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Volume 10 Issue 6 - March 2005

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· Th. Sept. 15 • /(i:J TORONTO Great classical music in a perfect small concert hall downtown 2005-06 SEASON + CHAMBER MUSIC DOWNTOWN RUSSEIL BRAUN QUARTETS 3,5 Th. Oct. 20 Tokyo Mozart 1 Th. ov. 10 Miro Quartet Th. ov. 24 ew Zealand Quartet Th. Dec. 8 Takacs Quartet Th.Jan. 19 Tokyo Mozart 2 Th. Feb. 9 Th. Mar. 2 St. Lawrence Quartet Penderecki Quartet Th. Mar. 16 Tokyo Mozart 3 PIANO 0, 0 Tu. Nov.1 Lucille Chung Tu. ov. 29 Piotr Anderszewski Tu.Jan. 31 Tu. Mar. 21 Tu. Apr. 11 Markus Groh Cyprien Katsaris Nikolai Lugansky ENSEMBLES-IN-RESIDENCE 9, 5 Tu. Oct. 25 Tu. Nov. 15 Tu. Mar. 7 Tu. Mar. 28 Gryphon Trio MTO Chamber Society Gryphon Trio MTO Chamber Society CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS , Tu. Nov. 15 Tu.Jan. 31 Th. Mar. 2 Th. Apr. 6 DISCOVERY Th. Jan 26 Th. Feb. 23 Th. Apr. 6 MTO Chamber Society Markus Groh Penderecki Quartet Trio Fibonacci Shannon Mercer, soprano Maneli Pirzadeh & Daniel Moran, duo pianists Trio Fibonacci AFFORDABLE + ACCESSIBLE + INTIMATE + EXHILARATING www.music-toronto.com at StLC Jane Mallett Theatre St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts 416-366-7723•1-800-708-6754 order online at www.stlc.com torontdartsbou ncil Alllf•'•_..,._.,..,. ... CilyOlllbr.- Subscription combos and series from for Discovery to C.nad• Council ConMll des Arb 1 for the whole season! tor the Am du C.Nlda Sacred+ Secular "the human voice is the most perfect instrument of all" Part's spiritual maste rwork paired with a dramatic new oratorio by Omar Danie l and Anne Mic hae ls Saturday, March 5 at 8pm St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church 73 Simcoe St. (corner of King and Simcoe Streets) Tickets adult/ senior /.50 student St. Lawrence Centre Box Office 27 Front St. East CALL 416.366.7723 or 1.800.708.6754 www.stlc.com Miserere, Arva Part (Estonia) The Passion of Lavinia Andronicus, Omar Daniel (Canada) with libretto by Anne Michaels (Canada) WORLD PREMIERE Hilliard Ensemble (U.K.) lvars Taurins, conductor Tafelmusik Chamber Choir Chamber orchestra

' EDITORIAL Kaleidoscopes and other reflections I've got kaleidoscopes on the brain a bit at the moment. Partly it's because there's a concert called Kaleidoscope in town this month, well Spiritual Kaleidoscope, actually, by Proteus World Music. (Karen Ages talks a bit about it in her World View column on page 36.) Partly it's because I often find myself, at this very last possible moment before the magazine goes to the printer, scrambling for something to say about the patterns that I have noticed as the issue came together, some of them much more interesting than anything we could have planned. One thing I really hope you will give time to is this month's Composer to Composer interview with Denys Bouliane. "W hen talking about music we must accept that it [talking] is a bit trivial, but it can also make us understand what's behind a piece" says Bouliane, and then goes on to make this reader at least want to hear the music even more after hearing it talked about - no mean feat. I also want to call your attention to the Summer Education feature commenci"ng on page 38. It's the first of a string of increasingly ambitious "Specials" that characterize the magazine in the spring and is certainly one way of chasing the winter blues. (For a list of April, May, June and July special features, please ee page 29. Also, if you're wondering where Music's Children and How I met my teacher have gone, fear not, they've just been bumped to pages 63-65 by "Summer Ed".) I also hope you'll give a serious look at the upcoming WholeNote Monday Salon (ad on page 45). Last month's "Early Music" event was, well, kaleidoscopic, in the way the various pieces, by six different ensembles, brought a three-hundred year period, predating what we call classical music, wonderfully to life. March 7's event, curated by Colin Eatock, promises in a different way to bring what one might usually think of as four totally unrelated kinds of music into striking juxtaposition. When the dust settles on any issue of the magazine, all the articles and columns in and edited, there's always a moment of frustration at the events that didn't get their due, in terms of editorial coverage. This, dear reader. is where your own kaleidoscope comes in. Just as no two people hear a concert the same way, so too you as reader will piece together from the fragments of information in the magazine, a patterned view of your own most pleasing musical month. Returning to Proteus World Music and its founder/conductor Charles Demuynck: They've travelled a lot of ground, literally and figuratively, in this, their first concert eason - from bringing African-American pianist Awadagin Pratt to the Glenn Gould last fall, to a South Indian Fusion concert up at York University's Burton Auditorium, to this month's finale, at Trinity St. Paul's on March 23. "It's been a calculated risk," Charles said, when we talked. "Do you set up shop somewhere and hope people will come to you. Or do you seek out the city's communities one by one and then try to bring them along with you on the journey." . For this former resident of Dawson Creek, nine years of teaching music at Louisiana State were enough to tell him he wanted to take the plunge into bringing new live music into being. "Spiritual Kaleidoscope" speaks to the structure of this final concert, with its interweaving of a variety of faith-based music, its explorations of consonances and dissonances from one kind of music to another. But it also speaks to his sense of what this city, with all its diversity is. It's one concert this month that will be on my personal list and one concert series I hope remains part of the picture. MARCH 1 - APRIL 7 2005 David Perlman great chamber music down town MTO CHAMBER SOCIETY James VanDemark, bass; Gary Farmer, narrator; Whitefish Junior., drums; Gary Kulesha, conductor Schubert's Trout and the first Canadian perfo1111ance of Circle c4Paith, the words of Seattle Tuesday, March I at 8 p.m. toron loarts::ou n ci I .. .-,+ ..... , ...... . t ..... WWW. THEWHOLENOTE.COM .G;f/ QUARTETTO DI VENEZJA The Toronto debut of this mature Italian foursome playing an all-ltalian programme: Boccherini, Bazzini, Cacioppo, Busoni, Verdi Thursday, March JO at 8 p.m. ARTHUR OZOLINS Toronto pianist offers a varied programme including Kenins, Beethoven and Chopin Tuesday !\'I arch I 5 at 8 p.m. DENISE DJQKIC, cellist. with DAVIJ? JALBERT, pianist Young Canadian artists play works from Brahms to Barber Tickets just S 12 ! Thursday March 3 I at 8 p.m. Bfe, Canada Council Conseil des 4f1s IDr IM Arts du Cad• ()1:r6@li-· ) to1ro'N 1 0 at www.music·toronto com . s t I '--" " .. J .111

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