Christmas may not yet be white, but at least we’re starting the season right A New Ears review by Helen Androlia. It’s an unfortunate truth that when you work in advertising (as I do) that Christmas actually starts in July, as that’s really when you begin planning for the season. So, as December finally rolls...
Michael Vincent, Musical Toronto and The Toronto Star. Toronto boasts over 30 Messiah’s performed across the city, and perhaps with the exception of New York City, makes Toronto Messiah Central.
While there are a wide variety of offerings, The Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Tafelmusik remain the two standbys. Without being too competitive, it’s always fun to compare them.
John Gilks, operaramblings. Sir Andrew Davis is in town conducting his own orchestration of Handel’s Messiah. In the modern world this is probably as close as it gets to Sir Malcolm Sargent and the Huddersfield Choral Society. He conducts the TSO with brass and woodwinds that Handel never saw and lots of percussion including snare drum, sleigh bells, tambourines and marimba. He also has the not inconsiderable heft of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir.
Robert Harris, The Globe and Mail. Davis’s Messiah will be one of three quite different versions of the perennial favourite presented in Toronto next week, a bit shy of the 20 or so in the New York metropolitan area that the unfortunate junior critic for the New York Times is routinely assigned to review every season, but quite a bouquet nonetheless. The three Messiahs show the extreme versatility and adaptability of this amazing work, which has been pushed and pulled into innumerable, sometimes unrecognizable shapes over its two-and-a-half-century existence, but which manages to escape whole and healthy every time.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Fall 2015 In Pictures During the season, we capture our choristers, Alumni, Singsation community, conductors, staff, and supporters on camera at rehearsals, performances, Singsations, and special events. Have we snapped you? Click on the slideshow below to find out! [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_gallery interval=”3″ images=”1935,1936,1937,1938,1940,1939,1933,1934,1903,1904,1905,1907,1906,1910,1911,1915,1917,1916,1913,1914,1918,1912,1921,1919,1920,1928,1927,1926,1925,1924,1922,1923,1909,1908,1929,1930″ img_size=”medium” title=”From September to December”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Click on image above for a slide-show...
Returning to rehearsal for the first time after the summer break, choristers missed a familiar face. Longtime TMC volunteer registrar Eleanor Kunycia has retired, and to some it feels a bit like the end of an era.
What is most important to you about the TMC community?
Passion, dedication, professionalism.
The TMC Community consists of a wide circle of support: choristers, subscribers, audience members, volunteers, donors, staff and Board of Directors all play a role in championing choral music in Canada. Among our donors, a small number of corporate and individual donors make specific programmes and performances possible. In 2015-16, so far, two individuals and...
One of reasons choral singing became and remains a significant part of my life has to do with the deep sense of community that the choral music experience can engender. I believe the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir does this in spades.