Party Pages: Members of the TSO play a private show at a Distillery District warehouse
Party Pages: Members of the TSO play a private show at a Distillery District warehouse
By Andrew Wallace | April 26, 2012
By Andrew Wallace | 04/26/2012
On Tuesday night we popped into Airship 37’s Hangar Space in the Distillery District to take in an intimate and exclusive performance by four members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Hosted by chichi social club The Society and The People Wine’ s, a New Zealand winery launching its products in Canada, plenty of Toronto creative types showed up in their urban-chic finery to hear TSO musicians Peter Seminovs (violin), Sergei Nikonov (violin), Eric Nowlin (viola) and Igor Gefter (cello). The quartet performed a pair of pieces, Mozart’ s “Divertimento No. 1” and Tchaikovsky’ s “String Quartet No. 1,” for a mostly rapt audience (though the majority sat spellbound, a few attendees had apparently showed up for the abundant vino, and had to be shushed, rather aggressively, on a number of occasions). Admittedly, a high-concept notion of pairing melodic notes with tasting notes fell a bit flat, as the People Wine’s Anna Hine’ s mid-performance comparisons between the music and the drink felt awkward and contrived. Overall, however, the night was a success: the wine proved aromatic, the music transcendent and the TSO members charming—Nowlin, who served as the de facto emcee, worked the crowd with surprising aplomb.
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133930 (Image: Jenna Marie Wakani) The Society’s Amanda Blakley The Society and The People’s Wine Present: The Urban Symphony https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_8804-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_8804.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_8804.jpg 624 416 {"aperture":"1.8","camera":"Canon EOS 5D Mark II","created_timestamp":"1335289264","focal_length":"35","iso":"2500","shutter_speed":"0.0125"} https://torontolife.com/city/party-pages-the-urban-symphony/slide/img_8804/ img_8804 0 0
The Society’s Amanda Blakley
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DJ Daniel Buckman
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Lennard Commercial Realty sales rep Chelsea Conway and Endo Networks owner and president Peter Day
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The Society’s Ashleigh Dempster
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133939 (Image: Jenna Marie Wakani) The Society’s Ashleigh Dempster and Amanda Blakley The Society and The People’s Wine Present: The Urban Symphony https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_8914-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_8914.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_8914.jpg 624 416 {"aperture":"1.4","camera":"Canon EOS 5D Mark II","created_timestamp":"1335290974","focal_length":"35","iso":"2000","shutter_speed":"0.008"} https://torontolife.com/city/party-pages-the-urban-symphony/slide/img_8914/ img_8914 0 0
The Society’s Ashleigh Dempster and Amanda Blakley
133941 (Image: Jenna Marie Wakani) Greta Constantine communications manager Jesse Greene The Society and The People’s Wine Present: The Urban Symphony https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_8942-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_8942.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_8942.jpg 624 416 {"aperture":"1.4","camera":"Canon EOS 5D Mark II","created_timestamp":"1335291247","focal_length":"35","iso":"2500","shutter_speed":"0.008"} https://torontolife.com/city/party-pages-the-urban-symphony/slide/img_8942/ img_8942 0 0
Greta Constantine communications manager Jesse Greene
133942 (Image: Jenna Marie Wakani) The Society managing director Martina Stritesky and boutique PR agency owner April Jackson The Society and The People’s Wine Present: The Urban Symphony https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_8954-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_8954.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_8954.jpg 624 416 {"aperture":"1.4","camera":"Canon EOS 5D Mark II","created_timestamp":"1335291338","focal_length":"35","iso":"2500","shutter_speed":"0.008"} https://torontolife.com/city/party-pages-the-urban-symphony/slide/img_8954-2/ img_8954-2 0 0
The Society managing director Martina Stritesky and boutique PR agency owner April Jackson
133944 (Image: Jenna Marie Wakani) Fashion designer Amanda Lew Kee The Society and The People’s Wine Present: The Urban Symphony https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_9019-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_9019.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_9019.jpg 624 416 {"aperture":"1.4","camera":"Canon EOS 5D Mark II","created_timestamp":"1335293786","focal_length":"35","iso":"3200","shutter_speed":"0.008"} https://torontolife.com/city/party-pages-the-urban-symphony/slide/img_9019/ img_9019 0 0
Fashion designer Amanda Lew Kee
133947 (Image: Jenna Marie Wakani) The Society’s events manager Yvonne Ng and co-founders Amanda Blakley and Ashleigh Dempster The Society and The People’s Wine Present: The Urban Symphony https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_9062-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_9062.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_9062.jpg 624 416 {"aperture":"2","camera":"Canon EOS 5D Mark II","created_timestamp":"1335294520","focal_length":"35","iso":"4000","shutter_speed":"0.01"} https://torontolife.com/city/party-pages-the-urban-symphony/slide/img_9062/ img_9062 0 0
The Society’s events manager Yvonne Ng and co-founders Amanda Blakley and Ashleigh Dempster
133933 (Image: Jenna Marie Wakani) Handbag designer Ela Kowalewska The Society and The People’s Wine Present: The Urban Symphony https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_8846-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_8846.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_8846.jpg 624 416 {"aperture":"1.4","camera":"Canon EOS 5D Mark II","created_timestamp":"1335289859","focal_length":"35","iso":"3200","shutter_speed":"0.008"} https://torontolife.com/city/party-pages-the-urban-symphony/slide/img_8846/ img_8846 0 0
Handbag designer Ela Kowalewska
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Accessories designer Maryam Keyhani
133928 (Image: Jenna Marie Wakani) Greta Constantine designer Kirk Pickersgill The Society and The People’s Wine Present: The Urban Symphony https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_8780-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_8780.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_8780.jpg 624 416 {"aperture":"1.4","camera":"Canon EOS 5D Mark II","created_timestamp":"1335289056","focal_length":"35","iso":"2500","shutter_speed":"0.0125"} https://torontolife.com/city/party-pages-the-urban-symphony/slide/img_8780/ img_8780 0 0
Greta Constantine designer Kirk Pickersgill
133945 (Image: Jenna Marie Wakani) TSO associate principal viola Eric Nowlin The Society and The People’s Wine Present: The Urban Symphony https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_9034-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_9034.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_9034.jpg 624 416 {"aperture":"1.4","camera":"Canon EOS 5D Mark II","created_timestamp":"1335294264","focal_length":"35","iso":"2500","shutter_speed":"0.008"} https://torontolife.com/city/party-pages-the-urban-symphony/slide/img_9034/ img_9034 0 0
TSO associate principal viola Eric Nowlin
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TSO violinist Sergei Nikonov, cellist Igor Gefter and communications manager Laura Quinn
133943 (Image: Jenna Marie Wakani) TSO musicians played a pair of pieces: Mozart’s "Divertimento No. 1" and Tchaikovsky’s "String Quartet No. 1" The Society and The People’s Wine Present: The Urban Symphony https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_8970-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_8970.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_8970.jpg 624 416 {"aperture":"4.5","camera":"Canon EOS 5D Mark II","created_timestamp":"1335291972","focal_length":"35","iso":"1600","shutter_speed":"0.01"} https://torontolife.com/city/party-pages-the-urban-symphony/slide/img_8970-2/ img_8970-2 0 0
TSO musicians played a pair of pieces: Mozart’s “Divertimento No. 1” and Tchaikovsky’s “String Quartet No. 1”
133937 (Image: Jenna Marie Wakani) The People’s Wine brand ambassador and marketing manager Anna Hine offered tasting notes in between TSO pieces The Society and The People’s Wine Present: The Urban Symphony https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_8891-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_8891.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_8891.jpg 624 416 {"aperture":"2.5","camera":"Canon EOS 5D Mark II","created_timestamp":"1335290534","focal_length":"35","iso":"2500","shutter_speed":"0.008"} https://torontolife.com/city/party-pages-the-urban-symphony/slide/img_8891/ img_8891 0 0
The People’s Wine brand ambassador and marketing manager Anna Hine offered tasting notes in between TSO pieces
133940 (Image: Jenna Marie Wakani) TSO musicians from left to right: Peter Seminovs (violin), Sergei Nikonov (violin), Igor Gefter (cello) and Eric Nowlin (viola) The Society and The People’s Wine Present: The Urban Symphony https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_8933-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_8933.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_8933.jpg 624 416 {"aperture":"4","camera":"Canon EOS 5D Mark II","created_timestamp":"1335291072","focal_length":"35","iso":"2000","shutter_speed":"0.008"} https://torontolife.com/city/party-pages-the-urban-symphony/slide/img_8933/ img_8933 0 0
TSO musicians from left to right: Peter Seminovs (violin), Sergei Nikonov (violin), Igor Gefter (cello) and Eric Nowlin (viola)