It is a listing of live shows we’re attending, wishing we might attend, or fascinated about attending between July 14 and 20, 2025. For extra of what’s taking place round Toronto, go to our calendar right here.
Royal Canadian School of Organists Toronto Centre: All-Star Organ Live performance
Monday, July 14, 7:30 p.m.
Rosedale United Church, 159 Roxborough Dr., $25 common/$20 digital stream
Royal Canadian School of Organists’ 2025 Summer time Organ Academy opens with a terrific program on the Casavant Opus 591 pipe organ. Simply steps away from Rosedale station, this Casavant was in-built 1914, and its most up-to-date revision was in 2005. With 35 stops, 44 ranks, and a complete of two,637 pipes, it’s able to going anyplace from the faintest whisper to a thundering resonance. That includes a wide range of alternatives from classical literature to modern organ literature, the seven organists — college and visitor lecturers of 2025 SOA and the internet hosting organist, Sarah Svendsen — will deliver the scores to life, creating sufficient reverberation to maneuver our our bodies and minds. Learn our Preview of the live performance right here. Data right here.
Toronto Summer time Music: Calidore String Quartet
Tuesday, July 15, 7:30 p.m.
Walter Corridor, School of Music, College of Toronto, 80 Queen’s Park, $20+
TSM’s calendar is filled with open masterclasses and performances, and it’s fairly arduous to select which one to attend. Nevertheless, this specific live performance, that includes the Calidore String Quartet, stands out in its programming, promising a lot magnificence, finesse, and probably new experiences for a lot of. That includes two canonic works by Barber and Korngold, and two works by Wynton Marsalis (alternatives from String Quartet 1) and John Williams (“With Malice Towards None”), there’s a lot to look at and expertise; in case you have not heard John Williams’ ‘critical’ compositions, you might be in for an enormous deal with — as he so masterfully demonstrates in his film soundtracks, WIlliams is a real grasp of idiomatic writing. Come, and expertise that particular timbre of the well-matched string quartet — there’s nothing fairly prefer it. Data right here.
Toronto Summer time Music: Youngsters Concert events: Schmaltz & Pepper
Wednesday, July 16, 11 a.m.
Walter Corridor, School of Music, College of Toronto, 80 Queen’s Park, free
Convey children out to this pretty kids’s program! A specific Toronto favorite, Schmaltz & Pepper — Eric Abramovitz, Drew Jurecka, Rebekah Wolkstein, Jeremy Ledbetter, and Michael Herring — will deliver Klezmer to the households, to hear, take pleasure in, and probably dance (if the music strikes you, who might ever cease you?) This brief and candy live performance, open to the general public, is a good way to introduce children to reside music, and if you wish to hear a bit extra, come again later within the day for the 7:30 p.m. night present with a full-length program: tickets for this begin at $20. Data right here.
Beck with Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Friday, July 18, Saturday, July 19, each at 8 p.m.
Roy Thomson Corridor, $151.63+
Beck, whose quirky and insightful lyrics and music made him a family identify because the Nineteen Nineties, with an immediately recognisable laid-back low-fi model dipping into each style of music potential (roots, funk, soul, nation, hip hop severely, you identify it and he’s touched it) — is coming to Toronto for these two nights. Multi-platinum, multi-GRAMMY — Beck’s award listings are lengthy, and the long-lasting movies that graced MTV are nonetheless vivid in lots of Gen-Xers reminiscences, and onward. Trying again on Sea Change (2022) and Morning Section (2014) specifically, it’s fairly thrilling to think about how Beck will discover the colors and timbres of a full-scale orchestra. However act quick — the cavernous Roy Thomson Corridor has quite restricted availability regardless of two efficiency dates. Data right here.
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Cecilia tumbled into ‘critical’ music research when she determined to keep away from attending medical faculty. At the moment working within the subject of classical music, recording, and Korean-English interpretation, she tends to get her nostril soiled in many various issues within the metropolis. Cecilia holds a DMA in Piano Efficiency from the College of Nebraska-Lincoln.
