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Volume 4 Issue 5 - February 1999

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TWO EXCITING NEW

TWO EXCITING NEW RELEASES! Soaring With Agamemnon Amanda Forsyth cello Peter Longworth piano An engaging retrospective ofthe partnership between three-time JUNO award-winning composer Malcolm Forsyth and his daughter. cellist Amanda. The music is characterized by beautiful, soaring melodies, and the extraordinary passion and virtuosity of Amanda Forsyth. Compositions for cello by Arvo Part and Gavin Bryars compliment the music of Malcolm Forsyth. learning to Fall The Penderecki String Quartet Anne-Marie Donovan mezzo-soprano University of Manitoba'Singers Gle~n Buhr's music shows many different influences: classical, .. jau, Broadway and music of the Near East and India. This music . blends together these many influences into vibrant and ·appealing music. Don't miss Glenn's second String Quartet -a set of variations of jau great Charles Mingus's blues song '!Goodbye Pork Pie Hat". " MARQUIS ClASSICS 416 690-7 662 fax 690-7346 Marquis_ elossics@cqmpuserve.com l RHOLENOTE'S IAtiCOMPREHENSIVE CONCERT LISTINGS February 1- March 7, 1999. We make every effort to ensure accuracy, however ... things happen, plans change. Please use the numbers provided to phone ahead. Also please note: only the first performance of Music Theatre Listings is included in these Daily Listings. For a complete run, runs already in progress and detailed schedules, please see our Music Theatre listings, pages 22-23 ., Tuesday February • • • 1 :00: Lunch Hour at St. James'. Bach: Fantasia & Fugue; Boely: Fantasia Op.18 #8; Rawsthorne: Hornpipe Humouresque; Maleingreau: Suite Mariale. Thomas Fitches, organ. 65 Church St. 364-7865. Free. • • • 7:00: Canadian Opera· Company. Rossini: The Barber of Seville. Russell Braun, Mika Shigematsu & others, performers; Albert Takazauckas, director; Richard Bradshaw, conductor. 6:15: Preperformance discussion. Hummingbird Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front St. East. 872-2262. to 0. FOR COMPLETE RUN SEE MUSIC THEATRE LISTINGS. • • • 8:00: Music Gallery. CCMC. 1 79 Richmond St. West. 204-1080. Free. Wednesday February 3 • • • 1 2:00 noon: York Univ~rsity Dept. of Music. Music at Noon. Classical & improvised music. Brian Katz, guitar. DACARY Hall, 050 McLaughlin College, 4700 Keele St. 736-5186. Free. • • • 12:30: Yorkminster Park Baptist Church. Noonday Recital. Barbara Hallam-Price, organ. 1585 Yonge St. 925-7312. Free. • • • 8:00: Amicus Productions . The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940. By John Bishop. Fairview Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall Dr. 812-6756. .50,. FOR COMPLETE RUN SEE MUSIC THEATRE LISTINGS. • • • 8:00: Canadian Opera Company. Handel.· Xerxes. Kimberly Barber, Kathleen Brett, Susannah Waters & David Daniels; performers; Stephen Wadsworth, director. 7:15: Preperformance discussion. Hummingbird Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front St. . East. 872-2262. to 0. FOR COMPLETE RUN SEE MUSIC THEATRE LISTINGS. • • • 8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Classic Masterworks. Kulesha: The Gates of Time; Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; Sibelius: Symphony #1. Stewart Goodyear, piano; Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conducto'r. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe. 593- 4828. .75 to . • • • 8:00: University of Toronto Faculty of Music. Small Jazz Ensembles. Favourite standards and student arrangements & compositions. Walter Hall, 80 Queen's Park. 978-3744. Free. Thursday February 4 *I • • • 12:10: St. Paul's Anglican Church. Organ Recital. Eric Robertson, organ. 227 Bloor St. East. 961-8116. Free. • • • 1 :30: Women's Musical Club of Toronto. Laughton & O'Meara, Trumpet & Organ. Walter Hall, 80 Queen's Park. 923-7052. ; free to·faculty & students from U of Toronto & Royal Cqnservatory of Music. . • • • 8:00: Civic light Opera Company. Lerner & Loewe: Camelot & Rodgers & Hart: A Connecticut Yankee. In concert. Fairview Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall Drive. 421-1 267. ,. FOR COMPLETE RUN SEE MUSIC THEATRE LIS"(INGS. • • • 8:00: Music Gallery. Peter Zaparinuk/John D.S.Adams. Music for live electronic media. 1 79 Richmond St. West. 204- 1080. ,. • • • 8:00: North York Symphony. Beethoven: Piano Concerto #3;Mendelssohn, Symphony #4 Italian ; Glazunov: Serenade #1; Philip Glass: Arioso. John O'Conor, piano; Kerry Stratton, conductor. George Weston Recital Hall, 5040 Yonge St. 872-2222. to . • • • 8:00: Scarborough Music Theatre. The Secret Garden. Book & lyrics by Marsha Norman; music by Lucy Simon. Scarborough Village Theatre, 3600 Kingston Road. 396-4049.,. FOR COMPLETE RUN SEE MUSIC THEATRE LISTINGS. • • • 8:00: UC Follies Productions. Cabaret. By John Kander & Fred Ebb. 7 Hart House Circle. 978-8668. $.1 0,. FOR COMPLETE RUN SEE MUSIC THEATRE . LISTINGS. Friday February Ill • • • 12:00 noon: Roy Thomson Hall Volunteers. Bring Your Own Lunch Concert. Performers from the University of Toronto Faculty of Music. 60 Simcoe' St. 593- 4822 ext.365. Free. • • • 8:00: Elmer lseler Singers. Composers' Choice. Togni: Magnificat; Healey: Canadian folksongs; Watson Henderson: In Memoriam Elmer lseler; Enns: Missa Brevis; Bolden: Moment. St. Patrick's Church, 141 McCaul. 217-0537. ,. • • • 8:00: Great Music at St. Anne's. Gilbert and 'Sullivan: The Mikado. Laura Schatz, stage director; Christopher Cotton, music director; full orchestra accompaniment. St. Anne's Anglican Church, 270 Gladstone Ave. 536-3160.,. FOR COMPLETE RUN SEE MUSIC THEATRE LISTINGS. • • • 8:00: Guitar Society of Toronto. Simon Dinnigan, guitar, in Recital. Works by Bach, · Regondi, Dodgson, Barrios­ Mangore & Castelnuovo­ Tedesco. Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave, 922-8002. ·. ONLY COMPREHENSIVE CLASSICAL CONTEMPORARY CONCERT LISTING SOURCE

• • • 8:00: Mississauga Symphony. Rita MacNeil in Concert. John Barnum, ' conductor. Hammerson Hall, 4141 Living Arts Drive. 905- 306-6000. ,. • • • 8:00: Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts. Holly Cole in Concert. Evening of jazz. 130 Navy Street. 905-815-2021. .99. • • • 8:00: The Aldeburgh Connection. Young Artists Recital. Carla Huhtanen, soprano; Scott Belluz, baritone; Bruce Ubukata, piano. Walter Hall, 80 Queen's Park Ave. 978- 3744. ,. • • • 8:00: Toronto Consort. Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610. Ann Monoyios & Suzie LeBlanc, sopranos; Alan Bennett & Paul Elliott, tenors; instrumentalists; David Fallis, conductor. St. Paul's Anglican Church, 227 Bloor St. E. 964-6337. to . I *I Saturday February 6 • • • 12:00 noon: Royal Conservatory of Music. Lobby Concert. Students of all ages & levels. 273 Bloor St. W. 408-2824 ext.321. Free. • • • 1 :30 & 3:30: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Young People's Concert. Music by Mussorgsky, Shostakovich, Bruch, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff & Glinka. Stewart SAT. FEBRUARY b 7:~0 PM DANIEL RUBINOFF saxophone Original works plus music for the classical sax RedeeMER LurlieRAN C~uRdl 1 b91 BlooR ST. W. (KEele SubwAy) $ 1 0/_ SRS. OR STUdENTS - 964-829~ JOIN US FOR SOME JOLLY antt1in- 6ILBERT AND S, 75 The Toronto Consort presents _ontever~i's Vespers of 1610 _ in .-.-... .. : · · :St ~ Paul'~ -Anglican Chui-ch, Bloor 'and Jarvis · - Fri_day Februa~ryS, 1999 af 8 pm The Toronto Consort is pleased to be joined by an international group of singers and instrumentalists to recreate this supreme masterpiece of the early Baroque. Ann Monoyios, soprano Suzie LeBlanc, soprano Laura Pudwell, mezzo soprano Paul Elliott, tenor Alan Bennett, tenor David Arnot. tenor Paul Grindlay, bass John Pepper, bass Tracy Mortimore, violone Paul Jenkins, organ Terry McKenna, archlute Alison Melville, recorder Maxine Eilander, baroque harp Doug Kirk & Shawn Spicer, cornetto David Fallis, director David Greenberg & Genevieve Gilardeau, violins David Willms & Anthony Rapoport, violas Olga van Kranendonk, cello Gary Nagel, Cam Walters, Peter Collins, sackbuts Phone 964-6337 for tickets. TORONTO's ONLY COMPREHENSIVE CLASSICAL & CONTEMPORARY CONCERT LISTit\G SOURCE

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