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You can now search The WholeNote's online Blue Pages by Musical Category.

 

The Wholenote's Blue Pages (online only) are all "tagged" according to 18 categories, listed below with explanatory notes.

 

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We at The WholeNote are generous with our categories. They are intended as broad suggestions to the various musical communities that comprise our readership, rather than an attempt to strictly define musical genres and styles. Some Blue Pages may have more than one category tag because events sometimes belong to more than one category.

 

Band or Wind Ensemble

This category includes all performances by ensembles of wind instruments (except for jazz bands, which are tagged as Jazz).

 

Chamber Music

This category includes classical music performances by small groups or solo musicians.

 

Choral Music

This tag is for vocal groups large and small, as well as any concert in which a choir is included.

 

Dance Performance

This category is for dance performances, or any musical event that includes dance.

 

Early Music

This category is for Baroque, Renaissance and Medieval music. As well, any other performances that are "historically informed" or approached with attention to period-performance techniques are included.

 

Folk Music

Here, "folk music" means traditional music from North America, the British Isles and other European countries. (Folk musics originating outside these regions are tagged as World music.)

 

Jazz Concerts

Most references to jazz in The WholeNote appear in the club listings. However, jazz (and blues) performances in formal concert settings are included in the general concert listings.

 

Music for Children

This category is for musical events specifically programmed for young audiences.

 

Music Theatre

This category includes staged theatrical productions in which music is prominent: opera, operetta, G&S, Broadway musicals, contemporary music-theatre, etc., as well as unstaged concerts of music theatre repertoire. (NOTE: There is also a separate "Opera" category, which contains only opera performances. See below.)

 

New "Classical" Music

Here, the term "new" broadly means "art-music" that is modernist, postmodernist or otherwise contemporary in style. Concerts that are wholly devoted to new music, or that include significant new-music content, are included.

 

Opera

This tag is applied to staged opera productions, and also operatic concerts and recitals.

 

Organ Recitals and Concerts

This category is for solo organ performances, or an organist performing with other musicians.

 

Orchestral Music

Here, "orchestra" means a large or small conducted group of instrumentalists – usually strings, winds and percussion, but possibly just strings – performing classical music.

 

Other Concerts

This tag is used very rarely, when no other tag is suitable.

 

Piano Recitals and Concerts

This category includes solo piano performances, piano duets, or concerts that include music for piano only. It also includes piano concertos with orchestra.

 

Religious Service

This tag is for musical performances that are contained within a religious service.

 

Vocal Recitals and Concerts

This category is for solo vocalist(s) with piano or small instrumental groups. It also includes vocalists appearing in concert with orchestras.

 

World Music

Here, "world music" means music from "folk" or "classical" traditions that originate outside the Western world.

Over the years, WholeNote has published a series of annual directories, to better enable musical organizations to communicate their activities to our readers. The Blue Pages is a comprehensive directory of music presenter profiles in which each organization describes who they are, what they do, and what they've got coming up during the current season. The Canary Pages is a directory of choirs, both amatuer and professional, connecting would be choristers with a wide variety of choirs to choose from. The Green Pages is our guide to Summer Music Festivals both in Ontario and beyond.

Fees are associated with participation in each of the directories. For information on how to include your organization, please call 416-323-2232 x.26 or e-mail karen@thewholenote.com

Launch Times (both print and online)

Blue Pages (presenter profiles)—October

Orange Pages (Music Education)—February

Canary Pages (choral)—May

Green Pages (summer festivals)—June

On our Summer Musings page, musicians of various ages and at different stages in life share accounts of their past summer experiences. Read through if unsure of which program is for you.

This list gathers advice from Debbie Vine, Rozalyn Chok, Margaret Little, Avan Yu, and Aisslinn Nosky. If you have a past experience to share, why not do so? Email your thoughts to summer@thewholenote.com

Reflections of a Happy Camper

Debbie Vine
Driving home from Week One at the CAMMAC Ontario Music Centre camp, our family is listening to Hemp's Hump on our new funk CD. We are singing scat and improvising percussive sounds at the top of our lungs!! The jazz and world music week has altered our consciousness, opening us up in many different ways and allowing us to live life how it should be!
How should one greet the still of the day on the pastoral Lakefield campus? Perhaps listening to how the percussive and melodic sounds of the day fit together. Alternatively, with a Navajo chant of "Now I walk in Beauty" or the Arabic wedding song, complete with ululating.
Mornings rush by in a blur of technical and musical inspiration-choir for some, classes and practice sessions for all. One instructor's food for thought-"Do you have fun when you practice?"
The long, lazy summer afternoons are punctuated by yells and laughter from children of all ages playing outside, (finished their morning "music and more" program), gently guided and minded so parents can sleep, read, practice, compose or relax.
Musical theatre completes the afternoon, expanding our repertoire from Maria waltzing in the mountains to Sondheim's fractured fairy tale characters, killing, dying and philosophizing in the woods.
Finally the close of the day brings a time for sharing musical expertise and experimentation. One could call the concerts, evenings of contrast and evolution, moving from the precision of Bach's French Suite through explosive African dance, and drumming, musical travel through Sicily to the cacophony of "Dead Weasels Ripped my Flesh".
The return to the real world feels like a deafening silence.

Rozalyn Chok
(studying at Juilliard Conservatory in New York with Matti Raekallio).
"I got a relatively late start-by today's standards," Rozalyn says of her summer music involvement, which only stretches back to '07. "...it was not until my first summer program that I realized how exciting and energizing it is to be in an environment where everyone shares common interests and experiences."
Unhindered by the late start, she seems headed in the right direction-in recent years winning top prizes in the TSO Bosendorfer and the IIYM (International Institute for Young Musicians) piano competitions. But if she could start all over again, she'd send herself right back where she started, to IIYM, only "at a much earlier age... I was one of the older students."
Rozalyn appreciates the benefits of a solo performance program, but summer has brought home to her the value of the company of other musicians. "[My opinion of music has] changed from being a somewhat isolating, solitary pursuit to an invigorating dynamic choice. My interactions with other musicians through summer programs have led me to a deeper understanding of the relevance and importance of classical music."
And while the musical environment is of great importance, the natural environment itself isn't to be forgotten. "...the combination of quiet and the beauty of nature is extremely conducive to productive, inspiring practice," she says, recalling an experience at the Adamant Summer School in Vermont. "Located in the tiny town of Montpelier, Adamant is nestled amongst thickets of trees, wild flowers, and even running brooks. There are thirty practice cottages scattered throughout the forest, each with a Steinway grand piano and a uniquely decorated interior, complete with art on the walls and rustic furniture. Almost all of the participants agreed that we practiced more at Adamant than anywhere else, because the setting was so tranquil and idyllic."

Margaret Little
(viola da gamba player in duo Les voix humaines)
From age four to eighteen, Margaret spent her summers studying at CAMMAC Lake MacDonald, 80 minutes north of Montreal. "At CAMMAC you are either beginner, intermediate, or advanced for any course in particular. You just participate at whatever level you are and enjoy."
It was where she discovered the viola da gamba at age 11, which she has played ever since. From her numerous experiences at the camp, she observes: "Music and musicians cannot thrive in a stressful environment. Music is about people, about communicating, having a good time together, be it at any level."
Margaret continues her involvement at CAMMAC to this day as an instructor, where the open and wide-ranging setting allows her to extend her experience to both students and colleagues. With such a variety of mixed activities, it can't help but be inclusive. "Once you've spent a whole week with [others], playing tennis and ping pong with them, ... you meet in the concert hall and something very special happens. You've already shared so much that it's only natural to feel very connected during the performance."
And what else can one expect from a retreat up in the Laurentians? "No laundry or cooking to do, no tv, no radio, no computer, no phone, etc. Total disconnection is GREAT!"

Avan Yu
(studying at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin with Klaus Hellwig)
Avan is in concert throughout the year, giving a mix of solo and group performances. When the time arrives to choose a summer program, solo and group options are both equally attractive to him.
"I don't really have a preference," he says, having participated in several piano programs since 2001. "It depends on which area [I] want to focus on." Of the Young Artists Program in Ottawa, he recalls: "...my friends and I would actually sight-read until 2 o'clock in the morning! We didn't have schoolwork to worry about, and we could experience music in a relaxing setting."
The element of learning is never an exclusively solo experience, even in a solo program. "When I listened to other students' lessons or masterclasses, sometimes I learned more than if I were the student taking the lesson. When you are the one playing, you can get so stressed out trying to do what the teacher is telling you that you stop listening."
Learning with others and learning from them both appear to be valuable selections. "Summer programs are a great way to broaden your repertoire, share musical ideas with others, learn from great teachers and make good contacts." This time of the year brings a scenic change for Avan, with varied options as it is during the year. Solo or with others, he's in a change of place-though never out of place.

Aisslinn Nosky
(violinist with Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, I FURIOSI Baroque Ensemble, Eybler Quartet, and Kirby String Quartet)
Aisslinn's early summers were quite distinct from one another, bringing her to places all over Canada as well as south of the border.
"I feel very lucky to have gone to so many fun music programs as a child, [but] I was a pretty single-minded young person...if I could go back, I think I would tell myself to go to a camp that had nothing to do with music, or at least something that wasn't violin, just to broaden my extra-musical horizons a little." That said, she wouldn't remove her later teenage self from repeated musical visits to the Banff Centre, where she would "get inspiration for the rest of the year."
Having gained so much as a student, Aisslinn in turn runs a program with fellow Kirby Quartet members Julia Wedman, Max Mandel, and Carina Reeves. The week-long chamber music workshop allows her to maintain her summer involvement from a teaching role. "When all the students perform the works they have been pouring their heart and souls into [it] is invariably the most moving concert I attend all year."
As it had been at Banff, it appears as though Aisslinn is once again inspired by her musical endeavours of the summer.

 

 

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  3. DENISE DJOKIC, CELLIST
  4. PHILLIP ADDIS, BARITONE

Green Pages 2012

Summer has arrived and with it, the regular concert season closes. But this is by no means the end of music for the season: rather, summer festivals are starting in abundance, providing a rich array of musical experiences, from orchestra and choir concerts to chamber and solo recitals. So welcome to the WholeNote’s 11th annual Green Pages, our guide to summer festivals throughout Ontario, across Canada and beyond, presenting music of all sorts – classical, jazz, opera, folk, world music and much more – in a plethora of unique and beautiful settings across the country! Our Green Pages Summer Music Guide comprises three sections. First, you’ll find the profiles of 39 summer festivals from far and wide joining us as Green Pages members this year. Next, you’ll find listings from our Green Pages members hosting events between June 1 and July 7. Look out for further events hosted by these festivals between July 1 and September 7 in our July/August double issue!

Click here for a map of the Summer Music Festivals

THE 2012 GREEN PAGES TEAM

Project Manager Karen Ages

Project Editor Adam Weinmann

Layout and Design Uno Ramat

Website Bryson Winchester

On The Road

On The Road 2014 Coming Soon

Compiled and edited by Sara Constant

Once again, it’s that time of year where we cast our nets wide and ask Canadian musicians across our community what they’re looking forward to this summer, both as listeners and performers, and what their plans are for the season ahead.

Every year it’s the same four questions – and yet, they call forth an array of responses as varied and unique as the musicians themselves. With new updates and responses coming in every day, be sure to check out this page from time to time to read up on the summer plans of this year’s “On-the-Roaders.” Here follows a taste of what they’re up to during the coming summer months.

MUSICIANS, CONCERT PRESENTERS AND MUSIC LOVERS: DO YOU TWEET?

Follow us @thewholenote and share your summer music festival experience by using the hashtag #WNontheroad.

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