Arts & Culture

Join us for a free concert by Hannah Addario-Berry to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Hungarian composer and musicologist Zoltán Kodály's Sonata for Solo Cello.

On Tuesday October 13th at 1:00 pm at the Toronto Reference Library cellist Addario-Berry will perform works by young composers commissioned in celebration of the 100th anniversary. 

This performance is part of a longer five-month tour of Canada and the United States called Scordatura. All are welcome to this 45 minute long performance.

Written in 1915, Sonata in B Minor for Solo Cello, Op. 8 has entered the standard repertoire for cello, rivalling the Bach solo cello pieces, and is now part of the Pablo Casals International Cello Competition.

Did you know the Arts Department on the 5th floor of the Toronto Reference Library has over 29,000 music scores that you can borrow or use here?  They cover Broadway, popular, jazz and classical for voice, piano and many instruments. We have 59 pieces of sheet music that showcase Kodály's work.

There are also many CDs in the Library system that you can borrow if you want to listen to his work.  And, if you're a bit more traditional (or retro), the Arts Department at the Toronto Reference Library has 56 LPs of Kodaly's work that you can listen to here on one of our two record players. If you're e-services oriented we also have 332 e-music Kodály titles you can access with your library card.

Did you also know we have a free online music services you can access with your library card? Naxos is a streaming service with strength in classical and jazz. You can listen to various artists perform Kodály's Sonata for Solo Cello and many other works. We also have Hoopla where you can download music (they're both free but you do need a library card ready to login):