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Volume 24 Issue 8 - May 2019

  • Text
  • Theatre
  • Symphony
  • Concerts
  • Singers
  • Arts
  • Jazz
  • Choral
  • Musical
  • Toronto
  • Choir
What a range of stuff! A profile of Liz Upchurch, the COC ensemble studio's vocal mentor extraordinaire; a backgrounder on win-win faith/arts centre partnerships and ways of exploring the possibilities; an interview with St. Petersburg-based Eifman Ballet's Boris Eifman; Ana Sokolovic's violin concert Evta finally coming to town; a Love Letter to YouTube, and much more. Plus our 17th annual Canary Pages Choral directory if all you want to do is sing! sing! sing!

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GREEN PAGES EARLY- BIRD SUMMER MUSIC GUIDE Summer is just around the corner! The WholeNote’s 15th annual Green Pages will be published as usual in our upcoming big SUMMER edition (June/July/August). The print magazine hits the stands June 1 but there are always a few festivals that begin earlier! So some of these are featured on this page and the next. The Green Pages includes festival profiles and pictures, concert and event listings. Look forward to an exciting overview of the summer musical map – classical, jazz, opera, folk, world music and much more – in beautiful and sometimes unexpected locations. Online at thewholenote.com/green, festival profiles are added as they arrive, and updated, supplemented with photos, videos, links to social media and more. So if you can’t wait for June 1, visit us online at thewholenote.com/green, where you can do more browsing or begin a more focused search. Meanwhile, summer music is already under way. Here’s a tempting sample of the goodness to come! FESTIVAL CLASSICA Montreal, QC FESTIVAL CLASSICA May 24 to June 16 Saint-Lambert, South Shore of Montreal, Montreal, North Shore of Montreal !! Held in Saint-Lambert, along with satellite concerts presented in 8 cities in the Montérégie region, on the island of Montréal and on the North Shore. From Berlioz to the Bee Gees: more than 65 indoor and outdoor concerts, featuring Natalie Choquette, Stéphane Tétreault, Jean-Philippe Sylvestre, Valérie Milot, Alexandre Da Costa and many more artists! In 2019, we mark the 150th anniversary of the death of famous composer Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), the 200th anniversary of the birth of composer and cellist Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), as well as the 150th anniversary of the birth of composer Albert Roussel (1869-1937). 888-801-9906 www.festivalclassica.com LUMINATO June 7 to 23 Toronto, ON !! Each June, Luminato, Toronto’s international festival of arts and ideas, takes over the city with a flurry of cultural activities and events designed to provoke, delight and inspire audiences of all ages. Over the festival’s 12-year history, more than 9.1 million people have experienced over 3,600 productions featuring 15,000+ artists from more than 40 countries around the world. Luminato 2019 takes place June 7 to 23, 2019 at various venues across the city and is jam-packed with the most exciting theatre, music, visual art, opera, dance, film and more from Canada and around the world. Spanning 17 days, the festival lineup features both paid and free indoor and outdoor events including a largerthan-life mirrored maze and massive choral event. 416-368-4849 www.luminatofestival.com MONTREAL CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL June 7 to 16 2064 ave. de Marlowe, Montréal, QC, H4A 3L5 !! This season marks the beginning of a three-year project by the Montreal Chamber Music Festival to celebrate the life of the great Ludwig van Beethoven, entitled “Beethoven Chez Nous!” In 2019, 2020 and 2021, the Festival will feature cycles of complete works by Beethoven, some with a very special twist! Highlights this year are the Beethoven Violin Sonatas performed by 2019 Grammy winner James Ehnes and pianist Andrew Armstrong, and the Beethoven Symphonies as transcribed for piano by Franz Liszt, with six outstanding pianists from across the world. The Festival opens with a new show by Quebec’s star entertainer Gregory Charles, an exuberant survey of the past 250 years in music. This year we also showcase star tenor Joseph Kaiser and the best young talent in BMO Hottest Classical Artists Under 30! 514-489-7444 www.festivalmontreal.org MUSIC MONDAYS May 6 to September 2 Church of the Holy Trinity, 19 Trinity Square, Toronto, ON M5G 1B1 !! A lunchtime concert series at the Church of the Holy Trinity – welcome to our 28th season! Music Mondays has served as a launching pad for emerging talent since its inception in 1992. Our concerts take place in the warm acoustics of Holy Trinity Church, just steps away from the Eaton Centre. We feature an eclectic mix of everything from classical solo and chamber music to jazz, fusion and world music. Our goal is to provide the highest possible musical experience to a pay-what-you-can downtown Toronto audience. Suggested donation . Please join us and bring your lunch – and a friend – every Monday at 12:15pm from May to Labour Day. 416-598-4521 x223 www.musicmondays.ca thewholenote.com May 2019 | 65

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