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1 TORONTO REGION NEWSLETTER December 2011 January 2012 In this issue: Web: A welcome boost for Lake MacDonald 1 Playing opportunities 6 Readings and Workshops 2 Concert listings 6 CAMMAC RPS 2 Superb Sudoku 7 January Workshop Rodrigo Chavez 3 Advertising Rates 8 January Reading (J.S. Bach) 4 Regional Management Committee 8 February Reading (Guastavino) 5 A welcome boost for the Lake MacDonald Music Centre By Blair Mackenzie On October 30, CAMMAC heard the welcome news that the Province of Quebec has agreed in principle to provide a grant of $753,000 to CAMMAC. The purpose of the grant is to enable CAMMAC to expand its sewage and wastewater treatment system and to deal with a number of other issues, postponed until now for cost reasons, left over from the construction of the new Music Centre. The amount represents approximately 90% of the expected total cost of the work to be done. CAMMAC is now preparing tenders for the work. The issues are perhaps not glamorous ones, but they are nevertheless decidedly important. The grant is significant not only because it should enable CAMMAC to clean up a number of legacy issues relating to the Music Centre, but also because it represents a clear vote of confidence by the Government of Quebec and the Region in CAMMAC, its leadership, and its vision for the music centre. This is a message which can and should be welcomed by all of us. This vote of confidence is particularly welcome in the light of the very challenging circumstances which CAMMAC has had to contend with over the last six or so years. Good on you, CAMMAC. 1

2 SCHEDULE OF READINGS SEASON Once a month, CAMMAC singers and instrumentalists get together and read through a work for choir and orchestra under the direction of a professional conductor. Occasionally, readings feature pieces for singers only, or for instrumentalists only. Readings are not intended as rehearsals, and we do not perform for an audience, although listeners are welcome. All readings are in Elliott Hall, Christ Church Deer Park, 1570 Yonge St, Toronto, from 2 pm to 4:30 pm on Sunday afternoons. Admission is $6 for CAMMAC members and $10 for nonmembers. Please arrive 15 minutes early to set up so the reading can begin on time! January 22 J. S. Bach, Cantatas 65 and 79 with Mervin Fick (coordinator: Barbara Adams) February 12 Guastavino, Indianas : Argentinian songs with Isabel Bernaus (coordinator: Ricci Balogh) March 18 Elgar, The Kingdom with Stephanie Martin (coordinator: Tim Moody) April 22 Duruflé, Requiem with Brad Ratzlaff (coordinator: Gerald Martindale) June 10 Orff, Carmina Burana choruses with Colin Clarke (coordinator: Ellen Frei) NOTE TO ASPIRING VOCAL SOLOISTS Most of the pieces that we work on at our Sunday readings have vocal solo parts. Sometimes members of the choir sing these parts together. Sometimes the conductor invites his/her own soloists, and sometimes we find people to sing these parts at the readings. reading coordinator (for contact information: page 8) at least a month ahead of the reading date so this possibility can be discussed. TORONTO REGION WORKSHOPS SEASON January 15, 2:30 pm: Latin American percussion with Rodrigo Chavez at the Miles Nadal JCC NEWSLETTER DEADLINES The deadline for content for the February March issue is January 15, and for the April June issue is March 15. CAMMAC RECORDER PLAYERS SOCIETY The CAMMAC Recorder Players Society meets every third Friday evening from September to May at the Church of the Transfiguration, 111 Manor Road East, between Yonge Street and Mount Pleasant Road. We play from 7:30 pm until 10 pm, with a short break. Please bring your own music stand. Regular meetings are $10 for CAMMAC members and $12 for others, while coached sessions are $15 and $20 respectively. CAMMAC members may choose to pay an annual fee of $80. Remember to bring your CAMMAC membership card with you on your first visit, which is free for newcomers. For further information, call Anne-Marie Prendiville at Dates for the season (all Friday evenings, except the Spring Workshop, which is on a Sunday): Dec. 2 (Christmas Workshop Avery MacLean); Jan. 6; Jan. 27; Feb. 17 (Colin Savage); Mar. 9; Mar. 30; Apr. 22 (Spring Workshop, 1:30 to 5 pm Alison Melville); May 11; Jun. 1. If you are an experienced singer and you d like to give it a try, please contact both Peter Solomon (peter.solomon@utoronto.ca.) and the 2

3 A CAMMAC (Canadian Amateur Musicians /Musiciens Amateurs du Canada) Toronto Region Event. Please copy and post. CAMMAC WORKSHOP Latin American Drumming with Rodrigo Chavez January 15, 2012, 2:30 pm 4:30 pm Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina Ave. (at Bloor) (TTC: Spadina) This is an inclusive event, welcoming one and all. The workshop is hands-on, interactive and participatory. The music includes salsa, cha-cha-cha, conga, calypso, merengue, and rhythms from Brazil. Dances comprise basic Salsa, Conga and Samba. Rodrigo will provide the instruments: conga drums, bongos, shakers, maracas, cajón, cowbells, agogo bells, bass drum, güiros, jam-block, claves and Brazilian tamborins. For further information, call or Rodrigo Chavez is the Chilean-born artistic director of the Cassava Latin Rhythms band. A graduate of York University, he has specialized in classical guitar and Afro-Latin percussion. He has travelled extensively throughout Peru, Venezuela and Cuba, studying traditional rhythms and musical styles. Rodrigo has performed in Chile, Argentina, Korea and the USA as well as Canada. His aim is to give people tools for their own creation. These tools open a window to an entirely new world of expression, a world that is both magical and connected to their own reality.'' To participate, complete and mail this form together with your payment (cheque or money order, payable to CAMMAC Toronto Region) to: CAMMAC Drumming Workshop, 57 York Road, Toronto M2L 1H7. Name: Address: City: Postal Code: Tel: Amount: $25 (CAMMAC / MNjcc member) $30 (non-cammac / MNjcc member) For groups: $15 per member. Name of group: 3

4 A CAMMAC (Canadian Amateur Musicians /Musiciens Amateurs du Canada) Toronto Region Event. Please copy and post. CAMMAC READING J. S. Bach: Cantatas 65 and 79 Date SUNDAY, January 22, 2012 Time 2 PM SHARP TO 4:30 PM (Please arrive 15 minutes early to set up) Conductor Mervin Fick Biography Music notes Mr. Fick is Artistic Director of the Mississauga Choral Society (MCS). He developed the MCS Young Listeners outreach program, an innovative program of music and art. He conducts the PCS Singers of Brampton, Toronto Beach Chorale, and Esprit Chamber Choir, and is Minister of Music at Bloordale United Church. Mr. Fick has led several successful European tours with a choir he formed for these tours. A graduate of the U. of T. Faculty of Music, he has diplomas in vocal performance and vocal pedagogy from the Royal Conservatory of Music, as well as a Colleague Diploma and a Certificate in Service Playing from the Royal Canadian College of Organists. Bach Cantata #65: This is a Christmastide cantata par excellence: splendid in its setting, festive in expression, with its dancelike character playing a splendid role. This Advent cantata, for the Feast of Epiphany, tells of the visit of the three Wise Men from the Orient, coming to present their gifts to the new-born Christ in the Bethlehem stable. Bach Cantata #79: The opening line of text comes from one of the most friendly and pastoral of all the Psalms, #84. "God, the Lord, is sun and shield" is a chorus more spectacularly military than any other piece in his output. It is one of the most energetic works he ever wrote. Place Christ Church Deer Park, 1570 Yonge St (2 blocks north of St Clair Avenue) in Elliott Hall (enter from Heath Street) Singers Choir SATB. (Note: singers do not need to pre-register) Instrumentation Flutes 1 and 2, bassoon, horns 1 and 2, trumpet, tympani, strings. Information For more information: Barbara Adams brbr.adams@gmail.com Cost CAMMAC members $6; non-members $10; students free. Refreshments Refreshments will be available for $1 during the break. Instrumentalists: please pre-register with Kathleen Mackenzie (k_mackenzie@sympatico.ca ) and please bring your own music stand 4

5 A CAMMAC (Canadian Amateur Musicians /Musiciens Amateurs du Canada) Toronto Region Event. Please copy and post. CAMMAC READING Carlos Guastavino: Indianas Date SUNDAY FEBRUARY 12, 2012 Time 2 PM SHARP TO 4:30 PM (Please arrive 15 minutes early to set up.) Conductor Isabel Bernaus Biography Music notes Born in Catalonia (Spain) and trained as a musician in both Europe and America, Isabel Bernaus is an accomplished conductor and music educator. She has studied in Spain, France, and Quebec, where she attained a Master s Degree in Music Education at Laval University. More recently, she pursued choral studies at Rider University in New Jersey. Since moving to Toronto in 1999, Isabel has become conductor of two community choirs (Common Thread and Settlement Community Choir), and a chamber choir (The Jubilate Singers). She also teaches music at Sheridan College and at Haliburton School of the Arts at Fleming College. Enjoy the beauty and challenge of "Indianas", a set of six delightful songs for mixed choir and piano by world renowned composer Carlos Guastavino. The program will be completed with various Argentinian selections, including some of the "Piezas Sacras" from the amazing composer Fernando Moruja and some tangos arranged for choir. One of the foremost Argentine composers of the 20th century, Carlos Guastavino ( ) wrote over 500 works, most of them songs for piano and voice, many still unpublished. His style was quite conservative, always tonal and lusciously romantic. Place Christ Church Deer Park, 1570 Yonge St (2 blocks north of St Clair Avenue) in Elliott Hall (enter from Heath Street) Singers Choir SATB. (Note: singers do not need to pre-register) Instrumentation This is a reading for singers only. Information For more information: Ricci Balogh rbalogh@istar.ca Cost CAMMAC members $6; non-members $10; students free. Refreshments Refreshments will be available for $1 during the break. 5

6 PLAYING OPPORTUNITIES T.E.M.P.O. Workshops: Dates for the balance of the season are as follows. All sessions are from 1:30 pm to 4 pm: Dec. 4 (Avery MacLean); Jan. 8 (Alison Melville); Feb. 5 (Frank Nakashima); Mar. 4; Apr. 15; May 6 (Marie-Laurence Primeau). Note new location for all sessions: Armour Heights Community Centre, 2140 Avenue Road, Toronto. Fee $20 per session. Please also note the T.E.M.P.O. Fundraising Tea to be held on June 3, 2:30 to 5 pm, location TBA. For further information: Frank Nevelo (franknevelo@sympatico.ca) or The Divine Right of Strings (formerly Brilliantly Baroque), a fledgling string group, seeks string players. We meet the first Sunday of each month, 2-5 pm, near Lawrence & Don Mills. We play mostly Baroque repertoire. Please RSVP, then come along and enjoy. Contact: ericarao@mac.com AND / OR ADDRESS CHANGES / PRIVACY NOTICE If your contact information changes, please notify CAMMAC headquarters. We receive our mailing lists from them, so keep us current by keeping CAMMAC informed! Toll free: or national@cammac.ca. If you do not want to share your name and contact information with other CAMMAC members, please be sure when renewing your membership to mark the appropriate box on the application form. CONCERT LISTINGS (items marked * involve one or more CAMMAC members) East York Choir* presents Winter Solstice, music from many different eras plus carol sing and postconcert reception. Artistic Director: Jenny Crober. With guest artists, Stephanie Piercey-Beames, Ray Dillard, Les Allt, Charlie Roby, Wendy Solomon. Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth Ave., Toronto (W. of Chester TTC). Tickets $20 / $15 / $ or Saturday December 3, 7:30 pm Bel Canto Singers present The Very Best Time of Year, directed by Linda Meyer. At St. Dunstan of Canterbury Church, 56 Lawson Road, Toronto. Tickets $15 at the door or call Sunday, December 4, 2:30 pm and 7:30 pm Bach Children s Chorus presents a concert of seasonal music. At Recital Hall, Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge St., Toronto. Tickets $26 and $24 at the Toronto Centre for the Arts box office, or Ticketmaster at Saturday December 10, 7:30 pm Community Baroque Orchestra Toronto* presents works by Bach, Locatelli, Telemann and Handel. At Beaches Presbyterian Church, 65 Glen Manor Dr., Toronto (S. of Queen St.) Reception to follow. Admission free; donations welcomed. Sunday December 11, 8:00 pm 6

7 Kindred Spirits Orchestra* presents "Messiah", conducted by Kristian Alexander and featuring Village Voices (Artistic Director: Joan Andrews) with soloists Daniel Bedrossian, Irene Illic, Claudia Lemcke, Stephen Harland and Andrew Tees. At Markham Theatre for the Performing Arts, 171 Town Centre Blvd., Markham. Tickets $25 / $ or Pre-concert chat at 7 pm. Thursday December 15, 8:00 pm Amadeus Choir* presents "Glorious Sounds of the Season", conducted by Lydia Adams and Linda Beaupré, with guest artists The Bach Children s Chorus. At Yorkminster Park Baptist Church, 1585 Yonge St., Toronto. Tickets: $40 / $30 / $ or Saturday December 17, 7:30 pm NYCO Symphony Orchestra* presents Animal Crackers, a concert for the whole family featuring Prokofiev s Peter & the Wolf and extracts from Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals. Conducted bydavid Bowser and featuring Julia McFarlane, Sybil Herceg-Shanahan and Anthony Damtsis. Centre for the Arts, St Michael s College School, 1515 Bathurst St (corner St Clair). Tickets $25, $20, $10. For tickets: Sunday January 29, 2:00pm SUPERB SUDOKU by Ricci Balogh N T B W W E A E D A T N W D O S N D D B E A B Nine different letters are used in this SUDOKU. Each letter is used once in each row, column and 3x3 box. To start, look in the most populated boxes, rows and columns for missing letters. If you end up with more than one possibility, use common sense to eliminate the extra letters. After solving the puzzle itself, you have to find the one or two word musical term made up of these 9 letters when placed in the correct order. Good luck! Letters used, in alphabetical order: A B D E N O S T W. The solution to this puzzle will be published in the next issue of the Newsletter. Solution to the puzzle published in the September issue: conga drum 7

8 WHAT DO I GET FOR MY CAMMAC MEMBERSHIP? By taking out membership in CAMMAC you support the work of Canada s foremost charitable organization devoted to meeting the needs of amateur musicians. CAMMAC members pay reduced admission to attend CAMMAC readings and workshops and have borrowing privileges from the extensive CAMMAC sheet music library. CAMMAC membership is a requirement for taking part in CAMMAC s summer music camp at Lake MacDonald. MUSICAL CHAIRS Are you looking for a music mate, someone with whom to make some music? We keep a list of others also looking! Please get in touch with our Musical Chairs group at ADVERTISING RATES Full page $90 Half page $50 (max. 7 ½ W x 4 5/8 H) Quarter page $30 (max. 3 ½ H x 4 5/8 H) Advertising is subject to space availability. Neither publication nor positioning is guaranteed. CAMMAC TORONTO REGION MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE President: Gerald Martindale bellman@rogers.com Past President: Kathy Gallyas kathy.gallyas@gmail.com Treasurer: Marion Wilk* marion.wilk@gmail.com Secretary: Lynda Moon ptriovc@yahoo.ca Newsletter Production: Blair Mackenzie mackenzie.blair@gmail.com Publicity Coordinator: Barbara Adams brbr.adams@gmail.com Orchestral Coordinator: Kathleen Mackenzie k_mackenzie@sympatico.ca Member at Large: Tim Moody timmoody@sympatico.ca Member at Large: Peter Solomon peter.solomon@utoronto.ca. *Toronto Region representative to the CAMMAC Board of Directors OTHER CONTACTS Webmaster: Nacia Miller nacia_miller@sympatico.ca Recorder Players Soc.: Anne-Marie Prendiville CAMMAC membership inquiries (toll free): or national@cammac.ca CAMMAC website: Your Toronto Region Management Committee meets once a month to plan workshops, readings and other exciting events for our members. New members for the regional management committee are always welcome. If you are interested, please contact us at toronto@cammac.ca. 8