In Memoriam: Fred Feuerriegel

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Friedrich-Wilhelm Feuerriegel was the technical virtuoso behind the History of Concerts and Performers of the WMCT. First issued as a photocopied booklet in 1997 for the Club’s 100th anniversary, this indexed and searchable guide now resides on the WMCT website, updated at the end of each season.
Fred used his computer skills to organize the research originally accumulated by his wife Hanna, a former WMCT President, establishing a standard format for musical works, then inputting many thousands of entries, to create an unparalleled chronicle of a Toronto institution. With Hanna he attended WMCT concerts regularly, up to the last concert of 2024.

Read more of the story of the Feuerriegels and a published Obituary.

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2024 Annual Meeting – more fun than most AMs

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Members gathered in the Arts and Letters Club Great Hall on September 26. After quickly approving the financial statements, appointing auditors for next year, listening to the reports of last year’s activities, accepting the ONCA documents (the result of extreme amounts of time and energy) we enjoyed music made by three of our scholarship winners, and a delectable lunch.

Janet Murray
Janet Murray – ONCA Queen
Bud Roach, tenor with theorbo
Bud Roach, tenor with theorbo
Susannah-Zou-at-the-concert-grand
Susannah Zou at the concert grand
Olivia Morton, soprano
Olivia Morton, soprano
Audience reaction
The Audience responds

Photo credits: Jim Kippen

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Midori Marsh, 2024 Career Development Award Winner

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At the March 7 Music in the Afternoon concert, Annette Sanger, CDA Committee Chair, presented this year’s award to Midori Marsh, soprano.
In her thanks for the award, Midori exhorted us all to sing, in and out of the shower, as the best way to personal pleasure, and community strength and unity!

Midori Marsh is an American-Canadian soprano, from Cleveland, Ohio. She received her Bachelor of Music at Wilfrid Laurier University in 2017 and her Master of Music in Opera at the University of Toronto in 2020. In the fall of 2019, she took home both first prize and the audience choice award at the Canadian Opera Company’s (COC’s) Centre Stage competition, and recently completed her third year with the COC’s young artist ensemble.
A “polished and poised performer” with “a truly gorgeous, expressive sound,” Midori is a known quantity in the Canadian opera scene, performing with Tapestry Opera, Against the Grain Theatre, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the NAC Orchestra, and more. While at the COC, Midori was seen as Nella in Gianni Schicchi, the soprano soloist in Mozart’s Requiem, Annina in La traviata, Papagena in The Magic Flute, and Frasquita in Carmen.

About the CDA Award

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Another WMCT Scholarship Winner joins COC Ensemble Studio

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For the 2024/25 season soprano Gabrielle Turgeon will become part of the company’s professional development program. As an undergraduate at the U of T Faculty of Music, Gabrielle was the 2021-2022 winner of the WMCT Centennial Scholarship. She is currently a student at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

As a new member of the Ensemble Studio she will be well on the way to a professional career, like mezzo-soprano Alex Hetherington, a previous winner of the same scholarship and current Ensemble Studio member.

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In Memoriam: Barbara Gory

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Barbara Gory (shown left) passed away on Monday, December 4, 2023, at the age of 95.  

Working with Elizabeth Newton (centre), and Esther McNeil (right), Barbara Gory established the WMCT Foundation in 2000. 

Bringing to the WMCT her skills as one of the earliest women in Canada to be certified as a chartered accountant, Barbara guided the process of securing the Foundation’s charter and charitable status.  She served as its first Secretary-Treasurer, was Vice-President 2004-2007 and a director at large until 2010.  The Foundation has grown to be able to support the operation of the Club, and to fund several annual scholarships at the University of Toronto and Royal Conservatory of Music, and the flagship Career Development Award of $25,000 every three years.  She was also a longstanding member of the Club and offered astute advice as a member of its committees and board. Barbara Gory was a member of the Legacy Circle.

Read more about Barbara and her many other contributions to the cultural and intellectual life of Toronto.

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Music in the Afternoon artists among the Canada Council 2023 Musical Instrument Bank competition winners.

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Chris Whitley
1900 Stefano Scarampella violin



Cameron Crozman
ca.1750 Gennaro Gagliano cello

The Competition offers the opportunity to borrow and perform with an exceptional instrument crafted by a world renowned luthier, for three years. 

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