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Looking forward to December

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‘Tis the season of family holiday shows and Messiahs.  Not that I’m planning to do much of either but here are some shows that you might be interested in…

  • On December 7th, the earliest of the Messiahs.  Toronto Choral Society have a matinée performance at Koerner Hall.  Soloists include Quinn Kelsey and Teresa Tucci .
  • The Ensemble Studio have a noon hour concert on December 9th in the RBA
  • Rogers vs Rogers opens at Crow’s Theatre on December 10th.  This is another adaptation by Michael Heaney of a book about Toronto shenanigans.  He was also responsible for The Masterplan.  Previews are the 2nd to the 9th with the run extending to January 3rd.

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Immersed

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Immersed is an audio-visual performance piece created by Justin Gray.  There are visuals but the raison d’etre of the piece is recorded music.  The whole thing was written to be recorded and then played back using Dolby ATMOS to create a three dimensional moving soundscape.  I got to experience it on Saturday night in the TD Music hall at Massey Hall which has a thirty eight speaker array for doing just this kind of thing.  It was playing as part of Luminato.

There were thirty eight musicians involved in the project…

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The Bright Divide

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Soundstreams’ concert on Friday evening in the new TD Music Hall at Massey Hall was inspired by the Rothko Chapel in Houstion, Texas.  It featured two works; Morton Feldman’s Rothko Chapel, commissioned for the opening of the chapel, and Cecilia Livingston’s mark, commissioned for Friday’s concert.  Both featured chorus (Soundstreams Choir 21), viola (Steven Dann), celesta (Gregory Oh) and percussion (Ryan Scott).  mark also featured baritone Alex Samaras).  Both were staged by Tim Albery with lighting by Siobhán Sleath and projections by Cameron Davis.

The Bright Divide/ Soundstream

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