CityView Drive-In

Friday, October 16 at 8:00pm Vivaldi’s Four Seasons “Full of passionate virtuosity yet finely nuanced in his playing,” (Toronto Star) Concertmaster Jonathan Crow performs as soloist and leads his TSO colleagues in Vivaldi’s timeless The Four Seasons. He also leads two dynamic works by living composers—Gabriela Lena Frank’s melodic Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout and Sri Lankan–born Canadian composer Dinuk Wijeratne’s poetic “A letter from the After-life” from 2 Pops Songs on Antique Poems. This concert is approximately one hour in…

Saturday, October 17 at 8:00pm First Ladies of Soul Ella Fitzgerald. Billie Holiday. Nina Simone. Aretha Franklin. Whitney Houston. Tina Turner. Beyoncé—and more in this symphonic tribute to the voices that changed society and music. From Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” to Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You”, these legendary queens come to life through Canadian blues vocalist Shakura S’Aida. This concert is approximately one hour in length and will feature a smaller ensemble of musicians from the Orchestra, led…

Be there as the TSO returns for its first performances with audiences in nearly a year! Hum along in your car to two of Mozart’s best known works—pulsating rhythms dominate and sonic sparks fly in Symphony No. 40, and Eine kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music) is guaranteed to delight one and all. An overture by Marianna Martines, a Viennese classical period composer living at the same time as Mozart, rounds out the evening, led by TSO RBC Resident Conductor Simon Rivard.

Barrett Principal Education Conductor & Community Ambassador Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser leads the Orchestra in a high-octane program that parallels the journey of the 2SLGBTQ+ community. Unifying themes like desire, protest, and acceptance are depicted through songs like “Vogue”, “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”, “Time Warp”, and more. So get ready to rev your engine, honk your horn, and dance! Price is per car.