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Song for Athene 2014/2015 CONCERT SERIES NEW DIRECTIONS IN MUSIC SONG FOR NEW DIRECTIONS IN MUSIC ATHENE SOUNDSTREAMS.CA 1 NEW DIRECTIONS IN MUSIC JOIN US FOR THE 2015/2016 CONCERT SERIES SUBSCRIBE NOW % AND SAVE UP TO 20 ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S WELCOME ADRIANNE The music world lost two luminaries in the likes of British composers Sir John SQUEEZEBOXOX Tavener and Jonathan Harvey, in 2013 and 2012 respectively. They could not have PIECZONKA: been more opposite as personalities and in their compositional aesthetics, yet both grappled with the universal yearning to reconcile humanity with the divine. In that BEYOND THE ARIA FEB 10, 2016 struggle for reconciliation, they have much in common with our other featured com- 8 PM poser, the very much alive Canadian Christos Hatzis. SEPT 29, 2015, 8 PM TRINITY-ST. PAUL’S KOERNER HALL, CENTRE Soundstreams and I have had close relationships with all three composers over the TELUS CENTRE years through commissions, performances, and personal appearances in our series. Twice we presented Sir John Tavener and Christos Hatzis together on the same stage, and a projected visit to Toronto by Jonathan Harvey was the occasion for THE MUSIC OF STEVE the launch of Choir 21 in 2011. That concert included both Harvey choral works JAMES REICH being performed tonight. MACMILLAN AT 80 Whatever the particular beliefs that each of these composers may have held, their PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP spiritual journeys eventually encompassed, in addition to Christianity, explorations WITH MASSEY HALL. MAR 8, 2016, 8 PM of Hinduism, Sanskrit writings, Buddhism, Greek Orthodoxy, Judaism, Islam, North TRINITY-ST. PAUL’S American Aboriginal languages and mythology, and more. CENTRE APR 14, 2016, 8 PM MASSEY HALL Though this quote from Nicholas Kenyon (Barbican Centre Managing Director, and former Director of the BBC Proms) is taken from a celebration of the life and music of Sir John Tavener I attended last June in Westminster Abbey, it has real resonance SPECIAL OPERA PRESENTATION for the whole of tonight’s program: “In his later years, [Tavener] became ever more interested in Hinduism, and metaphysical writings. Did this mean that he rejected his JULIE Subscribe before previous ways of interacting with the divine? Surely the opposite: he simply came to COMPOSED BY PHILIPPE feel that denominational religions were just part of a far greater universal hope, that BOESMANS | PRESENTED they pointed the way to the ultimate reconciliation of man IN PARTNERSHIP WITH May 30 and receive CANADIAN STAGE. with the divine.” an additional 5% NOV 17-29, 2015 Lawrence Cherney BLUMA APPEL Artistic Director THEATRE in savings! Call 416-504-1282 or visit soundstreams.ca SOUNDSTREAMS.CA 3 NEW DIRECTIONS IN MUSIC ABOUT SOUNDSTREAMS NEW DIRECTIONS IN MUSIC Soundstreams An International Centre for New Directions in Music STAFF Led by Artistic Director Lawrence Cherney and Lawrence Cherney Executive Director Susan Worthington, Soundstreams ARTISTIC DIRECTOR is a Toronto-based music presenter that commissions, Susan Worthington develops, and showcases the work of contemporary EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Canadian composers and their international counterparts. Sarah Baumann DIRECTOR OF MARKETING & These innovative collaborations are performed by EXTERNAL RELATIONS the finest artists from Canada and around the world, Kyle Brenders ARTISTIC ASSOCIATE and are presented in an annual concert series, our Salon 21 series at The Gardiner Museum, in national Ben Dietschi ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR and international tours, and through a variety of OF EXTERNAL RELATIONS education and outreach activities. To mark our 30th Caroline Hollway anniversary season in 2012/13, Soundstreams launched PRODUCTION MANAGER SoundMakers, an innovative website and iPad app Lindsay Marshall that invites music lovers to explore Soundstreams’ COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATE commissioned works, create new works of their own, Marie-Claude Valiquet and share them with the online community. ASSOCIATE PRODUCTION MANAGER NEW DIRECTIONS IN MUSIC Over the past three decades, Soundstreams BOARD OF DIRECTORS commissions have added more than 150 works Bernie Schiff, PRESIDENT to the musical repertoire worldwide, reflecting a Daniel Weinzweig, VICE PRESIDENT diverse variety of genres and cultural traditions. Jim Doherty, FCIS, FSA, TREASURER Soundstreams has also presented a number of Katherine Smalley, SECRETARY festivals and conferences such as the Northern John Ing Ellen Karp Encounters Festival, University Voices, Larry Smith Toronto Fanfare Project, and the Cool Drummings Grace Westcott percussion festival and conference, as well award- Norman Woo winning operas including Thomson Highway and Melissa Hui’s Cree opera Pimooteewin: The Journey, ADVISORY COMITTEE R. Murray Schafer’s site-specific opera The Children’s Andrea Alexander Crusade, and Brian Current’s Airline Icarus. Lois Lilienstien Elaine Gold Hy Sarick Alan Convery 4 2014-2015 CONCERT SERIES SOUNDSTREAMS.CA 5 SONG FOR ATHENE Patricia Rozario, soprano* David Fallis, conductor Elise Bradley, conductor Choir 21 Toronto Children’s Chorus Christopher Dawes, piano & organ Erica Goodman, harp Thursday, April 16, 2015, at 8:00 pm Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor Street W. PROGRAM Sir John Tavener Missa Brevis (2005) (1944-2013, England) North American premiere Toronto Children’s Chorus Christopher Dawes, organ Jonathan Harvey I Love the Lord (1976) (1939-2012, England) Choir 21 Jonathan Harvey The Angels (1994) (1939-2012, England) Choir 21 Christos Hatzis Psalm 91 (2008) (b. 1953, Greece) Choir 21 Proud to support Song Erica Goodman, harp INTERMISSION Vanraj Bhatia Six Seasons (1988) for Athene. (b. 1927, India) Patricia Rozario, soprano Christopher Dawes, piano Sir John Tavener Lament of the Mother of God (1989) (1944-2013, England) Patricia Rozario, soprano We are working together with Soundstreams Choir 21 Sir John Tavener The Lamb (1982) to make a difference in our communities. (1944-2013, England) Elise Bradley, conductor Choir 21 Toronto Children’s Chorus Sir John Tavener Song for Athene (1993) (1944-2013, England) Patricia Rozario, soprano David Fallis, conductor Choir 21 Toronto Children’s Chorus * Patricia Rozario’s appearance is generously supported by The British Council. ® The TD logo and other trade-marks are the property of The Toronto-Dominion Bank. M05234 (0314) SOUNDSTREAMS.CA 7 CHOIRS PROGRAM NOTE By David Jaeger CHOIR 21 Soprano Tenor Joanne Chapin Larry Beckwith Teri Dunn Robert Busiakiewicz Gisele Kulak Charles Davidson Julia Morson Robert Kinar Jennifer Taverner Mitchell Pady Emily Wall Bass Tonight’s concert celebrates the choral music to her voice. I wrote Mary of Egypt for her and Alto Neil Aronoff of English composer Sir John Tavener (1944– almost everything else that I wrote for soprano Diane English Bryan Martin 2013) in the manner that Soundstreams has for the next twenty years.” Of the four Tavener Valeria Kondrashov Marc Michalak often presented him: in the company of other works in tonight’s concert, Patricia Rozario Alison Roy Dann Mitton music with which he had certain affinities. The appears as the soloist in Lament of the Mother Christina Stelmacovich Paul Oros English choral tradition is represented, but also of God, and with the assembled forces in Song Loralie Vancourt John Pepper sounds from the East and from North America, for Athene. Graham Robinson both directions that interested Tavener. David Yung Tavener composed Lament of the Mother of Toronto held a special attraction for Tavener. God for solo soprano and a capella choir for When he visited here for the Canadian premiere the Norwich Festival of Contemporary Music of his Ikon of Light, at Soundstreams’ invitation in 1989. It uses an Orthodox Christian text for TORONTO CHILDREN’S CHORUS in 1995, he remarked that, “The light here has Holy Friday, marking the death of Christ on the Alexander Annosantini Xaneva Elorriaga George Andrew Lowe a particularly luminescent quality.” Tavener cross and the sorrows of His mother. Tavener Shira Aronson Summer Figueroa Athieng Majak and his wife Maryanna had come to Toronto wrote, “The Lament must be sung with an Sophie Atkin Fiona Fisher Jessica Nigli for a concert in the Encounters series, which ikon-like stillness and great purity. It grows in Ariel Brookes Lydia Frank Sandhya Persaud Soundstreams co-produced with CBC Radio’s Erin Case Barbora Frynta Nora Popescu network series Two New Hours. They had Paula Castillejo Elizabeth Frynta Annick Read* travelled for that concert at Grace Church Sherrie Cheng* Julie Frynta Kirsten Read on-the-Hill despite his fragile health, and with SONG FOR ATHENE Nicole Cheung Chloe Hung Jamie Rokin the cautious approval of his physician. Tavener WAS COMPOSED Mateja Clifford Vivien Illion Sofiya Sapeha associated luminescence with a wide range of SamBea Cochrane Lauren Kidd Daniel Sapienza values in his work, from a certain sonic sheen IN 1993 AND USES Aramea Copeman Molly Klebanoff Catherine Seto in his harmony and scoring, to representation Nate Dawes Adam Kline Henry Stevens of the spiritual in music. TEXTS FROM HAMLET Cameron Devitt Alex Koukarina Alisha Suri AND THE ORTHODOX Rebecca Devitt Adela Lam Ania Suri Tavener returned in 2002 for a second Soundstreams production of his music at St. Sebastian Dumitrescu Daniel Leventis Lukas Urban FUNERAL SERVICE TO Michael’s Cathedral. This time he was in the Dean Ebona Georgia Lin Elise Ward-Krug company of the Bombay-born soprano Patricia HONOUR THE PASSING Jordan Edwards Teresa Lin Sabrina Wasserman* Rozario, whom Tavener met in 1991, and who OF TAVENER’S FRIEND, had subsequently become his muse. He wrote * Head Choristers 2014-2015 on his website, “Here was this Western- trained ATHENE HARIADES. singer who had a naturally rich Indian character 8 2014-2015 CONCERT SERIES SOUNDSTREAMS.CA 9 intensity as it climbs in tessitura, but without effects like tone clusters, thunder effects on anything sudden or melodramatic.” the harp, stomping of feet and aleatoric (chaotic) vocal lines, all are used to reveal the majesty COMPOSER BIOGRAPHIES Song for Athene was composed in 1993 and of this text.” uses texts from Hamlet and the Orthodox funeral service to honour the passing of Tavener’s By contrast, the setting of selected verses of friend, Athene Hariades.
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