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Summer Music in the Garden: July 2008

  • Toronto Music Garden
  • 475 Queens Quay W. View on map »
  • 416-973-4000
This series continues with another summer of intimate gatherings in the lovely surroundings of the Toronto Music Garden. Featured performers include the Queen’s (Quay) Trumpeters—made up of some Tafelmusik regulars and timpanist Edward Reifel—in a glittering tour of brass music played mostly on period instruments, July 3; Korean drum ensemble SamulNori Canada, showcasing Han-Soo Jung on the p’iri, a traditional Korean reed flute, July 6; the Secret of the Good Life: The Chaconne’s Dance to Fame, starring bar­oque violinist Geneviève Gilardeau, Lucas Harris on lute, theorbo and baroque guitar, and Kate Bennett Haynes on baroque cello, July 10; Down by the Sally Gardens: Songs of Summer, Nature, Love and Loss, with soprano Meredith Hall and guitarist Bernard Farley in an eclectic program of traditional and classical songs, July 13; the Sunniest of All Keys, with the Windermere String Quartet in a program of music in C major by Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, July 17; Percussion in a Suitcase, in which Montreal’s Aiyun Huang creates music using instruments that fit neatly into her luggage, July 24; Blowing/Bowing in the Wind, with the Folia ensemble, in music from 17th-century Italy and Germany, featuring two rarely heard instruments from that era (the cornet and the dulcian), July 27; and the Kirby String Quartet—made up of violinists Aisslinn Nosky and Julia Wedman, violist Max Mandel and cellist Carina Reeves—in performances of music by Béla Bartók, Ludwig van Beethoven and Mozart, July 31.—Rick MacMillan
When:
Jun. 29/08 - Jul. 31/08

    Free Event

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