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April 16, 2025VERSAILLES TO TORONTO - A sea-change for Opera Atelier
by David Perlman
Single tickets of Opera Atelier’s 40th anniversary season production of Charpentier’s David and Jonathan went on sale January 13, 2025 and within minutes of the announcement, OA’s Marshall Pynkoski was there in our editorial inbox as well – his enthusiasm…
April 16, 2025Musical Gardens For Spring
by Wendalyn Bartley
Back in the dark days of the pandemic, when concerts were little more than memories, I spoke with composer Cecilia Livingston for the December 2020-January 2021 issue of The WholeNote about Garden of Vanished Pleasures, a project she was involved…
April 16, 2025What to Look For If You're Choir Curious
by Angus MacCaull
The other day, there was a detailed message on The WholeNote's voicemail. It was from a long-time Toronto resident who explained that she was wanting to join a choir for the first time in many years, wanting to reconnect with the sense…
April 15, 2025A CELEBRATION OF SAKURA - Ron Korb, flutist and multi-instrumentalist
by Allan Pulker
I first met Ron almost 45 years ago when we were both studying with Robert Bick at York University. Bick had recently returned to Toronto from Brattleboro, Vermont where he had been studying with the great French flautist and teacher,…
April 14, 2025Life After's Full Circle
by Jennifer Parr
This April, acclaimed Canadian composer, writer, and lyricist Britta Johnson’s Life After returns to the city where it began, in a new production at the CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre. I saw the first professional production back in 2017 at Canadian…
April 14, 2025Homes for Music | Viewpoints and Overviews
by Sophia Perlman
For more than a year now, I have been using this little bit of column space to explore the landscape of arts and culture in Ontario from the viewpoint of my home in a remote community in the north of…
February 13, 2025“When Music Meets Mindfulness” - An Introduction
by Vania Chan
I was living in New York, completing my master’s degree in classical voice at the Manhattan School of Music. Worries about being successful in my burgeoning career were constantly on my mind. Truth be told, I felt like a headless…
February 12, 2025Halls of all sizes take the sting out of the season
by Colin Story
February and March are not the most glamorous months of the year; between salt-stained boots, wind-whipped skin, and the knowledge that spring will mostly just be more winter, it’s a miracle that any of us get out at all. Things,…
February 12, 2025Angela Garwood-Touw: Living a Zone 10 Classical Life
by Sophia Perlman
The “up here” in this month’s column is (mostly) Timmins, where Angela Garwood-Touw has a busy schedule. The New Brunswick born violinist is Concertmaster for the Timmins Symphony Orchestra, regular First Violinist for the Sudbury and North Bay Symphonies, and…
February 12, 2025Jean-Sébastian Vallée’s Toronto’s Mendelssohn Choir
by Angus MacCaull
The comforting smell of coffee lingered in the air as conductor Jean-Sébastian Vallée listened to the fading notes of the morning’s final song. More than a hundred people had gathered in red-carpeted Yorkminister Park Baptist Church on a Saturday this…
February 12, 2025When musicians meet at the crossroads
by David Perlman
Tafelmusik Baroque Ensemble is making good use of its emerging hybrid artistic leadership model: a three-player artistic co-directorship (Brandon Chui, Dominic Teresi, and Cristina Zacharias), mentored by Principal Guest Director Rachel Podger. Together they are in the process of putting…
February 12, 2025La Reine-garçon: A thoroughly modern Christina? Or not.
by Lydia Perović
A feminist before the term existed, an intellectual and art connoisseur, a friend of René Descartes, a modern woman demanding freedom to live her life as she pleases, most likely a lesbian? The Montreal Opera - Canadian Opera Company co-production…12 Dec 2024 - David PerlmanEditorial and Op-Ed10 Oct 2024 - David PerlmanEditorial and Op-Ed01 Sep 2024 - David PerlmanEditorial and Op-Ed31 Mar 2024 - David PerlmanEditorial and Op-Ed06 Feb 2024 - David PerlmanEditorial and Op-Ed17 Feb 2023 - Colin StoryMainly Clubs, Mostly Jazz06 Nov 2022 - Colin StoryMainly Clubs, Mostly Jazz05 Nov 2022 - Paul EnnisRemembering04 Oct 2022 - David PerlmanEditorial and Op-Ed27 May 2022 - David PerlmanEditorial and Op-Ed25 Apr 2022 - David PerlmanEditorial and Op-Ed15 Mar 2022 - David PerlmanEditorial and Op-Ed24 Sep 2021 - David PerlmanEditorial and Op-Ed06 Jul 2021 - David PerlmanRemembering20 Mar 2021 - David PerlmanEditorial and Op-Ed09 Feb 2021 - David PerlmanEditorial and Op-Ed08 Feb 2021 - Steve WallaceJazz Notes06 Dec 2020 - David PerlmanEditorial and Op-Ed06 Dec 2020 - Andrew TimarWorld Music06 Dec 2020 - Jennifer ParrMusic Theatre06 Dec 2020 - Jack MacQuarrieBandstand06 Dec 2020 - Colin StoryMainly Clubs, Mostly Jazz06 Dec 2020 - Steve WallaceJazz Notes03 Nov 2020 - David PerlmanEditorial and Op-Ed03 Nov 2020 - Matthew WhitfieldEarly Period03 Nov 2020 - Steve WallaceJazz Notes03 Nov 2020 - Jack MacQuarrieBandstandCurrent Issue
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