THOSE WHO HAVE visited our website, www.thewholenote.com, may have noticed an interesting development over the summer months.
Bit by bit, we’ve been adding video to our site. Some of them are interesting items that we’ve found here and there: a clever clip that pokes fun at orchestras’ websites; an excerpt from a film on flamenco music and dance in Toronto; a mini-documentary about beekeeping on the roof of the Four Seasons Centre.
This summer The WholeNote ventured boldly into the business of creating video content. Three video interviews were conducted at Toronto Summer Music events. The first to be posted is a clip of candid comments, immediately following a Matthias Goerne masterclass, from three singers: tenor Colin Ainsworth, soprano Leslie-Ann Bradley and baritone Peter McGillivray. Click here to read the blog (Video is at the bottom of the photo essay).
The second is an interview with Leonard Gilbert, a young pianist, and the only Canadian who will take part in this year’s International Chopin Competition, in Warsaw. Before that, at 3pm on September 12 he’ll play a Chopin recital in Walter Hall at the U of T – which unfortunately, coincides exactly with Adam Piotr Zukiewicz’s Chopin performance at the Polish Consulate. (We trust there are enough Chopin fans out there to fill both events.) Click here for the article.
And there are two more video clips currently in production in our studios, arisng from Toronto Summer Music masterclasses: a conversation with cello master Janos Starker, and one with the Pacifica String Quartet. (Pacifica returns for Music Toronto engagements on December 9.)
Blue Pages on our website next month, we are planning to add video links to our members’ profiles. We’re extending an invitation to all of our Blue Pages members who have promotional videos – and many already do – to send them our way. Contact Karen Ages at members@thewholenote.com for further information about this.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, surely a video is worth a million!
