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    Toronto Centre for the Arts

    Toronto Centre for the Arts (North York Performing Arts Centre 1993-4, Ford Centre for the Performing Arts 1994-8). Performing arts complex, located at 5040 Yonge Street in Toronto.

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    Toronto Children's Chorus

    Responding to a request from Walter Homburger (Managing Director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra) that she assemble a treble-voice chorus to perform with that orchestra, conductor Jean Ashworth Bartle founded the Toronto Children's Chorus in 1978.

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    Toronto Children's Chorus

    Toronto Children's Chorus (TCC). Founded in 1978 by conductor Jean Ashworth Gam (later Bartle) because of a need for a treble-voice choir to perform certain repertoire with the Toronto Symphony.

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    Toronto Chinatown

    Toronto’s Chinatown, one of the largest in North America, is an ever-evolving neighbourhood defined by numerous cohorts of Chinese immigrants with a diversity of culture, traditions and languages. (See Chinese Canadians.) Also known as Chinatown West, it is one of three Chinatowns in Toronto, more of the large Chinese settlements are included from the inner suburbs, like Scarborough and North York, and outer suburbs, like Markham, Mississauga and Richmond Hill.

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    Toronto Consort

    Toronto Consort. Performance ensemble formed in Toronto in 1972 to perform early vocal and instrumental music (about 1200 to 1675).

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    Toronto Feature: George Brown

    This article is from our Toronto Feature series. Features from past programs are not updated.

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    Toronto Feature: Tom Longboat

    This article is from our Toronto Feature series. Features from past programs are not updated.

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    Toronto Jewish Folk Choir

    Toronto Jewish Folk Choir. Amateur choir, Canada's oldest continuing Jewish choral group. Its repertoire, sung in four-part harmony, encompasses a wide range of secular Jewish music, classical works on Jewish themes (eg Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from Verdi's Nabucco), and songs of many lands.

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    Toronto Mass Choir

    Toronto Mass Choir. A contemporary gospel music ensemble of approximately 30 vocalists and a five-piece band, led by choir director Karen Burke. Her husband, Oswald Burke, is executive producer.

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    Toronto Men Teachers' Choir

    The Toronto Men Teachers' Choir. An amateur group founded in 1941 by Murray Dobson and Alec Turner with about 10 members; it later had as many as 70. It gave its first public concert 27 Apr 1942 at Eaton Auditorium.

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    Toronto Mendelssohn Choir

    Canada’s world-renowned and oldest-surviving mixed-voice amateur choir, the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir (TMC) was founded in 1894 by Augustus Stephen Vogt. Succeeding conductors have been Herbert A. Fricker (1917–42), Sir Ernest MacMillan (1942–57), Frederick Silvester (1957–60), Walter Susskind (1960–63), Elmer Iseler (1964–98) and Noel Edison (1997–2018). Each conductor has introduced new repertoire, both sacred and secular, including Canadian compositions and the Canadian premieres of major European works. The 137-voice choir includes a core of 20 professional singers, many of whom also participate in the Mendelssohn Singers, a 70-voice chamber choir. The choir has performed over the years at Toronto’s Massey Hall, Roy Thomson Hall and Koerner Hall. It has also made frequent appearances in the United States and has performed at such European festivals as the Edinburgh Festival, the Lucerne International Festival, the Festival Estival in Paris, the Flanders Festival and the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts (the Proms) at London’s Royal Albert Hall. 

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    Toronto Oratorio Society

    The Toronto Oratorio Society. One of several large choirs in early 20th-century Toronto. It was founded in 1910 and survived 15 years despite a period of inactivity 1912-14. It was an outgrowth of the choir at the Jarvis St Baptist Church, where its conductor, Edward Broome, was organist.

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    Toronto Philharmonia

    The Toronto Philharmonia. Orchestra, originally known as the North York Symphony; established in 1970 as a semi-professional orchestra in the borough of North York (Toronto). Originally 20 members, the orchestra played its annual six-concert series in Minkler Auditorium, Seneca College.

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    Toronto Philharmonic Orchestra

    Toronto Philharmonic Orchestra. Orchestra of up to 65 players conducted by Paul Robinson, formed in 1989 with players from the CJRT Orchestra, which after 1989 became essentially a broadcasting ensemble.

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    Toronto Philharmonic Society

    Toronto Philharmonic Society. Name of a succession of concert societies (1845-7, 1848-50, 1853-5, 1872-94), connected by a certain continuity of leadership: John McCaul, the University of Toronto president, and James P.

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