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Artistic Producer Larry Beckwith has announced details of SOVEREIGNTY VOICED, the first subscription program of the 2018-19 CONFLUENCE CONCERTS series.
SOVEREIGNTY VOICED takes place at 8:00 pm on SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20 at the ERNEST BALMER STUDIO – 9 Trinity Street, #316 – and features performances by program curators COLE ALVIS and MARION NEWMAN and guests IAN CUSSON, ARMAND GARNET RUFFO and AQUA NIBII WAAWAASKONE. Tickets are available for $20-$30.
There will be an informative and interactive pre-show talk at 7:15 pm in the Studio.
The bar will be open before and after the event.
The program of this special cabaret presentation will include:
•Selected Stories from Cole Alvis
•Two Songs by Marion Newman:
Appropriation Aria
Kinanu (Lullaby)
•Selected Songs by Aqua Nibii Waawaaskone
•Five Songs by Ian Cusson:
Helen Betty Osborn (text by Marilyn Dumont)
The Devil’s Language (text by Marilyn Dumont)
A Breakfast for Barbarians (text by Gwendolynn MacEwan)
You held out the light (text by Gwendolynn MacEwan)
Manzini: Escape Artist (text by Gwendolynn MacEwan
•Selected Poetry by Armand Garnett Ruffo
•A short presentation on the life and art of Norval Morrisseau
Sovereignty Voiced
with Cole Alvis, Ian Cusson, Marion Newman, Armand Garnet Ruffo, Aqua Nibii Waawaaskone
Saturday, October 20, 2018 8:00 pm (pre-show chat at 7:15 pm)
Ernest Balmer Studio, 9 Trinity Street #316, Toronto
Tickets: $20-$30
www.confluenceconcerts.ca 416-410-4561
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There will be five additional events in the 2018-19 Season of Confluence. These are described below.
The Legacies of François Couperin and Claude Debussy
November 17, 2018 – St. Thomas’s Church
Tom Allen and Larry Beckwith host an interactive, dynamic celebration of
significant anniversaries of these two remarkable composers.
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Centuries of Souls
January 26, 2019 – St. Thomas’s Church
Organist Matthew Larkin, Opus 8 Vocal Ensemble and the Schola Magdalena Ensemble
in music of Messiaen, Ockeghem and Hildegard von Bingen
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‘Tis Nature’s Voice: Henry Purcell Reimagined
April 5 and 6, 2019 – Ernest Balmer Studio
Patricia O’Callaghan, Andrew Downing, Suba Sankaran and others perform
Purcell songs as you’ve never heard them before!
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At the River
June 1, 2019 – St. Thomas’s Church
A powerful season-ending show with words and music inspired by a most enduring image.
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All concerts begin at 8:00 pm with a 7:15 pre-show chat
Single Tickets: $30 ($20 students)
Subscriptions: $125 ($80 students)
For more information please contact
416 410 4561.
Photo: Marion Newman.
2018-10-04
Toronto: "Sovereignty Voiced" opens the inaugural season of Confluence on October 20