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friendly adults. aud.don.mcleod@sympatico.ca Audrey McLeod: 416-497-5952 SHEVCHENKO ENSEMBLE The Shevchenko Choir, an integral part of the Shevchenko Musical Ensemble (mixed voice choir, mandolin orchestra and dancers) was formed in 1951. The current choir numbers about 35-40. Although its roots are in the Ukrainian community, the choir's repertoire consists of Ukrainian, Russian, Canadian and other folk songs, classical choruses and arias, and original Canadian works. Lyrics are written in phonetics for those who do not read cyrillic. In addition lo Ukrainian, members of the choir are Russian, Italian, Dutch, Jewish, Serbian, English, Scottish and more. Conductor is Alexander Veprinsky, and rehearsals are held Sunday mornings at Columbus Centre. Anyone wishing to join for 4-5 exciting performances a year are welcome to audition. info-sme@bellnet.ca Ginger Kaullo: 416-533-2725 www.geocities.com/shevchenko 1951 choir began as a ladies glee club and expanded to a full SATB chorus in 199 L Annual concerts are presented at Christmas and in spring with other events and functions throughout the year. Past highlights include performance at the Royal Bank's Seniors Jubilee Concert at Roy Thompson Hall, Sing-Along Messiah and Mozart's Requiem with the Georgian Bay Concert Choir. Weekly rehearsals are held Mondays at All Saints' Anglican Church, Collingwood under Director Velma Cook and accompanist Marion Willis. Repertoire is varied, including classical, sacred, folk songs, show tunes, with an emphasis on Canadian music. velma.cook@sympatico.ca Velma Cook: 705-445-0863 ST. ANDREWS ANGLICAN CHURCH CHOIR ( The adult.choir at St. Andrew's Anglican has been established for forty years. There are 25 members, all of whom read music, and most come from an Anglo-Catholic liturgical experience in the West Indies. The repertoire is extensive, and includes plainsong, and material written in the past 500 years, comprising many compositional styles. Choir rehearsals take SINGING OUT! SINGING OUT! under new Artistic place on Thursday evenings (8-10 pm), Director, Patrick Huang, is now in its, withonesungEucharislorChoralMatins 12th season - 'Toronto's oldest and on Sundays at lOa.m.Othercommitments largest Lesbian and Gay chorus. This include Advent and Easter Carol non-auditioned community chorus Services, Ash Wednesday. the Holy Week performs two major concerts each Liturgies, and extra Services observing season, in December and June, and major Feast Days. Director Edward maintains a strong presence in the Moroney explores the neglected corners LGBT community year at community of the repertoire, and the choir is events. The Ensemble is a smaller constantly challenged musically. version of the chorus for venues not standrewscarb@ca.inter.net large enough for the 80 .plus voices of Edward Moroney: 416-447-1481 the whole group. In 2002 we recorded our first CD, For ST. ANNE'S ANGLICAN CHURCH Love Must Have a Voice, and look CHOIR forward to second one soon. In July 2004 St. Anne's offers excellent liturgical Singing Out! will join 165 other lesbian and gay choruses at the GALA international Choral Festival in Montreal. (And, yes, we do weddings!) contacts@singingout.com Joan Jamieson: 416-515-0752 www.singingout.com SOUND INVESTMENT COMMUNITY CHOIR Sound Investment is in its 30th season with its 38 members from the Georgian Triangle area. This non-auditioned music in a fine acoustical space decorated by members of the Group of Seven. The choir consists of 20 adult singers SATB, who sing the Sunday Eucharist each week at 10:00 a.m., Evensong on the first Sunday of each month at 4:30 pm, and an annual concert with John Stephenson, Director. Recent repertoire has included works by Byrd, Daley; Gabrieli, Holman, Howells, Leighton, Sanders, and Stanford. Membership is by audition; musicreading skills important, rehearsals 7:30-9:45 pm on Thursdays. 270 Gladstone Avenue (one block East of Dufferin and North of Dundas). Easily accessible by car or TTC. pjhs@sympatico.ca John Stephenson: 416-767-7290 www.stannes.on.ca ST. CLEMENT'S ANGLICAN CHURCH CHOIRS The Psallam Spiritu Choir is a treble voice choir for boys and girls between the ages of 8-17 who lead the music at the 9: 15 am Sunday liturgy. Vocal training with emphasis on sightreading is given based on a program developed by the Royal School of Church. Rehearsals take place every Thursday led by Nora Feuten. We rehearse in our home, between St. George and Paris, and most of our work is unaccompanied. We expect singers to have some experience and to be able to read music. Our repertoire still includes madrigals, as well as folk songs, some modern music, as well as a Christmas program. We rehearse Monday evenings from September until mid-May. Most of the members have joined by invitation. We do not require a formal audition, but ii is necessary to do some screening for such a small group, since everyone is indispensable. Feuten.bluelake@sympatico.ca Nora Feutin: 519-442-7490 afternoon 4:30 - 5:30 pm from Septem- ST. JAMES' CATHEDRAL her to the end of May. The Senior Choir St. James' Cathedral has Canada's largest is an auditioned mixed-voice choir of church music program, comprising at about 25 singers that sing a wide range 1east three weekly choral services, 50 of sacred repertoire from plainsong to concerts a year, and some 120 professional music of the 2lsf century. The choir and' amateur musicians. Dedicated to sings at the 11 :00 am Sunday liturgy sacred music in the Anglican tradition and the occasional Choral Evensongs. at the highest possible standard, it Thomas Filches, Organist & Director of includes choirs for every age and ability. Music. · Men & Boys Choir sings Sundays 11 am, tfitches@stclements-church.org · 4:30 pm, and evensong twice a month, Thomas Filches: 416-483-6664 and at special services, concerts etc. www.stclements-church.org Parish Choir: a volunteer mixed-voice ST. ELIZABETH SCOLA CANTORUM Founded by Mr. George Zaduban in 1995, the St. Elizabeth Scola Cantorum is a chamber choir with a present membership of approximately 25 mixed voices. The repertoire consists mainly of unaccompanied sacred and secular music sung in Hungarian, Latin and English. December 29, 2003 marked the sad and untimely passing of Mr. Zaduban. Despite the tremendous loss, the choir remains dedicated in upholding and nurturing its rich and unique tradition under the artistic direction of Mr. Csaba Inokai. Future plans include continued participation in liturgical activities as well as upcoming concerts for the fall - winter season of 2004. For further information see below. pcsm@on.aibn.com Csabalnokai:905-67lcl069 korus@szenterzsebet.org ST. GEORGE PRO MUSICA The choir was formed in 1988 to perform unaccompanied church music and madrigals, and now numbers 16 singers choir for adults and children, sings the 9 am Sunday service. Choral Society: a 50-mixed-voice community choir dedicated to performing major sacred works prepares a season of concerts. St. James' Singers is an auditioned semiprofessional mixed-voice chamber choir performing sacred music of every age. Opportunities will exist for vocal leads in a number of the choirs for the 2004- 2005 season and will be held in August 2004. Those interested should contact Michal Bloss for application and rehearsal details. music@stjamescathedral.on.ca Michael Bloss at 416-364-7865, ext.231 www.stjamescathedral.on.ca ST. MARYS CHILDREN'S CHOIR AND FESTIVAL YOUTH SINGERS Now in its 23rd season, St. Mary's Children's Choir & Festival Youth Singers engages 100-120 children and youth in the St. Mary's, Stratford and surrounding area, ages 6 - 22 years, in the joy of making choral music. The programme includes vocal technique, sight reading, music theory; musicianship, choreography and drama. The 48 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COM May 1 - June 7 2004

epertoire is a mixture of sacred and secular. Choristers are divided into 4 TALLIS CHOIR choirs: Piccolo (as young as 6 years); The Tallis Choir looks forward to its 27th Brio (training); Presto (senior treble) season under musical director, Peter which is the main performing and touring Mahon. It is a semi-professional choir; and Festival Youth Singers (boys chamber choir specializing in, but not with changed voices, girls over 16). Choirs restricted to, music of the Renaissance. rehearseseparatelyeachweek m;Jdatlend Tallis Choir will be presenting a full joint rehearsals monthly. Chorister series of four concerts. Rehearsals are positions are still avoilable, by audition, held in Trinity College Chapel, on the U. for the upcoming season. · of T. campus on Wednesday evenings. email@stmaryschildrenschoir.ca To date, the choir has made 3 recordings: Eileen Baldwin: 519-284-3242 · Splendours of the High Renaissance, a www.stmaryschildrenschoir.ca Tudor Pageant and Music of Palestrina and Victoria. For further information or ST. SIMON-THE-APOSTLE CHOIRS St. Simon's Choir, founded in 1883, includes boys and girls aged 7 to 14, who sing with professional and volunteer voices. All children receive an outstanding musical education. In addition to singing a wide range of music on Sundays, choristers benefit from individual vocal tuition, an annual choir camp, regular performances with professional ensembles, and participation in occa'sional recordings and tours. The choir released two highly successful CDs this season. St. Simon's Church is located on Bloor Street, at Sherbourne, steps from She(bourne Subway. Rehearsals are held each week · during the school year. There is no fee for membership. All enquiries are most welcome. Thomas Bell is Director of Music. to arrange an audition, email: pmahon@trebnet.com Peter Mahon: 416-691-8621 www.tallischoir.com TEMPUS CHORAL SOCIETY A youth choir in the 1970s, Tempus reformed in 1999 as an SATB community choir with over 60 voices. Directed by Brian Turnbull Mus. Bae (Hons), B.Ed., an accomplished musician with several published works, our repertoire includes swing, Broadway, inspirational and contemporary, Members are 18+ years of age and we rehearse Tuesday evenings from 7:30 - 9:15 pm (September - June) at 262 Randall Street, Oakville. We conduct voice assessment for section placement only; and there is a one-time membership fee of to help defray the cost of stsimon@on.aibn.com music. Thomas Bell: 416-923 8174 x 208 info@tempuschoralsociety.com www.st-simon-the-apostle.ca Lorraine Tail: 905-501-5713 www.tempuschoralsociety.com T AFELMUSIK CHAMBER CHOIR The Tafelmusik Chamber Choir is a group of 24-28 singers specializing in 17th and 18th-centurymusic. Under the direction of I vars Taurins they explore issues o'! historical perfor~ance practice, and have developed a sound and style appropriate to the repertoire they perform. The Choir also has numerous award-winning recordings. Tafelmusik is located at Trinity-St. Paul's Centre (427 Bloor St. W.), and performances take place here and also at the George Weston Recital Hall (5040 Yonge St.). info@tafelmusik.org David Little: 416-964-9562 ext.226 www.tafelmusik.org TORONTO ACCOLADES OF HARMONY The Toronto Accolades of Harmony; Inc. is a 30 voice chorus of women who love to sing four-part a cappella harmony; which celebrated its 35 1 h anniversary in 2003. TAH is a member of Harmony; Inc., which is an international women's organization which donates a portion of proceeds to autism. We compete annually at Area Convention, with other choruses from Canada and the US. Throughout the year, we perform at a variety of venues including benefits, festivals, etc. The repertoire is wide ranging and includes many well known and well loved tunes. The Accolades rehearse on Thurs. evenings 7: 15 to 9:45 pm at Earl Bales Community Centre, !IBrmUitf Cfwra{ Cek6ration 4168 Bathurst St., just south of Sheppard Ave. map298@yahoo.ca Call Ellyn: 416-281-7925 TORONTO CANTATA CHORUS Established 5 years ago, The Toronto Cantata Chorus is a multi-ethnic choir that meets regularly on Monday evenings from 7:45 pm to lO:OOpm. Rehearsals are at Earl Haig Secondary High School, Yonge and Empress. Our repertoire includes Broadway hits, folk songs, oratorios, and works of Canadian Composers. Our final concert for this season includes a performance with the Canadian Sinfonietta performing Bach's Magnilicaf as well as a performance with the Salvation Army Festival Brass on June 13th. Our choir has been invited lo join the "Meet in Beijing" festival, May 2005. Recruitment for this lour starts now! We are an audition only choir. airan.lee@sympatico.ca Aileen Lee: 416-727-2100 TORONTO CHAMBER CHOIR David Fallis, a well-known expert in early music, is Music Director of the Toronto Chamber Choir. First established in 1968, the Toronto Chamber Choir's season includes four concerts featuring authentic performances of Baroque and Renaissance music, often paired with thematically related works from later periods. The 40-voice choir rehearses Monday nights from 7:30 to IO.pm in the church hall of St. Patrick's Church, at the corner of Dundas and McCaul Streets, with additional rehearsals prior to concerts. Singers with good sight reading ability may request an audition at any lime during the season. brettcrisp@rogers.com Heather Crisp: 416-699-8121 www.geocities.com/ torontochamberchoir TORONTO CHILDREN'S CHORUS Conducted by founding Artistic Director, Jean Ashworth Bartle, C.M., O.Ont. the rec is one of the world's foremost children's choirs. It has toured internationally, including the BBC Proms in London with conductor, Sir Simon Rattle. The TCC rehearses weekly Tuesdays and Fridays. In addition to the main Chorus, there are four training choirs, rehearsing weekly and presenting 4-6 concerts annually. New next season will be a West End training choir for new choristers only (Grades 3- 5). For auditions, please contact Amy Brewitt at 416-932-8666, ext. 231 or amy@torontochildrens chorus.com Performances next season include Ten Centuries of Song al the Glenn Gould Studio, A Chorus Christmas at RTH, Happy Birthday Eleanor Daley, and several guest performances (including with the TSO). heatherwood@torontochildrenschorus.com Heather Wood: 416-932-8666, x 223 viww.torontochildrenschorus.com TORONTO CHORAL SOCIETY COMMUNITY CHOIR The Toronto Choral Society was founded in 1845. The 90 member community choir is a non-auditioned choral group dedicated to enhancing the community by providing an opportunity for enthusiastic choristers to perform contemporary and traditional repertoire for Toronto audiences. Under the direction of Geoffrey Butler, the choir is currently running a three part series, entitled 'Toronto Mosaic', portraying !he history of Toronto. Our upcoming concert in June, 2004 features Carmina Burana. Performances include three concerts per year and benefit engagements. The Community Choir rehearses once a week on Wednesday evenings at Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth Ave., west of the Chester subway. New members are always welcome. michael.oliphant@rogers.com Deborah Micucci: 416-410-3509 www.lorontochor.alsociety.org TORONTO CHORISTERS James Maben directs this 100-voice choir which is now completing its 12th season. It consists mostly of retired employees from Boards of Education in the Toronto area. Repertoire is light and varied, from classical and modern. Rehearsqls are on Thursdays at 1:00 pm at Wilkinson Public School from October through May. There are no auditions for singers. Because the choir is so large, women wishing to join the choir will be placed on a wailing list, but men will be May 1 - June 7 2004 WWW.THEWHOlENOTE.COM 49

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Volume 26 Issue 1 - September 2020

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Choral Scene: Uncharted territory: three choirs finding paths forward; Music Theatre: Loose Tea on the boil with Alaina Viau’s Dead Reckoning; In with the New: what happens to soundart when climate change meets COVID-19; Call to action: diversity, accountability, and reform in post-secondary jazz studies; 9th Annual TIFF Tips: a filmfest like no other; Remembering: Leon Fleisher; DISCoveries: a NY state of mind; 25th anniversary stroll-through; and more. Online in flip through here, and on stands commencing Tues SEP 1.

Volume 26 Issue 2 - October 2020

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Following the Goldberg trail from Gould to Lang Lang; Measha Brueggergosman and Edwin Huizinga on face to face collaboration in strange times; diggings into dance as FFDN keeps live alive; "Classical unicorn?" - Luke Welch reflects on life as a Black classical pianist; Debashis Sinha's adventures in sound art; choral lessons from Skagit Valley; and the 21st annual WholeNote Blue Pages (part 1 of 3) in print and online. Here now. And, yes, still in print, with distribution starting Thursday October 1.

Volume 26 Issue 3 - November 2020

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Alanis Obomsawin's art of life; fifteen Exquisite Departures; UnCovered re(dis)covered; jazz in the kitchen; three takes on managing record releases in times of plague; baroque for babies; presenter directory (blue pages) part two; and, here at the WholeNote, work in progress on four brick walls (or is it five?). All this and more available in flipthrough HERE, and in print Tuesday Nov 3.

Volume 26 Issue 4 - December 2020 / January 2021

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In this issue: Beautiful Exceptions, Sing-Alone Messiahs, Livingston’s Vocal Pleasures, Chamber Beethoven, Online Opera (Plexiglass & All), Playlist for the Winter of our Discontent, The Oud & the Fuzz, Who is Alex Trebek? All this and more available in flipthrough HERE, and in print Friday December 4.

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Volume 25 Issue 9 - July / August 2020

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July/August issue is now available in flipthrough HERE, bringing to a close 25 seasons of doing what we do (and plan to continue doing), and on stands early in the week of July 5. Not the usual bucolic parade of music in the summer sun, but lots, we hope, to pass the time: links to online and virtual music; a full slate of record reviews; plenty new in the Listening Room; and a full slate of stories – the future of opera, the plight of small venues, the challenge facing orchestras, the barriers to resumption of choral life, the challenges of isolation for real-time music; the steps some festivals are taking to keep the spirit and substance of what they do alive. And intersecting with all of it, responses to the urgent call for anti-racist action and systemic change.

Volume 25 Issue 8 - May / June 2020

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"COVID's Metamorphoses"? "There's Always Time (Until Suddenly There Isn't)"? "The Writing on the Wall"? It's hard to know WHAT to call this latest chapter in the extraordinary story we are all of a sudden characters in. By whatever name we call it, the MAY/JUNE combined issue of The WholeNote is now available, HERE in flip through format, in print commencing Wednesday May 6, and, in fully interactive form, online at thewholenote.com. Our 18th Annual Choral Canary Pages, scheduled for publication in print and flip through in September is already well underway with the first 50 choirs home to roost and more being added every week online. Community Voices, our cover story, brings to you the thoughts of 30 musical community members, all going through what we are going through (and with many more to come as the feature gets amplified online over the course of the coming months). And our regular writers bring their personal thoughts to the mix. Finally, a full-fledged DISCoveries review section offers cues and clues to recorded music for your solitary solace!

Volume 25 Issue 7 - April 2020

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After some doubt that we would be allowed to go to press, in respect to wide-ranging Ontario business closures relating to COVID-19, The WholeNote magazine for April 2020 is now on press, and print distribution – modified to respect community-wide closures and the need for appropriate distancing – starts Monday March 30. Meanwhile the full magazine is right here, digitally, so if you value us PLEASE SHARE THIS LINK AS WIDELY AS YOU CAN. It's the safest way for us to reach the widest possible audience at this time!

Volume 25 Issue 6 - March 2020

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FEATURED: Music & Health writer Vivien Fellegi explores music, blindness & the plasticity of perception; David Jaeger digs into Gustavo Gimeno's plans for new music in his upcoming first season as music director at TSO; pianist James Rhodes, here for an early March recital, speaks his mind in a Q&A with Paul Ennis; and Lydia Perovic talks music and more with rising Turkish-Canadian mezzo Beste Kalender. Also, among our columns, Peggy Baker Dance Projects headlines Wende Bartley's In with the New; Steve Wallace's Jazz Notes rushes in definitionally where many fear to tread; ... and more.

Volume 25 Issue 5 - February 2020

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Visions of 2020! Sampling from back to front for a change: in Rearview Mirror, Robert Harris on the Beethoven he loves (and loves to hate!); Errol Gay, a most musical life remembered; Luna Pearl Woolf in focus in recordings editor David Olds' "Editor's Corner" and in Jenny Parr's preview of "Jacqueline"; Speranza Scappucci explains how not to reinvent Rossini; The Indigo Project, where "each piece of cloth tells a story"; and, leading it all off, Jully Black makes a giant leap in "Caroline, or Change." And as always, much more. Now online in flip-through format here and on stands starting Thurs Jan 30.

Volume 25 Issue 4 - December 2019 / January 2020

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Welcome to our December/January issue as we turn the annual calendar page, halfway through our season for the 25th time, juggling as always, secular stuff, the spirit of the season, new year resolve and winter journeys! Why is Mozart's Handel's Messiah's trumpet a trombone? Why when Laurie Anderson offers to fly you to the moon you should take her up on the invitation. Why messing with Winterreisse can (sometimes) be a very good thing! And a bumper crop of record reviews for your reading (and sometimes listening) pleasure. Available in flipthrough here right now, and on stands commencing Thursday Nov 28. See you on the other side!

Volume 25 Issue 3 - November 2019

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On the slim chance you might not have already heard the news, Estonian Canadian composing giant Udo Kasemets was born the same year that Leo Thermin invented the theremin --1919. Which means this is the centenary year for both of them, and both are being celebrated in style, as Andrew Timar and MJ Buell respectively explain. And that's just a taste of a bustling November, with enough coverage of music of both the delectably substantial and delightfully silly on hand to satisfy one and all.

Volume 25 Issue 2 - October 2019

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Long promised, Vivian Fellegi takes a look at Relaxed Performance practice and how it is bringing concert-going barriers down across the spectrum; Andrew Timar looks at curatorial changes afoot at the Music Gallery; David Jaeger investigates the trumpets of October; the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution (and the 20th Anniversary of our October Blue Pages Presenter profiles) in our Editor's Opener; the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir at 125; Tapestry at 40 and Against the Grain at 10; ringing in the changing season across our features and columns; all this and more, now available in Flip Through format here, and on the stands commencing this coming Friday September 27, 2019. Enjoy.

Volume 25 Issue 1 - September 2019

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Vol 1 of our 25th season is now here! And speaking of 25, that's how many films in the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival editor Paul Ennis, in our Eighth Annual TIFF TIPS, has chosen to highlight for their particular musical interest. Also inside: Rob Harris looks through the Rear View Mirror at past and present prognostications about the imminent death of classical music; Mysterious Barricades and Systemic Barriers are Lydia Perović's preoccupations in Art of Song; Andrew Timar reflects on the evolving priorities of the Polaris Prize; and elsewhere, it's chocks away as yet another season creaks or roars (depending on the beat) into motion. Welcome back.

Volume 24 Issue 9 - June / July / August 2019

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Volume 24 Issue 8 - May 2019

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What a range of stuff! A profile of Liz Upchurch, the COC ensemble studio's vocal mentor extraordinaire; a backgrounder on win-win faith/arts centre partnerships and ways of exploring the possibilities; an interview with St. Petersburg-based Eifman Ballet's Boris Eifman; Ana Sokolovic's violin concert Evta finally coming to town; a Love Letter to YouTube, and much more. Plus our 17th annual Canary Pages Choral directory if all you want to do is sing! sing! sing!

Volume 24 Issue 7 - April 2019

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Arraymusic, the Music Gallery and Native Women in the Arts join for a mini-festival celebrating the work of composer, performer and installation artist Raven Chacon; Music and Health looks at the role of Healing Arts Ontario in supporting concerts in care facilities; Kingston-based composer Marjan Mozetich's life and work are celebrated in film; "Forest Bathing" recontextualizes Schumann, Shostakovich and Hindemith; in Judy Loman's hands, the harp can sing; Mahler's Resurrection bursts the bounds of symphonic form; Ed Bickert, guitar master remembered. All this and more in our April issue, now online in flip-through here, and on stands commencing Friday March 29.

Volume 24 Issue 6 - March 2019

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Something Old, Something New! The Ide(a)s of March are Upon Us! Rob Harris's Rear View Mirror looks forward to a tonal revival; Tafelmusik expands their chronological envelope in two directions, Esprit makes wave after wave; Pax Christi's new oratorio by Barbara Croall catches the attention of our choral and new music columnists; and summer music education is our special focus, right when warm days are once again possible to imagine. All this and more in our March 2019 edition, available in flipthrough here, and on the stands starting Thursday Feb 28.

Volume 24 Issue 5 - February 2019

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In this issue: A prize that brings lustre to its laureates (and a laureate who brings lustre to the prize); Edwin Huizinga on the journey of Opera Atelier's "The Angel Speaks" from Versailles to the ROM; Danny Driver on playing piano in the moment; Remembering Neil Crory (a different kind of genius)' Year of the Boar, Indigeneity and Opera; all this and more in Volume 24 #5. Online in flip through, HERE and on the stands commencing Thursday Jan 31.

Volume 24 Issue 4 - December 2018 / January 2019

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When is a trumpet like a motorcycle in a dressage event? How many Brunhilde's does it take to change an Elektra? Just two of the many questions you've been dying to ask, to which you will find answers in a 24th annual combined December/January issue – in which our 11 beat columnists sift through what's on offer in the upcoming holiday month, and what they're already circling in their calendars for 2019. Oh, and features too: a klezmer violinist breathing new life into a very old film; two New Music festivals in January, 200 metres apart; a Music & Health story on the restorative powers of a grassroots exercise in collective music-making; even a good reason to go to Winnipeg in the dead of winter. All this and more in Vol 24 No 4, now available in flipthrough format here.

Volume 24 Issue 3 - November 2018

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Reluctant arranger! National Ballet Orchestra percussionist Kris Maddigan on creating the JUNO and BAFTA award-winning smash hit Cuphead video game soundtrack; Evergreen by name and by nature, quintessentially Canadian gamelan (Andrew Timar explains); violinist Angèle Dubeau on 20 years and 60 million streams; two children’s choirs where this month remembrance and living history must intersect. And much more, online in our kiosk now, and on the street commencing Thursday November 1.

Volume 24 Issue 2 - October 2018

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Presenters, start your engines! With TIFF and "back-to-work" out of the way, the regular concert season rumbles to life, and, if our Editor's Opener can be trusted, "Seeking Synergies" seems to be the name of the game. Denise Williams' constantly evolving "Walk Together Children" touching down at the Toronto Centre for the Arts; the second annual Festival of Arabic Music and Arts expanding its range; a lesson in Jazz Survival with Steve Wallace; the 150 presenter and performer profiles in our 19th annual Blue Pages directory... this is an issue that is definitely more than the sum of its parts.

Volume 24 Issue 1 - September 2018

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In this issue: The WholeNote's 7th Annual TIFF TIPS guide to festival films with musical clout; soprano Erin Wall in conversation with Art of Song columnist Lydia Perovic, about more than the art of song; a summer's worth of recordings reviewed; Toronto Chamber Choir at 50 (is a few close friends all it takes?); and much more, as the 2018/19 season gets under way.

Volume 23 Issue 9 - June / July / August 2018

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PLANTING NOT PAVING! In this JUNE / JULY /AUGUST combined issue: Farewell interviews with TSO's Peter Oundjian and Stratford Summer Music's John Miller, along with "going places" chats with Luminato's Josephine Ridge, TD Jazz's Josh Grossman and Charm of Finches' Terry Lim. ) Plus a summer's worth of fruitful festival inquiry, in the city and on the road, in a feast of stories and our annual GREEN PAGES summer Directory.

Volume 23 Issue 8 - May 2018

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In this issue: our sixteenth annual Choral Canary Pages; coverage of 21C, Estonian Music Week and the 3rd Toronto Bach Festival (three festivals that aren’t waiting for summer!); and features galore: “Final Finales” for Larry Beckwith’s Toronto Masque Theatre and for David Fallis as artistic director of Toronto Consort; four conductors on the challenges of choral conducting; operatic Hockey Noir; violinist Stephen Sitarski’s perspective on addressing depression; remembering bandleader, composer and saxophonist Paul Cram. These and other stories, in our May 2018 edition of the magazine.

Volume 23 Issue 7 - April 2018

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In this issue: we talk with jazz pianist Thompson Egbo-Egbo about growing up in Toronto, building a musical career, and being adaptive to change; pianist Eve Egoyan prepares for her upcoming Luminato project and for the next stage in her long-term collaborative relationship with Spanish-German composer Maria de Alvear; jazz violinist Aline Homzy, halfway through preparing for a concert featuring standout women bandleaders, talks about social equity in the world of improvised music; and the local choral community celebrates the life and work of choral conductor Elmer Iseler, 20 years after his passing.

Volume 23 Issue 6 - March 2018

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In this issue: Canadian Stage, Tapestry Opera and Vancouver Opera collaborate to take Gogol’s short story The Overcoat to the operatic stage; Montreal-based Sam Shalabi brings his ensemble Land of Kush, and his newest composition, to Toronto; Five Canadian composers, each with a different CBC connection, are nominated for JUNOs; and The WholeNote team presents its annual Summer Music Education Directory, a directory of summer music camps, programs and courses across the province and beyond.

Volume 23 Issue 5 - February 2018

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Volume 23 Issue 4 - December 2017 / January 2018

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In this issue: composer Nicole Lizée talks about her love for analogue equipment, and the music that “glitching” evokes; Richard Rose, artistic director at the Tarragon Theatre, gives us insights into their a rock-and-roll Hamlet, now entering production; Toronto prepares for a mini-revival of Schoenberg’s music, with three upcoming shows at New Music Concerts; and the local music theatre community remembers and celebrates the life and work of Mi’kmaq playwright and performer Cathy Elliott . These and other stories, in our double-issue December/January edition of the magazine.

Volume 23 Issue 3 - November 2017

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In this issue: conversations (of one kind or another) galore! Daniela Nardi on taking the reins at "best-kept secret" venue, 918 Bathurst; composer Jeff Ryan on his "Afghanistan" Requiem for a Generation" partnership with war poet, Susan Steele; lutenist Ben Stein on seventeenth century jazz; collaborative pianist Philip Chiu on going solo; Barbara Hannigan on her upcoming Viennese "Second School" recital at Koerner; Tina Pearson on Pauline Oliveros; and as always a whole lot more!

Volume 23 Issue 2 - October 2017

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In this issue: several local artists reflect on the memory of composer Claude Vivier, as they prepare to perform his music; Vancouver gets ready to host international festival ISCM World New Music Days, which is coming to Canada for the second time since its inception in 1923; one of the founders of Artword Artbar, one of Hamilton’s staple music venues, on the eve of the 5th annual Steel City Jazz Festival, muses on keeping urban music venues alive; and a conversation with pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, as he prepares for an ambitious recital in Toronto. These and other stories, in our October 2017 issue of the magazine.

Volume 23 Issue 1 - September 2017

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In this issue: a look at why musicians experience stage fright, and how to combat it; an inside look at the second Kensington Market Jazz Festival, which zeros in on one of Toronto’s true ‘music villages’; an in-depth interview with Elisa Citterio, new music director of Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra; and The WholeNote’s guide to TIFF, with suggestions for the 20 most musical films at this year’s festival. These and other stories, in our September 2017 issue of the magazine!

Volume 22 Issue 9 - Summer 2017

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CBC Radio's Lost Horizon; Pinocchio as Po-Mo Operatic Poster Boy; Meet the Curators (Crow, Bernstein, Ridge); a Global Music Orchestra is born; and festivals, festivals, festivals in our 13th annual summer music Green Pages. All this and more in our three-month June-through August summer special issue, now available in flipthrough HERE and on the stands commencing Thursday June 1.

Volume 22 Issue 8 - May 2017

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From science fact in "Integral Man: Music and the Movies," to science fiction in the editor's opener; from World Fiddle Day at the Aga Khan Museum to three Canadians at the Cliburn; from wanting to sashay across the 401 to Chamberfest in Montreal to exploring the Continuum of Jumblies Theatre's 20-year commitment to the Community Play (there's a pun in there somewhere!).

Volume 22 Issue 7 - April 2017

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In this issue: Our podcast ramps up with interviews in March with fight director Jenny Parr, countertenor Daniel Taylor, and baritone Russell Braun; two views of composer John Beckwith at 90; how music’s connection to memory can assist with the care of patients with Alzheimer’s; musical celebrations in film and jazz, at National Canadian Film Day and Jazz Day; and a preview of Louis Riel, which opens this month at the COC. These and other stories, in our April 2017 issue of the magazine!

Volume 22 Issue 6 - March 2017

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Volume 22 Issue 5 - February 2017

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In this issue: an interview with composer/vocalist Jeremy Dutcher, on his upcoming debut album and unique compositional voice; a conversation with Boston Symphony hornist James Sommerville, as as the BSO gets ready to come to his hometown; Stuart Hamilton, fondly remembered; and an inside look at Hugh’s Room, as it enters a complicated chapter in the story of its life in the complex fabric of our musical city. These and other stories, as we celebrate the past and look forward to the rest of 2016/17, the first glimpses of 2017/18, and beyond!

Volume 22 Issue 4 - December 2016/January 2017

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In this issue: a conversation with pianist Stewart Goodyear, in advance of his upcoming show at Koerner Hall; a preview of the annual New Year’s phenomenon that is Bravissimo!/Salute to Vienna; an inside look at music performance in Toronto’s health-care centres; and a reflection on the incredible life and lasting influence of the late Pauline Oliveros. These and more, in a special December/January combined issue!

Volume 22 Issue 3 - November 2016

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Volume 22 Issue 2 - October 2016

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In this issue: David Jaeger and Alex Pauk’s most memorable R. Murray Schafer collabs, in this month’s installment of Jaeger’s CBC Radio Two: The Living Legacy; an interview with flutist Claire Chase, who brings new music and mindset to Toronto this month; an investigation into the strange coincidence of three simultaneous Mendelssohn Elijahs this Nov 5; and of course, our annual Blue Pages, a who’s who of southern Ontario’s live music scene- a community as prolific and multifaceted as ever. These and more, as we move full-force into the 2016/17 concert season- all aboard!

Volume 22 Issue 1 - September 2016

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Music lover's TIFF (our fifth annual guide to the Toronto International Film Festival); Aix Marks the Spot (how Brexit could impact on operatic co-production); The Unstoppable Howard Cable (an affectionate memoir of a late chapter in the life of of a great Canadian arranger; Kensington Jazz Story (the newest kid on the festival block flexes its muscles). These stories and much more as we say a lingering goodbye to summer and turn to the task, for the 22nd season, of covering the live and recorded music that make Southern Ontario tick.

Volume 21 Issue 9 - Summer 2016

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It's combined June/July/August summer issue time with, we hope, enough between the covers to keep you dipping into it all through the coming lazy, hazy days. From Jazz Vans racing round "The Island" delivering pop-up brass breakouts at the roadside, to Bach flute ambushes strolling "The Grove, " to dozens of reasons to stay in the city. May yours be a summer where you find undiscovered musical treasures, and, better still, when, unexpectedly, the music finds you.

Volume 21 Issue 8 - May 2016

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INSIDE: The Canaries Are Here! 116 choirs to choose from, so take the plunge! The Nylons hit the road after one last SING! Fling. Jazz writer Steve Wallace wonders "Watts Goode" rather than "what's new?" Paul Ennis has the musical picks of the HotDocs crop. David Jaeger's CBC Radio continues golden for a little while yet. Douglas McNabney is Music's Child. Leipzig meets Damascus in Alison Mackay's fertile imagination. And "C" is for KRONOS in Wende Bartley's koverage of the third annual 21C Festival. All this and as usual much much more. Enjoy.

Volume 21 Issue 7 - April 2016

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Volume 21 Issue 6 - March 2016

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From 30 camp profiles to spark thoughts of being your summer musical best, to testing LUDWIG as you while away the rest of so-called winter; from Scottish Opera and the Danish Midtvest, to a first Toronto recital appearance by violin superstar Maxim Vengerov; from musings on New Creations and new creation, to the boy who made a habit of crying Beowulf; it's a month of merry meetings and rousing recordings reviewed, all here to discover in The WholeNote.

Volume 21 Issue 5 - February 2016

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2016 is off to a flying start! We chronicle the Artful Times of Andrew Burashko, the violistic versatility of Teng Li, the ageless ebullience of jazz pianist Gene DiNovi and the ninetieth birthday of trumpeter Johnny Cowell. Jaeger remembers Boulez; Waxman recalls Bley's influence, and Olds finds Bowie haunting Editor's Corner. Oh, and did we mention there's all that music? Hello (and goodbye) to the February blues, and here's to swinging through the musical vines of the Year of the Monkey.

Volume 21 Issue 4 - December 2015/January 2016

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What's a vinyl renaissance? What happens when Handel's Messiah runs afoul of the rumba rhythm setting on a (gasp!) Hammond organ? What work does Marc-Andre Hamelin say he would be content to have on every recital program he plays? What are Steve Wallace's favourite fifty Christmas recordings? Why is violinist Daniel Hope celebrating Yehudi Menuhin's 100th birthday at Koerner Hall January 28? Answers to all these questions (and a whole lot more) in the Dec/Jan issue of The WholeNote.

Volume 21 Issue 3 - November 2015

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"Come" seems to be the verb that knits this month's issue together. Sondra Radvanovsky comes to Koerner, William Norris comes to Tafel as their new GM, opera comes to Canadian Stage; and (a long time coming!) Jane Bunnett's musicianship and mentorship are honoured with the Premier's award for excellence; plus David Jaeger's ongoing series on the golden years of CBC Radio Two, Andrew Timar on hybridity, a bumper crop of record reviews and much much more. Come on in!

Volume 21 Issue 2 - October 2015

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Vol 21 No 2 is now available for your viewing pleasure, and it's a bumper crop, right at the harvest moon. First ever Canadian opera on the Four Seasons Centre main stage gets double coverage with Wende Bartley interviewing Pyramus and Thisbe composer Barbara Monk Feldman and Chris Hoile connecting with director Christopher Alden; Paul Ennis digs into the musical mind of pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, and pianist Eve Egoyan is "On the Record" in conversation with publisher David Perlman ahead of the Oct release concert for her tenth recording. And at the heart of it all the 16th edition of our annual BLUE PAGES directory of presenters profile the season now well and truly under way.

Volume 21 Issue 1 - September 2015

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Paul Ennis's annual TIFF TIPS (27 festival films of potential particular musical interest); Wu Man, Yo-Yo Ma and Jeffrey Beecher on the Silk Road; David Jaeger on CBC Radio Music in the days it was committed to commissioning; the LISTENING ROOM continues to grow on line; DISCoveries is back, bigger than ever; and Mary Lou Fallis says Trinity-St. Paul's is Just the Spot (especially this coming Sept 25!).