This can be a checklist of live shows we’re attending, wishing we may attend, or eager about attending between February 10 and 16, 2025. For extra of what’s occurring round Toronto, go to our calendar right here.
Music Toronto | Rachel Fenlon: Schubert: Winterreise
Tuesday, February 11, 7:30 p.m.
Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, $20+
The surreal poignancy of Schubert’s Winterreise explores the darker essence of winter with brutal honesty. The complexity that exists within the liminal area between love, and inevitable loss of life, requires a siamese connection between the singer and pianist — actually, one of the best recordings of the Winterreise are made by wonderful duos — Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Gerald Moore, Thomas Quasthoff and Charles Spencer… So what occurs to this a lot beloved work when a single musician sings, and performs the piano? Rachel Fenlon is planning on doing precisely that on this Tuesday night, to interrupt our hearts with Schubert’s superb mastery of the poetry, whereas her deft palms accompany her personal voice. Singer-songwriter is without doubt one of the types that doesn’t cross into classical music — till right now. That is fairly a daring providing — how would she amalgamate the 2 elements into one? What can we expertise when that spider-silk magical empathy between two people is offered by one particular person, the place each elements of the music beat by means of a singular coronary heart? This may be an fascinating expertise — do trek to the theatre, and be soothed by melancholia and the occasional sensible joys from Fenlon’s solo stage. Information right here.
Confluence Concert events | A Canadian Valentine: Sighs Too Deep for Phrases
Thursday, February 13, 7:30p.m, Friday February 14,7:30 p.m.
Heliconian Corridor, $30
Larry Beckwith curates a night of Canadian love songs and poetry. Wanting on the checklist of performers, fantastically heavy on voices (7 performers, together with perennial favorite Patricia O’Callaghan), with minimal accompanying devices (piano, bass, and lute), the sense of intimate whispers and susceptible confessions fibrillates by means of this system. The promise of brand name new works by younger and gifted locals Michael Spiroff and Francesca Hauser, and the efficiency of Omar Daniel’s Neruda Canciones, provides additional pleasure. How can we expertise, and specific our love these days? What’s it wish to be surrounded by voices whispering new phrases and melodies, within the intimate setting of the Heliconian Corridor? If you’re bored with large, scorching pink, blinking Valentine’s alerts, this simply could be the factor that your coronary heart wants. Information right here.
Royal Conservatory of Music | Michael Feinstein in Due to You
Thursday, February 13, 8 p.m.
Koerner Corridor, $70+
In anticipation of Valentine’s day — positive, it feels a bit loopy, it might be tad bit too business, however we can not let that take away the significance of affection. Feinstein, grasp of the American Songbook, makes his Koerner Corridor debut in celebration of Tony Bennett’s legacy. Tony Bennett and the American Songbook are deeply woven into our tradition, because the radio and scheduled tv broadcasts of the time gave us a novel likelihood to share a lot of the music in chronological sync, serving to construct a particular generational cultural sentiment. Because of this distinctive time interval, the deep artistry of the American songbook speaks so clearly to us. Come out to Koerner, and have a good time this stunning repertoire with Feinstein and the suave Carnegie Corridor Jazz Ensemble, as they swing, sing, and tug on our hearts. Information right here.
Arkel Chamber Concert events | If Music Be the Meals of Love…
Friday, February 14, 7:30 p.m.
Jeanne Lamon Corridor, Trinity St. Paul’s Centre, $40
Trio Arkel brings a night of florid, stunning music with company Heidi Elise Bearcroft (harp), Julie Ranti (flute), and Theresa Rudolph (viola), that includes music from Debussy and Roussel. Albert Roussel, one of the crucial beloved French composers of the interwar interval (between WWI and WWII), first crammed his life with a passionate curiosity in math, and with days on the ocean, on the French frigate Iphigénie, with a few years of journey in faraway locations, together with southern Vietnam. He began finding out music at ripe age of 25, and was quickly educating the giants of his time: Erik Satie and Edgard Varèse. His uncommon life experiences and the dearth of confinement from formal music training gave him one of the crucial distinct voices of his time, and it’s a bit baffling why his music isn’t carried out typically. Effectively, right here’s your likelihood to come back out and listen to Roussel’s work dwell. This mixture of genuinely new, together with the familiarity of Debussy, guarantees a sensual night, match for Valentine’s day. Information right here.
Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra | Might the Fifth Be with You: Beethoven & Star Wars
Saturday, February 15, 3 p.m.
George Weston Corridor, Meridian Arts Centre, North York, $22+
This spectacular group of children deliver their A-game with an thrilling program of John Williams’s Star Wars Suite and Beethoven’s Fifth. Proud grandparents will probably be busy reliving the thrill of the unique Star Wars as skilled again in 1977 within the theatres, whereas devoted dad and mom can have their ears and eyes turned as much as 11, witnessing these onerous working musicians ship the drama of Williams and Beethoven. Merely put, this can be a celebration — an excellent bonding for the younger musicians, and their associates of all ages, by means of nice artwork and human effort in creating, and sharing artwork. All of us will probably be rooting for TSYO this afternoon. So come on down, sit, and expertise jubilant youth at its best. Information right here.
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Cecilia tumbled into ‘severe’ music research when she determined to keep away from attending medical faculty. Presently working within the area of classical music, recording, and Korean-English interpretation, she tends to get her nostril soiled in many alternative issues within the metropolis. Cecilia holds a DMA in Piano Efficiency from the College of Nebraska-Lincoln.
