{"id":11175,"date":"2013-04-03T06:25:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T11:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=11175"},"modified":"2013-04-03T06:25:03","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T11:25:03","slug":"denis-mastromonaco-is-mississauga-symphonys-first-new-music-director-in-35-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2013\/04\/03\/denis-mastromonaco-is-mississauga-symphonys-first-new-music-director-in-35-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Denis Mastromonaco is Mississauga Symphony&#8217;s first new music director in 35 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/04\/mastromonaco.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11177\" alt=\"mastromonaco\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/04\/mastromonaco-214x300.jpeg\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/04\/mastromonaco-214x300.jpeg 214w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/04\/mastromonaco.jpeg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a>The Mississauga Symphony Orchestra has announced that Denis Mastromonaco will take over as its new music director this summer. He replaces John Barnum, who has been music director since 1978 &#8212; six years after the group gave its first concert with members of the Toronto Symphony.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mastromonaco has a background very similar to Barnum&#8217;s: Initially educated at the University of Toronto, with further study abroad, then a return to the Toronto area to conduct a variety of community orchestras while also guest conducting with professional ensembles in other cities.<\/p>\n<p>Locally, the new conductor has worked with the York Symphony, the Etobicocke Philharmonic, the National Academy Orchestra, Opera Mississauga and the ill-fated Opera York. He has also been a guest conductor with Mississauga Symphony.<\/p>\n<p>The orchestra, resident at the Living Arts Centre, rehearses every Tuesday night during the season. The concertmaster is Corey Gemmell.<\/p>\n<p>The Mississauga Symphony&#8217;s final performance in its six-concert 2012-13 season is on May 11. It features a programme of instrumental music from Spain paired with the <em>Chants d&#8217;Auvergne<\/em> by Joseph Canteloube, sung by the wonderful young soprano Lesley Bouza.<\/p>\n<p>You can find out more about the Mississauga Symphony <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mississaugasymphony.ca\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mississauga Symphony Orchestra has announced that Denis Mastromonaco will take over as its new music director this summer. He replaces John Barnum, who has been music director since 1978 &#8212; six years after the group gave its first concert with members of the Toronto Symphony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,14,36,39,60,63,1],"tags":[6451,1004,1746,2246,2303],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/04\/mastromonaco.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-2Uf","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11175"}],"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=11175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11175"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}