Leaving Home is a 1972 play by David French set in Toronto in the 1950s and centring on a Newfoundland family that migrated to Toronto at the end of the war. It originally played at Tarragon Theatre and it’s now playing at Coal Mine Theatre in a production by Halifax’ Matchstick Theatre.
Wednesday’s lunchtime concert in the RBA featured three faculty members and two students from the Schulich School’s early music programme. It was quite a varied programme. It started with Dario Castello’s (1602-1631) Sonate concertate in stile moderno, Prima Sonata à due soprani which is a very early example of the sonata form played here by two violins (presumably the due soprani) with harpsichord and cello continuio. Quite interesting and very well played. Another very esarly piece followed; Frescobaldi’s Partita sopra la Follia for solo harpsichord. Again, unusual, interesting and very well done.
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