{"id":51285,"date":"2018-02-27T15:27:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T20:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=51285"},"modified":"2018-03-05T09:17:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T14:17:02","slug":"the-scoop-noel-edison-takes-sudden-leave-of-absence-from-toronto-mendelssohn-choir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2018\/02\/27\/the-scoop-noel-edison-takes-sudden-leave-of-absence-from-toronto-mendelssohn-choir\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | Noel Edison\u00a0Takes A Sudden Leave Of Absence From The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_38109\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38109\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38109\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/TMC-150427-0101.jpg\" alt=\"Noel Edison (Photo: Brian Summers)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/TMC-150427-0101.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/TMC-150427-0101-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38109\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noel Edison (Photo: Brian Summers)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Executive Director of Toronto Mendelssohn Choir (TMC), Cynthia Hawkins, has confirmed conductor Noel Edison has taken a personal leave of absence from his duties.<\/p>\n<p>Hawkins did not say what was behind the sudden absence, nor did she know how long the leave will be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the interim, we have immediately begun a search for a guest conductor to fill in for Noel in his absence,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have cancelled our March 6th and 7th MacMillan and P\u00e4rt concerts (the timing was just too tight on these concerts coming up in only a week). We will be working with RCM Tickets on contacting all current ticket holders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hawkins confirmed they will be going ahead with the upcoming Sacred Music for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/event\/toronto-mendelssohn-choir-sacred-music-for-a-sacred-space-3\/2018-03-28\/\">Sacred Space concert <\/a>on March 28 and 30 with current rehearsals continuing under our TMC Associate conductor Jennifer Min-Young Lee.<\/p>\n<p>They are actively searching for a guest conductor and will announce the replacement once the search is complete.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Vincent<\/strong>\u00a0can be reached at 289-242-4435 or\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:michael@ludwig-van.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">michael@ludwig-van.com<\/a> or follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Michael_Vincent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Michael_Vincent<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more about:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/category\/noel-edison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Noel\u00a0Edison<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><em>LUDWIG VAN TORONTO<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir has confirmed conductor Noel Edison has taken a personal leave of absence, leading to the cancellation of the upcoming the double bill with MacMillan and P\u00e4rt in early March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":38109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14761,36,39,17333,63],"tags":[2418,3349],"yst_prominent_words":[17173,8858,6807,17176,10135,10294,17152,17174,17096,16237,10134,10120,17175,17177,17178,6741],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/TMC-150427-0101.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-dlb","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51285"}],"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=51285"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51412,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51285\/revisions\/51412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51285"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=51285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}