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Volume 27 Issue 4 - February 2022

Gould's Wall -- Philip Akin's "breadcrumb trail; orchestras buying into hope; silver linings to the music theatre lockdown blues; Charlotte Siegel's watershed moments; Deep Wireless at 20; and guess who is Back in Focus. All this and more, now online for your reading pleasure.

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WHO’S WHO? THE WHOLENOTE ONLINE DIRECTORIES INDEX Under the WHO’S WHO tab at THEWHOLENOTE.COM, you’ll find several directories containing detailed profiles about active participants in several areas of the musical life of our region and beyond. In our Blue Pages you can read about a viareity music makers and presenters; the Canary Pages reveals the riches of choral activity all across southern Ontario. You can also find information about Summer Festivals in our Green Pages, and about seasonal learning opportunities in Summer Music Education. Traditionally we published a single annual print supplement for each of these: The Blue Pages in the fall, Summer Music Education in late winter, The Canary Pages in May, and The Green Pages in early summer. But these days it’s more useful to allow for rolling deadlines for all concerned, so we’ve moved the directories entirely online. This means that directory participants a) can wait till their plans for the season have taken shape, and b) revise them as frequently as necessary, as restrictions governing venues and live performance continue to adjust, hopefully for the better! So what follows here is an up-to-the-moment index (as of January 2022) of current members of the Blue Pages. Profiles are being added or updated on a weekly basis on our website. As for the Green Pages and Summer Music Education, we’ve kept the 2021 profiles online for your awareness for now, but these will be updated for 2022 soon, so check back in a few weeks. We'll be updating the Canary Pages in May. The current index below offers you a handy way to window-shop presenters who's season's are in progress or just starting up. You can access their websites directly - via the web addresses that accompany every name in the index, with a “click” if you explore these pages while reading The WholeNote in our online flipthrough edition, accessible via kiosk.thewholenote.com. So happy browsing! If you have any questions about the directories, either as a reader or prospective directory member, contact me at karen@thewholenote.com Karen Ages, directory and member services BLUE PAGES DIRECTORY OF MUSIC MAKERS 2021-22 ● = NEW! ● Aga Khan Museum www.agakhanmuseum.org ● Amadeus Choir of Greater Toronto www.amadeuschoir.com ● Amici Chamber Ensemble www.amiciensemble.com ● Art of Time Ensemble www.artoftimeensemble.com ● Attila Glatz Concert Productions (Salute to Vienna) www.salutetovienna.com ● Azrieli Foundation www.azrielifoundation.org/amp ● Barrie Concert Association www.barrieconcerts.org ● Barrie Concert Band www.barrieconcertband.org ● Canadian Music Centre www.cmccanada.org ● Canadian Opera Company www.coc.ca ● Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra www.cathedralbluffs.com ● Chorus Niagara www.chorusniagara.org ● Church of St. Mary Magdalene www.stmarymagdalene.ca ● COSA Canada (Centre for Opera Studies & Appreciation) www.cosacanada.org ● Counterpoint Community Orchestra www.ccorchestra.org ● DaCapo Chamber Choir www.dacapochamberchoir.ca ● Don Wright Faculty of Music, Western U music.uwo.ca ● Edison Singers www.theedisonsingers.com ● Elmer Iseler Singers www.elmeriselersingers.com ● Ensemble Vivant www.ensemblevivant.com ● Estonian Studies Centre www.vemu.ca ● Etobicoke Centennial Choir www.etobcokecentennialchoir.ca ● Etobicoke Community Concert Band www.eccb.ca ● Etobicoke Philharmonic Orchestra www.eporchestra.ca ● Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan www.evergreenclubgamelan.com ● Glionna Mansell Corporation www.glionnamansell.com ● Hannaford Street Silver Band www.hssb.ca ● INNERchamber Inc. www.innerchamber.ca ● Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts www.queensu.ca/theisabel ● Jubilate Singers www.jubilatesingers.ca ● Ken Page Memorial Trust www.kenpagememorialtrust.com ● Kindred Spirits Orchestra www.KSOrchestra.ca ● Koerner Hall at the Royal Conservatory of Music www.rcmusic.com/performance ● Mississauga Chamber Singers www.mississaugachambersingers.ca ● Mississauga Symphony Orchestra www.mississaugasymphony.ca ● MOSAIC Canadian Vocal Ensemble mosaic-vocalensemble.ca ● Music at Metropolitan www.metunited.ca ● Music at St. Andrew’s www.standrewstoronto.org ● Music in the Afternoon (Women’s Musical Club of Toronto) www.wmct.on.ca ● Music Gallery www.musicgallery.org ● Music Toronto www.music-toronto.com ● New Music Concerts www.newmusicconcerts.com ● Nine Sparrows Arts Foundation www.9sparrowsarts.org ● Nocturnes in the City www.nocturnesinthecity.com ● Off Centre Music Salon www.offcentremusic.com ● Opera Atelier www.operaatelier.com ● Orchestra Toronto www.orchestratoronto.ca ● ORGANIX Concerts www.organixconcerts.ca ● Pax Christi Chorale www.paxchristichorale.org ● Peterborough Singers www.peterboroughsingers.com ● Royal Canadian College of Organists, Toronto Centre www.rcco.ca/Toronto ● Sine Nomine Ensemble for Medieval Music www.pims.ca/article/sine-nomine/ ● SoundCrowd www.soundcrowd.ca ● Soundstreams www.soundstreams.ca ● St. Michael’s Choir School www.smcs.on.ca ● Tafelmusik www.tafelmusik.org ● Tapestry Opera www.tapestryopera.com ● That Choir www.thatchoir.com ● Toronto Chamber Choir www.torontochamberchoir.ca ● Toronto Choral Society www.torontochoralsociety.org ● Toronto Classical Singers www.torontoclassicalsingers.ca ● Toronto Consort torontoconsort.org ● Toronto Mendelssohn Choir www.tmchoir.org ● Toronto Mozart Players www.mozartproject.ca ● Toronto Operetta Theatre www.torontooperetta.com ● Toronto Symphony Orchestra www.TSO.CA ● Trio Arkel www.trioarkel.com ● University of Toronto Faculty of Music music.utoronto.ca ● Upper Canada Choristers www.uppercanadachoristers.org ● Vesnivka Choir www.vesnivka.com ● VOCA Chorus of Toronto www.vocachorus.ca ● Voicebox: Opera in Concert www.operainconcert.com ● Westben Centre for Connection and Creativity Through Music www.westben.ca ● Wychwood Clarinet Choir www.wychwoodclarinetchoir.ca ● Yorkminster Park Baptist Church www.yorkminsterpark.com Arts Services ● Agence Station Bleue www.stationbleue.com/en ● Eric Alper Public Relations www.thatericalper.com ● International Resource Centre for Performing Artists www.ircpa.net ● Linda Litwack Publicity www.facebook.com/Linda-Litwack- Publicity-1174901622575289 ● Luisa Trisi / Big Picture Communications www.luisatrisi.com thewholenote.com February 2022 | 33

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