Toronto Music Garden

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Lonely Planet review

Delicately strung along the western Harbourfront, this sculpted garden was designed by Julie Moir in collaboration with famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma. It aims to express Bach's Suite No 1 for Unaccompanied Cello through landscape. An arc-shaped grove of conifers introduces a treble-clef-shaped path through a meadow and a grass-stepped amphitheatre where free concerts are held from June to September (usually Thursday and Sunday).

Contact the Harbourfront Centre box office in the York Quay Centre for performance schedules. Free garden tours are run by volunteers during summer (usually Wednesday and Thursday), or you can take a self-guided 70-minute musical audio tour available from the Marina Quay West office on the pier immediately south of the garden.