{"id":13100,"date":"2013-06-16T07:06:21","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T12:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=13100"},"modified":"2013-06-16T07:06:21","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T12:06:21","slug":"three-toronto-live-music-suggestions-for-the-last-sunday-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2013\/06\/16\/three-toronto-live-music-suggestions-for-the-last-sunday-of-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Toronto live music suggestions for the last Sunday of spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13106\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13106\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/06\/social.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13106\" alt=\"Classical music at a pub? Yes -- every Sunday night, if you're in Toronto.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/06\/social.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/06\/social.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/06\/social-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Classical music at a pub? Yes &#8212; every Sunday night, if you&#8217;re in Toronto.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A rainy day and the end of the concert season are the perfect excuse to try something a little different &#8212; like one of these three concerts\/events for the last Sunday of a soggy Toronto spring:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Benjamin Britten&#8217;s <em>Holy Sonnets of John Donne<\/em> at St Thomas&#8217;s Anglican Church, Huron St. at 6:30 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Britten set these nine deep, melancholy poems for his partner, tenor Peter Pears in 1945, at the end of World War II, following a tour of German concentration camps with violinist Yehudi Menuhin. It seems as if every ghost of a horror Britten witnessed burned its way through into these powerful songs.<\/p>\n<p>In case you&#8217;re not familiar, here they are, sung at a 2002 concert in LaJolla, Calif by soprano Jennifer Bates. The pianist is Caren Levine:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rLqJo2xqpSE\" height=\"84\" width=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Soprano Merry-Anne Stuart is the soloist this evening, accompanied by Jeanne Yuen at the piano. The 25-minute cycle is, after a few minutes&#8217; break, followed by Evensong, which includes this salve of a motet tonight, the magical setting of <em>Ubi Caritas<\/em> by Maurice Durufl\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Here is is sung by the Cambridge Singers:<\/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\/457nVpxJDkA?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>Little Oak Animal at the Array Space, 155 Walnut Ave., at 9 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To launch the <a href=\"http:\/\/somewherethere.org\/summerseries\/main.php\" target=\"_blank\">Somewhere There Summer Series<\/a> at the Array Space, Toronto visual artist Robert Cruickshank has a fascinating collaboration going with sound artist Dafydd Hughes, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littleoakanimal.com\" target=\"_blank\">Little Oak Animal<\/a>. Hughes creates and mixes sounds &#8212; many taken from the ambient sounds of the city&#8217;s streets &#8212; on his laptop as Cruickshank creates and mixes projected images from slides and Super-8 film.<\/p>\n<p>Here a sample of their work:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/41865875\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Classical Social at Fionn MacCool&#8217;s Pub, 181 University Ave., 8 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The mix of drinks, snacks, conversation and classical music has turned into a Sunday-night fixture at University and Adelaide. This will be 18th such Sunday night convivial &#8212; no better place to spill some hot wing dipping sauce on a classical musician. You can find their Facebook site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/306019709532205\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rainy day and the end of the concert season are the perfect excuse to try something a little different &#8212; like one of these three concerts\/events for the last Sunday of a soggy Toronto spring:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,10,11,76,14,19,36,38,63,1,66,69,70],"tags":[6451,812,6455,1821,6474],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/06\/social.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-3pi","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13100"}],"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=13100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13100"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=13100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}