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There are few things that get us more excited than following the ebbs and flows of a master season programmer. It\u2019s an art in itself, and Lawrence Cherney, Artistic Director of Toronto\u2019s Soundstreams<\/a>, has become a kind musical soothsayer, who comes down from the proverbial mountain around this time every year with the promise of cutting edge music.<\/p>\n Soundstreams are all about new works and premieres, but what makes Soundstreams 2019\u201320 season unique, is the themes of ritual and memory.<\/p>\n Opening the\u00a0season at Trinity St-Paul’s on Oct. 3 is a brass forward concert<\/a> with works ranging from the baroque to world premieres with Anna Pidgorna and Brian Current. Other works include\u00a0R. Murray Schafer’s Trumpet Aubade,\u00a0<\/em>Toru Takemitsu’s Paths,\u00a0<\/em>Teleman’s\u00a0Concerto for Three Trumpets, and <\/em>Ligeti’s\u00a0Mysteries of the Macabre.<\/em><\/p>\n Nov. 13\u201316 brings a music theatre double bill: Two Odysseys: Pimooteewin \/ G\u00e1ll\u00e1b\u00e1rtnit<\/a>. Sung and narrated in Cree and Sami, the pair of works will reimagine ancient Indigenous legends from Canada and the Nordic countries. Composers are Melissa Hui, Britta Bystr\u00f6m, with artistic direction by Michael Greyeyes and David Fallis.<\/p>\n Electric Messiah<\/a>\u00a0is now a Soundstreams tradition and will return Dec 10\u201312.<\/p>\n Late January brings Montreal-based composer Nicole Liz\u00e9e<\/a> back to Toronto for the premiere of The Lost Karaoke Tapes<\/a> \u2014 a work based on videotapes she found tossed away in a dumpster. The concert follows Liz\u00e9e\u2019s artistic exploration of kitsch culture inspired by 80\u2019s karaoke. We\u2019re promised \u201cWhip It\u201d\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cEndless Love\u201d, as only Liz\u00e9e can re-live them.<\/p>\n Another rather curious concert aptly titled, Secrets<\/a> (April 23-24) incorporates anonymous secrets of local Torontonians collected especially for the concert. Performed by an eclectic ensemble of vocals, tuba, euphonium, trombone, accordion, and cello, this one promises to light up April with some juicy confessions.<\/p>\n Local composer Nick Storring as teamed up with Soundstreams to curate a fresh take on the old and new<\/a> with a concert on March 6 for harpsichord, organetto, baroque violin, viola da gamba, and hurdy-gurdy. It\u2019s a partially improvised set at the Drake, so there\u2019s no telling what will happen, but we like the sound of it.<\/p>\n The season highlight an encore production of legendary\u00a0Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois\u00a0composer\u00a0Claude Vivier\u2019s Musik f\u00fcr das Ende<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(May 6\u20139). \u201cThe Music of the End is where all is forever erased, where all becomes infinite silence,\u201d is how the ever-dramatic Vivier described it on its premiere in 1971.\u00a0Soundstreams was first to present the first fully staged production of\u00a0it back in 2017, so this will offer a second chance for those who missed it the first time around.<\/p>\n