Volume 25 Issue 6 - March 2020

The WholeNote listings are arranged in five sections:
A.
GTA (GREATER TORONTO AREA) covers all of Toronto
plus Halton, Peel, York and Durham regions.
B.
BEYOND THE GTA covers many areas of Southern
Ontario outside Toronto and the GTA. Starts on page 61.
C.
MUSIC THEATRE covers a wide range of music types:
from opera, operetta and musicals, to non-traditional
performance types where words and music are in some
fashion equal partners in the drama. Starts on page 64.
D.
IN THE CLUBS (MOSTLY JAZZ)
is organized alphabetically by club.
Starts on page 65.
E.
THE ETCETERAS is for galas, fundraisers, competitions,
screenings, lectures, symposia, masterclasses, workshops,
singalongs and other music-related events (except
performances) which may be of interest to our readers.
Starts on page 68.
A GENERAL WORD OF CAUTION. A phone number is provided
with every listing in The WholeNote — in fact, we won’t publish
a listing without one. Concerts are sometimes cancelled or postponed;
artists or venues may change after listings are published.
Please check before you go out to a concert.
HOW TO LIST. Listings in The WholeNote in the four sections above
are a free service available, at our discretion, to eligible presenters.
If you have an event, send us your information no later than the
8th of the month prior to the issue or issues in which your listing is
eligible to appear.
LISTINGS DEADLINE. The next issue covers the period from
April 1 to May 7, 2020. All listings must be received by 11:59pm,
Sunday March 8.
LISTINGS can be sent by email to listings@thewholenote.com
or by using the online form on our website. We do not receive
listings by phone, but you can call 416-323-2232 x27 for further
information.
LISTINGS ZONE MAP. Visit our website to search for concerts
by the zones on this map: thewholenote.com.
Lake
Huron
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Georgian
Bay
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Lake Erie
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City of Toronto
LISTINGS
Lake Ontario
Sunday March 1
●●1:00: Royal Conservatory of Music. Sunday
Interludes Series: Alison Young. Mazzoleni
Concert Hall, TELUS Centre, 273 Bloor St. W.
416-408-0208. Free(ticket required). Tickets
available a week prior to concert date.
●●2:00: National Ballet of Canada. New
Work by Crystal Pite & Chroma & Marguerite
and Armand. Music by Joey Talbot and
Jack White, and Franz Liszt. Crystal Pite,
choreographer. Wayne McGregor, choreographer.
Frederick Ashton, choreographer.
Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts,
145 Queen St. W. 416-345-9595. $41 and up.
Opens Feb 29, 7:30pm. Runs to Mar 7. Wed-
Sat(7:30pm). Thurs/Sat/Sun(2pm).
●●2:00: Opera York. The Merry Widow. Music
by Franz Lehár. Sara Papini, soprano (Hanna
Glawari); Douglas Tranquada, baritone
(Count Danilo Danilovitsch); Geoffrey Butler,
music director. Richmond Hill Centre for
the Performing Arts, 10268 Yonge St., Richmond
Hill. 905-787-8811. From $40; $25(st).
Also Feb 28(eve).
●●2:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. The
Composer Is Dead. Stookey: The Composer
Is Dead. Kevin Frank, host; Eugene Ye, cello;
Simon Rivard, conductor. Roy Thomson Hall,
60 Simcoe St. 416-872-4255. $22. Also 4pm.
●●2:00: Visual and Performing Arts Newmarket.
Bridge and Wolak Duo. Michael
Bridge and Kornel Wolak, performers. Newmarket
Theatre, 505 Pickering Cres., Newmarket.
905-953-5122. $30; $25(sr); $10(st).
●●3:00: St. Paul’s Bloor Street. Organ
Recital. Stephen Boda, organ. 227 Bloor St. E.
416-859-7464. Free.
●●3:00: Toronto Beach Chorale. Carmina
Burana. Music by Carl Orff. TorQ Percussion
Quartet; 2 pianos; Christina Lamoureux, soprano;
Michael Dodge, tenor; Matthew Cassils,
baritone; Mervin W. Fick, conductor. St.
Anne’s Anglican Church, 270 Gladstone Ave.
647-812-2505. $30/$25(adv); $15/$12.50(7-
18); free(under 7). Tickets available at torontobeachchorale.com/upcoming.
THE INDIGO
PROJECT
Feb 27–Mar 1, 2020
Jeanne Lamon Hall
tafelmusik.org
● ● 3:30: Tafelmusik. The Indigo Project. Created
by Alison Mackay. Suba Sankaran,
vocals, percussion; Trichy Sankaran, mridangam,
kanjira and solkattu; Elisa Citterio,
A. Concerts in the GTA
director; Cynthia Smithers, narrator & vocalist;
Choirs from Earl Haig & Unionville Secondary
Schools; Members of Tafelmusik
Chamber Choir; Ivars Taurins, choral director;
Suba Sankaran, choral director.
Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St. W.
416-964-6337. From $42. Discounts for sr/
under 36/under 19. Also Feb 27, 28, 29, Mar 3
(all eve).
●●4:00: Church of St. Mary Magdalene
(Toronto). Organ Music for Lent. Andrew
Adair, organ. 477 Manning Ave. 416-531-
7955. Free.
●●4:00: Music at Rosedale. Duquesne Voices
of Spirit in Concert. Watson Henderson:
Missa Brevis; Schafer: Epitaph for Moonlight.
Voices of Spirit choir from Duquesne University.
Rosedale Presbyterian Church, 129 Mt.
Pleasant Rd. 416-921-1931. $25; $10(st).
Reception to follow.
●●4:00: St. Olave’s Anglican Church. Choral
Evensong for the First Sunday in Lent: From
Plainsong to Anglican Chant. Healey Willan
Singers. 360 Windermere Ave. 416-769-5686
or stolaves.ca. Free. Contributions appreciated.
Followed by refreshments. 5pm Dr.
Jesse Billett explains and illustrates the transition
from the plainsong of Gregorian chant
to Anglican styles of today.
●●4:00: Toronto Classical Singers. An die
Musik / To Music. Schubert: Lieder and Mass
No.4 in C. Kendra Dyck, soprano; Danielle
MacMillan, mezzo; Chris Fischer, tenor; Bruce
Kelly, baritone; Qiao Yi Miao Mu, piano; Talisker
Players; Jurgen Petrenko, conductor.
Christ Church Deer Park, 1570 Yonge St. 437-
344-1719. $30.
●●4:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. The
Composer Is Dead. For details see 2pm.
●●7:00: Wilmar Heights Centre. Won’t You
Be Our Neighbour? Françaix: Sept Danses,
Gershwin: Rialto Ripples, Gorb: French
Dances Revisited; Verdi: Anvil Chorus
from Il trovatore. Fanfarones, double wind
quintet; John Edward Liddle, conductor.
963 Pharmacy Ave., Scarborough. 416-346-
3910. $10 or pwyc.
●●7:30: Music Gallery. Emergents II: Bakarlari.
Curated by Sara Constant. Works by
Olga Neuwirth, Cort Lippe, Elliott Carter,
Alexandre David, Quinn Jacobs, Olivia Shortt
and others. Émilie Fortin, trumpet; Michael
Mansourati, tuba; Charlotte Layec, clarinet.
The Music Gallery, 918 Bathurst St. 416-204-
1080 or musicgallery.org. $12; $8(st/members).
Venue not wheelchair accessible.
●●7:30: Victoria Scholars Men’s Choral
Ensemble. A Cappella with the Victoria
Scholars. Gregorian chant and works by
Allegri, Biebl, Byrd, Tallis, Randall Thompson,
and others. Our Lady of Sorrows Church,
3055 Bloor St. W., Etobicoke. victoriascholars.ca.
$30; $25(sr/st).
Monday March 2
●●12:30: York University Department of
Music. Music at Midday: Classical Instrumental
Recital. Student soloists. Tribute Communities
Recital Hall, Accolade East Building,
York University, 4700 Keele St. 416-736-2100
x20054. Free.
●●7:00: Pingxin Xu. Chinese Dulcimer Performance.
Traditional, folk, contemporary
and popular Chinese music. Pingxin Xu,
Chinese dulcimer, cimbalom, santur, santoor,
hackbrett; Xiaoyun Miao, Chinese lutes.
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