{"id":6468,"date":"2012-09-26T12:56:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T16:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=6468"},"modified":"2012-09-26T12:56:56","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T16:56:56","slug":"stephen-ralls-and-bruce-ubukata-decide-this-season-will-be-aldeburgh-connections-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2012\/09\/26\/stephen-ralls-and-bruce-ubukata-decide-this-season-will-be-aldeburgh-connections-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Ralls and Bruce Ubukata decide this season will be Aldeburgh Connection&#8217;s last"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6471\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6471\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/09\/duo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6471\" title=\"duo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/09\/duo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/09\/duo.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/09\/duo-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6471\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toronto&#8217;s Stephen Ralls and Bruce Ubukata are calling it quits.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I just received a suprising and saddening piece of news: Co-founders and co-artistic directors Stephen ralls and Bruce Ubukata have decided that this season will be the last for the Aldeburgh Connection.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Just this past Feburary, the duo organized what turned out to be one of the happiest, most talked-about musical events in a long time, when they celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Aldeburgh Connection at Koerner Hall with a parade of alumni that include a who&#8217;s who of this country&#8217;s great voices.<\/p>\n<p>Since the early 1980s, the Aldeburgh Connection has been Toronto&#8217;s one consistent presenter of art song &#8212; always in clever, thematic packages, and focused on the finest of the city&#8217;s younger singers.<\/p>\n<p>Losing this series and the audience and performer mentorship that it has represented is a huge blow. I wrote about how great this concert series and its founders are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicaltoronto.org\/2012\/02\/16\/aldeburgh-connection-at-30-the-magic-comes-from-the-open-spirit-of-its-founders\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The person who shared this news with me said that Ralls and Ubukata are healthy, but have decided it&#8217;s time to say goodbye to performing and presenting concerts, both here and at their country retreat in Bayfield, on Lake Huron.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s season &#8212; as fine-looking as any &#8212; begins with a programme inspired by the late Robertson Davies on Oct. 21, and ends with a three-concert &#8220;Britten Festival of Song&#8221; in May, 2013. (All the details <a href=\"http:\/\/aldeburghconnection.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t have a chance to speak to either Ralls or Ubukata for a day or two. I will update this post as soon as I hear anything more.<\/p>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just received a suprising and saddening piece of news: Co-founders and co-artistic directors Stephen ralls and Bruce Ubukata have decided that this season will be the last for the Aldeburgh Connection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4,76,36,39,56,62,70],"tags":[6451,211,582,821,3131,6474],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/09\/duo.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-1Gk","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6468"}],"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=6468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6468"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}