Volume 7 Issue 1 - September 2001

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BAROQ!JE MASTERWORKS A rich selection of music from the great baroque masters - Bach, Vivaldi, Telemann and Handel- played by Canada's acclaimed orchestra on period instruments. W EDNESDAY NIC!I'I 0 SERI.S SI'ONSOIIW IIY lu

CONTENTS VOlUME 7 #1 •!• SEPTEMBER 1 TO OCTOBER 31 2001 Toronto's only comprehensive monthly classical and contemporary concert listing source Volume 7 #1 Sept. 1 to Oct. 7, 2001 Copyright (c) 2001 PerPul Proze, 60 Bellevue Avenue, Toronto, ON M5T 2N4 Publisher: Allan Pulker, Editor: David Perlman Production Manager: Peter Hobbs CD Review Editor: David Olds listings: Simone Desilets, Karen Ages Webmaster: Colin Puffer Layout & Design: David Perlman, Verity Hobbs, Michael Busija, Cover by Rocket Design Photography: Den Ciul, Ron Devries (cover) Advertising: Allan Pulkei, Karen Ages Distribution Manager: Ken Larone Contributing Writers: IR~n..!•hn,.-1· Merlin Williams; Choral: Larry Beckwith; DtscovERJ~s: Den Ciul, Daniel Foley, Dawn Lyons, Pamela Margles, Veronica Materi, Deborah Rosen, Bruce Surtees, Dianne Wells; Early Music: Frank Nakashima; Hear & Now: Paul Steenhuisen; jazz: jim Galloway; Music Theatre: Sarah B. Hood; Features: Allan Pulker, Paul Steenhuisen. Distributors: Chris Dempniak, Seth Feldman, jack Green how, Rhona )ones, joe Leering, Sheila McCoy, Laszlo loth, John Woolfrey HOW TO REACH US Advertising and Membership Allan Pulker, Karen Ages ph 416-323-2232, fax 416-926-7539 listings, Unclassified Ads: Simone Desilets ph 416-323-2232, fax 416-926-7539 Editorial: David Perlman ph 416-603-3786 fax 416-603-3 787 Discoveries (Cd Reviews): David Olds 416 535 7740 Subscriptions: Faiza Ansari Phone: 416-469-211 7 (/year + G5T) All E-mail: info@thewholenote.corn DEADLINES: Next issue is Volume 7 #2, October 2001 (covering events October 1 to November 7) Season Profiles/Memberships: 6pm Monday September 10 Free listings: 6pm Saturday September 15 Advertising reservations: Display ads: 6pm Tuesday, September 18 Unclassifieds: Thursday September 20 Publication: Thursday, September 27 Printing by Couto Printing and Publishing SeJVices Circulation: 25,000 The Whole Note has applied to CCAB for a circulation audit. CANADIAN PUBLICATIONS MAIL PRO DUCT SALES AGREEMENT 1263846 ISSN 1488-8777 WHOLENOTE (PRINT) ISSN 14888-8785 WHO LENOTE We acknowledge the financial support of the Governme nt of Canada, through the Canada Magazine Fund, toward our editorial costs. www.thewholenote.com The St. Lawrence String Quartet Cover story by Allan Pulker 13 R. Murray Schafer interviewed Composer to com!)Oser by Paul Steenhuisen 14 The Mozart Society's Peter Sandor (r) pictured here with lsabel Bayrakdarian, will be remembered Sept 25. See Overview. Overview by A/fan Pulker 6 Early Music by Frank Nakashima 6 Choral Scene by Larry Beckwith 8 Hear and Now by Paul Steenhuisen 1 0 Jazz Notes by )im Galloway 11 Band Stand by Merlin Wil/iams 12 Music Theatre Spotlight by Sarah B. Hood 16 Jazz 11 Music Theatre 16 Concert Listings (GTA) 22-26 Concert Listings (Further Afield) 26-2 7 Etcetera File 28 Music Education (advertising feature) 28-31 (Un)classified Advertising 31 Acrobat Music 34 Amadeus Choir 19 . Amici 24 Audio Group 32 Be There Do That Happenings 8 Calvin Presbyterian Church 24 CAM MAC 9 CMC CD Boutique 38 Cathedral Bluffs Symphony 18 · CBC OnStage 20,21 Choirs Ontario 23 Chorale Adagio of Markham 31 Classical 96 FM 4 Claviers Baroques 8 Commensal, le 13 Concerts at St. George's 27 Dance Oremus Danse 7 David Tamblyn 15 Deer Park United Church 8 Earshot 23 Elmer lseler Singers 18 EMI13 Esprit Orchestra 2,3 Exultate Chamber Singers 17 Faculty of Music, U. ofT. 17 INDEX OF ADVERTISERS Gary Armstrong Woodwinds Ltd. 12 Genevi~ve Soly 25 George Heinl 6 Grace Under Press 31 Heliconian Hall 31 Huggett Family Studios 30 lain Scott 30 James Sugg 31 Jazz FM9111 lena Auclair 31 les Amis Concerts 25 long & McOuade 12 Megacity Chorus 9 Mikrokosmos 32 Mississauga Choral Society 10 Montgomery Sound 32 Mooredale Concerts 24 Music Appreciation with Rick Phillips 29 Music Chamber 34 Music Mondays 22 Music Toronto 7 Newmarket Voice Festival 9 Nora Maidan 30 North Toronto Institute of Music 29 Proudly announcing ... pages 32-39 lotsclll Arraymusic artistic director Michael J. Baker died of leukemia last year. Sept 16 Arraymusic and the Music Gallery mark the anniversary of Baker's passing with a memorial concert, including excerpts from the multi-disciplinary work Big Pictures, reviewed here this month. DISC(s). OF THE MONTH -Mahler: Symphony No. 9, Vienna Philharmonic (Waiter); New York Philharmonic (Bernstein) NEW RELEASES ,...Forgotten Songs, Forgotten loves: Nielsen, Kortgaard - Transcendentalliszt: Janina Fialkowska -Violons d'Enfer/tnfernal Violins: Ang~le Dubeau -Don Giovanni: Leporello's Revenge: Dmitri Hvorostovsky -Constantinople: Kiya Tabassian CONCERT PREPARATION -Michael J. Baker: Big Pictures: Barbara Hannigan, Arraymusic -Oiivier Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time: Amici -R. Murray Schafer: Patria: The Schafer Ensemble -Aiban Berg: Violin Concerto: Anne·Sophie Mutter -Schoenberg: Erwartung: Giuseppe Sinopoli -J.S. Bach: Obbligato Harpsichord Sonatas: Genevi~ve Soly -Prayers: Sumi Jo ' WORTH llfPEATING -Folia . Canadian Woodwind Quintets: The York Winds -Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky: Alban Berg Ouartett -Sibelius • 2nd Symphony/Beethoven • 5th Symphony: Concertgebouw, George Szell INDEPENDENT -Retrospectives Vol. 1: Antonin Kubalek, piano -American Dreaming: Marc Couroux, piano SEPTEMBER 1, 2001 - O cTOBER 7, 2001 I North York Suzuki School 3D Ont Christian Music Assembly 27 Orpheus Choir of Toronto 17 Peros Music 33 Philip l. Davis luthier 15 Ouentin Playfair 15 RCM BookStore 39 Remenyi House of Music 37 Royal Conservatory of Music 26,28 Shar Music 39 Shelly Berger 29 Sinfonia Toronto 19 Sound Post 6 St. James' Cathedral 22 Tafelmusik 4 Toronto Camerata 9 Toronto Centre for the Arts 40 Toronto Early Music Centre 23 Toronto Mendelssohn Choir 9 University Settlement Music 30 Vocal Art Forum 26,29 Voice & Piano Lessons 31 Women's Musical Club of Toronto 17 York Highlands Chorus 31 wholenote 5