Pianist Stewart Goodyear undertakes the Herculean challenge of playing all 32 Beethoven sonatas in a single day.

PART 1
(10:00 AM – 2:00 PM)  4 hours, with intermission.
Sonatas No. 1 through 11, as well as No. 19 and No. 20, including the “Grand Sonata” and “Pathétique.”

PART 2
(3:00 PM – 6:30 PM) 3.5 hours, with intermission.
Sonatas No. 12 through 23 (except Nos. 19 and 20), including the “Moonlight,” “Pastoral,” “Tempest,” and “Appassionata.”

PART 3
(8:30 PM – 11:30PM) 3 hours, with intermission.
Sonatas No. 24 through 32, including “Les adieux” and “Hammerklavier.”

Luminato has commissioned internationally acclaimed Indonesian performance artist Melati Suryodarmo to create an on-stage performance piece that will continue throughout Stewart Goodyear’s marathon of 32 Beethoven sonatas. Suryodarmo’s three performance sequences will provide subtle, almost motionless visual enrichment that heightens the listening experience.

Pre-concert lecture by Dr. Antonio Damasio to be held at 7:30 PM in Mazzoleni Concert Hall.  Dr. Damasio is Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. His books include Descartes’ Error, The Feeling of What Happens, Looking for Spinoza and, most recently, Self Comes to Mind, which was awarded the Corine International Book Prize.

Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky: Night Music: Voice in the Leaves for Cello and Orchestra (Canadian Première)
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances
Elgar: Cello Concerto

Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Peter Oundjian, conductor
Yo-Yo Ma, cello

The Batsheva Dance Company of Israell performs the North American premiere of Sadeh21, by Batsheva’s Artistic Director Ohad Naharin, in their much anticipated return to Toronto.
Sadeh21 is a full-length work featuring a large company of dancers, in solos and groups, exploring the space of an empty stage using the unique movement language developed by Ohad Naharin, called Gaga.

Philip Glass: Einstein on the Beach
An Opera in Four Acts
Robert Wilson, director
Choreography by Lucinda Childs

An Opera in Four Acts

Robert Wilson and Philip Glass’ landmark collaboration. Blending everything from music and poetry to abstract dance, Einstein on the Beach weaves a dreamlike experience that, like any classical sonata or symphony, is based on the idea of theme and variation. But Einstein on the Beach can also be seen as distinctly, dramatically American. Structured in four interconnected acts and divided by a series of scenes, Einstein on the Beach has no traditional intermissions. Instead, the audience is invited to enter and exit at liberty during the performance.

Robert Lepage: Playing Cards 1: Spades
Directed by Robert Lepage

Written by Sylvio Arriola, Carole Faisant, Nuria Garcia, Tony Guilfoyle, Martin Haberstroh, Robert Lepage, Sophie Martin, and Roberto Mori

Robert Lepage’s latest project, Playing Cards, uses a deck of cards as its framework. SPADES, the first of four parts named for the various suits, explores the theme of war and juxtaposes two desert cities Las Vegas and Baghdad, at the onset of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The gambling Mecca, fiercely representative of the Western World’s values and extremes, brings together a cross-cultural assortment of characters whose affinities are as varied as their origins.

The ninth semi-annual Munk Debate will table the motion: be it resolved, the European experiment has failed.

Arguing for the resolution will be Niall Ferguson, renowned economic historian, and Josef Joffe, publisher/editor of the German weekly, Die Zeit.

Speaking against the resolution, is Peter Mandelson, former EU commissioner for Trade, and Daniel Cohn-Bendit, co-president of the Greens/Free European Alliance Group in the European Parliament.