2024-25 Season Archives - Toronto Mendelssohn Choir https://www.tmchoir.org/category/2024-25-season/ Canada’s Choir for 130 Years Wed, 01 Oct 2025 15:55:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 TMChoir’s 2024/2025 Season in Review https://www.tmchoir.org/24-25-season-in-review/ Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:12:16 +0000 https://www.tmchoir.org/?p=13762 This year was a landmark season celebrating 130 years of choral excellence and collaboration.

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]]> 5 Reasons You Won’t Want to Miss Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis https://www.tmchoir.org/5-reasons-missa-solemnis/ Tue, 01 Apr 2025 20:34:58 +0000 https://www.tmchoir.org/?p=13508 Beethoven’s Missa solemnis is one of the most profound and monumental choral works ever written. Rarely performed due to its immense technical and artistic demands, it is a work of deep spirituality, emotion, and musical brilliance. Here's why you won't want to miss it.

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]]> Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis Program Notes https://www.tmchoir.org/beethovens-missa-solemnis-program-notes/ Tue, 01 Apr 2025 20:18:33 +0000 https://www.tmchoir.org/?p=13504 The program notes are written by Rena Roussin, Musicologist-in-Residence. “From the heart—may it return—to the heart.” After four years of compositional work, these are the words Ludwig van Beethoven inscribed on...

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]]> Toronto Mendelssohn Choir Announces Leadership Transition https://www.tmchoir.org/toronto-mendelssohn-choir-announces-leadership-transition/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 14:26:13 +0000 https://www.tmchoir.org/?p=13384 Toronto, March 3, 2025 The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir (TMChoir) announces that Executive Director Daniela Nardi will be departing her role in March 2025 to pursue other opportunities. “We are deeply...

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]]> Toronto Mendelssohn Choir Expands Reach with Bold Performances and Community Initiatives in 2023/24 Season https://www.tmchoir.org/2023-2024-agm/ Wed, 05 Feb 2025 01:03:20 +0000 https://www.tmchoir.org/?p=13320       Toronto Mendelssohn Choir (TMChoir) marked a year of achievements and strategic growth at its 2023/24 Annual General Meeting, held online. The meeting, led by Board Chair David...

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]]> Visionaries: Vivaldi & Da Vinci Program Notes https://www.tmchoir.org/visionaries-vivaldi-davinci-program-notes/ Wed, 22 Jan 2025 21:50:07 +0000 https://www.tmchoir.org/?p=13293 The program notes are written by Rena Roussin, Musicologist-in-Residence. At a glance and on the surface, there might seem to be little in common between Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi, Renaissance artist...

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]]> Festival of Carols Program Notes 2024 https://www.tmchoir.org/festival-of-carols-program-notes-2024/ Tue, 17 Dec 2024 19:04:23 +0000 https://www.tmchoir.org/?p=13196 The program notes are written by Rena Roussin, Musicologist-in-Residence. Welcome to the 25th annual Festival of Carols! A beloved holiday tradition in Toronto that is now a quarter-century old, the Festival...

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]]> The Love Affair: Waltz & Tango Program Notes https://www.tmchoir.org/love-affair-program-notes/ Wed, 30 Oct 2024 20:33:24 +0000 https://www.tmchoir.org/?p=13005 The program notes are written by Rena Roussin, Musicologist-in-Residence. The central pieces of tonight’s program—Brahms’s Liebeslieder Wälzer and Palmeri’s Misatango—are both inspired by dance forms associated with romantic love. However, the...

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]]> Music with Purpose: Composer-in-Residence Aaron Manswell on His Latest Composition https://www.tmchoir.org/music-with-purpose-composer-in-residence-aaron-manswell-on-his-latest-composition/ Fri, 25 Oct 2024 20:06:58 +0000 https://www.tmchoir.org/?p=12961 This season, we welcome Aaron Manswell as our composer-in-residence. Aaron brings a unique voice to choral music, drawing from his experiences in Gospel, R&B, and classical composition. In our upcoming concert The Love Affair: Waltz & Tango, we are excited to present Aaron’s Stick with Love as well as the world premiere of his new work Poverty.

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]]> 5 Reasons to Love Misatango https://www.tmchoir.org/5-reasons-to-love-misatango/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 17:14:16 +0000 https://www.tmchoir.org/?p=12925 If you haven’t heard Misatango yet, let us get you acquainted. This glorious blend of classical choral music and Argentine tango, composed by Martín Palmeri in 1996, is a bold genre-bending masterpiece that has been performed around the world. With its unique mix of sacred and tango rhythms, Misatango brings fresh energy to the choral repertoire.

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