{"id":18527,"date":"2014-04-28T13:48:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T17:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=18527"},"modified":"2014-04-28T13:48:41","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T17:48:41","slug":"toronto-classical-concert-and-opera-picks-for-april-28-to-may-4-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2014\/04\/28\/toronto-classical-concert-and-opera-picks-for-april-28-to-may-4-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto classical concert and opera picks for April 28 to May 4, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>28 Monday<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Associates of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra: Amanda Goodburn and Sydney Chun, violin; Teng Li and Theresa Rudolph, viola; Emmanuelle Beaulieu Bergeron, cello at Trinity-St. Paul&#8217;s. 7:30 p.m. $17-20<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To kick-off the week, musicians from the TSO will present an evening of quintets, including Mozart\u2019s String quintet No.3 in C, and Brahms: String quintet No.2 in G. These \u201cQuintessential Quintets\u201d mark the 4<sup>th<\/sup> event of the ATSO\u2019s season, which comes to an end on May 26<sup>th<\/sup>. Details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.associates-tso.org\/5small.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>30 Wednesday<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18530\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18530\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/04\/Davis099.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18530\" alt=\"Sir Andrew Davis, conductor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/04\/Davis099-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/04\/Davis099-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/04\/Davis099-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/04\/Davis099.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18530\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sir Andrew Davis,<br \/>conductor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Toronto Symphony Orchestra with Sir Andrew Davis, conductor at Roy Thomson Hall. 8 p.m. $33-145<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tonight is all about symphonic depth, and who better to lead than TSO Conductor Laureate Sir Andrew Davis in a concert of Mahler\u2019s final Symphony 9 in D major. Leonard Bernstein once described the 9<sup>th<\/sup> as \u201cterrifying, and paralyzing, as the strands of sound disintegrate &#8230; in ceasing, we lose it all. But in letting go, we have gained everything.\u201d This is music from another world, and should not be missed.<\/p>\n<p>If you can beat the traffic, there will be a pre-concert talk at 7:15 in the lobby. Info <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tso.ca\/en-ca\/Concerts-And-Tickets\/Events\/2013-2014-Season\/Mahler-Symphony-9.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Show repeats Thursday, May 1<sup>st<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>1 Thursday<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pianist, Leonard Gilbert at Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. Noon. Free<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The quality of performers for these free noon-hour concerts always amazes me. This afternoon is no different with piano virtuoso, Leonard Gilbert. The Canadian Opera Company noon-hour program will present Bach\u2019s Prelude in A minor from the English Suite No. 2 BWV 807, Beethoven\u2019s Sonata No. 23 Op. 57 &#8216;Appassionata, Ravel\u2019s Ondine from Gaspard de la nuit, Liszt\u2019s Transcendental Etude No. 10 in F minor, and Chopin\u2019s Andante spianato and Grand Polonaise Op. 22 in E flat major. Seats fill-up fast, so arrive early. Details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coc.ca\/performancesandtickets\/FreeConcertSeries\/April.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clarinettist and composer Camilo Davila with pianist Jean Desmarais and soprano Mireille Asselin at Gallery 345. 8 p.m. $10-25<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gallery 345 will house a concert of chamber works by Schumann, Chopin, Brahms, Schubert, and Camilo Davila, who will also be performing. Judging by the calibre of the performers alone, this promises to be a fantastic concert of old and new. Program and bios <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallery345.com\/performances.php\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Toronto Operetta Theatre, Guillermo Silva-Marin, stage director, Lucia Cesaroni and Elizabeth Beeler (sopranos) and Christopher Mayell and Stefan Fehr (tenors) at Jane Mallett Theatre. 8 p.m. $72-95<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I can\u2019t say I\u2019ve ever heard of German composer Eduard Kunneke, or his operetta Der Vetter aus Dingsda (The Cousin from Nowhere). I\u2019m intrigued! Their website describes, &#8220;A mysterious young man makes romantic sparks fly under a silvery moon [&#8230;] thrilling melodies, jazz-age sizzle and dreams of a Batavian paradise will intrigue and entertain.&#8221; Sounds like fun. Details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontooperetta.com\/mainprod.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Show repeats May, 2-4.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>3 Saturday<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/04\/syn3banner.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18532\" alt=\"syn3banner\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/04\/syn3banner.png\" width=\"776\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/04\/syn3banner.png 776w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/04\/syn3banner-300x157.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 776px) 100vw, 776px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>FAWN Opera and New Music at Brockton Studio. 8 p.m. $15-20<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Toronto\u2019s underground trendy FAWN collective returns with an innovative program of 8 short films by up-and-coming Canadian filmmakers set to scores by emerging Toronto composers. <i>Synesthesia III<\/i> includes budding filmmakers Sofia Bohdanowicz, Stephen Broomer, Dan Browne, Liam Crockard, Christine Lucy Latimer, Eva Kolcze and Blake Williams. Whew! Details here. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fawnopera.com\/event\/syn3\/\">http:\/\/www.fawnopera.com\/event\/syn3\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(NB: This will most likely be conductor-composer Patrick Murray\u2019s final foray with FAWN, as he recently announced he will be relocating to New Haven as a newly minted graduate student at Yale University \u2013 congrats Patrick!)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>4 Sunday<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18533\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18533\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/04\/QandJ.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18533\" alt=\"violinist, Jacques Israelievitch and pianist, Christina Petrowska Quilico\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/04\/QandJ.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/04\/QandJ.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/04\/QandJ-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18533\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">violinist, Jacques Israelievitch and pianist, Christina Petrowska Quilico<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Violinist Jacques Israelievitch and Christina Petrowska Quilico, piano at Gallery 345. 11 a.m., and 1, 3 and 5 p.m. $10-20 per concert, or $25-50 for entire day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two of Canada\u2019s finest performers will team up to perform The Complete Mozart Violin Sonatas over the span of an entire day. This event will allow listeners to hear the evolution of Mozart from his early Mannheim period and two later periods in Vienna. The marathon will be divided into four concerts starting at 11 am, and continuing at 1 pm, 3 pm and 5 pm, with only a short break in between. If you are in it for the long-haul, you will witness history in the making, as they have never been performed in their entirety in Toronto until now. Details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallery345.com\/performances.php \" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christinapetrowskaquilico.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Orpheus Choir of Toronto, with the Talisker Players Orchestra, Sidgwick Scholar Alumni Quartet, and Chorus Niagara; Robert Cooper, conductor. Koerner Hall 3 p.m. $35-50.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Come sit in for an afternoon gala with Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s iconic Requiem. This concert marks the close of The Orpheus Choir, and will feature soloists Johane Ansell (soprano), Lauren Segal (mezzo), Adam Luther (tenor), and Giles Tomkins (baritone), supported by the voices of the Orpheus Choir and Chorus Niagara. Details <a href=\"https:\/\/performance.rcmusic.ca\/event\/orpheus-choir-toronto-presentsbrdvorak-requiem\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Off Centre Music Salon with Elina Kelebeev, Inna Perkis, Boris Zarankin, pianos; Peter McGillivray, baritone; Erica Iris Huang, mezzo; and others at Glenn Gould Studio. 2 p.m. $15-60.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The program title is \u201cComposers born in the wrong century\u201d. It poses an interesting portrait of Russian composers who clung to romantic styles despite the sweeping ideological groundswell of modernism. The program includes Rachmaninoff, Medtner, Grechaninov, and Rebikov, performed by a great line-up of performers, including Peter McGillivray, who is recovering from his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicaltoronto.org\/2014\/04\/09\/breaking-canadian-baritone-peter-mcgillivray-in-surgery-after-suffering-a-fall-during-production-of-la-boheme-in-winnipeg\/\" target=\"_blank\">ordeal<\/a> in Winnipeg earlier in the month. Concert details <a href=\"http:\/\/offcentremusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Michael Vincent<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28 Monday The Associates of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra: Amanda Goodburn and Sydney Chun, violin; Teng Li and Theresa Rudolph, viola; Emmanuelle Beaulieu Bergeron, cello at Trinity-St. Paul&#8217;s. 7:30 p.m. $17-20 To kick-off the week, musicians from the TSO will present an evening of quintets, including Mozart\u2019s String quintet No.3 in C, and Brahms: String [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[117,76,19,3895,38,43,63],"tags":[766,4607,4606,2472,4608,3353,3360],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/04\/Davis099.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-4OP","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18527"}],"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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18527"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18538,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18527\/revisions\/18538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18527"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=18527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}