CCO ANNOUNCEMENTS APRIL 16 2025

I. NO REHEARSAL APRIL 21, 2025

April 21 is Easter Monday and the 519 is closed. No rehearsal. 

II. REHEARSALS RESUME APRIL 28, 7:30 - 9:30 at The 519 

Andrew Chung encourages us to listen to recordings of the music we will be performing. An Audio File of the Clarinet Concerto is now available in the Musicians’ Only portal on ccorchestra.org, Sheet Music. Here is the CCO website reference to music and that recording: 

Please login before accessing the sheet music - you will not be able to access pdfs, unless you are logged in

CCO 2024-2025 Season

​Click the name of the pieces to access sheet music. 

2025 June 7th 

• Overture L'italiana in Algeri - IMSLP

• Open Passage, a Clarinet concerto by John Gladwell ​

• Instrumentation: fl, ob, E,horn, Bsn, Hrn, trp, perc, harp, piano, strings + Solo Clarinet 

  • 1st Mvt ​

  • 2nd Mvt

  • 3rd Mvt   

  • Audio File for all three movements

Intermission 

• Gaelic Symphony by Amy Beach - Please download the sheet music from this IMSLP Link

The Gaelic Symphony is available on Youtube. Snacks April 28: winds, brass and piano. (May 5 snacks: first violins) 

This season, we are featuring at least one female composer on each of our programmes.  If you would like to know more about Amy Beach and the Gaelic Symphony, here is a link to Sticky Notes, a podcast by Joshua Weilerstein:

Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/sticky-notes-the-classical-music-podcast/id1215386938?i=1000698034165

III. APRIL 24  TOUR OF THE AR’QUIVES 

There are a few spots left on the tour of the ArQuives that Daniel Payne is hosting. A dinner reservation has been made afterward at the Artful Dodger Pub. 

Book a spot at payne.danny@gmail.com. Details of the event:

Founded in 1973, The ArQuives is the largest and longest standing independent 2SLGBTQIA+ archives in the world. It was established to aid in the recovery and preservation of Queer and Trans histories with a mandate of acquiring, preserving, organizing, and giving public access to information and materials in any medium, by and about Queer and Trans people, primarily produced in or concerning Canada. Functioning as an archives, library, gallery, and museum, The ArQuives seeks to fulfil its promise of "keeping our stories alive."

Location: 34 Isabella St. (north side, between Yonge & Church Sts.)

Date: Thursday April 24, 2025

Time: 6:30 - 7:30pm. (Daniel will be onsite by 6:20pm, so try not to show up too early!)

Note: The ArQuives is maintaining a masking policy, so feel free to bring your own, or we have lots available onsite. 

Dinner: 7:45pm - The Artful Dodger Pub, 10 Isabella St. 

IV. CCO RECORDINGS  

The CCO’s regular Sound Technician, Thom Varey, has sent a link to the recording of our March concert. The link will be uploaded to our website soon: 

"Here are the recordings from the last concert:

https://we.tl/t-Tkip1RnCiM

There is a folder for the larger WAVE files and another for the compressed MP3s.”

V. IMPORTANT CCO DATES 

Rehearsals are normally Monday nights, 7:30 to 9:30 at The 519 Community Centre unless otherwise indicated. Musicians are expected to bring their own music and stand. Snacks are provided in rotation by section: first violins, then seconds, then viola, cello and double bass, then winds, brass and piano. 

Monday April 21 - no rehearsal (Easter Monday - the 519 is closed) 

Thursday April 24, 6:30pm - Tour of the Ar-Quives, with optional restaurant dinner to follow. Contact payne.danny@gmail.com

Monday April 28 - rehearsals resume at the 519. Snacks winds, brass and piano. (May 5 snacks: first violins) 

Monday May 19 - no rehearsal (Victoria Day) (the 519 is closed.) Rehearsals continue on May 26.

Thursday May 21 - Board meeting. 7:30pm. By Zoom. Members may attend. Ask for a Zoom invitation emitchell1727@gmail.com. 

Friday June 6 - Dress Rehearsal, 7:00 to 10:00pm - Eastminster United Church

Saturday June 7 - Concert, 7:30pm - Eastminster United Church.

In July and August, 2025, there will be two outdoor concerts in Allan Gardens Park, on dates yet to be determined, one in July and one in August.  The featured performers will be small ensembles (at least one member must be a CCO musician). CCO musicians will perform as a group as part of the afternoon programme, or with a smaller ensemble if invited. If you would like to perform as a small ensemble, please apply to Daniel Payne, payne.danny@gmail.com.

VI. OTHER MUSIC AND CCO MEMBERS 

• April 29 6:00pm:  Former CCO first violinist Rebecca Gray, now a composer and singer, and the CCO’s concertmaster Gemma Donn are performing together: "Singer and composer Rebecca Gray will be hosting a performance of her newly composed “Bus Opera” at Hugh’s Room Live, 296 Broadview Ave, on Tuesday April     29th at 6 PM. Concertmaster Gemma Donn  will be performing on violin. "

  
  

If you personally are performing somewhere and you would like others to know, you can:

(i) post it in the Musicians Only portal of CCOrchestra.org;

(ii) leave your promotional materials at the entranceway to the rehearsal hall (also OK to leave information there about performing opportunities);

(iii) send details to emitchell1727@gmail.com for including in the CCO Announcements.