Toronto Premiere:
Bach's St. Mark Passion,
March 11, 2006

The music of Bach's third great passion was lost, but the text survived. The version of this composition that will be presented on Saturday, March 11, at Toronto's Christ Church Deer Park by the Toronto Chamber Choir is a reconstruction. Scholars have discovered that many of the St. Mark choruses and solos were sung to music from one of Bach's own funeral cantatas. They have used these pieces of music to revive the passion. The first performance of this great work in Toronto starts at 8 p.m., Christ Church Deer Park, 1570 Yonge Street.

German Drama Club Toronto:
Reigen by Arthur Schnitzler,
March 17 and 18 

Reigen is a circular dance of sexual inter-relationships and social inter-relation set in fin-de-siecle Vienna.

This is the inaugural presentation of the German Drama Club, sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures of the University of Toronto.

Location: Alumni Hall 400, Saint Michael's College, University of Toronto downtown campus,  at 7:30pm

Soccer Mondays film series Goethe Institut Toronto,

March 20 - June 26

On the occasion of the World Soccer Cup 2006 in Germany, the Goethe Institut will screen a variety of international "soccer" movies, ranging from fictional and documentary features to short and silent films. 

Soccer Mondays screenings will be held at the Goethe Institut Kinowelt Hall every Monday starting March 20 until June 26; Tel: 416-593-5257.
 

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