{"id":14087,"date":"2013-07-26T06:51:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T11:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=14087"},"modified":"2013-07-26T06:51:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T11:51:51","slug":"july-25-weekend-summer-music-festival-highlights-in-and-around-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2013\/07\/26\/july-25-weekend-summer-music-festival-highlights-in-and-around-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"July 25: Weekend summer music festival highlights in and around Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The boys of the TorQ Percussion Quartet join\u00a0Carmina Burana<\/em> at Elora Festival on Friday night (Bo Huang photo).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The excellent Pacifica Quartet performs at Toronto Summer Music Festival on Friday and there are two “Mentors & Fellows” concerts at Walter Hall on Saturday (details here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

ELORA FESTIVAL<\/strong><\/p>\n

Friday:<\/strong> Festival artistic director Noel Edison reprises the orchestra-free version of Carl Orff’s ever-popular Carmina Burana<\/em>\u00a0(with accompaniment by the TorQ Percussion Ensemble and two pianos) that he and the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir presented at Koerner Hall last season. The website says nothing about who the vocal soloists are. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Gambrel Barn.<\/p>\n

Saturday:<\/strong> Toronto Masque Theatre presents George Frideric Handel’s pastorale Acis and Galatea<\/em> at the John’s Church at 3 p.m. The Elora Festival Singers provide choral backup.<\/p>\n

The Elora Festival continues to Aug. 4. You’ll find all the details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

MUSIC NIAGARA<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sunday:<\/strong>\u00a0The most fun of this week’s classical concerts is likely to be the “2 Pianos — 8 Hands” affair featuring James Anagnoson and Leslie Kinton versus Lithuanians Ruta and Zbignevas Ibelhauptas playing Clementi, Brahms and Dvor\u00e1k. They are also tackling Benjamin Britten’s Gemini Variations<\/em>, with violinist (and festival artistic director) Atis Bankas and Toronto Symphony flutist Suzanne Shulman.<\/p>\n

Britten was inspired in 1964 by two talented young twin brothers in Budapest. Both played the piano, while one also played the flute, the other violin. The Gemini Variations<\/em> include music for all the possibilities, in different configurations.<\/p>\n

This is the second half of this wonderful piece of music (I have no idea who the artists are other than a note on the YouTube video that there are three 12-year-olds involved in the performance):<\/p>\n