The Toronto Symphony Orchestra has announced that it will participate in Toronto’s citywide Keep Toronto Reading Festival during March and April. The festival’s One Book community selection for 2014 is The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway, and from March 17 to April 7 cellists from the Toronto Symphony Orchestra will perform during 22 days of “pop-up” performances at locations across Toronto, mirroring the book’s protagonist, who plays Albinoni’s Adagio for 22 days to commemorate 22 victims of a bomb blast. Also planned during the festival are a screening of Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo with director John Zaritsky, in partnership with Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival; an evening of music performed by TSO Principal Cello Joseph Johnson interspersed with poetry readings by Toronto filmmaker Ann Shin, hosted by the CBC’s Robert Harris; and a live reading by Steven Galloway for members of Toronto book clubs. More information, including dates and times of performances, is available here.
Posted March 11, 2014
