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author = ["authors/jenna.md"]
categories = "News"
date = "2015-11-09T16:57:00-05:00"
lastmod = "2015-11-09T23:50:00-05:00"
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primary_image_credit = "Soprano Simone Osborne (photo by Bo Huang) and Rick Mercer."
publishDate = "2015-11-10T08:00:00-05:00"
related_companies = ["scene/companies/toronto-symphony-orchestra.md"]
related_people = ["scene/people/simone-osborne.md"]
short_description = "November is a great month for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and I figured I&#039;d share a couple of my picks for the coming weeks."
slug = "short-list-this-month-with-the-tso"
title = "Short list: this month with the TSO"
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November is a great month for the [Toronto Symphony Orchestra](/scene/companies/toronto-symphony-orchestra/), and I figured I'd share a couple of my picks for the coming weeks.

This week, on November 12th and 14th, the TSO's ongoing [Decades Project](http://www.tso.ca/en-ca/concerts-and-tickets/2015-2016-Season/The-Decades-Project.aspx) continues with a programme of music written between 1900-1909. Maestro Michael Sanderling conducts the orchestra, joined by soprano [Simone Osborne](/talking-with-singers-simone-osborne/) for Mahler's 4th, his "gentlest symphony." Simone will also treat us to two turn-of-the-century arias from Charpentier's *Louise* and Dvořák's *Rusalka*. Sounds pretty divine to me. For details and tickets, [click here](http://www.tso.ca/en-ca/concerts-and-tickets/2015-2016-Season/EventDetails/Mahler-Symphony-4.aspx).

On November 20th and 21st, get your Bond on with [*James Bond: The Music*](http://www.tso.ca/en-ca/concerts-and-tickets/2015-2016-Season/EventDetails/James-Bond-The-Music.aspx). The TSO and vocalists [Capathia Jenkins](http://capathiajenkins.com/about/) (Broadway's *The Civil War*, Off-Broadway's *Godspell*) and [Ron Bohmer](http://www.ronbohmer.com/) (currently touring *The Book of Mormon*) offer up Bond hits like *Goldfinger*, *Live and Let Die*, and *Skyfall*. John Morris Russell conducts. For details and tickets, [click here](http://www.tso.ca/en-ca/concerts-and-tickets/2015-2016-Season/EventDetails/James-Bond-The-Music.aspx).

Finally, on November 26th, the TSO presents [*Peter and the Wolf: In Support of SickKids*](http://www.tso.ca/en-ca/concerts-and-tickets/2015-2016-Season/EventDetails/Peter-and-the-Wolf-In-Support-of-SickKids.aspx). In a benefit for Toronto's [major paediatric hospital](http://www.sickkids.ca/), special guest Rick Mercer narrates an evening of family-friendly classical faves, like Benjamin Britten's *The Young People's Guide to the Orchestra* and Prokofiev's *Peter and the Wolf*. Peter Oundjian conducts and co-hosts. For details and tickets, [click here](http://www.tso.ca/en-ca/concerts-and-tickets/2015-2016-Season/EventDetails/Peter-and-the-Wolf-In-Support-of-SickKids.aspx). Here's a little preview from Mr. Mercer himself:

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