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::MUSIC NEWS::
LE Newsletter -
March 11, 2010
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Luminato To Fete Bruce Cockburn
Source: www.thestar.com -
Martin Knelman
(March 10, 2010) Luminato will pay tribute to Toronto
singer-songwriter and guitarist
Bruce Cockburn
at its
annual Canadian Songbook event, set for Massey Hall on June 16.
The event will be the culmination of "40 years of longevity or
just refusing to go away," Cockburn quipped Tuesday when the
arts festival announced its 2010 music line-up.
Cockburn will be joined onstage by many other musicians,
including singer Margo Timmins and Juno-winning guitarist Colin
Linden.
The festival also confirmed, as reported earlier in the Star,
the North American premiere of The Infernal Comedy, with
John Malkovich as a serial killer in a chamber opera featuring
two sopranos and the Vienna Academy Orchestra. There will be two
performances at Massey Hall on June 11 and 12.
Rufus Wainwright, whose opera Prima Donna will be a prime
Luminato event, will open his North American tour with a concert
at the Elgin on June 15 linked to his album All Days Are
Nights: Songs for Lulu.
The world premiere of Dark Star Requiem – a dramatic
oratorio about HIV/AIDs produced in association with Tapestry
New Opera Works – is set for Koerner Hall on June 11 and 12.
Free events include Global Music, an all-day celebration of
western, eastern and African music at Queen's Park on June 12;
and another all-day concert, focusing on divas and the blues in
different parts of the world, on June 19.
The Vienna Academy Orchestra will be heard in concert on June 12
at Trinity St. Paul's Centre.
The Toronto Symphony will do an unusual late-night performance
of Beethoven's 9th Symphony for Luminato at Roy Thomson
Hall starting at 11 p.m. on June 19 – followed by a party in the
lobby that will go on into the wee hours of the morning. |
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