Rolling into our 30th year of publishing, a teensy bit of retrospection for openers; Tafelmusik revamps their artistic directorship; Elaine Choi's take on choirs as community; VIA says all aboard to artists on its trains again; where jazz students get to play for real; two contrasting operatic forays; a triple take on music theatre at Shaw; a full slate of record reviews and tracks from 16 new albums in our Listening Room. All this and more!
STORIES & INTERVIEWS 20 MUSIC THEATRE | Sizzling summer musicals flourish | JENNNIFER PARR 22 OPERA SPOTLIGHT | COC opera light and Dvořák rare | DAVID PERLMAN 24 CLASSICAL & BEYOND | Familiar music recontextualized | WENDALYN BARTLEY 28 25 TH ANNUAL BLUE PAGES “Early Bird” index LISTINGS 30 EVENTS BY DATE Live and/or online 34 MAINLY CLUBS 35 UNDATED EVENTS & ETCETERAS DISCOVERIES: RECORDINGS REVIEWED 36 Editor’s Corner | DAVID OLDS 38 Strings Attached | TERRY ROBBINS 40 Vocal 42 Classical and Beyond 44 Modern and Contemporary 48 Jazz and Improvised Music 52 Pot Pourri 53 Something in the Air | KEN WAXMAN 54 What we’re listening to this month Alain Trudel and the Orchestre symphonique de Laval present a new album with work by Kodály, Prévost and Bartók as well as the beautiful Symphonie gaspésienne by Claude Champagne. The pianist Élisabeth Pion, named Radio-Canada’s Revelation 2024- 2025, joins Arion Baroque Orchestra to explore works by Montgeroult and Mozart. 20 Cameron Crozman and Les Violons du Roy present Joseph Haydn’s Cello Concertos and Jacques Hétu’s Rondo for Cello and String Orchestra, Op. 9. ALL ALBUMS ARE AVAILABLE, DISCOVER THEM NOW VISIT OUR WEBSITE thewholenote.com September2024 | 5
