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Mar 19-22 Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre, Jeanne Lamon Hall APR 23 SPONSORED BY Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir GWRH CONCERT SUPPORTED BY Margaret and Jim Fleck VILDE FRANG, Julia Doyle, soprano VIOLIN (APR 1 & 2) Daniel Taylor, countertenor Charles Daniels, tenor TSP: 416.964.6337 Peter Harvey, baritone GWRH: 1.855.985.2787 tafelmusik.org ROY THOMSON HALL | 416.593.4828 | TSO.CA SEASON PRESENTING SPONSOR Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir OFFICIAL AIRLINE & MAR 11 PERFORMANCE SPONSOR MAR 28 PERFORMANCE SPONSOR APR 1 PERFORMANCE SPONSOR the azrieli musiC proJeCt Commissioning Competition DeaDline: april 15, 2015 $50,000 prize for a new orChestral work for CanaDian resiDents, a Commissioning grant for a new work of orChestral Jewish musiC between 15 anD 25 minutes Duration gala ConCert with the orChestre symphonique De montréal anD kent nagano Presented by www.azrielifoundation.org/music Volume 20 No 6 | March 1 to April 7, 2015 FEATURES 6. Damn the Torpedoes | DAVID PERLMAN Till Fellner | PAUL ENNIS 8. ATMA presents the trio’s first album 9. O Dowland! | DAVID PODGORSKI 11. Conversations@ | PAUL ENNIS EN TROIS COULEURS 12. All Roads Lead to Summer | SARA CONSTANT 52. Maestro Classes | PAUL ENNIS A landscape of jazz, 63. We are all Music’s Children | MJ BUELL improvisation, and world music. BEAT BY BEAT 14. Classical & Beyond | PAUL ENNIS 16. In with the New | WENDALYN BARTLEY 19. World View | ANDREW TIMAR 21. Jazz Stories | ORI DAGAN 23. Early Music | DAVID PODGORSKI 26. Choral Scene | BENJAMIN STEIN 28. On Opera | CHRISTOPHER HOILE 30. Art of Song | HANS DE GROOT 31. Bandstand | JACK MACQUARRIE 49. Mainly Clubs, Mostly Jazz | BOB BEN LISTINGS 32. A | Concerts in the GTA 45. B | Concerts Beyond the GTA 49. C | Music Theatre 50. D | In the Clubs (Mostly Jazz) 53. E | The ETCeteras 57 – 62. SUMMER MUSIC EDUCATION DISCOVERIES: RECORDINGS REVIEWED 64. Editor’s Corner | DAVID OLDS 64. Vocal 66. Early Music & Period Performance 68. Classical & Beyond 69. Strings Attached | TERRY ROBBINS 70. Modern & Contemporary 72. Jazz & Improvised 72. Something in the Air | KEN WAXMAN ACD2 2709 73. Jazz, Eh? | STUART BROOMER 75. Pot Pourri 75. Old Wine, New Bottles | BRUCE SURTEES MARIE-JOSÉE SIMARD MORE PERCUSSION 6. Contact Information & Deadlines 7. Index of Advertisers FRANÇOIS BOURASSA 56. Classified Ads PIANO Cover Photograph PASY YVES LÉVEILLÉ PIANO AVAILABLE IN HD AT ATMACLASSIQUE.COM STUDIO CD QUALITY MP3 QUALITY IN THIS ISSUE Select ATMA titles now on sale LESLIE ANN BRADLEY ELLIOT MADORE MUSIC’S CHILD? 63 ON OPERA 28 ART OF SONG 30 FOR OPENERS | DAVID PERLMAN Damn the Torpedoes always have a funny moment of pleasure when one of our colum- One: Azrieli nists finds himself or herself having to preface a reference to a Were you in too much of a hurry to come visit me here to notice the I particular upcoming event with a disclaimer – calling readers’ advertisement from the Azrieli Foundation on page 4, announcing the attention to the fact that the columnist in question is actually Azrieli Music Project ? The competition announced in the ad should performing in the event they’re about to tell you about. (See the final make the composers among you sit up and take notice, at any rate. It paragraphs of Ben Stein’s and Ori Dagan’s columns in this issue for offers a $50,000 prize for a 15 to 25 minute newly composed work of examples of what I am talking about.) “orchestral Jewish music,” by a Canadian resident; to be performed in It doesn’t happen often, but often enough. And the pleasure that a gala concert by Kent Nagano and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. I get from it, every time, is the little reminder that so many of our The question that jumped up at me immediately was “So, what writers are, in fact, active participants in the musical “Beats” they constitutes ‘Jewish music,’ in these times?” To their credit, the AMP write about, rather than detached observers. doesn’t duck the question. “The question What is Jewish Music? is at I also get some satisfaction, in those situations, from the fact that the heart of a constantly evolving cultural dialogue,” they say. “Taking we still make the effort to point these little conflicts of interest out into account the rich and diverse history of Jewish musical traditions, to our readers when they happen. It gets harder and harder when all the AMP defines ‘Jewish Music’ as music that incorporates a Jewish the protocols they teach in publishing courses about keeping one’s thematic or Jewish musical influence. … Defining Jewish music as editorial operations as pure as the driven snow are being blown both deeply rooted in history and tradition and forward-moving and away by the winds of digital change. It’s especially hard for the little dynamic, the AMP … challenges orchestral composers of all faiths, guys like us to stick to protocols for keeping editorial and advertising backgrounds and affiliations to engage creatively and critically with separate at a time when even the big guys who passed exams in the this question in submitting their work.” rules are floundering for consistency. Consider the following: in this month’s WholeNote listings So what am I driving at? Well, just this: this is one of those times there is a concert on March 12, jointly presented by the Ashkenaz when I am busting to use this supposedly sacred bit of editorial real Foundation and the Aga Khan Museum, titled “Spotlight on Israeli estate to tell you about a whole bunch of things I would not even Culture” and featuring the Diwan Saz Interfaith Ensemble – a multi- know about if I were wearing only my editorial hat instead of the two cultural ensemble of Jewish, Muslim, Christian and Bedouin musi- or three that every member of this tiny organization must juggle just cians performing “ancient music from Central Asia, Turkey, Persia to keep this little publication going. and the Holy Land.” And two days later, on March 14, the Music So, damn the torpedoes! Here I go! (I can always go back to being Gallery, Ashkenaz Foundation and Koffler Centre for the Arts combine an editorial virgin in the morning, can’t I?) to present a work called The Lanka Suite by Tova Kardonne which, ™ The WholeNote THANKS TO THIS MONTH’S CONTRIBUTORS Upcoming Dates & Deadlines VOLUME 20 NO 6| MARCH 1, 2015 – APRIL 7, 2015 Beat Columnists Centre for Social Innovation Hans de Groot, Jack MacQuarrie, Benjamin Stein, Free Event Listings Deadline 720 Bathurst St., Suite 503, Toronto ON M5S 2R4 Paul Ennis, David Olds, David Podgorski, Midnight Sunday March 8 PHONE 416-323-2232 | FAX 416-603-4791 Ori Dagan, Wendalyn Bartley, Bob Ben, Display Ad Reservations Deadline Publisher/Editor In Chief | David Perlman mJ buell, Christopher Hoile, Andrew Timar 6pm Sunday March 15 [email protected] Features Classifieds Deadline Chairman of the Board | Allan Pulker Sara Constant, Paul Ennis, David Podgorski 6pm Tuesday March 24 [email protected] Advertising Materials Due EDITORIAL CD Reviewers 6pm Wednesday March 18 Managing Editor | Paul Ennis Karen Ages, Stuart Broomer, Max Christie, Hans Publication Date [email protected] de Groot, Daniel Foley, Janos Gardonyi, Richard Tuesday March 31 Recordings Editor | David Olds Haskell, Tiina Kiik, Roger Knox, Alison Melville, Volume 20 No 7 covers [email protected] Lesley Mitchell-Clarke, Ivana Popovic, Michael April 1, 2015 to May 7, 2015 Social Media Editor | Sara Constant Schwartz, Bruce Surtees, Andrew Timar, Robert [email protected] Tomas, Ken Waxman, Dianne Wells WholeNote Media Inc.