{"id":10900,"date":"2013-03-25T07:45:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T12:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=10900"},"modified":"2013-03-25T07:45:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T12:45:23","slug":"critics-picks-toronto-concerts-for-march-25-to-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2013\/03\/25\/critics-picks-toronto-concerts-for-march-25-to-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Critic\u2019s Picks: Toronto concerts for March 25 to 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONDAY<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The music of Christos Hatzis at Walter Hall, 7 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The well-established Gryphon Trio and the upstart TorQ Percussion Quartet are but two sets of many proponents of University of Toronto composition professor Christos Hatzis&#8217;s creations.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Even more importantly, he has stimulated many creative minds, paying forward his love of music that speaks eloquently to a culturally diverse, historically eclectic culture. The Gryphons and the Penderecki String Quartet return the favour both ways, by performing works of Hatzis&#8217;, as well as premiering a new work by one of his students. You&#8217;ll find the details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.music.utoronto.ca\/events\/calendar\/mec0325.htm?ViewMode=View&amp;DateTime=634998348000000000&amp;PageMode=View\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TUESDAY<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Songs of Benjamin Britten presented by University of Toronto students at the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, noon. Free.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The performers are students, but the music is by a master whose centenary we celebrate this year. This hour of music includes a wide range of Britten&#8217;s vocal settings, accompanied on the piano. You can see the full programme <a href=\"http:\/\/the-coc.s3.amazonaws.com\/pdfs\/concert130326.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Duo Les Amis (violinist Lynn Kuo and pianist Marianna Humetska) at Gallery 345, 8 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These two passionate young musicians have put together a mix of serious and fun for this convivial, intimate space, including C\u00e9sar Franck&#8217;s great A Major <em>Sonata<\/em> and a concert fantasy on George Gershwin&#8217;s <em>Porgy and Bess<\/em>, with detours via Nino Rota and Astor Piazzolla. You&#8217;ll find the details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallery345.com\/performances.php\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WEDNESDAY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/03\/keillor.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11114\" alt=\"keillor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/03\/keillor.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/03\/keillor.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/03\/keillor-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elaine Keillor launches her survey of Canadian piano music at Chalmers House, 4:30 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This veteran Ottawa-based performer and musicologist has recorded a significant survey of Canadian music for solo piano, covering the earliest colonial days to the present. Issued by the Canadian Music Centre&#8217;s Centrediscs label, the box set gets its official launch, with a short performance by Keillor in the organization&#8217;s new concert space. Details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musiccentre.ca\/calendar\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. You can read my take on the album and its music <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicaltoronto.org\/2012\/10\/18\/our-music-is-not-canadian-just-made-in-canada\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THURSDAY<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pianist Tony Yike Yang at the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, noon. Free.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This diminutive 14-year-old who has been studying with James Anagnoson at the Glenn Gould School is making his mark in junior competitions &#8212; but plays more like a grown-up. His hour-long lunchtime programme is a great way to check him out with Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin and Ginastera. You&#8217;ll find all the details <a href=\"http:\/\/the-coc.s3.amazonaws.com\/pdfs\/concert130328.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here he is at the ripe age of 12 playing Beethoven&#8217;s C-minor <em>Variations<\/em>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/erQvrrwktMM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Esprit Orchestra at Koerner Hall, 8 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The country&#8217;s only orchestra devoted to new music closes its 30th season with two premieres as well as some crowd-pleasing stuff, like Jimi Hendrix&#8217;s <em>Purple Haze<\/em>. The guest soloists are sax powerhouse Wallace Halladay and percussionist Ryan Scott. You&#8217;ll find all the details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espritorchestra.com\/buytickets\/concert4.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FRIDAY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are two great ways to enjoy serious reflective time in great sacred spaces:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two magnificent French Requiems at Metropolitan United, 7:30 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>French baroque composer Jean Gilles wrote a gorgeous setting of the <em>Requiem<\/em> that I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ve ever heard in Toronto. It is paired with a 20th century masterpiece setting of the same text by Maurice Durufl\u00e9 &#8212; both ideally suited to this big, resonant space. The organist is very talented young Nova Scotian Sarah Svendsen, and the church&#8217;s music masters rounded up a fine set of soloists and instrumentalists. You&#8217;ll find more details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metunited.org\/jmv2\/index.php\/programs-events\/music\/music-concerts\/662-annual-good-friday-concert\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Durufl\u00e9 <em>Requiem<\/em> is one of my favourite pieces of 20th century French music &#8212; and the setting by Gilles is one of my favourite pieces of French baroque music, written by a composer who spent his life in southern France, outside the Parisian circle of influence. He died a month after his 37th birthday. Here is a performance of his <em>Requiem, <\/em>so loved in its day that it was dusted off for King Louis XV&#8217;s funeral nearly 70 years after Gilles&#8217; death. It is performed here by the Concert Spirituel, conducted by Herv\u00e9 Niquet:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SO6UHu1SCmk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Toronto Mendelssohn Choir at St Paul&#8217;s Basilica, 7:30 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As is now tradition, the city&#8217;s venerable choral society presents meditative music in this gorgeous architectural and acoustic space. Most of it is unaccompanied, including <em>Pope Marcellus Mass<\/em> by Palestrina and the famous <em>Miserere<\/em> Psalm setting by Allegri. The choir likes to mix new and old, so the evening includes the premiere of a new setting of the text &#8220;God So Loved the World&#8221; by Timothy Corlis. You&#8217;ll find all the details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmchoir.org\/tmcPerformances\/sacred-music.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SATURDAY<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I Furiosi at Windermere United Church, 8 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Toronto&#8217;s bad boys and girls of the baroque play host to Tafelmusik bass player Alison Mackay in a concert they&#8217;ve titled The Down-Low. There&#8217;s a whiff of extra detail <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifuriosi.com\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SUNDAY<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Schola Cantorum and Theatre of Early Music at Trinity College Chapel, 7:30 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Countertenor Daniel Taylor has been sharing his huge expertise in early Music and baroque performance with students at University of Toronto&#8217;s Faculty of Music. During this, his first academic year at UofT, Taylor set up the Schola Cantorium, which gives its end-of-year recital of sacred choal works with a couple of members of Taylor&#8217;s own Theatre of Early Music in this beautifully austere space. A few more details <a href=\"http:\/\/performance.rcmusic.ca\/event\/university-toronto-faculty-music-presentsbru-t-schola-cantorum-0\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONDAY The music of Christos Hatzis at Walter Hall, 7 p.m. The well-established Gryphon Trio and the upstart TorQ Percussion Quartet are but two sets of many proponents of University of Toronto composition professor Christos Hatzis&#8217;s creations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,74,10,76,19,36,38,44,46,47,53,57,63,1,68,70],"tags":[6451,6455,1454,2065,6474],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/03\/keillor.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-2PO","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10900"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=10900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}