{"id":72465,"date":"2021-10-04T11:40:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T15:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=72465"},"modified":"2021-10-04T11:40:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T15:40:28","slug":"critics-picks-classical-events-absolutely-need-see-week-oct-4-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2021\/10\/04\/critics-picks-classical-events-absolutely-need-see-week-oct-4-10\/","title":{"rendered":"CRITIC&#8217;S PICKS | Classical Events You Absolutely Need To See This Week: Oct. 4 \u2013 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_72466\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72466\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72466\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/CP-Oct-4.jpg\" alt=\"Classical music and opera events for the week of October 4 to 10.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-72466\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Classical music and opera events for the week of October 4 to 10.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is a list of amazing concerts we are attending, wishing we could attend, or thinking about attending between October 4\u201310, 2021. For more details on what\u2019s happening from our trusted partners, visit our calendar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Harbourfront Centre | Dog Without Feathers (online)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>? Monday \u2014 October 4, 2021, (runs through Oct. 11)<br \/>\n?\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/harbourfrontcentre.com\/digidance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LINK<\/a><br \/>\n? $15<\/p>\n<p>Harbourfront Centre (with Digidance) continues their online production of <em>Dog Without Feathers<\/em> \u2014 a digital broadcast from Brazilian choreographer Deborah\u202fColker. The work creates a mesmerizing vision of mud-and-dust-covered dancers emerging from the animal and elemental world. It\u2019s rich in the sounds, landscape, and people of the Capibaribe River Region of Northeastern Brazil. |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/event\/harbourfront-centre-dog-without-feathers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Soundstreams | Garden Of Vanished Pleasures (online)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>? Tuesday \u2014 October 5, 2021, 8 p.m. ET (runs through Oct. 10)<br \/>\n?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/soundstreams.ca\/performances\/main-stage\/garden-of-vanished-pleasures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LINK<\/a><br \/>\n? $20<\/p>\n<p>Soundstreams takes their digital residency at Crow\u2019s Theatre with\u00a0<em>Garden Of Vanished Pleasures<\/em> into a second week. The 75-minute staged production celebrates English film director, stage designer, diarist, artist, gardener, and author\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Derek_Jarman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Derek Jarman<\/a>. Features music by Cecilia Livingston with texts drawn from Derek Jarman\u2019s journals, adapted by Donna McKevitt. Single tickets are available via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tickets.crowstheatre.com\/TheatreManager\/1\/online?event=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crow\u2019s Theatre Box Office<\/a>. Runs through Oct. 10. |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/event\/soundstreams-garden-of-vanished-pleasures-online\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>UofT Faculty of Music | Thursdays at Noon: John Luther Adams\u2019 Inuksuit<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>? Thursday \u2014 October 7, 2021, 12:10 p.m. ET<br \/>\n?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/music.utoronto.ca\/mob-concerts-events.php?eid=3191&amp;cDate=2021-10-07\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LINK<\/a><br \/>\n? Free!<\/p>\n<p>Alex Ross once called him &#8220;One of the most original musical thinkers of the new century.&#8221; John Luther Adams is criminally underperformed, so any chance to hear his works are an opportunity to listen to our environment transformed. Today you\u2019ll hear<em> Inuksuit<\/em> performed by the University of Toronto Percussion Ensemble. They will be playing along Philosopher&#8217;s Walk (the path between the ROM and RCM on Bloor Street) that leads to the UofT Faculty of Music. |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/event\/university-toronto-faculty-music-thursdays-noon-dialogues-analysis-performance-opening-concert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fnoxu4ocQb0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<h3><strong>Royal Conservatory | Andrei Feher conducts the Royal Conservatory Orchestra<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>? Thursday \u2014 October 7, 2021, 8 p.m. ET<br \/>\n?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcmusic.com\/events-and-performances\/andrei-feher-conducts-the-royal-conservatory-o-(1)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LINK<\/a><br \/>\n? $25+<\/p>\n<p>Announced just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2021\/08\/31\/scoop-royal-conservatory-announces-super-season-fully-vaxxed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a week ago<\/a>, the Royal Conservatory of Music has launched the 2021-22 season starting today. You\u2019ll hear an excellent young conductor Andrei Feher (borrowed from the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony), lead the RC Orchestra through works by Copland, Beethoven and Joan Tower. It will also be a bit of a celebration for the year to come. Can\u2019t attend in person? Watch the show from your couch for free [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalconservatory.live\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a>]. |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/event\/royal-conservatory-andrei-feher-conducts-royal-conservatory-orchestra-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>The Met: Live in HD | Modest Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>? Saturday \u2014 October 9, 2021, 12:55 p.m. ET (times may vary)<br \/>\n?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cineplex.com\/Movie\/boris-godunov-mussorgsky-russian-west-metropolitan-opera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LINK<\/a><br \/>\n? $30<\/p>\n<p>While Ontario\u2019s opera scene is still on ice due to rules regarding opening amid the pandemic, the regular season at the Met is coming alive, including The Met: Live in HD. Lucky for us, we can get our opera fix but visiting our local Cineplex theatre. This week we highly recommend <em>Boris Godunov<\/em>, with bass Ren\u00e9 Pape cast as Boris (he\u2019s one of the best). Stephen Wadsworth&#8217;s touching production sensitively conveys the Russian people&#8217;s optimism and sorrow, as well as the monarch himself. It runs two-and-a-quarter hours with no intermission. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/event\/met-live-hd-modest-mussorgsky-boris-godunov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em><b>#LUDWIGVAN<\/b><\/em><\/h3>\n<p class=\"western\"><em>Get the daily arts news straight to your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em>Sign up for the Ludwig van Daily \u2014 classical music and opera in five minutes or less <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/ludwig-van.us9.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=4f785cb3f9058f2393ccad035&amp;id=57cdb68eac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>HERE<\/em><\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classical music and opera events for the week of October 4 to 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":72466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38476,76,19,3895,38,43,63],"tags":[9519,1752,7189,3079],"yst_prominent_words":[28125,9143,38629,7170,7160,27956,8282],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/CP-Oct-4.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-iQN","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72465"}],"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=72465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72467,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72465\/revisions\/72467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72465"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=72465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}