 10, 7:30pm. Runs to Aug 3. Days and
time vary; visit draytonentertainment.com for
details.
●●Drayton Entertainment. Disney’s Beauty
and the Beast. Music by Alan Menken, lyrics by
Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, book by Linda
Woolverton. King’s Wharf Theatre, 97 Jury
Dr., Penetanguishene. 1-855-372-9866. $29-
$48. Opens Jul 11, 2pm. Runs to Aug 10. Days
and time vary; visit draytonentertainment.com
for details.
●●Drayton Entertainment. Rocky the
Musical. Music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics
by Lynn Ahrens, book by Thomas Meehan
and Sylvester Stallone, based on the film.
Huron County Playhouse, RR1, 70689 B Line,
South Huron. 1-855-372-9866. $29-$48.
Opens Jul 18, 2pm. Runs to Aug 3. Days and
time vary; visit draytonentertainment.com
for details.
●●Drayton Entertainment. Disney’s Newsies.
Music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Jack Feldman,
book by Harvey Fierstein. St. Jacobs
Country Playhouse, 40 Benjamin Rd. E., Waterloo.
1-855-372-9866. $29-$48. Opens
Jul 18, 2pm. Runs to Aug 3. Days and time
vary; visit draytonentertainment.com for
details.
●●Drayton Entertainment. Fiddler on the
Loose. Conceived by David Rogers, musical
arrangements by Mark Payne. Drayton
Festival Theatre, 33 Wellington St. S., Drayton.
1-855-372-9866. $29-$48. Opens Jul 24,
2pm. Runs to Aug 10. Days and time vary; visit
draytonentertainment.com for details.
●●Drayton Entertainment. Grease. Music, lyrics
and book by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey.
Huron County Playhouse, RR1, 70689 B Line,
South Huron. 1-855-372-9866. $29-$48. Opens
Aug 8, 2pm. Runs to Aug 31. Days and time vary;
visit draytonentertainment.com for details.
●●Drayton Entertainment. Jack and the
Beanstalk: The Panto. Huron Country Playhouse
II, RR1, 70689 B Line, South Huron.
1-855-372-9866. $29-$48. Opens Aug 8,
2pm. Runs to Aug 31. Days and time vary;
visit draytonentertainment.com for details.
●●Drayton Entertainment. Disney’s Beauty
and the Beast. Music by Alan Menken, lyrics
by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, book by
Linda Woolverton. Drayton Festival Theatre,
33 Wellington St. S., Drayton. 1-855-372-9866.
$29-$48. Opens Aug 15, 2pm. Runs to Aug 31.
Days and time vary; visit draytonentertainment.
com for details.
●●Elora Festival. Shoestring Opera: Schoolyard
Carmen. Music by Georges Bizet, libretto
by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. Wellington
County Museum, 536 Wellington
Rd. 18, Fergus. 519-846-0331. $20; $15(st);
$10(child); $50(family pack). Jul 20, 11am.
●●Festival of the Sound. Viennese Opera
Party. Charles W. Stockey Centre, 2 Bay St,
Parry Sound. 705-746-2410 or 1-866-364-
0061. $48-$53; $43-$48(sr). Jul 21, 7:30pm.
●●Gravenhurst Opera House. Dean & Jerry:
What Might Have Been. Created by Jesse Collins.
Gravenhurst Opera House, 295 Muskoka
Rd. S., Gravenhurst. 1-888-495-8888. $40;
$30(st). Opens Jul 24, 2:30pm. Runs to
Aug 16. Tues-Thurs(2:30pm), Wed-Sat(8pm).
●●Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company.
Knishes ‘n Grits. By Thom Allison and Micah
Barnes. Greenwin Theatre, Toronto Centre
for the Arts, 5040 Yonge St. 416-932-9995.
$28 and up. Opens May 21, 8pm. Runs to Jun 2.
Mon-Thurs/Sat(8pm), Wed(1pm), Sun(2pm).
●●Helga Schmidt/Attila Glatz Concert Productions/Elev8
Global Entertainment. Jonathan
Antoine: Live In Concert, Beyond the
Curtain. Jonathan Antoine, tenor; Tina Guo,
cello; DCappella, a cappella group. Winter
Garden Theatre, 189 Yonge St. 416-872-1212.
$45-$150. Jun 6, 7:30pm. Also Jun 8.
●●Highlands Opera Studio. From Opera to
Broadway. St. George’s Anglican Church,
617 Mountain St, Haliburton. 1-855-455-
5533. $32.50. Jul 31, 8pm.
●●Highlands Opera Studio. Pop Goes the
Opera. Minden United Church, 21 Newcastle
St, Minden. 1-855-455-5533. $32.50. Aug 3,
8pm.
●●Highlands Opera Studio. Celebrations! St.
George’s Anglican Church, 617 Mountain St,
Haliburton. 1-855-455-5533. $32.50. Aug 7,
8pm.
●●Highlands Opera Studio. Art of Song. St.
George’s Anglican Church, 617 Mountain St,
Haliburton. 1-855-455-5533. $32.50. Aug 10,
8pm.
●●Highlands Opera Studio. Women in Opera:
Then and Now. Music by G. Puccini, M. Atallah,
and K. Harder, libretti by G. Forzano, A.
Abracen, and M. Telford. Northern Lights Performing
Arts Pavilion, 5358 County Rd. 21,
Haliburton. 1-855-455-5533. $37.50. Aug 15,
8pm. Also Aug 17 (Orillia).
●●Highlands Opera Studio. Alumni Concert.
St. George’s Anglican Church, 617 Mountain
St, Haliburton. 1-855-455-5533. $32.50.
Aug 20, 8pm.
●●Highlands Opera Studio. Ariadne Auf
Naxos. Music by Richard Strauss, libretto by
Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Northern Lights
Performing Arts Pavillion, 5358 County Rd. 21,
Haliburton. 1-855-455-5533. $37.50. Opens
Aug 22, 7:30pm. Runs to Aug 26. Thurs/
Mon(7:30pm), Sat/Sun(2pm).
●●Long Reach Opera Workshop. Le nozze
di Figaro. Music by Mozart, libretto by Da
Ponte. Gene Wu, baritone (Figaro); Jeffrey
Smith, bass (Basilio); and undergraduate and
Masters students from UofT, Western, Dalhousie,
McGill, Mount Allison, San Francisco
Conservatory of Music, and York University.
Jeanne Lamon Hall, Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre,
427 Bloor St. W. $20; $10(sr/st/culture
workers); free(LROW alumni). Opens Jun 26,
7:30pm. Also on Jun 27, 28, 29.
●●Lower Ossington Theatre. Anne of Green
Gables. Music by Norman Campbell, lyrics by
Don Harron, Norman Campbell, Elaine Campbell,
and Mavor Moore, book by Don Harron,
based on the novel. Lower Ossington Theatre,
100A Ossington Ave. 1-888-324-6282. $49.99.
Opens Aug 16, 7:30pm. Runs to Oct 6. Fri/
Sat(7:30pm), Sat/Sun(3:30pm).
●●Lower Ossington Theatre. Peter Pan the
Musical. Music by Mark Charlap and Jule
Styne, lyrics by Carolyn Leigh, Betty Comden
and Adolph Green. Randolph Theatre,
736 Bathurst St. 1-888-324-6282. $59.50-
$79.50. Opens Aug 23, 7:30pm. Runs to
Sep 22. Fri/Sat(7:30pm), Sat/Sun(3:30pm).
●●Luminato. Obeah Opera. Conceived, written
and composed by Nicole Brooks. Fleck Dance
Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, 207 Queen’s
Quay W. 416-368-4849. $45-85; $30-60(st).
Opens Jun 13, 8pm. Runs to Jun 22. Tues-
Sat(8pm), Sun(2pm).
●●Luminato/The Cave Collective. The Cave.
Music by John Millard, lyrics by Tomson Highway.
Tank House Theatre, Young Centre
for the Performing Arts, Distillery District,
50 Tank House Ln. 416-368-4849. $30 and
up. Opens Jun 18, 8pm. Runs to Jun 23. Tues-
Sat(8pm), Sat/Sun(2pm).
●●Mirvish. Come From Away. Music, lyrics
and book by Irene Sankoff and David Hein.
Elgin Theatre, 189 Yonge St. 416-872-1212.
$69 and up. Ongoing. Tues-Sat(8pm),
Wed(1:30pm), Sat/Sun(2pm).
●●Mirvish. Dear Evan Hansen. Music and
lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, book
by Steven Levenson. Royal Alexandra Theatre,
260 King St. W. 416-872-1212. $69 and
up. Opens Mar 5, 8pm. Runs to Sep 29. Tues-
Sat(8pm), Wed(1:30pm), Sat/Sun(2pm).
●●Mirvish. The Sound of Music. Music by
Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein
II, book by Howard Lindsay and Russel
Crouse. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King
St. W. 416-872-1212. $39-$129. Opens May 28,
7:30pm. Runs to Jun 2. Tues-Sat(7:30pm),
Wed/Sat/Sun(1:30pm).
●●Mirvish. Little Black Dress. Written by Danielle
Trzcinski, Amanda Barker, Natalie Tenenbaum
and Christopher Bond. CAA Theatre,
651 Yonge St. 416-872-1212. $30-$70. Opens
Jun 4, 8pm. Runs to Jun 9. Tues-Sat(8pm),
Sat/Sun(2pm), Sun(7pm).
●●Mirvish. The Book of Mormon. Music, lyrics
and book by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and
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Matt Stone. Ed Mirvish Theatre, 244 Victoria
St. 416-872-1212. $35 and up. Opens
Jun 11, 8pm. Runs to Jun 23. Tues-Sat(8pm),
Sat(2pm), Sun(1:30pm/7:30pm).
●●Mirvish. The Lion King. Music and lyrics
by Elton John and Tim Rice, with additional
music by Lebo M, Mark Mancina, Jay Rifkin
and Hans Zimmer. Book by Roger Allers and
Irene Mecchi. Princess of Wales Theatre,
300 King St. W. 416-872-1212. $89 and up.
Opens Jun 13, 7:30pm. Runs to Aug 4. Tues-
Sat(7:30pm), Sat(2pm), Sun(1pm, 6:30pm).
●●Mirvish. Waitress. Music and lyrics by Sara
Bareilles, book by Jessie Nelson, based on the
film. Ed Mirvish Theatre, 244 Victoria St. 416-
872-1212. $59 and up. Opens Jul 9, 8pm. Runs
to Aug 18. Tues-Sat(8pm), Wed(1:30pm), Sat/
Sun(2pm).
●●Mirvish. The Office! A Musical Parody. CAA
Theatre, 651 Yonge St. 416-872-1212. $45-$79.
Opens Jul 30, 8pm. Runs to Aug 25. Tues-
Sat(8pm), Sat/Sun(2pm), Sun(7pm).
●●Muse 9 Productions/Village Opera. Bon
Appétit! A Musical Tasting Menu. Lee Hoiby:
Bon Appétit!; Danika Lorèn: The Secret Lives
of Vegetables; Peter Tiefenbach: Chansons
de mon placard. Merchants of Green Coffee,
2 Matilda St. muse9food.bpt.me. $30; $25(st/
artists). Jun 27, 8pm.
●●National Ballet of Canada. Physical Thinking.
Music by Franz Schubert and Thom
Willems. William Forsythe, choreographer
and designer. Four Seasons Centre for the
Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-345-
9595. $39 and up. Opens Jun 1, 7:30pm. Runs
to Jun 8. Sat/Sun(2pm), Wed-Fri(7:30pm).
●●National Ballet of Canada. The Merry
Widow. Music by Franz Lehár. Ronald Hynd,
choreographer. John Meehan and Steven
Woodgate, stage directors. Four Seasons
Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St.
W. 416-345-9595. $40 and up. Opens Jun 19,
7:30pm. Runs to Jun 23. Wed-Sat(7:30pm),
Thurs/Sat/Sun(2pm).
●●Nightwood Theatre Lawyer Show.
Mamma Mia! Music and lyrics by Benny
Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, and some songs
with Stig Anderson. Book by Catherine Johnson.
Jane Mallett Theatre, St Lawrence Centre
for the Arts, 27 Front St. E. 416-366-7723.
$74-$91. Opens Jun 6, 8pm. Runs to Jun 8.
Thurs-Sat(8pm), Sat(2pm).
●●Opera by Request. Nabucco. Music by
Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Temistocle Solera.
William Shookhoff, piano and conductor.
Christ Church UCC, 1700 Mazo Cr., Mississauga.
416-455-2365. $20. Jun 1, 7:30pm.
●●Opera by Request. A Summer Feast. William
Shookhoff, piano and conductor. College
Street United Church, 452 College St. 416-
455-2365. $20. Jun 7, 7:30pm.
●●Opera by Request. Maria Stuarda. Music by
Gaetano Donizetti, libretto by Giuseppe Bardari.
St. Andrew’s United Church (Bloor St.), 117 Bloor
St E. 416-455-2365. $20. Jun 15, 7:30pm.
●●OperaMuskoka/Toronto City Opera. La Traviata.
Music by Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Francesco
Maria Piave. Rene M. Caisse Memorial
Theatre, 100 Clearbrook Trail, Bracebridge.
705-765-1048. $35. Aug 20, 7:30pm.
●●Orangeville Music Theatre. Grease. Music,
lyrics and book by Jim Jacobs and Warren
Casey. Town Hall Opera House, 87 Broadway,
Orangeville. 519-942-3423. $25.95. Opens
Jun 21, 8pm. Runs to Jun 30. Fri(8pm),
Sat(7pm), Sun(2pm).
●●Pomegranate Opera Productions/Pride
Toronto. Pomegranate. Music by Kye Marshall,
libretto by Amanda Hale. Buddies in
Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander St. pomegranateopera.com.
$30-$50. Opens Jun 5,
7:30pm. Runs to Jun 9. Wed-Sat(7:30pm),
Sat/Sun(2pm).
●●Port Hope Festival Theatre. Guys and
Dolls. Music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, book
by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. Cameco
Capitol Arts Centre, 20 Queen St, Port Hope.
1-888-732-1680. $38-$41. Opens May 21, 2pm.
Runs to Jun 16. Tues-Thurs/Sat-Sun(2pm),
Thurs-Sat(8pm).
●●Shaggy Pup Productions. Menopause,
the Musical. Gravenhurst Opera House,
295 Muskoka Rd. S., Gravenhurst. 1-888-
495-8888. $45-$55. Jun 7, 8pm.
●●Shaw Festival. Brigadoon. Music by Frederick
Loewe, lyrics and book by Alan Jay Lerner.
Festival Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade,
Niagara-on-the-lake. 1-800-511-7429. $30
and up. Previews begin May 5, 1pm. Runs to
October 13. Days and times vary. Visit shawfest.com
for details.
●●Silly Stages. Chasing Rainbows. Songs of
Judy Garland. Louise Pitre, singer. Regent
Theatre, 50 King St. E., Oshawa. 905-721-
3399. $35. Jun 27, 8pm.
●●Silly Stages. Disney’s The Little Mermaid.
Music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman
and Glenn Slater, book by Doug Wright.
Regent Theatre, 50 King St. E., Oshawa. 905-
721-3399. $29-$39. Opens Jul 9, 1:30pm.
Runs to Jul 14. Tues/Wed/Sat/Sun(1:30pm),
Wed-Sat(7:30pm).
●●Soulpepper. 88 Keys. Written and hosted by
Tom Allen. Mike Ross, director and music director.
Young Centre for the Performing Arts,
50 Tank House Lane. 416-866-8666. $30-$75.
Opens Jun 1, 1:30pm. Runs to Jun 21. Days and
times vary. Visit soulpepper.ca for details.
●●Soundstreams/Luminato/Pinkhouse Productions.
Hell’s Fury, the Hollywood Songbook.
Conceived and directed by Tim Albery,
with music by Hanns Eisler. Russell Braun,
baritone. Harbourfront Centre Theatre,
231 Queen’s Quay W. 416-368-4849. $45-
$95; $30-$70(st). Opens Jun 19, 7pm. Runs to
Jun 23. Wed-Sat(7pm), Sun(2pm).
●●Stratford Festival. Billy Elliot the Musical.
Music by Elton John, lyrics and book by Lee
Hall. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen St, Stratford.
1-800-567-1600. $35 and up. Previews begin
Apr 16, 2pm. Runs to Nov 3. Days and times
vary. Visit stratfordfestival.ca for details.
●●Stratford Festival. Little Shop of Horrors.
Music by Alan Menken, lyrics and
book by Howard Ashman. Avon Theatre,
99 Downie St, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600.
$35 and up. Previews begin Apr 29, 2pm.
Runs to Nov 2. Days and times vary. Visit
stratfordfestival.ca for details.
●●Summer Opera Lyric Theatre. La traviata.
Music by Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by
Francesco Maria Piave. Robert Gill Theatre,
University of Toronto, 214 College St.
416-366-7723. $28. Opens Jul 26, 8pm. Also
Jul 28(2pm); 31(2pm); Aug 3(8pm).
●●Summer Opera Lyric Theatre. Earnest,
The Importance of Being. By Victor
Davies and Eugene Benson. Robert Gill Theatre,
University of Toronto, 214 College St.
416-366-7723. $28. Opens Jul 27, 2pm. Also
Jul 30(8pm); Aug 1(8pm); 4(2pm).
●●Summer Opera Lyric Theatre. Riders to
the Sea and Gianni Schicchi. Music by Ralph
Vaughan Williams and Giacomo Puccini.
Robert Gill Theatre, University of Toronto,
214 College St. 416-366-7723. $28. Opens
Jul 27, 8pm. Also Jul 31(8pm); Aug 2(8pm);
3(2pm).
●●Theaturtle. Charlotte: A Tri-Coloured Play
With Music. Music by Ales Bresina, libretto by
Alon Nashman. Hart House Theatre, 7 Hart
House Circle. 416-978-2452. $20. Jun 1, 2pm.
●●Toronto Catholic District School Board
Staff Arts. Disney’s The Little Mermaid. Music
by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman
and Glenn Slater, book by Doug Wright. Cardinal
Carter Academy for the Arts Theatre,
36 Greenfield Ave. 416-222-8282 x2787. $30.
Opens May 31, 7:30pm. Runs to Jun 8. Days and
times vary. Visit tcdsb.org/staffarts for details.
●●Vera Causa Opera. Canadian Opera Fest
2019. The Village Girl (concept by Chloe
Bissada, words and music by Dylan Langan);
Refracted (words by Charlotte Lilley
and music by Emma Verdonk); La jugement
(words by Emma Lemieux and music by Dylan
Langan); The Shoemaker’s Orphans (words
by Rivi and Kyri Friedman and music by Emma
Verdonk); L’étrange et belle (words by Leslie
McCorkindale and Vanessa Parr with music
by Dylan Langan). Cambridge Centre for the
Arts, 60 Dickson St., Cambridge. 519-277-
9277. $15; free(st/child). Jun 14, 7pm. Also
Jun 15(7pm, Waterloo), 16(2pm, Guelph).
●●Vera Causa Opera. Canadian Opera Fest
2019. The Village Girl (concept by Chloe
Bissada, words and music by Dylan Langan);
Refracted (words by Charlotte Lilley
and music by Emma Verdonk); La jugement
(words by Emma Lemieux and music by Dylan
Langan); The Shoemaker’s Orphans (words
by Rivi and Kyri Friedman and music by Emma
Verdonk); L’étrange et belle (words by Leslie
McCorkindale and Vanessa Parr with music
by Dylan Langan). Knox Presbyterian Church
(Waterloo), 50 Erb St. W., Waterloo. 519-277-
9277. $15; free(st/child). Jun 15, 7pm. Also
Jun 14(7pm, Cambridge), 16(2pm, Guelph).
●●Vera Causa Opera. Canadian Opera Fest
2019. The Village Girl (concept by Chloe
Bissada, words and music by Dylan Langan);
Refracted (words by Charlotte Lilley
and music by Emma Verdonk); La jugement
(words by Emma Lemieux and music by Dylan
Langan); The Shoemaker’s Orphans (words
by Rivi and Kyri Friedman and music by Emma
Verdonk); L’étrange et belle (words by Leslie
McCorkindale and Vanessa Parr with music
by Dylan Langan). Harcourt Memorial United
Church, 87 Dean Ave., Guelph. vcopera.
ca or 519-277-9277. $15; free(st/child). Also
Jun 14(7pm, Cambridge), 15(7pm, Waterloo).
●●Wavestage Theatre. Godspell. Music and
lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, book by John-
Michael Tebelak. George Ignatieff Theatre,
15 Devonshire Pl. wavestagetheatre.com.
$39; $28(sr/st). Opens Jun 20, 7:30pm. Runs
to Jun 23. Thurs-Sat(7:30pm), Sat/Sun(2pm).
●●We Are Here Productions. Urinetown the
Musical, in concert. Music, lyrics and book by
Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis. Wychwood
Theatre, 601 Christie St. wearehereproductions@gmail.com.
$30. Opens May 31, 8pm.
Also Jun 1, 2.
●●Westben. The Snow Queen. Music by
John Greer, libretto by Jeremy James Taylor.
Canadian Children’s Opera Company. The
Barn, 6698 County Road 30, Campbellford.
877-883-5777. $39; $37(sr); $15(under 30);
$5(under 19). Jul 7, 2pm.
●●Westben. Saturday at the Opera. The
Barn, 6698 County Road 30, Campbellford.
877-883-5777. $60; $58(sr); $15(under 30);
$5(under 19). Jul 27, 2pm.
D. In the Clubs (Mostly Jazz)
120 Diner
120 Church St. 416-792-7725
120diner.com (full schedule)
Most shows $10-$20
All shows: PWYC ($10-$20 suggested)
Alleycatz
2409 Yonge St. 416-481-6865
alleycatz.ca
All shows: Call for cover charge info.
Mon 8:30pm Salsa Night with DJ Romantico
with free lessons.
Tues 8:30pm Bachata Night with Weekly
Guest DJ with free lessons.
Wed 7pm Midtown Blues Jam hosted by
Andrew “Voodoo” Walters.
Thurs 7pm Spotlight Thursdays.
Fri & Sat 9:30pm Funk, Soul, R&B Top 40 $10
cover after 9pm.
Sat 3pm-6pm Matinee Jazz.
Sun 4pm Blues in The Alley w/ Big Groove.
Jun 1 Sound Parade. Jun 7 Red Velvet. Jun 8
URequest. Jun 14 Lady Kane. Jun 15 Soular.
Jun 21 Gyles Band. Jun 22 York Jazz
Ensemble (matinee), Lady Kane (eve).
Jun 28 Blonde Ambition. Jun 29 Lady
Kane. Jul 5 URequest. Jul 6 Lady Kane.
Jul 12 Blonde Ambition. Jul 13 Lady Kane.
Jul 19 Red Velvet. Jul 20 Lady Kane. Jul 26
URequest. Jul 27 Soular. Aug 2 URequest.
Aug 3 Veronica. Aug 9 Blonde Ambition.
Aug 10 Red Velvet. Aug 16 Red Velvet. Aug 17
URequest. Aug 23 Lady Kane. Aug 24 Soular.
Aug 30 Gyles Band. Aug 31 Lady Kane.
Artword Artbar
15 Colbourne St., Hamilton. 905-543-8512
artword.net (full schedule)
The Blue Goose Tavern
1 Blue Goose St. 416-255-2442
thebluegoosetavern.com (full schedule)
Bloom
2315 Bloor St. W. 416-767-1315
bloomrestaurant.com (full schedule)
All shows 7pm 19+. Call for reservations.
Burdock
1184 Bloor St. W. 416-546-4033
burdockto.com
Ticket prices vary by show, but typically
$10-$20; check website for individual show
prices.
Jun 2 9:30pm Jill McCracken & Aphrose.
Jun 3 8pm Blythwood Winds. Jun 4 9:30pm
Misha Bower. Jun 5 7:30pm Confabulation
Presents: Scars, 9:30pm Marshall Veroni
& Cold Tea. Jun 6 6:30pm Elephant in the
Room, 9:30pm Janette King, Witch Prophet,
Jordan Alexander & Crystal Light Collective.
Jun 7 6:30pm The MisEducation of
Man. Jun 8 6:30pm Logan McKillop w/ Tannis
Slimmon, 9:30pm Mark Wilkinson. Jun 9
6:30pm James Gordon w/ Katherine Wheatley,
9:30pm Beatox. Jun 12 9:30pm NINIQUE.
Jun 13 6:30pm Ihtimanska Quartet & Brenna
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Beat by Beat | Mainly Clubs, Mostly Jazz!
Weather-Fixated
Who, Me?
COLIN STORY
Reading through some of my previous columns, I realize that I’ve
been somewhat fixated on the weather. Although “the weather”
as topic is typically a signifier of reflexive small talk, I would
like to propose that it is, in fact, an important and interesting subject
for those of us who routinely attend live concerts in Toronto, as the
weather has a large impact not only on our collective mood and
mental well-being, but also on the feasibility of any potential concert
venture. Grabbing a drink after work, checking out a show, walking
over to another venue to catch a late set: these are all activities that
seem not only less appealing but, somehow, less possible if the
weather is uncooperative.
That being said, with the advent of warmer weather, the portentous
reopening of the city’s many accommodating patios and festival
season rapidly approaching, we should finally – after many months
of lacklustre, unsympathetic meteorological conditions – be able to
enjoy the many upcoming shows in Toronto and the surrounding
areas without fear of salt stains, ruined umbrellas or hypothermia.
But! I would not be diligent in my duties if I did not divulge the fact
that as I write this, in mid-May, I do so with a sunburn. Did I acquire
this embarrassing evidence of my own negligence on a tropical vacation,
on tour in some sunnier corner of the world, or doing anything
remotely athletic? I did not. I managed to burn myself on a breezy
17-degree afternoon, in Trinity Bellwoods Park, sitting on a blanket
with a friend. The afternoon was fun; the subsequent day, in which
I was giggled at by side-eyed schoolchildren in the street, was not.
And so, before you journey outside to experience the many exciting
events happening over the next month and beyond, a friendly word
of warning: if you burn easily – and probably even if you don’t – wear
sunscreen, drink plenty of water and consider wearing a hat, lest you
too hear the phrase, “He looks like a tomato that came to life.”
The first order of business: it will come as a surprise to approximately
zero readers of this column that the TD Toronto Jazz Festival is
taking place at the end of the month, from June 21 to June 30. (Consult
the Festival website for a full look at the schedule, as there are lots of
great shows to check out, and not enough ink to mention them all
here.) It will also probably not be news that the Jazz Festival is now
in the third year of a relatively new format, with a number of free
outdoor (and indoor) stages based around Yorkville, and that as part of
this format, the Festival’s club shows are more limited than they once
were, in order to accommodate a more focused, concise programming
mandate. That being the case, there are still a number of excellent club
shows that will be taking place as part of the Jazz Festival, featuring
both local performers and international acts. Some of these will take
place around the Festival grounds in Yorkville, at bars and restaurants
that don’t typically host music, or that do so in a more limited
capacity than they will during the Festival. These include the Gatsby,
at the Windsor Arms Hotel, which will have nightly shows at 10pm
for the duration of the festival, Sassafraz, which will similarly have
nightly shows at 10pm, and Proof Bar, at the Intercontinental Hotel,
which will be the site of the Mill Street Late-Night Jam, primarily
hosted by the Lauren Falls Trio.
Away from Yorkville at The Old Mill’s Home Smith Bar – which,
of course, presents jazz year-round – Heather Bambrick leads the
“Heather Bambrick and Friends” vocal series, which will feature
Elizabeth Shepherd, on June 21; Barbra Lica, on June 22; Ranee Lee,
on June 28; and the group, Broadsway (Diane Leah, Julie Michels,
Heather Bambrick), on June 29. The most significant Jazz Festival club
offerings, however, come by way of The Rex, which will be hosting no
fewer than 40 shows between June 20 and 30 during the “TD Toronto
Broadsway (from left): Heather Bambrick, Julie Michels, Diane Leah
Jazz Festival Cooperative Concert Series at The Rex.” This 11-day event
– The Rex will be starting their programming one day before the official
start of the Jazz Festival – is subtitled “Saxophone Summit.” The
choice is an appropriate one, given the lineup, which includes Pat
LaBarbera, Dayna Stephens, Brodie West, Mike Murley, David Binney,
Donny McCaslin, Patrick Smith, Emily Steinwall, Autobahn, Alison
Young, and, for the final two nights of the festival, Chris Potter,
appearing with his relatively new Circuits Trio project, which will
also feature Matt Brewer and Eric Harland. (There are also a number
of great acts that are not quite so saxophone-centric, including singers
Joanna Majoko and Melissa Stylianou, pianist Jeremy Ledbetter,
and the experimental duo Paris Monster, one of last year’s festival
favourites.)
MacCrimmon. Jun 14 9:30pm Fiver with the
Atlantic School of Spontaneous Composition.
Jun 15 9:15pm Mattie Leon w/ N3LLY & Lance
Isaacs. Jun 18 9:30pm Thus Owls. Jun 19
9:30pm MSEA, Kira Mary, Laura Swankey.
Jun 20 9:30pm David James Allen w/ Citizen
Jane. Jun 22 9:30pm JoJo Worthington
& Mingjia. Jun 24 8:30pm TONE: CVN, Koeosaeme,
Korea Town Acid, Kat Estacio. Jun 25
9:30 Advance Base & Claire Cronin. Jun 27
9:30pm Run Coyote. Jul 3 9:30pm Georgia
Higgins, Lindsay Foote & Sarah Hiltz. Jul 4
9pm Transmit Presents: The Burning Hell,
Carew. Jul 10 9:30pm Made2Eat Presents:
Everybody Eats Season 2. Jul 14 6:30pm
Jaasmaan Rathore Band / Delhi Express.
Jul 15 6:30pm Annie Sumi. Jul 17 9:30pm
Robb Cappelletto & Joseph Anidjar. Jul 27
9:30pm Julie Doiron, Jon McKiel, Apollo
Ghosts. Aug 21 9:30pm Josh Geffin.
Cameron House
408 Queen St. W. 416-703-0811
thecameron.com
Castro’s Lounge
2116 Queen St. E. 416-699-8272
castroslounge.com (full schedule)
All shows: No cover/PWYC
C’est What
67 Front St. E. (416) 867-9499
cestwhat.com (full schedule)
All concerts are PWYC unless otherwise
noted.
Jun 1 3pm The Boxcar Boys, 9pm Craig
D. In the Clubs (Mostly Jazz)
Robertson. Jun 2 7pm Jacques Russell Trio.
Jun 7 9pm Whiskey Chasers. Jun 8 3pm The
Hot Five Jazzmakers, 9pm Paragon Cause.
Jun 9 7pm A Writer’s Round. Jun 16 7pm This
Frontier Needs Heroes w/ Chris & Nicole.
Jun 21 9pm STEED! Jul 12 9pm Metronome
Chomsky. Jul 19 9pm STEED! Aug 8 9pm The
Escapist Music and Jesse Daniel. Aug 10 9pm
Black Creek Reign w/ Jonny Starkes. Aug 11
7pm The Fairest and Best. Aug 16 9pm STEED!
Emmet Ray, The
924 College St. 416-792-4497
theemmetray.com (full schedule)
All shows: No cover/PWYC
Grossman’s Tavern
379 Spadina Ave. 416-977-7000
grossmanstavern.com (full schedule)
All shows: No cover (unless otherwise noted).
Every Sat 4:30pm The Happy Pals Dixieland
Jazz Jam. Every Sun 4:30pm New Orleans
Connection All Star Band; 10pm Sunday Jam
with Bill Hedefine. Every Wed 10pm Action
Sound Band w/ Leo Valvassori.
Hirut Cafe and Restaurant
2050 Danforth Ave. 416-551-7560
hirut.ca
Every Sunday 3pm Hirut Sundays Open Mic.
First and Third Tuesday 8pm Fingerstyle Guitar
Association.
Jun 6 8pm Girma Woldemichael & Daniel
Barnes. Jun 8 8pm Tanya Wills Quartet.
Jun 13 8pm Ilios Steryannis Quartet
Jun 14 8:30pm Jazz of the Americas w/ Don
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While the bulk of the Jazz Festival’s club programming is concentrated
in The Rex, two other Toronto clubs will be hosting their own
special series. The “Jazz Bistro Cabaret Series” will be taking place at
Jazz Bistro from June 19 to June 30, running more or less concurrently
with the Jazz Festival, and featuring, as the name implies, a number
of mostly local singers in cabaret setting. Performances included
June Garber and Stu Mac, on June 21, Adi Braun, on June 25, Tomson
Highway and Patricia Cano, on June 28, and Alana Bridgewater on
June 29. Further afield on Dundas, Lula Lounge will be hosting their
LULAWORLD Festival from June 6 to 16, and, like Jazz Bistro, will
mainly be showcasing the kind of Latin American music which they
present throughout the year, including the Bianca Gismonti Trio and
OKAN, on June 12; Tres Estrellas de Salsa, on June 14; and Lengaia
Salsa Brava NG, on June 15.
As this will be my last column until The WholeNote’s September
issue, I hope that those of you reading this have a great summer
and check out lots of live music. If you do see some of these shows,
please feel free to email me to let me know what you enjoyed, what
you didn’t enjoy, and everything in between. Also: please check out
Bianca Gismonti Trio
our website throughout the summer for online coverage of a wide
variety of musical events, including the Jazz Festival, upcoming album
releases, and more. And, finally: remember to wear sunscreen!
MAINLY CLUBS, MOSTLY JAZZ QUICK PICKS
!!
JUN 6 TO JUN 16: LULAWORLD Festival, Lula Lounge. Featuring primarily Latin
American music and musical artists, Lula Lounge will be one of the first venues to kick
off this year’s festival season.
!!
JUN 19 TO JUN 30: Jazz Bistro Cabaret Series, Jazz Bistro. Check out Jazz Bistro
for a number of cabaret performances in late June, featuring many of the vocalists
who regularly appear at Jazz Bistro throughout the year.
!!
JUN 21 TO JUN 30: TD Toronto Jazz Festival, various locations. The city’s annual jazz
festival, with lots of free outdoor performances in Yorkville and the surrounding area,
club performances at The Rex and The Old Mill, and much more.
Colin Story is a jazz guitarist, writer and teacher based in Toronto.
He can be reached at www.colinstory.com, on Instagram and
on Twitter.
D. In the Clubs (Mostly Jazz)
Naduriak and friends. Jun 22 8pm David Garrett
solo guitar. Jun 23 8pm David Garrett
solo guitar. Jun 27 8pm Toronto East Blues
Jam. Jun 29 8pm Root Down Duo. Jul 5 8pm
Girma Woldemichael and Daniel Barnes.
Jul 8-12 Danforth Music Camp w/ Ilios
Steryannis. Jul 11 8pm Bright Lit, Big City.
Home Smith Bar – See Old Mill, The
Hugh’s Room
2261 Dundas St. W 416 533 5483
hughsroom.com
All shows at 8:30pm unless otherwise noted.
See website for individual show prices.
Jun 1 Jane Siberry Jun 2 Leonard Cohen
Koans. Jun 3 Dr. Mike Daley Presents:
The Beatles Story. Jun 4 Garrett Mason.
Jun 5 David Rotundo. Jun 6 Mike McKenna
and Swampbusters. Jun 7 Los Variants.
Jun 8 Dave Orrett Band. Jun 9 Steve Hill.
Jun 10 Emily Gimble. Jun 11 Christine Campbell
& Braden Gates. Jun 12 Lynn Miles &
Scott Nolan. Jun 13 Cabana Room Acoustic
Reunion. Jun 14 A Musical Tribute to
Elvis Costello. Jun 15 Miss Emily. Jun 16
2pm The Tiki Collective Father’s Day Brunch,
8pm Cabana Room Electric Reunion.
Jun 18 Andy Irvine. Jun 19 Carole Pope.
Jun 20 Chris Antonik. Jun 21 Let Me Clear
My Throat. Jun 23 Andrea Koziol & Bill Brennan.
Jun 24 Elizabeth Shepherd & Michael
Occhipinti. Jun 25 Over the Rhine. Jun 27 No
Sleep ‘Til Sudbury. Jun 28 Huntertones.
Jun 29 Ariana Gillis. Jul 4 Melanie.
Jul 5 SKERRYVORE. Jul 8 Christine Lavin.
Jul 9 Sylvia Tyson & Scarlet Rivera.
Jul 11 Kalon Hart. Jul 12 Wintergarten
Orchestra. Jul 13 HRL Guitar Week: Modern
Acoustic. Jul 14 HRL Guitar Week: Hurricane
Ruth & Scott Holt. Jul 15 HRL Guitar Week:
Colin Linden. Jul 16 HRL Guitar Week: Jerry
Douglas. Jul 19 Mark Lettieri. Jul 26 Folklife.
Jul 27 Debi Botos.
Jazz Bistro, The
251 Victoria St. 416-363-5299
jazzbistro.ca (full schedule)
Jun 1 9pm Coldjack. Jun 2 7pm JAMME: Jazz
and Modern Music Ensemble. Jun 4 8pm Matt
Herskowitz. Jun 5 7pm Lisa Particelli’s GNO
Jazz Jam. Jun 6 8pm Stephanie Martin. Jun 7
9pm Stephanie Trick and Paolo Alderighi.
Jun 8 9pm Stephanie Trick and Paolo
Alderighi. Jun 9 7pm Simone Morris. Jun 11
8pm Jessica Lalonde. Jun 12 8pm Denielle
Bassels Quartet. Jun 13 8:30pm Colin Hunter
and the Anthony Terpstra Seventet. Jun 14
8:30pm Colin Hunter and the Joe Sealy Quartet.
Jun 15 8:30pm Colin Hunter and the Joe
Sealy Quartet. Jun 16 7pm Barry Callaghan,
Taborah Johnson, Joe Sealy. Jun 18 8pm
Three Whiteleys: Ken, Chris, & Jesse.
Jun 19-30 Jazz Bistro Cabaret Series
Jun 19 8pm Maureen Kennedy. Jun 20
8:30pm Charlotte Moore. Jun 21 9pm June
Garber & Stu Mac. Jun 22 8:30pm John
Alcorn. Jun 23 7:30pm Charlie Davidson.
Jun 24 8:30pm Thom Allison w/ Diane Leah.
Jun 25 8:30pm Adi Braun. Jun 26 8:30pm Ori
Dagan. Jun 27 8:30pm Judith Lander. Jun 28
8:30pm Tomson Highway & Patricia Cano.
Jun 29 9pm Alana Bridgewater. Jun 30 7pm
Marcus Nance w/ Barbara Fulton.
Jazz Room, The
Located in the Huether Hotel, 59 King St. N.,
Waterloo. 226-476-1565
kwjazzroom.com (full schedule)
All shows: 8:30-11:30pm unless otherwise
indicated. Attendees must be 19+. Cover
charge varies (generally $12-$25)
Jun 1 Teri Parker Quartet. Jun 2 4pm Patricia
O’Callaghan & David Braid. Jun 7 Big
Band Theory. Jun 8 One Word feat. Paul
DeLong. Jun 14 Confabulation. Jun 15 Dave
Young Quintet. Jun 21 Joe Huron Quartet.
Jun 22 Michael Occhipinti & Shine On. Jun 26
8pm Heather Bambrick Quartet. Jun 27
8pm Melissa Stylianou & Heart. Jun 28 Sinal
Aberto Quartet feat. Luanda Jones.
Sunday June 9, 4:30pm
TBA
Christ Church Deer Park, 1570 Yonge St.
(north of St. Clair at Heath St.)
Admission is free; donations are welcome.
Lula Lounge
1585 Dundas St. W. 416-588-0307
lula.ca (full schedule)
Every Fri 7:30pm Afterwork Global Party
Series free before 8pm; Every Fri 8:30pm
Havana Club Fridays $15; Every Sat 10:30pm
Salsa Saturdays $15.
Jun 2 11:30am Dancing from All Directions,
6:30pm SING! Wrap Party. Jun 4 6:30pm
Gordon Sheard & Sinal Aberto. Jun 5 6:30pm
Sing Out. Jun 10 6:30pm Toronto Lit Up:
House Divided. Jun 13 6:30pm Regeneration
Community Services Fundraiser. Jun 23
3pm and 7pm (two shows) Adam James feat.
JAZZ.FM91 Youth Big Band. Jun 25 6:30pm
Tri-Continental. Jun 30 8pm Luedji Luna.
Jun 6-16 LULAWORLD Festival
Jun 6 7pm Opening Night. Jun 7 6:30pm
Havana Ventu, Telmary, & Gabriel Garcia.
Jun 8 6:30pm Alvaro Benavides & Alto
Featuring some of Toronto’s best
jazz musicians with a brief reflection
by Jazz Vespers Clergy
Sunday June 23, 4:30pm
Brian Barlow Big Band “The
Sacred Music of Duke Ellington”.
Have a great summer: Jazz Vespers will return on September 15 th !
416-920-5211
www.thereslifehere.org
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Voltage + DJ Santiago Valasquez. Jun 9 6pm
Friendly Rich book launch + Dominic Mancuso.
Jun 11 7pm Red Hot Samba Night.
Jun 12 6pm Bianca Gismonti Trio + OKAN,
8:30pm Liniker e os Caramelows. Jun 14
6:30pm Três, 8:30pm Tres Estrellas de Salsa
+ DJ Suave. Jun 15 6:30pm Lengaia Salsa
Brava NG + DJ Santiago Valasquez. Jun 16
1pm Sentir Venezuela, 7pm Kellylee Evans.
Manhattans Pizza Bistro & Music Club
951 Gordon St., Guelph 519-767-2440
manhattans.ca (full schedule)
Mezzetta Restaurant
681 St. Clair Ave. W. 416-658-5687
mezzettarestaurant.com (full schedule)
Every Wed 9pm & 10:15pm Wednesday Concert
Series.
Jun 5 Ron Davis and Ross McIntyre.
Jun 12 Jonno Lightstone and Brian Katz Klezmer
Duo.
Monarch Tavern
12 Clinton St. 416-531-5833
themonarchtavern.com (full schedule)
Jun 1 7pm Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, 9pm
Bodega w/ Gustaf, Favours. Jun 3 8pm The
Tristones w/ Emile d’Eon & Tall Order. Jun 4
8pm Belleville-Ville. Jun 6 7pm Danny and the
Deep Blue Sea, 9:30pm Myst Milano, Cherry
Hooker, Komodo, & Nolan Waller. Jun 7 7pm
Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, 9pm Calvin
Lore // Dusted + Side Hustle. Jun 8 7pm
Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, 8pm Owen w/
Katie McBride. Jun 10 7:30pm Martin Loomer
& His Orange Devils Orchestra. Jun 11 8pm
Control Top. Jun 12 8pm Bad Waitress,
NOBRO, Dish Pit, Weak Hands. Jun 13 8pm
Finn Andrews. Jun 14 7pm Sir Babygirl +
more. Jun 15 9pm BLOWUP Summer Social.
Jun 16 7pm Shhh, this place is actually the
worst, Phong Tran, And Always. Jun 19 8pm
Lucy Spraggan. Jun 23 8pm Todor O + The
Bakers. Jun 24 8pm Robyn Hitchock. Jun 27
8pm The Mystery Lights. Jun 29 9pm The
Topshots w/ Dub Chronicles, Knockout!
N’awlins Jazz Bar & Dining
299 King St. W. 416-595-1958
nawlins.ca
All shows: No cover/PWYC.
Every Tue 6:30pm Stacie McGregor. Every
Wed 7pm The Jim Heineman Trio. Every Thur
8pm Nothin’ But the Blues with Joe Bowden.
Every Fri & Sat 8:30pm N’awlins All Star
Band; Every Sun 7pm Brooke Blackburn.
Nice Bistro, The
117 Brock St. N., Whitby. 905-668-8839
nicebistro.com (full schedule)
Live jazz and dinner, $45.00 per person. Dinner
from 6pm and music from 7pm to 9pm.
Jun 5 Farrucas Latino Duo. Jun 19 Zoé
Chilco & Danny McErlain. Jul 10 San Murata
Duo. Jul 24 Paul Grecco & Laura Gauthier.
Aug 7 Farrucas Latino Duo.
Old Mill, The
21 Old Mill Rd. 416-236-2641
oldmilltoronto.com (full schedule)
The Home Smith Bar: No reservations. No
cover. $20 food/drink minimum. All shows:
7:30-10:30pm unless otherwise listed.
Jun 1 Dave Young. Jun 4 Gene DiNovi.
Jun 5 Emily Steinwall. Jun 6 Linda Carone.
D. In the Clubs (Mostly Jazz)
Jun 7 Canadian Jazz Quartet. Jun 8 Brenda
Earle Stokes. Jun 12 John MacLeod.
Jun 13 Adrean Farrugia & Sophia Perlman.
Jun 14 Duncan Hopkins. Jun 15 Brian Blain.
Jun 19 Anthony D’Allesandro. Jun 20 Bob
DeAngelis.
June 21-29 TD Toronto Jazz Festival and The
Home Smith Bar present Heather Bambrick
and Friends
Jun 21 Elizabeth Shepherd. Jun 22 Barbra
Lica. Jun 28 Ranee Lee. Jun 29 Broadsway.
Only Café, The
972 Danforth Ave. 416-463-7843
theonlycafe.com (full schedule)
Pilot Tavern, The
22 Cumberland Ave. 416-923-5716
thepilot.ca
All shows: 2:30pm. No cover.
Jun 1 Ewen Farncombe Quartet. Jun 8 Mark
Godfrey Quartet. Jun 15 Barry Elmes Quartet.
Jun 22 Bob Brough Quartet. Jun 29 Mike
Murley Quartet. Jul 6 Alexander Brown
Quartet. Jul 13 Richard Underhill Quartet.
Jul 20 Sugar Daddies Sextet. Jul 27 Norman
Marshall Villeneuve’s Jazz Message.
Aug 3 Alex Dean Quartet. Aug 10 Michael
Arthurs Quartet. Aug 17 Jake Koffman
Quartet. Aug 24 Chris Wallace Quartet.
Aug 31 James Brown Trio.
Poetry Jazz Café
224 Augusta Ave. 416-599-5299
poetryjazzcafe.com (full schedule)
Reposado Bar & Lounge
136 Ossington Ave. 416-532-6474
reposadobar.com (full schedule)
Reservoir Lounge, The
52 Wellington St. E. 416-955-0887
reservoirlounge.com (full schedule).
Every Tue & Sat, 8:45pm Tyler Yarema
and his Rhythm. Every Wed 9pm The Digs.
Every Thurs 9:45pm Stacey Kaniuk. Every
Fri 9:45pm Dee Dee and the Dirty Martinis.
Rex Hotel Jazz & Blues Bar, The
194 Queen St. W. 416-598-2475
therex.ca (full schedule)
Call for cover charge info.
Jun 1 12pm The Sinners Choir, 3pm Conor
Gains, 7pm Jenna Marie R&B, 9:45pm Raoul
and the BIGGER Time. Jun 2 11am Humber
Community Music Student Recitals, 7pm
Jacob Gorzhaltsan, 9:30pm Alex Fournier.
Jun 3 6:30pm Peter Hill Quintet, 9:30pm
Brigham Philips. Jun 4 6:30pm Matt Newton,
9:30pm Hannah Barstow. Jun 5 6:30pm
Kalya Ramu Four, 9:30pm Mike Milligan
Group. Jun 6 6:30pm The Jive Bombers,
9:45pm Mike Murley SAXtet. Jun 7 4pm Hogtown
Syncopators, 6:30pm James Brown
Trio, 9:45pm Mike Murley SAXtet. Jun 8 12pm
The Sinners Choir, 3:30pm Jerome Godboo,
7pm Jenna Marie R&B, 9:45pm Becca Stevens.
Jun 9 12pm Excelsior Dixieland Jazz
Band, 3:30pm Red Hot Ramble, 7pm Jacob
Gorzhaltzan, 9:45pm Becca Stevens. Jun 10
6:30pm Kevin Barrett & Susanna Macdonald
Duo, 9:30pm Bryn Roberts Quartet. Jun 11
6:30pm Matt Newton, 9:30pm Bryn Roberts
Quartet. Jun 12 6:30pm Kalya Ramu
Four, 9:30pm Russ Nolan Quartet. Jun 13
6:30pm The Jive Bombers, 9:30pm Russ
Nolan Quartet. Jun 14 4pm Hogtown Syncopators,
6:30pm James Brown Trio, 9:45pm
Barry Romberg’s THREE BLIND MICE. Jun 15
12pm The Sinners Choir, 3:30pm Swing Shift
Big Band, 7pm Jenna Marie R&B, 9:45pm
Bob Brough Quartet. Jun 16 12pm Excelsior
Dixieland Jazz Band, 3:30pm Dr. Nick
& The Rollercoasters, 7pm Jacob Gorzhaltsan,
9:30pm TJO Big Band & Radiohead Jazz
Project. Jun 17 6:30pm Peter Hill Quintet,
8:30pm John MacLeod’s Rex Hotel Orchestra.
Jun 18 6:30pm Matt Newton, 9:30pm Virginia
MacDonald. Jun 19 6:30pm Kalya Ramu
Four, 9:30pm Annual Player’s Party (Closed
to the Public).
Jun 20-30 TD Toronto Jazz Festival
Cooperative Concert Series at The Rex
Jun 20 5pm Laura Swankey Group, 8pm Pat
LaBarbera Group, 10pm Dayna Stephens’
PLUTO JUICE. Jun 21 3pm Hogtown Syncopators,
5pm Hector Quartet, 8pm Brodie
West, 10pm Dayna Stephens’ PLUTO JUICE.
Jun 22 12pm The Sinners Choir, 3:30pm
Laura Hubert Group, 8pm Dave Young, 10pm
Michelle Willis. Jun 23 12pm Excelsior Dixieland
Jazz Band, 3:30pm Chris Hunt Tentet +
2, 8pm Mike Murley, 10pm FORQ. Jun 24 5pm
Neon Eagle, 8pm Paris Monster, 10pm FORQ.
Jun 25 5pm Emily Steinwall, 8pm Joanna
Majoko, 10pm Dave Binney. Jun 26 5pm Gord
Mowat’s Skeleton Crew, 8pm Mark McLean,
10pm Dave Binney. Jun 27 5pm JV’s Boogaloo
Squad, 8pm Jeremy Ledbetter, 10pm Donny
McCaslin. Jun 28 12pm Big Band Slam, 3pm
Hogtown Syncopators, 5pm Patrick Smith,
8pm Alison Young, 10pm Donny McCaslin.
Jun 29 12pm The Sinners Choir, 3:30pm Paul
Reddick Blues, 8pm Autobahn, 10pm Chris
Potter Circuits Trio. Jun 30 12pm Dixieland:
Louisiana Havana, 3:30pm SUPERBREAK-
FAST, 8pm Melissa Stylianou + Heart, 10pm
Choral Festivals
●●June 20: Choral Mosaic. The Living Arts
Centre, 4141 Living Arts Dr., Mississauga. 416-
508-9639. Ticket prices include keynotes,
workshops, concerts and performance opportunities.
See choralmosaic.ca for more information.
Early Bird registration $400. Discount for
Mississauga-based choirs and choristers $375
Competitions
●●Aug 23-29: Fifth Canadian Chopin Piano
Competition and Festival
For concert information, venues, and ticket
pricing, see daily listings in Section A or visit
canadianchopinsociety.com. Festival Pass
available on website and at door: $150; $75(st).
Aug 23 7:00: Opening Concert. Previous Canadian
Chopin Piano Competition winners.;
Aug 24 10:00am: Senior Division Preliminary
Round; Aug 24 7:00: Insights: An Evening with
Alan Walker, Mazzoleni Concert Hall, Royal
Conservatory, 273 Bloor St. W., $25; $15(st);
Aug 25 10:00am: Senior Division Preliminary
Round; 7:00: Conversations: An Evening
with the Jury, Mazzoleni Concert Hall, Royal
Conservatory, 273 Bloor St. W., $25; $15(st);
Aug 26 10:00am: Senior Division Semi-Finals;
7:00: Portraits: Words and Music, Mazzoleni
Concert Hall, $25; $15(st); Aug 27 10:00am:
Junior Division Preliminary Round; Aug 28
7:00: Piano Recital. Krzysztof Jablonski,
piano; Aug 29 2:00: Junior Division & Senior
E. The ETCeteras
Chris Potter Circuits Trio.
Salty Dog Bar & Grill, The
1980 Queen St. E. 416-849-5064
thesaltydog.ca (full schedule)
Every Tue 7-10pm Jazz Night. Every
Thu 8:30pm Karaoke. Every Fri 9:30pm
Blues Jam - house band with weekly featured
guest. Every Sat 3pm Salty Dog Saturday
Matinée.
Sauce on Danforth
1376 Danforth Ave. 647-748-1376
sauceondanforth.com
All shows: No cover.
Every Mon 9pm Gareth Parry’s Book Club.
Every Tue 6pm Julian Fauth. Every Wed Paul
Reddick & Friends. Every Thu 8pm Steve
Koven and Artie Roth. Sat and Sun Matinees
4pm various performers.
The Senator Winebar
249 Victoria St 416 364-7517
thesenator.com (full schedule)
All shows with $10 cover charge ($5 after
10pm arrival, free after 11pm arrival)
Jun 1 Alex Pangman. Jun 7 Julian Fauth and
Brooke Blackburn. Jun 8 Danny Marks.
Jun 14 Julian Fauth and Donné Roberts.
Jun 15 Prakash John and Jordan John.
Jun 21 Julian Fauth and Poor Charlie & Beverlie
Robertson. Jun 22 Kalya Ramu &
Jesse Whiteley. Jun 28 Julian Fauth and Ken
Yoshioka. Jun 29 Zoey Adams and Tony Quarrington.
Jul 7 Alex Pangman.
Tranzac
292 Brunswick Ave. 416-923-8137
tranzac.org (full schedule)
3-4 shows daily, various styles, in four different
performance spaces. Mostly PWYC.
Division Finals; 7:00 Senior Division Finals &
Awards Ceremony.
●●Sep 1: Azrieli Music Prizes. Celebrating
Excellence in New Composition. Call for submissions
closes Sep 1. azrielifoundation.org/
music.
Film Screenings
●●Jul 22 7:00: Stratford Summer Music.
Three Silent Films: The Surreal, the Suspenseful
and the Silly – Scored by Stephen
Prutsman. The Avondale, 194 Avondale Ave.,
Stratford. Tickets: stratfordsummermusic.
ca or call 1-866-288-4313. $30/$25(adv).
●●Jul 25 10:00am: Festival of the Sound.
10. Directed by Blake Edwards, 1979. Ravel’s
Boléro is the backdrop to this American
romantic comedy film. Charles W. Stockey
Centre, 2 Bay St., Parry Sound. For information,
call 705-746-2410 or 1-866-364-
0061. $12.
●●Jul 25 10:00am: Festival of the Sound.
Death in Venice. Directed by Luchino Visconti,
1971. Charles W. Stockey Centre, 2 Bay St.,
Parry Sound. For information, call 705-746-
2410 or 1-866-364-0061. $12.
●●Jul 26 7:30: Elora Festival. Voices of Light.
This presentation merges the legendary 1928
silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc with a
live performance Voices of Light by Richard
Einhorn. Performed by the Elora Singers, solo
voices, and orchestra. Gambrel Barn, corner
of County Roads 7 & 21, Elora. 519-846-0331
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or 1-888-747-7550. $40; $15(st); $10(child).
●●Jul 27 3:00: Festival of the Sound. Celebration
at Big Sur. Directed by Baird Bryant and
Johanna Demetrakas, 1971. A documentary
of the 1969 Big Sur Folk Festival in California
with footage of some of the best performers
of the 60s, including Joan Baez; Joni Mitchell;
and Crosby, Stills and Nash. Charles W.
Stockey Centre, 2 Bay St., Parry Sound. For
information, call 705-746-2410 or 1-866-364-
0061. $12.
●●Aug 18 6:00 Wellington Water Week. Concert
& Dinner Series: HARPSIC*HORROR*D!
Go back in time to the era of silent movies
and experience Stephen Hargreaves as he
improvises a score on a harpsichord to the
silent horror film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,
directed by Robert Wiene. 1920. Dinner
and cocktails. Drake Devonshire, 24 Wharf
St., Wellington. festivalplayers.ca or 613-476-
1991 or boxoffice@festivalplayers.ca. $95.
Galas and Fundraisers
●●Jun 02 3:00: Toronto Early Music Players
Organization. Annual Fundraising Tea
and Silent Auction. Live music, free food and
beverages. CDs, books, and sheet music for
sale. Parish Hall, Grace Church on-the-Hill,
300 Lonsdale Rd. For information call 416-
779-5750. Admission PWYC. Suggested donation
$10.
●●Jun 08 7:00: Arraymusic. Benefit Concert.
Showcasing some of our communities’ amazing
talents. Eat, drink, check out our auction
and interactive stations, and meet your fellow
Arrayers. Performers include: Michael Snow
& Mani Mazinani, The Missing Montgomeries,
The Frequency Freaks, Stephen Clarke, David
Schotzko & Rick Sacks. Tapas-style food,
hands-on interactive fun, silent auction and
raffle, cash bar. The Array Space, 155 Walnut
Ave. $20 at the door or online at universe.
com/events/come-get-social-with-us-tobenefit-arraymusic-tickets-toronto-PC1W58.
●●Jun 09 1:00: Niagara Symphony Orchestra.
Face to Face and Fabulous! Don’t miss
this rare chance to meet Canada’s premiere
percussion ensemble, TorQ, at an
intimate gathering in a charming vineyard
setting. Hosted by NSO Music Director Bradley
Thachuk, guests will enjoy an elegant
3-course luncheon, sample a selection of
marvellous wines and meet and chat with
the members of TorQ Percussion and enjoy
unique performances. The Pavilion, Trius Winery
at Hillebrand, 1249 Niagara Stone Rd.,
Niagara-on-the-Lake. Call 905-687-4993 ext.
225 or visit niagarasymphony.com/supportus/face-to-face/.
Tickets are $125 per person.
Seating is limited.
●●Jun 09 5:00: Sinfonia Toronto. Peonies &
Pinots: A Musical Garden Party. A glorious
evening of fine wines, fine dining, classical
pops, musical comedy with Millan & Faye, and
Art by Tamara live painting. Silent auction
with collectors’ wines, wine tours in Prince
Edward County, art, gift baskets, gift certificates.
Exclusive location in Teddington Park:
private residence address provided after reservation.
Reserve at sinfoniatoronto.com or
call 416-499-0403. $85 per person with charitable
receipt for CRA eligible amount.
●●Jun 23 1:00: Westben. Annual Garden
Gala Fundraiser. Blend of musical styles fusing
traditional Québécois music with jazz
and electronica. Marc Maziade, electric guitar,
banjo, vocals; Rémi Pagé, violin, foot
E. The ETCeteras
percussion; Roxane Beaulieu, keyboards,
vocals; Hugo Blouin, double bass. Garden,
near Campbellford, Campbellford. 877-883-
5777. $125. Includes luncheon by Chef Ravi
Anandappa and wine; silent auction.
●●Jun 27 6:00: Toronto Symphony Volunteer
Committee. Beer with a Beat: A Craft Beer
Tasting Fundraising Experience. Craft beer by
Henderson Brewery, delicious food from Denninger’s,
fabulous music (Classic Albums Live
performs The Best of Queen), door prizes,
surprise guests, and other entertainment.
In support of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra,
the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra,
and the music therapy program at the Hospital
for Sick Children. Roy Thomson Hall,
60 Simcoe St. For more information, visit
tsvc.ca/beerwithabeat, eventbrite.ca/e/beerwith-a-beat-tickets-60578599221,
or call 416-
593-7769 X358. A 19+ event. Get your tickets
by June 1 and pay only $65, a savings of $10.
●●Jul 20 5:30: Festival of the Sound. Come
to the Party: Our Anniversary Dinner Gala.
Fundraising dinner featuring Russell Braun,
baritone; Carolyn Maule, piano; Joseph Petric,
accordion; Guy Few, trumpet; and Syrène
Saxophone Quartet. Charles W. Stockey Centre,
2 Bay St., Parry Sound. For information,
call 705-746-2410 or 1-866-364-0061. $150.
●●Aug 16 7:00: Brookside Music. Fundraiser,
Dinner and Dance. Dance and dine under the
stars celebrating the music of the golden
era of the big bands. The Toronto All Star Big
Band revives the spirit, style and sound of the
30s, 40s and 50s. Includes: dinner, raffles
and cash bar. Cash Bar at 5pm. Midland Golf
and Country Club, 9536 Penetanguishene Rd.,
Midland. $80.
Lectures, Salons and Symposia
●●Jun 4 6:00: The Music Gallery/Canadian
Music Centre/Canadian Lesbian and Gay
Archives. Nothing to Say and Saying It:
Queer Silence in New Music. As part of the
Have a Passion
for Jazz?
Jazz Performance
and Education Centre
(JPEC) is looking for
volunteers for our
working Board of
Directors. If you’re
interested, please
contact Ray Koskie,
raymondkoskie@
rogers.com
(416) 595-2100
www.jazzcentre.ca
Music Gallery History Series, Jerry Pergolesi,
founder of Contact/ContaQt, will be interviewed
by journalist and Emergents curator
Sara Constant about his research and
musical experiences. Canadian Music Centre,
20 St. Joseph St. For further information call
416-204-1080. Free.
●●Jun 06 1:30: Miles Nadal Jewish Community
Centre. 5th Anniversary of Woodstock:
Part 1 – Won’tStock – Woodstock and Toronto’s
Response. Guest speaker: Music journalist
Peter Goddard looks back to August
1969 and dissects the festival that rocked the
media. Were those three days truly influential,
or did other music events – like Toronto
Rock & Roll Revival featuring John and Yoko –
have a greater historical impact? 750 Spadina
Ave. 416-924-6211. Refreshments at 1pm. $5
(includes refreshments).
●●Jun 06 7:30: Soundstreams. Encounters
in Exile. Excerpts from works by Juro
Kim Feliz and Hanns Eisler. Juro Kim Feliz,
spacialized recording. This event is part of
“Encounters”, a free performance and discussion
series. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St.
W. 416-504-1282. Free(general admission);
PWYC(reserved seating).
●●Jun 11 7:30: Toronto Duke Ellington Society.
General Meeting. A presentation on
the history of the Society and a selection of
members’ presentations. Montgomery’s Inn,
4709 Dundas St. W., Etobicoke. For further
information, visit torontodukeellingtonsociety.com
or call 416-239-2683. Membership is
$35(single) or $50(couple). First visit is free.
●●Jun 22 7:00: Classical Music Club Toronto.
Welcome Maestro Gimeno. The incoming
music director of the Toronto Symphony
Orchestra presents a series of concerts from
June 28 to 30. To give you a taste of the maestro
in action, we will listen to a selection of
his recordings. For further information, visit
classicalmusicclubtoronto.org or contact
John Sharpe at 416-898-2549 or torontoshi@
sympatico.ca. Annual membership: $25(regular);
$10(sr/st). Free for first-time visitors.
Donations accepted for refreshments. Please
note that our programs during June, July and
August are at 7pm on Saturdays rather than
our usual time of 2pm on Sundays.
●●Jul 03 3:00: Latvian Festival of Song and
Dance in Canada. Latvian Choral Traditions.
A seminar with State Choir LATVIJA and conductor
Maris Sirmais. Trinity-St. Paul’s United
Church, 427 Bloor St. W. songfesttickets.com.
Tickets: $25.
●●Jul 20 7:00: Classical Music Club Toronto.
Gone Fishing!: Celebrating the 200th Anniversary
of Schubert’s Trout Quintet. We will
examine one of the most popular chamber
pieces ever as well as other music with
a fishy or aquatic theme. For further information,
visit classicalmusicclubtoronto.org
or contact John Sharpe at 416-898-2549
or torontoshi@sympatico.ca. Annual membership:
$25(regular); $10(sr/st). Free for
first-time visitors. Donations accepted for
refreshments. Please note that our programs
during June, July and August are at 7pm on
Saturdays rather than our usual time of 2pm
on Sundays.
●●Jul 18 11:00am: Stratford Summer Music.
Robert Harris Illustrated Musical Lecture
#1: Interview with Mark Fewer, Stratford
Summer Music, Artistic Director. University
of Waterloo, Stratford Campus, 125 St.
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Patrick St., Stratford. Tickets: stratfordsummermusic.ca
or call 1-866-288-4313.
$30/$25(adv).
●●Jul 25 11:00am: Stratford Summer Music.
Robert Harris Illustrated Musical Lecture #2:
The Poser of Gospel. University of Waterloo,
Stratford Campus, 125 St. Patrick St., Stratford.
Tickets: stratfordsummermusic.ca or
call 1-866-288-4313. $30/$25(adv).
●●Jul 31 10:30am: Festival of the Sound. Artistic
Directors Roundtable. Jeffrey Stokes
hosts the directors of festivals from across
the country and Europe. Festival Station
Office, 1 Avenue Rd., Parry Sound. For information,
call 705-746-2410 or 1-866-364-
0061. Free.
●●Aug 01 10:30am: Festival of the Sound.
Office Hour: Inside the Radio. Julie Nesrallah
and Andrea Ratuski share their experiences
as broadcasters of classical music on CBC
Radio. Festival Station Office, 1 Avenue Rd.,
Parry Sound. For information, call 705-746-
2410 or 1-866-364-0061. Free.
●●Aug 08 11:00am: Stratford Summer
Music. Robert Harris Illustrated
Musical Lecture #3: Musical Families.
University of Waterloo, Stratford Campus,
125 St. Patrick St., Stratford. Tickets:
E. The ETCeteras
stratfordsummermusic.ca or call 1-866-
288-4313. $30/$25(adv).
●●Aug 21 10:00am: Stratford Summer Music.
Lecture on Bach’s St. Matthew Passion by
Howard Dyck. The Avondale, 194 Avondale
Ave., Stratford. Information at stratfordsummermusic.ca.
PWYC.
●●Aug 22 11:00am: Stratford Summer Music.
Robert Harris Illustrated Musical Lecture
#4: Forced Collaborations. University of Waterloo,
Stratford Campus, 125 St. Patrick St.,
Stratford. Tickets: stratfordsummermusic.
ca or call 1-866-288-4313. $30/$25(adv).
●●Aug 24 7:00: Classical Music Club Toronto.
BYOR (Bring Your Own Recording). Club
members are invited to bring along an audio
or video program (approximately 15 minutes
per member) to share. An opportunity to discover
the music your fellow members enjoy.
For further information, visit classicalmusicclubtoronto.org
or contact John Sharpe at
416-898-2549 or torontoshi@sympatico.ca.
Annual membership: $25(regular); $10(sr/
st). Free for first-time visitors. Donations
accepted for refreshments. Please note that
our programs during June, July and August
are at 7pm on Saturdays rather than our
usual time of 2pm on Sundays.
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Masterclasses
●●Jul 15 1:00: Elora Festival. Masterclass:
Jane Archibald. Top voice students from
area universities will be coached by Canada’s
superstar soprano, Jane Archibald. Come
and watch this fascinating mentorship. St.
John’s Anglican Church, 33 Henderson St.,
Elora. For further information, contact 519-
846-5911 or stjohnselora.ca. $15; $10(st).
●●Jul 15 7:00: Highlands Opera Studio.
Masterclass with Richard Margison. Audit
lessons with internationally acclaimed tenor
and vocal pedagogue Richard Margison as
he works with the 2019 Highland Opera Studio
singers. St. George’s Anglican Church,
617 Mountain St., Haliburton. For tickets
or further information: 705-457-5646 or
1-855-455-5533. Also Jul 16 at Abbey North,
1487 Cranberry Lake Rd., Haliburton and
Jul 27 at Highland Hills (formerly Minden)
United Church, 21 Newcastle St., Minden. $15.
●●Sep 07 9:00am: Honens Festival. Masterclass.
William Fedkenhauser (violinist of
the Miró Quartet) and Nicolas Namoradze
(piano) share their artistic advice and experience
with the best and brightest of Albertan
musicians. TransAlta Pavilion (piano) &
Room ED2008 (violin), Taylor Centre for the
Performing Arts, Mount Royal University,
4825 Mt. Royal Gate SW, Calgary. 403-299-
0140. Free.
Tours
●●Jun 2 10:30am: Canadian Opera Company.
90-Minute Tour of the Four Seasons Centre.
Led by a trained docent. Includes information
and access to the Isadore and Rosalie Sharp
City Room, the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre
and R. Fraser Elliott Hall, as well as
backstage areas such as the wig rooms and
dressing rooms, the orchestra pit, and other
spaces that only a stage door pass could
unlock. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing
Arts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231.
coc.ca. $20(adults); $15(sr/st). Also Jun 9, 16.
●●Aug 18 3:00: Wellington Water Week.
Musical and Edible Promenade through Wellington.
Come for a walk through Wellington and
experience four miniature musical concerts in
four different locations. A musical guided tour
exploring the concept of waves through sound
and movement. Local chef Chris Byrne will
delight you with four new edible creations to
accompany each stop. Starts and ends at Wellington
United Church, 243 Main St., Wellington.
festivalplayers.ca or 613-476-1991 or boxoffice@
festivalplayers.ca. $50.
Workshops
●●Jun 02 2:00: CAMMAC Toronto Region.
Reading for singers and instrumentalists
of Dvořák’s Stabat Mater. Alexandra
Bourque, conductor. Christ Church Deer
Park, 1570 Yonge St. 416-386-0258. $10;
$6(members).
●●Jun 03-29: Long Reach Opera Workshop.
Summer Opera Training Program. Faculty
includes Dr. Michael Donovan, music director;
Anne-Marison Donovan, stage director;
Christopher Bagan, piano and historical keyboards;
Hyejin Kwon & Kate Carver, collaborative
pianists & coaches; Sara Maida-Nicol,
Italian language coach; Brad Cook, movement
& acting coach; and others. Performances
of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro at 7:30pm on
Jun 26, 27, 28 & 29 at Trinity St. Paul’s Centre,
427 Bloor St. W., 226-972-3950 or lrow@
operaworkshop.ca or operaworkshop.ca.
●●Jun 03 10:00am: Labyrinth Ontario. Bulgarian
Singing with Tzvetanka Varimezova.
Tzvetanka brings her decades of experience
as a choir director, vocal teacher, and
highly respected performer to teach solo and
group styles of Bulgarian singing. Specific
vocal techniques and several styles of Bulgarian
repertoire will be covered. Vocalists
of any background and students at all levels
are welcome. Eastminster United Church,
310 Danforth Ave. Further information at
labyrinthontario.com. Also Jun 4-7. $450.
●●Jun 03 10:00am: Labyrinth Ontario. Lyra
with Sympathetic Strings with Kelly Thoma.
This individualized workshop covers technique
and repertoire on a contemporary version
of the traditional Cretan Lyra which Kelly
has been involved in developing. Players of
any experience level and students at all levels
are welcome. Those needing an instrument
should contact Labyrinth Ontario at
labyrinthontario@gmail.com. Eastminster
United Church, 310 Danforth Ave. Further
information at labyrinthontario.com. Also
Jun 4-7. $450.
●●Jun 03 10:00am: Labyrinth Ontario. Modal
Music Composition with Ross Daly. Blending
lecture, demonstration, performance, and
hands-on composition, this workshop draws
from Ross Daly’s decades of study of modal
traditions. Suitable for performers and composers
of all backgrounds and students at
all levels. An instrument capable of playing
quarter tones is recommended. Eastminster
United Church, 310 Danforth Ave. Further
information at labyrinthontario.com. Also
Jun 4-7. $450.
●●Jun 08 5:00: MusiCamp, Folk Camp Canada,
Clay & Paper Theatre, Didgori Ensemble.
Georgian Choral Workshop. Led by the
Didgori Ensemble from Georgia. St. Vladimir
Institute, 620 Spadina Ave. 647-836-4852.
Suggested donation at door: $25.
●●Jun 09 11:00am: MusiCamp, Didgori
Ensemble. Five-Hour Intensive Georgian
Choral Workshop. Workshop led by the Didgori
Ensemble from Georgia. Limited to 12 participants
MusiCamp Studio, 11 Cobourg Ave.
647-836-4852. $100.
●●Jul 13 10:00am: Elora Festival. State Choir
LATVIJA. Conductor Maris Sirmais and State
Choir LATVIJA will present a fascinating journey
into the evolution of the Latvian song festival
and folk-song arrangements. You’ll hear
the choir demonstrate these arrangements,
sing some of the best-known Latvian songs
of the last decade, and you’ll have an opportunity
to sing along! Gambrel Barn, corner of
County Roads 7 & 21, Elora. 519-846-0331 or
1-888-747-7550. $15; $10(st/child).
●●Aug 18 12:00 noon: Wellington Water
Week. Where We Are, What We Make. A concert,
workshop and film screening for kids
of all ages. Featured on the concert is Water
Week guest artist Ryan Scott performing
Orion Constellation Theory, a work partly
inspired by the hypothesis that there is a correlation
between the location of the three
largest pyramids of Giza and the three middle
stars of the Orion constellation. Bring
the whole family and explore the correlation
between where we live and what we create.
Wellington Heritage Museum, 290 Main
St., Wellington. festivalplayers.ca or 613-476-
1991 or boxoffice@festivalplayers.ca. Free.
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WE ARE ALL MUSIC’S CHILDREN
MJ BUELL
If you’re a new reader, a word of explanation is in order. In our regular
photo contest, We Are ALL Music’s Children – now completing its
16th season – readers identify members of the music community from
a childhood photo, for a chance to win tickets and recordings.
Who are
September’s
Children?
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SIX of them?
In May five of them (plus a guest) premiered a piece for twelve hands and
two pianos by jazz composer Darren Sigesmund at Bravo! Niagara.
Six in “The Six”? In October you can experience how they all play
together at a gala reunion in Toronto.
But meanwhile …
The first two have just returned from touring to small, remote
communities in BC, Alberta and Ontario where international artists seldom
make music. And this summer, while the rest of the new generation are off
at camp, these six will be all over the map. Some kids just can’t sit still!
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1997 in
Windsor ON.
In addition to leading this ensemble I’m
also artistic director and founder of a new
classical, world and jazz music festival
in Ontario (Jul 18 – Aug 11). I’m excited
to perform at its opening concert in
Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy and then on
August 9 with the Rolston String Quartet.
1982 in the village
of Paspébiac QC.
I’ll be at the Montreal Chamber Music
Festival in June; then I’m teaching at the
Orford Music Academy; solo recitals in
Ottawa, Saskatoon and Vancouver later in
the summer, before a recording session for
ATMA in early September.
2005 in
Toronto, ON.
This summer will be a bit of a rollercoaster
with projects all over – in Norway, France;
and also finding time to prepare (and eat)
some amazing food with my loved ones,
read some books, and try out the newest
ride at Canada’s Wonderland!!
1983 in
London ON.
This summer: Toronto Summer Music
Festival, Victoria Summer Festival,
Edmonton Summer Solstice Festival,
Kincardine, Waterside, Leith, Ottawa’s
Music and Beyond. Plus an All-Beethoven
Cello Sonata Cycle in Hamilton
and KW, and a recording of EMIC’s
Mosaïque Project.
1994 in
Montreal QC.
Dad really wanted it to be violin. My
summers at the Eastern Music Festival in
Greensboro NC are full of collaborative
music, whether I’m performing, teaching,
or going to concerts!
1987 in
Burnaby, BC
I will be in Desolation Sound and Gulf
Islands, BC, where I study and prepare
material, hike, swim, and BBQ with
meticulously selected European red wines!
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DISCOVERIES | RECORDINGS REVIEWED
DAVID OLDS
From 1984 until 1991 I was the host of Transfigured Night on
CKLN-FM, a weekly contemporary music program that originally
aired in the overnight slot from 2am, but eventually moved to a
more civilized 10pm start. During that period I had the pleasure of
meeting and interviewing many of the important practitioners in the
field brought to town by the likes of the Music Gallery, New Music
Concerts, Esprit Orchestra and Arraymusic. One of the most
memorable characters was the pianist and erstwhile ballroom dancer
Yvar Mikhashoff, whose International Tango Project resulted in some
127 commissions. I met Yvar when he was in Toronto performing
selections from the project at the Music Gallery in 1987, and again
when he was the featured soloist with New Music Concerts at the
Premiere Dance Theatre in 1990, performing works by Henry Brant,
Alvin Curran and Nils Vigeland. As an aside I would mention that this
latter concert was the occasion of the now internationally renowned
soprano Barbara Hannigan’s first professional engagement, an
obbligato role in Brant’s Inside Track, for two mixed ensembles
and piano.
Mikhashoff, who died at 52 in 1993, left a
legacy that has been taken up by American
pianist Hanna Shybayeva on Tangos for
Yvar (Grand Piano GP794 naxosdirect.com).
Shybayeva has constructed a varied and
compelling program of 18 selections, mostly
written for Mikhashoff, but concluding with
her own arrangement of Astor Piazzolla’s
classic Libertango. Strangely, and without
explanation that I can find, she also includes Stefan Wolpe’s 1927
Tango. While this is a good match for the rest of the project in its
interpretation of the iconic dance form, and at three and a half
minutes falling midway in the duration range of the commissions, its
composition more than half a century before the project began surely
deserves some note. There is a vast stylistic range presented here, from
Chester Biscardi’s evocative Incitation to Desire, one of the earliest
commissions and one of the least overtly reminiscent of the tango’s
distinctive rhythm, to the serial approach of Milton Babbitt’s It Takes
Twelve to Tango, the minimalism of Tom Johnson’s Tango, the moto
perpetuo of Scott Pender’s Tango: Ms. Jackson Dances for the People
(referencing Janet Jackson’s What Have You Done For Me Lately)
and Frederic Rzewski’s rhythmic, lilting, Steptangle. Of local note is
Douglas Finch’s Tango, one of four Canadian works commissioned
for the marathon Music Gallery performance mentioned above, a fivepart
affair including 50 tangos and a slide show of Mikhashoff in full
splendour from his bygone ballroom days.
As satisfying as this collection is, it leaves me wanting more. I’m
very curious about what some of the composers mentioned, but not
included here, came up with in response to Mikhashoff’s challenge.
For instance, John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Oliver Knussen and
Canadian icon John Weinzweig (also commissioned by the Music
Gallery for the marathon). Dare I hope for a Volume Two?
The tango’s most familiar feature is the use
of accordion, or more accurately, the South
American variant the bandoneon, so it is
surprising to find such an extensive collection
as mentioned above without that
distinctive instrument. We make up for that
here with a disc of transcriptions for accordion,
violin and clarinet of mostly familiar
music from Eastern Europe, including such
staples as two Hungarian Dances by Brahms, a Chopin Mazurka
and Smetana’s Die Moldau in a very effective trio reduction. Tales
from the Dinarides features Michael Bridge, Guillaume Tardif
and Kornel Wolak and was released by the University of Alberta’s
Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies (WIR06
michaelbridgemusic.com/store). Recipient of the Lieutenant-
Governor of Alberta’s Emerging Artist Award, Bridge is currently in
the Doctor of Musical Arts with Performance Emphasis on Accordion
program at the University of Toronto, where for the second year
in a row he has won the Joseph and Frances Macerollo Accordion
Scholarship. He is no stranger to these pages where reviews of his
group, Ladom, have appeared previously. At time of writing, the
Bridge/Tardif/Wolak trio is on tour in Europe, having just finished
concerts in Ukraine and Poland.
The title of the disc is taken from a 2016 work by prolific Tartar-
Canadian composer Airat Ichmouratov which is the centrepiece of the
album and the only piece written specifically for this instrumental
combination. As with much of his work, the inspiration comes from
the Jewish folk traditions of Central Europe, in this case the traditional
singing and dancing styles of the Dinaric Alps region (Dinarides). The
notes tell us that “Using a water whistle, the composer first introduces
a bird in a call-and-answer episode with stunning ganga
singing from Croatia. The bird then flies over mountains and valleys,
observing neighbouring communities […] field songs and […] village
dances [from] Bosnia, Slovenia, Serbia and Albania, until the athletic
klezmer style animates everyone in a fast dance punctuated with a
cheering ‘Hey!’”
The disc also includes Bridge’s striking adaptation of Brahms’ Rondo
alla Zingarese and the trio’s transcription of Lutosławski’s Five Dance
Preludes based on Polish folk rhythms, originally scored for clarinet
and piano. The playing is animated throughout, although there is
room for a bit more nuance from the clarinet.
Three composers seemingly unfamiliar to
me populate the next disc. Produced by
the Polish Ministry of Culture, Wajnberg/
Tansman/Czajkowski (Accord ACD 247-2
naxosdirect.com) features the Wajnberg
Trio performing music by three Polish-born
composers active in the mid-20th century.
I said the composers were unfamiliar to
me, but in the case of the first, Mieczysław
Wajnberg, it is actually just the spelling that threw me. AKA Vaynberg
and Vainberg, it seems that the composer Weinberg (1919-1996) who
escaped the Nazis in 1939 and spent the rest of his life in Russia,
becoming a close friend of Shostakovich, was Wajnberg in his homeland.
His music has been recorded with increasing frequency in
recent years and has appeared here in review on numerous occasions.
Wajnberg is represented by the 1945 Piano Trio, Op.24, which like
much of his music is quite reminiscent of Shostakovich, especially in
its more boisterous moments. For anyone who enjoys this – as I do –
there is nothing here to disappoint.
Aleksander Tansman is actually a name I know as a result of
my New Music Concerts colleague Robert Aitken serving on an
Aleksander Tansman Festival competition jury in the Polish city of
Łódź one year when flute was the instrument in focus, but his music
was not familiar to me. Tansman (1897-1986) was born and raised
in Łódź during the era when Poland did not exist as an independent
state, being part of Tsarist Russia. After completing his studies, he
moved to France in 1919 and fell under the spell of Stravinsky, Ravel
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and members of Les Six, embracing the modernist styles of Paris
as a welcome change from the conservative scene in his homeland.
Evidently the young Polish virtuoso pianist and composer made quite
an impression and forged a career in the neo-Classical style. The
trio here, in its premiere recording, dates from 1938, the year before
Tansman fled Europe to escape the Nazi invasion. He spent the war
years in Los Angeles where he scored a number of Hollywood films
and in 1946 he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Music, Scoring of
a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, for Paris Underground. He returned to
France after the war, and although some of his later works reflect his
Polish and Jewish roots, he never moved back to his homeland.
Andrzej Czajkowski (André Tchaikovsky) was born Robert Andrzej
Krauthammer in 1935. He adopted his later name after escaping
the Warsaw ghetto in 1942 with his grandmother and remained in
hiding for the remainder of the war. After completing piano studies
in Łódź, Warsaw and Brussels, in 1957 he gave a series of successful
recitals in Paris and later went on to record with some of the who’s
who of conductors of the day, including Böhm, Doráti, Giulini,
Mitropoulos and Reiner. He also had some composition lessons with
Nadia Boulanger and wrote a number of works that have begun to
be acknowledged in the current century, including the opera The
Merchant of Venice which was not produced until 2013, some three
decades after his death. This is the world premiere of the two-movement
Trio Notturno, Op.6 which dates from 1978. Also first performed
posthumously, it is reminiscent of Viennese Expressionism, particularly
the music of Alban Berg.
The members of the Wajnberg Trio – Piotr Sałajczyk, piano, Szymon
Kreszowiec, violin and Arkadiusz Dobrowolski, cello – share a passion
for the life and music of their namesake and draw their repertoire
primarily from 20th-century Polish composers. The trio made its
debut at the 2016 edition of the Tansman Festival. This is their first
recording and a very welcome addition to my understanding of the
modern piano trio repertoire.
The Shank-Hagedorn Duo – Leslie Shank,
violin and viola; Joseph Hagedorn, guitar –
is a Minneapolis-based wife-and-husband
team for whom much of the music on At
Home and Abroad (innova 021 innova.mu)
was composed. Although innova is the label
of the American Composers Forum, not
all the composers represented on this disc
are American. Among the most intriguing
works presented are Three Pieces by Finnish free-bass accordionist
Maria Kalaniemi, arranged by Hagerdorn. The first, Slingerdansin, is
jig-like with many characteristic “hookings” in the violin part which
does a convincing Hardanger fiddle impersonation. Tähdet Taivahalla
is a mournful ballad. I enjoyed watching Kalaniemi perform the
original version on YouTube, and I find this string transcription quite
convincing. Sofias Flykt returns to the world of quirky fiddle rhythms.
I was dancing in my seat until I was confounded by its complexity.
American David Lang composed gift as a belated wedding present
to “one of his oldest friends, Leslie.” It’s a lovely, gentle and contemplative
tribute. Alf Houkom says there is “no program for Serenade,
neither narrative, emotional or theoretical. Serenade is simply
acknowledgement of the pleasure evinced by Leslie and Joe when
making music together.” Born in 1935, David Hahn is a generation
older than the rest of the composers here. His playful W Is for Weasel
dates from 2003 and is in four movements, including an Estampie in
alternating seven-eight and five-eight time inspired by the early medieval
dance form, and a set of variations on Pop! Goes the Weasel.
Chilean guitarist/composer Javier Contreras contributes Suite for
Violin and Guitar in six movements, each embodying a different Latin
American dance rhythm. For the opening track, Music in Four Sharps
by Ian Krouse, the guitar and violin are joined by Stephanie Arado,
violin, Tom Turner, viola, and Laura Sewell, cello, to complete the
string quartet required for an extended exploration of John Dowland’s
Frog Galliard. Like in the original, Krouse uses no accidentals, sticking
with the seven notes of the E-Major scale; hence the title. Personally I
found the 15-minute duration longer than I wanted to devote to those
seven notes, but I must commend him for staying in the character of
the piece.
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ATTACHED
TERRY ROBBINS
The UK’s Benyounes Quartet members
celebrate ten years of performing together
with Innovators: Bartók-Beethoven-
Debussy, a CD featuring three quartets that
they feel were both innovative and influential
(Champs Hill Records CHRCD147
champshillrecords.co.uk).
Bartók’s String Quartet No.2 was written
between 1915 and 1917 and clearly shows
the direction in which his folk music studies were leading him. In
this case it was not only his research in Hungary but in particular a
1913 visit to North Africa to record Arab and Berber music that was
clearly a major influence.
Beethoven’s String Quartet No.11 in F Minor Op.95 “Serioso” is
from 1810; the shortest of his quartets, the sense of struggle and
drama is enhanced by the unusually condensed and tense nature of
the musical argument.
Debussy’s String Quartet in G Minor Op.10 is from 1893 when
he was first starting to become known in Paris, and already serves
notice on how his harmonic colouring would transform French
music and set a new path for the 20th century.
There’s impassioned playing throughout, with electrifying pacing,
outstanding dynamics and superb individual and ensemble playing.
All six Bartók quartets are available on
Bartók Complete String Quartets in
performances by the Romanian Arcadia
Quartet (Chandos CHAN 10992(2)
naxosdirect.com).
The quartet members, who live in
Transylvania, a region that was part of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire before the Great
War and proved a fertile ground in Bartók’s
folk music research, feel that the folk music
influence goes beyond merely providing compositional material
here, citing even the most abstract moments in the quartets as ones
when the listener is “carried away into a world of mysticism, magic
and philosophical reflection.”
Their playing is consequently more contemplative and perhaps
less abrasive than that of the Benyounes, but is no less committed for
that. It’s clearly music that has a deep significance for this ensemble.
The four extant string quartets of the Swedish composer Dag Wirén
(No.1 was withdrawn) are presented on Wirén String Quartets
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Nos.2-5 in performances by the Wirén
Quartet (Naxos 8.573588 naxos.com).
String Quartets No.2, Op.9 from 1935
and No.3, Op.18, completed in 1945, both
support the composer’s stated aim to write
music “which appealed directly to rather
than challenging the listener,” although
No.3 reflects Wirén’s extensive revision of
his compositional technique.
String Quartet No.4, Op.28 from 1953 is a darker work with shades
of Shostakovich and Sibelius, while No.5, Op.41 from 1970 was
written only a few years before Wirén’s retirement as a composer, its
three short movements ending with an air more of resignation than
celebration.
The German composer Karl Amadeus
Hartmann was 28 when Hitler became
Chancellor in 1933 but, unlike many artists,
stayed in Germany, refusing all cooperation
with the Nazis and virtually guaranteeing
his exclusion from official German musical
life. The two string quartets which bookended
his life in this period, String Quartet
No.1 “Carillon” from 1933 and String
Quartet No.2 from 1945-48 are featured on Hartmann with Poland’s
Airis String Quartet (Accord ACD 245-2 naxosdirect.com).
Replete with allusions to a variety of influences (jazz elements,
Jewish melodies and Hungarian folk music, especially that of Bartók)
the music is essentially tonal but so strongly chromatic that a key
centre rarely seems established. They’re quite different and strikingly
individual works, redolent of stress and anxiety in time of conflict.
In 1942 Hartmann studied with Anton Webern, and the latter’s
quite lovely Langsamer Satz from 1905 completes the CD.
In 1938 Dmitri Shostakovich wrote the first
page of what turned into his String Quartet
No.1 in C Major Op.49 as an exercise with
no intention of finishing it. Captivated by
the process, however, he completed the
full quartet in less than two months. It’s
included on Shostakovich String Quartets
Nos.1, 2 & 7, the latest CD from the
UK-based Carducci String Quartet (Signum
Classics SIGCD559 naxosdirect.com).
The String Quartet No.2 in A Major Op.68 from 1944 is a much
larger and more ambitious work, but it’s the terse String Quartet
No.7 in F-sharp Minor Op.108 from 1960 that despite its brevity (just
over 12 minutes) has the most typical Shostakovich quartet sound.
The Carducci Quartet has performed complete cycles of the
Shostakovich quartets and has previously recorded quartets numbers
4, 8 and 11 for Signum Classics. It’s not clear if this new release is
part of an ongoing complete recording of the cycle, but such a set
would be warmly welcomed.
If you only know the music of Henryk
Górecki from the astonishingly successful
Dawn Upshaw recording of his Symphony
No.3: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs then
the music on Górecki Complete String
Quartets 1 (Naxos 8.573919 naxos.com)
may come as something of a shock.
Górecki wrote three quartets for the
Kronos Quartet: No.1 Op.62 “Already it is
Dusk” in 1988; No.2 Op.64 “Quasi una fantasia” in 1991 and No.3
Op.67 . . . songs to be sung in the mid-1990s. The first two, along
with the early string trio Genesis I: Elementi Op.19, No.1 from 1962
are performed with full-blooded commitment by the UK’s Tippett
Quartet. The single-movement first quartet and – in particular – the
string trio are a tough listen, the booklet notes referencing extended
playing techniques, assaultive gestures, note clusters, chord
sequences of real vehemence and writing that exploits the timbral
extremes of the ensemble.
The four-movement Quartet No.2 is more accessible, with clear
influences of Beethoven and Shostakovich, but the familiar juxtaposition
of consonance and dissonance is still present.
The Nordic String Quartet is the ensemble
in Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen
Complete String Quartets Vol.1
(Dacapo 8.226217 naxosdirect.com), world
premiere recordings of the first six of the
Danish composer’s 14 quartets written
between 1959 and 2013.
The works are predominantly quite
brief. The first three are all from 1959:
String Quartet No.1 is a single-movement Andante of less than
nine minutes; the four movements of No.2 “Quartetto Facile” total
less than 12 minutes; No.3 “Five Small Studies” doesn’t reach five
minutes – small studies indeed!
String Quartets No.4 (1967), No.5 “Step by Step” (1982-86 revised
2003) and No.6 “Parting” (1983) are all single movements ranging
from six to 19 minutes in length.
The music is difficult to describe, but touches on a wide range of
influences – Bartók, Stravinsky, serialism, minimalism, Ligeti – while
always maintaining an individual character. It will be interesting to
hear what the later quartets are like.
Volume 2 of Apotheosis: Mozart, the
Alexander String Quartet series of the late
chamber works and featuring the Piano
Quartets, was reviewed here last October,
but Volume 1 The Final Quartets has
only just been released (Foghorn Classics
FCL2016 foghornclassics.com). The four
works on the two-CD set are the String
Quartet in D Major K499 “Hoffmeister” and
the three Prussian Quartets in D Major K575, B-flat Major K589 and
F Major K590.
The quartet’s violist Paul Yarbrough describes the works as having
“beauty, clarity, communication of the highest order, and – above all
– balance.” It’s also an excellent description of the simply lovely
playing here. Volume 3 – the Clarinet Quintet and the String
Quintets – promises to be a terrific conclusion to an
outstanding series.
In the meantime, Germany’s Klenke
Quartett is joined by violist Harald
Schoneweg on Mozart The String Quintets,
a quite beautiful three-CD issue that sets
a very high standard (Accentus Music
ACC80467 accentus.com). Having already
recorded the complete Mozart string quartets,
the Klenke Quartett saw the recording
of the six quintets – No.1 in B-flat Major
K174, No.2 in C Minor K406, No.3 in C Major K515, No.4 in G Minor
K516, No.5 in D Major K593 and No.6 in E-flat Major K614 – as a
logical continuation.
Phrasing, the use of vibrato, and articulation are based on historically
informed performance techniques, and contribute to the
ensemble’s superb clarity, sensitivity and an innate understanding of
the richness and wide-ranging emotional moods of these
wonderful works.
The New Zealand String Quartet is joined
by violist Maria Lambros in Brahms String
Quintets Nos.1 and 2, a recording that
completes their three albums of Brahms
chamber music for Naxos (8.573455
naxos.com).
The quintets, No.1 in F Major Op.88 from
1882 and No.2 in G major Op.111 from 1890,
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are relatively late works, with the choice of
viola as the additional instrument bringing
a warmth and richness to the inner texture
that creates a perfect soundscape for
Brahms’ characteristic feel of autumnal
reflection and nostalgic yearning.
The CD was recorded in the resonant
acoustics of St. Anne’s Anglican Church
in Toronto by the ever-reliable team of
Norbert Kraft and Bonnie Silver.
There’s more string quintet playing – this time with a double bass
instead of a second viola – on Georges Onslow String Quintets Vol.3,
with the Elan Quintet playing String Quintets No.28 in G Minor
Op.72 and No.29 in E-flat Major Op.73 (Naxos 8.573887 naxos.com).
Onslow, born in France in 1784 to a French mother and English
father, wrote 36 string quartets and 34 string quintets, music that
was stylistically more German than French. Published in 1849
towards the end of Onslow’s life, the two quintets here are early
Romantic works with clear hints of Schubert and Mendelssohn. The
addition of the double bass to the string quartet produces a chamber
orchestra feel, adding depth without ever being too prominent.
It’s really lovely music – warm, inventive, humorous and
extremely well-written – by a musician who clearly knew his craft.
The Elan Quartet’s performances of these charming works are highly
enjoyable.
Henry Raudales is the soloist
and conductor of the Münchner
Rundfunkorchester on Felix Mendelssohn
Bartholdy Concerto for Violin & Strings in
D Minor and String Symphonies Nos.I-VI
(BR Klassik 900324 naxosdirect.com).
Written when the composer was only 13,
the concerto remained virtually unknown
until Yehudi Menuhin revived it in 1951.
It’s a lovely work, full of the lightness and agility so typical of
Mendelssohn’s later works, and performed here with equal lightness,
agility and dynamic nuance by all concerned.
The six String Symphonies from 1821 (when the composer was
only 12 years old!) are the first half of the 12 that Mendelssohn wrote
between 1821 and 1823. Thanks to his studying composition with
Carl Friedrich Zelter, the symphonies are modelled on those of Carl
Philipp Emanuel Bach, whose Hamburg Symphonies had created
the three-movement form for string orchestra. Again, the works
remained in manuscript form until being rediscovered in 1950.
Stylish performances complete a delightful CD.
The Guitar is the third solo album from
the Australian guitarist Rupert Boyd, and
pays homage to the instrument’s ability to
embrace a truly wide range of repertoire
(Sono Luminus DSL-92231
sonoluminus.com).
Only two works on the CD – Fernando
Sor’s Introduction and Variations on a
Theme by Mozart and Leo Brouwer’s ten
brief Estudios Sencillos I-X – were originally
written for the guitar, although the Suite in E Major BWV1006a
was Bach’s own reworking of his Partita No.3 for Solo Violin, and
A Closed World of Fine Feelings is Australian composer Graeme
Koehne’s reworking of his own solo piano piece.
Arrangements of two pieces by Antônio Carlos Jobim – Felicidade
and Estrada Branca – open the disc, and arrangements of Astor
Piazzolla’s Milonga del Angel and La Muerte del Angel followed by
Boyd’s own lovely arrangement of John Lennon’s Julia close it.
It’s a nicely balanced program that always holds your interest
and has much to offer, with clean, resonant and idiomatic playing
throughout.
Keyed In
ALEX BARAN
Stewart Goodyear’s performance on his
new recording Gershwin/Goodyear (Orchid
Classics, ORC100100,
orchidclassics.com) sizzles with high energy
from start to finish. The disc presents two
compositions by Goodyear in addition to
Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.
Half of Goodyear’s family has roots in
Trinidad where he describes experiencing
his first Carnival and being spellbound by its diverse rhythms
and music. The five-movement suite for piano and orchestra,
titled Callaloo, is a brilliant and impressive example of Goodyear’s
composing and orchestration skills.
The Piano Sonata is an early work from Goodyear’s late teens. And
although he admits it reflects some teenage hubris, the Sonata nevertheless
carries Goodyear’s virtuosic stamp on both its writing and
performance. He’s an inspired artist with a great deal to say.
The Chineke! Orchestra, led by Wayne Marshall, collaborates beautifully
with Goodyear. Extraordinary playing, superb recording and
engineering make this one of the most exciting discs released this
year. Definitely a must-have!
Michele Tozzetti’s new disc Bernstein –
Complete Solo Piano Music (Piano Classics,
PCL10174, naxosdirect.com) joins the few
others who have taken on the challenge
of this repertoire. There’s just enough solo
piano material by Bernstein to fill a CD, so
the project has tempted a handful of brave
artists. All have discovered, however, that
the composer, pianist, conductor was a
complex individual and access to his music has been challenging.
Tozzetti understands that Bernstein’s language marked him as a
staunch modernist and populist. He was edgy and evolutionary but
not revolutionary. His writing is never entirely without reference to
some core principle of music as a contemporary individual would
understand it. And Tozzetti consistently seeks out the melodic and
rhythmic element to confirm this. Many of these short pieces bear
the names of those to whom the works are dedicated or at least those
whose impressions they reflect. Occasional ones like Aaron Copland
seem to have content that makes reference to their work, but much of
that remains for Tozzetti to decide.
This is quite possibly the most thoughtful and well played conception
of this music to date.
Luke Welch’s third recording The Return
(lukewelch.ca) presents the Beethoven
Sonata in A-flat Major Op.26 and
Schumann’s Faschingsschwank aus Wien
Op.26. Welch is no stranger to the Schumann
repertoire having recorded Kinderszenen
on one of his earlier discs. There’s a strong
and natural fit for him with this composer’s
language whose harmonies he seems
to understand profoundly. He’s especially persuasive in the Romanze
where he moves carefully with the gentleness of Schumann’s melodic
line before leaping into the Scherzino with a perfectly balletic lightness.
The Beethoven tracks, that include a couple of Rondos Op.51 in
addition to the sonata, demonstrate Welch’s affinity for the core of the
classical repertoire, the discipline and balanced expression that these
composers need to be convincingly played.
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Sustain (Navona Records, NV6207,
navonarecords.com) is a multi-composer
and multi-performer recording project
featuring piano, marimbas, vibraphone and
some percussion. Five composers, two pianists
and numerous other musicians present
a rich and intriguing exploration of music
bound together by the shared ability to
initiate, shape and sustain sound from a
keyboard, or keyboard-like instrument.
Sixteen Lines Circling a Square by Robert E. Thomas is a sonically
fascinating piece in its performance by Matt Sharrock who plays
both marimba and vibraphone. Solstice Introspect by Daniel Adams
is written for three vibraphones and percussion, and portrays some of
the mystique surrounding the annual winter event. John A. Carollo’s
Piano Suite No.9 – Memories of Liszt is equally clever for its emotional
and occasional musical references to Liszt.
It’s an ambitious project with a very rich program and well worth
the listen.
Oh to have been a fly on the wall in that New
York room in 1928 when George Gershwin
played his Rhapsody in Blue for Maurice
Ravel. The evening encounter is rich with
anecdotes but Ravel’s brush with American
music and Harlem jazz made a lasting impression
that emerged repeatedly in his writing
of that period. Gershwin, Ravel (Divine Art,
DDA25055, divineartrecords.com) is a tribute
to the works of these two composers for piano
duet and two pianos. Piano duo Goldstone and Clemmow recorded these
tracks over the decade 1997-2007 and their re-release in this repertoire
compilation is a reminder of how their performances will be missed since
the death of Anthony Goldstone two years ago.
There is such full engagement and energy in all this playing. The
Rhapsody in Blue is the original version for two pianos and seems in
no way diminished from its orchestral scoring. The same is true of I
Got Rhythm, also in its original two-piano version. As in all their
recordings, Goldstone and Clemmow never falter. They breathe and
play as a single mind, whether at one keyboard or two. The disc’s
closing track is perhaps both the most novel and amazing. Ravel’s
version of Bolero for piano duet (that’s four hands at one very
crowded keyboard) is simply impossible to imagine as it unfolds.
It’s always great fun to hear how Scarlatti is
going to emerge from under the fingers of a
newly recorded pianist. Soyeon Kate Lee’s
recording Scarlatti – Complete Keyboard
Sonatas Vol.21 (Naxos 8.573795, naxos.com)
makes the unhurried point that there may be
more to consider in these sonatas than traditionally
meets the ear. Scarlatti wrote 555
sonatas in single movements, of which Lee
has chosen 17 for this recording.
Taking time to explore ideas and never saying anything twice in
the same way are key elements of Lee’s fresh voice in these works.
She also takes a comfortably light Romantic touch to potential dancelike
rhythms, giving the bass line a chance to lead rhythmically. Lee
is especially adept at using the colour and dynamic potential of the
piano to make more of these than Scarlatti might have imagined at
the harpsichord. She plays with great care and consideration for the
disciplined way in which Scarlatti crafted these pieces but applies her
playful imagination to each one, polishing it into a unique gem.
Federico Colli’s latest recording J.S. Bach Italian Concerto, Partita IV, Bach/
Busoni Chaconne (Chandos CHAN 20079, naxosdirect.com) explores new
depths of introspection in Bach’s keyboard writing. Colli plays with all the
requisite technical articulation and dynamic sensitivity that modern tastes
expect in this repertoire. But he adds something strikingly unique: Colli
has mastered the craft of small-voice playing. This is a keyboard utterance
far below conventional pianissimo, using the gentlest of key touch, barely
bringing the hammers against the strings and
thereby creating a remarkable tone. Moreover,
Colli seems to have the quantum ability to
slow the passage of time when he does this.
It’s altogether remarkable. Used strategically
throughout the Partita No.4 and the slow
movement of the Italian Concerto, it enhances
his midrange voice and gives his fortissimos
overwhelming presence.
The combined effect of this playing style is most concentrated in the
Busoni transcription of the Chaconne from Partita No.2 BWV1004
where Colli forms Bach’s most beautiful ideas slowly and minutely in
time and space before letting them supernova into the immensity of
Busoni’s towering chords. An unforgettable experience.
Mark Viner’s recording Cécile Chaminade
– Piano Music (Piano Classics PCL10164,
naxosdirect.com) is a beautiful and exquisitely
performed addition to his discography.
Chaminade’s music is now more widely
performed and admired than it was in her
day. The late 19th and early 20th centuries
afforded little opportunity for women to
pursue careers as composers and concert
performers. Still, Chaminade persevered and achieved some recognition
throughout her native France. Her music is rich with textures and
ideas and Viner embraces these with a remarkable fluency as if her
language were his own. The opening Pierrette air de ballet Op.41 is
instantly captivating and Viner brings the same impish energy to
successive works in the program. The highlight of the disc may,
however, be the unassuming Méditation from the 6 Romances sans
paroles, Op.76. Here Viner lingers on critical phrases and gently
emphasizes lush harmonies that offer a glimpse into
Chaminade’s world.
International piano competitions often award
winners recording opportunities to help
advance their careers. A new release, Chun
Wang – 2017 Winner Jaén Prize International
Piano Competition, Laureate Series
(Naxos 8.573945 naxos.com) presents the
winning piano recital of this Spanish competition.
The concert recording quickly demonstrates
why Wang won the 20,000 euro prize.
His performance is spectacular. It reveals an inherent artistic intelligence
that comes across as a natural affinity for whatever repertoire he plays.
The recital program opens with Ravel’s Jeux d’eau in which Wang’s
legato playing ideally captures the fluid character of the work. Ravel’s
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Tales from the Dinarides
Michael Bridge, accordion;
Guillaume Tardif, violin; Kornel
Wolak, clarinet
Features repertoire from Central
Europe arranged for clarinet, violin,
and accordion, and a commissioned
work by Airat Ichmouratov.
Doppler Discoveries
András Adorján, Emmanuel
Pahud, Jan Phillip Schulze
Unpublished and premiere
recorded works for Flute written
by Franz and Carl Doppler
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Piano Concerto in G Major closes the recital and provides astonishing
musical and technical contrast to the earlier work. Between these two,
Wang plays two of Bolcom’s 12 New Etudes, Bartók’s Out of Doors,
and Fantasia, a required contemporary piece by a Spanish composer,
Josué Bonnín de Góngora.
There’s an edge-of-the-seat excitement that builds throughout this
recital. Stakes are high, as are the audience expectations, and the pressure
is palpable. Chun Wang delivers with confidence and flawless
playing. A winner.
Roberto Loreggian has released a three-disc
set of Bach Violin Sonatas & Partitas, Cello
Suites – Transcribed for harpsichord by
Gustav Leonhardt (Brilliant Classics 95757,
naxosdirect.com). Among the items are
many that are as familiar for Bach’s own
keyboard transcriptions of them as they are
for their original solo forms. Bach himself
realized keyboard versions of his numerous
solo instrumental compositions and freely cross-pollinated his works
with borrowed ideas. The documented instances of this practice led
Leonhardt to devote a decade to writing his transcriptions for harpsichord
based on considerable research and study. His obvious grasp of
Bach’s keyboard language, harmony and counterpoint informed his
approach to transcribing this repertoire.
The project may, at first hearing, seem tidy and academic, but
encountering the familiar in a new voice has a subtle, arresting effect
and compels fresh thinking about new discoveries. Harpsichordist
Roberto Loreggian plays a modern Italian copy of an early
17th-century Flemish instrument.
Craig Swanson presents a persuasive argument
for an imaginative experiment in
his new recording The French Suite Kit
(thefrenchsuitekit.com). Citing others
like Glenn Gould, who have mused about
the role of the listener and the how technology
affects the way listeners participate
in music, Swanson has recorded a “Kit”
from which listeners can build their own
performance through a mix-and-match process.
Most of the movements in the Bach French Suite No.4 in E-flat
Major BWV815 appear in three or four different versions. Speed is the
most obvious variable, but Swanson also alters the amount of ornamentation,
shifts between two major published editions, and observes
some repeats while omitting others. The objective is to offer a collection
of component parts for a listener to custom build a performance
that suits the preference of the moment. Moreover, Swanson’s experiment
posits that there cannot ever be a definitive performance of
anything. Too many things can change in the performer’s mind and
the listener’s perception to make any music universally right forever.
Swanson’s intriguing ideas offer a lot to play with both musically
and intellectually.
VOCAL
Schubert – Winterreise
Philippe Sly; Le Chimera Project
Analekta AN 2 9138 (analekta.com/en)
!!
In the course
of Schubert’s
Winterreise (Winter
Journey), a stranger
wanders out of a
hostile town in
nasty weather. His
heart has been
broken, and he’s
desperately miserable. While this landmark
song cycle represents the spirit of
Romanticism, it does feel achingly modern.
These 24 songs have long inspired
various arrangements. But why a klezmer
Winterreise? Both Wilhelm Müller’s poems
and Schubert’s music, like klezmer, have
roots in folk song. And the cultural connections
between Schubert’s wanderer and
the wanderer of Eastern European Jewish-
Romani traditions run deep.
Though Le Chimera Project’s adaption is
far tamer than, say, Hans Zender’s radical
revision, it goes further than Normand
Forget’s sensitive transcription. The voice
part remains untouched, but the piano
accompaniment, now arranged for a typical
klezmer ensemble – clarinet, violin, trombone
and accordion – takes a step outside
the classical tradition. The spirited musicians
of Le Chimera Project pull off the plaintive
tremolos and trills, jazzy syncopations and
bent notes, and stylish interpolations, with
seamless vitality.
Canadian bass-baritone Philippe Sly is
enthralling, right through to the harrowing
final song, Der Leiermann (The Hurdygurdy
Man), when the wanderer, with Sly
accompanying himself on a hurdy-gurdy,
contemplates going off to join an itinerant
hurdy-gurdy player. When Schubert’s
opening song Gute Nacht (Good Night) is
revisited at the very end of this daring – and
rewarding (even without texts and translations
being included) – recording, it gains
new meaning here, especially with the shattering
impact of Sly’s now hollowed-out,
desperate voice.
Pamela Margles
Puccini – Tosca
Harteros; Antonenko; Tézier; Mastroni;
Staatskapelle Dresden; Christian
Thielemann
Cmajor 748308 (naxosdirect.com)
!!
In addition to
considering voices,
now with video
versions available,
we may, and
usually do, evaluate
the sets and the
general stage business.
Sometimes
the staging pleases,
sometimes it
doesn’t. Sometimes
it amuses. I
remember a video of a CBC black and white
production of the second act with Renata
Tebaldi and Louis Quilico. It was credible
until Tosca snatches an untapered, roundnosed
kitchen knife to do the deed. It was
patently obvious to all of us that this knife
certainly was not made to penetrate anything.
That was the part we each remembered.
This new production is different from all
the others that I have seen in some significant
ways, all without modifying or interfering
with the existing texts, spoken or sung. But
actions, it seems, speak louder than words! In
the second act as the beautifully performed
scene closes and Tosca has left the room, we
see Scarpia, who should be lying dead, stir
and drag himself across the floor. In the third
act we see a group of teenage boys awakening
and dressing and then, instead of a military
firing squad, five of these blue-shirted boys
shoot Cavaradossi with revolvers. More stage
business and when Tosca would traditionally
run and jump, the wounded, lurching Scarpia
arrives with his men; Tosca shoots him and
he, now dying, shoots her dead.
The lead singers are perfectly matched.
Soprano Anja Harteros is an impressive Tosca
with her glorious voice and glowing characterization.
She is matched in every respect
by Aleksandrs Antonenko as Cavaradossi.
Ludovic Tézier is suaver than the usual
merciless Scarpia making him even more
dangerous. Under Thielemann, the orchestra
is right there supporting the singers and
heightening the action. The costume and set
designers for this 2018 Salzburg Easter Festival
performance deserve a lot of credit for putting
the cast in the right place. Kudos down the
line for the other cast members of this selfrecommending
performance.
Bruce Surtees
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Rossini – Le Comte Ory
Talbot; Fuchs; Arquez; Hubeaux; Les
éléments; Orchestre des Champs-Élysées;
Louis Langrée
Cmajor 747408 (naxosdirect.com)
!!
Rossini’s two-act
Le Comte Ory was
inspired by a medieval
ballad in which
knights end up
seducing nuns. In
the one-act version
offered to Rossini
by librettist Eugène
Scribe, the knight
dresses as a nun to
seduce a countess.
Rossini is known
to have requested
that another (first) act be added for which he
composed delightful arias, ensembles and
choruses, making his last comic opera an
immense success.
In this version of the opera, Denis
Podalydès’ staging combines period settings
with contemporary mise-en-scène. The DVD
of the staging, directed by Vincent Massip,
captures the ambitious production with great
clarity and dramatic effect. The cinematography
is highly evocative; in keeping with
Rossini’s vaunted arias which are voiced with
uncommon mastery by – among others –
the tenor Philippe Talbot, playing the rakish
Le Comte Ory, soprano Julie Fuchs (as La
Comtesse), mezzo-soprano Gaëlle Arquez (as
the count’s page Isolier), Jean-Sébastian Bou
(as Raimbaud, the count’s friend).
The lead singers generate a strong sense of
ensemble with Talbot’s Le Comte and Fuchs’
La Comtesse making the most of their comic
opportunities. It is Fuchs who charms with
a heady coloratura, more honeyed tones
and a dramatic weight, tempered by comic
timing. The quality of the singing is matched
in every way with the acting. The staging is
enormously accomplished and the excellent
production values show that nothing was
spared in an effort to bring this elaborate
production to fruition.
Raul da Gama
CLASSICAL AND BEYOND
Vivaldi – Concerti per archi III; Concerti
per viola d’amore
Accademia Bizantina; Ottavio Dantone;
Alessandro Tampieri
Naïve OP 30570 (vivaldiedition.com)
!!
When the Italian
National Library in
Turin purchased
the collection of
autograph manuscripts
by Antonio
Vivaldi in 1930, they
acquired nearly
450 works by the
great Venetian composer. The creation of the
Italian musicologist Alberto Basso, the Vivaldi
Edition project, then set out to record the
works in their entirety. This beautiful and
touching recording is part of that rich project.
It contains 13 concertos for string orchestra
and five concertos for viola d’amore, relatively
unexplored repertoire but one very much
worth the attention.
Vivaldi was a master of concertos for
string orchestra without soloist and the ones
on this recording are exciting and incredibly
engaging miniatures. Each one contains
a whole array of characters and emotions
and is presented with flair and style. But the
hidden gems are the viola d’amore concertos.
Here we have the exuberant display of the full
magnificence of this instrument – 12 strings,
unusual timbres, resonant sound, chordal
passages and tuning variations depending on
the style and the key. Alessandro Tampieri
is undeniably the master of his instrument.
His playing is virtuosic, his sound heavenly
and his execution perfectly precise. I have
especially enjoyed the wild rustic cadenza of
the third movement of Concerto RV 394 and
the sublime Largo of the Concerto RV 393.
Led by a fantastic harpsichordist, Ottavio
Dantone, Accademia Bizantina’s performance
is energetic and passionate, making this
recording one of my favourites.
Ivana Popovic
Schubert – Early Symphonies and Stage
Music
Copenhagen Phil; Lawrence Foster
Pentatone PTC 5186 655 (naxosdirect.com)
! ! In today’s busy
society and fragmented
music business,
it is a true
privilege to have
the opportunity
to listen through
a two-disc set of
large-scale ambitious
symphonic work, particularly when
it is performed, recorded and released as
expertly and beautifully as has been done so
by Pentatone Records on their recent Franz
Schubert release: Early Symphonies and
Stage Music. Comprised of some of Schubert’s
lesser-known work, the Copenhagen
Philharmonic, under the watchful direction
of longtime Pentatone artist, conductor
Lawrence Foster, wrings expressive beauty
from Schubert’s masterful classical works,
written when the Austrian composer was
but a teenager. With the clear time, effort
and degree of musical specificity that has
gone into the performance and presentation
of this music, this is truly a recording
worth attention and will be time well spent
when immersing yourself in these documented
sounds.
Symphonic work truly has the ability to
inspire and, to paraphrase a well-known
adage, to wash away the banality of everyday
life and move the needle forward to something
more otherworldly and profound.
What we're listening to this month:
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Sibelius 1
Yannick Nézet-Séguin / Orchestre
Métropolitain
ATMA Classique is proud to
announce the release of the
first album in a new series
of recordings devoted to the
symphonies of Sibelius.
Dove Songs
David Liptak
A collection of chamber works,
featuring the cycle, "Dove Songs,"
written for soprano Tony Arnold
with pianist Alison D'Amato. Liptak
writes music that is expressively
rich and poignantly lyrical.
Libre
Amanda Martinez
Amanda Martinez CD Launch
"Libre" at Isabel Bader Theatre
June 22 8pm presented by TD Jazz
Festival
3
The Gloaming
Although charged by the traditions of
Ireland, what The Gloaming do with the
structures of Irish music is anything
but simple nostalgia. Haunting and
emotional, it sounds ancient without
being a mere reproduction.
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While such lofty platitudes are most often
reserved for the more famous symphonies
of Beethoven and Brahms, Schubert’s music
can be equally inspiring, as evidenced here.
Presented alongside his Romantic Italian
Overture in D Major and captured in 2017
at the Concert Hall of the Royal Academy
of Music in Copenhagen, this 2019 release
is a welcome addition to the collections of
Schubert fans everywhere wanting to expand
their knowledge of his music beyond lieder.
Andrew Scott
Doppler Discoveries – Flute Compositions
by Franz and Carl Doppler
András Adorán; Emmanuel Pahud; Jan
Philip Schulze; Arcis Hornquartett
Farao Classics B 108104 (farao-classics.de)
!!
Brothers Franz
(1821-1883) and
Carl Doppler
(1825-1900), their
era’s leading flute
virtuosi, worked
chiefly in the urban
centres of the
Austro-Hungarian
Empire. Both
were engaged as flutists in major orchestras,
toured Europe as soloists, and were successful
conductors and composers of recital repertoire,
opera and ballet (mostly in Budapest).
They hobnobbed with music celebrities of the
day like Liszt and Brahms.
Then, sadly, they were all but forgotten.
Until well past the mid-20th century the
Doppler name was virtually unknown save
for classical flute players. Due to research
begun in the 1970s by the Hungarian flutist
András Adorján however, that neglect has
begun to be remedied.
Adorján’s discoveries challenged the longheld
misconception that a Doppler flute
composition consisted of hackneyed paraphrases
and facile variations. But when he
found Franz Doppler’s unpublished Double
Concerto for two flutes, the work proved
so attractive that it immediately became
part of the standard repertoire. Seven such
Doppler compositions, featuring one or two
flutes, played by renowned flutists Adorján
and Emmanuel Pahud, grace the Doppler
Discoveries album. The works are delightful
and the playing aptly brilliant.
The biggest revelation for me is how
convincing the three Hungarian-themed
works are, reflecting the Dopplers’ deep
engagement with Hungarian vernacular
music and society of the mid-19th century.
I typically choose a favourite track or two
in my CD reviews. On this album that isn’t
possible: they’re all terrific. Just try not to
smile while listening to two of today’s crack
flutists revive long-lost scores by those fascinating
Dopplers.
Andrew Timar
Tchaikovsky; Dvořák – Serenades
Archi di Santa Cecilia; Luigi Piovano
Arcana A 457 (naxosdirect.com)
!!
Nice surprise,
hearing again
my two favourite
Serenades for
strings back to back
on a single disc, the
Dvořák E Major and
the Tchaikovsky C
Major. These two
are probably the most beautiful of the genre
that began with Mozart and later, Beethoven,
Schubert and Brahms. Serenades are light
symphonies, with less complex structures,
written for entertainment like divertimentos
with the emphasis on melody.
I first heard the Dvořák at a concert with
a very young István Kertész conducting in
Budapest around 1954, but not even once
ever since, so it comes back as an old friend,
opening with a heavenly melody one hears
and never forgets. The five movements vary
in mood, tempo and dynamics, each bursting
with gorgeous, fresh melodies and even a
Czech folk tune in the presto Finale, ending
in a festive spirit. The Tchaikovsky is a masterwork
of the first order with an all-pervasive
melancholy and one of Tchaikovsky’s bestloved
waltzes as its second movement. The
virtuoso strings amazed me particularly in
the first movement’s polyphonic intricacy and
the third movement Elegy, so heartrending
one could cry. The boisterous Russian dance
Finale bounces along with energy and
excitement.
This superb new recording by Archi di
Santa Cecilia, formed from the best string
players of Rome’s famous Santa Cecilia
Orchestra and led by an equally talented
conductor, Luigi Piovano – and how! He
delves into the music with body and soul and
I imagine the orchestra moves with him and
his every gesture. A tremendous rapport, like
hypnosis, that only a Gergiev, Ozawa, Solti
or the great Karajan could muster. Highly
recommended.
Janos Gardonyi
Bruckner – Symphony No.4 “Romantic”
Philharmonia Zurich; Fabio Luisi
Philharmonia Records PHR 0110
(opernhaus.ch)
!!
Great Bruckner
conductor Sergiu
Celibidache once
put a question to
his conducting
class: “Why is the
second scherzo
different from the
first scherzo?” Only
one student knew the answer: “Because we
already heard the first scherzo.” Well, Fabio
Luisi certainly kept this in mind in his new
recording of Bruckner’s Fourth as the scherzo
repeat brings many surprising, previously
unheard details like birdcalls, strange little
chirpings on the woodwinds and other bells
and whistles.The famous “Hunt” Scherzo,
rarely sounded better. The Zurich brass is
gorgeous, the Ländler Trio graciously shaped.
A real auditory adventure.
I first came across Fabio Luisi as principal
conductor of the Met when he bravely
took over their revolutionary Ring project in
2011 after James Levine became ill. So it’s not
surprising, being also an outstanding interpreter
of Italian opera, that his approach to
Bruckner is essentially melodic. This becomes
immediately apparent in the secondary
theme of the first movement which is lovingly
handled and sings so beautifully. Right at the
outset the emerging horn theme from the
near inaudible tremolo of strings creates a
mystical atmosphere, and the crescendo at
the end of the movement is carefully paced to
a resounding Brucknerian brass peroration.
This is a very relaxed reading; the tempo
is slow, which helps to uncover all the
wonderful details the conductor brings to
attention, such as after the tremendous
climax in the second movement when everything
calms down, all is quiet with only the
tympani pounding softly like a heartbeat and
the horn quietly answering. It’s pure magic.
Beautifully detailed, gorgeous modern
sound, eloquent and gracious Bruckner.
Janos Gardonyi
Camille Saint-Saëns – Symphony No.2;
Danse macabre; Symphony in F
Utah Symphony; Thierry Fischer
Hyperion CDA68212
(hyperion-records.co.uk)
! ! Is Camille
Saint-Saëns an
undervalued
or unjustifiably
obscure composer?
An answer is
proposed in the
recording and
accompanying liner
notes released by the Utah Symphony under
Thierry Fischer. The argument presented
suggests both are true, with the second
being attributed to the fact that his later
compatriots such as Fauré (student of the
master) and Debussy gathered more attention
while his own material was overlooked
by conductors and thus by the musical public.
His elder, Berlioz, famously summed up the
young composer thus: “He knows everything,
he lacks inexperience.”
Two symphonies form substantial brackets
to a rousing rendition of Danse macabre
(with violin soloist Madeline Adkins).
Symphony No.2 in A Minor, Op.55 opens
the disc. At just under 23 minutes, the
work is modest, beautifully structured and
completely delightful. The scherzo movement
is what Saint-Saëns should be known for, wit
and agility.
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Saint-Saëns no doubt felt that seriousness
and long-windedness were the province
of the Germans, or maybe he was atoning
for the heavy-handedness of his previous
effort: Symphony in F Major “Urbs Roma”
(the subtitle was the pseudonym required
by the terms of the competition in which it
was entered). This is a more ponderous work,
nearly double the length of Symphony No.2
and lacking the inspired brevity of the latter.
One almost hears the composer ticking the
boxes beside all the elements he knew would
sway a jury on Bordeaux, and he was right;
the piece took the prize, but remains on the
shelf today.
Max Christie
Sibelius 1
Orchestre Metropolitain; Yannick Nézet-
Séguin
ATMA ACD2 2452 (atmaclassique.com/En)
!!
Jean Sibelius was
still under the influence
of Tchaikovsky
when he wrote his
Symphony No.1 in
E Minor Op.39, but
these Russian overtones
coexist with
assuredly individualistic
orchestral
textures and themes. At the very opening, for
example, in a highly original stroke, a clarinet
over a gentle timpani roll introduces the main
theme, which achieves its apotheosis at the
climax of the finale.
In the second movement the debt to
Tchaikovsky is clearly revealed in the way
the languidly mournful opening theme is
developed prior to the stormy climax. An
emphatically rhythmic Scherzo reveals
another influence: Bruckner, a composer
whose music Sibelius had first encountered in
Vienna in 1890. The finale, marked quasi una
fantasia, veers between frenzied agitation
and a grandly refulgent big tune in which the
strings predominate.
As this disc reveals, in the right hands
the First Symphony can be an extremely
exciting work. Yannick Nézet-Séguin
seems to give notice that he is one of the
great Sibelians of the contemporary era, as
he finds just the right level of energy. His
control of the mood and poetics of the work
– its gradations of bleakness and majesty –
is affecting. As the symphony unfolds the
Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal, for
its part, responds with a brilliance that is
never forced.
Raul da Gama
Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No. 1;
Zemlinsky: Lyric Symphony
Elina Vähälä; Johanna Winkel; Michael
Nagy; Polish National Radio Symphony
Orchestra; Alexander Liebreich
Accentus Music ACC 30470 (accentus.com)
!!
Many recordings
that include
the Violin Concerto
No.1 by Karel
Szymanowski
(1882-1937) or the
Lyric Symphony
by Alexander
Zemlinsky (1871-
1942) are now available. This Polish CD
features idiomatic orchestral playing of the
Szymanowski; also, its particular pairing
points up what the two composers have in
common. French-Impressionism-influenced
exoticism, romance and fantasy figure in
their works, and both set Rabindranath
Tagore poems from the same translation
(Szymanowski in Four Songs, op. 41).
Violinist Pawel Kochański’s 1915-16 collaboration
gave Szymanowski great confidence;
here, the resulting concerto’s fiery virtuosity
and sensual melodies receive nuanced, secure
treament from Elina Vähälä. By contrast,
Anne Akiko Meyers’ 2017 Avie recording with
the Philharmonia Orchestra features more
assertive bowing and tone, with a broader
sweep to lyrical passages and the cadenza.
Zemlinsky’s Lyric Symphony (1923)
includes seven Tagore settings, presenting a
love affair’s successive moods. In the central
fourth movement (“Speak to me...”), Johanna
Winkel’s soprano is magical, its long tones
suspended over a soft ostinato plus harp
and celeste glissandi. Michael Nagy brings a
powerful, attractive baritone to the following
riposte, “Free me ...,” whose swagger fails to
mask underlying despair. I find the Polish
National RSO orchestra led by Alexander
Liebreich excellent; the recorded sound,
however, needs more instrumental definition,
as in the Orchestra de Paris version
(Capriccio, 2007) conducted by Christoph
Eschenbach. Still, for those whose collection
lacks these two works, this Accentus disc
would be a valuable addition.
Roger Knox
MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY
Francis Poulenc – Kammermusik
Ensemble Arabesques; Paul Rivinius
Farao Classics B 108103 (farao-classics.de)
!!
Certain
composers of the
20th century were
determined to
complete cycles of
works for all of the
orchestral wind
instruments. Paul
Hindemith largely succeeded, Carl Nielsen
fell short of his intention to write a concerto
for each member of the Danish Winds, and
Francis Poulenc gave the world a wealth
of pieces for all of them. His contributions
are given a representative sampling on this
disc featuring the wind quintet Ensemble
Arabesques, joined by the excellent Paul
Rivinius on piano.
The largest work (from 1932, revised 1939)
is the Sextet for Winds and Piano. In it you’ll
hear echoes and precursors of material
Poulenc used in all of his smaller ensembles,
notably of his final three wind sonatas:
for Flute (1956), Clarinet (1962), and Oboe
(1962). He intended to add a sonata for
bassoon, but died shortly after completing
the oboe work. The sextet is full of fun,
played with sparkle and élan, but also with
the disguised melancholy found in the three
later works. Like Matisse’s paper cutouts,
Poulenc’s pieces can seem like collages of
recurrent musical gestures and tropes, and
his forms repeat through most of these pieces.
For my money, naturally, the clarinet sonata
is the most beautiful, played here by Gaspare
Buonomano. The second movement is heartbreaking
and so simple. Buonomano’s rendition
is understated, elegant and respectful
of the music, though sadly not without the
clarinet’s most vexing pitch peccadilloes. Eva
Marie Thiébaud’s flute sonata is utterly fine;
likewise Nicolas Thiébaud on oboe.
Max Christie
The Happiness Handbook
Instruments of Happiness
Starkland ST-232 (starkland.com)
! ! Tim Brady
is internationally
recognized as
a leading experimental
guitarist
and a prolific
composer of
chamber, orchestral
and music theatre
works. He writes, “For over 30 years I have
been exploring a new approach to the electric
guitar, a vision as both a composer and a
guitarist. Instruments of Happiness [IOH] is …
the next step in this evolution.” Leader of IOH
groups, Brady considers the guitar an “instrument
of happiness,” and he gave that title to
the electric guitar ensembles he formed as a
platform for his wide-ranging music projects.
IOH performs in three formats: as a
100-piece electric guitar orchestra rendering
site-specific new works; as a 20-piece
ensemble; and as a quartet performing
new compositions. It’s the last configuration
we hear on The Happiness Handbook in
premiere recordings of works by six Canadian
composers: Brady, Jordan Nobles, Scott Godin,
Maxime McKinley, Gordon Fitzell and Emily
Hall. The music on the album reflects many of
Brady’s own musical interests. These include
contemporary classical, experimental and
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musique actuelle, but also embrace guitarbased
vernacular genres such as blues,
progressive rock, flamenco and the electric
guitar sounds popularized by 20th-century
innovators Duane Eddy and Link Wray.
If you enjoy virtuoso electric guitar shredding,
edgy minimalism, jaggedly incisive
rhythms, noisy textures and rock’s propulsive
energy paired with the guitar’s gentler
voice – soft harmonics, cantabile slide guitar
and sustained tones – then this is an album to
savour and add to your collection.
Andrew Timar
John Robertson – Virtuosity
Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra; Anthony
Armoré
Navona Records NV6223
(navonarecords.com)
!!
In my review
of a CD of orchestral
works by John
Robertson (Navona
NV6167) that
appeared in the
September 2018 issue
of The WholeNote,
I called his neo-
Romantic music
“unfairly neglected” and praised his “lyrical
gift… colourful and inventive scoring,
unpretentious and essentially cheerful.”
Not all of Robertson’s music is “essentially
cheerful,” however, as shown by this
latest CD. In three concerted works featuring
as soloists three principal players of the Sofia
Philharmonic Orchestra, the Kingston-based
Robertson (b.1943) reveals his more inwardlooking
side, at times tinged with melancholy.
His “lyrical gift,” though, remains evident
and continues to please in his Concerto for
Clarinet and Strings Op.27 (1989), Concerto
for Trumpet and Orchestra Op. 58 (2013)
and the tone poem Hinemoa and Tutanekai
Op.22 (1987), based on a legend of two
Maori lovers from rival warring tribes. In it,
Hinemoa hears and responds to the plaintive
sound of Tutanekai’s flute as it wafts across
the lake that keeps them apart.
Robertson’s even darker side is displayed
in the opening Andante of his 27-minute
Symphony No.3, Op.71 (2017), filled with
dramatic foreboding, sinister repeated arpeggios
and pounding rhythms. The mood
lightens with the syncopated, Latino-like
accents of the Vivace, while the concluding
Allegro is lighter still, even “cheerful.”
In my previous review, I wrote that
Robertson’s music “should be welcomed by
Canadian orchestras and audiences.” The
increasing exposure of his music on CD might
just be what it takes to make that happen.
Michael Schulman
Victoria Bond – Instruments of Revelation
Chicago Pro Musica
Naxos 8.559864 (naxos.com)
!!
Four works
dating from 2005 to
2011 display some of
the wide expressive
range of American
Victoria Bond
(b.1945). Three
figures from tarot
cards are portrayed
in Instruments of Revelation: The Magician
(in Bond’s words “mysterious…dexterous”),
The High Priestess (“wisdom…passion”) and
The Fool (“comedy…chaos”). Cleverly scored
for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano, the
first two movements are very engaging and
attractively descriptive, while The Fool, in
wild confusion, lurches and falls across many
slippery glissandi.
In Frescoes and Ash for clarinet/bass
clarinet, string quintet, piano and percussion,
six artworks from Pompeii are depicted, most
strikingly in the raucous Street Musicians (the
CD’s cover image) and the languid rippling of
Marine Mosaic. The seventh movement, Ash:
Awareness of Mortality, is a haunting dirge
for the doomed city.
“I’ve been drawn to Ulysses… since high
school… because the writing resembles the
way I think… in fleeting images and allusions,
in a stream of consciousness.” Bond previously
set Molly Bloom’s soliloquy and here, in
her 20-minute Leopold Bloom’s Homecoming
(from Episode 17), tenor Rufus Müller, accompanied
by pianist Jenny Lin, speaks the questions
and sings Bloom’s answers. However,
Joyce’s convoluted text, included in the
booklet, renders moot whether the music,
lyrical or dramatic, fits the words.
Finally, pianist Olga Vinokur performs
Binary, a heavily percussive seven-minute
piece whose first movement reminded me of
Thelonious Monk, followed by a set of variations
on a Brazilian samba, ending a disc of
very mixed imagery, pleasures and perplexity.
Michael Schulman
Migration
Fuego Quartet
Ravello Records RR8010
(ravellorecords.com)
!!
The Fuego
Quartet (Nicki
Roman, soprano;
Eric Elmgren, alto;
Harrison Clarke,
tenor, and Gabriel
Piqué, baritone)
was founded in
2015 at the Eastman
School of Music.
Their album Migration’s sophistication shows
how far the saxophone quartet’s repertoire has
moved from predominantly French composers
and Scott Joplin rags. For example, David
Maslanka’s five-part Recitation
Book recomposes Bach chorales. Many of the
pieces are quite meditative and the Fuego
Quartet blends together seamlessly with little
vibrato to create a gentle wall of harmony.
The final track, Fanfare/Variations on “Durch
Adams Fall,” is a lengthy piece combining the
boisterous with the liturgical.
William Albright’s Fantasy Etudes is a sixpart
work opening with a Prelude which
combines elements of the other sections and
then moves into A Real Nice Number, an
ironic homage to Debussy’s Claire de Lune.
Pypes is a lilting piece evoking bagpipes; The
Fives for Steve is dedicated to the memory
of a composer friend; and the Phantom
Galop was inspired by the Lone Ranger.
Harmonium, based on childhood memories
of the instrument, possesses an incredible
and quiet intensity and could be my favourite
on the album. The final section, They Only
Come Out at Night, is a tribute to 50s and 60s
cop shows on TV.
David Clay Mettens’ Ornithology S is a
ten-minute tour de force based on Juan
Fontanive’s animated sculptures of birds that
are a remarkable re-imagining of flip books. It
involves complex rhythmic sections, intricate
pad clicking, subtle multiphonics and delicate
slap tonguing, and demonstrates how impeccably
the quartet plays together as they interpret
difficult pieces.
Ted Parkinson
David Liptak – Dove Songs
Tony Arnold; Alison d’Amato; Renée Jolles;
Margaret Kampmeier; Dieter Hennings
Yeomans; Steven Doane; Barry Snyder
New Focus Recordings FCR224
(naxosdirect.com)
! ! American
composer David
Liptak composes
texturally rich,
colourful and
contrasting musical
sounds in four
compositions here.
The title track, Dove
Songs, is a six-part song cycle composed for
soprano Tony Arnold, who performs it with
superb pianist Alison d’Amato. Arnold’s
enchanting voice grasps all the contrasting
storytelling/musical elements of the work,
based on poetry by 1987 Pulitzer Prizewinner
Rita Dove. Great moments include the
dramatic vocal high pitches and piano tinkling
like snow and frost in The Snow King,
short phrases with subtle humourous undertones
emulating domestic life’s ups and
downs in Beauty and the Beast, and faster
lighter lines with a final high-pitched vocal
note and piano flourish in Flirtation.
More intense lyricism and held notes
feature in Impromptus, composed for and
played by violinist Renée Jolles with pianist
Margaret Kampmeier. The duo shines in
the contrasting conversational solo lines
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which shorten until they overlap simultaneously
in the second movement, Lyrical.
The seven-movement guitar solo suite, The
Sighs, explores the melancholy of seven
artists. Guitarist Dieter Hennings Yeomans
brings out the clever compositional use of
Rameau’s Baroque counterpoint in the fluctuating
guitar line in the Les Soupirs and Petite
Reprise movements. The extremely moving
musical sentiment of Beautiful Dreamer,
based on the Stephen Foster song of the same
name, is unforgettable. Sonata for Cello and
Piano has cellist Steven Doane and pianist
Barry Synder perform a zippy second-movement
race to the finish!
David Liptak’s memorable, lyrical, original
compositions are timeless!
Tiina Kiik
JAZZ AND IMPROVISED
Kick It ’Till You Flip It
Eucalyptus
Lorna 10/ HAVN 054 (brodiewest.com)
!!
Alto saxophonist/composer
Brodie West makes
music that’s both
exploratory and
engaging, growing
from varied experiences
playing jazz
and its transmutations
in Toronto and further afield, including
stints with Dutch drummer Han Bennink and
Ethiopian saxophonist Getatchew Mekuria.
West’s groups typically emphasize rhythm
(his eponymous quintet has two drummers),
but his octet, Eucalyptus, takes it further.
Drummers Nick Fraser, Evan Cartwright and
Blake Howard feed data to West and trumpeter
Nicole Rampersaud as they bounce
around the multi-directional polyrhythms
and ostinatos.
West’s compositions can suggest African
pop music, but they also have affinities with
a broad swath of work, from Terry Riley to
Ornette Coleman. Something Sparkly is
perfectly dreamlike, its slow theme weaving
through bright electric guitar and exotic overlapping
rhythms. It suggests Sun Ra’s stately
early music, a resemblance heightened by
Ryan Driver’s trebly clavinet, a keyboard Sun
Ra called a “solar sound instrument.” West’s
solo seems suspended between melody and
birdcall. The title track develops with the
horns playing a short, taut figure, then gradually
moving out of synch with one another
amidst the various rhythmic paths at hand.
The entire LP testifies to West’s artful concision,
but his compressed, expressionist solo
here is a miracle of improvisational economy.
The final track, Triller, is another beautiful
floating mystery, its minimalist components
ultimately weaving a complex whole;
it’s enhanced by Alex Lukashevsky’s bending
guitar tones, until parts drop away and
only electric bassist Mike Smith’s pulsing
ostinato remains.
Stuart Broomer
One Night In Karlsruhe
Michel Petrucciani; Gary Peacock; Roy
Haynes
SWR Jazzhaus JAH-476 (naxosdirect.com)
!!
Michel
Petrucciani, who
once said, “I think
someone upstairs
saved me from
being ordinary,”
followed up his
proclamation with
a vast discography
of truly extraordinary music. He had the
virtuosity of an Oscar Peterson and the fluttering
lyricism of Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett.
However, his playing is characterized by a
singular voice driven by an almost primal
energy and an edgy emotionality. Although he
was marked, throughout his short life, with
monumental pain from osteogenesis imperfecta,
his music expressed unfettered feelings
of joy.
One Night in Karlsruhe, made at a live
performance in July 1988, captures him at the
height of his pianistic powers and he appears
to be made completely of music. Petrucciani
always had an infectious way with dancing
rhythms and the program is rich in expressive
contrasts and diverse song forms in
which dance and variation occupy a position
of importance throughout. His playing – on
13th, In a Sentimental Mood, Embraceable
You and a signature bravura version of Giant
Steps – has a particularly magical touch to
it and he responds to the diabolical changes
on the latter with spontaneity – while at the
same time communicating the music’s sense
of colour and of pageant.
Petrucciani also approaches the music’s
harmonic boldness and astringency with a
kind of vivid bas-relief. He is accompanied,
on this sojourn, by bassist Gary Peacock and
living legend, drummer Roy Haynes. The
intensity of this power trio is magnificently
captured on this recording.
Raul da Gama
Living in a Dream
Kalya Ramu
Independent (kalyaramu.ca)
!!
One of my
favourite songs to
request is You Go
To My Head – a
gorgeous ballad
that, admittedly,
is not all that easy
to pull off if you
haven’t done your
homework. So when a singer nails it, I am
won over, as I was upon hearing Torontobased
jazz vocalist Kalya Ramu’s sultry and
soulful version, one of 11 beautifully rendered
tracks featured on her debut album, Living in
a Dream, which includes four of her original
compositions. Ramu’s voice has a warmth,
depth and maturity to it that belies her 25
years. As a young girl, she fell under the spell
of Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy
Lee, and it shows; I also hear hints of Helen
Merrill and Doris Day.
Like her jazz vocalist heroines, Ramu
understands the importance of phrasing
(something often lacking in younger singers),
allowing time for the natural arc of a line to
wend its way to the next one, as is evident
in her sensuous rendition of What’s New, as
well as in her lovely ballad, Find in Me, and
her torchy/sexy She Drinks Alone.
The woman can also swing! With stellar
assistance from tenor saxophonist and clarinettist
Jacob Gorzhaltsan, pianist Ewen
Farncombe, bassist Connor Walsh and
drummer Ian Wright (and assorted special
guests), Ramu serves up spirited takes
on Just You Just Me, Four or Five Times
and It’s A Good Day. A singer warranting
your attention, Kalya Ramu’s debut CD is
dreamy, indeed.
Sharna Searle
Somebody Special
Jean Derome
Ambiances Magnetiques AM 249
(actuellecd.com)
! ! Saxophonist/
composer Jean
Derome’s work
ranges from explorations
of modernist
masters like Monk
and Mingus to
his own conceptual
epics like
Résistances, his orchestral homage to the
North American electrical grid. Here he
explores the work of Steve Lacy (1934-2004),
a key influence on Derome who advocated
strongly for Thelonious Monk’s compositions
and developed the foundations of free
jazz with Cecil Taylor. Lacy also created a
large body of art songs unique in modern
jazz. Derome explores the range of them here,
including settings of works from ancient
China to the Beat Generation.
Derome brings his regular trio partners to
the project, bassist Normand Guilbeault and
drummer Pierre Tanguay, masters of propulsive
and varied grooves. They’re joined by
pianist Alexandre Grogg and the singer Karen
Young, whose eclectic background matches
the varied demands of Lacy’s music. The
text settings include surprising authors like
Lao Tzu, Thomas Gainsborough and Herman
Melville; the latter’s Art initiates the program
with a minimalist setting that suggests
Japanese court music.
While those lyricists are as famous as
they are unlikely, several of the highlights
here come from Lacy’s association with the
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elatively little-known Canadian expatriate
Brion Gysin, a literary collaborator with
William S. Burroughs. Gysin’s playful, vibrant,
hipster verses fall naturally on modern jazz
inflections: when Derome joins his voice with
Young’s on Blue Baboon, the group creates
a witty update on the scat vocal group of the
1950s who rarely found lyrics this germane.
Stuart Broomer
Coco Swirl
Ratchet Orchestra
Ambiances Magnetiques AM 248
(actuellecd.com)
!!
From Nimmons
‘N’ Nine Plus Six to
Vancouver’s NOW
Orchestra, despite
the economics,
Canadians
have somehow
produced highly
creative big bands.
Montreal’s Ratchet Orchestra was a quintet
in 1993; today its founder-composer-bassistconductor
Nic Caloia leads a 19-member
ensemble with the breadth and force of Sun
Ra’s Arkestra or a Charles Mingus big band.
Like them, it invokes Duke Ellington’s legacy
of rich textures and intense turbulence while
emphasizing distinctive solo voices. It has a
traditional big band’s power, with five reeds
and five brass, but expands its palette with
violin, two violas and the eerie profundity of
bass reeds and tuba.
Caloia’s compositions range from the traditionally
modernist to the avant-garde, with
a band composed of individuals who define
Montreal’s free-jazz community. The opening
Tub features the brilliant alto saxophonist
Yves Charuest, as abstractly evasive as Lee
Konitz. The rousing Raise Static Backstage,
fuelled by Isaiah Ciccarelli’s rampaging
drum solo, might appeal to any fan of Dizzy
Gillespie’s legendary bebop big band, while
Blood, an atmospheric setting for Sam
Shalabi’s distorted guitar, touches on the later
works of Gil Evans.
Caloia’s most personal and ambitious work
is saved for the conclusion, the six-part Before
Is After, a weave of compound rhythms and
evasive fragments knit together with unlikely
matchings of instruments and forceful soloists,
including violinist Joshua Zubot and bass
saxophonist Jason Sharp. Ratchet Orchestra
is both a distinctive Montreal institution
and national standard bearer for a creative
tradition
Stuart Broomer
Clockwise
Anna Webber
Pi Recordings P179 (pirecordings.com)
!!
Reaching an
elevated trajectory
following her
last CD, BC-born,
New York-based
tenor saxophone/
flutist Anna Webber
aided by a seasoned
septet, re-conceptualizes
impressions of 20th-century
composers’ percussion works into new
compostions.
Percussiveness not percussion is the major
focus, even though her studio reassembling
of Ches Smith’s echoing tympani on the
Feldmanesque King of Denmark II is suitably
staggering. Mostly though Smith sticks to
drums and vibraphone to provide the precise
clamour and ringing clatter that swing alongside
Jacob Garchik’s emotional trombone
flow; place-marking stops or sweeping glissandi
from Christopher Hoffman’s cello and
Chris Tordini’s bass; pulsing chromatics from
pianist Matt Mitchell; and stylistic chirps or
snarls from Webber and tenor saxophonist/
clarinetist Jeremy Viner.
Oddly separated on opposite ends
of the disc, three variations on King of
Denmark and two of Korē are equally
striking. Sparkling piano chords mixed with
squirming saxophone riffs build up to a
heraldic crescendo in the first part of King of
Denmark. Meanwhile Mitchell’s intermittent
comping, percussion breaks and audacious
plunger vocalizing from Garchik’s trombone
bring passion to the Xenakis-inspired Korē
I. Webber even manages to extract a melodic
groove from Array, a homage to Babbitt.
Her delicate flute whistles are challenged by
precision trombone glides and clarinet swells,
until the piece becomes harder edged with
Mitchell’s keyboard cadenzas, but still maintains
unexpected warmth.
Overall the performances, which also touch
on Cage, Varèse and Stockhausen influences,
aren’t merely turned clockwise, but highly
original creations directed by Webber.
Ken Waxman
POT POURRI
Libre
Amanda Martinez
Sola Records (amandamartinez.ca)
!!
Singersongwriter
Amanda
Martinez delves
deeper into her
background with
the release of Libre.
The daughter of
a Mexican father
and South African
mother, Martinez has been exploring her
Latin roots for years now, so it’s the African
side that’s new here. Produced by her longtime
collaborator, guitarist Kevin Laliberté,
Martinez has enlisted a handful of singers and
songwriters – such as Canadian jazz singer
Kellylee Evans and Cuban-born Pablosky
Rosales – for the ten original songs on Libre.
Kevin Laliberté's distinctive guitar playing
and Donné Roberts’ beautiful warm vocals
blend perfectly with Martinez’s light pretty
voice. Bassist (and Martinez’s husband) Drew
Birston and percussionist Rosendo “Chendy”
Leon round out the core band. Standout
tracks include Begin and En La Distancia.
The album has a predominantly Latin
sound to it (Mexican and a little flamenco
here and there) and I found the African
touches to be quite subtle. This is partly
due to the fact that most of the lyrics are in
Spanish. For those of us who don’t understand
that language, translations are available
on Martinez’s website. The poetic lyrics’
main themes are love and longing in its many
forms – for a land, a lover or a child. Or you
could not worry about what the lyrics say and
just let the music wash over you and carry
you away. The album has a sweet, old-fashioned
feel to it that gives us a welcome escape
to gentler times and idyllic places.
Cathy Riches
3
The Gloaming
Justin Time JTR 8617-2 (justin-time.com)
! ! For their third
salvo, contemporary
Irish fusion quintet,
The Gloaming,
has released an
intriguing piece of
work that not only
embraces traditional
Irish motifs,
but seeps into the modalities of contemporary
and neo-classical, piano-driven musics.
This is authentic, indigenous, world music
enfolded sumptuously into a thoughtprovoking
new music setting. Pianist (and
producer) Thomas Bartlett is the spine of
the ensemble, fearlessly injecting skilled,
rhythmic elements into the music. The
haunting, sibilant vocals of Iarla Ó Lionáird
inform much of the material, and transport
the listener back into the mists of time. With
three Irish and two Irish-American members,
the music also speaks to the inter-generational
scars of the near genocide of the Irish
people, and the resulting painful, global
diaspora.
The splendid, passionate and skilled work
of generational fiddler, Martin Hayes, gauges
the intensity of the music and Hardanger
d’Amore player Caoimhin Ó Raghallaigh
consistently elicits a warm, substantive sound
from his viola-like instrument (with sympathetic
strings). Along with guitarist Dennis
Cahill they establish the musical pulse, the
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very heartbeat of the goddess Danu herself.
Highlights of this expertly recorded CD
include Meachán Rudaí and Amhrán na
nGleannI. The former is a setting of a poem
by Liam Ó Muirthile (about a son remembering
his late mother), and the latter is an
ancient tune lamenting the death of a chieftain,
and also a song that Lionáird has been
performing since he was a small boy. Also of
special note is Reo, written by the ensemble,
and featuring lyrics drawn from a poem by
the iconic mid-20th-century Irish poet, Seán
Ó Ríordáin.
Lesley Mitchell-Clarke
Begin Again
Norah Jones
Blue Note Records B002978602
(bluenote.com)
!!
Begin Again is
the reflection of
an artist who’s
continuing to
develop and evolve.
Norah Jones first
came on the scene
in 2002 with Come
Away With Me,
which introduced a fresh, gorgeous voice
with a jazz sensibility that was a shift from
the prevailing pop music of the time. That
release turned Jones into a global phenomenon
and over the years, she’s continued
to release successful, Grammy-winning
records and collaborate with a diverse range
of artists like Herbie Hancock, Outkast and
Foo Fighters.
Begin Again is an eclectic collection of
original tunes co-produced by Jones and
recorded at various studios with a handful
of collaborators such as guitarist Jeff Tweedy
of Wilco fame and drummer-extraordinaire,
Brian Blade. The tone is set with the
powerful opening track My Heart is Full and
many of the songs, such as Uh Oh and Just
a Little Bit, continue in that experimental
vein, with the musicians laying down a meditative
bed and Jones layering vocals over
top. The album is keyboard dominant, courtesy
of Thomas Bartlett, Pete Remm and
Jones herself. Although calling Remm’s
sublime Hammond B3 work “dominant”
isn’t capturing the subtle textures he lends to
the songs.
Missing from Begin Again are some of
those exquisite, soulful ballads that Jones
does so well – though Wintertime comes
close. So while the album is a good listen
and full of fine musicianship, it won’t break
your heart.
Cathy Riches
Concert Note: Norah Jones performs June 25
at the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival and June 26 at
the TD Toronto Jazz Festival.
The Seasons of Being
Andy Milne & Dapp Theory
Sunnyside SSC 1482 (andymilne.com)
!!
Following his
battle with prostate
cancer, gifted
composer and
pianist, Andy
Milne determined
to channel
the concepts of
homeopathy (which
he had utilized in his recovery) into a new
kind of musical synthesis. This manifested
into a fascinating, largely improvisational
project for his long-running ensemble, Dapp
Theory. During Milne’s recovery, his illuminations
surrounding the relationship of musical
“one-ness” and physical healing, morphed
into a Chamber Music America commission,
presented here as Seasons of Being. One
aspect of Milne’s intent was to compose for
the individual musicians in his ensemble, in
non-restrictive ways that would allow them
to grow, explore and also function as an integrated
creative organism.
Joining Milne on this recording are his
venerable bandmates, Christopher Tordini
on bass, Kenny Grohowski on drums, Aaron
Kruziki on woodwinds and John Moon on
vocals. Also taking part is an array of talented
guests, including Ben Monder on guitar,
Ralph Alessi on trumpet and Christopher
Hoffman, cello.
The CD kicks off with Surge and Splendor –
a rhythmic and spoken word foray (perfectly
attenuated by Grohowski’s drums) which
fearlessly probes the rich embroidery of life’s
components, finally segueing into a woodwind
bubble from Kruziki that surrounds the
entire ensemble – like a healthy, plump cell –
bursting with creativity and life force, exemplified
by Mondor’s vibrant guitar solo, and
lovely, diaphanous cello work by Hoffman.
Also of special profundity is The Guardian,
featuring Alessi’s gorgeous trumpet.
One need not subscribe to the practice
of homeopathy to resonate with this
heady recording, because no one can
dispute the healing power and collaborative
magic of music.
Lesley Mitchell-Clarke
Kamancello II: Voyage
Shahriyar Jamshidi; Raphael Weinroth-
Browne
Independent (kamancello.bandcamp.com)
! ! The invented
portmanteau word
Kamancello serves
as the name of the
Toronto-based duo
of Kurdish Iranian
kamanche player
and composer
Shahriyar Jamshidi
and classically trained Canadian cellist and
composer Raphael Weinroth-Browne. Joining
forces around four years ago they’ve taken
audiences into transcultural musical territories
as yet unexplored. They describe their
music as “East-meets-West,” rendering
“improvised performances [that] transcend
genres and cultural boundaries.” But that’s
a modest appraisal of the rich journey they
take us on in Kamancello II: Voyage, their
second album.
Improvisation is undoubtedly present in
abundance here, but there are also welldeveloped
modal frameworks and formal
structures at work too. There are four
extended pieces titled Emergent, Tenebrous,
Voyage and Threnody, each with a welldefined
shape. They begin quietly without
pulse, exploring ornamented melodies,
slowly developing a polyphonic texture
trough sensitive interplay between the musicians.
The duo’s seamless exchange of lyrical
melodies is influenced both by the Kurdish
and Iranian modal world as well as by the
pre-modern classical cello repertoire. Each
performance then segues to a dance-like
section with Weinroth-Browne’s virtuoso
cello often providing the forceful accompaniment,
performing fast-moving bowed
climaxes accented by fortissimo bass notes.
In places we’re reminded of his progressive
metal and neo-folk affiliations. That dense
energy propels the music forward, providing
welcome contrast to the stillness of other
sections, a kind of a narrative arch.
Throughout, Jamshidi and Weinroth-
Browne give each other a generous amount
of breathing room to express the wide range
of human experiences suggested by the track
titles. On re-listening, it struck me how this
music also gifts listeners the space to venture
on our own inner journeys too.
Andrew Timar
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Something in the Air
Unusual Instruments
Help Create New Sorts of
Improvisations
KEN WAXMAN
Accomplished and profound music – especially when including a
hearty slab of improvisation – can call on many inspirations
and be played on an infinite number of soundmakers. Proof of
these statements is discernible on these notable discs, featuring a
range of traditional, novel, electric and acoustic instruments and with
influences encompassing mainstream composition, wave form
experimentations, and even legumes.
The most conventional of these unconventional
sessions is Bartók Impressions
(BMC CD 254 bmcrecords.hu) since the
tracks are based on works by Béla Bartók
(1881-1945). The most notable feature on
this Budapest-recorded disc is that besides
the double bass of Hungarian-in-France
Mátyás Szandai and the violin of Paris-based
Mathias Lévy, one prominent sound here is
from the traditional hammered zither called the cimbalom played by
Hungarian Miklós Lukács. Perhaps the program is also notable since,
with two-thirds of the band Magyar and Bartók’s themes sometimes
based on Eastern European folk melodies, familiarity is paramount.
At the same time, Lukács’ dexterous skill gives the 13 improvisations
a unique quality. When struck, the cimbalom takes on vibraphone
and percussion qualities; when plucked, harp or guitar-like
tones. A defining instance of this is on Romanian Folk Dances No.4,
where Levy’s elaboration of the melancholy theme is soon toughened
by seemingly simultaneous harp-like twangs and rhythmic mallet
string stabs from the cimbalom. This virtuosic versatility is expressed
from the first track onwards. On that one, Reflections on New Year’s
Greeting No.4, for instance, boiling double bass plucks cement the
pulse as mallet lopes create a bouncy countermelody to the gorgeous
tones of the fiddle’s airy narrative. The jittery, jazzy Improvisations
on Romanian Folk Dances No.4 finds Lukács comping like a pianist,
Szandai with well-modulated plucks and with Levy’s staccato stopping
in the highest register suggesting both Transylvanian wedding
music and tavern revelry. In contrast, a few other tracks are recitallike
formal, at least in the expositions. They include a mellow showcase
of balanced cello-like tones from the bassist on Improvisations
on Romanian Christmas Carols No.7, completed by foot-tapping glissandi
with klezmer overtones. The most accomplished, intricate transformation,
which highlights another aspect of Lukács’ adaptability,
occurs on Reflections on Six Bulgarian Rhythms. The cimbalom’s
mallet reverberations turn him into a Magyar Milt Jackson, at the same
time as fiddle squeaks at dog-whistle pitches amplify the pulse, and
double bass plucks intensify the rhythms. Staying true to the composer’s
initial vision though, the piece ends with a wide connective interlude
of warm romantic timbres.
Even though another modern composer is involved, there are no warm
romantic timbres heard during the The Air around Her
(Skivbolaget 1703-3 edition-festival.com), since American composer
Ellen Fullman and Korean-American cellist Okkyung Lee are
concerned with the dynamic contrasts or blends produced by exposing
the latter’s string techniques, with the possibilities
engendered by plucking Fullman’s
self-created Long String Instrument (LSI).
The LSI is tuned in just intonation, and in this
instance, stretched 26 metres across a room
in Stockholm’s Performing Art Museum.
During the performance the LSI creates a
droning continuum, plus almost imperceptible
timbre shifts throughout the two tracks
of about 20 minutes each, subtly redefining the relentless drone with
multiple layers of speed, volume and pitch. Eventually variegated cello
definitions move forward to challenge the LSI’s unhurried horizontal
interface with col legno-created percussive raps on wood and strings,
plus stropping and slicing sul ponticello vibrations. Part II finds LSI’s
organ-like tremolo grinds subsiding from taking up the entire room’s
aural space so that palimpsest-like cello’s nuanced narratives are more
obvious. These serrated bow jiggles and cello expansions reach a
crescendo of almost identical inflated tones from both instruments
before dissolving into microtones. In retrospect the recital has been
enthralling without being deadening or frightening.
While electronics are now accepted as
instruments, some musicians have accelerated
the search for innovative sounds
further, creating programs from collages
of already existing material. For instance,
Martin Tétreault’s Plus de Snipettes!!
(Ambiances Magnétiques AM 245 CD
actuellecd.com), is a sprawling 77-minute
program in which the Montrealer constructs
a wholly original recital from audio cassettes, tape reels, shortwave
static, radio soundchecks and excerpts of untouched or cut-up
vinyl. With each of the 31 [!] tracks lasting from about seven seconds
to around seven minutes, the collages captivate with sheer audacity.
Entertaining while sometimes making sardonic comments, this
homage and burlesque of recorded sound is satire mixed with love.
Not adverse to snipping French or English narrations from educational
or instructional discs to foreshadow subsequent noises, Tétreault’s
mashups are free of cant. Snippets of a Verèse or Boulez composition
are slotted next to a flute improvisation, a snatch of disco sounds or
a piano picking out Polly Wolly Doodle. Crunching noises created
by train movement can fuse into a drum instruction record and
then the flanges of backwards-running tape. At point his manipulations
make succinct inferences, as when Dave Holland’s bass solo
on Emerald Tears is juxtaposed with the sounds of a man crying.
Other times connection leads to spoof, as when a ponderous lecturer’s
voice outlining a complex phrase with the word “basis” in it is
cut to become “bass” and later “mace” and repeated numerous times,
becoming an electronic-dance rhythm in the process. Manipulations
in speed and pitch turn juxtaposition of Sidney Bechet’s soprano
saxophone and a Dixieland drum solo into frantic microtones. And
if that isn’t enough, Tétreault creates abstract sound collages by
cutting several LPs into many sections, gluing together the parts and
recording the results so that a chorus of Soviet military singers fades
into jazz piano chording and unknown speechifying, with the entire
exercise surmounted by the crackles from divided and sutured vinyl.
Should Tétreault’s experiments not be
organic enough, then an established
Viennese ensemble can provide the antidote.
On Green Album (Transacoustic Research
tres 009 transacoustic-research.com), the
ten-piece Vegetable Orchestra performs
music on instruments that are made entirely
from vegetable parts. On highly rhythmic
tracks such as Fasern and Beet-L for
instance, the funk arises from the beats of calabash bass and celery
bongos with the vamping melody courtesy of a carrot marimba. Or
multiphonic whistles from the carrot recorder evolve alongside the
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eanbag shaker and calabash bass on Bamako. While elastic sound
animation is maintained throughout the 14 tracks, that doesn’t mean
there aren’t serious sounds in this vegetable stew. The hissing counterpoint
that enlivens tracks such as Schwarzmooskogel, for example,
could be part of the recipe for any advanced music program, even if
the horizontal swirls are from a leek violin, the high-pitched peeps
from a radish horn and the beat propelled by a pumpkin bass drum.
While only the final disc could in some circumstances provide
nourishment for the stomach as well as the mind, each of these
CDs captures a way of using unusual instruments to create
profound sounds.
Old Wine, New Bottles
Fine Old Recordings Re-Released
BRUCE SURTEES
Italian conductor Carlo Maria Giulini was born in 1914, attended
the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome as a violinist
and later studied conducting with Alfredo Casella in Siena. In 1946
he joined the Italian Radio (RIA) and in 1950 became the conductor
of the orchestra of Radio Milan. He made his debut at La Scala in
the 1951/52 season and became its music director from 1953-56
succeeding Victor de Sabata. He was a familiar figure in Milan in both
orchestral concerts and the opera. Giulini made his American debut
in 1955 as guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, later
becoming principal guest conductor after Solti was appointed its
permanent conductor. British audiences were introduced to Giulini’s
artistry in 1955 when he conducted Falstaff at Glyndebourne leading
to appearances at Covent Garden and the Edinburgh Festival and
with London orchestras, including the London Symphony and the
New Philharmonia with which he recorded Mozart’s 40th and 41st
Symphonies for Decca (included in this box).
Giulini began an association with the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Orchestra and served as their music director from 1978-84. There, in
1982 the LA Philharmonic mounted a fully staged production of
Falstaff, marking his return to opera after a 14-year absence. That
production travelled to Covent Garden and the Teatro Communale in
Florence. In 1983/84 he did not renew his contract in Los Angeles
citing his own failing health and that of his wife. Throughout his
active career he declined to enter into longterm contracts as music
director due to the ancillary duties involved. He did, however,
continue to guest conduct orchestras in Europe. Any new Giulini
recording was greeted with the best reviews. Upon his death in 2005,
aged 91, in his New York Times obituary Anthony Tommasini wrote,
in part: “Far from being an autocratic conductor or a kinetic dynamo
of the podium, Mr. Giulini was a probing musician who achieved
results by projecting serene authority and providing a model of selfless
devotion to the score. His symphonic performances were at once
magisterial and urgent, full of surprise yet utterly natural. He brought
breadth and telling detail to the operas of Mozart and Verdi.”
It came as a revelation that the newly
released box set Carlo Maria Giulini:
complete recordings on Deutsche
Grammophon (DG 4836224, 42-CDs
deutschegrammophon.com) contains so
many performances that are new to my ears.
Packaged in the now familiar cube are stunning
versions of familiar and unfamiliar
works played by these orchestras: Vienna
Philharmonic; Berlin Philharmonic; Chicago Symphony; Los Angeles
Philharmonic; Orchestra dell’ Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia;
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala; Philharmonia; New Philharmonia;
and Vienna Symphony. Soloists are pianists Berman, Horowitz,
Michelangeli and Zimerman. Also, many, many singers as listed below.
Most impressive are all the performances and recordings made with
the Los Angeles Philharmonic during his directorship there from 1978.
It is acknowledged that under his baton the sound of the orchestra
changed but only, says Simon Rattle, when Giulini himself stood
before them. Included in this box are Beethoven’s Symphonies Three,
Five and Six; Schumann’s Manfred Overture and Brahms’ First and
Second Symphonies. These First and Second Symphony performances
from 1981 eclipse his later versions with the Vienna Philharmonic
from 1991, also included. From Los Angeles 1978/79 there are the two
Chopin concertos with Zimerman. No-holds-barred performances of
Debussy’s La mer and Ravel’s Mother Goose and Rapsodie espagnole
also come from 1979 and Schumann’s Third comes from 1980. Finally,
the last two entries from the Los Angeles Philharmonic are a complete
Verdi’s Falstaff in a live performance recorded in the Los Angeles
Music Centre in April 1982 and a program of opera arias. The cast for
Falstaff includes Renato Bruson, Leo Nucci, Dalmacio Gonzales, Katia
Ricciarelli, Barbara Hendricks, Brenda Boozer and others, plus the
Los Angeles Master Chorale (Roger Wagner). On the 42nd CD Plácido
Domingo joins the Roger Wagner Chorale and the orchestra in an
attractive 1980 collection of the most memorable tenor arias from
ten operas. The operas are L’elisir d’amore, Lucia di Lammermoor,
Ernani, Il Trovatore, Aida, La Juive, L’Africaine, Les Pěcheurs de
perles, Carmen and Martha.
Equally persuasive are the Chicago Symphony recordings that
predate the LA performances: The Dvořák Eighth and Ninth
Symphonies; Pictures at an Exhibition, the Mahler Ninth and the
Schubert Fourth, Eighth and Ninth and the Prokofiev First. Benjamin
Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings Op.31 sung by Robert
Tear is coupled with Britten’s Les Illuminations Op.18 for tenor and
strings to the text by Arthur Rimbaud, sung in French by Tear with
London’s Philharmonia Orchestra. A perfect mix and match as they
say in the fashion trade. Also, with the Philharmonia are the Fauré
Requiem with Kathleen Battle and Andreas Schmidt and Ravel’s
Pavane pour une infante défunte and Rossini’s Stabat Mater with
Katia Ricciarelli, Lucia Valentini-Terrani, Dalmacio Gonzales and
Ruggero Raimondi.
DG had begun recording Giulini in Europe in his days with the
Vienna Symphony Orchestra. In 1975 they recorded Gottfried von
Einem’s cantata An die Nachgeborenen (To Posterity) Op.42 in honour
of the 30th anniversary of the United Nations. The soloists are Julia
Hamari and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau plus the Vienna Choral Society.
During 1979 in the Musikverein, Michelangeli and Giulini recorded, in
concert, three Beethoven concertos, the First, Third and Fifth. Coupled
with the Fifth is the Mozart 23rd Concerto played by Horowitz
with the La Scala orchestra eight years later. There are the two Liszt
concertos with Lazar Berman.
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Guilini’s Vienna Philharmonic recordings are Brahms’ Four
Symphonies, his Haydn Variations, the Tragic Overture and the
Deutsches Requiem. Also Bruckner Symphonies Seven, Eight and
Nine and a complete Rigoletto with Domingo, Cappuccilli, Cotrubas,
Obraztsova and others. There is a complete 1984 Il Trovatore from
Rome with Chorus and Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa
Cecilia with Zancanaro, Plowright, Domingo and Nesterenko. With the
Berlin Philharmonic there are: the Beethoven Ninth with Julia Varady,
Jard van Nes, Keith Lewis and Simon Estes; César Franck’s Symphony
in D Minor and Psyché. Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde is sung by
Brigitte Fassbaender and Francisco Araiza. The Verdi Requiem features
Sharon Sweet, Florence Quivar, Vinson Cole and Simon Estes.
All the above add up to an expansive, beautifully performed collection
of classic performances in the finest sound.
Igor Markevitch was a favourite of mine and his recordings still are.
He was an eclectic and was highly esteemed by his peers. Briefly, he
was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1912. His great-grandfather was a
Secretary of State under Alexander II and his father was pianist Boris
Markevitch. The family moved to Paris in 1914, then to Switzerland in
1916. On the advice of Alfred Cortot, he moved to Paris where he
studied at the Ecole Normale with Cortot and composition with Nadia
Boulanger. He debuted as a conductor aged 18 with the Amsterdam
Concertgebouw Orchestra. From 1957 to 1961 he was permanent
conductor of the Orchestre Lamoureux in Paris. He appeared regularly
before the world’s finest orchestras worldwide, including the USSR
and the Montreal Symphony (1956-60). He died in France in 1983.
Many of his recordings are still available on
CD and DVD, mostly from Philips, DG and
EMI. Some live performances are available
on other labels. Doremi has released a
two-CD set for collectors containing rare
performances missing from the catalogue:
Igor Markevitch Vol.1 (DHR-8077/8
naxosdirect.com), with Rimsky-Korsakov’s
Scheherazade, Beethoven’s First Symphony,
Haydn Symphonies 103 and 104, and
Nielsen’s Fourth, “The Inextinguishable.” This repertoire reaffirms his
interpretive genius and conducting skills. As an example, the opening
pages of the first movement and elsewhere in Scheherazade with the
LSO demonstrates the greater emotional impact of power rather than
mere volume. There is a low-level hum throughout derived from the
originals, overridden by these splendid, Illuminating performances on
a wide soundstage.
Since acquiring the unique complete Bach
Edition on DG (4798000, 223discs, books)
discussed in my column of February 2019, I
have been somewhat preoccupied with the
works for solo violin. As it happens, a recent
two-CD set, Bach – 6 Sonatas and Partitas
has just appeared, also on Doremi (DHR-
8065/6 naxosdirect.com), with heavenly
playing by Theo Olof.
Olof was born in Bonn in 1924. Aged 11, he was a soloist with
the Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Bruno Walter. He was
a prizewinner in the 1951 International Queen Elisabeth Violin
Competition in Brussels and became assistant concertmaster of the
Hague Philharmonic. Later, from 1974 until 1985, he was the concertmaster
of the Concertgebouw Orchestra. These personal performances
from c.1974 are heard in perfect, full-bodied sound. Listening to
Olof’s playing you have the impression that Bach is imparting a wordless
simple truth. Certainly, infinitely more here than playing the right
notes in the right order. A treasure.
Ann Cooper and
Errol Gay present
Performers
from the TSO
COC
CCOC
& Friends in
A benefit concert for
ALS and focused ultra
sound research
Performances
by renowned
canadian artists
including
Jean Stillwell,
Jonathan Crow,
Russell Braun,
Peter Barcza, Adi
Braun, and more!
June 13, 2019
7:30 PM
St. Andrew's Church
73 Simcoe St.,
Toronto
letsfuss613@gmail.com
$20 suggested donation
cash only please
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Ronan Mattin, 9,
and his
grandfather,
Stephen Mattin.
REAR VIEW
MIRROR
STEPHEN MATTIN
We Are All
Ronan Mattin…
(Or Should Be)
ROBERT HARRIS
It was the exclamation heard round the world.
On Sunday, May 11, at the end of a performance of Mozart’s Masonic
Funeral Music performed by Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society,
Ronan Mattin, age nine, after waiting a few seconds to register the
music’s close, breathed out an astonished and appreciative reaction.
“Wow!” he exclaimed, out loud, to no one in particular, other than
the gods and goddesses of Music, who were surely listening to Ronan
in delight. So were the other patrons in the audience, who broke
into the laughter of wonderment at Ronan’s spontaneous outburst of
musical joy. And now, thanks to the social media tribal drums that
encircle the planet, millions of other people have also shared Ronan
Mattin’s pleasure.
There is much to say about Ronan’s “wow.” The first is to note that
it was not a shout of excitement, if you listen to it, but a contoured
exhalation of wonder, a bit of music itself, matching quite exactly the
swelling and receding of the final crescendo and diminuendo of the
Mozart Funeral Music. It was as though Ronan had added a hidden
few bars to the score, finally completing the piece properly for the first
time. It’s not impossible to imagine the composing Mozart reacting
in exactly the same way as he put the final notes on the manuscript
of his work. Ronan joined himself to the music, letting it invade his
senses, as we all do, making us part of the music we listen to, our
minds and spirit being the instrument on which it is actually played.
Most of us observe and feel this swell of sympathy in silence; Ronan,
perhaps because he is nine, did not.
And there’s more to say about Ronan’s “wow.” Mozart’s Masonic
Funeral Music is six minutes of grief and travail, the resigned beauty
of darkness illuminated sharply here and there with patches of barely
alleviating light. You can hear prefigurations in the Funeral Music of
the temple music, the music surrounding Sarastro and his acolytes,
that Mozart wrote for The Magic Flute.
And then, at the very end of the piece, having carefully cycled
through an immense chord sequence preparing us for a final griefstricken
cadence in C Minor, Mozart pulls a rabbit out of his musical
hat and surprisingly ends the piece with one final swelling chord – in
C Major, not C Minor, one chord only in this heavenly key. That was the
chord that Ronan Mattin reacted to so evocatively. A journey though
grief ends with an impossibly beautiful single ray of sunlight, a hint of
peace and joy, with a suggestiveness that only music can provide. This
is no Tierce de Picardie, a convention that ended minor pieces in the
major, that had long passed out of fashion by 1785. This is the divine
Mozart making a statement, a hint, really, a whisper, a hint of a whisper,
as only he could, about a world he so incompletely understood.
But it was a sentiment that Ronan Mattin, who, we are told, lies on
the autism spectrum, (as surely did the composer whose music he
was listening to) responded to in a blinding instant. It was not simply
the beauty of the music but the surprise and perfection of that last
chord that I’m sure forced that exclamation from Ronan Mattin’s
lips. Ronan, we have since learned from his family, is essentially nonverbal.
He lives his complex and exacting life within an orbit of his
own. But music, which so often drives the rest of us into contemplative
silence, drove Ronan in the opposite direction – into speech, into
the world. A more perfect realization of music’s power would be hard
to find – its power to link the internal and the external, the world we
share with no one but ourselves and the world we long to share with
everyone else. Who can measure the power of recognition, the power
of congruence that forced that “wow” from Ronan’s lips. We know, if
he does not, that he was speaking that word for us all. And who can
imagine how Ronan’s spirit reacted to the main work on the program
for which the Masonic Funeral Music was just an appetizer – Mozart’s
Requiem. One can only imagine what transpired in his inner world
during that kaleidoscope of sentiment and emotion.
So, you might ask, what was Ronan doing in Symphony Hall in the
first place that Sunday afternoon? Well, we’ve learned that Ronan was
there with his grandfather, who often takes his autistic grandson on
musical outings. The Mattins live in New Hampshire, north of Boston.
Which leads us to our last question. What manner of man drives
an hour and ten minutes on a Sunday afternoon to take his autistic
nine-year-old grandson to an authentic instrument performance of
Mozart’s Requiem?
A man in a dark age who believes in light, that’s who. A man – and
there are so many of us, you know, so many of us – who remembers
that the meanness and pettiness with which we are surrounded these
days is only one side of the story, however raucous it may be. Who
realizes that there is another reality in the world, a reality like the one
Mozart created 200-odd years ago, a reality that his grandson must
encounter, the sooner the better. Little Ronan Mattin spoke for all of
us that Sunday in Symphony Hall, all of us who have been jolted by
the discovery of unexpected beauty in the world. It’s shocking when
it touches us – it makes us cry out in pleasure, or would if we had the
innocence and courage of a New Hampshire nine-year-old. Let’s be
thankful Ronan reminded us of what this music business is really all
about. It’s not that without music life would be a mistake. Its more
that without music, life wouldn’t be life at all.
Robert Harris is a writer and broadcaster on music in all its
forms. He is the former classical music critic of the Globe and
Mail and the author of the Stratford Lectures and Song of a Nation:
The Untold Story of O Canada.
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Celebrate the closing of a phenomenal
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Sir Andrew Davis, Interim Artistic Director
MODERN BROADWAY
Jun 10, 11 & 12
Featuring stars of the Tony Award–winning musicals
Newsies and Waitress, Jeremy Jordan and Betsy Wolfe.
Jeremy Jordan, tenor
Betsy Wolfe, soprano
GUSTAVO GIMENO
CONDUCTS
THE FIREBIRD
Jun 28, 29 & 30
CARMINA BURANA
Jun 19, 20, 22 & 23
The most salacious songs you’ll ever hear in Latin.
Plus, James Ehnes plays Korngold’s cinematic
Violin Concerto.
Jonathan Crow plays Sibelius’s
Violin Concerto prior to the suite to
Stravinsky’s blazing ballet.
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