Yo-Yo Ma used Skype to connect with Toronto middle-school students leading up to his visit. ________________________________________

May 16, 2012 – World-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma celebrates the TSO’s 90th season with a residency that began months ago. Leading up to his Toronto visit, Yo-Yo Ma used Skype to connect with middle school students to discuss creativity and life discovery through the arts. The cellist’s residency culminates with two concerts led by TSO Music Director Peter Oundjian at Roy Thomson Hall where Ma will perform Elgar’s Cello Concerto and Dimitri Yanov-Yanovsky’s Night Music: Voice in the Leaves for Cello and Orchestra (May 30 & 31, 2012).

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The TSYO performs concerts in Vancouver, Nanaimo and Victoria, May 20 – 23, 2012.

April 23, 2012 – This May, the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra (TSYO) will perform in Western Canada on a three-concert tour to British Columbia. Led by conductor Alain Trudel, the 83-member orchestra will perform in Vancouver (May 20, 2:30pm at the Chan Centre), Nanaimo (May 22, 7:30pm at the Port Theatre) and Victoria (May 23, 7:30pm at the Royal Theatre).

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April 3, 2012

THE TORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PRESENTS THE HOCKEY SWEATER

Composed by Abigail Richardson

Roch Carrier, Narrator • Ken Dryden, Host

Alain Trudel, Conductor

World Première May 12 @ Roy Thomson Hall

 

"The winters of my childhood were long, long seasons. We lived in three places – the school, the church and the skating rink – but our life was on the skating rink."

Roch Carrier, “The Hockey Sweater”

Published in 1979 and instantly beloved by all, Roch Carrier’s "The Hockey Sweater" is as quintessentially Canadian as the game of hockey itself. Originally published in French, the story, which is often seen as a parable about French and English relations in Canada, became an instant classic of Canadian literature.

 

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