Volume 25 Issue 6 - March 2020
FEATURED: Music & Health writer Vivien Fellegi explores music, blindness & the plasticity of perception; David Jaeger digs into Gustavo Gimeno's plans for new music in his upcoming first season as music director at TSO; pianist James Rhodes, here for an early March recital, speaks his mind in a Q&A with Paul Ennis; and Lydia Perovic talks music and more with rising Turkish-Canadian mezzo Beste Kalender. Also, among our columns, Peggy Baker Dance Projects headlines Wende Bartley's In with the New; Steve Wallace's Jazz Notes rushes in definitionally where many fear to tread; ... and more.
FEATURED: Music & Health writer Vivien Fellegi explores music, blindness & the plasticity of perception; David Jaeger digs into Gustavo Gimeno's plans for new music in his upcoming first season as music director at TSO; pianist James Rhodes, here for an early March recital, speaks his mind in a Q&A with Paul Ennis; and Lydia Perovic talks music and more with rising Turkish-Canadian mezzo Beste Kalender. Also, among our columns, Peggy Baker Dance Projects headlines Wende Bartley's In with the New; Steve Wallace's Jazz Notes rushes in definitionally where many fear to tread; ... and more.
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●●Mar 28 9:00am: The Susan Hoeppner<br />
International Music Academy (SHIMA).<br />
Flute and Picccolo Master Class. Includes<br />
lunch. Scholarships available. The Haworth<br />
Showroom. 55 University Ave. For information:<br />
647-801-3456 or susanhoeppner.academy@gmail.com.<br />
Also Mar 29.<br />
Singalongs, Jams, Circles<br />
●●Mar 14 12:30: Recollectiv. A unique musical<br />
group whose members are mainly made up of<br />
people affected by memory challenges (caused<br />
by Dementia, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, stroke,<br />
PTSD, brain injury, etc.). Volunteers of all ages<br />
also form part of the band, making this a positive<br />
intergenerational experience for all participants.<br />
Recollectiv’s mission is to help<br />
people with memory challenges find joy and a<br />
sense of community through music-making.<br />
The band meets weekly at a central accessible<br />
location and is free with pre-registration.<br />
For more information, to participate, volunteer<br />
or donate, please visit recollectiv.ca or call<br />
Smile Theatre at 416-599-8440. Tranzac Club,<br />
292 Brunswick Ave. Free/PWYC. Also Mar 21,<br />
28, Apr 4.<br />
Tours<br />
●●Mar 01 10:30am: Canadian Opera Company.<br />
90-Minute Tour of the Four Seasons<br />
Centre. Led by a trained docent. Includes<br />
information and access to the Isadore and<br />
Rosalie Sharp City Room, the Richard Bradshaw<br />
Amphitheatre and R. Fraser Elliott Hall,<br />
as well as backstage areas such as the wig<br />
rooms and dressing rooms, the orchestra<br />
pit, and other spaces that only a stage door<br />
pass could unlock. Four Seasons Centre for<br />
the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-<br />
363-8231. coc.ca. $20(adults); $15(sr/st). Also<br />
Mar 8 and 15 (French).<br />
Workshops & Classes<br />
●●Mar 01 1:30: Toronto Early Music Players<br />
Organization. Workshop coached by viola da<br />
gamba player Joëlle Morton. Armour Heights<br />
Community Centre, 2140 Avenue Rd. Bring<br />
your early instruments and a music stand.<br />
For information: 416-779-5750 or tempotoronto.net.<br />
$20.<br />
●●Mar 06 7:30: Toronto Recorder Players<br />
Society. Renaissance and Baroque Workshop<br />
for Recorders and Other Early Instruments.<br />
Refreshments included. Mount<br />
Pleasant Road Baptist Church, 527 Mount<br />
Pleasant Rd. (entrance off Belsize). For information:<br />
416-480-1853 or rpstoronto.ca. $15.<br />
●●Mar 17 12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.<br />
Vocal Series: Opera for All Ages. Artists<br />
of the COC Ensemble Studio playfully explore<br />
opera in a lively interactive <strong>March</strong> Break concert.<br />
Audience members of all ages can listen<br />
to, learn about, and try their hand at the fascinating<br />
art of opera. This program is fun for<br />
the whole family and welcomes people of all<br />
abilities and exceptionalities! Richard Bradshaw<br />
Auditorium, Four Seasons Centre for<br />
the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W. (at University<br />
Ave.) Free. Note: Admission is on a<br />
first-come, first-served basis. Participants<br />
are encouraged to arrive early as late seating<br />
is not available after 12:00 noon.<br />
●●Mar 21 10:30am: Toronto Mendelssohn Choir.<br />
Singstation: Opera Choruses with Sandra<br />
Horst. Join Sandra Horst, Chorus Master of the<br />
Canadian Opera Company, for a lively morning<br />
of popular opera choruses. Bring your voice: we<br />
Canadian soprano Adrianne Pieczonka discusses her career <strong>March</strong> 30, presented by the Toronto Wagner Society.<br />
SING OPERA CHORUSES<br />
with Sandra Horst<br />
at Singsation<br />
Saturday <strong>March</strong> 21<br />
tmchoir.org<br />
provide the music. Register at the door. We ask<br />
that participants come to the event scent-free.<br />
Yorkminster Park Baptist Church, 1585 Yonge<br />
St. $10 (includes refreshments).<br />
●●Mar 22 2:00: CAMMAC Toronto Region.<br />
Reading for singers and instrumentalists<br />
of Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem.<br />
Ross Inglis, conductor. Christ Church Deer<br />
Park, 1570 Yonge St. 647-458--0213. $10;<br />
$6(members).<br />
●●Mar 24-26 7:00: Canadian Music Centre.<br />
New Musical Resources: A Composition Workshop<br />
with the Brodie West Quintet. Shedding<br />
light on lesser understood aspects of rhythm,<br />
its function and organization, this three-day<br />
workshop will be beneficial to composers of<br />
all levels and backgrounds, with even a fundamental<br />
understanding of music theory. Each<br />
evening will include interaction between participants<br />
and the ensemble. Participants are<br />
welcome to attend all or any of the evenings.<br />
You must register for each individual event.<br />
To register and for details of each evening’s<br />
topics, visit on.cmccanada.org/event/brodiewest-quintet.<br />
Canadian Music Centre, 20 St.<br />
Joseph St. $10 admission per day.<br />
●●Mar 27, 7:30: Toronto Recorder Players<br />
Society. Renaissance and Baroque Workshop<br />
for Recorders and Other Early Instruments.<br />
Refreshments included. Mount Pleasant<br />
Road Baptist Church, 527 Mount Pleasant Rd.<br />
(entrance off Belsize). For information: 416-<br />
480-1853 or rpstoronto.ca. $15.<br />
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●●Apr 05 1:30: Toronto Early Music Players<br />
Organization. Workshop coached by<br />
recorder player Vincent Lauzer. Armour<br />
Heights Community Centre, 2140 Avenue Rd.<br />
Bring your early instruments and a music<br />
stand. 416-779 5750 or tempotoronto.net.<br />
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