The Toronto Early Music Centre presents “Musically Speaking,” a one-hour enlightening program of historical performance at the Church of the Holy Trinity, 10 Trinity Square (near the Eaton Centre, on the west side) in Toronto. Admission is FREE. For more information, please call (416) 966-1409, or e-mail: info@torontoearlymusic.org
The program begins at 2:30 p.m. on the following Sundays:
Sunday, January 11, 2004
At the Golden Horn and Hoboy: Music published by John Walsh and Son, 1690-1766 - Trio sonatas and solos by Purcell, Matteis, Loeillet, and the North American premiere of the Flackton Sonata IV in D Major.
Musick's Hand-maid: Valerie Sylvester, violin, Sheila Smyth, violin and viola, Laura Jones, 'cello and viol, and Janet Scott, harpsichord.
Sunday, February 8, 2004
“Instruments to plague us” – Black Death, Bubonic Plague, Pneumonic Plague, Pestis Inguinaria, Mahamari, Septicaemic Plague, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. The I Furiosi Baroque Ensemble ( Julia Wedman, violin; Aisslinn Nosky, violin; Felix Deak, cello; Gabrielle McLaughlin, soprano) presents music from times of great loss and disease.
Sunday, March 14, 2004
Recordare (Avery MacLean, Michael Franklin, Stephanie Martin) – 'From the streets of Nuremberg to the court of Maximillian I: Music of Renaissance Germany'
In the early 16th century the virtuoso German Stadtpfeiffer (wind bands) were renowned throughout Europe, influencing musicians in Italy, Spain and France. Stadtpfeiffer were equally at home with courtly repertories and the not-so-courtly dances and folksongs enjoyed by the middle class in cities such as Nuremberg. This programme weaves the civic with the courtly; popular dance and song settings contrasted with Tenorlieder composed under the royal patronage of Maximillian I.
The music is performed on instruments from the period - bagpipes, shawms, recorders, hurdy-gurdy, percussion, harp and voice - evoking the rusticity of popular traditions and the sophistication of music supported by royal patronage.
Recordare (Avery MacLean, Michael Franklin, Stephanie Martin)
Sunday, April 4, 2004 - Music for Voice and Theorbo – Jenni Hayman (soprano) and John Edwards (theorbo) perform music by Sebastien le Camus, Michel Lambert, Benedetto Ferrari, Frescobaldi, Music from Christophe Ballard's Book of "Brunetes out petits airs tendres" and a four movement song cycle, Corydon & Phyllis, by William Gregory.
May 2, 2004 – Duo L’Intemporel - Mylène Guay, baroque flute, and David Sandall, harpsichord, discuss and illustrate the dilemma surrounding the use of keyed and non-keyed flutes at the end of the 18th century - "To key or not to key!"- that is the question!
June 13, 2004 – CANCELLED