notes2017-2018 SEASON OF EVENTS welcomeTO ANOTHER EXCITING YEAR AT UOFT MUSIC! CHAMBER MUSIC 3 OPERA 4 CHOIRS IN CONCERT 6 EARLY MUSIC 8 University of Toronto Faculty of Music VOICE 10 Edward Johnson Building 80 Queen’s Park ORCHESTRA 11 Toronto, ON M5S 2C5 WINDS & BRASS 12 JAZZ 14 THURSDAYS AT NOON 16 Box Office services provided by the NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL 18 Weston Family Box Office VISITORS 20 at the TELUS Centre, RCM 273 Bloor Street West WORLD OF MUSIC 22 416-408-0208 MONTHLY LISTING 24 music.utoronto.ca GENERAL INFORMATION 30 Tickets can also be purchased at the door CONTACT US / MAP 31 90 minutes prior to each performance. Edward Johnson Building lobby 2 Tickets: 416-408-0208 music.utoronto.ca CHAMBER MUSIC All performances $40, $25 senior, $10 student Musicians from Marlboro 7:30 pm | Walter Hall From Public Stage to Private Symphony No. 4 with featured soloists Parlour: An Introduction tenor Darryl Edwards and soprano Monica to Rarely Performed Piano Whicher. Works from Rossini’s “Years of Musicians from Marlboro Silence” Mon Jan 22 Mon Oct 2 The Musicians from Marlboro include Join pianist Enrico Elisi for a lecture-recital Anthony McGill, clarinet, Emilie-Anne highlighting the keyboard compositions Gendron, violin, David McCarroll, violin, of Gioachino Rossini. The lecture portion Daniel Kim, viola and Marcy Rosen, cello. will be interspersed with several played examples and will end with a performance BEETHOVEN String Trio in C minor, Op. 9, of selections from Péchés de vieillesse No. 3 (Sins of Old Age). PENDERECKI Quartet BRAHMS Clarinet Quintet in B minor, New Orford String Quartet Op. 115 Thu Oct 5 Marlboro Music and the University of Toronto GELLMAN Musica Aeterna express their sincere appreciation to Dr. Günes N. RAVEL String Quartet in F major Ege-Akter for making this concert possible. TCHAIKOVSKY String Quartet No. 3 in E flat minor, Op. 30 Cecilia String Quartet with Patricia Parr, piano Mon Mar 5 Joseph Johnson, cello and James Parker, piano HAYDN String Quartet in D major, Op. 64, Mon Oct 30 No. 5 “The Lark” CURCIN String Quartet No. 3 Joseph Johnson, Principal Cello with the DVOŘÁK Piano Quintet No. 2, Op. 81 Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and James Parker, Gryphon Trio pianist, team up for an The Cecilia String Quartet is the James D. Stewart unforgettable evening. Quartet in Residence. DEBUSSY Sonata for Cello and Piano in D The Artist’s Life Through Song: minor BEETHOVEN Sonata for Cello and Piano, Krisztina Szabó, mezzo- No. 2 in G minor, Op. 5 soprano, Christopher Enns, BRAHMS Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 2 tenor and Steven Philcox, piano in F major, Op. 99 Mon Mar 19 An evening of song including Ben Faculty Artists Ensemble Moore’s Dear Theo, inspired by the letter Mon Nov 20 correspondence between Vincent van URI MAYER conductor Gogh and his brother Theo. Canadian EDWARD TAIT music director Art Song Project also premieres their commission for 2018, a song cycle by Members of the Faculty of Music present Jeffrey Ryan based on the journal writings Gustav Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer and of Emily Carr. All programs are subject to change. @UofTMusic 3 OPERA Micah Schroeder and can can dancers in last year’s production of Orpheus in the Underworld. Major opera productions are made possible through a generous gift from David G. Broadhurst. FALL MAJOR OPERA PRODUCTION OPERA STUDENT COMPOSER Don Giovanni COLLECTIVE Thu Nov 23 | 7:30 pm | MacMillan Theatre Vengeance Fri Nov 24 | 7:30 pm | MacMillan Theatre Sun Jan 21 | 2:30 pm | MacMillan Theatre Sat Nov 25 | 7:30 pm | MacMillan Theatre Sun Nov 26 | 2:30 pm | MacMillan Theatre A highlight of the annual New Music Festival is a complete new opera by W. A. Mozart’s towering collaboration our student composers. Vengeance is with Lorenzo da Ponte is considered his a reimagining of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s operatic masterpiece. Don Giovanni’s chilling drama Der Besuch der alten timeless brilliance lies not only in its Dame (The Visit of the Old Lady) in which magnificent score but in its latitude for the world’s richest woman returns to her theatrical interpretation. We are delighted impoverished birthplace to confront the to announce that the UTSO’s Uri Mayer will man she once loved and the townspeople conduct this new production sung in the who betrayed her. Michael Patrick Albano original Italian. Don Giovanni is designed directs and Sandra Horst conducts this by Melanie McNeill (set), Lisa Magill dark tale of revenge. (costumes) and Siobhán Sleath (lighting), and directed by Marilyn Gronsdal, who Free previously staged the Faculty of Music’s Made possible through a generous gift from highly successful productions of Handel’s Dianne W. Henderson. Alcina and Mozart’s La finta giardiniera. $40, $25 senior, $10 student Follow our production development and other news @UofTOpera Sarah Amelard and Joel Allison in last year’s production of Imeneo. 4 Tickets: 416-408-0208 music.utoronto.ca SYMPOSIUM Horst conducts this Canadian premiere Canadian Opera 151 - Where with costumes by Lisa Magill, set by Anna Do We Go From Here? Treusch, lighting by Paul Major and stage Sun Jan 21 | 11 am to 1:30 pm direction by Michael Patrick Albano. Geiger-Torel Room $40, $25 senior, $10 student In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Additional support provided by Janet Stubbs in Faculty of Music’s student composer honour of Michael Patrick Albano. collective, we invite you to join a stimulating panel of young Canadian creative artists as From the 19th Century... they imagine the future of Canadian opera. Tue Apr 3 | 5 pm | Walter Hall Following the symposium, audience and participants are invited to attend UofT Opera’s season concludes with Vengeance (see previous page). costumed and staged scenes from the 19th century operatic repertoire. Although Free opera had its beginnings in the late 16th century and continues with vitality to SPRING MAJOR OPERA PRODUCTION our present day, it is the 19th century Of Thee I Sing which many consider to be the apogee of romantic vocal writing. From Donizetti to Production co-sponsored by Richard and Donna Delibes, Verdi to Wagner, join us for this Holbrook and Marina Yoshida. exciting, one-time performance as we highlight opera’s golden age. Thu Mar 15 | 7:30 pm | MacMillan Theatre Fri Mar 16 | 7:30 pm | MacMillan Theatre $20, $10 student Sat Mar 17 | 7:30 pm | MacMillan Theatre Sun Mar 18 | 2:30 pm | MacMillan Theatre Made possible through a generous gift from Earlaine Collins. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1932, this early George Gershwin work not only showcases the composer’s breezy, Opera Talk, a pre-performance lecture, will signature jazz style but exemplifies the be given half an hour prior to performances period of American musical theatre when of Don Giovanni and Of Thee I Sing in composers wrote for legitimate, non- Room 130 at 80 Queen’s Park. amplified voices. The plot which involves a beleaguered president and a topsy- All MacMillan Theatre productions are turvy White House adds an amusing given with SURTITLESTM. contemporary resonance. Sandra Daevyd Pepper, Caitlin McCaughey and Rebecca Gray in last year’s production of Prima Zombie. Simona Genga in last year’s production of Prima Zombie. All programs are subject to change. @UofTMusic 5 CHOIRS IN CONCERT Celebrating the Choral and In Low Voice Vocal Music of Imant Raminsh Sun Oct 29 | 2:30 pm with the UofT Symphony Church of the Redeemer, 162 Bloor Street West Orchestra Sat Oct 21 | 7:30 pm | MacMillan Theatre MARK RAMSAY, GREG RAINVILLE conductors HILARY APFELSTADT conductor IMANT RAMINSH composer and The UofT Men’s Chorus and the Canadian conductor Men’s Chorus present an afternoon of WILMA AND CLIFFORD SMITH music for male choruses, showcasing a VISITOR IN MUSIC variety of styles and composers. The MacMillan Singers, Women’s Chamber $30, $20 senior, $10 student Choir, Women’s Chorus, Men’s Chorus and the UofT Symphony Orchestra celebrate Sing and Rejoice! composer Imant Raminsh’s choral Sun Dec 3 | 2:30 pm | MacMillan Theatre compositions by performing a variety of HILARY APFELSTADT, ELAINE CHOI, works including the Missa Brevis in C minor MARK RAMSAY, TRACY WONG for treble voices and orchestra and his conductors well-known setting of “Ave verum corpus,” featuring invited alumni and led by the This seasonal celebration features a composer. mixture of familiar and new music sung $30, $20 senior, $10 student by the Men’s Chorus, Women’s Chorus, Women’s Chamber Choir and MacMillan Singers. Program includes Jocelyn Hagen’s How to Survive Winter for women’s voices and string quartet. Lecture with $30, $20 senior, $10 student composer Imant Raminsh Wed Oct 18 at Music for a Sunday Afternoon 7:30 pm. Sun Feb 4 | 2:30 pm | MacMillan Theatre Conducted by graduate students in the See Visitors pages choral conducting program. 20-21 for details. The Women’s Chamber Choir, Men’s Chorus (SATB recital choir) and Women’s Chorus perform music from a variety of time periods including a set of pieces by Canadian composer Nancy Telfer, conducted by Tracy Wong. $30, $20 senior, $10 student 6 Tickets: 416-408-0208 music.utoronto.ca In High Voice Annual High School Sun Mar 11 | 2:30 pm Choral Festival Timothy Eaton Memorial Church, Tue Apr 3 | 9 am to 4 pm 230 St. Clair Avenue West MacMillan Theatre ELAINE CHOI, TRACY WONG conductors HILARY APFELSTADT coordinator The Women’s Chorus hosts an afternoon Local high school groups sing and work- of music for treble voices featuring guest shop with choral faculty, and participate in ensembles.