Field Trip Tuesday to the PATH Underground City and Roy Thomson Hall

Another exciting field trip ("drip" is also fine this time as it's completely indoors!) awaits tomorrow, Tuesday, as we head back downtown for a tour of Toronto's PATH underground city and attend a concert at the Roy Thomson Hall.

We are meeting together and leaving the Southbound Platform of Sheppard-Yonge Subway Station at 9:45 a.m. Please bring walking shoes and any refreshments you may need.

Study the PATH map in advance so that you won't get lost there.

At the Roy Thomson Hall, at the St. Andrew Subway Station, we will attend a free organ concert featuring the following:

Solo recital features the great organ works by J.S. Bach and other masters

French organist Frédéric Champion won the top prize at the inaugural Canadian International Organ Competition (CIOC), held in Montreal, October 2008. He was also voted the audience favourite to win the Richard Bradshaw Audience prize. As First Prize winner, he was awarded $30,000, received a three-year career management contract, and a CD recording with ATMA Classique. The Roy Thomson Hall date is part of Champion's 2009 North American fall tour. A native of Lyon, France, Champion has won many top awards including First Prize at the Minoru Yoshida Tokyo Competition and First Prize and the Bach Prize at the Interational Gottfried Silbermann Competition in Leipzig.

Thanks to the Internet, someone's helpfully blogged the program even!

• Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750) - Prelude in E-flat major “St. Anne” 
• Jean-Baptiste LULLY (1632-1687) - Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (excerpts)  
• Felix MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847) - Sonata 6 in D-minor
• Charles-Marie WIDOR (1844-1937) - Allegro Vivace from Symphony No. 5
• Frédéric CHAMPION (1976 -) - Improvisation

As this is a public event on public transport, you're welcome to bring friends and family along. Hope to see all of you there!

3 comments:

Christina said...

It's very interesting. I'm looking forward to it. My child is too young to go to this concert.What a pity!

November 4, 2009 1:09 PM

Helen said...

Toronto's PATH underground city and a concert at the Roy Thomson Hall sounds interesting. I would like to visit with classmates.But I don't know where should I get off subway to go to Roy Thomson Hall if I don't meet you guys.

November 4, 2009 1:12 PM

Welcome to Canada, eh? said...

Good point, Helen. Who knows the nearest Subway Station to Roy Thomson Hall?

November 4, 2009 1:16 PM