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02/22/2011

Free COC lunchtime concert should prove that a lute by any other name will sound as sweet

If you can spare a downtown lunch hour today and Thursday, the Canadian Opera Company's free concert series in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre at the Four Seasons Centre is particularly compelling this week:

Strings
TODAY

Three Toronto musicians widely recognized as masters of their instruments  -- Lucas Harris (lute), Wendy Zhao (pipa) and Bassam Bishara (oud) -- are getting together at noon for a fun compare-and contrast.

Click on the image at left for full programme details.

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Cello
THURSDAY

Toronto Symphony Orchestra cellist Winona Zelenka offers an hour's worth of unaccompanied cello by Bach. Britten and Cassadó.

Click on the image at right for full programme details

Posted by John Terauds at 07:26:45 AM in Baroque, Canada, Cello, Chamber Music, Crossover, Current Affairs, History, Music, News, World Music

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  • John Terauds started at the Toronto Star as a freelance writer in 1988, and has been on staff since 1997. He began writing on classical music in 2001, and has been the full-time classical music critic since 2005.

    He is also the organist and choir director at St. Peter's Anglican Church, a parish founded in 1863 in downtown Toronto.

    If he's not listening to, writing about or playing music, it means he's either asleep, unconscious, walking his dog -- or all of the above.
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