The Toronto Symphony Orchestra will be hitting the bricks this April on a mini tour with stops in Montreal and Ottawa.
They will be touring with what looks like a fantastic program conducted by Music Director, Peter Oundjian.
It opens with the Canadian première of Juno Award-winning Canadian composer, Vivian Fung’s Aqua, a piece inspired by the architectural design of Chicago’s 82-story skyscraper Aqua Tower.
American pianist, Richard Goode will join the TSO to perform Mozart’s charming Piano Concerto No. 17, which Mozart cheekily described as being “written in such a way that the less learned cannot fail to be pleased, though without knowing why.”
Goode will share the program with TSO Concertmaster Jonathan Crow, who will performed Richard Strauss’s tone poem, Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life), which can be described as the depiction of the struggle between the individual and his outer and inner worlds, and the profundity of domestic love.
This entire programme will also be presented in Toronto on April 11 and 12 at Roy Thomson Hall.
Details on their mini tour to Montreal and Ottawa here:
Maison Symphonique de Montreal, 1600 Saint-Urbain, Montreal
Tuesday, April 8, 2014, 8pm
National Arts Centre Southam Hall, 53 Elgin St, Ottawa
Wednesday, April 9, 2014, 8pm
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In August 2014, the TSO will embark on another more substantial tour in Europe, with stops in Austria, The Netherlands, Germany, Finland, and Iceland. The tour features acclaimed Canadian violinist James Ehnes and distinguished German composer and clarinetist Jörg Widmann as soloists.
Michael Vincent
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