Volume 7 Issue 4 - December 2001/January 2002

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"Serenade': "Drink, Drink, 

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DISCOVERIES is a CD review section designed 

to complement and enhance our pre-eminent coverage 

of Toronto's live classical and new music 

concert scene, featuring reviews by WholeNote 

columnists and independent contributors. CDs 

are considered for review in the following four 

categories: 

1. "Concert prep" - CDs, new or otherwise, 

which tie in with events being featured in the 

current issue of the magazine-this issue this 

section also includes a host of seasonal offerings; 

2. New and Recent Releases - newly released 

CDs relevant to our magazine's coverage of the 

music scene; 

3. "Worth repeating" - CDs newly re-issued, 

or previously released but still generally available, 

deemed particularly noteworthy by a member 

of our editorial panel; 

4. "lndie list" - Small label or independent re- · 

lease CDs, often featuring individuals or groups 

active on the local music scene. 

5. "Disc(s) of the month" - Discs of special 

interest, often with a particular connection to the 

month's concert activities. 

We think DISCOVERIES is a logical and exciting 

extension of The WholeNote 's coverage of 

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Special note: This month, in keeping with the 

holiday season, we asked our reviewers to 

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STOCKINGS ANO HORNSpage5J.53 

SEASONAL OFFERINGS & CONCERT PREP page 54·56 

··Six of the seasonal best 

· Hurry, Hurry Yonder 

. All Things Bright & Beautiful 

·A Christmas Legacy 

. Welcome Yule! Ronald Beckett 

·Choral Concert/Celebration chorale 

·A Noteworthy Christmas 

··Salon Parisien 

··Scott St. John, violin and viola; Rena Sharon, piano 

·-George F. Handel· Arias from Rinaldo & Orlando 

--Ewa Podles, contralto 

--George Frideric Handel -Sacred Arias 

--Daniel Taylor, countertenor 

··The Overcoat [music by Dmitri Shostakovich] 

··Angela Cheng, piano; Jens Lindemann, trumpet 

NEW RELEASESpage56·60 

--Memory Forms · Linda Catlin Smith 

··Various ar.tists 

--Jonathan Harvey 

··Trio Fibonacci 

··Jenkins· Fantasias 

recommend "Stockin~ Stuffers" -- discs that they 

are especially fond of And recognizing that many 

of our writers are active participants in the 

Toronto music scene, we also invited them, under 

the heading "Tooting Our Own Horns", to 

comment on some of their own projects. The 

result is a special one-time mini-review section 

Stockings and Horns on pages 52 and 53 

immediately prior to our usual coverage. 

IN DISCOVERIES THIS ISSUE 

··Les Voix Humaines 

·· ... dans le silence de la nuit ... Gilles Gobeil 

··Suites, Sonatas, Airs and Dances 

[music by J.S. and C.P.E. Bach] 

-·Joseph Petric, concert accordion 

--Chris Paul Harman 

-·Various Artists 

·-In Paradisum ·The Music of Michael J. Baker 

··Toronto Dance Theatre ensemble; Arraymusic 

-·Pablo Casals & Leopold Stokowski 

··Radio Documentaries by Glenn Gould 

INOIE LIST page 60 

--Two Octaves Down 

··Paul Bresciani, double bass; William Crawford, piano 

-·Bach: The Concerto Album 

··Lara St. John, violin 

··Gonna Sing and Shout 

··Echo Women's Choir 

··The Toronto Jazz Orchestra 

··Toronto Jazz Orchestra 

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KR1szTINA SZAB6 AND ROGER HONEYWELL: Giulio Cesare in Egitto 

Krisztina 

-Szab6 

by Allqn Pulker 

.The photo of mezzo soprano 

Krisztina Szabo gracing our cover 

fitted perfectly the mood of the 

December-January music scene - 

somewhere between glitter and 

golden glow. - 

But her presence on the 

cover is more than mere window 

dressing. Significantly, she is 

appearing three times over the 

period of time covered by this 

issue - early in December in 

Sartorio's Giulio Cesare in 

Egitto; in recital in mid-December 

with James Westman; and in 

mid-January in Strauss's Salome. 

All three productions are 

under the auspices of the Caqadian 

Opera( Company, whose 

multifaceted ensemb.le program 

has facilitated Szabo' s transition 

from student to professional (a 

transition referenced in several 

WholeNote stories as the biggest . 

challenge facing young singers). 

The three roles she plays this 

December/January provide some 

insight into how the COC helps 

the process along: in Giulio 

Cesare she is undertaking a major 

role, along with fellow Ensemble 

Studio member, rising tenor 

Roger Honeywell. It's a low key 

production (at the Imperial Oil 

Theatre, not the Hummingbird) 

of a little-known but intriguing 

work which will not invite 

comparisons with other productions. 

The arias.are plentiful and 

short, there are three duets for 

her and much of the action is 

carried by recitative, so there is 

plenty of variety without the big 

arias of a mo;e modem work. 

Tht;:n; on December 14 she 

gets the opportunity to do three 

big arias, but will be sharing the 

stage, and the burden, with James 

Westman and members of the 

Ensemble Studio. 

In Salome it's back to the 

trenches! She plays the part of 

the page, a minor part, except 

that she has a lot of singing for 

about ten pages early in the 

score, and then does not appear 

again - a lot of responsibility, but 

for a short time. 

Her stepping in at the last 

minute last spring to perform the· 

role of Idamante in the C.O.C. 's 

production of Mozart's 

ldomeneo, and her performance 

of Zerlina in Rhombus Media's 

Don Giovanni: Leporello 's 

Revenge film established her as 

the genuine article. She now · 

stands poised to join the ranks of 

Canadian singers with established 

international careers. 

KRISZTINA'S EARLIEST TRAINING as 

a singer. was her six years in the 

Torontd Children's Chorus, 

where she "learned to sight sing 

like a demon" and also learned to 

sing in many different languages, 

skills that provided a strong 

foundation for her musical 

development. (It's another nice 

resonance in a month in which 

choirs, including children's and 

youth choirs, figure so prominently 

in the concert scene.) 

She is a graduate of the 

Faculty of Music at the Univer-

sity of Western Ontario, where 

she studied voice with Darryl 

Edwards, who is still her teacher 

and piano with Damiana Bratusz, 

who "taught us what integrity is 

in music.,; After 'graduation she 

lived for two years in England, 

where she heard about the 

Canadian Opera Company's 

Ensemble Studio Program. She 

auditioned for one of the highly 

coveted spots - over a hundred 

singers audition annually for a 

han,dful of positions - and was 

accepted. 

It woul'd appear she has 

made the most of the opportunity. 

The path to where she now 

stands, she says, has been straight 

and ciear' though by no means 

easy. But what interests her most 

is "engaging in work that 

challenges and inspires." She 

especially enjoyed working with 

innovative Toronto opera 

company Queen of Puddings 

because so much more than just 

singing was expected of her. In 

that context she got to really 

work on movement, which, along 

with acting ability, she recognizes 

as a vital skill for a singer. 

"To succeed in singing these 

days," she says, "it is very 

important to act and move well." 

From Tom Diamond at the 

COC she is learning that studying 

the score of an opera to discover 

what the strong emotional 

statement that needs to be made 

in each scene, is as important to 

her as it is to learn the music, . 

which she usually does very 

quickly, thanks to Jean Ashworth 

Bartle and the Toronto Children's 

Chorus. 

AFTER SALOME IN FEBRUARY she is 

travelling to Strasbourg where 

she will be playing the part of 

Magnolia in a production of 

Showboat (the cast of which will 

include fellow Canadian, baritone 

Brett Polegato.) In May she will 

be performing with l'Opera de 

;Quebec and in October in Opera 

Atelier's production of 

Cherubini's Medee. In 2004 she 

will be taking the title role in a 

production of La Cenerentola in 

Nevada. 

In other words - get out to hear 

Krisztina in December or January 

-opportunities like this are likely 

to be fewer and farther between! 

CONCERT NOTES 

OVER 

VIEW· 

by Allan Pulker 

Chanticleer 

and Dawn Upshaw 

Two CONCERTS COMING UP at the 

Weston Recital Hall in the next 

while caught my eye: partly 

because the artists, quite different, 

have just released a CD 

together. 

First is a concert by 

Chanticleer on Dec 6, second, a 

recital by America11 soprano, 

Dawn Upshaw, with pianist, 

Gilbert Kalish, on Jan 9. 

(Chanticleer's latest CD; Christmas 

with Chanticleer, features 

Dawn Upshaw as "special guest" 

and the CD has a Canadian 

connection to boot, including 

beautiful arrangements by 

director, Joseph Jennings, of The 

Huron .Carol and Healey Willan's 

.The Three Kings.) , 

•!• OVER VIEW 

DAWN UPSHAW: "Thoughtcharged 

clarity and a voice like 

the light of ordinary days" 

innocence of Praetorius' work 

with the complexities and ironies 

of the troubled times in which 

Distler lived (he was driven to 

suicide in 1942 at the age of 34 

by harrassment from the Nazi 

authorities in his native.Germany.) 

Upshaw's pr-ogram is more 

contemporary, the earliest 

compositions being by Schumann 

and Mussorgsky, and the latest 

by six contemporary composers, 

all now in their early to mid 

forties. 

Upshaw is a singer well 

worth hearing. Praised by critics 

for her fusion of searching 

. intelligence and a voice of great 

purity and clarity, she has 

collaborated with some of the 

Chanticleer's concert program, 

though it includes the music of 

contemporary composers, John 

Tavener and Jaakko Mantyjarvi, 

and 20th century cotpposer, Hugo most celebrated artists of our 

Distler, is solidly anchored in the time, including Richard Goode, 

past. The Hugo Distler piece, Es Gilbert Kalish, the Kronos 

ist ein Ros entsprungen, based on Quartet, James Levine, Esa- 

Michael Praetorius' exquisite Pekka Salonen, Peter Sellars and 

Christmas hymn of the same · Simon Rattle. A reviewer for the 

name, is an inspired piece of work Philadelphia Enquirer wrote of 

in its synthesis of the purity and her that she " ... sets about


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illuminating words with the sound 

and glow of her voice," and a 

-· reviewer for the New York Times 

Magazine wrote, "I revere 

Upsl:iaw ... because of her voice's 

thought-charged clarity and its 

resemblance to the light of 

ordinary days." 

Perhaps iQ this last comment 

is the nub of why this pair of ' 

concerts jumped out at me. In 

December we celebrate the 

extraordinary; in January we 

return to the ordinary, carrying 

with us a desire to infuse the 

' usual with something more. 

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Spotlight 

on Song 

THE ALDEBURGH CONNECTION 

Two Toronto musicians who 

seem to rise above the ordinary 

on a regular basis are Stephen 

Ralls and Bruce Ubukata, whose 

extraordinary "Aldeburgh 

Connection" recital series will 

celebrate its twentieth anniversary 

in' January with three events. 

The first, January 11, will be 

a recital by baritone, Gerald 

Finley, of settings by the great 

song composers of English poetry; 

the second, a Jan 13 "Birthday . 

Salon," will ·bring together a 

Who's Whp ofCan,adian singers, , 

all of whom have been nurtured by 

the Aldeburgh Connection, 

including Russell Braun, Kathleen 

Brett, Norine Burgess, Benjamin 

Butterfield, Michael Colvin, Mary 

Lou Fallis, Gerald Finley, Anita 

Krause, Rosemarie Landry, Mark 

Pedrotti, Catherine Robbin, 

Michael Schade and Monica 

Whicher. 

ALDEBURGH 

CONNECTION 

TURNS 20 IN STYLE 

Back: 

left to right 

Franz Schubert 

(Jay Lambie), 

Michael Colvin, 

Monica Whicher, 

Norine Burgess 

Front: 

Stephen Ralls 

Bruce Ubukata 

MANY OF THE SINGERS in this list 

were spotted while still on the rise 

by Ralls and Ubukata. "It's not 

hard to spot talent," Ubukata told 

us, "but we do take pride in the 

fact that, by virtue of being in the 

right place at the right time, we 

have helped along people who 

have gone on to great things." 

The third, "The Great Song 

Marathon," will begin at 10:30 

am and end at 9:30pm on 

Saturday, January 19. Twenty 

singers, including both Aldeburgh 

Connection alumni/ae and 

younger singers whom Ralls and 

Ubukata "have spotted" will 

perform in this "day-long hit- . 

parade of art song" to raise funds 

for two scholarships at the 

University of Toronto named after 

two·illustrious. honorary 

Aldeburgh Connection patrons, 

Lois Marshall and Greta Kraus. 

The program of approximately 

100 songs will, in Ubukata' s 

words, be "artfully arranged" into 

three programs. 

Ubukata also assured us that 

the three concerts, being well after 

the holiday season, "will contain 

no turkeys or chestnuts!" 

and Tryptych. 

One of the·oldest (and best) 

choirs in the city, St • .Michael's 

Choir School, gives its Christmas 

concerts Dec 14 & 15 at 

Massey Hall; and one of the 

newest and best, the Victoria 

Scholars, with guests, Robert 

Pomakov and James Westman, 

will fill the beautiful St. Anne's 

Church with their exquisite 

music-making Dec 23 . 

A CONCERT EASY TO OVERLOOK. 

among all the Messiahs and 

December 

brass, will be the Tokyo String 

EARLY BIRD 

Quartet, playing one contempo- 

Sixty-one of tl1e 440 concerts listed rary Work and the first two of 

in this issue ofWholeNote occur Johannes Brahms' three string 

. in the first four days of December, • quartets as part of Music 

so a careful read-through the Dec Toronto's season, Dec 20. 

1-4 listings should be rewarded Brahms is reported to have said 

with something for every musical that he wrote twenty string 

taste and budget. Have a look and quartets before writing one he 

get out and be part of the scene! considered good enough to 

publish, so this will be an 

DECEMBER 5 TO 24 

opportunity to hear "la creme de 

offers a veritable feast of music, la creme" so to speak, played by 

both seasonal and secular. a string quartet that has risen to 

Dec 15 the Amadeus Choir the top and stayed there.- 

and the Hannaford Street Silver 

Band program· includes Daniel · IN THE VERY QUIET PERIOD 

Pinkham's festive and exuberant· between Chfistmas and the first 

Christmas Cantata and compositions 

by Canadians Eleanor Daley Operetta Theatre takes over the 

weekend in January, Toronto 

and Mark Sirett. 

Jane Mallett Theatre with 

Dec 9, Concertsingers perform, 

under their new music · operetta of love and heartbreak, 

Sigmund Romberg's immortal 

director, Lenard Whiting, 'wellknown 

to WholeNote readers as Stuart Howe, in the title role. 

The Student Prince, with tenor, 

a tenor soloist (he will, for Winner of the Metropolitan 

example, be the tenor soloist in Opera Competition in 1999 Howe 

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Handel's Messiah 

Thirty to choose from 

Apart from Salute to Vienna on 

New Year's Day, first concert of IT WAS JUST 

2002 will be "Shanti: Festival of 

SLIGHTLY 

Music for Peace on Earth" 

more than 

two hundred 

featuring sitar player Shambhu 

and sixty 

Das, now a Toronto resident, 

years ago that 

who in the 1960s was George 

George 

Harrison's sitar teacher. 

Frideric 

And here are a few other Janu- Handel, the 

ary offerings that caught my eye. musician son 

Jan 13 Trinity-St. Paul's of a barber- 

Vocal Concert Series presents surgeon from 

"Theatrical Masterpieces" with Halle in Lower Saxony, comsoprano 

Patricia O'Callaghan, posed the Oratorio, Messiah, 

mezzo Vilma Vitols, and an which has stirred innumerable 

orchestra conducted by Gary audiences since its first perform- 

Kulesha in a progran1 ineluding ance in Dublin in April, 1742. 

Arnold Schoenberg's master- . Composed in a mere three 

piece, Pierrot Lunaire. 

weeks, it is described in the 

' The RCM has a trio of Oxford Dictionary Qf Music as 

interesting chamber concerts: The "something of an oddity in 

Niagary Brass Jan' 13, th'e Glenn Handel's work since he was not a 

Gould Faculty Wincl Quintet religious composer in the 

Jan 18 and, Jan 20, ~'Landscapes accepted sense.'' The article goes 

of Memory -- Music inspired by on to say that " .. .its power, 

the poetry and art. of Christopher 

lyricism, sincerity, and profundity 

make it ... an outstanding 

Pratt." 

example of devotional art." 

Just two days later, Jan 22, 

Originally intended for 

Music Toronto presents the 

performance at Good Friday and 

wonderful young Canadian piano 

Easter, its message of hope and 

virtuoso and Deutsche 

affirmation has made Messiah 

Grarnmophon recording artist, phenomenally popular with 

Naida Cole. 

Christmas audiences. 

, Finally, if you've not yet 

reserved tickets for the first collaboration 

ever of Nexus and the performances of Messiah, many 

THIS YEAR WE LIST THIRTY 

Kronos Quartet, do so before it complete, in and near Toronto. 

is too late. This concert, at the 

They encompass an enormous 

range of choirs, most with 

Glenn Gould Studio Jan 31, was 

orchestra, joined.by what 

the brainchild of CBC producer, 

amounts cumulatively to a whole 

Barbara MacKenzie Mahler. 

choir of t9P flight soloists, some 

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begins with two relatively small Hall on December 13. 

and highly professional choirs: · The World Youth Day 

the first, on December 7, Choir is an interesting story in its 

by the.Elmer Iseler own right. Specially formed this 

Singers with orchestra year to perform at a gala concert 

at St. James' Cathe- to be attended by the Pope and 

dral, the second on 400 Cardinals at World Youth 

December 8 by La Day in Toronto on July 25, 2002, 

Chapelle de Quebec, this will be the Choir's first 

Les Violons du Roy public performance. 

and soloists, Isabel • Other larger Messiahs will 

Bayrakdarian, ·Daniel be the Mississauga Choral 

Taylor, Benjamin Society's on December 16 at 

Butterfield and Peter Harnmerson Hall and the Brott 

Harvey, conducted by Bernard Autumn Music Festival, in 

Labadie at Massey Hall. The Hamilton on December 17 and at 

third performance in Toronto the Weston Recital Hall on 

with a small, professional level December 21. 

choir will be Tafelmusik's at Also of interest will be the 

Trinity-St. Paul's December 20, Nathaniel Dett Chorale's per- 

21 and 22. formance of excerpts from 

Outside Toronto we will be Messiah in two concerts with jazz 

able to hear the Elora Festival pianist Joe Sealy: in Guelph on . 

Singers, another small profes- December 14 and in Toronto on 

sional level choir, in Elora on December 19. 

December 8, La Chapelle de Several soloists are in more 

Quebec/Les Violons du Roy in than one performance: counter- 

Port Hope on December 9 and tenor, Daniel Taylor, for 

the Elmer Iseler Singers in instance, is with Violons du Roy 

Markham on December 10. Other twice, and with Brott twice. 

performances by smaller choirs Mark DuBois will also be in the 

include three performances by the Brott performances as well as 

Arcady Choir and String#l, The with the Iselers. And there are 

Toronto Classical Singers on several others. 

December 9 and the Calvin 

One last thought - Messiah is 

Presbyterian Church Choir on probably one of the most 

December 16. 

accessible pieces of "classical" 

music in the repertoire. Most of 

THERE ARE ALSO SEVERAL notable us have a memorable Messiah 

performances using considerably somewhere on our persqnal 

larger forces. These include, of musical path. So why not take a 

course, .the Toronto Mendels-· young person to one of these 

sohn Ch!>ir with the Toronto many performances? If it turns 

Symphony Orchestra on out to be memorable for him/her, 

December 15, 18, 20 and 23, and it will be doubly so for you! 

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QUICK GUIDE TO 

Messiah performances 

Performances are complete 

unless otherwise indicated. 

For details consult our compre~ ' 

hensive concert listings, commencing 

on page 24 o 

GTA 

Dec 07 8:00: Elmer lseler Singers 

Dec 08 7:30: Arcady Choir an~ Strings 

Dec 08 7:30: Village Voices (Part 1} 

Dec 08 8:00: Massey Hall. 

Les Violons du Roy 

Dec 08 8:00: Mississauga Festival Choir 

(part 1 and Hallelujah Chorus} 

Dec 09 2:00: Toronto Philharmonia 

(excerpts}. 

Dec 09 4:00: Toronto Classical Singers 

(highlights} 

Dec 10 8:00: Markham Theatre for 

Performing Arts. Elmer lseler Singers 

Dec 12 7 :30: Arcady Choir and Strings 

Dec 13 8:00: Sacred Music Society/World 

Youth Day Choir 

Dec 14 8:00: Georgetown Choral Society 

Dec 15 7:00 TSO/Toronto Mendelssohn 

Dec 16 2:00: Calvin Presbyterian Church 

Dec 16 3:00: Mississauga Choral Society 

Dec 18 8:00: Toronto Mendelssohn/TSO 

Dec 19 8:00: Nathaniel Dett Chorale 

(arrangements} 

Dec 20 8:00: TSD/T oronto Mendelssohn 

Dec 20 8:00: T afelmusik 

Dec 21 8:00: Brott Autumn Music Festival 

Dec 21 8:00: T afelmusi~ 

Dec 22 8:00: Tafelmusik 

Dec 23 2:00: Tafelmusik. Sing-Along 

Dec 23 3:00: TSO/Toronto Mendelssohn 

Further afield , 

Dec 07 7:30: Arcady Choir and Strings 

Dec 08 8:00: Brampton Symphony 

Orchestra . (excerpts} 

Dec 08 8:00: Elora Festival Singers 

Dec 09 7:30: Friends of Music_ 

Les Violons du Roy 

Dec 14 8:00: JANG Arts & Entertainment. 

Nathaniel Oett Chorale (arrangements} 

Dec 16 7:30: Mohawk Singers (selected 

choruses from Part One} 

Dec 17 8:00: Brott Autumn 

Music Festival. 

CONCERT NOTES 

by Frank Nakashima 

DECEMBER 

Quick starters can get a sneak 

preview of a new recording in 

preparation for the Naxos label,; 

catch the latest Aradia project 

involving three of the In 

nativitatem Domini canticum 

motets of Marc-Antoine 

Charpentier (December 1). The 

Aradia Ensemble, under the 

direction of Kevin Mallon, is 

joined by guest soloists Tracy 

Smith Bessette, Christine 

Stelmacovitch, John Tessier, 

Brian Duyn, and Robert Stewart. 

• Sartorio's Giulio Cesare in 

Egitto (performed in Italian, 

December 3, 5, & 7 at 8:00, 

December 9 matinee at 2:00), is 

probably the first staged 

performance of this masterpiece, 

since the 17m century, and will 

showcase the young talent of the 

Canadian Opera Company 

Enseml11e Studio, including 

Roger Hoµeywell, Krisztina 

Szab6, Colleen Skull, Martha 

Guth, and Shannon Mercer. This 

presentation was made possible 

with generous support from the 

Baroque Opera Fund founded by 

the late Peter E. Sandor. 

Tom Diamond directs, and 

Gary Thor Wedow is music director. 

The Tafelmusik Baroque 

Orchestra presents Viva L 'Italia, 

a concert packed with Italian 

concertos (December 6 - 9) by 

Vivaldj, Marcello (Oboe Concerto 

ind), Locatelli, dieminiani and 

Albinoni (Oboe Concerto ind). 

John Abberger, Marco Cera, 

baroque oboes. 

OH, WHAT SHALL I DO on Saturday, 

December 8? So many 

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•!• EARLY MUSIC 

choices! The first Canadian 

performance of Monteverdi's 

Vespers of the Five Laudates will 

be given by The Tallis Choir, 

soloists and orchestra. Duo 

L'Intemporel (Mylene Guay, 

baroque flute and David Sandall, 

harpsichord) invites baroque 

violinist Deborah Paul Howell to 

join them in a program of Bach, 

Leclair & Handel. The Pax ~ 

Christi Chorale, directed by f); 

Stephanie Martin, sing carols and 

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Ren;ussance motets from Christ- ~ 

mas past with the Recordare Early 0 

Music Ensemble. Deer Park 

Concerts' program, A Gentle 

Christmas, includes wonderful · 

choral music by Charpentier and 

Pergolesi. 

And lately the most exciting 

rr;terpretations of Handel's 

Messiah have been performed by 

Les Violons du Roy with La 

Chapelle de Quebec under the 

direction of Bernard Labadie (this 

time at Massey Hall). The 

outstanding soloists on this 

occasion are Isabel Bayrakdarian, 

soprano; Daniel Taylor, countertenor; 

Benjamin Butterfield, tenor; 

Peter Harvey, baritone. 

A MUSICAL MIX of old and new 

can be heard in a concert, Mother 

and Child, by Te Deum Orchestra 

& Singers, with soloists - 

Beverly Leslie, soprano; Paul 

Schillaci, tenor; Terry Ball, bass 

(December 14). This Hamilton 

program includes Arcangelo 

Corelli: Christmas Conceno; 

J.S. Bach: Nun komm, der . 

Heiden Reiland (BWV 61); 

Basque Carols: The Infant King 

and Ga{Jriel's Message; Arvo 

Part: Magnijicat; Clarence 

~atters: To us in Bethl'em city. 

A MEDIEVAL CHRISTMAS is the 

Toronto Consort's Yuletide 

offering this year (December 14 

g 

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Sine Nomine, December 21 

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& 15), Welcome my Lord Sir 

Christemas, featuring the music 

of Hildegard of Bingen and 

Guillaume Dufay, and early 

carols. You won't want to miss 

the sumptuous big screen visuals 

(back by popular demand) - i.e. 

projected images of the Christmas 

story from the fabulous world of 

medieval illuminations, paintings 

and sculpture. 

THE DELIGHTFUL Music of 

Holborne, Senft, Sermisy, Tye & 

others (December 16) can be 

heard in a concert entitled Make 

We Merrie in the Baroque Music 

Beside the Grange series. Alison 

Melville, A very Maclean, Colin 

Savage & Stephanie Archer, 

recorders; Katherine Hill, 

soprano. 

A VENETIAN VESPERS service will 

take place on December 16 at the 

Church of the Redeeme.i:. 

Following up on ~ast year's 

highly successful Mass 

reconstruction, feattiring the 

music of Alessandro Grandi , 

(Montevi:rdi's "second-incommand" 

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•:• EARLY MUSIC 

Venice), the Musicians in 

Ordinary present all the music, 

plainchant and chanted readings 

from a Venetian Vespers circa 

1630. 

Hear psalms by Grandi, 

motets by him and Monteverdi, 

sonatas by Marini and other 

music performed as an actual 

service! Hallie Fishel (soprano) 

and John Edwards (lutenist) are 

joined by Nancy DeLong (mezzosoprano), 

Esteban Cambre (bass), 

Christopher Verrette (violin), 

Paul:-Grimwood (organ), and a 

ritual choir for the plainchant. A 

collection will be taken. 

IN A SEASON FILLED with Messiah 

performances (see our comprehensive 

guide, page 14) 

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra 

& Choir contribute a few (Dec 20 

- 22) with soloists Karina Gauvin, 

soprano; Catherine Robbin, 

mezzo; Rufus Millier, tenor; 

followed by thejr famous Singalong 

Messiah (December 23) 

with the inimitable !vars Taurins 

in his.role as Maestro Handel. 

And motets from the 14th 

century & other music for the 

season are on the musical menu 

(December 21) when Sine 

Nomine Ensemble for Medieval 

Music presents Ab oriente tux: 

,Medieval Music for Advent. 

HERE ARE A FEW OF THE MANY 

free events this month: 

--Early choral & instrumental 

·music of the season will be 

performed by the Riverdale 

Youth Singers (December 17) in 

a program called Personent 

Bodie, with special guests - 

Axeff Janos Ungvary & Avery 

Maclean, recorders; Felicity 

Deak, viola da gamba; John 

Govedas, harpsichord; Andre 

Rakus; organ; Mark Bell, 

conductor; 

David Tamblyn 

--Student performers of the Early 

Music Ensembles at U of' T are 

featured in a free noon-hour 

concert (December 6); 

--If you're not doing anything on 

Christmas Eve (other than waiting 

for Santa Claus to arrive), you 

might consider catching an Organ 

recital of Christmas music 

performed by William Wright; 

--A charitable initiative known as 

Critical Mass presents Clemens 

non Papa's Missa pastores 

quidnam vidistis (December 11) • 

and admission is by freewill 

· offering (okay, well, a $10 

donation is suggested), with 

proceeds going to "Olft of the 

Cold." , 

JANUARY 

Mooredale Concerts presents the 

I Furiosi Baroque Ensemble in a 

program including music from the 

Middle Ages to the Baroque 

(January 12 &13). 

Baroque bassoonist Michael 

Mccraw is back in town and joins 

Barbara Kallaur, Alison Melville 

(flutes) and Michael Jarvis 

(harpsichord) in the program For 

Emperors and Kings (January 13) 

presented by Baroque Music 

Beside the Grange. Telemann: 

.· Quartet in d; trios by Hotteterre, 

Quantz & others. The next day, he 

appears at St. Andrew's United 

Church for A Baroque Miscellany, 

a program of music f9r violin, 

harpsichord & bassoon. 

The Grand Tour: A 

Musical Journey - Visit the great 

musical capitals of baroque 

Europe with Tafelmusik as your 

guide - Paris, Versailles, Rome, 

Venice, Berlin, and also London 

(January 16. - 20). Handel's 

Entrance of the Queen of Sheba; 

Marais: excerpts from Alcione; 

works by Corelli, Vivaldi, 

Telemann and the Bach family; 

readings of anecdotes of 18th 

century Europe. 

Ah, so you didn't realize 

there was such a thing as a 

baroque clarinet? Well, the 

Academy Concert Series presents 

The Art of the Baroque Clarinet 

(January 26) - works by Handel, 

Molter, Baldassare and others - 

featuring Nicolai Taras9v on the 

baroque clarinet. 

The Tafelmusik Chamber 

Choir is best known for their 

interpretations of the baroque 

choral repertoire. However, who 

knows what their free noon-hour 

program, The French Connection 

(January 29) will bring? 

On the same day, Critical 

Mass presents William Byrd's 

Mass for 5 Voices. 

V alhaila played havoc with the 

destinies of mortals. 

Story-teller Peter Tiefenbach 

brings these wondrous yams to 

life with music, by the Toronto 

Consort, taken from both early 

music sources and traditional 

music of Norway, Sweden, 

.Finland and Iceland. 

I Furiosi Baroque Ensemble 

is joined by world-renown~d 

violinist Maytimi Seiler whose 

refined virtuosity is certain to 

grace the works of the Italian 

masters on this program (February 

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CONCERT NOTES 

•:• 0 THE CHORAL SCENE 

by !Arry Beckwith 

The busiest season of ' the year for 

choirs in Toronto is upon us, with 

multiple holiday concens taking 

place vinually every night during 

the month of December. Please 

consult the comprehensive 

WholeNote listings (commencing 

page 24) for all the details. 

I OFfEN GET ASKED to recommend 

concerts around this time of year 

that·involve young people. So, to 

start, here's a sampling of 

interesting-sounding programs by 

children's and youth choirs in the 

city, followed by a few other 

suggestions for top-quality 

holiday choral fare. 

The Canadian Children's Opera 

Chorus, under Ann Cooper 

Gay's direction, are seemingly 

everywhere, this month. They 

give their own Winter Concert at 

the George Weston Recital Hall 

on December 1, then participate 

in a performance of Britten's St. 

Nicholas (Toronto Mendelssohn 

Youth Choir) on December 19; 

and are the guests of the 

Mississauga Symphony for 

Christmas crackers show on Dec 

22. 

The relatively new (and 

newly named) Viva! Youth 

~ingers of Toronto, directed by 

the talented Carol Woodward 

Ratzlaff, offer a Christmas 

concert at Trinity-St. Paul's 

United Church on Dec 1, and 

Glenda Crawford's superb 

Oakville Children's Choir sing 

"seasonal favourites" on December 

1 and 2. Also out west, 

Thomas BeWs Mississauga 

Children's Choir give a performance 

of Britten's Ceremony 

of Carols on Dec 8. 

Mid-month, the Trebles of 

Grace Church on-the-Hill play a 

central part in Britten's A Boy 

Was Born Dec 12 at St. James' 

Cathedral with the Orpheus . 

Choir of Toronto, all conducted 

by Brainerd Blyden-Taylor. The 

phenomenal Bach Children's 

Chorus, conducted by Linda 

Beaupre, are ·in concert at the 

George Weston Hall Dec 15, 

singing Christmas and Hanukah 

music. And Mark Bell's flourishing 

Riverdale Youth Singers 

team up with some of the city's 

finest baroque musicians on 

December 17 to present 

"Personent Rodie", a concert of 

early choral music for Christmas. 

OF COURSE, the Toronto Children's 

Chorus, directed by Jean 

Ashworth Bartle hit stride tthis 

month, giving several concerts. 

They presen1 their annual Chorus 

Christmas at Roy Thomson Hall 

on December 15, participate in an 

OnStage radio concert at the 

Glenn Gould Studio on the 19th, 

and then join with several other 

of the city's musical institutions 

for a carol sing in the rotunda of 

City Hall Dec 21. 

And while the Toronto , 

Camerata are an adult choir, 

they are offering "Carols for 

Kids from 2 to 92" at Grace 

Church on-the-Hill Dec 22. 

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS 

of this bustling choral season: 

Amadeus Choir: They present 

the winners of their annual Carol/ 

Chanukah song-writing competition 

and raise the roof of the 

George Weston Hall on Dec 2. 

Annex Singers: This community 

choir gives an intriguing program, 

including the seldom-heard 

Cantata #1 of J.S. Bach, at St. 

'fllomas' Church on December 8. 

Les Chapelle de Quebec: . 

Bernard Labadie brings his choir, 

orchestra and sparkling soloists to 

Roy Thomson Hall for a pristine 

performance of Handel's Messiah 

on December 8. 

Pax Christi Chorale: The 

Mennonite choir of Toronto, 

directed by Stephanie Martin, 

sings "Ancient Noels" with a 

Renaissance band on December 8 

and 9. 

Bell' Arte Singers: Lee 

Willingham's choir is enjoying a 

season of premieres: In their 

Christmas program on December 

15, they give the first performance 

of local composer Ben 

Holden's Requiem of Ice and 

Snow. 

Tafelmusik Choir: Our own 

"world-class" baroque choir 

performs Messiah seriously for 

three nights, then parties a bit for 

the sing-along version at Massey 

Hall on December'23, led by a 

spindly-legged G.F. Handel. 

JANUARY 

As always, choral activity l

\ 

events that are taking place later 

in 2002. 

From May 16-19, Toronto 

plays host to Podium, the biennial 

conference of the Association 

of Canadian Choral Conductors. 

Events include public concerts 

(National Youth Choir, Exultate 

Chamber Singers), workspops 

and competitions. For information 

and to register, visit the 

conference website at www. 

choirsontario. org/events/pooium 

On November 7, Nicholas 

boldschmidt announced the . 

details of his upcoming Toronto 

International Choral Festival, 

entitled The Joy of Singing 

Within the Noise of the World. 

The festival features nearly 40 

concerts from May31-June 22, 

with choirs coming from Japan, 

Austria, Senegal, Cuba, Scotland, 

· Hungary, the Czech Republic, 

Sweden, Russia, and from all 

across Canada. Also featured is a 

staggering array of all-Canadian 

soloists. For the amazing details, 

go to the festival website at 

www.joyofsinging.ca 

2001 has been an eventful year. I 

turn to choral music for strength and 

comfort aild highly recommend it for 

feeding a hungry mind and heart. 

And I somehow feel - maybe 

naively - that as long as we keep 

making music together we can face 

the future with hope and joy. 

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For more informa0tion on this newfound-hobby 

The Chancel· Choir o 

Kingsway Baptist Church 

presents 

A Candlelight Service of Lessons and Carols 

Sunday, December 16, 2001 7:30 pm 

at Kingsway Baptist Church 

1 Birchview Blvd. (Bloor St. at Montgomery Rd., Etobicok 

416-239-2381 

Melvin]. Hurst, Director of Music and Organist 

A service of qeau and tradition in the Cathedrals I . 

I 

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Tuesday, February 26 at 8pm 

Metropolitan United Church 

Tonu Kaljuste, conductor 

A magnificent program of 

'Rachmaninov's Vespers and music by 

Estonia's Veljo Tormls. 

$30 (students/seniors $20) 

Wednesday, February 27 at 8pm 

Metropolitan United Church 

Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir 

Tonu Kaljuste, conductor 

Elmer lseler Singers 

Lydia Adams, conductor 

Recent works by Arvo Part, the stunning 

Mass for double choir by Swiss composer 

Frank Martin, a world premiere for 

double choir by James Rolfe and John 

Estacio's Eulogies. 

In cooperation with the Elmer lseler Singers 


The North Toronto 

Women's Chamber 

Choir 

AUDITIONS 

Committed. to high quality, 

thjs polished women's choir 

has spaces for new members.· 

We begin new repertoire ii) 

January for our Spring· concerts. 

Some music reading ability is required. 

For an audition or more information 

call Anne Yardley at 416-485-2259. 

Music and dialogue with cutting edge 

Australian and Canadian composers 

at 8pm Glen.n Gould Studio 

PETER SCULTHORPE & ERIC MORIN 

Tuesday, April 4 

ELENA KATS-CHERNIN & OMAR DANIEL 

Thursday, May 7 


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ONES TO 

WATCH 

By Paul Steenhuisen 

"Composer to Composer" will 

return to its usual form in 

February with a full-length 

interview of Linda Catlin Smith 

(whose recently released CD 

Memory Forms is reviewed ,by 

Brian McMilla,n in DISCOVER 

IES this issue (see page 56). 

In keeping with this issue's 

seasonal theme, here instead are 

short statements about their ideas, 

aesthetics, and current projects.by 

seven people we are likely to hear 

more from in the coming year: 

Erik Ross, Yannick Plamondon, 

Bongani Ndodana, Victoria 

Maidanik, Christien Ledroit, 

Brian Current, and Rose Bolton. 

I . 

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Opera Works' presentation at the 

Opera America Conference nlxt 

April. 

Yannick PLAMONDON 

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Music 1s FOR ME a poetic field, 

where I construct sound metaphors 

according to my experience of the 

world (nature/Humans etc ...) 

I think that one of the most 

imponant challenges for composers 

now is to cross the massculture 

barrier - I mean to do it! 

Keeping in mind that complexity/ 

sophistication and musical 

individualism (coming from our 

aristocratic historical background) 

is a very good argument, there are 

a lot of people out there looking 

for non-wmmercial musical 

Erik ROSS 

experiences, to express their 

Studies: U of T /Christos Hatzis, individuality as a listener. 

Gary Kulesha, DMA in progress. I believe that there is an 

I HA VE RECENTLY developed an unlimited amount of anistic 

interest in working with the more success available. An4 I ruk to be 

dramatic an forms; the collabora- su"ounded by beauty, and 

tive process is one that in my excellence. According to that, our 

current state /find quite appeal- future success (as contemporary 

ing. But I purposefully focus on music composer/performers etc ...) 

c;hamber writing every few years, is directly connected' to the 

as /find it to be the most personal possibility of creating a sane 

and developmental - the most community of cri,tical exchanges. 

logical way to expand one's 

The traditional concen hall 

compositional palette. Thus, the event needs to reach another level. 

alternation of these endeavors The social-political field of the 

gives me immense satisfaction, as I · concen is still caught in its 17th 

am appealing to both my intro- century solution, but sustained by 

Vf!ned and e.xtrovened desires. 19th century anists for a 21st 

I am cu"ently working on an centu')' public. Who's listening~ 

oboe conceno for Joseph 

Salvalaggio, which will hopefully Bongani NDODANA 

take me to Memphis next season, < www.ensemblenoir.org > 

and my fut.ure projects include an 

opera 'shon' for Tapestry New 

Composer, Artistic Director of 

Ensemble Noir 


I'VE ALWAYS BEEN fascinated by the 

idea of music being able to bring 

people together, communicate 

across linguistic and cultural 

barriers. 

I'm drawn to African music; 

· it's a great and ancient resource. 

I'm an African and the music and 

people of that continent, the 

rhythms, and the way musical 

material evolves or is manipulated 

. and the "hidden" messages of the 

·music are in my blood. My 

training is in the western tradition 

but in my warped mind, African 

music fits in perfectly in the great 

continuum that stretches from 

Machaut to Ligeti. 

My piece African Kaddish 

· (for large orchestra) touches on 

everything from Xhosa and Venda 

music ending with a grand sweep 

'of lush Hollywood music. In 

February, African Heritage 

Month, Ensemble Noir will 

perfonn concens featuring music 

ihiu draws from the music of 

Africa and its Diaspora as pan of 

oµr Diversity Project. 

Victoria MAIDANIK 

Currently working on a project for 

the Sylvestrov Group, a new 

Tornnto chamber ensemble. 

For:biographical information, see 

the CMC website at 

IT IS VERY IMPORTANT that each of 

my;pieces has its own individual 

Con

very gestural, very goal-oriented, 

very overt, and now I'm incorporating 

it into the opera, while 

thinking abouJ pacing, both 

musically and dramatically. I've 

also just finished a revision for the 

Oakland Symphony of a 1998 

piece This /sn 't Silence. The idea 

is that background textures will 

sometimes form a 'kind of silence' 

or canvass upon which other 

material is placed. Eventually this 

'silence' overwhelms and inundates 

the piece. And it's loud and 

wild. 

Rose BOLTON 

for j?iographical information, see 

the CMC website 

HA YING SPENT MANY summers 

camping in the Canadian Shield 

regions, the natural sounds of the 

forests have become the subject 

matter for much of my music, 

where/ strive to.replicate the 

experience of being immersed in a 

"soundscape ". 

, lWzen one sits still in the 

wilderness, the sense of passing 

time is sd slow that it is barely 

perceivable; buJ it is formed 

gradµally by thousands of tiny 

quic:k"changes. /like to compare 

some of my recent works to 

suspensions in water, where events 

and motives seem to float, and I 

think this expresses ari escape from 

our urban surroundings. I hope 

that my music can cause the 

listener to feel transported. In my · 

cu"entprojects I am also inspired 

by the possibilities of creating 

music which depicts unknown and 

imaginary microcosms. 

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HEAR 

& 

NOW 

New Music 

by Paul Steenhuisen 

CHEAPSEATS & 

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& HEIGHTENED APPRECIATION 

If you're reading this column, 

you likely already know something 

about new music. If you 

want to know more, or have 

friends/colleagues who are 

interested in exploring contemporary 

music, the Canadian Music 

Centre has two programs that 

will be of interest. 

The first is called CHEAPSEATS. 

Fifteen of Toronto's contemporary 

music organizations have 

introduced a new student pass 

that entitles its holders to a flat 

rate of $5.00 for concert tickets 

duri11g the 2001102 season. 

Participating organizations 

include: Arraymusic Ensemble, 

Canadian Opera Company, 

Continuum, Esprit Orchestra, 

Evergreen Club Gamelan, Music 

Gallery, Hannafor,d Street Silver 

Band, Music Toronto, New 

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Concerts 2001-2002 

·December 2 -2001 

Brown Fugue • Dodgson Follow The Star 

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Michael Bracken • Stephen Wingfield 

William Beauvais • James Brown • John Gzowski 

guitars 

Edward Day Gallery 33 Hazelton 2 PM 

February 22 2002 

Brown • Katz 

James Brown "The Home Fields" CD release concert 

Also featuring Ernie Tollar and Jim ,Vivian 

Brian Katz performs original compositions 

Heliconian Hall 35 Hazelton 8 PM 

March 22 2002 

Gismonti New Piece • Senoir Momentary Follies 

• Dufour Garam masa/a 

The Montreal Guitar Trio 

Heliconian Hall 35 Hazelton 8 PM 

Tickets for all concerts $20/$15 

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Answers** (1974) Primoz Ramovs (1922-1999) 

Celo** (1999) Larisa Vrhunc (1967) 

Ottoki** (1990/91) Uros Rojko (1954) 

Discours VIII** (1990) Vinko Globokar (1934) 

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Earth Cycles (1987) Alexina Louie (b,1949) accordion, tape 

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system. In the 2001102 season 

the organizations presenting ' 

CHEAPSEA TS· are offering over 

100 contemporary music concerts! 

COMPOSER COMPANION 

As well, the CMC will be 

continuing its Composer c~mpanion 

program, "to help 

'demystify contemporary music 

and build audiences for new 

work." It's a relatively informal 

and light-hearted approach to 

, outreach and audience developmen~, 

based on a simple concept. 

. Audience members are paired at 

'concerts with professional 

composers, who essentially serve 

as ambassadors for new music. 

· Participants meet with their 

composers at the theatre just prlor 

to the performance and discuss 

the program to follow. They are 

then seated together and 'the 

composer takes the listener 

ttu:ough the evening step-by-step. 

It is a great way to hear new 

.music and gain insight into the 

music. 

While those. with little or no 

musical background are highly 

encouraged to participate, 

COMPOSER COMPANIONS is 

not just for those unfamiliar with 

new music. The CMC has 

matched composers with students, 

JAZZ 

NOTES 

by Jim Galloway 

"A One and a Two!" 

Another year of memorable 

~usic is almost gone _ a good 

time to pause and reflect on just 

how fortunate we are in Toronto 

given the vast array of music tha~ 

is available from one year's end 

to the next. 

••• EW Music ·:· HEAR & NOW •:• JAZZ NOTES 

teachers, executives, retirees, 

~ists from other disciplines, 

Journalists, and some amateur and 

even professional musicians. 

Dozens of concert patrons have 

been partnered with a variety of 

composers during the past four 

concert seasons. Couples, 

families and student groups can 

ea~ily arrange to have a composer 

gmde for an evening. There is no ' 

a~ditional charge to be accompamed 

by a composer, and tickets 

for the composer companions 

themselves are provided courtesy 

of the participating music . 

It's the time when various 

presenters. · "best of the year" lists prolifer- , 

Past composer companions a~e, but I'm not going to indulge. 

have included Wende Bartley, Im not much of a believer in 

Rose Bolton, Alaistar Boyd, · ."the best of' philosophy - the 

Chan Ka Nin, Michael Colgrass, music is too subjective to be rated 

Omar Daniel, Ted Dawson that way and polls can be so 

Daniel Foley, Christos Ha~is · manipulated that they are are 

Alice Ho, Michael Hynes, Ire~e , pretty well meaningless, as well 

Johansen, Henry Kucharzyk, Jim ~s being too tied to the recording 

Montgomery, David Parsons mdustry to be taken seriously. 

Jam~s Rolfe, Jeffrey Ryan, Linda Lovers of the n;msic all have their 

Catlm Smith, Paul Steenhuisen own favourites. Some of my 

and Timothy Sullivan. ' greatest satisfaction this past year 

For more information on 

~as come from listening to the 

COMPOSER COMPANIONS, or mterplay of musicians who were 

to make arrangements for your not ever poll winners, but who 

own composer companion, told wonderful stories through 

contact Sheldon Grabke at the their music. 

Canadian Music Centre (416) Meanwhile, the face of the 

961-6601 ext. 207. music continues to change, as 

change it must - and along with 

the change comes natural 

New Music Quick Picks 

~ fol~ows is an eclectic sampling of the live contemporary art 

d music ·1 1 

bezng presented over the coming two months 

• 

Fi or program 

etaz s,,and numerous oth~r interesting new music concerts) please 

consult the comprehensive concert listings starting on page 24. 

~~~~day Dec 01 Bpm.: Earshot. Jewe!Box. s.unday Jan 06 Bpm: New Music Concerts/ 

ay Dec 02 3pm. Sunudo. Music Gallery. SLOW/NO Wi tJ, . d 

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Robert Creeley LXXV. 

Quintet 

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Wednesday Dec 05-16 8pm: Theatre Friday Jan 18 Bpm: Arraymusic. Nord. 

Th 

Centr~. Body Geometry: the 7th Angel Sunday Jan 20 Bpm: New Music Con~erts 

urs~ay Dec ~6 Bpm: Music Gallery. Sing, Ariel · 

Bng1tte Poulin . MTLP (Montreal Piano). Feb 06 Bpm: Esprit Orchestra. Toothpaste. 

attrition; each year we lose a few 

more master makers - in 2001 

to name only a few, we lost ' 

Buddy Tate, J.J. Johnson, John 

Lewis, our own Moe Koffman 

and just recently, Tommy 

Flanagan. But we still have the 

memories and, in many cases, a 

legacy of recordings through 

which we can celebrate their 

music. And for that much, at 

least, we can be thankful to the 

recording industry. 

But, begone dull care! 'Tis 

the season to be jolly and so I 

offer Season's greetings to all of 

you, and a Happy New Year in 

the hope that one of your Ne~ 

Year resolutions will be to hear 

as much live music as possible! 

CLUBBING AROUND. '" 

This is a two-month issue, , , "' 

co~ering December and January 

w~1ch makes it impossible for.us '. 

to mclude our customary detailed 

' club listings; some venues have. .~ 

not yet completed schedules for 

the whole period. So, although I · 

shall home in on some of the · 

upcoming bookings, the club 

li~tings section this month simply, 

gives addresses and phone 

numbers·. Until next issue you ar~ 

a phone call away from checking 

out the clubs! 

'~ 

DECEMBER'S HIGHLIGHTS at • 

the various watering holes around 

the city include the Joe Sealy 

Quartet with singer Tommy 

Ambrose on Dec 3 at The 

Montreal Bistro and Emilie- ·" 

Claire Barlow & The Barlow 

Group, Dec 13 to 15. I'm there · 

with The Wee Big Band on . 

Monday Dec 17 and D.E.W. East 

'(Dean-Elmes-Wall

SAX SVMMIT:Phil Dwyer joins 

Seamus Blake, Andre Leroux, Mike 

Murley and P.J. Perry at the Glenn 

Gould Studio Jan 25. 

mention Denny Christianson 

Quintet on Dec 8 and 9, as well 

as Archie Alleyne's "Kollage", 

featuring Dougie Richardson on 

Dec 20 and 21, and the Rhythm 

& Truth Brass Band on Dec 27. 

Among the interesting 

bookings at Rhodes you can find 

San Murata, Neville Barnes, 

Lenny Boyd on Dec 8, Bob 

Brough & Adrean Farrugia on Dec 

19 and Alex bean, Steve Wallace, 

Reg &;hwager on Dec 29. 

AND THEN THERE 

1s NEW YEAR'S EvE! 

Ask around iii the business and 

you will discover that this is not 

the favourite night of the year for a 

lot of musicians. A New Year's 

gig. is too often ope of those nights 

where the "amateurs" come out to 

be entertained and not even the 

better money that can be made on 

this one night of the year makes up 

for the fact that you are piaying for 

people who really don't care. The 

solution? Try to find a decent 

"jazz" engagement, where you are 

making music for an audience that 

presumably has some interest in 

what you are doing, and is in the 

habit of going out moif than once 

!!.Y~· 

Fortunately there are a few 

of those engagements around. 

Among the lucky winners this 

year, for example, are two 

veterans of the music game, 

Norman Amadio and Bob Price 

who will bring in the New Year 

at Rhodes. Those traditional 

stalwarts, the Hot Five 

Jazzmakers, will have a New 

Year's Eve Party at the Prince 

Regent Ballroom, Ramada Plaza 

Hotel, Toronto Airport East, and 

I am fortunate enough to be back 

again at The Montreal Bistro 

where I'll toast the old year, 

welcome 2002 and the real 

Millennium, along with Ian Bargh 

and Rosemary Galloway. 

DETAILS ON CLUB BOOKINGS 

for Janua'ry were not available at 

time of going to press, but there 

are two piano greats "back to 

back" at the Bistro in the second 

half of the month. Quite different 1 

· in approach, but both steeped in 

the tradition of the music, they 

are Junior Mance, whose Chicago 

blues roots are always pulsing 

through his playing, and Ralph 

' Sutton who is, quite simply, the 

best stride piano player in jazz 

today. It's a great opportunity to 

hear two of the masters. Mr. 

Mance appears Jan 15 to 19, and 

from Jan 22 to 26 you can 

experience the two fisted 

virtuosity of Mr. S. 

·Club Listings 

-Barcode 549 College (4161 928·9941 

-C'est What 67 FronlE (4161867·9499 

(every Sat, 4· 7pm, The Hot Five 

Jazzmakers) 

·Chick 'N' Deli (just south of Eglinton) 

Mount Pleasant Ave (every Sat, 4.7 pm, 

Climax Jazz Band) 

-Gate 403 403 Roncesvalles Avenue 

(4161588-2930 

-Gladstone Hotel's Art Bar 

1214 Queen St. West 

·Grossman's Tavern 379 Spadina· Ave, 

(every Sat, 4. 7 pm, Kid Bastien and the 

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-Leopard Lounge. 130 Dundas West 

(4161260·0099 

·Mezzrow's 1546 Queen W. 

(4161 535-4906. 

·Montreal Bistro & Jazz Club 

65 Sherbourne St. (4161 363·0179 

·N' Awlins Jazz Bar and Dining 

299 King West (4161 595· 1958 

-Orbit Room 580A College St. 

(4 i 6) 763·3470 

.Quigley's Pub and Bistro 2232 Queen 

· Street East. i416) 699·9998 

·Reservoir Lounge 52 Wellington E .. 

14161955:0997 

·Rex Jazz & Blues Ba_r 194 Queen St: 

West (4161598·2475 

·Rhodes Restaurant 1496 Yonge Si. 

(416) 968·9315 

. Rockit 120 Church St. (4161947-95551 

Top O' the Senator 249 Victoria St. (4161 

364·7517 

IN THE CONCERT.FIELD, 

the big name in town in December 

is Grammy winner, saxophonist 

Branford Marsalis, appearing Dec 

7 and 8 at the George Weston · 

Recital Hall. Also on Dec 8, the 

Classic Jazz Society of Toronto is 

presenting Marty Grosz & His 

Orphan Newsboys. Marty is one 

of the foremost jazz rhythm 

guitarists, but his Fats Waller type 

vocals are equally in d~mand. 

Looking ahead to January, on the 

25th CBC Radio Jazz Beat will 

present a ragout of reeds - The Sax 

Summit with Seamus Blake, Phil 

Dwyer, Andre Leroux, Mike 

Murley and P .J. Perry at the 

Glenn Gould Studio. 

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Jazz Concert Quick Picks 

Here's a quick guide to the jazz related concerts 

in the comprehensive listings starting on page 24. 

Dec 2 · 1 :30pm CAMMAC/McMichael Gallery. Rosemary Galloway and Friends. 

Dec 2 · Bpm: Music Gallery. Baker/Kye Marshall Duo. CD release concert for Chiaroscuro 

Dec 3 · Bpm: Jazz.FM91. Sound of Toronto Jazz. George Gallus Trio 

Dec 5 · 8:30pm: University of Toronto Faculty of Music. A Night of Vocal Jazz Solos 

Dec 7 ·B • Bpm: Toronto Centre for the Arts. An Evening with Branford Marsalis 

Dec 7 ·Bpm: Toronto Jazz Orchestra/Toronto Youth Wind Orchestra. 

Dec 8 · Bpm: Classic Jazz Society of Toronto. Marty Grosz & His Orphan Newsboys 

Dec 8 ·Bpm: Millpond Centre. Christmas Jazz 

Dec 9 · 7pm: Mississauga Big Band Jazz Ensemble 

Dec 13 · Bpm: Royal Conservatory of Music Community School. In Voice. 

Dec 14 · Spm: JANG Arts & Entertainment. Nathaniel Oett Chorale: An Indigo Christmas 

Dec 14'· 9pm: TR/lNZAC. Club Ojango Sextet. 

Dec 17 · Bpm: Jazz.FM91. Sound of Toronto Jazz. Barry Elmes Ouintet 

'Dec 19 · Bpm: Nathaniel Dett Chorale. An Indigo Christmas 

Jan 7 · Bpm: Jazz.FM91. Sound of Toronto Jazz. Heather Bambrick & Trio 

Jan 7 · Spm: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Club Swing 

· Jan 9 · 2 & Spm: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Club Swing 

Jan 16 · 8:30pm: University of Toronto Faculty of Music. Small Jazz Ensembles 

Jan 21 · Bpm: Jazz.FM91. Sound of Toronto Jazz. Tony Ouarrington Trio 


Jan 25 , 8p1J1: CBC Radio Jazz Beat. The Sax Summit. Seamus Blake, Phil Dwyer, 

Andre Leroux, Mike Murley, P.J. Perry & other musicians . 


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approaching once again, and I'm 

sure there are plenty of you who 

need some guidance in buying 

gifts for the band musician in 

your life. Herewith are some 

ideas, hopefully good ones: 

A metronome. If you know 

a mm~ician who doesn't own one 

of these, get it for them. Make 

them use it. Please. The new· ones 

are small, convenient, electronic, 

and usually have an earphone' 

jack to minimize the annoyance to 

friends and family. 

An electronic tuner. Ditto 

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makes a nifty high-tech version 

called the Silent Brass System - 

the mute almost completely 

blocks the sound, but the 

· instrument blows relatively 

normally while the player listens 

to themself through headphones. 

Now if they could only make a 

version for saxophones .... 

A music stand. A decent 

sturdy folding stand is a must for 

every band musician. If they've 

already got one, how about a set 

of wind clips for outdoor 

concerts? 

A case cover. My wife . 

bought me one of these for my 

bassoon several years ago. It's 

great! My bassoon doesn't get so 

cold on the way to rehearsals in 

the winter, and it's got backpack 

straps so I can free niy hands up 

to carry other things. 

Recordings! The True 

North Brass Quintet has just 

released "A True North Christmas" 

on Opening Day Records 

(ODR 9323). I highly recommend 

it both for the excellent 

playing and the sparkling 

arrangements. Al Kay's setting of 

"Silver Bells" as a Brazilian 

Samba has to be heard to 

believed! 

Still stuck? I have it on 

good authority that very few of 

them will tum up their nose at a 

bottle of single malt Scotch. 

. ON TO THE CONCERT HIGHLIGHTS 

of the month. Please check the 

listings for complete info, 

venues, ticket prices etc. 

-Scarborough Community 

Concert Band is performing 

seasonal music, including singalongs 

on Dec 3, 10, 16 & 17. 

All four events are free. 

-East York Concert Band and 

conductor Erllie Walker are - 

.presenting a concert of popular 

seasonal favourites at an unusual 

venue, The Blue D~ube Restaurant, 

on Monday Dec 3. 

-The Etobicoke Youth Band and 

their guests, the Etobicoke 

Suzuki Strings are presenting 

their Decemf?er Musicale concert 

on Saturday Dec 8. 

-Saturday Dec 8, the University 

of Toronto Wind Symphony,. & 

Concert Band are presenting 

perhaps the only band concert 

· that ~oesn't centre around holiday 

music this month. The program 

includes Tower's Fanfare for the 

Uncommon Woman & 

Schoenberg's Theme and 

V ariatioris. 

The Hannaford Street Silver 

Band seems to be the ensemble 

of choice for Toronto's top · 

choirs. Sunday Dec 9 the HSSB 

is in Season's Greetings - Festival 

of Carols with the Toronto 

Mendelssohn Choir. On Saturday 

Dec 15, the band join forces with 

0 

the Amadeus Choir for their 

Glad Tidings concert. 

-The Festival Wind Orchestra 

and guest vocalists Tracey 

Wilkins and Mark Ruhnke 

perform a programs of classics , 

and carols on Dec 11 at St. 

John's Rehabilitation Centre. 

-The Northdale Concert Band · 

are presenting Band Music for the 

Holidays at Church of the 

Redeemer on Dec 15. This is a 

good band, and it should be a , 

treat to hear them in this venue: 

-The Slide Rule Trombone 

Ensemble is presenting their 

annual holiday concert on Wed. 

Dec. 19 at Saint Thomas Church. 

It's my fer\tent hope that I'll 

finally be al;>le to c.atch this group 

in concert this year. 

Merlin Williams is probably going 

to get a lump of coal in his stocking 

this Christmas. If you 'd like to let 

him know about an upcoming band. 

event, he can be reached at (416) 

803-0275 (cell), or on the web at 

www.attcanada.ca/-merlinw or by 

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CELEBRATIONS OF THE SEASON take 

so many fonns that I'm sure you 

will pardon my straying a bit 

more widely. than usual from this 

column's musical·theatre turf! 

Parties and plays, concerts and 

festivals abound. 

If you've read my column in 

past years you'll know I'm fond 

of Ross Petty; s annual Pantomime 

at the Elgin Theatre. This 

year it's Snow White and the 

Miignificent Seven, and Petty 

pla;ys the evil Queen. Melissa 

Thomson (Beauty in Beauty and 

. the Beast) is Snow White, and 

Graham Abbey, who played 

Henry V at Stratford, is Prihce 

Channing. 

"I think it's perfect for a 

first theatre production," he 

comments. He should know; he 

grew up in Stratford, and got 

hooked-on theatre very young.· 

Snow white runs from December 

4 to January 6. 

I 

To JUDGE BY their newly released · 

CD (reviewed in this issue), you 

should try to catch Humbercrest 

. United Church's The Star of 

Bethlehem on Friday, December 

9. The church, whose junior and 

senior'choirs demonstrate real 

skill, is located at 16 Baby Point 

Road in Etobicoke. 

Also on the community 

front, since WholeNote is 

produced in the Kensington 

Market neighbourhood many of 

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Elizabeth DeGracia (seen here in Jane Eyre) and Stuart Howe.(tenor 

lead in Tapestry's Iron Road) headline Romberg's The Student Prince, 

as Toronto's Operetta Theatre continues its tradition of ushering the 

old year out with offerings from the classical light opera repertoire. 

us will be heading off to the numbers not found in the film - 

magical Kensington Festival of like Bill Sykes' sombre "My 

Lights, which commemorates Name", which is only uoted as 

Hannukah, Christmas, the 

Solstice, the New Year and other 

seasonal world observances with 

a percussion-driven pageant/ 

parade/festival on December 21, 

the longest night of the year. (For 

more information, call 416-596- 

7179.) '. 

CHARLES DICKENS is so associated 

· with Christmas that it's not much 

of a stretch to classify the Civic 

Light Opera Company's 

production of Oliver! as seasonal 

fare. The 1968 movie version was 

nominated for 11 Oscars and won 

five, including Best Music, and 

no wonder; it's a memorable 

score. The stage version (which 

came first), includes a few 

Drama-in-Music Project 

Summer 2002 

Fully staged productions 

with orchestra of: 

L'Egisto 

by Francesco Cavalli (1654) 

Xerxes 

by George Frederic . H~ndel (1738) 

• 

·~ The Vocal Art Forum 

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a leitmotif in the soundtrack. 

Otherwise, they're pretty silnjlar, 

and the show is a good choice for 

an amateur company because it 

has so many parts that everyone 

can shine. Oliver! runs from . 

December 13 to 23 at the pleasant 

little Fairview Library Theatre in 

Scarborough. The December 13, 

15, 16 and. 22 performances are 

already sold out. · 

Finally, Toronto Operetta 

Theatre welcomes in 2002 with 

its annual New Year's Eve Gala 

at the St. Lawrence Centre, 

including a reception, Heidelberg 

Buffet Dinner and Champagne 

Dance Party. The food may be 

delicious, but the true main 

course will be the evening's 


performance of Sig~und 

Romberg' s The Student 

Prince. And if you can't 

make the Gala, you can 

still catch the show, 

which runs from .. 

December 29 through 

January 5. Gala tickets 

are $145; for 

reservations, call 416- 

366-7723. 

WHILE TRADITION GETS its 

holiday. due, I'm pleased 

tQ say there will be lots 

of originals around, too. 

From December 4 

to 16, performer/ 

playwright Damien 

Atkins (who won the 

$25,000 Prism 

International prize for his 

Good Mother, produced 

MUSIC THEATRE SPOTLIGHT •:• MUSIC THEATRE LISTINGS 

· last year at Stratford) is 

staging his solo cabaret Real Live 

Girl at Buddicrs in Bad Times; It's 

a revue of songs originally 

written for women, and "has 

more theatrical ambition" than 

most cabarets, says Atkins. 

Accompanied by "fantastic 

pianist" John Hughes, Atkins will 

perform songs from Chicago, 

Hedwig and the Angry Inch and 

even Disney musicals. "They're 

all united because they all say 

something about femininity," he 

says. 

The period right after the 

holidays is often a 'dead' time in 

the theatre season, so it's fitting 

that D.O.A. Productions is 

presenting their "phantasmagorical 

musical comedy", titled The 

Dance of the Dead, from January 

11 to 26. The concept is intriguing: 

besides being a play about a 

suicidal fellow named Edward 

~orrows~who makes a bargain for 

his soul, it's also an experiment 

· in sound performance that places 

a chorus of 16 spirits right in the 

audience. The musical selections 

sound pretty tempting: ruHiling 

the gamut from c~orales to torch 

songs to gospel. 

There's no shortage of operatic 

offerings over the season either. 

The Canadian Opera Company 

is presenting their double bill of 

Strauss' Salome and Rossini's fl 

Viaggio a Reims in repertoire 

between January 18 and Feb 5. 

The gory details. Atom Egoyan's 

Salome returns to the COC Jan 1.8 

Filmmaker Atom Egoyan directs 

the Salome. And well before that, 

the COC Ensemble is presenting 

the extremely rare Giulio Cesare 

in Egitto by Antonio Sartario. 

Krisztina Szabo plays Cleopatra 

in Giulio Cesare; she's also in 

Salome. 

"I'm quite excited," she 

says. "I've heard a great deal 

about the Salome. It's always 

interesting to work with someone 

frorri another field." 

(Incidentally, the very busy 

Szabo is also performing a . 

concert for CBC broadcast with 

James Westinan at the Glenn 

Gould Theatre on December 14. 

She'll be reprising Idamante's 

aria from Idomeneo, which she , 

sang with the COC last season, as 

well as "something from Bellini's 

I Capuletti i Montecchi. ") 

MEANWHILE, Opera in Concert 

offers more Bellini, in this, the 

200th anniversary of his birth, 

with La Straniera on December 

2. Opera Ontario presents 

Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro 

in Hamilton (January 26 to 

February 2) and Kitchener 

(February 8), while Opera 

Mississauga stages its first ever 

benefit concert, the Night of a 

'Thousand Stars, on December 7 

and 8. 

So long for 2001; I wish 

WholeNote readers the abundant 

blessings of the season and 

peaceful, happy holidays! 

22 wholenote D ECEMBER 1, 2001 - JANUARY 31, 2002 

Arts Huron. Bye Bye Birdie. December 1: 

8:00. Dinner theatre 6:00 or shqw only. 

Huron Heights Secondary School, 40 Huron 

Heights Drive, Newmarket. 905-895-2385 

ext.503. 

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. Real Live 

Girl Damien Atkins performs show of songs 

originally written for women. December 4, 

6·8, 11-15: 8:00; December 9 & 16: 2:30. 

12 Alexander St. 416-975-8555. 

$12(opening), $18-$25, Sunday & Tuesday 

PWYC. 

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Canadian Opera Company. Rossini· II 

Viaggio a Reims. Elena Voznessenskaia, 

Ekaterina Morozova, Henrietta Bonde· 

Hansen, Viktoria Vizin, Michael Schade & 

other performers; Richard Bradshaw, 

conductor. January 22: 7:00; Jan 24,26,30, 

February 1: 8:00; Feb 3: 2:00. Pre· 

, performance chat 45 minutes prior to each 

performance. Hummingbird Centre for the 

Performing Arts, 1 Front St. East. 416-872- 

2262. $38-$135. Discount prices for 

seniors, students and young adults. 

Canadian Opera Company. Sartorio: Giulio 

Cesare in Egitto. Roger Honeywell, Krisztina 

Szabo, Colleen Skull, Martha Guth, Shannon 

Mercer & other singers; Gary Thor Wedow, 

conductor. December 3,5 & 7: 8:00; 

December 9 matinee. Imperial Oil Opera 

Theatre, Tanenbaum Opera Centre, 227 

Front St. East. 416·363-8231. $45. 

Thomson, Graham Abbey, Ross Petty & Fred 

Penner. December 4 to January 6. 189 

Yonge St. 416-872-5555. 

Etobicoke Musical Productions. Once 

Upon a Mattress. Music by Mary Rodgers; 

book by Marshall Barer. December 1: 8:00. 

Burnhamthorpe Auditorium, 500 The East 

Mall. 416-248-0410. $21,$15. 

George Brown Theatre. Aesop's 

Adventure. Directed by James Simon. 

Annual children's show featuring music, 

dance & action. Suitable for children 3 & up. 

December 5· 7 & 10· 14: 10:30am & 1 :00; 

D~cember 8 & 15: 1 :00 & 3:00. Hart House 

Theatre, 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978· 

8668. $8, group rates. 

Humbercrest United Church. Musical: The 

Star of Bethlehem; carols. Junior & Senior 

Choirs. December 9: 7:30. Humbercrest 

United Church, 16 Baby Point Road. 416· 

767-6122. 

Komitas Musical Association of Ontario. 

Tigranian: Anoush. Opera in concert version. 

· Susan Brown, coloratura soprano; Sarkis 

Koundakjian, tenor; Arthur Muhendissian, 

baritone & other soloists; Komitas Choir and 

Orchestra; Adolfo De Santis, piano; David 

Varjabed, musical director & conductor. 

January 26, February 2: 8:00. Markham 

Theatre for Performing Arts, 171 Town 

Centre Blvd. 905-305-7469. $25-$35. 

Canadian Opera Company. Strauss: · Markham Theatre for Performing Arts. 

Salome. Helen Field, Monte Pederson, lvanka Chews the Fat. Songs, jokes & 

Robert Tear, Krisztina Szabo &·other audience participation. January 17 & 18: 

performers; David Atherton, conductor; 8:00. 171 Town Centre Blvd, Markham. 

Atom Egoyan, director. January 18,23,31, 905-305-7469. $26. 

February 2: 8:00; Jan 27: 2:00; Feb 5: 7:00 . . 

Pre-performance chat 45 minutes prior to Mirvish Productions. Mamma Mia! 

each performance. Hummingbird Centre for Musical based on the songs of ABBA. Music 

the Performing Arts, 1 Front St. East. 416· & lyrics by Benny Andersson & Bjorn 

872-2262. $38.$135. Discount prices for Ulvaeus; book by Catherine Johnson; 

s.eniors, students and young adults. directed by Phyllida Lloyd. To March 31. 

Civic Light Opera Company. Oliver! 

Musical by Lionel Bart. Joanne Kennedy, 

David Haines, Gordon Elkin, Paula Wilkie, 

Larry Gibbs & other performers; Joe 

Cascone, artistic director. December 13· 

15, 19-22: 8:00; December 16,22,23: 2:00. 

Fairview Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall 

Drive. 416-469-8450. $17.50,$15, ' 

$12.50(Wednesday & Thursday evenings). 

*SOLD OUT; Dec 13, 15, 16 & 22* 

0.0.A. Productions. The Dance of the 

Dead. A phantasmagorical musical comedy. 

Written by Scott White; directed by Vinetta 

Strombergs; Sandra Caldwell, Kevin Dennis, 

Jeff Madden, Donald Saunders & other 

performers. January 10: preview; January 

11-26. Mon .. Sat. 8:00, Wed & Sat. 2:00. 

Upstairs at Berkeley, CanStage, 26 Berkeley 

St. 416-368·3110. $27, PWYC(Mondays). 

Elgin Theatre. Snow White and the 

Magnificent Seven. Starring Melissa 

Tues·Sat 8:00; Wed,,Sat & Sun 2:00. Royal 

Alexandra Theatre, 260 King St. West. 416· 

872-1212. $25 to $93. 

Mirvish Productions. The Lion King. Stage 

musical of Disney's 1994 animated feature. 

To March 31. Wed-Sat: 8:00; Wed & Sat: 

2:00; Sun: 1:00 & 6:30. Princess of Wales 

Theatre, 300 King St. West. 416-872-1212. 

$20 to $115. · 

Music Theatre Mississauga. Me and My 

Girl Music by Noel Gay; lyrics by Douglas 

Furber; book by l. Arthur R~se, Douglas 

Furber & Stephen Fry. Dec. 1: 8:00. 

Meadowvale Theatre, 6315 Montevideo 

Rd., Mississauga. 905-821-0090. $20,$18. 

Music Theatre Mississauga. 

Nuncrackers ... The Nunsense Christmas 

Musical Book, music and. lyrics by Dan 

Goggin. Jan. 18, 19,24,25,26: 8:00; Jan. 

20: 2:00. Meadowvale Theatre, 6315 

Montevideo Rd., Mississauga. 905-821 ·

0090. $20,$18. 

New School of Classical Vocal Studies. 

Menotti: Amahl & the Night Visitors; 

traditional Christmas music. New School 

International Chorus and Orchestra; William 

Shookhoff, conductor; Oaniel Eby, artistic 

direc.tor. Oecember 14 & 15: 2:00 & 8:00. 

du Maurier Theatre Centre, 209 Queen's 

Quay, West. 416·973·4000 .. $25,$17.50, 

group rates. 

Oakville Symphony Orchestra/Oakville 

Ballet Company. The Nutcracker. 

December 7 ·9, 14, 15: various times. 

Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts, 130 

Navy Street, Oakville. 905·815· 2021. 

$23.99. 

Opera in Concert. Bellini: la Straniera. 

Frederique Vezina, Anita Krause, Stuart 

Howe, Sung Taek Chung, performers; Opera 

in Concert Chorus, Robert Cooper, director; 

Sandra Horst, music director and pianist. 

1 :45: Pre·concert chat with lain Scott. Dec 

2: 2:30. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front St. 

East. 416·366:7723. $28,$22. 

Opera Ontario. Mozart· The Marriage of 

Figaro. Andrew Tees, Jennie Such, David 

Bedard, Odette Beaupre, Michelle Sutton, 

Russell Braun, Michel Corbeil, Laura Whalen, 

Robert Milne, Sinead Pratschke, performers; 

Carlo Palleschi, conductor. Jan 26 & 31, 

feb 2: 8:00 at Hamilton Place, 1 Summers 

Lane, Hamilton; Feb 8: 8:00 at The Centre in 

the Square, Kitchener. 800·575· 1381. 

Opera Ontario. Popera. Jeanne·Michele 

Charbonnet, soprano; Jean Stilwell, mezzo· 

sopra~o; Eduardo Villa, tenor; Jason 

Howard, baritone; Kitchener·Waterloo 

Symphony; Daniel Lipton, conductor. Dec l: 

B:OO. Hamilton Place, 1 Summers Lane. 

800·575· 1381. 

Peel Panto Players. Jack and the 

Beanstalk. December 1 & 2: 1 :00 & 4:00. 

Lester B. Pear~on Theatre, 150 Central Park 

Dr., Brampton. 905·874·2800. 

St. Anne's Music and Drama Society. 

Gilbert & Sullivan: Princess Ida. Laura 

Schatz, director; Ori Siegel, music director. 

Jan, 25,26,31, Feb. 1,2: 8:00: Jan. 26,27, 

Feb. 2: 2:00. St. Anne's Parish Hall, 651 

Dufferin St. 416·922-4415. Jan. 25 & 31: 

$14; all other performances: $17,$14. 

Scarborough Music Theatre. She loves 

Me. Music by Jerry Bock; lyrics by Sheldon . 

Harnick; book by Joe Masteroff. February 7· 

9,14·16,21·23: 8:00; Feb 10,17: 2:00. 

Scarbo(ough Village Theatre, 3600 Kingston 

Rd. 416·396-4049. $21,$1,8. 

Theatre Aquarius/Markham Theatre for 

' Performing Arts. Joseph & the Amazing 

·Technicolor Oreamcoat. Andrew Lloyd 

Webber's classic musical. Dec.4: 7:3.0; 

Dec.5· 7: 8:00; Dec.8: 2:30 & 8:00. 171 

Town Centre Blvd, Markham. 905-305· 

7469. $39.50-$45. 

Theatre Centre. Body Geometry: the 7th 

Angel lnter·media event incorporating new 

music, film, aerial dance, spoken word, 

· extended voice & the circus arts. Jane 

Miller, vocals; Viv Moore, performance/ 

dance artist; Julia Sasso, dancer; John 

Kameel Farah, pianist/composer; Kayt 

Lucas, aerial artist & other performers. 

December 5· 1 ~. Tuesday·Saturday: 8:00; 

Sundays 2:30. Theatre Passe Muraille 

Mai~space, 16 Ryerson Ave. 416·504· 

7529. $21.$16, PWYC (Dec. 5 preview & all 

Sundays). 

Theatre Non Nobis/Capricorn 9 

Production~. We Need A little Christmas. 

Musical revue. Larry Westlake, director; Flo 

Umphry, musical director. December 8: 

8:00. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front St. 

East. 416·3_66-7723. $25,$20. Proceeds in 

part to Covenant House. 

Tim Hortons. The Wizard of Oz. Family 

musical. December 21 ·23,26·28: various 

times. Oakville Centre for the Performing 

Arts, 130 Navy Street, Oakville. 905-815· 

2021. $27.99. 

Toronto Operetta Theatre. Romberg: The 

Student Prince. Elizabeth DeGracia, Stuart 

Howe, Bruce Kelly, Keith Klassen, 

performers; TOT Orchestra and Chorus; 

Robert Cooper, conductor; Guillermo Silva· 

Marin, stage director. Dec 28(pre· 

view),29,31, Jan 4,5: 8:00; Dec 30, Jan 2: 

2:00. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front St. 

East. 416·366·7723. $32-$70: 

Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Club 

Swing. Mini-musical with music by Shaw, 

Goodman, Ellington & others. Five by 

Design, vocalists; Willis Delany, conductor. 

January 7,8,9: 8:00; January 9: 2:00. Roy 

Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe. 416·593-4828. 

$25-$75. 

University of Toronto Faculty of Music. 

Opera Tea. Donizetti: l 'elisir d'amore. An 

afternoon of opera and tea on the theatre 

stage. January 20: 2:30. MacMillan 

Theatre, 80 Queen's Park. 416-978-3744. 

$25. 

Yorkminstrels. Joseph and the Amazing 

Technicolor Oreamcoat. Lyrics by Tim Rice; 

music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. David Bolt, 

Caroline Moro·Dalicandro, Darryl Hicks & 

other performers; Bach Children's Chorus; 

Virginia Reh, director. December 1: 8:00; 

December 1;2: 2:00. Leah Posluns Theatre, 

4588 Bathurst. 416·291·0600. $21,$16, 

group rates. Please bring non·perishable 

goods for the Food Bank. 

lain Scott's Opera Courses 

in support of the Opera School at the University of Toronto 

This year's Winter Course - by popular request . 

The Ten Greatest Arias 

starts Tuesday, January 15, 2002 

• ten Tuesdays - 7;00 to 9:30 pm 

llllllt I 00 metres from 1Museum subway station 

llllllt huge videc;> screen - comfortable seats 

llllllt $385 per course - seniors $335· 

• jusk ask anyone who has ta~en his courses ... 

For a Registration Form call 416-486-8408 

For information o.n Iain's TOUR OF ITALY in May 2002, call 4 I 6-221-641 I 


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December 7. 8 pm. Walter Hall. 

$20. $10 seniors/students 

Faculty Artist Series 

Cellist Shauna Ralston. violinist Scott St. John. and 

pianist Lydia Wong. perform an all-Czech program that 

includes Smetana Piano Trio; Martinu Sonata No. l for 

Violin and Piano; Martinu Sonata No. 3 for Cello and 

Piano. 

FANFARE FOR THE 

UNCOMMON WOMAN 

December 8, 8 pm. MacMillan Theatre. 


Wind Ensemble and Concert Band 

Denise Grant and Cameron Walter. conductors. Inspired 

by Aaron Copland·s famous opus. Fanfare for the 

Uncommon Woman by Joan Tower salutes women with 

uncommon courage. Also featured are works by Robin 

Engelman. Holst. Shostakovich. Vaughan Wiiiiams. Bach 

and others. 

GARY WILLIAMSON AND 

FRIENDS 

January 18, 8 pm. Waller Hall. 


Faculty Artist Series 

Jazz pianist Gary Wiiiiamson Joins Kevin Turcotte, Perry . 

White and Terry Clarke in an effervescent session on the 

Faculty Artist Serles. 

A LITTLE LOVE POTION 

January 20, 2:30 pm. MacMillan Theatre. 

$25 

Opera Tea 

An afternoon of opera·and tea on the theatre stage. 

featuring Donizetti"s L'ellslr d'amore. Sponsored by the 

Julie-Jiggs Foundation. 

MARTIN ISEPP JOHNR.STRATIONVISITINGARTIST 

MASTER CLASSES 

January 22 & 25, 11 am. Waller Hall. Free 

Plano and vocal duos 

January 23 & 29, 11 am. Waller Hall. Free 

Opera 

Distinguished British conductor, vocal coach and 

pianist. Martin lsepp has conducted the Canadian 

· Opera Company, Washington Opera and Orchestre de 

Picardle. France. He has worked with the Young Artists 

Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera. and 

has been head of opera training at the Juilliard School. 

head of the music staff at the Glyndebourne Festival 

Opera and head of music at England·s National Opera 

Studio. 

HELMUTH RILLING 

MASTER CLASS 

February 1, 12: l 0 pm. Waller Hall. 

Free 

Featuring the Elmer lseler Singers and MacMillan 

Singers in Haydn's Creation 

Artistic Director and conductor of the Oregon Bach 

Festival and the International Bach Academy Stuttgart. 

Helmuth Riiiing is world renowned for his interpretations 

of Bach"s cantatas and choral works. He has conducted 

most major orchestras in Eastern and Western 

Europe. Asia. Canada. and the United States and has 

commissioned such composers as Krzysztof Penderecki. 

Arva Part. Robflrt Le"'.in. Osvaldo Golijov: and Tan Dun. 

24 wholenote DECEMBER 1, 2001 -- JANUARY 31, 2002 

Cqn1prehensive Concert Listings 

·,[· 

Readers please note: ~r~senters' plans change; & we make mistakes! Please 

:.. use the eh~ne numbers provided to call ahead. for Jazz dub listings; see 

page 19. for full music theatre and opera listings, see pages 22·23. For events 

"furthe~ afield'' (just outside the GT A) see pages 46-47, . And for a handy 

alphabetical list of presenters and venues, see page 47-48. 

December 

Angus Sinclair (St Paul's, 

London) Works by Bales, 

Atkinson, Whyte and Cabena 

Edward Moroney 

(St Andrew's Church, Scarb.) 

NO RECITALS until 2002 

Ashley Tidy 

Thomas Filches (Church of 

St Clement, Eglinton) 

Peter Nikiforuk (St Peter's 

Lutheran Church, K,itchener) 

Bach: "Wedge" Prelude and 

Fugueine , 

William Maddox (Yorkminster 

Park Baptist Church, Toronto) 

Saturday December 0 I 

- 12:00 noon: Royal Conservatory of 

Music Community School. Lobby Concert. 

Informal concert featuring RCM students of 

all ages & levels. 273 Bloor St. West. 416· 

408-2824 ext.321. Free. 

- 2:00: Canadian Children's Opera ' 

Chorus. A little Seasoning. Works by 

Holman, Daley & Vaughan Williams. CCOC 

and Apprentice Choruses; guests: David 

Hetherington, cello; Susan Hoeppner, flute; 

Beverly Johnston, percussion & other 

performers; Ann Cooper Gay, artistic/music 

director. George Weston Recital Hall, 5040 

Yonge St. 416-870-8000. $15,$20; \ 

$12,$15(st/sr). 

- 5:00: Kiwanis Music Festival. An 

Evening with Lynette and friends. Stars of 

the Festival. St. James' Cathedral, 65 Church 

St. 416· 231·1841. $10. Benefit in support of 

Sleeping Children Around the World. · 

- 7:00: Etobicoke Community Concert 

Band. Christmas Toonies family Concert. 

John Edward' Liddle, conductor. Humber .. 

College Auditorium, 3199 lakl!Shore,Blvd. 

West. 416-201-7093. $2. 

- 7:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. 

Vasks: Cantabile for Strings; Mozart: Piano 

Concerto #22; Schmidt: Symphony #4. 

Angela Hewitt, piano; Yakov Kreizberg, 

conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe. 

416-593-4828. $26-$90. 

- 7:00: Viva! Youth Singers of Toronto. 

Christmas Concert. Trinity-St. Paul's Church, 

Bohemia 

THE GUARANc;~~c~~¥~~~~ 

Sat. Dec. 1, 2001 8 p.m. 

.OF NORTH AMERICA 

Guest Artists: Jamie P;i.rker 

Anton Dvorak's New World Symphony, Symphony No. 9, 

Sergej Rachmaninov's Piano Concerlo No. 2. 

The Littlest Angels 

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427 Bloor St. West. 416· 788-8482. 

$15,$10. 

- 7:30: Arcady Choir and Strings. 

Welcome Yule! Ron Beckett, conductor: 

Clarkson Christian Reformed Church, 1880 , 

Lak~shore Rd. West. 905-923· 7262. 

$15,$10. 

- 7:30: Canadian Concert & Recital 

Artists. Holiday Tapestry. Christmas 

favourites old & new. Carolynne & Daniel 

Godin; Deborah Overes; Claude Soulodre; Tim 

Stiff; Maria Thorburn; All The King's Voices; 

Jenny Grober, piano. St. John's Norway 

Church, 470 Woodbine. 416-691-9832. 

$20,$15. 

- 7:30: Concertsingers. Nowell! T~ompson: 

The Nativity According to St. Luke; works by 

Howells, Mathias, Rutter & Willcocks. Paul 

Jenkins, organ; Lenard Whiting, music 

director. St. George's Church, 77 Randall Dr., 

Pickering Village; Ajax. 4l6-769-7991. 

$12,$8. 

- 7:30: Heather and David Keith. 

Sentiments & Sugarplums. Handbell solos & 

duets. Joanne Mclennan, accompanist. St. 

Andrew's Presbyterian Church, 115 St. 

Andrew's Road. 905-201-1492. $5. 

- 7:30: Oakville Children's Choir. Winter is 

in the Air. Seasonal favourites. Oakville 

Centre for the Performing Arts, 130 Navy 

Street, Oakville. 905-815-2021. $17.99. 

- 7:30: Yorkminster Citadel. Community 

Christmas Concert. Bells of Guildwood; 

Yorkll]inster Songsters & Band & other 

musicians. Salvation Army Yorkminster 

Citadel, 1 Lord Seaton Rd. 416-222-9110. 

$10,$5. 

- 8:00: Aradia Ensemble. In nativitatem 

Domini canticum. Charpentier: Christmas 

motets. Tracy Smith Bessette, Christine 

Stelmacovitch, John Tessier, Brian Duyn, 

Robert Stewart, soloists; Kevin Mallon, 

director. Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St. 

West. 416-205-5555. $25, $22(sr); $13(st). 

- 8:00: Cantores Celestes Women's 

Choir. love's Pure Light. Music by Holst, 

Mechem & Rutter. Trillium Brass Quintet; 

Jacqueline Goring, harp; Ellen Meyer, piano; 

Kelly Galbraith, director. Runnymede United 

Church, 432 Runnymede. 416-236-1522. 

$15. 

- 8:00: Counterpoint Community 

Orchestra. Offenbach: La Vie Parisienne 

Overtu.re; Stellings/Gershwin: Porgy and Bess 

Cello Rhapsody; Dvorak: Symphony #5 From 

the New World. Or. Alan Stellings, cello; Terry 

Kowalczuk, conductor. Betty Oliphant 

Theatre, 404 Jarvis St. 416-925-9872 

ext.20,66. $14(advance), $17(door). 

- 8:00: Earsbot. JewelBox. Works by 

Denning, Good, Grella-Mozejko, Kurtag, 

Matey & Weinzweig. Onyx Wind Quintet; 

John Kameel Farah, piano. St. George-the· 

Martyr Church, 197 John. 416-204-1080. 

$15,$ 10. 

- 8:00: H~rt House Sympbonic Band. 

Symphonic Dances. Music by Porter, 

Prokofiev, Shostakovitch & Bernstein. Keith 

Reid, conductor. Great Hall, 7 Hart House 

Circle. 416-978-5362. Free. 

- 8:1:JO: Jubilate Singers. Christmas 

Controsts. Hatfield: Missa: Our Lady of the 

Snows; music by Villa-Lobos, Mompou & 

Rodrigo. Isabel Bernaus, couductor; Sherry 

Squires, accompanist. St. Leonard's Church, 

25 Wanless Ave. 416-297-8818. $15,$12, 

$ lO(children under 12). 

- 8:00: Mississauga Symphony 

Orchestra. Bohemia. Rachmanino.v: Piano 

Concerto #2; Dvorak: Symphony #9 New 

World. Jamie Parker, piano; John Barnum, 

conductor. Hammerson Hall, Living Arts 

Centre, 4141 Livin.11 Arts Drive. 905-306· 

6000. $40,$30. 

- 8:00: Oriana Singers. December's Rose. 

Works by von Bingen, Handel, Schafer, 

Csonka, Thompson, Holman, Runswick, 

Coghlan. Sanya Eng, harp; Lynn Janes, 

soprano; St. John's York Mills Anglican 

Church Brass Handbell Choir. Grace Church 

on-the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale Rd. 416-742-7006. 

$18, $15,$8(sr/st). ' 

- 8:00: Toronto Chamber Choir. Make We 

Joy Now! The Medieval Muse in Modern 

Days. Britten: Ceremony of Carols; wcirks by 

Joubert, Holman, Ager and Willan. Julia 

Seager, harp; David Fallis, director. 7:00: Pre· 

concert lecture. Christ Church Deer.Park, 

. 1570 Yonge St.416-968-1338. $16-$25, 

pre-concert lecture $5. • 

- 8:00: Toronto Tabla Ensemble. Blend of 

South Asian rhythms with music & dance 

styles from around the world. du Maurier 

Theatre Centre, 231 Queen's Quay West. . 

416-9734000. $18-$25. 

- 8:00: University of Toronto Faculty of 

Music. U. of T. Guitar Ensemble Holiday 

Celebration. Music by Bach, Zenamon & 

Beauvais; holiday favourites. Drew Henderson 

& Timothy Smith, solo guitars; Steven 

Thachuk, artistic director. Walter Hall, 80 

Queen's Park. 416-978-2744. Free. 

- 8:00: York Symphony Orchestra. 

Triumph and Tragedy. Beethoven: Symphony 

#3; Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini. 

Roberto Oe Clara, conductor. Burton 

Auditorium, York University, 4700 Keele St. 

416-410-0860. $20,$15, $5 children under 

12. 

Sunday December 02 

- 1 :00: Harbourfront Centre. Cushion 

Concerts: Stewart Goodyear, piano. E.E. 

Cummings: Little Tree. Barbara Budd, 

narrator. du Maurier Theatre Centre, 231 

Queen's Quay West. 416-9734000. $8. 

- 1 :00: Oakville Children's Choir. Winter is 

in the Air. Oakville Centre for the Performing 

Arts. See December 1. 

-1:30: CAMMAC/McMichael Gallery. 

Sunday Concert: Rosemary Galloway and 

.9L CeCtic .Cliristma3 

3:00 p.m. Sunday, December 2, 2001 

:Mi[[e :Faifte - a tfwusana wefcomes -from Camerata ana 

Ce{tic fiarpist Janet (jaaes/i:j, togetfier witfi 'Toronto 

composer Vanie{ Sargent in. 5l Sfiepera's :Meaitatwn . ana 

tfie Canaaian premieres of work§ 6y Irisfi composer 

:Micfiae{ :Mc(j{ynn, Ceaaer of 5lnuna of 'Rjverdance fame. 

(jrace Cfiurcfi-on-tlie-Jfi[{ 

300 .Lonscfa{e 'R.gaa · comer of 'l(usse{[ :Hi££ 'R.gaa 

near St C{air 'West statwn 

Tickets $15/$12 

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Friends. 10365 Islington, Kleinburg. 905-893· 

1121. $9,$7, $20{family), under 5 free. 

- 2:00: Harbourfront Centre. Sunday 

Concert: Katherine Wheatley. lakeside 

Terrace, York Quay Centre, 235 Queens Quay 

West. 416-973-3000. Free. 

:..._ 2:00: Sinfonia Mississauga/Merriam 

, School of Music. Holiday Celebration. 

Classical, jazz & Latin. John Barnum, 

conductor. Royal Bank Theatre, living Arts 

Centre, 4141 living Arts Drive. 905-306· 

6000. $27.50,$25. 

- 2:00: The New Guitar. Annual Fund 

Raising Concert. Brown: Fugue; Dodgson: 

Follow The Star; Takemitsu: A Boy Named 

Hiroshima: Wingfield: Teyata. Michael 

Bracken,. Steven Wingfield, William Beauvais, 

John Gzowski & James Brown, guitars. 

Edward Day Gallery, 33 Hazelton Ave. 416· 

2524792. $20,$15. 

- 2:30 & 7:30: Scarborough Bel Canto 

Choir. The Touch of Christmas. Songs to suit 

the season; instrumental selections. Guests: 

Kwan String Quartet. St. Dunstan of 

Canterbury Church, 56 Lawson Rd., West Hill. 

416-757-9590. $12. Proceeds to The Kids 

Help Phone. 

- 2:30: Opera in Concert. Bellini· La 

Straniera. Frederique ·vazina, Anita Krause, 

Stuart Howe, Sung T aek Chung, performers; 

Opera in Concert Chorus, Robert Cooper, 

director; Sandra Horst, music director and 

pianist. 1 :45: Pre-concert chat with lain 

Scott. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front St. 

East. 416-366·7723. $28,$22. 

- 2:30: Royal Conservatory of Music. 

Family Series. Stravinsky: Pulcinella. 

Academy Chamber Orchestra; Rennie Regehr, 

conductor and narrator. Ettore Mazzoleni 

Concert Hall, 273 Bloor St. West. 416·408· 

2824 x321. $10,$5. · • 

- 3:00: Amadeu·s Choir. Festivity New and 

Old. New seasonal music by winners of the 

Amadeus Choir's 15th Annual Christmas 

Carol and Chanukah song writing competition. 

Bach Children's Chorus; True.North Brass; 

Lydia Adams, conductor. George Weston 

Recital Hall, 5040 Yonge St. 416-870-8000. 

$35,$30; $30,$25(sr/st). 

- 3:00: Blessed Trinity liturgical Choir. 

Nine lessons and Carols. Spoken word and 

its related music; choreographed dernonstra· 

lion of each of the 9 lessons. Guests: Dance 

Department of the Cardinal Carter Academy 

of the Arts; Blessed Trinity Children's Choir. 

Blessed Trinity Church, 3220 Bayview Ave. 

416· 226-0262. $ 5, children free. 

- 3:00: Markham Concert Band. Music of 

the season; carol sing-along. Dr. Diana Brault, 

· director. Markham Theatre for Performing 

Arts, 171 T9wn Centre Blvd. 905·305·7469. 

$15,$10, family rates. 

- 3:00: Sunudo. Robert.Creeley LXXV. 

Kasemets: Echoes of a life: Chronologue; 

Two Airs & Five Mirrors; Numbers/Digits; 

Signs; selected poems. Robert Creeley, 

reader/poet; Udo Kasemets, piano; Susan 

layard, singer/speaker; Richard Sacks, 

marimba; Linda Catlin Smith, speaker/chanter. 

Emmanuel C~llege, Victoria Univ~rsity, 75 


- 3:00: Toronto Camerata Chamber 

Choir.A Celtic Christmas. Works by McGlynn 

{Canadian premiere); Sargent: A Shepherd's 

Meditation. Janet Gadeski, harp; Melva 

T 

reffinger Graham, artistic director. Grace 

Church on·the·Hill, 300 Lonsdale Rd.416· 

534-2493. $15,$12. 

- 7:00: Roy Thomson Hall. The Kirov 

Orchestra. 'Debussy: la Mer; Rachmaninoff: 

Piano Concerto #4; Stravinsky: Firebird. Alex 

Slobodyanik, piano; Valery Gergiev,. 

conductor. 60 Simcoe St. 416·8724255. 

$46-$86. 

- 7:30: North York Singers. Christmas at 

the Abbey. Gary Heard, music director. 

Loretto Abbey, 101 Mason Blvd. 905-893· 

9626. $15,$12. 


Triumph and Tragedy. Se.e December 1, 

Markham Theatre; 171 Town Centre Blvd. 

905-305· 7469. 

- 8:00: Flying Cloud Folk Club. Curly Boy 

Stubbs & Friends. Guests:-Lorrainne 

MacDonald, Nonie Crete, Trev or Mills, bass & 

others. TRANZAC, 292 Brunswick Ave. 416· 

410,3655. $12,$10 . . 

- 8:00: Music Gallery. Baker/Marshall Duo. 

·CD release concert for Chiaroscuro. St. 

George·the·Martyr Church, 197 John. 416· 

204· 1080. $15{includes CD). 

- 8:00: Rosedale United Church. Strong 

Women. Excerpts from plays by Murrell & 

Findlay accompanied by songs that capture 

the flavour & period of each excerpt. Martha 

Henry, actor; The Ginger Group; The Rosedale 

Soloists; Wayne Strongman, director. 159 

Roxborough Drive. 416-924-0725 ext.36. 

$30,$25. 

Monday December 03 

- 7:30: Scarborough Community Concert 

Band. Various seasonal music & sing-along. 

Livingston lodge, 65 Livingston Rd. 416· 724· 

8989. Free. 

- 7:30: St. James' Cathedral.11th Annual 

LOFT Community Services Christmas Fund 

Raising Concert. Nathaniel Dell Chorale; 

Russell Braun, baritone; Trillium Brass & 

other performers; Karen Kain, Master of 

Ceremonies; Christopher Dawes, artistic 

director. 65 Church St. 416·979-1994. 

$30,$100. 

- 8:00: Canadian Opera Company. 

Sartorio: Giulio Cesare in'Egitto. Roger 


Honeywell, Krisztina SzabO, Colleen Skull, 

Martha Guth, Shannon Mercer & other 

singers; Gary Thor Wedow, conductor. 

Imperial Oil Opera Theatre, Tanenbaum Opera 

Centre, 227 Front St. East. 416-363-8231. 

$45. For complete run see Musii: Theatre 

listings. 

- 8:00: Cantabile Chorale of York Region. 

Joy of Christmas. Carols and seasonal music 

with audience participation. Fran Harvey, 

trumpet; Robert Richardson, conductor. 

Thornhill United Church, 16 Elgin St. 905· 

731-8318. Silent offering & donations to 

Richmond Hill food bank .. 

- 8:00: East York Concert Band. Christmas 

Concert. Popular seasonal favourites; 

inspirational carols; Christmas' sing-along. 

Ernie Walker, conductor. Blue Danube 

Restaurant, 1686 Ellesmere Rd. 416·266· 

1958. $10, children 12 & under free. 

- 8:00: Jazz.FM91. Sound of Toronto Jazz. 

George Gallus Trio. Ontario Science Centre 

Auditorium, 770 Don Mills Rd. 416·696· 

1000. $10. . 

- 8:00: Music Gallery. Bella Donna: Music 

for 14 Roses. Debussy: Les chansons de 

Bilitis; Takemitsu: Bryce; Bach: Cello Suite 

#1; Bax: Elegiac Trio. Francine Labelle, 

narrator; Camille Watts & Shelly Brown, 

flutes; Lori Gemmell & Julia Seager, harps; 

Rachel Thomas, trombone & other 

performers. St. George·the·Martyt Church, 

197 John. 416-204-1080. $15,$10. 

- 8:00: Toronto Theatre Organ Society/ 

Kiwanis Club of Casa ·Loma. Wurlitzer Pops 

at Casa Loma. Dave Wickerham, organ. 1 

~!.~ Gould 

, Studio 

Austin Terrace. 416-870-8000. $14. 

- 8:00: Virtuosi di Toronto. Sergei 

Slovachevsky, cello & Fabio Mastrang,elo, 

piano inRecital Mendelssohn: 2 Sonatas; 

Song Without Words Op.109. Glenn Gould 

Studio, 250 Front St. West. 416·205·5555. 

$20,$10. . Jf!c? 

Tuesday December 04 

- 12:30: York University Departme'M of ., 

· Music. Chamber Music Ensembles.' "' 

Mclaughlin Performance Hall, 050 Mclaughlin 

College, 4700 Keele St. 4.16-736-5186. Free. 

- 1 :00: St. James' Cathedral. lunch Hours 

at St. James'.· Angus Sinclair, organ. Music 

by Bales, Atkinson, Whyte & Cabena.'65 

Church St. 416·364· 7865 ext.224. Free. 

.- 7:30: Theatre Aquarius/Markham 

Theatre for Performing Arts. Joseph & the 

Amazing TechnicolorDreamcoat. Andre~ 

Lloyd Webber's classic musical. 171 Towli 

Centre Blvd, Markham. 905-305-7469. 

$39.50-$45. For complete run see Music. . 

Theatre listings. 

- 7:30: Toronto Symphony Youth 

Orchestra. Wagner: Overture to The, Flying 

Dutchman; Ho: On the Wing; Sibelius: Violin . 

Concerto Op.47, 1st movt.; Shostakovich: 

Symphony #5 OpA7. Joan'na Tang, violin; 

Susan Haig, conductor. George Weston 

Recital Hall, 5040 Yonge St. 416-870-8000. 

$20,$15: 

- 8:00: Aldeburgh Connection/U of T 

Faculty of Music. Young Artists Recital 

Katherine Whyte, soprano; Megan Latham, 

GUITAR •.I 

SERIES 

·Tuesday, Decemb~r 4/0 I 

at8pm 

Canadian Guitar Quartet 

Philip Candelaria, 

Denis Donegani, 

Patrick Roux, 

Louis Trepanier 

. . 

Introducing the brilliant new Canadian Guitar Quartet! 

Reviews of their first CD in the May/June issue of Fanfare 

Magazine were sensational. "I would certainly buy tickets to 

hear these musicians play these pieces. : . superbly performed 

and recorded." (Robert McColley) Tonight's concert features 

quartets from their CD and more, including the evocative 

music of Quebec's Patrick Roux. 

' 

SINGLE TICKETS $30. 

Glenn Gould Studio Box Office (416) 205-5555 

Fax (416) 205-5551 ' 

email ggstix@toronto.cbc.ca 

Glenn Gould Studio is. located at: 250 Front Street West, 

Toronto, Ontario 

in the Canadian Broadcasting Centre 

\ 

cec~if radiQ)NE 

- i •

mezzo; Steven Erickson, tenor; Peter 

McGillivray, baritone; Stephen Ralls, piano. 

Walter Hall, 80 Queen's Park. 416-978-3744. 

$12,$6. 

- 8:00: Bud~ies in Bad Times Theatre. 

Real Live Girl Damien Atkins performs show 

of ;ongs o;iginally written for women. 12 

Alexander St. 416-975-8555. $121opening). 

For•complete run see music theatre listings. 

- 8:00: Elgin Theatre. Snow White and the 

Magnificent Seven. Starring Melissa 

Thomson, Graham Abbey, Ross Petty & Fred 

Penner: 189 Yonge St. 416-872-5555. For 

complete run see. Music Theatre listings. 

-'- 8:00: Music.Toronto. Anagnoson & Kinton, 

piano duo. Saint-Saens: Danse Macabre; 

Hatzis: Old Photographs from Constantinople, 

arr. for 2 pianos; Infante: Three Dances from 

Andalusia; Brahms: Sonata in f Op.34b. Jane 

Mallett Theatre, 27 Front St. East. 416-366- 

7723. $43,$39; 18-35 pay your age; students 

$5/accompanying adult 1 /2 price. 

- 8:00: OnStage. Canadian Guitar Ouartet. 

Quartets by Roux & others. Phifip Candelaria, 

Denis Donegani, Patrick Roux, Louis Trepanier, 

guitars; Eric Friesen, host. Glenn llould Studio, 

250 Front St. West. 416-205-5555. $30. 

Wednesday December 05 

- 10:30am & 1 :00: George Brown Theatre. 

S Toronto 

~phony 

. J/OUfh 

,t:)rchestra 

Aesop's Adventure. Directed by James Simon. 

Thursday December 06 

Annual children's show featuring music, dance 

& action. Suitable for children 3 & up. Hart - 12:10: St. Paul's-Anglican Church. Eric 

House Theatre, 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978- Robertson, organ in Recital 227 Bloor St. East. 

8668. $8, group rates. For complete run see 416-961-8116. Free. 

Music Theatre listings. 

- 12:10: Universi·ty of Toronto Faculty of 

- ~ 2:00 noon: Hart House Music Music. Thursdays at Noon: fatly Music 

Committee. Sara Hahn, Dute in Recital 7 Hart Ensemble. Student performances. Walter Hall, 

House Circle. 416·978-5362. Free. 

80 Queen's Park. 416-978-3744. Free. 

-12:00 noon: Rachel Persaud; soprano & - 8:00: Music Gallery. BrigittePoulin-MTlP 

Peter Treen, piano. Music by Handel, Mozart (Montreal Piano}. Works by Bouliane, Rea, 

& Burleigh. All-Saints KingsWay Church, 2850 Cherney, Harley, Ferguson & de Viller. St. 

Bloor St. West. 416-233-1125. Free. George-the-Martyr Church, 197 John. 416- 

- 12:30: York University Department of . 204-1080. $15,$10. 

Music. Chamber Music Ensembles. Mclaughlin - 8:00i Royal Conservatory of Music. Glenn 

Performance Hall, 050 Mclaughlin College, GouldArtist Series. Mozart: Sonata in D; 

4700 Keele St. 416-736-5186. Free. Antheil: Sonata No.4; Ives: Sonata No.4; 

- 12:30: Yorkminster Park Baptist Church. Children's Day at the Camp Meeting; R. 

Giles Bryant, organ & Beverley Bryant, soprano Strauss: Sonata in E flat. Mark Fewer, violin; 

in Recital 1585 Yonge St. 416-922-11.67. P1tter Longworth, piano. Ettore Mazzoleni 

Free. Concert Hall, 273 Bloor St. West. 416-408- 

- 8:00: Radio-Canada CJBC 860AM. Conte 2824 x321. $15,$12. 

do Noel de Charles Oickens. French version of - 8:00: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra. 

the Charles Dickens Christmas Carol, adapted V!Va L 'Italia! Marcello: Oboe Concerto in d; 

by Philippe Marcoux. Choir Les Voix du coeur; 

French radio announcers. Glenn Gould Studio, 

250 Front St. West. 416-205-3581. $15. 

Proceeds to needy francophone families in 

Toronto. · 

- 8:00: Theatre Centre. Body Geometry: the 

1th Angel Inter-media event incorporating new 

music, film, aerial dance, spoken word, 

extended voice & the circus arts. Jane Miller, 

vocals; Viv Moore, performance/dance artist; 

Julia Sasso, dancer; John Kameel Farah, 

pianist/composer; Kayt Lucas, aerial artist & 

other performers. Theatre Passe Muraille 

Mainspace, 16 Ryerson Ave. 416-504-7529. 

PWYC !preview). For complete run see music 

theatre listings. 


Ives: Decoration Day from New England 

Holidays; Beethoven: Violin Concerto; 

Debussy: Prelude a l'apr~s-midi d'un faune; 

Stravinsky: Symphony in 3 Movements. Gil 

Shaham, violin; Sir Andrew Davis, conductor. 

Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe. 416-593- 

4828. $26-$90. 

- 8:30: University cit Toronto Faculty of 

Music. A Night of Vocal Jazz Solos. Walter 

Hall, 80 Queen's Park. 416-978-3744. Free. 

- 9:00 & 10: 15: Mezzetta Cafe Restaurant. 

Martin Van de Ven & Brian Katz, Klezmer duo. 

681 St. Clair Ave. West. 416-658-5687. $8. 

Susan Haig 

Conductor 

Joanna Tang 

Violin 

Richard Wagner -.Overture to The Flying Dutchman 

Alice Ho - On the Wing 

Jean Sibelius - Violin Concerto, Opus 47 

(First Movement) 

Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5, Opus 47 

Tuesday, December 4, 7:30 pm 

George Weston Recital Hall, . 

Toronto Centre for the Performing Arts 

TICKETS: ADULTS $20 STUDENTS I SENIORS $15 

416-593-7769 ext. 372 Group Rates Available 

Albinoni: Oboe Concerto in d; works by Vivaldi, 

DECEMBER 1, 2001 - JANUARY 31, 2002

Locatelli, Geminiani; John Abberger, Marco 

Cera, baroque oboes. Trinity·St. Paul's Church, 

427 Bloor St. West. 416·964·6337. $20·$55. 

- 8:00: Toronto Centre for the Arts. 

Chanticleer. All·male a cap pell a choir. 

Christmas program. George Weston Recital 

Hall, 5040 Yonge St. 416·870·8000. $32· 

$55. 

- 8:00: TSO. Roy Thomson Hall.,See 

Decemb·er 5. 

Friday December 07 

- 12:00 noon: Roy Thomson Hall. A. 

Dickens Christmas. Elora Festival Singers; 

Michael Bloss, organ; Colin Fox, narrator; 

Noel Edison, conductor. 60 Simcoe St. 416· 

872-4255. Free. 

- 7:30: Children's Art Institute. ' 

Fundrafsing Solidarity Concert for Orphan 

Children of the South of Peru. T affanel Wind 

Ensemble; Paul Sanvidotti, trumpet; Paul 

Valikoski, violin; Classique String T~io; Irene' 

Wong, piano. Metro Hall Council Chamber, 

55 John St.416·413·9497. $30, children 5 . 

& under free; d·onations welcome. 

- 7:30: Montgomery's Inn. Family 

Christmas Sing Alling. Christmas favourites, 

children's songs, & choruses; instrumental 

solos. Michel Allard, performer. Geared to 

children aged 3 to 12. 4709 Dundas St. West. 

416-394·8113. $5(adult), $3(ages 3· 12) . . 

- 7:30: Oakville Symphony/Oakville 

Ballet Company. The Nutcracker. Oakville 

Centre for the Perfoiining Arts, 130 Navy 

Street, Oakville. 905-815-2021. $23.99. For 

ELMER 

I 

HANDEL'S 

complete run see music theatre listings. 

- 8:00: Elmer lseler Singers. Handel· 

Messiah. Leslie Fagan, soprano; Sandra 

Graham, alto; Mark DuBois, tenor; Mark 

Pedrotti, bass; with orchestra; Lydia Adams, 

conductor. St. James' Cathedral, 65 Church 

St. 416-217-0537. $35,$30. 

- 8:00: Etobicoke Centennial Choir. 

Christmas Concert .. Vaughan Williams: Hodie; 

traditional carols & seasonal music. Dr. Harris 

Loewen, conductor. Humbercrest United 

Church, 16 Baby Point Rd. 416·239· 1131 

ext.49. $15. 

- 8:00: Juan Tomas & Friends. Benefit 

Concert for the Victims' Families of the WTC 

Disaster. Variety show of jazz, classical & 

oldies. Carolyn Vadum, jazz singer; Juan 

Tomas, flamenco guitar; Juliette Kennedy, 

Maryse Clouties, Rea Paulite & Henry Cuffy, 

vocalists. Armour Heights Church, 105 Wilson 

Ave. 416·485·4000. $15. Proceeds to the 

WTC Disaster Assistance • Church World 

Service New York. 

- 8:00: Opera Mississauga. Benefit 

Concert: Night of a Thousand Stars. Comedy, 

song & dance. Anna Shafajinskaia, Gary 

Relyea, Quartetto Gelato, Igor Emelianov, 

Amelia Watkins & other performers. 

Hammerson Hall, Living Arts Centre, 4141 

Living Arts Drive. 905·306-6000. $28·$96. 

- .8:00: Roy Thomson Hall. Canadian Brass 

Christmas. Light classics, jazz & seasonal 

tunes from Bach to Dixieland. 60 Simcoe St. 

416-872-4255. $29-$55. 

- 8:00: Tafelmusik. Viva l '/talia! Trinity·St. 

Paul's Church. See Dec 6. 

Lydia Adams, Conductor 

. 

The magnificence of the beloved oratorio Messiah 

will thrill the audience in the awe-inspiring acoustics 

of St. James' Cathedral. Order early for this "new 

Toronto tradition" as four outstanding Canadian 

s9loists and the Elmer Iseler Singers join forces to 

present this glorious event 

Special Guest Artists: 

Leslie F~gan, Soprano • Sandra Graham, Alto 

Mark Dubois, Tenor• Mark Pedrotti, Bass 

The performance will be accompanied by orchestra. 

FI":lday, December 7, 2001, 8:00 p.m. 

St. James' Cathedral, King & Church Streets 

28 wholenote 

Tickets: $35 and $30 

Call 416-217-0537 

- 8:00: Toronto Centre for the Arts. An 

Evening with Branford Marsalis, jazz 

saxophone. George Weston Recital Hall, 

5040 Yonge St. 416·870-8000. $48-$6d. 

- 8:00: Toronto Jazz Orchestra/Toronto 

Youth Wind Orchestra. Cuban Fire. Cuban 

Fire Suite; Afro-Cuban Big Band music. 

Guests: Rodrigo Chavez & Chendy Leon, 

percussion. Brigantine Room, 235 Que'ens 

Quay West. 416-899·5299. $15,$12. 


Music. Shauna Rolston, cello; Scott St. 

John, violin; Lydia Wong, piano. Smetana: 

Piano trio;'Martinu: Sonata for violin #1; 

cello sonata #3. Walter Hall, 80 Queen's 

Park. 416-978-3744. $20,.$10. 

Saturday December 08 

- 12:00 noon: Royal Conservatory of. 

Music Community School. lobby Concert. 

Informal concert featuring RCM students of all 

, ages & levels. 273 Bloor St. West. 416-408· 

2824 ext.321. Free. 

- 1 :30 & 3:30: TSO. A.Flicker.of light On a 

Christmas Night. Musical celebration of 

holiday traditions from around the world. 

Platypus Theatre; Peter Duschenes, actor. 

Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe. 416-593· 

4828. $25. 

- 2:00: Victoria·Royce Church. Second 

Saturday Concert: My Favourite Things. Music' ' 

by Handel, Mozart, Berg & Gershwin. Susan 

Murphy, soprano; Peter Treen, piano; special 

guests. 190 Medland St. 416· 769-6176. Free· 

will offering. 

,•. 

- 7:30: Alexander Singers. Festive Conceit. 

Mendelssohn: Elijah (excerpts); excerpts from 

operas, famous duets, songs; sing-along. 

Angela Hawaleshka, conductor. Coldstream ·' 

Presbyterian Church, 500 Coldstream 

Ave. 416-785-0333. $12,$10, under '12 

free. 

- 7:30: Arcady Choir and Strings. Handel: 

Messiah. Ronald Beckett, conducto~. St. 

James United Church, 400 Bumhamthorpe Rd.· 

416-245-3940. $15,$10. 

- 7:3Q: Etobicoke '(outh Choir. Peace on 

Earth · A Winter Cel~bration of Music. Songs 

by Chilcott, Schram & Rutter; traditional 

Christmas music .. Intermediate and senior 

choirs; Louise Jardine, director; Pascal Du 

Perron, accompanist. St. Luke's United Church, ' 

516 The Kingsway. 416-742·3949. $10,$8, , 

$5(children under 12). 

- 7:30: Good Shepher.d Cent{". Yo Adrianne. · 

Variety benefit concert for Barr~tt House. John 

McDermott, Rik Emmett, Ron James ·& other 

performers. Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St. . 

West. 416-205-5555. $25. 

Joronto ',, .::Al'.nnonite "Gli'oir - °"Jt"j'h«nie ::Al'artin, "Gonductor 

Saturday, December 8, 2001 - 8:00 p _'m. 

Sunday, December 9, 2001 - 3:00 p:m. 

Grace Church on-the-Hill, Toronto 

:;Jfndent 

~els ~; 

°J"fi'e m.u.ric oj"Gli'ri.

- 7:30: Mississauga Children's Choir. A 

Ceremony of Carols. Britten: Ceremony of 

Carols; music by Poston, Hatfield, Rutter·& 

Chilcott. Thomas Bell, director. Royal Bank 

Theatre, Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living Arts 

Drive, Mississauga. 905·624-9704. $.15. 

- 7:30. Toronto Sinfonietta/Oakham 

House Choir of Ryerson University. Gloria. 

Mozart: Mass in C Coronatiorr. Rutter: Gloria. 

Matthew Jaskiewicz, conductor .. Blqor Street 

United Church, 300 Bloor St. West. 41641 O· 

4379. $22,$18. 

- 7:30: Village Voices. Festive Celebration. 

Handel: Messiah, Part 1; seasonal music 

..-~~~~~~~~~~~...., 

TALLIS CHOIR 

"2001-2002 Season 

Peter Walker, Director 

MONTEVERDI: 

Yespers 

of 

Christmas Eve 

with the Talisker Players, . 

& Jurgen Petrenko, organ 

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8 

8:00 p.m. 

St. Martin-in-the-Fields 

151 Glenlake just east of Keele 

1 block north of Bloor/Keele subway 

For information call 

416-929-0311or416-691-8621 

Tickets - $20 & $16 at the .door 

including traditional carols with audience 

participation. Cathy1 Robinson, soprano; Judith 

Young, contralto; A'pollo Chamber Orchestra; 

Joan Andrews, conductor. Central United 

Church, 131 Main St., Unionville. 9054 J7. 

1531. $12, children under 12 free. 

- 7:30: Weston Silver Band. Christmas 

Concert. Guest: Joyce Sullivan, vocalist; David 

Craig, Master of Ceremonies; Ron Clayson, 

conductor. Central United Church, Weston 

Road at King Street. 416·2924646. $10,$8 

- 8:00: Acoustic Harvest folk Club. 0 . 

Brother Where Art Thou theme show. Birch 

Cfiff United Church, 33 East Road. 416·264- 

2235. $12. 

DtlO · 

December 8 at 8 pm 

with ANNEX SINGERS 

l~'I11le1111,orel 

Mylene Guay.- baroque flute 

David Sandall - harpsic)J.ord 

with special quest 

Deborah Paul Howell 

baroque violin 

In a program of musk by: 

Bach - Leclair - Handel 

Saturday Decemb~r 8 

·S:OOpm 

Trinity College Chapel 

6 Hoskin Avenue, Toronto 

TIC Museum 

- 8:00: Annex Singers. In the Region of the 

Winter Stars. Bach: Cantata #1 Wie Schon 

leuchtet der Morgenstem; Haydn: The 

Heavens are Telling; Marcello: The Heavens 

Declare (choral arrangement by Goudge); 

Boar's Head carol; sing-along. Serena Kemball 

& Yan·Chuen Lee, soloists; Lawrence Goudge, 

director. Saint Thomas Church, 383 Huron. 

416·761-9665. $12,$8. 

- 8:00: Classic Jazz Society of Toronto. 

Marty Grosz & His Orphan Newsboys. Estonian 

House, 958 Broadview Ave."416-777-9235. 

- 8:00: Deer Park Concerts. A Gentle 

Christmas. Cantata: Uns isl ein Kind geboren; 

Charpentier: Magnificat; Song of the Birth of 

Our Lord Jesus Christ; Messe de Minuit; 

Pergolesi: Magnificat. Deer Park Vocal 

Ensemble; Stephen Candow, organ; flutes and 

strings; William Wright, director. Deer Park 

United Church, 129 St. Clair Ave. West. 416- 

481-2979. $20. 

- 8:00: Duo L'lntemporel. Music by Bach, 

Leclair & Handel. Mylene Guay, baroque flute; 

Davi·d Sandall, harpsichord; guest: Deborah 

Paul Howell, baroque violin. The Chapel, Trinity 

College, 6 Hoskin Ave. 416-657·0076. 

$15,$10. 

- 8:00: Etobicoke Centennial Choir. 

Christmas Concert. Humbercrest United 

Church. See December 7 .. 

- 8:00: Etobicoke Youth Band. December 

Musicale. Guests: Etobicoke Suzuki Strings. 

Martingrove Collegiate, 59 Winterton Drive. 

416-239-9724. $5. 

- 8:00: '""assey Hall. Handel· Messiah. Les 

Violons du Roy; La Chapelle de Quebec; Isabel 

Bayrakdarian, soprano; Daniel Taylor, 

countertenor; Benjamin Butterfield, tenor; 

Peter Harvey, baritone; Bernard Labadie, 

conductor. 15 Shuter St. 416-8724255. $28- 

$48. 

- 8:00: Mississauga Festival Choir. Handel: 

Messiah Part One & Hallelujah Chorus; music 

for the season. Guests: Mississauga Festival 

Youth Choir. St. Dominic's Church, Caw1hra & 

Atwater. 4164444011. $15, $12(sr/children 

under 12). 

- 8:00: Opera Mississauga. Benefit Concert: 

Night of a Thousand Stars. Hammerson Hall. 

See Deceniber 7. 

- 8:00: Orchestra Toronto. Tchaikovsky: 

Swan Lake Suite, Op.20a; Honneger: 

Symphony No.3, 'Liturgique. Douglas Sanford, 

conductor. Leah Posluns Theatre, 4588 

Bathurst St. 416467-7142. $25,$23. 

- 8:00: Pax Christi Chorale. Ancient Noifls. 

Victoria: Missa 0 Magnum Mysterium; carols, 

customs and legends from Christmas past; 

Renaissance motets. Recordare Early Music 

Ensemble; Mary Wiens, reader; Stephanie 

Martin, conductor. Grace Church on·the-Hill, 

300 Lonsdale Rd. 416494-7889. $20,$17, 

$ 5(under 12). 

- 8:00: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra. 

Wva l '/talial Trinity·St. Paul's Church. See Dec 

6. 

- 8:00: Tallis Choir. Monteverdi: Vespers of 

Christmas Eve. Vespers of the Five Laudates. 

With soloists and orchestra. Church of St. 

Martin·in-the·fields, 151GlenlakeAve.416- 

929-0311. $20,$16. 

- 8:00: Theatre Non Nobis/Capricorn 9 

Productions. We Need A little Christmas. 

Musical revue. Larry Westlake, director; Flo 

Umphry, musical director. Jane Mallett 

Theatre, 27 Front St. East. 416·366-7723. 

$25,$20. Proceeds in part to Covenant House. 

- 8:00: Toronto Centre for the Arts. An 

Ev.ening With Branfoid Marsalis, jazz 

saxophone. George Weston Recital Hall. See 

Dec. 7. 

- 8:00: Toronto Choral Sociecy. St. 

·Nicholas. Britten: St. Nicholas; C~urtney: A 

Musicological Journey Through the Twelve 

Days of Christmas; other seasonal music. Glyn 

Evans; tenor; William O'Meara, piano; Geoffrey 

Butler, artistic director. Central Technical 

School, 725 Bathurst St. 416·B70·8000. $20. 

- 8:00: Trio Allegra. Christmas Concert. 

Female vocal trio. Anita Domachevsky, artistic 

director. St. Andrews Parish Centre, 53 

Reynolds St., Oakville. 9054 69·8695. $12. 

Proceeds to the Halton Women's Shelter & 

ARMAGH (Supportive Housing for Abused 

Women and their Children). 


Music. Wind Symphony & Concert Band. 

· Tower: Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman; 

Schoenberg: Theme and Variations, Op.43a; 

Bourgeois: Green Dragon. Denise Grant, 

Cameron Walter, conductors. MacMillan 

Theatre, 80 Queen's Park. 416·978-3744. 

$12,$6. 


- 11 :OOam: Calvin Presbyterian Church 

Choir. Bach: Christmas Oratorio Part I. With 

soloists & orchestra. 26 Delisle Ave. 416· 

923-9030. Free will offering. 

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- 2:00: Toronto Philhannonia. Happy 

Holidays. Vivaldi: Gloria; Mozart: Ave Verum 

Corpus; Anderson: Suite of Carols for String 

Orchestra; Handel: Messiah (excerpts). Kerry 

Stratton, narrator; Cardinal Carter Academy · 

for the Arts Choir; Kerry Stratton & Michael 

Lyons, conductors. George Weston Recital 

Hall, 5040 Yonge St. 416-250-3708. 

$37,$32; $32,$26(st/sr). 

- 2:00: Toronto Sinfonietta. Musical 

Galleries: Seasonal Strings. TS principal 

ensembles; art exhibitions. One Eleven 

Avenue Road. 416-410-4379. $12. 

- 3:00 & 8:00: Singing OUT! Sound Over 

Alf Waters. Traditional Christmas favourites; 

African improvisations; Haitian melodies; 

Scottish. blessings; First Nation invocations; 

boogie woogie Hanukkah. Guest: Janey Hall, 

Master of Ceremonies/jazz singer; 3-piece jazz 

ensemble. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front St. 

East. 416-924·6859. $16. 

- 3:00: Concertsingers. Nowell! Thompson: 

The Nativity According to.St. Luke; works by 

Howells, Mathias, Rutter & Willcocks. Paul 

Jenkins, organ; Lenard Whiting, music 

director. Saint Thomas's Church, 383 Huron 

St. 416-769-7991. $16,$12. 

- 3:00: Echo Women's Choir. Works by 

Beauvais; music from Asia, South Africa & 

the Republic of Georgiai antiphons by 

Hildegard of Bingen. Guest: Marie·Lynn 

Hammond, singer·songwriter; Alan Gasser & 

Becca Whitla, directors. Eastminster United 

Church, 310 Danforth Ave. 416·531.2526, 

$10,$5 un(der)waged. · 

- 3:00: Mooredale Youth Orchestra. 

Kristine Bogyo & Clare Carberry, conductors. 

Rosedale Heights School, 711 Bloor St. East. 

416·922-3714. $15,$10. 

- 3:00: Pax Christi Chorale. Ancien(Noiils. 

Grace Church on-the-Hill. See Dec. 8. 

- 3:00: Penthelia Singers. Rutter: 

Dancing Day; music by Patriquin, Daley & 

Govedas;-Christmas sing-along. Liturgical 

dancers; Lori Gemmel, harp; Mary Legge, 

conductor. Rosedale Presbyterian Church, 

129 Mount Pleasant Rd. 416-229-0522. 

$10,$5. 

- 3:00: Shevchenko Musical Ensemble. 

Christmas Concert. Prokofiev: Peter and the 

Wolf; Ouchterlony: Carol Cantata. 

Shevchenko dancers & orchestra; 

Shevchenko Choir. Yorkwoods Library 

Theatre, 1785 Finch West. 416-247-4824. 

$15,$10. 


Concerts at St. George's on-the-Hill 2001-2002 

Information: 416-463·9284 

\ 4600 Dundas Street West 

St. George's on· the-H/11 

(lsllngton & Dundas) 

Tickets: $12 Adult 

$10 Student & Seniors 

Fa 11 /Winter Concerts 

Sunday December 9th, 2001 - 4 p.m. 

The Amarilli Singers, Toronto Brass 

& The St. George's qhancel Choir 

Karen Ry'!'al - Director 

Back by popular demand, choirs and brass join 

once again in a glorious seasonal program 

(including Hanukkah). Carol singing, readings 

and a sherry & cider reception for all to enjoy 

following the concert. 

Music. Percussion Ensembles. Robin 

Engelman, director. Walter Hall, 80 Queen's 

Park. 416-978-3744. Free. 


Viva l 'Italia! Trinity-St. Paul's Church. See 

Dec 6. 

- 4:00: Concerts at St. Ge~rge's on-the· 

Hill. In Excelsis Gloria. Seasonal music, carol 

singing, readings. Amarilli Singers; Toronto 

Brass; St. George's Chancel Choir; Karen 

Rymal, director. 4600 Dundas St. West. 416- 

463-9284. $12,$10. 

- 4:00: Eglinton St. George's United 

Church. Gloria! Daley: Gloria in Excelsis; 

Holman: Five Carols; Robertson: Fanfares and 

Carols; Pinkham: Christmas Cantata. St.. 

George's Choir & Brass Quintet; Peter 

Merrick, conductor. 35 Lytton Blvd. 416-481- 

1141.$15,$12. . 

- 4:00: Toronto Classica( Singers. ~aint 

Saens: Christmas Oratorio; Handel: Messiah 

(highlights). Lena Auclair, soprano; Sandra 

Boyes, Elaine Robertson, mezzos; James 

Leatch: tenor; Bruce Kelly: bass; Talisker 

Players; Jurgen Petrenko, director. Christ 

Church Deer Park, 1570 Yonge St. 416-443- 

1490. $20,$15. • 

- 4. . St. Andrew's United Church. 

Festival of Nine lessons and Carols. Dexter 

Roberts, organ & director of music. 117 Bloor 

St. East. 416-929-0811. 

- 7:00: Mississauga Big Band Jazz 

Ensemble. A Swingin' Christmas. Living Arts 

Centre, 4141 Living Arts Drive, Mississauga. 

905-306-6000. $15. 

- 7:00: Music at Metropolitan. Carols 

United. Metropolitan Silver Band; Patricia 

Wright, organ. Metropolitan United Church, 

56 Queen St. East. 416·363·0331. Donations 

accepted. 

- 7:00: WendyOobson, soprano&Jose . '' 

Hernandez, piano in Recital Music by 

Schubert, Strauss, Faure, Verdi & others. 

Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazeltim Ave. 416-466: 

3449. $15,$10 (st.sr). 

- 7:30: Alexander Singers. Festive 

Concert. Coldstream Presbyterian 'Church. 

See December 8. 

- 7:30: All the King's Voices. Htl/Wy Taµ1Stly. 

The Choirs of 

Timothy Eaton Meltl.orial Church 

present 

Laud to 'the Nativity 

by Ottorino Respighi 

World Premiere! 

The Silent Stars 

by Andrew Ager 

A Christmas Concert with Carols for all ages 

Sunday, December 9 at 3:00 pm 

Timothy Eaton _Memorial Church 

230 St. Clair Avenue West 

Tickets: $12; family pass $40 

For information and to reserve, call 416-925-5977 

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Favouite songs and carols. Willowdale Urited 

1 Cluch,.349 KennethAve.416-225-2255. 

$15,$10 . . 

- 7:30: Choirs of Leaside United Church. 

Le"!sons and Carols. Traditional carols; music 

ow, Schelat, Simeone, Hopson & 

. C Flats Jazz Ensemble, Cynda 

'.:'fl director; Dean Perry, organ; Sharon l. 

'·Beckstead, mµsic director. Leaside United 

. Church, 822 Millwood Rd. 416425-1253. 

• Offering in support of Out of the Cold program. 

tathedral, 

, .00 pm. 

Christmas Oratotio · ~ Sai~t~Saens 

A Boy was Born ~ Britten · 

Brainerd Blyden-Taylor, Artistic Director 

Shawn Grenke, Organ The Trebles of Gr~ce Church on-the-Hill 

· &~ ~- r 

,, o.r .. ~ :rtA~r 0 

t}f!!{, 

1 , · $20 adults, $1Sstudents. 

For tickets call 416-530-4428 

featuring 

Sinf onicr Scrcrcr 

Conductor: Uwe Lieflander 

·December 13, 8:00 p.m. 

Convoc;ation Hall, 31 King'.s College Circle 

Soprano: Iris Rodrigues, Tenor: Lenard Whiting, 

Alto: Nina Scott-Stoddart, Bass: Special surprise guest 

Tickets: $20/15 416-410 1808 or 416 292 1101 

Ari Orion House Artists and Sacred Music Society co-production 

DECEMBER 1, 2001 - JAN UARY 31, 2002 wholenote 31

The New School of 

Classical Vocal Studies 

Daniel Eby, Artistic Director 

and the 

New School International 

Chorus and Orchestra 

Wm. Shookhoff, Conductor 

Proudly presents 

A Fiftieth Anniversary 

Production of 

Menotti's 

"Amahl and the 

Night Visitors" 

With Trdditional 

Christmas Music 

at the 

DuMaurier Theatre 

Harbourfront Center 

Dec. 14 at 2 pm & 8 pm 

Dec. 15 at 2 pm & 8 pm 

General Admission $25.00 

Students/Seniors $17. 50 

Call the DuMaurier Box Office 

at 416-973-4000 or 

416-968-0984 

For groups of 10 or more 


Young Artist Series: A Sing Along Christmas 

Concert. The Glenn Gould Professional School 

Choir; The Ro¥al Conservatory of Music 

Community School Repertory Chorus; Willis 

. Noble, director. Eastminster United Church, 

310 Danforth Ave. 416408·2824 x321. 

$7,$5. 

- 8:00: Orpheus Choir of Toronto. A Boy 

Was Born. Britten: A Boy Was Born; Saint· 

Saens: Christmas Oratorio. Trebles of Grace 

Church on·the·Hill; Brainerd Blyden·Taylor, 

artistic director; Shawn Grenke, organ. St. 

James' Cathedral, 65 Church St. 416·530: 

4428. $20,$15. . 


- 12: 10: St. Paul's Anglican Church. 

Clement Carelse, organ in Recital 227 Bloor 

St. East.416·961·8116. Free. 


Wagner: Overture to The Flying Dutchman; 

Haydn: Cello Concerto in C; Kodaly: Dances 

of Galanta; Dvorak: Cello Concerto in b. Yo· 

Yo Ma, cello; Sir Andrew Davis, conductor. 

Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe. 416·&93· 

4828. $45·$105. 

- 8:00: Civic Light Opera Company. Oliver! 

Musical by Lionel Bart. Joanne Kennedy, 

David Haines, Gordon Elkin, Paula Wilkie, 

Larry Gibbs & other perfonners; Joe Cascone, 

artistic director. Fairview Library Theatre, 35 

Fairview Mall Drive. 4 l 6·469·8450. $12.50 

(Thursday evening special). *SOLD OUT* For 

complete run see music theatre listings. 

._ __________ __, - 8:00: Royal Conservatory of Music 

Community School. In Voice. Music from, 

gospel & jazz traditions, seasonal selections 

and more. Adult Jazz Choir. Ettore Mazzoleni 

Concert Hall, 273 Bloor St. West. 416408· 

2824 ext.321. $5,$3. 

- 8:00: Sacred Music SocietyiWorld 

Youth Day Choir. Handel· Messiah. Iris · 

Rodrigues, soprano; Lenard Whiting, tenor; 

Nina Scott·Stoddart, alto; surprise guest 

bass; Sinfonia Sacra; Uwe Lieflander, 

conductor. Convocation Hall, 31 King's 

College Circle. 416410· 1808. $20,$15. 


- 12:00 noon: Roy Thomson Hall 

Volunteers. Bring Your Own lunch Concert: 

Margot Rydal/, flute & Ivan Zilman, guitar. 60 

Simcoe. 416463· 1011. Free. 

- 2:00 & 8:00: New School of Classical 

Vocal Studies. Menotti: Amahl & the Night 

Visitors; traditional Christmas music. New 

School International Chorus and Orchestra; 

William Shookhoff, conductor; Daniel Eby, 

artistic director. du Maurier Theatre Centre, 

209 Queen's Quay West. 416·973·4000. 

$25,$17.50, group rates. 

- 7:00: Royal Conservatory of Music 

Community SchoollMMEF. Christmas Gala 

Performance. Peteris Zarins, Bobbi 

Thompson, Helen Russel! & Danielle 

Cumming, perfonners'. Noel Ryan Auditorium, 

Mississauga Central Library, 301 

Bumhamthorpe Rd. West. 905·891·7944. 

$25. ' 

- 7:30: Ellen Annor·Adjei, piano & Elena 

Dslopova, soprano. Romantic Masterworks . 

Music by Rachmaninoff & Liszt. Bloor Street 

United Church, 300 Bloor St. West. 416·515· 

7503. $15. 

- 7:30: Royal Conservatory ot Music. 

Young Artist Series: A Celebration of 

Chamber Music 1. Instrumentalists from the 

Perfonnance & Artist Diploma programs!' ·· 

Ettore Mazzoleni Concert Hall, 273 Bloor St. 

West. 416·408·2824 x321.$7,$5. ·' 

- 7:30: St. Elizabeth Scola Cantorumr 

Christmas Concert. Vivaldi: Gloria; traditional 

carols. Geolge Zaduban, conductor. St. '! 

Elizabeth of Hungary Church, 432 Sheppard 

Ave. East. 905·671· 1069. Advance: ' 

$10,$5(sr/children under 7); door: $12,$6(sr/ 

children under 7). 

- 7:30: Upper Canada Choristers. e 

Christmas Around the World. Christmas 

selections from around the world; Hanukkah 

selections. Victoria Pinnington, soprano; 

Timothy Southwell, tenor; Laurel Trainor, 

flute; Laurie Evan Fraser, director. Flora · 

Mccrae Auditorium, Timothy Eaton Church, 

230 St. Clair Ave. West. 416·256·0510. ' 

$12(advance), $15(door), 

- 8:00: Canadian Singers. It's Christmas 

Time! Seasonal music & sing·along of carols 

& pop songs. Harvey Patterson, director. 

Montgomery's Inn, 4709 Dundas St. West. 

416·394·8113. $15, $12(Friends of 

Etobicoke's Heritage). 

- 8:00: Etobicoke Community Concert 

Band. Christmas Pops. Music of Christmas, 

traditional & new. Gloria Slade, guest singer; 

John Edward Liddle, conductor. Assembly 

Hall, 3121 Lakeshore Blvd. West. 416410· 

1570. $12,$10, children 12 & under free. 

I 

340 Internationally Acclaimed. Choirboys 

Celebrate The Season's Joy at Massey Hall 

·, 

Fri. and Sat. December 14 and 15, 8 PM 

The rafters will ring with the vocal talents of 340 choirboys as they perform in a 

massed choir and smaller complements. These young men come from across the 

GT A; rehearse together daily and have entertained audiences throughout the 

world. Part of Toronto's holiday season for 62 years! Visit us www.SMCS.on.ca 

Great Family Entertainment for all Ages 

32 wholenote D ECEMB ER 1, 2001 - JANUARY 31, 2002 

Tickets On Sale November 27 

Ticket Price $1 S, $22; $25. Service charges apply. 

Call Roy Thompson Hall Box office: 

(416) 872- 4255 

Massey Hall is ,located at 178 Victoria St, Toronto

- 8:00: Exultate Chamber Singers. An 

Oxford Christmas. Music from the New 

Oxford Book of Carols and other works. John 

Tuttle, conductor. St. Thomas's Church, 383 

Huron St. 416410·3929. $20,$17, $12(sr/ 

st). 

- 8:00: Georgetown Choral Society. 

·Handel: Messiah. Anita Ruthig, soprano; 

Christina Stelmacovich, alto; Eugene Burke, 

tenor; Nelson Lohnes, baritone; T alisker 

Players; A. Dale Wood, conductor. Holy Cross 

Church, 224 Maple Ave, Georgetown. 905· 

873,2559. $18,$15. 

- 8:00: OnStage. COC Gala Concert. Opera 

solos & ensembles. Krisztina Szabo, mezzo 

soprano; James Westman, baritone; Canadian 

Opera Company Orchestra and Ensemble; 

Richard Bradshaw, conductor; Eric Friesen, 

host. Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St. West. 

416-205-5555. $30. 

- 8:00: Ouodlibet. Magnificat. 'settings of 

the Magnificat by Scheidt, Bach & Wenk; 

carols in French, English & German. Arthur 

Wenk, director. St. Leonard's Church, 25 

Wanless Ave. 416488-6235. $12,$10. 

- 8:00: St. Michael's Choir School. 

Massed choir of 340 choirboys. Massey Hall, 

15 Shuter. 416·8724255. $15-$25. 

- 8:00: Toronto Consort. Welcome My Lord 

Sir Christemas. Music of Hildegard of Bingen, 

Dulay; medieval dances and early carols, with 

' projected images from medieval illuminations, 

paintings a~d sculpture. Trinity-St. Paul's 

Church, 427 Bloor St. West. 416-964·6337. 

$18·$36; $14-$30(sr/st). 

- 8:15: Etobicoke Philharmonic 

Orchestra. Strauss Jr: Overture to Die 

Fledermaus; Delius: The Walk to Paradise 

Garden; Elgar: Cello Concerto; Tchaikovsky: 

Nutcracker Suite; Kunz: Spirit of Christmas; 

fanfare & Christmas sing-along. Tanya Ell, 

cello; Tak-Ng Lai, music director. Humber 

Valley United Church, 76 Anglesey. 416·239· 

5665. $20,$15. 

- 9:00: TRANZAC. Club Ojango Sextet. 

FRIDAY, D~cJ~~5RJ;~ _c3PM · 

SAINT THOMAS'S CHURCH , 

( . ' .•, .. 

383 HURON S'flµmr,TORQNTO 

FOR .• ~10Riti~1'p.fu'ffATl8L , 4,\r~;r ..... 

EXULTATB qiAiWERS{NQl';RS 

······)OH~:li1t~£)~~~g~~~'\·~;·5 

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Gould 

, Studio 

COCGALA 

CONCERT 

Friday, December 14/0 I 

.at8pm 

Krisztina Szabo, mezzo soprano 

James Westman, baritone 

Canadian Opera Company 

Orchestra & Ensemble 

Richard Bradshaw, conductor 

' 

Tonight we feature past and present 

members of the prized COC vocal 

ensemble, including two rising stars 

on the international opera stage. 

Join us for operatic excerpts and 

arias by Mozart, Rossini, Bellini and 

Donizetti including choral septets 

from Lucia di Lammermoor and 

L 'ltaliana in Algeri. 



Fax (416) 205-5551 


Glenn Gould Studio is located at: 250 Front Street We.st, 



cec cif~ radiQ)NE 

csccifrradi~ 

Don't Miss these two Upcoming Concerts by 

THE TORONTO CONSORT 

Canada's leading Medieval and Renaissance Music Ensemble 

WELCQME MY 

LORD SIR 

CHIUSTEMAS 

Friday & Saturday 

December 14 & 15, 2001 

at 8pm 

Welcome the Yuletide with an evening 

of haunting carols, dances and chant 

from the Middle Ages. Music by 

Hildegard of Bingen and anon-ymous 

masters is presented in front of a 

backdrop -of medieval illumination. 

LANDS OF ICE 

AND FIRE: 

Tales of the Norse 

Friday & Saturday, 

February 1 & 2, 2002 

at8pm 

Story-teller Peter Tiefenbach tells us 

of the creation of elves, and Thor's 

hammer, accompanied by early and 

traditional music from Sweden, 

Iceland, Denmark and Norway. Tales 

for a mid-winter eve! 

I 

. , Concerts take p'!ace at Trinity-St. Paul's Church, 427 Bloor Street West 

Calt (416) 964-6337 for tickets. 

D ECEMBER 1, 2001 -- JANUARY 31, 2002 wholenote 33

Gypsy swing jazz group. 292 Brunswick Ave. 

416·923-8137'. Free. 


- WO & 8:00: EMPressions Show Choir. 

Can't 8eieve h's Christmas. Seasonal selections. 

Blrnlm1thorpe Auditoriun. 500 East Mal. 416- 

248-0410. $15,$10, group rates. 

- 2:00 & 8:00: New School of Classical 

Vocal Studies. Men~tti· Amahl & tlle Night 

Visitors. See December 14. 

- 2;00: Toronto Children's Chorus/Roy 

Thomson Hall. A Chorus Christmas. Rutter: 

Dancing Day; seasonal works by Cable, Daley, 

Henderson, Raminsh, Washburn. TCC, 

Kinderchoir, Training Choirs, and Alumni Choir. 

True North Brass, Judy Loman, harp. Roy 

Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-5934828. 

$24-$34. 

- 7:00: TSO. Handel· Messiah. Christine 

Brandes, soprano; Anita Krause, mezzo; John 

Tessier, tenor; Russell Braun, baritone; 

Toronto Mendelssohn Choir; Mario Bernardi, 


416·593·4828. $35-$85. 

- 7:30: Bach Children's Chorus/Bach ' 

Chamber Youth Choir. Joy Be Yours! 

Traditional & new Christmas music, Chanukah 

music & other seasonal selec!ions. Linda 

Beaupre, director; Eleanor Daley, accompanist. 

George Weston Recital Hall, 5040 Yonge St. 

416-870-8000. $22,$20. 


Young Artist Series: Chamber Music 

Extravf:!ganza 1. Ettore Mazzoleni Concert Hall, 

273 Bloor St. West. 416408-2824 x321. - 

$7,$5. 

- 8:00: Amadeus Choir/Hannaford Street 

Silver Band. Glad Tidings. Pinkham: 

Christmas Cantata; Rutter: Gloria; carols by 

Jlaley, Sirett and others; music for brass band. 

Lydia Adams, conductor. 7:15: Pre·Goncert 

Chat with Lydia Adams. Yorkminster Park 

Church, 1585 Yonge St. 416-446-0188. 

~~$22 ' ~ 

- 8:00: Anno Domini Chamber Singers. 

Noel We Sing. Charpentier: Messe de Minuit 

pour Noel; mbsic by .Rutter, Willcocks, Gardner, 

Vittoria., Sweelinck & Briiten. Apollo Chamber1 

Ensemble; David Jafelice, director; David 

Smith, organ. Holy Name Church, 71 Gough 

day, December 15, 2001 at 7:30 

George Weston Recital Hall 

Toronto Centre for the 

34 wholenote DECEMBER 1, 2001 - JANUARY 31, 2002

Ave.416-696-0093. $15,$10, $5(12 & 

under). 

- 8:00: Bell' Arte Singers. Christmas with 

Bel/'Arte. Bolden: Requiem of Ice and Snow 

(world premiere); choral music of the festive 

season. Eastminster United Church, 310 

Danforth Ave. 416-699-5879. $20,$12, group 

rates. 

- 8:00: Cathedral Bluffs Symphony 

Orchestra. Eastern Europe. Smetana: The 

Moldau; Dvorak: Slavonic Dances 5-8; 

Weinzweig: Interlude in an Artist's Life; Chopin: 

Piano Concerto No.1 (excerpt); Rimsky· 

Korsakov: Scheherazade. Lang Ning Liu, piano; 

Robert Raines, conductor. Stephen Leacock 

Collegiate Institute, 2450 Birchmount Rd. 416· 

879-5566. $15,$12 (children under 12 free). 

- 8:00: Montgomery's Inn. A Cehic 

Christmas. Sandy Macintyre & Steeped in 

Tradition. 4 709 Dundas St. West. 416-394· 

11§1 

SPAENAUR 

8113. $15, $12(Friends of Etobicoke's 

Heritage). 

- 8:00: NiV Classical. Tzvi Erez, piano in 

Recital Beethoven: works including Patht!tique 

Sonata & Allegretto from Tempest Sonata; 

Chopin: etudes, waltzes, polonaises, nocturnes, 

preludes, Fantasie-lmpromptu. Glenn Gould 

Studio, 250 Front St.West. 416-205-5555.' 

$25,$18. . 

- 8:00: Northdale Concert Band. Band 

Music for the Holidays. Seasonal favourites. 

Guest conductor: David McKinney. Church of 

the Redeemer, 162 Bloor St. West. 416466· 

7409. $10,$7. . 

- 8:00: St. Michael's Choir School. 

Massey Hall. See December 14. 

- 8:00: Stuart Mclean & The Vinyl Cafe 

Musicians. The Christmas Concert. Lisa , 

Lindo, Dennis Pendrith, John Sheard, Chris 

Whiteley, Calvin Cairns & Keith Glass, 

Saturday, 

Dec. 15th, 2001 

p RE s g;~ what Swteter 

-, ~enms$ance0 Music 

werr special 

· · In Christmas around the world with 

guests the Kitchener/Waterloo 

Philharmonic Youth Choir. · 

Tickets are available from ,Twelfth Night Music Stores in Waterloo 

and Guelph, or at the door or call (519),745-0675. 

St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, 54 Queen St. Kitchener at 8:00 p.m. 

• 

• 

Les AMIS Concerts 

19th Season . 2001-2002 

Michael Pepa, Artistic Director 

Heliconian Hall 

35 Hazelton Ave., Toronto 

Sunday, December 16, 2001 

RACHEL MERCER, cello 

. LYDIA WONG, p i ano 

7:00 pm 

Johannes Brahms Sonata No.2 in F major, Op. 99 

Gary Kulesha ... and dark time flowed by her like a river ... 

Dmitri Shostakovich Sonata Op.40 in D minor 

Sunday, February 17, 2002 7:00 pm 

ORFEO DUO 

Vita Wallace, violin & Ishmael Wallace, piano 

with guest cellist CARINA REEVES 

Robert Schumann Sonata No.3 in A minor 

Les AMIS 20th anniversary tribute to Michael Pepa 

Introduction and Caprice (1999) for violin and piano 

Toccata and Fancy ( 2001 ) for piano - world premiere 

Falstaff Variations ( 1997 ) for Piano Trio 

Adults: $20.00 I Limited tickets available to Students: $ 8.00 

Call 905n3-n12· · 

~ 

Les Voix Oe Noel 

Saturday, 

December 15 

8:00 p.m. 

Pre-concert talk: 7:30 p.m. 

St. Thomas 

Anglican Church 

383 Huron Street 

(south of Bloor, east of Spadina) 

Tickets $15, $10 

·Available at the door. 

VOICES 

50 Glebemount Avenue 

Toronto, Ontario M4C 3R6 

Tel: (416) 429-7740 

' ' 

http:!Noiceschoir.tripod.com 

A FRENCH 

CHRISTMAS 

Faure: Mess Basse 

Poulenc: Quatre 

motets pour le 

temps de Noel 

Selections by 

Willan, Britten, 

Bairstow and others 

French carols 

Traditional carols 

COME, CELEBRATE 

THE SEASON! 

DECEMBER 1, 2001 - JANUARY 31, 2002 wholenote

performers. Convocation Hall, 31 King's 

College Circle. 416-870-8000. · 

- 8:00: Toronto Consort. Welcome My lord 

Sir Christemas. Trinity-St. Paul's Church. See 

Dec. 14. 

- 8:00: Voices. Les Voix do Noiil Faure: 

Messe Basse; Poulenc: Quatre Motets pour le 

temps de Noel; music by Willan, Britten & 

Bairstow; French carols; traditional carols. 

Ron Ka Ming Cheung, artistic director. 7:30: 

Pre·concert talk. Saint Thomas's Church, 383 

Huron. 416429-7740. $15,$10. 


,.....,. ,.....,. ,.....,. ,.....,. ,.....,. 

t Trinity-St. Paul's Choir 0 t 

f 

\ presents 

f 

\ 

Carols Dii 

,. Cattbldi5l-1t ,. 

l- ~ Brad Ratzlaff Director ' 

-* with -* 

ilJ String Quartet and Handbell Choir ilf 

' 

' 

S~ttba11. D~c~mb~-r 16, 2001 

7p.m. -* 

Trinity-St. Paul's United Church 

427 Bloor Street West, Toronto 

(416) 922-4954 

J 

\ 

- 1:30: CAMMAC/McMichael Gallery. 

Sunday Concert: The Forget Me Nots. 25· 

member Szauter family group. 10365 

Islington, Kleinburg. 905-898-1121. $9,$7, 

$20(family), under 5 free. 

- 2:00: Calvin Presbyterian Church. 

Handel· Messiah. .Calvin Church Choir; 

Stephanie Martin, conductor. 26 Delisle. 416- 

923-9030. $20,$10, $5(children under 12), 

family rates. 

- 2:00: Living Arts Centre. Jack Bronsky . 

Wintersongs. World music for kids. Royal Bank 

Theatre, 4141 Living Arts Drive, Mississauga. 

905·306·6000. $16.50, $13.50. 

.:... 2:00: Roy Thomson Hall. John McDermott: 

Christmas Memories. Traditional carols, folk 

music & ballads. Guests: Mistletones; Hugh 

Heron. 60 Simcoe St. 416·8724255. $29.50- 

$56.50. 

...., 2:00: Scarborough Community Concert · 

Band. Various seasonal music & sing-along. 

Scarborough Civic Centre, 150 Borough Drive. 

41!3·724-8989. Free. 

- 2:30 & 7:30: Impresario Society. 

Flamenco & Opera & so much more ... 

Antonitas D'Havila, flamenco guitar; Victoria 

T aranova, dramatic coloratura soprano; Una 

T aranova, Plano, composition; guests: Louisa 

Antonia Emilie Roffelsen, soprano; Alexandra 

Emilie Connon, voice. du Maurier Theatre 

Centre, 231 Queen's Quay West. 416-973- 

4000. $30,$25. 

- 2:30 & 7:30: Stuart Mclean & The Vinyl 

Cafe Musicians. The Christmas Concert. 

Convocation Hall. See December 15. 

- 2:30: Young Virtuosos of Classical 

Music. Christmas Concert. Noel Ryan 

Auditorium, Mississauga Central Library, 301 

Bumhamthorpe Rd. West. 905-569-9B18. Free 

for children 12 & under. 

- 3:00: Baroque Music Beside the Grange. 

Maie We Merrie. Music by Holbome, Senti, 

Sennisy, Tye & others; carol settings from the 

16th & 20th centuries. Alison Melville, Avery 

Maclean, Colin Savage & Stephanie Archer, 

reco.rders; Katherine Hill, soprano. St. George 

BAROQUE MUSIC BESIDE 'THE GRANGE 1 

Make We Merrie 

Renaissance Consort Musit tor Recorders. 

Voice and Viol. by Isaac, Senti. Carver. &c. 

Alison Melville. Avery MacLean. Stephanie Armer. 

Colin savagE!_ ~orders; Katherine Hill, soprano 

Sunda_y n;c~-;;,,i;;~-i6.-at 3 pm 

St. George the Martyr Church, Stephanie & Mccaul 

CALL 416-588-4301 FOR INFO AND RESERVATIONS 

VocalPo· 

Free will offering in support of the Choir Fund 

Tickets: $15 nts/Seniors $10 

Available .at ~-f>r or call (416) 484-0185 


I .

the Martyr Church, 197 John St. 416-588- 

4301. $1&.$14. . ' 

- 3:00: Hart House Sunday Series. Lee/ 

Bard Duo. Mozart: Sonata in G; Prokofiev: 

Sonata in f; Debussy: Sonata; Beethoven: 

Sonata #7. Va,nessa Lee, piano; Daniel Bard, 

violin. 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-5362. 

Free. 

- 3:00: Mississauga Choral Society. 

Handel: Messiah.· Janet Obermeyer, soprano; 

Maria Kowan, meµo; Colin Ainsworth, tenor; 

Daniel Lichti, bass;·Sinfony· Players; Chrys A. 

Be~tley, conductor. Hammerson Hall, Living 

Arts Centre, 4141 Living Arts Dr. 905-306- 

6000. $25-$35, $15-$30(sr/st). 

- 3:00: VocalPoint Chamber Choir. A 

Festival of Carols. Traditional and contemporary 

Christmas carols and readings. Ian Grundy, 

music director. Grace Ch~;~h on-the-Hill, 300 

Lonsdale Rd. 416-484-0185. $15,$10. 


Community School. RCM String Orchestras. 

Ettore Mauoleni Concert Hall, 273 Bloor St. 

West. 416-408-2824. $5,$3. 


Community School. Young Musicians' Band 

& students of the RCM Small Ensembles class. 

RCM Recital Hall, 416-408-2824. $5,$3. 

- 7:00: Les AMIS Concerts. Rachel Mercer, 

cello & Lydia Wong, piano in Recital Brahms: 

Sonata #2 inJ Op.99; Kulesha: ... and dark til)lB 

flowed by her like a river ... ; Shostakovich: 

Sonata in d Op.40. Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton 

Ave. 905-773-7712. $ 20, $8(st). 

- 7:00: Musicians in'Drdinary. A Venetian 

Vespers. Music of Grandi, Cavalli and others; 

plainchant & chanted readings. Hallie Fishel, 

soprano; John Edwards, lute; Nancy De Long, 

meuo; Tom Castaldo & Peter Barrett, tenors; 

Esteban. Cambre, bass & other performers. 

Church of the Redeemer. 162 Bloor St. West. 

416-6034950. Donations appreciated. 

- 7:00: Trinity-St. Paul's Choir. Carols By 

Candlelight. String ensemble & handbell choir; 

Brad Ratzlaff, director. 427 Bloor St. West. 

416-922-4954. Free will offering in support 

of the Choir Fund. 

- 8:00: Music Gallery. Maury Coles 

Remembered. Special commissions written 

specifically for this occasion. Le Quan Ninh, 

Mike Kury &: other perfonners. St. George-the· 

Martyr Church, 197 John St. 416-204-1080. 

By donation. 

- 8:00: North Toronto Wo~en's Chamber 

Choir. Winter Fantasy. Britten: A Ceremony of 

Carols; music of the season. Cecile Denis, harp; 

Anne Yardley, director; Beverly Lewis, 

accompanist. Church of the Transfiguration, 

111 Manor Rd. East. 416485-2259. $10,$5, 

under 12 free. 


- 7:30: Canada Pops Orchestra. Blues & 

jazz; works by Brahms, Weinzweig; holiday 

favourites. Jackie Richardson, blues & jau 

' . 

The North Toronto 

Women's Chamber Choir 

directed by Anne Yardley 

presents· 

featuring Britten's 

A Ceremony of Carols 

Sunday December 16, 2001at8 p.m. 

The Church of the Transfiguration 

111 Manor Rd. East, Toronto 

Tickets $10/ $5, Wider 12 free 

For information call 416-485-2259 

ll. 

The Choirs of Bellefair United Church 

Christmas Carol Service 

Sunday, December 16 

7:30 p.m. 

2 Bellefair Avenue (Bellefair & Queen St. East), Toronto 416.691.395 1 

.~!~ Gould 

• Studio 

ENSEMBLE. 

SERIES 

Wednesday, December 19/01 · 

at8pm 

'Judy Loman, harp 

· Toronto Children's Chorus 

Jean Ashworth Bartle, conductor 

Experience the magic of Christmas 

with the glorious voices of the 65- 

member core of this world-famous 

choir. The brilliant Toronto 

Symphony harpist Judy Loman is 

featured in John Rutter's Dancing 

Day ~swell as Christmas variations 

. by Salzedo and Samuel-Rousseau. 

SINGLE TICKETS $30: 


Fax (416) 205-5551 


Glenn-Gould Studio is located at: 250 Front Street West, 



csc 4if!• radiQ)NE 

DECEMB ER 1, 2001 - JANUARY 31, 2002 whol ~ note 37

vocals; the Three Cantors (Paul Kowarsky, 

Benjamin Maissner & Yaacov Matzen); 

Champagne vocal quartet; David Warrack, 

conductor. Massey Hall, 15 Shuter. 416·872- 

4255. $35·$55, $24(st). 

- 7:3D: Riverdale Youth Singers. 

Personent Hodie. Early choral & instrumental 

music of the season. Guests: Axel! Janos 

Ungvary & Avery Maclean, recorders; Felicity 

Deak, viola da gamba; John Govedas, 

harpsichord; Andre Rakus, organ; Mark Bell, 

conductor. Church of Saint Clement, 173 

Jones Ave. 416463·0705. Free. 

- 7:30: Scarborough Community Concert 

Band. Various seasonal music & sing·alolig. 

Scarborough Retirement Centre, 148 

Markham Rd. 416· 724·8989. Free. 


Bairy Elmes Quintet. Ontario Science Centre 


1000. $10. 


- 12:00 noon: Roy Thomson Hall. 

Christmas is Coming! Exultate Chamber 

Singers; John Tuttle, organ/conductor. 60 

Simcoe St. 416·872-4255. Free. 

- 8:00: Toronto Mendelssohn Choir(TSD. 

Harrie/· Messiiil. Cmsme Brandes, sopnr10; 

Anita Krause. mezzo; John T essiEJ, tenor; Russel 

Braun, bass; Toronto Sytllfuiy Orchestra; Mario 

Bemarci. conWctor. Roy llxrnwn Hal, 60 Sincoe 

St. 416-598-0422.$35·$85. 


:-_ 7:~0.: _S_~ar_l~ne Wall_!lce, h_a!]I & 

Friends. Music for a Winter's Eve. Guests: 

Julie Michels, vocals; George Koller, bass. 

Little Trinity Church, 425 King St. East. 416· 

346-6600. PWYC. 

- 8:00: Nathaniel Dett Chorale. An Indigo 

Christmas. Blend of spirituals, carols; jazz & 

gospel works; Handel: Messiah (arrangements); 

Parang songs. Joe Sealy, jazz piano; 

Los.Pajaros; Brainerd Blyden-Taylor, 

conductor. St. Andrew's Church, 73 Simcoe 

St. 416-872-1212. $30,$25. 

- 8:00: OnStage. Judy Loman, harp; Toronto 

Children's Chorus. Rutter: Dancing Day; 

Christmas variations by Salzedo and Samuel· 

Rousseau. Jean Ashworth Bartle, conductor; 

Eric Friesen, host. Glenn Gould Studio, 250 

Front St. West. 416-205·5555. $30. 

- 8:0(): Slide Rule Trombone Ensemble. Music 

For The Season. Sailt Thornas's Church, 383 

Huron St. 905-508-0514. $10,$8. 

- 8:00: Toronto Mendelssohn Youth 

Choir/Voices. The Magic of Christmas. 

Britten: ~t. Nicolas Cantata & otlu rnJSic. 

Merrbers of th! Toronto Syr11llmy Youth 

Orchestra; Canaf,fian Chlien's Opera Chorus; Am 

Cooper-Gay, corductor. Grace Church on the HiU, 

300 Lonsdale Rd. 416-598-0422 $$34,$28. 

- 9:00 & 10: 15: Mezzetta Cate 

Restaurant Kiki Misumi, vocals/cello & Reg 

Schwager, guitar. 681 St. Clair Ave. West. 

416-658·5687. $6. 


- 12:10: St Paul's Anglican Church. 

.Christopher Cotton, organ in Recitat227 

Bloor St East. 416-961-8116.Jm. · 

- 8:00: Flying Cloud Folk Club. Birthday 

Celebration for Enoch Kent. Ian Bell, Tam 

Kearney & other performers. TRANZAC, 292 

Brunswick Ave. 416410-3655. $12,$.10. 

- 8:00: Music Toronto. Tokyo String 

Ouartet. Brahms: Quartet in c Op.51.; #1; 

Vacchi: new commission; Brahms: Quartet ih 

a Op.51. #2. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front 

St. East. 416-366· 7723. $43,$39; 18-35 pay 

your age; students $5/accompanying adult 

half price. 


Handel· Messiah. Karina Gauvin, soprano; 

Catherine Robbin, mezzo; Rufus Muller, tenor. 

Tafelmusik Chamber Choir and Orchestra. 

Trinity-St. Paul's Church, 427 Bloor St. West. 

416-964-6337. $25-$65. . 


Handel· Messiah. Roy Thomson Hall. See 

December 15. 


- 11 :30am: City of Toronto. Holiday Choral 

Celebration. Songs and music of the holiday 

season. Toronto Children's Chorus;. Toronto 

Mass Choir; Toronto Mendelssohn Choirs; 

Tower Brass. Toronto City Hall Rotunda, 100 

O~een St. West. 416-392-8191. Free. 


Volunteers. Bring Your Own lunch Concert: 

sine nomine ensemble for Medieval Music 

Medieval Musk for Advent 

Friday, December 21, 8 p.m. 

FOR TICKETS CALL: 4 1 6-870-8000 ~ 

BROTT MUSIC FESTIVALS 905.525.SON G t 1,'888.475.9377) ~ 


Saint Thomas'.\· Anglican Church, 383 Huron St. 

Tickets $12 I $8 

Information an!] re.

Surinder S. Mundra, piano in Recital Music 

by Bach, Mozart, Scarlatti, Schumann, Grieg, 

Mundra & Widor. 60 Simcoe. 416·593-4822 

ext.363. Free. 

- 7:30: Tim Hortons. The Wizard of Oz. 

Family musical. Oakville Centre for the 

Performing Arts, 130 Navy Street, Oakville. 

905·815-2021. $27.99. For complete run see 

music theatre listings. 

- 8:00: Brott Autumn Music Festival. 

Handel· Messiah. Monica Whicher, soprano; 

Daniel Taylor, alto; Mark DuBois, tenor; 

Daniel lichti, bass; Elmer lseler Singers; 

National Academy' Orchestra; Boris Brott, 

conductor. George Weston Recital Hall, 5040 

Yonge St. 416-870-8000. $25,$21 . Non· 

perishable food items for the Daily Bread 

Food Bank or monetary donation welcome. 

:.... 8:00: Sine Nomine Ensemble for 

Medieval Music. Ab oriente tux: Medieval 

Music for Advent. Motets from the 14th 

century & other music for the season. Saint 

Thomas's Church. 383 Huron St. 416-638· 

9445. $12,$8. 


Handel· Messiah. Trinity-St. Paul's Church. 

See Dec 20. 

- 8:00: TSO. The Incomparable Holly Cole. 

Jazz, blues & pop classics. Roy Thomson 

Hall, 60 Simcoe. 416-593-4828. $39-$59. 


- 4:00: Toronto Camerata. Carols for Kids. 

Traditional carols & songs of the season. For 

all those from 2 to 92. Grace Church on-the· 

Hill, 300 Lonsdale Rd. 416-534-2493. 

$15,$12, family $30. 

- 7:00: TSO. The Incomparable Holly Cole. 

Roy Thomson Hall. See December 21. 

- 7:30: Mississauga Festival Youth• 

Choir. A Most Wonderful Time _of the Year. 

Guest: Cathy Lee Hammond, puppeteer; 

Deborah Bradley, conductor. Royal Bank 

Theatre, Living Arts Centre, 4141 living Arts 

Drive, Mississauga. 416-444-4011. $15,$12. 

- 7:30: Ontario Christian Music 

Assembly. Christmas Concert of Praise. 

Band solos, organ solos, music for choir & 

audience singing. Andre Knevel, Leendert 

Kooij, Kooij Sisters, 90-voice mixed choir; 

brass quintet. Willowdale United Churc~. 349 

Kenneth Ave. 416-636-9779. $10,$6, 

children under 12 free. 


Holiday Concert. Music of the season; singalong. 

Trinity Youth Choir; Roberto De Clara, 

conductor. Trinity Church, 79 Victoria St., 

Aurora. 416-410-0860. $20,$15, $5 

children under 12. 


Orchestra. The littlest Angels. New & 

traditional Christmas repertoire. Canadian 

Children's Opera Chorus; John Barnum, 

conductor. Hammerson Hall, living Arts 

Centre, 4141 Living Arts Drive. 905-306· 

6000. $40,$30. 

- 8:00: Tafelmlisik Baroque Orchestra. 

Handel' Messiah. Trinity-St. Paul's Church. 

See Dec 20. 

S11nday December 23 


Sing-Along Messiah. T afelmusik Chamber Choir 

and Orchestra; !vars Taurins, director. Massey 

Hall, 15 Shuter St. 416-964-6337. $25. 

- 3:00: ·TSO. Handel· Messiah. Roy 

Thomson Hall. See December 15. 

- 3:00: Oakville Children's Choir. The Gift 

of Christmas: An Afternoon of Carol Singing. 

Traditional Christmas music; seasonal 

narrations/readings. Susan Aglukark, reader; 

Glenda Crawford, music director; Sheldon 

Rose, accompanist. St. John's United Church, 

262 Randall St., Oakville. 905-337-7104. 

$10. Proceeds to Wellspring. 

- 4:00: North Toronto Citadel. Carris aaJ 

Carles. NeijDxJhood Clmnas caiU si1J. 

Salvation Army band; guest: Fie Clief Alan F. 

Speed. 7 Egiiton Ave. East. 416-488-7954. Free. 

- 7:00: Music at MetropolitarL Atmi' 

C~ht Service of i.esstJns aaJ Canis. 

T ra

THE 

~TH 

2c:20 

Come and help us celebrate 20 years of song in a trio of 

concerts, featuring a galaxy of the finest Canadian artists! 

At home on the worlds' greatest stages - Covent Garden, the 

Met, the one of Canada's f. 

ith his o 

one 

ano 

pm 

Tickets $30/$2 seniors & students . 

Call: 416.205.5555 

A dazzling array of Aldeburgh alumni join us for this 20th 

anniversqry gala concert! 

COLIN AINSWORTH 

A recreation of the great muskal parties 

of the 19th an centuries. 

T 

RUSSELL BR,AUN 

soprano; Wolfgang Schwaninger, tenor; 

Hungarian National Ballet; Klaus Arp, 

conductor. 60 Simcoe St. 416-872-4255. 

$45-$95. 

Saturday January 05 

- 6:30: Shanti. Festival of Music. for Peace 

on Earth. Classical music to modern fusion.· 

Shambhu Das, sitar; Eastern and Western 

mJsicians; gazal singing. Medical Sciences 

A~ditorium, 1 Kjngs College Circle. 416·966· 

9642. $15,$9. ., 

$10(sr/st), $5(cheapseats). 

Monday January 07 


Heather Bambrick & Trio. Ontarid :science · · 

Centre Auditorium, 770 Don Mills Rd/41 {j. ,. 

696-1000. $10. 

· - 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. ;\ · 

Club Swing. Mini-musical with music by 

Shaw, Goodman, Ellington & others. Five by' · 

Design, vocalists; Willis Delciny, conductor. 

Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe. 416-593· 

4828. $25-$75. 

Sunday January 06 

Tuesday January OB · 

-1:30: CAMMACIMcMichael Gallery. 

Sunday Concert: Alex Dean Trio. 10365 - 1 :00: St. James' Cathedral. lunch Hour 

Islington, Kleinburg. 905-893-1121. $9,$7, at St. James': Ashley Tidy, organ. Program 

ln••ft•ll•"···· 


TBA. 65 Church St. 416·364· 7865 ext.224. 

Free. - 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. ' · 

Club Swing. Roy Thomson Hall. See Jan 7, 

Wednesday January 09 

- 12:30: York University Department of 

Music. Christina Petrowska Ouilico, piano in 

Recital Works of the early 20th century by 

women composers: Chaminade, l. Boulanger, 

Baces, Heller & others. Mclaughlin 

Performance Hall, 050 Mclaughlin College, 

4700 Keele St. 416-736-5186. Free. 

- 2:00 & 8:00: Toronto Symphony 

Orchestra. Club Swing. Roy Thomson Hall. 

See January 7. Matinee $25·$52. 

- 8:00: Toronto Centre for the Arts. Dawn 

Upshaw, soprano. Songs by Schumann, 

Bartok, Mahler, Crawford Seeger, 

Mussorgsky & others. Gilbert Kalish, piano. 

George Weston Recital Hall, 5040 Yonge St. 

416·870-8000. $32-$55. 

Enjoy a feast of solo and ensemble 

. offerings: Purcell, Schubert, Brahms, 

Faure, Vaughan Williams' Serenade to 

Music, a spirited new commission from 

John Greer and much more. 

MARK PEDROTTI 

CATHERINE ROBBIN 

MICHAEL SCHADE 

·GILES TOMKINS 

MONICA WHICHER 

- 8:00: New Music Concerts/Music 

Gallery. SLOW/NO Woodwind Ouintet. 

Ramovs: Answers; Vrhunc: Celo; Rojko: 

Ottoki · zuklus for woodwind quintet; 

Globokar: Discours VIII. 7:15: Illuminating 

Introduction. Church of St. George the 

Martyr, 197 John. 416-961-9594. $20, 

MooredaleConcerts.com . 

I Furiosi 

Thursday January 10 

- 12:10: University ofToronto Faculty of · 

Music. Thursdays at Noon: Advanced 

Performance Studies Recital Walter Hall, BO 

Queen's Park. 416-978·3744. Free. 

- 8:00: 0.0.A. Productions. The Dance of 

the Dead. A phantasmagorical musical 

Baroque Ensemble 

plays music from the 

Middle Ages to the 

-------.ilio=,..,_ ~J!_aroque 

Proceeds from this event will be donated to scholarships at the Faculty of 

Music, University of Toronto. in memory of Greta Kraus and Lois Marshall 

Sat. Jan.12 at 8 pm - Willowdale United 

Sun. Jan. 13 at 3 pm - Walter Hall, U ofT 

affordable tickets! $20, ($15 St./Sr) 416-922-3714 

40 wholenote D ECEMBER 1, 2001 - JANUARY 31, 2002

comedy. Written by Scott White; directed by 

Vinetta Strombergs; Sandra Caldwell, Kevin 

Dennis, Jeff Madden, Donald Saunders & 

other perfofmers. Upstairs at Berkeley, 

CanStage, 26 Berkeley St. 416·368·3110. 

$27(preyiew). For complete run see Music 

Theatre listings. - 

- 8:00: Toronto Philharmonia. The Phil 

goes to the Movies,. Music from The Deer 

Hunter, Fantasia, Amadeus, The Four 

Sea~ons, West Side Story, Kismet, Driving 

Miss Daisy. ·1ana lvanilova, soprano; Kerry 

Stratton, conductor. George Weston Recital 

Hall, 5040 Yonge St. 416-870-8000. 

$37,$32; $32,$26(st/sr). 

Friday January 11 · . . 


Volunteers/Canadian Music Competitions. 

Bring Your Own lunch Concert: Canadian 

Music Competition Winners. 60 Simcoe. 416· 

593-4822 ext.363. Free. 

- 8:00: Aldeburgh Connection. 20th 

Anniversary Concert. Gerald Finley, baritone; 

Stephen Ralls, piano. Glenn Gould Studio, 250 

Front St. West. 416-205-5555. $30,$25. 

· - 8:00: Oakville Centre for the 

Performing Arts. lvanka Chews the Fat. 

Songs, jokes & audience participation. 130 

Navy Street, Oakville. 905-815-2021. 

$29.99. 


..:.. 2:00: Victoria-Royce Church. Second 

Saturday Concert: Rachel Persaud, soprano & 

Peter Treen, piano. Music by Handel, Mozart 

& others. 190 Medland St. 416-769-6176. 

Free-will offering. 


Orchestral Dances. R. Strauss: Waltzes from 

Der Rosenkavalier; Bruch: Violin Concerto # 1; 

Gounod: Qallet Music from Faust; Cham· 

pagne: Danse villageoise & other music. 

Rebecca Brenner, violin; Jacques Lacombe, 


416-593-4828. $27-$55. 

- 8:00: Mooredale Concerts. / Furiosi 

Baroque Ensemble. Music from the middle 

ages to the baroque. With Alyssa Michalski, 

harp. Willowdale United Church, 349 Kenneth 

Ave. 416-922-3714. $20,$15. 

Sunday January 13 . 

- 2:00: Royal Conservatory of Music. The 

Niagara Brass · Bach to Bartok and Beyond. 

Works by Barnes, Cable, Calvert, Irvine, 

Thompson, Walcott, Ravel, Debussy, Bach, 

Bartok, Brahms and Hindemith. David Archer, 

trombone; James Tinsley, trumpet; Tim 

Lockwood, French horn; Brent Adams, tuba; 

William Sperandei, trumpet. Ettore Mazzoleni 

Concert Hall, 273 Bloor St. West. 416-408· 

2824 x321. $12,$8, $5(under 18). 

- 2:30: Aldeburgh Connection. The 

_ Birthday Salon. 16 singers, including Colin 

Ainsworth, Russell Braun, Benjamin 

Butterfield, Mark. Pedrotti, Catherine Robbin; 

hosts: Mary Lou Fallis, Rosemarie Landry, 

Christopher Newton. MacMillan Theatre, 80 

Queen's Park. 416·444·3976. $50,$40. 

- 2:30: Trinity-St. Paul's Vocal Concert 

Series. Theatrical Masterpieces. Schoenberg: 

Pierrot Lunaire; Cabaret Songs; Eisler: 

Cabaret Songs. University of Toronto alumni; 

Patricia O'Callaghan, soprano; Vilma Vitols, 

mezzo; Gary Kulesha, conductor. Trinity-St. 

Paul's Church, 427 Bloor St. West. 416-707· 

1446. $10, group rates. 

- 3:00: Baroque M_usic Beside the 

Grange. For Emperors and Kings. Telemann: 

Quartet in d; trios by Hotteterre, Quantz & 

others. Barbara Kallaur & Alison Melville, 

flutes; Michael McCraw, bassoon; Michael 

Jarvis, harpsichord. st: George the Martyr 

Church, 197 John St. 416-588-4301. ' 

$18,$14. 

- 3:00: Mooredale Concerts. / Furiosi 

Baroque Ensemble. Walter Hall, 80 Queen's 

Park. See Jan 12 . 


Orchestral Dances. Roy Thomson Hall. See 

January 12. 

- 3:30: Vesnivka Choir. A Ukrainian 

Chri~f!fl.QS.J3ues1.s: Ukrainian Male Choir. 

Halyna Kvitka Kondracki, conductor. 

Humbercrest United Church, 16 Baby Point 

Road.416-763-2197. $20,$15. 


-12:15: St. Andrew's United Church.A 

Baroque Miscellany. Music for violin, 

harpsichord & bassoon. Michael McCraw, 

baroque bassoon. 117 Bloor St. East. 416· 

929-0811 . Admission by donation. 

- 7:30: A)ISOciates of the TSO. The Soprano 

with Strings Attached/ Haydn: String Quartet 

Op.33, The Bird; Chausson: Chanson 

Perpetuelle; Respighi: II T ramonto; Schumann: 

String Quartet in a, Op.41. Narelle Martinez, 

BAROQUE MUSIC BESIDE THE GRANGE 

ffor ,£mperors and./!f(ings 

Masterworks for flutes from the courts of 

Louis XIV and Frederick the Great 

Alison Melville & Barbara ffallaur. baroque flutes 

Michael Mc:Oa!~~~!'i~J~~S. harpsichonl 

Sunday ]anuar_y 13 at 3 pm 

St. George the Martyr Churdi. Stephanie & Mccaul 

CALL 416-588-4301 FOR INFO AND RESERVATIONS 

soprano; Atis Bankas, Terry Holowach, violins; 

Ladislau Darida, viola; Thomas Mueller, cello. 

Trinity-St. Paul's Church, 427 Bloor St. West. 

416-693-9953. $15,$12. 

Tuesday January 15 


Music. Vocal Student Performances. Walter 


.:_ 1 :00: St. James' Cathedral. lunch Hour 

at St. James'.· Thomas Fitches, organ. 

Program TBA. 65 Church St. 416-364· 7865 


- 8:00: Music Toronto. Toronto String 

Ouartet with Sadao Harada, cello and Yizhak 

Schotten, viola. Brahms: Sextet in G Op.36; 

Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence. Jane 

Mallett Theatre, 27 Front St. East. 416-366· 

7723. $43,$39; 18-35 pay your age; 

students $5/accompanying adult 1 /2 price. 



The Grand Tour: A Musical Journey. Handel: 

Entrance of the Queen of Sheba; Marais: 

excerpts from Alcione; works by Corelli, 

Vivaldi, Telemann and the Bach family; , 

readings of anecdotes of 18th century 

Europe. Trinity-St. Paul's Church, 427 Bloor 

St. West. 416-964-6337. $20-$55. 

- 8:00: TSO. Schipizky: From Under the 

Overture; Mozart: Clarinet Concerto; 

Tchaikovsky: Symphony #1 Winter 

Daydreams. Joaquin Valdepeiias, clarinet; 

Peter Oundjian, conductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 

60 Simcoe. 416-593-4828. $26-$90. 


Music. Small Jazz Ensembles. Walter Hall, 80 



- 12:00 noon: VocalPoint Chamber Choir/ 

Roy Thomson Hall. All Creatures Great and 

Small Janequin: Le Chant des Oyseaux; 

Stanford: The Blue Bird; T avener: The Lamb; 

The Tiger; Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb; 

Rutter: All Things Bright and Beautiful. Roy 

Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. 416-484-0185. 

Free. 

- 1:30: Women's Musical Club of Toronto. 

An Aftemoon of French Romantic Music. 

Music by Poulenc, Debussy, Ravel & Faure. 

Women's Musical 

Club of Toronto 

AFTERNOON CONCERT 

jean-Claude 

Pennetier 

Thierry 

Felix 

piano baritone 

January' 17, 2002, 1:30 pm 

An Afternoon of French 

Romantic Music: Poulenc, 

Debussy, Ravel, & Faure 

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Monday, January 14, 2002 

7:30pm 

Trinity St. Paul's United Church 

42i Bloor Street West 

Haydn: String Quartet Op. 33, The Bir d 

Chausson: Chanson Perpetuelle 

Respighi: II Tramonto 

Schumann: String Quartet in A minor, Op. 41 

. Narelle Martinez, Soprano 

Atis Bankas, Violin Terry Holowach, Violin 

Ladislau Darida, Viola Thomas Mueller, Cello 

(TSO Musicians} 

Tickets at Door $15/$12(Seniors/Students) 

For more information, please call 416-993-9298 

DECEMBER 1, 2001 - JANUARY 31, 2002 wholenote

Thierry Felix, baritone; Jean·Cla.ude Pennetier, 

piano. Walter Hall, 80 Queen's Park. 416-923· 

7052. $25. 

- 8:00: Markt•m Theatre for Performing 

Arts. lvanka Chews the fat. Songs, jokes & 

audience participation. 171 Town Centre Blvd, 

Markham. 905-305-7469. $26. For complete 

run see Music Theatre listings. 

- 8:0Q: Roy Thomson Hall. lntemational 

Vocal Recitals: Ben Heppner. tenor. Music by 

Britten, Grieg; Sibelius & Tchaikovsky. Craig 

Ruttenberg, piano. 60 Simcoe St. 416-872- 

4255. $40-$65. 

- 8:00: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra. The 

Grand Tour: A Musical Journey. Trinity-St. 

Paul's Church. See Jan 16. 

Friday January 18 

- 8:00: Arraymusic. Nord Music by Abram, 

Cameron, Gudmundsen:Holmgren, Nergard, 

Parkinson. St. George-the-Martyr Church, 197 

John St. 416-204-1080. $18,$15. 

- 8:00: Canadian Opera Company. Strauss: 

Salome. Helen Field, Monte Pederson, Robert 

Tear, Krisztina Szab6·& other performers; 

David Atherton, conductor; Atom.Egoyan, 

director. 7:15: Pre-perfonnance chat. 

Hummingbird Centre for the Perfonning Arts, 1 

Front St. East. 416-872-2262. $38-$135. 

Discount prices for seniors, students and young 

adults. For complete run see Music Theatre 

. listings. 

- 8:00: Music Theatre Mississauga. 

Nuncrackers ... The Nunsense Christmas 

Musical Book, music and lyrics by Dan Goggin. 

Meadowvale Theatre, 6315 Montevideo Rd .. 

Mississauga. 905•821-0090. $20,$18. For 

complete run see Music Theatre listings. 

- 8:00: Royal Conservatory of Music. Glenn 

Gould Artist Series: Glenn Gould facuhy Wind 

Quintet. Kathleen Rudolph, flute; Keith 

Atkinson, oboe; Max Christie, clarinet; Fraser 

Jackson, bassoon; Chris Gongos, horn. Ettore 

Mazzoleni Concert Hall, 273 Bloor St. West. 

416408-2824 x321. $15,$12. 

- 8:00: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra. The 

Grand Tour: A Musical Joumey. Trinity-St. 



Music. Dave Young, bass; Gary Williamson, 

piano; Kevin Turcotte, trumpet; Perry White, 

saxophone; Terry Clarke, drums. Works by 

Mingus, Shorter, Brown, Silver and others. 


$20,$10. 


- 10:30am. 2:30, 7:30: Aldeburgh 

Connection. The Great Song Marathon. 

Twenty singers perfonn; all proceeds donated 

to scholarships at the Faculty of Music, U of T. 


$15,$12. 

- 2:00 & 8:00: Tafelmusik Baroque 

Orchestra. The Grand Tour: A Musical 

Joumey. Trinity-St. Paul's Church. See Jan 16. 

- 7:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Roy 

Thomson Hall. See January 16. $27-$55. 

- 8:00: Acoustic Harvest Folk Club. Beyond 

The Pale. European/Kleziner. Birch Cliff United · 

Church, 33 East Road. 416:264-2235. $12. 

- 8:00: Celebrity Symphony Orchestra. 

Camival in Opera. Arias and songs. Adam 

Zdunikowski, tenor; Grazyna Brodzinska & 

Anna Shafajinskaia, sopranos; Andrzej 

Rozbicki, conductor. Living Arts Centre, 4141 

Living Arts Drive. 905-306-6000. $45,$38. 

- 8:00: Meredith and Bernard Farley, 

guitars. Heliconian Hall, 35 Aazelton Ave. 416- 

922-8002. 

- 8:00: Music Umbrella Chamber Concerts. 

Hel/enia Night. Traditional music from Greece. 

Kost as T riandafilou, Leonidas Zafiri, Sophia 

Grigoriadis, Debashis Sinha & Jayne Brown, 

perfonners. Eastminster United Church, 310 

Danforth Ave. 416-461-6681. $12,$10, $5 

(children under 12). · 


Community School. Singing from Scratch 

level 3 Class Recital RCM Recital Hall, 273 

Bloor St. West. 416·408·2824 ext.321. $5,$3. 


- 1 :30: CAMMAC/McMichael Gallery. 

Sunday Concert: Ooug Mcleod Trio. 10365 

Islington; Kleinburg. 905-893-1121. $9,$7, 


- 2:30: Royal Conservatory of Music. Glenn 

Gould Artist Series: landscapes of Memoiy. 

Music inspired by the poetry and art of 

Christopher Pratt. Jane Liebel, soprano; 

Michelle Cheramy, flute; Jack Behrens, piano. 


West 416408-2824 x321. $15,$12. 


Music. Opera Tea. Oonizetti· l 'elisir d'amore. 

An afternoon of opera and tea on the theatre 

stage. MacMillan Theatre, 80 Queen's Park. 

416-978-3744. $25. 

- 2:30: Young Virtuosos of Classical 

Music. Camivai Concert. Noel Ryan 

Auditorium, Mississauga Central Library, 301 

Bumhamthorpe Rd. West. 905-569-9618. Free 

for children 12 & under. 

- 3:30: Tafelmusik Barogue Orchestra. The 

Grand Tour: A MusicalJoumey. Trinity-St. 


- 7:00: RCM Community School. lyric &. 

Silver Singers Recital Ettore Mazzoleni Concert 

Hall, 273 Bloor St. West. 416-408-2824 

ext.321. $5,$3. · 

- 8:00: New Music Concerts. Sing, Ariel 

Lee; Fei Yang for accordion & string quartet; 

Louie: Earth Cycles for accordion & tape; 

Goehr: Sing, Ariel Op.51 for solo mezzo 

soprano & ensemble of singers & instruments. 

Accordes String Quartet; Joseph Macerollo, 

accordion; Patricia Green, mezzo. 7:15: 

Illuminating Introduction. Glenn Gould Studio, 

250 Front St. West. 416·96.1-9594. $20, 

$10(sr/st), $ 5(cheapseats). 

- 8:00: Rosedale United Church. Asian 

Connection. Classical & contemporary Chinese 

music. George Gao, erhu; Zhu Ge Zeng, 

soprano; Celia Au, dancer. 159 Roxborough 

Drive. 416-924-0725 ext.36. $30,$25. 



Roy Thomson Hall. See January 16. $26-$55. · 

- 8:00: Cantabile Chorale of York Region. 

Robbie Bums Night. Sing-along; pip.er; 

highland dancers; Robert Richardson, 

conductor. Thornhill Presbyterian Church, 

273 Centre St. West, Thornhill. 905-731 - 

8318. $15. 


Tony Quarrington Trio. Ontario Science 

Centre Auditorium, 770 Don Mills Rd. 416- 

696-1000. $10. 


- 1 :00: St. James' Cathedral. l!Jnch Hour 

at St. James'.· Peter Nikiforuk, organ. Bach: 

Wedge Prelude and Fugue in e. 65 Church St. 

416'364-7865 ext.224. Free. 

...: 7:00: Canadian Opera Company. Rossini· 

II Viaggio a Reims. Elena Voznessenskaia, 

Ekaterina Morozova, Henrietta Bonde-Hansen, 

Viktoria Vizin, Michael Schade & other 

performers; Richard Bradshaw, conductor. 

7: 15: Pre-performance chat. Hummingbird 

Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front St. 

East. 416-872-2262. $38-$135. Discount 

prices for seniors, students and young adults. 

For complete run see Music Theatre listings. 

42 wholenote D ECEMB ER 1, 2001 - JANUARY 31 , 2002 

- 8:00: Music Toronto. Naida Cole, piano. 

Corigliano: Etude Francaise; Kuzmenko: In 

Memoriam; Copland: Piano Sonata; Messiaen: 

excerpts from Vingt Regards; Ravel: Miroirs. 

Jane M~llett Theatre, 27 Front St. East. 416-

366-7723. $43,$39; 18-35 pay your age; 

students $5/accompanying adult 1 /2 price. 



Music. David Mott, saxophone. Mclaughlin 

Performance Hall, 050 Mclaughlin College, 

4 700 Keele St. 416· 736-5186. Free. 


Beethoven: Piano Concerto #1; 

Rachmaninoff: Symphony #2. Lars. Vogt, 

piano; Thomas Dausgaard, conductor. Roy 

Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe. 416-593-4828. 

$26-$90. 






Music. Thursdays at Noon: James 

Sommerville, horn; Scott St. John, violin; 

Lydia Wong, piano. Horn trios by Brahms & 

ligeti. Walter Hall, 80 Queen's Park. 416- 

978-3744. Free. · 


Community School. RCM Percussion 

Ensembles. Ettore Mauoleni Concert Hali, 

273 Bloor St. West. 416-408-2824 ext.321. 

$5,$3. 

- 8:00: Toronto Philharmonia. The Phil 

and Violin Virtuosity. Beethoven: Leonore 

Overture; Brahms: Symphony No.2 in D, 

Op.73; Vivaldi: Spring & Winter from The Four 

Seasons; Klein: Hommage a Toulouse-laufrec. 

Oldrich Vlcek, conductor/violin. George 

Weston Recital Hall, 5040 Yonge St. 416- 

870-8000. $32,37; $26,$32(st/sr). • 


Roy Thomson Hall. S~e January 23. 


Friday January 25 · 

Community School. Senior Guitar Ensemf/le. 

St. Leonard's Church, 25 Wanless Ave. 416· 

- 8:00: Amici. Webern: Langsamer Satz; 

Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel-Einmal Anders; 408-2824 ext.321 · $5,$3. 

Schubert: Oct.et in F, D.803. Scott St. John, - 7:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. 

Marie Berard, violins; Steven Dann, viola; Roy Thomson Hall. See January 23. 

- 7:30: Living Arts Centre. Grand 

David Hetherington, cello; Joel Quarrington, 

Derangement. Musicians and dancers perform 

bass; Joaquin Valdepefias, clarinet; James 

traditional Acadian music blended with Celtic, 

Sommerville, horn; Kathleen Mclean, 

rock and zydeco. Hammerson Hall, 4141 

bassoon. Jane Mallett Theatre. 27 Front St. 

East. 416-366-7723. $27, $24isr), $l2(st). living Arts Drive, Mississauga. 905-306- 

- 8:00: OnStage. Studio Jazz· The Sax 5 000. $ 36·$ 32·$ 24· 


Summit. Seamus Blake, Phil Dwyer, Andre Young Artist Series: The Academy Chamber 

Leroux, Mike Murley, P.J. Perry, Campbell Orchestra. Brahms: Symphony No. l; 

Ryga, Perry White, saxophones; Mark 

Eisenman, piano; Neil Swainson, bass; Terry 

Stravinsky: Pulcinella.' Rennie Regehr, 

conductor. Ettore Mazzoleni Concert Hall, 

Clarke, drums. Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front. 273 Bloor St. West. 416.408-2824 x321. 

St. West. 416-205-5555. $30. 

- 8:00: St. Anne's Music and Drama $ 7 ,$ 5 . 

Society. Gilbert & Sullivan: Princess Ida. - 8:00: Academy Concert Series. The Art 

Laura Schatz, director; Ori Siegel; music 

director. St. Anne's Parish Hall, 651 Dufferin 

'st. 416-922-4415. $l 4(first night). For 

~:i~:r~~:i~~:s~~::::· 0%~~~ ~ic~l:~del, 

Tarasov, baroque clarinet; string accompaniment. 

Eastminster United Church, 31 0 

complete run see music.theatre listings. Danforth. 416.889-5414. $15,$10. 

- 8:00: Toronto Centre for the Arts. Ewa 

Pod/es, contralto. Works by Rossini. Canadian 

- 8:00: Komitas Musical Association of 

Ontario. Tigranian: Anoush. Opera in .concert 

Opera Company Orchestra; Richard 

· version. Susan Brown, coloratura soprano; 

Bradshaw, conductor. George Weston Recital Sarkis Koundakiian. tenor: Arthur 

Hall, 5040 Yonge St. 416-870-8000. $50- 

~ 

$70. 

:i: 

- 8:30: Living Arts Centre. Marc .,Jordan. 

f-< 

Music echoing the influences of Charlie 

Parker, Timothy Leary, Chet Baker, and lloe 

Louis. Royal Bank Theatre, 4141 living Arts 

Drive, Mississauga. 905-306-6000. 

$29,$19.50. 


- 6:00: Viva! Youth Singers of Toronto. 

Sing-along Fundraiser. Trinity-St. Paul's 

Church, 427 Bloor St. West. 416· 788-8482. 

Muhendissian, baritone & other soloists; 

Komitas Choir and Orchestra; Adolfo De 

Santis, piano; David Varjabed, musical 

director & conductor. Markham Theatre for 

Performing Arts, 171 Town Centre Blvd. 905- 

305-7469. $25-$35. For complete run see 

music theatre listings. 

Sunday January 27 · 

- 1 :00: Harbourfront Centre. Cushion· 

Concerts: Anne lederman's Fiddlesong. 

Metis, French-Canadian, Irish, Scottish, 

Klezmer and Macedonian fiddle tunes; story: 

The Crooked Waltz. du Maurier Theatre 

Centre, 231 Queen's Quay West. 416-973· 

4000.$8. I 

- 2:00: Chamber Music Society of 

Mississauga. Happy Birthday Mozart! 

Mozart: Piano Trio #5 in G; Milhaud: Suite; 

Mendelssohn: Piano Trio #1 ind. Peggy 

McGuire, violin; Marsha Moffitt, cello; Colin 

Savage, clarinet; Jennifer Tung, piano. Royal 

Bank Theatre, living Arts Centre, 4141 living 

Arts Drive, Mississauga. 905-306-6000. $18· 

$24. 

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- 2:30: Off Centre Music Salon. 

Unsinkable Titans. Mahler: Kindertotenlieder; 

ACADEMY CONCERT SERIES 

~er more lieautij'uf tone~ .. 

The Art of the Ba~oque Clarinet 

· Molter Concertos· Handel's OuYettut~~\lin.cftnlJCh\ more , 

>;~- .. ,,· -fr . / 

Performed by 

historical clarinet player 

Nicolai Tarasov, 

with string accompaniment 

Saturday, January 26th at 8 p,m, 

310 Danforth Avenue, Toronto {Eastminster 

United Church, just west of the Chester subway) 

Tickets: $15/$10 

Call 416.889.5414 

FRIDAY, JANUARY 25 

II 8:00PM 

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Scott St. John; violin 

Marie Berard; violin 

Steven Dann; viola 

David Hetherington; cello 

Joel Quarrington; bass 

Joaquin Valdepeiias; clarinet 

James Sommerville; horn 

Kathleen Mclean; bassoon 

AMICI Shines with SCHUBERT 

Schubert's glorious Octet in F., D. 803 

and works by R. Strauss and Webern 

Jane Mallett Theatre 

St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts 

27 Front Street West 

Jor tickets call (416) 410-1950 

adults $35 senioo $30 students Si 5 

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Sunday, January 27 /02 "UNSINKABLE TITANS" Mahler & 

Shostakovich. Linda Maguire, mezzo-soprano; Erika Raum, violin; 

Mihai Tete!. cello; Inna Perkis & B.oris Zarankin, piano. 

Sunday, February 24/02 "GERMAN SALON: FAUST-FEST" 

Beethoven, Brahms & Schubert. Measha Brueggergosman. 

soprano; Nancy Palk, actor; Inna Perkis & Boris Zarankin, piano. 

Sunday, April 7/02 "7th ANNUAL SCHUBERTIAD" Schubert. 

Michael Colvin, tenor; Monica Whicher, soprano; Jacques 

Israelievitch, violin; Inna Perkis & Boris Zarankin, piano. 

Concerts take place at Glenn Gould Studio, CBC@ 2:30 pm. 

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Single tickets also available at 416-205-5555. 

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Shostakovich: Trio Op.67. Linda Maguire, 

mezzo·soprano; Mihai Tetel,,cello, Erika 

Raum, violin; Inna Perkis & Boris Zarankin, 

pianos; Catherine Belyea, host. Glenn Gould 

Studio, 250 Front St. West. 416-205·5555. 

$35,$25. 

- 3:00: Canadian Music Competitions. 

CMC National Winners. Euromusic Centre, · 

2651 John St., Markham. 416-441-1335. 

$10,$5. ' 

- 3.:00: Music at Rosedale. Works by Bach, 

Handel, Purcell, Haydn & Faure. Senior vocal 

students from U of Toronto Faculty of Music; 

Mia Bach & Douglas Bodle, piano. Rosedale 

Presbyterian Church, 129 Mt. Pleasant Road. 

416·921· 1931. Admission by donation. 


Community School. RCM Children's Choirs. 

Ettore Mauoleni Concert Hall, 273 Bloor St. · 

West. 416·408-2824 ext.321. $5,$3. 


- 8:00: Toronto Organ Club. Joe Carlo, 

Hammond X66 organ. Christ Church, 329 

Royal York Road. 905-824-4667. $10, 

children under 10 free. 


- 12:00 noon: Roy Thomson Hall. The 

French Conneciion. T afelmusik Chamber 

Choir; !vars Taurins, conductor; Paul Jenkins, 

organ. 60 Simcoe St. 416-872-4255. Free. \ 

- 1 :00: Critical Mass. Byrd: Mass for 5 

Voice~. Saint Thomas's Church, 383 Huron 

~!,~ Gould 

St. 416-778·4923. Freewill offering ($10 

suggested). Proceeds to Out of the Cold 

program. 

- 1 :00: St. James' Cathedral. lunch Hour 

at St. James': William Maddox, organ. 

Program TBA. 65 Church St. 416·364· 7865 




Music. Dorothy de Val, piano: English 

Country Gardens. Music of Grainger. 

Mclaughlin Performance Hall, 050 Mclaughlin 

College, 4700 Keele St. 416·736-5186. Fre.e. 

- 8:00: Markham Theatre for Performing 

Arts. The Nylons. 171 Town Centre Blvd, 

Markham. 905·305-7469. $34. 





- 12: 10: University of Toronto faculty of 

Music/Canadian Music Competitions. 

Thursdays at Noon: Cahadian Music 

Competitions Winner Recital Andrew 

Aarons, piano. Walter Hall, 80 Queen's Park. 

416-978·3744. Free. 

- 8:00: Markham Theatre for Performing 

Arts. The Nylons. 171 Town Centre Blvd, 

Markham. 905·305·7469. $34. 

- 8:00: Music Tor.onto. Robert Pomakov, 

bass. Gregorian Chant; Wolf: Michelangelo 

Lieder; Brahms: Vier ernste Gesange; 

I .l 

• Studio 

Thursday, January 31 /02 

at8pm 

KRONOS QUARTET 

David Harrington, violin 

John Sherba, violin 

Han~ Dutt, viola 

·Jennifer Culp, cello 

NEXUS 

Bob Becker, percussion 

William Cahn, percussion 

Robin Engelman, percussion 

Russell Hartenberger, perc. 

John Wyre, percussion 

Two of the world's most remarkable ensembles come 

together for the first time, performing on their own 

and in collaboration. Don't miss the magic! 



Fax (416) 205-5551 

email .ggstix@toronto.cbc.ca 

Glenn Goµld Studio is located at: 250 Front Street West, 



Schumann: Dichterliebe; Finzi: Let Us 

Garlands Bring. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 

Front St. East. 416·366-7723. $12,$5. 

- 8:00: OnStage. Kronos Duarte! & Nexus 

Percussion Ensemble. David Harrington, John 

Sherba, violins; Hank Dutt, viola; Jennifer 

Culp, cello; Bob Becker, William Cahn, Robin 

Engelman, Russell Hartenberger, John Wyre, 

percussion. Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St. 

West. 416-205-5555. $35. 


Haydn: The C1eation. Donna Brown, soprano; 

James Taylor, tenor; Eric Owens, baritone; 

University of Toronto MacMillan Singers; 

Elmer lseler Singers; Helmuth Rilling, 

i:onductor. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe. 

416·593·4828. $26·$90. 

Friday February 01 


Music. lmprov Soiree. Student improv 

ensembles. Casey Sokol, director. Senior 

Common Room, 021 Winters College, 4 700 

Keele St. 416· 736·5186. Free. 


Royal Conservatory Orchestra Series. 

Behrens;J.aadmarks; Str~vinsky: Petrouchka. 

Rennie Regehr, conductor. Glenn Gould 

Studio, 250 Front St. West. 416·205·5555. 

$15,$12. T 


Community School. Instrumental 

Conducting Class Rec1~al Ettoie Mazzoleni 

Concert Hall, 273 Bloor St. West. 416·408· 

2824 ext.321. $5,$3. • . 

- 8:00: Toronto Consort. 'hands of Ice and 

Fire· Tales of the Norse. Traditional music of 

Norway, Swedeh, Finland and Iceland. Peter 

Tiefenbach, story-teller.- Trinity-St. Paul's , 

Church, 427 Bloor St. West. 416·964-6337. 

"$18-$36; $14·$30(sr/st). 

Saturday February 02 

- 12:00 no~n: Royal Conservatory of 

Music Community School. lobby Concert. 

Informal con·cert .featuring RCM students of 

all ages & levels. 273 Bloor St. West. 416· 

408-2824 ext.321. Free. 


Haydn: The Creation. Roy Thomson Hall. 

See January 31. 

- 8:00: Mississauga Guitar Society. Arek 

Sawzdargo, guitar in Recital St. Thomas a 

Becket Church, 3535 South Commmon Court, 

Mississauga. 905·821-2396. "$10. 


Orchestra. Cheek to Cheek in Vienna. Music. 

by J.Strauss, Lehar & Von Suppa. Ted Baerg, 

baritone: Irena Welhasch·Baerg, soprano; 

John Barnum, conductor. Hammerson Hall, 

Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living Arts Drive. 

905·306-6000. $40,$30. 

- 8:00: Scarborough Philharmonic. 

Heartstrings. Grella·Mojezko: Credo; Barber: 

Violin Concerto Op.14; Tchaikovsky: 

Symphony #6 in b PatMtique. Erika Raum, 

violin; Jerome David Summers, conductor. 

Birchmount Park Collegiate Institute, 3663 

Danforth Ave. 416-261-0380. 

$18,$15(sr),$11(st). 

- 8:00: Toronto Consort. ,Lands of Ice and 

Fire· Tales of the Norse. Trinity-St. Paul's 

Church. See Feb. 1. 

Sunday February 03 

- 1 :00 & 3:30: Oakville Centre for the 


Performing Arts. Fred Penner: Fred's - 

Favourite$; Music & comic routines; family 

entertainment. 130 Navy Street, Oakville. 

905-815-2021. $29.99. 

- 1 :30: CAMMAC/McMichael Gallery. 

Sunday Concert: Climax Jazz Band. 10365 

Islington, Kleinburg. 905·893· 1121. $9, $ 7, 


- 2:00: OnStage. Wolfgang Holzrnair, 

baritone; Russell Ryan, piano. Woks by 

Mendelssohn, Schubert, de Falla, Brahms and 

Ravel. Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St. 

West. 416·205·5555. $30. 

- 2:00: Shevchenko Musical Ensemble; 

Mandolin Orchestra. Program of folk & other 

world music. Soloists on 3-string domra.' 

tsimQali, oboe, guitar & accordion. Leah 

Posluns Theatre, 4588 Bathurst. 416·533· 

2725. $18,$16. 

- 2:30: Opera in Concert. Verdi: Nabucco. 

Susan Eyton.Jones, Lauren Segal, Marc 

Boucher, Joel Katz, Stephen Harland, 

performer's; Opera in Concert Chorus .. Ro~ert 

Cooper, director; Raisa Nakhmanovich, music 

director and pianist. I :45: Pre·concert chat 

with lain Scott. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 

Front St. East. 416·366·7723. $28,$22. 

- 2:30: Royal Conservatory of Music/ 

Glenn Gould Professional School. Family 

Series. Stravinsky: Petrouchka. The Royal 

Conservatory Orchestra; Rennie Regehr, 

conductor; Bob Rae, narrator; Artists from 

Learning Through the Arts. Ettore Mazzoleni 

Concert Hall, 273 Bloor St. West. 416408· 

2824 x321. $15,$12. 

- 3:00: Toronto Centre for the Arts. 

Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Haydn: The 

Creation. Donna Brown, soprano; James 

Taylor; tenor; University of Toronto . 

MacMillan Singers with the Elmer lseler 

Singers; Helmuth Rilling, conductor. George 

Weston Recital Hall, 5040 Yonge St. 416· 

870·8000. $55,$65. 


Community School. RCM Jazz Ensemble. 


· West. 416408·2824 ext.321. $5,$3. 

-8:00: Continuum Contemporary Music/ 

Music Gallery. Superfluity & celebration of 

cellos. Music ~Y Xenakis, Boulez, Bergs, , · 

Rolfe & Henze. Kim Enns, soprano; Mark 

Fewer, violin: Paul Pulford, Karl Toews, 

John Marshman, Roberta Janzen & other 

cellists. St. George·the·Martyr Church, 197 

John. 416·767·0609. $15,$10, 

$5(cheap_seats pass). 

Monday February 04 

- li:OO: Jazz.FM91. Sound of Toronto Jazz. 

lluinsin Nachoff, sax. Ontario Science Centre 


1000. $10. 

Tuesday February 05 

- 1 :00: St. James' Cathedral. lunch Hour 

at St. James~· Maxine Thevenot, organ. 

Program TBA. 65 Church St. 416-364-7865 


- 8:00: Oakville Centre for the 

Performing Arts. Cabaret Classic: Schuhz & 

O'Callaghan. Patricia O'Callaghan & Albert 

Schultz. 130 Navy Street, Oakville. 905-815· 

2021. $28.99. .. 

- 8:00: Via Salzburg. Music for Cello & 

Violin: Steven lsserlis, cello. Bach: Suite No.3; 

Taverner: Thrinos; Britten: Suite No.3; Ravel: 

Duo for violin & cello; Vine: Inner World for 

Cello & Tape. Mayumi Seiler, violin. Glenn 

Gould Studio, 250 Front St. West. 416·205· 

5555. $35, $28, $22(sr/st) ~ 

Wednesday February 06 

- 8:00: Esprit Orchestra. Toothpaste. 

Louie: Toothpaste · a short comedic domestic 

opera, libretto by Dan Redican; Rea: Alma & 

Oskar, for soprano. and baritone with chamber 

orchestra; van der Aa: Here (to be foi!nd), for 

soprano, orchestra & tape; Vivier: Bouchara, 

for soprano & orchestra. Freedman: Graphic 

9: For Harry Somers. Barbara Hannigan, 

soprano; Thomas Goerz, baritone; Alex Pauk, 

conductor. 7: 15: Pre-concert talk. Jane 

Mallett Theaire, 27 Front St. East. 416-366- 

7723. $26,$12.50. 

- 8:00: Oakville Centre for the 

Performing Arts. Jean Stilwell mezzo. 

Music by Gershwin, Kern; classical & avant· 

garde repertoire. 130 N~vy Street, Oakville. 

905-815·2021 . $32.99. 

- 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. half price. 

Mozart: Violin Concerto #4; Mahler: 

Symphony. #5. Elisabeth Batiashvill, violin; 

Jukka·Pekka Saraste, conductor. Roy 

Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe. 416-593·4828. 

$26-$90. 

- 8:30: University of Toronto faculty of 

, Music. Small Jazz Ensembles. Walter Hall, 80 


Thursday February 07 

-12:10: University of Toronto faculty of 

Music. Thursdays at Noon: Rolscottade Trio. 

Piano trios by Haydn & Shostakovich. Shauna 

Rolston, cello; Scott St. John, violin; William 

Aide, piano. Walter Hall, 80 Queen's P-ark. 

416·978·3744. Free. 

- 8:00: Music Toronto. Avalon String 

lluartet. Mozart: Quartet No.14 in G K.387; 

Schafer: Quartet No.5 Rosalind; Ravel: 

Quartet in F. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front 

St. East. 416·366-7723. $43,$39; 18-35 pay 

your age; students $5/accompanying adult 

TORONTO 

NURHAN ARMAN Music Director and Conductor 

Toronto's premier chamber orchestra! 

'Saturday, Feb 9, 8 pm 

Transformed·by love 

Romantic love and deepest emotions, all 

that's best expressed without words, captured 

in the soaring melodies and lush harmonies of 

long Scandinavian nights and pre-war Vienna 

Sibelius Romance 

Vaughan Williams Charterhouse Suite 

Grieg The Wounded Heart, L.ast Spring 

Schoenberg Transfigured Night 

JB\ralhm Go~dlhame1r p 1rese1rnts 

SONG CIRCLE 

Sunday,february10 

2:oo p.m. 

Actt lf oif DU.

- B:OO: Scarborough Music Theatre. She 

Loves Me. Music by Jerry Bock; lyrics by 

Sheldon Harnick; book by Joe Masteroff. 

Scarborough Village Theatre, 3600 Kingston 

Rd. 416·396·4049. $21,$1B. For complete 

run see Music Theatre listings. 

- B:OO: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. 

Roy Thomson Hall. See February 6. 

if:';~nrnEn : AFIELD 

"l~f:4~ ·« :'.!t:i;:i· i ~. 

~1'!< · ' :. but within easy 

' · travelling distance of the GT A 

.. ~ ~~"'' ,. ' 

. Saturday December O 1 

- B:OO: Heritage Theatre. Michelle Wright. 

BB Main St. North, Brampton. 905·B74· 

2800. $44.50. 

- B:OO: Lindsay Concert Foundation. 

Anagnoson & Kinton PianoOuo: 25th 

Anniversary Tour; Academy Theatre, 2 

Lindsay St. South, Lindsay. 1-B77-BBB·003B. 

$20,$10. ' . 

- B:OO: Symphony Hamilton. Christmas 

with Mary Lou Fallis. Program also includes 

Mozart: Hom Concerto No.2; Martin: Ballade. 

Courtney Prizrenac, French horn, Sara 

Traficante, flute, winners of Symphony 

Hamilton's Young Artists' Competition; James 

McKay, conductor. Tivoli Theatre, 1 OB James 

St. North, Hamilton. 905-777-9777. 


- 3:00: Guelph Co.ncert Band. Oo You Hear 

What I Hear? Music by Bach, Wagner, • 

Grainger, Bernstein & others. Guests: The 

Renaissance Singers~ Colin Clarke, director. 

Church of Our Lady, Guelph. 519·B37-0276. 

$12,$9,$5. 

~ 3:00 & 7:30: La Jeunesse Youth 

Orchestra. la Jeunesse Christmas. Guests: 

La Jeunesse Choirs. Trinity Uni ted Church, 15 

Chapel St., Cobourg. 905·BB5·27B2. 

- 7:00: Christina Birch, soprano; Dwane 

Webster, baritone; Edith Gardiner, piano. 

Songs for Noel. Emmanual United. Church, 

420 Balmoral Drive, Brampton. 905·792· 

3269. 

- 7:00: Holy Family Church. Advent 

lessons and Carols. Anthems by Holy Family 

Choir. 10246 Kennedy Road North, 

Brampton ..905·B46-2347. Free. 

- 7:30: Hamilton Children's Choir. An 

International C/Jristmas. Music from different 

countries. Concert, Preparatory & Chamber 

Choirs; guests: Arcady Orchestra. Melrose 

United Church, Locke & Homewood Sts., 

Hamilton. 905·527-161B. $12,$10, family 

r.ates. 

- 7:30: St Matthew's House. Dramatic 

reading of Dickens: A Christmas Carol; choral 

work. Jim Curran, Heather Hiscox, Bob Hooper, 

Rob Howard & Connie Smith, readers; 

Harlequin Singers. Church of the Ascension, 42 

Forest Ave., Hamilton: 905-574·9495. $15 or 

2 for $25. Benefit for The Christmas Tree of 

Hope & St. Matthew's House. 

- B:OO: Heritage Theatre. Michael Burgess. 

B6 Main St. North, Brampton. 905-B74· 

2BOO. $44.50. 

·. Monday December OJ 


Welcome Yule! Ron Beckett, conductor. 

Central Presbyterian Church, 97 Wellington 

St., Brantford. 51942B·31B5. $15,$10. 


- 2:00: Sanderson Centre for the · 

Performing Arts. A Country Christmas with 

the Walters family & special guests. BB 

Dalhousie St., Brantford. 519· 75B·B090; 

BOD·265·0710. $25. 

- B:OO: St. Jacobs Schoolhouse Theatre. 

Guy Oavis. Blues. The Church Theatre, 1376 

King St., St. Jacobs. 519-664-1134. $1 B. 


- 2:00 & B:OO: Sanderson Centre for the 

Performing Arts. A Country Christmas with 

the Wahers family & special guests. BB 

Dalhousie St., Brantford: 519· 75B·B090; 

B00·265·0710. $25. 


Welcome Yule! Ron Beckett, conductor. Kn~x 

Presbyterian Church, 170 Main St. East, 

Milton. 905·B7B-6066. $15,$10. 


- B:OO: Brott Autumn Musir, Festival. 

Best of Brahms Ill Brahms: Violin Concerto in 

D; Symphony #3 in F. Martin Beaver, violin; 

National Academy Orchestra; Boris Brott, 

conductor. 6:30: Pre-concert lecture with Dr. 

Jeffrey Stokes. Liuna Station, 160 James St. 

North, Hamilton. 905~525-7664. $23,$20; 

p~e·concert lecture $7.50. 


- 7:~0: Arcady Choir and Strings. Handel.· 

Messiah. Ronald Beckett, conductor. St. 

Ann's Church, 11 Wilson St. West, Ancaster. · 

905·64B·6B74. $15,$10. 

- B:OO: Heritage Theatre. Guy Oavis. 

Acoustic blues. BB Main St. North, Brampton. 

905·B74·2BOO. $2B. 


- 7:30: Halton Youth Symphony. Winter 

Tales. Seasonal music, classical favourites & 

stories. Guests: Burlington Storytellers' Guild. 

Gambrel Barn, Country Heritage Park, Milton. 

905·616·2760. Admission by donation. 

- B:OO: Brampton Symphony Orchestra. 

Holiday Cheer. Handel: Messiah (excerpts); 

seasonal favourites. Rhonda Shirreff, 

soprano; Brampton Festival Singers, Chris 

Fisher, conductor; Mayor Susan Fennell, 

narrator; Charles Demuynck; conductor. 

Heritage Theatre, BB Main St. North, 

Brampton. 905·B74·2BOO. $15,$10. 

- B:OO: Elora Festival Singers. Han.def: 

Messiah. Elora Festival Orchestra; Noel 

Edison, conductor. Melville United Church, 

Fergus. 519·B46·9694. $30. 

. - B:OO: Millpond Centre. Christmas Jazz. 

106 Victoria St. West, Alliston. 705·435· 

3092. $16. 

S•mday December 09 

- 2:00: Brott Autumn Music Festival 

2001. Sharon, Bram and Friends: A Holiday 

Family Concert. Hamilton Place, 1 Summers 

Lane. 905·525·7664. $15,$10. 

- 7:30: Friends of Music. Handel.· Messiah. 

Les Violons du Roy; La Chapelle de Quebec; 

Isabel Bayrakdarlan, soprano; Daniel Taylor, 

countertenor; Benjamin Butterfield, tenor; · 

Peter Harvey, baritone; Bernard Labadie, 

conductor. Port Hope United Church, Brown 


& South Streets. 905·BB5· 1071 . $30,$15. 

- 7:30: Peel Choral Society. Vivaldi· Gloria. 

Janice Thorn, soprano; Mari Van Pelt, mezzo; 

chamber orchestra; Mervin Fick, conductor. 

Seasonal carols. St. John Fisher Catholic 

Church, 300 Balmoral Dr., Brampton. 905· 

' B40·6547. $15,$10. 

- B:OO: Heritage Theatre. Ouartetto Gelato. 

B6 Main St. North, Brampton. 905·B74· 

2BOO. $39.50. ' 


- B:OO: JANG Arts & Entertainment. 

Nathaniel Oett Chorale: An Indigo Christmas. 

Blend of spirituals, carols, jazz & gospel 

works; Handel: Messiah (arrangements); 

Parang songs. Joe Sealy, jazz piano; Los 

Pajaros; Brainerd Blyden·Taylor, conductor. 

River Run Centre, 35 Woolwich St., Guelph. 

519.753.3000, 1·B77-520-240B. $36,$25. 

- B: 15: Te Deum Orchestra & Singers. 

Mother and Child. Corelli: Christmas 

Concerto; Part: Magnificat; Bach: Cantata 

#61 Nun komm, der Heiden Heilantf, 

traditional carols; sing·along. Richard Birney· 

Smith, conductor. B:OO: Chat from the Stage 

with Dr. Birney-Smith. Christ's Church 

Cathedral, 252 James St. North, Hamilton. 

905-62B·4533 or 1 ·BOO· 263·0320. 

Advance: $23,$1B, $B(children under 12); 

door: $25,$20, $ lO(children under 12). 


- 7:30: Oriana Singers (Northumberland). 

One Night in Bethlehem. Respighi: Laud to the 

Nativity; seasonal songs & carols. Will Emslie, 

tenor; Cathy Lyons, mezzo; Laura Halls; 

woodwind ensemble; Marie Anderson, 

conductor. St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, 

200 King St. West, Cobourg. 905·372-2210. 

$15,$13. 

- B:OO: Arkell Schoolhouse. Three Old 

Friends Meet Again at Arkell. Mose Scarlett, 

acoustic guitar; Jackie Washington, piano/ 

acoustic guitar; Ken Whiteley, mandolin/ 

guitar/piano; with vocals. B43 Watson Rd. 

South Arkell. 519-763·752B. $20. 

- B:OO: Renaissance Singers. What . 

Sweeter Music. Christmas carols from around 

ihe world. Guests: Kitchener/Waterloo 

Philharmonic Youth Choir, Richard 

Cunningham, music director. St. Andrew's 

Presbyterian Church, 54 Queen St. N., 

Kitchener. 519·745·0675. $15,$10, $5(age 

12 and under). 


- 7:30: Mohawk Singers. Tis The Season. 

Selected choruses from Handel: Messiah Part 

One; seasonal favourites old & new. David 

Peaker, piano; Michael Jarvis, conductor. 

Ryerson United Church, B42 Main St. East, . 

Hamilton. 905·526-793B. $20,$15. 

- 7:30: Northumberland Orchestra 

Society. World Solstice. Musical traditions 

from around the world. Matthew Jaskiewicz, 

music director. Trinity United Church, 15 

Chapel St., Cobourg. 905·342·9295. $17.50, 

$15.50(sr), $10(st). 


- B:OO: Brott Autumn Music Festival. 

Handel: Messiah. Monica Whicher, soprano; 

Daniell aylor, alto; Mark DuBois, tenor; 

Daniel Lichti, bass; Elmer lseler Singers; 

National Academy Orchestra; Boris Brott, 

conductor: Centenary United Church, 

Hamilton. 905-525·7664. $25,$21. 

- B:OO: Hamilton Place. John McOermott: 

Christmas Memories. Guests: The 

Mistletones. 1 Summers Lane, Hamilton. 905· 

546·3050. $29.50·$39.50. 


I 

- 7:00: Toronto Children's Chorus. 

Holiday Concert. Jean Ashworth Bartle and 

Carole Anderson, conductors; guests: 

Thomas Street Middle School Choir. Lester B. 

Pearson Theatre, .150 Central Park Drive, 

Brampto_n. 905·B74·2BOO. $16. 


- B:OO: Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra. 

'Vo You Hear" with the Rankin Sisters. 

Christmas concert. Michael Reason, 

conductor. Hamilton Place, 1 Summers Lane. 

905·526·6556. $24-$45, $22·$40(sr/st), 

$10-$20(12 & under). 

- B:OO: Sanderson Centre for the 

Performing Arts. Michael Burgess. tenor: An 

Angels in the Snow Christmas. BB Dalhousie 

St., Brantford. 519·75B·B090; B00-265· 

0710. $29,$26.50. 


- 7:30: Arcady Choir and Strings. Handel.· 

Messiah. Ronald Beckett, conductor. St. 

Andrew's United Church, 95 Darling St., 

Brantford. 519·752-5B23. $15,$10. 

- B:OO: Hamilton Children's Choir/ 

Canadian Orpheus Male Choir/Hamilton 

Philharmonic Youth Orchestra. 2001 

Christmas Concert. Sacred and secular 

carols; sing·along. Hamilton Place, 1 Summers 

Lane. 905·546-3050. $14,$12. 

~ B:OO: MusicMakers. Glad Tidings of Great, 

Joy. Guests: Pine Ridge Brass. Gwen Darling, 

music director. Victoria Hall Concert Hall, 55 

King St. West, Cobourg. 905·372-2210. 

$12, $10, children 12 & under free. Proceeds . 

to Northumberland Lakeshore Hospice 

Association. 


- 10:30am: Holy Family Church. A Festival 

of lessons and Carols. By Hal H. Hopson. 

Holy Family Youth Orchestra. 10246 Kennedy 

Road North, Brampton. 905·846·2347. Free. 


- 10:00pm: Sanderson Centre for the 

Performing Arts. An Affogant Worms New 

Year's Celebration! BB Dalhousie St., 

Brantford. 519·75B·B090; B00·265-0710. 

$25,$23, $22(st/sr). 


- 7:30: Arkell Schoolhouse. Alexander 

Tselyakov, piano in Recital. Chopin: Scherzo 

Op.31 #2; Rachmaninoff: Sonata Op.36 #2; 

Shchedrin: Sonata #1 and other music. B43 

Watson Rd. South Arkell. 519-763·752B. 

$25,$20, $10(sr/st). 


- B:OO: Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra. 

Pastoral Oiversions. Adaskin: Diversions; 

Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No.2 in g; 

Beethoven: Symphony No.6 "Pastoral". 

Jasper Wood, violin; Daniel Lipton, conductor. 

7:00: Pre·concert chat, Piano Nobile Lounge,

Hamilton Place, 1 Summers Lane. 905· 

526-6556. $24-$45, $22·$40(sr/st), 

$10-$20(12 & under). 


- 7:00: New Music Concerts/ 

Mil"claren Art Centre. Evening of Wind 

Music. Music by Mozart, Hindemith, · 

Jolivet, Ramovs & Fran~aix. SLOWIND 

Woodwind Quintet. Maclaren Art Centre, 

37 Mui caster St., Barrie. 705· 720· 1044. 

$10,$5. ' 


- 8:00: Arkell Schoolhouse. Katherine 

Wheatley ,& Cate Friesen, singer/ 

songwriters. 843 Watson Rd. South 

Arkell. 519· 763· 7528. $20. 

Friday January 25 

- 8:00: Heritage Theatre. Richard 

Wood. Step dancer and fiddler. 86 Main 

St. North, Brampton. 905-874-2800. 

$28. 


- 7:30: Durham Chamber Orchestra. 

B.ellini: Overture to Norma; Schubert: 

Rosamunde Entracte; Bach: Concerto for 

Two Violins in b; Haydn: Symphony #92 

Oxforrf. Britten: Matinees Musicale. 

Eileen Kim & Hannah Lau, violins; John 

Kraus, conductor. St. Mark's United 

Church, 201 Centre Street South, 

Whitby. 1-705-749-5839. 

u - 8:00: Opera Ontario. Mozart· The 

Marriage of Figaro. Andrew Tees, Jennie 

Such, David Bedard, Odette Beaupre, 

Michelle Sutton, Russell Braun, Michel 

Corbeil, Laura Whalen, Robert Milne, 

Sinead Pratschke, performers; Carlo 

Palleschi, conductor. Hamilton Place, 1 

Summers Lane, Hamilton. 800-575-1381. 

For complete run see Music Theatre 

listings. · 


- 8:00: Heritage Theatre. Oanu. Irish 

performers. 86 Main St. North, 

Brampton. 905-874-2800. $28. ' 

Friday February 01 

. - 8:00: Heritage Theatre. The Nylons. 

' 86 Main St. North, Brampton. 905-874· 

2800. $39.50. 

Saturday February 02 

- 8:00: Arkell Schoolhouse. Oenise 

Ojokic, cMo in Recital 843 Watson Rd. 

South Arkell. 519-763-7528. $20. 

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Index of presenters and venues 

Numbers refer to date of event, not WholeNote page numbers; 

"j"before a number = January; 'T' = February; (fa) signifies "Further Afield" (pages 46-47) 

Academy Concert Series j26 

Academy Theatre, Lindsay(fa) 1 

Acoustic Harvest Folk Club 8, jl 9 

Aldeburgh Connection 4, jl 1, j13, j19 

Alexander Singers 8, 9 

All the King's Voices 9 

All-Saints Kingsway Church 5 

Amadeus Choir 2, 15 

Amici11,j25 

Annex Singers 8 

Anno Domini Chamber Singers 15 

Aradia Ensemble 1 

Arcady Choir and Strings 1, 8, 12 

Arcady Choir and Strings(fa) 3, 5, 7, 22 

Arkell Schoolhouse(fa) 15, j5, jl 9, 12 

Armour Heights Church 7 

Arraymusic jl 8 

Assembly Hall 14 

Associates of the TSO j14 

Attila Glatz Concert Productions jl 

Bach Chamber Youth Choir 15 

Bach Children's Chorus 15 

Baroque Music Beside the Grange 16, j13 

Bell' Arte Singers 15 

Betty Oliphant Theatre 1 

Birch Cliff United Church 8, j 19 

Birchmount Park Collegiate Institute 12 

Blessed Trinity Church 2 

Blessed Trinity Liturgical-Choir 2 

Bloor Street United Church 8, 14 

Blue Danube Restaurant 3 

Brampton Symphony Orchestra(fa) 8 

Brigantine Room 7 

Brott Autumn Music Festival 21 

Brott Autumn Music Festival(fa) 6, 9, 17 

· Buddies in Bad Times Theatre 4 

Burnhamthorpe Auditorium 15 

Burton Auditorium, York University 1 

Calvin Presbyterian Church 9, 16 

CAMMAC 2, 16, j6, j20, 13 

Canada Pops Orchestra 17 

Canadian Children's Opera Chorus 1 

Canadian Concert & Recital Artists .1 

Canadian Music Competitions jl 1, j27, j31 

Canadian Opera Company 3, j18, j22 

Canadian Orpheus Male Choir(fa) 22 

Canadian Singers 14 

Cantabile Chorale of York Region 3, j21 

Cantoies Celestes Women's Choir 1 

Capricorn 9 Productions 8 

Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra 15 ' 

CBC Radio.Jazz Beat j25 

Celebrity Symphony Orchl!1>tra j 19 

Centenary United Church, Hamilton(fa) 17 

Central Presbyterian Church, Brantford(fa)'3 

Central Technical School 8 

Central United Church 8 

Central United Church, Unionville 8 

Chamber Music Society of Mississauga j27 · 

Chilaren's Art Institute 7 

Choirs of leaside United Church 9 

Christ Church j28 

Christ Church Deer Park 1, 9 

Christ's Church Cathedral, Hamilton(fa) 14 

Christina Birch, Dwane Webster, Edith 

Gardiner(fa) 2 

Church of Dur Lady, Guelph(fa) 2 

Church of Saint Clement 17 

Church of St. Martin-in· the-Fields 8, 9 

Church of the Ascension, Hamilton(fa) 2 

Church of the Redeemer 15, 16 

Church of the Transfiguration 16 

City of To{onto 21 · 

Civic Light Opera Company 13 

Clarkson Christian Reformed Church 1 

Classic Jazz Society of Toronto 8 · 

Coldstream Presbyterian Church 8, 9 

Concerts at St. George's on-the·Hill 9 · 

Concertsingers 1, 9 · 

Continuum Contemporary Music Ensemble 13 

Convocation Hall 13, 15, 1,6 

Counterpoint Community Orchestra 1 

• Critical Mass 11. j29 · 

·D.O.A Productions j10 

Deer Park Concerts 8, 24 , 

Deer Park United Church 8, 24 

Du 1'4aurier Theatre Centre 1, 2, 14-16, j27 

Duo L'lntemporel 8. · 

Dur)lam Chamber Orchestra(fa) j26 

Earshot 1 

• 

East York Concert Band 3 

Eastminster United Church 9, 12, 15, jl 9, j26 

Echo Women's Choir 9 · 

Edward Day Gallery 2 . 

Eglinton St. George's United Church 9 

Elgin Theatre 4 

Ellen Annor-Adjei & Elena Oslopova 14 

Elmer lseler Singers 7 

Elora Festival Singers(fa) 8 

Emmariual United Church, Brampton(fa) 2 

Emmanuel College 2 

EMPressions Show Choir 15 

Esprit Orchestra f6 

Estonian House 8 

· Etobicoke Centennial Choir 7, 8 

Etobicoke Community Concert Band 1, 14 

Etobicoke Philharmonic Orchestra 14 

Etobicoke Youth Band 8 

Etobicoke Youth Choir 8 

Ettore Mazzoleni Concert Hall 2, 6, 9, 13-16, 

j13, j18, j20, j24, j26, j27, 11, 13 

Euromusic Centre j27 

Exultate Chamber Singers 14 

Fairview Library Theatre 13 

Festival Wind Orchestra 11 

Flying Cloud Folk Club 2, 9, 20 

Friends of Music(fa) 9 

GCllilrel Barn, CDllltry Heritage Park, Milton (fa) 8 

George Brown Theatre 5 

George Weston Recital Hall 1,2, 4, 6-9, 15, 21, 

j9, jlO, j24, j25, j31, 13 

Georgetown Choral Society 14 

Glenn Gould Professional School fl, 13 

Glenn Gould Studio i; 3-5, 8, 14, 15, 19, 

j11,j20,j25,j27,j31, fl, 13, 15 

Good Shepherd Centre 8 

Grace Church on:the-Hill 1, 2, 8, 9, 16, 19, 22 

Guelph Concert Band(fa) 2 

Halton Youth Symphony(fa) 8 

Hamilton Children's Choir(fa) 2, 22 

Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra(fa) 19; jl 2 

Hamilton Philharmonic Youth Orchestra(fa) 22 

Hamilton Place(fa) 9, 17, 19, 22, j12, j26 

Hammerson Hall 1, 7, 8, 16, 22, j26, 12 

Hannaford Street Silver Band 15 

Harbourfront Centre 2, j27 

Hart House Music Committee 5, 16 

Hart House Symphonic Band 1 

Hart House Theatre 5 

Heather and David Keith 1 

Heliconian Hall 9, 16, j19 

Heritage Theatre(fa) 1, 2, 7-9, 

j25,j31, fl 

Holy Cross Church 14 

Holy Family Church(fa) 2, 23 

Holy Name Church 15 

Humber College Auditorium 1 

Humber Valley United Church 14 

Humbercrest United Church 7-9, j13 

Hummingbird Centre for the Performing 

Artsjl8,j22 

Imperial Oil Opera Theatre 3 

Impresario Society 16 

Jane Mallett Theatre 2, 4. 8, 9, 20, 28, 

jl 5, j22, j25, j31, 13, 16, 17 

JANG Arts & Entertainment(fa) 14 

Jazz.FM913, 17,j7,j21, 14 

Juan Tomas & Friends 7 

Jubilate Singers 1 

Kiwanis Club of Casa Loma 3 

Kiwanis Music Festival 1 

Knox Presbyterian Church, Milton(fa) 5 

Komitas Musical Association 

of Ontario j26 

La Jeunesse Youth Orchestra(fa) 2 

Lakeside Terrace 2 

Leah Posluns Theatre 8, 13 

Leaside United Church 9 

Les AMIS Concerts 16 

Lester B. Pearson Theatre, 

Brampton(fa) 18 

Lindsay Concert Foundation(fa) 1 

Little Trinity Church 19 

Liuna Station, Hamilton(fa) 6 

Living Arts Centre 9, 16, jl 9, j25, j26 

Livingston Lodge 3 

Loretto Abbey 2 

Maclaren Art Centrella) j13 

MacMillaQ Theatre 8, jl 3, j20 

Markham Concert Band 2 

Markham Theatre for Performing Arts 2, 4, 

10, jl 7, j26, j30, j31 ' 

Martingrove Collegiate 8 

Massey Hall 8, 14, 15, 17, 23 

Mclaughlin Performance Hall 4, 5, 

j9,j23, j30 

McMichael Gallery 2, 16, j6, j20, 13 

Meadowvale Theatre jJ8 

Medical Sciences Auditorium j5 

Melrose United Church, Hamilton(fa) 2 

Melville United Church, Fergus(fa) 8 

Meredith and Bernard Farley j19 

Merriam School of Music 2 

Metro Hall Council Chamber 7 

Metropolitan United Ghurch 9, 23 

Mezzetta Cafe Restaurant 5, 12, 19 

Midland Gardens 10 

Millpond Centre(fa) 8 

Mississauga Big Band Jazz Ensemble 9 

Mississauga Children's Choir 8 

Mississauga Choral Society 16 

Mississauga Festival Choir 8 

Mississauga,Festival Youth Choir 22 

Mississauga Guitar Society 12 

Mississauga Symphony Orchestra 1,22, 12 

MMEF 14 

Mohawk Singers(fa) 16 

Montgomery's Inn 7, 14, 15 

Mooredale Concerts jl 2, j13 

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INDEX continues next page 


INDEX OF PRESENTERS AND VENUES, continued from 'page 47 

Mooredale· Youth Orchestra 9 

Music at Metropolitan 9, 23 

Music at Rosedale j27 

Music Gallery 2, 3, 6, 16, j6, f3 

Music Theatre Mississauga jl 8 

Music Toronto 4, 20, j15, j22, j31, f7 

Music Umbrella Chamber Concerts jl 9 

Musicians in Ordinary 16 

MusicMakers(fa) 22 

Nathaniel Dett Chorale 19 

New Music Concerts j6, j20 

New Music Concerts(fa) jl 3 

New School of Classical Vocal Studies 14, 15 

NiV Classical 15 

Noel Ryan Auditorium 14, 16, j20 

North Toronto Cit~del 23 

Nllrth Toronto Women's Chamber Choir 16 

North York Singers 2 

Northdale Concert Band 15 

Northumberland Orchestra Society(fa) 16 

Oakham House Choir of Ryerson University 8 

Oakville Ballet Company 7 

Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts '1. 2, 7, 

11. 21. 29, 30, jl 1, f3, f5, f6 

Oakville Children's Choir 1, 2, 23 

Oakville Seniors' Centres 29, 30 

Oakville Symphony Orchestra 7 

Off Centre Music Salon j27 

One Eleven Avenue Road 9 

OnStage 4, 14, 19, j25, j31, f3 

Ontario Christian Music Assembly 22 

Ontario Science Centre Auditorium 3, 17, 

j7,j21, f4 

Opera in Concert 2, f3 

Opera Mississauga 7, 8 

Opera Ontario(fa) j26 

Orchestra Toronto 8 

Oriana Singers 1 

Oriana Singers (Northumberland)(ta) 15 

Orpheus Choir of Toronto 12 

Pax Christi Chorale 8, 9 

Peel Choral Society(fa) 9 

Penthelia Singers 9 

Port Hope United Church(fa) 9 

Prague Restaurant 7 

Ouodlibet 14 

Rachel Persaud & Peter Treen 5 

Radio-Canada CJBC 860AM 5 

RCM Recital Hall 16, jl 9 

Renaissance Singers(fa) 15 

River Run Centre, Guelph(fa) 14 

' Riverdale Youth Singers 17 

Rosedale Heights School 9 

Rosedale Presbyterian Church 9, 16, j27 

Rosedale United Church 2, j20 

Roy Thomson Hall 1.2 .. 5· 10, 13, 15, 16, 18, 

20-23, jl, j7-j9, j11·j13, j16, j17, j19, j21, 

j23, j24, j26, j29, 12, 16, f7 

· Roy Thomson Hall Volunteers 14, 21, jl 1 

Royal Bank Theatre 2, 8, 16, 22, j25, j27 

Royal Conservatory of Music 2, 6, 9, 12, 14, 

15, j13, j18, j20, j26, fl, f3 . 

Royal Conservatory of Music Community 

School 1, 8, 13, 14, 16, j19, j20, j24, j26, 

j21, fl·f3 

Runnymede United Church 1 

Ryerson United Church, Hamilton(fa) 16 

Sacred Music Society 13 

SaintThomas's Church 8, 9, 14, 15, 19, 21. 

j29 

Salvation Army Yorkminster Citadel 1 

Sanderson Centre for the Performing Arts(fa) 

4, 5, 19, 31 

Scarborough Bel Canto Choir 2 

Scarborough Civic Centre 16 

Scarborough Community Concert Band 3, 10, 

16, 17 

S~arborough Music Theatre f7 

Scarborough Philharmonic f2 

Scarborough Retirement Centre 17 

Scarborough Village Theatre f7 

Shanti j5 

Sharlene Wallace 19 

Shevchenko Musical Ensemble 9, f3 

Sine Nomine Ensemble for Medieval Music 21 

Sinfonia Mississauga 2 

Singing OUT! 9 

Slide Rule Trombone Ensemble 19 

St. Andrew's Church 11, 19. 

St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church 1 

St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, 

Cobourg(fa) 15 

St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, 

Kitchener(fa) 15 

St. Andrew's United Church 9, j14 

St. Andrew's United Church, Brantford(fa) 22 

St. Andrews Parish Centre 8 

St. Ann's Church, Ancaster(fa) 7 

St. Anne's Church 23 

St. Anne's Music and brama Society j25 , 

St. Anne'.s Parish Hall j25 

St. Dominic's Church 8 

s1. Dunstan of Canterbury Church 2 , 

St. Elizabeth of Hungary Church 14 

St. Elizabeth Scola Cantorum 14 

St. George's Church 1 

St. Georg~ ·the - Martyr Church 1-3, 6, 16, 

j6,j13,j18, f3 

St. Jacobs Schoolhouse Theatre(fa) 4 

St. James United Church 8 

St. James' Cathedral 1, 3, 4, 7, 11. 12, 

j8, j15, j22, j29, f5_ 

St. John Fisher Catholic Church, Brampton(fa) 9 

St. John's Norway Church 1 

St. John's Rehabilitation Centre 11 

St. John's United Church, Oakville 23 

St. Leonard's Church 1, 14, j26 

St. Luke's United Church 8 

St. Mark's United Church, Whitby(fa) j26 

St. Matthew's House(fa) 2 

St. Michael's Choir School 14, 15 

St. Paul's Anglican Church 6, 13, 20 

St. Paul-the-Apostle Church 12 

St. Thomas a Becket Church f2 

Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute 15 

Stuart Mclean & The Vinyl Cafe Musicians 

15, 16 

Sunudo 2 

Symphony Hamilton(fa) 1 

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra 6-9, 20-23, 

j16-j20 

Tallis Choir 8 

Te Deum Orchestra & Singers(fa) 14 

The Chapel, Trinity College 8 

The Church Theatre, St. Jacobs(fa) 4 

The New Guitar 2 

Theatre Aquarius 4 

Theatre Centre 5 

Theatre Non Nobis 8 

Theatre Passe Muraille 5 

Thornhill Presbyterian Church j21 

Thornhill United Church 3 

Tim Hortons 21 

Timothy Eaton Church 14 

Tivoli Theatre, Hamilton(fa) 1 

Toronto Camerata Chamber Choir 2, 22 

Toronto Centre for the_,Arts 6-8, j9, j25, f3 

Toronto Chamber Choir 1 

Toronto Children's Chorus 15 

Toronto Children's Choruslfa) 18 

Toronto Choral Society 8 

Toronto City Hall Rotunda 21 

Toronto Classical Singers 9 

Toronto Consort 14, 15, fl, f2 

Toronto Jazz Orchestra 7 

Toronto Mendelssohn Choir 9, 18 

Toronto Mendelssohn Youth Choir 19 

Toronto Operetta Theatre 28 

Toronto Organ Club j28 

Toronto Philharmonia 9, jlO, j24 

Toronto Sinfonietta 8, 9 

Toronto Symphony Orchestra 1, 5, 6, 8, 10, 

13, 15, 20·23,jTj9,j12,j13,j16,j19,j21, 

. j23, j24, j26, j31, 12, 16, f7 ' 

Toronto Symphony-Youth Orchestra 4 

Toronto Tabla Ensemble 1 

Turonto Theatre Organ Society 3 

Toronto Youth Wind Orchestra 7 

TRANZAC 2, 9, 14, 20 

Trinity Church 22 

Trinity United Church, Cobourg(fa) 2, 16 

Trinity-St. Paul's Choir 16 · 

Trinity-St. Paul's Church 1, 6-9, 14· 16, 20-22, 

j13, j14, j16-j20, j26, fl; f2 

Trinity-St. Paul's Vocal Concert Series jl 3 

Trio Allegra 8 

University of Toronto Faculty ,of Music 1. 4-9, 

jlO, j15, j16, j18, j20, j23, j24, j30, j31, f6, f7 

\ 

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Upst.airs at Berk~ley, CanStage jlO 

Vesnivka Choir jl 3 

Via Salzburg f5 

Victoria Hall Concert Hall, Cobourg(fa) 22 

Victoria Scholars 23 

Victoria-Royce Church 8, jl 2 

Village Voices 8 

Virtuosi di Toronto 3 

Viva! Yo.uth Singers of Toronto 1, j26 

VocalPoint Chamber Choir 16, jl 7 

Voices 15 

Walter Hall 1, 4-7. 9, jlO, jl 3, jl 5-jl 9, j23, j24, 

j30, j31, f6, f7 ' 

Wendy Dobson 9 

Weston Silver Band 8 

Willowdale United Church 9, 22, jl 2 

Women's Musical Club of Toronto j17 

· Woodsworth College 11 

World Youth Day Choir 13 

York Symphony Orchestra 1, 2, 22 

York University Department of Music 4, 5, j9, 

j23,j30, il 

Yorkminster Citadel 1 

Yorkminster Park Church 5, 12, 15 

Yorkwoods library Theatre 9 

Young Virtuosos of Classical Mu~ic 16, j20 

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"December 9 12:00 noon: Todmorden 

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purpose of exchanging songs, .traditional or 

contemporary. Tiki Room, TRANZAC Club, 

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from the Renaissance to modern times. 

Church of the Transfiguration, 111 Manor 

Quality affordable individual 

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W1sattWi3jiL1 STOCKINGS & HORNS -A COMP EN DI UM OF SEASONAL CDs 

Continued from page 4 

J.S. Bach - The Goldberg 

Variations. Arranged for strings 

and continuo by Bernard 

Labadie. Les Violons du Roy; 

Bernard Labadie, director. 

Dorian Recordings XCD-90281 

A fabulously lush treatment of this 

famous harpsichord work, showing 

off his ensemble to great advantage. 

Les Violons du Roy performs Handel's 

Messiah at Massey Hall Dec 8. 

D.O. 

Naida Cole_ Faure, Chabrier, 

Masaaki Suzuki, conductor 

BIS CD-941/942 

A vital, spirited performance on 

original instruments. Suzuki studied 

with the Dutch Bach specialist Ton 

Koopman whose risk-taking influence 

is present throughout. L.B. 

M.A. Charpentier: La Descente 

d'Orphee aux Enfers. Les Arts 

Florissants. William Christie, 

director. ERATO 0630-11913-2 

A rarely-heard gem from the 1680s, 

featuring rich, economical, inspired 

writing for a small collection of 

instruments and voices, including a 

profound performance by English 

tenor Paul Agnew (a frequent visitor 

to Tpronto) as Orpheus. L.B. 

Noel: Early Canadian Christmas 

Music. Elmer Iseler Singers/ 

Michael Schade/Norine Burgess 

Elmer Iseler, conductor 

Satie, Ravel. Naida Cole, piano. MARQUIS 81227-2 

Deutsche Gramlnophon 7697 

48021-2 

Iseler's last recording, a charming 

collection of five centuries of Canadi- 

Young Toronto pianist Naida Cole's ana. Imaginative, entertaining music 

excellent debut CD on Deutsche and first rate performances. L.B. 

Grammophon places her in Bartok: The Miraculous 

prestigious company indeed. You can Mandarin; Concerto for OrcheStra 

hear her live at Music Toronto on Concertgebouw Orchestra; 

January 22. D. 0. 

Riccardo Chailly, conductor 

Christmas with Chanticleer 

Featuring special guest Dawn 

Decca 458841-2 

Playing like this and superb recording 

Upshaw. Teldec Classics 8573 to boot are what make some full price 

85555-2 discs worth every penny. Mandarin 

A beautiful disc providing the perfect is a lurid, opulently scored tour-deforce 

for virtuoso orchestra. Both 

ambience for a peaceful Christmas · 

eve m · fr on t o f a roanng · fir ep 1 ace. works are of demonstration 

The Chanticleer male choir provides quality· Get this disc! B.S. 

a wonderful ground for Upshaw's Richard Strauss: An Alpine 

shining soprano in some very clever Symphony; Rosenkavalier Suite 

and convincing arrangements of less The Vienna Philharmonic; 

familiar Christmas repertoire. Christian Thielemann. 

Chanticleer (Dec 6) and Upshaw (Jan Deutsche Grammophon 469519-2 

9) appear (separately) at the Toronto Strauss's father was a horn player and 

Centre for the Performing Arts in the · that iristrument stars in many of his 

next two months. D. 0. 

works, nowhere better employed than 

Harry Somers _ Somers String here. Stunning, flawless perform- 

Quartets. Accordes String ances, all the more incredible when 

Quartet. Centrediscs CMCCD you know that it is a live recording! 

750l 

Brilliant sound. Inaudible audience. A 

One of three discs in the second 

11'U/St have! B.S. 

installment of the CM Cs A Window Lady Day: The Best of Billie' 

on Somers project; three striking Holiday. COLUMBIA/LEGACY 

additions to the string quartet reper- C2K 85979 (2 CDs) 

toire by one dfCanada's most signifi- The young Billie aged 18 to 29. 

cant eomposers, performed by one of These 36 tracks from the complete 

Toronto's foremost contemporary Columbia recordings feature many of 

ensembles. The Accordes and Joseph her 'signature' tunes, as brilliantly re;- 

Macerollo premiere a new CBC- mastered for the deluxe edition. 

commissioned work by Hope Lee for Musicians include Lester Young, 

string quartet and accordion for New Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Teddy 

Music Concerts on January 20. D.O. Wilson Ben Webster, Buck Clayton, 

Bach: Christmas Oratorio and others. An enchanting memento 

Bach CollegiumJapan 

of the years before her less than 

idyllic late period. B.S. 

5 2 Wholenote DECEMBER 1, 2001 - JANUARY 31, 2002 

Liszt - B Minor Sonata. Tenst 

Walters, piano. Archangelus CDA 

7'17T2 

Hardly a household name, American 

pianist Teresa Walters' recording of 

Liszt's B Minor Sonata and several 

evocative "religious" piano works by 

the Abbe Liszt is equal to any "big 

name" pianist's performance. C.E. 

Mozart, Beethoven, Witt: Piano & 

Wind Quintet.s. James Campbell, 

James Mason, Jamie Somerville, 

James McKay, Anton Kuerti 

CBC Musica Viva MVCD 1137 

Four Jameses teamed up with an 

Anton, creating a tastefully balanced 

and blended recording of classical 

music for winds and piano. Works by 

Mozart, Beethoven and Witt are 

featured on this fine CBC disc. C.E. 

' 

The Producers 

Original Broadway Cast Recording 

Sony Classical SK 89646 

Listening to this CD of the new Mel 

Brooks musical, you realize why it's 

THE hot ticket on Broadway this 

year. I literally fell out of my chair 

with laughter the first time! . M. W. 

John Pizzarelli Meets the Beatles 

RCA 07863-67636-2 

Pizzarelli' s talce on the Lennon and 

McCartney songbook; full of sur- . 

prises and pleasures thanks to Don 

Sebesky's brilliant arrangements. 

M.W. 

Noel 

Joan Baez. Vanguard VMD-79230 

Joan Baez's plaintive voice, coupled 

with quirky neo-Renaissance 

arrangements by Peter Schickele 

of P.D.Q. Bach fame. This may be 

hard to find, but out of the sixty-plus 

Christmas CD's I have, it's one of 

my favourites. M. W. 

Handel Sacred Arias. Daniel 

Taylor, Arion, Monica Huggett 

ATMA ACD2 2222 

Spritely, winsome support from 

Arion (under the leadership of 

Monica Huggett) for the mellifluous 

introspective singing of countertenor 

Daniel Taylor. [See Pamela Marg/es 

review under Concen Prep. &L] 

Traditional Celtic Melodi~s 

Skye Consort, Matthew White 

ATMA 

Refreshingly sparkling arrangements 

of traditional Celtic tunes, played on 

Baroque instruments and lovingly 

sung by countertenor Matthew 

White. F.N. 

Trockne Blumen 

Barthold Kuijken, baroque Dute 

Accent 

A glorious taste of early 19th-century 

music.for-flute and keyboard, by a 

fabulous flute player. A.M. 

Nordic Roots (A Northside 

Collection). Various groups 

Northside 6016 

A sampling of tunes by various great 

bands from Scandinavia, each with 

their own clever takes on their 

musical traditions. Trust me, you 

don't have to come from Minnesota 

to enjoy this! A.M. 

The Little Barleycorne. Toronto 

Consort. Dorian · · 

The Consort's contribution to the 

plethora of festive season CDs, this 

one of Yuletide treats, made it to a 

glowing review in the New York 

Times. A.M. 

Sequenzas. Luciano Berio 

DGG 457 038-2 

Virtuoso works for fourteen different 

solo instruments by one of the 

masters of modem music, encapsulating 

what is.most fascinating and 

ertjoyable in twentieth century music 

- lots to explore and enjoy in this 

well-produced and beautifully 

packaged set of extraordinary . 

performances. P.M. 

Battaglie & Lamenti. Montserrat 

Figueras. Hesperion XXI; Jordi 

Savall, conductor. Alia Vox 

AV9815 

The incomparable Monserrat 

Figueras singing Monteverdi's 

thrilling Lamento d' Arianna; just one, 

of the endless glories of ~s 

wonderful collection of vocal and 

instrumental works from the Italian 

baroque, performed by some of the 

foremost specialists of the period 

under the sublime direction of master 

gamba player Jordi s.avall. P.M. 

French Opera Arias. Ben 

Heppner, tenor. London 

. Symphony Orchestra; Myung 

Whun Chung, conductor. 

DGG 2894713722 

With a voice like molten steel 

wrapped in velvet, Canadian tenor 

Ben Heppner is the perfect singer for 

these gorgeous arias from linjustly 

neglected French operas by Berlioz,1 

Massenet, Halevy and Meyerbeer. 

P.M. 

Arnold Schoenberg: Piano 

Concerto, Klavierstucke op.11 &19 

. Alban Berg: Sonata op.1 · 

Anton Webern: Variations op. 27 

Mitsuko Uchida, piano. Cleveland 

Orchestra; Pierre Boulez, conductor. 

Philips 468033-2 

Passionate yet rigorous performances 

demonstrating convincingly how 

beautiful and accessible these essential 

pia00 works from the early part of

the last century are - a real treat to 

have them all on one disc, and played 

so magnificently. P.M. 

American Dreaming. Marc 

Couroux, piano. Xuotavip Records 

-Bashaw • Various artists 

Arktos Recordings-20039/40 

Two excellent recordings of new 

Canadian music by influential artists. 

Couroux, a pianist venturing into 

improvisation, is a force to be 

reckoned with, an uncomfortable, 

peripatetic individual striving to find 

the link between his art and his 

culture. Howard Bashaw's double 

CD set is the work of a highly 

analytical recluse living in Edmonton, 

one of the finest composers of his 

generation. In the words of Joe 

Strurnmer, "dig the new before it 

digs you." P.S. ·* 

* :' 

ting 

own 

horns 

John Beckwith: 

A la claire fontaine: Music in 

Krieghoff's Quebec 

The Beckwith Ensemble 

Opening Day ODR 9321 

During 2000 and 2001, five Canadian 

cities saw "Images of Canada," the 

first big.Cornelius Krieghoff 

retrospective. This CD preserves a 

program, arranged for the show's 

Toronto run, of Quebec songs, fiddle 

music, and dances from Krieghoffs 

heyday (1860-80). Evocative, 

nostalgic, fun. 

Colin Eatock: Brass Feast 

Niagara Brass. Echiquier 

I should like to toot my own horn 

(and a few other people's horns as 

well) with an announcement of a new 

CD which will be launchj:XI by the 

Niagara Brass at a concert at the 

Royal Conservatory of Music on 

Jarmary 13. The disc features a wide- 

. ranging variety of brass chamber 

music (or brass with piano) by 

Alexander Rapoport, Michael 

Horwood, Scott Irvine, Michael 

Hynes, Penelope Walcott, Shannon 

Thomson, Morley Calvert and 

myself. 

Daniel Foley: 

Canadian Music for Piano. Louise 

Bessette, CBC Musica Viva 

MVCD1064 

- Sundogs. University of Calgary 

Orchestra. UNICAL UC-CD9901 

- Foliage, Riverdale Ensemble 

Furiant FMCD 4619-2 

- 25 Miniatures. Arraymusic 

Artifact ART 025 

My most accessible work is available 

in two versions. The original ve!'Sion 

for piano, Oiseaux Excentriques, was 

recorded by Louise Bessette in 1993. 

A later, orchestral version of this 

piece, entitled Menagerie, is included 

along with the opening movement of 

my aboriginally-derived Athabascan 

Dances on the University of Calgary 

Orchestra's first release. Most 

recently Toronto's own Riverdale 

Erisemble commissioned my 

Hommage ii Henri Rousseau for their 

archly titled debut album, Foliage, 

while my equally eponymous La Falla 

is one of the 25 Miniatures recorded 

by the Arraymusic. 

Alison Melville: Midnight Sun . 

Ensemble Polaris 

Dorian 93195 · 

· New takes on traditional music from 

Scandinavia, the Salties and Scotland, 

from an eclectic band with wideranging 

instrumental colours (Elliott/ 

Gay /Grossman/Keenan/Mc Kenna/ 

Melville/Savage). A Disc of the 

Month, Classic CD, August 2000. 

Fruit of a Different Vine 

Alison Melville & friends 

ATMA 2 2206 ., 

Many people are astonished.to 

discover that there's a wealth of 

wonderful mid-20th-century music 

for recorder( s) and piano. 

Here's one of the few CDs available 

- Hi~demith, Genzmer, Berkeley, 

Leigh and others. Alison is joined by 

Alayne Hall, piano, and Colin Savage 

and Natalie Mic~ud, recorders. 

Merlin Williams: 

So far this year, I've done three big 

band recordings - all as a sideman, on 

baritone sax, clarinet & bass clarinet. 

Watch for forthcoming CD's by Paul 

Grosney and His MusicMakers, 

The Greg Runions Big Band, and 

tl1e Ron Collier Orchestra. I'm also 

on the three discs put out by the 

Canadian Tribute to Glenn Miller. 

Contributors: 

David Olds D.O. 

Larry Beckwith L B 

Bruce Surtees B.S 

Colin Eatock C.E 

Merlin Williams M. W. 

Frank Nakashima F.N 

Alison Melville A.M. 

Pamela Margles P.M. 

Paul Steenhuisen P.S. 

Daniel Foley 'D.F. 

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SOUND BETTER 

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DECEMBER 1, 2001 - JANUARY 31, 2002 Wholenote 53

varied arrangements and generally high The five pieces that make up Salon Parisien ofmusicality. 

Not for the office Christmas party, fered, according to the liner notes, "a musical 

,..·~) 

this collection explores the contemplative and snapshot of Paris when it was arguably the most 

even sombre mood of the season as well as the cosmopolitan city in the world." It would · be a 

SEASONAL 

joyful, with selections like In the Bl-eak strange salon that prograrqmed all of these pieces 

OFFERINGS 

Midwinter (the John Mutton version) and the together. With works by Enescu, Poulenc, Satie, 

Appalachian hymn I Wonder As I Wander. Some Turina, and Martinu, the disc.is really a Pica&so 

- Hurry, Hurry Yonder, Music for Advent of the standouts are the lovely title track Hurry· like collage of the leading French tendencies 

and Christmas · ' Hurry Yonder; a jazz Gloria with hand drums from the first half of the twentieth century. 

Hµmbercrest United Church Choir; Fred · and brass; Away· in a Manger, which opens with The pieces, with the exception of Enescu's 

Graham, director children's voices, and a jubilant 0 Come, All Ye Concertpiece for viola and piano (1906), are 

HTA1019 (self produced - 416-767-6122) Faithful that (literally) lets out all the stops. themselves collages of styles and expressions. 

With' the sound of bright bells, the choirs of Everywhere phrases abruptly change affect, al 

- All Things Bright & Beautiful 

St. Philip:s Lutheran Church Choirs 

(self produced - 61 West_ Deane Park Drive, 

Etobicoke M9B 2Sl) 

- A Christmlls Legacy 

Timmins Concert 'Singers; Rosanne 

Simunovic, conductor 

TCSCD9_9 ·(self produced - www .timmins 

concertsillger~.cpm) 

" 

- Welcome Yule! Christmas Music of Ronald 

Beckett 

Arcady; Ronald Beckett, director 

Crescendo CRESCD9022 

- Choral Concert/Celebration chorale 

Various artists 

.,_. 

CBC Records SMCD-MlOO 

St. Philip's Lutheran Church have created a slow- 

ternating between romantic and glib, impassioned 

paced but resonant collection that's less slick and humorous. St. John and Sharon make every 

(we hear the occasional microphone bump or hairpin turn through their beautiful performance 

throat clearing), but offers a tender, sincere of Poulenc's Sonata for violin and piano. The 

selection of vocals and instrumentals, intermezzo and presto tragico movements esparticularly 

featuring Handel, Bach' and Holst. pecially evoke a grief-stricken anger. But Satie's 

At the other end of the spectrum is the glossy iconoclastic humour doesn't come off. Instead 

disc from the Timmins Concert Singers. Imagine of sending up the pomposity of Enescu, Choses 

"Christmas On Broadway": lots of showy vues a droite et a gauche (sans lunettes) sounds 

medleys (the work of music theatre vet Howard rather perfunctory. 

Cable) and plenty of "Dashing Through the The artists fare better with Turina's Sonata 

Snow". If you don't wallow in this kind of No. I, dripping with Spanish flavour, and the 

treatment (which I can) you'll find your teeth on jazzy Martinu Sonata for violin and piano (1930). 

edgei 

Both works rather clumsily incorporate their 

My second favourite for this year is Welcome "exotic" elements into the straitjacket of 

Yule!, which combines original music by Ronald . classical form, but are guilty pleasures. 

Beckett with standards like I Saw Three Ships The whole disc is really a collection of novel 

and Wassail Song. It ranks with my older fa- bonbons. Certainiy the Poulenc will initially atvourites 

like CBC's Choral Concert disc from tract most listeners, but Salon Parisien offers 

last year, which featured mainly Classical and other substantial delights . Scott St. John and Rena 

Baroque selections-(Handel's Zadok rhe Priest Sharon make a strong case for each. 

by thct Vancouver Chamber Choir and CBC Scott St. John will perform the Martinu sonata 

Chamber Choir; Tafelmusik's For Unto Us A in a fac ulty recital at U of T on December 7 

Child ls Born), but also included Howard Ca- with pianist Lydia Wong. 

ble"s Christmas Medley, sung by the Toronto 

Brian McMillan 

Children's Chorus with Louis and Gino Quilico. 

Finally, check used bins for the Coles/ 

Smithbooks/Chapters A Noteworthy Christmas, 

a fundraiser for Frontier College's literacy programs. 

It's a truly lovely album of 18 favourite 

.. 

carols from a cross-Canada choir list, including 

the exquisite Exultate Chamber Singers' Huron 

Carol, the.Vancouver Children's Choir's poignant 

Sound the Trumpet, and the Cape Breton 

Chorale's Ding Dong Merrily On High . 

Merry Christmas to all! - Sarah B. Hood 

. . 

- A Noteworthy Christma!I, Great Canadian 

Choirs Sing Holiday Favourites 


Coles/Smithbooks/Chapters SCCCD0196 

An inveterate Christmas hound like me can't 

resist "Christmas carols being sung by a choir", 

so I was pleased to review the latest crop of · 

Christmas recordings, discussed here along with 

a c6uple of my favourite older releases . 

The biggest delight was frnm Humbercrest 

United Church Choir, whose Hurry 'Hurry .· 

'Yonder combines an unusual repertoire, nicely 

CONCERT PREP 

Salon Parisien 

Scott St. John, violin and viola; 

Rena Sharon; piano 

.CBC Records MVCD 1140 

George Frideric Handel - Arias from Rinaldo 

& Orlando · . 

Ewa Podles, contralto; Moscow Chamber 

Orchestra, Constantine Orbelian, ·conductor 

Delos DE 3253 

George Frideric Handel - Sacred Arias 

Daniel Taylor, countertenor 

Arion; Monica Huggett, Conductor and 

Concertmaster 


Polish contralto Eva Podles has one of the most 

gorgeous voices on the planet: With immense 

power, a huge range, ·and an absolutely distinctive 

timbre, she is one of the few women since 

Marilyn Horne to sound thoroughly convincing 

as one of Handel's muscular heroes.dn this 

disc, Podles sings thirteen arias originally 

written for castrato. fo moods ra~girrg from 

54 Wholenote DECEM BER 1, 2001 - JANUARY 31 , 2002

heartbreaking anguish to uncontained fury, she 

articulates Handel's genius for creating characters. 

She colours the words with such searing 

intensity that, while her diction may not always 

be.precise, the meaning is unequivocal. In Cor 

ingrato, from Rinaldo, the dramatic recitative 

is as bre&thtaking as the coloratura passagework. 

But occassionally her inte'rpretations are marred 

by excessive or incoherent ornaments, especially 

in the .da capo sections. The .Moscow 

Chamber Orchestra, while sprightly and 

charming, lacks the nuanced style of accents and 

phrasing that best serves this · repertoire. But 

there is much beautiful playing, as in Or la 

tromba from Rinaldo, where the trumpets pick 

up the jubilant embellishments of the voice, and 

the orchestra celebrates in response. 

More restrained and refined than Podles, Canadian 

countertenor Daniel Taylor has an inner 

focus that lends purity to his beguiling voice and 

creates a contained intensity quite unlike her 

heightened dramatic impact. His ornaments are 

subtle and elegant. With his beautiful legato, he 

illuminates the broad sweep of Oh Lord, whose 

mercies numberless from Saul, which Handel 

wrote for countertenor. The Montreal ensemble 

Arion, under British violinist Monica Huggett's 

brilliant leadership, provides exemplary support. 

The su[)lime intertwining of Taylor's voice with 

Huggett' s solo violin in If God be for us, from 

Messiah, provides a glorious highlight. _ While 

we note that Taylor sings just six arias, the overtures 

and sinfonia that complete this disc are 

played with immense verve and vitality and contribute 

to this well-planned program. 

Daniel Taylor performs in Messiah with Les 

Violons du Roy at Massey Hall on Saturday, 

Dec. 8, and in the Brott Autumn Festival's 

performance at th.e George Weston Recital Hall 

on Friday, December 21 Ewa Podles sings 

Rossini arias with the Canadian Opera Company 

Orchestra at the Toronto Centre for the Arts on 

Friday, January 25. Both Podles and Taylor will 

be featured in the Canadian Opera Company 

production of Handel's Julius Caesar at the 

Hummingbird Centre from April 6 to April 21. 

Pamela Margles 

The Overcoat [music by Dmitri Shostakovich] 

Angela Cheng, piano; Jens Lindemann, 

trumpet; CBC Radio Orchestra; Mario 

Bernardi, conductor 

CBC Records SMCD 5216 

This month CBC Records will release a recording 

entitled The Overcoat that features some - 

surprisingly sunny music by Dmitri 

Shostakovich. The J?roject began as the soundtrack 

for a new feature length film based on the 

critically acclaimed [Vantouver] Playhouse 

Theatre Production of a play by Nikolai Gogol. 

· The press release tells us that The Overcoat, 

.filmed .without dialogue, uses choreography, 

music and visual imagery to tell a story of]oy 

and ·pathos. The soundtrack recording, which 

includes complete performances of the two piano 

concerti excerp'ted in the film; is indeed a 

testament to this joy. I must confess however, 

that as an aficionado of the darker music of the 

late Shostakovich, I find the lack of pathos on 

this disc a bit disconcerting. That being said, 

this is a fine recording depicting the lighter side 

of the Soviet master. Soloists Angela Cheng, 

Jens Lindemann and an unidentified saxophonist 

shine and Mario Bernardi seems well at home 

in the repertoire which, in addition to the piano 

DECEMBER 11 2001 - JANUARY 31 1 2002

concerti, includes selections from the first Jaz.z. , observes the elements of music - tone, pitch, 

Suite and Ballet Suites Nos. 1 and 2. My only consonance, colour - where they fall under 

quibble with the recording, in .the p.reli~inary her mi?r?scope. . . . 

mix provided for purposes of this review; 1s that . S~s1s 1s the rulmg aesthetic here. Smith, a 

while the obbligato trumpet soars above the d1sc1ple of Morton Feldman, draws her 

orchestra in the Piano Concerto No: 1, the piano inspiration from the broad canvasses and flat, 

is occasionally lost in mix. bold li~es of ~bstract. a~t._ Forget ~ny 

The Overcoat will air nationally. at 8:00 p.m. preconceived notions of direction or musical 

on both Radio Canada's Beau Dimanche on De- narrative. Instead, Smith juxtaposes the very 

~ember 23 2001 and on CBC's Opening Night building blocks of music. InAmong the Tarnished 

on January' 10, 2002. · Stars, Eve Egoyan' s piano lifts .curtains of chords 

David Olds while the other members of The Burdocks (cello, 

clarinet, and violin) move impassively through 

NEW RELEASES 

Memory Forms - Linda Cat1in ~mith 


Artifact ART 024 

The most 

remarkable 

thing about 

Memory 

Form$, Linda 

Catlin Smith's 

new. calling 

card on the 

Artifact label, 

is the composer's 

uncom- · 

promising 

musical vision. u'miting herself to a minimum 

of m3:~~ri3:1_8, ~rnith obsessively isolates and . 

an aimless melody. Like a Rothko painting, 

planes intersect and move on, heedless of one 

, another. 

What could be an arid musical experience is, 

in fact, rich - sometimes breathtakingly so. 

Smith's orchestration produces - both within 

works and between neighboring pieces - a 

startling range of colours and textures that makes 

for highly charged listening. Even Smith's poetic 

titles heighten the sensual experience: velvet percussion 

bombs twist the surface of Knotted Silk, 

while random notes dangle in between like 

thread. Moi Qui Tremblais is shaken by a low, 

dark foreboding. 

Linda Catlin Smith works like a miniaturist 

on a massive canvas. What appears, at first, to 

be a bleak, meditative landscape becomes, with 

repeated listeriings, engr()ssing in its momentary 

details. The close listener will gradually be absorbed 

into her austere world. 

Brian McMillan 

Jonathan Harvey 

Trio Fibonacci 

ATMA ACD 2254 

Jonathan 

Harvey is an 

enigma, the 

strange conjunction 

of the 

religious 

(beginning as 

a chorister at 

St. Michael's 

College, 

Tenbury), and . 

the hyper-structured (later studying integral 

serialism with Milton Babbitt). 

After returning from Princeton, Harvey began 

his Piano Trio, seeking mysticism and musical 

structure of greater depth, outside of his subjective 

experience. The first movement (Song) is 

a perpetual piano line over which reserved,. lyrical 

string fragments sing out. After a statuesque 

openiQg, the second movement (System) contrasts 

its predecessor with the brief, neutral gestures 

expected from a composer steeped in 

American serialism. Rite gracefully balances 

the preceding movements, cultivating greater 

independence of the instrume'nts, and calling 

upon the trio,'s considerable virtuosity. 

A recording of Advaya (meaning "not two") 

for cello, electronic keyboard and electronics, 

can't be expected to live up to the spatial richness 

of a live performance, yet Fibonacci cellist 

Gabriel Prynn's sensitive playing and awareness 

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of the electronic part prop;i.gates perfectly timed 

entries, responses, and intersections. 

Tombeau de Messiaen is an offering (for piano 

and electronics) to the late French composer, 

Olivier Messiaen. Shadows abound, from hints 

of Messiaen's harmony and gestural sphere, to 

those of his spectralist successors, Grisey and 

Murai!. Pianist Andre Ristic handles the material 

.with the requisite elegance and (infrequent) 

force. 

Flight-Elegy, is a fittingly tranquil and soaring 

conclusion to the CD, which as a whole resolves 

a number of issues in Harvey's music. Whereas 

elsewhere his keen, though conventional sense 

of timbre is constricted by his approach to structure, 

these pieces succeed, with finesse. In their 

performance, Montreal-based Trio Fibonacci 

reveal a depth and facility belying their mere 3 

years together. 

Paul Steenhuisen 

Jenkins - Fantasias 

Les· Voix Humaines 


John Jenkins, though hardly a household name 

these days, was by all accounts one of 17th-century 

England's most esteemed musicians - :'tho' 

a little man, yet he had a great soule," as one of 

his contemporaries put it. This recording, featuring 

Les Voix Humaines and two guests, pays 

skilled and delightful homage to Jenkins and the 

brilliance of his ·music for viols and keyboard, 

particularly the fantasias for which he is best 

known today. 

The Five Bells begins the disc, and sets the 

tone for the remainder, with energetic yet 

thoughtful playing, and great flexibility of 

expression. Sevenfantasias, two suites, and an 

Air with divisions make up the balance of the 

program. The faptasias are my particular 

favourites for their subtle shifts in spirit and 

harmony. - 

The entire program succ.eeds because of its 

great variety in instrumental colour - some pieces 

are for three viols alone, some include either a 

harpsichord or an organ. The Suite in d/D for 

two bass viols makes an adroit contrast to the 

other Suite which is performed on treble, lyra 

and bass viols with harpsichord. 

Susie Napper and Margaret Little have already 

proven many times that their musical teamwork 

produces great results; here in collaboration with 

gambist Jay Bemfeld and keyboard player Eric 

Milnes, they have done it again. The pleasure 

they take in this music is palpable, and much 

appreciated. The sound is excellent, as is usually 

the case with Johanne Goyette at the controls. 

Alison Melville 

... dans le silence de la nuit ... 

Gilles Gobeil 

empreintes DIGIT ALes IMED 0155 

The four works on this CD are each strongly 

compelling and imm~culately produced. The 

production standards of recording and mixing 

are very high and put to effective compositional 

use, which is essential in any electroacoustic 

work. There is also a carefully conceived unity 

of materials and gestures that give the works a 

strong structural foundation. 

Over that solid technical basis, Gobeil sets out 

to create a drama of suspended tension. and 

release using long building climaxes, quick jump 

cut edits, and eerie drones and lingering. silences. 

However, these benchmarks of his dramatic 

language are used so frequently from piece tcf 

piece that their desired impact is unjustly 

compromised by predictability. Gobeil' s unity 

of style and materials is so complete and 

unvaried that even the three diverse litera'ry 

points of inspiration used for the works (Marcel 

Proust, H.G. Wells, and Jules"Veme) fail to 

D ECEMBER 1, 2001 - JANUARY 31, 2002 Whol e note 5 7

yield the potential variants in style, materials 

and form. 

On a concert program including works by other 

composers, Gobeil's music can stand beyond the 

rest and lead the listener on a hair-raising 

journey. But heard one after another in 

succession the impact is marginal. Therefore, 

I recommend listening to this CD in small 

concentrated doses separated by time and 

experience. 

Darren Copeland 

Suites, Sonatas, Airs and Dances 

[music by J.S. and C.P.E. Bach] 

Joseph Petric, concert accordion 

Analekta FL 2 3133 

The stereotype of the accordion sound that 

lingers in many people's minds is that of the 

overly sweet beating of intentionally mistuned 

double reeds. There is none of that to be found 

in these sophisticated interpretations from a 

master of the instrument. 

Certain compromises have of necessity been 

made in these transcriptions from the string to 

the wind idiom, most often involving a 

reduction in the density of the music. This is 

particularly evident in the two works by J.S. 

' Bach. In the Sarabande of the Third English 

Suite, for example, the explicit pedal tones on 

the note 'G' are omitted, lending a certain 

hollowness to the texture. While it is true that 

on the clavichord, harpsichord or piano these 

held notes would gradually become inaudible 

as well, their-overtones would continue to lend 

a resonance to the upper voices. On the 

accordion, however, sustaining these tones 

would simply obscure the.texture. 

A quite striking aspect of Petric's interpretation 

of these Suites is his use of the "bebung", a clavichord 

technique equivalent to the vibrato of string 

instruments. The effect, reminiscent of an unexpected 

intrusion by a harmonica, is a bit startling 

at first. 

The Second and Sixth of C.P.E. Bach's Prussian 

Sonatas that complement this recital entail 

few such compromises. The younger Bach's rich 

palette of rhythmic ideas and delightfully capricious 

melodic profiles prove considerably more 

idiomatic to the accordion, and to Petric's characteristically 

fluid phrasing, than his father's 

more abstract vision. 

Chris Paul Harman 

Various Artists 

Centrediscs CMCCD7201 

Chris Paul Harman's music has long been col- tal. colours and textures. That music was a gift 

lected by those who tape radio broadcasts. This of great joy and playfulness for this composer is 

CD fills a gap for many of us, with four pieces abundantly and palpably clear. 

that span the composer's output from 1992 to The thoughtful programming of this CD is ex- 

2000. cellent. The first track, Skyling (1980) for small 

Globus Hystericus (1992) is wonderfully instrumental ensemble, sets a compelling tone 

played by Christina Petrowska-Quilico. This was with its threads of colour and rhythm playfully 

the imposed piece at the 1993 CBC National · interwoven over a pulsating inner core. 

Competition for Young Performers, and the Columbus (1988) makes a dramatic contrast, 

piano is richer sounding in this recording than in with its ominous introductory 'dance macabre', 

those 1993 broadcasts. 

a subtle scent of boogie-woogie and some 

Theme and Variations, a 1993 commission for mellifluous post-modern hocket for bass clarinet 

the Pierrot Ensemble, and Procession Burleske, and string bass. Completing the disc are the 

a 1998 commission for the SMCQ, are pieces mischievous and witty two"movementAnimated 

for ensembles as large as eleven players. They Shorts, and four-movement In Paradisum with 

are performed here with spirited conviction by its electricity-charged first movement and 

Continuum, conducted by Rose Thomson. humorous homage to Kurt Weill in the third. 

· Midnight with the Stars and You was a 1999 Thank you, Michael J. Baker, for the music; 

commission by Steven Clarke and Mark Sabat, and thank you, Artifact, for this glittering meand 

this piano and violin duo are the musicians mento. I will enjoy this disc many times, and I 

on the CD. You couldn't ask for a better inter- hope many others do too. 

pretation. 

Alison Melville 

The recording, by the legendary team of David 

Jaeger and "Stretch" Quinney, was done in the 

superb acoustic of Toronto's Church of St. Martin 

in-the-Fields. 

Radio Documentaries by Glenn Gould 

Pablo Casals & Leopold Stokowski 

Despite a few minor flaws (an edit point in CBC Records PSCD2025-2 (2 CD) 

the final piece that is less than transparent; the 

extensive annotations by the composer should 

be.in narrower columns as the tiny type, in both 

official languages, is di,fficult to read; and the 

black print on the outside jacket fades into the 

dark violet background image, where other overlays 

in bright hues would better suit the design), 

this portrait of 2001 Jules Leger Prize winner 

Chris Paul Harman is one to treasure. 

John S. Gray 

In Paradisum - The Music of Michael J. 'Baker . Classical music lovers have a long anticipated 

Toronto Dance Theatre ensemble; Arraymusic 

Michael J. Baker, conductor 

Artifact Music ART 026 

With the death of Michael J. Baker in September 

2000, Canadian music lost one of its most 

cheerful voices, and the dance world lost a remarkable 

musical collaborator. This CD offers 

a variety of Michael's instrumental compositions, 

originally presented with- dance, in a 

program of four works expertly performed by 

musicians from Toronto Dance Theatre and 

Arraymusic, and recorded at different times 

during the composer's career. 

This CD made mai;iy pleasurable impressions 

upon me, the two most striking being Michael's 

great ease with the physical sensuality of sound, 

and his great sense of adventure with instrumengift 

waiting for them with the release of remastered 

versions of Glenn Gould's 

· documentaries on Leopold Stokowski and Pablo 

Casals. Under Gould's silent guidance Stokowski 

and a cast of Casals supporters reflect on the 

philosophical convictions of these two 

monumental figures. 

Among Stokowski's insights that I thought 

were particularly striking was the exacting sense 

of his place in the universe around him, his 

summaries of what made Ives and Shostakovich 

_truly original musical creators, and his 

participation in pioneering sound recording 

research. Gould's poetic compositional sense 

allows Stokowski's reflections to run like a solo 

voice through a self-referential orchestral 

tapestry. With a natural ease there is a sonatalike 

shape to the documentary that works 

successfully as both music and biographical 

documentary. 

Th~ approach to Casals' life is different in that 

it contains a carefully coordinated ensemble of 

viewpoints expressed from friends and 

supporters that give not only insight on Casals' 

views of music but document some of the 

prevailing attitudes of classical musicians of the 

Twentieth Century. Such discussion could not 

avoid the topic of Twentieth Century music of 

which Casals was not very fond. For him it 

58 Wholenote DECEMBER ·1, 2001 - JANUARY 31, 2002

TREAT YOURSELF TO A COOL YULE!!!! 

THE TIMMINS YOUTH SINGERS 

THE TIMMINS CONCERT SINGERS 

Rosanne Simunovic, Founder-Conductor 

www.timminsconcertsingers.com 

www.christmascd.ta · 

Timmins Youth Singers 

Patricia O'Callaghan & Kevin Closs 

www.scenesfromadream.com 

Live performances from 1984 - 2000 professionally re 

. mastered and featuring the Timmins Youth Singers & 

Timmins Concert Singers with special perfonnances by: 

Cats Stars Greg Bond & Larry Herbert 

Cabaret Star Patricia O'Callaghan . 

Phantom Of The Opera Stars Gregory Cross 

& Paul Massei, Stratford Festival Star Henry Ingram 

A Cappella Pop Sensations the Essentials 

www.christmascd.ca 

The Timmins Concert Singers 

The Timmins Symphony Orchestral Ensemble 

Featuring seasonal music arranged and co~ducted 

by Canadian conductor,,Howard Cable 


epresented the lack of humanism in the 

industrialization and brutality of the wars fought 

through the Century. In his view, composers' 

search for innovation was cold and lacked the 

feeling and emotion that he felt the inhumanity 

of the time required. 

The two documentaries ::ire packed throughout 

with commentary that is essential for anyone 

desiring, insight on the thinking and imagin.ation 

that stands behind artistic genius. 

Darren Cqpeland . 

INDIE LIST 

Two Octaves Down 

Paul Bresciani, double bass; 

William Crawford, piano 

Phoenix Records PHX 16282 

Paul Bresciani has be~n an influential bass player 

and pedagogue for at least the past ten years. 

Though it may1 seem to lack the bravura .and 

soloistic brightness of sound associated with the 

leading soloists of the day, there is no lack of 

.expression and musicality in Mr. Bresciani's 

playing. He is regarded as one of those rare 

musical talents that combines the discipline of 

maintaining a career as a Principal player in a 

professional orchestra and the creative drive it 

takes to continue to grow artistically. 

For those who are fans of the double bass and 

its repertoire this CD goes straight to it with 

some of the most popular works written for this 

instrument. One fine example is Bottesini's Reverie 

and Elegy which are separated here by Paul 

Bresdani's own Sequences, an interesting composition 

based on jazz and impr?visatio~al_ influences. 

There are also a few transcnptlons 

mixed in, such as Schumann'sAbendlied, which 

Mr. Bresciani plays with beauty and sensitivity. 

The final work on the CD is Bresciani's own 

transcription of Baal Shem: Three Pictures of 

'Chassidic Life by Ernest Bloch._In my opinion, 

this is the.main event. The work was originally 

written for violin and piano but it seems to work 

especially well for double bass and piano. The 

dark, wailing sound of the bass capt~res t~e 

melancholy of the music and the listener 1s 

slightly haunted· by the wall of sound Bresciani 

produces. 

Bach: The Concerto Album 

Lara St. John, violin 

New York Bach Ensemble 

ANCALAGON AR 131 

Troy Milleker 

/ 

We are told many things about Lara St. John in 

the liner notes to her new Bach CD: she began 

playing the violin at the age of two, The Strad 

has dubbed her "something of a phenomenon" 

and she is a great fan of reptiles. We also see a 

lot of Lara St. John in the CD booklet: posing as 

Courtney Love on the cover and coming 

dangerously close to setting her 1779 "Salabue" 

Guadagnini violin on fire with a cigarette in the 

pop-out poster. Thus, it takes a long time to ~et 

to the actual recorded performance. And I wish 

11 could, say it was worth the wait. 

The performances are thick and gooey, but 

technically brilliant and feature Lara's impeccable 

intonation, for which she is ren~wned . But 

they lack direction and interest. The "Double" 

concerto (performed with Lara's brother; 

University of Toronto violin professor Scott St. 

John) comes off the best, owing to the breakneck 

tempi of the outer movements and some 

genuinely poignant interplay between the solo 

violins in the famous slow movement. 

There must be dozens of recordings of the Bach 

concertos on the market, so the question is why 

make another? What about Biber, Corelli or 

Leclair? Here is a repertoire of top-notch, 

virtuosic baroque violin music that has rarely 

been recorded and is just waiting for "something 

of a phenomenon" to come along and reintroduce 

it to the world. In the meantime, Ms. St. John is 

being exploited for the short-term profits of a B 

grade record label., [Editor's note: Ancalagon 

is Lara St John's own label.] 

I 

Gonna Sing and Shout 

Echo Women's Choir 

60 Wholenote DECEMBER 1, 2001 - JANUARY 31, 2002 

Larry Beckwith 

Independent ( deepdownproductions.com) 

, EchoW.omen's Choir 

Gonae-:Slnt G_&d. Shottt. 

There is something to be said for everyday people 

singing everyday songs. Those of us with a 

classical education, when reviewing a performance, 

tend to base our judgments on the merits 

of accepted te_chnique within those proscibed circles. 

Even so, I have on occasion experienced 

some discomfort with the classical interpreta- 

tion of folk and popular song. That's why I find 

this CD refreshing. · 

Gonna Sing and Shout features songs of the people 

and their common concern for the environment, 

relationships and human rights. It is delivered 

not with artifice, but with a natural and 

joyful exuberance that is quite contagious. These 

folks obviously love to sing, and have a message 

to deliver to the inhabitants of this city. The choir 

performs repertoire that features a r~nge of 

styles from pieces with references umque to 

Toronto to songs from all around the world. 

Bravo to ' trained' musicians Alan Gasser and 

·Becca Whitla, for providing direction and shaping 

of this raw and unbridled passion. The Echo 

Women's Choir concert with Marie Lynn 

Hammond on Sunday December 9th at 

Eastminster United might just provide you ·with 

the most fun you've had in a long time! 

The Toronto Jazz Orchestra 

Toronto Jaz:i Orchestra 

Independent TJO 001 

Dianne Wells 

One of the problems in recording a big band is 

to capture the electricity that is generated in a 

live performance. Listening to The Toronto Jazz 

Orchestra's eponymous debut CD is a pkasure, 

since they've managed to accomplish that very 

thing. 

The disc's eleven tracks are drawn from the 

works of a number of big band composers from 

the latter part of the 20th century - no big band 

swing here ... just good solid postbop/modern jazz 

by the likes of Bill Holman, Thad Jones and Bob 

Brookmeyer. . . 

Four of the tracks on the TJO's CD were recorded 

live at the Montreal Bistro and Jazz Club 

in Toronto, including the challenging and lengthy 

work Crime Fiction by Toronto composer Paul 

Neufeld. Conductor Josh Grossman has also included 

ex-pat trumpeter Kenny Wheeler's Gentle 

Piece - an excellent feature for bassist Mike 

Smith.and saxophonist Gareth Lewis. 

The CD is produced by the TJO, so it's probably 

easiest to obtain it directly from the band. 

An excellent way to do this would be to catch 

their concert at the Brigantine Room at 

Harbourfront on Dec. 7. The band is presenting 

an evening of Afro-Cuban Big Band Music, including 

a performance of the Stan Kenton Orchestra's 

Cuban Fire Suite. The band's regular 

complement wi!I be augmented by percussionists 

Rodrigo Chavez and Chendy Leon, and 

members of the Toronto Youth Wind Orchest'ra 

. For further info on the concert and the CD, 

call 416-899-5299. 

Merlin Williams

The case for DVDs 

Time for Opera Fans to Switch? 

by Phil Ehrensaft 

PR1cEs FOR DVD PLAYERS and the availability of opera titles on DVD are 

now at the point where I think it is time for devotees of the genre to switch over 

from CDs. Opera on VHS already brought one closer to the live experience. 

DVD brings the experience even closer. Markedly increased resolution and 

color quality brings out the details of acting, costuming and scenery beyond 

what is possible on VHS. And sound is, of course, CD-quality. The medium 

also offers a whole new range of possibilities well illustrated l7y Cecilia Bartoli 's 

wondrous new DVD, Viva Vivaldi for the Naxos!ArtHaus label. Consider the 

pleasure, for example, of being able to bring up the score as a choice in a 

menu that also includes English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish 

subtitles! The amount of information that can be burned into a DVD compared 

to a CD also presents economies of production that are already being 

passed on to the consumer and should get even better. 

GLYNDEBOURNE'S excellent Porgy and Bess for EMI, conducted by 

Sir Simon Rattle, is a good example, synchronizing BBC's television 

production of Porgy with original CD tracks, with the film production. 

Originally a 3-cd set, all of the sound tracks, plus the film and subtitles 

in multiple languages fit on one DVD the same size as a standard CD. 

And the expense of printing the libretto is eliminated. Surfing the 

Internet, the lowest price that I found for the DVD was US $27 compared 

with US $39 for the CD set. More typically, opera DVD's range 

a few dollars below or above CD versions. My rule of thumb nowadays 

is to restrict purchases of opera CDs to historical performances and 

truly outstanding contemporary recordings. 

As far as hardware is concerned, the prices of DVD players with 

respectable sound are not much different than equivalent CD decks, and 

they play standard CDs as well. I suggest following the British magazine 

What HiFi? Choose modestly priced decks with high-quality sound 

chips. (I should add the proviso that you need a TV with an SVHS cable 

input to realize the video potential of DVD. A 27" TV with this input 

is now an entry-level purchase at discount electronic stores.) 

As to the material available on DVD, Naxos is emerging as a major 

player in the classical DVD field, via its ArtHaus label. Their 

strategy is to organize production at the many excellent German and 

Swiss opera companies outside of Berlin, or to make arrangements with 

European broadcasters, including the BBC. 

The pre-Christmas package that Naxo sent me for review had two 

operas that were on my priority list: Monteverdi's L 'incoronazione di 

Poppea, and Von Weber's Der Freischutz. The former is from the 

Schwetzinger Festspiele and is very much in the vein of postmodern 

productions at Bayreuth. I frankly expected to hate it, since this is not 

my cup of tea. (If I were German, I would fly to New York to see 

Wagner at the Met) Instead I was captivated. Original instrumentation; 

costuming that somehow blends riot cop Praetorian guards with a 

17.'h century version of ancient Rome; a superb counter-tenor clothed in 

hip black leather. It sounds a heavy-handed way of making the point that 

L'incoronazione's themes are timeless, but the performance is so good 

that it works. 

German romantic opera starts with Der Freischutz in 1821 

--a magnificent use of persistently rich orchestral colors and solo instruments 

to develop drama and psychological mood. Wagner made a rare 

generous gesture of acknowledging his debt to the composer by arranging 

the return of von Weber's body from London to Dresden. This 

Hamburgische Staatsoper production is, again, semi-traditional, mostly 

a nineteenth century view, except for scenes with the evil Samiel in a 

modem suit or the sinister Kaspar's soul trapped in a 1950's television. 

It is a fine, fine performance 

Claudio Monteverdi. L'lncoronazione di Poppea. Concerto Koln: Rene Jacobs, 

conductor; Patricia Schumann, Richard Croft. ArtHaus 100 109 

Carl Maria von Weber. Der Freischutz. Hamburgische Staatsoper: lndo Metzmacher, 

conductor; Jarman Silvasti, Charlotte Margiono, Albert Dormen, Sabine Ritterbusch. 

ArtHaus 100 107 

Cecilia Bartoli and II Giardino Armonico (Giavani Antonini, conductor). 

Viva Vivaldi! ArtHaus 100 229 

George Gershwin. Porgy and Bess. Glyndebourne: Sir Simon Rattle, conductor; 

Willard White, Gregg Baker. EMI 724349249790 


Gustav Mahler: 

Das Lied von der Erde 

Waltraud Meier, mezzo-soprano; 

Ben Heppner, tenor 

Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen 

Rundfunks; Lorin Maazel 

RCA 74321-67957-2 

Gustav Mahler: 

Das Lied von der Erde 

Violeta Urmana, mezzo-soprano; 

Michael Schade, tenor 

Wiener Philharmoniker; Pierre 

Boulez, conductor 

DG 469 526-2 

Two recordings of Gustav 

Mahler's late romantic masterpiece 

Das Lied von der Erde have recently 

appeared. Each features· an 

outstanding Canadian tenor, Ben 

Heppner on one, with mezzo-soprano 

Waltraud Meier, and Michael 

Schade on the other, with mezzosoprano 

Violeta Urmana. Both performances 

successfully capture the 

soul-searching intensity of this cycle 

of six symphonic songs, and 

rank with the best of the many recordings 

available of this work. 

DISCS OF THE MONTH 

SCHADE, where Heppner is valiant, 

is ardent. His lyrical voice floats 

brightly across Mahler's rich orchestrations. 

His ending of Das 

Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde, 

where the ominous "dark is life, 

dark is death" is repeated, suggests 

the hoped-for possibility that his 

moving supplications will have 

some effect. 

Urmana's plangent voice suggests 

worlds of sorrow and depths of 

mystery, especially in the monumental 

Der Abschied. The Vienna tails and ideally balanced layers of 

Philharmonic Orchestra under sound, building up the symphonic 

Pierre Boulez shimmers with di- textures Mahler sought. 

aphanous clarity and vivid effects. Both conductors demonstrate re 

He offers exquisite voicing of de- markable attentiveness to the many 

"... It was quite simply breathtaking:' 

- Weiner Zeitung 

details in Mahler's score. Clear and 

spacious sound distinguishes both 

recordings. With no apparent 

choice between these two gorgeous 

discs, the real winner here is the 

listener, who will do well with 

either. 

Ben Heppner is giving a recital at 

Roy Thomson Hall on Jan. 17. 

Michael Schade performs in 

Aldeburgh Connection's Birthday 

Salon, January 11, and Rossini's fl 

Viaggio a Reims at the Hummingbird 

Centre with the Canadian 

Opera Company from Jan.22 to 

February 3. 

Pamela Margles 

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HEPPNER takes a highly expressive 

approach. He uses his enormous 

palette of colours to coax the meaning 

out of each word. He has an 

extraordinary ability to produce a 

stentorian tone then tenderly scale 

it back, without losing the presence 

of the sound. In Der Trunkene im 

Friih#ng the character of the drunkard 

emerges from his exquisitely 

sensitive interplay with a series of 

solo instruments. 

Meier matches Heppner's lustrous 

eloquence. In Von der SchOnheit, 

she declaims the almost 

sprechstimme-Iike passage with 

thrilling articulateness. Conductor 

Lorin Maazel masterfully shapes 

the orchestra in expansive lines of 

rich sonority. 

Vienna's Musikverein was home to one of the most exciting musical events of recent 

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