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Volume 31 Issue 2 - November & December 2025

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November and December combined for the first time in our history, with January and February likewise joined at the hip up next. Window-shop the 2025/26 Blue Pages (ten new members since last issue). "Critical mass" is the flavour of the issue, with "A Mass for the Endangered" leading the way, and a feast of Music Theatre, serious and not, close behind. Choral Scene looks at choirs augmenting their year-ending offerings with instrumental forces, and orchestras likewise augmenting their offerings with massed human voice. And masses of new recordings to discover and listen to. ALL THIS AND MORE.

The WholeNote VOLUME 31

The WholeNote VOLUME 31 NO 2 NOVEMBER & DECEMBER, 2025 EDITORIAL Publisher/Editor in Chief | David Perlman publisher@thewholenote.com editorial@thewholenote.com Recordings Editor | David Olds discoveries@thewholenote.com Listings Editor | John Sharpe listings@thewholenote.com SOCIAL MEDIA Danial Jazaeri, Colin Story social@thewholenote.com SALES, MARKETING & MEMBERSHIP Advertising & Memberships | Karen Ages advertising@thewholenote.com members@thewholenote.com Production & Operations | Jack Buell jack@thewholenote.com Advertising Art adart@thewholenote.com WEBSITE / SYSTEMS Danial Jazaeri, Kevin King systems@thewholenote.com CIRCULATION circulation@thewholenote.com SUBSCRIPTIONS subscriptions@thewholenote.com + HST (6 issues) single copies and back issues + HST *international - additional postage applies STORIES & INTERVIEWS, continued 14 MUSIC THEATRE | From Feasts to Follies | JENNIFER PARR 16 CHORAL SCENE | Augmented forces: choirs plus | ANGUS MACCAULL 18 CLASSICAL & BEYOND | Orchestrated change at the RCM? | ANDREW SCOTT 20 MUSIC & HEALTH | When Music Meets Mindfulness | VANIA CHAN THE BLUE PAGES AT A GLANCE 21 Our 26th annual directory of music makers LISTINGS 24 EVENTS BY DATE: Live and streamed 38 MAINLY CLUBS 39 OPERA, MUSIC THEATRE, DANCE 39 ETCETERAs DISCOVERIES RECORDINGS REVIEWED 40 Editor’s Corner | DAVID OLDS 41 Strings Attached | TERRY ROBBINS 44 Vocal 45 Classical and Beyond 47 Modern and Contemporary 49 Jazz and Improvised Music 51 Pot Pourri 54 Something in the Air | KEN WAXMAN 55 What We’re Listening To | Listening Room Index WholeNote Media Inc. Centre for Social Innovation 503-720 Bathurst Street Toronto ON M5S 2R4 Phone 416-323-2232 | Fax 416-603-4791 Instagram: @the_wholenote Facebook & X: @theWholenote thewholenote.com 18 Circulation Statement - September 19, 2025 5000 printed & distributed Canadian Publication Product Sales Agreement 1263846 ISSN 14888-8785 WHOLENOTE Publications Mail Agreement #40026682 WholeNote Media Inc. accepts no responsibility or liability for claims made for any product or service reported on or advertised in this issue. COPYRIGHT © 2025 WHOLENOTE MEDIA INC WN WHOLENOTE MEDIA INC. 6 | November & December 2025 thewholenote.com

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