The Toronto Symphony Orchestra kicked off its 100th-anniversary year with a concert at Roy Thomson Hall on April 9 entitled “Celebrate 100: Maestros’ Special Homecoming.” The concert featured TSO Music Director Gustavo Gimeno and four former TSO music directors: Conductor Emeritus Peter Oundjian, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Günther Herbig, and Conductor Laureate Sir Andrew Davis. The program included Ravel’s Rapsodie espagnole, and the five conductors tag-teamed conducting an encore, Dvořák’s Slavonic Dance Op. 72, No. 7. Marion Newman—a Kwagiulth and Stó:lō First Nations mezzo-soprano with English, Irish, and Scottish heritage—served as host for the concert, which featured music highlighting key moments in the TSO’s history. The TSO’s 100th anniversary year—from April 2022 to June 2023—will continue this fall with Gimeno leading a free public concert to open the season on September 24, and a North American tour in February 2023 that will include performances in Chicago and New York City.
Caption: Left to right: Toronto Symphony Orchestra Music Director Gustavo Gimeno, former music directors Peter Oundjian, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Sir Andrew Davis, and Günther Herbig. Photo by Jag Gundu.
