Associazione Trapanesi Toronto presents: Concerto Lirico-Sinfonico Banda Musicale Castellammare Del Golfo.
Direct from Sicily, from the city of Castellammare Del Golfo, ATEM (Associazione Trapanesi Toronto) presents
Concerto Lirico-Sinfonico Banda Musicale, featuring Direttore Concertatore M A. M. Saccone, Tenore M A.
Profeta and Soprano M S. Guaiana

Concerto – Massimiliano Valenti

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È con grande piacere che l’Altra Italia presenta Daniela Nardi in Concerto. La bravissima cantante italocanadese porterà sul palco del Lula Lounge i successi di Paolo Conte, Luigi Tenco, Jovanotti, Vinicio Caposella. Non mancate. Prezzo esclusivo per i soci dell’Altra Italia $15. RSVP latraitalia@mac.com Her new project is a recording of songs from fabulous cantautori as Paolo Conte, Luigi Tenco right to Jovanotti and Vinicio Capossella, as well as a few of own thrown in for good measure. As part of this year’s LulaWorld festival, we will be showcasing this new project on Wednesday May 18th. Discounted tickets for l’Altra Italia members $15 RSVP laltraitalia@mac.com

Toronto, Ontario, March 11, 2011: Toronto’s new Vesuvius Ensemble will follow their successful 2010 debut performances with a new program at the Toronto Music Gallery on Friday, April 15 at 8:00pm. The concert is entitled “I canti a Maria”: Music for the Madonna, and will present spirited songs to the virgin specific to regions outside Naples (which as early as the thirteenth century was called a ‘City of Mary.’) These songs are associated with annual processions devoted to the Madonna dell’Arco, the Madonna di Montevergine, and the Madonna delle Galline. The performance will celebrate a rich folk heritage of rustic dances, rhythms, feasts, processions, and pilgrimages that recall an ancient world, yet a world whose seasonal traditions are still repeated even today. Vesuvius Ensemble is dedicated to the musical and cultural heritage from Naples and other parts of southern Italy. The ensemble performs songs in dialect from the Italian countryside which have been passed on orally and in writing over centuries and finally researched and recorded in the twentieth century. The songs are accompanied by Baroque continuo instruments (Baroque guitars, chitarrone) in combination with rustic string, percussion, and wind instruments typical of the region (chitarra battente, colascione, tammorra, ciaramella). The ensemble is led by Francesco Pellegrino, the Italian tenor who performed at La Scala and now resides in Toronto, teaching Italian Art Song at the University of Toronto. Though a classically trained singer, Pellegrino also possesses rare first-hand experience with the traditional folk music of southern Italy, and has formed Vesuvius Ensemble as a North American vehicle for its performance and preservation. His bandmates are Marco Cera and Lucas Harris, versatile musicians from Toronto’s early music scene. Adding their talents to this performance will be guest percussionists Kate Robson and Ben Grossman. Summary: Vesuvius Ensemble Performs on April 15 at the Music Gallery Concert: “I canti a Maria”: Music for the Madonna Performers: Vesuvius Ensemble Francesco Pellegrino, voice & chitarra battente Marco Cera, Baroque guitar & ciaramella Lucas Harris, Baroque & Renaissance guitars, chitarrone With special guests: Kate Robson, tammorra & tamburello, Ben Grossman, percussion, hurdy-gurdy Date &Time: Friday, April 15, 2011 @ 8:00pm (doors open @ 7:30) Venue: Toronto Music Gallery: Church of St. George the Martyr, 197 John Street TTC: Osgood Subway Station Admission: $20 at the door only ($15 students/seniors) – No advance ticket sales

L’Altra Italia e Il Centro Scuola di Toronto presentano:

Progetto Galileo: Musica delle Sfere.

Un concerto della rinomata orchestra Barocca Tafelmusik che si trasforma in itinerario culturale nella scienza verso le radici dell’individuo, lo spazio e la scoperta.

Brani musicali scelti tra i repertori di Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Purcell, Handel, Rameau, Telemann e J.S. Bach , che accompagneranno lo spettatore nelle diverse dimensioni esplorabili dall’uomo.

Venerdì, 4 Mar, ’11 8:00PM

Trinity St. Paul’s United Church

427 Bloor Street West

Biglietti $27.00

Prenotazioni laltraitalia@mac.com

Per il programma vedi sotto.

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Fri, 4 Mar, ’11 8:00PM

Trinity St. Paul’s United Church

427 Bloor Street West

Tickets $27.00

laltraitalia@mac.com

 

Back by popular demand – Tafelmusik’s “out of this world” (Toronto Star) multi-disciplinary stellar concert experience, conceived and programmed by our own Alison Mackay as an homage to Galileo. Gorgeous, celestially-inspired baroque music, stunning visuals, and seamlessly woven literary and historical excerpts narrated by Shaun Smyth. Don’t miss it!

An imaginative concert designed by Alison Mackay, creator of Metamorphosis, Chariots of Fire, Bach in Leipzig Includes music by Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Purcell, Handel, Rameau, Telemann and J.S. Bach Approximate concert run time: 1 hour, 50 minutes (with intermission) Notes In late 16th-century Florence, the house of the lutenist and composer Vincenzo Galilei was a fertile breeding ground for important innovations in the realms of music and of science. Vincenzo’s experiments with the expressive power of accompanied solo song influenced the creation of opera as a musical form, and the style of music that we now describe as “baroque.” He also conducted repeated trials under controlled conditions with lute strings to find the mathematical formulas that express the relationships among length, tension and musical pitch. He is thought to have been assisted in these experiments by his oldest son, Galileo Galilei, a brilliant young teacher of mathematics who went on to apply his expertise to world-changing discoveries about the universe. Galileo inherited his spirit of scientific inquiry and a love of playing the lute from his father, and it is fitting that a musical tribute should honour an astronomer whose intellectual and artistic vitality stemmed from a place where music and science intersected. The first performances of The Galileo Project: Music of the Spheres were Tafelmusik’s contribution to the International Year of Astronomy, marking 2009 as the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s development and use of the astronomical telescope. ———————————- Programmed and scripted by Alison Mackay Shaun Smyth narrator The Harmony of the Spheres I Antonio Vivaldi – Concerto for 2 violins in A Major, op. 3, no. 5 Jean-Baptiste Lully – Music from Phaeton Music from the Time of Galileo Claudio Monteverdi – Ritornello, from Orfeo Ciaccona, after Zefiro torna Tarquinio Merula – Ciaccona Michelangelo Galilei – Toccata for solo lute, from Il primo libro d’intavolatura di liuto Biagio Marini – Passacaglia C. Monteverdi – Moresca, from Orfeo INTERMISSION Henry Purcell – Song Tune “See, even night herself is here,” from Fairy Queen Rondeau, from Abdelazer The Dresden Festival of the Planets Jean-Philippe Rameau Entrée de Jupiter (Entrance of Jupiter), from Hippolyte et Aricie George Frideric Handel Allegro, from Concerto grosso in D Major, op. 3, no. 6 J-P. Rameau Entrée de Venus (Entrance of Venus), from Les surprises de l’Amour Georg Philipp Telemann Allegro, from Concerto for 4 violins in D Major Jan Dismas Zelenka Adagio ma non troppo, from Sonata in F Major J-P. Rameau Entrée de Mercure (Entrance of Mercury), from Platée J-B. Lully Air pour les Suivants de Saturne (Air for the followers of Saturn), from Phaeton Silvius Leopold Weiss Allegro, from Concerto for lute in C Major Anonymous, 18th century The Astronomical Drinking Song The Harmony of the Spheres II Johann Sebastian Bach Sinfonia “Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern” Marin Marais – Tambourins, from Alcione

Concerto di natale Teatro Lirico Sperimentale of Spoleto 12 dicembre, 2010 Dec. 12 , 2010 Time: 3:00 p.m. St. Michael’s College School, on Bathurst Street at St. Clair Ave.West. (The concert be approximately 90 minutes, without intermission.) $20 adults $10 students & seniors RSVP laltraitalia@mac.com In occasione delle festività natalizie, l’Altra Italia vi invita ad     assistere al tradizionale concerto organizzato dal Centro Scuola Columbus Centre. L’evento vede la partecipazione di un gruppo di giovani cantanti di alto livello artistico dall’Italia e dal Canada, nonchè una pianista di fama internazionale proveniente direttamente da Spoleto: Simona Granelli Calai. La pianista ha collaborato con il maestro Giancarlo Menotti, fondatore del “Festival dei due Mondi di Spoleto”. Tra l’altro, Simona Granelli Calai eseguirà un brano musicale di Paolo Sebastiani in prima mondiale. Sempre dalla città del Festival dei due Mondi saranno a Toronto, in rappresentanza del Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto, una delle più prestigiose istituzioni musicali d’Italia, diretta dal Maestro Claudio Lepore,  il soprano Deborah Leonelli e il tenore Roberto Cresca accompagnati dal pianista Andrea Mele sotto la direzione artistica del Maestro Carlo Palleschi il cui repertorio operistico include 40 opere e la direzione di alcuni  fra i cantanti più importanti, a livello mondiale, quali R. Bruson, Katia Ricciarelli, N. Martinucci, A. Ciccolini. Il concerto vedrà inoltre l’esibizione di un gruppo di giovani del Centro Scuola, dal talento eccezionale, diplomatisi presso i conservatori musicali delle università di Toronto e York e studenti del Maestro Ermanno Mauro una delle più grandi leggende del Metropolitan di New York. On the occasion of the Christams Holidays, l’Altra Italia invites you to the traditional Concerto di Natale organized by Centro Scuola e Cultura. A special attraction this year will be soloists from il Teatro Lirico Sperimentale of Spoleto. Special guests from the famed Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto will also perform duets and solos. The program also includes pianist Simona Granelli-Calais, who trained with theMaestro Gian Carlo Menotti in Spoleto, the Umbrian town famous for the Festival of Two Worlds, now in its 54th year. Emerging young professionals from the master class studio of Maestro Ermanno Mauro, at the Columbus Centre, will sing Christmas favorites in English and Italian, as well as opera arias and jazz renditions of popular songs. Granelli-Calais will play selections from Mozart, Scarlatti, and Debussy, plus a world premier composed especially for this production.

I soci avranno la possibilità di incontrare l’artista durante un “meet and greet” organizzato dall’Altra Italia al Mod Club prima del concerto a partire dalle 7:00pm Per prenotazioni e biglietti please e-mail laltraitalia@mac.com ASAP