September 11, 2024

Familiar Music Recontextualized

by Wendalyn Bartley

Such is the nature of usually writing about shows ahead of time that I don’t often enough get to go to the shows I write about. On August 3, however, I travelled to Stratford Summer Music to take in Gregory…
September 09, 2024

COC Opera light and Dvořák rare

by David Perlman

Musical Flights takes the COC on the road. In a canny move, the Canadian Opera Company takes their orchestra, music director Johannes Debus and four soloists on the road for five concerts previewing the COC’s upcoming fall and winter productions:…
September 03, 2024

Playing For Real

by Colin Story

When I was first contemplating applying to the University of Toronto’s Jazz Studies program, there were many factors that made the prospect appealing: the downtown location, the stellar faculty, the impressive (and at times intimidating) skill level of the student…
September 03, 2024

Sizzling Summer Musicals Flourish Through the Fall

by Jennifer Parr

Three remarkably dissimilar music theatre productions, all in one place and performed by one company, have been thrilling audiences since previews in the spring – at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
September 02, 2024

Artists On Board! VIA's Good-News Announcement

by Sophia Perlman

The Canadian, for the uninitiated, is the train that travels twice weekly from Vancouver to Toronto. While it’s largely marketed as a “cross country” experience, its route also acts as an essential inter-community link for people who live north of…
September 02, 2024

Community Through Song: Elaine Choi’s Choral Journey

by Angus MacCaull

One day in the golden late ’80s in Hong Kong, almost past the reaches of Elaine Choi's memory, she balanced on her mother's piano bench. She was about three years old. Her mother helped one of her small fingers find…
September 02, 2024

The More It Changes... Tafelmusik Welcomes Rachel Podger

by Larry Beckwith

It has always been fascinating to observe the processes that Tafelmusik engages in to keep up with the times, while remaining consistent to the principles that have marked the organization since its inception: highly successful concert series with innovative programming;…
June 17, 2024

Fellowship and Mentoring: Further Reflections

by Michael Zarathus-Cook

New Brunswick violinist Katya Poplyansky first participated as a fellow in the TSM emerging artist program in the summer of 2018 and returned the following summer.
June 17, 2024

Fellows and Mentors: The Warp and Weft of Toronto Summer Music

by David Perlman

If I were talking only to long-time readers of this magazine right now, I would suggest you do some online homework before carrying on with reading this story, by heading off to one particular spot on the Toronto Summer Music…
June 12, 2024

Purcell was “modern” and so is this production - Les Arts Florissants’ "Fairy Queen"

by Stephanie Conn

William Christie and Les Arts Florissants are synonymous with skillful, sumptuous playing. On July 11, in the opening performance of this year’s Toronto Summer Music Festival, audiences here will have a rare chance to hear them as they present one…
June 12, 2024

Embracing Failure: In Conversation with Gregory Oh

by Wendalyn Bartley

In my previous WholeNote story, I wrote about the three-day Keyed-Up Festival, produced by Soundstreams, which ran from April 18-20. I was fortunate to attend two of the three concerts, both of which featured captivating displays of multiple keyboards on…
June 12, 2024

Fifty Years of Frog Bog Soundwalk - Soothing Whispers of Nature: Sounding Ontario Spring Wetlands

by Andrew Timar

Beginning in the early 1970s I began a series of nature sound-walks, field expeditions, interspecies sonic meditations, explorations and mediated threshold music performances. They eventually coalesced under the banner “Frog Bog.”  Its novelty attracted media attention back then. I took…
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