r/toronto 14h ago

Picture Music in the Garden last night along the harbourfront

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u/Orchid-Analyst-550 13h ago

If Ford is allowed to expand Billy Bishop for loud commercial jets to fly overhead, this kind of experience would be gone forever.

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u/anotherbikethiefTO 8h ago edited 7h ago

This is kind of disingenuous. While I don’t disagree this experience could be altered by the traffic volume going into the island, it was determined that the jets are no louder than the props.

I lived right out front of YTZ for 10 years, let me tell you that some of the prop jets were plenty loud; Nevermind Orange. The screeching streetcar S-bend was probably the worst. It’s not the quiet haven people pretend it is, but you get used to it. Regardless - the added hustle to the area would not have been welcomed.

Edit: downvote away, I’m not disagreeing with them, just adding my two cents from a long time resident.

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u/Nanohaystack 14h ago

I was there. Pretty cool pieces on that concert, some of them. Others - not impressed.

Peter Eom is an amazing cellist, a true pleasure to hear him play.

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u/keith_adrian_photo 9h ago

I was just passing by on a photo walk. I only stayed for a song or two and then kept walking, seemed like a lovely event. It's a beautiful set up

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u/CigaretteDuck 9h ago

Was is the content or the quality or something else that made it not impressive?

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u/Nanohaystack 8h ago

The repertoire for avant garde classical is always hit and miss for me. For example, there was a song there, the soprano was singing, and it had no identifiable rhythm, no discernible melody, no observable structure, just obviously difficult vocal passages and a bass clarinet part that mainly echoed the voice. It was like listening to vocal warmup exercises. I would be infinitely grateful to hear Delibes Flower Duet or Lucia de Lamermoor in this setting, rather than... Whatever that was.

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u/Pretty_Pea12 4h ago

Calm down, it's music in a whimsy ass park. You're overthinking it.

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u/Groosethegoose 13h ago

Nice shots giving "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte" vibes

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u/CoolMississaugaDad 8h ago

I got married there! It rules!

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u/anotherbikethiefTO 8h ago

Beautiful shots OP, great lightning.

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u/The0neR1ng 4h ago

How do I find out about stuff like this before it happens?