{"id":14226,"date":"2013-08-02T07:55:58","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T12:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=14226"},"modified":"2013-08-04T11:47:30","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T16:47:30","slug":"august-long-weekend-summer-music-festival-highlights-in-and-around-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2013\/08\/02\/august-long-weekend-summer-music-festival-highlights-in-and-around-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"August long weekend summer music festival concert highlights in and around Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14231\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14231\" style=\"width: 864px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/nosq.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14231\" alt=\"New Orford String Quartet members Jonathan Crow, Andrew Wan, Eric Nowlin and Brian Maker head to Niagara-on-the-Lake for a Simcoe Day  concert.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/nosq.png\" width=\"864\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/nosq.png 864w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/nosq-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Orford String Quartet members Jonathan Crow, Andrew Wan, Eric Nowlin and Brian Maker head to Niagara-on-the-Lake for a Simcoe Day concert.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the city, Toronto Summer Music wraps up with a full Friday that includes an open 4 p.m. rehearsal, a rich, all-star chamber music concert at 7:30 p.m. and a Saturday featuring two Mentors and Fellows concerts at Walter Hall. Details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosummermusic.com\/index.php\/festival-tickets\/calender\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Out-of-town festival organizers have decided that a long weekend is no time for art music. There are many fine choices of light fare, but Niagara-on-the-Lake is the only option for anyone looking for something classically serious:<\/p>\n<p><strong>MUSIC NIAGARA<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14234\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14234\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lapresse.ca\/arts\/musique\/musique-classique\/201204\/26\/01-4519137-au-nem-prevost-presence.php\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14234\" alt=\"(Andr\u00e9 Pichette\/LaPresse photo)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/tetrault-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/tetrault-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/tetrault.jpg 435w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Andr\u00e9 Pichette\/LaPresse photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Friday:<\/strong>\u00a0Hot young Quebec cellist St\u00e9phane Tetrault brings Haydn, Tchaikovsky and Brahms to the lovely acoustics of St Mark&#8217;s Anglican Church at an early 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday:<\/strong> With Toronto Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Jonathan Crow&#8217;s Toronto Summer Music duties out of the way, he can join his New Orford String Quartet colleagues for a St Mark&#8217;s Church recital of French delicacies featuring quartets by Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and the late Jacques H\u00e9tu at 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Here, courtesy of CBC Music, are the New Orfords in the opening movement of Beethoven&#8217;s (Op. 59 No. 1) <em>String Quartet No. 7<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/music.cbc.ca\/embedded\/concerts\/New-Orford-String-Quartet-Beethoven-2012-10-23\/videos\/New-Orford-String-Quartet--Ludwig-van-Beethoven-String-Quartet-7-in-F-major-Op-59-1-Mvt-1\" height=\"373\" width=\"620\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Music Niagara runs to Aug. 11. You&#8217;ll find all the details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicniagara.org\/Program.page\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ELORA FESTIVAL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday:<\/strong>\u00a0I&#8217;ve been mystified by the festival&#8217;s website this year, which has failed to identify soloists for some of its big concerts &#8212; like the 7:30 p.m. Gambrel Barn presentation of music from Gilbert and Sullivan&#8217;s oh-so-politically-incorrect-in-2013\u00a0<em>Mikado<\/em>. Will there be an orchestra or two pianos on stage? Who might the conductor be? Your guess is as good as mine.<\/p>\n<p>Could it be that some summer music festival audiences don&#8217;t care who the performers are, as long as they recognize the names of the works they are going to see or hear?<\/p>\n<p>The Elora Festival continues to Aug. 4. You&#8217;ll find all the details\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/elorafestival.com\/index.cfm?page=home\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em> John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the city, Toronto Summer Music wraps up with a full Friday that includes an open 4 p.m. rehearsal, a rich, all-star chamber music concert at 7:30 p.m. and a Saturday featuring two Mentors and Fellows concerts at Walter Hall. Details here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,9,10,76,19,36,39,57,59,63,64,1],"tags":[6451,423,6455,2310,2377,3356],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/nosq.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-3Hs","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14226"}],"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=14226"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14271,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14226\/revisions\/14271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14226"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}