Toronto Mendelssohn Singers Offer Intriguing, Emotional Version Of Schubert’s Winterreise Ludwig Van Paula Citron March 19, 2024 Toronto Mendelssohn Singers/Winterreise by Franz Schubert, conducted by Jean-Sébastien Vallée, featuring baritone Brett Polegato, pianist Philip Chiu, and the Toronto Mendelssohn Singers, Jean Lamon Hall, Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre, Mar. 16. Since becoming artistic director of the Toronto Mendelssohn...
The program notes are written by Rena Roussin, Musicologist-in-Residence. From the mid-eighteenth-century through to the end of the nineteenth, numerous German-speaking writers (the most famous among them including Goethe and Heine) contributed unprecedented amounts of poetry to German literature. In the same time period, multiple German and Austrian composers were reading and setting those texts to...
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir’s Festival Of Carols A Truly Joyous Occasion Ludwig Van Joseph So December 7, 2023 Festival of Carols / Toronto Mendelssohn Choir; Toronto Mendelssohn Singers; Jonathan Oldengarm, organ; Irene Gregorio, piano; Colleen Allen, saxophone; Jean-Sébastien Vallée, conductor. Dec. 5, 2023 7:30pm Yorkminster Park Baptist Church, 1585 Yonge Street, Toronto. It’s that time of...
The program notes are written by Rena Roussin, Musicologist-in-Residence. Welcome to the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir’s 2023 Festival of Carols! A December tradition for the choir for many years, the Festival of Carols ushers in the holiday season with a chance to hear and communally sing Christmas carols, while also reflecting on the upcoming season. This year’s...
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir Opens Season With A Scintillating Carmina Burana Ludwig Van Joseph So October 30, 2023 Carl Orff: Carmina Burana; Johannes Brahms: Schicksalslied; Tracy Wong: Patah Tumbuh (Broken – Renewed). Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Toronto Children’s Chorus, Members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Jean-Sébastien Vallée conducting. October 27, 2023 at Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto. For...
O Fortuna operaramblings October 28, 2023 I attended the second of two performances of their season opener by the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir at Roy Thomson Hall last night. It was an enjoyable and well constructed programme. It opened with two pieces by composer in residence Tracy Wong. Patah – Tumbuh (Broken – Renewed), for choir and children’s...
The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir’s “Carmina Burana” smART Magazine Stephen Low October 26, 2023 Carmina Burana is a sonic spectacle. Carl Orff, the composer of the 1937 masterpiece Carmina Burana, would be pleased with this descriptive, as he originally intended it to be a piece of music theatre ─ with sets and costumes, dancing, and staged action ─ that...
TMChoir alumnus, Tom Logan, loved to sing. He proudly sang with the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir for 25 years. But starting from an early age, Tom’s life was filled with music and it played a major role until his death in March of 2022. As a young person, he studied voice at the Royal Conservatory of...
Toronto Mendelssohn Singers & Compagnie de la Citadelle Create Performance Magic Ludwig Van Paula Citron September 28, 2023 Toronto Mendelssohn Singers & Compagnie de la Citadelle /In Time: At the Intersection of Music & Dance, featuring music by Bach, Handel and Caroline Shaw, conducted by Jean-Sébastien Vallée, choreographed by Laurence Lemieux, Jeanne Lamon Hall, Trinity-St....