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It is a record of concert events we’re attending, wishing we might attend, or fascinated with attending between Might 20 and Might 26, 2024. For extra of what’s occurring round Toronto, go to our calendar right here.
Toronto Symphony Orchestra: FREEDOM! A Tribute to Aretha Franklin
Tuesday, Might 21, 8 p.m., Wednesday, Might 22, 2 p.m., Wednesday, Might 22, 8 p.m.
Roy Thomson Corridor, $65+
Shake up your midweek with the music of Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul. Three featured vocalists, Shaleah Adkisson, Blaine Alden Krauss and Tamika Lawrence, are well-seasoned professionals, bringing in-depth expertise from Broadway, tv manufacturing, and recording studios. With Dina Gilbert on the podium of the TSO, the present will groove with the highly effective music of Aretha. It’s promoting fairly scorching: plan forward and be able to hum alongside, no less than. Information right here.
Tapestry Opera: Le Kitchen Occasion
Tuesday, Might 21, 8 p.m.
Theatre Passe MUraille, 16 Ryerson Ave. Pay-what-you-can ($65/45/25)
The Acadians are well-known for his or her heaving kitchen events. Juliane Gallant, on behalf of Tapestry Opera, invitations you to a celebration night time with a mixture of conventional Maritime tunes and modern music from Sophie Dupuis (composer), that includes performers Jacques Arsenault, Pierre-André Doucet and Marie Andrée Gaudet. The night guarantees to be brief and candy in a 90-minute lengthy program, so come on down with snug sneakers, do you have to be moved to affix in with singing and dancing. If you want you can catch them on one other day: TO may have one other short-and-sweet present on Wednesday, Might 22. Iron Chef d’Orchestre, with hosts Jennifer Tung, veteran of 15 years with TO, and Keith Klassen. Learn our Preview of each reveals right here. Information right here.
Toronto Symphony Orchestra: Sport On!
Friday, Might 24, 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Might 25, 7:30 p.m.
Roy Thomson Corridor. $96+
Stay online game music concert events have grown from fringe curiosity to main cultural occasions. This weekend, TSO performs music from main recreation titles: Guild Wars 2, World of Warcraft, The Witcher 3, Bioshock, Murderer’s Creed, and lots of others, accompanied by never-seen-before HD movies. Ever questioned what an epic boss battle music would truly sound like, in actual life? Head down together with your gamer family and friends, younger and outdated(er), and see their faces mild up, with the actual, dynamic soundscape of a reside orchestra. Information right here.
Toronto Bach Pageant: Sport of Threes (Pageant Opener)
Friday, Might 24, 8 p.m., Sport of Threes: Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth Ave.
$52 for single ticket, Pageant Passport $187
Pageant Continues Might 25 & 26 (see beneath)
Since 2016, Toronto Bach Pageant has been specializing in bringing traditionally knowledgeable performances of Bach and his contemporaries to Toronto. What’s traditionally knowledgeable apply and why does it matter? Bach scholar and creative director of TBF, John Abberger is simply the best particular person to curate a solution to that query. With 4 live performance applications and a lecture, the competition will happen in 3 completely different areas over this weekend, and will provide you with loads of possibilities to study in regards to the many aspects of Bach’s work. The Sport of Threes, the primary of the 4 applications, options Bach’s triple violin concerto and Brandberg No. 3, and different works. The Pageant continues with an Organ Recital (Might 25); Kaffeehaus (Might 25); Vocal Recital (Might 26) & Lecture (Might 26). Learn our Interview with John Abberger right here. Information right here.
VIVA Singers Toronto: Poetry in Movement
Saturday, Might 25, 6:30 p.m.
Jeanne Lamon Corridor, Trinity St. Paul’s United Church. $25
VIVA Singers Toronto: essentially the most complete and inclusive choral program within the metropolis, is presenting their spring live performance. There are seven choirs within the VIVA system, ranging from age 4 to adults, and for many who want a little bit extra detailed lodging, VIVA’s Each Voice Issues Refrain offers an individually tailor-made assist plan for every participant — an outstanding instance of open-access group music making. It’s a real pleasure to see all teams excel, and for this spring, VIVA have ready music of our time — together with works by Tracy Wong, Andrew Balfour and Eric Whitacre — together with excerpts from Orff’s Carmina Burana, with senior dancers from the Oakwood Collegiate Institute, and a premiere of the winner of the primary annual VIVA composition competitors. An effective way to look at all-ages/all-abilities excel, as we cheer them on. Information right here.
Toronto Chinese language Orchestra: Seasons
Saturday, Might 25, 7:30 p.m.
Tribute Communities Recital Corridor, York College. $30
TCO celebrates the tip of their first season as a group accomplice with York College Arts, Media, Efficiency & Design, with a combined program of conventional and modern Chinese language orchestral music. Together with massive ensemble works, a pipa concerto (soloist: Wendy Zhou), Kuan Nai-Chung’s double percussion concerto (soloists: Bobby Csh and Brett Lipson), composer-in-residence Matthew James Van Driel’s model new orchestration of his work ‘Whiteout’, can be performed. Organized in a barely completely different method to a typical western orchestra — winds, low strings, plucked strings, bowed strings, and percussion — it’s a stunning method to see real Chinese language artwork music in Toronto, a real bonus of residing in a multicultural metropolis. Pre-concert discuss begins at 6:45 p.m. Information right here.
Christina Petrowska Quilico: A Canadian Piano Recital
Saturday, Might 25, 7:30 p.m.
Walter Corridor, School of Music. $30
Christina Petrowska Quilico has been championing Canadian composers for many years, and her ardour continues on this program of Canadian music. Works by Larysa Kuzmenko, David Jaeger, Ruth Schonthal, Oskar Morawetz and Peter Paul Koprowski, hardly ever carried out reside, will all be a part of this night’s expertise. What have we, as a nation, been creating when it comes to classical piano music? Come and discover out. Information right here.
Mississauga Symphony: An Alpine Symphony
Saturday, Might 25, 8 p.m.
Hammerson Corridor, Mississauga Dwelling Arts Centre. $40+
MSO is performing Richard Strauss’s ‘An Alpine Symphony’ for his or her final live performance of 23/24 season. A piece recognized for the ocean of brass required, MSO is joined by the superb Weston Silver Band. A 120-piece orchestra is sort of an expertise, if one ever questioned what it might be wish to expertise your entire live performance corridor resonate – and maybe your individual physique resonating with the corridor – that is it. Be ready for a number of the loudest and strongest orchestral music you’ll ever hear. Information right here.
Metropolitan Silver Band
Sunday, Might 26, 1 p.m.
Sanctuary, Metropolitan United Church, 56 Queen St. E. Freewill donation.
As a part of the ‘Door Open Toronto’ occasion, the Metropolitan Silver Band will current a one-hour program of quite a lot of types, beginning at 1 p.m., within the lovely sanctuary on the Metropolitan United church. There can be a visible arts exhibition, organ performances (on Canada’s largest pipe organ), and guided excursions all through the day as effectively. A little bit little bit of the whole lot for everybody, and an effective way to expertise the church and its acoustics with a lot freedom. Information right here.
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Cecilia tumbled into ‘severe’ music research when she determined to keep away from attending medical faculty. At the moment 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.
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