What do you love listening to when no one else is around? Guilty Pleasures, the third concert in our Living Room Listening Party series, invites you to bring those songs into the open and hear them in a completely new way. In the warm expansive acoustic of Eglinton St. George’s United Church, musicians from the orchestra share arrangements of beloved and unexpected popular songs alongside classical works that carry their own sense of emotional indulgence, nostalgia, and intensity. This is music that feels personal, familiar, and sometimes a little vulnerable.

At the centre of the program is Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), a deeply expressive and cinematic work that traces a journey from confession and uncertainty to forgiveness and radiant transformation. Overflowing with late-Romantic beauty, it is music that speaks directly to the heart.

Guilty Pleasures is an invitation to listen without barriers, to rediscover the music that has stayed with you, and to experience it together in a space filled with curiosity and shared connection.