November, 2005 - Nr. 11
The Musicians In Ordinary Present A BAROQUE CHRISTMAS
Saturday, November 26
Christmas comes early when The Musicians In Ordinary celebrate Christmas in the Chamber Music of the Italian and German Baroque, Saturday, November 26, 8 p.m. in the Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave. (north of Scollard Street in Yorkville; Bay St. subway). Tickets are $20, $15 seniors and students, and are available at the door. For information, call 416-603-4950, visit www.musiciansinordinary.ca or email info@musiciansinordinary.ca.
Soprano Hallie Fishel, lutenist John Edwards and guest violinists Christopher Verrette (Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra) and Aisslinn Nosky (I Furiosi, Canadian Opera Company Orchestra) celebrate the birth of Christ with rarely-heard spiritual canzonettas, lullabies and cantatas.
"Cupid, a perennial subject of song, is not the only baby boy to be a God of love," notes John Edwards. "This fact was not lost on the poets of the Baroque period. But Mary, it seems, was darker skinned than the blonde Venus."
The concert includes programmatic violin sonatas and love songs for the Boy’s mother, by the likes of Italy’s Claudio Monteverdi and Tarquinio Merula, and Johann Rosenmüller and others from Germany.
The Musicians In Ordinary’s recently issued debut CD, Sleep, Wayward Thoughts - a collection of Elizabethan and Jacobean songs about sleep - will be available for sale at the concert.
The concert is presented with the assistance of the Toronto Arts Council.
