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NextSteps, Harbourfront Centre

NEXTSTEPS ANNOUNCES COMPANIES TAKING THE STAGE AT HARBOURFRONT CENTRE IN '07-'08

NextSteps, Harbourfront Centre's new dance series announces it's second season, celebrating a range of home-grown choreography. Performances showcase the diversity of Canadian culture and offers work ranging from flamenco to South Asian and from folkloric and Afro-Caribbean to contemporary. Presented both in the Premiere Dance Theatre and the Harbourfront Centre Theatre September 2007 through May 2008, NextSteps brings together the astonishing breadth of dance companies into this exciting program in its sophomore year. Watch for further details in late August this year.

Premiere Dance Theatre April 9 - 12
Dancemakers
April 17 - 19
Ballet Creole: Spring Works
Enwave Theatre April 24 - 26
DanceWorks - DW171 - Heidi Strauss
April 30 - May 3
CanAsian International Dance Festival
May 1 - 3
CanAsian International Dance Festival
May 9 - 10
Andrea Naan Dreamwalker Dance Company
May 29 - 31, 2008
Dance Immersion - 2008 Showcase Presentation

Further information check the Harbourfront Centre website:  http://www.harbourfrontcentre.com/noflash/perfarts/dance.php  

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Maestro Peter Oundjian and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra
presents the NEW CREATIONS FESTIVAL

April 9 – 17
The 4th Annual New Creations Festival, that runs from April 9 – 17, will celebrate the centennial of Olivier Messiaen (1908-92) by presenting several of the vibrant French composer's most demanding, grand-scale orchestral works alongside world and Canadian premières by living composers who continue to be inspired by Messiaen's work.

This year the Festival takes over all of Roy Thomson Hall with acrobats from Zero Gravity Circus; intermission chats with visiting composers led by the TSO Composer Advisor Gary Kulesha; as well as post-concert musical performances by Indian jazz fusion groups Attar Project, Autorickshaw and RagaWrap. In addition, for the first time ever, a live video feed of the concerts will be projected simultaneously on two screens set up above the stage.

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PREMIERES & THE JULES-LÉGER PRIZE
April 11 - 8:00 p.m.
newmusic.jpg (18511 bytes)New Music Concerts Ensemble: Robert Aitken, direction; David Swan, piano; Dieter Hennings, guitar; Kathleen McLean, bassoon; Accordes string quartet; Erica Goodman, harp.

On Friday, April 11, New Music Concerts proudly presents premiers at Toronto's Glenn Gould Studio. The evening includes the world premiere of SUB by Korean-born So Jeong Ahn, a truly Torontonian work, using the Toronto subway as a source of inspiration for a piece of concert music.

The concert also features the world premiere of Rodney Sharman's Incantation for solo bassoon, string quartet and harp, written especially for Kathleen McLean, and the first Canadian performances of large ensemble works by Canadians Alice Ping Yee Ho and the Toronto-based Mexican composer Juan Trigos.

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Anton Kuerti Plays Beethoven April 12 & 13
In Season Close of Mooredale Concerts

Anton_Kuerti.gif (13288 bytes)Anton Kuerti, probably the Canada's most celebrated interpreter of Beethoven's piano music, concludes the 2007-08 season of Mooredale Concerts with an all-Beethoven performance, April 12 and 13.

Kuerti, who is in his first season as Mooredale Concerts' artistic director, will include an illustrated commentary prior to his performance of the celebrated 33 Variations on a Theme by Anton Diabelli in C major, Op. 120.

According to Kuerti, the rarely performed Diabelli Variations are "the absolute summit of Beethoven's piano music. This sublime work is both the longest and the greatest of his piano works, and was written several years after all his 32 Piano Sonatas were completed.†It is definitely my favourite!" Kuerti has recorded all of the Beethoven piano concertos and sonatas, as well as the Diabelli Variations.

  • Saturday Apr 12, 8pm at: Willowdale United Church
    347 Kenneth Avenue, North York
    Four blocks south of Finch, One block east of Yonge.  (Finch Subway Station)
  • Sunday Apr 13, 3pm at: Walter Hall
    Edward Johnson Building, University of Toronto
    South of the Royal Ontario Museum, behind Childrens Museum.  (Museum Subway Station)
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logo-roythomson.gif (1602 bytes) BRYN TERFEL WITH PIANIST Malcom Martineau
April 15 at 8 PM / Roy Thomson Hall
bryn_terfel.jpg (11775 bytes)Declared "the baritone of the next millenium" by The New York Times, the incomparable rugby-playing charismatic Welshman returns to Toronto after an eight-year absence. This is a concert that promises pleasure - rare and pure.
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logo-roythomson.gif (1602 bytes) 11th Annual FREE Noon Hour Choir & Organ Concerts
Olivier Latry, organ

April 17 at 12 NOON
ChoirOrgan.jpg (16127 bytes)FREE ADMISSION

Roy Thomson Hall’s magnificent Gabriel Kney pipe organ shares the spotlight with Canada’s most celebrated organists and choirs – a delightful way to relax for one hour with great choral music and the King of Instruments.

France’s world-renowned Olivier Latry, titular organist of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, performs a solo organ recital. The event coincides with his appearance as soloist with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

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logo-acousticharvest.gif (7034 bytes) The Acoustic Harvest Folk Club proudly presents
TONY BIRD
April 19 - 8 pm
tonybird.jpg (11893 bytes)$18 Adv. Reservations at St. Nicholas Anglican Church 1512 Kingston Rd.

From southeast Africa, Tony Bird, a Malawi-born song man, is a complete original. With a mesmerizing intensity, his voice, vision, guitar style and persona are unique in all of folk music. Bird's African roots have produced a performer with a far-ranging repertoire that includes exotic travelogues of mountains with misty landscapes, desert and bushland filled with lions, birds, bushmen, mangoes, monkeys, sunsets and bicycles. All this savannah-laden tropicana is interspersed with narrative tales of darkness and delight, topical and historical commentary, love songs, musical tone poems, rallying cries of inspiration and a whimsical sense of humor.

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present Common Chords
April 20 at 8 p.m.

continuum2.jpg (86350 bytes)On Sunday, April 20 at 8 p.m. at The Music Gallery, Continuum Contemporary Music presents Common Chords, a co-production with The Music Gallery.

Recent work from two leading Czech composers finds aesthetic kinship with Czech-Canadian Rudolf Komorous and new works by Gyula Csapo and Cassandra Miller, which explore the cultural artifacts of language and story. The Continuum ensemble, joined by conductor Gregory Oh and soprano Carla Huhtanen perform these works that find commonality through revisiting and revising past practice (scraps of the tonal system are drafted into service in surprising ways).

The Music Gallery is located at 197 John Street, north of Queen in Toronto.

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logo-operaatelier.gif (13100 bytes) Measha Brueggergosman makes her Mozart opera debut
with Toronto's Opera Atelier
April 26 - 29, May 1 - 3 at Elgin Theatre
operaatelier.jpg (20636 bytes)Acclaimed Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman will sing the role of Elettra in the company's spring production of Mozart's Idomeneo. This marks Ms. Brueggergosman's first performance in a Mozart opera and her debut with Canada's premier baroque theatre company. Idomeneo runs for six performances April 26, 27, 29, May 1, 2 and 3, 2008 at Toronto's historic Elgin Theatre (189 Yonge Street).

Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman has received critical acclaim as much for her innate musicianship and voluptuous voice as for her dynamic and vibrant stage presence. She has performed with many of today's finest international orchestras and most esteemed conductors. Her operatic credits include Madame Lidoine in Poulenc's The Dialogues of the Carmelites (Vancouver Opera), Juno in Aeneas in Karthago (Staatsoper Stuttgart) by Joseph Martin Kraus, Li_ in Puccini's Turandot and Sister Rose in Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking (Cincinnati Opera). An exclusive artist with Deutsche Grammophon, Ms. Brueggergosman's first recording with the label, Surprise, was released throughout North America in autumn 2007.

This glittering new production of Idomeneo will be directed by Marshall Pynkoski and choreographed by Jeannette Zingg, with set designs by Gerard Gauci, costumes by Margaret Lamb, lighting by Bonnie Beecher, and Andrew Parrott conducting the Tafelmusik Orchestra. Idomeneo also features the extraordinary American male soprano Michael Maniaci in the role of Idamante, Peggy Kriha Dye as Ilia, Olivier Laquerre as Arbace, Chad Shelton as Idomeneo, Curtis Sullivan as Neptune, with Artists of Atelier Ballet. The production will be sung in Italian with English and French SURTITLESTM.

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icon-smcs.gif (8319 bytes) ST. MICHAEL'S CHOIR SCHOOL: MUSIC OF THE AMERICAS
April 26 - 7:30 p.m., St. Michael's Cathedral
May 2 - 7:30 p.m., St. Isaac Jogues Parish
smcs-music.jpg (20128 bytes)St. Michael's Choir School's Spring Concert features Music of the Americas – music which has emerged over the centuries by composers from the “ World". Experience the moving music of our founder Msgr. John Edward Ronan; music of our recently-retired music director, Msgr. T. Barrett Armstrong and De profundis by our own composer in residence – Tomáš Dušatko. Enjoy the exuberant music of Brazilian Ernani Aguiar with its infectious rhythms. Works by Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Morten Lauridsen, Imant Ramish, Nancy Telfer, Ruth Watson Henderson, and Healey Willan will also be included in this programme as the choirs take you on a musical tour of the Americas.
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Canada's most prolific and acclaimed songwriters backed by full orchestra
Ron Sexsmith
May 3 at 8 p.m.

RonSexsmith.jpg (20081 bytes)Many singer-songwriters are fans of Paul McCartney, though it is rare that the opposite is true - as is the case with Ron Sexsmith. Come hear one of Canada's most prolific and acclaimed songwriters debut the music from his new record. Ron will also perform his greatest hits backed by orchestra. The best of both worlds! This concert will be recorded by CBC Radio for future broadcast.

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Canada's Most Celebrated Singer-Songwriter
GORDON LIGHTFOOT
Ontario Concert Dates For Spring
May 7 - 9 at 8 p.m.

GordonLightfoot.jpg (13245 bytes)A modern day troubadour, Gordon Lightfoot's time-defying style and legendary hits have made him one of Canada's most anticipated live performers. His concerts the world-over continually fill to capacity with legions of fans eager to experience Lightfoot's melodic, soulful voice and unmistakable sound.

Ontario fans will get a chance to see Lightfoot live this Spring during a special four-city concert tour that includes a two-night stop at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa on April 19th and 20th; followed with appearances at Hamilton Place on May 2nd and Centre in the Square in Kitchener on May 3rd. Lightfoot will conclude the tour with a return visit to Toronto's Massey Hall from May 7th through 10th.

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MOSCOW VIRTUOSI & VLADIMIR SPIVAKOV SET
TO IGNITE TORONTO AUDIENCES MAY 22 AT ROY THOMSON HALL
VladimirSpivakov.jpg (11894 bytes)The Moscow Virtuosi and conductor Vladmir Spivakov perform at Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe Street, Toronto, on Thursday, May 22, 8 p.m. Presented by Show One Entertainment, the concert is part of the 30th anniversary tour of the internationally acclaimed Russian chamber orchestra.

Striking young Russian dynamo Olga Kern, winner of the 2001 Van Cliburn Competition, makes her Toronto debut as soloist in piano concertos by Haydn and Shostakovich.

On May 22, the 30-piece orchestra will perform Arnold Schoenberg's lush Verklarte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Aria by Friedrich Gulda, Aria and two tangos by Astor Piazzolla, with accordion solo.

Show One is also presenting the Moscow Virtuosi at Vancouver's Chan Centre for the Performing Arts on May 8.

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George Thorogood and The Destroyers
Return to Massey Hall in their first concert since 1990
May 30 at 8 p.m.

GeorgeThorogood.jpg (18554 bytes)A blues-rock guitarist who draws his inspiration from Elmore James, Hound Dog Taylor, and Chuck Berry, George Thorogood was somewhat controversial to the blues purists. However, Thorogood became a popular favourite in the early 1980s through repeated exposure on FM radio and play to the arenas popular in the rock circuit. His music was always loud, simple, and direct – his riffs and licks were taken straight out of the 1950s Chicago blues and rock and roll scene, but his formulaic approach helped him gain a rather large audience in the 1980s, when his albums regularly went gold.

George and the Destroyers are also notable for undertaking a rigorous touring schedule after appearing throughout the Rolling Stones tour in 1981. After two shows in Boulder, Colorado, George and his band flew to Hawaii and played for only one night. The next night they appeared in Alaska for one show. The following day the band flew to Washington State, met their roadies who had their car and a truck, and continued a one show per state tour for all fifty states in exactly fifty nights. In addition, they played Washington, DC on the same day that they performed a show in Maryland.

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Leonard Cohen
Legendary Music Icon Inducted Into
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
First Tour Dates in 15 Years
June 6 - 7 at 8:00 p.m
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LeonardCohenposter.jpg (24961 bytes)Immediately following his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel tonight, Leonard Cohen announced his world tour, marking a return to the live arena after 15 years. He is scheduled to open in Toronto on June 6 and 7, the city that gave birth to his career as a recording and literary artist, and then play Europe in the remainder of June, July, August and early September.

Cohen is arguably the greatest singer songwriter of modern times. At his induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, he as recognized by Lou Reed as, "Without question one of the most important and influential songwriters of our time, a figure whose body of work achieves greater mystery and depth as time goes one." Among those inducted with Cohen were: Madonna, John Mellencamp The Dave Clark Five, and the Ventures.

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mmvaLogo08.jpg (19669 bytes) The 19th Annual MuchMusic Video Awards
June 15
The 19th Annual MuchMusic Video Awards puts fans up close and personal with today's hottest chart-toppers and celebrities on Sunday, June 15, 2008 live from Much world HQ in Toronto, Canada.

The much buzzed-about, celeb-packed showcase of Canadian and international talent is the most fan accessible award show on the planet. From the wildest red carpet arrivals to the hottest performances, thousands of music lovers get friendly with their favourite stars...and love every second of it.

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An Evening with Emmylou Harris
June 16 at 8 p.m. / Massey Hall

EmmylouHarris.jpg (15440 bytes)With a career that has sold more than 15 million albums worldwide, garnered a remarkable 12 Grammy Awards and stirred music lovers for more than thirty years and counting, Emmylou Harris has been rightfully hailed as a major figure in several of America's most important musical movements of the past three decades.

Her contributions to country-rock, the bluegrass revival, folk music, and the Americana movement are widely lauded, and in recent years Emmylou Harris certainly has carved out a sound that is uniquely her own. Her 1995 Wrecking Ball was a watershed album for her, combining several world-music elements with acoustic instruments, driving percussion, and a folk/roots flavor, and in general catching audiences by surprise, as Harris yet again reinvented her sound.

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GILBERTO GIL – BROADBAND TOUR
June 27 at 8 PM

GilbertoGil.jpg (22321 bytes)Gilberto Gil returns, with his band. Multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter Gilberto Gil has developed one of the most relevant and renowned careers as a singer, composer and guitarist in both world and pop music. In a career that has spanned 40 years, with over 30 albums released, Gil has six gold records, four platinum singles and five million records sold. He has also served as Brazil's Minister of Culture for the past five years. Gil fused samba, salsa, and bossa nova with rock and folk music, and is recognized as one of the pioneers in world music. He last appeared solo at Massey Hall in March of 2007.

Gilberto Gil's Broadband Tour dives headlong into the vertiginous waters of the digital revolution and its accelerated infoways. The theme has coloured the whole of Gil's career: from the time of Tropic·lia, with CÈrebro EletrÙnico [Eletronic Brain] and FuturÌvel [Futurable] (1969), to CibernÈtica (1974), and Parabolicamar· (1991), finally bursting out in 1997, in the double album Quanta, where he brought together many of his reflections on art/science and the new technologies. The disc was preceded by the pioneer launch of his website in April 1996, and by the transmission, online, in the same year, of Pela Internet, the first Brazilian music to be officially launched on the Internet.

The Broadband Tour consists of Arthur Maia: bass; Alex Fonseca: drums; Bem Gil: guitars; Claudio Andrade: pianos; Gustavo de Dalva: percussion; Sergio Chiavazzolli: guitars.

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DUE TO OVERWHELMING DEMAND ADDITIONAL
SALTIMBANCO PERFORMANCES ADDED IN TORONTO
August 13 to 24

saltimbanco.jpg (26382 bytes)Due to overwhelming demand, the Saltimbanco Arena Tour has added two performances on Friday, August 15 and Friday, August 23 at 3:30 p.m. Saltimbanco will be presented at the Air Canada Centre for a limited engagement August 13 to 24, 2008.

The Saltimbanco Arena Tour will also stop in Hamilton at the Copps Coliseum, August 27 to 31.

Saltimbanco belongs to the emblematic style of Cirque du Soleil - a signature Cirque du Soleil show with a style that borrows from theatre, dance and music and where spectacular costumes, lighting and make-up take pride of place. The current cast of 49 artists,15 of whom were part of the show's original big top tour, hail from Canada and 20 other countries.

Saltimbanco—from the Italian "saltare in banco," which literally means "to jump on a bench"—explores the urban experience in all its myriad forms: the people who live there, their idiosyncrasies and likenesses, families and groups, the hustle and bustle of the street and the towering heights of skyscrapers. Between whirlwind and lull, prowess and poetry, Saltimbanco takes spectators on an allegorical and acrobatic journey into the heart of the city.

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