This can be a record of concert events we’re attending, wishing we might attend, or occupied with attending between November 18 and 24, 2024. For extra of what’s taking place round Toronto, go to our calendar right here.
Music Toronto: Marc-André Hamelin
Tuesday, November 19, 7:30 p.m.
Jane Mallett Theatre, $20+
Broadly considered top-of-the-line pianists of our technology, Hamelin returns to Toronto to current an eclectic solo piano programme of Frank Zappa, Stefan Wolpe and John Oswald, together with the outdated favs of Haydn, Medtner, and Rachmaninoff. With 7 JUMO nominations and 11 Grammy nominations — a positive nod to his wonderful musicianship — Hamelin’s recitals are all the time a mixture of appreciation of acquainted magnificence, and new discoveries. Come and see what is feasible on the piano with this very good performer. Information right here.
College of Toronto Thursdays at Midday: Pleasure Boy — Dustin Donahue & Kairos Percussion Quartet
Thursday, November 21, Midday
Walter Corridor, College of Music, Free
Once we hear the phrase percussion, we consider objects: drum kits, tribal bongos, or the massive shiny timpani on the orchestral live performance. Nevertheless, together with the voice, percussion is without doubt one of the most quick technique of human expression, as we clap, strike, and talk via talking with consonants earlier than we decide up any devices — the probabilities of this percussion soundscape are actually infinite and visceral. Come out to this extravagant noon feast of richly different soundscape with beautifully proficient younger percussion quartet Kairos, and visiting artist Dustin Donahue, as they current works by Joshua Weinfeld, Juri Search engine optimisation, and the tragically short-lived genius of our time, Julius Eastman. Information right here.
West Finish Micro Music Pageant: Ecstatic Voices
Friday, November 22, 7:30 p.m., Saturday, November 23, 7:30 p.m.
1691 Bloor St. W, $33.28, free for college kids
The West Finish Micro Music Pageant, of their fourth yr, presents a real avant-garde program: Ecstatic Voice, a welcome sighting in Toronto. Regardless of our dimension (we’re the 4th largest metropolis in North America, after Mexico Metropolis, New York Metropolis, and Los Angeles), we have now a comparatively tight-bound and comfortable classical music scene of only one full-time orchestra, together with just a few half-season ensembles — it’s very tempting to remain complacent. It’s a true blessing to have these small unbiased initiatives that maintain us on our toes, and this programming, that includes vocal chamber works on the leading edge by Cassandra Miller and Caroline Shaw, with nods to the previous in Vivier, Berio and Tallis, is a wonderful approach to get your ft moist into the bizarre world of up to date classical music. Come and listen to these eight magnificent voices current you with contemporary, stunning, and extremely tender moments spoken via our personal present language, and be amazed by the infinitely different soundscape of the percussion world. Take a look at our Preview right here. Information right here.
Royal Conservatory Music: Earl Lee Conducts the Royal Conservatory Orchestra
Friday, November 22, 8 p.m., Koerner Corridor, $25+
The Royal Conservatory Orchestra presents a night of acquainted Romantic richness: Richard Strauss and Rachmaninov, extremely contrasted with the Britten Violin Concerto; an acerbic, understated, and extremely expressive work, talking from the fear and oppression of its time — as soon as theirs, and which continues to be ours. Written within the shadow of the Spanish Civil Warfare, the younger Britten, enlightened and impressed by W.H.Auden, targeted on making arts converse for the working-class within the midst of main political struggles. The impression of those wars made a deep mark, crystallizing in his Warfare Requiem (1961-62), and this earlier work resonates with comparable vibes — of the navy marches, lamentation and of perpetual fury. As soon as thought-about practically inconceivable to play, it nonetheless is considered probably the most troublesome violin concertos. Come and see fearless younger artist, Anna Štube, sort out this monumental work with the RCO, then keep for the wealthy, decadent tapestry of the Symphonic Dances. These two works, written practically concurrently, can’t be any extra totally different, and it might be an expertise to listen to them side-by-side. Information right here.
Tafelmusik: Bach Christmas Oratorio
Friday, November 22, 8 p.m., Saturday, November 23, 8 p.m., Sunday, November 24, 3 p.m.
Jeanne Lamon Corridor, Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre, $20+
Bach’s good Christmas Oratorio is a good way to start out the festive season. Tafelmusik Orchestra and Choir, below the course of Ivars Taurins, convey us this unimaginable work, that includes soloists Hélène Brunet, Cecilia Duarte, and Jesse Blumberg, for his or her Tafelmusik debuts; a favourite, Charles Daniels completes the vocal soloist quartet, with brilliance and fervour. Bach wrote these cantatas as a perfunctory addition to his native church service; nevertheless, his superb setting of this acquainted biblical story nonetheless carries a way of surprise and sweetness, regardless of its age and our personal familiarities. Come and expertise this work in individual, with the very good Tafelmusik Choir and Orchestra, within the lovely house of Jeanne Lamon Corridor, the place, acoustically, there are not any dangerous seats. Learn our Preview right here. Information here.
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Cecilia tumbled into ‘severe’ music examine when she determined to keep away from attending medical faculty. Presently working within the area of classical music, recording, and Korean-English interpretation, she tends to get her nostril soiled in many various issues within the metropolis. Cecilia holds a DMA in Piano Efficiency from the College of Nebraska-Lincoln.