Enhance your appreciation and enjoyment of TMC performances with insight into the choral works being performed, and the composers who wrote them! Come 45 minutes early for our informal pre-concert chats presented by Rick Phillips.

For 14 years, Rick Phillips was the Host and Producer of SOUND ADVICE, the weekly guide to classical music and recordings on CBC Radio One and Radio Two. SOUND ADVICE had a weekly national audience of 400,000 ranging from newcomers to classical music, to seasoned veterans to classical record collectors, young and old. Rick has always been active in the adult music appreciation field, offering courses at the McGill Conservatory, Alberta College, Mount Royal College, the Royal Conservatory of Music and the University of Toronto. He is the author of "The Essential Classical Recordings -101 CDs" published by McClelland & Stewart. Rick is open to questions and is happy to recommend recordings.

Pre-concert Chats are FREE to all ticket holders - Listen to a Sample

2008/2009 Schedule

Friday, November 7, 2008 at 7:15 pm
In connection with a man divine (Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem & Brahms’ Requiem)

Good Friday, April 10, 2009 at 6:45 pm
In connection with sacred music for a sacred space (Bruckner's Mass No 2 & Motets)

Saturday, May 9, 2009 at 7:15 pm
In connection with passion has a voice (Mendelssohn’s Elijah)

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Meet & Greet

Haven’t you always wanted to know what drives a Toronto Mendelssohn chorister to spend up to 200 hours per year in rehearsals and concerts? Our choristers would love to tell you their stories. A selection of choristers will be available for 15 minutes before each Toronto Mendelssohn Choir concert to welcome you and answer any questions you may have about the TMC organization, our family of choirs and our singers’ personal involvement. Choristers will be easily recognized by their concert dress of long black gowns for women and white tie and tails for the men. Don’t be shy – they love to talk!