In its mission to current works that look outdoors the standard repertoire, Apocryphonia seems to be past the standard vacation fare to current a live performance that celebrates the artwork of horror by way of classical music. Established and rising Toronto and space musicians come collectively for this uncommon tackle vacation music. The live performance, titled Silent Fright, takes place at Heliconian Corridor on December 2.

Considering outdoors the field to disclose the work of uncommon and under-programmed composers means going method past the standard suspects like Saint-Saens’ Danse Macabre or Bach’s Toccata in D Minor.

The Music

The programme’s music is drawn from numerous eras and centuries, from the Early Romantic interval to the fashionable period. The works which were chosen have both a sparse or non-existent recording historical past, together with themes of the macabre, the supernatural, and monsters.

Highlights embrace:

• An excerpt from Charles Wakefield Cadman’s 1926 opera, A Witch of Salem
• A chunk by Swedish composer Lars Erik-Larsson about an eerie hospital
• Songs that chronicle the destiny of sailors caught by supernatural forces, demonic journeys, rats, and different delightfully scary topics
• A love story with a ghostly dimension by Pauline Viardot and ballads of homicide by Carl Loewe;
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Fashionable Greek Track (In Darkish Hell) Op. 16 No. 6
• Two Canadian works by Harry Somers and John Mais Capel.

A bit about a few of the composers:

• John Eire (1879 – 1962): An Englishman whose fashion spans Late Romanticism and Impressionism, he left a prodigious legacy of artwork songs and works for solo piano.
• Pauline Viardot (1821 – 1910): A French dramatic mezzo-soprano, vocal pedagogue, and composer, Pauline Viardot had a glittering operatic profession earlier than turning to composition. Her work, admired by Liszt, included 5 operas and over 100 artwork songs.
• John Alden Carpenter (1876 – 1951): An American Impressionist (as he was recognized in his day), he was one of many first to introduce the idioms of jazz into orchestral music, leaving three ballets, together with works for piano and artwork songs.
• Harry Somers (1925 – 1999): A local Torontonian, Harry Somers was a prolific composer, and founding member of the Canadian League of Composers (CLC). He’s most likely finest recognized for the opera Louis Riel, which was commissioned for the 1967 Centennial celebrations.
• Carl Loewe (1796 – 1869): Organist, music trainer and singer, Carl Loewe discovered the time to composer greater than 400 songs, together with two symphonies and 5 operas. He was referred to as “the north German Schubert”.
• Lars-Erik Larsson (1908 – 1986): Swedish composer, conductor, radio producer and educator Lars-Erik Larsson was a pupil of Alban Berg. His compositions vary from 12-tone serialism via folks music to Neo-Romanticism and Classicism.

The total checklist of composers contains: Charles Tomlinson Griffes, Franz Schubert, Benjamin Britten, Lars-Erik Larsson, Pauline Viardot, John Eire, Harry Somers, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, John Alden Carpenter, Clara Wieck, Dylan Langan, Carl Loewe, John Mais Capel, Gustav Holst, Matvey Nikolaevsky, Charles Wakeman Cadman, and Richmond & Maxwell.

The Performers

Catherin Carew, mezzo-soprano

Mezzo-soprano Catharin Carew (she/they) is skilled in recital and opera efficiency, with a various repertoire. Profession highlights have included the premiere of Ana Sokolovic’s The Midnight Courtroom on the Royal Opera Home, Covent Backyard, and performing Mrs. Grose in The Flip of the Screw at Aldeburgh. Current performances embrace Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde and mezzo soloist in Robert Cohen’s Alzheimer Tales with Pax Christi Chorale.

Simmie J. Patoka, soprano

Soprano Simmie J. Patoka (they/them) is predicated on Ontario. Stage credit embrace singing Suor Genovieffa in Puccini’s Suor Angelica, the First Woman in Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Elvira in Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri, together with musical theatre roles akin to Paulette in Legally Blonde and Casey in First Date.

Austin Larusson, baritone

Baritone Austin Larusson not too long ago starred as Hugo in Tales of the Grotesque on the historic Campbell Home in Toronto. Different current stage credit embrace the position of Frank in Die Fledermaus, Masetto in Don Giovanni, and the Sacristan in Tosca, together with masking Scarpia with Toronto Metropolis Opera. Profession highlights embrace Shem and Patho in Conan and the Stone of Kellior, John Sorel in The Consul, and Conte Di Luna cowl in Il Trovatore. He’ll be performing as Elder McLean within the upcoming manufacturing of Susannah with Toronto Metropolis Opera.

Alexander Cappellazzo, tenor

Tenor Alexander Cappellazzo is Toronto-based, and has carried out with Voicebox: Opera in Live performance, Toronto Metropolis Opera, and different firms within the metropolis. He attracts from a various repertoire that features operatic and choral works from Bach to Wagner. Alexander is a graduate of McGill College with Bachelor’s and Grasp’s levels in Vocal Efficiency and Opera.

Alexander based Apocryphonia in 2022.

Ivan Jovanovic, pianist

A local of Serbia Ivan Jovanovic started his music schooling on the Belgrade School of Music, incomes each a BMus and MMus in piano efficiency. He joined the Belgrade Opera Orchestra in 2004 as a répétiteur and live performance pianist. He got here to Toronto in 2013 to finish his MMus in Collaborative Piano from the College of Toronto, and he gained the Gwendolyn Williams Koldofsky Prize in
Accompanying that yr. He’s at the moment an everyday vocal coach and harpsichordist in UofT’s Early Music Division.

From 2014 to current, Jovanovic has been the accompanist at Toronto Metropolis Opera, and in 2017 prolonged his position to Music Director.

• Tickets are PWYC with a steered $30/20 value, and yow will discover tickets and extra info [HERE].

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