Toronto 
Events Description
The West End Micro Music Festival 2024 – 4 performances by Toronto’s best and boldest.
ECSTATIC VOICES envisions a new context for the eight-person vocal ensemble. Featuring bold, sensual works for voices — Cassandra Miller’s The City, Full of People, Caroline Shaw’s Pulitzer Prize winning Partita for 8 Voices, Luciano Berio’s Cries of London, and Thomas Tallis\\\’Lamentations of Jeremiah — this performance subverts expectations for the choir; bending, twisting, and mutating historical forms into new shapes and gestures.
Punctuating the performance is Claude Vivier’s Cinq Chansons pour Percussion, featuring virtuso percussionist Aiyun Huang. Placed in dialogue with the vocal music, these wordless songs evoke an otherworldly ecstasy.
Repertoire
Cassandra Miller – The City, Full of People
Caroline Shaw – Partita for 8 Voices
Luciano Berio – The Cries of London
Thomas Tallis – Lamentations of Jeremiah
Claude Vivier – Cinq Chansons pour Percussion
I SAW A NEW HEAVEN – November 29th and 30th, 2024
Astral washes of sound from an electric guitar join the plaintive lament of a lone voice in I Saw A New Heaven, the final performances of the 2024 West End Micro Music Festival. Accompany an ensemble of Toronto’s most creative artists as they reach for a new sonic landscape — a conceptual space at the meeting point of the sublime, the supernatural, and the avant-garde.
Repertoire
Hildegarde von Bingen – O Viridissima Virga (for electric guitar)
Sofia Gubaidulina – From the Visions of Hildegarde von Bingen (for voice and electric bass)
Sofia Gubaidulina – An Angel..
Cassandra Miller – Perfect Offering
Kati Agocs – Voices of the Immaculate
Hildegarde von Bingen – O Choruscans Lux Stellarum (for electric guitar)
Who is it for?
All ages
HOW MUCH
Tickets : $30
Free Student Tickets with online reservation (westendmusic.eventbrite.com)
How to get tickets?
Email: Info@westendmusic.ca
WHEN & WHERE
Date: Friday November 22, 2024 to Saturday November 30, 2024
4 performances, all at 7:30 pm
November 22nd – ECSTATIC VOICES
November 23rd – ECSTATIC VOICES
November 29th – I SAW A NEW HEAVEN
November 30th – I SAW A NEW HEAVEN
90 minutes
Venue & Address
Redeemer Lutheran Church, 1691 Bloor Street West, Toronto ON
Wheelchair accessible
Near Keele Street TTC Station
